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Michigan

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  W E D N E S D A Y ,  J U L Y   4,  1888.

V O L .  5.

B E W A R E  !

It  has come 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. 
A t 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 our 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  near 
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.

S E E D

IF   YOU WANT

Medium  Glover,

Mammoth Glover,

Timothy,
Alsike,

Alfalfa,

Hungarian, 

Millet,

Red  Top,

Orchard Grass,
Blue Grass.

Field  Peas,

Spring Rye,

Spring  Barley

OR ANY KIND OF SEEDS SEND TO

W,  T,  M M O fflU X ,

7x  Qanal  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

T H E   GREAT

EDMUND B.
Watch Maker 
a Jeweler
44  CANAL  8T„
Grand Ranids,  -
S A F E S  !

BOOK-KEEPING

WIPED  OUT!

No  Pass  BooksI 
No Charging!
No  Posting!

No  Writing!

No Dispiiting of Iccoiints! 

No  Change to  Make!
TRADESMAN
Credit Coupon Book.

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T H E  N E W E ST  AND BEST SYSTEM  

ON  T H E   M A RK ET.  '
We quote  prices as follows:
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* 2 Coupons, per hundred......................... *2.50
3.00
SB 
4.00
Slfl 
$20 
5.00
Orders for 200 o r over.......................5 per cent.

Subject to the following discounts:
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“ 
“  500 
“ 
*• 1000 
Send in sample order and put your  business 
on a cash basis.
E.  I.  STOWE # BR0„ Grand  Rapids.

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

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H erdan! Millers.

Shippers and Dealers m

Ç8AIH  ail  BAILED  HAY.

Flouring M ill and Office,

Cor. Court St. and G.R. & I.R.R.

Grain  Office,

No. 9 Canal Street,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

J. W. CONVERSE,

Proprietor.

O.  E.  BROWN,

Manager.

W e are making  a  Middlings 
Purifier and Flour Dresser that 
w ill save you their cost at least 
three tim es each year.
They  are  guaranteed  to  do 
more  work in less  space (with 
less  power  and  less  waste) 
than  any  other  machines  of 
their  class.
Send  for  descriptive  cata­
logue w ith testim onials.
Martin’s  Middling  Pnriffer  Co.

G R IP  RIP1D8,  MICH.

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

G. M. GOODRICH.A GO.,

With  Safety Deposit  Co., Basement ol Wid- 

dlcomb Blk.

m

STANTON, SIMPSON î  GO.,
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Sole  Manufacturers  of  the  “Peninsular’1 

Brand Pants, Shirts and Overalls.

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State agenta for Celolold Collars aod nme. 

ASO atad I t s  Jefferson, Ave.,

DETROIT, 

-  MICHIGAN»

QEO-  F.  OW EN,  Grand  Rapids;

BA»».»

Attorney  a t  Law,

REUBEN  HATCH
Booms 28 &34 Wlddleomb Bid. Scénso. S t,
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A matted .tajwmtof moneytolosn on real  esteta se-

THUM B,  WHYLAND  &  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 our establishment, comer 
West Broadway, Reade and Hudson streets, and make 
oar acquaintance, whether  they wish to buy goods or 
not.  Ask for a member of the firm.]

ASK   FOR

ÄRDENYER

fUUSYÄRD*
BEST D IT I V O M

J•  E.  FELDNER  &  CO.

CUSTOM  SHIRT  MAKERS,

Aim DKALEB8 I*

IB H U |  Furnishing  Goods.|¿
NO. 8 PEARL ST.,  1  GRAND RAPIDS 
. PrytaPt Altamtta» taJtaö Orte*  Telephone Ita.

BELKNAP
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MANUFACTURERS OF

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

Lumber  and  Farm

W A G O N S !

Logging Carts  and  Trucks 

Mill and Dump Carts, 

Lumbermens and 

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River Tools.
We carry a large stock of material, and have 
.  -
rero facility 
for making first-class  Wagons
of all kinds.
-EVSpeolal  attention  given  to  Repairing, 
Painting and Lettering.
Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Midi,
S.  T.  FISH  &  CO.,

General COMMISSION Merchants
FRUITS  and  PRODUOE,
189 So. W ater St.,  -  Chicago.

WHOLESALE

We  solicit  your  correspondence |and  will 
make liberal  advances  on  all  shipments for­
warded to us.  Send us your consignments and 
we  will render prompt  and  satisfactory ‘fib- 
turns.  GAR LOTS A SPECIALTY.

FERM ENTIO!

The : Only  Reliable  Compressed  Yeast. 
Handled by s  Majority  of  the  Giocete 
and Bakers ofMichigan.  Send for sam-

B»  apd  prices,  L.  W INTERNITZ, 

te Agent, Grand ftapiáa^? 

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SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF

ABSOLUTE  8PI6E8,
Absolute Baking Powder.

-AND----

JOBBERS OF

Teas, Coffees 1  Grocers’  Seines,
46 Ottawa 81., GRIP RÄP1D8.

ORDER

Gordon’s

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The Best

Ì Ì

CIGAR

In the Market.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

FID. I TAIE & CO
Y ell i i n t t n r  t Go.
DRY  GOODS

Importers and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

O v e r a l l s ,   P a n t s ,  E t c . ,

OUR OWN MAKE.

A  Gomplete  Line  o f

Fancy Croclery§Fancyfoodfinware

OUR OWN IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 

Prices Guaranteed.

A  YEAR’S  PROGRESS.

As  Set Forth by the President of the T.gn 

sing  B. M. A.

At the recent annual meeting of  the ¿an- 
sing B. M.  A.,  President  Wells  presented 
the following admirable  address:

As we  meet tonight to  celebrate the first 
anniversary of  our  existence,  it is most ap 
propriate that we ask ourselves if the hopes 
which inspired the founders of  our  Associ 
ation  one  year  ago  have  been  realized, 
What  those  hopes  were it  is fair  to infer 
is expressed  in the constitution  adopted 
that time.  As  therein  stated the  principal 
objects of  the organization were:

1. To  encourage  well-directed  enterprises 
to  promote  the  proper  progress,  extension 
and  increase  of the trade and growth of this 
city.
2.  To  increase  acquaintanceship  and foster 
the highest commercial integrity among those 
engaged  in  the  various  lines  of  business 
represented.
3.  To  encourage  the  merchant  to  adopt 
shorter hours for doing business.
4. To promote  the  proper observance of all 
national holidays, and more frequent intervals 
for rest and recreation.
5.  To take concerted action against discrimi 
nations by railway and express companies.
6.  To induce  equitable  insurance rates and 
settlements.
To  secure  immunity  from  inferior  and 
adulterated goods,  short weights,  counts and 
measures,  fictitious  brands  and  -labels,  and 
misrepresention in public and private.
8. To influence legislation in favor of better 
collection laws, affording more  safety to cred­
itors in general.
To  introduce  the  cash  system wherever 
practicable.
10. To guard against unnecessary  extension 
of credit  to  unworthy  persons,  through  the 
interchange of information gained by experi­
ence and otherwise.
11.  To maintain a collection department for 
the  collection  of doubtful  accounts  and the 
blacklisting  of  dead-beats  who  prey  upon 
business men.
12. To prevent the jobber selling at retail to 
private families.
13.  To compel the peddler to assume a por­
tion of the burdens borne by the merchant.
These objects were regarded  as of suffici 
ent  importance  to  inspire  the  efforts  not 
only of the gentlemen who were the f ounders 
of  our Association,  but  also  of  those who 
have since become members, and have shown 
by so  doing  that  they  believe  the  accom 
plishment  of  these  purposes  will  tend  to 
promote  not  only their  material  interests, 
but that they will also keep  alive that spirit 
of  honesty  and  fair  dealing  which  has 
made  the  name  merchant  a  synonym  of 
fidelity in every nation and every age.
Among the first of  the objects considered 
by us was the adoption of  shorter hours for 
It was argued that no good 
doing business. 
reason  existed  why  the  hours  of  labor for 
men who sell goods should be from fourteen 
to sixteen,  while those of  bankers, of  law­
yers,  of  clerks  outside  of  stores,  of  me­
chanics and of laborers should only be from 
eight to  ten.  This  reasqping  was  so con 
vincing that a movement to close  all  stores 
at six was adopted  with  remarkable  unani­
mity.  A change so radical naturally excited 
much  feeling  of  various  degrees  of favor 
and  disfavor,  both  from  merchants  and 
from the  community  at  large.  Merchants, 
many  of  them, for  the  first  time  in  their 
business lives found time to enjoy the com­
panionship  of  their  families,  and  expres­
sions of  delight at  the novel  experience of 
having a few hours of  recreation  each  day 
were  heard  on  every  side.  Experience, 
however,  soon  showed  that the  movement 
was  premature,  that a period  of  education 
might  be  necessary  to  its  success,  and it 
was  finally  abandoned.  Antagonistic  in­
fluences,  both within and without the Asso­
ciation,  were sufficiently powerful to induce 
a few to,break over the rule adopted.  Others 
soon followed,  and, as unanimity was neces­
sary to success,  a general relinquishment of 
the plan soon followed.
This  first  failure 'to carry  into effect  an 
aim  of  the  Association  was  deplored  by 
many, not alone for the personal disappoint­
ment it produced,  but also  for  the  effect it 
was feared it might have upon other reforms 
the Association might  inaugurate  and  also 
upon  its  general  prosperity.  This  was 
probably rendered much  less serious by the 
success  which attended the trial of  another 
of  the  efforts  of  the  Association.  Mem­
bers had  begun  to test  the  efficacy  of  the 
document known as  the Blue  Letter.  The 
results were both surprising and gratifying, 
and that  portion  of  our  membership  who 
were not doing a strictly ready-pay business 
became convinced  at once that this  feature 
alone should entitle our Association to live, 
Few persons have  traveled so far  down the 
dead-beat  path  as  not to  be  influenced  by 
the persuasive  words and  suggestive  color 
of  this  sheet. 
Its  tender  but  significant 
phraseology seldom fails to touch the hearts 
and  pockets  of  all  but  the most  obdurate.
It appeals in the  most  touching  way to the 
conscience and  cash,  if they possess either, 
of  the  class  who  delight  to  thrive  on  the 
earnings of  the confiding merchant.  While 
it  kindly  counsels 
this 
class to pay, it mentions a penalty for those 
who  do  not,  which  few  can  contentedly 
contemplate.  Nearly all our members have 
at some  time during  the  year  invoked  the 
potent influence of this magi cletter, and the 
correspondence  which  has  resulted  has 
proved in very many instances pleasant and 
profitable, 
to  one  party  at  least.  This 
peculiar  method  of  administering  justice 
and conserving honesty entitles it to rank as 
one  of  the  moral  influences  of our  age of 
no small value.
That object of our Association relating  to 
the progress and growth of the city and the 
promotion of business enterprises has in its 
various  aspects  received  much  attention. 
The  policy  and  action  of  the  Common 
Council  in their  legislative action  concern­
ing city  improvements have  been subjected 
to  discussion and  criticism of  considerable 
importance, and toe continued consideration 
of toe work done by this branch of  toe city 
government  seems  to  be  not . only within 
toe  province of. onr Association  but a duty 
which  must result in real  advantage  to our 
citizens.
Many of  our sister  societies in  the  State 
point with  pride to toe business enterprises 
they have been instrumental in securing for' 
their  respective towns  and  cities« 
In this 
direction,  our  Association  has  done  but 
little.  We  can  boast of  no captures.  Wjo 
have  discussed  propositions  from  parties 
who, for  a  pecuniary  consideration,  were 
willing to locate in Lansing.  Noneof these 
have thus far seemed sufficiently promising 
to  justify any  attempt to raise  toe  money
they  have deinanded- to, compensate  theto

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such acti°n  I3  yery I them  as 

But whether money be obtained  prises, 

I only argue that the large con-  Britain  in  housebuilding 

caus®? had  not  yielded  undertaken  by  our  own  citizens  or  by 

+r°m  oth^r  locahties.  The I already in  successful  operation  within  our I Statistics are  prolific  with evidences of  the 
felt hy towm3  andcities of  our State  city than to use them to draw in others whose  increase in wages  during  the  last  t w en tv  
t S S X S S i   benefits which  manufactories  existence may be brief  and  whose end  dis-1 five years^nd als0 with the farther  sTSii■ 
bring by increasing  business and toe  value  astrous ?  Do  not  understand me to  mean  cant fact that the  classes  earning the high 
of  property  has  induced  very  many  such  that we  should  not  encourage  new  enter-  est  was 
earning toe hisrh-
concerns whose business  through  misman-  prises.  These  should be fostered,  whether  portion.
Concurrent  with  the  increase  in  wam«i 
°r 
sufficient  Profit  to  put  their  plants  up  at  strangers, until  they  have  either  failed or  have the hours of  labor been reduced
v0tK4A  be -?uld t(? tb®hl^ e s t bidder  demonstrated by success that they are fitted  Giffen upon  th is p o in tc lS s t E in ' G^St 
but to ask  bids with a view  to  toe removal  to survive. 
textile  in d   p f  
of  their business to the place offering them  cems which number their  operatives bv the  gineering  trade* thi* 
a  f-nd S?'
toe largest gift.  With the  entire State bid-  hundreds  are  those  w h L K S   most^ure I f a s t ^
ding,  they  have often  succeeded  in getting  under  present  conditions  of  proving  per-  so that toe  British  workman of  to^dav has 
a good pnce for such removal or in inducing  manent blessings to the communities where  the  advantage  over his  ancestors of  /h a lf 
toe  citizens  where  they  are  located  to  they exist.  Let our efforts,  then, be chiefly  centu^agothathegets 50t o :too 
xri!l!inerr 4e 4+vfrn handsomely forremaining. I directed in  aiding in  all  possible  ways the  more  pay  for  20 per  cent,  less  work  and 
Money  for  these  purposes  has  frequently  establishments already in our midst, and let  has the farther  benefit of the  vastlv dimin 
been  raised by tax  authorized by a citizens’  our endeavor be to build them  up aAd make  ished cost o f to e n S s S ie s  and to iu ri^  of 
they  should  b e -v a s t  enter-  life.  Uponthe*ContoSntand into eU ffit^ 
the  most  per-  States statistics and well-authenticated facts 
wisdom  of  feet  machinery  and  with  sufficient  capital  exhibit  similar  advantages  to  the  laborer 
The  few  instances  of  progress  we have 
ot expend  money with  greater  advantage  out the  world.  The  region  of  distribution  been con sidering (as shown in the vast influ 
i zens or byincreas.-  by no boundaries within the limits of human  duction,  so rapidly  beingPdeveloped  bvPtoe 
n  W/ ? ts upon, the  eartb’  until  tbe  reputation  inventive skill of man,  hive prod!ced)-toe 
tban , by Oofl*£ing  bounties  to  of Lansing factories should become a house-  powerful effect  of  accumulated  canital and 
to  come  here?  There is scarcely  a  hold  word  wherever the sun of  civilization  the reductionin hours^o?labor-2e S eated 
I would not favor the raising  from the  record  which  marks the  advance 
the amount of capital many of those  has dawned. 
operari°ncould profitably employ  of  money for any  purpose  by  questionable  of  the race toward  better living  because of 
risk in invest  means,  but should  money be  thus  obtained  their  general  bearing  upon  biSiness ffitel- 
^ ould  be far 
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in co»eerns already on their feet  and used to  diminish the  cost  of  transpor-  ests.  Many others might be profitably con-
w n li^ T ^  a Profitable  business than there  tation for the industries of our city, I would  sidered if  we had  the  time.  One  of  these 
Ch  St,U lla<,  thffi’e  2 %  wl,h at least  as mych  complacency  is the combination  (now”   common a m S  
as if the money so procured had been distrib-  producers  and known  as  “ trusts ”)  having
advantages to secure. 
A well-known characteristic of our age is  uted among  the  statesmen in whose  hands  for its  object the  regulation of  prices  and 
the  destruction of  all  handicrafts  by  ma-  rests the government of  our city. 
of  output,  which  is  assuming greater  and
jt has been asked if the material r>rn<mer  greater importance every day.  The influence
ehinery.  The  shop  has given  place to  the 
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. t  usurPed  by  large  establish-1 rather than a blessing bv undulv  increasing  wbbin certain limits be  productive of good,
but like the  latter  they  are  sure  sooner or

^   f°r 
of  pur best bus}ness men.  Could we  kind, not only in our own State, but through- 

ourselv?8  by educing  new  for such establishments should be restricted  ence which  improved  implements  for 

i )UI:pose 1S Questioned  by  to compete successfully with others of their  and artisan of  those countries 

ra?irAt0riC0I1Crien+triatl0n’ if° | ami,liar  succeeded  moderately  had  conditions  re- U uick 

to make  a bad  aid
t h e S   crowding  to the  power they have invoked. 

ments m which great aggregations of capital  tha number of stores and n?ndnL ? I 
produce  the  most  economical  results  and  e fu S m C  of comStitors 
enable  such concerns to furnish products at  oftendoestM s 
The wise  business man  is the one who is
iL.es®  price than  their  smaller  brethren. I wajj a ciags 0f merchants who  would  have 
recognize all  the  influences which 
to u s  m  railroad  and  telegraph  develop-  mainedunchan„e(£  Thu^s  it  comes  about  may  affect  bis  business,  utilizing  those 
r ^ i 8  p en d in g   to other  industries, and  that  rapidly  developing  towns  and  cities  wbicb are  favorable  and  resisting  such as 
as trade after trade foilows their example it I Usuallyhavl t h ^ S e l t   a l m o s t   active Iare 
.He  wil1  meet  combination  with 
If  railroads,  insurance  com- 
wi?iam n° fu9  tbat the time is close at hand  merchants.  Men are^quick  to  perceive toe  coinbination. 
w X t e l S f h v Y l f ,68“1“84  yleIHmutetI«p8 m S n r sr e t L y s E h ™ ^  
join  their
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““ be prepared to sbow
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a united front to resist any unjust  demands^ 
or  unreasonable  methods  they  may  in­
combination of interests are sore to produce! of tfofflttest is as p S t  to ttL  S h ire  as to
the greatest  profit.  From  1850 to 1880  the any other.  Those  who  are  left  behind in I
augurate.
Our Association  and that of  the State,  oY

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It is true that  it  the  world  was  raffidty  p ^  

pp  m E S L i r S .S S ,  S 2idIjA*?ap-  Wl“ * «■!» p r e l r S i n s Y s  

 I sympathy and“sometimerreceive thTassiTt-1 eomplishment  of  ends  by  these  means in
to 
mills  in thP  n X f c J o o f  
flouring  ance 0f toe rest, but they  finally  pass from  I ew‘  .The/   have ^already  achieved  not a. 
mills  m the  United  States  actually dimm-  our view and  are  scarceiv  missed  C p  few  advantages, 
though  both  are  yet  in
J,®b^  °ve£ 20  per  cent.,  but  the aggregate  communities  may  be  found  where  these  tbeir  infancy.  They promise  more  impor- 
capacity  of  those which  remained  greatly  weaklings predominate  but  blight and mfi6  tant results  in the  future.'  Shall  we  mer- 
00^   chants of Lansi“g use «*6 instrument from
mcreased.  The  woolen  mills,  the  wagon  T w  a r l l p l l  t E  and they arf  ^
flll?S,nim9C<thAef sh0?s.’ the sboe shops, the  in the rust of idleness.  The  men  who P ct  whl?h so much  may be expected in the pro­
flour  mills,  the  foundries  and  many  other  and the men who perceive are the 
motion of  our interests  and  the’ upholding
a1 n r i S £ ? f trif  whi^ hweKre !0Mer1/  s^ b  J e ^beSm togC re^nd ^
?  Most of us have beln quick
a prominent feature ot the business of every  0f the world’s progress in every deDartment 
to  take  advantage  of  modern  methods  in
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p  ring.  They have  fulfilled their destiny,  ways.  Malthus, in 1798  was led  bv his in-  ^ be large number who were  prompt to join, 
and  many of  those which  still  exist  are  vestSations to d a ta  that the  pooulation ot  our ranks would  seem  to ans wer this que^ 
mere relics of a past age. 
Itio“  iQ  a  very  practical  manner,  but  the
£?D trM nSSrt £ Q|A^>t|Plt% ? 0neW| i<*   limits of subsistence and could not go on in-  ®ubsequent lack  of  interest  of  a  great pro- 
Tbe  wonder-1 creasing because, after a time,  there  would  portl°u  tbr°ws  at  least  a shade  of doubt
fni 
ul  improvements  in  machinery  hftvc  held  Kg «a 
forit^ mmnnrt*  Knf  K\r moo na Af  npon  the  response«  The  rnsny  Questions 
t o e h d subiecte  ^ ic h   affect  C u e s ?  m en Z
much  to  do with the change. 
should  make  our  meetings  both
to  itin   wnikini°in athA  i af an op.®ftiye  civilized world, the perfection of Igricultur-  R e s tin g  and  pleasant  through  their dis- 
.co^ on  niills  of  aj machineiy and knowledge of agricultural  fussion and  draw  out  on  such  occasions a
tv. 
.6  slsnd^thirteen  to  fourteen  hours a  science,  food  productions  are  raDidlv out-  ^ar^e proportion of our membership.  They
. 
day turned out 9,600  yards of  sheetmg in a  stripping population  and  toe  prediction of  bave  no*  done  so  to  the  extent  that  they 
f y  
has  just  dosed,
mill,  working ten  hours a day, made 30,000  All the resources of the entire DODulation of  ®ball we witness an improvement in this re- 
S iS aH %»ff® T ^BUfaeS Pe  °f i811068’ .%?*  ^  United States would  havePbeeninad2  spect.duringtoe year upon which we are now 
claimed  that  new  machinery  has  within  quate fifty  years aeo  to  have  sown n r w l   enterinS ?  With rooms of  our  own, which 
nf lfh n 
hnr^f106^ bve*sixtbstfie amount  vested the grain  crop of  1880,  and,  even if  we b°Pe soon to have,  with a more thorough 
the  understandmg of  the  objects and  possibili- 
during  the same  time  the cost of  the pro-  larger  part  would  hlve  S d   unon  the  ties.of  our  Association,  with  a  better  ac- 
duct  has  been  reduced one-half. 
In  the I ground  for  lack  of  means of  distribution  I Qnamtance and higher  appreciation of  each 
anufacture  of  agricultural  implements,  How these means of  distribution have mul-  ?tber>  shall  not  the  present  year  show  in 
600  men 
AarT d0 ihe  wo^ tbat  fifteen  or  tiplied and  cheapened through  the railway  inte^ st anil achievement results far siu-pass- 
twenty  years
ears  ago  would  have  required | service of  the United  States  may be  better  ing ^ e-°-ne m honor  of  which we  have  as-
has been a displacement of  three-fourthVof | Sfv 

ASikfn!;l|8e T Pr<iVfmeiltSfare Sh0Wn by  supply and prices of  f o T t o r V  hon!  the 

hand  labor formerly required,  and  that  this  could  have  been  accomDlished 

in  the  stone! ¿ I S S Z S  S i S S J S S S S S i ^   ■ > « "   ln  HLe 

In  the  manufacture of  flour, there

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Ihe  pen  is  mightier  than the 

^ „  of  a day’s  wages  of  an average  mechanic.  I  But now one word to the young man who
ujau  VYUU
pen  J8  migbtier  than the  sword,”  Furthermore,  not  only  has  the  supply  of  is making haste to be rich.  Not one out of 
said Bulwer, but a recent writer has seemed  food  increased and  become  lower in price,  10,000 who  give  talent,  energy  and  life to 
giunPov^der  is mightier  than  but the variety  available to the  masses  has  this race ever reaches the goal.  We have seen 
®‘tbe1r . atJd  that  no  force  has  been  quite  become much greater.  Most  tropical fruits  that the goal itself is a  grand delusion  but. 
«rA-fiJ? *be  musket to bring  the race to its  may be had nearly as  cheaply  in non-tropi-  as you will not  see the  truth,  perhaps  the 
present  high  state  of  civilization.  But,  cal  countries  as  those  indigenous  to  the  tremendous chances  against  you in the race 
gunpowder  is  a  pigmy  compared with the  latter.  Pass down our streets  and see  dur-  may turn you to a wiser course.  Yourcom- 
C ? " £o L f ? i ° 81VfL  of  tbe present  day. 
ing  nearly  the  entire  year  the  bushels of  petitors are legion,  and they have no bowels 
Fortunately,  it qs  the  arts of  peace  rather  oranges,  lemons,  bananas,  cocoanuts  and  of  mercy.  They  carry sharp  daggers  and 
than of  war which render these destructive  other  products  of  an  equatorial  climate  use  them  skillfully.  The  race  becomes a. 
agents  valuable  now.  By means of  dyna-  which are daily sold  by our  grocers.  Look  game of  heartless  trickery,  and  vour  dis- 
mite and other similar compounds,  aided by  at the vast  pyramids  and  boxes  of  canned  comfiture  will  excite  no  symoathv  You 
™«„„*40am 
f nd  c0“ prt ssed  ajr  drills,  and preserved  fruits  which  are  constantly  cannot  stop a moment  to  rest or  you’ll be 
“
t r 8“? longer offer barners to modern I being  replenished,  and  some faint  concep-  trodden  under  foot.  Plot  and  counterolot 
methods of  travel.  By  means of  these in-  tion may  be  had of  how much  better  than  will keep you busy day and night until your 
S  
4.f  tbe  rocky base  of  a  mountain  ever before the world is being fed.  Ask the  brain reels and your physical  faculties  fail 
seven and one-half miles m extent is pierced  merchant if these luxuries,  which  only the  your hair becomes  prematurely white  vour
tn sriTA tn EnmnA thn Mrait Oonic 
^  ummuiaji  wuiu;,  >uui
to g}ve to Europe the Mont Cems timnel,  to  rich could afford  a  few years  ago,  are still  limbs  totter,  your  food has  no relish, vour 
Iiq 
followed  by  a  still  more  purchased  exclusively  by this class,  and he  disposition grows sour, you are nervous with
daring  feat,  the  great St.  Gothard  tunnel,  will  tell  you  with a smile of  contempt  at expectation  or fear. 
It  is  the hope of toe
of  nine  and  one-fourth  miles,  and, subse-  your ignorance that his best customers for all infatuated  gambler  who  puts'  down his
quently,  the  Hoosac  tunnel  m  our  own 
these goods are the men who daily eat from money in  spite of  the  staring  facts o f  the
country.  Each  great enterprise, like  those 
tin  dinner  pails  food  which  even 
just named, has added  greatly to the  value  wealthy could not afford a century ago.  An
of  the instruments by which’such successes  acre of  the sea  cultivated  by  recently  dis- 
are  achieved.  These  grand  attempts  at  covered  methods  is  capable  of yielding  as
mastery over nature  have  reached a climax I much food  as any’acre^of fertile  dryland  I 
thi? g in  t.®wn is tb® mishap
in  the  construction of  toe  Panama Canal. | and fish caught to to f w a te m T th T N S  I ^ , a SHe  SThTeS to^hSo? bavtog
and fish caught to toe  waters of  the  North 
From  Suez  to  Panama, invention  has fol-
Pacific  are  transported  3,000  miles  to  be
hi* w£Ig?d  as.Potatoes,  and toe
lowed  invention  until,  as is  now asserted,] served fresh to toe inhabitants of the Atlan- 
 L  r lto n  
“Ike  power  to  excavate  earth  and  blast  He Coasts  while the  0 “stere  and  otter Z -   ^
s L ^ ..,f ,? r»IK,nol  kaY lb^  
when a man  unknown to fame  landed with  food  upon the  tables  of  avnnifiS rtnnrSt  ^a^ ^ ! f  _^T?°?pi“gA ttp at aj^S ^ar statch
rock  is  from  five to ten  times as great  as  ducts  of  the  latter  sea are  almost a stanio  foil w 0C  l  ' 
.Sbe.finally  found that they 
a handful of his  countrymen and began the 
throughout toe states  and territories of  the 
excavation of  Port Said.  But mankind de­
Union. 
In a  well-managed  cotton  mill to 
rives still  other  benefits from  these inven 
Maryland, the per capita cost of subsistence 
tions. 
In  mining«  their  effectiveness  is
,  (with a bill  of  fare of  meats,  all  ordinary
such that with an increase of 33 per cent, of  groceries,  vegetables,  miiir  eggs,  butter 
hands  employed  the  output of  coal has in-1 fish and fruit)  is  with  its  preparation  but 
creased  82 per  cent., while  to  copper  an  twenty  cents  per  day.  This  sum  may 
increase of  15 per cent, pf  human  labor is  therefore,  be regarded as the actual amount 
rewarded  by  an increase of  70 per cent, in | necessary at this  ti<ie  to  furnish an  adult
result.  These examples illustrate toe emi- 
with an abundant  supply of nutritious food 
nently practical and  utilitarian character of 
when  prepared  and  used  to the most  eco­
our  age, anid  toe wonderful  effects of  me­
nomical manner.
chanical Ingenuity and. skill.

eaten  over  ten  carloads  of  potatoes  this 
winter  and  toe  past  year,  and  she  just 
didn’t  believe  that  the  account was  right! 
The grocer and the smoker are just now be­
tween toe upper and nether mill stones, and 
it is hard to tell who  will be  pulverized toe 
finer at the close.

PERFECTION  SCALE

The Latest Improved and Best.

A  Large  Potato  Bill

the gambling table,

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But process to another direction is equal­
The  two  elements,  therefore,  we  have 
ly suggestive.  As  food  has  diminished in 
been considering, vast capital  anfi toe most 
price, wages have correspondingly increased. 
perfect machinery, may be regarded as abso­
Mr. Giffen claims as  the result of extensive 
lutely  essential  to  success  in  any  kind of 
investigations  to  Great  Britain  that  toe 
manufacturing.  Other «dements  are neces­
average  wages  of  the  working  classes  in 
sary,  such  as  transportation  facilities and
that country have  advanced during toe last
character, energy  ahd  ability to  those hav-  half century  100  per cent. 
In  the  United 
tag toe dfrection spd control of enterprises, [ States,  according  to  its  census  reports, 
blit  toe  first  named  aje  those  which  are  wages  increased  from  1850 to  1880  about 
growing to importance year by  year.  Con-} 40 per cent  Mr.  Atkinson  statee that the 
Tddertog  these  facts in. their  bearing  npon] wages of  mechanics to Massachusetts  were 
the toterests of our own city, we again askn ^i per  cent,  higher to  1885  than' to I860 
■Is it not wiser to use  whatever of  power or] The  experiences  of- St.  Paul  and-Mtane- 
naon^  we  b ay ^>   invest to  tocrea&l^to {apolis  prove H i   wages of  all  vt»«*«  H i  
still  larger  proportions  the  establishments1 vanced  10  perxeent.  from  1875  to  1880.

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GRAND  RAPIDS.

as  ••booming.’’  It took it for  granted that 
jjtgreat  part of  the overflow of  the  popula­
tion of New York could be attracted by open­
ing up  new  streets,  constructing  sewers, 
and  lighting.  So it spent  on this  kind of 
municipal enterprises sums far greater than 
it  had  any  right  to  risk.  But  the  New 
Yorkers  would  not come.  While they re­
cognized the advantages of the site of Eliza­
beth, on an arm of the sea and within a few 
minute’s  ride  from  New  York, they  pre­
ferred localities in which the Jersey mosqui­
toes did not come so early and stay so long. 
So  the  fine  new  streets  remained for  the 
most  part  unoccupied  by houses,  and  the 
city’s creditors could get neither the principal 
nor  the  interest  promised  them.  After a 
straggle of years to secure the full payment 
of the city’s  debt, they  at  last  have  been 
obliged to compromise by  taking half;  and 
this the  city agrees  to fund in  new bonds, 
whose  redemption  is  promised  solemnly. 
The  people of  Elizabeth are  said to regard 
this  result  with  great  satisfaction.  But, 
after all is  said,  it is a miserable  business, 
even if it be unavoidable, for a municipality 
to go through  the  bankrupt  court  in  this 
fashion. 
It is creditable  to the  State  that 
it gave  Elizabeth no  help  in the  bad busi­
ness of fighting off its creditors.  The legis­
lation  proposed to facilitate  the process by 
enabling  the city to  weary  out the  people 
who  had  lent  it  money,  always  failed to 
pass.

The Grand Rapids Board of Trade  show­
ed its  hand to  good  purpose  last  week in 
securing a much needed concession from the 
Grand  Rapids  Indiana &  Railway  in  the 
way  of permitting  holders  of  mileage  to 
ride  on  freight  trains  north  of  Cadillac 
without  purchasing  special  permit tickets. 
The  Board also petitioned the management 
to place 1,000  tickets on  the  same basis as 
the other roads of  the State—$20 instead of 
$25—and there are good  reasons for believ­
ing the request will be granted.

Purely Personal.

A.  A. Bleazby,  the Kalkaska banker,  was 

in town last week.

Sidney Stark, the  Allendale  grocer,  was 

in town last Wednesday.

Henry B. Fairfield and family spent Sun­

day with  friends at Spoonville.

Samuel  J.  North  has  taken  a  position 
with  H. A. Blackmar, the  Charlotte  drug­
gist.

Randall Hawkins, who  was  seriously  ill 
for several weeks  with pleurisy,  is recover-; 
ing.

Eli Runnels, the  Corning  general dealer, 
pulled  T h e   T r a d e s m a n ’s   latchstring last 
Saturday.

Homer  Eaton and  family  go  to  Ottawa 
Beach  Thursday  for  ten  days’  rest  and 
recreation.

Jas. Brautigam, of the firm of Brautigam 
Bros.,  general  dealers at North  Dorr,  was 
in  town 

last  week.

Fred  E. Angell, traveling  representative 
for Ball, Barnhart  &  Putman, is  spending 
the  Fourth  with  his  brother  at  Elkhart, 
Ind.

Dave Holmes,  buyer for  the West Michi­
gan  Lumber  Co.,  of  Woodville,  passed 
through the  city Saturday on his way East, 
where  he will  lead a blushing  bride to  the 
altar.

Rudolph Dornink and  Dan Steketee,  who 
have been spending three weeks among  the 
sea-board  cities, are expected home  to-day 
or to-morrow.

Willis  J. Mills,  the  Blanchard  druggist, 
to  make  the  Blanchard 
has  concluded 
Boomer  a  permanency, having arranged to 
issue the same semi-monthly.

Chas.  McCarty,  the  Lowell  merchant, is 
about as sharp as they  make,  ’em, but they 
do say that Charley still has several hundred 
bushels of old potatoes in his cellar.

Geo.  P. Gifford, Jr., is left  alone to  the 
tender  mercies of  a cold  and cruel  world, 
his wife and children  having gone to Ocon- 
omowoc, Wis., to spend the summer.

AMONG TH E  TRADE.
QRATjEfl  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Mrs. F erk ip   succeeds W. A. Richardson 

in the hardware business.

Hester & Fox-have  sold the' Antrim. Iron 
Co., of Maneelona, a 25 horse-power boiler.
Paul  W.  Friederich  succeeds  Friederich 
& Ray in the musical  merchandise business.
C.  E.  Hull  «&  Son  occupy P. Steketeé’s 
old  stand at 79 West Leonard street with a 
grocery stock.

Geo. Cook  has  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business  at  Bravo.  Arthur  Meigs  & Co. 
furnished the stock.

Jonker & Brugma  is  the  style of  a new 
drug  firm  at the  corner of  West  Leonard 
street and Alpine avenue.

W.  E.  Woodard  has  engaged  in  the 
Bnlkley, 

grocery  business  at  Stetson. 
Lemon & Hoops furnished the stock.

The store in the  Barnhart block formerly 
occupied by the Auburn Paper Co. has been 
leased  by the  D., L. & N. Railway for  the 
use of the general offices.

Jas.  Quinn, Jr. and  W.  W.  Richardson 
have formed a copartnership under the style 
of  Quinn & Richardson  and engaged in the 
merchandise  brokerage business  at  101 Ot­
tawa street.

Griswold  Bros, have  engaged in the gro­
cery  and boot  and  shoe  business at  Gris­
wold.  Rindge, Bertsch & Co. furnished the 
boots and shoes, and  Ball, Barnhart & Put­
man the groceries.

Chas. J. Robinson  has  leased  room  and 
power on Erie street, and will engage in the 
manufacture  of  dowels  and  dowel  pins 
about  August  1.  His  factory  will  have a 
capacity of  100,000 dowel pins per day.

Geo. H.  Cowan  has  farmed a copartner­
ship with  Ewen McLennan and  engaged in 
the  manufacture of  shingles  near  Marion 
under  the  style  of  Cowan  &  McLennan. 
The.  firm  has  enough timber  to  keep  the 
mill  running  two years  and will  probably 
buy addition timber.

It  is reported that the  D., L.  & N. Rail­
way has  under consideration the  extension 
of  its  Reed’s  Lake  branch  to  Greenville, 
which will  enable  the road to get  into the 
Saginaw Valley without  recourse to the G. 
R. & I. track  between  here  and  Howard 
City.

When the railroads  served  notice on the 
jobbers  a  couple of  months  ago,  that  all 
earthenware must be crated or boxed, which 
involved an extra expense of  about 50 cents 
per  dozen  pieces,  a protest  was  promptly 
presented  by  the  jobbers, but  has  not yet 
been  acted upon.  Frank  E.  Leonard, who 
has the matter in  charge,  hopes  to secure a 
definite answer in August.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Lisbon—H.  B.  Irish  is  closing  out  his 

hardware business.

Vassar—A.  A.  White  has  assigned  his 

grocery stock to W. W. Hunt.

Detroit—Jas.  Connor  succeeds  John  L. 

Uebe in the retail cigar business.

Battle  Creek—J. E. Week  has opened  a 

drug store at 254 East Main street.

Harrison—J.  H.  Canfield  succeeds  R. 

Curtis & Co. in  the  drug business.

Manistee—Lee & Mix have purchased the 

drug stock of Dr. La Montague & Son.

Alpena—Francis & Richardson, jewelers, 

have been closed under chattel mortgage.

Farwell—J. W. S. Opdyke,general dealer, 
has  been  closed  under  chattel  mortgage.
Three  Rivers—H.  E. Hartman  succeeds 
Hartman & Green in  the  grocery  business.
Liberty—Jas.  H. Loomis  succeeds  John 
E.  Crispell in the  grist and  saw mill  busi­
ness.

Detroit—Mary V. Bagg  succeeds Bagg & 
McKeogh  in  the  manufacture  of  confec­
tionery.

Tto JicM pn  Tradesman.

OJMUl Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

A  w m L T   JOURNAL  DEVOTXD  TO  THS

totali Trade of the Woliferine State.

s .  A. STOWE &  BfiO., Proprietors.

Subscription—One Dollar per year.  Advertis- 

ing Rates made kpown on application.

Publication Office—49 Lyon Street, Grand 

Rapids.______________________ _____

Subscriptions to this paper are not discontinued at ex­
Entered  at  the  Grand  Rapid*  Post  Office.

piration, unless so ordered by the subscriber. 

B. A. STOWE, Editor.

W EDNESDAY, JULY  4.  1888.

T H E   PEDDLER  AGAIN.

I t  is  pretty generally admitted  that  the 
present  State  law  for  the  regulation -of 
peddling  is  a  good  measure,  so  far  as  it 
goes, but  the  great  difficulty seems  to  be 
that it does not go far enough.  The license 
required of  the peddler  is  large enough in 
amount and the penalty for non-compliance 
embodied in last  year’s amendment  enables 
the  prosecution  to  secure conviction  with 
comparative  ease.  The  principal objection 
to  the  law in  its  present  form  is  that  it 
prescribes no one whose duty it is to attend 
to  its enforcement.  As the  result of  this 
omission, probably half —possibly more than 
that percentage—of the peddlers meandering 
around  the State are  pursuing their calling 
in defiance of the law, rendering themselves 
liable at any time to arrest and pjmishment 
Such  discrimination  is  manifestly  unjust, 
both  to those  who  pay and  those  who do 
not, »nri some plan must be devised whereby 
all  can be brought  under the  provision  of 
the law.

It has occurred to T h e  T radesman that 
the  peddling  law could  be  enforced  more 
effectively if  the matter  were placed in the 
hands of  the township instead of  the State. 
If the matter of granting licenses were vest­
ed in the supervisors instead of  a State offi­
cer, T h e  T radesman  believes that  better 
satisfaction would  be  secured  all  around. 
In   the first  place, the  State does  not need 
the money accruing from licenses,  while the 
township  does  need  it.  The town  has  to 
construct  and maintain roads  and  bridges, 
both  of  which are  largely  patronized  by 
peddlers. 
In the second  place,  it would be 
a  matter of  pride with  the  supervisor  to 
•secure  as large a fund  from this  source as 
■his  predecessor  did  before  him,  and  this 
feeling  would  naturally provoke an  active 
«rivalry which  would  tend  to swell  the in­
come of  every township.  As  the tenure of 
office  of  a  supervisor depends  in  a  large 
degree upon  the fidelity with  which he dis­
charges  his  duty, he  would  be  likely  to 
allow  no  guilty  peddler  to  escape.  T he 
T radesman  would like to hear from those 
who  have  studied  the  peddling  problem 
concerning this suggestion.

T H E   W HOLESALE  GROCERS’ CON­

VENTION.

The meeting of wholesale grocers at New 
York  last  week  was  somewhat  of  a  dis­
appointment, neither  Chicago  or St.  Louis 
being represented at the convention.  C. E. 
«Olney represented the Grand Rapids  jobbers 
and W. J. Gould the Detroit trade.  Several 
-sessions  were  held, 
the  proceedings  of 
which may be summarized as follows:

A  committee of  eight has been appointed 
to formulate a plan of  permanent  organiza­
tion.  A further committee has been select- 
■ed to confer with the refiners  and agree up­
on some basis of  co-operation.  A still  fur­
ther committee of  thirty-nine  members has 
been appointed to sit in  judgment upon the 
work of  the  committee  first mentioned and 
perfect the details of  whatever plan may be 
-developed;  after  which  a call  of  the  con­
vention chairman will be  issued for a ratifi- 
•catioti  meeting,  at  which, if  the  plan  re­
ceives a two-thirds  trade  endorsement,  the 
permanent  organization  will  become  an 
established  fact.  Meanwhile,  all  depends 
upon  the  willingness  or  otherwise  of  the 
refiners  to  unite  upon a plan  of co-opera- 
jtion with the wholesale dealers.

¿SHUT  OUT  FROM  TH E   MAILS.
Jn  accordance with the law passed by Con- 
'gress on Jane 18, Postmaster General Dick­
inson has issued an order, as follows:

Any  postal  card,  or  any  other  matter, 
upon the envelope or outside cover of which 
appears  anything which reflects injuriously 
upon  the  person  addressed,  or  upon  his 
character or conduct, or is plainly calculated 
-.or  intended to injure  his  feelings, or repa­
ration, or bring him into discredit, or which 
«threatens him shall be unmailable.

This will  force  out of  business  many of 
-those  agencies which  have depended  upon 
■the  mails  for  the circulation of  their  big- 
dettered duns, as their system of  collections 
¿possesses  no advantage  without  i t   The 
“Sprague “Bad  Debt” agency has made des­
perate  efforts  to  get  the  order  modified, 
without success.  Such  a  law  should  have 
ybeen passed long ago, as the use of the malls 
(for  blackmailing  purposes  should  never 
khaveheen allowed.

W ORTHY  O F  CONSIDERATION.
Aiwwg  the  subjects  which will  receive 
«panifti  a t t e n t i o n   at the hands of the  Che­
boygan convention are the following:
,  The  organization  of  a  Business  Men’s 
Mutual Fire  Insurance Co.

The better regulation of  the peddler.
Reform In the commission  business.
Improvement in the collection system.
The consideration of such  subjects  tends 
•to lift the  Association  above  the  plane  of 
«ftHUhnasB ta d   places  toe  organization in 
«the light of a broad gauge institution.

The  city of  Elizabeth  in  New Jersey at 
'last succeeded ia  effectinga settlement with 
its  creditors, which  may be  regarded as its 
•emergence ont of acendition of bankruptcy. 
T h e place ha« suffered  from  the social  and 
derangement  known  In the West

n  

Gripsack Brigade.

W: N. Ford, general  traveling agent  for 
Jas.  G. Butler & Co., of  St. Louis,  was  in 
town over Sunday.

Cass  Bradford  has  bought  the  grocery 
stock  of  Geo.  C.  Townsend,  at  Baldwin, 
and will continue the business.

W. F. Blake  is a widower  pro  tem.,  his 
wife and  daughter having gone to Maine to 
spend the summer with friends.

R.  B.  Orr now tarries under his own vine 
and  fig  tree  when  at  home,  having  pur­
chased a desirable residence on East Fulton 
street.

Isn’t  it  about  time  the  Grand  Rapids 
traveling  men  were deciding upon  a  time 
and  place for  holding  the  fourth  annual 
picnic?

Last  Saturday afternoon’s game  between 
the  traveling men  resulted in a score of  75 
to 52.  Seven  and  one-half  innings  were 
played.

T. J. Post, lately with I. M. Clark & Son, 
has  engaged to  travel  for  J.  G. Butler  & 
Co.,  of St. Louis, with headquarters at East 
Saginaw.

All of Putnam & Brooks’  traveling sales­
men  are  staying  home this  week, helping 
around  the  store  and  getting  acquainted 
with their families.

Adolph  G.  Krause, of  the leather firm of 
Hirth  & Krause, is  building  a  handsome 
residence  at the  comer of  Crescent avenue 
and Prospect street.

L.  M.  Mills  is  billed  for  a  Fourth  or 
July  oration at  Blanchard. 
It  is  under­
stood that he has specially engaged an eagle 
to squeal on that occasion. ‘

“Charley”  Wilson,  receiving  clerk  for 
Oluey, Shields  &  Co., will  begin  working 
the city trade of that house next week, con­
fining his operations to the West Side.

Chas.  E. Watson,  who  has  been  at  the 
bedside  of  his  mother  most of  the  time 
since  April 9, when she  was stricken  with 
paralysis, will  resume his trips on the road 
next week.

Battle  Creek—Stamp  &  Son,  grocers, 
have  removed  from  Marshall  street to 269 
East Main street.

East  Saugatuck—G.  F.  Gretzinger,  the 
general  dealer, died  suddenly last  Monday 
of heart disease.

Ishpeming—Salter & Wood have assigned 
their meat business  to  Chas.  R. Ely.  As­
sets and liabilities, about $2,000.

Greenville—There  are still several  thou­
sand  bushels  of  potatoes in  the  hands  of 
local  dealers,  oh  which  the  loss will  be 
nearly total.

East  Saginaw—The Hoyt Dry Goods Co. 
has been  incorporated  with a capital stock 
of  $100,000.  Geo.  R.  Hoyt  is  President, 
Alex. Hoyt,  Secretary,  and Isaac Bearinger, 
Treasurer.

Williamsburg—D.  Vinton  and  Frank 
Vinton  have  secured a patent on an  auto­
matic  lock  switch  for use on railways and 
disposed of  a half  interest  in the  same to 
Chicago parties for $50,000.

Battle Creek—Wyman, Cowles & Woods, 
successors  to  Manchester & Wyman,  serve 
notice on T h e   T r a d e s m a n  that they were 
recently  detected  selling 2,000  pounds  of 
coal  for a ton.  What’s  the  matter  with 
their coming to Grand Rapids?

Lansing—The  Lansing  Lumber  Co. has 
been  organized  with  a  paid-in  capital  of 
$100,000.  The  company has purchased the 
Lapham & Longstreet’s planing mill here and 
Barnes & Dodge’s shingle and  lumber mills 
in Clare  county,  together with  15,000  acres 
of  pine land.  This will secure for Lansing 
the largest  hard wood and  pine yards  pos­
sessed  by any interior Michigan city.

Detroit—William? D.  Dakin, the Portland 
dry goods  dealer,  gave  Root,  Strong & Co. 
his notes for  what  he owed;  they  had  the 
notes discounted;  at the  time  of  their fail­
ure  ihey had  bis  notes  aggregating  $12,- 
254.44;  desirous  of 
treating  all  holders 
fairly,  he  executed a  chattel  mortgage  to 
Fred  Warren, of  Detroit,  and  then  began 
to dispose  of  his  stock  and  pay  the  note 
holders.  He  has  realized  $5,500,  and  the 
remainder  will not bring  more than $2,000. 
As the holders will  settle  for 75 per  cent., 
which he can pay, he  asks the circuit court 
to direct the assignee) of  Root,  Strong* Co. 
to release him from all liability to them.

No one likes to get a drive  on the  travel­
ing  men  better  than  George  Dewey,  the 
Shelby sugar shoveler.  A combination  has 
been  formed  among  the  boys  to get even 
with their tormentor,  and  something heavy 
is likely to drop in the vicinity of Shelby in 
the near future.

Taken  on  the  Spot.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n  sent a  special artist to 
Blanchard  to  illustrate the effect of  L. M. 
Mills’  thrilling  Fourth of  July oration  on 
assembled multitudes:

It  was  at first  thought  that the  speech 
would  result in a riot, but the people avert­
ed  such  a  catastrophy  by  taking  to  the 
woods. 

, ______

General  Alger  in  a  New Role.

From   th e  D etroit  News.

The Diamond  Match Company  conceived 
the  idea some  years ago of  gaining control 
of the whole match trade of the country. 
It 
succeeded.  But, in  order to  do so,  D.  M. 
Richardson had to give  notes to the amount 
of  $60,000. 
Indorsements  were  necessary 
and Mr. Richardson procured them from  C. 
H. Buhl and Gen. R. A.  Alger.  He agreed 
with  them  then, that  he would  take  one- 
half  of  the  profits  resulting  from 
the 
arrangement  and  that  Buhl  and  Alger 
would receive one-fourth each—not because 
they had  invested a cent in the venture, but 
because they had  risked their endorsements 
to  make  it  a  success.  The  scheme  pro­
gressed.  The intention  was  to  create  a 
monopoly in matches. 
In  order to  do  i his 
factories in which matches were made Were 
bought up.  Big  money was paid for them. 
Richardson’s  factory  here  in  Detroit  was 
one  of  those  purchased.  After  a  time 
$640,000 were appropriated  for distribution 
among  the  purchased  factores.  Of  this 
amount $50,000 went to Richardson.  Rich­
ardson claimed  that  that was a part of  the 
gross and not of  the net  profits.  Buhl and 
Alger said  that  all moneys paid in the pur­
chase  account  and  what  was  distributed 
should  represent  the  company’s  earnings, 
and  that, under  the  agreement, they  were 
entitled to a distributive share which would 
deprive Richardson of the amount  demand­
ed by him.  The sum  at  stake is over $50,- 
000.  Suit has been brought against Messrs. 
Buhl  and  Alger  because  of  their  claim 
■and  because  Mr.  Buhl  holds  $240,000 
worth  of 
The 
notes,  however,  have  all  been  taken  up. 
The  case is one of  the most  intricate  ever 
brought  in  the  Wayne  County  Court.  A 
decision will probably not be reached under 
a  month.

collateral. 

as 

How to Fasten Porcelain Letters. 

Merchants who  have difficulty in  making 
porcelain letters stick to the plate glass will 
find the following receipt of service:

Starch,  60  parts;  finely  pulverized chalk, 
100 parts.  Mix  with equal  parts of  water 
and  alcohol,  with the  addition of  30 parts 
of Yenice turpentine, taking care to agitate 
the  mass  with a stick,  so  as  to insure  its 
homogeneity.

Buy flour manufactured by  the  Crescent 
Roller Mills.  Every sack warranted.  Voigt 
Milling Co.  *

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

A dvertisem ents  will  be  inserted under this 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 ta k en   fo r  less th a n  25 cents.  Advance p aym ent.

fo r 

FOR  SALE.

STOCK  AT  SULLIVAN.
Reason fo r selling, ow ner has too m uch o th er bus­
iness.  Address,  fo r  full  p articulars,  J.  B.  W atson, 
250
Coopersville, Mich. 

I  TOR  SALE—NEW  DRUG 
Fo r   s a l e —d r u g   s t o c k   a n d   f ix t u r e s   a t   a  

bargain, if sold soon.  Good  location  in  flourish­
ing  city  in   S outhern  Michigan.  J u st  th e  place 
young m an w ith sm all capital.  Good reasons fo r  sell­
ing.  Address No. 251, care M ichigan Tradesm an.  251
T7KJJ 
OR  SALE—BOOT  AND 
SHOE  STOCK  IN  BEST
tow n  in  
tow n  in  M ichigan.  W rite  for  full  p articulars,211
Lock Box 39, V assar, Mich.
Fo r   s a l e —a   g o o d-p a y in g   d r u g   s t o c k   i n   a
grow ing  town.  N earest  drug  store  is  six m iles. 
W ill invoice about $2,500.  A  big  chance  fo r  a  m an of 
push.  Terms easy.  Best of reasons fo r w ishing to sell. 
Address  “P ain  K iller,”  care  M ichigan  Tradesm an, 
212
G rand Rapids. 
Fo r  s a l e —g e n e r a l   s t o c k ,  g o o d  t r a d e ,  l o n g
Fo r   s a l e —t w o   n e w   s h in g l e   m a c h in e s  w it h

o r sh o rt lease of store.  A b argain fo r  some  one.
Address  Box 12, Grand- 

Saws ready to  b elt up and run.  P erfect  in   every 
respect.  Also one  Syrup  E vaporator.  W.  E.  W ater­
m an, Thom pson,  Michigan,  care  D elta  Lum ber  Com­
pany. 

Must sell.  W ant to go South, 
ville, Mich.

_____________ 

Used  only  one  week 

F o r
SALE — NO.  1  REMINGTON  TYPE WRITER 
Call  on  o r  address  H.  B 
Fairchild,  G rand Rapids.
238
F o r   s a l e —o f   in t e r e s t   t o  f u r n it u r e ,  a g r i
cultural im plem ent or any Hardwood M anufacturer. 
.1 have a  factory nicely located, in good repair, dry kiln, 
w arehouses, y ard   room  and am ple power.  There is no 
fu rn itu re factory in this  vicinity and th e re  are  sever­
al hardw ood sawmills,  I will sell cheap  and  on  easy 
term s.  W ill  exchange fo r  o th er  desirable  property. 
W ill tak e a silent interest or, if desired,  w ill  atten d  to 
purchases  of  m aterial  and  selling  of  goods.  I am  a 
non-resident of th e city and th e  p ro p erty   m ust be dis­
posed of.  Address Box 11, E aton Rapids, Mich. 

240

216

239

231

Fo r   s a l e   o r   t r a d e —f i v e   a c r e s  o f   g o o d

brick land, boiler and engine,  tile  and  brick  m a­
chine and all equipm ent necessary  to  m ake  brick and 
tile.  Address O. F.  Conklin,  G rand  Rapids,  o r  R.  D. 
M cNaughton, Coopersville, Mich. 
233.

of  new g rist m ill, full ro ller process, 100-barrel ca­
pacity, in  first-class location, on  easy  term s.  Address 
W. F. Cowham, Jackson. Mich. 

husband, I offer for sale the grocery  and te a  busi­
ness a t 89 Canal street.  Stock w ill  n o t  inventory over 
,500. Apply to Mrs. E. M. W hite, a t above  address.  227

Fc<OR  RENT  OR SALE—ONE-HALF  OR  THE  WHOLE 
F o r   s a l e —o n   a c c o u n t   o f   t h e   d e a t h   o f   m y
F o r   s a l e —t h e   d r e s s  o f   t y p e   n o w   u s e d   o n
“The Tradesm an”—600  pounds  of b revier  and  200
A  good  barg ain   will  be  given 
pounds of  nonpareil, 
206
purchaser.
F o r   s a l e —a t   a   b a r g a in ,  a   c l e a n   s t o c k   o f
hardw are  and  m ill  supplies.  Address  W ayne 
C hoate, A gent, E ast Saginaw.___________________ 207
F or  sale—fruit  farm  of i n  acres,  located

in   Spring  Lake.  Ten  m inutes  w alk  from   post- 
office.  P leasant  place.  Nice  buildings.  WiU  sell  on 
long tim e o r exchange fo r  stock  of  any kind  of  m er­
chandise.  Place is valued a t 93,000, w ill ta k e $2,000 fo r 
it.  Address S. A. Howey, N orth Muskegon, Mich.  208

WANTS.

217

219

w holesale o r re ta il, any branch.  Nine  y e a n  ex-
Address  W. 

ANTED—LOCATION  FOR  PORTABLE  SAW  MILL, 
w here 500,000 feat o ak and o th e r h ard   wood tim- 
Address  G,  226  M ichigan 

W ANTED—POSITION AS BOOK-KEEPER OR CLERK, 
perience.  Best  of  references  furnished. 
B.  F.,  care  The  Tradesm an._____________
W A
, ,   w here 500,000 feat oak 
h er can be bought fo r cash.
St., Chicago, 111.
YTTANTED—LOCAL AND GENERAL AGENTS,TO REP- 
V V 
resen t  us  in   th e  introduction  and  sale  o f  th e  
fastest selling article on  th e   m arket.  T erritory  free. 
Exclusive control given.  950 to $100 p er week, to  good 
live  m en.  Enclose  1  cents  postage  fo r  free  sam ple, 
term s and full particulars.  Address The N ichols BPf’g 
Co., O nalaska,  Wis.______ _______________________218

factu rin g   business. 

Y oung  m an  preferred. 
Address Manu- 

$1,500 required.  W orth investigating, 
factu rer, care th is paper.____________

W ANTED—PARTNER IN  AN  ESTABLISHED  MANU- 
W ANTED—EVERY,  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  READS 

th is  paper  to   give  th e  Sutliff  coupon system  a 
tria l.  I t will abolish yo u r pass  books,  do  aw ay  w ith 
aU yo u r book-keeping, in  m any instances save you th e  
expense of one clerk, w ill brin g  y our business  dow n to 
a   cash basis and  save  you  all  th e  w orry a nd trouble
th a t usually go w ith th e pass-book plan.  '  S ta rt th e  1st 
of th e m onth w ith th e new   system  and  you  w ill never 
re g re t it.  H aving  tw o kinds, b o th   kinds  w ill be  sent 
by  addressing  (m entioning  th is  paper)  J.  H.  Sutliff, 
Albany, N. Y.______________________  

W ANTED—TO  BUY  A  SECOND-HAND  NO.  218 EN- 

terprise Coffee Mill.  Must be in  good  orderjand 

n o t long in  use, and  price  r ig h t 
nam , F ru itp o rt, Mich.
.TXTANTED—A  GRIST  MILD  AT CONKLIN, SITUATED 
V  \V  
in one of th e   best  g ra in   producing  districts in  
M ichigan.  Located on G rand  Rapids  <fc  Indiana  R ail­
road, both G rand  R apids  and  M uskegon  m ark ets a re  
easy of access.  R ight pairty w ill g et  site and $1,000 bo­
nus.  Address  Jo h n   Sehler,  G rand  Rapids,  o r  H enry 
Miller, Conklin. 

■ ANTED—1,000 MOKE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR 

Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System .  Send fo r 

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

_________  

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232

213

214

211

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MISCELLANEOUS.

M l   O CiíÁ   CASH  BUYS  MANUFACTURING  BÜ8I- 
© L . Z v v   ness paying 100  p er  cent.  B est  o f r e a ­
sons7 fo r  selling.  Address  Chas.  K ynoeh,  St. Ignace, 
Mich. 

228

The  New  Coupon.

his 
who. Will continue  the business.

Baldwin—Geo.  C.  Townsend  has  sold 
stock to  Lewis Cass  Bradford,

Otoosso—M. C. Dawes & Co. succeed  M. 
C. D$\res in the wholesale tobacco and cigar 
business.

Kalamazoo—T.  J.  Sloan  has  opened  a 
grocery • and  provision  store  at  125  Pat­
terson  street.

Kalkaska—Haynes  &  Wadsworth  suc­
ceed  Haynes  &  Harrington in the grocery 
business.

Frank  Friedrich, the  Traverse  City boot 
and shoe  dealer, was in  town over  Sunday 
on his way home from Milwaukee, where he 
spent  several  days  in  pursuit of  business 
and pleasure.

Every time Max Mills goes to Shelby, the 
Herald of  that place  refers to  him as  the 
“gifted and beautiful Mills.”  The question 
is,  how much  does  L. M. have  to pay  for 
such advertising?

C.  B. Jones, a  hotel man  of  long exper­
ience and large acquaintance, has taken the 
management  of  “The  Derby,”  on  West 
Fulton  street,  and is conducting  the  same 
a  manner  befitting  his  reputation.  C. 
H. Jones, who is a chip from the old block, 
officiates as clerk.

BALL, BARNHART & PUTMAN,

The  Grand  Rapids  traveling  men’s nine 
continue to practice each Saturday, in hopes 
their Detroit brethren will  soon name a day 
for  them to go  to  the  City of  the  Straits. 
Captain Hempsted, why this seeming delay?
Geo. J. Helnzelman, traveling representa­
tive for Rindge, Bertsch & Co., was married 
last  Thursday  to  Miss  Pauline  Carstens, 
The  happy couple are spending  their wed­
ding  tour  among  the  Northern  Michigan 
resorts. 

We  have  received  samples  of  the  new 
“Tradesman  Credit  Coupon,” recently  in­
troduced  by E. A. Stowe & Bro., of ‘Grand 
Rapids.  They  are  an  improvement  upon 
anything  in  that  line  we  have ever  seen 
and  merchants desiring  to  adopt  a  cash 
basis of  trade or  do  away with  toe  book­
keeping incident to a credit business would 
do well to give them -their attention.

Cadillac—Jacob Cummer, W.W. Cummer, 
W. M. Gow, Fred S. Kieldsen and  John C. 
McLauchlin  have  organized  a  stock  com­
pany under the style of the Cadillac Veneer 
Box Co., to  engage  in  the  manufacture of 
the Linderman anglewood crate-frame pack­
ing box.

If  the various  traveling men’s  organiza­
tions will join with the Grand Rapids Board 
of  Trade  in  the  demand  for  1,000-mile 
tickets over the G. R. & 1. Railway for $20, 
the concession can probably be obtained.

E. Wilson  has purchased the 
grocery, stock of  j . j  F ._ Gillmore  and  will 
carry on toe business in connection with his 
drag trade. 

Shelby—Alex. McLeod  has purchased an 
interest in the  grist  mill  business of  J. H. 
Moore & Co.  The new firm will change the 
mill to roller process.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Anthony  &  Ashmun 
have  opened a boot  and  shoe  store.  Mr. 
Anthony was formeriyengaged  in  business 
at Detour.

Detroit—C. C. McCloskey, Jr.,  dealer  In 
mantels  and  grates,  has  given  a  chattel 
mortgage for  $1,211  and  assigned to F. G. 
Bussell.

'  Ovid—Tlje,$70,0()0  chattel  mortgage  on 
the Scofieltt'Buggy Co. has been released.

Decatur—J. P. Warner  has established a 

MANUFACTUBIN &  MATTERS.

stray  Pacts.  ■

measure factory.

From the Shelby Herald.

stock 

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! 

'

Successors to Cody, Ball, Barnhart & Co.

A  SPECIALTY. 

BUTTEBINE  ALWAYS  IN STOCK.

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H lch icu  Business Men’s Association.

President—Prank Hamilton. Traverse City.
First Vice-President—Paul P. Morgan, Monroe.
Second Vice-President—S. Lam from. Owoaso.
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.
Executive Beard—President. Secretary, Geo. W. Hub­
bard, Flint; W. E. Kelsey, Ionia; Irving F. Clapp, Al- 
legan.
Committee on Trade Interest»-Smith Barnes, Traverse 
„City; Chas.T. Bridgman, Flint;  H.  B. Fargo, Muske­
gon.
ComntM&tte on legislation—Frank Wells, Lansing; W.
E. Kelsey, Ionia; Neal McMillan, Rockford. 
Committee  on  Transportation—J.  W.  Mil liken,  Trav-
erse City; Jno. P . Stanley, BAtiie C reek; -W a, Rebec,
East'M ginAw. 
Committee on  Insurance—N.  B.  Blain,  Lowell;  E.  V.
Hogle, Hastings; O. M. Clement, Cheboygan. 
Committee on Building  and  Loan Associations—F, L. 
Fuller,  Frankfort;  S. E. Parkill,  Owosso;  Will  Em- 
mert, Eaton Rapids.
_____ ___
The following auxiliary associations are op­
erating under  charters granted by the Michi­
gan Business Men’s Association;

Official Organ—Th e Michigan Tradesman. 

;

No. 1—T ra v e rse  C ity  B . M . A . . 

President, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts.______

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

N o. 2—L o w e ll B. M . A. 

N o. 3—S tu rg is B . M. A. 

President, H. S. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jora.
No.  4—G ra n d   R a p id s   H . A . 

President, E. JT. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

N o.  5 —M u sk eg o n  B .  M . A . 
P resident, H. B. F argo; Secretary, W m. Peer.

No. 6 —A lb a  B. M. A . 

P resident. F. W. Sloat ; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.

No. 7—D im o n d a le  B . M . A . 

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

P resident, F. H. T hurston; Secretary, G eo.L .T hurston.

N o. 8 —R a s tp o rt B . M. A .

N o, 9 —L a w re n c e  B . M . A . 

P resident, H. M. M arshall; S ecretary, C. A. Stebblns.

Mo. 10—H a rb o r S p rin g s B . ML A. 

P resident, W . J. C lark; S ecretary, A. L. Thom pson.

N o . l l —K in g sle y  B . M . A. 

P resident, H. P. W hipple; S ecretary, C. H.  Camp.

N o. 1 2 —Q u in cy  B . ML A .

P resident,C . McKay; S ecretary, Thos. Lennon._______
' 
P resident, H. B. S tu rtev an t;  S ecretary, W.  J. A ustin.

"  No. 13—S h e rm a n  B . M. A.

N o. 14—No. M u sk eg o n  B . M . A. 
P resident, S. A. H owey; S ecretary, G. C. Havens.

No. 15—B o y n e C ity  B . M . A . 

P resident, R. R. P erkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.

N o. 16 —S an d  L a k e  B . M. A. 
P resident, J. V. C randall:  Secretary, W. Rasco.

No. 17—P la ln w e ll B . M. A. 
P resident, E. A.  Owen, Secretary , J. A. Sidle.
No. 18—O w osso B . M. A. 

P resident, S. E. P arkill; Secretary, S. Lam from .

N o.  19—A d a  B . M . A. 

P resident, D. F. W atson; Secretary, E. B. ChapeL

No. 20—S a u g a tu c k  B . ML. A. 

President, John F. H enry; S ecretary, L. A. Phelps.

P resident, C. H. W harton; S ecretary, M. V. H oyt.

No. 21—W a y la n d  B . M. A. 

No. 22—G ra n d   L ed g e B . M . A . 

P ersident, A. B. Schum acher; Secretary, W.  R.  Clarke.

No. 23—C arso n  C ity  B . M. A . 

P resident, F. A. R ockafellow ; Secretary, C. G. Bailey.

N o. 2 4 —M o rley  B .  M . A .  ”  

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P resident, J. E. T hnrkow ;  S ecretary, W. H. Richm ond. 
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P resident, Chas. B. Johnson; S ecretary, H. D. Pew.
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PrapiSant. S. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.

'  No. 25 —P a lo  B . M . A .
No. 26—G re e n v ille  IS. ML A.

N o. 27—D o r r  B . M .  A .

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

No. 28—C h eb o y g an  B . M . A  
P resident, J .  H. T uttle;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.

N o. 29 —F r e e p o r t B . M . A.

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

P resident, A. G. A very;  S ecretary, E. S. Houghtaling,

P resident, Thos. J. G reen;  Secretary, A. G. F lenry.

P resident, G. W. W atrous ;  Secretary, J. B. W atson.

No. 3 0 —O cean a B. M . A .
N o. 31—C h a rlo tte  B. M. A. 
No. 32 —C o o p ersv ille B . M . A. 
No. 3 3 —C h a rle v o ix  B. M .A . 
No. 3 4 —S a ra n a c  B. M. A. 

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

P resident. H. T. Johnson;  S ecretary, P . T. W illiam s.
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P resident, Wm. J. Nixon; S ecretary, C. E. D ensm ore.

No.  3 5 —B e lla lre   B . M . A .

P resident, O. F. Jackson;  Secretary, John  M. Everden.

N o. 36—I th a c a   B .  M . A .

N o. 37—B a ttle  C re e k  B . M . A . 

P resident,  Chas. F- Bock;  S ecretary,  W. F. B axter.

P resident, H. E. Symons; S ecretary, D. W. Higgins.

No. 3 8 —S c o ttv ille  B .  M . A.
No. 39—B u r r  O a k  B . M . A.

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

N o. 4 0 —R a to n  R a p id s  B . ML. A. 

P resident, C. T. H artson; Secretary , Chas. CoUer.
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P resident, W. O. W atson; Secretary , C.  E. Scudder.

No. 41—B re c k e n rid g e   B . ML A.

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

No. 42—F re m o n t B. M . A.
N o. 43—T n s tin  B . M. A.

No. 4 4 —R eed  C ity  1?. »1. A .

P resident, G. A. E stes; Secretary,W . M. Holmes.______
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P resident, E. B. M artin; Secretary, W. H. Sm ith;______
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P resident, D. E. H allenbeek; S ecretary, O. A. H alladay.

No. 45 —H o y tv ille  B . M. A .

N o. 46 —L eslie B . M. A . 

P resident, W m . H utchins; Secretary. B. M. Gould. 
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P resident, G. R. H oyt; Secretary, W. H. G raham .
N o. 4 8 —H u b b a rd  «ton  B. M. A . 
P resident, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.

No.  47 —F lin t  M .  U.

P resident,  A.  W enzell; Secretary, F rank Smith.

N o .  4 9 — L e r o y   B .  M .  A . 

N o . 5 0 —M a n is te e  B . M . A . 

P resident, A. O. W heeler; S ecretary, J. P.  O’Malley.

No. 51—C ed ar  S p rin g s  B .  M .  A. 

P resident, L. M. Sellers; S ecretary, W. C. Congdon.

No. 52—G ra n d  H a v e n  B . M. A.

P resident, F. D. Vos; Secretary, Wm. Mieras.__________
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President, F ran k  Phelps; S ecretary, John H. Y ork.

No, 53—B e lle v u e  B . M . A.

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

No. 5 4 —D o u g las B . M . A.

P resident, C.

No.  55—P e to sk e v   B . M. A  

55—P e to sk e y   B .

F. H ankey; Secretary. A. C. Bowman.
No. 56 —B a n g o r  B .  M.  A . 

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

No. 5 7 —R o c k fo rd   R . M. A . 

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

N o. 5 8 —F i f e  L a k e  R . M . A . 

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

No. 5 9 —F e n n v ille  B . ME. A. 

P resident F. S. Raym ond ; Secretary, P. 8. Swarts.
N o. 6 0 —S o u th  B o a rd m a n  B . M . A. 
P resident, H. E. H ogan; S ecretary, S. E. N eihardt.

No.  6 1 —H a rtfo rd   R . M . A. 

President, V. E. M anley; S ecretary, I. B. Barnes, 
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P resident, G. W. M eyer; Secretary, Theo. K adish.

No. 6 2 —K äst » ag in aw  M. A.

No. 6 3 —E v a r t B . M. A . 

President, W. M. Davis; Secretary, C. E. Bell.
N o, 6 4 —M e rrill B . M . A , 

President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm, Horton.

N o. 6 5 —K a lk a s k a  B. M . A. 

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

N o. 6 6 —L a n s in g  B . M.  A . 
P resident, F ran k  W ells; S ecretary, B. F. H all.
N o. 6 7 —W a te rv lie t  R . M . A. 
P resident, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.

No. 68—A lle g a n  B . M . A .

P resident, A. E. Calkins;  Secretary, E. T. V anO strand.

N o. 6 9 —S cotts a n d  C lim a x  R . M . A. 
P resident, Lym an C lark; Secretary, F. S. W illison.

N o. 70—N a sh v ille  if . M. A . 
P resident, H. M. Lee; S ecretary, W. S. Powers.
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No.  71—A sh ley   B.  M .  A .
P resident, M. N etzorg;  Secretary,  Geo. E. C lntterbnck.

N o. 72—E d m o re  R . M . A .
No. 73—B e ld in g  B . M. A. 

P resident, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. W ebster.

No. 74—D avison  M .  IT. 

P resident, J.  F. C artw right;  Secretary. L. Gifford.

N o. 75—T ec n m se h   B .  M .  A . 

P resident, Oscar P. Bills;  S ecretary, F. Rosacraug.

No. 76—K a la m a z o o  B . M . A. 

P resident, S. S. McCamly ;  S ecretary,  Chaoncey Strong.

Special  Enterprises  Wanted.

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BEATS  A  SAVINGS  BANK.

Full Exposition of the  Building and  Loan 
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F ro m  th e Chicago Tribune.

Association.

He pays £0 cents a month on each share.. $11.00 
Seven per cent,  interest (39 shares) each 
'..-.«¿-.V.  17.50
32.50
In eight years he will Save paid..:*.....  3,120.00 

Deduct cash advanced«...............  .  . ..  2.400 00

month...... ............£........ 
Total monthly payment.................$ 

Building and loan  associations ^ave been 
long in existence  in  Philadelphia,  but it is 
within  quite  recent  years  they  have  had 
much  foot hold in  any  other  part  of  the 
United  States.  They  have  made  Phila­
delphia a city  of hernies,  ^ Her  people  own 
their,own  houses, and every one  pays rent 
to himself.  They  have ¡ given  permanence 
and  domesticity^ to her  population, and thé 
unsightly, wasteful  and temper-trying May 
day  movings  are  there  almost a thing un­
known.  There  associations  can  be  traced 
back to 1831, when the first one was formed 
in a supurb of  Philadelphia.  They were 
first  unincorporated societies, and they  did 
not become popular or  increase to much ex­
tent until 1819, when the  first  incorporated 
building association  was  chartered.  From 
that time  they have  gone on  constantly in­
creasing,  have  loaned  millions  of  dollars, 
and have been  the  nieaus of building  more 
than 100,000 homes.
An organization so beneficial is well worth 
a careful  examination and  investigation by 
all those who desire to save money and own 
their  own  roof-tree. 
It is  estimated .that 
there  are  in  Chicago  to-day  150  of  these 
societies, and they are constantly increasing, 
with the prospect of doing for Chicago what 
they have done for Philadelphia.  They are 
called  building  and  loan  associations, but 
the name is somewhat  misleading, for  they 
are not usually  building  associations at all 
They are  banks without  vaults,  expensive 
buildings  or  high-salaried  officials.  The 
depositors are the only stockholders.  There 
is never a great  fund  of  money on  hand to 
tempt  presidents  and  cashiers  to a sudden 
flight to Canada.  An ordinary safe or vault 
will hold  the  company’s  assets and books 
and a slender  bank  account  represents  its 
available  capital.  Properly  managed,  they 
are the safest of  savings banks and the best 
of  loaning banks.  Any person  desirous of 
obtaining a moderate-priced  home  can  get 
one  through  these  associations  for  about 
the  same  monthly  payment  he  makes 
for  rent. 
the  course  of  eight  or 
ten  years  he  will  have  no  more  rent 
to  pay  and  will  be  his  own  landlord
The  first business of  the  company is  to 
sell its  stock and  thus accumulate  capital 
The ownership of stock is generally limited 
to 100 shares, and  any person  can obtain 
share  or  any number of  shares within  the 
limit  by  agreeing  to pay 50 cents  a  month 
in  some  companies or  25 cents  a  week  in 
others.  Women, whether married or single, 
may  take as many  shares as they feel  able 
to carry.  Parents and guardians may invest 
for  their children  and wards.  Toung  men 
or  young women by saving  only 25 cents 
week can obtain one or two shares and thus 
lay the foundation of economical habits and 
an ultimate  fortune. 
In  addition  to  these 
payments  the members  are required to pay 
a  membership  fee of  25 cents and  25 cents 
for a pass-book.  There  is  also a fine of  10 
cents  for the  non-payment of  each install­
ment  as it becomes due.  At the expiration 
of  three months  another  series of  stock is 
started and so on every three mbnths.
It is estimated  that a series of  stock  will 
mature in a little  more than  eight  years  on 
the  50  cents a month payment and  in  five 
years on $1 a month payment.  At the  ma 
turity of  the stock the holder will  find that 
each  share  of  his  stock  is  worth  $100, 
which he receives  from the association, and 
it has  only cost  him in the neighborhood of 
$55. 
If a person takes more shares than he 
finds  he can  carry after a time  he can sur­
render them at any  time and  get back their 
value,  or  he  can  sell  them to  some  other 
member.

In 

The depositors are thus fully protected in 
their investments and are  taught  frugality, 
steadiness  and  the  elements  of  finance. 
The plain and  only safe  road to  fortune is 
pointed out, and every step is made the easier 
The  monthly  payments  are easy;  the fipes 
act as a good  spur  to  keep  the  depositors 
prompt.  Commercially considered they are 
as safe as any institntian of the kind can be. 
and in every respect they are safer than the 
ordinary savings bank.  As thousands in this 
city  have  learned  to  their  cost,"  savings 
banks can snd do break, collapse and vanish 
away.  But  such a calamity  has  yet  to  be 
heard of  in  regard  to a  building  and  loan 
association.  The older an association grows 
the richer it becomes.  Each month its cap­
ital is renewed,  and  every  year an  entirely 
new set of  shareholders  bring in fresh cap­
ital.  Certainly  the  depositors,  be it  strug­
gling shop girl, laborious  mechanic or help­
less  widow, have  everything to  encourage, 
and  but little  to  make  them  afraid.  For 
these  depositors  are  also shareholders and 
owners of  the  concern,  can  be  present  at 
every meeting, and can watch their  officers, 
and always have it in their power to change 
them  if  anything  goes  wrong.  That  is 
what the  depositors  in no  other  bank  can 
do.  The investments  the  company  makes 
are also  known to the  depositors, for  they 
are made  among  themselves,  and  so every 
possible protection is given to the investors.
This  is one  side  of  the  mirror, the  in­
vestor’s  point of  view. 
It is golden.  The 
other  side is the  borrower’s point of  view.
It is  at least  silvern, for nowhere  can  bor­
rowing  be done  to  better  or more  prudent 
advantage.  The case of a borrowing stock­
holder  is  somewhat more  complicated than 
that of  a non-borrower, for he occupies two 
positions  in  respect  to  the  association. 
While the  non-borrowing  shareholder  is  a 
creditor only, the borrowing member is both 
a creditor and a debtor at one and the same 
time.  What  is  technically called a loan  is 
in reality only  an advance on the future ul­
timate value of  his shares.  The agreement 
he  virtually makes with  the  association in 
his  mortgage or trust  deed is, not  that  he 
will  repay the  loan, but  that  he will  con­
tinue  to pay his  monthly installments  and 
interest  until  his  shares  are  worth  $100 
each;  and when this position  is reached the 
two  positions  of  debtor and  creditor  are 
canceled.  The debt due by the stockholder 
is extinguished by that due him from the asso­
ciation. 
It  is  this  relationship he sustains 
as creditor that  nullifies the  apparent  bur­
den  he sustains as  debtor.  This  perhaps 
can  be better understood by an  illustration 
of the actual mode of procuring a loan.

The  meetings  of  the  stockholders  are 
either  weekly  or  monthly, as the  by-laws 
may provide.  These are for the payment of 
dues and the making of  loans.  Any mem­
ber can borrow on  his  shares or upon  real 
estate security.  Supposing a member wishes 
to borrow on real  estate security, he makes 
an  application at a stated  meeting, and  as 
there is  always  some  competition  for the 
money on hand,  he is obliged to bid for the 
money at  a premium, which usually runs at 
from 20 to 25 per cent, on  the  amount  bid 
for.  Having a lot worth  $1^000  be  wishes 
to build a house crating $2.400. 
If  it is an 
eight year  society  the  monthly  payments 
are 50 cents.  Having  bid as a  premium 20 
par cent he subscribes for thirty shares, par 
valuers,000, and  receives $2,MOO*

Actual expense eaeh year............... . . 

Cost of loan eight years .......__ $  720.00
«0.00
Which  is  at  thé rite  of  not  quite  4 per 
cent per  annum on  the  $2,400  borrowed. 
The total monthly payment during the time 
was $32.50, modëïàte rent indeed for a house 
of  that value.  T |ii same amount of  money 
borrowed*through a broker would  have cost 
as follows: 
.....$  60.00
Interest at 7 per cent, per annum, $168

Commissions on $2,400 at 2*4......  
per year for eight years................. 1,344.00

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Eat in safety,

Total cost of loan.........................$1,404.00
Against  $720 in  the  association,  with  the 
additional  disadvantage of  not  being  able 
to make small monthly payments,  and with 
being  obliged to make  several renewals  in 
the meantime at additional cost.
At  the end  of  the eight  years or  when­
ever  the stock  has matured,  the  borrower 
finds  himself  the. owner  of  a  house,  for 
which  he  has  paid  by monthly  payments 
not exceeding a moderate  rental.  He has a 
home, and may
Under his own vine, what he plantB; and sing 
The merry songs of peace to all his neighbors.
Large as his_  payment  of  interest seems 
to be at first  sights it is compensated for by 
the  fact  that he as a  shareholder  receives 
part-of  its  benefits;  for  it  with the  other 
payments hemakes is re-invested and draws 
interest  for the-benefit of all  the members. 
Thus  his  shares  receive  equitable  allow­
ance not only of the gain  made on all other 
advances  to  members, but  he  actually re­
ceives  back ap. equitable proportion of  the 
premium and  interest paid on  his own loan 
by himself.  By  this means  the cost of  the 
advance  of $2,400 is reduced to nearly one- 
half of the actual per cent, he agreed to pay.
A  shareholder  can  also  borrow,  on  his 
shares alone as securitv,  in some companies 
the  amount of  their withdrawal  value, and 
in others toe amount that has  actually been 
paid in on them.  This will often be a great 
convenience to young men or young women 
of  thrifty  habits  who  have  managed  to 
acquire twenty or thirty shares  in  an  asso 
ciation upon which  they have  been  paying 
for several years.  A person  who will  save 
but  $10 a month can  become  the owner  of 
twenty shares of stock, which in eight years 
will  be  worth  to him  $2,000. 
If  in  the 
meantime  a  good  opportunity  occurs  to 
enter upon  a business venture he can either 
borrow and  still retain  his shaies or he can 
obtain their withdrawal value.
It  is estimated  that to-day thpre is  $15,- 
000,000 already loaned  out by the  societies 
in  existence  in  Chicago.  The  National 
banks of  the city have no greater aggregate 
capital  than  this.  This  immense amount 
thus  loaned  may be  said  to  be the  small, 
the  penny savings  of  the  people.  Those 
who  belong to  these  associations  are  not 
the  wealthy, but  people for  the most  part 
in moderate circumstances.
Of  course, the  prosperity  of  an  associa­
tion  depends  upon  the  promptness  with 
which it can lend out its capital as  the pay­
ments come in  and the rate  of  interest it is 
able to command. 
In  Philadelphia,  where 
money is cheap and plentiful,  and where, of 
course,  low  rates  of  interest  prevail  the 
shares are brought to  maturity  in from ten 
to thirteen years, with perhaps twelve years 
as an average. 
It is not likely that many of 
the societies  now operating  in Chicago will 
be able to “work out” in eight years, though 
all of them should do so in nine or ten.
The  safety of  these  societies  so far  has 
been in  the  watchfulness  of  the  members 
themselves and the small  inducement there 
must  necessarily be  for fraud  or embezzle­
ment from the fact that  the funds are being 
constantly  invested.  But  the  members  of 
these  associations  are  rapidly  increasing, 
and there is undoubtedly a field open to the 
schemer  and  the  rogue.  New  plans  and 
schemes will  be  formulated  that  possibly 
may not prove in the  outcome to be all that 
is claimed for them.  They  should  be care­
fully scrutinized before invested in.
But the old plan—what may be called the 
Philadelphia plan—is the best form of co-op­
eration that has yet been devised by the wit 
of man. 
It presents  the  spectacle  of  Cap­
ital joining hands with Labor, each measur­
ing out to  the  other  its  equitable  share in 
the  joint  work,  each  reaping  alike of  the 
joint gains.  Franklin  has said to all  those 
who labor,  “If  any  one  tells  you that the 
workmau can  become rich  otherwise  than 
by labor and saving,  do  not  listen to him— 
he is a  poisoner.”  As  a  means  of  saving, 
of  encouraging  habits  of  economy,  of  ac­
quiring a home,  and  of  gaining  the  high­
way to competency  and  wealth,  the  build­
ing  and  loan  associations  seem  to  be the 
best that have  yet been  devised.  They bid 
fair to make Chicago what Philadelphia is— 

city of  homes.

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tion.

‘W hat  W e  W ant.

State convention on August 7 and 6.

Under this head, President Hamilton is send­
ing out the following list:
Every  association  represented  at  our  next 
The peddling nuisance tohave its due share of 
attention.
The  building  and  loan  associations  recom 
mended as a  stimulus  to  thrift  and  a  pre­
venter of delinquency.
To hear the Insurance Committee advocate or­
ganization, for  the  protection  of  business 
men.
To dispel the idea  that  our  organizations  are 
identical with trusts or combinations for op 
pression. 

To encourage the highest standard of trade.
Three minute reports from each local associa­
Delegates to be furnished with credentials.
To hear the able report  from  the  Committee 
on Trade Interests.
An  outline  for work  from  our  Legislative 
Committee. 
To hear the reports from New York,  Pennsyl­
vania, Ohid and New Jersey.
Full and free discussions.
To further cement our forces.
Reform in the commission business.

B. M. A. office in  moderate  and large-sized 
towns—main purpose to prevent bad debts— 
plan to be unfolded.
Any needed changes in our collection  system.
The attendance at local meetings discussed.
The best local constitution and by-laws.
To put the best foot forward.
All to take good news,  full  reports  and  their 
wives and families.
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To keep cool. 
To keep good natured.
To let politics rest.
To have a grand time.
To appreciate Cheboygan’s hospitality.
Fine weather,
Every local president and secretary to attend.
A few days’ recreation (this will be the time).
An enthusiastic and full meeting.
YOU! 

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South Haven to Celebrate.

SouthHaven, June 28,1888.

A. Stowe, G rand R apids;
Dear Sir—At the met-meeting of the SOuth
Haven B. M. A„  ft was  resolved  to celebrate
Independence Day ifipld fashioned style.  We 
are aware that it is date* ‘ 
in  the  day,  but  the 
eagle will scream alkthe  same,  for  whatever 
same,  for  what 
this organization
jitstodo  will  be  car­
ried out in good shape.
We have forty-three members in good stand­
ings 
Tours, 

8. Van Ostrand, Sec’y.

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T he  Business  Men’s  Mutual  Insurance 

Company. 

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The  Secretary  of  the*Greenvillfe  B.  M.  A. 
writes as follows In relation to  the ¡insurance 
project put forth by T h e  T r a d e s m a n  :

Gr e e n v il l e, June 27,1888.

time.  Besides, 1 believe such  an organization 

E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids:
Dea r  Sir —Regarding  the  coming  meeting 
Of the Michigan Business Men’s Association at 
Cheboygan, and the topics to  be  discussed at 
thahtime, l  want to say that I hope  to hear at 
that time the  opinion  of  the  convention  re­
garding  the  organization  of  the  Business 
Men’s Mutual Insurance  Co.  It seems  to  me 
that the  policy  as  outlined  in  T h e  Trades­
man of March 28, is worthy  of  the  considera­
tion of the associations  in  this  State  at  that 
could be effected and that the question- of  in­
surance, which is one of  the  largest  items of 
expense in business to-day,  could be  brought 
to a minimum.  There is no question that  the 
Business Men’s Associations have accomplish­
ed a good deal to ease this burden  in  destroy­
ing  the  recent  compact  law.  At the  same 
time, they can organize in a way that their in­
surance need cost them no more  than  in  old- 
line stock companies and, if there is any profit 
in the business above expenses and losses and 
a reserve fund, have it returned to the assured 
as a dividend, bringing insurance  down to ac­
tual cost.
If you think this question  worthy of discus­
sion at our annual  meeting,  ask  the  associa­
tions through the State to  be  prepared  to ex­
press themselves at that time.

Yours truly,

Ge o . B. Ca ld w el l, Sec’y.

The suggestion of the writer is  a good o n e - 
one Th e Tradesm an hopes to see  adopted by 
every association in the State, as no subject is 
more pertinent at this time than that of insur­
ance.  As the matter is likely to lead  to  some 
action at the convention,  it  will  be  well  for 
each local associ ation to instruct its delegates 
how they shall vote on the question.

The Desirability of the Bonus.

President Hamilton has sent out  the follow­
ing circular letter of enquiry to those associa­
tions which have secured new manufacturing 
enterprises by means of offering a bonus:

Tr a verse  Cit y ,  June 27,1888.

Si r —I  wish to ascertain your candid opinion 
as to the wisdom of paying  bonuses to  manu­
facturing enterprises.  I ask  this  only  that I 
may strengthen my opinion,  already  formed, 
and to express the  same  at  our  coming  con­
vention at Cheboygan.  Our Associations have, 
through concert of action, done much in estab­
lishing various kinds of plants in their respec­
tive localities.  I have heard of slight regret at 
such course in one or two oases.  I would  like 
your view qf the  desirability  of  these  enter­
prises.  those  seeking  locations  and bonuses. 
Would you advocate paying such in any case? 
Do you not think that  the same wise consider­
ation should be shown towards these  projects 
as usually is  in  any  proposed  business  ven­
ture?  What does your experience justify you 
in  saying  regarding  the  above?
I hope you will be present at the next  State 
meeting on Auer. 7 and 8.

Yours truly,  F ra nk  H a m ilto n.

Association  Notes.

It is time that the local associations were be­
ginning to consider whom to  send  to the Che­
boygan convention.

The Kalamazoo B. M. A.  applied  for a char­
ter  from  the  State  body  last  week  and was 
granted charter No. 76.

The editor of Th e  T radesman  will  address 
the  East  Saginaw  Mercantile  Association on 
Friday evening of this week.

Cheboygan  Tribnne:  The  local  committee 
from the Cheboygan Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion, to arrange for the  entertainment  of the 
Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association,  at  its 

meeting in our village on August  7  and 8, are 

actively at work and  are  backed  in their  ef­
forts by the business men of Cheboygan.  The 
committee recently met  W.  B.  Owen, mana­
ger of the  Delta  Transportation  Co.,  and  re­
ceived a proposition from him to take the del­
egates and invited  guests to  Mackinac  Island 
and return, on the  elegant  steamers  Soo City 
and Minnie M.

Saranac and  Lowed Join Hands.

The B. M. A.’s  of  Saranac  and  Lowell  wiil 
hold a union picnic  at  Cheetham’s  Grove, on 
the  south  bank  of  Grand  River,  on  July  4 
Dinner will be in  order  from  12 to  2  o’clock, 
when an oration  will  be  delivered  by Myron 
H. Walker,  of  Grand  Rapids,  and  a  general 
good time indulged in.

Bank  Notes.

The Chelsea  banks  keep open as  late as 

the stores.

The  Muskegon National Bank declared a 
semi-annual dividend of 5 per!cent. on June 
28.

Merchants should remember that the cele­
brated  “Crescent,”  “ White  Rose”  and 
“Royal Patent” brands  of  flour  are  manu­
factured  and sold  only by the  Yoigt  Mill­
ing Co.

JU L IU S   H O U SEM A N , P res.,

A . B. W ATSON. T reas..

8. F . A S P IN W A L L , Secy 

CASH CAPITAL,  8 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 .

Offer Mo. 171.

FREE—To  Merchants  Only:  A 
genuine  Meerschaum  Smoker’s  Set, 
(five pieces), in satin-lined plush case. 
Address at  once,  R.  W.  Tansill  &  
Co.,  55  State St.,  Chicago.

Dress  Slap

Soft,  pliable  and  absolutely  unbreakable.  Sf&n- 
dard  q u ality   15  cents  p er  yard.  Cloth  covered  20 
cents.  S atin covered 25 cents.  F or siale every w here.

PLAGE to secure a thorough 
and useful education ls*t the 
Grand Rapids (Mich.) Busi­
ness College. write for Coir 

leae Journal.  Address,  C. G. SWENSBERG.

 

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HARDWOOD LUMBER.

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

The furniture factories  here pay as follows 
for  dry  stock,  measured  merchantable, mi., 
oulls out; 
Basswood, log-run.........................*13 00015 00
Birch, log-run.................£ ?............ 15 nnpin oo
Birch,Nos. 1 and 2......... .................  
26 00035 00
Cherry,  log-run........... 
Cherry,  cu ll....... 
010 00
Maple, log-run......... ........................ 12 00014 00
Maple, soft,  log-run. ........................11 00013 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2.      ......... . 
@20 00
Maple, clear, flooring.......................   @25 Oo
Maple, white, seleoted...«...... . 
... 
“ 
"
Bed Oak, log-run...... ........................18
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2...............  ... .24
regular..............30
Bed Oak,  “ 
Red Oak, No. l,step pi 
plank........m m s.
Walnut, log-run...... .
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2,
Walnuts,  culls...... ......................... .
Grey Elm,log-run...... .
White Ash, log-run..........¡.'.. ......14
Whitewood,  log-run. 
.20

@25 oo
Black Ash, log-run....... ...............  .14 00O16 53
Cherry,Nos.l and 2. _______ ......,46 00050 00
Bed Oak, 14 sawed, 8in and upw’d..40
White Oak, log-run...............,.17

......... 

“ 

, 6C
66

60
60
56
50
28
18

....dlB
__dis
...dis
...dis
...dis
26,  27
15

t o a r b w a r e .

f il e s—New List.

Disston’s

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

 

 

 

 

0

BELLS.

BARROWS.

BALANCES,

AUGERS AND KITS.

promptly and buy in full packages, 
v  
ju*i ...........dis
Ives’, old style............ 
N.  H. C. Co..................... -...¡.-i______dis
Douglass’.................... 
dis
 
Pierces’ .............................  
 
  dis
Snell’s __ .21. m ................... ............'dis
Cook’s  ............................. ...... 
* ” . | |*dis
.dis
Jennings’, genuine.................. 
Jennings’, imitation...
.disSO&lO
Spring............................. ...7 !......  ...dis
40
Railroad...................................................$  14 00
Garden.................. . 
................net 33 00
H and............................... .......... dis $ 60&10&10
Cow........................................... ....dis 
70
Call.............................................  
30&15
t o  
Con»-Q-......... 
niS 
25
Door. Sargent................................dig 
60&10
„  
BOLTS.
dis $
Stove.................................... 
...dis $
Carriage  new list............................... dis
...dis 7G&10
PlOW  .................................. 
dig
...dis
50
Sleigh Shoe...................
..dis
70
Wrought Barrel  Bolts............................
60
...dis
  dis
Cast  Barrel Bolts......................  
...dis
40
Cast Barrel, brass knobs......... ... . dis
.. .dis
40
Cast Square Spring............................ dis
.. .dis
60
Cast Chain..........................................dis
...dis
40
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob...... " " d is
.. .dis
60
Wrought Square ............ 
.dis
...dis
60
Wrought Sunk Flush......................... dis
.. .dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
ob
_ Flush......... ......................................dis
...dis 60&10
Ives  Door...... .................................... dis
... dis 60&10
B arber.............................................d is$
.. .dis $
40
Backus..........................
..dis 50&10
H
Spofford......................... 
.. .dis
50
Am. Ball......................  
dis
. ..dis
net

Well, plain............ .................... ........ ... $ 3 50
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned....... .dis.  60& 5

Well, swivel.
Cast Loose Pin, figured............... 
  dis
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint,  ilia
Wrought Loose  Pin.......................... dis
Wrought Loose. Pin, acorn tip ._____.dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
tipped.............................................
Wrought Table..................................  ñia
Wrought Inside Blind................... ...dis
Wrought Brass....................................dis
Blind, Clark’s......................................‘dis
Blind, Parker’s...................................’¿is
Blind, Shepard’s...............................

60& 5 
60&10 
60&10 
75 
70&10 
70&10 
70
• .......................................... per m $65
go
35

Hick s C. F .......................................... 
£ D - v ........................... ......................... 

Central Fire................................................. iua9.fr

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list... .50
Rim Fire, United  States...........................dis50

4 00
70& 
70& 
60& 
60&10 
60&10 
60& 5

 
BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST.

CATRIDGES.

BRACES.

CAPS.

 

 

CHISELS.

 

COCKS.

COMBS.

Socket Firmer....  ..............................dis  70&10
Socket Framing..  ..............................dis  70&10
Socket Corner...................................... dis  70&10
Socket Slicks....................................... dis  70&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer.................. dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers....................dis 
20
Cold.................................................'.. .net
Curry, Lawrence’s..............................dis
Hotchkiss  .............  
dis
Brass, Racking’s...................................
Bibb’s ...................................................  '
B eer........................................................‘
Fenns’.........................................

Planished, 14 oz cut to size....................«o> 33
31

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

40&10
25
60
60
40M0
60

Cold Boiled, 14x56 and 14x60........
29 
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................. ’
29 
Bottoms.....................................................
80
Morse’s Bit  Stock.............................dis
40 
Taper and Straight Shank.................dis
40 
Morse’s Taper  Shank........................ dis
40
Com. 4 piece, h  in..........................doz net
$.75
Corrugated...................................... disJO&lOi&O
t*&10
A d ju sta b le ...............................................dis 
30
C la r’s, s m a ll. $18  00;  la rg e ,  $26 Oo.  d is  
I v e s ’,  1.  $18  0<i;  2.  $24  00;  3,  $30 00.  d is  
26

EXPANSIVE  BITS.

ELBOWS.

COPPER.

DRILLS

Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

12 

Discount,  60.

GALVANIZED IRON, 
22 and 24,  25 and
14

13 
GAUGES.

 

 

HOES.

Kip’s

60&10

HANGERS.

HAMMEAS«

hinges.

HOLLOW  WARE.

HOUSE  FURN ISHIN G   GOODS.

State. ...................................... per doz, net,

...dis
50
.. .dis
25
...dis
25
...dis 40&10
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c'40&10 

Gate,Clark’s, 1,2, 3 „ ........T. . .......dis
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in. 4*4  14
Screw Hook and Eye, $4  ................’.net

and  longer...........................................
7*4
70
Screw Hook and Eye %.................. net
8*
Screw Hook and Eye  £ ....................net
7*4
Screw Hook and Eye,  %..........  
net
7*4
Strhp and  T .................................... dis
70
Barn Door KidderMfg. Co., Wood track  50&10
Champion,  anti-friction.................... dis  60&10
Kidder, wood  track............................ dis 
40
Pots,.................................................  60&10
K ettles............................................   60&10
Spiders  ......  
Gray  enameled............................... 
Stamped  TinWare....................new list  70&10
Japanned Tin  Ware.......................  
Granite Iron  Ware................................  
25

50
25
Grub 1............................................$11 00, dis 60
55
55
55
45
55

Grub  2.................. ..........................  11 50, dis 60
Grub 3..............................................  12 00, dis 60
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.......... dis 
55
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings........... 
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings......  
Door, porcelain, trimmings................... 
Drawer and Shutter,  porcelain.........dis 
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s............   40&10
Hemacite............................................dis 
55
Bussell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. dis 
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s....................dis 
55
Branford’s ...........................................dis 
Norwalk’s  ....................... 
55
dis 
LEVELS.
Stanley Buie and Level Co.’s.................. dis
70
Adze  Eye................................... $16 00 dis 
60
Hunt Eye................................... $15 00 dis 
60
Hunt’s...................................... $18 50 dis 20 & 10
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled................dis  50
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s................................dis 40
Coffee,P.S.&W.Mfg.Co.’sMalleables ...  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s..............dis 40
Coffee,  Enterprise...................................dis  26
Stebbin’s Pattern  ..............................dis  60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine...............................dis  60&10
Enterprise,  self-measuring............... dis 
25

lOdto  60d......................................... $  keg $2 05
25

8d and 9 d aPv............................................  
50
6d and 7d  adv............................................. 
75
3d advance.................................................   1 50
3d fine advance........................................   2 25
Clinch nails, adv........................................  1 00

4d and 5d  adv............................................  

Common, Brad and Fencing.

KNOBS—NEW L IST . 

MOLASSES GATES.

l o c k s —d o o r .

NAILS —TRON.

MATTOCKS.

MAULS.

MILLS.

8d  6d  4d
2*4 
2 

ltt

70

 

I

......................  
PLANES.

I  lOd 
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 

Finishing 
Size—inches  J  3 
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—2 10.
OILERS.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.  .
......dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom_________ ______
—  dis  50
Brass or  Copper...................................... dis  50
Reaper...................................per grosB, $12 net
Olmstead’s . 
50&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy......................... dis 40® 10
Sciota Bench.........................................dis  @60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy..................dis 40@10
Bench, flrstiqualitp........................................dis @60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood__diaanAip
Fry, Acme.......................................................dis 50&10
Common, polished................... 
Dripping.................................................. lb
Iron and Tinned................................dis
dis
Copper Rivets and  Burs..................dis
dis

dis60&10
Tb 6*4
55
50

RIVETS.

PA *S.

 

 

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

* A” W°od,8 patent planished, Nos. 24 to 2710 20 
“B  Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27  9 89 
OJ 
Sisal,H in .and  la rg e r....................... 

Manilla.........................12

Broken packs )4c y  ft extra.

ROPES.

10

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Jan

«14
6*4
14

70&10
60
20
Com. 
$3 00 
300 
3 10 
3 15 
325 
3 35 
inches

SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth.

Steel and Iron............  
dig
Try and Bevels................; : ...............dig
M itre....................... .:.:.r.dis'
-t 
Nos. 10 to 14.................. . 
Nos. 15 to 17................. 
Nos. 18to 21........................ 
Nos. 22 to 24................. 
Nos .25 to 26................ 
 

$4 20
.........   4 20
4 20
440
No.27.............................................. I S
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
No. 1,  Refined................... 

All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over X 

SHEET ZINC.

7 35 rates.

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

TIN—LEADED.

....................  m IS;

TINNER’S SOLDER.........

IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........7*18 09

100 Plate Charcoal..................  
100 Plate Charcoal..........   ............   g in
........13 10

In casks of 600 lbs, y   B>...............  
In smallerquansities, y   l
„   _ 
Market  Half-and-half... 
Strictly  Half-and-half__ is
. 
tacks.
American, all  kinds................. 
dis
Steel, all kinds....................................dis
Swedes, all kinds......... dis
Gimp and Lace................  
dis
Cigar Box  Nails................ 
dis
Finishing Nails................... 
dis
Common and Patent Brads*." ! ......dis
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks  dis
Trunk and Clout Nails.........  
dis
Tinned Trank and Clout Nails. . * .'dis 
Leathered Carpet  Tacks................ dis
TIN PLATES..........
IC,
IX,
10x14,Charcoal................. 
IC ,IX,
12x12. Charcoal..................." i "  
IC,
IX,
14x20, Charcoal.............. 
 
IXX,
IXXX, 14x20, Charcoai................. 
IX, 
DC, 
DX, 
DXX, 100 Plate  Charcoal......... . . . . . . . . 
DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal.........  
Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add  1 50  to 
Roofing, 14x20, I C ..................  
Roofing, 20x28, IC........... 

20
.......................6 
7  hk
12x12, Charcoal............................   g 85
«35
14x20, Charcoal.........................  *  6 35
795
14x20, Charcoal.............................. 9
......11 37
IXXXX, 14x20 Charcoai............. ..............  13 is
20x28, Charcoal............ *..*..*."""  16 10
7 10
1110
=4,1
Roofing, 14x20, IX .....................................   7  aX
Roofing, 20x28, IX .................7.7."." .'" " . 15 00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne..............  6 00
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...... .......7 so
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne.............15 00
Oneida Community, Newhouse’e.7.777 ’ ’dis 35 
dis  67vs.
........'¿¡8 7i,&ifi
Coppered Market............... .7............  dis  «3*4
5ft
Plain Fence............................................w lb  3
painted...................7.7.7.. 3 25
50
75
75
70&5
40
30c

Tinned  Market................................7.'.dis62?4
Tinned Mattress............... ..................... »«, gw
Coppered Spring Steel........7 .7 .7   "  ffis 
Ti nned Spring Steel........................................dis 40&10
Barbed Fence, galvanized... 7 7.7.7.7. 
4 OO
rX * ..............................................new list net
Hra8S.................................................new list net
_  .  * 
......................................... dis
70&10&10
Screw Eyes................................... dis
70&10&10
S oot s .....................  dis
70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  Eves.7 7 7   " "  Bin 
70&10&M
WRENCHES.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.
Coe’s Genuine................................... .dis 
Coe’s Pte nt A gricultural, wrought,dis 
Coe s Ptent, malleable................... dis 
Birdcages.......................... 
Pumps,  Cistern..................... 
 
Screws, new list..........................  
'' 
Casters, Bed and Plate............’dis50&10&10
Dampers, American......................... 
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods! .7d 
Copper Bottoms...................... 

Steel, Game................................ 
60&10
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s  60&10
Hotchkiss’ 
60M0
& w^Mfg. Co.’s .................................. 60&10
Mouse,  choker....................... 
i«*» »  ¿oz
Mouse, delusion.................. 7.7.7. .7$150  y  doz
Bright Market................................ 
Annealed Market................  

MISCELLANEOUS.

WIRE GOODS.

75&10
50,

TRAPS.

WIRE.

¿is 

%

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DIAMOND

For  ail  kinds  of  buildings  re­
quiring  a  good  roof  at  less ¡price 
than any other.

R E A D Y   TO  A P P L Y  

R E C E IV E D .

WHEN

M. EHEET,  Jr,,  &  CO.,

Sole  M a n u fa c tu re rs,

Chicago and Philadelphia.

Send for circulars and book of testimonials.

F O R   SA LE  BY

H.  M.  REYNOLDS

Grami  Rapids, 

-  Mich.

WOONSOCKET  and  KHODE  ISLAND  RUBBEKS
Write  for  Fall  Prices  and 

Discounts

6, R. P Y flE I,

Grand Eapids,  Mich.

Boston anil Lawrence 
Felt and Knit  Boots.
Neal’s  Carriage  Paints
The Great  Invention.  Six  Handsome Shades.  Ready for use.  DRY.  HARO. OVER  NIGHT, and are very4 
GRANITE  FLOOI?  PAINTS
AG ME  WHITE  LEAD  A COLOR  WORKS

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

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

Dry Dolor Makers, Paint and Varnish  Manufacturers.

C U T T H IS  A D VER TIS EM EN T O U T A N D  TA K E  IT TO  YOUR  D EA LER ,  IT W ILL SEC U R E YOU A  PR IZ£ .

D E T R O I T ,

H   fSicMgan  Tradesman.

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

The  Patent  Mediciné Situation.

JTrom th e   D ruggist. 

,

FOREIGN,

TROPICAL

F R U I T S . Salt Latelisi

AimCALIFORNIA

WHOLESALE

The Standard of Excellence
K IN G S F O R D ’S

77,  79,81, and  83 South  DM

i

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

m -  One Block from Union Depot on Oakes Street.

37 North Division Street. 

Office, 117 Monroe St.,

W HOLESALE  GROCERS.

IMPORTERS  OF

GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN  STARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blanc-M ange, etc.

THE  PERFECTION  OF  QUALITY.

AND  OYSTERS.

Packing  and W arehouse,

BAUM’S

T H E   A C K N O W L E D G E D   K IN G   o f A X L E  

L U B R IC A N TS.  N e ith e r  G u m s  n o r  

C h ills, n e v e r r u n s   off th e  a x le  

a n d  o u tw e a rs  a n y  o th e r  

k n o w n  o il o r  g rease.
PRICES  TO THE TRADE.

Ponys, per gross, $10.  Packed in 3  doz. cases.
Pints, per doz., $2.25.  Packed in 1  doz.  cases. 
Quarts,  per  doz.,  $1.  Packed  in 1 doz. cases 
Gallons, each,  $1.20.  Packed  6  cans  in  case 

Retail at 10 cts. each.
Retail at 30 cts. each.
Retail at 50 cents each.
Retail at $1.50 each.

E a c h  case c o n ta in s  a   lib e r a l  a s s o rtm e n t o f 

a d v e rtis in g   m a tte r ,  lith o g ra p h s , 

sh o w -card s, etc.

THE  TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY

OLNEY, SHIELDS & CO.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

x6 and x8 No. Division St..

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

Bananas,  Olir  Specialty.

Bbenett  Bros.,

ESTABLISHED  1866.

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159  So. later Street, Chioago.

We do a General Commission Business 
and offer as  inducements twenty years’  ex­
perience and clear record.  The best equip­
ped and  largest salesroom  in  the  business 
in this city.  Ample storage  facilities—full 
20,000 feet  of  floor  space  in  the center of 
the best market in the West.  Ample capi­
tal  and  first-class  references  on  file  with 
Th e  T radesman.  Write us  if  you wish 
information,  whether  to  buy  or  sell. 
It 
will cost you nothing.

BARNETT  BROS.

are  entirely 

T he great  increase'in variety of  *“pate»t 
medicines,” as they are commonly called, is 
à  subject that deserves our serious consider­
ation. 
It has been discussed and comment­
ed  upon  by members of  the  trade and  by 
professional  men, yet  the.  solution  of  the 
question stilTseems as far off as ever.
Looking at the question from an econom­
ic  stand-point, it is  like  most questions  in 
that  complicated  science. 
It  presents  as 
many  redeeming features  as  objectionable 
t nes  are displayed.  What  the community 
ac large loses in the investment of money for 
the  goods consumed is disseminated among 
the printers and other agencies of industry.
Considered in a sanitary sense the matter 
is  much  more  serious.  Even  admitting 
that a  grèat  deal of  good is done by curing 
and  relieving  many ills  to  which  flesh is 
heir,  yet  there  is undoubtedly irredeemable 
damage  done to many who  swallow  these 
nostrums. 
It is doubtless true that most off 
the  compounders of this  class of goods en­
deavor to prepare remedies that will  benefit 
those  who  take  them;  yet  a  great  many 
manufacturers 
incompetent 
j udges, and quite a large number have such 
a  greed for  making money that  everything 
else  is  of  secondary or  little  importance. 
We  know  of  a large  number of  remedies 
that have been analyzed in America  and in 
Europe  and  their  sale  prohibited  in  the 
latter country because they contain injurious 
ingredients.  Quite  lately one  prominent 
article  has  been exposed  in  this  country 
which  demonstrates  that  some, manufac­
turers are worse than unscrupulous.
But there  is  another feature of  the sub­
ject  that concerns  us  as  dealers,  whether 
wholesale  or  retail, and  that  is the  great 
risks that  must be taken in purchasing this 
class of  goods.  Take  the retail  druggist, 
and  he is called upon by Mrs. A., who  has 
seen  an advertisement in an almanac or  on 
a  fence post  for a remedy that  the  dealer 
does not keep in  stock.  Next day, Mrs. B. 
comes in, who has seen  a similar advertise­
ment;  hence the dealer«thinks he had better 
send  for one-half  dozen.  He  orders  one- 
half dozen and succeeds in selling four  bot­
tles, but  two remain on  hand.  The  same 
experience  is  had  with  a  dozen  other 
articles, and the result is they remain on his 
shelves.  But  if  such  is  the experience of 
the  retailer, how  much  worse  must  it  be 
with  the  jobber?  When  an  enterprising 
patent  medicine man  enters upon'  his field 
of operation, he goes to the  jobber and dem­
onstrates  what an  immense  demand  there 
will be created for  his goods.  He even has 
secured  from  a  number  of  retail  dealers 
orders for his panacea.  The jobber, anxious 
to  please the  retailers, who  are his  custo­
mers, is thus  induced to buy a large  stock. 
A   demand  is  actually  created,  and  the 
second or third lot is purchased.  Now,  the 
proprietor  makes  known  that at an  early 
■date the price will be raised, and the jobber 
is tempted  to  buy an extra  quantity.  But 
now a calamity overcomes the manufacturer 
or his scheme  has  assumed a point  where 
he can  get away with the  plunder,  and the 
jobber is left to hold the bag.
The  above is only  one of  the many pict­
ures, and  hence  it  is evident  that  the so- 
called patent medicine business has reached 
a point where it is almost unbearable.  Hun 
dredsof  thousands of  dollars are  required 
by the jobber to carry an assortment of  this 
class of  goods.  The small  profits and  the 
risky nature are  such that it can  hardly be 
endured. 
It is an  injury to the  consumer, 
to  the  retail  and  wholesale  druggist  and 
hence to the community  in  general.  Who 
can suggest a solution to this dilemma?

Making  Saratoga Chips.

Saratoga  chips, as  all  know  who  have 
ever  seen  or tasted  the article, are  made 
from potatoes.  The process of manufacture 
is a very simple  one.  The  only machinery 
tifeed, if such simple tools can be called ma­
chinery,  consists  of  a parer  and  a  slicer. 
The former is composed of  a round piece of 
tin, one  end of  which  serves as  a  handle, 
while the other contains a knife so set that 
it  will cut  only a thin  paring.  The  latter 
consists of  a  knife, set  in a  wheel-shaped 
contrivance,  which, on  being turned  by  a 
crank, cuts the  potato into slices of  the  re­
quisite thickness.  Only the best of potatoes 
can  be  used, and  even  then  there is  great 
waste, as  all “specks” and  other  imperfec­
tions  must be carefully cut out.  After  the 
potatoes are sliced they are placed in water 
and  allowed to remain several  hours,  being 
stirred  occasionally.  This is for  the  pur­
pose  of  removing  the  starch,  which,  if 
allowed  to  remain, would  cause the  chips 
to become sour.  The  slices are then  ready 
for  boiling.  A large  kettle, set in a  brick 
arch, in which a natural gas fire is burning, 
is kept  nearly full of  hot  lard.  Enough ef 
the  slices  are placed in the  kettle to  cover 
the surface, when they are boiled until they 
become  crisp and  brown.  They are  then 
ladled  out, sprinkled  with salt, and  placed 
in  a  sieve  to  dry.  After cooling the chips 
are ready for  packing.  They are put up in 
stout  paper  boxes, one-half  pound in each 
box, and  retailed  for 15 cents per  package.

The  Story  of  Coffee.

The  virtues of  the  fragrant  berry were 
first  recognized  by  the  Arabians,  and 
through them made known to all the inhab­
itants of  the Moslem  dominions. 
In  their 
Mediterranean  conquests  the  Turks  and 
Saracens, in   all  probability, introduced the 
practice of  coffee  drinking  into  Christian 
lands.  The first mention of  the use of  the 
berry in  Europe  is  observed  in  the  pages 
■  of  a  German writer of  the  year  1573, who 
ascribes to  it  innumerable  virtues, more or 
In  those 
less  marvelous  in  their nature. 
early days  coffee was  extremely expensive, 
costing  over  825 a pound, and  was  chiefly 
imported from Arabia. 
It is now grown in 
many p u is of  Central and  South America,
in  India,  and  in  many  islands 
in  the  South  Sea. 
alore 
about 4,500,000 quintals are grown annually. 
The  largest grained coffee is found in Suri­
nam, and the smallest in Mocha, Arabia.

>  in  Java, 

In  Brazil 

The Last Salesman Ahead.

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“ The rudeness of some merchants is pro 
verbial,” said a salesman on his return  trip 
from another part of  the  State. 
ordered out of a merchant’s store  who  had 
taken up four hours of my time, and caused 
m eto miss  the  only  trä n   that  day,  and 
bought nothing of me because  I   said he re­
minded  me very  strongly  of  a  mao  who 
had the reputation of being  a  porker,  and 
> were I  to meet him with a drove of the  lat­
ter I would take  him  for  the  leader.  As 
I  stepped down and out my old friend Jenks 
entered and I gave hfarthe  tip.  He said to 
the merchant “ I would have called  earlier 
trat I  saw that beastly Jones  in  your  place 
and would not enter  while, he  was  there. 
This pleased rite merchant, and  Jenks  sold 
n large MIL”

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

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GRAND  RAPIDS

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

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

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SO CENTS per FOUND.

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GRAND  RAPIDS.
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DEALERS IN

NOS.  18» and 184 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USB.

Grand,  Square  and  Upright  Pianos.

Send  for  our  Special  Catalogue.

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
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diet thatTie  Weber Stands Unrivaled.

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Everything in the musical line.

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Hillstrom  Organs,

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(Successor  to  Friedrich  Bros.)

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.,

10 & 12 Monroe St., 33,35,37,  39 & 41 Louis St., 

3 0  and 32 Canal St.a Grand Rapids, Mich.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 4,1888.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY A  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

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W ritten for The Tradesman.

Gloat  national  conventions, in the  great 
cities, sink  into comparative insignificance 
when placed in contrast with the celebration 
of the glorious Fourth of  July in a country 
town.  The influx of ten or twelve thousand 
strangers  among  a half  million  people  is 
scarcely noticeable, except in the vicinity of 
the  meeting  and  among  the  hotels  and 
lodging  houses,  but  when  two  or  three 
thousand  men, women and children  invade 
a town  containing about the same  number 
of inhabitants the place becomes filled from 
center  to  circumference  with  a  mass of 
struggling  humanity;  every business  place 
is transformed  into a haven of rest, a lunch 
room  and an infants’ asylum;  the air rever­
berates  with the loud-voiced  seductions  of 
the peddler and fakir;  every little  ripple of 
excitement  calls  a  surging  and  curious 
crowd from every point of the compass;  the 
band men  blow themselves  almost into  an 
apoplexy;  the air is laden with  the smell of 
gunpowder, and the  incessant  fusillade  is 
almost  deafening  and  entirely  headache 
producing;  an  occasional  runaway or  dog 
fight adds variety to the occasion, and near­
ly every noise imaginable adds to the pande­
monium  which  is  supposed  to  be  proper 
and requisite for the worship of the Goddess 
of Liberty.

And you and I are mentally anathematiz­
ing the  parties whose  efforts  have  brought 
about this riot and confusion.  Our trade is 
of that  nature  that it is  not perceptibly in­
flated  by the  presence of  pleasure-seeking 
crowds, and we reflect  that our little  extra 
profits will  be more  than dissipated  by the 
amount which we reluctantly subscribed for 
the occasion.  We  vote  the  whole  thing a 
bore and a nuisance,  and  promise ourselves 
that  on any similar  occasion in the  future 
we will  lock up and visit  some community 
where  the day is not  given  up to universal 
idiocy.

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And why has a genuine “gunpowder day” 
become so distasteful to  you and me?  Why 
does the sulphurous incense to the goddess, 
that once delighted our nostrils, now sicken 
and  disgust us?  Why do  we refuse  to  go 
and  hear  Prof.  Flunker  paralyze  King 
George  by  thundering  the  Declaration  of 
Independence  at him,  or see  Congressman 
Boodle in his great act of flying the Ameri­
can Eagle and twisting the tail of the British 
Lion?  Has our patriotism evaporated?  Do 
we  overlook  the  fact that  the  document 
which  enables  Flunker to exhibit  his ora­
torical ability made us American sovereigns? 
Are we oblivious to the other fact, that will 
be so neatly put by Boodle,  that  now all of 
our people are created free as well as equal? 
No!  We  have lots of  latent  patriotism in 
our anatomies;  our memories on the histone 
events  of  our  country  are  fairly  active, 
and  we have a reasonable amount of  pride 
in  our republican  royalty;  but,  sadly be  it 
said, we have  passed the  age when patriot­
ism bubbles  and when noise  and confusion 
and patriotic  platitudes have  their  fascina­
tions.  We  are  approaching old-fogy ism— 
the old-fogyism that  looks with  intolerance 
on gush, effusion and sentimentalism.

But,  on  occasions like  this, wouldn’t  it 
be  more sensible  for you and me to, tempo­
rarily at least, put  aside  our cynicism  and 
intolerance? 
Instead  of  looking  at  the 
efforts of Young America  to give the sky a 
lurid  aspect,  with  disfavor  and  irritation, 
wouldn’t it  be well to  call to mind  that we 
were  once  Young  Americas  ourselves; 
that we have seen the time when the months 
between the winter holidays and the Fourth 
of  July seemed almost unending;  when our 
sole financial  trouble was the  accumulation 
of  a  sufficient amount to  give us  personal 
respectability  among  the  burners  of  gun­
powder;  when, contrary to our usual habits, 
we  arose  at an  absurdly early  hour in the 
morning,  and  retired  only when  the  last 
explosion had  closed the  excitement of  the 
day;  when we filled  ourselves with aniline- 
tinted  lemonade,  sole-leather  gingerbread, 
half-baked peanuts,  and  the  like, and  di­
gested  the contents of  our  crowded  stom­
achs like  ostriches,  and  when, considering 
the  twenty-four hours  allotted  by  custom 
lor  the  celebration  of  our  independence 
altogether  toa  limited,  we  supplemented 
them with  seventy-two hours of  spasmodic 
attempts  to  render the anniversary unend­
ing?  And as we look  back on the  fascina­
tion  that  “gunpowder  day”  once  had for 
ourselves, ought  we to  object to  the rising 
generation’s reveling  in  the  same  enjoy­
ment?  No!  Rather let us stuff cotton in our 
oars;  take some  strong  antidote  against a 
nervous headache;  banish  the frowns  from 
our  faces,  and do  everything in our  power 
to  convince Young  America  that the  more 
red  he puts on thé  Fourth of  July sky, the 
more we admire and envy him.

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But.  after all, I am  afraid that  our peo­
ple’s  annual ebullition of  patriotism is  cal- 
-eulated  to  blind our  off spring to the  cold, 
hard, solid facts of history, and imbue them 
with  the  idea  that our  countrymen  have 
•deteriorated  materially  since  the  “times 
that tried men’s souls.”  Time and tradition 
have a remarkable  influence on  the notable 
of a century  ago.  His  faults mid  frailties 
are dissipated  by years, and  only his  com­
mendable,  ueefnl  and  noble  qualities  re­
main.  Tradition divests him of  everything 
that  is  selfish, mercenary  or  sensual, and 
makes him only an unsullied patriot and an

humanitarian. 

unselfish 
Congressman 
Boodle  will,  to-morrow,  give  his  hearers 
the old catalogue of  virtues,  which, handed 
down  by tradition, have  made  our  people 
regard  Gen. Washington as little  less  than 
a  demi-god, and  yet, those of  us who have 
read  impartial  history,  as  much  as  we 
reverence his memory and admire his deeds, 
are satisfied that he hadafair average of hu­
man faults and weaknesses.  Congressman 
Boodle  will  thunder  out  the  memorable 
words:  “I care not what course others may 
take, but, as for me, give me liberty or give 
me death!” But you and I have learned that 
Patrick  Henry,  like the orator in question, 
during the “late unpleasantness” was repre­
sented  by a substitute and that his  fighting 
qualities  were  confined  entirely  to  his 
mouth.  Congressman  B. will  blacken and 
blister  Benedict  Arnold,  and  extol  some 
of  his contemporaries who only lacked  the 
opportunity of becoming traitors and, there­
by,  luckily  became  “patriots;” and  he will 
refer  with enthusiasm  to  sundry “heroes” 
whose  blundering  or  stupidity  filled  hun-

EfiTONRYON,

dreds of nameless and forgotten gravés with 
men  more heroic  than  themselves.  B a t 
after  all, I  rather  believe that a perversion 
of the facts of  history is beneficial  in some 
respects;  it, at least, gives  the  determined 
and  ambitious  young American models for 
a  higher  standard  of  manhood  than  thé 
models themselves ever attained.

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Wc  can  congratulate  ourselves  that we 
have a much better excuse fora “gunpowder 
day”  than  our  British  cousins,  at  least. 
Commemorating  the  birth  of  a  great  na­
tion,  even  in  our  stereotyped  and  semi- 
idiotic  manner, is certainly much  more ex­
cusable  than  commemorating the birth of a 
stolid,  selfish and obese old lady, who mere­
ly  serves as  a  figure-head  to  the  govern­
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It  was  a  long, 

“One  day, when 1 was living at Concord, 
If.  H.,”  says  Mr.  Sol  Smith  Russell,'  “I 
started  away  from the  house to catch  the 
10:15  train  for  Boston.  J  was  somewhat 
stinted  for  timé, because if  I didn’t  catch 
the  10:15 train 1 couldn’t  get another  train 
for Beaton until 2:28 in the  afternoon. 
It 
was  now  10:03. 
Ju stas  I   stood  on  the 
front  stoop 1 heard my wife  calling to me. 
‘Wliat  is  it, Allie,’  savs  L  “ I  wish  you 
would  drop  into  Baxter’s,’ says  she,  ‘and 
« at  him to send  up some  smoked  salmon 
‘Of  course I  will,’ sáys I, for  if 
for  tea.’ 
there is one viand that I prize above another 
it is smoked salmon. 
I  love to eat smoked 
salmon  for tea—and then do business  with 
the  water-pitcher for the rest of  the night.
“ Baxter kept  a  store  in a brown  frame 
building  at the comer of  Emerson  avenue 
and  Amity  street. 
low 
building, the store  being on the  first  floor, 
while  in  the  second  story was  a  sort  of 
public  hall  for  rent  to  peripatetic negro- 
minstrel  troups, jubilee  singers,  and  tran­
scendental debating societies.  Baxter’s store 
was what  is  called  a  general  store—so- 
called, presumedly, because it  is  generally 
out of what you want.  Baxter professed to 
keep  everything  needful, from  bolt-cotton 
down to  patent clothes-pins and  from  win- 
tergi een lozenges up to  real ostrich-feather 
fan*.  Baxter  himself  was a typical  Yan­
k ee-tall, 
lantern-jawed  and 
garrulous.  He  was so  thrifty that  he had 
his  clothes  made  at  home  and  his wife 
always  cut  his  hair.  He  was so  thrifty 
that if  he  had  been  wrecked on  a  desert 
island  he would  have swum  ashore in two 
weeks  with  his  pockets  full of  $20  gold 
pieces.  When a fellow got through dealing 
with  Baxter he felt  pretty much as if  he’d 
been run through a sieve.
“ Well,  when  I   walked  into  the  store 
that  morning  I  was,  as  I  have  said,  in 
considerable of  a hurry. 
I   had  made  up 
my  mind to order  the smoked  salmon and 
get  to  my  train  just as fast  as  I  could. 
There  was nobody in the  front part of  the 
storr, so I walked back a ways.  Mr. Baxter 
was nailing a cod-fish to a board.
“  *Oh, good momin’, Mister Russell,’ says 
be. 
‘We’ve  got  anuther  uv  them  fine 
inornin’s  this momin’.  Does beat all what 
fine weather we’ve been havin’ this summer. 
Wuz tailin’ my wife yesterday that I  hadn’t 
known  such  weather  in thirty  years—not 
sense the Lyman buys wuz drownded in the 
•Rn«t river.  Always  knew  they’d  come to 
some  bad  end,  but 
they’d  never  have 
drownded  if  they’d  stuck  to  the  reg’lar 
swinunin’ hole.  Soms folks is never willin’ 
to let well enough alone, but has to be flyin’ 
in the face uv Providence, which is not only 
foolish jpg; wicked.’
“  *Yés, that is  true,  Mr. Baxter,’  says I; 
any smoked  salmon  to-day?’ 
‘but have
sahmon?’ he repeated, thought- 
ked  sahmon?  Why,  yes,  I 
accommodate ye.  Let me 
lid I  put that  smoked  sahmon; 
the  shelf next  to the calico 
;’t  seem to be there.  Always 
have a place for everything 
thing  in its place;  then I 
¡to put my hands on it in a 
ou,  Mr.  Russell, 
there’s 
r—I  don’t  care whether a 
store  or  a  race-track—
.  Mother  taught me  that 
lesson wfi!§ii I  wuz a boy up in  New Hamp 
shire. 
I guess she wuz, perhaps, the smart­
est  woman 4thafc  ever  lived;  somehow  or 
other  wimmin  nowadays  haven’t  got  the 
faculty -she  had—you  don’t  get  no  such 
doughnuts ‘ and  pies  nowadays 
that  you 
used to  get. when  my  mother  was  livin’, 
Waal, now,Jt* funny I can’t lay my  hands 
on that stipmM khom!  Likely  as  not that 
boy  B e p b & i^ ftid   it  away  somewhere, 
NevervM<6 0 P|Ea shiftless  boy in all my 
born d ^ s ;|j|^ v i^ o  no  good to talk to him 
—he  keeps^KwtifflL. with  liis  Jim  Crow 
business  jusFtfte  lime.  Miss  Perkins-- 
one  of  the  PerkinSP sisters—lives  down 
neat  to  the  Hobart  place—wuz  in  here 
Pother  day  day  an’  ordered  an  ounce  of 
cloves  to take  to  choir  meetin’;  darned if 
that fool boy didn’t do up a  paper  uv lacks 
f r   her.  That  evenin’  ’bout  nine  o’clock 
Lean Higgins, the bass singer, Come runniu 
down  the  road  f’r  Dock  Smith. 
‘Sakes 
alive, Lem,’  sez the Dock,  ‘what ails you?’ 
‘There  ain’t  nothin’  the  matter with me," 
sez Lem,  ‘but Miss Perkins is havin’ fits up 
to toe meetin’  house.’ 
‘Jest wait a minnit, 
till I git my  medicine  chest sez the  Dock. 
*We don’t want no medicine,’ sez Lem.  ‘Ef 
we’re goin’  to save  her  life all  we  need is 
perfeshional skill an’ a tack  hammer.’ 
“Now, this  was all  very amasing, but it 
inui nothing to do with smoked salmon, nor 
did it facilitate  my catching  the 10:15 train 
for Boston.
“ •Mr.  Baxter,’  says  I,  ‘I’m  sorry  you 
haven’t any smoked salmon
“  ‘Hold on  a  minnit,’ says he, interrupt­
ing me;  ‘I’ll find  out where Reuben put it, 
And  then  he  called,  ‘Reuben!’  ‘Reuben!’ 
several  times in a shrill, rasping  voice, and 
wound  up with  a  ‘Gol  durn  your  picter, 
why don’t you answer when I call ye!’
“ ‘Yes, sir,’ says  Reuben  at  last, from a 
far corner in the back end of the store.
.“ ‘Where  did  you put  th a t’ere  smoked 
sahmon?’
“ ‘The smoked sahmon?’
“  ‘Yes, sir, the  smoked sahmon!’
“  ‘Why, there ain’t none.’
“  ‘Ye  don’t  mean to  say that we’ve  run 
out of  smoked sahmon!  Does beat all that 
I   never  kin  learn that  boy nothin’.  Told 
Mm time  an’ again,  when he  saw we  wuz 
running  out  uv anything, he  must  let  me 
know,  soze I  c’u’d  order  some  more from 
Bost’n.  Waal, neow, darned if I ain’t sorry, 
Mr.  Russell, f’r  I  know  jest  how  disap­
pointed  folks is when  they  make up  their 
minds f’r smoked  sahmon an’ can’t git any. 
IPs jest like tearin’ the heart out or losin’ a 
favorite  cat  or  havin’  some other  great, 
erhshin’ soirer.  Why, I recollect that  one 
time old Squire Holbrook come into the store 
and  sez  he,  ‘Hiram’—he  wuz  one  of  the 
Bekfftmen, an’  he  always called  me Hiram 
—‘Hinun,’ sez  he,  ‘hev  you  got  any dried 
beef?’ 
‘Squire  Holbrook,’ sez  L  *we  hev 
run out of  dried beef, but I can  let you hev 
some  damask  towelin’  at  a  surprisin’ low 
figger.’ 
‘No, Hiram,’ sez  he, kinder sadly, 
‘no  towelin’ to-day. 
I   had  got  my heart 
sort  uv sot  on dried  beef.’ 
lie moved  off 
like  he was  in a dream an’ next momin’ he 
wuz  found  dead in his  bed.  Dock  Smith 
said it wuz heart disease, but I have always 
suspicioned  that his  heart wuzn’t. so mnch 
diseased as it wuz broke.’
- “Then Baxter entered  upon a diffuse bio­
graphical sketch  of  Squire  Holbrook, and 
when he  had got along  down  to  about toe 
fifty-second consecutive year of  the squire’s 
mundane  career  be  was  minded  of  the 
squire’s half-brother, Israel Warner,  I then 
learned  that  Baxter  was  intimately  ac-

quainted with the minute details of Israel’s 
life, from toe time that  he ran  away to sea 
up to the  naturally subsequent  date of  bis 
suffering'death àt the  hands of Feejee can­
nibals. 
It seems that  Israel visited  pretty 
nearly every foreign country under the sun, 
swapping glass  beads and  maple sugar for 
ivory and diamonds.  H e was  wrecked five 
times, was  thrieè  captured  by pirates, and 
once,  while swimming in  the Indian ocean, 
he had a seven-hour hand-to-hand fight with 
shark twelve  feet long.  I t was  not  sur­
prizing 
that  his  vicissitudinous  career 
should have been  ended by an episode with 
cannibals.
“ ‘An’  speakin’  uv eatin’,’  said  Baxter, 
remin’s  me  of  Lute  Haskell,  the  biggest 
•eater in New  Hampshire.  Lute come from 
family  uv  eaters,  but  none  uv  ’em cud 
hold a candle to Lute—he beat all comers— 
he  wuz a  eater  from  Eatville.  When  he 
wuz  only  two  years  old  he  was  toddlin’ 
round  the  yard  where  his  mother  wuz 
stewin’  pears  in a big  kittle.  He  wuzn’t 
bigger’n a minuit, there bein’ nuthin’ to him 
but  appertite.  Somehow  or  other,  when 
his  mother  wuzn’t  a-lookin’  he  fell  inter 
that  kittle  uv  stewed pears,  and  there  he 
wallered till his mother  discovered  him an’ 
fished  him  out—dtirned  lucky  he  wasn’t 
drownded.  As it  wuz, the  doctors  an’ the 
women folks had to work over him three days 
afore they fetched him out of his unconscious 
condition.  They  rolled  him  an’  kneaded 
him an’ stood him on his head an’ kep’ doin’ 
business  with  him  until  they had  em’tied 
more’n  three  gallons uv stewed  pears  out 
uv his  mouth an’  ears and nose.  Yes,  for 
three  mortal days  Lute  shed  that  stewed 
fruit.  But  the first words he  sez when  he 
come to wuz,  ‘Please to pass them pears.’ 
“Now, all  this  time,” says  Mr.  Russell, 
T kept  moving away from  Baxter. 
I had 
come for smoked  salmon.  When I learned 
that there was no smoked  salmon to be had 
I was  prepared  to go  my way and  pursue 
my  usual  line  of business.  But  Baxter 
would  not  let me  go.  He  kept  right  on 
talking, and  the longer he talked the wider 
he  diverged  from  the  original  subject  of 
smoked  salmon. 
I   might  have  left  the 
store  abruptly—I  might  have tom  myself 
rudely  away—but I  did  not wish to  offend 
Baxter.  He  was a well-meaning  man and 
liked  him—yes,  I  really  liked  him,  in 
spite of  the  circumstance that  he was  sap­
ping my vitality.
I  had  worked  my  way  pretty  well 
toward the door  and was  nervously thrum­
ming on a  jar of pickled peaches that stood 
on the counter.  If  Baxter had had any deli­
cacy of observation he would have seen how 
anxious I was to get away.

“ ‘Dumed good  peaches in that jar,’ said 
he.  ‘Growed ’em  myself.  No spiders  nor 
lizards  nor  snakes  in  them  peaches  like 
there  is  in  the  peaches  they  bring from 
Californy.  Mr. Emerson  wuz out  in Cali- 
forny  last  summer an’ when  he come back 
he  told  us  that the  country  was  greatly 
overestimated. 
‘But, Mr.  Emerson,’ sez  I, 
the  geographiers  tell us  that  fur  scenery 
and  climate the  Pacific  slope is unekaled.’ 
‘My friend,’ sez the sage, sadly,  and shakin’ 
his  finger as  he  used to when  about  to in­
culcate a great moral truth,  ‘my friend, wot 
is  climate  without  philosophy  or  scenery 
without pie?’

“ ‘Well,  I  must  be  going,’ said I, and 

made another move toward the door.

all 

the 

about 

fish  he’d 

“ ‘May be you’ll  find some  smoked  sah­
mon round to Mr. Ridgely’s  under  the tah- 
vern,’  said  Baxter. 
‘Ridgely  did  use  to 
keep smoked  sahmon, an’  now that I  come 
to  think  of  it  the  Widow  Eastman’s  girl 
wuz  tollin’  me  only a day or two  ago that 
she got some smoked sahmon there not long 
ago.  Didn’t  like  it  none  too  well;  had 
angleworms  and  moths  in  it—leastwise 
that’s what the girl said,  but  there’s no de 
pendin’ on  what folks  say nowadays, there 
are  so  many  blamed  liars  in  thé  world, 
There  wuz  Bill  -  Newton—Lytn’  Bill 
called  him.  Never  was  near
we
water  all  his  life,  yet  he  wuz  always 
tollin’ 
caught 
Once when  he  wuz sick with the  jaunders 
his father  sez to him:  “Bill,  how  air  you 
feelin’?”  “Finer’n a fiddle,” sez Bill.  ‘That 
settles  it,”  sez the old  man and he  started 
off  for  the, undertaker.  His  confurdence 
wuz not  misplaced.  When  he  ceme  back 
with the undertaker Bill  wuz a corpse.”
“When I got home that  afternoon,”  said 
Mr.  Russell,  “the  setting  sun  flooded my 
humble home with its mellow golden wealth, 
My wife was surprised to see me back from 
Boston so  soon. 
‘To,  Alice,’  saidL  “I’ve 
not  been 
I  missed  both 
trains. 
I  was  too busy to  go—busy  with 
Mr. Baxter.  Within the  last eight  hours 
have been all around the world two or three 
times, and up an down the  shadowy  aisles 
of  ancient  history. 
I   know  everything 
now, and  all  about  everybody  and  every 
where—Baxter has had me for eight hours,
“  ‘Sol Smith  Russell,’  she cried, are you 
crazyV

to  Boston. 

“  ‘No, Alice dear,’  said I,  ‘not crazy, but 

weary—oh, so  weary.’ ”

“Now,  what  do  you  suppose  Alice did, 
She sympathized with me?  She took me to 
her  arms,  soothed  my  aching  head,  and 
refreshed  my arid  heart ?,  No,  not  much 
did she.
“She  pierced  my  very  marrow  with the 
aspect of  a  basilisk,  and,  in  a  tone  that 
would have instantaneously congealed scald­
ing water, she said:  ‘If  that  isn’t  just like 
a man!  There you’ve been hanging around 
Baxter’s store all  day  and  you’ve forgotten 
all about that smoked salmon!’ ”

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Acme, % ft cans, 3  doz....  75
u  o>  *:■ 
8 “  ....  1 50
1 “  ....  3 00
1B> 
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B ulk.......................  20
Princess,  34s.......................i  *5
Us............ ......2  00
l i . . . . ................   3 75
b u lk ..................  28
dime size— ...  8o 
Arctic, 34 ft cans, 6 doz....  - 45 
75
.... 1 40
....240
....12 00
Victorian, 1 lb (tall,) 2 doz. 2 00
Diamond,  “bulk,” ........... 
15
Bed Star 34 ft cans 12 doz..  45 
6  “  ..  85
4  “  -.1 50

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348. 2 
Is, 1 
BLUING

Absolute,  34  ft  cans, 100
cans in case........................11 75
Absolute,  34  ft  cans,  50
cans in case....................... 10 00
Absolute, 1 ft cans, 50 cans
in case.................................18 75
Telfer’s 34 lb, cans, 6 doz in
c&so  ........................ 
  2 70
Telfer’s 34 ib cans, 3 doz in
case..................................2 55
Telfer’s 1 ft cans,  1 doz in
case.....................................  1 SO
Early.Riser, 34s, 4 doz  case  45 
“ 
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“  “  1 60
Arctic, 4 oz. r’nd ^  gross  3 00
8 oz.  “ 
............   6 00
4oz.  oval...........  3  40
8 oz.  “ 
...........  6  50
Pints r’nd............ 10 80
No. 2 Hurl...... * ................ 2 00
No. 1 Hurl...............   ........2 25
No. 2 Carpet........................2 50
No. 1 Carpet........................2 75
Parlor Gem............................3 00
Common Whisk......................1 00
Fancy  W hisk.........................1 25
Mill......................................■••3 75
Warehouse .........................o 0«
Runkle Bros’.. Vlen. Sweet  22
Premium..  33
Horn-Cocoa  37
Breakfast..  48

CHOCOLATE.
“ 
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COCOANUT
Is and 34s............ 28
34s........................2734
is  in tin pails....2734
34s 
....2834
Maitby’s, Is.........................2334
Is  and 34s.......... 24
34s......................2434
Manhattan, pails............... 20
Peerless.................
Bulk, pails or barrels. .16@18
M ocha...................... .25@28
Mandating............  
  25@26
OG Java......................24@25
Java.............................. 23@24
Maricabo.......................16@19
CostiRica.....................   @19
Mexican........................  @1?
Santos...........................15@18
Rio,  fancy....................18@19
Rio,  prime....................16@17
Rio, common............  ,.14@15
To ascertain cost of roasted 
coffee, add 34c per ft. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent, for shrink­
age.

Schepps, 1 8 .....................

COFFEE—GREEN

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COFFEES—PACKAGE.

18% 

30 lbs 60 lbs 100 ftt,
1934
Lion...............  
2t
Lion, in cab... 
Dilworth’s__
1°%
Magnolia.......  
18%
Acme............ 19 
G erm an........ 
18%
3934
German, bins. 
19%
Arbuckle’s Ariosa 
1734
Avorica 
McLaughlin’s XXXX 
1934
Arbuckle’s Avorlea........... 1834
Quaker City..........1934
Best Rio................ 2034
Prime Maricabo.. .2234

COFFEES—50 LB. BAGS.

CHEESE.

...... 7  @ 734

Michigan full cream... 8  @8^4 
DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.
Citron, in drum........... 
22
inboxes................24
Currants.  .  . 
Lemon  Peel.............  
14
Orange Peel........................14
Prunes, French, 60s...........
French,80s...... .
French. 90s...........
Imperial..............634
Turkey,..............  4%
Raisins, Dehesia................3 6u
Raisins, London Layers__ 3 10
Raisins, California  “ 
... ^  65 
Raisins. Loose Muscatels . .2 10 
Raisins, Loose California..1 90 
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s.  9  @934 
Raisins. Sultanas.......  @
Raisins,  Valencias......   @734
Raisins, Imnerials............,3 75

FISH.

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10 00 

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

Cod,  whole...................  @4%
Cod, boneless
13 
H a lib u t...................
2 75 
Herring, round, 34 bbl.
1 50 
Herring, round/ 34 bbl.
Herring, Holland, bhls. 
65@70
Herring, Holland, kegs
Herring, Scaled...........  25®28
Mack, sh’r, No. 1, 34hbl....8 75 
“  121b kit..l 25
‘ 
..1 10
“  10  “ 
“ 
“  No. 2,34 hbls..........7 50
Trout,  34  bbls.........................5 50
“  10 ft kits.................  85
White, No. 1, 34 bbls...........6 75
White, No. 1,12 ft kits.......1 20
White,  No. 1,10 ft kits.......1 05
White, Family,  34 bbls.......3 00
kits.........  70
Jennings’  Lemon.  Vanilla.
D.C.,2oz......$  doz  90 
135
“  4 oz.......... .....1 40 
2 50
3 75
“  6 oz.................2 25 
“  No. 3 Panel...1 00 
175
“  No. 4  Taper..1 60 
2 75
“  No. 8 panel...2 75 
4 50
6 50
...4 50 
“  No. 10  “ 
“  34 pint, r’nd..4 50 
7 50
..9 00 
“  1 
“ 
15 00
Lemon.  Vanilla.
per gross.
9 60
12 00
15 00
24 1)0
Farina, 100 lb. kegs............   04
Hominy, ¥   bbl...................4 0
Macaroni, dom 12 lb.  box..  60 
imported... 10  @11
Pearl Barley.............   @  334
Peas,  Green..............  @1 40
Peas, Split.................  @334
Sago, German.......... 
■
Tapioca, fl’k or p’rl..
®   6% ® 634 
Wheat,  cracked........
Vermicelli, import...
@10 
@60
domestic..
MATCHES.
95
G. H. No. 8,  square..
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, rn d ..l 00 
Richardson’s No. 7 
rnd..l  50
Woodbine. 300.....................1 15
MOLASSES.
Black  Strap.................... 17@18
Cuba Baking...................22@25
Porto Rico....................... 24@35
New  Orleans, good........ 33@40
New Orleans, choice.......44@50
New  Orleans, fancy.......50@52

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OIL.

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PICKLES.

OATMEAL

OATS—ROLLED.

Michigan Test.................... 10%
Water  White......................11%
Barrels............................... 6 25
Half barrels...................... 3 25
Cases.................................2  35
Barrels............................... 8 00
Half barrels.......................3 25
Cases........................!2 25@3 35
Medium...............................6 00
34 bbl.....................3 50
Small,  bbl...........................7 00
34 bb l......................4 00
Table.............................5%@534
H ead....................................7
Java........................... 
0%
P a tn a .................................|%
Rangoon.............................. 5
Broken..............................
Japan...........................   @6%
DeLand’s pdre.................... 534
Church’s  ............................ 5
Taylor’s  G. M..................... 5
Dwight’s ............................. 5
Sea  Foam............................5%
Cap Sheaf............................5

SALERATUS.

RICE.

%c less in 5 box lots.

 

CORDAGE.

CRACKERS.

60 foot Jute.......................110
72 foot J u te .......................1 40
4oFoot Cotton..  .........,.... 1 50
50 foot Cotton.................... 1 60
60 foot Cotton.................    .1 75
72 foot Cotton..........................2 00
Kenosha Butter................... 734
Seymour Butter..................3
Butter.................................. 6
Family  Butter.....................6
Fancy Butter.......................534
Butter Biscuit.................... 634
Boston.................................734
City Soda..............................8
Soda...... ...............................6
Soda Fancy.......................... 534
S.  Oyster..............................6
Picnic......... .....................*••6
Fancy  Oyster— ................534

CANNED FISH.

Clams, 1 ft, Little Neck__ 1 35
Clam Chowder, 3 ft.................2 15
Cove Oysters, 1 1b stand.. .1 00 
Cove Oysters, 2 lb stand...1 70
Lobsters, 1 lb picnic.  ........175
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic...........2 65
Lobsters, 1 ft  star...................1 95
Lobsters. 2 ft star...................2 90
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce3 25
Mackerel, lf t stand...........
Mackerel, 2ft stand...........
Mackerel,3 1b in Mustard. .3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft soused........3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia........2 20
Salmon, 2 f t “ 
3 50
Salmon, 1 ft Sacramento...1 90 
Salmon, 2 lb 
.. .2 75
Sardines, domestic 34s-----  7
Sardines, domestic 34s...lO@ll 
Sardines,  Mustard 34s...  9@10 
Sardines, imported  34s..l2@13
Sardines,  spiced, 34s.......10@12
TTout.3ft  brook.............
CANNED FRUITS.

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CANNED VEGETABLES.

Apples, gallons, stand......2 30
Blackberries, stand.......... 1 20
Cherries, red standard......1 60
Cherries, pitted...... .1 85@1 90
Damsons....................1 25@1 35
Egg Plums, stand.............. 1 5G
Goq^eberries.......................1 65
G rapes!..........— ....  95
Green Gages.......................1 50
Peaches, all yellow, stand.2 65
Peaches,  seconds...... ....... 2 25
Peaches, pie...................1 60@1 65
Pears...................................1 80
Pineapples,..............1 40@2 75
Quinces............... ........— 1 50
Raspberries, extra.............1 50
red................1 50
Strawberries................. 1 25@1 40
Whortleberries...................1 20
Asparagus, Oyster Bay... .3 00 
Beans, Lima, stan d ........  85
Beans, Green Limas. .  @1 40
Beans,  String........1  00@1 20
Beans, Stringless, E rie....  90
Beans, Lewis’ Boston B ak.l 60 
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy—
MomG’ry.l 15
Early Gold J. 16
Peas,  French.............1 60
Peas, extra marrofat.1 20@1 40
Peas,  soaked......................  90
“  June, stand__   @1 50
sifted.............. 2 00
“ 
! “  French, extra fine. .20 00 
Mushrooms, extra fine....20 00
Pumpkin, 3 lb Golden........1 00
Succotash, standard.... 80@1 30
Squash...........................1  25
Tomatoes, Red Coat  @  1 20 
Good Enough  1 20
B e n H a r..........120
stand br.l 15@  1 20
DRIED. FRUITS. 
Apples, evaporated.. .934@10 
summed......   634® 734

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SPICES—WHOLE.

34 
 
SAUCES.
SOAP.

60  Pocket, F F D................2 15
28 Pocket........................... 2 05
100 3 ft pockets... .............. 2 25
Saginaw or Manistee........  85
76
Ashton, bu. bags.
Ashton,4bu.  bags..................2 75
Higgins’bu. bags..............  75
American, 34 bu. bags.......  20
Rock, bushels....................   25
Warsaw, bu. bags..............  36
19
London Relish, 2 doz..........2 50
Dingman, 100 bars.................. 4 00
Don’t  Anti-Washboard— 4 75
Jaxon......... ........................3 75
Queen  Anne...........................4 00
German Family...................... 2 49
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....... 
Cassia, Batavia.............    20
“ 
and Saigon.25
“ 
“  Saigon..........42
Cloves, Amboyna.... .i... .35
“  Zanzibar...... . 1.... 30
Ginger, African................. 1234
“  Cochin.....................15
Jam aica..____ ...  @18
“ 
Mace Batavia......................80
...,.22 
Mustard,  English... 
andTrie.25
Trieste............27
Nutmegs, NO.  2— ............70
Pepper,Singapore  black..22 
white..30
Cayenne.............25
doz.. .84 
Absolute Pepper, 
Cinnamon  “  ...84
“  ,..55
Allspice 
“ ...11
Cloves 
“  ...78
Ginger 
Mustard 
“  ...84
STARCH. 
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Pepper, Singapore, olack..l83£ 

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Kingsford’s
Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs........7

“  6 ft boxes...... 734
“ 
bulk..........     634
534

Pure,lib pkgs....... 
Com.l ft pkgs........  .......  7
SUGARS.
Cut  Loaf..,»..............  @ 8%
Cubes...... .................   @
Powdered..................   @7
Granulated, Stand...  7%@7 
Off.........   @
Confectionery A........  @ <  _
Standard A ,..............  @634
No. 1, White Extra O.  @ 6%
No. 2, Extra C...........  @6%
No. 3 C.......................   @5%
6%@5%
No. 4 C ............ 
Com, barrels..... 
  @31
Com,34bbls...........  ...  @33
Com, kegs..
.
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Pure Sugar,bbl.....
Pure Sugar, 34 bbl......

 
. 3 3 6

 
SYRUPS.

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PROVISIONS.

 

 

 

 

The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co. 

PORK  IN   BARRELS.
 

quote  as follows:
Mess.............. 
.15 00
 
Short cu t.................................. 
Shortcut  Morgan.....................................15 50
Extra clear pig, short cu t.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  ,16 50
Extra clear,heavy.......................................16 50
Clear quill, short cut..........................  
Boston clear, short cut.................................. 16 50
Clear back, short cut.......................................16 50
Standard clear, short  cut, best........v.......16 50
Bean..................................................... .......
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.
Hams, average 20  fts...................... ............11
16  fts....................................11%
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12 to 14 fts............................1134
“ 
6V4
'  “  best boneless...................................11
Shoulders......................................................  8
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...........................11
Dried Beef, extra..........................................  8

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8%

8%8%

BEEF IN BARBELS.

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

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

ham  prices................................ 934
8%
medium.................... 8%
tight.......................   8%
LARD.
 

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Tierces  ......... 
30 and 50 ft T ubs........................ 
LARD IN TIN PAILS.
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.........................
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case.........................
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case.........................
834
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in case...................
8%
Extra Mess, warranted 200 fts...........
7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago Packing....................  7 50
“  Kansas City Packing.............7  25
P late............................................................  7 25
Extra Plate..................................................7 75
Boneless, rump butts................................   9 50
“  Kan City pkd...........8 50
“ 34 bbl.  5 00
“ 
Pork Sausage.................. .......... .  ...... ..  ..  734
Ham  Sausage................................. 
 
Tongue  Sausage........................................  9
Frankfort  Sausage......................................   8
6
Blood  Sausage........................... 
6
Bologna, straight.............  
 
Bologna, thick.................. 
 
6
Head Cheese............................  
6
In half barrels............................................   3 00
In quarter barrels......................................  2 00
In 34 Bbl................................ ....................... 3 00
In % Bbl........................................................1 75
In Kits................................... .......................   85

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

PIGS’ FEET.

TRIPE.

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Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 
HIDES.Calf skins, green

Green__$1 ft 4  @434
Part cured...  @5
Fullcured__   534@ 6
Dry hides and 
k ip s...........  6  @8

Deacon skins,

or cured__ 5  @6
£ piece...... 10  @20

WOOL.

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

scarce, readily commanding $2.25 perbu.

Fine washed $  ft 18@20|Coarse washed.. .18@20
Medium  ............ 20@22iUnwashed........... 12@16
Sheep pelts, short shearing.................. 
5@20
Sheep pelts, old wool estimated.........   20@23
Tallow...................................................3  @334
Grease butter..........................................  @5
Ginseng, good................................. 
P R O D U C E   M A R K E T .
Asparagus—30c per doz.
Beans—Hand-picked  mediums 
Beets—New, 25c per doz.
Butter—The market is well supplied.  Large 
handlers pay 12@14c for choice,  selling  again 
at 15@16c.
Cabbages— Ulinois stock readily  commands 
75c per doz.
Oneese—Good  stock  is  held at  8c, although 
some brands are held at 8% @ 8%c. The Adrian 
jobbers have demoralized this market by quot­
ing wholesale  prices to the retail  trade.  The 
indications for upward  market are  more fav­
orable  than  they were a week ago,  as the ex­
port trade continues exceptionally good.

are  very

rels, 25c.

ply at 6@8c per qt.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

and evaporated at 9c.
15'aiBc.

for No. 2.
mudas are held at $1.50  per bu. box.
per bu.

Cider—10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25; produce bar­
Cucumbers—30c per doz.
Dried  Apples—Jobbers hold  sun-dried at 7 
Eggs—Jobbers now  pay  13@14c  and sell  at 
Honey—In plentiful supply at 15@16c.
Hay—Baled is weak at  $15 for No. 1 and $14 
Onions—Young stock, 8c  per  dozen.  Ber 
Peas—Marrowfat,  $1.25 per  bu.  Green,  65c 
Plums—Tennessee, $1.75  per crate.
Pop Corn—234o 70 ft.
Potatoes—Home grown are  so poor that the 
Seeds—Buckwheat is so  scarce  that  almost 
String Beans—8i’c per bu.
Strawberries—Home grown are in  fair  sup 
Tomatoes—75c per % bu. ease.
Turnips—25 per bu.
Wax Beans—$1.50 per bu.
Watermelons—Georgia, 25c apiece.

season is about over.  New, $3 per bbl.
any price is freely offered.  Millet,  $1.50.

Clawson and Fulse.
lots and 50c in car lots.
car lots.

Meal—Bolted, $3.00 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $16 $  ton.  Bran, $13 
$   ton.  Ships,  $14.oO  $   ton.  Middlings,  $16 
$  ton.  Corn and Oats. $23 $  ton,

Wheat—City millers pay  82c  for Lancaster, 
Corn—Jobbing  generally  at 55c  in  100  bu 
Oats—White,  45c in  small  lots  and  40c 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.

POTATOES.
11. H.

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 soliçiteçU  Liberal cash 
advances on Car Lots when desired.

&  GO.

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

166 South W ater St., CHICAGO.
Reference 
F elsen t h a l.  Gross  & Mil l e r , Bankers, 
_  __________

Chicago. 

¡¡g

EDWIN FALLAS,
VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE,

PROPRIETOR OF

JOBBER OF

Oranges,  Lemons, Bananas, Butter,  Eggs 

and Egg Crates.

No. 1 eg g   c ra te s,  37c.  No. 2  eg g  cra te s, 
30c.  No.  1  fille rs,  13c.  No.  2  fille rs,  10c,
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. 
Mail orders filled prom ptly  a t low est m a rk et price.  A 
liberal discount on E gg C rates and fillers in  la rg e lots.

SA1ESE00I, 
-  No. 9  Ionia St,  Grand  Rapids.
MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

The  most practical 
hand  Roaster  in the 
world.. Thousands In 
use—giving  satisfac­
tion. They are simple 
durable and econom­
ical. 
No  grocer 
should  be  without 
one.  Roasts  coffee 
and  pea-nuts to per 
feetlon.
Send for  circulars.

B o M Iesl

150 Long St., 
Cleveland, Ohio«

SWEET  GOODS.X  XXX
834
834
834
8
8

Ginger  Snaps....
. . . 8  
Sugar Creams__ ...ò 
Frosted Creams..
Graham Crackers ...  , 
Oatmeal Crackers
TOBACCOS—PLUG.

»ear H ead...................43@45
ank Road...........................42
Eclipse..................................36
Holy Moses....... ?................. 33
Blue Blazes............................32
Eye  Opener...........................32
Star 
...... .................42@45
Clipper..................................39
Climax.......................... 43@45
Comer Stone......................... 39
Double Pedro........................40
Whopper................................40
Peach Pie..............................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  Cuba...........................45
Petoskey Chief......................55
Sweet Russet...................40@42
Thistle....................................42
Florida...........1......................65
Rose Leaf............................ 66
Red Domino..........................38
Swamp Angel................ 
40
S ta g .....................................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.................. 
25@30
VINEGAR.
40 gr. 
1134 

 
50 gr.
13

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

30 gr. 
934 

MISCELLANEOUS.

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
“ 
“  2....................52
Cocoa Shells, bulk................4
Condensed  Milk, Eagle__ 7 60
Cream Tartar.....................25
Candles. Star................... 
10
Candles. Hotel....................11
Camphor, oz., 2 ft boxes.. .35
Extract Coffee, V.  C..........  75
F elix..... 115
Fire Crackers, per box__ 1 20
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.. .25 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps... 35
Gum, Spruce......................30
Jelly,in 30 ft pails..  . 5  @ 5%
Powder,  Keg..........................5 50
Ppwder, 34  Keg......................2 87
gage....................................15
CANDY, F R U IT S  a n d  NUTS.
Putnam &  BrooKS quote  as
follows

do 

STICK.
do
do
MIXED.

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

Standard, 25 ft boxes. ........834
........9
Twist,
........10
Cut Loaf
Royal, 25 ft  pails...... 834@ 9
Royal, 200 ft bbls......   .......834
Extra, 25 ft pails................10
Extra, 200 ft bbls................  9
French Cream, 25 ft pails. .1134
Cut loaf, 25 ft cases........... 10
Broken, 25 ft pails.............10
Broken. 200 ft  bbls.............. 9
Lemon Drops........................13
Sour Drops...... .................... 14
Peppermint  Drops.............. 14
Chocolate Drops...................14
HM 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
Wintersrreen  Berries........... 14

FANCY—IN BULK. 

FRUITS.

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 Dbls.............9
Sour Drops, in  pails.........12
Imperials, in pails.............12
Imperials  in hbls.............. 11
Bananas................... 1 25@3 00
Oranges,  choice ------  @
Oranges, Florida......   @
Oranges,  Rodi.........  @8 00
Oranges, OO..............  @
Oranges, Imperials..  @
Oranges Valencia ca.  @
Lemons,  choice........  @6 09
Lemons, fancy.........   @6 50
Figs, layers, new..... 12  @16
Figs, Bags, 50 ft...... .  @6
Dates, frails do...... ! 
® 434
Dates, % do  do...... .  @534
Dates,Fard 10 ft box ^  ft..  9 
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft..  634 
Dates. Persian 50 ft box ..5@534

NUTS.

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@11 

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

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes  as 

5

OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH.

Fairhaven Counts............   40
Black bass.......................... 1234
Rock bass.............................   4
Duck-bill  p ik e,...................  8
T rout.................. 
6
Whiteflsh.........................
smoked.............10
Frogs’L egs.................... 25@75

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Beef, carcass., ........

FRESH MEATS.
“  hind quarters....7
“ 

fore 

“ 

...3  _

Hogs...'...........................@734
Pork loins............... 
,  “!  shoulders..........  
Bologna............... 
Frankfort sausage...... 
Blood, liv, h’dsaus’g .. 
Mutton. 
Lard kettle rendered .. 

9
7
5
8
534
.. -. .534@7
934

SOAPS!

15 25

They Please Everybody.

BIST  FAMILY,

16 50

HEADLIGHT  and 

LITTLE DAISY

Rapids.

Order  these  goods  of  any  jobber  in  Grand 

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

soaps ever sold in Michigan. 
for price list.

SHOW CASES

D.  D.  COOK,
Valley City Show Case Factory,

PROPRIETOR  OF THE

MANUFACTURER  OF

— AND-----

Prescription  Cases,
11
itors.  Send for Catalogues.

My Prices are Lower than any of My Compet­

21 Scribner  Street, Grand  Rapids.

TELEPHONE  S74.

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  $30  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 frill  pay for  this  property and  the 
purchasers of  the goods  will get  the direct 
benefit. 
Just  look,  at this  carefully  and 
see a plain business proposition.  We hand 
over to you 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  3,000  and 
each order will  be  entered  in  the book  m 
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 74tli  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  X   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.

  @2 00

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 Yuelta 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.

ness standing.

parties, or 5 per cent, off for cash.

We give reference, below as to  our  busi­

Terms on  cigars,  60  days  to  responsible 

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

H, W. BradlBy l Bro„

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

Citizens*  National  Bank,  Romeo;  First 

National Bank, Romeo.

Yours respectfully,

ROMEO,  MICH.

Gor. W. Fulton & Mt. Vernon Sts,,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-  MICH.
G. B, JOJVES,  Proprietor,

Formerly landlord of the Potter House, Battle 

Creek;  more recently ef the Elliott 

House, Sturgis.

RÄTE8  $1.50  and  $2  PER  DÄY,

The Derby is a new hotel with  new furnish­
ings throughout,  Steam  Heat,  Elevator,  and 
Bath Room on second  floor,  and  is  the  same 
distance from Union Depot as other prominent 
hotels.
Traveling  men  wishing  a  quiet  place  to 
spend Sunday should try the Derby.

T H E   IM P R O V E D

AMERICAN POCKET BATTERY

F o r   P h y s ic ia n s ’  a n d   F a m ily   Use.

This B attery has th e advantage over any in  th e   m ar­
k et in  th e follow ing  points  of  su p erio rity :  A  Patent- 
H ard Rubber, Rem ovable Screw Top Cell (like a  pocket 
inkstand), containing th e Carbon  and  Zinc  elem ents, 
can be carried  in th e  pocket  charged  ready  fo r  use; 
w ater-tight, no leaking;  fo r  durability,  com pactness, 
and  stren g th   of  cu rren t  i t   excels  all  others.  Two- 
nickel-plat» sponge electrodes w ith  each  b attery .  No- 
sm all w ire connections on bottom  of  th is  m achine, as 
in  all o thers, th a t ru st easUy and are difficult to repair.
Sold  by  th e  trade.  Price,  $10,  and  every  B attery 
w arranted.  Send fo r C ircular 49,  giving  special  price- 
to  physicians fo r a  sam ple b attery  prepaid.  Address

ELEBTRO-MEDIBIL  BITTERY  BO.,

KALAMAZOO, MICH.,

O r  H A Z E L T IN E   &  P E R K IN S   D RU G   CO ., 

G ra n d   R a p id s,  M ich .

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TEE SE GOODS ARE “ PAR EXCELLENCE”'
P ure, H ealthful and  Reliable,  w arranted  to  give satis­
faction in  every particu lar.  F o r sale by w holesale and  
re ta il grocers th ro u g h o u t  th t U nited  States.  Votrwns: 
B r o s ., M anufacturers; Cleveland and Chicago.

W e also manufacture a  full  line  of  Sweet 

Goods.  Write  for  quotations 

and  samples.

JA C K S   > 
M IC H .

W A N T E D .

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

Earl Bros.,  Commission Merchants,

157 South W ater St.,  CHICAGO. 

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

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S ) r u ö 6  &  f l ß e b i c i r t e s

State Board of Pharm acy.

Six Tears—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Two Years—James Vemor, Detroit.
Three Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Four Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Five Tears—Stanley B. Parkell, Owosso.
President—Geo. McDonald 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vemor.
Next Meeting—At  Star  Island.  House,  near  Detroit, 

June 29 and 30.
M ic h ig a n   S ta te  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  A ss’n . 

President—Arthur Bassett, Detroit.
First Vice-President—G. M- Harwood, Petoskey. 
Second Vice-President—H. B. Fairchild,  Grand Rapids. 
ThlrdVloe-Presldent—HenryKephart, Berrien Springs. 
Secretary—S. E. Parkin, Owosso.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—Geo. Gundrum,  Frank  Inglis, 
A. H. Lyman, John E. Peek, E. T. Webb.
Local Secretary—James Verhör, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Detroit, September 1,5,0 and 7.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER  S, 1881.

G ran d   R a p id *   P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o c ie ty .
President—H. E. Loeher.
Vice-President—J. W. Hayward.
. Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—President,  Vice-President  and Sec­
retary. 
Board of Trustees—The President,  John  E. Peck,  Geo. 
G. Steketee, A. F. Hazeltine and F. J. Wurzburg, 
wen, Isaac Watts, Wm, E. White and Wm.  L.  White. 
Committee on Trade  Matters—Jonn Peck, F.  J: Wurz­
burg, W. H. Tibbs.
Committee  on  Legislation—J.  W.  Hayward,  Theo.
Kemink. W. H. Van Leuwen.
Committee  on  Pharmacy—W.  L.  White,  John  Muir, 
M. B. Kimm.
Regular  Meetings—First  Thursday  evening  in  each 
month.
Annual Meeting—First Thursday evening in November.

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D etroit Pharm aceutical Society.  ' ’

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1883.

President—J. W. Caldwell.
First Vioe-Preiideht—F. W. R. Perry.
Second Vice-President—F. D. Stevens.
Secretory and Treasurer—B. W. Patterson.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—G.  S. Purvis. 
Annu al Meeting—First Wednesday in June.
Regular Meetings—First UVednesda» in each month.
C en tra l  M ic h ig a n   D r u g g is ts ’  A ss o c ia tio n  
President, J. W. Dunlop ; Secretary,’ R. M. Mussell.
B errien County Pharm aceutical Society, 
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, Henry Kephart.
Clinton County  Druggists’ Association, 
President, A. O. Hunt;  Secretary, A. S. Wallace.
Charlevoix County Pharm aceutical Society 
President, H. W. W11 laid;  Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.

I o n ia  C ou n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o c ie ty . 
President, W. R. Cader; Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.
Jackson County Pharm aceutical Ass’n. 
President, C. B. Colwell; Secretary, C. E. Foote.
K a la m a zo o  P h a r m a c e u tic a l A sso cia tio n , 
President, D. O. Roberts; Secretary, D. McDonald.

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

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

M ojaroe  C ou n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l Society, 
President, S. M. Backett;  Secretary, Julius Weiss.
Muskegon County  Druggists’  Association, 
President, E. C. 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, O. S. Koon;  Secretary, Geo.  L. LeFevre.
Newaygo  County Pharm aceutical  Society, 
President. J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, A. G. Clark.

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

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 ociety, 
President, Jay Smith;  Secretary,  D. E. Prall.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Nothing.
Declined—Gum camphor, golden seal root, golden seal root po., linseed oil,  turpentine.

ACIDUM

BACCAE.

ANILINE.

AMMONIA.

18  deg..............  4®  6

Aceticum................. 
8®  10
Benzoicum, German  80®1 00
Boracic.................... . 
30
Carbolicum................  45®
Citricum....................  60®
Hydrochlor...............  
3®
Nitrocum ...................  10®
Oxalicum...................  10®
Phosphorioum  dil...
Salicylicum...................1 70®2 05
Sulphuricum...........*.  1%®5
Tannicum................. 1 40@1 60
T artaricum ...............   50® 53
Aqua, 16 deg..............  3®  5
Carborias....................   11® 13
Chloridum.................   12® 14
Blsek..............................2 00@2 25
Brown........................  80®1 00
Red.............................   45® 50
Yellow............................2 50®3 00
Cubebae (po.  1 60__ 1 75®1  85
Juniperus  ..................    8® 10
Xanthoxylum ...........  25® 30
BALSAMUM.
65®  TO 
Copaiba....................
@1 50 
P eru.......... ...............
50®  55 
Terabin, Canada......
45®  50
Tolutan....................
CORTEX.
Abies,  Canadian......
Cassiae  ....................
Cinchona Flava........
Enonymus  atropurp 
Myrica  Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini........
Quillaia,  grd.............
Sassf ra s ....................
Ulmus.......................
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)
EXT RACTUM. 
Glycyrrhiza Glabra..
po......   .
Haematox, 15 B> dox..
Is............
*4s.........
5 4 8 ..........
FERRUM.
®  15 
Carbonate Precip—
@3 50 
Citrate and Quinia...
®  80 
Citrate Soluble.........
®  50 
Ferrocy anidum Sol..  ®
®  15 
Solut  Chloride........  
®
Sulphate, com’l..  154®
2 
7
pure......... 
®

24®
33®
11®
13®
14®
16®

18
30
30
12
12
12
12

1811

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

20®
35®

10®8®
®1 00 

FLORA.

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FOLIA.

Salvia  offlcinalis, 54s

Arnica..................  12®
A nthem is...........   45®
Matricaria...........  30®
Barosma.............   10®
Cassia  Acutifol, Tin-
nivelly....................
X 
Aix.
and 54s..................
U ra  Ursi...................
Acacia, 1st picked...
2nd  “
3rd  “ 
...
Sifted sorts.
p o .....  75@1 

GUMM1.

oLe u m .

.  ■ ____  

®  90 
** 
®  80 
“ 
®  65
«* 
•• 
00
.Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)..  50®  60 
12 
“  Cape, (po.20)...  @
50
“  Socotrr, (po. 60)  @
Catechu,  Is,  (54s,  14
13 
>48,  16)....................  @
30 
Ammoniae  ..............  25®
15 
Assafoetida,  (po. 30).  @
55 
Benzoinum..............  60®
29 
Cam phorae..............  26©
10 
JSuphorbium, po......   35@
80 
‘Galbaaum.................  @
95 
•Gamboge, po.............  80®
®  35 
«Guaiacum, (po. 45)...  ®
@ 20 
Kino,  (po. 25)—
®1 GO
Mastic................
@ 40
Myrrh, (po.45)
•OpiL tpo. 4 10;............2  S5@3 00
Shellac.....................   25®  31
“  bleached......   25®  30
*Tragacanth— gg—   3b®  75 
herb a—In ounce packages.
25
A bsinthium .............. 
Eupatorium ............. 
20
Lobelia  ....................  
2a
Majorum  ................. 
2°
Mentha Piperita......  
23
“  V ir.............. 
25
Rue  — ...... 
..........
23
’Tanacetum,  V.........  
‘Thymus. V ..........: 
25
MAGNESIA.
•Calcined,  P at...........  65®  60
•Carbonate,  P a t......  26®  22
Carbonate,  EL. AM..  20®  25 
■Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36 
Absinthium............... 5 
00@5 50
Amygdalae, D ulc....  45®  75 
Amyaalae, Amarao..7 25®7 10
A nisi.......................... 1 
85@l 95
Auranti Cortex........  @2 50
IBergamii...................2 75@3 25
•Ca^iputi  ...................  90@1 00
•Caryopbylli..............  @2 00
'  ‘Chenopodi!  ..............  @1 75
•Cinnamoni!..............  85®  90
Citronella  ................  ®  75
•Conium  Mac............   35®  65
•Copaiba...... .— ...  90® 100
'Cubebae...............14 U0©14 50
Exechthitos..............  90®1 00
.  Erige ro n ................... 1 20®1 30
■■Gauteheria...  ..........2 25®2 35
•Geranium,;...... .—   @  75
-Gossipi!,Sem,gal....  55®  75
Hedeom a................ 1 10@1 20
JoM peri..................      50®2 00
L a v e n d u la ...^ .9 0 @ 2  00
Limoni« ................ ...1 75@2 25
Mentha P iper..........2 25®3 33
Mentha Yerid...........3 00@3 25
Morrhuae,  gal.........   80®1 06
Myrcla, § ..........  
  ®  50
*Oflve______  
100@2 75
 
Piote Liquida,(gal. 35)  10®  12
■Rioini.................  ...1 18@1 86
Rosmarini-..........t..  75®1 00
Jtosae, ; . . . . . . . — ...  @6 00
S uceini......... 
40@45
; Sabina.......................  90@l 00
Santal.....................3  50@7 00
.......  .  6o@  65
Slnapis, ess, ; ...........  @  65.
‘T ig U iv ......... . . . . .  
. m m
‘Thym©.•-•••-• •••••••  40®  50
. @   60 
Theobromas. L.. 1 5 ®   20 
.Bi Carb......... ...........   15®  18
Bichromate..........  13®  15
Bromide 
.  42®  45
Garbs...........  ......  12®  15
•Chlorate, (Po. 90}.......  18®  20
'Cyanide..........  
60®  55
¡Iodide................... „ ,3  00®3 26
i Potassa. Bitart, pure  37®  89 
¡Potassa,  Bilari, com  @ 15

POTASSIUM.

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RADIX.

SEMEN.

Potass  N itras,opt...  8®  10
Potass N itras....__  
7®  9
Prussiate.................  25®  28
Sulphate po..............  15®  18
Aconitum.................  20®
A lthae......................  25®
Anchusa...................  15®
Arum,  po........... 
@
Calamus...................
10®
Gentiana, (po. 15)__
Glychrrhiza,  (pv. 15). 
16®
Hydrastis  Canaden,
«po. 35)....................
15®
Hellebore,  Alba,  po.
Inula, po...................  15®
Ipecac, po................ 2 25@2 35
Iris plox(po. 20®22)..  18®  20
Jalapa, pr.................  25®  30
Maranta, 
............   @  35
Podophyllum,  po__   15®  18
Rhei  .........................  75(81 06
“  cut....................  @1 75
“  p v ....................  75®135
Spigelia....................  48®  53
Sanguinaria, (po. 25).  @ 20
Serpentaria..............  30®  35
Senega......................  55®  60
Smilax, Officinalis, H  @ 40
M  @  20
Scillae,  (po. 35).........   10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foe-
tidus.po.................  @  25
Yaleriana, Eng. (po. 30)  @  25
German..  15®  20
Zingiber a .................  16®  15
Zingiber j .................  18®  22
Anisum, (po. 20).......   @  15
Apium  (graveleons).  10®  12
Bird, Is.....................    4®  6
Carui,  (po. 18)...........  12®  15
Cardamom...............1 00@1 25
Coriandrum..............  10®  12
Cannabis  Sativa...... 3*4® 4*4
Cydonium.................  75@1 00
Chenopodium.........   10®  12
Diptenx Odorate__ 1 75@1 85
Foenicuium..............  @  15
Foenugreek, po........  6®  8
Lini............................. 314®  4
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3)..  ..  314®  4
Lobelia......................   35®  40
Phalaris Canarian...  334@414
R apa.............  
 
5®  6
Sinapis,  Albu........... 
8®  9
Nigra.........   11®  12
SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 
Frumenti, D. F. R ... .1 75@2 0C
Frum enti.................1 10@1 5o
Juniperis Co. O. T.. .1 75@i  75
Juniperis Co............ 1 75@3 50
Saacnarum  N. E...... 1 75@2 09
Spt. Vini Galli......... 1 75@6 50
Vini Oporto..............125@2 00
Vini  Alba..............  1 25@3 00
SPONGES
Florida sheeos’ wool
carriage..................2 25@2 50
Nassau sheeps’wool
carriage................. 
2 00
Velvet Extra sheeps’
wool carriage........ 
1 10
Extra Yellow 6heeps’
carriage.............. 
85
Grass  sheeps’  wool
carnage................. 
65
75
Hard for slate use... 
Yellow Reef, for slate 
40
use.......................... 
Accacia.....................  
50
Zingiber....................  
50
Ipecac....................... 
60
50
Ferri lod.................... 
50
Auranti Cortes....... 
50
RbeiArom................ 
Smilax Officinalis__  
60
50
Co.. 
Senega....................... 
50
■Scillae.......................  
50
“  Co.................... 
50
Tolutan...................... 
50
Prunus virg.............. 
50
TINCTURES.
60
Aconitum Napellis R 
50
F 
Aloes/....................... 
60
and myrrh......  
60
A rnica...................... 
50
50
Asafcetida...............  
60
Atrope belladonna... 
Benzoin..................... 
60
60
“  Co_............... 
Sanguinaria.............  
50
Barosma.................... 
50
Cantharides............. 
75
Capsicum................... 
50
Cardamon............... 
75
75
Co.............  
Castor...................... 
1 00
50
Catechu....................  
50
Cinchona................... 
Co...............  
60
Columba...... ...........  
60
Conium.....................  
50
56
Cubeba...................... 
50
Digitalis............... 
E rg o t.....................  
50
50
Gentian...... .............. 
co.................  
60
Gualca................  
50
amnion....... 
60
Zingiber...... ......... 
50
50
Hyoscyamus............ 
Iodine..............  
75
75
Colorless...... 
35
Ferri Chi'ridum.......  
Kino......  
50
50
Lobelia..................... 
Myrrh............ 
60
Nux V om ica......... . 
50
85
O pi............................ 
50
**  Camphorated... 
2 00
Deodor.  ....... 
Auranti Cortex........ 
■  50
50
Quassia............ 
50
Hhatany.................... 
Rhei.............  
60
Cassia Acutifol........ 
0g
60
“  Co... 
Serpentaria......... . 
50
60
Stram onium .......... 
Tolutan......... . 
00
Valerian....................  
50
Veratrum Veiide.... 
60
.¡Ether, 8pts Nit, 3 F..  26®  28 
.¡Ether, Spts Nit, i F..  30®  32
A lupen— . .....___ 2*4® 3*4
Alumen, ground,  (p-
0.7)........................  3®  4
A nnatto..................   55®  60
Antimoni,  po......... .  4®  5
Antimoni et Potass T  55®  60 
A ntipjrrin.......L ....l 35@l 40
Argenti Nitras,  5__   @  68
A rsenicum ..,..,......   5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud....  38®  40
Bismuth 8. N ......... 2 15®2 20
Calolum Chlor, Is, (*4s
11;  fcs. 13)..............  @  0
Cantharides Russian, 
p o ....;..................  ®2 10

MISCELLANEOUS.

..........  

SYRUPS.

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60&10. less.

Indigo.........................  75@1 00

Capsid  Fructus, a f..  @
Capsici Fructus, po..  @
Capsid Fructus, B po  @
Caryophyllus, (po. 26)  22®
Carmine, No. 40........  @3 75
Cera Alba, 8. & F ....  50®  55
Cera Flava................  38®
Coccus...................... 
i  @
Cassia Fructus..........  ©
Centraria.................   @
Cetaceum.................  @  40
Chloroform..............  60®  65
Chloroform,  Squibbs  @1 00 
Chloral H ydC rst.....l 50®
1 50@1 75
Choudrus.................  10®
10® 12
Cinchonidine, P.& W 
15® 2C
Cinchonidine, Ger’an 
6® 12
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cen t....................
40
Creasotum............
50
@
Creta, (bbl. 75)...... .
@  2 
Creta  prep............
5®  6
Creta, predp.........
8® 1C
Creta Rubra........... 
_
@  8
Crocus......................  18®
18® 2C
Cudbear............
@ 24
__
Cupri Sulph__ _____ 
6®  7
Dextrine...................  10®
10® 12
Ether Suiph..............
68® 70
Emery, all numbers.
@  8 
Emery, po.................
@  6
Ergota. (po.) 75.........
70® 75
Flake  White............
12® 15
Galla.........................
@ 23
Gambier...................
7®  8
Gelatin, Coopor........
@ 90
_
Gelatin, French........ 
40® 60
Glassware flint, 70&10  by box 
Glue,  Brown.............  9®
Glue, White............  13®
Glycerina.................  23®
Grana  Paradisi........  @
H um ulus.................  25®
Hydrarg Chlor. Mite.  @
<a 
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor. 
Hydrarg Ox. Rubrum 
@  90 
Hydrarg Ammoniati.
@1  10 
Hydrarg Unguentum
45®  55 
Hydrargyrum.........  
_
65
Ichthyocolla, Am  ... 1 25@1 50
Iodine, Resubl........ 4 00@4 10
Iodoform.................  @5 15
Lupuline  .................  85@1 00
Lycopodium............   55®
M ads.........................  80®
Liquor  Arsen  et Hy­
drarg lod................  @
Liquor Potass Arsini-
tis...........................   10®
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl
1)4)............................   2®  3
Mannia.S.F................  90@1 00
Morphia,  S, P. & W  2 40@2 65 
Morphia.  S.  N.  Y. Q.
& C.  Co..................3 30®2 55
Moschus C anton__   @
Myristica, No. 1........  60®
Nux  Vomica, (po. 20)  @
Os. Sepia...................  27®
Pepsin  Saac,  H. & P.
D. Co......................
@2 00
Picis Liq, N. C.. *4 gal
doz..........................
@2 70 
Picis Liq.,  quarts__
@1 40 
Picis Liq., pints........
~  85 
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80).
50 
Piper Nigra,  (po.22).
18 
@
Piper  Alba, (po. 35)..
35 
Pix Burgun..............
7 
Plumbi Acet............  
15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii.l 10@1 20 
Pyrethrum, boxes, H
&P.D.Co., doz.......   @1 25
Pyrethrum, pv.........   60®  65
Quassiae...................  8@  lo
Quinia, S, P. & W__   50®  55
Quinia, S,German...  35® 41
fiubia Tinctorum__   12®  13
Saccharum Lactis pv  @ 35
Salacin..................... 3 40@3 50
Sanguis Draconis__   40®  50
Santouine.................  @4 50
Sapo, W....................  12®  14
Sapo,  M
Sapo, G......................
@  15 
Seidlitz  Mixture......
@  28 
Sinapis......................
@  18 
Sinapis, opt..............
®  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, Do.
voes.......................
@  35
Snuff,  Scotch,  Do.
Voes.......................   @
@  35 
Soda Boras, (po  11)..10  @ 
Soda et PotosaTart..  33®  __
35
8oda Carb.................  2® 2$4
Soda, Bi-Carb........... 
4®  5
Soda, Ash.................  3®  4
Soda  Sulphas...........  @  2
Spts. Ether Co.........   50®  55
Spts.  ivtvrdaDom...  @2 00
Spts, Myrcia  Imp__   @2 50
Spts  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
2.25)............... 
  @2 35
Less 5c. gal.  cash ten  days. 
Strychnia  Crystal...  @1  10
Sulphur, Subl  ..........  23£@ 3V4
Sulphur, Roll..........  2*4® 3
Tamarinds...............   8®  10
ferebenth  Venice  ..  28®  30
Theobromae ............  50®  55
Vanilla  ...................9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph..............  7®  8

10 
11 

_
14®

OILS.

_  
Whale, winter.........  70 
Lard, extra.........   ...  68 
Lard,No.  l . . i . .......  46 
Linseed, pure raw  ..  52 
Linseed, boiled........  55 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
Spu.tsTurpentine...  40 
paints  Bbl 

Bbl  Gal
76
72
50
55
68
strained..................   50  60
43
Lb
Red Venetian......... .IK  a®3
Ochre, yellow Mars. .1R  2@3
Ochre,yellow  B er...lK   2@3 
Putty, commercial.. .2*4 2*4@3 
Putty, strictly pure..2*4 2K@3 
V ermilion prime Am­
13@16
Vermilion,  English.. 
70®75 
Green, Peninsular... 
Lead,  red.......... . 
...5*4@554
*‘  white...... ............5*4@58£
@TO
Whiting, white Span 
@90
Whiting,  Gilders’__  
White, Paris Amer’n 
i io
Whiting,  Parte  Eng.
cliff................... 
140
Pioneer  Prepared
Faints ....................1 20@1 40
Swiss Villa Prepared 
P ain ts..............1  00@l 20

16®17

erican.................  

 

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp Coach... .1 10@1 20
Extra  Turp............  .1 60@1 70
Coach Body______ 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp K irn .... . 1 00@110 
Extra Turk D a m ^ ^  55@1 60 
Japan  Dryer,  Ho.  1 
T urn................. ..¿.  70®  75

T H É   APOTHECARY’S  STORY.

Written for The Tradesman.

“Yes,” said my friend, I have either been 
careful or fortunate—perhaps  both—and no 
departed  spirit, in  the still  watches of  the 
night, appears at my  bed-side  to  reproach 
me with carelessness or accuse  me  with its 
death. 
I   am called^  a  first-class,  practical 
apothecary, having  a  more  than  ordinary 
knowledge of chemistry, which it has taken 
years of  hard study and  experiment  to ob­
tain;  for I am  not a graduate of  any school 
of  pharmacy.  Only once  in  my life  was I 
so  badly frightened  that  had I been  alone 
in the world  I should  most  assuredly have 
left one of  the best situations and have dis­
appeared  so  suddenly  and  entirely  from 
that  part of  the country as to have  baffled 
skilled  detectives  to find  me.  But,  ‘all  is 
well  that ends  well.’  To  this day,  my old 
employers  are  ignorant of  how  near  they 
came to  losing—what  they were  pleased to 
term—a reliable  man.

“I was  employed in  a  large  wholesale 
and  retail drug house in a large  city.  My 
main  work, however,  was not  then  at  the 
prescription  case,  only  as  an  alternate 
while  others were  off  duty,  yet I was con-» 
sidered  fully as competent  as  any.  Being 
rather  the senior of  all the other  clerks, I 
took  a  pride  in  being  at all  times  fully 
acquainted  with 
every  department  and 
could, as a rule,  place  my hand  upon  any 
article  wanted, without the  aid of  a light. 
The general  arrangement of  the stock  was 
entrusted to me and my directions followed. 
The  house  was  an  old  and  very  reliable 
one and  few new-fangled  innovations were 
permitted.  Much as I desired  the change, 
my  employers  would  not  allow  the  pre­
scription  case  bottles  to  be  re-labeled; 
although many of  the old paper labels were 
badly worn and defaced.  Although not the 
first  on duty in the  morning, I made it  my 
business to be generally the  last to lock the 
doors at night.  This  much  by way of  pre­
face.

“It was  about 10 o’clock  one  evening  in 
autumn  that I found  myself  alone  in  the 
store. 
I  was preparing  to  lock up for  the 
night—had just extinguished  the gas  and a 
small  hand  lamp  standing  upon  a  show 
case near  the door  cast its pale  light across 
I  stood for a moment  glanc­
the entrance. 
ing  about  to  see  if  everything  was 
in 
place,  when  two  young ladies entered  and 
one of them handed me a bit of paper,  upon 
which was  legibly  written in a lad* ’a  band 
two words,  ‘Powdered Ipecac.’

‘How  much?’  I asked.  “ ‘Oh,  only  a 
little,’ was  the  reply,  as she held  out a five 
cent  coin. 
‘The  baby has  a  severe  cold 
and  grandma  always  gives  it  ipecac  for 
that.’

“It was not,  perhaps, just the right thing 
to  do,  and yet I had  a  druggist’s  right  to 
ask  questions,  so I enquired  how the pow­
der was  given,  and if  the family knew liow 
much to  give at a dose.  The  replies  being 
satisfactory, I begged the ladies to be seated 
and to excuse the  light  for a moment,  as  I 
stepped to the case  and,  reaching  for a bot­
tle  labelled  ‘Pulv.  Ipec.,’ took out  with a 
spatula  about  one drachm  of  the  powder, 
carefully  folded  and  placed  a  printed 
gummed  label  upon  it,  and  my  visitors 
bade me good  night. 
I  remember wonder­
ing who they were,  as I was  generally par­
tially acquainted with our customers,  while 
these  were total  strangers  and  I  had  not 
even inquired their names. 
I again stepped 
to  the prescription  case to  put  everything 
in its proper place for the night, and turned 
on the gas.  As  I  did so,  I  was startled at 
the sight of  glistening white  crystals lying 
upon  the  table, among a small  quantity  of 
the powdered ipecac I had  been dispensing. 
Hurriedly  glancing  at  the  bottle,  which  I 
had  not replaced,  the label seemed distinct, 
except  that  at  the end of  the last  word a 
narrow patch of  yellow paper  revealed  the 
fact  of  something  having  been  erased  or 
lost. 
In an instant I knew the label should 
have  read  ‘Pulv.  Ipec.  Co.’, and  also  re­
membered  that a portion of  that  label  had 
been partially worn off  for a long time, and 
the  innocent  crystals  of  ‘Potass.  Sulph.’ 
told their tale of powdered opium, intermin­
gled  in alarming proportions for  an infant, 
whose  age I  was quite ignorant  of. 
I  had 
dispensed Dover’s powder instead of ipecac!
Fancy  my  feelings  for  the  moment! 
First, they were of anger;  secondly,  of fear 
and  shame.  A  Cold  perspiration  started 
from  every  pore,  and  I  turned to run  and 
obtain  the  medicine  again, but  suddenly 
remembered I was powerless to know where 
to go. 
I  saw, too, how naturally and easily 
had committed the error.  Upon the same 
shelf  stood  the  other  bottle,  exactly  the 
same  in size, with  its exactly similar  label 
reading ‘Pulv.  Ipec.’  and  the  first  should 
have  read  ‘Pulv.  Ipec. Co.’  or  compound 
powder'of  ipecac,  i.  e.  ‘Dover’s  powder.’ 
later and  better  nomenclature  makes  a 
more  distinct  difference  thus—'Pulv. Opii. 
Comp.’ -

“I slept little that night,” said my friend, 
And  when  I  did  it  was  to  see  ghostly 
babies  held  toward  me  by  distracted 
mothers  from  every point of  the  compass, 
reasoned that  the powder contained  such 
large percentage of ipecac that if  given in 
over  doses  it  would  be ejected  from  the 
stomach with most of the opium before any 
serious  result would follow, and  while  the 
infant  might  not  die,  it  might  become 
alarmingly  ill,  and  a  physician  be  called 
who  wonld  inquire  intp the  case, and  the 
large business of our hoàse might  suffer by 
the accident.

I  listened several; hoars that  night  for 
the  first sound of  mÿ^oor-bell, expecting 
be summoned, and yon may imagine how 
anxiously  t   watched  eyery  person  who 
entered our store for  the  next,  twenty-four

..

hours,  especially if  they were  strangers  to 
me, and  had' special  business with  the pro­
prietors! 

“But  as day  after day passed I began  to 
feel relieved, and several  months afterward 
judge of my surprise when one day the two 
never-to-be-forgotten  young ladies  entered 
the store. 
I hastened to wait upon them in 
person,  and  then  to  say that  I  recognized 
them as the ladies who had purchased some 
powdered  ipecac for  an infant  one evening 
a  long  time  ago,  and I  desired  to inquire 
if it produced a happy effect,  as it was such 
an  unusual way of  administering the medi­
cine?

“The features of  the elder  brightened as 
she replied, ‘Oh, yes, sir; a very happy effect 
and  mamma  thought it must  have been  of 
superior quality.  One dose  only was given 
the  child  and it slept  almost  immediately 
and never  awoke until 8 o’clock next morn­
ing.  During  its sleep  it  perspired  as if  it 
had  been  immersed  in  warm  water. 
It 
appeared rather weak, but Its cold was gone 
and  no  symptoms  of  it  returned.’ 
‘Tell 
your mother  she must  give a much  smaller 
dose next time,’ I ventured to say.

“ ‘Oh.  we spilled the balance of the medi­
cine  soon  after, and  were  grieved to  lose 
it.’

“It  is  needless  to  say  that  I  was  not 
grieved  because it was  spilled,  and at once 
changed  the  subject.  The  only  moral is, 
no druggist can be too careful.

F rank  A.  H owig.

Tea  Dryers.

An invention  has recently been perfected 
in England which  promises  to bring  about 
important changes, in the way of  economy, 
in all  classes of  production  where  coal  or 
wood  is  used  for  fuel.  This  is  nothing 
other  than  an  automatic  device  by which 
perfect  combustion  can  be  secured.  The 
apparatus  owes  its origin  to  the  desire of 
English  tea  planters  in  Assam,  India,  to 
have made for them  some device for drying 
tea which  would  not  subject  the  latter to 
contamination by gas or smoke of any kind. 
The tea plant  is  exceedingly sensitive, 'and 
the least taint of  gas or  smoke will  greatly 
depreciate its value. 
Iu  order  to  produce 
the  desired  result, the  matter  was  placed 
in  the  hands  of  an  inventor  possessed  of 
exceptional  scientific  knowledge,  and  the 
result has  been  the  construction of  a piece 
of  mechanism by which perfect combustion 
can be secured.

W hy He Works.

hours a day?”

Last evening a  workingman  with  a  din 
ncr pail in  his  hand* came  out  of  a  little 
shop on Broadway  and was  accosted  by 
fellow-workingman with:
aren’t you?”

“Why, Jim, you’re working overtime now, 
“No,” was the reply,  “I’m not.”
“Aren’t you putting in  more  than  eight 
“Yes,” was the answer,  j 
“I  thought  eight  hours I was  the  union 
schedule?” remarked the outsider.
“Yes,”  said  the  workingman  with  the 
pail,  “but you see I have  just  bought  this 
shop,  and thirteen hours is now my ordinary 
day’s labor.”  ,
A  bystander  remarked  'that  it  made  all 
the difference in the world, whether  a  man 
worked for himself or for somebody else.

State  Board  of  Pharmacy.

At  the  meeting of  the  State  Board of 
Pharmacy,  held  at the  Star Island  House 
on  Detroit river,  last week,  there  were 104 
candidates for examination.  Sessions were 
held on  Friday afternoon and  evening  and 
Saturday morning and  afternoon,  when  the 
applicants were informed that the announce 
ment of  those who  were successful  would 
be made the latter part of the present week

The Drug Market.

There  are but  few  changes  to  note this 
week.  Opium,  morphia  and  quinine  are 
very dull and unchanged in price.  Oil pep 
permint is steadily  advancing.  Gum  cam 
phor  has  further  declined.  Golden  seal 
root and powdered have declined.  Linseed 
oil is lower.  Turpentine  has declined.

VISITING  BUYERS.

land

burg 

The following retail  dealers  have visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
De K ruif, Boone & Co,  Zee-  A C B arkley, Crosby 
land 
C S Comstock, P ierson
Thom pson & Co, W hitehall  S H B allard.  S parta 
Mrs M B urbank, Spring Lke  Mrs Minnie Lacey .Cannons- 
S L A lberts & Co,  R avenna 
C W  Shelllnger, Rockford  N F  Miller, Lisbon 
S J   M artin, Sullivan 
L T W ilm arth, Rodney 
Cowan & McLennan.Marion  C K H oyt, Hudsonville 
A Globensk.v, L akeview  
M A Side  K ent City 
D enH erder  & Tanis, Vries-
N F Miller. L isbon 
A A Bleazby, K alkaska 
M H Jenner, H oward City  W illiam s Bros, K alam azoo
H Bakker & Son, D renthe 
E Medes, Coral 
J  T Pierson. Irving 
L K W are, Sand  Lake 
A J  W hite, Bass River 
F  A Gänsen, Lakeview  
Cole & Chapel, Ada 
R W eertm an, H olland 
T VanEnenaam . Zeeland 
J  C Drew,  Rockford 
Jay  M arlatt, Berlin 
A W Blain, D ntton 
Conrad Bros, Otsego 
H aynes & W adsw orth, •
F ran k  Friedrich,
Kalkaska
Traverse City  H Thompson, Canada  Cnrs 
B rautigam  Bros, No D orr  A DeKruif, Zeeland 
C arrington & N orth, T rent 
Sidney Stark. A llendale 
E E H ew itt, Rockford 
L A Paine, Englishville 
Gas Begm an, B auer 
Geo P  S tark, Cascade
John Kinney,  K inney 
Neal McMillbn. Rockford 
J  E Thurkow, Morley 
Gooding & Son, Lisbon 
J  L Thom as,  Cannonsburg  M V Wilson, Sand Lake 
John Baker, Chauttcey 
J  N W ait, H udsonville 
Geo A Sage, Rockford 
A J  W hite, Bass River
C W  A rm strong, Bowen’s  A Purchase, S Blendon 
Mills  R T P arrish, G randville 
Geo Townsend, Baldwin 
F B W atkins,  H opkins  Sta 
P  VandenBosch, Zeeland 
F  P H opper, Middlevllle
F  C Stone, Cedar Springs 
R McKinnon, K ent City 
C E Coburn, Pierson 
John Farrow e, So  Blendon 
Spring & Lindley,  Bailey 
J L  P urchase, B auer 
C H Smed & Co, New eRicb- 
Thos Cooley, Lisbon 
J  W isem an,  N unica 
C F Sears, Rockford 
Sidney S tark, Allendale 
W W Peiree, Moline
W  G Teilt, Rockford
B Zaagm an,  G rand  H aven  Jas S Toland,  Ross 
H Dalmon. Allendale
R G Sm ith, W ay land 
N Bouma, F isher 
H Colby, Rockford
Jacob B arth, B ailey 
F  N arregang, Byron Center
W m K arsten, B eaver  Dam  E H F oster, Fife Lake 
SMcNltt & Co, Byron C entr  John C Scott, Lowell 
H VanNoord,  Jam estow n  Silas Loew, B urnip’s Crnrs 
K arel &  Deker,  M uskegon
John Sm ith, A da 
G Ten H oor,  F orest  Grove  E Young, R avenna 
J  C Benbow,  C annonsburg  C H Deming, D utton 
H erder &  Lahuis,  Zeeland  Teachout & Rodel, W hite 
G M H artw ell, Cannonsbrg 
Cloud
Johnson & Seibert, 
L- Cook, Bauer
E S B otsf ord, D orr 
Friedrich Bros, TraverseCy
W H Struik,  F orest  Grove  S Cooper,  Jam estow n 
John D am stra, G itchell 
J  Coon, Rockford 
G 8 P utnam , F ru ltp o rt 
G F Cook, Grove 
E H agadorn. Fife Lake 
H Baker,  D renthe 
W atson  &  DeVoist,  Coop-  J  T Pierson, Irving 
John G unstra, Lam ont
• 
L & L Jenison, Jenisonville  D W  S hattuek, W ay land 
C S Judson, Cannonsburg  W  C H inm an, S parta 
F Cornell, Griswold 
G M H untley, Reno 

R H  Topping,  Casnovia
OF & W P Conklin,Ravenna

Caledonia  H Brow nyard, Lake 

ersville 

mond

Should send $1 to 
IS;  A.  Stowe  & Bro.
fo r one of th e ir Im proved

GRAND  RAPIDS,

LIQUOR A POISON RECORDS

i rmi
Pioneer Prepared  Paints

The ONLY Paint sold on a GUARANTEE.

, _ When  two  or  more  coats of our PIONEER 
PREPARED PAINT is applied  as  received in 
original  packages,  and  if  in  three  years  it 
should crack or peel off,  thus  failing  to  give 
satisfaction, we agree to re-paint the  building 
at our expense,  with the  best  White  Lead  or 
such other paint as the owner may  select.  In 
case of complaint, prompt notice must be giv­
en to the dealer.
¡Write  for Sample  Cards  and Prices.  W e 

IP. IP. IP.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

Brand  for more than eight  years  and  it 
is all the manufacturers claim for it.

have Supplied our Trade with this

W e sell it on a  GUARANTEE.

GENERAL AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY THE

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

A n d  th e  W h o lesale  D ru g g ists  o f  D e tro it 

a n d  C hicago.

Acme flite Lead & Color Work.
DETROIT,
MICH.

« 

25c size.................................... per doz, $2.00
I SOc  “  ......................................  
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 
all  bronchial  and  pulmonary  complaints  of 
childhood.  For attractive  advertising matter 
address the proprietor, D r.H . C. PECKHAM, 
| Freeport, Mich.  Trade  supplied  by  whole­
sale druggists of  Grand  Rapids,  Detroit  and 
; Chicago.

VIC’S

B E D - B U G   E X X iX iE X U

WITHOUT  POISON.

| No  Color,  No  Smell  and  No  Damage  to 

Bed  Clothes  or  Furniture.

R etails  fo r  2 5   c e n t s   fo r  large  package.

Trade  supplied through  all wholesale drug- 

| gists, or direct by the manufacturers.

ROUSSIN  &  CO.,

Ludington, 

- 

Michigan.

CASH  SALE  CHECKS.

/

/

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

STEAM  LAUNDRY,

43 a n d  4 5   K e n t S tre e t, 

M anufacturers of th e Ce ebrated

ACME  PREPARED  PA IN TS,

Which  for  Durability,  Elasticity,  Beauty 

and Economy are Absolutely Unsurpassed.

J T .  J .  

' W U R Z B U R G ,
WHOLESALE  AGENT,

Grand  Rapids, 

-  Mich,.

W E   DO  ON LY  F IR S T  CLASS W O R K  A N D  

U SE  NO  CHEM ICALS.

O rders by m ail and express prom ptly  attended to.

STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor. 

R E C 0 M M EN D EID BY EM IN ENT PHYSl'CMS/

PECK BROS.,  WGRAND RAPIDS8**’

G X X T S B X r G   R O O T .

W e pay th e highest price fo r if.  Address

.A C O N IT  

EXTRACT O f
FOR SALE  BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

M A L T   ^   H O P S

78 Congress St., West,

Detroit, Mich., April 9,1888, 

j Specialty Dept. Ph. Best Brew ing Co.,
Gentlem en—I   duly  received  the  ease  of 
your “Best” Tonic and have since had a great 
many in this institution.  I must say that the 
beneficial  effects  on  weak  and  debilitated 
patients  have been  most satisfactory, espec­
ially to those in 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 
j  prescribe  it  in future, where the  system re- 
[ quires building up. either from constitutional 
weakness or otherwise.

Years truly,

Wm. Gray, M. D. 
Medical Sup’t.

Midville, Geo., Feb. 24,1888.

| Specialty D epart. Ph. Best Brew ing Co.,
Gen tlem en—I think the “Tonic” a splendid 
| medicine for all forms  of Dyspepsia and Indi- 
| gestion.  It is giving me great satisfaction. 
J. M. J ohnson, M. D.

Very respectfully,

Yardley, Pa., March 18,1888. 

Ph. Best B rew ing Co.,
Dea r Sir s—I have given your “Malt Tonic” 
a trial in several cases of Enfeebled Digestion 
and General  Debility, especially in the  aged, 
where  the  whole  system  seems  completely 
prostrated, with  very satisfactory  results.  I 
have  used  many of  the  so-called  “Malt  Ex­
tracts,”  but  believe  your  preparation  to  be 
superior.  In  the  aged  where  the  digestive 
functions are exhausted, and there is a.loss of 
i the nerve vital  force, I found its action to  be 
rapid and permanent.

E lia s Wild m a n, M. D.

Troy, New York, January 26,1888. 

Specialty D epart. Ph. Best Brewing Co„
Dea r Sir s—Your agent left me a sample of 
your liquid extract, Malt, and as  I  use  much 
such  in  my  practice, ^  thought  to  compare 
your product with  some  from another  house 
I had on hand; and finding  yours  superior  in 
the  great essential,  the  palitabU  nutriant  as 
well as in tonic stimulant properties, felt anx­
ious to  know about what  it  can be furnished 
the dispensing physician.

Yours truly.

E. J ay F is k , M. D.

East Genessee Street, 

Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 17,1888.

Specialty D epart. Ph. Best Brew ing Co.,
Gentlemen—I  have  used the “Best” Tonic 
with  most  gratifying  results in  my  case  of 
dyspepsia.  My case was  a bad  one, 1  had no 
appetite: headache in the morning; sour stom­
ach;  looking  as  though  I  had  consumption, 
and after taking this tonic I  never felt better 
in  my life.  I think it  will cure a bad case of 
dyspepsia.  You  may recommend it  for  that 
case. 

Wm. O. J a e g e r.

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

Ph. Best Brew ing Co., 28  College Place, N. Y., 
Gentlem en—I   have  tested  the sample  o f  
Concentrated  Liquid  Extract  of  Mate  «*»«1 
Hops" you  sent me,  and  And  in  my humble 
judgment that it is a very  pure and safe arti­
cle.  I  will  not  hesitate  to  recommend it  in 
every ease of debility  where  a  Tonic of  th a t 
kind is indicated.

Respectfully.

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

Work-House Hospital, 

Blackwell’s Island, Feb. 10,1888.

| Ph. Best Brew ing Co.,
Gentleman— As a matter of personal inter­
est, I have used  your “Best” Tonic in several 
cases of impaired  nutrltition.  The results in­
dicate that it is  an  agreeable  and  doubtless, 
highly efficacious remedy.  1 am,
Very truly yours,

E. W. Flem in g,  M. D.

Specialty D epart. Ph. Brewing Co.,
Gentlemen—Having  tried  your  “Bert”  
Tonic to a great  extent amoDgst my practice, 
I will state in its behalf that  I  have  had  Hie 
best results with  nursing mothers  who  were 
deficient in  milk, increasing its fluids and se­
creting a more nourishing food for the infant, 
also increasing the appetite and in every way 
satisfactory for such cases.

Very respectfully,

D. Bornio, M  D.

For Sale By

Emm &  PEBKfflS  Did  Cfl,

Grand Rapids, 

•  Mich.

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,

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

SOUS MASH WHISKEY.

-A N D -

D r ifts’  Favorite  Bye  Whisky,

W e Sell Liquors for  Medicinal Purposes 

only.

W e  Give  Our  Personal  Attention  to 

Mail Orders and  Guarantee Satisfaction

All Orders  are Shipped and Invoiced the 

same day we receive them.

SEND IN A TRIAL ORDER.

Hazeltine 

& Perkins
D ra g  Co,
U N D  RAPIDS, I M

TIME  TABLES.
'  Grand Rapids & Indiana.

411 T rains daily except Sunday.
GOING  NORTH.

A rrives.
Traverse City & M ackinaw E x ..... .9:05 a  m
Traverse C ity Ex............................... .
F rom  C incinnati................................7:80p m
F t. W ayne and M ackinaw E x ..........3:40 p m
11:25am  
Saginaw  Express.....................
.10:30 p m  

Leaves. 
11:30 a m  
7:00 a m
6:06 p m  
7:20 a  m  
1:10 p m

_  

Saginaw  express runs th ro u g h  solid.
7:00 a.m . tra m  has ch a ir c a r to  Traverse City.
11:30 a. m . tra in  has c h a ir ca r fo r Petoskey and Mack­
_■ 
.
5:05 p.  m . tra in   has  sleeping  cars  fo r  Petoskey and 

inaw  City. 
M ackinaw City.
GOING  SOUTH.
C incinnati  E xpress..........................  
7:15 a  m
F o rt W ayne E xpress........................10:80 a m   U  :45 a m
C incinnati  Express.......................... 4:40 p m  
5:00p  m
Traverse City and M ackinaw Ex. .11:00 p m

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

M u sk e g o n , G ra n d  R a p id s  St In d ia n a .

Leave.
.  ...........................................
4:40 p m .............. 8.50 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge stre e t depot 7 m inutes later.

A rrive.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
Michigan Central.

G ra n d  R a p id s D iv isio n .

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

D etroit Express..........................................................? :iÜa in
Day  Express...............................................................P “
•A tlantic E xpress........................................................« K  p m
Mixed  ..............................».........................................6:50 a m
•Pacific  Express................................................................. 6:00 a m
.......................................................................................P m
G rand Rapids Express............................................w in  P m
M ixed................................................  
 
•D aily.  AU o ther daiiy except Sunday.  Sleeping cars 
ru n  on A tlantic and Pacific Express tra in s to  and from  
D etroit.  P arlo r cars ru n  on  Day  Express  and  G rand 
Rapids Express to   and  from   D etroit.  D irect  connec­
tions m ade a t D etroit w ith all th ro u g h  tra in s E ast over 
M. C. R. R., (C anada Southern Div.)

O. W. Ruggles, Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agt., Chicago. 
Chas. H. Norris, Gen’l Agent.

 

 

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. 

1:10 

1»

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

p m

1 
a m  

p m   p m  
3:25 
F rt

A rrive.
2 
4
a m   p m
:00  7:45 Dp__ G rand  R apids...................   9:45  6:10
4:12  9:02“  ....A lle g an ...............................8:28  <■
5:03  10:00A r....K alam azoo....................... 7:10  *
6:35 11:35 
8:00 12:30  1 
a  m
7:50  7:10 ‘ 
p m
10:25  5:05  1 
a  m
1:35  9:40  1 
a  m 
_______ I  
6:20  3:30

.. .W hite Pigeon.
....E lk h a rt................................. 4:45 l:e0
p m   a m
....C h ic ag o ............................... 11:30  8:50
___Toledo..................................11:25 10:00
....C lev elan d ...........................7:15  5:45
p  m
___Buffalo................................1=00 11:40
Tickets fo r sale to   a ll  principal  points  in   th e XL S., 
Mexico and Canada a t U nion Ticket  Office,  Geo.  Wil­
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.
(M orning Express............................   1:05 p m
(T hrough Mail...................................6:05 p m
(G rand Rapids Express.................. 10:40 p m
•N ight E xpress....................*............5:26am
(M ixed................................................
GOING BAST.
(D etroit  E xpress......................................  6:45 a m
(T hrough Mail...................................10:20 a  m
(Evening Express............................  3:25 p m
•Lim ited Express.............................6:25 p m

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

j a s . C a m p b e l l , City Passenger A gent.

Junction 
, 

. 

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

H Hiebigan  Tradesman.

W H Y ?

W fttte n  fo r Th e Tradesman.

**He Is dying! ”
Death in  any form  and under any condi* 
tu n  of  circumstances  is  terrible,  and  the 
above words came with a terrible and start­
ling force to the ears of  the  traveling men 
seated  in the  office of  the leading  hotel of
----- .  Just  a  moment  before,  they  had
been divided into groups, some talking base 
M i, some  politics.  Others were  busied in 
reviewing 
the  day’s  work.  Now  they 
gathered  about the night clerk and  stormed 
Mm with questions.

“ I   don’t  know  who  he  is  or where  he 
comes  from,”  was  his  reply.  “He  came 
bare last  night on a late train, registered as 
Wm. Jones  mid wrote a letter  is  the read­
ing room.  Was shown to his  room,  and he 
asked what time we had  breakfast.  When 
told  he could  have breakfast  from 6:30  to 
8 , he  said  he didn’t  care to be  called as he 
did  not feel well  but would  get up in  time 
to eat.”

“ Well—and  now he is dying, you  say?” 

asked one.

“ Who is  he, anyway?” queried  another. 
“ Better  come up  and  see if  any of  you 

know him,” answered the clerk.

A  few of  the bolder  ones, who were  not 
afraid of  the  sight of  the workings of  the 
Pale  Angel, went  with  him  to  the  room 
where  lay the  dying  man.  No one  knew 
him.  Alone he lay there  in  the small bed­
room, his breath coming with awful struggles 
in the last agony;  no  fond hand to ease the 
pillow of  torture, no loved eye to watch for 
bis last word—only the strange faces of  the 
curious, awe-struck  crowd  who  stood  pale 
ami  heart-sick  at the  sight of  death.  He 
was a  man of nearly fifty years, with a good 
countenance  and of  perfect  physical form, 
apparently in the flush of health.

“This  morning,  about  8:30,”«  said  the 
hotel  clerk,  “the chambermaid of  the  hall, 
seeing no key in this room door and finding it 
locked, opened the  door with her pass-key, 
and, on entering, the man  arose in his bed. 
She  apologized  for the  intrusion  and  he 
mumbled a few  words.  A t  ten o’clock, as 
he  had not  yet come  down, I  went to  the 
room,  opened the door and found him in an 
unconscious  condition.  We sent for medi­
cal aid, and  they have worked  over him all 
day, but to no purpose.”
“ What did  the doctor  say was the  mat­

ter?”

“Morphine,” laconically replied the clerk
“Ah!  Suicide!”  (In a hushed voice).
“ Yes,  that’s about  i t  
In his pocket we 
found a letter (the one  he wrote last night) 
apologizing  to  the proprietor of  the  hotel 
and asking  that  he be given  decent  burial. 
No  name is  to be  found  about him  any­
where  and no bottle, vial or  paper of  any 
kind.”
“He is dead!”  exclaimed  one of  the men 
who had stood  by the bed.
“Dead!”
To die in the midst of  one’s family is the 
best for which  any of  us can hope.  To die 
Is the  common  lot  of all, but to die  in  the 
sight of  strangers, a  voluntary death,  afar 
from  home,  from  friends,  from  family! 
W hat  was  his  romance?  What  was  his 
misery?  Time  may unroll  the  scroll, and 
we m ay never  know.  Loss of  home,  loss 
of money, loss of loved ones?  What awful 
event had nerved  this poor clay to open the 
portals of  the Beyond with his own  hand?

Jesse  Lange.

Are  Safes  Unsafe?

As the fact is proverbial  that  merchants I 
have  such  big  profits that they require big 
safes to hold them  in, it may be  as  well to 
inform  them  that  the  safe  purposes  an d ! 
promises of the safe are no longer safe:
A t a recent meeting of the Liverpool sec- j 
tion  of  the  Society of  Chemical  Industry, 
Thomas  Fletcher,  F. C. S., explained  the 
working  of  his  new  gas  blow-pipe,  and I 
demonstrated  the  uncomfortable  fact  that 
a  safe could now no longer  be  considered a | 
safe. 
Instead of  “jimmies,” drills, chisels, 
and all  the  other  tools  and  appliances of 
the burglar’s  art, Mr„ Fletcher  attacks  the | 
surface of chilled iron or steel, or whatever 
it  may be, with a small  glass  blow-pipe  of I 
peculiar  form.  With  this  he melts a hole 
through a plate  of  iron  one-quarter  of  an 
inch thick in a few seconds.  Metal may be | 
thus  cut  as  easily as  a chisel  cuts its way j 
into wood.  The apparatus  can  be  carried 
in  a hand-bag, and  be  made  noiseless,  al­
though  this  latter  improvement  is  fortu- 1 
natoly  costly. 
It  is only a matter  of  time I 
to  melt a hole  in any safe  or  strong  room | 
large  enough  to  let  in a man.  There  is 
some hope still, however,  for it is suggested j 
that an electric  network can be so arranged 
that  it  'will  be  impossible to bore into the 
safe without ringing a bell. 
If  this  can be 
done,  what  is  the use of  the safe ?  Why I 
not  dispense  entirely with  the  ponderous | 
safe, and rely on some electrical device that 
afliali ring alarm bells  and paralyze the bur-1 
glar with a shock ?

Use No Sugar on Oatmeal.

“Oatmeal 

“ Be careful how you eat oatmeal,” said a 
doctor  recently. 
is  a  very 
ix-allhy food If taken properly.  No food is 
healthy if improperly used.”
“How should it be eaten?”
“ If oatmeal is eaten in excess of the needs 
of the body for proper nutrition it overloads 
«mi taxes the system. 
It must not be eaten 
partially  cooked.  Flour,  com  meal,  rice 
«■J  other approved articles of  wholesome 
diet are not healthy  if  half  cooked. 
If an 
z-rftPRs of  sugar or other  sweets is used' it 
will disagree with  many people, causing in­
digestion. 
If  eaten  with  an  excess  of 
cream  it will  not be healthy for  some per­
sons  whose  stomachs  are  too  delicate to 
stand  a   rich food.  Oatmeal  is  a  healthy 
food  when not  used for overfeeding, when 
sufficiently cooked and when  not used with 
« n   excess of  cream or  sweets.  Oatmeal 
should  be eaten without  any sweets, using 
m little butter, and seasoned with salt as the 
Scotch do.”

Now  is a good Thne  to lay in a stock  of 
light  reading for the  lazy summer months. 
The following novels will  prove easy of di- 
gp«(.inn  and at the  same time  interesting: 
“Too  curious,”  by  Edward  J.  Goodman; 
“ Marvel,”  by “The Duchess”;  “Daphne,” 
by  “ Rita,” and  “Only  the  Governess,” by 
Rosa Nouchette Carey, all published by the 
J . B. Lippincott Company, of Philadelphia, 
a t  the low price of  25 cents each.

JO B B E R S ,

118 Canal  S t., GRAND  R A PIDS.

CHAS.  A.  C 0ÏE

MANUFACTURER  OF

PUTNAM &  BROOKS

Horse and W agon Covers, 
Flags and Banners,  _ 

Awnings and Tents,
Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

W ide Ducks, etc.

T e le p h o n e   106.

73 CANAL ST.,

GRAND RAPIDS.

Have  special  programmes  for  public  display.  Send 

for  price  lists  and  get  best  discounts before buy­

ing.  Carry  nothing  but  best  makes.

G r a .n d  P ta /p id s , 

hAiolx.

Grand Rapids Seel Store,

71 CANAL
Street,

Sole agents for Chicago Brass Rule Works 

Tor State of Michigan.

S W I F T ’S
GMcb  Chicago  Dressed

-AND-

M U T T O N

Can  be  found at  all  tim es  in  lull  supply  and at 
popular prices at the branch  houses in  all  the larger 
cities and is Retailed by all First-Class Butchers.

The trade  of  all marketmen  and  meat  dealere is 
solicited.  Our W holesale Branch  House, L. F. Swift 
& Co., located at Grand Rapids, alw ays  has on  hand 
a full supply of our Beef, Mutton and Provisions, and 
the public  may rest  assured that in  purchasing  our 
meats from dealers they w ill always receive the best.

Swift  and  Company, 

Union  Stool  Yards, 

- 

CHICAGO,  ILL

,,  .« T   n
WertheR

AT LAST.

LARGE  DEMAND  FOR

THIN  gOODS

C.  R.  DAVIS.

Of  all  kinds.

C. C. BUNTING.

BUNTING  &  DAVIS,

Commission  Merchants.

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in. Gar Lots.

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

WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

Aiv/n=K"yy  CHEESE.

87,89 & 41 Kent  Street.  Grand Rapida,  Michigan.

I offer a good quality  saleable 
pattern  Seersucker  Coats  and 
Tests at from $12.50  to  $13.50 
per dozen, good sellers for gener­
al stores and pay a good profit. 
Send for sample half dozen.

I.  G. LEVI,
34,36,38,40 and 42  Canal  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS

Paper Box Factory,

W.  W.  HUEL8TER,  Prop.

P a p e r  B oxes o f E v e ry   D e sc rip tio n   M ade to  

O rd e r  o n   S h o rt  N otice,

We make a specialty of

P ig e o n   H o le   P ile   B oxes,  S am p le  T ray s 

S am p le Cases.  A lso S h elf, Shoe, C onfec­
tio n e ry ,  M illin e ry ,  D ress,  S u it  a n d  

P a c k in g  B oxes.  D ru g g is ts ’ S lides 

a n d   a ll  k in d s   o f   F in e   W o rk .

All work guaranteed first  class  and  at  low 
prices.  Write  or  call  for  estimates  on  any­
thing you may want ininy line. Telephone 85Q

O F F IC E   A N D   FA CTO RY ,

11 Pearl St,  Grand Rapids, Micl
SHOE  DRESSINGS.

Brown’s French,
Bixby’s Royal,
5:30 p m

Eclipse Safety Barrel, 
Spanish Gloss, 

Raven  Gloss,
Topsey,

Gilt  Edge.
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JENNINGS’

«CELEBRATED”

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A re  p u t u p  in  a ll sizes, fro m  1 oz. to  1 gal. b o ttle s.

S O Z i S  

B Y   AT.T.  J O B B E R S .

H. Leonard l Sons,
MASON FRUIT JARS

134 to 140 Fulton St., GRAND  RAPIDS-

MANUFACTURED ONLY  BY

JENNINGS & SMITH,

38  and  4 0  "Louis  St.,

GKFLAJSTO  PLA -IPID S,  M IC H .

Ask For ‘JENNINGS’ EXTRACTS’

AND

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THE  BEST  FRUIT  JAES  MADE.

Stoneware,  Stone  Fruit  Jars,  Stone 

Preserve  Jars,  Tin  Top  and 

Glass  Top  Jellies.

Patented Jan. 5, *75»’ 
R e - U s u c d  J u n e  
\
Pate April 35, ’88. »

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS.

I, M. G LM ï Son,

4

(Successors to Clark, Jewell & Co.)

Wholesale  Grocers,

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P.
D R V   G O O D S ,
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JOBBERS IN

88  Monroe  St.,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

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American and Stark A Bags 

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