VOL.  5,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  16,  1887.

,  We carry a full ,ine of 
Seeds  of  every  variety, 
bolli for field and garden. 
Parties  in  want  should 
Write to or see the

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN AND  SID  CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

F01TJ NATIONiL Biffi

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

SALT  FISH

Bought and Sold by

FRANK J. DETTENTHALER

117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.

B f   Oysters th e  Year A round 

se*

LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,

STATE  AGENT  FOB

A. J. BOWKS, President.

Geo. C. P ierce, Vice President.

H. P. Baker, Cashier.
CAPITAL,  | f   -  -  $300,000.

The Only Reliable Compressed Teast.

M anufactured by RlvCrdale Dist. Go.

106 Kent Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Transacts a general banking business.

TELEPHONE  566.

Walt,  a  Specialty  'f  Collections.  Accounts 

of C ountry, 

'chants Solicited.

M I T  MILL COMPANY,
Floiir,  Feed,

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Grain  and 

Grocers, bakers and others can secure th e  agency fo r 
th e ir tow n on th is T east by applying to  above address. 
None genuine unless i t  bears above label.

POTATOES.

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

1

25 Pearl Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

Baled  Han.
-  MICH.

0.  E.  Brown,  Sen.  Jlgr.
BELKNAP

MANUFACTURERS OF

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

Lumber  and  Farm

W AGONS!

Logging Carts  and  Trucks 

Mill and Dump Carts, 

Lumbermen’s and 

River Tools.

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

The Most Complete Assortment 

M i  Seeds a Specialty.
in Michigan.  Don’t Buy un­

SEEDS
ALFRED J.BR0WN
1 6 4 8 1  D im SU randB apids
CHARLES  A.  COYE,

til  you  get  m y prices.

Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester.

Successor to

A. Coye & Son,

fll

1   AWNINGS 5 TENTS

DEALER IN

Horse and W agon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

W ide Ducks, etc.

Flags & Banners made to order.

73 CANAL ST.. 

-  

GRAND RAPIDS.

Grandpa’s Wonder Soap
THE BEST SELLING  GOODS  ON 

THE MERKET,
MANUFACTURED BY

Bearer  &  Co., Dayton, Ohio.
A. S. lOSSBLIi* 1  GO.

SOLD BY

Grand  Rapids,

Mich.

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

166 South W ater St., CHICAGO. 
Reference

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

Chicago.

Toil, HtrpMilmr 1 Co,
DRY  G O O D S

Importers and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

Overalls, Pants, Etc-,

OUR OWN MAK E,

A  Complete  Line  of

Faacy CrockerysFancy Woodenware

OUR OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 

Prices Guaranteed.

Proprietors of the

COOK  & PRINZ,
Valley City Show Case Mfj. Co.,
SHOW  GH8E8.

Manufacturers of

Prescription Cases and Store Fixtures
3  WEtt Bridge St.. Granii apis.

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

Telephone 374.

W A N T E D .

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

Earl Bros.,  Commission Merchants,

157 South W ater St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  F i r s t   N a t i o n a l   B a n k ,  Chicago. 
M i c h i g a n  T r a d e s m a n . Grand Rapids.

PROPRIETOR OF

EDWIN FALLAS,
VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE,
Bdtter, Eggs,  Lemons, Oranges.

JOBBER OF

And Packer of

SOLID  BRAND  OYSTERS.
Facilities for canning and jobbing oysters 
are unsurpassed.  Mall orders filled  promptly 
at lowest  market  priee.  Correspondence  so­
licited.  A  liberal  discount  to  the  jobbing 
trade.
G-randL Rapids.

217, 219 Livingston St.,

MYRON  a   WALKER

Attorney and Solicitor,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH

Over F ourth N ational Bank. /Telephone 407.

BRÄUTIGAM* BROS.,
Cant  Hook  Handles, W hppletrees,  Neck 

M ANUFACTURERS

Yokes, Spinning W h w s and Job 

Turning  Of  All Kinds.

MAIL  ORDERS SOLICITED.

NORTH  DORR, 

t   MICH

Ailxiliarif Assnoiations

Wishing to  procure  outfits  for  their Col 
leetion 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—$10.

500  Blue Letters,  old style.1 
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

ENGRAVERS and PRINTERS,

49 Lyon St, Grand Rapids,

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

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

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

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

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  anew  
Cigar called

SILVER SPOTS

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

It will be sold on its merits.  Sample or­

ders filled on 60  days approval.

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

6E0.  T.  U N   4  CO.

Flint, Mien.

TUBS!  TUBS!  TUBS!
We  have  ISO  doz.  first  quality  wash  tubs, 
which we will  sell F. O. B. as  follows:  No. 3, 
$3 per  doz.;  No. 2, $4  per  doz.; No.  I, $5  per 
doz.  Packed M doz. in bdl. with straw.  Qual­
ity unsurpassed.  Address
PIERSON’S  BAZAAR,  Stanton,  Mich. 

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

MIRTH  I   KRAUSE,

LEATHER

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

ings, etc.  Write  for Catalogue.

SHOE  LACES.
Heelers,  Cork Soles, Button  Hooks, Dress­
118 Canal Street,  Grand Rapids.
JACOB BROWN l GO.
F-ilrnishing Goods and ^lotions.
Lumbermen’s Supplies a Specialty,

W HOLESALE

Manufactures of

WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF 

ALASKA SOCKS AND 

MITTENS.

193 and ig5 Jefferson Ave., Cor. Bates  St.,

DETROIT, 

-  MICH.

G R ID  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.
MNITÜBE TO ORDER.

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

Wolverine CIÉ Factory,

W est End Pearl St. Bridge.
W I N T E R   COAL

SUMMER  PRICES,

Until Further Notice.

Egg and Grate 
Stove No.  4 and Nut

$6.75  per ton. 
$7.00 per ton.

For September Delivery.

Grand Rapids Ice & Coal Co.,

OFFICE  52  PEARL ST.,

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

Telephone No. 159.

GRAND RAPIDS DISTRICT 

TELEGRAPH CO.

HO. 8 CANAL 81., GRAND BAPIDS.

Electrical  Supplies,  Burglar  Alarms  and 
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  on 

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

GRÁND  RAPIDS  MtCJT^
. Boy  of the  manufacturer and save freights 
dealers' commissions.  Factory, 61,  1§  and 85  So 
Pront  St.  Offloe and salesroom,» Monroe street.

.LACE  to secure a thorough 
¡/'sa d  useful education is at tne 
*  Grand fU rins (Mich.) Busi-

■  DEBT.

W ritten Especially fo r T h u   T r a d e s m a n .

I am well aware that  it  would  require  a 
very large volume and a much more  prolific 
pen than 1 can wield,  to describe  the whole 
meaning of debi,  as it exists in civilized  so­
ciety.  At the utmost, I can  only touch the 
outside of a theme that reaches  very deep— 
even  to  the  rock  upon  which  civilization 
rests.

The significance of debt, in its commonest 
phases, is a leakage on one hand and an ab­
sorption upon the other—a leakage  of  cap­
ital, or the products of labor, by  the  many, 
and its absorption by the few.

I shall pay no attention  to  popular  ideas 
of the causes of debt,  as taught by theorists, 
but go straight to the book  from  which  my 
education  was  obtained—the  actual  busi­
ness affairs of daily life.  In the tempest toss­
ings  of  peace  and  war—among  soldiers, 
farmers, laborers and others, as I  saw them 
work out  the  problem  in  that  field  where 
doubt  or  controversy  is  impossible,  where 
success and failure demonstrate  cause  and 
effect, open to all eyes.

My first real  lesson,  in  common  with  a 
large  percentage  of  your  readers,  was 
learned in  the  army,  among  all  classes 
from  the  lowest  bummer  to  the  highest 
elements of society.  There we noticed that 
.many  lived  every  day  as  if  they  were  de 
termined to get all the good there is in life— 
usually in eating and drinking as they went 
along,  insuring themselves against dying in 
debt  to  their  stomachs.  The  paymaster 
brought  with  him  a  general  boom,  every­
body  being  made  happ'y  for  a  few  days, 
The regulation  diet  of  “salt horse”  vege­
table paving blocks,  sow  belly  and  beans, 
was instantly exchanged  for  sweet  meats, 
lemons, oranges, oysters and  the  best  that 
money would purchase, until  “hard times” 
and  the  “grinding  monopolist”  again  “op 
pressed” the masses.

And this is thfe way the  “tyrant”  put  in 
his work.  Gambling games  of  poker  and 
“chuck-a-luclc” presented yisions of  sudden 
and  easily  gotten  wealth  to  the  many, 
which resulted in a  few  days  in  sweeping 
all the cash from the pockets  of  the  many 
into the hands of the few “lucky ones,” who, 
in turn, fleeced each other,  until but one  in 
a host possessed the leakage of  the  masses 
of 
the  “poor  down-trodden,”  who  were 
again reduced to “sow-belly” and beans.

A. smair pMcentage-^from  ten  to  fifteen 
per  cent.—saved  their  wages,  sent  them 
home to some needy parent,  sister  or  fami­
ly, all  but a small  amount  needed  for  sta­
tionery, postage and  some  few  necessaries 
not furnished by the government,  and these 
made  existence  average  between  the  ex­
tremes  of  poverty  and  riches.  But  the 
many were driven  by necessity  to  the  one 
with a surplus,  resulting  in  the  slavery  of 
debt and no amount of  suffering and worry 
could break them of the habit  when  “bad- 
luck”  had  once  become  chronic.  Every 
pay-day, debt,  like  a  despotic  ruler,  took 
most of their earnings  and  left  them  poor 
and oppressed,  the evil  becoming constant­
ly worse and worse.

Then,  still  later, I  saw  a  farming  com­
munity get  out  of  debt,  through  the  high 
prices  for  produce  during  the  war,  and 
again plunge in headlong deeper than  ever, 
until  the  crisis  of  1878  gathered  most  of 
them  into  the  money-lenders’  clutches  or 
sunk under hopeless incumbrances, servants 
of their legitimate master, Shylock.  A few 
exceptions,  again,  were  found  in  every 
community,  solidly  prosperous,  neither 
poor nor rich, making  good  times and hard 
times average,  without extremes of  “boom­
ing” or financial depression.

Then,  again,  still  later, I  took  another 
“degree” in the labor  army for a few years 
and there I saw the experience of  war dup­
licated.  The  highest  wages  ever  known 
had been paid these  working  masses  from 
1865  to  1873— wages  which  enabled  the 
tow to possess solid  competence,  by  keep­
ing out of  debt  and  aiming  at  the  mark. 
Yet the many, within less  than  six  weeks 
after the crisis had cut  off  wages  by  stop­
ping the mills, were,  about half of them “on 
the tramp,” and most of the'other half were 
on  the  town  or  receiving  public  charity. 
Waste of various kinds  had  brought  debt, 
and debt brought in its train  the  climax  of 
all curses—slavery in a  land  of  liberty. 
I 
saw many  a  skilled  worker  who  had  re­
ceived from four  to  seven  dollars  per  day 
for  three  to  seven years pawning  fine  rai­
ment, costly jewels, organs, and  the  things 
that in all former generations were , the  ex­
clusive  possession  of  the  rich  alone,  for 
crackers  and  cheese.  And  this  business 
was not confined  to  one particular section. 
A general  wail  of  distress  went  up  from 
millions of debt-ridden workingmen all over 
the United States,  and their sufferings were 
equaled only by the  woes  of  hosts  of  em­
ployers, struck by the  thunderbolt  of  debt 
as they were racing and chasing to find par­
ties  who  could  lend  their  money  to  save 
their encumbered fortunes.

I  finish with a third  and  last  degree,  up 
among the homesteaders  in  the  most  per­
fect fanning country on this planet.  With­
in from fiveto  seven  years  after  they  got 
thejr patents from  the  United  States,  nine 
in  eyery  ten  yim   jtai, h ^ v e d th e ir,  160 
:acre§ itf beech and maple picnic groves as a

free gift from the  government  were  either 
homeless  outcasts  again  or  sunk  under 
mortgages, 
the  interest  upon  which  was 
equivalent to a high  rent.  And  right  by 
the side of  this class who were  the natural 
prey of  Shylock,  I  saw  the  one in ten who 
kept out of debt prosper as no other  gener­
ation of  workers ever prospered  before  in 
all history, rising in  a  few  years’  time  by 
labor  aloqe,  from  barehanded  penury  to 
genuine independence.  From  first  to  last 
have I seen among the masses the  habit  of 
paying as they go raise them to competence, 
peace and plenty, while the habit  of  living 
up to their incomes and incurring debt sinks 
the many into hopeless servitude.

In  the  main, 

throughout  the  United 
States, debt means, what it has  never  indi­
cated in any other nation in human history, 
that the many are \  asting  by fast living or 
greedy grabbing the first incurring debt  for 
articles of show, the last,  in  making  haste 
to get rich.  The  “booming  times”  arouse 
the ruling passion in  each,  debt is regarded 
as an “accommodation” and  a “great bless­
ing” and the result is an industrial or finan­
cial “spree,” the drunk ending in total  col­
lapse,  and then it is that the small percent­
age  of  balanced  minds  who  keep  out  of 
debt or fasten onto real estate security  (the 
spinal column  of  civilization)  prevent  so­
ciety from returning to  barbarism  and  en­
able it to rally from the revulsion and begin 
again.

To  affirm  that  poverty  and  bankruptcy 
in the United States  are  produced  by  that 
which causes  European  financial  crises  is 
equivalent to the  assertion that  the  home­
lessness of hosts  of  American  workers  is 
caused by the same pressure that  evicts  the 
cotters of Ireland.  Ten  millions  of  Irish, 
English and  Scotch  (not  to  mention  vast 
multitudes of  other foreigners)  were driven 
from their country by  the cause of one evil, 
and found  in  the  new  Northwest, in  spite 
of the other evil  (the  cause  of  American 
discontent  and  slavery)  everything  that 
goes to make  life  a success.  Never before 
since the dawn of creation has it  been  pos­
sible for man to produce, with  so  little  ef­
fort, all the materials that  civilized nations 
need or to possess,  with  so  little  of  that 
quality of mind called financial ability. 
If 
this  needs  proof,  go  to  the  newly-settled 
localities in Northern  Michigan  or  in  any 
other state and  find  thousands upon thous­
ands of those Who from five to twenty years 
ago were working in the capacity of  lowest 
menials.  To-day  they  are 
independent 
farmers and  merchants  and  men  of  every 
calling. 
Inquire the cause of their success, 
and,  in the vast majority of  cases,  you will 
find that those who have achieved  the  best 
success  (that is the medium between the ex­
tremes of  great riches  and  abject  poverty, 
which is the most solid  and enduring)  have 
kept out of debt and have  never  attempted 
to possess until they  produced  or  paid  for 
the  substantials  of  life.  Look  into  the 
cause of failure of the hosts of “discontents” 
and it is found that it is debt or dependence 
upon the debt-ridden that  brought  the des­
troyer.  But  the  greatest  curse  springs 
from a certain class of  artificial  capitalists 
or sham moneyed class who  employ  work 
ingmen, promising  them  their  wages  at 
specified seasons  and  never  pretending  to 
keep promises, thus forcing workers  to  in 
cur  debt  in  order  to  escape  famine. 
If 
thieves treated their own class  as  dishonor? 
ably and heartlessly  as  this kind  of  animal 
treats good  men,  it  would  break  up  the 
criminal gangs of  the country  and usher  in 
wild anarchy in a week.  Let a thief break 
his promise a few times, and  the  righteous 
indignation  of  his  confiding  chums  will 
break loose and fling  him  out  and  compel 
him to resort to the less  gentlemanly  meth 
od of swindling practiced by those who  are 
too cowardly too beat  strangers,  with  just 
enough  of  the  hyena  instinct  left  to  prey 
upon a class who are too  honest  to  deceive 
and too  financially  helpless  to  retaliate  or 
drive him to his natural  business—forgery.
Go into any gang of  laborers  and inquire 
carefully,  and  you  will  find  that  in  every 
company of one hundred,  as  they  average, 
the debt-ridden employer has swindled them 
every year out of  an  amount  sufficient  to 
keep the whole crowd  in  the necessaries of 
life.  Large capitalists  are,  as  a  rule,  the 
best paymasters, and the smaller  the  capi­
talist the more dangerous he is to the work­
ing class, because if in debt he is in so much 
haste to imitate his superiors that he cannot 
afford to wait until  he  can  pay  spot  cash. 
And  it  Is  this 
respectable  thief  with 
whom professional  thieves are ashamed  to 
associate, together  with  another class, dif­
fering from him only in  mental  caliber and 
both differing from  the  criminal  classes  in 
their total  lack  of  honor  which  prevents 
them from trusting each other and  organiz­
ing a regular system of  plunder,  who  gen­
erates the central nucleus of  debt.  Thus, 
between the upper and  nether  millstone of 
civilization  are  the  innocents  ground  to 
powder and a  greater  curse inflicted  upon 
the honest producing classes  than is  found 
in war, intemperance and crime. 
If legis­
lators would make it a capital crime  to  de­
fraud the  laboring  man,  Who  produces  all 
Wealth  and; depend^  upon  Ms  labor  for 
bread*  and  would  punish  with/ relentless 
vigor the most deadly and |i dangerous crimi-

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NO. 217.

nal according to the amount of his stealings, 
as they do the thief  who has  honor  among 
his  fellows,  it  would  go  a  great  ways 
toward abolishing debt 
It  would  cut  off 
the  main  artery  of  poisoned  blood  that 
ramifies  society with its destructive power. 
Again, I say, if there is no way to teach men 
this first letter  in the alphabet  of success— 
“Pay as you go” and “Thou  shalt not steal 
by any means”—our civilization will explode 
and leave a Western "Sahara  in  its  wake 
minus the collossal ruins of the East.

Charles  H.  Barlow.

How to Deal with  the  Bomb.

W ritten Especially fo r Th e  Tradesman.

There is something about the average An­
archist bomb which seems to inspire respect 
and  humility  and  overawes  its  audienee 
with a sense of  their utter lack of ability to 
cope with  its  300-pound-to-the-square-foot 
argument.  By  bomb,  I  don’t  mean  the 
cheap  hand-me-downs used in war, nor the 
red-nosed variety that always requires about 
a gallon of ten-year-old  red-eye  to start its 
internal  and  infernal  machinery,  bat the 
genuine,  first  chop,  red  flag, no quarter, 
gas-pipe-with-cap-and-fuse attachment spec­
imen,  which is set with a  double  back-ac­
tion,  repeating  time  lock,  which seems to 
turn up with an insinuating, who-the-devil- 
cares look on its phiz  (fizz) just  when  yon 
seem to least yearn for  its  consoling  pres­
ence.  This may  not  be  the  experience of 
everyone,  but the Czar of Russia and the of- 
hcials of Chicago are  almost  unanimous on 
the subject.

There has been a great  deal  written and 
said  derogatory  to  the  bomb family as a 
whole. 
I don’t think  this is  exactly right. 
Simply because one or two  bombs exhibit a 
tendency  to  tread  the  broad  road which 
leads to notoriety, marriage and the gallows, 
it is no sign that the whole race has become 
utterly degenerate. 
I believe in sticking up 
for the bottom dog—bomb, in other words— 
that is, if it’s at the bottom of the ocean.

The difficulty,  so far,  seems to be that the 
care and attention which  the  adult  bomb 
seems to hanker after and look upon as one 
of its inalienable rights is, to a great extent, 
withheld.  This is caused  partly,  perhaps, 
through ignorance of its  tender,  dependent 
organism, but principally, I imagine, through 
a reluctance to offend  its  pride by attempt­
ing to be familiar with it.

Partly because I have always  tried to be­
friend the down-trodden and oppressed, and 
partlp through a desire  to  enlighten an ig­
norant public,  I  have  carefully—very care­
fully—dissected  a  full-grown  male  bomb, 
which  was  placed  upon  my door-step by 
some cruel person and left  to  suffer  from 
the cold, to which it succumbed.  I analyzed 
the contents—about a  pound  of  dynamite 
and other harmless  ingredients—and  have 
prepared a treatise on the  subject  ($1, 
in 
cloth),  from  which  I extract a few of the 
more salient points:
First—Take  your  bomb—or more, if you 
have  them  handy—into a room  about 300 
feet  underground  (deeper,  if convenient). 
Have your room made of 12  inch  wrought 
steel,  with a wire  attachment  running  to 
your parlor, connected with a battery. 
j
Second—Send  your  family,  if you have 
any regard for them,  into the  country  and 
invite your mother-in-law, together with the 
mothers-in-law of any of your friends whom 
you wish to accommodate,  to  keep  houso 
for you in their absence.
Third—Having prepared all the minor de­
tails, make your  peace  with  Heaven  and 
send a current  of  electricity  to  commune 
with the bomb in its lonely confinement.  If 
there are any  landmarks  left,  and you are 
able to crawl, gather up the remains of your 
mother-in-law and see that they have decent 
burial.  Then,  after  a  few  weeks  (jave 
elapsed Ond you are  fully  convalescent and 
not liable to a relapse,  go down to the cham­
ber in which the bomb was placed. 
In case 
you do not find any portion of  the bomb or 
steel chamber to guide you, get out a search- 
want.  That will fetch it, if anything.
In some rare  instances,  portions  of the- 
gas-pipe are found intact,  and I would sug­
gest that you check  out  what  money  yon 
have in bank and mortgage  your  property.. 
Then call in your family  plumber and have- 
the pipe placed in the parlor  of  your  new 
house,  with a  burner  attached.  For  those 
disposed to be economical,  this,  suggestion 
is invaluable—no extra charge.
A friend of mine, a  merchant,  had a pet 
bomb which had taken a  severe  cold.  Be­
ing alarmed for its health, a physician  was; 
called,  who  immediately  decided  that the 
poor  bomb  had  the  membraneous  croup. 
Hot poultices,  etc., were  at  ouch  applied 
but without visible effect;  and,  as a  last re-  j 
sort, the doctor burned a  match  under  its 
nose,  in the vain hope that the fumes of the 
sulphur might clear out  its  throat. 
It had; 
the  desired  effect And  much  more.  The/ 
bomb got right  up  oh  its  hind  legs  and 
cleared out the  mueus  from its  throat, to­
gether  with  ¿the  store  and  two  or three 
neighboring buildings—the  result  of  mis-  : 
placed  confidence  and benevolence on  the 
part of the doctor. 

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER  16,1887.

T H E   TELEGRAPH  SITUATION.
H e  absorption of the Baltimore and Ohio 
Telegraph lines by the Western Union Com­
pany may have results which were  not  an­
ticipated by Its authors.  Everywhere men 
are asking  whether  one  great  corporation 
«ha.ll  be  given  the  power  to  determine  at 
what rate p a   under  what  conditions  this 
form of communication shall  be obtainable, 
it Is true that there  is no formal monopoly. 
Everybody  is  as  free to  set  up  telegraph 
tines as is  the  Western  Union  Company. 
There is now some sign of  a  new  indepen­
dent organization to contest the field.  But 
with each increase of  the already enormous 
aggregation of  the Western* Union’s capital 
and  plant,  effective  competition  becomes 
more and more nearly impossible.  The re­
moval of active competition signalled  a  re­
turn  to  the extortionate  rates,  maintained 
before the appearance of a rival;  but, if  the 
opposite had been the case, it  is  not  desir­
able that the business  community  and  the 
American people  should  be  dependent  in 
¿his  respect  upon  any  set  of  men.  And 
■when it is remembered what strong motives 
large speculators like Mr. Gould might have 
to tamper with the  telegraph  business,  no 
.record to the contrary and  no  legal  enact­
m ent of penalties can  giye  the  public  the 
¿security against this to which  it  is entitled.
For these reasons the new step in  consol­
idation of  the telegraphs  has  raised  ques 
■tions which the national  government  must 
.answer. 
Its  power  to  create  a  national 
-system of telegraphs as  an  adjunct  to  the 
post office will be questioned by few.  And 
¿he pressure upon it  to  exercise that power 
will grow stronger  with every year.  Sena­
tor Cullom, indeed, favors immediate action. 
He intends to introduce a bill to  that  effect 
at the next  session  of  Congress.  Such 
measure  would  give  the  Western  Union 
its choice either to  dispose  of  its  lines  at 
their appraised value,  or to stand the brunt 
of national competition.  Nobody, we  pre 
sume, would propose to force Mr. Gould and 
his associates to sell, by  making telegraphy 
a  government  monopoly,  as  it  is  in  Eng­
land.  That  would  involve  a similar  treat 
ment of the telephone system, which is also 
monopolized by the British post office.

AMONG TH E TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Martha Brooks, grocer at 133 South Divis 

ion street, is dead.

Ball &  Ihler, grocers  near  Tustin,  have 
added a line of boots  and  shoes.  Rindge, 
Bertsch & Co. furnished  the stock.

Edwin Whalen has  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery business on Ellsworth avenue.  Bulk- 
ley, Lemon & Hoops furnished the stock.

Geo. A. Roys,  formerly  engaged  in the 
grocery business at Cedar Springs, has pur­
chased the confectionery stock of Roberts & 
rf Reynolds, at 43 West Leonard street.

N. Wallace Boynton has  sold his interest 
in the  agricultural  implement  business  of 
Boynton & Hanes, at 71 Ellsworth  avenue, 
to a Mr.  Higbee.  The  new  firm  will  be 
known as Hanes & Higbee.

JL Rademaker & Sons  turned  out  1,400
gross of base ball bats last season, and  pro- 
yose  turning  out  1,800  gross  the  coming 
season.  They will  increase their output of 
Tnriifl.n  clubs from  2,000 to  2,500 pairs and 
nmkfl  about  as  many  croquet sets  as  last 
season—10,000 sets.

Amos  S.  Musselman  &  Co.  obtained 
judgment  in the  Kent  Circuit  Court  last 
week against H. B. Hawley & Son, of West- 
wood, for #1,028.  Hawley & So n then sold 
their general stock to a  clerk  in  their  em­
ploy  and  deeded  their  real  estate  to  the 
Bank ot Mancelona.

An error occurred in the list  of  creditors 
in the Eaton & Christenson assignment mat­
ter,  as  given  last  week.  The  American 
Cigar Co., of Coldwater,  is a creditor  to the 
amount of #15,425.85—#8,000  of  which 
for money loaned—and  Schubmehl, Pratt 
Co., of Binghamton, are creditors to the ex­
tent of #1,782.  There are no new develop­
ments in the failure.  Little business is be­
ing done  by  tiie  assignee  except  to  push 
collections. 

_ _ _ _ _

ABOUND  THE  STATE.

Ixjwell—M.  Hunsberger, 

confectioner, 

has sold eat.

Detroit—Alfred  Green  succeeds Green 

3ewaQ, flour dealers.

Ionia—Bradlee  &  Campbell, 

furniture 

dealers, have assigned.

Sturgis—E. S. Barnes has sold  his furni­

ture stock to C. Haner. 

s

Cohoctah—C,  H. Miner succeeds Walker 

A Miner in genemi trade,  i

Jackson^-sp. J. Sullivan  succeeds  E. 
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Evans in the meat business.  k
11  BlissfialirrS.  H.'- ?ease  succeeds. R. D,

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Cheboygan—C. Low  Fastier’s drug store 
has been dosed on an attachment  issued a* 
the instance of J . L. Harquell, editor of the 
Messenger, who ‘claims  #5,000 damages on 
suit for slander., - 
\
Mecosta—Fetor Doran,  tire Grand Rapids 
attorney, was in  town  last  Thursday  and 
attached 3,000,000 shingles  belonging to M. 
Carmon at the Instance  of  Wetzell  &  Co., 
of Grand Rapids.

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Mindan 
MaLloyin

0ISN & O . Theyer  succeed Wm;

Portland—P. N.* Ubore  succeeds  i*.  h . 

Shanetin tito grocery business.  *

Mtanchester — John  Kensler  :  succeeds 

Kensler Bros, in general trade.

Sand  Lake—J.  S.  . Barker  has  sold  his 

hardware stock to A. L. Sheets.

Detroit—Samuel  Moyer  succeeds  D.-  C. 

Nichols in the grocery business.

Hastings—J. J. Downs  succeeds  Downs 
Babcock in the meat; business.
Sturgis—Roof & Hayes  succeed  S.  Holi­

day in the boot and sh^e business.

Olivet—Chas.  H. Hehry succeeds  Kay 

Milboum in the harness business.

&

Luther—Kingsley &  Gardner  succeed J.
. Berner in the bakery business.
Evart—Allen  Campbell  succeeds  Frank 
,. True in the jewelry .business.
Muskegon—Bettie E.  Truesdell succeeds 
A. Truesdell in general trade.
Reed City—Geo. C. Messinger, grocer, has 

been closed under chattel mortgage.

Ravenna—Miss  Jennie  Ball,  of  Grand 

Haven, has opened a millinery store. 

Wexford—Cook  &  Leanington  succeed 
Leanington in the grocery business. 
Richland — E.  C,  Spaulding  succeeds 

Woodard & Spaulding in general trade.

Leroy—S. Lamport  has removed his har­

ness stock to this place  from Leonidas.

Mecosta—R. S.  Wolford  is  arranging  to 

add a line of groceries to his drug stock. 

Battle Creek—O.  M.  Rockwell  succeeds 
S. Stouffer & Co. in the grocery business. 
Jackson—C. Long &  Co. succeed Cather­
ine Long in the wholesale  paper  business.
Battle Creek—D.  P.  Simmons  succeeds 
Simmons & Young in the grocery  business.
North Muskegon—B. F. Reed has assign 
ed his meat market to  Mrs. Margaret Reed.
Eaton Rapids—Sterling &  Crawford  suc­
ceed Jas. Sterling  in the  grocery  business.
Manistique—Thompson  &  Putnam  suc­
the  drug busi­

ceeds F. H.  Thompson  in 
ness.

Ionia—F.  Cutler  &  Son  succeed  Fred. 
Cutler & Miller in the boot  and  shoe  busi­
ness.

Vermontville—M.  J.  Cunningham  has 
sold his store and grocery stock  to  Lake & 
Hams.

Owosso—J. J.VanVechten &  Co., late of 
Flushing,  have  put  in  a dry goods stock 
here.

North  Muskegon—Nicholas  Ryan  will 
open a meat market in  S.  A.  Howey’s new 
store.

Rockford— C. W.  Skellinger has sold his 
hardware stock to E. L. Selleck,  of  Grand 
Rapids.

Traverse City—Douglas,  Zimmerman  & 
Co.,  agricultural  implement  dealers,  are 
closing out.

Woodland—J. W. Holmes,  formerly en­
gaged in business  a t Remus,  has opened a 
grocery store here.

North Muskegon—L  Dyke & Co., late of 
Grand Haven, have built a large  warehouse 
for the handling of flour,  hay and feed.

Plainwell—E. Putnam is  closing  out his 
grocery stock,  on account of ill  health, and 
contemplates moving to  Washington Terri­
tory.

Hemlock City—T.  W.  Newrick, general 
dealer,  and  Thos.  McGrath,  grocer, have 
consolidated under the style  of  Newrick  & 
McGrath.

Hastings—A. R. McOmber  has  sold his 
jewelry  stock  to  Smith  Holmes, 
late  of 
Woodland.  Mr.  McOmber says he is going 
to Washington Territory.

Plainwell—R.  Monteith has sold his har­
ness stock to  Monteith & Lambertson,  har­
ness dealers at Gobleville,  who have consol 
idated the stock with their own.

Freeport—S. R. Hunt  has sold his build 
ing and his share  in  the  furniture  firm  of 
Hunt &  Fogelsong  to  his  partner, J.  W. 
Foglesong,  who will continue  the business. 
Mr. Hunt will engage in other business.

SaultSte Marie—Chas. B. Hirschfield has 
retired from the clothing firm  of  Lewis  L, 
Metzger &Co.  The business  will  be  eon 
tinued by Lewis L. Metzger under  his own 
name.  Mr.  Hirschfield  will  re-engage in 
the  clothing business here about January 1

STRAY  FACTS.

Fennville—John Kolvoord has leased  the 

flouring mill for five years.

Eaton  Rapids—Geo.  Semon,  restaurant, 

has been closed by creditors.

Detroit—A. W.  Bagg  succeeds  Bagg  & 

Cole in the laundry business.

Wexford—H.  B.  Rogers  succeeds  Mrs. 

M. Cole in the hotel business.

Wexford—E  Blackhurst  succeeds  Geo. 

Cook in the blacksmith business.

Detroit—The capital  stock of  the  Stand­
ard Life and Accident  Co.  has been  raised 
from #110,000 to $200,000.

Vassar—McHose & Tolbert, lumber  deal­
ers and  millers,  have  been  burned  out. 
Partly insured.

Hanover—The  hardware  store  of C.  L. 
Sprague has  been  closed  on  attachment. 
Sprague has given a bill of sale of the stock 
to his wife.

Sturgis—The  business  men have organ­
ized an electric light  company for  the pur­
pose of famishing  light  and power on the 
Edison systom.

Sault Ste Marie—Amour & Co.  have  be­
gun the erection of a $8,000 brick refrigera 
tor.  They ran refrigerator cars to this place 
every Monday and Thursday.

North Muskegon—Robert  Anderson  and 
Jack Rouse  are  building  two  new  stores, 
22x80  feet  in  dimensions  and  two 

stories, which will be for rent

Plainwell—A.  H. Dodge has not engaged 
in  th e, grocery  business,  as  erroneously 
■stated a couple of weeks ago, $0$ eopt&ue0 
(he furniture and undertaking  business

Northville—Elias  S.  Woodman,  assignee 
of Harvey D.  Bailey, the grocer, has begun 
suit in  the  circuit  court  to  void" a  $1,500 
chattel  mortgage  made  by  Bailey  to  his 
brother, Charles F. Bailey. 

ishpeming—H.  O.  Young,  assignee  for 
D. F. Wadsworth  &  Co.,  the banking firm 
which failed on January 4,  1884, Trill pay  a 
final dividend of  6  per  cent  on the 15th. 
The creditors received  a  dividend of 10 per 
cent, about a year ago.

.

Ithaca—A case lately came up in the Cir­
cuit Court in which Andrew Gibbs recovered 
the valuation of a bam lost by fire, together 
with costs of  suit,  from  F.  E.  Jennings, 
from  whose  planing  mill  it  was  alleged 
sparks  had  flown  which  started  the fire. 
The  ground  for  recovering  damages  was 
that defendant was  guilty  of  carelessness 
in neglecting to use a spark  arrester.  This 
is an interesting result,  which is suggestive 
to all owners of saw  and  planing  mills,  or 
other woodworking establishments.
MANUFACTURING  HATTERS.

May—A. J. Bryant’s  saw  and  grist mill 

was Recently burned.

Sault Ste Marie—A  pulp  mill  is  among 

the possibilities of the future.

Cheboygan—The Cheboygan Lumber Co. 

will invest $3,400 in a slab burner. 

.

Killmaster—There is talk of erecting a 50- 

barrel roller process flour mill here.

Lowell—M. Hunsberger  has  engaged  in 

the manufacture of patent kindling.

North Muskegon—Linderman & Gray con­
template the  transfer  of  their box .factory 
from  Whitehall to  this  place.  They  will 
occupy the old French mill site.

Saranac—O. J.  Bretz & Co. are fitting up 
their furniture repair  shop  with machinery 
for the purpose of engaging in the manufac­
ture of furniture and broom handles.

Oscoda—The  Oscoda  Salt & Lumber Co, 
is building a  steam  lifter  for  loading tele 
graph poles on boats. 
It will be placed on 
a lighter and will lift  the^oles  out of  the 
water to the deck of the vessel which  is be­
ing  loaded.

East  Saginaw—John  G.  Owen  will  not 
rebulid his saw mill and salt block,  and will 
dispose of his planing  mill  at  the first op 
portunity.  He  is  negotiating for a circular 
mill at Chase, and if  the  trade is made will 
remove  it  to  Huron  connty,  where  he  is 
operating two camps.

Cadillac—The  Cummer  Lumber  Co.  is 
equipping its mill with  shingle  machinery, 
which, when  completed,  will  enable  it  to 
utilize for shingle purposes large  quantities 
of material which have heretofore gone into 
the  burner and slab pile. 
It is quite likely 
that the mill of W. W.  Cummer  will put.in 
similar machinery at an early date. £ 

Petoskey—Wm.  Spokes  has sold interest 
the  wood  pulp  factory  of  Birkett  & 
in 
Spokes to his partner, who will continue the 
business under the style  of  Thos.  Birkett, 
The factory will  continue  under  the  man­
agement of Wm. Birkett, late of the firm of 
Birkett,  Cowan  &  Co.,  at  Coral.  He  ex­
pects to  buy about 500 cords  of  spruce and 
poplar this season.

(Cadillac—The Cummer Lumber  Co.  has 
purchased 150,000,000 feet of  southern pine 
Stumpage, located  thirty  miles  from  New 
Orleans, La., and  handy  to  transportation 
facilities.  Negotiations are also under way 
for 500,000,000 feet  more.  The  Michigan 
gentlemen propose to go into  lumber manu­
facture in the south in  accordance with the 
approved  methods  peculiar  to  the  North­
west.

Cheboygan—The old water mill  of W.  & 
AJ McArthur will be thoroughly overhauled 
lins winter and supplied  with  modern  ma 
chinery.  The mill  has  now two circulars, 
two gangs  and  lath  machinery, 
together 
with the  necessary  cut-off  saws,  etc., and 
cuts  from  12,000,000  to  15,000,000  feet, 
With the same amount  of  modem machin­
ery it will cut  30,000,000  with scarcely any 
more men than it now takes.

Banks and Bankers.

Cooper & Crane, bankers at Gaylord, have 
Mr. Crane takes the

dissolved partnership, 
entire business.

The Nevada,  Cal.,  Bank has a  capital  of 
$3,000,000, with $17,000,000  of  assets and 
only five stockholders,

H. B. Waldby & Go. have sold their bank 
ing  business,  at  Alma,  to A. S. Turck 
Co., who have  consolidated  the  newly ac­
quired business with their own  bank.  Mr. 
Waldby returns to Adrian,  to  take  charge 
of t^ypdterest of his  father,  recently  de­
ceased, 
Clay.

in  the  banking  firm ofWaldy 

The Comptroller of  the  Currency is hav­
ing prepared a thorough  history and analy­
sis of the failures of National  banks  since 
the establishment of the system.  The pur­
pose is (o-collect all  information  furnished 
by the official record as to the circumstances 
and  causes  of  these  failures, and to draw 
froto the facts established such information 
as may.|)e of practical value.

Thte new  Oceana County  Savings Bank 
officéred as follows:  President, C. T. Hills 
Vice-President, A. L. Carr;  Cashier, E.  D 
Richmond;  Directors, the ¿hove gentlemen, 
together - 
A.  A.  Dunton,  Jr.,  Geo, 
Rhodes, John R. Butler and D. J. Mathews, 
of Hart, And C. H. Hackley, JU N. Keating 
■and N. MoGraft,  of Muskegon.  TbC Bank

1  '■'  ,' 
Purdy Personal.  ^

;—

Edward Telfer,- President  of  tire  Telfer4 
Spice Co., intervlervted (he Hastings grocers' 
Holiday. •  ' '7 J jg ||& |  ji§  “y 

i   ’

Frank  Inglis,  th®  Detroit druggist and 
pharmaceutical  manufacturer, was in totni 
last Thursday.

Jas. E. Granger  is  tarrying  for  a  few 
days at Kansas City.  His  objective  point 
is Los Angeles.

Dave Holmes, the  Woodville  cyclone,  is 
using a  new  kind  of  nursing  bottle  this 
week.  For  further  particulars,  ask  Fair- 
child.

C. N.  Rapp, who  has been buying apples 
in Wyoming county,  N. Y.,  since  Septem 
ber, is expected home the latter part  of  the 
week. 

L M. Clark and wife  have  gone to Oak­
land,  Gal., to spend the  winter.  Fred says 
it will be his turn to go to the  Pacific Coast 
next year.

B. Tripp, the Carson City  grocer,  passed 
through the city Saturday on his way to his 
old home at Bangor.  He reports the Asso­
ciation in his town as flourishing.

,

Chas.  H. McConnell has resigned  his po­
sition as bookkeeper for  Bnlkley, Lemon & 
Hoops, on  account  of  ill  health,  and  will 
leave for Newton, Kan.,  as  soon  as  he  is 
able to travel.

C. E. Brewster, the  Lake  Brewster  cant 
hook manufacturer, was in town last Thurs­
day on his way to Milwaukee.  He had just 
returned from tHe East, where he purchased 
sufficient machinery  to  double the capacity 
of his factory.

Chas. B.  Hirschfield has retired  from the 
clothing business at  Sault  Ste.  Marie  and 
returned to this city.  He will  re-engage in 
the  clothing  and  gents’  furnishing  goods 
business at the Sault as soon as  a  partner­
ship connection can be arranged.

Sidney F.  Stevens and wife left  Saturday 
for a three weeks’ visit to the seaboard cities, 
They will stop at  Wheeling  and  Pittsburg
sb heir way East, putting in most of  their 
time at Philadelphia and  New York.  Mr, 
Stevens has clung to his desk as  closely  as 
burr to a chestnut and  richly deserves the 

vacation he is now  enjoying.

Among the Clerks.

H. E. Botsford has entered the employ of 
W.  D. Ballou, the West Fulton street drug­
gist.

B. F. Schrouder  has  returned from Ban­
gor,  where he has  been  clerking for H.  D 
Harvey during the summer.

E. R.  Hubbard has  resigned  his position 
in the dry goods store of  F.-  J.  Wurzburg 
and engaged in the boot and  shoe  business 
at Sparta.

Geo. J.  Stephenson,  who  conducts a drug 
store at Mackinaw  Island  during the sum­
mer  months  for H. A. N. Todd,  of St.  Ig- 
nace, has returned to Bangor  and  resumed 
his position witibIL IX. Harvey. -  -

'Tjrripsack Brigade.

J.  Crinns, representing the  Detroit  Chic 
ory Manufacturing Co., is in town for a few 
days.

Harry C. Wilkins, representing P. Pohal 
ski & Co., proprietors of the  Monte  Cristo 
cigar factory, of New  York,  was  in  town 
last week.

Mr. Brown, who  contemplated  engaging 
in the  wholesale  boot  and  shoe  buslsness 
here, has abandoned the  idea  and  gone  on 
the road for A. C. McGraw & Co.

Trade Topics,

The history of trade shows that failure is 

the rule and winning the exception.

A Battle Creek  grocer  has  sold  out and 

engaged in the undertaking business 

Copper had  advanced 40 per cent,  and tin 
20 per cent,  in  a  few  weeks, and both are 
rising rapidly this week,  under  speculative 
influences.
Eight of the leading paper bag  manufac 
turers have  organized  a  company,  with 
capital of  $2,000,000 to maintain  prices  on 
their product 

A call has been  issued  for  a  meeting of 
the shoe manufacturers  of  the  country, to 
be held at New York  on  November 14,  for 
the purpose of organizing a National  Asso 
dation to serve as  a  protection against the 
encroachments of organized labor.

Everywhere  the  lumber  shippers  are 
kicking about thé  Scarcity of cars.  Thous 
ands of cars  have  been  added  to  railway 
equipment during the  year,  but the famine 
has not  abated  and  business is hampered 
With a dull cargo  market  at  all ports,  the 
little crumbs  of  trade  that  dealers  could 
pick up in the car  trade  are  often  swept 
away owing to lack of transportation facili 
ties. 
In  the  Saginaw  Valley  2,500  more 
cars could be used to-day than the railroads 
can supply, and at Buffalo,  Tonawanda and 
other places  the  lack  of  cars is a painful 
reality. 

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'  ' ' 

He Had a Smart Wife 

First Person—I got the worst of it to-day, 
Second ditto—So?
I  went home last  night and 
First—Yes. 
that duck of a wife said to me,  “Dearie, the 
hats this fall are much lower.”  I was over­
come with.joy, ond told her to  go  and  get 
one or two if she liked, because  you  know 
bow uncertain the market is.

Second ditto—Well?
First—Well,  she did;  got two.  To-day 
paid the biU.  Holy  Joseph!  but  it was 
stunner,  More than I  ever paid before.  So 
I spoke to my wife about it, and  her  reply 
was that she meant the  style  was  lower 
not the price.  See?  That  wife  of  mine 
ought to be a lawyer or an editor  or  some­
thing where her genius could  spread itself,

Me  Proved  His  Love.

Irate Father—You remember  you wanted 

to marry that bookkeeper  of  mine  about 
year ago?

Daughter—Yes, father.
“A pretty  sort  of  man  you.  picked  out. 
He hfts decamped with  my whole  fortune.” 
“You  remember,  father,  that  you  told} 
him he coaid not haye me until he got  rich, 
«
don’t you.” 
“Of course, the young—”  j 
*T have just  received  a  -dispatch  from 
him at Montreal saying  he is rich now, but 
i   poor  man’s
is perfectly will tog 
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and fixtures, that will invoice about $600.  Ad­

M ISCELLANEOUS..

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216-3t

r o a l   o a f a t o  

*  W i l l   t r o r l o   f n r *  

octant a word  or two it ota» word  f >r throe laser 
tíSSsfí No wvenftjement *a*4n fö&less than 85 cents, 
▲arance payment. 
A&Vertisèmènts.-ffirectingr'tgat  anewera be Bent'fit 
care oí this office m ust  b t, accom panied by 25 
cents extra, to cover expense of postase.1
TTIOR 8 ALE—Abargafrifor a live man. Good 
JO 
location.  Nice  piece  of  property.  No 
other store within six miles.  Reasons for sell­
ing, long sickness  and  death  of my wife, and 
poor  health.  Clean  stock,  goods.  Can  run 
stock downlow  in  a  short  time, if yon wish. 
Address,  W.  Gr.  Barnes,  Lodi,  Kalkaska Co», 
Mich. 
IOR SALE—On  the  new  Railroad, stock of 
general merchandise, store and  barn,  on 
one-half acre corner lot. Will sell at a bargain. 
Best location ip town.  If you mean business, 
call on  or  address  C. L. Howard, Clarksville, 
Ionia Co., Mich. 
TTIOR  SALE—New  clean  stock  of  millinery 
JP  and fancy goods.  One of the  best  open­
ings in the country.  Have the  leading  trade. 
Good reasons given for  selling.  Address L.& 
Co.. Box 327, Saranac, Mich,  j) 
TÏ10R SALE—Stock of general  merchandise.
i n   S n n t h A p t i
Address  Box  X,  care Tradesman 
Michigan, 
office,
22Ü*
XpOR SALE—Or exchange, fpr  hard  or  soft 
^ - 
lumber, posts,  shingles dr  lath, a planer 
and matcher in perfect order.  W ill plane two 
Bides  twenty-four  inches  wide.  J.  B.  Del- 
bridge, 493 Trumbull Ave., Detroit. 
219*
" 7IOR SALE—Or exchange.  A small stock of 
J? 
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, 
2ti*
' JIOR 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*
offer  for sale a stock of drugs, medicines 
dress W. R, Mandigo, Sherwood, Mich. 
217*
“DIOR  SALE—General  stock  of  goods.  Will 
X? 
rent  or  sell  building.  Good  reason  for 

FOR SALE—Owing to death of proprietor, I 
selling.  Address  J. C. Stitt, Dollarville, Mich.221*
IOR SALE—At a bargain.  A clean stock of 
F
hardware  and  mill  supplies.  Address 
Wayne Choate, Agent, East Saginaw. 
210tf
FOR  SALE—Or  exchange, platform  spring 
peddling wagons,  suitable for, wholesale 
or retail trade.  Address  Wellitfg «  Carhartt, 
208tf
139 Jefferson avenue, Detroit, Mich. 
FOR SALE—The best drugstore in the thriv­
ing city of Muskegon.  Terms easy.  C. L. 
Brundage, Muskegon. Mich. 
193tf
ANTED—Situation by a registered  phar- 
VV  macist,  five  years’  experience.  First-
Address,  S.  F. B.,  care 
class  references. 
219*
Tradesman.
K ANTED — Agents 
to  handle  the  new 
Chemical Ink Erasing Pencil.  Greatest 
novelty  ever  produced.  Erases  ink  in  two 
seconds, no abrasion of paper.  200  to  500 per 
cent,  profit.  One  agent’s  sales  amounted to 
5620 in six days;  another $32  in  two  hours. 
Territory absolutely free. Salary to good men. 
No ladies need answer.  Sample 
cents.  For 
terms and full particulars, address The Manu­
facturers, J, W. Skinner & Co., Onalaska, Wis.

221*

dress F. H, Lester, Mendon, Mich.

WANTED—Grocery stock m exchange for a 
WANTED—A gents to handle the new chem­

small farm in  St.  Joseph  county.  Ad-
218*

ical  Ink Erasing Pencil.  Greatest nov­
elty ever produced.  Erases ink ifi two seconds, 
no abrasion of paper. 200 to 500 per cent profit. 
One agent’s sales amounted to $620 in six days; 
another $32 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*
'1X7'ANTED—Situation by registered pharma- 
cist  of  four  years’  experience.  First-
y V 
Address  P. Tradesman of- 
class references, 
217*
flee.
WANTED—To exchange  farm worth $2,500 
for a stock  of goods.  Address Box  23,
WANTED—A  man  baying  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.___________ l78tf

Tradesman office.

208*tf

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anything^ MU ¡1  exchange, or who wish ¡to 
bujriroy eecxind-hand^pd^es,  should come 
early aind make their  wishes  known to the 
Secretary..  The question-of  employing an 
agent to attend to collections will be brought 
up, as  will also the report of a speciaLcom- 
mittee on the advisability  of  establishing  a 
trade  display  In connection  with the As­
sociation.  An  annual  banquet will also be 
among the  subjects  introduced  for discus­
sion.  . 
As the amount of work to be accomplish­
ed is considerable,  it  is  to  be hoped that 
every member will be on  hand promptly  at 
7:30 o’clock. 

E. A, Stowe, Sec’£.

'.

“Works Like a Charm.”

Coopersville,  N ov.  10,1887,

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids:

D e a r   Sir —I write to assure you that our 
Association is doing nicely,  and  that  the 
collection  department  worlts like a  charm,.
The following officers  were elected at the 
last meeting:
President—G. W.  Watrous.
Secretary—J. B.  Watson.
Treasurer—E. N. Parker.
Executive  Committee —  Above  officers 
with R. D. McNaughton and C. E.Blakeley.
Business Committee—E. J. McNaughton, 
E. M. Reed, J. H. Hermance,  Coopersville; 
Del.  Parkhurst,  Nunica;  Jos.  Raymond, 
Berlin;  Elihu Wallirg, Lamont.
A tonr last meeting, we unanimously vot­
ed to re-affiliate with the  State  body and I 
herewith enclose charter fee and per  capita 
dues. 

Yours truly,

J. B.  W a tso n,  Sec’y.

Hudson  Moving in the Matter of Organiz­

ation.
H udson,  N ov.  9,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

D e a r  Sir —Matter pertaining to B. M. A. 
has reached me, and I will use it this  week 
in the Gazette in awakening an  interest  in 
the project.  I have talked with some of our 
leading  citizens  and  all  seem to favor an 
auxiliary association in  Hudson.  We  will 
have a meeting called at an early day, prob­
ably,  to consummate matters.

Yours, very respectfully,

J a m es Sc h erm erh o rn.

can double  the
cehring by joining hands in  a  State organi­
zation, they will stifter no delay  in takinga 
step they will never have occasion to regret.
They will find that the formation of a 3tate 
body will  be  a  wonderful stimulus to local 
organization and give the work  an  impetus 
which will last until every city and  town in 
the  State  has  a  full-fledged  association.
T h e   T r a d e sm a n  conveys  its  sincerest 
greetings to the friends  of  organization  in 
NewJerseyj  assuring  them  that  the  105 
associations of  Michigan will  ever  be  in 
readiness to  co-operate  with  them  in  any 
movement which  has  for  its object the im­
provement of  business  men  and  business 
methods.

Local  secretaries  should  remember  that 
the State Secretory,  by means of  a  recipro­
cal arrangement with the  Secretary  of  the 
Pennsylvania  State  Association, 
stands 
ready to undertake to secure a  report of the 
standing of any person  soliciting  credit  at 
the hands of  any  auxiliary  member  who 
formerly resided in the Keystone  State. 
It 
is expected that a similar exchange of cour­
tesies can  be • arranged  for  with the New 
York Association and the soon-to-be-organ­
ized New Jersey Association.

There are men in  every  community  who 
are entitled  neither  to  credence  or  credit.
Against this class the Association wages an 
unrelenting warfare.  There  are,  as  well, 
those whose unjust claims,  subterfuges and 
expedients to evade the  meeting  of  honest 
obligations,  constitute 
them  undesirable 
customers.  Against these the Association 
warns its members, in  order that the costly 
experience: obtained  by  one  member  may 
become immediately available and beneficial 
to all the other  members.

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Full  line  of Notions for the Holiday Trade, to 

which the inspection of dealers is 

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A  beautifuiii.v -decorated  Metal  Box,  with 
baonze  iaftel  puU,  GIVEN  FREE  with  every 
dozen boxes of
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Specially Designed for 8 Herbarium*
Suitable  w hen  em pty fo r  preserving, under  proper 
label,  herbs,  roots,  s  eds, .spices*  papers,  etc.,  etc.
ttry . lstorekeeper as welA  as .housekeeper, will find it 
well adapted in  size, m aterial and finish fo r m any use 
fu l purposes. 
COLGAN’S TAFFY  TOLU is th e original trade-mark- 
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K L 2 2 S 5 S   com“ ercia.1,  metropolis  of  the  Upper  Peninsula.  With  a  magnificent 
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T H I S  

Cadillac News. 11th:  The Cadillac  Busi­
ness Men’s Association held  quite a profita­
ble meeting last evening.  There was a very 
creditable  attendance  and  the  members 
present entered into a very spirited talk rela­
tive to the  most desirable acquisitions to  be | connected by the 
made to our city.  A special committee was 
appointed to  take  the  place of the standing 
Business Committee, whose appointment  is 
deferred until the Association  begins  work 
under its new charter.  This committee has 
some  active  work  in  hand  that  seems  to 
promise  good  results  to  this  community.
The  special  committee  appointed  some 
weeks since  on  a  business  men’s  banquet 
will probably report in favor of holding some
pleasant festivities  during  the coming holi-  West’  and a wholesale point of great importance,

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P O I N T

S00  LINE

Notice of the Restoration ol Certain Lands 

to the Public Domain.

I, J  _ ___ _1  _e   J 1  _  Til . 

By Instructions from the  Honorable  Secre­
tary of the Interior under date of  August 
188?, and by direction of the  Honorable  Com 
missioner of the  General  Land  Office  of the 
,  L I
date of August 27,1887, notice is  hereby given
t h u f  
-in d n r v , 
indemnity withdrawal  of  the F lin ts
<1
; I ?®re^arquette J*ai,lro.ad  Company hasbeen

revoked.  That all the lands in the  Reed  City 
Land District within said  indemnity limits of 
the grant of said Flint & Here  Marquette Rail­
road Company—except such lands as may he coo- 
eredby approved selection«—are thereby restored 
to the public domain, and open  to  settlement 
under the general land laws.
That on the 1st day  of December, A. D. 1887, 
at 2 o’clock p. m., said lands will be open to fil 
ing and entry.

U .  S. L a n d  O f f i c e ,

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

N a t h a n i e l   C l a r k ,

„   „   „  
E.N. F i t c h , 

Receiver.

H R H   m
Mlrblgan Business Mon’s Association.

f t lA H lt t i lt o , Tra verta City.

:

first Vtee-Preatdenfc—Paul r. Morgan, Munroe.
Second Vlce-Pre«ident—S. Lamfrom, Owosso. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—L. W»' Sprague. Greenville.
Executive Board—President, Secretary, Geo. W.ílfulí; 
tard, mint; TV. E. Kelsey, Ionia; Irving F. Clapp, Al­
legan.  '• 
Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverge 
City; Chas. T. Bridgman,  Çlint;  H.  B.  Fargo, Muske-
Commmitte  on législation—Frank Wells. Lansing; W. 
E. Kelsey, Ionia; Neal McMillan, Rockford. 
Committee  on  Transportation—J.  W.  MiUilcen;  Trav­
erse City;Ino. P. Stanley, Battle Creek;  Wm. Rebec, 
East Sagina w.
Committee on  Insurance—N. B.  Blain,  Lowell;  E.  Y.
■ ‘  Hogle, H astings; O. M. Clem ent, Cheboygan.
Committee en Building  and  Loan Associations—F. L. 
Fuller,  Frankfort ;  S. E. Parkill,  Owosso;  Will  Em- 
mert, Eaton Rapids.

Official Organ—Th e  Mic h ig a n Tradesm an.

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

N o.  1—T raverse C ity  B .M . A . 
President, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts.

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

No. 2—Lowell ft. M. A, 
N o. 3 —S tu rg is  B . M. A . 

President. H. 6. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jom.
N o. 4 —G rand  R a p id s B . M . A . 
President. Jas. A. Coy»; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
President, H. B. Fargo; Secretary, W. C. Conner.

N o . &—M u sk eg o n  B ,  M . A . 

No. 6—A Iba K. M. A. 

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

N o. 7—R im o n d a le  B . M . A . 

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

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

N o . 8—B a stp o r t B . M . A .

N o. 9 —L a w r e n c e  B . M . A . 

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

**o. 10—H a rb o r S p rin g s B . M . A . 

President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.

N o. 11—K in g sle y  B . M . A . 
N o.  1 3 —-Q u in cy  B . 91. A . 
N o,  13—S h er m a n  B . M . A . 

President, H. P. Whipple; Secretary, C. H.  Camp.
President, 0. McKay; Secretary, C. W. Bennett.
Resident, H. B. St arto van t; Secretary, W.  G. Shane.
N o.  1 4 —S o . M u sk eg o n  B . M . A . 
President, S. A. Howey ; Secretary, G. C. Havens.
President, B. R. Perkins ; Secretary, J. F. Fairchild.

N o. 1 5 - B o y n e  C ity  B . M . A . 
N o. 16—S an d L a k e  B . M. A . 

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

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 osso B . M . A . 
Resident, W. A, Woodard; Secretary, 8. Lamfrom.

N o.  1 9 —A d a   B . M . A . 

President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.

N o. 3 0 —S a u g a tu c k   B. M . A . 
N o. 3 1 —W ay la n d  B . M . A . 

President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.

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

N o. 3 3 —G rand  l e d g e  B . M . A . 
N o. 3 3 —C arson C ity  B .  M. A . 

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

President, J. E. Thurkow;  Secretary, W. H. Richmond.

N o. 3 4 —M orley  B.  M . A .

N o. * 5 —P a lo   B   M . A . 

President, Ira S. Jeffers; Secretary, H. D. Pew.
N o. 3 6 —G r e e n v ille   K. M . A . 

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

N o. 3 8 —C h eb oygan  B . M . A  
President, J. H. Tattle;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.

President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough

N o. 3 9 —F r e e p o r t B . Ml.  A.
No. 30—Oceana B. M. A.

Resident, A.G. Avery;  Secretary, E. S. Houghtaling.
President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury.

N o . 3 1 —C h a rlo tte B . M . A . 

President, 6. W. Watrous;  Secretary, J. B. Watson.

N o. 3 3 —C o o p e r sv ille   B . M . A . 
N o.  33—C h a r le v o ix   B. M. A . 
No. 34— -aran ac B. M. A. 

President, John Nicholls;  Secretary, R. W. Kane.
President, Geo. A. Potts;  Secretary, P. T. Williams.

Official Circular, No. 2.

The following  circular  has been sent by 
the State Secretary to all associations which 
have not yet affiliated  with  the State body
We note with regret  that  you  have  not 
yet-  availed  yourself  of  the invitation ex­
tended you through  Official Circular No. 
issued  on  September  15,  1887, to secure 
charter from, and auxiliary membership in 
the Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association 
Allow us to suggest that it is  just as essen 
tial that the associations should be united, to 
secure the greatest good to all concerned, as 
it is that the business men of a town should 
be  united  in  an  association.  There  are 
many subjects—notably those of legislation 
and transportation—which  can  be more ef­
ficiently  handled  by  a  State  than a local 
body, and thé work accomplished in the de­
linquent department,  in supplementing  the 
efforts of the local associations, is sufficient 
to commend the State body  to  every  local 
organization in Michigan.
Please  remember  that  your  connection 
with the M. B.  M.  A. ceased on  September 
80,  1887, and that to secure  the  benefits of 
re-affiliation from Oct.  1,  1887,  to  Oct.  1. 
1888, it will be  necessary  to remit $3 for 
charter (conferring full  corporate  powers) 
and per capita dues of 25  cents for as many 
names as you  have  on  your  membership 
book.
Hoping that you  will  give  this  subject 
early and favorable consideration,  we are 
E. A. Stowe, Sec’y.

Yburs truly,
* 
F r a n k  H a m ilto n, Pres.

The New Jersey Associations Contemplat 

ing State Organ zation.
Newark, N. J.,  Nov. 4,  1887.

B. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Hear Sir—I would  feel  greatly  obliged 
if at your early, convenience  you  will  fur­
nish me With  some  particulars  relative  to 
the question of State Association.  I apply to 
you from the reason  that I have been  given 
to understand  that  you  have been  largely 
instrumental in organizing  the  Association 
of Michigan, and that you  are fully inform­
ed upon matters bearing upon  the  subject. 
In this State, there is adecided and growing 
feeling among its associations that  the time 
is ripe fertile forming of  a  State  Associa­
tion, which,  of  course,  means  a severance 
from the Central organization of New York,
, with which body our tradesmen  have no in- 
interest  in  common.  As  publisher  aud 
editor of the only trade  organ  iii the State, 
I  am naturally very  much  interested in the 
movement and desire to do all in my  power 
to nut in the organization  of  a  State body.
:We intend, in two or three weeks, extend­
ing invitations to  the  members  of  the re­
spective  Retail  Merchants’ Associations  of 
New  .Jersey  to  meet  with  the  Newark 
society,  and to have a full, free and fearless 
discussion of .the question.  .
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G. A. Michhxl.

YonrS trnly, 

Meeting of the Local Association.

The following circular  has been issued to 

the members of the local Association:

Grand Rapids, Nov. 14, 1887.

D e a r  S ir —I t is essential that you attend 
the  regular  semi-monthly  meeting  6f  the 
Association to-morrow  evening,  as  matters 
of great importance  to  the  members  will, 
come up  for  discussion  and  action.  The 
contemplated change. in fb e Scope of the or- 
ganfzation will he finally decided  upon  and 
•a re-organization effected!» accordance With 
Officers  will be  elected 
meeting in
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KNOBS—NEW LIST.

i  HOUSE  furnishing goods.

and  longer...................... 
 

Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4#   14
n i
TO
■  Screw Hook and R ye.H  
net 
|  Screw Hook and Bgre H ... 
8M
net 
Screw Hook and Bye i ................... ..net 
Tit
Screw Hook and Bye,  %.......... 
TH
  net 
TO
Strap and  T ......................................dis 
hollow  wars.
P ots............ ................. 
fin
\ K ettles................... 
Qo
 
60
Spiders  ......................................... 
! Gray  enameled................................................50
. .  
Stamped Tm Ware...................new list 
75
Japanned Tin  Ware............................... 
25
Granite Iron  Ware..........................................25
’ 
Grub  1............................................$11 00, dig 60
g ru^„3............................................   11 50, dig 60
G rub3..............................................  12 00, dig 60
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...........dig 
55
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings........... 
65
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings......  
55
Door, porcelain, trimmings...................* 
55
TO
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain......... dis 
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s......... ............'40&1O
Hemacite............................................ ¿jg 
45
55
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dis 
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s.................... dis 
55
Branford’s .............................  
dis 
55
Norwalk’s ..........................................dis 
55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...................dig  70
. , 
Adze  Eye.................................. $16 00 dig 
00
Hunt Eye..................................$15 00 dig 
60
Hunt 8.........   .......................... $18 50 dis 20 *10
„ 
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.................dis  60
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s.......................... 
dis 40
Coffee,F7S.&W.Mfg. Co.’sMaJleables .."dig 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s............   dig 40
Coffee,  Enterprise....  .......................,.d is  25
Stebbin’s Pattern  ..............................dig  «yfriQ
Stebbin’s Genuine...............................dig  sna-m
Enterprise,  self-measuring................dis 
25

LEV ELS.
MATTOCKS.

MOLASSES GATES.

MAULS.
MTT.T.B-

LOCKS—DOOR.

„  

„ 

NAILS —IRON.

™ 

1%

OILERS.

.........  
6d  4d*'..........
2 

I  lOd  8d 
2% 
$1 25  1 50  1 76  2 00 

Common, Brad and Fencing.
sTOdto «Jd...t.....................................V keg $2 10
8d and 9 d adv................................... 
25
6dand7d  adv............ ...................... 50
4d and 5d  adv................................ "  "  "  "  
75
3d advance................................." " " ! " ]   156
3d fine advance........................  ..............  g 25
Clinch nails, adv......................... 
1  qc
Finishing 
Size—inches  (  3 
Adv. »  keg 
Steel Nails—2 30.
Zinc or tm, Chase’s Patent...................riiasnftp)
Zinc, with brass bottom................... 
dis  50
Brassor  Copper.............................dis  60
5?aP®f-v,-............... ............. per grossi $12 net
Olmstead s ..............................................   50M0
Ohio Tooi Co.’s, fancy......................... dis 40®IO
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy..............1. dis 4C@10-
Bench, flrstfquaUW... 
....................dis 50@55-
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood__ dis20&10 *
PANS.
„ 
............................... dis50&10>
Fry, A cm e....... 
Common, polished........’.......................dis60&10>
Dnpping...............................................y  n>  6J4
a 
55
Iron and Tinned................................  dis 
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.

. 

. 

Broken packs Ho #  n> extra.

Association Notes.

Ashton is considering the idea of organiz­

ing an association.

The Battle Creek Retail Grocers’ Associa­

tion has been merged into a B. M. A.

There are  now 105  local  associations  in 
this State, every one of which ought to affil­
iate with the State body without delay.

Will the New York dictator be as anxious 
to have New  Jersey  organize  a State body 
as he was to see Michigan  take  similar ac* 
tion?

S. A.  Howey,  President  of  the  North 
Muskegon  B.  M.  A.,  writes:  “The  Blue 
Letter is being felt and its  influence  noted. 
Let the good work go on.”

The Charlotte B. M.  A.  has  joined  the 
State body during the  past  week,  and  the 
Coopersville,  Charlevoix and Saranac Asso­
ciations  have  re-affiliated  with  the  State 
body.

R. C. Parker,  the  Battle  Creek  grocer, 
writes:  “Our Association is accomplishing 
a good work—especially  in  stimulating 
cash trade.  Less goods  are  charged  here 
now than ever before.”

The aims and purposes of the Association 
are in strict  accord  with a high standard of 
commercial morality.  Consequently, it is 
the interest of honest merchants and honest 
consumers,  for the  worst  competition  any 
man  can have is dishonest competition.

R. W.  Kane,  Secretary of  the Charlevoix 
B. M. A.,  writes:  “ The  hostility  which 
was so noticeable when we first organized 
wearing away.  The  collection  feature 
quite successful and the  members  are  gen 
©rally well  satisfied  with  the  workings  of 
the Association.”

The Charlevoix B. M.  A.  is  preparing 
circular to the Northern Michigan  Associa­
tions,  asking opinions as to the advisability 
of calling a convention at Petoskey  for  the 
purpose of considering the best methods  to 
advertise the advantages of  Northern Mich 
igan to the outside world.

Montague  Times:  If  at  any  time  you 
want full  particulars about the cheap fruit, 
vegetable, farming and celery lands  in  the 
White Lake valley,  write to  Geo. Hancock, 
President;  F. E. Jones,  Secretary,  Monta­
gue;  or  W. B. Nicholson, Assistant Secre­
tary  of  the  White  Lake  Business  Men1 
Association, Whitehall.

The Association is  invariably found to be 
friend to those who are  struggling  to  ob 
tain and maintain  a  credit,  whose honesty, 
ability  and  methods  entitle  them  to  it, 
Many  a  man  has  been  assisted  by  the 
knowledge acquired  by  Association  meet 
ings, so that he has been able to attain an en­
viable standing and, reputation.

One of  the best features of  the Blue Let­
ter collection system is  that the majority of 
the persons who receive Blue Letters do not 
allow their names to be reported to, the  As­
sociation.  They pay up rather  than go on 
the records  of  the  Association  as  delin­
quents.  The system is in the nature of  the 
ounce of prevention  rather 'than the  pound 
cure, and is a standing illustration of the 

power of moral suasion.

While a merchant -frho knows that a cus 
tomer is entirely  unworthy  of  credit  will 
not, unasked, tell  the  fact to a competitor, 
heiswilling toim part theinformationcon- 
fidentially to an Association  which  will, in 
to m ,  impart it confidentially to  all its mem­
bers. 
It is also a fact  that a customer  who 
owes an honest  bill will  use his utmost  en­
deavors to pay it,  rather  than  have his de­
linquency made known  to  an  organization 
with some of whose members he is interest­
ed in maintaining a credit.
•  T h e  T radesman  notes  -with  pleasure 
that the  associations of  New  Jersey  have 
under  consideration  the  formation  of  a 
State  m^nization,  similar  to  the  State 
bodies of Michigan,  Pennsylvania and New 
- There are  enough'  associations  in.

New  Jersey
when they once come  to  realize  that they

Correcting  the  Business  Record

From  th e G rand T raverse H erald.

In an article copied  by  the  Herald  last 
week from the Detroit  Journal,  containing1 enterpnse- 
a brief sketch of  Frank  Hamilton,  of  the 
rounl y “,l^
firm of Hamilton & Milliken, of  this place, 
the statement was made:  “Mr.  H annah,  a 
very cautious business man, paid the young 
men  (Hqjpilton & Milliken) a high compli­
ment by setting them up in business with a 
$27,000 stock  of  goods  and  a  little  sound 
advice.”  Our attention has been  called  to 
the inaccuracy of  this,  and  the  following, 
published with the knowledge  and  consent 
of all the parties concerned, corrects  a busi­
ness record of Traverse City and does fuller 
justice to  all:
Amount furnished  by  S.  Barnes  per­
sonally in cash for store and capital.. $13,500 
Amount furnished by P.  Hannah  per­
sonally in cash for store and capital.. 
3,375
' 
$16,8751
The remaining  $10,125  being  furnished 
equally by the  then non-resident stockhold­
ers of  Hannah, Lay & Co.
Therefore,  the  amount  furnished  by  S. 
Barnes w a| 300  per  cent,  more  than  that I 
furnished %  P.  Hannah,  besides  it  being 
specifically agreed  that  S.  Barnes  was  to 
give the  new  concern  his  special  personal 
care and supervision as in  his  judgment  it j 
might be deerqijd necessary.

, 

“The  Tradesman”  in  the  East.

T hf. T r a d e sm a n has been  so  fortunate 
as  to  secure  'for its Eastern  representative 
Mr. E. H. Ayer,  a gentleman who  has  had 
a  life-long  experience  in  the  newspaper j 
business  and  who is  thoroughly conversant 
with all business  pertaining  thereto.  Mr. 
Ayer has his headquarters at room  19,  Tri­
bune Builijihg,  New  York  city,  where  he 
may be consulted at  any  time  on  business 
connected  with  T h e   T r a d e sm a n .  Any 
contracts executed by Mr. Ayer will be duly 
honored by this office.

Received a Bushel of Letters. 

Ramsey, Morgan & Jencks, the Kalkaska I 
grocery hoiise,  recently placed an advertise­
ment in T h e   T r a d e sm a n ’s  miscellaneous 
column,  and thus refer  to  the  results  s 
cured:

Whenever W6  want  anything  again  we | 
shall put a card in T h e   T ra d esm a n.  W e | 
have received nearly  a  bushel  of  letters in I 
reply to that one.

Dettenthaler’s  Oysters,

The “Anchor” brand of  oysters is getting 
reputation for superior  merit  from  Lake 
Superior to the Ohio line and  from  lake  to 
lake.  Although  “Anchor”  oysters  have 
been sold in this market  but  two  seasons, 
they have  gained  so  many  friends  among 
the trade that  pothing  short  of  a  cyclone 
would drive thefii out  Be sure and ask for I 
Anchors” and take no others.  Remember 
that F. J. Dettenthaler is the sole packer of ! 
this brand.

The  Hardware  Market.

Nails are without change. 

Sheet iron is 
stronger, on account of  an  advance  at  the 
mills.  Pig tin has  advanced  8  cents  per 
pound daring the past week, caused  largely 
by speculation.

The Board of Pharmacy in Detroit.

From the Detroit Nevrs.

Howard Pinkerton, druggist on  Jefferson 
avenue, has  been  held  for  hearing  at the 
police court on  charge of permitting an  un­
licensed clerk  at  his  shire  to  compound a 
prescription.
F. C. Warna^  dnigzist,  Bast Jordan:  “God 
plcif; The Tradesman. - It  1» ithëlSpoti paper I 
for  the  merchant  in  the  Stato  or  United 
S ta te d  Ÿ.H. ■
m Æ Æ ââm M m

w m m

Ï Ï M t a S * ? t t S i t t o S “   a”d  AgriCUltaraI  Diatricts  ot  Michi8an-  Wiscoirata, 
Millions upon millions of  standing  soft  and  hardwood,  consisting  of  white  pine,
cedar, hemlock, maple,  elm, poplar,  basswood, birch  and  butternut, awaits the  lumber- 
mans axe,  cast  and  west from  Gladstone, on  newly built lines of railroad,  tributary t o ,  
this harbor. 

" 

Ibarbware.

3 X   Dbl.  Bit
4 X

X Ax Handles
X

Gladstone  is  destined  to  become the natural outlet to the East and entrepot for the  promptly and buy in fUH ^acka»es-
t   a n d   a   w h n lo a a lo  n n u it n f  

AUGERS AND BITS.

— —  W e   O ffer 

Sault Ste. Marie Land-ahd Improvement Company, 

AX HANDLES!

F R E E   M flN U F SG T U R IN G   8 I T E 8

m ,.

. j  These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay

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tacks. 

BELLS.

,   _   „ 

BRACES*

...... 420 

BOLTS.
 

SHEETIRON.

TIN PLATES.

TINNER’S SOLDER.

................................$4 20 

BALANCES. .
BARROWS.

GLADSTONE,  MICH.

SQUARES.......................
(jjg

.
«14
an
an
60
«n
60
50
50
50
50
45
35
12 fin
1« no

Sisal, H in. and  larger........... 
Manilla........................................... 
_ 
Steel andiron................................... 
Try and Bevels............................. 
M itre ..................................

liu,
..........-jg??
70&1Ü
dig
60
20
Com. Smooth.  Com.
$2 90.
3 0&
3 15.
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 2  inches 

Snf ‘ 1- J 
Nos. 18 to 21.. 
N°sJ 5 to ¿6................................  4 40 

$  .75
1.25
2.00
2.50
1.50
2.25

1t ! US < S o ^ l ? M   ,0r  bUSlne8S' “ *  plate’ raapa  °f  
F \   W .

wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 fts, f   b ........... 
In smaller quansities, ^   B > ;........ 
.................
American, all  kinds................. 
dis 
Steel, all kinds....................... 
dis 
Swedes, all kinds...............  
dis 
-«<, 
Gimp and Lace................. 
Cigar Box  Nails....................  
dis 
Finishing Nails................. 
dis 
Common and Patent B rad s."""'."d is 
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks, dis 
Trunk and Clout Nails.............. 
dis 
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails. ...'.'.'.'dis 
Leathered Carpet  Tacks...................dis 
„  
No. 1,  Refined................. 
Market  Half-and-half...... .*.................. 
Strictly  Half-and-half...........1? 50

Ives’,  old style..................... 
60
dis 
■ r  
old style..........................................dis
N.  H.C.CO.............................................. dis  60
Douglass’............................  
60
dis 
Pierces’ ............... 
60
dis 
Snell’s ......................................................dis  60
Cook’s  ...................................................dis 
40
or  wood_working  establishments  and  every  legitimate  labor  employing  Jennings;, genuine""'.'Jï.ï.\7.\ï.'".‘.'.'dis  25
Jennings’, imitation............................. dis50&10
« | È | i
Spring..........................................................dis 40
Railroad....................................................$ 14 00
Garden....................................................net 33 00
Hand ...  ............................... ...dis $ 60&10&10
Cow...............................................dis
30&15
Call...................................... . 
.  dip 
Gong...............   •..........................uis 
25
Door. Sargent.............................. dis 
60&10
Stove.............. 
dis $
Carriage new list................................dis  7G&10
Plow  • • • .............................................. dis 
50
Sleigh Shoe..........................................dis
Wrought Barrel  Bolts...................' .'dis
Cast  Barrel Bolts 
........................ dis
Cast Barrel, brass knobs............ 
. dis
Cast Square Spring...................... 
dis
Cast Chain ......TT...........................dis
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............ dis
Wrought Square.................................dis
Wrought Sunk Mush..................... . . dis
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
T Flush................................................dis
in ^ ’££arCOai..................... 5 40@6 *
60*10
10x14,Charcoal.................... 
7 2fi
Ives  Door........................................... dis
60*10
12x12, Charcoal.................... ’* 
« 25
12x12,  Charcoal.................... 
7 7«
B arb er.............................................dis$ 
40
14x20, Charcoal....................""." *  5 75
Hack«8-.........................  
..dis  50&10
14x20,  Charcoal.....................] 
725
Spofford........................................... dis 
50
14x20, Charcoal.................»75
TXX,
Am. Ball.............................................dis 
net
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool........... 
10 77
 
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal........ 
..............  ^  55
Well, plain...............................................$  350
20x28, Charcoal............ 
IX, 
.............rL fin
Well, swivel.............................................  
4 00
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal...........6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal.................... 
gen
Cast Loose Pin, figured..................... dis  70&10
DXX. 100 Plate Charcoal..... 
10 6ft
 
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........dis  70&10
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal...... .Y.V.YAV’  12 60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60&10 
Reffipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to 6 75
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint., dis  60&10
Wrought Loose  Pin.......................... dis  60&10
4  on
Roofing, 14x20, IC................... 
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip...........dis  60& 5
Roofing, 14x20,  IX ................. 
..............  «in
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned_____ dis  60& 5
Roofing, 20x28, IC....................... 
  m SJ
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
Roofing, 20x28, IX .......................................13 50
.....................................dis  60&5
T „ 
Wrought Table 
.......................dis  60&10
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne................g 50
Wrought Inside  Blind.......................dis  60&10
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Teme........ . 
7 90
Wrought Brass....................... 
75
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne...... . 
..hoq
Blind,Clark’s  ............................. '."'.'.dis  70&10
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Teme..........Y   14 00
Blind, Parker’s ..................................dis  75&10
Blind,  Shepard’s.................................dis 
70
Steel,Game...... ................*.............  
60&10
Oneida Communtity, Newhouse’s 
.dis  35
_  
CAPS.
Ely’s DIO......................  
per m $ 65
 
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&1O
en
Hick’s C. F ................................  
Hotchkiss’ 
60&10
g. d ...................................................................35
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Oo.’s.................................60&10
Musket...................................
60  Mouse, choker.................................... 18oVd®z
Mouse,  delusion............................... $1 50 Sdoz
CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M. C, & Winchester  new list50&10
Rim Fire, United  States..................... dis50&10
Bright Market..........................  
Central Fire......   .................................. dis30&10
Annealed Market................... 
Coppered Market.  .............dis
Socket Firmer..................................... dis  70&10
Extra Bailing.............................  
dis  65
Socket Framing..  .............................. dis  70&10
Tinned  Market.......................... "•....... ¿is  62u
Tinned  Broom................................................. 09
£<?riier...................................... « 8  70&I0
Socket Slicks........................................ dis  70&10
Tinned Mattress...................... 
""  w lb 8%
Butchers’Tanged Firmer............. . . dis 
40
Coppered Spring Steel............... ‘.¿is 
50
20
Barton’s Socket Mrmers...................dis 
Tinned Spring Steel............................ dis 4G&10
Cold........................... .— ............ ....n et
Plain Fence......................................... ..»$> 
3
Barbed Fence, galvanize¿..........4 10
Curry, Lawrence’s ......  .  ............. 
dis
painted.  .................... .'." *.'3 35
„  „ 
Hotchkiss  ........................................
o?Fper............................................ .. 
listnet
„  
Brass...............................................new listnet
Brass, Backing’s.........................
Bibb’s .....................................................
60
B eer................................... .....................
40&10
Fenns’.......................................................... ..V.. . . .   . ."
60
»  »>  28
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........... 
a?
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60........ 
 
2S
Cold Rolled, 14x48..........................  
gj
 
Bottoms................................................ . . . . "   23
Morse’s Bit  Stock...............................dis 
40
Taper and Straight Shank...............   . dis 
40
Morse’s Taper  Shank........................ dis 
40
_  
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ....... ..................doz net  $.75
............... .......................dis20&101&0
Adjustable..........................................<hb
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.  dis 
Ives’, 1. $18 00 ; 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00.  dis 
American File Association List........dis so&in

Screw Eyes...................................dis  70*10*10
No°ks  ........... 
......... ..........dis  70*10*10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes................ dis  70*10*10
_ 
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled........
Coe’s Genuine....................................'.¿fo 
53
Coe’s Ptent A grioultural, wrought, dis 
75
Coe s Ptent, malleable..................... dis  75*1C
MISCELLANEOUS.
 
Birdcages..................... 
go
 
Pumps,  Cistern............................ 
.¿is  75
Screws, new  list............. 
7C&5
 
 
Casters, Bed and Plate..................disSO&lO&lO
Dampers, American........ .................. 
43
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods...d 
Si 
Cqpper Bottoms...................  
 
TO©
 
HARDWOOD LUMBER.

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

14x52,14x56,14 x60............................. . 
 
 

-  Grand Rapids.

And a General Line of

felb8—New List.

TIN—LEADED.

WIRE GOODS.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

WRENCHES.

BUTTS. CAST.

BUCKETS.

40&10
25

tipped 

TRAPS.

CHISELS.

"  "  di«

ELBOWS.

COFFER.

DRILLS

COMBS.

COCKS.

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C.  &  D.  LANTERNS,

on. CANS AND TANKS,

PAPER jfc  WOODENWARE.

C U R T I S S   &   D U N T O N ,

N E L S O N   B R O S .   < &   G O

68  Monroe  Street, 

F .   J .   t . a -m - p   £
W H O L E S A L E   D E A L E R S  r y

  C O . ,

F r u it s   a n d   V e g e t a b l e s,

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese,  Etc.,

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SPECIAL  A T T M O r è lŸ E S ^

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Discount, 60.

22 and 24,  25 and 26.  27
-ik

13 
g a u g es.
-i,  HAMMERS.

Nicholson s..............IS------- . . . .  .dig  60&10
Heller’s ..................................... 
55&10
Heller’s Horse Rasps...__ dis
50
■  g a l v a n iz e d  i r o n ,
„  
Nps. 16 to 20, 
List 
14 
„ 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ..  ...... dis
„  
Maydole&Oo.'s......i..............
Kip’s ....................... -J......... .  ,  *  "   dis
25
Yerkes  & Plumb’s. .L ......... ' dis  40&10
HAson’s Solid Cast Steel...................*30 o list 50
Blacksmith a Solid Cast Steel! Hand. .30 c 40&10
Bam Door KidderMfg. Co., Wood trank  50&10 
Champion,  anti-friction..? ...........« g   ^
60*10
Kidder»wood 
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The furniture factories here pay as follows 
for  dry  stock,  measured  merchantable, min 
culls out; 
’
Basswood, log-run......... ........... .13 00®15 00
Birch, log-run................................15 ntwai« no
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2
^ § 3 5  33
Black Ash,log-run...... ..  . 
..14 oo@i6 gq
Cherry,  log-run...... ..........................25 «vaag qa
^erry,N os. 1 and 2...... .................45 0O®6gOO
exta nn
Cherry,  cull....... 
*1200051430
Maple, log-run.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
Maple, soft,  log-run........I*" 
if  ooaia XX
Maple, Nos. la n d 2.....................  
 
 
Maple, dear, flooring...... .......
Maple, white, selected........... . 
* 
Xx
n
r u
. 18 OfkfiiTO Oft 
Bed Oak, l o
Red Oak, Nos.l and3 .
 00 
I.  " '"2 4  S
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and upw’dl.40 oo@45 30 
i i  togular.
..^ 0  00@35 00 
. 
Bed Oak, No. Li ston plank 
Walnut, log-run.
Walrjut, Nos. 1 and 2 
Walnuts,  culls,.... 
Grey Elm, log-run.
«rey islm, log-run,__ .......  WL

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derWgCrowd, as he stood on the rear  plat­
form of a moving car, with  ®3ft0  QCppgfc 
money transferred to Ifepodtet-^usi **$8fh-
ereflm # 
»
Ho necessity now  exists, for  hawkers  of 
ano kind of goods, as stores are convenient­
ly at hand where any article desired can  be 
purchased  at  very  reasonable  rates—more 
value for a given  suin  than  could  ever  be 
purchased  in any  previous  age—from  hot 
peanuts or a cup  of  coffee  to  a  suit  of 
clothes or a ship’s anchor.

I  have  no  reasons for viewing  their valuable time. 

' SSg  There exists a ;wide  diversity  of  opinion 
With regard to  the  advantages and benefits 
to be devided by the  public  from  peddlers 
‘  and fakirs,  who  lead  an  almost  constant 
! nomadic life.  Many  imagine they  are the 
;  safety valve of the  retail  business, serving 
to regulate price» and  hold in check the too 
It should  be  remembered  by  every  com­
’  grasping  and  avaricious  Shyiock;  but  it 
munity,that itinerant merchants of whatever 
could be  shown  that  such  is  impossible, 
ever name draw thé money from them with- 
whenw eeonsidertheir  increased  expense 
leaving its actual value, pay no taxes to ben­
H SU *  of doing business  and  the  temptations  to 
efit them, as  do  the  resident  dealers,  nor 
mercenary motives. 
I   do  not  include  in 
have they the least interest in their custom­
these peddlers the  large  class of hucksters 
ers’ welfare.  With the exception of  a  few
íisho supply  *nilfc  and  venables,  hot the
netty vending of small articles on the street  cities, he traverses the entire State of Mich- 
by the young or the aged  whose permanent  igan without even paying a license, as what 
home  and  vocation  is  within  the  city. 
laws we have  in  relation  to  peddlers  are 
Neither do I  question  the  legitimate  right  substantially a dead  letter.  And  as every 
of any person to puisne  this business,  but, | person desires to be thought  a  lady or gen 
as a rule, it  can  be  shown  that  it entails  tleman,  peddlars  of  every  kind  must  be 
a loss of both time  and  money  and  is  in  treated with courtesy, even though they are 
other respects a grevious damage to all their  impudently persistent and occupy  much  of 
customers. 
In truth, peddlers are 
peddlers  in  any  favorable light, but I  look  in this day and age,  unbidden  and  unwel 
upon the subject in its  broadest  and  most  come guests, whose loud  and  insolent raps 
comprehensive  sense.  There  was  a  time  upon the door provoke  a  scowl  or  an  epi- 
in the history  of  the  country  when  this  thet, br the sounds fall upon  ears  that  are 
»class of persons were  as  beneficial  as they  willingly deaf to them.  Attimes his calling 
now are  pernicious—beneficial  because  on  is a blind, to gain knowledge of persons and 
foot or with  one horse  they penetrated  the  localities only through which he  may  com 
most distant  and  sparely  settled  portions  mit some criminal act afterward.  Our pub- 
■with  their  goods,  where  the  inhabitants  lie journals speak  of  the  “Lightning  Rod
would suffer for want of  the many common  Fiend,”  the  “Life  Insurance  Fiend,”  the
and useful articles, unless  they  were  thus  “Book  Fiend”  and  the  “Bohemian  Oats 
carried  to  their  door.  Then,  also, 
they  Fraud,” etc., in a half  facetious, half  earn 
were  willing  to  recave  payment  in  some,  est way and meaningly include  every  class 
equivalent for money.  That time is past for-  who brazenly take,  and  occupy  your  time 
-ever  and the peddler is now only an annoy-  for their business and benefit  only, 
“This article is so valuable,”  said  aped^ 
unce to everybody,  and  should,  like  many 
tilings of the  past,  become  extinct.  With  dlar to a friend of mine,  “ that  you  cannot 
theera of steam andanetwork of railroads,  afford to keep house without it.”  “My dear 
all  kinds  of  merchandise are  at  our  very  sir,” was the reply,  “ when  I  require your 
•doors and there  is  (as  there  should be) a  judgment in matters pertaining to my fami 
preference with all‘ to  purchase  from  the  lly,  I  will  then  send  for 
and  employ 
largest and best  collection  and  from  those  you.  Good morning! ”  Such impertinence 
with whom  we are  somewhat  acquainted,  from those who solicit trade  is  quite  com 
instead of any stranger  who  never expects  mon,  and is, at times, unbearable, 
to sell to us again, and whose only object is 
The army of  idlers  and  loungers—those 
to get all  the  money  possible  from  us to-  wh0  are always looking for  work  and  in 
wardly hoping they  may never find it—has
«day. 
Persons who  invariably  deal  with  this  now assumed such proportions as to compel 
class of traveling tradesman  do  so from an I employers 
to  protect  the  time  of  their 
endless variety of motives,  the chief among  workmen by barring all  admittance and in 
them being that they are  either angry with, 
tercourse  with  them  during  the  hours  of 
•or indebted to,  the resident  dealers in their  business, and  strictly private  offices  being 
Vicinity.  Still others are  urged forward by  aisothe rule, soliciting merchants  of  every 
the magnetism of the crowd,  hardly know-1 description find access  to a large portion of 
ing why they  made  the  purchase,  and  in-  the public less easy than formerly.  When 
variably acknowledging to  their  friends af-  both my mind and hands  are  now occupied 
terward that they were foolish to do so. 

and a stranger addresses me,  enquiring if 

As might naturally  be  expected, the cus-  can give him a moment’s time,  this  is  my 
tomers of  peddlers  and  fakirs  are  largely  answer:  “I can spare a moment for your ex 
made up from  the  most  ignorant (through  pianation.  Then, if the business is for my 
not always the poorest) classes,  who cannot  interest,  I  will lay  aside my present work 
know whether  the  article  offered is worth  and devote further time; but if it proves to be 
a  given sum or not  Neither  are they com-  soiely for your interest, then you will please 
petent judges  of  its  quality,  particularly I excuse me at once.”  By this method  little 
when, as is often the case,  it is sold on the J time is lost and courtesy preserved.
street at  night.  Therefore,  too  late,  they 
often find they  have  cither  paid  a  higher 
price than is asked for  the  article  by  resi­
dent merchants or they have a very inferior 
one, and many times both  faults  are  com-l 
bined.

F ra n k  A.  H owig.

SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF

ÄB80LUTE  SPIGES
Halits  D alí Povto.

-AND-

100  PER  CENT.  PURE.

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY
E   3ST  G U S T   E S
Prom 2 to 130 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft 
tag,  Pulleys  and Boxes.  Contracts made for 
Complete Outfits.

w

,   O ,   H o n i B o n ,
88,90 and 92 South Division Street, 
MICH.

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

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J.H M Y E R S

Manufacturer  of  Harness  and  Collars 
at Wholesale  and  Retail,  73  Canal  street, 
Grand Rapids,  has  the  finest  line  to  select 
from in  the city.  Give  him  a  call.  None 
but experienced workmen employed.

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL

COAL and WOOD.
101 Ottawa St., Ledyard Block.

E. A. HAMILTON,  Agt.,

Telephone 909—1H.

If these losses and disadvantages were all, 
the  infliction  might  be  endurable,  but  of 
late years many ordinary household articles 
,  are hawked about the country as specialties 
until in many  places  thousands  of  a  com­
paratively worthless com modity have glutted 
the demand and the resident dealers erase it 
from their future orders,  to  the serious in­
convenience  Of  a  few  who  desire  to pur­
chase a good article of the same kind.

At one time a resident hardware merchant 
called my attention to an active middle aged 
man,  whose  only  business  was  visiting 
every village on the  line  of  a railroad  and 
carrying with him on foot from house to house 
•different sized tin  wash  boilers and steam­
ers for ordinary  cook stoves;  "‘and” said he, 
'“strange as it may  seem, he is selling them 
In large numbers  at  a  higher price than  I 
ask for them.  Of  course,”  he  continued, 
“ the dealers here will not  include  them  in 
their next .orders and both the stock and as­
sortment of sizes will run very low with us, 
much to the inconvenience  and  annoyance 
o f the few  who  may  desire  to  purchase, 
k  «while we shall also lose a little,  though not 

from carrying an over stock.”

There is one  class  of  street  fakirs  who 
have all graduated in  some  of  our  larger 
■  cities as expert gamblers—at heart  they are 
thieves—but manage to keep j ust within the 
pale of law.  Their  proposition  is  to  give 
tire public cash prizes in  a  lottery  so  man­
aged (by themselves) that a goodly  number 
o f tire suckers who bite shall draw the  cov­
eted prize,  or,  as  Barnum  puts  it,  “get 
something for nothing.” 
The victims are 
to pay from 50 cents to $1 for two  or  three 
emits’ worth  of  dirty  soap,  or  something 
equally valuable,  with the extremely doubt­
ful chance of drawing a cash prize of five dr 
^
in  tiie  package.  To
; lessen his own chances of being mobbed  or 
■  injured in his nefarious  business,  he is  in- 
variably  seated  in  a  vehicle—sometimes 
with a companion—while  he harangues the 
•  crowd and  manipulates  the  soap.  When 
the number of  his listeners Is deemed sufll 
dop*!  he  puts  up  with  the  soap  in  plain 
, ’  sight of all, some half  a dozen or more five 
IV ¿¡¡mS ten dollar hank notes, which are thrown 
as bait te the  waiting gudgeons,^ 31m® 
- his expert ¡flight g  band commences and  a 
of dollars flows In, and few flow out,
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AIX

KINDS

b o x e s

PACKING & SHELF
Bf  Shipping (Jases, Egg 
f  Grates, etc. 
f  
Grand Rapids, Mieli,  j

4 and 6 EB IE ST.

W. Steele Fame & Provisi Co.
F R E S H   M E A TS.

JOBBERS  IN

Stock Yards and Packing H ouse, Grandville Ave.

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MOSELEY

WHOLESALE

Fruits, Seeds,  Oysters & Produce,

ALL  KINDS  OF  FIELD  SEEDS  A  SPECIALTY.

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

toes, w ill be pleased to hear from you.

26  28,30  &  32  Ottawa Street.
WM. SEARS &  C<
Cracker Manufacturers,

A g e n t s   J t o i ?   ■; ;

... AMBOY  CHEESE.

¡11111

v   /  

i  “Now, John,  don’t fail to 
vet some of the DING-MAN 
SOAP.  Sister Clara writes 
hat  it  is  the  best  in  the 
florid for  washing  clothes 
and  all  house  -  cleaning 
work.*’

FOR SALE  BY

H aw kins & Perry

Wholesale Agents,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

DETROIT  SOAP

DETROIT, MIOH.,

Manufacturers  of the following well-known Brands

of

QUEEN  ANNE,
MICHIGAN,

TRUE  BLUE,

CZAR,

MONDAY, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN, 
SUPERIOR, 

ROYAL  BAR, 

MASCOTTE,

CAMEO,

PHCENIX,

WABASH, 

AND  OTHERS.

For Quotations addressW. G. HAWKINS,

T H E

5-0

In the W orld.

STRAIGHT  H M P   LOfiG  FILLER, 
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SUMATRA  WRAPPER, 

CLARK, JEWELL i CO.,
CURTISS. DUHTOfl i ANDREWS

Sole Agents for Western Mich.

ROOFERS

Good W ork, Guaranteed for Five Years, at Fair Prices.

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-  Mich.

Look  Bra  173, 

U B iip   K4PIDS,  M IO H .|Q .j"a i l d   R a p i d S ,

Salesman  for  ‘W estern  Michigan. 

'

WE CALL YODR ATTENTION TO 0ÜR

Provision Department

Wo  Carry  a  Large  Stock  of all  kinds  of 

Dry «and Salt Meats and

BUTTERINE.

We buy of First  Hands  and  Will Not Be 

Undersold by anybody.

Body, Ball,  Barnhart  1  Go.

Spring  l  Bomprny
DRY  GOODS
Hosiery, Carpets, Eta

JOBBERS  IN

H E S T E R   <&  F O X ,

Manufacturers’ Agents for

S A W  A i m  G R I S T  M X L X . M A C H I N E R Y ,
Send for 
Catalogue 
■A Prices 
9

ATLAS

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ENGINE
WORKS
INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.,  U.  S. A,
STEM EASINESS BOILERS.
Carry Engines and Boilers In Stock 

M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O P

for  immediate delivery.

GOOD
ENOUGH

Planers, M atchers, M oulders and all kinds of W ood-W orking Machinery, 

Saws, Belting  and  Oils.

I And  Dodge’s  Patent Wood Split Pulley.  Large  stock  kept  on hand.  Send for Sample 

Pulley and become convinced of their  superiority.

Write for Prices. 

44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.,  GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

I , M. CARY.

C A R Y  <& LOVERXDGE

I« L. DOVERIDGE.

GENERAL DEALERS  IN

Fire and Burglar Proof

Combination and Time Locks,,

11 Ionia Street, 

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Granii Sajids, M ià

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MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

DOTS  AITS  SHOES

lam ps  are filled  direct 
by  THE  PUMP  without 
lifting the Can.  The Fill 
ing Tube adjusting to suit 
the h eighth  of any lamp. 
Any overflow or drippings 
are  returned  to  the  Can 
through an opening in the 
center of the  top.  When 
closed  the  Filling  Tube 
enters this opening,  pre­
venting evaporation from 
EITHER PUMP OR CAN.

GOOD
:nough

The Most  Practical Large Sized  Can in the m arket and the ON LY  Pump Can which 
closes  PE R FE C T L Y   AIR T IG H T  preventing  evaporation from either Can or Pump

OIL AND GASOLINE GAN!
EVEBY  IK E   DEALES  SHOULD  SELL  THEM.
HALF A MILLION IN ACTUAL USE 1
Though imitated in Appearance, by no means Equaled in M erit.
H§*Tlie Bright Star That Leads Them AII. ^-

would-be competitors are trying to follow—their eyes fixed on the  GOOD ENOUGH

Its recognized  Qualities and  increasing Popularity  hwt 

r»r»M*T  r e  HUMBUGGED  by Cheap and w orthless  im itations  and  SO-CALLED 

“GOOD  ENO UG H”  and guarantee  your  custom ers

^ lltta h t  S
  Buy  tte  ORIGINAL—th e G ENUINE  OLD  RELIABLE 
ABSOLUTE  SAFETY  AND  THE  GREATEST  POSSIBLE  CONVENIENCE.
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ASK  YOUR JOBBER  FOR  TH ESE  CANS 

INSIST  ON  HAVING THEM .

TAKE  NO  OTHER.

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as much as 75 per cent of  all  the so-called 
laftiw bi& is  placed' upon  our  markets  is 
more or less adulterated  by  the addition of 
Various  foreign  substances  which  can  be 
bought at three or four eents per pound lees 
than the pure article costs.' ' I t is charged be 
persons who have inside knowledge  of  the 
facts that  In  many  of  those  compounds 
there is not a single ounce  of  strictly  pure 
bog’s  lard  that  was  procured  by  honest 
methods in the ordinary course of  packing­
house work.  Many of the manufacturers of 
these compounds  have not  the  means  of 
producing in their own  regular  business  a 
particle of the genuine article, and  it  is  al­
leged  that  in  the  manufacture  of  their 
“ goods” they depend entirely upon the pur­
chase of  cheap  and in many cases vile Sub­
stances, which are bleaebed  and deodorized 
by chemical processes  before it  is  possible 
to pass them off  upon an unsuspecting pub­
lic as pure and honest goods.  There  is  no 
doubt that some of the material thus used is 
healthy enough, and that a few of  the  men 
who make counterfeit lard  are  «ireful  not 
to put in anything  deleterious.  But  even 
these ought  to  be  compelled  to  sell  their 
wares as substitutes,  while  for  the  others 
“no lawful punishment is too severe.”
A. law forbidding the preparation  or  sale 
of counterfeit lard,  unless  plainly  branded 
as “compound,” went into force in the State 
of Massachusetts five  weeks  ago.  The  act 
is short and to  the  point,  and  there  is  no 
good reason why the passage  of  that  or  a 
similar  bill  should  not  be  insisted  on Yn 
every State of the Union.

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GRAHAM ROYS,  -  Grand Rapids, Mich.

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FOR SALE BY

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

jobbers of

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

Lion Coffee has more actual Merit than any Roasted Coffee sold at the price either in Packages or in Bulk and storekeeners 
all over the State of Michigan and elsewhere who are  not  already handling  Lion  are urged to  give  it  a  trial.  W e eheerftdly 
answer all communications  regarding prices, etc.  Convenient  shipping  depots  established  at  all  prominent  cities  securing 
quick delivery.  For sale by all the wholesale trade everywhere.  Manufactured  by the W oolson Spice Co., Toledo  Ohio
Grand Rapids, Mich.

L.  WINTERNITZ,  Resident Agent,

JENNE881 McCURDY,

Importers and  Manufacturers’  Agents.

DEALERS IN

Fancy  Goode  of all Descriptions.

HOTEL AND  STEAMBOAT GOODS,

Bronze  and  Litrarg  Lampsr Chandeliers, Braekets,,  Etc.,

73 and 75  Jefferson  Ave.,

DETROIT,  -  MICH.

Wholesale  Agents for M field's  Canadian  Lamps.

W holesale  Grocers.

IMPORTERS  OF

Teas, Lemons  and  Foreign Prints.

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

“Acme” Herkimer Co. Cheese, Lautz Bros. 

Soaps and Niagara Starch.

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

C. C. BUNTING-.

BUNTING  &  DAVIS,
«omission  Merchants
Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in Oar Lots. 

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THE  BEST  GOODS  MADE,

PUT  UP  IN  5 lì.  and  21-2 lì.  PACKAGES.

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100 lb.  Cases 
- 
80 lb.  Cases 
For Sale By

-  $5.00.
-  $4.25.

Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops,  Arthur Meigs & Co.,  .

Clark, Jewell  &  Co., 
Hawkins & Perry, 

Amos S.  Musselman & Co., 

Olney, Shields & Co..

Grranci Bapids,  -  -  Midi.

AM ALL JOBBERS IN THE UNITED STATES.

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Bnlojl  Rrnpprç  who wish to serve 
a o L d il  U l U b o l o   their  Customers
with GOOD  COFFEE would do well 
to avoid Brands that require the sup­
port of Gift Schemes, Prize Promises 
or Lotttery Inducements.
 

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Superior  Merit Alone.

Unequaled  Quality. 

Improved  Roasting'  Process. 

Patent  Preservative  Packages.

'For Sale  by AMOS  S. MUSSELMAN  &  CQ., Grand 
Rapids,  and  all  Jobbers  at Detroit, Saginaw  and 
M a M l i
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The  accompanying  illustrations  represents  the
Boss Tobacco  Pail  Cover.
It will fit any pail, and keep  the  Tobacco  moist 
It will pay for itself in a short time.
You cannot afford to do without it.
For particulars, write  to

and fresh until entirely used.

ARTHUR  MEIGS  &  00.

Wholesale  Grocers,

SOlo Agents,

77 to 83 SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

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China Shoe Perfüme, large

All above in assorted colors.

ORDERS  BY  MAIL  SOLICITED.

Jennings  &  Smith,

38 and 40 LOUIS STEET,

G randRapids,

Mention Tradesman,

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BAKING  PO W D ER S.

Report of the  Ohio  State  Food  Commis» 

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,. T he Ohio State Dairy and Feed  Commis­
sioner, Gen, &  H.  H uraf has  made  publie 
(Circular No. 6)  the  results of the Comuiis- 
,  sibn’s investigation of baking powder.  This 
Commission was formed by the Legislature, 
with instructions to make an examination of 
the food snpply of the  State,  and to give a 
report of such examination  to  the  public. 
The  examination  of  the  baking  powders 
was made by Professor £L A.  Weber,  State 
Chemist, and, relating as it  does to an arti- 
tde of daily use in the food of  almost  every 
one,  is o f particular interest.
The rather startling fact  is  brought  out 
by the report that  of  the  thirty  different 
braads of baking powder analyzed, compos­
ing shout all those sold in the State,  twenty 
of them are made  from  alum,  a substance 
declared by the highest medical  authorities 
to be injurious to health when used in food.
The Commission«: classifies  the  baking 
powders into  three  general  divisions,  ac­
cording to their value:

1  Cream of T artar Baking Powders.
2  Phosphate Baking Powders.
S  Alum Baking Powders.
T he  object  of  baking  powder is,  when 
mixed in the flour and subjected to moisture, 
to generate a leavening  gas  in  the  dough, 
which will raise the bread and cause it to be 
porous  and  light.  The  Commissioner ex­
plains that the  best  baking  powder is that 
which,  she 
ingredients  being  healthful, 
gives off the largest  amount  of  leavening 
gas ami leaves thé smallest amount  of  res­
iduum in the  bread.  A  small  amount  of 
carbonate of ammonia,  wbich is  considered 
healthful,  is used in some of the  cream  of
tartar powders to give them ahigher strength.
T he Commission say that  pure  alum is un­
doubtedly a hurtful salt, and that the result­
ant salts from its combination  with soda as 
formed in the bread,  can  scarcely  be  less 
hurtful.  The report ranks the powders and 
shows the amount in each  of  inert  result­
ants,  which  in  using  it  would appear as 
residuum in the bread,  as follows:

pbh A M OF TARTAK  POWDERS.

Per cent. Inert
Same 
or residuum
1  Royal— . .....................................‘ ■ ■ " i l Ë
2  Dr. IJpce’s..............................................If ™
3  Pearson’s ...............................................
4  Cleveland’s..............................................IJJ-JÇ
5  Snow D rift........................................—  ^
6  UpperTen....... ......................................
7  DeLand’s ...............................................
S  Sterling................................................... VS.aa
PHOSPHATIC BAKING HOWDERS.

9  Horsford’s ...............................................36.49
10 Wheat......... ............................................88-33

ALUM  BAKING  POWDERS.

 

 

 

 

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10 Empire......... ...................................... • .34.26
12 Gold......................................................... 30-36
13 Veteran................................................... 23.36
34.92
14 Cook’s Favorite.............. 
36 Sun Flower.............................................35.60
16 Kenton....................... 
38.17
17 Pat&psco..................................................40.08
18 Jersey............................... .....................16-05
19 Buckeye...............................................   29.85
20 Peerless...................................................26.28
21 Silver Star................................... .......... 31  88
22 C  ow n.....................................................16.69
23 
(Special).......................................25.09
24 One  Spoon.............................................. 58.68
25 V/heeier’s No. 15......................... ......... 27.7-s
26 Carleton...................................................30.94
27oGem..-4....................................-............. 36.57
28 Scioto...................................................... 18.25
29 Z pp’s Grape  CÔystal............................. 11.99
30 Forest C ity............................. . . ..........24.9i
T he large amount of inert  matter or resi­
duum in both the phosphate and  alum pow­
ders will be noted.  This in  the  phosphate 
powders is largely  of  lime;  in  the  alum 
powders  it  is  chiefly  alum. 
It  will  be 
gratifying  to  the  public  to  observe  that 
the powder in most general use, the Royal, is 
also the purest. 
In comparing the first two 
powders on the list,  for instance—-the Royal 
?>Tid Dr.  Price’s—the inert matter in  Price’s 
is seen to be about five in seven  more  than 
in the  former,  a  difference  of  71 3-7 per 
cent.,  the Royal being purer than Price’s  by 
a  corresponding figure.
The corbonate of  leavening gas produced 
by  the  powders  indicates  their  strength; j 
and their true value  may be ascertained  by j 
considering the amount  of  this gas in eon- ! 
nection with their inert matter or  residuum 
as shown above.  The  higher  the  percent­
age of gas and the lower  the  percentage  of 
residuum  the  better  the  baking  powder. 
These  percentages,  as  found 
in some of 
th e  similiar powders  are  given as follows:
Percent  of
Residuum.
Royal......................... 
.11.80...................... 7.25
Sterling.........................11............................ 12.63
Price’s........................... 10.50.............. ........ 12.66
De Land’s  ....................10............................32.52
Gem, Alum....................  8.45......................36.67
Forest City,  Alum........  7.80.......................24.04
Silvt r  Star. Alum......... 6.90........................31.88
Kenton, Alum  .............   6 
  88.17
40.08
Patapsco, Alum ..............6......... 
Empire.  Alum......... 
5.80.......................34 28
Cook’s Favorite, Alum.  5-80  ............. 
.34.92
One Spcon, Alum.........   5.75............  
.58.68
W ith the forgoing  explanation  the  study 
o f these figures will  readily give consumers 
a  knowledge of  the  comparative  value of 
th e different brands. To illustrate with the
percentages given the  two  powders before 
compared: the Royal  containing  11.8 parts 
o f leavening gas to 10.6 in Price’s, its excess 
o f strength is 1.3 in 10.5,  or  12.4  per cent. 
Royal is therefore 12 40 per  cent,  stronger, 
as well as 71  per  cent,  purer .than Price’s 
etc.  The relative strength and purity of all 
the powders can be  computed  in  like man­
ner. 

Percent, of 
Leavening Gas. 

20....... 

Name. 

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Adulterated  Lard.

¿from the Chicago Tribune.

I t is estimated that  the  imports  of  lard 
and its adulterations at Liverpool within the 
last twelve months  have  exceeded  240,000 
tierces. '  How much of  this is  the genuine 
article it is Impossible to say and difficult to 
guess. 
In^general,  it may be assumed  that 
most of# that  sent  direct by the packers of 
ibis country  was  nearly  pure,  while  thatj 
sent by “ refiners” was not far  from  “ half- 
and-half.”  . .Adulteration 
is  practiced  to ! 
such an extent th at not only is the ‘ ’refined” j 
product much  depressed  in  price  but 
the 
genuine bas suffered to such  a  degree  that 
th e  shipment of the latter  is  badly discour­
aged..  I t is now selling  a t  about a cent per j 
‘pound below the price of  side-mi at.  where j 
a year ago  there  was  a   greater  difference 
the other w aj.  The evil has attained such 
a  magnitude that the packers  of  the  W est j 
.are seriously discussing the  advisability  of I 
asking  for  Congressional  interference  tol 
protect the manufacturera  of  the pure artS- 
•de from the mixtures which are palmed up- j 
on buyers and consumera under the name of 
laid  when they really consist  in J&ige part 
itâc cottonseed oil, tallow, and  otlïer ingred­
ients. 
.Those who are moving in  the  mat- 
iter do not pfopose to  demand that  the  use 
•pf hhe oti  sbfril  be  prohibited,  but  simply 
Ü rô  ghe compound shal l bt| labeled and sold 
; io r Wbat it really 1».  Probably it would nut 
be dlfBdodfc to have a   legal  line  drariru.  be- 
tllft.two,  as is now done between but-
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S traths which scholars ought to know 

A  toucher in tkeSundayschool 
•  Had taught her scholars f  ew
io read the Bible through.

Mnftalitbe day herein set'down 
|   A  new one had come in—
A  little lad, with keen, bright eyes,

And innocent of sin.

Such questions as she thought 

The teacher asked them ail around 
Would fit their m inis and bring about 
-  The object that she sought.

S  knew of Adam and his sin,

Paul and Peter, too;

Of Jacob, Joseph, David. Saul 

And him his brother slew.

And then the teacher asked her class 
Who Pharaoh was?  “Of course,” she said 

If any one could tell
“You know that very well.”

And silence, with a blow,

But, strange to say, no hand arose.
Had struck the class, and not none ,
*  The answer seemed to know.
A t last the new boy’s hand went up— 
The teacher smiled—the new boy said; 

“ Well, who was Pharaoh, lad?”
"T w as him that busted dad.”
Always a Target.

The rnan who robs yon on the road, 
The grocer giving you light weight 

A highwayman is he;
A  low-weigh man must be.

S o w   Philadelphia  Grocers  Secure 

Profit  on  Sugar.

SUGAR QUESTION,

A. E. Buecker, Secretary of the Philadel­
phia Retail Grocers’  Association, furnishes 
the Am erican  Grocer  with  the  following 
description  of  the  movement  inaugurated 
and maintained in that  city for the purpose 
o f seeming a living profit on sugar:
For years the grocers of  Philadelphia had 
been selling  sugars at  or  below  cost. 
In 
many  localities  the  principal  articles  ex­
posed to the view of easterners  were  large 
bins containing sugars, with placards there­
on stating the price,  which  was  ruinously 
tow.  This cutting became  so  prevalent in 
one part of  the city that  when  the  Retail 
Grocers’ Association had become  a  perma­
nent organization,  a few of  the  storekeep­
ers of  that locality discussed the advisabili­
ty  of doing away with that system of doing 
badness.
The subject was  brought up at a meeting 
of  the  Association  in  May,  and  behold! 
those  few  found there  were  many  others 
who were ready to throw off  the yoke they 
had been bearing.  A  meeting  was  called 
and a large number responded.  After fully 
discussing the subject  the  chair  appointed 
m committee to be called the Sugar Commit­
tee, to consist of three  members  from each 
ward, making  it  a  committee  of  ninety- 
nine to visit the different  dealers  in  their 
wards, to have them sign  an  agreement  as 
follows:
Resolved, That  on  and  after  Monday, 
June 30, 1887, we,  the  undersigned  retail 
grocers, agree to sell sugars  at*  a  profit  of 
not less  than 1 cent per pound;  said profit 
to be regulated by the  sugar refiners’ prices 
and published every Monday in the  Public 
ledger and Record by the Secretary of  the 
Retail Grocers’ Association.
A t  the meeting  a  committee  was  ap 
pointed  to  draft  a  suitable  circular  to  be 
distributed among  the trades as follows:
IMPORTANT  TO  THE RETAIL GROCER— THE 
«The matter of selling sugars, either at or 
»fraction above cost,  has  many years  been 
»vexed question, and one  that  has  caused 
much  annoyance  to  the  trade  generally, 
Why this is so,  or why that particular arti 
> d e  has been selected to be disposed of with­
out profit has never yet  been  satisfactorily 
answered. 
In  selling  sugars at a supposed 
profit of H cent per pound it  really  means 
»loss  of  K   cent  as  the  loss  by  drying, 
drafts,  bags  and  string  would  take  fully 
H ot a cent per pound to cover; consequent­
ly,  even  a supposed  profit  of  1  cent  per 
pound would really net  but M cent 
“If you ask a grocer  why  he  offers  his 
sugars at  cost he  will  tell  you  that  he  is 
compelled  to  do  so,  because  his  neighbor 
Jones does it,  and the latter because Smith 
does, and so on throughout the trade.
“ In  the  meantime  the  dear  public  are 
moping the benefit of  our time,  labor  and 
capital.
"“The cutting grocer overlooks the import­
an t fact that he gains nothing, even  i»  the 
way of increased  custom,  by  slaughtering 
U s prices, as the aforesaid Jones is perhaps 
as  well  lined  with  cash  as  his  cutting 
neighbor, and consequently will  reduce his 
prices in order to compete with him.  And 
so the  war goes on  until  the  one  with  the 
smaller pocketbook is compelled to throw up 
Hie sponge and compromise with his  credit­
ors, or to sell out  to  another  who  in  turn 
¡becomes a cutter, when  the war is renewed 
and the battle fought again
««For some time past a number of grocers 
have been agitating the matter  in  order  to 
effect a change and end the foolish custom,
*  and to that end have appointed a committee 
wrho will shortly call on you,  when  it  will 
be expected that you will not  only  sign  in 
favor, but will use your  beet  endeavors  to 
make the ending a grand  success.  Should 
it so happen  that  the  Visiting  Committee 
fall to see you,  please to call  at  the  rooms 
of  the  Association, where you can sign the 
petition.  We are  planting  the  acorn  and 
expect a great oak to grow from  it.  Will 
yon Aid u s?”
Through the courtesy of the different yeast 
companies, a copy of the above circular was 
It  had  the  desired 
left with each dealer. 
effect  A t the next  meeting  of  the  Com 
*"  mittee  on  tire  Calling  of  Wards,  it  was 
,  found  that  out  of  4,000  grocers  and  tea 
dealers there were only  between 150 to 200 
who would  n o t sign.  Special  committees 
mere  appointed  to  wait  on  the  obstinate 
enes.  A scale of  prices  for use in case 
changes from week to  week  was  arranged 
I   (no matter what changes  take place during 
.the week the prices  published  on  Monday 
hold good until the following Monday)  and 
tee Secretary instructed to  have  published 
foe prices for  the  following  week,  which 
aero:  Granulated,  7  cents;  Confectioners’ 
A , 7 cent8; Soft A, 6^   emits;  Light  B,  6 
«ente;  Extira C, 5K  cents;  C, 5 cents.
The daily press took the  matter  up, and 
axled about toe injustice  to  the  consumer, 
b ut when they were shown how tne  matter 
stood they  dropped  toe  subject  and  there 
Jfaafc been no trouble from that source  since.
A fter the movement had been in existence 
.  a  short  time  complaints  were  made  that
 parties were not  keeping  the  sgree- 
S
t  This pat the Association to the ex- 
P>|gBnse of  having four agents op  foe  street 
oontinually talking the matter  up  to  bring 
In 
leases, after some talking, they  would 
i háctcGr put up their eard price.  This 
ntthed by toe  Association,,  on 
M y S
PM. H i in H |   type  was  printed:  “My 
H   Aide
Jtencl.” , ©h foe op- 
list  to  be  used  for 

slides* m, th§ .ranks  again. 

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one wfofcv  T ils was found to be of gteat 
[vantage in keeping upthe prices. 
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After having toe agents on toe  streefcfor 
several  "months,  It  was  fouhd 
that  we 
could  dispense  with  them  oneby  one,  to  
that at the present time the ball still rolls at 
very little expense.
Now  what  has  been  the  zesnlt  of  the 
movement?  If we figure  that  each  grocer 
sells two barrels of  sugar per week  of  300 
pounds per barrel, we find that 4,000 grocers 
selling at 1 cent per pound above cost, have 
324,000 per week,  or  §1,248,000  per  year, 
more money to pay their bills  than  by  the 
cut-throat system.
The cost of the movement to toe Associa­
tion op to date is about $300.  The  return 
to the Association has been the  increase  of 
membership from 425 on May  1  to  716  on 
Oct.  1. 

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New Cheese Factory,
Cheshire Correspondence Allegan Journal.

Our cheese factory is now almost a certain­
ty.  After many months of suspense and hard 
work on toe  part  of the committee, trying 
to overcome toe indifference with which  the 
project  was at first received by the termers, 
their efforts have at last been crowned  with 
success.  T h e  committee  appointed to con­
sult with F. W. Smith  about  building  and 
operating the factory report  that they visit­
ed him, told him what had been accomplish­
ed, and he informed  them  that it was suffi­
ciently encouraging to justify him in imme­
diately  erecting  the  necessary  buildings. 
Much credit is due the members of the com­
mittees  for  their  untiring  efforts  and to 
David Giles, who, I understand, has given a 
building spot on his  corners. 
It  is  under­
stood that Mr. Smith  has  already received 
proposals  from  different  parties to do the 
work on the buildings and  in  a  very  few 
days operations will commence.
The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars are steady.  -Most of the refineries 
in toe “trust,” having  made  the  necessary 
preliminary  arrangements,  are  again  at 
work and producing the  several  grades  of 
refined  sugars  to  a  moderate  extent,  the 
meltings for the week reaching 19,495 bags, 
or a little under the total  of  the  preceding 
week.  Coffees are lower and easy.  Tea is 
without change.  Canned  goods  are  firm. 
Dried fruits are stiff.

Oysters.

Customers of  Wm. L. Ellis & Co., Balti­
more, are informed  that  fast  freight  lines 
are now running, and  as  we  have  special 
express rates  to  all  Michigan  points,  we 
are in position to  ship  you  straight  Balti­
more  pack  of  fresh  oysters  at  an  inside 
price,  direct from Baltimore.  Emery & Co., 
Grand  Rapids,  will  fill  all orders  for  im­
mediate  shipment  for  prompt  cash  to the 
country trade.  Address all orders to 
B.  F.  E mery,  State Agent,

37 Canal  street. 

Grand  Rapids,

VISITING  BUYERS.

The following retail dealers have visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
Elihu Walling, Walling Bros, Lamont 
CE Brewster, Lake Brewster 
W H Shirts, Shirts-Bros, Shelby.
Neal McMillan, Bockford 
S Goldstein, Trufant 
j  J Wiseman, Nunica 
M M Brooks, Austerlitz 
G P Stark, Cascade 
O House, Chauncey 
J  P Cordes, Alpine 
Walter U Struik, Zeeland 
M Heyboer & Bros, Drenthe 
L Cook, Bauer 
Faro we & Dalmon, Allendale 
Thos VanEenenaam, Zeeland 
D H Decker, Zeeland 
J  VanFarowe. Jamestown 
M Minderhout. Hanley 
DenHerder & Tanis, Friesland 
A Michmerheuzen, Overisel 
W J  Hopper, Fremont 
H Baker & Son. Drenthe 
Koorinan & Buys, Plainfield 
S A Bush, Lowell 
S J  Martin, Sullivan 
H VanNoord, Jamestown 
H H Childs, Bockford 
John Smith, Ada 
A C Barkley, Crosby 
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg 
C H Joldersma. Jamestown 
John Kamps, Zutphen 
S McNitt & Co. Byron Center 
John Damstra, Gitchel 
G TenHoor, Forest Grove 
Cornell & Griswold, Griswold 
B G Smith, Wayland 
J  C Benbow, Cannonsburg 
B Gilbert & Co, Moline 
Heyboer & Bro, Drenthe 
M E Snell, Wayland 
M J  Howard, Englishville 
C K Hoyt, Hudsonville 
H Thompson, Canada Corners 
J  Kinney, Kinney 
Bodenbaügh Bros, Mancelona 
B Tripp, Carson City 
DeWitt Sc Ridout, Spring Lake 
T J  Sheridan, White Cloud 
L A Paine, Englishville 
Geo Carrington, Trent 
R S Woolford, Mecosta 
M Hunsberger,  Lowell 
C C Tuxbury, Sullivan 
R T Parrish, Grandville 
L M Wolf, Hudsonville 
E S Botsford, Dorr 
C E Blakeley, Coopersville 
Blakeley Bros, Fife Lake 
J  N Wait, Hudsonville 
O W Messenger, Spring Lake 
J  S Alden & Co, Howard City 
M V Wilson, Sand Lake 
C F Williams. Caledonia 
J  S Newell & Co, Coral 
N Burton, Burton & Byers, Blanchard 
M Minderhout, Hanley 
N Bouma, Fisher 
D D Harris, Shelby ville 
G W Robinson, Edgerton 
M R Griffin, Coopersville 
Mrs J  Debri, Byron Center 
Norman Harris, Big Springs 
Jos Omler, Wright 
C O Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg 
Stanley Monroe, Berlin 
W S Boot, Tallmadge 
Jas Barnes, Austerlitz 
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam 
A J Patterson, East Paris 
Will Pipp, Pipp Bros &Martindale, Kalkaska 
A R McKinnon, Shelby 
Wm DePree & Bro, Zeeland 
Parmenter Sc, Son, Bridge St Ferry 
J  B King, Howard City 
O F Sc W P Conklin, Ravenna 
L F Davoll, Boyne Falls 
Sidney Stark, Allendale 
Mr. Paton, Paton & Andrus, New Brit 
Humphrey & Spaulding, Wayland 
Howk Sc Bostwick, Lowell 
G H Walbrink, Allendale 
Ball A Ihler, Tustin,
JRaymond.Berlin 
T J Knowles, Volney 
D W Shattuck, Wayland 
C H Deming, Dutton 
Geo Demarest, White Cloud 
B Gilbert & Co, Moline 
FE  Piper, Charlotte 
C S Comstock, Pierson 
P  DeKraker, Holland 
M Gezon, Jenisonville 
$ Cooper, Jamestown 
Gilbert Stevens, Austerlitz 
C E Pratt, Moline 
E B Bailey, Allegan 
T J Smedley, Byron Center  ...
Baker A Baker. Rockford 
8 TMcLellan, Denison 
'
J  Pruim. Zeeland 
Geo A Sage, Rockford 
A  Purdy, Fremont 
Gas Begman, Bauer 
W W Forrester, Pierson

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A«  Brett,  grocer.  Bavenna:  “Tot 
"  iaad  te  well worth

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2ACHARIAH  WAYBACK- 

f i
His  Initial  Experiences' as  a  Storekeeper.
H em lo ck Siding,  Nov. 12,1887.* 

Editor Michigan Tradesman : 

Dear  Sir—I  have  been so busy getting 
nay stock unpacked and  properly  arranged 
and displayed that I  have  had  no  time  to 
write you my experiences,  as I promised  to 
do.  My trade  has  been  better  than  I-ex­
pected,, but the cash doesn’t come  in as fast 
as I wish it did.  Most of my customers are 
comparatively new-comers, so I  don’t know 
whether they are honest or  not.  They talk 
very fair-like, but I Bee by The Tradesman 
that dead-beats are even more plausible than 
honest men, so I  don’t  know  which  course 
I   wish  Hemlock  Siding 
was big  enough for a Business Men’s Asso­
ciation,  but since T am  the  only  merchant 
in the place,  I suppose I’ll  have to join the 
Association nearest to me.  Which  one had 

best to take. 

better apply  to?
There are many things  about  store-keep­
ing I don’t understand.  The,  first  day  I 
opened up, a  lady  came  in  and  asked  for 
some velvetine. 
I thought that was some­
thing sold on the grocery side, but I couldn’t 
put my hand on it to save my life. 
I found 
Soapine and Scourine and Starchine, but no 
velvetine.  So I asked the lady  whether ■-it 
came in bottles or boxes,  and  she  laughed 
in my iace  and  marched  out  of  the  store 
without saying a word. 
I  asked  my  wife 
about it when I went home  to  supper  and 
when she explained it  to me I felt so cheap 
that I didn’t open  the store again pntil this 
morning.

The next day a slick-looking  young  fel­
low came in and asked for a round  square.
didn’t trust myself to look  over  my hard­
ware stock, for  fear  it  might  be  another 
Velvetine  episode,  but  went right  to  my 
bills to see if the jobbing house  put in any­
thing answering that  description. 
I  could 
n’t find it,  so the  customer  asked if  I had 
any red lampblack. 
I couldn’t  find  that in 
the bills, either, nor could I find any tin cat- 
holes, which the young man  was very anx­
ious to purchase.  What  kind  of a man is 
Sid,  Stevens,  anyway? 
I  told  him to in­
clude in my order a  little  assortment of ev­
erything that would be apt  to  be called for 
here,  but  the  first  three  things  I had a 
ehance to sell in  the  hardware  department 
were not to be found. 
I shall have to trans­
fer my trade to another house,  if  Mr.  Stev­
ens doesn’t do better by me in the future.

Those olives I bought on the recommend­
ation of Sam. Lemon are  stayers. 
I  have 
tried to sell a bottle to  every  man  who has 
come into the store, but you  might  as well 
try to sell air to an eagle.  They make nice 
shelf  ornaments, 
though,  so  I  don’t  be­
grudge the money tied up in the things.

A  traveling  man  stopped  off to see me 
yesterday,  for the first  time  since I started 
in business. 
I bought a few  odds and ends 
of him, but I don’t think I  shall  do  much 
business with the  drummers. 
I   want  the 
fun of going  down to  the city to buy goods 
myself. 

Yours,  Z.  Wayback.

Eggs  by  Weight.

A New York egg handler is  authority for 
the statement that great  discontent and dis­
satisfaction exist  between the  shipjper, re 
ceiver and producer, on the  present  system 
of handling eggs, and that the consumer has 
tangible cause of complaint  whidh it would 
he well for the trade to recognize.  The dis­
honest fanner continues to speculate in eggs 
by salting, mealing or holding  them  for an 
advance in price, and then fraudulently sells 
them as fresh laid to the buyers or shippers. 
The latter will again retain them for a time, 
short or long as it may  be,  before  passing 
them along to the receiver in  the East,  who 
again retains them subject  to  an  advanta­
geous sale.  The jobber coming next on the 
list, in order to make a greater profit than is 
legitimate, will buy  these  now  stale  eggs 
and mix them with more  honestly  handled 
eggs; and in that shape they  will  reach the 
consumer through the  retailer.  Naturally, 
this manner of selling eggs  reacts  on  and 
discourages the honest  producer in the fact 
that toe consumption of  his  product is  be­
coming more and  more  restricted  as  this 
system of egg manipulation  is growing bet­
ter known to the  public.  The  honest pro­
ducer and consumer are the  real  victims of 
toe questionable practice.
It is argued,  therefore, that toe prosperi 
ty of the trade  depends  upon  substituting 
the weight of 24 ounces for ten  eggs  as 
standard  of  quality  or  value,  instead  of 
dealing by mere count,  as  at  present. 
In 
this way the consumer could judge for him­
self the quality and  value  of  a  purchase, 
and this fact will encourage him to buy free­
ly.  Birds’ and guinea hens’ eggs will, when 
sold by actual weight, become mere curiosi 
ties in the market,  instead of being, as now, 
sold as food. 
It is claimed  that  the  rapid 
development of the country  and  the  great 
distances  and  variety  of  territory  from 
which eggs are now being collected,  togeth 
er with the universal  determination  on the 
part of handlers to keep  them long periods, 
must bring forcibly to the  mind  of  people 
generally the urgency of  adopting  toe pro­
posed method of handling  eggs  by weight.
It is claimed that the proposed innovation 
in the method ot handling eggsis not favor­
ed hy the majority of the egg  jobbers,  as it 
would necessitate  the  unpacking  of  each 
package and the accurate  weighing  of cov­
er, straw, etc., but toe  minority advocating 
the plan are active in its  advancement  and 
thesuccess of the proposed measure is only 
a question of time. 
A bill was introduced  in toe  New  York 
Legislature  several  years ago, authorizing 
the sale of eggs by weight, but the  opposi 
tion of the majority of the trade killed it.

•

That Tecumseh,  Jackson  and  Newberry 
are knocking. Kalamazoo into slivers in  toe 
celery industry doesn’t seem to be very well 
known yet outside  of  those  towns.  A re* 
cent big order for the wood, from New Mex­
ico, found its way to Kalamazoo all right al­
though it  bore  only  the  simple  address 
“Union celery gardens, Mich.”

Woodland  has  a.  new.  butcher  and the 
Butcher has a pair of dogs  that he values at 
$900:  The  male  is  a   lion  mastiff  and 
weights  230  pounds,  while  the  female, 
»  wolf mastiff,  tips the  beam  at  100..  The 
butcher chUms that President Cleveland has 
ordered a $200  pup,  mairing S  $25 deposit 
to show goodfoith. 

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promptly and buy tn full packages. 
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illése prices  are  for  cash  buyers, who  pay 
Advanced—Sugars. ¿7 
Declined—Package Coffees.
AXLE ORZASE.

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Crown'
Frazer’s....
Diamond  X
Modoc; 1 doz...... . .2 50

Paragon ...........810
Paragon25 ft pails.  90 
Fraziers, 25 fit paila. 1 20

95

BAKING  powder.
10cent  cans......
14 lb.
6oz.
%lb.
12 oz. 
llb . 
2 y* lb.
81b. 
ibr 
lb.

“  ...................140
“  ................         1  90
“  ......  ...........  2 60
“  .......................  3 80
“  .......
“  ................4  95
“  .....
“  ........................ 11  38
“ ....... 
13 75
 
“  ....... 
.  ...  .17 76
“  ....................... 22  20
Acme, H tt> cans, 3 doz. case.____ ______   75
¥   ......   ..............  150
“  .................. 
3 00
  20
 
“  %8.................................................  2 00
Is..............................  .................3 75
“ 
bulk............................................   28
“ 
Arctic, % B> cans, 6 doz. case......................  45
 
75
...... .............. 140
......................2 40
..  ................  12 00
Victorian, 1 ft cans, (tall,) 2 doz......   ........2 00
15
Diamond,  “bulk.” ......................................  
Absolute, % ft cans, 100 cans in case........,11 7o
......... 10 00
......... 18 75
Telfer’s 14 ft, cans, 6 doz in case.....  ......... 2 70
“  ............  2 55
“ 
.................  150

“  Vi *   “  2  “ 
1ft  “  1  “ 
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B ulk........ ............................. 

Princess,  % s„._............ — ...  ......  125

4 
%  “  2 
1  “  2 
5 
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Dry, No. 2.........................................doz. 
Dry» No. 3........................................ doz. 
45
Liquid, 4 oz,......................... 
doz. 
Liquid, 8 oz......................................doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz.......................................E gross 3 50
Arctic 8  oz................................. 
 
 
  7 20
Areticl6oz........................................ 
12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.............. .............2 00
Arctic No. 2 
.............................   3 00
............  ..........4 00
Arctic No. 3 
King’s Quick-Rising, 80-lb. cases............ $ 4 25

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100-lb. 
b r o o m s .

Common Whisk.... 1 00
Fancy  Whisk.____1 25
Mill..........................3 75
Warehouse  ........... 3 00

No. 2Hurl...................2 00
No. lH u rl___......2  25
No. 2 Carpet........... 2 50
No. 1 Carpet........... 2 75
Parlor Gem___:-...8 00
Rubkle Bros’.: Vienna Sweet..........................22
Premium................................33
HOmeo-Cocoa......................  .37
B reakfast:...................  
.48

CHOCOLATE.

 

COCOANUT.

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Schepps, Is.......... >................................  @25
Is and 
@26
H s......................................   @27
Is in tin pails.......................   @27V4
Hs 
@28)4
Maltby’s,  Is.........................................   @23)4
Is and  )4s............ .............  @24
@24)4
)4s......... 
Manhattan,  pails.................\ ............   @20
Peerless  .............................................   @18
Bulk, pails or barrels..........................  @16

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Michigan full  c re a m .................. 13)4@1314
-  DRIED  FRUITS—-FOREIGN.
Citron ..........Í s. .v*. 
v;  @22'
@ 7M
C u rra n ts.................. ¡fSt-.U,__ .... 
Lemon Peel.......................................¡  @14
OrangePeel...................1. 
@14
Prunes, French,60s..........:.r.»...........  @
i'M .'  Frencb,80s.».
  ....  @
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French,  90s__ .......... ............  ©
■  X “ 
“  Turkey..................................   ©
Raisins, Dehesia...... ..........................
Raisins, London Layers,... <... ....  ...  @3 00
...  ...........  @2 50
Raisins,California  “ 
Raisins, Loóse Muscatels,. . ....... ..............@2 55
Raisins, Loose California............. . 
@2 25
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s......... 
ll?4@llH
Raisins. Sultanas...............................  9  @11
Raisins,  Valencias,  ............................8  @ 8V4
Raisins, Im p e ria ls.....................  @3 50
Cod, whole, ... .......... 
   ___ __.4E@5
Cod,boneless.....    ......... ....................   6@7
Halibut ...... ......... ....... ...........................  12V4
Herring, round,  %  bbl......................   @2  75
Herring, round, 14  bbl__ ___.r-A.............  1 50
Herring, Holland,  bbls......... .............. . 
Herring,Holland, kegs.......................   80@85
Herring, Scaled........................ 
  22@25
Mackerel, shore, No. 1, % bbls................
“  12ft kits 
“  10  ** 

......  1,25
“ 
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....  @1 10
“ 
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No.3. H bbls.. ..........................6 50
“ 
Trout, H bbls........................................ ..5 75
“  10 ft kits.........................................;-85
White,N0.1.H bbls............ ..................fir75
White, No. 1,12 ft kits..........  ..........1  20
White, No. 1,10ft k its ....... . .........__ 1 05
White, Family, J4 bbls..............................3 85
68
Lemon.  Vanilla.
Jennings’ D. C.,2 oz..............$  doz.  1 00 
1 60
“  4 oz......................... 1 50 
2 65
“  6 oz.............................2 50  4 25
5 00
“  8 qz................... .......3 50 
“  No. 2 Taper...............125  175
“  No. 4 
...............1 75 
3 00
“ 
)4 pint,  round........4 50  9 00
“ 
“  1 
..........9 00  18 00
“ 
“  No. 3 panel..............110  185
“  No. 8  “ 
............... 2 75  5 00
“  No. 10  “  ...............4 25  7 00
FARTNACEOUS  GOODS.
Farina, 100 lb.  kegs..................... .......  @  04
Hominy, $  bbl.....................................  @4 25
Macaroni, domestic 12 lb.  boxes........  @  65
im ported............... ............  @11)4
Pearl Barley........................................  @2%
Peas, Green.........................................  @115
Peas, Split............................................  @ 224
Sago, German......................................   @6
Tapioca, flake or pearl............................. @5%
Wheat, cracked.............................{...  @6 25
Vermicelli,  imported..........................  @11)4
domestic, 121b.boxes......  @  65

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kits.............................. 

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MATCHES.

Grand Haven,  No. 8, square.........
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3gro............... 110
Grand Haven, No.  200,  parlor..................1  75
Grand Haven, No.  300, parlo r.................2  25
Grand Haven, No.  7,  round......................1  50
Oshkosh, No. 2............ .............................. :  76
Oshkosh, No. 8.......................................... .1 50
Swedish...................................... 
75
Richardson’s No. 8  square......................... 1 00
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
...........................150
Richardson’s No. 7)4, round........................1 00
Richardson’s No. 7 
do  __ :..................1 50
Woodbine. 300..................................... 
 
Black Strap...............................             17@18
Cuba Baking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . s . .......... 22@25
24@35
Porto  Rico.................................  
33@40
New  Orleans, good..................... 
New Orleans, choice......................  
44@50
New Orleans, fancy........................... 
50@52

MOLASSES.

 

 

 

 

 

Vt bbls. 3c extra

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Green,

COFFEES.

Roasted.

7%

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7

  4%

CORDAGE.

R io...................22@24
Santos.............. 23@25
Maricabo..........24@26
J a v a ................  @25
O. G. Java........ 26@27
Mocha  .............26@27

Lion........................................
Lion, in  cabinets...................
Dilworth’s .............................
Magnolia................................
Honey Bee.............................  2524  25%
German..................................
German, in  bins...... .............
Arbuckle s Ariosa.................
Avorica..............

Rio................... 22@24
Santos..............  @26
Maricabo.........   @26
Java................. 30@31
O. G. Java........ 33@35
Mocha.............. 33@35
COFFEES—PACKAGE.30 lbs 60 lbs 100 fts
25%
24%
24%
25%
24%
25%
2124
2224
32
32
30
29
27
20
22%23%
24%
26
25
Thompson & Co.’s Honey B ee.............
60 foot Jute— .  90 50 foot Cotton... 1 60
. 1 20 60 foot Cotton... 1  75
72 foot Jute ...
..1 50 |72foot Cotton... 2 00
4oFoot Cotton.
X.  XXX  V »
6%

COFFEES—SPECIAL BRANDS.
Bell, Conrad ACo.’s Plantation Java.
M ocha...'...... .
Javoka..............
Imperial...... .
Banner..............
Mexican.  ..........
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Arbuckle’s Avorica, 50 lb. double bags 

Quaker Cy.  “ 
Best Rio 
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Prime Maricabo 

CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

Kenosha Butter.......................
Seymour Butter— ................
Butter.....................................
Fancy  Butter...... ........... 
 
S. Oyster..................................
Picnic.......................................
Fancy  Oyster..........................   4%
Fancy  Soda............................   5
City Soda..............................
Soda  ........................................
Milk.........................................
Boston............ .......................
Graham...................................
Oat Meal..................................
Pretzels, hand-made................
Pretzels...................................
Cracknels............ ...................
Lemon Cream.......................... 
Sugar Cream........................... 
Frosted Cream........................
Ginger  Snaps.......................... 
No. 1 Ginger Snaps.............. . 
Lemon  Snaps....................
Coffee Cakes____...— ......
Lemon W afers.......................
Jumbles...................................
Extra Honey Jumbles............
Frosted Honey  Cakes................
Cream Gems.
Bagleys  Gems.........................
Seed Cakes...............................
S. & M. Cakes..........................
CANNED F IS H .
Clams, 1 ft, Littl&Neck.............................. 1 35
Clam Chowder,  3 ft.................................... 2 15
Cove Oysters, 1 ft standards.................  1 00
Cove Oysters, 2 ft standards...................  1 55
Lobsters, 1 ftpicnic.................................... 1 75
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic................               .2 65
Lobsters, 1ft star.................................... .1 90
Lobsters, 2 ft star................... .............. . .2 90
Mackerel, 1ft fresh standards...........— 1  70
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards.................5 CO
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 %s................................  @
  9@10
Sardines,  domestic  %s......................  
Sardines,  MuBtard %s.........................     9@L0
Sardines,  imported  %s..................... 
  12@13
Sardines,  spiced, %s...,.’. .........................10@12
Trout. 3 ft brook..............,.......... ..........
Apples, gallons, standards.... . . . . -----...3 00
Blackberries, standards......... .................115
Cherries,  red standard,............ .........— 1 60
Cherries, pitted..............................  1 85@1 90
Damsons......... 
125
Egg flam s, standards 
.......1  50
Gooseberries— . — ....... 
1 85
Grapes...... *.■•••••• -v..................................  95
Green Gages, ........¿j»
.
,1 50
Peaches, all yellow, standards........,.. .2 65
Peaches, seconds............................  
2 25
Peaches, pie.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  ....1 6C@t 65
Peárs...................................................... . -1 60
Pineapples,..............-......................1 40@2 75

guiñees............................................... .•••! 1»

aspberries,  extra..................,..1  40

CANNED FRUITS.

13%
U%
12%13%
13%
13%

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15%

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8%

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re d ..................................... 1 40
Strawberries  ....................................      4  50
Whortleberries................... 
1 25
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.......... VJl. ........2  00
Beans,Lima,  standard...,.................. 
  75
Beans, Green Limas... . . . . . . . , .     ......1 10@140
Beans, String.......  ■ .*..................75@110
Beans, Stringless, Erie....... 90
Beans, Lewis* Boston B aked...,...................1 60
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy........................ 
 
1 20
Peas, F r e n c h . .......... ,t ............ 
1 60
 
Peas,extra m arro fat,..,,...............1 20@1 40
PeaSi Soaked......... ....................................   75
«  Early June, stand.....................1 fi0@lW
sifted..,.......................8 00
i  
••  French.extra fine..................... ..,..20 00
.........,.22 00
Mushrooms,extra fin e ....... 
Suepetash. s t a n d a r d . . ......... ...SÍ3@180

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Michigan Test............................................  10
Water White.......................................... 

  11

 
ROLLED OATS

OATMEAL

2 25

Half barrels...... ...3 12 Half barrels__
Cases.................. ...2 25 Cases...............
Medium............ . ..6  OOiSmall,  bbl........
“  % bbl...

, % bbl......3 50

PICKLES.

“ 

PIPE S.

RICE.

Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross.........
@2 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,2% gross......
@1 75
American T. D..
@  75
Choice Carolina. ....6% J a v a ...........
5%
Prime Carolina. ....6
P a tn a ......... ...........5%
Good Carolina.. ....5 34 Rangoon__ ...  @5
Good Louisiana. ...5% Broken.
.,.3%@3M
Japan...... .. ...5%@6%
T able..............534@6
Head ................. — 63SÍ
DeLand’s pure.. ...-5% Dwight’s __ ...........5
Church’s  ......... ....5
Taylor’s  G. M... ....5 Cap Sheaf... ...........5

Sea  Foam... ...........5%

SALERATUS.

%c less in 5 box lots.

i Pocket, F F Dairy..........................2 10©2 20

SALT.

28 Pocket..............................................
1003 ft  pockets.....................................
Saginaw or Manistee..........................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu.bags.......
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........
American, dairy, % bu. bags..............
Rock, bushels......................................
Wateaw, Dairy, bu. bags..................

%  “ 

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SAUCES.

 

 

 

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and.Saigon

London Relish, 2 doz.................. ................ 2 50
Dingman, 100 bars...........  .........................  4 00
SPICES—WHOLE,
Allspice.....................................j
Cassia, China in mats............ .

Pepper, Singapore,  black... 

 
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s p i c e s —p u r e   g r o u n d .
Allspice.........  
....................... . 
Cassia,  Batavia.......................... 
 

Saigon...................................  
Cloves, Amboyna..............................  
Zanzibar......................  
 
Ginger, African..............  
 
Cochin................. 
Jamaica

11
Batavia in bundles......... . 
40
Saigon In rolls.......................  
Cloves, Amboyna...........................................30
Zanzibar......................  
29
 
Mace Batavia............................. . 
80
86
 
Nutmegs,  fancy......................  
No. 1........................ 
75
 
70
N o.2...........  ............. 
19
29
w h ite .,...,..,.;. 
11%
15
42
  32
31
 
12%
15
85
20
25
65
22
32
25
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 ft  boxes, 1 ft pkgs...  @5%
I   48 “ 
“ 
...  @ 5%
“ 
40 ft 
“ 
  @4
72 ft crates, 6 ft boxes..  @6)
“ 
“ 
“  Com, 40 ft boxes, 1 ft pkgs—   @6
“  1ft  “ 
“  20ft 
“ 
....  @ 6%
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs—   @7
i 
“ 
“  6ft boxes.;.  @7%
“  bulk,ifU .. .  @ 6%
“ 
*  Pure, lf t pkgs............ . 
@ 5%
Corn, 1 ft pkgs,«...  ........  @7

 
Mace Batavia................................ 
Mustard, English................................  
 
Nutmegs,  No. 2...................................  
Pepper, Singapore black..................  
white...................  

and Trieste
Trieste...................  

Cayenne........................... 

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SYRUPS. J  

O ff....................  
 

Cut  Loaf............... 
—   @ 7%
Cubes............... 
@7%
Powdered...........................................   @ 7%
Granulated, Standard......... .............  @7
  @6.94
Confectionery A ............. 
  @6.69
Standard A.......................... A ........  @6.56
No. 1, White Extra  C......... . . 1  ........6  @6%
No. 2, Extra C......................................   5%@ 5%
No.3C.................................................   @5%
No.4 C .......... ................... -V............. .  @ 5%
No.SC.................................« . . . .........5  @5%
Com, barrels...... @32  IPureSugar, bbl..25@38
Com, % bbls...... @34 
| Pure Sugar, % bbl 27@39
Com, 10 gal. k’gs.336  1
70 
LorlHard’s American Gentlem’en
@  55 
Maccoboy..................
@  44 
Gail & Ax’ 
........,-C.....
@  35 
Rappee..................... .
@  45 
Railroad  Mills Scotch.......... .
@1 30
 ...-........
Lotzbeck  .
.
.
TOBACCOS—PLUG.
Merry War...........3 4
Spear Head....... 44@44
Jolly Tar............ .34
Plank  Road.............42
Live Sc Let Live......34
Eclipse  ..............3 8
Nimrod...... ............ .37
Holy  M oses............33
Whopper 
Blue Blazes....,...... 32
Ju p iter......  ..
Eye Opener..,.., ;J. .32
Old Honesty..........42
Star  . 
.41
............ 
“
Clipper  .................... 34
Corner Stone......  ^
Sculping  Knife........34
CUppur.......... .34@36
Sam Bass....-.............34
2 ana 2.

SNUFF.

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TEAS.

Japan ordinary... 
Japan fair to good. 
Japan fine.-..
Japan dust............
Young Hyson.;
O olon#.,^.-.:  g   * *
Congo....

Gun Powder.,.... Bill 

Sturgeon, s m
Trout. 
Whiteflsh....... 
Whiteflsh, smoked...................................        JO

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

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3 50

Cartiss & Danton quote fts follows:

Standard  Tabs, No. 1.........................................5 50
Standard Tubs, No. 2........................................ 4 50
Standard Tubs, No. 3..........  
Standard Pails, two hoop.................................. 1 25
90
Standard Pails, three boop............................... 1 50
Pails, ground wood 
.................................4  50
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes.....................  .2 25
Butter  Pails, ash...............................................2 25
Butter Ladles................................................  90
Butter Spades........................  
75
 
.  76
Rolling Pins...................................... ....... 
Potato Mashers..........................  
5Ö
 
Clothes Pounders.................................... 
2 25
ClothesPins...................................................  60
Mop  Sticks......................................................... 1 00
Washboards, single............................................I 75
Washboards, double..........................................2 25
Washboards, Northern  Queen......................... 2 75
BASKETS.
Diamond  Market................. 
40
Bushel, narrow band, No. 1........................ l  50
Bushel, narrow band. No. 2........................ 1 40
Bushel, wide band........................................1 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 3...................................350
Clothes, splint,  No. 2 ..................................4 25
Clothes, splint,  No. 1................................... 5 00
Clothes, willow  No. 3...................................6 00
Clothes, willow  No. 2...................................6 50
Clothes, willow  No. 1............ ...................... 7 50
Water Tight,  (acme) bu................................... 3 75
....................2 85

half bu 

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HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins Sc Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

Green__ ® ft 5%@ 6
Part cured...  7  @ 7%
Fullcured....  7%@ 75 
Dry hides and

k ip s__ ....  8  @10

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins, 

or cured__ 7  @ 7%
ft piece...... 10  @30

WOOL.

“ 

50
25

Fine washed $ ft 32@26|Coarse washed.. .26@28
Medium  ............ 27@30|Unwasheti.
. 16@23

FUBS.No. 1
Bears....................
....15 (30 7 00 4 00
Beavers, per lb... 
......6 60 4 00 2 00
Badgers................
........  75
20
Dat, Wild..............
......   50
5
20
“  House........... ___   là
5
10
Fox,  Red..............
......1 (JO 60
10
30
“  Cross...........
...... 5  00 2 50 1 00
50
“  Grey...........
.....  75
10
50
20
Fishers.................
......7 00 4 00 2 GO 1 00
Lynx....................
....4 00 2 50 1 00
50
Mink, Large Dark ......  40
10
05
Small Pale.
......  25
05
Martins...............
...... I 00
30
10
SPRING  WINTER  FALL K ITS
Musrats....................
8@4
Otter.........................6 00
4 00
2 00 1 00
Raccoon, Large........  75
50
10
20
Small.........  30
20
05
10
Skunk.......................  75
50
25
10
Wolf..........................3 00
1 00
25
50
Deer Skins, dry. Red Coats, per lb
“
“  Blue  “
“
“  Short Grey, 
“
“  Long 
MISCELLANEOUS.

.  30c
.  30c
.  25c
-*• •• .  10c

Sheep pelts, Bhort shearing.............. 
5@25
Sheep pelts, old wool estimated.........   @25
Tallow...................................................3)4® 3%
Grease butter......................................  
5@ 8
Ginseng, good......... ............................1 60@1 70

25
15
60

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay $1.60@$1.70 $  ft 
for clean washed roots.
Rubber Boots and Shoes—Jobbers are  offer­
ing 10 per cent, off on first  quality  and 40 and 
12% per cent, off on second quality.
COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

scarce, readily commanding  $2.50 per bu. 

Apples—?2 25 per bbl.
Beets—In good supply at 40c per bu.
Bean—Hand-picked  mediums  are  very 
,
Butter—Dairy is active at 22@25c.
Cabbages—$4@$7 per  100, according to size.
Carrots—40c per bu.
Celery—20@25 $ doz.
Cheese—Jobbers are holding their  stocks a t 
Cider—9c per gal.
Cranberries—Home  grown, $3 perbu.  Cape 

13@13%c.

Cod, $3.25 per bu.

Dried Apples—The market is weak.  Jobbers 

hoi i sun-dried at 5c and evaporated at 8c.

Eggs—Moving upward.  Jobbers pay 15c for 
pickled and 16c for fresh and sell for 17 and 18c, 
respectively.

Honey—Dull at 12@16c.
Hay—Baled 

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

is  moderately  active  at  $14 
in 

Onions—Jobbers pay 60@70c and hold  at 80e.
Pop Com—2c 33 ft.
Potatoes—The market continues to improve, 
the Southern and Eastern demand having late­
ly become quite active.  Handlers are paying 70 
@75c  for  Burbanks  here  and  69@65c  at  the 
Northern buying points.

per bbl.  Baltimore, $2,91 per bbl.  >

Sweet  Potatoes — Kiln-dried  Jerseys,  $3.50 
Turnips—30c $  bu.

GRAINS AND  MILLING  PRODUCTS.

Wheat—No change.  City millers pay 76c for 
Lancaster  and  74c  for  Fulse and Clawson, o
Corn—Jobbing  generally  at50c  in  100  bu. 
lots and 47%c in carlots.
Oats—White, 35c in small lots  and 30®31c  in 
carl ots.
R y e—4S@50c 33  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.20 ¥ ewt.
Flour—No change.  Patent.$5.C0Bf bbl.in sacks 
and  $5.20  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.00 $  bbl. in 
sacks and $4.20 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.40 33 bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  $ ton-  Bran, $15
I ton.  Ships,  $15.50  $   ton.  Middlings, $16 9  
ton Com and Oats. $18  33 ton.

The  A rt  Interchange  issues  with  its- 
number of November 5 a fine large study of 
field daisies, being one  of  thirteen  similar 
studies given  with  twenty-six  numbers of 
the magazine for $3, or of twenty-six  simi­
lar studies given with  twenty-six  numbers 
for  $4.  Wm.  Whitlock, publisher, 37 and 
39 West 22d street, New York.

INCREASE YOUR TRADE

BY SELLING

VINEGAR.

 

 

 

 

 

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8 
8 

30 gr. 

do 
do 
do 

60 gr.
10
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10  12
90 '
75
 

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MISCELLANEOUS.

• '  ; 
White Wine . : ............. 
Octer............... 
 
Apple........*;...................... 
^   , 
Bath Brick imported.............................. 
American...........................  
Burners, No. 0.... .  ..........................   @70
No. 1.    .................. 
 
 
Cocoa Shells,bulk............ .................   @4
Condensed Milk, 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
F elix.......................   @115
Firecrackers, per box......................  @120
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps......... ............  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.....................   @J5
Gum, Spruce.......................................  @30
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails...............................  524® 6
Powder, Keg........................................  @5 00
Powder, H  Keg...................................  @2 75
...........................................  @  15

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CANDY. FRUITS AND  NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

do 
do 

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Standard, 25 ft boxes...........................   8  @ 8%
Twist, 
...... .....................  @9
Cut Loaf 
....................  @io
MIXED
Royal, 25 ft pails..................................  @9
Royal, 200 ft bbls..................... ...........   @ 8
Extra, 25 ft pails.................................   @io
Extra, 200 ft bbls..................................  @ 9
French Cream, 25 ft pails....................  @11%
Cut loaf, 25 ft oases.............................  @10
Broken, 25 ft pails..............................   @10
Broken. 200 ft  bbls...............................  @ 9
Demon Drops..........................................  @12
Sour Drops..............................................   @13
Peppermint  Drops................................   @15
Chocolate Drops..................................... 
14
18
H M Chocolate  Drops............................ 
Gum  Drops  ..........................................  
10
22
Licorice Drops.......................;...............  
AB Licorice  Drops............................... 
12
Lozenges, plain......................................  
14
15
Lozenges,  printed.................................. 
Im perials...............................................  
14
Mottoes............... 
15
Cream  Bar.............................................  
13
Molasses Bar........................................... 
13
is
Caramels.................................................  
Hand Made Creams................................  
18
Plain  Creams.........................................  
ie
20
Decorated Creams.................................. 
String Rook............................................  
13
Burnt Almonds...................................  
22
Wintergreen  Berries............................ 
14
Lozenges, plain In palls.....................   @11%
Lozenges, plain in bbls.......................  @10%
Lozenges, printed In pails...... ............  @12%
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..................   @11%
Chocolate Drops, In pails....................  @12%
Gum Drops  in pails............................  @ 6%
Gum Drops, in bbls.............................   @5%
Moss Drops, in palls............................  @10
Moss Drops, in bbls.............................  @ 9
Skour Drops, In  palls............................  @12
Imperials, In  pails...............................  @12
Imperials  in bbls............................... 
@11
  1 15
Bananas 
............................................   @
Oranges, California, fancy.................  @
Oranges,  choice..................................
Oranges. Jamaica, bbls............................ 
Oranges, Florida..................................
Oranges, Bodi,................. 
@
 
Oranges, Messina................................   @
Oranges, OO..........................................  @
Oranges, Imperials.............................   @
Lemons, choice...................................   @4 50
Lemons, fancy.....................................  ©5 50
Lemons, California.............................
Figs, layers, new,  $  ft......................... 12%@16
Figs, Bags, 50 ft...................................   @
Dates, frails do  ..................................  @5%
Dates, % do  d o ..................................  @6%
Dates, Fard 10 ft box ^   ft...................  @9%
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $ f t ....................  @8
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft..............  6  @ 7%
Pine Apples, $  doz...........................   @
Almonds,  Tarragona..........................  17® 18
Ivaca..................................  @17
California..........................  @17%
Brazils.................................................  @9
Filberts, Sicily.....................................  @12
Barcelona.............................  @8
Walnuts,  Grenoble...........................  @16
Sicily.................................... 
15
Frqnch................................   8%@ 9
Pecans, Texas. H. P ............................ 12%©16
Missouri...............................
Cocoanuts, $  100, full bags.................  @5  50
Chestnuts.............................................   @4 75
PEANUTS.
Prime Red, raw $  * ..........................  @4%
Choice 
d o ..........................  5  @ 5)4
Fancy H.P. do 
do  ..........................  @5%
Choice White, Va.do  ..........................  6  @ 6)4
FancyH P,. Va  do  ..........................  @6%
H. P.Va.

FRUITS.

NUTS.

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PROVISIONS.

14 00

15 00

PO RK   IN   BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids Packing Sc Provision Co. 

quote  as follows:
Mess....................................... 
Shortcut...........................................................14 75
Shortcut, clear, Botsford...............................13 75
Shortcut  Morgan........................................... 15 00
Extra clear pig. short cut............................... 15 00
Extra clear, heavy............. 
Clear quill, short cut.......................................15 00
Boston clear, short cut....................................15 (JO
Clear back, short cut.......................................15 00
Standard clear, short  out, best......................15 00
Bean.............................................................
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLA IN.
Hams,Average 20  fts....................................10%
“ 
16  fts....................................11)4
“ 
12 to 14 fts............................11%
“  picnic  ..............................................   8
“  best boneless.....................................

Shoulders.....................................................   7)4
Breakfast Bacon, boneless......................... 11
Dried Beef, extra.........................................  8

ham  prices...............................  9%

Long Clears, heavy........f..........

DRY  SALT  |IEA TS.

“  medium.....................................7%
“ 

light

“ 
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“ 

LARD.

1 

7%

BEEF IN  BARRELS.

LARD IN  TIN PAILS.

Tierces
30 and 50 ft Tubs
7%
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case 
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case 
75£
10 ft Palls. 6 in a case 
7%
7%
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in case
Extra Mess, warranted 200 fts....................  7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago Pacxing....................  7 5G
“  Kansas City Packing........,...7  25
P late..................................................... U-.  7 75
Extra Plate........................................ 8 25
Boneless, rump butts.................................10 00
“  Kan City pkd...........9 00
“  % bbl.  5 00
“ 
Pork Sausage...........................................  ..  7%
Ham Sausage...............................................11
Tongue  Sausage........................................  9
Frankfort  Sausage............... 
8
Blood  Sausage.................. 
6
Bologna, straight............ ; ........... .............6
Bologna, thick...................  
6
Head Cheese.................................................  6
PIGS’ FEET.
In half barrels..............................................  3 00
In quarter barrels......................................  1 75

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

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FRESH MEATS.

5%@ 6%

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...............................  4  @ 6
Fresh  Beef,hind quarters............ 
Dressed H ogs........... — ............  @6
  5%@  6
M utton...;..................................  
Lamb spring................ 
6%@  7
 
V e a l...:.........,,..................... 
 
7%@ 8
Pork Sausage...... ............ 
7%@ 8
Bologna..............................................  @6
Fowls..................................................   @9
Spring Chickens............................  
 
  @10
Ducks  .................... 
  @11
 
Turkeys  ........................................— •  @1?
Lard, kettle-rendered........................  @8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OYSTERS.

OYSTERS AND  FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
Fairhaven Counts .......  
.j®
g*
Selects..................  
f”
Anchors................. 
Standards  ....... .. — ------ - • • • • .............. .
Favorites. 
......................... ............. • • •-1»
Standards per gal—  ------------- ---------- J w
Selects, per gal..................... — •.•••.........1 *0
Counts, in bulk, per 100...............................1 lj>
Clams, 
te
FRESH  FISH .  -
Black bass.............................. ,.».*.'*,,,..,^.10
4
Bock bass................................  
Wall-eyed  pike............................  
-**;-**!
Duck-bill  pikef.-.,,,^,...;..».^...................... I
S t u r g e o n » . . . , , . . . . . . . . . u

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Composed  of  Guatemala,  African  and 
Mexican Javas,  Santos, Maracaibo  and Klo» 
selected with especial  reference  to their fino 
drinking qualities.  The most popular brand 
of Blended Coffee in the  market.  Sold  only 
in 60 lh. Cans and 1 lb.  packages, 33,80 and 100 : 
lb. Cases.  Mail Orders Solicited by the  pro­

prietors.J. P. THOMPSON 4 CO., t

BEE SPICE MILLS, 

59 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich.
Importers and jobbers of fine  Teas» *..
Spices,  Etc..  Baking  Powder  Mfrs.,' 
Roaaten* Spice Grinders. 

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*  T hree T ears—O ttm ar Ebero&ch, Ann A rbor,  s 

« x  ^em -< 3ttQ lt ta n » , tbukegos. 
J n r o T w  :  JáirtoB < w n « . D etroit. 
f t o f  Y eM M teB. McDoaaM, KtlwiM W «.
Five Years—Stanley & Parkell, Owosso.
S eeretaiy—Jacob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jas. Vernor. 

M rw p M jiit  .Quo.McDonald 

Iplejrt M eeting-A t Grand Rapids, March 7 and 8. ' i,

*  -!. 8 
/ v
:; y :'ï:' :

M ic h ig a n   S ta te   J’lia r m a c e u tic a l A w ’d .

I  President—Arthur Bassett, Detroit.
First Vice-President—Q. H. Harwood, Petoskey.
Second Wee-President—H. B. Fairchild,  Grand Rapids. 
I ;  Third Vice-President—Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs. 
Secretary—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.
"r'reasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.

1  Executive Committee—Geo.  Gundrnm,  Frank  Inglis, 

-**

- 

A. H. Lyman, John E. Peck, E, T. Webb.
Local Secretary—James Ventor, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Detroit, October

G rand  R a p id s  P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o ciety . 

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9, 1881.

President—H. E. Locher.
Vice-President—J. W. Hayward.
Secretary—Frank H. Esoott,
■  Treasurer—Henry  B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—President,  Vice-President  and Sec­
retary.
■  Board of Trustees—The President, John  E. Peck,  Geo.
G. Steketee. A. F. Hazeltine and F. J. Wurzburg, 
wen, Isaac Watts. Wm. E. White and Wnt  L.  White. 
Committee on Trade Matters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair- 
child and Hugo Thum.
Committee  on  L e«datt(m -E   A  McWilliams,  Theo. 
Kemlnk and W. H. Tibbs.
Committee on Pharmacy—W. L. White, A. C. Bauer and 
Isaac Watts.
R egular  M eetings—F irst  T hursday  evening  in   each 
m onth.
Annual Meeting—First Thursday evening in November 
Next Meeting—Thursday evening,  December 1,  at Tax 

Tradesm an office.

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBRE, 1883.

President—Frank Inglis.
First Vice-President—F. W. R. Perry.
Second Vice-President—J. J.  Crowley.
Secretary and Treasurer—F. Rohnert.
Assistant Secretary and  Treasurer—A. B. Lee.
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June.
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in each month.

C en tra l  M ich ig a n   D r u g g is ts ’  A ss o c ia tio n  
President, J. W, Dunlop;  Secretary, R.  M. Mussel!.
B e r r ie n   C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  Society, 
President, H. M. Dean; Secretary, Henry Kephart.

C lin to n   C o u n ty   D r u g g is ts ’  A sso 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. Willard;  Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.

I o n ia  C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o c ie ty . 
President, W. R. Cutler;  Secretary, Geo. Gundrnm.

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 zo o  P h a r m a c e u tic a l A sso cia tio n . 

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

M ason   C ou n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o ciety . 

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

President, S. M. Sackett;  Secretary, Julius Weiss.
M u sk e g o n   C o u n ty   D r u g g is ts ’  A sso c ia tio n  
President, E. C. Bond; Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.

M u sk e g o n   D r a g   C lerk s’  A sso cia tio n , 
President, C. S. Koon;  Secretary, Geo.  L. LeFevre.
N e w a y g o   C ou n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty  
President, J. F. A. Ruder; Secretary, N. N. Miller.

O cea n a  C ou 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 ounty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  Society, 
P resident, J a y   Sm ith;  Secretary,  D. E. F rail.
S h ia w a ssee  C o u n ty P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o c ie ty
Tuscola County Pharmaceutical Society, 

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

T he  Drug  Market.

Quinine,  although reported a trifle firmer 
in New  York,  is  weaker  West.  German 
brands  are 1 cent  lower.  One  American 
manufacturer  writes  that  at  the  present 
cost of Java bark,  the cost of  producing an 
ounce of quinine is 13% cents. 
If  this is a 
fact,  The Tradesman can  see no possibil 
ity of an advance and lower prices are prob­
able.  Opium is weak and lower.  Carbolic 
acid is firm and tending  higher.  Extreme 
prices will rule  next  year.  Citric  acid  is 
steady.  Balsam copaiba is very firm,  with 
prospects of still higher prices.  A pooling 
arrangement has been agreed  upon  by  the 
California  producers  of  borax  and  prices 
have advanced,  as noted last .week.  Cam 
phor gum is firm,  with an upward tendency. 
Senega root, on  account  of  a  large  export 
•demand,  has  again  advanced.  American 
¿saffron is scarce  and  has rapidly advanced, 
Hemp  seed  has  advanced  and  is  tending 
higher.  Linseed oil has again  advanced  2 
teents.  Nutmegs have declined.  Cinchoni- 
dine has declined.

Membership  Prize.

The officers of the Michigan  State  Phar 
maceutical  Association  offer  a prize to the 
person sending in the  greatest  number  of 
applications  for  membership  during  the 
.year,  up to the close of the morning session 
•of the second day of the  next  ann ua l  meet­
ing,  that are accepted  by  the  Association. 
The prize will be a  gold  medal,  properly 
•engraved, valued at twenty-five dollars,  and 
will be known as the “Membership  Prize.”
Competition  open  to  any  person in the 
.State.
There are still two thousand druggists in 
.Michigan who dp not belong to our Associa­
tion.  We should have at least half of them 
do help us in the work  we  may  expect  to 
have thrust upon us next year.
Blank applications  furnished by the Sec­
retary.
Only residents of the State are  eligible to
-membership. 
‘ 

Sta nley E.  P a r k ill,
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Sec’y.

Special M eeting of the M. S. P. A.

The  Detroit  druggists  are circulating a 
¿paper calling for a special  meeting  of  the 
.Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association, 
for the purpose of changing the  date of the 
annual meeting from tire  second  week  of 
. ••October to the first week  of  September, in 
order that the  meeting  may  occur  at  the 
same time as the  annual  convention of the 
American Pharmaceutical Association.  As 
rit requires but twenty-five  members  to call 
a special meeting  and  twelve  members to 
^constitute a quorum, there  is  no  question 
but what the Detroit  members will be able 
to  carry  their  point—especially  as  the 
change  -to  date  to  very  generally  sanc- 
«tioned by the members  all over the State.

Mustard  Seed  Oil.

I- From  fee Spine Mill Companion-

-although to the uninitiated j it  may, he  mis­

Mustardseed may be grown  almost  any­
where. 
It to known to nearly every farmer, 
taken for many other kinds, of  small  round 
very varied quality, and much

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from  $1,500  to  $2,000. 

tWiMlM».  Theroaretoro  principal  kinds, 
eeiled white and W a ^ p  T hat called white 
%>ym<W Jg Appearance. 
It to known also 
as English. 
It  is a large plump seed, foil 
of flour, with little off,' but it lacks pungen­
cy  and on  that  account  to  seldom  used 
alone.  The black is usually a small seed of 
a  dark  brown color. 
It  contains  a  large 
amount of oil, said to average 29  to  30 per 
cent.  The best variety to very pungent, and 
contains all that to  required for the best ar- 
ticle that can  be manufactured. 
It  comes 
from Italy, and is known as Trieste.  There 
are many  varieties  of this  kind  grown  in 
California, of every shade of quality.  Also 
in other states.  Some known as Kentucky 
to very pungent  To those who are at pres­
ent manufacturing, or  have  determined  to 
do so,  we advise to procure the best  of  any 
variety, whether white or black, or whether 
it may have grown in  England,  Italy, Ken­
tucky or California;  for one pound of  good 
(even if adulterated with wheat flour 50 per 
cent or more) to better than a bushel of the 
common  seed  that  might  claim  the  name. 
As there is much labor in  the  manufacture 
of mustard, it to always  cheapest  to  select 
good stock, otherwise you throw away labor 
for nought.  Nearly every one  knows what 
prepared  mustard  is,  and  what  it  should 
look  like;  in  fact, there  to  a  prejudice  in 
favor of  appearance  as  well  as  flavor  and 
strength, therefore it must look well, and  a 
combination  of  the  white and black  seeds 
when well made gives a satisfaction without 
artificial coloring, both to the eye  and  pal­
ate.
Mastoid making  (dry)  is  usually accom­
plished, especially in this  country,  by com­
pressing the seed to extract the nil.  First,
because  the  seed  is  so  much  more  easily 
worked when the  oil  is  out;  and,  second, 
because there is now a ready market for the 
oil, as it is in great demand by  the  Jewish 
population, especially as  a  salad oil,  being 
equal in many respects to olive oil;  and  al­
so because there is no pungency or  mustard 
taste whatever in the oil,  and  therefore  no 
use of retaining it.
To extract the oil requires  very powerful 
hydraulic  pressure  and  a  suitable  press 
with  all  the  necessary  appliances,  which 
cost 
I t  being, 
therefore, inexpedient for each  manufactur­
er to press his own seed, large dealers in the 
principal cities  operate in the seed or crude 
stock,  and press  it,  and supply to toe trade 
what is known as mustard cake.  This cake 
is formed by the process  of  extracting  the 
oil,  and contains  everything  except the oil, 
the same precisely as  linseed  cake. 
Some 
are afraid  to  buy  cake,  for  fear  it  is  not 
good;  that is,  that the seed may  have  been 
all or partially of  poor quality,  or  that  th e ; 
bran or refuse  of  previous  workings  may 
have been added,  all of  which might occur; 
but as it is to be  judged  by  the  flavor  and 
pungency i t ‘may  possess, 
it  is as easy to 
test the cake as the seed,  just as it  is  more 
simple and sure to test the quality of roasted 
coffee than when it is in the green state.  If, 
therefore,  you  buy  the  mustard  seed,  in 
some way or other you must have it pressed. 
This may be done at any linseed oil mill,  if 
you have sufficient quantity to  make  it  an 
object;  and then  you  have  mustard  cake. 
The process is now very simple. 
The  ob­
ject is to extract  the  flour  from  the  bran; 
for  this,  pounders  and  seives  are  used. 
Pure mustard cannot  be  ground  in  a  mill 
and unless it  is  very  much  adulterated  it 
cannot be ground at all,  on account  of  the 
oil retained in the cake.  The usual process, 
therefore,  is to take,  say 100  lbs.,  and  put 
a quantity of  the broken cake in the pot  or1 
mortar and pound it and sift it,  so as to ex­
tract about 50 per cent.  This  bolted  flour 
of mustard is strictly  pure, and  is  as  good 
as it is possible to make it  from  the  stock 
you have used,  whether it is  good  or  bad, 
More could be taken out  at  this  time,  but 
the bran would have to  be  chopped  up  so 
fine  that  some  would  pass  through  the 
seive and spoil the appearance of  the flour, 
Now,  if this was ail you could produce, it is 
clear  that  toe  mustard  flour  would  cost 
twice the cost of the cake, with all the labor 
added,  but this is  not  all;  add  to  the  re 
maining bran an equal quantityof good wheat 
flour, and also one per  cent,  of  good  cay­
enne,  and sufficient color  (tumeric)  to  give 
the same  tinge  as  pure  mustard. 
Pound 
this as before,  and by  this  process  the  re 
maining flour of mustard is forced out of the 
bran and united with the wheat flour;  pass 
ing it  through  the  seive  you  may  extract 
about 75 per cent,  of  this  compound,  and 
nearly all the wheat flour  will  pass  through 
the seive and about 25 pounds  of  the  mus­
tard.  Now you will preceive that you have 
50 pounds of pure and 75 pounds  of  au  in 
ferior quality, and 25 pounds  of  bran  left 
Now this 25 pounds of bran may  be treated 
as before, and it  will  be  observed  that  as 
the wheat  flour  is  increased  the  hulls  or 
bran will be less apt  io  affect  the  appear-, 
ance of  the  mustard;  and  it  is  admitted 
that much of tins good property of  the mus­
tard is in toe bran,  and that  after  all  it  is 
only necessary to extract it to satisfy a pop­
ular prejudice as to what a fine yellow color 
pure mustard ought to  be,  which  notion  is 
often  wrong. 
if 
properly made* often satisfies  popular prej­
udice as to  color,  better  than  the  strictly 
pure and the pure must often  be colored  or 
would not sell, as  butter  must  be  made 
yellow or it will not  bring  a  price. 
If  the 
last  process  is  properly  attended  to  you 
must have used up nearly all the  bran  and 
added about equal quantity  of  wheat  flour 
to your original hundred pounds of mustard, 
and  have  in  consequence  increased  your 
stock of mustard to double:  and from these 
various grades—upon which you  can  fix  a 
price according to the  labor expended upon 
each separately—you  can,  by  mixing  and 
bolting  over  again,  make  any  variety  of 
price  you  desire. 
The  inferior  quality 
must be brought up to color,  as  before,  to 
perfectly imitate the pure,  so  that the mix­
ing will not alter the color in the least  and 
‘  must also be supplied with  sufficient cay­
enne  , (African,  not  red  pepper)  to  give 
sharpness.

The  poorest  mustard, 

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jquantity: bf flfeur aitfy jj>g eatimated^for  toe 
tumeric Is onlfviieeded ?to r jtopply  ia#fc'o£ 
color,  which .adulterants  do  not  maturity 
possess.  This, it will be observed, expoa- 
es toe amount of adulteration,  and  on that 
account many mustard makers are  at  pres­
ent using ocher, .which  is  a  yellow  earth, 
but toe quantity used is so insignificant that 
it is not considered In any  sense  detrimen­
tal.  Still we should object to lls use, as toe 
purpose is to deceive.

PENINSULAR

M e M  ill Color M s

D E T R O I T .

MAKERS AND  GRINDERS O F

Chrome  Greens  and  Yellows. 

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

milions,  W hite 

Lead,  Zinc,

AND OTH *’.R COLORS

Being  makers of DRY  COLORS, we  have 
anad vantage  over the  so-called  paint manu­
facturer», who simply grind and mix.

Sp e c ia l t ie s  — White  and  Tinted  Leads, 
Coach,  Carriage  and  Buggy  Paints,  nine 
choice  colors;  Ready  Mixed  Paints;  Coach 
Colors  ground  in  Japan;  Decorative  Wall, 
Fresco, Floor, Sash, Fire-Proof, Oar,  Barn and 
Domestic Paints; Wood and Iron fillers; Maple 
Leaf Permanent Oreen; Pure Putty, Etc.

SPECIAL PAINTS MADE TO ORDER.

Peninsular brands of Ready Mixed  Paints 
are  full  weights and free from barytes, nap­
tha or any other adulterations.  Send for sam­
ple cards and prices.

L. D.  PUTNAM  i CO.

Wholesale Agents,

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PATENTED  OCT.  19,  1887.

Manufactured by

KOCH  A.  B.  CO.

354 MAIN  ST., 

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

C H U R C H ’S

READY 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 Curcuiio, 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 f tick to  the  vines  and  entice 
the bugs to eat it, «nd it is also a fertilizer.
ONE POUND will iro as far as TEN POUND8 
of plaster and  Pans  Green  as  mixed  by the 
farmers.  It is therefore  cheaper,  and  saves 
the trouble and danger of  mixing  and  using 
the  green,  which,  needless to say, is danger 
ous to handle.
Bug Finish was used the past season on the 
State Agricultural College  Farm  at  Lansing, 
Michigan,  and,  in  answer  to  inquiries,  the 
managers write:  “ The Bug finish  gave  good 
satisfaction on garden and farm.”  Many  uu- 
solicitated letters have  been  received  prais­
ing Bug Finish.
Barlow & Star, hardware deal era at  Coldwa- 
ter, Mich., write as  follows under date oi 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 one appli- 
catiod.  We shall not be satisfied unless we sell 
three  tons  this  year,  as  there  is  already  a 
strong demand for it.  Please send us ten  bar­
rels (3,000 pounds) at once.”
Guaranteed as represented.  Cheaper than

any other Mixture used for the purpose.

MANUFACURED B I

M -K aiserne Co., M  Rapids.

F-AJOSrT.

W© have a full stock of this well-known 

brand of

LINDEN  BLOOM

Ys now' the hfcost popular and rapid selling  f

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From the Atlantic to the  Pacific, through- 

- ; out the entire country.

Highly recommended by Mrs. Grover Cleve­
land, Lillie Langtry, Emma Abbqtt, Rhea, 
a host of eminent ladles and gentlemen whose 
taste and judgment are reliable.  *  : 
Testimonials Of druggists  from  all  parts of 
the U. S. ascribe it the FAVORITE and LEAD­
ING odor with the masses.
Put up In handsome  bottles  with  cut  gla&s 
Stoppers.
Eighteen and a  H alf Fluid  Ounces for ? 

O ne  dozen  xoc.  bottles  and  ex­

quisite souvenir cards free 

with  first  order.

Add a  pound to  yo u r nex t order fo r drugs.

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Two  Sizes—Regular or 50-cent  size, and 

Trial or 25-cent size.

S H A D E S :  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 Doten.
REGULAR  SIZE, 
TR IA L   SIZE

per doz. $3-0°
•1.75

Add a  dozen to  y o u r nex t order fo r drugs.

Haxeltine X Perkins Drug Co,
new^jnveNTION

Agents for  GRAND  RAPIDS.

NO  BACKACHE.

1 RUNS.
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Cords  of Beech  have  been saved  bv  one  man  In 
nonrs.  Hundreds  have  saved 5 and 6 cords  dailv.  “Exactly 
what every Farmer and Wood Chopper wants.  First order from 
Illustrated  Cataloene  FREE.
yonr vicinity 
Address  FO LD IN G   SA W IN G   M A CH IN E  CO., 
803 8. C anal  S tree t, C hicago. UL

the 

TIME  TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.

All T rains daily except Sundny.
GOING  NORTH,

Arrives.
Traverse City & M ackinaw E x.........8:45 a  m
Traverse City &  M ackinaw  E x.......
Traverse City  &  M ackinaw  E x ....  7:30 p m
Cadillac Express.............................. 3:40 p m
Saginaw  Express................................11:25 a  m

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Leaves, 
9:05 a m  
11;30 a  m 
10:40 p m 
5:05 p m 
7:20 a m 
1:10 p m

10:30 

a m .

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

M ackinaw.
toskey and M ackinaw City.
Petoske-y and Mackinaw.

GOING  SOUTH.
C incinnati  E xpress..........................  
F o rt W ayne Express......................,1 0 :3 0 am  
C incinnati  E x p re ssiii'.^ .i.ii.'itl^ ii!4 0 .p m  
Traverse City and M ackinaw Ex. .10:50 p m 

7:15 a m
11:45am
'  8:00pm  

7:15 a m  tra in   has  p arlo r  ch a ir  ca r  fo r  Cincinnati, 
5:00 p m  tra in  h as W oodruff sleeper fo r C incinnati. 
5:00 p.  m. tra in  connects  w ith M. C. R. R. a t K alam a­
zoo fo r B attle Creek,  Jackson,  D etroit  and  C anadian 
points, a rriv in g  in  D etroit a t 10:45 p. m.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. 
30 a  m ......................................... 

Leave. 
A rrive.
10:10am
11  00 a m .....................................................................   4:30 p m
4 :4 0 p m ............................... 
8:50pm
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge stre e t depot 7 m inutes later.

 

 

 

C. L. L o c k w o o d , Gen’l Pass. A gent.

Detroit, Lansing  &  Northern.

, Grand Rapids & Saginaw Division.

D EPA RT.

Saginaw  E xpress......................................... 1 ...;:  7  30 a  m
Saginaw E xpress.....................................................4  10 p  m
G rand Rapids  E xpress............................................XI  25 a m
G rand R apids  Express................... . ..................... 10  30 p m

All tra in s arriv e a t and d ep a rt from  U nion depot. 
T rains ru n  solid both  ways.

A R RIV E.

Chicago & W est Michigan,

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

Arrives. 
3:55 p m  
9:45 p m 
5:45 a m  
11:00 am
•Daily. 
Pullm an Sleeping Cars on all n ig h t trains.  Through 
p arlo r ca r in  charge of careful atten d an ts  w ithout  ex­
tr a  charge to  Chicago on 12:30 p. m., and th rough coach 
on 9:10 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.

tD aily except Sunday.

Newaygo Division.

Leaves. 
E x p re ss..................................................4:05 p m  
Express....................................................8:25 a m  
All tra in s a rriv e and dep a rt from  Union Depot.
The N orthern term inus of th is division is a t Baldwin, 
w here close connection is  m ade  w ith  F. & P. M. train s 
to and from  Ludington and Manistee.

Arrives.
4:20 p m

10:20 a m

w . A. Gavbtt, Gen’l P ass. Agent.
J. B.  M u l l i k e n ,  G eneral  M anager.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

Kalamazoo Division.

- 

A rrive.

Leave. 
Ex. & Mail.  N. T. Mail. 
N. T. Mail.  N. T. Ex
4:35 p m  
6:35 p m
7:45 a  m .. G rand Rapids.  9:45 a m  
9:02 a m .. Allegan.......,8 :2 8 a m  
5:55 p m 
5:18am
6:55 p m 
10:06 a  m , .K alam azoo...  7:30 a m  
4:20 p m 
“  1 p m 
11:35 a m . .W hite Pigeon.  6:55 a  m   2.40 p  m
2:30 a m 
5:05 p m . .T oledo ............ 11:00 p m   10:00 a m
8:30 a  m 
9:40 p m ..C lev elan d ...,.  6:40pm  
5:55am
2:50 p m  
3:30 a m . .Buffalo............ 11:55 a m   11:40 p m
5:40 a  m
8:50 a m
7:10 p m ..C hicago..........11:30 p m  
A local freig h t leaves G rand Rapids a t 1:10 pm,  carry­
ing passengers as fa r as  Kalam azoo.  All  tra in s  daily 
except Sunday. 

J. W. McKenney, G eneral Agent.
Detroit,  Grand H aven & Milwaukee.

g oin g  e a st. Arrives.  Leaves.
•Night Express...........................  9:30 p m  10:55 p m
tThrough Mail............................10:20 am •  10:30 am
tEvening Express.......................  3:25 
tDetroit Express....................... 
6:40 a m
tMixed,with coach............. .... 
11:00am
-GOING W EST.
(Morning Express......................  1:05 p m  1:10 p m
tThrougn Mail.............................5:00 pm 
(Grand Rapids Express.............. 10 .40 p m
•Night Express.............................5:25 am 
(Mixed...... .............................. 
7:45 a m
(Daily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
Passengers taking the 8:50 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 ¿Wagner sleeping ear.
J as. Ca m pbell, City Passenger Agent. 
Ge o . B. R e e v e . Traffic Manager, Chicago:

p m 3:50 p m

5:10 pm
5:40 am

The last or third operation being  upon  a 
mixture  of  mustard  bran  mid  flour,  may 
be done in an ordinary burr mill, which will 
facilitate the work very much.  And  with 
experience in toe use of a mill, and  an  ac­
quaintance with toe nature of the particular 
kind of seed, or  the nature  of  the  pressed 
cake, it may be ground  from  the  start,  if 
sufficient adulteration is added  to the cake, 
and  an  article  combining  all  the  above 
grades may he made  at  one  operation,  re­
ducing  toe  labor  to  a  minimum;  but  you 
can have no pure mustard in this way.  .
Tumeric has always  been  the  accepted 
material for coloring mustard. 
It is a root, 
and  as such has  much  toe  appearance  of 
ginger. 
Its  coloring  principle  is  called 
curoumine,” and it  imparts to all kinds of 
flour adulterations toe  acceptable  rich  yel­
low color that it is supposed  mustard ought 
to possess^  To some it is objectionable on 
account  of  a  peculiar  flavor  of  its  own, 
which the other adulterants cannot conceal.
Of late,  also,  many  have  applied  an  am- 
^  monia test, which not only shows the turner- 
are there-  ic, but by which means the quantity of ttun-
and  ronsequentl^ toe

H i

P A I N T
M I X E S  
and having sold it Çor over SIX YEARS can 

recommend it to our  customers  as  be­

ing a First Class article.  We sell it

On the  Manufacturers’  Guarantee :

W hen tw o o r m ore coats of our PIONEER PRE­
PARED PAINT is applied as received ip  original 
packages, a n a  If w ithin  th ree years it  should  crack or 
peel off, thus failing to   give  satisfaction, we  agree to 
re-paint th e   building .a t  o u r  expense,  with  th e  best 
W hjte Lead o r  soph oth e r p ain t as th e  ow ner  m ay se 
lect.  In  case  of  com plaint,  p ro m p t  notice  m ust  be 
given to  th e  dealer,

‘  7  ■  T. H. NEVIN & CO..  & ■
Mfrs. & Corrodera of Pure White Lead.
..  Pittsburg, Pa.

*,  . i V - 

'  Write for prices and Sample Card  to

M M P e iM n C o .

lijVholesale  Agents',  Grand  Rapids.

T ry  P O L X S H lN  A ,  b e st F u rn itu re  Fin-

Michigan Central.

Grand Rapids Division/

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Detroit Express......... ................................. 6:15 am
Day Express......................................  
1:10pm
•Atlantic Express.......... ............................10:10p m
Mixed  ...................................................... 6:50 am
A R RIV E.
•Pacific Express....................  
6:00am
 
Mail......... .................................................3:00pm
Gr$nd. Rapids Express.............. ........ .......10:15 p m
Mixed ..................... ....... 
............. .  6:l»p m
•Daily.  All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars 
Pnn 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 connec­
tions made at Detroit with all through trains East over 
C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)
D. W. J ohn8TOn, Mich. Pass- Agt., Grand Rapids.
Q. W. R u g g le s, Gen’l Pass. andTicket Agt., Chicago.
Duluth^ South  Shore & Atlantic  Railway.
EAST
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10:30  8:40
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8:30  6:80
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1:85  9:15  :
1:33 
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8:42  1:45  ................I s b p e t t t i n g . „ . 12:50  9:05
LAS.  5:25.  , , . x„ ....l§ m g 4 to n ^ ■ - . . .......  
9:20  6:00
1:14  6:34  A r. 
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th e Upper Peninsula of M ichigan.
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■Advanced—Saffron, linseed oil,  senega root, 
hemp seed. 
Deolined — Quinine  German,  gum  .opium, 
nutmegs, clncnOnidme/Ghrmim.  ^
Aoetloum.................................. .
Benzoieum,  German...... ........
____  80@1 00
...... ........ ........
Carbolicum .
..:.V  46®  50 
Cltrieum ..........................
....:  58®  65 
Hydroehlor 
...... ................
;.... 
3®  5 
Nitrocum .....  ................. .....;
;. r.;lo @   12
11®  13
Oxalicum . ..................... ..........
Sallcylicum...... ’. ........................
___1 85@2 10
Tannicum...... .......................
...... 1 40@1 60
Tartaricum .....:.................
.....  50®  53
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16 deg..............................
.....  3®  5
18  d e g ......................
......   4®  6
Carbonas............................... .
......   11®  13
Chloridum..... .......................... ...
.....  12®  14
Cubebae (po. 130.........................
.:...l 60®1  70 
s®  n
Juníperas 
Xanfhoxylum........................
......   25®  30
BALSAMUM.
Copaiba....................................
P eru .......................................... .....  55®  60
......  @1  Rt\
Terabin,  C anada.......................
......   50@  55
Tolutan................ ..... ;..........
......  45®  50

BACCAE.
......... .

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CORTEA,
Abies,  Canadian....................
Cassiae 
Cinchona Flava...................................  
Eaonymus  atropurp..........................  
Myriea  Cerifera, po.......................... 
Prunus Virgin!......... ........................ 
Quillaia,  grd......... i............1............... 
Sassfras  .........................................  
Ulmus.................................................  
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)......................... 
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.............................   24®
PO..  ..........................................   33®
„  
9®
Haematox, 151b boxes....... .............. 
Is.....................................  @
Ms  . ................................. 
®

is
30
20
12
12
:  12
12
10
25 
35 
10 
12
...............................  @  13
...............................  ®  15
FERRUM.
Carbonate Precip...............................   @  15
Citrate and Q uinia................... •........  ®3 50
Citrate Soluble....................................  ®  80
Ferrocyanidum Sol............... .............  @  50
Solut  Chloride.....................................  ®  15
Sulphate,com’l,  (bbl.85)....................   154®
pure.....................................  @

BXTRACTUM.

“ 
“ 
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FLORA.

Arnica...................................... ;..........   12®  i4
Anthemis.............................................  45®
Matricaria........................... 
30®
FOLIA.
Barosma.................... ..........................  10®
Cas6ia Acutifol, Tinnivelly.................  20®
„ 
Alx............................  35®
Salvia officinalis, )4s and  Mb..............  10®
Ura  Ursi..............................................  

8®  10

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Acacia, 1st picked.................... ..........  @1 00
2nd  “ 
  @  90
@  80
3rd 
“ 
Sifted sorts............................  @  65
75@1 00
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60).............................   50®  60

„   PO...................  
 
®
Cape, (po. 20).............  
Socotrine,  (po. 60)......................  @
Ammoniae  ..........................................  25®
Assafoetida,  (po. 30)............................  @
Benzoinum......... ...............................   50®
Camphorae..........................................  25®
Catechu, Is,  (54s,  14; 54s, 16)................  @
Euphorbium, po..................................  35@
Galbanum............................................   @
Gamboge,po......................................  75®
Guaiacum, (po. 45)...............................  @
Kino, (po. 25)........................................   @
Mastic...................................................  @125
Myrrh, (po. 45)......................................   @  40
Opii, (po. 6 00;...................................... 4 40@4 50
Shellac................................ 
18®
bleached..................................  25®
Tragacanth..........................................  30®
herba—In ounce packages.
A bsinthium ......... ..............................
Eupatorium ........................................
Lobelia  .......................... ....................
Majorum  ............................................
Mentha Piperita..................................
V ir.................... ..........i .......
R u e ......................................................
Tanacetum,  V ..................................
Thymus. V........................................ .  •
Calcined,  P at............................
55®
Carbonate,  P a t....,.....^ ...... 
___
Carbonate,  K. & M...............................  20®
Carbonate,  Jennings............................  35®
Absinthium..................... ...................5 00©5  50
Amygdalae, Dulo..................................   45® 50
Amydalae, Amarae.................. ..........7 25@7  75
................2 00@2  20
Anisi  ......... 
Auranti Cortex 
.............................   @2 00
Bergamit..................  
...........2 75@3  00
Cajiputi  ...........v ... — ...................   90©1 00
Caryophylii            ...........................   @2 00
Cedar............... .............. .....................  35®  65
Chenppodii   
.....................................  @1  35
C i
75@  80
n
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Citronella  ............................ .............   @  75
Conium  Mac........................................  35®  65
Copaiba...............................................   90® 1 00
Cubebae............ ..............................12 00@i2 50
Exechthitos.........................................   90@1 00
Erigeron............................................ 1 20@1 30
Gaultheria...  .....................................2 25@2 ^
Geranium, 5........................................   @  75
Gossipii, Sem, gal................................   E5@  75
Hedeoma............................. ................  75®  85
Juniperi----...............................1.........  50@2 00
Lavendula...........................................   90®2 00
Limonis.................................. ...........1 75®2 fi5
Lini, gal................................................  42®  45
Mentha Piper.....................................2 25@3 33
Mentha Yerid.....................................3 75@4 00
Morrhuae,  gal................................. 
 
 
  @ 50
Myrcia,  5...............................................  
Olive....................................................I 00®2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35).........................  10®  12
Riclni.................................................1 24@1 36
Rosmarini...........................................  75@1 00
Rosae,  5...................  ..........................  @8 00
Succini  .......................................... . 
40® 45
Sabina...,...........................................   90®l 00
Santal......................................   .. 
..3 50@700
Sassafras...............................................  50® .55
Sinapis, ess, 5......................................  @
Tiglii....................................................   @150
Thyme .................................................   40®  50
@  60
Theobromas............................... .........  15®  20
Bichromate............................. ...........   13®  15
Bromide— ........................................  42®  45
Chlorate,(Po.30)...  ..........................  18®  20
Iodide..................................................3 0G®3 25
Prussiate ...........................................  25®  28
A lthae......... .......................................  25®  30
Anchusa...............................................  15©  20
Arum,  po.............................................   ©  25
Calamus........... ..................................   20®  50
Gentiana,  (po. 15).......... 
10@  12
Glychrrhiza,  (pv. 15):.....................  
  16®  18
Hydrastis Canaden,  (po. 45)...............   @.. 40
Hellebore,  Alba,  po.............................  IS®  20
Inula, po...............................................   15®  20
Ipecac, po........................................... 1 75@2 00
Jalapa, pr..............................................  25®  30
Maranta,  J4s.........................................  @  35
Podophyllum, po................................   15®  18
Hhei  ................. ..................................  75@i  09
cut..... .............. ................ ..........  @175
PV........................  
75®1 35
 
 
Spigelia  ............ ..............(..w /sQ ft  48©  53
@  20
Sanguinaria, (po. 25)............ 
 
Serpentaria.........'........................... 
;3(»@  35
Senega............................  
 
55®  eo
Smilax, Officinalis,H......................... .  ©  40
Mex......................v  ©  20
Scillae, (po. 35) 
v.........................   Io®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetidus, p o ...__ ... us ©  25
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30).............        @  25
German.............................   15©  20
Anisum, (po.20).........  .....  
  @  15
A plum  (graveolens)......... . 
10©  12
Bird, 16................  
4©  6
l|©   15
Carui,  (po. 18).............. 
 
Cardamom...... . 
Cbriandrum.........................................  10®  _
12
Cannabis  Sativa...... ...................... . 
iM
'^ydonium................ 
75@1 00
 
henopodium__ ..._______________ 38®  12
Dipterik Odorate............. 1____ ..„..T  75@l 85
Foeniculum............... 
©  15
6®  8
Foenugreek, po. — ................ 
Lini— .................  
3H@  4
 
 
Lini, grd, (bbl, 8)............... .......... , /  . , 3|4@ 
4
i 3%©4^4
Phalaris Canarian.............  
5©  6
. 
Rapa .................. 
 
Sinapis,  A lbu......................  
 
8©  9
 
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• SPIRITUS. .
.:2 00@2 50 
i!.l 75@2 0C

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Frumenti, W., D. & Co......
Frumenti, D. F. R ...............
Frum enti......... ...................
Juniperis Co. 
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Junireris Co.................
Saacnarum N. B ....... .'„A/;
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WHOLESALE

Have now in Stock end Invite 

Your Order for the

HOLIDAY  TRADE

 

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30®

.8 25

Aif! a .  1"-: f'L 

•
Morida sheens’ wool, carriage...
Nassau, 
do 
. do 
.
do
Velvet Ext  do 
.ExtraYe  *  do  l/" -  do'  '
Grass 
do 
do 
...
,for slate use.............
Hard ? 
Yellow Reef.  .  do 
............
'A .  . 
.  MISCELLANEOUS.
ASther, Spts Nitros, 3 F .. ....__
28
•¿Either, Spts. Nitros, I F __ .....____
«u
Alumen______ . . . . . . ........  
Alumen, ground, (po. 7) .  ................''
Annatto  .................. 
55©  60
4®  5
Antimoni,  p o ....................................  
AntimonietPotass Tart...............!!!  55©  60
©  68
Argent! Nitras,  5.....................  
Arsenicum____7
Halm Gilead  Bud.......................... 
38fih  40
g 15©2 20
Bismuth 8.  N...................... 
Cantharldes  Russian, po......... . 
©210
Capsici Fructus, a f..................... ....... 
<a  15
Capsid Fructus, po.............. 
<a  ie
.........  
®  14
Capsici Fructus, B, po........... 
"  
CaryophyUus,  (po. 35)................ !.!..'  30©  33
Carmine, No. 40................. 
gas 75
Ctra Alba, S. & F ................. 
\.........   50^  «
8 ® ^ . : ; : ; ; ; : - - - ...........3 ?   1
Cassia Fructus
Centraria ____
Cetaceum......
Chloroform__
Chloroform,  Squibbs....... *."." ’. ’.' ‘ “  u°@i oo
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst.......................1 60@i 75
Chondrus............ ....... 
in©
Cinehonidine, P. & W.......!!!!**"  ”   15©
Clnchonidine,  German...............   " "  
4@
Corks, see list, discount, per cent!
Creasotum....... / . . .
Creta, (bbl. 75)............... .!]
Creta  prep.........   ..............
Creta, precip.............!.!
Creta Rubra............... ...!
Crocus..........................
Cudbear.....................!.!..
Cupri Suiph.............!!.!.!
Dextrine............................'
Ether Suiph................!...].
Emery, all numbers...........
Emery, po
Ergota, (po.) 75. 
70©
Flake  White...
12®
Galla
Gambier.................. ......! ...............  
7©
Gelatin, Coopor............ . !...................  @
Gelatin, French...............! ! ! ! !............  40©
Glassware flint, 70&10 by box.'  èò&ió.'less. 
Glue,  Brown...............  
gga

.5©

@

@

23

50

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Grana  Paradisi............................ 
@
H um ulus............  
«sia
 
Hydrarg Chlor. Mite ’..!!!!!!!!!” ! " "   @
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor......................... 
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum................!.!  ©
Hydrarg Ammoniati.......................... 
Hydrarg Unguentum............................. 
© 40
Hydrargyrum  .......................................  @ 65
IchthyocoUa, A m ...............................1 25@1 50

@
  @1 10

 

Iodoform......  
..............................   @575
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod............   ©  27
Liquor Potass Arsinitis...............  
10©  12
Lupuline  ............................................   85@7  qo
Xjycopoaium................................... # # #  55^
M acis....,......... 80@
! ! !  2@  3
Magnesia, Suiph, (bbl. 1* )......... 
Manda. S. F 
............................  90@1 00
Morphia,  S, P. & W. 
........................ 3 70@3 35
Morphia. S. N. Y. Q. & C. Co...............3 00@3 25
Moschus C anton........... 
©  40
Myristica, No. 1....................!!!!!!!!’!  60®  70
Nux  Vomica, (po. 20).................... 
©  79
Os.  Sepia....................... 
24©  20
Pepsin Saac, H. & P, D. Co! !!!!!'. ! ! ! ! !  ©2 00
Pieis Liq,  N. C.. M  galls, doz.................  @2 70
©140
Picis Liq.,  quarts.................... 
Picis Liq., pints.....................  
  @  85
Pii Hydrarg, (po. 80)............ ...!!!!!! 
©
Piper Nigra,  (po.22)................. 
©
Piper Alba, (po. 35)................. 
a
Plumbi Acet............
14®
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa,  Bitart, com
Potass  Nitras, opt............... 
«©  in
Potass Nitras......... ..............                    7@  9
Pulvis Ipecac etopii............ .!*!!!!!’l  10©1 20
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. & P. D. Co., doz.  @1 25
Pyrethrum, pv.....................................  60®  65
Quinia., S.P.& W.............................. ;  4<s§  57
SUteiaAf’^ erman......... .....................  31®  49
Ruma Tmctorum............. 
12®  13
Saeoharum L actis,pv...:...!!!!!!!!*!  @  35
Saladn. 
2® 75
Sanguis Draconis..... !!.!!!.”...............  40®  50
<a4 an
Santonine......................... 
§ » p » .v ...................................................1»   “
IK: 
it
..... 
Seidlitz  Mixture.................... 
' 
28
Sinapis, opt.........................................  
<a  on
Snuff, Maccaboy,  Do. Voes............  
©  35
'*  @ 35
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes.........  
Soda Boras, (po  10)..................  
...... 9  ®  70
SodBetPotossTsirt.........................!!!  33®  35

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Bbl
70
60
45
47
50
50
41

Whale, winter............
Lard, extra................................. !
Lard, No.  1......... .........................
Linseed,pure raw..............!!!!**  *'
Linseed, boiled......... .............. ,!“ .
Neat’s Foot, winter strained....!!!!

Soda, A sh...........................  
ogtr  7
<a  2
Soda  Sulphas................  
Spts. Ether Co...................... !!!  !!!!!  50®  55
Spts. Myrcia Dom................... 
<»2 on
Spts. Myrcia Imp.........................  
  @2 50
Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2 08)............... *!  @2 25
Strychnia, Crystal.................... 
@1  30
! ‘ ‘  2V4® 3V4
Sulphur, Subf......................  
Sulphur.  Rofl..............................!!!.;:  2J4® 3
Tamarinds........................................... 
70
Terebenth  Venice................. 
 
«8©  30
Theobromae.................................................!!!.! 65
9 oo@16 qq
VamUa  .. 
7®  8
Gal
76
61
50
50
53
60
46
Bbl
Lb
Red Venetian.........................     jv
2® 3 
Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... . 
lv
2® 3 
Ochre, yellow Bermuda.........  
lv
2® 3 
Putty, commercial.................  2M
2M@ 3 
' Jutty, strictly pure.................  2%
SB® 3 
7 ermilion, prime American..
13@16 
Vermilion, EngUsh.................
55® 58
Green, Peninsular............... !.
Lead, red strictly pure..
6®
Lead, white, strictly pure......
6® 634 
Whiting, white Spanish......   .
@70
Whiting,  Gilders’....................
i^o
White, Paris American........... 
1 49
Whiting  Paris English cliff.. 
Pioneer Prepared  Faints...... 
1 20®1 40
Swiss Villa Preparer  Paints.. 
1 00®1 20
VARNISHES.
„  
No. 1 Turp  Coach................................ 7 70@7 20
Turp........................................ 7 60@1 70
Coa,ch Body^............. .........................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture..........................1 00@1 10
Extra Turk  Damar............................. l  55@i 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp....................  70®  75
~
FREE—To  Merchants  Only:  A 
tripple-plated  Silver Set (6 knives,  6 
forks,  6 tea spoons,  1  sugar spoon,  1 
butter knife), in satin-lined case.  Ad­
dress at once,  R.  W.  Tansill & Co., 
55  State St., Chicago.
APPROVED by PHYSICIANS. 

Oiler No.  172. 

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Neuralgia, Hay Fever, Asthma, Bron­
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i 0??;  w hich th e  Pure Crystals of Menthol are 
heW  thoroughly applies thin  valuable  rem edy  in   th e 
m ost  efficient  w ay,  to   th e  p arte  affected.  It sells 
readily.  Alwayp kcep an  open Inhale r  In yo n r store, 
and le t yo u r custom ers try  it.  A- few   inhalations  will 
n o t h u rt th e Inhaler, and will do m ore  to  dem onstrate 
ite efficiency th a n  a  h a lf ho n r’n talk .  Retail »rice 
SO cents.  F or OntcuiiABS and Tkstu onia ls aadsees 

H. D. Cushman, Three Rivers, Mich.

An Elegant Line of

PERFUMES

Put up in toe following styles:

MalGk Safes five  styles 
Christmas  Cards  tea  styles 
Faney  PIDsh  Boxes 
Hand Lamps two  sixes 
Night  Lamps 
Embossed  Boxes 
Vases  four  styles 
sixes
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Watches 
TUmhlera 
Etchers

Also a Line of

Sachet  Bays

In  Silk  and  Satin.

All These  Goods  are  Low  in 

Hazeltine 

Price  and  are nery 

Desirable.

Drug Co.,

& Perkins 

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TOMATOES

PACKED  BY

DAVENPORT  CANNING

Jobbers and

Retailers of

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

SLEIGHS

Send for quotations before buying elsewhere,

ÿ5toè^^^ i^w)éi>|[4«*!^'i

tag those who owe fefiltiW&iifeeidsfitititf; 
the  payment  of  an  account  is  a  matter 
which places the  party  who  receives > the 
money under lasting and binding obligations 
to the party who  pays  it« and that the sug­
gestion for such  payment  requires a multi­
tude of excuses and apologies. 
I  have,  oh 
a few occasions, braced myself up wife suf­
ficient moral courage to demand  fee  settle­
ment  o f'  accounts,  because 
fee  money 
was  due 
equitably  belong«!  to 
myself Instead of my debtor,  and  I  think 
that« proportionately,  my  dunning  exper­
ience wife these customers  was  tor  more 
satisfactory to all  concerned  than  in  fee 
cases where I  adopted the custom  too com­
monly in vogue among country traders.  „

and 

My friend Bagshot, of L----- , and  myself
were recently discussing the credit problem, 
and lamenting fee  apparent  necessity that 
obliged old dealers, with a large country ac­
quaintance, to devote so much of their busi­
ness life, and so many of their  hard-earned 
dollars, to fee collection  of  accounts,  and 
during the conversation Bagshot said:

“I’ve known one  or  two  lawyers  who 
had  a  pretty  good  faculty  for  squeezing 
blood out of fee human turnip,  so to speak, 
but  fee  best  collector  I ever knew was a 
He came back here
cowboy  from Arizona, 
a year or two ago to look over  the  country I 
in which he was born  and raised, and find­
ing a youthful acquaintance in  the  Widow 
Duncan, who supported  herself and several 
children by washing and keeping a sort of a 
boarding house, he made  his  headquarters ' 
at her place for  several  weeks.  A day or 
two before  his  contemplated  return to the 
West, he came home late  one  evening and 
found  his  old  friend in a disconsolate and 
tearful condition, and naturally inquired the 
cause.

’ said the sobbing widow,  ‘it’s that 
Jinkins.  He  got  in  debt  to  me

wretch,
sixty dollars and  then  left me,  and this af-1 
temoon I saw him going by and  called him 
in. 
I  knew he had  just  got  two  hundred 
dollars,  and I told him I  m ust  have  some I 
money for the butcher  and  baker  and gro-1 
ceryman,  and that the children were actual-1 
ly suffering for shoes and clothes.  And the 
villain sneered at me,  and when  I   insisted 
he called me vile names,  and—and— ’ 

!

“ ‘Well,  cam  yerself,  Em’ly,’  said  the 
cowboy,  ‘an’ I’ll go out ’n see ’fl  can’t coax 
Jinkins to fork over the needful.’

“The Arizonian found the estimable Jink- 
ins engaged in a game with  the  proprietor 
of a billiard room, and, accosting  him  po­
litely, he handed him a  bill  drafted  some­
what like this:
Od o lph u s J in k in s, Esq., to  th e  Wid d e r  D un­

can, D efter:

To Board and  Washin’..........................   $60.00
5.00
“  Intrist................................................ 
“  Insultin’ sed Widder...... .................. 
25.00
“  Collecshun.........................................   10.00
Totle..................................$100.00
“Jinkins threw the bill on the floor  with 
a very obscene  and  profane  remark,  and 
prepared to contiune his play.

“ ‘Pick it up! ’ said the  Westerner, calm-

round.  Jinkins  picked  up the paper and, 
after a remonstrance or  two,  offered to pay 
the principal, but  objected  to  the  usury. 
The man from the Wild West then proceed­
ed to argue the matter by  bumping Jinkins’ 
head against the plaster again and mopping 
the floor with his  best  clothes, until at last 
Jenkins acknowledged himself vanquished, 
and deposited five  twenty-dollar bills in the 
collector’s hands.

“When,

concluded Bagshot,' “the  depu­
ty sheriff arrived, the next morning,  to  in­
terview the Arizonian, that  gentleman was 
far on his way Westward,  but  I   had  Mrs. 
Duncan’s positive assurance  that,  in  addi­
tion to his own board bill, he left her a hun­
dred dollars which he said Jenkins had paid 
in on account.’’

^ S o f t ,   pliable  and  absolutely  unbreakable, 
d ard   quality  15  cents  p e r  yard.  C loth  coyi 
cents.  S atin covered 25 cents.  F o r sale everyw

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY a  co u n try  m er c h a n t.

■' 
Written Especially (or Th e  T radesm an.

There is nothing feat  fee  retailer (beads 
•afi dislikes wife more  intensity  than  fee 
necessary but disagreeable duty of donning 
ffnstnm ers,  and  fee  trades­
man who performs this duty in a timely and 
systematic  manner is a remarkable  excep­
tion to fee general rule.  And fee tradesman 
who doesn’t adopt something like a system, 
.in connection  wife this matter, had better 
religiously  abstain from  “keeping hooka.”
One of fee  unfortunate  features  of  the 
« e d it business is  the  disposition of a large 
majority of those  who  habitually purchase 
on time to regard the suggestion of a settle­
ment as a personal affront.  Why  an  indi- 
. vidual wife a fairly reasonable brain capac- 
ity should deem himself insulted when ask­
ed for what he honestly and equitably owes, 
Is among fee things which  approach the in­
comprehensible. 
If I  let my thirty-duy bill 
at Faucet & Bungs,run forty-five days, with­
out consulting F. & B. on the  subject,  and 
tiuMfl gentlemen write  me,  courteously but 
firm ly,  that  a  remittance  is  desirable,  it 
seems to me that  I  should  develop  ‘what 
might reasonably be considered  unmistaka­
ble asinine  characteristics  by enclosing an 
angry  and  vituperative  protest  with  my 
draft.  Or, 
if  my  subscription  to  T h e 
T r a d e sm a n  is long  overdue,  and its pub­
lishers politely insinuate feat even newspa- 
occasionally have use for a circulat-
per men
fng medium of some  kind, and I  should in­
close fee money with fee  information  that 
I  had  been  outrageously ill-treated and af­
I  should regard the editors as very 
fronted.
poor judges of character if  they  should in­
vite me to contribute a series of  articles on 
fee amenities  of  life  and  our duty to our 
fellow men.
And  yet, 

in  either  case, I should be as 
reasonable and consistent as a  majority  of 
the credit customers  with whom the dealer 
comes in contact, after  nerving  himself up 
for a. dunning crusade.

“ A few years ago, 

said a  veteran  mer-
chant,  “I allowed myself to get  careless in 
my collections and reckless in my purchases 
and one terribly dull month  it  came to my 
notice that I  had a  couple  of  thousand  to 
raise  in  a  trifle  over  two  weeks.  So I 
wrote a score or so  of  imploring  letters to 
my largest credit customers, and within ten 
days received a large  amount  of  abuse, a 
few  promises  and  $75 in money.  Then I 
got a rig  and  drove  around  through  the 
country and told the  parties  that  if  they 
didn’t want the sheriff touake possession of 
my stock they must come at  once to my re­
lief.  One $200 man said he wasn’t to blame 
for my folly in buying  more  goods  than I 
could pay for, but  when  wheat  advanced 
fen  cents  he  would  try to spare me $100. 
Another suggested that if I  would  take  a 
$50 horse for $125  he would keep his name 
off my books in the  future.  A  third  paid 
me $5, and said I  must take  fee  balance in 
stove wood.  Three gentlemen  candidly in­
formed me that I could confidently rely up­
on my pay  at  fee  end  of  an  execution. 
Three or four more solemnly  promised that 
when they  marketed  their  wool, the next 
year, they  would  immediately  rush to my 
assistance.  A half dozen or so  berated me 
soundly for writing them  dunning  letters, 
indignantly  inquired  if  I  didn’t consider 
them ‘responsible,’  but  set  no  particular 
time for fee adjustment of matters.

“ Well, 1 rode three days;  paid the livery­
man $9, and came home  with  about  $15. 
Then I  put a ten per cent,  mortgage on my 
property, put my accounts in the hands of a 
collector and put up a ‘Positively  No  Cred­
it!’ sign in my store, which I  took  down in 
less than a fortnight

“ Put it down as a solid fact  that  if  you 
had $3,000 on your books, against responsi­
ble parties, and all due, and had a month in 
which to collect $500 to  save  your  credit, 
you would only be wasting your time by at­
tempting fee job.”

I  think my business friend  somewhat ex-  ' 

aggerated his collection experience, but it is 
M fact' feat fee average credit customer is an 
unsafe party to rely upon in case of a finan­
cial emergency; but I think this unfortunate 
failing is less due to his lack  of  sympathy 
for fee troubles of his creditor than  his dis­
belief in fee assertion feat such troubles ex­
is t  And this distrust and  disbelief are fee 
fruits of the  trader’s  own  planting.  Mr. 
Simmer, for instance, is  perfectly  “easy” 
In money matters;  and  can  give  certified 
«hecks for every dollar he owes on five min-, 
ates’ notice.  Mr.  Slimmer,  in looking over 
Ids ledger, discovers that Peter Brown’s ac­
count, which he promised to pay at “sheep- 
flfronring  time,”  has  passed over the holi­
days.  Mr. Slimmer is naturally  and justly 
indignant, and determines  to- dun Peter on 
tile first opportunity, and ho does so.  Now 
does Mr. S., who poses as a moral  man and 
Bealous churchman, act honestly and square- 
ly  when he almost tearfully  informs  Peter 
Ibat he wouldn't refer to the  matter  if  he 
wasn’t in sore financial distress, mid needed 
|  every cent to placate his  importunate  cred­
itors?  And  doesn’t  Peter,  who;  although 
that  Slimmer is de- 

tying 

.

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*  ,  .  •  

l  am too well aware of my own defects as 
to criticise fit length  fee  tfcuBfi

20  and 22  icnroe St.,  Grand Rapids,  MioL

FOR  EVERYBODY.

For  the Field or  Garden.

If you want to buy

Or any other kind, send to the

TIMOTHY  SEED
Seed Store,

W. T. UPBEHUX,

71  CANAL  ST.,

In the State of Michigan.

Our Facilities for doing Business have been much 

Improved and we feel better able to meet all

W e Solicit Orders or Inquiries for anything wanted 

in the line of Hardware.

10 «'S 12 Monroe street, and 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis streei

Grand Rapids,

Mich

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kìaPle: .,

58 Michigan Ave., Chicago,

PROPRIETORS  OF

«tir? muiHCXP

OUR LEAPING  BRANDS;

Roller Champion,

GrillEdge,

Matchless,

Lily W hite,

Harvest Queen, 
Snow Flake,

W hite Loaf,
Reliance*

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[rtOTROUBti 
fifO BOILING

EVERY FAMILY 
SHOULD HAVE IT

i HSæ Ht o r s  aj4d s o u Q ^ u ^ n  
;^CORJ22í &MARKET STS. & M  É 
$   P   P   &  PHILADELPHIA ÇA.

OUR  SPECIALTIES: 

.  Graham.

Buckwheat  Item .  Eye  Flour,  Granulated
SM pïMiMfluisjScreenflSÏCtonJ&hfcFwSd.

lor itoti, jam*

OWNERS OF THE FOLLOWING CELEBRATED BRANDS:

JAPAN  TEA—“Red Dragon”  Chop. 
COFFEE—O.G. Plantation Java, 

Imperial, Javoka, Banner, Mexican

ALSO  T H E   L A R G E ST   A SSORTM ENT  O E

To be found in any one establishment in Michigan,  consisting of
Glassware,  Toys in W ood,  Bazaar Goods, 
y Crockery, 
icy Lamps, 

WHY DO SO MANY DEALERS

ENTATION  GOODS  T 0°   TO^ENTIOfl,

Toys in Iron, 
Toys in Tin, 

Games.

Dolls, 

In W estern  Michigan  Buy their Line of

36, 38,40 and 42 Canal Street, Grand Rapids.

W e  sell  these  goods  as  close,  if not 
closer,  than  any  Detroit  or  Chicago 
house.
W e make Better  Terms,  Better  Time 
and Better Figures.

W e try hard to please  every  custom­
er.

Our Expenses being so much less than 
Chicago or  Detroit  houses  we can af­
ford to sell closer.

36,38,40 and 42 Canal  Street

