The  Michigan

GRAND  RAPIDS,  W EDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  19,  1888.

house  was  compelled to salute  him  twice 
ere he received an answer.

“Hello,  Dick !  I am glad  you  came np to 
see me. 
It’s deuced lonesome sitting in the 
house  nursing  this  confounded  rheuma­
tism.  But come in, won’t  you ?”

Dick was so lost in his own thoughts that 
the  salutation  took  him  unawares, but he 
managed to stammer out:

“ Why,  John!  Bless  me, but  you’re  so 
much  of  a  stranger  that  your  appearance 
startled  me. 
I have  just  been  looking at 
some property above here that I’m thinking 
of  buying,  and  didn’t  know  you  lived 
around here.”

Adroit liar.  But he went  in  and  talked 
awhile with his old  friend and schoolmate,
John Clinton, upon  ordinary topics, all the 
time longing for  an  opportunity to present 
itself  by which  he  might  ascertain  some­
thing of John’s  next  door  neighbors.  At 
last, it came.

“By the way, Dick,  you  should make it a 
point  to  come  up  to my wife’s party next 
week.  Our  next  door  neighbors  will  be 
here, and Frank Bufort  has  as pretty a sis­
ter  as  one  could  wish  to  see—a  perfect 
Juno.

And John Clinton thereupon  gave Dick a 
history of  the family since  their  advent in 
the  neighborhood.  They  were  from  the 
South,  he  said,  and  there  were  three  of 
them—Mrs.  Bufort,  Frank,  her  son,  and 
Renee, her  daughter.  They  were  reputed 
rich  and 
their  establishment,  although 
plain,  bore  evidence  of  solid  wealth  and 
taste.

Dick left the house with  the  firm  inten­
tion of  being  an attendant at the party.  It 
was  seldom  he  attended a ball,  but  there 
seemed to be a nameless something drawing 
him toward the  young  woman  with a veil, 
and  here  was an unexampled  opportunity 
to make her acquaintance.

Dick, although he well  knew  the proper 
hour at which to be in attendance at a fash­
ionable  ball,  allowed  his  eagerness to be­
come master and arrived  most  suspiciously 
early at John Clinton’s handsome residence.
He  excused  the  unseemly hour on plea of 
his watch being sadly out of  repair—a most 
outrageous  slander, by the  way,  upon  the 
aforesaid chronometer,  it never having been 
known to vary a moment in a month.

The  guests  arrived  in  twos and threes, 
and Dick’s heart beat faster  each  time  the 
door opened to admit some new  acquisition 
of  womanly  perfection.  At  last,  after 
hours,  it  seemed  to  Dick, although it was 
really but a half-hour,  the  object of  his ad­
miration  entered,  accompanied  by  a  tall, 
stylish  young  man  whom  Dick  at  once 
knew to be the  brother. 
I cannot  tell  you 
how  Dick  knew  the  young  lady who had 
just  entered  was  Renee  Bufort,  any more 
than I can tell why it was that the clerks of 
Black & Somers  knew  she  was  beautiful, 
never having seen her face,  but he was con­
vinced the moment his eyes rested upon the 
small, queenly head crowned with a wreath 
of  golden hair,  which  needed not the art of 
the  hair-dresser  to  make  a  most  fitting 
crown  for  the  lovely  face  beneath  it. 
I 
will not attempt to  describe  her.  She was 
simply beauliful  and  had  a queenly air  of 
calm  refinement  which  w as in  perfect ac­
cord  with  her  graceful  movements as she 
took her place among the guests.

Dick  had,  at last,  met  his  fate,  and  he 
acknowledged  the  truth to himself,  almost 
unconsciously.  Then  followed  an evening 
of  unalloyed  enjoyment  for  Dick,  and  he 
inwardly blessed his  friend  who  had  thus 
given  him  an  opportunity for making this 
fair creature’s  acquaintance.

Dick was fortunate enough to get a waltz 
with  Renee,  and  then a quadrille,  but  the 
girl complained of  the  heat  and  Dick had 
her all to  himself  for a quiet  promenade in 
the garden.

When  he  went  home Dick had a cordial 
invitation from both Renee  and her brother 
to  visit  them.  Do I need  to  say that  he 
took  advantage  of  it?  I  think  not.  For 
the  next  three  months, he  was a constant 
visitor at No. 3743 Lyon Place.

Several  times,  Dick  met  Renee  in  the 
cable  cars,  he  on  his  way to his boarding 
place  and  she  home.  Upon  one of  these 
occasions, there  was a large  crowd  in  the 
car and when Dick  got  home he missed his 
keys.  Among  them  was  the  key  to  the 
store, and  Dick  at  once  purchased  a new 
lock  for the front  door, supposing that his 
pocket had been picked  by some  one  with 
the  intention  of  robbing 
the  store.  He 
forgot,  at  the  time,  that a key unlocking a 
small  ¿ear  door  had  been returned to him 
that  day by a cash boy,  which  he  had  not 
been in the habit of carrying, and which was 
on the ring,  and, therefore, that lock was not 
changed.

In the meantime,  Dick continued  liis  at­
tentions to Renee, and  was  apparently en­
couraged by the other members of  the fam­
ily.  Dick  finally  mustered  up  courage, 
declared his wish to make her his wife,  and 
was  shyly and  blushingly  accepted, as be­
came a  young and lovely maiden.  The en­
gagement was  announced,  and Dick busied 
himself in happy preparation for his union, 
when  something  happened  to  change the 
current of  his  thoughts  for a time. 
I had 
forgotten to  mention  that  the  fashionable 
firm of Black & Somers carried, in addition i

NO. 261.

to  their  other  lines,  a large  and  valuable 
jewelry stock.  Just previous to Dick’s pro­
posal to Renee,  the  firm  had  received, on 
commission, of course,  a  large  quantity of 
diamonds,  valued  at  about  $50,000.  He 
teld Renee of  this,  adding  that  he  wished 
her to pick out  her  own  engagement ring, 
which she did one evening  after  the  store 
was closed,  and all the clerks gone,  leaving 
no one present  but Renee, her  brother and 
Dick.  After the  selection  had been made, 
Dick placed the diamonds in the safe,  amid 
joking remarks  about  burglars, etc.  Dick 
laughingly  assured  Renee  that  were those 
diamonds stolen, he  would  be  ruined  and 
their marriage would  have t® be postponed 
And  then  he  added,  “But there’s no dan­
ger, I guess,  in this  safe,” as he closed and 
locked it

The next morning there was weeping and 
gnashing of  teeth in  the  store  of  Black & 
Somers.  The  diamonds  were  gone,  and 
with  them  about  eight  hundred dollars in 
currency!  Unless  they  were  speedily re 
covered it was, as Dick  had  said, ruin, for 
the diamonds were on commission and must 
be paid for,  which would utterly cripple the 
firm.

Detectives were  at  once  employed, but. 
shrewd as they were, not the  slightest clue 
could  be  gained  as to the thief  or thieves. 
Renee had nobly declared  her  intention of 
keeping her engagement,  the  more  so,  she 
said,  as  Dick  was  in  such  trouble  and 
needed her.

but  quickly  regained  her  composure  and 
gave assent.

Mr. Gryce entered :
“Good evening,  Miss  Bufort, good  even­

ing, gentlemen.”

“ Are  you,  then,  acquainted  with  Miss 
Bufort?”  It was Dick,  and his voice trem­
bled as he asked the question.

“Oh,  yes, I knew  her  some  years  ago, 
but  she  has  undoubtedly  forgotten  me. 
What I wish to say is, that the thieves have 
been discovered—no, don’t leave  the  room, 
Miss Bufort,  my communication is intended 
for  you, as  well;”  and  Mr.  Gryce  quietly 
went to the doors and  locked them,  putting 
the  keys  in his  pocket. 
It was a singular 
action on his  part,  but he took no notice of 
the looks of surprise on the faces of Somers 
and  Renee.  Mr.  Black  suspected  some­
thing,  but said nothing.

“I  have a little  story  to  relate,  in  this 
connection,  which  will  interest  you,  I’m 
sure.  Pray be seated,  Miss Bufort.”

The  detective  continued :  “Four  years 
ago,  the  large  jewelry  house  of  Bartlett 
Bros., in Chicago,  was robbed in almost the 
identical manner as  yours was.  The thieves 
were sought for everywhere, but, until  this 
day,  have never been discovered.  They are. 
identical with the ones who robbed  you.” 

And what has all this to do  with  me ?” 
asked Renee, haughtily, but a close observer 
would  have  noted  the  lines  of  a  sudden 
fear and something  repressed  in  her  man­
ner.

One of  the detectives had been  employed 
as a clerk,  unknown  to  all but the proprie­
tors, and  one day he  chanced to overhear a 
conversation  between  Renee  and  Dick, 
which he thought worth listening to.  Dick 
had  referred  sadly  to  the selection of  tne 
engagement  ring  and  the  conversation 
which had then ensued.

He was somewhat surprised  when Gryce, 
the  detective,  requested  him to relate  the 
conversation  in  detail.  When  Dick  fin­
ished,  the  detective  gave  utterance  to an 
ejaculation of  satisfaction.

“You don’t, for an  instant, dare  to  sus­
pect  Miss  Bufort  of  complicity  in  this 
theft ?”  said Dick, savagely, as the  detect- 
turned  away.

Gryce  thought it wise  to  conceal  some­

thing,  so he remarked, in a quiet voice:

“Not for a moment,  my  dear  sir.  But, 
you know, a  detective  must  have eyes and 
ears for everything,  and  the  circumstance 
excited my curiosity for a moment.”

Dick was satisfied, but he would not have 

been had he heard Gryce mutter:

“I thought I had seen  that  face  before, 

and now I am sure of  i t ”

Giyce  said  nothing  and  appeared  to do 
nothing  for  nearly a week,  when  he  met 
Messrs.  Black  &  Somers  in  their  private 
office with an announcement  which brought 
great consolation and rest to  their  anxious, 
troubled minds.

“I have found the  thieves !”
“ What!”  Black  and  Somers  almost 

shouted at the same moment.

“I have found the thieves.  One of  them 
was arrested at the depot as  he  was  about 
to take the train for Detroit  and  the  crim­
inals’ harbor—Canada.  The other, although 
under  constant  surveillance,  is still  at lib* 
erty,  and  I  only  await  your  orders  to ar­
rest”

“Why,  of  course,  arrest  him  at  once! 
Don’t  give the scoundrel a chance to escape. 
But are the diamonds recovered ?”

“Simply this,” said Gryce, With  his most 
pleasant  smile,  “one of  the  thieves is now 
under arrest as he  was  about  to  leave  the 
country and has confessed everything.  The 
other  stands  there!”  and  he  pointed  the 
finger of  a Nemesis  at  Renee,  who  stood, 
white and trembling, a statue of fear, hatred 
and  shame.  Her  beauty  was  gone, and 
there remained only the  evidences of  a sin­
ful life as depicted in the hard  lines of  her 
face.  For one  instant  she stood thus,  and 
then with a wild  cry,  “My husband !” drew 
a dagger from her dress and  raised her arm 
to strike.

But Gryce, who had been expecting some­
thing of  this kind,  was too  quick  for  her, 
and thé dagger was in his  possession  in an 
instant.

Then she  confessed  all.  How she,  with 
her husband—for her  reputed  brother  was- 
really  such—had  located  here,  after  the 
storm  of  the  former  robbery  had  blown 
over, intending to settle down quietly.  Then 
came  Dick,  and  Renee’s  husband,  seeing 
another  opportunity for  a  rich  haul,  had 
laid the plot  which  had so nearly ended in 
his ruin.  She  had  led  Dick on until,  by a 
clever  manceuver,  she had  gained the keys 
and the incident of  the  diamonds had come 
to  their  knowledge.  They  determined  to 
strike  while  the  iron  was  hot, and when 
Dick thought  he  locked  the  safe, Renee’s 
husband stood with his  knee  in such a po­
sition  as  to  hold  the  combination,  which 
Dick, in his infatuation, had not noticed.

Poor  Richard  left  the mansion, wherein 
he had  hoped to gain an earthly treasure, a 
changed man.  He loved  Renee, in spite of 
this  horrible  discovery,  and  he  could  not 
bear to remain in the  place  where  he  had 
passed so  many happy hours.  He sold his 
interest in the firm of  Black & Somers, and 
the  last I heard of  him he was on his  way 
to Australia.

Renee  and  her  husband  were duly tried 
and convicted,  and  are  now  serving a ten 
years’ sentence each. 

R e l l u f .

“ Yes,  all  but  one,  which 

the  other 
wears—the  one  I  have  not  yet  arrested. 
But, gentlemen,  I wish  to  extort a confes­
sion  from  this  one, as I think I have  dis­
covered one of  the shrewdest and most dan­
gerous criminals in the country—one  whom 
the  police  have  long  been endeavoring to 
capture, and I need  your assistance.”

The two  gentlemen  immediately left the 
store and Gryce conducted them to the cable 
cars.  As 
the  house 
wherein Renee dwelt, Gryce said:

they  approached 

“Mr.  Somers,  as we may attract attention 
by being  so  mysteriously together,  I  wish 
you and Mr. Black to make a call upon Miss 
Bufort,  where  I  will  join  you  in  a  few 
moments.”

“Is it Miss  Bufort ?”  gasped  Somers, as 
he  started,  pale  and  trembling, from  his 
seat.

“I  did  not  say  so,”  quietly  remarked 
Gryce, and his calm tone served to quiet the 
young man’s apprehensions  wonderfully.

“I wish  you  to  promise, on  your  honor 
as gentlemen,  that you  will  make no men­
tion  of  your  errand  to  the  ladies.  The 
thief  is an inmate of  their home, and might 
become suspicious.”

Dick  breathed  freer.  “A  servant,  un­
doubtedly,”  he  said  to  himself,  and  both 
gentlemen gave the required projnise.

Miss Bufort  received  the  gentleman  in 
her usual gracious manner.  Mr. Black was 
a frequent  caller,  in  company  with  Dick, 
and his presence excited no comment.

Dick tried to assume  an  air  of  attention 
to the conversation, but he failed miserably, 
and was  much  relieved when  a servant an­
nounced Mr. Gryce.

“Ah,  one  of  our  clerks,  Miss  Bufort,” 
said  Mr.  Black.  “Undoubtedly  he  has 
something important to communicate.  May 
we receive him here ?”

Renee gave an almost imperceptible start,

A phenomenon in banking  in  the  direc­
tion of unusual  success  never  has as-much 
attention drawn to it as does the reverse.  It 
is as  well  once  iu  a  while,  by  way of a 
change from defalcation and failure, to take 
a glance at wonderful prosperity.  This can 
be seen to no  better  advantage  than in the 
case of the Chemical Bank  of  New  York. 
With a capital of only  $300,000,  this book 
shows a surplus of  five and a  half millions 
and a deposit line of twenty millions.  Last 
year it paid dividends bi-monthly,  amount­
ing to 100 per cent.,  and  carried  $900,000 
into surplus fund;  this year,  its bi-monthly 
dividends are 25 per cent., or at the  rate of 
150 per annum.  The stock is quoted at $3,- 
600 per share, but it  is  rarely  sold  except 
when a few shares appear  in  settlement of 
an estate.  Away back in 1844, Jacob Wolfe 
bought 200 shares for  $20,000.  That  par­
ticular lot is still in  the  hands  of  his des­
cendants, and is to-day worth  $720,000, be­
sides having paid over  $1,000,000  in  divi­
dends to its holders.

Much of  the so-called ivory now in use is 
simple  potato.  A  good,  sound  potato 
then 
washed  in  diluted  sulphuric  acid, 
boiled in the same solution, and then slowly 
dried,  is all ready to be turned into buttons, 
poker  chips and  innumerable other  things 
that ivory was used for once upon a time.

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At first, we were inclined to feel flattered at 
this  recognition  of  the  superior  merits of 
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positive 
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manufacturer  who  had  to  depend  upon 
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RENEE.

W ritten  fo r Tas Tradesman

There  was  a  mystery  surrounding  the 
girl from the first  She always came to the 
store  at  the  same  hour—about five in the 
afternoon—always  made  her  purchases of 
the same clerk,  if  possible, and always kept 
her  face  invisible  by reason  of  the  thick 
folds of  a dark  veil.  But,  for  all  of  the 
veil, there was  not a clerk in the store who 
would not have staked  his  last  dollar that 
the girl was handsome.

She became the sole topic of  conversation 
in  the  store  and,  at  last,  the  topic  was 
brought  to  the  attention of  Dick  Somers, 
the  junior partner  in  the  firm of  Black & 
Somers, dealers in  dry goods  and  notions.
Dick had arrived at the  quite  mature age 
of  eight-and-twenty,  and  had  yet  to  ac­
knowledge to himself  more  than a passing 
interest  in  anything  feminine  unless, per­
haps,  we  may except  his  mother  and  sis­
ters, 
to  whom  he  was  devotion  itself. 
Often  and  often  Dick  had  wondered 
if  it would ever be his lot to meet some fair 
girl who  could  excite  more than a passing 
interest in his mind and lead him,  a willing 
captive, to the chains of  Hymen.  But thus 
far, I say,  such a “consummation  devoutly 
to be wished”  had  not  been  reached,  and 
when he overheard the clerks in their rhap­
sodies upon the, as  yet,  invisible charms of 
the  mysterious  customer,  he  laughed  at 
them and ridiculed their impressiveness.

I’ll bet  you four to  one  she’s as ugly as 
Dick Dcadeye,” said Dick,  as  be vainly en 
deavored to repress the enthusiasm of one of 
the younger men.  “I have not  yet had the 
pleasure  of  seeing  this  imaginary beauty 
but I shall  watch for her to-morrow.  Fiv 
o’clock, you say ?”

The  clerk  replied in the  affirmative, and 

the subject was dropped for the  time.

Dick  Somers  did not forget it, however 
Somehow, the  idea of  a beautiful  stranger 
buying  goods  in  his  store  around  whom 
clustered so singular  and  mysterious a fas­
cination  as to cause all his clerks to go  into 
ecstacies  at  any and  every possible  oppor­
tunity  pleased  his  fancy  and  excited  his 
curiosity to such an extent  that he detected 
himself  several  times  imagining  himself 
face to face—or,  face to  veil,  rather—with 
this person,  devising means whereby to dis­
close the ripe,  dazzling  beauty of  the mod­
ern “She.”

It is a somewhat  singular  fact  that  the 
more a  man  openly  boasts  of  liis  impel- 
viousness  to  the  attacks of  curiosity,  the 
greater  is  that  same  curiosity  within  the 
secresy of  his own bosom.  And it was thus 
with Dick.  He really felt all the curiosity, 
if  not more,  of  his  clerks  whom  he  ridi­
culed and was secretly ashamed of  it.

But, nevertheless,  Dick  was  unostenta­
tiously  and  seemingly  accidentally  posted 
the  next  afternoon  in a place  of  vantage 
wherefrom he might take an observant view 
of  the mysterious veiled lady.

At about  five,  as  usual,  the  young lady 
entered  and  took  up  her  position  at  her 
usual counter, and the clerk  who seemed to 
please her so well at  once advanced to offer 
his services.

It  was  plain  to  be  seen  the  girl  was 
young—the  gracefully moulded  outlines of 
her form told that plainer than words.  And, 
now  Dick  understood, or  thought  he  did, 
the reason for his  clerks  swearing that she 
was  beautiful  without  even  catching  a 
glimpse  of  her  face.  There  was a  name­
less charm which  seemed to emanate  from 
her  presence  as  perfume  might  from her 
dressing-case.

The longer Dick gazed at the  young lady, 
the stronger becaihe  his  curiosity concern­
ing her.  And  now  he  formed a most sin­
gular  resolution  for  a  young  man  of  his 
position and accredited reputation.  He de­
termined to make  an  errand for an excuse 
and see  for  himself  where the  young lady 
resided.  Dick  would  not,  for  the world, 
have  allowed  one of  the  clerks to suspect 
his infatuation,  so he went to the safe,  took 
therefrom a bank book, together  with some 
checks and  drafts, and went—to the  bank ?
In  the  meantime  the  young  lady  had 
completed her purchases and gone from the 
store.  Dick,  at  a  respectful  distance, 
watched  her  get  into a cable car,  when he 
immediately took  the  car  ahead  in  which 
It  was  fortunate for 
the  gripman  stood. 
Dick  that  none  of  the  clerks  saw 
this 
manceuver, for the car  line  led directly the 
opposite  way from  the  bank  with  which 
Black & Somers transacted  business.

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

BARNETT  BROS.

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

Salt and Sea Fish.

20  Lyon  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,

The  grip  carried  Dick  several  squares, 
until it reached a most  fashionable  quarter 
of the city before the young lady manifested 
a disposition to alight.  As  she  did  so,  a 
fortunate  temporary  stoppage of  the  cable 
enabled  Dick  to  watch  the  young  lady as 
she  tripped  lightly up the  steps to a hand­
some  residence of  which  he  took a mental 
picture.

Dick  rode  along  a  few  blocks  further. 
Then he alighted  and  walked slowly back. 
As he passed the house  at  which  the  girl 
had  stopped,  he  endeavored  to  read  the 
name on the door, but was  unable to do so, 
it being  printed in small  German  text,  not 
distinguishable at that distance.  The num­
ber,  3743, was plain  enough,  and  as  Dick 
strolled past, he was so lost in thought that 
a man standing upon  the  steps of  the next

Some Errors  of Deceptive  Sight  and  Mo­

tion.

The senses are subject to illusions in pro­
portion to the remoteness of the information 
that they give from the  immediate  necessi­
ties of the organism.  Touch,  the most im­
mediate and  least inferential of  the senses, 
is least subject to illusions;  while  sight  is 
so very much so,  that the  blind  often  say 
they have an advantage  over the  seeing in 
being free from visual illusions.  The  illu­
sions of bodily motion  are  much  nearer to 
those of touch than to those  of  sight,  and 
yet they can,  under  certain  conditions, be 
induced  through  visual  impressions.  Of 
this,  the writer has recently  had  two inter­
esting examples.  He  was  standing  upon 
the floor of a railroad  depot,  the  boards of 
which were laid with  a  considerable  open 
space between them,  and the shadow  of an 
electric light was moving  up  and  down by 
the  swinging  of  the  light  in  the  wind. 
Looking *at the floor, it  seemed  as  though 
the shadow were stationary,  and  the  floor 
boards moving.  From this,  it followed that 
the person on it  was moving,  too,  and  the 
writer distinctly felt the swinging sensation 
—in fact, his  attention  was  called  to the 
phenomena by this feeling  of motion.  The 
other observation  was  as  follows:  While 
riding in the  cars  and  looking  out  of  the 
window, the trees and all  are  seen to move 
in  the  opposite  direction. 
If,  now,  one 
looks in a mirror so situated  that it reflects 
the  passing  landscape,  which,  however, 
must not be  visible  except  in  the  mirror, 
one has the illusion of moving in the  oppo­
site to the real direction of  motion,  owing 
to the reversal of the image in the glass.  In 
both these cases an immediate bodily sensa­
tion is induced by a more or less unconscious 
inference through visual sensations.

Some  years  ago,  Ceylon  was  one of the 
great coffee-producing districts of the world. 
That dreaded blight, the  leaf  disease, took 
hold of the  plantations  and  the  industry 
was ruined. 
In  place  of  coffee,  planters 
turned their attention to  tea  and  now  the 
island is  once  more  prosperous.  The  au­
thor of a recent paper treating of this enter­
prise, says:  “It has already  assumed large 
proportions.  There are probably now, 200,- 
000 acres of tea planted  in  Ceylon,  giving 
employment to 1,200 British  managers and 
superintendents,  and  300,000  British  sub­
jects from India and Ceylon.  The probable 
export of tea from  Ceylon  in  1890  will be 
40,000,000  pounds,  and  as  there is a very 
large tract of land suitable  for  cultivation, 
the  limits  of  the  enterprise  will  only be 
bounded by  consumption,  for  Ceylon has 
provt d  that  it  can  place  tea  of superior 
quality  in  the  markets  of  the world at a 
price which will defy competition, and with 
the enumerated  advantages,  coupled  with 
its salubrious climate,  the  enterprise is at­
tractive and promises to continue  remuner­
ative.”

F.  J,  dettenthm.es

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FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

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

F O R   SA LE.

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THOR SALE—DRUG STOCK  WHOSE AVERAGE DAILY 
-L 
sales  Is  917.  Splendid  opening  fo r  physician. 
Good reasons fo r selling.  Address No. 289,  care  Michi 
gan  Tradesm an.______  
TTMJR SALE  OR  RENT—HARDWARE  AND  GROCERY 
store, dw elling and  lodge  room   above.  Address 
Box 24, Merrill, Mich. 
L'O R  SALE—WELL-ESTABLISHED  IMPLEMENT  BUS- 
J .  mess, choice location,  in  rich  farm in g   country 
C apital required—about Sa.OvO.  Profits  about $500 per 
7*°  m -,.A EO'den o p p o rtu n ity  fo r live m an.  Address 
Jno. T. M arriott, Agt., W akefield, Neb. 
XfOK  SALE-GCOD  RESIDENCE  LOT  ON  ONE  OF 
-L 
th e m ost p leasant streets “ on  th e   hill.”  W ill ex- 
cnange for stock In an y  good in stitution.  Address 286. 
care M ichigan Tradesm an.

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286

277

gg2

WELL-SULKCT ED  GROCERY  STOCK, 
situated on good business no
X  
good business cor 
Stock  and  fix- 
tures will inventory ab o u t 93,060. 
Reason fo r selling-,
o th er business.  Address H enry, care M ichigan Trades 
m an, Grand Rapids. 

FOR SALE-ONE  OX24  ROWNliS’  SECTIONAL  ROLL- 

e r m ill, w ith elevators and scalpers com plete; one 
w ebster b ran  duster;  one OO Geo.  T.  Sm ith  purifier. 
The above m achines a re all in good condition.  Enquire 
of owner, D. C. Briggs, N orth Branch, Mich. 

FOR  SALE—BAZAAR  BUSINESS,  WELL— ESTAB- 

lish e d in   one  of  th e  liveliest  and  best  business 
In ­
towns in th e  State.  P ro p rieto r’s  h ealth   failing. 
voice about 91,460.  Now  is th e tim e to buy fo r fall and 
holiday trade.  Address A B C  office  of this paper. 272
TpOR  SALE—CLEAN  GENERAL  STOCK  OF  GOODS 
-1- 
store building in a  grow ing railw ay  tow n sit­
uated in excellent  fan n in g   region.  Stock  will inven­
to ry  about $5,000.  Reason for  selling,  too much o th er 
business.  W ill exchange  fo r G rand  Rapids  property. 
Address No. 262, care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

1 ¡’OR  SALE-CLEAN  GROCERY,  DRY  GOODS  AND 

Crockery stock, situ ated  in a   railw ay  tow n,  w ith 
S ?iÜ lm^ ? . i . c? stom «ra-  Stock  wil1  Inventory  about 
92,000.  W ill tak e p a rt cash and balance on  tim e.  Ad- 
dress A. S. Mnsselman & Co„ Grand Rapids. 

o t drugs.  Address Doctor, Box 242, Rockford.  258

FOR SALE-DRUG  FIXTURES  AND  SMALL  STOCK 
Fo r   s a l e —o r   e x c h a n g e   f o r   s t o c k  in   t r a d e ,

horse 
power, large grounds;  fine town on C. & G. T. railroad 
good w heat and produce  m arket.  W rite  for  p articu ­
lars, W. B. Tyler, core B. P. & D. A. Co.,  G rand  Rapids,

Grain  E levator,  ten  carloads  capacity: 

26o

262

O r  sh o rt lease O f Store.  A bargain fo r  snma  nno
__ 
lease o f store.  A barg ain  fo r  some  one.
Must sell.  W ant to go South.  Address  Box 12, Grand-
ville, Mich.
242

tl’OR SALE—GENERAL STOCK, GOOD  TRADE, LONG 
FOR  SALE-THE  DRESS  OF  TYPE  NOW  USED  ON 

* The  Tradesm an”—600  pounds  of  b revier and 200 
pounds of  nonpareil.  A  good  barg ain   will  be  given 
purchaser. 

£06

¿92  ’

WANTS.

WANTED—A REGISTERED PHARMACIST.  PERMA- 

n en t position.  Address M. Seward McNitt &  Co. 

Byron Center, Mich. 

TXT"ANTED—SITUATION ON THE  ROAD  BY  MAN  OF 
six  years’  experience.  Best o f reference.  Ad- 
dress  J. E.  F .  care M ichigan  Tradesm an

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291

ble place to locate.  S tate size of  tow n,  num ber 
of a tto rn ey s ^already  in  the  field,  business,  etc.  Ad- 
dress Box 86, E ast Jordan, Mich.
 
TTtTANTED — SITUATION  BY  COMPETENT  DRUG 
clerx.  Address  Box 22, Colon, Mich. 
fv  

WANTED—A  LIVE,  ENERGETIC  MAN  WHO  IS  S o ­

ber and honest, to consolidate  grocery o r g ener­
al stocks w ith me, in a  No. 1  location, w here & trad e of 
$20,000 a  y e a r can be done.  Don’t  w rite unless  you are 
all  rig h t  an d   m ean  business.  Address  Lock Box 129, 
Collins, Mich. 
TTTANTED-IN  EXCHANGE  FOR  VALUABLE  REAL 
VV 
estate,  a   stock  of  m erchandise.  Address  287 
Tradesm an office, G rand Rapids, Mich. 
TXT ANTED—SITUATION BY  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
> V 
cist of e ig h t y ears’ experience.  Speaks  th e Hoi- 
land language fluently.  Can  give  best  o f  reference. 
Address, 136 Pine street, Muskegon, Mich. 
Y irA N TED —BY  A  YOUNG  MAN  UNDERSTANDING 
V * 
th e m eat business, to buy an  in terest  in a   m eat 
m ark et in a  good town.  Address Cleaver,  care  Michi­
gan  Tradesm an. 

275

285

280

287

278

store by  p ractical  registered  pharm acist.

rieties o f n ursery stock, e ith e r on salary o r com ­
m ission.  Perm anent  em ploym ent  to  successful m en 
Address,  w ith referenceaffiday  B rothers,  Nurserym en. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
TXT ANTED—PART  INTEREST IN DRUG OR GENERAL 
VV 
Ad
d resaR obert, care M ichigan Tradesm an
TTTANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  READS 
TV 
th is  pap er  to  give  the SutliS  coupon system  a  
trial.  I t will abolish y o u r pass  books,  do  away  w ith 
all y o u r book-keeping, in  m any instances save yen the 
expense o f one clerk, will bring your business  down to 
a   cash basis and  save  you  all  the  w orry and trouble 
th a t usually go w ith th e pass-book plan.  S ta rt the 1st 
of th e m onth w ith the new  system  and  yon  win never 
reg re t it.  H aving  two kinds, b oth  kinds  will be  sent 
by  addressing  (m entioning  this  paper)  J.  H.  Sutli-T, 
Albany, N. Y. 

¿1,

ANTED—1.000 MORE  MERCHANTS TO ADOPT  OUR 
Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System.  Send for 

sam ples.  E. A. Stowe &  Bro.. Grand Rapids. 

214

MISCELLANEOUS

C jO   R A A   IN  CASH  OR  GOOD  PAPER  WILL  SE- 
cure  a   th riv in g   hardw are  business 
w ithout com petition in M eredith.  Address Lock Draw­
e r 25,  E v art, Mich. 

Sonth Division street.  Size 22 x 80 feet.  G. K. Nel­

Fo r  r e n t- tw o  w e l l   located  stores  on
son, 68 Monroe street.
$ 1 ,2 0 0  Cr 

CASH  BUYS  MANUFACTURING  BUSI- 
ness pay in g  100  p er  cent.  Best  of  rea- 
’o r  selling.  Address  Chas.  Kynoch,  St. Ignace,

fions '  fo r  SPlIim

284

JOBBER  OF

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The MichiganTradesman

Official Organ of M ichigan Business Men’s  Association.

a   W EE K L Y   JO U RN A L  DEVO TED   T O   T H E

M ail  Trade of the Wolderine State.

E .  A.  STOW E  &  6 R O .,  P ro p rie to rs.
'^Subscription Price—One  D ollar p er year. 
«Advertising Rates m ade know n on application.

Entered  a t  the  G rand  R apids  Post  Office.

E.  A.  STOWE.  Editor.

W EDNESDAY,  S E P T E M B E R   1 9 ,1 8 8 8 .

A  SIXTH  YEAR.

issue  of 

With  the 

last  week,  T h e 
T r a d esm a n  completed  its  fifth  year  of 
publication  and  the  issue of  the  present 
week  marks the  beginning of  a sixth year 
-and volume.

The success which  has attended the  pub­
lication  of  the  paper  from  its  inception, 
-coupled with the permanent position it now 
-occupies in the esteem of Michigan business 
men, render  it  unnecessary at  this time  to 
make  any extended reference to  the past or 
put  forth  any promises  for  the  future. 
Substantially  the  same  policy  which  has 
been  followed in the  past will  be pursued 
m   the future.  No  feature which  has be­
come  familiar or valuable to the  patrons of 
the paper well  be omitted, nor is the  intro­
duction  of  any  innovation  contemplated. 
Briefly stated,  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  will  con­
tinue  to be a welcome  weekly visitor at the 
•offices of 5,000 business men.

Mr.  William  Scully,  the  Irish  landlord 
who  was  driven  out of  Tepperary  by the 
force of public opinion, and who  has  tried 
with some success to introduce the methods 
of  Irish landlordism  into  this country, has 
been  brought  to  change  his  course by the 
alien land law of  the  State of  Illinois.  He 
owns some  60,000 acres of  the  best land in 
the com belt of  that State,  and for  decades 
past he has gone on  laying  house to  house 
aad  field  to  field, until it seemed as if  his 
estate would embrace whole counties.  The 
new  law  took  hold of  his methods at two 
vulnerable  points. 
It  declared  void  the 
contracts by which he  bound  his tenants to 
pay  the  takes  on  their  farms  during the 
terms covered  by their  short  leases, and it 
required the escheat  to  the  State  of  lands 
¿left by aliens if  they  were claimed by alien 
heirs.  His heirs would have to  take  steps 
to become  citizens  at  once, with grave ap­
prehensions  lest  he  should  die  before the 
•five  years’ term  should  have  expired;  and 
his tenants are relieved  from the burden of 
State  and  local  taxation,  which  has  been 
much heavier than  formerly during the last 
few  years. 
It is noticed  that his agents no 
longer buy up property in the neighborhood 
of  the estate, and  that  they have  disposed 
o f several fine farms  at  good  but  not  ex­
cessive prices.  There is reason  to  believe 
they are prepared to  sell  Mr. Scully out as 
fast  as  they can  get  such  prices  for  the 
lands,  which  are  of  superior  quality  and 
well  situated.  The  wonder  is  that  he 
should  have  been able to find people to oc- 
* cupy his farms on the  oppressive  terms he 
^exacts,  with so much good  land in the Mis­
sissippi valley to be had at homestead rates. 
-'He  -also  owns  some  40,000  acres  in  Ne- 
brask,  which  he  lias  been  renting  in the 
same fashion.

It is a bad sign for the  immediate  future 
• of England that  the  Trades’  Union  Con­
gress -becomes with  every  year  more  dis­
tinctly the organ  of  social  and  economic 
discontent.  This year  it  reiterated  its de­
mand for the nationalization of the  land by 
the imposition of a tax equal  in  amount to 
the rent.  This is a good  sign,  in so far as 
it shows that one  class  of  Englishmen are 
awake to the fact that in England  the  land 
question  is 
it 
in  Ireland..  But  it  is  a  bad 
is  not 
sign,  as  showing  that  the 
injuries  in­
flicted on the common people by their being 
lent from the land has begun to  make them 
indifferent  to  those  rights  of  ownership 
whose overthrow would inflict direful injury 
on all classes.  The English  problem really 
is to effect in the matter of  land  ownership 
■a change as sweeping as would  be  effected 
by a socialistic revolution,  and  yet to avoid 
■undergoing such a revolution.

real  question,  as 

the 

In common with the majority of the trav­
eling men of Grand Rapids, who have work­
ed together very  harmoniously  in the past, 
T h e T r a desm a n  regrets  that  any of the 
members should be so unwise  as to  seek to 
■ divide the fraternity in  a  political  matter. 
Such a step having  been  taken,  however, 
1 there is nothing left for the  other  side  but 
* So adept the same tactics  and  then for both 
t factions to put the best  foot forward.

A  Turtle  Farm.

It - occurred  to  an  enterprising  Yankee 
that  turtle farming  might  be made to  pay, 
aoel ‘ he accordingly established  a  terrapin 
farm, which is  situated  about  sixty  miles 
from  Mobile.  An enclosure of  three acres 
in  extent contains several  immense ditches 
166 feet in length  and 10 feet in width,  and 
these  are filled  with  salt  water  by  two 
la  these ditches  about 30,000  tur­
canals. 
tles  are domesticated. 
In winter  they lie 
imbedded  in  the mud, and  are  very  con­
venient  creatures  to  keep,  seeing  at  this 
season  they never eat  any food. 
It is  not 
astonishing,  therefore,  to  hear  that  these 
turtles  cost no  more than §1  per season  to 
feed,  and  that New York cheerfully pays as 
* much as $17 per dozen for  them.

AMONG THE TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

John Den Englishman  has  sold  his gro­
cery stock  at  614  Canal  street to Wm.  H. 
Sigel. 

________________

Chas. Mack lias  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business at New Salem.  L M.  Clark & Son 
furnished the stock

Mrs.  D.  Polasky has  opened  a  grocery 
store at Kalamazoo.  Olney, Shields & Co. 
furnished the stock.

Geo. O. Hodge has engaged in the grocery 
business  at  Superior.  Lemon,  Hoops  & 
Peters furnished the stock.

This being “fair week,” the jobbing trade 
is  looking  for  the  usually large  influx of 
visitors peculiar to the event.

Orian  Hightower  has  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business at Ferry.  Amos  S. Mus- 
selman & Go. furnished the stock.

The  O. E. Brown  Milling  Co.  has  just 
completed a warehouse,  28x100  feet  in  di­
mensions,  and three stories high. 
It has a 
capacity of  7,000 barrels.

Quinn & Richardson  have removed  their 
brokerage office from the Ledyard block, on 
Ottawa  street,  to larger quarters  under the 
Grand Rapids National Bank.

Mr. Flanagan  has  retired  from  the  boot 
and shoe  firm of Murray & Flanagan,  at 26 
Monroe street.  The business  will  be  con­
tinued  by W. C. Murray and D. E. Murray 
under the style of  W. C. Murray & Co.

Elijah Haney  is  attempting  to  organize 
another stock company to succeed the Haney 
Manufacturing  Co. in  the  manufacture  of 
school seats in a new factory at South Grand 
Rapids.  Mr. Haney has not been very suc­
cessful in his business undertakings  in  the 
past, but may  meet  with  better  luck  this 
time. 

________________

J.  M.  Annisansel,  Local  Manager  of 
Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle’s tank line, has 
completed  the  construction  of  a tank  sta­
tion at the junction of  Alpine  avenue  and 
the  M.,  G. R. &  I.  Railroad,  and  will  be 
ready  to  begin  operations  next  week. 
Offices  have  been  secured  in the  Blodgett 
block on South Ionia street.

ABOUND  THE  STATE.

Allegan—Walter Kibby has re-opened his 

meat  market.

fectionery store.

Ashley—Demas Adams has opened a con­

Shelby—W. L. Paige will  shortly engage 

in the bakery business.

Gresham—F.  L. Ryan has sold his gener­

al stock to Jas. S. Smith.

Ashley—J. Y.  Blair,  the  Ola  grocer,  is 

building a store at this place.

Big Rapids—E. Fisher & Son have opened 

a shoe, notion and  jewelry store.

Ashley — Tripp  &  Mills  succeed C. J. 

Winslow in the grocery business.

Ashley—F. B. Yan Hoten  has  opened a 

confectionery store and restaurant.

Jonesville—Witter J. Baxter  has  bought 

the clothing stock of E. B. Thorpe.

Bangor—Geo.  J.  Stephenson 

H. D.  Harvey in the drug business.

succeeds 

Edmore—Mrs.  J.  D.  Sanford  has  re­

moved her fancy goods stock to  Gladwin

Ashley—Mrs. Cora Hasbrook is erecting a 
building to be occupied as a millinery store.
Marshall — Caroline  Klugman  succeeds 
Henry Klugman & Son in the boot and shoe 
business.

Moline—John  Noah  has  put  a  grocery 
stock  in  the  store  formerly occupied  by 
Nevins Bros.

Cheboygan—H.  Chambers  has  shipped 
his  general  stock  to  Elsie,  where he will 
re-engage in business.

Lake Odessa—J.  H.  Gibbons  and  J. B. 
Gibbons have opened a  jewelry store  under 
the style of  J. H. Gibbons & Son.

Coopersville—Ives & Son  have sold their 
meat  market  to  Geo.  Lonsberry, 
late  of 
Oakland county, who  will  take  possession 
October 1.

Wayland—A.  Sessions  has  opened  a 
stock of  confectionery,  tobaccos  and cigars 
in the  building  formerly  occupied  by  the 
late J. W. Sessions.

Owosso—N. McBain has sold his clothing 
and  merchant  tailoring  business  to  Wm. 
McKeand, late of  Northville,  who will con­
tinue the business.

Boyne Falls—Wm.  A.  Davoll  has  pur­
chased the interest of his father in the gen­
eral  firm of  W. P. Davoll & Son  and  will 
continue the business in his own name.

Sparta—S. S.  Hesseltine  has  exchanged 
his interest in the Hesseltine & Ballard fur­
niture  store  and  goods  for  the  farm  of 
Charles S. Field.  The  new  firm  name  is 
Ballard &  Field.

Charlotte — Henry  Levy  and  Emanuel 
Levy have  purchased  the interest of J. H. 
Green  in  the  clothing  firm  of  Levy  & 
Green.  The  new  firm  will  be  known as

Levy & Sons.
Allegan—Chas. D. Smith  has sold his in­
terest in the grocery  firm of Smith Bros, to 
engage in the grocery and meat business  in 
Chicago.  The business will be continued by 
Henry C. Smith.

Blanchard—L. M.  Mills has  purchased of 
Arthur Meigs, of Grand  Rapids,  the  store 
formerly occupied by the Pangbom  general 
stock and W. J.  Mills  has  bought  the ad­
joining building.  The former will be occu-
ied by the Blanchard  Drug  Store  and the 
latter by the postoffice and express office, an 
archway connecting the two stores.

STRAY  FACTS.

Merrill—H. L.  Gladwin  is  building  the 
best  brick  store  between  Saginaw and St. 
Louis.  He will soon  move  into  the same 
with a complete stock of  drugs.

Manistee— Johnson  &  Bridge  succeed 
M. G. Smith & Son  as  lessees of  the  Dur- 
ham House.

Muskegon—Houseman, Donnally& Jones 
purchased the I. H.  Goldman clothing stock 
at chattel mortgage sale for $7,000.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Belding—There  are  110  names  on  the 

pay-roll of  the silk factory.

Belding—The  refrigerator factory is now 

turning out sixty refrigerators per day.

Belding—The flouring mill now turns out 
170 barrels of flour each twenty-four hours.
Gladstone—The  Bischoff  sawmill  has a 
daily capacity of  70,000 to  80,000  feet  and 
employs at present  some  forty men.  This 
number  will  soon be increased,  as they are 
patting in a lath mill of  large capacity.

Mastadon—McIntyre  &  Co.  are  said  to 
have made $100,000 at their sawmill daring 
the past five  years, and that there is a good 
opportunity  for  parties  to  make  as much 
more by cutting the  30,000,000 feet  of pine 
between the Paint and  Michigamme  rivers,
Charlevoix—The  newly-organized  Mich­
igan  Shaved  Shingle  Co.  has  begun  the 
erection of a mill, in which will be placed two 
machines.  The corporation  is  officered  as 
follows :  President, A. Buttars;  Yice-Pres- 
ident,  Geo. A.  Gage;  Secretary and  Treas­
urer,  F. A.  Smith.

Gripsack Brigade.

Many of  the traveling men are staying in 
this  week  to  help  entertain the  visiting 
merchants.

Chas.  E.  Hall  is  working  the  outside 
trade for the O. E. Brown  Milling  Co. and 
B. B.  Luten the city trade.

Jas. A.  Crookston,  the  veteran  traveler, 
is spending a few months among old friends 
at Saratoga,  N. Y., and vicinity.

Dick Prendergast  is still  confined to  his 
house  by the  sprained  ankle  sustained  it 
the  traveling  men’s ball  game two  weeks 
ago.

John  C. Bryer,  traveling  representative 
for  the  Globe  Rubber  Co., of  Fairmount, 
Ya.,  died  at  the  Commercial  House,  at 
Lansing, on the 11th.  He was 25  years of 
age.

The  ingenious  “warble,”  described  by 
“Jesse Lange”  in  another  column,  is the 
property of Geo.  F. Owen,  and  the circum­
stance described actually  happened about a 
year ago.

J. H. Browfa,  Western  representative for 
P. Lorillard & Co., was  in  town  Monday. 
He was  accompanied by Ethan  Allen, who 
is connected with the home  management of 
the house.

Chas.  Godbold is no longer  on  the  road 
for Reeder, Palmer & Co.  The house is re­
presented in the  Northern  portion  of  the 
State by J. M. Fell and in the  Holland Col­
ony by K. YanDyk.

The Democratic  members  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  traveling  fraternity met at Sweet’s 
Hotel Saturday  afternoon  and  organized a 
Ford Traveling Men’s Club and the  Repub­
lican boys will meet at the reading  room of 
the Morton House at 3  o’clock  next  Satur­
day afternoon for the purpose  of  forming a 
Belknap Club.

The heartfelt sympathy of  the  fraternity 
goes out to F. L.  Kelly  in  the death of his 
wife by consumption.  The demise occurred 
on Friday and  the  obsequies  were held on 
Sunday  afternoon. 
The  Grand  Rapids 
Traveling  Men’s  Association  sent  a hand 
some floral offering, in the form  of ^   sym­
bolical representation of  “Gates Ajar,” and 
about thirty of the boys attended the services 
in a body.

Albert C. Antrim  has  returned  from  a 
trip through the South in the interest of the 
Alabastine  Co.  He  was  in  Jacksonville 
when the quarantine  regulations  were pro­
claimed and the manner in which he escaped 
serious detention at the hands of  both state 
and government officials is a matter of  con­
gratulation.  He  left  Jacksonville in com­
pany with about 300  persons, but  when the 
party  arrived  at  Savannah  only nine—of 
which  Mr.  Antrim  was one—would  admit 
having  come  from  the fever-stricken city. 
He  was  kept  in  surveillance  there  over 
night,  sleeping  on  improvised  beds  in the 
passenger  coach,  when  he  was  started 
North.  A  day  or  two  afterward  he  was 
again taken into the  custody of  health  offi­
cers, when a slight variation from the truth 
would have saved him  that  inconvenience, 
and  compelled  to  remain  over  night in a 
locked  passenger  coach.  Mr. Antrim says 
that  the  average  traveling man is quite as 
capable of  getting  frightened  as  people in 
other  walks of  life,  over  300  having  left 
Jacksonville within  six hours after  quaran­
tine regulations were proclaimed.

The Michigan  Salt Association will here­
after  ship  the  product  of  members  oper­
ating  on  the  shores of  Lake Huron to the 
west via Detroit  Heretofore all salt  from 
shore towns has been taken by water  direct 
to Chicago, and  thence  sent  west  by rail. 
The new order of  things  will make Detroit 
the point of  transfer, and the  Wabash  will 
move west every barrel  taken  into the City 
of  the  Straits.  The  Association  will  at 
once  build  on  the  Wabash  docks  ware­
houses, 240x150 feet in size, with a capacity 
for nearly 100,000 barrels.

Bank  Notes.

Hillsdale Standard:  It  is  rumored  that 
Reading will  have a new  savings  bank  in 
the  near  future, with a capital  of  $25,000, 
and the stock  will  be  taken  by citizens of 
that  place.  As  regards  the  Waldron un­
pleasantness,  Mr. Northrop  expects  to  be 
able  to realize  enough  on  bills  receivable 
very soon  to  make a pro rata  dividend  to 
depositors  and  eventually settle  with all in 
fulL

The Figures in the Goebel Failure. 

The assignee has filed  a  schedule  of the 
assets and  liabilities  in the estate of H. M. 
Goebel and John Goebel & Co., Grand Rap­
ids;  Smith,  Cook & Co., Kalamazoo, andH. 
M. Goebel & Co., Battle Creek, from which 
it appears that the liabilities are $58,343.85, 
divided among the four stores in the follow­
ing amounts:
Canal street sto re ......................................$16,361.49
South Division  stre et sto re .................... 
674.85
B attle Creek sto re.....................................  
40.63
Kalam azoo  sto re.......................................  11,266.89
The assets are  appraised  at  $43,346.23, 
divided among the four stores in the follow­
ing amounts:

H.  M.  GOEBEL.

** 

Cost  A ppraised 
value
Y alue 
S tock.......................................... $16,119.61 $11,764.34
F ix tu re s.....................................     333125 
241.86
811.31
935.41 
Goods  attach ed ........................  
3,892.16
in K ent s tre e t..............  4,467.24 
Bay View  lo t.............................  
100.00
125.00 
Stock Nason Lum ber Co........   1,800.00 
1,800.0b
**  New Eng-. F urn. Co___   2,259.00 
2,250.(0
A ccounts  receivable................  8,969.41 
4,601.47
314.96
314.96 
Cash balan ce.............................. 
Stock a t  h ouse........................  
200.00 
159.00

JOHN GOEBEL & CO.

Stock and fixtures....................$3,132.15 $  2,262.53
2,837.52
A ccounts  receivable...............  
610.75

**  basem ent................  3,242.89 
665.91 

“ 

H.  M. GOEBEL & CO.

Stock........................ 
F ix tu re s....................................  165 00

$3,323.44  $

,522.53
120.00

SMITH, COOK  & CO,

Stock.........................................$10,090.75  $  8,268.43
A ccounts receivable...".___  
730.38
M r.  Goebel  selected his  exem ption,  cost­

835.98 

ing $310.17 an d  ap praised a t $250.03.

G oods costin g  $925.44  and  app raised   a t 

$841.31 w ere attached.

T h e  failu re is  attrib u ted  

largely  to   th e 
abandonm ent o f th e  w all p ap er  pool,  w hich 
caused such  a  serious decline  in  th e  price of 
all grades o f w all paper.

Purely Personal.

Frank O. Lord,  the Grand  Ledge  grocer, 

is in town for a couple of days.

J.  H.  Thaw  has  returned  from  Shady 
Side,  where he  spent the  summer,  and  lo­
cated at 29 North Ionia street.

John  G.  Shields  and  family  will  leave 
about October 1 for Colorado  Springs,  Col., 
where they will spend the winter.

F.  W. Schwartz,  General  Manager of the 
Fermentum Yeast Co., of Chicago, has been 
in town  for a couple of  days inspecting the 
Grand Rapids agency.

Dr.  Chas.  S. Hazel tine has returned from 
Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  where  he  attended  the 
annual convention of  the  National  Whole­
sale Druggists’ Association.

L.  F.  Swift,  Treasurer of  Swift and Com­
pany,  of  Chicago, was in town last Wednes­
day on his way to  Muskegon  to inspect the 
new plant of  the corporation.

Henry  Strope,  the Morley merchant  aad 
lumberman,  is  lingering  in  the shadow  of 
the  valley  of  death,  on  account  of  the 
injuries he received in a runaway last  Mon­
day.

H.  B.  Hawley,  the  Westwood  general 
dealer, was in town last  week  for the pur­
pose of  adjusting the  claims  held  against 
him at this market.  So  far  as learned,  he 
was  successful.

Wm. E. Ramsay, of  the Bradley-Ramsay 
Lumber Co.,  Lake  Charles,  Louisiana,  ac­
companied by his wife  and  son,  are  in the 
city,  visiting Mr. and  Mrs. Geo. P.  Gifford, 
Jr.  Mr.  Ramsay was formerly of  Saginaw, 
and  is  now  one  of  the  most  prosperous 
lumbermen of  Louisiana.

Acknowledgement.

W. H. H errick, State  A gent, Pacific  and  Acci­
d en t Ins. Co., G rand Rapids, Mich.
De a r  Sir—I  take  pleasure  in acknowl­
edging receipt of  your check  for $30 in set­
tlement of  my claim for  injury to my ankle 
received  while  playing  ball in Detroit Au­
gust 25. 
I  filed  my  claim  to-day at  your 
office  and  was  agreeably surprised  to  re­
ceive settlement of  same  immediately upon 
execution  of proofs.  Such  prompt  treat­
ment of claims  justly entities the Pacific to 
the patronage of  all who desire accident in­
surance, and I shall take pleasure in recom­
mending  yonr  company whenever  the  op­
portunity is afforded.  Yours truly,

S.  B.  Morrison.
Cheap  Excursion  Rates  to  Chicago.
The Detroit, Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee 
Railway announce very low  excursion rates 
to Chicago and return  for  the  Exposition. 
The round trip rate from Grand Rapids, in­
cluding one admission to the  Exposition,  is 
only $5.15.  Tickets  will  be sold on Tues­
days, September 11th,  f8th and  25th, Octo­
ber 2d, 9th and 16th, good  going on date of 
sale, and good to return up to and including 
Monday next following date of  sale.
The  route of  these  tickets  is via Grand 
Haven  and  the  Goodrich  Transportation 
Company to Chicago, and  the  price  of  the 
ticket  includes  berth  on  steamer between 
Grand Haven and Chicago in both directions.

Card  of Thanks.

Gr a n d Ra pid s,  Sept.  17, 1888.

I wish to avail  myself  of  the  medium of 
T h e T r a desm a n  to  return  my  heartfelt 
thanks to the  many friends  who  have  ex­
tended a helping  hand  and  expressions of 
sympathy to me  in  my great  bereavement. 
Especially are my thanks  due to the Grand 
Rapids traveling men,  both at this time and 
at a previous  occasion:  to  Spring  &  Com­
pany and  the  employes  of  the  house;  to 
friends at Morley;  and  others,  known  and 
unknown,  who  have so  kindly shown  me 
I shall  never for­
such generous kindness. 
get them,  even if  words  are  too  weak  to 
express my gratitude. 
F. L. K el l y .

“ Gage’s  Saturday  Gazette.”

The first two  issues of  Gage’s  Saturday 
Gazette  fulfill  the  Claims  set forth  by the 
enterprising  publishers  previous  to the in­
auguration of  the venture.  The typograph­
ical  appearance  of  the  paper is handsome 
and  the contents are interesting and almost 
wholly original.  T h e T r a d esm a n sees no 
reason why Gage’s Saturday Gazette should 
not become a permanency.

When selling mackerel  suggest  to  your 
customer that the fish should  he  soaked  in 
water,  split side down,  for  twelve  hours, 
the  water  being  changed  several 
times. 
The best mackerel are the fat  ones  with  a 
whitish color.

The  Romance  of  a Ring.

From  th e Toledo Blade.

»

A few  months  ago a traveling  salesman 
named  Woods,  who  was  a  guest  of  the 
Boody House,  in this city, was sitting upon 
the sofa in his room,  absorbed in reflection. 
While carelessly running  his  hand  behind 
the upholstery in  the  sofa  he  felt a small 
finger ring,  which he drew forth and discov­
ered to be a gold finger ring with a diamond 
setting.  He knew enough about  diamonds 
to  observe  that  the  stone  was a gem,  ex­
quisitely cut and perfect 
He  naturally began  wondering  how  the 
little treasure found  its way into so  remote 
a  place,  and  after  considerable  thinking 
came  to  the  conclusion  that it had  either 
been  hidden  intentionally, or  that  it  had 
slipped  from  a  finger  of  the  owner—evi­
dently a  lady,  for  it  was  a lady’s  ring— 
while she  bad  thoughtlessly been  playing 
with the  upholstery in  the  same  manner. 
He looked for initials or a name in the ring, 
but  found  nothing  that  would lead to the 
identity  of  the  owner.  He  went  to  the 
office and inquired if  a ring had  been  lost, 
but the clerk had  heard of  none,  and  upon 
inquiry no one else  was  found  who  knew 
anything of  it.
The next  morning  Mr. Woods  was  pre­
paring his toilet before the dresser when he 
noticed the letters “M. C. F.” and  the  date 
“Sept.  17” delicately cut in the bevel of  the 
mirror.  He  thought  nothing  of  it  at  the 
time,  but  shortly  afterwerd  the  idea  en­
tered his mind that the initials might possi­
bly  be  those of  the  owner of  the  ring  he 
had found.  They were  certainly  cut  by a 
diamond,  and it was reasonable  to  suppose 
that they were carved with the very ring he 
had  found.  Anyhow  it  was  interesting, 
and  he  determined  to  investigate  the ro­
mance. 
From the clerk he obtained the register of 
the last September and  looked  through the 
list of names for one  the  initials of  which 
were  M.  C. F.  NothiDg  satisfactory  was 
found.  He asked for  the  register  for  the 
September previous, and after a little search 
it was procured.  Under  the  date  of  Sep­
tember  16  he  saw  the  name, in  a  lady’s 
handwriting,  “Miss  May C. Fowler,  Mad­
ison,  Wis.,” and she  was  assigned to room 
45, the very one he had occupied.
Then he was certain that this  young lady 
was  the  same  who  had  engraved  her in­
itials  on  the  mirror.  The  doubt  still re­
mained if  she  was  the  owner of  the  ring 
he had found.
His first intention was to  address a letter 
to the lady named,  but as  he  was  going to 
Chicago  and  Milwaukee,  he  concluded to 
run over to  Madison and investigate in per­
son.
He did so.  From  the  city  directory  he 
found  several  addresses  of  Fowlers  and 
noted them in his order  book.  He selected 
the  address of  Russel M. Fowler,  attorney 
at  law,  judging  that  attorneys,  as a rule, 
being men of wealth, their daughters would 
more  likely  wear  diamonds  than  those 
whose parents were newspaper  men or fol­
lowers of other  callings.
He presented himself at the residence and 
asked if Miss May Fowler was at home.  He 
received an affirmative reply and  was  ush­
ered into a room where the  young lady was 
sitting with her father,  who  was  reading a 
paper. 
Woods introduced himself, and asked Miss 
Fowler if she had ever lost a diamond ring, 
After hesitating a moment,  she said:
“Yes, sir.  1 lost one two  years ago on a 
I don’t know  where,  though.” 
visit East. 
“Were you ever in  Toledo, Ohio?”
I stopped there  over  night while 
“Yes. 
on my trip,  and waited until  the next even­
ing for papa.  You  remember,  don’t  you, 
father?”

•

“Quite well,” the lawyer replied.
“Where did you stop?’,’ asked Woods.
“I don’t remember the name of the hotel, 
but it was in the center of the city,  and was 
It  was  about 
the leading house in  town. 
two blocks from the river.”
Mr. Fowler then eyed Woods  suspicious­
ly and asked why he was so inquisitive.
The  drummer  replied  by  handing  the 
young  lady  the  ring  and asked if it was 
hers.
“Oh, the  very  same,”  was  the  reply. 
“Where did you get it,  Mr.  Woods?”
Woods related the  circumstances  as  re­
corded above,  and  concluded  with  the  re­
mark that he hoped  Miss Fowler  found as 
much  pleasure in obtaining  the ring as he 
had derived in following the  little mystery.
Mr.  Fowler  gave  himself up t® a hearty 
laugh,  at the same  time  thanking  Woods 
for his kindness and  remarking  that it was 
one of the cleverest pieces of detective work 
he had seen.  As a criminal lawyer,  he had 
observed many of  them, too.
Woods was invited to remain  for  dinner 
and  he  did  so.  He  made  himself  very 
agreeable, and succeeded in creating  a fav­
orable impression.  He  was cordially invit­
ed to call again if he  ever  happened  to re­
turn to the city.
About three weeks later,  he  found  him­
self in Madison  again  on  his  return  trip 
from the West.  He  was  well  received by 
the Fowlers, and was introduced by them to 
some of the best people in Madison.
It was nearly  three  months  before  his 
next trip in that vicinity,  and  he  was sur­
prised at the anxiety  he  seemed  to  feel to 
accept the invitation he had received to pre­
sent himself at the Fowler mansion.
But what is the necessity of  saying  any­
thing more. 
It was the most  natural thing 
in the world for the young  people to fall in 
love with so  romantic  an  introduction and 
they did.
is 
And, 
changed to Mrs.  Greene Woods.

to-day,  Miss  Fowler’s  name 

The Hotel  Register Must Go.

From  th e New Y ork Graphic.

The register at some  of  the  fashionable 
hotels will soon be amoDg the unused if not 
among  the  forgotten  things.  There  is a 
movement on foot to abolish it entirely, and 
sooner or  later,  like  a  good  many  other 
things,  it will have to go.  People are busi­
er now than they used to be,  or  else  they 
are  lazier.  Formerly,  hotel  guests  regis­
tered  their  names  and  the  places  from 
which they came with a good  deal of accur­
acy and attention.  Now,  most of the pub­
lic men and generally  all  lady travelers de­
cline to allow their names to appear  on the 
book at all.  They simply  give their names 
and places of residence  to  the  clerk,  who 
notes the same and sticks the little card con­
taining the information in  the  office  rack. 
The real object of the register was to accom­
modate the outsider,  any way, and even in 
this  respect  has  fallen  into  disuse.  Tne 
stranger comes in  looking  for a friend and 
consults the book,  and  nine  times  out of 
ten if he does not find the name  on the reg­
ister he turns and asks the clerk if  the per­
son he seeks is stopping in the house.  This 
is a fast age, and the register seems to be in 
the way now on the hotel desk.

The cellar to a grocer store,  if kept sweet 
and well ventilated,  is as  good  as  a  large 
refrigerator,  and  grocers  should  use  their 
cellars more.

-----AND-----

SALT  FISH.

Mail Orders  Receive  Prompt 

See  Quotations  in  Another 

Attention.

Column.

CHAS.  A.  C0YE

manufacturer of

Horse and Wagon Covers, 

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

Wide Ducks, etc.

Telephone  106.

73 CANAL ST., 

-  GRAND RAPIDS

DO YOD WANT A SHOWCASE?

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-  Michigan.
Grand  Rapids, 
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daily.  Actually saves th e h ire of an e x tra m an.  F irst 
order from  you vicinity secures th e agency.  Best sell­
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lO.OOOin use.  Illustrated Catalogue 
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THE  ACKNOWLEDGED  KING  of AXLE 

LUBRICANTS.  Neither  Gums  nor 
•  Chills, never runs off the axle 

and outwears any other 
know n oil or grease.
PRICES TO THE TRADE.

Ponys. p er gross, $10.  Packed In 3  doz. cases. 
Pints, p er doz.. $3.25.  Packed in 1  doz.  cases. 
Q uarts,  per  doz..  $4.  Packed  in 1 doz. cases. 
Gallons, each,  51.20.  Packed  6  cans  in  case. 
Each case contains  a  liberal  assortment of 

Retail a t 10 cts. each.
R etail at 30 cts. each.
R etail a t 50 cents each.
R etail at $1.50 each.

advertising  matter,  lithographs; 

show-cards, etc.

THE  TRADE  SCPPLIED  BY

OLNEY, SHIELDS ICO., Grand Rapids, 

Mich.

YALLEY CITY MILLING GO.

OUR  LEADING  BRANDS

Roller Champion,
Matchless,

Gilt  Edge,

Lily White,

Harvest Queen,
Snow Flake,

White Loaf, 
Reliance,

Gold Medal, 
Graham.

OUR  SPECIALTIES:

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

B uckw heat  Flour,  Rye  Flour,  G ranulated 
Meal,  Bolted  Meal,  Coarse  Meal,  B ran, 
Ships, Middlings, Screenings, Com, Oats, Feed.

W rite  fo r  Prices.

^ strüt^ I Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

GraMRajiäs Seect Sto

way down in the gutter.  This man headed 
a subscription, raised money and sent Hank 
to the  Washington  Home  of  Inebriates at 
Chicago, and in  a  year’s time  his  old  firm 
offered him his old place at the  old  salary,
and to-day Hank B-----is selling  goods  on
the road again, and is a devoted follower of 
Fiske and Brookes.”  And  the  little  man 
with the red goatee  took  himself,  his bird- 
warble and his grip off  the train.

J esse  Lan g e.

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

EDWIN FALLAS,
VALLEY CITY COLB STORAGE,

PROPRIETOR OF

JOBBER OF

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Butter, Eggs 

and Egg Crates.

No. 1 egg  crates,  37c.  No. 2  eg g  crates, 
30c.  No.  1  fillers,  13c.  N o.  »  fillers,  10c.
I  have  faculties  fo r  handling  each  line  above 

nam ed th a t a re unsurpassed.

I  aim   to   handle  th e   best  th a t  can  be  obtained 
Mail orders filled p rom ptly  a t lowest  m ark et price.  A 
liberal discount on E gg C rates and fillers in large  lots

SALESROOM, 

-  No. 9  Ionia  St,  Grand Rapids

JOBBERS  IN

DRV  GOODS,

A ~ N T T ~ )  U OTIONS,

08  Monroe St«

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bigs

i A Specialty.

The M ich ig an  T ra d e s m a n

Yams  Spun  by  Drummers.

W ritten for The Tradesman.

The bald-headed man, the tall  passenger, 
a  little  man  with a red  goatee  and a tall, 
dark man were playing pedro.  At Holland 
two fashionable-looking ladies came  aboard 
and took seats  ahead of  the  quartette.  At 
New Richmond an old  lady and a little girl 
carrying  a  bird  cage  with  a  little  yellow 
bird in it took seats  between the fine ladies 
and our friends.  Pretty soon the little man 
with  the  red.goatee,  surprised by picking 
up a hand containing the nine and tfen spot, 
jack,  queen,  king  and  ace of  spades,  gave 
a  little  warble  that  sounded  just  like  a 
trained canary.  The two fine ladies turned 
around  in  their  seat,  as did  others  in the 
car, and looked for the source of  the music 
Noting  the  sensation  he  had created,  the 
little man with the red  goatee  repeated his 
warble, and one of  the ladies arose, walked 
down the aisle  and, stopping  at the seat in 
which  sat  the  old  woman  and little girl 
said:

“Will  you sell  your bird ?”
“Ma’am?”
“What will  you take for the bird ?”
“ ’Tain’t for sale.  The little girl’s sister 
give  it  to  her  and  she  wouldn’t  care  to 
sell i t ”

The fine lady returned to her place,  but 

little  later the beautiful warble  again  rang 
through  the car,  sounding  high  and  clear 
above the rumble of  the car wheels and the 
clatter of  loosened  fish-plates.  Again  the 
lady came to the old woman’s side and said 
“My friend is highly impressed with your 
bird, and  will  give  you  $10 for i t   Won’t 
you sell it?”

“Why,  if  she wants it as bad  as all that 
even if  it is a keepsake  from  Lize, she can 
have i t ”

So a crisp, new  ten-dollar  bill  was care­
fully tied up in the  old  lady’s  cotton  ker 
chief and  the  fine  lady  walked  down  the 
aisle, daintily holding  away  from  her silk 
dress the little  rusted  bird-cage.  The bird 
warbled  no  more, the  little girl, who  was 
weeping loudly,  was hushed  by her  grand 
mother, saying,  “Shut up!  We  can  buy a 
hundred yellow  birds  for 810.”  And four 
traveling  men  adjourned  to  the  smoker, 
nearly dead with suppressed laughter.

*  

*  

*

“The first time I went  on  the  road  was 
fourteen  years ago, for the Clinton Woolen 
Mills. 
I was  green as grass in them  days, 
and thought it would be lots of  fun.  Well,
1 made Grand  Rapids  and  Muskegon, and 
then  went  to  Milwaukee. 
I had a list of 
the  house’s  customers  and,  leaving  my 
samples  at  the  hotel,  started  out  to look 
them up.  My!  but  I  was  scared  when I 
saw  who  they  wanted  me  to  call  o n ! 
Houses that could buy and sell us ten times 
over—large  wholesale  concerns  in marble 
fronts.  Well,  I  didn’t  call  on  them,  but 
instead called on a few of  the  smaller deal­
ers and sold a few small bills.  Then I went 
to Racine, then to  Madison,  and  so  on  to 
■Green Bay, with but  little  success and ter­
ribly discouraged.  At Madison I had  writ- 
*ten in and told the house that they had bet­
ter call me  in,  as I was sure I would  never 
rmake  a  success as a traveling  man;  that I 
would go on up to  Minnesota  and  see  the 
•country;  that I would do  what I could  and 
■a$k  no  salary,  hoping  that  I  could  sell 
enough  goods to pay expenses.  At  Green
Bay I   heard  from  them.  Billy  -----,  the
manager,  was  an  intimate  friend of  mine 
and here is what he wrote;
You d-----fool,  we  hired  you  for a  year
to sell  our  goods  on  the road,  and a  year
you’ll  travel  for us.  Why in h-----didn’t
you call on  the parties whose names I gave 
you,  in  Milwaukee?  Go  right  back  and 
•call-on them,  and  call  on  everybody I told 
yon to.
I  made  the  jump  back  to  Milwaukee, 
-called on the  largest  concern  there in our 
line,  and sold them  $2,200  worth of  goods. 
■Say, boys, I sold  over  $14,000  worth  that 
trip!”  and  the  big  man  with  the  black 
•moustache  put a fresh  piece  of  gum  into 
his mouth.

*  *  *

■••Did any of you ever know HankB-----?”
* ‘Should  say  we  did,”  came  the  reply 

from three or four.

“ Well,  he’s back on the road.”
“No?”
“ Yes.  From  the  top  to  the  bottom— 
from a $5,000  salary to  shooting  snipes in 
the gutter—and  then  straightening out is a 
little bit the strangest thing I ever heard of. 
Four  years ago Hank was selling goods for 
the best house in his line in this part of  the 
country—selling  enough to warrant his get­
ting $5,000 a  year.  He was a perfect gen­
tleman when sober,  and a low  brute  when 
drunk,  and it got so that about  three  years 
ago he was  full  half  the  time.  He would 
get into Kalamazoo,  stay a week, get drunk 
and sober up, and go to  Grand Rapids  and 
do the same thing,  and, as  the  manager of 
his  firm  once  said,  about  half  the  time 
Hank  was  out  they had  to  be wiring the 
whole territory to find  him.  At last,  about 
two  years ago, he  got  his  walking  papers 
while  on  a  protracted  hurrah  in  Toledo 
and about six months  after he was bounced 
he had fallen so low that he  was  sweeping 
out saloons for his board  and  whisky.  No 
one  would  give  him  money,  because  he 
spent it for  rum  about  as  fast as he could 
drink. 
I have seen him,  while  under  the 
influence  of  whisky,  strike  an  inoffensive 
boy for merely looking at him. 
I have seen 
him  deliberately step  upon  a  lady’s  dress 
and  tear  i t   As he is a great  big  fellow, 
people  were  afraid  of  him.  And  yet I’ve 
seen him share his last  cent  with a hungry 
or  thirsty tramp.  While  laying in Toledo, 
a  customer  and  friend  of  his  found  him

I. M. CLARK  l 80N,
S ilY K R   HOUSE

MICHIGAN

fison 

Gtafdnft Saxony Wool PH Hats, Pearl Color, 
...............Light Broil.
$10.50  per  doz,

Lapel  Buttons

For Both Parties.

MEDALS,  ETC. 

LOWEST  PRICES.

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

send for one.

If  not, 

3 4  to 42  O anal Street.

Grand,  Square  and  Upright  Pianos.

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

dict thatThe felier Stands Unrivaled.

Sheet  music  and  musical  merchandise. 

Everything in the musical line.

Weber Pianos, 

Fischer Pianos,

Smith Pianos, 

Estey Organs, 

A. B. Chase Organs,

Hillstrom  Organs,

JULIUS A. J. FRIEDRICH,

(Successor  to  Friedrich  Bros.)

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

The Standard of Excellence
KINGSFORD’S

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.

T H E   p e r f e c t i o n   o f   q u a l i t y .

WILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY  TIME!

ALW AYS  ASK  YOUR  GROCER  FOR  THESE  GOODS.

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.

.  _ _   - j- v  

_  
Strictly Pure  and  Warranted,  in  tierces,  barrels,  one-half
T 1 jA Hi I J  barrels,  50  pound  cans,  10  pound  cans, 3, 5  and 10  pound

Pickled  Pigs’  Feet,  Tripe, Etc.

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

in every instance.

When in Grand Rapids give us a call  and look over our establishment 
Write us for prices

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
JE N N IN G S’

H E S T E R   <&  EOX ,

M anufacturers’ A gents f o r

SAW AITP GRIST MILL XÆACHnTERY,

ATLAS

ENGINE
WORKS

IU

M ANUFACTURERS  OF

sa.aa.aa.H M M   ■ O 
INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.,  U.  S . A.
STEAM EHG1NES& BOILERS!
C&rry Engines and Boilers In Stock 

for  immediate delivery.

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery, 

I 

Saws, Belting  and  Oils.

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

Pulley and become convinced of their  superiority.

Write for Prices.  " 

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

GEO.  E.  HOWES.

S.  A.  HOWES.

GEO.  E,  HOWES  &  CO.,

C. N.  RAPP.

JOBBERS IN

Apples,  Potatoes  I  Onions.

A T i - A - A i i l S :

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

3 Ionia St.. GBAITD RAFTDS, MICH.

TEE  FAVORITE  BEARD

With  Grocers.

Orders from  R etail Trade Solicited.

NEWAYGO,  MICH.

WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker Manufacturers,

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE'

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

Wholesale  Grocers

IMPORTERS.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

‘CELEBRATED”

Flavoring  Extracts.

Are put up in all sires, from 1 oz. to 1 gal. bottles.

1872 

Sixteen  Years  on  the  Market. 

-1888

S O Z i D  

B Y   A Z a Z i  

J O B B E R S .

MANUFACTURED ONLY  BY

JENNINGS & SMITH,

38  and  40  Louis  S t,

Grand Rapids,  Mieli,

WHEN  ORDERING  Ask For ‘JENNINGS’ EXTRACTS’

ÄSSOCIRTION  DEPARTMENT.

Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President—Frank W eils, L ansing.
F irst V ice-President—H. Cham bers. Cheboygan.
Second Vice-President—C. Strong, K alam azoo. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids.
Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.
Executive Board—President; C. L. W hitney, M uskegon; 
Frank  H am ilton, Traverse C ity ;  N. B. Blain, Lowell; 
Chas. T. Bridgm an, F lin t;  H iram   DeLano,  Allegan;
C om m itted on  Insurance—Geo.  B.  Caldwell,  Green­
ville;  W.S. Powers, Nashville;  Oren  Stone, runi.. 
Com mittee on Legislation—S.  E  P ark lll,  Owosso;  H.
A. H ydom , Grand Rapids;  H. H. Pope, A' legan. 
Committee on Trade Interests—Sm ith Banie», T raverse 
City:  Geo. R. H oyt, E ast Saginaw ;  H. B. F argo, Mus-
Com mittee on T r a n s p o ^ io n —Jam es Osborn,Owosso; 
O.  F.  Conklin,  Grand  Rapids;  C.  F.  Bock,  B attle
Committee on B uilding and Loan A ssociations-^haun; 
cey Strong, K alam azoo; W ill u<mmert, Eaton Rapids,
W. E. C rotty, Lansing. 

.  ____
Local S ecretary—P. J* Connell.  Muskegon.
Official Organ—The Michigan Tradesman. _________ __
The following-  auxiliary’ assoeiations  are oi)- 
erating u n der  ch arters  g ranted  by th e Michi­
gan Business Men’s A ssociation:

No. 1 —Traverse City B. M. A.

P resident. Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts.----------

President, N. B. B lain; S ecretary, F rank T. King.--------

No. 2—Lowell  B. M. A.
No. 3—Sturgis B. M. A.

P resident. H. 8. Church; S ecretary, Wm. Jo m .------------
------------No.  4—Grand  iiapids  M.  A.
President. E. J. Herrick ; Secretary , E. A. Stowe.----------

No.  5—Muskegon B. M. A.

— 

i n d e n t. H. B. F argo; Secretary, W m. Peer.--------------

President. F. W . Sloat; Secretary. P. T. Baldwin.----------

"  No. 6—Alba B. M. A.
jjo. 7—Uimondale B. M. A.
No. 8—Eastport B. M. A.
No. 9—Lawrence B. M. A

P resident. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. W idger.----------
‘ 
President, F. H. Thurston; Secretary. G eo.L.Thurston.

President, H. M. M arshall; Se c re tary , J. H- Kelly.--------
' 
President. W. J. C lark; S ecretary. A. L. Thompson.-----

No. 10—Harbor S p r in g s  B.M . A. 

No. 1 1 —Kingsley B. M. A.

President. H. P. W hipple; Secretary, C. H.  Camp.------
--------------- No. 13 —Quincy B. M. A.
President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon.------ --
' 
President. H. B. S turtevant;  Secretary, W.  J. Austin.

No. 13—Sherman B. M. A.

' 

No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A. 

No. 1 5 —Boyne City B. M .A.

Presiden t. S. A. Howey; Secretary, G. C. H avens._
' 
Presiden t. R. R. P erkins; Secretary, F. M. Cha s e ^
* 
No. 16—Sand Lake B.M . A. 
President. J. V. C randall:  Secretary, W. Rasco.
--------------No. 17—Plainw ell B. M. A.
President, E. A.  Owen, Secretary , J. A. Sidle.
No.  18—Owosso B. M. A.

President, H. W, P ark er; S ecretary. S. Lam from .
• -------- 
President, D. F. W atson: Secretory, E. E. Chapel.

No.  19 —Ada B. M. A.

’  No. «0—Saugatuck B. JM. A.
Presiden t. John F. H enry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.-------
-------------- No. 8 1—Way land B. M .A.
President, C. H. W harton; S ecretary. M. V. Hoyt.--------
P e re id en t. A. B. Schum acher; Secretary, w .  R.  Clarke.
..........
President. 

No. 22—Grand  Ledge B. M. A.

S e ^ e ta o r. W. H. Richmond.

No. 25—Palo B. M. A.

Gli A . B. Johnson; Secretary, H. P. Pew.------

--------■  No. 86—Greenville — —• —
President. S. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. C aldw ell._
---------  
No. *7—Dorr B. M.  A ._
President, E. S. Botsford: Secretory, L. N. Fisher.--------

- ____

-   No. 31—Charlotte B. — -   _

President, Thos. J. Green,  Sec retary , A. O. Fleury.------
—“ 
President, W. G. Barnes;  Secretary, J. B- W atson.-------

N o .  3 2 —C o o p e r 9 V ilie  B . M . A .
No. 33—Charlevoix B., M. A. 

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

President, H- T. Johnson;  Secretary, P. T. W illiams.—  

No. 34—Saranac B. hi. A. 
No.  35—Bellaire  B. M. A.
No. 36—Ithaca  B.  M. A.

President. W m. J. Nixon; Secretary, C. E. Pensm o re ._  
— - 
P resident, O. F. Jackson;  Secretary, Jo h n   M. Everden. 
~  
President.  Chas. F. Bock;  S ecretary,  W. F. Baxter.----

No. 3 7—Battle Creek B. M. A.
No. 38—Scottville B.  JI- A- 

__

. 

Presiden t. H- E. Symons: Secretary, D. w - H iggins. 
'  
P resident, W. S. W ilier: Secretary,  F. W. Sheldon.

No. 39 —Burr Oak B. M. A .

President, C. T. H artson; S ecretary, W ill Em m ert.

No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A. 
No. 4 1—Breckenridge  B. M. A.. 

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

P resident. Jos. G erber; S ecretary  C. J. Rathbun.

No. 4*J—F r e m o n t  B. M. A. 
No. 43—Tustin B. M. A.

President, G. A. Estes; Secretary,W . M. Holmes.----------
----------    No. 44—Keed City B. M. A. 
President, E. B. M artin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.----------
*-------------No. 45—Hoytville B. M. A.
P resident, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, 0 . A. Halladay. 

•

President, Wm. H utchins: Secretary, B. M. Gould.-------

No. 46—Leslie B. M. A.

_  No.  47—Flint  M. II.

President. G. R. H oyt; Secretary, W. H- Graham .---------

No. 48—Hnbbardston B. M. A. 
President. Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor

President.  A.  Wenzel! ; Secretary, F rank Smith.

No.  49—Leroy  B.  M.  A. 
No. 50—Manistee B. M. A.

P resident, A. O. W heeler; Secretary, J. P.  O Malley.___

President. L. M. Sellers; Secretary. W. C. Congdon.____

No. 5 1—Cedar Springs  B. M. A.
No. 53—Grand Haven B. M. A.

President, F. D. Vos; Secretary , W m. Mieras.________ _
' 
President, F rank P helps; Secretary, John H. York.------
~ 
President, Thomas B. D utcher;  Secretary, C. B. W aller.

No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A.
No. 54—Douglas B. M. A.
No.  55—Petoskey  B. M. A.
No. 56—Bangor  B. ML.  A.

President, C- F. H anhey; Secretary. A. C- Bowman.

President, N. W. D rake;  Secretary, Geo. Chapm an.

P resident, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. L apham .

No. 57—Rockford B. M. A.
No. 58—Fife Lake B. M. A.
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.

President, E. H agadom ; Secretary. E. C. Brower.

President F. S. Raym ond: S ecretary,P- S- Swarts.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A. 
President, H. E. H ogan; S ecretary, S- E .K eih ard t 

P resident. V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.

No.  61—Hartford  B. M. A. 
No. 62-E ast »aginaw M. A. 

P resident, G. W. Meyer; Secretary, Theo. Kadish.

President, W. M. Davis; Secretary,C. E. Bell.________

No. 63—Kvart B. M. A.
No, 61—Merrill B. M. A.

President, C. W, R obertson; Secretary, Wm. H orton. 

President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. S. Blom.______

No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
No. 66—Lansing B. M.  A. 

President. F rank W ells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.

No. 67—Watervliet B. M. A. 

President. Geo. Parsons; S ecretary, J. M. Hall._______

No. 68—Allegan B. M. A.

P resident. A. E. Calkins;  Secretary, E. T- VanOstrand.

No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. 

P resident, Lym an C lark; Secretary, F. 8. W illison.____

President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S- Powers.________

President, M. Netzorg;  Secretary,  Geo. E. CTntterbnck.

No. 70—Nashville B. M. A,
No. 71—Ashley  B.  M.  A.
No. 72—Edinore B. M. A.
’No, 73—Belding B. M. A. 
No. 74—Davison  M.  V. 

President, A. L- Spencer; Secretary, O. F. W ebster.

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

President, Oscar P. Bills;  Secretary, F. Rosacrans.

No. 75—Tecumseh  B.  M.  A. 
No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A. 

President, 8. S.McCamly ;  Secretary,  Chauncey Strong.

Special  Enterprises  Wanted.

“DURR  OAK,  MICH.—WANTS  A  FACTORY  TO 
. D   em ploy ten  hands five years.  Bonns, $1,000.  266
CH E B O Y G A N —WANTS  WOOD  MANUFACTOR- 

ies in every b ranch to  im prove  th e   g reatest  ad­
v antages in th e State.  All kinds o f tim ber of th e finest 
q n ality   in   unlim ited  quantities.  Come  and  we  will 
h e lp  yon.  Address Seo’y B. M. A. —i 
ÎS ORTH MUSKEGON-WANTS  A LIVE LOCAL 
2
JT ’A Y I iA N D —OFFERS  UNEXCEPTIONABLE  IN- 
ducem ents fo r a  cannery.  Address  Sec’y   B.  M.

new spaper.  Address Sec’y B. M. A. 

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Association  Notes.

C.  I. Rathbun,  Secretary of  the Fremont 
j  B. M. A.,  was in town  last  Friday  on  his 
way home from the Coiambus encampment.
The second meeting  of  the  Ohio  Retail 
Merchants’ Association will be held  at Cin­
cinnati on Oct.  10 and 11.  A cordial invita­
tion is  extended  all  Michigan  association 
workers.

Secretary  Powers  called a special  meet­
ing  of  the  Nashville  B.  M.  A.  Monday 
evening to consider the  measure now pend­
ing before the  Insurance Committee of  the 
State body.  Such  interest  in  the  subject 
among the local bodies presages the success 
of  any effort which may  be made by nearly 
a hundred such organizations combined.

New  York  Merchant's  Review:  At  the 
late  annual  convention  of 
the  Michigan 
Business Men’s Association several interest­
ing papers were read,  among  them  one  by 
W.  S. Powers,  of  Nashville, on  the  neces­
sity of  securing  a  revision  of  the  present 
exemption  law  of  Michigan.  Judging  by 
the summary of  the  said  law  contained in 
Mr.  Powers’  paper,  Michigan  must be the 
debtor’s paradise.-  We are not familiar with 
the exemption  statutes in  effect in many of 
the states, but if  any of  them enjoy a more 
unsatisfactory law than  the  one  given  be­
low, we would advise  its  retailers to adopt 
the cash system or  jump the State.

Allegan Gazette:  At  a  meeting  of  the 
Business Men’s Association, Tuesday night, 
the Committee on Manufacturing  presented 
the proposal of a  new  company.  Geo.  C. 
Walter, of this  place, and Mr. Sheckles, of 
Battle Creek, desire to open a whip factory, 
either at this place or Battle Creek, and will 
locate here if they can  secure a loan of 81,- 
000  from  our  citizens.  This loan is to be 
obtained by private contributions of not less 
than 810 apiece,' for which  they  will  give 
their note or notes payable within five years, 
with interest.  The firm has  85,000  capital 
and will employ at  first  fifteen  or  twenty 
men, increasing this number  greatly before 
long.  A committee was  appointed to solic­
it loans and there is great hope that we will 
secure this new enterprise.

Cheboygan Tribune:  Last  Monday even­
ing,  James  F.  Moloney  and  Dr.  A.  M. 
Gerow, two of the  committee  appointed by 
the  Cheboygan  Business Men’s Association 
to  prepare  a memorial  from  our  business 
men  and  present  the  same  to  the  Grand 
Rapids Board of  Trade, left for Grand Rap­
ids.  They returned  home  yesterday morn­
ing.  The memorial was signed by the lead­
ing  business  men  of  our  village.  They 
attended a meeting of  the  Board  of  Trade 
and presented the memorial and  also stated 
the  situation,  giving  facts  and  figures. 
Their talk had  good  effect, for a resolution 
was passed instructing the Executive  Com­
mittee  to  do  all  they could  to further the 
project.  Messrs. Moloney and  Gerow  also 
visited President Hughart, of the G. R. & I. 
Railroad,  and  had  quite a talk  with  him; 
and while he  gave  them  no  particular en­
couragement, he expressed  himself  as real­
izing the  importance  the  proposed  branch 
would  be  to  that  road,  and  promised  to 
bring the matter  before  the  next  meeting 
of  the board of directors and let them know 
the result inside of  two  weeks.  Both gen­
tlemen say they are satisfied with the result 
of  their visit,  and feel  confident it will bear 
fruit in the near future.

Petoskey Democrat:  A  large  number of 
Petoskey’s  taxpayers  turned  out  Tuesday 
evening to attend the railroad meeting called 
by the B. M. A.  The  meeting  was  called 
to order by C.  F.  Hankey,  President of  the 
Association, who  stated  the  object of  the 
meeting  in  a  few  well-chosen  remarks. 
R. M. Cherrie,  vice-president  of  the  pro­
posed road, then  addressed  the  meeting in 
regard to what  had  been  accomplished  in 
the line of  raising funds and securing  right 
of way for said road.  The  proposed  road 
was to run from Lansing to  Mackinaw, via 
Harrison, Kalkaska, East  Jordon, Ironton, 
Charlevoix and  Petoskey.  The New York 
syndicate who are to furnish the capital de­
mand  that  8100,000  be  raised  between 
Mackinaw  and  Kalkaska, and  865,000  of 
that amount  has  already been secured. 
If 
Petoskey should vote to bond itself, it would 
raise  the  amount to 890,000, leaving a bal­
ance of  but 810,000 to raise.  Extended  re­
marks were also made by A. A. Bleazby, of 
Kalkaska, who was deeply interested in the 
project,  earnestly  urging  the  people  of 
Petoskey  to  vote  the  required  amount. 
J. R.  Wylie was of the opinion that our peo­
ple ought first to thoroughly investigate the 
prospect  of  securing  a  branch  connecting 
with the Michigan Central, and by so doing 
secure  the  benefits  of  a  competing  trunk 
tine.  He did not think the  proposed  road 
would prove to be a competitor of the G. R. 
& I. Road. 
If  no better or more  favorable 
project  offered,  he  would  be  in  favor  of 
voting the required  amount  Other speak­
ers expressed themselves  in favor of  voting 
the  necessary  amount.  There  seemed  to 
be no expressed  opposition  to  bonding the 
town, the only point  raised was, is this the 
most available and most  beneficial  railroad 
project to be secured?  A test vote of  those 
present showed that only two were opposed 
to calling a special election for  bonding the 
town.

Good  Report  from  South  Haven.

South  H a v e n ,  Sept.  13,  1888.

E. A. Stowe, G rand R apids:
De a r  Sib—We had a good  meeting  last 
evening.  Our Association is doing well in 
all  departments.  The  collection  part is a 
grand  success.  We  shall  meet  October 2 
and then  join the chartered  ranks.  Every­
thing  is  doing  well.  We  did  not  send a 
delegate  to  the  convention,  as  every  one 
was too busy. 
I inclose list of  delinquents 
for you to  pass  around.
Very truly yours,

S. V a n  Ostra n d,  Sec’y.

The Per Capit i Tax Now Due.

The following circular  was  mailed  from 
the office of the State Secretary  last  Satur­
day:

Gr a n d R a pid s,  September 15,  1888. 

To the........................B. M. A.:
We take this means of informing you that 
your  connection  with  the  M.  B.  M.  A. 
ceases on Sept  30,  1888, and that  to secure 
the benefits of  re-affiliation  for  the  fiscal 
year running from Oct  1, 1888, to Sept  30, 
1889, it will be necessary for  you  to  remit 
annual per  capita  dues  of  50 cents for as 
many'names as you have on  your  member­
ship book.
The reason for increasing the  dues  from 
25  to 50 cents per annum  (the  change  hav­
ing been voted at  the  convention  held  at 
Cheboygan  on  Aug.  7 and 8), is to enable 
the Association  to  prosecute  its  work,  es­
pecially in the legislative and  insurance de­
partments,  with  greater  vigor, to the end 
that the condition of every  business man in 
the State may be bettered thereby.
Hoping that you  will  give  this  subject 
early and  favorable  consideration,  we  are 

E. A.  Sto w e,  Secretary. 

Yours truly,
F r a n k W e l l s,  President.
(The Secretary will  please  present  this 
communication the first meeting after its re­
ceipt)
Ex-President  Hamilton  on  the  Special 

Report.

T r a v e r se  City,  Sept.  10,  1888.

E. A. Stowe, G rand R apids:
De a r   Sir—The convention reports came 
to hand last week;  also those for  the  local 
association.  Our  Secrt-’ary  has  already 
mailed one to each  member  and  favorable 
comments are frequent.  Personally, I wish 
to thank you for your most  generous  “com- 
plimentaries” and to congratulate  you upon 
the neat, compact  “ well-gotten-up”  report, 
which, to my mind,  is the neatest  thing of 
the  kind  I  have  seen.  Necessarily,  you 
have spent much time upon it and have cer­
tainly  made  no  effort to cheapen it in any 
way, as the  quality of  paper,  binding and 
work all indicate.  The  associations  are to 
be congratulated,  also,  in  having so much 
good reading matter thrust upon them at no 
expense.  1 consider each  copy  equivalent 
to the 50 eeid per capita  tax  the  members 
will pay thereoming  year  and  how  much 
longer you will  continue  to do this kind of 
business,  I  question.  Another  year,  our 
Association should set  apart  two  hundred 
dollars to pay the cost of these reports.
Trusting  each  member  will  appreciate 
this donation and the value of such a report, 

I am, yours truly,

F ra nk H a m ilton.

The  Special  Edition 

from  a  Chicago 

Standpoint.

From  th e Grocers* C riterion.

We'have  received  from  our  friend,  Mr. 
E.  A.  Stowe, of  T h e  Mic h ig a n  T r a d e s­
m an,  a copy of  the extra  convention  issue 
of  his  excellent  paper,  in  which we find a 
full and very interesting  report of  the third 
annual  convention  of  the  Michigan  Bus­
iness Men’s Association, which was held on 
August 7 and 8 at Cheboygan, in that State. 
The  meeting  seems  in  every way to have 
been an unqualified  success  in both its bus­
iness  and  social  features.  Speeches were 
made of  a practical and  helpful  character, 
discussions  were  participated  in  on trade 
topics and considerable  business transacted 
pertaining  to  the  organization.  Brother 
Stowe seemed to be the leading spirit of the 
affair,  to  whom  is  attributed much of  its 
success.  As an organizer,  he is  one of  the 
best  known  and  most valuable men in the 
country,  and  the  business  men  are under 
great  obligations  to  him  for  his efforts in 
their behalf. 
It would be a good  thing  for 
the grocers and general storekeepers of  this 
State if  they would  unite  and  form a sim­
ilar  Association,  with  like  purposes  in 
view.

Modern  Philosophy.

Laughter and song are the  heart’s  rivers 
of hope.
A smile through tears is  the  soul’s  rain­
bow of peace.
The amenities of life make the true beauty 
of living.
Life is a continual routine whatever guise 
it  assumes.
Good breeding is like affection—one  can­
not have too much of  it
The simple faith of a  little  child  is  the 
world’s truest homage.
Dreams are oftentimes the fulfilment of a 
prophecy within ourselves.
The power of forgiveness  is  the  noblest 
attribute in the human character.
Let no  day  glide  into  eternity  without 
catching a glimpse of Heaven’s  sea.
To be autocratic  is to be  unjust  to  our­
selves.  No man is “sufficientunto himself.”
Despair and happiness are so closely link­
ed that each is riven by  the  wealth  of  the 
other.

B.  M.  A.  Pins.

Acting under  the  instructions of  the Ex­
ecutive Board, ex-President  Hamilton  pro­
cured  100  B. M. A. pins at  an  expense of 
852.70, placing them on sale at the Cheboy­
gan  convention  at  81  apiece.  Sixty pins 
were sold,  which  reimbursed Mr.  Hamilton 
and enabled him to turn into the Association 
treasury a balance  of  88.30.  He  has  also 
turned over  to  the  State  Secretary the re­
maining  forty pins, one  of  which  will  be 
sent  postpaid  to  any auxiliary member on 
receipt of  81.  Every pin sold is clear profit 
to the Association—thanks  to  Mr.  Hamil­
ton’s prudent foresight and generous invest­
ment.

Meeting  of the Insurance Committee.
Geo. B.  Caldwell,  chairman  of  the  In­
surance Committee of  the M. B. M. A., has 
called a meeting  of  that  Committee, to  be 
held  in  this  city on  September 19, to pre­
pare a draft of  working plans for the Mich­
igan  Business  Men’s  Fire  Insurance Co., 
or whatever  name may be adopted  for  the 
new organization.  Since  the  project  was 
discussed  at  the  recent  State  convention, 
interest in the proposed  organization seems 
to be  on  the  increase.  Th e Tradesman 
hopes to present the draft  recommended by 
the Committee in next week’s paper.

Boot  Track Advertising.

In  Competition  with  Sole  Leather. 

A  novel  advertising  scheme, it  is  said, 
Judge—So  you  stole  a  sandwich  from 
was  introduced  some  time since by a mer­
the counter in the railway station, did you ? 
chant in a town in Central Illinois.  A series 
Tramp—Yes, your Honor.
of  prodigious  boot  tracks  were  painted, 
J.—Were  you hungry ?
leading from each side of  the  public square 
T.—No, your Honor.
to  his  establishment  The  scheme,  it  is
J.—Then  what  service  could  the sand-
said,  worked  to  perfection, for  every one  wich do  you ? 
seemed curious enough to follow the  tracks  T.—I wanted to half-sole  my boots  with
to their  destination. 
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A patron ot T h e  T ra d esm a n  asks  that
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cent effect of  the higher  prices of  wheat in j 
ordinance recently enacted by the  Kala- 
this  country.  That  same  cause  ought, in ! mazoo Common Council for the  purpose  of 
the natural course  of  events, to grow in in-  heading  off  intinerant  merchants  be  pub- 
fluence for months yet and to give us an era  lished; also that a statement as to how  well 
of  great prosperity.  There is  every reason, 
new measure is working be made.  T h e
but  one,  to  expect it.  The United  States ! 
has a fair  crop  of  wheat—not  so  large  as 
T r a desm a n gladly complies with the  first 
last  year,  indeed, but  large  enough to sup­
request and hereby asks  Secretary  Strong, 
ply  all  home  wants  and leave a sufficient 
of the Kalamazoo B.  M. A., to reply to  the 
exportable surplus to perceptibly enrich the 
latter enquiry.  The ordinance is as follows:
country if  it is actually exported.  And that 
surplus is wanted.  Europe  has  been  half 
Sectio n  1.—The City of Kalamazoo  Or­
drowned this summer.  Rain has fallen in­
dains:—That,  hereafter, all  persons,  who 
cessantly,  and  this,  together  with a much 
shall  establish  themselves  in  the  city  of 
lower temperature  than  usual,  has  greatly 
Kalamazoo for the purpose of trading in,  or 
damaged 
the  wheat  crop  in  England, 
selling any goods,  wares or merchandise at 
France,  Italy  and  Hungary. 
In  fact, the 
wholesale or retail  from  any  store,  stand, 
only good crops of  the  year  are  in  Russia 
shop or building shall,  before  commencing 
and India.  In Russia,  indeed, it is reported 
such business of trading or selling aforesaid, 
that  the crop is so abundant  that it is diffi­
pay to the City Clerk the sum  of  one  hun­
cult to take care of  all the  grain.  But the 
dred dollars as and for a license for the priv­
shortage in other countries  makes it certain 
ilege of doing the business aforesaid.  Such 
that all the wheat will be wanted  this  year 
sum so paid shall entitle the person  or  per­
unless speculation puts the  price so high as 
sons so paying said sum of  money, to  a  li­
to stop the demand.  Therein lies  the  par­
cense to sell goods at private sale only,  and 
ticular danger  for  this country. 
It is here 
in no case  shall  it  be  construed  to  mean 
that  the  spirit  of  speculation is strongest. 
sales of goods by auction in any manner.
Men are inclined to discount the  future and 
Sec. 2—The sum so paid by such partyor 
are in danger of  going so far in  that  direc­
parties may be remitted by the city  council, 
tion as to deprive the country of  all  the ad­
provided,  it is shown that the party or  par­
vantage which it should gain from the pres­
ties to whom such license  has  been  issued 
ent favorable situation.  Higher prices tend 
have become  permanent  residents  of  this 
to  lessen  the  demand  for consumption in 
city and that the stock  of  goods  owned  or 
any event,  as  wherever  it  is  possible the 
controlled by them  has  become  subject  to 
tendency is,  when flour is dear, to replace it 
assessment and has been  dnly  assessed  by 
by cheaper food.  Then with  good crops in 
the supervisor of the  ward  in  which  such 
Russia  and  India,  where  the  speculative 
stock of goods is located and that the  taxes 
spirit is not so rampant, the danger  is  that 
thereon have been paid.
those countries will supply the needs of the 
Sec. 3—Any person or persons who  shall 
importing  countries,  while  we  hold  our 
fail to comply with the provision of this or­
grain  until  another crop comes around and 
dinance shall,  upon  conviction  thereof  be 
prices drop of  necessity.  There  are already 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  be 
indications  that  the  putting  up  of  prices 
punished by a fine of not less than  twenty- 
has  been  overdone.  A  month  ago  the 
five nor more than one-hundred dollars  and 
English,  French  and  German  grain  mer­
the cost of prosecution, and in default of the 
chants were most liberal buyers of  wheat in 
payment of such fine and costs, shall be im­
this country, but now that  foreign  demand 
prisoned in  the  county  jail  of  Kalamazoo 
is only spasmodic and has  almost  stopped, 
county not more  than  sixty  nor  less  than 
while the  exports of  wheat  from  the  sea 
twenty days.
board  have fallen  to very insignificant pro 
portions. 
It is not among the  probabilities 
that another  year of  shortage in the world’s 
wheat  crop  will  immediately  follow  this 
one, and if  we  only hold  oar  wheat  until 
next spring,  the chance for good  prices will 
be  gone.  The  United  States,  instead  of 
having  some  millions  of  foreign  money 
will be burdened with too great a surplus of 
wheat,  which  must  be  sold  at low prices, 
It will be a national  calamity if  the  wheat 
speculators put prices  unreasonably high.

I h a r b w a r e .

These  prices  are  fo r  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

Ch a u n c e y  Strong,  City  Clerk.

prom ptly and buy in  fu ll  packages.

Adopted July  2,  1888.

AUGERS AND BITS

HOLLOW  WARE.

HOES.

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

HOUSE  FURNISHING GOODS.

P o ts .................................................................   60&10
K e ttle s ............................................................  60&10
Spiders  ..........................................................   60&1Q
G ray  enam eled............................................  
50
Stam ped  Tin W are.......................new  list  70&10
Japanned Tin  W are.................................... 
26
G ranite Iro n   W are.....................................  
25
G rub  1...................................................811  00, dis 60
G rub  2...................................................11  50, dis 60
G rub 3.....................................................  12 00. dis 60
Door, m ineral, jap. trim m ings........... dis
55
Door, porcelain, jap.  trim m ings.............
65
Door, porcelain, plated  trim m ings.......
55
Door, porcelain, trim m ings.............. ......
55
D raw er and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis
70
P icture, H. L. Ju d d  &  Co.’s .......................
40&10
H e m ac ite ................................ 
dis
45
Russell & Irw in Mfg. Co.’s new list, .¿is
55
Mallory, W heeler &  Co.’s ......................dis
B ranford’s ................................................dis
N orw alk’s  ................................................ dis
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .....................dis  70
Adze  E ye........................................ 816 00  dis 
60
H u n t E ye........................................ $15 00  dis 
00
H u n t’s ............................................$18  50 dis 20 & 10
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled................... dis  60
Coffee, P ark ers  Co.’s .....................................dis 40
Coffee,P.S.&W .M fg.Co.’sM aileables  ...  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, F erry A Clark’s ................dis  40
Coffee,  E n terp rise........................................ dis  25
Stebbin’s P a t t e r n ...................................dis  60&10
Stebbin’s G enuine.........   ......................dis  60&10
25
E nterprise,  self-m easuring................. dis 

LEVELS.
MATTOCKS.

MOLASSES GATES.

MAULS.
MILLS.

LOCK8—DOOR.

 

NAII.S —TRON.

Common, B rad and Fencing.

OILERS.

NAILS—FINISHING.

12dto  40d................................................m keg $1  25
25
50dto60dadv.................................................... 
io
lOd a d v ................................................................ 
8d and 9 d  adv................................................... 
25
40
6d and 7d  adv...................................................  
60
4<1 and 5d  adv...................................................  
3d  advance.........................................................  1  80
1  50
2d  advance....................................................... 
3 inch advance.................................................  
85
l   00
Z% to 23£ inch  advance.................................  
2 to  2J4 inch advance......................................   1 15
1Vt to IX inch advance................................... 
l  35
1J4 inch  advance.............................................. 
l  75
1 inch advance.................................................   2 25
Zinc or tin , Chase’s P a te n t........................dis60&10
Zinc, w ith brass bottom ..............................dis  50
B rass o r  Copper............................................dig  50
R eaper.........................................p er gross, $12 n et
O lm stead’s ..............................  
60&10
PLANES.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy .............................dis  40® 10
Sciota B ench.......................................................... cUs @60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fan cy ................................dis 40@10
Bench, flrstjquality..............................................dis @60
Stanley R ule and Level Co.’s, wood__ dis20&10
Fry, A cm e...............................................................dis 60&10
Common, polished......................................dis60&10
6H
Effipping....................................................^  s> 
Iro n  and  T inned....................................... dis 
55
Copper R ivets and  B u rs........................dis 
50
“A ” W ood’8patentplanished,N os.24to27  10 2C 
“B ” Wood’s p at. planished, Nos. 25  to  27 
9  20

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

RIVETS.

PANS.

 

 

B roken packs &c $  fi> extra.

The  Newest  Yet.

From  th e  Shoe and L eath er Review.

It  is  not  often  that a whole  day passes 
during  which  the  merchants  of  Chicago 
fail to have some new  and  startling adver­
tising  scheme  sprung  on  them.  The  in­
ventor of  advertising schemes always wants 
to convert his genius iDto cash at the earliest 
possible moment.  Sometimes a really good 
thing is  suggested,  but the  majority of  the 
devices  are  wildly  impracticable. 
In  the 
latter  class  must  undoubtedly be  put  the 
plan which a Chicago  shoe  dealer thus de­
scribes :  “A man walked in  here  not  long 
ago  and  introduced  himself  as  so-and-so, 
accompanying  his  card  with the assurance 
that  he  had  just  the  thing  that I was  in 
search of—a novel  advertising  device.  He 
wanted  to  sell  me  the exclusive use of  it 
instanter.  And  truly  it  was  great!  A 
veritable automatic printing press concealed 
in  the  sole  of  a boot!  It  consisted  of  a 
pair of  men’s  size  foot-gear, with  wooden 
soles of  light construction.  Describing the 
sole of  the foot,  where the stitches  usually 
appear  on  an  ordinary boot, was a line of 
bristles  about the width of  a thread  seam, 
or a little wider.  These  were fastened to a 
small  tube  inlaid  into the sole.  The tube 
came out of  the  back and ran up the leg to 
a small  reservoir  attached  to  a  circle  of 
metal at the top.  The  reservoir  was to be 
filled  with  ink,  or a colored  fluid  of  some 
sort,  and was  intended to supply the  small 
tube and  eventually fill the  bristle or brush 
lines.
“The scheme was,  as  he  represented it, 
to put on the boots  after  he  had  inscribed 
an ‘ad’ for my house in bristles inside of the 
lines  describing  the  sole,  and  then  walk 
down Michigan boulevard  and other  aristo­
cratic  avenues  having  stone  sidewalks. 
Don’t  you see, every step taken would leave 
an  imprint  on  the  flags, and a lasting ad­
vertisement  remained to confront the  pop­
ulace ?  His idea was to do  the walking  at 
night,  when  his  tracks  would  not be no­
ticed  until  daylight  revealed  them.  The 
only reason I did  not  go  into  the  scheme 
with  him  was that I feared our high-toned 
citizens  would  come down on me for dam­
ages.  When I suggested this, the  inventor 
left to consult a lawyer as to his liability in 
the  matter,  and I am  awaiting  his  report 
Stencils and  like devices have been used in 
the  past  for  this  purpose,  but  this  beats 
anything I have ever heard of.”

The  Hardware  Market.

Nails  have  advanced 10  cents  per  keg, 
with  prospect of  still  another advance  be­
fore  the  end of  the month. 
Iron is  very 
firm and  sheet iron is very scarce and high. 
Tin  has advanced  from 25  to 50 cents  per 
box  in  the  English  market  The  copper 
trust  still  holds  up  the  price of  copper. 
There are indications of a decline in window 
glass,  probably  about  10  per  cent.  The 
scarcity of hemp has caused a decided  stiff­
ening in  the price  of rope,  and  as the  raw 
stock  is mostly all  in the  hands of  a com­
bination,  there  is  prospect of  further  ad­
vances.

Two Jokes  in  One.

From  th e  Chicago H erald.

A lady who is refined  to  the  extent that 
her lord’s big money has been made in lard, 
entered  one of  the  big  dry  goods  honses 
yesterday  afternoon  and  approached  the 
dapper  young man who  presides  over  the 
south  end  of  the  hosiery  counter. 
“I 
would  like,”  she  said,  “about  two  more 
pair  of  those  84  black  stockings.  They 
suit me better than any others because  they 
are the  only black  stockings  I  have  ever 
purchased that have not croaked.”
The  young man,  who  was  wise  beyond 
his  years,  remarked that this was  probably 
because they had been well dyed already.

60
Ives’,  old  sty le.............................................. dis 
60
N.  H . C. Co.....................................................dig 
60
D ouglass’........................................................ dis 
Pierces’ .......................................................... dis 
60
60
Snell’s ..............................................................dis 
Cook’B  ................................. 
40
dis 
25
Jennings’,  gen u in e......................................dis 
Jennings’,  im itatio n ..................................disoOilO

Spring.............................................................. dis  40

BALANCES.

R ailro ad ........................................................$  14  00
G arden....................................................... n et 33 
00

BARROWS.

BELLS.

H a n d ..................................................dis  $ 60&10&10
Cow........................................................dis
C all.............. i ....................................  dis 
30&15
G o n g ......................................................u a 
25
Door, S a rg e n t..................................... dis 
60&10

BOLTS.

 

 

Stove.
.dis 8
Carriage  new  lis t............................. ,...d is   7G&10
Plow   ....................................  
50
..d is 
Sleigh Shoe.................................................dis 
70
W rought B arrel  B olts............................dis 
60
Cast  B arrel  B olts....................................dis
Cast B arrel, brass  k nobs................... . dis
Cast Square Spring..................... 
dis
Cast  C h ain ................................................dis
W rought B arrel, brass  knob............... dis
W rought S q u a re ......................................dis
W rought Sunk F lu sh .............................dis
W rought  Bronze  and  P iated  Knob
,  F lu s h ........................................................ dis  60&10
Ives  D oor...................................................dis  60&10
B a rb e r.......................................................dis 8 
40
B ackus  ..................................................... dis  5C&10
Spofford.......................................................dis 
50
Am. B all...................................................... dis 
net
Well, p la in .......................................................$  350
Well, sw ivel.......................................... 4  00

BUCKETS.

braces.

BUTTS. CAST.

Cast Loose P in, figured...........................dis  70&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........... dis  70&
Cast Loose Join t, genuine bronzed..dis  60&
W rought N arrow , bright fast  jo in t..d is  60&10
W rought  Loose  P in ................................dis  60&10
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip .............. dis  60* 5
W rought Loose Pin, jap an n ed .............. dis  60&  5
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
...........................................dis  60&5
W rought T able.......................................... dis  60&10
W rought  Inside  B lind............................ dis  60&10
75
W rought B rass..... ........................ 
Blind, Clark’s ...........................................I dis  70&10
Blind, P ark er’s ...........................................dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s ........................................dis 
70

tipped 

dis 

CAPS.

H ick 8 C. F .....................................  
 
G. D .................................................. 
M usket.......................'...............................  

—   -........................p e r  m 8 65
 

«0
35
60

CATRIDGBS.

Rim F ire, U. M. C. & W inchester  new  list  .  .50
Rim   F ire, U nited States....................................diase
C entral F ire .........................................................die25

chisels.

 

 

 

 

 

COCKS.

COMBS.

 
COPPER

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

Socket F irm er............................................dis  70&10
Socket F ram in g ..  ...................................dis  70&10
Socket C om er....................  
dis  70&10
dis  70&10
Socket Slicks............................... 
B utchers’ Tanged  F irm er..................... dis 
40
B arton’s Socket F irm e rs.....................dis 
20
Cold............................... 
n et
C urry,  L aw rence’s ...................................dis  40&10
H otchkiss  ........................ 
diB 
25
B rass, B acking’s........................................... 
60
60
Bibb’s .............................................................. 
B e e r..................................................................  40&10
F enns’..................  
60
Planished, 14 oz cu t to  size*..........'. ..... =3 Jh  33
31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.........................'  .  29
Cold Rolled, 14x48
29
B ottom s.............. ..............................................
30
M orse’s B it  Stock.................................. dis
40 
T aper and Straight Shank.................... dis
40 
Morse’s T aper  Shank.............................dis
40
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ...............................d o zn et
8.75
C orrugated............................................dis20&l0]&0
 
dis M&10
A dju stab le..........................................  
(liar’s, small, 818 00;  large, 826 00. 
30 
dis 
Ives’, 1, 818 00;  2, 824 00:  3, 830 00. 
dis 
25 
A m erican File A ssociation  L ist.........dis
D isston’s ............................................ 
New  A m erican.........................................dis
Nicholson’s ................................................ dis
H eller’s ..................................................... di*
H eller’s  H orse R asps.............................dis
Nos. 16 to  20, 
L ist 

GALVANIZED IRON,
14 

22 and  24,  25 and 26, 

p il e s—New List.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

ELBOWS.

DRILLS

27
15

dis

12 

 

D iscount,  60.

HINGES.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...............dis
50
Maydole & Co.’s . . .................................... dis
25 
K ip’s ...........................................................dis
25 
Yerk6s  &  Plum b’s .................................. dis
40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel........................30 c list 50
B lacksm ith’s Solid C ast Steel. H and. .30 c 40&10 
G ate, C lark’s, l, 2,  3................................. dis 
60
S tate............................................... p er doz, n et, 2 50
Screw H ook and Strap, to   12  in.  4J4  14
and  longer..................................................
7H
Screw Hook and Eye,  lA   .................... net
70
8*
Screw Hook and Eye X ..................... net
Screw H ook and Eye  3£........................net
7H
Screw H ook and Eye,  %....................n et
7K
Strap and  T ..........................................dis
70
B arn Door K idderM fg. Co.,  Wood tra c k   50&10
Champion,  anti-friction........................dis  60&10
K idder, wood  tra c k .................................dis 
40

HANGERS.

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

ROPES.

Sisal, H in. and  larg er.....................................   10M.
M anilla.................................................................  12^4
Steel and Iro n ...........................................dis
70&10
T ry and Bevels......................................... dis
60
M itre  ................................ 
20

SQUARES.

SHEET IRON.

TACKS.

TIN   PLATES.

Com. Smooth.

Com, 
$3 00 
3  00 
3  10 
3  15 
3 25 
3 % 
laches

TINNER’S SOLDER.

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
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over  2 
wide n o t less th an  2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
2>..............................
In  casks of 600 S>s, 
In  sm aller quansities, V  lb.......................
N o.L   Refined..............................................
M arket  H alf-and-half..............................
Strictly  H alf-and-half..............................
A m erican, all  kinds.............................. dis
Steel, all kinds.........................................dis
Swedes, all  kinds  .................................. dis
Gimp and  L ace....................................... dis
Cigar Box  N ails......................................dis
Finishing  N a ils......................................dis
Common and P a te n t  B rads................ dis
H ungarian Nails and M iners’ Tacks, dis
T runk and Clout N ails...........................dis
Tinned T runk and Clout N ails........... dis
Leathered C arpet  T acks......................dis

60 
60 
60 
60 
50 
50 
60 
50 
60 
45 
35
10x14, C harcoal.......................... 6 00@6 20
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal...................................   7  85
IX , 
32x12, C harcoal...................................  6  85
IC, 
12x12. Charcoal..................................   8  35
IX , 
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal..................................   6  35
IX , 
14x20, Charcoal.......... ........................  7  85
IX X ,  14x20, C harcoal............ .....................   9  35
IX  XX.  14x20, C harcoal............................... .  H  37
TXXXX, 14x20 C harcoal...................................13  15
20x28, Charcoal..................................  16  10
IX , 
DC, 
100 P late C harcoal.............................   7  10
DX, 
100 P late Charcoal..............................  9  10
DXX, 100 P late  Charcoal..............................  l l  10
DXXX, 100 P late C harcoal..........................   13  10
Redipped Charcoal Tin P late add  1  50  to 
5  40
Roofing, 14x20, I C ...............  
Roofing, 14x20, IX ..........................................   7  00
Roofing, 20x28, IC..................  
12  00
Roofing, 20x28, IX ..............................................15  00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal T em e......................... 6 00
IX , 14x20, choice Charcoal  T em e.....................   7 60
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal T ern e....................... 12 00
IX , 20x28, choice Charcoal T e m e ...............15  00
Steel, Game..................  
63&10
Oneida Com m unity, Newhouse’s.............dis  36
Oneida Com m unity, Hawley & N orton’s  6Q&10
H otchkiss’..................... ................................... 60&10
s. p . & w. Mfg. Co.’s .....................................eo&io
Mouse,  choker..........................................18c 
doz
Mouse, delusion...................................$150  $  doz
B right M arket............................................. dis  67$4
Annealed M arket................................ dis  TO&lu
Coppered M arket......................................dis  6254
E x tra B ailing................... ...........................  dis  55
Tinned  M arket..........................................dis  6254
Tinned  B room .............................................$Mh  09
Tinned M attress......................................... 9  ib  854
Coppered  Spring Steel........................... dis 
50
Tinned Spring Steel....................................dis 40&10
P lain F ence..............................*.................. # ib  
3
Barbed Fence, galvanized.....................................4 00
p a in te d .......................................... 3 25
Copper.....................................................new list n et
B rass................................... 
....n e w  list n e t
B rig h t................................................. dis  70&10&10
Screw Eyes.........................................dis  70&10&10
Hook’s  ................................................dis  70&10&J0
Gate H ooks and  E ves................... dis  70&10A10

TIN—LEADED.

W IRE GOODS.

7  35 rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

 
 

 
 

“ 

 

WRENCHES.

B axter’s A djustable,  nickeled................
Coe’s G enuine...........................................dis
Coe’s P te n t A gricultural, w rought, dis
Coe’s  P ten t, m alleable.......................dis
B ird C ag es,............................... 
 
 
 
Pum ps,  C iste rn ......................................... 
70&5
Screws, new   list................................ 
Casters,  Bed  and  P late...............dis50&10&10
40
Dam pers, A m erican ........................  
Forks, hoes, rakes an ail steel goods. ..d 
Copper B o tto m s ...!......................  
30c

MISCELLANEOUS.

50
75
75&10
50
dis 75

X

H A R D W O O D   LU M B ER .

The fu rn itu re  factories  here p ay  as  follows 
fo r  d ry  stock,  m easured  m erchantable, m i., 
culls o u t;
Basswood, log-run............................... 13  00@15 00
Birch, lo g -ru n ...................................... 15  00@16  00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2............................... 
@22 00
Black Ash, log-run............................... 14 00@16 51
Cherry,  log-run.....................................25 00@35 00
Cherry, l^os. 1  and 2..... ..................... 50 00@60 00
Cherry,  cu ll............................................ 
@12 00
M aple,  log-run......................................12  00@14 00
Maple, soft,  log-run............................11  00@13 00
©20 00
M aple, Nos. 1 and 2................................ 
Maple, clear, flooring..... .................... 
@25 00
Maple, w hite, selected................... 
@25 On
Red Oak, log-m n...................................18  00@20  00
Red Oak, Nos.1  and 2..........................24  00@25  00
Red Oak, 54 sawed, 8 in and upw ’d..40  00@45 00
re g u la r................30 <X)@35  00
Red Oak,  “ 
@25 00
Red Oak, No.  1, step  plank................ 
@55  00
W alnut, log-m n..................................... 
W alnut, Nos. 1 and 2......................   .. 
@75 00
@25  00
W alnuts,  cu lls....................................... 
G rey  Elm, log-m n............................... 12  00@13  05
W hite Ash,  log-m n...................... 
  14 00@16  00
Whitewood,  log-m n............................20  00@22c00
W hite  Oak, lo g -ru n ..."....................... 17  00@18  00

“ 

H

e
Weekly  "Pointers,”

Manual Education for Boys.
H appiness in  a boy is  contagious.  I f   y o u r 
boy is a little fellow,  you  cannot  please  him  
b e tte r  th an  by  g ettin g   him   a  little  ham m er 
and i  few w ire nails.  We have j u st th e asso rt­
m en t p u t u p  in a   tin   box,  about  500  nails  of 
different sizes, ju s t w hat older people will flndr 
extrem ely useful.

I f  he  is  large  enough  to  appreciate  som e- 
th in g   b e tte r th an   pounding  nails,  get him   ft. 
sm all tool chest.  We have several kinds, from  
a  little th in g  w ith a  dozen  tools,  to   one  th a t 
has  everything  he  w ants  and good p ra c tic al 
tools,  too,  all th a t is needed about th e  house.. 
You will be surprised  to see  how  quickly  he- 
will learu to  use  th em   and  how  m any  little- 
jobs about the house he can do, besides having- 
a constant  source o f pleasure.

B u t if you w ant to see  th e  happiest  boy  in  
th e  whole city,  g et  him   a jig   saw.  T here  is 
som ething abo u t scroll sawiDg th a t fascinateB- 
every boy (and girl too) and th e m odem   scroll 
saw is a m arvel of  ingenuity.  A n  enthusias­
tic boy will m ake his m achine pay fo r itself in  
a short tim e.  The  “ Companion  Saw”  is  th e  
outcom e of suggestions m ade by th e   publish-- 
ers of th e  “ Y outh’s  Com panion”  to m eet th e  
requirem ent of th e ir subscribers and its recep ­
tion has well repaid th e  experim ent.  I t   com ­
bines a practical tu rn in g  lathe, 24-inch  bed,  5- 
inch  swing, 
tiltin g   table,  autom atic  d u st 
blower, chisel, gauges,  etc.  This  is  only  one- 
of several varieties, and we can su it yon  both: 
in  price and quality.

Foster, Stevens & Co..

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

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

dis

Weekly  "Pointers,”
A G reat L iterary R arity !

Shakespeare’s  Sonnets. 

Edition  of  1609.- 
L arge,  sound,  beau tifu l  and  perfect  copy.. 
N et  85,000.  As we read  th e  above  th e  o th e r 
day, th e thought cam e into m ind how different 
a re  th e  lines  of  business.  Suppose  th a t  we 
should advertise

A GREAT STOVE RA RITY !

and ask you to buy of us a t a high price a heat­
in g   or  cook  stove  of  th e  first  p attern   ev er 
m ade because of its g reat age.  Would you do it? 
No, sir.  Y ou w ant  th e  m ost  recent  and  im ­
proved m ake.  We aim  to have alw ays on sale 
th e  latest and  best  goods  in  ou r  line  and  it 
gives us pleasure to  h ear people fam iliar w ith 
o u r  business  m ethods  say:  “I f   you  cannot 
find w hat you w ant a t Foster, Stevens &  Co.’s*, 
you  need  n o t  look  elsew here.” 
Some  day 
w hen you are  in   tow n,  ask  o ur  salesm en  to  
show you o u r new  “ Solar” and “L unar Jew el” 
so ft and hard coal  heating  stoves.  You  w ill 
g e t some new  ideas if you see them .

Foster, Stevens it Co.,

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

33, 35,37, 39 and 41 Louis Street.

Weekly  "Pointers.”
The  Adjustable  Strainer 

Fruit Funnel.

and!

This is a recen t invention w hich an  enthusi- - 
as tic housekeeper pronounced th e m ost valua- 
able  com bination  ever  invented!  Read  the- 
f olio wing advantages:

F irst—By unscrew ing  th e  cap  you  have  f t 

p erfect fr u it ja r  filler o r funnel.

Second—By placing a piece  of  m uslin  over- 
th e end and screw ing on th e   cap  you  have  a 
p erfect cloth strain er.

T hird—By rem oving th e  m uslin  and  replac­
ing th e  w ire  gauze  you  have  a  p erfect  m iiv 
strainer.

F o u rth —The  perfo rated  tin  can be used  fo r 
straining tea, coffee, vinegar, gravies,  sauces, 
etc.

F ifth —By rem oving th e  p reforated  tin   you 
can replace th e funnel end fo r  filling  bottles*, 
ju g s, etc.

Sixth—By unscrew ing th e cap and placing in, 
th e  w ire gauze w ith th e funnel end you have a. 
p erfect stra in e r and fun n el com bined.

Six useful  articles  in   one.  The  low  p rice 
brings  it  w ithin  th e   reach  of  all.  Sells  ory 
sight.

J

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

33,35, 37 ,3 9 and 41 Louis Street.

TIME  TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.

All T rains daily except Sunday.

GOINS  NORTH. Arrives.
T raverse C ity & M ackinaw................
Traverse C ity & M ackinaw................ 9 M  a  m
P etoskeyA  M aekm aw. . . . . . . . . . . .  - - j j® P £

Saginaw 

J i p  m.

5:00 p m 

Leaves. 
8:00 a  m 
11:80 a  m 
10:30 p m  
7:80 a m  
4:10 p m

‘¿ S i M ^ i n a w C l

t y

has ch air c ar fo r Petoskey and Mack- 
‘niOWM p ym . tra in   h as  sleeping cars  fo r Petoskey  and 
Mackinaw C ity. 
io -so a m  
C incinnati  Express.................... 
F o rt W ayne Express........................“ . 5  „ m  

qoing  sooth.

11:45a m
5:00 p m

Mistress  Mary 

( < p t e   c o n t r a ^ )

Houi does tf\e

^ S

f e S

t ^

i ^

c h

^ 1 ca? Pfo”   Cincinnati. 

5:00 p m  tra in  has W oodruff d e e p e r

points, a rriv in g  in D etroit a t 10.45 p. m.

M u s k e g o n .  G r a n d   R a p i d s   &   I n d i a “ £ . ve
.....1 0 :4 5 a m
Leave. 
7  4 5 a m ............................................................ *........   4:30pm
11:15am .............................................. ........... 
..  7:45p m

M ich ig an   C en tral.

Grand Rapids Division.

depart. 

6-45 a m
D etroit Express...........................................................  I :l0 p m
Day  Express.................................................................. 
Dm
New Y ork Express...................................................   10-45 p ra
•Atlantic Express......................................................... 
  am
...................... ..............:.......  '  m
•Pacific  Express.............................................. 
...10:00a m
Local ...............................................................................3:15 p m
G rand Rapids  Express...............•........................... {> m
“ •im iiy ' '  Ail cither*daily ex rep t *Su^day.*Bl^'piDg cars

u i a s h w j   9 0 1 

dainty tace, 
and pillow-case,

Arvd dresses

all in a row? _ 

heir whiteness surely s\ames  ,

IM maie tlpn sol

i p

All  Grocers  sell  SA N TA   CLAUS  SOAP. 

Made  by  N.  K.  FA IR B A N K   &  CO.,  CHICAGO.

TheMichiganTradesman

W E D N E S D A Y . S E P T E M B E R   1 9 ,  1 8 8 8 .

l e i s u r e   h o u r  j o t t in g s .  • 

by a  country  merchant.

W ritten  fo r Th i  T radesm an.

Interview  100  men  and  ask  them for a 
•candid  opinion  of  what  each  considers  a 
fair  degree  of  business  honesty,  and  yon 
will have almost a hundred  different  views 
on  the  subject  Among these  individuals 
will  probably be  found  those  who will ar­
gue that even  various  grades of  crime  are 
not incompatible  with  honesty.  You will 
hear  excuses  for  fraud, forgery, embezzle­
ment and breach of  trust;  for  the  specula­
tive failures that draw dozens  or  hundreds 
of  innocent people into  the  vortex of  ruin, 
for  the  criminal  carelessness  or  trustful­
ness that beggars  whole  communities, and 
even for the  treachery by which  defaulters 
and assignors lead their relations  and  per­
sonal  friends into the pit in which they are 
themselves falling.  On the other hand, you 
will  find  people  who  insist  that  no man 
should be given a clean bill of  moral health 
unless  he possesses the entire  cardinal vir­
tues,  and  between  the  two  extremes  the 
variety  of  opinion  will  undoubtedly reach 
entirely from one point to the other.

And,  with  so  many  diverse  opinions 
among  the  masses, there  seems  to  be  no 
way of  arriving  at  a  standard  of  honesty 
that  will  be  accepted  by  the  public,  and 
hence,  when  we  conclude  to  label a man 
either  honest or dishonest,  it must be done 
with the knowledge  that  he  will  probably 
have as many defenders  or accusers  as  we 
shall have supporters and believers.

from  the  “misfortune”  or  dishonesty—as 
you  please—of  individuals  of  the  Caleb 
stripe-, we could  view  their  methods  with 
more equanimity;  but,  unfortunately, after 
the wholesaler has  been  disposed  of, their 
business  competitors  come  in  for  a share 
of  the “calamity.”  Two or three thousand 
dollars’ worth of  goods  thrown on the mar­
ket of  a small town,  at prices which enable 
thirty per  cent,  assignors  to  realize  enor­
mous profits, but at prices that hundred-per- 
cent-  dealers  cannot  reasonably meet,  has 
the  effect  of  seriously  demoralizing  trade 
for an indefinite period, and it is no rare in­
stance  where  the  thirty  per  cent  fellow 
drives his competitor to  other  localities and 
monopolizes the business himself.

A  few  years  ago a little  hamlet  started 
up, in  this  section of  the  State,  and  two 
general  stores were  opened, almost  simul­
taneously.  Time and experience soon dem­
onstrated  that  there  was  hardly room for 
one, and, as is usual  in such  cases, a fierce 
rivalry and foolish cutting of  prices  began. 
One  day one  of  the  competitors, who had 
been reflecting upon the utter  folly of  con­
ducting business in such an unremunerative 
manner,  walked  over  to  his rival’s estab­
lishment  and  proposed a cessation  of  hos­
tilities.

‘I came in. Smith,” said  he, “to propose 
a change of  programme.  Neither  of  us has 
made a dollar for the past  six  months, and 
there’s  no  reason  or  sense  in such work 
One or the other of  us  will  have to surren 
der,  in  the  end, and I hardly  think it will 
be me, because every dollar’s worth I ve got 
is  paid  for, and  you’re  pretty  heavily  in
volved.”

‘Weil, Jones,” said  Smith, grinning, 

if 
you  hadn’t  given  yourself  away  so  badly 
we might  have  compromised, but  it’s very 
evident that  you’re  the  fellow that’s got to 
git.  The  trouble  with  you,  Jones,  is that 
you  haven’t posted  yourself  on the matter 
of  discounts.  Now.  what  do  you  get  off 
by paying cash, on the average.

A Million A Month

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N B p M I

BILL  NYE  CIGAR

The  Best  Selling  Brand  on  the  M arket!

A rrive.
4
a m  p m

8 

“ ^ W ^ l S ^ e n ^ P ^ d n l k e t A g t . C h i c a g o .  

CHAS. H. Nonius, Gen ’l Agent.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

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

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p m  

. . . .Allegf*n........................ 

0:85  11:85  “   ....W h ite P ig e o n .................. 

19 
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8:25  4:12  9:02 
F rt  5:03  10:00 Ar. ...K alam azoo............................  

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7.in  3*52
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pm   am
___Chicago..............................11:30  8:50
....11.85  10:00

8:50  18:30  ‘ 
a  m
7:50  7:10 1 
p m
10:85  5:05
1:35  5:40  “   ....C lev elan d ...........................7:15  5:tó
.....................1:00  11:40
.   „  
Tickets fo r sale to  all  principal  Points  i n t ^ e L-®"’ 
M "x?co  a n d  Canada a t  Union Ticket  Office,  Geo.  Wil- 
i iamso';  Agí., Depot Office, M. Bootz  Agt

.Toledo.

RiifFalo 

A-®-Smith, Gen-I T rav. “ d ^ a“ ¿ j^ * ;o h io .

Oh, about three or four per cent!”
‘Great  Caesar!  a  man  that  knows  no 
more about business  than  that  proposes to 
drive  me  off  these comers.  Jones, you re 
too  fresh!  I’ve  just  made  arrangements 
with  my  creditors  for  a  discount  of.  not 
three or four per cent., Mr. Jones, but sixty- 
five per cent., and goods will keep tumbling 
'till  you tumble out of  this section.”

And Jones shortly tumbled out.
No  we can’t  establish a standard of  bus­
iness’ honesty;  we  can’t  prevent  fools  or 
knaves from flooding the market with bank- 
ruDt stocks, and we can’t avoid occasionally 
coming  into  competition  with the twenty - 
five or thirty  per  cent,  assignors;  but  per 
haps,  by continued and  persistent hammer­
ing  we can eventually persuade the jobbers 
that  those  who  have  conclusively  proven 
themselves, by  their  actions 
to  ^   either 
knaves or fools, are  entitled  to a  trifle less 
attention  and  consideration than those who 
fulfill their obligations  and  contracts to the 
letter.

D etro it,  G ran d   H a v e n   & M ilw aukee.

GOING WEST.

Arrives.
fM orning Express.............................lia s  2  m
tG rand R apids Express..................10.40 p ra
5:25 a  m
•N ight Express 
fMixed
tD etroit  Express..............................,«¡28a m
tT hrough M ail...................................1® ;*’ * ™
tE vening Express............................  
m
• L im ite d E x p re s s ............P

Leaves. 
1:10 p m 
5:10 p m 
19:45 p m  
5:49 a  m 
7 -.30 a  m
6:50 a  m  j 
10:30 a m   ! 
3:50 p m  
6:30 p m
t SS p ^ i X ? ? a r i o r Dc " ry io  D e tro it,  m a k in g  

GOING EAST.

S

d ire c t c o n n e c tio n s fo r a ll p o in ts  
York 10:10 a.  m . n e x t d a y .  L im ite d   lA p re .s , 
N ia g a ra   F a lls, 
s le e p e r  G ran d   R ap id s 
th ro u g h  
v ith  
th ro u g h
ju n c i 
c o n n e c tin g   a t  M ilw aukee 
s le e p e r to  T o ro n to .
■ths se c u re d  a t  
T h ro u g h  tic k e ts  an d   sle e p in g   ca 
i  I a t  th e  d ep o t, 
D  G.  It- & M .R 'y  offices, 2 * M«*nroe,
linger A gent.
J as. Ca m pb e ll, C ity

^

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f i n e s ^
rtg e s t s m o k e
F or th e m oney in  th e  U. S.  * y P n t  u p  50 in  a  box.  Ask
JOiI n  E-KENNING & CO., Grand Rapids.
____________ _

yo u r dealer for them .  M anufactured only by

Send fo r prices. 

-no  YOU  WANT  ^

If so, send for Catalogue and  Price-List to

HEYMAN  & CO 63 and 65 Canal  St., 
G rand  Rapids.

w. c. DENISON,

Stationary and  Portable  Engines  and  Boilers,

GENERAL  DEALER  IN

When I commenced  this article,  my pur­
pose  was  to  call  attention  to  a  certain 
trader—a type of a certain class; to try him, 
and pronounce  judgment  from  my precon 
ceived ideas of  his  character;  but,  upon re­
flection, I have  thought it best to  leave the 
matter  to a  jury  of  the  casual  readers  of 
these papers. 
I never  expect  to  hear  the 
verdict,  and,  should  I  do  so,  I should be 
prepared for an irreconcilable disagreement, 
but,  at  all  events, I  shall  have  acquitted 
myself  of  a self-imposed duty.

While looking over a paper, the other day,
I saw, among those who had  contributed to 
the  campaign  fund of  a political party the 
name  of  Caleb Strong.  Now,  under  ordi­
nary circumstances,  myself,  or the public at 
large, would have the  same  right to object 
to the price Caleb paid for his clothes,  as to 
the amount he should give for  “hooping  er 
up” politically,  but  I  propose  to  ask  the 
jury I have empaneled  whether his circum­
stances,  as  they now  are,  justify the  act. 
And  I  further  propose  to  ask  the  jury 
whether  Caleb’s  course,  during  the  past 
year or two,  has been a consistent  and hon­
orable one.

A number of  months  ago  Caleb found it 
necessary—as  he  claimed —to make  an as­
signment  “for the benefit pf  his  creditors.”
A Detroit firm, with which I had  had  long 
and somewhat intimate relations,  wrote me 
regarding the failure,  saying  that  an  offer 
of  twenty-five  per  cent,  had  been  made, 
that their traveler who  usually attended  to 
such  matters  was  sick;  that  if  there  was 
nothing tricky or dishonest about the affair, 
they would  place  no obstacle in the way of 
the  assignor’s  settlement,  and  requesting 
me,  as  a  personal  favor,  to go over to Ca­
leb’s town and find out the true  inwardness 
of  the matter. 
I accepted  the commission, 
showed  Caleb  my credentials,  and  he  wil­
lingly proceeded to give  me  the reasons for 
his  “misfortune.”

Strong was very methodical in his habits, 
ana the statement of  his  affairs  was  clear 
and  easily  comprehended.  His  liabilities 
were $3,S00, and assets (cost prices) $2,900 
To show the reasons for his failure,  he took 
out a pass  book  and  read:  “Year’s  sales, 
S7,500;  profits,  SI,500;  store  expenses, 
$900;  family ditto, $650;  assets and indebt­
edness at beginning of  year,  about e\cn.

“ Well, according to  your own statement, 

there is still $850 unaccounted for.”

“I’m  just  coming  to  that,”  said  Caleb, 
complacently. 
1 ‘Here it is : Subscription to 
■Bogville Theological Seminary,  $200;  ditto 
for repairing  church,  $100;  ditto  for  min­
ister’s  salary,  $100;  ditto  for  fitting  out 
Hiss Bogg for a missionary to  China, $100 
ditto for prosecuting violations of the liquor 
laws of  Iowa  and  Kansas,  $75;  wife’s ex­
penses  to  National  convention of  temper 
ance workers,  $75;  expenses  of  self  to Na­
tional  church  conference,  $80;  sundry 
donations, charities,  etc., which are all here 
itemized, $125;  making a total of  $855,  and 
not a cent  squandered  or  wasted,  as  you

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

A. EATON & GO,, Sole Agents for Mich.
c^BARLOWBROS.
•^ANcTraPÍPÍ
Michigan

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D & v 8 n ?°rá  C a n n in g   (Jo,

Davenport, la.

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

------SELL------ -

DILWORTH’S COFFEE,

Which Holds Trade  on  Account of 

Superior  Merit  Alone.

vr 
C n eu n aled p Q ^alitp ^m p ^e  p a c k a g e 6 .

Improved  Roasting:  Process. 

„.,.„,1  finality. 

Saginaw, East Saginaw and Bay City.

For  Sale  by  all  Jobbers  a t  Grand  Rapids,  Detroit, 
PITTSBURGH,  Peta.

DMORTH  BROTHERS,  Proprietors,

CURTISS

Successors to OURTISS &  DUNTON. 

,

WHOLESALE

PAPER  WAREHOUSE,

Houseman Building,  Cor.  Pearl & O ttaw a Sts., 

GHFLAJSriD  RAPIDS,  MICH.

E. G. STUDLEY,
RUBBER BOOTS 

W holesale D ealer in

ARO  SHOES
Bandee Rilbber Bo,

M anufactured  by

Two Years 
TEST.

- C V Y R   M A D E "

THE  PENBERTHY  IMPROVED

Automatic  Injector

ITcan’t  BOILER  FEEDER  beati

16.000  in  18  Months Tells  the  Story.
^=W H Y   THEY  E X C E L S
__ 

i  T h ev  co: t less th an  oth er Injectors. 
«  You don’t have to  w atch  them .  If  they  break  they
“ 
8  By sending th e num ber to factory on th e In jecto r you 

will  RE-STAHT  autom atically. 
can have parts renew ed a t any tim e.

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A g e n ts .  H E S T E R   &   F O X ,
PENBERTHY  INJECTOR  CO,  Manufacturers,  DETROIT, M ich.

th e In jecto r and we don’t  w ant him  to.

,,im t,i  — i— » , --------  
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

REEDER, PALMER  & CO,

Wholesale Boots and Shoes.

8TÄTE  ÄGENTS  FOR  LYCOMING  RUBBER  GO.,

24¡ Pearl St„ Grand Hapids, Mich.., TES M

KOALMWOOD

E .  -A-  I T A -h Æ IL iT O IS r,

Telephone, S

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101  Ottawa St„  Ledyard  Block.

E. 3P. CLARK <& SOIST,

WHOLESALE

COMMISSION  M E R C H A N T S ,

AND  DEALERS  IN

Seeds,  Produce, Vegetables, Frdit, Blitter, Eggs,  Cbeese, Etc,, Etc.,

CONSIGNMENTS  SOLICITED.

RapldB, 

- 

-  Mlolxisraxx.

PEACHES! 

PEACHES!! 

PEACHES!!!
THEO.  B.  GOOSSEN,

Send  your  orders  for  them  to

^  

WHOLESALE

PRODUCE COMMISSXOXT MERCHANT

33  Ottawa  Street,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

I don’t know  the  exact  basis  of  Caleb’s 
settlement,  but  presume  it  to be at a dis­
count of  about seventy per cent  And now, 
after this compromise, he  feels  able to pay 
$125 toward a campaign  fund.

Now,  I want to  premise  that  Caleb  has 
more than a local  reputation  for all  of  the 
Christian virtues.  He could  get more than 
half  of  his  community to testify to  his im­
maculate  reputation,  and  he  is  the  head- 
center  of  several  societies  and  has  been 
nominated for several important offices; but, 
if  there is among the jurors I have selected 
any of  his  former  creditors, I want to ask 
them whether,  in their opinion, his remark­
ably  liberal  use  of  their  money  was  any 
more  honorable, or excusable, or  moral, or 
equitable, than as if  he had “dropped it” in 
wheat margins or horse racing ? 
*

*
If  the  jobbers  were  the  only  sufferers

*

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V ertical,  Horizontal, Hoisting  and Marine Engine*.  Steam Pumps, Blowers and Ex 

haust Fans.  SAW  M IL L S ,  any  Size  oi  C ap acity  Wanted.

Estim ates Given on Complete Outfits.

88,90 and 93 SOUTH  DIVISION  ST.. 

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GRAND  RAPIDS^BUCH______

M O SELEY

W H O X i B S A I i B

Fruits, Seeds, Oysters & Produce,

ALL  KINDS  OF  H E L D   SEEDS  A  SPECIALTY.

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

toes, will be pleased to hear from you.

16  28,30 & 32 OUava UNI  GRABB RAPIDS,

No. 4  Monroe Street,

Send  fo r  Large  Illu strated   Catalogue  and 

Price  List.

Telephone 454.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

STANDARD  FIRST  GRADE  PLUG  TOBACCO

X iO X l X X i X i A X t D ’S

....  C L I M A X

Can now  be  bought  at the following exceptionally

LOW   FIGURES:

Less than 56 lbs.  56 lbs. or over,  any quantity

Ass’t ’d lot

Packages.
28 & 12 lbs.

POUNDS. 12 x 3,16 oz., 6 cuts, 
CLUBS, 12 x 2,16 ox.. 8 cuts,  42, 30 Si 1-
42, 30 & 12  “
CT.U BS, 12 x 2, 8 oz., 6 cul s, 
FOURS, 6 x 2, 4 oz . 
“
4u, 2oW S  16 
FIV E S , 6 X 154.31-5  oz.. 
T W IN  FOURS, 3 x  2, 7 to lb,  41, -.  & '«•A  ^
F „ M . ’  1 

-39 
.41
THFf *   PRICES  LOOK  TOO  GOOD  TO  LAST.

.41 
.43

.39
.41

PROVISIONS.

PORK  IN   BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids Packing &  Provision Co. 

quote  as follows:
Mess.........................................................15 50
Shortcut..................................................16 50
Shortcut  Morgan....................................16 50
Extra clear pig, short cut.........................17 5)
Extra clear, heavy....................................17 50
Clear quill, short cut................................17 50
Boston clear, short cut.............................17 50
Clear back, short cut................................17 50
Standard clear, short  cut, best................17 50
SMOKED MEATS—CANVA8SED OR  PLAIN.
Hams, average 20  fts................................1234
“ 
16  fts................................ 13
12 to 14 fts..........................13
“ 
**  picnic  ............................................ 1014
“  best  boneless................................. 12
Shoulders............................................. 
9
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.......................ill34
Dried Beef, extra......................................  8
ham  prices..............................9*4

“ 
“ 

“ 

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

LoDg Clears, heavy...................................
“  medium..................................
“ 

light..................................

“ 
“ 

s o a n d M a  T

LARD.
b

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LARD IN  TIN PA ILS.

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“ 

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BEEF IN  BARRELS.

93Ü
3 ft Pails, 20 in  a case................................
93»
5 ft Pails, 12 in a  case.................................
10 ft Pails. 6 in  a  c a s e ................................
934934
201b Pails, 4 pails in  ca3e .........................
E x tra Mess, w arranted 200 fts...........................
7  00
E x tra Mess, Chicago P acx in g .......................   7 50
“  K ansas City P ack in g ................7  25
P la te ......................................................................  7 25
E x tra  P la te ............ ............................................. 7  75
  10  00
Boneless, rum p b u tts..............................  
....................  34 bbl.  5 50

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

P o rk   Sausage.......................................................  s
Ham   Sausage....................................................... 12
Tongue  Sausage..............................................   9
F ran k fo rt  Sausage....................................- ___8
Blood  Sausage.....................................................   e
Bologna, stra ig h t................................... 1..........6
Bologna,  th ic k ....................................................    g
Head  Cheese.......................................................’  6
In  half b arrels....................................................   3 00
In  q u a rte r b arrels................................. !.........  2 00
I d 34 BbL.................................................................3 00
In  >4 BbL........................................................ 
In  K its............................................................ . 
85
H ID E S . PE L T S   A N D   FU R S. 

PIGS’ FEET.

TR IP E .

Perkins & H ess pay as follows: 

HIDES.

G re e n __ V ft  5  @534
P a rt  c u re d ...  6  ©  634
Full cu red __   634@  7
Dry hides and
k ip s .............  6  @8

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

or cu red __5  @  6
Ç piece.......10  @20

ft 20©23!Coarse w ashed.. ,18@23
F ine washed 
Medium  .............. 20@25|Unwaahed.............12@16
miscellaneous.
5@3Q
Sheep pelts, short sh earin g ................  
Sheep pelts, old wool estim ated .....*..  @20
Tallow ..........................................................4  @434
5
G rease b u tte r............................................  
Ginseng, good................................. . 
@2 00

wool.

PR O D U C E   M A R K E T .

934c.

bu.
rels, 25c.
and evaporated a t 9c.
15e.
N iagaras, 7c.
ped to 15c.
1 and $14 fo r No. 2.

Apples—B uyers pay from  75c@$l p er bbl.
Beans—The  new  crop  is  com ing  in freely, 
com m anding  $l@$1.25  p er  bu.  fo r  unpicked 
and $1.75 fo r handpicked.
B u tter—Good  quality  is  scarce  and  high. 
D ealers pay 16© 17c and hold a t 18@30c.
Cabbages—Homegrown  com m and $3@$3.50 
per 108.
Celery— J8@20c p er doz.
Cheese—Full cream  readily  com m ands 93*@ 
Cider—10c p er gal.
Clover Seed—Mammoth or medium, $1.50 per 
Coopetago—Pork barrels, $1.25; produce car­
Dried  Apples—Jobbers hold  sun-dried  a t 7c 
Eggs—Jobbers  now  pay  14c  and  sell  a t 
Grapes—Concords,  4c  per  lb.  W ordens, 5e 
Honey—Mere plenty, the price  having drop­
H ay—Baled is in sm all dem and at $15 fo r No. 
M uskmelons—Nutm egs, 30c p er doz.
O nions—Home  grow n  dry  stock  com m and 
Peaches—B arnards com m and @$1.50 per bu. 
Pears—B artlett’s $2, Flem ish  B eauties, $1.75 
P lum s—Damsons, $3 p er bu.
Pop Corn—234c 78 ft.
Potatoes—Jobbing  generally  a t  35< 
Squash—H ubbard. 1c lb.
Sweet  Potatoes—Baltim oree,  83  per 
Tom atoes—75c p er bu.
T urnips—25 p er bu.
W aterm elons—Indiana,  8@lCc apiece, 
g r a in s  a n d  m i l l i n g   p r o d u c t s .

50c p er bu.
and  Crawfords $!.75@$2. p er bu.
p er bu.

Jerseys, $4 p er bbl.

hom egrow n.

bbl,

fo r

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

W heat—City m illers pay 88c fo r  both  w hite 
Com—Jobbing  generally  a t  58c  in  100  bu. 
Oats—W hite,  4oc in  small  lots  and  40c in 
Rye—50c $  bu.
Barley—Brew ers pay $1.30®$!.40 $  ewt.
Flour—H igher.  P aten t  $5.80$) bbl m   sacks 
and  $6.00  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.80 $f bbl. in 
sacks and $5.00 in  wood.
Meal—Bolted, $2 80 $  bbl.  G ran. $3.50 $) bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $16  V ton.  Bran, $15 
ton.  Middlings,  $17 

V  ton.  Ships,  $14.00 
$) ton.  Com and Oats, $23 $) ton.

LUCIUS  C.  W EST , 

PATENTS

A ttorney a t P a ten t Law  and Solicitor 
of  A m erican  and  Foreign  patents. 
105 E. Main St., Kalam azoo, Mich., U. S. A.  Branch  of­
fice, London, Eng.  P ractice in U. S. Courts.  Circulars 
free.

JTJDD  cb  OO-,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE

And Full Line Sum m er Goods.

102  CANA L STREET.

I

P

S
Full line.  Cash prices this m onth. 

W   H
G R A H A M   ROYS.  -  G ran d   R ap id s.  M ich.
PLACE to secure a thorough 
and useful education is a t the 
Grand Rapids (Mich.) Busi­
ness College.  write fo r Col- 
G.  M.  MUNGER  &  GO.,
Successors to Allen’s Laundry.
Mail and Express orders  attended  to  w ith 

Address.  C. G. SWENSBERO.

GRAND RAPIDS.

lege Journal.

prom ptness.  N ice W o rk ,Q u ic k T im e  

S atisfactio n  G u aran teed .

W .  E .  H A L L ,  J r ., 

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.

.

  M anager.

M AGIC COFFEE  E0A STEB

1 75

The  m ost practiced 
h and  R oaster  in  th e  
world.  Thousands in 
nse—1 
i—giving  satisfio- 
tion.
a. They a re  sim ple
d urable and  econom 
leal. 
grocer 
should  be  w ithout 
one.  R oasts  coffee 
and  pea-nuts to   p er

No 

M i. S.West

1 5 0  L o n g  S t.,
Cleveland, Ohir.

8YÄNY0JY, 8ÄMP80N & CO.,
M en’s  Furnishing  Goods.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Sole  Manufacturers  of  the  “ Peninsular” 

Brand Pants, Shirts and Overalls.

S tate  agents  fo r  Celnloid  Collare  and  Cnffs. 

1 2 0  a n d   1 2 2   J e f f e r s o n ,  A v e .,

DETROIT, 

-  MICHIGAN,

GEO.  F.  OWEN,  Grand  Rapids;

W estern  M ichigan  S&lesman.

iULllUf

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A.  J.  Bow ne, President.

Ge o.  C.  P ie r c e,  Vice President.

CAPITAL

H. P. Ba k er, Cashier.
-  $300,000.

T ransacts a  general  banking  business.

M ake a  S pecialty  o f C ollections.  A ccounts 

o f C o u n try  M erch an ts S olicited.

MARKETMEN.

About  November  1  we  will open 
our Refrigerator and Salesroom, Cor. 
Third St. and C. & W. M. R. R., Mus­
kegon,  where  you  will  find  at  all 
times a fresh and full supply of

SWIFT’S

Chicago Dressed Beef

MUTTON  AND  PORK

Of  a  quality  and  price  to  suit  all.
NO  M EATS  OF  ANY  K IN D   SOLD 

TO  CONSUMERS.

Swift and Company,

Union  Stock  Yards, 

CHICAGO.

t  BERTSCH & CO.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

AGENTS  FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich,

DETROIT  SOAP  00.,
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M anufacturers of th e following well-known  brands of

DETROIT, 

-  MICH.,

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Q U EEN   A N N E , 
T R U E   B L U E , 
M ONDAY, 

M OTTLED   G ER M A N , 

S U P E R IO R ,

PHCENIX,

A N D   O TH ERS.

F or quotations address

W. G. HAWKINS,

M IC H IG A N , 

CZAR, 

W A B A SH , 

RO YA L  B A R, 
MASCOTTE,
CAM EO,

Salesm an for W estern Michigan,

At Lowest Mm Prices
.A.. H IM E S ,

ORDER  YOUR  COAL  OF

Office u n d e r N atio n al  C ity  B an k .  New 

Y ards, S liaw m u t A ve.. W in te r an d  

W ,  D iv isio n   Sts.

TELEPHONE  CALL  490-2.

D E A L E R S  IN

P E R K I N S
H E S S
Hides, Purs, Wool & Tallow,
WALES  -  GOODYEAR

NOS.  122  a n d   124  LOUIS  S T R E E T .  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N .

W E  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE-

—AND—

GONNEGTIGÜT

Rubbers.

W HOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

The  quotations  given  below  are  such  as  are  ordinarily  offered  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

prom ptly and buy in fu ll packages:

G ro c e rie s .
The  Coffee  Movement.

F ro m  th e New York Shipping List.

Two  months  ago  «the  prediction  that a 
speculative squeeze in September would run 
the price of  coffee up to 40 cents would have 
been  laughed  at, not  because  of  the  sup­
posed  impossibility  of  manipulating  the 
market  so as  to  create  such a corner,  but 
because of  the improbability of  the  accom­
plishment  of  such a result  upon  the  very 
threshold of  one of  the  largest  crops  that 
the empire of  Brazil has ever produced, and 
at a time  when  the  marketing of  the crop 
was  very  naturally  expected  to  be  at  its 
height, and  yet  such  an  event  transpired 
last week.  The comer was certainly unique 
as a speculative  squeeze, and its effects are 
likely  to  prove  disastrous  tq  the trade in 
Hamburg,  and  perhaps  in  other  quarters 
that have been more or less  intimately con­
nected  with  that  market;  but  it is not the 
comer or its results that we would draw at­
tention to, but to the course of  trade  in the 
principal  markets of  the  world  since  the 
present crop  year  opened  and  which have 
led up to this  comer.  The  last  crop  year 
closed  with  the  world’s  supply  of  coffee 
very materially reduced, as  was  shown  by 
the statistical  position  on  the 1st of July, 
and by the admitted  fact  that the invisible 
supply had  been  cut  down  to the smallest 
proportions. 
In other words, the new crop 
year came in with the principal  distributive 
markets and dealers virtually bare of stocks. 
The crop had  been  foreshadowed as likely 
to  jrove  of  enormous  proportions,  a  real 
deluxe  compared  with the meager  yield of 
the previous  year,  and  for  that  reason as 
well,  perhaps,  because  of the  recent  dis 
eomfiture that had come to the  bulls during 
the  closing  months  of  the  previous  cam 
paign, the  bear  interest  began  to  receive 
accessions  and  buyers  seemed  to  be  im­
pressed  with  the  belief that  the  receipts 
would soon swell to overwhelming  propor­
tions  and  that  lower  prices  would be the 
natural  and  inevitable consequence.  Two 
months  of  the  new  crop  year  have  now 
passed  and  a  careful  examination  of  the 
statistical position of  supplies  on the 1st of 
September shows how bitter and  disastrous 
has  been  the disappointment of  the bears, 
simply because  they  neglected to recognize 
the tact that the impoverished  condition of 
trade in all  consuming countries was likely 
to absorb a large amount of stock before the 
statistical position would be affected thereby. 
To v. hat extent this  absorbing  process has 
been in progress may be gathered  from  the 
fact that  during  July and  August  the  re­
ceipts in Rio  have  been  considerably more 
than  double  what  they  were last year for 
the same time, and yet the  stock  there has 
not increased.  The proportionate  increase 
in  the  receipts  in  Santos  has not been as 
great,  but, with  this  exception,  the  same 
remark applies to that  market.  The  stock 
in eight principal  European  ports has been 
steadily decreasing  since  July 1st,  the de­
liveries  having  aggregated  969,700  bags, 
while the receipts amounted to only 874,400 
bags, a condition  of affairs  that  easily ex­
plains a speculative  comer,  when  taken in 
connection with the  additional  fact that on 
the first of  September only 270,000 bags, or 
about two  weeks’  consumption, was  afloat 
for Europe  from  Brazil.  The condition of 
affairs in this country is no better.  The de­
liveries for the past two months  have  been
105.000  bags in excess of  the  arrivals, and 
stocks have been reduced from 265,700 bags 
on the 1st of July to  161,200  bags  on  the 
1st of the current  month. 
In other words, 
Rio  and  Santos,  as  well  as  consuming 
countries,  are  really  worse  off  lo-day, so 
far as supplies  are  concerned, than  before 
the new crop  year commenced, and  yet the 
total receipts in Rio and Santos  have  been
1.082.000 bags, against 470,000  bags for the 
same  time  last  year. 
It  is  no  matter of 
surprise,  therefore,  that  prices  have  re­
sponded to this condition of affairs, and are 
now very considerably higher  than  on  the 
1st of  July, but this advance has  been  due 
almost wholly to natural and  entirely legit­
imate  influences,  and it is only within  the 
past few days that the  speculative flurry in 
Europe  has  put  upon  prices a speculative 
edge  that  they  previously  lacked.  That 
this  absorbing  process  has  yet reached its 
climax  is  scarcely probable  in view of  the 
present  position  of  the  world’s  supplies, 
and  while it is impossible  to  foresee what 
complications or disturbance  may come out 
of the liquidation of  the  Hamburg  comer, 
it is  pretty easy to  foreshadow  that  how­
ever  large  the  receipts  in  Rio and Santos 
may be during the  current  month they will 
all b»- required to supply the actual  require­
ments  of  consumption  and  at  the  same 
time  prevent  a further  reduction  in  the 
working stocks of the principal distributive 
markets.  The  appetite of the coffee trade 
of the world thus far has been  much better 
than  the bears were  willing to believe, and 
there is reason to expect  that it will  main­
tain a good digestion for some time to come. 
Under  these  circumstances, it  is  easy  to 
perceive  the  speculative  possibilities  and 
thereby the danger of  the present  position, 
especially after the  experience in Hamburg 
last week, and the position here is really an 
open  invitation  to  speculative  bulls to as­
sume control  and  attempt a squeeze of  the 
luckless September shorts.

Fresh  Meat  Depot  at  Muskegon.

The success  of  their fresh meat station in 
this city has impelled Swift  and  Company 
to  establish a fresh  meat  station  at  Mus­
kegon,  which  they expect to  open in a few 
weeks.  Their  refrigerator is enclosed  in a 
handsome  brick  edifice, which  is  an orna­
ment to the city as  well as a convenience to 
the people.  As  Swift  and Company never 
sell their meats to consumers under any cir­
cumstances, their locating at Muskegon will 
be the  cause of  universal  rejoicing  among 
the trade.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar is firmer, granulated having gone a 
fraction  higher.  Rio  and  Santos  coffees 
continue  to  advance,  in  consequence  of 
whicli 
the  package  manufacturers  have 
raised  their  prices  He.  The  jelly manu­
facturers are  endeavoring  to  form a combi­
nation.  Other; articles are without material 
change.

The merchants of  Michigan  are  well ac 
quainted with the  merits  of  the  celebrated 
“Anchor” brand of  oysters and the demand 
is already so great that Dettenthaler’s facil­
ities are  taxed to  their  utmost  capacity to 
fill all orders as fast as received.

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

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Acme, 34 3> cans, 3  doz.... 

£  ft *‘ 
lib  “  
B u lk ........................ 
A rctic, 34  lb cans, 6 doz.... 
Ji 
34 
1 
5 

75
2  “  ....  1  50
1  M  ....  3  00
20
45
4  “  ....  75
8 
....  140
2  “   ....2 4 0
I  “  .  ..12 00
V ictorian, 1 lb (tall,) 2 doz.  2 00
Diamond,  “bulk.” ............  
15
Red S tar % lb cans 12 doz..  45 
6  “  ..  85
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cans in  case................ ... .11 75
cans in  case...........................10 00
in  case..................................... 18 75
case..... ................................ 2
case...................................... 2  55
case............................................ 1 50

A bsolute,  14  lb  cans,  100
A bsolute,  34  lb  cans,  50
A bsolute, 1 lb cans, 50 cans
T elfer’s 14 lb, cans, 6 doz in
T elfer’s 34 lb cans, 3 doz in
T elfer’s 1 lb cans,  1  doz in 

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BROOMS.

No. 2 H u rl....................................2 00
No. 1  H u rl................................... 2 25
No. 2 C arpet................................2 50
No. 1 C arp et................................2 75
P arlo r  G era................................3 00
Common W hisk.........................1 00
F ancy  W h isk .............................1 25
M ill..........................................3 " '
W areh o u se.................................3 00

CHEESE.

M ichigan fu ll cream .. .934@934

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R unkle Bros’.. Vien. Sweet  22
P rem ium ..  33
Hom-Cocoa
B reak fast..  48

CHOCOLATE.
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OOCOANUT
Schepps,  Is .............................27
Is and 34s ................28
34s............................ .2734
Is  in  tin  p ails— 2734
34s 
....2834
M altby’s, Is ............................2334
is   and 34s...............24
34s............................-24)4
M anhattan, p ails..................20
Bulk, pails or barrels. ,16@18

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M ocha...............................25@28
M andating....................... 25@26
O G  J a v a .........................24@25
J a v a ...................................23@24
M aricabo.......................16® 19
Cost! R ica........................   @19
M exican...........................   @19
Santos...............................15@18
Rio,  fa n c y ...................... 18@19
Rio,  p rim e.......................16@17
Rio,  com m on.................. 14@15
To  ascertain cost of  roasted 
coffee, add 34c p er lb. fo r roast­
ing and 15 p er cent, fo r shrink­
age.

COFFEES—PACKAGE.

1934 

CORDAGE.

CRACKERS.

30 lbs 60 lbs 100 fts
1934
20
1934
1834
1834
1954
1934
1934
1734
195*

L ion.................. 
Lion, in cab ... 
D ilw orth’s .... 
M agnolia......... 
A cm e.............. 19 
G e rm a n ......... 
G erm an, bins. 
A rbuckie’s A riosa 
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A vorica 
M cLaughlin’s XXX X 
COFFEES—50 LB. BAGS.
A rbuckie’s A vorica.......... 17
*•  Q uaker  C ity.........18
“  B est R io................19
“  Prim e M aricabo.. .2134
6u foot J u te ................... .......110
72 foot J u t e .........................1 40
40 Foot C otton............... ,....1  50
50 foot C otton......................1 60
60 foot Cotton......................1 75
72 foot C otton......................2 00
K en o sh aB u tter....................8
Seym our  B u tte r..................334
B u tte r..................................... 634
Fam ily  B u tte r...................... 634
Fancy B u tte r........................ 6
B u tter  B iscuit......................7
B o sto n ....................................8
City Soda................................ 8
Soda..........................................634
So , a  Fancy.............................6
S.  O yster................................ 634
City Oyster,  X X X ...............634
P ic n ic ......................................634
Fancy  O yster........................3
Clams, 1 lb, L ittle  N eck__1 35
Clam Chowder, 3 lb............2  15
Cove Oysters, 1  ft  stan d .. .1 00
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  s ta n d .. .1 70
Lobsters, 1 lb picnic........... 1  75 j
Lobsters, 2 lb, picnic.......... 2 65
Lobsters, 1 ft  s ta r...............1  95  1
Lobsters. 2 1b  s ta r...............2 90
M ackerel  in Tom ato SauceS 25
Mackerel, 1 ft stan d ............1  35
M ackerel, 21b stan d ............
M ackerel,3 1b in  M ustard. .3 25
M ackerel. 3 1b  soused.........3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Colum bia.........2  00
Salmon, 2 f t “  
3  50
Salmon, 1 ft Sacram ento...1  90 
Salmon, 2 ft 
...2 75
Sardines, dom estic 34s.  ...  6
Sardines,  dom estic 34s...  @10 
Sardines,  M ustard  34s...  @10 
Sardines,  im ported  34s..l2@13
Sardines,  spiced, 34s........10@12
Trout. 3 ft  brook..............
CANNED FRUITS.

CANNED FISH.

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CANNED VEGETABLES.

Apples, gallons,  stan d ___ 2 25
B lackberries,  sta n d ............1 00
Cherries, red  standard.......1  60
Cherries,  p itte d .........1  06@1  25
Damsons.......................1 25@1 35
Egg Plum s, stan d ................ 1  25
G ooseberries..........................1 65
G rap es....................................   95
Green G ages,.........................1 50
Peaches,  all yellow, stand. 1  5G
Peaches,  seconds................ 1  25
Peaches, pie...........................1  00
P ears........................................1  30
Pineapples,.................1  ¿0@2  75
Quinces................................... 1 50
Raspberries, e x tra ...............1  50
red..................1 50
S traw berries............. 1  25® 1  40
W hortleberries......................1 20
A sparagus, O yster B ay__ 2  00
Beans, Lima, s ta n d ............   85
Beans, Green Lim as..  @1 40
Beans,  S tring........... 1  00@1 20
Beans, Stringless,  E rie__   90
Beans, Lewis’ Boston B&k.l  45
Corn,  A rcher’s  T rophy__
M om G’ry .l 15
E arly G old.115
Peas,  F rench....................... .1  60
Peas, ex tra m arro fat.l  20@1  40
Peas,  soaked.........................  75
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Ju n e, stan d __   @150
sifted ................ 2 00
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“  French, ex tra fine. .20 00 
M ushroom s,extra fine....20 00
Pum pkin, 3 1b Golden.........  85
Succotash, standard__ 80@1  30
l   25
 
Squash.....................  
Tom atoes, Red  Coat  ©  110 
1  10
Good Enough 
Ben H a r .............110
stand b r.l  15@  110
Apples, evaporated...8  @834
“  „  sundried.......  634® 734
DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.
Citron, in d ru m ....................22
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in boxes....................23
C u rra n ts...................... 6  @634
Lem on  P eel...........................14
O range P eel...........................14
P runes,  Im perial.........  @6
T urkey..................4@434
new ..............454
Raisins, D ehesia...................3  60
Raisins, London L ayers__ 3 00
Raisins, California  “ 
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Raisins. Loose M uscatels..2 25

DRIED  FRUITS.

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Raisins, Loose C alifornia. .2 ('0 
Raisins, Ondarag, 28s.  @10
Raisins.  S u ltan as.........  @
Raisins,  V alencias.......8*£@9
Raisins, Im nerials................3  75

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Cod,  w hole.....................   @514
Cod,  boneless............... .714 ©7 34
13
H alib u t............................. 
8  H erring, round.  34  bbl. 
2  75 
H erring, round,  34 bbl. 
1  50 
10 00 
H erring, Holland, bbls. 
H erring, Holland, kegs  £5@?G
H erring,  Scaled............  
31
Mack, sh’r. No. 1,54 b b l__ 8  75
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..1  10
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T rout,  34  b bls..............   ..... 5 00
10  5)  k its ....................  85
W hite, No. 1, 34 bbls............ 6 00
W hite, No. 1,12  lb k its .......1  J5
W hite,  No. 1,10 lb k its .......1  00
W hite, Fam ily,  34 b b ls.......2
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FLAVORING EXTRACTS. 
Jen n in g s’  Lemon.  V anilla.
D. C .,2oz.......doz  90 
135
2 50
3 75
175
4  5

“   4 o z ....................1 40 
“  6 oz.................. .2 23 
“  No. 3 P a n e l...1  00 
"   No. 4  T ap er..1  60 
“  No. 8 panel...2  75 
...4  5) 
“  No. 10  “ 
“  34 pint, r ’nd..4  59 
..9  00 
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Lemon.  V anilla.
p er gross.

Standard 
English 2 o z ..........   7  20 
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3 oz...........   9  00 
4 oz............12 00 
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FARTNACEOUS  GOODS.

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2 75
6 50
7 50
15 00

9 60
12 00
15 1.0
24 -0

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F arina, 100 lb. kegs..............  04
b b l.....................4  0
Hom iny, 
M acaroni, dom 12 lb.  b o x ..  60 
im ported... 10  @11
P earl  Barley
@  334 
@1  40 
Peas,  G reen................
Peas, Split...................
@  334 
@ 61í 
Sago, G erm an............
@ 6% 
Tapioca, fl’k  o r  p ’r l . .
W heat,  cracked.........
@  634 
V erm icelli,  im p o rt...
@10
dom estic..
MATCHES.
G. H. No.  8,  square..
G. H. No 9, square, 3 g ro .. .1  10
G. H. No.  200,  parlor...........1  65
G. H. No.  300,  p a rlo r.........35  15
G. H. No.  7, ro u n d .............. 1  40
Oshkosh, No. 2.....................   75
Oshkosh, No.  8.....................1  50
Sw edish..................................  76
R ichardson’s No. 8  sq........ 1  00
R ichardson’s No. 9  sq ....... 1  50
Richardson’s No. 734, rn d . .1  00 
rn d .. 1  50
Richardson’s No. 7 
W oodbine. 300......................1  15
MOLASSES.
Black  S trap ....................... 16@17
Cuba  B aking......................22@25
Porto Rico...........................24@35
New  Orleans,  good.........25@30
New O rleans, choice........33@40
New  O rleans,  fa n c y ........45@48

34 bbls. 3c ex tra

O IL.

OATMEAL

M ichigan T est......................1034
W ater  W hite........................1234
B arre ls.................................. 6  00
H alf b a rre ls......................... 3  15
Cases.......................................2 35
B a rre ls..................................8  00
H alf b a rre ls .........................3 25
Cases.............................2  25@3 35

OATS—ROLLED.

PICKLES.

M edium..................................5 50
34 b b l...................... 3  25
Small,  b b l............................. 6  60
34 b b l........................3  75

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Table................................. 534@534
H e a d .................................63i@6l4
6)4
J a v a ................  
P atn a..........  ............................ 534
Rangoon....................................5
B ro k en .. 
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Ja p a n ................................  @514

 

SALERATDS.

DeLand’s  p u re ........................534
Church’s  ...........................
Taylor’s  G. M......................... 5
D w ight’s .................................. 5
Sea  Foam .................................5)4
Cap Sheaf................................A

34c less in  5 box lots.

SALT.

60  Pocket, F  F  D ..................2  15
28 P o c k e t...............................2  05
100 3 1b  pockets..
Saginaw o r  M anistee.........  80
A shton, bu. b ag s__
Ashton.4 bu.  b ag s.............. 2 75
Higgins’ bu.  b ag s................  75
A m erican, 34 bu. bags.
Rock,  bushels....................24@25
W arsaw, bu. bags................  36
.................  19
Loudon Relish, 2 doz...........2 50
Dingman, 100  bars..............4  00
Don’t   A nti-W ashboard__ 4  75
J a x o n ....'..............................3 75
Queen  A n n e........................3  85
G erm an Fam ily...................2  49
Big B argain......................... 1  87

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SAUCES.

SOAP.

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SPICES—WHOLE.

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A llspice.................................... 8
Cassia, China  in m a ts.........  734
B atavia in b u n d .. ..11
rolls......42
“   Saigon in  
Cloves,  A m boyna.............. 3C
“ Z anzibar........................ 23
Mace B atavia........................70
N utm egs,  fan cy ................. 70
No.  1....................60
No.  2................... 60

Pepper, Singapore,  olack.,1834 

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SPICES—GROUND—IN  BULK.
A llspice..................................1234
Cassia, B atav ia.................... 20
and Saigon.25
Saigon.....................43
Cloves,  A m boyna................ 35
Zanzibar..................28
Ginger, A frican ....................1234
Cochin..................... 15
Jam aica...............   @18
Mace B atavia........................80
M ustard,  E nglish................ 22
and Trie.25
T rieste.................. 27
N utm egs,  No.  2...................70
Pepper, Singapore  b lack ..22 
Cayenne.................25
doz...84 
A bsolute  Pepper, 
“  ...84
Cinnamon 
“  ,..55
Allspice 
“  ...85
Cloves 
G inger 
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M ustard 
STARCH.

“  w hite.. 30

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K ingsford’s
Silver Gloss, 1 1b pkgs.........7

SUGARS.

SYRUPS.

Off...........  @

“   6 1b boxes....... 734
b u lk ................634
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P ure, 1 1b pkgs.......................  534
Corn, 1  1b pkgs...................... 7 
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C ut  L oaf....... ........... 
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Cubes............................   @  834
Pow dered.....................  @ 834
G ranulated,  S tan d ...  @  834
Confectionery A.........  @7 81
Standard  A ..................  @734
No. 1, W hite E x tra C.  @  ~l%
No. 2, E x tra  C..............   @7
@  614
No. 3 C, golden......... 
No. 4 C,  dark  ............   @ 634
No 5  C..........................   554®  6
Corn, b arrels.....................   @27
Corn, 34 bbls........................  @29
Com,  kegs..........................  »33
P ure Sugar, bbl................. 30@35
P ure Sugar. 34 b b l............. 33@37
X   X X X
G inger  Snaps............834 
9
Sugar Cream s............834 
934
9
Frosted  Cream s......... 
834
G raham   C rackers__  
S34
Oatmeal  C rackers.... 
Spear  H ead  special................43
Plank Road................................42
Eclipse.'...................................... 36
Holy M oses................................33
Blue Blazes................................32
Eye  O pener.............................. 32
S tar 
............................42@45
C lipper....................................... 39

TOBACCOS—PLUG.

SWEET  GOODS-

I Climax................................  39@41
Corner Stone.............................39
Double Pedro....................... 40
I  W hopper................................... 40
Peach  P ie ..............................
W edding Cake,  blk.................40
Red F ox......................................45
Sweet R u ss e t....................39@32

TOBACCOS—FINE  CUT.

Sweet  P ip p in ........................... 50
Five and Seven................. 
  50
H iaw atha.........................., ......68
Petoskey Chief. 
.......................55
Sweet R u sset.. 
............... 40©42
42
T histle................
Florida................
....................65
Rose  L eaf......... .......................66
Red  Domino__ ......................38
Swamp A ngel..
......................40
S tag .................... .......................33
C ap p er.............. .......................42

TOBACCOS—-SMOKING.

Rob  Roy............ ...................... 26
Peerless.............. ...................... 26
U ncle Sam ...................... 
A0
Jack   P in e................ 
36
Sensation....................................33
Yellow Jac k e t......................... A0
Sweet  C onqueror............ 20®25

 

TEAS.

Jap a n   o rdinary.................18&20
Jap a n  fa ir to  good...........25@30
Jap a n  fine.......   .................35@45
Jap an   d u st......................... 12@20
Young H yson....................20@45
G unpow der....................... 35® 50
Oolong................... 33@55@60@75
Congo................................... 25@30

30 gr. 
934 

VINEGAR.
40 gr. 
1134 

50 gr.
13

Above  are  the  prices  fixed 
by  th e  pool.  M anufacturers 
outside  the  pool  usually  sell 
5 g r.  stronger  goods  a t  same 
prices.  $1  fo r barrel.
WOODENWARE.

C urtiss  &  Co.  quote  as to 
'ow s:
Tubs. No. 1 ........................... 7 75
“  2— .....................6  75
“ 
“   3 ............................6  .
„   “  
Pails, No. 1, two hoop........ l   60
th ree hoop___1
** 
“ 
Clothespins, 5gr. boxes....  60
Bowls. 15s, 17s and 19s.........2 50
B askets, m a rk e t..................  40
1  60
“  
“  w ith covers 1 90
“ 
“   willow clothes N o.l 5  50 
“  2 6  00
“ 
“ 37  00
.. 
“ 13  50
“  splint 
“  
“  24  25
“ 
“  35  00

bushel.............. 

“ 
.. 
"  
“  
“  

“  
.. 
“  
“  

MISCELLANEOUS.

B ath B rick im p o rted .........90
A m erican.........75
do 
B urners,  No.  0.................... 65
do  No. 1........................76
do  No. 2........................ 95
Chimneys,  No. 0..................... J
** 
“  

“  1.......................40
**  2.......................52
Cocoa Shells, b ulk.. . . . . . .  .V 4
Condensed  M ilk,E agiel” .’7 60
Cream  T a rta r.......................25
Candles. S ta r.........................  934
Candles. H otel......................n
Cam phor, oz., 2 1b b o x es.. .35
E x tract Coffee, V.  C......... 
75
F e lix ....... 1  15
Gum, R ubber  100 lu m p s.. .26 
Gum, R ubber 200 lu m p s.. .35
Gum, S pruce.........................30
Jelly ,in  30 ft pails..  .  @5
Powder,  R eg ........................A 25
Powder,  34  K eg................... 2 95
S age.........................................15
CANDY. FR U IT S an d  NUTS, 
P u tn am   &  Brooxs quote  as 
follow s:

do 

STICK.
do 
do 
MIXED.

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

Standard, 25 ft boxes...........  934
........... 10
Twist, 
........... 11
Cut Loaf 
Royal. 25 lb  p ails.......  @10
Royal, 200 ft bbls.................... 9
E xtra, 25 ft  p ails.................. 11
E xtra, 200 ft bbls...................10
French Cream-  25 ft pails. .1234
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases............. 11
Broken, 25  ft  p ails...............11
Broken. 200 ft  bbls...............10
Lemon  D rops........................... i3
Sour D rops................................ 14
P epperm int  D rops.................14
Chocolate D rops......................15
H M Chocolate  D rops........... 18
Gum   D ro p s .............................10
Licorice D rops......................... 18
A B   Licorice  D rops...............12
Lozenges, p la in ........................14
Lozenges,  p rin te d .................. 15
Im p e ria ls ..................................14
M o tto es......................................15
Cream  B ar................................ 13
Molasses B ar.............................13
Caram els..............................    .19
H and Made C ream s.................19
Plain  Cream s........................... 16
Decorated  Cream s.................. 20
S tring R ock...............................14
B urnt A lm onds....................  22
W intergTeen  B erries.............14

FANCY—IN  BULK. 

Lozenges, plain  in  p ails... 13
Lozenges, plain in  bbls__ 12
Lozenges, printed in pails. 1334 
Lozenges, printed in  bbls. 1234 
Chocolate Drops, in pails. .1334
Gum  D rops  in p ails...........634
Gum Drops, in b b ls............ 534
Moss Drops, in   pails...........10
Moss Drops, in  bbls............   9
Sour Drops, in   p ails....... . .12
Im perials, in  pails...............12
Im perials  in  bbls.................11

FRUITS.

B an an as......................I  25@2 50
Oranges.  Rodi............  @7  50
O ranges,  Florida.......  @
Oranges,  Jam aica,  bbls  @8 00
Oranges, OO................ 
©
Oranges,  Im perials..  @ 
Oranges V alencia ca.  •  @ 
Lemons, ch’ce to  f  cy4  00©i  75
Lem ons........................   @
Figs, layers, new ....... 14  @15
Figs, Bags, 50 f t .........  @6
Dates,  frails  do.........  @ 434
Dates, K do  do.........  @534
Dates, F ard 10 ft box %) 1b ..  9 
Dates, Fard 50 ft box ^  f t . .  7 
Dates, P ersian 50 ft box  ..  @6

NUTS.

"  
* 

Almonds,  T arragona  @17
Iv a c a .........  @16
California  @14
B razils.........................  @8
Filberts, Sicily...........  ©11
W alnuts,  G renoble..  @13
F re n c h ....  @11
Pecans,  Texas. H. P. 
8@12
Cocoacuts, $  100.......   @4  50

■* 

PEANUTS.
Prim e  Bed,  raw   fl  ft 
Stock 
do
Fancy H.P. do 
do 
Choice W hite, Va.do 
Fancy H  P..  Va  do 
E x tra H. P. V a...........

follows:

OYSTERS  A N D   F IS H .

F.  J .  D ettenthaler  quotes  as 

OYSTERS.

S tan d ard s...........................22@25
Selects.................................25 @30
Fairhaven Counts................  40

«  FRESH  FISH.

B lack bass..............................1234
T r o u t................... '.............. -  734
W hitefish.............................  734
sm oked..... .........10
Frogs’ L e g s ................  25@1  25

“ 

“  

“ 
“  

F R E S H   M EATS.
B eef, carcass................5  @6
h in d q u a rte rs....  @7 
...334@4
fore 

Hogs..............................
Pork  loins......................
sho u ld ers............
Bologna...........................
F ran k fo rt sausage___
Blood, liv, h ’d saus’g  ..
M utton...........................  634@7
Lard k ettle rendered..  ©11

“ 

: also manufacture a  full  line  of Sweet 

Goods.  Write  for  quotations 

and  samples.

JA C K S O N , 

>i]  M IC H .

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

I f  y o n   h a v e   a n y   o f  th e   above  goods  to  
sh ip ,  o r  a n y th in g   in   th e   P ro d u c e   lin e ,  le t 
n s  h e a r  fro m   you.  L ib e ra l  cash   advances 
m ad e  w h e n   d esired .

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. 

R eference:  First National Bank,  Chicago. 
Michigan Tradesman. G rand Rapide.
GRAND  RAPIDS

Paper  Box  Factory,

W,  tf,  HUELSYER,  Prop.

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

O rd e r on   S h o rt  N otice.

We m ake a specialty of

Confectionery,  M illinery  and 

Shelf Boxes.

Pure, H ealthful and  Reliable,  w arranted  to  give satis­
faction in every particu lar.  F o r sale by wholesale and 
retail grocers th ro u g h o u t  th t  U nited  States.  Vouw ie  ! 
Bros,, M anufacturers, Cleveland and Chicago.

All w ork guaranteed first  class  and  at  low 
prices.  W rite  or  call  fo r  estim ates  on  any­
th in g  you m ay w ant in m y line.  Telephone 86$

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

11 Pearl St, Grant Rapies, Mid

'------- IS   NOV/  C O M PLETE .-------

OUR  TRAVELERS

J .   L .  K Y M E R  (of o u r firm),

GEO.  H .  RA YN O R

and G IL B E R T   J .  H A A N
Will soon call upon th e trad e  w ith a com plete 

line o f sam ples.

20 and 22  Monroe  81., Grand  Rapids.

EATON, LYON & CO.,
piers, Attention

We are making  a  Middlings 
Purifier and Flour Dresser that 
will save you their cost at least 
three times each year.
They  are  guaranteed  to  do 
more  work in less  space (with 
less  power  and  less  waste) 
than  any  other  machines  of 
their  class.
Send  for  descriptive  cata­
logue with testimonials.
Marlin’s  MiMlinis  Fnriler  Co,,

GRIP  RAPIDS,  ]AIGH.

W rite fo r Fall Prices and D iscounts.

G.  R.  MAYHEW,

86  Monroe  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

CupiNGsi Yale,
GrockeFy 

Im p o rte rs an d  M an u factu rers of

-AGENTS  FOR-

G la s s w a r e  

Fancy Goods 

Bottle?

Socks.  Stc*

W rite fo r prices, w ith illustrations.
V isiting m erchants are requested to  call and 

look over o u r sam ples.

19  &0.  IONIA  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

TOBACCO  USING.

Both Sides of the Question Stated.

“In every land and in every clime  where 
the use of tobacco prevails it  causes  degen 
eration, degradation, debasement—physical, 
mental  and  moral—disease  and  death,  or 
individual and  national  decadence.”  Such 
is the statement of  Dr.  George  J.  Ziegler 
in an article on  “The Tobacco Poison.”
“I do not believe there is any more  harm 
in smoking a  cigar  or  pipe,  after  eating, 
than there is in drinking tea or coffee.  Any 
luxury carried to  excess  carries  with  it  a 
penalty.  For my own part, I consider  that 
smoking acts as a' sedative and equalizer  of 
the temper,  assists digestion,  and. is a rnedi 
urn of sociability among men which  should 
not  be  discarded.”  So  says  Dr.  A.  E 
Adams,  of  Danbury,  Conn.,  in  an  article 
entitled  “Is Smoking Injurious?”
The doctors disagree, says The New  York 
Medical Journal, but there can be no doubt 
as to whose view is nearer the  truth.  The 
broad statement of Dr.  Ziegler is  contradic­
ted not only by general  experience,  but  by 
the undoubted fact  that  such  countries  as 
Germany and the United States, two nations 
which are certainly not suffering from deca 
dence, consume three  or  four  times  more 
tobacco per capita than do the  Spanim-ds or 
Italians,  nations of by no means so vigorous 
a vitality.
The real facts as to the influfnceof tobac­
co on the health are fairly  well established, 
and the occasional outburst  of  anti-tobacco 
fanaticism does not affect  received  medical 
opinion.  Tobacco is pernicious to  growing 
children.  Used in moderation,  the  majori­
ty of heathy adults  can  smoke  it  without 
harm. 
It does not in these shorten  life  or 
produce degenerative changes.  Nearly one- 
half of Prof. Humphrey’s collection of  cen­
tenarians were tobacco-users. 
It is particu­
larly harmless to those  who  live  out-doors 
and engage in physical work. 
It is  partic­
ularly apt to injure those who live  indoors. 
The worst feature about its use is  the  diffi­
culty  some  persons  have  in  smdking 
in 
moderation. 
This  is  especially1 true  of 
brain-workers,  and it is for this reason  that 
physicians never advise the acquirement  of 
the tobacco  habit.  But  among  the  great 
mass of working people the use  of  tobacco 
is apparently a harmless  one.

To  Keep  Cider  Sweet.

Put the  barrel in position  when it comes 
from the mill.  When the  cider  has  fairly 
settled and  commenced to work so that the 
froth comes out over the bunghole, draw off 
carefully all  that  will  run  clear  of  dregs. 
Throw away the dregs in  the  barrel,  wash 
the barrel  thoroughly clean  with hot water 
and put the  cider  back,  keeping the  barrel 
full.  Repeat  this  process  until  the  cider 
ceases to work.  We seldom have to rack it 
off  twice—never  three  times—when  it  is 
ready to  bung  up.  Cider  treated  in  this 
manner  will  keep two,  three or five  years, 
and there  will  be  no  disagreeable taste of 
mustard  seed  or  lime. 
If  anything  be 
added,  let  it  be a few  pounds  of  crushed 
sugar to each barrel.

Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association.
M u s k e g o n ,  Sept.  13,  1888.

E. A. Stowe. G rand  Rapids:
D e a r  Sir —The M. D.  C. A. held its reg­
ular meeting on the 11th, witli a big  attend­
ance.  President Koon  called  the  meeting 
to  order.  W. A.  Padley  was  admitted  to 
membership. 
Jesse  Hoyt  read a valuable 
paper  on  “Iron,”  and  some  good  points 
were brought  out by the paper.  The Asso­
ciation  passed  resolutions  thanking  Rev. 
T. B.  Wilson for his plea  in  last  Sunday’s 
sermon  in  behalf  of  Sunday  closing  and 
Sunday rest for the drug clerks.  At a late 
hour the meeting adjourned.
The next meeting occurs on September 25.

G e o .  L .  L e f e v e k ,  Sec’y.

Peppermint  Oil  on  the  Boom.

Graham  Roys, who  is on a trip  through 
the “peppermint district” in St. Joseph and 
Kalamazoo counties,  informs T h e  T r a d e s ­
m a n  that the long drought has curtailed the 
mint crop very materially—so  much so that 
buyers are freely offering 50 cents per pound 
more  than  they did  this  time last season. 
While oil  sold at $1.40,  $1.50  and  even as 
high as  $1.75  last  year,  offers  of  $2  and 
2.05  are  now  almost  invariably  refused, 
the growers having  become  convinced that 
the price will touch $2.50 per pound  before 
another crop is harvested.

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1 1  DRUG  M  1  GO.

1

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

-D R U G S -

Chemicals  and  Druggists’  Sundries.

M

Dealers  in

Patent Medicines, Paints,  Oils, Uarnishes.

laU iteia

TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY  THE

0.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

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

a n d  C hicago.

A «  White Lead
DETROIT,

Color Woris,
MICH.

We  are  Sole  Proprietors  of

W EATHERLY’S  M ICHIGAN  CATARRH  REMEDY.

We have in stock and offer a full line of

T K T l i i s k i e S '   B r a n d i e s ,

G i n s ,   W i n e s ,   B u m s .

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

Henderson County, Hand Made  Sour Mash 

Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite 

Rye  Whisky.

We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only
We give our Personal Attention to Mail  Orders  and  Guar­
All orders are Shipped and  Invoiced  the  same  day  we re­

antee Satisfaction.
ceive them.  Send m a trial order.

taeUine i Perkins  Drug  Go,,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

©rues 8. flftebtetnes

S tate  B o ard   o f P h a rm a c y .

S ix  T ears—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Tw o Y ears—Jam es V ernor, Detroit.
T h ree T ears—O ttm ar Eberbaeh, Ann  Arbor.
F o u r T e a rs—Geo. McDonald, Kalam azoo.
F iv e  T ears—Stanley E. P arkell, Owosso.
P resid en t—Geo. McDonald 
S ecretary —Jacob Jesson.
T reasu rer—Jas. V ernor.
Next Meeting—At  Lansing,  on  Novem ber  6,  7 and 8. 
■Candidates will please rep o rt a t 9 a. m. th e  second day 
o f  m eeting. 
_____________________________ __

M ic h i g a n   S t a te   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A s s ’ll. 

ORG A NIZED   O C T O B E R   9, 1884.

President—A rth u r Bassett, D etroit.
F irs t Vice-President—G. M. Harwood, Petoskey.
Second Vice-President—H. B. F airchild,  G rand Rapids. 
T h ird  V ice-President—H enry K ephart, B errien Springs. 
S ecretary—S. E. P ark ill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Win. Dupont, D etroit.
Executive Com m ittee—Geo.  Gundrum ,  F ran k   Inglis.
A. H. Lym an, John E. Peek, E. T. Webb.
Local Secretary—Jam es Vernor, D etroit.
N ext Meeting—At  D etroit, Septem ber 4, 5,6 and 7.___
G ran d   R ap id s  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society.
P resident—H. E. Locher.
Vice-President—J. W. Hayw ard.
Secretary—F ran k  H. Escott.
Treasurer—H enry  B. F airchild.
B eard o f  Censors—P resident.  Vice-President  and  Sec­
retary .
Board of Trustees—The President,  Jo h n   E. Peek,  Geo. 
G. Steketee, A. F. H azeltine an d  F. J. W urzburg, 
wen, Isaac W atts, Wm. E. W hite and W in.  L.  W hite. 
Com m ittee on Trade  M atters—Jo n n   Peck, F.  J. W urz­
b u rg , W. H. Tibbs.
Com m ittee  on  Legislation—J.  W.  H ayw ard,  Theo.
Kem ink, W. H. Van Leuwen.
C om m ittee  on  P harm acy—W.  L.  W hite,  Jo h n   Muir, 
M. B. Kinun.
R egular  Meetings—F irst  Thursday  evening  in   each 
m onth. 
A nnual Meeting—F irst  Thursday eveninginN ovem ber.

a

D e tro it  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1883.

President—J. W. Caldwell.
F irst Vice-President—F. W. R. P erry.
Second Vice-President—F. D. Stevens.
Secretary an d  Treasurer—B. W. P atterson.
A ssistant Secretary and  T reasurer—G.  S. Purvis. 
Annual Meeting—F irst W ednesday in June.
R egular M eetings—F irst W ednesday in  each  m onth.
C en tra l  M ich ig an   D ru g g ists’  A ssociation. 
President, J. W. Dunlop ;  Secretary, R.  M. Mussell.
B e rrie n   C ounty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society. 
President, H. M. Dean;  S ecretary, H enry K ephart.

C lin to n   C o unty  D ru g g ists’  A ssociation.

P resident, A. O. H unt;  S ecretary, A. S.  W allace.
C h arlev o ix  C o unty P h a rm a c e u tic a l Society 
President, H. W. W illard;  Secretary, Geo. W. Cronter.

Io n ia  C o unty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l Society, 
P resident, W. R. C utler;  S ecretary, Geo. Gundrum .
Ja c k so n   C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  A ss’n. 
President, C. B. Colwell; S ecretary, C. E- Foote.______
K alam azo o  P h a rm a c e u tic a l A ssociation. 
M ason  C ounty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society. 

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

P resident, F. N. L atim er;  S ecretary, W m. H eysett.
M ecosta  C ounty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society. 
P resident, C. H. W agener;  S ecretary, A. H. W ebber.
M onroe  C ounty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society. 
M uskegon  C o unty  P lia rm .  A ssociation, 
President, Wm. B. W ilson;  Secretary, Geo. W heeler.
M uskegon  D ru g   C lerk s’  A ssociation. 

President, S. M. Sackett;  Secretary, Jnlins W eiss.

President, C. S. Koon;  Secretary, Geo.  L. LeFevre.
N ew aygo  C o unty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society, 
P resident. J. F. A. R aider; S ecretary, A. G. Clark.

O ceana C ounty P h a rm a c e u tic a l Society. 

P resident, F. W. F incher;  Secretary, F ran k  Cady.
S aginaw   C ounty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society. 
President, J a y   Sm ith ;  Secretary,  D. E. Prall.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

A dvanced—Quinine German, oxalic acid, cloves. 
Declined—Castor oil.

-  

RADIX.

8® 10
Potass  N itras, o p t...
f 
AC1DUM.
7® 9
8®  10 Potass  N itra s............
fe& ceticum ..................
25® 28
80@1  00 P r u s s ia te ...................
KBenzoicum, German
15® 18
Sulphate p o ................
30
KBorstcic.......................
45®  50
jC a tb o lic u m ..............
60®  65 A co n itu m ................... 20® 25
IC itric u m ...................
3® 
5 A lth a e .........................
■ H ydrochlor..............
25® 30
10®  12 A n c h u sa .....................
fN itro c u m ..................
15© 20
12®  14 A rum ,  p o ....................
lO x a lle u m ..................
@ 25
20 C alam us....................... 20® 50
fPhoBphorioum   dll..
i  S aiicylicum .............. 1  70® 2  05 G entiana,  (po. 15)__ 10® 12
1%@5 
S ulphuricum ............
16® 18
1  40@1  60 G lychrrhiza,  (pv. 15). 
T annieum ..................
H ydrastis  Canaden,
50®  53
T a rta ric u m ..............
© 30
(po. 35).......................
AMMONIA.
15® 20
5 H ellebore,  Alba,  po.
3® 
A qua, 16  deg............
15® 20
Inula,  p o .....................
4®  6 Ipecac, po ................... 2 15@2  30
18  deg............
ll@   13 Iris  plox (po. 20@22).. 18® 20
Carbon a s...................
12®  14 Jalapa,  p r .................... 25® 30
C hloridum ................
ANILINE.
@ 35
2 00@2 25 M aranta,  % s..............
B lic k ...............................
Podophyllum ,  p o __ 15® 18
B row n......................... 8G@1  00
45®  50
“  c u t....................... ®1 75
R ed.......................... .
2  50@3  00
'Yellow.......................
75@1  35
“   P V ............................
BACCAE.
48® 53
S pigelia.......................
1  85©2 00
■Cubebae  (po.  1 60...
Sanguinaria, (po. 25). @ 20
8®  10 S erp en taria..... ..........
Ju n ip eru s  ...............
3‘W •35
25®  30 S en eg a..................— 50® 55
X a n th o x y lu m .........
BALSAMUM
® 40
Smilax, Officinalis, H
65®  70
C opaiba.....................
M ® 20
@1  30 
10® 12
P e ru ............................
50®  55 Scillae,  (po. 35)...........
T erabin,  C anada—
Sym plocarpus,  Foe-
45®  50
T o lu ta n .....................
@ 25
tidus, po...................
CORTEX.
18 V aleriana, Eng. (po. 30)  @ 25
A bies,  C anadian—
15® 20
G erm an..
•Cassiae  .......................
Zingiber a .....................  10®,  15
•Cinchona F la v a .........
Zingiber  j ...................   18®  22
E uonym us  atropurp 
M yrica  C erifera, po.
P ru n u s  Y irgini.........
•Quillaia,  g rd ..............
S a s sfra s .......................
U lm us..........................
U lm us Po (Ground 12)
EXT R ACTUM .
G lycyrrhiza G labra..  24®
p o .............  33®
Haemat-ox, 15 fl>  dox..  11®
I s ..............  13®
VsS  ..........  14®
¿ 8   . . . . . .   16®
FERRUM.

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A nisum , (po.2C).........  @  15
A pium   (graveleons).  10®  12
4®  6
Bird, I s ......................... 
Carui,  (po. 18)............   12®  15
C ardam om .................. 1  00@1 25
C oriandram ................  10®  12
Cannabis  S ativa.......d)4@  4)4
C ydonium ...................   75@1 00
C hen o p o d iu m ...........  10®  12
D ip ten x   O dorate___1  75@1 85
F oeniculum ................  @  15
Foenugreek, p o .........  6®   8
L ini..................................3)4®  4
Lini, grd, (bbl,  3)4)...  3)4®  4
Lobelia.........................   35®  40
P halaris  C anarian...
5®  6
R a p a ............................  
Sinapis,  A lbu............   8®   9
N ig ra..........   11®  12
SPIRITU S.
F rum enti, W., D. Co..2 00@2  50
Frum enti, D. F .R ___ 1  75®2 00
F ru m e n ti.....................1  10@1 50
Ju n ip eris Co.  O. T ...1   75®l  75
Jun ip eris  Co................1 75@3 50
Saacnarum   N. E .........1 75@2 09
Spt. V ini  G alli.............1 75® 6 50
Vini O porto..................1 35®2 00
V ini  A lba................  1 25@2  00

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SYRUPS.

SPONGES
Florida  sheens’wool
carriag e..................... 2 25@2 50
N assau  sheeps’wooi
2 00
carriag e.................... 
V elvet E x tra  sheeps’
1  10
wool  carriag e......... 
E x tra Yellow sheeps’
c arria g e .... 
Grass  sheeps’  wooi
carriag e.................... 
H ard fo r slate  u se ... 
Yellow Reef, fo r slate
u se .............................  
Accacia........................  
ing ib er............ .......... 
Ip ecac........................... 
F erri Io d ......................  
A uranti C ortes........... 
R b eiA ro m .................. 
Smilax Officinalis.... 
Co.. 
Senega..........................  
Scillae........................... 
*  Co......................  
T o lu tan ......................... 
P ru n u s virg................ 
TINCTURES. 
Aconitum  Napellis R 
F  
A loes............................  
and m y rrh .......  
A rn ic a ......................... 
A safcetida................... 
A trope belladonna... 
Benzoin........................ 
Co................... 
S an g u in aria...............  
B arosm a......................  
C antharides.............. 
Capsicum .....................  
C ardam on...................  
Co...............  
C asto r..........................  
C atechu.......................  
C inchona...................... 
Co.................. 
C olum ba.....................  
Conium ........................  
C ubeba......................... 
D igitalis....................... 
E rg o t............................  
G entian........................ 
co .................... 
G u a ica ......................... 
am m on........... 
Zingiber.......................  
H yoscyam us.............. 
Iodine........................... 
*  Colorless......... 
F erri Chi  rid u m ........  
K ino.............................. 
L ob elia......................... 
M y rrh ........................... 
N ux V o m ic a .............. 
O p i................................ 
C am phorated... 
D eodor.............. 
A uranti  C ortex......... 
Q uassia........................ 
R h atan y ......................  
R h ei.............................. 
Cassia  A cutifol......... 
C o... 
S erp en taria............ . 
S tram o n iu m .............. 
T olutan........................  
V alerian....................... 
V eratrum  V eride__  

65
75
40
50
50
60
50
50
50
60
50
50
50
50
50
50
60
50
60
60
50
50
60
60
50
50
50
75
50
75
75
1  00
50
50
60
50
50
50
50
50
50
60
50
60
50
50
75
75
35
50
50
50
50
85
50
2  00
50
50
50
50
Og
60
50
60
00
50
50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

.E ther, Spts N it, 3 F..  26®  28 
E ither, Spts N it, 1 F..  30®  32
A lu m en .........................2)4®  3)4
Alum en,  ground,  (p-
3®  4
7)............................ 
A nnatto  .....................   55®  60
A ntim oni,  po ............  
4® 
5
Antim oni e t Potass T  55®  60
A n tip y rin ...................1  35@1  40
A rgenti  N itras,  5__   @  68
A rsenicum .................. 
7
Balm  Gilead  B ud__   38®  40
B ism uth 8.  N ........... 2  15@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, ()4s
9
C antharides Russian, 
  @175

11;  >48,  12)................  @ 
p o .......................... 

5® 

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FOLIA.

FLORA.

25®
25®

bleached

@
@
25®
@
50®
27®
35®

■Carbonate P recip ....  @ 1 5
■Citrate and Q uinia...  ®3 60
■Citrate Soluble...........  @  80
Ferrocyanidum  Sol..  @
" golut  Chloride...........  @
Sulphate,  eom’l .........  1)4©
p u re ...........  @
A rn ica..........................  12®
LA nthem is...................   45®
[M atricaria.,................  30®
I  
¡B aro sm a................;  .  10®
Cassia  A cutifol,  Tin-
u iv elly .......................  25®
->• 
A Lx.  35®
Salvia  officinalis,  J4s
and  V4b....................    10®
|D ra   U rsi..................... 
8®
GUMMl.
@1  00 
Acacia,  1st  picked..
@  90 
2nd 
@  SO 
..
3rd 
@  65 
Sifted  sorts
75@l  00 
50®  60 
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60).. 
12
“  C ape,(po.20)... 
50
“  Socotrf, (po. 60) 
Catechu,  Is,  04s,  14
Ms,  16).......................
Amtnoniae  ................
Assafoetida,  (po. 30).
B en zo in u m ................
C am p b o rae................
Euphorbium ,  p o .......
GafbaHum ...................
i Gamboge, p o — .......
G uaiacum , (po. 45)...
Kino,  (po. 25)..............
M astic..........................
i M yrrh, (po.45)..
O pn, ipo. 4  30.1............ 2  85@2  90
S h ellac.
•T ragacanth................  30®  75
s e r b a —I n ounce packages. _
A b sin th iu m ................ 
25
E u p a to riu m ..............  
20
Lobelia  .......................
*8
M ajorant  .................... 
M entha P ip e rita ....... 
23
V ir ................ 
25
80
(H u e ..............  
iT an aeetu m ,  V ........... 
23
[¡Thymus. V ..... ............ 
25
MAGNESIA.
aicined,  P a t............   55®  60
Carbonate,  P a t.........  20®  22
/C a rb o n a te,  K. & M..  20®  25 
¡¿Carbonate,  Jennings  35®  36
A bsinthium .................5 00@5 50
A m ygdalae,  D ulc—   45®  75 
A m ydalae, A m arne.. 7 2o(^T 10
A n isi............................. 1  85@l 95
A u ran ti  C ortex......... 
®2  50
B ergam i!......................2  75® 3 25
■Cajiputi  .....................  90@1 00
C ary o p h y ili................  ®2 00
C e d a r............................  35®  65
■Chenopodii................  @1  75
: C in n a m o n ii................  85®  90
‘  Citronella  ............
...  35®  65 
■Conium  M ac.........
...  90®  1 00 
■Copaiba..................
. 15  50@16  00 
Cubebae  ................
...  90@1 00 
E xechthitos...........
...1  20@1 30 
E rig e ro n ................
.. .2 25@2  35 
■Gaultheria............
[G eranium , 5...........
@ 7 5  
...  55®  75 
Gossipii, Sem, gal.
.1 15@1 25 
H edeom a................
...  50@2 00 
^ J u n ip e ri.................
90@2 00 
L avendula.. „_...
... 1  75@2 25 
.L im onis..................
...2   25@3  33 
M entha P ip e r.......
...3   00@3  25 
[.Mentha V erid.......
...  80®1 00 
IM orrhuae,  g a l__
@ 5 0  
JMyrcia,  ?................
. .I  00@2
O live.......................
' Picis Liquida,(gal.36)  10®  12
i R ic in i................................ 1 04@1 10
l R o sm arin i..................  75®1  00
Rosae,  5 
................  @6 00
I Succini  ....................... 
40®45
[S abina..........................   90® 1  00
S an tal................................3 50@7 00
»Sassafras.....................   35®  75
LSinapis, ess, 5............   @  65
¡T ig lii............................  @1  50
rh y m e .........................  40®  50
o p t...................   @  60
Dheobromas................  15®  20

OLEUM.

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POTASSIUM.

Bi C arb........................   15®  18
B ichrom ate................  13®  15
B ro m id e.....................   32®  40
C arb..............................  12®  15
Chlorate, (Po. 30)...  .  18®  20
Cyanide.......................   50®  55
Io d id e ................................2  85@3 00
■Potassa, B itart, p u re  37®  39 
P o ta ssa ,  B itart, com  @  15

6Ü&10, less.

Capsici  F ructus, a f.. 
Capsici F ructus, po.. 
Capsici F ructus, B po 
©   14 
Caryophyllus, (po. 25)
20®   22 
Carmine. No. 4Q.........
@3  75 
C tra Alba, S. &  F __
50®  55 
Cera F la v a ..................
28®
30 
Coccus  .........................
40 
Cassia F ru ctu s...........
15 
®
C e n tra ria ....................
10 
C etaceum ....................
40 
C hloroform ................
50®  55 
Chloroform,  Squibbs
@1 00
Chloral H yd C rst.......1 50@1  75
10® 12
Chondrus’...................
Cinchonidine, P. & W 15® 20
5® Ï2
Cinchonidine, G er’an
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
c e n t ..........................
40
C reaso tu m ..................
© 50
® 2
Creta, (bbl. 75)............
5® 6
C reta  p re p ..................
8® 10
Creta, p recip..............
© 8
C reta Rubra’................
18® 20
Crocus  .........................
C udbear.......................
© 24
6® 7
Cupri S ulph................
10® 12
D ex trin e.....................
E th er Suiph................ 68® 70
@ 8
Em ery, all  num bers.
@ 6
Em ery, p o ...................
Ergota, (po.) 75...........
70® 75
12® 15
Flake  W hite..............
G a lla ............................
@ 23
7® 8
G a m b ie r.....................
G elatin, Coopor.........
© 90
G elatin, F ren ch .........
40® 60
G lassw are  flint, 70&10  by box.
Glue,  B row n..............
9® 15
Glue, W hite................
13® 25
G ly cerin s...................
23® 26
G rana  P aradisi.........
@ 15
H u m u lu s ...................
25® 40
H ydrarg Chlor. M ite. 
®  SO 
H ydrarg  Chlor.  Cor. 
@  70 
H ydrarg Ox. R ubrum  
@  90 
H ydrarg A m m oniati. 
@1  10 
H ydrarg U nguentum  
45®  55 
H ydrargyrum
65
Iehthyocolla, Am  ...1   25@1  50
Indigo...........................  75@1  00
Iodine,  R esubl..........4 00@4  10
,@5  15
Io d o fo rm ...................  
Lupuline  ...................   8S@l  00
L ycopodium ..............   55®  60
M acis............................   80®  85
Liquor  A rsen  e t H y­
drarg  Io d ..................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arsini-
tis...............................
10®
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl
1)4)..............................
2®  3
M annia. S, F ................ 
...........
90@l 00
Morphia,  S, P. & W  2 25@2  50 
Morphia.  S.  N.  Y. Q.
&C.  Co.....................2  15@2  40
M oschus C a n to n __   @  40
M yristica, No. 1.........  60®  70
N ux  Vomica,  (po. 20)  @  18
Os.  Sepia..................  .  27®  29
Pepsin  Saac,  H. & P.
D. Co..........................  @2 00
Picis Liq, N. C.. )4 gal
doz..............................  @2 70
Picis Liq.,  q u a rts __   @140
Picis Liq., p in ts.........  @  85
Pil H ydrarg,  (po. 80).  @ 5 0
P ip er  N igra,  (po. 22).  @  18
P ip er  Alba, (po. 35)..  @  35
®  7
P ix   B u rgun................ 
Plum bi  A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac e t opii.l  10® i  20 
P yrethrum , boxes, H
& P.D .C0., doz.........  @125
P yrethrum , p v ...........  60®  65
lo
Q uassiae.....................  
Quinia, S, P. &  W __   50®  55
Quinia, S, G erm an...  38®  48
R ubia T inctorum __   12®  13
Saccharum  Lactis p v   @  35
S alacin..
....... 3 40@3  50
Sanguis D raconis__   40®  50
Santonine.......................   @4 50
Sapo,  W .......................  12®  14
Sapo,  M....................... 
8®  10
Sapo, G .............................  @ 15
Seidlitz  M ixture.......  @  28
S inapis.............................  @ 18
Sinapis,  o p t....................  @ 30
Snuff, Maccaboy, Do.
^ oes.............................  @ 35
Snuff,  Scotch,  Do.
V oes..............................   @ 35
Soda Boras, (po  11).. 10  @  11 
Soda et Potoss T a rt..  33®  35
Soda C arh...................  
2®  2)4
4®  5
Soda,  Bi-Carb............  
Soda,  A sh .,................ 
3®  4
Soda  Sulphas............   @ 
2
Spts. E th er Co...........  50®  55
Spts.  M vreia D om ... 
Spts, M yrcia  Im p __   @2 50
Spts  Vini  R ect.  bbl.

@2 00

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3.27)........................  
Less 5c. gal.  cash  ten  days. 
Strychnia  C rystal...  @1  10
Sulphur, Subl  ..........   2&@  3)4
Sulphur,  R oll............ 2)4®  3
T am arinds.................. 
8®  10
Terebenth  Venice  ..  28®  30
T heobrom ae..............   50®  55
V a n illa ..................... 9 00@16 00
Zlnci  S ulph................ 
8

7® 

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Gal

OILS.

W hale, w in ter............
L a r d , e x t r a .....................
L a r d , N o .  1.....................
L in s e e d , p u r e   r a w   ..
L in s e e d , b o i l e d ..........
N e a t’s  F o o t,  w in te r
s tr a in e d ........................
Spi, As T urpentine „ .

Lb
PAINTS  Bbl 
2@3
Red V enetian............ 1J£ 
2@3 
Ochre, yellow  Mars  .IX 
2@3 
Ochre, yellow  B e r.. .ptf 
P utty, com m ercial...2)4  2)4@3 
P u tty , strictly p u re..2)4  23i@3 
V erm ilion prim e Am ­
erican ....................... 
13@16
V erm ilion,  E nglish.. 
70@75 
16@17
Green, P en in su lar... 
L e a d ,  r e d ............................6)K@7
w h i t e .........................6%@7
@70
W hiting,  w hite  Span 
W hiting,  Gilders’__  
@90
110 
W hite,  P aris  A m er’n 
W hiting,  P aris  Eng.
1  49
cliff........................... 
Pioneer  P repared
I  aints  .....................1 20@1 40
Swiss Villa  P repared 
P a in ts ......................1 00@1 20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 T urp  Coach__ 1 10@1 20
E x tra  T u rp ................1 60@1  70
Coach B ody................2 75@3  00
No. 1 Turp F u rn ........1 00@1  10
E xtraS)urk D a m a r..1  65@1  60
70®  75

p i
lI P J

M anufacturers ot th e  Ce ebrated

ACME  PREPARED  PAINTS,

W hich  fo r  D urability,  E lasticity,  B eauty 

and Econom y are A bsolutely U nsurpassed.

S ’.  J ,   W U R Z B U R G ,

WHOLESALE  AGENT,

Grand  Rapids, 

-  Mich.

Pioneer Prepared  Paints

The ONLY Faint sold on a GUARANTEE.
W hen  tw o  or  m ore  coats  of o u r PIONEER 
PREPARED  PA IN T is applied  as  received in 
original  packages,  and  if  in  th ree  years  it 
should crack or peel off,  th u s  failing  to   give 
satisfaction, we agree to re-paint th e  building 
a t o u r expense,  w ith th e  best  W hite  Lead  or 
such o th er p ain t as the ow ner m ay  select.  In 
case of com plaint, prom pt notice  m ust be giv­
en  to th e dealer.
Write  for Sample  Cards  and Prices.  We 

have Supplied our Trade with this

3 ? .  I P .  I P .

Brand  for more than eight  years  and  it 
is all the manufacturers claim  for it.
W e sell it on a  GUARANTEE.
Hazeltine & Perkins D rug Co.

GENERAL  AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MIOH.

is g o y p
R e m e d y .

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25c size..............................................per doz, $2.00
I 50c  “  ............................................... 
3.50
P e c k h a m ’s C ro u p  R em ed y   is  prepared es­
pecially fo r children and is  a safe  and certain 
cure fo r Croups, W hooping Cough,  Colds  and 
all  bronchial  and  pulm onary  com plaints  of 
childhood.  For attractiv e  advertising m atter 
address the proprietor. D r. H . C. P E C K H A M , 
F re e p o rt,  M ich.  T rade  supplied  by  whole­
sale druggists of  G rand  Rapids,  D etroit  and 
Chicago.

Salicylic Acid in Beer.

From  th e Am erican  Analyst.

The  Paris Court of  Appeals has  just de­
clared  that the  addition of  salicylic acid to 
beer  constitutes an adulteration.  The  fol­
lowing is the decision of M. Muller, the pre­
siding judge:  “Although the addition of  a 
foreign  substance to an article of  food may 
not always be considered as an adulteration, 
the case is different when by  the admixture 
the  seller deliberately alters  the  quality of 
the  substance, to the  prejudice of  the pur­
chaser. 
I  consider  that  the  addition  of 
salicylic  acid to beer  constitutes a true  al­
teration of  the  product,  and  hat  the  ad­
mixture modifies the nature of 1 he substance 
offered to the  public, and  introduces a  new 
element which does  not enter into  the ordi­
nary manufacture of  beer, but  gives to it  a 
different  character. 
I  cannot  allow  that 
the  addition is harmless, and  does  not  act 
to  the  prejudice  of  the purchaser,  as  pro­
vided in the penal  law. 
I consider that  it 
is certainly to the prejudice of the purchaser, 
as beers of good quality need no addition of 
salicylic  acid to prevent  fermentation,  and 
that  this addition is really  for the  purpose 
of giving to the beer an apparent superiority 
which  it  does not  possess.  The danger to 
the public health from salieylated beers has 
been  actually proved  by science.  Salicylic 
acid is really a medicine,  sometimes useful, 
often dangerous, the administration of which 
should  be made  under  the direction of  an 
experienced  person,  and which  the govern­
ment  cannot relegate  to  merchants  acting 
only  for the  interest of  their  business, as 
the  purchaser  may thus  receive  injury  to 
his  health by the  employment of  this pre­
tended  preservative  agent,  which,  when 
taken  in doses  more  or less  frequently re 
peated,  may act  greatly  to  his  prejudice. 
Considering,  then, 
that  the  falsifications 
resulting from  this fraudulent mixture tend 
to change the  nature of  the substance sold, 
to the  prejudice of  the purchaser,  it  is  de­
cided that  the  lower  court,has  made a cor­
rect interpretation of the law.”

W ant  to  Be  Doctors,  Too.

A Springfield,  111.,  dispatch,  under  date 

of  Aug.  30,  is as follows:

An important movement is on foot among 
the Illinois  druggists  which is expected  to 
materialize  some  time  within  the next six 
months.  The  managers  of  the  Chicago 
College of  Pharmacy propose  to  place  the 
institution  in  the  hands  of  the  Illinois 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  the  offer 
will probably be accepted.  The property is 
worth  at  least  $20,000.  The project con­
templates adding  to  the  curriculum of  the 
college a chair of  therapeutics  and  one  of 
physiology. 
It is proposed  that the degree 
of  Doctor of  Pharmacy  shall  be  conferred 
upon  graduates  of  the  institution.  With 
these  preliminaries  and  other  important 
steps  perfected,  the  Pharmaceutical  Asso­
ciation  will  ask  the  next  Legislature  to 
enact a law  defining  the  limits  of  a drug­
gist’s right to prescribe for simple ailments, 
the object being  to  authorize  graduates of 
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the  institution  so  recognized to do what is 
now known as a  “store practice.”

How to Cleanse Chamois.

Make a weak  solution  of soda and warm 
water; 
rub  plenty  of  soft  soap into the 
leather,  and allow it to  remain in  soak foi 
two hours;  then rub it well until quite clean. 
Afterward rinse it well in a  weak  solution 
composed of warm water,  soda  and  yellow 
soap. 
It must not be  rinsed in water final­
ly,  for then it would be so  hard  when  dry 
as to be unfit for use. 
It is the small quan­
tity of soap left in the  leather  that  allows 
the finer particles of the  leather to separate 
and become soft  like  silk.  After  rinsing, 
wring  well 
in  a  rough  towel,  and  dry 
quickly;  then pull  it  about  and  brush 
it 
well, and it will become  softer  and  better 
than most new leather. 
In using  a  rough 
leather to touch up too highly  polished sur­
faces, it is frequently  observed  to  scratch 
the work.  This is  caused  by  particles of 
dust,  and even hard  rouge,  that are  left in 
the  leather;  and, 
if  removed  by  a clean 
brush  containing  rouge, 
it  will  give the 
brightest and best finish.

Errors  of  Inexperience.

“Did  you  save  anything  out  of  the 
wreck ?”  asked the friend.
“Nothing to speak of,”  replied  the  hon­
est bankrupt, gloomily.  “I lost  heavily by 
my own folly.”
“How so ?”
“Why,  I  settled  like  a  fool  for  forty 
cents,  and  learned  the  next  day that  the 
creditors would  have  been only too glad to 
have  got  thirty. 
I  might  just  as well as 
not have made it twenty.”

They  Were  In  Style.

The country storekeeper carefully  exam­
ined the samples of cloth  while  the  drum­
mer patiently  waited.  A  customer  came, 
the storekeeper waited  on  him,  then went 
back to examine  the  samples,  to  pull out 
and untwist the threads.  Another  custom­
er,  and more examination; still another cus­
tomer, and as the storekeeper  began  again 
he said:

“Are these samples in style?”
“They  were,”  replied  the  discouraged 
drummer,  “ when you began to look at them, 
but that was so long ago that I can’t answer 
for them  now.”

Proverbs  in  Several  Tongues.

The liar is sooner caught than the cripple, 

—Spanish Proverb.

When the head is sick the whole  body  is 

sick.—Dutch Proverb.

A man’s own business does not defile  his 

fingers.—Italian Proverb.

One hair of a women draws more  than  a 

cart rope.—German  Proverb.

The envious man’s face grows  sharp  and 

his eyes big.—Spanish Proverb.

Change yourself and  fortune will  change 

with you.—Portuguese  Proverb.

A  Railroad  to  Hudson’s  Bay.

The old  project  of  building  a  railroad 
from Winnipeg to  Hudson’s  Bay  is  being 
discussed  again.  An  American  syndicate 
has offered to build,  equip and  operate such 
a railway providing the  Manitoban  govern­
ment will guarantee interest  on  $4,500,000 
for  twenty-five  years  at  4  per  cent. 
If 
built, the road would  connect  at  Hudson’s 
Bay with  vessels  for  Europe.  This,  it is 
claimed,  would be  possible  during  several 
months of the year.  Doubt exists as to the 
ability or willingness  of  Manitobans to af­
ford the expense.

A  Substitute  for  Bagging.

The high price  demanded  for  jute  bag­
ging is inducing  the  utilization  of  substi­
tutes.  Cotton cloth has been  proposed and 
used  to  some  extent.  A  planter  in  the 
neighborhood of Columbia, S.  C.,  is report­
ed to have obviated the  necessity  of  using 
bagging by packing bales in  thin  sheets of 
wood cut by machinery from timber  grown 
in the vicinity.  By this,  risk  of  fire is ob­
viated to a  great  extent.  The  wood  bag­
ging can be sold at a profit at 5c. a yard.

The Drug Market.

Quinine,  German,  has  advanced  and  is 
very  firm.  Opium  is  also a  little  higher 
Morphia is unchanged.  Oxalic acid has ad­
vanced.  Cloves are higher.  Castor oil has 
declined.  Kennedy’s  Discovery  and  Dis­
solvent  have  each  been  reduced  to  $12; 
Kennedy’s 50 cent preparations advanced to 
4,  and his $1 medicines to $8.

A  New Adulteration.

The latest trick of the unprincipled  guild 
of  sophisticates  which  infest  Europe  as 
well  as America  is  the adulteration of  pe­
troleum illuminating oil with fusel oil refuse 
from  rectifying houses and  distilleries.  A | 
arge quantity of  this dangerous and nause­
ous  smelling  oil  is now  in the  market  in 
Germany.

VISITING  BUYERS.

I

Muskegon 

The following retail  dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
M orley Bros, Cedar Springs
L Cook, B auer 
w  Vermeulen. Beaver Dam  Geo H W albrink, Allendale  I 
C arrington & N orth, T rent  !
E N Thayer,  Lyons 
W alling Bros. Lam ont 
L M W olf, Hudson vine
J E  Thurkow, Mo  ley 
H  Eberlink,  Kalamazoo 
J  C Benbow,  Cannonsbnrg H B Hawley, W estwood 
Geo P  Stark, Cascade 
Blood & Thom as, McCord 
G S P utnam . F ru itp o rt 
C harles McCarty. Lowell 
L A Pelton, L ath er 
L Bum s,  Ada 
C H Dealing, Dutton 
P P Leonard, Agt.,
A M Church, Alpine 
R T P arrish. G randville 
C L Graves, Conklin 
Jas Raym ond, Berlin 
W est Mich. Lum ber  Co,
Silas Loew, Burnip’s  C rar 
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O B Granger.  Plalnwell
J  L Purchase, Bauer
A JP ro v in .  Cedar  Springs Jas S T o la n d .____
W ill Otto, Middleville 
A Purchase, S Blendon 
C C Tuxbury. Sullivan 
P  E Peterson. LeRoy 
E N P arker.  Coopersville  Swanson & Gustofson 
H C C arpenter & Son 
John D am stra, G itehell 
John Kamps, Zutphen 
H VanXoord,  Jam estow n  O H ightow er, F erry 
Wm Barker, Sand Lake  W isler & Co., M ancelona 
Jo h n  Kruisenga, Holland
F E Cainpau, A laska 
D W Sbattuck, W ayland  Mrs D D orman,  Cedar Spgs 
DenHe  der & Tanis, 
A M Church, Englishville
C S Jndson, C annonsburg 
L Maier, Fisher Station 
G F Cook, Grove 
J  Armoek,  W right 
C K Hoyt & Co, 
J  P Cordes, Alpine 
John Horn rich, No D orr 
Chas Mack. New Salem 
G  w M orris,  Evans 
Mr Blake, Jennisonville 
G B Cham bers, W ayland  R G Sm ith, W ayland

Cedar Springs  I
SMcNitt & Co, Byron C entr 
J  E Hills, G rant Station
W m K arsten, Beaver  Dam
.  H erder & Lahuis,  Zeeland
HudsonvUle G Ten Hoor,  F orest  Grove 
S J   M artin. Sullivan
L & L Jenison. Jenisonville
E J  H errington, Hoiland 
A lbert Retan. St Johns
Ja y  M arlatt. Berlin

LeRoy
Sunfleld M B Plncomb, Big Rapids 
J  N  Deegan,  Cannonsburg 
Alex Denton,  H ow ard City  .

V riesland Spooner  & Moore,

W ood villa

78 Congress St., W est,

D etroit, Mich., April 9,1888. 

Specialty Dept. P h. Best Brew ing Co.,

G e n t l e m e n —I   duly  received  th e  case  of 
your “ B est” .Tonic and have since had a  g reat 
m any in th is institution.  I m ust say th a t  th e 
beneficial  effects  on  weak  and  debilitated 
patien ts  have  been  m ost  satisfactory, espec­
ially to  those in a  stage  o f  recovery  a fte r  se­
vere sickness.
I  w rite this  th inking you  m ight like to  have 
m y  opinion  on  its  m erits.  I   certainly  shall 
prescribe  it  in  fu tu re,  w here  th e  system   re­
quires building up. eith er from   constitutional 
w eakness or otherw ise.

Yoars truly,

Wm. Gray, M. D. 
Medical Sup’t.

It n r 'K M  AN, P res.,
-V.  WATSON. Treas..

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

S. F. ASPINWALL, Secy. 

Midville, Geo., Feb. 24,1888. 

Specialty D epart. P h. Best B rewing Co.," 

G e n t l e m e n —I  th in k  th e “Tonic” a splendid 
m edicine fo r all form s  of D yspepsia and Indi­
gestion.  I t is giving me g re a t satisfactiou. 
J. M. J o h n s o n , M. D.

V ery respectfully,

Yardley, Pa., M arch 18,1888. 

Ph. Best Brewing Co.,

D e a r  Si r s —I  have given  yo u r “ M alt Tonic” 
a trial in several cases of Enfeebled Digestion 
and G eneral  Debility,  especially in  th e  aged, 
w here  th e  wfiole  system   seems  com pletely
Erostrated, w ith  very satisfactory  results.  I 
ave  used  m any  of  th e  so-called  “M alt  E x­
tracts,”  b u t  believe  your  preparation  to   be 
superior.  In   th e  aged  w here  the  digestive 
functions are exhausted, and there is a loss of 
th e nerve vital  force, I  found its action  to  be 
rapid and perm anent.

E l ia s   W il d m a n , M . D .

W ork-House Hospital, 

Blackwell’s Island, Feb. 10,1888. 

Ph. Best Brewing Co.,

G e n t l e m e n —As a   m a tte r of  personal inter- 
est, I have used  your  “ B est” Tonic in several 
cases o f im paired  nutrititio n .  The results in­
dicate th a t it  is  an  agreeable  and  doubtless, 
highly efficacious rem edy.  1 am,
V ery tru ly  yours,

BtesMB 

E. W.  Fleming,  M. D.

Troy, New Y ork, Jan u a ry  26,1888. 

Specialty D epart. Ph. Best Brewing Co„

Dear Sirs—Y our agent  le ft me a  sam ple of 
your liquid ex tract. Malt, and  as  I   use  m uch 
such  in  m y  practice, I   th o u g h t  to   com pare 
your product w ith  some  from  another  house 
I had on hand; and finding  yours  superior  in  
the  g reat  essential,  the  pdlitable  n utriant  as 
well as in tonic stim ulant properties, felt anx­
ious to  know about w hat  it  can  be furnished 
th e dispensing physician.

Y ours truly,

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

E ast Genessee Street,

Buffalo, N. Y„ Feb. 17,1888. 

Specialty D epart. Ph. Best B rewing Co., 

G e n t l e m e n —I   have  used  th e  “B est” Tonle 
w ith  m ost  gratify in g   results in  m y  case  o f 
dyspepsia.  My case was  a  bad  one, 1  had no 
appetite; headache in the m orning; sour stom­
ach;  looking  as  though  I  had  consum ption, 
and afte r taking this tonic  I   n ev er fe lt b e tte r 
in  my life.  I  think  it  will  cure a bad case of 
dyspepsia.  You  m ay recom m end  it  fo r  th a t 
case. 

W m .  O . J a e g e r .

322 South F ifth Street, 
Philadelphia, Feb. 4,1888. 

Ph. B est Brewing Co., 28  College Place, N. Y., 

G e n t l e m e n —I   have  tested  th e  sam ple  o f 
“C oncentrated  Liquid  E x tract  of  M alt  and 
Hops” you  sen t  me,  and  find  in  m y hum ble 
judgm ent  th a t it is a  very  p u re and safe a rti­
cle.  I   will  not  hesitate  to  recom m end  it  in  
every case of  debility  w here  a  Tonic of  th a t 
kind  is indicated.

R espectfully.

E . H. B e l l , M. D.

New Orleans, La., A pril 6,1888. 

Specialty D epart. Ph. Brewing Co.,

G e n t l e m e n —H aving 

tried  y our  “B est” 
Tonic to a g reat  ex ten t  am ongst m y practice, 
I  will state in  its  behalf th a t  I   have  had  th a  
best results w ith  nursing  m others  who  w ere 
deficient in  m ilk,  increasing  its  fluids and se­
creting a  m ore nourishing food fo r th e  in fan t, 
also increasing th e appetite  and in  every w ay 
satisfactory fo r such cases.

V ery respectfully,

D.  B o r n io , M  D.

Should  send SI to 
, E.  A.  Stowe  St  Tiro.
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REDUCTION  IN  FRUIT JHR8,

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BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief  Digests  of  Recent  Decisions  in 

Courts  of Last  Resort.

V ERBA L.  C H A T T E L   M ORTGA GE  V A IA » .
Where  a guest  at a hotel  being  indebted 
to  the hotel  keeper  for board  agreed with 
the  latter that  his goods  and effects in  his 
room should  not be removed  therefrom  but 
should  be  security  for  his  board, the  Su­
preme  Court  of  Kansas  held  (Weil  vs. 
Ryuf;) that the agreement constituted a val­
id verbal mortgage.

S A L E   OF  GOODS— IL L E G A L   SC A LES.

In the  case of  Bisbee  et al.  vs. McAllen 
the Supreme Court of  Minnesota held  that 
the provision  for a penalty in  a section  of j 
the  General  Statutes of  the state, for  sell­
ing  or  disposing of  goods,  wares  or  mer-1 
chandise  by unsealed  or unproved scales or 
measures  implied  a  prohibition,  and  that 
such  scales  being  in  violation of  law^ no 
recovery could  be had  for the price  against 
the purchaser.

B A N K — D E PO SIT   OF  NO TE— R E C E IV E R .
The  Farmers  and  Mechanics’  Bank  of 
Fairmount,  Md., deposited a note  for $10,- 
000  in  the  Fidelity  National  Bank,  was 
given  credit  for  that  amount,  and  drew 
against it to  the sum of  $1,000  before  the 
latter  bank passed  into the  hands of  a re­
ceiver.  Judge  Sage, of  the  United  States 
Circuit  Court  at Cincinnati,  has  just  ren­
dered a  decision to  the effect  that  the  first 
mentioned bank could not now take its note 
from 
the  sum 
checked  out, but  must  pay  the  note  and 
take  its place  among  the creditors  and get 
whatever dividend may be declared.

the  receiver  by  paying 

IN S U R A N C E — BISK S— A G E N T — NO TICE.
The general  agent of  two insurance com­
panies  notified  a  subordinate clerk  in the 
office of  a local  agent of  the companies  in 
Minneapolis  not  to take  any risks  for  the 
companies in or upon certain business build­
ing-. located  in a certain block  in  that city. 
The  clerk did  not notify his employer  per­
sonally, but in the  usual course of  business 
entered  the direction  in  the “block  book” 
of  the  latter, which contained  a record  of 
the  lots and  blocks of  the city and  build­
ings  located  thereon,  and  upon  which en­
tries  and  memoranda  affecting  insurance 
risks and  renewals were made. 
In making 
the  entry, however,  he  omitted a  reference 
to the  buildings,  simply  making  an  entry 
generally  notifying  the  agent  to  take  no 
new  risks in the  block  in question.  The 
loca! agent’s  managing agent, owing to  the 
general nature of  the  notice, disregarded it 
and took a risk for the insurance companies 
on the buildings referred to.  The Supreme 
Court of  Minnesota held, in the case of  the 
Hanover  Fire Insurance Company et al. vs. 
Ames, that  the  notice as  actually  entered 
was  sufficient  to  put the  agent on  inquiry 
and was binding on him.

T E L E G R A P H   COM PANY  S  L IA B IL IT Y .
The  local agent of  a telegraph company, 
who  was  also  the  agent  of  an  express 
company at  the same  place, sent  a  forged 
dispatch to a merchant in a neighboring city 
requesting  him  to  forward  money  to  his 
correspondent  at the  former  place  to  be 
used  in  buying  grain.  The telegram  was 
received  in due  course and the  money was 
forwarded  in good  faith in response  to the 
telegram.  The  agent  who  had  sent  the 
forged  dispatch,  however,  intercepted  the 
money sent and converted it to his own use. 
In  an action  against the express  company 
the  Supreme Court of  Minnesota held that 
the transmission of the forged dispatch was 
the proximate cause of the loss and that the 
telegraph company was liable therefor.

BONDS— P L E D G E — R ECO V ERY .

The owner of  bonds issued  by a corpora­
tion allowed  them to remain in the  custody 
of  a  broker,  who  about  three  years  after 
receiving the  bonds deposited  bonds of  the 
same  corporation  with a bank as  collateral 
security  for  a  loan for  himself.  The  Su­
preme  Court  of  Pennsylvania  held, 
in 
Klein’s  Appeal,  reported  in  the  Central 
Reporter, that  the owner of  the bonds  left 
with  the  broker  was  not  entitled  to  the 
bonds  deposited  by  the  broker  with  the 
bank in  the  absence of  proof  as  to  their 
identity,  and that even if identified he could 
not  recover  them from  the  bank  without 
paying the bank  the amount loaned thereon 
where  they were  received  by the  bank  as 
security for a  contemporaneous  and not  an 
antecedent debt, and without notice of  any 
defect in the broker’s title thereto.
How  To  Grind  Coffee.

It may not be  generally  known  that  the 
degree of fineness  or  coarseness  to  which 
coffee is ground  will  materially  affect  the 
character of the liquid,  but if anyone doubts 
the truth of it he can easily  test it for him­
self.  Let him make  coffee  by  the  boiling 
process and use pulverized coffee, or by per­
colation  (with  a  French  pot)  and  use it 
coarsely  ground,  and  see  if it does not in 
the former  instance  produce  a  muddy  de­
coction  which  it  is  almost  impossible  to 
clear, and in the latter a  weak,  flat  liquid 
not deserving the name of beverage.
Coffee makers  should  distinctly  bear  in 
mind the difference between  the  two meth­
ods of making coffee and  grind  their coffee 
accordingly, or order it  from  their  grocer, 
either  ground  “coarse”  or  “pulverized.” 
They should not depend  upon  the  grocery 
clerk to remember their  usual  method, but 
should order it distinctly every time.  Many 
conscientious dealers have  been blamed for 
famishing  unsatisfactory  coffee  when the 
real fault lay in the failure of the purchaser 
to understand the above difference.
But it would be better for  the coffee to be 
freshly ground as wanted, and  this  can  be 
easily done, as family  coffee  mills are now 
made which pulverize  the  coffee  perfectly 
and easily.

A  Business  Man’s  Mascot.

From the Boston Gazette.
We  saw a wealthy  merchant  on  Friday 
who wore the coat in which he was married 
twenty-five years ago. 
In reply to a ques­
tion  as  to  the  reason  why he appeared in 
that  particular  garment,  he said it was his 
\ mascot;  that  whenever he  entered  upon a 
new  speculation,  or  made  a  new  invest­
ment.  or took any important step in domes­
tic or business  life,  he  had always  donned 
that coat, and  that  its  charm  of  luck  had 
never  yet deserted  him.

Owing to the withdrawal of one mill  and 
the refusal of  another  to  join,  the  cotton 
“combine” has resolved for  the  present  to 
leave prices open for all  the  mills  to  deal 
with as they think best.

Buy flour manufactured by  the  Crescent 
Boiler Mills.  Every sack warranted.  Voigt 
Id lin g  Co.

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LEONARDI SONS

Grand  Rapids,  Mich..

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Wholesale  Grocers,

21 & 23  SOUTH  IONIA  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS

J.  S.  FARREN  &  CO.,

Celebrated  Baltimore

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We are  Agents for the  above  well-known goods and  Glaim 

THE  BEST "STOCK 
BEST F IL LED CANS 
PR OMPT ATTENTION 
AND  AM PLE  SUPPLY.

ASK  FOI^  PRICES  AT  ANY  TIME.

PUTNAM  &  BROOKS,

JOBBERS OF

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WOOLSON  SPICE  CO.

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M ERCHANTS !

Increase  Your  SALES  AND  PROFITS  BY  HANDLING

HiIOIsT  COFFEE.

IT  GIVES  ABSOLUTE  SATISFACTION

To  Consumera, and is, Oonsectuently, a Quids, and. Easy So 11 ox*.

L.  WINTERNITZ,  Resident Agent,

Lion Coffee has more actual Merit than any Roasted Coffee sold at the price either in Packages or in Bulk and storekeepers 
all over the State of Michigan and elsewhere who are  not  already handling  Lion  are urged to  give  it  a  trial.  We cheerfully 
answer all communications  regarding prices, etc.  Convenient  shipping  depots  established  at  all  prominent  cities,  securing 
quick delivery.  For sale by all the wholesale trade everywhere.  Manufactured  by the Woolson Spice Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
N ea l’s  C a r r ia g e  P a in t s ;  p o t a t o e s.
GRANITE  FLOOR  PAINTS
ACME  W H ITE  LEA D   &  COLOR  W O RKS

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

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

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

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

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

W.  UU«, 

Dry  Color  Makers, Paint  and  Varnish  M aifufacturers.

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

DETROIT,

166 South Water St., CHICAGO.
Felsenthal.  Gross  & Miller. Bankers, 

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13.15.17  So.  Ionia  Street,
13.15.17  Railroad  Place,

G B . A X T S   S U L F I D S .

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WHO  URGES  YOU  MICHIGAN  CIGAR  CO.J

T O   K E E P

T IE U E   F X J B U jI O !

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.  Without effort 
on the grocer’s part the goods  sell themselves,  bring  purchas­
ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.
ANY JOBBER W ILL BE GLAD TO F IL L  YOUR ORDERS.

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MANUFACTURERS  OF THE JUSTLY  CELEBRATED

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The Most Popular 10c  cigar, and

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House and Store Shades M ade to Order.

The  Best  Selling  5c  Cigar  in  the  Market. 

BIG-  RAPIDS,

Send for trial order. N ELSO N  BROS. <& GO..

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68  Monroe  Street,

Grand Rapids.

