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VOL.  5.
FOURTH NATIONAL B A I

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

BELKNAP

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY 30,  1888.

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A. J.  Bowne, President.

Geo.  G. Piebce, Vice President.

H. P. B a k e r, Cashier.
CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general banking business.

Make a Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country M erchants Solicited.
S.  T.  FISH  &  CO.,

General COMMISSION  Merchants
FRUITS  ani  PRODUCE,
189 So. W ater St.,  -  Chicago.

WHOLESALE

We  solicit  your  correspondence f and  will 
make liberal  advances  on  all  shipments for­
warded to us.  Send us your consignments and 
we  will render  prompt  and  satisfactory  re­
turns.  CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY.

8YM Y0N, SAMPSON 1 GO.,
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Sole  Manufacturers  of  the  “Peninsular” 

Brand Pants, Shirts and Overalls.

State agents for (telnlold Collars and  Cuffs. 

120 and 122 Jefferson, Are.,

DETROIT, 

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GEO.  F.  OW EN,  Grand  Rapids;

Western Michigan Salesman.
ASK  FOR

HRDENYER

MU8TRRD
BEST IN THE W ILD.
POTATOES.

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

WEE

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

166 South W ater St., CHICAGO. 
Reference
F e l se n t h a l.  Gr o ss  &  Mil l e r , Bankers, 

Chicago.

EDWIN FALLAS,
VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE,

PROPRIETOR OF

JOBBER OF

Oranges,  Lemons,  Bananas, Butter, Eggs 

and Egg Crates.

No. 1 egg  crates,  37c.  No. 2 egg crates, 
30c.  No.  I  fillers,  13c.  No.  2  fillers,  lOe,
I   have  facilities  fo r  handling  each  line  above 

nam ed th a t are unsurpassed.

I  aim   to   handle  th e  best  th a t  can  be  obtained. 
M ail orders filled prom ptly  a t low est  m a rk et price.  A 
liberal discount on Egg Crates and fillers in  large  lots.

SALESROOM, 

-  No. 9 Ionia  St,  Grand Rapids.

W A N T E D .

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

Earl M ,  Commission Merchants,

157 South W ater St.,  CHICAGO. 

Attorney  a t  Law,

Reference: F ir s t   N a t io n a l  B a n k ,  Chicago. 
Mic h ig a n Tr a d e sm a n. Grand Rapids.
REUBEN  HATCH
Booms 23 & 24 Widdicomb BJd. Monroe St.,
|   GRAND  RAPIDS.
A limited amount of money to loan  on real estate se­
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Importers and Jobbers of

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have light expenses, and are able to sell low­
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class  work.  Second-hand  safes  always on 
hand.

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a Jeweler,
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They Please  Everybody.

HEADLIGHT  and 

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SOAPS  are  conceded  by all to  be the best 
Commendations are coming in daily.  Send 

soaps ever sold in Michigan. 
for price list.

Order  these  goods  of  any  jobber  in  Grand 

Rapids.

Grand  R a is  Soap  Go.
Hillers, Mentira

We are making  a  Middlings 
Purifier and Flour'Dresser that 
will save y ou their cost at least 
three times each year.
They  are  guaranteed  to  do 
more  work in less space (with 
less  power  and  less  waste) 
than  any  other  machines  of 
their classl
Send  for  descriptive  cata­
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SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF

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JOBBERS OF

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WHOLESALE

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GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH

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We do a General  Commission Business 
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information,  whether  to  buy  or  sell. 
It 
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MANUFACTURERS  OF

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Orchard Grass,
Blue Grass,

Field  Peas,

Spring Rye,

Spring  Barley,

OR ANY KIND OF SEEDS SEND TO

W.  T,  LJMOREBUX

71  Canal  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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SOAP

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and  for  ANY  PURPOSE  that  any  other  is 
used, and will  be found to  excel all in cleans 
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which  are  plain  and  simple  much  rubbing, 
and  consequently  much  labor  and  wear 
clothes, will be saved.
The peculiar property possessed by our soap 
Is that  of  loosening  and  separating  the  dirt 
without injuring the fabric, instead of eating 
up the dirt and thereby rotting the cloth.
Ask your wholesale grocer about our SPEC­
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Gilt  Edge,

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Reliance,

Gold Medal, 
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Buckwheat  Flour,  Rye  Flour, * Granulated 
Meal,  Bolted  Meal,  Coarse  Meal,  Bran, 
Ships, Middlings, Screenings, Com, Oats, Feed. 
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Write for Prices.

EGGS

ELEVEN GENTS

For  all  the  G-ood  Fresh  Eggs 

you will ship us this week.

WILL RECEIVE  YOUR

B U T T E R
And sell it for  you at hill mar­
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prompt returns.

WE  MAKE  A  SPECIALTY  OF 
CRATES  AND FILLERS TO 

THE TRADE,

EGO

71  Canal St.,

CAUGHT  IN  TH E  ACT.

W ritten fo r The  Tradesman.

The nature of  a traveling man’s  business 
brings  him  into  contact with nearly every 
description of  people  and  personal  charac­
teristics.  I* have formed, through its agency, 
many pleasant  acquaintanceships, to which 
memory often  carries  me  back with pleas­
ure.  Some  years ago, I became acquainted 
with  a  gentleman  by  the  name  of  Stan- 
wood,  a wealthy merchant residing and car­
rying on a large dry goods  business  in  De­
troit.  Mr.  Stanwood  was a widowed  and 
his family consisted of  only  two  persons— 
a niece and an only son.

Sadie Stanwood,  his  niece,  was a beauti­
ful  girl  about  twenty  years  of  ag$.  She 
was  tall  and gracefully formed.  Her hair 
was a rich,  deep  brown  and  her eyes blue, 
shrouded with long eyelashes, which gave a 
sweet,  dreamy expression to her face.  Her 
complexion was pure  as  the  driven  snow, 
while every feature was  softened  and  har­
monized by the  womanly amiability thrown 
about  her  every  change  of  mood.  Her 
neck and  shoulders  might have served as a 
model for a sculptor,  they were  so  exquis­
itely  chiseled.  When  she  moved,  it  was 
with that undulating  grace common only to 
those so endowed by lavish  nature.

Such  was  Sadie  Stanwood  when  I first 
knew her.  Had  I  not  been  married  and 
possessed of  the best wife in the world,  she 
would  have  been  just the  woman I would 
have  chosen for a life  companion;  for  her 
natural  disposition,  the  cultivation  of  her 
mind  and  the  amiability of  her  character 
fully equaled her physical beauty.  She had 
so won  upon her uncle’s heart that he loved 
her  better  than he did his own son.  This, 
however,  might  be  accounted  for from the 
fact that John Stanwood  was an  extremely 
dissipated  young  man.  He  had  long  ago 
exhausted  his  father’s affection for him by 
the dissolute life  he  led,  and  was only per­
mitted by sufferance to be an intimate of his 
father’s house,

some 

examining 

One  day,  Mr.  Stanwood,  Sr., invited  me 
to dine with him. 
I accepted the invitation 
and  we  passed  a  very  pleasant  hour  to 
gether at  the  social  board.  After  dinner, 
being something of  an  invalid, my host ex­
cused  himself  for  half  an  hour  while  he 
I amused  myself, in the 
went to lie down. 
meantime, 
illustrated 
works  placed  on  the  drawing-room  table, 
The  apartment in  which I was  seated  was 
only  separated  from  an  adjoining  one by 
folding doors. 
I  should  have  stated  that 
Miss  Stanwood  had  also  excused herself, 
under the plea of  having to write  some let­
ters.  Left to my own reflection.«, I fell into 
a reverie which,  I suppose, must have ended 
in a doze,  for I  was  suddenly  awakened to 
consciousness by the  sound of  voices in the 
adjoining  apartment.  The  evening  was 
somewhat advanced, consequently the noises 
in  the  street  had  almost  entirely  ceased. 
Owing to this  fact, I distinctly heard  every 
word  uttered. 
It  was  the  voice  of  Mr. 
Stanwood’s son, John,  which had awakened 
me.

“Sadie,  listen to me,” he exclaimed,  with 
a peculiar, thick utterance which told plainly 
that  he  had  been  drinking;  “you know I 
love  you.  Yes,  dear girl,  I  adore  the very 
ground  you  walk  on.  Your  beauty is  bo 
great  that  you  appear  more  like  a  fairy 
creature of  the  brain than a human being.” 
“Have done with your  senseless  compli­
ments,  John,”  returned  Sadie.  “ Why do 
you persecute me so ? 
I  have already made 
known my decision. 

It is irrevocable.” 

Dearest  one,  do  not  say th at!  Oh, if 
you  but  knew  how  deeply  your  image is 
engraven upon my heart!  My every thought 
is of  you;  every  pulse  of  my  heart  beats 
for  you,  angel—smile upon m e!”

“John,  you  are  intoxicated!  How dare 

you address me in this manner ?”

Dearest  cousin,  I  adore  you,  and,  by 

Heaven, you shall be m ine!”

“I pity your condition, and I beg,  sir,  you 

will leave me.”

“Never,  my  charming  cousin, until  you 
say  that  you  love  me. 
I  would  sell  my 
soul for one kiss from those  tempting  lips !
I could  sit  all  day  and  gaze  wonderingly 
into  those  glorious  eyes!  Dearest—dar­
ling—be  mine, he mine !”

It was evident the  young man was work­

ing himself  into a passionate  frenzy.

‘Mr.  Stanwood,  unless  you  leave  the 

room I shall call for assistance P  

“No,  you shall not]  It is  true  you  have 
supplanted  me  in  my father’s  love. 
It is 
trfie he has left  you the bulk of his fortune, 
while he has only bestowed a miserable pit­
tance upon  me.  Not content  with  having 
effected this,  you despise  my love—but, by 
the heavens above  us,  you  shall  be mine P 
I could  hear  the  rustling of  drapery, by 
which I knew  that  Sadie  had  risen  from 
her chair, doubtless to ring the bell.

“Sadie,  you shall not escape me,” contin­
ued  the  young  man.  “1  repeat  it,  you 
shall  be  mine!  Dear  girl,  come  to  my 
heart—let me fold  you in my firms.”

A  half-suppressed,  scream  now  reached 
my ears and I  heard  the  infatuated  young 
I   thought  it  was 
man  rush  toward  her. 
high time to interfere. 
I ran to the folding 
doors, threw them wide  open and just saw 
the inebriate seize  the  shrinking girl in his 
grasp.  When Imsiiwme* he started hack,
IS!

Jill

a demoniacal  expression  lighted  up his in­
flamed features, while he hurried  from  the 
room, shaking his fist in my face as he made 
his exit. 
I caught  the  fainting  girl in my 
arms  and  carried  her to the sofa.  A little 
water  restored  her to consciousness,  bat  it 
was some time  before I could  make her be­
lieve the danger was past.

I  thought  it  my  duty  to  acquaint  Mr. 
Stanwood with  the whole  transaction, that 
proper  measures  might  be adopted to pre­
vent a recurrence of  the persecution.  John 
Stanwood was forbidden the house.  About 
a week after this occurrence,  I left on a trip 
South  lasting  about  a  month.  The  very 
night I  returned to Detroit, I received a visit 
from a well-known  lawyer,  an  old  school­
mate,  who still kept up  the  boyhood  prac­
tice of  making  me  his  confidant  and  ad­
viser.

“Frank,” said  he,  when  he  entered  the 
hotel,  “I have  been  here a dozen  times  to 
see  you to-day.  Thank God, you  are  here 
at last !”

“Why,  what’s the matter, More ?”
“I am in great trouble  and I want  you to 
help  me out.  You  were  well  acquainted 
with Mr.  Stanwood,  were  you not ?” 

“Certainly. 

I know  him  well—he  is  a 
particular  friend of  mine;  but why do  you 
use the past tense ?”

“Are  you not aware that he is dead ?” 
Is it possible ?”
“Dead ! 
“Yes,  he died  yesterday.”
“Is there  any suspicion  connected  with 

his death ?”

“None at all;  he has been ailing for some 
time.  He died of  disease of  the  heart.  A 
post mortem examination  has  settled  that 
question  satisfactorily.  You  are  aware, 
perhaps, that I am his lawyer,  and  you also 
know the terms on which  he  lived with his 
son.  About  three  months  ago, Mr.  Stan­
wood  sent  for  me  to make his will.  As I 
said, he has been in failing health  for some 
time past and did not  know  how  soon  he 
might be called  away  from  earth. 
I drew 
up his will as requested.  By its provisions, 
his niece was made his heiress, a small pen­
sion,  only,  being  left  to his son.  This will 
was properly  signed and attested.”

“Excuse me for interrupting  you,” said I, 
“but was John  Stanwood  cognizant of  the 
provisions  of  his father’s will ?”

“Not that I am aware of ;  but,  now  you 
mention  it,  I  distinctly  remember  at  the 
time of  witnessing it a sudden rustling was 
heard  at  one  end of  the  room  and 'a door 
was heard to close,  but no notice was taken 
of  the circumstance at the time.”

“Exactly;  that must have been the young 
man  listening,  for I have  reason  to  know 
that  he  was  aware  of  the  contents of  the 
will.”

And I then related the conversation I had 
overheard  between  Sadie  and  John  Stan­
wood.

“This maybe very important,” said More, 
as  soon  as I had  concluded;  “but  let  me 
finish  what I have to say.  The  will  was 
confided to my care. 
I put it in an envelope 
and  locked  it  in  my  private  desk.  The 
moment  I  learned  of  his  death, I opened 
the desk and took out the envelope in which 
had  placed  the will.  Judge of  my con­
sternation when I found it contained  only a 
blank sheet of  paper !”

A blank  sheet  of  paper !  The will has 

been  stolen, then ?”

Yes.  When I made the discovery I was 
I could  neither 
completely thunderstruck. 
speak nor act. 
I sank into my chair utterly 
prostrated.  After  a little, I recovered  my 
faculties and then began tô turn  over in my 
mind  the  best  course  to  pursue. 
For­
tunately,  I was  alone.”

“Do  you suspect no one ?”
“I don’t  know  whom  to suspect.  But, 
from  what  you  have  told  me,  it  is  very 
probable  that  John  Stanwood  has  some­
thing  to  do  with  it.  But it is utterly im­
possible that he could have gained access to 
my private office and desk.”

“How  many clerks  have  you?”  I asked. 
“I have three, and they all enjoy my most 
implicit confidence. 
In the first place, none 
of  them  knew  the  will  was  there.  They 
have been  with  me  many years, and I can 
not  entertain  the  slightest  suspicion  of 
them.  Long  intercourse  with  the  world 
has taught me, however,  to  be  cautious,  so 
I have not mentioned  the  will  to  them  at 
all. 
I  closed  and  locked  my  desk  again 
and went about my business as usual.”

“You did quite right.  Did the  desk bear 
any evidence of  having been  looked  into ?” 
Not  the  least  in  the world.  Whoever 
entered it must  have  possessed a duplicate 
key.”

“And  you have had  no  reason to suspect 

your clerks since?”

“No;  when they entered I watched  them 
narrowly,  but  I could  not  detect  any evi­
dence  of  guilt  in  their  manner. 
I  then 
thought of  you  and  determined to ask your 
I knew to oblige  me 
help  iu  the  matter. 
you would be glad  to  give it. 
I have eaten 
nothing  since I discovered  the  loss,  and I 
am most miserable*” 

“More,” said I,  “I  shall be in  town for a 
week.  Leave the matter  in  my hands  for 
two days. 
I will pl?y detective  and do my 
best to help  you.”

More took  Ms  leave. 

I then  threw  my­
self  back in my chair and tortured my mind 
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for some means to find the missing will. 
I  
formed a dozen different plans  but was at a  
loss to know  which to adopt.  While I  was 
thus engaged, my eye fell  upon a copy of a  
daily  paper. 
I  mechanically picked  it  up 
without,  however,  intending to read it.  My 
eyes  rested  upon  a . column  of  advertise^ 
ments.  Suddenly,  they were arrested by the 
following,  under  the  heading  of  “Persoo- 
als

A strong will will do it.  Eight  to-night 

Love and  joy will be there.

I  started from my chair like one bereft of 
his senses.  A  feeling  which  I  can  never 
explain  told  me  that  I  had  found a clue* 
The advertisement  appeared  to me as plain 
as daylight. 
“A strong  w i l l   will  do  it” 
evidently referred to the missing document* 
“Eight” was the  time  appointed  for a renr-: 
dezvous. 
“Love  and  joy  will  be  there”" 
meant  that  the  place of  meeting would be 
Lovejoy’s saloon.

I was very much pleased with this discov­
ery. 
In all probability,  John Stanwood had 
bribed one of  More’s clerks.  My mind was- 
immediately  made  up  as to what to do. 
I. 
would be present at the interview.

I  watched  the  clock  until  the  hour ar­
rived.  How  slowly the  time  passed!  A t 
last  the  hands  pointed to half-past  seven.
I put on  my overcoat  and  departed on my 
errand. 
I soon reached the saloon and en­
tered  one  of  the  private  rooms.  These 
rooms were divided only by a thin partition,, 
so that,  by careful attention, one might over­
hear  a conversation  carried  on  in  the  ad­
joining apartments. 
I ordered some lemon­
ade, and while slowly drinking kept my ears, 
open.  At  last, I  heard a person  enter  the 
room on  my right.  Presently, the first was 
joined  by  a second. 
I  crept  cautiously to 
the partition  and  placed  my ear  against it.
“Mr.  Stanwood,” exclaimed  a  voice,  “1 

am glad to see  you!”

“And  I  assure  you,  Simes,  I  am  more- 
I saw  the  advertise­

pleased  to  see  you. 
ment and am here in consequence.”

I  knew  Simes  was  More’s  confidential 
clerk.  The other speaker was  John  Stan­
wood.

“Yes,  I  worded  it  as  agreed. 

It  was.. 

necessary to make it blind.”

“ When did  you get the will ?”
“Only  yesterday,  and  it  was  only  b y  

chance that I got the key. ”

“Do  you think he has discovered the loss* 

yet?”

“Oh,  no, I am certain he  has not.”
“Well,  then,  to business,” said Stanwood;, 

“How much do you want for the will ?”

“It is a  very valuable  paper,  Mr.  Stan­
“I  suppose  you- 

wood,” replied the clerk. 
know its provisions ?”

“Oh,  yes.  But come—what  am 1 to give 

you ?”

spot.”

“Yon  shall  give  me  your  note of  hand 
for $5,000, payable when  you  get the prop­
erty.”

“Agreed!  Here, I will  write  it  on  the 

I could hear them arranging some papers.
I left the  apartment  and  crept  noiselessly 
to the door of  their room.  I peered through 
the key-hole,  and  saw  Stanwood in the act 
of  writing  a  promissory  note.  The  clerk 
then drew out the will  and  gave it to Stan­
wood.  The latter  eagerly seized it,  a smile 
of  gratification overspreading  his  features.
“Now,”  said  he,  “my  fair  cousin,  you; 
are  in  my  power,  and,  by heavens,  I will 
teach  you  to  love  me.  You  are a beggar- 
now and I am wealthy. 
I will see if  I can­
not buy  your smiles.  To  the  fire,  then, I 
commit the only  thing between  me and my 
property!”

So saying,  he  picked  up the will to com­
mit it to the tender  mercies of  a convenient 
gas  jet,  but at that moment I burst into the 
room and snatched the paper from his grasp. 
My movement was so quick he had  no time 
to arrest it.

“Stop !”  I exclaimed.  “ Your  villainy is 

not  yet  accomplished!”

The clerk rushed from  the  room and has 
not since been heard of.  Stanwood was not 
molested,  as he was  unable  to  do any fur­
ther harm.  More was very much  surprised 
when I returned  him  the  paper,  but,  as I  
cautioned  him  to  say  nothing  about  the 
theft, Sadie  Stanwood  does  not  know,  to 
this day,  how near she came to being  disio.- 
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$50,000  in  digging  before  July  21,  1888» 
and not a shovelful of dirt  has been moved 4; 
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 30.  1888.

K |fi|fM I?E R I-y iN G   INFLUENCES. 
iplySPhe  shams  and  pretenses in which pro- 
4»Javery  governments  of  Brazil  have  been 
|f  lndiUging  for  the  last twenty years in the 
f la t t e r  of  abolishing  negro  slavery seem at 
rfjllMt to have come to an end.  An anti-slavery 
SnajOTity  controls  both  branches of  the na- 
l $nnai Parliament, and a law  for immediate 
ifotsotition  has  been  passed  by both.  Ever 
since 1871, the Emperor has been laboring to 
?;«eetue this result.  Now, in  his  absence in 
Europe, his daughter and heiress,  the Prin­
cess Begent, seems to have succeeded where 
he failed.  Practically, she dismissed  from 
/'-office a ministry which would not bring in a 
. law  for  the  immediate  emancipation  of 
l,the slaves, and then  called  into  power the 
l/jministry which carried  the  measure.  The 
/Situation in the Parliament  seems  to  have 
/ been that the pronounced  friends  and  ene- 
I tnies of emancipation  were  both without a 
majority. 
It was the  influence  of  the Re­
gent  over  the  middle party which secured 
:th e  success.

The  Princess  Isabella, although of  reac­
tionary  opinions  in  matters  of  religion, 
is a woman of  great humanity as well as of 
r  great ability.  Her  success  in  this  matter 
|  must  give  the  liveliest  satisfaction to her 
father—the noblest living man who wears a 
r enown. 
It also is of good omen for her own 
£ reign, as it puts an end to a source of  polit- 
iie a l division and social  friction  within  the 
'  Empire.
'r  ' One  effect  of  the  news  was  to send up 
prices in the coffee market.  With  our own 
*  -experience  before  them  as  to  the  greater 
;/ -cheapness  and  economy of  free  labor, the 
New Yorkers who deal in coffee are yet dis- 
trustful of the effect of the law on  the pro- 
-duction  of  this  crop. 
It  is  in  the coffee,
- sugar and  cotton  district of  Brazil  that the 
/m illion mid a half  of  enslaved  negroes  are 
:  mostly found, and it is the  planters  of  this 
1 district who have been the head and front of 

the pro-slavery party.

HARD  ON  T H E   PEDDLER. 

f-.-  The  announcement  that  the  B.  M.  A.
proposes to turn  its  attention  to  the  ped- 
:\ dling  nuisance  will  be  welcome  news  to 
1  thousands of  Michigan  merchants who  are 
/  suffering  from  this  pest,  which is rapidly 
'  assuming proportions more formidable than 
.  t$ie plagues of  Egypt. 
If any plan can  be 
lllevised whereby the  peddler  can  be  com- 
/  pelled to contribute his quota to the support 
of the  community,  the  inventor  of  such 
/' plan  Will  surely ¿receive  something  more 
•;  lasting than the customary medal, and  that 
;Sis  the  thanks  of  the  entire  business  fra- 
/tem ity .
/  

If  there is one thing, more  than another, 
which will encourage  the  business  men  in 
4 their fight against this  trade  parasite,  it is 
l  the knowledge  that  the  Supreme Court of 
itiiis  State  stands  firm as a rock in support 
/of  any reasonable  measure  for  the  regula- 
/  tion  of  peddling.  That  tribunal  has  ex- 
Spfwessed itself fully and forcibly on this sub- 
1, ject, taking the position herein outlined: 
ji -  That the regulation of  hawkers  and ped- 
dlers  is  important, if  not  absolutely essen­
tial,  may be  taken  as  established  by  the 
pseoneurring  practice  of  civilized  states. 
They  ¿re  a  class  of  persons  who  travel 
from place  to  place  among  strangers, and 
¡g jjle business may easily be  made a pretense 
p o r,a  convenience to  those  whose  real  pur- 
ipose is theft or fraud.  The  requirement of 
lalicense gives  opportunity for  inquiry into 
flpihtecedents  and  character,  and  the  pay- 
phent of  a fee  affords  some  evidence  that 
the business is not a mere pretense.

-Such  a  position,  concurred  in  by a full 
ijbeneh,  gives  business  men  the  best  of 
p p ^ M is for believing that  the  highest  legal 
^tribunal to which recourse  can  be  had will 
m riably sustain  any fair  measure  which 
%y be adopted  for  the  regulation of  ped- 
,jmd  the  prevention  of  “theft  and 

id.”

BEW ARE  OF TH E   BONUS. 
Hastings  Banner  succeeds  in  con- 
considerable  truth in the  space of 

(/following small paragraph:
As those factories which seek a new loca- 
lon want about as much  in  the  shape of  a 
pbonns  as  their  entire  plant  is worth, it is 
" V to  conclude that  the only way, at least 
IpooSt feasible way, for a town like Hait- 
i to secure  manufacturing  is to have the 
l of aaaeans  in a town  invest in factories 
¿titan mortgages.  Of the  two invest- 
( the fonner pay best.

//The Banner is right  The bonus  plan is 
pgpra&g.  In  the  majority  of cases,  it  is 
itifogally.  Leaving the  legal  phase of 
jp|ii|!ter out of the question, the bonus is 
^d|p9ption of doubtful expediency.  The 
M i erhn is helped into business usually has 
helped frequently thereafter.  What 
to t  the  individual  is  equally trueof 
corporation or  huge  enterprise.  Once 
Ip  it must  be  paid  for  again  in  the 
; iff a fire or fosses in other directions. 
^^s/^n^p!ency of charity is d o s in g  to 
Of  spirit, so the  feeling  of depend- 
___jb y  a corporation on  thp afo»' 
.of-  % bonus  is "too ^ te n ;/fa ta l 

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situation  when it advises its readers to “in­
vest  in  faetories tathar  than  mortgages.” 
As an instance of this policy, The T r a d e s ­
m a n   has  Only  to  refer  to  the  town  of 
Lowell to  satisfyeven  the  most  skeptical 
that a -. judicious  investment' in  manufac­
turing  enterprises  is  vastly more  satisfac­
tory to  local  capitalists than the loaning of 
money on mortgages or the securing of  fac­
tories by means of  bonuses.

TH E   FIRST  STEP.

A  step  in  the right  direction is the  bill 
which  has  passed thè  House  to . create a 
Department  of  Agriculture, with a cabinet 
officer  at  its head.  This  bill removes  the 
Bureau  of  Agriculture  from  the  Interior 
Department,  and  makes it a  department by 
itself.  But  this is only a first step.  There 
is  no good  reason  for  giving this  kind of 
recognition to our  agriculture,  which  does 
not apply equally to  our commerce and  our 
manufactures. 
In the cabinets of European 
countries  there  are  representatives  of the 
great 
industrial  interests,  and  even  of 
forestry in some  cases.  Our  treatment  of 
these  interests as subjects only of  taxation 
and  census  reports  is  unworthy  of  our 
position as the wealthiest and most peaceful 
of  nations.  We give the  fighting  services 
of  the nation two cabinet offices,  where one 
would  be more  than enough—to  our peace­
ful employments a bureau!

There  is  no magic in the  number  seven 
which  now makes up the total of  the Cabi­
net.  Originally  there were  but  three cabi­
net  places;  the other four have  been added 
at various  times as indications of  our needs 
determined.  To make  the seven ten Would 
neither  make an unwieldy Cabinet,  nor de­
tract  from  the symmetry of  the  executive 
offices. 
It would give us a Cabinet more in 
harmony with  the  real life  and  the  actual 
needs  of  the  nation  than that  which  now 
exists.  And it would  put us in the  way of 
elevating  the  character  of  our  legislation 
about the public domain and  the land laws, 
rivers and  harbors, tariff  duties and  subsi­
dies  or other  aid  to  shipping, by throwing 
upon  the new officials the  responsibility of 
obtaining and furnishing authentic informa­
tion on these and the like points.

It is said that the present Administration 
is not desirous of  enlarging  the  Cabinet by 
even  a  single  member.  This may  be  true 
or  not;  but,  if’true, it  only  indicates  how 
far  the ultra-practical theory of  the sphere 
and  the  functions of  government  has  ob­
If  the duties of 
tained control of its head. 
the  government  are  simply those  of 
the 
policeman  and  the  tax-gatherer,  then,  of 
course,  there  is  no  room  for cabinet  min­
isters who represent  the nation’s  industrial 
life.  But  even those  countries which  pro­
fess  to  accept  this  theory  and  to  regard 
wealth and  the industry which creates it as 
a matter of  mere  individual  concern,  man­
age 
to  be  happily  inconsistent  in  this 
matter;  and  so Mr.  Cleveland  can afford to 
be.

The admission  of  General  Joseph  John­
ston to contributory membership in a Phila­
delphia  branch  of  the G. A. K. has  caused 
some discussion,  which has  not  been  con­
ducted in the best spirit by those  who deny 
his eligibility. 
It may be  that the  rules of 
the  Grand  Army  exclude  him.  But  it 
should be remembered that  his  application 
for  membership  was  an  expression  of  a 
right and noble feeling,  which  does not call 
for offensive  references  to  his  past career. 
He was the  ablest  general  of  the  Confed­
eracy after General Lee,  and  was hated cor­
dially  by  Jefferson  Davis.  He  has  not 
shown himself,  like Mr.  Davis,  an unrecon­
structed  rebel,  who  gives  all  his  time to 
keeping  alive  the  bitter  memories  of  the 
past.  His  presence  at  General  Grant’s 
funeral as a chief  mourner is  not  to be for­
gotten  by  General  Grant’s companions  in 
arms.  And if  it is to be  decided  that he is 
technically ineligible  to  contributory mem­
bership, it should be notified to him in terms 
of  honorable regard and esteem.  We quite 
understand  and  fully sympathize  with the 
feeling  which  prompted  the  Philadelphia 
commandery to accept  him,  whether it was 
right  or  wrong in view of  the  rules of  the 
organization.

A Grand Army reunion  on  the  most ex­
tensive scale at Gettysburg  this  summer is 
proposed,  and the  President is to  take part 
in it.  Congress is asked to give $25,000 to­
ward paying  the  expenses  of  soldiers  who 
cannot  come  at  their  own charges.  As a 
diversion  from  the  bitterness  and  excite­
ment of  the political campaign, such a gath­
ering would have its uses.  And, of  course, 
all  the  candidates  for  the  presidency—of 
whom two probably will be Generals of  the 
Union  army  and  members  of  the  Grand 
Army—will  be  invited  to  lay aside  for a 
time the  labors  of  the  canvass  and  show 
themselves  on  that  field. 
It is announced 
that Mr.  Cleveland  will  read Mr. Lincoln’s 
Gettysburg  address  by  way  of  preface  to 
his  own  speech  on  the  occasion.  Let us 
suggest that he do not spoil what the West­
m inster  Review  pronounced “the  greatest 
oration in the English language” by reading 
it in the  usual  mistaken  fashion. 
In  the 
famous expression,  “the government of the 
people, by the people,  and for the  people,” 
by  and fo r  are  emphatic,  but  o f  is  not 
so.  Every government is a government “of 
the people.”  It is  distinctive  of*ours that 
it is a government  “by  the  people  and fo r 
the people.” 

.

N o  city  in  the  State, frith  the ’possible 
exception  of  Grand  Bapids, 
is  growing 
Evidences ottóni 
faster than Kalamazoo. 
1 1
wonted  prosperity  and material  advance­
ment  abound  on  every  StìÈI iM
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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

AMONG T H E  TRADE.

at 107 West Bridge  street.

T. J. Tedman has  opened a harness shop 

rapid  growth of  the plaeçi it is destined to 
Change- 
position it-ñpw óccu]>ies in’the 
tank of .Michigan cities, rated  according to 
population,  / .  "  Æ f )  '  ■ 

Ovid—E.  A.  Scofield,  frho  has  b ee iia 
prominent busidess  man  hère  for  several 
years, has failed for $70,000, having chattel 
mortgaged  the Scofield  Buggy Co. and  the 
Ovid Lumber Co. for that amount.  He has 
also  Sold  his interest in the  Ovid  Harness 
Co.  to J . Y. Retan. 
„ Detroit—Alice  H.  Boot  has  asked  the 
Probate Court for so  much of  the  personal 
property left  by her  late  husband, Charles 
Root, as  she is entitled  to  by law  and  for 
an allowance of  $5,000 a  year  for  the sup­
port of  herself  and minor child.  The estate 
inventories  over  $26,000,  and  consists  of
Byron  A.  Sprague  has  eleven  hands  at  the homestead on West  Fort  street and in­
terests  in  the former firms  of  Root & Bar­
bour and Root & Co,  There  are  no  liabil­
ities,  Mrs.  Root  says,  against  the  assets. 
Besides,  she  has  collected  $23,000  on life 
insurance policies  made in her favor.

D. L. Buss  has engaged  in  the  grocery 
business  at  Leland.  Arthur  Meigs & Co. 
furnished the stock.

A.  W.  Morrison  has  engaged in the gro­
cery business at St. Johns.  Bulkiey, Lemon 
& Hoops furnished the  stock.

work at his door and window screen factory 
on Plainfield avenue.

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Myron Harris  has engaged in the grocery 
business  at  13^ /W est  Division  street. 
Cody,  Ball, Barnhart  & Co.  furnished  the 
stock. 

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The  boilers  for  the  new  factory of  the 
Grand  Bapids  School  Furniture  Co. have 
arrived and  are being put into  place.  The 
engine is expected this week.

Perkins & Hess have placed  on  the  mar­
ket  their platted  addition  of  thirty-eight 
lots  situated  between  Coldbrook  street, 
North avenue and Cedar street.

Horace and  Arthur  Smith have formed a 
copartnership  under  the  style of  Smith & 
Smith  and purchased the  grocery  stock of 
O. W.  Pettit,  at 52 Lyon street.

Mrs.  A. Vander  Maas  has  purchased  of 
Amos  S.  Musselman  &  Co.  the  grocery 
stock  formerly owned  by Kruse & Gleason, 
and has opened for business with  the  same 
at 9 North Coit avenue.

John  Englishman is now  the  proprietor 
of  the  grocery  stock  formerly  owned  by 
Appel & Son, at  614  Canal  street.  He  is 
continuing the business  at  the  same  loca­
tion  under  the  management of  Harry Mul­
berry..

The Wm.  Steele  Packing  and  Provision 
Co. has  just completed  the  construction of 
a storage warehouse,  40x80  feet  in  dimen­
sions,  located on the north side of  the  main 
building,  and a platform,  10x100 in  size,  on 
the east side of  the  same  structure.  Man­
ager  Broad  next  proposes  to  enlarge  his 
smoke  house  to  about  double  its  present 
capacity.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Dundee—E.  C.  (Mrs.  C.  J.)  Kenyon,  the 

grocer,  is dead.

Marion—A.  Flanagan 
foot addition to his store.

is  building  a  22 

Plainwell—Wilson  &  Mann  have  em­

barked in- the lumber business.

Dundee—W. F.  Fry & Co.  succeed  John

B.  Scott in the grocery business.

Saginaw—Stofobe  &  Brenner  succeed

F.  W.  Stobbe in the grocery business.

St.  Louis—N.  F. Van  Scriven  succeeds

C. R.  Holiday in the grocery business.

Yermontville—Asa  Brown  has  sold  his

stock of furniture to C. E.  Hamniond.

Ovid—J. Y. Betan has  bought F.  A. Sco­

field’s interest in the Ovid Harness Co.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Geo.  Cooper,  late  of 

Buffalo, has opened a confectionery store.

Fenton—Chas.  H.  Turner  has  assigned 
his boot and shoe stock to A. Y. Anderson.
Hartford—Osborn  &  Linsenmayer  suc­
ceed C.  L.  Ingram in the furniture business.
Benton  Harbor—Deaner  &  Martin  suc­
ceed Leonard Reist in the grocery business.
Jackson—J. L.  Loeb  has  purchased  the 
furnishing  goods  stock  of  Eggleston  & 
Moore.

Marquette—Fred.  W.  Getting  succeeds 
Boss & Getling in the oyster, fish  and  pro­
duce business.

Casnovia—S. Biteley has leased the I.  H. 
Neff  store,  opposite  the  hotel,  and  will 
shortly put in a general stock.

Marion—P. J. Larson, late  of  Jennings, 
has arranged to build a store which  he  will 
occupy with  a boot and shoe stock.

Marion—Ardis  &  Arndt  are  arranging 
to build a store,  22x80  feet  in  dimensions, 
which they will occupy as a feed  store.

Yermontville — M.  J.  Cunningham  has 
purchased of  E. D.  Lake  the  grocery stock 
formerly owned  by him  and  will  continue 
the business.

Yermontville—E. U.  Stiles  has  sold  his 
interest in the  hardware  stock  of  Stiles & 
Acker to his  partner,  Len. Acker, who'will 
continue the business.

Dimondale—F.  E.  Phinney  has  retired 
from  the  agricultural  implement  firm  of 
North  &  Phinney,  The  business  will  be 
continued by J.  D, North.

Owosso—J. A.  Drake  has  removed from 
Corunna to this  city  and  opened  a harness 
shop in the store formerly occupied bÿ A. T. 
Thomas, at West O wossoi

Owosso—D. Dimmick  &  Son  have  sold 
their  crockery stock  to  Geo. W. Watrous, 
late  of  Coopersville,  but  more. recently  a 
resident of  Ada, who will continue the bus­
iness.  G. L. Dimmick •will  devote  his at­
tention to building nefr residences here.

STRAY  FACTS.

Yicksburg—A. H. Sheldon  succeeds Jos. 

W. McElvain in the hotel business.

Charlotte—R.  H.  Bofin,; >the  hardwood 
lumber dealer, recently lost his iuiil by fire. 
Loss is estimated at  $6,000. 
v  Carson  City-r-F.  A.' BddKhfeilow  &  Co. 
have merged  their general  business  into a 
corporation, under  the  style of  the F. A. 
Rockafellow. Mercantile Co. 
c St, Johns^BjH^ett Bros,* who  have been 
a groce^r store  in  connection with 
haveas8igned to James Conn.

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Detroit—Henry C. Wisner filed  his  final 
account  as  executor  of  the  C.  R. Mabley 
estate on the 23d.  He Showed  that  he had 
received  altogether  $693,085.28 and had on 
hand  $38,800.02.  He  asked  the  court  to 
allow  him  $3,078.86  as  commission,  at  1 
per  cent,  for collecting  and  accounting for 
the personal  estate, and  $5,950 for extraor­
dinary services.  Judge Durfee allowed the 
account, with  the  exception  that  the  item 
for  extraordinary Services  is  cut  down  to 
$2,000,  and  the  item charged as paid Kate 
Mabley upon order of  the  court,  amounting 
to  $1,095.67,  from  which  an  appeal  was 
taken and had not  yet been  heard, was dis­
allowed.

Detroit—Assignee  Thurber  opened  the 
sealed bids for the stock,  fixtures, lease and 
accounts  of  Metcalf  Bros.  &  Co.  on  the 
22d,  when  the  following  bids  were  dis­
closed :  J. K   Hudson,  69X  cents  on  the 
dollar;  H.  B.  Claflin  &  Co.,’ New  York, 
67%  cents;  C.  H. Reilly,  60  cents;  Hugh 
Glenn & Co., New York,  61  cents;  George 
Peck, 53  cents;  James  Metcalf,  father  of 
the  Metcalf  Bros.,  69%  cents;  James  H. 
Maple,  $162,500,  and  Samuel  Bolton, 
$168,000.  Open  bidding  then  started  in 
with fifty-seven bidders and soon  simmered 
down to  Hugh  Glenn & Co., J.  L.  Hudson 
and H. B.  Claflin  &  Co.  Hugh  Glenn  & 
Co.  dropped  out when the bidding  reached 
the  $200,000  notch,  leaving  only Claflin & 
Co.  & J.  L. Hudson in  the  field.  The bid­
ding was spirited  until  Claflin & Co. made 
one  of  $207,500,  when  it  was  knocked 
down to them.  J. L.  Hudson’s last bid was 
$207,000.  As the liabilities are $308,159.90, 
the creditors will probably receive  about 65 
per cent, of  their claims.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Houghton—William  Kuhlman  succeeds 
Jost Junker in the manufacture of  wagons.
Saginaw—Jackson  &  McGregor  succeed 
J. McGregor & Sons  in  the  boiler  making 
business.

Charlotte—Klock  &  Rue,  manufacturers 
of  organs, have dissolved,  O.  C.  Klock con­
tinuing the business.

Saranac—M. M. Ferree  has sold his saw­
mill  to L.  H.  Cooper, who  expects  to  put 
out half  a million  feet  of  lumber  this  sea­
son.

Saginaw—J. J. Kelly  &  Son  have  pur­
chased the Keystone mill at West Bay City, 
and  will  put  the same into commission at 
once.

Summit City—The wooden  bowl  factory 
has  been  shipped to South  Boardman  and 
the building vacated is now used for a shin­
gle factory.

Jonesville—The Jonesville  cotton  mill is 
working off  its last lot of  cotton,  and  will 
close down in a few days, preparatory to re­
moval to Des Moines,  la.

Greenville—The Maxted & Moore foundry 
business  has  had  its  capital  increased by 
Hon.  Henry Watson  and  E. H. Jones,  and 
will be made a plow manufactory.

Lakeside—Hunter,  Tillotson  &  Co.  are 
putting  a  machine into their  mill  to  bale 
shavings.  The  shavings will  be  shipped 
wherever there is a demand for them.  The 
bales will be 30x36 inches in size.

Alpena—The  J. E. Potts  Salt & Lumber 
Co. has overhauled its logging road, putting 
in new ties  and bridges,  and will  probably 
extend  it  to  the Lake  Huron  shore,  with 
Rogers City as the objective point.

Hermansville—The  Wisconsin  Land  & 
Lumber  Co.,  in  which  C. J. L.  Meyer  is 
largely  interested,  is  rebuilding  and  will 
put  in a band  mill to cut  from  80,000  to 
85,000  feet  daily. 
It  is  also  proposed  to 
build  thirty handsome  cottages for  the use 
of employes. 

_____

Bank  Notes.

The  capital  stock  for  the new  national 
bank  at  Saginaw  City  is  nearly  all  sub­
scribed.  The  moving  spirit  is D.  Hardin, 
late of  the  Citizens’ National  Bank.  The 
capital vis  $100,000.  This  will  make  five 
banks  for  Saginaw,  two new  ones within 
a  month.

A thorough  knowledge of  thè inside con­
dition  of  the  Engelmann  estate furnishes 
another instance  of  the  lack of  caution ob- 
èérved by the banks in loaning money when 
thè  borrower  is  reputed  to  be  wealthy. 
While  the man  of  ordinary means  is com­
pelled  to furnish a good  endorser or supply 
collateral of unquestioned value, the man who 
calls  himself  a  millionairess  loaded  down 
with loans  without so much  as a  question. 
Until bankers come to realize that the loans 
of  large operators  must  be scrutinized  just 
as  closely as accommodations  given  small 
borrowers, so  long will  jieavy  losses  have 
to  bè  borne by the  occasional  failure  of 
apibitious men, like Clay and Engelmann. 
//T h e Merchants’ National  Bank of  Battle 
Cfreek  is  expected  to  open  for  business 
about the first Monday focéne.

■Grass la k e  wanteft bqBflpa/jfectory hPdL*
-■I .

i s

B

I

.  Purely Personal.  4'

•  T. B. Smith,' the Wayfand  cheese-maker, 
was in town last week.

Chas.  A.  Brott,  the  Moorland  general 

dealer,  was in town last Tuesday.

'

H. F. Hastings, who  has  been  spending 
a  week or ten  days at Chicago, is expected 
home to-day.

F.  Hamilton,  of  Traverse  City,  was  in 
town  last Friday and Saturday,  leaving for 
home on the latter day, 

Gains W. Perkins, President of the Grand 
Rapids  School  Furniture  Co., is  expected 
back from Pittsburg to-day.

John  G.  Cooper, 

for 
Wm.  Reid,  went to Detroit  Saturday  night 
for a brief  visit with his family.

local  manager 

Chas.  L. Davis has recovered from his re­
cent  attack  of  bilious  fever  and  resumed 
his duties at the  store of  Bunting & Davis.
A. M.  Le Baron,  who has  been  engaged 
in  general  trade  at  Levering  for the past 
five  years,  has  removed  to,  Grand  Rapids 
and  may  conclude  to  locate  here  perma­
nently.

David  Stern, proprietor of  that prince of 
weeklies, the  Am erican  A rtisan,  of  Chi­
cago,  was  in  town  fora  day  or  two  last 
week.  The  only regret  engendered  by his 
visit was that he could  not stay longer.
Npw that Superintendent Smith has closed 
all the base ball  pool  rooms, Les. Freeman 
is considering the idea of  utilizing  his  new 
counter for that  purpose,  forming a copart­
nership with Police Commissioner Hawkins.
L.  F.  Swift, .Treasurer of Swift and Com­
pany,  of  Chicago,  the  largest  slaughterers 
of  beef cattle in the world,  was in town for 
a day last week,  to inspect the branch fresh 
meat  establishment  of  L.  F. Swift  &  Co. 
It was his first visit  to  Grand  Rapids,  and 
he was nr uch pleesed  with  the  appearance 
of  the place.

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED,  ETC.

A dvertisem ents  w ill  be  inserted under th is head fo r 
tw o cents  a   w ord  th e  first  insertion  and  one  cent a 
w ord fo r  each  subsequent  insertion. 
No  advertise­
m ent tak en   fo r  less th a n  25 cents.  Advance paym ent.

FOR  SALE.

220

e g g  

Fo r  

s a l e —l iq u id  

I TOR  SALE—OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  LUMBER  AND 

shingles, an 18 x 21 inch  horizontal  W allen engine 
w ith fly wheel 8 feet diam eter;  boiler  6  feet  diam eter 
by 12 feet long, 109 8 inch  flues,  w ith  heater,  h o t  and 
cold w ater  pum ps.  E verything  com plete  and  ready 
fo r  use.  A barg ain   fo r  som e  one.  E nquire  of  T.  C. 
Broadbent, Box 391. Ovid,  Mfch. 
217*

F o r  s a l e—o n e o f  t h e   b e s t   i h   a c r e   f a r m s in

M ichigan.  Sidewalk  fro m   house to  depot.  W ill 
sell fo r cash  o r  exchange  fo r  a   lum ber  yard  o r any 
sm all business in  a ny good tow n in  M ichigan.  Address 
I. M. Fergnson, Coopersville, Mich. 

o r a t 25 P earl street. 

Fo r   s a l e   o r   e x c h a n g e —160  a c r e   f a r m ,  12a

acres im proved,  good  buildings  and  well,  excel­
len t soil  and  well  w atered,  situated  six  m iles  from  
Pipestone,  M innesota.  Also  house  and  th ree  lots in 
Pipestone.  F arm  is w orth $3,000,  and  o th er  property 
is cheap a t  $1,000.  W ill  tra d e  fo r  stock  of  goods  or 
house and lo t in  any good tow n  in  M ichlgen.  Address 
G. W. W atrous, Ada, Mich. 
215*
p r e s e r v e r ,  b e s t
know n;  no risk  by  using;  sim plest,  m ost  perfect 
and m ost reliable  process  fo r  preserving  eggs;  costs 
one cent a  dozen;  p u t down te n  cent  eggs now and sell 
in th e w inter fo r tw enty cents.  John Giles & Co., Low­
ell, Mich., agents fo r K ent county. 
211-216

th ree lots.  Address Box 527, W hitehall, Mich.  215*

one-quarter of w hat it cost three  years  ago.  Ca­
pacity,  50,000  p er  day.  W ill  tak e p a rt pay in  lum ber. 
G. S. W orm er, 57 W oodbridge St.,  W est,  D etroit, Mieh.
211-217

F OR SALE—STOCK  OF  HARDWARE,  HOUSE  AND 
Fo r   s a l e —a   c o m p l e t e   s a w   m il l   p l a n t   f o r
I/O R   SALE-STOCK  GROCERIES,  ONLY  REASON 
F~~QR  SALE—GOOD  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES 

fo r selling failing health.  E nquire 670 C herry St., 
216*

in one  of th e  faste st  grow ing cities in  Michigan. 
Stock will invoice about $3,500.  Terms, one-half down; 
balance, good  paper.  Brick  store,  established  trad e 
and cheap ren t.  Address  H,  Lock  Box  E, Muskegon, 
Mich. 
216*
FOR  SALE—THE  DRESS  o f   TYPE  n o w   u s e d   o n 
“ The Tradesm an”—600  pounds  of  brevier  and 200 
pounds of  nonpareil.  A  good  b argain  w ill  be  given 
purchaser.
F o r  SALE—a t   a   b a r g a in ,  a   c l e a n   s t o c k   o f
EOR SALE—THE BEST DRUG STORE IN  THE  THRIV- 
F o r   s a l e —a  c l e a n  s t o c k  o f  d r u g s, f ix t u r e s ,

hardw are  and  m ill  supplies.  Address  W ayne 
210-tf

ing  city of  Muskegon.  Terms  easy,  C.  L.  Brun- 
193-tf

etc.,  com plete, on good line  of  railw ay, about 35 
m iles  n o rth  of G rand  Rapids.  No  paints  o r  oils, b u t 
could be  added to   gvod  advantage.  P oor  "health and 
other business  m y  only  reasons  fo r  selling.  No.  116 
232-tf
care Tradesm an office. 
a c r e s,  l o c a t e d

Choate, Agent, E ast Saginaw. 

dage, Muskegon, Mich. 

F o r   s a l e —f r u it   f a r m   o f  

in  Spring  Lake.  Ten  m inutes  w alk  from   post- 
office.  P leasant  place.  Nice  buildings.  W ill  seîl  on 
long tim e or exchange fo r  stock  of  any kind  of  m er­
chandise.  Place is valued a t $3,000, will tak e $2,000 for 
it.  Address S. A. Howey, N orth Muskegon, Mich.  236-tf

1 

W ANTS.

.#.

WANTED—SITUATION  WITH WHOLESALE HOUSE, 

trav elin g  on th e road preferred.  Have  had  ten 
years’ experience  in   générai  trade.  Best acquainted 
w ith boots and shoes, groceries  and  furnishing goods. 
Address  No.  127,  care  M ichigan  Tradesm an,  G raad 
Rapids. 
2l5*

cist by a  m an who  is  also  a  practical  chem ist. 
Best of references furnished.  R. W.  H azeltine, 22 H en­
ry  St., G rand Rapids. 

WANTED—SITUATION  AS  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
WANTED—A FIRST-CLASS  GROCERYMAN  IN  THE 
WANTED—MANAGER.  BY  RELIABLE  BUSINESS 

m ost th riv in g   city  on  Lake  Superior—m arried 
m an  w ith  best  of  references.  Address  “D,”  care 
217*
Tradesman office. 

firm.  W ill  control  stock  of  goods and  handle 
considerable  money.  Salary  $1,800.  References  and 
cash deposit of $500 required.  Call  o r  address,  H. G. 
Loomis, 361 W abash Ave., Chicago, 111.____________216*

ences.  Address lock box No. 37, Midland, Mich. 

WANTED—SITUATION  BY  A  REGISTERED  PHAR- 
WANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  READS 

m acist.  Seven y ears’ experience.  Best o f refer­
233-tf

th is  paper  to  give  th e Sutliff  coupon system  a 
trial.  I t w ill abolish y our pass  books,  do  aw ay  w ith 
all your book-keeping, in  m any instances save you the 
expense of one clerk, will brin g  y our business  down t® 
a   cash basis and  save  you  all  th e  w orry and trouble 
th a t usually go w ith th e pass-book plan.  S tart th e 1st 
of th e m onth w ith th e new  system  and  you  w ill never 
reg ret it.  H aving  two kinds, both  kinds  w ill be  sent 
by  addressing  (m entioning  th is  paper)  J.  H.  Sutliff, 
A lbany, N. Y.  _________________________________ 226-tf
YTTANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT  OUR 
•W  
Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System.  Send for 
sam ples.  E. A. Stowe & Bro., G rand Rapids. 
225-tf

MISCELLANEOUS.

sell “E lectricity in  a  b o ttle.”  Send fo r price  list 
and 20-page circular.  Address N. Van D erw erken, gen­
_____________216*
eral agent, M anchester, Mich. 

■ GENTS  WANTED—LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN  TO 
A g e n t s  w a n t e d   e v e r y w h e r e ,  t h r e e   n e w

articles  ju s t  out.  Big  money.  Exclusive  te rri­
tory.  Inclose  stam p  fo r  particulars.  Samples  of  all 
th re e  35  cents.  Address  S w ineburnj  &  Co., M anufac­
tu rers, LaCrosse, Wis.________________________  
219*

CITY  FLOURING  MILLS  OF  FLINT,  MICH.,  FOR 

sale  a t  a   ra re   bargain.  The m ul is  in  first-class 
order, equipped  w ith th e   la test  im proved m achinery, 
and has a  first-class reputation  fo r  m aking flour,  and 
w ith  every  convenience  fo r  shipping.  Will  be  sold 
cheap fo r cash o r approved paper.  Inquire a t Citizens’ 
N ational Bank, F lint, Mich.______ _____________ 212-215

TRIAL  ORDER  SOLICITED.
We also  manufacture  a  füll 
line  of Sweet  Soods.  W rite 
for quotations and samples.

JA C M   C R iM   G |

Jackson, Mich,

Hi:,  ’ I

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STILL in the RING

ßoilntry  Shocked!

The  reception  which  the  “BILL  NYE”  Cigar 
has been accorded by the American people has sur­
passed  in  cordiality  and  universality  that  of any 
candidate for public favor in the history of the c^aft. 
The great American humorist possesses  a  popular­
ity so marked and wide-spread  that  his  name  has 
become a passport to all American hearts  through­
out  the  length  and  breadth  of the  land;  and the 
“BILL  NYE”  Cigar  which  he  so  kindly  and  even 
proudly sponsored, was no sooner  placed  upon the 
market than it was immediately accepted, by virtue 
of its nomenclature, as the standard 5 cent Cigar of 
America.  Its superior  merits  made  its  reputation 
permanent and lent additional force to the popular­
ity which its title had achieved for it, and it occupies 
to-daya position  in  public  favor  which  no  other 5 
cent Cigar has  ever  been  able  to  attain.  Mindful 
of this fact and knowing the preatige that pure gold 
will sometimes lend to dross, wily and unscrupulous 
manufacturers have fabricated a worthless imitation 
of the “BILL  NYE” Cigar, and  they  have  already 
unblushingly"attempted to foist it  upon  the public, 
whose endorsement they have the effrontery to de­
mand.  These commercial  vampires,  who  suck the 
life blood of honest industry and  blight the healthy 
activity of business energy and experience, have had 
the unparalleled and  unmitigated audacity  to steal 
the name “Bill Nye” and flaunt it  on  Lheir  lying la­
bels.  Like  the  desperate  freebooters  of old,  they 
have hoisted the  black  flag  of  commercial  piracy, 
and  they  scour  the  broad  seas  of  industry  and 
scuttle honest crafts.  They  cannot hope, however, 
with their rotten imitations to  blight  the prospects 
or depreciate the merits of the  “BILL  NYE” Cigar, 
which is so firmly rooted  in  the  popular  apprecia­
tion  that  it  stands  to-day  the  BANNER  FIVE 
CENT  CIGAR  OF  AMERICA.

SOLD  BY

A .  E A T O N   &   C O ,
R M M Í 1 I &

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BUtOK

DIAMOND'

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For  ailf kinds  of  buildings -re­
quiring  a  good  roof  at  less  priced 
than  any other. 

.

Anyone can pn t it on.

R E A D Y   TO  A P P L Y  

R E C E IV E D .

w h e n ;:

Send for circulars and bo< k  of testimonials.

FOR  SALE  BY

H.  M.  REYNOLDS,

Grand Rapids, 

-  Mich

M. EHRET,  Jr,,  &  00,

Sole  M anufacturers,

Chicago and Philadelphia.

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

Neal’s C arriage Paints
GRANITE  FLOOR  PAINTS
ACME  WHITE  LEAD  &  C O LO R   W O RKS

The Great  Invention.  Six  Handsome Shades.  Ready for'use.  DRY  HARD  OVER  NIGHT,  and  are very 

durable.  Give them a  trial, and you will be convinced that it does not pay to mix the paint yourself.

Dry  Color  Makers, Paint  and  Varnish  Manufacturers.

D E T R O I T ,

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CUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT OUT AND TAKE IT TO YOUR DEALER, IT WILL SECURE YOU A PRIZil.

A l f r e d   J .  B r o w n ,

------JOBBER  IN------

FOREIGN,

TROPICAL

AND

CALIFORNIA

RETAIL  GROCERS
W ho wish to  serve their  Customers 
with GOOD COFFEE would do well 
to  avoid  Brands  that  require  the 
support of Gift Schemes, Prize Prom­
ises or Lottery Inducements.

F R U

I T

S

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K

K®m t

Bananas,  Olir  Specialty.
-  MICH.

16 and 18 No. Division St..

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

5ELL-

DILWORTH'S COFFEE,

Which Holds Trade  on  Account of 

Superior  Merit  Alone.

DILWORTH  BROTHERS,  Proprietors,

. 

Im proved  Boasting  Process.. 

Patent  Preservative  Packages.

Uneqnaled  Quality. 
- 
For . Sale  by  all  Jobbers  at  Grand  Rapids,  Detroit* 
PITTSBURGH,  Penn.

Saginaw,  East Saginaw and Bay City.

D ETR O IT  SOAP

DETROIT, 

- 

-  MIOR.,

Manufacturers of the following well-known brands of

T

QUEEN  ANNE, 
TRUE  BLUE, 
MONDAY,

MOTTLED  GERMAN, 

SUPERIOR, 

PHCENIX, 

MICHIGAN, 

CZAR, 

WABASH, 

ROYAL  b a b  
MASCOTTE,
CAMEO,

AND  OTHERS. 

For quotations address

W. G. HAWKINS,

Salesman for Western Michigan,

, 

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rodvention of  the Michi- 
gan Division. T. P. A., convenor in  the parlor 
of the ^iili^ 8  ^ h s e , a t Battle Creek, <% th« 
afternoon ofr May 25.  In the absence of Presi­
dent Noble,  Vice-President Peake presided.

Geo.  F.  Owen,  chairman  of  the  Bailway 
Committee, reported that  little  progress had 
been made during the past year, owing to the 
existence of  the  inter-state  commerce  law. 
The Grand  Trunk system  and T„ A; A. '& N. 
Kailway have resumed the  sale  of  week-end 
tickets, but  no  other line  has  accorded that 
concession.  -  The  report  was  accepted  and 
placed on file. 

* 

'

The C. & W. M. Bailway having  reflected on 
the use of  the  week-end  tickets, C. S. Kelsey 
moved that a statement of the facts in the case 
be  requested  of  the Secretary of the Bailway 
Association of  Michigan.  The  report  was 
adopted.

Reports were also  received  from the  Com­
mittees on Press, legislation. Hotels, Bus and 
Baggage and Employment,  all  of which were 
accepted.

report  of 

the  Secretary-Treasurer 
showed  a  total  membership  of  259.  The re­
sources of  the  Division  are  $223.64  and the 
liabilities  $215.60.  The  report  was  accepted 
and placed on file.

The 

M. J. Matthews moved that the chairman of 
the Board of Directors choose  two  associates 
to  investigate  the  status  of the  Division. 
The motion was adopted.
E. A. Stowe presented the  following resolu­
tion:
_  Roiolved—T h a t this  Division  demand of the 
National Treasurer the immediate remittance 
of the funds misappropriated  by  that officer, 
and that in the event  of  his  failure  to do so 
within twenty  days  suit  be  brought  against 
him by  the  President  and  Secretary  of  this 
Division.
The motion  provoked  considerable  discus­
sion and was finally adopted  with but one dis­
senting vote.

<  ___... -...--..lipffiSrom. Own»»».

liiMorxanj Mnnroe. 

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occremry—E.A- Stowe, Grand Rapids.
TroMiu«r—L. w. Sprague. Greenville.
Executive  Beard—President.  Secretary,  Geo. W. Hnb- 
oard, Flint; W. E. Kelsey. Ionia; Irving F. Clasp, Al­
legan. 
Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse 
City; Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint;  H.  B.  Fargo  Muske- 
ton. 
Comramltte on Legislation—Frank Wells, Lansing; W.
E. Kelsey, Ionia; Neal McMillan, Rockford. 
.Committee  on  Transportation—J.  W.  Milliken, Trav­
erse City; Jno. P. Stanley, Battle Creek;  Wm. Rebec, 
t   East Saginaw. 
Committee on  Insurance—N.  Jt.  Blain,  Lowell;  E.  T.
Bogle, Hastings; O. M. Clement, Cheboygan. 
Committee on Building  and  Loan Associations—F. L. 
Fuller,  Frankfort;  Si E. Parkill,  Owosso;  Will  Em- 
mert, EatonRapids.

Official Organ—Th e Michigan Tradesman.

,

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

Mo. 1—T ra v erse C ity  B . M . A . 
President,Geo. E. Steele ; Secretary, L. Roberts.
President, N. B. Blain; Secretary,Frank T. King.;

í  N o . 2—L o w e ll  B. M . A . 
:■  Mo. 3 —S tu r g is B . M . A . 

President, H. S. Church ¡ Secretary, Wm. Jora.
Mo.  4 —G rand  B a p id s   M .  A . 
President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
Mo.  5 —M u sk e g o n  B .  M . A . 
P resident, H. B. Fargo; Secretary, Wm. Peer.

N o. 6 —A lb a  B . M . A . 

President. F. W. Bloat; Secretary, P. T, Baldwin.
President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N, H. Widger.

Mo. 7—B im o n d a le  B . M . A . 

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

Mo. 8 —E 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. Stebbins.
President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.

N o. IO—H a rb o r S p rin g s B . M . A . 

N o. 1 1 —K in g sle y  B . M . A . 

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

President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon.

Mo. 1 3 —Q u in c y  B . M . A . 

N o . 1 3 —S h er m a n  B . M . A . 

President, H. B. Sturtevant-,  Secretary, W. J. Anstin.

Mo. 1 4—No. M u sk e g o n  B . M . A . 
President, S. A. Howey; Secretary, G. C. Havens.
Mo. 1 5 —B o y n e  C ity  B . M . A . 
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.
Mo. 16—San d B a k e  B . M . A . 
President, J. V. Crandall;  Secretary, W. Rasco.
Mo. 17—P la in  w e ll B . M . A . 
President, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
Mo. 1 8 —O w osso B . M . A . 

President, S. E. Parkill; Secretary, S. Lamfrom.

Mo.  1 9 —A d a  B . M . A . 

President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.

Mo. 3 0 —-N augatuck B . M . A . 

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

T he  W ay  tbe 

F»U«np  Looks

WÊÈ mmm
af tee  amount Of liabilities and how it-Was 
possible  for the  eoinpany to float  so' X ^e|

%

at  Present. 

'  /   " 
The investigating committee appointed by 
the créditera of the  Manistee  Salt  & Lum­
ber Co. employed two expert accountants to 
go  through  the  books of  the  corporation. 
They completed the work on the 23d, when 
they rendered the  committee the  following 
report:

Man istee, May 22,1888.

To  the  Committee  of  the  Creditors  of  the 

Manistee Salt and Lumber Co. ;
Our examination has been  made from the 
organization  of  the  company,  and,  while 
such a mass of figures  could  not be looked 
over  in  detail in  the  comparatively short 
space of  time  allowed us, we have  given it 
enough  searching  investigation  to  satisfy 
ourselves that the report and  the papers we 
now submit for »your inspection, to the best 
of our  judgment  and  belief,  on the  infor­
mation we have been able to get and obtain, 
show  the  condition of  the  Manistee Salt & 
Lumber  Co., on  the  date  of  their  assign­
ment, which was February 29,  1888. 

’

Respectfully,

A. H. Comstock, of  E. Saginaw.
Cha s. A. F olsom,  of  Chicago.

The experts foupd the books straight, and 
in common with the creditors, were amazed

The  investigating committee,  after  con­
sidering  the  situation  thoroughly;  decided 
to  ask the  court to appoint a co-receiver in 
the  person  of  James  Gamble,  formerly a 
well-knojm lumberman and  lawyer of East 
Saginaw  but who has resided for some time 
past in Minnesota.  He is  a  brother-in-law 
of  W.  R. Burt, of  East  Saginaw,  and  is 
recognized as  p  gentleman  of  ability  and 
integrity. 
It  is not  apprehended  that Mr. 
Kitzinger,  the  regular  receiver,  will  offer 
any  objections to this  move on the  part of 
the creditors.

It is the  intention of  the creditors,  as ex­
pressed  by  the  committee,  to close out the 
estate  as soon  as  sales can  be  effected  to 
advantage.  The  property will  be  divided 
into parcels and  sealed bids for each  parcel 
solicited.  The creditors have  an  expert in 
the woods  estimating the value of  the pine 
lands of  the  estate,  but a report from  him 
is not looked  for before about June 10. 
In 
the absence of his report, which may change 
the  situation  very  materially,  it  looks  as 
though  the  creditors  would  be  able  to 
realize about 75 per cent,  from the estate.

Bills payable of the Company...............LIABILITIES.
Real estate, bills payable issued  by Comnanv.................
Endorsement of M.Engelmann & Co. paper.. "  "  ‘'" "  \
real estate notes......... !’
paper

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$127,693.99

Assuming mortgage held by N. Engelmann heirs ’.......................... ..........
Liability on paper of Rothschild & Co  ................. .......................................
”" j iiooo.bb'
Less two notes said not to have been used.............. 
3’i50 93

“  balance due them on account....... ................................ 

.<  C- B- Lewis & Sons’ paper...... 

5,271.38 
Endorsement of W. W. Calkins’ paper
Less one note said not to have been  used . . . . . . . . . . .. . .    ...........................   280,K15.83
Endorsement of Johnson & Gibbs,  paper................  ...........................   *¿44.65
........................................
39,450.00
Less balance due them on account..............................................................
744.75
Endorsement on S. Babcock & Co. paper......................................................
Lessamount Babcock & Co. should pay......................................................
42,693.82
Endorsement on L. S Baker protested note. No. 4,386, due March  6.........
2.500.00
2.500.00
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Sundry accounts payable......  
-apru id.  ......
South Branch Lumber Co.............................................................................
Joseph Baur................  .................................................................................
Friend & Engelmann lands..!!!!!............................................................

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M. A. McCollum  “ 

“  4,605,  “ 
“  ¿511  «.

May 3

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—Miscellaneouspaper'end’orsed by Cb’.'.’.

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!  4f j 68 9?94

Less assets........
Excess of liabilities.

$382,189.33
67,806.35
61,221.66
13,240.00
182,372.79
30,000,00

122,422.61
277,091.1s
30,116.29
38,705.25
139,629.96
5,000.00
1,500.00
21,917.52
32,099.36
8,151.76
2,700.74
10,000.00
47,862,76
$1,474,027.56
1,226,024.37
248,003.19

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Mo. 3 1 —W a y  la n d  B . M . A . 

President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.
Persident, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W.  R.  Clarke.

Mo. 3 3 —G rand  L ed g e  B . M . A . 
Mo. 33—C arson C ity B . M . A . 

Mo. 3 4 —M o rley  B .  M . A .

President, F. A. Rockpiellow; Secretary, C. G. Bailey.
President, J. E. Thurkow;  Secretary, W. H. Richmond.
President, Chas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. D. Pew.
President. S. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.

Mo. 3 6 —G r e e n v ille  K. M . A . 

Mo. 3 5 —P a lo  B . M . A .

N o , 3 7 —D o r r  B . M .  A .

P resident, E. S. B otsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.

Mo. 3 8 —C h eb o y g a n  B . M . A  
President, J.  H. T a ttle;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.

P resident, Wm. Moore;  Secretary, A. J . Cheesebrough.

N o. 3 9 —F r e e p o r t B . M . A .
N o. 3 0 —O cean a B . M . A .
N o . 3 1 —C h a rlo tte B . M . A .

President, A. G. A very;  Secretary, E. S. H oughtaling.

P resident, Thos. J. Green;  Secretary, A. G. Fleury.

N o. 3 3 —C o o p e r sv ille  B . M . A . 

President, G. W. W atrous;  Secretary, J. B. W atson.

N o. 3 3 —C h a r le v o ix  B . M . A . 

P resident,  L.  D.  B artholom ew ;  Secretary, R. W. Kane.

President, H. T. Johnson;  Secretary, P. T. W illiam s.

N o . 3 4 —Saran ac B . M . A .
N o .  3 5 —B e lla ir e   B . M . A .

President, Wm. J. Nixon; S ecretary, C. E. D ensm ore.

Mo. 3 6 —I th a c a  B .  M . A .

P resident, O. F. Jackson;  S ecretary, John  M. Everden.

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

President,  Chas. F. Bock;  S ecretary,  W. F. B axter.

Mo. 3 8 —S c o ttv ille  B .  M . A .

P resident, H. E. Symons; Secretary, D. W. Higgins.

‘N o. 3 9 —B u r r  O ak B . M . A .

P resident, W . S. W ilier; S ecretary,  Ej,W, Sheldon.

Mo. 4 0 —E a to n  R a p id s R . M . A . 
P resident, C. T. H artson; Secretary, Chas. Coiler.
Mo. 4 1 —B r e c k e n r id g e   B . M . A . 

P resident, W. O. W atson; Secretary, C.  E. Scndder.

N o. 4 2 —F r e m o n t B . M . A . 

P resident, Jos. G erber;  S ecretary  C. J. R athbun.

President, G. Á. Estes; Secretary,W . M. Hognes.

N o . 4 3 —T u stin  B . M . A . 

Mb. 4 4 —R e e d  C ity  B . M . A . 

P resident, E. B. M artin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.

N o. 4 5 —H o y tv ille  B . M . A .

P resident, D. E. H allenbeck; Secretary, O. A. H alladay.

P resident, Wm. H utchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould.

N o. 4 6 —L esU e B . M . A .
N o.  4 7 —F lin t  M .  U . 

P resident, G. R. H oyt; Secretary, W ,H . G raham .
Mo. 4 8 —H u b b a rd sto n  B . M . A . 
P resident, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.

Mo. 49—Leroy B.  M. A. 
Mo. 5 0 —M a n iste e  B . M . A . 

P resident,  A. W enzell; Secretary, F rank Smith.
President, A. O. W heeler; S ecretary, J. P.  O’Malley.

Mo. 51—Cedar Springs  B. M.  A. 
P resident, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.
No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A. 

P resident, F rank Phelps; S ecretary, John H. York.

President, C. F. H ankey; Secretary. A. C. Bowman.

P resident, F. D. Vos; Secretary, Wm. Mieras.
No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A.
No. 54—Douglas B. M. A.
No.  55—Peteskey B. M. A.
No. 56—Bangor B. M.  A.
No. 57—Rockford B. M. A.
No. 53—Fife Lake B. M. A.
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.

P resident, N. W, D rake;  Secretary, T. M. H arvey.

P resident, E. H agadom ; Secretary, E. O. Brower.

P resident, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham .

P resident F. S. R aym ond: Secretary, P. S. Swarts.
Mo. 60—South Boardman B. M. A. 
P resident, H. E. H ogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt.

President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, 1. B, Barnes.

No.  61—H artford B. M. A. 
No. 62—East Saginaw M. A. 

P resident, G-. W. M eyer; Secretary, Theo. Kadish.

P resident, Thom as B. D utcher; Secretary, C. B. W aller, j 

,  President,-C. W. R obertson; S ecretary, Wm. H orton. 

P resident, Jas. C raw ford; S ecretary, C. S. Blom._____

No. 63—E vart B, M. A. 
P resident, W. M. Davis; Secretary, C. E. Peli.
No, 64—M errill B. M. A.
No. 65—K alkaska B. M. A.
No. 66—Lansing B. M.  A.
No. 67—W atervliet B. M. A.
P resident. Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J- M. H a ll
Mo. 68—Allegan B. M. A. 

P resident, Fran k  W ells; S ecretary, W, E. G rotty.

P resident, A. E. Calkins;  Secretary, E. T. V anOstrand. j 

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Mo. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. 
P resident, Lym an Clark; Secretary, F. S. W illison.

C. S. Kelsey then made a  personal  explana­
tion in relation to his part in the collection of 
a fund to send the National  T.  P.  A. band, to 
St. Louis, in connection with which  he  intro­
duced the following document.
This certifies  that  the  special  fund of $200, 
subscribed  by  the  merchants  and  business 
houses of Detroit to meet  the  expense of the 
T. P. A. band of Union City to the National T. 
J M ^ ^ v m tto n ,  held  at  St.  Louis on June 
34-27, lnev, which  was not used,  owing  to  the 
failure  of  said  band to  go  and  which  has 
been  under the custody of C.  S. Kelsey,  as a 
special fund, to be used for the same purpose 
at the National  convention at Minneapolis on 
June 24-27,1888,  by  the  consent  of  the sub­
scribers, has our full  and free  consent  to be 
used for the purpose named.
Further,  that  in the  management  and dis­
bursement of such fund,  we  have the fullest 
confidence in the ability and integrity of C. S. 
Kelsey to act in the interest of all parties con­
cerned:
» *» ; Alger,  Smith & Co., 
$25; Allan Sheldon & Co.,  $10;  Walter Buhl & 
Co., $5; Boot, Strong  &  Co.,  $25;  H.AlNew- 
iand &Co., $10; Phelps, Brace & Co., $5; Koths- 
cJ11ld & Bro., $5;  H.  S.  Bobinson  &  Burten- 
^aw .JS ^.K M aU oryC o., $5;  Louis  Blitz  & 
Co., $10; Black Hardware Co., $10; Gray, Tovn- 
ton&Fox,  $5;  John  J.  Bagley  &  Co.,  $10; 
Thorp  Hawley & Co.,  $5; Jas.  E.  Davis & Co., 
$5; D. M. Ferry Co.. $25;  Griswold  House, $10.
As indicating the hands  in  which the funds 
has  been  placed,  Mr.  Kelsey  presented the 
following receipt:

D e t r o it, May 18, 1888. 

R u sse l l A . A l g e r.

Received of C.  S.  Kelsey  two  hundred dol- 
iars,.subject to  Mr.  Kelsey’s1 personal  order, 
or his  order  as  chairman  of  committee, T. 
“ A  
The following resolutions was then adopted: 
Resolved  That  the  thanks  of  this Division 
be extended to C.  S.  Kelsey  for  his efforts in 
raising a fund to send the  T. P. A. band to the 
National convention and  that the fullest eon- 
fidenceofthis  Division  be  expressed  in his 
ability to  properly  disburse  the  funds  as in­
tended by the donors.
The T. P. A. band  of  Union:  City  offered to 
go to the  National convention at Minneapolis 
for  bare  expenses.  The  offer  was  accepted 
with thanks  and  the  President,  Secretary 
and C. S. Kelsey  were  appointed a committee 
to make the necessary arrangements.

Mr Kelsey extended the delegates an invita­
tion to spend the evening at his  house, which 
was accepted with thanks.

Election of officers resulted as follows: 
President—A. F. Peake.
Vice-President—L. J. Allen. 
Secretary-Treasurer—L. M. Mills.
Board of Directors—Geo. F. Owen, L. J. Kos 
ter,  A.  A.  Howard,  S.  E.  Parkill  and W. J 
Richards.

Sargeant-at-Arms—D. G. Crotty.
Chaplain—Rev. Chas. Fluhrer.
Delegates to the National  convention—C. S. 
Kelsey, M. J. Matthews,  Geo.  F.  Owen, E. A. 
Stowe, L. M. Mills, J.  W.  Palmer.  Alternates 
—A. L. Lay, L. J. Allen, Stanley E.  Parkill,  H,
E. Tremayne, J. F.  Hammell, C. W. Gregg.
A  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  retiring 
President Noble, for  his  efforts  in  behalf of 
the  Division;  to  Battle  Creek  post,  for  its 
hearty entertainment; and to L.  M.  Mfiia,  for 
his devoted efforts in behalf of the Division.
of the Division and the meeting adj'ourned.

Th e T r a d e sm a n was made the official organ 

STANDING COMMITTEES.

President  Peake  announces  the  following 

standing committees for the ensuing year:
— ,L®Çi 8 l a t i c- S. Kelsey, Battle Creek; M. J. 
Matthews, Detroit; S. E. Parkill, Owosso!
WJ
Owen,  Grand Rapids; Geo. 
W  Nobie. Buchanan ; J. B. Rue,  Battle Creek.
H otel-J. W. Palmer, Jackson;  J.  B. Evans, 
Grand Rapids;  E.  P.  Grow,  Bay  City;  J   F 
Hammili, Ionia ; W. J, Richards, Union City.  * 
Press—E.  A.  Stowe.  Grand  Rapids;  W. S. 
Gould, Detroit; S. M. Kent, St. Louis 
t Bus and Baggage-C. W. Gregg,  Jackson; C. 
L. Zacharie, Kaiamazoo ; M. B. Field, Lansing.
Grand  Rapids;  Frank 
Mosher, Port Huron; E. A. Reynolds,  Milan.
Employment —A.  LeeLay,  Battle  Creek; 
W.B. Stickney,  Ann  Arbor;  D.  E.  Steams. 
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Grand Rapids. 
Arrangements-Geo.  W.  Noble,  Buchanan; 
J- Koster, Detroit; J. A. Kreag, Detroit. 
Brnanoe—M. J. Matthews,  Detroit; C. S. K6l- ; 

sey, Battle Creek ; J. W. Palmer, Jackson,
Public  Market  W anted  at  the  Sawdust 

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Mo. 70—Nashville B. M. A,
;  P resident, H. M. Lee; S ecretary, W. S. Powers.
Mo. 71—Ashley B.  M. A,
Mo. 72—Edmore B. M. A.
-  No, 73—Belding B. M. A! 

P resident, O sear P. Bills;  S ecretary, F. Rosaerans.

President, J .  F. C artw right;  Secretary. L. Gifford.

P resident, M. N etzorg;  S ecretary,  Geo, E. C intterbnck. 

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President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster.

No. 74—Tecnmseh  B. M. A. 
No. 75—Davison B. M. A.

M anufacturers Seeking Mew Locations. 
Smith Middlings Purifier Co., Jackson. 
Lovell Refrigerator Co., Ionia.
Clapp Shirt Co., Allegan.
David Woodward {plows) Clinton.

F rom  th e Muskegon Business G azette.
At a special meeting of the Association, held 
m the council chamber  on  Tuesday  evening 
a
the  Committee  on  Trade  Interests 
lengthy report upon the subject of a city mar­
ket, referred to them at  a  previous  meeting 
and recommended the following, which, after 
fuU discussion, were unanimously adopted: 
Resolved, That in the opinion of  the  Muske­
gon Business Men’s Association the best inter­
est s of the city and its  increasing  population 
will be promoted  by  the  establishment  of  a 
public city market.  Such market should have 
ample grounds, centrally  located,  with build­
ings sufficient to meet the  needs  of  the  busi­
ness that will there be done, under  such rules 
and regulations as shall advance the interests 
Special Enterprises Wanted. 
of all.
Grist
Mill—Hopkins Station. 
Hopkins Station.
Resolved, That the Council should,  by  an or­
Newspaper—North Muskegon.
dinance, at once limit  and  put  under  control 
Gristmill—Bellevue.
all street peddling,  protecting  thè  legitimate 
Wood working establishment—Quincy. 
interests of the producer  and  tradesman ana 
Hard wood factories—Fife Late.
preventing imposition upon customers.
Tobacco faetorv  vineo-nr nnifnintrla w « »   L «   ” , “ »i«juuposraon upon customers.
pickIe factory’  « i i f i  That a system of inspection  of  all 
food Products put on sale should at once be in-
O aim eS ^ W ay ^a 
BoHer’SlU-Sand I*ke. 
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Brick and  tile  factory and  nursery—South 
from the market.
Infonnal  talk was  had  in  regard to 
holding, regular  meetings  every  two  weeks
Merchants should remember that the cele-  i l l  thenmtter will probably be brought before 

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to te d   “Crt^sent,”  “ White  1 ^ »  to .
Koyal Patent” brands 6T  floor ire., mawt-  Kalkaska  is  bow  lighted by eleetricitv, 
Thomson-Houston  eys-

Haven.’ 

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Gripsack .Brigade.

A.  Eaton &  Co.  have  put  W.  P.  Town­

send back on his old route again.

A.  S. Doak  left  Monday night  for  Coat- 
ieooke,  Quebec, called there  by the  serious 
illness of his mother.

J.  T. Harrington  has  gone  on  the  road 
for S. A.  Welling,  the Jackson  notion  job­
ber,  traveling by wagon.

Herbert  A.  Filler is a widower pro tern., 
his wife  having gone to Detroit  Monday to 
spend a couple of weeks with friends.

Perley W.  Hall has  severed  his  connec­
tion  with  Bulkley,  Lemon  &  Hoops,  and 
contemplates  engaging  with  a  Chicago 
house.

W.  P. Townsend  has  severed  his  con­
nection with  A.  S.  Davis.  A. S. will cover 
the outside  trade of  his  house  himself  for 
the present. 

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Richard  Doran,  of  Detroit,  traveling  in 
Dakota  for  Polk & Co.,  is reported to have 
prevented  a  railway  wreck  by  his  timely 
discovery of  danger and his  prompt  alarm.
J. H. Brown, general Western  represent­
ative for P.  Lorillard & Co., of Jersey City, 
was  in  town  on  Monday.  The  trade  is 
always glad to shake the hand of  an honest 
man.

W.  W.  Gorball,  who  has  been  confined 
to his  home at Traverse  City for  the  past 
ten days with  malarial fever,  has  so far re- 
sovered  his  health as to resume his  duties 
on the road.

Association  Notes.

G. J . Noteware has resigned  the  position of 
Secretary  of  Bellaire  B. M. A., No. 35.  He is 
succeeded by Clark E. Densmore.
J . A.  Sidle, Secretary  of Plainwell B. M. A., 
No.  17, writes  as  follows:  “We  are  moving 
along finely.  We are  in  good  working  order 
and are growing stronger every day.”

Two new charters  have  been  granted to lo­
cal auxiliaries during the past week—No. 74 to 
Tecumseh B. M. A.,  with  eighteen  members, 
and No. 75 to  Davison  B.  M.  A., with twenty-' 
eight members.  South Haven and Kalamazoo 
are also expected to unite with the State body 
before the end of another month.

Many association workers  are  strong in the 
belief that a special  convention  of  the  State 
Association should be  held  in  the  Central or 
Western part of the  State about the middle of 
February.  They  argue  that  the Legislature 
will then be in session and that questions may 
arise between the date of the  Cheboygan con­
vention and that time which may require con­
cert  of  action  in  that  direction.  The  point 
made  seems  to  The  Tr a d e sm a n  to  be  well 
taken.

W ants the  Peddler Curtailed.

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^ ^  Ba st  P a r is, M ay 23,1888.

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B. A. St* we, G rand Bapids :
Deab Sib—I  read an article  in  your last is­
sue about peddlers.  I  favor the plan set forth 
with all my heart and would  like  to  have the 
law on this published, as I  am  troubled  with 
peddlers in my section.  Any way to stop them 
will receive my hearty sui _
% Hoping to hear from others on this  subject. 
I remain, 
-  m——J— ■- 
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Yours truly,
Tbe Tradesman has published the full text 
of the law relating to peddling so  often that it 
is  hardly  necessary to  do  s* at this time, es 
pecially as the substance of thé law was given 
in  last  week’s  paper  in 
the  article  by 
“Country Merchant.”  The subject of restrict­
ing  the  peddler  is  a   growing  one,  and  The 
Tradesman would  like  to hear  from  any of. 
its  readers  who  have  ideas  bearing  on  the 
point at issue.

A. J. Patterson,

The thanks of  T h e Tradesm an are due, 
J. B. Horton, proprietor of the Grand Hiver 
Creamery, at GrandvUle, for a sample pack­
age of  his product, which is superb.

Swift  and  Company  will  open  a  fresh 
meat  depot  at  Cleveland  on June lì. 
It 
will be run  under  the  style of  G. F. Swift 
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The  Glucose  Trust  Broken.

A Buffalo, dispatch, under date of May 19 
conveys the following pleasing intelligence’: 
I he  sugar producers have had a combina- 
t on  which  enabled  them  to  fixanypdce 
they liked for the  commodity.  Amonfthe 
companies interested were the American  o? 
Buffalo;  the Pope,  of  Geneva;^ the  CMc^o 
Sugar  Refinery  and  the  Peoria  R
T u e sl? to S 'e n y Kat £  & 

held ™

Glnnnoo 
rot  ttie  American
Glucose  Co.,  wanted a larger  percentage of

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and  it  ended 
would go into the market and  fell  at  the! 
own  prices.  A cut in prices is expected to
theUTTf>anr   a ?tr?ng  effort is to be  made by 
the  Hamhns to knock  out  the  small  pro­
ducers.  They claim  that* they  can  manu- 
facture more  cheapiy than  the  o t h e r ? S  
can,  therefore, undersell  them.  The  pres­
ent prices are the old ones  and  range  from 
2%  cents  to 5 cents.  Mr.  Hamlin  to-dav
a^ the  glucose  trust had  dis­
solved,  but he did not  see  that  the  public
He  confessed  that
cfl  evil?? g“ ie .t0 . Peoria  with a mechan- 
ical  expert  to  start  up  their works there 
which were burned some weeks ago.  They
Mr1 TrJmrhe™  m  PPeration  by September 
Mr.  Hamlin  is  said  to  be  making  more
°f / i ape sugar than  any man in 
the world, and he has the  largest income of 
any resident  of Buffalo.

Produce  Buyers  Wanted  at Jackson.
The Jackson Patriot of May 26 contained 

the following:

The  butter  market  was  overloaded  yes- 
terdayand  many farmers  were  obliged  to 
take  their  supply home,  they being unable 
to dispose of  it at  any price.  The  need of 
a cold  storage  establishment  and a whole­
sale  purchaser of  butter  and  esrsrs  is  con­
stantly felt in this city. 
“
The Tradesman  is  requested  to  state 
that  Jackson  offers  unexceptional  open­
ings for one or  two  more  produce  buyers, 
especially those  who  understand the hand­
ling of  butter  and  eggs.  Such  an  oppor­
tunity ought not to remain open long.

gg 

To  Get  Rid  of Roaches.

Some  genius  found  that  these  pleasing 
insects can get into a  japanned tin cake box 
with  ease,  but  cannot  scale  the  slippery 
sides  and  get  out  again.  Accordingly he 
steamed  some  cake,  so that its odor would 
attract  the  marauders,  and placed it in the 
box.  Next morning the box was well filled. 
I his  was  repeated  until  the 
supply  of
roaches was exhausted.

EÄT0N  LYON,

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BO O K S

20  and 22  Æonroe St.,  Grand Bapids,  Hieb«

When a dead-beat pays an honest debt, 
And corporations, trusts and cliques 
A chance for robbery forget,

Or shun manipulating tricks,

When men shall learn to trust no more 
And honest work meets not with frowns, 
Millenium will touch the core 
And angels doff their crowns.

Grocers wanting good  cheese  should  or­
der from I. B. Smith & Sooy, proprietors of 
tbe  Wayland  Cheese  Factory,  Wayland, 
Satisfaction  guaranteed. 

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SHOE  DRESSINGS.

Brown’s French,
Bixby’s Royal,

Eclipse Safety Barrel, 
Spanish Gloss, 

Raven Gloss,
Topsey,

Gilt  Edge.
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Sole agents for Chicago Brass Buie Works 

for Stats of Michigan.

'Ri&noid  & SeymoEr,
mroaoFAixi 
' Packing Boxes.
Shipping Case« 
EggGrates, 
A an d ejM eitV ,

eto.

W HOLESALE

Fruits, Seeds, Oysters & Produce,

ALL  KINDS  OF  FIELD  SEEDS  A  SPECIALTY.

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

toes, will be pleased to hear from you.

GEMD  BAPIDS.
26  28,  30  It  32  Ottawa  strait, 
REEDER, PALMER  &  CO,

Wholesale Boots and Shoes.

24   Peaxl  St.,  Grand  Rapids, M et.

STfiTE  ÄGENT8  FOR  LYCOJJip  RUBBER  C0.( 

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T E L E P H O N E  

N O . 9 9 8 .

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DEALERS IN

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NOS.  122 and  124 LOUIS STREET. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

WE CARRY A  STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOB MTT.T.  USE.

MAGIC COFFEE  BOASTER
The  most practical 
hand Roaster  in the 
world.  Thousands in 
TOto^rtn®  satisfac­
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durable and econom- 
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No  grocer 
should  he  without 
one.  Roasts  ooffee 
’ and  pea-nuts to per 
lection.
Send for circulars.

,EoM. S.W«rt,

ISO L oni 8L, 
1, 01^%

CHAS.  A.  C0YE
Horse and Wagon Covers, 

MANUFACTURER OF

Awnings and Tents,

■s and Banners, 

¿led Clothing, 
f ^ e d B a ^  

B e r n ,
ide Ducks,

Wide

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would go on.  He left owg the West Shore 
Road for  Syracuse. 
Bh^fe  fit *
double track road, and  on  erne  track  they 
run  passenger  trains  and  Qn  die  other, 
freights.  Well, that afternoon,  he  sat  in 
the chair  car  dozing.  They were running 
a% a  high  rate  of speed.  Suddenly  they 
slacked  np,  stopped,  then  came  a   crack !
crash !  smash!-----”

“And Jack was killed in the wreck!” 
“No,  sir, no—let  me  finish.  A  freight 
train on the other track had  collided with a 
car carelessly left on a Siding  too  near  the 
main line.  The passenger train had merely 
stopped for water.”

“And Jack?”
“Crazy as a loon!  He  imagined  he was 
killed.  The  shock was  too  much  for  his 
weakened brain.  He  has been in  the Asy­
lum ever since and is a hopeless case.”

Leo. A. Cabo.

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

Rubbers.

Write for fall Prices and Discounts.

G.  R.  MAYHEW,

86 Monroe Street,

GRAND RAPIDS.

JXJ33X>  tfc  OO.,
And Full Line Summer Goods.  ■

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 
J 

1058  CANAL STREET.

PLAGS to secure a thorough 
and useful education is at the 
Gr a n d  Ra p id s  (Mich.) Btrsi-
_ --------------- ,  n ebs Co l l e g e,  write for Coir
lege Journal.  Address, C. G. SWENSBERG.

Grand,  Square  and  Upright  Pianos.

The  Weber  Piano is  recognized  beyond 
controversy as  the  Standard for excellence 
in every particular.  I t 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  pnblie  and the  press, unite in the ver­

dict thatThe  felier Stands Unrivaled.

Sheet  music  and  musical  merchandise. 

Everything in the musical line.

Weber Pianos, 

Fischer Pianos,

Smith Pianos, 

Estey Organs, 

A. B. Ghase Organs,

Hillstrom  Organs,

JULIUS A. J. FRIEDRICH,

(Successor  to  Friedrich  Bros.)

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

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«.Lon nriTT Roasted Coffee sold at the price either in Packages or in Bulk and storekeepers

^ u f a c & e d  by the Woolson Spice Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale  Grocers.

IMPORTERS  OF

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

“Acme” Herkimer Co. Cheese, Lautz Bros. 

Soaps and Niagara Starch.

Send  for  Cigar  Catalogue  and 
ask for Special  Inside Prices 

on  anything  in  our  line.

MANUFACTURERS!
INFORM  YOURSELVES

Contemplating a Change or Seeking a iAA.«uon

Regarding the  prospects, opportunities  and  advantageous 

situation of

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As a s'ite 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 Little  Bay Du  Noquette, the  finest har- 
aor  of  deepw ater  on  Lake  Michigan,  offers  unparalleled  in­
ducements for  all  kinds  of IRON  afid  WOODWORKING in­
dustries.

For particulars, opportunities for business, plats and maps, 

call on or address

f. w.  McKin n e y ,

Agent Sault  Ste. Marie Land and Improvement Co.,

GLADSTONE,  MIOH.

Lorillard’s  New  ‘‘Smoking  or  Chewing”

Yellow  Jacket  Long  Cut.
SO CENTS per FOUND.

Packed  in  3  oz.,  8  oz.  or  16  oz.  Handsomely  Decorated  Papers.

To be had of all Jobbers at the very low price of

IT  IS  THE

Mildest, Smoothest  Smoke Ever Offered for Less than 30 Cents per Pound.

THOMPSON  &  MACLAY,

IMFOBTERS AND  JOBBERS OF

Note, Hosiery,  Underwear,  M i n t   Hoods,  Etc.,

19 South Ionia Street, 

- 
No  Goods Sold a t R etail. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

-  Telephone 678,

BARLOW BROS.

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ONE  MAN’S  FATE.

fo r Thk  Tbadksxan.

thought 

p ^  W hat building is that ?”
I  ** That is the State Asylum.”
¿ ' “ Thanks—I  
iso.”  And  the 
«peaker  went  to  the  rear  of the  ear  and 
Rooked back until a curve' hid  the' building 
‘from his view.  He  was a tall, fine-looking 
fn«nt  and  he  looked  sad  as he came back 
«nd sat down  by the  side  of the  person to 
wrhom he had spoken.

“ I  thought  I  recognized  that  building, 
Although  I  never  have  been  there,  from 
descriptions I  have  heard of  it.  There is a 
friend of mine in it, and I  regret not having 
«ftp* to go and see the poor  fellow.”

‘‘Are  you a traveling man ?”
«Y es,  I  am  a .so-called  peregrinating 

Ucpostle of commerce.  Are  you ?”
X  «Yes, sir—hardware.  What line are you 
la ? ”

“Clolh—Boston.  Make  six  states  and 

; 

“ Australia!  Whew I  That’s  a  wide 

Australia.”

lump.”

“ Yes, our territory is badly scattered.” 

jr  “ How far are  you  going VI 

“ Chicago.”
“ Here, too;  so, if  you  wish, I’ll tell  you 
«bout  that  friend of mine in the Asylum.”
|   “Indeed, I’d like to hear the story, only I 
felt a little backward in  asking, not  know­
ing how  you’d take it.”

“Oh, it’s no secret.  Do  you smoke ?”
“Yes, thanks.”  And,  lighting  their  ci­
gars and stretching themselves out comfort­
ably, the tall man began his story.
“ Seven  years  ago,  John  Haldiman— 
'‘Jack,’ we all  called him—was  traveling in
■  this State and Ohio for the house I am with.
His  home  was  in  Kalamazoo.  He had a 
beautiful wife, a nice  little  boy and a good
;  home.  He  was  of  rather a  quiet, retiring 
nature,  much  given  to  what is called ‘the 
blues,’ and  one of  those  unfortunate  mor­
tals who take every little care of life twice— 
¡before  it  comes  and  at  the time—kind of 
'^¿crossing the river  twice,  as  one might say.
’fie  was  making a good  salary  and, being 
^economical, 
saved  a  fair  competence. 
Never drank a drop in  his  life  and  didn’t 
■' smoke  or  chew.  He  had  lots  of  good 
friends  and, generally speaking, was above
■ the average.  But  he  had a fault.  He was 
very superstitious  and  believed in dreams.
H e  had,a dream  that  he  called his ‘fate.
It seems that he thought  he  stood in a bar­
room and was talking to a man  standing at 
atjxe bar.  Well, they  would  get  into a dis­
pute, Jack would  strike the fellow,  and the
mm  drawing a revolver, Jack  would  turn 
to run, and as  he  passed  the  threshold of 
Jthe door the man wouldshoot!  Jack could 
/near  the  crack of  the  pistol  and  feel the 
•sting of  the ball as it entered his back.  He 
-always fell across  the  door-way.  Now, he 
had this dream  at  stated  periods,  and  he 
*ulauned that every time he had it something 
t happened  to  him  or  to  his  family.  The 
«¡curious part of the dream was that, although 
»fa «very detail it was always  the  same,  he 
■never  saw  the  man’s  face.  Well, 
this 
»dream  worried  him  a  good  deal,  and  he 
once  told  me  that  he  expected that some 
«•day he  would  be  killed  in  just that way. 
•Didn’t  have  an  enemy that  he  knew  of. 
“ Then,  again,  he  used  to  be  watching for 
signs  and  omens. 
If  he  found  a  knife 
¡somewhere, he would dispose of it at once—
4t   would cut his luck.  Never  ate liver for 
Tear it would change his luck. 
If  he met a 
-cross-eyed man, he would turn and go back 
«  block  or  two.  Just  full  of  such  queer 
notions.  Five  years ago, he was in a wreck 
4n Iowa.  Gut  visiting  his folks.  He had 
ibis dream the night  before  and  afterward 
t  ¡told me that he bought a ten  thousand acci- 
«dent.policy just because of  the dream.  He 
{felt  confident something was  going to hap- 
ipen tohim.  Well, sir,  six  cars  went  into 
^¡he ditch.  Cars were crushed into kindling 
Irons twisted into every conceivable 
'wood. 
re lie v e  ten  were  killed  and any 
shape, 
"number wounded  and  bruised. 
In the ear 
Jack was in were four men,  a woman and a 
-child.  Every  one  in   that  car  was  killed 
f e   Jm tJack, and he had not  even a scratch to 
A  show!  It was a terrible  experience to pass 
-  .  through and must have been an awful shock 
to   his  nerves.  Within  a  year  from  that 
l   «time, Jack was riding on the F. & P. M., in 
th is   State,  and  between  two  stations—he 
I p   was alone in the smoker—he felt something 
f,  : 
In a 
: isnoment he was on his  feet, pulled the bell- 
cord  and  stopped the  train.  On examina- 
> '  tton by the trainmen, it was  found  that the 
W: Jbmke-chain  had  broken and it was digging 
tato   the  ground, rebounding  and  striking 
4 be car bottom.  Twenty rods  from  where 
- ¿they stopped was a long  trestle.  Had they 
B 5 A*4ed  to  cross  this,  with  the condition  of 
i ■?  Things,  ninety-nine  chances  out of ahua- 
f-.  1  «died they would  have  gone  into the river 
[¿C  Narrow  escape, indeed!  Jack had had his 
dream  the night before!  He,  had a run of 
fever after this escape and went back on the 
road  badly  shattered  in  health.  He  told 
•¿several  of  his  friends 
that  he  had  had 
i4wo warnings  and  that  the  next would be 
4he  foiwi  and  last.  He made bis will and 
became more morose than eyer.  Two  years 
‘«¡g«'he  left  home  for  Boston to make ar­
rangements to quit  the  road.  He got  into 
^ |^:A ^g ^eep ra at Detroit, and in the morning I 
“  "  .  ¿uAhim at Buffalo.  There  t $ vtbgd me, in 
> 
to a  Question Ag io  his  bad  appear­
ance, th a t he Khd  had  Ms dream the night 
H ^low nf  the  end  was nigh—he

ja r and strike  the  bottom of  Vie car. 

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«^ in -^ iu i such talk. 

I did a lii could

L.  WINTERNITZ,  Resident Agent,

R p s  8. MlMLMRN l ßo,

W holesale  Grocers,

21 & 23  SOUTH  IONIA  ST.

GRAND  RAPIDS, MIOH.

R IM , BERTSCH & CO.,
OOTS  AND  SHOES.
BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

AGENTS FOR THE

14 and 16 Pearl Street, 

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS
Hosiery, Carpets, Etc.

-  Grand Rapids, Mich

THE  FAVORITE  BEAM

W ith  Grocers.

W .  C.  DENISON,

Stationary  and  Portable  Engines  and  Boilers

GENERAL  DEALER  IN

Orders from Retail Trade Solicited.

Newaygo Roller Mills

NEWAYGO,  MICH.

GEO. E. HOWES.

S.  A. HOWES.

C. N. RAPP.

GEO.  E.  HOWES  &  00,

JO BBER S I N

V e r tic a l, Horizontal, Hoisting  and Marine Engines.  Steam Pumps, Blowers had E**

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V A K '/“ïiV   HtEV‘^ SÎiS 

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visions of  the numerous  greenbacks  which 
he has,  on  sunteypeeasiou, exchanged  for 
th e S eating vote” of  his  district ought  to 
rise  before  him. •  But,  in  some, or  all  of 
these  cases, it is  hardy  possible  that  the 
parties  would  not, even to themselves, ad­
mit their inconsistency.

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In, as 1 trust  and  believe, a very  kindly, 
charitable and missionary spirit, I  am going 
to call the attention of Smith, Brown, Jones 
and  Robinson  to  sundry  little  inconsist­
encies  of 
their  own,  and  assure  the 
quartette  that,  should  they see  proper  to 
ventilate, severally or collectively, the short­
comings of myself,  in a like publie manner, 
I shall  have  no  serious  grounds  for  com­
plaint.  Now,  Smith is a dealer  in  various 
mercantile commodities,  and, on the whole, 
is a  person  for  whom I have  considerable 
regard;  but before he  delivers  me  another 
lecture on sponges  and  attacks sundry fel­
low-citizens  for  alleged  penuriousness,  I 
would like to have him discontinue his daily 
practice of monopolizing my morning paper 
for a half-hoar  or  more  before I can  get a 
look at it, and also like to have  him* return 
several  valued  books  which  I  lent  him 
some  time  in  the  dim  past.  Brown is a 
well-to-do  farmer,  and if  he, at  any  time, 
wanted  a  considerable  proportion  of  my 
stock on credit, I should be  glad to let  him 
carry it off, but if  Brown will  go  up  to my

y&ird  andehink up a eouple of  cords of air­
holes in the wood p ileh esb ld  me last win* 
ter, and  then  carry away tee  jar of  rancid 
laid  I purchased  of  him  and  bring  back 
some  that  is  less venerable to replace it, I 
will  listen  with  much  mere equanimity to 
his chronic insinuations that all dealers and 
middlemen could not be honest if they tried 
to  be.  T  have  introduced  Jones  to  the 
reader before, and the reader may have, per­
haps, noticed  that I  really like tee  old  fel­
low, but that doesn’t prevent me from seeing 
his  inconsistency  in  eternally  denouncing 
base  ball,  boat  racing  and  all  the other 
amusements and pastimes that fascinate the 
younger generations, when he  will  himself 
become  almost  insane  over a  closely  con­
tested  horse  race.  Robinson’s great hobby 
is the  want of  purity in  our  political  sys­
tem,  and he really argues  the  dangers that 
menace us. from this evil  in a very effective 
and convincing manner;  but Robinson’s elo­
quence  is  nearly wasted  on me,  because I 
know that he would vote  for  th« vilest ras­
cal unhung and for the most noted idiot of his 
locality,  rather  than  scratch  his  party 
ticket.

There, Messrs.  Smith,  Brown,  Jones and 
Robinson,  is a mere glimpse at your various 
inconsistencies, but  even  that  ought to be 
sufficient  to  induce  you to let  your  neigh­
bor’s  “motes” alone until  you have made an 
honest effort to  remedy  your  own  defects.

Wholesale  Grocers,

HANDLE  EVERYTHING  IN  THE  PROVISION LINE.

Pork, Beef, Lard, Hams, Shoul­
ders,  Bacon,  Sausage,  Pigs’ 
Feet,  Canned  Beef,  Lunch 
Tongue, Potted  Ham, etc.

cftOM WATER! •

PUTNAM  & BBOOKS,

WHOLESALE  MANUFACTURERS OF

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

v5t.  . 
'< I  Written for Thx Tradesman.

BY A  COXJNTBY  MERCHANT.

The man who discovered the  beam in his 
•  own eye before detecting  the  mote  in  that 
of his neighbor may possibly  exist, but you 
and L after  a  careful  and  comprehensive 
survey of the past  ap|d  present, can,  by no 
effort  of  memory,  Call  to  mind  that we 
were  ever  introduced  to  him. 
I  have a 
:  theory, satisfactory to  myself,  at leash ex­
planatory of the reasons why we have never 
had the opportunity of meeting this individ­
ual, hut, as theorizing  on  abstruse subjects 
is  usually very uninteresting to the average 
reader,  I had, perhaps, better wait for some 
favorable opportunity for a verbal  infliction 
of my ideas.  But  the  singular  mental ob­
tuseness which  allows  a  vast  majority of 
us to overlook our  own  faults  and defects, 
while those of  the  people  with  whom we 
t  come in contact  are  unendingly  obtruding 
themselves upon us, is a  matter  which can 
afford any thinking  man  a  vast amount of 
food for reflection.  And the assimilation of. 
this  food,  by  any thinking  man,  ought to 
prove more than passingly  beneficial.  Par­
taken of  liberally, it might have  a  healing 
effect on  numerous  diseases incident to the 
church, the bar and the legislative assembly. 
It might have a wonderful sedative effect on 
domestic  discords  and community  conten­
tions.  I t might quiet the ebullitions  of po­
litical .campaigns, and it might even  subdue 
the inflamation  which  produces  the casus 
belli  of  nations.  And  even  if  it  should 
have no better effect than restoring you and 
me and some of our business competitors  to 
a mental equilibrium,  it is no less an essen­
tially important article for mental digestion. 

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And  Heavy Jobbers  In

Oranges,  Lemons,
Dates,  Figs,  Citrons,  Priinells,  Etc.

B A N A N A S ,  N U T S ,

PRICES  QUOTED  AND  CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

13,  15,  17 South Ionia Street, 
13,  15,  17 Railroad Place

GRAND  RAPIDS.

NO  MORE  SCHEMES.”

Star  Baking  Powder

SOLD  AT  ACTUAL  VALUE
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H lb Cans  45 per dozen; 
Retail  Scents
K  lb Cans  85 per d o z e n ; ....................................Retail 10 cents
1 lb Cans  1.50 per dozen; 

Retail 20 cents

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•  ,

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Sold only in  cans.

QUALITY GUARANTEED,

Arctic  Mahufactming  Company,

38  and  40  Louis  Street,

G R IP   RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

Very Attractive. 

ple Lot.

F ull Weight, 

F ull Strength.  Order a Sam­

A  recent  conversation  which I had with 
Mr.  Slimmer  convinced  me  that even the 
most devout men are far from being exempt 
from the mote and  beam  failing.  The ex­
preacher recently engaged a new clerk, and, 
on the occasion  mentioned,  I inquired  how 
he liked the young man.

“I can hardly  say  that  I  am  pleased,” 
said Mr. S.;” he has one  habit  that  really 
makes me tired.  He  is  perpetually  sling­
ing out slang phrases and  cant  words,  and 
I ain’t built in the right  way to appreciate it. 
Don’t you forget it, he’s got to quit that hab- 
or quit these  premises.”

“But he’s honest and truthful,  isn’t  he ?” 
“I think  he’s  honest, but,  unfortunately, 
he’s given  to  exaggeration,  which  is  only 
another name  for  lying.  For instance, he 
went down to the river  the  other  morning 
and  came back telling about a fifteen-pound 
pickerel  that got off  his  hook.  Now,  you 
and I know that  there  isn’t a fifteen-pound 
pickerel  in  the  river.  By the  way,  did I 
ever  tell  you  about a singular  fishing  ex­
perience 1 had a couple of  yfears ago ?  No ! 
Well,  one  terribly  dull  day I got  tired of 
waiting for customers,  and borrowed a fish- 
pole, and dug some worms,  and  went down 
to  the  river  for  a  little  change  of  pro­
gramme. 
I  fished  for  probably  an  hour 
/  without a bite,  and  then  I  caught  a  little 
sucker. 
I had  just  got  him  to  the  top of 
the water, when a black bass took him down 
at one  mouthful  and,  while I was working 
to get the bass ashore, a big  pickerel  swal­
lowed him, and I landed  all  three  fish  to­
gether.  The  sucker  weighed a pound, the 
bass  a  little  over  three  pounds,  and  the 
pickerel exactly seventeen poands.  Curious, 
wasn’t it ?” ^

I   didn’t  intimate  to  Slimmer  that  the 
weight of' the three fish had  increased a lit­
tle over twenty per  cent, since I first  heard 
the story.
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I was present once  when a minister, who 
has since  become  somewhat  celebrated  in; 
his line, preached a very eloquent  and argu­
mentative  sermon  on  the  sin of  covetous­
ness.  He depicted the uselessness of money 
~  When compared with other things  and held 
up the  founder of  Christianity as a  model; 
hut at the close of his remarks he announced 
that  he  had  felt  constrained  to  accept  a 
•“call” from another town because of a large 
increase of salary.

Perhaps  the  majority of  us  are  not  cas­
uistic enough to always  discern  the  differ­
ence between hypocrisy  and  mental  blind­
ness  to  personal  defects of  character. 
It 
would hardly seem possible that  Silas Mug­
gins, Esq.,  Police  Justice,  after  spending 
a  convivial night with “the  boys,’’ could so 
1  forcibly and  smoothly  lecture  the  “vags” 
brought  before  him  and so calmly and  de- 
liberately measure out  sentences for an un­
due  indulgence  in  stimulants,  without, at 
t&B.same  time, reflecting  on his own short­
comings. 
It  looks  hardly reasonable  that 
Lawyer McGrab, when he thunders  out de- 
nunciations against parties  who are accused 
.  ofdishGnest transactions, should be entirely 
■oblivious to the fact that his own paper isn’t 
worth  its  weight  in  copper. 
It  woold be 
strange if,  while Dr. Philter is indulging in 
bis  favorite  pastime  of  anathematizing 
-quacks and medical  impostors,  the unpleas­
ant  knowledge  that he is working  under a 
bogus Philadelphia  diploma  should not oc- 
•casionaliy  obtrude  itself  upon  his  mind. 
When Tuher, the  professional  temperance 
apostle, is in the  midst  of one  of his peso 
rations, it is  natural  to  suppose  that  the 
acquired  .would  cause

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DIRECTIONS 

We have cooked the com in this can 
sufficiently.  Should  be  Thoroughly 
Warmed (net cooked) adding  piece ot 
Good Butter (size of hen’s egg) and gUl 
of fresh  milk  (preferable  to  wnter.) 
Season to suit when on the table. None 
genuine unless bearing the signature of

Davenport  Canning  c0<

Davenport, la,

J O B B E R S   IN

DRY  GOODS,
AJNTD 3ST0TI03STS,

8 3   M o n r o ©   S t . ,

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

GRAND  R A PID S,  M ICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feather; 
American and Stark A Bags

M A  Speciali!.

■AND

MUTTON

Gan  be  found at  all  times  in  full  supply  grid at 
popular prices at the branch houses in  all  the larger 
cities and is Retajled_j^y^ll First-Class Butchers.

The trade  of  all marketmen  and meat  dealer© is 
solicited.  Our Wholesale Branch  House, L. F. Swift 
& Go,, located at Grand Rapids, always  has on  hand 
a ftdl supply of our Beef, Mùtton and Provisions, and 
the public  may rest  assured that in  purchasing  our 
meats from dealers they will always receive thè best.

Sw ift  and  Company,
,   B p M  . m  
CHICA&O,  ILL  U

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W 1  S E A R S  &  C O .

Cracker  Manufacturers,

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A M B O Y   C H E E S E   M
37, 39 & 41 K ent  Street.  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
w i o w -a im :  s l i p p e r s .

Send Your Spring Orders to MAYHEW.

Men’s            ..............................................   9 50 | Youth’s and Misses................................... ..6 65
“ 
•*  with soles..................7  50
Boys and women’s ......................................   8 25 | Children’s....................... 
5 go
with soles................................... .6 80

‘  with soles..........................................10 50 
v 
  with soles....................... 9 00| 

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W oonsocket and W ales-Goodyear Rubbers, Boston K nit and Wool Boots.

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TENNIS  SHOES  IN  FIRSTS  AND  SECONDS.

W ,  G - r a n d L   H a p i d s .

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

XTELSON BROS. <& GO,

68  Monroe  Street,

Grand Rapids.

d o   y o u   'S7%r^LJsrrK*

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

HEYMAN  & CO.,

C. C.  BUNTING.

C.  L>.  DAVIS.

BUNTING  &  DAVIS,
Commission  Merchants

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in  Car Lots.

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

MICHIGAN  CIGAR  CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED

“ I V E -   C .   C - ,
¥ TJM,

The Most Popular 10c  cigar,  and

The  Best  Selling  5c  Cigar  in  the  Market. 

Send fo r trial order.

B IG r  IR-A.3PIIDS, 

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BURTI88, DUNTOfl l ANDREWS

Importers and  {iamfMifrers’  Igents,

DEALERS IN

R O O F E R S

Good W ork, Guaranteed for Pive Years, at Pair Prices.

Grand  Rapids

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Manufacturers’ Agents for

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and

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INDIANAPOLIS»  IND.f  U.  S. A.
STEAM EHËiNES & BOILERS
Engines and Boilers In Stock 
tor  Immediate delivery.

:

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

Saws, B elting and  Oils.

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

 and become convinced of their  superiority. 

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The  quotations  given below  are  such  as  are  ordinarily  offered cash  buyers, who pay 
«  *
SWEET  GOODS.X  XTCX
834
834
9 
834 
834 

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V 
Ginger  Snaps....... .734 
Sugar Creams......... .734 
Frosted Creams...*.. 
Graham Crackers.... 
Oatmeal  Crackers.... 

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i DRIED FRUITS—FOREIGN.
22

in  boxes........__24  j
...... 7  @ 734

BAKING  POWDBB. 

CHERSR* 

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'■  Oh, that a man might know  •* 

i—«£a^uffielfcffthat'tlic.aay,wlirenil, 

>«tod-efthis day’s business ere.it cornel. *', 
ygm
—Shakapere's JtüiuaÆœsar.

c^T  ‘ 

,  Thq’^ubove  quotation  from , Sb®bpere’s 
Inmortal  pen  was  suggested  to  me  by a 
yet characteristic, incident 
d|£vtolch ïchançéd to  be a witness  one day 
the  time I  had  no  thought 
o f committing it to-writing, but the  matter 
ta in te d   my  mind  and  showed  to  me  sd 
plaliily  the  alarming  tendency - to  incon- 
stançy  and a dearth  of  plans  and  precau- 
tionsfor the  future  displayed  by ascertain 
d asso f men who make a futile  aim toward 
A successful  business  career,  who  yet  M l 
while  wondering  at  the  reason  therefor, 
Huit  I could  not  resist  the  temptation  to 
commit 'm y .impressions  to  The  Tbadiís- 
Mà»’s readers.
I  The  incident,  as  closely  as I can  relate 
the  circumstances  from  memory,  was  as 
follows :

' 

■BppP.-è-  eon  or  hired  man  of  the  woman 

Standing  in  front of  one of  the  leading 
agricultural implement  and  mill machinery 
Jurases  in  our  bustling  city was a thrifty- J 
appearing farmer’s team  attached to a lum- ' 
frar Wagon, wherein sat, perched  high upon 
the spring-seat,  a woman  about  forty years 
TffiBg *; I   o f age.  Upon  the  sidewalk,  holding  thei 
reins,  stood  a  young  man,  evidently  the 
in 
”  the  wagon.  The  woman  had  an  air 
of  business  and  shrewd  intelligence  un- 
‘ Ÿ ' 
common  to ^the  gentler  sex,  and,  while 
Hggkf'  waiting  for a car, curiosity to hear the con- 
versation prompted me to outwardly gaze on
H |  
the passers-by, the  while  keeping  my ears
n i f  ~ 
wide open.
m'- 
.  When  I   first  came  upon  the scene, the 
lady was  dickering  with  a  member of the 
' aforementioned firm for a  spring-tooth har- 
row  which  lay upon the sidewalk near by. 
“ Ye can’t take no  less  for  it?”  was  the 
first  interrogation  made by the lady in the
wagon.

m m f. 
Hpfe. 
“ N o,  ma’am,” responded  the  gentleman,
H gV  
Wmm- - 
“ that is the  ltts t  we  can  sell them at and
■ g i f   make any prom.  We  have  to  make a liv-
B K gp  *  ing, you know.”
M lgfc 

“Hain’t  ye  got  none  with  iron  on  the 

H k j; 

~  , 

haines ?”

r 

WÊ&* 

have at present.”

“ No, ma’am,  this  is  the  only  kind  we 

♦‘Are  ye sure the teeth  won’t get loose?

The one I  had last  year all come loose an’ I 

*  had to throw it away.”

M ||||p '7  
“ I  can  assure  you,” responded  Mr. H., 
K Ê ê, ^'.  patiently,  “these  can not by any means get 
WÉjjM:_-  ’ 
M g p í 

loose.  We guarantee them.”
“ Kin I take  one on trial ?”
“ Well, we are not  in  the  habit of  doing 
it, but if  ÿou will be careful of  it, you  may 
take one for a  week  and  then, if  not satis- 
factory, we’ll refund the  money.  John,  go 

fiK C  
g g | | l .  ■  and get a sixteen-tooth  harrow.”

When the clerk departed upon his errand, 

the woman said ;
4  “I’ve  got  kindo’ skeery  tradin’ at  new 
places. 
I’ve  been  dealin’ up  yonder,” and 
she  pointed  a  bony  finger  up  the  street, 
“ever since he started in. 
I’ve tried dealin’ 
at  new  groceries, boot an’ shoe  stores,  dry 
goods stores an’ all the  rest.  You’ll buy of 
a  man  along, get  good  goods  and  good 
measure  for a while, an’  finally (you’ll  get 
sold  op  something.  Well-you’ll  let it  go 
for a while,  an’ when  you ^ t   ready to tax 
Mm with cheatin’  you,  you’ll find some one 
xmmin’ the store an’ the  feller  that  cheated 
ye is clerkin’ for someone else.”

My car  came  along just  then  and I had 
to leave,  but  my thoughts  kept  pondering 
the shrewd words that showed the woman’s 
keen insight into the  trickery and deceitful- 
ness of  some  modern  disreputable traders.
It is becoming too common an  occurrence 
for a  young  man,  having  saved  up  a few 
hundred dollars and  becoming  possessed of 
a  small retail business, to overlook the more 
osaential details  thereof  and  imagine  that, 
as older, better  established and moré finan­
cially solid  firms  succeed  and add to their 
ventures  by  sure  accumulations,  without 
any great apparent effort on the part of  the 
owners, he, too, may lead the  life of  appar­
ent ease and outward affluence  concomitant 
to the more  successful, and continue to wax 
rich and opulent the while. 
h  The result of such idle  and  foolish  lack 
of attention  to  business  is  made  only too 
apparent  by the  words  of  the  woman be- 
fore related.

When he first opens  his  store  doors  for 
the  oncoming  rush of  business  he  flatters 
liMsself  is  sure  to  flow through them, his 
»helves are well filled with choice goods and 
to e pages of his  ledger  are  as  white  and 
ápottess as an infant’s life.  For a time, all 
■goes well.  Customers  come'  and  are  se­
cured by  careful  attention  to  their  wants 
and a  strict  personal integrity.  They  pay 
4MSh  and  our young  merchant  is  thereby 
fnabled to keep his shelves  filled  with  the 
latest and choicest  productions of  the man 
afacturer,  meanwhile  adding  monthly  to 

bank account

m

‘  ’Then comes a period of depression.  Bus- 
Jam s is dull all  over  the  country.  Jones, 
Jdfherto a constant  cash  customer,  asks  a 
little credit—he is out of work,Jhe mill has 
«hut  down for a time  and  his  family will 
aterve -jif the merchant does  not  accommo- 
him.  Jones 1ms been a  good customer, 
It Would  be  inconsistent not to do him 
Ihe favor he asks.  The  merchant does not 
ppdak, a t  this  critical juncture, that Jones 
has never placed him underany obligations. 
T h e merchant has sold himfconest goods a t 
honest prices and has worketLand risked his 
’jpircftplttil fáje : the  profits  he  Jus. made, 
r 
« ed it is  granted,;^ OtoersfoUow

g a  even on 
his  losses,  adopts  the  questionable  meth­
ods—perhaps  already planted  asAgeipr in 
Ins.mmd I»y his former  dishonest  employer 
and only awaiting the storms and fostering 
rains of  adversity to spring up and send out 
a  stronger, more deeply-rooted  sprout than 
the  parent  stem—of  'short  weights  and 
cheaper  goods  which  he sells a t a uniform 
price  with  those  superior.  He thinks his 
customers will not detect the  cheat;  and. If 
they do, onaeeountof  their indebtedness to 
him, will  accept  the  new  order of  things 
without a murmur.  But  here  he  is  again 
mistaken.  Perhaps,  through  bis  shrewd­
ness (?-) .hq weathers the storm  and expects 
a new  era of  prosperity to dawn  upon  his 
business.  His  former  customers and cred­
itors  are  once  more in a suitable  financial 
condition to trade where they see fit.  They 
remember the cheats' and  frauds  practiced 
upon  them  when  they were  helpless,  and 
their,  cash,  which,  otherwise, would  have, 
helped to raise their creditor’s business to a 
higher  plane  than  ever  before the depres­
sion, goes  to  swell the  coffers of  the older 
and  more  reliable  traders.  Perhaps  our 
young  merchant  gets  all  that  is due him, 
but the supposition is hardly admissible.  In 
either event, he goes to the wall and,  in the 
not  distant  future, is sold  out  by his own 
creditors  and  is  “clerking  fo r  some  one 
else.”

The  illustration  Thave  here  depicted is 
not  an  uncommon  one.  Could  the  facts 
in many sheriffs’ sales  and  assignments be 
laid open that “He who runs  might  read,” 
we  should  see, in one way or another,  this 
growing  and  ever-present  evil—a  lack  of 
attention  and  forethought 
in  business. 
“Oh,  that a man  might  know  the  end of 
this  day’s  business  ere  it comes!”  Many 
traders, when wishing is futile  because  too 
late,  long  for  an  opportunity  to  retrieve 
their 
standing,  wrecked 
through a lack of  discernment, honesty and 
careful attention to details. 

fortunes  and 

Re l l u f.

The  Grocery  Market.

The spell is broken and the apathy in the 
sugar market has given away to a slight ad­
vance in granulated, with  further  advances 
in prospect.  Just  where  the  advance  will 
stop  is  something of  a  conundrum.  Com 
syrups  are  down 2c. per  gallon,  in  conse­
quence  of  the  temporary  abandonment  of 
of  the sugar trust.  Cheese is down another 
He.  and  the  tendency is  still  downward. 
Currants  have  advanced,  on  account  of 
scarcity,  which is claimed  to  be  caused by 
the  unusual  consumption  of  that  article 
by  the  French  people this  year.  Rice  is 
strong.  Tobaccos  are stationary at present 
but all  authorities  agree that there  will be 
an advance before long, some asserting that 
it will  amount to 4c. per pound by the mid­
dle of  August.  One thing  is  evident,  and 
that  is  that  if  it  were  not for  the large 
stocks  held  by both  retailers and  jobbers, 
the  manufacturers would  force  prices  up 
several  cents per pound.  Rio  coffees  con­
tinue to grow firmer and the  package man­
ufacturers  announced  an  advance  of  He. 
last week.  Light beef is weaker and lower, 
but both pork and lard continue to advance. 
Eggs  have not  been so high at this  time of 
the season for several years, probably owing 
to the fact  that the high  price of  potatoes 
and  beans has  impelled people to eat more 
eggs than usual.

LAMOREAUX&JOHNSTON

W ill  pay  12  cents  per  dozen 
for eggs  this  week, instead of 
11 cents,  as  stated  on the first 
page. 

.

JULIUS  HOUSEMAN. Pres.,

A. it. WATSON, Trea»..
CASH CAPITAL, «200,000.

S. F. AgPINWALL,Secy. 

STEAM  LAUNDRY,

*  45 and 45  K ent Street, 

STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor. 

WE BO ONLY FIRST CLASS WORK AND 

USE NO  CHEMICALS.

§1 Ordgwby bmUI jna expreea promptly attended to.
RAGS, RUBBERS, BONES & METALS 
.  W m . jBruxnmeler,
TINWARE. GLASSWARE  and NOTIONS. 

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TELEFBéNS 640.  "

BOUGHT  BY

JOBBER n s  

£ &

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10c cans...  95 
|3 ilb .f  
140 
1602»  " . . .   190 
Uilb.>*  ...  2 60 
112 oz. “  ...  8 80 
[lib.  <•  ...  4 95 
(234 lb.  , ...1178 
131b.  “  ...13 75 
|41b.  “  ...17 76 
...2220
Acme, 34 ft cans, 3  doz—   75
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2  “  ....  1 50
“  K t  
“  1  “ ____3 00
“ 
l f t  
B u lk .....* ....;...  20
Princess,  34s....................   1 25
its ........* .....  2 00
Is........... . ......3  75
bulk  ............... 
28
dime size.........   85
Arctic, 34 ft cans, 6 doz....  45
75
4  “  .... 
2  **  ....140
2  “  .... 2 40
1  “  ....12 00
Victorian, 1 0> (tall,) 2 doz. 2 00
Diamond,  “bulk,” ...........  15
Bed Star  B> cans 12 doz..  45 
6  “  ..  85 

J4  “ 
J4  “ 
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5  “ 

“  4  “  ..1 50

“  yt  «  « 
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Absolute,  %  lb  cans, 100
cans in case...................11 75
Absolute, 
fl>  cans,  50
cans in case........................10 00
Absolute, 1 fi> cans, 50cans
in case.................................18 75
Telfer’s 34 fi>, cans, 6 doz In
case..................................2 70
Telfer’s % B> cans, 3 doz in
case...... * ..............................2 55
Telfer’s 1 B> cans,  1 doz in
case.....................................  1 50
Early Riser, 34s, 4 doz  ease  45 
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90
“  1 60
Arctic, 4 oz. r’nd $  gross  3 00
"  8 oz.  “ 
............   6 00
“ 
4oz.  oval...........3  40
...........  6  50
“  8 oz.  “ 
“  Pints r’nd...........10 80

y*s. 2  “ 
Is, 1  “ 

BLUING

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BROOMS.

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No. 2 Hurl............................... 2 00
No. 1 Hurl................  ......2  25
No. 2 Carpet............................2 50
No. 1 Carpet............................ 2 75
Parlor Gena...... .................3 00
Common Whisk......................1 00
Fancy  W hisk.........................1 25
Mill.................................,..3  75
Warehouse............................. 3 00
Bunkle Bros’,. Vien. Sweet  22
Premium..  33
Hom-Cocoa  37
Breakfast..  48

CHOCOLATE.
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COCOANUT
Schepps, Is......................... 27
Is and 34s.............28
34s.........................2734
is in tin pails__ 2734
34s 
....2834
Maltby’s, Is.........................2334
Is  and 34s............ 24
34s.........................2434
Manhattan, pails................20
Peerless..............................18
Bulk, pails or barrels. .16@18
Mocha........................... 25@28
Mandating.....................25@26
O G  Java......................24@25
Java.............................. 23@24
Marieabo.......................16@19
CostiRica.....................   @19
Mexican........................  @19
Santos...........................15@18
Rio,  fancy....................18@19
Rio,  prime....................16@17
Rio,  common................14@15
To  ascertain cost of roasted 
coffee, add 34c per S3, for roast­
ing and 15 per cent, for shrink­
age.

COFFEE—GREEN

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COFFEES—PACKAGE.

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CORDAGE.

CRACKERS.

CANNED FISH.

30 lbs 60 fts 100 ftt,
2C%
Lion...............
2134
Lion, in cab...
20%
Dilworth’s—
Magnolia.......
2034
Acme............ 2034 20 % 2034
20>4
G erm an........
21
German, bins.
Arbuckle’s Ariosa
2034.
Avorica
1834
McLaughlin’s X X X X
2034
22
Honey  Bee...2234 22
21
Nox All.........2134 2134
20
Our Bunkum.2034 2034
COFFEES—50 LB. BAGS.
Arbuckle’s Avorica...........1734
“  Quaker City......... 1834
“  Best Rio................ 1934
Prime Marieabo... 2134
60 foot Jute........................110
72 foot J u te .................. ....1 40
4oFootCotton.............. ,....1 50
50 foot Cotton..................... 1 60
60 foot Cotton..................... 1 75
72 foot Cotton.................... .2 00
Kewosha Butter...................7
Seymour Butter..................534
Butter.................................. 534
Family  Butter.....................534
Fancy Butter.......................5
Butter Biscuit.....................634
Boston.........................  
  734
City Soda..............................8
Soda,.....................................534
Sooa Fancy.......................... 5
S.  Oyster..............................534
Picnic.................................. 534
Fancy  Oyster......................5
Clams, 1 S>, Little Neck__ 1 35
Clam Chowder, 3 fl>............ 2 15
Cove Oysters, 1 lb stand.. .1 00 
Cove Oysters, 2 H> stand.. .1 70
Lobsters, 1 fi> picnic...........1  75
Lobsters, 2 lb, picnic.......... 2  65
Lobsters, 1 B> star..............1  95
Lobsters. 2 fi> star..............2  90
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce3 25
Mackerel, 1 fl> stand...........
Mackerel, 2 B> stand...........
Mackerel,3 lb in Mustard. .3 25
Mackerel, 3 B> soused........3 25
Salmon, 1 B> Columbia........2 10
3 50
Salmon, 2 B) 
Salmon, 1 ft Sacramento...1 90 
Salmon, 2 ft 
...2 75
Sardines, domestic Ks......  
7
Sardines, domestic 34s... 10@11 
Sardines,  Mustard  34s...  9@10 
Sardines, imported  &s..l2@13
Sardines, spiced, 34s.......10@12
Trout. 3 lb  brook.............
CANNED FRUITS.
Apples, gallons, stand......2 75
Blackberries, stand..........1 20
Cherries, red; standard......1  60
Cherries,  pitted.........1  85@1 90
Damsons.....................1 25@1 35
Egg Plums, stand.............. 1 50
Gooseberries......................1 65
Grapes...... ........................   95
Green Gages............... .’ 
1 50
Peaches, all yellow, stand.2 65
Peaches,  seconds....... ....2 25
Peaches, pie...............1 60@1 65
Pears........................... 
1 30
Pineapples,...............1 40@2 75
Quinces............................... 1 50
Raspberries, extra......... : .1 50
red............... 1 50
Strawberries........ .1 25@1 40
Whortleberries...... ...1 20
CANNED VEGETABLES. 
Asparagus* Oyster Bay.... 2 00
Beans, Lima, stand........  85
Beans, GreenLimas..  @1 40 
Beans,  String........1  00@1 20
Beans, Stringless, Erie__   90
Beans, Lewis’ Boston B ak.l 60 
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy....
Mom&’ry J  15
Early Gold.l 15
Peas,  French..................... 1 60
Peas, extra marrofat.l 20@1 40
Peas,  soaked......................  90
“  June, stand....  @1 50
“  Bifted.___ ....2 00
« 
“  French, extra fine..20 00 
Mushrooms, extra fine....20 00 
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden,..  .  1 00 
Succotash,standard... .80@130
Squash............___.,.,..125
Tomatoes; Bed Cost  © 1 20
Good Enough  1 2Q
BenHar  .*.....120
standbr.l 15©  1 20

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FISH.

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Miiffiigan full cream .. .10@1034
Citron, in dirnm............ 
,  *t 
Currants.  .  . 
Lemon Peel....................... 14
Orange P eel................1 4
Prunes, French,60s........
French,80s.___....
French. 90s........
Imperial........... ..634
Turkey, old.............. 4
Turkey, new 45S£@ 5
Raisins, Dehesia............ ...3 60
Raisins, London Layers.... 3 00 
Raisins, California  “ 
.. ..2 25 
Raisins. Loose Muscatels..2 10 
Raisins, Loose California. .l 90 
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s.  834@9
Raisins. Sultanas.........   1@16
Raisins,  Valencias...... 8  @834
Raisins, Inmerials..............3 75
Cod,  whole......... ......42£@5
Cod, boneless......   ...... 634©73i
Halibut......................... 
13
Herring, round, 34 bbl. 
2 75 
Herring, round, 34 bbl. 
1 50 
Herring, Holland, bbls.  10 00 
Herring, Holland, kegs  65@70
Herring, Scaled...........  25@28
Mack, sh’r, No. 1, 34 bbl__ 8 75
“  12 ft kit..l 25
“  10  “ ..1 10
No.2, 34 bbls.... ...7 50
“ 
..5 50
Trout,  34 bbls...............
“  10 ft kits......... .
85
..6 75
White, No. 1, 34 bbls......
White, No. 1,12 ft kits.. .A 20
1 05
White,  No. 1,10 ft kits..
White, Family,  34 bbls.. ..3 75
kits......
70
Jennings’  Lemon.  Vanilla.
D.C.,2oz......doz  90 
135
“  4 oz 
140  2 50
...2 25  3 75
“ 
6oz 
“  No. 3 Panel...1 00  175
No. 4  Taper..1 60  2 75
No. 8 panel...2 75  4 50
...4 50  6 50
No. 10  “ 
“  34 pint, r ’nd..4 50
7 50
“  1 
..9 00
“ 
15 00
Lemon.  Vanilla.
per gross.
9 60
12 00
15 00
24 GO
Farina, 100 lb. kegs............  04
Hominy, $  bbl...................4 0 »
Macaroni, dom 12 lb.  box..  65 
Pearl Barley.............   @ 334
Peas,  Green..............  @1 40
Peas, Split.................  @334
Sago, German...........  @ 6%
Tapioca, fl’k or p’rl..  @  634
Wheat,  cracked........  @ 634
Vermicelli, import...10  @1134 

Standard
English 2 oz. ...... 7 20
3oz. ...... 9 00
4oz. ......12 00
6 oz. ......18 00

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS. 

imported... 10  @11

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domestic..
MATCHES.

G. H. No. 8,  square...........  95
G. H. No 9, square, 3 gro...1 10
G. H. No. 200,  parlor..........1 65
G. H. No. 300, parlor......... 2 15
G. H. No.  7, round..................1 40
Oshkosh, No. 2...................  75
Oshkosh,No. 8.......................1 50
Swedish.............................   75
Richardson’s No. 8  sq....... 1 00
Richardson’s No. 9  sq....... 150
Richardson’s No. 734, rnd..l 00
Richardson’s No. 7 
rnd.. 1  50
Woodbine. 300......................... 1 15
MOLASSES.
Black  Strap.................... 17@18
Cuba Baking...................23@25
Porto Rico....................... 24@35
New  Orleans, good........ 33@40
New Orleans, choice.......44@50
New  Orleans, fancy.......50@52

34 bbls. 3c extra
Michigan Test.............  
1034
Water  White...................... 11%
Barrels....................................6 00
Half barrels............................3 25
Cases........................................2 25
Barrels....................................6 00
Half barrels......................3 25
Cases...................... ..2 3E@3 35

OATS—ROLLED.

OATMEAL

OIL.

PICKLES.

Medium....................................6 00
34 bbl.........................3 50
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Small,  bbl......... ................ 7 00
“ 
34 b b l........................ 4 00

R IC E.

Table............................. 534@534
H ead....................................7
Java...... ...............................634
Patna....................................534
Rangoon.............................. 5
Broken.................................
Japan............................  @634
DeLand’s pure.....................534
Church’s  .............................5
Taylor’s  G. M...................... 5
Dwight’s ..............................5
Sea  Foam................  
Cap Sheaf.............................5

 
34 c less in 5 box lots.

SALERATUS.

534

SALT.

“ 

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SOAP.

SPICES—WHOLE.

34 
SAUCES.

60  Pocket, P F D.....................2 15
28 Pocket................................ 2 05
100 3 ft pockets....................... 2 25
Saginaw or Manistee........  95
Ashton, bu. bags................  75
Ashton,4 bu.  hags..................2 75
Higgins’ bu.  bags..............  75
American, 34 bu. hags......     20
Rock, bushels....................   25
Warsaw, bu. hags..............  36
..............  19
London Relish, 2 doz......... 2 50
Acme English, pts............ 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.............................   8
Cassia, China in mats......  734
“  Batavia in bund.. ..11
Saigon in rolls......42
Cloves,  Amboyna..............28
“  Zanzibar.................23
Mace Batavia..................... 70
Nutmegs,  fancy................70
No. 1.................65
No. 2.................60
white.28
shot....................... 21
SPICES—GROUND—IN  BULK.
Allspice..............................1234
Cassia, Batavia.......... .......20
“ 
and Saigon.25
“   Saigon........... .......42
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 35
Zanzibar....... .....30
Ginger, African..................1234
“  Cochin................... 15
Jamaica.............   @18
“ 
Mace Batavia.. ...................80
Mustard,  English.............. 22
andTrie.25
Trieste................27
Nutmegs,  No.  2.................70
Pepper, Singapore  black..22 
white..30
Cayenne.............. 25
doz...84 
Absolute Pepper, 
Cinnamon  “ ...84
“ ,..55
Allspice 
“ ...110
Cloves 
Ginger 
“  ...78
Mustard 
“  ...84
STARCH.

Pepper, Singapore,  Dlaek..l834 

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Kingsford’s
Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs......  7
“  6 ft boxes...... 734
m  
b u lk .......... 634
Pure, 1 ft pkgs...,...............534
Corn,l ft p k g s...............   7
s u g a r s .
Cut  L o a f............
834 
Cubes................
734 
Powdered............
® 734
Granulated. Stand... 7 06® 734
Off.......
@
Confectionery A......
Standard A ..........
@6 41
No. 1, White Extra C @ 634
No.2, Extra CL.,,.... @5%
N0. 8G.........:........... @594
K0.4C....................... 634® 5?»
SYRUPS.
5 
Corn, barrels...... .
ttonMCbbla..................
Com; kegs......................’
Pure Sugar, bbl..........
PureSugsr.Kbbl...... .

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15 00

The Grand Rapids Packing & priiviaion Co. 

quote  as foQpwi^ 
barrels.
M e ss...,,,..,,....'................  
 
Shortcut........•-.5., ^
1
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Shortcut  Morgan.'..........*...15 60
Extra clear pig, short cut.......................   16 50
Extra clear, h e a v y .  __ .............. ..is 50
Clear quill, short cut........................... 
  16 50
Boston elear, short cut...................  
 
 
.16 50
Clear back, short Cut.. . ......__ . ....____16 50
Standard clear, short  cut, best.. . . . . . . . . .  lfi SO
B ean..........................................................
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLA IN .  *
Hams, average 20  fts..............  
ll
.  “ 
16  fts...................1134
II34
 
“ 
•  “  picnic  . ......................................  ...  8V4
 
“  best boneless.................. 
.11
7%
Shoulders......... .. . ................................ 
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...........................11
Dried Beef, extra...... .......... 
834
ham  prices............................ 10

12 to 14 fts_________ 
 

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DRY  SALT  MEATS.

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BEEF IN  BARRELS.

LARD IN  TIN PAILS.

Long Clears, h eav y ..............................  

8%
"  medium............. ;................... 8%
lig h t..;...................... »..1034
“ 
Tierces  .................................................. 
834
30 and 50 ft Tubs .................................... 
8%
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case............................ 
a
5 ft Pails, 12 In a case............................  
8%
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case............................ 
8^
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in ease............... 
.
834
Extra Mess, warranted 200 fts......................7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago Packing....................   7 50
“  Kansas City Packing..............7 25
P late.............................. 
7  75
  8 25
Extra Plate................  
 
Boneless, rump butts..................................  9 50
“  Kan City pkd...........8  50
“  34 bbl.  5 00
“ 
Pork Sausage.............................................. 734
Ham Sausage................................................u
Tongue Sausage......................................  ’  9
Frankfort  Sausage........................................ 8
Blood  Sausage.........................  
6
Bologna, straight.........................................   6
Bologna, thick................  
6
Head  Cheese..................... 
6
In half barrels.............................................  350
In quarter barrels......................................   2 15
In 34 Bbl.......................... ............................. 3 00
In 34 Bbl........................................................1  75
In Kits............................................................  85

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

PIGS’ FEET.

T R IP E .

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HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

G re e n ....$ ft4   @434 
Part  cured...  5  @ 534
Full cured__   534®  634
Dry hides and 

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

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

or cured__ 5  @634
$  piece...... 10  @20

WOOL.

Fine washed ^  ft 18@201 Coarse washed 
.18@30 
Medium  ........... 20@22| Unwashed........
. I2@16
Sheep pelts, short shearing.............. 
5@20
Sheep pelts, old wool estimated.........   20@23
Tallow...................................................334® 434
Grease butter......................................   5@ 8
Ginseng, good.....................................   @2 00

MISCELLANEOUS.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

rels, 25c.

scarce, readily commanding $2.25 perbu.

@754c and evaporated at 9@934e.
14c.

Asparagus—40c per doz.
Beans—Hand-picked  mediums  are  very 
Beets—New, 50c per doz.
Butter—Good butter is easier.  Jobbers  pay 
17c for choice dairy and sell at 18@19c.  Grease 
butter is  slow sale  at 8c.
Butterine—Creamery,  16c  for  solid  packed 
and 17c for rolls.  Dairy, 1334c  for solid packed 
and  1434c  for  rolls.
Cabbages—New Southern stock readily com­
mands $1 per doz.
Cheese-New cheese is held at about 10@1034c
Cider— 10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25; produce bar­
Cucumbers—50c per doz.
Dried  Apples—Jobbers  hold  sun-dried  at 7 
Eggs—Jobbers now  pay 12@1234c and sell  at 
Honey—In plentiful supply at 15@16e.
Hay—Baled is stationary at $18 for No. 1 and 
$17 tor No. 2.
Lettuce—10c per lb.
Maple Sugar —10c per lb..
Onions—Young stock, 15c  per  dozen, 
mudas are held at $2.50  per bu. box.
Peas—Green, $1.50  per 3 peck box. 
Pieplant—134c per lb.
Pop Coi*n—234o $ ft.
Potatoes—Home grown are weak,being quot­
able at 75@85c per bu.
Radishes—15c per doz.
Seeds—Clover,  $4.25  for  medium  or  mam­
Spinach—75c per bu.
Strawberries—Southern, 16c per qt.
String Beans—$1 per bu.
Tomatoes—$3 per crate.
Wax Beans—$1.50 perbu. box.

moth.  Timothy, $2.80 for prime.

Ber-

GRAINS AND M ILLING PRODUCTS.

Clawson and Fulse.
lots and 60c in car lots.
car lots.

Wheat—City millers  pay  90c  for Lancaster, 
Corn—Jobbing  generally  at 65c  in  100  bu. 
Oats—White,  45c in  small  lots  and  41c in 
Rye—50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.30@$1.40 $  ewt.  :
Flour—Higher.  Patent  $5.90  bbl in  sacks 
and  $6.10  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.90 $ bbl. in 
sacks and $5.10 in wood.

Meat-Bolted, $3.00 $ bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 $ ton.  Bran, $17 
$   ton.  Ships,  $18.00  W  ton.  Middlings,  $19 
% ton.  Corn aHd Oats. $23 & ton.

 

TOBACCOS—PLUG.
Spear Head...........43@45
Plank Road....................       42
Eclipse................................36
Holy Moses............................§3
Blue Blazes.............  
 
  32
Eye  Opener................... 
  32
......   ............. .42® 45
Star 
Clipper...................................39
Climax............................. 43@45
Corner Stone.........................39
Double Pedrc...................    .40
Whopper................................40
Peach  P ie ............................40
Wedding Cake,  blk.............. 40
Red Fox......... ......................45
Sweet R usset................. 30@32

TOBACCOS—FINE  CUT.

Sweet  Pippin...................... 50
Five and Seven................     .50
Hiawatha...............................68
Sweet  Cliba...................  
  45
Petoskey Chief..................... 55
Sweet Russet...................40@42
Thistle....................................42
Florida..................................65
Rose Leaf..............................66
Red Domino..........................38
Swamp Angel........40
Stag........................................33
Capper...................................42

TOBACCOS—SMOKING.
Rob  Roy................................ 28
Peerless.......................  
28
 
Uncle Sam......... ...........30
Jack  Pine........................ . . .36
Sensation............................... 33
Yellow Jacket...................... .20
Sweet  Conqueror...........20@25

TEAS.

Japan ordinary.............. 18@20
Japan fair to good......... 25@30
Japan fine........................35@45
Japan dust......................12@20
Young Hyson................. 20@45
Gunpowder............  
35@50
Oolong.................33@55®60@75
Congo...............................35@30

30 gr. 
934 

VINEGAR.
40 gr. 
1134 

50 gr.
13

Above  are  the  prices  fixed 
by  the  pool.  Manufacturers 
outside  the  pool  usually sell 
5 gr.  stronger  goods  at  same 
prices.  $1 for barrel.

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

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Bath Brick imported........90
do 
American.........75
Burners, No.  0...................65
do  No. 1....................75
do  No. 2....... 
95

Chimneys, No. 0....................38
1..................40
52
2.......... 
Cocoa Shells, bulk..............4
Condensed  Milk, Eagle....7 60
Cream  Tartar.....................25
Candles. Star......................  934
Candles. Hotel....................1034
Camphor, oz., 2 ft boxes.. .35
Extract Coffee, V.  C.........   75
F elix...... 1 15
Fire Crackers, per box__1 20
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.. .25 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps... 35
Gum, Spruce..................... 30
Jelly, in 30 ft pails..  .  a  @ 534
Powder,  Keg..................... 5 50
Powder,  34  Keg.................2 87
Sage......... ......................... 15
CANDY, FRUITS and NUTS.
Putnam  &  Brooxs quote as 
follows:

do 

Standard, 25 ft boxes.........   8 34
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 

........... 9
..........10

STICK.
do 
do 
MIXED.

Rqyai, 25 ft  pails...... S34@ 9
Royal, 200 ft bbls......   .........834
jp&ra, 25 ft pails...............JO
Extra, 200 ft bbls......... ........9
French Cream, 25 ft pails. .1134
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases........... 10
Broken, 25 ft palls.............10
Broken. 200 ft  bbls.............. 9
FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.
Lemon Drops........................13
Sour Drops..................... 
14
Peppermint  Drops.............. 14
Chocolate Drops...................14
H M Chocolate  Drops..........18
Gum  Drops...........................10
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

FANCY—IN BULK. 

Lozenges, plain in pails.. .12
Lozenges, plain in bbls__ 11
Lozenges, printed in pails. 1234 
Lozenges, printed in  bbls. 1134 
Chocolate Drops, in pails.. 1234
Gum Drops  in pails......... 634
Gum Drops, in bbls.............534
Moss Drops, in pails......... 10  .
Moss Drops, in bbls...........  9
Sour Drops, in  pails..........12
Imperials, in pails______12
Imperials  in bbls.............. 11

FRUITS.

25@3 00

Bananas....................1 
Of&nges. choice.......4 00@4 50
Oranges, Florida......  @
Oranges, Messina__   @4 50
Oranges, OO...... .......  @
Oranges, Imperials..  @
Oranges Valencia ca.  @
Lemons,  choice........3  25@3 50
Lemons, fancy......... 3  50©4 25
Figs, layers, new...... 12  @16
Figs, Bags, 50 ft........  @6
Dates,  frails do........  @454
Dates, 34 do  do........  @534
Dates,Fard 101bbox*¡8ft..  9 
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft..  634 
Dates, Persian 50 ft box ..5@534

NUTS.

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Almonds,  Tarragona  @17
Ivaca........  @16
California  13@14
Brazils...... '.............. @ 834
Filberts, Sicily.........
@11
Walnuts,  Grenoble.. @13
12
Sicily........
French__ @11
Pecans,  Texas. H. P.
8@12
Cocoanuts, $  100...... @4 50
PEANUTS.
Prime Red, raw $  ft @ 4
Choice 
do 
do
© 434
Fancy H.P. do 
®  5
do
Choice White, Va.do
@ 434
Fancy H P.. Va  do  5 @ 534
@ 5
H. P.V a......... .
OYSTERS AND  FISH.
follows:  .

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes  as 

OYSTERS.

FRESH  F ISH .

Fairhaven Counts.............   40
Black bass.......................... 1234
Rock bass.............................   4
Perch, skinned....;............
Duck-bill  pike......... . 
8
T rout.....................................10
Whitefish...................... 
  634
Frogs’Legs....................25@75

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FRESH MEATS. 
Beef, carcass.......... ,5M
“  hind quarters... .7 
' ■**..  fore 
;  ....4
Hogs............. ......... ...7
Pork loins..,...'.......... .
shoulders..........
Bologna, ' 
i., a
Frankfort sausage., » |  
Blood,liv, h’dsaus’g .. 1 
Mutton
Lard kettle rendered,.  1;

“ 

THDBBEB,  WBYLAND  &  CO.,

NEW YORK,

RELIABLE

FOOD  PRODUCTS.

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

^ T /? e n >^ v^

ßsSülCAHS^)!

‘fOREST e

EXTRACT
ABSOLUTELY
PURE»_
TRIPLE STRENGTH^

THESE GOODS ARB “PAR EXCELLENCE”

Ctevelfcad »*4 Ghioago.
j ■  ;

iSSfll I ü  S ill

^JSJ

It  has corné to our notice  that unscrupu­
lous manufacturers of  cigars are putting an 
inferior  brand  of  cigars  on  the  market 
under a label  so  closely imitating our “Sil­
ver Spots” as to deceive  the general public* 
At first, we were inclined to feel flattered at 
this  recognition  of  the  superior  merits of 
our  “Silver  Spots” by a brother  manufac­
turer, knowing full well that it is only arti­
cles  of  standard or sterling worth  that  are 
imitated, but  we  feel  that  we  should  be 
derelict in oiir duty to the public should we 
not  warn them  against this  infringement, 
and  also  to  dealers  in  cigars,  as  we feel 
positive 
that  no  first-class  dealer  would 
knowingly  countenance  or  deal'  with  any 
manufacturer  who  had  to  depend  upon 
other manufacturers  to  furnish him brains 
to originate brands or labels for their cigars. 
A counterfeiter is  a  genius,  but  amenable 
to  the law, but a base  imitator who  keeps 
within  the 
just  ventures  Hear 
enough  to be on  debatable  ground, is  not 
worthy of  recognition  in  a  community of 
worthy or respectable  citizens.  The  “Sil­
ver  Spots” are to-day  the best  selling five 
cent  cigar  in Michigan. 
If  you  don’t be­
lieve it send us a trial order.

law,  or 

Geo.  T.  W a r r e n  & Co., 

Flint, Mich.

BOOK-KEEPING

WIPED OUT!

No  Pass  Books!
No Charging!
No  Posting!

No Writing!

No Disputing of ioGoiints! 

No  Change  to Make!
TRADESMAN

Credit Coupon Book.

T H E  N EW EST AND BE^T SYSTEM 

ON  T H E   M ARKET.

$ 2 Coupons, per hundred......................... $2.50
$5 
3.00
$10 
4.00
5.00
$20 

We  quote  prices  as  follows:
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Subject to the following discounts:

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Orders for 200 or over.   .................. 5 per cent.

......................10
.......   . 
...... 20

“  500 
“ 
"  1000 
“ 
Send in sample order and put your  business 
on a cash basis.
E.  1.  STOWE  k  BRO., Grand  Rapids.

ll

Wishes to say to the trade that 
they will have to be a little pa­
tient with him in  filling orders 
for the

Bill Jlye Gigar

As  he  is  shipping  them  out 
just as fast as received, and the 
factory is over  one  million be­
hind on its orders.

11 Canal Street, 

Granä Bapiis.

We have just received a large 
shipment and wish to call your 
attention to our
CELEBRATED

CALIFORNIA

ORANGE

WINE.
Packed in 5  and  10  gal.  kegs.

I t  is a  delicious sum m er drink.  M akes 

a delightful flavor  for  Lemonades, 

M ilk  Shakes.  Etc.,  and  when 

frozen m akes  delicious Or­

ange Sherbet.

I t  m ay be served in  alm ost  any  form, 

m ay  be  draw n  from  a   fountain or 

from th e  cask, and for table use 

is  unexcelled. 

Price,  $ 1 

per  gallop.

TRY I  KEG. 
IT WILL M Y  YOU. 
JL  EA TO N   A   CO.,

A g e n t s   f o r   M i c h i g a n ,

77^3anal S t, Grand Rapids. -

INCREASE YOD» T8AD1

BY  SELLING

Composed  of  Guatemala,  African  and 
Mexican Javas,  Santos, Maracaibo  and R io 
selected with especial  reference  to their fine- 
drinking qualities. The most popular brand 
of Blended Coffee in the  market.  Sold  only 
in 50 lb. Cans and l lb.  packages. 30, 60 and KD 
lb. Cases.  Mail Orders Solicited by the  pro­
prietors.

J.  H.  THOMPSON  4  GO.,
59 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich.
Importers and jobbers of fine  Teas, Coffees, 
Spices,  Etc..  Baking  Powder  Mfrs.,  Coffee 
Roasters, Spice Grinders.

BEE SPICE MILLS,

CIGAR  DEALERS
$11,550 Worth of Real Estate

Read  this  Scheme.

And  personal  property  to  be  actually 
given away to  purchasers  of  the celebrated
‘Golden-Rod,’ ‘Presto’ and ‘Empress’
Cigars in 1888.

We  have  sold  these  goods  for  the  past- 
ten  years  at  the  uniform  price of  $55 per 
M.  for “Golden-Rod!”  $35  per M.  for  the* 
the “Presto” and  $85  for  the  “Empress” 
cigars, 
to  sell 
shall 
them  at  that  price, 
thus  charging  noth­
ing extra for  the property we  shall distrib­
ute.

continue 

and 

We  have figured that  by liberal advertis­
ing we can  save  the  salaries and  expenses 
of several men on the road and that the dif­
ference will  pay for  this  property and  the 
purchasers of  the goods  will get  the direct 
benefit. 
Just  loolt  at  this  Carefully  an d  
see a plain business proposition.  We hand, 
over to, y ou direct the amount it would cost 
us to sell these  goods in   the ordinary way.
We will  distribute  this  property  in  the 

following manner:

We will  start  an  order  book at this date 
with lines numbered  from  1  to  8,000  and 
each order will  be  eutered  in  the book  in 
the order it is received at our  office.

Every fifth order  received will entitle the- 
party ordering  to  a  fine  gold  handled  silk 
umbrella which will be sent with the goods.
Every  24th  order  received  will  entitle- 
sender to a full tea set of 56  pieces Import­
ed China Ware, which will be sent with the- 
cigars.

Every 74th  order received will entitle the 
party ordering to a clear title deed of a piece- 
of  real-estate.  Either  a  building  lot  and 
water  privilege,  at a  summer  resort,  a city 
lot in city of  Sault  Ste  Marie,  a house  and 
lot in  St.  Ignace,  or  a  farm  of  160  acres. 
There are 39 lots of the  real  estate and 720 
articles  of  personal  property  to  go  with 
3; 000 orders, an  average  of  more  than one 
in four.

An order will consist  of  %  M.  “Golden 
Rod” cigars at $55 per M. or 1  M.  “Presto” 
cigars  at $35  per  M.,  or  1  M.  “Empress”’ 
cigars at $30  per  M.  An  order  of  double 
this amount from one  party will be entered 
as two orders.

These cigars  are not  made  of  cheap ma­
terial, like the  ordinary  scheme  cigar,  but 
are First-Class  Goods,  made  as  we  have 
always made them,  to hold trade.

The “Golden-Rod” is made from the finest 
imported Vuelta Havana, long filler, straight 
hand-made  goods,  without  flavor,  and  as- 
fine as anything made in the U.  S.  Sold at 
their  market  value,  without  regard to  the 
property  given  away.  The “Presto” cigar 
is a  very nice  imported  scrap-cigar,  gives 
universal  satisfaction  and  sells  in  many 
places at 10c.

The summer  resort  lots are  on the beau­
tiful Lakeville Lake in  Oakland Co.  on the 
P.  O.  & P. A.  R. R., a handsomer lake with 
better fishing than  Orion, six miles distant. 
Lots 40 feet by 80 rods with good lake front 
privilege,  value $50 each.

The  lots  at  the  Soo  are  within  % of a 
mile  of  the  water ' power  canal. 
In  the 
heart  of  the  city,  with  houses  all  around 
them,  40x124 feet, valued at $1,000 each.

The house and  lot at St.  Ignace  is in the 
third  ward  on  Main  street.  House  occu­
pied by tenant,  valued at $1,000.

The farm  is  within  two  miles  of  Carp- 
Lake Station, on  the G. R.  & I.  R.  R.  Six. 
miles from Mackinaw  City,  hardwood  and 
cedar,  good front on Carp Lake, seven acres- 
under cultivation, valued at $3,200.

Warrantee  deeds of  real  estate  will  be 
sent with the cigars, which  come in proper 
order.

When the property is all  distributed, cir­
culars  will  be  sent  to  each  purchaser  of 
cigars, showing  name  and  address of  par­
ties getting these presents.

Send  in  your  orders,  somebody will get 
some good property for nothing.  You will 
get  warranted  goods,  worth  toe  price put 
on them.  The value of thë presents  is not 
taken out of the goods.

Terms on  cigars, 60  days  to  responsible- 

parties, or 5 per cent, off for cash.

We give reference  below as to  our  busi­

ness standing.

Citizens’  National  Bank,  Romeo;  First 

National Bank, Romeo.

Any  business  man  in  Romeo,  and  any 
wholesale tobacco house in Detroit, Chicago^ 
Louisville and St. Louis.

Yonrs respectfully, 

H. W, Bradley J   Bra,,
3 L  ROMEO,  MIOU,  „¿J

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Arrangemepte-Made  for  the  Examination j 

of Candidates  for Registration. 

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The Drue Market

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■  Muskegon  June  i  1888 

*  ^ ainii,e  is  in  moderate demand  at  urn
A   meeting  of  the  Michigan  Board 'of j c^lan^e^  Prices.  Cinchonidia  is  lower for 
Phtomacy,  for  the;  purpose  of  examining  ^ ermaQ brands.  Citric acid is firm and wfcl 
candidates  for registratthn, will  be  held  at  be higher.  Borax is v e r y  firm.  Gum  cam-*

RECOMMENDED  BY  EMINENTfHYSÌC-IANS

jfr r tió s  &  f lftc b id n e s

State Board o f F iu n iu w y.
■  P i  I

T b w  Ye

PQQfBt8il'Jf' » ■ JjlGOb-jwSÛIL 
f§jws swr
'^téamieT^j^/Ÿèrùor.,
N ext M eeting—A t  S tar  Island  House,  n e a t 
.  Ju n e 29 a nd 30.

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M lc h ifia u  S ta te  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  A ss’n . 

President—Arthur Bassett, Detroit.

_ _   ,  w*1rot Vice-President—G; iLrHArwood; Petoskey. 

M t ä k  lö |l 1111 H^iPiB- 
M l & J^yp“ute«op 'Wlen Springs'

l.r.u..l Rapida

Treasurer—Wm.Duponfc, Detroit. 
Executive Committee—Geo.  änndrum.  Prank  Inglis,
Local Secretary—James Vern^^Detroit.  .

A. H. Lyman, John E. Peck,■fr. Webb.

. : gext Meeting—At Detroit, September 4,5, * and 7.

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Grand Rapid s  Pharm aceutical Society.
_  
President—H. E. Locher.

OBGANIZBD  OCTOBEB  9. 1884.

-. Vice-President—J. W, Hayward.
:  Secretary—Frank H. Escott.  ) 
Treasurer—H en ryP aireh ild .
Board of Censors—President,  Vice-President  and Sec­
retary.
Board of Trustees—The President,  John  E. Peck,  Geo. 
6 . Steketee, A. F. Hazeitine and P. J. Wurzburg.
|  pen« Isaac Watts, Wm. B. White and Wm.  L.  White. 
|  Committee on Trade  Matters—Jonn Peck. P.  J .  W u r z ­
Committee  on  Legislation—J.  w .  Hayward.  Theo 
Committee  on  Pharmacy—W.  L.  White,  John  Muir 
’
Regular  Meetings—first  Thursday  evening  in  «m»h 
Annual Meeting—First Thursday evening in November.

burg, W. H. Tibbs.
Kemink, W. H. Van Leuwen.
M. B. Kimni. 
month.

D etroit Pharm aceutical Society. 

OBOANIZnnOCTOBKB, 1883.

tanta  '  g«aHfiijgiaM | 

President—Prank Inglis.  1 
first Vire-Prealdeat—F. W. R.Perry.
Second Vice-President—J. J.  Crowley.
Sewetary and Treasurer—F. Rohnert.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—A. B. Lea. 
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday In June
annual Meeting—rirst Wednesday i 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in each  month.
C entral  Michigan  Druggists’ Associati»!!. 
Prcwdeiitt X W. Dunlop; Secretary, R. M. Mussell.
R e n d e n   C ounty. F h a rm a ce u tle a J   g o d e ty T  
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, Henry Rephart-
Clinton County Druggists’ Association. 
President, A. O. Hunt; Secretary. A. S.  Wallace.
C h a r le v o ix  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o c ie ty  
President, H. W. Willard;  Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.
Ionia County Pharm aceutical Society . 
President, W. R. Cutler;  Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.
Jackson County Pharm aceutical Ass’n. 
K a la m a zo o  P h a r m a c e u tic a l A sso c ia tio n . 
R ä so n   C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty . 

President,C. B. Colwell; Secretary, C. E. Foote.
President, D. O. Roberts;  Secretary, D. McDonald.

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

M o n ro e  C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty . 
President, S. M. Sackett;  Secretary, Julius Weiss.
Muskegon County  Druggists’  Association, 
President, E. O. Bond;  Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre,

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

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

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

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

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

CÍnCh0nÍdÍne’ëUm 0pium’  gUm opium po-  <iuicksilver, gold-

R 

Monday.

C',,r   F,alS'l  f bOT 

A   Perfect  Shot-gun  Pfescriptidh.

Later  Morphia  declihed  30c.  per oz.  on 

The following was  written  by a Wiscon­
sin graduate of  one of  the old Eastern med­
ical celleges :
Sulphur,
Brimstone, aa 2)4 ozs.,
Cream tartar, 1 teaspoonful.
Powder,
Shot, aa  y3 oz.

and high.  Opt™”
The examination of  candidates  for  both  l0wer‘  Present  prospects  point  to a large 
registered^ pharmacist  and  assistant  phar- j crop this  year.  Oil anise is advancing rap-
macist will  commence  Friday, June  29, at 
idly.  Morphia is dull  and  weak.  A fur­
2 p. m., at which  hour all candidates  must 
ther  decline is probable.  Quicksilver  has 
be  present.  The  examination will  occupy 
declined.  Golden seal,  root and  powdered, 
the  afternoon and  evening of  the 29th and 
has declined.  Salicine is lower.
the  morning  and  afternoon  of  the  30th. 
The examination of  assistants will  be com­
pleted  so  that  they  may leave,  if  they de­
sire,  on the morning|boat of the 30th.  The 
entire, 'examination  will  be  completed  in 
time to allow all to  take the  evening  boats 
of that day.  The running time of the boats 
is as follows, standard time:
Leave  Detroit,  8:00  a.  m.,  Star  Island, 
10:00  a.  m.,  arrive  at  Port  Huron,  2*30 
p. m.
Leave  Detroit, 3:00  p.  m.,  Star  Island, 
5:00 p. m.,  arrive at Port  Huron  8:45 p. m.
Leave Port Huron 6:15 a.  m., Star Island 
8:00 a.  m., arrive at Detroit  11:00 a.  m.
Leave Port Huron 3:00 p.  m.,  Star Island 
6:15 p. m., arrive at Detroit 8:15 p.  m.
Fare, round  trip to Star  Island,  50 cents.
A special  rate of  $1.50 per day has  been 
secured for the candidates at the Star Island 
House,  which is good  for such time as they 
may desire to remain, either  before or after 
the examination days.
Special  railroad  rates  of  one  and  one- 
third regular fare  have also been secured  to 
candidates, which  may be obtained by writ
@  15 j APg to  me for a blank  certificate and buying 
®  16  «ekets to Detroit  upon them.  A certificate 
@  14  will,  of  course,  be sen ¿to all  who file their 
@3 75 I application for examination in advance.
55 I „ _ ^ e  boat  for  Star  Island  will  beheld
fifteen minutes  to  accommodate candidates
™  the s o’clock a.m.
in 
over  the  Michigan  Central and  the
Yours respectfully,

A  correspondent  of  the  Medical  and 
Surgical Reporter says :
I venture the assertion  that  druggists to­
day  do  tenfold  more  harm  in prescribing 
over  the »counters  and  selling  quack  and 
proprietary medicines than all the charlatan 
doctors combined.

M.  S.—-Make  into  an  ointment  by  heating 
The Medical A.ge says  that  the  druggist 
mixed together  the  first  three  ingredients 
and  directed  the  customer  to go to a hard 
ware store for the others.

twelve hours and apply; heat in at bed time.

From  the  Physician’s  Standpoint.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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The following retail  dealers  have visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the  various houses:
WT?™V erm eulen»  B eaver  D McLeod & Co,  M iddleton 
t Ham 
Jno D am stra, G itchell 
„  
S McNjtt & Co, Byron G entr J  W  Lovely,  H oward  City 
£  9rA<1j)m s’ A shton 
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Sr Xaf? Eeli e'i,aaTm '  Zeeland G A B ottje, G rand H aven 
M C C iandall, Levering 
v  “ Len.aren.L everm g 
R r  SmTfh  w ker ieT  
n  o t ”11? ’ W ayland 
C C T uxbury, Sulhvan 
Levi DeHaven, B angor 
Levi 
F  A bbott L uther 
H P  Sibole, BreedsviUe 
J  N Adams, H art 
W ill H aney, Big Rapids 
G S  Putnam ,  F ru itp o rt 
r  M Wolf. Hudsonville 
R H ulbert, St Ignace 
H VanNoord, Jam estow n 
E Boosinger  &  Co 
Jordan

John Giles & Co, Lowell
H Colby, Rockford
JM  Cloud,  Cadillac
o tto  Bros, Middleyllle 
J  E Doty, W est Troy
N O W ard, Stanwood
S  B Waga,r  Cedar  Springs 
H M P atrick Co, Leroy
D W S hattuck, W ayland
^  Anderson,  IVest  Troy Wm B lack,  Cedar  Springs 
John G unstra,L am ont
"D F Clem ent,  Spring  Lake 
Wm H S truik, F orest G r’ve 
L Cookj B auer 
D Flem ing,  R iverdale 
Soderberg  &  Christenson 
S J   M artin, Sullivan 
S Cooper,  Jam estow n 

E a st H  Thompson,  C anada  Cor 

Ryerson

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Cadillac 

M M Robson, Berlin
John Kamps, Zutphen 
A Purchase, So Blendon 
J  C Braneli,  W ayland 
J  P  Cordes, Alpine 
B rautigan Bros, No Doit 
DenHerdei- & Tanls,  Vries-  E J  Roys,  Lakeview
Morley Bros, Cedar Springs
L & L Jenison, Jenisonville 
, Ross  Station  G C   W illey, Sum m it C ity 
C S Judson, C annonsburg
E E H ew itt, Rockford 
A K rey, Lisbon

? lai n 'J,eU „  Geo A Sage, Rockford

n §  M.cC,uU^ ch’ B®rlin  
G P Stark, Cascade 
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“ G  C lark  &  Co,  W hite  W S Young, Roekford
T ^  
Hudson ville 
H  T V u L ? rw ’  La,.n o n t 
F  Î£ .frh er’ HamUton 
C F  W illiam s, Caledonia  H am ilton  &  M üliken 
H essler & Hessler, R ockfrd  T raverse City 
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R A H astings, S parta 

A D M artin, Bitely
J L   Thom as,  C annonsburg
W  A  Turner,  Lake  O dessI 
John Baker , Chauncey
w p ? 0 r’ Forest Grove  Eli R unnels,  Corning 

H D H arvey) B angor

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G eto n t y o w S T U M P S  an d  break yc 
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HERCULES  POWDER

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Hercules Powder Co.
C L E V E L A N D , O.

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FOR  SALE  BY

L.  S.  HILL  &  CO., Ag’ts

Fishing Tackle, Sporting Goods, etc.,

19 and  21  Pearl  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

PROPRIETOR  OF THE

D .  D .  C O O K ,
Valley City Shot Case Factory,
SHOW CASES

m a n u f a c t u r e r   o f

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Prescription  Cases,

My Prices are Lower than any of My Compet­

itors.  Send for Catalogues.
•  21  Scribner  Street,  Grand  Rapids.

TELEPHONE  374.

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Arnica.........................  12®
A nthemis...................  45®
M atricaria.,.............  30®
FOLIA.
Barosma....................   10®
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■Càssia Acutifol, Tin-
îassia Acutifol, Tin- 
Mvnivelly..............  20®  25 Vim Oporto............... 125@2 00  &C.  Co 
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Alx.  35®  .50 Ivim   AlKo 

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AMMONIA.

. ACIDUM.
A ceticum ..................
m80@1
Benzoicum, German
Boraeie...............
Carbolicum............S
49®
Citricum.................. .
60®
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Hydrochlor.......... 
Nitrocum ...................  10@
Oxalicum ...................  10@
Phosphorioum  dii.
Salicylicum............ .1 70@2 05
Sulphuricum...........
Tannicum............... .  1M©5 
.1 40@1 60
Tartaricum ............ .  50®  53
Aqua, 16 deg........... .  3®  5
18  deg........... .  4®  e
Carbonas............... .  11®  13
Chloridum.............. .  12®  14
Black....................... .2 00@2 25
Brown...................... .  80@1 06
Bed.......................... .  45®  50
Yellow....................
.2 50@3 00
BACCAE.
Cubebae (po.  1 60... 1 60@1  70
Juniperus  ..............
8®  10
pCanthoxylum........
25®  30
BAL8AMUM
Copaiba...................
65®  70
Peru......... ................  @1 50
Terabin, Canada......   50®  55
To hi ta n ....................   45®  50
Abies, Canadian......  
11
Cassiae  .................... 
1
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Cinchona Flava........ 
31
3 .  Euonymus  atropurp 
V  Myrica  Cerifera, po. 
2<
f h  Prunus Yirgini........ 
li
WsiQuillaia,  grd............. 
li
1  ^ Sassfras....................  
12
TJlmus.......................  
12
UlmusPo (Ground 12) 
10
EXTHACTUM.
Glyc/rrhiza Glabra..  24®  25
po.  33® 
35
Ì  Haematox, 15 B> dox..  11®  12
is ...........  13®  14
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H8  ......  14®  15
its ......  16®  17
MtiCarbonate Precip—   ®  15
flp itra te  and Quinta...  ©3 50
^ C itrato  Soluble.......  ®  80
i;.  Perrocyanidiim Sol..  @  50
Golut  Chloride—  ...  @  15
fiulphate, com’l........1)4® 
2
pure..........  ®  7
FLORA.

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CORTEX.

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«Salvia  officinalis,  )4s 
and  )4s....................  10®
8®
®1 00
2nd  “ 
...  @ 9 0
3rd 
...  @ 8 0
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Sifted sorts.  @  65
p o .............*.  75® 1 00

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Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)..  50®
“  Cape,(po.20)...  @
“  Socotri*, (po. 60)  @

»Catechu,  Is,  ()4s,  14
JTJ4S. 16)...........  ©
% m m oniae  .........  
  25®
I  Assafoetida,  (po. 30).  @
Benzoinum...............   50®
%4Cbmphorae ..............  30®
-  Euphorbium, j»o.....  35®
-?. <Ialbanum............... 
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Gamboge, po.............  80®
-Guaiacum, (po. 45)...  @ -
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;  Mastic.................... 
Myrrh, (po. 45).__  
Gpil, tpo. 4 60;........... 3 00®3 10
'Shellac.......................   25®  33
bleached.......  25®  30
a c a n t h 30®  75 
.  herba—In ounce packages.!
Absinthium.............
JEupatorium  .............
(Lobelia  . ifg. . . . . . . . . . '
Majorum  ----- . . . —
Mentha Piperita.......
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Bue  .............. 
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Tanacetum,  V ..........
tRiymus. V ................
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MAGNESIA.
Calcined,  P at........  55®
Abónate,  P a t......  20®
irbonate,  K. & M ..  20® 
urbonate,  Jennings  35® 

OLEUM.

Absinthium.. .. .. ..  ..5 00®5 50
‘ Amygdalae, Dulc__   45®  75
■Amydalae, Amarae. .7 25@7 10 
m m * ./.— a .  ... .. . 1 85® i95
Auranti Cortex.........  @2 50
ilifergamii...................2 75@3 25
E#G|jiputi  __ . .. .. .. ..   90@1 00
fophylli...............   @2 00
I----65
@1  75
jpodii........ 
Inamonii..... ........... 85®  90
(ij@i|cflfeelia  . . . . . . . —   ®   75
•Goniura  Mac..............  35®  65
A a . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   90® 100
Bbae   
.........14 00@14  50
cüirifftoe.......... 
90@l 00
_ _ w » n . . . . . . . : . . , . . l  20@1 30
^^Q^herla............... .2 25@2 35
^Ghlraiiiiim, 5...............  @  75
Sem ,gal....  55®  75
aa.................... 1 10@l 20
_ Ip e ffc .;.....¿ .....  50®2 00
Ivendula..................  90@2 00
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3tíiaB lp ér........2 25®3 33
itha Verid..........3  00®3 25
iuae,  gal.......  80@1 00
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.1 00@2 75 
p24quida,(gal.%)  10®  12 
:118@126
ta i...............U  75@1 00
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Cultivation  of  Indigo.

J acob  J esson, Sec’y.

How  Corks  are  Made.

Potass  N itras,opt...  8®  10
Capsici Fructus, af.. 
Potass Nitras......... 
7®  9
Capsici Fructus, po.. 
Prussiate.................   25®
Capsici Fructus, B po 
Sulphate po..............  15®
Caryophyllus, (po. 25)
Carmine, No. 40........
Cera Alba, S. & F __
.........   20®
Aconitum ... 
„  n 
------r:---- 
A lthae......................  25®
nnwi^ ava............... 
c^siiFructus:::::;:  I  S 
Anchusa...................  15®
Arum,  po..‘..............  @
Centraria................   @  io I 
Calamus....................   20®
Cetaceum...............  @  40  D.,  G.  H.  & M. Railways.
Gentiana,  (po. 15)__   10®
Glychrrhiza,  (pv. 15).  16® 
Chloroform 
60®  651 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
Chloroform,  Squibbs  @1 00 
(po. 55)....................   ®
Chloral Hyd Crst...... 1 50@1 75
Chondrus
Hellebore,  Alba, po.  15®
Cinchonidine, P. & W 
Inula, po..................   15®
Clnchonidlne. Ger’an 
Ipecac, po.................2 25®2 35
“Cork has to be prepared before  it can be 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
Iris plox (po. 20®22)..  18®  20
Jalapa,  pr.................  25®  30
manufactured  into  bottle  corks,”  said  a 
Creasotum......... .
Maranta,  Ha............   ®  35
dealer to a reporter for the  New York M ail 
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........
Podophyllum, po__   15®  18
and Express recently.
Creta prep................
Bhei  .........................  75@1 00
5®
“How is this dene ?”
Creta, precip............. 
I
“  cut....................  @1 75
Creta Rubra..............  @
“  p v ....................  75@1 35
The bark which is intended  for corks is 
Crocus......................  22®
Spigelia....................  48®  53
27 I kept in a damp place.  When taken into the 
Cudbear...................   @
Sanguinaria, (po. 25).  @ 20
7  snop to be worked it is cut by the first work­
Cupri Sulph..............•  6®
Serpentaria...,........  30®  35
man  into  strips,  the width of  which  corre­
Dextrine...................  10®
  55®  60
Senega.................. 
Ether Suiph..............  68®
Smilax, Officinalis, H  @ 40 
sponds to the length of  the future cork.  A 
Emery, all numbers.  @
M  @  20
second  workman  cuts 
these  strips  into
Emery, po.................  @
Scillae,  (po. 35).........   10®  12
. squares  suited  in  Size  to  their  diameter.
............................... . 
Ergota, (po.) 75.........  70®
Symploearpus,  Foe-
Flake  White............  ]2@  15 The squares,  strung, are  plunged  into boil-
tidus.po.................  @  25
Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30)  @
..................  ® 23 I ing water to make  them  swell  out.  They
German..  15®
Gtlatin  C^por.:;;:; 
inacool  place  and  kept
Zingiber a .................  jo@
Gelatin, French.......   40®  60 ?onstantly moist by sprinkling till they pass
Zingiber j .................  18@  22
Glassware flint, 70&10  by box.  mto the hands of  the  cork master.  He ap-
60&10, lese.
plies  them in succession,  giving  them a ro-
Anisum, (po. 20)........  @  15
Glue,  Brown.............  9®
Apium  (graveleons).  10®  12
25  tary motion,  to  the  edge  of  a  wide  blade
Glue, White..............  13®
Bird, Is......................  4®  6
26  knife,  drawing  them  at  the  same  time 
Glycerina.................  23@
Carui,  (po. 18)...........  12®  15
Grana  Paradisi........  @
Cardamom............... l oo@l 25
^   slow.ly  alon&  its  length,  and  by  skillful
H um ulus.................  25®
Coriandrum..............  10®  12
25f   ^   manipulation transforms  the  square into a 
Hydrarg Chlor. Mite.  @
Cannabis  Sativa...... 3)4®  4)4
@  70  ioimd cork-  This  Is  the  French  method. 
<a 
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor. 
Cydonium.................  75@1  00
@  90 I In other countries the  workmen  handle the 
Hydrarg Ox. Rubrum 
Chenopodium.........   10®  12
Hydrarg Ammoniati. 
@110 j knife in a different manner.”
Dipterix Odorate.... 1 75@1 85
Hydrarg Unguentum 
Foenicuium..............  @  15
“Are many corks made in this country ?” 
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Hydrargyrum
Foenugreek, po........  6®  8
Ic'hthyocolla, Am.” !l 25@l 50 
“Yes,  a great  many.  They are  cut  by a
Lini..............................3)4@  4
lndig° 
.. 
.........  75@i 00  machine.  Only the best are made by hand.
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3)..  ..  3)4®  4
Lobelia........ : ...........   35®  40
Iodoforme8Ubl.........4 °°<ls 
T°- obtaii1 a S°od ?°rir it is essential that its
Phalaris Canarian...  33i£@4)4
Lupuline  ....... .  .  .  85@l 001 
cu^  irom  the  bark,  be parallel
R apa.........................  5®  6
60  W1tn the axis of  the tree  on which the bark 
Lycopodium......... 
55@
Sinapis,  Albu...........  8®  9
85 j grew,  but  the  broad, flat  corks  have to be 
M a c is .................................  —
Nigra.........   11®  I?
Liquor Arsen et Hy­
cut perpendicular  to  the  axis  of  the  tree.
drarg Iod...............
SPIR IT U S.
27
A good  workman  can  make  1,000 corks a 
Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 
Liquor Potass Arsini-
day.”
Frumenti, D. F. R .... 1 75@2 00
tis............................
10®   12
Frum enti................. 1 10@l 501
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl
Juniperis Co.  O.T...1 75@L 75
1)4)...................
2®  3 i
Juniperis C o.......... 1 75@3 50
Mannia, S. F ..............
90®1 00
"  ehi 
Saacharum  N. E.....1  75®2 09,   
 
The cultivation  of  the  indigo  plant is an 
Morphia,  S, P. & W.  2 40©2 65
Spt. Vini Gaüi.......... 1 75@6 50  Morphia, S.  N.  Y. Q
important  feature  in  Chinese  agriculture. 
V
2 30@2 55 
«  0-%0 /v.l  .. 
...........
The  indigo  fera  is  one  of  the  seed pod 
Vini  Alba......... . 
1 25@2 00
Moschus Canton
@  40 I 
variety of plants,  with a stock and leaf  not 
Myristica, No. 1........
60®  70 I 
SPONGES
unlike the fish geranium,  but  much  darker 
Nux  Vomida,  (po. 20)
Florida sheens’ wool
@16 
Os. Sepia...................
27®  29 I
carriage............. ...2 25@2 50
green. 
It  is  hardy,  easily  cultivated, pro­
Pepsin  Saac,  H. & P.
Nassau sheeps’ wool
lific  and  not  attacked  by  insects.  The 
D. Co......................
carriage.................
@2 00
ground is plowed  and  harrowed into a pul­
Picis Liq, N. C.. )4 gal
Velvet Extra sheep s’
dm!,.-....................  
70
verized state and enriched by manure.  The 
wool carriage........
Picis Liq.,  quarts.... 
~“
Extra Yellow sheeps’
@1 40 
seeds are sown in patches as thicklv as pos­
Picis Liq., pmts........
carriage..............
@  85 
sible. 
In a month  the  plants  are"  several 
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80).
Grass  sheeps’  wool
@  60 
inches  high,  and  are  transplanted  into  a 
Piper Nigra,  (po.22).
carnage.................
@  18 
Piper Alba, (po. 35)..
Hard for slate use...
larger  piece  of  ground  in  rows,  being set 
@  35 
Pix Burgun............
Yellow Reef, for slate 
®  7
about eighteen  inches  apart.  They require 
Plumbi Acet...........! 
„
use..........................
15®  16 [
little  care,  except  to  be  watered  in  dry 
Pulvis Ipecao et opii.l 10@i 20 
SYRUPS.
weather.  When the plants  have  reached s 
Accacia.....................
Pyrethrum, boxes, H
& P. D. Co., doz.......
Zingiber....................
@1 25  hight of  two feet, and  the  leaves  have as 
Ipecac.......................
Pyrethrum, pv.........
60®  65  sumed a dark,  rich  blue  color, they are  cut 
Quassiae..............
Ferri Iod..................
50®  55  I10 the ground and gathered for manufactur- 
Quinia, S,P. & W ....
Auranti Cortes.........
Quisia, S, German...
Rbei Arom................
37®  47  ms-  From  the  roots  a  second  crop  will 
Rubia Tinctorum.... 
Smilax Officinalis__
12®  13  grow,  which  may  be  gathered  the  same
^   _
Saccharum Lactis pv 
Co..
........... ....................... 4o®3 io  feason-  The  plants  are  placed  in  recep-
Salacin. 
................3 40@3 50
Senega.......................
Sanguis Draconis__  40®  501 tacles and covered  with  fresh, clear  water,
Sciilae.......................
Santonine................   @4 50 Mn  which  they steep for  several  days,  until
Co............. .
Toluian.....................
Sano  M...... 
Prunus virg......... .
S a p o , * G @   Jg I juice of  the  plant,  is  decomposed  by  i „
TINCTURES.
Seidlitz  Mixture......  @  28 J meQtation.  The addition of a little slacked
Aconitum Napellis R 
F
aBd frequent stirring, aids the process,
I I S !  • — 1.............   ®  181 
Aloes........................
InuTMaccaboy.Do  ®  30  S ?   ind,ig0  ^   Precipitated  in a dark  blue
and myrrh......
1 sediment,  which,  when  dried,  is the  indigo
Voes 
A rnica......................
35
Snuff,
of  commerce.  The darker the blue the bet­
Asafoetida................
Atrope belladonna...
ter the quality. 
It is believed  that farmers 
„  Voes.........................  @  35
Benzoin.....................
Soda Boras, (po 11).. 10  @ 
11
in this  country could  be  successful in  rais 
Co............ .
SodaetPotossTart..  33®  35
ing the indigo plamt.
Soda Carb.................   2® 211
Sanguinaria.............
Soda, Bi-Carb...........  4®  g
Barosma...................
Cantharides...... .
Soda,  A sh ..................  
3@  4
Capsicum..................
Soda  Sulphas............  @  2
Cardamon.................
Spts. Ether Co..........   50®  55
Co.............
Spts.  MvrciaDom...  @2 00
Castor.......................
Catechu..................
Cinchona...................
Co............
Columba.........
Conium.....................
Cubeba..,,................
D igitalis.....__ ____
Ergot..................
Gentian...... .
co......... .
Guaiea......................
ammon.......
Zingiber..............
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine..........
Colorless......
Ferri Chi-ridum......
Kino.......................
Lobelia.....................
M yrrh.................... .
Nux V om ica............
O p i.............  ...____
Camphorated;..
Deodor.  .......
Auranti C ortex......
Quassia......................
Rhatany........
Rhei__..............
Cassia Acutifol...... .
Vermilion p r im e  A m .
Co...
erican....................
Serpentaria..............
Stramonium.. . . , . . . .
Vermilion, English,. 
Green, Peninsular,.. 
Tolutan..............
50  Lead, red strictly pur 
Valerian,...................
--  Lead,  white,  strictly
50
Veratrum Veride....
düng,  white Span 
@70
Æther, Spts Nit, 3 F..  26®  28 
Whiting. Gilders .... 
@àn
Æther, Spts Nit, i F..  30®  32
White,  Paris Amer’n 
f w
Alumen............;__ 2)4® 3«
W hithig,  Paris  Eng.'
Alumen, ground,  (p-
cliff............................ 
* \  40
J& W j.......................  3®  4
Pioneer  Prepared 
Annatto  ...................  55®  60
Taints .....,....,,,.1  20@1 40 
Antimoni,  po.........  4@  g
«w iss Villa Prepárbd 
Antimoni et Potass T
P aints. p ^
 00@i30
Argenti Nitras,  j __:

Vamiia°mae...........9 00^6 oo  charged a flnished corkscrew in about thirty

Whale, w inter........
Lard, extra...........
Lard, No.  1.........
Linseed,pure raw".".*
Linseed, boiled........
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained............ ..
Spii.ts Turpentine...

•  ••••  12®  ri I the  indican,  a  peculiar  substance  in

%-M).  ......  ............  @2 33
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Bess 5c. gal.  cash ten  days. 

1 00  s Pt8. Myrcia  Im p__
50  Spts  Vini Beet.  bbl.

About  Corkscrews.

MISCELLANEOUS. 

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OREGON  hid  WÄSHiNGTojt, 

A writer in Engineering states  that  one 
, firm  in  Newark,  N. J.,  made  in  one  year 
@2 501 no fewer than 150,000,000 corkscrews.  Vis­
itors at the American Centennial Exhibition
Philadelphia,  in  1876,  will  remember
Strychnia  Crystal 
— -■ ■ •  „  @J„10  witb interest the curious automatic machine 
Rlll-
iu ip h J: R?U  **"••  i n i  3*   S  WOlk makinS corkscrews,  which  was fed
....... .. 
'from  a c o ilo f   wire  mounted  upon  a reel,
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and  at  the  other  end of  the  machine dis-
seconds.  One  of  these  machines  would, 
7® 8
working  continuously ten hours a day,  turn 
out 1,200 finished corkscrews per  diem, and 
Bbl Gal
estimating  the  Whole  year  at  300  days, 
70
75
72  could manufacture 360,000  per annum.  To 
72
68
45
60
60  turn out the total quantity mentioned above, 
56
59
KO  this factory must  possess  416 of  these ma­
59
62
chines in constant  operation.  These  cork*- 
screws,  we  are  told,  are  made  in  a great 
50
60
43
48
481 variety  of forms  on  purpose  to  meet  the 
„  „„ a  Lb Idifferen* tastes and  uses of  various persons
Ibi
Lb
Red Venetian.........IK  2@3 1 ilad  Rations,  one  of  the  most  peculiar  of
Ochre, yellow Mars..ij£  «@3 j them  being  the  left-handed  corkscrew,  of 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. . 134  2@3 I which  the  first  one  was  made  for  a left-
liti I
Another  firm  in  the 
13@16 j same town makes 300,090 pocket corkscrews 
70@75  in  a  year,  giving  some  indication  of  the 
16@1J  number of  philanthropists  among otir great 
republican neighbors.  Enough corkscrews 
are,  therefore, turned  out  in’  the  town  of
Newark  to  supply every man,  woman  aad> tr in a iP-nInteri 
child m Europe and America  with one cork-i ^ p p te -p la ted .  b iiv er   S e t  (6  k n iv es,  6
screw a  year.  The question arises,  “ What i ^orks,  6* tea spoons,  I  sugar spoon,  I  
becomes of the  old  ones ?  Is  there R de-1 butter knife), in satin-lined case  Ad- 
S i m ^ eC<md'hand  wrkscr^ws ra Cen- Uress at opce,  R   W.  Tansffl  & Co^ 
? 
Stuart,  Enappen& Van  Arman • infenn ! 
Wto?. Es t^pw t^^ JlJvihgstOif j

J®®.86®*10»   of  th e  country  is  to-day  a ttra c tin g   as 
m uch atten tio n  as M ontana, Oregon  and  W ashington- 
M ontana, because it now   ran k s first in  th e production 
of precious m etals;  O regon,  because  of  its  rich  val- 
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T erritory  by  reason  of  its
m ild  clim ate,  tim ber,  coal,  m inerals  and w onderful 
production of  fru its  and  cereals.  The  raDid  g r o w th  
Falls, w ith a w ater  pow er  exceeding even 
th a t of  M inneapolis;  Tacoma,  on  P uget  Sound,  th e 
term inus  of  th e  N orthern  Pacific  R ailroad  w ith 
12,000 inhabitants;  Seattle  30  m iles  distant,  an  ener- 
awd  Ahrlvin g   cit*>  P a rk   «»is  section  of  the 
C^°.i;th w est,a? one  th? t   offers  peculiar induce­
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m ents to  those seekm g new  homes.
By w riting Chas. S.  Fee,  G eneral  Passenger A gent 
N orthern  Pacific  R ailroad,  St.  Paul, Mtom  he  will 
send  you  illu strated   pam phlets,  m aps  and  books 
giving you valuable  inform ation  in  reference  to th e 
country traversed  by  th is  g re a t  line  from   St. Paul 
M inneapolis,  D uluih  and  A shland  to   P ortland.  O re 
gon, and Tacom a  and Seattle,  W ashington T erritory 
£ H t i o a x.i?iad&m o a   t0 
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Spokane Falls,  Tacoma  and  Seattle,  reaches  all  th e 
principal points in   N orthern  M innesota  and  D akota, 
M ontana, Idaho, Oregon,  and  W ashington,  possesses 
unequaled  scenic  attractions,  a s . w ell  as  superior 
tra in  equipm ent, such  as  dining  cars,  and  colonist 
sleepers fo r th e  use  of  intending  settler«,  neith er of 
w hich  conveniences  a re  to  be  found  on  any  other 
line tick etin g  business to   th e  S tates  and  Territories 
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Detroit, Mich., April 9, 1888.
| Specialty Dept. Ph. B est Brew ing Co.,
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. dulT  received  the  case  of
your  Best  Tonic and have since had a great 
1? this institution.  I must say that the 
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Aiav.  effects  on  weak  and  debilitated 
I patients  have been  most satisfactory, espec- 
tally to those m a  stage of recovery after  se- 
| vere sickness.
I write this  thinking you might like to have 
my Opinion  on  its  merits.  I  certainly  shall 
prescribe  it  in future, where the  system re- 
quires building up. either from constitutional 
weakness or otherwise.

Yoars truly,

Wm. Gray, M. D. 
Medical Sup’t.

Midville, Geo., Feb. 24,3888. 

Specialty D epart. Ph. Best Brew ing Co.,
Gentlemen—i  think the “Tonic” a splendid 
“ ©di©ine for all forms  of Dyspepsia and Indi­
gestion.  It is giving me great satisfactiou. 
J. M. J o h n so n, m . D .

Very respectfully,

Yardley, Pa., March 38,3888.

Ph. Best Brew ing Co.,

Dear Sirs—I have given your “Malt Tonic” 
in seye£al cases of Enfeebled Digestion 
i 
wr! 6! ?£ral  debility, especially in the  aged, 
system  seems  completely 
prostrated, with  very satisfactory  results.  I 
have  used  many  of  the  so-called  “Malt  Ex- 
bUT  Relieve  your  preparation  to  be 
In  the  aged  where  the  digestive 
functions are exhausted, and there is a loss of 
t^e eerve vital  force, I  found its action  to  be 
rapid and permanent.

Elias Wildman, M. D.

Work-House Hospital, 

Blackwell’s Island, Feb. 10,1888.

I Ph. Best Brew ing Co.,
i  ®entlemen—As a matter of personal inter- 
I est, I have used  your “Best” Tonic in several 
i cases of impaired  nutritition.  The results in­
dicate that it is  an  agreeable  and  doubtless.
I  h ig h ly  e ffic a c io u s  re m e d y .  1 a m ,
Very truly yours,

E. W. Fleming,  M. D.

Troy, New York, January 26,1888. 

Specialty D epart. Ph. Best Brewing Co„
„D ear Sirs—Your agent left me a sample o f 
your liquid extract, Malt, and  as  I  use  much 
such  in  my  practice, I  thought  to  comparo 
I ? ? , Product with  some from another  house 
+iTacl on ? and ’ 
finding  yours  superior in 
i?Jfn^re.a^ ,easential,  the  pdlitdble  nutriant  aa 
as in tonic stimulant properties, felt anx- 
ious to  know about what  it  can be furnished 
the dispensing physician.

Yours truly,

E. Jay Fisk, M. D.

.  East Genessee Street,
Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 17,1888.

Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brew ing Co., 
Gentlemen—I have  used the “Best” Tonic 
with  most  gratifying  results in  my  case  of 
dy®P®P®\a-  My case was  a bad  one, l   had no 
oSue i  eL*ea<^ac^e
morning;sourstom- 
n ^ ’o^2klni:-a8  though  I  had  consumption, 
mid after taking this tonic I  never felt better 
J.n  “ 7 hfe.  I think it  will cure a bad case of 
dyspepsia.  You  may recommend it  for  that 
case* 

Wm. O. Jaeger.

323 South Fifth Street, 
Philadelphia, Feb. 4,1888.

Ph. Best Brew ing Oo., 28  College P lace, N. Y.,
Gentlemen—I  have  tested  the sample  of 
Concentrated  Liquid  Extract  of  Maft  and 
Hops  you  sent me,  and  find  in  my humble 
judgment that it is a very  pure and safe arti­
cle.  J  will  not  hesitate  to  recommend it  in 
every ease of debility  where  a  Tonic of  that 
kind is indicated.

Respectfully.

E. H. Bell, M. D.
New Orleans, La., April 6,1888. 

Specialty D epart. Ph. Brewing Co.,
Gentlemen—Having  tried  your  “Best** 
Tonic to a great  extent amongst my practice,
I will state m its behalf that  I  have liad  the 
best results with  nursing mothers  who  were 
deficient m  milk,  increasing its  fluids and se­
creting a more nourishing food for the infant. 
a ^9 increasing the appetite and in every way 
satisfactory for such cases. 
,•

Very respectfully,

D.  Bornio.M   D.

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Grand Rapids,

Mich.

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all  the  manufacturers

W e sell it on a  GUARANTEE.

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GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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And the'W holesale  Druggists  of  Detroit 

and Chicago.

21001?.

We pay th e highest price fo r it.  Addiess

PECE BROS.

Wholesale Druggists. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Aue W ie Lead  & Color f  orb,

De t r o it, 

- MICH.

25^50^KEMEDY.
25c size 
..................... ..............per doz, $2.00
50c  “
3.50
........................... 
Peckham ’s Croup Remedy is  prepared es­
pecially for children and is a safe  and certain 
cure for Croups, Whooping Cough,  Colds  and 
ai.-i?ionj 
and  pulmonary  complaints  of 
c5j  aoo<?'  Tor attractive  advertising m atter 
address the proprietor. Dr. II. c. BECKHAM.’ 
Freeport, Mich.  Trade  supplied,  by  whole­
sale druggists of  Grand  Rapids,  Detroit  and 
Chicago.

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CASH  SALE  CHECKS.

Encourage your trade to pay cash instead of 
running book  accounts  by  using  Cash  Sal« 
Checks.  For sale at 50 cents  per  100 by  E. A. 
STOWE & BR&, Grand Rapids.

importers and Jobbers of

DEALERS IN

Patent Medicines, 
Paints,  Oils, 
Varnishes.

WE ARE  SOLE PROPRIETORS OF

We have in stock and offer a full line of

Whiskies, 

Brandies, 

Gins, 
Wines, 

Rums,

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

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D elists’  Favorite  Rye  WMsty,

W e Sell Liquors for  Medicinal Purposes 

t 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.

SEND IN A TRIAL ORDER.

Hazeitine 

PATENTS;

_  H  I 

LUCIUS C.  WEST, 

Attorney at Patent Law and Solicitor 
„ o f  American  and  Foreign  patents. 
105 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich., U. S. A.  Braneli  o£> 
JUMb London, Eng.  Practice in U. 8. Courts,  d rool*»

Soft,  pliable  and  absolutely  unbreakable.  ____
dard  quality  15  cents  per  yard.  Cloth,  covered  80 
cents.  Satin covered 25 cents.  For sale everywhere.

V I C ’S

B S D -B T T C   Z X X A B X U

WITHOVr^roiSOK.

No  Color,  No  Smeli  and  No  Damage  to 

Bed  Clothes  or  Furniture.

Retails  for  2 5 _ cen ts  for  large  package* 

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Manufacturers af «lis Qe ebrated

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

i f e   DurahiVity,  Elasticity,  Beauty 
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tion tvbichundertakes  t o   limit -M~ige&5m 
In any magnar the privileges  which the ^ t- 
invasion  of  the 
iers patent eonfers  is  an 
sphere of national  authority,  and therefore 
void.  T his  was  shown  in  Cranson  v. 
Smith s? Mich.  309,  and what is said there 
need not be repeated.
But  the  ordinance  in  question does not 
assume  to  interfere  with  or  in  any  way 
to abridge the  exclusive  rights  which  the 
patentee may lay claim to under this patent. 
The  ordinance is a police  regulation, made 
under  the  general  police  authority of the 
State,  and taking  no  notice  of this or any 
other patent, or of  the  way  in  which any 
salable commodity may  have  come into ex­
istence. 
It is one of the customary  regula­
tions for a business.
It  is  well  settled  now,  if  it was ever 
doubted, that any ordinary  exercise of con­
gressional authority does  not take from the 
State any portion  of  its  general  power o f 
police.  Pervear v.  Commonwealth 5 Wall. 
475,  The acts of Congress  assume the ex­
istence  of  State  regulations,  and in many 
respects would  prove  inoperative  and con­
fusing  if  it  were  otherwise.  The  patent 
laws are as forcible  for  illustration  as any 
other; they give  exclusive  rights,  but they 
do not determine  personal  capacity to con­
tract, or prescribe the requisites for sales of 
patent articles, or impose the customary re­
strictions which are supposed to be important 
to  the  protection  of  public  morals.  All 
these matters are left to  the  State  law.  A 
patentee  must  observe  the  Sunday law as 
much as any other vendor;  he  must put  his 
contracts in writing under the same circum­
stances  which  require  writings of  others, 
and  he  must  obey all  other regulations of 
police  which  are  made for general observ 
ance.  Patterson  vs.  Kentucky,  97  U. S.J 
501. 
Invidious  regulations,  applicable  to 
patentees  exclusively,  might  be  void, but 
there  is  no  question  of  that  nature here. 
We have no doubt that it was competent for 
the State to confer upon the  city the  power 
to pass such an ordinance.
That the regulation of  hawkers  and ped 
dlers  is  important, if  not  absolutely essen­
tial,  may be  taken  as  established  by  the 
concurring  practice  of  civilized  states. 
They  are  a  class  of  persons  who  travel 
from place  to  place  among  strangers,  and 
the business may easily be made a pretense 
or a convenience to  those  whose  real  pur­
pose is theft or fraud.  The  requirement of 
a license gives  opportunity for  inquiry into 
antecedents  and  character,  and  the  pay­
ment of  a fee  affords  some  evidence  that 
the business is not a mere pretense.
II.  It is urged, however,  that  the  fee de­
manded in this  case is unreasonable if  reg 
ulation alone was in view, and is in the na 
ture of  a tax.  The city charter gives power 
to “license  and  regulate” peddlers, but not 
to tax them.  But we  do  not  think the fee 
is excessive, and cannot, therefore, hold the 
ordinance invalid on that ground.

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

71 CANAL

Street.

Urani Rapids Seed Store,

W  EE I  F  S

ADDRESS

TIME  TABLES,
Grand Rapids & Indiana.

V  

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All T rains d aily except Sundny.
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going north.
Y  
A rrives.
Traverse C ity & M ackinaw ® !.. . . . . # # »  m
Traverse C ity E x . . v  Y  • ................
F rom  Cincinnati. 
. . . y ..............
F t. W ayne an d  M ackinaw E x .......3 :4 0  p m
Saginaw  Express..  .....•  • • •  • • • • * ‘ yj ^  p  ™.

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Saginaw  express ru n s th ro u g h  Solid.
:00 a. m. tra in  hah ch a ir oar to Traverse City. 
11:30 a. m . tra in  h as ch a ir ca r fo r Petoskey and Mack-
<p.t ni, tra in  h as  sleeping  ears  fo r  Petoskey and 

toS
M ackinaw City. 
C incinnati  E x p re s s ...............................................J i g ? “
F o rt W ayne E xpress........................ lO .w a m  
u  .is a m
C in c in n a ti  E x p re s s ............. 6.00pm
.  M 
Traverse C ity and M ackinaw Ex. .U  :00 p m  

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GOING SOUTH.

7:15 a m  tra in   h as  p a rlo r  ch a ir  c a r f 
5:00 p m  tra in  h as W oodrufl sleeper to r 
5 -00 c.  m. tra in  connects  w ith M. C. R. K. a t JA.aia.ma- 
eoo fo r B attle Creek,  Jackson,  D etroit  an d  C anadian 
points, arriv in g  in  D etroit a t 10:45 p. m.

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Muskegon, Grand R apids & Indiana.

A rrive.
...............................10:10 a m
..............................  8:50p m
Leaving time at" Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. 

C. L. Lockwood. Gen’l Pass. Agent.

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Michigan Central.

Grand Rapids Division.

D EPART.

Day  E xpress...............................................................i n i ls S S
Mixed  ........................................................... .............6:50 a  m
»Pacific  E xpress.........................................................E S oS IS
G rand R apids E xpress...........................................

ARRIVE.

»Daily.  AU o th er daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars 
ru n  on A tlantic and Pacific E x p re sstrain s to  an d fro m  
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 aU th rough tra m s E ast over
M. C. R. R., (C anada S outhern Div.) ‘ 
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O. W. RU G G I.B S. Gen’l Pass, a n d  Ticket Agt., Chicago. 
Chas. H. Norris, Gen’l Agent.

TrfiWe- Shore & Michigan Southern 

6:10

Kalam azoo Division

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p m

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4
am  pm
im  yux  am  
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4:55
4:Ì2  9:02 c*  __ A llegan...............................8:28
3:52
5:03 10:00 A r__ K alam azoo........................ 7:10
2:25
6:35  11:35  “  ... .W hite Pigeon..................
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8:00 12:30  ‘ 
p m   a m  
a m
..11:30  8:50
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7:50  7:10  * 
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10:25  5:05 
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....C lev elan d .......................... 7:15  5:45
1.35  9:40 4 
p m
a  m  
. . . . B u f f a l o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ; - lldO
o:»u  o.ov 
6:20  3:30
Tickets fo r sale to   ail  principal  pom te  m   tn e u .b . 
Mexico and Canada a t  Union Ticket  Office,  Geo.  W n, 
liamson, Agt., Depot Office, M. BOOTZ, Agt.

A. J. Smith, Gen’l Trav. and Pass. Agt.,

Cleveland, Ohio.
Detroit, Grand  Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING WEST.
A rrives.
tM orning Express............................
(•Through Mail...................................5:05 p m
(G rand Rapids Express..................10:W p m
»Night E xpress................................. ...  
a  m
(Mixed.................................................
GOING BAST.
(D etroit  E xpress............................... ? 
a  ra
(Through Mail...................................19 ;2® a  m
(Evening E xpress.............................  3:25 p m
»Lim itedExpress............................  6:25p m

Leaves, 
1:10 pm 
5:10 p m 
10:45 p m 
5:40 a  m 
7:30 a  m
6:50am  
10:30 a m  
3:50 p m  
6:30 p m
(DaUy, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
D etroit  Express  h as parlo r  ca r  to  D etroit,  m aking 
d irect connections fo r all points  E ast, arriv in g  in  New 
Y ork 10:10 a. m. next day.  Lim ited  Express,  E ast, has 
th ro u g h   sleeper  G rand  Rapids  to   Niagara,  Falls, 
connecting  a t  M ilwaukee 
th ro u g h  
sleeper to  Toronto. 
.
Through tickets and  sleeping  ca r  b erth s secured a t 
D.  G. H. & M .R’y offices, 28 M enroe St., and a t th e depot. 

Ju nction  w ith 

J as. Campbell, City Passenger A gent

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

E. A. HAM ILTON,  Agt.,

134 to  140 Fulton St., GRAND  RAPIDS.

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Gasoline  Stove. 

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JOBBERS OF

Tobacco  and  Cigars.

SHIPPERS OF

VEGETABLES,  FRUITS  and  PRODUCE.

PROPRIETORS  OF THE

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NITURE.

Largest  STOCK  and  greatest  VARIETY  of  any  House  in 

City.

LOOK  UP  OUR  RECORD.

The “QUICK  MEAL”  is  now  the  most  popular  Stove 
made.  One-fifth of all the Gasoline Stoves sold last year in 
the entire United States were of this incomparable stove.

BECAUSE  u is 80 -si“ple * 

TH E  PEOPLE  LISLE  XT
„“yJìì®
ilevers for Opening the Valves can be found on no other stove, and'the 
frame is so worded that no mistake can he made in opening or closing.

BECAUSE
BECAUSE

It is so absolutely safe that we have yet te  hear  ^  

«^n^TiTVLY
a« l v ,S OSt.«*‘  “ï Y A Ï Î ï   Y - S 'S Y is H E S   THE

H^iiasinop^tlian every advantage claimed by 
’’"“(ÎkÎ c^ ' m EaÏÏ’*
liar stoves heina only attempts  at  im itation  of  the  “QUIClt  -»le,Ala 
which has jumped into popular favor, in  such  a  surprising  manner 
solely on account of its honest merit.
P R I C E S

Are as low as any, ranging from $3 for Single Burners to *30 each for the  larger burners, s u b ­
ject to regular trade discount.  If the “QUICK MEAL” is not  sold  in  your  town, write to  US
for Catalogue and prices.

D O N 'T   W A I T

to  Handle  Him  in  Cities  and  In - 
s#  , 

corporated Village.

One  of  the  most  perplexing  questions 
which confront the  business men of Miehi- 
gfc" g»» at the present  time  is the best method 
of regulating the peddler.  That regulation 
¡¡3 of- some kind is needed is patent to any one 
C!;-\Who,is in a position to appreciate  the situa­
tion,  which is fall of gravity to the business 
rsf/.;ptibHc, for  unless  something  is  done  to 
I*3'«heck  the  tide  of  irresponsible,  itinerant 
merchandising,  a  considerable  portion  of 
Ythe legitimate  dealers  might  as  well  be- 
,  ,  come reconciled to the idea of retiring from
Y 
and turning their business  over to the 
|   peripatetic individuals who  carry ‘on  their
sY  nefarious  traffic  without  leave  n r license 
and swell their profits by catering chiefly to 

f?  fbe gullible side of human nature

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of  view present themselves. 

In dealing  with  the  peddler, two points 
f 
In one  case, 
|;ffi  the peddler travels through country districts, 
which  renders  him  amenable to the State 
Y..  laws  governing  peddling. 
In  the  other 
Y '  case, he operates in cities  and  incorporated 
; 
villages, where there  should  be  ordinances 
"t!. • prescribing on what  terms  he can victimize 
tiie  inhabitants  thereof. 
2 
In  the  former 
case, the recent amendments  to the general 
/ 
law serve  to  make the  statute  sufficiently 
Explicit to  ensure  conviction  in  ease  pro-
Y   ceedings are instituted, but  the  main  diffi­
culty seems  to  lie  in  getting some one to
take the initiatory steps.  U ntil  the. law is 
amended  in this  particular,  it  is  doubtful 
y   whether the State law  regulating  peddling 
/   will be effectively enforced.
■ 
In the case of  cities  and  villages,  how-
Y i  ever, the remedy  is  more  simple and more 
easily  applied.  The  business  men  can
Y  usually secure the  passage  of an ordinance 
covering the ground,  and,  when  once  se 
cured, it is  Comparatively  easy  to  induce 
the  local  officers  to  enforce  it.  Several
p ’’  municipalities have among  their  local laws 
ordinances governing  peddling  which have 
¡Ip  been put to  the  test  and  sustained  by the 
Supreme Court.  Among  the  latter  is  the 
Cold water ordinance,  which  was  sustained 
- so fully and completely, that T h e T bades- 
m a n  has  concluded  to  give  place  to both 
documents.  The ordinance is as follows:

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AN   ORDINANCE

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Y 
Y 

f   .  •Relating to Licensing o f Hawkers and Ped- 
; 
dlers  and  Permitting Sales of Merchan-
Y 
dise on the Streets and Sidewalks.
Y>‘ 
Sec.  1.  No  person  shall  peddle,  sell or
..  offer for sale on any sidewalk  or  in any of 
Y r 
the public parks  or  public  places, streets, 
lanes or alleys of the city of Coldwater,  any 
r  >  beef, pork or  other  meats,  except  by  the 
carcass or quarter, nor any patent medicine, 
jewelry, wares, merchandise,  or  other pro­
perty.  This section,  however,  shall notap 
I f f   ply to the  sale  of  fruits,  vegetables,  fire 
tY  wood, dairy or farm  produce,  second-hand 
furniture and utensils, nor to live stock.
Sec. 2.  No person  shall  hawk or peddle
any  meat,  goods, wares,  or  merchandise,
from door to door  within  the  limits of the 
city of Coldwater,  without  a  license from 
the  Mayor  as  herein  provided:  Provided 
that, such license shall  not  be  construed to 
permit any such person to hawk  or  peddle 
such meat, goods,  wares or  merchandise on 
tiie streets,  lanes,  alleys,  parks  or  public 
places of  said city.
Sw-g. 3.  The Mayor  is  hereby  authorized 
___ ense any person to engage  in the busi­
toliefn
ness of hawking and peddling from door to 
door, as provided in the  preceding  section, 
upon  such  person  paying  into  the  city 
treasury the following sum,  viz:
For  a  license  to  sell meat for one year, 
forty dollars.
Bor a license to sell meat  six  months,  or 
for any time less than six  months,  twenty- 
five dollars.
For a license to sell  any  other  property 
provided for in this ordinance, except meat, 
fifteen dollars for  each  year,  or  three dol-l 
Jars for each day for any time les3 than one 
year.
Sec. 4.  Any person who shall violate the 
1 provisions of this  ordinance  shall  be  pun­
ished by a fine of  not  more  than fifty dol­
lars, or by imprisonment in  the  county jail 
not more than thirty  days  or  by both such 
fine and imprisonment.

So far as Th e T radesman has been able 
to ascertain, this ordinance has been strictly 
enforced.  About  two  years  after  its en­
actment,  a  clothes  wringer  peddler  from 
Sturgis  was  convicted  of  doing  business 
without  a  license  and  fined by the court. 
Instead of paying  the  fine, he appealed the 
case to the Supreme  Court,  his  special de­
tense being that the granting of a patent by 
the  general  government  established  the 
right of  the  patentee  to  sell  his  device 
wherever he desired.  The  Supreme  Court 
took a contrary view of the case,  sustaining 
tbe main features  of  the ordinance.

The  decision  was  rendered  by  Judge 
Oooley  and  concurred  in  by all the other 
members of the tribunal.  The  fpll  text of 
tiie decision is as follows:

‘ An ordinance  of  the  city  of  Coldwater 
¡S  provides, among other things, that “no per- 
aon shall hawk or peddle  any  meat, goods, 
wares or  merchandise  from  door  to  door 
;  within the limits  of  the  city  of Coldwater 
Wltiibut a license  from  the  mayor.”  For 
tiie license, when  not  for the sale of meat, 
fifteen  dollars  is  required  to  be  paid for 
.  one year, or three dollars for one day.
The defendant has  been  convicted under 
ibis ordinadee,  on  evidence  that  without 
license he traveled  from  door  to  door  in 
—ih city and sold a  clothes  wringer.  The 
>  gjqt.hfts wringers were manufactured by the 
defendant at Sturgis,  in  this  State,  under 
i, -  letters patent of the United States issued to 
Kim end one Shepardson as patentees.
H I  x   It g  objected  to  tiie  ordinance that if 
applied to the sale of patented articles  it  is
'to  jpmat  exclusiw tirights  to  patentees to 
mairft and sail their  inventions,  and an en­
croachment  upon  the  rights  which  the 
pstentassures to  thepatentees..  W eagree 
f i c t i f  (Mb  la  the  ease  the  ordinance  cpn

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