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TH E  PHARISEE OF PIGEON CREEK.
W ell on in years, an  eye  severe,  a beard 
of even length, a  body  not  spare,  add yet 
lean enough to uphold the austere  face for­
ever  sitring  on  those  shoulders, 'justice of 
the  peace,  custodian  of  the: township  li­
brary, retired doctor,  with certain drugs for 
sale at retail,  as emergency demanded,  dea­
con,  farmer,—such  was  Cyrus  Worthy 
Woodman,  the  “prominent1  citizen”  of 
Woodman’s Comers,  who wanted an orphan 
to  “fetch up.”  The orphan ugjfe  to be had. 
It is wonderful how,  on this  et&rth,  supply 
and demand seem to have  heed  created for 
each  other.  So  thought  the  people  who 
were closing out the small  boy.  It is need­
less to  believe  that  he  would  have  gone 
cheaper—that is,  if a  less  portentous  per­
sonage than  Cyrus  Worthy  Woodman had 
reached,  the  small  boy  would  have  been 
handed forth.

not to stay,” sings Cyras,  as his  mind trav- 
els-Over thlf church meetings  of  yesterday, 
and the boy in front of him,  filled  with the 
glory  and  humanity  of  Cyrus  Worthy 
Woodman in adopting a small  orphan  boy, 
filled with  the  renown  of  Cyrus  Worthy 
Woodman which so beswells the whole fam­
ily,  concludes that  his  own  homesickness 
and his unhappiness,  and  his  thoughts of 
his poor dead mother,  who  held  even  her 
little boy as a Cyrus  Worthy  Woodman, a 
joy  in  the  worid—concludes,  I  say, that 
these feelings must arise  entirely  from un­
godliness,  whereby life  becomes  a  terror, 
that Providence may hide a shining face!

And as the flood comes upon the vision of 
the  distinguished  magistrate,  physician, 
father,  landlord  and  orphan-protector,  his 
hymn rises higher,  as though it were Moses, 
Joshua, Elisha,  or John the  Baptist  going 
down into the  waters.

To tell the truth,  this small  boy was  not 
a prime article.  He was but nine years old, 
not robust,  a  secretly  egotistical  little  fel­
low,  with a sad  consciousness  of  the  hol­
lowness of the merit upon  which  he  based 
his self-love,  yet mortally  sensitive  to  the 
honest remarks of the  world.  Thus,  after 
the great Cyrus had secured the orphan, and 
after the proper rffention  had  been  elabor­
ately made to him of the  advantages  of be­
ing a boy in ’Squire  Woodman’s  family,  it 
became necessary to  examine  the boy criti­
cally,  in order that there might thrive in his 
heart no excessive  vanity  or  other  hateful 
thing.

There followed,  then,  the torture  of  this 
daily and conscientious exhibit  of  his lack 
of personal sightliness,  his  lack of promis­
ing muscle, his  lack  of  a  deep,  religious 
satisfaction  with  his  lot  as  an  orphan, 
whereby the Kind Father had  exalted  him 
tobe  even a servant in the house  of  Cyras 
Worthy.  The little  fellow 'said  “Yes” to 
all this with his lips,  but he was not an able 
liar,  and the womenfolk,  with  their  sharp 
eyes,  soon determined  that  iSquire  Wood 
man had a viper in his bosom:

A ll the little triumphs of this unfortunate 
child withered in  the Sahara of human feel 
ings which  it  was  now  his  fate to cross 
His speeches at the  Sunday-School festivals 
were as naught,  for there  was  no  Sunday- 
school.  H is great geography, with the wee 
bojr seated  among  grown  girls  at school, 
was a  memory which no onealse would be­
lieve,  for there was no schooL ■ forcfrphatis 
There was nothing for this  boy to do but to 
split wood;  to carry it in;  and when people 
asked him if he liked it  at  ’Squire  Wood­
man’s, to say that he did,  and  look  happy.
Already has this brief specimen of  genus 
fumio questioned  with  him self,  “What  is 
life?”  And from  the  morning  prayers of 
Cyrus  Worthy  Woodman,  of  course,  has 
Come the admonition  that  life is a blessing 
to the good,  and a terror to the ungodly.

There is a  growing  suspicion of ungodli­
ness in  the  child’s  heart, for  life  rapidly 
terrorizes him.

The spring  flood»  have  come.  There is 
the usual gossip  and  guessing  whether  or 
not the dain w ill go out.  On  each  side of 
the little  bridge,  built  with  so  much of a 
township noise—the fete of water-waders-— 
there yawns a  stretch  of  swollen  stream 
that must be forded.  Beyond  this  Pigeon 
Creek  is  the  farm  which  Cyrus  Worthy 
Woodman owns and rents to  Beebee—Bee- 
bee, the base;  Beebee, the ungodly, to whom 
life is very properly a terror;  and when Cy­
rus Worthy doth add to this terror, is he not 
merely the instrument of an all-wise  Provi­
dence? 
So  ruminates  Cyrus  Worthy 
Woodman,  and if he say it aloud,  so  chime 
in his delightful fam ily,  for Cyrus is a great 
man,  in whom they have their pride.

the 

stories, 

“Kollo” 

Let us,  then,  behold the beginning of life 
in its reality,  so far as this boy  is  concern 
ed.  The frugal morning meal has been eat 
en;  the household has  gathered  in  the sit 
ting-room, and before the glass doors of the 
township library the boy  has  kneeled  and 
spelled  out  the  titles  of  all Abbott’s bio­
graphies, and  all  the  “Beechnut”  yarns, 
and 
“Kobinson 
Crusoe,”  “Fox’s Book  of  Martyr’s,”  “P il 
grim’s Progress,”  “Thaddbus,”  and  “The 
Children of the Abbey.”  The prayer doses 
and the menfolk go forthwith  to  the  bam, 
There, as the morning light  grows  better, 
Cyrus Worthy Repeats,to toe  lad  the  hope 
that he w ill never whistle |g a in  on Sunday, 
as he had  been  apjfrehended  in  doing the 
previous day.  The tone a  man  adopts  to­
ward a very small hoy is  always  mock*sol- 
emn, but  with  Cyrus  this  solemnity  is a 
keen delight*

There is to be built,

within  the  tribute­
paying realm of the despised Beebee, a new 
rail-fence  which  shall  run through a thick 
growth o f timberi over a  morass,  and  fur­
ther along into terra incognita so far as the 
boy may^kfiow.  To  a  small  boy,  a  rail- 
fence entering a piece of woods is often the 
sign o f infinity.  It shall be  the  beginning 
of real life for the small boy to  aid  in  cut­
ting the way for this fence.

The  horses  are  hitched  to  toe  wagon- 
gearing,  the  lunch  is  '{tyasped,  Cyrus be- 
strides the reach just forward the  rear axle 
and,  with the small boy  Before him, sitting 
between hid arms and the .lines, they are off 
for Beebeedom.
' “I  woo-hoo-hood not Ifare alway.-I a-bask

The  hymn,  though  it  may depress the 
spirits,  still  sustains  the  courage  of the 
small boy. 
It is only the  matter  of a wet­
ting,  for the water  sometimes  comes  over 
the  reach.  F or  all  this,  to  the  lad,  the 
whole proceeding is  horrible.  It  is  work, 
the Gorgon and Chimera of the world.  For 
that small boy who  wades  for  fun  to-day, 
and goads his mother to despair,  would  cry 
loudly out to  fate  were  he  dredging  in a 
broken dam,  or going on an  errand across a 
swollen creek.

But to the despair  of  a  wee  child there 
happily enters the  promptest  of  reactions. 
The  very  bark  upon  the  trees is a study. 
The bladder upon the neck of the  bull-frog 
is a mystery.  The plainness of a linnet, or 
the  jaunty  dress  of  a  woodpecker, w ill 
cheer a child far off beyond the reach of any 
wagon or the chant o f any  hypocrite.  And 
in the bottoms of any free little  creek,  Na­
ture has her playground.  There,  returning 
birds and waking frogs  arouse  the  spring. 
There, sometimes,  the  national  convention 
of blackbirds  meets,  spends  three  days in 
organizing,  and takes  fifteen  hundred  bal­
lots without a  nomination!

And with the creek  receding  comes  also 
the Spirit of  mastery—for  has  not  Cyrus 
Worthy Woodman,  at  last,  thinking  that 
the boy had life,  spoken  fitly  of  their suc­
cess in crossing?  And  this  so  cheers the 
Protected that he begins in his mind to chop 
trees with his little axe,  and already wishes 
he were at the point of work.

It is a new country in Northern  Indiana. 
The man and the boy pass  many  clearings. 
The blows of the ax are heard  in  many di­
rections.  Let us notice  this wood-chopper, 
as Cyrus  Worthy drives past:

He stands on the  log in his  shirtsleeves, 
though the weather is very cold.  He chops 
for a small  chip,  which  flies  out, and  the 
little  notch sharpens  to a  point.  Then he 
spreads  his feet still  further apart,  and  ap­
plies him self, with terrific blows of his keen 
ax,  to  a point  perhaps fifteen  inches to the 
right of  the  deep notch  just  finished.  A s 
he brings down the ax he gives utterance to 
a hum h!  that can be heard far into the tim­
ber,  A few  iuch blows, and such emphatic, 
half-dumb ejaculations of the body,  and the 
first great chip, or “carving,” almost a slab, 
loosens  from the  log,  and is thrown  out of 
the woodman’s way. 

'

The  phonographers,  as  they write  their 
short-hand,  have their  tees and  their dees, 
If  you say  lip, 
their  ells and  their  lees. 
you  use  a  “labial”;  if  you  say  tooth,  you 
use a “dental”;  if yon say like,  a  “lingual”; 
if you  say ink,  a  “nasal”;  if  you say Gog, 
or Magog,  a  “gutteral.”  Thus the phonog­
raphers  preach  you  pedantically  of  your 
lips, your teeth,  your tongue,  your nose and 
yonr  throat.  And if  ever  you  pass  the 
initial  point  of  their  analysis,  you  must 
have  also 
their 
“linguo  dentals,”  and  sa  on.  But  this 
woodman’s  phonetics  goes  beyond the  lore 
of  the  short-hand  men.  H is  humh,,  his 
body’s inarticulate cry,  is from  the stomach 
and through the nose. 
It must be  a  “gas- 
tro-nasal.’’  It has no name  among  Ameri­
cans.

their  “labio  dentals,” 

[Pronounced pah-hing.*’]

But the Scotch,  quicker  students  of hu­
man nature than we are—the  Scotch  call it 
‘pah-ing.” 
And here they are,  bright  and  early,  at 
Beebee’s;  Cyrus Worthy Woodman, making 
first the little chip,  and  then  the  big one, 
though  on a standing  rather  than  a fallen 
tree,  Chop—Trnmb/  Chop—hum h!  Chop 
humh!

And on the small saplings the  little  boy 
strives to  imitate  his  protector. 
It is the 
nnder-stroke the boy cannot get.  So all his 
blows are delivered  downward,  many with­
in  a  hair’s-breadth  of  each  other.  And 
when, at last, the sapling can * be  bent over 
and broken off,  the stump looks like a splint 
broom. 
It is neither  scientific  nor  rapid.
It is simply work.  That  vvas  the  object.
The  boy  was  learning  to  work.  I have 
heard, 
in  days  gone  by,  when the New 
york printers waited  for steamers  to come 
in with tile news;  such  as  is  now  cabled, 
they could  either  “loaf”  or  set  “bogus.” 
Bogus” was  Bible  copy,  filled with “su­
periors,” italie, genealogical tables, and very 
narrow in measure.  This  “bogus” was cor­
rected with scrupulous  care—and  then dis­
It  was  work,  and  work  duly.
tributed. 
Well, tois boy was chopping  “bogus.”  He 
»rhe  was  a  little  thinker.  The

things he loved to chop were the blue birch­
es—long,, beautiful withes, without a branch, 
that could be cut down clean with one blow. 
They grew ten feet  long,  slender,  erect— 
fine withes with which to whip oxen.  Haw, 
there!—and an ox would haw!  had  yon one 
of those magnificent  withes  to  shake over 
his horns.

“Chop  down  yon  sapling,  W illiam,” 
quoth Cyrus as he examined the edge of his 
ax.

There  arose  in  the tired  boy’s  mind a 
countless number  of  downward  hackings. 
“I can’t!” he whined.,.

It was a sad  moment  to  say  “I  can’t!” 
The  skilled  axman  w as, filled  with  what 
Napoleon III.  would have called  elah—the 
blood of  Cyrus Worthy was warm  with the 
triumph of  flesh over  fiber.  “O-ho !  You 
can’t ?”  he cried,  with a merry light in  his 
eye.  “I know  just how to teach little boys 
never to say ‘I can’t !’  Now  yon  run  over 
there,  and bring me that blue  birch—there, 
that longer one—that’s it.  That  w ill teach 
you,  I  guess. 
[Singing]  ‘Jesus  died* on 
Calvary’s Mountain.’  Now stand  there till 
I get the lean of  this tree.  Now  stand  be­
hind me.”.

And then a chop—hum h!—and the creak, 
the crackling, the crash and  the  awful fall, 
such as  you hear in the  forest in the midst 
of  the gale,  at midnight.

“Now,  where’s the birch ?  Ah, yes. 

I’ll 
trim it.  You had better stand  out  there— 
j  right  there!  I never  knew a little  boy to 
say T can’t !’ to me but once.”

Reader,  one world may come close to  an­
other  world  and  know  nothing  of  it. «  A  
few   years  ago,  a  half-dozen  planets  went 
by  our  Mother  Earth,  and  beyond a sun: 
spot,  or a volcano,  or a cyclone,  no  one  of 
us knew or cared;  and no one  is  sure  that 
either Java or Iowa  owed  her  troubles  to 
the stars.

So,  here  in  this  forest,  there  were two 
worlds.  The mind  of  Cyrus  dwelt,  prob­
ably,  on his greatness among men, the funds 
of  his township,  and  the  unworthiness  of 
Beebee.  The  affair of  the  moment was to 
whip a little boy,  as  the  affair  of  the  pre­
vious  moment  had  been  to  fell  a  tough 
beech  tree.  What  the  little  boy  might 
think,  could  not  arise  as an inquiry in the 
judicial mind of  Cyrus  Worthy Woodman.
But, there before him, like a murderer  on 
the scaffold,  tied  hand  and  foot  with  the 
terror  that  only  the  ungodly  have,  the 
wretched  little  wrong-doer  stood.  Where 
now  was  his  frog  with  the  bladder,  his 
saucy bluejay,  his garter-snake,  and his red 
wintergreen berries ?  Down goes  his  fee­
ble  pulse.  He  hears  the  boys  say  the 
church-bell  is  at  the  depot.  He  sees  it 
there.  He watches all the  operations  that ! 
hoist it into the belfry.  He goes home, and | 
his mother,  in poverty and  misery,  talks to 
him past midnight of  his  kind  father,  and 
the blindness of  the destiny that took away 
that  father.  He  sleeps  late  beside  his 
mother, and wakes to find a neighbor in the 
house  shrieking  that  his  mother  is dead. 
He  goes  into  that  neighbor’s  house,  and 
then comes the toll  of  that  same  bell—for 
all the villagers  asked,  when it first swung 
in  the'steeple,  “Whom  w ill  it  toll  for 
first?”—and it tolled for  his  own  mother! 
And here in the woods,  with  Cyrus Worthy 
before him, he hears the tolling of that bell, 
and in the blue sky he looks, to see the dove 
descending,  or  his  mother,  or  something 
that shall take away the dread of all dying!
But Cyrus Worthy Woodman  has no  no­
tion of killing him!  He is  merely going to 
teach him not to say  “I  can’t.”  He  poses 
his little victim,  who has  fairly  lost all vo­
lition.  He  flourishes  the  long  withe—a 
magnificent whip for oxen—and he adminis­
ters the rebuke of a conscientious teacher of 
morals and protector of  orphans.

There  are  ten  screams  of  the  withe 
through  the  air  and  the  adjacent  leaves: 
One — humh;  tw o—-humh;  three— humh; 
four  humh;  five—humh; six—humh; seven 
—humh;  eight—humh;  nine—humh;  ten— 
h u m h   !

It  is  Cyrus  Worthy  Woodman,  pah-ing!
“ There!  You  w ill  now  never  say  ‘I 

can’t’ any more!”

No,  no;  that  demoralized  little  fellow  
w ill never say the dreaded words again.  1$
■is  a  question  if  he w ill  dare  hazard  any 
other  form  of  speech  which  the  sweet- 
spoken  monster  may  have  possibly" inter­
dicted.  But,  oh,  the faintness and  the aw­
ful  terror  of  the  moments  just  passed 
through!  Why  had  not  his  mother  told 
him such  men could live?  He had him self 
once  captured a meadow-lark that throbbed 
until it died of fright within his hand.  Per­
haps God has put him in this man’s 'clutches 
for  his wickedness  in wishing  to  examine 
the  brave little  bird  that would  not  leave 
her nest of speckled eggs in the fallow!

beautiful blue birches had a Judas-like look 
and prophesied countless  corrections.  The 
bullfrog  croaked “I  can’t!”  The  kill-deer 
cried  “I  can’t!”  The  quail  taunted  him: 
O,  I  can’t!”  The national  convention of 
blackbirds,  in session  near  by  on  the  bot­
toms,  at  once  nominated  Cyras  ^Worthy 
Woodman  by  acclamation,  amidst  a  scene 
of 
it 
seemed  that  even  nature  had  hurled  the 
poor boy from her heart.

indescribable  enthusiasm.  Alas! 

But  at  night—may God  be  praised!—as 
they splashed  homeward through the  swol­
len  flood,  a  friendly bird,  that  had  no fear 
of  township' authority,  lamented:  “Whip- 
poor-Will?”  “Whip-poor-Will?”

Thus  went  the  spring.  On  came  the 

summer.

The odor of sanctity hung about the man­
sion of Cyrus Worthy Woodman.  June airs» 
loaded  with  the  bloom of  the  fruit  trees» 
and  carrying also  the dew of  an early and 
delightful day,  could not steal joyously into 
that  household that  they did  not meet  the 
solemn  accents  of  the  good  man  haling 
forth  the  imprecations of  holy writ  upon 
them  that did  evil.  Night could not  close 
upon  the little  world, tired  with the  stern 
demands  of  toil, without  first  listening to 
the  same line of  Godly diatribe against  all 
them  that persecuted  the righteous or  held 
the  saintly not  select and  apart.  Had  not 
Hagar  been  cast  forth into  the wilderness 
of Beersheba,  and had she not put her 
under  one of  the shrubs,  and  sat her  down 
against him  a  good  way  off,  saying  “Let 
me not see  the death of  the child?” and  as 
she sat  over against him  had she not  lifted 
np  her voice  and  wept?  And if  Beebee 
should be cast out,  shonld he not lift aphis*, 
voice,  and if  the angel of  the Lord  hearcK 
that voice and  succored  Beebee, wouM  not*. 
Cyrus Worthy Woodman cry,  “It is the wills 
of  heaven!”  And had not a  just and terri­
ble  Ruler of  the Universe  also poured the 
vials of his wrath upon the people of Egyptr,. 
—the  murrain of  beasts, the  boils and  the 
blains,—the  hail, 
locusts,  and  darkness  . 
withal?  And had not  the Lord smitten the. 
first-born, from  the  first-born  of  Pharaoh' 
that sat on his throne, unto the first-born of 
the  captive  that was in the dungeon?  For 
the  Lord  whom  Cyrns  Worthy  Woodman 
worshipped  was a  jealous God,  visiting the 
iniquities of  the fathers  upon the ehiMreny 
unto the third and fourth generation..  And: 
had  not the  Lord  also smitten his  servant  • 
David with the chosen pestilence,  the angels 
of  the Lord  destroying throughout  all  the 
coasts of  Israel?  And  was  not this  Scrip­
ture  that flourished  upon  the  lips of  the 
magistrate forever reeking with misery and 
bloodshed?  Verily was  it  needful that alt 
those  who sought  that  house should  walk 
with  circumspection,  lest  the vengeance of 
so frightful  a  Repayer  and Smiter  should 
fall upon all that dwelt thereabout!

On the other  hand must it be related that, 
recoiling with dread  from the  ministrations 
of  the  chosen  servant of  an  exacting  and 
suspicious Creator, the lad  would  climb  to 
the garret of  that  house, and  there,  beside 
his cot, he would study the passages  in  his 
mother’s  Bible,  which  that  mother  had 
marked  after  the  death  of  her  husband.. 
Here was a God of  Love.  It  could  not  be- 
that the  Father of  the  Fatherless  marked« 
in these verses was the  same  God  smiting, 
the Egyptians and  upholding  Abraham  in, 
the  cruelest  chapter  of  all  history!  Oh] 
how like a stranger this little  sojourner in­
deed felt  as he read  that the Lord preserv- 
eth the strangers;  he  relieveth  the  father- 
| less and widow.  When  my father and my 
| mother forsake me,  then the Lord w ill take 
me up;  for a father of  the fatherless  and a, 
judge of  the  widows  is  God  in  H is  holy 
habitation!  Then,  kneeling,  this 
little: 
stranger at the gates of  ’Squire Woodman’s, 
good  hard  heart,  would pray to his God of 
Love to be taken  away  from  that  hateful 
abode;  and in the sweet other words of that, 
same  psalmist  would  he  petition:  Lord, 
Thou hast heard the  desire of  the  humble; 
thou  w ilt  prepare  their  heart;  Thou  w ilt 
cause Thine ear to hear;  to  judge  the fath­
erless  and  the  oppressed, that  the men of 
the earth may no more oppress.

It grows  clear to the  reader  that a secret 
heresy was hatching under  the  shingles of 
that  devoted  roof—a heresy  more  danger­
ous than the hornet’s nest that hung stoutly 
to the midway rafters.

Why,  then,  should  we  tarry  to  detail 
either the march of  that summer  across the 
page  of  an  obscure  lad’s  history,  o*  the 
slow-eating canker  of  that  secret  heresy ?•

(CONCLUDED ON EIGHTH PAGE)

PERFECTION  SCALE

The Latest Improved and Best,

But  thq* memorable  day passes  without 
another switching.  In fact, the good Cyrus, 
accepting  the office  of  correction as  a  sort 
of  Druid-ceremonial,'  an  offering  in  ’ the 
woods,  grows  genial  and 
less  terrible, 
though by no means to be trusted.  A hun­
dred  years could  not wipe out of  that little 
brain  the  impression  of  brutality  that  a 
screaming  ox-withe  and  a hideous  gasfco- 
nasal have inflicted upon ji sensitive soul.

The phenomena of naiure confused them­
selves  with  the  idea  of  flogging.  A ll

DOES NOT REQUIRE DOWN  WEIGHT 
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JPERRY, Grand Rapids:

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with  a  view   to  receiving your 
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on its pipe lines, nnder adequate 
pressure on all  levels,  on appli­
cation at the  Company’s  Office, 
76 Ottawa street,

JOHN  E.  MORE,  Secretary.

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BEWARE!

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 opr “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 art! 
oles 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 cigar« 
A counterfeiter is  a  genius, hnt  amenable 
to  the law, but a base  imitator who  keeps 
within  the 
just  ventures  near 
«»ugh  to be on  debatable  ground, is  not 
..worthy of  recognition  in  a  community of 
worthy or respectable  citizens.  The  “SiL 
ver  Spots” áre to-day  toe best  selling five' 
cent  cigar  in Michigan. 
If  you  don’t be­
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Handled  by a  Majority  of  the  Grocers 
and Bakers of Michigan.  Send for sam­
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State Agent, Grand Rapids.

OÄSH  SALE  CHECKS.

Encourage your trade to pay cash instead of 
running book  accounts  by  using  Cash  s*y> 
Checks.  For sale at 60 cents per  100 by  E. A. 
STOWE & BKO., Grand Rapids.

A S K   FO B

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71  Canal  Street,

Grand  Rapids, ♦ Mich.

ESTABLISHED  1866.

159  So. Water  Street Chicago.

We do a General  Commission Business 
and offer as  inducements twentyyears’  ex­
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Fed and  largest salesroom in toe business 
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WHOLESALE

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Official Oraran of Michigan Business Hen’a Association.
J-:.  V ,, ' A WIKKLY 70UBVAL PXVOm> SO TBM
Retail  Trade  of the lohlerine Stale

E. A. STOWE Jfc  BBO^ Proprietors.
Subscription Price—One Dollar per ye air. 
Advertising Rates made known on application,
Entered,  at  the  Grand  Rapid»  Poet  Office.

E.  A. STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1888.

T H E   STANDARD  AGAIN.

With a shortage of  frouf  one to five gal 
Ions  of  oil  to  every  barrel,  outside  mer- 
chants  would  appear  to  be  justified  in 
harboring resentment  against the  Standard 
Oil  Co. 
Judging  from  the  report of  the 
proceedings of the last meeting of the Grand 
Bapids  Mercantile  Association,  however, 
city oil handlers have quite as much  to con­
tend with as their brethren who buy in bar­
rels  instead of  in  bulk,  inasmuch as  they 
have to watch  the drivers;  to prevent  their 
giving short measure;  also to prevent  their 
charging  for from five to ten  gallons of  oil 
more  than they actually put  into  the mer­
chants’ tanks.

The  Tradesmans  advice to  the  trade 
in dealing with the Standard Oil Co., or any 
of its minions, is this:  Treat  them as  you 
would treat a thief, giving  them  no oppor­
tunity to swindle you. 
If you buy from the 
tank wagon, watch  every movement of  the 
driver, satisfying  yourself  that he fills  his 
measure  honestly and  gives  you as  many 
gallons as he  collects for. 
If, on the  other 
hand, you  buy by the  barrel,  draw  off  the 
oil  and  measure  it,  pay  for  what  you 
actually get  and no  more.  You will  find 
that  every barrel  is  short from  one to  five 
gallons.  The  Standard Oil  Co. never  was 
known to put as much oil in a barrel as it is 
guaged, yet  they have  the brazen  audacity 
to ask the  trade to pay the  same  price for 
shortage  as  for  oil.  The  poor  man  who 
steals  a loaf of  bread goes to jail, but  the 
biggest thief on earth waxes fat on its steal­
ings,  simply because  the  trade  does  not 
arise as one man and insist on honest meas­
ure and good quality of oil.

France and Italy are the storm  centers of 
Europe  now.  The  ambition  of  each is to 
carve out  an  empire for itself  in Northern 
Africa.  The  bitterness  with  which  Italy 
resented  the  annexation of  Tunis  will  be 
remembered.  With nearly equal  bitterness 
France regards the extension of Italian con­
quests on the lower Bed  Sea, the last being 
the  annexation of  Massowah.  With  Eng­
land holding one shore and Itally the other, 
France  would  have  very little  real  use of 
the Suez Canal at the upper  end of  the Red 
Sea, in case she fell out with either.  So the 
two  powers  begin  to  talk  of  their  arma­
ments  and  their  military and  naval force, 
and their prime ministers attend the a u tum n 
manœuvres  of  their fleets, as  though a war 
were actually impending.  There have been 
too  many of  these  diplomatic  displays  of 
teeth  in  the  last  decade  for the world to 
take  them  very seriously.  France,  which 
would  have  to  act  on  the aggressive,  has 
good reason to believe that the  old  alliance 
of  Italy  with  Germany is  not  at  an  end, 
and that in attacking one country she would 
have to fight both.

The  Inter-State  Commerce  Commission 
has  decided to  sanction a tariff  of  railroad 
charges to the Pacific coast by which through 
rates  from  New York are  put much  lower 
than from Chicago.  The merchants of  the 
latter  city  naturally dislike  this  arrange­
ment, but it  seems to  be unavoidable as re­
gards  ordinary freights.  There  is  water- 
competition  for freights from  New York to 
San Francisco, both by way of Panama and 
around  Cape  Horn.  Goods can  be carried 
by these routes  as  low as  57 cents  a  ton, 
and in cases where time is a matter of com­
parative  indifference, the  water  route will 
boused  exclusively,  if  the  railway charges 
are  made  proportionate to  distance.  The 
railroads know by past  experience how low 
they  must put  their  charges  to make  the 
more rapid transportation worth paying for. 
If  they refused  the freights  offered at  this 
lower  rate,  Chicago  would  gain  nothing, 
and the roads would be the losers.  So long 
as lower rates take from Chicago no advan­
tage  its ^natural situation  entitles  it  to, no 
injustice is  done to it.

Any of The Tbadesman’s  readers  who 
would like to have a printed copy of the ver­
batim report of the third  annual convention 
of the  Michigan  Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion,  held at Cheboygan  last month, can be 
accommodated by sending  their  address to 
this office.

Bank  Notes.

Gardner  &  Gardner  have  merged  their 
banking  business at  Edmore into  thè  Ed- 
more Exchange Bank.

Sault  Stei  Marie  Berald:  On  August 
31 thè directors of thè First National  Bank 
held their semi-an miai meeting  to 
and dispose of thè eamings of thè bank  for 
past six months. 
It  was  decided  to  pass 
85,000 to surplus, making thè surplus  from 
eamings $10,000.  This bank purchased ita 
site for building before thè rise  in  real  es­
tate, and to make thè capitai show  what  it 
really Le, as compared with  other  property 
in that vieinity,  it  was  decided  to  charge 
$9,000 ** to  reai  estate  and  credit  a   like 
ameuntto  surplus.  The  surplus  theh  is 
ninetoen thoussind dollaro, a yery creditable 
showing for two years’ business 
dés\wy|
idends Ho amount of 8 per eeut H  th fto ek .

AMONG THE TRADE.
0BAJTD RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Wormnest  &  Mulder  succeed  John  K. 

Wormnest in the hardware business.

Rathbun  &  Ford  succeed  Bathbun  & 
Flory in the paint and wall  paper business;
Lemon,  Hoops  &  Peters  are  buoy  re­
moving  the  residue of the Arthur Meigs & 
Co. stock to their house.
.  Danaher & Bertrán  have engaged  in  the 
grocery business at Custer.  Amos S. Mus 
seünan & Co. furnished the stock.

J.  S. Alden &  Co.  have  removed  their 
drug stock  from Howard City to this place, 
locating on Cherry street near the city limits
Mrs. D. Dorman  has  opened a dry goods 
and  notion store at Cedar Springs.  Voigt 
Herpolsheimer & Co.  furnished  the  stock
W. B. Brentner has sold his grocery stock 
at 40  Fountain  street  to  G. D. Comstock, 
who will  continue the business at the  same 
location. 

v_______

J.  W.  Herendeen, formerly  engaged  in 
the drug business on South  Division street 
is  reported to  be casting  about  for a  new 
location on the same  thoroughfare.

E.  Bliven  and  O. Allyn  have formed  a 
copartnership  under the  style of  Bliven & 
Allyn and engaged in the wholesale and re­
tail  fish  and  oyster  business' at  63  Pearl 
street. 

_________________

Sain  B.  Ardis,  who  lost  his stock  and 
store  at Lake  City by fire  several  months 
ago,  has  erected  a  new  building and  re 
engaged  in trade. 
I. M.  Claik & Son  fur­
nished the groceries.  *

Otto Klein,  late  of  Gloversville,  N. Y., 
will shortly  open  a  wholesale  and  retail 
glove store at 79 Pearl street as a  branch of 
the celebrated factory of  A. Klein, of Glov 
ersville.  He will carry  a  full  line of both 
imported and domestic gloves  and mittens.
D.  Seegmiller, formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery business  on  the West  Side,  has ar­
ranged to start a grocery store at 563 Cherry 
street  and a meat  market at  No. 561.  Ol- 
ney, Shields & Co. will  furnish the  grocery 
stock, the  intention  being  to  open up  for 
business on  Saturday.

Daniel  Lynch, successor to Fred  D.  Yale 
&  Co., has  leased  the  store  at  19  South 
Ionia  street, formerly  occupied by Thomp­
son & Maclay,  and is removing his stock  to 
that place  from his* old  location on  South 
Division  street.  He  proposes  increasing 
hi%line as soon as he gets settled.

The  stock of  the  Tower  Clothing  Co., 
recently  sold to  J. L.  Hudson  by J.  W. 
Rosenthal for $75,000, inventories $106,000. 
liabilities  are  $126,000  showing  a 
The 
shrinkage  of  $20,000, 
than  a 
year,  besides  the  loss of  such  capital—if 
any—as  Rosenthal  put  into  the  business. 
Mr.  Hudson  is  compromising  with  such 
creditors  as  are  disposed  to  take  75  per 
cent, in full  settlement,  and the indications 
are  that all  will  accede  to  the  proffered 
terms.

less 

in 

A. M. LeBaron, formerly engaged in g en 
eral trade at Levering, and  Geo.  H.  Cobb, 
formerly engaged in the dress goods depart­
ment of the Hannah & Lay  Mercantile Co., 
at Traverse City, have  formed a copartner­
ship  under  the  style  of  LeBaron & Cobb 
and engaged in the grocery  business  at the 
comer of South Division and  Hall  streets, 
purchasing their stock  of  Olney,  Shields & 
Co.  Both partners were engaged  in  trade 
at Saline before going North,  and  have the 
requisite experience to insure success.

ABOUND  THE  STATE.

Quincy—V. V. Bidwell’s grocery has been 

closed by creditors.

Ionia—The Batson grocery stock has been 

shipped to Big Bapids.

Saline—Fred  Henne  has  moved  his gro­

cery stock to Ann Arbor.

Perrinton—Brisbin & Cooley have opened 

a branch store at Middleton.

Caro—J .  M.  Denyes  succeeds  Denyes 

Bros, in the grocery business.

Carson City—B. F. Bremer  has  sold  his 

hardware stock to D. L. Straight 

Carson City—E.  J. Mason & Co. succeed 

E. J. Mason in the cider business.

B urdickville—Samuel  Berry  has  bought 

the general stock of J. R. Greenman.

Bedford—Smith  Bros,  succeed  C.  D. 

Smith in the grocery and drag business.

Mecosta—M. A. (Mrs.  N.) Globensky has 

removed her grocery stock to Lakeview.

Iron Mountain—Lilly & Richardson  -suc­
ceed Verhalen Bros, in the grocery business 
Jackson—L N. Branch  succeeds  Mrs. P. 
Fisher in the grocery and  bakery .business.
Saginaw—Carsten  Gosen succeeds  Gosen 
& Johnson  in the  grocery and  liquor  busi­
ness.

An  Sable—Sarah  M.  (Mrs.  Chas.) Fried- 
lander  has  removed  her  general  stock  to 
Oscoda.

Grand Haven—Edward  Barnes is closing 
out  his grocery stock  and will  retire  from 
business.

Middleton—K.  M. Richardson  &  Co., of 
Maple  Bapids, have  started a branch hard­
ware store here.

Battle Creek—T.  B.  Skinner & Son  suc­
ceed  L.  W.  Robinson  A  Co. in  the  dry 
goods  business.

Sault Ste. Marie—The Dunning Furniture 
Co. has purchased the undertaking business 
of David Brown.

Ca^sopolisr-M.  W.  Kahn  &  Co.  have 
moved  their stoek o f  general  merchandise 
to Chillicothe, HI.

Holland—W.  H.  Bartholomew, formerly 
engaged  in  trade  at Wayland, will  shortly 
|  S
open 3 grocery store here. 

. ¡ j j |   •  * 

.  Kalamazoo—J . Van Zolenburg has rented 
his store to John Steketee, of Holland, who 
Will put in a general stock about October 1

STRAY  FACTS. 

' •-

,  Ravenna—B.  D.  Wheeler  is  breaking 
ground for a new store building.

Bradley—B. Burlington & Son  are hand­
ling sixty bushels of apples per day in their 
dryer.

Bay j City—The  Warren-Lewis_ Lumber 
Co. has  been  incorporated, with  a  paid-in 
capital of $25,000. 

j  t
Sherwood—M.  R.  Gwin  &  Co.  gave 

$3,000  chattel  mortgage on their dry goods 
stock,  when other creditors  attached.

East Saginaw—R.  Weston,  plumber  and 
gas  fitter, has  made  an  assignment.  His 
liabilities are $2,417,  and his  assets $1,638, 
Detroit—The  New England Shoe  Manu­
facturers’  Association  succeeds  the  New 
York and New England Shoe Manufacturers1 
Selling  Co. in tie   sale of  boots  and  shoes 
on commission.

Detroit—The Wendell Grain Co. has been 
incorporated, with a paid-in  capital of $20, 
000,  to  deal  in  grain,  fruits,  vegetables, 
etc.  The  stockholders  are  F.  William 
Lichtenberg, John  H.  Wendell,  Christian 
H. Lichtenberg,  Harvey  D. Wendell, Eber 
Ward and Aaron A. Parker.

Menominee—John W.  Blodgett, of Grand 
Rapids, and  W.  F. D.  Davis,  of  Menomi 
nee, have  been elected  directors in the  Do­
herty  &  Baars  Lumber  Co., to  take  the 
place of  William A. Doherty and George S, 
Baars, who  lately withdrew from  the  con­
cern.  C.  D. Nelson was elected president, 
John W. Blodgett, vice-president, W.  F. N, 
Davis, treasurer and superintendent,  H. W. 
Nelson,  secretary,  The  above  and  N. F, 
Avery,  Grand  Rapids, the  other  director, 
hold all the stock.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Muskegon—Partington  & Perry have  en­
gaged  in  the  manufacture  of  a  combined 
flour chest and kneading board.

Purely Personal.

Frank  E.  Drew, 

th e '  Newaygo  meat 

dealer, was in town Monday.

B. W. Ellison, the  Alma  general  dealer, 

was in town one day last week.

E. D. Voorhees,  the  Ionia overall  manu­

facturer, was in town last Thursday.

T. D. Inman, the Rockford  harness deal­
er, beamed on his Grand Rapids frieuds last 
Wednesday.

Joshua  Freeman,  of  Freeman,  Out.,  is 
spending a couple  of weeks  with his sons, 
Thos. S. and W.  L. Freeman.

George  Starr,  who  stands  behind  the 
counter  for M. Bailey, the  Plainwell  drug­
gist, spent Sunday with friends here.

J. F. Mann, 

the  Lisboa  boot  and shoe 
dealer,  is attending  the  annual  reunion of 
the 4th Michigan Cavalry at Flint this . week.
Geo. Carrington, the Trent  general  deal­
er, was in  town  last  Friday,  on  his way 
home from New  York,  where  be  spent a 
couple of weeks.

H.  E.  Grand-Girard, 

the  Big  Rapids 
druggist, passed  through  the  city  Monday 
on  his  way home  from  Detroit.  He  was 
accompanied by his wife.

Jas.  D.  Wadsworth,  late  with  Arthur 
Meigs  &  Co.,  has  taken  the  position  of 
assistant  book-keeper  for  I.  M.  Clark  & 
Son.  He began his new duties on Monday.,
W. H. Taylor, junior member of the firm 
of Taylor & Son, who  succeeded John Eng­
lish in general trade  at  Lucas  -about  four 
months ago, was in town a  couple  of days 
last week.

F. L. Fuller,  proprietor of  the  Northern 
Kent Bank, at Cedar  Springs,  was in town 
last Thursday.  He is  arranging  to erect a 
brick building for the reception of his bank­
ing business.

Dr.  Chas.  S.  Hazel tine  left  Saturday 
night for  Concord,  N. H.,  where  he  will 
place his son in school, returning by way of 
Saratoga to attend  the  annual  meeting  of 
the National Wholesale  Druggists’ Associa­
tion.

J. H. Aitkin, formerly engaged  in  trade 
at Flint, but  more  recently  a  resident  of 
S t Johns, is now connected  with  the  gen­
eral  store of  the  Oregon  Construction Co., 
at  Huntington,  Oregon.  He  still  keeps 
track of  his many Michigan friends through 
The  Tradesman.

Chas.  C.  Krizter,  the  Newaygo/ miller, 
suffered  the  loss  of  his  dam  on  Sunday. 
Bid Charley sit  down  and  moan  over  his 
misfortune ?  Not any.  He  took  the Sun­
day  night  train  for Springfield,  Ohio,  and 
before many men would have  decided what 
to do under the  circumstances, he will have 
a better dam than before.

VISITING  BUYERS.

burg 

The following retail  dealers have visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
J C Benbow,  Cannonsburg Kohlman Sc Hoff master, ’
N F Miller, Lisbon 
Allegan
C Roozenrand, Zeeland 
C L Graves, Conklin 
Jay Marlatt, Berlin 
T VanEenenaam,Zeeland 
H VanNoord, Jamestown  Frank E Drew, Newaygo 
S A Bush, LoweU 
Chas C Kritzer. Newaygo
X Heyboer Sc Bro, Dren the B W Ellison, Alma 
J  W Mead, Berlin 
T D Inman. Rockford
Mrs Minnie Lacey,Cannons- Taylor A Son, Lucas
J F Olark, Big Rapids
JR  Odell, Fremont 
J F Mann, Lisbon
OF Williams. Caledonia  i  H Brownyard, Lake 
J B Watson, Ooopersvllle  G M Huntley, Reno 
' 
Sidney Stark. Allendale 
Walling Bros, Latnont 
Nagler Sc Beeler. Caledonia A Purchase, 8 Blendon 
R B McCulloch, Berlin 
' W Vermeulen. Beaver Dam 
OH Doming, Dutton 
L M Wolf, Hudson ville
Carrington & North, Trent Munger, Watson & DeVoist 
H E Grand-Girard. 
Geo H Walbrlnk. Atiéndale H Freeman, Antrim 
Sevey Sc Herrington,
Dr S J Koon, Lisbon 
Harrington
John Crispe, Plainwell 
Dunning A Rogers.Hasting
Wright A Friend, 
Dske Odessa John Gnnstra, Gitchell 
J P Cordes, Alpine 
Mrs HN Buchanan,  Ensley
John Homrich, No Dorr 
. G 3 Putnam, Fruitport  Í 
Henry Strope, Morley 
Frank Cornell, Griswold 
L Set. Jenlson. Jenisonvllle
John Smith, Ada 
G Ten Hoor,  Forest  Grove Ezra Brown, Englishville 
J C Branch, Wayland 
Geo A Sage, Rockford 
H F Cornell, Griswold 
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Gus Begman, Bauer 
John GUes A Co, LoweU  E E Hewitt, Rockford
WmKarsten, Beaver  Dam W O Lake, Morley ¡ j.
R T Parrish, Urondville1 ¡ H E Hogan, So Boardman V: 
Alex Denton, Howard City EU Runnels, Corning 
Cnarles'McCarty, Lowell  K D MaNángliffiftT,: - ^ ~ V . 
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Our Corn  Crop.

Last  year  a withering  drought  afflicted 
the: Northwest  and'West  and  its  impress 
was left on the  country in  the shape of  de­
pleted  granaries  and  astricted  crop  yields 
This  season  the case  has been  happily re­
versed.  Copious  rains and  frequent-beat 
waves  are hastening  to  maturity a crop  of 
corn of  unprecedented  extent.  We  know 
that  anything  wrested  from  nature  and 
thrown  into the avenues of  trade indirectly 
aids all men with whom it comes in contact 
and  thq ultimatum of  the present com out 
look promises beneficial results to the whole 
country.  The  good  news of  the  golden 
harvest will  scarce  have  been disseminated 
before  we will  feel  its benign  influence  in 
the  guise of  lower  priced  meat and  feed 
The  latter  article of  trade, especially,  will 
improve in  quality as the  lighter grain will 
be  crowd’ed  out to  give  place to the  heat 
producing,  fattening  maize.  The  abun 
dance of  this year’s corn supply means bet­
ter pork  packed in Kansas  City and  Chica 
go;  more comfortable wintering of  stock in 
the  corn  belt;  sleeker  sides and  increased 
milk  flow in  Eastern  dairy  cattle;  and,  in 
fact, all that portion of the domestic animal 
world  limited to the United States will  lift 
up  its head  rejoicing at the  bounteous  lav 
ishment  with which  it  is  favored.  Men 
who elate at scant harvests because the high 
prices  incurred  seem  to  directly  benefit 
them  regard the  commercial weal  through 
a  contracted  lens which is focused on  only 
present profits.  Take a year of  dearth,  for 
instance,  and the farmer sells his half-filled 
bins of grain for a sum equal to the price of 
an overflowing gamer in a season of plenty 
He is no  gainer thereby, but  really a  loser, 
for  the chances  are that  he robs  that  de 
partment  of  his purse  representing  gains 
from his stable  and fold to fatten  the other 
side of the pocket book containing the grain 
profits.  Let  farmers,  then,  cease  to  be 
downcast  at  the  golden  blessing  vouch 
safed  to  them,  for  the  generous  hand  of 
nature  seldom over-estimates  the  needs  of 
humanity, and  the  bulky  surplus  of  i 888 
will eventually accrue  to  the producer’s en 
hancement  through diverse  trade channels 

George E.  Ne w ell.

Gripsack Brigade.

Heman Barlow having  returned from  his 
trip  down  the  St. Lawrence,  Fred  Ball  is 
out on the warpath again.

Dick Prendergast, who suffered a sprained 
ankle  at the traveling men’s ball  game,  ex­
pects to be  able to get out again  next Mon­
day.

Sam.  Morrison,  who  has  been  laid  up 
since the Detroit  ball game with a sprained 
ankle,  started  out  on  the  warpath  again 
Monday—a little  lame, to be sure,  but with 
finbounded ambition.

Ed.  Morgan  has  gone  on  the  road  for 
Curtiss & Co.,  starting  out  on  his  initial 
trip on Monday;  He  w ill  cover  the  trade 
south of  Grand  Rapids  on  the line of  the 
C.  & W.  M.,  Lake Shore and Michigan Cen­
tral.

If  anyone thinks Hub. Baker will  take a 
bluff, he better come in out of the wet with­
out delay.  Coming  down from ,the  North, 
a few'days  ago,  there  was a young  girl on 
the  train  without  a cent of  money.  She 
was  bound  for Peru,  Ind., but was told  by 
the  conductor  that  she would  have to  get 
off  at the  next  station.  Someone  dared 
Hub. to pass  through the train and  take up 
a  collection—a  challenge  he was not  slow 
to  accept.  Quarters, half  dollars and  dol­
lars  flew into  his hat  without unnecessary 
importunity, and when the rounds had been 
made  it was  found  that  enough had  been 
collected  to  pay the  girl’s  fare  through to 
destination,  buy  her  dinner  at Reed  City 
and  give her  $4 besides.  She accepted, the 
gift with many thanks and more tears.

Adulteration  of Food.

In  reporting  favorably  to  the House a 
substitute for the Lee  bill  to  prevent  the 
manufacture or transportation of  adulterat­
ed articles of food, drink  and  drugs, made 
in one state and intended to  be  sold in an­
other, the House Committee on Agriculture, 
referring to the extent of adulteration, says: 
“This state of facts amounts  not only to 
a premium upon dishonesty,  but is a threat 
to national health.  Honest  manufacturers 
and dealers are placed at a  disadvantage or 
are forced into a reckless  competition  with 
fraud.  Legitimate  trade  is  handicapped 
and demoralized. 
It tends  to make an Ish- 
maelite of both  manufacturer  .and  dealer. 
Recent investigations in the  department of 
agriculture of cheese  deceptions,  frauds in 
milk,  adulteration  in  beer  and spirits, in 
spices and  condiments  and  other things in 
daily use as  food  and beverage,  emphasize 
the  necessity  for  prevention  or repression 
of these disreputable practices stimulated by 
the greed of gain.  Liquids,  perhaps  even 
more generally than  solids,  are  subject to 
this  sophistication.  Aged  brandies  are 
made from diluted alcohol;  cheap wines are 
mixed and manipulated to imitate expensive 
brands;  beers are  doctored to avoid the use 
of expensive hops, and to cheapen  the pro­
duct or simulate some desired quality.  Teas 
are mixed, colored with  poisonous minerals 
and spent leaves are dried and placed a sec­
ond time upon the market.  The  animal in­
dustry which asks for  the  protection  pro­
posed in this bill  reaches  all  the levels of 
life; from the millionaire to the day laborer. 
It embraces more than all  other  industries 
in the country  combined,  the  property of 
the poor.” 

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A  Simple  Barometer.

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A very good and sensitive barometer may 
be  made  by glueing  together strips of  red 
cedar and seasoned pine.  A  strip of cedar 
about thirty  Inches  long, one and  one-half 
inches  wide;  and  one-eighth of  an  inch 
thick, is efit with  the grain, and to one side 
of  it muet be glued strips of  {tine of  equal 
thickness,  with  the^grain  running  across 
that of the cedar.  This combination is  set 
on  end, and will, according to the  state of 
the weather, be found to have bent  over ¡¡I 
qne,  side,or the other,, and  this may be  de- 
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Too  Good  to  Keep.

From the Boot and Shoe Recorder.

A shoe  manufacturer  recently  visited a 
certain Western city,  looking around among 
the trade.  As usual, he had both eyes open 
for business.  Entering one of the principal 
jobbing houses, he was  soon  extolling  his 
goods and boasting  how  much  cheaper he 
could make shoes than  anyone  else  in  his 
line.
Hello!” he suddenly exclaimed, picking up 
a pair of shoes,  “ what are those?”
‘ ‘That’s one of  a  pair  of  samples  that 
we’ve just ordered from,” was the reply.
The visitor examined the shoes critically. 
Then he asked,  “What’d you pay?”
“A dollar and thirty  cents,”  said  one of 
the firm.
“Buy many?”  %
“About 500 cases.”
The manufacturer  gave  the  shoe  a final 
and searching examination,  threw  it down 
and said:  “Now,  I’ll tell  you what I’ll do: 
I’ll make precisely the same thing for a dol­
lar twenty-five.”

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“Just as good stock and  finish?” 
“Exactly, or you needn’t keep ’em.”
“If we countermand this  order  and give 
it to you,  how soon will we get the goods?” 
“In a month.”
“All right;  the order’s yours.”
The manufacturer was so tickled  at  hav­
ing thus got a big order  away from a  com­
petitor that he  asked  the  members  of the 
firm to dinner, and “set ’em  up”  liberally. 
Then the murder came out.
“We had a call  from  one  of  your sales­
men a few days ago,” casually remarked one 
of the firm,  as he puffed a good  cigar,  and 
winked at his partner.
“Mr.  Gripensacker?”
“Yes.” 
“Found him a nice fellow,  eh?”
“Oh, yes, hut he can’t sell goods with  his 
employer.”
The manufacturer looked pleased.  ‘ ‘What 
makes you think so?” he asked.
“For the simple  reason  that  he  charged 
us a dolla* and thirty cents a pair for goods 
which you came along and-sold us five cents 
a pair cheaper.  That’s reason enough, isn’t 
it?”
the 
manufacturer, jumping up and  tipping over 
his chair,  “What do you  mean?”
“Just what I say,” said the jobber, jump­
ing up in his turn.  “And what’s more,  be­
fore we came to dinner I  telegraphed  your 
house to countermand  the  order  we  gave 
your salesman.  Now,  you’ve  got to supply 
that 500 cases at a dollar twenty-five cents a 
pair,  as  you  agreed. 
If  you  don’t,  the 
whole town will know  of  this  transaction 
before night,  and it might  not  be  much to 
your credit,  either.”
Then the manufacturer  realized the utter 
absurdity of the situation, and the fact that 
he had been  underselling  his  own  goods. 
He  sat  down  and  laughed  till  he cried. 
Then he shook hands  with  the  jobbers on 
his agreement, and made them  swear by all 
that was great and good, that they wouldn’t 
reveal the story to a living soul.
They swore,  but the joke got out, as such 
things always  do.

“Blankety-blank—blank!”  roared 

The  Tendency  of  Modern  Trade.

From the New York Shipping List.

An  apt  illustration of  the  monopolizing 
tendency of  trade at the present time is fur­
nished by the rather  prolific crop of  specu­
lative  corners  that  made their appearance 
during  the month of  August,  which,  taken 
in connection with the fact that these events 
have been coincident with the active discus­
sion of  Trusts th°t  has  been  in  progress, 
gives to them rather peculiar significance at 
the present  moment.  The  speculative cor­
ner is only another phase of  the  fundamen­
tal principle of combination  that  underlies 
the Trust, worked  up, it is true, in a some­
what different manner and  more ephemeral 
in its character, but, nevertheless, the same 
result is sough t to be accomplished.  Under 
these circumstances it may be  interesting to 
group together the several comers that have 
been devejoped and  liquidated  in  commer­
cial  circles  during  the  pari  few  weeks. 
First in importance, is perhaps, the  squeez­
ing of the August shorts  in  cotton, which 
is said to have realized a very large profit to 
the  clique  that  manipulated  the deal and 
forced  the  price  of  August  cotton  up  to 
11.48 cents, while at the same time Septem­
ber  was  selling at 9.90, and  witnessed'the 
unique spectacle of  several  thousand  bales 
Of cotton being imported here from Europe* 
It-is  scarcely necessary to  point  out  that 
under  these  circumstances the cotlon trade 
was  generally demoralized, and  it  will  be 
several  weeks  before  the; market  escapes 
from the influence of the  lingering  demor­
alization that was left behind.  A corner in

August  oats  was  next  discovered,  being 
brought about by the fact  that  all the early 
receipts of  new  crop,  graded  below No.  2, 
and raised the  value of that grade ten cents 
per bushel.  London speculators worked up 
a corner in tin and copper,  and  during  the 
last  three  days of  August  the price of  tin 
was  jumped  over  £5 per  ton,  while  spot 
copper had advanced about £13 per ton,  the 
effect of  which has been reflected upon this 
market, but  only in a subdued  manner,  be­
cause the speculative interest here was com­
paratively narrow.  Then there was a slight 
squeeze  of  shorts  in  August  lead,  which 
only created a small  temporary  ripple,  and 
August went out and  September  has  come 
in,  with  the  coffee  market  in  Havre and 
Hamburg  excited  over a corner in Septem- 
per,  which  has  already  established a rapid 
advance in values and bids fair to further de­
moralize those markets before these specula­
tive deals have been liquidated.  The amount 
of  money  involved  in  these  speculative 
deals runs up into the millions—one branch of 
trade having been impoverished and another 
-enriched to that extent, while in each instance 
legitimate  trade  has been unsettled, if  not 
demoralized,  and  a considerable  margin of 
loss has been  occasioned  from  indirect in­
fluences that cannot be  even  approximately 
estimated.
It is not our  purpose,  however,  to preach 
upon the  immorality of  corners,  for  public 
sentiment has always condemned  such  op­
erations as the  worst  phase  of  speculative 
gambling,  but rather to  point out that, not­
withstanding 
this  well-recognized  fact, 
speculation  is  continually  endeavoring  to 
accomplish  this  very result,  and  the  gen­
eral tendency of  modern trade is toward the 
formation of  such  combinations by the use 
of  enormous  sums of  money,  as will create 
a monopoly more or less permanent in effect 
and  wide  reaching  in  its  influence.  The 
plethora of  Trusts  that  have come into ex­
istence within the last  few  months is quite 
as significant of  the monopolizing tendency 
of  modern  trade  as  are  these  speculative 
corners  in  mercha’ndise,  railroad  pools  in 
passenger  and  freight  rates  and  various 
other  forms  of  combination  that  seek  to 
centralize and control vast fields of industry 
in commercial,  industrial  and  financial af­
fairs.  Each of  these is  only another phase 
of  the same principle and a different method 
of  accomplishing the same result.

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He Didn’t Know the Name of  His  Hotel.
From the New York Sun.

The members of the firm of Smith,  Jones 
& Brown are very effusive when  greeting  a 
country merchant who comes to town to buy 
goods of them.  Yesterday Peter Robinson, 
of Amsterdam,  walked  into  the  store  and 
was greeted by Smith, who,  by the  way,  is 
a sort of  Anglomaniac:

street and Broadway.”

with Robinson:
pose?”

“Ah!  Mr.  Robinson,  glad  to  see  you; 
when did you arrive?”
“Hawdy!” 
replied  Robinson,  shaking 
hands;  “got in last night.”
“Everything lovely,  I suppose; where you 
stopping?
“At the St.  Cloud.”
“Eh?”
“At the St.  Cloud.”
“Oh,  you mean the San Clood.”
“Eh?”
“The San  Clood, corner of  Forty-second 
“Yaas.” 
U p came Brown,  who  also  shook  hands 
“Going to stock up for the winter, I  sup­
“Yaas.”
“ Get in this  morning?” 
“No,  last night”
“Where are you stopping?”
“At the San Clood.”
“Huh?”
“At the San Cloed.”
“Where’s  that?”
“Why, corner Broadway and Forty-second 
“Ha! Ha! that’s the St.  Cloud.”
“Yaas is it?”
Jones now appeared on the scene: “Hello, 
Robinson,  old  man,  how’s  tricks  up  the
country?”

“Everything first class.”
“ When did yen get in?”
“Last Right” 
“ Where are you stopping?”
“At the S t  Cloud»” 
i  “You mean the S t Gloo, don’t you?” 
“Yaas.”
Robinson was turned over to the business 
manager, who shook hands with him : ‘ ‘When 
did you arrive in tò\ra, Mr. Robinson?” ’ 

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''“Got in last night”
‘‘Yes; whpte are you stopping?”
“Dam fino.”

To Preserve Eggs.

The  Magnet  gives  us  an infallible  pre 
servativeof  eg*rs:  “Take  Meacupful  0 
salt, and  lime  to  the  size of  an  egg,  anc 
pour  boiling water on  them.  When  cold, 
drain off  the liquor  and put it on  the eggs 
If  too strong,  there will  be a crust on  top: 
if  so,  add  more  water.  This  is  for twe 
gallons of  liquor.  There is  no receipt tha1 
beats this,  and it can  be relied upon.  Eggs 
put  down in August,  and used in April  ar( 
just as fresh and make just as nice frostings 
as newly-laid ones. ”

In contrast to  the  universal  wail  aboul 
calamity and cereal ruin,  it is a*pleasure tc 
note that the Manitoba Railroad  has issued 
a circular advising its  patrons  who deal in 
coal and wood to supply  the  necessities oi 
their  immediate  localities  for  the winter, 
and avoid the blockade that is sure to result 
from the movement of the grain crop.

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

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

FOR  SALE,  W A N TED ,  ETC. 

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Advertisements will be inserted  under  this  head for 
two  cents  a  word  the  first  insertion  and  one cent a 
word  for  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
ment taken for less than 25 cents.  Advance payment.

Webster bran duster;  one OO Geo.  T.  Smith  purifier. 

F O R   SA LE.

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F OR SALE—WELL-ESTABLISHED  IMCLEMENT BU 

iness, choice location,  in  rich  farming  countr 
Capital required—about 85,000.  Profits  about 8500 pi 
month.  A golden opportunity for live man.  Addrei 
Jno. T. Marriott, Agt., Wakefield, Neb. 
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the most pleasant streets “on  the hiU.”  WTiU ex­
change for stock in any good Institution.  Address 286, 
care Mich gan Tradesman. 

situated on good business corner.  Stock  and  fix­
tures will inventory about 83,000.  Reason for selling, 
other business.  Address Henry, care Michigan Trades­
man, Grand Rapids. 

IT'OR  SALE—GOOD  RESIDENCE  LOT  ON  ONE  OF 
I fOR  SALE—WELL-SELECTED  GROCERY  STOCK, 
FOR SALE—ONE 9x24 ROWNDS’  SECTIONAL  ROLL- 
er mill, with elevators and scalpers complete; on6 
The above machines are all in good condition.  Enquire 
of owner, D. C. Briggs, North Branch, Mich. 
F o r  sale—bazaar  b u sin ess,  w e l l  
f s t ar.
Ushedin  one  of  the  liveliest  and  best  business 
towns in the  State.  Proprietor’s  health  failing. 
In­
voice about 81,100.  Now  is the time to buy for fall e~ -* 
holiday trade.  Address ABC office  of this paper. 27
F o r  sale—clean  g e n er a l  stock  o f  goods
and store building in a growing railway  town sit­
uated in excellent  farming  region.  Stock  will inven­
tory about 85,000.  Reason for  selling, too much other 
business.  Will exchange  for Grand  Rapids  property. 
Address No. 262, care Michigan Tradesman. 

1TOR  SALE—CLEAN  GROCERY,  DRY  GOODS  AND 
Crockery stock, situated in a railway  town,  with 
good line  of  customers.  Stock  will  inventory  about 
82,000.  Will take part cash and balance on  time.  Ad- 
dress A. S. Mnsselman Sc Co., Grand Rapids. 
Fo r sale—d r u g  f ix t u r e s  and  small stock

of drugs.  Address Doctor, Box 212, Rockford.  258 
OR SALE—OR EXCHANGE  FOR STOCK IN  TRADE, 
Grain  Elevator,  ten  carloads  capacity;  horse 
power, large grounds;  fine town on C. & G. T. railroad; 
goodw heatandproduce  market.  Write  for  particu­
lars, W. B. Tyler, care B. P. &D. A. Co.,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 

or short lease of store.  A bargain for  some  one. 
Must sell.  W ant to go South.  Address  Box 12, Grand- 
ville, Mich. 

FOR SALE—GENERAL STOCK, GOOD TRADE, LONG 
F o r  sale- t h e  dress  o f  t y p e   n o w   used  on
“The Tradesman”—600  pounds  of brevier and 200 
pounds of  nonpareil.  A  good  bargain  will  he  given 
purchaser.______________  
WANTED—SITUATION BY  REGISTERED  PHARM 
eist of eight years’ experience.  Spea&g the H 
land language fluently.  Can  give  best  of  referem 
281
Address, 136 Pine street, Muskegon, Mich. 
ANTED—BY  A  YOUNG  MAN  UNDERSTAND!! 
the meat business, to buy an interest  in a  me 
m arket in ä good town.  Address Cleaver,  care  Mic 
281
gan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—SALESMEN  TO  SELL OUR  CHOICE VA- 
rieties of nursery stoek„either on salary or com­
mission.  Permanent  employment  to  successful men 
Address,  with references, May  Brothers;  Nurserymen, 
278
Rochester, N. Y. 

W ANTED—A LIVE,  ENERGETIC  MAN WHO  IS  SO 

her q,nd honest, to consolidate stocks with me, in 
a No. I location, where a  trade of  820,000 a year can be 
done.  Don’t  write unless you are all  right  and  mean 
business.  Address Lock Box 129, Coiling, Mich. 

275
WANTED—PART INTERE8T IN DRUG OR GENERAL 
store by  practical  registered  pharmacist.  Ad 
dress Robert, care Michtgan Tradesman 
W AANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  »Ubma 
this  paper  to  give  the Sutllff coupon system a 
trial.  It will abolish your pass  books,  do  away  with 
all your book-keeping, in many instances save you the 
expense of one clerk; will bring your business down to 
a  Cash basis and  save  you  all the  worry and trouble 
that usually go with the pass-book plan.  Start the 1st 
of the month with the new  system and  you will never 
regret it.  Having two kinds, both  kinds  will be  sent 
b ^ad dresstog  (mentioning  this  paper)  J. H.  Butliff,
TT7"ANTED—iiOOO MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR 
»¥ 
Improved Coupon  Pass  Book System.  Send for 
samples.  E. A. Stowe & Bio , Grand Rapids 

WANTS.

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212

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MISCELLANEOUS.
(frO  K A A   IN CASH OR GOOD  PAPER WlLt,8E- 
enre  a  thriving  hardware  business 
without competition in Meredith.  Address Lock Draw- 
er 25, Evart, Mich. 
281
» OR  RENT—TWO  WELL  LOCATED  STORES  ON 
South Division street.  Size 22x80 feet.  G. K. Nel­
279
¿¡H  Q  A A  CASH  BUYN  MANUFACTURING  BUM* 
ijp Ik ilU U   ness paying 100  per  Cent.  Best of'sea­
sons'for  selling.  Address  Chas;  KynOch. St. Ignace, 
> 228  ' -
Mich. 

son, 68 Monroe street 

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President—Prank Well*, Lansing. 
first Vice-President—H. Chambers, Cheboygan.
Second Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo. 
Secretary—E. A. 8towe, Grand Rapids. 
Treasurei^-L. W.Sprague. Greenville. 
Executive Board—President; C- L. Whitney, Muskegon; 
Frank Hamilton, Traverse City;'  N. là. Blaln, Lowell; 
Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint;  Hiram  DeLano,  'Allegan, 
_  ;Secretary. 
Committee  on  Insurance—Geo.  B.  Caldwell,  Green- 
Tille; W.8. Powere, Nashville.  Oren  Stone, Flint.  . 
Committee on Legislation—S.  E ' Parkill,  Owosso;  H.
A. Hydoro, Grand Rapids;  H. H. Pope, Allegan. 
Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barne'», Traverse 
City :  Geo. B. Hoyt, East Saginaw ;  H. B. Fargo, Mus­
kegon. 
Committee on Transportation—James Osborn,Owosso; 
O.  F.  Conklin,  Grand  Rapids;  C.  F.Bock,  Battle
Committee on Bollding and Loan Associations—Chaun- 
eey Strong, Kalamazoo; Will Emmërt, Baton Rapids;
■  ff. K. Grotty, Lansing. 
Local Secretary—P. J. Connell. Muskegon.
Official Organ—Thx Michioas TOabesiun.

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K o. » -L a w r e n c e  B . M. A . 

K o. 1—T ra v e rse  € ity  B . M . A . 
President, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts.
President, S. B. Blaln; Secretary, Frank T. Ring.
President. H. 8. Church; Secretary ,,wm. Jom.
No.  1—G ran d   R a p id s  M ,  A . 
President. E. J. HCrrlek; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
.N o .  5—M u sk eg o n  B .  M . A . 
P r e s i d e n t . H. B. Ftego; Secretary, Wm. Peer.
Pr^riSent. F. W, Bloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.
President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.
President. F. H. Thurston; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.
President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J.H. Kelly.
N o. IO—H a rb o r S p rin g s B . M. A. 
President, W. J. Clark; Secretary. A. L. Thompson.
President, H. P. Whipple; Secretary, a  H. Camp.
President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon.
President, H.B. Bturtevant;  Secretary, W. J. Austin. 
N o. 14—N o.'M uskegon B . M . A .
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President, S. A. Howey; Secretary, G. C. Havens.
N o. 15 —B o y n e C itÿ/B . M . A . 
President, R. R. Perkins ; ^Secretary, F. M. Chase.
N o. 16—S and L a k e  B . M. A. 
President, J. V. Crandall:  Secretary, W. Basco.
N o. 17—P la in  w e ll B . M. A . 
President, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
N o. 18—O w osso B . M. A. 
President, H. W. Parker; Secretary. S. Lamfrom.
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.
President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. Y. Hoyt.
Persident, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W.  R.  darh^j
President, F. A. Rockafellow; Secretary, C. G. Bailey.
No. 24—Morley JB. M . A . 
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No. 4 9 —L eroy  B   M.  A. 
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No. 33—C h a rle v o ix  « . At. A. 

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President, fihas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. P. Pew.
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President. S. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.
President, E. S. Botstord; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.
President, Fred S. FrOst;  Secretary, H. G. Poser.
President, Wm. Moore;  Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.
President, A. G. Avery;  Secretary, E. S. Honghtaling. 
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President. Thos. J. Green;  Secretary, A. G. Fleury.
President. W. G. Barnes;  Secretary, J. B. Watson.
President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane.
* President, H. T. Johnson;  Secretary, P. T. Williams. 
President, Wm. J. Nixon; Secretary, C. E. Densmo re ^
President, O. F. Jackson;  Secretary, John  M. Everden.
President, Chas. F. Bock;  Secretary, W. F. Baxter.
President, H. E. Svmons; Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
President, W. S. Wilier; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon.
President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert.
President, W. O. Watson; Secretary, C. E. Scudder.
President, Jos; Gerber; Secretary  C. J. Rathhun.
President, G. A. Estes; Secretary,W. M. Holmes._____
President. E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.
President, D. E. HailenbecK; Secretary; O- A. Halladay.
President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gonld.
President, G. R. Hoyt; Secretary, W. H. Graham.
N o. 48 —H u b b a rd  sto n  B . M. A . 
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.
President, A. Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith.
President, A. O. Wheel»; Secretary, J. P.  O’Malley.
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President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.
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President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, Wm. Mieras.______
President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, John H. York.
President, Thomas B. Pntcher; Secretory, C. B. WaUer.
President, C. F. Hankey; Secretory. A. C. Bowman.
President, N. W. Drake;  Secretary, Geo. Chapman.
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President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham.
President, E- Hagadorn; Secretary, E. C. Brower.
President F. S. Raymond*: Secretary, P. S. Swarts.
No. 6 0 —S o u th  B o a rd m a n  B . M. A. 
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt.
President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
President, G. W. Meyer; Secretary, Theo. Radish.
No. 6 3 —K v art B . M. A . 
President, W. M. Davis; Secretary, C. E. Bell.
V o , 6 4 —M e rrill B . M . A . 
President, O. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.
N o. 6 5 —K a lk a s k a  B. M . A . 
President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, O. S. Blom.
No. 6 6 —L a n sin g  B . M .  A . 
President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Chaa. Cowles.
N o. 67 —W a te rv lie t B . M . A . 
President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.
President, A. E. Calkins;  Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.
N o. 6 9 —S eotts a n d  C lim ax  B . M . A. 
President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. S. Wlllison.
N o. 7 0 —N a sh v ille  B . AL. A , 
President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. 8. Powers.
N o. 71—A sh le y   B .  M .  A ,
President, M. Netzorg;  Secretary,  Geo. E. Clutterbnck.
N o. 72—E d m o re  B . M. A .
N o, 73—B o ld in g  B . M. A . 
No. 74—1>avison  M.  IT. 

N o. 5 1—C ed ar  S p rin g s  B .  M.  A .
No. 52 —G ra n d  H a v e n  B . M. A .
No, 5 3 —B e lle v u e  B . M . A . 
No. 54—B o ù g las B. M . A .
No.  55 —P e te sk e y   B . M. A . 
No. 5 6 —B a n g o r  B .  AL.  A. 
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N o. 58 —F ife  L a k e  B . M . A . 
N o. 5 9 —F e n n v ille  B . M . A . 

President, A.L. Spencer; Secretary, Ò. F. Webster.
President, J. F. Cartwright;  Secretary. L. Gifford.
President, Oscar P. Mil»; Secretary, F. Rosaeraus.
President, S. S. McCamly ; Secretary, Chauncey Strong.

No. 75—T e c n m se h   B .  M .  A . 
No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A. 

N o.  6 1 —H a rtfo rd   B . M . A. 
N o . 62—E a st ¡»aginaw M. A . 

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Spedai  Enterprises  Wanied.

T JU B B   O A K .  M IC H .—WANTS A  FACTORY TO 
_L>  employ ten hands five years.  Bonos, #1,000.  80S
a H E B O Y G A N —WANTS  WOOD  MANUFACTOR- 
ies in every branoh to  Improve  the  greatest  ad­
quality  ip  unlimited  quantities.  Come and  we  will 
help yhtt-'  Address Sec’y B.M. A. 
NTORTH MUSKEGON-WANTS A LIVE LOCAL 

vantages in the State.  All kindB of timber of the finest 

newspaper.  Address Sec’y B. M. A. 

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Politics In Business.

Grand Jtgpids M^Cdntilg  Association.
The rogular  semi-monthly  meeting  of  the 
Grand Baplds Mercantile Association, held on 
September 4, was well' attended  and  much in 
terest was manifested in the proceedings.

M. C.  Goossen  brought  up  the  matter  of 
bolding alternate meetings of  the Association 
in Afferent parts of ¿he city, in order to inter­
est non-members in  the  work.  This  subject 
was discussed a t some length,  when it was de­
cided to refer the  whole matter to  a  special 
committee to report at the next meeting.  The 
chair  appointed  as  such committee  Messrs. 
Goossen, Dunaven and Lawton.

Mr. Goossen then brought up the  subject of 
short-weight in flue cut tobacco, reporting that 
he bad found  a  shortage  in  but  one  brand,, 
which pras pùt up nine ounces, short.  No other 
member had discovered any shortage in tobac­
co, but Geo. Dunaven said  that  he had  satis- 
fied himself that granulated sugar  always fell 
from eight to eleven pounds below the weights 
marked on the barrel.

E. J. Herrick called  attention  10  the  habit 
the West Michigan Oil C6.’e teamsters have of 
not filling the  measure  full  when  delivering 
oil.  He advised the  members  to  watch  the 
mén who deliver oil and see that they get hon­
est measure.

The dishonesty of one  or more  of  Manager 
Bonneli’s men in  collecting  for more oil than 
they actually put  in  the  tanks was  also  re­
ferred to.  Several  reported  losses  from  this 
source, which amount to a  considerable in the 
aggregate.
The restriction of the peddler was  the  next 
question  taken  up,  when  Thos.  Keating  re­
marked that he knew of a number of peddlers 
who take out a license for  a  mohth  and then 
peddle all  summer.  As  a  rule,  the  peddler 
charges more for goods than the regular deal­
er,  while  the  peddler  demoralizes  the  mer­
chant’s business by rendering it impossible for 
him  to'  guage  the  demand, thus subjecting 
him to severe losses through  unsalable  goods 
left on his hands.

Mr. Goossen thought  the licenses  were not 
worded right—that they should be the same a 3 
a government license, where the man pays for 
the balance of  the  fiscal  year.  Mr.  Goossen 
thought the shortest way to deal with the ped­
dler would be  to  organize  a  stock  company 
among the memters of the  Association, put a 
dozen  peddling  wagons  on  the  street  and 
freeze out the horde of peddlers.

President Herrick said that a man could  not 
stand on a  residence  street half  an hour any 
forenoon without being  able to count a dozen 
peddlers.  The  number is  becoming  so great 
that the consumer is crying for relief.  Speak­
ing from the consumers’  standpoint, Stephen 
Sears offered to spend two days’ time circulat­
ing a petition to the Council to abate the nuis­
ance.  Mr.  Herrick  asserted  that  the  only 
thing which would give both the trade and the 
consumer permanent relief is  an amendment 
to the present  pharter,  permitting the estab­
lishment of a public  market  and  compelling 
all growers of produce to go there to sell their 
products.

A member called attention to the prevalence 
of street  stands,  mentioning  especially  the 
old fellow who  sells  melons  in front of Peck 
Bros.’ drug store.

B. S. Harris  thought  that  the  two made a 
good  combination —fhat  water  melons  and 
pain killer go well together.

L. Winternitz  stated  that  in  Germany  all 
farmers  are  compelled to go to a public mar­
ket to dispose of tbeir products—that thé mer­
chant  has  full  sway  until  10  o’clock,  after 
which the consumer takes what is left.

President Herrick suggested that the matter 
be laid on the table until the next meeting,  in 
order that the  special Committee on Peddling 
may see  the  Mayor  and  formulate a report, 
and  requested  T h e  T radesman  to  give the 
subject due attention, that other associations 
throughout the State may  see what the Grand 
Rapids branch is doing and govern themselves 
accordingly.

The suggestion  was adopted,  whén  the fol­

lowing resolution was offered:
W h er ea s,  The  Standard  Oil  Co. has taken 
advantage of the lack  of  competition  in  this 
market to keep the price of oil up to extortion­
ate limits;  therefore
Resolved, That we welcome  the  introduction 
of opposition  oil  houses  at  this market and 
pledge ourselves to extend such competition a 
cordial support.
B. S. Harris said that he should vote  for the 
resolution for two  reasons—that  competition 
would  tend to lower the  price and—more im 
portant still—improve the  quality  of  the oil 
Much of the oil furnished  by the Standard Oil 
Co. during the winter is very inferior in quali 
ty, and, so long as there is no competing house 
complaints avail nothing.

Others spoke  in  favor  of  the  resolution- 
some asserting that they  would give an oppO' 
sition house all their trade—when it was unan­
imously adopted.

The meeting then adjourned.

Association  Notes.

Thé  Kalamazoo B.  M. A.  is the  first as­
sociation in the State to remit the  per capi­
ta dues for the third  fiscal  year.  Kalama 
zoo sings to the tune of 160 members.

On account of the extra labor  involved in 
preparing for the State  convention and get­
ting out the  report  of  the  proceedings,  it 
has been deemed  advisably  to combine the 
August Delinquent Sheet with  the Septem­
ber issue,  which will be out on the 15 th.

There  are  still  a number of  local  secre 
taries  who  have not  sent in  their  lists  of 
members,  so that  copies of  the  special edi­
tion  may be  sent  them.  Enough  copies 
were  printed  to give  every auxiliary mem­
ber a copy and none  should be deprived  of 
the  privilege  of  its  pernsal  through  the 
pegligence or  oversight of  the  secretaries.
The  Muskegon B. M. A. has  adopted ex- 
President  Hamilton’s  idea of  a  B. M.  A. 
Exchange  by  means of  a  large,  specially- 
ruled ledger,  in which  is kept the  name of 
every person  reported  to the  Association, 
arranged in alphabetical  order, the  date of 
the Bine Letter, the date of  the White Let­
ter, the action of the Executive Committee, 
the  date of  publication  on the  delinquent 
list, the  date  the account  is  paid and  the 
name  ordered  off  Hie  list,  together  with 
such  other information pertaining  to  each 
case as ought to be known by members who 
wish to  be made  familiar with  the matter. 
This ledger will  be  kept  posted  promptly 
and will  always be  open to the  inspection 
of  members  at the  rooms of  the  Associa­
tion..

W hy  the  Days  are  Short.

The  days  always  seem  to be very short 
toward  the  close of  the  month  when  the 
wearied  citizen  contemplates  the  early 
rounds />f  the bill collector,  1  -

.  Political  years  are  usually  marked  by 
disquietude  in trade  and a. commercial1 un­
easiness  which  is  greatly  exaggerated  by 
designing politicians. 
It  is a matter of  re- 
gret that so miich acrimony and strife should 
be  propagated 
through  the  length  and 
breadth  of  th e , land  èvery  four  years. 
Factional  bitterness is  more detrimental  to 
the  country than thè  quadriennial  fancied 
displacement of  out  business  equilibrium. 
Men are not statesmen in the tine and noble' 
sense of  the word  who debase  their genius 
to  levels of  scurrility and  viturpation. 
In 
law,  as  in  legislation,  it  is not  the vulgar 
and abusive advocate that is called to a pos­
ition of  honor and  trust,' but it is the attor­
ney who  ignores a low  vernacular and  lays 
his  thought and  talent  alone  on the  altar 
of  his  profession.  The  most  profound 
thinkers of  the world  never found, time  to 
vent spleen on ihèir enemies.  They moVed 
right, along  in  the  course  marked  out  by 
their  judgment  and were  utterly oblivions 
to the  javelins of  hate, hurled  at them  by 
opposing  forces.  Futurity  gives them  the 
credit of  the  profundity of  their  wisdom, 
and  our  statute  books,  our  national  and 
state constitutions, are  among  their  handi­
work.  We may well feel proud of the èivi- 
lization  we  possess  to-day,  a  civilization 
that sweeps war aside with the olive branch 
of  arbitration  and  knits the  races of  the 
globe  together  into one  seamlessi  garment 
of international fealty.  Then, to crown the 
advancement of the age,  let political parties 
ignore obnoxious personal strife and confine 
their warfare to the liviBg issues  before the 
commonwealth.  Young  legislators,  just 
stepping  into the political  arena, soon  find 
that  they can  never gain a respectful  hear­
ing  by a record of  shallow repartee.  That 
might  do well  enough  to  gain  precedence 
among pettifoggers, but would ill become an 
embryo statesman.  The campaign in which 
the nation  is  now involved  is being  fought 
on  well-defined  lines  of  battle  and  every 
effort  made  to  present  to voters  in a  fair 
and  clear light  facts  of  importance to  the 
republic  will  bear  legitimate fruit  on  the 
farm,  in the shop and in the factory.

George E. N ew ell

Women  Employed  by  Business  Houses 

to  Collect  Bad  Bills.

The avenues  of  employment  for  women 
are constantly increasing.  Already she has 
proved  herself  a good  clerk,  a good  book­
keeper,  and  a  good  type-writer,  and  the 
latest  is  a  female  collector.  At  least 
dozen houses in Kansas City are  employing 
women in this  capacity,  and  their  number 
seems to be constantly increasing.
A y/oman may be a bookkeeper or a type 
writerund  yet be the  most  feminine  crea­
ture iniaginable,  despite  her business  rela­
tions,  says  the  Kansas  City Star,  but  the 
female  dunner  would  seem  to  be another 
kind  of  business  woman,  and  she  brings 
forward  very prominently the  question  of 
how much distinction must be made between 
a woman and a man in the  same  business 
One thing is certain, one cannot kick a lady 
collector out of  the office.
The  female  collectors  arei  for  the most 
part  young  women,  and  according to  their 
employers they are as persistent and as suc­
cessful  in  their  business  as  men.  Their 
mode  of  operation,  however,  is somewhat 
peculiar,  and they do  not  seem to go about 
the  collection of  a bill  the  same  way as a 
man.  A reporter happened in an office  yes 
terday where  fifteen or  twenty  young  men 
were working.  While he  was talking with 
the  manager a well-dressed  young  woman 
walked in and inquired for one of the young 
man.  He was pointed out to her, and while 
the  whole  office  watched  her  she walked 
over to his  desk  and  began a conversation 
with  him  in  atone  so  low  no  one  could 
hear.  After talkiag for a few moments she 
turned to go and, raising her voice, said:
“If  you  don’t  come in and  settle I’ll be 
around again on Saturday.”  '
When she was gone the  young man came 
in  for an unmerciful  guying,  and it is safe 
to say he made a desperate  effort to pay the 
Bill before Saturday.  She was the collector 
for a jewelry firm.
A merchant  who'  has  adopted  the  new 
scheme  was  asked  about  it  and said:  “] 
find  that  my  lady  collector  is  persistent, 
faithful and trustworthy, and has great sue 
cess  in  making  some very bad collections, 
and I don’t  see  why a lady  should  not  be 
permitted to ask for  the  payment of  a bill, 
if  she can do almost  everything  else about 
an office.”

A  Good  Resoulution.

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A prominent  business  man  went  into a 
barbër-shop Saturday afternoon.  The  bar­
bers were ail busy and he had  to  wait  his 
turn, so he sat down in a chair  and  picked 
up a copy of one  of  those  salmon-colored, 
illustrated police papers—not  to  read,  but 
to  wonder  why 
formed  a  por­
tion  of 
fixtures  of  every  well- 
regulated  barber-shop.  After  a  time,  he 
heard  his  welcome  “Next!”  and at once 
proceeded to divest himself of his collar and 
necktie.  And, by the way,  why is it that a 
man who wants his hair cut puts off the op­
eration until a Saturday and  thereby dejays 
the hurried  men  who  are  seeking  qiiick 
shaves?  He himself never gets  as good at­
tention from the harried barber as he would 
receive on a  quiet  week-day.  Well,  any­
way,  this particular individual had  his hair 
cut,  a shave and a shine  before  he  discov­
ered that he was in a hurry.  Then  he paid 
his check and rushed out.  For  two  hours 
he  cantered  about  town  attending  to his 
business and nursing the  pleasing  delusion, 
that his slick  personal  appearance  was at­
tracting unusual attention. 
It was not  un­
til he ran across a mirror late in  the  after­
noon that he discovered the absence  of  his 
collar and necktie, and  he  was  dreadfully 
mortified.' - He resolved then that thereafter 
he would have his barbering  done  on  any 
day excepting a rushing Saturday.
The  Haughty  Soaplady.

‘Yon  want a  position  in  my  store,  do 
you, miss?”  said tiie kind-hearted merchant.
You don’t look as  if  you  had  had  much 
experience in selling goodè. 
I  have only one 
place vacant now.v  It’s in the soap  depart­
ment, in the  basement,  and  the  salary  Is 
only $1.75 a week.  Bût my wife  informed 
me this morning she needed another girl  in 
her kitchen. 
If you would like  that  place 
she will give you  $4  a  week  and  a  good 
home.  Which  would  you  prefer?”  “ I’ll 
take the soaplady  position,  sir,”  was  the 
haughty reply.  ■-

The all-absorbing  theme among  business 
men  just how  seems  to  be  politics.  The 
discussion; of  the subjects the  probable out­
come of  the Presidential  campaign and  of 
the  tariff  issue appear  for the  moment  to 
exclude the' more serious- and pertinent mat­
ter  of  business  man,  thé  merchant,  the; 
salesman  or  the  clerk to  properly  inform 
himself  respecting the  questions  involved 
and the fitness of  the nominees which  have 
been presented  by the respective ' parties, to 
enable  him  to  exercise  intelligently  the 
right of suffrage,  yet there are proper times 
and  places  for  doing  this  as other  things. 
Mutual exchange of  views between men  on 
such subjects, in the spirit of amiability and 
fairness,  with a view  to the  enlightment of 
each other, are  laudable and are  conductive 
in.  the highest  degree to  good  policy  and 
Citizenship  generally, but there is always  a 
proper  time  and  place for  the  exercise  of 
such privileges.  The activities of trade and 
traffic  in which men of  all  politics mingle 
and  take  part, however,  are  certainly  not 
adapted to the discussions of such subjects. 
In  the  main  they not  only tend  to  create 
unpleasant  feelings and  personal  animosi­
ties, but  invariably detract  from  the  well­
being of business.
Oar advice to the  trade is, talk  as  much 
politics as you  please at home,  in the  club 
and  at  other  appropriate  times and  occa­
sions, but  severely eschew political  discus 
sions in the marts of  business, especially in 
your  shop, store  or  office.  Do not  try to 
convince at the latter place a patron, ensto 
mer, buyer  or  seller of  his  error,  because 
his political sentiments are at variance with 
yours.  Business  is  one  thing, politics  an­
other;  When you mingle two together,  one 
invariably  suffers,  and  that  is  generally 
business.  At best  the outcome of  political 
discussions  among  opponents  is  generally 
the  exhibition of  temper, hasty words  and 
oftentimes  the loss of  business and of  eus 
tomers. 
In  your place of  business let poli 
tics  severely  alone,  and  attend  strictly to 
your business.  You will find that by doing 
so it will  pay  you in the  end. 
It is an old 
saying that “one cannot woo the graces and 
court  the  muses  at the  same  time,” which 
means that you cannot discuss politics with 
patrons  and customers  who hold  opposite 
views  with  your  own without  doing  both 
them  and  yourself  an  injury in  business. 
A man can still  maintain his  party feality, 
be a good and  patriotic  citizen, performing 
well,  when  the time  comes, his duty to the 
country  and  the  community  in  which  he 
lives  without  being  a  rampant,  blatant 
blower  for a particular  party or  candidate 
in  his  place  of  business  during  business 
hours.  Again we  say,  let  politics severely 
alone in your store,  shop or office.
The Division of the  Hog.

“Prime”  mess 

The  New York  Produce  Exchange  has 
certain rules governing the cutting the pork, 
The technical  terms  may be of  interest  to 
our readers:
“Mess” pork is cut from the sides of well 
fatted  hogs in  strips;  the  hog  to  be first 
split  through  the  backbone,  sixteen  pieces 
—not more—is packed in a barrel, the meat 
cut  of  reasonable  uniform  thickness;  the 
sixseen pieces to weigh 190 pounds.  ‘ ‘Clear’ 
pork is the same as mess,  but the backbone 
and  half  the rib  next the  backbone  to  be 
taken out. 
In  “extra” clear all  the rib and 
backbone  is  removed. 
made of  the  shoulders  and sides,  cut into 
square  pieces  as near four  pounds each  as 
possible.  “Extra” prime consists of heavy, 
untrimmed shoulders,  cut into  three pieces 
the leg to be cut off close to the breast.  The 
“Cumberland” cut consists of  a part of  the 
neck  and all  the shoulder  and side left  to 
gether  in one  piece;  leg cut? off  below the 
knee  joint;  shoulder,  ribs  and  neckbone 
taken  out;  hench  bone  sawed  down even 
with the face of side.  “Long rib middles, 
same  as  preceding,  except  that  all  the 
shoulder  bones must  be  removed  and  leg 
cut off  close to the  brisket.  “Long  clear” 
middles  are the  same, except that all  side 
ribs and  breastbone are  taken out.  “Short 
clear” sides  are made  by taking out all  the 
backbone,  breastbone and  ribs, and  sawing 
down hench  bone even with the face of  the 
side.  Shoulders  are cut as near as possible 
between the  second and  third ribs;  foot cut 
off above the knee joint.

All  In  Fun.

Ed.—Allow me to offer you this extra fine 
cigar.  A Cuban friend of  mine,  just from 
I’ve kept it two 
Havana, brought it to me. 
days for you.
Al.—Thanks!  How much do  you  want 
to borrow this time?

Absent-minded  Business  Man  to  Office 
Boy—William,  go up to my house  and  tell* 
Mrs.  Jones  I  have  again  forgotten  my 
watch.  Bring it back with you.—He  pulls 
out his  watch  and  continues—Now,  Wil­
liam,  it’s just nine o’clock;  be back  at ten
Little  Mabel.— Oh,  mamma!  Where1 
Protest?
Mamma—My dear child,  I never heard of 
such a place.  Why do you ask?
Little Mabel—Because,  I heard  papa say 
this morning he’d have to go there  this  af­
ternoon, sure’s shooting.

on the counter fresh, young feller?

Old Lady (to grocer’s boy)—Be them eggs 
Boy—Yes’m.
Old Lady—How long have they been laid? 
Boy—Not wery long,  ma’am. 
I laid  ’em 

there myself less’n half an hour ago.

Bertha—Oh, Beggy dear, look at this love 
of a bonnet,  It is the most exquisite  one I 
I hope you won’t  think me mad 
ever had. 
when I tell you it cost $30.
Beggy—Think you mad!  Well,  I  guess 
not. 
I’m the one that’s mad,  with a capital 
M.

If You  Am  Dishonest.

We know you are not  an  adulterant, but 
if you were, here are some rules for making 
Qoaker coffee:
For Java coffee, use pf the  imported arti­
cle twenty pounds, dry dandelion root seven 
pounds, and chicory thirteen pounds.  Boast 
and grind well together.
For West India  coffee,  use  rye  roasted 
with a little butter and ground very fine.
For  Turkey  coffee,  use  rice  or wheat, 
roasted with, a little butter,  seven  pounds, 
chicory three pounds, mid grind together.
The essence of coffee is made  by  boiling 
down molasses until it is hard.  Then grind 
to a powder  and  add  dne-half  a pound of 
good Java coffee to each four  pounds of the 
powder. 
It fóputjn tin cans  or  air  tight 
packages for sale.

A  Convenient Coin.

It  is stated  that the  nickel 5-eent  piece 
may be used  as a unit of  measure ip calcul­
It  is exactly 
ating  by the  metric  system. 
two centimeters in diameter'and weighs five 
grammes,  Five of  the  coins placed  edge 
against edge give the exact length of a deci­
meter.  i  •

-  False and  Mean.

From tike Boston Gazette; 

\

An incident happened, in one of  onr large 
dry goods stores not long since.  Two ladies, 
who were  evidently sisters, were  standing 
at a counter  examining  rich "dress  fabrics. 
One of  them,  who  was,  judging  from her 
attire, in a more prosperous financial condi 
tion  than  the other, made a selection,  and 
as  she  did  so,  said:  “Mary,  I  am  sorry 
there is not  more of this, for I   intended to 
present  you  with  a  pattern  just  like  it.” 
“I beg  your  pardon,” interposed  the ready 
clerk,  who  was  anxious  to make  another 
sale,  “we have plenty more in stock.”  The 
first  speaker  made no reply, but pretended 
to  be  examining  some  other  goods.  She 
was caught in a falsehood,  but  she  did not 
have  the  generosity to get out of  it grace­
fully by duplicating her order.

DO YOU WANT A SHOWCASE?

SPECIAL OFFER—This style or oval case;  best 
quality;  aU glass,  heavy  double  thick;:  panel  doors; 
lull length mirrors and spring hinges;  solid cherry or 
walnut irame;  extra heavy base;  silvetta trimmings; 
6 feet long,  28  inches  wide,  15  inches  high.  Price, 
v lly  n et cash.  Boxing and cartage free.
ID.  D.  ObOK,
lynnhigan
Grand  Rapids, 

21  SCRIBNER STREET,

CHAS. A. GO YE

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MANUFACTURER OF

Horse and W agon Covers, 

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

W ide Ducks, etc.

Telephone  106.

73 CANAL ST., 

*  GRAND RAPIDS

I f o a r b w a r e .

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

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CAPS.

BOLTS.

BRACES.

tipped 

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

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST.

BALANCES.
BARROWS.
 
BELLS.

Ives’, old style............................ ......-.dig 
60
N.  H. C. Co.............................................. dis  60
Douglass’................................................. dis  60
Pierces’  ..................................................dis 
60
Snell’s ......................................................dis  60
Cook’s  ................................................... dis 
40
Jennings’, genuine................................. dis  25
Jennings’, imitation............................. dis50&10
Spring.......................................................dis  40
Railroad............................................$ 14 00
Garden...................  
net 33 00
H and...................., .....................dis  $ 60&10&10
70
Cow................................. 
dis 
30&15
Call..............................................  dip 
Gong...............................................uis 
25
Door, Sargent...............................dis 
60&10
0
Stove.................................................. dis $ 
Carriage  new list............................. dis  7C&10
50
Plow  •.................................................dis 
70
Sleigh Shoe........................................ dis 
60
Wrought Barrel  Bolts..................... dis 
40
Cast  Barrel Bolts..............................dis 
Cast Barrel, brass knobs...................dis 
40
Cast Square Spring...........................dis 
60
Cast Chain............................. ............dis 
40
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............dis 
60
Wrought Square...............................dis 
60
Wrought Sunk Mush........................dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
,  Flush.............................................. dis  60&10
Ives’ Door............... ...........................dis  60&10
B arber.............................. ................dis$ 
40
Baekus............. ................................. dis  50&10
Spofford...... ;.....................................dis 
50
Am. Ball.............................................dis 
net
Well, plain.................................................. $ 3 50
Well, swivel.
4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured......................dis  70&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........dis  70&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60& 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  60&10
Wrought Loose. Pin...........................dis  60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip...........dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned...........dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
dis  60& 5
Wrought Table....................................dis  60&10
Wrought Inside Blind........................dis  60&10
Wrought Brass...............................  dis 
75
Blind,Clark’s.....................................dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s ................................... dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s.................................dis 
70
_ 
per m $65
Hick’s C. F..................................... 
gn
Musket.....................................  
«n
CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list... .50
Rim Fire, United States.............................dls50
Central Fire......   ...........................  
diqgfi
Socket Firmer....................... ........... dis
70&10
Socket Framing................................ dis
70&10
Socket Comer................................ .  dis
70&10
Socket Slicks.......................................‘dis
70&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer..................dis
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers...................dis
20
Cold......................................................net
COMBS.
Curry, Lawrence’s..............................dis
4G&10
Hotchkiss  ......................  
dis
25
COCKS.
Brass, Racking’s............................... 
80
Bibb’s .............................................. "  ‘. 
go
®eer 
.................................... ......T ."".  40&10
Fenns...................................................... 
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size.».................«bb>  33
  31
Gold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60
29
Cold Rolled, 14x48..................................
29
Bottoms....................... ................
30
Morse’s Bit  Stock............................... dis
40 
Taper and Straight Shank....................dis
40 
Morse’s Taper Shank.....  ..............    .dis
40
Com.4 piece, 6  in__ ....1................doznet  „
$.75
Corrugated...................................... dis20&10i &0
Adjustable......................................... dis
__ dis K&10
Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00.
dis
30
Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00.
dis
25
American File Association List..... .dis 
60
....d is
Dlsston’s .............................. dis
— dis
60
New American............ 
 
dis
60
.. .dis
Nicholson’s .....................................     dis
....dis
60
Heller’s ......... .............................
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps...... .
...dis
50
GALVANIZED IRON,
I  
Nos. 16 to 20, 
22 and 24,  26 and
28
26,  27
List 
14
15
18

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

13 
GAUGES.
Stanley Rule and LCvel Co.'s^_____ dis
...dis
60
HAMMERS.
Maydole & Co.’s ...................... 
 
...dis
25
Kip’s 
............................."
25
...dis
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s ............................. dis
...dis 4P&10
Mason’s Solid,Cast Steel,..................30 c list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand.. 30 e 40&10 
HINGES.
Gate,Clark’s, 1,2, 3.............  
......d is 
60
.............;. V,.,,,,. per doz, net, 2 60
State. 
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12  in.  4&  14
7U
Screw Hook and Bye,  % ............ ’....n et 
70
Screw Hobk and Bye %......................pet 
8tf
7V4
Screw Hook and Bye  at..................... net 
Screw H o o k afidB ye,N .,^...,\.'...net 
7V4
Strap aha  T ...... ;..........................dis 
70

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

files—New List.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

Discount, 60.

CHISELS.

ELBOWS.

COPPER.

DRILLS

.dis

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Manual Education for Boys.
Happiness in  a boy is  contagious.  If  your 

boy is a little fellow,  you  cannot  please 
better  than by  getting  him a  little  hammer 
and a few wire nails.  We have just the assort­
ment put up in a  tin  box,  about  500  nails  of 
different sizes, just what older people will find 
extremely useful.

If he  is  large  enough  to  appreciate  some­
thing  better than  pounding  nails,  get him  a 
small tool chest.  We have several kinds, from 
a little thing with a dozen  tools,  to  one  that 
has  everything  he  wants  and good practical 
tools,  too,  all that is needed about the  house. 
You will be surprised  to see  how  quickly  he 
will learn to  use  them  and  how  many  little 
jobs about the house he can do, besides having 
a constant  source of pleasure.

But if you want to see the  happiest  boy  in 
the whole city,  get  him a jig  saw.  There  is 
something about scroll sawing that fascinates 
every boy (and girl too) and the modern scroll 
saw is a marvel of  ingenuity.  An  enthusias­
tic boy will make his machine pay for itself In 
a short time.  The  “Companion  Saw”  is  the 
outcome of suggestions made by the  publish­
ers of the  “Youth’s  Companion”  to meet the 
requirement of their subscribers and its recep­
tion has well repaid the experiment.  It  com­
bines a practical turning lathe, 24-inch  bed,  5- 
inch  swing, 
tilting  table,  automatic  dust 
blower, chisel, gauges,  etc.  This  is  only  one 
of several varieties, and we can snit you  both 
in price and quality.

Foster, Stevens & Co.,

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

33 , 3 5 ,3 7 , 39  and 41 L ouis Street«

A , . .
Weekly  “Pointers,"

A Great Literary Rarity!  •
Shakespeare’s  Sonnets. 
Edition  of  1609. 
Large,  sound,  beautiful  .and  perfect  copy. 
Net  $5,000.  As we read  the  above  the  other 
day, the thought came into mind how different 
are the  lines  of  business.  Suppose  that  we 
should advertise
A GREAT STOVE RARITY!
and ask you to buy of us at a high price a heat­
ing  or  cook  stove  of  the  first  pattern  ever 
made because of its greatage. Would you do it? 
No, sir.  You want  the  most  recent  and  im­
proved make.  We aim to have always on sale 
the latest and  best  goods  in  our  line  and  it 
gives us pleasure to hear people familiar with 
our  business  methods  say:  “If  you  cannot 
find what you want at Foster, Stevens &  Co.’s , 
you  need  not  look  elsewhere.”  Some  day 
when you are  in  town,  ask  our  salesmen  to 
show you our new “Solar” and “Lunar Jewel” 
soft and hard coal  heating  stoves.  You  will 
get some new ideas if you see them.

Foster, Stevens &  Co.

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

3 3 , 3 5 ,3 7 , 39  and 41  L ouis S treet,

-  , HANGERS."'' 

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HOLLOW  WARE.

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Bara Door KldderMfg. Co., Wood track  56&10
Champion,  anti-friction. ................dis  60&1C!
Kidder, wood  track............ ...............dis 
40
' 
....... .*.,..  60&10
Pots I............ ;
K ettles. . . . . . . . . . .................... ......... 
60&10
Spiders  ........... ................. . 
80&I0
Gray  enameled..................... 
50
Stamped Tin-W are........ . . . . . .new list  7O&10
Japanned Tin W are........... ................ 
25
Granite Iron  Ware............... .............. 
25
Grub  1.......... ...............................  $11 00, dis 60
Grub  2........................ 
11 50, dis 60
Grub3.............................................  12 00,dis60
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..........dis 
55
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings__ ___ 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings......  
55
Door, porcelain, trimmings................... 
55
70
Drawer and Shatter, porcelain...... dis 
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s....................  40&10
Hematite-....... .  . 
.dis 
45
55
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. dis 
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s ......  ..........dis 
55
Branford’s ...,.,..................... 
 
dis 55
Norwalk’s .................................... 
djB  55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................. dis  70
Adze  Bye...................................$16 00 dis 
60
Hunt Eye...................................fig 00 dis 
60
Hunt’s............................. ........$18 60dis20&10
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled................ dis  60
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s.............................. dis 40
Coffee, P. S. &W.Mfg. Co.’s Maileables !”  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s............  dis 40
Coffee,  Enterprise...................................¿ig  gg
„ 
Stebbin’s Pattern  .............................dis  60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine........  ...................dis  60&10
Enterprise,  self-measuring............. dis 
2g

LEV JfiLS.
MATTOCKS.

MOLASSES GATES.

MAULS.
MILLS.

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NAILS—IRON.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

OILERS.

2#   2 

I  lOd *  8d  6d  4d
ljt
$1 25  1 60  1 75  2 00 

IM te  60d......... ............................. V keg $2 05
8d and 9 d adv............................................  
25
6dand7dadv......... ................................' 
go
4dand5d  adv................................ 7g
3d advance...........................................   **  1 go
3d fine advance........................................'  2 25
Clinch nails, adv......................................  
1 qq
Finishing 
Size—inches  j  3 
A dv.»keg 
Steel Nails—2 10.
Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent.................... dis60&10
Zino, with brass bottom...... ...........  ....dis  50
Brass or  Copper.....................................dis  50
Keaper...... ...........................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s ..............................................   60&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy....................................dis 40010
Sciota Bench...................................................¿Us 060
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy............................dis 40010
Bench, flrstjquality........................  
dis ©00
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood__ rUaaifcin
dis 504:10
Fry, Acme.............................. 
Common, polished.................................dis60&10
$fi> 6J<
Dripping...............................  
RIVETS.
Iron and Tinned......... .......................dis 
55
Copper Rivets and  Burs................... dis 
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27  9 20 

PATENT ELANISAED IRON.

PLANES.

PANS.

 

 

 

 

 

dis 70&10

60
20
Com. 
$3 00 
3 00 
3 10 
3 15 
3 25 
3 35 
inches

ROPES.

Broken packs yto $  ib extra.
Sisal, 
in. and  larger................................  10
Manilla............................. .................   ......   12
Steel and Iron............................ 
Try and Bevels...................................  dis 
Mitre  ..................................................dis 
Com. Smooth.

SHEET IRON.

SQUARES.

 

 

TACKS.

TIN  PLATES.

All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over % 

Nos. 10 to 14................................$4 20
Nos. 15 to 17................................  4 20
Nos. 18 to 21........................... 
4 20
Nos. 22 to 24................................  4 20
Nos .25 to 26................................  4 40
No. 27...........................................  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 fl>s, $   lb..........................
In smaller quansities, $   ft....................
6*
TINNER’S SOLDER.
No.l,  Refined..........................................
14
Market  Half-and-half..................
Strictly Half-and-half......... .
18
American, all  kinds...........................dis
60 
Steel, all kinds....................................dig
60 
Swedes, all kinds...............................dis
60 
Gimp and Lace..................... 
]dis
60 
Cigar Box  Nails.................................dis
50 
Finishing Nails.................................. dig
56 
Common and Patent Brads......... ..! dis
50 
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks, dis
50 
Trunk and Clout Nails....................... dis
50 
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails..........dis
45 
Leathered Carpet  Tacks...................dis
35
IC,
10x14, Charcoal.......................6 00©6 20
IX,
10x14,Charcoal.............................  7 85
IC,
32x12, Charcoal............................    6 85
IX,
12x12, Charcoal.............................  8 35
IC,
14x20, Charcoal.............................  6 35
IX.
14x20, Charcoal.............................  7 85
IXX,
14x20, Charcoal..........................'  .  9 35
IXXX,  14x20, Charcoal.............................  11 37
TXXXX, 14x20 Charcoal............................ 13 15
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal.............................  16 10
DC,  100 Plate Charcoal.........................1  710
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal......................  910
DXX, 100 Plate  Charcoal..........................  1110
DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal.......................  13 10
Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add  1 50  to 
Roofing, 14x20, I C ......... ..........................   5 43
Roofing, 14x20, IX ............ .........................  7 00
Roofing, 20x28, IC...............   ..............12 00
Roofing, 20x28, IX .................................... V. 15 00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terae...............   6 00
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Teme............. 7 50
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Teme............... 12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Teme............   15 00
Steel, Game................................................ 60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s  60&10
Hotchkiss’................................................. 60&10
S. P. & W. Mfg. Co.’s 
.......................60&10
Mouse, choker..................................... 18c »  doz
Mouse, delusion...............................$150  »  doz
Bright Market.......................................dis  67 Vi
Annealed Market....................... .......dis  70&lo
Coppered Market...................................dis  62V4
Extra Bailing.........................................   dis  55
Tinned  Market.”. ................ 
dis  62V4
Tinned Broom.......................................$ f t  09
Tinned Mattress............... .................... »  ft 8
Coppered  Spring Steel.................................. dis H
Tinned Spring Steel........................................dis 40&10
Plain Fence.................................................ft  3
Barbed Fence, galvanized.......................... 4 00
painted................................3 25
Copper.....................................................new list net
Hrass....................................................... new list net
„  
Bnght 
.........................................dis  70&10&10
Screw Eyes....................................dis  70&10&10
H°5k!B  .......................................... dis  70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  Byes..................dis  70&10&1Q

TIN—LEADED.

WIRE GOODS.

7 35 rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

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, 

WRENCHES.

. MISCELLANEOUS.

Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..............
Coe’s Genuine...4, ..............................¿g
50
Coe’s Ptent A gricultural, wrought, dis 
75
Coe’s Ptent, malleable.................... dis
75&10
. 
Birdcages............................. .................
50 
Bumps,  Cistern...................  
dis
75
Screws, new list................... 
 
 
70&5
Casters,  Bed and Plate................... dis50&10&10
 
Dampers, American.................. 
49
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods...d 
30c
 
 
Copper Bottoms................ 

 

 

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories here pay as follows 
for  dry  stock,  measured  merchantable, mL 
culls out;
Basswood, log-run. 
....................13 nnQiK 00
S i«*, log-run............................... .lg 00016 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2......... .................   @22 00
Black Ash, log-run......................... .14 00016 5J
Cherry,  log-run................................ 25 00035 00
Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2.. ..................... 50 00060 00
Cherry,  cull............................... 
@1200
Maple,  log-run............... 
.13 00014 00
...... 
Maple, soft,  log-run..................... . .n  00013 00
iQf9n 00
Maple, Nos. land 2...... .................... 
Maple, clear, flooring  __ ____...  @25 oq
Maple, white, selected.....................  @25 0o
Red Oak, log-run. 
...... .. .18 00©20 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2.......................24 nn@as 00
Red Oak, H sawed, 8 in and upw’d..40 00045 00
regular............ JO 00035 00
Red Oak, No. I, step plank............ ; 
©25 00
©55 00
Walnut, log'-run...................... ....... 
W alnut,N os.land2..............  *  ©75 00
Walnuts,  cu lls............... ..............  
'  ©25 00
Grey Elm ,log-run........................12 00013 05
White Ash, log^run....................... ..14 00016 00
Whitewood,  log-run.........................20  80022=00
White Oak, log^run.. ...................... .17 00018 00

Oak, “ 

“ 

The  Adjustable  Strainer  and 

Fruit Funnel.

This is a recent invention which an  enthusi­
astic housekeeper pronounced the most vaiua- 
able  combination  ever  invented!  Read  the 
following advantages:

First—By unscrewing  the  cap  you  have  a 

perfect fruit jar filler or funnel.

Second—By placing a piece  of  muslin  over 
the end and screwing on the, cap  ypu  have  a 
perfect cloth strainer.

Third—By removing the muslin  and  replac­
ing the wire gauze  you  have a  perfect  miiir 
strainer.

Fourth—The  perforated tin can be used  for 
straining tea, coffee, vinegar, gravies,  sauces, 
etc.

Fifth—By removing the preforated  tin  you 
can replace the funnel end for  filling  bottles, 
jugs, etc.

Sixth—By unscrewing the cap and placing in 
the wire gauze with the funnel end you have a 
perfect strainer and funnel combined.

SixuBeful  articles  in  one.  The  low  price 
brings  it  within  the  reach  of  all.  Sells  on 
sight.

Foster, Stevens  & Co.,

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

3 3 ,3 5 ,3 7 ,3 9  and 41 Louis Street.

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BUSINESS  LÁW .

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Im porters and Manufacturers of  V

Brief

Digests  of  Recent  Decisions 

Coarta  of Last  Resort.

HUSBAND JJTO WIFE—VOID NOTE.

£   A husband  and  wife  made a note  to  ob? 
tain  money for the husband’s business.  The 
wife had no interest in the  business  except 
m  her husband’s .creditor, some of  her sep­
arate  property  being  used  therein.  The 
Supreme Court of Michigan  lately held the 
¿tete void as to the  wife  in the case of Lit­
tlefield vs. Dingwall.
INSURANCE —COLLECTION — ASSIGNMENT.
The owner of an Insurance policy placed 
the same after loss  in  the  hands of an aab- 
tomey for collection, and instructed the lat­
ter  to  apply the  proceeds of the  policy in 
payment of his debt to a third  party.  The 
United States Circuit Court for the District 
of Iowa  held, in  the  case of Aultman vs. 
McConnell, that this action of the owner of 
the policy did not  amount to assignment of 
itto  the third party in question..
SALE OF GOODS—MEASURE OF  RECOVERY.
’ In  a case where there was  an  agreement 
to purchase  goods  of a designated  quality 
and to pay the price on delivery a portion of 
the goods were returned as being inferiorto 
the  quality  agreed  upon,  the  New  York 
Court  of  Appeals  held 
[Gardiner  vs. 
Schwab) that the measure of the seller’s re­
covery in an action  against  the  buyer  was 
not the difference between the market value 
of the goods and the contract price, but the 
contract price for  all  the  goods  delivered 
Iras the amount not actually complying with 
the contract in quality.

l e g a lity  of  tr a d e  combinations.
Judgment  was  given  recently  by  Lord 
Chief  Justice  Coleridge  in  the  Queen’s 
Bench Division of the  High  Court of Jus- 
rice  (England)  in  an  important  case,  in 
which  the  legality  of  trade  combinations 
was  somewhat  considered. 
The  action 
(Mogul  Steamship -Company,  Limited, vs. 
McGregor  et  al.)  was  brought  to  recover 
'damages from a number of  steamship  com­
panies and others for an alleged  conspiracy 
to boycott the  plaintiffs, and to prevent, by 
means of bribery and  intimidation,  certain 
merchants  and  others in China from  send­
ing goods to Europe by the plaintiffs’ steam­
ships.  The  plaintiffs  were  a company  of 
shipowners  trading, or desirous of trading, 
between  Australia  and  England, 
taking 
China by the way.  They were also desirous 
•of sharing  in  the  carrying of the tea har­
vest of the late  spring  and  early  summer 
'months, the places for  loading  which were 
At Shanghai, the mouth of the Yangtzkiang 
River and Hankow, a place about 600 miles 
-•up the stream of that great river.  The de­
fendants were a number of  steamship  com­
panies and private  persons  trading  mostly 
to  China direct, and being  desirous of get-! 
ting this trade into their own hands, and of 
preventing  the  lowering of  rates,  they en­
tered  into  what  they  called a conference, 
-and  offered a rebate  of  five  per  cent  to 
-- shippers  by conference  vessels, bat  such a 
rebate  was  not to be  paid to shippers who 
shipped on any vessels but those  belonging 
to  the  conference.  The  conference  was 
- commenced in 1884,  and  during  that year 
the plaintiffs  were  admitted to share in its 
benefits.  They were excluded in 1885, but 
they ref used to acquiesce  in the  exclusion. 
I t was for the loss which  the  plaintiffs say 
-they suffered by the exclusion from and the 
Action of the conference that the action was 
‘'brought.  The plaintiffs set  up that the de­
fendants entered into an unlawful combina­
tion against them, and  bribed, coerced  and 
¡induced  shippers  not  to  ship  with  them. 
Hiord  Coleridge  gave judgment for the de­
fendants.  He said that the defendants were 
traders  with enormous sums of  money em­
barked in their  adventures, and they had a 
»right  to  push  their  lawful  trade by every 
fiawful means, and they had the right to en­
deavor by all  lawful  means  to  keep  that 
¡trade  in  their  own hands.  They had also 
ffche »riirht to offer inducements to  customers 
to'deal with  them  rather  than  with  their 
'rivals.  They might, if they liked, offer in­
ducements to customers to deal  exclusively 
with them by giving them notice  that  only 
exclusive customers would  have  these  ex­
ceptional  advantages. 
It  was  a  bargain 
which  persons  in  the  position  of  the de­
fendants  had a right  to  make,  and  those 
who were parties to the  bargain  mast  take 
i t  or  leave  it  as a whole.  Of  coercion  or 
bribery,  in  this  he  could  see no evidence 
in  the sense in which  these  were  used  le­
gally.  As to the contention that  this  com­
bination was  unlawful  because it was a re­
straint of  trade,  it  seemed  to  him  that it 
was no more restraint of  trade than for two 
village tailors to give five per cent, off  their 
Christmas  bills  on  condition of  their cus­
tomers dealing with them and  them  alone. 
Restraint of  trade  in  the  legal  sense  had 
nothing to do with the case in question.

GtFOGkSFy Glassware 
Bottles 

Fancy  Goods 

Gorks,  Stc.

Write for prices, with illiiatrsTion«.^ 
Visiting- merchants are requested to call and 

look over our samples.

19 SO. IONIA  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

WALES  -  GOODYEAR

,  —AND—

GONNEGYIGUT

Rubbers.

the Finest 5-ot. Cigar JiamlfaßWred,

LONG HAVANA FILLER.

THEY HAVE NO EQUAL.

A -  

S .   D A V I S
70 Canal St,, Grand Rapids, Mich.

,

JULIUS HOUSEMAN, Pres.,

A. B. WATSON. Treas..
CASH CAPITAL, 8200,000.

S. F. ASPINWALL. Secy. 

Write for Fall Prices and Discounts.

G.  R.  MATHEW,

86  Monroe  Street,

G R A N D   R A P I D S .

A f e

r

 THE FAVORITE  BRAND

W ith  Grocers.

Orders from Retail Trade Solicited.

N ew ap Roller Mills
DETROIT  SOAP  00.
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Manufacturers of the following well-known brands of

NEWAYGO,  MICH.

m i o :

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QUEEN  ANNE, 
TRUE  BLUE, 
MONDAY, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN, 

SUPERIOR, 

PHCENIX, 

MICHIGAN, 

CZAR, 

WABASH, 

ROYAL  BAR, 
MASCOTTE,
CAMEO,

AND  OTHERS. 

For quotations address

T T   A  T T T"T T T V r e i  

Salesman for Western Michigan,

•  VJT.  H i i  W   A l i N  W ,  Lock Box 173, 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS

GEO. E. HOWES.

S. A. HOWES.

C. N. RAPP.

GEO. E. HOWES & CO,

JOBBERS IN

Apples,  Potatoes  l  Onions.

Wholesale Grocers
TEA

AND

IMPORTERS.

G R A N D   R A P I D S ,

M IC H .

S W I F T ’S
Choice  Chicago  Dressed

---- AND----

M U T T O N

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

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

Sw ift  and  Company, /  

Union  Stock  Yards, 

- 

CHICAGO,  ILL

Grant,  Square  ant  Upright  Pianos.

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

dict thatThe  Weber Stands Unrivaled.

Sheet  music  and  musical  merchandise. 

Everything in the musical line.

Weber Pianos, 

Fischer Pianos,

Smith Pianos, 

Estey Organs, 

A. B. Chase Organs,

Hillstrom  Organs,

JULIUS A. J. FRIEDRICH,

(Successor  to  Friedrich  Bros.)

30 and 32 Canal St.. Grand Rapids, Mich.
H E S T E R   &  FOX,

Manufacturers’Agents for

SAW AND CRIST M UL ICACHXRRR7,
Send for 
Catalogue 

Prices. ATLASENaM,EWORKS

ana 

M ANUFACTURERS  O P 

INDIANAPOLIS.  INDM  U.  S.
-
STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.
Gerry Engines and Boilers In Stock 

for  Immediate delivery.

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

. 

Saws, B elting and  Oils.

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

Puile> and become convinced of their  superiority.

W rite for Prices. 

44.46 and 48 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

RINOGE, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  AND  SHOES.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  (XX

14 and 16 PearlStreet, 

*  Grand Rapids, Mich

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ifi

Mail Show Wool Flu lots, Petó color, 
’ LUI ton

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$10.50 per doz.
Lapel  Billions

For Both Parties.

MEDALS,  ETC. 

LOWEST  PRICES.

Did  you  get our Fall  Catalogue? 
I.  C.  L E V I ,

send for one.

If  not, 

34 to 42  Canal Street.

I. M.  GLRRK  Ì  SON,
LEADINGWR

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M IC H IG A N

JOBBERS P i

DRY  GOODS,

AND NOTIONS,

8 3   M o n r o e   S t t .*

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

G RA N D   R A PID S,  M ICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

t A Specialty.

*'lV c- - V . , “'

111 I

Stinginess to  be Avoided..

,  Tt Is 'astonishing  to  think  what  little 
“things  will  turn  a  customer  against  his 
grocer.  Eor this reason the latter should be 
a  careful  student of  human nature.  Never 
Allow your customers to think  you are stin 
gy.  There is a wide difference between be­
ing stingy and economical, according to the 
customers’ views,  as  is the  case,  although 
they are  sometimes confounded.  The gro­
cer who is found to be what they call stingy 
will have poor success in the neighborhood 
'because in  a  man  who has  developed  this 
trait  they look  for sharp  dealing.  Custo­
mers form  their opinions of a grocer by the 
-small  things in their  dealings.  *‘Mamma” 
'Sends  Johnny to  her  grocer  for an  empty 
box, but  the  grocer  wants  his  boxes  for 
¡kindling,  or  he^ may see  fit  to charge  for 
4fcem,and in either rase tells Johnny in words 
that are characteristic of his humor.  Johnny 
returns  without the  box, but with  the gro 
ceris words, which  he delivers with  an em 
pbasis that is likely to pervert the meaning, 
“Stingy old  grocer can keep  his boxes,”  is 
the  sentence likely  to  escape  “mamma’sr 
lips.
A good customer orders choice vegetables 
from your clerk for a special occasion.  The 
■Older is filled, ta t contrary to your expeeta 
rions  they turn  out to  be  tough, or  other­
wise  undesirable,  for the particular use  to 
which  she wishes  to  put  them.  Her first 
thought hi that you wanted to work off your 
Old  stock  on her,  and that  you were  too 
•Stingy to concede the smallest favor.  These 
«re examples of  little things  that are  hard 
to avoid.  Qn the whole it is best to be lib- 
end  «with  your  customers.  Make  them 
think  you are, at least.  Profits  are  very 
small and the  grocercannot  afford to  give 
much  away, b u t  In  order  to hold a  good 
. customer and  know that  you will  have so 
•much  income from  him every month  it
to Show tittle favors  once in a while, 
do coat fifteen or thirty  cents.

m i

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S F B O X A X i T I X l B  i

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

3 Ionia St.,  CRAMS RAPIDS, MICH.

W HO  URGES  YOU

T O   B L E E P

P

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T H E   IP T JB L iIO !

By splendid and expensive advertising  the  manufacturers ere 
ate  a  demand,  and  only  ask  the  trade  to  keep the goods in 
stock so as to supply the orders sent to  them,  w ithout effort 
on the grocer’s part the goods  sell them selves,  bring  purchas 
ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.
ANT JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL TOTJR ORDERS

W E  SEARS & CO
Cracker  Manufacturers,

A g e n t s  

f o r

379S9 & 4 1   Kent  Street.  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

m ilS I11 ¡i? tflEr.j ligi

TIME T&BLEB.
G ran d   R a p id s & In d ia n a .

■ ./ ■

AU Trains daily except Sunday.
GOING NORTH. 

' 

“ 

Leaves.
Traverse City ft Mackinaw............. 7:30 am   1  3:00 am
Traverse <ity & Mackinaw............»:40 am   11:30am
•Petoskey £  Mackinaw..................7:30pm  10:30pm
5:00 p m
For Cadillac.................... ■..............3:55pm 
Saginaw Express...................11:25 am  
7:90 am
.................v.lO -^O pm . 
4:10 pm

Arrives. 

Saginaw express runs through solid.

,.
GOING BOOTH.

.  8:00 a. m. tram has Chair carta Mackinaw City.
.  11:30 a. m. train has chair car for Petoskey and Mack­
inaw City.
10:30 p. m. train has  sleeping oars for Petoskey and 
Itaekiiiaw City, 
7:15am
Cincinnati  E x p re s s ..« - ......0 :3 0 a m  
Fort Wayne Express...................10:30 am  
11:46 a m
Cincinnati Express...... ............  4:40pm 
6:00pm
Traverse City end Mackinaw Ex. .10:40 p m 
-  7:15 a m train  has  parlor  chair  car  for  Cincinnati.
5:00 p m train hae woodrulf sleeper for Cincinnati.
5:00 p.  m. train connects  withM. C. R. R. at Kalama­
zoo for Battle Creek,  Jackson,  Detroit  and Canadian 
points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m.

M u sk eg o n ,  G ra n d  R a p id s ft In d ia n » . 

Arrive.
Leave. 
7-46 a m ................................... . 
10:45am
11:15 a m .......... .............. .................... 
4:90 pm
4:40p m . . . . . » . . . . ; . . . . « . , . s . 7 : 4 5 p m  
i  Leaving time at  Bridge street depot 7 minutes later.

C. L. Lockwood. Gen’l Pass. Agent.

M ic h ig a n  C e n tra l.

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

DBF ABC.

ARRIVE.

Detroit Express............................................... 4:45 am
Day Express...........1:10pm
Hew York Express............. ...... .  5:40 p m
* Atlantic, Express..............................................10:45 p m
Mixed  ................................... ............ ......... .  6:60am
-Pacific  Express............  ......................... . 
6410am
Local Passengfcr............................. .................10:00 am
Mall...................................... 
 
3:15pm
Grand Rapids Express......... ......................10:15pm
Mixed................................................................5:30 p m
•Daily.  AU other daily except Sunday. Sleeping oars 
rup on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from 
Detroit.  Parlor cars ran on  Day  Express  and Grand 
Rapids Express to and  from  Detroit.  Direct  connec­
tions made at Detroit with all through trains East over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)

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

 

L a k e  S h o re  A M ic h ig a n  S o u th e rn . 

K a la m a z o o   D ivision.

pm

....W hite Pigeon................ 

Arrive.
8 
4
S  1 
10 
pm  
pm   am  
am   pm
1:10 
3:00 7:45 Dp.. . .Grand Rapids................  0:45  6:10
8:85  4:12  9:03 “  __ Allegan....................«...  8:38  4:65
Frt  5:03 10:00Ar....Kalamazoo......... ......... 7:10  3:52
6:35 11:35 
2:25
8:00 12:30  “  ....Elkhart.........................4:45  l:e0
am  
p m  a m
7:50  7:10 “  ....Chicago......................... 11:30  8:50
pm
....Toledo..........................11:26 10:00
10:25  6:05  “ 
am  
1.36  9:40 “ ....Cleveland..................  
7:15 5:45
pm
6:20  3:80  “ __ Buffalo.............................1:00 11:40
Tickets for sale to  all  principal  points  in  the TJ. S., 
Mexico and Canada at Union Ticket  Office,  Geo.  Wil­
liamson, Agt., Depot Office, M. Bootz, Agt.

*
am  

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

 

_______  

Cleveland, Ohio.

D etro it,  G ra n d   H a v e n   &  M ilw a u k ee.

GOING WEST.

Arrives. 
tMoming Express................ 
1:05 pm 
tThrough Hail................................5:05 pm  
tGrand Rapids Express.................10:40 p m 
•Might Express............................... 5:25 a m 
tMixed.......................................... 
GOING EAST.
tDetroit  Express.........................   0:45 am  
tThrough Mail..............................10:20 am  
tEvening Express.........................  3:25 pm  
•Limited Express..........................  6:25 p m 

Leaves.
1:10 p m
5:10 pm
10:45 p m
5:40 am
7:30 am
6:50 am
10:30am
3:50 pm
6:30 p m
tDaily. Sundays ex.-epted.  *Daily.
Detroit  Express  has parlor  car  t«> Detroit, making 
direct connections for all points  East, arriving in New 
York 10:10 a. m. next day.  Limited  Express,  East, has 
through  sleeper  Grand  Rapids  to  Niagara  Falls, 
connecting  at  Milwaukee  Junction  with 
through 
sleeper to Toronto.
Through tickets and  sleeping  car  berths secured at 
D., G. H. & M .R’y offices, 2 ' Monroe St., and at the depot.

Jas. Campbell, City Passenger Agent.

N ext to filling his  stomach,  the  tetotion 
of Crockett’»story was his favorite pastime, 
and he at once assented,  spying :

“Certainly, certainly 1  Bdt  let me know 
the minute the stew is ready. 
I’m  terribly 
hungry!  Say,  Bill  (to the cook), don’t tor- 
git to save out them six  dozen  raw,  for my 
lunch  before  I go to bed»  W ell,  you  see, 
hoys,  I owned the fastest runner in Genesee 
county and  nobody knowed  it,  ’cause  he’d 
never  been on the track  in  my section, and 
he  looked  more like,a broken-down  plow- 
horse  than  a  race  horse. 
It  was  curious 
how I come to get ’im.  I met  Jerry Folger 
one day—Jerry was  cousin to the man that 
killed Ballery in the prize fight at Buffalo— 
I was there at Buffalo at the time.  Mighty 
lively  town,  hut  such  mosquitoes! 
they 
make you  think  of  yellow  jackets—Say, 
B ill!  ain’t them  them  oysters most ready ? 
Not  quite,  eh !  W ell,  hurry  ’em  up! 
What’s them fellow s going  and coming out' 
of the  back  room so much  for ?  T ell ’em 
to wait ’till BiJI  calls ’em.  Where  was  I ? 
Oh,  about  them  yellow  jackets. 
Jo  and 
me took down the nest and carried  it to the 
camp meeting, and, when  the  preacher  in­
vited the sinners  to  come  forward, Jo—Jo 
was my youngest brother; he was drownded 
in trying to  swim  across  Seneka  Lake  in 
’40;  the year  Harrison  lun,  you  know. 
I 
tell  you  them  was  lively  days; 
’twasn’t 
nothing to see six  roasted  oxen at one bar- 
bacue—”

A t about  tMs  point,  as  the  chroniclers 
tell  it, Crockett  became  almost  ravenous, 
and insisted upon a  visit to the cook  room, 
but was finally  persuaded  to  continue  his 
story.  During the next ten minutes parties 
were  constantly  leaving  and  joining  his 
audience,  until he began to have  suspicions 
that all was not  right,  and, rejecting all en­
treaties, he finally hurried to the back room, 
and  reached it  just in time to see  the  last 
oyster  disappear  down  the  throat  of  the 
party who had  suggested  the  narration of 
the wonderful horse race story.

It is gravely alleged that  never, before or 
since,  was  such  an  exhibition of  mingled 
wrath and grief  seen  in  the  Grand  River 
Valley, and  that  it  was  supplemented  by 
another  more  violent  one  when  a  special 
messenger  dispatched to  “The  Rapids” re­
turned  with  the  information  that the oys­
ters  were  all  disposed  of,  and  no  more 
would be purchased during the season.

The  U.  S.  President.

that 

they  have 

Fred D. Yale & Co., of this city, announce 
to  the  trade 
secured 
from  the manufacturers  the  agency for the 
celebrated “U .  S. President  Cigar,”  which 
is leading  all  other brands in public favor. 
This  cigar  is  a  long,  fine  Havana  filler, 
with  Sumatra wrapper,  made by hand, and 
guaranteed unflavored.  Cigar dealers would 
do w ell to send for a trial order of this brand.

WARRANTED TO BE THE

FINEST and LARGEST SMOKE
For the money In the U. S.  ZWPut up 50 In a box.  Ask 
JOHN E. KENNING ft CO., G rand Rapids. 

your dealer for them.  Manufactured only by 
_____________ Bend for prices.___________

W .  C.  DEXnSOIT,

Stationary  anil  Portable  Engines  and  Boiiers,

GENERAL  DEALER  TN

M ERCH A N T S !

Increase Your  SALES  AND  PROFITS  BY  HANDLING

LaIOIST  COFFEE.

IT  GIVES  ABSOLUTE  SATISFACTION

To Consumers, and Is, Consequently, a Qulok. and Xjasy Seller,

Lion Coffee has more actual Merit than any Boasted Ooffee sold at the price either in Packages or in Bulk and storekeepers 
>ver the State of Michigan and elsewhere who are  not  already handling  Lion  are urged to  give  it  a  trial.  W e cheermUy
regarding prices, etc.  Convenient  shipping  depots  established  at  all  prominent  cities,  securing 

answer all communications
quick delivery.  For sale by all the wholesale trade everywhere.  Manufactured  by the W oolson Spice Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Automatic  Injector

I . Steele Packing & Prom s Co.,

L.  WTNTERNITZ,  Resident Agent,

THE  PENBERTHY  IMPROVED

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Fresh and Salt Beef,

Fresh and Salt Pork,

Pork Loins,  Dry Salt Pork,

Hams,  Shoulders,

Bacon, Boneless Ham,

Sausage of all Kinds,

Dried Beef for Slicing.

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Strictly Pure  and  W arranted,  in  tierces,  barrels,  one-halt
barrels,  50  pound  cans,  20  pound  cans, 3, 5  and 10  pound
pails.

Pickled  Pigs’ Feet,  Tripe, Etc.

Our prices for first-class  goods are  very low  and all goods are warranted  first-class 

in every instance.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
J E N N I N G S ’

«CELEBRATED’

Flavoring  Extracts.

1872 

Are pu t up in all sizes, from' 1 oz. to 1 gal. bottles.
Sixteen  Years  on  the  Market. 

1888

SOX.B  BY  A U   JOBBERS.

MANUFACTURED ONLY  BY

JENNINGS & SMITH,

38  and 40  Louis  St.,

Grrand Rapids,  Mieli,

- —AS A----

Æ   BOILER FEEDER Æ ,

16,000 In  18 Months Tells the Story.

I^ W H Y   THEY  E X O E L ^ f

1  They cost less than other Injectors.
2  You don’t have to  watch  them.  If  they  break  they
3  By sending the number to factory on the Injector you
4  They are lifting and non-lifting.
5  Hot pipes don’t bother them and the parts drop out by
Agents, HFSTER & FOX,
6  Every man is made satisfied, or he don’t  have to keep 
PENBERTHY  INJECTOR  CO.,  Manufacturers,  DETROIT, Mich.

removing one plug nut.
the Injector and we don’t want him to.

will  RE-START automatically.
can have parts renewed at any time.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

TH E G EN UIN E ANTI - WAS H BOARD

SOAP

QUICK,  EASY,  CHEAP.

Saves Rubbing, therefore saves Labor & W ear
> Cheap in itself it more than saves its cost in sav­
ing of the clothes.  This Soap may be used in 
any way and for any purpose that any other 
soap is used and  excels all.  YOU will secure 
COMFORT and make money by its use.  Tiy 
it once and if the claims made for it are not true don’t 
If they are true you ought and want to 

use it again. 

know  it.  Your grocer  will  get  it  if he  hasn’t  it.

MICHIGAN  CIGAR  CO.

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MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED

JSÆ.  C.  C-,
“ŸUM   VUM,

The Most Popular 10c  cigar, and

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The  Best  Selling  5c  Cigar  in  the  Market. 

Send fo r trial order.

BIO  RAPIDS,

MICH.

Ä P 8 8. MU88ELMÄN 4 ßO,

W holesale  Grocers,

STRAIGHT

When in Grand Rapids give us a call  and look over our establishment.
W rite us for prices

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^WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,,1888.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BT a   COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

Written for Thx Tuskskan.

To those who have lived in Michigan long 
enough  to see it emerge  from  the  pioneer 
stage  and  gradually  progress  in  wealth, 
culture,  manufactures,  architecture  and 
population,  until it has  reached the rank of 
one of  the leading  states of  the Union, the 
change appears almost marvelous.  To have 
moved  to  the  State  at  a time  when  your 
Eastern friends and relatives bid you a tear­
ful farewell and viewed  your  exodus to the 
then “Far West” w ith as dismal  apprehen­
sions as you would* to-day, witness the de­
parture of  your progeny torG rinell’s Land, 
or Central Africa,  and  then  reflect  (hat to 
Dakotans or Arizonians or  Montanans, you 
are  at  present a fixture  in  the  senile, de­
cayed and effete East, makes  yon marvel at 
the sw iftness  with  Which  (he  years  have 
sped,  and  alm ost  question  the  strange 
changes they have wrought.

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But notwithstanding the  evolution which 
has brought a  scattered, frugal, hard-work­
ing and  comparatively moneyless  people to 
their  present  state of  modern  progression 
and  civilization, I  seriously doubt  whether 
the average  Michigander of  to-day extracts 
any more  real  comfort  from  life than did 
the  one  of  thirty  or  forty years  ago.  In 
those days among the  farming  population, 
every man within a radius of ten miles was 
a ‘‘neighbor,” and  “ neighboring”  was  the 
principal  amusement  of  the  settlers,  bnt 
visiting  in  those  times  meant  attending a 
'  dance, or debate,  or. extemporized  church, 
or  singing  school, or  some  form of  enter­
tainment,  as  much  as it meant gossip and 
feasting, and to slight an  “rnvite” on oneof 
these occasions was equivalent to a declara­
tion  of  war, and  the  party  who  was  ex­
cluded from the list of  guests  was virtually 
ostracised by the community.

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A  great  many  square  miles  of  territory 
had to be looked  over,  in the  pioneer days, 
to find a country trader, bnt one could occa­
sionally be  run,  across, and, as  a  rule,  he 
.  followed  several  pursuits in common.  He 
“kept store,” and “kept tavern.”  He was 
not uncommonly the holder of  several local 
offices,  and  was,  almost  invariably,  a (non­
official)  postmaster.  He  not  infrequently 
pursued some  mechanical pursuit, and was 
always a  buyer  of  furs.  A s  little  money 
circulated among the settlers,  trading trans­
actions were  necessarily made  through the 
medium  of  “truck,” and,  when  the  little 
stock of  goods was exhausted, the merchant 
borrowed  an  ox  team, loaded  it  with the 
articles  received In  trade, and  started on, 
perhaps,  a  month’s  journey  after  a  new 
supply of  merchandise.
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•  
The old settlers of  a Grand  River  Valley 
town delight to narrate an  incident  regard­
ing their first  tradesman, and, in  narrating 
it, always endeavor to impress on the hearer 
that  the  circumstance  embodied  some  of 
the  most  delicious  bits  of  humor  imagin­
able.  A s for myself,  I  can  see in the mat­
ter  nothing  but a very  commonplace prac­
tical  joke, but it  serves  to  illustrate  how 
little it required,  a  couple  of  decades  ago, 
to   furnish  a  large  area  of  country  with 
“ food  for  merriment”  and  a - perennial 
“ humorous” story.

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According  to  the  chroniclers,  Crockett, 
the trader  in  question, was a very singular 
specimen  of  the  pioneer  trafficker. 
In­
stead of  the wiry  body and  restless  dispo­
sition  of  the  majority  of  those  who  cast 
their  fortunes 
in  the  wilderness  of  the 
W est, he was reported  as extremely  obese, 
very indolent,  and with very little ambition 
beyond securing personal  comforts  and in­
dulgences  for  him self.  He had a phenom­
enal appetite,  but his most  remarkable pro­
pensity  was  a  chronic  habit  of  telling  a 
story that was never finished whilehq lived. 
It  branched  off 
into  another '  unfinished 
story;  ramified into various  still-born anec­
dotes;  became  temporarily  historical,  bio­
graphical  and  geneological;  floundered  on 
the edge of  geographical,  metaphysical and 
scientific  subjects,  until  it finally  became 
hopelessly lost in an impenetrable labyrinth 
■of betangled ideas.

Y et, notwithstanding all this, it is alleged 
that  Crockett  flourished,  financially,  and, 
despite  the  heavy inroads  made  upon his 
pocket by his gluttony and upon his time by 
M s  verbosity, he is said to have  formed the 
nucleus of a fortune that ranks Ms descend-I 
nuts among our  Wolverine nabobs.

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Before Crockett  came  W est,  bis favorite 
winter’s  food  was  oysters, and  deep  and 
numerous were his sighs and  complaints at 
being deprived of  the luxury,  and when, on 
one  evening  during  the winter of  184-, it 
was  incidentally  mentioned  that  a  bold 
speculator in  Grand Rapids had brought in 
a tot of  the bivalves, he became greatly ex- 
-cited mid immediately began  making prep- 
arations  tor securing a liberal  supply. > In 
the  joy of  bis heart Crockett determined to 
give  an  oyster  supper  to  his  friends and 
- customers,  mid  the  arrival  of  a large  in­
voice  of  the  bivalves  found  a  good-sized 
company eagerly awaiting the feast.

A man who bad cooked on a steamer was 
detailed  to make  the stew,  and an ex-botel 
cook  volunteered  to  do  the  fryin g.,  The 
guests  were  seated  in  the  store-room on 
counters, boxes and'barrels and the culinary 
business was under w ay in the  back  room» 
'when one of the party observed to Crockett:
“Say, Jim ,  you’ll  have  tim e  to,  tell  us 
In fest the way you won that big horserace 
in  New York* before eatin’ tim e.”

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Vertical,  Horizontal, H oisting  and Marine Engines.  Steam Pum ps, Blowers and Ex 

haust Fans.  SAW   MILLS, any Size or Capacity  W anted.

Estimates Given on Complete Outfits.

88,90 and 9« SOUTH  DIVISION  ST.. 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

‘w a l b u t   -A .

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

HEYMAN  & CO,

M OSELEY  BROS.,

WHOIjBSAIjE

Fruits, Seeds, Oysters & Produce,

ALL  BINDS  OF  FIELD  SEEDS  A  SPECIALTY.

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

toes, w ill be pleased to hear from you.

26  28,30  4  32  Ottawa

WHEN  ORDERING  Ask For ‘JENNINGS’ EXTRACTS’

21 & 23  SOUTH  IONIA  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MIOH»

The Standard of E xcellence

KINGSFORD’S
“Silver
Gloss”

P U R E

A N D

“Pure”

Lorillard’s  New  “Smoking  or  Chewing”

Packed 

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

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

Yellow  Jacket  Long  Gut.
20 CENTS per FOUND.
K O  A L U  W O O D
101  Ottawa 81.,  Ledprd  Block.

E. A_ EEALÆII_.TOIsr,
Office, 909-1, 
5» Yard,  909-3.

M ildest, Smoothest  Smoke Ever Offered for Less than 30 Cents per Ppund.

IT  IS  THE

Kingsford's Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.

t,' T H E   P E R F E  C T I O N   O F   Q  XT A . L I T Y .

WILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY THEE!

A LW A Y S  A SK   YOUR  G RO CER  FOR  T H E S E   GOODS.

P E R K I N S   Sc  H E S S
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN  

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

'  WE CARRY A STOCK 0 7  CAKE TALLOW TOE MILL USE.

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‘  *  \   %  ;  ,  ,-pH;1poor Soap  Market.

“ This Is file poorest  s n p  market  I  ever
struck,” remarked  the  representative of a 
soap manufacturer who has  spent a year in 
,  ,  "this territory the other day.  “No one man­
ufacturer owns the trade and none seems to 
be able to maintain the lead  for  any length 
of time.  Most of  the  merchants  catch ou 
to every snap that eomea along—buy five or
ten hoses every  time they cao get an extra 
box—but they seldom think Of giving a sec 
end order unless  they can get the same ad­
vantage again.  The  result  of  tills is, that 
the grocer has not got any great  proportion 
of customers who demand the  sáme  brand 
every time they buy soap, but rely largely on 
the judgment of the  dealer.  While this is 
bad for the manufacturer,  it is a good thing 
for the retailer,  as  it  enables  him  to cat 
down the sales of a brand on which there is 
little or no  profit  next  to  nothing.  2 see 
nothing to prevent Western Michigan main­
taining  her  present  position  as  ‘fighting 
ground’ for many years to come,”

“ How about an advance in soap?”  asked 

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PROVISIONS.  <

The Grand Rapids packing ft  Provision Co 

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PORK IN  BARRELS.

quote  as follows;
Mess..................'..............; .................... .15
Short out.................................. ........ .... . ,;ie
Shortcut  Morgan......................................16
Extra clear pig, short e u t.. . . . . . . . . . .   ../17
Extra clekr,heavy......... ............................. 17
Clear quill, short c u t.. / . . . . . .  . . . / .  . / .
Boston clear, short cu t..............................17
Clear back, snort cu t..  ..........................f.17
Standard clear, short  cut, best............... .17
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLA
Hams,average20  fts......... ...........
16  f t s ..,./..: ,......  ;
“ 
12 to 14 lbs...........
“ 
“  picnic  . . . . ___ ______ ____
“  best boneless..............
Shoulders............................. ........
Breakfast Bacon, boneless
Dried Beef, extra__ . . ........___..!!!!”
ham  prices..
J .  1 
DRY SALT MEATS.
Long Clears, heavy.........................
“ 
“  medium.......
“ 
“  lig h t./..,......
_ 
LARD.
Tierces  ...................................
80and 50 ft T ubs..............
A 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case...,.................
51b Pails, 12 in a ease.........
10 lb Pails, 6 in a case............
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in ease......
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.................
Extra Mess, Chicago Packing....  .......... "
Packing’.’.’.'.’.*,’.*.*.! 
Plate 
Extra P l a t e ! .*.*.*.*.*.’.*’.**.**.*.’.*.*.’.*.* 
"
Boneless, rump butte....... ".................
*4hi)i:
_ 
,  SAUSAGE—FRESH AND mmran,
Pork Sausage...........................
Ham Sausage..................................•,*••••  •
Tongue  Sausage.........................................
Frankfort  S au sage............  .  "*........
Blood  Sausage............ ........... .*"..*..*!***  *"
Bologna, straight.
.......................
Bologna, thick...........I .,......! '................
Head  Cheese.................. .......!!!!!!!!!!!!
_  „  „„„ 
PIGS’FEET.
In half barrels............................................
In quarter barrels...............
T 
tripe.
In *4 Bbl.......................
I n k  Bbl........................... .................. .
InK its.......................... 

BEEF IN BARRELS.  ”* "’

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

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

'*  Kansas 

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9%
7 00 
7 50 
7 25 
T
- 7 75 
10 00 
5 50

3 00 
200
.3 00 
1 75 
.  85

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

Green — $  lb 4*4@ 5 
Part cured...  5J4@  6
Fullcured__ 6*4@ 6%
Dry hides and 
k ip s__ ....  6  @8

Calf skins, green ■
or cured__ 5  @ 6
Deacon skins, 
Apiece...... 10  @20

WOOL.

Fine washed $  ft 20@23|Coarse washed
Medium  ............ 20@25|Unwashed.......
„  
Sheep peits, short shearing.........   .. 
Sheep pelts, old wool estimated........! 
Tallow.............................  
Grease butter.................... 
.............. 
Ginseng,good........ @2 00

m iscella n eo u s.

.18@23 
. 12@16
5@30
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PRODUCE MARKET.

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rels, 25c.

and evaporated at 9c.
14%c. 

commanding $ 1@$1.25 per bu.
Dealers pay 15@l6c and hold at 18c.

Apples—Buyers pay from 40e@$l per bbl.
Beans—The  new  crop  is  coining  infreelv 
Butter—Good  quality  is  scarce  and  hiah. 
Cabbages—Home grown c°mmand $2®$3per
Celery— 18@20c per doz.
.  Cheese—Full cream readily  commands 9%@ 
9*4c.
Cider—10c per gal.
p lo v e r  Seed—Mammoth or medium, 81.50 per
Cooperage—Pork barrels, 81.25; produce bar­
Cucumbers—50c perbu.
Dried  Apples—Jobbers hold  sun-dried at 7c 
Eggs—Jobbers  now  pay  13*4c  and  sell  at 
Grapes*-Concords, 4c per lb.
Honey—Scare, not equal to the demand. All 
choice offerings are  grabbed  up  quick at 17c 
per lb.
Hay—Baled is in small demand at 815 for No.
and 814 for No. 2.
Muskmelons—Osage, EOeper doz.  Nutmegs, 
Onions—Home  grown  dry  stock command 
Peaches—Barnards comm and 75c@81 per bu. 
Pears—Bartlett’s or Flemish Beauties,  $1.75 
Plums—Damsons, $2.50 per bu.
Pop Corn—2%c 79 ft.
Potatoes—Jobbing  generally  at  35c  for 
Squash—Hubbard. l%c lb.
Sweet  Potatoes—Baltimores,  $3.50  per  bbl. 
Jerseys, $4.50 per bbl.
Tomatoes—40e per bu.
Turnips—25 per bu.
Watermelons—Indiana,  10@llc apiece, 
GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

25e per doz.
40c per bu.
and  Crawfords 81.25@81.50 per bu.
per bu.

home grown.

and red.
lots and 53c in  car lots.
car lots.

Wheat—City millers pay 88c for  both  white 
Com—Jobbing  generally  at 58c  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  $5.80 $  bbl in  sacks 
and  $6.00  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.80 $  bbl. in 
sacks and $5.00 in wood.
Meal—Bolted, $2.80 $  bbl.  Gran. $3.50 $  bbl.
ton.  Bran, $15 
Mill Feed—Screenings, $16 
9   ton.  Ships,  $14.00  79  ton.  Middlings,  $17 
39 ton. Corn and Oats. $23 $  ton.

W H Ó ÍíE S A Í jE   P R ÏC E   C U R R E N T .
notations • given' below  are  such  as  are' ordinarily  offered  cash  buyers,

,  The  quotations 

promptly-and buyTm full packages:

who pay

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Cqtner Stone....................
Double Pedro....... ...... 
.
Whopper..........................
Peaoh Pie. ......... ............    .40
Wedding Cake,  blk. 
...40
•Red F o x .','//................4 5
Sweet R usset........./ .....30032

TOBACCOS—FINE  CUT.
Sweet  Pippin..____....../.5 0
Five and »even... ..........  
50
Hiawatha...............   .......„..68
Sweet  Cuba............. ......... .45
Petoskey Chief.....................55
Sweet Russet__ ________40@42
Thistle................ .42
Florida.________ 
..35
Rose L eaf..........................66
Red Domino... ...__   .....  .38
Swamp Angel.................     ..40
Stag........................  
..... .,,83
Capper.................................
TOBACCOS—SMOKING.
Rob R o y ....................
Peerless.................. .
Uncle Sam............ ........’.’.V.
Jack  Pine.........;
Sensation................... !.!..*!
Y ellow Jacket...................’
Sweet  Conqueror...........20

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TEAS.

Japan ordinary............. :18@20
Japan fair to good..........26@30
Japan fine....................... 35@46
«■Pan d u st..,..............12@20
Young H yson..... .....,.20@45
Gunpowder.................     35050
Oolong............33@55@60@75
Congo..............................25@30

VINEGAR.
40 gr. 
11*4 

30 gr. 
9*4 

50 gr.
13

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Above are  the  prices  fixed 
by  the  pool.  Manufacturers 
outside  the  pool  usually sell 
5gr.  stronger  goods at  anmn 
prices.  21  for barrel.
WOODENWARE.

lows:
Tubs. N o .l......... 
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Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as fol­
7 75
I - / . , .............-‘6 75
Pails, No.l, two hoop.........1 oo
three hoop... .1 75
Clothespins, 5gr.boxes....  60
Bowls, 15s, 17s and 19s........2 50
Baskets, market................  40
“ bushel...................;;*i
90
“  . ’  “  with covers 1 
‘  willow clothes No.l 5 50 
“  26 00
“  3 7 00
.. 
“  13 50
“  splint 
“  24 25
“  3 5 00

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Bath Brick imported........90
_  do 
American...... 75
Burners, No.  0...................65

do  N o.l......... ./5
do  No. 2...............  
Chimneys, No. 0......... 
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95
'  .38
“  1.................'..40
“  2....... 
52
Cocoa Shells, bulk.’.’.'.* *' ’' '' 4 
Condensed  Milk, Eagle.!! .*7 60
Cream Tartar..................  25
Candles. Star.......... 
‘io
Candles. Hotel__ __.’..‘.*.7.11
Camphor, oz., 2 ft boxes.. .35
Extract Coffee, V.  C..........  75
Felix...... 1 15
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.. .25 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.. .35
Gum, Spruce.....................  30
Jelly,in 30 ft pails..  .  5  @ 5%
Powder,  Keg.......................... 5 2.5
Powder, *4  Keg......................2 95
Sage....................................15
CANDY, FRUITS and NUTS
Putnam  &  Brooxs quote as 
follows:

do 

STICK.
do 
do 
MIXED.

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

Standard, 25 ft boxes......... 9*4
Twist, 
......... 10
Cut Loaf 
......... 11
Royal, 25 ft pails......   @10
Royal, 200 ft hbls......   .........9
Extra, 25 ft pails................J1
Extra, 2001b bbls................10
French Cream. 25 ft pails. .12*4
Cut loaf, 25 ft cases........... 11
Broken, 25  ft pails.............ll
Broken. 200 ft  bbls.............10
Lemon Drops........................13
Sour Drops............................14
Peppermint  Drops.............. 14
Chocolate Drops...................15
H M Chocolate  Drops...... . .18
Gum  Drops...........................10
Licorice Drops.....................is
A B Licorice  Drops.............12
Lozenges, plain.................... 14
Lozenges,  printed................15
Im perials.............................14
Mottoes.................................15
Cream  Bar............................ 13
Molasses Bar......................... 13
Caramels............................... 19
Hand Made Creams...............19
Plain  Creams..................„..16
Decorated Creams................20
String Rock...........................14
Burnt Almonds...... ...........  22
Wintergreen  Berries........... 14
Lozenges, plain in pails.. .13
Lozenges, plain in bbls__ 12
Lozenges, printed in pails. 13*4 
Lozenges, printed in  Dbls.l2*4 
Chocolate Drops, in pails. . 13*4
Gum Drops  in pails........... 6*4
Gum Drops, in Dhls.............5*4
Moss Drops, in pails..........10
Moss Drops, in bbls..........   9
Sour. Drops, in  pails..........12
Imperials, in pails.............12
Imperials  in hbls..___   .  U

FANCY—IN BULK.

FRUITS.

Bananas................... 1 26@2 50
Oranges, choice...... 7 G0@7 50
Oranges, Florida......  @
Oranges, Naples__   @
Oranges, OO..............  @
Oranges, Imperials..  @ 
Oranges Valencia ca.  @ 
Lemons,ch’c e to f’cy3 50@4 75
Lemons,  >.................  @
Figs, layers, n e w ./. .14  @15
Figs, Bags, 50 ft........  @6
Dates, frails do........  @ 4*4
Dates, % do  do........  @5*4
Dates, Fard 10 ft box (p ft..  9 
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $Mb..  7 
Dates. Persian 50 ft box ..  @6
Almonds,  Tarragona
@17 
Ivaca........
@16 
California
@14 
Brazils. . . /   ..;........
@ 7 
Filberts, Sicily.........
@11 
Walnuts,  Grenoble,.
@13 
French__
@11 
Pecans, Texas. H. P. 
8®  12 
Cocoanuts, $  100......
@4 60
PEANUTS.
Prime Red, raw $  ft 
Choice 
do 
do  . 
Fancy H.P. do 
do 
Choice White, Va.do 
Fancy H P,. V»  do 
Extra H. P .V a .......

NUTS.

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OYSTERS AND  FISH.
follows;

F.  J. Dettenthaler  quotes  as 

OYSTERS.
 
FRESH  FISH.

Standards...... ........... .. .22® 25
Selects. 
. . . .               .25 @30
Fairhaven Counts...... ....'.  40
Black bass......................... .1214
T rout...............................  714
Whiteflsh........................  714
smoked............. 10
Frogs’ Legs . ..¿.Uf..  25@1 25

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V  1 lb •-  “ 
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)4 
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lto m ro   Pow der.  t  \  \ 
10c cans...  98
lb .“  ...  140
6oz,  **.  ...  1 90
*41b . “  ...-2 60 
12 oz. “  ....  3 80 
lib .  “  • >.  4 96 
2*4 lb, 
...11  78 
fclbl  “ 
...13 76 
4.1b.  “  ...17 76 
©lb.  “  ...22 20
Acme, *4 lb cans, 3  doz—   76
2 *T  ....  160
3 00
1 “ 
00
Arctic, %  lb cans, 6 doz....  46
4  “ .  ..  75
2  “ .  ..140
2  “  . . .. 2 40
1  “ ..,.12 00
Victorian, 1 ft (tall,} 2 doz. 2 00 
IS
Diamond,  “bulk.”........ 
Red Star % lb cans 12 doz..  45 
*• 
“ 6  “ - 
85
“  
“ 4  “  ..150
Absolute,  *4  ft  cans, 100
cans In case................  .11 75
Absolute,  *4  lb  cans,  60 
cans in  casé.............1 0  00
Absolute, 15) cans, 50 cans
in case........................... 18 75
Telferis % lb, cans, 6 doz in
case............... 
2 70
Telfer’s *4 lb cans, 3 doz in
2 55
c a s e " " ’*............... 
 
Telfer’s 1 0> cans,  1 doz in 
case............... 
 
1  60
BROOMS.
No.2 Hurl..........................2 00
No. 1 Hurl.............  
2 25
No. 2 Carpet........................ 2 60
No. 1 Carpet........................ 3 76
Parlor Gem, ......................3 00
Common Whisk......  
......1 00
Fancy  Wliisk.................... 1 25
Mill....................................3 75
Warehouse .........................3 00

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Michigan full cream.. .9%@9*4
Runkle Bros’.. Vien. Sweet  22
Premium..  33
Hom-Cocoa  37
Breakfast..  48

CHOCOLATE.
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OOCOANUT
Schepps, Is.........................27
Is and *4s............ 28
J4s....................... .27*4
Is in tin pails— 27*4 
*4s 
....28*4
Maltby’s, Is ......................23*4
Is  and *4s.......... 24
*4s....... 
24*4
Manhattan, pails.-.............20
P66rle8S 
•• 18
Bulk, pails or barréis. .16®18
Mocha....................... ,..25@28
Mandating.................... 25@26
OG Java......................24@25
Java...........................,..23@24
Maricabo.......................16@19
Cost! Rica............ ; ......   @19
Mexican........................  @19
Santos........................... 15@18
Rio,  fancy......   ...........18@19
Rio,  prime................ ,..16@17
Rio, common................14@15
To ascertain cost of roasted 
coffee, add *4c per ft. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent, for shrink­
age.

COFFEE—GREEN

COFFEES—PACKAGE.

CORDAGE.

CRACKERS.

COFFEES—50 L.B. BAGS. 

30 lbs60fi>s 100 lbs
Lion...............  
18%
19*4
Lion, in cab... 
18%
Dilworth’s.... 
Magnolia.......  
18%
Acme............ 18*4  18% 
18%
18%
G erm an........ 
19%
German, bins. 
18%
Arbuckle’s Ariosa 
16%
Avorica 
18%
McLaughlin’s XXXX 
.
Arbuckle’s Avorica..........16*4
Quaker City........ 17*4
Best Rio............... 18*4
Prime Maricabo.. .21
6u foot Ju te ..... 
....... ,.l 10
72 foot J u te ...... ................1 40
40FootCotton..>.......,....l 50
60 foot Cotton...................   .1 60
60 foot Cotton..................... I 75
72 foot Cotton.................. 
2 00
Kenosha Butter...................7*4
Seymour Butter...............3
Butter..........6
Family Butter.....................6
Fancy Butter...................... .5*4
Butter Biscuit...... . 
.....6*4
Boston ................................. 7*4
City Soda............................. 8
Soda......... ................i.........6
Soda Fancy.................  
S.  O yster...........................6
Picnic................................. 6
Fancy  Oyster......................5*4
Clams, 1 lb, Little Neck__ 1 35
Clam Chowder, 3 lb............ 2 15
Cove Oysters, 1 lb stand.. .1 00 
Cove Oysters, 2 lb stand.. .1 70
Lobsters, 1 lb picnic...........1 75
Lobsters, 2 lb, picnic.......... 2 65
Lobsters, 1 ft star..............1 95 ,
Lobsters. 2 lb star.............. 2 90
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce3 25
Mackerel,lib stand...........1 35
Mackerel, 21b stand...........
Mackerel,3 lb in Mustard..3 25
Mackerel. 3 lb soused........3 25
Salmon, 1 lb Columbia........2 00
3 50
Salmon, 2 f t “ 
Salmon, 1 fi> Sacramento...1 90 
Salmon, 2ft 
...2 75
Sardines, domestic %s___   6
Sardines,  domestic %s...  @10 
Sardines a Mustard *4s...  @10 
Sardines,  imported  %S..12@13
Sardines, spiced, *4s.......10@12
Trout. 3lb  brook.........
CANNED FRUITS.

CANNED FISH.

5*4

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CANNED VEGETABLES. 

Apples, gallons, stand__.2 25
Blackberries, stand..........1 20
Cherries, red standard......1 60
Cherries, pitted........1  85® 1 90
Damsons...............  .1  25@1 35
Egg Plums, stand............    1 50
Gooseberries...................... 1 65
Grapes................................  95
Green Gages,..................... 1 50
Peaches, all yellow, stand.2 65
Peaches,  seconds............. 2 25
Peaches, pie...............1 60@1 65
Pears...................................1 30
Pineapples,.............1   40@2 75
Quinces.........................150
Raspberries, e x tra .........1 50
red............... 1 50
Strawberries........ .1 25@1 40
W hortleberries............LI 20
Asparagus, Oyster Bay— 2 00 
Beans,Lim a,stand.1......  85
Beans, Green Limas..  @1 40 
Beans,  String........1  00@1 20
Beans, 8tringlees, E rie....  90
Beans, Lewis’ Boston Bak.l 60 
Corn, Archer’s Trophy....
MornG’ry.l 15
Early Gold.l 15
Peas,  French............. 
..1 60
Peas, extra marrofat.1 20@1 40
Peas,  soaked.........../ . .   90
“  Ju n e,stan d ./.  @1 50
“ 
sifted.............. 2 00
“  French, extra fine. .20 to 
Müshróoíhs, extra fine....20 00
Pumpkin, 31b Golden__ _ .1 00
Succotash .standard.... 80@1 to
Squash__ ..................1  25
Tomatoes, Red Coat 
$  1 10 
Good Enough  110 
,  Ben Har  .......1 1 0
stand br.l 15@ 110
DRIED FRUITS. ,
Apples, evaporated.. «8  ® 8*4
sundried......   6*4@ 7*4

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kits.... 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Raisins, Loose California. L‘2 to 
1 RalBlns, On9ara8i 2to.  @10
Raisins, Sultanas...__
i Raisins,  Valencias-......  @9*4
Raisins,Imnerials....../..3  75
God,  whole..................  @5*4
Cod, boneless... /   .... .7*4@7%
13
Halibut....... . 
Herring, round. *4 bbl.  - 2  75 
Herring, round, % bbl. 
1 50 
Herring, Holland, hbls. 
10 00 
Herring, Holland, kegs  65@70
Herring, Scaled.__ ... 
31
Mack, sh’r, No. 1, *4bbl... .8 75
m  12 B> kit..l 26
>* 
;♦  .410
“  10 
No. 2, *4 bbls.... ...7 50
®roht,  *4  bbls......... .......... 5 00
10 lb kits.................  85
• 
White, No. 1, *4 bbls..........6 to
White, No. 1,12 3> kits.......115
White,  No. 1,10 lb kits:... .1 00
White, Family,  *4 bbls__ .2 75
to@65
Jennings*  Lemon.  Vanilla.
D:C.,2oz......$  doz  90 
135
“  4 o z ../..........140 
2 50
3 76
“  6oz  . ..........2  25 
1  75
“  No. 3 Panel... 1  00 
2 76
“  No, 4  Taper..1 60 
4 50
“  No. 8 panel.;.2 75 
...4 50 
“  No. 19  “ 
6 50
“  *4 pint, r’nd..4 50 
, 7 60
“ 
Ifito
“  1 
..9 00 
Lemon.  Vanilla 
per gross-
9
12 00
15 00
24 00
Farina, 100 lb. kegs............  04
Hominy, V bbl................4 00
Macaroni, dom 12 lb. box..  60 
imported... 10 @11
Pearl Barley......... . 
@ 3*4
Peas,  Green..............  @1 40
Peas, Split.................  @3*4
Sago, German...........  @ 6%
Tapioca, fl’k or p’rl..  @ 6%'
Wheat,  cracked........  @ 6*4
Vermicelli, import...  @10
domestic..  @60
MATCHES.

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

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FARTNACEOUS GOODS.

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G. H. No.  8,  square...........  95
G. H. No 9, square, 3 gro.. .1 10
G. H. No. 200,  parlor.........1 65
G. H. No. 300, parlor......... 2 15
G. H. No.  7, round............ 1 40
Oshkosh, No. 2.................
Oshkosh, No.  8................... 1 50
Swedish.............................   76
Richardson’s No. 8  sq....... 1 00
Richardson’s No. 9  sq....... 150
Richardson’s No. 7*4, rn d ..l 00 
Richardson’s No. 7 
rnd..l  50 
Woodbine. 300......... 
1 15
MOLASSES.
Black  Strap.................... 16@17
Cuba Baking...................22@25
Porto Rico....................... 24@35
New  Orleans, good........ 25@30
New Orleans, choice.......33@40
New Orleans, fancy.......45@48

 

*4 bbls. 3c extra

OIL.

*? 
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Sic k l e s .

OATMEAL

OATS—ROLLED.

Michigan Test................... 10*
Water White......................12%
Barrels............................... 6 00
Half barrels....................... 3 15
C ases................................2 35
Barrels............................... 6 00
Half barrels ....................... 3 25
Cases......................... 2 25@3 35
Medium..,...........................5 50
*4 bbl..................3 *5
Small,  bbl...........................6 50
*4 bb l......................3 75
Table............................. 5%@5*4
H ead....................... ....6%<
Java.................................... 6%
P atn a............ 
6%
Rangoon..............................5
Broken...  ...........................
J a p a n .......................   @5%
DeLand’s pure.....................5*4
Church’s  ...... ................
Taylor’s  G. M    ............. .5
Dwight’s .........../ ............. .5’°
Sea  Foam.;......... 
  5%
Cap Sheaf............................5

SALERATUS.

RICE.

%c less in 5 box lots.

 

 

 

SALT.

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SPICES—WHOLE.

*4 
SAUCES.
SOAP.

60  Pocket, F F D...........:. .2 15
28 Pocket......................... 2 05
10031b  pockets............... ..2 25
Saginaw or Manistee........  85
Ashton, bu. bags................  75
Ashton,4 bu.  bags............. 2 75
Higgins’bu. bags..............  75
American, *4 bu. bags.......   20
Rock, bushels..................24@35
Warsaw, bu. hags..............  36
..............  19
London Relish, 2 doz..........2 50
Dingman, 100 bars...........   4 00
Don’t  Anti-Washbo&rd__ 4 75
Jaxon..................................3 75
Queen  Anne...................... 3 85
German Family..................2 49
Big Bargain........................1 87
Allspice........... ........... ......8
Cassia, China in mats..........7*4
“  Batavia in bund.. ..11
“  Saigon in rolls.......42
Cloves,  Amboyna.............. 25
“  Zanzibar.................¿2
Mace Batavia....................70
Nutmegs,  fancy................ 70
No. 1.................65
No. 2.................60
white. 28
shot....................... 21
SPICES—GROUND—IN BULK. 
Allspice........... 
................ 12*4
VtbBBlU, IHUtiYia. ............... . wu
and Saigon.25
“  Saigon............ .....42
Cloves, Amboyna...... ......30
“  Zanzibar........ .....28
Ginger, African.........
“  Cochin........... ...... 12*4
...... 15
“ 
Jamaica........ ....  @18
Mace Batavia............. ......80
Mustard,  English...
......23
and Trie.25
Trieste............ ...27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ............... 70
Pepper, Singapore  black..22 
white.. 30
“ 
“  Cayenne.............25
doz... 84 
Absolute Pepper, 
“ 
...84
Cinnamon  “ 
“  ,..55
Allspice 
“ 
.;.l 10
Gloves 
“ 
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Ginger 
“ ...78
. Mustard 
“ 
...84
STARCH.

Pepper, Singapore,  Dlack..l8*4 

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SUGARS.

bulk......... . 

,  “  1  Off.........   @

Kingsford’s
Silver Gloss, 1 lb pkgs......  7
“  6 lb boxes...... 7*4
“ 
6*4
Pure, 11b pkgs.......... . /  . ..  5*4
Corn.l lb pkgs........  .........   7
Gut  L oaf................   @ 6%
Cubes........................  @ 8*4
Powdered,.................  @ 8*4
Granulated, Stand...  @ 8
Confectionery A ......  @7 81
Standard.A,..........  @ 7*4
No. 1, White Extra C. 7%@ 7%
No. 2, Extra C.............  @ 7
No. 3 C, gojden......  @ 6%
N0. 4C, dark«...........  @ 6*4
No 5 0 . . / . / / . . . . . . . .   @ 6
Corn, barrels.............  @29
Corn,*4b b ls............  ,..  @31
Com, keg»;....................   @34
Pure Sugar, bbl...............30@35
PureSugar,*4bbl.........32@37
SWEET  GOODS.
X  XXX
8*4
Ginger  S n ap s........8 
Sugar Creams......... .8 
8*4
8*4
Frosted Creams...... 
Graham Crackers....  - 
8
Oatmeal Crackers.... 
8
TOBACCOS—PLUG. 
Spear Head special..........43
Plank Road. , i / . . . .  11 / . . . . . .  42
E c l i p s e . . . ......   ..36
Holy Moses.......... . ............. .33
Blue B l a z e s .
. 32
Bye  Opener......... ............... 32
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SYRUPS.

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DRIED FRUITS—FOREIGN.
Citron, in drum .............. 22
in boxes............. ,J2i
“  
Currants:  .  if  -.¿./J6  @ 6*4
Lemon Peel.,L.......... ......14
Orange Peel............ ..,.14  1
Prunes, Im perial......  @6
i  “  Turkey,_______ .4@4%
new;........ 5  '
-  *• 
Raisins, Dehesia............3  60
Raisins, LondonLayers....3 to
...J& 65
Ráisips. California  “ 
Raisins. Loose Muscatels..2 25  Clipper.................. 

/  * • v 

......  

,  ____.S tar  ml//_ ;^ ;® -.//* 2 @ 4 5

Alsshti M m  Fowlir.

JOBBERS OF

i, C ois I Grocers’  Siflries

6 Ottawa S t, C H I P  RIPID8.
OTTO KLEIN, Manager

Dealer in

—IN-

Buckskin,  Dogskin,  Napha  and 

Sheepskin«

IMPORTED  AND  DOMESTIC  KID  

GLOVES A SPECIALTY.

-Full Line of-

MI88E8  AND  YOUTHS’  GLOVES,
Mail Orders will receive Prompt  Attention.

79  PEARL  STREET,

Grand  Rapids, 

- 

Mich.

Uillers, Attention

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  Middlings  Purifier  Co.,

G R IP  RAPIDS,  MICH.

MAGIO COFFEE  BO ASTEE
The  most practical 
hand  Boaster  in the 
world.  Thousands in 
use—giving  satisfac­
tion. They are simple 
durable and econom­
ical. 
grocer 
should  be  without 
one.  Roasts  coffee 
and  pear-nuts to  per 
lection.
Send for  circulars.

No 

Befit S la t,

IS O  L o n g  S t.,
Cleveland, Ohio.

FROSTS  PATENT/' 
BOX KASTEN ER/  "

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XT.SER  !6  18T$.

i f   mS.OflUiIDIM
Lf Packing Boxes,
W 
Shipping Gases,
Y 
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4 and 4 E rie St,,
G R A N D   R A P ID S  j

Egg Crates, etc.

PATENTS,

LUCIUS C. WEST, 

 

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Attorney at Patent Law and Solicitor 
of  American  and  Foreign  patents. 
106 E. Hain SL, Kalamaioo, Mich., U. 8. A.  Branch  of­
fice, London, Eng.  Practice in U. S. Courts.  Circular* 
free. 

, 
«rxjx>z>  c9o  o o .,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE

And FullLinc 8ummer Goods.

108 CANA L STREET.

W   H I   F   s

Full line.  Cash prices this month. 

GRAHAM ROYS,  -  Grand Rapids. Mich.
.PLACE to secure a  thorough 
7 / ° |   ■ 
j / e c / . . j ^ a n d  useful edncation is a t the 
/
Grand Rapids (Mich.) Busi* 
V  
1  ness College. write for Coir
lege Journal.  Address, C. G. 8WENSBERG.

/

the reporter.

“ Unless tallow takes a  downward  turn, 
which is not at all  probable,  the  manufac­
turers will be  compelled  to - advance their 
prices to avoid doing business at a loss.” 

“How about the soap  trust  Bell is engi­

neering?”

“It  can’t  be  worked.  There  are  too 
many small men in the  business. 
I  under­
stand the project is shelved for the present.”

The W ool  Market.

There is less excitement in the wool mar­
kets  than a fortnight  ago, though a  steady 
volume  of  business  is  under  way,  with 
prices  sustained at  the  advance.  On  th e: 
whole, the outlook for the coming season is 
considered  much  better  than  there  was 
reason  to  look  for  at  the  beginning  of 
August  Buyers of clothing are placing con­
tracts with great caution, but yet somewhat 
more liberally than heretofore, and more or 
less machinery that has Ijeen idle is starting 
up.  The  supply  of  choice  fine  fleeces, 
moreover, appears  to  be less than  was an­
ticipated, so  that  the  market  for this  de­
scription of  wool  is  strong, particularly  in 
the country.

Holders of wool at Boston express the ut­
most  confidence  in  the steadiness of  the 
market.  While  the manufacturers  are  op­
erating  rather  less freely  than during  the 
latter  part  of  August, their  requirements 
for  consumption are  considerable.  At  the 
prices which  prevailed  before  the advance 
they would, without question, buy liberally; 
at  the  present  level  they  are  inclined  to 
operate with caution.

New  Fish-and Oyster House.

‘Elsewhere  in  this week’s  paper will  be 
found  an announcement  to  the effect  that 
Bliven  &  Allyn will  shortly engage in  the 
wholesale  fish  and  oyster  business  at  63 
Pearl street.  The  manager of  the business 
will  be  H.  M. Bliven,  who  has  had  over 
twenty  years experience in the oyster busi­
ness,  having  handled  the  Big  F.  Farren 
brand  ia this  market for  many years  and 
acted as manager for the oyster department 
of Putnam & Brooks for the past five years. 
Mr. Bliven informs Th e T radesman  that 
he has  secured the sole  agency for  Michi­
for  the  above  named  brand  and 
gan 
with 
hand­
ling and  long  acquaintance with  the trade, 
be proposes to do his  share of  the business 
naturally tributary to this market.

admirable 

facilities 

for 

The  firm,  will  also  carry a full  line  of 
ocean  fish  products,  such  as  shell clams, 
soft and hard  crabs,  fresh  mackerel, fresh 
cod, halibut,  lobsters (shipped alive), blue- 
fish, smelts, etc.

‘  Now It’s a Rice Trust.

From  the  Chicago  Herald.

An  extensive  combination  has  been 
formed of  Chicago,  St.  Paul, Pittsburg and 
New  York  capitalists  for the  purpose  ot 
handling, milling and  marketing rice, with 
the ultimate design of controlling the entire 
rice  product of  the  South.  Two  million 
five  hundred  thousand  dollars  have  been 
subscribed, and an immediate investment of 
$200,000 has  been made in  New Orleans in 
elevators  for the  storage of rice,  a mill  for 
cleaning, and  in  facilities  for handling  i t  
The projectors of  the company will operate 
this  year’s  crop,  and  within 
the  last 
three  months several meetings of  the share 
owners  have been  held  in this  city.  A. 
Leo Weil, of Pittsburg, the general counsel 
for  the syndicate, is at the  Richelieu.  He 
has just returned from New Orleans.  “This 
is a  private  business  enterprise,” said  he, 
“in which are  engaged a number of  gentle­
men who have avoided notoriety, and sought 
to conduct their business  without  unneces­
sary publicity.  They own  stock created by 
them for convenience in several companies.”

The  Grocery  Market.

An  advance  in  raw  sugar has been fol-- 
lowed by a corresponding  movement in the 
refined article/  Tea is steady.  Rio coffees 
are  firmer,  in  consequence  of  which  the 
package manufacturers have advanced their 
prices %e.  Gloves have  advanced Be. dur­
ing  the  past  ten  days, allspice  %e.  and 
cassia  the  same.  Bape  seed  is  up  %c-, 
hemp %c.  and  celery seed 2c.  Fresh beef 
is  higher  and  firmer.  Spot  lard  touched 
10c.  in  Chicago  on  Monday.  Soaps  are 
tom  
to  go 
higher. •  Dealers can  make  a  mistake  in 
purchasing  a t present  prices.  Kirk & Co. 
have  placed the  sale of  their goods  exclu­
sively with Hawkins & Ferry.  New sauer­
kraut  is  already  in  market,  commanding. 
I n »   14 to  $5.50  per  barrel, according  to

in  price  and  are  bound 

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

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Grand Rapids.

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13.15.17  Railroad  Place,

GHA2TD  RAPIDS.

REEDER, PALMER  &  CO.,

Wholesale Boots and Shoes.

STATE  AGENTS  FOR  LYGOJilp  RUBBER  GO..

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At Lowest S u e r  Prices
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LUBRICANTS.  N either  Gums  nor 

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and outwears any other 
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Ponys, per gross, $10.  Packed in 3  doz. cases. 
Pints, per doz., $2.25.  Packed in 1  doz.  oases.. 
Quarts,  per  doz.,  $4.  Packed in 1 doz. cases. 
Gallons, each,  $1.20.  Packed  6  cans  in  case. 
Each case contains a  liberal assortm ent of~ 

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

advertising m atter,  lithographs, 

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THB  TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY

show-cards, etc.
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Successors to Allen’s Laundry;
Mail and Express orders attended  to with 
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Satisfaction Guaranteed.

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Paper  Box Factory,

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Paper Boxes of Every Description  Made to 

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Sample Cases.  Also Shelf, Shoe, Confec­
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Packing Boxes.  Druggists’ Slides 

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prices.  Write  or  call  for  estimates  on  any­
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both for field and garden. 
Parties  in  want  should 
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Three Years—Ottmar Kberbach, Ann Arbor,  g 
W ter Y es»—Qeo.EcPwudd. Xalsniasoo. 
F irs Years—Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso. 
President-Geo. McDonald 
«•eret&rjr—Jacob Jesson.
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'Candidates will please report at 9 a  m  the second day 
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■'Prasldeit—Arthur Bassett, Detroit. 
('■Krs^ Vice-Pros Went—G. M. Harwood. Petoskey.  . 
Second Vice-President—H. B. Fairchild,  Grand Rapids 
■Third Vioo-rresldent—Heniy Keph&rt, Berrien hpringH 
Secretary—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. 
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Local Secretary—James Vemor, Detroit.
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ORGANIZED OCTOBXR 9, 1884. 

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m   .  -  -  ■  President—H. E. Locher.
Wm  J'ir.  Yice.Prasident--J.W.Hayward. 
Secretary—Frank H. Eseott.
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Trea8urer--Henry B. Falrchlld. 
-  Board of Censors—Presiddit.  Vice-President  and Seo- 
xetary. 
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,3oard of Trustees—The President, John  E. Peck,  Geo.
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G. Steketee, A. F. Hazeltlne and F. J. Wurzburg.
wen, Isaac watte, Wm. E. White and Wm.  L.  White. 
Committee on Trade  Matters—Jonn Peck, F.  J. Wurz- 
-  burg, W. H. Tibbs.
Hayward,  Theo.
■Committee  on  Pharmacy—W.  L.  White,  John  Muir, 
fiegular  Meetings—First  Thursday  evening  in  each 
_ Annual Meeting—First Thursday evening InNovember.

Kemink, W. H. Tan Leuwen.
M. B. glmwi-
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D etroit Pharm aceutical fijo*
Prebfatant->J. W. Caldwell.; 
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FirstVice-President—F.W .R.Perry.  'J ,  
Second Vice-President—F. D. Stevens. '
Secretary and Treasurer—B. W. Pattersoá 
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—G. S.S 
Annual Meeting—First WeduesdAy In Ju 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in <
Central  Michigan  Druggists’ \ 
•elation. 
President, J. W.Dnnk>p; 8e c ^ 5 y , R. M. j
tUsseU.
B errien County  Pharm aceutic 
Society, 
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President, H- M. Pean; Secretary, Hehry 3
Clinton County Druggists’ Ass 
dation.
Presidpntt'A. O.-Hùnt; Secretary.'A. S. Wal
C h a rle v o ix  C ò u n ty P h a rm a c e u tic a  
Pr^ldont,H. W. Willard;  Secretary, Geo.' ' Society
f, Crouter.
Ionia County Pharm aceutical L
President, W. R. Cutler ; Secretary, Geo. Gu3liete*
Jackson Counte Pharm aceutical i 
President, C. B. Colwell; Secretary, O. E. Foot
Kalamazoo Pharm aceutical Association. 
President, D. O. Roberts; Secretary, D. HcDoijild.
Mason County  Pharm aceutical Soeiety. 
President. F. N. Latimer, Secretary, Wm. Hewett
Mecosta  Couuty - Pharm aceutical  A 
President, C. H. Wagener;  Secretary, A. H. WiHsiety.
bber.
Monroe County Pharm aceutical So 
President, A  M.Backett; /Secretary, Julios WeiÈ
Muskegon C o u n ty   P h a rm .  A ssocia 
President, wm. B. Wilson; Secretary, Geo. Wh«ion,
eler.
Muskegon Drug Clerks9 Association. 
President, C. £L Moon; Secretary, Geo-,!*. LeFevfe.

. F. A. Raider; Secretary, A. G. Clark

Oceana County Pharm aceutical Society. 

President, F, W. Fincher; Secretary, Frank Cady,,
Saginaw  County  Pharm aceutical  Society* 
President, Jäy Smith;  Secretary, D. E. Prall.

W H O L E S A L E   P R IC E   C U R R E N T .

Advanced—Oil sassafras, white lead, red lead, linseed oil.

 

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From the  Muskegon News, Sept. 4.

Gone  to tibe Supreme Court.

i Annual  Meeting  of the  M*S. P. A. 
The sixth  annual  meeting of the  Mich­
The  “druggists  cases,” ' so-called,  have 
igan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association,
gone to the  Supreme Court 
It will  bere^ 
I which  was  held'at Detroit-last week, was j 
membered  that  Messrs.  Quinn,  Feighner, 
attended by fewer druggists  than  any  pre-
Moore,  Havens,  C.  L. Brundage, Meyers,
vious convention of  the Association—about  Bergeron, Eckermann, Sibley, Wheeler and 
twenty-five less than attended the Petosiey 
were  complained  of  by Pinkerton
meeting  l u t   ^
many as were present air the  Grand Rapids  the  handling of  spirituous  liquors;  A fter 
meeting, two  years  ago.  There  are  three  considerable delay the cases finally came on 
reasons for the meager attendance, theprin-1 ?n  ter trial, the  name of Dr.  Quinn  stand-
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was Inadvertently fixed for the first week in  dered.  Jas.  McLaughlin appeared  for the 
September,  when a large  proportion of  the  people, and  F.  W. Cook, H. L.  Delano and 
drug  trade is severely taxed  to  supply the 
■mnoal demand for aehooi boot».  The other  „ S
reasons,  sufficient  in  themselves  to play a  on  the  calendar of  the  Supreme  Court  at 
considerable  feature, are  sufficiently  plain 1 tee next  term.  The bill of .exceptions sets 
to  every member to necessitate  no  further 1 ??  .tee  arrests, motion  to  quash  and  the
trial, in  the circuit  qourt. 
It recites  that 
[ explanation..
the  prosecutor  placed  Martin  Waalkes, 
The  convention  was  called  to  order by 
County  Treasurer,  on  the  stand, and  pro­
duced  the  druggist  bond of  the respondent 
I President  Bassett  on  Tuesday  morning* 
to show that  he was  in business  as a drug­
when  prayer  was  offered by Rev.  Dr. Bar­
gist,  and  that  he  had  not  paid  the 'tax 
clay and  an  address of  welcome  delivered
assessed against «persons  maintaining a sa- 
by ex-Congressman  Maybury, representing  loon.  The  attorney for the  defendant  ob-
I   jected  to the  admission of  the  bond in evi-
the  Mayor  of  Detroit.  H. J. Brown, 
resDonded  in  hehalf  nf ' thA I ^ence ter the following among otherreasons: 
Ann  Arbor,
responded  m  behalf  of  the I Because it is not alleged in the  information
Association,  eulogizing  in  eloquent  terms 
that  respondent  sold  the  beverage in  his 
the late Bishop Harris,  who opened the last 
capacity as  a  druggist, or  as a druggist  in 
any manner whatever.  He  is  described  in
convention held in Detroit

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D ealers

Patent Medißines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes.

Which  for  Durability,  Elasticity,  Beauty 

and Economy are Absolutely Unsurpassed.

J.  WXTRZBXTItC,

WHOLESALE  AGENT,

Grand  Rapids, 

-  Mich.

W e  are  Sole  P roprietors  o f

WEATHEBLY’S  MICHIGAN  CATARRH  REMEDY.

W e have in stock  and offer a fu ll lin e of

IKThis&ies,  Brandies,

Gins,  TSTines,  Hums.

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And the Wholesale  Druggists  of Detroit | 

and Chicago.

THE IMPROVED

AMERICAN POCKET BATTERY

For Physicians’ and  Fam ily Use.

This Battery has the advantage over any In the  mar- I 
ket In the following points  of  superiority:  A  Patent 
Hard Rubber, Removable Screw Top Cell (like a pocket 
Inkstand), containingjhe Carbon  and  Zinc  elements, 
can be carried  in the  pocket  charged  ready  for  use; 
water-tight, no leaking;  for  durability,  compactness, 
and  strength  of  current  it  excels  all  others.  Two 
nickel-plate sponge electrodes with  each  battery.  No 
small wire connections on bottom of  this  machine, as 
in all others, th at rust easily and are difficult to repair.
Sold  by  the  trade.  Price,  $10,  and  every Battery 
warranted.  Send for Circular 49,  giving special  price j 
to physicians for a sample battery prepaid.  Address

LEGTRO-MEDICIL BATTERY C0„
Or HAZELT1NE & PERKINS DRUG  CO., 

KALAMAZOO, SUCH.,
_______Grand Rapid«, Mich.

BEAD! BEAD! BEAD!
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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 bestpYhite  Lead or 
such other paint as the owner Way  select.  In 
case of Complaint, prompt notice must be giv­
en to the dealer.__________ •
Write  for Sample  Cards  and Prices.  W e 

have Supplied our Trade with this

We are  Sole  Agents in  Michigan  for  W. D. & Co. 

Henderson County, Hand Made  Sour Mash 

Whisky and Druggists* Favorite 

Rye  Whisky.

W e sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only
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Jiaieltine i Perkins  Drilg  Go.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

RECOMMENDED  BY  EMINENT  PHYSICIANS

LI p ii IH
A CONI'1-  EXTRACT01
MALT  J   H O P S   I

-OR  SALE  BY  ALL  DRUGGISTS

78 Congress St., West,

Detroit, Mich., April 9,1888. 

Specialty Dept. Ph. Best Brewing Co.,
Gen tlem en—I   duly  received  the  case  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 
prescribe  it  in future, where the  system re­
quires building up. either from constitutional 
weakness or otherwise.

Yoars truly,

w m . Gray, M. D. 
Medical Sup’t.

_____  Midville, Geo., Feb. 24,1888.

Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing 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,

““

Troy, New York, January 26,1888. 

Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co,,
Dear Sirs—Your agent left me a sample of 
your liquid extract, Malt, and as  I  use  m ute 
such  in  my  practice, I  thought  to  compare

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 Fisk, M. D.

East Genessee Street,

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

Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co.,
Gen tlem en—I   have  used the “Best” Tonie 
with  most  gratifying  results in  my  case  of 
dyspepsia.  My case was  a bad  one, 1  had no 
appetite; headache in the morning; sour qtfun- 
ach;  looking  as  though  I  had consumption, 
and after taking this tonie I   never felt better 
in  my life.  I think it  will cure a bad case of 
dyspepsia.  You  may recommend it  for  th at 
ca8e* 

Wm. O. J aeg er.

Brand  for more than eight  years  and  it 
is all the manufacturers claim for it.
W e sell it on a  GUARANTEE.
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GENERAL AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MIOH.

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Yardley, Pa., March 18.1888.
Ph. Best Brewing Co.,
|  Drar Sirs—I have given your “Malt Tonic
a, trial in several cases of Enfeebled Digestion 
r u i m i l b  l / I  U g  OO.  and General  Debility, especially in the  aged,
where  the  whole  system  seems  completely
ave  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 
the nerve vital  force, I found its action to  be 
rapid and permanent.

È rostrated, with  very satisfactory  results.  I 

Elias Wildma'W, M. D.

322 South Fifth Street, 
Philadelphia, Feb. 4,1880.

Ph. Best Brewing Co., 28  College Place, N. Y.,
Gentlem en—I  have  tested  the sample  of 
“Concentrated  Liquid  Extract  of  Malt  »"4 
Hops” you  sent me,  and  find  in  my hnm|>% 
judgment that it is a very pure and safe arti­
cle.  I  will  not  hesitate  to  recommend it  1r 
every ease of debility  where  a  Tonic of  that 
kina is indicated.

Respectfully.

E. H. Be l l, M. D.
<  New Orleans, La., April 6,1888.

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8 5c size.  ..............................  .per doz, $8.00
50c  **  .....................................■ 
3.50
Peckham ’s Croup Beinedy 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  "w 
by  whole* 
sale druggists of  Grand  Rapids,  Detroit 
and
Chicago.

Should  send $1 to 

. E.  A.  Stowe  & Bro. I
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I for one <if their Improved

O RA N »  R A PID S,

LIQUOR I POISON RECORDS
c x x r s r a c   R O O T .
We pay the highest price for it.  Adffirwt,

Work-House Hospital, 

Blackwell’s Island, Feb. 10,1888.

] Ph. Best Brewing Co., -
Gentlemen— As a matter of personal inter­
est, I have used  your “Best” Tonio in several 
eases of impaired  nutritition.  The results in­
dicate that it is  an  agreeable  and  doubtless, 
highly efficacious remedy.  1 am.
Very truly yours,

E. w . Fleming,  M. D.

Specialty Depart. Ph. Brewing Co.,
Gentlem en—Having  tried  your  “Best" 
Tonic to a great  extent amongst my praettote 
I will state in its behalf that  I   have  had  the 
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 wav 
satisfactory for such cases.

Very respectfully,

D. Bornio, M  D.

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dress of  the President  was  presented  and  it comes to the  allegation of  selling,  the in- 
other routine  work  was  transacted.  The  formation is entirely silent as to whether he 
as a. sateonist, private individual,  drug-
I g ist,  or  in sin v nth fir  Aanamtv  A ora in  “Tf
gist, or  in any other  capacity.  Again,  “It 
is immaterial whether  he sold as a druggist 
or  not, from  the fact  that it is not  alleged 
that  he  did  sell  as a  druggist,  or  at  his 
place of  business,  as such  druggist, and  if
J  he made  the unlawful  sale which  they at-
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been  unusually mteresting,  iq spite of I tribute  to him, he  would  be  amenable  to
*he small attendance. 
| another  statute, one that  confers  exclusive
jurisdiction  upon  justices of  the peace  to 
i  Geo.  Gundrum,  of  Ionia,  was  elected 
try,  if  the sale was unlawful,  and if he had 
president of the Association and Stanley E.
not complied with  the statute as  they have 
Parkill  was  re-elected  Secretary,  but  re­
sought to show, then the justice would have 
fused to  serve,  when  H. J. Brown,  of  Ann 
jurisdiction  and not  this court.  But  it  is 
only because he y made the  sale ‘as  a  drug­
Arbor,  was selected to fill the  vacancy.
gist at his  place of  business, acting as such
at tfae time,’ that the case is brought within
I the first Wfifiir  in 
the first week  in  September,  1889,  it being  the jurisdiction of the Circuit  Court;  it fol-
expressly stipulated  that  no  elaborate  en- 
lows that the Circuit has not jurisdiction of 
the  case.  The capacity in which  he  acted 
| tertainment be prepared for  the occasion 
at the time he made the sale is a distinctive 
element,  and  robs the  justice of  the peace 
of  the jurisdiction and  confers it  upon the 
Circuit  Court;  therefore, being  one of  the 
essential elements,  it  should  be specifically 
alleged. 
It  is not  even indicated  that the 
sale was made at his place of business.  The 
allegation  in the  information should  show 
that  the respondent  knew that  the'liquor 
was  to be used .as a beverage,  and that  he 
made such sale as a druggist, at his place of 
business.”
In  reply to these  reasons  Judge  Russell 
remarked:  “ Well, gentlemen, this question 
is not  entirely free from  difficulty,  and the 
case will  go to  the Supreme Court anyway, 
without doubt.”  The bond was then received 
in evidence.  The respondents  excepted  to 
the remark of the court about “the case go 
ing to the Supreme Court anyway.”
The bill ot exceptions further  recites that 
the people put W.  S. Deveraux on the stand, 
who  testified  that on the  19th day of  July 
the  respondent did sell  hiM  one  glass  cjf 
spirituous liquor.  The respondent and Geo. 
McAvoy  testified  that respondent  did  not 
sell  the  respondent  a  glass of  spirituous 
liquor on the 19th day of July.

F. M. Allsworth,  of  Lansing;  Jacob  Jes- 
|son,  of  Muskegon;  Geo.  McDonald,  of
Kalamazoo;  F.  J.  Wurzburg,  of  Grand 
is I (Rapids, and S. E. Parkill,  of  Owosso,  were 
elected delegates to the  next  convention of 
the American  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
to be held at San Francisco.

McKesson  &  Robbins,  of  New  York, 
\iere awarded the prize of  $25 for  the  best 
exhibit. 

Cloves  and  Clove Oil.

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ACIDUM.
A c e tic u m . . . . . . . . . . . .
800100
Benzoicum , G erm an 
B o racic.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
30
C a rb o licu m .......... 
45®   50
•Citrfcum  . . . . . . __ ...  60®   65
H y d ro c h lo r.....   .......  
3®  
5
N itrocum   ................ 
10®  12
 
 
10®  12
■Oxalicum .................. 
P hosphorioum   dii..-; 
20
B a licy llcu m ......................1  7002 05
1 5£@5
S u lp h u ric u m ......... . 
,  T a n n ic u m . . . . . . . . . . . . 1   40@1  60
I  T a rta ric u m   _______  
  50®  53
AMMONIA.
f -  
A qua, 16 d eg ..............  
5
3®  
6
'  18  d eg ..............  
4®  
C arbonas.......................  11®  13
C b lo rid u m ....................  12®
S t i c k ............... 
2 00@3 25
B r o w n ..:......................   80@1 00
B e d .............................  45®  50
T T e l l o w . ^ . -------2 50@3 00
"Cubebae (po.  1 60....1 8502  00 
•Ju n ip e ru s  . . . . . . . . * \ .
X a n th o x y lu m .........,
BAL SAMUM.

ANILINE,

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Jem .
"Terabln,  Canada.
l o l u t a n ....... ..........
CORTEX.
A bies,  C anadian.......
C assiae  ............ .........
•Cinebona F la v a .........
E aonym us  atro p u rp  
M yrica  C erifera, po.
'P r u n u s  V irg in i......
O uillaia,  g rd ..............
S a ss fra s..........
U lm u s..... ....................
TTimn« p o  (G round 12) 
EXTRAGTUM. 
24®
•G lyc/rrhiza G lab ra..
p o ...........-
flaem ato x , 15 2> dox..  11®
V4s"!?"!  u®
FERRUM.

» 

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®
•Carbonate P re c ip —  
•Citrate,and Q u in ta...  ©c
■CitrateSoluble........... 
®
F errocyanidum  S o l.. 
®
®
S o lu t  C h lo rid e ....... 
S u lp h ate,  eom ’l . . . . . .   IK ®
p u re ........... 
®
FLORA.
A rn ica.......................  
  12®
A n th e m is............ : ...  45®
M a tricaria..................   30®
FOLIA.
B a ro sm a ................. 
  10®
C assia  A cutifol,  Tin-
n iv e lly ...,......... . 
25®
A lx.  35®
« 
S a lv ia   officinalis.  )is
10®
a n d   Ü8. ........... . . . . .
8®
B r a   U nsi.....................
GUMMI.
Acacia, 1st picked.

 

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RADIX.

SEMEN.

(po. 35)..............

10®
16®il

Potass  N itras,opt...  8®
Potass Nitras........... 
7®
Prussiate ............  25®
Sulphate p o ............  15®
Aconitum.................   20®
A lthae......... . 
25®
 
Anchusa ..........  
15®
Arum,  po................. 
;  @
Calamus.......... .
.Gentiana,  (po. 15)__
Giychrrhiza,  (pv. 15). 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
Hellebore, Alba,  po.
Inula, po...................
Ipecac, po.................2
Irte plox (po. 20®22)..  18®
Jalapa, pr.................  25®
Maranta,  Us............   ®
Podophyllum, po....  15®
Rhei  ............... 
75@1
“  cut....................  @1
“  p v ....................  75®1 35
Spigelia....................  48®
Sanguinaria, (po. 25).  ®
Serpentaria..............  30®
Senega......................  60®
Smilax, Officinalis, H  ®
M  @
Scillae, (po. 35).........   10®  12
Symplocarpus.  Foe-
tidus, po.................   ®
Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30)  ®
German..  15®
Zingiber a .................  16®
Zingiber j ...... ..........  18®
Anisum, (po. 20)........  ®
Apium  (graveleons).  10®
Bird, Is .....................  4®
Carui,  (po. 18)...........  12® JH
Cardamom............... 1 00@1 %
Coriandrum..............   10®  12
Cannabis  Sativa...... 3)4® 4M
■  donium.................  75@1 00
enopodium.........   10®  12
Diptenx Odorate__ 1 75®1 85
Foenfculum..............  ®  15
Foeuugreek, po........  6®  8
Lini............................. 3)4®  4
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3)..  ..  3)4®  4
Lobelia................... 
  35®  40
Phalaris Canarian...  3%®4)4
R apa........................  5®  6
Sinapis,  Albu...........  8®  9
N igra.......  11®  12
SPIRITUS.
1 Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50
I Frumenti, D. F. R__ 1 75@2/0C
I Frum enti.................1 10@1 50
Juniperis Co. O. T .. .1 75®l 75
Juniperis Co............1 7503 50
Saacnarum  N. E..... 1 75®2 09
Spt. Vini Galli.........1 75®6 50
■jpi Oporto............. 12502  00
Viqi  Alim............  1 25®2 00
SPONGES
Florida Sheens’ wool
carriage............ ....2 2502 50
Nassau sheeps’wool
carriage.................
Velvet Extra sheeps’
wool carriage........
Extra Yellow sheeps’
carriage__ ......
Grass  sheeps’  wool
carnage.................
Hard for slate use...
Yellow Reef, for slate 
use......... ...............  

40

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2nd  “  
3rd 
“ 

“  V ir........

... 7
...
“  Sifted sorts.
“  p o ............. ...
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)..
**  Gape,(po.20)...
“   Socotrr, (po. 60) 
Catechu,  Is,  ()4s,  14 
J4S, 1 6 )......,.-,..-.
Ammonia©  ...........
Assafoetida,  (po. 30). 
Benzoinum
«Campborae......... ,.V
Euphorbium, po .....
■Galbanum...... .......
»Gamboge, po— ......
«Gfeaiacum, (po, 45)..,
Xino, (po. 26)— .....
M astic...... — ........
Myrrh,(po.45).... 
.. 
iQpn, <po. 4 30>... .....»
Shellac...................- ■ 
'
bleached......   j
Tragacanth ..............
herba—In ounce packages^ 
A bsinthium ..........
(Eupatorium  .............
»Lobelia   
...... .....
Majorum  .................
Mentha Piperita.... .
•Bue
'Tanaoetum,  V .......
*Thymus.-V 
.
MAGNESIA.
•Calciined,  Pm .........
«Carbonate,  P a t.k ... 
■Carbonate,  K. & M..
‘Carbonate,  Jennings
Absinthium ..........6  1
Amygdalae, Dulc—  
Amydalae, Amarae..7:
A n isi............  _.....l
Auranti Cortex....
Bergamii............ .2
'Cajiputi  ............. J
a   »Cteyophylli..............
teg  -Cedar................. .
mn: i o 
..  ©1- 75
^   »Chenopodii 
85®  90
Cinnamonii 
Citronella ....
» 1   «
►Conium  Mac 
«Ocoalba ..............  00® 100
Cubebae ........ v .15 50@16 00
■ Exechthitos.......,..  90®1 00
Brigeron. 
...120@1 30
¿Gaultheria..........2  25@2 35
A"  -Geranium, 5..............  ®  76
mk  <GoS8ipii; Sera; gal....  55®  75
W   Hedeoma.. . . . . . . ,..115@1 25
“ ■  Attniperi..............  600200
Lavendula............  0002 00
.Limonis..............1 7 6 ^  26
.itentha Piper.........Jt 25@3 30
:3len»ia V eiid........3 0003 26
Morriiime;  g a l..,.,;.  800106 
I t ewt et J. . . . ; —
Ä   6©
•‘Ofive«».............-..1000275

miBOsmarini........760100

OLEUM.

1 

S 5 0 T 4 ?...*>*J5 4  @100
Suocini  ....................   JX®**
Sabina.:.............M   «00100
Santal.v,................. A

. m m
40®  50
m

'!® to » e........ 
'Theobromas,.,,

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..  POTASSIUM. 
.fj,'

Bichromate 

•Chlorate, (Po. 30&&■-.

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SYRUPS.
Accacia...................
Zingiber..................
Ipecac..................
Ferri lod...... »
Auranti Cortes......
Rbei Arom............
Smilax Officinalis...
Co.
Senega.....................
Scillae____________
Cc............. .
Tolutan...............
Prunus virg.............. 
TINCTURES.
Aconitum Napellis R 
F
Aloes........................
and myrrh......
A rnica......................
Asafoetida.........
Atrope belladonna... 
B enzoin.........*.....
Co................
Sanguinaria..........
Barosma...................
Cantbarides.........
Capsicum..................
Cardamon............ .
Co......... ...
Castor.......................
Catechu................. .
Cinchona...................
Co...............
Columba................
Conium................. .
Cubeba.....................
Digitalis__ it ........
Ergot-:.................. ,-J
Gentian....................
c o ..............
Guaica......................
ammon.......
Zingiber.................
Hyoscyamus...... .
Iodine..................
Colorless......
Ferri C hlridum ......
Kino . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,
Lobelia. . . . . . . . . . .
Myrrh......  
.............
NuxVomica  .........
'Opi............................
Camphorated...
Jeo d o r.  .......
Auranti Cortex.... ..
; h a t a n y .........
Bhel..............»..........
Cassia Acutifol......Co...
Serpentaria..........
Stromonium..........
Tolutan.. *
...... »..
Valerian.............
Veratrum Veride__
Æther.SptsNit, 3 F,. 
Æther, Spts Nit, I F..
Ajumen.............. 
Alumen, ground,  (p-
O. ft;.................
Annotto  ...................
Antimoni,  p o ........
Antimoni et Potass T
Antipyrin............  ..1
Argenti Nitras, J,-.,;-.
Arsenicum.........
Balm Gilead  Bud.... 
Bismuto s. N........2

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MISCELLANEOUS. 
26®  28 
30®  32
im s i4

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Sapsici Fnictus, a f..

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.  , 

50®

60&10, less.

1 bcq  w  

îi I Tradesman  regrets that it was  not repre- 
¿3i 
sented on the  occasion—for  the  first  time 
since the Association was bom—and is con 
! sequently unable to give even a summary of 
[the  proceedings,  which  were  reported  to

apsici Fructus, po.. 
Capsici Fructus, B po 
Caryophyllus, (po. 25)
Carmine, No. 40........
Cera Alba, S. & F ....
Cera Flava...............
Coccus  ......................
Cassia Fructus.
Centraria ................   @  10 
Cetaceum................   @  40 
Chloroform..............  5o@  65 I
Chloroform,  Squibbs  @1 00 
Chloral Hyd Crst... ..1 60@1
Chondrus......... ....... 
io@
Cinchonldine, P.<& W  15® 
Cinchonidine, Ger’an  6® 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
c e n t.......................
Creasotum................ 
<a
  @
Creta, (bbl.75).......  
Creta pr«p................  5@
Creta, precip...... . 
8®
Creta Rubra..............  @
Crocus  ......................   18®
Cudbear....................   @
Cupri Sulph..............  6®
Dextrine................... 
io@
Ether Suiph..............  68®
Emery, all numbers.  ®
Emery, po.................  @
Ergota, (po.) 75.........  70®
Flake  White............  12®
Galla.........................  @
Gambler................... 
7@
Gelatin, Coopor........  ®
Gelatin, French........  40®  __
Glassware flint, 70&10  by box.
Glue,  Brown............   9®
Glue, White..............  13®
Glycerina..............  
  23®
Grana  Paradis!........  ®
H um ulus.................  25®
Jas.  Yernor  was  preserted  with a very 
Hydrarg Chlor. Mite.  ® 
?01 
gold watch by the  exhibitors,  in  token 
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor.  ® 
Hydrarg Ox. Rubrum  ® 
901 of 1 his invaluable services  in  their  behalf, 
Hydrarg Ammonlati.  @1 10 
Hydrarg Unguentum  45®  55 
and Frank  Inglis  came  in for a handsome
Hydrargyrum.........  @
Ichthyocolla, Am"!! a  25®1 to I uPtolstered chair.
iodine, Resubl.!.!.!! 4 o o tl 10 
T®  entertainment feature was on a plane
Iodoform.................  @5 15  of  excellence never before attempted in this
Lycopodium...... 55@^ bo I ®tate and was carried out with  great  credit
Macis............'.*  80®
Liquor Arsen et Hy- 
, 
drargiod............ .  @  27 | atlves,  Messrs.  Yornor and .Inglis.
Liquor Potass Arsini-
«8....................  10®  12]
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl
1)4)..........................  2®  3
Since the beginning of  the  year there has 
Manma. S. F ................  90@l 00 j
been <m almost  continuous  decline  in  the 
Morphia,  S, P. & W  2 25@2 50 
Morphia,  S.  N.  Y. Q.
price  of  Zanzibar  cloves;  starting  in  at 
A C .  Co.................. 2 1502 40
twenty-one  cents  and  ending  a  few days 
Moschus C anton__   ®  40
since  at  fourteen  eents.  The  reaction 
Myristica, No. 1........  60®  70
which has taken place within the past week 
Nux  Yomica, (po. 20)  ®  13
Os, Sepia..................  27®  29
has carried prices up  about  two  cents  per 
Pepsin Saac,  H. & P.
pound—not  much of  an advance  compared 
D. C o....................   -  ®2 00
with the total  shrinkage  since  the  market 
Picis Liq, N. C.. )4 gal
„.doz 
.............................@2 70]
began  to  decline,  but  enough,  in  view of 
Picis Liq.,  quarts__   @1 40
attending ■ circumstances,  to  encourage the 
Picis Liq., pints........  @  85
j® I belief  among holders  that the period of  de
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80).  @
Piper Nigra,  (po.22).  @
Piper Alba, (po. 35)..  @  35  will  go  much  higher.  There  are  some
Ptombir& : : : : : ; ; :   14|
View,  who  base  their  argu 
Pulvis Ipecac et opii.i io®i 20  men‘i8 uP°n the assumption that the present 
Pyrethrum, boxes, H 
"  
I improvement will bring out stocks that hav<
~  
&P. D. Co., doz....  .
@1 25  been  held  back  while  the  market  had  i 
Pyrethrum, pv.........
J5  downward  tendency,  and  that  such  offer- 
Quassiae...................
55  ings must precipitate a decline. 
It does not 
uiaia, S, Germán...
46  follow that these bearish ideas will be borne 
Rubia Tinctorum.... 
13  out,  for it is conceded that  the  bulk of  the 
„
Saccharum Lactis pv 
851 reserved stock is under  strong  control, and 
Saiacin........... 
.......3 4003 50
since it has been  held so  long, no necessity 
Sanguis Draconis....  40®  50
Santonine.......'__  
®4 50
exists why it should be slaughtered now. 
Sapo,  W.................. v  12®  14 i
The  chief  elements  of  strength  in  the 
Sapo,  M................. 
8®  10
Sapo’ G. 
!  @ 1 6   market are the small available spot supplies
Sefdlitz  Mixture..."!  @  281an<^ tlie decided advance in futures.  Then,
Sinapis................. . 
@  181 too,  the season of  largest consumption is at
Sinapis, opt___ ___
hand and the demand for  several  weeks to
Snuff, Maccaboy, Do.
Voes........... 
... *  @  351 come should he sufficient to absorb the sup-
Snuff,  Scotch,  Do,
ply  even  at  higher  prices,  providing  the
~ 
Voes.....................
shipments  from  the  6ther  side  are not as 
Soda Boras, (po  11)..10 
heavy as  they  were  last  season,  and  the 
Soda et PotossTart..  <
| owners of the  stock  now held off  the mar- 
SodaCarb...__ .....
Soda, Bi-Carb,....
[ ket are not induced to  release  it  until  the 
Soda, Ash.................
market has recovered  something of  its nor- 
Soda  Sulphas...........
5^ j mal tone.  Regarding  the  prospects of  fu- 
Spts. Ether Co.........
- -  j tore supplies the advices from  the  primary 
Spts.  iVi vreia D>om...
Spts, Myrcia  Imp__
sources are yet too meager to form the basis 
Spts  Vini Beet.  bbi.
I 
In some quarters 
3.27)........................
it j s  held that  the  crop will be a short one,
Less 5c. gal.  cash'ten 
Strychnia  Ciystai.
though upon what reasonable  ground  such 
Sulphur, Subl  .........  24£i
an opinion may be formed' does not appear. 
Sulphur, B oll.....
Neither have we been able to ascertain how 
Tam arinds....___
those  who  predict  a  large  crop  are war­
Terebenth  Venice
T h e o b r o m a e _
ranted in their assumption.  We  are forced 
Vanilla   ................. 9 oo@16 00
to the conclusion that all predictions regard­
7®  8
Zinci  Sulph.............. 
ing future supplies are  the  result of guess­
work or an  imperfect  knowledge  obtained 
from the meager and unsatisfactory accounts 
so far received here.
The Upward  tendency of  the  market for 
the  spice has checked the downward move­
ment  in  clove  oil  values, and  within  the 
past few days there has  been a marked ad­
vance  accompanied  by  active  buying  for 
consumption^ Which has materially lessened 
the available supply.  The market  for  the 
oil is still irregular add  values  can  hardly 
be said to rest on a secure  basis.  The  rea­
son  for  this is that  some of  the oil  mann- 
factorero  have  been  caught  short of  sup­
plies  ©f  raw  material  by  the  sudden  ad­
vance  in  cloves  and  hope  by keeping the. 
market down to buy in enough  oil  to  carry 
teeim over the tight place in which they find 
themselves through  their  own  short-sight^ 
ednesS  Or  through  circumstances  beyond 
teeir contooi*  Should toe upward tendency 
of the spice market  be  farther  dovelop^l, 
or, even should the present prices for cloves 
he maintained, toe  price of oil  must of ne­
cessity go  higher. 

__ 
Bbl
w hale,w inter........  70
Lard,extra.......  ...  68
Lard,No. 1......... 
45
Linseed, pure raw  ..  52 
Linseed, boiled......  55.
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained................•  go
Spn.tsTurpentine...  41
Lb
PAINTS  Bbl 
Bed Venetian..........1J£ 
2®3
Ochre, yellow Mars. .IK  2®3 
Ochre, yellow Ber.. .154  203 
Putty, commerbial.. .2U  2)4®3 
Putty, strictly pure. .2)4 2K®3 
Vermilion prime Am- 
erlean.............. 
Vermilion, English.:
Green, Peninsular.
Lead, r e d . . . . , , V *
.
.
:
Whiting, white Span
Whiting;  Gilders’ 
W h i t e , O T i _
to. Parte Amer’n
Whiting, Pwris  Eng,
efiff!!!.,.?......!?. 
148
Pioneer  P rep aid
T aints.................t;l 2001 40
Swiss Villa Prepared 
Pidnts......... .A:...1OO012O

I___ „   is  pression is at an end,  and  that  the  market

auinia, S, P. & W__

10017m ss1 10

intelligent opinion. 

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THEY  W ERE  THERE.

Eaton,  Lyon  &  Co.’s  Exhibit  at 

Pharmaceutical  Convention.

the

As  has  been  their  custom  for  several 
years past, Eaton, Lyon & Co. made an ex 
hibit at the annual convention of  the Mich­
igan State Pharmaceutical Association,  held 
at Detroit last week,  and all  who  saw  the 
display  made  are  loud  in praise of  its ex 
tent  and  variety.  Being  unable to secure 
ample room at a hotel,  Eaton,  Lyon & Co 
secured the double  store at 73 and 75 Mich­
igan  avenue,  nearly  opposite  the  Hotel 
Cadillac,  where  there  was  ample room to 
make the  exhibit  and  accommodate  those 
who came to view the display as well.  The 
exhibit was under the direct personal super­
vision of J.  Leo. Kymer,  the junior  mem­
ber  of the firm,  who  was  ably assisted by 
Geo. H. Raynor and Gilbert J. Hann.  The 
line shown comprised  everything  desirable 
in the way of  plush  goods,  toilet  articles, 
manicure  cases,  albums,  books,  and other 
articles included in the term  holiday goods. 
The goods were  arranged  with  good  taste 
and it is not at all strange  that dealers who 
have not been in the  habit of  buying  their 
fancy  goods  in  this  market  should  have 
left their orders for their  full  holiday line.

The Drug Market.

Quinine is very firm and present prospects 
tend tp a higher  market*  Opium is also  in 
firm  position.  Morphia  is  unchanged.' 
Quicksilver  has  advanced.  Gum  shellacs 
are  further  advanced.  Oil  sassafras  is 
almost out of  market.  Golden  seal root  is 
tending upward.  White and red  lead have 
advanced  1  cent.  The  present  price is 7 
cents in small lots ;'500pofundsjand over,  Q% 
cents;  with a  rebate of  % cent,  or  &U net 
60  days,  2K  per  cent,  cash  in  15  days. 
Linseed pil has advanced.

He  W as  Getting  Ready.

From the Jewellers’ Weekly.

Maria—John, won’t  you  join the  church 
next Sunday and become a Christian ?  You 
kuow  you premised.

John—I know I  did, Maria,  and will; but 
’ye got  to  work  off  that  stock of  8-carat 
goods first.  , I’m no  hypocrite.

Jas. Yernor was awarded toe gold  medal 
for securing the most applications for mem­
bership to the Michigan State Pharmaceuti­
cal Association,  at Detroit, last week.  Over 
100 hew applications  were received  and ac­
cepted, which increases  toe  total  member­
ship to about 950,  making  the  Association, 
the  largest  in  legitimate  numbers  of any 
similar organization in the country.

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Coaeh Body. , » , . ,2 750^00
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And  He Still  Lived*

Woman (to. tired tramp who  was  resting- 
at toe gat©)—If you’ll  come  'round  to toe 
baek dpor T ll give  you ¡1 pieoe o’ pie.
Tired Tramp—Thanks,  ma’am,  not any; 
you  gave  me i  pJeoB of  pie when  E passed 
through this section last summer.

A howling swell—the spot whereon alile- 
¿fe  *  5  sf-J

„  sized hornet gets hi its work, 

pece

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E r r o r   Bad  set  h e rm a rk u p o n  th a t w rong- 
doa; 

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The mind o f the faithful  servant of  a re- 
bukeful  Heaven  was  often  troubled.  To 
w histle  on Sunday;  to  read as  a cormorant 
eats, and Of  worthy history, when  the  A d­
vocates  and  Exemplars,  and  Expositors 
offered  mines of  precious  truth;  to  be  in­
famously homesick;  to say he  was  glad so 
feebly that the lie shriveled  upon  his weak 
tip e-4t  was  all  that  could be expected of 
tiie progeny of  Satan!  Cyrus  began  to be- 
lieve ihe women-folk;  the viper was already 
stinging him !

W ith  a  view  o f  sounding  toe  basest 
depths  of  this  child’s  ingratitude,  it  was 
w ito some diplomacy wormed»from him that, 
if Squire Woodman gave him up, he would 
go.  There would be no tarrying  under dif- 
ficulties, as  your  vagroin  dog clings to the 
hope of an asylnm in a house where  he has 
attracted enough attention to be kicked.

This state of  mind, mildly as the boy had 
depicted  it, made a decided  commotion  in 
toe  household.  The.  daughter  who  had 
worked up the case  was  forced to substan­
tiate her  statements. 
In a horror, fortified 
with a few firm whippings,  the good  Cyrus 
visited  toe  relatives  who  had  passed toe 
wretched  youth upon  him, and  announced 
that  toe  boy mnst  be  returned.  The rel­
atives, now  knowing  more of  Cyrus  than 
they  had  once  known,  accepted  his  ulti­
matum in good spirit,  and toe die  was cast.
The boy was stripping  sorghum in a field 
near by.  He was  called to toe  house  and 
waked if  he still harbored  toe  base  discon­
tents which neither  mildewed  pieplant pie 
nor blacksnake horsewhippings had seemed 
to eradicate.

In  toe  dawning  light of  faith in prayer, 
toe  boy,  with a  thousand  saving* clauses, 
admitted  once  more that he might possibly 
be w illing to abide elsewhere.

There  came  an  I-can’t sparkle in Cyrus 
Worthy’s eye, which nearly brought the boy 
to beg to stay on any terms, but toe demon­
stration ended in a hymn, and  toe boy was 
Cent to toe  garret  to  pack  his  little  box. 
H e  came  below  again.  H is  good  cousin 
was  at  toe  gate.
The  bad  child  walked 
down  toe  pathway,  ami  toe  good  fam ily 
honored him w ith a scornful glance.  Their 
minds traveled to John Milton’s picture— 
Whom hunger drives to seek  new haunt  for 
Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at 
In hurdled cotes, amid the fields secure,
Leaps o’er  the fence with ease  into the  fold 
So clomb this first grand thief into God’s fold.
So  had  this prowler  also clomb  into God’s 
fold.  So  clomb he now  into  toe wagon of 
his own sinful generation,  and the maledic­
tion of toe chosen house went With him and 
all his.

As when a prowling wolf,

prey,
eve

But toe boy took naught for granted until 
he  was a m ile out of  that  ham let  Then, 
as the four comers are sinking on toe  hori­
zon, his  heart leaped  forth in  thoughts  of 
indescribable  joy.

The God of  Orphans had  harkened  unto 

h is supplication.

Alas!  how was  it to  go with that blessed 
hom e  whence  he had  been ejected all  too 
late.  The  harm  was  done.  The  heresy 
had hatched  along with toe  hornets.  The 
wrath of toe God of  toe lshm aelites, of the 
Egyptians, of  Judah’s  pestilence  and  of 
Herod’s massacre Was gathering over Wood­
man’s Comers.  Such is the sublime justice 
© fa  jealous  God. 
Such  is the  reaping 
where  the  sowing  has  been  toe  seed  of 
heresy.  Let ns  briefly speak of  toe  storm:
A   fire  breaking  out  in  toe  premises, 
burned  toe mansion to toe ground. 
In toe 
-difficulties  and afflictions  arising from  this 
disaster, toe  goodwife  died  and  made  no 
interpreted,  led  to jl 
sign.  This,  being 
somewhat  unexpected  second  marriage 
within  nine  or  ten  months,  whereby  the 
saintly man took  for a helpmeet à vixen  of 
xesolute  mould.  The  church would  have 
none  of  it, and  put  out  toe shining  light 
forthwith.  Cyrus was churched.  The peo­
ple ef  the  township  'affirmed  toe  finding, 
and  took  away  his  dignities  and  their 
Binary.  The  sécond  w ife was  in  no way 
fitted  to hold  à  position so  exalted  in  a 
household previously so distinguished.  The 
solem n visage,  toe unctuous dogma, ay, the 
previously never  failing  psalm of  Beebee’s 
landlord, refused  to do their  perfect  work; 
and  the  wife!-—instead of  pining  into  the 
jpsen  and  yellow  meUfcncholy of  complete 
subjugation, she  henpecked  Cyrus  Worthy 
Woodman with precision and effect!
'  A   son Went  to war, to  escape in  battle 
the  turmoil  that was  rending his  revered 
ihfiiei^s household.

The daughter was driven out of the house, 
a s Hagar had  been driven  into  BeerSheba. 
The  Worthy Cyrus was  inglorious! y forced 
to  allow her  to  go *at work  fiagbottoming 
«hairs in a neighboring town.

A t  last  it pleased  thé  Power that  had 
xeached  out  for  Pbaroahgnd  Herod  to 
thrust the father out of his own homestead. 
iTho great disciplinarian fled before an angry 
woman, and sued for a divorce.

Then ail those  perverse elements of  men 
M pi persecute toe righteous banded together 
to   espouse the  cause of  the  grass-widow, 
jftpj Beebdete sam e led ail toe rest!  A t the 
and a t divers ingenious litigations of  fabu- 
ous cost, there remained hut one coursé tor 
the  illustrious  subject  of  this  truthful 
etarigdeta.  -That course lay due west.
H e  w ho  had  bear magistrate,  deacon, 
Jsifpfigri» librarian,  trustee,  fanner, promi- 
. orptoMf» $e£
-jMnt ppaBL-and 
d o t one fine morning for N orthem lllinois.

aaaB g’aTire*»

i  have heard tof& toe horse  diedatV al-
U M to v& m ij,

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FOREIGN

lOBBBR  IN-

TROPICAL

DIRECTIONS

We liave cooked the com in this can 
sufficiently, 
should  be  ThorougtUf 
Warmed (nut cooked) adding  piece of 
Good Butter ( size of lien's egg j and gill 
of fresh  milk  (preferable  to  water.) 
Seaton to suit whenon the table. M one 
genuine unless bearing the signature ut

Davenport  Canning (Jo,

Davenport, la.

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

SELL— —

x6 and x8 No. Division St.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH,

W hich Holds Trade on  Account of 

Superior  Merit  Alone.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

f e r n ™

Unequaled  Quality. 

Im proved  Boasting;  Process. 

P atent  Preservative  Packages.

For  Sale  by  all  Jobbers  at  Grand  Rapids,  Detroit, 

Saginaw, East Saginaw and Bay City.

A  C o m m o n
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Two Years
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Wholesale Dealer in

Manufactured  by

Send  for  Large  Illustrated  Catalogue  and 

Price List.
Telephone 454.

No. 4 Monroe Street,

CURTISS  &  CO

Successors to CURTISS &  DUNTON.

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Houseman Building,  Cor. Pearl & Ottawa Sts,

bar^ w bro s.

T H E O .  B .  G O O S S E N ,

WHOLESALE

PRODUCE  COMMISSION  MERCHANT

Dealer in STOVE WOOD and Jobber of FOÄEIGN, TROPICAL and 
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CALIFORNIA  FRUITS. 

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33   Ottawa  Street, 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Order« for Potatoes, Cabbage and Apples in Car Lots solicited.' Consignments 

solicited,  tittle  Agent for MOLINE  CHEESE. 

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C O M M I S S I O N   M E R C H A N T S

Broker  in CANNED  GOODS,
-  Manager,
B,  F.  EMERY, 

Salt and Sea Fish.

20  Lyou  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,

PROPRIETOR OP

JOBBER OP

Oranges,  Lemons, Bananas, Butter, Eggs 

and Egg Grates.

No. 1 egg  crates,  37c.  No. 9 egg crates, 
30c.  No.  1  fillers,  13c.  No.  9  fillers,  10c,
I  have  facilities  for  handling  each  line  above 
named that are unsurpassed.

I  aim to  handle  the  best  that  can  be  obtained. 
Mall orders filled promptly at lowest market price.  A 
liberal discount on Egg Crates and fillers in large lots.

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

I f  yon 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.

E A R L   B R O S . ,

C o m m issio n  M e r c h a n t s

157 South Water St,,  CHICAGO. 

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

W e giv6  prompt  personal  attention  to. 
the sale of POTATOES, APPLES,BEANS 
and ONIONS in car lots.  W e  offer  brat 
facilities and watchful attention.  Consign­
ments respectfully solicited.  Liberal cash 
advances on Car Lots when desired.

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

166 South w ater St., CHICAGO.
Reference
P bdsbnthal. Gross & Mttímto. Bankers, 

Chicago.

Manufacturers and Jobbers Of

Men's  Furnishing  Goods.

Sole  Manufacturers  of  the  “Peninsular” 

Brand Pants, Shirts and Overalls.

ISO and 1RS Jefferson, Ave.,

State  agents  for  Celuloid Collars  and  Cuffs. 
«  M io m a s
GEO.  &  OW EN,  Grand  Rápbfe;

DETROIT, 

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A new and pleasing shape, decorated w ith real Gold Band and Sprig, as shown.
Positive­
ly the Finest Quality ENGLISH  WARE at low  and popular prices.  £* ^   L»«,v«-e 
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ly  the Finest Quality ENGLISH  WARE at low  and popular prices.  "It is  having  an  unprece-
dented run, exceeding even the Luster Band, as it  is a brighter and more attractive stvle.  W ill
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not wear off or wash off with ordinary use, as the gold is thoroughly burnt in.
Our sm all assorted crates of this pattern, amounting to $96.56,  is  shown  on  page  145 o f 
our Illustrated Catalogue, which w ill be sent on request.  Try a package.  YOUR  LADY C U S ­
TOMERS  WILL  BE  DELIGHTED.

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REDUCTION  IN  FRUIT  JARS

NOW  IS  THE  TIME  TO  ORDER

P 8 0 J H   PORCELÄIN  TOP,

or:  THE  “LIGHTNING”  GLASS  GOI/ER.
ever so low  as to-day.  Prices subject to change,

or,  THE  GLOBE  FRUIT  JARS

1$  THE  fto '/jE , 

TAKT  jA C tf  B'/lLT.

IW  SANTA CLAUS SOAP . N K  pA|RBAN K

This is the  H ouse, that Jack built. 
These are the parties, that lived 
In the house, that Jack built.

These  are  the  Clothes,  that  were 
Worn  by  the  parties,  that  lived  in 
The  house,  that  Jack  built.

These  are  the  M achines,  that  washed 
The  clothes,  that  were  worn  by 
The parties, that lived  in  the  house, that 

Jack  built.

This  is  the  Soap,  that  was  used 
In  the  M achine,  that  washed  the 
Clothes,  that  were  worn  by  the  parties, 
That  lived in  the  house, that  Jack built

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Mason’s Porcelain Lined,  p ts.. .$  7.50 gro. 
q ts...  8.50  **
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.65  “
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“Lightning,” or Globe, glass cov­
“Lightning,” or Globe, glass cov­
“Lightning,” or Globe, glass cov­
Rubbers, Mason’s Best Quality.. 
“Lightning,’’ 

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OUR  FALL  LINE  OF

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;— —IS  NOW  COMPLETE.— —

J. L.  EYMER (of our firm), 

OUR TRAVELERS
GEO. H. RAYNOR

and GILBERT J . HAAN
Will soon call upon thairade with a complete 

line of samines.

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Write  for  Fall  Prices  and 

Discounts

Re-£alntyour old buggy-and make It look like new for LESS THAI! ONE DOLLAR.  Eight beautiful Shades. 
Prepared ready for use.  They dry hard in afew hours, and have a beautiful  and durable gloss.  They are 
the ORIGINAL, all others are IMITATIONS.  More of our brand sold than all the other brands on the market.

Neal's  C arriage  Paints
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The1 Great  Invention.. Six  Handsome Shades.  Ready for use.  DRY  HARD OVER  NIGHT) and are very 

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

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