GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER 2,  1887.

NO. 215.

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  front  you.  Liberal  cash  advances 
made when desired.

Earl Bros.,  Commission Merchants,

157 South W ater St.,  CHICAGO. 

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

G R P  RAPIDS
FRONT

TO  THE—

—AGAIN.—

We are now  supplying  the Trade  with our 

new Brand of Soap

BEST  FAMILY.”

Respectfully,

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

Grand  Rapids Soap Go,
COOK  &   PRINZ,
Valley City Show Case M it Co.,
SHOW  GÄ8E8,

Proprietors of the

Manufacturers of

44 ORNHL 8T„
Grand Rapids,  - 

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THE BEST  SELLING  GOODS  ON 

TNEJIRKET.
MANUFACTURED BY

SOLD BY

Grand  Rapids,

OF  aL l   k in d s .
SEND  FOR  CATALOGUES,
SEND  FOR  ESTIMATES.

Beaver  &  Co., Dayton, Ohio.
Prescription Gases and Store Fixtures
A.  S.  I B U M   k  GO..
West Brince St.. Crani apils.
LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,  POTATOES.
F e rm e n tu m !

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

STATE  AGENT  FOR

Telephone 371.

Mich.

The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast.

Manufactured by Riverdale Dist. Co.

106 K ent Street, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

TELEPHONE  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.

CHARLES  A.  GOYE,

Successor to

A. Ooye & Son,

DEALER INI TENTS

Horse and W agon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

F lags & B anners m ade to order.

Wide Ducks, etc.
GRAND RAPIDS.
- 

73 CANAL ST.. 

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

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

The State  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

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

166 South W ater St., CHICAGO. 
Reference

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

Chicago.

PROPRIETOR OF

EDWIN FALLAS,
VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE,
Eggs,  Lemons,  Oranges.
And Packer of

JOBBER OF

SOLID  BRAND  OYSTERS.
Facilities for canning and jobbing oysters 
are unsurpassed.  Mail orders filled  promptly 
at lowest  market  price.  Correspondence  so­
licited.  A  liberal  discount  to  the  jobbing

21 7, 219 Livingston St.,

G-rand.  Xlaplds.

To Cip Dealers

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

Cigar calledSILVER SPOTS

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

It will fie sold on its merits.  Sample'or­

ders filled on 60  days approval.

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

It is sure to do it.

.  T.  WARREN  &  CO.,

F lint, MloH.

Bought arid Sold by

SALT  FISH

117 Monroe S t, Grand Rapids.

FRANK J. DETTENTHALER,

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63F-   Ovsters the Year Around  g l

What do you think of this?  While In conver­
sation  with  Wm. M. Dale.  one of  tb# largest 
druggists in  Chicago,  We  were  surprised  to 
learn that he had sold over one and a  half mil­
lion of Tansill’s  Punch 6c. cigars  and that the 
quality gets better all the time.  The  demand 
continues to increase.  Let us tell you, if you 
want to sell a cigar  that your  customers  will 
he pleased with, the sooner you Order Tansill’s 
Punch the better.—Independent Grocer.
SHERWOOD HOUSE.  «T.  H .   A Æ Y ltL K S
Manufacturer  of  Hamess  afid  Collars 
'.at Wholesale  and Retail,  73  Canal street, 
.Gifihnmpids. hasthe finest line to select 
from ifi théiafe.  Give  hiinva calii'i. Hone 
but experienced workmen employed.
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■r ¡¡g  °%  *  OfanfrCfoM la all ita Appointments.
BELGER, Proprietor.

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Sample Rooms on First Floor. ;

The Traveling Men’s Favorite.’*! 

and Be-funUahe<L :> 

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5-  d & M m Ê Ê A

Flpilr,  Feed,

Grain  and 

Baled  Hay.
-  MICH.

25 Pearl Street, -

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

0.  E.  Brown,  Gen.  Mgr.

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

B O O K S ,

i-80 and 2 2 Conroe St., Brand Sapida, Mioh.

We carry a fu ll1 ine of 
Seeds  of  ©very  variety, 
both for field and garden. 
Parties  in  want  should 
write to or see the

S GRAIN  AND  SEID CO.

a l  street.

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL

m  Ü  HAMILTON. A gt,

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TH E   ZULU  TRADER’S  CRIME.

y T r itte n  E s p e c ia lly  f o r  T h e   T r a d e s m a n .

Years, with their  summers  and  winters, 
their joys and sorrows, have  passed  away, 
since the good ship  “Andy,” her  long  and 
wearying voyage over,  cast anchor in one of 
the extensive bays of Southern Africa.  How 
eagerly and anxiously her many passengers 
looked across the belt of heaving waters to­
ward the land, which, low  at first, gradual­
ly rose into ranges of lofty  hills,  stretching 
far  into  the  distance.  Most of them had 
crossed the ocean and bidden  adieu to their 
kindred,  in the hope  of  finding,  amid  its 
secluded valleys, some  “forest  sanctuary,” 
where the bonds of the world that had hith­
erto  chafed  them  might  not  be felt and 
their efforts at earning a livelihood for them­
selves and children be more  easity  reward­
ed.

Foremost among them stood a man whose 
appearance and bearing bespoke him as one 
fitted to cope,  and  successfully,  with  the 
world,  in whatever phase it  might  present 
itself.  But it was not so;  and Henry John­
son,  despite years of unwearying effort, now 
stood gazing on the shores of the far south, 
a world-worn  and  almost  penniless  man, 
and one whose spirit  was  embittered  and 
his heart  hardened, by seeing others, whom 
he deemed less worthy,  victors in the arena 
where he could achieve nothing.

While he thus stood pondering,  with con­
tracted brow,  on what might be  the  result 
of this last decisive step  of  immigration,  a 
clear,  childish voice by his  side  exclaimed,

“Let me see, father.”
Immediately the stern expression  passed 
away,  and with a bright smile he raised the 
little girl to where  she  might  easily  look 
over the bulwark.

Henry Johnson was devotedly attached to 
his  Vrife  and  family;  but dearer than all 
was his little fairy Kate, as fair and beauti­
ful a child as  the eye need wish to rest up 
on,  with soft,  dark  earnest  eyes, 
looking 
forth from  among  her  clustering  curls as 
though the misfortunes of  her  parents had 
dispelled the  joyous  beams  of  childhood, 
and awakened her already to the realities of 
life,  and a sweet  smile  playing  upon  her 
rosy childish lips,  as if,  in  the  buoyancy of 
her innocent spirit,  hoping  and  trusting in 
a brighter future.

And  the  child’s  trust  seemed  not mis 
placed,  for brighter days soon began to dawn 
upon them.  Henry  Johnson  purchased  a 
small  traders  store  in  Pretoria,  in  the 
Transvaal, paying for a portion of the stock 
only.  But  time  and  perseverence  carried 
him on,  and in the course  of  a  few  years 
was quite  prosperous.'

And for a while Henry  Johnson  was  a 
happy and contented  man;  his  loved ones 
were growing up aronnd him,  beautiful and 
joyous, and the humble competence  he had 
once sighed for was theirs.  But it  sufficed 
not long.  With  prosperity, 
loftier  ideas 
awoke in his breast.  He would deam of the 
proud future that—could his wishes be real 
ized—might be in store  for  his  promising 
sons and beautiful daughters, in some high 
er sphere;  and how,  in years to come,  they 
might  re-visit  their  fatherland  and  look 
scornfully down  on those  who, 
in  former 
days,  had despised himself!

Occupied  with  such  visions,  discontent 
began to take  possession  of  his  heart. 
It 
would  be  years—many years—ere  by his 
little store he could  hope to obtain such re­
sults.

you

der;  I will not give it, but I will  give 
ten times as much for Mock.”

He stopped abruptly, and fixed his bright 
eyes on Johnson as though eager to discover 
if his meanihg was understood, and how his 
proposition was received.

The trader turned  aside  as  if he heard it 
not.  Nevertheless,  it  was both heard and 
comprehended.  So the  quick-witted  Zulu 
Suspected,  and he resumed:

“Yes, I would give  much ivory,  white as 
the snow on yonder mountains; many skins, 
many  horns, 
to  him  who  brings me the 
black powder  and  the  sticks  that  throw 
lead.  His wagons will be so heavy  his ox­
en scarce can draw them  away,  and he will 
never need to cross the rivers any more, but 
may sit in the sun  before  his  kraal,  and 
make his women hoe his corn.”

Still Johnson  answered  not,  but the Zu­
lu’s words struck a wild chord in  his heart. 
Could he but bring himself to do the chief’s 
bidding, the gold over whose  tardy  coming 
hefhad so lately sighed  would  at  once  be 
his.  His children would be no longer com­
pelled to live in a savage  land  and his dar­
ling Kate, over whose welfare he gave more 
than an ordinary  father’s  anxiety,  might 
shine in the society  for  which  she  was so 
eminently  qualified.  But  he  shrank  from 
the means by which  these  objects might so 
easily be attained;  for, by carrying  powder 
and  arms  across  the  border—save for his 
own protection—he would break the laws of 
the land wherein he had prospered and been 
blessed.  He had been eager in his haste for 
gold;  he had bought cheap  and  sold  dear, 
and he had exacted  from  everyone  the ut­
most possible profit;  but he  had  broken no 
law,  and shrank from so  doing.  He  bade 
the temptation flee, but it  would not.  The 
spirit of gain was upon him,  and entered in­
to this plan. 
It haunted him day and night, 
and shed a golden hue  on the wrong-doing.
Once more he was preparing  for  another 
journey to Zululand.  At  length  the  day 
came for his departure.

“Let me see your  cheeks  brighter on my 
return,” he said,  as he kissed  Kate  fondly 
and  was  taking  his  leave.  “Don’t  you 
know I mean to make you a lady?”

“I have no wish to be a lady, father,” she 
said,  with a smile;  “if I can only do what is 
right as I am,  it will  suffice  my  ambition.”
“Tush, girl;  you don’t  know  what  you 
say, ” replied her father, hastily.  * ‘Ere long 
my beautiful Kate will be rich.”

The speculatio 

Kate sighed,  as  though  she  had  no such 
dreams;  but her  father  did  not hear it—he 
was already watching  the departure  of the 
wagons, for whose  safety  he  seemed more 
anxious than usual.  Little did those around 
suspect they contained a secret  whose  dis­
covery would be the  owner’s ruin.  He had 
not been able to withstand  the  temptation.
turned  out  even  better 
than Johnson had ventured  to  hope.  The 
guns and  ammunition  arrived  unsuspected 
at the kraal of Kuku,  and in  the  joy of his 
heart at obtaining such forbidden treasures, 
the old chief was liberal  far  beyond  what 
the trader had expected.  The  finest  ivory 
and the most valuable skins  were "given,  al­
most without limit,  and  Johnson  departed 
from the kraal a far richer man than  whu* 
he had entered it.

“I am now a happy  and  enviable  man, 
he reflected,  as he  mounted  his  horse.  “I 
have lived to gain wealth.”  And in his ex­
ultation he did not think  that  to  attain his 
endlie had offended  the  law  and  placed 
weapons iii the hands of savages.

Of the many  objects man  pursues  with 
avidity, gold is not the one  that  most  fre­
quently  eludes  him,  for  there  are  many 
ways in which it can be obtained.  And one 
of these presented itself  to Johnson.

Biding, one day,  with  a  neighbor  into 
Heidelberg,  on their way they passed an ex­
tensive and beautiful farm,  and on  a  rising 
ground saw a large,  well-built  house  peep­
ing from among the  trees,  Johnson  com­
mented upoh the beauty of the €cene.

“Its owner’s name is Massey,”  said  his 
companion,  “some twenty years ago he was 
no better off than you or I.”

“How did he make his money?” demand­

ed Johnson.

“Trading among the.,Zulus.”
A Zulu trader! 

It was  singular that had 
never occurred to him,  though he was aware 
that large fortunes  had  been  made,  were 
being made, by taking  into  Zululand  arti­
cles manufactured  in England  and trading 
with the Zulus for ivory,  skins,  etc.

The business at Pretoria had so much im­
proved Johnson’s circumstances,  that there 
was  no  difficulty  in  carrying ont his new 
scheme;  and a very short  time saw him de­
part into Zululand with two  wagons heavi­
ly loaded, his  two  trusty  drivers,  and two 
boys, on the first  of  many  journeys  that 
brought more wealth  beneath  his roof than 
it had ever coveted  before.

For two or three years  he  carried on this 
business.  Everything  seemed  to  prosper, 
and with these feelings acting as a fresh in­
centive to' exertion,  Johnson' started on an­
other  expedition  Into  Zulnland.  He  had 
gained the territories of a chief called Kuku, 
and was endeavoring to trade him  snuff for 
ivory, when, in the midst of the  discussion 
that  attends  every  mercantile  transaction 
with the avaricious Zulus, the  chief 'turned

“You wank too mfich for the

In the same spirit  of  self-congratulation 
he  entered  his home.  There  the  sight of 
Kate,  and her innocent trust of  him, check­
ed his gladness for a moment, but he quick­
ly put down his  conscience.  He  told  his 
family he had been more  than  usually suc­
cessful, but nothing  more.

And now, Johnson had resolved on relin­
quishing the trade by which  he  had gained 
so much and make  preparations for return­
ing to his native country.  But  before  this 
could be done,  he must  dispose of his prop­
erty;  and with that end  in  view  he  again 
left home for Heidelberg,  where  he  knew 
he could find a liberal purchaser.

He was on his  return  from  Heidelberg. 
He was happy,  for he had  again prospered 
and made an  advantageous  transfer of  his 
property.  And,  as  he  rode  along,  his 
thoughts wandered into the  future,  where 
he saw no harder toil for  his  children than 
gathering flowers in  the  bright sunshine of 
the world,  and the fairest  would  be  gath­
ered by his beautiful Kate.  At  length  he 
returned to the present.  Absorbed in these 
bright thoughts,  he had  not  watched  the 
way,  and had  strayed  far  from  the  right 
road.  Farther  on,  however,  was  a  path 
that led from another direction to his home.
The sun was  sinking  low in the heavens 
as he cantered over the flat  beyond  whose 
farther edge he lived,  and in the coolness of 
approaching dusk all the Inhabitants of the 
wilds seemed  arousing  to life and activity. 
The birds were flitting among the trees, the 
insects floated in the gloom and the very air 
seemed teeming with life.  He  approached 
the edge of the  declivity  and  his home lay 
before  him.  He  stopped  abruptly,  and 
gazed down as one lost  in  wonder,  raised 
jhlS hand and passed i t  quickly  across  his 
forehead as though to clear his vision, then, 
utteringone loud cry p f agony as  the  truth

burst upon him, rode rapidly down the hill.
The  cottage,  around  whose  inmates  h© 
had but now been raising such  fairy  struc­
tures, was no  longer  visible,  and  where it 
had stood a column of gray smoke was curl­
ing upward, telling a tale  of  ruin,  but  of 
what extent as yet he knew  not,  although 
he was gazing on his  vanished  home  and 
standing beside the spot which was once his 
hearth.  There  was  none by  to tell him if 
the beloved ones by whom it had been shared 
had escaped,  or  if  he  now looked on their 
funeral pyre.  He gazed hurriedly and anx­
iously  around.  A  person  riding  rapidly 
down the hill met his  eye,  and  he  sprang 
towards him.

It was his oldest sou.  He was ashy .pale, 
and his hand trembled as he gave  it  to his 
father in silence.

“My wife—my children?” groaned  John­

son, in a tremulous voice.

Still the boy was silent, but he drew away 
his hand, and covering  his  face  with both, 
sank upon the grass in anguish he could no 
longer control.

“My darlings!  my precious ones!  Has it 
come to this?”  exclaimed the bereaved man, 
wringing  his  hands  in agony.  “Are you 
all taken from me—you for whom I toiled— 
you for whom I even sinned?  Tell me,  my 
boy, tell me the truth! ”

And the boy told him,  between  his sobs, 
the tale of having gone to a neighbor’s farm 
and losing  his way prevented his  reaching 
home sooner,  and the two servants who had 
escaped, one had gone along the Heidelberg 
road in search of  him,  while  the  other had 
hurried off to Blume’s farm,  to tell  of  how 
the Zulus had burst upon them  at  dead  of 
night,  and how they two  had  fled  in  the 
darkness, and  under  cover of the trees had 
witnessed the  fierce  savages  deal death to 
all around,  and had even seen the beautiful 
Kate—her father’s pride—shot by a tall Zu­
lu,  while she was making an attempt to save- 
her  mother.  And  then  the  trader’s  vast 
stores of ivory and skins  were  raided  and 
his cattle driven off;  and,  finally,  firing the- 
house,  the  murderers  departed,  carrying, 
their plunder with them.

“Who was the Zulu chief that has  so be­
reft me?” exclaimed Johnson,  breathlessly.
“I don’t know—I never  thought to ask,” 
replied the boy.  “But  here  is  something 
that may tell, perhaps, ’ and he lifted a new 
rifle from among the long grass where it had, 
lain hidden.
.  .“My sin has overtaken  me!”  cried  the 
wretched  man.  “It  is  one  of the guns I  
sold to Kuku!  Oh,  I  am  well  punished I’ 
My children,  it is your  father  who  is  your 
murderer! ”

The Zulu chief  had  resolved  to  regain, 
possession  of  the  valuable  goods  he had 
traded for the weapons and had thus accom­
plished his purpose.

The  violence  of  Johnson’s  self-upbraid- 
ings did not serve to  allay  the  anguish of 
his soul.  He wandered away, no one knew 
where, a sad and  solitary  man,  with  the 
ghost of his own evil forever haunting him.

________ _  _  ________ R e l l u f . 
mmensity of the Clothing Business.

••

“An extensive wholesale  clothing  estab­
lishment must be conducted  with the great­
est skill and economy  in  the  management 
of every department,”  says a manufacturer 
engaged in that line of trade.  “The  cloths 
are bought months before the  season when 
they are to be worn,  in order to give time to 
make them up.  The  cloths  are  to be cut, 
the buttons,  thread,  linings,  etc.,  are  to 
be supplied and a  careful  account in every 
department must be kept before the work is 
given  out.  The 
large  houses  employ 
superior  cutters,  and  the  workmen  and 
workwomen  generally  use  sewing  ma­
chines,  which  their  wages  enable them to 
hire or to pay for in small weekly or month­
ly installments.  As  the  cloth  is  bought 
long before it returns to the  clothier in gar­
ments, and as his goods  are sold sometimes, 
on credits of several  months,  the  business, 
requires a large capital, and a large  amount 
of money is needed for the weekly payment 
of the hands. 
In New  York, thousands of' 
people work for the clothiers,  and,  besides, 
many garments  are  cut  here  and  sent to- 
workwomen  throughout  the  country,  who, 
make the clothes and  return  them.  Thus,, 
in addition to the vast amount  of work fur­
nished to  those  immediately  employed  in 
and near the city establishments,  the cloth­
iers  supply  the  means  of  livelihood 
to 
thousands of  farmers  and  laborers’  wives, 
and  daughters  in  tbe  interior  towns and! 
other centers with which  communication is. 
frequent and easy by railroad.”
The Sequence of the Craze  for Cheapness.
Dr. Lucas in Druggists’ Circular.

If  every  druggist  and  physician  were 
strictly honest, many of the evils complainr 
ed of would not exist. 
If the public would, 
or could,  always  exercise  a  just  sense of 
discrimination, merit and honesty would re­
ceive their  reward.  But unfortunately this 
craze for cheapness and want of discrimina­
tion lowers the  standard,  and  the  honest 
man,  as  a  matter  of  self-preservation,  is 
forced to fall—imperceptibly  at  first—into 
a groove that tends only to  dishonor.  The 
consumer, the public,  inevitably falls into a 
pit mostly made by its own  hands.
Thq doctor  of  to-day  acknowledges  his 
weakness by the confusion he creates.  Sim- 
plicity of methods in the practice  of  medi­
cine brings the greatest  success.  The mul­
tiplicity of remedies and the craze for some­
thing new to  reach, the  unattainable  only 
ends in disastrous experimentation. 
It is a 
fraud for a physician to palm off on toe un­
suspecting public something he knows noth­
ing about,  Seven-tenths of toe prescriptions 
written at the  present  day  are  automatic. ^ 
The doctors must discard this sham, be trite 
to themselves, be honest, use* common smise, 
in treating their cases. 

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SOLE  MANUFACTURERS OF

ABSOLUTE  SPIGE8 

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Miliary  HssoBiations,

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:

FULL  OUTFIT—$15.

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

HALF  OUTFITS—SIO.

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

In place of  old  style  Blue  Letter  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 

FULLER & STOWE  COMPANY,

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ENGRAVERS and PRINTERS,

49 Lyon St, Grand Rapids,

FO R  EVERYBODY.

For  the Field or  Garden.

If you want to buy

Or any other kind, send to the

71  CANAL  ST.,

Seed Store,
W .Y. MfJOREMiX, 
GraM Eajifls, ffiicb.
F,  J.  DETTENTHALER

JOBBHROF

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SALT  FISH.

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S.  A. STOWS,  Editor

Svito* f l  «year fnadvanoe, posta«« paid,
A<i vertiste# rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2.1887.

EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Now  York-,  O ct  24—One  of-  the  first 
things a Western man will  notice  in  New 
York is the . almost  entire  absence  of  the 
bulky sliver  dollars with which the West is 
Slatted.  No  matter  where  you  go  for 
change—to the depot, hotel« theater or store 
—you are invariably given paper money, in­
stead of Silver, as is the case in the West.  I 
asked  a leading  business  man how it  was 
that  New York  people  had  been  able  to 
avoid the  silver deluge  which  reached  us 
three or  four  years  ago  and  seems  to  be 
increasing instead of receding.  The person 
interrogated  set  me  at rest with the state­
ment that the condition enquired about was 
due to an understanding on  the part of  the 
New York banks that all silver  was  to  be 
sent West and all paper  money kept in  cir- 
culation at home.

I   have  frequently  noted the  high  price 
commanded  by the  stock  of  the Chemical 
National Bank and wondered  how  it could 
be possible that a share of bank stock which 
cost one hundred dollars  could be  sold  for 
thirty times that amount.  Happening in at 
the Stock Exchange to-day, I   had the good 
luck to  see  several  shares  change  hands. 
Three  shares sold  at  3815,  twelve  shares 
• at 3803, one share at  3805 and one share at 
3813.  These  are very high quotations, but 
not as high as a year  and  a  half  or  more 
ago. 
In the fall of 1885 and spring of 1886, 
the stock sold  from  3300  to  3400,  having 
been bid  up  by  H. S. Ives.  Some  people 
thought that he was trying to get control of 
the bank, but if  that  was  really his  object 
he made a very  poor  success  of  it, for  he 
¿accumulated only 85 shares.  The Chemical 
is not only the highest priced stock dealt in 
a t the Exchange, but it  also pays the  larg- 
•est percentage  of  dividends.  The  institu­
tion divides 15 per cent, every two  months 
and  10  per  cent,  extra  at  the  end  of the 
year.  The capital is  8300,000,  the surplus 
85,000,000 and the  other  profits  8270,000. 
I t will be seen from  these figures  that  the 
stock is selling above  the  book  value,  but 
the great prestige  of  the bank, its constant 
additions to surplus and the chance of some 
remarkable  division  of  this  accumulation 
account for it.  Next to the Chemical comes 
the First National  which  pays  10 per cent, 
quarterly  and  occasionally  a n . extra  divi­
dend.  This  stock  is  held  by  very  few 
parties and 1600 is bid for it  at  the  Board, 
but outside probably 3000 could be obtained. 
The capital is 8500,000, the surplus $5,000,- 
000,  and  the  undivided  profits  8430,731. 
The next highest priced  stock is  the  Fifth 
avenue,  for which  800  is  bid.  This  bank 
pays no  dividends,  but has  accumulated a 
large  surplus,  which  gives  the  stock  its 
value.  H is one of the uptown  institutions 
and, like  a  number  of  others,  has  been a 
great success.

I am  told  by  a  gentleman  who  knows 
whereof he  speaks  that  the  banks of New 
York have been  prospering  for  some  time 
past  and, generally  speaking, are in a very 
strong  condition.  This, coupled  with  the 
handsome dividends paid  by most of them, 
has caused an increased  demand  for  bank 
stock  and  transactions  in  this  line  have 
been very active of  late.

The  editor  of  the  Produce  Exchange 
Bulletin,  who-  stands  in  the  position  of 
oracle to the butter ine business of the coun­
try, tells me that the oleo men will not seek 
to secure the  repeal  of  the  oleomargarine 
law  at  the  coming  session  of  Congress. 
They will, however, ask that the license re­
quired  of  a  wholesaler  be  reduced  from 
$480 to 848 and  the  retailer’s license by re­
duced  from  $48  to  $4.80;  also  that  the 
quantity a retailer may sell to one purchaser 
be increased from 10 to  50 pounds.  My in­
formant  tells  me  that  the  manufacturer 
does not murmur  at  the  license he is com­
pelled  to  pay  under  the  present  law  and 
that the  tax, with  the  affixed stamp, gives 
the article the approval of  the Government, 
«o far as purity and  wholesomeness  is con 
earned.

At present writing it looks as though toe 
sugar “trust” would soon  he  a thing of the 
past.  One of the houses that had agreed to 
shutdown  was  in  the market  to-day as a 
buyer,  presumably  for  toe  purpose  of  re 
¡aiming  operations,  and  this  fact  to  inter­
preted  as  evidence that  toe  combine  has
-  fallen nut, but as none of toe  parties in in 
terest  are  disposed  to  talk  about  it,  toe 
rumors must be  accepted  for no more than 
they are  worth.  There  to  some complaint 
that toe  smaller  refineries  are  disposed to 
dictate to toe larger  ones,  and  it to no Ion 
ger a secret that toe Havemeyers are dissat­
isfied with certain  details  of  toe  organiza 
torn, and they are powerful enough to cause

1  serious trouble. 
r v.  The  commonly  accepted  theory  that the 
formation  o f  toe ‘‘trust” was  necessary to 
' protect thq^refiners  from bankruptcy I find 
to be wholly wrong.  The refiners are liter 
ally “rolling in  money”  and  could  make i 
Jundsom e  profit  by selling  granulated at < 
^ pi6|ts  per-pound.  The  artificial  advance 
W jm M  attempting  to  maintain  means an
-  i l p o u l  profit of $8,000,000 on an inveet-
—-in other words, 
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conservatism peculiar !» tlteaged.  y) 
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of  toe  business  men
are young in years, they are largely  guided 
by toe experience of their  ¡Predecessors and 
have fallen into ruts quite as antagonistic to 
progre8siveness as those cultivated  by men 
of maturer years.  Philadelphia to a beauti­
ful city and does  a  business .bordering  on 
toe wonderful, but she is no more to becom- 
pared with New York in  a  business  sense 
|toan Grand Rapids is to be  compared  with 
Chicago.  With excellent  opportunities for 
an extensive jobbing trade  in  toe  grocery 
line,  she to unable to make any considerable 
showing in this  direction,  in  consequence 
of which the retail  trade  of  Pennsylvania 
are compelled to draw largely on New York 
and Pittsburg for their supplies. 
In manu­
facturing lines peculiar to toe grocery trade, 
toe city to fairly  well - represented,  and it 
must be a source of great  regret  to  Phila­
delphia grocers that the jobbing trade to not 
on a better footing.

Pittsburg, Oct. 38—If ever a  city exactly 
answered  toe  description of a manufactur­
ing community given  by  Charles  Reade in 
toe preface to his  “Put  Yourself  in  His 
Place,”  it  to  Pittsburg.  With a cloud of 
smoke above toe city and the clamor of pon­
derous machinery which  scarcely ever ceas­
es operation except  for  toe  Sabbath  day, 
toe effect on the stranger is  little  less than 
bewildering. 
If to this be added toe glamor 
and reflection of natural gas lights at night, 
toe stranger has little difficulty in imagining 
himself in pandemonium.

Happening in  on Dilworto  Brothers, the 
extensive coffee roasters and wholesale gro­
cers, I  was asked by a member of  the  firm 
to lunch with them in their store, an invita­
tion I  gladly accepted. 
I  was  surprised to 
find a well-equipped  culinary  department, 
comprising dining room  and  kitchen,  pre­
sided over  by an experienced  colored  cook 
and waiter.  All the clerical  force  and toe 
heads of toe various  departments  are  fur­
nished their dinners by  the  firm  and  the 
presence  of  customers  of the house at the 
well-filled board is by no  means an  uncom­
mon occurrence.  While such generosity on 
toe part of toe firm is probably  an  indirect 
advantage by saving to them  the  time  us­
ually spent in going to and  from lunch, my 
own  observation  leads me to  the  opinio» 
that toe  house adopted  such  an expedient 
from praiseworthy motives and that toe ex­
tra  expense  involved  is  returned to them 
many times over in the  increased esteem of 
their employes. 

E. A. S.

T H E   KEYSTONE  CONVENTION.
The second  annual  meeting of toe Penn­
sylvania  Retail  Merchants’  Association, 
which was held at Philadelphia  last  week, 
was a marked improvement over the preced­
ing conventions of the organization, both in 
point of attendance  and  interest.  The of­
ficers prepared an  unusually  complete pro 
gramme, which was carried out very nearly 
as originally intended, and  the  Entertain­
ment Committee of the Philadelphia  Retail 
Grocers’ Association  prepared  and  carried 
out an entertainment programme which sur­
passed anything of the kind  previously  at 
tempted in the Keystone State.

Of the work accomplished by the conven­
tion, T h e  T radesm an  hopes to speak in 
detail from  week  to  week.  The  papers 
were uniformly good, toe  reports generally 
excellent and  the proceedings were marked 
with a degree of  earnestness  and  dignity 
befitting the occasion.  While  Michigan  is 
in advance  of  her sister  State  in  some re­
spects, there are other features in which the 
example of Pennsylvania  may be profitably 
followed.  It will be theaim of T h e Trades 
mav to point out these  features, in connec­
tion with suitable comments thereon, with a 
view to acquainting Michigan business men 
with toe best methods known to  the  advo­
cates of organization elsewhere.

Toledo is about to have a  fit  representa­
tive of her commercial interests in the shape 
of a semi-monthly publication, to be known 
as the Business World.  The  new  journal 
will comprise 33 pages and cover  and  will 
be  issued  about  the  15th  of  the  present 
mouth.  * The  founder  and  editor is J. B, 
Battelle, formerly  Collector  of Customs at 
Toledo and for several years  toe editor and 
proprietor  of the  Toledo  Telegram.  The 
new venture starts under favorable auspices 
in a promising field and T h e  T radesman 
wishes it  success.

Professor Blow  predicts that  the propor­
tion of  gold  in  the  bullion output  of  the 
Leadville district,  beginning with toe  pres 
entyear, will steadily increase, and  that the 
total tor 1887  will  astonish those who have 
failed to keep posted  on  toe  mineral devel­
opment and changes in the bonanza region 
It is to be feared that  toe  professor’s name 
is prophetic of resalts.

For a good while  before  the  grand  out­
burst of toe  French  revolution in the  last 
century  toe  crowds  of  hungry  people  of 
France flocked into Paris and behaved them 
selves in toe same  way that now character 
ize the horde of hungry  wretches  in  Lon- 
don. 
It is one of  the symptoms of toe con­
dition of a people breaking  away  from  all 
ordinary restraints. 

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L„ E. Austin has closed his cheese factory 
at Courtland Center,  Kent  county,  and of 
iras toe same for sale. 
< Aarwood is a new j?oatoffic8 situate in toej 
northwestern part x>t  Kalkaska county,  at 
monto of  Rapid river.
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business atFlain well, 
chased at this market.

C. E. Doyle has  engaged  in  toe grocery 
business  at  Irving.  The  stock  was  pur­
chased at this market.

C. A. Baker has engaged in  the  grocery 
business at Kalamazoo.  Bulkley, Lemon & 
Hoops furnished the stock.

J. W- Holmes has engaged in  toe grocery ' 
business at Woodland.  Bulkley,  Lemon & 
Hoops furnished toe stock.

Kingsley & Gardiner have engaged in toe' 
grocery business at Luther.  Bulkley, Lem­
on & Hoops furnished toe stock.

Peter Wierenga has engaged in  toe hard­
ware business at Muskegon.  Foster,  Stev­
ens &10o. furnished toe stock.

Kromer & DeWint  have  engaged in the 
hardware and stpve business on East Bridge 
street.  Foster, Stevens & Co. furnished the
stock. 

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The  Eaton  &  Christenson  Cigar  Co., 
which was started at  Lincoln,  Neb., a cou­
ple of years ago as a branch  of  the  Grand 
Rapids house,  was closed out, on  the occa­
sion of Mr. Eaton’s visit  there,  about two 
weeks  ago.  The  stock  was sold to W. J. 
Price, who will continue toe business under 
his own name.  The  accounts  are  in  the 
hands of John Shirts for collection and  set­
tlement. 

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Amos S. Musselman, as trustee for Amos 
Musselman & Co., A.  C.  McGraw & Co. 
and Burnham,  Stoepel & Co.,  held a  mort­
gage on the  general  stock of Fogg & High­
tower, at Ferry, the flouring mill of Powers 
Bros.,  and toe lumber  mill  of  Hightower 
Bros. & Powers Bros.  The  mortgage  was 
foreclosed and the sale  advertised  to  take 
place  last  Tuesday.  Musselman  was  on 
hand with a prospective purchaser, but Hart 
creditors secured a  preliminary  restraining 
injunction, which  Judge  Russell  granted 
without  requiring  the  usual indemnifying 
bonds. 
It is thought at this end of the line 
that Judge Russell will not  make  the  in­
junction permanent,  in  which case toe sale 
of toe property will be consummated.

to 

secure 

Eaton & Christenson, who  have conduct­
ed the jobbing of cigars  and  confectionery 
and the manufacture  and  jobbing of crack­
ers at this market for  several  years  past, 
made an assignment  last  Tuesday to Geo. 
N. Davis.  Previous to assigning, they exe­
a  mortgage  to  Geo.  N.  Davis 
cuted 
for  $3,500, 
endorsements 
at toe Old National Bank  and a bill of sale 
to the Old National Bank for  a  considera­
tion of $1, to secure that  institution for ad­
vances made.  The assets  comprise  about 
810,000 worth of stock,  $10,000  worth  of 
cracker factory, and book accounts amount- 
ng to about $40,000, on  which  only  about 
50 cents on the dollar will  probably be real­
ized.  The liabilities will  probably  exceed 
$60,000, the largest creditor being the Amer­
ican Cigar Co., of Coldwater, which is inter­
ested in toe estate to toe extent Of  $14,000. 
The failure has a bad look on the face of it, 
but Mr. Eaton asserts that he will  be  able 
to set himself  aright  before  the  business 
community as soon as the  opportunity pre­
sents itself. 

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around  th e  state.

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Summit City—Wm. McJenkin has opened 

a grocery store.  *

in general trade.

Muir—E.  H. Ely  succeeds Braden & Ely 

Webberville—F.  C.  Livermore,  general 

dealer, has assigned.

Eaton Rapids—J. E. Cupp succeeds C. P, 

Cupp & Sons, grocers.

Yickeryville—Heysler  &  Jenks,  general 

dealers, have dissolved.

Moreuci—D.  E. Kingman, grocer,  has as­

signed to H. E. Green.

Saginaw—Ballentine Bros.,  grocers, have 

dissolved, each continuing.

St.  Ignace—Hulett  &  Miner,  grocers 

have been closed by creditors.

Fremont—O,  C.  Pemberton  has  bought 

the drug stock of  N. A. Yme.

Remus—Drs. Prentice  and Wenzel  have 

bought toe Dr. Russ drug stock.

Croswell—Paton & Pettys succeeds Sweet 

& Pettys inNhe grocery business.

Otsego—Mrs. Gabriel  Wolff  succeeds C 

L Clapp in toe grocery business,

Drenthe—Henry  K.  Lanning  succeeds 

Frank Boonstra in general trade.

Leslie—M /  Small & Co.  have  opened  a 

grocery store in the Groe building.

Middleville—French & Son have  shipped 

151 carloads of flour the past year.

South Lyon—K. Calkins  &  Son succeed 

L.  C. Tubbs in the grocery business.

Monroe-^N. Nadeau &  Son,  undertakers 

and furniture dealers, have dissolved.

Quipcy—Jay D. Hayes  succeeds  Jay D 

& John Hayes in the grocery business.

Sparta—Hesseltine & Ballard  succeed S, 

S. Hesseltine in toe furniture business.

Muskegon—O. Lambert,  toe  Bine  street 

grocer, has assigned to R. W. Boynton.

Pinckney—L. W. Richards & Co., general 

store, were partly burned out 

Insured.

Marquette—J. C. Bertrand & Co., general 

dealers, have assigned to Jacob Yannier.

East Tawas—Abram  Myers,  dry  goods 
«and clothing dealer, has given a bill of sale 
HiUsfiale—A.  W.  Crane  &, Co.  succeed
W olf& C raneinthe drugamdgrocery buai-l
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Raton  Rapids—Sanford  Wright  baa  re­
moved his grocery stock and  restaurant  to 
toe W elters block.

Charlotte—Fond & Kirby, toe  Mason  ba- 
zaar men, have purchased  toe  Brooks’  be- 
zaar stock here and continue  toe  business;

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements  will  be inserted under this 
head for one cent a word or two  cents a word 
for three insertions.  No advertisement taken 
for less than 35 cents.  Advance payment.
Advertisements  directing  that  answers  he 
sent in care of this office must he accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage,
F OR SALE—Stock of general  merchandise;
Will trade for  real  estate  in  Southern 
Michigan.  Address  Box  X,  care Tradesman 
120*
office. 
F OR SALE—Or exchange, for  hard  or  soft 
lumber, posts,  shingles or  lath, a planer 
and matcher in perfect order.  Will plane two 
sideB  twenty-four  inches  wide.  J.  B.  Del- 
bridge, 493 Trumbull Ave., Detroit. 
219*
F OR SALE—Or exchange.  A small stock of 
jewelry at cost  for  cash, or in exchange 
for drugs and medicines.  A bargain for some 
one.  Best  of  reasons  given.  Address  D. R. 
Spencer, Sherwood, Mich. 
____ 211*
F OR SALE—Stock of groceries  and fixtures 
in a young and  growing  town in  South­
ern  Michigan.  Gan  satisfy  anyone  who  has 
the money that it is a big bargain.  Address M. 
Denison, Sherwood, Mich. 
217*
F OR SALE—Owing to death of proprietor, I 
offer for sale a stock of drugs, medicines
Ad-
and fixtures, that will invoice about $6u0. 
dress W. R, Mandigo, Sherwood, Mich.
217*
F OR SALE—Stock  of  drugs.  Will  invoice 
about $1,600.  Location  in  Central Michi­
gan, in a town of 4,000 inhabitants.  Good  rea­
sons for selling.  Address  101, this office.  216*
F OR  SALE—General  stocit  of  goods.  Will 
rent  or  sell  building.  Good  reason  for 
selling.  Address J. C. Stitt, Dollarville, Mich. 
_______________________________________________________________________221*
F OR SALE—At a bargain.  A clean stock of 
hardware  and  mill  supplies.  Address 
Wayne Choate, Agent, East Saginaw. 
210tf
F OR  SALE—Or  exchange, platform  spring 
peddling wagons,  suitable for wholesale 
or retail trade.  Address  Welling & Carhartt, 
139 Jefferson avenue, Detroit, Mich._____ 208tf
F OR SALE—Desirable  residence lot on Liv­
ingston  street.  Will sell on long time or 
exchange for good stocks, mortgages or other 
real estate.  E. A. Stowe, Tradesman office.
F OR SALE—The best drugstore in the thriv­
ing city of Muskegon.  Terms easy.  C. L.
Brundage, Muskegon, Mich. 
_____ 193tf
OR RENT—Pleasant store at  19  W est Jful- 
ton street, Boston  block.  Now  used  as 
dry  goods  store.  Good  location.  Apply  to 
221 Mt. Vernon street._______________ 207tf.
YTTANTED—Salesmen.  Fivetraveling sales- 
VV  men;  salary  and  expenses:  no  expsr- 
ience  necessary,  Address,  with  stamp,  Pal­
mer & Co., Winona, Minn 
216*
TXT ANTED—Agents to handle the new chem- 
iV 
ical Ink Erasing Pencil.  Greatest nov­
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 $33 in two hours.  Territory absolute­
ly free,  Salary to good  men.  No ladies need 
answer.  Sample 35 cents.  For terms and full 
particulars.' address the manufacturers,' J. W. 
Skinner & Co., Onalaska, Wis. 
217*
W ANTED—To exchange.  Two freight wa­
gons for  buggy  horse.  Address  O.  C. 
Shultz, city. 
311tf
■ ANTED—Situation by registered pharma­
cist of  four  years’  experience.  First
Address  P., Tradesman of- 
class references, 
217*
flee.
TTTANTED—A  first-class  meat market man 
to take good position in  country town.
W  
Address  J.,  care 
Good  salary  to  good man. 
207
Tradesman,
W ANTED—To exchange  farm worth $2,500 
for a stock  of goods.  Address Box  23, 
208*tf
Tradesman office. 
WANTED—A  man  having  an  established 

trade among lumbermen to  add a spec­
ial line and sell on commission.  To  the  right 
man a splendid chance will be given  to  make 
money without  extra expense.  Address “B,” 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
178tf
TIMBER—Land  for sale—4*400 acres of  fine 
timber  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.. 
213
Portland,  Oregon. 

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I have a small  surplus  of  the  following  goods, which I will 

close out at once at Net Prices in Case L ots:

 

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Lumbermen’s No Heel Overs,  Meyers F .......................  

List.  My Price.
$ 1.35 
.68
.75
1.40 
1.25 
.68
.89
1.65 
.89
1.65 
1.65 
.89
.62
.59
1.25 
.78
1.65 
.82
1.65 
Men’s Imitation Saudals, Woonsockets not thick ball, F .................................80 
.42
2.09
4.00 

Heel and Tap Overs,  Meyers  F ....................................... 
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“  Haywards,  F ........ .........................  
New England F and W ,...............  
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“  Wales-Goodyears W W ................. 

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No Heel Overs, 
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Heel and Tap, 
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Boot not thick ball, F ................. 

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I HAVE THE CRESCENT HEEL PLATE MACHINE ANH 

CAN  PÖT  ON  HEEL PLATES  AT  10 

CENTS EITRA ON LIST.

W ales-ßoodpars,  Woonsoßkßts  and  lo d e   Is­

lands  at  Market  Priee.

Boston  Knit  and Wool  Boots,  Liim.  Soeks,  Etß.

Gr.  R.  MAYHEW,

Grand  Rapids,

ILÆioli.

Rockford—Baker & Baker have opened a 
grocery store,  J. H. Thompson  &  Co., De- j 
troit, placing  toe  order  through  T. Fer­
guson.

Ahrwood—Orson D.  Park  has purchased 
toe stock of  general merchandise  of  Allan 
F.  Little.  Mr.  Little  will continue in the 
drug  business.

Big  Rapids—John Reardon, who has been 
clerking for some time in F. Fairman’s drug 
store,  has severed that connection and will 
engage in business elsewhere  on  his  own 
account.

Woodland—Mrs. P. B.  Hunsicker’s  gen­
eral  store  was  burglarized  last  Tuesday 
night, resulting in a loss of  about  $200  in 
cash.  A number of notes  were also taken, 
which were subsequently found.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Montague—The basket factory  has  shut 

down for the season.

East Saginaw—C.  H.  Pomroy  is  build­

ing a cracker factory.

Benton Harbor—The Graves  Lumber Co. 

has  been closed on a chattel  mortgage.

Saugatuck—The  Saugatuck  Basket  Co. 

paid 40 per cent, on the season’s business.

Aarwood—A  new  dam  is  being  con­
structed across Rapid river,  and a good grist 
mill man is wanted.

Kalkaska—Wm. H.  Thompson,  of Man- 
celona, will establish a handle factory.  He 
continues his Mancelona factory.

Manistee—/The  Jamison  mill,  owned by 
the  Manistee  Lumber Co., 
together  with 
4,000,000 feet of  seasoned  lumber,  burned 
on the 24th inst.  Loss,  $100,000.  Fully 
insured.

STRAY  FACTS.

Stanton—G.  W.  Childs  has  leased  the 

Bailey  House.

Whitewood—The hotel of  Wm.  E.  Pen­

dleton has been burned out.

Rockford—Jas. Dockery has  not sold out 
his banking business, as reported last week.
Kalkaska—A new mail stage line is being 
put on between  here  and  Aarwood—four­
teen miles.

Tustin—Geo. E.  Pantlind  &  Co. 

intend 
putting  in  2,000,000  pine,  hemlock  and 
hardwood logs the coming winter.

Pentwater—Nickerson &  Collister are re­
pairing  the  docks  recently  purchased by 
them from thè Pentwater Lumber Co.

Nortoport—R.  Connable & Son, fish mer­
chants of Petoskey, have ice stored here and 
will  freeze  fish  at this place,  as well as at 
Petoskey.

Harbor Springs—S. W.  Hopkins  and D. 
W. Lyon have retired from the firm of Hop- 
kinSi Lyon & Co., and the  business  will be 
continued by W. B. Smith under the  name 
of toe Harbor Springs Bank.

bonds, 

Detroit—The eight national banks of De­
troit have  a  reserve  on  hand of 29.19 per 
cent.  The  aggregate  loans  and discounts 
are  $12,777,036.02; 
$900,000; 
specie,  $1,064,667.01;  capital,  $3,883,540; 
surplus,.$454,000;  undivided  profits,  $374,- 
008.84;  individual  deposits,  $9,683,103.73; 
United  States  deposits,  $434,643.02;  due 
United  States  banks,  $1,612,876.95;  due 
state banks, $2,470,323.15.

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all over the State of Michigan and elsewhere who are  not  already handling Lion  are urged to  give  it  a trial.  W e cheerfully 
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Grand Rapids, Mich.

L.  WINTEENITZ,  Resident Agent,

Of Interest to  Traveling Men. 

Grand Ra pid s,  Oct. 29,1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids :
Dea r Sir—Please announce that the To­
ledo,  A nn Arbor & Northern Railway is now 
selling 1,000 mile  books  at $30, giving 250 
pounds baggage permits, and also week endr 
tickets.  This is certainly a  great accession 
to our ranks,  as toe  road  will  soon have a 
line completed to Muskegon,  also  to Cadil­
lac, opening very desirable routes nearly all 
over toe  State.  These  concessions  every 
traveling  man  must  certainly  appreciate, 
and 1 would ask every member of our Asso­
ciation to make a special  effort  to  recipro­
cate, as voluntary  concessions  of this kind 
deserve recognition.
Chairman Railway Com.,Mich, Div.,T. P. A.

Yours most truiy,  Geo. F. Ow en, 

Gripsack Brigade.

Mrs. W. H. Downs  Sundayed at  Vicks­
burg.  W. H.  went  down  Saturday  night 
and brought her home Monday morning.

Gideon K ellogg is kicking  because no re­
ference was made  iq  these  columns to the 
latest accession to his fam ily, which arrived 
about six  months  ago.  It’s  name  is .not 
Gid, because it’s  not  that  kind  of  a kid. 
She resembles her daddy—only  better lbok- 
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The  third  semi-anntial  meeting  of  the 
BetaU lCerchants’ Protective Association of 
Pennsylvania conyened at S t George’s hall, 
I  Philadelphia, last Tuesday, with  about 150 
delegates  is attendance,
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The  address  of  President  Harbaugh 
’ recounted the  particulars  attending  the or­
ganization of the Association on January 18, 
and  its  Incorporation  three  months later. 
He congratulated  the  members  on the ab­
sence of sectional  or  personal dissensions) 
and on the  effectiveness  of  the  collection 
system.  Referring  to  the  educative influ­
ences o f Association’s work, he said:
The influence of Association work is edu­
cative.  No one can attend and take part in 
the work without being benefited.  Thought 
is  excited  and  the  mind  broadened  and 
strengthened thereby. 
In order  that mem­
bers should be better fitted to  take  part  in 
discussion, one or more good  trade  papers 
should be taken and read.  But  little  pro­
gress can be made by  those  who do not be­
come readers as-well as  active  workers  in 
the Association. 
It is a means of education 
superior to the  school-room  and  debating 
society, |u st as actual business is superior to 
theoretical business  training.  These  facte 
are beginning to be appreciated already and 
will soon become apparent to all  observers.
To this we may add the education acquired 
by using the trade press  to  your  personal 
advantage.  Writing for a  paper  is a mode 
of self-improvement not generally apprecia­
ted except by a few who have  tried  it  for 
that purpose.  Our official paper gives spec­
ial advantages to the members of local asso­
ciations;  hence, I  would recommend  such,
: especially, to our  members. 
I   might here 
say, as a matter of justice to our official pa­
per, that it has been the means  of  placing 
Pennsylvania in the front ranks to-day, just 
as the official  papers of New York,  Michi­
gan and the New England States have done 
for their States.
The benefits, finally, to the  publishers so 
far bear no comparison^to the benefits  they 
have contributed to the'' retail trade.  Until 
members  all-  take  their official paper and 
read it, they will not  appreciate  the facts I 
have here set forth.  The man  who confes­
ses that he reads no trade paper,  is  a  wit­
ness to  his  own  unfitness  to  be  ranked 
among those who  are engaged in  elevating 
the trade.
The President  recommended that further 
legislation be  secured  to  control  peddling 
and the sale of  prize goods;  that  measures 
be devised to seenre inter-state co-operation 
in the collection "system, roll  of  honor  and 
fraternal features;  that  a  delegate be sent 
to the conventions of the Michigan and New 
York State Associations;  that  delegates  be 
sent to  the  pure  food  convention;  that a 
State Roll of  Honor  be  formulated;  that  a 
uniform system of credit be devised;  that a 
state organizer be constituted;  that a  badge 
be designed as the  emblem of  the Associa­
tion.  The President thanked the officers and 
members of the  Association for the encour­
agement and  support extended  him  in  the 
discharge of  his  duties, and  bespoke a con­
tinuance of the  same.
The balance of  the morning  session  and 
the entire time of the afternoon session was 
devoted to the reports of delegates from the 
,  local Associations.  The reports  were uni­
formly favorable, showing much  activity in 
many bases.  The  Pennsylvania  associa­
tions take a somewhat  different  scope than 
the Michigan organizations.  The delinquent 
feature is  paramount  in  importance,  as  in 
Michigan,  and  the  suppression of  the ped­
dler seems to be  the  next in order.  Early 
closing and  the  cultivation  of  a feeling  of 
fraternity also  play  important parts.  The 
public improvement  feature,  as  advocated 
in Michigan,  is  not  known to the Pennsyl­
vania associations.  But  one association  in 
the  State has  taken up  the  regulation  of 
prices—Philadelphia—where a profit of one 
cent a pound  is  regularly  maintained  on 
granulated  sugar.
The question of  whether a man who owes 
an outlawed account should be considered a 
delinquent  and  refused  credit on that  ac­
count, provoked  an  animated  discussion, 
which culminated  in  the  postponement  of 
the subject for a day.
The  Secretary  presented his report on  a 
State Roll  of  Honor,  recommending  that, 
such a work  be  entered into.  The report 
was  referred  to  the Committee on Resolu­
tions.
An  amendment to the  constitution, rais 
mg the price of charters from $5 to $10, was 
postponed until the next meeting.
“A 
Bureau  of  Information,”  R.  C.  Dalzell, 
“The  Present  Freight  Clas­
Pittsburg; 
sification,”  J.  C.  O’Donnell,  Pittsburg; 
“The Horse Insurance Fund,”  Wm.  Glas­
gow,  Philadelphia;' 
“Crediting  Delin­
quents,”  S. B.  Charters,  Pittsburg;  “The 
Education  of  the  Trade,”  Jos.  Smedley, 
Philadelphia;  “ Honorary Membership,” W. 
J.  Sharpless, McKeesport;  “Should There 
Be a State Organizer?”  T. J.  Oliver,  Phil­
adelphia; 
“ How  Can  the  Peddler  Be 
Abated?”  B. F. Jarrett, Philadelphia.
President  Harbaugh  stated  that  at  the 
first  convention  of  the  Association  there 
were twenty-one delegates  present;  that  at 
the second convention  there were sixty-five 
delegates,  whereas the present  convention 
comprises 130 delegates.  This  announce­
ment was greeted with applause.
The Association declared itself in favor of 
home insurance,  and recommended the plan 
presented in the  paper  of  Mr.  Glasgow  to 
the consideration of auxiliary  associations.
the  opening  of  the  second  day’s 
At 
session  the  following'  papers  were  read: 
International  Roll  ©f  Honor,” 
“An 
Elisha Winter,  New York;  “Selling  Goods 
on Sunday,”  W. H. Tumbleston,  Philadel­
phia; 
“ Guaranteed  Sanitary  Condition, 
Weight, Count,  Measure, Tare  and  Uni­
formity of Packages,” Eber James, Chester.
On motion o f  Percy  F.  Smith,  President 
Harbapgdr was elected a delegate to the pure 
‘  food convention at Washington.
The report of Secretary  Stevenson  pre­
sented, showing a  total  auxiliary member­
ship of 2,740, embodying  thirty-eight  asso­
ciations;  receipts  of  $1,553.46;  total  dis­
bursements of  $1,406.71,  leaving a balance 
in the treasury of $126.75.
The  salary  of  the  State  Secretary was 
raised ffom $300 to $600 per year. 
KJipItaisfiogpapers  were  read as follows: 
“The  Cash and  Credit  System Compared,” 
W. H. Nelson, Chester;  “Inter-State  Co­
operation and Trade Fellowship,”  Wm. H- 
Cough try, Albany; “The Cost of Retail Store 
Service,” F, N. Barrett, New York;  4‘Ulti­
mate Results o f Trade Organization,”  J. J. 
Foran, Philadelphia.
The Committed on  Resolutions presented 
the/following report, which was adopted: 
QResolved, T hat the new trunk line classi­
fication of freight teodstoprevent retail mer-
bay their goods andiçnds to limit com­
petition for their trade a m is  against public 
be condemaed^byall free-
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S tettataci choosing in  what  market  they 

read  as  follow«: 

Papers  were 

classification  which 
but thaf ljre are opposed’ to so great a differ­
ence as now exists  between  car  loads and 
less quantities,  and  believe  the difference 
should hot exceed ten per cent.
Resolved, That a copy ofithese resolutions 
be forwarded to  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission.
Resolved,  That  we-  pledge  ourselves  to 
buy no goods from  manufacturers  peddling 
or hawking their goods from house to house, 
in detriment  to  the  retail  dealers  of the 
State.
Resolved,  That  we  reccommend  to  the 
Legislative Committee the propriety of pro­
curing an act similar to  the prize-goods law 
now in force in New York State, and which 
provides a penalty for the sale  of merchan­
dise accompanied  with  a  present,  gift, 
scheme of any kind.
Resolved, That  this  Association  hereby 
re-affirm its former  declaration in  favor  of 
an entire suspension of  business  upon  the 
Sabbath.
Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of this 
Convention ithat  holidays  and their atten­
dant picnics  are  a  benefit  and as such are 
r&ommended by the  Association  through­
out the State,
Resolved, That the State  Secretary be di­
rected to  ascertain  the  cost  of  a suitable 
gold badge for members  of  the Retail Mer­
chants’ Association of Pennsylvania.
Resolved,  That  we  create  an  honorary 
membership.

After adopting a resolution  thanking  the 
officers for  their  faithfulness,  the conven­
tion adjourned. 
In  the  evening a banquet 
was  tendered  the  delegates  and  invited 
guests by  the  Philadelphia Retail Grocers’ 
Association and on  the  day  following the 
same  organization  gave  their  visitors 
delightful ride on the Delaware River.

The Drummer to His Grip.

Full many a weary mile old Grip,
Both In sunshine and the storm—

We’ve traveled o’er together,
In every kind of weather.

How many hours you’ve waited, Grip,
While I  was selling piles of goods.

Alone in Borne hotel.
Or “getting scooped” like——well.

I never was profane, old Grip,
. You never heard me swear—
Not even when that bottle broke,
And I’d no shirt to wear.

How often you’ve “held down the seat,” 
While I  went to the smoking car 

You darling, dear old Grip,
W ith friends to take a sn--- smoke.

I ’ve trusted you with secrets, Grip,
Which, were they known to folks at home, 

In fact, you hold some now,
Would raise an awful,row,.;

You’ve kept my secrets well, old Grip,
Though scores andseores of times, old friend, 

At home  and “ on the road.”
Tou’ve carried a “heavy load.’ ’

You’ve teen me shed some tears, old Grip, 
When no one else was nigh,
And often tried to comfort me 
With drinks of good old rye.

We’ve seen some hard times, too, old  Grip— 
Sometimes, like me, you’ve empty been. 

Like me, you’ve stood abuse;
And sometimes “fuller’n a goose.”

Yet, I never saw the time. Grip,
When you were really drunk,
Though often times I’ve had to “preach”
To our old “sample trunk.”
We’re gray-haired rusty chaps, old Grip, 
And don’t look very fine:
The ladies never notiee us.
As when we used tc shine.

You know the reason too, old Grip—
They know the wr: id we’ve seen;
So they “catch  on”  o hewer grips 
And traveling mr  i in green.

Oh, well, we’ve  sec n  the time, Grip, 
It was to leave some  gentie heart 

Whene’er we left the train.
Just fluttering with pain.

And you could tell of letters. Grip,
Which I have left day after day 

And faces, sweet and fair,
In your most sacred care.

Well, we  are aged now, old  Grip—
Soon you’ll be laid upon the shelf,”

I’m forty-nine’ you’re seven;
I—sailing off toward heaven.

But we will stick together, Grip,
For, next to woman, there’s no friend 

The longest that we can.
Like Grip to a traveling man.
Purely Personal.

O. A.  Ball spent  last  week  among  the 
leading lumber camps  of  Northern  Michi­
gan.

J. R.  Odell,  the  Fremont  druggist  and 
banker, has returned  from a  business trip 
to Montana.

H. B. Fairchild moved out  of  his former 
home Monday,  into  his  new  house at 590 
Wealthy avenue.

W. T. Roxbaugh,  late of Reed City,  suc­
ceeds John  Reardon  as  clerk for F. Fair- 
man, at Big Rapids.

L. Winternitz has  returned  from  a  two 
weeks’ visit to New  York, Philadelphia and 
Pittsburg, 
looking  up  specialties  for  his 
house.

Henry Idema, local manager of the Brad- 
street Co., left Monday for  a  week’s  trip 
along the lake shore, 
including  Manistee, 
Pentwater and Ludington.

Wm. D.  Carey,  formerly  engaged  in the 
produce commission business at Muskegon, 
is now engaged in the  real  estate and loan 
business at Arkansas City,  Kansas,  under 
the style of Stoll &  Carey.

The editor  of T h e   T r a d e s m a n   has re­
turned from  his  fortnight’s  Eastern  trip, 
daring which time he attended  the  annual 
convention of the Pennsylvania Retail Mer­
chant’s Association as  a  delegate  from the 
Michigan Business Men’s Association.

Th e Tradesman was favored Thursday 
with a pleasant call from  J.  H. Woodward, 
the Frankfort -clothier.  His evident pre-oc­
cupation and unusual haste to terminate the 
interview, led to inquiries  which developed 
the fact that he had that morning led to the 
altar Mias Beatrice Lee, one of  Frankfort’s 
fairest  and  most  accomplished  daughters, 
and that they were then  on  theft  wedding 
trip to Chicago  and  other  Western  points.
E. J. Keate, agent  for  tho  Star  Union 
Line, becomes general agent of the G. R. & 
L Railway to-day, tile office of  contracting 
agent haring  been  abolished.  Mr.  Keate 
wifi discontinue the office at 7  Canal  street 
and  make  his  headquarters  at 93 Monroe 
street, Morton House  block.  He still main­
tains his connection with  the  Star'  Union 
Line,  This change is bneof  many  which 
have been broug|dj.ajtan^>y the re-organiza­
tion of the Star Union Line,  with a view to 

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Secretary—E. A. Stove,' Grand Rapids.
Trea«nrer--L. W. Sprague. Greet>riile. 
Executive Boarrt—President.  Seen
banl, Flint; W. E. Kelsey, Ionia; Irvi: 

Geo.  W.  Hüb­
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Committee on 3tade IiiterestB—Smitb Barnes, Traverse 
Oit>; Chat;. |S Bridgman,  Flint;  H.  B. Fargo,  Muske­
gon.
Commmitte on Legislation—Frank Wells, Lansing, W.
E. Kelsey, Ionia; Neal McMillan, Rockford. 
Committee  on  Transportation—J.  \\  Milliken,  Trav­
erse City; Jno. P. Stanley, Battle Creek;  Wm. Rebec, 
East Saginaw.
Committee an  Insurance—N.  B.  Blain,  Lowell;  E.  Y.
Hogle, Hastings; O. M. Clement, Cheboygan. 
Committee on  Building  and  Loan Associations—F. L. 
Fuller,  Frankfort-,' S.  E. ParkUI,  Owosso;  Will  Em- 
mert, Eaton Rapids.

O ffic ia l O r g a n —T h e  Mic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n .

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

N o ; 1—T r a v e rs e  City B . M . A . 
President, Geh. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts.

N o . 2—L o w e ll  B. M . A . 

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

N o.  3 —S tu r g is  JB. M . A . 

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

‘'N o .  5 —M u s k e g o n  l ì .   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. Thuraton.

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

N o . 9 — L a w re n c e  B . M . A .

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

P résid ât, W. J. Clark; Secretory, À. L. Thompson.

,: N o . 1 1 —K in g s le y   B . M . A . 

President, H. P. Whipple; Secretary, C. H.  Camp.

N o.  1 2 —Q u in c y  B . M . A ,

President, C. McKay; Secretary, C. W, Bennett._____

NO.  1 3 —S h e r m a n  B . M . A . 

President, H. B. Sturtovant; Secretary, W.  G. Shane.

N o.  1 4 —N o. M u s k e g o n  B . M . A . 
President, S. A. Howey; Secretary, G. C. Havens.

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

President. R. R. Perkins;  Secretary, J. F. Fairchild.

N o .  1 6 —S a n d  L a k e  B . At. A . 

President, J. V. Crandall:  Secretary, A, P. Comstock.

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N o. 17 —P la in w e ll B . M . A . 

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

President, W. A, Woodard; Secretary, S. Lamfrom.

N o.  ID —A d a   B . M . A .

President, P.-F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.

N o.  2 0 —b a n g a tu c k  B . M . A . 

President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.

President, C. H. W harton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.

N o. 2 1 —W a y la n d  B . M . A . 

N o.  2 2 —G ra n d   L e d g e  B . M . A . 

Persident, W. E. Wilson; Secretary, W. R. Clarke.

N o. 2 3 —C a rso n  C ity  B . M . A . 

President, F. A. Rockafellow;  Secretary,  C. O, Trask.

President, J. E. Thnrkow;  Secretary, W. H, Rjnhmnr.H

N o. 2 4 —M o rle y  B .  M . A .

N o. 2 S—P a lo  B . M . A .

President, Ira S. Jeffers; Secretary, H. D. Pew._______

N o. 2 6 —G r e e n v ille   K . M . A . 

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

Association Notes.

Ceresco is considering the subject of local 

organization.

F. Hood & Co. are working up  organiza­

tion sentiment at Merrill.

L. A. Phelps,  Secretary of the Saugatuck 
B. M. A.,  writes:  “The Blue Letter works 
admirably.”

W.  H.  Smith,  Secretary  of the Reed City 
B. M. A., has written for  instructions as to 
the proper  course  to  pursue  to 
procuic a
charter from the State  body.

C. E.  Scudder,  Secretary of the  Brecken- 
ridge B.  M. A., writes:  “Those  present k t 
our last meeting reported good success from 
the Blue Letters already sent out.”

E. E.  Chapel, Secretary of the Ada B. M. 
A., writes:  “One of our  members has just 
secured the payment of an account of eleven 
years’ standing through our Association.”

Tne Pennsylvania  Association,  at  its re­
cent convention at Philadelphia,  met  with 
the same difficulty in  getting  hotels  to live 
up to promises that the  Michigan  Associa­
tion has encountered.  Arrangements  were 
made with the Continental  Hotel  to  enter­
tain delegates at the uniform price of  $2.50 
per day, but when “settling  day”  came the 
rote was made $3.50 instead.

Bill Nye’s Experience as a Milker.

Bill Nye is out with a  lecture  on  “The 
New South,” in which he makes the follow­
ing reference to the dairy business:

The butter there isn’t good. 

It is young, 
but powerful.  They don’t work the  butter 
enough,  and they work the  cows too much. 
If they would work the butter more and the 
cows less,  it would please  the  people  who 
have to partake of both.
I  used  to  be  able  to milk cows.  There 
was one I used to milk  before I was sent to 
the seminary.  Then I came back,  changed 
in appearance, with  my camel’s hair  mus­
tache.  The cow didn’t know  me. 
If I re­
member rightly she was a very haughty cow, 
with a low forehead, but she wore  her  tail 
I addressed a  commonplace  remark 
high. 
I  told  her to 
to her as I went to milk her. 
“so!” she soed. 
I told her to  “hoist!” apd 
she hoisted,  but  she  overdid  it. 
I heard a 
dull, sickening thud, and when my  parents 
came  out  they  found  their son. 
I asked 
them if the  barn  was  still  standing  and if 
they got all the fragments. 
If I was cast on 
an island with a  companion  and  a  cow,  I 
would Wait until my  companion would die, 
and then chloroform the cow and fry to miiir 
her.  At  present  I   buy  my  milk from a 
milkman. 
I trust him,  and I Would be sat­
isfied if he would do the same by me.

>. 

Good for Western Jobbers.

From the Detroit Journal.

A little law was  pushed  through the last 
Congress  limiting  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
United  States  courts  to cases involving at 
least  $2,000,  exclusive  of  interest.  A t 
first it struck  people  that  this  law  would 
merely tend to  reduce  business  in the said 
courts and cut  down  the  receipts of elerks 
and commissioners. 
It  is  now  stated that 
the effiec| has been to diminish the credit of 
Western (dealers  in  the  East,  and  conse­
quently to cut off much  small  dealing from 
East to West and throw it into the hands of 
Western  jobbers.  This  is  because  the 
Eastern merchant suing for small sums, when 
necessary in the  West  has  no  recourse to 
the United States court where  procedure is 
regular,  business-like  and  easy; but must 
deal with circuit courts  and  under a differ­
ent law in every State.

Falò  Organized.

The businessjnen of Palo have organized 
under the name of  the Pale Business Men’s 
Association, and  become  auxiliary  to  the 
State Association.  The  folknyfng are  the

President—Ira S. Jeffers.
Vice-President-r-C. H. Mandeville.
Secretary—H. D.; Pew* 
i 
T reasm e^ M S . 
Executive Committee—E.  Rork.  E.  B,

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10/ÎE /LfiD JACKED 
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PATENTED  OCT.  19,  1887.

Manufactured by

KOOH A. B. CO.

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PHOBIA.  ILL
Liberal  discount  to  the  trade, or  parties 
first  putting up these brackets in any local­
ity.

F ROST 5 PATEN V   «
BOX FASTE NE%X J?fcr-

O N ID.

UFOS. ALL 1

PACKING & SHELF 

BOXES.

Crates, etc.

Shipping Caste, Egg 
4 and 6 ERIE ST.

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

"

43 and 45 Kent Street.

ST A N L E Y   N .  A L L E N ,  P roprietor.

m  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders  by  Mail  and. Express Promptly At> 

tended  to.

Ibarbware.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dis 

CAPS.

dis 
dis 

BRACES*

BUCKETS.

BUTTS. CAST.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

AUGERS AND BITS.

BALANCES.
BARROWS.

promptly and buy in full packages.
Ives’, old style........................................dis  60
N.  H. C. Co..............................................dis  60
Douglass’.................................................dis  60
Pierces’ ................................... 
60
Snell’s ......................................................dis  60
Cook’s  ......................  
40
 
Jennings’, genuine.................................dis  25
Jennings’, imitation............................. dis50&10
Spring...............................  
40
Bailroad ...................................................$ 14 00
Garden...:........................ 
net 33 00
BELLSi
H and...............................  . ; __ dis  $ 60&1C&10
C............ dis
Cow,........ 
Call...............................V.........  di?
Gong...... ...........................  
ui&
Door. Sargent............................ dis
BOLTS.
Stove...................................................dis $ 
0
Carriage  new list.............................. dis  7C&10
50
Plow  ...................................................dis 
70
Sleigh Shoe...........................................dis 
Wrought Barrel Bolts..................... dis 
60
Cast  Barrel Bolts................................dis 
40
Cast Barrel, brass knobs.................... dis 
40
Cast Square Spring..................... 
  dis 
. 60
Cast Chain...........................................dis 
4Q
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob..............dis 
60
Wrought Square................................dis 
60
Wrought Sunk Mush.........................dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
M ush............................................... dis  60&10
Ives’ Door............................. ............. dis  60&10
B arber................................................d isf 
40
Backus............................. .............  .. dis  50&10
.dis 
Spofford........................ 
50
Am. Ball............................................... dis 
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
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  60&10
Wrought Loose  P in ..........................dis  60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.............dis  60* 5
Wrought Loose Pin, j a p a n n e d . d i s   60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d ........................ ........_____ dis  60& 5
dis  60&10
Wrought Table.............  
Wrought Inside Blind.........................dis  60&10
Wrought Brass..................................... dis 
75
Blind, Clark’s........................................dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s — ..............................dis  75&10
Blind,  Shepard’s...................................dis 
70
Ely’s 1-10............................................  per  m $ 65
60
Hick’s C. F .........................................  
G.D................................... 
35
 
Musket................................................ 
60
Rim Fire, IT. M. C. & Winchester  new list50&10
Bim Mre, United States............ 
dis50&10
Central Mre......   ......... 
dis30&l0
Socket Firmer.................................... dis
70&10
Socket Framing................................. dis
70&10
Socket Comer......................................dis
70&10
  dis
Socket Slicks.......................... 
 
70&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer.............. dis
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers............ 
.dis
20
Cold.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  ¿.. . . .............net
^
Curry, Lawrence’s ....................d is
40&1O
Hotchkiss  .......... 
.....d is
26
Brass, Backing’s .......... .........................  
60
Bibb’s 
 
60
 
B eer.........................  
 
40&10
Fenns’......................  
 
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size......... 
28
81
23
Cold Boiled, 14x56and 14x60........  
Cold Boiled, 14x48......... .w............................   83
23
Bottoms.................. 
 
4. 
DRILLS
40
  dis 
Morse’s Bit  Stock................ 
. Hi a 
Taper and Straight Shanir.
.
40
Morse’s Taper  Shank..........................dis 
40
elbows.
Com.4 piece,6  in .......................... doznet $.75
Corrugated..,......... J__ ........ dis20&101&0
Adjustable. . . . . . . . . ...................dis  &&10
30
dis 
Clair’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00. 
dis 
Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2. $24 06; 3, $30 00. 
26
American File Association List. . ... .dis
60&10
  __ ,......,........ ...dis
Disston’s  
60&30
New American.....;.........  ,.......dis
6O&J0
Nioholson’s ... 
........ .....................dis
60A10
Heller’s .....................,  ........dig
55&16
Heller’s Horse Rasps...... ....... .......dig
60
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

galvanized iron,
22 and 24,  25 and 26,  27
15
14 

14x62,14x56,14 x60......... 

c o m b s. 
 
 
COCKS.

filbs—New List.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

..W S> 
 
 

 
COPPER.

CATRiDGES.

CHISELS.

Discount,  60.

.18 
GAUGES.
Stanley Buie and Level Co.’s............ dis 
-  60
HAMMERS.
Maydole & Co.’s.............  
26
..dis 
 
Kip’s .......i..:.......................... 
dis 
26
Yerkes  St Plumb’s........ ..........  
dis  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................30c list 50
Blacksmith’s 8oHdCagtSteel,RaM. .80c40dl0 
■ M -iS m m m k jt J  
Bam Door Kid derMfg. Co., Wood track  50&M
Champion,  anti-friction. 
dis  60&90J
Kidder,wood  track.:,............... 
40
_  <^-3L 
fiwte. ¿v... jsi t 

KtaSES.,-  1?  ■ -i./'Y

per dpgfiet» 8 50

L  - ■■ k i - . M

  dis 

12 

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HOES.

a h /

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HOLLOW  WARE.

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

and1 i o n g e

76
f ji
7«
744
•  70
60
66
60
53

Screw Hook and Slarap, to 12  in.  4K  14 
Screw Hook and Bye, M ...................net 
Screw Hook and Bye X .r..........net 
Screw Hook and Eye %................;..net 
Screw Hook and Bye, 
........... net 
Strap and  T 
........................:..dis 
P ots....................................... ........... 
K ettles...................................................   . 
Spiders  ........1....... .......................... ' 
Gray  enameled.................................  
 
*  HOUSE  FURNISHING GOODS.  1
Stamped Tin W are..................new list 
75
Japanned Tin  W are.........  ..........  
 
25
Granite Iron  W are............................. 
26
Grub  1...... ..................................... $H 00, disto
Grub  2............................................. 11 50, (Ms60
G rub3............................... . 
12 00. dis 60
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings,.......... dis 
55
Door,porcelain, jap. trimmings..........   
65
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings......  
55
DOor, porcelain, trim m in g s............; 
58
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain...dis 
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s ..  . . . __ 40&M
Hemacite ............ 
55
Bussell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. dis  1 
55
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s.....................dis 
Branford’s ............... 
55
.dis 
Norwalk’s  ..........................................dig 
55
Stanley Buie and Level Co.’s.................. dis  70
Adze  Eye..................................$16 00 dis 
60
Hunt E y e.,........ ................ ....$15 00 dis 
60
Hunt’s ,....................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10
Sperry & Co.’f, Post,  handled................dis  50
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s............................dis 40
Coffee, P. S. &W.Mfg. Co.’s Maileables ...  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s...... . 
dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise..................................¿is  25
Stebbin’s Pattern  ..............................dis  60&JD
Stebbin’s Genuine..............................dis  60&10
Enterprise,  self-measuring............dis 
25

LEVELS.
MATTOCKS.

 
LOCKS—DOOR.

MOLASSES GATES.

MAULS.
MILLS.

  dis

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nails —IRON.

Common, Brad and Fencing. 

OILERS.

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

to. 8pd........................................V keg $2  10
6dand7dadv................................................... 50
4d and 5d  adv.................................................   ”  75
3d advance...................................... !!.!!!.  1 58
3d fine  advance................................ 
.  2 25
Clinch nails, adv.............................   ......  
1 00
Finishing 
6d  4d
Size—inches  j  3 
2 
144
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, $12net
............ 3   50MO
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................dis 40® 10
Sciota Bench...................................................(Mg 50@5g
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy............................dis 40@10
Bench, flrstfquahrir................................... go@5g
Stanley Buie and Level Co.’s, wood__ dinanfrip
__ 
Fry, Acme.............................................dis 50&10
Common, polished................................
Dripping...............................................$  a>  644
Iron and Tinned.................................dis 
55
Copper Rivets and  Burs................... dis 
60
“A” Wood’spatentplanished,Nos.24to27 10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27  9 20

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

...... .. 
PLANES.

RIVETS.

PANS.

Broken packs 44c ^  B) extra.

ROPES.

$2 90
2 90
3 00
3 05
3 15

TACKS.

60
20
Com. Smooth.  Com.

Sisal, 44 in. and  larger.................................. 1144
Manilla............ .....................................
Steel andiron..................................... dis 70&10
TryandBevels.................................... dis 
Mitre  ................................................. qig 

SQUARES,

TIN  PLATES.

3 25
inches

TINNER’S SOLDER.

1 extra.
SHEET ZINC.

SHEET IRON.
Nos. 10 to 14........................... 
  $4 20 
Nos. 15 to 17................................   4 20 
Nos. 18 to 21................................  4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24................................   4 20 
Nos .25 to 26................................   4 40 
No.27v
........   4 60 
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 3 
wide not less than 2-10
In casks of 600 fts, ^   B)..........................  
6
In smaller quansities, ^   B>............ .!!!! 
644
American, all  kinds.......................    dis 
60
60
Steel, all kinds....................................dis 
Swedes, all kinds.... ..........................dis 
60
Gimp and Lace...................................dis 
60
Cigar Box  Nails................................. dis 
50
50
Finishing Nails.................................. dis 
50
Common and Patent Brads...............dis 
50
Hungarian Nails andMiners’ Tacks.dis 
Trunk and Clout Nails........................dis 
50
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails.......... dis 
45
Leathered Carpet Tacks....................dis 
35
No. 1, Refined........................................ 
12 60
18 00
Market  Half-and-half.,.......................  
Strictly  Half-and-half.......................... 
17 50
10x14, Charcoal.......................5 40@5 60
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal................................  7 25
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal............................   6 25
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal............................   7 75
IX, 
14x20,Charcoal.............................   575
IC, 
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal..............................   728
TXX,  14x20, Charcoal.............................  8 75i
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool.........................     10  77!
TXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal...............................  12 56
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal.............................  15 68
100 Plato Charcoal...............................  6 50
DC, 
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal...............................  8 50
DXX. 100 Plate Charcoal..................... 
  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal...........................   13 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to 6 75
Roofing, 14x20, IC................................... 
  4  90i
Roofing, 14x20,  IX .........................................   6 40
Roofing, 20x28, IC...........................................  10 50
Roofing, 20x28, IX .............  
13 50
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Teme................  5 50 !
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Teme..................   7 00
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Teme............... 11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Teme. .•........  14 00
Steel, Game................................................. 60&10
OneidaCommuntity, Newhouse’s...... ..dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10
Hotchkiss’  ..................................................60&10
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Oo.’s.................................68&10
Mouse, choker..................................... 18c f? dez
Mouse,  delusion..............................$1 50 $  doz
Bright Market..................................... dis  6744
Annealed Market...............................dis  76&10
Coppered Market..................................dis  «844
Extra Bailing..............................  
dis  55
Tinned  Market.................. 
....dis  6244
 
Tinned Broom......................  
fMb  00
Tinned Mattress......................................$  a> 844
Coppered Spring Steel.................................. dis 50
Tinned SprmgSteel......................  
dis 48&I0
Plain Fence...............................  
Barbed Fence, galvanized.......................... 4 10
painted............................... 3 35
Copper.............................. 
new  list net
B rass............................................... new listnet
Bright....................................... ...dis
70&10&10
Screw Eyes....................................dis
70&10&1Ö
Hook’s ............ ..................  
dis
70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  Eves................. dis
70&10&10
B arter’s Adjustable, nickeled___ ____
Coe’sGenuine 
50
.......... dig 
Coe’s Ptent A griouitural, wrought, dis 
75
Coe’s Ptent, malleable................... dis  75&1C
Birdcages_______;....... ....... ................  
go
Pumps,  Cistern...... ..........................dis  '  75
Screws, new list....... .................... 
7G&6
Casters, Bed and Plate,.............dis50&10&10
Dampers, Amerloan p ...... . 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goode. ..d 
.  %
Copper Bottoms...................W ........ 
23e
HARDWOOD LUMBER.

MISCELLANEOUS.

TIN—LEADED.

WIRE GOODS.

WRENCHES.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

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The farm ture factories herejpay as follows 
for  dry  stock, measured merchantable, mill 
culls but;
Basswood, log-run...........................13 00®15 00
Birch,log-run.. . . . . ...... ...................15 00@18 00
Birch,Nos. 1 and 2............ ........ . 
.  @25 00
Black Ash, log-run..........................14 00@16 50
Cherry;  log-run......................2 5  00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2.................... 
.45 00@50 00
Chtery, call................... 
@10 00
Maple,  log-run..............;......,¿ 1 2  00@14 00
Maple, soft,  ‘
r. .11
_____     .  log-mn...... 
.13 00 
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2.*.i.................. ... -
00 
Maple, <fiear, flooring.........
00
Maple, white, selected...............
...... ...18 i
Bed Oak, tog-run. 
Bed Oak, N te.l an d 2 .......,.,.....-2 4
Bed Oak, K sawed, 8in and upw’d..40 1
' regular........... M ■<
B
Bed Oakr No. Lstep plank.
Walnut, log-run 
......
Walnut, Nos. I  and 3.........
Walnuts,  c u lls ..............
Grey Blm, log-run..............
m jteA sb, 
tor-run.............. ts,«
tog-run.-^.;..'. 
W W te ^ S

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$ b> 3

QUICK  RISING 

BUCKWHEAT  FLOUR.

THE  BEST  GOODS  MADE,

POT  UP  IN  5 lb.  l i   21-2 lb.  PACKAGES.

a n » #

100 lb. Cases 
80 lb. Cases
F o r  Sale

By

$5.00.
$4.25.

Arthur Meigs & Co.,

Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops,
Clark,/Jewell  &  Co.,
Hawkins & Perry,
AND ALL JOBBERS IN THE UNITED STATES.

Grrand.  R ap id s

Olney, Shields & Co..
-  Mieli.
- 

Amos S. Musselman & Co., 

• 

Manufactured  By

iLAMB, No. M 5th Hie.. GHIGSGO. III.

KINO 
AGP  WHITE  LEND  P
DETROIT, 

- 

Dry Color Makers and Paint Manufacturers,

  COLOR  WORKS.
-  MICHIGAN.

Chinese Blue, 
Vermilion,
Prussian Blue, 
Lakes,
Soluble Blue,
Wine Colors.
Quality A b solu tely U nsu rp assed

Chrome Yellows,
Chrome Greens,
Paris Green,

EQUAL IN EVERY RESPECT TO THE FINEST FRENCH PIGMENTS.

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED. 

SAMPLES  ON  APPLICATION.

W. Steele Packing & Provision Co.
M EA TS.

JOBBERS  IN

Stock Yards and Packing House, Grandville Ave.,

G r a n d   R a p i d s ,

U S Æ i o l l .

Wholesale  Grocers.

IMPORTERS  OF

Teas, Leioas a i  Foreign Fruits.

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

“Acme” Herkimer Go. Cheese, Lautz Bros. 

Soaps and Niagara Starch.

Send  for  Cigar  Catalogue  and 
ask for Special Inside Prices 
on  anything  in  our  line.

' ; 

I 3 K H K I N 8   ■   H   E S S
jpdes, Furs, W ool & Tallòw

DEALERS IN

and 1 2 4  LOUIS ilf^ B É ff fiR A im  i^ l» r o g, MTOHTftA W, :

I  WE CABBY A STOCK OF CAK3 &&LL0W FOB MILL USB.

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M

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of this section o f the  globe Is no more. 
In 
Speaking  of  m y  Czar  of  toto touritiTv  I 
tnust needs have a care because it is impos­
sible to handle a Czar without mere or less 
dynamite along  with  him.  My father was 
a man of.XXX, no  discount  for  cash, sort 
of a fellow who  stood  way  up  with  other 
members  of  our  retail  association.  He 
would have lived to a  mouldy old  age  had 
he  not,  one  day  while  sweeping  out  the 
store, stepped on a piece of dynamite which 
had  been  thrown  down  by  a  farmer.  1 
never saw father act  so  strange  before  in 
my life.  Under the impulse of the momefit 
he flew into a  passion  and  from  there into 
a cracker barrel,  and  then  without  a  word 
of explanation  he  darted  away into the far 
off  subsequently.  His  abrupt  departure 
excited  considerable  surprise and comment 
among court  circles,  but it was not until it 
was  announced  in  the  trade  journal  that 
there  would  be  a  family  re-union  of  his 
anatomy, that  it  was  fully realized the ex­
tent  of  territory the old  man  was capable 
of 
covering  without  exerting  himself. 
From my earliest infancy I  have been a res­
ident of  this  country,  though  some histor- 
ians  have  given  Omaha  as  my birthplace. 
The first two  years  of  my life  I   spent  in­
doors and never  during  that time  did I  ex­
change  words  with  other members of  our 
family.  It fully three years before I became 
at all conversant with  the  Russian  dialect, 
but now I  can  talk  it  with  one  hand tied 
behind me.’ ”

“Say, Dick Blumrich, do  you think  I am 
going to sit here and  have  you  jam such  a 
lot  of  wind  into my ears,  well pot  if  the 
court knows herself  and  I think she recog­
nizes the photograph.

“It turned out just as I  expected.  When 
I want  to give the public an idea of foreign 
places  so  that  they  won’t  appear  so  dod 
gasted ignorant the  only thanks  I  get  for 
my trouble is to  be classified with common, 
every day  liars.  Hiawatha,  did  you  say? 
How^ much?  Five cents’ worth?  All right. 
Say, Ben, where ’re you  going?  It beats the 
dutch  that a man can’t relate an experience 
without being treated in this way.”

Be n  H ea d.

GRAND  RAPIDS  MICH

Buy  of  the  m anufacturer  and  save  freights and 
dealers’  commissions.  Factory,  61,  63  and  66  South 
Front  St.  Office  and salesroom, 93 Monroe  street.

BRAUTIGAM  BROS.,
Cant  Hook  Handles,  Whippletrees,  Neck 

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Yokes, Spinning Wheels and Job 

Turning  Of  All  Kinds.

MAIL  ORDERS  SOLICITED.

NORTH  DORR.

MIOH.
I  LACE to  secure a thorough 
and useful education is at the 
G r a n d  R a p id s  (Mich.) Bu s i­
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• f  “I know, Ben Bead,  if  1  tell  you  of  a 
«conversation 1 had with the Czar  of Russia 
you will have it in  T he  T radesman  and 
then all the boys will read it and say ‘that’s 
all right, but  Pin  something, of  a  liar  my­
self and I . don’t   like  to  have  them  think 
ihat way about me,” said Dlek Blumrich the 
other day, as  he out off  5  eent’s  worth  of 
Climax and charged the mamlO cents for i t  
' 
“ When I  had  this  talk  with  my friend 
Aleck, Czar of Russia and General Division 
^Superintendent  of  the  Solar  System  and 
part  of  Otsego  county,  I  told  him  th a t!
. wouldn’t mention it when I  got  back to the 
States, but I  value the intellectual advance­
ment  of  the  public  more  than  I  do  the 
friendship of the Czar.  1 tell you,  it makes 
me tired when  I  see  my  fellow men  grop­
ing with  a  pall  of  ignorance hanging over 
them like the shadow  of  a  great crime and 
I want to do all  I can  to  relieve them. 
It 
makes me  so  dod  gas ted, infernally torrid 
to see a  man go out of  this  store and walk 
two miles  and  a  half  in  the  rain to find a 
store  where  they will take a Canadian two 
dollar Mil at  par,  when  I  was  willing  to 
take it at one per  cent,  discount. 
I recog­
nize  this  mental  deficiency in  the  human 
race,  and  I  often  weep and  grow despon­
dent,  but with a superhuman effort I shake 
off this dejectedness and  the result  is  that 
the air is  immediately  filled  with rectangu­
lar pieces of wisdom.  But  I  monkey with 
-the original topic.

“ I  was  in  Russia  a  few  years  ago, and 
while there I  noticed  the  manner  in which 
the Russians conduct  their  mercantile  af­
fairs.  The  principal  productions  of  that 
•country  are  shining domes  and  Nihilists, 
the latter, however, having such a bulge on 
th e market that  it  is  not  improbable' that 
they will be  the  chief  product in the near 
Tuture.  There  is  a  division  of  opinion 
^among people as to what part of the country 
is the best adapted for the Nihilist The pre­
vailing belief is that the best  place  for  an 
able-bodied  chunk  of  nihilism  is  either a 
six foot hole  in  the  ground  or  thé  balmy 
meadows  of  Siberia.  After  years of care­
ful study scientists have come  to  the  con­
clusion  that  a  Nihilist  thrives  the best on 
H>n tallow  candles  and  revenge, the  latter 
¡served with or without dynimite.

“ The article  which is in  the largest  de­
mand in the retail  store is  the bomb. 
It is 
sold in different sizes and  comes cheaper in 
-dozen  lots  with  the  usual cash  discount. 
You must not confound the bomb of Russia 
with the bum of  America.  The  American 
¡article delight in the  physical  and£intellec- 
tual calm which  characterizes  each  of  the 
twelve men who sit  before  a  court and go 
to sleep while hearing evidence.

But  the  bomb'  of  Russia  is  brimful  of 
restless ambition, is easily excited and when 
not in a perfect state of  repose  is prone  to 
appear  too  everlastingly  and  overwhelm­
ingly unanimous to win much of the admir­
ation of those in the immediate vicinity.

•“The average store  in  the smaller places 
is a frame building  covered  with  a coat of 
white  wash  and  a  mortgage.  An  air  of 
negligence and garlic is a noticeable feature 
about the store.  The shelving is rough and 
without paint,  while  here and  there  about 
the walls hang the  usual  display of  adver­
tisements.  A picture  of  a  life-sized bomb 
in the act of  disseminating  told  the public 
that one cake of  Celluloid  Soap  would last 
a  family a life-time.  Beneath this were the 
beautiful words,  “While  there  is dynamite 
thère is hope.”  “Chew  American Tallow” 
was  the  request  printed  on  another  sign, 
which  contained  the  delightful  announce­
ment  that “The  Czar  is  Dead.  Bully  for 
Tige.”

•“When a  customer  comes  in  and  gets 
-some goods  and walks  away saying that he 
is busted the proprietor takes down a small 
can Of  nltro-glycerine  and  drops  it by  the 
¡fellow with the remark that that is too thin 
-¡and then the delivery boy sweeps  out what 
is left and calmly whistles “ White Wings.” 
“It may  be  incidentally  remarked  that 
•there are no flies on a  Russian  store-keeper 
•or iris outside man.

“The delivery boy always carries a pound 
•can of dynamite in  his  wagon.  When  he 
takes an order to  a house  and  after knock­
ing at the  back door  for fifteen  or  twenty 
minutes  without  a  response  he  does  not 
get excited  and  wish the people  were in a 
.place where ice  houses  are  conspicuous by 
their absence—no,  he does not do  that, but 
«imply throws his  can  at  the door and that 
¡settles it or more practically speaking opens 
it-and after leaving the groceries  he winds 
fills w ay merrily back to the store.

. 1  
,;V ; . 

I p  
î 

“ W hile in Russia,  I  accepted  an  invita- 
I strolled 
tion to call on my M end  Aleck. 
toward  the  palace, where  his  nibs boards, 
somewhat cautiously as  I did  not  wish,  in 
leaving Russia, to  leave  by the way of  the 
I  noticed  that  several  persons  took 
th is eccentric mode of departure and  w hile 
It was pre-eminently  successful  it was  not 
.particularly  fraught  with  pleasant  nsem- 
•orics. On reaching tiie palace, I was shown 
\ into the presence  of  his  nibs  by the Tooiy 
M ocha H i o f  the  Royal  Kitchen. 
I ; said 
-“Goodmorning, Aleck,” so  as  to  let  him 
Wèiçj  know that I was used to  mingling with the 
â % -nobility,  and  after  saying  several  bright, 
pleasant chestnuts in my  happiest manner, 
I  asked  him  how  his  folks  were  getting 
along, aud lf he would say a little abouthis

S a il 

Y to ^ a w a * e , Jtick,’ said 

my

9 1

BY A  COT7NTBY MERCHANT. 
n'^Htlea jBapecl^yforTaaTiu&wiujrfj.^f

Before a person  inserts his probossis Into 
Hie affairs of other people it  is well to take 
a  brief  mental  inventory  of  the  possible 
consequences. 
If he  is  liable  to  puthim- 
- self in a position to be  regarded  as  a  med­
dlesome intruder  it  is  policy  for  him  to 
turn  toe  smelling  appartaus  in  another 
direction,  ' iff he can discern,  as  a possible 
consequence  of  the  premeditated act, the 
loss of time and  money,  selfishness,  if not 
common sense, should suggest  to  him  that 
his interference in a  matter  in  which he is 
hot personally concerned would  be  unwise 
and injudicious.

*  

*  

' 

' 

*

But as policy and selfishness ought not to 
to  constitute  the  motive  power  of  toe 
human being, and  as  every  citizen  should 
have an interest in toe  welfare, of  his  fel­
low men, toe preservation of law and order, 
and the defeat and punishment of fraud and 
trickery and every  species  of  dishonesty, 
toe occasion  often  arises  when an individ­
ual fee]§ it a duty  to  interfere  in  matters 
which  do  hot  immediately  concern  him, 
and in which his advice  and  assistance are 
not solicited.  Were there  no  cohesiveness 
of toe better  elements  of  humanity,  and 
every  law-respecting  and  law-abiding per­
son shut himself  up 
like  a  clam  in  toe 
shell of his  own  personal  honor,  morality 
and integrity, and left  toe  conservation  of 
law, and order, and common decency entire­
ly to those  who  are  subsidized  to  protect 
society,  it is very  evident  that,  if  he had 
few sins of  commission,  his  sins  of omis­
sion would tip toe  balance  heavily against 
him. * 
The forgoing  remarks  are  suggested by 
calling to mind a little experience of a Mich­
igan merchant, many years ago. 
I will call 
his name  Fairchild.  When  toe  numerous 
bank failures  of  ’73  began  Fairchild  was 
-doing a prosperous business in a prosperous 
town, and had every reason for congratulat­
ing himself oh his  financial situation.  But 
the collapse  of  a  heavy  New  Tork  firm 
foreed the local bank  to  a  lengthy suspen­
sion, and as  Fairchild had a heavy deposit, 
which he was on toe eve of the drawing out 
to pay maturing  indebtedness,  he suddenly 
found himself  seriously  crippled.  As  his 
principal,  and  only 
important  creditor, 
however,  was  a  New  York  firm,  with 
whom  he  had 
transacted  business  for 
years, and who,  naturally,  ought  to  have 
implicit confidence in his honesty,  and ulti­
mate ability to adjust affairs,  he  had  very 
little fears of a summary  winding up of  his 
trade.

* 

* 

* 

*

Thinking that a personal interview would 
he more satisfactory  than  correspondence, 
Fairchild hurried to the city and was at once 
closeted with the head of toe house.

A half-hour’s  conversation, and toe exhi­
bition of a few  documents  folly  convinced 
the wholesaler that a little  time and tempo­
rary assistance  would  enable  his customer 
to meet his obligations  fully,  and he cheer- 
fully granted toe wished for extension,  and 
in addition invited  him  to  lay  in  all  the 
stock he could nse,  and draw upon the  firm 
lor toe amount due his other creditors.

This important matter  happily and satis­
factorily settled..  Fairchild  left  the office 
lor  his  hotel. 
It  was  a  warm  pleasant 
evening,  and  he  walked  slowly  up  toe 
street,  stopping  frequently  to  admire  toe 
various display of goods  in  the  brilliantly 
lighted windows and  contentedly  puffing  a 
fragrant  gift  from  his  late  acquaintance. 
When nearly  approaching  his  destination 
he passed before a jewelry story.  Through 
to e clear plate glass  the  whole of toe mag­
nificent interior glowed  and sparkled under 
toe 
jets and every object  was  distinctly
visible.  Before a counter stood a handsome­
ly dressed lady, lookingat what was evident­
ly   a tray  of  diamond  rings.  Just  at  the 
moment when Fairchild caught sight of her 
toe clerk’s head was  turned  for an instant, 
mid the observer  saw  her,  plainly and un- 
mistakeably,  conceal  one  of 
toe  jewels 
.about her person.  His first impulse  was- to 
pass on,  but, as he said  afterwards,  “I had 
■always passed as  a  law-abiding  and  law- 
jrespecting citizen,  and I had always  argued 
that it Was every honest  man’s  duty to ex- 
‘  pose,  and assist in toe  punishment  of,  any 
fraud or crime that came to his  knowledge. 
Herd is a valuable piece of property  stolen, 
and I am the only witness. 
If  1  complain 
I  shall undoubtedly  have some trouble oyer 
toe  matter  but,  neverless,  I’m  going  to 
«convince  myself 
I’in  consistent, 
.and practice what  I   preach.  And  I  went 
Into the store.”

A polite salesman came  forward  to  wait 
•upon him, but without heeding  his  enquir­
ing look that suggested  a  trading  transac- 
tion, he wrote  rapidly  on  the  back  of  a 
¿card:».,
it  “J  saw that woman  appropriate  one o f 
.your diamond rings. ”

that 

The clerk  looked  at  him  sharply,  apd 
even suspiciously,  for  a  moment; ^glanced 
in the direction of toe  parly  indicated,  and 
.then quietly handed toe card to toe individ­
ual who was waiting  on  toe  culprit.  The 
salesman looked  tocredulbus,  but instinct­
ively ran hi* eyes ever  the tray;  Then  he 
.said sternlyand decidedly:

“Madam!  I’ll  trouble  you  for  eighty 

-4oUfl*sr jy 

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gone, and S d  ooe but you . and I have touch­
ed the tray!” 

v?  - 

Well,  to  make  toe  narration  ag-bfief 
as  possible, 
toe  young  woman  refj^sed 
to acknowledge  toe  toeft;  went  into  hys­
terics, and a guardian of toe law was called 
in, and  toe  offender,  clerk  and  witness 
speedily found  themselves  in  a police sta­
tion.  The  justice  who  happened  to  be 
holding a late session of coart,  directed the 
searching of toe prisioner  by  a  female at­
tendant, but the ring had disappeared, hav­
ing,  without  doubt,  been  thrown  away. 
After reviewing  the  testimony of  toe wit­
nesses toe magistrate said: 
*

“Although  toe  property  has  not  been 
found there is unmistakable  evidence  that 
it was purloined. 
I shall hold  toe  accused 
in one thousand dollar bonds,  and,  as  this 
witness says that he is not a resident of toe 
city, I shall  require  him to furnish security 
for the same amount,  that  he  will be pres­
ent when toe case is ready for trial.”

The prisioner and witness were consigned 
to their respective cells;  the  former  being 
released on bail in less th^n  an hour.

, 

As the merchant  who  had,  a  few hours 
before,  treated  him so kindly and consider­
ately was  toe  only  party  in  toe  city  to 
whom he could  reasonably  appeal, the  un­
fortunate advocate  of  toe  duties of citizen­
ship called  for  pen, 
ink  and  paper,  and 
indited an epistle  to  that individual,  care­
fully detailing toe  situation  in  which  he 
was placed,  and  minutely  describing  toe 
causes that led  to  his  incarceration.  The 
next morning he received  a  letter in reply, 
couched  in  something  like  the  following 
language:

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large
round 
small 
large 

Sailor Hat Perfume 
Plug 
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Slipper 
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Comicopia 
Chair 
Cat Tooth Pick Pe?fiime, large 
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China Shoe Perfume, large 

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All above in assorted colors.

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1.75 
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1.25
2.00 
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2.00 
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ORDERS  BY  MAIL  SOLICITED.

Jennings  &  Smith,
-  Mich.
Grand  Rapids, 

38 and 40 LOUIS  STEET,

- 

- 

Mention Tradesman.

Sir—As  toe  young  lady  whom you so 
vilely and causelessly accused  of a henious 
crime is my neice, and  a  person absolutely 
incapable, by reason of birth, education and 
associations,  of  perpertating  toe  offense 
which you charge to  her,  it would be mani­
festly absurd and  unreasonable  for  me  to 
put in an appearance  as  your champion. 
I 
regret that your singular momania for detec­
tive work has placed  you  in  your present 
unpleasant condition,  and before this affair 
is settled I am  inclined to  believe  that you 
will also regret ever  having  left your rural 
home and bucolic associations,  to indulge in 
amatuer police work.

All that  remains  to  be  told  is  that the 
blue-blooded thief was  discharged  with  an 
apology; that Fairchild, after ten days’ con­
finement, was released, with a severe repre- 
mand, and that when he  arrived at home he 
found the sheriff in  charge of his establish­
ment.  A ressurrection  of his bank enabled 
him to save a portion  of  his  property, but, 
in his own  language:  “I  always estimated 
that my attempt to  prove  my  consistency, 
to myself, cost me at  least one-half of  all  I 
was worth at that time.”

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T R Y   T H E M

V   1 3 ,1 5 ,  17  South  Ion ia  S treet, '  S

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PATENTS-

LUCIUS C.  WEST, 

¡Attorney a t Patent Law and SoUeitor 
of  American  and  Foreign  patents. 
105 E. Main Stu  Kalamazoo, Mich., 17. S. A.  Branch  of­
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free.

I am receiving  from  the  po­
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potatoes  that  I  offer  to  the 
trade of Southern  and Eastern 
Michigan.  Parties in want will 
receive  prompt  attention  by- 
addressing

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Pine  Sample  Rooms  in  Connealion,
This  spacious and admirably construct­
ed New  Brick  Hotel  is  now  open  to  the 
public. 
.It is provided with all the Modern 
Improvements.  The rooms are large, airy 
and pleasant, in. suits or single, and newly 
furnished throughout.  The design of man­
agement is tq make this house one of com­
fort and pleasure to its guests.

The  Traveling  Public  are  cordially  in­

vited.

c h u r c h 's

B u g ; F in is h .!

BEADY FOR USE DRY.

NO MIXING REQUIRED.

It sticks to the vines and Finishes the whole 
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, 
but thoroughly combined  by  patent  process 
and machinery, with material to help the very 
fine powder to stick to  the  vines  and  entice 
the bugs to eat it, and it is also a fertilizer.
ONE POUND will go as far as TEN POUNDS 
of plaster and Paris  Green  as  mixed  by the 
farmers.  It is therefore  cheaper,  and  saves 
the trouble and danger of  mixing  and  using 
the  green,  which,  needless to say,  is danger­
ous to handle.
Bug Finish was used the past season on the 
State Agricultural College  Farm  at  Lansing, 
Michigan,  and,  in  answer  to  inquiries,  the 
managers write:  “The Bug finish  gave  good 
satisfaction on garden and farm.”  Many  un- 
solicitated letters have  been  received  prais­
ing Bug Finish.
Barlow & Star, hardware dealers at  Coldwa- 
ter, Mich., write as  follows under date oj May 
14:  “We sold 3,100 pounds of “Bug Finish” last 
year.  It is rightly named  “Bug  Finish,” as it 
finishes the entire crop of bugs with oneappli- 
catiod.  We shall not be satisfied unless we sell 
three  tons  this  year,  as  there  is  already  a 
strong demand for it.  Please send us ten bar­
rels (3,000 pounds) at once.”
Guaranteed as represented.  Cheaper than

any other Mixture used for the purpose.

MANUFACTURED BY

Anti-Kalsome Co., M  Rapids.

F MNftY  PATENT
N v l
a!»  SNOW.Pl.AKE 

F i n a   H P

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OUR  LEADING  BRANDS:

Roller Champion,
Matchless,

Gilt  Edge,

Lily White,

Harvest Queen,
Snow Flake,

W hite Loaf, 
Reliance,

Gold Medal, 
Graham.

OUR  SPECIALTIES:

B.uckwheat  Flour,  Rye  Flour,  Granulated 
Meal,  Bolted  Meal,  Coarse  Meal,  Bran, 
Ships, Middlings, Screenings, Corn, Oats, Feed.
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Write for Prices.

IN  MAIL
STATIONERY,

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, 

Send to us for Samples and Prices. 

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

Folier 

k Stove  Company

49  LYON  STREET,

Grand Rapids.  -  Mich.

J H a l l   <&,

FUR  ROBES  AND  HORSE  BLANKETS

Have  the  Largest  and  Best  Selected  Stock  of

IN  THE  STATE  OF  MICHIGAN.

PLUSH  ROBES—$1.25, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3, $4,  $5, $6, $10, $15 and $18 each. 
PUR  ROBES—$4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $10, $12, $15, $20 and $25 each. 
PINE  FUR  ROBES—$25, $30, $50, $75, $100 and $125 each. 

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CHEAP  SHAPED  BLANKETS—65c., 75c., 85c., $1, $1.25, $1.50; $2.
CHEAP  SQUARE  BLANKETS—75c., 90c., $1, $1.25, $1.50, $2.
FINE  WOOL  SQUARE  BLANKETS—$1.50, $2, $2.50, $3, $4, $5, $6, $8, $10, $12 and $15  each.

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DISCOUNT  TO  LARGE  BUYERS. 

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MATT.  ORDERS  SOLICITED.

SIZES—76x80,  84x90  and  90x96.

Catalogue and Descriptive Price-List  Mailed on Application. 

20  and  22  PEARL  STREET, 

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You are Invited to Call and Examine Our Large  Stock at

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

JENNE88 Ì MgGURDY,

Importers and  MajnlMiirers’  Agents.

DEALERS IN

)  U l U U U j   V1HUH 11  H i   V J

Fanoj Gaoda of all Desoriptions.

x  HOTEL AND STEAMBOAT GOODS,

Bronxe  and  Library  Lamps,  Chandeliers,  Brackets,,  Ete.,

73 and 75  Jefferson  Ave.,

D E T R O IT ,  -  M IC H .

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

■AJSHD 3ST0TI03STS,

88  M onroe  St.,

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

G R A N D   R A P ID S,  KXOH.

Nieltstlt Ip tlt for M fieli’j Canaüan Lamps,

Feerisss Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

AX HANDLES!

Handles

1 X Ax
2 X u
3 X cc
4 X c<
3 X Dbl
4 X u

$  .75
1.25
2.00
2.50
1.50
2.25
OIL CANS AND TANKS,

C.  &  D.  LANTERNS,

PAPER m WOODENVgjARE.

And a General Line of

Groceries.

|   The  Grocery  Market.

T he sugar situation still continues bewil­
dering. 
In  Spite  of  reports  to the effect 
ttmJt the “trust” is going to  pieces,  several 
advances have been made and the feeling fs 
wary firm.  This  Would  seem  to  indicate 
G a t the conflicting elements in  the combin­
ation had been ‘eliminated  and  that a cam­
paign of outrageously high prices  had been 
agreed upon.  A t present writing, the indi- 
cations are  that  granulated  will  touch ? 
cents at thei refinery  before  the end of the 

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White  beans  now'Command 

extreme 
prices,  hand-picked  home  grown  readily 
mnmanding $2.50  per  bu.  The  scarcity 
here has stimulated the  importation of Ger­
man  beans,  which  are equally as good as 
home grown, but are  held  at 25  cents per 
bushel less.

California raisins  are  beginning to come 
into m arket  All  so  far  seen  are fine in 
quality.

The demand for candy is active and prices 
firm.  Nut  are  steady,  except  chestnuts, 
which are a  little  higher.  Peanuts  are  a 
shade lower.  Figs  and  dates  are firm and 
unchanged.  Malaga  grapes are steady and 
prices are quite  low.  Oysters  are  hi good 
request and unchanged.

Hides, Pelts and Furs.

Hides are dull and lower, only  choice se­
lections  bringing  the  outside  quotations. 
Calf skins are utterly unsalable.  Tallow is 
dull and lower.  There is no  movement  in 
wool to note.  A general  “don’t-care-ative- 
ness” seems to prevail in all lines.

Too  Much  W ater  in  the  Butter.

John Gould writes a cogent article on the 
above topic to the  Farm ers  Review,  from 
which we take the following extract:

This season I have been revolving  in  my 
own mind whether or not there  may  not be 
a letting down somewhat of merit in butter, 
by the introduction of many features that we 
denominate discovery, progress  and  labor- 
saving.  One is hearing on all sides that late- 
date batter does not equal in keeping quality 
that made years ago by the  now  somewhat 
discarded processes.  Recent and somewhat 
dose investigation  seems to have thrown  a 
little light upon this very point.  The fancy 
butter of the  day is made  by  the granular 
process, and churned at a lower temperature 
Ilian by the old system.  This granulation 
enables the butter to  hold  more water,  and 
its close corporation in the fine butter in the 
form of brine escapes  the  maker’s observa­
tion, and the  butter  goes  into the market 
with from a third to a half more water in it 
than by  the  plan  of  working  instead  of 
washing  the  batter.  Dr. Webber,  State 
chemist of  Ohio, found in the  samples ana­
lyzed by him,  from 14 to 32 per cent,  of wa­
ter in market butter, when 12 to 14 percent, 
is ample and sufficient to hold in solution all 
the salt needed  for  the  preservation  (?) of 
the butter.  This “perfection” of  art leaves 
a gap wide  open  for  those so  disposed to 
practice a  big  “dilution,”  for  water  can 
hardly be held  as  an  adulteration,  but  it 
makes weight, and  so  in the end defrauds. 
That Dr. Webber was  not  mistaken in the 
matter, one has but  to recall the  report  of 
Dr. Babcock, of Cornell, in  relation to  the 
butter at the New York Dairy Fair, where a 
sample of premium butter  contained 21 per 
«ent. of  water, a fact that  should  not have 
been allowed to go  unrebuked by  the man­
agement, for  its  influence is bad—a  word 
that  may in this connection be spelled with 
capital letters.  The creamery  men are,  I 
think, the most  to  blame in this business. 
To leave in each  100  pounds  of butter  an 
unnbeded 6 to 10 per cent, of water is to de­
fraud the consumer to a greater degree than 
to have mixed in six to ten pounds of 6-cent 
hod, for the lard would  have a certain food 
value,  while the  salt  and  water would re- 
turn to the consumer  no value  received  in 
any way, shape or form.
This over-abundance of  water in batter is 
no promoter of  fine aroma.  The excess  of 
moisture in butter gives it a briny taste that 
is not in any sense a butter  flavor;  nor can 
any system  of  holding  it  bring it out, but, 
on the contrary, far too large a per cent, be­
gins to deteriorate  the  quality at onee, and, 
must be eaten quickly,  or it soon  goes  the 
tiie way of  all bad butter. 
I  am a strong 
believer that the dairymen  make a bad mis- i 
trim  in not trying  more to equalize  produc­
tion, and  obviate  the necessity of  holding 
batter to regulate the market demands;  bat 
on the other hand, I strongly denounce this 
later-day innovation of selling water at but­
ter prices.  Granular butter, churned  from 
ripened cream, is the better way;  but it does 
not imply that a fraud should  not be  prac­
ticed under its guise, and I,  for  one,  stand 
out and ask the same  power that legislated 
against oleomargarine, to give us a standard 
for butter  making, and  say  of  every  100 
parts sold for batter, so much shall be water, 
salt, caseine and butter fats, and  then  hold 
tim  maker to  its  fulfillment, and that With 
fines and penalties, if need be.
I  do not wish to be understood as convey- 
ingtbeidea that washing butter injures it or 
deteriorates its quality.  On toe other hand, 
I  think no plan  of freeing  butter  from its 
buttermilk, etc., equals  it, for not  only  is 
rins nearly accomplished, but  toe  sugar  is 
also removed, which  last  is  the  fruitful 
source of butter getting off flavor.  It is sim­
ply tout toe plan is  abused, as many  other 
good things are perverted, and  made vehi­
cles for unlawful  gain,  and  that at the  ex­
pense of  toe consumer.

W iles of tbe Successful Traveler.

ltoMa th e National Druggist.

There seems to be no limit to the resources 
wf a  traveling salesman in  devising  means 
asf iraJring himself popular with toe custom- 
e r and selling his  goods.  One of the latest 
schemes we have heard of is  practiced by a 
a—unercial traveler representing a furniture 
bsoseof this city.  The gentleman in ques- 
tion has learned the art of photography and 
tarimls with an amateur outfit.  He calls on 
nmeald-be customer and asks permission to 
photograph his store, and offers the proprie­
tor a copy of toe picture.  One thing  leads 
toaaother, until our artist informs the mer­
chant that he Is also  interested  in  selling 
gfoo&Bb  The  consequence  is  that a liberal 
w fe rf s  given and both parties made happy. 
G a snbsequent trips our salesman takes new 
•ieuro an d ls a  welcome visitor each time.
There seems to be no reason why toe trav- 
gj§p|g; ¿representatives  of  wholesale  drag 
i cannot follow toe example of our en- 
;ftttniture man.  Drug mendonot 
to cany, and could eaa§f 
Photographic o u tf ik ln

lil 11 ¡11  1 *
S i........

addition to this, drug stores  are  very  rice 
places to photograph,  and  toe  proprietors 
always ready to stand  before  the;  camera. 
What salesman w ill try the experiment?

A Shoe  Dealer’s  Experience. 

,

>  A shoe retailer,'whose experience will, no 
doubt, be interesting and whose example  is 
worthy of imitation, gives his experience in 
changing his business from  a  loose  system 
of buying on credit to a  careful one,  buying 
strictly for cash.  He  says  that,  while  he 
was always perfectly  solvent,  so far as ex­
cess of assets over liabilities went,  he could 
never pay his  bUls  promptly.  The  reason 
was that he bought  goods  on  thirty, sixty 
and  ninety  days  and  bought  large  bills, 
keeping his shelves filled with  much  more 
stock than he really needed.  This kept him 
all the time worried and  pushed him to pay 
his bills,  and  his  stock  being  too  large, 
much of it became shopworn.  He suddenly 
resolved  to  turn  over a new leaf and stop 
buying  such  large  bills  and pay cash for 
what he did buy.  He  Went  to  work to es­
tablish this system,  held  off  from  buying 
until he really began  to  need  stock, 
then 
bought only what he did need and paid spot 
cash.  He found the system  an  infinite im­
provement on the old one.  Now,  he has no 
unpaid bills to worry him,  his  stock  is  al­
ways fresh and more salable  and  in  every 
respect  the  business is  more  satisfactory. 
Manufacturers and jobbers  would hail with 
delight a universal change  to  this  method 
and retailers, no doubt, would  find  it more 
profitable.

An  Artful  Shopper.

From the Detroit Free Press.

A woman entered a dry goods  store  and 
approached one  of  the clerks.  “Please do 
these up,” she said,  handing  him  two old 
newspapers.
He looked surprised, and  she  explained.
“I ain’t out on a reg’lar  shopping  tower, 
and ain’t agoin’ to buy anything, but there’s 
that Mrs.  Simpson, that has half of our pew 
at church, just loaded down  with  bundles. 
She’ll never know the difference.”
As the clerk was tying up the newspapers 
she said in a low voice:
“Make it look as much like a  silk  dress 
pattern as you can,  mister;  it’ll  worry  her 
more.”

Anchor  Brand.

There are about as many  brands  of  oys­
ters as there are ships  which ply the ocean, 
but  as every  ship  must  have an anchor,  so 
no  oyster  stock  is  complete  without  the 
famous  “Anchor”  brand  of  oysters.  Be 
sure  and  specify “Anchor” when  ordering 
and  take  no  other.  Sold  only  by  F.  J. 
Dettenthaler.

“I have an unfortunate habit  of  talking 
in my sleep.”  ■
“I should call that fortunate,  rather than 
unfortunate—that is to say,  in  your  case, 
you know.”

“How in my case?”
“Why, don’t you see?  Because  you  are 

not awake to hear yourself talk.”

Notice of the Restoration of Certain Lands 

to the Public Domain.

By instructions from the  Honorable  Secre­
tary of the Interior under date of  August  15, 
1887, and by direction of tbe  Honorable  Com­
missioner of the  General  Land  Office  of the 
date of August 27,1887, notice is  hereby given 
that the indemnity withdrawal  of  the Flint & 
Pere Marquette  Railroad  Company has  been 
revoked.  That all the lands in the  Reed  City 
Land District within said  indemnity limits of 
the grant of said Flint & Pere Marquette Rail­
road Company—except such lands as may be cov­
ered by approved selections—ace thereby restored 
to the public domain, and open  to  settlement 
under the general land laws.
Tnat on the 1st day  of December, A. D. 1887, 
at 2 o’clock p. m., said lands will he open to fil­
ing and entry.

U . S. L a n d  Of f ic e ,

Reed City, Michigan, October 18,1887.
Register.

Nathaniel Clark,

E. N. Eitch, 

Receiver.

T U B S !  T U B S !  T U B S !
We  have  150  doz.  first  quality  wash  tubs, 
which we will  sell F. O. B. as  follows:  No. 3, 
$3 per  doz.;  No. 2, $1  per  doz.; No.  1, $5  per 
doz.  Packed % doz. in bdl. with straw.  Qual­
ity unsurpassed.  Address
PIERSON’S  BAZAAR,  Stanton,  Mich.

Stoneware, 6c. per gal. F. O. B.

Parties Having Pine or Hardwood Lum­
ber for Sale Can  Find  a  Cash  Market  by 
Addressing Buyer, care “Michigan Tradeswo­
man,” Grand Rapids, Mich.

WANTED MAN to take charge 

of  practical depart­
ment of Large Wood
_   ___ ___  W orking  Establish»
m ent.  Business  firmly  established.  Goods sold  all 
over, the  South.  B rains,  Energy  and  Experience 
essential.  Some money desirable.  Good  chance fo r 
rig h t m an. 

G. O. TERRY, Nashville; Tenn.

A  beautifullty-decor&ted  Metal  Box,  with 
bionze  label  pull,  GIVEN FREE  with every 
dozen boxes of
CQLGAN’S  TAFFY  TOLU.

Specially Designed for a  Herbarium.

Suitable  when  empty for  preserving, under  proper 
label,  herbs,  roots,  seeds,  spices,  papers,  etc.,  etc. 
Every  storekeeper as well  as housekeeper, will find it 
well adapted iu  size, material and finish for many use­
ful purposes.
COLGAN’S TAFFY TOLU is the original trade-mark­
ed gum which- has  set the  world  a-chewing.  It  sells 
rapidly, pays well, and alwayf gives satisfaction.
Supplied by all  jobbers,  packed in above style, at $3 
per dozen.  Size, 8Kx4)£x7)£ inches.
GOLGIN  &  MolPEE,  L ofeille,  Ku.

Originators and Sole Proprietors.

N. B.—Include a dozen boxes in your next order.  You 

will find it the best $3 investment you ever made.
J U D D   eft*  C O ., 

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Hoods.

102  CANAL STREET.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—Tanners at this market  are 
paying $6 for  all offerings of good bark.
Ginseng—Local dealers  pay $1.60@$1.70 sg ft 
for clean washed roots.
Rubber Boots and Shoes—Some manufactur­
ers authorize their agents to offer 40 per cent, 
and 40 and  5  per cent., for  first and  second 
quality, respectively, and some are authorized 
to sell for 40 and 12)4 per cent., and 50.

C(|PNTRT PRODUCE.

Apples—$2 per bbl.
Beets—In good supply at 40c per bu.
Bean—Hand-picked  mediums  are  very 

scarce, readily commanding  $2.50 per bu.

13® 1314c.

Butter—Creamery  is  in  good  demand and 
fairly firm at 22@26c.  Dairy  is  active at 20® 
24c.
Cabbages—$4®$7 per  100, according to size.
Carrots—40c per bu.
Celery—20®25 V doz.
Cheese—Jobbers are holding their  stocks  at 
Cider—9e per gal.
Cranberries—Home  grown, $2®$2.50 perbu. 
Cape Cod, $3.25 per bu.
Dried  Apples—Evaporated are rather weak, 
for reasons  given last  week.  Jobbers pay 8c 
and hold at  10c.
Eggs—Now  cheaper.  Jobbers  are  paying 
16c and holding at 18c.
Honey—Dull at 12®16c.
Hay—Baled  Is  moderately  active  at  $14 
in 
Onions—Jobbers pay 60®70c and hold  at 80c.
Pop Corn—2c $  ft.
Potatoes—There seems to he almost  an  en­
tire absence of  demand  in  all  markets, both 
East and West.  Shippers are paying tec here 
and 50@55c at the  principal  Northern  buying 
points, but  large  stocks are accumulating on 
their  hands, owing to  the difficulty to  unload 
at remunerative prices.
Sweet  Potatoes — Kiln-dried  Jerseys,  $3.25 
per bbl.  Baltimore, $2.75 per bbl.
Turnips—40c $  bu.

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

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Lancaster and 72c for Fulse and Clawson.
lots and 47)4c In carlots.
ftn v I  ftfo

Wheat—No change.  City millers pay 75c for 
Corn—Jobbing  generally  at 50c  In  100  bu. 
Oats—White, 35c in small lots  and 30®31c  In
Rye—48®50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.20 $  ewt.
Flour—No change. Patent,$5.00$ bbl.in sacks 
and  $5.20  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.00 $  bbl. in 
sacks and $4.20 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.40 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  $  ton:  Bran, $15 

V ton.  Ships,  $15.50  $   ton.  Middlings, $16 
ton Corn and Oats. $18 It ton.

THIS SPACE BELONGS TO THE

DINGMAN  SOAP  CO.,

B U F F A L O ,  N .  Y .

BMtaere

with GOOD  COFFEE would do well 
to ayoidBrands that require the sup­
port of Gift Schemes, Prize Promises 
or Lotttery Inducements. 

.

W hich Holds Trade on  Account of  ■ 

Superior  Merit  Alone.

Uneqoaled  Quality. 

Patent  Preservative  Packages.  ~ 

:

Im proved  Boasting  Process. 

iFor Sale  by AMOS  S. MUSSELMAN  &  CO.,  Grand 
Rapids,  and'all  Jobbers  at  Detroit,  Saginaw  and 
Bay City.

STÄMT0K- SAMPSON & CO..
v:  Manufacturers and Jobbers of
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods*

Sòie  Manufacturers  of  the  “Peninsular” 

Brand Pants, Shirts and Overalls.

ROYAL

State  agents  for  Celoloid  Collars  and  Cuds. 

120 and 122  Jefferson, Aye.,

DETROIT, 

-  MICHIGAN.

PRIGS  OtJRRBNT.

These prices  are  for  cash  buyer*, who  pay 

promptly and buy. in full packages.
Grown__ _  0:....-.  80
Frazer’s........'....  96
Diamond X __ :...  60
Modoc. 4 dOZ.........2 50

AXLE GREASE.

Paragon  ................% 16
Paragon 25 ft pails.  90 
Fraziers,^ft palls.l 30

10 cent  cans. 
Ü lb.

.  1 to 
.  1 90 
.2  60 
.  3 80 
..  4 95 
,.11 78 
.13 75 
.17 76 
.*.22 20

18

 

 

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FISH.

8 

Taper 

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18
30
13
33
14

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12 ft kits 
10  “ 

FANGY—IN BULK.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

 
...
...
MATCHES

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“  101b k its ............................... . 

Jennings’ D. C,,2 oz..............$  doz. 1 00
V  4oz..............i___. ..150
“  6oz........ .............2  50
“  8oz..............................3  50
“  No. 2 
1 25
“  No. 4*  “ 
.......  .175
“  M pint, round..........4 50
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....... 1 10
“  No. 3 panel 
“  No. 8 
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.2 75 
«  No. 10  “ 
.4 25

Raisins, Loose California..........................@2-25
Raisins, Ondara8, 28s.................   . ....  © lift
Raisins. S u ltan as.,..,................... .  8M@ 9
Raisins, Vrieneiasv................. .....„8 M@ 834
Raisins, Imperials...... ........................  ©800
Cod, whole...... .. > ............................... ,434©5
God,boneless........... ............................  6@7M
H alibut............................ ..........;..........   12M
Herring, round, M  bbl.......................  @2 75
Herring,round, M  b b l....:.................. 
Herring, Holland, b b ls .....:..7 ..........  10 00
Herring, Holland,  kegs....... ................   75@85
Herring, Sealed...........................  
22@25
Mackerel, shore,No. 1, M bbls............  20 00

Powder; )4  Keg. 
Sage  2 ...1
Sago  ..i,.-..........
Tapioca... ¿ïïlw
S   CANDY. FRUITS AND NUTS, 
tnam Sc Brooks quote as follows:
STICK.
Standard, 25 ft boxes................. 
8
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do 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf  do 
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MIXED
Royal, 25ft pails..................................  @9
Royal, 200 ft bbls....... ....................
Extra,25ft pails............................
@ 10  
......... 3 CO
Extra, 200 ft b b ls.................... .
@ 9 
. ...1 10@150
French Cream, 25 ft pails...............
©11M 
No. 3, M bbls.........   ............... . 6 50
Cut loaf, 25 ft cases........................
Trout, M  bbls............ ........................ ....5 75
@10 
Broken,25 ft pails...... .............. .
@10 @ »
85
Broken.200ft  bbls..................... iii
W hite,No.l,M bbls ................. ................ 7 00
',S 
FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.
White, No. 1,12 ft kits.................... a . .. .1 10
Lemon Drops................. 
...
White, No. 1710 ft kits ...............__ __  95
@12
Sour Drops........................... @13
White, Family, M bbls.........  ................,3 85
Peppermint  Drops..............................   @15
kits..................................  68
Chocolate Drops..................................... 
14
HM Chocolate  Drops.............................  
Lemon.  Vanilla.
Gum  Drops...........................................”  
jq
1 60
Licorice Drops............... .............. 33
2 65
A B Licorice  Drops....................... .*.’** 
12
4 25
Lozenges, plain...................................... ■ 
14
5 00 
Lozenges,  printed...................  
  ”  
 
15
1 75
Im perials................................... 
14
3 00 
Mottoes................... .......15
9 00
Cream  Bar.............................................. 
13
18 00 
Molasses Bar................................  ........ 
13
1  85 
Caramels.....................................18
5 00 
Hand Made Creams............ 18
7 00
Plain  Creams.........................!.!...!!!! 
Decorated Creams.................. ............... 
Grand Haven,  No. 8, square.......................   95
String Rock........................... . . 
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro............... 110
Burnt Almonds................................‘
Grand Haven, No. 200,  parlor.........................l  76
Wintergreen  Berries......................  . 
Grand Haven, No. 300, parlor................... 2 25
Grand Haven, No. 7,  round............................ 1 50
Lozenges, plain in pails.....................  ©11M
Oshkosh, No. 2....... 
75
Lozenges, plain in bbls.......................  @10M
1 50
Oshkosh, No.  8........................................ 
Lozenges, printed in pails...................  @12M
Swedish...............................  
75
Lozenges, printed in  bbls...................  @11M
Richardson’s No. 8  square...................... !! 1 00
Chocolate Drops, in pails....................  @12M
150
Richardson’s No. 9 
Gum Drops  in pails...........................  @ 6M
Richardson’s No. 7M, round........................ 1 00
Gum Drops, in bbls.............................   @ 5M
Richardson’s No. 7 
150
Moss Drops, In pails............................  @10"
Woodbine, 300.............................................. 115
Moss Drops, in bbls.............................  @9
*
Sour Drops, in  pails............................  @12
Black Strap..............................................    17@18
Imperials, in pails...............................  @12
Cuba Baking................................ ;............22@25
Imperials  in bbls................................  @n
Porto' Rico................................... 
24©35
New  Orleans, good....................................33@40
Bananas  ............................................   @
New Orleans, choice.................................. 44@50
Oranges, California, fancy............ . 
@
New Orleans, fancy.................................. 50@52
Oranges, choice..................................
Oranges. Jamaica, bbls.................. . 
Oranges, Florida..................................
Oranges, Rodi,....................................   @
Oranges, Messina................................  @
Oranges, OO.........................................   ©
Oranges, Imperials.......................... .  @
Lemons, choice................................... 4 C0@4 50
Lemons, fancy.................................... 5 G0@o 50
Lemons, California.............................
Figs, layers, new,  ^  ft......................... 12M@16
Figs, Bags, 50ft...................................   @9
Dates, frails do  ..................................  @5
Dates, M io  d o ..................................  @6
Dates, Fard 10 ft box ^   ft..................   @ 9M
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $ f t ....................  @8
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft..............  6  @7M
Pine Apples, $  doz............................  @
Almonds,  Tarragona..........................  I7@18
Ivaea...................................  @17
California............................  @17M
Brazils.................................................  @9
Filberts, Sicily.....................................  @12
Barcelona.............................  @  8
Walnuts,  Grenoble.............................  @16
Sicily.......................................... 
French................................   8M@ 9
Pecans, Texas. H. P ............................12M@16
Cocoanuts, $  100, full bags.................  @5 50
Chestnuts.............................................   @4 75
PEANUTS.
Prime Red, raw ^   ft..........................  @ 4M
Choice 
do 
do  ..........................  5  @  5M
Fancy HJP. do 
do  ..........................  5M®  554
Choice White, Va.do  ..........................   6  @ 6M.
Fancy H P„ Va  do  ..........................  @ 7
H. P.V a...............................................   6M@  S=4

.........7 00
“  M bbl..........4 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........  @2 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,2M gross........  @1 75
American T. D.....................................  @  75
Choice Carolina...... 6M
Java  ................ 
5M
Prime Carolina......6
P a tn a ......................5M
Good Carolina....... 534
Rangoon.........   @5
Good Louisiana......5M
Broken.. 
.......3M@334
Table..............534©6
Japan...............5M@6M
H ead.......................634
DeLand’s p ure........5M
Church’s  ............... 5
Taylor’s G. M........ 5

Michigan Test................................................ 10
Water White..................................................11
Barrels........................6 00
Half barrels........... 3 12
Cases...........................2 25
Medium................ 6 00i Small, bbl 

“ 
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“  Missouri................................

Barrels....................... 6 00
Half barrels........  .3 12
Cases...........................2 25

Dwight’s ................ 5
Sea  Foam...... .........5M
Cap Sheaf...............5

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

Me less in 5 box lots.

“  M bbl.......3 50| 

M bbls. 3c extra

ROLLED OATS

SALERATUS.

MOLASSES. 

■  NUTS.

FRUITS.

OATMEAL

PICKLES.

do 
do 

PIPES.

SALT.

8 50

RICE

OIL.

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15

“ 
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“ 

"  M  “ 

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy......................... 2 10@2 20
28 Pocket.............................................. 
310
100 3 ft pockets.................................... 
2 35
95
Saginaw or Manistee.......................... 
75
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........ 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__  
2 75
75
Higgins’ English dairy bu. bags........ 
American, dairy, M bu. bags.............. 
30
Rock, bushels......................................  
25
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags.................... 
40
20
.................... 
London Relish, 3 doz....................................2 50
Dingman, 100 bars......................................   4 00
Allspice................................................ 
8
Cassia, China in mats..........................  
8
“  Batavia in bundles................. 
11
“  Saigon in rolls.....................  
to
Cloves, Amboyna.................. 
30
Zanzibar.................................. 
29
Mace Batevia.............................. 
80
 
Nutmegs,  fancy..................................  
80
No. 1...........................  
No. 2...........................  

SAUCES.
SOAP.

SPICES—WHOLE.

 
75
70

 
 

 

 

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and,Saigon........  

“ 
SPICES—PURE  GROUND.

Pepper, Singapore,  black..................  
w hite.................  
Allspice................................................ 
Cassia,  Batavia...................................  
“ 
“  Saigon...................................  
5M
Cloves, Amboyna................................  
“  Zanzibar............................... 
Ginger, African................................... 
“  Cochin..................................... 
Jamaica.................................. 
“ 
Mace Batavia....................................... 
Mustard, English................................  
Trieste.................................. 
 

and Trieste......... 
Nutmegs, No. 2..............................  
Pepper, Singapore black............. 

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“ 

19
29
1LM
15
42
32
31
12M
15
18@23
85
20
22
25
65
22
32

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SNUFF.

SYRUPS.

SUGARS.

“
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TOBACCOS—PLUG.

white...................7,, 
STARCH.

Off..............................

Cayenne...... .........................
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 ft boxes, 1 ft pkgs...
“
48“ 
“  ...
“ 
@ 5M 
“  b u lk .......
40 ft 
“ 
@ 4 
72 ft crates, 6 ft boxes..
“ 
@ 6M 
“  Com, to ft boxes, 1 ft pkgs....
@  6 
“ 
20ft 
“ 
....
@  6M 
Kingsford’s Sliver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs....
@ 7 
“ 
“ 
**  6 ft boxes...
@ 7M 
“ 
“  b u lk ...........
“ 
@ 6M 
“ Pure, lf t pkgs.........................
@ 5M 
“ 
Corn, 1 ft pkgs......   ........
@ 7
Cut  Loaf..............................................
@ 1% 
Cubes ...................................................
@ 73á 
Powdered............................................
© 7M 
Granulated,  Standard.......................
© 7 
© 4% 
Confectionery A..................................
© 6M 
Standard A...........................................
@ 6% 
No. 1, White Extra  C..........................
@   6
No. 2, Extra C......................................   534® 5%
N o.3C ........................................... 
  @  5M
No.4 C........................... 
@ 6%
No. 5 C...................................................  5  @ 5M
Com, barrels......@31M|Pure Sugar, bbl. .25@38
Com, M bbls........@33M Pure Sugar; M bbl 27@39
Com, 10 gal. k’gs.@35MI
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen......  
70
Maccoboy.........................   @ 55
Gail & Ax’ 
..........................   @  44
Rappee...........
Railroad  Mills Scotch...
©  45 
Lotzbeck  ......... .............
@1 30
Merry War................34
Spear Head.............. 44
Plank  Road......   ..... 42
Jolly Tar................... 34
Live & Let Live........34
Eclipse
Quantity& Quality. .25
Holy Moses.............. 33
Nimrod...,............... 37
Blue Blazes.............. 32
Eye Opener.............. 32
Whopper ..........  
  30
Jupiter......................26
Star 
.41
Old Honesty............. 42
Clipper  .................... 34
P ,L ...................3 3
Scalping K nife..... .34
Sam Bass. ...............  34
1
t .. ,18@20
Japan ordinary............................ 
.... .25@30
Japan fair to good......................... 
Japan fine......... ............................... 
35@45
Japan dust.............................. 
,12@20
 
Young Hyson........................ ..;............. 20@45
GunPowder............................................... 35@50
. . . . . .......33@55@60@75
Oolong............ 
Congo....................... 
25@30
 
50 gr.
10
10
12

 
'  30 gr. 
White Wine...................................  8 
Cider.............................................   8 
Apple...... ....... .......... .................   10 
t e d .. 
Bath Brick i m p o r
American........... i .............. 
Burners, No.0.......... 
 

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

90
76
@70
 
- 89
 
90
Cocoa Shells, bulk...... ................. 
  @4
Condensed bulk. Eagle brand...............  @7 60
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.........  @25
Candles. Star..................................  @10
Candles. Hotel.....................................  @11
Camphor.oz., 2 ft boxes....................  @35
Extract Coffee, V:  C.,................@80
....  ..v.:  ...  @115
Fire Crackers, per bo x .'........... ........  @1 20
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps..,.................  @25
Guftt, Rubber 200 lumps................’...«  @35
Grim, S p r u c e . . . .......@30
Hominy, V b b l....? ;.................. . 
©3 60
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails..............................6  @ 6M
Pearl Barley.-...'....... .£/... ••  ©
Peas, Green. B ush;.,........©125
Peas, Split FEepaced’V*:..............■   -i  @ 3»$
PraaSdefi-Keii. 
,7  @5r00

MISCELLANEOUS.

.  Felix,.,... 

VINEGAR.

TEAS. 

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OYSTERS.

OYSTERS AND  FISH. 
Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

F. J.
Fairhaven Counts........................................... 35
Selects..................................................... 
  23
Anchors...... .....................................................20
Standards  ............................. 
18
per gal........................................110
Selects, per gal............................................ 1 50
Counts, in bulk, per 100......... ...................... 115
................................ l 15
Clams, 
................................  70
Black bass......................................'................ 10
Rock bass.........................................................  4
Perch................................................................   4
Wall-eyed  pike..........................................  
  8
Duck-bill  pike.................................................  5
Sturgeon...........................................................  6
Sturgeon,  smoked.............................................8
Trout................................................................   8
Whlteflsh.........  .............. 
8
Whiteflsh, smoked.. .1..................................... JO

FRESH FISH.

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PROVISIONS.

 

The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co. 

quote  as follows:
PORK  IN  BARRELS.
Mess, Chicago packing....................................14 50
Shortcut..................................... 
Short cut, clear,  Botsford..........................13 75
Shortcut  Morgan........................................... 15 25
Extra clear pig, short cut...............................16 00
Extra clear, neavy......... ............................
Clear quill, short cut.......................................18 50
Boston clear, short cut....................................16 60
Clear back, short ent.......................................16 50
Standard clear, short  cut, best......................16 50
Bean.............................................................
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.
Hams, average 20  fts....................................1054
“ 
16  fts....................................1154
“ 
12 to 14 fts............................11M
“  picnic  ......... .....................................   8
“  best boneless.....................................

7M
Shoulders..................... 
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...........................11M
Dried Beef, extra.........................................   8
9M

ham  prices............... 

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LARD.

“ 

BEEF IN BARRELS.

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

Tierces  ...............................................
30 and 50 ft Tubs..................................
3 ft Pails, 20 In a case..........................
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case...........................
10 ft Pails, 6 In a case..........................
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in case....................
Extra Mess, warranted 200 fts.....................  7 50
Extra Mess, Chicago Pacxlng.....................  7 25
“  Kansas City Packing............. 7 75
P late............................................................   7 75
Extra Plate....................................................8 25
Boneless, rump butts.................................. 10 50
9 50
“  M bbl.  5 00
Pork Sausage................................................  7M
Ham Sausage............................................... ll
Tongue  Sausage........................................  9
Frankfort  Sausage...................................... 8
Blood  Sausage.............................................. 6
Bologna, straight.........................................   6
Bologna, thick..............................................6
Head Cheese................................................   <F
Inhalf barrels............................................   3 00
In quarter barrels................................. 
1 76

“  Kan Citypkd.
“ 

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

PIGS’ FEET.

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FRESH MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 

prices as follows:
Fresh Beef,rides....................... . 
4  @ 6
Fresh  Beef,hind quarters............ 
5H@ 6M
Dressed Hogs......................................6  @854
Mutton......... .......................................6  @6 Y%
Lamb spring......................................  7  @
Veal  .......... II. 1 .
  7«@ 8
.
7)4® 8
Pork Sausage................ 
Bologna.
@  6 
@ 8 
Fowls...__ ............
Spring Chickens.........
© 9 
Ducks  .........................
@ 8 
Turkeys  ...............
Lard, kettle-rendered.
@   8

@11 

.

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,

.

.

.

.

HIDES. PELTS AND FURS. 

Petkins Sc Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

Green:...« ft 5)4© 6 
Pari cured...  7  @7)4 
Full cured....  7)4@ 8
Dry hides and 
kips ........  8  @12

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

or cured__ 7  © 7)4
¥  picce...... 10  ©30

MISCELLANEOUS.

Fine washed 58 ft 22@26[Coarse washed.. .26@28
Medium  .'..,'¿4 . .27@30|Unwashed...... .L6@22
Sheep pelts, short shearing...............  
5@25
Sheeppelts, old wool estimated.......  @25
Tallow..................................................3)4© 3)4
Grease b u tter...; 
...........  5@ 8
Ginseng, good......... ......................  .J  60@1 70

 

WOOL.

W OODEN WARE. .  ■ 
Curtiss & Dunton quote as follows: 
Standard  Tubs, No. 1,.* ...............
Standard',(Tubs, No. 2. 
...........
Standard Tubs, No. 3,-.

 

 

 

 

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Standard Pails, two hoop........ 
Standard Pails, three hoop...... 1............1
Pails, ground wood 
...........................;..4 BO ;
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes............^ .... .2 25
Butter  Palis, ash......... .................... ..  ..1.2 25
Butter Ladles.;.;............................... 
98
Butter Spades.............................................>  75
Rolling Pins. 
............................... .  .  75
Potato Mashers.............................................  50
Clothes Pounders.......................................... 2 25
Clothespins................. 
60
Mop  Sticks...............................................     .1 OO
Washboards, single...... ............................... 1 75
Washboards, double................... 
  2 25
Washboards, Northern Q ueen...... ........2  75
_ 
Diamond  Market..................... 
   
to
Bushel, narrow hand, No. 1........ 
1 50
 
Bushel, narrow band, No. 2............ 
.1 40
Bushel, wide band...............................  
.1 75
Clothes,splint,  No. 3........................ 
..3 50
 
 
Clothes, splint,  No.2 .......................  .....4  25
Clothes,splint,  No. 1......... 
....5  00
Clothes,willow  No.3..................... 
:..6€0
Clothes, willow  No. 2............ 
.6 50
Clothes, willow  N o.l...................................7 50
Water Tight,  (acme) bu............................3  75

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half bu.    ___ 85

“ 

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

Wolverine Ciair Factory,

W est End Pearl St. Bridge^

W HOLESALE

JACOB BROWN i   60.,
FiirnisMng Goods and Notions.
Liimtierinen’s Stipplies a Specialty.

Manufactures of

WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF 

ALASKA SOCKS AND 

MITTENS.

193 and  195 Jefferson Ave., Cor. Bates St.

DETROIT, 

-  MICH.

W I N T E R   C O A L

-A T -

SUMMER  PRICES.

Until Further Notice.

E g g  a n d  G ra te  
S to v e   N o .  4   a n d  N u t

$ 6 .7 5   p e r  ton, 
-  $ 7 .0 0   p e r  ton.

For September Delivery.

Grand Rapids Ice & Coal Co.,

O F F I C E   5 2   P E A R L   ST .,

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

Telephone No. 159.

GRAND RAPIDS DISTRICT 

TELEGRAPH CO.

NO.  3 CANAL ST., OSANO BANDS.

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

Messengers,  Hacks,  Express  Wagons  o d 

hand day and night.
J. W. GLASS, Supt.
14 75

MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

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

No 

RoM. S Jest,

150 Long St.,
Cleveland, Ohio.
J.  E.  FELDNER  &  CO.,

CUSTOM  SHIRT  MAKERS,
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods.

AND DEALERS IN

NO. 2  PEARL ST ., 

-  GRAND RAPIDS. 

Prompt Attention to Mail Orders.  Telephone 891.

MYRON  H.  WALKER,

Attorney and Solicitor,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

m ic h :

Over Fourth National Bank.  Telephone 407.

H I P S

ADDRESS

GRAHAM ROYS,  -  Grand Rapids, Mich.

Voigt, HerpMeier & Co,
DR1?  GOODS

Importers and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

Overalls» P an ts, E tc

OUR OWN MAKE.

A  Complete  Line of

Fancy GrocieryiFancyWooflenware

OPR OWN IMPORTATION. 

,;‘lv
Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Dctttit 
k

.7  Ftifda Guaranteed.  2  4

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4

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BAKING  POWDER.
-   2  “ 
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Telfer’s Y\ B>, cans, 6 doz in case.
.

Acme, 14 ft cans, 3 doz. case.......................  75
“  .........................   150
1ft  “ 
“  .........................   3 00
B ulk................................................  20
Princess,  Ms...............................................1 25
“  M s............................................   2 00
ls .... „ .......................................3 75
bulk.............................................  28
“ 
Arctic, M B> cans, 6 doz. case......................  45
4 
“ 
7 “  M 
“ 
......................  75
“  2 
M 
1 to
.....................  2 to
“ 
2 
“ 
1 
“ 
■’  “ 
“ 
1 
5 
................. ..12 00
“ 
letorian, 1 ft cans, (tall,) 2 doz.. ..............  2 00
Diamond,  “bulk,” 
.. . . ........... ................  15
Absolute, )4 ft cans, 10Ó cans in case...... ..11 75
50  “
“ 
..10 00
“ 
50  “ 
..18 75
.  2 70
.  2 55
“   3  “
“  1  “
.  1 50

)4  “
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Dry, No. 2...
..doz.
Dry, No. 3...
. .doz.
Liquid, 4 oz,.
. doz.
Liquid, 8 oz.
..doz.
Arctic 4 oz..
..& gross 3 50
A rctic8  oz..
.  7 20
Arctic 16 oz..
12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box..............
.  2 00
Arctic No. 2
.  3 00
Arctic No. 3
.  4 00
No. 2 H url... ......... 1  75 Common Wbisk. ..  90
No. 1 H url... .........2 00 Fancy  Whisk...
..1 00
No. 2 Carpet. ......... 2 25 Mill...... .
..3 75
No. 1 Carpet. ......... 2 50 W arehouse......
..2 75
Parlor Gem. ......... 2 75
Runkle Bros’.. Vienna Sweet........................... 22
“  Premium..................................33
“  Homeo-Cocoa........................... 37
“  Breakfast......................... 
.‘48

CHOCOLATE.

BROOMS.

BLUING

25
45
35
65

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COCOANUT.

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Ms................................. 

Schepps, Is...........................................  @25
Is and  Ms.............................   @26
Ms......................................   @27
Is in tin palls. . ....................  @27)4
Ms 
.......................  @28)4
Maltby’s,  I s ........................................  @23)4
Is and  Ms............................   @24
  @24 M
Manhattan,  pails................................   @20
Peerless  ......... ....................................   @18
Bulk, pails or barrels..........................  @16
60 ft s 100 lbs
25M
26
25M
25
2534
25

Lion................................................... 
Lion,  in cabinets.............................  
Diiworth’s ........................................ 
German............... ............................  
German, in  bins............................... 
Magnolia........................................... 
Honey Bee..................   ,  .................26

COFFEES—PACKAGE.

Green.

COFFEES.

Roasted.

R io...................22@24
Santos.............. 23@25
Maricabo......... 24@26
J a v a ................  @25
O. G. J ava........26@27
M ocha.............26@27
COFFEES—SPECIAL BRANDS.
Bell, Conrad & Co.’s Plantation Java. 
“  Mocha................. 
“ 
Javoka............... 
“ 
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Imperial.............  
“ 
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Banner............... 
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Rio................... 22@24
Santos..............  @26
Maricabo.........   ©26
Java................. 30@31
O. G. Java........ 33@35
Mocha.............. 33@35
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150 foot Cotton_1 60
60 foot Cotton_1 75
172 foot Cotton_2 00

60foot Jute,..».  ,  90 
72 foot Jute . . .:. I  20 
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Kenosha Butter.........................
Seymour Butter...................... 
Butter...............................  
Fancy  Butter.......................... 
S.  Oyster.................................. 
Picnic......................................  
Fancy  Oyster....................... 
Fancy  Soda............................. 
City Soda..................................
Soda  ................................  
Milk......... ...............................  
Boston....................................
G raham ...:.............................
Oat Meal..................................
Pretzels, hand-made...............
Pretzels...................................
Cracknels................................
7 
Lemon Cream......................... 
7 
Sugar Cream............................ 
Frosted Cream.........................
Ginger  Snaps........................ 
7 
No. 1 Ginger Snaps................. 
7
Lemon  Snaps..........................  
Coffee  Cakes........ ......................... 
Lemon Wafers........................
Jumbles...................................
Extra Honey Jumbles............
Frosted Honey  Cakes............
Cream Gems............................
Bagievs  Gems.........................
Seed Cakes...............................
S. & M. Cakes.  .......................
CANNED FISH.
Clams; 1 ft, Little Neck.............................1 35
Clam Chowder,  3 ft...................................2 15
Cove Oysters, 1 ft standards.................  100
Cove Oysters, 2 ft standards...................  1 55
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.  ................................ 1 75
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic..................................2 65
Lobsters, 1 ft star...................................... 1 90
Lobsters. 2 ft star...................................... 2 90
Mackerel, lf t fresh standards............... 1 70
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards.................5 00
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft...............
Mackerel, 3 ft in Mustard..........................
Mackerel. 3 ft soused................................
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river.....................2 20
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river..................... 3 90
Sardines, domestic Mb...............................  @7
Sardines, domestio  Ms.............................   9@10
Sardines,  Mustard Ms.................................9@10
Sardines,  imported  Ms..............................12@13
Sardines, spiced, Ms.................................. 10@12
Trout. 3 lb brook.....................................
Apples, gallons, standards....................... 3 00
Blackberries, standards..........................115
Cherries,  red standard.............................. 1 60
Cherries, pitted...................................1 85@1 90
..1 25
Damsons...........  ......................  
............................ 1 50
Egg Plums, standards 
1 85
Gooseberries..................... 
Grapes............... 
95
Green Gages......................  
1 50
Peaches, all yellow, standards..................2 65
Peaches, seconds......... ............................ 2 25
Peaches,pie........................................ 1 60@1 65
Pears.,.................. 
......1  60
Pineapples,. v ........ ............................1 40@2 75
Quinces ....................... ................... .......1 15
Raspberries,  extra...... ....................... 
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Strawberries  ............. 
1 50
Whortleberries............................  
1 25
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay , .............  
2 00
Beans,Lima,  standard.......................  75
Beans, Green Lim as............... ...........1 10@1 40
Beans,  String................ 
75@1  10
Beans, Stringless, Erie:.... — ................  90
Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked.....................1 60
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy— ... ... ........ ..1 20
Peas, French............................................ 1 60
Peas, extra marrofat......................... 1 20@1 to
Peas, soaked...........................................      75
“  Early June, stand...... ........... ..1 60@1 75
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rifted............................ 2 00
“   French, extra fine        ..............2 0  00
Mushrooms, extra fine. ............ ...............22 00
Pumpkin,3lb Golden....... ....... ..............  1 20
Succotash; standard.................... .80@l 30
Squash....................... 
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Tomatoes, standard brands............... 1 20
Michigan full  cream...... /,..........«•-. 12M@13M
Citron...................... 
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French, 8 0 s........................... .  ©
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Raisins, London iA y e rs ,.'.'..'-:.......'  @315
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i  S tad e  B o h  o f  F h a m t c r .
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Three Years—Ottm ar Eberbach, Ann.-Arb'or. 
Four Tears—Oeo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
F ire Years--Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso. 
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President—Oeo. McDonald 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
„  JB,,  er—las. Vcraor. ■- 
Next Meeting—At Lansing, November 1 and 8.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. 

President—Arthur Bassett, Detroit.
First Vice-President—G. M. Harwood, Petoskey.
Second Vice-President—H. B. Fairchild,  Grand Rapids. 
Third Vice-President—Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs. 
Secretary—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee  - Goo.  Gundrum,  Frank  Inglis, 
A. H. Lyman, John E. Peck, E. T. Webb.
Local Secretary—James Vernor, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Detroit, October

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G r a n d   R a p id s   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty ,

’  OEGANIZED OCTOBER 9, USA
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retary.,

President—Geo. G. Stekettee. 
Vice-President—H.  E. Locher.
Secretory—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry  B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—President,  Vice-President  and  Sec­
Board of Trustees—The President,  John E. Peck,  M. B. 
|   Ximm Wm  H. Vfl.nT.ee:iwenand O. H. Ri chmond.
&  wen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White and Wm,  L.  White, 
h  Committee on Trade Hatters—John E. Peck, H. B. Falr- 
child and Hugo Thum. 
Committee  on  Legislatlon-*-R.  A.  HcWUliams,  Theo. 
Kemink and W. H. Tibbs.
Committee on Pharmacy—W. L. White, A. C. Bauer and 
•Isaac Watts. 
Regular  Meetings—First  Thursday  evening  in   each 
month.
A n n u a l Meeting—First Thursday eveninginNovember 
Next Meeting—Thursday evening, November S, a t Thb 

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D e tr o it  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty .

ORGANIZED OCTOBER, 1883.

stancS

President—Frank  Inglis.
' First Vice-President—F. W. R. Perry.
Second Vice-President—J. J.  Crowley.
« .  oecrevarj tuiu a ictteurer—r . iwuuci ii.
Secretary and Treasurer—F. Rohnert. 
'  Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—A. B. Lee, 
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June. 
' 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in each  i
C e n t r a l
President,
B e r r i e n   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty . 
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, Henry Kephart.

M ic h ig a n   D r u g g is ts ’  Ai 
i, J. W. Dunlop ;  Secretary, R.  M.

each month.

Mussell.

A ss o c ia tio n . 

C lin to n   C o u n ty   D r u g g is ts '  A ss o c ia tio n . 

President, A. O. Hunt;  Secretary, A. S.  Wallace.
C h a r le v o ix  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o c ie ty  
President, H. W. W illard;  Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.

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

J a c k s o n   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  A ss’n . 

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

K a la m a z o o  P h a r m a c e u tic a l A ss o c ia tio n . 

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

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

President, F. N. Latimer;  Secretary, Wm. Heysett.
M e c o s ta   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty . 
President, C. H. Wagener;  Secretary, A. H. Webber.
<  M o n ro e   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty . 
President, S. M. Sackett;  Secretary, Julius Weiss.
M u s k e g o n   C o u n ty   D r u g g is ts ’  A ss o c ia tio n , 
President, E. C. Bond;  Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.

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

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

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

President, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, Frank Cady.
S a g in a w   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty . 
President, Jay Smith;  Secretary,  D. E. Prall.
S h ia w a ss e e  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o c ie ty
T u s c o la  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o c ie ty . 

President, E. A. Bullard;  Secretary, C. E. Stoddard.
M a n is te e   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty . 
President, W. H. Willard;  Secretary, A. H.  Lyman.

Minor Drug Notes.

The sticlac crop was a failure this year. 
Cinchona  is  grown  on  a small scale in 

Tomato wine is a rival of the orange bev- 

The recent price of brimstone was the low­

■France.

-  erage in Florida.

est ever known.

The crop of resin and  oil  of  turpentine 

¡this year has been very  large.

The  druggists  of  Elizabeth,  N. J.,  are 

W i}  having a lively time over cut rates.

The box and cartage  question  continues 

-to agitate the wholesale circles.

The adulteration of drugs  in  London  is 

receiving considerable attention.

Competition is making  the  manufacture 

o f ultramarine blue  unprofitable.

The National Wholesale Druggists’ Asso­
ciation favors the sale of oil  of  turpentine 

Jr,  by weight.
X  )  The main stock of cubeb berries is said to 
•be concentrated in the hands of  New  York 
■dealers.

Cocaine is the methylester  of  benzoylec- 

gonine.

The average French  physician has an an­

nual income of $500 to $1,500.

The Iowa druggists have a right to prose- 
cute customers who make  misstatements in 
order to obtain intoxicating liquors.  More 

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jj|v£of  them should make use of that right

The National  Formulary  will  be  ready 
about January 1, 1888.  Druggists will find 
.it a valuable present to  make  their  physi­
cians.

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A resolution  was  introduced  in  the last 
annual meeting of  the National  Wholesale 
Druggists’ Association to reduce the number 
o f traveling  salesmen  on  the  road.  The 
movement met with decided  opposition and 
jL  Mas  voted  down  by  a  heavy  majority. 
Therefore,  druggists  need  not  look for a 
■I f  .scarcity of commercial travelers this winter, 
v  a t  least those representing  wholesale  drug 
5#  ’  .firms.
Tim Indiana  Pharmacist  is responsible 
Sj  • 
for the following statement:  “Insect  pow- 
W 
|p   ■rim is adulterated to  a  great  extent  with 
powdered white hellebore.  Powdered gum 
!f 
arabic is adulterated  with  com  starch (?). 
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ig 
/|i *Cream of tartar is seldom obtained pure.  It 
|i   flfils  usually  mixed  with  flour,  Most of the 
IV * “-essential oils are  sophisticated, particularly 
-oil of rose and the higher-priced  oils.  Ex- 
I;. 
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-amine every article you buy and be sore you 
^ 
«dispense only pure goods.” 
k  r . 
There are many  thousand  remedies used 
In  the practice of medicine, but a prominent 
£  ' 
l  s   physician says:  “It is not too  much to say 
J jtth a t, among the many drugs which we pos- 
r a i iaeBSand administer in large quantity  every 
-day to a host of  suffering  invalids, 
there 
•  are, even in this enlightened  age,  scarcely 
half a_ dozen  the  physiological  action  of 
whieb is at all well understood, and perhaps 
mot one on the nature of the action of ‘which 
-there is no doubt whatever left.”

The Lazy Oppose Parts by Weight.
In reporting the annual  meeting  of  the 
j .“Pennsylvania State Pharmaceutical Associa­
tio n , Professor P.  W. Bedford, editor of the 
Pharmaceutical  Record,  says:  “Thé dis- 
^ -m is s io n  on parts by weight  brought out ad­
vocates of the old-time fqrmulæ of the Unit­
ed States Pharmacopceia,  as w ell  as  those 
who believe in the present system, and there 
appears to  be  a  strong  effort  making  to; 
■  break down the belter  plan  of  t‘parts  by 
IgN^ght^  sÎmidy  bÿ  iwree  of numbers op. : 
, includiug tbe halt,  the  maimed,  the 
and tbe lazy o f  our  craf t,  especially
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Quinine, German brands,  have  again de- 
oUned.  Domestic 'brands  have not changed 
inpricethis  week,  hot  Will, no  doubt, be 
marked down in a few days.  Opium is un­
settled.  Reports from  Smyrna are that an 
upward movement  bas  commenced, on ac- 
,count of large purchases by  the Dutch gov­
ernment,  . Prices are lower  here,  however. 
Morphia, P. & W.,  has  declined  25e. per 
ounce.  Balsam fir is scarce and moving up­
wards.  Borax has  advanced.  Gum  cam­
phor is tending higher. 
In balsam copaiba, 
the  advance  is  well  maintained.  Cuttle 
bone  is  lower,  on  account  of  increased 
stocks.  Gum shellacs are advancing.  Sen­
ega root has  advanced.  Balsam  tola  has 
declined.  Serpentaria is lower.  Oil worm­
wood is higher.  Castor oil has declined.
Caustic Criticism of the Pharmacist.

From  the Medical Bulletin.

The ancient and  honorable  profession of 
pharmacy should take  prompt  measures to 
purge itself of the greedy and unscrupulous 
vampires, whose sole aim is to amass riches 
at the  expense  of  the  credulous  and  un­
fortunate patrons of their  shops.
Substitution of inferior,  low-priced goods 
for the reliable  preparations ordered by the 
physician, is only one  of  their  nefarious, 
every-day  practices.  Counter-prescribing; 
for every ill that man or woman  may  Com­
plain of  is regarded by these vultures as an 
opportunity  to  fill  their  money-drawer, 
which must not  be  missed,  even  though; 
their unfortunate patients lose in health and 
pocket.
Charging  exorbitant  prices for prescrip­
tions—viz.,  seventy-five cents for a dram of 
quinine, twenty-five cents for six compound 
cathartic  pills,  seventy-five  cents  for two 
drachms of saccharated  pepsin,  one dollar 
for a few grains of sulphate of zinc and ace­
tate of lead dissolved in four  ounces of wa­
ter—is another crime against  the  sick  and 
helpless, which they perpetrate unblushing- 
ly day after day.
If the various pharmaceutical associations 
cannot relieve the  community  from  these 
quacks and extortioners,  physicians w ill be 
compelled,  in justice to  their  patients,  to 
warn them against  paying more than a fair 
price for their medicine,  and  to  tell  them 
what that fair price should be.
This  Year’s  Proceedings,  as  Viewed  by 

Secretary Parkill.

Owosso, Oct. 29,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

D e a r  S i r —I  send you a copy of our pro­
ceedings for 1887, which  are  certainly  the 
most valuable ever sent out by  our Associa­
tion.  Over 200  pages  are  taken up by the 
papers presented, representing  an  amount 
of original work that  stands  unequalled by 
any of the State associations.
The paper of Dr.  Lyons,  converting  the 
formulas of the Pharmacopoeia into parts by 
weight for solids and parts by  measure  for 
liquids,  is one of great value to all druggists 
who use  the old method in manufacturing. 
This paper,  together  with  the  twenty-five 
others,  most of which are on subjects of in­
terest to the practical  druggist,  makes this 
year’s proceedings a volume to be sought af­
ter by every  wide-awake  druggist  in  the 
State.
Copies have been mailed to  all  members 
Jess than two years in arrears, in accordance 
with the  resolution  adopted  at  Petoskey. 
Members not  receiving  copies  can  obtain 
them by remitting their dues to  the  Secre­
tary, 

S t a n l e y  E.  P a r k i l l ,  Sec’y.

The Muskegon Druggists’ Cases.

From the Muskegon News.

The  cases  against  the  druggists  who 
were arrested  some  time  ago  for violating 
the liquor law w ill go to the Supreme Court. 
The motion to quash was argued and yester­
day  decided  against  the  respondents.  F. 
W.  Cook, one  of  the  attorneys for the de­
fendants,  stated  yesterday  that it had been 
decided by Messrs.  Delano  &  Bunker  and 
him self to apply to  the  Supreme Court for 
a writ of  mandamus,  compelling the court 
below to vacate the order made denying the 
motion to quash,  and  to enter an order dis­
missing the cases.  Mr.  Cook  stated  that 
the practice is  somewhat new in this court, 
yet they prefer  such action to an appeal  af­
ter trial.  The  writ  is  often  resorted to in 
civil cases to correct or  alter  the  actions of 
circuit courts,  bat in criminal  cases there is 
no precedent in this county  on  record.  -At 
any rate,  the cases w ill not be  tried  in  the 
circuit this term.

G.  R.  P.  S.

The annual meeting of the  Grand Rapids 
Pharmaceutical  Society  w ill  be  held  on 
Thursday evening.  A  full  attendance  of 
the members is  requested.

Legal Future of National Banks.

A t the recent bankers’ convention in Pitts­
burg Chief  Justice  Daniel  Agnew  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Supreme  Court  submitted 
some remarks on  “The Legal Future of the 
National Banking system .”  In this address 
he  strongiy expressed  his  conviction  that 
the existing  system  is  as  constitutional as 
the Old Bank of the United States chartered 
by  the  general  government  according  to 
Chief Justice Marshall’s decision.  The con­
stitution has conferred  on Congress, no ex­
press  power to grant  charters of incorpora­
tion,  but  Marshall  held  that  a  charter  is 
only a means of  carrying into effect confer­
red powers.  “Let the  end,” said that fam­
ous expounder of the constitution,  “be legit­
imate; let  it be within the scope of the con­
stitution and ail the means which are appro­
priate,  which  are  plainly  adapted  to  that 
end,  which are  not  prohibited  but  consist 
with, the letter  and  spirit  of  the  constitu­
tion,  are  constitutional.”  The  present na­
tional  banking  system  materially  differs 
from the  old  bank, bat .the  constitutional 
basis of both Is the same.  To maintain the 
banks on this basis  they must,  according to' 
Judge  Agnew,  continue  to  be  a  fiscal 
agency, and the near extinction of the bond­
ed national debt must  be  met by some pro­
per form of government security to take its 
place.

The judge seems to favor the issue of Unit* 
ed States bonds bearing alow  rate of interest 
for the purpose  of  furnishing  a . basis  for 
national bank  circulation.  “A   small  and 
reasonable  rate o f  interest,” he says,  “Is a 
thousand fold  compensated  tp  the  people 
iq the safe  and convenientsys-

tem it  gives  them  for  currency exchange, 
intercourse  and  business.”  Whether  this 
plan w ill be acceptable to  a majority of the 
pebple is an undecided question.  Itr appears 
from JudgeAgnew’s  remarks  that, in  his 
opinion, the national  bank system  can pre­
serve its constitutional character only by re­
taining  its  connection  with  the  national 
credit and expenditure of the public moneys;

An Attractive Experiment. 

Customers  are  always  interested in any­
thing novel in the  way  of  experiments  on 
manufacturing.  A  little  contrivance  that 
will interest and instruct .them can be made 
to  represent  the  evolution  of  chaos  Into 
earth, air, fire, and water, as follows:
In a narrow phial or glass tube, pour mer­
cury to the height of one-fourth of its capaci­
ty; for the next fourth,  add a saturated solu­
tion of bicarbonate of potassium next fourth, 
methylated or pure alcohol, tinted blue; and 
lastly, turpentine, tinted  red.  On  shaking 
this mixture together you will have a repre­
sentation of  chaos;  but  soon,  on  resting, 
the elements will separate  themselves,  and 
the mercury will represent  earth,  the  blue 
alcohol air, the red  turpentine  fire,  and the 
colorless potash solution water.
This  experiment  also  represents  very 
nicely  the  difference in  thé specific gravity 
of liquids. 

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Micromembranes  is  the  name  of a new 

patent asbestos filter made in Vienna.

A  St. Louis  drug  clerk was awakened a 
few nights ago for a blank note.  When in­
formed that they were in the safe, he insist­
ed upon having the proprietor  called  from 
his slumber to supply the blank note.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

D A Harrison, Paw Paw 
N W Crocker, Byron Center 
D B Galentine, Bailey 
J  C Benbow, Cannonsburg 
A Purchase, South Blendon 
J A Haak, Chase 
F P Hopper, Middleville 
Wm Vermeulen, Beaver Dam 
John Farrowe, So Blendon 
Brautigan Bros., No Dorr 
Jay Marlett, Berlin 
C K Hoyt, Hudsonville 
G P Stark,  Cascade 
C Stocking, Grattan 
Morley Bros., Cedar Springs 
M P Shields, Hilliards 
J  P Cordes, Alpine 
T W Strahan, Muir 
D B Galentine, Bailey 
M Minderhout, Hanley 
Gibbs Bros, Mayfield 
A W Blain,  Dutton 
A R KcKinnon, Shelby 
G F Cook, Grove 
E H Foster, Fife Lake 
G A Patterson, Dorr 
A B Foote, Hilliards 
H K Hesseltine, Casnovia 
L A Carpenter, Baldwin 
E H Hagadorn, Fife Lake 
S Highstone, St Ignace 
W Thomas & Son, Bowne 
C E Dodge, Plainwel.
Cole & Chapel, Ada
John Gunstra, Lamont
C E Doyle. Irving
L A Scoville,  Clarksville
M V Wilson. Sand Lake
G H Walbrink, Allendale
J  Q Look, Lowell
R A Hastings, Sparta
O C Tux bury, Sullivan
R T Parrish, Granaville
Henry Baar, Grand Haven
Walling Bros, Lamont
Thos Hefferman. Baldwin
Kremer & Bangs Holland
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg
J  N Waite, Hudsonville
A W Fenton & Co, Bailey
Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co, Sisson’s Mill.
Rutgers & Tien, Graafschaap
F D Warren, Martin
J  W Robinson,  Stetson
S J  Martin, Sullivan
G Bruisse & Son, Zeeland
M J Howard, Engiishville
B Volmari, Filmore Center
Mrs K L Kinney, Ensley
J V Crandall & Son, Sand Lake
J  K Hacker, Corinth
H D Plum, Mill Creek
A C Barkley, Crosby
John J Trimmer. Montague
Wm Mines. Nunica
Knap & Baldwin, Chippewa Station
John Kinney, Kinney
Wm Black, Cedar Springs  *
Adam 8 & Benedict, Cedar Springs
Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland
G S Putnam, Fruitport
C R Bunker, Bailey
S Cooper, Jamestown
J C Benbow, Cannonsburg
G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove
L N Fisher, Dorr
John Bishop, Montague
F J  Kobe, Freesoil
Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland
J  McPherson,  Lowell
C Stocking, Grattan
J  W Mead, Berlin
F Voorhorst & Co, Overisel
S A Van Buren, Muskegon
H J  Fisher, Hamilton
Jos Raymond, Berlin
Otto Bros, MiddlevUie
E N Parker, Coopersville
Windsor Woodware Co, Petoskey
A  & E  B erg y , C aledonia
S R Crandall, Holland
C B Bennett, Big Rapids
John W Vcr Hohcks & Co, Grand Haven

'Dress  Stays

Soft,  pliable  and  absolutely  unbreakable.  Stan­
dard  quality  15  cents  per  yard.  Cloth  covered  20 
cents.  Satin covered 25 cents.  For sale everywhere.

F s a m r s - o x A R

CO LO R  W O R K S .

MAKERS  AMD GRIN D ERS OF

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.

Sp e c ia l t ie s —Tinted leads, twenty shades; 
Coach,  Carriage  and  Buggy  Paints,  nine 
choice  colors;  Ready  Mixed  Paints;  Coach 
Colors  Ground  in  Japan;  Decorative  Wall, 
Fresco, Floor, Sash, Fire-^roof, Car,  Barn and 
Domestic Paints; Wood and Iron fillersf Maple 
Leaf Permanent Green; Pure Putty.

Farrand, Williams & Co.,

Peninsular brands of ready  mixed  paints 
are  full  weights  and  free  from  fritter  and 
barytes.  . if.:--; ;

S P E C IA L   P A IN T S  M A D E  T O  O R D E R .

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WHOLESALE AGENTS.

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Send for.  Sample Cards. - 

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LINDEN  BLOOM

Is now the most popular an i rapid selling

From the Atlantic to the  Pacific, through* 

7", out the entire country.

Highly recommended by Mrs. Grover Cleve­
land, Lillie Langtry, Emma Abbott, Rhea, and 
a host of eminent ladies and gentlemen whose 
taste and judgment are reliable.
Testimonials of druggists  from  alt parts of 
the IT. S. ascribe it the FAVORITE and LE AD­
ING odor with the masses.
Put up in handsome  bottles  with  cut  glass 
stoppers.
Eighteen and a Half Fluid  Ounces for $4. 

One, dozen  10c.  bottles  and  ex­

quisite souvenir cards free 

With  first  order;.

Add a pound to your next order for drugs.

F O O T S   <&  JSXTRS’
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L a te s t  S u ccess

Complexion  Powder.

[REGISTERED.]

T w o   S izes—R e g u l a r   o r   5 0 - c e n t  size ,  a n d  

T r ia l o r  S S -c e n t  size .

SHADES:  Flesh, W hite, Brunette.
“Linden Bloom Complexion Powder” is with­
out a rival in elegance of  package, the  boxes 
being turned  wood,  beautifully  enameled  in 
many attractive tints and patterns.  The pow­
der itself is  of  impalpable fineness,  contains 
no poisonous  ingredients, and  from  its  deli­
cate perfume and  pleasing effects on the skin 
is in popular demand with society and profes­
sional beauties.  They all say  “It’s perfect.”
Exquisire! Souvenir Advertising Cards with 

Every Dozen.
REGULAR  SIZE,
TRIAL  SIZE

per doz.  $3.00 
*‘75

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Add a dozen to your next order for drugs.

Haieliine 1 Perkins Drilg Go.,

Agents for  GRAND  RAPIDS.

7*%  Cords  of  Beech  h e r .  been  sarr-d  h r   one  m an  in  9 
ionrs.  H undreds  have  aaw»d  5 and 6 cords  daiiv. 
“ Exactly ” 
Chopper  wants.  F i n t   order from
»bat every P arm er and 
four vicinity secures  th»;  Aw ncv._Illustrated  Catalogue  FREE!,

Address  P « ?  WTVfi 

' t t w r y f i   'US A C H IN E   OO.,

TIME  TABLES.
G rand  R a p id s  &  In d ia n a .

All Trains dally except Sundny.

 

 

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GOING  NORTH. Arrives. 
Leaves.
Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex........ 8:45 a m 
9:05 a m
Traverse City & Mackinaw. Ex....... 
11:30 a m
Traverse City  &  Mackinaw  Ex....  7:30 p m  10:40 p m
Cadillac Express................................   8:40 pm 
5:05 pm
Saginaw Express................................11:25 a m 
7:20 a m
,10:80 am. 
4:10 pm

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

Mackinaw.
toskey and Mackinaw City.
Petoskey and Mackinaw.
GOING  SOUTH.
Cincinnati  Express........................  
Fort Wayne Express......................10:80 am  
Cincinnati Express..................... ..  1:49 pm  
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex. . 10:50 p m 

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

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

M u sk e g o n ,  G ran d  R a p id s  & I n d ia n a . 

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

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

. 

D e tr o it,  L a n s in g   &  N orth ern .

G ran d  R a p id s & S a g in a w  D iv is io n .

D EPA RT.

Saginaw Express....................................................  7  30 a m
Saginaw Express.................................................   4 10 p  m
Grand Rapids Express.........................................11 25 a m
Grand Rapids Express.........................................10 30pm

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

A R RIV E.

C h ic a g o   & W e s t  M ic h ig a n .

 

 

Ai rives.

Leaves. 
tMail.............. 
9:10 am  
tD&y  Express.................................... 12:30 pm  
*Night Express.................................. 11:00 p m 
5:45 a m
Muskegon Express....................... 
5:00 pm   11:00 a m
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains.  Through 
parlor car in charge of careful attendants  without ex­
tra charge to Chicago on 12:30 p. m., and through coach 
on 9:10 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.

 

3:55 pm
9:45 pm

N e w a y g o   D iv isio n .

Leaves. 
Express...............................................4:05 p m 
Express...............................................  8:25 am  

All trains arrive and depart from Union Depot.
The Northern terminus of this division is at Baldwin, 
where close connection is made  with  F. Sc P. M. trains 
to and from Ludington and Manistee.

Arrives.
4:20 p m

10:20 am

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

L a k e  S h o re  &  M ic h ig a n  S o u th ern .

K a la m a z o o   D iv isio n .

Leave. 

Arrive.

Ex. & Mail.  N. Y. Mail. 
N. Y. Mall.  N. Y. Ex
4:35 pm   7:45 am..Grand Rapids.  9:45 a m 
6:15 pm
5:55 pm   9:02 am ..A llegan.............. 8:28 am   5:00 am
7:05pm  10:06 a m..Kalamazoo...  7:30 am   4:oOpm 
8:30 pm   11:35 a m..White Pigeon.  5:55 a m  2:20 pm
2:30am  5:05 p m..Toledo..........,11:00pm  9:45 am
8:30 am   9:40 p m .,Cleveland........... 6:40 pm   5:35 am
2:50 p m  3:30 a m. .Buffalo...............11:55 a m  11:40 p m
5:40 am   6:50 p m..Chicago.............11:30 pm   6:50 am
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at l2:50pm,carry- 
ing passengers as far as Allegan.  All  trains  daily ex­
cept Sunday. 

J. W. McKenxky, General Agent.

10:65 pm
3:50 pm

D etroit.  G rand  H a v e n   &  M ilw a u k ee.

GOING  EAST.

»Night Express...................................9:80 pm  
tThrough  Mail................................ .10:20am  
tEvening Express..............................3:25 pm  
tDetroit Express................................6:45 a m 
tMixed, with  coach__ ................... 
going west.
tMoming  Express...........................   1:05pm  
tThrough Mail................... ............5:00pm  
tGrand Rapids Express...................10:40 p m 
•Night Express................................... 6:25 am  
tMixed.............................................. 

Arrives.  Leaves.
10:30am
6:50 a m
11:00 am
1:10pm
6:10pm
10:45 p m
7:45 am
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Passengers taking the 6:50  am   Express  make close 
connection at Owosso for Lansing,  and  at Detroit for 
New  York,  arriving  there  at  10:10  a m the following 
morning.  The Night Express has aWagner sleeping car.

« 
Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

Jas. Campbell, City Passenger Agent.

5:40 am

M ic h ig a n   C entral- 

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ARRIVE.

DEPART.
Detroit Express......................................................6:15 a m
Day Express..............................  
l:iopm
»AtlanticExpress................................   ........ ..10:10pm
Mixed  ........................ ..................... ....................  6:50 am
•Pacific  Express..... ......................... .................. 6:00am
M ail......... ......................................................... .  3:00pm
Grand Rapids Express.  ................................. .,10:15pm
Mixed.................................................................. .  5:15 pm
»Daily,  All other daUy except Sunday.  Sleeping cars 
run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from 
Detroit.  Parlor cars run on  Day  Express  and Grand 
Rapids Express to and  from Detroit.  Direct  commo­
tions made at Detroit with all through,trains East over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.) 

D. W. Johnston, Mich. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.
O. W. Ruggles, Gen’l Pass. and TioketAgt., Chicago.

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WEST  . 

n   Leave] 

Duluth, South  Shore & Atlantic  Railway.
.  EAST
■ 
[Arrive 
All 
am  pm
11:36  6:05...,,....-.Grand Rapids...............  10:30  3:40
P *  A M  Lv 
:i  Ar  PM" AM
St  Ignace L ................  8:30 
1:00 Ar.......
8:00
Marquette............Lv  2:05 10:00
1:45 Ar........
8:33
.Negaunee 
.Lv  1:85  9:15 
1M
*:48
m
12:50  9:05
11:45 60S
H oughton/.:..........  9:20 6:00
3*14  6:84  As............ C alum et. .. .. .. . Lv  «8.-06  4:26
A* P»
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OaUy dtrect route between the  E»Bt andfiouth and
the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. < 
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WHOLESALE  PR fOf!  CURRENT.

Advanced—Borax, seringa loot.
Declined—Balsam 

totu.  quinine  German, 
morphia  P.  &  W.„  gum  opium, cuttle bone, 
serpenteria, castor oil. 

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AMMONIA.

Aeeticum..................... 
8@  lo
 
Benzoicum,  German......... «■..............  80@1 (X)
45©  50
Carbolicum............................  
Citricum............................ 
58©  65
 
Hydrochlor................................ 
s©  5
Nitrocum........................... 
10®  12
 
Oxallcum............... 
11©  13
Salicylicum........................  .....  __ 1 85©2 10
Tannicum................................ ...',1 4Q@l 60
Tartaricum ..................... , .................  50©  53
Aqua, 16 deg......   .....................  
3©  5
“  18  deg........................................  4©  6
Carbonas........................ 
 
11©  W
12©  14
Chloridum__.............. 
Cubebae (po.,1 3 0 .............................1 60©1 70
 
Juniperus  ...... 
6©  7
 
Xanthoxylum............... 
 
  26©  30
UALSAMUM.  - V"-'-' 
Copaiba............... {....................... 
..  55©  60
Peru..................... : ..............................  @150
Terabin,  Canada................................   50©  55
Tolutan ................................................  50®  65

 
BACCAE.

 
 

 
 

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Abies,  Canadian.................................. 
Cassiae  ................................................ 
Cinchona Flava...................................  
Euonymus  atropurp.... 
................. 
Myrica  Cerifera,po........  
Prunus Virgini............... 
Quillaia,  grd........................................  
Sassfras  ..............................................  
Ulmu8.................................. 
 
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)........................ 
EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.................. 
Haeinatox, 15 lb boxes............. 

18
h
18
30
20
12
32
12
12
10
24©  25
po.. 
..........................   83©  35
9©  10
Is..................... 
@  12
...................................   ©  13
a s ...................................   ©  15
Carbonate Precip................................   ©  15
Citrate and Quinia...............................  ©3 50
Citrate Soluble.....................................  ©  80
Ferroeyanidum Sol.................. 
  @  50
Solut  Chloride.....................................  @  15
Sulphate, com’l, 
85)...... .............   1H@  2
pure........................................   @ 7
FLORA.
Arnica...................................................  12©  14
Antbemis............................  
46©  50
Matricaria............................................  8C@  35
FOLIA.
Barosma..............................................   10©  12
Cassia Aeutifol, Tinnivelly................    20@  25
A lx.............................   35© 50
Salvia officinalis, 34s and  J£s..............  10©  12
Ura  Ursi..............................................  

FERRUM.

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OLEUM.

MAGNESIA.

V ir............... 

GUMMl.
Acacia, 1st picked......... .....................  @1 00
“ 
2nd 
...............................   ©  90
3rd 
“ 
...............................   @  90
“  Sifted sorts................................  © 65
p o .............................................   75@1 00
*• 
Aloe, Barb,  (po, 60).............................   50©  60
Cape, (po. 20)................  
  @  12
Soeotrine,  (po. 60)......................  @  50
Ammoniae  .........................................   25@  30
Assafoetida,  (po. 30)............................  @  15
Benzoinum.........................................  50©  55
Campborae.........................................  26©  38
Catechu, Is,  04s,  14; %s, 16)...............   @  13
Euphorbium, po..................................  35@  10
Galbanum............................................   @  80
Gamboge, po........................................  75@  80
Guaiacum, (po. 45)...............................  ©  35
Kino,  (po. 25)........................................  ©  20
Mastic...................................................  @1 25
Myrrh, (po.45)......................................   ©  40
Opii, ;pO. 6 00/...................................... 4 50@4 60
Shellac.............. 
18©  25
bleached..................................  25©  30
Tragacanth.........................................   30©  75
herba—In ounce packages.
Absinthium  ........................................ 
25
20
Eupatorium ........................................ 
Lobelia  ............................  
25
Majorum  ..........................................  
28
23
Mentha Piperita.................................. 
25
R u e ...................................................... 
30
22
Tanacetum,  V..................................... 
Thymus. Y................................ v......... 
25
Calcined,  P at......................................   55©  60
Carbonate,  P at...................................   20@  22
Carbonate,  K. & M.............................   20®  25
Carbonate,  Jennings..........................   35©  36
Absinthium........................... 
  5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc..............................    45®  50
Amydaiae, Amarae..................................7 25@7 75
Anisi  . ..................................................2 0U@2  20
Auranti Cortex...................................   @2 00
Bergamil...................................................2 75@3 00
Cajiputi  ............................  ...........  
.  9U@1 00
Caryophylli......................................... 
  @2 00
Cedar....................................................   35©  65
@1  75
 
Chenopodii.............  
 
Cinnamonii.......................... 
75©  80
 
Citronella  ........................ 
 
@  75
Conium  Mac............... 
 
35©  65
Copaiba...............................................   90© 1 00
Cubebae......... ................................ 12 00@12.50
Exechthitos.........................................   90@l 00
Erigefon...................................  
1 20@1  30
Gaultheria................................................2 25©2 35
Geranium, 5.............  
  @  75
Gossipii, Sem, gal................................   55@  75
Hedeoma..............................................   75©  85
Juniperi...............................................   50@2 00
Lavendula...........................................   90@2 00
Limonis .................................  
1 75@2 35
Lini, gal...............................................   42®  45
Mentha Piper...............................:___2 25@3 3J
Mentha Verid........................................... 3 75@4 00
Morrhuae,  gal.....................................  80®1 00
.......................................  ©  50
Myrcia, 
Olive.........................  
I 00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35)............... 
10©  12
Ricini........................................................1 24®1 36
Rosmarini.............................4............  75@1 00
Rosae,  ?....... 
@8 00
Succini  .......................... 
40@45
Sabina..................................................   90@l 00
Santal........................................................3 50@7 00
Sassafras..............................................   50©  55
S inapis, ess, B......................................   ©  65
Tiglii....................................................   @1 50
Thym e.................................................   40©  50
opt............................................   @  60
Theobromas........................................   15®  20
Bichromate........................................   13®  15
Bromide  ..............................................   42©  45
Chlorate, (Po. 2 0 )...............................  18©  20
Iodide....................f ............................3 00®3 25
Prussiate.............................................  25©  28
A lthae.........................................
30
Anchusa...................................... ......   15® 20
Arum,  po..................................... ......  @ 25
Calamus........................................ ......   20® 50
Gentiana,  (po. 15)......................... ......  10® 12
Glyebrrhiza,  (pv. 15).................... ......   16® 18
Hydrastis Canaden,  ,po.45)....... ......   @ 40
Hellebore,  Alba,  po....................
20
Inula, po................... .................. ......  15® 20
Ipecac, po................................... ...... 1 75®2 00
Jalapa, p r..................................... ......   25® 30
Maranta,  34s................................ ......   © 35
Podophyllum,  po......................... ......  15© 18
Rhei  .......................................... ......  75(81 00
“  cut..................... .................. ......   @175
“  pv .......................................
......   75@1 35
Spigelia  ......................................
......   48© 53
Sanguinaria, (po. 25).................... ......  © 20
Serpentaria.................................. ......  30@ 35
Senega......................................... ......   50© 55
Smilax, Officinalis, H .................. -----  © 40
Mex.............. ......   © 20
Sciliae,  (po.35)......... .............. .
......   10@ 12
Symplocarpus,  Eoetidus, po...... .....  © 25
Valeriana, English,  (po. 30)........ ......   © -25:
German.______ ...... ......  15® 20

POTASSIUM.

RADIX.

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SPONGES.

......... ss® 

! MISCELLANEOUS.

............................25® 

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Florida sheens’ wool, carriage.... .2 25  @2 50
do 
Nassau 
do 
2 00
.......  
i io
. . . .  
Velvet Ext  do 
do 
85
'  do 
ExtraYe 
..... 
do 
do 
..... 
Grass 
•  do 
06
,for state u se....;........ 
Hard? 
75
Yellow Reef, 
.......... *... 
140
‘D. .7  
Æther, Spts Nitros, 3 F ......................   26©  28
Æther, Spts. Nitros, I F ....................   30©  32
2^©  3»
A lum eu.............................  
Alumen,  ground, (po. 7)......... 
  3©  4
Annatto  .................................  
55©  60
Antimoni,  po......................................   4@  5
Antimoni et Potass  Tart....................  55©  60
Argenti Nitras,  5 .............................  
  @  68
Arsenicum ................................. 
  5@  7
 
Balm Gilead  Bud...................I ............  38®  40
Bismuth S. N...................................... 2 15@2 20
Calcium Chlor,  Is, (%s, 11;  ^s, 12)....  @  9
Cantharides  Russian, po....................  ©2 10
Capsiei Fruetus, af............................. 
~  —
15
Capsici Fruetus, po........................... !
16 
Capsiei Fruetùs, B, po.....................   !
©  14 
Caryophyllus,  (po.  35)
©   83 
Carmine, No. 40.........
@3 75
Cera Alba, s. A F
50©  55
Cera F la v a ...........................................28©
Coccus .................................................   @
Cassia Fruetus...........................................©  15
Centraria.................................. 
.  ©  10
Cetaceum...............  
*a  sn
chloroform 
To
Chloroform,  Squibbs..........................  @1 Q0
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst..................... .1 60@1 75
Chondrus 
io@  13
Cmchomdine, P. & W............................ 
is@ 20
Cinchonidine,  German.........................   6© 15
Corks, see list, discount,  per cent.... 
40
Creasotum.......................... 
50
Creta, (bbl. 75).................... 
  @  2
Creta prep..................................*!""  5©  6
Creta, precip........................................  g©  10
Creta Rubra.......................  
@ 8
crocus.....................................;;;;;;;;  25©  30
Cudbear........................................ 
©  24
cuprisuiph....................;;;;;;;;.........  6©  7
10©  12
Dextrine........................ 
Ether Suiph.........................................   68@  70
Emery, all numbers................. 
©  8
Emery, po......................................... 
©  6
Ergota^Cpo.)75 .....................................  70@  75
liake  W hite.......................................  12©  15
®alla -....................................................  ©  23
Gambler............................................... 
7©   g
Gelatin, Coopor..................                         @  15
Gelatin, French..........................  . ’  "   4o@  60
Glassware flint, 70&10 by box.  60&10, less.
Glue,  Brown.....................  
9©  75
Glue, White......... ...................................13@  25
Glycerma.............................................  33©  26
Grana  Paradisi.................... 
@  15
Humuius 
40
Hydrarg Chlor. Mite  ..........................  @  78
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor............................   ©  70
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum......................   @  88
Hydrarg Ammoniati.............................   @1 10
Hydrarg Unguentum.............................   @ 40
Hydrargyrum.................................... 
  @  65
Ichthyocolla, Am..................................... l  25@1 50
..............................................  75©1  00
Indigo. 
Iodine,  Resubl..........................................4 qo@4 10
Iodoform................................................  @5 15
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod.............   ®  27
Liquor Potass  Arsinitis.................... 
10@  12
Lupuline  .................................... 
Lycopodium.........................................  55@  60
Maeis....................................................  80©  85
Magnesia, Suiph, (bbl. lJi)...................   2@  3
Mannia, S.F ..........................................  90@1 00
Morphia,  S, P. & W......................      .3 10@3 35
Morphia, S. N. Y. Q. & C. Co....................3 00@3 25
@ 40
Moschus Canton  ................. 
Myristiea, No. 1......................"..!.!!!!  70@  75
Nux  Vomica,  (po.20)....................... 
©  id
Os. Sepia—  
24©  26
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co....................  ©2 00
Picis Liq,  N. C.. H  galls, doz.................  @2 70
Picis Liq.,  quarts............................ 
@140
Picis Liq., pints....................................   @  85
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80).............................  @  50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22).............................  @  18
Piper Alba, (po. 35)..............................   ©  35
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Potassa, Bitart,"pure.................... . ..”   @  40
Potassa,  Bitart, com..........................  ©  15
Potass  Nitras, opt........................ ”  ”  8@  10
Potass Nitras......................................  
7@  9
Pulvis Ipecac etopii...............   . . .".".1 I0@1 20
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. & P. D. Co., doz.  @1 25
Pyrethrum, pv.....................................  60®  65
Quassiae..............................................  8@  10
Quinia, S, P. & W................................   48©  53
Quinia, S, German...............................  33@  40
Rubia Tinctorum................................  
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Saccharum Lactis, pv................. 
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Salacin 
 
Sanguis Draconis...............................  40@  50
Santonine................................................  @4 50
Sapo, W................................................. 
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Sapo, G..................................................   @  15
Seidlitz  Mixture............................... 
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Sinapis..................... 
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Smapis, opt.........................................   @  30
Snuff, Maceaboy,  Do. Voes...............   ©  35
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes.....................   ©  35
Soda Boras, (po  10).............................   8  ©  9
Soda et Potoss Tart.............................  33©  35
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Soda, Ash.........................................” ..  3@  4
Soda  Sulphas............................. 
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Spts. Myrcia Dom..................................  @2 00
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Strychnia, Crystal.................................  @J 30
Sulphur, Subl........................................ 2%@ 3%
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Tamarinds...........................................  8©  10
Terebenth  Venice....................... 
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Theobromae......................................... 55  @  59
Vaniiia 
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Zmci  Suiph.........................................  
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Lard, extra........................................  60
Lard,No.  1...................................!  45
Linseed, pure raw...........................   41
Linseed, boiled................................   44
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained 
Spirits Turpentine............................
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Red Venetian................ 
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Ochre, yellow Marseilles........  154 
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.........   194 
Putty, commercial................    234 
Putty, strictly pure.................  234 
Vermilion, prime American.. 
Vermilion, English.. 
Green, Peninsular...  
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Lead, red strictly pure..........  
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Whiting,  Gilders’..... 
White, Paris American.......... 
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Pioneer Prepared  I aints...... 
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Swiss Villa Preparr*  Paints.. 
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VARNISHES.
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Extra  Turp.........................................l 60@1 70
Coach Body......... ................................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture..........................1 00@110
Extra Turk Damar.............................1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp....................  70®  75

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Christmas  Cards  ten  styles 
Fanon  Plifsh  Boxes 
Hand Lamps two  sixes 
Night  Lamps 
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BispUe  Figures 
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You cannot afford to do without it.
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SOlo  Agents,

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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W1DNSSDAY. NOVEMBER 2,1887.

African  Coffee.

From tfce Lewiston Journal.
In a small Maine village,  a  little  while
ago, a trader received a supply  of  coffee of 
the sort he had been selling for  some  time 
previously.  He found  that  be  could  not 
place the whole of it in the large can he kept 
for the purpose, and so, after filling this, he 
put the rest in an empty wooden box which 
happened to be  marked  *• African  coffee.” 
Soon after Mr. Jones came  into  the  store 
and seeing the box on the  chunter, remark­
ed "African coffee!  Wonder  what  that’s 
like?” and inquired the  price.  The trader, 
Who is something of a joker, replied that it 
was of the same price as that  which he had 
been selling him.
“ Gimme a pound,”  said  Jones.  “ I’m a- 
goin’ to try that an’ see what it’s like.”
“Blamed  if  I   ain’t a mind to try half a 
pound,” said Mr.  Smith, who was standing 
near by,  “though  that’s  putty  good  coffee 
that you’ve beena-sellin’.” 
‘
They both took the coffee and went home. 
The very same coffee, mind you,  that  they 
It  happened 
had bean using for  months. 
that they both came  back  together.  Jones 
opened the conversation.  “That’s a  prime 
article, that African coffee I  got o’ you. 
It 
just lays over everything I’ve swallowed fer 
years, ’n I  told Nancy I’d  ruther  hev  one 
pound of it than two of what we’ve  be’n  a- 
havin’.”
“Much you know  about coffee!” growled 
Smith,  “I couldn’t drink more’n  one cup of 
it, no how. 
’Taint  worth  more’n  half ez 
much as that other kind  o’  yourn,”  Jones 
replied with a slighting reference to Smith’s 
discriminating  powers, to be  followed by a 
sarcastic remark from Smith, to  the  effect 
that people who were  brought  up on burnt 
peas and brown bread crust soaked in warm 
water could not  be  expected to know what 
good coffee is any way.  The  trader  knew 
too much about  human nature to make any 
explanations which would have  proved dis 
astrous to future trade,  so he  now puts up 
“African” coffee for Mr. Jones,  while  Mr. 
Smith has his from the tin  can  as of yore, 
and both are happy.

Still W aters Run Deep.

From the "Philadelphia Grocer.

Perhaps no greater error  exists  in  busi­
ness life than the idea that noise  and  fuss 
and dictatorial orders on the  part of an em­
ployer ensure attention from  his clerks and 
from the public.  The noisy man is  seldom 
a  good  business  man.  Cool  headedness 
gives a man time to think as  he  acts,  and 
the merchant  who  transacts  his  business 
and communicates his  orders  quietly  but 
firmly is never exposed to  ridicule if any of 
his orders miscarry.  Fuming and  fretting 
are really indications of  personal  inability, 
No man frets over what he is able to accom­
plish.  The very confession which  fretting 
carries with it condemns  it as a practice in 
the eyes of all  wise  men,  while  habitual 
finding  fault  sours  the  character  of the 
fault-finder slowly but steadily,  and  sours 
his’ relations with those around him.
Still waters run deep.  The thinking man 
has a brain too well  occupied  to vent itself 
idly or carelessly.  The observant man sees 
too quickly and keenly the true  position of 
affairs and at the same time recognizes  the 
remedy too quickly to spend  a  moment in 
useless frothing at the mouth.  The patient 
man knows that time is necessary  and  per­
severance requisite to correct the  difficulty, 
Even the quick, eager worker whose impet 
uosity might burst into complaint, is  gener­
ally too quick to see the reason  underlying 
the evil or the easiest solution of  the  diffi 
cutty to spend  time  in  complaining  over 
tilings which he can readily master.

Benefit of a Ticket System of Sales.

A merchant who has had much experience 
with the ticket  system  of  sales  gives  the 
following pertinent suggestions:  * ‘A ticket 
system by which it is known  exactly  how 
much each salesman sells each day soon be- 
gets*a spirit of emulation among the clerks, 
each one being  desirous  of  surpassing  his 
fellows in the amount  of  his  6ales, and its 
adoption will often be  found  to create new 
life and activity in a business where all was 
before  listlessness  and  inactivity.  These 
tickets, after careful  revision  (each  sales 
man having a particular number on his tick­
et), should be strung on  a  twine  as  nearly 
in order as they were taken  in  as  possible. 
Each day’s number may  be  separated from 
the preceding one by a piece  of  stout card, 
and if tbe card be dated, a  ready  reference 
can be made  to  each  day’s  tickets  when 
wanted.”

Disgusting  Habits, 

fro m  m e Pittsburg Grocer.

Nothing  disgusts  lady  customers  more 
than to be served by salesmen who  are  ad­
dicted to the practice  of  chewing  tobacco. 
Merchants who  permit  themselves or their 
clerks to practice this filthy habit during the 
hours of business, do wrong  and  hurt their 
business.  What is more disgusting than to 
have a salesman approach  a customer with 
- liis breath reeking \jrith the odor of tobacco, 
his mouth soiled,  and  every  other  minute 
expectorating  quantities  of  fluid  extract? 
Another had habit  is  smoking it the store; 
and the quicker it is dispensed with the bet­
ter. ,  No merchant who  respects  his  trade 
will allow it, if a moment  is  taken  to con­
sider the matter.  There is a time for every­
thing, and the time for the practice of these 
s habits is before or after business hours.

J 

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The.W ork N o Object.

From the Detroit Free Press.
.  “Blow much will you charge to go  up  to 
my house and black a small—a  very  small 
—stove?” he asked of  one  of  the  colored 
brigade at the market.
“Just as much as I would to blaek a large 
—a, very large stove,  sah.”
“But it won't take so much  blacking nor 
Tabbing.”
“No, sah;  but  dose  fings  doan’  count. 
TPs gittin me away from de market  an’ de­
privin’ me of de chance  for  religious  dis- 
cnshan dat I charge fur.”

Gripsack« who is a  traveling  Haan, went
K
Jksfc Sunday, and being weary  at-1 
l  week’s  work,  {ell asleep.  The 
»oon who  passed  the  oontributlon  box 
udged  him ln the  eljx)w< .t^ripsaek,  onr 
imkened, tam ed in his  Mw@niirmuring, 
Sag 
1-gafftjppna  quarter w h en ! first 
this tra ih .^ iA ,  i  -a  M   !

fflP R D O T 0|f8,

134 to  140 Fulton Street,

Grand  Rapids,  -  Mich.

No. 1887 Assorted package Fancy Goods.  Packed 

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1.88 .45
1.50 .90

Retail
total
.30
.90
.80
.50
.60
.50
.50
.50
'1.80
1.50 
2.10
2.70
1.50
2.70 
1.20 
1.20 
1.80 
2.40 
1.20
3.00
1.50 
1.20 
1.20
1.50
1.00
.75
2.00
105
1.00
1.80
.60
1.20
1.50 
1.20
.60
.60
1.20
1.50 
2.00 
2.00

Wholesale  Retail 
each
.05
.15
.20
.25
.30
.25
.25
.25
.50
.25
.35
.50
.20
.10
.30
.40
,  .10
.25
.50
.10
.10
.25

price. 
54 Doz. 4 in. Silver  Vases............................................................................ 20 
Yt  “  8.“  Painted  “ 
............................................................................. 60 
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34  “  9  “  Silver 
42 
1-6“  10 ................................................... ,..........   ...................  ............ 25 
1-6  “  12 “ 
“ 
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........................................................................... 33 
Rustic  “ 
1-6  “ 
.............................................................................37 
1-6  “ 
Satin 
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............................................ ,.............................38 
33 
1-6  “ 
 
4398 
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.............................................................................67 
Cherry  “ 
1-6  “ 
34 
“ Open Coffee Cups and Saucers.................. 
1*0 
 
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34 
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1-25 
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‘.....................  
34  “ 
.................................................. 1.00 
C ,........................................  
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34 
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Childs  “ 
 
80 
“ 
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.....................................................85 
34 
“ Moustache  Cups and  Saucers.............................  
1.13 
1.87 
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1  “  A B C Picture Mugs...................................................................... 50 
“ Assorted Fancy  “ 
1 
 
1.50 
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34  “ 
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“ A BC  Plates...............................................................................  -.55 
1 
“ Wire Rim Fruit Baskets.................................................................. 85 
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yt 
1.00 
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1-12 “  Smoking Sets.................................................. . — .......................71
“ 
1-12“ 
...................................................................................50
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“ Ass’t 4 Kinds Bread and Milk Sets.......................................: — 1.33 
34 
“  3 
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34 
“  Plate Sets.................................................................. 56 
34 
“ China  Creams................................................................................... 67 
3 
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“  Toys Ass’t .............................................................................75 
1 
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“  Whistles..................................................................................45 
“ 10 Key Harmonicas.......................................................................... 46 
1 
“ 10  “  Best Harmonicas Lidwig.....................................................75 
34 
“ Toy Watches....................................................  
1 
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1 
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40 
“ China Dolls Dressed.........................................................................40 
1 
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“  Limb Dolls..........................................................................90 
34 
“ Toy Tea Sets..................................................................................... 94 
1-12  “ Ruby Water Sets  5 P ieces..........   ...........................................  1.25
“ Fruit Plates...................................................................................1.25
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Package.........................................................................................50
$32.40 

H. LEONARD  & SONS.

.50
.35
.25
.05
.C5
.10
.25
.10
.05
.05
.10
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The  coming  commercial  metropolis  of  the  Upper  Peninsula.  With  a  magnificent 
harbor of deep water,  miles  of  dock  frontage,  perfect  protection from  storms, and  the 
undivided support of all well-informed lake captains,

THIS  POINT •

Is  backed  by the  most  populous  and  wealthy districts of the Great Northwest,  and is 

connected by the“GREAT  S00  LINE”

.With the richest  Iron  Ore, Timber  and  Agricultural  Districts  of  Michigan,  Wisconsin, 
and Minnesota,  if not the world.
Millions upon millions of  standing  soft  and  hardwood, consisting  of  white  pine, 
cedar,  hemlock,  maple,  elm, poplar, basswood,  birch  and  butternut, awaits the  lumber­
man’s axe,  east  and  west  from  Gladstone, on  newly built lines of railroad, tributary to 
this harbor.
Gladstone  is  destined  to  become the natural outlet to the East and entrepot for the 
West,  and a wholesale point of great importance.  We offer

FREE  MANUFACTURING  SITES

To furniture  or  wood-working  establishments  and  every  legitimate  labor  employing 
enterprise.
For full particulars, opportunities for  business,  and  plats, maps  of  local  and  sur­
rounding situation,  address or call on

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GLADSTONE,  MICH.

Sault Ste. Marie Land  and Improvement Company, 

toes, will be pleased to hear from you.

ALL  KINDS  OF  FIELD  SEEDS  A  SPECIALTY.

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

Fruits, Seeds,  Oysters & Produce,

86. 88.30 S 38 Ottaia Street 
HMD RAPIDS.
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F r u it s  a n d  V e g e t a b l e s,

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WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

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JOBBER  IN

Foreign and  Domestic Fruits.

S P B O X A X i T X S I S  :

Oranges; Lemons, Bananas.

3  Ionia St.,  G S A E D   R A P ID S ,  B I C E .

WM. SEARS & CO.
|  praeker  Manufacturer!

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BUNTING  &  DAVIS,

C.  L .  DAVIS.

Commission  Merchants.

'  Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in Car Lots.

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

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

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