The  Michigan  Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  5,  1888.

NO. 272.

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Mr.  Wall  shuddered, 

When the head of  the  shipping firm of 
Freyteau,  Wall*Co., in  Montreal,  sent 
young Noel as their agent along the lower 
St. Lawrence,  the  other  partners  grum­
bled loudly.  They  were  shrewd  Amer­
icans—jfoel a mere lad, Canadian-French, 
gay.  crochety,  wordy.  He  had,  too, 
heavy sums to collect, and  there  was an 
ugly story afloat that his father had been 
a  professional  gambler. 
Pierre  Noel 
was  now old  and  imbecile, but  his  son 
persisted in taking  him  with him everj- 
where, and  paid  him  an  exagerated re­
spect.  Wall  &  Co.  grew  very  uneasy 
about  their  money.  Blood,  they  said, 
would tell at last.  But M. Freyteau was 
obstinate in his likings;  he would not re; 
call  the  lad.  All  they could  do was to 
send the  younger  Wall  to  look  him up 
rid ac-
now  and  then,  and  to  take  a  l i 
count of  his receipts.
It never occurred to Louis N oel that he 
was suspected.  Nothing short of  a blow 
on the face would convince that  careless 
fellow that anybody was his enemy 
made his headquarters at  the  lone 
lage of  Tadousac  for  a  reason,  and  he 
supposed the same reason brought James 
Wall there.
The  tw7o  men  one  August  afternoon 
met in the orchard of  an  old  pension be 
hind the village.  The  wind  was  frosty 
and Noel brought a bench  out  from  un 
der the trees into the open sunshine for a 
young  girl  who  was  with him.  Jame 
Wall sat down upon it beside her, crossed 
his stout legs comfortably, drew  out  the 
Quebec paper  and  looked  at  the quota­
tions  in  lumber.  Noel  walked  away 
He could not come  near  Hester  Page to­
day.  She  had  dropped  a  word  to  him 
last night, a mere  nothing  when one re­
peated  it.  yet  very  different  from  the 
cool,  amused  criticism  with  which  she 
had  met  him  heretofore.  He  had  re­
peated  the  words  a  thousand  times  to 
himself  to-day.  Could it be?—
He could not speak to her before Wall. 
He felt as if  he  must  cry out  with  this 
udden  madness  of  hope  that  sent  the 
blood  through  his  body like flame.  He 
wandered  about  irresolutely,  climbed a 
tree  for  some  russet  pears for hei,  and 
left  them  lying  on  the grass,  lighted a 
cigar,  smoked furiously and  let it go out 
in his  mouth, then  began to sing  with a 
tremendous discordant clatter.
then  laughed, 
compassionately glancing at  Miss  Page. 
They were both admirable musicians, and 
often sang  together  with  that  accuracy 
and  neatness of  effect  which  peculiarly 
marked  the  words  and  movements  of 
both.
“These Canadians  are  restless m body 
and  mind  as  grasshoppers.” 
James 
Wall's thick tones grew  complacent  and 
intimate with Miss Page.  Were they not 
both Americans?  This  Noel and all un­
fortunate  foreigners  belonged to a great 
Ultima Thule outside of  the  States.  She 
smiled, looked deliberately at Louis, then 
at Wall, then  down at the  pale blue web 
she was netting.  What  with  her  delib­
eration,  the  pale  blue  net,  the  creamy 
gown fitting  close  to  her  neat  rounded 
figure, and her lusterless  brown hair and 
eyes, she  made a center  of  calm, of  del­
icate  color,  which  suited 
faded 
hue  of  the  autumnal  day.  Mr.  Wajj 
scanned her over  his  paper, pursing his 
thick lips with gusto.  He  had  been cal­
culating  her  merits  and  defects  for  a 
long time, hut his  mind  was  now  made 
up.  True, she had not  money enough to 
pay  her  share  of  the  board  bills,  nor 
brilliant beauty to push  them on socially 
in Montreal.  But some indefinable latent 
power  in  the  faint-colored,  calm  little 
woman had conquered  him.  As much of 
the man as was not  given  up to the lum­
ber interest or to worship of James Wall 
lie was 
was genuinely in love with her. 
,  yet  he 
of  money 
a  poor  man,  greedy 
Babtist 
penniless 
meant  to  marry  this 
tell  her
Whv not
minister’s  daughter, 
so at once ?
“here.  Noel!”  (It 
“Noel!”  he  called; 
let  her know their
was  just  as  well  to 
relative positions, and that this scampish 
.fellow, whose infatuation for her was the 
talk  of  the  village, was  only  the  paid 
servant  of  the  firm.)  ”1  wish  you  to 
I start for  home to­
finish  that  report. 
>11  your 
night.  By the way,  1  will  take  < 
lid  not 
collections  with  me.”  Noel  < 
once.”
move.  “D’ye hear?  See to it at
••Chut!  chut!  No  hurry.”  Louis 
lounged over the low stone  wall, looking 
down the* mountain.  Below him was the 
uneven  street of  Tadousac  cut  through 
beetling  gray  cliffs;  the  old  cflttages, 
perched here and there, each  sending out 
through its steep red or yellow or tinned 
roof  a  sleepy  drift  of  smoke.  Lights 
shone through  the  windows of  the little 
ancient church;  the  door  was  open;  he 
could  see  Grigneaux,  the  fat  beadle 
climbing into  his  high  seat;  then  came 
Father Mattliieu up the hill,  half a dozen 
children of  the habitans; with their wax­
like features  and  glittering  black  eyes, 
tugging at his gown.  At the  foot of  the 
hill roiled the  silent,  fathomless  tide of 
the  Saguenay — that  mystery  of 
the 
North, black  as a line  drawn  by  Death 
through  the  live beauty and  comfort of 
the hills and village.  Just then the notes 
of  a  French  horn  filled  the  air  with a 
melancholy sobbing.  Louis gave a quick 
nod of  satisfaction.  That was his father; 
he always  knew  that  the  old  man was 
happy so long as he was filling the woriel 
with his melodious piping.  Some  young 
fellows, his comrades, on the pier, caught 
sight of  Noel.

the 

“Hi!  hi!  Louis!”  they called.
He shouted  back,  waving  his  hat  to 
Pere Matthieu. who laughed and nodded. 
Two Sisters of  Mercy, pacing decorously 
in  their  black 
robes  to  the  church, 
glanced  furtively up and  smiled to each 
other.  The whole village knew and liked 
the merry fellow  and  the  old  father of 
whom he was so fond.
The gate clicked.  Wall, tired of wait­
ing on him, had gone angrily away.
••Thanks to God I”  chuckled Noel.  He 
hurried  toward  Hester,  then  stopped 
short  in a spasm  of  shame.  Who  was 
he ?  To go to her to ask  her to give her­

self  to, him ?  The first man in the world 
was  not  lit  to  touch her !  Look at her 
itting there, the sun shining full on her! 
Her hands went  with  their work, in and 
out, in  ami  out.  The  monotony of  mo­
tion  maddened  him.  For  two  years he 
It 
had  followed  her, faithful  as a dog. 
had  been  almost  enough  to  see her,  to 
hear her speak now and then. 
If  he told 
her now that he loved her  he  would risk 
all  this;  she  would  drive  him  away. 
Never to see Hester  again?  Never?  If 
he  married  Wall?  For  a  moment  he 
could not get liis breath—the world gaped 
empty about  him.
Then his  blood  swelled  with  sudden 
riumph.  Why,  he  was  not a child;  he 
was a man, and that was the dear woman 
that lie loved !  He  went  to her, leaping 
iver  a fallen  tree,  and  threw  himself 
breathless on the grass.  Hester, amused, 
looked  down  at  his  sensitive  face  and 
burning eyes.
“I heard you singing, Monsieur Noel,” 
she said, after a while.
“Oh! Did  you like my voice?”  eagerly. 
“My father  does. 
I don’t  know.  He is 
a great  musician.  Perhaps—would  you 
like me to sing to  you now ?”
“No,” Hester smiled.  “You—you can 
talk to me instead,” she added,  shyly.
Noel did not  answer.  He rose slowly, 
and  leaning  against a tree looked stead­
ily down into her face.  She  saw how he 
trembled,  though  she  did  not  raise her 
eyes.  The  very  wind  was  still.  A 
cricket chirping  in  the  stubble  counted 
off  the  long  minutes;  far  away swelled 
and sank the low chanting in the church 
Hester’s fingers  still  went  in and out of 
that wearisome net,  but  they shook now 
she  could  not  see her work. 
It seemed 
to her as  if  all had been already said be 
tween them.
“Hester,” he  broke  out  at  last, “ you 
must  have  known it  this  long  time, 
suppose  it  seems  mad  folly to  you. 
I’m 
know! 
a  headlong,  good-for-nothing  fellow 
But—”  He caught her hand and stroked 
it passionately in his cold fingers 
Hester glanced up at the  pension  win­
dows.  She did not forget to be deeorou 
“No!  Don’t  speak  yet!”  he  cried 
“Don't send  me  away  yet!  I know the 
Americans  think  me flighty—a vaurien 
But I can  work !  I can  make  you 
a happy home here in Tadousac.  I know 
you  like Tadousac,  Oh, I know all your 
whims  and  fancies!  I’m  a weak  little 
fellow;  but  1  love  you  so  that I could 
keep trouble away from  you as if  I were 
a god.”
Hester  looked  at  him  thoughtfully. 
She  had  known for a  year  that  each of 
these two  men  would  ask  her to be his 
wife,  and  she  knew  precisely  what 
answer she would give them, but she was 
not going to be hurried out of her orderly 
course.
•You will not—
hack.
Louis  drew 
take my love 5 
tailor, lib relaxed features
His sudden 
What  was  tlu use,  after
annoyed her. 
earisome, tragic Mill tions ?
all, of  such  w 
you  again,” she said,
“I  will  se< 
re  not  alone now. Mr.
coldlv:  we  a 
Wall— ’
within the  gate. Noel
Wall  stood 
turned  and joined  him  without a word. 
As the men  went  out  together a branch 
of  woodbine struck  against one  of their 
faces.  Miss Page, when she  was  aloue, 
broke it off  and  shyly  put  it  to her lips 
with a bright blush.

I’m  only  Louis  Noel. 

“Bring the reports  and  money  here,” 
said Wall, when  they reached the house.
-The money,”  stammered  Noel;  "it is 
in a sealed  package. 
Is  it  necessary to 
count it ?”
Noel’s  suppressed  excitement  as  he 
left  Hester  had startled  Wall.  He eyed 
his  dazed  face now  with sudden  suspi­
cion.
“Bring me  the money,” he  said sharp­
ly.
Louis  ran up  to his  chamber.  There 
were steps overhead,  then a pause.  Ten 
minutes, half an hour passed. 
I hen the
>or  opened  and  he  stood  in  it.  He
looked  shrunken  and  years  older  than 
when he went out 
“The money is 
"The  money? 
mean?”
“The package.
I locked it in my <
“And it is gone?”
Noel  sank  on  a  chair  near the 

jone. Wall,” he said. 
Gone?  What  do  vu
•Jerdav
sealed
ik” —

it

I  must  think 

Wall went  up to him.  He  was a power­
ful built man, and lie towered over Louis 
who  was  but  a  puny  young  fellow. 
"Bring me that money!”  he said.
Noel pushed him away steadily.  “Keej 
your  hands off  me. 
-till;
means more to me than to you.
Wall  drew  back.  There  was  a  mo­
ment's silence.  "It  means  ruin to you. 
L o o k   at me.  Noel.  This  w ill  not  sur­
prise the  firm.  They have  long suspect- 
id  you.  You  cannot pass  it  off  as  an 
lccideut.  Now listen. 
If  that  money i 
not  within  my hands in an  hour, 1 must 
return to Montreal  to-night and make all 
known.  Even  if  Freyteau w'ill  not con­
sent  to  your  arrest  you  will  be  dis- 
barged.’’  He lowered his voice.  "Miss 
Page  will not be likely to marry a penui 
less vagabond and a—thief.”
“What  of  Miss  Page?”  said  a  clear 
voice behind  him.
Louis  stood  up.  Wall  turned  and 
faced her,  a slow  heat of  triumph rising 
in  his  heavy  jaws  and  half-shut  blue 
eyes.  There had  been some softening of 
pity  in  his  tone  just  now, but  now  he 
remembered  that this  man was  liis rival 
and  was in his  power.  James W all  was 
not  the  man  to  delay7 using  that  power 
for one remorseful moment.
“Monsieur  Noel  is  in  difficulty,”  he 
said, gravely looking  down and  rubbing 
his  well-kept nails  as  though in  embar­
rassment. 
there  is a deficiency of  several thousand 
pounds.”
Hester went quickly up to Noel.  There 
was  something wholesome  and  invigor­
ating  in  her  decisive  step,  in the  keen 
i common sense lighting her brown eyes.

"His  returns  to  the  firm 

I do  understand. 

You  cau 
she said.
It was 
“I have not spent  the  money. 
in my desk  yesterday.”
She  looked at him a moment, then  for 
the first time in her life  laid  her hand on 
his arm.
“Monsieur Noel, you are not  yourself ! 
You  have  been  robbed.  Why  do  you 
stand  here?  Why  do  you  not  make 
search;  arrest the servants?”
Noel avoided her eye.  "I will  not  do 
that,” he said.  “They did  not  take it.” 
“He does  not  understand of  w hat  you 
accuse  him,”  she  said  impatiently  to 
Wall, who  laughed contemptuously.
I  will  search  for 
the money again.”  He  turned  to Wall: 
‘The  boat  will  not  he  in  for an hour, 
live me that time.”
The stupor was shaken off.  Something 
of  his usual gusty, awkward  vehemence 
w7as in his manner as he  went  out.  But 
when Wall said,  “He know's  he  will not 
bring  the  money  back,”  Miss  Page se 
retly felt  that  he  was right.  She took 
up her netting and seated  herself  by the 
window.
We will  wait  here  until  the  hour  i; 
over,” she said quietly, and  Wall  reeog 
nized  himself  as a prisoner.  A stronger 
will than his had  resolved on  justice for 
Noel.  Ho  could  not  go  out  as  lie had 
intended to publish the  theft  in  Tailou 
sac.
Unfortunately,”  lie  said,  “suspicion 
has  been  directed  agaiust  this  younj 
man for some time.  A charming  fellow 
too !  A thousand pities I”
went in and 
Hester’s  fingers  steadily 
she  remaine
out of  the  blue  web, but 
silent.
halteel at the 
Noel on  the  upper  floor 
to  his  own
door  of  a  chamber  next 
Within the French  horn  sounded a w7ail 
ing cry.  He stood a minute, drew' a long 
breath of  gathered  strength  and went in 
smiling.  M. Noel, seated by the window 
rose  quickly to meet  him,  laying  dow 
his instrument carefully.  He wore a vel 
vet  jacket,  and  cap  on  his  long  white 
hair.  Noel  took as much  fond  pride 
devising  picturesque  costumes  for  hi 
father as a woman would  for  her  baby 
His features  were  sensitive  and  fine as 
those of  Louis, but  the  eyes  were shal 
low  and  glassy and the  was a perpetu 
deprecating smile on the mouth.
“Isit time for our  walk, my son?”  he 
said,  speaking  the  pure  French of  the 
old families of  Quebec.
Louis, with the  smile  still on his fac 
placed a chair. 
“We  will  talk  a  littl 
first, father.”  Standing behind  him, h 
hands on his shoulders,  he glanced at the 
clock.  Notan  hour!  Yet  if .he  fright 
ened the old man he could discover noth 
ing.  He  talked  of  indifferent  matter 
and then said:
“How did  you  amuse  yourself  to-day
>ir,
and 1 stroll
“With my music, Loui 
across the mountains.”
from 
-With  these,  also?*’  takiiq 
M. N< 
drawer a pack of  greasy cards, 
a guilt
started up pale and trembling a 
child.
“They are not mine !  They  we 
to  me !  1 only play a little  game 
itaire.”
“Why, assuredly!  Do  you ever wager 
with  yourself,  sir?  One  hand  against 
the other?”
“Why, I never tried th at!”  chuckling, 
delighted.  “I wager with Jacques when 
we play.  A trifle—bah!”
“And the  money  to  play with ?  You 
hide  it  as  you  used  to  do?  Here—
there—w h e re  Jacques cannot find it?”
M. Noel nodded complacently.  “Trust 
me  for  that.  Nobody  will  ever  find it. 
Why, there are places among the rocks—” 
Louis looked out at the  vast stretch of 
mountain ledges  over  which  his  father 
that  day.  The  clock 
had  wandered 
ticked faster.
“Father,” he  said  coming  in front of 
him.
“My son !  Who  has hurt  you ?”  The 
gentle  face  was  full  of  wild  terror. 
“What  have  they  done  to  you?  You 
never  looked  like  that  in  your  life, 
Louis.”
It’s  all  right,  father, 
all right,”  kneeling down before him and 
soothing him.  He thought if  he told him 
the truth surely God  would  waken some 
spark of  intelligence  in  the  poor  dead 
brain to help him.  The hour was nearly 
over.  His strait was desperate.
“There was  some  money in a package 
in my desk, father. 
It is  gone.  Do  you 
know where it is ?”
The  tenderness  faded  out of  the blue 
eyes.  They  grew  by  turns  perplexed, 
vacant,  then cunning.  “Ah, Louis !  You 
want to find out my hiding places to store 
your money.  Ya!  Va!  We  old  people 
have  our  little  secrets,  eh?”  clucking 
with his tongue.
Noel started up.  “Oh, for God’s sake ! 
You  are  my  father !  Be a man  again ! 
Come back this once to save me!”
A shadow of  comprehension  struggled 
into the vacant face, like  life  galvanized 
into a corpse.  Then it died  out.  “You 
frighten  me,” iie  cried;  “I  did  not  see 
the money.”
Louis  was  no  fool.  He  saw  how  he 
could  shelter  himself  by  leaving  the 
crime where it undoubtedly belonged.  It 
would  probably be condoned  as  the act 
of  an imbecile.  He threw his arms with 
a shudder around the old  man  and  rev­
erently kissed the gray head.
“Do  not  be  frightened,  father,"’  he 
said, gently;  “nothing shall  harm  you.” 
A  moment  later  Hester,  hearing  his 
firm  steps  without,  rose.  “He has  the 
money!”  she said.  •
Wall also rose.  “You have found it?” 
“No.”
Noel, all of his life vehement  and pas­
sionate.  stood  now  quiet  and  resolute, 
while Wall swaggered  uncertainly.
“You  know  the  consequences.  Noel? 
You are accountable. 
I can  do  nothing 
I shall telegraph the firm from 
for  you. 
Quebec and return to-morrow.”
“The  money,”  said  Louis,  slowly, 
“may be forthcoming by that time.”
“So late a repentance will  hardly save

“Never  mind. 

of

ou,”  sneered Wall.  “If  it were not for 
reyteau, I  would  older  your  arrest  at 
once.”
lie  turned  irresolutely to  Miss  Page, 
bowed,  and  without  speaking  left  the' 
oom,  going  immediately  down  to  the 
little steamer which lay at the pier.
Hester  went  up  to  Louis.  “You  do 
not  defend  yourself,”  she  said,  with a 
queer choking in her voice.

No.”
You did not  even  say  that  you were 
not guilty ?”
Their  eyes  met.  There  was  a  long 
silence.  Noel  put  his  hand  up  to  his 
outh uncertainly.
“I can say nothing."’  He turned away. 
She stood  still,  her  clear  eyes  follow­
ing him, her unconscious  fingers tearing 
It 
the web  she  had  netted  bit  by bit. 
fell in a heap on the  floor.  She came to 
ide  with  a  little  rush  as  Pere 
Mattliieu entered the room.
I w7ill  speak  for  you,  then,’” sliding 
her  hand  into  his  arm.  “All,  Father, 
congratulate us !  1  have  accepted  Mon- 
ieur  Noel. 
I  must  announce  our  be­
It is our custom in the States.” 
trothal. 
The  good  Father was  shocked  at  her 
ant of  decorum.  Her  cheeks  burned, 
her  eyes  shone  with  soft  brilliance.
Come, come,”  she cried.  "We may yet 
be  in time to tell the  news to our  friend 
James  Wall. 
It  will  cheer  him on  his 
oyage.”
She almost  dragged  Louis down to the 
garden  which  overlooked  the . pier,  on 
which  a little  crowd had  gathered.  He 
held her back.
You shall  uot blast your  life for me ! 
Why do you do this?”
“Because I love you,”  she sobbed.
At that  instant  Wall,  stepping  from » 
ittle bateau onto the deck of the steamer, 
looked up.  He saw her clinging to Noel’s 
arm;  started  and hastily drew  back:  the 
bateau  rocked,  overturned,  and  Wall 
with  the Indian boatman was  struggling 
n  the w ater.  The  Indian, who  swam 
ike  a  fish,  easily  gained  the  land, but 
Wall was  washed a helpless  lump under 
the steamer, and  then  drifted down  into 
the  black,  resistless  current of  the Sag­
uenay.
Hester  w as a  gentle  creature,  but  she 
certainly did  remember that the  drown­
ing  man  w as  the  only  witness  against 
Noel.  On  the contrary,  Louis  in  an  in­
stant  was his  old  self, frantic  with  ex­
citement, shouting,  kicking off  his boots.
“Where  are  you  going?”  she  said 
sharply.
“Why, Wall  cannot  swim,”  he  cried, 
plunging  into  the  rushing  flood.  Both 
men disappeared in the night.  The whole 
village  gathered  on  the  pier,  crying, 
swearing, talking at once.  Pere Matthieu 
ordered  out boats  and went  in one  him­
self, which  presently brought  both  men 
ashore.  Louis  was conscious  and  stag­
gered  to  his  feet.  They  laid  Wall  s 
heavy  body under  the  trees  and  stood 
about it with  their  lanterns, while  Pere 
Matthieu drew off his coat and put his ear 
to liis breast.
“He is alive,”  he said.  “Carry him” —
But Hester’s  keen  eyes  saw what  no 
one else did.  She  swooped  down on  the 
prostrate  body like a  white  bird  on  its 
prey.  “Stop!”  she  cried  wildly,  draw­
ing  something  from his  breast.  “Take 
witness  all of  you that I  take this  from 
It  is  a  package  marked  ’Louis 
him. 
Noel. 
01». 
Five  thousand  pounds.’ 
Louis!  Louis!”
Noel  put  his arm  around  her and  led 
her away.  Her passionate love filled him 
wiih such a new keen  joy that he did not 
fully  understand  the  meaning of  what 
had  happened.  When  he  did,  he  only- 
said  humbly:  “Then  I wronged  father. 
God forgive me!  Let  us  go to him,  Hes­
ter.”
He  was  eager  to  tell  him  that  the 
American girl of  whom the old  man was 
so fond  had  promised to stay with them 
in  Tadousac  and  be  his  wife.  Here 
surely was heaven opened.
When  James Wall, clothed  and in  his 
right  mind, entered  the pension  an  hour 
or  two later, he found the  three together 
chattering  and  laughing.  They  grew 
silent as  he approached.
“They tell me I owe you my life, Noel.” 
he said hoarsely.
It hurt him to see 
Louis turned away. 
the  man’s humiliation. 
It  did not  hurt 
Hester one  whit.
“Here is the  money,” she  said,  sweet­
ly  smiling,  tapping the package.  “Mon­
sieur  Noel  will  himself  transmit  it  to 
Montreal.”
taunting 
eyes  one breathless  moment.  “I  did it 
for  you.  woman,” he  said,  and  turned 
away.
Louis  Noel  never  mentioned  Wall’s 
name after that day.  But  his wife often 
did.  always  adding.  “There  was  much 
good in that man after all.”

Wall  looked  into  the  soft, 

R e b e c c a  H a r d in g   D a v is .

They  Took  Their  Medicine.

They were  two  drummers in  different 
lines and they w7ere chummy.  They were 
traveling  the same  route.  They had  a 
long stretch of unfruitful country to drive 
over,  and  they  had  not  taken  enough 
grub with  them.  So w hen  they reached 
a little tumble-down hostelry on the road 
they were  hungry.  There was  nothing 
in the shape of  fresh meat to be had, nor 
eggs,  nor  anything  except  hard  bread. 
Finally one of them said:
“Haven’t you got anything in the shape 
of canned meats?”
The  host  had.  He  brought  out a tin 
and  the  drummers’  mouths  watered  as 
they watched  him pry it  open.  He  laid 
it  before them.  One of  them took  it  in 
hand  and  immediately  held it off  as far 
as  he could, while  he closed his  nostrils 
hard.

“What in thunder is this?”  he said.
The  other drummer  took it and looked 
at the brand.
“For  heaven’s  sake,  don’t  say  any­
thing.  We’ve  got to  eat it.  This is the 
brand of canned goods I’m selling.”
To the  drummers’ credit it is said they 
both  ate  it.  What  happened  to  them 
afterw ard they are silent about.

VOL.  6.

DAfilEL LYfißH

Successor  to   FR E D   D .  YALE &  CO«. 

M anufacturer of

F la v o r in g  E x tr a c ts , 

B a k in g   P o w d e r , 
B lu in g ,  Etc.

Ami Jobber of

Fine Line  of Perfumes  for  the 

Holiday  Trade.

Call  and inspect  our  new  establishment 

when in the city.
19  S.  IONIA  ST.

Tin

11AS  REMOVED  FROM

46  Ottawa  Street,

0 5 - 0 5   Pearl  St,

M o re  R o o m ! 

B ette r   F a cilities!

The  Inspection  of the  Trade  is 

Solicited.

Our  old  store,  three 
ment. with gas engine  a 
rent on favorable  terms

floors  ami  base­
nti  elevator,  for

BOOK-KEEPING 

WIPED OUT!)

Jio  Pass  Books!
No Charging!
No  Posting!

No  Writing!

fia Disputing of Accounts! 

No  Change to  Make!
Credit COUPON  Book!

T R A D E S M A N

THE NEWEST AND BEST SYSTEM 

ON THE MARKET.

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** 

$2.50 
3.00 
.  4.00 
.  5.00

W e  quote  prices as  fo llo w s:
“ 
“ 

$ 2 Coupons, per hundred............................
............................
* 5 
$10
$20 
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Subject to th e follow in g d iscou n ts:
Orders for 200 or over........................d> per cent
“

“  500 
" 1000 
on a cash basis.

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Send in sample order and put your  business 
E.  R.  STOWE I   BRO., Grand  Rapids.
the Acme  OF  Ut il it y and 

......................... 1(' 
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......20

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^ECONOMY/

0JUSTABL 
(reversible;
i
O

Liberal  dis­
count 
to  the 
trade.  Special 
Inducem ents 
to parties intro­
ducing 
t h i s ’ 
system of store- 
fitting  in  any 
locality.

Manufactur­

ed  by

BORDEN, SEIXRCK  & CO., A gts.,

KOCH A, B.  C O .,
354 Main St.,  PEORIA,  ILL.
48-50Lake St., Chicago;  114 Water St.. Cleveland
PLACE to secure athoroui 
and useful education is at tl 
Grand Rapids (Mich.) B ust 
n e s s  College,  write for Col- 

Address.  C. G. SWEN8BERG

teoe Journal.

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The Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of M ichigan Business Men's  Association.

A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Retail  Trade  of the Wolilerine State.

E.  A .  STOWE  &  BRO.,  Proprietors.

Subscription Price, One Dollar per year. 
Advertising Rates made known on application.
E">ertd  at  the  Oranti  Rapide  Post  Office.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

W EDNESDAY. DECEM BER 3,  1888.

good  and  ennobling  influences—house­
hold, educational,  reformatory, religious 
and social—are flourishing and acquiring 
an increased measure of  the  public  con­
fidence.  There  is  an  abatement of  the 
bitterness  of  political partisanship, and, 
outside of  Boston, at  least, a notable ab­
sence  df  that  which  is  sectarian.  So 
Uncle  Sam  feels  well,  goes  to  church 
cheerfully,  and enjoys  his  roast  turkey 
with a good conscience.

T h e T r a d e s m a n   heartily  approves of 
the project now in  process of  incubation 
looking  toward  the  organization  of  an 
association of  traveling men for the pur­
pose  of  maintaining  prices  on  rebate 
goods  and  securing  reasonable  conces­
sions  in  transportation  rates.  Such an 
organization  would  be a  powerful  aux­
iliary to  the  B.  M. A.,  in  its  efforts  to 
benefit  the  retail  business  men  of  the 
State. 

________________

Just as Lake  Odessa  began putting on 
airs over the  incorporation of  the  place 
as a village,  a cruel  court  brought  con­
sternation to the community by declaring 
the  incorporation  illegal, on  the ground 
that  no  township,  county  or  state  was 
mentioned in the incorporation  papers 
in  other  words, the  relative  position of 
Lake  Odessa  to  the  remainder  of  the 
world was carelessly omitted.

AMONG  TH E  TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

W. II. Tibbs  has sold  his stock in  the 

Tibbs & Cobb Co. to Chas. F. Cobb.

W.  H.  Bennett  has  put  in a  supply- 
I.  M. 

store  at his  mill at Sutliff  Siding. 
Clark &  Son furnished the stock.

Z. E.  & O. B. Danner  have  engaged in 
the grocery business at Allegan.  Olney, 
Shields A Co.  furnished the stock.

John Feringa  has  bought  the  grocery- 
stock  of  C.  Jonker,  on  the  corner  of 
College avenue and Carrier street.

M.  Scott  has  engaged  in  the  grocery- 
business  at  Sault  Ste.  Marie.  Lemon, 
Hoops & Peters furnished the stock.

Geo.  Aehterhof  has  engaged  in  gen­
eral trade at New  Holland.  Voigt, Iler- 
polsheimer  &  Co.  furnished  the  dry- 
goods.

J. W. Eby  has  opened a grocery  store 
at the corner of  Hall  and  Clark  streets. 
Ball, Barnhart & Putnam  furnished  the 
stock. 

.

The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.  is 
now pleasantly  settled  in  its new quar­
ters,  at the corner of  Campau  and  Louis
streets.  ■  ______________

Ada L. Johnson  and  Edward  Woyeke 
have formed a copartnership and engaged 
in the  dry  goods  business  at  Lakeside 
under  the  style  of  Johnson & Woyeke. 
¡Spring & Company furnished  the  stock.
It  is  reported that  Morse & Co.  have 
secured a lease  of  the stores  now  occu­
pied  by  W. H. Tibbs  and J. Vandenberg 
and  will  occupy  the  same  with  their 
branch store,  the “Circus."  The change 
will occur about May 1.

J.  M.  Trautman,  formerly  engaged  in 
the  cigar  business  at  Logahsport,  Ind., 
has  purchased  the  dry  goods  stock  of 
J.  F.  Taylor, at  Dowagiae,  and  removed 
it to  this  city, engaging  in  business  at 
498 South Division street.

Bliven & Allyn  have  rented the  store 
at  10?. Monroe  street  and will  move  to 
that location  on  March 1.  Maggie Form- 
by, the present  occupant of the building, 
will  move to the  south  store in the  new 
Cody block, on South Division street.

Mutchler  Bros,  have  erected  a  new 
store building at McDonald. 40x60 feet in 
dimensions,  and  opened  with  a  gen­
eral stock.  The groceries were furnished 
by  Lemon,  Hoops  A-  Peters,  “Hub” 
Baker having had the pleasure of  taking 
the order.

L. Winternitz  has  purchased a vacant 
lot  just south of  his  present  location on 
Kent  street and  will  begin the  erection 
of  a three-story  brick  building,  25x100 
feet  in  dimensions,  early in the  spriug. 
He  will  occupy  the  ground  floor  and 
basement with his own business.

The Michigan  Can  Manufacturing Co. 
has  completed  its  organization  by-  the 
election  of  W.  J.  Means  as  President, 
L.  D.  Sanborn  as  Vice-President  and 
O. M. Fislier as Secretary and Treasurer. 
An office has  been  opened at 1G  Kendall 
block,  pending  the  location  of  quarters 
suitable for  the  manufacture of  the pat­
ented siphon  can  owned  by- the corpora­
tion.

Andrew Flanagan, the Marion merchant 
who assigned a couple of  weeks ago, met 
his creditors here last Tuesday and made 
an  offer  of  25  per  cent,  in full  com­
promise.  The offer was promptly reject­
ed  and  it is not unlikely that the  failure 
will be thoroughly sifted,  to the end that 
the  excessive  “leakage”  may  be  dis­
covered.  Mr. Flanagan has been in busi­
ness  only about  eleven  months.  Yet in 
that  time  he has  managed  to incur  lia­
bilities of  between  810,000  and  811,000. 
He  claims to owe 8500 to  his father  and 
83,000  to  his  brother. 
In  addition*  to 
these “family liabilities,” he owes 81,000 
to  Detroit  creditors  and  about 86,000 to 
Grand  Rapids  jobbers.  The  “family 
liabilities”  are  secured,  the  first  by a

TH E  CENSUS  OF  1890.

The  completion, within a few  days, of 
the  Census of  1880,  by the  issue of  the 
concluding  volume  of  the  report,  has 
called fresh  attention to the fact that the 
Census  of  1890,  the  first of  the  second 
century of  the  American  Union, is now 
only  eighteen  months  distant, and  that 
the  persons to  direct  it will  have to  be 
selected  by President  Harrison,  forming 
one of  his  most  important  duties. 
Im­
portant, we say, because it is  now a mat­
ter of the  highest concern to the  country 
to  have  its statistics  punctually,  accu­
rately,  and  intelligently  collected  and 
presented.

The issue of the last volume has drawn 
out  some  severe  criticism  of  the  1880 
census. 
In  part,  this  is  not  just.  The 
fault of  that  census  was  not so  much in 
the  administration  as  in  the  plan,  for 1 
which  the law  itself, under which  Gen­
era!  Walker worked, was  chiefly7 respon­
sible.  Too  much  was  undertaken,  of 
course—but  the  facts  which  were gath­
ered all ought  to be  gathered.  What we 
need  is a revision of  the system. 
If  we 
are  to  confine  ourselves 
to  that  bare 
enumeration  of  the  people  which  the 
Constitution  requires,  that  can be  done 
with  accuracy and  the results published 
within  a  year.  We  even  can  afford  to 
make some few additions to that enumer­
ation, and yet  get  the  results  promptly. 
But if  we  intend to conform  our  census 
to the latest methods of statistical science, 
so that we may get  from it a view of  the 
.social,  industrial,  and  other  aspects  of 
our country7  and its population,  then it is 
the height of  folly  to lay  such a task  as 
the  collection  and  publication of  these 
results  upon  a  temporary  bureau,  and 
expect the  census to be published  within 
a year or two after it is taken.

What is  needed is a permanent bureau 
with its  work  so divided  up  that  every 
year of  the decade  shall  be occupied  by7 
some inquiry and report, that as to popu­
lation  coming in the last year.  Thus in­
dustrial  statistics might  come  one year, 
governmental  statistics  another,  educa­
tional  another,  and  so  on.  The  work 
would  be  systematic,  accurate,  and  not 
belated,  and  it would  command  the  re­
spect and  attention not  only of  our own 
people but of  the  world.

HANDS  OFF.

T uk  Tradesman sees no justice in the 
attempt  of  certain  New  York  trading 
firms to make a National quarrel with the 
government of llayti. and put our record 
in  the wrong, because  of  the  seizure of 
the steamship  Haytien  Republic.  With 
the  merits  of  the  dispute  between  the 
Northern and  the  Southern  districts  of 
the island  republic  we  have  nothing to 
do. but the government of  Gen. Legitime 
is the tie facts government  of Hay-ti,  and 
its  blockade of the Northern  ports must 
be recognized as regular  and  valid, hav­
ing proved in this  case  quite  effective. 
The Haytien Republic must  have  learnt 
of the blockade, as she had visited sever­
al other ports of the Republic  before en­
tering that of St.  Marc,  where  she  was 
seized.  Her captain  showed  the  spirit 
which animated him by breaking the laws 
of war in refusing to lower his flag when 
commanded to do so by the captain of the 
Haytien  gunboat.  And  although  the 
capture and  condenmatton  were  appar­
ently- as well justified as any  we made of 
biockade-runners off the coast of the Con­
federate States, Gen. Legitime has agreed 
■to refer the matter entirely  to  our  gov­
ernment.

What these merchants  ask our govern­
ment to do is to raise the  blockade in or­
der that their trade  with  the  blockaded 
ports may proceed as usual, and they may 
sell munitions of  war  to  the  rebellious 
party. 
In support of their demand, they 
offer nothing but abuse  of  the  existing 
government of Hay-ti,  whose  vigor  and 
reasonableness in  this  very  instance  is 
fair testimony against the  justice  of the 
accusations.  People  generally  will  be 
glad to see that our State Department has 
shown no haste to  meddle in the matter.

CAUSE  FOR  THANKSGIVING.
Thanksgiving  Day has  been  observed 
by the majority of  the  American  people 
with a heartiness as  great  as at any time 
since the war.  A great political contest, 
cleanly and  honorably conducted  in  the 
main,  has,been brought to a decisive end. 
A man as  pure  in  private  character  as 
ever was chosen to  the  chief  magistracy 
has  been  declared  the  people’s  choice. 
The American people have  declared  that 
there  shall  be  no  experiments  in  the 
adoption of  a new  industrial  and  finan­
cial policy-.  The  business centers report 
a growing  confidence  and  an  increased 
volume of  transactions.  The abundance 
of  the harvest  assures  the  land against 
want,  both  generally  and  locally.  All

FADED/LIGHT  TEXT

Greenville—Rich  &  Lang,  dealers  in 
millinery  and  fancy  goods,  have  dis­
solved, each continuing alone.

Battle Creek—Fred. Stebbins  has  pur­
chased  the  dry goods  stock  of  the  late 
T.  B.  Stebbins  and  will  continue  the 
business at the old stand.

Cadillac—L. B. Bellaire, of  the former 
firm of  Vosburg  &  Bellaire, has  thought 
the  grocery  stock  formerly  owned  by- 
John MeBurney and added  largely there- j 
to.
i

Hastings—Charles Dean has purchased 
the interest of  1*. R.  Dunning  in the gro­
cery  firm  of  Dunning  &  Rogers.  The 
new  firm  will  be  known  as  Rogers  & 
Dean.

Carson  City—B.  Tripp  has  sold  his 
drug and  grocery stock to  Geo. Cadwell, i 
Cashier  of  the  State  Bank  of  Carson 
City,  and assumes the same position him 
self.

Petoskey—Gilbert  Manning,  successor 
to Lampson  A-  Manning  in  the  grocery- 
business, has  bid  farewell  to the credit 
business  ami  will  hereafter do business 
on the C. (). D.  basis.
Rodney—Lightstone  Bros.,  who  have 
conducted a dry goods and clothing store 
here for  four  years  past,  have  removed 
their  stock  to  Belding.  where  they will 
continue the business.
Big Rapids—E.  Fisher  has sold his no­
tion stock to G. C. Gardner, who  has  re­
moved it  to his store on Michigan avenue. 
His son, O.  G.  Fisher,  will  continue  the 
jewelry  business in the. old location.

mortgage on the real estate and the latter 
by a chattel  mortgage on the  stock.  The 
other claims are  unsecured.  The  assets 
are  about  86,500,  comprising  81,000  in 
real  estate, 82,000 in accounts and 83,500 
in  stock.  The  assignee  was  in  town 
again  Saturday, interviewing  the  credi­
tors, but without  result.  The  creditors 
seem  disposed  to  secure the  removal of 
the  assignee,  as  hp  is a  man  of  small 
business  experience,  and  obtain the  ap­
pointment  of  a  receiver  in  his  place. 
Interesting  developments are looked  for 
in the case.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Holly—L.  II. Ripley’s  hardware  stock 

has been attached.

Manton—Ira Kibbe  has  purchased  the 

Central meat market.

Fennville—H.  I). Purdy  has  sold  his 

drug stock to E. O’Brien.

Flint—A.  I).  Alvord’s  grocery  store 

has been closed on attachment.

Lansing—S.  W.  Mack  succeeds  John 

H. Banghart in the meat  business.

Mecosta—Trunk  &  Ray  have  bought 

the meat market of  W. J. Slawson.

St. lgnaee—F. S. Clement's  shoe store 

has been closed on chattel mortgage.

Colon—A.  J. Nieman’s  clothing  store 

has been closed on chattel  mortgage.

Bellaire—Schoolcraft & Nash  succeed 
Owen Schoolcraft in the grocery business.
Oak  Hill—Jos.  Adamenski  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery stock of  J.  L. Jarka.
Grayling—O.  J.  Bell  has  bought  the 
boot  and  shoe  stock of  Chas.  O.  McCul­
loch.

Muskegon—F.  Joslin has purchased the 
store and  grocery stock of  M. Brown, on 
Amity street, and  w ill continue  the bus­
iness.

Nestoria—Gibson & Heath have bought 
all  the  timber  felled  along the right of 
way of  the Duluth, South Shore & Atlan­
tic Railway during its construction.  The 
Duluth division passes through the heart 
of  a  fine  tract  of  standing  pine,  and 
through long stretches of  hardwood.  The 
right of  way is 100  feet wide, and  every 
485 feet of  tracks marks  an  acre.  Some 
of  the pine averages from 20,000 to 30,000 
feet  to  the  acre.  The  trees  are  being
Co.  has  uttered  a chattel  mortgage  for  cut into logs, which will  be picked up by
89,000.

Good Harbor—Shumberg  Bros.  & Co.'s 

Battle Creek—The Battle Creek Buggy 

new store is nearly  completed.

a logging  train.

STRAY  FACTS.

fourteen machines at w-ork.

Bear  Lake—Bunton  &  Hopkins  have 

closed their sawmill  for the winter.

Marion—J.  S.  Cramer  is  putting  in 
about half  a  million of  logs at Jacklin’s 
mill.

Borland—Fred.  1. Nichols has  shipped 
his  sawmill  to  Luther,  where  he  will 
resume lumbering operations.

Manistee—It is reported that Butters <fc 
Peters will cut  none  of  their  own  pine 
this  winter, but  will  put  in  hardwood 
and hemlock.  They will buy pine where 
they can in the spring.

Menominee—The  Ludington,  Wells & 
Ya  Schaick  Co.  will  operate  about  six 
camps  this  winter,  and  get  out  about
80.000. 
25.000. 

000  feet  of  logs,  having  about
000 feet of  old logs in  boom.

Bay  City—Mills  at  Tawas  City  and 
East Tawas manufactured this season  for 
Sibley  &  Bearinger  45,000,000  feet  of 
lumber.  The firm also had 8,000,000 feet 
manufactured at Bay- City and  10.000,000 
feet at Cheboygan.

0001000002020100170101

Purely Personal.

Hess  has  returned  j com  the

Wm. T. 

East.

Frank
druggist,

Hibbard, 
was in town on Saturday .

the  East  Saginaw 

A. T. Burnett,  the  Cross  Village  gen- 

j eral dealer,  was in town over Sunday.

Garrett  Van  Vranken, 

L. B.  Bellaire, the  Cadillac  grocer,  is 
| in town for the purpose of  buying goods.
the  Hartford 
| banker, was in town Monday,  on his way- 
home from Cadillac.
j  Frank  Hamilton, 
the  Traverse  City 
| merchant, came down to the city Thanks- 
j giving day and remained over until  Tues- 
j day.
I). N.  White,  the Petoskey  grocer,  was 
j in town Saturday on his  way  from  Kala- 
| inazoo. where he spent Thanksgiving.  He 
| was accompanied by his family.

Louis  DeCliamplain,  formerly  engaged 
i in  the grocery  business at Cadillac, is  in 
| town  to-day on  his  way  to  Washington 
] Territory , which lie proposes to make his 
I future home.

M.  M.  Cole,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
j hardware  business  at  Big  Rapids  and 
| White  Cloud, but  for  the past  year  en- 
j gaged in the  dairy business-at Asheville, 
i X. C.,  lias  taken  the  position of  house 
i salesman for Olney, Shields & Co.

Merchants  should  remember  that  the 
celebrated "Crescent,"  “White Rose” and 
“Royal Patent” brands of  flour  are man- 
| ufactured  and  sold  only  by  the  Voigt 
I Milling Co.

FOR  SALE,  W AN TED,  ETC.

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

“ T H E   T R A D E S M A N ’S ”  N E W   H O M E .
The abnre  illustration  shows the new quarters of  THE  TRADESMAN mul the 
FI LLER  A'  STOWE  OOMPA.N 1.  located  at 100 Louis street-, between  Ottawa and 
Ionia streets.  The two establishments occupy three stories and basement of the block. 
21 x 65 feet in dimensions.

Fenwick—Riuker & Eitelbuss, clothing j 
dealers, have  dissolved, each  continuing 
alone.

Summit City—Dr.  Tomlin has arranged j 
to open a drug store,  as soon as the stock 1 
arrives.
I

North Adams—E.  R.  Benson  has  pur­
chased  the  boot  and  shoe  stock  of  A. 
Borden.

Lansing—A.  M. Henry &  Co.  did  not 
sell their grocery stock,  as previously re­
ported.

Middleville—Loomis  &  Co.  have  sold 
their  dry  goods  stock to  Fred  Allen, of 
Chicago.

Martiny—The  Geo.  Collins  Co.’s  gen­
eral stock is now located in the new store 
building.

Battle  Creek—Geo.  IL  Moore  has 
started a flour and feed store at 336 West 
Main street.

Mancelona—Sherwood  &  Hall  discon-j 
tinued  the  meat  business,  after  a  few 
week's trial.

Middleville—Rumor  lias it that  Dr.  A. 
Hanlon  will  purchase  the drug  stock of 
W. O. Clark.

Leland—L. J. Gxobben  has  sold a half 
interest in his general stock to W. F.  Gill, 
of Gill’s Pier.

Chelsea—R.  S. Armstrong  &  Co.  have 
sold  their  drug  and  grocery  stock  to 
Hummel & Fenn.

Fowlerville—C.  H.  Lamoreaux  has 
bought  the  drug  and  grocery  stock  of 
li. J. Minkley & Co.

Manistee—S.  Babcock  &  Co.  have 
closed out their  dry  goods  ami  grocery- 
stock at Maxwelltown.

Mecosta—J.  T. Gardner has moved  his 
jewelry stock to Lake  City-, where he has 
re-engaged in business.

Big  Rapids—G.  Dale  Gardner  &  Co. 
have opened a grocery  store,  having pur­
chased  their stock of  W. J.  Gould & Co., 
of Detroit.  The new firm proposes to  do 
an exclusively cash business.  They have 
a neat and inviting establishment.

East  Saginaw—S.  Davis,  of  the  dry- 
goods  and  millinery  firm  of  S. Davis & 
Co., died on Sunday.

Plymouth—Michael  Connor  has  been 
appointed  receiver  of  the  agricultural 
implement  firm  of  Polly. Wherry & Co.
Cheboygan—Ueitohlt.  Walter  &  Co. 
will  build  for  Charles  F.  Ruggles.  of 
Manistee,  a  steamer,  to  have a capacity 
of  450,000  feet of  lumber. 
•
Lisbon—A  new  post office  has  been 
established  at  the  station. 
It is  called 
Gooding,  and K. J. Gooding  has received 
his commission as postmaster.

Kalamazoo—The report that the  Eames 
Pulley Co. would remove frone Racine  to 
this place is a little permature,  no  move 
having yet been taken in  that  direction.
Lowell—Kopf  Bros.—a  firm composed 
of  J.  L..  Goodrich  and F.  C.  Kopf—have 
bought  their  father’s  furniture  factory- 
ami the retail  furniture  business of Tay­
lor & Kopf.

Cadillac—L.  B.  Bellaire,  assignee  for 
J. C.  McAdam,  is  endeavoring  to  close 
out  the  remainder of  the  stock to some 
one  who  will  engage  in  the  dry goods 
business here.

Detroit—The damage  suit  for  breach 
of  contract  brought  against  the  Frost 
Veneer Seating Co., of  Sheboygan, Wis., 
by the  Detroit  Seating Co., resulted  in a 
judgment for 81,750.

Ryerson—A.  L.  Johnson  has  erected a 
temporary store  building,  20x30  feet in 
dimensions,  on  the  rear  end of  her cor­
ner lot, and  will  erect a large  two-story 
building on the site of  the store  burned, 
early next spring.

Cadillac—The  assignee  of  J.  MeBur­
ney has realized about 8900 from the sale 
of  the stock  and  accounts of  the estate. 
A considerable amount of  this  sum  will 
necessarily  be  expended  in  litigating 
with  those  creditors  who  replevined 
goods  from  the  stock.  The  liabilities 
are between 82,200 and  $2.800.

FOR SALE.

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329 

tures, new last spring*, and a  sm all  stock  ®f  well- 
selected drugs.  Less th an  $500, cash,  will  tak e  outfit. 
Address M. H. Pasco, Rockford, Mich. 

and  boiler,  com plete,  $215.  New  u p rig h t  s ix -! 
horse boiler, $90.  Ann A rbor Engine and Boiler W orks,  ! 
j
Ann A rbor, Mich. 

Fo r   s a l e —n e w   u p r ig h t   s ix -h o r s e   e n g in e
IJO R  SALE—A CASHIERS  DESK  ADAPTED  FOR* OF- | 
fice o r sto re use.  W ill sell fo r $10,  cost  $25,  new.  I 
W. W. Huelste**, 81 an d  83 Cam pau St., cor. Louis. 
324  !
IpOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  CONFECTIONERY,  SCHOOL  !
■ 
supplies, cigars, etc.  Also  ice  cream   tables,  re-  | 
frig e ra to r and a  good show case.  W ill  tak e  $100  fo r  j 
stock and fixtures.  Call on o r address  Mrs. 8 A Camp, i 
168 Stocking S treet, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
RUG  STORE  F O R ^ A L E H   IN“ CHATTANOOGA". 
Tenn.  P opulation.  50,000.  Good  location,  good 
{ trad e.  A barg ain  fo r some one.  F or  full  p articu lars,
{  those who m ean business, address P. O. Box  203,  Chat- j 
t anooga, Tenn._________________________________314 
\
Fo r   s a l e —a   g o o d   h o r s e   a n d   d e l iv e r y  w a g -  I
j
M1 
IX)R  SALE—OUR  RETAIL  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES 
a t 110 Monroe street, Grand Rapids.  Goods a re all  i 
new.  The stand is  in  th e  best  location  in  town  and  I 
l
can be leased.  Berais Bros. 
EfiOR SALE—A  CLEAN.  WELL-ASSORTED  STOCK  OF 

general hardw are, stoves and tinw are.  Tin shop  ; 
in connection.  W ill inventory about $8,000.  Located  ' 
centrally and one o f the best p oints fo r  reta il business ; 
in th e city.  Good reasons fo r  selling.  Address  H ard — 
w are, care M ichigan Tradesm an. 
!

on.  E nquire a t 193 Tenth S treet. 

300 

307 

323

“ 

F or  sale—good  residence  lot  on  one  of I

the m ost pleasan t streets “ on  th e   h ill."  W ill ex 

|  change fo r stock in any good in stitu tio n .  Address 286,  j 
j
care Mich* gan T radesm an. 

236 

WANTS.

SITUATION WANTED—A  COMMERCIAL  TRAVELER 
I  O  
is  open  fo r  engagem ent.  L arge  acquaintance 
w ith  grocery  trad e  in  M ichigan.  Address  Jackson,
-  care M ichigan  Tradesm an. 
325 
!w
ANTED—EXPERIENCED  DRUG  CLERK,  GER- 
m an o r Scandinavian prefered.  Apply  a t  once 
giving usual particu lars.  F. D.  P aquette,  Ludington.
319 

j

j

322

T I T  ANTED—AN  ASSISTANT  PHARMACIST  WHO  IS 
i f  
active, honest and  efficient.  S tate price,  exper­
ience and references.  Address  A.  E.  G ates,  C rystal, 
Mich. 

WANTED—SITU AT IO N  BY  EXPERIENCED  PHAR- 

m acist.  Speaks H olland.  Registered, by ex am i­
nation .  Best o f references.  Address  Box  153, Morley 
Mich. 
TTTANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  ’READS 
\ v  
th is  paper  to   give  th e  Sutliff  coupon system  a 
trial.  I t will abolish yo u r pass  books,  do  aw ay  w ith 
all y o u r book-keeping, in  m any instances save you the 
expense o f one clerk, will b rin g  y our business  down to 
a   cash basis and  save  you  all  th e   w orry and trouble 
th a t usually go w ith th e pass-book plan.  S ta rt th e 1st 
of th e m onth w ith th e new  system  and  you  will nGver 
reg ret it.  H aving  tw o kinds, both  kinds  will be  sent 
by  addressing  (m entioning  th is  paper)  J.  H.  Sutliff, 
Albany, N. Y. 
TTT ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT  OUR 
VV 
Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System.  Send fo r j 
samples.  E. A. Stowe &  Bro., Grand Rapids._____ 214 
.

302

213

MISCELLANEOUS.

B u s in e s s  c h a n c e —w h o   w a n t s  t o   g e t   in t o
a  good business?  W e h ave a   fine  grocery  stock 
for sale.  One o f th e best stands  in  the  city,  doing*  a j 
cash trad e o f $60 to  $70 per day  Look th is up. 
It is  a 
bargain.  W ill tak e  farm   o r  city   p ro p erty ;  m ust  be J 
unincum bered to  th e value of $4,000 o r $4,500.  F ogg  & 
Kinsey, 3 and 4 Tow er Block. 
|
MANUFACTURING  BUSI- 
p er  cent.  Best  of  rea­
sons  fo r  selling.  Address  Chas.  Kynoch,  St. Ign&ce, 
Mich. 

O r i f A   CASH  BUYS  MAN 
euvJV J  ness pay in g  100  pc

.  - 

327 

228

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Marion—C.  Clark  has  started  up  his 

sawmill.

Gnpsack Brigade.

Frank E. Chase is in Chicago this week.
Chas. E.  Watson is haunting St. Joseph 

Paw-  Paw—The  knitting  factory  has 

these days.

Geo.  Hodge, Upper  Peninsula traveler 
for Lemon,  Hoops & Peters,  spent  Sun­
day in the city.

A. W.  Peck,  traveling  representative 
for  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug Co., 
was in town last Saturday.

Dick Warner is disconsolate these days. 
Ilis wife and his very interesting  family 
are visiting friends in Chicago.

L.  M.  Mills was in Chicago  last  Satur­
day on business  for  Michigan  Division. 
T. P.  A., of  which in* is Secretary.

Harry MeKelvey, traveling  representa­
tive for  Coffin, Devoe &  Co., of  Chicago, 
spent  Thanksgiving  with  his  relatives 
here.

Jas.  D.  Wadsworth,  formerly  on  the 
road for  Arthur  Meigs  &  Co.,  has  en­
gaged to travel for J. H. Thompson & Co., 
of Detroit.

The Chase family seem  to  have a pen­
chant for losing their gripsacks.  Herbert 
suffered  the  loss of  a valuable valise  at 
Bay  City  several  months  ago  and  last 
week  Frank  allowed  some thief  to  get 
away with  his  grip  up at  Morley.  Her­
bert’s  valise, minus all  its contents  but 
several mileage books, turned  up at Day- 
ton, Ohio,  a few days  ago.

A  number of  traveling men,  living  in 
different parts of  the State,  are consider­
ing the  project of  holding a mass •meet­
ing  at Lansing, between  Christmas  and 
New Years, for the  purpose of  consider­
ing the  organization of  a State traveling 
men’s  association, to handle  such  ques­
tions  as transportation  and  to  maintain 
prices on contract  goods.  No  insurance 
feature will  be incorporated  in the plan, 
the  intention  being to make  the organiz­
ation  independent of 
the  other  associa­
tions  of  traveling  men  .already  in  the 
field.  So  far  as  learned,  the project  is

meeting  with  the  approval of  traveling 
men!

Grand Traverse Herald:  A good many 
business  men  in .Traverse  City  and all 
through Northwestern  Michigan  will re- 
! gret  to  learn  of  the  death  of  Jas.  A. 
Crookston, which occurred at his home in 
| Grand Ilapids last week.  Mr.  Crookston 
I made a large acquaintance in this part of 
i the State as traveling salesman for a good 
i many years for Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., 
j wholesale  druggists  of  Grand  Rapids,
| and in later years as a  member  of  that 
j firm.  Mr. Crookston  and  the  editor  of 
the Herald first met  some  fifteen  years 
| ago over a tray of old coins, in which they 
j had a common interest,  and many  pleas­
ant hours were spent  in  after  years,  in 
the  same  manner.  Mr.  Crookston  was 
an enthusiastic and very  intelligent  col­
lector of rare coins, possessing one of the 
finest collections in the State,  and he and 
the  writer  never  met,  on the street or 
elsewhere, when Mr.  Crookston  was  not 
prepared to draw from the  depth  of  his 
pocket some choice  numismatic  gem for 
examination.  This  hobby did not, how­
ever, unfit him for the more serious busi­
ness of life,  as his success  in  his  work- 
shows.

Change  of  Base.

Frank E. Chase, A. C.  McGraw  & Co.’s 
old tinier—he  having  represented  them 
in Western Michigan for the  past  eleven 
years—makes a change of  base  the  com­
ing  year,  having  accepted a similar  po­
sition  with  Greensfelder,  Florsheim  & 
Co.,  of  Chicago.  As  Frank  is a hustler 
from  way  back  and  has  many  friends 
among  the  trade of  this territory,  G., F.
I Ct Co.  are to be congratulated.
Minus  a  Finger.

I..  A.  Farnham.  the  Laingsburg  mer­
chant,  slipped  while  standing on a fold­
ing chair to light a lamp the  other  even­
ing.  and in falling the  chair  cut  one  of 
his little fingers entirely off.

WHEN  IN  MUSKEGON

-----CALL  AT-----

Fietc&er’s  City  Creamery
54  W.  WESTERN  AVENUE.
W.  H.  FLETCHER, 

For the BEST LUNCH to be had in the State,

- 

LYCOMING  BOBBERS. 
Reeder, PalmerXGo.

State  Agents,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Write  for Catalogue and  Discounts

IF  YOU  WANT

T h e   B e s t

ACCEPT  NONE  BI T

Suiier Kraut,

Order  this  Brand  from 

your Wholesale Grocer.

ONE OF A SERIES OF PICTURES REPRESENTING COFFEE CULTURE.  WATCH FOR THE NEXT.

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CHASE  &  SANBORN.
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THE FINEST  CROWN.
SEAL BRAND COFFEE
JAVA  and  MOCHA,
in  its  richness  and  delicacy of flavor.  Justly cat
Justly  called  The  Aristocratic
Coffee of America.  A lw ays packed  whole  roasted  (unground)  in  2 lb. 
air-tight tin cans.
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suit  your  taste  as  no  other  coffee  w ill,  at  a  moderate  price.  A lw ays 
packed whole roasted  (unground),  in  1  lb.  air-tight  parchment packages.
r * c :  X   A   I I  
T ell  us  th at  th eir  coffee  trade  has
| \ H   I  A l i i   L )  l \  W  V  C l I X  V 9  doubled  and  trebled  since  b u yin g 
and  sellin g   our  coffees.  W hat  it  has  done  for  tHem  it  w ill for you.  Send for 
oam plcs to

_____ surpassing- all  others

. 

CHA.SE  cfc  SANBORN,

BROAD  STREET,

BOSTON,  MASS.

W e s t e r n   D e p a r tm e n t,

N O .  8 0   F R A N K L I N   S T R E E T ,

C H I C A G O ,  

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ASSOCIATION  DEPARTMENT.

M ichigan  B usiness  M en’s  A ssociation.

P r e s i d e n t —F r a n k  W ells, Lansing.
F irst Vice-President—H. C ham bers, Cheboygan.
Second Vice-President—C. S trong, K alam azoo. 
S e c r e t a r y —E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids.
*VAAjmrer—L. W . Sprague. Greenville.
H re o S to eB o a rd -P re sid e n t; C

L ^ e l î ■ 
F ran k   H am ilton, T raverse C ity,  ÎL B. Blain, Lowen, 
Chas. T. B ridgm an, F lin t;  H iram   DeLano,  Allegan,

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W

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O t£ r fa lO « « - T H B MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.______________
im,„ following  auxiliary associations  are op- 
erating under Charters  granted  by the Michi­
gan Business Men’s Association.

No. 1—Traverse City B. M. A.

No. 2—C ow ell  B. M. A.
No. 3—S t u r g i s  B. M. A.

President, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary , L. Roberts.----------
— ' 
President, X. B. Blain; Sec retary . F rank T. K ing.-------.
—  
President. H. S. C hurch; S ecretary, Wm -Jorn-------------
----------- No.  4—Grand  Kaplds  M.  A .
President, E. J. H errick; Secretary. E. A. Stowe.----------
No.  5— M u s k e g o n  B. SL A .
President, H. B. F argo; Secretary, W m. Peer.

P resident. F. W. Bloat; S ecretary. P. T. Baldwin.----------

No. 6—A lba  B. A4. A.

President. T. M. Sloan; Secreta ry . X. H. W idger.  -------

~ No. 7—D im ondale B. M .A .
No. 8—East port B. M -A.
No. sT—L aw rence B. M. A.

Presiden t. F. H. T hurston; Secretary, Geo-L .T h ereto ^  

President, C. McKay; Se c re tary .T h ^ L e n n o n ^  

President. H. M. M arshall; Secretary, J- H. KeHy^-------
---------i o .  lO -H arb or riprings^B.JH^A.
President, W. J. C lark; Secretary A. L. Thompson.
President, H. P. W hipple; Secretary

.11—K ingsley B. M. A.
No.  1 2 —OnTncy h . M. A.
No.  1 »—S h e r m a n   B. M .A . 
President, H. B. Stnrtevant;  Secretary, W. J._
--------- No  1 4 —So. M uskegon B. 31. A.
President, S. A. Howey: Secretary. G. C. H avens^ 
N ^T T 5-B oyne City  B. M . A . 
No.  I (L—Sand Lake B. M. A. 
No. 17—P lain w ell B. M .A . 
Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
______ _________ _— _

President, R. R- P erkins; S e c re ta ry ^ .M .C h a se ^  

President, J. V. Crandall:  Secretary, W. Rasco. _  

President, E
-------------- \ o .   18—Owosso B- M. A.
President, H. W, P ark er; Secretary,^L a m fro m ._
'  No.  IB —A «la  B . AS. A . 
No. s o —s a u g a t u c k   B. M. A. 
N o . 21— W a y  l a n d   B .  M .  A .

President. P. F, W atson; S ecretary, E. E. Chapel.
. A. Phelps.

President,  John F . H enry; Secretary

P resident. C. H. W harton; Secreta ry . M. V. Hoyt.__-----

Persident, A. B. Schum acher; Secretory ^ .J ^ C l a r f c e .

No. 2 3—Grand  Ledge B. M. A. 
N o   2 3 —Carson C ity   B. 31. A. 

President. F. A. Rockafellow: Secretary. C. G. Bailey

N o .  2 4  — M o rle y   B .  M . A .
No  25—Palo B.  M. A .

President, J. E.
“ ~ " 
President. Chas. B. m h n so n : Secretary, H. D. Pew.

Thurkow ;  Secretary, W. H. Richmond.

No. 26—G r e e n v i l l e   K. M. A. 

Presiden t. S. R. Stevens; S ecretary. Geo. B. Caldwell.

president. E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L. X. Fisher.------

No  27—l>orr  B. M.  A. 

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P resident, Fred S. F rost;  Secretary, H. G. D ozer

No. 2 8 —Cheboygan B. M. A 
No. 29—Freeport B.M. A.
No. 30 —O c e a n a   B .  M. A.

President. Wm. Moore;  Secretary. A. J. Cheesebrongh.

Secretary, E. S. H oughtallng. 

President, A. G. Avery j

President, Thos. J. Green;  Secretary ,  *

" N o . 3 1 —Charlotte  B. M.^-A 
No. 32 —C o o p e r s v il le  B. 31. A.
No. 33 —C h a r l e v o i x   B.  M. A . 

President. W. G. Barnes;  Secretary, J. B. W atson.-------

President,  L.  D.  Bartholom ew ;  Secretary, R. W. K ane.

. G. Fleury.

President, H. T. Johnson;  Secretory, P . T. W illiam s.—  

No. 34—Saranac B. M. A.
N o.  35—itellalre  B. 31. A.

President, H. M. Hem streetj Secretary, C. E. Densmore.

" 

N o . 3 6 —I t h a c a   B .  M .A .

President, O. F. Jackson;  S ecretary. J ohn  M. Everden. 
~ 
President,  Chas. F- Bock;  Secretary,  E. W . M oore.-----

N o . 3 7 —B a t t l e  C r e e k   B .  31. A .
- S c o tt v il le   B.  31. A.
No. 39  -B urr Oak B. M. A.

President. H .°E.^ym ons: Secretary, P- W. Higgins.-----
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President, W. S. W ilier; Secretary,  F. W ■ Sheldon.

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

No. 4 0 —Katoii Kapids B. M. A. 
N o . 41—B reckenridge  B .M . A. 

P r e s id e n t, W  n . W atson: Secretary , C.  E. Scndder.

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President. Jos. G erber:  Secretary  C. J, R athbnn.__

P resident. 6 . A. Estes; S ccretary,W . M. Holmes.  -------_

No. 42—Frem ont B. M. A.
No. 43—t’nsiin  B. M. A.
No. 44—Keed City B. M. A.
No. 45—H oytville  B. M. A.

President, E. B. M artin; Secretary . W. H. Smith.______

President, D. E. Hailenbeck; Secretary, O. A. H alladay.
President, W m. H utchins; Secretary , B. M. Qonld.

N o7i6—L eslie B.  M. A.
No.  47—F lint  M.  IT.

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

No. 4 8 —Hubbardston B. M. A.

P resident. Boyd R edner; S ecretary. W, J. Tabor.______

President,  A.  W enzell; Secretary, F rank Smith.

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

President, A. O. W heeler; Secre tary . J. P.  O’Malley.
P resident, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W ■ C. Congdon. 

No. 51—Cedar  Springs  B.  M.  A. 
No.~52—Grand H aven B. M. A.

President, F. D. Vos; Secretory, Wm. Mieras.__________

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

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

President, F rank Phelps; Secretary, John H. Y ork.___

No, 53—B ellevu e B. M. A.
No. 54—Oouglas B. M. A.
No.  55—Fetoskey  B. ST. A.
No. 56—Bangor  B.  *1.  A.
No. 57—Rockford  B. M. A.
No. 58—F ife Lake B. M. A. 
No. 59—F en n ville B. 31. A. 

P resident, X. W. Drake;  Secretary. Geo. Chapm an.

President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretory. E. B. Lapham .

President, L. S. W alter; Secretary. G. G. Blakely.

President F. S. R aym ond: Secretary .P . S. Swarto.
No. GO^Soiith Boardm an B. 31. A. 
President, H. E. H ogan; S ecretary, S. E.X eihardt.

President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes. ~~

No.  61—Hartford  B. M. A. 
No  6 2 — L a s t s a g i n a w   '» . A .  

President, G. W. Meyer; Secretory,  C has.  H. Smith

President, W, M. Dav

^—l!.vart  B. Ml, A. 
is ; Secretary, C. E. Bell.
No, 04—M errill B . M. A. 
No, 65—Knlkanka B. M. A.
No. 06—Lansing B. M.  A 

President, C. W. Robertson; S ecretary, Wm. H orton. 

P resident, Alf. G. D rake; S ecretary, C- S. Blom._____

President, Frank W ells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.

No. 67—W atervliet  B. M. A. 

President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.______

No. 68—A llegan B. M. A.

President, A. E. Calkins;  Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand,

No. 69—Scott» and C lim ax B. M. A. 
President, Lym an C lark; Secretary, F. 8. W illison.

President, M. N etzorg;  Secretary, Geo. E. Clntterbnck. 

No.  70—N ash ville  B.  M. A,
President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. 8. Powers.
No. 71—A shley  B   M.  A.
No. 72—M in ore B. M. A.
No, 73—H olding B. M. A.
>To. 74—Davison  M. IT.

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

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

P resident, O scar P. Bills;  Secretary, F. Rosacrans.

No. 75—T ecnm seh  B .  M.  A. 
No. 76—K alam azoo B. M. A. 
No.  77—South  H aven  B.  M.  A. 

President, 8. S.McCamiy;  Secretary.  Channcey Strong.

President—C. J.JMonroe;  Secretary, 8. VanOstrand.

Association  Notes.

The State Organizer goes to Bay City  on  Wed­
nesday to organize a B. 31. A., the necessary pre­
liminary arrangements having been made by the 
business men of that place.

Ex-President Hamilton advises that  the  meet­
ing of the Executive Board of the 3t. B. M. A. be 
postponed until the second week  in  January, as 
he thinks that most of the gentlemen  composing 
the Board will be  too  busy  during  the  present 
month to give the meeting the  time and thought 
the subjects to be presented demand.

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

M UTUAL  INSURANCE.

CORPORATIONS  INCREASING.

About the P.an j Business  Men  Abandoning  Individual and 

j Some  Pertinent Questions

Aptly Answered.

C l im a x ,  N ov. 22.  1888. 

|

!  E. A. Stowe, G rand R apids:
Dear  Sir—Scotts and Climax  It.  M.  A. is w ait­
ing  anxiously  for  the  result  of  the  insurance 
project and we believe we  stand  ready to a man 
to endorse the plan of the Committee.  However, 
permit us to ask a few questions  upon points not 
quite clear to us, viz. :
If we buy one or  more  shares  at  *25 each, 
1 
does this entitle us to a policy of insurance?
2.  Do you propose to  make  assessments  utter 
this  from  time  to  time,  as  losses  occur,  and 
would your Committee fix a date for  payment of 
assessment in each month, viz. :  assessment to be 
made on or before the 5th of  any  month and the 
amount to be paid on or  before  the  25th  of  the 
month?  If  not  paid,  would  policy  holders  be 
suspended from benefits until paid and  be  rein­
stated?  If we are correct in the foregoing,  then 
the shares purchased would be all the immediate 
expense until a loss called out more.
3.  Many  merchants  now  hold  policies ot in ­
surance  not  expiring  for  four,  six  or  nine 
months yet.  Would it not be to their  advantage 
to  have  the  policy  eoneeled  and  receive  the
1 two-third pro rata rebate.
4  w hat per cent, of valuation do you propose 
to insure and how  will  this  information  be ac­
curately obtained—by  printed application to gen­
eral agent or by agent appointed by local associa­
tions to look after risks?
The above questions may be fully explained in 
the report, but we do not  find  them,  and an an- 
I swer will greatly accommodate our B. 31.

Tours truly,

J. F. Cl a r k , See’y.

.

On receipt of the above letter,  it  was forward­
ed to Chairman Caldwell, of  the Insurance Com­
mittee of the M. B. M. A., who  replied  to the en­
quiries as follows :
The inquiries of J.  F. Clark  on  the  insurance 
question received.  I  will  take  time  to  answer 
the questions for  the  general  good :  Regarding 
the anxiety of any  B. M. A.  over  the  slow  pro­
gress of this insurance  projert,  let  me  say  that 
your anxiety does not exceed that of your Insur­
ance  Committee.  We  are  busily  working  and 
studying the question and  have  thought the de­
lay would, perhaps, prove  beneficial  in  provok­
ing discussion that  we  might  all  profit by.  So 
the inquiries of Mr. Clark, of the  Scotts  and Cli­
max B. M. A., are just  what  we  want.  The  re­
commendation is now in the hands of the  Exec­
utive Board, w hich has  delayed  holding a meet­
ing, first, because of an overflow of politics  and, 
later, because of the adjournment  of  the  Insur­
ance Policy Commission appointed  by  the  Gov­
ernor to consider the question of a standard form 
of fire insurance policy.  Let  no association feel 
alarmed at the delay, for the  commercial  impor 
tance of this question is enough  to  keep it alive 
and the possibility of  the  retailers,  and  whole­
salers  as  well,  in  Michigan saving one-half of 
w hat they-now  pay  for  insurance  is  incentive 
enough to soon give this plan a  practical test—if 
not at the hands of the B. M. A.,  then  irom  an­
other  source. 
The question of mutual stock  insurance  being 
theoretical entirely is  long  ago  settled.  Manu­
facturers  and  wholesalers  and  jobbers  of  the 
Eastern states  and  large  cities  West  refuse, so 
far as they can, policies in our  stock  companies, 
but point with pride to  their  own  insurance or 
ganizations and w hat they are  saving  for them 
selves.  If the M.  B. 31.  A. can save its  members 
and the great body of  merchants  and  business 
men one-quarter or one-half of  w hat  they  now 
pav for insurance, is it not  worth  our  effort  to 
help complete our proposed organization?
As recommended by the Insurance Committee, 
the proposed insurance  company will furnish at 
good insurance as the  Detroit  Fire  and Marine 
the Michigan Fire and Marine or the Grand Rap 
ids Fire Insurance Co. 
It will be organized with 
a paid-up capital of 8100,000,  and  conducted un 
der the same law.  We will conduct our business 
on very much the same plan,  issuing  policies at 
present  underwriters’ rates on  stores  and stock 
for one year and on  dwellings  for  three  years 
collecting  the  premium  on  the delivery of the 
policy’.  So far, we are the same.  \V e differ from 
them* in that  our  policy  holders  must  be stock 
holders—that is, must own at least  one  share of 
stock. 825, and as much more as  they  desire  for 
an investment.  Dividends  are  to  be  declared, 
both  upon  the  stock  and  upon  the  insurance 
written, at a certain rate per thousand out of the 
net earnings.  If, therefore,  you  are  a large in ­
surer and hold  a  large  amount  of  stock,  your 
savings or dividends are just that much  greater, 
but any stock  holder  owning  but  one  share of 
stock can take as many policies as  the  Company 
will write for him on his  different  property and 
at rates the same for all  members.  We  differ al­
so from stock fire insurance at present in that we 
take signed applications  from  each  insured for 
insurance, solicited by the  secretary  or agent of 
the  Company,  who  accepts  the  risk  from  the 
time the application is dated, to  take  effect  and 
according  to  the  statements  the  assured made 
therein.  These are filed in the office  of  the sec­
retary, together with a  statement of the agent or 
inspector, and are the facts  considered in settle­
ment in case of loss.  W hile the local agent  may 
misrepresent the information sent in through his 
daily report, which  of times  proves disastrous to 
both company and policy holders, in our case the 
policy holder  tiles  his  own  report,  guarded by 
that of the inspector.
Again, while our present  stock  companies are 
paying their local agents 15 to  25  per  tent, com­
mission  and  m aintaining  a  local  agency  ex­
pense of 35 to 45 percent., we propose to issue our 
policies directly from the home  office  and  have 
| frequent inspections from the  Secretary  or local 
! agents which arc  now  required  by  stock  com­
panies and save our policy  holders  what is now 
collected of you in premiums  for  this  expense. 
What  printing and publishing the  Company  did 
would be to  advance  ideas  and  methods  to re­
duce fires and do  you  some  good,  rather  than 
burden the people with a  great  deal  of  printed 
m atter generally  consigned  to  the  fire-place or 
waste paper basket.
By this outline, I  have  hoped  to  answer  Mr. 
Clark’s two  first  questions  and  perhaps  make 
plainer the plan of insurance proposed.  Regard­
ing the third and fourth questions, I will say:  It 
is not our expectation that  merchants  or  others 
will  cancel  insurance  already  purchased  and 
paid for  and  accept  a  return premium at short 
rates, just to join our Company.  No,  but  when 
I  our agent comes to you and  solicits  your  insur- 
I  mice, or a part, at least, you first agree to become 
j  a  stockholder  by  investing  *25,  at  least,  for 
which a certificate of stock is issued ;  you  then 
sign  au application for such an amount of insur- 
j  mice  as  you  desire  on  your  store, 
stock  or 
i dwelling, to  take effect when that insurance you 
| already  have  expires,  or  as  you desire..  This 
agent inspectsyour property  and  his report and 
j your application are forwarded  to  the  home of- 
I lice, where they are inspected by the  Company’s 
i  officers and, when the time comes,  the  policy is 
issued and sent to the  secretary  of  the B. M. A. 
or the bank for delivery and collection, the Com­
pany to be notified of any changes of  location or 
of business and the policy  transferred or cancel­
ed, as is now done.  The amount to  be  accepted 
on any  risk  will  be  according to the exposure 
and moral hazard, kind of buildings and kind of 
stock insured, butin  no case to exceed four-fifths 
and seldom more than two-thirds  of  the  valua­
tion.
I may have omitted many of the  details  neces­
sary to the operation of a company  of  this kind, 
particularly  regarding  the  choosing  of officers 
and their terms of office and duties,  hut  enough 
of the detail has been  given  to  show  you  our 
methods  and  aid  all  to  better  understand and 
discuss this question.  I should be  glad  to  hear 
from anybody having suggestions to make or de­
siring ii if ormation.

G e o.  B.  C a l d w e l l , Chairman.

Reminding  the  Delinquents.

Dec. 1,1888.

G r a n d  R a pid  

The following circular  has  been  sent  out  to 
those associations still in arrears for dues for the 
fiscal  year:
To the----------B.  31. A. :
We  note  with  regret  that  you  have  not  yet 
availed yourself of the invitation  extended  you 
through Official Circular  No.  3,  issued  on  Sep­
tember 15,1888, to renew your  auxiliary  connec­
tion with the Michigan  Business Men’s Associa­
tion.  The State body, being entirely out of debt, 
is not in need of funds to meet past  expenses in­
curred, but, unless the  resources of  the Associa­
tion  are  largely  augmented,  several  important 
projects now in contemplation  will  have  to  be 
abandoned.  Especially is this the  case with the 
Insurance project, which is one of the  most  im
portant subjects ever taken in hand by Michigan 
business men.  Many new associations are enter­
ing the field, and it is earnestly to be  hoped that 
no old organization will  falter by the wayside.
Please  remember  that  your  connection with 
the 31.  B. 31. A. ceased on Sept. 30.1888, and  that 
to secure the benefits of  re-affiliation  from  Oct. 
1,1888, it will be necessary  to  remit  per  capita 
dues of 50 cents for as many names as  you  have 
on your membership book.
Hoping that you will  give  this  subject  early 
and favorable consideration, we are 

Yours truly,

E. A. St o w e,  Sec'y.

F r a x k  W e l l s ,  Pres.
the first m eeting a lte r its receipt, j

[Tlie Secretary will please present th is com m unication 

Partnership  Methods.

rom  the Chicago News.
A striking feature of Chicago  business 
life is the large and increasing number of 
houses which do business in incorporated 
form.  This is not peculiar to  any  busi­
ness or class of business;  it extends to all 
alike, and to a certain extent  has involv­
ed the field of the professional  man. 
In 
many  cities,  especially  in the East,  the 
business  corporation  is  formed  almost 
wholly  for  manufacturing  enterprises; 
in Chicago it is used in  commercial  pur­
suits of every description as well.  There, 
the rail mill and the  watch  factory  are 
carried  on  by  the  “company”  and the 
grocery and dry goods  house by the indi- 
ridual or the firm.  Here the corporation 
s in use for every species of business, re­
tail or wholesale.  It manufactures cigars 
and passes them over  the  showcase at a 
nickel a-piece. 
It measures  off  cloth by 
the yard, sells molasses by the quart, cuts 
and fits you a new  suit,  sells  the  trim­
mings for a new winter  bonnet,  fits you 
with a pair of congress gaiters, and wraps 
up a  bottle  of  American-French  wine. 
The business  corporation  is  ubiquitous 
in Chicago. 
It is found in  every  block.
It is so numerous in some of the business 
sections—East Kinzie street, for instance 
—that the few firms and individual hous­
es look lonely and desolate beside it,  like 
the survivors of a bygone age.
When you come to dissect one of  those 
business corporations you find out that it 
ordinarily consists of  three or four men, 
three being the smallest number  permit­
ted by law, and usually  one  man or two 
holds the bulk of the shares,  does all the 
business, and makes and un-makes direc­
tors  and  presidents,  vice-presidents, 
treasurers and  other  corporation  digni 
taries, at will, the other  stockholders be­
ing clerks or men of  straw, or sometime 
the wives of  principal  stockholders put 
thore for the sake of technically  comply 
ing  with  the  statute.  Twenty-seven 
bulky volumes in  the  Recorders  offic 
are not sufficient to hold  the  charters of 
the  corporations  organized  in  Chicago 
since the tire, and the  work  of  forming 
new’ ones goes on rapidly as ever.  Hardly 
a day passes but some individual  or firm 
gives up the old form of  (Icing  business 
and dons the uniform of the  “stock com 
panv,” among the recent instances being 
the  liquor  firm  of  Hannah & Hogg and 
the shoe manufacturing  firm  of  Phelp 
Dodge & Palmer.  And it is a fact  worth 
noting that few houses  which  have once 
assumed corporate form  go  back  to  the 
individual or partnership  way  of  doin 
business and very many  have  increased 
their capital stock—usually,  though not 
always,  a sign of prosperity.
The chief inducement to form business 
corporations is. of course, the limited lia 
bility.  The shareholders’  subscriptions, 
once having been paid, that is  the end of 
it;  be the creditors  never  so  numerous 
and hungry as Russian wolves, they can 
not go beyond  that  point.  There  is  no 
such thing as  seizing  the  home  of  one 
stockholder because of  the  financial  e 
centricities of another,  as in the case of 
partnership, and,  if the investor has been 
judicious enough to subscribe for nomor 
stock than lie can readily pay for, he can 
sleep quietly through the  heaviest  kind 
of  a  financial  storm.  The  corporation 
may be wrecked,  but what need he  care 
His stock may be lost,  but  that  need not 
affect his individual credit in  the  slight 
est degree.  Then the Illinois laws relat 
ing to business corporations are very lib 
eral—almost to looseness—and in this re 
spect are in  striking  contrast  with  the 
stringent requirements  of  some  of  the 
older states, especially those  where cap 
tal seeking investment is very  abundant 
For instance,  in  many  other states 
certain percentage of the par value of the 
stock subscriptions must be actually paid 
up before the charter can  be  issued. 
In 
Illinois, nothing of the sort  is  required 
The stock subscriptions are  made  paya 
ble “in  sueh  installments  and  at such 
time or times as  shall  be  determined by 
the directors  or  managers,”  and if  the 
“directors or  managers”  are  accommo 
dating there is nothing to  prevent a cor 
poration,  with a capital stock of 820,000 
000,  from  opening  its  office  and  enter 
ing upon a career of  usefulness  without 
having 820 actually paid in or 20 cents to 
its oredit in bank.  Of  ccurse,  business 
men could not be taken in  to  any  great 
extent by such a  scheme.  The  commer 
I cial agencies  would  protect  them;  but 
there are thousands of people  not  accu 
tomed to business life  who  might be in 
| duced to give it credit or intrust their in 
| terests to its care, only  to  find,  when 
was too late, that the corporation had not 
even the shadowy substance  of  a dream 
How strange this  looks  in comparison 
with the Georgia law, where  the  const! 
tutiou prohibits the  creation of  corpora 
tions for other than  railway, 
telegraph, 
canal, banking and  Insurance  purposes; 
and with Delaware,  where  a  two-thirds 
vote of both houses of the  Legislature is 
necessary for the  creation  of  any  new 
class of corporations besides the few now 
authorized  by  law; 
and  with  Rhode 
Island,  where a bill to  create  any  new 
species  of  corporations  must  run  the 
gauntlet of two legislatures  and  be pub­
lished in the meantime.
Other states, taking alarm at the growth 
of such monopolies as the  Reading  rail­
way and the anthracite coal combinations, 
require  their  corporations  to  confine 
themselves to some  single  business  and 
prohibit them from engaging in  any oth­
er business.  Thus, for  instance, no new 
railway  company  in  Pennsylvania  can 
get a charter that will permit  it  to mine 
coal, or make steel rails, or build locomo­
tives.  And, with the same object in view, 
one corporation is forbidden to  invest in 
the shares of another, lest,  by  holding a 
majority of the  stock,  it  might  control 
the other.
Illinois has  no  such  fears;  business 
corporations can be formed here for “any 
lawful purpose.”  They may  hold  stock 
in other  corporations  as  much  as  they 
choose.  They  may  engage  in  as many 
and as different businesses as they see fit. 
They  may  combine  and  consolidate  at 
their own sweet  will,  and, in  fact,  one 
corporation—a  mining  company—has 
been formed in Chicago for  the  purpose 
of holding the stock  of  and  controlling 
other corporations.  Another remarkable 
thing about the Illinois law is that a bus­
iness corporation may be formed without 
anything in its  corporate  name  to  give 
notice to those dealing with it  that it is a 
corporation.  “John  Smith  &  Co.”  the

ign reads over the door and in the letter 
heads;  you cannot  tell  from  the  name 
hether it is an individual doing an  indi- 
idual business, a partnership  with  uu- 
mited resources or a corporation  where 
the  liability  of  the  millionaire  John 
Smith, whom you see busily engaged giv­
ing orders to the clerks, is  limited to the 
balance, due  on  his  subscription  to  a 
thousand dollars’ worth of stock.
Most of the Eastern states,  which have 
grown  wise  with  experience  and  hard 
knocks,require their corporations to show 
their  colors,  so  to  speak—to  adopt  a 
name, for instance,  beginning with “the” 
and ending with “company,”  or  to  add, 
after the name, the word “incorporated.” 
here is no such requirement  in Illinois, 
and as a consequence a  number  of  cor­
porations are doing business  in  Chicago 
under  partnership  names. 
In  most  in­
stances, thc’partnership  name  has been 
retained for perfectly  legitimate purpos- 
and in many cases the corporate form 
is indicated in the city  directory  by  the 
ame of the president  and  secretary fol­
lowing the firm name,  but  the  corpora­
tion is not bound  to  do  that,  and  it  is 
easily possible for men  who  are  worth 
1,000,000 each to do business in Chicago 
under a partnership name  and apparent­
ly as partners, and  yet  with  a  liability 
limited to the unpaid  balance on a small 
tock subscription,  and there is absolute­
ly no means by which the real  facts as to 
the liability can be  found  out  when the 
parties are unwilling to disclose them. 
The inquirer may resort to the Record- 
r’s  books  and,  by  a  search  through 
twenty-seven volumes—to which  there is 
no general index—find  who  the  original 
ubscribers to the stock  were,  but  they 
may  all  be  irresponsible  or  they  may 
have assigned their shares  before paying 
for them in full, and the  law  which  re­
quires the recording of  such  assignment 
practically a dead letter—not  one  out 
of a hundred is recorded in Chicago—and 
no  separate  index  is  kept  of  the  few 
which are recorded.
Rut the faults of the  business-corpora- 
ion statutes of this State are  more  than 
made up by its good features,  and among 
them especially the  admirable  provision 
which makes the  officers  and  directors 
Personally Iisfble when  they  permit  the 
ndebtedness of the  company  to  exceed 
ts  capital  stock.  True, 
they  can  be 
reached only by a troublesome equity pre­
ceding,  but  the  fact  that they can be 
reached goes far to  make  them  careful. 
Another  admirable  provision  is  that 
which prevents the  stockholder  from es­
caping liability for the unpaid balance of 
fiis subscription by assigning his  shares, 
mil  makes  the  assignee  equally  liable 
with him.

Grand Rapids  Mercantile Association.
On account of  the press  in  business  incident 
to the holiday trade, it has been deemed advisable 
to  omit  the  December  meetings  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Mercantile  Association.  The  annual 
meeting,  for  the  election  of  officers  and  the 
transaction of other im portant  business, will be 
held on the first Tuesday evening in January.

All members  who  may wish  packages of Blue 
Letters, for  use  in  making  collections, will  be 
promptly supplied  on  application  to  the Secre­
tary, at his office at 100 Louis street.

The collectors will  present  bills  for  the  eur- 
ent quarter during the present  month.
I.  C.  Levi,  proprietor  of 

the  Star  Clothing 
House, who  has  been  using  the  Blue  Letters 
pretty  freely  of  late,  writes, the  Secretary,  “It 
brings them every time.’’
Kalamazoo  Issues  Its  First  Delinquent

List.
Kalamazoo, Nov. 30,1888.

E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids: ,
D e a r   S ir —I  hand  yob  herew ith  our  delin 
qnent list No.  1, with the request  that  you  give 
place in the next State sheet to the  names which 
are checked w ith a red mark.
There has been  too  much  politics  and  othei 
matters in the air of late to allow of  much of in 
terest in any other line, but I hope that we  shall 
now have room for something else.

Yours truly,

Chauncey Strong, Sec’y. 

The list referred to is one of the most complete 
ever issued by any  association  and  entitles the 
Executive Committee of the  Kalamazoo B. M.  A 
to mueh credit.

Working  Satisfactorily.

It  is  reported  that  the  New  York 
Wholesale  Grocers’ Association  is work­
ing smoothly.  No  jobber has yet broken 
any of  the agreements, and  the  retailers 
as a rule regard the prices and rules made 
as  fair  to  all  parties.  This  success i 
largely  due  to  the  moderation  of  the 
leaders of  the movement  who  have  not 
attacked  any established  trade  custom 
which had not  degenerated  into  abuses

The  Hardware  Market.

The glass  market has  gone  to  piece; 
there  being  no  uniformity  in  price 
Galvanized  sheet iron is  advancing.  Bar 
iron is very  firm, the mills  all  anticipat­
ing  a  large  business.  Steel  nails  are 
weak.  Wire nails £ye firm.

I P   S
Full line.  Cash prices this m onth. 

W   X T   X 
GRAHAM   ROYS.  -  Grand  R apids  M ich.

H A R D W A R E .

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
d is.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

dis.

60
60
40
.......50*10
.......* 7 00
....  11 00
.......  8  50
.......  13 00
.....  
4o
....$   14 00 
.net  33 00 
60*10*10
70
....... 
.........30*15
....... 
25
.......60*10
........ $ 
0
.........70*10
......... 
50

dis.

dis.

d is.

Ives’, old sty le ..................................................  
Snell’s ..................................................................  
Cook’s ..................................................................  
Jennings’, genuine................................
Jennings’,  im itation............................
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.................
D.  B. Bronze..................
S. B. S. Steel..................
D. B. Steel.....................

AXES.

BALANCES.

Spring
R ailroad..........
G arden............
H and...............
C o w .................
Call  ................
G o n g ...............
Door, Sargent.
Stove............ ...................................................
Carriage new  list...........................................
P lo w ................................................................
Sleigh shoe......................................................
W rought Barrel  Bolts...................................
Cast Barrel Bolts— .....................................
Cast Barrell, brass  knobs............................
Cast Square Spring........................................
Cast C h ain ......................................................
W rought  Barrel, brass knob.......................
W rought S q u are...........................................
Wrought Sunk  F lu sh ...................................
W rought Bronze and Plated Knob F lu sh . 
Ives’ Door........................................................

 

 
 

BLOCKS.

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

BUCKETS.

______  

BUTTS, CAST.

BRACES. 
 

___________ I 

dis.
Barber...................... 
40
50&10
B ack u s................................  
30
Spofford .  ...........................................................  
net
Am. B a ll............................................................. 
..$ 3 50 
Well,  p lain.............................................
..  4  00 
Well, sw ivel..........................................
dis. 
..70* 
Cast Loose Pin, figured.....................
..70& 
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed.......
..60&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..
. .60*10, 
W rought Narrow, bright 5ast jo in t..
. .60*10 
W rought Loose P in ..............................
. .60*05
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip ..........
..60*05
W rought Loose Pin, japanned .. —
W rought Loose Pin,’japanned, silvertipped.60*05
W fa iierht T.nncb "Pin  iflTiflnDPfl  SllvPT
W rought  Table...................................................60*10
W roueht Inside B lind.......................................60&10
W rought  Brass.......................................
.................70*10
Blind,  Clark’s ...................................
Blind,  Parker’s................................. ...................70*10
70
.............. 
Blind, Shepard’s ...................................
40
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85.
CARPET  SWEEPERS.
Bissell  No. 5............................................. .per doz.$17 00
19 00
Bissell No. 7, new drop p a n .........
36 00
Bissell, G ra n d .................................
24 00
Grand  Rapids....... ................................
15 00
M agie........................ ■................. ..........
....  dis. 50*02
G rain...........................................................
Cast Steel.................................................... __ per Tb 
01
3*4
Iron, Steel Points................................... . . . .   “ 
65
Ely’s 1-10.................................................... ___per m 
60
. . .. 
Hick’s  C.  F ...............................................
44 
35
G. D .............................................................. . . . .  
” 
M usket........................................................ .... 
** 
60
Rim Fire, IT.  M. C. & W inchester new list.. 
Rim Fire, United  States..................... .........dis. 
.........dis. 
Central  F ire .............................................
CHISELS.
Socket F irm e r..........................
Socket Fram ing........................
Socket Corner............................
Socket S licks............................
Butchers’ Tanged Firm er__
Barton’s  Socket  Firm ers.......
Cold................................ .........
COMBS.
Jurrv,  Lawrence’s ...............
H otchkiss.................................
CHALK.
W hite Crayons, per  gross—

50
50
25
dis.
.70*10
..70*10
..70*10
..70*10
4020
net
dis.
.40*10

.12© 12«4 dis. 10

CARTRIDGES.

CROW BARS.

CRADLES.

CAPS.

.  “ 

. 

PASS.

r iv e t s . 

dis.

'ry.  Acme.................................................. dis. 50*10
'ommon,  polished.................................... dis. 60*10

50
Iron and  T inned............................................... 
Copper Rivets and B urs................................... 
50
A” Wood's patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27  ..  0  20 
Broken packs He per pound extra.

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

Sisal, 
inch and la rg e r.................................   10*4
M anilla................................................................   12J4

ROPES.

SQUARES

Steel and  Irr 
Try and Bev 
M itre..........

SHEET IRON.

20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

Nos. 10 to  14...........................................$4 20 
Nos. 15 to 17 ..........................................  4  20 
Nos.  18 to 21..........................................   4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..........................................   4 20 
Nos. 25 to 26 ..........................................  4  40 
No. 27.....................................................   4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
J s t acet.

3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

SAND PAPEP..

*3 00
3 00
3 10
3 15
3 35

SASH CORD.

’86................... .............. .......dis.
W hite  A ...................... .........list
Drab A ..........................
W hite  B ......................
D rab B ..........................
White C........................

20

50
55
50
55
35

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

SAUSAGE  SUUFFERS OR FILLERS.

Solid Eyes.................................................. per ton $25
Miles’ “Challenge” __ per doz. $20, dis. 50@50&05
P erry..................... per doz. No. 1, $15;  No. 0,
................................. ................$21;  dis. 50@50&5
Draw Cut No. 4 ............................... each, $30, dis  30
Enterprise Mfg. Co............................. dis. 20*10@30
Silver’s......................................................... dis.  40*10
Disston’s  Circular.........................................4o@45&5
C ro sscu t......................................,45@45*5
H a n d .............................................,25@25&5
Atkins’  Circular...............................................dis.  9
70
50
30
28

“ 
“ 
Extras sometimes given by jobbers.
“  Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__  
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__  
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot—  
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  foot................................................... 

saws. 

dis.

dis.

COPPER.

Brass,  Racking’s...............................................  
60
60
Uibb’s .................................................................. 
B ee r..................................................................... 40*10
i’enns’..................................................................  
60
Vanished, 14 oz cut to size.........per pound
14x52, 14x56,14x60 ..........................
’old Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..........................
'old Rolled, 14x48.............................................
B ottom s...............................................................
lorse’s  Bit  Stocks...........................................
Paper and straight Shank...............................
Morse’s Taper Shank........................................

drills. 

•• 

c

dripping paxs.

dis.

dis.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

piles—New List.

GALVANIZED IRON.

..............60*10
.................60*10
..............60*10
..............60*10
.............. 
50
..............  
50

Small sizes, ser p o u n d ....................................
Large sizes, per  pound....................................
ELBOWS.
doz. net 
’om. 4  piece, 6 in ...................
.dis. 20* 10*10 
Corrugated...............................
....d is.  íá&lO 
Adjustable...............................................
.............. 
30
’lark’s, small, $18; large, $26..............
Ives’, 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30...................
American File Association L ist.........
Disston’s .................................................
New  Am erican......................................
Nicholson’s ...........................................
Heller’s ....................................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps............................
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and 
list 
14
Discount, 60.
tanley Rule and  Level Co.’s ...........
Naydole  & Co.’s .................................
Kip’s .........................................................
Yerkes & Plumb’s .................................
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......................
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand
late, Clark’s,  1, 2, 3 ................................... dis. 
60
State.................................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  in. 4’;■»  14  and
lo n g er..............................................................  
31,;
Screw Ilook and  Eve, H ..............................net 
10
sg.............................. net  814
“ 
\ .............................net
•• 
“  %.............................net  714
Strap and T ....................................................dis. 
70

50
....... 
.dis. 
25
.’dis.’40*10 
.30e list 50 
..30c 40*10

13 
GAUGES.

HAMMERS.

HINGES.

4i 
*• 

12 

hangers.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track.
Champion,  anti-friction.............................
Kidder, wood tra c k .....................................

HOLLOW WARE

Pots.....................
K ettles................
S piders..............
Grav enam eled.

dis.
.50*10
60*10
40

.60*10
.60*10
.60*10
50

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

. .new list 70*10

Stamped  Tin W are.. 
Japanned Tin Ware. 
Granite Iron Ware  ..

Grub  1. 
Grub 2 . 
Grub 3.

............................ $11, dis. 60
....................... $11.50, dis. 60
............................ $12, dis. 60
E NAILS.
.........dis. 25*10@25*10&10
Au Sable.......................
..............dis.  5*10*2^*21.
Putnam ..........................
...................  
dis. 10*10*5
N orthw estern.....................................
knobs—New List.
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings.......
Door,  porcelain, jap. trim m ings... 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings. 
Door,  porcelBin, trim m ings—
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain__
Picture, H. L. Ju d d   *   Co.’s ............
H em acite.............................................
Russell & Irw in  3!fg. Co.’s new lis
Mallory, W heeler  *   Co.’s ................
Branford’s ..........................................
Norwalk’s ...........................................
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s .........

LOCKS—DOOR.

LEVELS.

dis

70

.......$16.00, dis. 6<
.......$15.00, dis. 61
$18.50, dis. 20*10 

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

dis.
dis.

51

MATTOCKS.

Adze E ye.............................................
Hunt E ye...............................
Hunt’s .....................................
MAULS.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled..............
Coffee, Parkers  C’o.’s ..............................
“ 
P. S. & W. 3Ifg. Co.’s  Malleabl
“  Landers,  Ferry & Clark’s.........
“  E n terp rise...................................
Stebbin’s Pattern...................................
Stebbin’s G enuine...................................
Enterprise, self-measuring...................

MOLASSES GATES.

MILLS.

N A IL S
Advance above 12d nails.

FENCE  AND  BRADS.

50d to 60d..................................................
lOd...............................................................
8d and 9d..................................................
6d and 7d ..................................................
4d and 5d..............................  ..................
3d................................................................
2d ................................................................

FINK BLUED.

di 
.60*10 
.60*10

1 00 
1  50
1 00
1  502 00

TACKS.

American, all kinds..............................
Steel, all  kinds......................................
Swedes, all k inds...................................
Gimp and Lace......................................
Cigar Box N ails.....................................
Finishing  N ails.....................................
Common and  Patent  Brads................
Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks.
Trunk and Clout N ails........................
Tinned Trunk and Clout N ails..........
Leathered Carpet Tacks......................

dis.

WIRE.

TRAPS.

(liS. 
60*10 
Steel, Game..................................................
35 
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ............
Oneida  Community, Hawley & Norton’s
70 
70
Hotchkiss’....................................................
........ 
70
P. S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  ................
__ 18c per doz.
Mouse,  choker.............................
. .$1.50 per doz. 
Mouse, delusion..........................
Bright M arket.............................
Annealed M arket........................
Coppered M arket.........................
E xtra B ailin g ..............................
Tinned M arket............................
Tinned  Broom.............................
Tinned M attress..........................
Coppered  Spring  Steel..............
Tinned  Spring Steel...................
Plain Fence..................................
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.......
painted............
Copper............................................
Brass...............................................
WIRE GOODS.
B right...........................................
Screw  Eyes.................................
Hook’s ..........................................
Jate Hooks and Eyes................
WRENCHES.

................  67Vi
................ 70*10
................  6254
62^
... per pound 09 
.per  pound854
................ 
50
..................40*10
... per pound 03
.................. $3 “
....................300
__ new  list net

...........70*10*10
...........70*10*10
...........70*10*10
...........70*10*10

3C
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled....................... 
loe’s  G enuine..................................................  
5C
,’oe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought,............  
7i
’oe’s  Patent, malleable................................... 75&1C

dis.

dis.

“ 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

d is.

Bird C ages.........................................................  
5£
Pumps, Cistern................................................... 
7c
Screws, New List................................................70&0c
asters, Bed  and  P late..............................50*10*10
40
Dampers,  Am erican.......................................... 
.........  30 c
Copper Bottoms.

M ETALS,

PIG TIN.

frig  Large..........
Pig B ars..............

..............28C
..............30c

COPPER.

Duty:  Pig, Bar  and  Ingot,  4c;  Old  Copper,  3c 
M anufactured  (including ail articles  of which 
Copper is a component of  chief  value). 45  per 
cent  ad valorem.  For large lots  the following 
quotations are shaded:

.ak e...............................................
‘Anchor”  B rand........................

D uty:  Sheet. 2!4e per pound.
680 pound  casks........................ .
Per  pound...................................

ZINC.

.185

... .65 
-7©754

LEAD.

. per  pound  141

TIN—MELYN GRADE.

2  per 100  pounds.  Old  Lead, 2c per 
Duty:  Pig 
■ e and Sheets 3c per pound.
pound. 
.......................................... @554
American 
N ew ark...
........................................................@554
B a r...........
. '. ". ’. ! !sc! ¿is." 20
S h eet.......
54@li.......................................................................... 16
Extra W iping....................................................... 1354
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the m arket indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
Cookson............
Hallett’s ...........
10xi4 IC, Charcoal..........................................
..........................................
14x20 IC, 
..........................................
12x12 IC, 
..........................................
14x141C, 
10x28IC, 
..........................................
10x14 IX, 
..........................................
14x20 IX. 
..........................................
..........................................
12x12 IX, 
14x14 IX, 
..........................................
20x28 IX, 
..........................................
Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.
10x14 IC,  C harcoal........................................
14x20 IC, 
..........................................
12x12 IC, 
..........................................
14x14 IC, 
..........................................
29X23.IC. 
.........................................
.........................................
10x 1 A X , 
.........................................
14x20 IX. 
.........................................
12x12 IX, 
14x14 IX, 
.........................................
20x28 IX, 
........................................
E arh  additional X on this grade, $1.50. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
” 
” 
“ 
TIN—ALLAWAY  GRADE.
“ 
" 
“ 
“ 
“ 
” 
“ 
“ 

11  80 
6  90
6  90
7  15 
11  65 
14  80

.$ 6 00 
.  6  00

ROOFING PLATES.

“ 

“ 

14x20 IC, Terne  M. F .................................
“ 
20x28  1C, 
...................................
14x20  1C, 
“  W orcester........................
14x20 IX, 
“ 
..........................
29x28  IC,
14x20IC,
14x20 IX, 
20x28  IC, 
20x28 IX, 
14x28  IX ..............................
14x31  IX .............................
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers 
14x60 IX,  “ 

“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN  PLATE.

Allaway  Grade
“ 
“ 
“

per pound.

....
.  ..

“ 
“ 
“ 

“  9

$12  00 
13 50 
09

12d to 30d.
lOd............
8d to 9d... 
6d to 7d... 
4d to 5 d ... 
3d..............
%  in c h ...

CASTING AND BOX.

COMMON BARREL.

154 and  1% in ch ............................
............ ............
“ 
2  and  2)4 
254 and 2J4  “ 
.........................
3 in ch ...............................................
3)4 and 454  in c h ............................
Each half keg 10 cents extra.

¿OILERS.

Rinc or tin, Chase’s P atent.......
Zinc, with brass bottom ............
Brass or Copper.............................
R eap er...........................................
Olmstead’s  —   ..........................
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n c y ..............
Sciota  B ench...............................
$andusky Tool  Co.’s,'fancy—
Bench, first quality.....................
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, 1

PLANES.

HARDW OOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here pay as follows for 
dry  stock,  measured  merchantable,  mill  culls 
out:
Basswood, log-run  ................................. 13 00@15 00
Birch,  log-run.......................................... 15 00@16 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2................................. 
@22 00
Black Ash, log-run..................................14 00@16 00
Cherry, log-run........................................ 25 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos.  1  and  2..............................50 00@60 00
Cherry, C ull............................................. 
@12 00
Maple, lo g -ru n .........................................12 00@14 00
Maple,  soft, log-run................................11  00@13 00
@20 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2................................. 
Maple,  clear, flooring............................ 
@25 00
Maple,  white, selected.......................... 
@25 00
Red Oak, log-run..................................... 18 00@20 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2............................ 24 00@25 00
Red Oak, 54 sawed, 8 inch and upw’d.40 00@45 00
Red Oak, 54 sawed, regular................... 30 00(335 00
Red Oak, No. 1, step plank................... 
@25 00
W alnut, log ru n ......................................  
@55  QD
W alnut, Nos.  1 and 2.............................  
@75 00
W alnuts, c u ll.......................................... 
@25 00
Grey Elm, log-run....................................12 00@13 05
White Aso, log-run..................................14 00@16 001
Whitewood, log-run................................20 00@22 00
White O ak,log-run...................................17 00©18 00 ■

dis.

............60&Ì0
............  
50
...........  
50
gross, $12 net
.............50*10
.............40@10
............  @60
.............40@10
............  @60
............20*10

dis.

Weekly "Pointers.”

Received the only Gold Medal 
awarded in 1884, and the only 
Gold  Medal  Certificate  for 
continued superiority  award­
ed in  1887 by the Massachu­
setts  Charitable  Mechanics’ 
Association.  The  character 
of the awards of this Associa­
tion are well  known and val­
ued accordingly.  Their  suc­
cess is phenomenal.

Foster, Stevens & Co.

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

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

Weekly  "Pointers."

lined,) 

People are more and  more  learning to- 
appreciate the luxury of STEEL RANGES 
and  the  wonderful  increase  in demand 
has caused the appearance  of  a  number 
of  very  low-priced,  cheaply-made,  (as­
bestos 
short-lived  sheet  iron 
ranges,  whose  only  claim  to  favor  is 
cheapness.  They are put on  the  market 
under fancy names and are called  “Steel 
Ranges.” 
In  reality,  they  are  no more 
steel than the pipe on your  stove  or fur­
nace.
Now,  in buying a range, you  want one 
that will give you  satisfaction,  requires 
but little fuel and one that is made in the 
best manner of the best  material,  on the 
most  approved  principles.  We  know 
that you will find all the above in the
J o h n   V a n

Steel  R a n g e ,
With Fire  Brick Lining.

They are used in all the  principal  ho­
tels and public institutions in  the  coun­
try.  They have  a  flattering  reputation 
and  we  cordially  invite  an  inspection. 
We keep all sizes for family or hotel use.

Foster, Stevens & Co.,

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

33, 35,3 7 , 39 and 41 Louis Street.

a

Weeklij  "Pointers,”

You cannot afford to be without a

Peerless  Ask  Siller.

AS  IT

Saves your Money, 
Saves your Temper,  Saves your Clothes,
Saves your Health, 

Saves your Time,
Saves your  Coal.

The Peerless  comprises  the  following

preferences over all other Sifters:
It is the best' and the cheapest.
It is clean,  neat and convenient.
It  lasts  for  years  and  will  continue  to 
work well.
It will do more work  in  the  same  time 
than any other sifter.
It is so simple a child  can  work  it  with 
ease, and it does all we claim for it.
It  is a  pleasure using it  compared  with 
other sifters.
It has improvements and  patent  devices 
found in no other Sifter.
It will save more than its price  in  an or­
dinary family in a few weeks.
It is safe to say  it  has  all  the  require­
ments needed.
It has  less  faul-ts  than  any  other,  and 
more  advantages than all  other  sifters 
combined.

It costs but little.
It is.  as its name denotes, "PEERLESS.”

Foster, Stevens & Co.,

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

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

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FACTS  ABOUT  TINW ARE.

The  Heavy  Tariff  on  Plate  Tin  and  Its 

Relation  to  the  Price  of  the  Ware.
From  th e  Chicago News.
-It is  undoubtedly true,’’  said a prom­
inent  tin  manufacturer,  “that  were  the 
tariff  on plate tin removed tinware could 
not  be  produced  in  this  country at  a 
much lower cost than  now;  but  whether 
the  public would be benefited proportion­
ately is a question.  Why the  war  tariff 
on  this metal was not removed  years ago 
I cannot see.  We have no tin-mining in­
dustry to protect and the manufacture of 
plate tin here has proved a signal failure.
We  have imported  lump  tin  and  black 
sheets  all  ready for  tinning,  and  even 
secured  competent  workmen of  long ex­
perience  in  this  form  of  manufacture, 
but ouy experiments have  simply  shown 
us  our  incompetency in  this  direction.
We  can  retin  a  plate  by  dipping it in 
boiling tallow and then in molten tin, but 
that is  all  we  can  accomplish.  Hence, 
as L look at it, the tin  tariff  is a needless 
burden.’*
••Why are  you  doubtful  as to the pub­
lic being benefitted by the removal of the 
tariff?”
“Manufacturers  would  be  compelled 
could  they  get  plate  tin  for  §20  a ton 
less—the  tariff  is  one  cent a pound—to 
put  down  prices  unless  a  trust  were 
formed.  Competition among jobbers and 
wholesalers  would  also  prevent  them 
from profiting by the tariff  reform.  But 
I apprehend that retailers throughout the 
country would stick to the old prices and 
gobble up the  difference  that should ac­
crue to the consumers.  The only excep­
tion to this rule  would  be  in  the  large 
cities where  the  cheap  stores  run each 
other  and  cut  prices  often  below  cost. 
Even  in  the  cost  of  manufacture  the 
cheapening of  the  material  by tariff  re­
form would  affect  different  branches of 
the tin trade differently.  Stamped goods 
cut out with a die—together with a finger 
occasionally  from the operator’s  hand— 
and pressed in form  with  practically no 
skilled  labor,  would  naturally be  most 
cheapened in the final retail price.  Ordi­
nary  pierced  goods,  in  the  making  of 
which hand soldering  plays a large part, 
would como next.  Japanned  and highlj 
ornamented  ware,  which  we  make  s 
specialty,  would  be  least  affected. 
In 
these goods,  you understand, the ultimate 
cost lies largely in the  hand labor that is 
employed in their manufacture.
“Expensive  caddies,  boxes,  and  the 
like,  for  instance, are  usually  inexpen 
sively  made ware.  When the  first  coat 
of  lacquer  paint  is applied  the work  is 
often only begun.  Girl labor is employed 
in decorating  as much  as possible  so  a; 
to  lessen  expense, and  stencils, one  for 
each  color  in the  design,  lessen the  cos 
still  further;  but  for the  more  artistic 
work  skilled  labor  is  needed.  So, you 
see, if  plate tin were reduced §20 per ton 
the reduction in price to the purchaser of 
this decorated  ware would  be almost un 
appreciable.
“Competition  between  tin  manufac 
Hirers, and  also between the  tinware in 
dustry  and  other  lines  of  manufactur 
which  cover  approximately  the  same 
ground, is  so  great  that  every  possible 
means  must  be employed  to  lessen  the 
co-t of  production. 
In the  better manu 
factories this  is  effected  chiefly  by 
perior  machinery, rarely  by a reduction 
of wages.  Our  piece-workers get  to-day 
the  same  rates  that  they  received 
years  ago, though  in  some  department 
we  employ  relatively  fewer  hands. 
In 
decorated and japanned work lithograph 
is being  more and more  employed to  le: 
sen  the  amount of  hand  labor  needed 
and at the  same time  to put on  the mar 
ket  an  article  attractive  and  artistic 
enough  to  compete  favorably  with  the 
ware of  more  expensive  make.  By tak 
mg the  lacquered plates  before  they are 
quite  dry works of  art can be printed on 
them  as fast  almost  as printing  pre 
turn  off  newspapers,  and  the  gradual 
minimizing of  hand  labor, together with 
the  increased  power of  production,  ha 
brought  japanned and decorated tiuwf 
to prices  that would  have  been  deeme 
ruinous a few years ago.”
“Is not the  fancy  covering a cloak foi 
a good deal of poor tin?”
“Oh, possibly.  But  an  article  for 
special  purpose requires  a  given weig 
of  material,  and  since  it  is  all  to 
covered with a paint that is fixed as firm 
ly as intense heat can fix it the quality 
the  tin  plate  doesn't  matter  so  muc 
One  practice  is  common  with  all  t 
manufacturers:  The stamped  portions 
an article are always of  a better grade 
plate tin than the other parts.  A 15-ee 
pail is made of  cheaper material than it 
stamped  cover,  and  the  same practice 
followeel  in all  the  higher  branches 
tin  manufacture.  This, however,  is  not 
fraud.  The  constitution of  the plate tin 
necessitates  a  higher grade of  goods for 
the  stamped portions than the  quality  _ 
the article would warrant could any othe 
grade of  tin be used.”

THESE GOODS ARE “ PAR EXCELLENCE”
Pure, H ealthful and  Reliable,  w arranted  to give satis 
faction in  every p articu lar.  For sale by wholesale and 
retail grocers th ro u g h o u t  th t  United  States. 
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Bros., M anufacturers, Cleveland and Chicago.

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Goods.  Write  for  quotations 

and  samples.

JA C K SO N
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Why you should send us your orders.  We hr.ntlle 
nothing but BEST and  CHOICEST BRANDS; 
SeUat Manufacturers' and Importers  Prices; 
— ip at ONE DAY'S NOTICE, enabling 
you to  receive  goods day following: 
orders  for A LL  KINDS ot
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Polished PLATS,
Rough  and  Ribbed 
French  Window,  Ameri­
can  Window,  English  26  —.
Enamelled. Cut and  Embossed.
Rolled Cathedral. Venetian, Muffled, #
Frosted  Bohemian,  German  Looking
Glass  Plates,  French  Mirror  Plates. 
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The quality, variety and quantity of o u r  stock 
Is exceeded by no  house in  the United  States*
VV M ■  REID 

73&7S  Lamed  Street Wert, DETROIT,  MICH. 
Grand R apids Store,  61  W aterloo Street.

The Finest 5-ct. Cigar Manilfactiired.

LONG  HAVANA  FIL LE R .

THEY HAVE  NO  EQUAL.
S .   D A V I S ,

70 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

A .  

B E L K N A P

WON*SLEIGH GO.

M anufacturers of

BELÖAFS PAT. SLIPS

Business and Pleasure Sleighs, 
Farm  Sleighs, Logging Sleighs, 
Lumbermen’s and River  Tools.

We earrv a large stock of material  anil  have ev­
ery facility for  making  first-class  Sleighs  of all 
kinds.
Cor. Front and  First Sts..

Grand Rapids,

SHOP,

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Industrial  School of Business

THE

Its graduates succeed.  Write

Is noted for THOROUGHNESS.
W.  N.  FERRIS,

B ig   R apids,  M ich.

P. STEKETEE & SONS,
D ry  Goods 1 N otions,
88 Monroe  St. X 10, 12, 14,16  X 18  Fountain St,

JOBBERS  IN

Grand Rapids,  Mich*

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags 

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Two Years
TEST

E.  G.  8TUDLEY,
RUBBER BOOTS 

Wholesale Dealer in

AND  SHOES
Gandee RilOOer Go.

Manufactured  by

Send  for  Large  Illustrated  Catalogue  and 

Price  List.

Telephone 464.

No,  4 Monroe Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

GRAND  RAPIDS  TARA  LINK  GO.

The Tropical Fruit  Trade.

The  New' Orleans  Picayune  reft 

the vast strides  made by that city during 
recent  years in  building  up a profitable 
business in  fruit.  The fruit  is  brou 
from Central  America and  islands to the 
south  by a large fleet of  both  steam and 
sailing  vessels, and  is  distributed  from 
New Orleans to«11 parts of the south and 
west.  The  railroads  have  worked 
harmony with the  importers  in  buildi 
up this  trade,  and it is not  uncommon 
see an  entire train load of  bananas lea 
New  Orleans  at  one  time.  Savannah, 
Mobile  and  Pensacola  are  all  reaching 
out to gain a share of this profitable busi­
ness,  and  hope  to  offset  their  present 
lack of  handling  facilities by cheap port 
charges and lower cost of  labor.  Savan­
nah is about  to place a  steamship in the 
Bluefields  trade, and it is intended if the 
enterprise  proves  as. successful  as 
is 
hoped to add other vessels.

D is trib u tin g   A gents  for

GASOLINE  and  NAPTHA.

forks, &. R. & I. M B. & M. June.  Olce, No. 4 BM ptt Bit.

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.  QUOTATIONS  FU R N ISH ED   on  APPLICATION.

W H O   U R G E S   Y O U

T O   K . E E P

A  Matter  of Sex.

“Pa,”  inquired Bobby,  “what is a phe- 
lomenon?”
“A phenomenon, my boy,”  replied the 
»Id  man,  “is  a  person  who excels or  is 
remarkable in some special way.”
“Is  phenomenon,  pa, of  masculine or 
feminine gender?’
“It is of  the  masculine gender  almost 
every time."

THE  PUBLIC!

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 WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS

I.  N.  CLARK  X  80N,
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M ICH IG AN

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Fresh and Salt Beef,

Fresh and Salt Pork,

Pork Loins,  Dry Salt Pork,

Hams,  Shoulders,

Bacon, Boneless Ham,

Sausage of all Kinds,

Dried Beef for Slicing.

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Strictly Pure  and  Warranted,  in  tierces,  barrels,  one-hall
barrels,  50  pound  cans,  20  pound  cans,  3, 5  and  10  pound
pails.

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If you  have  any 
to offer  send 
samples

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A lfr e d  J .B r o w n
Foreign,  Tropical and  California
F R U I T S

A T

and
amount  and 
will try to buy them
W .  T.  LAMOREAUX,

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71  Canal  Street.

WANTED.

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

I f  you have  any  o f  th e  above  goods to 
ship,  or  an yth in g  In  th e  Produce  lin e,  le t 
us hear  from   you.  L iberal  cash  advances 
m ade  w hen  desired.

E A R L   B R O S . ,

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

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO.

Reference:  F i r s t   N a t i o n a l   B a n k ,  Chicago. 
M ic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n . Grand Rapids.

B b a j s S

Parties having any Beans  to  offer will 
please send sample  and  we  will  try and 
make you satisfactory prices.
A lfr e d  J. B r o w n

Seed Store,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MIOH.

C ranberries,

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S w ee t  P otatoesQ  
and  Grapes.
Bananas,  OUr  Specialty.
-  MIOH.
GRAND  RAPIDS, 

16 and  18 No.  Division St..

POTATOES.

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

&  GO.,

.  H.

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

166 South W ater St., CHICAGO. 
Reference
F e l s e n t h a l .  Gross  &  M i l l e r , Bankers, 
Chicago.

Pickled  Pigs’  Feet,  Tripe, Etc.

MOSELEY  BROS,

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

in every instance.

When in Grand liapids give us a call  and look over our establishment.
Write us for prices
G R A N D   R A P I D S ,   M IC H .

THE  EENBERTHY  IMPROVED

Automatic  Injector
c a n t   BOILER  FEEDER  BEA T!
IT

----AS A

16,000  in   18  M onths  T ells  th e  Story.

;5?; WHY  THEY  EXCEL^jgfl

1  They cost less than other Injectors.
*'  You don’t have to  watch  them .  If  they  break  they 
w ill  RE-START  automatically.
3  By sending the number to factory on the Injector you
can have parts renewed at any time.
4  They are lifting and non-lifting.
5  Hot pipes don’t bother them and the parts drop out by
6  Every man is made satisfied, or he don t  have to keep 
PENBERTHY  INJECTOR  CO.,  Manufacturers,  DETROIT, Mich

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

A gents, HESTER  &  FOX,

Grand  R apids,  M ic^

, 

,

H E S T E R  

Manufacturers’ Agents for

FOX,

S A W   A N D   G R I S T   M I X X   M A C H I N E R Y ,

Send for 
C atalogue 

and 
Prices

ATLAS S

M ANUFACTURERS  OF____

INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.,  U.  S.
STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.
Carry Engines and Boilers In Stock 

for  immediate delivery.

Planers, M atchers, Moulders and all kinds of W ood-W orking Machinery, 

Saws, Belting  and  Oils.

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

pulley  and become convinced of their superiority.

W rite for  Prices. 

44. 46 and 48 So. D ivision  St..  GRAND  R A PID S.  MICH.

RISING  SUN 

BUGKWHEÄT.
Guaranteed ABsolntely Pore.

ORDERS FROM RETAIL TRADE SOLICITED.

Newaygo  R oller 

JUills,

Newaygo, 

-  Mich,

STANDARD  FIRST  GRADE  PLUG  TOBACCO

LORIULAJRD’S 
C L I M A X

Can  now  be  bought  at the following exceptionally
AA s s td  lot
Less than 56 lbs.  56 lbs. or over,  any quantity

Packages. 
POUNDS. 12 x 3.16 oz., 6 cuts,  40, 28 & 12 lbs. 
42, 30 & 12  “ 
CLUBS, 12 x 2,16 OX., 6 cuts, 
CLUBS, 12 x 2, 8 oz., 6 eul 8, 
42,30 & 12  “
FOURS, 6 x 2, 4 oz.. 
42, 30 & 12  “
45, 25V4 & 16  “ 
FITES, 6 X1V4. 31-5  oz., 
TW IN FOURS, 3 x 2.7 to lb,  41,27 & 13V4  “ 
FIGS, 3 x 1,14 to lb., 
41. 31 A l1“  “

L O W   F I G U R E S : 
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F r u its ,  S e e d s, O y ste r s  l P r o d u c e .

------ W HOLESALE------

All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed,  Beans or  Potatoes,  will be 

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa  St., 

pleased to hear from you.
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GRAND  RAPIDS.
C.  N .  R A PP .

GEO.  E.  HOW ES.

Geo.  E.  H o w es & Co.,

S.  A .  HOWES.

Apples, Potatoes & Onions9

JOBBERS IN

S P E C I A L T I E S :

O ra n g es,  L e m o n s ,  B a n a n a s .

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THBO. R .  GOOSSBN,

3 Ionia  Street,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.
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Orders  for  Potatoes,  Cabbage  and  Apples,  iu Car Lots, solicited. 

Butter and Eggs, Oranges Lemons  and Bananas a specialty.

GRÄND  RÄPIB8,  MICH.

BROKER  IX  LUMBER.

33  OTTAW A  STEET,

T elephone 26».

WHOLESALE

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The new crop is abundant,  Fine Quality 
and Cheap.  Wo  offer  Choice  and  Fancy 
Layers, 35-lb.  Baskets,  Fancy  Stock  and 
50-lb. Bags, 100-lb. kegs  in  cheap  goods. 
All at bottom prices.
P u t n a m   &  B r o o k s .

L ots  ofSOAP
JAX0N

but  room  for

because it beatsthemall 

It  is

QUICK,

EASY,

CHEAP.

It’s  worth  trving.

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W Ê m w Ê m , 

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s o AS O A P

SAVES 

MONEY, 
TIME. 
LABOR, 
STRENGTH, 
CLOTHES.

5 Cents
IS ALL IT
COSTS.

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That’s not much if 
it’s bad, and is mighty 
cheap if it does what is 
claimed for it.

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W holesale  Grocers,

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a n i N D   T? APTT1R  MTHTT.

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4 per cent, for  the whole  time,  and it re­
quired  another  start  for  the  Justice’s 
office  to  complete the  settlement.  And 
although this  man  had  a  reputation for 
paying  promptly,  if  his  accounts  were 
attended  to  at  maturity,  I  could  have 
sustained  a  dozen  actions  against him, 
for  malicious slander,  after  an attorney 
had  collected  his  note,  and  charged me 
10 per cent, therefor.
* 

* 
* 
The  duty of  trying  to  collect au  ac­
count of  Deacon Y-----is an  amusing as
well  as  an  exasperating  one.  He  has 
some  thousands  out  continually, on  se­
cured notes and mortgages, but he always 
makes it  a point to  keep in  debt for  his 
living expenses  on  an  average of  a year 
or so,  in order  that he may draw interest’ 
on  the  amount it costs him. 
It  usually 
takes from six to eight  assaults to secure 
what he owes you.  The first mild attack 
produces a  great  display of  indignation, 
and  the promise of  immediate  payment 
and the withdrawal of  his custom.  Dur­
ing the  successive attempts  his  assumed 
anger is gradually  succeeded  by an apol­
ogetic  demeanor, which  becomes  almost 
humble.  Then his dignity begins to ger­
minate  slowly,  until, when  he finds  the 
attack  can no longer  be repulsed,  he  as­
sumes  the  attitude  of  an  honorable, 
prompt-paying,  and  in  all  respects,  re­
putable  citizen,  who  has  had  his  self 
respect and personal honor assailed in an 
unreasonable and inexcusable manner.
But the  Deacon on  one  occasion met a 
dun  that  he  didn't  try  to resist  in  his 
usual  manner.  While  en  route  to  the 
city,  one  day,  on  business  matters,  a 
handsomely  dressed woman  entered  his 
car,  and,  after  politely  asking  permis­
sion, took  a  seat  beside  him.  She w as 
very  reserved  and unsociable for a time, 
but gradually she and the Deacon drifted 
into  conversation, and—but it's the same 
I old story that all of us have heard or read 
almost countless times.  The woman was 
a  “professional'’;  the  Deacon was  un­
seasoned, credulous and susceptible,  and 
the usual capture was made.  The victim 
was  conducted  by  the  charming,  but 
“alas, friendless widow,” to  a  suburban 
hotel.  The  Deacon's  money  began  to 
evaporate, and  his  economical  instincts 
became  aroused,  and,  after  a couple  of 
days he made preparations for vanishing, 
and  just at this  time the clerk  presented 
the hotel bill. 
“John  Jones,  T-----  Hotel,  Dr.,  self
and  wife.  2  days,  88.  Wife,  12  weeks, 
$9G.  Total. 8104.00."
“Why!”  gasped  Y-----,  “What’s  that
896 for?"
“For your wife's board!"
“My  wife's  board?  My  wife  never 
“Didn't you register as John Jones and 

It read:

boarded here!''
wife?”

“Well,  your  wife  has  been  boarding 
here  nearly all summer,  and  hasn't paid 
If you're John Jones, 
for twelve weeks. 
and  the  woman's  your wife, I want  the 
money. 
If you're not John Jones, and the 
woman  isn’t your  wife. I'll  make things 
lurid for  you, my friend.”
The  Deacon  reviewed  the  situation 
rapidly.  Publicity—if  the  hotel  man 
meant  “business”—would  occasion  sun­
dry church,  social and family disruptions 
that he hardly dared to contemplate.  He

reluctantly-determined  to  hush  up  the 
matter, but pleaded a shortage of money, 
and endeavored  to  obtain  a  liberal dis­
count.  But  the  clerk  was  perfectly in­
exorable;  the bill was finally paid in full,
and  Y-----sneaked  out  of  the house,  a
poorer, but, let us  hope, a wiser man.

TIME  TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.
GOINQ  NORTH.
Arrives.
Traverse C ity & M ackinaw................
Traverse City & M ackinaw................9:05 a  m
From  C incinnati...................................7:30 p m
F orP etoskey & M ackinaw C ity....... 3:55 p m
Saginaw Express............................... 11:30 a  m
“   -  ...............................10:30 p m .

“ 

Leaves. 
7:00 a m 
11:30 a m
5:00 p m 
7:20 a m  
4:10 p m

Saginaw express runs th ro u g h  solid.
7:00 a. m. tra m  h as c h air car to Traverse City.
11:30 a. m. tra in  has ch air c a r fo r Petoskey and Mack­
5 -.00 p.  m, tra in   has  sleeping  c a r  fo r  Petoskey  and 

inaw  City.
M ackinaw City.
GOING  SOUTH.
Cincinnati  Express...........................
F o rt W ayne Express.........................10:30 a  m
Cincinnati  Express...........................4 -.40 p m
From  Traverse City......................... 10:4© p m

7:15 a m 
11:45 a  m 
5:00 p m
7:15 a m  tra in   has  p arlo r  ch air  c a r  fo r  C incinnati. 
5:00 p m  tra in  h as W oodruff sleeper for Cincinnati. 
5:00 p.  m. tra in  connects  w ith  M. C. R. R. a t K alam a­
zoo fo r B attle Creek,  Jackson,  D etroit  and  C anadian 
points, a rriv in g  in  D etroit a t 10:45 p. m.
Sleeping ca r rates—$1.50  to  P etoskey  o r  Mackinaw 
City;  $2 to Cincinnati.
All Trains daily except Sunday.

M uskegon, Grand R apids  & Indiana. 

Leave. 
Arrive.
7:05 a m ....................................................................... 10:45am
11:15 a m .......................................................................  4:45 p m
4 :2 0 p m ................................... ............*...................   7:45pm
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge stre e t depot 7 m inutes later.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

M i c h i g a n  C e n t r a l

The  N iagara  F alls  R oute.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
ARRIVE.

D E PA R T .
D etroit Express.....................................................................6:45 a m
Day  Express....................................  
1:10 p m
New Y ork Express.......................................................5:40 p m
•A tlan ticE x p ress.....................................................10:45p m
Mixed  ...............  
6:50 a m
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D etroit.  P arlo r  cars ru n   on  Day  Express  and  G rand 
Rapids E xpress to  and  from   Detroit.  D irect  connec­
tions m ade a t D etroit w ith all th rough train s E ast over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern D ir.)

O. W. R u g g i.e s . Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agt., Chicago. 
F e e d  M. B r ig g s , Gen’l A gent.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

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Mexico and Canada a t  Union  Ticket  Office,  Geo.  Wil­
liamson, Agt., Depot Office. M. Bootz, Agt.

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

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Detroit, Grand  Haven & Milwaukee.

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d irect connections for all points  E ast, a rriv in g  in New 
York 10:10 a. m. n ex t day.  Lim ited  Express,  East, has 
th ro u g h   sleeper  G rand  Rapids  to  N iagara  Falls, 
connecting  a t  Milwaukee 
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D., G. H. & M .R’y offices, 28 Monroe St., and a t th e depot.

Ju n ctio n   w ith 

J as. Ca m pb e ll. City Passenger Agent.

B L I Y F N   &

Sole  A gen ts for th e

The devil, Jack!  We’ve got a 

Shark.  He'll do for

Bliven & Allyn.

Friends, Washerwomen, House­

keepers,

Lend me your cars, and hear me 

for my cause.

The Soap I  come to speak about 
is the  Great Santa Claus. 
’Tis good  for  every  purpose, 
For which  a  soap  is  needed, 
And j‘oy will  bring  to 

every one

heeded

‘prove 

Who  has  wise  counsel 

And  spent  a  nickel,  just  to 

What wonders  it will  do,
To lighten  labor,  save expense 
And make things bright and new.
act fr o m  P r o f Soap*cm*s lecture on 
The M oral Influence o f Soap.**

SAN TA  CLAU S  SOAP  is  the  best  in  the  market  for  washing,  scouring,  cleaning 

scrubbing,  &c.  For  sale  by  all  grocers  at  5c.  a   cake.

N.  K.  FAIRBANK   &  CO.,  Manufacturers,  Chicago,  III.

The Michigan Tradesman

WKDNFKDA V.  BECKM BER 5 ,1 8 8 8 .

LEISURE  HOUR  JOTTINGS.

W ritten for Thk  Trai-.esmaS.

BY  A  CO U N TRY   M E K C H A ST.

Jrunning,  to  the  most of  us, is one  of 
the most unpleasant features of business, 
ami  from its  unpleasantness  is a feature 
which is usually seriously neglected.  No 
matter  liow  methodical  a  man s  habits 
may be,  no  matter  how often  and  care­
fully he  scrutinizes every  other detail of 
his  avocation or profession, the  chances 
are  that  in nine  cases  out of  ten  he is 
unreasonably timid  or  careless in  insist­
ing  upon  reasonably prompt  collections 
or settlements.  This  ought not to be so, 
but  it  is  so.  There  can  be  no  ar­
gument,  or  the  shadow  of  a  reason, 
furnished, 
the 
remotest  degree  upon  the  manhood  of 
the 
individual  who  temperately  and 
courteously insists upon  his honest dues, 
yet nine out of ten people who start out on 
a dunning erusade proceed to the unpleas­
ant  duty  with  many misgivings  and  a 
latent  feeling of  apprehension that  he is 
about  to  make  enmity between  himself 
and  his debtors, and  that it would  have 
been  perhaps better, and  more  satisfac­
tory' in  the  end, to  have  waited  a  little 
longer  for  a  voluntary  adjustment  of 
matters, which  had  already  passed  the 
verge of  decency and common sense.

.that  will 

reflect 

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And, if  nine  men  out of  ten  have  a 
strong  dislike  for  dunning,  about  the 
same  proportion  of  debtors, whose  in­
debtedness  is  unsecured, have  a  strong 
objection to adjusting  affairs without be­
ing dunned.  Some of them—I am speak­
ing  only  about  the  responsible  ones— 
will  settle  at, or  shortly after, a  gentle 
intimation that  a little additional money 
is needed in your  business.  A  majority 
will make  promises, which  they will su­
percede with  other  promises, and  proba­
bly pay you just about the time your tem­
per  and  patience  are  exhausted.  The 
small  balance  will  await  with  compla­
cency  the  coming of  the  constable, and 
balance  up  at  various  periods  from 
“return  day"’ to  the  end of  an  execu­
tion.

And it's a curious feature of these cus­
tomers  that those  whose  accounts  have 
“run”  the  most  unreasonably, are  the 
ones  whose  dignity is assailed  the most 
seriously  by  the  dunning  process. 
If 
you  notice that John Smith's matter  has 
grown  a  week  or  two  older  than  he 
promised  it  should, and  you  quietly re­
mind  him of  the  fact, it  is  very  likely
that he will accept the hint good natured-< ■ 
]y,  but  if  you  carelessly 
let  John’s 
account  run six  months or  a  year, after 
making  the  discovery,  you  needn't  be 
surprised if  all the  gall and  bile  in  his 
system  is  stirred  up  by a courteous  re­
quest  for a settlement. 
It  is  almost un­
explainable, but it is true, that the worst 
euemies I  ever made  duriug a  somewhat 
lengthy business  experience,  were  those 
who, although  responsible,  1  allowed  to 
remain  in  my debt an  exceptionally un­
reasonable length of time.  And  this ex­
perience long  ago convinced  me that the 
man who does  any kind of  a credit busi­
ness will  find  his troubles  and anxieties 
materially  lessened, by  w’atching his  ac­
counts  carefully, and  insisting upon  his 
customers  keeping their  promises  fairly 
well.

1  call  to mind  as an  evidence of  the 
truth of  this a little  commonplace  inci­
dent of  my owrn  trade.  Some  years ago 
a  w’ealthy  farmer,  and  occasional  cus­
tomer  of  mine,  came  in  and  requested 
credit  on  a  good-sized  bill of  what  we 
term “cash  goods.” 
I explained to  him 
that  it  was  unusual  to  trust  out  the 
articles;  that in order  to barely realize a 
safe cost price we had to pay “spot cash*’ 
for  them, and  that  the  party who  took 
them  away for “spot  cash” wasn’t help­
ing me a particle, financially. 
I suggest­
ed, however,  as  an  accommodation, and 
an especial  favor that he might have the 
goods  on  prompt thirty days’  time. 
lie 
agreed to  pay on or before the day speci­
fied, and carried off the articles.  Through 
some  oversight  this  account  was  over­
looked, and over a year  after it was due, 
in  looking over  the  ledger I w as  aston­
ished to find it unbalanced.  The circum­
stances  of  the  case  occurred  to  me  at 
once, and I  was  naturally a little out  of 
temper, but I drew’ off a simple statement 
of  account, with  a  request  for  speedy 
payment  and  dropped  it  in  the  mail. 
Two or three wTeeks  elapsed and  nothing 
was heard from the  delinquent, and then 
I sent  him a pretty sharp dunning letter, 
calling  attention to  the  injustice of  his 
action,  and  hinting  at  law  proceedings. 
In a few days  he came in and  remarked: 
“See  here, don’t  you think  I’m good for 
that  850  I  owe  you?  You  do!  Well, 
then, why’n thunder do you keep bother­
ing me with dunning letters?  I can’t pay 
you  ’till  after  harvest,”  (six  months) 
“and  you  won’t  get  your  money  any 
quicker if  you send a dun every  week.” 
I argued against  his  unreasonableness 
in the transaction, but finally told him to 
put the  account into a note, and  I would 
give him  further time.  This he  refused 
to  do, until  I  started after  a summons. 
Then  he  flatly objected to giving  10 per 
cent, 
interest,  notwithstanding  I  ex­
plained that he was  paying me  less than

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D E T R O I T ,

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We  have  ar/anged  for  a  large 
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stock will come from the  celebrated 
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DETROIT,  MICH.

Manufacturer:

if the  following well-known 

brands of

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•SOAPS

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Salesm an fo r W estern Michigan,

Lock Box  173, 

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GRAND  RAPIDS

IF  YOU  NEED  ANY, 

SEND  TO

63-65 Canal St.

Heyinan  &  Son

•  C A S E S
REEDER, PALMER  &  CO,

Wholesale Boots and Shoes,

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M anufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in

AGENTS  FOR  THE

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GENERAL  DEALER  IN

Vertical, Horizontal, Hoisting  and Marine Engines.  Steam Pumps, Blowers and Es 
, 

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C eleb ra ted   “BIG   F .”  B r a n d   o f O y ste rs
In Cans and  Bulk,  and  Large  Handlers  of  OCEAN  FISH ,  SHELL  CLAMS  and  OYSTERS. 
We make a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time.
We solicit consignments of all kinds of  Wild  Game,  such as Partridges, Quail. Ducks, Bear, etc.
11.  M .  lil il í:X. 

Manag63  PEARL 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  pnblic  and the  press, unite in the ver­
dict that

The  ¥eher Stands Unrivaled.

Sheet  music  and  musical  merchandise. 

Everything in the musical line.

W eber Pianos, 

Fischer Pianos,

Smith Pianos, 

Est-ey Organs, 

A. B. Chase Organs,

Hillstrom  Organs,

JULIUS A. J. FRIEDRICH,

(Successor  to  Friedrich  Bros.)

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

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Successors to CURTISS &  DUNTON. 

W H O L E S A L E

P a p e r   W a r e h o u s e ,

Houseman Building,  Cor.  Pearl & Ottawa Sts.,

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

N u ts We  carry  a  large  stock  of  all 

kinds  of  Foreign  and  Domestic 
Nuts  and  are  prepared  to  sell in 
any quantity.

M IC H IG A N .

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B U 'TN A .M  &

GROCBRIBS.

WHO  ARE THEY ?

Pencil  Portraits of Grand Rapids Jobbers.

1XL.

He  is  enough of  a  Frenchman to  re­
gard England with cordial hatred, but he 
would as soon  book an  order for an  En­
glishman  as  a  Yankee,  and  he  would 
work  just as hard  to get it  out on  time. 
He  was an enthusiastic politician during 
the  campaign—and  doesn’t  want  office, 
wow  that his  side has  conquered, either. 
He began  business here on a small scale, 
and has  built it up to its present  propor­
tions  within  about  a  dozen  years.  He 
owns  the block  he does  business  in, but 
the  title to the  land  on which  the build­
ing stands runs to no one.  Who is he?

XL.

He  works six  days a week at his  desk 
and spends the major part of the seventh 
in  church and Sunday  school work.  He 
isn’ t exactly orthodox,  so far as dogma is 
«oncerned, but  he  can  pass  a  contribu­
tion  box with as much  grace as a Metho­
dist or  Baptist.  He  is  something of  an 
expert on the subject of fireworks—those 
used  in  this  world—and  is  frequently 
called  upon to  exercise his  judgment in 
this branch of knowledge.  Who is he?

XLL

It  isn’t more  than a dozen years  since 
he  was a student  in the high  school, but 
he  entered  upon  the duties of  a  jobber 
with  avidity and  has acquired no incon­
siderable  amount of  experience.  He  is 
economical  in liis  habits  and careful  in 
all  his expenditures.  He will  be a rich 
man  before  he  dies  from  his own  en­
deavors—even  if  he  shouldn’t  get  any 
outside help.  Who is he?

XLII.

He is a mighty hunter, especially about 
duck hunting time, and  some of  his cus­
tomers are  necessarily' troubled the same 
way.  He dresses  m  faultless  taste,  and 
is well  posted on all  the latest  styles in 
male  attire—his  information  extending 
even to the relative merits of labor-saving 
snow shovels.  He  is a  leader in  church 
work  and  exercises a large  influence  in 
religious affairs.  Who is he?

x l ih .

He  owns a white  horse  and a pug  dog 
and would rather write his check for S500 
than part with either one of them, 
lie is 
large-hearted, in  all  that  the  term  im­
plies,  and  will  do as  much  for a friend 
as  his  circumstances  will  permit.  He 
isn’t  exactly a prohibitionist, nor  has he 
any abiding  affection  for a  local  option 
law,  but  he  takes  things  as  they come 
and grumbles as little  as possible.  Who 
is he?

XLIV.

He  was a newspaper reporter for three 
consecutive  days, after  which no  career 
was too terrible, so he  jumped neck deep 
into the  jobbing  business,  where he  has 
acquired  additional  fame and  shekels in 
the  financial  department.  He  hasn’t 
found  it  necessary  to go  to Canada  for 
his health, but he has visited the  Bermu­
das  for  his wife’s health,  and  knows all 
about the gulf  stream, having  made sev­
eral personal contributions to that  some­
what  uncertain  tyrant.  He  isn’t as  fat 
as  some  men,  but  what  he  lacks  in 
breadth  he  makes up in  height.  Who is 
he?

XLY.

He isn’t  quite as much of  a  jobber  as 
he will  be a  little  later  on, but  he  has 
always taken an active interest in the job­
bing business—particularly for  a  couple 
or  three years  back.  He is suave in  his 
manner, courteous  in  his  treatment  of 
everyone with  whom  he comes  into con­
tact, but beneath a smiling exterior there 
lurks  a  large  amount of  self-possession 
and  a  dynamite charge of  self-assertion. 
Other  men  can  run  their  businesss  to 
salt themselves, but wherever  he has  an 
interest, things go pretty much as he says. 
If  they don’t if isn’t  long before  there is 
the
a  dissolution  notice 
papers,  and  a  new 
Who is he?

published 
deal  in  the

lions

For the first  correct  interpretation  of 
all of  the  above  personal  descriptions, 
one year’s subscription will be given.

LAST  WEEK’S  PORTRAITS.

Several 

answers  were  received  to 
last  week’s  portraits,  but  none  were 
entirely correct.  A proper interpretation 
is a follows:

31.  John  Snitzeler.
32.  Geo. R. Perry.
33.
34. 
33. 
36.

Charles C. Philbrick.
Walter A.  Smith.
Samuel Lyon.
Lucius D. Harris.
Gaius W. Perkins.
W. T.  Lamoreaux.

38.

Sustained by the Supreme  Court.

From the Allegan Gazette.
A case which has created  considerable 
interest 
in  commercial  circles  in  the 
western part of this State is that  known 
as Arthur Meigs & Co.  vs. James R.  Dib­
ble.
It will become a  leading  case  in  this 
State, as to the right,  under  our  consti­
tution and statutes, of  insolvent  debtors 
selling or mortgaging personal  property 
that would be liable to be taken  on  exe­
cution,  and with  the  proceeds  purchas­
ing a homestead and thereby placing  tfhe 
sum of 31,500 in value,  and  not  exceed­
ing forty acres of land in extent,  beyond 
the reach of existing creditors.
Mr.  Dibble  was  engaged  in  general

merchandising at the village of  Burnip’s 
Corners in this county.
Meeting with  losses  during  the  sum­
mer  of  1886,  in  October  of  that  year, 
finding himself insolvent  and  unable  to 
pay his bills that would soon be  due,  he 
purchased a farm qf forty  acres,  paying 
for it in part  by  a  chattel  mortgage  of 
32,000 on  his  stock  of  goods.  Several 
chattel mortgages  were  soon  thereafter 
given to creditors, which led to the stock 
being siezed and sold to pay the same,  so 
far as it would  apply—the  32,000  mort­
gage being the first one that was satisfied 
from the sale.
Some  Grand  Rapids  creditors,  who 
were unfortunate in not obtaining securi 
ty for  their  claims, obtained  judgments 
in the  circuit court,  and soon  thereafter 
levied writs of  execution upon the  farm, 
which in the meantime had become occu­
pied  by Mr. Dibble and  his  family,  and 
was  claimed  to be  his  homestead,  and 
consequently exempt from  levy and sale
Shortly after this a bill was filed in the 
circuit  court for the  county of  Allegan, 
in chancery, by Meigs &  Co.,  praying for 
I leave  to sell the  homestead on said  exe­
cution, Messrs. Godwin, Adsit & Dunham 
of  Grand Rapids appearing as  solicitors 
for  complainants  and  Messrs.  Pope  & 
Hart  appearing  for  defendant  Dibble. 
Several other  levies were  made upon the 
farm  but the  Meigs  case was prosecuted 
with  much  ability  and vigor  as  a  test 
case.
Formal  application  for  dissolution of 
the  attachments  had  been  denied;  but 
when  the case  came  on for  trial at  the 
December 
term,  1887,  a  decree  was 
granted by  Judge Arnold dismissing  the 
bill.  The  complainants  appealed to the 
supreme court, with the  result as stated, 
the opinion of that court having just been 
filed.  The  court  find  that  in  the  pur­
chase of  the goods  mortgaged  there wa 
no intention on the part of  Mr. Dibble to 
defraud his creditors.

Tradesmen’s Signs in Russia.

W. T. Stead in C ontem porary Review.
In Holland and Belgium the  names  ol 
the railway stations  are  given  in  three 
or four different  languages. 
In  Berlin 
and in Paris there is  more  consideration 
shown for the foreigners than in  Peters­
burg.  The Russian thinks that  in  Rus­
sia Russian suffices as  a  means  of  com­
munication. 
Fortunately  in  his  shop 
fronts he mercifully interprets his  Cyril- 
lian characters by that  original  volapuk 
of the world’s infancy,  the picture.  The 
use of signs, once  universal  in  England 
in  an  age  when  few  save  the  priest 
could read or write,  is now confined with 
us almost exclusively to the public house. 
In Russia, the number of  literates  being 
still small in  proportion  to  the  popula­
tion, the tradesman has recourse,  not  to 
signs,  but  to  the  simple  and  obvious 
expedient of painting  upon  the  outside 
walls of his establishment  more  or  less 
vivid pictures of  all  the  articles  which 
he has on sale.
The  butcher’s  front  is  covered  with 
frescoes of legs of mutton and sirloins of 
beef.  The green  grocer  glows  resplen­
dent behind a wall full  of  painted  cab­
bages,  carrots  and  turnips.  Tempting 
pictures of the warmest of fur  overcoats 
proclaims  the  dealer  in  winter  wraps. 
Some of these mural  advertisements  are 
wretched daubs, as bad as our signboards. 
But others are very fairly executed: and, 
considering the difficulty  of  the  subject 
and the stucco on which the artist has  to 
work,  the  result  is  not  unsatisfactory. 
The effect of the whole is  to  give  much 
more variety and color to  the  streets  of 
St.  Petersburg  than  we  can  boast  in 
Western capitals.
Take  Notice  and  Govern  Yourself Ac­

cordingly.

That  on  December 6 the  undersigned 
will open at Nos.  19  and 21 Sonth  Divis­
ion street the finest wholesale  and  retail 
meat market in  the State, and  will  keep 
constantly on hand all kinds of  fresh and 
salt meats, poultry, game, smoked  meats 
and pure,  unadulterated lard.

We shall do our own  slaughtering  and 
packing, and  the  public  can be assured 
that  should  they favor us with  their or­
ders, much care will  be  taken in the se­
lections,  and  all  orders will be delivered 
with promptness.

Call on us  once by our  invitation  and 

you will call again by your own desire. 
T u e W .  St e e i.e  P a c k in g  & P r o v is io n  Co
It Pays to Advertise in “The Tradesman.” 
Chas.  C.  Kritzer,  proprietor of  the Ne­

waygo Roller Mills, writes:
We have sold 10.000 pounds more “Ris­
ing Sun”  buckwheat than ever  before at 
this season of  the year, and  the time  for 
buckwheat  flour  is only  just  beginning 
now and lasts  until April.  We attribute 
a  considerable of  this  to the  advertise­
ment in T h e   T r a d e s m a n .
No  More Match Making at Grand Haven.
The Diamond Match Co. has purchased 
the plant of  the  Star  match  factory  of 
F. F.  Somers and John Hopkins and paid 
them  a  handsome  bonus  for  desisting 
from  re-engaging in the  manufacture of 
matches.  The  transfer  also  includes 
Somers’  recently-established  factory  at 
Oshkosh.

The Grocery Market.

Hard  sugars  are  a little  weaker  and 
soft  sugars  a  trifle  stronger.  Coffees 
have sustained another  advance,  causing 
the  package • manufacturers  to  advance 
their  prices  %c.  Water  white  oil  has 
declined  %c., Michigan  Test  remaining 
the same as before.

The “Anchor”  brand  still  leads  the 
van.  The “Anchor” brand  is  sold only 
by F. J. Dettenthaler, who puts the goods 
up  fresh  every  day.  Merchants  who 
have not  been  fortunate in getting good 
oysters this  season can make no mistake- 
in selecting the “Anchor”  brand.
A p p ro ach in g   a   M illion.

The  Kalamazoo 

celery  crop  will 
amount to about  3700,000  in  value  this 
year. 
It is said that more of this  money 
is hoarded in old stockings and  tin  cans 
by the cautious celery growers than  gets 
into the Kalamazoo banks.

SHORT-WEIGHT  SALT.

Why Some Houses Can Sell Cheaper than 

Others.

\s  a  reporter  of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
passed  through  the  wholesale  grocery 
house of  Ball, Barnhart  &  Putman,  one 
day last  week, he  noticed a  bag of  rock 
salt, apparently  only partially  filled,  ly­
ing against the desk of the senior partner, 
and  good-naturedly  asked if  the  house 
had gone into the  short-weight business. 
In  response  to  this  inquiry,  Mr.  Ball 
handed  the  reporter  a  letter, with a re­
quest to peruse it,  which read as follows: 

------- , Mich., Nov. 28, 1888.

Messrs. Ball. B a rn h a rt & Putm an:
D e a r   S ir s— I   have  dealt  with  your 
house eleven years and have always found 
you  to  be  square  and  reliable.  On ac­
count  of  this  fact,  and  the  reputation 
you have  established  for strict integrity, 
I  am surprised  that you  should send  me 
rock salt weighing only forty-two pounds 
per sack,  while  my arithmetic  tells  me 
that it takes  fifty-six  pounds  to  make a 
bushel. 
I  cannot think  you sent out the 
salt knowingly. 
If you did,  it is the first 
trick I ever  caught  your house  in,  and I 
have watched  all the  houses I dealt with 
constantly.  What  explanation  have you 
to offer for the short-weight salt?

Yours truly,

-------   &  Co.

PRODUCE  M A RK ET.

Apples—Fall  fruit  commands  il.25@fl.75  per 
bbl.  W inter fruit is in fair  demand  at  $1.50@f2 
per bbl.
Beans—Handlers are paying about $1.25 for un­
picked and getting $L50@$1.75  for  hand-picked.
Butter—Creamery is in fair  supply  at  26@28e. 
Dairy is scarce. No.  1  readily  commanding  20@ 
23c.
Cabbages—Home grown command $4@$5 per 100
Celery—20@*22c per,doz.
Cider—8@10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25;  produce barrels
2oC.
Cranberries—$7.75  for  Bell  and  Cherry  and 
$8.50@$9 for Bell and Bugle. 
Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried 
at 5@5%c and evaporated at 7c.
Eggs—Strictly  fresh  are  very  scarce,  readily 
commanding 22®23c.  Pickled and  cold  storage 
stock are in good demand at 21@22c.

Grapes—Catawbas, 4*4c per lb.
Honey—Scarce and hard  to  get,  readily  com­
manding 18c per lb.
Onions—Too  low  to  quote,  purchases  being 
made only speculatively.
Pop Corn—2*4c per lb.
Potatoes—The market is flat  there  apparently 
being no demand anywhere.  Buyers  are paying 
25c per bn. here and *20@22c at the principal buy­
ing points out of town.

Squash—Hubbard, le  per lb.
Sweet Potatoes—Baltimores,  $3@$3.25  per  bbl. 
Jerseys, $3@$4 per bbl.
Turnips—25c per bu.

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PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids* Packing  and Provi­

PROVISIONS.
sion Co. quotes as follows:
Mess,  old...................... 
Short cut Morgan....................................................  18 ~9
Extra clear pig, short  c u t.....................................  17 &>
Extra clear,  heavy.................................................  1» 2o
Clear quill, short c u t.............................................  W 25
Boston clear, short c u t....................................   L
Clear back, short cu t..............................................  L  25
Standard clear, short cut, best............................   1* *5

new...................................... 

514  1“
 

 

sm o k e d   m e a ts—Canvassed or Plain.

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Hams, average 20 lbs...............................
16 lbs...............................
12 to 14 lb s.......................
p icn ic.............................................
»est boneless.................................
Shoulders..................................................
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.....................
Dried Beef, extra......................................
ham prices...........................

DRY  e*ALT MEATS.

Long Clears, heavy.................................
medium...............................
lig h t....................................
l a r d —Kettle Rendered.

T ierces........................................................
Tubs.............................................................
50 lb .  T ins..................................................

la r d—Compound.

Tierces.........................................................
30 and 50 lb. T u b s.....................................
3 lb. Pails, 20 in   a  case............................
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case.............................
10 lb.  Pails, 0 in a case.............................
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case.............................
Extra Mess, w arranted 200  lbs..............
Extra Mess, Chicago  packing.
Plate.............................................
Extra Plate.................................
Boneless, rump butts..

BEEF  IX  BARRELS.

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••Thereby  hangs a tail,”  said Mr.  Ball, 
as  the  reporter  finished the  perusal  of 
tjie  letter  and  replaced it  on his  desk. 
“We have been  bothered to death for the 
past  few months  by the cuts  our travel­
ing men have been compelled to make on 
rock salt.  The  salt  costs  us 21 cents  in 
cariots  and we  ought to  get  at  least  23 
cents  to  get  out  whole.  And  yet  our 
salesmen have sold  hundreds of  sacks at 
22 cents, and even 21 cents, claiming they 
had  to do  so to meet  the prices  made br­
other  houses. 
I  know we  buy goods  as 
low as  any other  house  in the  country, 
so the cut  on salt has perplexed me more 
than a  little.  We run  out of  salt a few 
days ago and 1 borrowed fifty  sacks of  a 
neighboring  jobber.  Five  sacks of  this 
lot went to the man  who wrote the  letter 
I  just showed  you.  As  soon  as  I  had 
read it, I ascertained that  we had several 
sacks of  the borrowed  salt still on hand, 
so I caused them to be weighed. 
Instead 
of  holding out  a  bushel,  they all  regis­
tered exactly forty-two pounds, or  three- 
quarters of  a bushel, having been put up 
short-weight for  the purpose of defraud­
ing the buyer.  That explained why some 
of  our competitors could undersell  us on 
rock  salt—but  the outcome is not  at  all 
creditable to them.  We have voluntarily 
adjusted  the shortage with  those of  our 
customers  who  received  any of  the bor­
rowed  salt  and  have  already  received 
several  letters  in  response, saying  that 
Beef,  carcass............
hindquarters. 
such  an action is ‘just like  our house’— 
fore 
all of  which is very  gratifying  to  us,  as
the  standing  we  have  acquired 1  pork  loin
showing 
1UÏstion of quality and  weight.”
on  this
Effect  of the  Sugar  Trust.

HAUSAGE-
Pork Sausage...........
Ham Sausage...........
Tongue Sausage—  
Frankfort  Sausage.
Blood Sausage........
Bologna, straight...
Bologna,  th ick .......
Head Cheese............
In half barrels.........
In quarter  barrels..

In half  barrels.......
In quarter barrels.. 
In  k its.......................

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Hogs

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F R E S H   M EATS.

b b l .............................
-Fresh and Smoked.

.........10&.
.........11
.........11«
.........9«
.......... 12*4
...........914
.......11
.........8
..........   9

.........  WÎ4

.........
.........  iHii
.........  Wi
.........  ««
.........  fv.-a
..........   9
.........  SJs
.........  8*£
8J4

.......  »  00

.10 50 
.  5 50

.3 50 
.2 00

® 5ÎÜ 
;@ o
@ 4 © ti 
@ 9*4 @ 7*4 
@ 5 
@ 8*4 
©. 5
*»

1-10

6X@;
6J£
m
694
6?4@13-16 
7 1-160.13-10
7*4 m
September.  6?4@?s
October ...  7*4 
INovember.  7*4

The Sugar  Trust fairly got its machin­
ery in motion in January, 1887.  The fol­
lowing  table,  compiled  from  the  trade 
bulletins of  Willett  &  Hamlin,  a  recog­
nized authority,  shows  the prices  which 
have  prevailed  on  granulated  sugar  in | 
the  meantime,  subject  to  very  slight' 
fractional variations:
!  1888.
1887.
January.
Jan u ary ...  511-16 
February 
February..  511-16®;
M arch...
M arch.......511-16
April......
A p ril.........5*4
I May........
May...........   511-16
June......
J u n e ........  513-16
Ju ly ..........   513-16© 15-16 Ju ly ...
A ugust....  5 15-16@6*a  August 
September.  6 7-16 
October....  57à@6*4 
November.  6*¿@12-16 
It will be seen that from January, 1887. 
to November,  1888,  the  price  has  been 
advanced a little more than l}4 cents per 
pound.  The  average  advance  for  the 
whole  time  has  been  more  than 1 cent 
per pound.  That doesn’t look like a very 
great  advance,  perhaps, but  it  means a 
good deal.  Official  statistics  show  that 
the consumption of  refined  sugar in this 
country 
is  upward  of  3,000,000,000 
pounds annually.  One cent  per  pound, 
therefore, means 830,000,000 a year.  The 
actual  advance, which is nearer 1% than 
1 cent,  means  337,500,000 a  year.  That 
is no small sum  to  take  from  wholesale 
purchasers  and  put  into  the pockets of 
the eleven men in the trust and four out­
side of  it, or fifteen in all.  It is 82,500,000 
on  the  average  to  each  of  the  fifteen. 
To  consumers  it  means a larger tax, for 
retailers’  profits  must  be  made  on  the 
enhanced price, and  that  adds  not  less 
than  34,000,000,  and  probably  nearer 
310,000,000, to thé  burden of  837,500,000 
imposed by the Trust.
the 
Trust has it in its  power to fix the  price 
of  sugar at whatever  extortionate  figure 
it pleases.  Such, however,  is not a fact. 
The tariff  margin given  the  refiners sets 
the limit to tile  extortion.  Thai;  margin 
is the difference between the average tar­
iff  tax  on  raw  sugars  imported  by  re­
finers and the tariff tax on refined sugars. 
The average tax on raw  sugars is not far 
from 2Js  cents per pound, while  the  tax 
on refined  sugars is 
cents.  The dif­
ference of  1% cents  sets the limit to the 
Trust  extortion, because if  the  conspir­
ators  exceed  that  limit  foreign  refined 
sugars  can  come  into  the market.  Al­
lowing  for 
transportation  and  other 
charges upon  imported sugars  the  mar­
gin is not to exceed 1 }4  cents per pound, 
which upon  our  annual  consumption is 
fully  345,000,000  a  year.  The  Trust 
seems to have worked up  to  the  margin 
as close  as  it  could  without  letting  in 
foreign refined sugars.
And  this  suggests  the  one  effective 
way to  break  up  the  Trust.  Let  Con­
gress  simply cut down the refiner’s mar­
gin of  protection  from  1% cents to % or 
ii  cent  and  the  thing  is  done.  The 
Trust  would  dissolve  at  once,  because 
the  motive  for  its  existence  would  be 
gone.  The  lawyers  wouldn’t  make  so 
much,  because  there  would  be no trust 
to  go  to  law  about.  But  the  people 
would be more  effectively protected than 
they ever  will  or  can* be so long as the 
tariff  margin  supplies  a  motive of  com­
bination.

It  is  commonly  supposed  that 

shoulders...................................
Bologna..................................................
Frankfort  sausage...............................
Blood, liver and head sausage..........
M utton......................................................... 4 

OYSTERS and  FISH.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

O Y STERS  IN   C A SS.

S tandards....................................................  @R>
A nchors.......................................................
Selects....................................................... - —I  ©27
Fairhaven Counts......................................  
©35

OYSTERS IN BULK.

S tandards.............................................................  1  00
Selects....................................................................  1  40
C lam s....................................................................   1  25

FRESH  FISH.

Black  Bass...........................................
Trent.........................................
W hitefish...............................................
smoked.................................
Perch..............  .....................................

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@12*4 
@  7 
©  7 
@10 
* j@ 4

CANDIES,  FRUITS  am i  NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as foil  w;

Standard, 25 lb. boxes.....................................9@  9*
25 
Twist, 
..........................................10
..........................................11
Cut Loaf,  25 
MIXED.

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Royal, 25 lb. p ails...........  .............
2001b.  bbls............................
Extra, 25 lb.  pails............................
2001b.  bbls............................
French Cream, 25 lb.  p ails..  .......
Cut Loaf, 25 lb. cases.....................
Broken, 25 lb. Pails.......................
2001b. bbls..........................

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9*i@;10
.........9
. .10@10*4
.......9*4
.. 12@12*4
........11
.........11
..........10

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

 

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Lemon Drops..........................................................13
Sour D rops..............................................................14
Peppermint Drops................................................. 14
Chocolate Drops.....................................................15
H. M. Chocolate  Drops.........................................18
Gum  Drops............................................. 
10
Licorice Drops........................................................18
A. B. Licorice  Drops............................................ 12
Lozeuges, plain...................................................... 14
printed................................................. 15
Im perials.................................................................14
M ottoes...................................................................15
Cream B ar............................................................... 13
Molasses  B ar..........................................................13
C aram els.................................................................19
Hand Made  Creams..............................................19
Plain Creams..................................................— 16
Decorated Creams................................................. 20
String  Rock............................................................14
Burnt Almonds...................................................... 22
W intergreen  Berries............................................ 14

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fancy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, in  pails..................................... 12
in bbls.......................................11
printed, In pails..................................13
in bbls................................... 12
Chocolate Drops, in pails..................................... 12
Gum Drops, in pails.............................................   6*4
in bbls...............................................  5*4
Moss Drops, in pails..............................................10
in  bbls...............................................  9*4
Sour Drops, in pails..............................................12
Imperials, in pails.......................... 
12
11

in bbls.

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FRUITS.
Bananas...................................
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.........
Lemons, choice.......................
“ 
fa n c y .......................
Figs, layers,  new ...................
“  Bags, 50 lb .....................
Dates, frails, 50 lb .................
“  K frails, 50 lb ............
Fard, 10-lb.  box.........
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“ 
Persian, 50-lb.  box...

50-lb.  “ 

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Almonds,  Tarragona.
Ivaca..........
California.
Brazils.......  ................
Filberts,  Sicily...........
W alnuts, Grenoble...
F rench.......
Pecans, Texas, H. P ..
Cocoanuts, per 100----
C hestnuts...................

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PEANUTS.

S to rk ......................................
Fancy, H. P.................................
Choice White,  V irginia..........
Fancy H.  P., 
..........
E xtra 
..........

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$@@3  50 
@4 00 
.  11@15© 6 
©  4*4 
@5*4 
@10 
@ 8*4 
.  6*4@ 8

@17 
@15 
@14 
-  .‘*4@ 8 
@11 
• 13*4@14 
@12
.  8  @12 
@4  50 
-  @2 50

@  5*4 @ 6*| © 5 
@ 7 @ 5

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*4 lb. 
“ 
“  H lb. 
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lib . 
51b. 

Arctic, *4 lb. cans, 6  doz.
.
.
.
.

45
“ 
4 “ 
.  1  40 
“  2 “ 
.  2 40 
“  2 “ 
“ 
1 “ 
.12  00
Absolute, *4 lb. cans, 100s. .11  75 
“  50s..  10 00
“  50s..18  75
T elfers,  *4 lb. cans, 6doz.  2  70
“  3 
-----
1  50 
“  1
75 
Acme, *4 lb. cans, 3 doz
1  50 
2  “
3 00 
1  "
20 
45 
85 
1  DO

*4 lb. 
lib . 
*4 lb. 
1 lb. 
*4 lb.  “ 
1 lb.  " 
bulk............................
Red Star,  '4 lb. cans. 12 doz 

“  6  “
“  4  "

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‘ 41b. 
1 lb. 
BATH BRICK.

15 25

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00
2 50

BUTTERINE. 

BUCKWHEAT.

9(1 
1  00 
3  50 
3 00
.5 00

English, 2 doz. in case.......
Bristol,  2  “ 
.......
American, 2 doz. in case...
BROOMS.
No. 2 H url.............................
..............................
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet..........................
No.  1 
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Parlor Gem............................
Common W hisk...................
Fanev 
...................
M ill........................................
W arehouse............................
Kings 100 lb. cases..............
80  lb. cases................
Dairy, solid  packed............
rolls............................
Creamery, solid packed —
ro lls....................
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes................
Star,  40 
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Paraffine...............................
W icking.................................
CANNED GOODS—F isll.
Clams, 1 lb, Little Neck —
Clam Chowder, 3  lb ............
Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stan d ...
“ 
21b. 
...
Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic...........
2  lb.  “ 
...........
1 lb.  Star................
2  lb. Star................
Mackerel; in Tomato Sauce.
lib .  stand............ 12
2  lb. 
............2 00
3 lb. in M ustard.. .3 00
..3 00
3 lb.  soused .
Salmon, 1 lb.  Columbia.. 
21b.
.3
.1  70
1 lb. Sacramenti
2 lb.
Sardines, domestic  ?4s ...

1  00 
1  60
1  50
2  ti
1  90
2  90

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.10@1 
. 10012

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CANNED GOODS—Fl'UitS.

“  Mustard 
imported 
*• 
“ 
spiced,  *js 
Trout, 3  lb. brook..
Apples, gallons,  stand......... 2 00
Blackberries,  stand...............1  00
Cherries, red standard......... 2  50
p itte d ....................... 2 60
D am sons..................................1  00
Egg Plums, stand
Gooseberries...........................I  40
G rapes.......
Green  Gages...........................1  40
Peaches, all  yellow, stand. .1  4:
seconds....................1  2T
P ie ............................. 100
Pears............................. 
l   30
Pineapples......................1 10@1  21
Q uinces....................................1  50
Raspberries,  ex tra................ 1  2i
red .....................2 2
Straw berries..................1 10@1  21
W hortleberries....................... 1  20

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CANNED VEGETABLE

soaked

“  sifted......................1

Corn, Archer’s Trophy—

Asparagus, Oyster Bay..........1  80
Beans, Lima,  stand...............1  (Jt
••  Green  Lim as—   @1  1
“   String..................  @  9
Stringlesg,  E rie..........   90
"  Lewis’ Boston Baked.. 1  45 
“ 
“  Morn’g Glory. 1  10
“ 
Early  G old...l  10
“ 
Peas, French...........................1  2i
“  extra m arrofat...  @ 110
“ 
“  June, stand.......... 1 40@1  50
“ 
“  French, extra  fine— 20 00
Mushrooms, extra fine........20 00
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden......... 1  00
Succotash,  standard__   @.l  30
S quash.....................................1  25
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat..  @1  10
Good Enough —  1  10
B enH ar.................1  10
stand  br___1  05@1  10
Michigan Full Cream  12  @12 
Sap  Sago....................... 18  @20
:
Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet 
Premium....... 
I
••  Horn-Cocoa...  37
■*  B reakfast__   48

CHOCOLATE.

CHEESE.

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200  “ 

CHICORY.

c o f f e e —Green.

Rubber,  100 lumps..............  25
35
Spruce......................................30
B ulk.........................................   6
R ed...........................................  7!
Rio, fa ir.........................16  @17
“  good....................... 17  @18
“  prime......................18  @19
“  fancy,  w ashed.. .19  @20
“  golden....................20  @21
Santos...................... 
Mexican & Guatemala 17  @19
Peaberry....................... 17  @19
Java,  Interior.............. 20  @22
fancy..................23  @25
.  “  M andheling__ 26  ©28
Mocha, genuine.......... 25  @26
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add J4e. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.

15 @18

c o f f e e s —Package.

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30 lbs  60 lbs

100 lbs
Lion..........................................215.4
“  in cab in ets.....................22*4
Dil worth’s ...............................2194
Magnolia.................................21*4
Acme...................2094  203s  21
G erm an...................................21*4
b in s ..........................22
Arbuckle’s Ariosa.................21*4
Avorica..............19*4
McLaughlin’s  XXXX..........2194
Honey  Bee............................. 23
Nox  All  .................................22
O  B ......................................... 21
T iger........................................21
Arbuckle’s Avorica............. 19*4
Quaker  City__ 20*4
Best  R io............21*4
Prime Marieabo 24

’ coffees—50 lb. bags.
“ 
“ 
“ 

COFFEE EXTRACT.

Valley City............................ 
75
F elix ........................................  1  10

CLOTHES  LINES.

“

“ 
“ 
“ 
Ju te 

Cotton,  4 0 ft.......... perdoz.  1  25
1 50 
1 60
2  00 
2  25 1 00 
1 15
7  60 
6 00

50 f t...
60 f t .......... 
70 f t ..........
80 f t ..........
60 f t .......... 
7 2 f f .........
CONDENSED MILK.
E agle...........A ....................
Anglo-Swiss......................

“

CRACKERS.
“ 

Kenosha B utter................
Seymour 
................
B utter.................................
“  family......................
“  fancy .......................
“  b iscu it.....................
Boston.................................
City Soda...........................
Soda.....................................
“  fa n c y ........................
S. O yster............................

S Y R U PS.

City Oyster, XXX...................  7
Picnic.......................................  7

“ 
“ 

9*4
9
9

TEAS.

Foreign. 

SUN  CURED.

evaporated 

gunpow der.

BASKET  FIRED.

CREAM TARTAR.

J a pa n—Regular.

@33 
@25 
@   5‘ 
14 
14

boneless...................7*

.......39
.39@41
.......39
.......40
.......40
.......40
.......40

DRIED  FRUITS-
“ 

.26@28 
,28@39 
1  30 
.29@33 
. tll@Æ
XXX9*49*4

Corn,  barrels...................
one-half  barrels..
kegs........................
Pure  Sugar, bl>l.................
■■ 
half barrel..
SW E E T   GOODS. >
Ginger Snaps................9
Sugar  Creams..............9
Frosted  Creams..........
Graham  Crackers.......
Oatmeal  Crackers.......
tobaccos—Ping.
I Clipper  ........................
j C lim ax.............................
Corner Stone...................
Double  Pedro..................
| W hopper..........................
Peach  H e ........................
W e d d in g   Cake,  b lk ........

anc-y Oyster..........................   6*4
Strictly  p ure........................  
38
Grocers’ . . . ............................ 
24
d r ie d  f r u it s —Domestic. 
Apples, sun-dried.......5*4@  6
@
16
Apricots, 
“
Blackberries “
Nectarines  ”
Peaches 
Plums
Raspberries  ••
litron, in  drum ..........
in boxes..........
'urrants........................
4m on  Peel.................
Orange Peel.................
Prunes,  T urkey..........
© 6*3-a  I  Fair ... 
Imperial  ......
Raisins,  V alencias..........
Ondaras..............
%  I  Good .. 
Domestic Layers 
Choice. 
00
Loose California
Choice:
FARINACEOUS  GOODS
..  04 I 
arina, 100' lb.  kegs.........
Fair .
.4 00 
Hominy,  per  bbl..............
G ood............................... 10  @20
..  60 
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box.
Choice..............................24  @28
im ported.......
©10 
Choicest.......................w.30  @33
!
©,  3 
Pearl  Barley................
@1 40 i
green...................
F a ir ...............................   @20
iplit......................
Choice............................  @25
Sago,  German..............
Choicest........................   @35
@ 6*, 
Tapioca, fl’k or  p 'rl...
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40 
@ 6*4
Wheat,  cracked...........
Vermicelli,  im port—   <
Common to  fa ir............25  @35
1
domestic... 
Extra fine to finest___ 50  @65
Choicest fancy..............73  @85
F IS H — SA LT.
tod, w hole......................
,©7i
Common to  fa ir............20  @35
H alibut-............................
Superior to fine..............40  @50
Herring,  round,  1 i  bbl..
bbl.. 
Common to  fa ir............18  @26
Holland,  bbls.. 
Superior to  fine............30  @40
Holland, kegs..
Scaled..............
Common to  fa ir............25  @30
bbl..
Superior to  fine............30  ©50
-  12  lb  kit 
Fine to choicest............55  ©65
"  10
Fair .
.25  © 30 
.30  ©35 
Choice........................
. 55  @65 
B est............................
Tea  D ust...................
.  8  @10 
tobaccos—Fin i
Cut.
Sweet Pippin............
50
Five and  Seven.......
50
H iaw atha.................
Sweet  Cuba..............
Petoskey C hief.........
Sweet Russet............
T h istle.......................
Florida.......................
Rose  Leaf.................
Red Domino..............
Swamp  A ngel..........
T R A D ESM A N  CRED IT 
$ 2, per  hundred__
$10.’  ■■
$20.  " 
rtubje 
counts:
200 o r '
500
1000  ••
30 g r..........................................  !)*•.;
40 g r......................................... li
50 g r......................................... 12
Above are the prices  fixed by 
the  pool.  M anufacturers  out­
side the pool  usually  sell  5 gr. 
stronger goods at same prices.

Trout,  *4  bbls..............
10  lb.  k its.........
White,  No.  1. *4 bbls..
12 ib.  kit 
10  lb.  kit
Family.  ‘4  bbls 
k its__
GUN  POWDER.
K eg s..................... ........
Half  kegs.....................
LAMP  r.l KNK!

40 
42
6566 
3« 
40
DNS.
..............  2 59
........   3 00
...........4 ai
..............5 00
illowing  dis-
.  5  per  cent.
.10
.20

1  50 
10 00 
@85 
30 
.9 50 
.1  45 
.1  35 
©3 OO 
..  80 
. .  6  00 
..1  15 
. .1 00 
.3  00 
53© 65

Mack,  sh’s. No. 1, 

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

YO U N G   H Y SO N .

IP   I  H IM N EY S.

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG.

“ 

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" 

lb. sacks—  23

6

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M OLASSES.

LICORICE.

JIIN C E   M EAT.

. 10@>17 
22@25 
24@35 
25@30 
,33@40 
.45©. 4.8

No. 0  ....
No.  1  ....
No. 2 ....
No. 0.......
No. 1.......
No. 2.  ...
Pure.......
Calabria............................
Sicily.................................
B uckets............................
Half bbls..........................
Black  Strap.....................
Cuba  Baking...................
Porto  Rico.......................
New Orleans, good.........
choice 
fancy........
One-half barrels, 3c ex
O A TM EAL.
Muscatine,  B arrels.......
Half barrels. 
Cases..........ssi
Muscatine, Barrels........
Half barrels.
Cases.........2
Michigan  T est...............
W ater  W hite...................
Medium............................
*4 b b l..............
Small,  bbf........................
'4  b b l.....................
Clay, No.  216...................
“  T.  D. full count__
Cob. No.  3 ........................
Carolina head...........................6"4
No. 1...........................6*4
No. 2 ..................59i©6
No. 3  . :.................'.5*4

.6 00 
.3 15 
*2  35
.10*4 
. 12?4

R O L L E D   OATS

•• 
“ 

P IC K L E S .

RICE.

P IP E S .

•• 
“ 
“ 

O IL.

“ 

’• 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

cariots.. 

9ALKRATVS.

J a p a n ........................................ 3*4
DeLand’s,  pure....................... 5*4
Cuarch’s, C ap  Sheaf.............. 5
Dwight’s ................................... 5
Taylor’s ..................................... 5
SALT
Common Fine per bbl..........   82
80
“ 
Solar  Rock, 56 
28 pocket.................................2 00
60 
.................................2  10
100 
.................................2 20
Ashton bu. b a g s...................   75
 
Higgins  •’ 
75
Warsaw *‘ 
...................   35
Kegs.........................................   *4
Granulated,  boxes...................  1 4
K itchen,3 doz.  in b o x .  ...  2  35
Hand, 
  2  35
Silver Thread, 30 gal............3 50
-40  “  ............4  50
SEEDS.

3  “ 
SAUERKRAUT.
•• 

’* 
•* 
SAL  SODA.

SAPOLIO.
" 

 

 

SNUFF.

Mixed bird .............................4*4
Caraway.................................. 10
Canary *...................................   4
Hemp.......................................  4*4
Anise.......................................   8*4
R ape.......................................   4*j
M ustard..................................  7*4
Scotch, in  bladders............. 37
Maccaboy, in ja rs.................35
French  Rappee, in J a rs .......43
Dingman,  100  bars...............4 00
Don’t  Anti-W ashboard.......4 75
J a x o n ..................................... 3 75
Queen  A nne......................... 3 85
German fam ily......................2 40
Big Bargain........................... 1  87
B oxes..................................... .5 *4
Kegs, English__ '.................494

SODA:

SOAP.

spices—Whole.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Pepper, Singapore, black — 18*4

Allspice..................................10
Cassia, China in m ats...........  7*4
Batavia in b u n d ___11
Saigon in  rolls......... 42
Cloves,  Amboyna..................30
Zanzibar....................24
Mace  B atavia.......................70
Nutmegs, faficy....................70
“  No.  1..........................65
“  No.  2..........................60
“ 
w hite.......28
“ 
shot............................ 31
spices—Ground—In Bulk.
A llspice................................. 15
Cassia,  B atavia................... 20
and  Saigon.25
“ 
“  Saigon.......................42
Cloves,  Amboyna................35
“ 
Zanzibar..................28
Ginger, A frican................... 12*4
••  Cochin....................... 15
Jam aica..................18
“ 
Mace  B atavia.......................80
Mustard,  English..................22
“ 
and T rie..25
“  Trieste....................... 27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ................... 70
Pepper, Singapore, black — 22
w hite.......30
Cayenne..................25

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STARCH.

“ 

Mystic, 1 lb.  pkgs.................   7
barrels......................   6
@  8*4@ 7*6
(©
.'6
©7@
@
@  7@ 694@ 6?s
@ 6*4 @ 6*i 
@ 6

SU G A RS.
Cut  Loaf.....................
C ubes.........................
Pow dered...................
Granulated,  Stand...
O ff.........
Confectionery  A .......
Standard  A ................
No. 1, W hite Extra C.
No. 2 E xtra  C............
No. 3 C, golden..........
No. 4 C, d ark ..............
No. 5  C'........................

“ 

$1 for barrel.

M ISC ELLA N EO U S.

Cocoa Shells,  bulk..............  3*4
Jelly, 30-lb.  pails..................  4*4
Sage........................................ 
15
P A P E R ,  WOODEN W ARE. 

P A P E R .

Curtiss  &  Co.  quetf
fo llo w s:
S tra w ....................................
“  Light  W eight............
S u g a r.....................................
Rag  Sugar  ............................
H ardw are.............................
B akers...................................
Dry  Goods............................
Ju te  M anilla........................
Red  Expre

s, No. 1. 
No. 2.
TW IN ES.

 

splint 

WHEAT.

□ a” 
Baskets, m arket...................  
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
’• 
“ 

48 Cotton. 
Cotton, Ni
Sea  Island, assorted__
No. 5 H em p .....................
No.  8 B ..............................
W ool.................................
W OODEN W A K E .
Tubs, No. 1......................
“  No. 2.......................
“  No. 3.......................
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop...
1  60 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop. 
1  75 
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.
60 
I 00
Bowls, il inch.................
1  25
15 
.................
• 
2  00
........................  2 75
17  ” 
assorted, 17s and  17s  2 DO 
"  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
40
b u sh el 
1 60
“  w ith covers  1 90
willow cl'ths, No.l  5 50
“ 
“  No.2  6  00
“  No.3  7  00
“ 
••  No.l  3 50
“ 
“  No.2  4  25
“  No.3  5 00
\  
G RAINS and FE E D  STUFFS
95
W h ite .............................
95
Red................................. .
..  5  50
Straight, in  sacks.........
•’  barrels....... ...  5 70
Patent 
••  sacks.........
..  6 50
••  barrels....... ...  6  70
Bolted.............................. ...  2 80
Granulated.....................
..  3 60
MILLSTUFFS.
..  15  00
Bran.................................
sh ip s................................ .  .  16 00
Screenings..................... ...  14  00
M iddlings....................... ...  17  00
Mixed  F eed................... ...  17  75
50
Small  lots.......................
Car 
.......................
47
32
Small  lots.......................
30
Car 
**  .......................
No. 1, per 100 lb s ........... ...  2 00
No.  1................................. ...  1  30
No. 2................................ ...  1  10
No.  1................................. ...  13  50
No.2................................ ...  12 50
H ID E S ,  PE L T S  ancl FURS.
P e rk in s   &  H ess n a y   as

BARLEY.

FLOUR.

MEAL.

CORN.

HAY.

RYE.

“ 

“ 

HIDES.

fo llo w s:
G reen ............................ 5  @ 5*4
Part  Cured................... 5*4®  G
................... 6  @  6*4
Full 
Dry.................................  6  @ 8
Dry  K ip s .....................  6  @ 8
Calfskins,  green......... 
®  5
cured.........  5*4@ 6
Deacon skins................10  @25 ■

“ 

“ 

*4 off for No. 2.

PELTS.

FURS.

Shearlings.....................10  @30
Estimated wool, per Jb 20  @28
M in k ................................  
5@ 65
Coon.................................. 
5@7 00
5@1 10
Skunk............................... 
1@ 15
M uskrat...........................  
Fox, red...........................  
5@1 50
“  cross.......................  50@5 00
5@ 80
“  grey.........................  
Cat,  house.......................  
5@ 25
“  w ild.........................  
5@ 50
F isher........................... 1  00@6 00
L ynx................................   5C@3 00
Martin,  d ark .................   25@3 00
pale...................   10@1 00
O tte r................................  50®8 00
W olf................................   50@3 00
B ear...............................   50© 20 00
B eaver......................  
 
B adger............................. 
5@1 00
Deerskins, per lb......... 
5@  40
MISCELLANEOUS.
T allow ..........................  4*4©
Grease  butter..............  8 @ 8
Sw itches...........................   2 @ 2:
Ginseng........................2 G0@2  10

“ 

Wholesale Price  Current*

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

■pay promptly and buy in full packages.

BAKING  POWDER.

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G.  M.  MUNGKR  &  CO..
Successors to Allen’s Laundry.
Mail and  Express orders  attended  to with 

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p:Omptne-8.  N ice  W ork,Q uick T im e 

satisfaction Guaranteed.

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M anager.

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FINEST and LARGEST SMOKE
For th e  m oney in  th e  TJ. S.  i a r  P ut up 60 in  a  box.  Ask 
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__________________ Send fo r prices._________________

your dealer fo r them .  M anufactured only by 

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R oom  8 Shepard-H artm an  Blk.,

Business  College*
Offers the most reasonable terms,  the  most  com­
fortable rooms, the  best  disciplined  school, and 
the most extensive course of  study  in  commer­
cial  branches.  J.  W.  WELTON,  Prop.,  for  10 
years Principal of Swensberg's Business College.
A C T U A L   B U S I N E S S
D P   A  r ’T T r ' T r   at  the  Grand  Rapids 
r
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ucates pupils to transact and  record  business as 
it is done bv our best  business  houses. 
It  pays 
to go to  the  best.  Shorthand  and  Typewriting 
also thoroughly taught.  Send for circular.  Ad 
dress A.  8.  P A R IS H ,  successor to O.  G. Swens- 
berg.

HOURS

BY ONE MAN.  G reatly  im proved.  Also  TOOL 
fo r filing saws  whereby  those  least  experienced  can­
n o t  m ake  a   m istake.  Sent  fre e   w ith   machine.  To 
others, for  common  eross-ent  saws, by  mall  $2.00.  Hun­
d reds have sawed 5 to 9 CORDS daily,  We w an t all who 
bu rn  wood and  all interested in th e tim ber business to  
w rite  fo r o u r Illu strated  fre e  Catalogue.  We have ex­
actly  w hat you w ant, th e  g reatest labor-saver an d  best­
selling tool now on earth .  F irst order from  y o u r vicin­
ity  secures agency.  No d uty to  pav.  W e m anufacture 
in   Canada.  FOLDING  SAWING MACHINE CO., 803  to 811 
So, Canal Street, Chicago, II. 3. A.

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The  m ost practical 
h and  R oaster  in  the 
world.  Thousands in 
use—griViiig  satisfac­
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d urable an d  econom ­
ical. 
tfrocer 
should  be  w ithout 
one.  R oasts  coffee 
 and  pea-nuts to   per 
fection.

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Address  for  C ata 

logue and prices,

RoM.  8.  West,

48-50 Long St., 

C leveland,  Ohio.

Every  garment  bearing  the  auove  ticket  is 
WARRANTED  NOT  TO  RIP, and,  if  not as re­
presented, you are requested  to  return  it to the 
Merchant of whom it was purchased and receive 
a new garment.
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M anufacturers,  D etroit,  M ich.

MOVED.

TH E  GRAND  R A PID S

PAPER  BOX  FACTORY,

W.  W.  HUELSTER,  Proprietor,

Formerly  located at 11 Pearl St., has been 
removed to
81  &  8 3  C a m p a u  St.
C'or. Louis, where I shall have more room 
and far better facilities for  the m anufac­
ture of PaDer  Boxes.
All work  guaranteed  first  class and at 
the lowest rates.  Write or  call  for  esti­
mates.  Telephone 850.

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SALT  FISH.

50@6 00

Mail Orders  Receive  Prompt 

Attention.

Column.

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Drugs 0  Medicines.

$ta<e  B o a r d   o f  J’ fm rm a cy*

One Y ear—Jam es V eraor, D etroit.
Two Y ears—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Three Y ears—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
F o u r Y ears— Stanley E. P arkill.  Owosso.
Five  Years—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
P resident—Geo. McDonald 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jas.  Vernor.
Next M eeting—At  Lansing,  on  November  6,  7 and 8. 
Candidate« will  please rep o rt a t 9 a. m. th e  second day 
__________________________
of m eeting. 
M ichigan  sta te  P h arm aceu tical  Ass'll. 

President—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
F irst Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, L ansing.
Second Vice-President- H. M  Dean, Niles.
T hird Vice-President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—Wm D upont, Detroit.
Executive Com mittee—A. H. Lym an,  M anistee;  A. Bas­
sett.  D etroit: K. J.  W urzburg,  G rand Rapids;  W.  A. 
Hall. Greenville;  E. T.  W ebb, Jackson.

Local Secretary—A. Bassett, Detroit.___________

Grand  Rapids  P h arm aceutical  Society. 
President. J. W. H ayw ard,  S ecretary, F ran k  H. Esoott.

D etroit P h arm aceutical  Society 

President. J. W. Caldwell.  Secretary, B. W. P atterson.

U uskegon  D rug  Clerks’  association 

President. Geo.  L, LeFevre.  S ecretary, Jno. A. Tinholt.

The  Pharmaceutical  Gladuate.

At midnight, in his darkened  store,
When Ph. G., with all its lore.

The clerk was dreaming of the hour
To his fair name should add its power.

ills dream  was bright, a smile he bore.
As neardr to the goal he drew.
And fancy, winged with gay galore, 
Passed all exam inations through.
The thesis, too (that thing of pain).
Was treated in a blithesome mood.
And e’en the trustees tried in vain 
His soaring spirit to preclude.

And to his mind each task was passed,
And graduation night,  at last,

His  invitations all dispatched,
Had seen his counted chickens hatched.

Bright morning came, the clerk awoke 
A letter came, its seal he broke—

To go about his business;
W hat means this sudden dizziness?

Cnfeeling card 1  Oh, cruel fa te !
For we, the class of ’88,

’Tis hard to speak about him,
Must graduate without him.

So, classmates kind, this boon I ask :
For him who undertook the task,

Pray drop a silent  tear
But failed to pass, this year.

Some  of the  Trials  of Drug  Clerks.
“I  wonder  why  it  is  that  people  in 
quest of  information always go to a drug 
--tore,”  said a druggist’s clerk  the  other 
«lay to a reporter.  “A grocer or a butcher 
is usually much  better  acquainted  with 
the  neighborhood  and  its  affairs,  ne 
knows  all  his  customers  by  name  and 
where they live.  We d®  not  employ de­
livery  wagons  to  send  out  goods,  and 
therefore  don’t  trouble  ourselves about 
the  addresses  of  customers.  Yet  nine 
times out of  ten if  a stranger  appears in 
the  neighborhood  and  wants to find out 
where  a  certain  person  lives,  the  first 
place he will stop to  make inquiries will 
be at the drug  store.  Of  course  we can 
help him out if  the  name is in the direc­
tory—we keep a directory for the accom­
modation of  strangers  rather  than  our­
selves—but  otherwise  we  direct  him  to 
the grocer.
“The amount of time we spend  in  an­
swering questions is,  I  venture  to  say, 
four times as great as that devoted to the 
same purpose by people in other  lines of 
business.  And such questions!  Only the 
other day a domestic in a family  living a 
few doors above  nearly  paralyzed me by 
dropping in  and propounding  the query: 
“ Ts this a drug store?’
“On my assuring her that such was the 
nature of the place, she ventured  to  ask 
if she  could  purchase a 5  cent  postage 
stamp,  she got the  stamp, stuck it on a 
letter and then handed  me  the  missive 
with the request that I  send it as soon as 
possible. 
I had to explain that the trans­
mission of mail matter  was not a part of 
my  business,  but  pointed  out to her a 
street letter-box, and gave her minute .di­
rections how to get the.letter inside.  She. 
then  left,  after  extracting  from  me a 
faithful promise to call  the  attention of 
the postman on his rounds to that partic­
ular box,  so he wouldn’t  forget,  because 
she wanted  the letter to  start “quite- im­
mediate."
“She  was  a  reeent  importation,  of 
course;  but  people  who  have  lived  all 
their days in the  country often make re­
quests of  us that are quite absurd.  Peo­
ple consult me about their  ailments as if 
I  were  a  regular  physician,  and  seem 
surprised when 1 tell  them  it is  not  my 
business to prescribe remedies.  Children, 
too.  bother us not a little.  Their parents 
send  them  with  bottles to be filled, and 
the  youngsters are quite  likely to forget 
what is wanted before they get  here.  A 
little  one  came  and  asked  me  for ‘ten 
cents’ worth of  medicine.’  That  wasn’t 
very definite, so 1 asked :

“ ‘What kind of  medicine ?’
‘“ Some that smells bad.’
“Still  in  the  dark,  1 asked  what  the 
medicine was called.
“The child  pondered a minute or two, 
and then said,  ‘carbonassie.’
“That  was  puzzling,  but  just  then I 
happened  to  catch  sight  of  a bottle  in 
I took it and  noticed  that it 
her  hand. 
was labeled ‘Carbolic Acid;’  then I knew 
what was wanted. 
If  people  who  send 
children for  drugs  would  only take the 
precaution  to  write  down  their  wants 
they would spare us no end  of  trouble.”

Miscellaneous  Drug  Notes.

Arkansas  druggists  propose  to  work 
for  the  enactment  of  a  pharmacy  law 
this winter.
The National Formulary costs seventy- 
five cents, and contains 435 formulas.  Its 
popularity is shown by the  faet  that the 
first  editions  were  exhausted  in  a  few 
days.
A  writer  in  Pharm. Zeit  advises  the 
purchasing  of  leeches  in  the  time  be­
tween  September  and  April, as  he  has 
found  them  to  be then of  a hardier na­
ture,  and  not  so  liable to be affected by 
the hot summer months.
Another victim to pharmaceutical care­
lessness,  as  chronicled  in  Pharm. Post, 
is a prescription clerk in a small town in 
Germany.  He  tried  to  triturate  in  a 
mortar a prescription containing chlorate 
of  potassium, tannin  and  oil of  pepper­
mint,  and as a result he carries his hands 
in a sling and  his  head  in a bale of  cot­
ton.
A  druggist  filled  an ‘order  for  1 oz. 
Iodine Potasom, 25 cts of  Pars  greun, 25 
cts of  Carbolick  assit.
“ In physic as in fashion, we find
The newest is ever the rage of  m ankind.’'
Attention  is  directed to the  advertise­
ment of  the Alma  Ladies’ College, of St. 
Thomas,  Ont.,  on  another  page  of  this 
issue.

Wanted to Pay.

A Memphis  merchant, upon  meeting a 
man  in  the  street, asked  him  when  he 
was coming  around and  pay a bill which 
he had been owing for some time.

“In a few days.’’
“Yes, but  you  have been  saying  that 
for some  time.”
“If  the  money  I  am  expecting  gets 
here  in  time,  I  will  be  around  to-mor­
row.”
The next  day the  man presented  him­
self.  The merchant was delighted to see 
him.
“Here  is  your  money  (taking out  a 
roll). 
I would have paid you long before 
this,  but have  been unfortunate.  A  fel­
low  down  in  Florida  owed  me  some 
money, and  I  didn’t  receive it  until  to­
day.  Sent it in a registered letter.  Don't 
know  how it got  though the  quarantine. 
Has been fumigated, I suppose.”
“Take  it  away from  here!”  the  mer­
chant exclaimed.
“But, my  dear  sir,  it  is all  the  money 
i  owe  you  and  want  to  pay 
I  have, 
you.”
“Take  that stuff  out of  my house,  and 
don’t you  come in  here  again until  next 
winter.”
“But I  might  not  have  the  money to 
pay you when cold weather comes.”
“I  tell  you  to  get  right  out of  this 
house.”
“Gentlemen,” said the man, addressing 
several  bystanders,  “you  see  I  offered 
him  his  money.  A  man can  only  pay 
when  he has the cash, you know.  Well, 
I’ll bid  you good-by.”
He went out, threw down several pieces 
of  green  paper and  whistled  in  a  con­
tented manner.

Alcohol  Not Always  Pure.

,,

The Druggists'  Circular  gives  the fol­
lowing tests for  either  fusel  oil or alde­
hyde : 
“Pour$  to 7 c.c. of  the  alcohol  into a 
test tube,  add  one  drop of  erystallizable 
benzol, and  lastly 6  to 7 c.c.  of  concen­
trated  sulphuric  acid;  mix  by  rotating 
the  tube.  Pure  alcohol  is  colored  at 
most  faintly  pink  within  ten  minutes; 
the  presence of  aldehyde  is  shown by a 
dark brown to black  color.  One  part of 
aldehyde  in  1,000,000, it  is  stated,  can 
be shown in this  way. 
If  the  foregoing 
mixture  remains  colorless,  it  is  heated 
till boiling, and  allowed to stand for two 
to  three  minutes.  Pure  alcohol  shows 
at most a  yellowish  tint;  if  fusel  oil be 
present,  the  coloration  will  be  dark 
brown, with  a greenish  fluorescence. 
It- 
is said that 1 part of  fusel  oil  in 100,000 
can be indicated. 
If  an  alcohol  should 
contain both  aldehyde  and fusel oil, the 
test can not well  be  applied,  except  in 
showing that the alcohol is not pure.”
Sold  Dementholized Peppermint.

From  th e  D etroit Journal.
About two years ago Charles D. Durfee 
and  Peter C. Bird, of  Wayne, began suit 
against  Daniel B. Newkirk  and  Jay Hix 
for  810,000.  They claimed  that  the  de­
fendants  had sold  them  large  quantities 
of dementholized pepperment oil as pure. 
This oil,  they in  turn, sold  to  others  as 
pure and  thereby ruined  their business. 
The  ease was  called  before  Judge  Bre- 
voort on the 20th, and the defendants not 
appearing  a  judgment  was  rendered on 
default for 88,783.25, the amount of dam­
ages actually proven.

Another “Rough  on  Rats.”

It is a fact not well known that  native 
sulphate of  baryta is an  active  poison to 
It is not easy to ex­
rats,  mice and dogs. 
plain its  action,  considering  its  extreme 
insolubility,  but  mixed  with  lard  it  is | 
readily eaten  by them.  This  being  the 
case, the question suggests itself, whether 
it might not replace the  more  dangerous 
poisons now  so much  used  for  this pur­
pose, and do away with the  risk  attend­
ing them.

Time to Finish the Gravestone.

Doctor (passing  a  stone-cutter's  yard) 1 
—‘ ‘Good-morning,  Mr.  Jones.  Hard  at 
work, I  see.  I suppose  you  finish  your 
gravestones as far as ‘In memory of,’ and I 
then wait for some one to die, eh?”
“Why, yes:  unless some one's sick and i 
you're  doctoring  ’em:  then  I  keep right j 
on.

The Drug Market.

Quinine  is  dull  an  lower.  P.  &.  W. 
have  reduced  their  price 8 cents.  Ger­
man  has  also  declined.  Opium is dull. 
Morphia  is  steady.  Gum  camphor  is 
firmer.  Hemp  seed  is lower.  Bichrom. 
polish has advanced  I cent.

Epitaph  of a  Dentist.
bears the following inscription :

A  gravestone  in  a  London  cemetery 

View this gravestone with all gravity:
.Tones is filling his lust cavitv.
It  is a mistake  to  think  because your 
business  is  prosperous  you can  neglect 
efforts to secure new trade.  Old custom­
ers  are  moving  away or may  go to  new 
establishments  offering  better  induce­
ments or  attractions.  Practice the  same 
tactics by which you first secured custom. 
Do  not  relax.  Eternal  vigilance is  the 
price you must pay for custom.

Every  merchant  should  feel  a  strong 
pride in his  business and in his  place of 
business.  He  should  carry them  in  his 
heart, and think about them during busi­
ness hours and after business  hours,  and 
at all  other times,  until  to succeed  and 
surpass all  others becomes the  great am­
bition of  his life.  No  half-hearted  man 
succeeds in anything.

VISITING  BUYERS.

F Hibbard, £  Saginaw 
D 1«  W hite, Petoskey 
A T B arnett, Cross  Village 
Wm Fagan. Doliarville 
Jo h n  Giles, LoweU 
A S Mount,  Lowell 
Ja y  M arlett, Berlin 
D Cleland,  Coopersvilli- 
I J  Quick, Allendale 
Fred Beard, Morley 
£  E H ew itt.  Rockford 
L.M W olf, Hudsonville 
Kelson F Miller, Lisbon 
Jno Achterhof,KewHolland 
L N Fisher, Dorr 
A C Barkley, Crosby 
N Bouma, F isher Station 
C S Comstock, Pierson 
R G Sm ith, W ayland 
J Vanden Boson. Zeeland 
Den H erder & Tanis,
Vriesland 
L & L Jenlson,  Jenisonville 
W L H eazlitt, W ayland 
Jo h n  D am stra,  Gitchell 
H Meijering, Jamestown 
H erder & Lahuis, Zeeland 
John G unstra, Lam ont 
R A H astings, S parta 
D unlap Bros.,Vermontville 
C H Adams, Otsego 
L Perigo & Co, Allegan

Cadillac

W J  Roach, Lake  City 
H esler Bros., R ockford 
Dr G B Nichols, M artin 
J  X  W ait, Hudsonville 
G TenHoor, F orest Grove 
H J  Fisher,  H am ilton 
W alling Bros.,  Lam ont 
O landerA   Anderson,
A-Purchase, So Blendon 
J  L Purchase, B auer 
H enry  Dalman,  Allendale 
Jno Sweet,  Hersey 
L B Bellâtre, Cadillac 
Eli Runnels, C orning 
Cole & Chapel, Ada 
J  L  Thomas,  Cannonsburg 
John Kamps, Zutphen 
W H S truik, Forest Grove 
W E H inm an. S parta 
Geo Lentz. Croton 
Jackson Coon, R ockford 
T Armock, W right 
John Sm ith, Ada 
J  C  Benbow,  Cannonsburg 
L Maier, Fisher Station 
J  Raym ond, Berlin 
E 8 Botsford, Dorr 
G F  Cook, Grove 
L Cook, Bauer 
P DeKraker, Holland 
Dr H C Peckham ,  Freeport

ACID V M .
A cetieum .........  .......
Benzoicum.  Germán.
Boraeic  ......................
Carbolicum ................
C itricum .....................
H ydroohlor...............
Nurocum  ...................
O xalicum ...................
Phosphorium  d ii.......
Salicylicum ...............
Sulpnuricum ..............
Tannicum ...................
Tartaricum .................

AMMONI.'

•• 

Aqua. IS  deg. 
18  deg.
Carbonas  __
Chloriduiii  ...

H@.  10 
8US.1  no 
30
40®  45 
60®  65 
3®  5
10®   12 
13®  14 
20
70@2 05 
H i®   5 
40®1  60 
50®  53

3®  5
4®  6
11®  13 
12®  14

12® 15
Carb...............................
18® 20
Chlorate.  (jk>. 20).........
50® 55
C yanide........................
Iodide............................2 85®3 00
33® 38
Potassa,  Bitart,  pure.. 
15
Potassa,  Bitart, com ...
8® 10
Potass  Nitras, o p t.......
7® 9
Potass N itras................
23® 2S
P russiate......................
15® 18
Sulphate  po.................

RADIX.

20® 25
A conitum .....................
25® 30
A lthae............................
15® 20
A iichusa.......................
® 25
Arum,  po......................
20® 50
Calamus........................
10® 12
Gentiana,  (po.  15).......
10® IK
GIvchrrhizd.  (pv. 15)..
Ilvdrastis  Canadem
<TA 00
I po. 65)......................
l.VtTl ^0
Hellebore,  Ala.  po....
15# 20
Inula,  po......................
Ipecac,  p o .....................2 15#2 30
1Í #
20
Iris  plox  (po. 2U®22) ..
25# 30
Jalapa,  p r.....................
35
#
Maranta.  ?ts ...............
15# IS
Podophyllum, ix*.........
rry^i 00
R h e i...!........................
# i 75
“  c u t........................
75# 1 ,*15
“  py ..........................
48# 53
Spigelia........................
20
Sanguinaria,  ii»o  25) ..
35
Serpentaria...................
75# K0
Senega  ..........................
40
#
Similax. officinalis.  II
#. 20
M
“ 
12
10#
Scillae.  i |ai. 35)............
Sympiucarptts. 
F<eti
® 35
dus,  i«»......................
Valeriana,  Eng.  i |xj.30i ® 25
15® 20
G erm an...
10® 15
Zingiber a .....................
22® 25
Zingiber  j .....................

“ 

#

SEMEN.

15
Auburn,  i po.  20T.........
#
12
10#
Apimn  (grayeleons)..
G
4#
Bird,  is ..........................
15
12#
Canti,  (po.  IK>..............
Cardam on.....................1 00#  1 25
10#
12
Corlandruin.................
4
.»#
Cannabis Sativa..........
75# I (K)
Cydonium.....................
10#
12
Chenopodium  ............
Diplenx Odorate........ i 75# 1 K5
Foeniculum .................
Foenugreek,  po..........
I.in i...............................
I.ini. grd,  (bbl. 3% )...
Lobelia..........................
Pharlaris Canarian__
H ap».............................
Sinapis,  A lbu..............
N igra............

“ 

.2 00®2  25 
.  80®1  00 
.  45®,  50 
.2  50®3 I»)

. 1  85® 2 00 
8®   10 
.  25®  30

70®  75 
®.l  30 
50®  55

24®  25
33®,  35 
11®   12 
13®;  14 
14®  15 
16®  17

B lack...................
Brown.................
R ed......................
Y ellow ................
BACO.
Cubeae  ipo.  1  SO.
Ju n ip eru s.....................
X a n th o x y lu m .................
BALSAMO!.
C opaiba........................
Peru...............................
Terabin, Canada  .......
T o lu tan ........................

C O RTEX .

Abies,  Canadian.........
Cassiae  ........................
Cinchona F lava..........
Euonymus  atropurp.. 
Myrica  Cerifera, p o ...
Primus V irgini............
Quillaia.  g rd...............
Sassafras  .....................
Flmus Po (Ground  12)
EXTRACTOR.
Glveyrrhiza  Glabra..
po............
Haematox, 15 lb.  box.
Is................

F E R R U M .
Carbonate Precip —  
Citrate and Quinia . .
Citrate  Soluble.........
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut  Chloride.........
Sulphate,  co n fi.......
pure..........

FLOU.

A rn ie » __
A n th é m is  . 
M a tric a ria

Barosma 
.....................
Cassia  A c u tifo l,  T iti-
nivellyj.
Salvia  ol 
Ura F rsi.

and

“

O CM M I.
Acacia.  1st  picked..

2d 
3d
sifted  sorts.
p o ...............
A loe.  B arb ,  (po.  60).
••  G ape,  (po.  20).
“  Socotri. (po.  60 
Catechu, is, < ‘-s. 11  V
16).................................
A m m oniac...............
Assafoetida,  (po. 30).
Benzoinum ...  .........
Camphor®...............
Knphorbium, po.......
Galbanum .................
Gamboge,  po............
Guaiacuin,  (po. 451..
Kino,  ipo.  25)...........
M astic ......................
Myrrh,  (po. 45).........
Opii,  (po. 4  75).........
Shellac  .....................
b le a c h e d ___
T rag acan th ..............

S P IK IT I'S .

*• 
“ 
“ 

Frumenti, W.. I).  Co..2
D. F. K ........1
...................1
Juniperis  Co. O. T __ 1
............1
•• 
Saacharum  X.  E .........1
Spt.  Villi  G alli.........  . I
Viui O porto.................. 1
Vini  Alba......................1

70®  2 
10®.l 
75® 1 
75@3 
75®2 
75@6 
25®2 
25® 2

10® .  12 
8®  10

SPO N G ES.

Florida  sheeps'  wool
carriage......................2
Nassau  sheeps'  wool
carriage  ...................
Velvet  extra  sheeps'
wool  carriage..........
Extra  yellow  sheeps'
carriage.....................
Grass sheeps' wool ear
ria g e ..........................
Hard for  slate  u se__
Yellow  Reef, for  slate 
u s e .......... ...................

SY R U PS.

A ccada  .. 
Zingiber  .
Ipecac__
Ferri  Iod.

® 40 Auranti  Cortes............ .........  50
® 20 Rhei  Arom................... .........  50
® i 00 Similax  Officinalis__ .........  GO
Co.........  50
@ 40
15@3 25 Senega  .......................... .........  50
25®. 33 Scillae............................ .........  50
*•  Co...................... .........  50
25® 30
30® 75 T o lu tan ........................ .........  no

“ 

“ 

‘ 
herb a—I n ounce packages.

OLEU M .

.........  20
Eupatorium ................
Lobelia.......................... .........  25
M ajorum ...................... .........  28
Mentha  Piperita......... .........  23
25
“  V ir................
........   30
Rue...............................
.........  22
Tanaeetuin, V ............
.............  25
Thymus,  V .................
M AG N ESIA .
55#  GO
Calcined, P a t..............
20®,  22
Carbonate,  Pat  .........
20®.  25
Carbonate, K. &  M...
35®,  36
Carbonate, Jennings.
A bsinthium ................ 5 00(55  50
45®.  75
Amygdalae, I)ule.......
Amvdalae, A m arae... 7 25@.7  50
A iiisi............................ 1  85® 1  95
®2  50
A uranti ¡¡Cortex..........
Bergamii  ................... 2  75®3 25
90@1  00
C ajiputi......................
®2 00
C aryophvlli...............
35®  65
Cedar  ..........................
@1  75
Chenopodii  ...............
95@1  00
C innam on»...............
C itronella...................
@  75
35®  65
Conium  Mae..............
90@1  00
Copaiba......................
Cubebae.....................if *50®16 00
90®1  00
Exechthitos................
E rigeron..................... 1  20@1  30
G aultheria.................. 2:25®2 35
Geranium,  ou n ce....
@  75
50#  75
Gossipii,  Sem. gal__
Hedeoma  ................... 1  15(5.1  25
50@2 00
Juniperi.......................
90@2 00
L avendula.................
L im onis...................... 1  60@2 00
Mentha Piper.............. 2 75@3 75
Mentha  V erid............ 3 00@3 25
Morrhuae,  gal............
80@1  00
®   50
Myrcia. ounce............
O live............................ 1  00@2 75
10®   12
Picis Liquida,  (gal. 35
96@1  10
Ricini ..........................
75@1  00
Rosm arini...................
Rosae,  ounce..............
@6 00
40®  45
Succihi........................
90@1  00
S ab in a........................
Santal  ........................ 3 50©7 00
Sassafras.....................
80®  85
®   65
Sinapis, ess, ounce...
@1  50
T iglii............................
T hym e........................
40®  50
@  60
o p t.................
15®  20
Theobromas................
PO TA SSIU M .
Bi Carb........................
15®  18
B ichrom ate...............
14®  15
Bromide......................
37®  40

“ 

“  

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

••• 

“ 
“ 

Aconitum  Napellis R 
F.
Aloes..............................
and  m yrrh.........
A rn ic a ..........................
Asafoetida.....................
Atrope Belladonna__
Benzoin........................
Co...................
Sanguinaria.................
B arosm a.......................
C antharides.................
C apsicum .....................
Cardamon.....................
C o .....................
C astor............................
Catechu........................
Cinchona  .....................
Co.................
C olum ba.......................
C onium ..............  .......
Cubeba..........................
D ig italis......................
Ergot.............................
G entian........................
Co.....................
G uaica..........................
amnion............
Z in g ib er.......................
Hyoscyam us................
Iodine............................
Colorless...........
Ferri  Chloridum.........
K in o .............................
Lobelia..........................
M yrrh............................
X ux  Vomica................
O p ii...............................
“  Cam phorated.......
“  Deodor.................
Auranti Cortex............
Q uassia........................
Rhatany  .......................
R hei...............................
Cassia  A cutifol..........
Serpentaria.................
Stromonium.................
T o lu tan .....................
V alerian .....................
Yeratrum Veride.........
M ISCELLA X EO U :
.Ether, Spts  Nit, 3  F . .
“  4 F ..
A lnm en........................
(po.
A nnatto........................
Antimoni, po...............
et Potass T.

“ 
ground, 

‘ 
“ 

Co 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

26®.  28 
30®  38 
8‘/2®   W i
3®  4
55®  60 
4@  5
55®  60

He  Was  Particular.

“Tincture  of 

iron,  you  asked  for, 
madam,  I  am  labeling  it  ‘tincture  of 
steel;’  they  are  exactly the  same thing, 
although some ladies  are  difficult to per­
suade of  the fact.”

“A h!  I see, yes !  The stuff“ s the same, 

but the ladies are different.”

. . . n i r  (toz,

« 

8 o c  s i z e ........................... ....
3.50
50c  “ 
.........................
P eck liain ’s Croup R em edy  la  prepared es­
pecially for children and is  a safe  and certain 
cure for Croups, Whooping Cough,  Colds  and 
all  bronchial  and  pulmonary  complaints  of 
childhood.  For attractive  advertising matter 
address the proprietor. D r. H . C. PECK  HAM, 
Freeport,  M ich.  Trade  supplied  by  whole­
sale druggists of  Grand  Rapids,  Detroit  and 
Chicago.
CEDTSSOTG  ROOT.

W e p ay th e h ighest price fo r it.  Address

PECK BROS.,

W holesale  D ruggists, 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Medicated

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For  Sale  to  the  Trade  by

Hazeltine A  Perkins Drug Co.,  Wholesale  Drug­
gists;  Hawkins &  Ferry, Wholesale Grocers;  Mc- 
Causiaml & <  <>..  Wholesale Grocers, E. Saginaw; 
W. J.  Gould & Co.,  Wholesale  Grocers,  Detroit; 
D. Desenberg & Go., Wholesale Grocers,  Kalama­
zoo.

Should  send $1 to 
*..  A.  Stowe  &  Bro.
/to r  one of th e ir Im proved

GRAND  RAPIDS,

LIQUÛR&P0IS0N RECORDS

Wholesale Drice  Current•

Advanced— Bichrom.  Potash.
Declined—Quinine P.  A W„ Quinine  German, hemp seed.

H A Z E L T IN E

&  P E R K IN S

D RU G  CO.

CURES

L,i\rer and 

Kidney 'Troubles 
I31ood Diseases 

Constipation

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F e m a l e

Complain ts
Being composed entirely of  HERBS,  it 
is the only perfectly harmless  remedy on 
the market and  is  recommended  by  all 
who use it.

Retail  Druggists  will fiud it to 
their  interest  to  keep  the DIA­
MOND  TEA, as it fulfills all that 
is claimed,  making  it one of tin* 
very best selling articles handled.

House.

Place your order with 

m r  W h o lesale

Diamond  (fledieine  Go,,

PROPRIETORS,

DETROIT,  -  MICH.

Hazeltine &Perkios Drug Cc.;

WHOLESALE  AGENTS 

G RAND  R A P ID *,

Im porters  and  Jobbers  of

- D R U G S -

Chemicals  and  Druggists’  Sundries.

Dealers  in

Patent Medicines, Paints,  Oils, 1/arnishes,

W e  are  Sole  Proprietors  of

WEATHEBLY’S  MICHIGAN  CATARRH  REMEDY.

W e have in stock and offer a full line of

Whiskies,  Brandies,

Gins,  W ines,  Bums.

THE  IMPROVED

AMERICAS  POCKET BATTERY

W e are  Sole  A gents  in  Michigan  for  W . D. & Co., 

Henderson County, Hand Made  Sour Mash 

W hisky and Druggists’ Favorite 

Rye  W hisky.

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 in a trial order.

hazeltine  A Perkins  Drug  Go.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

F o r  P h yslria n s’  and  F a m ily   Use.

This B attery has the advantage over any in th e  miw 

, 
k et in the following:  points  of  superiority:  A  P aten t  j 
Hard Rubber, Rem ovable Screw Top Cell (like a  pocket  j 
inkstand), containing th e C arbon  and  Zinc  elem ents, 
can be carried  in the  pocket  charged  ready  fo r  use; 
w ater-tight, no leaking:;  fo r  d urability,  compactness, 
and  stren g th   of  cu rren t  it  excels  all  others.  Two 
nickel-plate sponge electrodes with  each  b attery .  X<»  | 
sm all wire connections on bottom  of  th is  m achine, as  S 
in all others, th a t ru st easily and are difficult to repair.
Sold  by  the  trade.  Price.  $10,  and  every  B attery 
w arranted.  Send for C ircular 49,  giving special  price 
to  physicians for a  sam ple b attery  prepaid.  Address

ELECTRO-fHEDIGRL  BATTERY  GO.,

K A L A M A Z O O ,  M IC H ..

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

Grand  R apid«,  M ich.

Acme White Lead  & Celer Works,
-  MICH.
DETROIT, 

Manufacturers of the Celebrated

ACME  PR EPA R ED   PA INTS,

Which  for  Durability,  Elasticity,  Beaut) 

and Economy are Absolutely Unsurpassed.
F.  J.  WTJBSBTJBC,

WHOLESALE  AGENT,

Grand  Rapids, 

-  Mich.

7S Congress St., West,

Detroit, Mich., April 9,  188«.

I  Specialty Dept. Ph. Best B rewing Co..
|  Gentlemen—I  duly  received  the  case  of 
your “Beet”  Tonic and have eince had a great 
I  many in this  institution.  I must say that  the 
beneficial  effects  on  weak  and  debilitated 
1  patients  have  been  most  satisfactory, espec­
ially to those in a  stage  o f  recovery  after  se­
vere sickness.
t 
I write this  thinking you  might like to have 
I  my  opinion  on  its  merits.  1  certainly  shall 
prescribe  it  in  future,  where  the  system  re­
quires building up. either from  constitutional 
I weakness or otherwise.

Yoars truly,

Wm. Gray, M. D.

Medical Sup’t.

MidviUe, Geo., Feb. 24,1888. 

Specialty D epart. Ph. Best B rewing Co., 
Gentlksikn—I think  the “Tonic” a splendid 
medicine for all forms  of  Dyspepsia and Indi­
gestion.  Tt is giving me great satisfactiou.
J. M. J ohnson, M. D.

Very respectfully,

Yardley, Pa., March 18, 1888.

E rostrated, with  very satisfactory  results.  I 

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

Elias Wildman, M. D.

Work-House Hospital, 

Blackwell's Island, Feb.  10,1888. 

j  Ph. Best Brewing Co.,
j  G e n t l e m e n —As a  matter of  personal inter­
est, I have used  your  “B est” Tonic in several 
i  cases of impaired  nutritition.  The results in- 
|  dicate that it  is  an  agreeable  and  doubtless, 
:  highly efficacious remedy.  1 am.
Very truly yours,

E.  W. Fi eming,  M. D.

Troy, New York, January 28,1888. 

Specialty D epart. Ph. Best Brewing Co„
Dear Sir s—Your agent  left me a sample of 
your liquid extract, Malt, and  as  1  use  muoh 
such  in  my  practice, I  thought  to  compare
i’our product with  some  from another  house 
had on hand; and finding  yours  superior  In 
the  great  essential,  the  pcuUdble  n u trkm t  as 
well as in tonic stimulant properties, felt anx­
ious to  know about what  it  can  be furnished 
the dispensing physician.

Yours truly,

E. J ay Fisk, M . D.

East Genessee Street,

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

j  Specialty Depart. Ph. BestrBrewing Co.,
!  G e n t l e m e n —I  have  used  the “B est” Tonio 
with  most  gratifying  results in  my  case  of 
dyspepsia.  My case was  a bad  one, 1  had no 
appetite; headache in the morning; sour stom­
ach;  looking  as  though  I  had  consumption, 
and after taking this tonic  I  never felt better 
in  my life.  I think  it  will  cure a bad case of 
dyspepsia.  You  may recommend  it  for  that 
case. 

W m .  O. J aeger.

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

Ph. Best Brewing Co., 28  College Place, N. Y., 
G e n t l e m e n —I  have  tested  the  sample  of 
“Concentrated  Liquid  Extract  of  Malt  and 
Hops” you  sent  me,  and  find  in  my humble 
judgment  that it is a  very  pure and safe arti­
cle.  I  will  not  hesitate  to  recommend it  In 
every case of debility  where  a  Tonio of  that 
kind  is Indicated.

Respectfully.

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

New Orleans, La., April 8,1888. 

Specialty Depart. Ph. Brewing Co.,
G e n t l e m e n —Having  tried  your  “B est” 
Tonic to a great  extent  amongst my practioe, 
I will state in  its  behalf that  I  have  had  the 
best results with  nursing  mothers  who  were 
deficient in  milk,  increasing  its  fluids and se­
creting a more nourishing food for the infant, 
also increasing the appetite  and in every way 
satisfactory for such cases.

Very respectfully,

D.  BORNIO, M  D.

ML m
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Grand Rapids,

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A ntipyrin.................  .1 35®1 40
® 68
Argenti  Nitras. ounce
7
A rsenicum ...................
5 #
Balm Gilead  B ud.......
38® 40
Bismuth  S.  N ..............
15® 2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (*2s 
11;  ‘»s,  12) ...............
® 9
Cantharides  Russian, 
®1 75
p o ...............................
® 18
Citpsici  Fructns, a f ...
® 16
po----
Bpo..
® 14
<  arvophyllns,  (po.  28) 22® 25
Carmine,  No. 40..........
®3 75
Cera  Alba, S.  A  F .......
50# 55
Cera  F lava...................
28® »i
C occus..........................
® 40
Cassia  Fruetus............
15
#
<Vntrariu......................
10
#
(it 33
< '«jtfaeeum.....................
50® 55
(  iiloroform .................
(3.1 00
squibbs ..
30® 1 75
chloral  Iiyd Crst.........
C hondrus.....................
10® 12
Cinchonidine, P.  A  W 15® 20
5® 12
German
Corks,  list,  dis. 
¡>er 
cent  ..........................
® 00
(it 50
C reasotum ...................
® 2
Creta,  (bbl. 75)............
5Oi.
5
“ 
prep.....................
Hit m
pretOp.................
“ 
(à.
“  Rubra.................
8
(  rocus  ..........................
25
22#
Cudbear........................
®. 21
Cupri Sulph.................
7® 8
D extrine......................
10#
12
Ether Sulph.................
68® 70
Emery,  all  num bers..
® 8
® G
po.....................
Ergota.  (po.i  43..........
40® 45
Flake  W hite...............
12®. 15
G alla.............................
#
23
Gambier........................
7 #
8
@ Ü0
Gelatin,  Cooper..........
F rench............
40# GO
Glassware  flint.  73 per cent.
by  box 66“3, less 
9® 15
Glue,  Brown................
1.3® 25
*•  W hite.................
23® 2G
G lycerina.....................
<»rana P arad ^i............
® 15
Hum ulus......................
25® 40
Hvclriuig  Chlor  Mite..
® 85
••  C o r__
75
#
#
OxKubrum
90
®1 10
Aminoninli..
L'nguentum. 45# 55
® 75
H ydrargyrum ..............
25# 1 50
Ichthvoboila,  Am.......
75® 1 (Kl
Indigo............................
iodine,  Kesubl............4  00®4 10
@5 13
Iodoform......................
L upulin........................ H5(rtl 00
33® GO
Lycopodium ...............
so# K~i
Macis  ............................
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
dra rg Iod...................
® 27
Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10® 12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl 
2®
l 1* )..............................
Mannia.  S.  I ...............
90® 1 00
Morphia,  S.  P. A \1  ...; 55#2 80
S. N.  V.  t). & 
C.  C o..........................2 55® 2 70
Moschus  Canton.........
® 40
.Myristica,  No.  1..........
60# 70
Nux \  omiea,  ipo 2U!..
® 10
Os.  Sepia......................
27# 29
Pepsin  Sane.  II.  tt  P.  I). 
C o.................   ...........
®2 00
Picis  Liq,  N.  C..  *: gaJ 
# 2 70
doz  ............................
® i 00
Picis  Liq., q u a rts .......
70
#
p in ts..........
#
50
Pil Ilvdrarg,  (po. 80)..
#
18
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22i .
#
35
Piper Alba,  < po got...
7
Pix  Burgiui.................
®.
PI limbi  A e et...............
14® 15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii..! 10® 1 20
Pyretlirum,  boxes  11 ‘ 
®1 25
A P.  I).  Co., doz.......
55® 60
Pyrethrum,  pv ............
(¿uassiae......................
8® 10
47® 52
(-¿ltiuia,  S.  P .ilV  
....
S.  German__ 35® 45
12® 14
Rubia  Tinctorum .......
Sa cell arum Laetis p v ..
® 35
Salacin...........................* 40®3 50
Sanguis  Draeonis.......
40®. 50
®4 50
Santonine  ...................
14
12#
Sapo,  W ........................
••  M..........................
10
8 #
o ..........................
15
#
Seidlitz  M ixture.........
® 28
Sinapis..........................
® 18
"  opt.....................
30
Snuff,  Maecaboy,  IX* 
Y o es..........................
Snuff, Scotch. De. Yoes
Soda Boras,  (po.  it,.  ,
Soda  et  Potass T a n ...
Soda Carb.....................
Soda,  Bi-Carb..............
Soda,  A sh.....................
Soda, Sulphas..............
Spts.  Ether C o ............
•  Myrcia  I)om.......
••  Myrcia Im p.........
A ini  Reel.  bbl.

i i® 12
33® 35
2® • u
•>
47/
4
:>#
#
5*Xïr 55
# 2 00
# 2 50
# 2 37
Strychnia  Crystal.......
@1 10
Sulphur,  Sub].............. 2-7® tv.
Roll................
/'2# '  3
8® 10
T am arinds...................
28® 30
Terebenth Venice.......
5 0 # 55
Theobrom ae................
Vanilla........................SI 00® 16 00
f in ti  Sulph.................
y
7 #

Less 5c gal., cash ten days.

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PAINTS. 

m>i
Whale, w inter............  70 
70
90
Lfird,  ex tra.................   86 
Lard,  No.  1.................   5d 
55
60
Linseed, pure raw 
..  o7 
Lindseed,  boiled.......  00 
63
Neat's  Foot,  winter
69
stra in e d ...................  50 
55  I
Spirits T urpentine__   50 
lb.
bbl. 
Red  Venetian............... 1%  2@3|
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ 2®4
B er.........1?J  2®3 I
“ 
Putty,  commercial 
2 Vi  2l/i@3 i
“  strictly  pure.......2‘. ;  23i® 3 I
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican .............................. 
13@16
Vermilion,  English__   T0@75
Green,  Peninsular....... 
70@75
Lead,  red ......................   6i£@7Li
w h ite .................   6Ji@7?i  I
@70
Whiting, white Span  .. 
Whiting,  Gilders’......... 
®-90
i  00 
White.  Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
c liff.............................  
1  40 j
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20® 1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
P a in ts....................... 1  00®. 1  20

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VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach...... 1  10® 1  20
Extra T urp.................. 1  60®1  70]
Coach  Body.................2 75@3 00
No. 1  Turp  F u rn ........ 1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Dam ar__1  55®1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T u r p ...................... . 
70®  75

The Michigan Tradesman

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief  Digests  of  Recent  Decisions 

Courts  of Last  Resort.

PO L IC E   P O W E R — IM IT A T IO N   B U T T E R .
The  Supreme  Court  of  New  Hamp­
shire has lately, in the  case of  The State 
vs.  Marshall,  sustained as a valid  exer­
cise of  the  police  power  of  the  State a 
statute prohibiting  the  sale of  imitation 
butter unless  colored pink.

IN SU R A N C E — W EA R IN G   A P P A R E L .

In a case  recently decided  by the  Su­
preme  Court  of  Kentucky,  that  Court 
held that the insured  could  only recover 
the value of  property belonging  to  him­
self  or his family, and  that he could  not 
recover  under  the  head  of  “wearing 
apparel” for the wearing  apparel  of  his 
hired housekeeper and her children.

- d i s c l o s u r e

IN S O L V E N T — F R A U D
Upon  the  examination of  an insolvent 
debtor, under the  Minnesota  statutes, to 
determine  whether  creditors  alleging 
fraudulent  concealment  of  property 
shall  be  allowed  to  share  in  the  in­
solvent estate  without  filing  releases,  a 
dishonest  disclosure  by 
the  debtor 
may 
fraud, 
although  there is not  direct  evidence of 
it, according  to  the  decision  of  the Su­
preme Court of  Minnesota  in  the case of 
Rees vs. Lowenstein.

justify  a  conclusion  of 

1 NSURANC'E —  D E B T  —  W IF E 5 S  CR ED ITO RS.
A fund  set  apart by a co-operative  in­
surance  company to pay the  policy on a 
member’s  life  may be  attached by cred­
itors of  his wife for the  payment of  her 
personal debts,  according to the  decision 
of  Judge Vance, of  the Supreme Court of 
New  York, in  the  case  of  Commercial 
Travelers’ Association of  New  York  vs. 
Newkirk et al.  The  judge held that the 
creditors were entitled to the payment of 
their  claims, and  the  widow  should re­
ceive the balance.

IN SU R A N C E PO LIC Y — CO ND ITIO N—-W A IVER.
An  insurance  policy,  which  was  in­
volved  in a case  lately  decided  by  the 
Supreme  Court of  Vermont  contained a 
stipulation  to  the  effect  that no officer, 
agent  or  representative of  the company 
should be held to have  w aived any of  its 
conditions  unless  such  waiver  was  in­
dorsed  on  the  policy.  The  court held, 
Smith  vs.  Niagara  Fire  Insurance  Co., 
ihat  under  this  stipulation  an adjuster 
could not  orally waive a condition of  re­
quiring  the  insured  w ithin  thirty day 
after  a  loss  to  furnish  the  company  : 
statement thereof  signed and sworn to.

DISC RIM IN A TIO N  

IN   R A T E S  —  Q U AN TITY
The United  States  Circuit for the Dis­
trict of  Pennsylvania  has  just  rendered 
an important decision respecting rate dis­
crimination in the  matter of  the petition 
of  Confer  vs.  Gardner,  receiver.  The 
plaintiff  complained that  the  defendant 
the  receiver  of  the  Buffalo,  New  York 
& Philadelphia  Railroad  Company,  had 
made undue  and  unreasonable  discrim 
ination  between  himself  and  other per 
sons in freight charges for  the transport 
ation  of  oil,  and  sued  to  recover  the 
amount of the alleged unlaw ful exaction 
The defendant admitted  the  exaction of 
this  sum, and  also  that  a less rate was 
charged to another  shipper of  oil on the 
railroad.  This  charge  was  justified  by 
the  defendant  on  the  ground  that  the 
quantity shipped by other  shippers  wa 
much  larger  than  that  shipped  by the 
petitioner,  and  that  the  larger  propor 
tionate  expense  attending the  handling 
and  transportation of  the  smaller  ship 
ment  warranted a higher  rate  than wTas 
charged for  the  larger  shipment.  Thi 
conclusion  was  sustained by the master 
Imt the  court  ruled  otherwise. 
It said 
“In this conclusion  we do not agree with 
the learned  master. 
It  does  not  differ 
entiate the service performed for the sev­
eral shippers, nor  do  the  conditions  oi 
circumstances  under  whicn  it  was per 
formed.  The  only difference  is  that in 
one case the  quantity shipped was large 
and  in  the  other it was  smaller.  Thi 
has  repeatedly been  held  to  be  unwar­
rantable reason  for  discriminating rate 
of  charges. 
In the statement of  the law 
by Judge Baxter we concur,  and for thi 
reason we cannot  find  that  the  petition 
ought to be  dismissed.”  The  court  di 
reeled a decree for the  petitioner for the 
amount claimed.

Opie Read Didn’t Write This.

“Can you tell me the way  to  Jasper? 
The speaker was a  Birmingham  real es 
tate agent,  who was over in Walker coun 
ty prospecting last week, and  the  quer 
was addressed to a tall  countryman, who 
was leaning against the rail  fence  wiiic 
surrounded his cabin.
“Which er wray  yoiiuns  want  er  gc 
dowrn by tlier ole  mill  place  or  up the 
ridge road?  Say, that’s er  good  eritte 
you’uns ar  ridin’.”
“I am in a hurry to reach  Jasper:  te 
me the way, please.”
“Did you’uns come from  Birmingham? 
What’s cotton bringin’ thar now?”
“Can you tell me—”
“Say,  howr’s the  ’lection?  Bill  Sykes 
wer’  savin’  down  ter  the  grocery  las’ 
night that ther  Yankees  wer’  cornin’  in 
ag’in.  Say. what’d you’uns give fer that 
’ar critter?”

in Birmingham, ’ave ye?”

“Is this the direct road to—”
“Say, you’uns hain’t got  yellow  fever 
“My dear sir, w ill you kindly tell me-” 
“Say, you’uns don’t want ’er trade that 
ar’ critter?  He puts me  ’n  mind  ov  er 
hoss I ust ter own  ’fore  I  moved  from 
Blount.  Does you’uns know er  feller  in 
Birmingham  name’  Si  Casper,  sort  o’ 
high, long-legged feller, married  ole Jer­
ry Dun’s gal,  Sary Ann?  He’s been thar 
gwine on er year,  an’ went off  from here 
owin me  six  bits.  Say,  you’uns  don’t 
know what chickens ar’ bringin’ in Bir-” 
The real estate agent was  gone, but as 
he rode  rapidly  away  the  countryman 
shouted after  him,  “Say!  I’d  like  ter 
trade fur that ar’ critter you’uns ar’  rid­
in’.”

Clergyman—Boy, don’t  you  know  any 
better  than  to  be  loitering  around the 
streets in this way on this beautifiul Sab­
bath day ?
I’m going fish­
ing  just as soon as the other fellows come 
along.

Boy—Oh, you bet I do. 

man
JM®(atçd 
| st<k.kJôoi

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prising farmer or stockman.  Dealers!  W e have 
ithdraw n our salesmen and  solicit  a  continu 
anee of your trade through prom inent jobbers. 
Send to them for their special circular “TO THE 
TR AD E,” for full information in regard to rub­
ber stamp—free—and also our  GRAND  CASH 
PRIZES.  See circulars for  testimonials of reli­
able dealers from all parts of the country.  This 
trade  is  about  equally  divided  between  drug­
gists, general dealers and  grocers.  A good trade 
L  one insures a satisfactory trade for the other. 
Order at once, save freight and  commence  turn­
ing your money every thirty or  sixty  days, at 71 
per cent, profit.
The German Medicine Comp’y

SOLE  MANUFACTURERS:

M inneapolis, M inn.

For sale in Grand Rapids,  Mich., by  Hazeltine 
& Perkins Drug Co. and Hawkins & Perry, whole­
sale grocers.

ASBESTOS
Cover Yoilr Steam Pipes

GOODS.

EITHER  W ITH

ASBESTOS  CEMENT, 

ASBESTOS SHEATHING 

HAIR  FELT, 

or REMOVABLE 

PIPE  COVERING.
All  of which  we  have  in  the 

BEST  QUALITIES  and 

at  FAIR  PRICES.

SAMUEL LYON,
Cor. Waterloo & Louis Sts.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

Why
Can
YOU
Bv trading with the new house of

Because  we  represent  the manu- 
facturers  and  importers  direct— 
and SAVE you  a 

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Jobber's  Profit, \ ^
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An inspection is all we ask.  W rite 
for  prices  and  catalogues.  Call 
when in the city  and  see  a  com- 
plete line of samples of  Crockery, 
Glassware, Fancy  Goods,  etc., at 
lower prices than  you  have  ever 
bought before.

Cmnminïs & Yale,'

19  SOUTH  IO N IA   ST.

Wholesale 

Commission 
Agents

DO YOB WANT À SHOCCASI?

SPECIAL O FFER  —This style or oval case:  best 
quality;  all glass,  heavy  double  thick;  panel  doors: 
full length mirrors and spring hinges;  solid cherry or 
walnut frame;  extra heavy base;  silv etta trimmings; 
6 feet long,  28  inches  wide,  15  inches  high.  Price» 
9 1 1 ,  n et  cash.  Boxing and cartage free.

D.  ID.  COOK,
Michigan.
Grand  Rapids,

31  SCRIBNER  STREET,

S  W IP E S

Choice Chicago

Dressed Beet

—  

\   N   I )   M   /  :   7   T   O   X   —

Can be found at all  times  in  full  supply  and at 
popular prices at the branch houses in all the larg- 
ger cities and is retailer by all first-class  butchers.
The trade of all market men  and  meat  dealers  is 
solicited.  Our Wholesale Branch House, L. F. Swift 
&Co., located at Grand Rapid-, always has on hand 
a full supply of our Beef, Mutton and Provisions,and 
the public may rest assured that in  purchasing our 
meats from dealers they will always receive the best.
Swift and Company,

Union  Stock  Yards, 

CHICAGO.

LEMON,  HOOPS  i  PETERS,

Wholesale

AN D

Grocers
E A -

IMPORTERS.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

N O V E L T IE S

IN

A  LARGE  VARIETY  IN

China and Glass Stands, Jiigs and liases,
FINK  COLOGNES
Handkerchief Perfumes

HOBIHAY

and increase your trade for the

to  Twenty-fine  Dollars,

Send for sample lot of

Also a full line of

Ten 

— AND—

All sizes, % oz. to 10 oz. bottles, 

in large variety.

S E A S O N .

CASH  SALE  CHECKS.

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

JENNINGS - & - SMITH,

p e r f u m e r s , 

08 and 40 Pouis-st,, Grand Rapids,

DO  YOU  HANDLE IT? I

B O T T O M

P R I C E S

L u m b e r m e n 's

Tongue and Strap Overs, heel.......................................................................ne
Strap Overs, heel....... ..................................................................................
Strap Overs, no heel....................................................................................
Overs, no heel...............................................................................................
Men’s Imitation Sandals................................................... .........................
Women’s Imitation Sandals................................................................ .
Women’s Croquet  Sandals..................................................... .....................
Women’s Plain Croquet  Sandals................................................................
Misses’ Imitation Sandals............................................................................
Child’s Imitation  Sandals............................................................................
Men’s  Arctics...-..........................................................................................
Women’s Arctics..........................................................................................
Misses’ Arctics.............................................................................................
LMen’s dull Woonsocket Boots, First Quality, Diamond  Tap...................
■Men’s Rhode Island Boots............ .T»..........................................................
W o o n s o c k e t   a n d   W a l e s - G o o d y e a r   R u b b e r s , 

u

G.  R.  M A Y H E W ,  G ran d   R apids,  Mich.

K n it  a n d   W o o l   B o o ts,  G u m   S o c k s ,  Etc.

H.Leonaed&Sons

134 to 149 Pillion  Street

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

NO.  10  MAMMOTH  ROCHESTER. 

.Marvelous  Light!  3no-oandle  power! 

It 
takes  the  lead  over  all  others.  Fount holds 3 
quarts—will burn 8  hours.
EACH
Complete, as shown, with  15 in.  tin  shade.. .43.9U 
...  4.00
with 35 iii. white lined  reflector..  7.50 
Also a great variety  of  Rochester  Lamps in all 
Tades.

WE  ARE  DP » nor-ALTERS  FOR

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10 
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5 “ 

Lillowins  oil  »... 
No charge for

r  packed  1 >  doz. iu a
PER DOZ.
Pinafore. .1 gal.  wood jacket............................ 412.00
14.40
........................   19.20
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••The Adams” steel  Plate Oil  Can  is  the  same 
construction as the Pinafore, only  made  of steel 
instead of tin and warranted  not  to  rust, hand­
somely finished in colors red. bine and black.
"The Adams” 
18.09
The  Cheapest  Wood Oil Cans 

5  “ 
in  the  market.

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3 gal. steel oil can .415.00

tin  cans.  9.60

The “IMPERVIOUS”  oil 
and  gasoline  cans.  W ar­
ranted not to  leak  or  get 
jammed,  will  outlast  all 
others.
2 gal.  Impervious oil cans,
per doz  ................... 410.80
3 gal.  Impervious oil cans,
per doz.....................411.70
5 gal.  Impervious oil cans.
p er  d o z .........................413.50
ID gal.  Impervious oil cans 
............ 418.09
per «It!

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We  a r e   a g e n ts   for  th e  C e leb ra ted

— S T A G — »

Q r o w n

B r a n d   F A N C Y   O r a n g e s  
i  a n d   p a c k e d
W .   R.  H illy e r  
O r a n g e   L ’k e  
F l o r i d a .

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a ls o   a g e n t s *  
f o r   t h e  
s a l  
o f  J.  G.  L a m o r -  
e a u x ’s  O r a n g e   C rop 
T h is  fruit w i l l   b e  care­
fully packed  b y   Mr. 
a n d  w i l l  b e so ld   in  lots  to  su it 
a n d   at  lo w e s t   p o s s ib le   p rices. 
A s k   for  q u o ta tio n s   b efo re  b u y in
PUTNÆM &

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For Sale by all 
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Wholesale Grocers.
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O u r  “P .  &  B .”  B r a n d  
a n d   S O L I D   F I L L
C a n s

ta k e   th e  
C ake.  N o t h in g  
d  in  M ic h ig a n  

THE  IMPERVIOU

th a t e q u a ls  th e m . 
S e n d   in  y o u r   o rd ers.

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Putnam  & Brooks.
J.  11.  THOMPSON  *   CO.,
TE A S,

Honey Bee  Coffee

IM P O R T ER S  A N D   JO B B E R S

'P E C I a l t i e ;

C O F F E E S

S P IC E S

Our Bunkum Coffee 

Princess Bkg. Powder 
ijarly Riser Bkg. Pdr.
■ ■ ■ ■ ■ B B B H ra H B n B R

M IP P S  |

gal.  H om e oil 

-.I.ASS,  WITH  TIN  JACKET.

per doz.
.......42.50
.......3.00
....... 1.60
“   T in
2.00
J  “  “ 
3 
 
4.90
“  “ 
5 
7.50
 
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T h e “Invincible”  1  gal.  oil cans, per  doz__ 43.00
A ttractively  finished in assorted colors and has 
a glass covered gunge on the side  show ing quan 
tity of oil in the can, and is having a  large  sale.

open !
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and  m anufacturers  of

BEE  Mills 
BEE  Mills 
BEE  Mills 
BEE  Mills

Gd.  Spices 
SPICE GRINDERS
Extracts. 
Bird Seed. 
—J BEE  Chop  Japan  Tea.
POWDERS, 
BRKIfiG 
Starch.
50 Jefferson  A v e . ,   1JPT KOIT,  MICH,
Morse Elevator Works, 
Philadelphia,  New  York 
and Detroit.  Mot se, W il- 
liams  &  Co.,  proprietors. 
Detroit office, 91 Jefferson

M M Y 0R8

(FOR  PASSENGERS  A N D   FREIGHT.)

ave.  Telephone 1032.  H.  MIDDLEBROOK,  Agent.
P E R K I N S  
H E S S
s Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALER S IN

NOS.  133  and  134  LOUIS  STREET.  G RAND  R “F ID S,  M ICHIGAN. 

WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE-

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II.G.& L.C0.

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This  has  all  the  latest  improvements, 

Xo. 0 Lift Wire Lanters, see cut.......per doz. 44.50
the. 
guards being stationary,  yet  simple  and  easily^ 
adjusted.  1 doz. in a box. 
*

No charge for boxes on oil cans or  anterns.

