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. MANUFACTURERS OF
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We carry a large stock of Material, and have 
every facility for ..making first-class .Wagons 
of aft kinds.* 
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Painting and Lettering. 
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TIMOTHY,

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Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOOKS,

SO  and 22  fionroe St.,  Grand Rasids,  Mich.

W.  H.  BEACH,

Dealer in

GRAIN,

SEEDS,

BALED  HAY,

MILL  FEED,

and PRODUCE.

In  Cdr  Lots.

MICH.

HOLLAND,

COAL!

Present  Prices:

Steve  No.  4  and Nut 
Egg and Grate

i.OO  per ton 
7.75  per ton
We  are agents for  Brazil  Block  Coal.  The 

best and cheapest steam coal in the market.

Grand Rapids loe & Coal Co.,

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

Sole agents for Chicago Brass Rule Works 

for Stato of Michigan.

F.J.DITTEJÎTHÂLEH

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AND  OYSTERS.

Packing  and W arehouse,

37 North Division Street. 

Office, 117 Monroe St.,

GRAND RAPID3,  MICH.

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Umbermen’s Sifpplies a Specialty.

Manufactures of

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153 and  195 Jeñerson Ave., Cor. Bates St.,

DETROIT, 

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CMS. A. C0ÏE

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Awnings and Tents*
Flags and Banners,
Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

W ide Ducks, etc,

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73 CANAL ST ., 

GRAND RAPIDS

Telephone  106.

HAY!

W e offer in car load lots good 
Timothy  Hay.  W e  have  the 
output of four presses and  can 
offer it in any quantity.  W rite 
for  prices.
Lamobeaux  &  Johnston,

71 Canal St., Grand Rapids.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

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used, and will be found to  excel all in cleans­
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which  are plain  and  simple  much  rubbing, 
and  consequent ly  much  labor  and  wear  of 
clothes, will be saved.

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ship, or anything in the  Produce line let us 
hear  from  you.  Liberal  cash  advances 
made when desired.

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157 South W ater St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  F ir s t  Na tio n a l  Ba n k,  Chicago. 
Mic h ig a n T radesm an. Grand Rapids.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bowne, President.

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POTATOES, ONIONS, BEANS, D R IE IJ 
FR U ITS and other Country Produce to of­
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bill lading attached.  Goods sold on arriv­
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G rocer here.

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Men’s  Furnishing  Goods.

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Brand Pants, Shirts and Overalls.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH 21,  1888.

NO. 235.

LO V E  AND  SPECU LA TIO N .

W ritten Especially fo r  Tb s   T radesman.

‘Milly, I can stand this nonsense no long­
er!  You must make  a  decision  now—to­
night!”  ^And  the  speaker,  a  handsome 
young fellow about twenty-five years of age, 
bit his  brown  mustache  impatiently  and 
nervously plucked the leaves from à twig in 
his hand.

‘•You know,  Frank, that I lpve  yon'very 
dearly;  but you also know  what  my father 
says;” replied the giri.

“Yés,  yes;  I know all that;  but that was 
over a year ago.  Then, I   was  nothing but 
a clerk on a very low salary,  while, to-day,
1 rank as one of the most  prosperous deal­
ers in town.  He certainly  must see that 1 
am able to support a wife  now,  and I  don’t 
think he  will  raise  that  objection  agaiq. 
Gome,  Millie, darling,  tell me when I may 
call you wife.” 

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“Frank,” replied the  girl, • casting  aside 
the air of coquetry she had  hitherto  worn, 
and showing her  emotions  in her face,  “if 
my  father  consents,  I  will marry you six 
months from to-day.”

“God bless you for  those  words,  Milly! 
You have taken a heavy load from my heart.
I  have  worked,  night  and  day,  for  this 
promise,  and my success has  been  entirely 
due to the hope I had before me of winning 
you. 
I  shall see  your ^father  to-morrow, 
and I know I shall prevail  on  him to give 
his consent.  And,  now,  gogd-night, loved 
one,  and may Heaven keep you  and  make 
me worthy of you.”  And, with these words, 
the young man passed through the gate and 
was soon out of sight in the darkness.

To a proper  understanding of the events 
in  this  story,  it  is necessary for us to go 
back  about  two  years^ and make thé ac­
quaintance of the  principal  actors as they 
were at that time.

Frank Ralston, the young man whose im­
patient words open  this  narrative, was, at 
that time, bookkeeper and  general clerk in 
a general store at—I guess I will not  name 
the place, lest some of my Northern  Michi­
gan readers  might  chance to know the per­
sons of whom I write.  Frank  was a hard­
working young fellow,  but a little wild,  be­
ing under no home restraint  of  any  kind. 
But,  when Dr.  John  Graves  brought  his 
family,  consisting  of  two  children—both 
daughters,  Milly being  the  oldest—to R—, 
opened an Office and hung out  his  shingle, 
Frank Ralston’s fate  was  settled,  and his 
tendency to wildness succumbed to the gen­
tle influences of Milly’s society.

She was a beautiful girl,  just budding in 
to  womanhood,  and  giving  promise  of a 
mind as deep  and  tender  as  her face was 
lovely.  After six months  of  acquaintance 
and homage  on  Frank’s  part,  Milly  had 
laughingly told him that, if he was bound to 
marry her, to ask the Doctor and, if he made 
no objections,  she was  his.  Frank  lost no 
time in obtaining an  interview  with Graves 
pere,  and Graves pere lost  no  time in find­
ing out Frank’s  prospects, - which,  at that 
time, were not the most flattering. 
In vain 
did Frank plead his cause,  and  endeavor to 
convince the Doctor of his ability to make 
home for  Milly.

“I respect you very much,  young  man, 
said Dr.  Graves,  “but I prize  my  daughter 
too highly to intrust  her  welfare to anyone 
who cannot show a bank account  sufficient 
to guarantee her  happiness.  Words are of 
no value—actions speak.”

This  put  the  matter  to Frank in a new 
light,  and he admitted  the  reasonableness 
of it.  His determination and love for Milly 
soon began to be apparent.  In a short time, 
with the help of a little capital  he  already 
possessed, Frank Ralston was the owner of 
a lot and soon had a building thereon.  The 
town had long been in  need of a first-class, 
wide-awake grocer,  and,  by  dint of a little 
figuring and more good  credit,  Frank, in 
short time after the completion of  his store 
building, was unpacking and  arranging up 
on his shelves as neat a line of  groceries as 
one could wish  to handle.

Frank put his whole heart  into  his  new 
venture, and he could  the  more  easily do 
this, as the desire of his heart depended up 
ou its success,  and his reward was not slow 
in coming.  He was popular  and  energetic 
and reliable,  and his neighbors gave him his 
full  share  of  their trade.  Àt the end of 
year, Frank Ralston’s  indebtedness was re 
of
duced to a minimum,  and,  at  the  time 
which I write,  he could almost show a clean 
balance in his favor,  with a  splendid  trade 
to rely upon,  and  this  brings,  us.  up to the 
conversation related at the  opening  of this
sketch.

When  Frank  Ralston  called  upon  Dr. 
Graves, the next day,  and  preffrred the re­
quest for his daughter’s  hand  in  marriage 
the second time, ,no  serious  objection was 
made, and he left the office in a very  exalt­
ed frame of mind, indeed. 
It is fair to pre­
sume that he neglected his business that af­
ternoon, for, as he was  picturing  to  Milly 
the happiness in store  for  them  in the fu­
ture,  sitting  on  tbe porch with her in the 
evening,  he  suddenly  exclaimed,  “There, 
by George,  I’ve forgotten to  renew  my in­
surance  to-day!  Pshaw, 
that’s  too  bad! 
Every policy expires to-night at five o’clock. 
Well, it’s toó lato to fix it up  to-night, and, 
after all, it doesn’t matter  much.  Theie is 
no more dnnger of a fire to-nlgbtthan  there 
bah been a t any time before.”

There is one very important thing in con­
nection with my story which I have neglect­
ed to mention.  Frank  Ralston had a rival 
for Milly’s favor in the  person  of  George 
Hardy—a  man.  whom  no  one liked and a 
great many despised.  He was the owner of 
a mill In the  town,  although  it was whis­
pered that the most of his revenue  was  de­
rived from a saloon, which  people  claimed 
was owned by him, although nominally con­
ducted by another.  Hardy was a thoroughly 
vindictive man—a man  whom  one  would 
not care to offend if possible to avoid  so do­
ing Consistently with dignity, and there was 
a look in his eyes  which  boded  no good to 
Frank,  when heard from Milly’s lips the an­
nouncement of her engagement  to  Frank, 
in reply to the proposal  of  marriage  made 
by Hardy.

Frank remained by Milly’s side that even­
ing until long after the usual length of calls, 
although his newly/found  happpiness must 
be pleaded in extenuation  of  the late hour.
“Now, Milly,  I must  go,”  he  said,  for 
perhaps the  fiftieth  tiirte, as they stood at 
the gate.  “It’s late, and you  know I must 
work early and late now.  Heavens, what’s 
that?” he suddenly exclaimed,  pointing to a 
dull red glare which began rapidly to bright­
en upon the dark background  of  the  sky. 
‘My God!\MiIly,  that’s  some  building on 
fire,  and it’s right in  the  direction  of  my 
store?’

As he spoke,  faint  hoarse shouts reached 
their  ears,  borne  upon  the  night  wind. 
‘Fire!  Fire!  Fire!”  And,  without  a word 
of  apology  for  his  abrupt. leave-taking, 
Frank started on a  run  toward  the  store. 
He had not gone a block,  when a man came 
running toward him and breathlessly shout­
ed,  “Ralston, your store is on fire!”

Putting all his energies into speed, Frank 
was soon upon the ground and his eyes bore 
witness to the truth of the man’s  assertion 
Before him,  in all its majesty,  the fire fiend 
was rapidly doing its work  of  destruction, 
dnd from end to end  and  roof  to  ground, 
his store was a mass of flames.  The crowd 
was doing all in its power  to save  the con­
tents, but, through the absence of  any sort 
of fire protection, the store was a total loss, 
together with most of the stock.

It was a terrible blow to  Frank  Ralston! 
All hopes of marriage  gone—for  the pres­
ent,  at least—and who could tell what might 
happen before he would again  be in a posi­
tion to support a wife.  As  these  thoughts 
flashed  through  his  excited  mind,  Frank 
Ralston  cursed  his  folly in neglecting his 
business and the lapse of the policies which 
Occurred thereby.  All the fruits of his hard 
work were  gone and  he was in a worse po­
sition than two years before.

Rumors were rife as to the probable cause 
of the fire, and one man said  that  he  had 
seen a person coming out of  the  back door 
not half an hour before the  fire  broke out. 
The description tallied  exactly with that of 
George Hardy.  That it was  he,  was  con­
firmed in Frank’s  mind  by  the-  discovery, 
the next morning,  that Hardy had  boasted, 
while under the influence of  liquor*  that he 
would “get even” with Frank, if it cost him 
his life.  He was never seen  after  the fire, 
having disposed of his property a week or so 
previously.  He  disappeared,  no one knew 
whither.

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This, 

together  with 

“I’m sorry for  #you,  Ralston,”  said  Dr. 
Graves to him the next day,  as,  weak and 
trembling from the excitement and his loss, 
Frank asked him if the engagement  would 
be allowed to continue,  “but I cannot  con­
sent to have my  daughter  waste  the  best 
years of her life in  waiting  for  any  man. 
And,  as you are fully aware,  Milly will not 
venture to stand out  against  my decision.” 
excitement, 
proved  too  much  for  Frank’s  naturally 
strong constitution, and he was utterly pros­
trated.  For  six  long  weeks  did  he  lay 
trembling in the balance  between  life  and 
death, and,  as he was slowly recovering, he 
learned of the removal of the Graves  fami­
ly to another State.  Milly left  a  note  for 
Frank, pledging anew her affection for him 
and urging him to  make  haste  in  getting 
ahead once more,  and  she  would  remain 
true.  Her father,  she said,  did  not  know 
of her writing to him,  and  had  forbidden 
her seeing him. 5  She said  that  she  would 
not have consented to leave R— until he was 
better, but new she was sure  he  would re­
cover and do his best for her sake.

And Frank,  cheered  by  these  consoling 
and loving words,  did get  well,  and  went 
bravely to work to build anew his shattered 
fortunes.

The first thing was to build a  new  store 
on the  ashes of the former;  and,  as  there 
was no cellar under the old one,  Frank de­
termined to dig one.  He went to work with 
a will,  ev^n taking off his  coat  and shovel­
ing with the laborers.

One day,  as the  cellar  was  approaching 
completion, one of the  men ‘ came to Frank 
with a shining piece of earth  in  his  hand, 
remarking on its oddity.  Frank  gave  it a 
cursory glance,  and then looked more‘close- 
ly at tbe earth.  As he looked,  his face be­
gan to flush, while his hand  trembled with 
excitement. 

.‘‘Where did you pick this up?”  he  asked 

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the man whokad, found it.

“Share, !  found it beyant the  side of the 
cellar there, foreninst the side  of  the  hill*

where the hole is the  dapest,”  replied  the 
Hibernian.

Frank made no further remark, but, after 
a time,  when no one was looking, he exam­
ined the spot which the Irishman indicated. 
There wa» a vein  of  shining  metal  aboht 
two-feet wide by four long.  How far it ex­
tended, he could not determine, nor what it 
was,  but he  determined  to  send  a  small 
piece away and have it assayed.

Four  days  thereafter,  a  telegram  was 

thrust into his hand, reading as follows:

Ore is nearly pure  copper,  very valuable. 

Don’t s'ell until you have heard from us.
Baldw in & Co.

There was no use in f urther  work on the 
store  building.  Twenty-four  hours  after 
the receipt of the telegram,  Frank  Ralston 
had received an offer from the firm  who as­
sayed the ore for the ground which he own­
ed—an acre in  extent—far  outreaehing his 
modest idea of a competence.  After getting 
the opinion of  experts,  Frank  Ralston ac­
cepted their offer.

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“Milly,  my poor child!” said  Dr.  Graves 
to his daughter, about  three  months after 
leaving R—,  “I  am  utterly  ruined.  . The 
stock I bought in that  confounded  copper- 
mine at R—, which everyone was crazy ov-., 
er,  is. utterly worthless,  as the vein was on­
ly a spur,  and amounts to nothing. 
It isn’t 
mtfch to lose, but it is all I’ve got and  I am 
getting old and cannot replace it. 
I should 
never have  ventured  into  speculation, but 
Baldwin & Co. positively assured me it was 
a very rich lead,  and I  wanted  to  provide 
for your comfort in the event  of  my death. 
To-morrow,  my notes come due  for  $5,000 
—the balance due on the stock—and it  has 
got to be paid or the farm—the last  proper­
ty I possess, will be taken on the mortgage. 
Heaven help us, my child, we  are  ruined!” 
To-morrow came, but the  $5,000 did not, 
and the farm went to satisfy the claim.  Dr. 
Graves’ practice was sufficient  for  support, 
but was no provision for the future.

One afternoon,  as the Doctor was  brood­
ing over his ill-luck,  a package  was handed 
him by a  messenger.  The  doctor  opened 
it mechanically,  supposing it to be the cer- 
ficates of shares in  the  worthless  copper- - 
mine stock.  As he  opened  it,  he  started 
back with  surprise  and  astonishment. 
I t 
was the deed of  the  farm  sold  under the 
mortgage,  made out in Milly’s name!  What 
did it mean?  Tremblingly he opened a note 
folded in With the mortgage.  It said:  “The 
person who sends  this  will  eall  at  your 
home  to-night.”  No  signature—not  the 
least intimation as to the author’s  identity! 
To say that Dr.  Graves was puzzled  would 
be  inadequate.  He  was  speechless  with 
wonder.

It was just dusk;  and,  as the Doctor hur­
ried home with the  good  news;  he  would 
have been astonished, had  he ■ not  been ut­
terly  depleted  of  such  emotions  by  the 
events of the day,  at  seeing a  young  noian 
sitting confidently by Milly’s side in the din­
ing room,  with his arm around her waist, as 
though  perfectly  sure  of  his  welcome. 
Could it  have  been  possible, 
the  Doctor 
would have bgen still more  surprised when 
he discovered that the aforesaid  rash youth 
was none other than Frank Ralston, dressed 
in the height of fashion  and looking, in ev­
ery way,  different from the young merchant 
of R—.

The  rest  of  this  story may be told in a. 
word.  Ralston had sold his copper-mine in* 
the nick of time,  as* a  week  later,  it  was 
proven to be  utterly  worthless.  Learning 
the whereabouts of Milly with some difficul­
ty, as soon as his business  matters could be 
arranged, Frank hastened  to  see  her  and 
tell her of his  good  fortune.  Hearing, at 
the hotel, some stray remarks  in  regard to- 
Dr.  Graves’ embarrassment,  he  determined 
to investigate the matter before  making his 
presence known.  The result  was  the pur­
chase of the farm by him,  in Milly’s  name, 
and the rest we know.

Frank Ralston never advises  his  father- 
in-law not to speculate,  but  he  cannot re­
sist an allusion, now and then, to  his  own 
luck in selling out before the  bubble  burst.'

R e l l u f.

Good  Advice.

F rom  the  Jersey Bulletin.

A dealer in bad butter in Michigan wants 
to know how to “renovate”  rancid  or  sour 
butter.  Answer:  Consign it to the grease- 
pot.  Nothing could be better for the wagon 
axles,  and a good  application  will  assist in 
lessening  the  draft  for the team.  This is 
the  only way to renovate or  resurrect  that 
kind of  stuff;  but don’t buy any more.
PERFECTION  SCALE

The Latest Improved and Beat.

DOES  NOT REQUIRE DO.WN  WEIGHT 
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andGARDEN  IMPLEMENTS,

pers delivered to you for $4.

A box of garden seeds  containing 200 5c. pa­
Send for price list of garden seeds.

They Please  Everybody.

ALFED  J.  BROWN,  Seedsman,
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.
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WEDNESDAY. HABCH »1. 1888.

I 
,  THE  WORK  OF  CONGRESS.
1,1  /lu  the last  twelve  years,  , no  session 
Congress has been so barren as the present 
The total amount of  the  legislation  which 
has passed  either  house  during  the  past 
three months is  disgracefully  small,  and 
while the House has  been  the  worst,  al 
though it possesses far more  power to limit 
debate, one  cannot  altogether  except  the 
Senate from this censure.  The  Blair  bill 
the bill to refund the Direct Tax,  the bill to 
,  charter the Nicaragua Canal, and the amend 
ment to the'Constitution to  alter  inaugura­
tion day to April 80th, make up the sum to 
tat of important measures.  Of course, much 
of the dilatoriness is due to the fact that the 
really important problem of the session can­
not be originated  by  the.  Senate.  No bill 
has  come  up  to  it  from the House,  as in 
1883, which it  could ’transform  into a law 
* for the amendment  of  the  Tariff. 
If Mr. 
Breckenridge  had  carried  his bill to raise 
the duties  on  worsted  goods  through the 
House, that would have  furnished  exactly 
thé opportunity the Senate needed.  On that 
slender foundation it could  have  construct­
ed,  by  amendment,  a  complete  revenue 
measure,  which, as  in 1883, might have su 
perseded the futile proposals of the Commit 
tee of Ways and Means.  B ut  aê  yet, the 
Senate can deal  only  with  the  subject in 
speeches  apropos ef  the  President’s  mes 
sage, and that it has done with much ability.
The House  has provided for one pressing 
necessity by adopting a resolution which au­
thorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to ex­
pend the surplus in buying  up  government 
_ bonds. 
In the opinion  of eminent authori­
ties, the Secretary possesses  this power al­
ready,  but,  as  Mr.  Fâirchîld  professes a 
doubt on this point,  it appears  necessary to 
ease his mind by making  the law still more 
explicit.  Nothing could  be better than .this 
purchase  of  bonds, even at a premium,  as 
the whole cost is much below what the gov­
ernment  will  have to pay in principal and 
interest by the legal  date  for  redemption 
But as such purchases must be with the con­
sent of the present holders, and as the bonds 
are a desirable privilege investmeift for trust 
funds, the extent to which they  can be got 
«even at a premium  probably is limited. 
In 
some conditions of the money  market, they 
will be more accessible than in others.  No­
body will care to sell when the  demand for 
money for other investments is weak.

A  QUESTION  OF  TH E   FUTURE.
The Saranac Local of last  week  remark­

ed:

T h e  Michigan Tradesman is advocat­
ing a mutual insurance plan to be adopted by 
the Business Men’s Associations of the State. 
If such a plan could be adopted very gener­
ally all over the State,  it would certainly be 
the means of causing the  stock  companies 
to be a little mofe  reasonable in their rates.
T he  T radesman  believes  that  one of 
the questions which is destined to get a very 
lively  shaking  up in this State in the near 
future is the subject of fire insurance.  The 
insurance  companies  probably  think that 
the enactment of the Cole anti-compact law 
and the sustaining opinion of the  Attorney 
■General  are  in  the  nature of a “shaking 
up,” but  they  will  find,  before  they  are 
through with the oiganized business men of 
Michigan,  that these  set-backs to monopoly 
are but the premonitory warnings of a  gen­
eral-upheaval.  Unless the business men of 
-  this State are given insurance  at rates com­
mensurate with the cost and  risk involved, 
the  companies  will  find  themselves  sup­
planted—as has  been  the  case  in  several 
other states—by organizations  based on the 
plan of mutuality, but partaking qf  none of 
Ihe dVil features usually adopted by so-call­
e d  mutual companies. 
Instead  of  patting 
»business on a cheaper  basis  than the stock 
^companies,  the tendency in the better  class 
•of mutual companies  seems to be to charge 
-the same races as the olddiae organizations, 
returning the percentage not needed for ex-! 
menses, losses and reserves at the endof each 
.year  la   the  shape  of dividends.  Unless 
Th®  Tradesman 
is  misinformed—and 
»Among its informants are several  conserva­
tive  State  Insurance Commissioners—such 
% plan has worked  very  advantageously in 
several t>f the Eastern  States.  Such being 
: the case, why shouldn’t Michigan  business 
men carry their own insurance  and  pocket 
the profits on their own business, instead of 
dividing .the  dividends among Eastern and 
foreign capitalists?

d  AN UNWARRANTED  REFLECTIONS 
, The Hastings Banner thus casts  an  un- 
' -warranted reflection on the traveling'frater-

|   A  traveling man, name  unknown.  with a 
soul  A #«aail as a mustard  seed, bought a 
pop-eom  of Frank -Heath  at ; the 
bag 
dej^t^niurBteyOVfniBgimd,  in  the  burry 
I  of departing  trains, paiflffor it with a lead 
«901*.place,  and  received-45 cents jn 
frostithe  boy, who  discbveiedhll 
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Jearned of the circumstance  shortly after it 
occurred.  The man whb  passed the money 
i^»otA|s*veling rqan and  never  has  been 
one.  H e looked Uke up inexperienced coun­
try youth and acted  very much  as  though 
he whs serving as the tool of  some bungling 
counterfeiter.  As payment  for  his  fare— 
and«  that of a lady companion—from  Hast­
ings to  Middleville,  he  tendered 'the  con­
ductor a bogus coin,  which was refused, but 
the ciraimstance  was  made  known'to sev­
eral  passengers  on  the  train, who  will be 
able  to identify the fellow  when he is sum­
moned  to  answer  to  a  charge  of passing 
counterfeit  money  in  the  United  States 
Court.

The  traveling  fraternity  is  accused  of 
many practices which it is not  worth  while 
to contradict;  but a charge ot  this character 
is  too  far  from  the  truth  to  allow  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  to pass it by without  register­
ing a vigorous protest. 

If the fellow  in  question lives at Midgle- 
ville, as was inferred from his remarks,  th e: 
merchants  of  that  town,  and  neighboring 
towns as well, would  do  well  to scrutinize 
all silver coin tendered them and report any 
suspicious circumstances to the United States 
Marshal in this city.

•

A  W HOLESALERS’  POOL.

The proposition to  establish,  a  combina­
tion of wholesale grocers,  as set forth in an­
other column,  is  looked  upon with a good 
deal of suspicion  by  the  jobbing  trade of 
this market, as it had the appearance of be­
ing too large an undertaking to  be  made a 
success.  Unless the projectors  have  more 
complete machinery for  executing the man­
dates of tiie directors of the  proposed  pool 
than has been  brought  into  requisition in 
other  similar combinations,  the plan cannot 
fail to be inoperative,  in  which case it will 
be speedily abandoned.

That there are  abuses  in  the  wholesale 
grocery trade which ought to  be  corrected, 
no one familiar  with  the  state  of  affairs 
will attempt to deny.  About 30  per  cent, 
of the jobber’s business comprises sugar,  on 
which he makes practically no  profit.  The 
lack of margins on this staple  compels him 
to make a larger  proportion  of  profits on 
other articles in the  grocery  line.  Such a 
condition of affairs is contrary to good busi­
ness policy and ought to be  speedily  recti­
fied.  When the sugar refiners  of  the East 
entered  into  their  iron-clad  combination 
T h e T radesman expected them to take up 
this question and put the  sugar business on 
better basis.  That they have not done so 
shows that their organization was conceived 
from selfish motives  and  is  maintained to 
further selfish  interests.

The  man  who  can  devise some way by 
which either the jobbing or  retail trade can; 
secure a decent profit on sugar  will come in j 
for a large  share  of  gratitude.  The  man j 
who invents a plan by  which  both  classes; 
can  get a profit will go down to posterity as 

public  benefactor.

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AMONG THE TRADE«  '
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R.  G. Nichols has opened a meat  market 

át 138 South Division street.
\  T. H. Rathbone  succeeds  Van  Giesen & 
Co.  in  the  drug  business  at  79 Plainfield 
avenue.

C. S. Rickard has opened a  bakery,  con 
fectionery and cigar store at 645  South  Di­
vision street.

C. J. Westerlund has engaged in the boot 
and shoe business  at  Muskegon.  Rindge, 
Bertsch & Co. furnished  the stock.**

H.  Heniaka,  the Whitehall  druggist, has 
bought G. W.  Herendeen’s  drug  stock  at 
623 South Division street  and will run both 
stores.

Frank Obits' has  purchased  the Johnson 
Bros.’ grocery stock at  Greenville  and add 
ed largely thereto from the  jobbing  houses 
at this market. 

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Wm.  Judson has purchased an interest in 
the wholesale  grocery  business  of  Olhey, 
Shields & Co,  The firm  name remains the 
same as  before.

Chas. Smith will engage  in  the  grocery 
business at the corner of  Ionia  and  Foun­
tain  streets.  Cody,  Ball,  Barnhart & Co 
will furnish thé stock.

S. A.  Howes  and C. N. Rapp  have  pur­
chased an interest in the fruit  and  produce 
business of  Geo. E.  Howes.  The, business 
will be known as Geo. E.  Howes & Co.

The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. secured 
judgment by default for $415.10. against H  
Barry, formerly engaged  in  the  drug  bus­
iness at  Ravenna, in  the Muskegon Circuit 
»Court last week.

W. E. Woodruff,  until  recently  engaged 
in the meat  business at  Saranac, will  erect 
a building at Oakdale Park—Grand  Rapids’ 
new  southern  suburb-^and  embark  in the 
meat business there.

Morgan & Randall, boot and  shoe dealers 
at 156 West Fulton street,  have  dissolved, 
Mr. Morgan continfcig.  The retiring part­
ner, W. B. Kendall  has  opened a boot and 
shoe store at 596 South Division street.

Foster,  Stevens & Co/  have  just  gotten 
out a handsome  600-page  illustrated  cata­
logue, which they will place ip the hands of 
their trade to facilitate reference and order­
ing. 
It is the largest book of reference ever 
issued by a Grand Rapids  house.

The  report  that  Armour & Co.  propose 
to start a branch  house  here is without the 
authority of  the Chicago end of the institu­
tion,  which  is supposed  to  exercise a con­
trolling  interest  in  the  movements  of  its 
agents.  Th e Tradesman hopes  that  the 
management will so  decide,  however.

A RO U N D   T H E   S T A T E .

Port Huron—Hugh  Doran,  plumber,  has 

assigned.

ENLARGING  TH E  PENSION  LIST.
The Senate has passed a  bill to give pen­
sions to  those  soldiers  find  sailors of the 
War for the Union who  are unable  to sup­
port themselves,  whether  by  reason of old 
age or sickness,  and  also  to  the  parents, 
unmarried widows or minor  children of,the 
deceased soldier  and  sailor  who  are in  a 
similar situation.  Service for three months 
and honorable discharge must be  proved in 
every case under the bill, and  no pension is 
be given where the inability to  self-sup­
port is the effect of vicious habits.  Soldiers 
and sailors are to get twelve dollars a month; 
their relatives on the scale  specified in pre­
vious pension laws.

As the country has pensioned off  all  the 
soldiers of th en ar with Mexico,  which end- 
thirteen years  before tbat for the Union 
began, and did so on the  general  presump­
tion that men  mustered  out  of  service in 
1848 were by this  time  unable  to  support 
themselves*  there  certainly  is  a  fair pre­
sumption in favor of taking  care of such of 
the soldiers of the later war as are  found to 
in that condition.  It is said that net less 
than nine thousand of them are living in the 
almshouses of  the  country;  and  this is a 
small proportion of  the  hundreds of thous­
ands of all ages up to forty-five, who enlist- 
in the war.  We can better afford to take 
care of these and similar cases  out  of  the 
nation’s overflowing treasury,  than to leave 
them as a burden upon the local government 
the country.  And,  in a moral  sense,  we 

cannot afford to do anything, else.

The State Department is  taking  steps to 
secure a new Treaty with China, which will 
enable us-to continue the exclusion  of  Chi­
nese labor from our country. 
Is  there  any 
need for a new Treaty?  The Angelí Treaty 
1879 authorized such exclusion for a reas­
onable time.  Congress  voted  that  twenty 
years would be a reasonable time,  but Pres­
ident Arthur vetoed the bill on  the  ground 
that that would be too long.  If this Congress 
agrees with that' which  passed the bill now 
force, it can extend the  term for another 
ten
years,  without  any  violation  of  the 
Treaty.  Even if the law were hot to be re­
newed, the law which permanently  forbids 
the  importation  of  labor  under  contract 
ought to suffice.  The  Chinese  coolies  aré 
brought under contract by the  Six Compan­
ies, and should  not  be  admitted  on  that 
ground alone. 

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» ‘An Honest Fill.” 
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Vermontvtlle, March 16,1888,

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Dear Sir—Noticing your suggestion In the 
last Tradesman to “count your pickles,” tad 
bavin«, just  rolled  to  an  Invoice nTêqulér 
M|M£fröm^Cpdy, Ball,  Barnhart 4rCo.'«, 
lilted us to count one. We found

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Seneca—II.  C.  Camp has sold his general 

stock to F.  C.  Eveson.

Yassar—McWatters & Stecher,  dry goods 

dealers,  have sold out.

Gaylord—W.  S. Fillmore,  grocer and boot 

and shoe dealer, has sold out.

Stanton—Sharpe & Blake  succeed  Fred. 

Bonsall in the meat business.

Sebewa—Wm.  Ramsey  succeeds  Farrell 

& Cotton in the meat business.

Horton—Geo. W.  Weeks  succeeds J. W. 

Weeks in the grocery business.

Bay City—Hull & Tilton succeed John C. 

Weisinger in the drug business.

Battle Creek—John W.  Fletcher  has sold 

his general stock to Snow & Gould.

Detroit—W.  P. Aldrich,  of  the  grocery 

firm of W.  P.  Aldrich & Son,  is dead.

Ann  Arbor—Koch  &  Haller,  furniture 
dealers,  have  dissolved, the  latter  contin­
uing.

Muskegon—H. B. Fargo has  removed his 
grocery  stock  to  Smith’s  block,  on  First! 
street.

Deerfield—Burnham  &  Porter  are  suc­
ceeded in general  trade  by  Porter,  Edge- 
comb & Ce.

Traverse City—E.  H. Pope succeeds Pope 
& McElcheron in  the  clothing  and  gents’ 
furnishing goods business.

Ionia—Fred Cutler,  Jr.,  has  purchased 
the interest of his partner  in  the dry goods 
stock of F.  Cutler, Jr.,  & Co.

Greenville—Elliott  Stone,  formerly  en­
gaged in the meat business at Cedar Springs, 
has bought a meat market here.

Deciple—D.  W.  Gardner,  formerly 

in 
partnership  with  J.  B.  Gardner,  general 
dealer in Brice,  has  opened a general  store 
here.

Waylând—W. H. Bartholomew,  who  re­
cently sold  his  grocery and  crockery  bus­
iness,  has  purchased  the  grocery stock of 
A. Sessions.

East Saginaw—Chas.  F.  Roenecke  suc­
ceeds Chas. H. Smith  in  the  grocery  bus­
iness. \   The latter retains his produce com­
mission business.

Ionia—Chas. W. Stone, formerly of Stone 
Bros., and Thos.  Carton  have formed a co­
partnership under the style of  Stone & Car- 
ten çnd engaged in the dry, goods  business.
Ionia—Albert  Culver  and  Clayton  W. 
Root have  formed  a  copartnership  under 
the stylé of Culver & Root  and  énéaged in 
the book mid stationery  business  .at  Char­
lotte.  «

Muskegon—Geo. W. Bourdon  has retired 
from the  plumbing  firm of Geo.  W. Bour­
don & Co.  The  business Will be continued 
by tiie remaining partner, Pat. J.  Connolly, 
and J . P. Patridge.

Cold water—Chas. Barlow sold his  inter­
est in the hardware stock of Barlow & Starr 
on the 14th to his partner, John  Start,  and 
on the ifjfc taught 
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ware t a s t n e ^ i ^  Chandlor^b S o n ^ v , Ç

Retáer,  Who ¡ | ¡ |  
had  charge of the boot  and  shoe  store of 
Reeder, Palmer & Go.,  at  this  place,  has 
bought an intorestin the samé, and the firm 
Will hereafter be known as Milton Réedér& 
Co. 

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East Sagmaw—Pomeroy,  Kruce  & Kern 
have fairly  embarked  in  the  cracker and 
confectionery  business.  Putnam & Brooks 
supplied a good share of  the  latter  stock, 
the order  being  placed  by  Edmunds  the 
Giant.

Nashville—Harvey W.  Hawkins* former 
ly engaged in the  grocery  business at Reed 
City, has engaged in the dry goods business 
here.  The  stock  was furnished by Edson, 
Moore  & Co.,  Louis Johán  Koster placing 
the order.

Portland—John A.  McClelland  has  pur­
chased  tpe  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
general  stock  of  McClelland  & Woodbury. 
The retiring partner will  remove to Missis­
sippi,  where  he  has  somewhat  extensive 
pine interests.

Belding—Harry Connell,  who  has  been 
behind the counter for L.  L.  Holmes  ever 
since he started in business» here,  has pur­
chased an interest in his drug  and  grocery 
stock,  the new arrangement to go into effect 
on May 1.  The firm will then be known as 
L. L.  Holmes & Connell.

Bailey—¡3. B.  Galentine, for a  number of 
years engaged in general trade at this place, 
has sold out to Jacob Barth, of  Grand Rap­
ids.  The business will be  managed by Mr. 
Earth’s brother-in-law,  G.  Hirchberg,  who 
has been for the, past eight years engaged in 
general trade at Belen,  New  Mexico,  and 
who will move his family here May 1.  Mr. 
Galentine,  who has disposed of his business 
on a ccount of a throat difficulty,  will  look 
after his lumber  interests for a time,  and if 
his health does not improve will take a trip 
South.

S TR A Y   P A C T S .

Cadillac—D. L.  Murphy  has  opened  a 

paint and wall paper store. 

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Muskegon—B.  D.  Lewis  has  opened 

restaurant at 83 Ottawa street.

Reed  City—J. Q. Patterson  will  shortly 
remove his heating furnace business to Lan 
sing.

Nashville—A. L. Rasey  succeeds  Rasey 
& Reynolds inThe cigar and barbering busi­
ness.

Detroit—Archibald  McTaggert  succeeds 
McTaggert & Bassett in the Coal and  wood 
business.

East Saginaw—Henry  Heinlein  succeeds 
H. Heinlein  & Son in the  merchant  tailor­
ing business.

Kalamazoo—Chas. P. Russell,  dealer  in 
picture frames, has made an  assignment to 
David Fisher.

Alaska—L.  A. Forward, hotel proprietor, 
has been damaged  by fire  to  the  extent of 
$4,000.  No insurance.

Cheboygan-Mendellsohn & Schuman, late 
of Alpena,  will open a merchant tailoring es 
tablishment about April 1.

Muskegon—Samuel  Simmons  and M.  A 
Bums have formed a copartnership  for the 
purpose of engaging in the lumber  jobbing 
business.

Detroit—John B.  Todenbier,  assignee of 
the wholesale  liquor  business  of  Joseph 
Jaminet,  reports the assets  at  $7,212  and 
the liabilities at $11,082.

Detroit—Herbert  Bowen, 

receiver  for 
Julius Gerber’s insolvent  liquor  business 
declared that a chattel  mortgage  placed on 
the stock by Gerber was put thereto defraud 
creditors.  He asks the Circuit Court to an 
nul it.

M A N U PA C T U R IN &   M A T TER S.

Greenville—Ferguson  &  Moores  succeed 
Maxted  &  Moores in the foundry business.
Muskegon-r-Wm. Harper  has  purchased 
the interest of Firman & Goss  in  the  saw 
mill known as the Boom  Co.’s  mill.  The 
firm will now be known  as Firman,  Goss & 
Harper. 

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Purely Personal."*

E.  D. Yoorhees,  the Ionia  overall  manu­

facturer, was in town Monday.

.

Geo. E.  Steele, President of  the Traverse 
City B. M. A., was in town a couple of days 
last week.

A. E. Brooks,  of the  firm  of  Putnam & 
Brooks,  spent several days  in  Detroit  last 
week on business bent. 

Franklin  Barnhart  returned  Saturday 
from the South, where he has spent a month 
in search of renewed health.

Jos. Totten, the Totten mill operator  and 
general  dealer,  is in  town  for a few days, 
arranging  to  push  the  sale  qf  his  patent 
saw  gummer  and  Ward’s  patent  swage, 
which he is manufacturing.

Thos*. S. Freeman and  W.  L.  Freeman 
started for Wellington  Square,  O nt,  Sun­
day, in response to a  telegram  announcing 
the death of their  mother.  They  will not 
return before the end of the week.

Bank  Notes.

I. M. Strong, of the banking firm of I. M. 

Strong & Son, at Bancroft,  is dead.

H. R. Andrews, of  Grand  Rapids*  will 
take the position of book-keepet in the Mus­
kegon National  Bank,  nice E. W. Thayer, 
promoted.

E.  W.  Pickett,  of  the  banking  firm  of 
Pickett & Turner,  at  Wayland,  was  mar- 
Tried op the 8th to  Mrs* Nettie  Hudson,  of 
Sterling, N. Y.

James Dempsey,  Sr.,  was  elected Vice-. 
President of  the 'First  National  Bank of 
Manistee, to fill vacancy  occasioned  by the 
death of-M. Èugelmann, and Geo.  Dunham 
elected Director to  fill  similar  'vacancy on

Merchants should remember that the cele­
brated  “Crescent,”   “White  Bose”  and. 
“Royal  Patenti’  brands of flour are iqànU- 
factutod and sold only  by the  Voigt  Mill-

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H O W   H R  CAME  HOME.
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W ritte n  EapeciAÙy fo r  r i y ' ù t u i u ì i r .   - 

Hè was very pale and worn  looking, an ^  

he passed the house several  times before 
finally went up the three  steps  and  pulled 
the hell. 
It was a neat  little  cottage  and 
had a little flower bed in the front yard, 
the top step lay a broken-headed  doll 
an old torn picture book.

The door opened,  and a trim little woman 
appeared,  with a most pleasant smile on her 
face.\  With  her  came  a  little  boy,  who 
shouted  gleefully,  “Papa,  papa’s  cqme!” 
He shrank back behind his  mother’s  skirts 
with his thumb in his mouth when he  saw. 
instead Of his “ Papa, ” a stranger,

“Mrs.  Carter?” asked the  Stranger,  tak 

ing off his hat.
“Yes,  siy.”
“Your husband is George C." Carter?”
“Yes,  sir.”  .
The  man nervously  passed  his  hat from 
one hand to the  other  and  looked as if he 
would sink to the ground.  A  faint  line 
beady  perspiration  broke  out on his fore­
head.

“Is—is Mr.  Carter at home?”
“No,  but 1  expect him  every^  moment, 
He is a traveling man and  has  been  away 
two months and telegraphed  me  yesterday 
that he would be home to-day  on  ihe  first 
train.”

“He won’t come—” began  the  man 

emnly.

‘ ‘Sir,” indignantly broke in the lady, ‘ ‘sir 

what do you mean?”

“He is dead!”
“Dead!”  she  whispered,  collapsing 

fright,  “oh, my God!—man—don’t  jest  on 
such a subject!”

* ‘Mrs. Carter—madam—this morning, Mr, 
Carter—your  husband— left  Detroit  for 
home. 
I,  too,  am a traveling man,  and God 
knows I would rather be dead  myself  than 
stand here and tell  you  this  awful  news 
He wished to reach home on the noon train 
and so he wired a customer to  meet  him at 
the depot at Muir,  which would  obviate his 
stopping off there.  When we got to  Muir, 
his customer was at the depot  with a writ 
ten order.  He handed it and  some  money 
to George,  and he wrote out a receipt.  The 
train started before he  finished,  and in at­
tempting  to  jump  aboard  he  missed his 
hold”— he paused just in time to  catch her 
as she fell fainting.  The little  child  pick 
ed up the headless  doll  and, tugging at his 
mother’s skirts,  cried in wild alarm.
At the  same  moment,  the  long,  black 
wagon of the undertaker backed up against 
the sidewalk with a sickening jar.

He had come home! 

L eo.  A. Caro.

Gripsack Brigade.

B.  F.  Pashby, representing  John B. Bell 
& Co., the Toledo  soap manufacturers,  was 
in town over Sunday.

A.  W.  Peek  is  taking  Max  Mills’  trip 
along the Yalley road this  week.  ' L. H.  is 
taking a week’s lay-off.

Will S. Canfield, traveling  representative 
for the Hanselman  Candy Co.,  of  Kalama­
zoo,  has removed his family to Plainwell.

C.  E.  Lord,  who'has lately  been,  in  the 
employ of R.  P.  Anderson,  at  Muskegon, 
has engaged to travel for Andrew Wierengo.
Charles Barton,  Western  Michigan agent 
for the Champion reapers  and mowers, has 
removed his family  from  Plainwéll to this 
city.

C.  F.  Swain,  formerly agent for the Bryan 
plow, has engaged to represent the Fuller* 
Johnson  Manufacturing  Co.  in  this  terri­
tory.

“Dick” Sheeran,  formerly Manager of the 
Gunn Hardware Co., is in town for  a  cou­
ple of days.  He talks Adams & Westlake’s 
goods now.

W. N.  Ford  has  re-engaged  with  J.  G. 
Butler *  Co.,  of St.  Louis,  taking the gen­
eral agency of Michigan,  Indiana  and  the 
upper half Of  Hlinois.

L.  L. Loomis has gone West in  hopes of 
benefiting his health.  His  position  on the 
road with  Bulkley,  Lemon  &  Hoops has 
been taken by W.  H. Jones.

Manley D. Jones  has  engaged  to  travel 
for  Bulkley,  Lemon & Hoops,  taking  part 
city and part country  trade.  He  will  con 
tinue his visits to his D.  & M. trade.

A. J. Apgar, lately with D. W.  Blymyer 
& Co., of Cincinnati,  has engaged to  travel 
for Goulds &  Austin,  of  Chicago, 
taking 
Michigan and Kansas as his territory.

H.  G.  Carhartt,  who retired from thè De­
troit wholesale notion house  of  Welling & 
Carhartt on January 1,  is now on  the  road 
for Wm. H.  Lyons & Co,,  of New York.

E.  G.  Wilson, representing  Henry John­
son & Co., of Burlington,  Yt., has been in 
and around the city for the past two weeks.
He broke bread with C.  Crawford* last Sun­
day.

Wm.  B.  Edmunds started  out  yesterday 
for a tour of the jobbing  trade  of  Illinois, 
Indiana,  Ohio  and  Western  Pennsylvania 
and New York. 
P.  & B.’s Fourth of July 
specialties, you know.

Many are the cookery  books  which have 
come before  housekeepers,  but  none  con­
taining directions  so  plain  and  easily fol­
lowed as that lately  gotten out by Thos. Y. 
Crowell & Co., 13 Astor Place, N. Y. 
It is 
called  “Mrs.  Shillaberis  Cook-Book,” and 
is, as its title page indicates,  “A  Practical 
Guide for Housekeepers. ”  At  the  head of 
each receipt is a list of the articles required, so 
that one can see at a glance what materials 
are needed end whether  they  are  at hand, 
while below are given  explicit  suggestions 
ifpr booking the same.  As all of the receipts 
have been tested by thoroughly good cooks, 
the hook will be found  to  be  invaluable to 
the novice fn the culinary  art  as  well as of 
material aid to the more experienced..

The  Members  Well  Pleased.

B angor,  March 19,1888.
f

. A, Sthwe, Gxand Hajtlds: < 
D e a r   8 i r —O u r   A sso c ia tio n  i s  lit a  prosper* 
o u e  c o n d itio n  a n d  th é  m e m b e rs  m e  a ft p le a se d  
w ith   Ira   w orkinK s-  iW ei « a y   now , “ G o d  b less
you for onraaiziov this Association.” 
; T. M. Habtby, Sec’jr.,

Yours truly. 

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Two YVays of Looking a t It* 

Customer (on dhslhaaa street)—Four dol­
lars seems  a higb prtce  for  that  suit, Mr. 
Isaacstein.
Mr; l8aacstein (in a low,  thrilling  whis­
per)—My front, dot  vas  a  six-tollar  suit," 
made'for Mr. Russell Sage mit Y ali  street.* 
It fitted dot shentlem'ans too qu-viok  across 
der pack.  You dake him for four tollar! 
.

MISCELLANEOUS.

A dvertisem ents  'will  be  inserted under this head for 
one. cent a  word th e first insertion  and one-half eent a 
word for  each  subsequent  insertion. 
No  advertise- 
-m ent taken  jfor less th a n  26 cents.  A dvance paym ent!
A dvertisem ents  directing  th a t  answ ers  be  sen t  in 
■ oaroot th is office  m t i s t   b©  a c c o m p a n i e d  b y  2 5  
c e n t s  e x t r a ,  to cover expense of postage.

■OR SALE-MY'IMPLEMENT  BUSINESS:  GOOD L o­

"P O R  SALE—IN A LIVE  CITY  IN  CENTRAL  MICHi- 
w 
o f;  13,060  Inhabitants,  clean stock of boots,
shoes, hats, caps,fend  gents’^ furnishing goods;  store 
J ?   Purchaser,  if   desired.  Address  lock  box 
3553, R attle Creek,  Mich. 
236*

cation, brick building, lim e  house  and  tile  yard.
Address  John  O. Sm ith,  E aton  Rap- 
238*

A lsogood farm , 
idsyjfiich.

 

 

 

 

’  _____________  

DoUarville, Mich. 

F OR SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  YOR  A  STOCK  OF  DRY 

Fo r   s a l e —g e n e r a l   s t o c k   m e r c h a n d is e  

goods,  clothing  o r  groceries,  p farm  in Mecosta 
Co. and one o r m ore houses and lots in  th e   flourishing 
city  of K alamazoo.  Calvin  Forbes,  Kalamazoo, Mich. 
________ ____________ 
235*
in
good tow n and good trade.  Inquire of 3. C.  S titt, 
219*
OR S ALE  AT A TJARGAIN.  A STOCK OF GENERAL 
m erchandise in  an  iron furnace tow n in th is State. 
Fflm ace com pany pays  o u t  in  cash  $8,000 p er m onth. 
Stock  wiU  invoice  about  $6,000.  Can  be  reduced  to 
$2,500  o r  $3,000  in   60  days.  Sales  p er  m onth  $1,600. 
P ay  snre.  Best  of  reasons  fo r selling.  Those mean- 
ing business  address No. 113 this  office. 
234*tf
FOR SALE—w h o l e  OR PART INTEREST in  a  f ir s t - 
class m eat m ark et in  a   th rbring  tow n  of  1,000 in­
hab itan ts w ith  tw o  railroads.  A verage  sales  $30  per 
day.  Good reasons fo r selling. Address H., care Trades-
m an- 
219-tf
TTIOR SALE-AT  A  BARGAIN.  A  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
hardw are  and  m ill  supplies.  Address  W ayne
Choate. Agent, E ast Saginaw. 
210-tf
OR SALE—THE BEST DRUG STORE IN  THE  THRIV- 
ing  city of  M uskegon.  Terms  easy,  C.  L.  Brun-
193-tf
OR SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF DRUGS, FIXTURES, 
etc.,  com plete, on good line  of  railw ay, about 36 
m iles  n o rth  of G rand  Rapids.  No. paints  o r  oils, bu t 
could be  added to  good  advantage.  P oor  health and 
o th er business  m y  only  reasons  fo r  selling.  No.  116 
care Tradesm an office. 
232 tf
OR  SALE—A LARGE  STOCK  OF GENERAL  MER-
chandise.  Best location in town.  Good reason for 
235* 
OR  SALE—A NEW AND VERY VALUABLE PATENT 
A sure fortune fo r an energetic m an.  Small capi­
ta l required  to  m anufacture.  No  hum bug,  Bears in­
vestigation.  Address,  J,  H.  Van  Glahn,  M anager, 106 
C herry St., Toledo, Ohio. 
234*
OR  SALE-THE  ROLLER  PROCESS GRIST MILLAT 
Edm ore, Mich.  Doing a   good business  and an in­
creasing trade.  The p ro p rieto r has o th er business and 
m ust sell.  Edm ore  i3  a  th riv in g   village of  1,200, has 
‘tw o railroads, and  in  th e  m idst of a grow ing country. 
A good chance  fo r th e rig h t  m an.  Call  on o r  address 
J. H. Gibbs, Edm ore, Mich. 
238*

selling.  Address P  O. box 157, Caledonia, Mich. 

dage, Muskegon, Mich. 

_________  

238*

235*

gain.  Address 117, th is office. 
ANTED—SITUATION  BY  A  FIRST-CLASS  BOOK 
keeper,  who  can  give  exceptional  references. 

tablished  w atchm aker  and* jew elry  business in 
Southw estern Michigan.  P opulation,  1,000;  no compe­
titio n ;  splendid  opportunity  fo r  w atchm aker  w ith 
sm all capital.  Address 118. 

OR SALE—A NEW AND VERY VALUABLE PATENTJ 
A sure fortune for^uPenergetic m an.  Small capi­
ta l required to m anufacture.  No  hum bug.  B ears  in- 
estigation.  Address  J. H.  Van  Glahn,  M anager,  106 
C herry St., Toledo, Ohio. 
236*

Fo r   s a l e —s t o c k   a n d   f ix t u r e s   o f   w e l l -e s -
FOR  SALK—SECOND  HAND  HEARSE  AT  A BAR- 
W J
Address Allen, care Tradesm an.

■ ANTED—TO  CORRESPOND  WITH A FIRST-CLASS 
■ ANTED—SITUATION IN DRUG BUSINESS.  QUALI- 
W ANTED—FIRST-CLASS STOCKS OF MERCHANDISE 

in   m edicine;  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Chicago;  S tate  U niversity 
M ichigan,  and  R egistered  L icentiate  in   Pharm acy, 
M ichigan.  Address X. Y., M. D., th is office. 
236*
ANTED—MANAGER TO TAKE CHARGE  OF STOCK 
fo r reliable firm in  a  leading city.  Salary, $1,800.
Address

References and cash deposit of $500 required. 
'I. G. Loomis, V erm ontville, Mich.

personal  property, o r real  estate in M ichigan in 
exchange fo r  choice  selected  farm s  or farm   lands in 
W isconsin,  Iow a,  M innesota,  D akota  or  M inneapolis 
real estate.  Address  Bigelow- &  Sheldon, M inneapolis. 
238*
Minn. 

pharm acist.  J. D. S trachan, Muir, Mich. 

fications — graduate 

237*

235*

K

H

YTTANTED—SITUATION AS  OLERK XR rawnrRAr. OR 
jgrocorYstove/.  Had two years’ experience,  (ten 
talk  German.  Reference  given  if  wanted.  Address 
box 338, Nashville, Mich. 
235«
yxrANTED—SITUATION  BY  A  REGTSOTtRET»^"TWTjglg^ 
tv  macist.  Seven years’ experience.  Best of refers 
ences.  Addresslock box No. 37, Miflland. Mich. 
233-tf 
T IT  ANTED—AGENTS  EVERYWHERE,  TiAtiit»* p ti 
tv 
gents.  New thing jn s t out.  Big money for next 
90 days.  Sample  15 c.  F or  particulars enclose stamp, 
and  address  G.  W.  Swinburne,  manufacturer.  La 
Crosse, Wis. 
287*
W ANTf D—BT A  YOUN(J MAN  OF 28,  POSITION  IN 
. * * 
n  drug  store.  Three years’ experience..  RCgis- 
tered by exam ination.  Address 115, this office. 
235* 
YyANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  READS 
” t 
.PaP,e r, to   give  th e  Sutliff coupon system a
tria l.  I t w ill abolish your pass  books,  do  away  with 
ail your book-keeping, in  m any instances save yon th e 
expense of one clerk, wiU bring  your business  down to 
a  cash basis and  save  you  all  the  w orry and trouble 
th a t usually go w ith th e pass-book plan.  S tart th e  1st 
of tn e m onth w ith th e new  system  and  you  w ill never 
reg ret it.  H aving  tw o kinds, both  kinds  w ill be  sen t 
by  addressing .(m entioning  this  paper)  J.  H.  Sutliff,
226-tf
A lbany, N. Y. 
T'vETECTIVE—MICHIGAN  STATE  DETECTIVE  ASS<>
, 
ciation (incorporated) legitim ate  detective w ork 
in   all  its  branches  thoroughly  transacted.  E xpert 
operatives despatched  to  all  p a rts of  th e  world.  Re­
liable  correspondents  w anted In  every county  in  th e  
U nited  States.  Address  all  com m unications,  Wm. C. 
Adams  &  Co.,  6  H ilsendegen  Block,  Monroe  avenue 
235*
D etroit, Mich. 

■ RARE*“BUSINESS  CHANCE—A  STOCK  OF  GEN- 
■ ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR 

eral ’ m erchandise  in   fine condition fo r sale! also 
store building 22X60 feet w ith basem ent and flne living 
room s  above.  Nice  new  barn.  Store  house.  Two 
good wells.  Out buildings, etc., all com plete, in  one of 
th e best tow ns  n o rth   o f  G rand  Rapids.  Reasons  fo r 
selling, poor health.  W ould ta k e in   exchange a  house 
and lo t in G rand  Rapids  w orth  from   $1,000  to   $1,500. 
Address 114, th is office. 
232

Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System.  Send fo r 
225-tf

sam ples.  E. A. Stowe &  Bro., G rand Rapids. 

__________ _________ '  

' 

N O TIC E

F  THE

®  THE  LAffl  OFFICES

DETROIT AND  EAST  SAGINAW,  MICHIGAN

THE

TRAN8FEB OF THEIR RECORDS AND ARCHIVES TO THE REED 

CXTY LAND OFFICE, AND REMOVAL OF THE 

SAME TO GRAYLING, MICHIGAN.

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Notice is hereby given that the  President 
of  the United  States,  by  Executive  Order 
dated  February  7,  1888,  has,  pursuant  to 
law, directed that the offices for the disposal 
of  public  lands,  now  located  at  Detroit 
and  E ast Saginaw,  in the State of  Mich­
igan,  be discontinued,  and the  records  and 
archives  of  said  offices  be  transferred  to 
the Reed  City Land Office, which,  by said 
Executive  Order,  is directed  to be removed 
to Grayling, Michigan.
Further notice of  the  precise  time when 
the above orders  will he carried  into  effect 
will be  given by the Registers  and  Receiv­
ers of  the  respective  districts  by  publica­
tion.
Given  under  my  hand  at  the  City  of 
Washington,  this  ninth  day  of  February, 
A.  D.  1888.

By the P resident :

S.  M.  STOCKSLAGER,

Acting Commissioner General Land Office.

Agreeable 
above order—

to  the  requirements  of  the

Notice is hereby  given  that  the  United 
States Land office at Reed City, Michigan, 
will close  business at 4 o’clock p.  m. on the 
31?t  day  of  March,  1888,  and  will re-open 
for  business  at  Grayling,  Mich., on the 
16th  day of  April,  1888,  at  9 o’clock  a.  m. 
of  said day.

Reed City,  Mich., Feb’y 29th,  1888.
E. N.  F itch, 
Receiver. 

Na th a n iel Cla rk, 
Register.

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S p S fö c h iK aa   R o sin e* *   M en ’«  A ss o c ia tio n .  ^  
:Fm «Éa¿¿2Fw uik fiam U ton. Traverso C ity.
First Vloe-Pregident—Paul P. Morgan, Monroe.  ¡ |¡ ¡  
aeoond ViceíPfesIdent-S. LanrfrojiL Oyrosso. *  * 
,  ; 
Bocrct.ry—K. A.gtowe, Grand Rapida. 
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T reastucé  L.W.aprégtM>. G reenville.
Executive  Board—President,  Secretary, fl* o .T f.m a *  
h ard, F lin t; W. E. KelBey, lo m a; Irv in g   F. Clapp, Al­
legan, 
Committee on Trade Interests—Sm ith B arnes, T raverse 
C ity ; Chas. Ï .  B ridgauia, fU n t¡  H. B.  Fargo,  Muzke- 
gon.
Oomimnittü oaLpgit-liitlon—Frank WVIÌh. Lansing; W# 
K. Kelsey, Ionia, At al MeWÍIlsn  Un« kfeid 
Cemmittee  on  Transportation—J.  V f.  Milliken,  Trav­
erse City* i n o . P. Stanley, Sattle Creek;  Wat Bebec, 
East Saginaw. 
.
Qommíttee on  Insurance—N.  B.  Blain,  Lowell;  E.  T.
Hogle, Hastings, O  M. Clement, Cheboygan. 
(^ p l tiM im  Biiiliiiiig  and  Loan Associations—F. L, 
Puller,  Frankfort;  S.  E. Parkill,  Owosso;  Will  Em-
■ 
Official Organ—'Thk Michigan Teadssman.

Rupida,

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. 

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

g o .   1—T ra v erse C ity  B. M . A . 
President, geo. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts.

President, K. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T, ging.

President, H. S. Chnreh; Secretary, W a. Jom.
Preeident. E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

N o. 6 —A lb a   B. M . A . 

President. F. W. Bloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin. 
'  
President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, K. H. Widger.

N o. 7—D i m o n d a le  B . M . A .

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

N o. 8 —Ë a stp o r t B . M . A .

N o . 9 —L a w re n c e  B . M . A .

President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, C. A.,8tebbins.

Mo.  10—H a rb or S p rin g s B . M . A . 

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

M o .ll—K in g sle y  B . M . A . 

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

N o. 1 2 —Q o iu cy  B . M . A .
N o. 1 3 —S h erm an  B . M . A . 

President, C.. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon.______
President, H. B. Stnrtevant; Secretary, W.  Q. Shane.

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

President, R. B. Perkins; Secretary, F. M, Chase.
N o . 1 6 —Sand L a k e B . M . A . 
President, J. V. Crandall: Secretary, W. Rasco.

"  ”  N o. 17—P la in  w e ll B . M . A .
President, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
N o .  18—O w osso B . M . A . 

N o.  1 » —A d a   B . M . A .

N o. 8 0 —S a u g a tu c k  B . M . A . 

President, S. E. Parkill ; Secretary, S. Lamfrom. 
™  
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.
President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.
Perstdent, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W.  R.  Clarke.
President, F. A. Rockattllow: Secretary, C. fir. Barley.

N o. 2 2 —G rand  L ed g e  B . M . A . 
N o. 3 3 —C arson C ity B . M. A . 

N o. 2 1 —W ay la n d  B . M . A . 

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

N o. 3 4 —M o rley  B .  M . A .

N o . 3 5 —P a lo  B . M . A ,

President, Chas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. D. Pew.

»  N o. 3 6 —G r e e n v ille  B . M . A . 

President. S. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.

N o   3 7 —D o r r  B. M .  A . 

President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.

President, J.  H. Tnttle;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.______

N o. 3 8 —C h eb o y g a n  B . M . A
N o. 3 9 —F r e e p o r t B . ¡VI. A .

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

President, A. G. Avery;  Secretary, E. S. Honghtaling.

N o. 3 0 —O cean a B . M. A .

N o . 3 1 —C h arlotte  B . M. A . 

President, Thoa. 3. Green;  Secretary, A. G. Flenry.
President, G. W. Watrous;  Secretary, J. B. Watson.

N o. 3 2 —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 . 

President, L. D. Bartholomew;  Secretary, R. W. Kane.

N o. 3 4 —Saran ac B . M . A . 

President, H. T. Johnson;  Secretary, P. T. Williams.
President, Wm. J. Nixon; Secretary, G. J. Noteware.
President, O. F. Jackson;  Secretary, John  M. Everden.

N o .  3 5 —B e lla ir e   B . M . A . 
N o. 3 6 —I th a e a   B .  M . A .

N o. 3 7 —B a ttle  C reek  B .  M . A . 

N o. 3 8 —S c o ttv ille   B.  M . A . 

President,  Chas. F. Bock;  Secretary, Jno. P- Stanley.
President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
N o. 3 9 —B u r r  O ak B . At. A . 
President, B, O. Graves;  Secretary,  H. M. Lee.
No. 4 0 —B a to n  B a p  id s B . M . A . 
President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Chas. Coller.
N o. 4 1 —B r e c k e n r ld g e   B . M . A . 
President, W. O. Watson; Secretary, C.  E. Scudder.

N o. 4 3 —F r e m o n t B . M . A . 

President, Jos. Gerber; Secretary  C. J. Rathbun.
President, G. A. Estes; Secretary,W. M. Holmes.

N o. 4 3 —T u stin  B . M . A . 

N o. 4 4 —R e ed  C ity  R . AL A . 
N o. 4 5 —H o y tv ille  B .  M. A .

President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay,

N o. 4 6 —L e slie  B . M . A . 

N o .  4 7 —F lin t  M .  L . 

President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, R. M. Gould.
President, W. C. Pieroe; Secretary, W. H. Graham.
No. 4 8 —H u b b a rd sto n  B. M. A. 
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.
President, A.  Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith.

No. 4 9 —L eroy  B   M .  A . 
N o . 5 0 —M a n istee B . M . A . 

President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary, J. P.  O’Malley.

N o . 5 1 —C edar  S p rin g s  B .  M .  A . 

N o. 5 3 —G rand H a v e n  B . M . A . 

President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, Wm. Mieras.
N o, 5 3 —B e lle v u e  B . M . A . 
N o. 5 4 —D o n g la s B . M . A .

President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, John H. York.

President, Thomas B. Dntcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller.
President, C. F. Hapkey; Secretary. A. C. Bowman.

N o ,  5 5 —F e to sk e y   B . M . A . 
N o. 5 6 —B a n g o r   B .  ¡6.  A . 
Mo. 5 7 —R o c k fo r d   B . M . A . 

President,!!. W. Drake;  Secretary, T. M. Harvey.
President, Geo. A. Sage; Secretary. J. M. Spore.
President, E. Hagedorn; Secretary, E. C. Brower.

N o. 5 8 —F ife  L a k e B . M . A . 
N o . 5 9 —F e n n v ille  B . M . A . 

President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, P. S. Swarts.
N o, 6 0 —S o u th  B oard  m an  B . H . A . 
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. È. Neihardt.
President, V. E. Manley; Secretary,‘L B. Barnes.
President, G. W. Meyer; Secretary, Theo. Kadish.
President; W. M. Davis; Secretary, C. E. Bell.

N o.  6 1 —H a rtfo rd   B . M . A . 
N o  6 2 -—E a st n a g in a w  M . A . 

N o . 6 3 —E v a r t B . M . A . 

N o, 6 4 —M e r r ill B . »1. A .
, President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Norton.
N o . 6 5 —K a lk a sk a  B . AI. A . 
President, Jas. Crawford; Secretary; C. 3. Blom.
N o .6 6 —L a n sin g  B .M .  A .  . - 
President, Frank Wells; Secretary, W. JS. Crotty.
P resident, H. P eirce; Secretary, F. H. Merrifield.______

N o . 6 7 —W a te r v lie t-B . AL A . 

N o. 68—Allegan B. »1. A.

President, A. E. Calkins ;  Secretary, E .T . VanO strand.
M anufacturers Seeking New  Locations. 
Gale Mf’er Oo., Albion.
Smith Middlings Purifier Co., Jackson.  * 
Lovell Hefrigerator Go., Ionia.
Clapp Shirt Go., Allegan.
Bifenburg Milling Co., Charlevoix.

Special Enterprises Wanted. 

Grist Mill—Hopkins Station. 
Mewspaper—mirth Muskegon. 
Gristmill—Bellevue.
Wood working establishment—Quincy.

Allegan Takes Charter No. 68.

A l l e g a n, March 12,1888.

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H. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids: 
.Omar Sis—At a  recent meeting of the B. M. 
Al^-the enclosed constitution and by-laws were 
unanimously adopted, and  the secretary  was 
instructed to  forward the necessary per capita 
tax and  apply for  a charter.  1 therefore en­
close draft for $15.75, $12.75 per capita tax and 
S3 for a  charter,wbloh please forward as early 
ttpftatw aleav 
Gur  Association  has  been  doing g   large 
amauM  pf good' work during the past year, 
especially in the way of public enterprises and 
Improvements, from which great  results  are 
anticipated  dprlng  the  oonung spring time. 
Yisions of new railroads, court bouses and f  ao- 
I and a  booming «ity are  at  M n s m a l;
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P ® O h i o  Form s a

Deipgatps  from the twenty-four kieal 11 | 

ciations of Ohio met at GipVbiahd last Tuesday 
and formed a  state  organizat’on ;iuider  the 
style of the Ohio  Retail  Merchants’  Associa­
tion.  Chas. Herr man, of Clevelahd, wad elect 
ed President and P. P. Cherry, of  Akron, Sec­
retary.  Ib e  price  of charters  was fixed at 65 
and the per capita dues placed  at  $1.  per an- 
num.  The  work of organization occupied the 
whole of Tuesday and the forenoon  of’ Wed­
nesday.  In the afternoon Pf  the ' latter  day, 
the  Cleveland ¿Retail  Grocers’,  Association 
treated the visitors to a carriage  ride out Eu­
clid avenue to ¿he  Garfield  monument,  stop­
ping at the cyclorama of the  Battle  of  Chat­
tanooga on the way back to  the  city.  In  the 
evening, the guests were treated  to  a compli­
mentary  banquet  at  the  HqUenden  Hotel, 
which was interspersed with vocal and instru­
mental music and interesting addresses.  The 
delegates  and  invited  guests  united  in  ac­
knowledging the obligations they  were under 
to-the Cleveland  Association for  the  hearty 
entertainment accorded them.  No  undertak­
ing of the-kind was ever carried out more suc­
cessfully.

Supplementing the  adoption  of  a constitu­
tion and  by-laws,  the  following  resolutions 
were put forth as expressing the aims and  as­
pirations of the new Association :
We  hold  that  food  contributes  to the first 
and prime wants of man.  To this article  he is 
chiefly indebted for the  flesh and blood he en­
joys.  No  claim as  a  consequence can  be as 
sacred,  as  permanent, as  entitled to  liquida­
tion, as can be this  one * for  food.  Therefore, 
no legal barriers should  be  left  errected  be­
hind which the unscrupulous,  dishonest,  and 
shiftless  can  shirk.  As  long  as  employers 
continue to pay employes by the monthly and 
semi-monthly systems, so long will It be neces­
sary for the toilers of the country to buy food 
on  credit.  The  credit  system 
is  the  most 
natural  and  most  humane.  Through it one 
can be to bis fellow  being  a  friend and bene­
factor.
The present laws, which allow an exemption 
of $50j to  a  husband,  have  been  flagrantly 
used as a shield by the dishonest, have caused 
mercantile wrecks,  have  destroyed the bene­
ficiary character of  the  credit  system,  and 
have forced merchants to look upon strangers 
asking for credit  with  suspicion.  It  affords 
no comfort nor is its protection sought by the 
just, honest, or manly.  It  licenses the crafty 
and suggests an avenue through  which *to es­
cape the most sacred of obligations.  The  his­
tory of the  retail  grocery trade  of  the  State 
show that but a small percentage of the losses 
are from  the  lowest paid wage workers,  and 
th^t the largest  losses  are from the best paid 
classes,  suen  as  railroad  conductors,  engin­
eers, mechanics, salaried officers, etc.
The  family  of  the  drunken  or  profligate 
husband who  spends  his  week’s  or  month’s 
earnings in a saloon or gambling den is forced 
to qpffer in penury  and  want through the in­
strumentality of the present law.  With a'law 
allowing  no  exemption  against a food claim 
any grocer could  furnish  aid  to  a destitute 
family, knowing  he  could  make the husband 
pay.  Hence we recommend the adoption of a 
homestead amendment.
We are in  favor  of  legislation  which  will 
mete out extreme punishment to  any  manu­
facturer or person who will use such materials 
in  the  adulteration  of  food  as  will militate 
against the healths of the people.  But we are 
>not in favor  of  anathematizing  a  manufac­
turer who uses harmless  or  healthy  ingredi­
ents for the purpose of placing food at a price 
within  the  reach  of  the  poorer  classes  if 
branded as compound.  All  adulterated foods 
are not injurious.  Again, who  is  it  that  will 
establish the standard to which all goods must 
conform?  This  difficulty  becomes  obvious 
when it is remembered that the standard bak­
ing powder brands of the country  are perpet­
ually maligning each other  through the press 
of the nation and  are  each  producing affida­
vits from the most eminent chemists tp prove 
that the goods of the others  are  composed of 
materials highly injurious to the health of the 
people
We furthermore believe that  this  agitation 
for pure food is kept in motion by  and in the 
interests of certain classes.
Therefore,  we  adjure  Congress  and other 
legislative  powers  to  exercise  care and pru­
dence when acting  upon  this  subject, lest an 
advertising pretext  he  furnished to monopo­
listic manufacturers created on wealth  extoi> 
tionately wrong from the people, and which is 
so lavishly expended  through  newspapers in 
decrying goods.
We most emphatically  decry  trusts  or any 
organizations  bieh aim to use their power to 
extort excessive profits from the people.
For ourselves, we simply  want  an  untraai- 
meled  trade,  fair  and  friendly competition 
with ¡only a just recompense for  services ren­
dered.
We are in favor  of  an  amendment  to  the 
Bussell law which  will  allow  an  increase of 
the license, and  apply  to  cities  of  the first* 
class,  so  that  it  will  apply  to all cities and 
towns of the State.
We denounce the gift schemes  which are so 
extensively practiced all  over this State, as it 
creates deeeit.  We f urther recommend that a 
copy of this  resolution  be  addressed  to  the 
General Assembly  asking  the  passage of the 
bill No. 175, known as the Klensch bill.
It  is  the  sense  of  this  Association to de­
nounce the practice  of  wholesale  merchants 
who sell goods to consumers.
Interesting Meeting of the  Muskegon As­

sociation.

From the Muskegon News, March 14.
The Muskegon  Business  Men’s  Association 
met in regular  session  at  the  city  hall  last 
night, vice-PreBidentJ. A Miller  in  the chair 
and Secretaries  Peer  and  Wood at the desk. 
The following new members were admitted:
O. Lambert, grocer;  G.  G.  Burdick, hatter; 
John Mellema,  grocer;  H.  Mellema,  grocer; 
F. A.  Jones,  physician:  Hetz  &  Hohenstein, 
undertakers; F.  S.  Wunsch, tailor; B. A. Ves- 
tey. boardinghouse; N. Castenholtz,  butcher; 
J. P. Sheridan &  Co.,  clothiers;  J.  Hudson & 
Co., flour and  feed; Miss  J.  Foster,  milliner; 
Geo. Boyce,  butcher;  Rosenthal  Bros., cloth­
iers.
Mr. Miller  stated  that  the  committee that 
had  been appointed  to  negotiate  with  Mr. 
Clapp, of Allegan,  respecting the  location of 
his overall  factory  here  had  heard  nothing 
from him of late.
The bond of Treasurer Jesson, in the sum of 
$260, with J. A. Miller as  surety, and the bond 
of Secretary Peer  in  a  like  sum,  with R. S. 
Miner surety, were accepted.
Mr. Rimer spoke of a person, a  customer of 
his, whom he  had always found  to  be honest 
and who paid his bills,  as  being  on the black 
list.  He explained that the gentleman  claims 
emphatically that he paid  the  account, a dol­
lar or two, to the merchant who had  reported 
him; moreover, that the gentleman had never 
received a regular notice from the  Secretary 
of the Association  before he was black listed. 
The case  was  refered to  the Executive Cem- 
mittee to inquire into the facts  and  place the 
matter in the right light.
A general discussion followed relative to the 
hasty action  of  members  who  are  apt to re­
port  as  dead-beats  those  persons  between 
whom and the merchants  accounts are in dis­
pute.  The President stated that It was a very 
serious  thing to pu t a  man on the black list as 
a dead-beat  and  publish  him  as  such to the 
business .community,  and  that  it should not 
bedone through personal spite, and never un­
til after the ease was thoroughly  investigated 
by the officers of the Association.  The Secre­
tary explained  that  the  name  of the gentle­
man referred to  by  Mr.  Rimer  went  on the 
list prior to his  taking  the  position of Secre­
tary.
A  member  enquired  whether,  if  a  man 
whose  name  is  found  on  the  black list for 
som e old debt, and a man  whom one firm had 
trusted  and  found  that  he  always paid, he 
could be given credit?  He  was  told  that the 
strongest plank in  the platform  upon  which 
the Association is founded is that no such peiv 
son should  be  given  credit  by a  member of 
.the Association, so long as his name -remained 
upon the dead-beat  list.  A -violation  of this 
rule would subject the dealer  to  a   fine of $10 . 
for every  offense.  Moreover,  sueh  a  dealer 
would  be Subject  to  expulsion  from the As­
sociation.  It is only by the members standing 
by each other th at  the  Association  will bo or 
any benefit to them as a whole.
Other matters  of  Interests  to  th e Associa­
tion.  were,  discussed,  before  adjournment. 
There are now 360 members of the B. M. A. m 
good standing, 
;
>W. S. Chandler, general dealer, Aomo: “T®® 
Trabbsma*  is f p  right  ami- Fell worth the

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Association  Motes. 

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The Charlotte B. M.  A. has nosed $5, (68 
by subscription, ior the purpose' of  boring 
for natural gas.  *  '  1J 

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Nashville business men will  meet  to  or­
ganize an auxiliary association on Thursday 
evening of this week.

The  Muskegon  B. M. A.  is,endeavoring 
to get a line  of  boats  established  between 
that city and Milwaukee.

Greetings of the Michigan Business Men’s 
Association to the  Ohi(\  Retail  Merchants7 
Association:  “Shake, Brother!”  .

The Pennsylvania Retail  Merchants’ As * 
sociation will bold a  semi-annual  meeting 
at Wilkes  Barre on  the  fourth  Tuesday in 
April. 

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The Manistee B.  M. A. will hold  a  ban­
quet on Tuesday, May 1, the  same  date* on 
which  the  Insurance  Policy  Commission 
gives a hearing at Lansing.

Local secretaries should use  care  to  see 
that the names reported to the State  Secre­
tory are written so plainly that no mistakes 
can possibly occur.  They should also make 
their reports on the proper  blanks, in order 
that there may be no mistakes in  classifica­
tion.

The Tustin B. M. A., which has been con­
sidering  the  subject  of  water  works,  has 
concluded  to  raise  enough  money by sub­
scription  to  construct a storage  cistern  in 
the center of  the  place,  keeping it  filled by- 
means  of  a water  wheel  in a stream  con­
veniently near by.

Several  Lakeview  merchants  have sub­
scribed $3 per year for the  inferior  collec­
tion scheme put out by a Marshall  concern. 
Business  men  generally  shonld beware of 
the Marshall scheme,  as it is doing business 
contrary to law and is  likely to get some of 
its dnpes into trouble.

Among  the  subjects  which  will  be dis­
cussed  at  the  next  State  meeting  is  the 
printing  of  all  delinquents—local  lists as 
well  as  itinerant  fellows—on  the  State 
sheets.  Such a plan  was  proposed  at  the 
Flint meeting, but voted down.  Since then 
most  of  those  who  opposed  the  measure 
have come over to the  other  side,  so that it 
is not unlikely that the new  method will be 
put into effect shortly after  the  Cheboygan 
meeting.

Referring to the adoption of  the constitu­
tion ^ and  by-laws  of  the  Michigan  Bus- 
jss  Men’s  Association  by  the  recently- 
formed New Jersey Retail Merchants’ Asso­
ciation,  the New Jersey  Trade  Review  re­
marks :  “The -New  Jersey  State  Associa­
tion certainly is  indebted  to  the  Michigan 
organization  for  an  excellent  constitution 
and by-laws. 
It was  adopted in preference 
to others mainly for its brevity and simplic­
ity,  which in no manner  impaired  its com­
prehensibility.”

Manistee Democrat:  The Business Men’s 
Association held a meeting Friday night for 
the  purpose of  organizing  a  building  and 
loan association. 
It was  decided to  organ­
ize  with  $1,000,000  capital  divided  into 
shares of  $100 each,  and  holders of  shares 
will be required  to  pay on  them  50 cents a 
month each.  A. 0. Wheeler, E. Levy, B. P. 
Barnes,  Geo.  A.  Hart  and P.  W. Niskem 
were  appointed a committee  to  look  after 
the  organization  of  the  association  and 
twenty-five persons signified their intention 
of  taking  300  shares.  A  request  for  au­
thority from  the  Secretary of  State  to  or­
ganize was  forwarded to Lansing  Saturday 
and will probably be heard from  in  about a 
week.  All citizens  who  are  working on a 
salary or for  wages  ought to  join .the asso­
ciation,  because it affords  the  best  oppor­
tunity in the world  to  save  50 cents or up­
ward a month, with the certainty of  getting 
good interest on the savings.
The Reed City Association Secures a Per­

manent Campmeeting.

Reed  City, March 15,1888,

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear Sir—We met on March  2, and  elected 
the officers published in T h e  Tradesman last 
week.
The Business  Committee was  instructed to 
circulate a subscription list to raise  moaey to 
offer to the Bigr Rapids District Campmeeting 
Association as  an  inducement  to  locate per- 
mant  camp grounds at Reed City.  Said Com­
mittee  reported  at  a special meeting  on  tl$p 
9th that they had raised  $813 and our Associar 
tion  decided  to  guarantee $700 lo  the  camp­
meeting locating committee,which met here on 
the 12th inst. to decide between  Reed City and 
Chase.  Chase  offered to  give twenty acres of 
land, hut they decided to come to Reed City.
This is the first thing  we  have  secured  fer 
the advancement of  Reed City since we were 
organized, but we  are  ready  to  help  parties 
who  are looking  for  locations  for  manufac­
turing  purposes.  This  is  a  good  point  and 
parties  would do well  to  visit  Reed  City  or 
communicate with  the  Secretary of our Asso­
ciation before locating elsewhere.

'  Resp’y, 

W. H. Smith, Sec’y.

Muskegon Rapidly Increasing in Member­

ship.

Mu sk eg o n, March 14,1888.

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E. A. Stow e. G rand R apids:
D e a r  Sir —Enclosed  find  $11.25  for  forty- 
five additional members to the  State Associa­
tion,  We are doing well in  regard  to getting 
new members  and,  if  we  keep  on  doing  as 
well, we will have 200 members  by the time of 
our State meeting.

Yours truly,  Wm. P e e r , Sec’y. 

Let the good work go on I 
P . 8.—I have  beeh  glow in  sending  in  dues 
for new members. After this, I will send after 
every regular meeting.
We had a good meeting last night.  Fourteen 
new members  were  admitted.  You  will  see 
proceedings in News.  - 
P.
Good  Report from  the  Baby  Association.
Climax, March 14,1888.

E. A. Stsw e, G rand R apids: 
D e a r Sir —Our Business  Men’s Association 
is  booming.  I t is “doing good” already, even 
without  sending  Out  one  Blue  Letter.:  Our 
old customers seem tp be wonderfully  accom­
modating, even asking the privilege of paying 
up, biesB their hearts! 

Member.

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Nail  Market.

The  Pittsburg  manufacturers  have  ad­
vanced nails 10 cents per keg, but the Grand 
Rapids jobbers have  not  yet  raised  their 
quotations. 
. President  Hamilton, of the M- B.  M. A. 
was*in town a couple of days last week,, ac­
companying. Mrs. H am ilto n   thus Tar on her 
way to Chicago.

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BUTTS, CAST.

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These  pnces  are  for cosh buyers,  who  p ar 

Flush......... ............................ 

promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGERS AND BITS;
lyes’, old style....................................... dis  «0
N.  H.C.Co......... .............. 
60
 
dis 
 
Douglass’.......................................  
60
  dis 
Pierces’ ............................’. . . ...............dis 
60
Snell’s ..............:...................................dis 
60
Cook’s  ....................................  
...dis 
40
Jennings’, g enuine......;......................dis  25
Jennings’, i m i t a t i o n . - . . . ; . . . . . . ,dis50&10
BALANCES.
Spring...... ............ 
40
BARROWS,
Railroad .........  .............  
$  14 00
Garden...... ................... .¿.  .......... .net 33 O0
BELLS-
H and............... ....... ....... ........... dis $ 60&10&10
Coyf......... .............................. .....dis 
70
30&15
iip 
Call:................................... 
...u ls  
 
Gong.............. 
25
60&10
dis 
Door, Sargent............. 
 
 
BOLTS.
Stove................  
...d is$  
0
 
7C&10
Carriage new list....... ..dis 
Plow  .......................... . 
.....:dis 
50
70
Sleigh Shoe....................... ........-........ dis 
60
Wrought Barrel Bolts.... >.............    dis 
40
Cast  Barrel Bolts............................dis 
Cast Barrel, brass knobs................   dis 
40
Cast Square Spring........................    dis 
60
Cast Chain.................... 
dis 
40
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob ...,...... dis 
60
Wrought Square .  ..............................dis 
60
Wrought Sunk Flush...... .................. dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
dis  60&10
dis  60&10
Ives’ Door................  
BRACES.
Barber ..........  
s..........d is$  
 
40
Backus...... .....................  
dis  50&10
Spdffqyd........................................... ,..d is 
50
Am. Rail........................... 
net
.dis 
BUCKETS.
$  350
Well, plain.......................... 
Well, swivel.............................................  
4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured....................... dis  70&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed__ _dis 
70&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis  60& 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  60&10
Wrought Loose  Pin............................dis  60&L0
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............ dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............ dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
tip p ed ............................................... dis  60& 5
Wrought Table...... ............................. dis  60&10
Wrought Inside Blind.........................dis  60&10
Wrought Brass..................................... dis 
75
Blind, Clark’s...... ..........................       dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s............... 
dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s...................................dis 
70
CAPS.
Ely’s 1-10.........
............................ per m $ 65
Hick’s C. F ___
............................ 
60
G. D............
..............................................  35
Musket...........
60
* 
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list... .50
Rim Fire, United  States..........................  .dis50
Central Fire......   ................................ 
  dia2S
Socket Firmer.................................... dis  70&10
Socket Framing....................................dis 70&10
Socket Comer............................. ....... dis  70&10
Socket Slicks.......................................dis  70&10
Butchers’ Tangod Firmer................. dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers...................dis 
20
Cold.......................................................net
Curry, Lawrence’s............................. dis  40&1Q
Hotchkiss  .......................................... dis 
25
Brass, Racking’s.....................................  
80
60
Bibb’s ...................................................... 
B eer.........................................................   40&10
Fenns’., ............................. 
 
60
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size.....................W fi>  83
14x52,14x56,14x60.......................................  31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.........................  29
Cold Rolled, 14x48...........................  
 
29
Bottoms......... ................................. 
30
 
Morse’S Bit  Stock..............................dis 
40
Taper and Straight Shank..................dis 
* 40
Morse’s Taper  Shank.........................dis 
40
Com. 4 piece, 6  in...........................doznet  $.75
Corrugated..................... 
dis20&101&0
Adjustable..........................................dis  % &10
30
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  larger $26  00.  dis 
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2. $24 00;  3, $30 00.  dis 
25
American File Association List........dis  60&10
Disston’s ............................................dis  60&20
New American........................... 
dis  60&10
Nicholson’s...........................................dis  60&10
Heller’s ................................................ dis 
50
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps......................     dis 
Nos. 16 to 20, 
23 and 24,  35 and 26,  27 
28
15 18
List 

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14 

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CATRIDGES.

f i l e s —New List.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

CHISELS.

ELBOWS.

DRILLS

COMBS.

COCKS.

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Discount,  60.

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HINGES.

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

VHOLLOW  WARE.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ............ dis 
50
Maydole & Co.’s.................................... dis 
25
25
Kip’s .....................................................dis 
Yerkes  & Plumb’s............... 
dis  10&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.....................30 c list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Bam Door KidderMfg. Co., Wood track  50&16
Champion,  anti-friction......................dis  60&10
Kidder, wood  track............................. dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3........................... .».dis 
60
State................................ ........ perdoz,net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4%  14
and  longer...............................  .........
Screw Hook and Eye,  y%  ..................net 
70
Screw Hook and Eye %......................net 
8H
Screw Hook and Eye  3£.....................net 
714
Screw Hook and Eye,  %...... 
net 
714
Strap and  T .....................................dis 
70
P o ts .......................................................  eo&io
K ettles....................................................   60&10
Spiders  ............ 
60&10
Gray  enameled....................................... 
50
HOUSE  FURN ISHIN G   GOODg.
Stamped TinWare....................new list  75&10
Japanned Tin  Ware........................... 
25
Granite Iron  Ware..................... 
25
 
Grub  1......... ................................. $11 00,dis 60
Grab  2............ ...............................   11 50, dis 60
Grub 3..............................................   12 00, dis 60
Door, mineral, j ap. trimmings......... dis 
55
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........... 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings......  
55
Door, porcelain, trimmings................... 
55
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain...... .dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s....................   40&10
Hemacite..................... 
45
..........dis 
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dis 
55
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s...................dis 
55
55
Branford’s ..........................................dis 
Norwalk’s ................... 
;.............dis 
55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................. dis  70
Adze  Eye...................................$16 00 dis 
60
Hunt Eye.................................. $15 00 dis 
00
Hunt’s.....................................$18 50 dis 20 & 18
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.................dis  50
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s ................................ dis 40
Coffee, P. S. & W.Mfg. Co.’s Malleables ...  dis 40 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &Clark’s........... dis 40
Coffee, Enterprise.................................. dis  25
Stebbin’s P a tte rn ..............................dis
60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine..............................dis
60&10
Enterprise,  self-ineasuring............ .dis 
25

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

MOLASSES GATES.

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEVELS.

MAULS.

MILLS.

HOES.

 
 

 

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Common, Brad and Fencing.

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8d 

OILERS.

1  10d 
6d  4d 
$1 25  1~50  1 75  2 00 

lOdto  60d.......................................$ keg-$2 05
8d and 9 d adv............................................ 
25
6dand7d  a d v ................................. 
*50
4d and5d  adv.. — :.......... ................. . 
*76
3d advance-................................................  1 56
3d fine advance................... 
 
2 25
Clinch nails, adv...........................  1 00
finishing 
Size—inches  f
Adv, f  keg 
Steel Naifc^-2 15.
Zinc or tin, Chase’sPatent............. .dlsflO&lO
Zinc, with brassbottom ..................dis50
Brass or  C opper............___________.dis  50
Reaper................................... per gross, $12 hot
Olmstead’s ¿S&xI a ........„
50&10
Mf 
PLANES."
Ohio Tool Co.’s, f a n c y . . . . . . , : . d i s  40® 10
Sciota Bench......v................... ......d is
Sandusky Too( Co.’g, fancy. . . . . . . . . . . M  4#®10
Bench, ftrstSquality........................ .
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood
pans. WMiHm
Fry, A c m e . . . . ......................
Common, polished...................
Dripp*

B  

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m B S I !   i  •

Iron and Tinned.____________ 
55
Copper Rivets and  Burs;'........dis 
so
“A” Wood'spatent planished,Nos.24to27 10 2d 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27  9 20

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

...dis 

Broken packs j4o V fi> extra.

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4 i

  dis 

TACKS.

SQUARES.

3 00
3 16
3 15
3 35

TIN PLATES.

 
SHEETIRON.

3 25
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 2  inches 

Sisal, 14 in. and  larger............ ...................H
Manilla..................... ............................... .  12
Steel and Iron.............. ..i ..................dis  70&10
Try and Bevels.....................................dis 
66
Mitre  ...... 
20
  dis 
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Com. Smooth.  Com.
Nos. 10to 14....................... 
$4 20 
$360
Nos. 15to 17........................ 
4 30 
NoS.18to 2 1 ......................  4 26 
Nos.22to 24._____  
  4 20 
Nos .25 to 26......................;•........   4 40 
N o.27.......................  
4 60 
Wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 fi>s, $   fi>..........................  
6JÍ
In smaller quansities,  B>................... 
6>4
American, all  kinds...................... 
60
60
Steel, all kinds......................           dis 
60
Swedes, all kinds....... ..................    .dis 
60
Gimpánd L a c e ...............................ajg' 
Cigar Box  Nails...... . ........................dis 
50
Finishing Nails.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   ¿Ha 
50
Common and Patent Brads............... dis 
50
50
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks .dis 
50
Trunk and ClouiNails.........................dis 
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails.........dis 
46
Leathered Carpet  Tacks.................... dis 
35
TINNER’S SOLDER.
NO. 1, Refined............................  
 
 
22
24
Market  Half-and-half.................... . 
27
Strictly  Half-and-half..........................  
10x14, Charcoal..................... .6 00@6 20
IC, 
10xl4,Charcoal..............*.......... 
IX, 
785
12x12, Charcoal................................  6 85
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal.................................835
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................   6 35
IC, 
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal..................... ........  7 85
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal................  
  935
IXXX,  14x20, Gharcool............................ 11 37
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal.........................   13 15
20x28, Charcoal............... .?..........16 10
IX, 
100 plate Charcoal..........................  710
DC, 
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal...... ; ........... . 
9 10
DXX. 100 Plate Charcoal..................... 
1110
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal......................*  13 10
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to 7 35
Rooting, 14x20, IC..................................... 
5  40
Roofing, 14x20,  IX ..............................'...  7 OO
Roofing, 20x28, IC.....................................   12 00
Roofing, 20x28, IX .......................................15 co
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Teme................6 60
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Teme..............  7 50
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Teme............... 12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne.............. 15 00
Steel, Game.................. 
60&16
Oneida Communtity, Newhouse’s.........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&18
Hotchkiss’ .......................................... 
60&10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s....................................     j .66&16
Mouse, choker......................................18c ^  doz
Mouse,  delusion...............................$1 50 $  doz
Bright Market..............................................  dis 67H
Annealed Market...............................dis  7b&le
Coppered Market.................................. dis  62H
Extra Bailing..........................................  dis  55
Tinned  Market.....................................dis  62*4
Tinned Broom.........................................sa t>  09
Tinned Mattress......................................^  ib 8V4
Coppered  Spring Steel...................................dis 50
Tinned Spring Steel........................................dis 4G&J0
Plain Fence.................. 
^  a>  3
Barbed Fence, galvanized...........................4 00
painted............ ................... 3 25
Copper............................................. new  list net
Brass................................................ new list net
dis  70&10&10
Bright............................. 
Screw Eyes.................................    dis  70&10&10
Hook’S ............... 
dis  70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes................. dis  7Q&10&10
WRENCHES.
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled..............
Coe’s Genuine........................ 
dis 
Coe’s Pte nt A gricultural, wrought, dis 
Coe’s Ptent. malleable.................................dis 75&1C
BirdCages............................................ 
50
Pumps,  Cistern................................... dis 
75
Screws, new  list............... 
7G&5
 
Casters, Bed  and Plate................... dis50&10&10
Dampers, American............................... 
40
% 
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods...d 
Copper Bottoms...................................  
30c

WIRE GOODS.
 

MISCELLANEOUS.

TIN—LEADED.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

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75

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HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here pay as follows 
for  dry  stock,  measured  merchantable, mill 
culls out;
Basswood, log-run.............................13 
00@15 00
Birch, log-run.................................... 15 
00@18 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2............................  @25 00
Black Ash, log-run.............................14  G0@16 50
Cherry,  log-run................................. 25 
00@35 00
00@50 00
Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2..........................45 
Cherry,  cull......................................   @10 00
32 
Maple, log-run............... 
006514 00
 
Maple, soft,  log-run..........................U 
00@13 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2...................  
  @20 00
Maple, clear, flooring...... ................   @25 Oo
Maple, white, selected......................  @25 On
Red Oak, log-run.............., . . . ..........18 00@20 06
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2........................ 24 
Red Oak, M. sawed, 8in and upw’d..40 00@45 00
Red Oak,  “ 
  @25 00
Red Oak, No.  1, step plank............. 
W alnut, log-run................................  
@55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2......................... 
@75 00
Walnuts,  culls..................................  @25 00
Grey Elm, log-run............................  
@13 00
00@16 50
White Ash, log-run........................... 14 
Whitewood,  log-run..........................20 
00@22 00
White Oak, log-run..........................17 
00@18 00

00025 00
regular...............30  00@35 00

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LUMBER,  LATH AND SHINGLES. 

FINISHING AND FLOORING.
Uppers, 3 in ................ ................... $ 
45 00
1 to2 in............................... i.......  42 00@44 00
Selects, 1J4 to 2 in........ ...................  36 
00@38 00
00@35 00
1 in................................................  33 
Fine com., 1% to 2 in...... ................  31 
00@33 00
U n ................................... 
27 
00@29 00
Strips, A & B, 6 in..........................   34  Q0@36 00
C...................:............................  27 00@29 00
Strips. A & B, 4 in ;..................... 
30 00@3l 00
C.............................. ........... . 
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COMMON BOARDS AND STRIPS.

Shop,l£ to 2 in.......................... .  22 00024 00
Ifitt...;......... 16 W@18 00
Norway strips, C & better, 0 in .,. f  10 00018 00 
4 in '...:,;...... I.........................  16 <*¡@16 00
No 1,10 to, 18 & 20 feet..................   17 00018 00
16 feet and u n d e r . . .........  16 00017 06-
Wide com. b’ds. No. 1,16 ft. & un’r  16 00017 00 
Com- feno. No. t, 16 in, 16 ft & un’r   16 00017 00 
Com. st’k, tib ;l, 8&10 in. 10 ft., un’r-14 00016 00 
Com, strip. No. 1, 4 in., 16 ft. &un’r   15 90016 06 
Com, stocks. No, 8,16 ft. & under..  12 0001$ 60 
Wide eom. No. 2,16 ft. & under....  12 00013 00 
Cpm. boards, No. 2.16 ft. & un’r...  11 00012 00 
Com. fenc., NO. 2,6 in., 16 ft, & uSl’t  12 00013 00
...........  8 00010 00
Shipping culls, in...........................   10 00011 00
Norway fencing,No. L, 6 in .......  11 00013 00
.. ........  ...................  9 00010 05
Piece stuff, 18 ft. & under._______   9 00010 00

PIECE STUFF AND TIMBER.
Add $ lf or each extra two feet in 
length.
Add $1 for each extra two feet in 
length.

Tim.  12x12 & un’r  and 18 ft. & un’r.  12 00013 00 

SHINGLES AND LATH.

Norway car sills............................  16 00017 00
Car decking, 18ft............... ............   12 00014 00
Thick star, 18 in., 5 to 2J4'.  ............   3 2o© 3 50
Clear, 6  in ......................................  2 250 2 50
Thin star, 18 in., 5 to 2 in............ 
3 260 3 50
©ear, 5 in ............................. ......  2 25© 2 50
Stor.l6in......... .................____   2750 300
Clear,5 in ........................... 
...  1  60©  1 80
Lath, No. 1 ....................................  1 250 1 «0

No. «. .. 

WANTED!

Proposition by responsible  parties for the 
taking  from  stump  and  manufacturing 
about  100,000,000  of  lumber  and  shingle 
timber.  Shingles to be delivered in shed at 
mill,  and lumber  in  pile  in  yard.  Timber 
is  in Wisconsin,  Ground  being  sandy and 
level,  is Very  advantageous  to  work  upon. 
Mill will  be  furnished  in  conhection  with 
tract  if  desired.  Address  Lock  Box  X,’ 
Grand Rapids.

Offer N o. 172.

FREE—T6  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.

PATENTS;

L U C IU S  C.  W E ST ,

[Attorney at Patent Law and Solicitor 
of  American  and  Foreign  patents. 
106 E. Main St„ Kalamazoo, Mich., U. S. A.  Branch  of­
fice, London, Eng.  Practice in U. S. Courts.  Circaiaas 
free.

•Dress  Slap

Soft,  pliable  and  absolutely  unbreakable.  Stan­
dard  qu ality   15  cents  p er  yard.  Cloth  covered  20 
cents.  S atin covered 25 cents.  F or sale everyw here.

FERMENTUM!

The  Only  Reliable  Compressed  Yeast. 
Handled  by a  Majority  of'the  Grocers 
and Bakers of Michigan.  Send for sam­
ples  and  prices.  L.  W INTERNITZ, 
State Agent, Grand Rapids.

All Trains daily except Sundny.

TIME  TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.
*  GOING KOBattC  ■  ■
Traverse C ity & M ackinaw E x .. . . .  .»<05 a  ¿k
T raverse City E x....... 1 ... 
From  C incinnati.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:30 p m
F t. W ayne and Mackinaw E x ..___ 3:40 p m
Saginaw E xpress..................... 
. .11:26 a  m
................................10:30pm .

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Leaves.
11:30am
?:0Oam
6:06 p m 
7:20 a m  o 
4:10 pm

Saginaw express runs th rough solid.
7:00 a. m . tra in  has ch a ir car to Traverse City.
11:30 a. m. tra in  has ch air car fo r Petoskey and Mack­
5:06 p.  m. tra in  h as  sleeping  oars  fo r  P etoskey a nd 
\

f :15am  tra in   has  p arlo r  eh air  car  fo r  Cincinnati.

inaw  City.
M ackinaw C ity. 
g o in g   s o u t h . 
Cincinnati  Express..........................  
F o rt W ayne Express........................ 10:30 a m  
Cincinnati  Express..........................4:40pm  
Traverse City and M ackinaw Ex. .11:00 p m

:00 p m  tra in  has W oodruff sleeper fo r Cincinnati. 
5:00 p.  m. tra in  connects  w ith M. C. R. R. a t K alam a­
zoo fo r B attle Creek,  Jackson,  D etroit  and Canadian 
points, arriv in g  in  D etroit a t 10:45 p. m.

7-15a m
11:45 a m
5:00pm

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M u s k e g o n ,  G r a n d   R a p i d s  &   I n d i a n a .  

A rrive.
Leave. 
6  4 5 a m ...................................................................... 10:10am
4:30pm
1 1 0 0 a m ..................... 
 
4 :4 0 p m ................................ 
8:60pm
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge stree t  depot 7 m inutes later.

 
 

 
 

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

Michigan Central.

Grand Rapids Division.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

D etroit Express................... ................................ ..  6:16 a  m
Day  Express................................................ ; ............1:10 p m
♦Atlantic Express................................................ 
10-10 n m
Mixed  ........................................................................   6:50 a m
♦Pacific  Express.................................................................6:00 a m
M ail....................................... 
3:00 p m
G rand Rapids  Express....................................................10:15 p m
M ixed..................................................................  
  5:30 p m
♦Daily.  All o ther daily except Sunday.  Sleeping oars 
ru n  on A tlantic and Pacific E xpress tra in s to  and from 
D etroit.  P arlo r  cars ru n   on  Day  Express  and  G rand 
Rapids Express to  and  from   D etroit.  D irect  connec­
tions m ade a t D etroit w ith all through tra in s E ast over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)

O. W . Ru g g les. Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agt., Chicago. 
Ch as. H. N o r r is, Gen’l Agent.

 

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
Leave.
A rrive.

Kalamazoo Division.

Ex. & Mail.  N. Y. Mail.
N. Y. Mail. N .Y .E x
4:35pm   7:45am ..G ran d R ap id s.  9:45am  
6:35pm
5:55pm  
9:02 a m .. A lle g an ..........8:28am  
5:18am
6:55 p m   10:06 a  m . .K alam azoo...  7:30 a m   4:20pm  
8:30 p m   11:35 am ..W h ite  Pigeon.  5:55 a m   2.40pm
2:30 a m   5:05p m ..T o led o ............ 11:00pm   10:00a m
9:40 p m ..C leveland....... 6:40 p m   5:55 a m
8:30 a m  
2:50 p m   3:30 a m . .Buffalo............ 11:55 a m   11:40 p m
5:40 a m  
7:10 p m . .Chicago...........11:30pm  
8:50 a 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

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING e a s t .

Arrives.* 
♦Night Express.................................9:30 p m  
tT hrongh Mail....................................10:30 a m  
tE vening Express............................... 3:25 p m  
tD etroit  Express.......................... .
tM ixed,w ith  conch................. 
GOING WEST.
tM orning Express................... ....... 1:05 p m  
tT hrough Mail......................................5:00 p m  
♦Grand Rapids Express..................
♦Night Express.................................5:25 a m  
tMixed................................... . 

Leaves.
10:55 p m
10:38 a m
3:50 p m
11:00am
1:10 p m
5:10 p  Hk
5:40am .
7:45 am
(Daily, Sundays excepted.  "Daily.
Passengers ta k in g  the  6:50 a  m   Express  m ake  close- 
connections a t Owosso fo r Lansing, a nd  a t D etroit fo r 
New Y ork, arriv in g  th ere  a t  10:10  a   m   th e  following, 
m orning.  The N ight Express h as  a   W agner  Sleeping 
oar. 

J as. Ca m pbell, Qity Passenger Agent.

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

J.  E.  FELDNER  &  CO.,

CUSTOM  SHIRT  MAKERS,
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods.
Prom pt A ttention to  Mail Orders.  Telephone 891.

-  GRAND RAPIDS 

NO. 2 PEARL ST., 

AND DEALERS IN

P E R K I N S   &   H E S S
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERSIN

NOS.  1 2 2   a n d   1 2 4   L O U IS  S T R E E T ,  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N .

WE CARRY A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW FOR MILT,  USE.

THOMPSON  &  MACLAY,

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IMPORTERS AND  JOBBERS OP

Notions, Heston,  llorvtai,  Ponlstm  Ms,  Etc,

*19 South Ionia Street, 

- 
No  Goods Sold a t R etail. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.  ■
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-  Telephone 679, 

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

NELSOXT

L <& C O ,

68  Monroe  Street,

Grand Rapids.

THIS  PAINT  is composed of NATURAL  MINERAL and HYDRAULIC  CEMENT,  and  will  'Out-wearjother  pigments. 

It 
will cement up the cracks, fill up the pores of  the  wood and make  a hard and  serviceable covering.  FLOORS are necessarily wash­
ed frequently, this paint will  harden  almost to  stone  under the influence  of  water by reason  of  the cement.  The success  of OUR 
FLOOR^ PAINT is the result of a series of  practical  experiments  extending over several  years, with the view of  filling  the demand 
for a Paint adapted to floors  and such places as are often scrubbed with soap.

Senour M anufacturing Go., 262emcAcaAm .ST'’

Fob Sale at Factory Prices by—Hazeltine & Perkins'Drug: Co., Grand R apids; Jam es E. Davis & Co., D etroit; West & Trnax,t T o le d o ; 

S. L. Boyce & Co., P o rt H uron; Ered Brundage & Co., M uskegon; Harvey & Heystek, Grand Rapids; G. W. Bruske, East Saginaw*

• JSol-

Re-paint your old buggy and make it look like new for LESS THAN ONE DOLLAR.  Eight beautiful shades. 
Prepared ready for use.  They  dry  hard  in  a  few hours, and have a  beautiful  and durable gloss.  They are 
the ORIGINAL, all others a re  IMITATIONS.  M oreof our brand sold than all the other brands on the  market.

N e a l’s  C a r r ia g e  P a in t s
GRANITE  FLOOR  PAINTS
ACME  WHITE  LEAD  A  COLOR  WORKS
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; |  f   Dry  Color  Wlakoroi Polnt  and  Varnish  M anufacturers. 
CUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT OUT AND TAKE IT TD YOUR DEALER, IT WILL SECURE YOU A PRtZL./ 

durable.  Give them  a  trial, an d  you wiil, be convinced th a t It does not pay to  mix th e paint yourself,  - '

The G reat  Invention.  Six, Handsome  Shades,  R eadyfor use.  DRY  WARD  OVER  NIGHT,  an d   a re  v ery , 

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i&preckels and the "Trust.
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. From tfee HewTork W add. 

''.f»
Claus Spreckels who has held the title o f, 
Sugar King of  the  Pacific  coast  for many 
Vews, lately arrived at thè Hoffman House. 
Mr. Spreckels’.  coming  had  been  heralded 
in the newspapers for several days.
It was announeed  that  he  was  going to 
make war on tbe Sugar Trust that has been 
formed in the East, that he would establish 
a  mammoth refinery either in  New York or 
some adjacent  city  and  smash  the  Sugar 
Trust.  Mr.  Spreckels is a tall, broad-shoul­
dered man, with  a  strong« rugged  German 
f  ace, indicating great force  and  determina­
tion.  His  hair  and  whiskers  are  white. 
He is shout  sixty-five  years old, but  looks 
to be good for  twenty  years more of  activ­
ity.  - 
> Mr. Spreckels greeted  a  World  reporter
* pleasantly and  discussed  the  object of  his
mission  East  frankly  and  at  length.  He 
stopped three days in Philadelphia, looking 
over tiie ground there  with reference to the 
location  of  his  Eastern 
refinery.  Mr.
Spreckels said that he had been well received 
in Philadelphia  and  several  very tempting 
offers were made to  him to locate his refin­
ery in the Quaker  City, but  he had decided 
nothing definitely yet  He will  remain ten 
days in this city and  then go  to Baltimore. 
He.said he would certainly locate  his refin-1 
ery in one of these three cities.  The  place 
that offered  the  best  inducements  in  the 
way of facilities andin other respects would 
be selected.
“Yes,”  continued  the  Saccharine  King, 
drawing himself up to his full height of  six 
feet and over, “I am here to fight the Sugai 
T rust 
I desire  to meet my antagonists on 
their own ground.  They began the fight on 
me by establishing a large sugar refinery on 
the Pacifie  coast and  now  that  they have 
thrown down the  gauntlet I have  accepted 
.their challenge.” 
Mr. Spreckels said that last year when he 
was in Germany familiarizing  himself with 
the beet  sugar  industry, he  received  over­
tures from men in the Sugar Trust combine 
to join pands with them.  These overtures, 
he .said, he rejected without hesitation.  He 
dfd not wish to be connected  with  the  un­
holy alliance. 
“Since then,” he  added,  they  have  been 
•directing their efforts to crush me out.  Al-1 
ready, as I  said,  they have  erected  a refin­
ery in San Francisco  in  opposition  to  me.
* Well, the end is  not yet,  we shall  see if  it 
is an easy thing  to  crush  Glaus  Spreckels! 
They made war on me in the West and now 
I  return the compliment.  But what I shall 
do will he in thfe course  of  legitimate busi­
ness and which will  be  to the advantage of 
the country at large.
“When I returned  from  my  last  trip to 
Germany I-again  received overtures to  join 
the Sugar Trust  but  declined  them  all  as 
before.  I do not know the profits and could 
not explain the system  they work upon. 
I 
have had  a* number  of  agents  here  for  a 
■couple of  weeks looking  over the  ground, 
in order  to  make  calculations  and  report 
as  to  the facilities and expenses of putting 
my  sugar  refinery  here.  Thkt  fact  has 
been kept quiet. 
I have not  yet  had  time 
to examine these reports.
“ I have not decided on  Philadelphia as a 
base of  operations.  The place offers many 
I shall remain here about  ten 
advantages. 
days and will give  my  exclusive  attention 
to the advantages  this  city offers. 
I  shall, 
go  to  Baltimore  next, hut  have  no  other 
cities in view save these three.
“While  in  Philadelphia,  I  was  offered 
ten acres  on  the  Delaware  River  free if  I 
I  have this 
would erect my refinery there. 
t  offer  open,  but  cannnot  tell  at  present 
whether Ì shall accept it or not.  If I should 
erect  a  refinery  where  the  transportation 
facilities are inadequate I  should  probably 
lose money.”
“What do you estimate  the  cost  of  the 
plant you .propose erecting in the East?”
“From $5,-000,000 to $6,000,000 to erect a 
plant  and  put  it  in  active  operation. 
1 
could put $20,000,000 into it, but that is not 
necessary and  would  be  speculation.  My 
object is more laudable.”
/“Mr. Spreckels,” said the reporter,  “it is 
asserted in some  quarters that your coming 
here to erect a  refinery is in  the nature of a 
bluffy that  you  do  not  intend  to  carry it 
through and are  simply  operating to create 
a diversion from  the  Hawaiian  treaty  and 
prevent its abrogation.”
Mr.  Spreckels  replied  to  this  question 
with considerable  w arm th.,  He  denied the 
Charge emphatically.  “This  is  no  bluff,” 
he said.  “In  my  old  age I  have  but  one 
ambition. 
I  wish  to  give  employment  to 
enough workmen to keep the $50,000,000 or 
so that are annually spent  abroad for sugar 
in  this  country.  This  army  of  workmen 
and the pubijjc will  benefit from the circula­
tion  of  such  a  large  amount. 
I have not 
entered  into  this  project  for  gain  solely. 
When I see so many people  prospering and 
know that it is through my instrumentality, 
I  shall feel when 1 pass  away that  my am­
bition has been crowned with  success.  My 
life will hot have been lived in vain.”
He  was  asked if  he had  calculated  the 
effect on the sugar  trade of  the Mills Tariff 
'hill becoming a law.  Mr.  Spreckels replied 
that he had not. -  “Free  trade,” he  added, 
“ would  mean  rhination  to  the sugar bus­
iness,  Clans  Spreckels  can  meet.such  a 
•contingency,  bra  a t' what  a  cost!  Oar 
'  workingmen would be reduced to the condi­
tion  of  the  pauper  labor  of  Europe. 
In­
stead  of earning $3 or $4 per  day, as  they 
do now, they would  he  reduced to  from 30 
emits to $1 h day, as is paid  in Germany to­
day- 
I  do not  believe  that  the  American 
people will submit to such astate of things. 
If  this  Congress  should  pass a free-trade 
hjfl,  the next one  would be compelled to re­
peal and  re-establish protection.  The pop­
olar  sentiment  would  overwhelmingly de- 
mynd It.  The Mills bill, which reduces the 
duty on sugar twenty  per  cent,  will  hurt 
the  sugar  industry in this country if  it be­
comes a taw.  Perhaps I  could  stand i t  
I 
have plantations on the Sandwich. Islands, 
ships to convey my sugar to and from every 
port and every facility to refine  as  cheaply 
as it can be dene.”
“When do you  expect  to  haveyonrfe- 
finery inopecation here?”
“ in  eleven months from the  time  T  tie* 
,aided on a location,  which will be in afew  
weeks at the  latest  I  shall, put  a Targe 
force at work at  once,  and, shall  begin re­
fining sugar within a year from this time In 
this vicinity—then we studi see whether the 
eaa  rain-me.  Glaus. Spreckels  has 
I  been .In, the Çusiness for several  years.  He 
has no fears as to the final result  He never 
.does aqytiiinganticipating failure.” :*  1 1  
“Wtil you meet a  beet  sugar  factory in 
is Host?”
i putting  np now glaigoboet 
Francisco, »and I shall 
W ÈÊÊÊÈm  that line toJitbe

tion Of $5,000,000.  I  toolf $460,000 of  the 
stock myself, ps x desired, In the event of a 
failure, to bear the burden of the loss.  But 
the factory Will not  fail. 
I   spent  all  last 
summer in  Germany studying'the  ptofeess 
of making sugar from beets.  I tiiink I  have 
mastered  the subject  completely,  and  am 
satisfied that we  can  produce beet sugar in 
this country  just as well as in Germany. 
I 
examined  the  machinery  anti  looked  into 
every  detail  connected  with  the  industry, 
and have  returned  fully equipped  with the 
machinery and  knowledge of  the business, 
to'make sugar from  beets in  this  country. 
I know I   shall  succeed. 
In  a  few  years 
there will  he from  ten to  fifteen beet sugar 
factories  in  operation  on the  Pacific coast, 
but. before that time  I shall  be  turning  out 
8,000 barrels of  sugar daily  from my refin­
ery in the East.  That  I am  thoroughly in 
earaest will  be demonstrated  to  the  satis­
faction of everyone  before  many days have 
elapsed.”

PROPRIETOR OF THE

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Valley City Show Case Factory,
SHOW   CA SES

MANUFACTURER OP

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My Prises are tow er than any of My Compet­

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ADDRESS

GRAHAM ROYS,  -  Grand Rapids, Mich.

REEDER, PALMER  & CO.,

Wholesale Boots and Shoes.

STATE  AGENTS  FOR  LYGOJBIP  RUBBER  GO.,

S4 F earl St.,  Grand Rapids, Mioh.., TELEPHONE 

MO. 998.

WM. SEARS & GO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  fo r

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

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

“Now, John,  don’t  fail to 
get some of the DINGMAN 
SOAP.  Sister Clara writes 
that  it  is  the  best  in  the 
world for  washing  clothes 
and  all  house  -  cleaning 
work.”

FOR  SALE  BY

Hawkins & Perry

Wholesale Agents,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

HETMAN & CO.,

JOBBERS  IN

F R E S H   M E A T S .

Stock Yards and Packing House, Grandville Ave.,

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

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C.  a   BUNTING.

BUNTING  &  DAVIS,

C. L. DAVIS.

Commission  Merchants.

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in Oar Lots,

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

RETAIL  GROCERS
W ho w ish to   serve their  Customers 
w ith GOOD COFFEE would do w ell 
to  avoid  Brands  th at  require  the 
support o f Gift Schemes, Prize Prom­
ises or Lottery Inducements.

3351.1

W hich Holds Trade on  Account of 

. Superior  Merit  Alóne.

For  Sfcfe  by «11 Jobbers  at Grand  Rapids,  Detroit«

Bast Saginaw and^ay B B B  j f l

to U F A C T D E E R S !
INFORM  YOURSELVES

Contemplating a Change or Seeking a Location

Regarding the  prospects, opportunities and  advantageous 

situation of

GLADSTONE. PPSfi,.

As a site for a manufacturing town.

FREE  SITES

W ill be given you, whether you be of large or small capac­
ity.  As  you  are  doubtless  aware, GLADSTONE  is  the Lake 
Shipping  Port  for  the  Great “Soo” Railway  and  feeders,  and 
situated as it is on the L ittle  Bay Du  Noquette, the  finest  har­
bor  of  deep water  on  Lake  Michigan,  offers  unparalleled  in­
ducements for  all  kinds  of IRON  and  WOODWORKING in­
dustries.

For particulars, opportunities for business, plats and maps, 

call on or address

f. w. mckinney,

Agent Sault  Ste. Marie Land and Improvement Co.,

GLADSTONE,  MICH.

Grand,  Square  ant  Upright  Pianos,

The  Weber  Piano is  recognized  beyond 
controversy as  the  Standard for  excellence 
in every  particular. 
It is  renowned for its 
sympathetic, pure  and rich  tone  combined 
with  greatest  power.  The  most  eminent 
artists and musicians,  as  well as  the musi­
cal  pnblic  and the  press, unite in the ver­

dict thatTie  Welier Stalls Unrivaled.

Sheet  music  and  musical  merchandise. 

Everything in the musical line.

Weber Pianos, 

Fischer Pianos,

Smith Pianos, 

Estey Organs, 

A . B. Chase Organs,

Hillstrom  Organs,

JULIUS A. J. FRIEDRICH,

(Successor  to  Friedrich  Bros.)

30 and 32 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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of 140 pages, we mail to any address on receipt 

PETER HENDERSON & GO.

OR  THE 
is this season  the grandest ever issued, con­
taining  three  colored plates  and superb il­
lustrations of everything that i3 new, useful 
and  rare  in  Seeds  and  Plants,  with  plain 
directions of “How to grow them,” by P e t e b  
H enderson.  This  Manual, which is a book 
of  25 cents  (in stamps.)  To all so remitting 
25 cents for the Manual we will, a t the  same 
time,  send  free  b y   mail,  in  addition,  their 
choice of  any one of the following novelties, 
the price of either of which is 25 c e n ts -O n e  
packet of the  new  Green and Gold W ater­
melon,  or  one  packet  of  new  Succession 
Cabbage, or one packet of new Zebra Zinnia, 
or one  packet  of  B utterfly  Pansy,  or  one 
packet of  new  M am m oth  Verbena,  or  one 
plant  of 
the  beautiful  M oonflower,  (see 
illustration),  on  the  distinct  understanding, 
however,  th a t  those  ordering  will  state  in 
w hat  paper_they  saw  this  advertisement.
W i! ctu  p e l a c i  
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Tjig  Tackle  and  wish  first-class  goods 
and-bottom prices,  get  our  prices before 
you.  buy,  as  we  have  the  largest  and 
best stock in the State. 

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g r a n d   r a p i d s ,   4*% v £i

Wholesale Grocers.

IMPORTERS  OF

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

“Acme” Herkimer Co. Cheese, Lautz Bros. 

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

JOBBERS  IN

GOODS,

JLSTÎD   IS T O T IO IT S ,

83  M onroe  St.,

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

GRAND  R A PID S,  M ICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps 

American and’Stark A S f — ’“ “ ”  U  Specialty.

PUTNAM & BROOKS,

WHOLESALE

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Oranges,  Lemons,  Bananas;

Dates,  Figs,  Gitrons,  Pninells, Its,

PRICKS  QUOTED  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED

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M O S E L E Y   E R O S .,

Fruits, Seeds,  Oysters & Produce,
ATT.  KINDS OF HELD SEEDS A SPECIALTY.

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Roßkfalls,  Childs, Sterling,  Eßonomy,
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BASKETS, 

CLOTHES  BARS, 

LINES  AND  PINS, 

BRUSHES, 
MOPS, 

TUBS  AND  PAILS, 

BOWLS,

Everything in the Woodenware Line.

DIRECTIONS 

We have cooked the com in this can 
sufficiently.  Should  be  Thoroughly 
Warmed (not cooked) adding  piece ot 
Good Butter (size of hen’s egg) and gill 
of fresh  milk  (preferable  to  water.) 
Season to suit when on the table. None 
genuine unless bearing the signature of
Davenport  Canning  (j0>

D a v e n p o r t ,  l a .

Svv a t   t h i s

JENNE88 i McGURDY,

importers  and  MamifaßWrers'  Ägents.

DEALERS IN

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Fansu  Goods  of all Description, 

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HOTEL AND  STEAMBOAT GOODS,

Brome aid  Library  Lamps,  Chandeliers, Brackets,,  Eta.,

73 and 75  Jefferson  Ave.,

D E T R O I T , 

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Wholesale  Agents for Driffield’s  Canadian Lamps.

TO  ALL WANTING EMPLOYMENT.

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W e w ant  lire , energetic  agents  in   every  «M inty in 
th e U nited States and Canada to  sella p aten t article of 
g re a t m e rit o n  i t s  h b r r s .  An artiele  hav in g   a   large 
sale paying over  106  p er  cent, profit, having  no  com- 
petition, aud  on w hich th e  Agent  is  protected  lit. th e 
exclusive  sale  by  a   deed  given  fo r  each  am j  every 
county he m ay secure from  us.  W ith all  these  advan­
tages to  o p r agents,  and th e  fa c t th a t i t   is  an   article 
th a t can  be sold  to   every houseow ner. i t  m ight n o t be 
necessary\ to   m ake  “ aw  e x t r a o r d in a r y   o f f e r ”  : to  
secure good  agents a t  once, b u t wo have  concluded to 
m ake it to  show, n o t only o n r confidence  lit th e  m erits 
of our invention, b u t in  its salability by any ag e n t th a t 
wiU h a n d le It w ith energy:  Our  agents  now  a t  w ork 
a re   m aking from  8150  to  S300  a  m onth clear, and  this 
fa c t  m akes  it safe for. n s to' m ake our offer to n il who 
a re o u t o f  em ploym ent.  Any ag e n t th a t w ill give our 
business a  th irty  days’ tria l  and  fail to   clear  a t least 
glOO in  th is iim e, a b o v e   a l l   e x p e n s e s , can  re tu rn   all 
goods  unsold to  ns and we w ill refund th e m oney paid 
fo r  them ,  No such  em ployer of agents  ever dared to 
m ake  such  offer, n o r  would  we  if  we.  did  n o t  know  
th a t w e  have agents  now   m aking  m ore  th a n   doable 
th is am ount.  O nr la rg e  descriptive  circulars explain 
o n r offer fully, and these we  w ish to   send to   everyone 
o u t of  em ploym ent  w b a  w ill  send  us  th re e one cent 
stam ps  fo r  postage.  Send  a t   once  and  secure  th e 
agency in tim e fo r th e  boom, and  go  tc  w ork  on  th e 
term ed in  o u r extraordinary offer.

Address a t  onee, 

N a t io n a l  N o v e l t y  Co.,

511 Smithfield St., P ittsb u rg h , Pa.

SAFES!

Anyone  in  want  of  a  first-class  Fire or 
Burglar Proof Safe of  the  Cincinnati  Safe 
and  Lock  Co.  manufacture  will  find  it to 
bis advantage to write  or  call  on  us.  We 
have light expenses, and are able to sell low­
er than  any  other  house representing first- 
class  work.  Second-hand  safes  always on 
hand.

O. M. GOODRICH & CO.,

With  Safety Deposit  Co., Basement  ol Wid- 

dicomb Blk.

M i l l  TO ORDER

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN ST ARCH for Puddings» 

Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.

T H E   P E R F E C T I O N   O F   Q U A L I T Y .

WILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY  TIME!

ALWAYS  ASK  YOUR  GROCER  FOR  THESE  GOODS.

DETROIT  SOAP

DETROIT, MICH!.,

Manufacturers of the following well-known Brands

S O - A .   IF»

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 of thoroughly dried 
lumber  of  any  kmd.  Designs 
furnished when desired.

Wolverine Chair Factory,

W est End Pearl St. Bridge.

JOBBER OF

A n d  Packer of

PROPRIETOR OF

EDWIN FALLAS,
TALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE,
Bilher,  Eggs,  Lemons,  Oranges,

HIRTH & KRAUSE,

SOLID  BBAND  OYSTERS.
Facilities for canning and jobbing oysters 
are unsurpassed.  Mail orders filled  promptly 
at lowest  market  price.  Correspondence  so­
licited.  A  liberal  discount  to  the  jobbing 
trade.
G-randL  Flapidls.

317, £ 19 Livingston St,,

LEATHER

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

ings, etc.  Write for Catalogue.

SHOE  LACES.
Heelers,  Cork Soles, Button  Hooks, Dress­
118 Canal Street.  Grani Rapids.
STEAM  LAUNDRY,

43 and 45  K ent Street, 

STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor. 

WE DO O N L t FIRST CLASS WORK AND 

USE NO  CHEMICALS.

Orders by mail and express promptly attended to.

QUEEN  ANNE, 
MICHIGAN, 

TRUE  BLUE, 

CZAR, 

MONDAY, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN,
SUPERIOR,

ROYAL  BAR,

MASCOTTE,
CAMEO,

PHCENIX,

WABASH, 

AND  OTHERS.  ‘

For Quotations address

W. G. HAWKINS,

Lock Sox  173, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

Salesman  for  W estern  Michigan.

Is the Time to Order a Supply of the CELEBRATED

Arctic  LiotJid  Billing,

WHICH  WE  QUOTE

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Lion Goffôe has more actual Merit than any Boasted Coffee sold at thé priée either in Packages or in Bulk and storekeeper» 
all over th e State o f Michigan and elsewhere who are  not  already handling  Liop  are urged to  give it  a  trial.  W e cheeçftilly 
answer all communications  regarding prices, étc.  Convenient  shipping  depots, established at  all  prominent  cities» securing 
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nitor tw o,ulittle w’iie  ago,”  gasped  ffie 
old man,  “some infernal scoundrffi sneaked 
sixty dollars oaten my  safe! .  I ’ll  have, the 
cussed raseal,  though, you kin bet your bot­
tom dollar! 
If I  don’t put  ’im  behind  the 
grates in less’n two days, you kirn in an’ get 
a box o’ my best cigars, 
i ’ll show ’em how 
to put a stop—” 

At this point, Jones  caught  sight of the* 
officer and left  me  very  suddenly.  That 
evening,  I went over to his  place „ of  busi­
ness and asked  him if he had got any track 
of  his  money.  He  looked  at me a little 
sheepishly and observed:

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“ I kinder suspect I  bev !  Leastways,' I’m 
not going to investigate any  further.  You 
see,  me an’the bid woman bed  a  kind of a 
little set-to las’ night over  money  matters. 
She sed she’d got to hev  fifty  dollars  fur 
some clothes, an’ I  sed I  couldn’t  afford it. 
She sed she’d  hev it anyhow,  an*  I  ’lowed 
she wouldn’t;  but w’en I went homeUt noon 
I see a big bundle of dry  goods—an’ I rath­
er gness the old woman was right an’ I was 
wrong.”
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Is it right to clothe, lodge and  feed  con­
firmed  and  professional  criminals  better 
than the  average  honest  workingman can 
clothe, lodge and feed  himself i  Is it com­
mon sense to expend  enormous  snms  that 
their quarters may be  noted for architectur­
al beauty, comfort and  cosiness  more than 
for  severity  and  solidity?  „ Is  it common 
justice to place  the  products  of  criminal 
contract labor in  active  competition  with 
those of honest industry? 
Is it even an ap­
proach to political economy  to  levy  huge 
annual taxes to foster and subsidize  crime? 
Would it not be better for society to entirely 
discard  the  sentimental  and  ornamental 
features  of  our  prison  system  and make 
it  patent  to 
evil  doer 
that as he progresses in  iniquity  he  must 
forfeit, in  proportion  to  his  progression, 
the  comforts^  and  conveniences  of  his 
animal existence?  Would it not be a better 
public policy  to  shackle  him  securely and 
put him and his co-workers in evil at vigor­
ous and effective labor  on  the  streets  and 
highways, 
that  he  might,  by  lessening 
the  amount,  which  is  annually  assessed 
against  you  and  me  for  improvements of 
this nature,  partly  reimburse  us  for  the 
taxes we pay  for  his  constantly  recurring 
arrests,  trials,  convictions  and the neces­
sary outlay for his support?

the  habitual 

But it is  said  that  revolutions  never go 
backwards,  and,  undoubtedly,  the revolu­
tion that has  taken  the  professional crim­
inal  from  the  unsympathetic  jailer  and 
inxorable task-master,  and  made him a pet 
and protege  of  the  sentimentalists and al­
leged  philanthropists  will  probably  prove 
no exception to the rule.

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The product of  Organized,  Working  Ci- 
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tLo Co-operative plan by members of L.  A. 
6374, K.  of  L.  Smokers «and  Friends of 
Labor, Attention! 
If  you  are  opposed to 
filthy, tenement-house factories, the servile 
labor of  coolies,  the  contracts  for  convict 
labor, give our Cigars a trial.
If you are in favor p f shorter hours of labor, 
the  Saturday half-holiday,  and  last,  but not 
least, the payment of hieher and living wages 
in solid cash, give our Cigars a trial and accord 
them your most  liberal  patronage.  The yel­
low E . o f L. label  on «very box.  One hun­
dred thousand sold within three months in the 
city of Detroit alone.  Warranted to be  strict­
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--_>  BY A. COUNTRY  MERCHANT. 

WrittenEspecially for The Tradesman.  '

While I  hardly know how we  could  dis­
pense with the diurnal visits of  the  news­
paper  that  keeps  us in  active communica­
tion with the outside world, I  often feel im- 
‘ polled to take my eyes from iii pages to re­
flect upon the influence it must  hare on the 
timid, nervous and  foreboding.  ‘Save np a 
month’s issues of any popular daily and, at 
the mid of that time, clip out and paste in a 
scrap book all the paragraphs, columns and 
fractions  of columns which relate to crimx- 
nal matters in America and  witness the re­
sult of your experiment,  You will have in 
your possession a  volume  which  will  dis­
count any e f the “Old Baily  Chronicles’’ as 
a record of human  depravity  and  cussed­
ness,  Between its covers is  the  portrayal 
of a violation of every law,  human  or  di­
vine.  Yon can run the whole gamut of ras­
cality, from the petty  -swindler to the “hy­
pothecator” of millions.  You can read and 
marvel over the almost inexhaustible capac­
ity of “God’s noblest work” for vice, brutal­
ity and fiendishness;  and, after a  little  re­
flection over the history  of  thirty  days,  if 
you can help wondering at your years of ex­
emption from the raids  of  the  ubiquitous 
American criminal, your capacity for  won­
dering is materially less developed than my 
own.

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And if you and I, who are, as  we  flatter 
ourselves,  reasonably “ level-headed”  and 
not given to indulging in  unnecessary  ap­
prehensiveness,  occasionally find ourselves 
in a state of uncertainty  regarding the mu- 
-  tual relations of the amateur or  profession­
al criminal and ourselves,  what must be the, 
condition of the individual upon  whom na­
ture has placed a life-load of doubts,  appre- 
hensWëness and chronic forebodings of evil?
Let ns imagine a person with  this  afflic­
tion,  who, after years of toil,  privation and 
pinching etonomy,  finds himself, by the sale 
of  his  property, 
ini  possession of two or 
three  thousand  dollars  in  currency.  He 
carries the money  in  his pocket for two or 
three days, during which  period  he  reads 
dozens of accounts of  parties  similarly cir­
cumstanced, who have been  clubbed,  brass- 
knuckled,  garroted,  sand-bagged, 
shot, 
stabbed and otherwise  placed  hors de corn- 
baton  the  public  streets  and  highways. 
Then he secretes his wealth  somewhere on 
his premises, and,  for  a  few  more  days, 
revels in anecdotes of  masked and unmask­
ed midnight visitors, who  located  the  hid-1 
ing-places of treasures by seating  the  gen­
tleman of the house on  a  red-hot  stove or 
suspending  him  from  a  nail  or  hook or 
(still'more depressing)  by  deliberately sev­
ering  his  jugular  vein and hunting up the 
plunder at their leisure.  When his nervous 
system and rest and appetite are  nearly de­
stroyed, he concludes to  patronize the bank 
and reluctantly exchanges his  currency for 
a certificate of deposit.  After this,  his  fa­
vorite reading is narratives of  bank wreck­
ing in all its various phases  and variations, 
and he exhausts himself  by  extensive and 
comprehensive  researches  into  the habits, 
haunts  and  characteristics  of  the parties 
who possess the secret of the safe combina­
tion.  Then,  if he doesn’t  sink  into  a pre­
mature grave and leave his woes  and prop­
erty to  his  heirs,  he  is,  perhaps, 
lucky 
enough to exchange his  burden  for  some­
thing that thieves cannot  pocket  or embez­
zlers transfer t»  their  Canada-bound  grip 
sacks. 
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I think, in common with  a  multitude of 
tax payers and in  direct  opposition  to  an­
other  multitude  of  people  who  imagine 
; themselves  benefactors  of  the  race,  that 
there is a great  excess  of  sentimentality, 
mistaken benevolence  and  misguided phil- 
anthrophy  used  in  the  treatment o t irre­
claimable  and  professional  criminals. 
I 
have  no  objection  to  John  Howardism 
among political offenders  as  among  those 
who accidentally, and  often unconsciously, 
become  entangled in the meshes of law,  or 
even those who occasionally  give  evidence 
that they possess the germs of  reform;  but 
the John Howardism th at is  used  for  the 
comfort and encouragement  of  the chronic 
enemy of society, the  unchanging  and un­
changeable rascal who preys upon  his  fel- 
5  lowmen without regret,  compunction or an 
'  infinitesimal sentiment of remorse, is a, sick- 
ish, disgusting and  inexcusable  exhibition 
of “fool-headedness,”  hypocrisy,  or,  per­
haps, a  mingling of both.  Yet,  in the small 
• ' army of the officials  employed  by the com­
monwealth of  Michigan  to  entertain  and 
amuse and attend to the bodily  or spiritual 
wants of those who are  constantly warring 
: " against it, I  never happened todiscover,  ot 
■discovered a person  who  has  discovered,
its members,  in executing  the  behests 
of the legislative John Howards, the execu- 
tive John Howards  or  the  judicial  John 
Howards, were ever any more  tolerant and 
r  accommodating to the minor offendérs than 
to the irredeemable thugs,  ruffians and des-

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My neighbor Jones, and myself have spent 
many  pleasant  boats  in  grumbling  and 
growling over ear criminal system,  but, re­
cently, tire old man  can' hardly be induced 
to  talk on the subject  One morning, some 
three or fdur weeks ago, Jones - came rush­
ing out of Ate door  and  inquired of m e if i  
i M ^ H a r y ^ 'W h 0 is th e . deputy sheriff
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Composed  of  Guatemala,  African  and 
Mexican Javas,  Santos, Maracaibo  and Rio 
selected with especial  reference  to their fine 
drinking qualities. The most popular brand 
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lb. Cases.  Mall Orders Solicited by the  pro­
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59 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich.
Importers and jobbers of Hue  Teas, Coffees. 
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Roasters, Spice Grinders.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  -  MICH,

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in this city.  Ample storage  facilities—full 
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the best market in  the West.  Ample capi­
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Th e  T radesman.  Write us  if  you wish 
information,  whether  to  buy  or  sell. 
It 
will cost you nothing.

BARNETT  BROS.

Realizing  the  demand for, and  knowing 
the difficulty in obtaining a  FIRST-CLASS 
FIV E -C EN T  CIGAR, we have concluded 
to try and  m eet  this  demand  with  a ne w  
Cigar called

T his  Cigar  we  positively  guarantee  a 
clear H avana filler, with a spotted Sumatra 
W rapper,  and  entirely free  from  any  arti 
ficial flavor or adulterations.

It will be sold oh its merits.  Sample or­

ders filled on 60  days approval.

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

It is sure to do it.

NEW  YORK

30c
10c

FOOD  PRODUCTS.

[It is both pleasant and profitable for  merchants to 
occasionally visit New York, and all such are cordially 
invited to caU, look through our establishment, corner 
West Broadway, Reade  and Hudson streets, and make 
onr acquaintance, whether  they wish to buy goods or 
not.  Ask for a member of the firm.j

G r o c e r ie s

■gjgjploacd f f ih a if  of  'Vinioleaalé1 

1
¡¡¡¡¡I wholesale  grooves; o f th e  city • lu n e 
lately received «circular proposing  to inau­
gurate  an  organization  of  the  wholesale 
grocers of the U nited States for the purpose 
o f manipulating  prices. 
I t  is  suggested 
th a t a  pool be formed m td  that every mem­
ber  deposit  in  cash  With  the treasurer an 
amount  equal  to ’a t least 1 per cent, of  the 
to tal sales per annum of the firm suedi mem­
b e r represents.  Ruling prices shall be tele- 
graphed eac|fday to eachmember by a com­
m ittee appointed for  the purpose, and those 
juices,  m ust be adhered to under strict pen­
alty. 
In  each section of  the country an ih- 
vestigating  committee shall be appointed to 
investigate firms reported  as  cutting  asso­
ciation prices.  The  circular  closes by say­
ing thè objection which may be made to de­
positing so huge a sum  with  the  treasurer 
m ay be  met  by dividing  the  interest  and 
forfeiture pro rata among members in good 
standing.  And  it  naively, adds :  “ The 
profits on sugar will be  so  much  increased 
Dial the amount of the deposit will be small 
in  comparison.”

T he  Grocery Market.

' Refined sugars  have  sustained  a  slight 
weakening during the past week,  probably 
as a  result of the sharp competition between 
fibe T rust and the Philadelphia refiners out­
side the monopoly.  There is more  raw su­
gar a t the ports of New  York,  Boston and 
Philadelphia,  both in bond and  in  refiners’ 
tends, 
than  there  was  a Year ago or two 
years ago.  Rio coffees advanced %c in New 
Y ork on Friday, in consequence of a strong 
bullish  feeling  in  Europe.  Some  of the 
largest New York operators  assert  that no 
low«: prices will rule for some time to come. 
T h a package manufacturers  have  reduced 
their quotations %c per pound.

h   Fatherly  Government.

From the  W&ghlngtoq Post.

When the  Forty-ninth  Congress  passed 
the Oleomargarine bill—hot to  protect  the 
people against imposition,  fm  I the  people 
were not complaining, hut to protect one set 
of producers against the  ingenuity and en-< 
terprise of another set—it established a pre­
cedent th at was sure to be  prolific  Of  evil 
consequences.  Every legislative  departure 
Hem sound principles is,like' stepping from 
a granite footway into a  quagmire.  When 
the  cow-owners  succeeded  in  imposing a 
penalty upon fide  manufacturers of a cheap 
and wholesome substitute for  butter,  ether 
manufacturers took notice that a  new  way 
had been opened whereby competition could 
be thwarted.
The Post hopes the people' of  'the United 
States are duly mindful of  the  progress of 
the scheme now before Congress, the, object 
of which is to  increase  the  cost of lard to 
every consumer-—and that means almost ev­
ery- family.  The  manufacturers  of “pure 
lard,” meaning the fat of  swine,  tried  out 
of the leaf  or  steamed  out  of  entrails or 
heads,  demand the intervention of Congress 
against those manufacturers Who  mix  cot­
ton-seed oil with swine’s fat.  Chemical an­
alysis  shows  this  adulterated  lard  to be 
wholesome.  Experience  proves  that  it is 
good.  Consumers like it.  No  one but the 
rival manufacturer, complains. 
I t is cheap­
er and most  persons  believe  it to be better 
than pure hogs’ grease.
W hat  business  has  Congress to meddle 
with this industry? 
If the  dairies,  butter- 
tubs and lard-pots of  the  people  are to be 
overhauled by Congress,  what is  the use of 
local government?  And,  if the demand for 
interference is granted in  this  case,  what 
will be the next demand?
We are informed  that  in  numerous fac­
tories cotton fibre is so artfully mixed  with 
wool that only an expert oan detect the mix­
ture.  This is an injury to the wool-grower. 
W hy does he not come to  Congress?  W hy 
does not everybody who suffers  from  com­
petition rush to  our  fatherly  Government 
for relief?

Bogus Butter in France.

Stem the Liverpool Weekly Post.

Some sensation  has  been  caused at Caen 
hythe exemplary punishment of  three but­
t e '  adulterators.  One  of  these,  a  shop­
keeper at Seez,  having  been  sentenced to a 
month’s  imprisonment,  appealed  to 
the 
Court  at  Caen,  and  that  tribunal,  so  far 
from acquitting him,  raised his punishment 
to two months  incarceration.  ' A  grocer  at 
Caen has been sentenced  to  three  months’ 
imprisonment and  a  fine  of  3,000  francs. 
A n  exporter  at  Lisieux  has  received  the 
same  judgment.  Their  method  had  the 
simplicity of genius, but lacked  its success. 
The foodstuff,  ticketed with  labels  assert­
ing it to  be  Normandy  butter,  warranted 
pare  and  without  mixture,  was found to 
«ontain from 20 to 30 per cent,  of  margar­
ine and other  animal  fats.  This  mixture 
fraudulently  usurped  the  name of the re­
sowed butter of Normandy,  and was an in­
jury alike to the purchaser  and to the repu­
tation of that  famous  dairy  region. 
It is 
difficult to think of  a  meaner  crime  than 
that of falsification of the food of  the  peo­
ple, and it is to be desired  th a t. those who 
now make fraudulent gains  by adulteration 
shall  everywhere  be  brought  to  condign 
punishment.

Short-Sighted Forest Slaughterers.

From flie Petoskey Independent.

T h e Michigan Tradesman of February 
30 contains a very sensible  article  on 
the 
destruction of Northern Michigan hardwood 
forests.  Millions of feet of valuable  hard­
wood logs  are  wantonly  destroyed  every 
year, the primitive  farmers  of  this'  region 
little  realising  that  their forests,  so care­
lessly destroyed,  would be a source of  ines­
timable wealth.  The day must  come when 
th e  hardwood of Northern  Michigan,  locat- 
ed as it is between two  great  inland  seas, 
«asy of transportation to the  East or West, 
w iillje in great demand' for  manufacturing 
purposes.  A t present,  a large proportion of 
th e articles  manufactured  from  hardwood 
so w   comes  from  Maine  and  other  New 
JSnglnnd States.  There is no  good  reason 
why the markets of the  W est  and  North­
w est should not be supplied from our native 
forests if they are only protected from wan­
ton destruction.

Vessel  Owners  to  Carry  Their  Own  In ­

surance.

The  marine  men  of  Cheboygan  are  to 
form   a   sort  of  shipping  trust. 
It is pro­
posed  to  have  the  vessels in the company 
w r y  no insurance whatever.  For instance, 
X  there are  ten  vessels,  the  company can 
« an y  the insurance, and if  there is one  loss 
during  the jseason  the  net earnings of, the 
other  nine  would be so much  greater that 
ttoay could afford to pay for  the  vessel  and 
«till be money ahead.  Eight or ten  vessel 
owners  have  signified  their  intention  of 
going  in,  and  a  company  will  be  incor- 
porated in a few days.

Buy flour man ufac cured by  the  Crescent 
Boiler Mills.  Every sack warranted.  Yoigt 
Milling Co:

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Lady—Will it do up nicely?

v  Dry  goods  clerk  (to  lady  looking  at 
samaning  goods}—T hat  is  an  excellent 
piece o f goods, madam.
>  Clerk—Oh,  yes, raadiun. 
I  sold  some of 
I t e t crepe to Mrs.  Smith  several years ago, 
faggi to-day she is wearing it  for  her  third 
husband. 
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T h e T radesman  is  assured  that  the 
statem ent published a couple of  weeks ago 
asUtive to the  substitution  o f  brands  on 
« teese by  Adrian  jobbers  did L. Ladd au 
g H H H § | as all full  cream  cheese  sold.by 
<lifan bears his own brand and  not the name 
« f  t t e  county in which he conducts business.
•  T t o  Rockford Register thus pays a  rather 
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90
44  1 60
Arctic, 4 oz. r’nd ¥  gross  3 00
** 
............   6  00
“  4 oz. oval...........  3  40
“ 
______  6  50
44  Pint* r’nd............ 10 80

4s* 8  44 
Is, 1  44 
BLUING

8 oz.  44 
8 oz. 

“ 
•-* 

 

No.2 Hurl.........................*....2 00
No. 1 Hurl...............................2 25
No.2 Carpet...,'........   ....2 50
No. 1 Carpet....................... 2 75
Parlor Gem............................ 3 00
Common Whisk......................1 00
Fancy  W hisk.........................1 25
M ill........................................ 3 75
Warehouse............................. 3 00
Runkle Bros’.. Vien. Sweet  22 
Premium..  33
Hom-Cocoa  37
Breakfast..  48

“ 
“ 
4  44 
Schepps, Is...... ................. 27

CHOCOLATE.
“ 
44 
44 
» co coanut

BROOMS.

**

Maltby’s, Is.

COFFEE—GREEN

Manhattan, pails................20
.................... < •• 18
P66rl6SS 
Bulk, pails or barréis. .Í6@1S
Mocha.......................... .25@28
Mandaling....................25@26
O G Java..................   .25@28
Java.........   .............23@24
Maricabo..................... .21@22
Costi Rica................    ..21@22
Mexican.......................21 @22
Santos...........................21@22
Rio,  fancy....................21 @22
Rio,  prime....................19@20
Rio, common................17@18
To ascertain cost of roasted 
coffee, add 4 c per ft. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent, for shrink­
age.

COFFEES—PACKAGE.

s  44 

CORDAGE.

CRACKERS.

CANNED FISH.

30 lbs 60 fts 100 ft s
Lion...............  
1934
20
Lion, in cab... 
194
Diiworth’s—  
Magnolia.......  
19
19
Acme..........19J4  194 
G erm an........ 
19
19?4
German, bins. 
19 34
Arbuckle’s Ariosa 
1734
Avorica 
1934 
McLaughlin’s XXXX 
214
Honey  Bee...2154  21% 
Nox All.......2034  20% 
204
194
Our Bunkum.19?4  19% 
COFFEES—SPECIAL BRANDS.
Arbuckle’s Avorica.  ....  .1834
•t  Quaker Cy........... 1734
44  Best Rio................194
44  Prime Maricabo...224
60foot Ju te ..................... 110
72 foot J u te ...................... 1 40
4nFootCotton............. .,.,..1 50
50 foot Cotton....................160
60 foot Cotton....................1 75
72 foot Cotton....................2 00
Kenosha Butter.................. 7
Seymour  Butter.................54
Butter................................. 54
Family Butter.........  
......54
Fancy Butter............    .....5
Butter Biscuit....................64
Boston..............................7 4
City Soda.............................8
Soda..................................... 54
So ’a Fancy..........................5
S.  Oyster.............................54
Picnic............... /................54
Fancy  Oyster..................... 5
Clams, 1 ft,Little Neck....1 35
Clam Chowder, 3 ft... ........ 2 15
Cove"Oysters, 1 ft stand.. .1 00 
Cove Oysters, 2 ft stand.. .1 70 
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.  ......1  75
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic....... .2 65
Lobsters, 1 ft star.............. 1 95
Lpbsters. 2 ft star............. .2 90
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce3 25
Mackerel, 1 ft%tand___ __ .1 45
Mackerel, 2ft stand...........3 00
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard. .3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft soused...... .3 25
Salmon, 1ft Columbia...... ,2 10
Salmon, 2 ft 
3 50
Salmon, 1 ft Sacramento. ..1 90 
Salmon, 2 ft 
...2 75
Sardines, domestic 34s___   7
Sardines,  domestic 4 s ...10@11 
Sardines,  Mustard  4 s...  9@10 
Sardines,  imported  34s.. 13® 13 
Sardines, spiced, 4s.....l0@12
Trout. 3 ft  brook............
CANNED FRUITS.
Apples, gallons, stand......2 75
Blackberries, stand...........1 20
Cherries,red standard..... 1 60
Cherries,  pitted......1 85@1 90
D am sons.........  ..  .1 25@1 35
Egg Plums, stand..............1 5G
Gooseberries.............. 
  1 65
Grapes......................  
96
 
Green G ag es...............A  50
Peaches, all yellow, stand.2 65
Peaches,  seconds............ 2 25
Peaches, p ie ....:..... 1 60@1 60 
Pears..... ...................1  39
Pineapples,...... ....... *1 40@2 76
Quinces............................ 110
Raspberries, extra.......... .1 60
red........... 1 60
Strawberries .// / ...........1  60
Whortleberries..............    ;1 20
Asparagus, Oyster Bay A..2 00 
Beans, Lima, stand . . . . . . 8 5
Beans. Green U n as..  @1 40
Beans,  String..*...... 1 00@1 20
Beans, Stringless» Erie__   90
Beans, Lewis’ Boston Bak .160 
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy...,115 
* 
MornG’ry.l 15
Early Gold.l 15
44 
Feas,' F r e n c h . . . . ...«1 60
Peas, extra marrofat.l 20@1 40
Peas,  soaked...........A .*11.  80
“  Jane, stand....  @150
sifted...... ¿....9 Oo
.s-  "  
44  French, extra fine. .20 00 
Mushrooms, extra ffneu.. .20 00 
Pumpkin,3 ft Golden. . . . ..1 00
Sucootash.standard..,  80@100 
Squash
Tomatoes, Red Coat  @ 1.20
Good Enough  1 20
4‘ 
BenHar  .......1 2 0
' 
,>  , “ 
;  stand b b l 15@ 1 20
“f   - \  ■ >
-■•V  OHKS8E. 
Michigan full o r e a r a . ig&tt
» X U S  FRUITS.  I  P .  '■  /
« 

CANNED VEGETARLES. 

44  * 
44 

’ “ 
" 

« 

“ 

' 

'FISH .' 

■ ■ ”  
“ 
“ 
“ 

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.
C S t r o q ; . ........22
Currants................. 
7
Lemon  P e e l.,'..............,.14
Orange Peel......... .............14
Prunes, French, 60s._____ 144
. French,80s..../ L ..124
French, 90s............11
Turkey, old..-........
Turkey,  new..........5
Raisins,Dehesia....__ __..3 60
Raisins, London Layers. ...3 00 
Raisins, California 
40
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.. 2 10 
Raisins, Loose California. .1 90 
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s. 84@ 8$£
Raisins. Sultanas......  ..... 84
RaisiUs,  Valencias............ 7
Raisins, Imperials.............3  75
Cod,  whole..................44@6
Cod, boneless...........6%@74
Halibut................ 
T2J4
 
Herring, round. 4  bbl. 
3 00 
Herring, round,  34 bbl. 
1 50 
Herring, Holland, bbls.  10 00 
Herring, Holland, kegs  75@80
Herring, Scaled..........  @22
Mack, sh’r, No. 1, 4  bbl... .8 75 
“ 
“  12 ft kit..l 25
..1  10
“  10  “ 
“ 
“  No. 2. 4  bbls.......7 50
Trout,  4  b b ls......,¿......5 60
**  10  ft k its ............  85
White, No. 1 ;4  bbls..........7 00
White, No. 1,12 ftk its .....l 20 
White,  No. 1,10 lb kits.... .1 05
White, Family,  4  bbls..... 3 85
kits....... . . 7 0
Jennings’  Lemon.  Vanilla.
D.C.,2oz......doz  90 
135

“ 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS. 

“ 
“ 

“ 

-

2 50
3 75
2 75
4 59
6 50
7 50
16 00

l 

175

4 oz..............  .1 40 
“  6 oz................. 2 25 
“  No. 3 Panel. ..1 00 
“  No. 4  Taper..1 60 
“  No. 8 panel...2 75 
“  No. 10  “ 
...4 50 
“  4  pint, r’nd. .4 50 
. .9 00 
“ 
Lemon.  Vanilla.
per gross.

*  “ 
“ 
Standard 
English 2 oz__ __  7  20 
3 oz.........  9 00 
“  4 oz.......... 12 00 
6 oz.........18 00 
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Farina, luu lb. kegs............   04
Hominy, $  bbl..................4 Oi
Macaroni, dom 12 lb. box..  65 
imported... 10  @11 
Pearl Barley...,......  & 3^
Peas,  Green.............  @1 40
Peas, Split.................  @ 34
Sago, German...........   @634
Tapioca, fl’k or p’rl..  @  6 
Wheat,  cracked......  @ 64
Vermicelli, import...10  @1134 

“ 

9 60
12 00
15 00
31 00

“ 

domestic..
MATCHES.

G. H. No. 8,  square...........  95
G. H. No 9, square, 3 gro.. .1 10
G. H. No. 200,  parlor.........1 6a
G. H. No. 300, parlor.......2 15
G. H. No.  7, round............1 40
Oshkosh, No. 2...................  75
Oshkosh, No. 8................... 150
Swedish.............................   75
Richardson’s No. 8  sq.......1 00
Richardson’s No. 9  sq.... ..1 50 
Richardson’s No. 74, rn d ..l 00 
Richardson’s No. 7 
rnd . .1  50
Woodbine. 300............... . 1 15,
MOLASSES.

Black  Strap.................... 17@18
Cuba Baking...................22(5*25
Porto Rico....................... 24@35
New  Orleans, good........ 33@40
New Orleans, choice.......44@50
New  Orleans,  fancy.......50@52

4  bbls. 3c extra 

OIL.

OATMEAL

Michigan Test....................10%
Water  White...................... 11%
Barrels....................................6 00
Half barrels............................3 25
Cases........................................2 25
Barrels....................................3 00
Half barrels.........................7.3 25
Cases.........................2 2£@2 35
Medium.................................. .6 00
4  bbl......................... 3 50
Small,  bbl...... ;.......................7 00
4  bb l...........................4 00.

OATS—ROLLED.

PICKLES.

“ 
“ 

RICE.

Choice Carolina................. 64
Prime Carolina..................6
Good  Carolina.................... 54
Good Louisiana...... .  — 54
Table.................. .........,5Si@6
H ead.................................... 6&
Java......................................64
Patna.......................... 1........634
Rangoon..............................5
Broken... 
........................ 34
Japan............................54@64
DeLand’s pure....................54
Church’s  .............................5
Taylor’s  G. M .,..................5
Dwight’s ............................ 5
Sea  Foam............................534
Cap Sheaf............................5

SALBRATUS.

4c less in 5 box lots.

60 P o c k e t,F F D .............. 2 15
28 Pocket.........................  .2 05
100 3 3> pockets....................2 35
Saginaw or Manistee.......    95
Ashton, bu. bags................... 80
Ashton,4 bu.  bags..............2 75
Higgins’bu.  bags..............  75
American, 4  bu. bags......     20
Rock, bushels............... 
  25
Warsaw, bu. bags..............  40

SALT.

SAUCES.

. 

SOAP.

SPlCES—WHOLE.

London Relish, 2 doz.........2 50
Dingman, 100 bars.............4 00
Don’t Anti-Washboard....4 75
Jaxon............... ..................3 75
Queen  Anne................... 4 00
German Family...........   ....2 04
Allspice.............................84
Cassia, China in m ats......  84
44  Batavia in bund. ...12
“  Saigon in rolls....40
Cloves,  Amboyna............25
“ .  Zanzibar.................23
Mace Batavia— ................80
Nutmegs,  fan cy ............. 40
44 
Nb.  1.................65
-,*»  No. 2 ...................60
44 
white.28
,  shot.......................20
SPICES—GROUND-IN BULK.
Allspice........... 
................12
Cassia, Batavia.______ ___15
and Saigon.25
*•  Saigon......................  .42
Cloves, Afnboyna..............35
“  Zanzibar.,......... 30
Ginger, African.................124
44  Cochin..___...__15
Jamaica.............18@22
44 
Mace Batavia................... .85
Mustard,  English... .... .20

Pepper, Singapore,  Dlack..l84 

44 

“ 

44 
“ 

44 and Trie.22

44 

Trieste............ -..25,
Nutmegs, No. {2............65
Pepper,Singapore  black..23 
white.. 32
C ayenne..........25
doz...84
Absolute Pepper, 
Cinnamon  1
Allspice 
1
Cloves 
4
Ginger 
4
Mustard 
4
STARCH.

• 
“  
44 
‘44 
44 
44 

“ 
“ 

■tJ - 
Kingsford’s 
Silver Gloss, l f t  pkgs. 
**  0 ft boxes
I   bulk..:..
Pure, 1 ft pkgs.........,
Corn, 1 ft pkgs.,.. u ;.. 
SUGARS»
Gut  Loaf...................
C ubes...,...... ...........
Powdered....».:...... ;
Granulated. Stand.,.
off.:,.;..
Confectionery A*...«,. |
Standard A ............
No. 1,‘ White Extra C. .t 
No. 2, Extra C..  « . {
No«4Q.».......______
4 ^   SXSUPS.  r  J
Coni, barrels.:;. s$ . ...

*, “ 

Pure Sugar, 4  bbl..........
SWEEf  GOODS.
Ginger  Snaps......... .74
Sugar Creams....... .74
Frosted Creams......
Graham Crackers__
Oatmeal  Crackers....
TOBACCOS—PLUG.
Spear Head...... M......
Hank Road......... „ . ___
Eclipse...........................
Holy Moses...................
Blue Blazes......... .
Eye  Opener..................
Star 
...... ...............
Clipper... .4...... ............
Climax.........................
Corner Stone..... . . ____
Tip Top.. . . . . . . . . .
Tenderloin^. . , . , . , ,
Sweet Russet........ ...  .
Dark Magnolia__......
Hot Shot............
TOBACCOS—FINE  CUT. 
Sweet  Pippin.. . . » . . .  7,
Five and Seven.....__ ..._
Hiawatha..........................
Sweet  Cuba.....................
Petoskey Chief.................
Sweet Russet...................
Thistle.............................
Florida.......... 
.........
Rose Leaf.........................
Red Domino,.........  ..
Swamp Angel...................
S ta g ..,.............................
TOBACCOS—SMOKING.
Rob Roy.......................
Peerless........................
Uncle Sam....................
Jack  Pine.__ _........
Sensation............. .......
Yellow Jacket..............
Siveet  Conqueror......
Japan ordinary...........
Japan fair to good......
Japan fine..................*.
Japan dust,.................
Young Hyson..............
Gunpowder..................
Oolong.................33@55<
Congo..........................
30 gr.
9
White W ine....... 
Cider....................  B
Apple. ............ 
10
MISCELLANEOUS, 
Bath Brick imported.. 
do 
American..
Burners, No.  0............
do  No. 1............
do  No. 2..............
Chimneys, No. 0...........

VINEGAR.

TEAS.

42@45
......89
.,..45
....39
...41

,18@20
,25@30
35@45
,12@20
,20@45
35@50

do 

Cocoa Shells, bulk.........
Condensed  Milk, Eagle.
Cream Tartar.................
Candles. Star__ ;............
Candles, Hotel...............
Camphor, oz., 2 ft boxes
Extract Coffee, V.  C......
Felix ..,
Fire Crackers, per box., 
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps
Gum, Spruce.................
Jelly,in30 ft pails..  .  5
Powder,  Keg.................
Powder, 4   Keg............ .
Sage................................
CANDY. FRUITS and NUTS. 
Putnam  &  Brooxs quote as 
follows :

STICK.
do 
do 
MIXED.

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—If*  5 ft BOXES.

Standard, 25 ft boxes...... 8)4
Twist, 
.........   9
Cut Loaf 
..........10
Royal, 25 ft  pails.__ 84@  9
Royal, 20J) ft bbls.................84
Extra, 25^ft  pails................10
Extra, 200 ft bbls................  9
French Cream, 25 ft pails* .114
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases........... 10
Broken, 25 ft pails.............10
Broken. 200 ft  bbls.............. 9
Lemon  Drops......................  13
Sour Drops............................ 14
Peppermint  Drops.............. 14
Chocolate Drops...................14
H M Chocolate  Drop§..........18
Gum  Drops  ......................... 10
1 Licorice Drops......................18
AB Licorice  Drops.............12
Lozenges, plain.....................14
Lozenges,  printed................15
Im perials..............................14
Mottoes.................................15
Cream  Bar........................13
Molasses Bar......!.................13
Caramels...............................18'
Hand Made Creams...............18
Plain  Creams........................16
Decorated Creams................20
String Rock...........................13
Burnt Almonds..............  22
Wintergreen  Berries........... 14
Lozenges;plain in pails... 12
Lozenges, plain in bbls__ 11
Lozenges, printed in pails. 124
Lozenges, printed in  bbls. 114  
Chocolate Drops, in pails.. 124
Gum Drops  in pails.......64
Gum Drops, in bbls.........54
MosBDrop8, in pails..........10
Moss Drops, iu bbls...........  9
Sour Drops, in  pails....... 12
Imperials, in  pails.............12
Imperials  in bbls.............. 11
Bananas.................... 1 £>0@2 25
Oranges, choice......   @4 00
Oranges, Florida......  @
Oranges, Messina___4 00@4 25
Oranges, OO.............   @4 00
Oranges, Imperials..  @4 25
Oranges Valencia ca.  @7 00
Lemons,  choice.........3 25@3 50
Lemons, fancy.......... 3 50©3 75
Figs, layers, new.__12  @16
Figs, Bags, 50 ft........   @
Dates,  frails do........   @ 44
Dates, 34 do  do........   @ 54
Dates,Fard 10 ft box ^  ft..  9 
Dates, Fard 50 ft box ^  ft..  64 
Dates, Persian 50 ft box ..5@54
Almonds,  TarragonalY  @174
Ivaca........  @18
California  13@14
Brazils.................. 
@9
Filberts, Sicily..........   @11
Walnuts,  Grenoble..  @14
Siejly__ _ 
12
French__   @11
Pecans, Texas. H. P, 
8@12
Coeoanuts, $ 100.  @5 50
Prime Red, raw  $   ft  @4
Choice 
do  @ 44
do  @5
Fancy H.P. do 
Choice White, Va.do  @ 44
Fancy H P,. Va do  5  @ 54
H. P. Va...................   @5
OYSTERS AND  FISH.
follows;

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes  as 

PEANUTS.
do 

FRUITS.

NUTS.

44 
44 

“ 
“ 

OYSTERS.

 

Fairhaven Counts..............  35
Selects......  ................  23
Anchors................ .  ..........  20
Standards  ............ 
18
Favorites............................... 11
Standards per gal .  .........1 0Ô
Selects, per gal..............1 40
Counts, in bulk, per 100__ 1 20
....  ,80
44 
Clams,  < 
....  70
44  per gal....... ........... 1 25
Black bass.,............... .124
Rock bass............ ............    4
Perch, skinned.......... 
6
Duck-bill  pike...... .v ,• • •  8
T rout................  
 
10
Whitefish..........I ..................10

44 
44 
FRESH  FISH.

“  shell 

44 

- FRESH MEATS.  ' 

John Mohrhard quotes, selling 
prices, aB follows:
Fresh beef..,...... . 
5  @ 7
H o g s.:,,..,;.............. 64® asi
9  @94
Pork loins.......... . 
Bologna........ >  6  A
Frankfort sausage...  9  @10 
Blood, liv, h’d saus’g  6  @ 6  .
Mutton......... 
8  @ 84
l4teb...:.,9;’;,.ii.^ ^ 8 4 @  9  >

IN BARRELS. <f " > i l S

... ............ 11«

f

, 
PORK 

i f ^ t v '  r* 
The Grand Rapids Pocking ft Provision Co. 
quote  as follows: 
■
V? 
M e ss.,,....,..,.,  ...;::..’. ... .................,,...15 0C
 
Shortcut.................................. 
15 2B
Shortcut  M organ./....,..,,................  
15 fit
Extra clear pig, short cut...... . 
....16  5C
Extra clear, heavy............................ 
 
  16 5C
Clear quill, short c u t-/:.,........  
 
16  5C
 
Boston dear, sh o rtc u t...........................is 5(
Clear back, shortcut...... ......................... .16 5C
Standard clear, short  cut, b e s t
. 18 fi{
B
Hams,average20  l b s

.............. ..............
SMOKED MEATS—CAN VASSED OR  PLAIN.
. . ....................5 .
‘f  •  ** 
“ 
“ 
.....llii
...  8Vi
44  best boneless...................             .11
Shoulders......... ............................................  3
Breakfast Bacon, boneless........................” 11
Dried Beef, extra... 1 
84
ham  p ric e s ............__ .....10

© S .
to 14 ft s. 

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

picnic 

......... 

16 
12 

“ 

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e

a

.

.

.

'

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

DRY  SALT  MEATS.
 

**  medium..............................
“ 
lig h t,.............................

“ 
44 

........  ...

LARD.

n%

7

..... 

854
gu

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

Tierces  ............ 
30and50lb Tubs /.., t .
8
3 lb Pails, 20 in a case............................ 
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case......................... ] 
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case..................33.
20 lb Pails, 4 pails in case............
BEEP IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs...... .  . .. 
7 oc
Extra Mess, Chicago Pacxing......... ....... . .  7 5c
“  Kansas City Packing... . . .7.7. 7 25
•“ 
P late......... .....................................  , 
.7. 8 25
Extra Plate........................... 
Boneless, rump butts................. ....... . . . ” 9 50
44  Kan City pkd.... ....  8 50
44  4  bbl.  5 00
“ 
Pork Sausage..............................................714
Ham  Sausage............................7777.71.! ill
Tongue  Sausage..............................7 7 7 7   9
Frankfort  Sausage..................... 77......... 
8
Blood  Sausage............... ............. 7 7 .......... 6
Bologna, straight. .................. 7 7777 
6
Bologna, thick......... ........ ........... . . . . . . . . .  6
Head  Cheese............................ . . 7 7 , 7 7 7   6
In half barrels............................................  3 50
In quarter barrels__ ________.. .. .. .. .. ..  2 15
In 4  Bbl........................................................3 00
In 34 Bbl............................................ 
175
In Kits............................................. 8fi

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

PIGS’ FEET.

TRIPE.

“ 

44 

• 

FRESH MEATS.

as follows:

The W. Steele Packing & Provision Co. quotes 
Fresh  B eef............... .........................  6  @ 64
8%
Dressed Hogs......................................  
Pork loins...................................  
@ 9
Beef loins.. 
......................................'  @10
Beef ribs............................................ .  @jo
Pork ribs..............................................5  @ 7
Pork  sausage..................  
@  8
Frankfort sausage..............................   @ 9
Summer sausage............................... 
@13

Bologna......................................7.7.7  6  @7
Blood, liver and head sausage. 7 7 7 !  5  @ 6

WOOL.

Green —  f? ft 44® 5  Calf skins, green
Part cured...  5  @ 54  or cured__ 5  @ 6
Full cured....  54® 6  Deacon skins,
Dry hides and 
$  piece...... 10  @25

k ip s...........  6  @ 8

" 

50
25

FURS.

20
20 
10 
60 
50 

Fine washed $ ft 18@20ICoarse washed.. .20©22
Medium  ........... 20@23| Unwashed............I2@16
' No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4

Bears.............................15  00 7  00  4 00 
Beavers.......................... 6 00 4  00  2 00 
Badgers.......................    75 
5
Cat, Wild.......................  50 
44  House....................  15 
5
Fox, Red........................ l 00 
10
30 
50
44  Cross..................... 5 00 2  50  1 00 
44  Grey....................  75 
10
20 
Fishers........................... 7 00 4  00  2 00  1 00
Lynx.................. 
50
4  00 2  50  1 00 
Mink, Large Dark........  40 
05
10 
Small Pale.........   25 
05
30 
M artins..........................1 00 
10
SPRING WINTER FALL KITS
Musrats.................... 
8@4  01
Otter....  ................. 6 00 
2 00  1 00
Raccoon, Large........  75 
20 
10
Small.........  3i) 
05
10 
Skunk.....................  
25 
10
Wolf.........................3 CO 
25
50 
10 per cent, may be addqd to above prices.
Deer Skins, dry, Red Coats, per lb...........  30c
 
44  Blue  “ 
“ 
44  Short Grey,  44  ..............   25c
‘ 
 
44 
, 44 Long 
“ 
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sheep pelts, short shearing.........   .. 
5@20
Sheep pelts, old wool estimated.........   @23
Tallow..................................................   3%@ 4
Grease butter.  ..................................  5@ 8
GinBeng, good......................................   @3 00

25 
15 
60 
l l  
4 00 
50 
20 
75  50 
1 00 

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4 4 
44 

44 
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WOODENWARE.

Curtiss & Dunton quote as follows:
Standard  Tubs, No. 1........................
Standard  Tubs, No. 2............... ........
Standard Tubs, No. 3............ ............
Standard Pails, two hoop...... ...........
Standard Pails, three hoop...............
Pails, ground wood 
......................
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes..............
Butter  Pails, ash...............................
Butter Ladles............................ .
Butter Spades...................................
Rolling Pins.......................................
Potato Mashers............ .....................
Clothes Pounders...............................
Clothes Pins.......................................
Mop  Sticks.............................. .«.......
Washboards, single....................
Washboards, double. .
Washboards,Northern  Queen__...
Diamond  Market..............................
Bushel, narrow band, No. 1..............
Bushel, narrow band, No. 2........... -.
Bushel, wide band...... ......; .............
Clothes, splint,  No. 3...... .................
Clothes, splint,  No. 2............ ...........
Clothes, splint,  No. 1........................
Clothes, willow  No. 3........................
Clothes,willow  No.2...............
Clothes, willow, No. 1.................
Water  Tight, (acme) bu....................
halfbu.  .........
44 
PRODUCE MARKET.

BASKETS.

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13@134c.

Apples—83@83.50 per bbl.
Beets—In good supply at 40e per bu.
Beans—Hand-picked  mediums  are  very 
scarce, readily command! ng 82.50 per bu.
Butter—Jobbers pay 20@22c for choice dairy 
and sell at 22@24c.  Grease butter is slow sale 
at 8c.
Butterine—Creamery, 16o  for  solid  packed 
and 17c for rolls.  Dairy, 134c for solid packed* 
and  144o  for  rolls.  Extra  creamery 20c  for 
solid packed and 21c for rolls.
Cabbages—81@81.25  per  doz,,  according  to 
size.  Very scarce.
Carrots—30@35e perbu.
Celery—25 $  doz.  Poor in quality.
Cheese—Jobbers are holding their  stocks at 
Cider— 10c per gal.)
Cooperage—Pork  barrels,  81.25;  apple  bar­
rels, 25c.
Cranberries—Wisconsin Bell  and Cherry are 
in  good demand  at'83.50 per crate or 810  per 
bbl.
Dried Apples—Jobbers hold  sun-dried  at 64 
@7e and evaporated at 840.
Eggs—More plentiful than usual at this  sea­
son of the year.  The market  is  fairly firm at 
13c per dozen, but may  go  lower  before  the 
end of the week,1  v ;

Honey—In plentiful supply at 15@16c.
Hay—Baled  Is  moderately  aotive  at  815 
in 

per ton in two and  five  ton  lots  and  813 
oar lots. 

Maple Sugar —New crop,  124c per lb.
Onions—Home grown, 81 perbu.  \
POp Corn—84® V 
Potatoes—Buyers are paying, 75@80oper b u .: 
Turnips—20@25c per bu.

and holding at 85@90c.'

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GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

'

Wheat—City  millers  pay  800  for  Lancaster 
and 80c for Fulse and Clawson.
Cbm—Jobbing 'generally  at 57o  in  100  bu. 
lotstmdBSc in carlota.
.  Oats—White,  42o  in. small  lots  and  36o in 
ear lots. 

Rye—48@50o V bu.
V 'J  i-!
Barley—Brewers pay 81*30 Ç cwt. 
Flour—No change. Patent 85.40 %> bbl in sacks 
and  85.60 in  wood.  * Straight,  $*.40 9  bbl. in 
sacks and 84.60 in wood. ^
Meal—Bolted, 83.50 <p bbl.
3  MiU Feed—Screenings, *15 V ton.  Bran, 818

*ton.  Ships,  f  18.50NJOB.  Middlings,  |19 

,  ton. Corn axd Oats, t e  *  ton.

SOLE MANUFA CTURER8 OF

TOBACCO

PLACE to seoure a thorough
mid nsetoleduoatlop is httne
Gr a n d  R a pi db (Mich.) Buat- 
! fTBSS COLLBGE. write for Oo¿- 
Iress, C.aSWijNSBBBG:  4 ;
1 1 1 1®

W H Ö IÄ A L K 'J^B G ®   H

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Advanced—Golden  seal toot,  golden  seal  root  powdered, ^extract  logwood,  powdered
Declined—Nothing.

ÂcHte White LfÉ & Color forts,
DETROIT, 
. MICH.

- 

Rubia Tinctorum 
Saccharum Lactls pv
Salacin................
Sanguis Draconis.
40®  50 
S a n t o n i n e . .. 
_
®4 50
Sapo, W..........  
  12®
 
Sapo,  M......  ...........  8®
Sapo, G....................;  ©
Beidlitz  Mixture......   @
S in ap is..:...:........  @
Sinapis, Opt,.........  
@
Snuff, Maccaboy, Db.
Voes__ @
Snuff,  Scotch,  Do.
Voes...... .................  
Soda Boras, (po  11),. 10 
Soda et Potoss Tart..
Soda Carb. ..............
Soda,  Bi-Carb...........
Soda, A sh ..,.........
Soda  Sulphas.........
Spts. Ether Co........
Spts.  iv vreia Dom...
Spts, Myrcia Im p....
Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl, 
2.19).,.,..,,......  .. 
Less 5c. gal. lots ten days. 

  @
33® 35
2® 2H
4® 5
3®
@
50®  55 
@2 00 
@2 50
■
®2 29
Strychnia  Crystal...  @110
Sulphur, Sum  .........  2M@ 3M
Sulphur, Roll.......... 2M@ 3
Tamarinds................  8®  10
Terebenth  Venice...  28®  30
Theobromae............  50®  55
Vanilla  ...................9 00@16 00
Zlnci  Sulph............ 

-.f-aineil............ 

7<r
Bbl
Whale, winter...........  70
Lard, extra...............  68
■Lard, No. Jv ,...........   45
Linseed, pure raw.  ..  56
Linseed, boiled........  59
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
60
Spi t ,ts Turpentine...  45 
PAINTS  Bbl
Red Venetian......... ,im
Ochre, yellow Mars..1M 
2®3
Ochre,yellow  Ber...lM  — 
2@3
Putty,commercial...2M 2M@3
Putty, strictly pure..2M  2M®3 
V ermilion prime Am­
erican .................. .
13®16
Vermilion,  English..
75@80
Green, Peninsular...
16@17
Lead, red strictly pur 
Lead,  white,  strictly
p u re.. 
Whit
iting, white  Span
Whiting,  Gilders’__
White,  Paris  Amer’n 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff....................... 
Pioneer  Prepared
r a in ts........................ 1 20®1 40
Swiss Villa Prepared
P aints.........................1 00@1 20

1 10

6®6M 
©70 
®9Q 

OILS,

1 49

— 

VARNISHES.

No. lTurp Coach__ 1 10@1 20
Extra  Turp...................1 60@1 70
Coach Body...................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn....... 1 00@1 10
ExtrijTurk Damar.. 1  55@1 60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T urp............... ......   70®  75

Importers and Jobbers of

ÂND DRUGGISTS’ 

S.

DEALERS IN

Patent  Medicines, 
Paints,  Oils, 
Varnishes.

WE ARE  SOLE PROPRIETORS  OF

WEATHBBLn 
II

50

We have in stock and offer a full line of

Whiskies, 
Brandies, 
Gins,
Wines,

Rums,

W e are Sole  Agents in Mich­
igan  for  W . D. &  Co.,  Hender­
son County, hand-made

SOUS MASH WHISKEY,

-A N D -

Drniists’  Favorite  Rje  WMsiy,

W e Sell Liquors for  Medicinal Purposes 

only.

W e  Give  Our  Personal  Attention  to 

Mail Orders and  Guarantee Satisfaction

All Orders  are Shipped and Invoiced the 

same day we receive them.

W rite  for Sample  Cards*and Prices.  W e  

have Supplied our Trade wife this

P.  P.  P.

Brand  and  it  is  all  the  manufacturéis 
claim for it. 

v

W e sell it on a  GUARANTEE.

fiaxeltine & Perkins Drilg Go.,
GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

GENERAL  AGENTS,

C0 j?

Pioneer  Prepared,Pa k t s

Manufacturers of the Celebrated

ACME  P R E P A R E D   PA IN T S,

Which  for  Durability,  Elasticity,  Beauty 
and Economy are Absolutely. Unsurpassed.  *
F.  J.  W  U H2S U RG,

WHOLESALE  AGENT,

Grand  Rapids, 

-  Mich.

FOR  SALE!

Stock  will 

Stock of drugs and groceries wife fixtures, 
situated  in  a  thriving  town  in  Wester« 
Michigan. 
inventory  about 
$1,600  and can be  run  down  to  $1,000 or 
,200  in  a  short  time,  if  desired.  Large 
and. constantly increasing  trade.  Business 
will  bear  closest  inspection.  Reasons for 
selling,  other business.  For full particulars 
address box  110, this office.

pS E S iaí

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and 50c. 
25c size, 
50c  “

Is now put up  in two sizes,  retailing for 2Be 
e x « «
per doz.  $2.00
3.50
Peckhsm ’s Group Remedy is prepared  es­
pecially for children and is a safe  and certain 
cure for  Croups, Whooping-Cough, Colds, and 
.  .. bronchial  and  pulmonary  complaints  at 
childhood.
Druggists make no mistake in keeping Peek- 
ham s Croup Remedy in stock.
Trade supplied by
Hazeltine 
Farrand, Williams & Co., Detroit. 
James E. Davis & Co.,  Detroit.
Peter Van Schaack & Sons, Chicago.

& Perkins  Drug  Co. f Grand

Rapids.

FOR  ATTRACTIVE  ADVERTISING  MATTER ADDRESS  THB 

PROPRIETOR.

DE. H.  C.  PECKHAM,

Freeport, 

-  Mich.

83P” “Peekham’s  Croup  Remedy is the most 
reliable and satisfactory proprietary medicine 
1 BAnclle.  My sales are constantly increasing.’* 
—W^. II. Goodyear, Druggist, Hastings, Mich.

Ph, Best Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis.: 
Gentlem en—I  have had the pleasure qt 
examining and  testing  the qualities  of Tlfe 
“Best” Tonic, not  only in  my practice  but 
in  my  family.  Am  most  highly  pleased 
with  its  medicinal  qualities,  and  cordially 
recommend  it  to  those,  who, by  reason df 
nervous exhaustion,  find  it necessary  to re­
sort to Tonics and extra nutrients.  A wine 
glass  full  before  each  regular  meal,  in­
creases the appetite and improves digestion; 
administered upon retiring at night, has the 
effect to produce most tranquil sleep.

Respectfully,

J.  H arvey Bates,  M. D.

TRADE SUPPLIED BY THE

— ^>'*7 à"* 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

And the Wholesale  Druggists  of  Detroit 

and Chicago.  .

GZ2TSS2SJ-G  2S.OOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggists, Grand Rapids,Sich.

Milw au kee,  Wis., Oct. 20,1887. 

Ph. Best Brewing Co„ Milwaukee, Wis.: 
Gentlem en—I have  used  in  my family 
and practice the Liquid Extract of Malt and 
Hops,  known  as  The “Best”  Tonic,  with 
the  most  satisfactory  results. 
I  consider 
the Malt Extract the most valuable of all of 
its class of  Tonics, and  especially  adapted 
to those  cases  of  debility  arising from  en­
feebled digestion.  The “Best” Tonic  I be­
lieve folly equal to the  best  imported  Malt 
Extract,  and I am confident  will  give satis­
faction to patient and physician.

J.  H.  Thompson,  M.  D.

Milw a u k ee,  Wis., Oct.  21,  1887. 

Ph. Best Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis.: 
De a r Sirs—I   take  pleasure  in  stating 
that your “Best” Tonic is the most palatable 
of  any preparation  of  Malt,  and  that  from 
its prompt and reliable  effect, I prescribe it 
in preference to'that of any other make. 

Yours truly,

J.  R. McDil l.

M il w a u k e e ,  Wis.,  Oct. 21,1887. 

Ph. Best Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis.: 

Ge n t l e m e n —I   have  used  The  “Best” 
Tonic  in  my own  family  and  in my prac­
tice, ever since it  was  brought to my atten­
tion by fee  Phillip  Best  Brewing  Co., and 
am free  to  say  that  I   believe  it  to be the 
most palatable  and useful of  fee Malt pre­
parations j  have used.

W m .  F ox,  M .  D .

Milw a u k ee,  Wis.,  Oct. 26,  1887L 

Ph. Best Brewing Co.. Milwaukee, Wis.:

Dea r  Sirs—I  thankfully  received  fee 
two bottles of your Concentrated Liquid R e­
tract of Mait and  Hops, and  am  impressed 
with  the  value  of  this  good and  nutritive 
preparation. 
It is really a  highly nutritive 
Tonic and  remedial  agent  in  building up % 
weak  constitution,  strengthening fee nerv­
ous  system,  and a  valuable  substitute  for 
solid  food, particularly  if  given  after  dis­
eases, in cases of  injuries  of the  body, and 
especially when  the appetite  is diminished, 
It  will  be  difficult  to  find  a better  Tonife 
than  fee “Best,”  and  I  cheerfully  testify 
that it is of  great  value in the treatm en ts 
all kinds ef weakness  and diseases. 
I  pre­
fer it to any imported Malt Extract.

Very Respectfully,

M.  Ohlbmann, M. D.

For Säle By

The  Detroit  Pharfeaebutical  SoeilM^  is 
considering the idea of nc^dlng its meetings 
In fee afternoon instead of in  fee  evening. 
The members are  such  prominent  society 
men that feeir evenings are all token up. 
.
Deports from all parts of this great Unit­
ed States indicate that  every  druggist and 
his wife will be in Detroit  next  September 
to attend the meeting of  the  A.  P. A.  No 
city can take care-of them' better  than  De­
troit.

The Committee on Arrangements  for fee 
next meeting of  fee  A. P. A. and M.  S. P. 
A. have already received pledges for almost 
enough money to  defray all expenses.  Lo­
cal Secretary Yemor  “takes the cake” as a 
collector.

Drug business in Detroit is lively,  conse­

quently Detroit druggists are happy., *'

Jas. Yernor returned some days ago from 
Grand Kapids.  He reports fee largest num­
ber of applicants for  registration  that  has 
ever appeared before fee Board of  Pharma­
cy.  He also says feat he had a  royal good 
time.  Every one has a good  time when he 
goes to Grand Kapids.
^  What enterprising, city in this State wants 
to have the meeting of  the  M.  S. P. A. for 
1889?  In feat year,  Detroit  druggists will 
be ready to take a week’s vacation and have 
a good time.

Is there a prize offered  tor  poetry at the 
next State meeting?  Some  Detroit  drug­
gists think they could do as  well  as  some 
who have already made a break  in  that di­
rection.
The Next Session  of the  Board  of  Phar­

macy.

An instance  illustrating  the  manner in 
which  the  best  of  legislators  sometimes 
make a miscalculation is afforded in the text 
of the Pharmacy Law, the seeond section of 
which prescribes that examination  sessions 
of the Board  of Pharmacy shall be held the 
first week of March,  July  and  October of 
each year. 
If the persons  who framed this 
law  had  given  the  subject  a  moment’; 
thought,  a remembrance of the fact that In­
dépendance  Day  usually comes in fee first 
week in July would probably have  resulted 
in the selection of some  other more conven­
ient date.  As it is, it will frequently  hap­
pen that the examination sessions will have 
to be held the last  week  in June or fee sec­
ond week in July.  The  Board  has not yet 
decided which course to take this  year,  but 
will probably select the later  date. 
In case 
the weather is very warm,  it is not unlikely 
that arrangements will be made  to hold the 
sessions  during  the  day  at Star Island,  a 
cool river resort only a  few miles from De­
troit.

The  Drug  Market.

Owing to the severe storm in New  York, 
business has been paralyzed  and  very  few 
changes in prices are  reported.  Opium is 
unchanged.  Over 500 cases are reported to 
haye been sold, resulting in a very firm mar­
k et  Quinine is also  improving  in  price 
Morphia is steady.  Citric acid,  borax  and 
gum camphor are all  firmly  held at the ad 
vanced price.  Balsam copaiba is still tend­
ing  upward.  Cuttle  bone  is  advancing. 
Golden seal root has again advanced.  Log­
wood and extract  logwood  have  again ad­
vanced. 
Ipecac  root,  powdered,  has  ad­
vanced.  •
Red  Lead as  a  Protection  Against  Rust.
A correspondent of The Mechanical News 
calls  attention  to  the use of red lead as a 
protection of iron  against  rust.  He  says: 
‘For iron work of all kinds,  where  the ex­
pense can be afforded,  it is  far  superior to 
anything that has  yet  been  suggested  for 
the purpose. 
I consider it much better than 
any of the iron or metallic  paints, as it ap­
pears 
to  resist  water  better  than any of 
them. 
I mix it with boiled oil  and make it 
pretty stiff.  On small work.  I add  a  little 
Jajpan  dryers  and  perhaps 10 per cent,  of 
litharge,  so as to make it  dry  quicker  and 
I do not know that these  improve 
harder. 
the quality much,  but they prevent  the lead 
from running. 
If a bolt is  going  through 
wood, coat the hole with the red  lead  and 
paint the bolt, and there will be no rusting. 
If a piece of iron is going  into  some place 
where it cannot be washed, clean it well and 
then paint it witfi two  coats  of  red  lead. 
Even if it is going into a place where it will 
come in contact with water,  no  harm  will 
come to it.”
Adulteration  of  Pharmaceutical  Extracts.
M. A. Pannetier  directs  attention to fee 
frequent adulteration in France of  pharma­
ceutical extracts with dextrine.  This seems 
to be added with a  double  motive.  While 
increasing the bulk, it also allows the evap­
oration to be stopped at an  earlier  stage of 
the  operation. 
I t  is  detected  by addihg 
subacetate of lead to fee  aqueous  solution 
of fee extract  to  precipitate  tannin,  gum 
and coloring matters; filtering ahd removing 
fee lead by hydrogen sulphide*  after agaiu 
filtering, the liquid is  evaporated  to  about 
one-fifth of its bulk and its  volume  of  96 
deg. alcohol is added,  when fee presence of 
dextrine is indicated by a precipitate  beiBg 
formed.  The extracts  containing  dextrine 
present a fine appearance rather than other­
wise.
•;  The Farce of Anti-*Adulteration Laws.
From the Chemist and Druggist.

The city of London appears to be the one 
sweet spot on earth where  drugs and chem­
icals are to be obtained in fee  most perfect­
ly pure condition.  While fee  city  analyst 
goes on quarter after quarter discovering no 
adulteration in fee few* shillings’  worth of 
drugs and chemicals  which  his  inspectors 
purchase, we  report'  almost  monthly  the 
sale of hundred-weights and tons a t sophis­
ticated and often injurious substitutions  of 
some of our most important drags.  Hipping 
Lane is within fee city limits,  and; there is 
nothing feat we know-of in fee sale of food 
and drugs Ast which renders it legal to sell 
a  top of an adulterated drug  but  makes  it 
penal to sell an ounce. 
.  uv.  '  ’  -
Ü Elmer Crittenden, fprAnumber of  years 
head 
at
position
Mopghei^has  accepted  w. 
Wife Blai? & Downer, it  l
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10®   12 
11®  13 20
X 70@2 05 
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ACIDUM.
A cetieum  . ' . K y . . ,  
Benzoicum , G erm an
D o ra d e __ ___. ......
carbolicum  . . . . .  . .....
C itric u m ....... .............
H ydrochlor . . . . . . . . . .
N itrocum   . . . . .   . . . . . .
. 
O x allcu m ...................
Phosphorioum   d ll,.. 
S alicylicum . . . . . . . . . .
Su Iphuricu m . .1.. ....
T an n leu m .. . . . . . . __
T a rta ric u m ....... .......
Aqua, 16 deg__ ....
3®  5
,**-  18  deg.__ ...
4®  6
Carbonas.............. ..
11®  13
Chloridum...... .,.
12®  14
ANILINE.
Black............ .......... 2 0G®3 25
B ro w n ...............
80® 1 06
R ed .......................
45®  50
Yellow.......
2 50@3 00
BACCAE.
Cubebae (po. I 60... 1 75@1 85
Jun ip eru s...... .
10®  12
Xauthoxylum........
25®  30
■ BALSAMUM
Copaiba.............
65®  70
@1 50
P eril......................
Terabin, Canada__
50®  55
Tolutan...................
45®  50
CORTEX.
Abies, Canadian....
18
Cassiae  1.................
11
Cinchona Flava 
Euonymus  atropurp 
Myrioa  Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgin!......
Quillaia,  grd......... . .
Sassfras............
Ulmus...... .;___
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)
Glycyrrhiza Glabra..  24®
po..... 
.  33®
Haeinatox, 15 B> dox..  11®
Is___ __  13®
Vt s .  14®
J4S 
  ....  16®
FERRUM.

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FLORA.

GUMMI.

OLEUM.

Salvia  officinalis,  Ms 
Ura  Ur8i................... 
Acacia, 1st picked... 

Carbonate Precip__   @  15
Citrate and Quinia...  ®3 50
Citrate Soluble____   @  80
Ferrocyaniduin Soi..  @
Solut  Chloride.. . . . .   @
Sulphate, com’l........D4@
pure.........   ®
Arnica.......................  12®
Anthemis.................  45®
Matricaria................   30®
Barosma..... .............  10®
Cassia  Acutifol, Tin-
nivelly...... .............  20®
“ 
Alx.  35®
and  Ms..................    10®
8®
,  ®1 09
“ 
...  @ 90
2nd 
3rd 
“ 
...  @ 30
“  Sifted sorts.  @  6;
“ 
p o ................  75@l 00
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)..  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.20)...  @
“  Socotrr, (po. 60)  @
Catechu,  Is,  (Ms,  14
Ms. 16)...................  ©
Ainmoniae  ..............  25®
Assafoetida,  (po. 30).  @
Benzoinum..............  50®
Camphorae ..............  30®
Euphorbiiim, po......   35®
Galbanum.................  @
Gamboge, po.............  80®
Guaiacum, (po. 45)...  @
Kino,  (po. 25).............  @
Mastic......... ;..........   @100
Myrrh, (po.45)__  
@ 40
Öpii, ;po. 5 25j...........3 50@3 6C
Shellac......... ...........   25®  Si
bleached......   25®  30
Tragaeanth..............  30®  75
herba—In ounce packages.
25
Absinthium.............. 
20
Eupatorium ............. 
Lobelia  ....................  
25
Majorum  ................. 
28
Mentha Piperita...... 
23
Vir.. ..........  
25
30
H u e .......................... 
Tanacetum,  V.........  
22
Thymus. V................ 
25
MAGNESIA.
Calcined,  P at...........  55®  60
Carbonate,  P at........  20®  22
Carbonate,  K. &M..  20®  25 
Carbonate,  Jennings  35®  36
Absinthium..............5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc__   45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae..7 25@7 10
A nisi........................ 1 85@l 90
Auranti Cortex. .__   @2 50
Bergamii....................... 2 75@3 25
Cajiputi  ..................   90@1 00
Caryophylli..............  @2 00
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodii..............  @1  75
Cinnamonii..............  85®  90
CitroneUa  ................  @  75
Conium  Mac........;..  35®  65
Copaiba....................90® 1 00
Cubebae.....................15 09®1 > 50
Exeehthitos............  90@1 00
Erigeron...................... .1 20@1 30
Gaultheria............... 2 25@2 35
Geranium, ?............  @  75
Gossipii, Bern, gal__   55@  75
Hedeoma...... ...........   75®  85
Juniperi....................  50@2 00
Laveudula.................  90@2 0D^
Limonis...... ..............1 75®2 26
Mentha Piper........... 2 25@3 39
Mentha Verid....... ...3 00@3 26
Morrhuae,  gal.........   80@1 00
Myrcia,  3..................   @  50
Olive......................... I 00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35)  10®  12
Bicini............... 
1 18@1 26
Kosmarini................       75@1 00
Kosae,  ?.......  
@6 0Q
Succini  ......... 
40®45
Sabina......................   90@1 00
Santal............................3 50®7 00
Sassafras..................  60®  65
Sinapis, ess, 5...........  @  65
T iglii........................  @150
Thyme . ....................  40®  50
opt................  @  60
Theobromas..............  15®  20
Bi Carb__ ...........  15®  18
Bichrom ate...........  13®  15
Bromide ..................    42®  45
Carb__. . .. . ...... 
  12®  15
Chlorate, (Po. 20)___   18®  20
Cyanide....... . 
56®  55
Iodide......... .............3 0C@3 25
Potassa, Bitart, pure  37®  39 
Potassa,  Bitart, com  @  15 
Potass  Nitras, opt...  8®  <10
Potass Nitras........... 
7®  9
Prussiate................     25®  28
Sulphate p o ............  15®  18
RADIX.
A conitum ........... . 
2C@  25
Althae .....................     25®  30
Anchusa ..............  15®  20
Arum,  p o .............  
  ®  25
Calam us....__ .......  20®  50
Gentiana,  (po. 15). 
10®  12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
,'po. 70L...................  @  65
Hellebore,  Alba, po.  15®  20
Inula, po..................  15®  20
Ipecac, po.... ........2  25®2 35
Iris plox (po. 20®22).. *  18®  20
Jalapa, p r............. 
25®  30
Maranta,  M s...........  @  35
Podophyllum,  po__   15®  18
Bhei  ........................   76®1 00
cut... . . . . . . . .   ®1 75
p v ...................  75®1 35
Spigelia.;.,...............  48®  63
Sanguinaria, (po. 25).  ®  20
Serpentaria.__ ____  30®  35
Senega......... . 
...  56®  0Q
Smilax, Officinalis, H  ®  40
,%iliae, (po. 35)...... *   10®  §
Symplocarpus,  Foe-
Yalmdaaa, Eióìir; (pòi 30)  ® 
German,.  16®
Zingiber a .............  10®
Zingiber j ............  18®
Anlsum, (po.20).......
Apium  (graveleons).

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SPONGES

Cannabis  Sativa...»:.  3M® 4M 
C y d o n i u m . ....  75®1 00
Cheoopodium.........   10®   12
Dipterix Odorate__ 1 75@1 85
Foeniculum ..........  @  15
Foenugreek, po.,„,..  0®  8
L in i...........................3M@  4
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3)..  ..  3M@  4
Lobelia....................     35®  40
Phalaris Canarian...  3M®4M
B apa........................   5®  6
Sinapis,  Albii........ 
8®  9
N igra...__   11®  13
SPIRITUS.
Frümenti, W., D. Co..2 00®2 50 
Frumenti, D. F.R ....1 75®2 00
Frumenti ;..........!.., 1 10@1 50
Juhiperis Co.  O. T.. .1 75® 1  75 
Juniperis Cö. •.......1 75@3 50
Saacnarum  N. E . ... .175@2 09
Spt. Vini Galli......... 175@6 50
Vini Oporto........;... 125@2 00
Vini  A lb a...:....,.  1 25@J 00 
Florida sheens’ wool 
carriage....'.........2 25@2 50
Nassau sheeps’wool 
'  2 00
.  carriage............ 
Velvet Extra sheeps’
wool carriage........ 
, 1 10
Extra Yellow sheeps’
carriage............ 
85
Grass  sheeps’  woot
carriage................. 
65
75
Hard for slate use... 
■YeHow Reef, for slate
UB&.........................  
40
Aceacia...«............... 
50
Zingiber....................  
50
60
Ipecac......................  
Ferri Iod......... ......... 
50
6Ö
Auranti Cortes.........  
50
RbeiArom................ 
Smi iax Officinalis.... 
60
Co./ 
50
Senega...................  
50
50
Scillae....................... 
50
“  Co.................... 
Tolutajj.....................  
50
Prunus virg......... . 
50
TINCTURES.
60
Aconitum Napellis R 
F 
59
Aloes......................... 
60
60
and myrrh......  
fiO
A rnica...................  
Asafoetida......... ....... 
50
69
Atrope belladonna... 
Benzoin......... ........... 
60
C o.............. 
60
Sanguinaria......... . 
5(
Barosm a.................  
o(
71
Canth arides............  
Capsicum..................  
6(
71
Cardamon................. 
Co............. 
7(
Castor ...................... 
1 (X
Catechu............... 
5(
Cinchona..................  
5(
Co...............  
6C
bt
Columba................  . 
Conium..................... 
5C
Cubeba................  
5€
Digitalis...................  
50
50
Ergot......................... 
G entian.............. 
50
co................. 
60
Guaica...................... 
50
arnmon.........  
60
Zingiber................  
50
IJyoscyamus............ 
50
Iod me........................ 
75
76
Colorless........ 
Ferri Chi  ridum.......  
35
K i n o .................... 
50
Lobelia...................... 
50
Myrrh.......................  
50
Nux Vomic.i............ 
50
85
O pi............................ 
50
Camphorated... 
Deodor............  
2 00
Auranti Cortex........ 
50
Quassia............................ 
Bhatany.......................... 
Jfcthei........................... 
Cassia Acutifol........ 
Co... 
Serpentaria....................  
Stromonium...................  
Tolutan............................ 
Valerian.......................... 
Yeratrum Veride__  
50
.¿Ether, Spts Nit, 3 F..  26®  28 
.¿Ether, Spts Nit, 1F..  30®  32
Alumen....................  2
3M
Alumeu,  ground,  (p-
o.  7)........................  3@  4
Annatto  ...................  55®  60
Antimoni,  po........... 
4®  5
Antimoni et Potass T  55®  60
Antipyriu................ 1 35@l 40
Argenti Nitras,  5__   ®  68
Arsenicum...............   5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__   38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N...... ...3 15@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
11;  Ms,  12)..............  @  9
Cantharides Russian,
po...... ........................  @2 10
apsici Fruetu8, af..  @  15 
Capsici Fructus, po..  @  16 
Capsiei Fructus, B po  ®  14 
Caryophyllus, (po. 35)  30®  33
"Armine, No. 40...........  @3 75
Cera Alba, S. & F ....  50®  55
Cera Flaya...............   2b@  30
Coccus......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus.........   @  15
Centraria .................   @  10
Cetaceum...... ..........  @  45
Chloioform ..............  60®  65
Chloroform;  Squibbs
Chloral Hyd Crst.... .1 50@1 75
Chondrus .................   10@  12
Cinchonidine, P. & W  15®  20 
dnehonidine, Ger’an  8®  15 
Corks," list,  dis.  per
cent....;................. 
40
Creasotum...............   ®  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  @  2
Creta prep...... .........  5®  6
Creta, precip......... ..  8®  10
Creta Rubra,.............  @  8
Crocus......................  22®  27
Cudbear....................  @  24
Cupri Sulph......... . 
6®  7
Dextrine............... 
  10®  12
Ether Suiph..............  68®  70
Emery, all numbers.  @  8
Emery, po.................  @  0
Ergota,(po.)75— ...  70®  75
Flake  White...... . 
12®  15
Galla................. 
@  23
Gambier..................    7®  8
Gelatin, Coopor........  @  15
Gelatin, French...... .  40®  60
Glassware flint, 7C&10  by box. 
Glue,  Brown.,.........   9®  15
Glue, W hite.............  13®  25
Glycerina................     23®  20
Grana  Paradis!........  @  15
H um uliis.............        25®  40
Hydrarg Chlor.Mite.  ®  85 
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor.  @  80 
Hydrarg Ox. Rubrum  @  "90 
Hydrarg Ammoniati.  @115 
Hydrarg Uuguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum ......... 
  @  80
Iehthyocolla, Am ___1 25@1 50
Indigo........... ..........  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl.......4 00®4  10
..........  
Iodofonn 
  @5  15
 
Lupuline  ...... 
  85@1 00
Lycopodium........ 
55®  60
M aois.......__ ......  80®  85
Liquor Arsen et Hy­
drarg Iod...............   @  27
U quor Potass Arsinl- 
. 16®  12 
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Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl
1M)............... 
2®  3
 
Mannia. S. F ..............  90®1 00
Morphia, 8, P. & W  2 85@3 10 
Morphia,  S.  N.  Y. Q.
&C.  Co...................2 7503 00
Moschus C anton__   ®  40
Mirística. No. 1........  60®  70
Nux  Vomica, (po. 20)  ®  10
Os. Sepia..........;,..,  27®  29
Pepsin Saae,  H. & P.
D. Co..t. ................   @2 00
Picis £dq,N,Cv Meal
doz..-.__ ................
PicisLiq.,  quarts....  '
Picis Liq., pints........
Pil HydMurg, (po. 8ffi.
Piper Nigra,  (po.22).
Piper Alba, (po. 35)..
Plx Buucgun.
Plumb! 4c 
Pulvis Ipecac e t opiLl 
Pyrethrum, boxes, H 
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M i c h i g a n   S t a t e   d i a r m a c e u t i e a l   A «»’n .  

P resident—A rth u r B assett, D etroit. 
F lÄ ty i^ P re s ld e n t--S . ILH arirofed.Pefcoskey. 
SeoanA V ice-President"!!. B. F airchild,  G rand Rapids. 
T M d tt rle©-PWBíden.t—H enry K ephart, B errien Springs. 
S ecretary—S. E. P a rk ill, Owoaso.
T reasurer—Wm. Ou pont, D etroit. 
Executive -Comm ittee—Geo.  G nndrum ,  F ran k   Inglin,

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G ra n d   K a p id s  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society.
PrasMeat—JL E. Locher.
Vice-President—J. W. Hayward. 
m ^el^6M^«rSr»nk H. Escott.  : 
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Treasurer—Henry B. Fairehild.  Wt-,
Board Of Cejttsors—President, pice-Fretident  and Sec­
retary. 
Board oí Trastees—The President,_John  K. Peck,  Geo. 
G. Steketee, A. F. Hazeltine and F. J. Wurzburg.
Wen, Isaac watts. Wm  E. White and ffm.  L.  White. 
Committee on Trade  Matter»—Jonn Peck, F. J. Wurz- 
terg, W. H. Tibbs.
Committee  on  Legislation—J.  W.  Hayward,  Theo.
Kerning, W. H. Van Leuwen. 
Committee  on  Pharmacy—W.  L.  White,  John  Hair, 
SI. B: Kinwn. 
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j n b A ï b V'C/  * 
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Next  Meeting—Thursday evening, February 2,  at Thk 

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

ORGANIZED  OCTOBEB, 1883. 

President-Frank inglis.
B in t Vice-President—F. W. R. Perry.
■Seoond 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 e n tr a l  M ic h ig a n ,  D r u g g is ts ’  A ssociation . 
President, J. W. Dunlop;  Secretary, R.  H. Musseil.
B e r r ie n  C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o ciety . 
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, Â. S.  Wallace. 
C h arlevoix. C o u n ty P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o ciety  
President, H. W, Willard;  Secretary, Geo, W. Crouter.

Io n ia  C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l S ociety. 
P resident, W. R. C utler;  Secretary, Geo. G nndrum .
J a c k so n   C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Ass’n . 
President, C, B. Colwell; Secretary, C. E. Fdote.____
K  a i am azon  P h a r m a c e u tic a l A sso c ia 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 ec o sta   C ou n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  ¡society, 
President, C.H. Wagener;  Secretary, A. H. Webber,
.  M o n ro e  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S ociety. 
President, S. M. Sackett ;  Secretary, Julius Weiss.
M u sk e g o n i C ou n ty  D r u g g is ts ’  A ssociation , 
President, E. C. Bond; Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.

M u sk egon   D r u g   C lerk s’  A sso cia tio n , 
President, 0 .8. Koon; Secretary, Geo,  L, LePevre.
N e w a y g o   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S ociety. 
President. J. F. A. Raider'. Secretary, A. G. Clark.

OOeaná C ou h ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o ciety . 
President, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, Frank Cady.
S ag in aw   C ounty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society, 
President, Jay Smith;  Secretary, D, E. Prall.

Cork  Substitutes.  /

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,  meat of cork are worthy of  admiration* not 
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from their practicability,  but on  account of 
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the ingenuity displayed in their  production 
—the inventor appearing to entertain an un­
wholesome contempt for practicability.  He 
has invented something new;  there is a for­
tune in it, or  ought  to  be,  and  possibly 
would be,  if it were not quickly ascertained 
that in many  cases  the  improvement was 
worse than the original.  In 1826, an ingen­
ious individual invented a waterproof cover­
ing for cork,  “forming elastic plugs orstop-
pers for bottles and other vessels,  by. cover­
ing ordinary eorks with a thin coat of caput- 
choue.”'   In  1838,  there  was  patented “a 
combination of known  materials forming a 
substitute  for  corks  and  bungs.”  Fancy
patenting a combination  of  unknown  ma­
terials!  The known  materials are “fibrous 
substances anal caoutchouc.  The substances 
are felted in a roll of the diameter and length 
required, and  to  the  degree  of  hardness 
' which will leave  the  stoppers  sufficiently 
  soft and elastic.  The roll is cut into lengths
for stoppers,, and each length is rubbed over 
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.  with  caoutchouc  in  solution.  When  the
coating has hardened by  evaporation of the 
solvent,  a very thin  sheet  of  india-rubber 
{coated on one side with solution of  caout­
chouc) is brought around the length and the 
edges are joined.  Other  portions  of sheet 
india-rubber are applied to  the  ends of the 
length; and the projecting  parts  being cut 
true to the sides, the stopper is complete”— 
finished, 
in  fact;  for, after a lot of money 
had been spent upon the  patent,  it was not 
ah  improvement  upon  cork. 
In  spite of 
this,  the same man,  a few years  after,  pat­
ented an “improvement” upon  his previous 
improvement;  but it has not transpired that 
the invention has gained upon public favor.
A rather more likely scheme  was that of 
'  a  patent taken out in the year 1844, for “im­
provements in corks and other stoppers, and 
a new composition or substance  which may 
.b e used as a substitute for and in preference 
to cork,  and a method or  methods of manu­
facturing the said new  composition  or sub­
stance into bungs, stoppers and other useful 
articles.”  There is  something  fearful and 
wonderful about the phraseology-  employed 
in drawing up specifications for  patents, so 
much  expressed  by  so little, or shall it be 
said so little expressed by so  much circum 
locution and dainty  treading,  that it is not 
to be wondered at if the inventor loses sight 
Of his own  invention.  The  foregoing  an- 
nouncement is thus explained:  “ The sub- 
* stitutes  (for cork)  are cork ground to  pow-
dm-, sawdust,  guttapercha and caoutchouc.” 
It seems a pity to grind the cork  to powder
when it is so very good by itself, but the in­
ventor has bis reasons,,if not always his rea- 
son.  ■'  “The  gutta  percha,  by  itself or in 
combination wife caoutchouc,  is»  dissolved 
by any ordinary solvent, and mixed wife the
' Or the gutta percha may 
be put in a solid  state  into  a  masticating 
j  *  machine,  and  as  much  cork  or sawdust 
thrown in as fee plastic  mass  will  readily 
take up.  The mass,  when  thoroughly ia- 
corporated, is put into large moulds, and af­
terwards eutapinfe corks, etc.;  or,  it is at 
cnee put into moulds of the size and  shape 
.  of stoppeis, etc.”  This  seems to be rather 
an expensive and laborious method  of  im- 
proving upon corks.
Similar inventions of  more  recent  date, 
for feesame purpose,  are  numerous;  and 
almost every yeaf records some useless pat­
ented substitute few. corkwood in its specific 
application as a  bottle. stopper.  So-called
improvements of this kind are in fee wrong
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William Johnston, a Detroit druggist, who
had a store  at 121  Jefferson  avenue,  was 
drowned in the Detroit river on the 6th.  He 
and a colored boy  named  Wm.  Chambers 
were rowing  across- to  Amherstburg  from 
Grosse Isle, where Johnston lived, whe* fee 
heavy ice wife which .fee riVer was running 
upset their boat  They clung  to fee ice for 
i m  !.  ■ «erne time, and several boatsputout to  fee
— H I jast before Johnston was renehed fee 
f^ N ||p p e « a t  and  sank to fee
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j  l i  K  F lltST  TRIP OUT.  ;

H owlersttille, March 18,1888. 

jSdjtgb  T radesm an—A s . I   expected, 
W w * * *  1 last m ote you, X sold  several  large 
writers a t Notick and continued my wand»* 
i   -   logs up and down the  earth  in  search  of 
fame and  more  «lose  buyers  to  conquer. 
Ib is  is my  first  opportunity  for  'writing,
‘ and I  can assure you that my time has been 
vesy profitably  employed—so  much  so, in­
deed; that the house has put dynamite under ; 
me only  four  times in a week, ©nee by let» 
te r 
three times by wire.  The  last tele­
gram  is  very  characteristic  of  them  and 
shows a lack of appreciation  on  their  part 
f  of forty-horse power efforts  in their behalf. 
I t  said:  “You blasted  idioti  don’t sead or- 
ders at 90 days, 60 off for cash  in  30  days. 
We can’t stand It-’’  X shall try and not sell 
th at way. in the future, but it’s mighty hard' 
work  to  get  rid  of  goods, even on those 
terms—at least for me;  but,  perhaps,  1 am 
a«t thoroughly  posted  yet End need more 

‘  experience.

T his is a great town for business and very 
healthy.  Each family  has  fourteen  chil­
dren to the square rod, and some  of  them, 
apparently, have quite large farms.  I don’t 
know how it is with  the  inhabitants of the 
surrounding country, but, if this proportion 
is kept up, Howlérsville ought to be a good 
„  point for a first-class  nursing-bottle  manu­
factory,  although,  undoubtedly,  the  rule 
would be reversed and the  proprietor there­
of be compelled to pay a  bonus, 
instead of 
the village corporation so  doing.

I t  may  seem  incredible to you, but the 
children are so numerous in this town  that, 
a s l  was carrying my grips across the street,
I  came in contact with an  obstruction, and, 
as I  lay on my back in the mud and slush, I 
saw seven hundred and  thirty of  them, by 
actual count, laughing at  my  predicament, 
and these were receiving re*inforcements a t 
the rate of  seventeen  a  second. 
It is said 
Unit a common spectacle  is that of a mother 
using her offspring for clothespins on wash 
day,  for  economy’s  sake,  being so much 
;  cheaper and more plenty.

I  entered Hankins’ store  this  afternoon, 
just a few  minutes before supper-time, and 
nothing would do but  that X must  go home 
to supper with him and see  the  babies. 
I
told him I  should be very much delighted to
go, ftnH also to view the  aforesaid  infants, 
but that I wanted to get away on  the  7:10 
morning  train,  and  wouldn’t  have  time, 
but he pressed me so urgently  that, fearing 
to injure his paternal feelings, I  yielded my­
self up to grim fate and, as I soon discover­
ed, almost sure death.

Mrs. Tfanirins  was  charmed  to  see me, 
and the dear children  were  almost  frantic 
with  joy—although  in  some of them, as I 
strongly suspected, the joy was  principally 
brought on by overfeeding  and  the  result­
ant colic.

» : 

I  had determined to be conservative from 
the start,  and  not  injure  any  of the dear 
cherubs’ feelings by paying too much atten­
tion to any one of them, but I soon saw the 
fallacy of this idea, 
lh a d   no  more  than 
got comfortably  seated  with four blessings 
on my lap, two on each shoulder and a half 
dozen stuck to my new  spring  pantaloons 
with candy, gingerbread,  jam,  etc.,  when 
the queen  bee  arrived  and  they began to 
swarm.  Just as I had given  up  all  hope 
and a  mental retrospect of ray life,  similar 
to that  experienced  by drowning  persons 
,  was passing through my  brain, my hostess 
came to my rescue with a club, and the deck 
was soon cleared  for  action. 
I  tried to re 
turn suitable thanks to the lady, but the din 
of battle was too great for  the human voice 
and I  expressed them by a1 feeling glance.  7 
cast this feeling glance  at  my erstwhile at 
. tote soon afterward, but, penetrating as was 
toe look,  it  could  not  reach  my  clothes 
through the veneering of  dirt  which  they 
had received. 
It was a splendid  glance, so 
X put it away for  future  use  in  subduing 
dogs.

X have often been informed that 1t is well 
to propitiate a prospective  customer by in 
one’s self into his home  life, be­
coming, to a certain  extent, 
the  sharer of 
Id s joys as it were,  through  sympathy and 
fondling the dear little ones. 
I  have  tried 
tots scheme for the first and  last time, as 
luwe run entirely oat  of  fondi»,  and, be­
sides, I would rather ingratiate myself into 
toe home life of a colony of  hornets, or be 
«Ome the confidant  and  bosom friend of an 
isolated wheelbarrow on a dark  night, than 
tò m ak ea sale by such unfair means. 
I am 
s o t nearly  so  ford  of children as a single 
nan. should be, anyway.

X shall take a run home  from  here,  and 
start out afresh, with a new story and a cold 

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loosed, 

Yours, naturally  tender-hearted,  but cal 

F.  O. B.

The Drummer in Love.

♦»And  this  is  to  be  the  end?” said toe 
deeply-enamored 
traveling  man  to  the 
beautiful young  lady  who  kept  the books 
for one of Ms regular customers in toe ifttle 
s t a r t  town. 
.  *Tt is, I Mr*  McThompson,”  sfie  replied 
*T cm   never  be  anything  to  you  b u t!

.

“Then,” said the drummer, with a tremu 
voice and a face of  ashy  paleness, “ it 
remains  for  me  to  say  farewell. 
I 
jMk bito agata»? he continued,  consult- 
. book  with  rapidly 
self-possession,  Mta'toJrtYdaye 
Xtaeof s a n a t o  m fflta»yand 

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One Block from Union Depot on Oakes Street.

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Red Fox Plug Tobacco.

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PROPRIETORS OF THE

No.  X.

No.  O.

No.  1.

No. 3.

No.  4.

Size of box 10x20 inches, wheels 8  and 12 inches.  Sold only  in 

crates  of 1 doz. each......... 

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Size of box 12x24 inches, wheels 10 and 14  inches,  carved  wood 
axle,  front  wheels  turn  under,  packed  in  crates of K doz. 
Sold  only by the crate............... ................. ............... ..  . . . . . . .
Size of box 12x24  inches,  wheels  10  and  14 inches,  iron axle, 
iron boxes in hubs,  front  and  rear  axles durved and strongly 
braced, packed K doz. in crate.  Sold by crate only................
Same style as No. 2,  only  box  13K*27  inches.  Nicely painted 
outside and inside.  Adjustable tongue brace.  Packed % doz, 
in crate.  Sold by erate only. —  ........................................

Same construction as No.  3.  Size of box 143^x29, wheels 12 and 
16 inches.  Packed % doz. in crate.  Tin Hub Caps.  Sold by 
crate only.................. ......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -----... .  •;.,••• •

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Body 5x9 inches, 6 inch  wheels,  no  tires, painted in bright col­
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Same as No.  30, except wheels have  tin tires.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
No. 20. 
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Body 5x10 inches, 6 inch wheels, tin tires.... — . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
No.  1 .1  Body 5^ x 11 inches,  6 inch wheels, tin tires........... ............ . . . . .
No. IK-  Body 7x13 inches,  8 inch wheels, tin tires.. . . . . . . , . . . v . . . . .
Body 7x14 inches,  8 inch wheels, tin tires.....................................
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