The  Michigan  Tradesman.

*   VOL.  6.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  12,  1888.

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B E A N S

And all dealers are invited to  send  sam­
ples and write for prices  that  can be  ob­
tained in this market.
We  do  a  COMMISSION  BUSINESS 
and <yur aim is to obtain the  highest mar­
ket price for all goods sent ve.  Not only

BJBAJSS
but  also  ALL  KINDS  OF PRODUCE. 
We can sell as well as  anyone.

We invite correspoiidence.

BARNETT BROS.,

159 So.  Water St.,  CHICAGO.

Her  Appeal  to  the  Legislators.

When Judge Roberts entered Katherine 
Wright’s little parlor, he  found  her  con­
templating three  bonnets  laid on the ta­
ble in front  of  her.  They  were  of  vel­
vet and trimmed  with  feathers, but  one 
was blue, one violet  and the third a dark 
poppy  red.  The  sunlight  shone  in;  it 
was quite early in the morning and Kath­
erine  looked  pretty  and  gentle.  The 
Judge liked to stop in for  odd  moments. 
He had known  Katherine  ever since she 
was a little girl,  and he  felt  she  needed 
some supervision.
“Why, you have  gone  into a new  bus­
iness,”  he  said.  “Did  you  make  all 
these bonnets?”
“Not  one  of  them.  I  had  them  sent 
from  Madame  Fontaine’s, and I am try­
ing to decide which one I shall take.” 

“The blue one is pretty,” he said. 
“Yes.”  And she took it up and turned 
“Men  always  like  blue;  I 

it  around. 
suppose I ought to think  of  that.”
At this  remark the Judge smiled.
“I  did  hot  suppose  women  ever  did 
forget that point.”
“You don’t suppose  women  dress  for 
men’s eyes?  If  we  did  we  would  care 
more  for  beauty  and  less  for  fashion. 
We dress for each other,  sir.”
Then she took up the  red  bonnet  and 
looked at it.
“This is lovely,” she  said;  “just  look 
at the shadows  in it.”
“Take it, then.  Isn’t it becoming?” 
“Now,”  she  brightly  answered,  “you 
have hit the very point. 
It is  becoming.
I have  tried  them  all  on  and I know  I 
look best in this one.”

“Take it,” he repeated.
“Butmy hair?”
“What is the matter  with  your hair?” 
“It is red, also.”
“But not the same shade.”
“No, it isn’t, and this  shade  subdues, 
kills it a little, but  you  know  there isn’t 
a woman in the  city who wouldn’t  say I 
look  horrid  in it.  Girls  who  have  red 
hair wear blue or purple, you know.” 
Well, you are  an  absurd  creature!” 
said  the  Judge.  “Do  you  know  why I 
came here ?  It  was  to  give you a point 
for  your speech. 
I expected  to find  you 
buried in notes,  in  ink, in  ideas, and be­
hold  you are worrying over bonnets !  Is 
your speech ready ?”
“Oh,«yes,” she replied, pushing up the 
red  feathers  with  a  lead  pencil,  “or it 
will  be. 
I  know  pretty  much  what  I 
shall say.  Don’t  you  want  to give me a 
judicial  opinion  concerning  these  col­
ors?”  and she  jumped  up  and  went to 
the glass carrying the  bonnets.  She put 
on the blue one and turned to him.
That  is  very  nice,”  he  said.  “I 
think it will do first-rate.”
Then she put on the  purple one.
“That makes  your hair look red, I con­
fess,”  was  his  comment,  “still  it  is 
pretty.”

She tossed it aside.
“Oh,  I  shall  not  take that J”  she  ex­
claimed,  and  she  smoothed  back  her 
hair,  pulled  out  the  little  curls  on her 
temples, and with care  and  deliberation 
tried on the red bonnet.
She was quite right  in  thinking it was 
becoming,  and  her  radiant  satisfaction 
did not diminish the effect.

The  Judge nodded.
“Take it,”  he  said;  “prepare  to  con­
quer all womankind.”
“Oh,  but  this  time  I  have  the legis­
lators to cousider!  There is not a woman 
on that committee  who  has  said a word 
to me about  my speech, hut  each  one in 
turn  has  told  me  to  dress  well.  Do I 
usually dress so badly?”
“You  always  look  very  well,” he re­
plied.  “I do not  suppose any one would 
expect  you to look like a woman of  fash­
ion.”
“Still,”  she  said,  glaueing  mischiev­
ously at  him,  “that is my present  ambi­
I intend  to  make  an effort.  The 
tion. 
only trouble is, I never  thought of  it be­
fore Tuesday,  and so  I’ve had to hurry.” 
“I hope,” he  replied,  “that  you  have 
also thought of  your speech ?  Of course 
I suppose  you want women appointed on 
a board of  street inspectors or you would 
not have consented to talk to our eminent 
legislators on the subject?”
“Certainly I do.  Oh, when I begin  to 
speak I shall be  intensely interested. 
It 
will seem  the  most  important  thing  in 
the world to me.  But  as  I  am  to  meet 
them at Mrs. Elliot’s  house, I must  look 
all right.”
“What 
possible difference can your clothes make 
if  only they are  neat  and  appropriate ? 
Did  you  know  that  in  1847 a bill very 
similar to the  one  you  are  interested in 
was before the Legislature ?”
“I wish it had passed,” she said.  “Do 
you  know I would  dearly  love a reform 
in operation ?  Was there ever one ?”

“Nonsense!”  he  exclaimed. 

He smiled very slightly.
“Well,”  he  said,  looking a  little  an­
noyed,  “you  know I never  approved of 
any  of  this.  Mrs.  Elliot  shows  little 
wisdom  in  inviting  those  men  to  her 
house to be  talked  to, and I don’t think 
you  need  have  consented 
to  talk  to 
them. 
I  said  nothing  because  it  was 
none of  my business, and 1 also  thought 
you  were  deeply interested in the  ques­
tion.  Now I find  you  are  interested  in 
bonnets.”
“Yes,”  she  answered,  “I have a fever 
for bonnets!  And  it  has  come  late  in 
life.  Consider, I am - twenty-four  years 
old  and  I  have  never  had  a  complete 
‘costume!’ 
I  have  been  a  creature  of 
shreds and tatters, and I have  worn  last 
year’s coat with next  year’s hat.  Now I 
am  to  have a ‘toilette.’  A velvet  dress, 
sir, and—a train and gloves with ten but­
tons !”
“And  for  what?  To  meet  a  lot  of 
lubberly men!  What will  they care  for 
your ten buttons?”

Katherine laughed.
“The  men  are  the  excuse.  Why, a 
wedding would do as well.  But perhaps 
my attack of  vanity will be as short as it 
is  violent.”
“I hope so,” he said,  standing  up and 
holding  out  his  hand,  “I thought  you 
were superior to all this.”

“I am not,” she  replied,  gravely.  “I 
am a victim to it.”
“You have my best  wishes for looking 
well.  May I also hope for the success of 
your appeal ?”
Katherine now looked at him with real 
gravity.  She  feafed  her  frivolity  had 
carried  her  too  far, but  he  turned and 
walked out of  the room.
He looked perplexed  as  he  hurried to 
his office.  He did not like this.  He had 
considered  Miss  Wright a very  sensible 
girl and he had not objected to her liking 
for politics, nor had he cared because she 
made  speeches  at  ladies’ meetings  and 
semi-jubilee affairs.  He  would not have 
liked all  this  in  his  wife  or sister, but 
Katherine  was neither.  He  was  nearly 
forty;  he  was a bachelor,  distinguished 
and not poor, but  he was not a marrying 
man.
Suddenly  he  stood  still.  “ ‘A  fever 
for  bonnets !’”  he  repeated.  “A  fever 
for bonnets!  The next thing she will be 
getting married!  And ‘her hair!’  What 
a fool I was !  Of  course that is it.”
Then he laughed.  And  then  he  won­
dered who it was. 
It couldn’t  be  one of 
the legislators!

That evening he wrote her a letter:
M y  D e a r   M is s  W r ig h t—I saw  the  very bon­
net for you  this  afternoon.  It  was  gray and it 
was tied down, and  might be described as fuzzy 
or  woolly.  1 think it very superior in  style and 
color  to  the  ones  you  were  worrying over.  A 
very  pretty girl had it on.  Of  course, I couldn't 
ask where she bought it.  Very truly,

G e o r g e  L. R o b e r t s.

When Katherine read this note she was 
confounded.  Her  “fever”  was of  such 
very  late  date  that  she  had  had  short 
time for preparation.  Even now she had 
to  go  to  her dress-maker’s, she  had  to 
buy lace  and  natural  flowers.  The  re­
ception  was  at  3  o’clock;  it  was  now 
after  9,  and  from  half-past  9  to  half­
past 10  she  had a music  lesson  to give, 
and  it was pouring rain.
She had more than a half  mind to wear 
her old cashmere.
A  gray beaver!  That  was  what  the 
Judge meant, and he was  right.  A gray 
heaver!  How  stupid not to have known 
it was the  very thing!
But she had no time to spare.  She put 
on her hat, her waterproof,  she  took  her 
umbrella and she  sped  away to give her 
music  lesson.  What  an  hour  it  was ! 
The selections from the “Prophete” were 
longer  than  the  opera itself.  But even 
this came to an end  and  she  ran  home 
It was now after 11, and with the help of 
her  landlady she  made a hasty and  pro­
visional  toilet.  The  velvet,  with  its 
train,  was  to  he  put  on  at  the  dress 
maker’s, and  the  bonnet  changed  for a 
beaver  at  Madame  Fontaine’s. 
It  wa 
after 12 before she  left  the  house.  She 
bought the lace, but she  went  from flor 
ist to florist before  she  found  her  ideal 
white rose. 
It raiued  in  torrents.  The 
streets ran in water and  mud  was every 
where.  She was  hungry, she  was  nerv 
ous.  She  went  to a restaurant  to get a 
cup of  tea, but  the  waiter  was  so long 
coming to  her she  jumped  up and ran to 
Madame Fontaine’s.
“W hat!  change  that  h at!”  cried  the 
milliner,  “that  superb  h at!  It  is  the 
most  charming  one I had  in  the  room 
Beavers are commonplace and to  you not 
becoming.”  She could not trim a hat on 
so short notice.  She  talked,  she  said it 
was  absurd  to  think  of »change.  The 
time flew on.  Katherine had no time nor 
strength  to  discuss  it, and  she  hastily 
threw  off  her  old  hat  and  the milliner 
put the new  one  on  her, and  without a 
glance  at  the  glass  she  was  off  again 
Ice  cream  is  not  stimulating,  but  it i: 
readily  served,  and  on 
it  Katherine 
lunched. 
It gave her a pain in her fore 
head, and  she  laughed  to herself  at the 
idea  of  any one  so  drenched  with  rain 
eating such cold, frozen stuff.
But at the  dressmaker's all was ready 
It took but a moment to  sew in  the lace 
and  the  skillful  fingers  of  the  dress 
maker  fastened up the  dress,  pinned up 
the train, and then the clock struck 
How far  away Mrs.  Elliot  lived;  how 
slowly the  car  splashed  along P  If  the 
horses  had  only  kept  time  with  Kath 
erine’s  watch,  how'  they  would  hav< 
flown!
But  when  she  entered  Mrs.  Elliott’i 
door how still, how  apart  from  hurry it 
wras.  There  was a murmur of  voices  in 
the  parlor.  There  was  the  perfume of 
flowers, the hushed step  on  soft carpets, 
the gentle voice of the lady’s maid.  And 
up  in  Mrs.  Elliot’s  room  Katheriue at 
length  viewed  her  costume.  She  was 
pleased.  Her  figure  was  tall and  slen 
der,  her  dress  fell  In  heavy  lustrou 
folds;  her gloves, her  handkerchief,  her 
flowers!—well, it was the  possible Kath 
erine Wright made real.  She did not re 
gret  the  gray  beaver  and  she  had one 
moment of perfect, unalloyed satisfaction 
in her own appearance.  Then  she  went 
down stairs. 
It seemed to  her  that  her 
train gave her a new  movement. 
If  she 
had  been  but  seventeen  she  could  not 
have been more content.
She noticed, however,  that  there  w'ere 
but few legislative hats on the hall table 
but she w’as not  sorry.  She was not dis 
pleased  because  she  was not the last to 
arrive.
In the long and brilliant parlor a group 
of  ladies  stood  talking  to  some gentle 
men,  and  among  them  she at once saw 
the tall  figure of  Judge  Roberts.  When 
she entered Mrs. Elliott looked up in sur 
prise.  She  did  not  recognize  this  ele 
gant girl, and then she came forward and 
as she greeted  her  whispered,  “You are 
just lovely!”
Katherine looked dowu  the  room, and 
her hostess laughed.
“Oh, they  have  not  come  yet.  They 
are not punctual, but we can wait.”
But they never  did  come!  Not a sin­
gle member of  the Legislature came that 
afternoon to hear  about  the  legal status 
of  women  in  regard  to  the  “Board  of 
Street  Inspectors.”  Everyone  else  was 
there.  The  committee  of 
the 
gentlemen  invited  to  meet  them;  the 
graceful and persuasive speaker who was 
; to convince them, hut not a legislator.
I  Some of  the ladies  said  they must  be

ladies, 

No, I was not.”

bashful, and  some  said  they feared  the 
weather,  and the  gentlemen declared the 
proper refreshments had  not been prom­
ised, and when half-past four came Judge 
Roberts  said  in a low  tone to Katherine 
that she was right in her  estimate of  the 
relative  importance  of  hats  and  argu­
ments,  and so took his leave.
In the evening the  Judge went back to 
his office, and  on  the  way he stopped to 
see  Katherine  and to condole  with  her. 
He found her sitting  in  front of  the fire. 
Her  bonnet  lay on  the table.  She  still 
wore  her  velvet  dress  and  she  looked 
tired.
‘You have not been in long ?”  he said, 
glancing at one gloved hand.
‘No. 
I  staid  to  dinner  with  Mrs. 
Elliot.”
‘Well?”  he  said.
‘Well?!’  she  replied.
‘Were  you disappointed ?”
‘Because the legis lators did not come ? 
‘Your dress was all right?”
‘I was  overdressed.  There  wasn’t  a 
rich  woman  there  who was d;essed as I 
was,  and they were all rich.”
‘There  was  not  a woman  there  who 
was as beautiful.”
‘And I ought  not to  have worn a bon­
net.”
‘You  looked  well  in  it.  You  were 
right about it.”
She gently sighed and  began to unbut­
ton her glove.
‘I am sorry,”  he said,  “that  you  were 
disappointed.”
‘I  was not,” she  answered, looking up 
quickly.  “You  don’t  suppose  I  really 
care so much for  dress ?  It was a whim. 
Of  course  I  am  sorry  it  was  such  a 
fiasco.”
“You are tired,”  he  said,  in  an  anx­
ious tone.
“No—yes, I  am.”
“What is the  matter  with  you,  Kath­
erine ?”
She  looked  into  the  fire.  Then  she 
glanced at him with a mixture of shyness 
and defiance in her eyes.
“To-night,” she  said,  “Mr. Elliot  was 
very cross.  He was annoyed because his 
wife put herself  in such a position.”
“Mrs. Elliot  is a very lovely  woman,” 
replied the Judge.  “I have a great liking 
for her.”

“Yes,” said Katherine.
“He  did  not  scold  you?”  said  the 
Judge, after a moment’s silence.
“No.”  And  Katherine  colored  and 
smiled.  “That  is  the  very  trouble. 
I 
I was  much  more to blame. 
envied her. 
She  trusted  to the good  faith of  others; 
I was silly, vain,  ridiculous, and there is 
no one who cares  enough for me to scold 
me for it.”

I am tired now.”

“Do  you want me to scold  you ?”
“No,” she cried.  “I want  you  to  for­
get  all  my  foolishness.  To-morrow  I 
will be wiser. 
The J udge  looked at her in great  sur­
prise.  What a very woman she was !  He 
had  thought  her  superior  to  the  little 
foibles of  her sex.  And  how  very nice 
she was!
He walked  about  the  room a moment, 
and then he went back to his office.
Katherine cried a little.  She  was cer­
tainly very tired.  She had never before 
been so lonely.  She  hated  her  rooms. 
She  hated  the  legal  status  of  women. 
She  hated  inspectors,  and  she  hated 
music lessons,  and  she  felt that she was 
very cross and that  she was  quite  right 
in being so.
The  Judge  was  not  cross,  but he did 
not like his rooms, nor  his  office,  and he 
began  to  stop  still  more  frequently to 
see Katherine, hut he  gave  her no  more 
“points.”  Neither did he scold her, and 
yet Katherine seemed satisfied.
He  wanted  her  to  he  married  in the 
poppy red hat,  but  she  declared  it  was 
horrid  and  all  out  of  taste,  and  she 
much  preferred  her  gray  beaver.  But 
the  Judge  did  not.  He  liked  the  red 
bonnet. 

L o u i s e   S t o c k t o n .

T hey  Bounced  the  D rum m er.

An  uncommon  commercial 

From  th e  New York Sun.
traveler 
who has  just returned to New York,  had 
an experience in a large  North  Carolina 
town the  other  day illustrating  the  un­
certainties of  life  in  that  State  on  the 
eve of  election,  when  roorbacks  fill  the 
air.  The traveler,  who is a regular hook­
worm,  and  an  accomplished, quiet  gen­
tleman, got off  the cars with his gripsack 
in  the  afternoon  and  went  to  a  hotel. 
Next morning he started out for business, 
but  had  not  walked a block when a cit­
izen called him  into a store  and  showed 
him  the  morning  newspaper.  Under 
very startling headlines it was announced 
that  the  Democrats  had  proof  positive 
that  a  Republican  emissary  from  the 
North had arrived in town with a carpet­
bag  full  of  money  for  the  purpose  of 
buying votes.  Our modest traveler’s ap­
pearance  w|jS  minutely described,  and it 
was announced  that  he  was  one of  the 
gang  who  were  expected  by bribery  to 
turn the State  into  the  Republican  col­
umn.  Other citizens  were called in,  and 
ample explanations  were  made  without 
avail.  The  citizens  said  they  had  no 
doubt a blunder had been committed, but 
the town was terribly excited, and nobody 
would answer for his  safety if  he didn’t 
take  the  first  train.  They told  him he 
had  got  to  travel, and as things  looked 
very  unhealthy  for  him,  and  more  so 
every minute he remained,  he did travel. 
Many  people  thereabout  still  imagine, 
doubtless,  that  they  bounced a terrible 
rascal,  who  was  trying to aim a deadly 
blow at the liberties of  the South.

Put It in a Safe Place.

Business man to new confidential clerk 
—Here, Waggley, is the  safe’s  combina­
tion—he very careful that you  don’t lose 
it.

haven’t you opened the safe yet?

“Yes, sir.”
Business  man,  next  morning—What, 
“No, sir;  I couldn’t.”
“You haven’t lost that slip, I hope?”
“No, sir;  but  I put it  inside  the  safe 

last night.”

NO. 273.

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief  Digests  of  Recent  Decisions  in 

Courts  of Last  Resort.

S T A T U T E   O F 

LIM IT A T IO N S— B A N K   D E ­

P O SIT S.

The statute of  limitations does not  be­
gin to  run as regards  funds deposited in 
a bank  until a demand  is  made for  the 
same,  according to  the  decision  of  the 
Supreme Court of Arizona.

CO NTRACT— B R E A C H — S T R IK E   NO  EX C U S E .
A strike in a manufacturing concern is 
not a legal excuse for the non-fulfillment 
of  a contract by the  proprietors  thereof, 
according  to the  decision of  the General 
Term of the New York Supreme Court in 
the  case of  Nightingale  Silk  Works vs. 
Eisemann et al.

N A T IO N A L   R A N K — A T T A C H M E N T .

Under  the  federal  statutes  the  state 
courts cannot issue an attachment before 
final  judgment against National banking 
associations  or  their .property, and  any 
attachment  so  issued is illegal  and void. 
So held  by the Supreme  Court of  Minne­
sota in the  case of  First National  Bank 
of Karson,  Minn.,  vs.  La Du.

R A IL R O A D — P A S S E N G E R   STA TIO N .

Within  the  meaning of  a  statute  for­
bidding the ejecting of a person from the 
car  for  non-payment of  fare except  at a 
passenger  station,  a  passenger  station 
must at least  be a stopping  place  where 
passenger  tickets  are  ordinarily  sold, 
according to the decision  of the Supreme 
Court of  New Hampshire  in the  case  of 
Baldwin vs.  Grand Trunk Railway.

IN T E R E S T — CO N SID E R A T IO N — O R A L  PROM ­

IS E .

The  Iowa code  provides  that the  rate 
of interest shall be 6 per cent, unless the 
parties agree in writing to pay a different 
rate.  The  Supreme  Court of  Iowa held 
that under this provision an oral promise 
to pay 10 per cent, constituted a sufficient 
consideration  to  support  a  subsequent 
security  for  the  debt which  included 10 
per  cent,  interest  up  to the  time of  its- 
executiou.

N A T IO N A L   B A N K — IN T E R E S T — U S U R Y .
The Supreme  Court of  Nebraska held,- 
in  the  case of  the  Schuyler  National 
Bank  vs.  Bolling,  that  state  courts  of 
record have jurisdiction of actions against 
National  banks to recover  back usurious 
interest paid;  that where such interest is 
taken  from  the  face  of  the  note  by  a 
National  bank  it  can  recover  only  the 
face of the note less the usurious interest, 
and  that  where  usurious  interest  has 
been  paid in advance  the  borrower  can 
recover double the amount of the interest 
he paid.

R A IL R O A D   COMP’ Y— B A G G A G E— A G EN C Y .
Where a  railroad  company’s trains  by 
an  arrangement  with  another  company 
regularly enter  and depart  from  the de­
pot of  the latter, and the former intrusts 
to the latter the business of handling and 
checking  the  baggage of  the  passengers 
and  furnishes  its own  checks  therefor, 
the  latter  company must  be deemed  the 
agent  of  the  first-named  company  in 
respect to such business, according to the 
decision of  the Supreme Court of  Minne­
sota in the  case of  Ahlbeck vs. St. Paul, 
Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway.

IN SU R A N C E —  ST IP U L A T IO N   —   O T H E R  

IN ­

SU R A N C E.

An important case involving a point of 
insurance  law was decided  lately by  the 
United  States  Circuit  Court  at  Little 
Rock, Ark. 
It was a suit brought by the 
Union Compress Company of Little Rock 
against  the  London, Liverpool  &  Globe 
and  twenty-seven other  insurance  com­
panies,  to  recover  insurance  on  cotton 
destroyed  by the  burning of  the  cotton 
compress building in November, 1887.  It 
appears that  policies had  been taken out 
by the Compress Company to protect  the 
interests of the railroads which had issued 
hills  of  lading  for  the  shipment of  the 
cotton as well  as to  insure itself  against 
loss.  The  policies  contained  a  clause 
making  them void  in case marine  insur­
ance was taken  out on the cotton,  not by 
the  compress company  hut  by the  con­
signees, and  the  insurance companies  in 
consequence  refused to  pay the  policies, 
holding that  they  were void.  The  com­
press  company got  a verdict jor  the full 
amount claimed.

When a merchant has  a  regular  set of 
customers who trade with him altogether, 
and to whom he gives’  credit, he is apt to 
think  that  his  trade  is  sure with  most 
any  kind of  a store, so  long  as  his cus­
tomers  stick  by him, and  are compelled 
to do so on account of  the  credit extend­
ed to them.  But if  he settles  himself to 
think  that way,  and  lets  his  store  run 
itself  in  a  great  measure, he  will  find 
sooner or later  that  he has  made a great 
mistake.  For his old customers will soon 
see  the difference  between  his  store and 
one  that is  better  attended  to,  and will 
make a change  whenever  they can  do so 
without  personal  inconvenience  or  loss. 
Then, with old  friends dropping  out and 
no  new ones  coming  in to  make  their 
places  good, the  store-keeper  will  find 
himself  practically bereft of  power  and 
patronage at the same time.

Having  bought  goods  right,  and  put 
them into a store, the next thing in order 
is to  show them  up  properly.  The  in­
terior  arrangements of  a  store  and  the 
attractive  dressing  of  windows,  goes  a 
great  way  toward securing  and  keeping 
customers.  The  eye  is a great educator 
of  the  mind, and  presents  the  most di­
rect  channel of  communication  with the 
heart and the pockets.

Old  Lady  (in  shoe  store)—Have  you 
Small  Boy  Clerk  (solemnly) — Yes, 

felt slippers ?
ma’am, many a time. 

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Our complete line of 

Stationers’  and Druggists’

F A N C Y

G O O D S

—AND—

H o lid a y

Novelties

are ready for inspection.  Every 
dealer, when visiting Grand Rap­
ids,  should  be  sure  and  look 
through ©ur lines.

'Eaton, Lyon i  Go,
BOOK-KEEPING

20 and 22 Monroe St.

WIPED OÜTII

Jfo  Pass  Books!
No Charging!
Na  Posting!

No Writing!

fio Disputing of I ggoM s! 

No  Change to  Make!
T R A D B S M A iV
Credit COUPON Book!

TH E N EW EST AND BEST SYSTEM 

ON  TH E  MARKET.

We  quote  prices as follows:

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“   500 
“ 1000 
on a cash  basis.

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

Subject to the following discounts:
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Send in sample order and put your  business 
E. I.  STOWE k  BRO., Grand  Rapids.

SILVER STARS
Wherever Introflicetl itis aStayer!

No Equal in the State.

TO THE TRADE:

I guarantee “SILVER STARS” to be a long, 
straight filler, with Sumatra wrapper, made 
by union labor, and to give  complete  satis­
faction.

Sole  Manufacturer,

♦ A..  S.  DAVIS,
70 Canal St, GRAND RAPIDS.
WALES  -  GOODYEAR

and Connecticut Rubbers.

T U B   T A . U A . G O J S

in  Ladies’,  Misses’  and  Children’s,  Heels  and 

Spring Heels.

G.  R .  M a y h e w ,
86 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.
f i l ers, Attention

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
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.

DAfUEL LYNCH

Successor to FRED  D. VALE &  CO,. 

Manufacturer of

Flavoring Extracts, 

Baking  Pow der, 
Bluing,  Etc.,

And Jobber of

Grocers  aid  Drifists’  Mm.

Pine Line  of Perfumes  for  the 

Holiday  Trade.

Call and inspect  our  new  establishment 

when in the city.

19  S.  IONIA  ST.

THE GRAND  RAPIDS

PAPER BOX  FACTORY,

W.  W.  HUELSTER,  Proprietor,

Formerly  located at 11 Pearl St., has been 
removed to
81 & 83 Campau St.
Cor. Louis, where I shall have more room 
and far better facilities for  the manufac­
ture of Paper Boxes.
All work  guaranteed  first  class and at 
the lowest rates.  Write or  call  for  esti­
mates.  Telephone 850.

THE  GREAT

EDMUND B.DIKEMAN
Watch Maker

Jeweler,
Grand Rapids,  -  jM .

44 CANAL SY„

ACTUAL  BUSINESS
T~) TD  A  U  ' I ' T F ’TV  at  the  Grand  Rapids 
~  
Business College.  Ed­
ucates pupils to transact and  record  business as 
it is done by our best  business  houses.  It  pays 
to go to  the  best.  Shorthand  and  Typewriting 
also thoroughly taught.  Send for circular.  Aa 
dress A. S. PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens- 
berg._____________________________________

TWO  GREAT LEADERS

The above head-line does not refer to the great 
leaders in the political parties, but to  two  of the 
GREATEST  SELLING Cigars on  the  market to­
day—namely:

Warren’s SpcekM  llam as
Warren’s  Sillier  Spots,

AND  T H ^ i   RUNNING  HATES

The “Speckled  Havanas” for a Ten Cent Cigar 
and  the  “Silver  Spots”  for  a  Five Cent  Cigar 
stand without rivals  wherever  introduced.  Ev­
ery dealer in  Fine  Cigars  should  secure  these 
two brands, as they are TRADE  WINNERS.
Full particulars in regard to prices, terms, etc., 
can be had by addressing

GEO.Y. WARREN *G0.

Mfrs. High  Grade  Cigars,

- 

MICHIGAN.

FLINT, 

H A S   R E M O V ED   FR O M

46  Ottawa  Street,

03-05  Tearl  St.

More  Room! 

Better Facilities!

The Inspection of the Trade is 

Solicited.

Our  old  store,  three  floors  and  base­
ment, with gas engine  and  elevator,  for 
rent on favorable  terms.

SAFES!

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

C. M. GOODRICH & CO.,

With  Safety Deposit  Co., Basement  ol Wid- 

dioomb Blk.

Proprietor  of

EDWIN  PALMS,
Valley  City  Cold  Storage.
Solid  Brand
Daisy  Brand

Packer and Jobber of the Popular

AND

OF  OYSTERS.

Butter,  Eggs,  Sweet  Potatoes, 

Cranberries, Etc.

Sole Proprietor of

Mrs. Withers Home Made Mines Meat

Made  of  the  best  material.  The  finest 

goods in the market.  Price, 7 cents 

per lb. in 25 lb. Pails.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Salesroom, No. 9 Ji. Ionia Street,
Lean’s BiIstoGollege
ÄND  SHORTHAND  INSTITUTE.
Established  SEVEN  YEARS
Young men  and  young  women  taught  Book 
keeping,  Penmanship,  Shorthand, Typewriting, 
Telegraphy,  Commercial  Law, Business  Correa 
pondence, Practical  Arithmetic  and  other stud 
ies, by uine professional  teachers  of established 
reputation.  Send for College Journal.  Address 

LEAN’S BUSINESS COLLEGE, 

Shepard-Hartman  Building,  Fountain  Street 

Grand Rapids, Mich,
-----MELTON’S ------

Room  8 S hep ard -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,

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Full line.  Cash prices this month. 

GRAHAM  ROYS,  -  G rand  R apids  Mich.

PLACE to secure a thorough 
and usef ul education is at the 
Grand Ra pid s (Mich.) Busr 
ness Colleg e,  write for Col- 

Jeoe Journal.  Address,  C. G. SWENSBERG.

The Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of M ichigan Business Men’s  Association.

▲  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Retail  Trade of the Woliierine State.

K.  A. STOWE &  BBO., Proprietors.

Subscription Price, One Dollar per year. 
Advertising Rates made known on application.
Entered  at  the  Grand  Rapids  Post  Office.

E.  A.  STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY, DFCEUBEB 18,  1888.

STATUS  OF  THE  PEDDLER.
It  is a  little  significant  that  the  first 
act  of  the  newly-organized  East Jordan 
B.  M. A.  is the arrest  and prosecution of 
a  wringer  peddler. 
Fortified  by  the 
masterly opinion of Judge  Cooley on  the 
Coldwater  peddling  case, which  was  ac­
quiesced in  by all the  other  members of 
the  Supreme Court,  it  is  difficult  to  see 
wherein  it is  possible  to secure  convic­
tions  in any court,  in case the  ordinance 
under which the  prosecution  is  brought 
is regular.

Referring  to the  attempt of  the  busi­
ness  men of  East Jordan  to  curtail this 
evil,  the  Enterprise  very  appropriately 
remarks:
The  question of  the  peddler  is at  the 
present  moment of  particular interest  to 
this  community, and if  people were only 
aware of the tricks of that fraternity, the 
peddler  would  soon  be  starved  out, in­
stead of  enriched.  First of  all, the ped­
dler  has no  locus  stancli—no  position— 
and no particular  field of  labor in which 
he  has a  reputation  at  stake.  He can 
swindle  a district  to his  heart’s content, 
and  then seek  fresh  fields  for  further 
depredations.  He has no fear of the ven­
geance  of  his  victims,  for  they cannot 
find  him, and  he won’t find them.  With 
a pack full of gaudy trash,  fitted to catch 
the eye of  the unsuspecting A ictim of his 
designs,  his  oily  tongue  will  foist  off 
brass  for  gold,  shoddy  for  wool, cotton 
for linen, mohair for  silk,  sham  for real, 
all  the  way  through, and  at  prices  far 
above the genuine articles.  The peddler 
has no opposition  in his vicinity.  There 
is no  other  pack or  store  on  the  same 
street, where  the  buyer can  step in  and 
’find  another  man’s  quotations  for  the 
same article.  He  has no  occasion to cut 
prices,  for there is no one to cut  against. 
He  has  it  all  his  own  way,  and  when 
he  has  gone  and 
the  neighbors  step 
in  and  criticize 
things  he  has 
the 
left  behind  him,  their  remarks  are 
not  always  conducive  to  the  peace  of 
mind  of  the  buyer.  The  peddler  pays 
no rent, no taxes,  and  owns  not a cent’s 
worth of  property in  the  town.  He has 
no  interest  in  any  improvement,  nor 
would  he  care  a  fig if  the whole  place 
burned  up  in  a  night.  When  a  poor 
man’s  horse  dies,  or  the  man  himself 
meets with a sad  accident, or a family is 
found to be without  food, does  the  ped­
dler put his  name  down on the subscrip­
tion list?’  Does he ‘Tony up” for Fourth 
of  July  celebrations  and  other  fetes? 
Never!  But  the  resident  merchant  is 
there every time.  He  is  the  man' who 
supports freely all these things, with the 
contents of  his  pocket-book, and  his en­
ergy, and his influence. 
It is he who im­
proves  your  town,  makes  business  for 
the  place,  and  causes  the  money to fly 
about where  you can  catch  some of  it— 
and he is the  man  to  receive  your  sup­
port  in  return.  All  he  makes  is made 
honestly,  and is spent again in the town. 
If  a  merchant  makes  enough  to  build 
him a residence or a store,  that  money is 
circulated  again  among  the  workers in 
wages and dealers,  and when  the  build­
ing is up, he  pays  his  share of  taxes on 
it, and  thus  every one  receives  benefit. 
Look  at  the  bridge, the  town  hall, the 
graded  streets,  the  sidewalks  and  the 
waterworks—who  pays  for  all  these? 
Why, the heavily taxed store-keeper, not 
the peddler. 
Is  it  wise  to pay a “Wan­
dering  Jew” $7 for a wringer, when  for 
$5  your  own  merchants  can  sell  you a 
better one ?_______________

The Chicago  Anarchists  are  bringing 
their children  up to  believe in the teach­
ings of  Spies and  Parsons.  They might 
better  bring them  up to  appreciate  the 
value  of  American  hemp  as  a  pre­
server of  law and order.

Dakota, if  she  is smart,  will  keep her 
blizzards locked  up in the icehouse until 
after she gains  her coveted  admission to 
the  Union.  Otherwise  they will  freeze 
her out.

A “Sensation” that  was not  Bootless.
A characterless sheet styled the Weekly 
World  came  out  last  Saturday  with a 
list  of  “ druggists”  which  the  editor 
claimed  were selling  liquor  contrary  to 
the  State  law,  asserting  that  he  had 
“taken  great  pains and  spared  no  ex­
pense  to  investigate  the  matter.”  His 
statements are shown  to  be a  lie  by  the 
fact  that  his “list,”  so-called,  contains 
the names of two men who have not been 
in  the drug  business  for many  months, 
while Mills & Goodman, who are charged 
with  selling  liquor  contrary  to  law  at 
357  South  Union  street,  are  dealers  in 
druggists’ publications solely, the address 
given being the private  residence of  Mr. 
Goodman.  These contradictions are suf­
ficient to show the  utter unworthiness of 
the statements made by the fellow.

Among  the  druggists  named  in  the 
“list”  was  Alderman  Hayward,  of  the 
West Side  drug store, who  sought a per­
sonal  interview  with  the  originator  of 
the  sensation.  A  short  time  afterward 
a  red-haired  editor  was  seen  coming 
down  the  stairway  in  close  proximity 
with the  toe of  Hayward’s boot, and the 
operation was repeated, with  variations, 
for a space  of  several  minutes,  at  the 
end of  which time Carroll  found himself 
on the opposite side of  the  street.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

GRAND RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Elmer Smith has  purchased the bazaar 

stock of  Mary Withey.

Wm. West has moved his grocery stock 

from Lake Odessa to this city.

Wm. Steady is succeeded by J. C. Well­

ington in the crockery  business.

The Grand  Rapids  Portable  House Co. 
is merging  its business  into a stock com­
pany under fhe same corporate style.

D. Rankin, general  dealer at New Era, 
has  added  a  line  of  boots  and  shoes. 
Reeder,  Palmer  &  Co.  furnished 
the 
stock.

J.  R. Harrison is closing out his general 
stock  at  Sparta  and  will  re-engage  in 
trade in this city shortly after the first of 
the year.  _______________

J.  H. Rippey  &  Son, grocers  at Berla- 
mont,  have  added  a  line  of  boots  and 
shoes.  Reeder,  Palmer  & Co.  furnished 
the stock.

The  Telfer  Spice Co. has  nearly  com­
pleted  the wrork of  moving from  the old 
location  on  Ottawa  street  to  the  new 
quarters on Pearl street,

Jas.  Ward  has  engaged  in  general 
I. M.  Clark  &  Son 
the  groceries  and  A.  C. 

trade  at  Griswold. 
furnished 
McGraw & Co. the boots and shoes.

Magie Bros., oil and  grease merchants, 
of  Milwaukee,  have  opened  a  branch 
here, with W. II. Swan in  charge.  They 
carry a full  line of  oils, grease and  gen­
eral mill supplies.

D.  E.  Copper  has  opened  a  general 
store at Berlin.  Ball,  Barnhart  &  Put­
man furnished  the  groceries  and  F. W. 
Wurzburg’s  Sons & Co. supplied the dry 
goods and notions.

A.  E.  Landon  and  Freeman  BrowTn 
have formed a copartnership and engaged 
in  the  hardware  business  at  Nunica. 
Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.  furnished  the 
stock, Frank R. Miles taking the order.

G.  S.  Goldsmith,  the  Manistee  drug­
gist, has purchased  the  remnants of  the 
Tonchett Bros. ’  drug stock at East Lake, 
and opened  a branch store at  that place, 
placing his brother  in  charge.  The bal­
ance of  the  stock  was  furnished by the 
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,

Andrew  Flanagan,  the  Marion  mer­
chant who recently made  an assignment, 
wras in  town  last  Friday  and  Saturday 
and settled with all  his  creditors on the 
basis  of  50  cents  on  the  dollar.  The 
necessary  funds  were  raised  by  Flan­
agan’s father and  brother, the  former of 
whom lives near Lowell and  the latter in 
this city.

A R O U N D   T H E   S T A T E .

Rodney—T. W. Avis has opened a meat 

market.

Elk—M.  (Mrs. Harvey)  Tozer  has sold 

her general stock.

Alpena—Meyer  &  Mentliey  have  sold 

out their meat business.

Clayton—M.  L.  Squier,  of  Hudson,  is 

stocking the Abbott store.

Muir—Geo.  Pringle  succeeds  Pringle 

Bros,  in the grocery  business.

Ludington—H.  Roussin  has  opened a 

grocery store on James street.

Scottville—Dr. E. P. Thomas has moved 

his drug stock into his new store.

Sheridan  —  Frank  Sinclair  succeeds 

H. F. Messinger in general trade.

Burr Oak—D.  A.  Snyder  has  sold  his

general  stock to Wm. Shaw & Son.

Alma—Lockwood  &  Moore  succeed G. 

W. Pulfrey in the grocery business.

Grayling—Peterson & Growloff succeed 

A. Peterson in the jewrelry business.

Pinnebog—Alex.  B.  Arthur  has  sold 

out his agricultural implement stock.

Bay City—Jas.  Shannon  has  opened a 

grocery store at 1008 Twelfth street.

Bad  Axe—S.  B. Wright  has  sold  his 

grocery stock to Darjardins & Phelps.

Yermontville—Luther  Dean  succeeds 

L. R. Acker in the hardware business.

Ludington—C. L. Tripp is  closing  out 
his grocery stock, and will move to Utah.
Frankfort—Watson &  Penfiekl succeed 
F. A. Watson  & Co. in the furniture bus­
iness.

Laingsburg—Harbard  E.  Kellogg  has 
moved  his grocery  stock  into  his  new 
store.

Flushing—E.  S.  Benliam has  sold  his 
merchant  tailoring establishment to Geo. 
Green.

Clare—Fagan  & Derby, dealers in  fur­
niture, have  dissolved,  O. S. Derby  suc­
ceeding.

Middleville—Loomis  &  Co. have  sold 
their general stock to T.  H. Dean,  late of 
Chicago.

Kent  City—Chas.  Parrish  has  sold  a 
half interest in  his meat  market to John 
McKinnon.

Laingsburg—J.  H.  Benson  has moved 
his  furniture  stock  into  Frain’s  new 
brick store.

Sheridan—F. R. Messinger has  sold his 
dry goods stock to F. T.  St.  Clair,  late of 
Port Austin.

Rodney—Geo.  Bell  has  removed  his 
meat market to the vacant building owned 
by  Dr.  Barry.

Belding—Lightstone  Bros,  have  post­
poned  the removal  of  their  stock  from 
Rodney and Chippewa  Lake to this place 
until after January 1.

Constantine—Wm.  W.  Bronson  has 
given a chattel  mortgage for §900 on  his 
millinery stock.

Cedar Springs—Geo. Joslin  has  closed 
out his grocery stock and will  soon move 
to Gulfport, Miss.

Nashville—T.  D.  Young,  late of  Mar­
shall, has  rented  the Walwrath  building 
and engaged in the bazaar business.

Graafschaap—John  Lucas  has sold  all 
his property here and will move to Grand 
Rapids to engage in the meat business.

Ishpeming—Edw’ard  Kennedy  has  as­
signed  his  clothing  stock.  The  assets 
are 310,000 and the  liabilities  about  the 
same.

Summit City—Jas.  Broderick  has  sold 
his grocery stock to Messrs. Pulver, Todd 
and  Tomlin  and  will  remove to  Grand 
Rapids.

Clayton—Gratton & Son have arranged 
to  put in a newr  hardware  stock.  They 
will  occupy  the  store  formerly used  by 
Peck Bros.

Elk  Rapids—Dr.  A.  Hanlon  has  par­
tially completed arrangements to sell  his 
drug  stock to  Geo. E. Coleman, of  Cadil­
lac, and John W. Balcom, of South Board- 
man.

Carson  City—The  B.  Tripp  drug  and 
grocery  stock  has  been  sold to  Kelley, 
Petteys  &  Co.,  a  firm  composed of  D. 
Kelley, the  Lyons  druggist,  and  M.  J. 
Miner, W. Petteys  and  Geo. W. Cadwrell, 
all of Carson City.

S TR A Y   F A C T S .

Hillsdale—O.  J.  Harrington, dealer  in 

agricultural implements, is dead.

Manistee—Horace  Tabor, of  the  saw- 
mill  firm  of  Horace  Tabor  &  Sons, is 
dead.

East  Saginaw—C. K. Eddy & Co.  have 
the  Michigan  Dairy  Salt 

purchased 
Works.

Woodmere—A  petition  has  been  filed 
to  the dissolution of  the grocery firm  of 
C.  II. Meyer & Co.  and the  appointment 
of a receiver.

Yermontville—The  Jewett  Stove  Co. 
has  levied  an  attachment  on  the  hard­
ware  stock  of  L. R. Acker,  to  satisfy a 
claim for 3400.

St.  Charles — Detroit  creditors  have 
seized  Charles  Deitzler’s  stock  of  dry 
goods.  He owes 33,000, and the stock in­
ventories at 34,500.

Sault  Ste. Marie—Geo.  S. Stanley, late 
a clerk in the  grocery  store  of  Eccles & 
Adams,  now  conducts  a  restaurant  on 
the Canadian side of  the river.

Yassar—B. Netsorg, who  recently  as- 
assigned  to T. W. Davis, exhibits  assets 
of  38,000,  with 
liabilities  of  315,000. 
R. Y. Bray  has  possession  of  the  stock 
by virtue of  a chattel mortgage.

Charlotte—A.  C.  McGraw  &  Co.,  of 
Detroit, with a claim of  about  3500,  the 
Goodyear  Rubber  Company,  of  Cleve­
land, with a  claim of  31,400, and  Duane 
Armstrong & Co., of  Rochester, with one 
of  3600, replevined on the  Gibbard  shoe 
stock Saturday, taking  possession  of  all 
the goods  they could  find  which, it was 
alleged, had  been  purchased of  their re­
spective houses.

M A N U F A C T U R IN G   M A TT ER S.

Big  Rapids—Morehouse  &  Park  have 
sold  their  shingle  mill  and  plant  in 
New aygo county to H. J. Dudley, of Fre­
mont.

Leroy—H.  M.  Patrick  has  purchased 
of Wenzel Bros, the timber on 1,080 acres 
of  land,  which  he  will  convert  into 
shingles.  The  timber is sufficient to run 
his-mill about two years.

Kalkaska—C. B. Shaver,  who has been 
lumbering  in  Mecosta  county  several 
years for A. B. Long & Sons, with  head­
quarters  at  Blanchard,  has  established 
himself  h^|e to  undertake  a job of  put­
ting  in  60,000,000  feet  of  logs.  He ex­
pects to complete the  job  inside of  three 
years.

Detroit—The  Craig  Shipbuilding  Co., 
capital stock 3125,000, has been incorpor­
ated by the following stockholders:  John 
Craig,  Trenton,  4,765  shares;  Geo.  L. 
Craig,  Trenton.  1,225  shares ;  James 
Gourlay,  Detroit,  5,  and  George  Craig, 
Detroit,  5.  The  company  is  really  the 
old  Craig  shipyard  company,  incorpor­
ated,  with the addition of Mr.  Gourlay.

Allegan — Mrs.  Browrn  has  sold  her 
flour-mill  in this  place—the old  Kellogg 
mill—to  Messrs.  Harvey  &  Young,  for 
39,000,  who  are  in  possession.  This 
property  has  an  interesting  history  in 
many  respects and  has probably  marred 
more  fortunes than it has  made. 
It was 
once  sold for 315,000  and  once  for $13,- 
500, the  latter  being  the figure  the  Wet- 
more  brothers paid and  then spent  half 
as  much  more in  repairing, only to  lose 
every cent they expended.

A few  years  ago it was  reported  that 
Scott  Gerrish, who  was  commonly sup­
posed  to  be  mouldering  in his grave at 
Hersey, was alive and  conducting a bus­
iness  in  Brazil.  Now  comes  a  similar 
report to the effect  that  Michael  Engel- 
mann is not dead, as people have besen led 
to think, but  is  living  in  retirement in 
Europe.  The  latter  report is not  given 
much  credence by the  people  of  Manis­
tee. 

1

E. J. Moss,  of  Coldwater,  raises  4,000 
pounds  of  horseradish  a  year,  and  the 
people there weep  whenever  they think 
of  him.

Gnpsack Brigade.

Fred. Walther,  for  several  years  past I 
salesman  for  Rindge,  Krekel & Co., has [ 
gone  on the  road  for  Rindge,  Bertsch & | 
Co.

Chas.  J.  Bush,  traveling  representa­
tive  for  the  Bay City Fish  Co., of  Bay 
City, was  in  town a couple of  days  last 
week.

O. A. Freeman has transferred his alle­
giance  from  the  Grand  Rapids  selling 
agency  of  the  Detroit  Safe  Co.  to  the 
house itself.

Wm.  H. Downs left  yesterday for Bos-) 
ton, where  he  will  spend a week or ten 
days,  returning  home  by  way  of  New 
York and Philadelphia.

Bellaire Breeze:  M. M. Mallory, repre­
senting  Olney, Shields  &  Co., was  here 
one  day last  week.  The merchants  are 
glad to see Mallory every time.

Louis J Koster, the handsome Teutonic 
traveler  of  Detroit,  put  in  a couple  of 
days here last  week.  He is still  unmar­
ried,  but  just as anxious as ever.

Frank L. Kelly has  gone  to  Mt. Clem­
ens, to test the curative properties of the 
mineral  waters  there.  His rheumatism 
is no worse than it was a  year ago, when 
a three  weeks’ stay put  him in excellent 
shape.

L.  M.  Mills  now  wears  a  first-class 
plug hat—for  the  first  time on record— 
contributed by his friend  Sheffield, down 
at Benton Harbor,  as  the  sequence of  a 
bet on the  general  result  on  the recent 
election.

Geo.  I.  Douglas,  for  several  years 
traveling  representative  for  the  Reed 
Harrow  Co.,  of  Kalamazoo,  has  taken 
the Ohio agency of the Advance Thresher 
and  Engine  Co.,  of  Battle  Creek.  He 
w'ill  make his headquarters in Toledo.

Greg.  Luce will  be  a  Benedict  after 
next  Wednesday,  on  the  morning  of 
which  day he will  lead to the'altar Miss 
Saddie  Howard, of  Holland.  They  will 
go to  Minneapolis  on a wedding  trip, re­
turning  home  shortly after New Year’s.
H. B. French,  traveling  representative 
for Wm. Sears & Co., paid an election bet 
at  Traverse  City  several  days  ago  by 
wheeling Male. Winnie in a wheelbarrow 
from Park Place  Hotel  to  Hannah, Lay 
& Co.’s bank.  French based his faith on 
Cleveland.

O. A. Perry has  resigned  his  position 
as  traveling  salesman  for  the  Grand 
Rapids  agency of  the  Detroit  Safe  Co., 
to  take  the  position of  collector for the 
house.  He  will  remove  to  Detroit  as 
soon  as  he  can  dispose  of  his home on 
Crescent avenue.

If  there is a city in the  country w'here 
the traveling men pull  together as unan­
imously as  in  Grand  Rapids—in a social 
and  fraternal  way—T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
w’ould  like  to  know’  it.  No  brother  is 
allowed  to  remain  in  distress,  if  the 
kindly offices of  his fellow’s can  mitigate 
his suffering.

Byron S.  Davenport,  traveling  repre­
sentative  for  01i*ey,  Shields & Co., was 
married  on  Thanksgiving  eve  to  Miss 
Kittie  Dalziel,  of  Green  township,  Me­
costa  county.  Miss  Dalziel  has  fol­
lowed the  occupation of  a school teacher 
for several years and was well and favor­
ably  known in the  educational circles of 
Mecosta  county.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Daven­
port  have  taken  up  their  residence  on 
North Lafayette street.

Purely Personal.

J.  H.  Welch,  the  Ionia  grocer,  was  in 

town last Friday.

J.  H.  Manning,  the  Ashland  general 

dealer, was in town Monday.

O.  B. Granger,  the Plainwell hardware 

dealer, w’as in town last Friday.

Chas. Young, the Allegan druggist and 
wall  paper dealer, was in towrn  Monday.
S. C. Scott, the  Howard  City druggist, 
wras in town for a few  hours one day last 
week.

Clarence  A. Fellows,  the  Big  Rapids 
druggist, buried his wife last week.  She 
died in Colorado, whither  they had  gone 
in hopes of  benefiting her health.

Gaius  W.  Perkins,  President  of  the 
Grand Rapids School  Furniture  Co., and 
Chas.  J.  Reed,  Secretary  of  the  same 
corporation,  are  spending  the  week  in 
Chicago.

W. H. Buckley,  for  several  years with 
H.  Cliff,  the  Spring  Lake  hardware 
dealer’, is in town for a few days  for  the 
purpose of  looking up a place  in  which 
to engage in the hardware business.

G. W. Barnett,  senior  member  of  the 
firm of  Barnett  Bros., reputable  commis­
sion  merchants  of  South Water  street, 
Chicago, was in town last  Tuesday in at­
tendance on the annual convention of the 
State Horticultural Society.

Robert  M.  Floyd,  well  known  to  the 
merchants  of  Michigan, was  married  on 
December  2  to  Mrs.  Henderson  Reid, 
daughter of the famous New York florist. 
The  ceremony occurred  at  St.  Stephen’s 
church,  in  Philadelphia,  and,  after  a 
brief  wedding  trip, the  happy  couple 
returned  to  their  future  home  at  1605 
South  15th  street  in  the  quaint  old 
Quaker City.

Farewell to  “Scotch Oats Essence.”
The  effects of  the Scotch  Oats Essence 
Co. were sold  by the sheriff at New York 
last Friday for 339,610.  Several thousand 
bottles of  the greatly-advertised elixir of 
life  brought 4 cents  per bottle,  although 
the retail price is 31.

Save  by  Keeping  Accounts.

From  th e  New Y ork Independent.

If all men, whether engaged in business 
or acting as employes  and  receiving sal­
aries or  daily wages,  would  keep a reg­
ular account  with  themselves,  in  which 
should  appear  in  detail  all  the  money 
they receive  and  all* they  expend,  they 
w’ould  live  more  wisely  and,  as  a rule, 
far  more  successfully.  Here,  for exam­
ple,  is a man  who is  in  receipt of  a sal­
ary.  The salary he  receives is in twelve 
monthly payments.
Let us suppose him to keep an account 
with  himself.  When  he  receives  a 
monthly payment he  charges  himself  as 
debtor to  that  amount,  and  during  the 
month  he  credits  himself  with  all  he 
pays  out,  item  by item.1  At  the  end of 
the  month he settles  this  account  with 
himself,  and  sees  on  paper  where  his 
money came  from  and  just where it has 
gone. 
If  he has spent less  than  he  has 
received he carries  the  surplus  forward 
to the next month in the  same  way, and 
thus continues  for  the  whole  year.  At 
the  end  of  the  year  he  can  look  back 
over  the  whole  period  and see in black 
and white  just  how  he  has lived in the 
matter of  personal  and  family expenses. 
If  his  whole  salary  has  been  spent he 
can  see  how it was  spent, and if  a part 
of  it has been saved  he  can  equally see 
how he managed to save it.

East Saginaw Jottings.

It is rumored that one of our w holesale 

houses will change hands soon.

The  Hoyt  Dry Goods Co. reports  bus­
iness a long  ways  ahead of  expectation.
The Jas. Stewart Co. is moving into its 
mammoth  new’ store.  They expect  to be 
settled by the last of the week.

The wholesale trade report business as 
improving  and  collections  better,  while 
the  retail  trade,  outside of  the  grocery 
line,  say that  they do  not  look for much 
of an improvement until next week.

F. E. Jones, late with Harry Hamilton, 
has purchased an interest in the drug and 
mineral water  business of  D. E. Prall,  at 
111 South Jefferson street, and the tw’o will 
continue the business  under  the style of 
Prall  &  Jones.  They  have  rented  the 
store adjoining their present location and 
w’ill engage in the  wholesale business in 
a small  way,  increasing  their  stock  as 
the grow th of  the enterprise demands.-

Bank  Notes.

The new’ building of the Northern Kent 
Bank,  at  Cedar  Springs,  is now enclosed 
and will  shortly be ready for  occupancy.
H.  E.  Allen,  Assistant  Teller  of  the 
First National Bank of  Detroit,  has gone 
to Chicago to take a position with Geo. H. 
Hammond & Co.

Frank  A.  LeSuer,  Teller  in the  First 
National Bank of Charlotte, will take the 
position of  cashier  for  Lamb & Spencer, 
the Charlotte grocers, on January 1.

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

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

A dvertisem ents w ill be inserted  u nder  th is  head fo r 
tw o  cents  a   word  th e  first  insertion  an d   one cent a  
vord  fo r  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
m ent tak en  fo r less th a n  25 cents.  Advance  paym ent.

F O R   S A F E .

334

332

T710R  SALE—THE  UNDIVIDED  ONE-HALF INTEREST 
JD 
in a   hardw are  business  in  a   lively  tow n  of  six 
thousand in h ab itan ts, situ ated  in  N orthern  M ichigan. 
Now doing a  y early   business  of  over  sixty  thousand 
dollars.  Address J. B. Frost, Jackson, Mich. 

Address C. C. Rood, G rand  Rapids, Mich. 

m edium  w eight,  quick  action  an d   well  trained. 

ies, boots an d  shoes,  fo r  farm   o r  city  property. 
G. W. W atrous, Real E state Agent. Lansing, Mieh.  333

IX)R EXCHANGE—$5,000 stock of dry   goods,  grocer­
IX)R SALE—AT  A  BARGAIN,  A  YOKE  OF  OXEN, 
I JOR  SALE—THE  ONLY  DRUG  STORE  IN  A  LIVE 

tow n o f 600 in h ab itan ts on  th e   M ichigan  C entral 
Railw ay.  In good farm in g  country.  Stock, a b o u t $2,- 
500.  R ent low,  w ith long lease.  P re fe r  cash,  b u t w ill 
give tim e on p a rt w ith good  security.  Best o f reasons 
given for w ishing to  sell.  Address  ‘’Good  Luck,” care 
The Tradesm an, G rand Rapids, Mich. 
331
FOR SALE—A  COMPLETE  OUTFIT  OF  DRUG  F ix ­
tu res, new last spring, and a  sm all  stock  of  well- 
selected drugs.  Less th an  $500, cash,  will  tak e   outfit. 
330
Address M. H. Pasco, Rockford, Mich. 
FOR  SALE-NEW  UPRIGHT  SIX-HORSE  ENGINE 
IX)R SALE—A  CASHIERS  DESK  ADAPTED  FOR  OF- 
IpOR SALE—STOCK  OF  CONFECTIONERY,  SCHOOL 

and  boiler,  com plete,  $215.  New  u p rig h t  six- 
horse boiler, $90.  Ann A rbor E ngine and Boiler W orks, 
Ann A rbor, Mich. 

fice o r sto re use.  W ill sell fo r $10,  cost  $25,  new. 

W. W. Huelste«*. 81 and 83 C am pau St., cor. Louis. 

: 
frig e ra to r and a  good show case.  W ill  tak e  $100  for 

supplies, cigars, etc.  Also  ice  cream   tables,  re­
stock and fixtures.  Call on o r address  Mrs. S A Camp, 
168 Stocking Street, G rand Rapids, Mich. 

■ RUG  STORE  FOR  SALE  —  IN  CHATTANOOGA.

Tenn.  Population,  50,000.  Good  location,  good 
trad e.  A b arg ain  fo r some one.  F o r  full  p articu lars, 
those w ho m ean business- address P. O. Box  203,  Ch&t-
ta nooga, Tenn._________________________________ 314

323

329

324

811

¡K>R SALE—A  GOOD  HORSE  AND  DELIVERY WAG- 

on.  Enquire a t 193 T enth 8 treet. 

a t 110 Monroe street, G rand Rapids.  Goods a re all 
new.  The stand is  in  th e  best  location  in  tow n  and 
can be leased.  Bemis Bros. 

IX)R  SALE—OUR  RETAIL  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES 
I riOR  SALE—A  CLEAN,  WELL-ASSORTED  STOCK  OF 

general hardw are, stoves and tinw are.  Tin shop 
in connection.  W ill inventory ab o u t $6,000.  Located 
centrally and one of th e 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. 

300

30?

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I lO R  SALE—GOOD  RESIDENCE  LOT  ON  ONE  OF 

th e  m ost p leasant streets “ on  th e   hill.”  W ill ex ­
change fo r stock in any good in stitu tio n .  Address 286, 
care M ichigan Tradesm an.____________________ 

286

WANTS.

TXT ANTED—A  REGISTERED  PHARMACIST.  GER- 
Yv  m an preferred.  Must be w illing to w ork in  gen­
eral stock.  B ert M. Brown, Stevensville, Mich. 
336
SITUATION WANTED—A  COMMERCIAL  TRAVELER 
is  open  fo r  engagem ent.  Large  acquaintance 
w ith  grocery  trad e  in  M ichigan.  Address  Jackson, 
325
care M ichigan  Tradesm an. 
WANTED—EXPERIENCED  DRUG  CLERK,  GER- 

W ANTED—SITUATION  BY  EXPERIENCED  PHAR- 

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

m an o r Scandinavian prefered.  Apply  a t  once 
giving usual p articu lars.  F. D.  P aquette,  Ludington.
319

m acist.  Speaks H olland.  Registered  by exam i­
n a tio n .  Best of references.  Address  Box  153, Morley 
Mich. 

WANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  READS 

th is  p ap er  to   give  th e  Sutliff  coupon system  a 
tria l.  I t w ill abolish y our pass  books,  do  aw ay  w ith 
all yo u r book-keeping, in  m any instances save you the 
expense of one clerk, will b rin g  y our business  down to 
a   cash basis and  save  yon  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 never 
reg re t it.  H aving  tw o kinds, b o th   kinds  will be  sent 
by  addressing  (m entioning  th is  paper)  J.  H.  Sutliff, 
Albany, N. Y. 

WANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR 

Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System.  Send for 

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

214

322

302

213

MISCELLANEOUS.

B attery  should be owned by every  business m an v 
clerk,  trav elin g   m an,  book-keeper.  Positively  re­
lieves headache o r c a ta rrh  in th ree m inutes.  Send us 
one d o llar fo r  com plete  b a tte ry   by  m ail.  E.  Clifton 
Fisk & Co., G rand Rapids. Mich.  Agents wanted.  335
<5£1  O H O   CA8H  BUYS  MANUFACTURING  BUSI 
B jp I.iJV /V j  ness p ay in g  100  p er  cent.  Best  of  rea ’ 
sons  fo r  selling.  Address  Chas.  Kynoch,  St. Ig n ace’ 
Mich. 

228

Displaying  Hardware.

An English hardware dealer  thus  dis­
plays some of  his goods :
Cutlery should  be  kept in a glass case, 
which  should  be  fixed  in  a  prominent 
position,  as nothing  looks  more  attract­
ive than a well-arranged  display  of  cut­
lery.  For table  cutlery, where the same 
numbers are adhered to in  ordering from 
time  to  time,  a  series  of  wood  boxes, 
placed upright,  with  the  top  end  open 
and narrow side  facing,  large  enough to 
take a set of  each table  and  dessert,  an­
swer well,  and when  faced  with  glazed 
green  paper,  and  a  knife  of  each  size 
fixed  on  the  front,  they  present a neat 
appearance.
The  lower  shelf  may  be  made  just j 
take  pockets  of |
wide 

enough 

to 

F l o r i d a
B E D I M  CO,

pocket-knives,  and  as  most  firms  now 
send them out in  cardboard boxes,  these 
may be  arranged  in  the same way, with 
a  pattern  of  the  contents  tied  outside 
each packet. 
If  space  will admit,  a row 
of  scissors  may  also  be  shown,  either 
with packets placed  upon  slightly slant­
ing  shelf, with a bead  along the front to 
prevent them  slipping,  or a copper  wire 
stretched  across to keep the  packets up­
right.
Screw’s  for  retailing  in  less  than  in 
gross  packages  should  be  kept  in  a 
drawer  or  nest of  shallow’  drawers, say 
1J4 feet  deep,  to  hold a gross of  each of 
the  most  useful  sizes.  For the smaller 
sizes  open  tin  houses,  to  slip  into  the 
divisions,  will  be  found handy,  as they 
may be lifted out for serving.

♦

FANCY  FRUIT—The  Cele­
ct 

brated Alligator  Br 
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from Florida in car lots by

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Grand Rapids.

O r a n g e s
MICHIGAN  CIGAR  CO.,

Big  Rapids,  Mich,

MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED

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M.  C. 

Tlie Most Popular  Cigar.

C ”“Yum

The  Best  Selling Cigar on the Market.

SEND  FOR  TRIAL  ORDER.

DID  YOU  NOTICE  THIS?
F o r  this Month only!

STYLE  NO.  3.

W e w ill sell, FOR  THIS  MONTH  ONLY,  our No. 3 

Show Case or our No. 1 Oval Front  Show Case
No.  1 or 3, 6 ft. long, 15 in.  high, 28 in. wide, §10.75 
14.50
No.  1 or 3,  8 
Our No. 3,  17 in.  high, 28 in.  wide, 6 ft.  long,  12.00 
Our No. 3.  17 
16.00

“  *.  15 
“ 

28 
8 

“ 
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28 

stock.  Take advantage of it.

Remember, this is  for  this  month  only,  to  reduce 
Hoy mu n <V-  Company,

63 and 65 Canal Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

'^ N a t iv e   C o f f e e  P i c k e r s .

THE FINEST  CROWN.

CHASE  &  SANBORN.
OUR COFFEES  HAVE  A  NATIONAL  REPUTATION  REPRESENTING 
SEAL BRAND  COFFEE  surpassing1 all  others
in  its  richness  and  delicacy of flavor.  Justly called  The  Aristocratic 
Coffee  of  America.  Always packed  whole roasted (unground) in 2 lb. 
air-tight tin  cans.
A skilful blending of strong, fla-
/W T IT T O   A  T \T 1   _ _  
L / J I ,  ( j  ^  f t   1 1  r i   J o J u J u J .ll jLM  vory  and  arom atic  high  grade 
confess.  W arranted no t to contain a single Bio bean,  and guaranteed to 
suit your  taste  as  no  other  coffee  will,  a t  a  m oderate  price.  A l w a y s  
packed whole roasted (unground), in 1 lb. air-tight  parchm ent packages. 
r-fry— 
Tell  us  that their  coffee trade  has
|\t>   I  Ml In  v i|\\# O C il\w   doubled and  trebled  since  buying 
and  selling  our  coffees.  \\ hat  it  has  done  for  them  it will for you.  Send for 
samples to CHJlSB  cfc  SA.NBORN,

BROAD  STREET, 

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BOSTON,  MASS. 

W estern  Department,

NO.  80  FR A NK LIN   STREET,

C H IC A G O , 

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Sauer Kraut•

Order  this  Brand  from 

your W holesale Grocer.

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ÍSSOCIJTION  DEPARTMENT.

M ichigan  Business  Men’s  Association. 

PM>flidpnt_F ronk W ells, Lftusin^«

w “ b . A. Stowe, G rand Rapids.

S
Treasurer—L. W . SP ^ V |^ ® ^ e“ 'w h itn e y , M uskegon;
Executive Boaixi—President, U L  
Blain  Lowell;

■

S J S K h f f i r -
S E »  
ville;  W .S. 
E.  P ark ill,  Owosso;  H.
H. Pope, Allegan.
Com nuttee on L egislati 
A. H ydom , G™ ^ ^ r e r t s ^ m i t h B a r n e » ,  Traverse 
Saginaw ;  H. B. Fargo, Mus-

o s s fe a

T n ^ e c r e ^ - “ J ncônnell,  M u sk eg « . 
O ffltia fo re ^ -T H K  Michigan Tradesman.____________
The following  auxiliary associations  are op- 
e ^ a S i  under  charters  granted by the Michi­
gan Business Men’s Association.

No. 1—Traverse City B. M.A.

P resid en tfGeo. E. Steele; Secreta ry , L. R oberts.----------
--------■ 
President, N. B. B lain; S ecretary, F ran k  T- K in g --------

"v0, 2—Lowell B. II. A.
So. 3—Sturgis B. M. A.

President, H. S. Chu rch; S ecretary, W m. Jo m . _
No.  4—Grand Kapids  M.  A.
---- 
o,««lrtent. E. J. H errick; S ecretary, E. A. Stowg^
----------  No.  5—Muskegon B. M. A.
President, H. B. F arg o ; Secretary, Wm. Peer.----
-------- 
.
P resident. F. W. Sloat; S ecretary. P. T. B aldw in
----------- No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A.
President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, S. H. W idgen 
No. 8—Eastport B. »1. A.
No. 9—Lawrence B. AI. A.

n„. 6—Alba B. M. A. 

president, H. M

No. 10-Harbor Springs B. M. A

M arshall; S ecretary, J- H. Kelly^
A. L. Thompson.

President, W. J. C lark; Secretary,

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

P resident, H. P. W hipple; Secretary^

î i o   l l — Kingsley B . M . A . 
"NoT 13—Quincy ». Al. A.
No7Ï3—-Sherman B- Al. A.

P resident, C. McKay; Secretary, Thosj g n n o n .-----------

P resident, H. B. S turtevant;  Secretary. W.  J. A u stin ^

“NV»  14—No. M u s k e g o n  B. 3i. A. 
President, 8. A. Howey; Secretary, G. C. H aven* 

P re sid e n t,R .R .P e rk in s; Se c r e t e g y J ^ J g g f g L .

No. 15- Boyne City B. M. A. 
No. 16—Sandhake H- 

' 

P resident, J . V. C randall:  Secretary, W. R a sc o ._
-------------No. 17—Plain well B. M. A.
President, E. A.  Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
No  18—Owosso B. M. A.
‘  No.  1»—Ada B. 31. A.
No. 20—Naugatuck B. M. A.
No. 31—Waylanu B. AI. A.

P resident, H. w ! P ark er; Secretary, S. L am fro m .--------
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P resident, D. F. W atson; Secretary . E. E- Chapel.--------

President, John F. H enry; Secretary, L. A. PheipsJ ------
President, C. H. wh.rtnn; Secretary, M.Y. H oyt.------- .
P ersident, A. B. Schum acher; Secretary, W.  R.  Clarke.

No. 28—Grand hedge B. M. A.
No. 33—Carson City B. Al. A.

P resident, F. A. Rockafellow; Secretary, C

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P resident, J T h u r k ^ ?  slcretai-y, W . H. Richmond. 
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P resident, Chas. B. Johnson; S ecretary, H. P. ^ w . ------

No. 25—Paio B. M. A,

President. S. R. Stevens: S ecretary, Geo. B. Caldwe  ■
' 
President, E. S. B otsford; Secretary , L. N. Fisher.------
President, Fred S. Frost; Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
President, Wm. Moore;  Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrongh.

No. 36—Greenville B. A** A. 
'  No  37—Dorr B. Al. A.
N o .  3 8 —C h e b o y g a n   B ^ M . A  
No. 29—.Freeport B.M. A*
No. 30—Oceana B. M. A.
No. 31—Charlotte B. M. A.
No. 33—Coopersville B.M. A. 
No. 33—Charlevoix B. AIL A. 

President, Thos. J. Green;  Secretary , A. G. Fleury.------

P resident, A. G. Aver y :  Secretary, E. S. Hongh taling.

P resident, W . G. Barnes;  Secretary, J. B. W atsom

President,  L.  D.  Bartholom ew;  Secretary . R- W . Kane.

President, H. T. Johnson;  S ecretary, P^T. W illiam s.—  

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

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P resident, H. M. H em street; Secretary,C . E. Densmore.

P resident, O. F. Jackson;  S ecretary. Jo h n   M. Everden.

No. 37—Battle Creek B. AI. A. 

President,  Chas. F. Bock;  S ecretary,  E. W. Moore1

No. 38—Scottville B. M. A. 
No. 39 -Burr Oak B. AI. A.

P resident, H. E. Symons: S ecretary, D. W. Higgins.
:1 
P resident, W. S. W ilier; S ecretary,  F. W. Sheldon.

President. C. T. H artson; Secretary . W ill Emmerx.

No. 40—Eaton Kapids B. M. A. 
No. 41—Breckenridge  B. AI. A. 

P resident, W. O. W atson; Secretary, C.  E. Scudder._
P resident, Jos. G erber; Secretary  C. J- Rathbun.
President, G. A. Estes; Secretary,W . M. Holmes.

No. 43—tre mono B. AI. A. 
No. 43—T u s t i n  B. AI. A. 

No. 44—Reed City B. M. A. 
No. 45—Hoytville B. AI. A .

President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smithy
President, D. E. H allenbeck; Secretary, O. A. H allaaay.
” 
P resident, W m. H utchins; Secretary . B. M. Gould._____

No. 46—Leslie B. M. A.

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

”  No. 47—Flint M. B.
No. 4 8 —H u b b ard s ton B . M. A .
President, Boyd R edner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.
‘  No. 49— Leroy  B  AI.  A.
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President,  A.  W enzell; Secretary. F ran k  Sm ltn. _

No. 50—Manistee B. AI. A. 

President, A. O. W heeler; S ecretary, J. P.  O Malley._

P resident, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.

No. 51—Cedar Springs  B. Al. A. 
No. 53—Grand Haven B. >1. A.

President, F rank Phelps; S ecretary, John H. A ork.------

President, Thom as B. Dntcher;  Secretary, C. B. WaUer.
P resident, C. F. H ankey; Secretary, i, A. C. Bowman.

President, A. 8. Kedzle;  Secretary, F. D. VQi 
No, 53—Bellevue B. AI. A.
No. 54— Uouglas B. AI. A.
No.  55—PeteskevB. AI. A.
No. 56—Bangor  B. »1.  A. 
No. 57—Rockford  B. AI. A. 
No. 58—Fife Cake B. M. A. 
No. 59—Fennville B. AI. A. 

President, N. W. D rake;  S ecretary, Geo. Chapm an.

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

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

President F. S. R aym ond: Secretary, P- S. Swarts.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A. 
P resident, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. K eihardt.

P resident, Y. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.-' 

No. 61—Hartford B. AI. A. 
No  63—Bast faginaw  W. A. 

P resident, G. W. Meyer; Secretary,  C has. H. Sm ith.

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

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

No. 63—Kvart B. M. A.
No. 64—Alerrill B. M. A.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. AI. A.
No. 66—Lansing B. M. A.

P resident, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. S. Blom._______

P resident, F rank W ells; Secretary, Cbas. Cowles.

No. 67—Watervliet  B. AI. A. 
President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.

No. 68—Allegan B. AI. A.

President, A. E. C alkins;  Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.

No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. 
President, Lym an C lark; Secretary, F. 8. W illison.
No. 70—Nashville B. M. A, 
President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers.
No. 71—Ashley  B   M. A,
President, M. N etrorg;  S ecretary,  Geo. E. Clntterbnck.
No. 72—Edmore B. M. A.
No, 73—Belding B. M. A. 
ho. 74—Dwvison  M. U. 

President, A. L. Spencer; S ecretary, O. F. W ebster.

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

P resident, Oscar P. Bills;  S ecretary, F. Re sac rang.

No. 75—Tecumseh  B.  M.  A. 
No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A. 
No.  77—-South  Haven  B.  M.  A. 

Bmssident, S. S.McCamiy;  S ecretary.  Channcey Strong.

President—C. J. Monroe;  S ecretary, 8. V anO strand.
President, C. F. W illiam s ;  Secretary, J. W. Saunders.

No. 78—Caledonia B. M.  A. 

A  Narrow  Street.

“Where have you  been. Bill;  I haven’t 

seen you lately?”

“I  spent the  summer  at  Sing  Sing, a 

pretty little village up the Hudson.” 

“Yes, I know the town. 

I have friends 
living there on  Pyramid street.  Did you 
live near that street?”

“Well, I  don’t  recall the  name of  the 
—er—street that I lived on, but I remem­
ber that the number was  113.”

Meeting  of the  Executive  Board.

'  President Wells has called a meeting of the Ex­
ecutive Board of the M. B. M.  A.,  to  convene at 
Lansing at 10 o’clock on the morning  of  Decem­
ber 20, andccontinue in session until  all the bus­
iness properly coming  before  the  Board  is  dis­
posed  of.  The  Insurance  Policy  Commission 
holds a meeting at the  same  time  and  place, so 
that two birds can be killed with one stone.

President  Wells  requests  T h e T r a d e sm a n  to 
state that the Insurance and Legislative1 Commit­
tees are also invited to meet with  the Board and 
that suggestions from any member  of  the  State 
body will be thankfully received.

The First Act of a New Association.
E a st  J o r d a n , Dec. 5,1888.

E. A. Stowe, G rand R apids:
D e a r   Sir —Having taken  the  necessary  steps 
in our  Business  Men’s  Association  to  become 
auxiliary to the State body, I take  the  liberty of 
asking you a  few  questions  in  regard to a firm 
doing business in your city.
Our village authorities have arrested a man by 
the  name  of  Coleman  (for  peddling  clothes 
wringers in our village  without  a  license) who 
claims to be an agent of  the  wholesale  firm  of 
Plumb, Lewis & Co.  We wish to know what bus­
iness they follow?  Do they manufacture a stand 
wringer called the "Leader” ?  What  is  the firm 
rated, or are they rated  at  all?  An  early  reply 
will be appreciated.

Yours truly,

C h a s.  P. D ix o n , Pres.

The Plumb & Lewis Manufacturing Co. is a de­
funct concern.  Goods are still  sold  under  that 
name, but they are manufactured and put on the 
market by the Bissell Carpet  Sweeper Co., which 
corporation absorbed the Plumb &  Lewis  Manu­
facturing Co. several years  ago.

Even if the Company referred to was really en­
gaged in active business, it would  have no busi­
ness sending ouj men to peddle  its  product, un­
less the men conformed  to  the  license  require­
ments of each city and village in which  they of­
fered  goods_  for  sale.  There  is too great  len­
iency shown peddlers in general, but this species 
of itinerant merchandizing happens to be one on 
which the Supreme Court has  set  the  seal of its 
disapproval, as shown by T h e  T r a d e sm a n , in its 
re-publication of the somewhat  celebrated Cold- 
water case, several months ago.
The  Boyne  City  B. M. A.  Again  in  the 

Field.
B o y n e  City, Dec. 7,1888.

E. A. Stowe, G rand R apids:
D e a r   Sir —Will you kindly let  me  know  how 
much our Association is in debt  to  the State As­
sociation.  We met last Wednesday  evening and 
decided, unanimously, to  re-afiSliate  and  main­
tain our identity with the parent  body.  I ought 
to have written you then.
How goes the insurance company?  Will  it  be 
a success?  I have just been elected Secretary of 
the Farmers’ Mutual of  Charlevoix, Emmet and 
Cheboygan Comities.  We have about  200  mem­
bers and over $200.000 represented.  We just filed 
papers, to-dav. with the county clerk.

‘  Very truly,  F. AI. Ch a s e , Sec’y.

Re-affiliation with the State body costs 50 cents 
per capita.  In other words, if the Boyne City B. 
AI. A. has as many members as it  had  enrolled a 
year ago—sixteen—it will cost  $8  to  join  hands 
with  the  seventy  odd  affiliated  bodies of  the 
State  organization  until  the  close  of the fiscal 
year, Sept. 30,1889.

The insurance project will  be  taken  up at the 
meeting  of  the  Executive  Board,  to be held at 
Lansing on the 20th.  Whether  it  will  be a suc­
cess, time only can  demonstrate.  T h e   T r a d e s­
man believes it will be a success.
Bay  City  Retail  Merchants’  Association.
The retail grocers of Bay City met at the Wash­
ington street  rink  last  Wednesday  evening for 
the purpose of considering the  idea  of  organiz­
ing an auxiliary association.  F. G. Oatman was 
elected to act as chairman  and  Thos.  Walsh, of 
West Bay City, was selected to serve as secretary 
pro tem.  A full explanation of the aims and ob­
jects of concerted effort was made by  State  Sec­
retary Stowe, when a number of grocers express­
ed themselves in favor of immediate  action and 
a motion to proceed to organize  was unanimous­
ly  carried.  The  regulation  constitution  was 
adopted, as was also the  Blue  Letter  collection 
system and blanks.  Committees were appointed 
to call on the grocers of each  ward  not  present 
at the meeting for the purpose of  securing  their 
applications  for  membership,  and  a committee 
was appointed to rent a desirable hall  in  which 
to hold  the  meetings  of  the  Association.  The 
next meeting will be held on Friday  evening, at 
which time officers will be elected.  The  Associ 
ation starts  out  under  flattering  auspices  and 
will undoubtedly take rank  among  the  leading 
organizations of the kind in the State.

Association  Notes.

The Lansing B. AI. A. is  trying  to  secure  the 
removal of the Allen knitting  mill, from  Michi­
gan City, Ind., to Lansing.

The Alma B. AI. A. is arousing  from  the  leth­
argy induced by the warm weather and political 
campaign, and proposes to enter the  active  field 
again.

Any  association  needing  outside  assistance 
would do well to notify the  President  or  Secre­
tary of the  State  body,  in  order  that  arrange­
ments may be made to that end.

The South Haven  correspondent  of  the  Alle­
gan Gazette writes :  The South Haven Business 
Alen’s Association has lately become auxiliary to 
the Alichigan Business Alen’s Association, and is 
now a permanent, useful  and  flourishing organ­
ization.

The State Organizer put in  two  days’  work in 
the Saginaw Valley last  week.  On  Wednesday, 
he assisted in the formation of  an  association at 
Bay City and on the day following he called on a 
number of the  association  workers at East Sagi­
naw and worked  up  organization  sentiment  at 
Saginaw City.

President Wells suggests the plan  of holding a 
special  meeting  of  the  State  body at Lansing 
during the session of the  Legislature.  The  sug­
gestion appears to  T h e   T r a d e sm a n  to be a good 
one, providing the meeting is  composed  of  vol- 
unteer delegates, instead of  being  made up on a 
delegated basis.

At  the  last  meeting  of  the Flint Alereantile 
nion  President Hoyt appointed a  special  com­
mittee,  consisting  of  Alessrs.  C. T. Bridgeman, 
Oren Stone and G. W. Hubbard, to interview the 
business men of Flint  and  ascertain  what  sup­
port they would  accord  the  proposed  Business 
Alen’s Mutual Fire Insr.r  :iee Co.

Cheboygan Tribune:  The Cheboygan Business 
Alen’s Association held a meeting Monday night. 
A communication from W. O. Hughart, President 
of the G. R. & I.  Railroad,  written  last  month, 
was read, in which it was stated that  at  the first 
meeting of the Directors of the  road  the  matter 
of a branch to Cheboygan would  be  considered. 
A communication from parties talking  of  locat­
ing a manufactory at  this  place  was  presented 
and referred to the committee on  manufactures. 
A committee was appointed to  make  application 
to council for the use  of  the  council  room  for 
holding meetings in.

East Jordan Enterprise:  N.  H.  Coleman  was 
barged on Saturday last on  the  information of 
D. C. Lovedav with hawking and peddling with­
out having  first  obtained  a  license.  The  first 
trial  resulted  in  a  disagreement  of  the  jury, 
tanding four two to for conviction.  On Alonday 
morning, a  new  jury  was  impaneled  and  pro­
gressed till afternoon, when  counsel  for the de­
fense claimed that the record  of  the  ordinance 
under which the  complaint  was  made  did  not 
agree with the published copy  and wras not sign­
ed by the President and Clerk.  Deeming the ob­
jection  insurmountable,  the  prosecution  was 
withdrawn.

Hudson Gazette:  Kimbark & Co.  having  con­
cluded to remove  from  Quincy,  on  account of 
poor transportation facilities and scarcity of tim­
ber, the Hudson Business Alen’s  Association has 
commenced a correspondence with the firm, call­
ing their attention to the splendid location of the 
roperty recently vacated by Piatt & Co., and the 
advantages afforded by tbe Alackinaw  for secur 
ing timber, and by the two  competing  lines  for 
hipping;  While the old spoke  factory  may not 
be suitable for their business, it could be used as 
a storage building and there is plenty of  land in 
the immediate  vicinity  where  a  good  building 
could be  erected  at  a  moderate  expense.  The 
Kimbark Co. does a large business  and  employs 
half a hundred men, and it is to be hoped  that it 
may find Hudson a  desirable  place  in  which to 
locate.

Cheboygan Tribune:  From the  report  of  the 
proceedings of the  Council,  given  elsewhere, it 
will be seen that the Cheboygan Business  Alen’s 
Association was granted the use of  the  Council 
room for holding meetings  in.  At  the  meeting 
of the Association, Alonday night, it was suggest­
ed that  application  be  made  for the use of the 
Council room and that  the  meetings  be open to 
the public, for the reason that there  appeared to 
be a misapprehension as to the  objects of the or 
ganization.  The impression seems to prevail that 
it is a sort of blackmailing institution, formed to 
oppress the  unfortunate.  It  is  nothing  of  the 
kind.  No honest man, no matter how poor, need 
have any fears of anything done by the  Associa­
tion ;  but chronic dead-beats—men  who  do  not 
intend to pay their honest  debts—have reason to 
fear the work of the Association.
Arrangements  for  the  Executive 

Board

Meeting.

Annual Meeting of the Dorr B. M. A.
D o r r , Dec. 7,1888.

E. A. Stowe, G rand  Rapids:
Dear  Sir—The  Dorr  B.  AI.  A.  met  at  J.  A 
Beamer’s office Wednesday, Dec. 5. for the trans 
action of the usual business.  A goodly number 
were present and an interesting meeting  follow 
ed.  The annual  election  of  officers resulted as 
follows:

President—E. S. Botsford.
Vice-President—A. Patterson.
Secretary—L. N. Fisher.
Treasurer—W. W. Peirce.
Two members of Executive  Committee—W. H 
Goodman and Wm. Trautman.
The  next  meeting  will  be  held  on  the firs; 
Wednesday in February.
All our members  are  anxiously  awaiting  the 
result of the insurance business, as a  number of 
policies soon expire. 
Our  Association  is  alive  and  we  are  "here to 
stay. 
Annual  Meeting  of  the  Grand  Haven 

L. N .  F is h e r , Sec’y

♦

B. M. A.
G r a n d   H a v e n , Dec. 6,1888.

E. A. Stowe. G rand Rapids:
D e a r   Sir—The  Grand  Haven  B.  AI.  A.  met 
last Wednesday at the city  hall  and  elected the 
following officers for the ensuing year:

President—A. S.  Kedzie.
Vice-President—G. Justema.
Secretary—F. D.  Vos.
Treasurer—P. VanLopik.
Executive Committee—J.  Cook, J. Ball  and G 
A. Bottje.
There was the largest attendance  last  evening 
that we have had for some time and  much inter­
est was manifested in the meeting.

Yours,  Wm.  M ie r a s , Sec’y.

Caledonia Takes Chatter No. 78.

Ca l e d o n ia , Dec. 5,1888.

E. A. Stowe, G rand R apids:
D e a r  Sir —The  Business  Men’s  Association, 
recently organized at  this  place,  is  flourishing. 
We have  eighteen  members  and  several  more 
have expressed their intentions of joining in the 
near future.
Enclosed  please  find  money  order for $12—$3 
for charter and the balance for per  capita  dues 
on eighteen members.
The business houses of our village  are making 
better preparations than ever before for the holi­
day  trade  and  the  crowd  of people in town is 
growing larger  each  day,  as  Christmas  grows 
nearer. 

J .  W. Sa u n d e r s, Sec’y.

Good Word from Davison.

D a v iso n , Dec. 1,1888.

E. A. Stowe, G rand R apids:
D e a r  Sir —I  herewith enclose a few  names for 
your  disposal.  Think  I  sent vou  these on the 
^Information Wanted” sheet a few days ago, but 
will make sure by forwarding the  whole number 
now.
Two more applications for  membership  await 
our next meeting.
This Union is strongly in favor of  printing all 
the delinquent lists in one State sheet.
We are  looking  anxiously  forward to see the 
charter numbers Increase.

Yours truly,

L.  G if f o r d , Sec’y.

President  Wells  writes  as  follows  relative to 
the  arrangements he  is making  for the meeting 
of the Executive Board :
I  am  much  pleased  with  the  result  of  your 
trip  to  Bay  City  and  the  Saginaws, and I con 
gratulate  you  most  sincerely  on  the  effect  of 
your labors  at  those  places.  Like  many  other 
places in the State, they only required missionary 
work  to bring them  under the  influence of  the 
organization.  The  harvest  is  ripening and  all 
that  is  required  are laborers  and  the  funds  to 
compensate them.
I am glad you are pleased with  the  idea  of a 
winter  meeting  at  Lansing.  I should  prefer to 
have  this  meeting  general  rather  than  one of 
delegates.  The  only  objection I can see  to  the 
former is the possible  one  that  any  work  done 
by it might be regarded as unconstitutional.  V" 
can settle all this at our meeting on the 20th.
I have written  the  members of the  Executive 
Board  and have urged them all to be present, 
have also  written  Caldwell  asking him to come 
with as  many members of  his  committee as will 
do so.  As we may decide to invoke  some  legi 
lation this winter, I have requested  Parkill to be 
present. 
I will  secure a room  in  the  Capitol 
building for the meeting, so that  we  shall  have 
ready  communication  with  the  meeting in the 
office  of  Commissioner  Raymond.  I  hope  we 
shall  have a  good  attendance,  and  think  that 
during the day  and  evening we can accomplish 
all that we shall  find to do.  If you can think of 
anything I can  do  to  make  the  meeting  either 
interesting or valuable, let me hear what it is.

We Will Be There.

D e t r o it , Dec. 6,1888.

E. A. Stowe, G rand R apids:
D e a r   Sir —A  meeting of the  Insurance  Policy 
Commission will be held at the office of the Com­
missioner of Insurance, Lansing, on the 20th day 
of December at 10 o’clock, a. m.
As earnest  protests  have  been  filed  with the 
Commission  against  the  adoption  of  the  New 
York standard form, it is  hoped  that  a  full  at­
tendance may be had  at  this  meeting,  to  fully 
consider the subject and enable the  Commission 
to satisfactorily complete its work.

Urging your presence at the meeting, we are 

Yours respectfully,

H e n r y   8.  R a t m o n d ,
M o ses  T a g g a r t,
C h a r l e s  B u n c h e r ,

Commissibners.

The  Hardware  Market.

Sisal and manilla rope are both higher, 
the  former  being  quoted  at  11)4 cents 
and the  latter at 13)4  cents  per  pound. 
The  sandpaper  combination has gone to 
pieces, in  consequence  of  which  prices 
are  badly  demoralized.  The  manufac­
turers  of  agricultural  tools  have  ad­
vanced their prices 5 per  cent.  There is 
prospect of  a pool  among  the  manufac­
turers of  plain  and  barbed  wire, to ad- 
| vance  prices.  The  same  thing  is  ex 
pected with steel nails.

The Payment of Money.

A  man  to whom  payment  is  made  is 
not bound, under ordinary circumstances, 
to give a receipt or make change.  A pay­
ment made  to the  proper  person in  law­
ful  money of  the United  States  is indis­
putably  good.  By an  act  of  Congeess 
the  payment of  debt with  coin is  regu- 
ated  as follows:
All  gold coins and the silver  dollar,  at 
their  respective values  for any  amount.
The  half-dollar,  quarter-dollar,  dime 
and  half-dime at their  respective  values 
for debts under ¡55.
Three-cent  pieces  for  debts  of  any 
amount under 30 cents.
One-cent pieces for debts of any amount 
under 10 cents.

Within a radius of forty  miles  of  Ro- 
hester there are more  than  1,500  fruit 
evaporators,  giving  employment  during 
the autumn  and winter  to  about  30,000 
hands.  Last  season,  the  production of 
these  evaporators  was  about  30,000,000 
pounds, worth at first cost about  5*3,000,- 
000.  A large proportion of  the  product 
3 exported.

VISITING  BUYERS.

ville

N agler & Beeler, Caledonia
C Young,  Allegan 
Dr W S H art.  Lake  Odessa 
- H Maiininer, Ashland 
E W ilson, Stanwood 
A J  W hite, Bass R iver 
O B Granger&Oo, P lain well E E Rice, Cr  ton 
J H Welch  & Co.,Ionia 
Dr P eter Beyer, Sullivan
Geo DVauVVanken,Cadillac A Purchase, So Blendon 
S L Alberts & Co.,  R avenna L B Bellaire, Cadillac 
T D Hobbs, K alkaska 
M W innie, T raverse C ity 
H P  W hipple, Kingsley 
Jas S Toland, Ross 
W m  Vermeulen,  B eaver
N O W ard, Stanwood 
John W H allett, CarsonCty  Dam 
H M eijering, Jam estow n
t 'h as N orth, T rent 
Jno Avery & Son, Greenvlle J L Purchase, B auer 
F P  Hopper, F rem ont
H T Lewis, H ersey 
A L Pow er, K ent C ity 
H igby & Hugh, Morley
H enry  Dalman,  Allendale
R W ylie, R ichland 
hil M  Roedel, W hiteCloud Orion H ightow er, Ferry 
Fred Stoner, Muskegon 
S C Scot., Howard City 
A. M Church, Englishvilie  R  T P arrish , G randville
C Stocking, G rattan  
A E  Landon. Nunica 
Severance  &  Rich,  Middle- 
M H Robson, Berlin 
Chas H Loomis, S parta 
D R akin & Co, Shelby 
J Raym ond, Berlin 
S J Koon, Lisbon 
H Colby & Co.,  Rockford 
H unt & H unter, Lowell
C H Deming, D utton
W A Feazel, Grand Junction G TenHoor, F orest Grove
J  B W atson,  Coopersville 
D D H arris, Shelby vilJe 
A E Gates, C rystal 
H W Cleveland, Nunica 
G S ru tn a m ,  F ru itp o rt 
H esler Bros., R ockford 
L A 3co ville, Clarksville 
C S K eifer, D utton 
A P  McKinnon,  Shelby 
F L H eatb, H asting 
Geo Lentz. C roton 
Goodrich Bros. Fennville 
John Kamps, Zutphen 
C arrington & N orth,  T rent 
H D Spaulding. W ayland 
A & E Bergy, Caledonia 
D Cleland,  Coopersville 
Jas W ard, Griswold 
R D M cNaughton,  Cooper 
C E Coburn, Pierson 
Morley Bros, Cedar Springs 
L Cook, Bauer 
J  P  Cordes, Alpine 
H B akker & Son, D renthe 
t C W illey, Sum m it City
H Thompson, Canada Cor
D W C   Shattuck,  W ayland W rightA  Friend. LkeOdessa 
Geo S Curtiss, E dgerton 
Wm K arsten, V riesland 
L„M W olf, Hudsonville 
D M Skidmore, Alto
Jackson Coon, Rockford 
C B Moon, Cedar Springs
J  C  Benbow,  C annonsburg C K H oyt & Co, Hudsonvlle 
Dunlap B«*os.,Vermontviile Sm ith & Bristol, Ada 
Geo J  Stephenson,  B angor A F lanagan, M arion 
A G C lark &  Co.  W hiteCld E R oberts, S parta 
J  N W ait. Hudson ville 
R A H astings, S parta

W N Hutchinson, G rant 

Jam es F itzpatrick, StJohns

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solid ch erry  o r w alnut fram e, w ith  or  w ith o u t  m etal 
corners, 
trim m ings; 
6 feet long,  28  inches  wide,  15  inches  high.  Price, 
»11, net cash.  Boxing and cartag e free.
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BRACES. 

dlS.

B a r b e r ............................................................................... 
40
B a c k u s ........................................................................   50&10
S p o ffo rd ........................................................................... 
50
A m . B a l l ........................................................................  
n e t
W ell,  p l a i n .................................................................... $ 3   50
W e ll, s w iv e l..................................................................   4  00

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, c a st. 

d is.
C ast L o o se P in , fig u r e d ..........................  
70&
C ast L o o se P in , B e rlin   b r o n z e d ..........................70&
O ast L o o se J o in t, g e n u in e  b r o n z e d ................... 60&
W ro u g h t N a rro w , b r ig h t 5 ast j o i n t ................... 6Q&10
W ro u g h t L o o se P i n .................................................... 60&10
W ro u g h t L o o se P in ,  a c o rn  t i p ..............................60&05
W ro u g h t L o o se P in , j a p a n n e d ............................60&05
W ro u g h t L o o se P in , ja p a n n e d , silv ertip p ed .6 0 & 0 5
W ro u g h t  T a b le .............................................................60&10
W ro u g h t I n s id e  B lin d .............................................. 60&10
W ro u g h t  B ra s s ............................................................  
75
B lin d ,  C la rk ’s ...............................................................70&10
B lin d ,  P a r k e r ’s .............................................................70&10
B lin d , S h e p a rd ’s ........................................................ 
70

BLOCKS.

O rd in a ry  T a c k le , lis t A p ril 17, ’85..................... 

40

CARPET  SWEEPERS.

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per m

CROW BARS.

B issell  N o .  5 ................................................p e r doz.$17  00
19 00 
Bissell No. 7, new drop pan
36  00
Bissell, G rand.....................
24  00
Grand Rapids......................
15  00
Magic...................................
..  dis. 50&02
Grain.................
04
.per 1b
Cast Steel...........
Iron, Steel Points
3)4
65
Ely’s 1-10...........
60
Hick’s  C. F ........
35
G. D ...................
60
Musket..............
50
50

CARTRIDGES.
r list..
.. .dis.
Rim Fire. United States.........
...dis.
Central  Fire.............................
c h is e l s.  .
............70&10
Socket Firm er.........................
............70&10
Socket Framing.......................
............70&10
Socket Comer...........................
........... 70&10
Soeket Slicks..........................
40
............ 
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer......
........ 
Barton’s Socket Firmers........
20
.......... 
net
Cold.........................................
com bs. 
..................................... 40&10
urrv,  Lawrence’s. 
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . »  ...» 
25
Hotchkiss..............
CHALK.
White Crayons, per  gross..............12@12!4 dis. 10

dis.

dis.

COCKS.

COPPER.

Brass,  Racking’s........................................... 
Bibb’s ............................................................  
Beer.............................. 
Fenns’.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
14x52,14x56,14x60 ........................ 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60........................ 
Cold Rolled, 14x48.......................................... 
Bottoms.........................................................  
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks........................................ 
Paper and straight Shank............................. 
Morse’s Taper Shank..................................... 

drills. 

60
60
40&10
60
33
31
29
29
.  30
dis.
40
40
40

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DRIPPING PANS.

ELBOWS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Small sizes, ser pound.................................  
07
Large sizes, per  pound.................................  
6?4
75
Com. 4  piece, 6 in .............................doz. net 
Corrugated.......................................dis. 20&10&10
Adjustable.............................................. dis.  hi&10
dis.
Clark’s, small, $18; large, $26........................ 
30
Ives’, 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30............................. 
25
American File Association List....................60&10
Disston’s ........................................................ 60&10
New  American...............................................60&10
60&10
Nicholson’s ........................... 
Heller’s ........................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps..................................... 
50
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;
List 

piles—New List. 

GALVANIZED IRON.

dis.

13 

12 

14

15

Discount, 60.

dis.

GAUGES.

HAMMERS.

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...........
Naydole  & Co.’s .................................
Kip’s ....................................................
Yerkes & Plumb’s..............................
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.....................
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand
HINGES.
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .............. ................dis.
. .per doz. net,
State........................................
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 
in. 4)4  14 and
longer.................................
................net
Screw Hook and  Eye, yx ......
................net
% .......
................net
% ......
Strap and T ............................. ................dis.

50
........ 
...dis. 
25
...dis. 
25
,. .dis. 40&10 
...30clist 50 
.. .30c 40&10
60
50
3)4
10
8)4
7)471/0
TU

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HANGERS.

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

dis.
..50&10 
.  60&10 
40

HOLLOW WARE

Pots..................................................................60&10
Kettles.............................................................60&10
Spiders........................................................... 60&10
50
Gray enameled..............................................  

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Stamped  TinW are......................... new list 70&10
Japanned Tin Ware......................................  
25
Granite Iron W are........................................ 
25

A n d   S a lt  F ish .

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See quotations in   another colum n.

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dis.
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AUGURS AND BITS. 

BALANCES. 
BARROWS. 

T hese  p rices  are  fo r  cash  buyers,  w ho 
pay  prom ptly  and  buy  in  fu ll  packages,
Ives’, old style..............................................  
60
60
Snell’s............................................................. 
Cook’s ............................................................  
40
Jennings’, genuine........................................ 
25
Jeqnings’,  im itation.....................................50&10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze...........................$ 7 00
D.  B. Bronze...........................   11  00
S. B. S. Steel............................   8 50
D. B. Steel................................  13 00
Spring  ........................................................... 
4o
Railroad....................................................... $ 14 00
Garden....................................................net  33 00
Hand......................................................  60&10&10
7i
Cow ............................................................... 
Call  .............................................................. 30&1
Gong.............................................................. 
25
Door, Sargent.................................................60&10
Stove............................................................. $
Carriage new  list........................................... 70&10
50
P lo w .............................................................. 
Sleigh shoe....................................................
60
Wrought Barrel  Bolts................................... 
40
Cast Barrel Bolts........................................... 
40
Cast Barrell, brass  knobs............................. 
60
Cast Square Spring........................................ 
Cast C hain....................................................  
40
Wrought  Barrel, brass knob........  ............. 
60
Wrought Squarer........................................... 
60
Wrought Sunk  Flush............................ —  
60
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush.. .60&10 
Ives’ Door........................................................60&10

bells. 

bolts. 

dis.

dis.

dis.

HORSE NAILS.

knobs—New List. 

Grub  1.....................................................$11, dis. 60
Jrub 2 ................................................ $11.50, dis. 60
Grub 3 .....................................................$12, dis. 60
Au Sable................................dis. 25&10@25&10&10
Putnam...................................... dis.  5&10&2H&21/_
Northwestern.................................   dis. 10&10&5
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..................... 
!
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings.................
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..............  
!
Door,  porceluin, trimmings.........................
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain...................
Picture, H. L. Judd  &  Co.’s ......................... 40&10
41
Hemacite........................................................ 
5!
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l i s t .......... 
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s ............................. 
5!
Branford’s ..................................................... 
51
Norwalk’s ......................................................  
51
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s......................  
71
Adze Eye...........................................$16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye...........................................$15.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s ........................................$18.50, dis. 20&10
diS.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled......................  
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s..................................... 
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Clark’s.................. 
“  Enterprise.........................................

l e v e l s. 
MATTOCKS.

LOCKS—DOOR. 

MAULS. 

m il l s. 

dis.

dis.

50
40
40
40

MOLASSES OATES. 

dl:

Stebbin’s Pattern........................................... 60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine..........................................60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring.
25
NAILS
Advance above 12d nails.

FENCE  AND  BRADS.
50d to 60d.........................................
lOd....................................................
8d and 9d.........................................
6d and 7d.........................................
4d and 5d..........................................
3d......................................................
2d ......................................................
4d__
3d__
2d __
12d to 30d..
lOd.............
8d to 9d__
6d to 7d __
4d to 5d__
3d..............

CASTING AND BOX.

FINE BLUED.

COMMON BARBEL.

inch.

25 
10 
25 
40 
60 
1  00 
1  50

1  00
1  50
2 00
50
60
90 
1  10 
1  50

...................................... ;......••

%  “ 
1*4 anu  1% inch............................................   1  35
...........................................  1  J5
2 and 2*4 
“ 
214 and 2J£  “ 
...........................................  1  00
3 inch.............................................................. 
85
3*4 and 4)4  inch............................................

CLINCH.

Each half keg 10 cents extra.

oilbbs. 

di
Rinc or tin. Chase’s Patent............................60&i0
Zinc, with brass bottom................................ 
50
Brass or Copper..............................................  
50
Reaper........................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s 
50&10
dis.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy..................................40@10
Sciota Bench.................................................
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy..........................40@10
Bench, first quality........................................  @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood............20&10

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PANS.

ROPES.

r iv e t b .

PATENT FLANISHED IRON.

50&10
60&10
d is. 50
50
10 20 
9 20

Fry,  Acme............................................. dis.
Common,  polished................................. dis.
Iron and  Tinned...........................................
Copper Rivets and Burs................................
A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 
B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 
Broken packs He per pound extra.
Sisal, y2 inch and larger..............................
Manilla..........................................................
Steel and  Iron.. 
Try and Bevels. 
M itre................

11*4
13*4
dis.
70&10
60
20
Com,
Com. 
7os. 10 to  14.................................
$3 00 
os. 15 to 17.................................
3 00 
os.  18 to 21.................................
3 10 
Nos. 22 to 24.................................
3  15 
os. 25 to 26.................................
3 35 
0.27............................................
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Smooth. 
...$4 20 
...  4 20 
...  4 20 
...  4 20 
...  4 40 
4  60

SHEET IRON.

SQUARES.

SAND PAPER.

wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19,’86...................................... dis. 
Silver Lake, White  A...............................list 
Drab A ..................................  “ 
White  B................................  “ 
D rabB...................................  “ 
White C.................................   “ 

SASH CORD.

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40
50
55
50
55
35

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

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dis.

dis.

TACKS.

saws. 

SAUSAGE SUUPFERS OR FILLERS.

“ 
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Extras sometimes given by jobbers.

Solid Eyes..............................................per ton $25
Miles’ “Challenge” __ per doz. $20, dis. 50@50&05
Perry................... 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.....................................45@45&5
Cross Cut................................... 45@45&5
H and..........................................2o@25&5
Atkins’  Circular...........................................dis.  9
70
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__  
Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__  
50
“  Special Steel Dia.jX Cuts, per foot. 
30
“  Champ!
ampion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot..........
28
60 
American, all kinds...........................
60 
Steel, all  kinds...................................
60 
Swedes, all kinds................................
60 
Gimp and Lace...................................
50 
Cigar Box Nails..................................
50 
Finishing  Naiis.................................
50 
Common and  Patent  Brads..............
50 
Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks.
50 
Trunk and Clout Nails......................
45 
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails..........
35
Leathered Carpet Tacks....................
Steel, Game..................................................... 60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................ 
35
70
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s —  
Hotchkiss’......................................................  
70
P. S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s ..........................!.......  
70
Mouse,  choker.............................................18c per doz.
Mouse, delusion........................................$1.50 per doz.
Bright Market................................................  6714
Annealed Market............................................70&10
Coppered Market...........................................  6214
Extra B ailing................................................ 
55
Tinned Market..............................................   621_
Tinned  Broom...................................per pound 09
Tinned Mattress..............................per pound 814
Coppered  Spring  Steel.................................  
50
Tinned  Spring Steel.......................................40&10
Plain Fence.......................................per pound 03
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..................................$3 75
painted......................................   3 00
Copper............................................... new  list net
Brass....................................................   “  “  “
dis.
Bright........................................................70&10&10
Screw  Eyes.............................................. 70&10&10
Hook’s .......................................................70&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...............................70&10&10

wire goods. 

TRAPS. 

dis.

dis.

wrenches. 

dis.

dis.

Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled..................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine..............................................  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,.....................  75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable................................ 75&10

miscellaneous. 

B irdcages............................ 
50
75
Pumps, Cistern.....................  
Screws, New List........................................... 70&05
Casters, Bed  and  Plate...... ....................50&10&10
Dampers, American......................................  
40
Fork?, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........  66%
Copper Bottoms..............................................   30c

 

 

 

 

 

Pig  Large........................................................... 28c
Pig Bars.............................................................. 30c

COPPER.

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

Lake................................................................... 18!4
‘Anchor” Brand..................................................18

in g o t.

z in c.

 

7@7

LEAD.

SOLDER.

Duty:  Sheet, 2)4c per pound.
600 pound  casks...................................
Per  pound............................................
Duty:  Pig, $3 per 100 pounds.  Old  Lead, 2c per 
pound.  Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound.
American 
...............................................@5
Newark........................................................... @5
B a r ................................................................................................6
Sheet........................................................8c, dis. 20
(4@V4.....................................................................16
Extra W iping................................................... 13)4
The  prices  of the  many  other  qualities  of
solder in the market indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
Cookson......................................... per  pound  14*4
Hallett';
11)4
10xi4 IC, Charcoal.......................................... $600
14x20 IC, 
12x12 IC, 
14x14 IC, 
10x28 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 
12x12 IX, 
14x14 IX, 
20x28 IX, 

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TIN—MELYN GRADE.

Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.

 
 
 

 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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10xl4IC,  Charcoal........................................$ 5 40
14x20 IC, 
12x12 IC, 
14x14 IC, 
29x28 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 
12x12 IX, 
14x14 IX, 
20x28 IX, 

EaYh additional X on this grade, $1.50.

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

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ROOFING PLATES.
14x20 IC, Teme  M. F .................................... $ 7 60
15 75
“ 
20x28  IC,
Worcester...........................  5.50
14x20 IC,
7 00
14x20 IX,
....  11  50 
29x28 IC,
....  4 90 
14x20 IC, 
....  6 40 
14x20 IX,
....  10 50 
20x28  IC,
20x28 IX,
....  13 50
14x28  IX.............................................................. $12 00
14x31  IX..............................................................  13 50
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers,)  „ 
14x60 IX,  “ 

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

Allaway  Grade..

^ per pound......  

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HARDWOOD  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, Cull..........................................  @12 00
Maple, log-run..........................................12 00@14 00
Maple,  soft, log-run..................................11 00@13 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2..............................   @20 00
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, *£ sawed, 8 inch and upw’d.40 00@45 00
Red Oak, *4 sawed, regular...................... 30 00@35 00
Red Oak, No. 1, step plank.................  
@25 00
Walnut, log ru n ...................................  @55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2...........................  @75 00
Walnuts, c u ll......................................   @25 00
Grey Elm, log-run..................................... 12 60@13 05
White Aso, log-run................................... 14 00@16 00
Whitewood, log-run..................................20 00@22 00
White Oak, log-run................................... 17 00@18 00

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FIBREWARE

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Have  you  ever  investigated 
this ware?  It  is made of wood 
pulp  and  then  pressed 
into 
shape, and cannot be broken or 
used up.  W e have it in
Water  Pails 

fflilk  Pails 

Stable  Pails 

Milk  Pans

Keelers

Bowls

Wash  Basins 

Gifspidors
An investigation would be to 

our mutual interests.

Foster, Stew  & Co.,

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

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

Weekly  "Pointers,"

When in the  city,  don’t  fail 
to call and investigate the mer­
its of the
Timby  Burglar-Proof  Sash  Lock.
Its simplicity,  automatic  ac­
tion, strength, ventilating qual- 
ities and adaptability  to  vary­
ing thicknesses  of sash  or  in­
side stops,  render  it  more  de­
sirable  than  any  other  sash 
locks we offer for sale.  It locks 
either or both sash in any posi­
tion desired and is absolute se­
curity against burglars.

Foster, Stew & Co.

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

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

6 00
6 25
10 00
7 75
7 75
8 00
12 50

5 40
5 65
9 25
11 80
6 90
6 90
7 15
11 65
14 80

Weekly  "Pointers.”

“I had rather part with  my piano than 

ty V a n   R a n g e

They take so little fuel;  they  burn  coal 
so nice;  so little trouble to run them and 
I can depend on it to do nice work.”
This is what a Sheldon street lady says 
of our Van Range.  We  have  sold  over 
two hundred of these Ranges  in the ci|y, 
and as many more in Western  Michigan, 
to whom we refer.  They  are  used  and 
conceded to be the best  in  the  world by 
all hotel and restaurant  men.  They  re­
ceived the  highest  awards  at  Philadel­
phia, Paris and Cincinnati,  and  are  the 
best  that  money  can  buy.  Not  how 
cheap a range we can sell, but how  good 
a range, is our motto.

Foster, M is  & Ce.,

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

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

______ W ARRANTED  TO B E  T H E _____
FINEST and LARGEST SMOKE
F or th e  m oney in  th e  tT. S.  !3F*Put up B0 in  a  box.  Ask 
JOHN E. KENNING & CO., Grand Rapids.
Send fo r prices.__________________

yo u r d ealer fo r them .  M anufactured only by 

BELK NAP

WAGON î  SLEIGH GO.

Manufacturers of

N O V E L T IE S

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P E R F U M E R  Y.

BELKNAP'S PAT. SLEIGHS

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

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

Grand Rapids.

SHOP.

A  LARGE  VARIETY  IN

China and Glass Stands, Jdgs and liases.
FINE  COLOGNES
Handkerchief Perfumes

and increase your trade for the

H O L I D A Y

to  Twenty-five  Dollars,

Send for sample lot of

Also a full line of

Ten 

------AND------

All sizes, 54 oz. to 10 oz. bottles, 

in large variety.

S E A S O N .

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

"Why you should send us your orders.  We handle 
nothing but BEST and  CHOICEST BRANDS; 
Sell at Manufacturers* and Importers’ Prices; 
Ship at ONE DAY *S NOTICE, enabling 
you to receive  goods day following: 
Fill  orders  for ALL  KINDS oi

G L A S S ,

J E N N I N G S   -   &   -   S M I T H ,

PERFUM ERS,

S8 and 410 L o u is -s t.,  Grand Rapids.

The Michigan Tradesman

Features  of the  Coffee  Market.

From  th e  New Y ork Shipping List.
The  past  month  has  developed  such 
interesting as well as significant features 
respecting the  statistical  position of  the 
world’s present  and  prospective  supply 
of  coffee  that  it  will  be  instructive to 
group these  features  together  and  con­
sider their bearing and probable influence 
in shaping  the  future  course of  events. 
This investigation  will  be  all  the more 
valuable and interesting in the light of  a 
very clear and exhaustive analysis of the 
statistical  position of  coffee  for the past 
fifteen  years,  which  has  been  prepared 
for private circulation by a gentleman in 
London,  and  which  has  recently  at­
tracted a good  deal of  attention from the 
coffee trade in  this  city.  The writer of 
this most comprehensive  circular  exam­
ines the subject  from  the  standpoint of 
an uninterested  statistician  and  weighs 
his  deductions  with  judicial  calmness 
and fairness.  He makes  no  predictions 
as to price, but simply endeavors to fore­
cast the  probable  results  of  supply and 
demand.
For  the  purposes  of  comparison,  he 
divides  the  period  under  review,  from 
1874  to  1888, into  three  cycles  of  five 
years each.  The first of these—from 1874 
to 1878—he shows to  have  been a period 
of  small stocks and scant supplies.  The 
small crops in 1873 had pushed  the price 
of  fair  Rio  up  to  28  cents in 1874, and 
■while  during  the  succeeding  five  years 
there  was  increased  production  and  a 
gradual  decline  in  prices,  until  in 1878 
the lowest point touched was  13% cents, 
there was no time when consumption did 
not  readily absorb the  available supply, 
and, consequently,  there  was  no  oppor­
tunity for  the  accumulation  of  stocks, 
either  visible  or  invisible.  The  next 
cycle—from  1879  to  1883—is  described 
as  the  period otf  oversupply, when  pro­
duction  exceeded  the  requirements  of 
consumption  and  caused  an  accumula­
tion  that  forced  the  price  of  fair  Rio 
down to 7% cents,  Then comes the third 
cycle—from 1884 to 1888—which is styled 
the  period  of  surprises,  and  which  in­
cluded the fiasco of  the  Brazilian  syndi­
cates  that  attempted  to  artificially  ad­
vance prices, followed  by the  failure  of 
the crop two  years  ago, the  wild  era of 
speculation  that  ensued, then the crash, 
and  the  prediction  of  the  abnormally 
heavy crop which is now being marketed. 
So far this is all  ancient  history, but its 
application is both  interesting  and  val­
uable, because  in  each  of  these  cycles 
the underlying and  controlling  factor in 
Shaping the course of  trade has been the 
condition  of  the  invisible  supply—that 
is, the stocks that are not counted in sta­
tistics and the  supplies  that  are carried 
by  the  direct  distributors  and  interior 
dealers.  In 1874. this reserve surplus had 
been drained to such an  extent  that  the 
small crop of  1873  made  some  check  to 
consumption  necessary, and 28 cents  for 
fair Rio proved to be that check.  During 
the succeeding five years, production was 
to  supply  the  requirements 
sufficient 
of 
consumption, 
enough 
these 
to  allow 
to 
be  recruited,  and  hence  prices  were 
maintained  at  a  comparatively  high 
level.  During 
five  years 
the tide of production ran very full,  and 
hence every chink and corner  was  filled 
to overflowing, and the price went  down 
to 7% cents in 1882 and 8  cents  in  1883. 
There was but little  change in  the  rela­
tive condition of these reserves, until the 
failure of the 1887-88 crop drained  them 
as dry as possible,  and  actually  left  the 
available supply on the 1st of July, 1888, 
practically exhausted,  while  the  visible 
supply was  reduced  to  a  minimum:  in 
other words, there was no margin to  fall 
back upon in any direction. 
It  was  the 
influence of this  invisible  supply  there­
fore  that  burst  the  speculative  bubble 
that  was  built  up  during 
the  early 
months  of  1887,  while  the  absence  of 
such a margin now,  in  view  of  present 
crop prospects, seems  likely  later on  to 
repeat the experience of 1874.
It is the fact that  the  world’s  reserve 
supply of coffee  has  been  reduced  to  a 
minimum that to a  great extent  neutral­
izes the effect of the abundant crop  that 
is now being marketed,  and  which  may 
not prove as abundant as the  early  esti­
mates fore-shadowed—for  not  only  has 
the free labor question had some restrict­
ing  influence  upon  the  gathering  and 
preparing of the stock, but  conservative 
authorities now claim that in the country 
tributary to Rio the trees lack  the  vigor 
to yield the quantity  at  first  estimated. 
By far the most significant feature,  how- 
ever,  is the prospect of the growing crop, 
which, instead of  improving  during  the 
past month, has been going from  bad  to 
worse from the effects of continued  rain, 
so that, although not seriously  damaged, 
it  promises  now  to  be  somewhat  less 
than an average crop.
Upon the authority of the writer  men­
tioned above the  actual  consumption  of 
all kinds  of  coffee  in  Europe  and  this 
country during 1888 is  estimated  at  11,
190.000 bags.  For the ensuing year it  is 
estimated by the  same  authority  at  11,
450.000 bags, while the estimated  supply 
does not exceed 10,000,000 bags,  showing 
a deficiency  of  one  and  a  half  million 
bags.  Under  the  conditions  of  supply 
and demand  that  existed  at  the  begin­
ning of the  1887-88  crop  year,  a  much 
greater deficiency could have been  made 
up from  the  invisible  supply,  but  this 
reserve having been practically  exhaust­
ed the only other alternative  appears  to 
be  that  consumption  will  have  to  be 
checked  by  advancing  prices. 
Just 
where to find thjt point is not very  clear 
under present conditions, but  a  number 
of well informed  authorities  claim  that 
at above 20 cents for fair  Rio,  consump­
tion slackens,  and will  be  sensibly  cur­
tailed so long as that level is maintained. 
For these reasons,  therefore,  it  follows 
that the key to the future course of trade 
is the growing erop,  and  when  its  out­
turn  is  more  definitely  determined  the 
future will be more clearly reflected.

invisible  stocks 

the  next 

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Imported 
and American 
Polished PLATE,
Rough  and  Ribbed 
French  Window,  Ameri­
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Enamelled, Cut and  Embossed.
Rolled Cathedral, Venetian, Muffled, #
Frosted  Bohemian,  German  Looking 
Glass  Plates,  French  Mirror  Plates.
The quality, variety and quantity of our stock 
is exceeded by no  house in   the united States*

W M .  REID,

73 & 75  Lam ed  Street West, D E T R O IT ,  M IC H . 
Irand Rapids Store,  61 Waterloo Street.

also m anufacture a  full  line  of  Sw eet 

Goods.  W rite  for  quotations 

and  sam ples.

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Automatic  Injector
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16,000  in  18  Months Tells  the Story.
Saif“WHY  THEY  E X C E L ^

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

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

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

Agents, HESTER  &  FOX,

Grand  Rapids,  Micj^

RISING  SUN 

BUGKWHEÄT.
Guaranteed AM itelj Pure.

ORDERS FROM RETAIL TRADE SOLICITED.

Newaygo  Roller  Mills,

Newaygo, 

-  Mich,

LEMON, HOOPS  i  PETERS,

Wholesale

Grocers

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IMPORTERS.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

SWIFT’S

Choice Chicago

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Dressed Beef
M U T
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 retailed by all first-class  butchers.
The trade of all marketmen  and  meat  dealers  is 
solicited.  Our W holesale Branch House, L. P. Swift 
& Go., located at Grand Rapids, always has on hand 
a füll 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 

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Union  Stock:  Yards, 

CHICAGO.

I, M. GLÄRK  1 SON,

l e m g Y R K   house

M I C H I G A N

STANDARD  FIRST  GRADE  PLUG  TOBACCO

LORILLARD’S 
C L I M A X
LOW   FIG U R ES s

Not  Used  to  Traveling.

Stranger (at  hotel  bar)—Best  whisky, 
please.
Bar-tender  (severely)—This  is  a  pro­
hibition town, sir.
Stranger — Ah,  excuse  me  (moving 
away).
Bar-tender  (excitedly)—Great  Scott, 
stranger, haven’t  yon  got  sense  enough 
to get sick ?

Can  now  be  bought  at the following exceptionally
Ass’t’d 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, 
42,30 & 12  “
CLUBS, 12 X 2, 8 oz., 6 cuts, 
42.30 & 12  “
FOURS, 6 x 2, 4 oz., 
45, 2554 & 16  “
FIVES, 6 x  154.31-5 oz.. 
TW IN FOURS, 3 x 2, 7 to lb,  41,27 & 1354  **
41,31 & 17  “
FIGS, 3 x 1,14 to lb., 

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w.  T.  LAMOREAUX,

71  Canal  Street.

W A N T E D .

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

If yon have any  of  the  above  goods to 
ship, or anything in  the  Produce  line,  let 
us hear  from you.  Liberal cash advances 
made when desired.

E A R L   B R O S . ,

Com m ission Mer c h a n ts

157 South W ater St.,  CHICAGO.

Reference:  F ir s t  Nationa l  Bank,  Chicago. 
Mic h ig a n Tradesm an. Grand Rapids.

B b a n 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

S e e d  Store,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

Cranberries,

Sw eet  PotatoesQ 
and  Grapes.
Bananas,  OUr  Specialty.
-  MICH.
GRAND  RAPIDS, 

16 and 18 No. Division St..

POTATOES.

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

&  Go.

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COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

166 South W ater St., CHICAGO. 
Reference

F elbenthal,  Gross  &  Mid le r, Bankers, 

Chicago.

M O SELEY   BRO S,

F ruits,  S eed s, O y ste r s  | P r o d u c e .

------WHOLESALE------

All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

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

pleased to hear from you.

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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WHOLESALE

Produce  Commission  Merchant,

BROKER  IK  LUMBER.

Orders  for  Potatoes,  Cabbage  and  Apples,  iu Car Lots, solicited. 

Butter and Eggs, Oranges Lemons  and Bananas a specialty.

33  OTTAWA  STEET,

Telephone 269.

GRÄND  RÄPID8,  MICH.

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The  Weber  Piano is  recognized  beyoaS 
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

Tie  Wete Stands UnrivaM.

Sheet  music  and  musical  merchandise 

Everything in the musical line.

Weber Pianos, 

Fischer Pianos,

Smith Pianos, 

Estey Organs, 

A. B. Chase Organs,

Hillstrom  Organs,

JULIUS A. J. FRIEDRICH;

(Successor  to  Friedrich  Bros.)

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

BEI VEN  &

Sole Agents for the

The devil, Jack!  We’ve got a 

Shark.  He’ll do for

Bliven & Allyn.

Celebrated  “BIG  F.” Brand of Oysters
In Cans and  Bulk,  and  Large  Handlers  of  OCEAN  FISH,  SHELL, CL, \  MS 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.
/ / .  M. BLIVEN,  Manager. 

63 PEARL STREET.

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Wholesale  Grocers,

21 & 23  SOUTH  IONIA  ST„

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

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Dry  Color  Makers, Paint  and  Varnish  Manufacturers.

CUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT OUT AND TAKE IT TO YOUR DEALER, IT WILL SECURE YOU A PRI2C.

D E T R O I T ,

W. Steele Packing & Provision  Co.,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

W.  C.  DENISON,

Stationary  and  Portable  Engines  and  Boilers,

GENERAL  DEALER  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.

The Michigan Tradesman

WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 13,1888.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

W ritten  fo r Th e   Tradesman.

BY  A  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

 

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The appending of  one’s  signature to a 
document in which the signer  is  neither 
financially or otherwise personally inter­
ested,  and a document  which, under cer­
tain contingencies, may subject the party 
who  affixes  his  name  to  disagreeable 
Spains  and  penalties”  of  a  monetary 
nature, is  not  always to be  avoided by a 
person  who is a believer  in  the  Golden 
Rule.  Very  few  individuals of  respect­
ability and intelligence pass through life 
without being called upon, at some period 
or periods, to file  bonds for the perform­
ance of  official  duty, or  the  security of 
public or private  funds, and, under  our 
laws,  if  all  responsible  citizens  should 
unite in an agreement not to “go on other 
people’s paper,”  the  wheels  of  govern­
ment,  and of  vast  interests  that are de­
pendent on government machinery, would 
speedily come to a standstill.  Hence may 
be  almost  catalogued  among  the  other 
duties we owe  as citizens  the  affixing of 
our signatures  to  occasional,  and  pre­
sumably safe, official  bonds  and  similar 
papers.  But,  while  this  is  usually  re­
garded  as a mere  matter of  form, it may 
entail  loss  and  trouble,  and  it  would, 
perhaps, be wise to apply the  injunction 
to cases of  the kind  amended  something 
like this:  “Do  ye  unto  others as others 
should do unto  you,  under  like  circum­
stances.”
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But  the  placing of  one’s  name  on  a 
promissory  note,  for  another  person’s 
benefit,  is  a  radically  different  matter. 
John Smith, let us  say, thinks  he  sees a 
chance  for a speculation, but  it requires 
the  investment  of  a  thousand  dollars, 
which he  hasn’t  got.  With  your  name 
on the back of  a note he can  procure the 
money.  He  thinks  you  under  obliga­
tions  to  accommodate  him,  because  he 
occasionally  does  a little  business  with 
you,  and  he  accordingly approaches the 
subject  with  confidence.  You  imagine 
yourself  in  a  dilemma,  and  rapidly  re­
flect upon what  you had better do.  You 
mentally  acknowledge  yourself  some­
what obligated  to  John. 
(Why ?)  You 
dislike to offend him.  You consider him 
honest,  but  there is a considerable  risk, 
because he is financially irresponsible for 
the amount.  But  you finally reluctantly 
put  your  signature  on  the  prepared 
paper.  What  have  you  done ?  You 
have  increased  your  personal  indelfted- 
ness $1,000!  You have perhaps weakened 
your  credit.  You  have,  for  nothing, 
mortgaged  the  savings  of  months  or 
years.  You have laid in  an unnecessary 
addition to  your stock of  cares  and anx­
ieties.  You have  needlessly made  your 
name an  object of  barter  and  sale, and 
you have given  other  Johns  encourage­
ment for importuning  you to  indorse for 
them.  And  what  do  you  gain  by your 
risk  and  anxiety ?  Absolutely nothing.
If  John’s speculation is  successful, he 
would  deem it superlative  “cheek”  for 
you to ask  for a share  in  the  profits;  if 
unsuccessful,  it  probably  wouldn’t  oc­
casion  him  a  night  of  unrest  to  know 
that  you,  and not  himself, are  the loser.

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* 

* 

* 

* 
When  1  indorse  for  another  I  am 
shouldering his faults and  follies as well 
as my own.  He  may, after  the  act, de 
velop  qualities  that no acquaintance be­
lieved him  possessed of.  Circumstances 
may make  him  incautious or reckless or 
incapable  of  a  reasonable  management 
of  his  affairs.  Latent  dishonesty  may 
crop out, and I may have the satisfaction 
of  viewing  myself  as  the  backer  of 
thorough  rascal.  A  sudden  mania  for 
some species of  gambling  may dissipate 
in a brief  period, what I supposed ample 
security for myself,  and,  in  addition  to 
these, and  other  failings  or  depravities 
that I may have  shouldered, I must  also 
take upon myself  a multitude of  chances 
from  death,  disease,  and a long  list  of 
possible misfortunes.
44 

* 
This is, of  course, a selfish view of the 
matter. 
If  you  and I can  afford  to  be 
unselfish;  if, luckily,  our  circumstances 
are such  that a notice of  protest  can  be 
received  with  comparative indifference 
if  we  have  no  creditors  to  wrong, and 
neither ourselves or our  families will  be 
materially discommoded, in  case of  loss 
it is for  you  and I to determine  our  ac 
tions  in  the  premises, and  our  actions 
whatever they may be, are matters which 
pertain  particularly  to ourselves;  but if 
our circumstances  are  the reverse of  all 
this,  we  commit  an act, it seems to me 
of  almost  inexcusable  folly  in  volun 
tarily piling other people’s burdens upon 
our own.

* 

* 

*• 

*

“When  I" was  young  and  nnseasoned 
i  business  matters,”  said  my  friend
-----, the other  day, while we were dig
iissing the  subject of  indorsing,  “I was 
nllible enough  to  go  on  the  note of 
tan  named  Conroy  for  $400.  At  the 
me of  signing I supposed  him  respon 
ble, but shortly afterward  learned that 
is  wife  owned  the  property, and  that 
le and Conroy were a great  ways  from 
Bing ‘one’ in financial  matters. 
I gath

ered the further encouraging information 
that Conroy was a professional  gambler, 
and a prominent  member of  the order of 
dead-beats.  Of  course, I had to  pay the 
note,  and  I can  tell  you  that  $400  in 
those days was  a big sum for  me to lose, 
and  it  crippled  me  seriously for a long 
time.  And,  to  make  the  matter  more 
aggravating, that infernal Conroy seemed 
to regard the transaction as a  good  joke, 
mixed  with  a  sharp  stroke of  business, 
and  I  honestly  believe  that  the  rascal 
ouldn’t  have  pulled  out a $10  bill  to 

keep the sheriff  from selling me out.

After  coaxing,  and  entreating,  and 
almost begging,  and after  trying a dozen 
different  schemes  to  collect  the  debt, I 
finally  put  it  in  a  judgment,  where  it 
ested  quietly for a couple  of  years,  by 
phich  time I had  come  to  consider it a 
dead loss.

“About this time, Conroy had a quarrel 
ith a man  named  Baker  over  a  gam­
bling dispute, in which  the  latter  came 
out a bad  ‘second  best,’  and  a result  of 
this  quarrel  was  the  collection  of  my 
debt.  One  Saturday  night,  as  I  lay 
soundly asleep at home, I was  awakened 
by a heavy  rapping  on  the  front  door, 
and, after  partially dressing  myself and 
opening  it, I found  Baker  waiting  out­
side.

‘Don’t  Conroy  owe  you  a pretty big 

um ?’  he asked, hurriedly.
“ ‘Yes;  why ?’  said I.
“ ‘Well,  now’s  the  time  to  get  even 
ith the d—d fraud !  He’s playing poker 
at ‘The Hole in the Wall,’  and  has  been 
having  such a big  run  of  luck  that  I’ll 
bet he’s got a thousand  piled up in front 
of  him this moment.  Get out an  attach­
ment  and  have  Hall  slip in quietly and 
gobble the wad. 
I’ll see that the door is 
all right.’

‘ ‘I don’t need  an  attachment,’ I says,
I can get out  an  execution,  but—’ and I 
jilted a match and looked at the clock— 
‘as I expected, it’s too late.  It only lacks 
ten minutes of  12, and  by the  time I can 
route out Hunter and  get  the paper,  and 
then get Hall out of  bed, it will  be  Sun­
It’s  no  go  this  time  Baker, but I 
day. 
appreciate  your  information 
just  the 
same.’

It’s  now  or  never,  B-----,’  said
Baker. 
‘Conroy is going  West, Monday, 
and I doubt if  you  ever  see  him  again, 
’m interested in this matter.  I want re- 
enge on  the  d—d  whelp,  and I expect 
ou’ll  pay  me  pretty liberally if  every­
thing comes out right.  If your conscience 
isn’t too tender, I’ll fix the time business. 
The fellows at the Hole are  all  stripped 
to their pants and  shirts,  and I’ll doctor 
their  watches, which are  laid  around in 
their vests for anybody to handle.  After 
ou once get  hold of  the  money you are 
all  right, Sunday or  no  Sunday.  Now, 
hurry up and get up Hunter !’

But Hall won’t serve the paper after 

midnight,’ I remonstrated.

There’s  where  you’re  lucky! 

I 
heard Hall tell the watchmaker  that  his 
clock stopped a week ago, and  his watch 
played out this  morning !  I’ll  route out 
Hall,  myself,  and  make  the  time  all 
ight.’
“Somewhat  doubtfully, I  started  out 
on my mission and  succeeded  in  getting 
the  execution a few  minutes  before  12. 
found Hall dressed  and  waiting  at his 
ate,  and he  suggested a rapid walk, be­
cause  Baker  said  it  only  wanted about 
fifteen  minutes of  midnight.  When  we 
arrived at the den it must have been Sun­
day some  ten or twelve  minutes.  Baker 
had  the  door  unlocked, as he promised, 
and we entered without trouble.  Conroy 
was seated at the  table  with his back to 
the  entrance,  and  before  him  was  a 
goodly  pile  of  greenbacks.  A  revolver 
tuck  out  of  his  hip  pocket,  and  Hall 
placed one big paw on the pile of money, 
pulled out the pistol  with the other,  and 
quietly  announced  his  business.  Great 
Scott,  wasn’t  there a rumpus!  Conroy 
grappled  with  Hall  and  got  knocked 
tiffer’n a wedge,  One of  his  pals  drew 
a revolver on the officer,  and  Baker  par­
alyzed his  arm  with his  heavy cane.  A 
Chicago sporting  gentleman  quickly ad­
justed  a  pair  of  brass  knuckles  and 
rushed  at  Hall, but I succeeded  in  dis­
couraging  him  bji breaking a heavy  de­
canter  on  his  head.  Then  one  of  the 
‘sports,’ who was somewhat  cooler  than 
the rest, yelled out:

“ ‘What’s the use of  this rumpus?  It’s 
Sunday,  and they can’t  serve  civil  pro­
cesses !’  and  at  the  announcement there 
was a general rush for watches.

“Each time-piece showed that it wanted 

from four to six minutes  of  midnight.

“We  backed  out  of  the  room  under 
cover of Conroy’s re volver, in Hall’s hand, 
although  I think  the  fighting  propensi­
ties of  the  gang  were  pretty effectually 
quieted.  Monday  morning  I had a new 
levy made on the cash, to  avoid  possible 
trouble,  but  there  was  no  contest  at­
tempted,  and  after  figuring  up  every 
cent of principal, interest and cost, there 
was  still  $200  or more to return to Con­
roy. 
I suspect  he  gave Hall a slice  out 
of  this to avoid prosecution for gambling 
and resisting an officer, but I never asked 
any questions.”

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

FODETH NATIONAL BAM

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A.  J.  Bowne, President.

Geo.  C.  P ierce,  Vice President.

H.  W.  N ash.  Cashier.
CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general  banking business.

Make a  Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

Every  garment  bearing  the  above  ticket  is 
WARRANTED  NOT  TO  RIP, and,  if  not as re< 
presented, you arg requested  to  return  it to the 
Merchant of whom it was purchased and receive 
a new garment.
S T A N T O N ,   S A M P S O N   &  CO., 

Manufacturers, Detroit, Mich.

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Big Rapids,  Mich.

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

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p: omptne.-s.  Nice Work, Quick Time 

Satisfaction Guaranteed.

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Manager.

TIME  TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.
GOING  NORTH.
Arrives.
Traverse C ity & M ackinaw................
Traverse City & M ackinaw................ 0:05 a  m
From  C incinnati................................... 7 :30 p m
F orP etoskey & Mackinaw C ity........3:55 p m
Saginaw E xpress...............................11:30 a  m
................................10:30 p m .

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Leaves. 
7:00 a  m 
11:30 a m
5:00 p m 
7:20 a  m 
1:10 p m

8aginaw  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 c h air c a r for Petoskey and Mack­
5 :00 p.  m, tra in   has  sleeping  c a r  fo r  P etoskey  and 

inaw  City.
Mackinaw C ity.
GOING  SOUTH.
Cincinnati  Express........................... 
F o rt W ayne Express.........................10:30 a  m  
C incinnati  Express...........................4 :10 p m  
From  T raverse C ity...........................10:40 p m

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

M uskegon,  G rand R apids & In d ian a. 

Leave. 
A rrive.
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 street  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 Niagara Falls  Route.

DEPART.

a rrive.

D etroit Express.............................. ...........................0:45 a m
Day  Express................................................................. 1:10p m
New Y ork Express...................................................... 5:40 p m
•A tlantic Express..................................................... 10:45 p m
Mixed  ...........................................................................0:50r
•Pacific  Express..........................................................0:00am
Local Passenger........................................................10:00 a  m
M ail.................................................................................3:15 p m
G rand Rapids  Express............................................ p m
Mixed ............................................................................5:30 P m
•Daily.  All other daily except Sunday.  Sleeping cars 
run on A tlantic and Pacific Express train s to and from  
D etroit.  P arlo r cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand 
Rapids Express to  and  from   D etroit.  Direct  connec­
tions m ade a t D etroit w ith all through train s E ast over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)

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

Lake Shore & M ichigan Southern. 
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Kalamazoo D i v i s i o n . 

p m   p m   a m  
a m   p m
1:10  3:00  7:45 D p... .G rand  R apids....................9:45  6:10
3:25  4:12  9:02  -   __A llegan................................  8:28  4:55
5:03  10:00 A r__ K alam azoo...........................7:10  3:62
F rt 
6:35 11:35  “  ....W h ite P ig e o n .................. 
2:25
p ra
8:00 12:30  “ ___E lk h a rt.................................. 4:45  l:e0
a m -  
p m   a m
7:50  7:10  “ ___C hicago................................ 11:30  8:50
p m
10:25  5:05 
___Toledo................................ 11:25  0:00
a  m
1:35  9:40  “  ....C lev elan d ............................. 7:15  5:45
p m
6:20  3:30  “   ....B u ffalo .................................. 1:00 11:40
Tickets for sale to  all  principal  points  In  th e  U. 8., 
Mexico and Canada a t  Union Ticket  Office,  Geo.  W il­
liamson, Agt., Depot Office. M. Bootz, Agt.

a m  

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

Cleveland, Ohio.
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

_________ 

GOING WEST.

 

 

Leaves.
1:10 p m
5:10 p m

Arrives. 
fM orning Express.............................I ;05 p m  
tT hrough Mail................................... 1 :55 p m  
tG rand R apids Express...................10:40 p m
•N ight Express............................................5:25 a m  
tMixed....... .................. 
 
7:30am
GOING EAST.
0:40 a  m 
tD etroit  Express..............................
10:30 a  m 
tT hrough Mail................................... 10:20 a  m
3:50 p m 
¿Evening Express...............................3:50 p m
fEvening Express............................ ....
10:55 p m
•Lim ited Express..............................10:30 p m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
D etroit  Express  has p arlo r  c a r  to D etroit,  m aking 
d irect connections for a ll points  East, a rriv in g  in  New 
Y ork 10:10 a. m. next day.  Lim ited  Express,  East, h as 
th ro u g h   sleeper  G rand  Rapids  to   N iagara  Falls, 
connecting  a t  Milwaukee 
th ro u g h  
sleeper to  Toronto. 
,
Through tick ets and  sleeping  c a r  b erth s secured a t 
D., G. H. & M .R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and a t th e depot.

Ju nction  w ith 

J as. Campbell, City Passenger Agent.

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7:15 a  m
11:46 a  m
5:00 p m

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

Pickled  Pigs’ Feet,  Tripe, Etc.

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

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in every instance.

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

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WHO URGES  YOU

TO  BLT1EF

T H U D   F T T B L I O !

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

H E S T E R .

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M anufacturers’ Agents fo r

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Carry Engines and Boilers in Stock 

for  immediate delivery.

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

Saws, Belting and  Oils.

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

Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.

4 4 ,4 6  and 48 So. D ivision St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH,

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

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88,90 and 82 SOUTH  DIVISION  ST..

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Estimates Given on Complete Outfits.

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

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68  Monroe  Street,

Grand Rapids.

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Distributing Agents for

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Semi-Annual  Report of President  Peake.

It Was Not from the House.

G R O C E R I E S .
RANDOM  REFLECTIONS.

Again the ceaseless  tread of  Time has 
brought us to the  closing  month  of  an­
other  year.  With eager eyes we already 
peer forward to the new  year  as to what 
it  will  produce to us in business  and in 
all  the  relations of  life;  but  let  us  re­
member  that  there  are  still  days  and 
weeks of  1888  which may be made fruit­
ful of  profit  for  the  pocket,  and actions 
that will gladden the future.

*  *  *  #

The  year  just closing  will  show a sat­
isfactory  aggregate of  business,  though 
it was looked forward  to  and  has  been 
regarded throughout with  serious appre­
hensions by the entire  business  commu­
nity of  the  United  States.  As the  year 
of  a Presidential  campaign, and  then as 
one in which a strictly business  question 
became the issue between the  great  con­
tending parties, it was naturally regarded 
with anxiety by business men.  However, 
its results in the large aggregate of trade 
show  that  these  fears were groundless, 
and  hereafter a Presidential  year, while 
not  regarded  with  absolute  favor,  will 
be  looked  forward to without  any sense 
of  alarm.

#  #  #  #

It is gratifying  to  notice  the  general 
tone  of  confidence  which  prevails  in 
manufacturing  and  commercial  circles. 
A determination  is  shown on the part of 
every individual  and  every  firm  to  ac­
complish more than  the  ordinary results 
in  both  the  present  and  future. 
It  is 
eertainly a great  thing  to  have  such  a 
healthy,  invigorating  spirit  throbbing, 
like the vital  fluid in our  veins, through 
all the  arteries of  business.  Every man 
is  strengthened  and  every  branch  of 
trade  is  expanded  by  it.  Enterprise, 
which  is  always  alert  in  this  country, 
shows  a like  quickened  energy,  while 
prosperity becomes  wider and more last­
ing.

*  *  *  *

Nothing is more  sublime  in  the  con­
templation of  the system and practice of 
self-government of  this  nation  than  the 
orderly  character  of  our  Presidential 
campaigns  and  elections.  Lessons  are 
thus presented to the world so impressive 
and memorable that the influence in favor 
of  free  and  republican  government  is 
widened  everywhere.  But  another mat­
ter is not less significant.  After  months 
of  discussion, after  a single day given on 
the  part  of  the  voters of  the  nation to 
the casting  of  the  ballots,  business  re­
sumes its  accustomed  channels, without 
the  slightest  delay  or  injury.  The de­
cision is accepted, and  the  future of  the 
country is willingly left  to those  legally 
selected  to  control it.  Self-government 
is made more secure by the  fact  that the 
people, in  their  own  action,  under  the 
most  trying  circumstances, have  shown 
their fidelity to  the  principles  and laws 
of the land in which they live.

#  #  #  #

As  examples  of  energy  and  common 
sense, the merchants of this country may 
well  be  regarded  as  a notable  class  of 
men.  Always  industrious,  full  of  tact 
and wide-awake  for  opportunities, they 
build  both  their  own  foundations  and 
those  of  the  places  where  they are  lo­
cated.  Wherever  an  active  and  enter­
prising  body  of  merchants  is  found, 
there  will  appear a growth  which  goes 
to increase the  material  strength  of  the 
nation  as a whole.  There  is  no  excep­
tion to this rule.  Hence,  their  business 
interests  should  always  be  fostered  as 
those most intimately connected with the 
local and general  welfare.
*  *  *  .-55-

Old commercial  houses  must  keep up 
with the times.  Changing  years and ad­
vancing trade create new  methods which 
must be followed.  No  house  is so finan­
cially strong  and so secure in the friend­
ship of  its  customers  that  it  can set it­
self  in  opposition  to  these  currents  or 
even show an indifference to the contrary 
policy of  its  competitors.  Some houses, 
led away by their own  conceit and  from 
an over-confidence through previous suc­
cess, have  adhered  to  methods of  their 
own, and found—insolvency.  In business 
it is a good thing for a house to  stand on 
record  as  old  in  history,  credit  and 
honor,  but it must go along with the tide 
of enterprise, or  be  finally  engulfed  in 
ruin.

*   *  

*  

*

Business-life  in  these  days  is  not  a 
mere devotion  to  money-making. 
Intel­
ligence—broad  and  alert—must show it­
self  in  every  undertaking, while  enter­
prise  and  integrity must unite to secure 
permanent success.

The Manufacture of Large Bells.

It may  not  be  generally  known  that 
there are only five concerns in the United 
States  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
church, school and chime bells,  and that 
a St. Louis foundry claims to be the larg­
est of the five. 
In fact, it is  not  an  in­
dustry that calls for many factories,  as a 
well-made bell will  last  almost  forever, 
and hence but little has  ever  been  said 
about them  in  public  print.  Neverthe­
less, the process  of  manufacture  is one 
Tull of interest, and worthy of more than 
passing notice.
A visitor to a bell foundry where noth­
ing but large bells are manufactured, ex­
periences peculiar, if  not  weird,  sensa­
tions.  Not many workmen are employed, 
and as they  move  around,  with  appar­
ently noiseless motion, occasionally step­
p in g  In the full light of the open furnace

door, ¡mowing their  begrimed  faces, and 
all the while the  soft,  resonant  tones of 
the bells being tested,  in his ears, the im­
pression is one far removed from church­
es and church chimes.  There is  no  con­
versation or badinage, or  loudly express­
ed orders, for the workmen’s duties keep 
them  separated,  and,  as  the floor is of 
clay,  there  is  not  even  the sound of a 
footfall.  This is the first  impression re- 
- ceived by a visitor to the St.  Louis foun­
dry abov e referred  to.  A  casual  glance 
gave  no  indication  of  the  work being 
done.  A lot  of  bells,  of  various  sizes, 
distributed over the floor,  a  larger  num­
ber of moulds,  a pile of cast-iron  mount­
ings, and a  furnace  with  a  deep pit in 
front of it is all  that  is  to  be  seen, yet 
here some of  the  finest  chimes  in  this 
country have been made.
Contrary to the popular idea,  the exact 
musical tone of a  bell  depends  neither 
upon the metal nor upon  any  change in 
it after being  cast. 
If  the  bell  should 
not be of the exact  pitch,  there is no al­
ternative but to melt it over and recast it 
until the proper tone is secured.  Hence, 
it is clear that the  greatest  care must be 
exercised, and the  most  thorough  skill 
displayed.
The first operation,  and  the  one  upon 
which success depends,  is the forming of 
the moulds.  They are made according to 
plans which are first  prepared to demon­
strate the weight,  thickness  and  dimen­
sions necessary to  produce  the  required 
tone.  The moulding is  done  entirely by 
hand, without the use  of  patterns.  For 
the inside,  the shape is  made up of loam, 
which is merely sand mixed with enough 
clay to make it  cohesive.  With  nothing 
but a trowel,  a paddle and his hands,  the 
operator  moulds  the  loam  into  the de­
sired shape, working from the bottom to­
ward the apex.  The work is  necessarily 
slow,  as great care must be  exercised,  as 
any variation from the plans would inev­
itably ruin the effect, and frequent meas­
urements are taken to see  that  there are 
no deviations.  The surface is  now  cov­
ered with black lead.  This is mixed into 
a thick paint, or mortar and applied with 
a brush.  Each coat must  be  allowed to 
dry and successive coats  applied  until it 
reaches a thickness of  about  three-quar­
ters of an inch, or until the desired shape 
is accurately secured.  The  outside  half 
of the mould is built up  of  loam  in  the 
same way, only in this case no coating of 
plumbago is used.  The  exterior  mould 
fits  over  the  inside  mould,  the  space 
between the  two determining  the  thick­
ness of the bell.  The  moulds  being fin­
ished.  they are placed in position in a pit 
in front of the furnace.  At the apex, or 
at the point where the bell would be hung, 
an opening is made in the  outside mould 
of  about  two  inches  in  diameter.  A 
trough then carries the  molten  metal di­
rectly into the mould.
The furnace is  very  similar  to  those 
generally used in melting large quantities 
of brass.  The  melting  pot  is  built be­
tween two fire-boxes, so  constructed that 
the heat strikes the sides and bottom with 
almost  equal  force,  effecting  quick re­
sults.  The metals used are  simply ingot 
copper and tin,  in the proportion of  four 
parts of the former to one  of  the  latter. 
The copper is first  melted  and  then the 
tin is put into the molten  mass, soon be­
coming a part of it.  The kettle has a ca­
pacity of about a ton.  For a  bell weigh­
ing three hundred  pounds,  the  mould is 
completely filled in  seven  or  eight min- j 
utes; 
for  bells  weighing  six  hundred 
pounds,  it requires about fifteen minutes, 
and so on.
The bell having cooled sufficiently, the 
moulds are broken,  and  it  is  taken  out 
and turned over to the polisher.  The in­
side, having  been  moulded  against the 
smooth surface  of  black  lead,  needs no 
polishing, but the outside requires atten­
tion in  that  respect.  The  operation  is 
very simple.  Tho bell is hoisted  to  the 
center of a double revolving  table.  The 
part the bell rests upon revolves one way, 
the surrounding part in  an  opposite  di­
rection.  This latter part is so  construc­
ted that it will hold a  large  quantity  of 
coke.  Thus, 
revolving, 
the  coke 
scours the outside of the bell,  the  result 
being a smooth, bright surface.
Before polishing, however,  the tone of 
the bell is tested, and it  is  again  tested 
after polishing,  as carefully as the string 
of a piano or the  reed  of  an  organ. 
If 
satisfactory,  nothing  remains  to do but 
the mounting.
An  idea  of  the  great  accuracy  that 
must be displayed in the  plans  and pre­
paration  of  the  moulds  can  be seen in 
that from  ten  to  twenty-five  pounds of 
metal,  either  too  much  or too little, in 
bells weighing from  six  hundred to two 
thousand pounds, or a  variation of  from 
one-twentieth  to  one-twelfth of an inch 
in  thickness  will  affect  the  tone.  The 
successful  manufacture  of  chimes  and 
peals,  therefore,  can  only  be  done  by 
those whose knowledge of the business is 
as accurate as instinct, and  this  is  pos­
sessed only by those  who  have  followed 
the business for a lifetime.

in 

The  Grocery  Market.

The principal feature  of  the week has 
been  the  excited  condition of  the coffee 
market,  including  an  advance of  a full 
cent a pound on the  part of  the  package 
manufacturers.

Florida  oranges  are  improving  from 
week  to  week  and  the  market  is  now 
strong  and  somewhat  higher,  with  a 
large  crop of  extra  fine  fruit  to  come. 
Lemons  are firm, with  but little  change 
in prices.  Malaga  grapes  are nearly  all 
landed  and  prices  East  have  advanced 
sharply.  Nuts  are  active  and  firm  at 
former prices.  Figs  are in good  supply 
and  prices  are a shade  lower.  The new 
crop of  dates is  now’  more  plenty, after 
the loss of  two cargos at  sea,  and  prices 
are  now  reasonable, w’ith  quality  fault­
less.

A  Denial  that  Denies  Too  Much.
Grand Haven, Dec. 5, 1888.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear Sir—In  your last paper, I notice 
an  article  about  the  match deal.  You 
have been misinformed.  The Star Match 
Works  of  Grand  Haven  will  run  full 
blast, same as  before. 
It  has  not  been 
bought by the  Diamond  Match  Co., but 
by  some  other  firm,  in  Chicago.  Mr. 
Hopkins was not interested  in the Grand 
Haven  Works.  Chas.  F.  Sommers  is 
manager for the Chicago firm.

Yours, 

F. F. Sommers.

J ackson, Dec.  3, 1888.

To M ichigan Division, T. P. A.  :
1 take pleasure  in making my report of 
the  work  accomplished  during the past 
six months by the  Michigan Division,  as 
reported by the able chairmen of  the dif­
ferent committees:
As in the past, so in  the  present  year, 
we have endeavored to fulfill the mission 
of  our organization  in  this  State by se­
curing rfecognition  and  concessions that 
are beneficial  to  us  as commercial trav­
elers.
Mr. Kelsey,  as  chairman  of  the  Leg­
islative  Committee,  reports  an  entire 
willingness on the  part of  the  executive 
and  the  legislative  bodies of  our  State 
to recognize us  in  matters  that  directly 
interest us.
Our Hotel  Committee’s  report  is very 
gratifying.  Mr.  Palmer,  its  chairman, 
has  not  received  one  complaint in the 
year,  and Michigan  traveling  men  have 
every reason to feel  grateful  for the su­
perior class of  our hotels.
Our  Railway  Committee’s  report,  es­
pecially, affords me much pleasure.  The 
able  and  competent  chairman,  Geo.  F. 
Owen,  has  accomplished  much  for  our 
Association,  considering  the  disadvan­
tage  under  which  he has labored.  The 
“week  end  ticket” has  been  placed on 
sale  by  the  D., G. II.  & M.;  C. & G.  T.; 
G. T.;  F.  & P. M.;  D.. L.  & N.;  C.  & W. 
M.  and T., A. A.  & N.  The D., L. & N. 
and C. & W. M. have  issued a  joint 1,000 
mile  book  at  §20.  The  G.  E.  & I.  has 
also reduced from its  milage  from  2,000 
to 1,000, at  the  same  rate,  and  made  a 
reduced rate on excess baggage.  We are 
getting  back  nearly to  where  we  were 
before the inter-state commerce  law took 
effect. 
In this  work, our  chairman  has 
been very successful,  and has prosecuted 
his  efforts  in  a  dignified  and  business­
like  manner  that  has  commended  our 
Division  to the  respect  and  prompt  at­
tention  of  the  railway officials of  Mich­
igan.  They have shown to us in the last 
six  months a  desire  and  willingness  to 
benefit  us, w7here  possible, and  I assure 
you it has  only been  brought  about  by 
the  way  we  have  approached 
them 
through our chairman.
The  press  of  Michigan  has  always 
treated us liberally and fairly, especially 
T h e   M ic h ig a n   T r a d e s m a n ,  whose  col­
umns are always open to us, and to these 
courtesies we are grateful and owe  much 
of  our success as an Association.
For  the  first  time  in  three  years we 
have effected a complete  settlement with 
the  National  Association.  According to 
the  account  of  the  National  Secretary 
and Treasurer, Michigan  was a debtor  to 
him of  §13, by the action of  our delegates 
at  Minneapolis. 
I contended  that  they 
had no right to give or settle any account 
with the National  Association,  and, with 
Mr. L. M.  Mills,  our  Secretary,  I  spent 
two  days  in  Chicago  at  the  meeting of 
the  National  Board  of  Directors,  who 
recognized the  validity of  our claims, 
they had no  vouchers to show to the con­
trary,  and,  instead  of  owing  them,  they 
ow'ed us.  The result of  the  visit  above 
referred to saved  your Division over §100.
Each member of  the Michigan Division 
will shortly receive a letter and  we  hope 
each  and  all  will  give it due considera­
tion and make prompt  answer to same to 
our Secretary, L. M. Mills, Grand Rapids, 
It is impor­
tant for the commercial travelers to main­
tain  an  organization,  for  without  one, 
what  could be accomplished ?  Nothing. 
If  you do not believe it,  write as an indi­
vidual  to  any  railroad  for  concessions 
and see if  you  can  get’  them,  and  after 
finding that true  and  wishing to  receive 
all  our  benefits, do  you  not  consider it 
but  just and fair  that, as a party to that 
benefit,  you  ought  to  contribute  your 
mite as well?

it is of  vital  importance. 

Yours very truly,

A .  F .  P e a k e ,  State President.

Too Much  for the Hotel Clerk.

A  short time  ago a man  walked into a 
leading  hotel  here,  and, stepping  up  to 
the desk, remarked to the clerk:

“I think I’ll remain.”
“Very  well, sir,” said  the  clerk,  look­
ing at him.  “Very well.”
The  man  stood  around  uneasily  for 
awhile,  then  walked  over and  sat  down 
by  the  open  grate  fire.  Every once  in 
aw'hile his eyes would w’ander over to the 
desk  and  rest  upon  the  clerk with  an 
uneasy  and  puzzled  expression  in them. 
Presently, he got  up and  w’alked over to 
the desk  again.  Planting  both hands on 
the  marble, he  leaned  forward  until  his 
face  wras  pretty  close  to  the  clerk’s. 
Then he  said in a firm, hard voice:

“I think  I’ll remain.”
“Well,” said  the  clerk,  “what  do  you 
mean?  Do you want to register?”
“Yes, yes,” said  he,  “I’ll  do  that;  I’ll 
register.”
He  took  up the  pen, wrote his 
name,
and then said,  in a mollified tone:
“I think I’ll remain.”
The clerk  gave him  one look  and then 
turned  away.  The  new  arrival  looked 
after  him,  got red  in  the  face, fidgeted 
around  awhile, then  went  over  and  sat 
by the fire again.  A crow’d of  drummers 
were  sitting  near, telling  stories.  The 
man paid no attention to them, but simply- 
sat  there with  his head  drooped  on  his 
breast and  his eyes  staring into the  fire. 
An  expression of  profound thought  was 
on  his face.  The hours flew by and still 
he sat  there.  One o’clock came and  one 
of the drummers arose, yawned, stretched 
himself  and  said:  “It’s  getting  pretty- 
late. 
No  sooner  had  he said  this  than  the 
man by the fire leaped to his feet with an 
oath and hurried over to the  desk.  “Re­
tire!  By heavens,  that’s  the  word  I’ve 
been  trying to  think of. 
I  think  I’ll re­
tire.”

I think I’ll retire.”

Pencil  Portraits.

For want  of  space,  the  series  of  bio­
graphical descriptions  known as “Pencil 
Portraits”  are  omitted  this  week,  but 
will  be  continued  in  the  next  issue. 
Claude  Freeman  was the  first person to 
present  a  correct  interpretation  of  last
week’s portraits, as follows

39. Felix Rani ville.
40. A. E. Brooks.
41. Fred. B. Clark.
42. E.  G.  Stud ley.
43. Geo. R. Perry.
44. Chas. F. Rood.
45. Wm. Widdicomb.

From  th e D etroit Free Press.
There are few spots in life from  which 
the pathos of sorrow  is  entirely  absent. 
Hotels are certainly not  included  in  the 
favored list.  Many  a  pathetic  incident 
is enacted almost daily within  the  walls 
which are embalmed  in  history  as  fur­
nishing “food and  shelter  for  man  and 
beast.”  Many a heart is  cruelly  wrung 
with  telegraphic  or  epistolary  tidings 
which are  carelessly  handed  across  the 
polished office, counter, but in most  cases 
the recipient is  among  strangers  and  is 
too proud to give  vent  to  the  moan  of 
anguish which bubbles to his lips.  Can 
anything  be  more  hopelessly  desolate 
than to be thus stricken w'here no friend­
ly hand  is  within  reach  to  succor  and 
sustain?  It is true that

“Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary,”

“Great town this. 

But under  such  circumstances  the  rain 
can  resolve  itself  into  little  less  than 
a black torrent of utter despair.
At  the  Cadillac  yesterday  afternoon 
such  an  incident  occured.  A  young 
traveling man, scarcely more than  a  lad 
in appearance and with a  bright,  beard­
less,  happy-looking  face,  entered  the 
office from a tour  of  Detroit  mercantile 
establishments  with  his  arms  full  of 
neatly arranged samples of the goods  he 
had been selling and with a merry-  whis­
tle upon his lips.  His face  showed  that 
he had enjoyed a prosperous  day’s  busi­
ness and he did  not  look  as  though  he 
had a care in the  world.  Throwing  the 
sample cards down on the handsome  oak 
counter  with  a  resonant  clang,  he  re­
marked:
I always  liked  De­
troit. 
I s’pose it’s  because  I  generally 
have a splendid trade. 
I  don’t  believe, 
somehow-,  that  anything  disagreeable 
could ever happen to me here.”
“Yes,  Detroit has the reputation of be­
ing a pretty- good business town,” replied 
the  clerk,  at  the  same  time  fumbling 
about in the rack for the key to the  hap­
py young  gupst’s  room. 
“Oh!  by-  the 
way-,”  he  ejaculated,  as  the  key  was 
produced,  “here’s  a  telegram  for  you. 
It just came in.”
“Something from the boss,  I  s’pose,” 
commented the young man  in  the  same 
happy- voice,  at  the  same  time  tearing 
off the yellow- envelope and  dropping  it 
upon  the  office  floor. 
“He’s  probably 
tickled to death over my last-----”
He paused abruptly as his eyes glanced 
over the contents  of  the  telegram,  and 
the  happy  expression  of  countenance 
gave place  to  a  look  of  blank  horror. 
His  eyes  distended  and  he  stood  with 
the fatal telegram in his hands,  as  fixed 
and 
suddenly- 
turned to stone. 
It w as easy-  enough  to 
name the import of the  telegram  by  the 
awful change  in  the  boyish  face,  even 
before the pale lips parted to give  utter­
ance to the gasping words:

immovable  as 

though 

“Dead!  Mary dead!”
Placing one  hand  to  his  forehead  h e ! 
staggered  into  the  telegraph  office  ad-1 
joining and secured a blank,  with tremb- j 
ling fingers w-rote out  a  response,  hand-1 
ed it to the operator,  felt  his  w-ay  back ! 
into the office as  though  stricken  blind, j 
inquired after the next train for the East, I 
ordered a hack, then gathered his  neatly 
arranged samples into one confused heap j 
in his shaking arms and took the elevator j 
to  his  room.  And  through  it  all  no 
friendly- voice or hand, save those of  the | 
obliging clerk, w-ere  present  to  comfort 
him in his  sudden  sorrow.  Mary  may- 
have been sister, sweetheart, or posssbly 
w-ife—who can say?

“Poor fellow-?”  muttered the clerk.

The Vinegar Pool.

The  stockholders of  the United States 
Vinegar  Company,  a  combination  of 
about  fifty manufacturers of  w’hite w’ine 
or spirit vinegar for the purpose of stead­
ying  the  market, met  in  Chicago  last 
Wednesday.  While prices are controlled 
by the  company, they  have not  been in­
creased during  the year of  its  existence. 
The  meeting  decided  to  maintain  the 
present  rates  during  the  coming  year. 
The  stock  of  vinegar  on  hand  was  re­
ported to be about 50,00.0 barrels.

New  Spice  Company  at  Toledo.

A Toledo  dispatch,  under  date of  De­

cember 5, is as follows:
The retail grocers of this city, number­
ing in all nearly 350, have started a stock 
subscription sheet  for the purpose of  in­
corporating an extensive  spice company. 
So far  an  average of  ninety per cent,  of 
the  grocers  have  gone  into the scheme, 
the object of  w’hich is to save  paying the 
wholesalers’  profit on coffee and spices.

Written in a Spicy Vein.

From  the H ow ard Record.
T h e   M ic h ig a n   T r a d e s m a n   is  pub­
lishing each wreek a series of pen pictures 
of prominent  Grand  Rapids  merchants, 
salesmen and other business  personages. 
They are written in a spicy  vein  and re­
flect considerable credit upon the author. 
A year’s  subscription  to  T h e   T r a d e s ­
m a n  is offered for a correct interpretation 
of all of the descriptions in each issue.

In  France  and  Germany a bankrupt  is 
liable to be  punished by imprisonment if 
it  is  found  that  his  personal  expenses 
have  been excessive, if he has  lost  large 
sums of  money  by gambling or  stock ex­
change operations, if  he  has put  accom­
modation  notes in circulation to stave off 
failure, or if he has failed to keep correct 
and proper  books. 
It  is  needless to say 
that  rigorous methods of  this kind  have 
not  been adopted in  the  United  States, 
where  they would  go far  toward adding 
to  the  number of  those  in  our  various 
penal  institutions;  and  thus far  even in 
England they have not been  looked upon 
as  necessary.  But  the  tendency of  the 
times is  so clearly toward an  unwarrant­
able use of the credit system that it would 
not  be  surprising if  some  check of  this 
kind were applied in England, and, should 
it succeed there, be adopted after  awhile 
in this country.

This  has  been  a  great  year  for  the 
oyster  business  and the  same is true  of 
the  celebrated  “Anchor”  brand,  which 
has considerably widened the scope of its 
popularity; so  that it  takes rank  among 
the leading brands of  the country. 
It  is 
packed  solely by F. J. Dettenthaler, who 
is  pleased to  quote bottom  prices to  the 
trade at any  time.

PRODUCE  M A RK ET.

Apples—Winter  fruit  is  in  fair  demand  at 
$1.50@$2 per bbl.
Beans—Handlers are paying about $1.25 for un­
picked and getting $1.65@$1.75  for  hand-picked.
Butter—Creamery is in fair  supply  at  28@30c. 
Dairy is scarce, No.  1  readily  commanding  22@ 
24c.
Cabbages—Home grown command $3@$5 per 100 
Celery—20@22c per doz.
Cider—8@10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25;  produce barrels 
25c.
Cranberries—$7.75@$8 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 6%@674c.
Eggs—Strictly  fresh  are  very  scarce,  readily 
commanding 22@23c.  Pickled and  cold  storage 
stock are in good demand at 21@22e.

Grapes—Malaga, $4.50@$5.50 per keg.
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%c per lb.
Potatoes—The market is flat  there  apparently- 
being no demand anywhere.  Buyers  are paving 
25c per bu. here and 20@22c at the principal buy­
ing points out of town.

Squash—Hubbard, lc per lb.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln-dried Jerseys,  $3.50  per 
Turnips—25c per bu.

bbl.

PROVISIONS.

“ 

T he  G rand R apids  P acking  and P rovi­

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

sion  Co.  quotes  as follow-s:
Mess,  bid.............................................................$14 75
new...........................................................  15 25
Short cut Morgan................................................  16 ¿5
Extra clear pig, short cut. ,.t ...........................  17 25
Extra clear,  heavy............................................   17 25
Clear quill, short cut.........................................   17 25
Boston clear, short cut......................................  17 25
Clear back, short cut.........................................   17 25
Standard clear, short cut, best.........................   17 25

smoked meats—Canvassed or Plain.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Hams, average 20 lbs........................................ 105k
16 lbs........................................11
12 to 14 lbs................................11 J*
picnic....................................................   954
»est boneless...........................................12%

Shoulders........................................................... 9
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..............................11
Dried Beef, extra..............................................  8
ham prices....................................  9

“ 

DRY  SALT MEATS.

 

 

 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

lard—Compound.

Long Clears, heavy...........................................  85
medium.........................................  85
lig h t.............................................   85
lard—Kettle Rendered.
Tierces..............................................................   95
Tubs........................................................... 
50 lb.  Tins.............................................  
 
Tierces...............................................................   85
30 and 50 lb. Tubs.............................................  8?
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case.....................................  9
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case......................................   85
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case......................................   85,
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case......................................   85
50 lb. Cans..........................................,............... 8?
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs......................   7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing........................
Plate.................................................................
Extra Plate.......................................................  1
Boneless, rump butts......................................10 GO
“  54 bbl.............................5 50

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

“ 

“ 

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

Pork Sausage.....................................................
Ham Sausage..................................................... :
Tongue Sausage................................................
Frankfort  Sausage...........................................
Blood Sausage...................................................
Bologna, straight..............................................
Bologna,  thick.................................................
Head Cheese......................................................
In half barrels..
In quarter  barrels.
In half  barrels__
In quarter barrels. 
In kits...................

PIGS’ FEET.

.3 50 
.2  00

FRESH MEATS.

“ 

“ 

Beef,  carcass...........
hindquarters. 
fore 

4  @ 55 
454®  6
@ 4 @ 6
Hogs...
Pork  loins................................................ @ 9%
shoulders........................................ @ 7%
Bologna................................................... @ 5
Frankfort  sausage.................................
@   8%
Blood, liver and head sausage..............
@ 5
M utton.................................................... 4  @ 5

“ 

OYSTERS and FISH.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS IN CANS.

Standards................................................ @16
Anchors...................................................
Selects...................................................... 21  @27
Fairhaven Counts................................... @35
Standards................................................ ......   1  00
Selects...................................................... ......   1  40
Clams....................................................... ......   1  25

OYSTERS IN BULK.

FRESH  FISH.

Black  Bass.............................................. @12%
Trout........................................................ @ 7
Whitefish................................................. @ 7
smoked..................................... @10
Perch....................................................... 2%@4

“ 

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.

Putnam & Brooks quote as foil ws:

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

. .9® 9%

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

Standard, 25 lb. boxes.............................
25 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf,  25 

STICK.
............................. ........10
............................. ........11
MIXED.
Royal, 25 lb. pails..........  ...................... • 9%@10
200 lb.  bbls................................... ........ 9
Extra, 25 lb.  pails...................................
. 10(51101/
2001b. "bbls................................... ........9%
French Cream, 25 lb.  pails..  ................
. 12@12%
Cut Loaf, 25 lb. cases..............................
...... 11
Broken, 25 lb. Pails................................. ........11
200 lb. bbls................................. ........10
Lemon Drops.....................................................13
Sour Drops........................................................ 14
Peppermint Drops.............................................14
Chocolate Drops................................................ 15
H. M. Chocolate Drops.....................................18
Gum  Drops........................................................ io
Licorice Drops................................................... 18
A. B. Licorice  Drops........................................ 12
Lozenges, plain..................................................14
printed.............................................15
Imperials........................................................... 14
Mottoes...............  
15
Cream Bar.........................................................13
Molasses Bar.....................................................13
Caramels........................................................... 19
Hand Made  Creams..........................................19
Plain Creams....'...............................................16
Decorated Creams.............................................20
String  Rock.......................................................14
Burnt Almonds..................................................22
Wintergreen  Berries........................................ 14

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“ 

fancy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, in  pails..................................12
inbbls....................................11
printed, in pails................................13
in bbls.................................12
Chocolate Drops, in pails..................................12
Gum Drops, in pails.........................................   654
inbbls.............................................554
Moss Drops, in pails..........................................10
in b b ls.........................................  9%
Sour Drops, in pails..........................................12
Imperials, in pails.............................................12
11

inbbls..............................  

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“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

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FRUITS.

Bananas...................................................  @
Oranges, Floridas................................... 2 75@3 75
Lemons, choice........................................3 00@3 50
fancy........................................  @4 00
Figs, layers, new....................................   10@16
© 6
Dates, frails, 50 lb ...................................  ® 454
► , *
@ 554 @10 
@ 854 
.  754® 8

“ 
“  Bags, 501b. ......... 
H 
“  Fard, 10-lb.  box...........
“ 
.........
Persian, 50-lb.  box__
“ 
NUTS.

54 frails, 50 lb.
\A   f
1 la  RA  IV» 
“  50-lb.  “ 

 

 

“ 
“ 

Almonds, Tarragona__
Ivaca..............
California 
Brazils.............................
Filberts,  Sicily..............
Walnuts, Grenoble........
French...........
Pecans, Texas, H. P .......
Cocoanuts, per 100..........
Chestnuts......................

“ 

PEANUT

Stork.....  ......................
Fancy, H. P ....................
Choice White,  Virginia. 
Fancy H. P., 
Extra 

“ 

“
“

@17 
@15 
.  14@16 
.  754® 8 @11 
• 1354@14 
@12
.  8  @12 
@4 50 
.2 00@2 50

@ 554 
.  @654
@ 5 
.  ® 7

Wholesale Rrice  Current.

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

pay promptly and buy in full packages.

BAKING  POWDEB.

10c cans.. 
. 
54 lb.  “ 
. 
6 oz.  “ 
. 
541b. “ 
. 
12 oz. “ 
. 
li b .  “  
. 
2541b.“  
. 
31b.  “ 
4 lb.  “ 
. 
lb.  “ 
.

‘ 

r  l3 doz

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Absolute

Arctic,  54 lb. can
6  doz...  45
“  % lb.  “
4  “  ...  75
2  “  ...  1  40
54 lb.  “
“ 
“ 
1 lb.  “
2  “  ...  2 40
1  “  ...12 00
5 lb. 
“ 
4  lb .  c a n s, 100s. .11  75 
4   lb. 
5 0 s ..10  00
“  
l i b .  
5 0 s.. 18  75
“  
4  lb .  c a n s, 6 d o z .  2  70 
54 lb.
3  “   .  2  55
1 lb.
1  50

Telfer’s,

Acme, 54 lb. cans 

-‘ 

“ 
“ 

5 41b.  “ 
lib .  “ 
BATH BRICK.

54 lb.  “  2  “ ....
lib .  “  1  “ ....
bulk.........................
Red Star, 54 lb. cans, 12 doz 
6  “
4  “
English, 2 doz. in case......
Bristol,  2 
........
American, 2 doz. in case...
BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl...........................
........ ..................
No. 1  “ 
.  2 50 
No. 2 Carpet........................
No. 1 
“ 
........................
.  2 75 
Parlor Gem.................
.  3 00 
90
Common W’hisk.........
Fancy 
..........
.  1  00 
M ill.............................
.  3 50 
.  3 00
Warehouse.................
BUCKWHEAT.
Kings 100 lb. cases.............. 5 00

“  80 lb. cases........ *__ 4

“ 

BUTTEBINE.

“ 

9?,

“ 
“ 

Dairy, solid  packed...........
rolls.........................
Creamer}-, solid packed__
rolls..................
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes..............
...............
“ 
Star,  40 
9j
Paraffine.............................
 
Wicking..............................
CANNED GOODS—F is h .
Clams, 1 lb. Little Neck..... 1
Clam Chowder, 3 lb............3
Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stand__ 1
21b. 
“ 
....1
Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic............1
“ 
2  lb.  “ 
2
“ 
1 lb.  Star................. 1
“ 
2 lb. Star.................2
Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.
“ 
1 lb.  stand.............1
“ 
2  lb. 
2
“ 
3 lb. in Mustard.. .3
31b.  soused.......... 3
“ 
Salmon, 1 lb. Columbia........2
3
“  2 lb. 
“ 
“  1 lb.  Sacramento.. .1
“ 
“ 
21b. 
...2
Sardines, domestic  54s........
“ 
54s........@
“  Mustard 54s.........  @10
“ 
imported  54s ....... 10@11
“ 
spiced,  54s.......... 10@12

“ 
 

“ 

“ 

 

 

“ 

pitted.......................2 60

Trout, 3  lb. brook.............
CANNED GOODS—F r u its .
Apples, gallons,  stand........ 2 00
Blackberries,  stand.................. 1 00
Cherries, red standard...
Damsons....................................1 00
Egg Plums, stand......................1 20
Gooseberries............................. 1 40
Grapes..........
Green  Gages............................. 1 40
Peaches, all  yellow, stand. .1  4c
“ 
seconds....................1 2E
“  P ie............................1 00

Pears.......................................... 1 30
Pineapples...................1 10@1
Quinces..................................... 1 50
Raspberries,  extra...............1
red................... 2
Strawberries................1 10@1
Whortleberries.......................... 1 20

“ 

CANNED VEGETABLE!

Corn, Archer’s Trophy.

Peas, French............................. 1 25

Asparagus, Oyster Bay.........1  80
Beans, Lima,  stand.................. 1 00
“  Green  Limas__   @1  1C
“ 
String..................  @ 95
“  Stringlesg,  Erie.....  90
“  Lewis’ Boston Baked.. 1 45
“  Morn’g Glory.1  10
“ 
“ 
“•  Early  G old...l 10
“ 
extra marrofat...  @110
soaked....................   <’0
“ 
“  June, stand..........1  4d@l 50
“ 
“  sifted....................1  25
“  French, extra  fine__ 20 00
Mushrooms, extra fine.......20 00
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden.........1  00
Succotash,  standard__   @1  30
Squash  .................................1
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat.. 

@1 10

“ 
“ 
“ 

Good Enough___ 110
BenHar................ 1  10
stand  br_1  05@1  10

CHEESE.

 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

CHICORY.

Michigan Full Cream 12  @.1254 
Sap  Sago.......................  17@18
CHOCOLATE.
Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet  22
“  Premium.......  33
“  Horn-Cocoa...  37
“  Breakfast___  48
CHEWING  GUM.
200 

Rubber, 100 lumps................ 25
Spruce...................................30
Bulk......................................  6
Red.......................................  754
Rio, fair........................ 16  @17
“  good...................... 17  @18
“  prime.....................18 @19
“  fancy,  washed.. .19  @20
“  golden................... 20  @21
Santos........................... 15 @18
Mexican & Guatemala 17  @19
Peaberry.......................17  @19
Java,  Interior...............20 @22
“ 
fancy..................23 @25
“  Mandheling___ 26  @28
Mocha, genuine........... 25 @26
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast 
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.

coffee—Green.

30 lbs 60 lbs

coffees—Pack
100 lbs 
Lion...........................
........2274
“  in cabinets........
........ 23J4
Dil worth’s ................. ......... 2274
Magnolia...................
........22%
Acme................. 21?i 217s  22
German.....................
........22%
b in s.............
........23
Arbuckle’s Ariosa....
........2274
Avorica..
........ 2174
McLaughlin’s  XXXX ........2274
Honey  Bee..........................2454
Nox  All  .............................. 2354
O  B .....................................2254
Tiger................................... 2254
Arbuckle’s Avorica............1954
Quaker  City__ 2054
Best  Rio..........2154
Prime Maricabo 24

coffees—50 lb. bags.

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“ 

COFFEE EXTRACT.

Valley City.........................  
75
Felix..»...............................   1  10

Cotton,  40 f t..........per doz.  1  25
150
160
2 00
2 25
1  00
1  15

CLOTHES  LINES.
50 ft.......... 
“ 
“ 
60 f t.......... 
“ 
70 f t.........  
“ 
80 ft.......... 
60 f t.........  
“ 
72 ft-........ 
“ 
CONDENSED MILK.

Jute 

CRACKERS.
“ 

Eagle...................................  7 60
Anglo-Swiss.......................   6 00
Kenosha Butter................'..  854
Seymour 
................... 7
Butter...................................  7
family.........................   7
fancy..........................654
biscuit........................  754
Boston...................................¿54
City Soda..............................  854
Soda......................................  7
fancy...........................  654
S. Oyster..............................   7

CREAM TARTAR.

evaporated__ 7  @ 754

 
 
 
 
..............
 
dried  fruits—Foreign.
“ 

City Oyster, XXX..................  7
Picnic...................................   7
Fancy Oyster........................  654
Strictly  pure......................... 
38
Grocers’................................. 
24
dried fruits—Domestic.
Apples, sun-dried......   5%@ 6
“ 
16
Apricots, 
“ 
Blackberries “ 
7
Nectarines  “ 
14
14
Peaches 
“ 
Plums 
“ 
Raspberries  “ 
24
Citron, in  drum..........  @23
in boxes..........  @25
Currants......................   @ 554
Lemon  Peel................ 
14
Orange Peel................ 
14
Prunes,  Turkey..........  @ 474
“ 
Imperial........  @ 654
Raisins, Valencias................ 754
•“  Ondaras................... 854
“  Domestic Layers.. .2 45
“  Loose Californias. .2 05
Farina, 100 lb. kegs.............  04
Hominy, per  bbl.................. 4 00
Macaronj, dom 12 lb box__   60
imported.......  @10
Pearl  Barley...............  @ 3
Peas, green.................   @1  40
“  split.....................  @  354
Sago,  German.............  @ 654
Tapioca, fl’k or p’r l... 
Wheat,  cracked..........  @ 654
Vermicelli,  import__   @10
domestic...  @60
FISH—SALT.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

“ 

“ 

@ 654

“ 

“ 

GUN  POWDER.

LAMP BURNERS.

Cod, whole.....................  @554
“  boneless.................   @754
1254
H alibut.......................... 
2 75
Herring,  round, 54 bbl.. 
“ 
“  54  bbl.. 
1 50
“  Holland,  bbls.. 
10 00
“  Holland, kegs..  @85
Scaled............. 
“ 
30
Mack,  sb’s, No. 1, 54  bbl__9 50
“  12 lb kit.. 145
“ 
“ 
“ 
..1  35
“ 
“  10 
Trout,  54  bbls.............  @5 00
“  10  lb.  kits.................   80
White,  No. 1. 54 bbls............ 6 00
“ 
121b. kits.......115
“ 
10 lb. kits.... .1  00
“ 
“ 
Family,  54  bbls......... 3 00
“ 
“ 
kits...........55@65
K egs......................................5 25
Half  kegs..............................2 88
No. 0.................................... 
60
No. 1..................................... 
70
No. 2.................................... 
85
No. 0 . . 
No. 1  .. 
No. 2 ..
No. 0.....
No. 1......
No. 2..
Pure......................................   30
Calabria................................  25
Sicily.....................................  18
MINCE MEAT.
Buckets...................... 
  6!4
Half bbls.............................  6
MOLASSES.
Black  Strap.......................16@17
Cuba Baking.....................22@25
Porto  Rico........................ 24(535
New Orleans, good........... 25@30
choice........ 33@40
fancy..........45@48

LAMP CHIMNEYS.

LAMP WICKS.

One-half barrels, 3c extra.

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“ 

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“ 

ROLLED OATS

OATMEAL.
Muscatine, Barrels.............6 00
Half barrels...... 3  15
Cases........2 25@2 35
Muscatine, Barrels...............6  00
Half barrels...... 3 15
Cases........2 25@2 35
Michigan  Test.....................1054
Water  White........................12?*
Medium..................................... 4 75
54 b b l..........................2 88
Small,  bbl......................  
5 75

“ 
“  54  bbl........... '.............3 38

PICKLES.

OIL.

 

PIPES.

 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

RICE.

SNUFF.

  2 35

SALERATUS.

SALT
“ 

SAPOLIO.
“ 

“ 
“ 
SAL  SODA.

3  “ 
SAUERKRAUT.
“ 

Clay, No.  216............................. 1 60
“  T. D. full count...........   75
Cob. No. 3.............................  49
Carolina head........................ 6%
“  No. 1........................ 654
“  No. 2................574@6
“  No. 3........................ 554
Ja p an .................................... 554
DeLand’s,  pure.................... 5*4
Church’s, Cap Sheaf..............5
Dwight’s ................................5
Taylor’s ................................. 5
Common Fine per bbl..........  82
carlots..  80
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks......   23
28 pocket.............................2 00
60 
.............................. 2 10
100 
.............................. 2 20
Ashton bu. b ag s..................  75
Higgins  “ 
...................  75
...................  35
Warsaw “ 
Kegs........................................  54
Granulated,  boxes..............   134
Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box.......  2 35
Hand, 
Silver Thread, 30 gal..........3 50
40  “  .............4 50
35
SEEDS.
Mixed bird...........................   454
Caraway.............................. 10
Canary.................................   4
Hemp.....................................  454
Anise.......................................854
Rape.....................................  454
Mustard.................................   754*
Scotch, in  bladders........... 37
Maccaboy, in jars.............. 35
French Rappee, in Jars.....43
Dingman,  100  bars.............4 00
Don’t  Anti-Washboard.....4 75
Jax o n ................................. 3 75
Queen  Anne.......................3 85
German family................... 2 40
Big Bargain........................ 1  87
Boxes.....................................5J4
Kegs, English........................434
Allspice...............................10
Cassia, China in mats..........754
Batavia in bund__11
Saigon in rolls.......42
Cloves,  Amboyna...............30
Zanzibar................ 24
Mace  Batavia.....................70
Nutmegs, fancy.................. 70
“  No.  1...................... 65
“  No.  2...................... 60
Pepper, Singapore, black__I854
“ 
“  white.......28
“ 
shot........................ 21
spices—Ground—In Bulk.
Allspice...............................15
Cassia,  Batavia.................. 20
and  Saigon.25
“ 
Saigon................... 42
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna................ 35
“ 
Zanzibar................ 28
Ginger, African.................. 1254
“  Cochin......... ...........15
Jam aica.................18
“ 
Mace  Batavia......................80
Mustard,  English................ 22
“ 
and Trie..25
“  Trieste................... 27
Nutmegs, No. 2 .................. 70
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 22
“  white.......30
Cayenne................ 25
Mystic, 1 lb.  pkgs................  7
barrels.v................6

spices—Whole.

STARCH.

SODA.

SOAP.

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

'* 

SUGARS.

“ 

Cut  Loaf.....................
Cubes..........................
Powdered...................
Granulated,  Stand__
Off..........
Confectionery  A........
Standard  A................
No. 1, White Extra C ..
No. 2 Extra  C.............
No. 3C, golden...........
No. 4 C, dark..............
No. 5  C........................

@ 854 

@
@ 754 

@ 7?* @ 1% @7 56 
@ 7 @ 674 @ 65* 
@ 654 
@  654 @6

SYRUPS.

“ 
“ 

Corn,  barrels.....................26@28
one-half  barrels__ 28@39
kegs........................ 
1  3D
Pure  Sugar, b b l...............29@33
half barrel__ 31@35
“ 
X  XXX
954
954
954
9
9

SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps.............. 9 
Sugar Creams.............9 
Frosted  Creams.......... 
Graham  Crackers......  
Oatmeal  Crackers....... 
tobaccos—Plug.
Clipper  ....................................39
Climax...............................39@41
Corner  Stone............................39
Double  Pedro..........................40-
Whopper .................................. 40
Peach  Pie.................................40
Wedding  Cake, blk.................40

TEAS.

ja p a n —Regular.

OOLONG.

IMPERIAL.

SUN CURED.

GUNPOWDER.

YOUNG HYSON.

BASKET  FIRED.

............24
.............30

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

Fair ... 
@15
Good... 
@16-
Choice.. 
@28
Choicest
@3»
F a ir...............................12  @15
Good . ..........................16  @20
Choice........................... 24 @28
Choicest........................30  @33
F a ir.............................  @20
Choice.........................  @25
Choicest......................   @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to  fair........... 25  @35
Extra fine to finest___ 50 @65
Choicest fancy............. 75 @85
Common to  fair........... 20  @35
Superior tofine.............40  @50
Common to  fair............18  @26
Superior to  fine........... 30 @40
Common to  fair.......... ,25  @30
Superior to  fine............30  @50
Fine to choicest............55  @65
F a ir...............................25 @30-
Choice........................... 30 @35
Best...............................55 @65
Tea  Dust......................   8 @10
Sweet Pippin..............  
50
50
Five and  Seven.........  
Hiawatha................... 
68
45
Sweet  Cuba................ 
Petoskey Chief........... 
55
403
Sweet Russet..............  
Thistle........................ 
42"
Florida........................ 
65
Rose  Leaf...................  
66
38
Red Domino................ 
Swamp Angel............. 
40
TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS.
$ 2, per  hundred................  2 59>
8 5,  “ 
“ 
.............3 0D
“ 
£10,  “ 
................4 OO
$20,  “  '  “ 
................5 0D
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts:
200 or over.  .........   5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 
30 gr......................................   914
40 gr......................................n
50 gr......................................12
Above are the prices  fixed by 
the  pool.  Manufacturers  out­
side the pool  usually  sell  5 gr. 
stronger goods at same prices.

toba ccos—Fine Cut.

 
 
VINEGAR.

10 
20 

“
“

$1 for barrel.

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

“ 
" 
“ 

6 00
7 00

PAPER.

TWINES.

.splint 

WOODENWARE.

Cocoa Shells,  bulk.............  374
Jelly, 30-lb.  pails................   414
Sage..................................... 
15
PA PER ,  W OODENW ARE.
C u rtiss  &  Co.  quote  as- 
follow s:
stra w .....................................174
“  Light  Weight...............2
,  S ugar.....................................2
Rag Sugar.................................2 54
Hardware...............................2%
Bakers....................................2»%
Dry  Goods............................. 5
Jute  Manilla.......................... 8
Red  Express,  No. 1...............5
No. 2.............. 4
48 Cotton...............................22
Cotton,-No. 2........................ 20
“  3 ..............v ...18
Sea  Island, assorted..........40
No. 5 H em p........................  16
No.  8 B .................................. 17
W ool.......................................774
Tubs, No. 1.........................   7 75
“  No. 2..........................  6 75
“  No. 3..........................  5 75
Pails, No. 1,  two-hoop......  i  60
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  1  75
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes__  
60
Bowls, 11 inch....................   1  00
.....................  1  25
13  “ 
15  “ 
.....................  2 00
17  “ 
....................   2 75
assorted, 17s and  17s 2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
40
“  bushel....................  1  60
“  with covers  1  90 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l  5 50
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
□ 0“ 
Baskets, market....................  

“  No.2 
“  No.3 
“  No.l 3 50
“  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 5 00
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF»
W hite................................ 
97
Red..................................... 
97
Straight, in sacks..............  5 50
“  barrels............   5 70
Patent 
“  sacks..............  6 50
“  barrels............   6 70
Bolted................................  2 80
Granulated........................  3  60
Bran........................................  14 00
Ships.......................................  16 00
Screenings.............................  14 00
Middlings...............................  17 00
Mixed  Feed............................  17 75
Small  lots.......................... 
Car 
“  .......................... 
Small  lots.......................... 
Car 
“  .......................... 
No. 1, per 100 lb s...................   2 00
No. 1.........................................  1 30
No. 2..................................   110
N o.l..........................  
No. 2.......................................   12 50
H ID ES,  PELTS  an d   FURS.
P e rk in s  &  H ess  pay  as 
follow s:
G reen...........................  5 @ 5%
Part  Cured.................   5%@  6
Full 
Dry..............................   6  @  8
Dry  K ip s...................   6  @ 8
Calfskins,  green........  '  @  5
cured........ 5%@  6
Deacon skins................ 10 @25

MILLSTUFFS.

50
47
32
30

b a r l e y .

WHEAT.

FLOUR.

HIDES.

MEAL.

CORN.

OATS.

“ 
“ 

HAY.

RYE.

“ 

“ 

 

 

 

 

% off for No. 2.

PELTS.

FURS.

Shearlings.....................10 @30
Estimated wool, per fl> 20  @28
M ink........................... 
5@  65
Coon............................ 
5@1  00
Skunk.......................... 
5@1  10
Muskrat__
1@  16
Fox, red___
• • 
5@1  50
“  cross..
• •  50@5 OO
“  grey...
5® 80
.. 
Cat, house..
5@  25 
“  w ild...
5@ 50
-. 
Fisher........
-.1  00@6 00
Lynx
.  ■  
. 
50@3 00
Martin,  dark................   2S@3 00
...........  10@1 00
“ 
O tter.............................  50@8 00
Wolf...............................  50@3 00
Bear.............................  30@20  00
Beaver..........................  50@6 00
Badger........................ 
5@1  OO
Deerskins, per lb........ 
5@  40
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tallow........................  4%@  534
Grease  butter.............8  @8%
Switches.....................  2  @2%
Ginseng,......................2 00@2  10

 

 

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Patent  Medicines in Early Times.

D r u g s  IH - M e d i c i n e s »

of them.

D etroit  P harm aceutical  Society 

President. Geo.  L. LeFevre.  Secretary, Jno. A. Tinholt.

Muskegon  Drug Clerks’  Association. 

It may be approximated by .

ekasm us  Wilso n’s  h a ir  r est o r e r.

MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT

M ichigan  S t a te   P harm aceutical  Ass’n. 

President. J. W. Caldwell. '  S ecretary, B. W . P atterson.

POPULAR  PREPARATIONS.

The  Constituent  Elements of  a  Number 

Oil Almond................................................300
Ammonia.................................................. 300
Spt. Rosemary...........................................2500
Tinct. Cantharides.......................................60
Oil Lemon......................... 
35

State  Board  of Pharm acy.
One Y ear—Jam es T em o r, D etroit.
Two Y ears—O ttm ar E berbach.A nn Arbor.
Three Y ears—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
F o u r Y ears—Stanley E. P ark ill. Owosso.
F ive  Years—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
President—Geo. McDonald 
S ecretary —Jacob Jesson.
■Treasurer—Jas. V em or.
Next M eeting—At  Lansing,  on  Novem ber 6.  7 and 8. 
C andidates w ill please rep o rt a t 9 a. m. th e   second day 
o f  m eeting.______________ ________________________ _

P resid en t—Geo. G undrum , Ionia.
F irst Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, L ansing.
Second Vice-President—H. M. Dean, Niles.
T h ird  Vice-President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
S ecretary —H. J. Brown. Ann Arbor.
T reasu rer—Win Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Com mittee—A. H. Lym an,  M anistee;  A. Bas­
sett,  D etroit; F. J.  W urzburg,  G rand Rapids;  W.  A. 
H all, Greenville;  E. T.  Webb, Jackson.
Local Secretary—A. Bassett, Detroit._________________
Grand  R apids  P harm aceutical Society. 
P resident. J. W. H ayw ard,  Secretary, F ran k  H. Escott.

The Chemist and Druggist  contains an 
abstract of a historical work by Mr. Alpe 
(Handy Book of  Medicine  Stamp  Duty) 
on the subject of patent medicines.  This 
work is based on an article in the Gentle­
man’s Magazine of 1748, which contained 
a “Pharmacopoeia Empirica,”  and  shows 
that patent medicines  were  exceedingly 
numerous in England in  the  eighteenth 
century.  The  Pharmacopoeia  Empirica 
was compiled by the  Gentleman’s Mhga- 
zine so that “persons  who  could  not af­
ford the expense, or might  not care to be 
governed by the advice of  the  physician 
and apothecary, might know where to ap­
ply on an  occasion  for  an  appropriate 
remedy.”
This Pharmacopoeia Empirica  contain­
ed 202 patent  medicines,  90 per  cent, of 
which  were  manufactured  in  London 
alone.  This  list,  as  the  Chemist  and 
Druggist remarks, w as far from complete. 
Patent medicines  for  gleet,  gonorrhoea, 
syphilis, impotence and  sterility  are ex­
ceedingly  numerous.  Onfe  man  adver­
tises  “belts”  for  the cure of leprosy at 
§1.50  each. 
“Necklaces”  for  cutting 
teeth are advertised at $1.25.  “Girdles” 
for the itch are also advertised at exorbi­
tant prices.
The patent medicines mentioned in the 
article  are  James’  Fever  Powders at $1 
per paper;  Godfrey’s  Cordial  at 75 cents 
a bottle;  Daffy’s Elixir at 63 cents;  Bate­
man’s  Drops  at  25  cents;  Stoughton’s 
Bitters  and  Betton’s  British  Oil.  The 
highest priced articles are  Dr.  Bellost’s 
Pills for  rheumatism  at  $5  per box and 
Profely’s Pills for syphilis at $3.50.
Mr.  Alpe  gives  a  list  of patents for 
medicines,  beginning  with  one in 1711. 
by Timothy Byfield, described as “A new 
and most  vsefull  chemicall  preparation 
and chemicall  preparo’on  and  medicine 
publickly known by the  name  of his ‘sal 
olesum  volatile,’ which by abundant  ex­
perience hath been  found  very  helpfull 
and benefieiall as well in vses  medieinall 
as others, and will very much tend to the 
publick vse and benefit all ovr subjects.” 
Robert  Stoughton  patented  his  “elixir 
magnum  stomachi”  in  1712.  The  next 
patent was in 1722,  obtained  by  Robert 
Eaton for a styptic  medicine.  Benjamin 
Okell came next, in 1726, with  Dr.  Bate­
man’s Pectoral  Drops.  Betton’s  British 
Oil wras patented in  1742,  Hooper’s  Fe­
male Pills in 1742 and James’ Fever Pow­
der in 1744.  About this date  the patent­
ing of medicinal compounds became com­
moner—three  or  four  a  year.  Thomas 
Greenough  got  a  patent  in  1744  for a 
toothache tincture containing  twenty-six 
ingredients.  Nathaniel  Godbold  one in 
1785 for a vegetable  balsam  into  which 
he had worked fifty-two  ingredients. 
In 
1805, Richard Brandon the elder obtained 
a patent for some constitutional pills with 
ninety-one  ingredients.  Mr.  Godbold 
patented his balsam iu 1785 and improved 
upon  it  in  1798.  John  Ching’s  Worm 
Lozenges were patented in 1796  and  im­
proved in 180^ by Rebecca Ching.  Friar’s 
Balsam Mr. Alpe  traces  to a  patent  ob­
contains  soap, precipitated  chalk,
Jts
tained in 1777, by Robert  Grubb,  for “a 
amounts of  pumice stone,  and oil of wuS ,ta 
certain medicine called the Friar’s Drops, 
tergreen.
for the cure of venereal  disease,  scurvy, 
rheumstism, stranguary and gleets, with­
out an electuary or pills,  in  every  stage 
f the complaint and without any confine-
ment or particular  regimen.”  To  make 
?pendei “ _le“ ° ^ Syrup (fre? K e  drops, rectified spirits  were added to
in crystalline form.
calomel,  “purging  antimony,”  guiacum 
wood, balsam Peru,  extract  of  hemlock, 
ALMOND CREAM. 
white sugar candy, oil  of  sassafras,  tar­
taric acid and gum  arabic.

has  the  appearance of  an  emulsion, but 
is  not emulsified with either  soap or any 
gum. 
Oil Turpentine.......................................14 dr.
Oil Thyme.............................................. )4  “
Oil Amber Crude.....................................Vt “
Franklin  Oil*........................................   1 “
Kerosene Oil.......................................... 3 “
Water.............................................3ozs2  “
Gum Senegal........................................... 6 “
Glycerine............................................1 fl. oz.
Water................................................. 1 fl. oz.
Starch.............................................120 grains
Fl. Ext.  Arnica.........................................2fl. drs.
Spirit Bitter Almond (1 in 8)...............2 minims
Carbolic Acid................................... 8 
“
Mix  the  glycerine and water,  add  the
starch, and rub in a mortar to a perfectly 
smooth  mixture.  Then  heat over  direct 
heat,  constantly stirring,  until  a smooth 
jelly is produced,  cool, and when  nearly 
cold incorporate the other ingredients.

Castor Oil......................................... 4)4 fl. dr.
Alcohol.......................................... 2*4 fl. ozs.
Oil Lavender.................................2% minims.
Gil  Bergamot................................% 
Fl. Ext. Alkanet, q. s. or about.......... 5 
tharides and 2% fl. ozs. Alcohol.
Fl. Ext. Colchicum Seed.......................... 64m.
Fl. Ext. Clmicifuga...............................256 m.
Acetate of Potash......................................128 grains.
Salicylate of  Soda...........................256  “
Alcohol  (15 per cent.) q. s., ad  .............. 1 pint.

A correspondent of the New Idea statgfel " 
that  he  has  analyzed  this  preparatidji V
and  found it to  consist  of  the  alkaloQ»  ment or particular  regimen.
yrup (fretTf- 
quinidia, si 
from acid),

contains  precipitated  chalk,  powdered 
pumice stone, glycerine, oil of cloves, oil 
of wintergreen, and simple syrup.
LYON’S TOOTH POWDER 

If  desired  add 3 fl.  drs.  tinct. of  can­
HARNER’S RHEUMATIC LIGHTNING.

HUDSON’S HONEY OF ELM 

STRONG’S ARNICA JELLY.

BARRY’S  TRICOPHEROUS.

FEBRILINE.

(  »
•Cacao  Butter..
.... 50 gu
Olive Oil.........
__ 30 gr.
Zinc White__
...0.5 gr. 
Borax.............
.. .0.5 gr. 
Oil  Bergamot..
.30 drops
MRS.  ALLEN  S  WORLD RENOWNED  HAIR

s a m l l  

“
“

°

' 

RESTORER.

Precipitated  Sulphur........................................1.69
Canella  Alba.................................................... 0.80
Glycerin...........................................................32.00
Crystallized Acetate of Lead........................... 8.65
Water..................................................................03.00 |

BISMARCK’S POWDER.

Quinidiue  Tannate
...4 part
Magnesia................
Powdered  Sugar.......................................20  “
Fennel  Sugar............................................5  “
Powdered Licorice....................................... 1 part
A  quieting  powder  for  use  iu  diph­
theria,  hoarseness, throat troubles, etc.

ALCOHOLIC SOAP.

Mix  together in a flask  30 parts  potas­
sium  hydrate  (caustic  potash)  specific 
gravity  1.3,  with  30  parts  96  per  cent, 
alcohol  and  60 parts  olive  oil, by care­
fully  shaking  or  by rolling the  flask  on 
the  table.  After  five  or  ten  minutes, 
saponification is complete, the solution is
• clear,  and  should  then  be diluted  with 
230 parts  distilled water and 250 parts 96 
per cent, alcohol.

ANTISEPTIC SOLUTION.

Menthol
Thymol..............
Acid  boric.........
Natr. benzoic__
Natr.  salicyl, aa.
Of. Gaulther, gtt 
Ol.  Euealypt, gtt
Glycerin.............
Aquae,  q. s. ad...
* Black Oil:  A petroleum  lubricating oil.  Make 

into an emulsion.

Deceiving the Pilferer.

Some  enterprising  Chicago grocer  has 
invented  a  scheme  by  which  the  most 
cheeky  sampler  who  ever  stole  a  peach 
may  have  her  feathers  completely  and 
forever  dampened.  My  attention  was 
not  directed  to  the  scheme until  I  had 
seen  it  successfully  worked  in  a West 
; Side grocery last  week.  A  large woman 
came in with a basket  and asked for  two
■ cakes of yeast and some potatoes.  While 
the proprietor was getting ready the order 
she  moved  around among  the boxes  and 
barrels of goods displayed  with an  unde-
< cided air and at last selected a nice looking 
pickle that  lay  temptingly near  the top. 
This  she  put  into her  mouth, evidently 
intending  to  bite  it,  but  her  teeth  met 
some adamantiiie  substance with a click.
She  took it out  with the  most  puzzled 
air and put it back in its place.  A quick 
glance  at the  proprietor, who  was ready 
to  explode  with  laughter,  confused  her 
more, but she did not hesitate to acknowl-
• edge  that  she was  sold.  The  pickle is
• made of porcelain  and  colored so  that it
■ is_ impossible to  tell it from the  genuine 
with out trying to cut or bite it.
But the  pickle is  only one of  this gro­
cer’s samples.  He has porcelain peaches, 
apples,  pairs,  crackers  and  numerous
■ other  things that  samplers  take.  They 
are placed in such positions as will tempt 
the  samplers  to take  them  first.  They 
are  artistically  made,  but  detection  is 
sure  to  follow  and  /have  the  desired 
effect.

Good Advice to Apprentices.

A. H. Keller, Ph. G., of Hastings, Neb., 
gives the following good advice  to  those 
intending  to  follow  the  profession  of 
pharmacy:
The “Board of Examiners” recently re­
quired  applicants  to  give  the  term of 
their apprenticeship to the drug business 
and  this  requirement  furnishes  a  text 
worthy of deep consideration.  As I have 
been clerk,  apprentice and  proprietor, it 
will  not  seem  presumptuous  for me to 
give a little advice to young  men wlio in­
tend to study pharmacy.
I have been in receipt of  many  letters 
asking for a situation or recommendation 
for a clerkship in a  drug  store,  on  the 
ground that the applicant  had  “four  or 
five  months’ experience and filled all the 
prescriptions.”  These induoements were 
clinched by the  fact  that  the  applicant 
“would be willing to work for  $25 or $30 
per month.”  Not a  few  druggists  con­
sider all beginners as clerks.  Non-phar­
macists, on the other hand,  look  upon a 
clerk  as a  person  trained  in  the art of 
pharmacy.  The apprentice is looked up­
on as a  student  under  training  by  the 
clerk and proprietor,  who  are  expected 
to  encourage  him  in  his  calling  if he 
prove apt.
When accustomed to the  style of doing 
business in business hours,  he is  initiat­
ed in the first degree  of  pharmacy.  He 
must at once acquire  habits  of  observa­
tion, reflection and analysis,  and compre­
hend  fully  each  advance.  All  leisure 
should be utilized in  the  examination of 
some  drug  or  pharmaceutical  process. 
Notes  should  be  taken  of  all  drugs 
handled and the same  carefully  studied 
from the  textbooks  thereafter  as to its 
source of supply and  properties,  chemi­
cal, botanical,  pharmacological,  etc.,  as 
the case may be.  He should aim to be an 
ideal pharmacist whose  professional aim 
is to rank his profession with that of the­
ology,  law and medicine.  He  should al­
ways be a student  and  an  investigator, 
and be stimulated to further effort by the 
seemingly endless possibilities of advance 
in  synthetic  and  analytic  chemistry. 
Nor will elaborate apparatus  be  needed 
Lamp chimneys and pieces  of  glass  and 
rubber tubing will prove amply sufficient 
in the majority of cases  of  early investi­
gation.  Under such conditions, the phar­
macist will find that  many  preparations 
ordinarily ordered from the  manufactur­
er can be made with  these  in  his  own 
store.
The apprentice should have several ob­
jects in view:  first, to prepare to pass the 
examinations by our State Board of Phar­
macy by the aid of the National Institute 
of Pharmacy, and their  printed  lectures 
and  questions  and  examinations.  He 
should take two or  three  journals,  and 
often interview the U.  S.  and  National 
Dispensatories.
Occasionally,  when  spiritual  aid  is 
needed,  read Job to learn patience; Prov­
erbs to get  wisdom  and  the  Psalms  to 
know better  how  to  rejoice  when  the 
mysteries of some  chemical  formula are 
mastered,  or the  State  Board  of  Phar-

macy is passed.  Then continue the good 
work and attend some  reputable  college 
of pharmacy.  All this  will  profit  later 
on and increase knowledge.

Two  W ays  of  Figuring.

A Yankee skipper had  bought  twenty 
dozen  chickens  at  $3 a dozen.  Some of 
the chickens  were  only a few  days  old, 
while others were larger,  and  some  were 
even full-grown fowls.

When he put into port a hotel  proprie­
tor came aboard,  and  asked  liow he sold 
his thickens.

“That depends,” said the captain.  “If 
you pick them out I shall  charge  you $6 
a dozen;  but if  you let me pick them out 
you may have them for $2 a dozen,”

“All  right,”  said  the  hotel-keeper, 

“you pick them out.”

the smallest* when his Customer said : 

The  captain  selected  several dozen of 
“Go ahead;  I want more.”
By this  time  the  captain  was  among 
the largest  of  the  flock, and wished  the 
man would  call a halt;  but he still  said, 
“Go on.”
The captain saw the point when it was

“ 

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25c size............................................per doz, $2.00
3.50
50c  “ 
P ecknain’s Croup Remedy  is  prepared es­
pecially lor children and is  a safe  and certaiD 
cure for Croups, Whooping Cough,  Colds  and 
all  bronchial  aDd  pulmonary  complaints  of 
childhood.  For attractive  advertising m atter 
address the proprietor. Dr. H. C. PECKHAM , 
F reeport, M ich.  Trade  supplied  by  whole­
sale druggists of  Grand  Rapids,  Detroit  and 
Chicago.

Wholesale Drice  Current•

Declined—Oil bergamot, salacime.

Carb..........................
Chlorate,  (po. 20)__
Cyanide...................
Iodide......................
Potassa, Bitart,  pure 
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
Potass  Nitras, opt...
Potass Nitras...........
Prussiate..................
Sulphate  po.............
RADIX.
Aconitum................
Althae......................
A nchusa.................
Arum,  po..................
Calamus...................
Gentiana,  (po. 15)... 
Glychrrliiza, (pv. 15) 
Hydrastis  Canaden
(po. 65)..................
Hellebore,  Ala,  po..
Inula,  po.................
Ipecac,  po................
Iris  plox (po. 20@22)
Jala pa,  pr................
Maranta,  54s...........
Podophyllum, po__
R hei...'....................
“  cut...................
“  pv.....................
Spigelia...................
Sanguinaria,  (po  25)
Serpentaria..............
Senega  .....................
Similax, Officinalis,  H 
M
Scillae, (po. 35)...........
Sympl ocarpus,  Fceti-
dus.  po.....................
Valeriana, Eng.  <po.30) 
German...
Zingiber a ...................
Zingiber  j ...................

“ 

“ 

“ 

SEMEN.

Anisum,  (po.  20) 
Apium  (graveleo
B ird,Is................
Carai, (po. 18) —
Cardamon...........
Corlandrum...........
Cannabis Sativa__
Cydonium...........
Chenopodium  ... 
Diptenx Odorate.
Foenieulum......
Foenugreek,  po..
L in i...................
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 354) •
Lobelia...................
Pharlaris Canarian
R apa.................... .
Sinapis,  Albu........
Nigra__

“ 

Juniperis  Co. O. T.
Saacharum  N.  E ..
Spt.  Vini  Galli__
Vini Oporto.........
Vini  Alba.............
SPONGES

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

'OOl
•ool
.... 

Florida  sheeps’
carriage...........
Nassau  sheeps'
carriage  ..........
Velvet  extra  she 
wool  carriage.. 
Extra  yellow  sheet
carriage................
Grass sheeps’ wool car
riag e.................
Hard for  slate  use 
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se ........................
SYRUPS.
Aceacia...................
Zingiber  .................
Ipecac......................
Ferri  Iod.................
Auranti  Cortes........
Rhei  Arom..............
Similax  Officinalis..
C
Senega .....................
Scillae......................
“  Co.................
Tolutan...................
Prunus  virg.............
TINCTURES
Aconitum  Napellis R
f
Aloes......................
and myrrh...
A rnica...................
Asafoetida..............
Atrope Belladonna.
Benzoin.................
Co.............
Sanguinaria...........
Barosma................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon..............
C o...........
Castor.....................
Catechu.................
Cinchona..............
Co............
Columba................
Conium.................
Cubeba...................
D igitalis................
Ergot......................
G entian.................
Co..............
G uaica...................
ammon......
Zingiber  ................
Hyoscyamus.........
Iodine.....................
Colorless__
Ferri  Chloridum...
K in o ......................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh.....................
Nux  Vomica.........
O pii........................
“  Camphorated..
“  Deodor...........
Auranti Cortex......
Quassia.................
Rhatany  ................
Rhei........................
Cassia  Acutifol__
Co.
Serpentaria...........
Stromonium...........
Tolutan.................
V alerian................
V eratrum V eride...

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

ACIDUM.

Aceticum...................
Benzoicum,  German..
B oracic......................
Carbolicum................
Citricum .....................
Hydrochlor...... .........
N itrocum ...................
Oxalieum...................
Phosphorium dii........
Salicylicum...............1
S u lp h u ric u m ...................
Tannicum.................. 1
Tartaricum..................

AMMONIA.

“ 

Aqua, 16  deg. 
18  deg.
Carbonas  __
Chloridum  ...

Black.. 
Brown. 
Red__

Xanthoxylum.............
BALSAMUM.
Copaiba......................
Peru.............................
Terabin, Canada  ......
Tolutan......................

COBTEX.
Abies,  Canadian......
Cassiae  .....................
Cinchona Flava........
Euonymus  atropurp. 
Myrica  Cerifera, po..
Prunus Yirgini.........
Quillaia,  grd.............
Sassafras  ..................
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)
EXTBACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra...
po.........
Haematox. 15 lb. box..
I s .....................
/4 s ...................
U s ...................
FEBBUM.
Carbonate Precip—
Citrate and Quinta..
Citrate  Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut  Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l .......
pure.........
FLORA.

“ 
“  
“ 
“  

A rnica........................
Anthemis...................
M atricaria.................

•• 

FOLIA.

Barosma 
...................
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-
nivellvj....................
Aix.
Salvia  officinalis,  )4s
and  )4s.....................
lira L'rsi......................

“ 

“ 

GUMMI.

Acacia, 1st  picked...

“

“ 
“ 
“ 

3d 
sifted sorts..
p o .................
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)..
“  Cape,  (po.  20)..
“  Socotri, (po.  00) 
Catechu, Is, (54s, 14 54!
16).'.........................
Ammoniae................
Assafoetida,  (po. 30)..
Benzoinum................
Camphor».................
Euphorbium, po........
Gal ban um.................
Gamboge,  po.............
Guaiacum,  (po. 45)...
Kino,  (po.  25)...........
M astic......................
Myrrh,  (po. 45).........
Opii,  (po. 4 75).........
Shellac  .....................
bleached......
Tragacanth  ..............

8® 10
80@1  00
30
40® 45
60® 65
3® 5
10® 12
12® 14
20
70@2 05
134@ 5
40@1 60
50® 53
3® g
4® 6
11® 13
12® 14

00@2 25
80@1  00
45® 50
5G@3 00

85©2 00
8@ 10
25® 30

70® 75
©1  30
50@ 55
45® 50

18
11
18
30
20
12
12
12
10

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

@  15 
@3 50
@ 80
@ 50

154@
©

14® 16
30® 35

10® 12
25® 28
35® 50
10® 12
8® 10

@1 00
@ 90
© 80
© 65
75^,1 00
00
@ 50
@ 13
25® 30
© 15
50® 55
32® 35
35® 10
@ 80
80® 95
@ 40
© 20
@1  00
@ 40
15®3 2o
25® 33
25® 30
30® 75

* 
hebba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium..........................
Eupatorium.........................
Lobelia.................................
Majorum..............................
Mentha  Piperita.................
“  Y ir.........................
Rue........................................
Tanacetum, V......................
Thymus,  V...........................

MAGNESIA.

vili

, Du

&  M.

Calcined, Pat..............  55®
Carbons
...  20® 
Carbo
5..  35®
Carbon
. ..5 00@5 
Absi 
nthiu
...  45® 
gdala
Amj 
Amj 
...7 25©7 
d a la e
... 1  85®1 @2
Anisi ...
Auranti 
...2  50@3 
Bergami 
Cajiputi1,
...  90@1 
@2 
Caryoph
...  35®
Cedar  ...................
®1
Chenopodii..........
Cinnamomi..........
...  95@1
...  @
Citronella.............
...  35®
Conium  Mac........
...  90@1 
Copaiba................
. 15j50@16 
Cubebae................
...  90@1 
Exechthitos..........
...1  20@1 
Erigeron..............
.. ,2o25@2 ©
Gaultheria...........
Geranium,  ounce. 
...  50®
Gossipii,  Sem. gal.
...1  15@1 
Hedeoma  .............
...  50@2 
Juniperi................
...  90@2 
Lavendula...........
...1  60@2 
Limonis................
...2 75@3 
Mentha Piper........
...3 00@3
Mentha Verid.
Morrhuae, gal.............  80@1
Mvrcia, ounce.............  @
Olive...........................1  00@2
Picis Liquida,  (gal. 35)  10®
R icini..........................  96@1
Rosmarini...................  75@1
Rosae,  ounce..............   @6
Succini.................  40®
Sabina........................  90@1
Santal  .......................3 50@7
Sassafras..............  80®
Sinapis, ess, ounce__   @
Tigni...........................  @1
Thym e.................  40®
o p t...........  @
Theobromas.........  15®
Bi Carb.................  15®
Bichromate.........  14@
Bromide...............   37®

POTASSIUM.

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.  12® 
18®
.  50® 
,2  85©3 
.  35®

.  © 8®

. 
7®
.  25®
.  15®

20®  25 
25®  30 
15®  20 
®  25 
20®  50 
10®  12 
16®  18
@  60 
15®  20 
15®  20 
15@2 30 
1 .®   20 
£5®  30 
@  35 
15®  18 
75©1  00 
@1  75 
75@1  35 
48®  53 
®   20 
30®  35 
75®  80 
©  40 
@  20 
10®  12
®  35 
@  25 
15®  20 
10®  15 
22®  25

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Antipyrin.............
Argenti  Nitras, ounce
Arsenicum...........
Balm Gilead  Bud.
Bismuth  S.  N .......
Calcium Chlor, Is, (54s
li;  54s,  12)........
Cantharides  Russian
p o ...........................
Capsiei  Fructus, a f.. 
go..
Bpo 
C'aryophyllus, (po.  28
Carmine,  No. 40......
Cera  Alba, S. & F ...
Cera  Flava..............
Coccus .....................
Cassia Fructus........
Centraria.................
Cetaeeum................
Chloroform.............
squibbs
Chloral Hyd Crst__
Chondrus................
Cinchonidine, P.  &  W 
German 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  .....................
Creasotum..............
Creta,  (bbl. 75).........
“  prep................
“  precip.............
“  Rubra.............
Crocus  .....................
Cudbear...................
Ciupri Sulph.............
Dextrine.................
Ether Sulph.............
Emery,  all  numbers
PO.....................
Ergota,  (po.)  45......
Flake  White...........
G alla........................
Gambier...................
Gelatin,  Cooper......
French........

“ 

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“ 

S. 

pint:

“ 
“ 
“ 

..2 50® 

“ 
by box 66?£, less
s) . .  10(&  12
4®  6 Glue,  Brown..............
9® 15
“  White................
13® 25
...  12®  15
...1  00®1  25 Glycerina...................
23(fn 26
...  10®  12 Grana Paradisi...........
15
...3)4®   4 Humulus..................... 25® 40
...  75@1  00 Ilvdraag  Chlor  Mite.. @ 85
“  C or__
@ 75
....  10®  12
Ox Rubrum @ 90
... 1  75@1  85
Ammoniati.. @1 10
@ 1 5
Ungüentum. 45© 55
...  6©  8
ai/aa   4 Hvdrargvrum............. @ 75
...  3)4®  4 Ie’hthvoboiia, Am...... 1 25©1 50
...  35®  40 Indigo.........................
75@1  00
....  3)4® 4)4 Iodine,  Resubi...........4 00@4 10
5®  6 Iodoform..................... @5 15
.... 
8®  9 Lupulin......................
85@1 00
.... 
....  11®  12 Lycopodium..............
55@, 60
80@, 85
Mavis  .........................
s.
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod.................
© 27
’0..2 00@.*3  50
__ 1  75@2 00 Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10® 12
__ 1  10@1  50 Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
2® 3
....1  75@1  75
...........................
.. ..1  75@3 50 Mannia,  S. F ..............
90@1 00
... 1  75@2 00 Morphia.  S.  P. &W ...2 55®2 80
Y.  Q. &
C. CO........................2 55®2 70
__ 1  25®2 00
__ 1  25@2 00 Moschus  Canton........ @ 40
Mvristica,  Xo. 1.........
6ö@. 70
a iix \ oruiea,  (po 20).. @ 10
Os.  Sepia.....................
Pepsin Saac, H.  & P. I).
Picis  Liq, X.  C„ V, gal
ou
doz  .........................
1  10 Picis Liq., q u arts......
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80). 
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22) . 
Piper Alba,  (po go)...
Pix  Burgun..............
Plumbi A cet.............
Pulvis Ipecac et opii. 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  I
"&P. D.  Co., doz__
Pyrethrum,  pv.........
Quassiae...................
Quinia,  S. P. & W __
S.  German...
Rubia  Tinctorum__
Saccharum Lactis pv
Salacin.................
Sanguis  Drac-onis......
Santonine  .................
Sapo,  W......................
“  M........................
“  G........................
Seidlitz  Mixture........
Sinapis........................
“  opt...................
Snuff.  Maecaboy,  Be
Y oes........................
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes 
Soda Boras, (po. 12).  ., 
Soda  et Potass T art...
Soda Carb...................
Soda,  Bi-Carb.............
Soda,  Ash..............
Soda, Sulphas.............
Spts. Ether C o ...........
“  Mvrcia  Dom......
“  Mvrcia Imp.
“  Vini  Rect.
bbl.
2 27)
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.

00
(ïi& 70
©i 0°
©  70 
@  50 
@  18 
@  35 
®  7
14®  15 
1  10@1  20
®1  25 
55®  60 
8®   10 
47®  52 
35@  45 
12®  14 
®  35
40® 50 
@4 50 
12®  14 
8®   10 
©  15 
@  28 
®  18 
©  30
©  35 
®  35 
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33®  35 
2®   254 
4®  5
3®  4
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2 
50®  55 
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@1  10 
..  2?4@ 354 
-.  254® 3 
.. 
8 ®   10 
..  28®  30 
..  50®  55 
.9 00@16 00 
.. 
7®  8
Bbl.
Whale, winter...........  70
Lard,  extra................  86
Lard, No.  1................  50
Linseed, pure raw__  o7
Lindseed,  boiled......   60
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.................   50
Spirits Turpentine__   50
bbl.  lb. 
PAINTS.
.1M  2@3 
Red  Venetian........
Ochre, yellow  Mars 
.134  2@4 
“ 
Ber..
.134  2@3 
Putty,  commercial.
254  254®3 
“  strictly  pure..
254  234©3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16 
ican ......................
70@75 
Vermilion,  English.
Green,  Peninsular..
70@75 
Lead,  red................
634©754 
“  w h ite...........
634@754 
@70 
Whiting, white Span 
@90 
Whiting,  Gilders’...
1  00
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
1  40
cliff...........................
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints......................1 00@1  20
No. 1 Turp  Coach...... 1 10@1  20
Extra Turp................. 1 60@1  70
Coach  Boay................2 75@3  00
No. 1 Turp Furn........1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__ 1 55®1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T u rp ........................  70®  75

Strychnia  Crystal..
Sulphur,  Subl........
Roll..........
Tamarinds.............
Terebenth Venice..
Theobromae..........
Vanilla...................
Zinei  Sulph...........
OILS.

VARNISHES.

“ 

“ 

‘ 
“ 

MISCELLANEOUS.
Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  26®  28
“  4 F ..  30®  32
“ 
Alumen......................   254® 354
ground,  (po.
7).............................. 
3®  4
Ann at to......................   55®  60
Antimoni, po.............. 
4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60

“ 

too late.  The  man  kept  him  selecting 
till he ha'd bought the entire lot, at a loss 
to the owner of  $20.

The Drug Market.

Opium  is  dull,  but  unchanged.  Qui­
nine is weak at the decline.  Morphia is 
steady.  Gum  camphor is again  advanc­
ing and  the  high  prices  predicted  will 
propably be realized in the  near  future. 
Oil bergamot  has  declined.  Salacine is 
lower.

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GRAND  RAPIDS.

78 Congress St., West,

Detroit, Mich., April 9,1888. 

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

Yoars truly,

Wm. Gray, M. D.

Medical Sup’t.

Midville, Geo., Feb. 24,1888. 

Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co.,
Gentlem en—I think the •‘Tonic” a splendid 
medicine for all forms  of  Dyspepsia and Indi­
gestion.  It is giving me great satisfaction.
J. M. J ohnson, M. D.

Very respectfully,

Yardley, Pa., March 18,1888. 

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

Ellas Wildman, M. D.

Work-House Hospital, 

Blackwell’s Island, Feb. 10,1888. 

Ph. B est Brew ing Co.,
Gentlem en— As a  m atter of  personal inter­
est, I have used  your  “Best” Tonic in several 
cases of impaired  nutritition.  The results in­
dicate th at it  is  an  agreeable  and  doubtless, 
highly efficacious remedy.  1 am,
Very truly yours,

E. W. Fiem ino,  M. D.

Troy, New York, January 86,1888. 

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

Yours truly,

E. J ay Fisk, M, D.

East Genessee Street, 

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

Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co., 
Gentlem en—I   have  used  the “Best” 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. 

Wm. O. J aeger.

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

Ph. Best Brewing: Co., 28  College Place, N. Y., 
Gentlem en—I   have  tested  the  sample  ol 
“Concentrated  Liquid  Extract  of  Malt  and 
Hops” you  sent  me,  and  find  in  my humble 
judgment th at it is a  very  pure and safe arti­
cle.  I  will  not  hesitate  to  recommend it  in 
every case of  debility  where  a  Tonic of  that 
kind is indicated.

Respectfully.

E. H. Be l l. M. D.

New Orleans, La., April 6,1888. 

Specialty D epart. Ph. B rewing Co.,
Gentlemen—Having  tried  your  “Best" 
Tonic to a great  extent  amongst my practice, 
I will state in  its  behalf th at  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 caseB.

Very respectfully,

D.  Bornio, M  D.

For Sal© By

ike  &  Pe i

Grand Rapids,

Mich.

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The Michigan Tradesman

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as  a  Buyer.

The  Head  of the  House  Has  Some  Fun 

Fred. H. Carruth, In New York Tribune.

^

I had  occasion  yesterday  to get a few 
“things”  necessary  in a well  regulated 
household. 
I went  into a large  store on 
the  corner,  where,  as  I  gathered  from 
their  advertisements,  they  were  more 
than  satisfied  if  they  made  anywhere 
near a living  profit.  Unscrupulous  so- 
called  competitors,  they  claimed,  were 
trying  to  undersell  them,  but,  so  far, 
these  one-horse  concerns  had  received 
only the well-merited scorn of  a discrim­
inating  and  long-headed  public. 
I felt 
greatly pleased at getting on the track of 
a place the  first  thing  where they were 
content  to  lose  a  fair  percentage. 
I 
couldn’t help  feeling  sorry for the small 
concerns that were  struggling  along and 
trying to keep up  appearances, but  then 
they should have  known  better  than to 
have started in.
There  was  a  wide  stone  sidewalk 
around the store, and, besides  the  other# 
people, 
there  were  several  coachmen 
standing  along  the  outer  edge wearing 
long, gloomy expressions on  their  faces. 
Personally,  I  arrived  on  the  elevated 
road,  which  passes  along  but  a  few 
blocks away on somewhat  shorter  stilts, 
it seems  to  me, than it dees  farther up­
town. 
I  went  in  and  began  to  look 
around. 
I  wanted  to  get  a number  of 
things, but  all I could  thihk of  was two 
yards of  felt,  so  I  went  over  to a man 
who looked like Hamlet when  Polonious 
is talking to him, and  asked  where they 
kept their felt.  He told  me, but  looked 
as  if  things  were  getting  worse  and 
worse in the State of  Denmark.
I went to the  place  to  which  Hamlet 
directed me and found fishing tackle and 
rubber  dolls.  Hamlet’s  advice  to  the 
purchaser is not  satisfactory.  However,
I found the  felt  department at last,  and 
sat  down  on  one  of  the  cloth-covered 
door-knobs which stood along in front of 
the  counter  mounted  on  sticks.  The 
young lady who had  the  management of 
the felt was  very  busy matching a piece 
of  green felt to a blue  sample  for a cus­
tomer, so I had time to rest. 
I didn’t see 
anything more of  Hamlet, but Coriolanus 
went  past  once  looking  for  Yolscians. 
Down the kid glove  alley I noticed  King 
Richard  II.  meditating  on  the  melan­
choly  fate of  sovereigns  and  the  prob­
able  relative  demand  that  there would 
be next week for four  and six button kid 
gloves respectively.  Everything  seemed 
to be intended  for  rest.  They appeared 
to want to encourage  people  to stay and 
I saw that the idea 
grow old with them. 
so many folks  labor  under,  that  life is 
short,  is a delusion. 
I sent  word  to the 
manager’s desk, by one of  the cash boys, 
that if  there was  any charge  for  sitting 
on that button after the first  hour  that I 
would make it all right.
The  young lady got  around  to  me  at 
last, however,  and asked me what color I 
wanted. 
I didn’t  know—that I had  lost 
the  sample  while I was  pawing  around 
in the grass  in  the  front  yard,  before I 
had left  home, looking for  my street car 
tickets. 
I  told  her I thought I wanted a 
sort  of  dark  green,  though.  She  said 
she didn’t see what I could  want of dark 
green felt. 
I acknowledged that I didn’t 
know  what  I  wanted  it  for, but I wa 
pretty sure that that  was the coler.  She 
said  that  if  I had  lost  my  sample  she 
didn’t see what I could know about what 
I wanted, and I had  to  admit that it wTas 
some so.  Then she  showed me some red 
felt,  and  yellow  felt,  and  purple  felt, 
and  various  other  colored  felts.  My 
mind  kept  wandering  back  foolishly to 
the dark  green, but if  I tried to say any­
thing  about  it  she  soon  put  me on the 
right track  again,  and  spread  out  some 
light rose  colored  felt  before  me.  She 
was just  ready to  cut  me off  a piece of 
this when the crazy notion that I wanted 
dark green got  the  better  of  me  again 
and  I  told  her  that I must  have  it. 
j 
apologized for  my freak, but I explained 
to her that I would  never be happy till I 
got it, and  sneaked  home  with it under 
my overcoat, and  hid  it  so  that  no one 
would ever know that I had  bought dark 
green felt  just because I wanted it, when 
I could have got  light rose-colored.  She 
scattered slabs of  felt right and left for a 
minute or so and  dug a roll of  the  poor, 
crack-brained dark green  out of  the hot 
tom  of  the  pile  and  cut  off  two  yards 
She said it came to  $3.51,  reduced  from 
S3.73J<, and I gave her a-So bill.  She gave 
the  felt to a girl  in a pigeon  hole  to tie 
up and put the  money and a cherry littl 
note to the cashier,  saying  that  she had 
made a sale and hoped  he  was  enjoying 
the  same  blessing, on a little  round  tin 
pepper box with a fur collar on each enc 
of  it, and dropped  it  down  the end of  : 
small  brass  eaves-spout which  came up 
by the side of  the postoflice  box  the gir 
was  in.  She  pulled  a  sort  of  a  thinj 
around  over  the  top  of  the brass tube 
and it began  to  hum a kind of  sad, sub­
dued  tune,  and  I  judged  that  all  was 
over.
I rested my elbows on the  counter and 
thought  and  watched  the  end  of  that 
brass  money-digesting  apparatus  for  a 
very long  time. 
I saw my mistake, now 
that it was  too late. 
I  had  often  been 
warned, from  youth up, against  putting 
my money in  where I would  never get it 
back, and this must be  what they meant. 
1 had  often  wondered  when  my  finan­
cially  sharp  friends  had  told  me that I 
must never put my money  into  anything 
where I  was  not  certain  of  speedy  re­
turns, what  they were  referring to;  this 
was evidently it.  Time wore on  and the 
brass pipe hummed the same  sad refrain 
down in its throat and refused to give up 
my $5. 
I wouldn’t  have  cared  so much 
if  I hadn’t been told  so  many times not 
to  put my money into  anything I didn’t 
know  anything  about.  Time  went  on 
and I hung to the one-legged stool, though 
I had long ago given up hope. 
I noticed 
that Cardinal  Wolsey  was  preparing  to 
go  home,  while  Macbeth  was  having a 
boy take down the sample  lace in his de­
partment.  All  at  once  the  organ  pipe 
clucked and began to breathe hard.  The 
girl pulled  something  and  took  out the 
pepper  box  with  the  whiskers.  When 
the  young lady opened  it  and  gave  me 
my  change,  consisting  of nine  pennies 
and  some  other  coins, I  walked  back 
from  the  brink  of  financial  ruin as one 
in a dream.

EITHER  WITH

ASBESTOS  CEMENT, 

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PIPE  COVERING.
A n   of which  we  have  in  the 

BEST  QUALITIES  and 

at  FAIR  PRICES.

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Cor. Waterloo & Lonis Sts.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,
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HOG  CHOLERA.—Cause, 
Cure and Prevention.»  Xir-  , 
culars A Testimonial! FJe^.  , 
For sale by Drufgis^  G ros­
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Horses,  Cattle, vEtegs; Shsep, 
Colts,  Calves;’ Pigs,* Latfibs;
Has  the  finest  line  of  illustrated  advertising 
and  most  attractive  Lithograph  Label. 
List 
price reduced August 1,1888.  A  “5  cent, cash 
guarantee on every box you sell,  1,000 illus­
trated circulars in each case.  Rubber stamp and 
self-inking pad free with your first order through 
’obber.  Special  directions  for  building up a 
arge trade with every shipment.  Our new circu­
lar, “Hog  Cholera—Cause,  Cure  and  Pre­
ventive,”  is  attracting  universal  attention. 
Contains the most scientific  and  practical  facts 
in regard to this terrible disease, and only known 
positively successful  treatment.  Gives  valua­
ble information in regard  to  swine-raising 
for large profit.  See  ether circulars  for all 
kinds of stock.  The  facts  contained  in  these 
circulars are worth many dollars to ever?  enter­
prising farmer or stockman.  Dealers!  We have 
withdrawn our salesmen and  solicit  a  continu 
ance of your trade through prominent jobbers. 
Send to them for their special circular “TO THE 
TRADE,” 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 
for 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 91ANDFACTURERS:

Minneapolis, Minn.

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

VALLEY CITY MILLING CO.

OUR  LEADING  BRANDS 

Roller Champion,
Matchless,

Gilt  Edge,

Lily White,

Harvest Queen,
Snow Flake,

White Loaf, 
Reliance,

Gold Medal, 
Graham.

OUR  SPECIALTIES: 

Buckwheat  Flour,  Rye  Flour,  Granulated 
Meal,  Bolted  Meal,  Coarse  Meal,  Bran, 
Ships, Middlings, Screenings, Corn, Oats, Feed.
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Write for  Prices.

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JULIUS HOUSEMAN. Pres.,

A. B. WATSON. Treas..
CASH CAPITAL, $200.000.

S. F. ASPINWALL. Secy. 

W .  R .  H illy  e r
\   N .  Orange  L/ke 
Florida.

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also
for  th e   s a l 
of  J.  G.  Lam or- 
eau x’s  Orange Crop 
This fruit w ill be  c a r e ­
f u lly  p a c k e d   by  Mr.  L 
and w ill be sold in lots to suit 
and  at  low est  possible  prices 
Ask  for  quotations  before buying.
PUTNAM &  BROOKS

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P.  STEKETEE & SONS,
D ry  Goods a N otions,
88 Monroe  8t, 1 10,12,14,16  X 18  Fountain St.,

JOBBERS  IN

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Grand Rapids,  Mich,

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

\ A Specialtj.

A  C o m m o n  j j e n s e

Idea.

Two Years 
TEST

E.  G.  8TUDLEY,
RUBBER BOOTS 

Wholesale Dealer in

AND  SHOES
Gandee RiiOOer Go,

Manufactured  by

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The following oil 

are  packed %  doz. in a 
crate.  No charge for crates.
PER  DOZ,
Pinafore, 3 gal. wood jacket.........................$12.00
........................  14.40
........................  19.20
tin  cans................................  9.60
................................12.00
“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, blue and black.
“The Adams” 3 gal. steel oil can................. $15.00
.............:..  18.00
The  Cheapest  W ood Oil Cans 

5  “ 
in  the  market.

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The “IMPERVIOUS” oil 
and  gasoline  cans.  War 
ranted not to  leak  or  get 
jammed,  will  outlast  all 
others.
2 gal.  Impervious oil cans
per doz  ................. $10.80
3 gal.  Impervious oil cans
per doz...................$11.70
5 gal.  Impervious oil cans,
per doz...................$13.50
10 gal.  Im pervious oil cans 
per doz................... $18.00

Send  for  Large  Illustrated 
Price  List.

Catalogue  and

Telephone 464.

No.  4 Monroe Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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GLASS,  WITH  TIN  JACKET. 

per dOZ.
iz eal. Home oil cans, 1 doz. in box.............. $2.50
1 
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1 “ 
open stock...................   i.6o
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5 
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7.50
The “Invincible” 1 gal. oil cans, per doz....$3.00 
Attractively finished in assorted colors and has 
a glass covered gnage on the side  showing quan­
tity of oil in the can, and is having a  large  sale.

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C u r t i s s   &   C o . ,

Successors to CURTISS &  DUNTON.

W H O LESALE

j P a p e r   \Var chouse,

Houseman Building,  Cor. Pearl & Ottawa Sts.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

No. 0 Lift Wire Lanters, see cut...... per doz. $4.50
This  has  all  the  latest  improvements,  the 
guards being stationary,  yet  simple  and  easily 
adjusted.  1 doz. in a box.

No charge for boxes on oil cans or  lanterns.

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Brand  FANCY  Orangesj 
s.  grow n  and  packed! 

134 lo 143 Pillion  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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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 .

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

<Ss  H E S S

DEALERS IN

NOS.  122  and  184  LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN.

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR MILL  USE-

ELE1/ÄT0R8

(FOR PASSENGERS AND  FREIGHT.)

ave.  Telephone 1032.  H.  MIDDLEBROOK,  Agent.
Detroit Soap Co.

DETROIT,  MICH

Manufacturers of the .following well-known 

brands of

QUEEN  ANNE. 
TRUE  BLUE, 
MONDAY, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN, 

SUPERIOR, 

PHOENIX, 

Morse Elevator W orks, 
Philadelphia,  New  York 
and Detroit.  Morse, W il- 
liams  &  Go.,  proprietors. 
Detroit office, 91 Jefferson

•SOAPS

M ICHIGAN, 

CZAR, 

W ABASH, 

ROYAL  BAR, 
MASCOTTE,
CAMEO,

AND  OTHERS. 

For quotations address

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Lock Box  173, 

Salesman for W estern Michigan,

W.  G. HAWKINS.
Florida
Oranges
C O A L !— C O K E !— W O O D !

GRAND  RAPIDS
W e  have  arranged  for  a  large 
quantity of this fruit  and  our  fancy 
stock will come from the  celebrated 
Hillyer  Groves,  whence  they  ship 
nothing but the finest, ripe stock.
Rutnam <& Brooks.

Wholesale  A.  H IM E S .  and  Retail

NO.  10  MAMMOTH  ROCHESTER.

A  Marvelous  Light!  300-candJe  power!

It
takes  th e  lead  over  all  others.  F o u n t holds 3 
quarts—w ill bu rn  8  hours.
EACH
Complete, as show n,  w ith 15 in.  tin   s h a d e .. ,$3.!K) 
...  4.00
w ith 26 in.  w hite lin ed   reflector..  7.5) 
A lso a great variety o f  R ochester  Lam ps in  all 
grades.WE  ARE  HRADOTTARTERS  FOR

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O is lie r Nati City Bant. 

Yards, Shaw m ut A venue, W in ter and 

W .  D ivision  Sts.

Telephone  Call 490-2.  CAR LOTS A  SPECIALTY.

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W M . S E A R S  & CO.,

G ra ta   Maniffactifrers,

JLGBNTS  ROR  A.MBOY  CHRRSB. 

37, 39 and  41 Kent St.,  Grand  Rapids.

WHISK  IN  AT ZJSKIS G ON

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For the BEST LUNCH to be had in the State,

Fletcher’s  City  Creamery
W .  H.  FLETCHER, 
54  W.  WESTERN  AVENUE.
R I N D G E ,   B E R T S C H   &  CO.,
BOOTS  and  SHOTS

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in

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AGENTS  FOR  THE

B o s t o n   R u b b e r   S h o e   Co.,

12, 14 & 16 Pearl  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

N u t s We  carry  a  large  stock  of  all 

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

P U T N A M  & BROOKS.   *

LYCOMINGJÖBBERS. 
R eeder,P alm eiro,

State  Agents,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Write  for  Catalogue and  Discount»

J.  11.  T H O M P S O N   &  C O .,
TEAS,

-s p e c ia l t ie s :-
Honey Bee  Coffee

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

COFFEES

SPICES
s p ic e
SPICE GRINDERS

Our Bunkum Coffee 

Princess Bkg. Powder 
Early Riser Bkg. Pdr.

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and  manufacturers  of

BEE  Mills  Gd.  Spices.
BEE  Mills  Extracts. 
BEE  Mills  Bird Seed.
BEE  Mills  Starch.
BAKING 
BEE  Chop  Japan  Tea.
59 Jefferson  A v e .,  DETROIT,  MICH.

POWDERS,

