The  Michigan  Tradesman.

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tail Trade solicited.

Guaranteed  Absolutelv  Pure.  Orders  from Re­
N e w a y g o   R o l l e r   M il ls
NEWAYGO,  MICH.____________

Millers, Attention

We are making  a  Middlings 
Purifier and Flour Dresser that 
will save you their cost at least 
three times each year.
They  are  guaranteed  to  do 
more  work in less  space (with 
less  power  and  less  waste) 
t-Vinri  any  other  machines  of 
their  class.
Send  for  descriptive  cata­
logue with testimonials.
Martin’s  Middling  Purifier  Co,
GRIND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
EDWIN  FALLÍS,
Valley  Cily  Cold Slow.
Solid  Brand
Daisy  Brand
Butter,  Eggs,  Sweet  Potatoes, 

Packer and Jobber of the Popular

OF OYSTERS.

P roprietor  of

AND

Cranberries, Etc.

Sole Proprietor of

Mrs. Witliey’s Home Made Mince Meal

Made  of  the  best  material.  The  finest 

goods in the market.  Price, 7 cents 

per lb. In 25 lb. Pails.

Salesroom, Jio. 9 N- Ionia Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

WALES  -  GOODYEAR

and Connecticut Rubbers.

BUY

Muscatine
ROLLED

OATS

IF  YOf.'  WANT
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Our complete line of 

Stationers’ and Druggists’

F A N C Y

G O O D S

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N o v e lt ie s
are ready for inspection.  Every 
dealer,  when visiting Grand Rap­
ids,  should  be  sure  and  look 
through ©ur lines.

Eaton, Lyon 1 Go,

20 and 22 Monroe St.

THE  GRAND  RAPIDS

PAPER  BOX  FACTORY,

W.  W.  HUELSTER,  Proprietor,

Formerly  located at 11 Pearl St., has been 
removed' to
81  &  8 3  C a m p a u  S t.
Cor. Louis, where I shall have more room 
and far  ,etter facilities for  the m anufac­
ture of Paper  Boxes.
All work  guaranteed  first  class and at 
the lowest rates.  Write or  call  for  esti­
mates.  Telephone 850.

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  Spcekled  Iiananas
Warren’s  Sillier  Spots,

AND  THEIR  RUNNING  MATES

The “Speckled  Havana! 
and  the  “Silver  Spots” 
stand w ithout rivals  whet 
ery dealer  in  Fine  Cigar: 
-two brands, as they are T1 
Full particulars in regai

i Ten Cent Cigar 
Five  Cent  Cigar 
introduced.  Ev- 
uld  secure  these 
I  WINNERS, 
»rices, terms, etc.,

6E0.T.WBRRENK0.

Jlfrs.  High  Grade  Cigars,

FLINT, 
MICHIGAN.
F .  J .  D E T T E N T H A L E R ,

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JOBBER  OF

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Room 8 Shepard-Hartm 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.  WELTOX,  Prop.,  for  10 
years Principal of Swensberg’s Business College.
A C T U A L   B U S I N E S S
XDT3  A  P T i P F   at  the  Grand  Rapids 
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i t  x i  V   ±  t  vv 1—i  Businass 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.  Ad 
dress A.  8.  P A R IS H ,  successor to C. G. Swens- 
berg. 
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Industrial  S eta l  of Business

THE

Its graduates succetd.  Write

Is noted for T  to  ROUGHNESS.
W.  N.  FERRIS,

Big Rapids,  Mich.

Lean’s Business College

AMD  SHORTHAND  INSTITUTE.

Established  SEVEN  YEARS.
Young men  and  young  women  taught  Book­
keeping,  Penmanship,  Shorthand, Typewriting, 
Telegraphy,  Commercial  Law, Business  Corres­
pondence,'Practical  Arithmetic  and  other stud­
ies, by nine professional  teachers  of established 
reputation.  Send for College Journal.  Address 
Shepard-Hartman  Building,  Fountain  Street, 

DEAN’S BUSIN WHS  COLLEGE, 

Grand Rapids, Mich,

DO Î0D WANT A SHOWCASE?

SPECIAL O FFER -This style of oval case;  best 
q uality;  all  glass,  heavy  double 
th ick ;  panel  or 
sliding doors;  full length  m irro rs  and  spring  hinges; 
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, 
811,  net cash. 
I m ake th e sam e style  of  case  as  above,  17  inches 
high, from  w alnut, cherry, oak or ash,  fo r $2 p er foot. 
B B oxing and cartag e free.

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D .  D .  C O O K ,

21 Scribner St.,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bo w se,  President.

Geo.  C.  P ie r c e,  Vice President.

H.  W.  N a s h ,  Cashier.
CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general banking business.

Make a  Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

• I  Country Merchants Solicited.

JULIUS HOUSEMAN , Pres.,

A. IÏ. WATSON. Treas..
CASH CAPITAL,  8 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 .

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

SAFES !

Anyone  in  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  Satety Deposit  Co., Basement ol Wld- 

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[The  Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder  thought  the 
above poem  incomplete  and  prevailed  upon its 
poetry  machine  to  grind  out  the  following sc 
quel:] 

Then arose the maiden’s screamlet 
Out upon the air so shrill 
As the drummer in his dreamlet 
From his berth did  thusly spill;
And the porter loudly snoring,
Snoring, sleeping like a rock,
Heard his cheeklet strike the flooring,
Felt the sudden dreadful shock.
Sprang and fled in deadly terror;
While the passengers did quake,
Thought them of the switchman’s  “error,” 
Of the flagman’s dread “mistake.”
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Then they raved and cussed profanely 
As thev walked them through the door, 
Cussed they drummers all—but vainly,
For that car will run no more.

THE  DRUMMER’S  DREAM. 
“ Check her through to dear old Boston, 
Baggage-master, ‘let ’er rip.’
My last stop, sir;  trip is ended,
Quickly to the ‘Hub’ I’ll skip.
Pork and beans next Sunday morning;
Ah, you’re smiling;  you’ve been there.
You say that you once lived near Boston, 
Down in Chelsea—Well, I swear!”
Thunders on, the mighty trainlet.
Destination—“ Boston,  Mass.”
“Saved six dollars on the purchase 
Of a broker’s ‘cut-rate’ pass.  A  
But I’ll charge the house fulnfassage,
All advantages are mine.”
Thus the drummer sat and pondered;
“Say, Conductor, w hat’s the time!”
“Twelve o’clock, Great Scott, I’m sleepy; 
Porter, make my berth up warm;
Put an extra blanket on it,
Outside rages quite a storm.”
Soon the drummer’s wrapped in slumber, 
Dreams he’s still upon the road 
Rustling w ith his “grip” of samples,
Though it is a heavy load.
Dreams that he is traveling Westward, 
Booking orders, day by d ay ;
Only “2-B” countermanded 
Perhaps before he gets away.
Dreams of hotels that are crum by;
Meals quite home-like (in a h o rn );
Then he dreams of home and mother,
And the place where he was born.
Dreams of wife and little children 
Who for “Papa” sadly yearn,
Counting every day and hour,
Praying for his safe return.
Still the drummer sleeps on soundly;
Then a crash—his dream is o’er,
For from out his berth he’s fallen,
Headlong out upon the floor.”

a hospital for lepers.  It has a population 
of fifty-six thousand,  and  is protected by 
a vast system of fortifications.  The pop­
ulation  consists  of  Europeans,  Malays 
and Chinege.  The island  and  peninsula 
which  constitute  the  Singapore  settle­
ment produce in its exceptionally  fertile 
soil spices, tapioca,  gambier,  cocoanuts 
and other fruits, not  to  mention  tigers, 
which,  by their  numbers,  fierceness and 
excellent appetites, form a  very  import­
ant part of the population. 
It is a  swim 
of  only  a  quarter  of  a  mile  from  the 
mainland to the island,  and a  tiger  with 
an  empty  stomach  in search of  a meal, 
possibly a well-fed missionary, can easily 
be induced to make the trip;  in fact, the 
tiger immigration from the mainland con­
stantly swells the tiger population on the 
island and is a constant source of uneasi-
Uirectly  or  indirectly,  New  York  re­
ceives a large quantity of spices annually 
from Batavia, which is a seaport of  Java 
and capital of the Dutch East Indies.  In 
the spice market here,  the  brokers  talk 
of ‘(Batavia” pepper,  or  “Batavia”  cas­
sia, or “Batavia” mace, just as in the to­
bacco trade “Havana”  leaf is  a  common 
expression,  the product,  in  other  words, 
taking the name of the port  from  which 
it is largely shipped.  Batavia has a pop­
ulation of one hundred thousand, and ex­
ports  spices,  coffee,  sugar,  tin,  indigo, 
hides, rice,  rattan  and  arrack,  the  last 
mentioned being  an  intoxicating  drink, 
distilled  from  rice  or  the  cocoa-palm. 
The  city  has  numerous  churches,  a 
mosque,  a  stadt-house,  an  exchange,  a 
botanic garden, a hospital, a gymnasium, 
several  Chinese  temples,  a  large  club­
house,  horse  railroads  and  canals;  its 
harbor is small, but of  rare  beauty,  and 
may be entered  by  the  largest  vessels. 
There are a good many  sailing vessels in 
the Singapore and Sumatra  trade  which 
follow the old  route  around  the Cape of 
Good Hope, and they bring large  quanti­
ties of spices every year,  especially  pep­
per. 
It  takes  them  from  three  to four 
months to make the voyage, and they dis­
charge their aromatic cargoes at the large 
warehouses on South  Street,  New York, 
or over on the Brooklyn side of  the river 
at  the  long  wharves  lined  with  other 
large storehouses.
Bombay is a shipping port  dnd famous 
mart, from which a considerable quantity 
of spices is received every  year  at  New 
It stands on the  Island  of  Bom­
York. 
bay, which seems to have been first occu­
pied by the Portuguese in 1530. 
In 1661, 
it was ceded to  Charles  II.  of  England, 
and shortly after was transferred by roy­
al grant to the East  India  Trading  Com­
pany.  The town was besieged in 1688 by 
Aurungzebe, the Emperor  of  Delhi, who 
withdrew his troops for the consideration 
of a large sum of money.  The  city  now 
has a population of  773,000  inhabitants. 
It was greatly benefited by  the  civil war 
in this country, which caused a cessation 
of the cotton supply from the South,  and 
the exports of this  staple  from  Bombay 
ran up to unheard-of figures.  The impe­
tus then given to its commerce  has  been 
of permanent  benefit.  Bombay  exports 
comprise pepper,  cotton,  shawls,  opium, 
coffee, gums and ivory.  The  spice-ships 
that come to New York from further East 
usually stop there  on  their  way  hither. 
It  is  a  fine  city,  with  splendid  public 
works and a large variety  of  prosperous 
industries.
Cayenne pepper,  or capsicum, is anoth­
er item in the New York  trade in spices, 
generally  known,  however,  as  red pep­
per.  The plant is a native of  the  warm 
parts of America and Asia,  and  is  quite 
generally cultivated in tropical countries 
for its fruit, which is decidedly puugent; 
it is employed  in  sauces, pickles  and in 
other  culinary  uses,  and  is  sometimes 
called  by  its  Mexican  name of  chillies. 
It is declared  to  have  valuable  proper­
ties. 
improves  the 
flavor of  food and prevents flatulence.  It 
undoubtedly relieves dyspepsia in its less 
irritable forms, if  not used to excess.  In 
tropical  countries it is  said  to  mitigate 
the  enervating  effects  of  the  intense 
heat.  There  are  a  number of  varieties 
of  the plant, and the fruit is  round,  oval, 
conical  or  heart-shaped,  varying  from 
half  an  inch  to  four  inches  in  length, 
and  sometimes  bright  red,  sometimes 
yellow.  Cayenne pepper consists chiefly 
of  the  ground  whitish,  flattened  seeds, 
which are the  most  pungent part of  the 
fruit. 
It is valuable in medicine, and is 
taken  both  internally,  in  combination 
with  cinchona,  as a stimulant, and  with 
an infusion of  water,  candy,  sugar,  vin­
egar  and  rosewater,  as a gargle.  Drug­
gists sometimes sell  the  capsicum  fruit 
as  Guinea pepper.
Cayenne is a district in French Guiana, 
and  there  is,  also,  an  island  of  that 
It  produces  pepper, cloves, cin­
name. 
namon  and  nutmegs.  The  French  first 
settled in Cayenne in 1604.  The British 
and  Portuguese  captured  it in 1809, but 
restored it to the French in 1814. 
It is a 
country of  great  fertility,  but  very un­
healthy. 
It has  an  evil  reputation as a 
place of  penal  banishment,  and  French 
politicians  vary their  abuse  of  one  an­
other in theNational Assembly by threat­
ening penal servitude in Cayenne.  This 
recently provoked a duel  between an ad­
herent  and  an  opponent  of  General 
Boulanger.
Zanzibar now  furnishes a considerable 
portion  of  our  supply  of  red  pepper, 
however,  as  in  the  course of  years  the 
trade  has  shifted  largely  to  parts  of 
Africa and Asia. 
It is an  empire,  ruled 
by a Sultan, and comprises the Islands of 
Zanzibar,  Monfia,  Pemba,  and  many 
smaller  islands,  with  a  narrow  strip 
along the coast of  the  mainland of  East­
ern  Africa.  Arabians  are  the  ruling 
class,  The mass  of  the  population is of 
African  or of  mixed  descent.  Zanzibar 
is the capital,  and is situated on an island 
of  that name on the east coast of  Africa. 
The  soil  of  this  far-off  island  is  ex­
tremely  rich.  There  is  a  riotous  lux­
uriance  of  vegetation,  atoning,  by  its 
beauty for the lack of  mountain scenery.
and
It furnishes to the  markets

THE  SPICE  TRADE  OF NEW YORK
Probably nowhere in  literature, sacred 
or profane,  is there more eloquent  refer 
ence to spices than in the wonderful Song 
of Solomon,  where  they  form  part of a 
glowing  picture  of  the  graces  of  the 
Church.  “His  cheeks  are  as  a  bed  of 
spices, as sweet  flowers,”  sings  the  sa 
cred poet of the  coming  of  Christ;  and 
elsewhere,  “Awake, O  north  wind,  and 
come thou, south;  blow upon my garden 
that  the  spices  thereof  may  flow  out 
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like 
to  a  roe  or  to  a  young  hart  upon  the 
mountains  of  spices.”  The  word  sug­
gests the Orient, with all the interest that 
attaches to that quarter-of the globe.
The spice commerce has  features  well 
worthy of note.  Of  course,  the trade in 
pepper  is  enormous. 
It  is  universally 
popular  as  a  condiment.  Black pepper 
is the cheapest, and  the  importations at 
New  York  last  year  were  9,687,590 
pounds,  in bags  containing  110  pounds 
each;  of white pepper, the total was 685, 
490 pounds, in bags holding  130  pounds 
each;  and of Zanzibar  red  pepper,  414, 
800 pounds.  The common  black  pepper 
is a native of the East  Indies, but is now 
quite extensively cultivated in other trop 
ical countries. 
It was known  to the Ro 
mans,  and  was  highly  appreciated. 
It 
grows on a climbing shrub, with a smooth 
stem  from  twelve  to  twenty  feet long; 
the leaves are  tough  and  leathery,  and 
the flowers grow in spikes;  the  fruit  is 
about the size of a pea,  and is bright  red 
when  ripe. 
In  the  Middle  Ages  this 
spice was so highly esteemed that a pound 
of it was considered a royal  present. 
In 
cultivation, the common  black  pepper is 
suppprted  either  on  poles  or  on  small 
trees planted for the purpose;  it  thrives 
in a certain degree of shade. 
It is prop­
agated by cuttings, bears fruit in three or 
four years after planting,  and yields two 
crops  usually  for  about  twelve  years. 
When the berries are  gathered,  they are 
spread on mats  and  separated  from  the 
spikes  by  rubbing  with  the  hands  or 
treading with the feet,  and they are then 
cleaned  by  winnowing.  Berries  thus 
dried are known  as the  black  pepper of 
trade;  they become wrinkled  and  black. 
What is known as  white  pepper  is  pre­
pared from the same sort of berries soak­
ed in water and rubbed until the skin and 
fleshy part are removed,  leaving the seed 
to supply the white  pepper,  which is of 
about  double  the  value  of  the  black. 
The so-called white pepper is  really of a 
whitish-gray  color,  but  sometimes  it  is 
bleached by the use of  chlorine,  though 
this process is detrimental to its  quality. 
Of the two, black pepper is the strongest, 
since  that  which  constitutes  pepper  is 
more abundant in the outer  parts  of the 
berry than in the seed;  pepper  consists, 
in its essential properties,  chiefly  of  an 
acid  resin  and  acrid  volatile  oil.  The 
chief  use  of  pepper  in  these  modern 
times  is  as  a  spice.  Hippocrates,  the 
celebrated  physician  of  antiquity,  who 
flourished some 2,200  years  (fgo,  used it 
as a medicine,  and even  to-day it is used 
in medical practice;  in a powdered form, 
moistened with  an  alcoholic  spirit, it is 
sometimes used as an irritant  or  blister; 
it is applied in the form  of  an  ointment 
to ringworm, and is also  used  for  other 
purposes. 
In small quantities, pepper is 
an agreeable spice and  a  welcome  addi­
tion to the table, bnt  if  taken  in  large 
doses  it  is  extremely  irritating,  and 
sometimes produces great pain.  Natives 
of hot climates use  pepper,  howqver,  to 
an extent unknown in this  country or in 
Europe.  They use it apparently with the 
most reckless disregard of  consequences; 
and yet,  singular to  say,  the  effects  are 
beneficial rather than injurious.
Singapore  supplies  Americans  with 
nearly all the pepper they consume.  The 
name means the  “City of  the  Lion.” 
It 
is the capital of one of the  Straits settle­
ments  of  that  name,  and  belongs  to
Great  Britain. 
court  house,  a  jail,  a  custom  house, a ¡The  island  is  of  coral  formation,
cathedral, a college, a lunatic asylum and1 rather low. 

It  has  a  town-hall,

It  aids  digestion, 

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of  the  world  cloves, red pepper,  ivory,  especially  the  shoots  which  spring  up 
cowries, hides, gum  copal, cocoanuts and  after  a  tree has  been cut  down.  These
are  cut when  about ten  feet high  and of
It  produces  about  7,000,000 
timber. 
the thickness of  an ordinary cane.  Usu­
pounds  of  cloves  annually.  The  first 
ally  the  branches of  from  three to  five 
clove-trees  were  introduced  as  late  as 
ears’ growth  are  cut  down, the  epider­
1840 from Mauritius,  and  the  culture of 
mis  is  scraped  off, and  the  bark is  cut 
that  spice has almost  superseded that of 
lengthwise  with  a  knife, and  gradually 
sugar and  rice,  which were formerly the 
loosened  until it can  be taken  off. 
It is 
chief  products.  The  island  has a pop­
then  exposed to the  sun, and as  it  dries
ulation  of  300,000,  and 
the  capital, 
curls  up  into  quills,  the smaller  of 
whence  the  spice  and other exports are 
hich  are  inserted  in  the  larger,  and 
made,  has  about  80,000. 
It has consid­
then 
it  is  packed  in  large  bundles. 
erable  manufacturing  interests.  There 
There  are two  cinnamon  crops  gathered 
are  goldsmiths,  silversmiths,  copper­
in Ceylon, the  first in April  aad the next 
smiths,  and  manufactories  where cotton 
November.  Cinnamon  is  examined 
goods and  trinkets are made.  There are 
and assorted by persons  who are  obliged 
shipbuilding,  stonemasonry,  and  other 
to taste  or chew  it to  ascertain its quali­
industries. 
It  has  the  fine  cathedral 
ty,  although  this  soon  produces  very 
church  of  the  Anglican  bishop,  and  a 
painful effects on  the mouth  and tongue. 
large French hospital.  The  late  Sultan 
The  root of  the  cinnamon  tree, by  the 
of  Zanzibar died  leaving  an  interesting 
way,  contains  camphor,  and  the  fruit 
household,  consisting  of  twenty-seven 
ields  a concrete oil  known as cinnamon 
wives  and  232  children,  to  mourn  his 
net, which has a rare, delicate fragrance, 
loss.
and  in Ceylon  it was  formerly employed 
The magnitude of  the  American  trade 
in making candles exclusively for the use 
in cloves is shown in the fact that the im­
of the king.  Cinnamon, like other spices, 
portations last year were 1,239,160 pounds, 
used in cooking and confectionery, and 
not  to  mention  99,060  pounds of clove- 
also  employed in medicine.  The tree 
stems.  The  clove-tree is from  fifteen to 
was  introduced  into  the West  Indies  in 
forty feet  high,  is a native of  the Molpe 
82, and  has  since  been  cultivated  to 
cas,  and  is now  cultivated  in  the  West 
some  extent.  Cassia  is  often  sold  for 
Indies.  The  tree  has a beautiful  pyra­
cinnamon, though it is another species of 
midal  head;  the  leaves  are  large  and 
the cinnamon family of plants.
evergreen;  the flowers  are small, but  are 
All or most of our imports from Ceylon 
produced  in great profusion.  The  fruit 
are by way of London.  Steamers stop at 
is an  oblong  dry  berry, with  one or two 
Colombo, the  chief  port of  Ceylon,  and 
cells and as  many seeds.  The  ripe fruit 
get their cargoes, and then go to London,, 
is  dark-red,  and  in  shape  resembles  an 
whence  most of  the American  supply of 
olive, though  a little  smaller. 
It  is  the 
Ceylon  products are  derived.  Most  of 
flower-buds that form the most important 
the vessels in the Ceylon trade are steam­
product of  the  tree, and  these  are what 
ers,  but  some  American  sailing-ships 
are  known  in  commerce  as  cloves. 
In 
top  at its  ports for  spices, cocoanut oil, 
other  words, cloves are  simply the dried 
plumbago, coir yarn, cinchona, and sweet­
blossoms  of  the  clove  tree.  They  are 
smelling  essential  oils;  taking  back  to 
gathered  and dried  by  exposure  to  the 
Ceylon  our  kerosene  oil, manufactured 
smoke  of  wood  fires,  and  afterward  to 
tobacco, cotton goods, cordage and clocks, 
the  action  of  tfce  sun, or  to  the  latter 
these  articles  also going  by  steamer  by 
alone.  When first gathered they are red 
way  of  England.  Over  three  thousand 
dish in color, but later  they become deep 
steamers and  sailing-vessels stop  at Cey­
brown.  The  unexpanded  corolla  forms 
lon  in a year,  mostly flying  the  English 
a little round head at the end of the calyx 
flag;  though the  Germans are greatly ex­
tube, which  is  about  half  an  inch  long 
tending their trade in this quarter of  the 
and  thus  the  appearanee  is  not  unlike 
globe, and  they are now established on  a 
that of  a  little  nail;  whence  the  name 
firm basis in Ceylon.  The lines in Bishop 
clove, which  in  French is  clou, meaning 
Heber’s well-known missionary hymn,.
a nail. 
It  is not  altogether  certain that 
cloves are the karyaphyllon of the ancient 
Greeks, but we learn from historians that 
before the discovery of  the Spice Island 
Oriental  traders brought  them,  in  thei 
great  caravans from  Arabia, Persia  and 
Egypt, to the marts of the Mediterranean 
whence they were  sent by  the Venetians 
and  Genoese  merchants  to  all  parts  of 
Europe.  Cloves  are  used  for  flavorin 
dessert  dishes and  confectioner j ,  and do 
not appear  to be  unknown  to the  youn 
man  who  goes out  between  the  acts  at 
the theatre.  Oil of cloves, when pure, i 
of  a  light  yellow  color;  it is  used  as an 
antidote  for nausea  and  griping,  and  i 
also  employed  in  the  scenting  of  soap 
and by the distiller.  Cloves are received 
here  from  distant  Zanzibar  in  bale 
weighing  130  pounds  each,  of  which 
9,532 bales were received last year.  For 
merly the  trade  was  carried  on in  large 
sailing  ships,  such  as  were  long  the 
pride  of  the  merchant  navy.  Fifteen 
years  ago there were no  steamers in  the 
traffic, but now they have taken the place 
of  sailing  craft,  as  in  so  many  other 
branches of  ocean  business.  There  is 
regular  line from  Zanzibar  to  London 
where  consignments  for  New York  ar 
transferred  to  other  steamers,  and  the 
entire trip to this port by way of London 
takes about sixty days, the steamers leav 
ing Zanzibar about once a fortnight.

“What though the spicy breezes 
Blow soft o’er Ceylon’s isle,” 

have  linked  the  name of  that  aromatic 
island  with  charming  suggestions  to 
many generations.
There  is a  large  trade  in cassia  every 
year.  Cassia  is  a  bark  very  smilar 
to  cinnamon,  both  in  its  appearance 
and its properties. 
It is not so sweet nor 
so delicate in  flavor  as  cinnamon. 
It is 
more  pungent.  The  cassia  tree  is  ex­
tensively cultivated  in  China,  where  its 
produje  is  highly  esteemed,  and  it  is 
largely  imported  by  Europe  and 
the 
United States.  More than  200 species of 
cassia have  been  described by botanists. 
They are  trees,  shrubs  and  herbaceous 
plants, natives of  Africa and the warmer 
parts  of  Asia  and  America.  Cassia  is 
much  cheaper  than  true cinnamon,  and 
is, therefore, much  more generally used. 
It  yields the oil of  cassia in considerable 
quantities.  Cassia buds are  extensively 
imported.  They  resemble  eleves in ap­
pearance,  and  are  much  used in .confe» 
tionery.  Our supply of  cassia is derived 
principally  from  China  and  the  Dutcbi 
East Indies.  Last  year the total  impor­
tations  at  New  York  were  2,621,057 
pounds, of  which 12,100 bales were China 
Lignea, 27,167 bales were  from  Padang, 
and 2,802 boxes from Saigon.
The China  steamers bringing cassia to 
New York often come from  Hong  Kong, 
a  name  signifying  “red  harbor,”  an 
island at the mouth of  the  Canton River 
and off  the  southeastern  coast of  China. 
It  wras  ceded  to  Great  Britain in 1842, 
and,  together  with a narrow strip of  the 
mainland,  ceded  about 
twenty  years 
iater, forms a flourishing colony.  There 
is a fine harbor  on  the  northern  side of 
the  island,  deep  and  safe,  which  is 
thronged  with  steamers  from  Bombay, 
Calcutta,  San  Francisco,  Canton  and 
Singapore,  not  to mention  thousands of 
sailing  craft,  including  Chinese  junks. 
The population is 122,000,  of  whom only 
5,000 are Europeans, the remainder being 
mostly  Chinese,  of  whom  some  13,000 
live on boats in the  harbor.  The city of 
Victoria, on  the  island,  has a cathedral, 
the Governor’s house, the  Exchange,  the 
bishop’s  palace,  a hospital,  a  jail,  large 
and elegant buildings of  brick and stone, 
surrounded by fine  gardens.  There  are 
beautiful  public  gardens,  good  free 
schools  for  the  lower  class of  Chinese, 
and a strong  police  force,  composed  of 
Indian Sepoys.  The exports  aré  spices, 
tea, matting,  and  numerous  other  arti­
cles.
Pimento,  or allspice,  as  the  housewife 
generally calls it, is  quite  an  important 
feature of  the spice  commerce,  and  last 
year New York  merchants  imported  no 
less than 14,215 bags of  130 pounds each, 
or  1,847,950  pounds  in  all. 
It is mueb 
employed in  cookery,  and is also used is 
It is the dried fruit of  a small 
medicine. 
but very beautiful West Indian tree. 
In 
July the tree is covered with  panicles of 
white  flowers,  which  have a rich  odor. 
The fruit is aromatic,  and so are even the 
leaves and the bark.  The  tree  grows to 
a height of from twenty to thirty feet, and 
is much cultivated  in  some parts of  the 
West Indies.  Planters  do  not  wait  for 
fruit to become ripe, for by that  time the 
aromatic  property  has,  in a large  meas­
ure,  disappeared,  but  as  soon  as  the 
berries  reach  their  full  size—that  is, 
about  the  size of  peppercorns—they are 
gathered by hand and  dried  in  the  sun 
on  raised  wooden  floors, 
the  berries 
changing during this process  from green 
to  reddish-brown,  and  great  care  being 
exercised to prevent them from being in­
jured by moisture.  The plantation hands 
frequently turn and winnow the valuable 
berries to prevent their  quality being in­
jured by the dreaded  moisture, and some 
planters  even  dry  them  in kilns.  Why 
is  pimento  called  allspice ?  That  is  a 
question that has often puzzled the house­
hold  novice. 
Probably  thousands  of 

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New York  is  associated with cloves 

New  York merchants  imported  1,

In early  times there wa 
a curious way. 
believed  to be a channel  across  Americ 
by which  the  Pacific  could  be  reached 
About 1521  the King of  Spain  sent  out 
Estevan Gomez to reach the Spice Island 
by this route.  He  discovered  New Yor 
harbor, but  did not  get  across the  conti 
nent.  He picked up some Indians to se 
as  slaves and  returned.  On  his arriva 
in Spain  the report  spread that  he had 
load of  clavos  (cloves)  and  all  were 
ecstacies;  bnt when it turned  out that he 
had  only a  few  esclavos (slaves),  Gome 
was pronounced a fraud.
202 pounds of  nutmegs last  year  in half 
picul  boxes  containing  sixty-six  pound 
each.  Nutmegs  are  raised in the  Banda 
Isles,  in  Penang,  India,  Jamaica  and 
Trinidad.  Up to  1796, the  Dutch,  bein 
in  possession of  the  Banda  Islands,  by 
rigorous laws and  jealous  vigilance,  pre 
vented the  living plant from being taken 
elsewhere for propagation,  but when  the 
British  seized  these  islands  care  was 
taken  to  spread the  culture of  the nut 
meg  as  one  of  the  most  valuable  of 
spices.  The  ordinary  nutmeg-tree 
about twenty-five  feet in height, and  the 
fruit is of  the  size  and  appearance of 
pear,  golden-yellow  in color  when  ripe 
the fleshy part is not unlike candied fruit 
and  it is often  preserved and  eaten as 
sweetmeat.  Within  is the  nut, the  ker 
nel of  which  is  the  nutmeg.  Nutmeg 
are  exposed to the  attacks of  a particu­
larly  destructive  beetle,  and  are  there 
fore often  coated with  lime before  they 
are  exported.  The Dutch  or  Batavian 
are  nearly always  limed,  but  those from 
Penang are  not, and  for this reason hav 
a  higher value  in the  market.  Nutmeg 
are not only a spice, but are used in med 
icine.  Our supply of nutmegs is brought 
to New Yotk in steamers trading directly 
or indirectly with the East Indies.
Ceylon,  last  year,  sent  67,300  pound 
of  cinnamon to this country. 
It came in 
gunny  bags  containing 100  pounds each, 
Cinnamon  has  been  known  from the  re 
motest  antiquity;  it is  mentioned  in  the 
Old  Testament.  The  cinnamon-tree  of 
Ceylon  attains  a  height of  from  twenty 
to  thirty  feet, and  is  sometimes  a  foot 
and a half  in thickness. 
Its rather long, 
oval  leaves  have the  taste  of  cloves;  it 
bears  flowers  of  a  silky gray  on the  in­
side,  and  a  pale-yellow  externally,  and 
the  fruit is in appearance somewhat like 
It  is the  bark which  makes 
an  acorn. 
the  tree so  valuable.  The  finest quality 
is  taken  from 
the  young  branches,

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

A dvertisem ents wUI be Inserted  u nder  th is  heed for 
tw o  cents  &  word  th e   first  insertion  end  one cent e 
word  fo r  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise 
m ent tak en  fo r less th an  85 cents.  Advance  paym ent

FOR SALE.

thousand in h ab itan ts, situ ated  in  N orthern  Michigan. 

341

347

340

334

332

337

ice cream  p arlor,  cheap  for  cash.  Also city bill 
p astin g   Stock, about $2.000.  Sickness, cause of  sale. 
M. E  Higgins, M eodota, 111. 

Fo r   s a l e —n e w s   d e p o t ,  n o v e l t y   s t o r e   a n d
F o r   s a l e —q o o d   g r o c e r y   a n d   c r o c k e r y

store fa r sale; will invoice about $3,500;  sales  av­
erage $76 par day cash;  good reasons given for selling 
F o r fu rth e r p articu la  s address S.  E.  Parrlah,  Ithaca. 
Mich. 

F o r   s a l e —s e c o n d  h a n d   m a c h in e r y , 

34g
o n e
eig h t inch  four-si<fe  Sm ith  m oulder:  one  Joslin 
re-saw;  one Sm ith re-saw; exhaust fan; sh aftin g ;  pul­
leys;,  etc.  <  heap  fo r  cash.  F.  B.  W iggins  &  Co., 
m achinery depot, E ast Saginaw , Mich. 

m achines.  E. A. Hill. Coloma. Mich. 

b a rg a in ^ L o c k B o iN o . 5, Mance! ona, Mich. 

saw  m ill,  w ith  saw,  etc.  E ntire  outfit  new.  A 

in a   hardw are  business  In  a   lively  town  of  six 
Now doing a  y early  business  of  over  sixty  thousand 
dollars.  Address J. B.  Frost, Jackson, Mich. 

EpOR SALE—CHEAP,  SET  OF  TINNERS  TOOLS  AND 
FOR SALE—ONE CHANDLER & TAYLOR STANDARD 
Fo r   s a l e —t h e T ìn d iv id e d   o x e’-’h a ¿ f ì n t i:r e s t  
I TOR  SALE—AT  A  BARGAIN,  A  YOKE  OF  OXEN, 
I TOR 8ALE—MILL - SUPPLIES.  LARGE  STOCK  OF 
belting,  packing and hose, glr.e, sand paper,  oils, 
varnishes, etc.  Also new and  second-hand m achinery. 
W rite us for prices.  F. B. W iggins  &  Co.,  E ast  Sagi­
naw, Mich. 
I TOR SALE—THE  ONLY  DRUG  STORE  IN  A~LIVE 

tow n of 600 in h ab itan ts on  th e   M ichigan  C entral 
500.  R ent low,  w ith long lease.  P refer  cash,  b u t will 
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 R apids, Mich. 

m edium  w eight,  quick  action  and  well  trained. 

Address C. C. Rood, Gran d  Rapids, Mich. 

W  W.  Huelsre  . SI and 83 Cam pau St., cor.  Louis. 

tice o r sto re use.  W ill sell fo r 810,  cost  $25,  new. 
324

IT'OR SALE—A  CASHIERS  DESKY dYiTED   FOR  OF- 
D r u g   s t o r e   f o r   s a l e   —  in   C h a t t a n o o g a .

Tenn.  Popul-.tion,  50,000.  Good  location,  good 
trade.  A barg ain  for some one.  For  full  p articulars, 
those who m ean business, address Pi O. Box  203,  Chat-
tanooga, Tenn.

Fo r   s a l e - o u r   r e t a il   s t o c k   o f   g r o c e r ie s

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. 
TpOR  SALE—A  CLEANTw e LL-ASSORTEDSTOCK  OF 
-L 
general hard ware, stoves and tinw are.  Tin shop 
in connection.  W ill inventory about $6,000.  Located 
eeiftrally and one of th e best points fo r  retail business 
in th e city.  Good reasons fo r  selling.  Address  H ard ­
w are, care M ichigan Tradesm an. 
[TOR  SALE  CHEAP — 18-HORSE  POWER  ENGINE, 
U  Good as new.  Address 298, th is office. 

I  TOR  SALE—GOOD  RESIDENCE  LOT  ON  ONE  OF 

th e m ost p leasan t streets “ on  th e  hill.”   W ill ex ­
change fo r stock in any good in stitu tio n .  Address 286. 
care M ich g an  Tradesm an. 

298

286

314

307

331

300

342

Railw ay.  In good farm in g  coun  ry.  Stock, ab o u t 82,- 

WANTS.

346

344

\ \ T ANTED—TO  EXCHANGE  100  ACRES  OF  TIM- 
i t  
bered  l»nd  in  S outhern  Illinois  fo r  horses  or 
hardw oo ’ tim b er lands in M ichigan o r stock  m erchan­
dise.  Address G., 226 M ichigan street,  Chicago.
X X T ANTED—SITUATION  BY A  FIRST-CLASS  SALES- 
roan  and  stock  k eeper  in   general  store.  Ad­
dress. W. C. B.. B ig Rapids, Mich. 
\A / A A . E u - I O   aN  ENERGETIC  MAN  OVER  22, NOT 
f t  
afra id  of work and able to give security, we will 
give p erm anent position, good salary   and  rap id   pro­
m otion.  Address J. B. D., box 662, Chicago. 
Y JT  ANTED—TO  EXCHANGE  OR  SELL  A  GOOD  BUS­
TY 
iness p ro p erty  an d  stock of drugs.  Real  estate 
consists of tw o fram e stores well located  fo r  business 
on corner.  One (to re, 24 x 80,  w ith  nice  living  room s 
above.  O ther  store,  20  x  60  (adjoining)  one  story. 
Large lots w ith gard en  spot, b arn, ice house, etc.  Title 
perfect.  No  incum brance.  The occupant is >-‘W  car­
ry in g  on a  general store  and  doing  a   good  business, 
b a t U anxious te  m ake a  change.  S atisfactory reasons 
given.  W ill sell o r exchange fo r a  good business prop­
e rty  in some lively railro ad  town in th is state.  Corres­
pondence solicited.  Address, 338, care M ichigan Trades­
m a n . ___ 
YTTANTED—SITUATION AS CLJ2RK BY PHARMACIST 
VV  who  is  registered  by  exam ination.  Address 
R obert W. H azeltine, 22 H enry S t , Grand Rapids. 
3M
T i r  ANTED—A  REGISTERED  PHARMACIST.  GKR- 
“
  m an preferred.  Must be w illing to work in  gen- 
era! stock.  B ert M. Brown, Stevensville. Mich. 
336
SITUATION WANTED—A  COMMERCIAL  TRAVELER 
Is  open  fo r  engagem ent.  L arge  acquaintance 
w ith  gro cery   tra d e   in  M iohigan.  Address  Jackson, 
care M ichigan  Tradesm an. 
W ANTED—EXPERIENCED  DRUG  CLERK,  GER- 
m an o r Scandinavian prefered.  A pply  a t  once 
giving usual p articu lars.  F. D.  P aquette,  Ludington.

33g

325

TTTANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  READS 
VV 
th is  paper  to  give  th e Sutliff  coupon system  a 
tria l.  I t will abolish yo u r pass  books,  do  aw ay  with 
all yo u r book-keeping, in  m any instances save you the 
expense o f one clerk, will bring y o u r business  down to 
a   cash basis and  save  you  all  th e  w orry and trouble 
th a t usually go w ith th e pass-book plan.  S ta rt the 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, both  kinds  will be  sent 
by  addressing  (m entioning  th is  paper)  J.  H.  Sutliff, 
Albany, N. Y. 
YTTANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT  OCR 
VV 
Im proved Coupon  Pass  Rook System.  Send for 
sam ples.  E. A. Stowe & Bro„ G rand Rapids. 

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MISCELLANEOUS.

B UR  WONDlRK'UL  ELECTR O -G IL VIC  POCKET 

B attery  should be owned by every  b a siie a i m u ,  
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 ollar fo r  com plete  b attery   by  m ail.  E.  Clifton 
Fisk <fc Co., Grand Rapids. Mich.  Agente wanted.  335
CM   O A A   CASH  BUYS  MANUFACTURING  BUBI- 
ness p av in g  100  per  cent.  Best  of  re a ­
sons  fo r  selling.  Address  Chas.  Kynoch,  St.  Ignace, 
Mich. 

22g

W A N T E D !

We want stocks ofgrods in exchange 
for $100,000 worth  of  productive  real 
estate in Lax* sin g city property and im­
proved faims.

a.  A.  CI A EK  & CO.

ING TOWN. 

Real  'Estate Brokers 
Lansing Mich.
BARE  CHANC E  IN  A  BOOM­
For f  ale— A Crockery Store and  Ba­
zaar, doing a rushing business.  Chance 
for other goods.  Invoice about $3,000. 
Reasons for selling, ether business.
Address A. W. C., Box  256,  Owosso, 
Mich.

^

A  Rare  Business  Chance.

For Sale—Our well-established  cash  business,  Æ 
consisting of  groceries,  provisions,  hay.  grain, A  
etc.  Best business stand in Traverse City.  Will 
bear  the  closest  investigation.  $5,000 required 
Stock can be reduced  to  $2.500.  if'  desired.  No 
dead or shelf-worn  goods.  Address, PEKKETT 
LAKDIE  &  CO., Traverse City, Mich.

Manufacturers, Attention.

FOR  RENT.

On January 1,1889,  the  brick  factory, 50 x 104 
ft., 4  stories,  next  north  of  the  Berkey  & Gay  A  
Furniture  factory  on  East  side canal and now 
occupied by that company.  Best water power of 
any factory on the canal.

On March 1,1889, all or part of what  is known as 
Comstock’s Pail anil Tub factory,  corner of Can­
al and Newberry streets.  All  the  pail  and  tub 
machinery will be removed previous to that date.
This factory is of brick, 220 feet long  bv  60  feet 
average  width,  divided  into  different  depart­
ments with Fire Walls  and  Iron  Boors.  Abun­
, 
dance of Steam  Power, large Dry Kilns and Sheds 
on the plant,  l or further particulars  and terms  Wr 
apply to 
^

ALSO FOR RENT
C. C. COMSTOCK,
M, BemoMeiier & Co.,
Dry Goods

331 Canal street, Grand Rapids

Importers and Jobbers of

STAPLE  and  FANCY.

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

OUR  OWN  MAKE.

A  COMPLETE  LINE  OF

Fancy  Crockery  and 

Fancy  Woodenware

OUR  OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection  Solicited.  Chicago  and  De­

troit  prices  guaranteed.

A CO.,C///£4& 2

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Hie Michigan Tradesman

Official O rgan of M ichigan Business Men’s  Association.

▲  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Retail  Trade  of the Woltlerine State,

E. A.  STOWE &  BRO., Proprietors.

Subscription Price, One Dollar per year. 
Advertising Rates made known on application.

I n te n d   at  the  Grand  Rapids  Post  Office.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 2, 1889.

“ PUT  UP  OR  SHUT  UP.”

For years  the business  men of  Michi­
gan have groaned under the tribute levied 
on  them  by the  insurance companies  in 
the shape of  exliorbitant  rates.  Thanks 
to  the  effort of  the Michigan  Business 
Men’s  Association,  they  are  now  in  a 
position where  they can secure the profit 
on  their  own  business—become 
their 
own  insurers—providing  they  will  ad­
vance  $100,000  to  enable  the  proposed 
•company  to  comply  with the  State  law 
governing  joint  stock  insurance  com­
panies.  The  business men of. Michigan 
are  every year  sending a  million  and  a 
half  dollars out of  the State  more  than 
comes  back. 
If  this  money  went  to 
Michigan companies, or  was  used to  de­
velop and maintain Michigan enterprises, 
St would  be different;  but the great ma 
of  it goes to enrieh the capitalists of  the 
Eastern  States  and  foreign  countries. 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n  holds  that this  money 
ought  to be  left  here at  home  and  ex­
pended  in  building up  the  material  re­
sources of  the  State.  The  organization 
of  the  Michigan  Business Men’s Fire In­
surance  Co.  would be a long  step in this 
direction. 
It remains to be seen whether 
business men will take advantage of their 
present opportunity.

In the language of the street,  “Put up 
or  shut up.”  Shell  out $100,000  or  for­
ever after hold your peace about the high 
rates and  large  profits of  the fire  insur­
ance companies.

THE  EVILS  OF  POOLING.

the 

There  is  hardly a man in the country, 
if,  indeed, there be one, whose statements 
concerning  the  railroad  situation  are 
heard  with  as  great  respect as those of 
Charles Francis Adams.  His  services in 
exposing the Erie corruption, his pioneer 
work  in  suggesting  legislation  which 
should  deal  with 
transportation 
problem, his connection with the Govern­
ment commission on the Pacific Railroad, 
and his present  position as  President  of 
one of  the most important of  them, com­
bine  to  produce  confidence  both  in  his 
ability  and  his  integrity  as  a  railroad 
man. 
In his recent  address on the sub­
ject before the Commercial  Club of  Bos­
ton, he discussed the merits  and  demer­
its of  the Inter-State  Commerce  Law in 
a  way  which  already  has  made  a  pro­
found  impression  throughout  the coun­
try.  He  said  very  plainly that the bad 
condition  of  the  railroad  interest  was 
due  not so much to any legislation,  good 
or  bad,  as  to  the  utter  want of  moral 
principle  in  the  men into whose  hands 
the control of  the roads  have fallen,  and 
the  absence  of  any  high  standard  of 
commercial  honor  among  them.  The 
worst effect of  the Inter-State  Commerce 
Law  had  been  to  intensify  the  abuses 
which already honey-combed the system, 
and  its  repeal  would  bring only a tem­
porary alleviation.

He showed that  the  clause of  the law 
which  forbids  pooling  had  operated  to 
break down the weaker  roads  and  force 
them into consolidation with the stronger. 
This tendency to unify  the  roads  under 
single  management  existed  before  the 
law was passed, but it  had  been  greatly 
intensified  by  its  passage.  He  would 
have  those  clauses  so  modified as to al­
low  of  pooling  contracts,  whose  terms 
should  approve  themselves  to the Com­
mission.  He  also  would  be  glad to see 
the  establishment of  a general  Clearing 
House for railroad traffic,  so  as  to  take 
its control  out of  the  hands of  the irre­
sponsible subordinates, who employ what 
he  called  “the  sneak-thief  and  pick­
pocket methods of  doing business.”

;S® far, we go with  Mr. Adams  both in 
understanding  and  assent.  But  we 
neither  follow  nor  assent  to  his objec­
tions to the clause which forbids a higher 
charge for a shorter haul.  This, he says, 
has  been  crushing  out  the second-class 
business centers, by throwing  the  traffic 
“to the  railroad  having the longest haul 
to the  most  distant  and largest center.” 
If  this  be  true,  it  is  most  disastrous, 
and contrary to  the  purpose of  the law, 
which was meant to check centralization, 
not to accelerate  it.  But how is it true ? 
We have  quoted  the  only  words in Mr. 
Adams’  address  which  appear  to  state 
any reason for the effect he deplores, but 
we find ourselves as much in the  dark as 
before reading them.  What the “second- 
class  business  centers”  aim  at is to re­
tain the right to supply their  own neigh­
borhood.  Somehow the  commodities for

that  supply must  be  brought  by rail to 
them. 
If  the law be  fairly applied, how 
can it put them at a disadvantage?
PROGRESS  OF  FORESTRY.

The  National  Forestry  Congress  at 
Atlanta was a very profitable  and  pleas­
ant  meeting,  except  that it was  marred 
by  the  presence  of  a  real  black  man 
among  the  delegates,  and  by his  being 
entertained  at  the  same  hotel with the 
white visitors.  Even  this  calamity was 
not  observed  until  the  convention  had 
adjourned, so  that  its  sessions  were as 
amicable  as  though  they had  not  been 
held  on  the  edge  of  a volcano. 
It was 
reported that thus far the  standing com­
mittee on legislation  had  not  succeeded 
in obtaining favorable action  from  Con­
gress upon the bill to secure the preserva­
tion and management of  the timber lands 
which  constitute  part of  the  public do­
main. 
It  was  reported  that  Arbor Day 
is now  observed in thirty-one  states and 
territories,  an  increase of  ten within the 
year. 
In some states, notably South Car­
olina,  not a day  but  a  week  was  thus 
designated,  and with better results.

The forests  of  the  far  West  received 
especial attention,  and it was  stated that 
the establishment of  Indian  reservations 
had  done  much  to  guard the trees from 
one  source  of  danger.  About  thirteen 
pfer cent,  of  the Rocky Mountain  region, 
or  about  95,000  square  miles  in  all,  is 
covered  mostly with  piniferous  forests. 
They lie  on  the  slopes of  the  ranges at 
from  4,500  to  12,000  feet  of  elevation. 
But in  the  absence  of  national  legisla­
tion, their  disappearance  is only a ques­
tion of  time.  Would it  not  be  possible 
to enlist a large  part  of  our  Indians  in 
this  service  under  a  national law ?  It 
certainly would  be a mode  of  life  more 
congenial to them  than  agriculture,  and 
not less profitable to the country.

THE  DIRECT  '?AX  BILL.

The House has passed, with an amend­
ment, the bill to refund  the  Direct  Tax 
collected from the states under the Act of 
1861,  and paid in full by all the Northern 
and Border  States  and  Territories,  ex­
cept Utah, but only in part by  the states 
then  in  rebellion.  The  bill  repays  to 
each state exactly what it paid to the Na­
tional government,  and it also cancels the 
arrears  charged  on  the  books  of  the 
Treasury against the  states  which  have 
not  yet  paid  up.  Unless  the  whole 
amount is to be collected  from  the other 
states, which would be  very  embarrass­
ing to them, it is evidently fair to refund 
it to all.  But it takes a slice  out  of  the 
surplus, and it sets a  sort  of  precedent 
for distributing that among the states, as 
was  done  in  1830.  The  Times  of  New 
York makes itself the organ of the Bour­
bons in this  case,  and  declares  there is 
no equity in the proceeding,  as  the  peo­
ple from whom the tax  was taken do not 
now exist. 
In a majority  of  cases,  the 
tax  was  paid  directly  out  of the state 
treasuries, without any  recourse  to indi­
It  is  currently  believed  that 
viduals. 
those states are still in existence. 
If the 
Times be right, there is  more  to  say for 
repudiation  than  we  ever  have  heard 
said. 
If the lapse of time  and change of 
individuals within a  body  politic  limits 
corporate claims,  it also  must  limit  cor­
porate obligations, and debts incurred by 
one generation can furnish no claim upon 
the  estates  of  another.  The  new  rule 
must work both ways.

AFTER  THE  AMERICAN.

A  Fennville  correspondent  writes  as 

follows to the Allegan Gazette:
The committee  sent by the fruit-grow­
ers to Grand  Rapids to consult  with the 
railroad company in regard to having cars 
furnished  them  and  shipping their dwn 
fruit to Chicago, came home with a favor­
able report, and it looks  now  as  though 
our fruit raisers would dispense with the 
American Express Co. next season.  This 
is a move in  the  right  direction.  Here­
tofore, when peaches  came in a little too 
fast  they  have  been  piled into the cars 
without shelves, as  more  peaches  could 
be  got  into a car in that  manner than if 
they were piled up as they should be.  If 
the shippers  get  control of  this  matter, 
enough cars will  be  furnished, properly 
equipped,  to  carry  all  the  fruit  that 
comes and put it on  the  market  in good 
shape.  Under  the  old  system  the  un­
loading and placing upon  the  market of 
fruit shipped to  Chicago  has  been  con­
siderably delayed  for  lack of  interest in 
the matter, or some  other  cause, but un­
der the new system it is hoped  this  will 
be remedied.
T h e   T r a d e s m a n  is  pleased  to see the 
Fennville fruit growers  take time by the 
forelock  and  provide  means  of  trans­
portation  more  acceptable  than that af­
forded by the American Express Co.  The 
shortcomings of  the latter  are  so  mani­
fest to all who  have  occasion  to depend 
on  the  organization  that  patience  has 
long ceased to be a virtue. 
If  the  Fenn­
ville shippers do not succeed in bettering 
themselves, they will have  one  satisfac­
tion—they  cannot  possibly  get  worse 
service than that  given by the American 
Express Co.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   hereby  enters  its 
subscription  for  $500  stock  in  the pro­
posed  Michigan  Business Men’s Fire In- 
surancCo., and will raise the subscription 
to $1,000, if  necessary.  It has confidence 
in the plan, confidence  in  the  fidelity of 
business  men,  and  confidence  in the ex­
ecutive  and  managerial  ability  of  the 
men who have been  enlisted in the work 
of  organization.

Manitoba  has won  its case  before  the 
Supreme Court  of  the  Dominion against 
the  Canadian  Pacific  Railway. 
The 
Court  refused  to  sanction the  arrogant 
claim  that the  grant  from  the  general 
government  of  a  monopoly  of  railroad 
construction in one direction carried with 
it  the  right  to  prevent  the  provincial 
government’s chartering a railroad to run 
across  it.  Manitoba  is  recognized  as 
possessing the  right of  eminent  domain 
over its own  territory after as before the 
action of  the Dominion government, and 
consequently the  power to  bestow  upon 
the  Red  River  Railway  the  use of  the 
ground covered  by the  Pacific railway at 
the point of intersection,  since this grant 
does  not deprive  the  latter  of  anything 
the  Dominion  had  conceded.  This  de­
cision  is  more  significant  than  appears 
upon the surface.  The prosperity, if not 
the  very  existence,  of  the Canadian  Pa­
cific must depend upon its preventing the 
tapping  of  the  territory through  which 
it  runs  by lines  crossing  the  American 
border. 
It is a political railroad, built to 
divert commerce from its natural  bent to 
the Southward,  and this decision bestows 
upon  commerce the  right  to  flow in  its 
natural  channels,  without  reference  to 
the  political  needs of  the very  artificial 
structure  called  the  Dominion.  Not 
only  the  favored  corporation,  but  the 
government which conferred favors upon 
it, is  imperilled  by  this  decision, which 
however  must have  been  forseen  to  be 
inevitable.

King  Milan  of  Servia  is  in  an  awk­
ward  pickle.  His  divorce 
from  his 
Queen Natalie,  although  sanctioned by a 
commission of  courtly  prelates,  has  in­
spired the country with  such disgust for 
him  and  his  doings that it has elected a 
majority  of  opposition  members  to  the 
national Skuptschina, and the  king  can 
not  get  his  little  project  of  a  revised 
constitution  adopted. 
Indeed,  it  is not 
unlikely that the country will give Milan 
his  dismissal.  There  is  no  lack  of 
precedents.  Since  1804, when the Serbs 
revolted against  the  Turks,  there  have 
been  three  forced  abdications—to  say 
nothing  of  two  assassinations—in  the 
series of  six sovereigns representing two 
rival  dynasties.  And  it  is  understood 
that  the  rival  family of  Black  George, 
the  liberator of  Servia,  has a represent­
ative  ready  to  step  into  Milan’s  shoes 
whenever  the  Skuptschina  thinks fit to 
call him to the kingship.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

GRAND RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

W.  T.  Lamoreaux  has handled  30,000 

bushels of beans since October  1.

Frost  & Adams  have  opened  a  meat 

market at 781 South Division street.

The  Telfer  Spice  Co.  roasted  and 
shipped 2,312 pounds of  coffee  on  Satur­
day.

I. Gibson has engaged  in  the  grocery 
I.  M.  Clark  & 

business  at  Petoskey. 
Son furnished the stock.

Norton & Manning have  opened a gro­
cery store at West Troy.  Olney,  Shields 
& Co.  furnished the  stock.

Carpenter & Pitts  have  engaged in the 
grocery  business  at  Shelby.  Lemon, 
Hoops & Peters  furnished  the stock.

The Grand Rapids  Soap Co. will  prob­
ably  be  re-organized  on  the  basis  of 
$35,000 paid-up capital  during  the pres­
ent month.

With  the  beginning of  the  year, Dan­
iel Lynch discards the former  firm  style 
of  Fred.  D.  Yale  &  Co., doing  business 
only in his own name.

F. G. Ryder has removed his dry goods 
and  notion  business  from 13 East Leon­
ard  street  to  Page’s  new  block, on the 
corner of  Plainfield and Coit avenues.

Hester  &  Fox  have  lately sold  three 
sawmill  outfits—one to  DeWitt  C. Free­
man  &  Son, at  Holton;  one  to  Anthony 
& Stone, of Coopersville, who will operate 
near  Sullivan;  and  one to Dick  English, 
who will, operate near Kent City.

Wm.  L.  Freeman — better  known  as 
“Les.”—who has been a leading spirit in 
the wholesale  grocery house of  Hawkins 
&  Perry and  their  predecessors  for  the 
past  sixteen  years, has been  admitted to 
partnership in the  firm, the  style having 
been  changed  to  Hawkins,  Perry & Co. 
“Les.” is  a  hard worker  and  has  richly 
earned his promotion.

Gray,  Kingman  &  Collins  foreclosed 
their  mortgage  on  the  fish  and  oyster 
stock of  Emery  &  Co.  Saturday  night. 
The creditors are mostly Eastern houses. 
The local  claims will  be met  personally 
by  B. F.  Emery,  who  has  arranged  to 
conduct  an  oyster  department  in  con­
nection with Elliott & Co., at 101 Monroe 
street.

The Detroit Safe Co., which established 
a local agency here about a  year  ago un­
der  the  management of  Ed. A.  Lee, has 
withdrawn  from  the  field.  The failure 
is commonly attributed  to  two  causes— 
parsimoniousness of the management and 
the bad reputation  the  safe  sustained a 
few years ago through the use of a filling 
which  swelled  the  doors—a  defect  the 
company did not make  good in too many 
instances.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Benzonia—W.  B.  Mott  has  opened  a 

drug store here.

Detroit—W. G. Kernaghan has assigned 

his hat and cap  stock.

Holton—J. A. Slater  has  sold  his gro­

cery stock to Murphy Bros.

Allen—L.  E.  Ransom’s  grocery  store 

has been closed by creditors.

Otsego—C.  Benson  has  . removed  his 

grocery stock to Silver Creek.

Sparta—C.  E.  Manley  succeeds  W. 

Buck in the billiard business.

Detroit—Meyer  Rodstein  has  assigned 

his clothing stock to E.  H. Sloman.

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St.  Johns—J.  H.  Graham  succeeds 
Alex  W. Morrison  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness. 

Quincy—Jas. H. Haynes  succeeds Bar 
ber  &  Berry  in  the  grocery and  bakery 
business.

Detroit—Bacon  & Clapp  succeed A.  C. 
Bacon  &  Co. in  the  wholesale  hat  and 
cap business.

Stanton—Pratt  &  Knight  have  closed 
out their drygoods and grocery stock and 
quit business.

Muir—Town  &  Settle have  decided to 
dissolve  their  copartnership  and  retire 
from business.

Battle  Creek—J.  Howard  Green  has 
purchased the “Health  Home”  property 
and drug store.

Sheridan—M.  Gray  has  given  three 
chattel  mortgages  on  his  grocery stock, 
aggregating $800.

Otsego—L. Srochaugast succeeds M.  S. 
Temple  &  Co.  in  the  bakery  and  con­
fectionery business.

Jamestown—J. B.  Horton  has  sold his 
general stock to II. Van  Noord. who will 
continue the business.

Vicksburg—J. F.  Young & Co. succeed 
C.  H. Haines in the hardware and agricul­
tural implement  business.

Charlotte—Geo. E. Woodbury has  pur­
chased  Geo.  S.  Perry’s  interest  in  the 
plumbing firm of  Perry Bros.

Belding—Henry  J.  Leonard  has  sold 
his  hardware stock  to T. Frank  Ireland. 
He continues in general  trade.

Allendale—Sidney  Stark  will  remove 
his general  stock to  Solon township,  five 
miles northwest of Cedar Springs.

McBrides—Boice  &  McLennon  is  the 
style of  the firm  which  has  bought  the 
general stock of C. H.  La Flamboy.

Charlotte—C. E. K. Baxter  and  R.  H. 
Babcock  have  formed  a  copartnership 
and engaged in the plumbing business.

Kingsley—J.  E.  Winchcomb  has  re­
moved his general stock from Wexford to 
this place and has engaged in  that  busi­
ness here.

Manton—Chas. S. Dewitt,  until  lately 
with LaBar & Cornwell,  has purehased a 
half  interest in the furniture stock of  J. 
H. Kennedy.

Hudson—John H. Briggs was admitted 
to partnership in  the  dry  goods  firm of 
F.  H. Brown  & Co. on  January 1.  The 
firm name remains the same as before.

Mason—E. M. Slayton  has sold his dry 
goods  stock  to  Reynolds  Bros.,  who 
already  conduct  similar  establishments 
at Charlotte, Eaton Rapids and Albion.

Reed  City—Mr.  Richards  has  retired 
from the firm of  Faine & Richards, hard­
ware  dealers, to  go  on the  road  for  an 
Eastern  house.  The  business  will  be 
continued by the remaining partner under 
his own name.

Orange—P.  II.  Kilmartin  has  retired 
from the  firm of  Tew, Kilmartin & Tew, 
dealers  in  general'  merchandise.  The 
business will  be continued by E.  C.  Tew 
and  Chas.  E.  Tew,  under  the  style  of 
E. C. Tew & Son.

Elk Rapids—Hill & Campbell have sold 
their  meat  market  to the  Farmers’ Mar­
ket Co., Limited.  The latter is  officered 
as 
follows:  President,  John  Cams; 
Secretary,  Neil  Munro;  Treasurer  and 
General Manager, LowrelI Sours.

Sparta—J. R. Harrison  has  closed out 
his  stock and  removed to Grand  Rapids. 
The fixtures and a part of the stock were 
purchased  by his brother,  who will open 
a store at Harrisonville,  a new station on 
the T.,  S.  &  M.Railway, west of  Lisbon.

STRAY FACTS.

Flint—Chas.  M.  Wagar,  of  the  hard­
ware firm of  Hubbard  & Wagar,  is dead.
Paw  Paw  —  The  Phelps,  Dodge  & 
Palmer Co. replevined  about  $350 worth 
of  goods  from  the  Harris  Oppenheim 
stock,  which  were 
re-replevined  by 
Oppenheim  Bros., of  Bangor,  who  held 
a  chattel  mortgage  on  the  stock  for 
$4,500.

Ann  Arbor—Toofang  Bros,  started  a 
restaurant,  fruit  and  candy  store  here 
several months ago.  They went  in  debt 
for  a  big  stock.  Both  partners  disap­
peared  one  day last week, leaving  cred­
itors  innumerable,  and  also  a  chattel 
mortgage to Detroiters.

Onota—Chas. H.  Schaffer  has sold  out 
his store and  kilns at Onota to Fred Bal­
lard,  Who  has  been  acting  as  his  clerk 
there,  and  Mr.  Ballard’s  father  is  here 
to  take  hold  with  him.  Mr.  Schaffer 
still  retains an  interest  in the  property 
to a certain  degree  and will  continue  to 
operate  the  kilns  at  Whitefish,  besides 
his C.  & N. W. kilns.

Glenn—E. R. Hutchins’  house  burned 
a  few  nights  ago, together  with all  its 
contents.  The  house was  only ten  feet 
from  the store of  Hutchins  &  Seymour, 
and severest labor saved the latter build­
ing.  There  was  no  insurance on  house

or  contents,  and  none  can be  collected 
for  injury  to  the  goods  in  the  store 
which  were  all  hastily  taken  out  and 
necessarily damaged several hundred dot 
lars’  worth.  The  origin of  the  fire  is 
unknown.

Sheridan—Fire started  in . the  office of 
the News last Friday, completely destroy 
ing that  building  and also  the buildings 
owned and  occupied  by A. M.  Stebbins 
Stone &  Hemingway  and  Stearns & Gal 
lagher.  Stebbins  had $700 insurance  on 
his  building  and  general  stock,  saving 
about  half of  the  latter.  Stone & Hem 
ingway had  $4,600  insurance on  a $7,000 
hardware  stock,  saving  about a  third  of 
the  stock.  Stearns  &  Gallagher  saved 
their meat stock.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Holton—DeWitt  C.  Freeman  &  Son 
have  put in a sawmill, to cut oak  timber 
principally.

Menominee—Knapp,  Stout & Co.  have 
established  twenty  camps  and  will  cu 
100,000,000 feet of lumber this year.

Reed  City—W.  A.  Higby  has  retired 
from the cigar  manufacturing  firm of H 
H.  Freedman & Co.  The  business  will 
be  continued  by H.  II. Freedman  under 
his own name.

South Boardman—Perkins & Sons have 
purchased the water power here incident 
to Boardman River, which has never been 
utilized except to run a shingle mill,  and 
will move their roller  mill  from  Martin 
to this place.

Purely Personal.

P.  H.  Hoonan,  the Reed  City druggist, 

was in town Monday.

Sidney  Stark,  the  Allendale  general 

dealer, was in town Monday.

Geo.  W. Albrecht, late of  the Bank  of 

Bellaire, was in town  Monday.

H.  H. Freedman, the  Reed  City  cigar 

manufacturer, was in town Monday.

H. E.  Hogan, the South Boardman gen­

eral dealer,  was in town last Friday.

L.  E.  Hawkins  started  to  Colorado 
Springs last  Wednesday,  where  he  will 
spend a month with his family.

A.  F.  Bliss,  the  Rockford  produce 
dealer,  was  in  town  Monday.  He  had 
just shipped three carloads of potatoes to 
Texas.

Chas. E. Olney  leaves  about  the  10th 
for  Los  Angeles, where  he  will  spend 
several  weeks  inspecting his several in­
vestments.

“Les.” Freeman  assumes the addition­
al  responsibility incident to his  assump­
tion of the mantle of proprietorship with 
becoming modesty.

Chas. W. Armstrong, the Bowen’s Mills 
general  dealer,  has  gone to Hastings to 
assume  the  office  of  Judge  of  Probate, 
to which he was  elected  last fall.

It is reported that Will Lamoreaux has 
in  course  of  preparation a one-act  com­
edy entitled,  “Beauty in the  Bean  Bin,” 
the scene of  which is laid  in the vicinity 
of  his bean factory on Canal street.

Ira  L.  Cotton,  formerly  billing  clerk 
for  Arthur  Meigs  &  Co.,  but  more  re­
cently bookkeeper for the West Michigan 
Printing  Co., has  taken the  position  of 
shipping  clerk  for  the  Grand  Rapids 
Refrigerator Co.

Scott Fisher, of  the  grocery firm of 

Fisher  & Co., at Lowell,  died  Christmas 
day of  typhoid  fever and  complications. 
He  was a genial  fellow,  possessing  ex­
ceptionally good  business  qualifications. 
The  business  will  be  continued  by the 
brother, Ara D. Fisher.

Gripsack Brigade.

Mrs.  Duff  Jennings  spent  Sunday  in 

the city with her husband.

Foster,  Stevens & Co.’s road  force will 

remain without change another  year.

All of Hawkins,  Perry  &  Co.’s travel­
ing  men  have been  engaged for  the en­
suing year.

Frank  H.  Church,  formerly  of  this 
city,  but  now  Illinois  representative  of j 
the  Drummond  Tobacco  Works,  with 
headquarters at Peoria, is  in  town for a 
few days.

A. W.  Peck,  traveling  representative 
for  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co., 
spent  Sunday at  Ionia, the  guest of  his 
brother,  H.  L.  Peck,  who  travels  for 
Fletcher, Jenks & Co., of  Detroit.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n  acknowledges the re­
ceipt of  an  invitation  to the wedding of 
Herbert T. Chase and  Miss Lilian  Marie 
Coburn,  which  will  occur at the Revere 
House, Boston,  on  Thursday evening of 
this week.  The happy couple  will  take 
up their residence in Michigan,  probably 
in the western portion of  the State.

Owosso  Correspondence.

The  Stever  Car  Oiler  Manufacturing 
Co.  is not  running  at  present,  but  ex­
pects  to start  up again in  a  week  or so.
The  Estey  Furniture  Manufacturing 

Co. is putting in new boilers.

Our manufacturing  industries  in  gen­
eral  seem to  be taking  advantage of  the 
holidays to make repairs.

L.  E.  Woodard’s  planing  mill  and 
furniture  factory  have  been shut  down 
for  about a week for  repairs.  The  cas­
ket  factory is running  at  full  blast, em­
ploying  about  100  men.  Mr.  Woodard 
has  brick  on the  ground  to  finish  re­
building that  portion of  the casket  fac­
tory which was burned  last summer.
J. H. McMurtrie & Son,  druggists,  Three  Riv­
ers:  “We find your  paper  indispensable  to  our 
business."

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ASSOCIATION  DEPARTMENT.

H ichigw   Business  Man's Association.

P resident—F rank W ells, L ansing.
F irst Vica-President—H. Cham bers, Cheboygan. 
S ^ o n d  V ice-President-C . Strong, Kalamazoo. 
i^reU u ry —E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids.
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Ctoaa. T. B ridgm an, F lin t;  H iram   DeLano Allegan;
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Seoretary. 
Green-

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A. H ydorn, G rand Rapida;  H .

Com m ittee on Legislation—to- 
Allegan.
Com m ittee on LegialMio q--* h 7 h ; p<jpe  Allegan.
Traverse 
C om m ittee ¿n Trade Intereats^S m ith B arney A dverse
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Com m ittee on

t» .IM ;,,,, «nr! T.oan Associations—Chaun- 
™  Em m ert, E aton Rapide;

Creek.
lJL ESe?r2m5r>-“ 3inConnen. Muskeg«.
Î ^ ü o r g ^ - T H B  Mic h ig a n  T r a d e s * ^ . _______________
The following auxiliary associations are op­
e n in g  under  charters granted by the Michi- 
gan Business Men’s Association:

No, l —Traverse City B. M. A. 

President, J. W. Mtlllken; S ecretary, E. W. H a stin g s .^

jfo. 2—Lowell  B- AI. A.
------------  No. 3—Sturgis B. M. A.
President, H. S. Chu rch ; S ecretary, W m. Jo rn.-----

N. B. ¿ la in ; Secretary, F ran k  T. King-

No.  4—Grand  Kapids  M.  A. 

P resident, E. J. H errick; S ecretary, E. A. Stowe.—
-----------—No.  5—Muskegon B. M. A.
P resident, H. B. F arg o ; Secretary, W m. P eer.------

No. 6—Alba B. M. A.

P resident. F. W. Bloat; Secre ta ry , P. T. Baldwin.--------_
------------ No. 7—Bimoudale B. M. A.
P resident. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, M. H. W idger.---------

President, 

T h u r a t^ ts^ c re ta ry , G eo.L.Thurston.

President, 1 ° * .

B. M. A.

^

A. L. Thompson.

President, W . J. C lark; Secretary

*o. lO— Harbor Springs 
N o.ll—Kingsl«y B. 
No. 13—Quincy B. M. A.
-Sherman B. M-. A.

P resident. H. P. W hipple;.Secretary. G. W. C h a n g e  
— 
P resident, C.  McKay; Secretary^T h o s^em io n .---------
President, H. B. Stuftevant Secretary,-W .  J. Ans
e -   1 4_No. Muskegon B. M. A.
a  
” e y ; Secretary . G. C. Havens.
ÑvTTh- Boyne City B. M. A.
, R. B. Perkins: Secretary, F. M. Chase.
i s _sau(l Lake B. M. A.

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P re sid e n t,!. V. C randall:  S ecretary. W. Rasco.

P resident, S. A. Hov

No. 13 

No. 17—Plainwell B. dL A* 
Owen, S ecretary, J. A. Sidle. 
18—Owosao B  M. A.

President, E. A.
P resident.  1 lbert  T ^ ~ S ^ r ê t a r r .  S. Lam from .
----- - 
P resident, D.

M0  1U—Adü  M. A.
. F. W atson; Secretary» E. E. Chapei._
20—Sougatuck B. M.. A

John F. H enry; Secretary. L  A. Phelps.
N o .  3 1 — W a y  l a n d   B. 

A

.

President, C. H. W harton; Secretary, M .V .H oyL
Ne. 33—Grand  Ledge B. M. A- 

Persident, A. B
Preeident, F. À. Rockafeilow; Secretary,

Nt^33—Ctsrson l ity  B. * . A.
-m  «  oooVofniinw: Secretary, C. G. J
Mo. 24 —Ul^rley  K  M. A.

. S c h u m a c h e r ; Secretary, W.  R.  Clarke.

P resident, J. E. Thurkow ;  S ecretary, W . H. Richmond. 

~  No  35—Baio B. M. A.
No. 36—Greenville  W. M. A . __

President, Chas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. 1>. Pew.------
'  
President. ^. R. Stevens; S ecretary, Geo. B. C aldw ell._
-----------  No  37—Derr B. *1.  A.
President. E. S. B otsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.--------

- 

P resident, Wn

President, Fred S- F rost;  Secretary, H. Q . Dozer.--------.

Moore;  Secretary. A. J. Chedsebrough.

No. 3»—Cheboygan is. M. A
No. 39—Freeper* B. M. A.
JSo. 30
Ocean» tt. M. A.
• ;  Secretary, E. S. H oughtaling.
No. 31—C h a r l o t t e   B. 31. A. 
Ño. 33—Coopersville B. Al. A. 
No. 33—C h a r l e v o i x   B. M. A. 

President, Thos. J. Green;  Secretary , A. G. F leury

Preeident, W. G. Barnes;  Secretary, J. B. W atson.

P resident, A. G, Ave:  ________________

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

President, H. T. J ohnson^S eeretary , P .T . W illiam s.—  

P resident, II. M. Hemstre e t; Secreta r y, C. E. Dengmore.

No. 34—S a r a n a c   B. M. A.
No.  35—liellaire  B. M. A.
Ne. 36—Ithaca  B.  M. A.

President, O. F. Jackson;  S ecretary, John  M. Everden.

Presiden

No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A. 

Chas. F. Bock;  Secretary .  E  W. Moore.
N o . 3 8 —S c o tt v i l l e   B.  S L  A . 
No. 3» -B urr Oak B. M. A. 

President. H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. H iggins.

P resident. W. S. W ilier; Secretary,  F. W. Sheldon.
, W ill Em m ert.

No. 40—Karon Kapids B. SI. A. 
N o . 4 1 — B r e c iw n r i il g e   B . 31. A . 

P resident, C. T. H artson ; Secre

President, W  O. W atson: Secreta ry , C.  E. Scndder.

P resident, Jos. G erber:  Secretary   C. J. Rathbnn.

P resident, G. A. Estes; Secretary-W . M. Holmes.

P resident, E. B. M artin; S ecretary. W. H. Smith.

N o . 4 3 — F r e m o H «  1*.  SI.  A . 
No. 43—T u s t i n  B. Sf. A. 
No. 44—Keed City B. SI. A.
No. 45—Hoyrrille B. SI. A.
No. 46—Leslie B. M. A. 

P resident, D. E. H allenbeek; Secretary. O. A. HaJladay.

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

P resident, W in. H atching: Secretary, B. M. Gonld.
-------------  No. 47—Flint  Bf.  U.
P reeident, W. C. Pierce;  Secretary, W. H. Graham .

No. 48—Hubbardston B. SI. A. 
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.

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

No. 49—terey  B  SI. A. 
No. 50—Manistee B. SI. A. 

President, A. O. W heeler; Secretary, J. P.  O'Malley.

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

No. 51—Cedar Springs  B.  SI.  A. 
No. 53—Grand Haven B. SI. A. 

President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary. A. C- Bowman.

P resident, F rank Phelps; Secretary, John H. York.

President, A. 8. Kedzie;  Secretary, F- D. Vos.
No, 53—Bellevue B. SI. A. 
No. 54—Beuglas B. SI. A.
No. 55—Petes key  B. M. A.
No. 56—Bangor  B. ML A. 
No. 57—Boekford  B. SI. A. 
No. 58—Fife Lake B. SI. A. 
>9—Fennville B. SI. A. 

President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham .
President, L. S. W alter; Secretary, G. G. Blakely.

Presiden t, S. W. D rake;  Secretary, Geo. Chapm an.

President F. S. Raym ond: Secretary, P. 8. Swarts.
No. 60—South Boardman B. SI. A. 
President, H. E. H ogan; Secretary, S. E. MeJhardt.

P resident, V. E. M anley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.

No. 61—Hartford  B. SI. A. 
N o   63—Bant xaginaw M. A. 

P resident, G. W. Meyer; Secretary,  Chas. H. Smith.
A.
N o . 6 3 — E v a r t   B .  M . 
P resident, W. M. Davis ; Secretary, C. I
. Bell.
No. 64—Merrill B. SI. A. 
P resident, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. H orton.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. SI. A. 
President, Alf. G. Drake ; Secretary, C. 8. Blom.
No. 66—Lansing B. SI.  A. 

President, F rank WeUs; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.

No. 67—Watervliet  B, SI. A. 
P resident, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.

No. 68—Allegan B. M. A.

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

No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. 
P resident, Lym an C lark; Secretary, F. S. W llllson.

No. 70—Nashville B. HI. A. 
President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers.
No. 71—Ashley  B.  M. A.
P resident, M. Netzorg;  Secretary,  Geo. E. Clntterbnek,
No. 73—Edmore B. SI. A.
No, 73—Bolding B. M. A. 
No. 74—Davison  M.  V. 

President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O- F. Webster.
President, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. L. Gifford.
President, Oscar P. Bill»; Secretary, F. Rosacrans.

7  No. 75—Tecmnseh  B.  Si. A. 
No. 76—Kalaujazoo B. M. A. 
No,  77—South  Haven  B.  SI.  A. 

President, S. S.McCamly;  Secretary.  Channcey Strong.
President—C. J. Monroe; Secretary, 8. VanOstrand.

No. 78—Caledonia B.  M. A. 

President, C. F. W illiam s;  S ecretary. J. W. Sannders.
Ne. 79—B u t Jordan and  So  Arm  B. M.A, 
President, Chas. F. Dixon;  Secretary, L. C.  Madison.
No. 80—Bay City and VV.  Bay  City  K. M, A. 
P resid en t,F . L. H arrison;  S ecretary, Geo. Craig.

Sowings Good Seed in St. Joseph.

St. J oseph, Dec. 29,1888.

E. A. Stowe, Grand  Rapids;
Dear Sir—Please send  me  what  information 
you can in  regard  to  forming  a  B. M. A-.  I am 
going  to  get  one  here,  if it is a possible th in g ; 
also one at Benton Harbor.  If  we  do  organize, 
what  are  your ch * rges  to  come  and  give  us  a 
start? 

Respectfully yours,

L. S. Willson.

DO  YOU  WANT  IT?

NO  MONEY  IN  FIRE  INSURANCE.

The Insurance Plan Put  Before  the  Local 

Associations.

than 

received. 

companies 

do  better 

the  premiums 

earn  you 
association 

To the............Business Men's Association:
The plans for a Michigan  Business Men’s Fire 
Insurance Company, as directed by  a  resolution 
passed at  the  Cheboygan  convention,  are  now 
ready to be  put  into  operation.  The  plan  pro­
posed  has  been  set  forth  in  T h e  M ic h ig a n  
T r a d e sm a n and in the monthly  sheets  issued in 
October, and sent to all secretaries  for  distribu­
tion  to  the  members.  We  hope  this  has been 
done, but up to date we have heard  from  only a 
few associations on  this  question.  It  has  been 
intimated that the plan was not fully understood 
and that this circular  should  give  in  detail the 
plan proposed.
The  first  conclusion  reached  by  your  Insur­
ance Committee was that  a  Mutual  Fire  Insur­
ance Company for business  men  on  the  assess­
ment plan was not  practical  and  somewhat  be­
neath our dignity—that  our  organization,  if we 
have one, should rank with anything in the field 
in question of security.  To  do  this,  and  to or­
ganize under the  present  law,  we  must  be pos­
sessed of $100,000  paid-up  capital.  We  ask  that 
this be secured by the  local  associations  as  far 
as possible.  That the stock he in  shares  of  $25, 
and that for each $25 stock  subscribed  a  certifi­
cate of stock shall be issued  participating in the 
profits at 10 per cent.  Organized under the same 
law as the  Detroit  Fire  and  Marine,  Michigan 
Fire and Marine and Grand Kapids Fire, we pos­
sess  equal  security  and  a  financial  standing 
equal to the best fire insurance companies.
This  small  investm ent  on  your  part,  which 
will 
least  10  per  cent,  in­
at 
terest,  should  bring  us  at  the  hands  of  ev­
ery 
its  proportionate  share  of 
the capital stock, with applications for insurance 
that  would  w arrant  the  company a  profitable 
business the first year, and our participating pol­
icies should reduce  the  fire  loss to  a  minimum. 
As proposed, we can write  policies  of  from $500 
to $10,000,  according  te  the  class  of  building, 
kind of stock, fire protection and  the  moral and 
m aterial hazard.  We write stores.  merchandise, 
dwellings and furniture, barring the special haz­
ards—shingle and saw mills, planing mills, flour­
ing mills, lumber  and  other  m anufacturing  es­
tablishments on which the stock  companies now 
lose money and charge the  merchants enough to 
make good their losses.  To enable the company 
to do a safe business and secure equitable profits 
the insurance Is to be written at the  present  u n ­
derwriters’ rates, which profits are  returned, not 
entirely to the stock  holders,  but  to both  stock 
holders  and  policy  holders,  first  declaring the 
dividend  on  the  stock,  then  declaring  divi­
dends share and  share -alike  on  the  amount of 
premiums received.
As an illustration, supposing  our  premium re­
ceipts per vear are $50,000,  that  $25,000  pays  our 
losses  and  expenses  and  dividend  on  capita! 
stock, leaving $25,000net earnings, to  be  distrib­
uted to the  policy  holders,  amounting to 50 per 
cent,  of 
Other 
m utual 
this, 
and  why  should  we  not  expect  to  do  as 
well?  For these dividends,  except  those on the 
capital stock, it is proposed to issue interest-bear­
ing scrip, redeemable at the option  of  the  Com­
pany for cash.
All business is to be done  from  one  office and 
confined to the State of  Michigan.  By  this,  we 
expect to save 40 per cent,  that  the  other  stock 
companies pay for conducting  their  business in 
the way of printing and advertising, commission 
and brokerage and local and  general  agency ex­
pense.  The prominent features of this Company 
shall  be  frequent  inspections  of  its  risks by a 
competent inspector,  the  encouragement  of  all 
means for reducing the danger from  fire, the co­
operation  of  the  Company  and  an  insurance 
committee  chosen  by  each  local association, to 
the  end  that  a  lessening  of  fire losses may in ­
crease the profits of the Company,  which, under 
this plan, means  an  increase  in  the  amount of 
dividends to each  policy  holder.  Summing  up 
the claims this company’  possesses  for your con­
sideration, we  have:
1.  An organization for business men,  the  mer­
chant. wherein you  insure  yourselves  and  pay 
only what it costs.
2.  ’ It assists to  educate  the  people  and  lessen 
the destruction by fire.
3.  Its affairs are conducted  upon  an  economi­
cal basis.
4.  Its officers and Board of Directors consist of 
msiness men fam iliar with their needs.
5.  The benefits of  the  Company  are  mutual, 
while  the  policy  holders  are  exempt from  any 
assessments.
6.  None but good moral and  material risks are 
accepted.
7.  The  Insurance  Commissioner's  report  for 
1887 shows $3,312,(XX) paid out  for  premiums  for 
fire insurance alone in this State,  while  only $1,- 
892,OCO are returned in  payment  for  losses.  By 
this  plan  $1,590,00(1,- now'  sent out of  the State, 
can be kept  in  the  State  and  returned  to  the 
policy holders.  Will we do it?
In-
to  hear  from  you 
surance  Committee  hope 
and. 
find  out  how  well  this 
plan  meets  your  wants  for  an  insurance com­
pany, to w hat  extent  you  will  patronize it and 
how' far you will co-operate with us  to  complete 
the orgaiiization and make  the  company  a suc­
cess.  Articles of incorporation  are  already pre­
pared  and,  providing the  organization is imme­
diately  taken  up,  we  will  be able to secure the 
services of practical insurance men and members 
of our association for its officers.  You can readi­
ly understand that it is imperative  for the Insur 
a'nce Committee to hear from you  that  they may 
convey to the Executive Board, at their  meeting 
to be held January 16,1889, the facts in the  case. 
If we find the  majority  of  the  associations  ap­
prove this plan and will give  us  their  organized 
support, your  association  will  be  canvassed, at 
which time subscriptions to stock  will be solicit­
ed,  payable  when  the  $100,000  is  secured and 
your application for insurance taken and risk in­
spected.
It is expected this year will see some insurance 
measure that will bring  us  practical  and  bene­
ficial results as the  result  of  the  combined  ef­
fort of our associations.  To do this, we must de­
mand the co-operation of the officers  and  insur­
ance committee of each association. 
If this plan 
does not satisfy you, and you can amend or offer 
a substitute, let us hear from you.  The questions, 
“Will it pay?” “Is it safe?” "Is  the  management 
correct?” are questions  you  must  settle  in  this 
case  as  you do for any  or  all  business  invest­
ments.
Your  Executive  Board  and  Insurance  Com­
mittee  cannot 
they 
have  considered  your  interest,  and  offer  you 
this plan in preference to others because it seem­
ed safest and most practical.  We  will  do  what 
we can to carry out w hat we have recommended 
or what you may desire, and await  your  answer 
to this circular, which will be  final  to us,  in au­
thorizing the expenditure of more time or money 
in this  direction.  Address

Now  that  this  plan 

is  detailed, 

if  possible, 

guarantee 

this  and 

the 

Geo. B. Caldwell, Chairman, 
Greenville.
O r e n  Stone, Flint,
W. 8. Powers,  Nashville,

Insurance Committee.

FLINT  DOES  HER  DUTT.

The following letter from  Chairman  Caldwell 

explains the situation at the present time:

Greenville, Dee. 29,1888.

E. A. Stowe, G rand R apids:
Dear Sir—I inclose  you  a  corrected  copy of 
our insurance plan.  I went  to  Owosso,  Friday, 
and thence to Flint, where I met with the B.M. A. 
They will raise $15,000 or $20,000.  Together with 
some discussion  of  the  Flint B. M. A., we have 
decided not to make it obligatory  that every pol­
icy holder should  own  a  share  of  stock.  * This 
would bar out many  good  risks of $1,000 and $2,- 
000 among the small  dealers,  while  It  would be 
an extra charge  on  our  part  over  w hat  other 
stock companies ask, not  fully  made  up  by our 
participating policy.  We aim, therefore, to raise 
the stock as best we can and, if we can  raise the 
$100,000, there is no end to the  good  business we 
can do on the strength of this  participating  pol­
icy. 

Geo. B. Caldwell.
Meet  Organization  by  Organization.
Michigan  merchants  are  now  called 
upon to meet  another  unreasonable  de­
mand  in  the  shape  of  an  organization 
called the  Patrons of  Industry, which is 
getting a foothold  in  some  parts of  the 
State.  They band together for  the  pur­
pose of  getting  goods at the  lowest pos­
sible notch, off  local  dealers,  and if they 
cannot get satisfactory terms they start a 
store of  their own—or threaten to.

Yours,

Association  Notes. 

,

Two charters were Issued  last  week—No. 79 to 
East Jordan and  South  Arm B. M. A. and No. 80 
to Bay City and West Bay City R. M. A.

The Retail Merchants’  Protective  Association 
of  Pennsylvania  will  probably  reduce  its per 
capita tax from $1 to 50 cents per  annum   at  the 
April meeting.

The  Ott-Repeated  Assertion  of  Insurance  Managers  Put  to  the  Crucial  Test.
It is a common  remark  with  insurance  managers  that  there is “no money in 
Michigan business,” from  which  the  uninitiated is led to infer that the losses and 
expenses  are  equivalent  to the  premiums paid.  That such is not a fact is conclu­
sively shown by the reports of  the Insurance  Commissioner, made  up from reports 
furnished  him by the insurance  companies  themselves.  That  there  is  money in 
“Michigan business,”  providing the expenses are kept within  reasonable  limits,  is 
shown by the following table, compiled  from the Commissioner’s report of  the bus­
iness done in 1887:
Losses Paid.
Premium Received. 
Detroit Fire and M arine.. .......................................... •„......................................... $  96,352 
$  36.781
27,628
Grand Rapids F ire.................................................................................................... 
51,709 
35,206
77.171 
M ichigan Fire and M arine...................................................................................... 
Companies of  other States......................................................................................  2,307,299 
1,29b,450
Mutual  Fire of  Chicago.........................................................................................  
18,560 
4,991
W estern M anufacturers’ M u tu al........................................................................  
^14,154 
3,801
450,510
731,541 
Foreign companies...................................................................................................  
A ggrfig&tfi........................................... 
$3,298,786 
$1,8o5,367
It  will  readily be seen that  the  receipts exceeded the payments on account of 

 

losses $1,443,419, making the  percentage of  losses 56 per cent.

When this fact is made plain to the average insurance manager, he will casually 
remark that  such a condition  may actually exist for a single  year,  but  that  other 
years show  an  entirely different  record.  Let us look at this  phase of  the subject 
for a moment.  From 1860 to 1887, inclusive—a period of  eighteen years—Michigan 
paid  $44,582,109.23  for  insurance,  receiving  in  return  $25,0S1,996.32. 
In  other 
words,  Michigan  paid  out  in eighteen  years  $19,500,112.91  more  than  she  re­
ceived in return—an  average of  over a million a  year.  And in the  eighteen  years 
the losses have averaged 56 per cent, on the premiums.

What are  you going to do about it ?

HE  SAW  THE  SIGHTS.

W ritten fo r The  Tradesman.

The other day Jeff  Williams  drove his 
mule  team  over  from  Stagville  and 
brought along his little Jimmie.

And thereby hangs a tale.
Jeff is one of those  good-natured, easy­
going fellows whom we all know, and are 
always on good  terms  with.  He  likes a 
good joke or a good  story  or  a  piece of 
prime plug tobacco as well as anyone you 
ever saw.  On  this  particular  day,  his 
chief mission was to get  his  mules shod. 
Jimmie  wanted  to  see  the sights in the 
village,  so  Jeff  set him up on a big dry 
goods box in front of the  postoffice,  tell­
ing him to stay  there,  and  went  to  the 
blacksmith shop alone.  While  there, he 
ran across Lew Collins, a kindred  spirit, 
and the two, who hadn’t seen  each other 
for six months or a year, had a fine  chat.
After the mules were shod,  Jeff insist­
ed that Lew should  go  home  with  him 
and  make  him  a  little  visit—stay  over 
night,  anyway,  and  “gas  with  the  ole 
’oman.”  Jeff finally  consented,  and to­
gether they drove off.

The way to Stagville lies over hills and 
through deep swamps, where the hand of 
man has vainly endeavored to make roads 
by putting in what people are  pleased to 
call corduroys.

A corduroy is made  by  placing  poles 
and  logs  side  by  side  across the road. 
The progress over these  primitive  high­
ways is necessarily  rather slow.  By the 
time one has ridden  over  a mile or so of 
this  sort  of  thing,  he  is  pretty badly 
shaken up.  But then one  always has an 
alternative. 
If he is tired  of  riding, he ] 
may get out and walk.

Jeff and  Lew  sat  contentedly  in  the 
wagon seat,  swapped lies,  chewed tobac­
co, spat on the heels of  the  slowly-plod­
ding mules and were happy.  By and by, 
they sighted the  farm  at  Stagville,  and 
Lew  snuffed his  nose  expectantly in an­
ticipation of the generous  supper  which 
he hoped Mrs. Williams  would have pre­
pared.  Jeff  expatiated  upon  the excel­
lence of this and that little patch of land 
and its respective  merits  as to “growin’ 
wheat or taters,” and how he was “goin’ 
ter summer foiler  that  strip  jess  below 
the hill next year an’ seed ’er down.”

Then,  as his  large,  blue  eye  caught 
sight of a little brindle  heifer lowing for 
her supper, he told how the “ole  ’oman” 
brought her up by hand when he sold the 
old cow to Billy  Thompson  the  summer 
before.

There were a great many  things which 
pleased Jeff that evening and, as his wife 
appeared in the doorway when they drove 
up, he shouted:

“Want er go home?”
“Yep.”
“Come on.”
After they had started for home:
“Had a good time, boy?”
“Yep.”
“Wha’ je do?”
“Sot outer the box.”
“Nothin’ elst?”
“Nope.”
“Waitin’ fer dad?”
“Yep.”
“Jim,” said the old  man,  reflectively, 
as he ran his hand into his trousers pock­
et,  “ye’re  a  smart  feller.  Here’s  fifty 
cents.” 

C. O. D.

Negligent  Book-keeping.

We have occasionally  called  attention 
to  a  possible  scource  of  loss  in  retail 
stores through neglect to charge items  to 
the account of customers.  A  correspon­
dent of the New Jersey Trade Review, re­
ferring to this subject,  suggests  a  plan 
which might serve as an  effectual  check 
to such errors,  and at the same time sim­
plify the posting  of  the  account  hooks. 
He says:
“In a recent  conversation  with  a  re­
tail merchant who has  been  engaged  in 
business for over half a century, I  asked 
him what he considered the biggest  leqk 
in the inajosity of retail  grocery  stores. 
He replied: 
’It is my  opinion  that  the 
most money is lost by a large part of  the 
retail grocery stores in this  country,  not 
by failure to' collect  the  pay  for  credit 
sales,  hut  by  the  neglect  to  enter  ©r 
charge  them  in  the  book.’ 
I  found 
many of them to hold the  same  opinion. 
They claimed that the omissions to charge 
credit  sales  by  the  clerks  were  much 
more frequent than was supposed; that it 
was not  intentional  by  the  clerks,  hut 
usually occured during a rush, the  clerk 
depending on his memory.
I notice that many grocers are adopting 
a  checking  system  or  device  whereby 
each clerk always makes it a rule to give 
a hill with every credit sale, or  itemized 
bill. 
Iu making-out this bill  he  necces- 
sarily makes a duplicate,  which  he finds 
in his hands.  After  giving  or  sending 
the bill with the goods this duplicate bill 
is regarded as cash and  must  he  placed 
in the money drawer  as  cash.  This  is 
found  in  practice  to  be  an  effectual 
means of  always  charging  credit  sales, 
as the bill is regarded as cash,  and  must 
go in the till before the  clerk  waits  up­
on another customer.
“I  have  inquired  of  several  grocers 
who are using such a system  as  to  their 
methods of  bookkeeping,  and  find  that 
they have discarded the order book,  day 
hook or journal, and only  use  a  ledger, 
posting direct from the slips or duplicate 
bills  in  the  money  drawer,  using,  of 
course,  a cash book to record the amount 
of the daily sales.  They claim that it  is 
a great saving of time, as not more  than 
five minutes is required  to  make  up  or 
balance cash at  night.”
Agitation of the Insurance Subject at Flint.

F l in t , Dec. 27,1888.

“Hello, Ma!  How he ye, anyway?  I’ve 
brought Lew Collins  home  tew  supper. 
Steep an extry  drawin’  o’  tea  a4  send 
Jim out tew put out the mewls.”
“J—i—m?” faltered his wife.
“Yes;  send him  out.”
“Why, Jim went to  town  with  you.” 
Then,  with  some  asperity,  “Jeff  Wil­
liams,  are you c lru n k ?'’

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear Sir—The  citizens  of  our  fair  city  are 
again aroused from their lethargy  and  are alive 
to their interests on the subject of fire insurance. 
Our meeting at the  council  rooms  last  evening 
was largelv attended by  the  representative busi­
ness men of Flint,  with  a  goodly  sprinkling of 
insurance  agents.  The  report  of  the  work ac­
complished by the Committee  appointed to draft 
a plan for the formation of a fire  insurance com 
pany for merchants and business men, as read by 
Oren Stone, was listened to  with  marked  inter­
est and a free and full discussion of  the  subject 
followed, which showed but very few vulnerable 
points in the recommendations of the Committee. 
Much credit is due Mr. Stone for the  indefatiga­
ble m anner in which  he  has  labored  w ith  our 
merchants in the interest of  our  embryo  insur­
ance company.  The  meeting  was a good one in 
Then  he  scratched  his  head I  point of interest and, on  request  of  many  mer- 
chants who had not heretofore given the subject
1 hen he whistled a  little  longer  the necessary consideration, it was  adjourned to
Friday evening, December 28, in order that  they 
might canvass the m atter more  fully and be bet­
ter able to judge of the feasibility, in  every  par­
ticular, of the recommendations of  the  Commit­
tee to the Executive Board.

whistled, 
, . . . ,  
again
than before and finally remarked:

Jeff  scratched  his  head.  Then  he 

;  .  ,, 

, 

, 

“Wall, dog my taters!”
So Jeff told Lew to go  into  the  house 
and  make  himself  comfortable 
for 
awhile and then,  turning  his  unwilling 
team around, he whipped  up and started 
for town.

I am authorized,  by  people  who  live 
between here and Stagville,  to  say  that 
no such time was ever  made  before by a 
mule team over such  roads  as  did  Jeff 
Williams’ make on the  eveuing  when he 
drove to  town  after  his  forsaken  boy. 
Visions  of  things  dire  and  of  various 
kinds  flitted  across  his  mind,  and  the 
lateness of the hour at  which  he  finally 
arrived  made  him  dread  that  Jimmie 
could not be easily found.

Up the main street  of  the  village  he 
drove and, when at  last  he  reached  the 
postoffice, he saw,  sitting on a  large  and 
conspicuous box in front of the postoffice 
—in fact, the identical box—a very small 
boy.

“Jim?” queried Jeff.
“Yep.”

Yours very truly,

W m .  H .  G r a h a m , Sec’y.

“Preferred”  Accident  Insurance.

Additional  instances  of  duplicity  on 
the part of  the  Preferred  Mutual  Acci­
dent Association  having  come to the at­
tention of  T he  Tradesman, it has  been 
deemed best to defer the  exposure prom­
ised last week until a more  complete  in­
vestigation can be made.

Johnny’s  Shoes.

Gentleman (to poor  little  boy)—Well, 
Johnny, did Santa Claus put  anything in 
your stocking ?
Boy—No, he didn’t;  but he  would if it 
hadn’t a been for one thing.
Gentleman—What’s  that ?
Boy (showing  a  hare  foot  through  a 

big hole in his shoe)—That’s that.

Should  send SI to 
E,  A.  Stowe  Sc  Bro.
fo r one of th eir Im proved

grand  rapids, 

LIQUOR & POISON RECORDS

Something About Tobacco.

The botanical  specific  name  and  the 
common name come  from  tobago  or  to- 
baco, the native term in  Santo  Domingo 
for the tube or  pipe  through  which  the 
smoke of the burning leaves was inhaled. 
Tobacco is  largely  produced  in  China, 
Japan,  Persia  and  other, parts  of  the 
East,  in some of which the plant has  be­
come so thoroughly naturalized  that  an 
Eastern origin has been sometimes  claim­
ed for it,but Alphonse de Caudolle, after a 
thorough study of the  subject,  finds  no 
satisfactory evidence  that  its  uses  and 
culture were anywhere known before the 
discovery in  America.  The  first  Euro­
pean cultivation of tobaceo took place  in 
Portugal in  the  early  part  of  the  six­
teenth century; it was  raised  in  France 
in 1572.  The  culture  rapidly  extended 
to other  parts  of  Europe  and  Asia,  in 
some cases being checked by severe laws 
or made useful as a  source  of  revenue. 
Its production in  England  by  a  law  of 
1660 was restricted to  a  small  quantity 
for medicinal purposes, and the  prohibi­
tion still remains in force.  The  various 
kinds of foreign tobaccos are  known  by 
the  countries  producing  them  or 
the 
ports whence they are  shipped,  such  as 
Havana, Orinoco, Turkey,-Latakia, Shir- 
og, etc.  The  Turkish  and  other  kinds 
from the East are only used cut  fine  for 
pipes or granulated for  cigarettes.  Ma­
nilla tobacco is imported only in form  of 
peculiar conical  cigars  called  cheroots. 
Very fine tobacco  is  produced  in  Para­
guay.  A large amount of tobacco is used 
to  manufacture  snuff.  Snuff  is  much 
more largely consumed iu  Great  Britain 
and France than  in  the  United  States. 
Besides smoking, chewing,  etc.,  tobacco 
is used for  various  medicinal  purposes. 
Its power  of  causing  relaxation  to  the 
nervous system is  great. 
It  is  recom­
mended  in  articular  gout,  rheumatism 
and neuralgia, and the toothache is often 
relieved by smoking  a  cigar.  The  an­
nual export of tobacco  from  the  United 
States exceeds  $30,000,000.

HARDWARE.

The  Hardware  Market.

Sisal and manilla rope have again been 
advanced  in  New  York,  the  former  to 
12yi  cents and  the  latter  to 14)4  cents. 
The  combination on steel  nails seems  to 
hold  well, but  the  combination on  wire 
nails is is a little  demoralizd.

P r i c e s   C u r r e n t .

AUGITRS AND BITS.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dis.
Ives’, old sty le .......' .......................... ............  
60
........... 
60
Snell’s ....................................................
Cook’s .................................................... ............  
40
Jennings’, genuine.............................. ............  
25
Jennings’,  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

AXES.

“ 
“ 
“ 

dis.
dis.

BALANCES.
BARROWS.

dis.

BOLTS.

BELLS.

Spring  .................................................. ............ 
4o
R ailroad................................................. ...........S 14 00
G arden..................................................
... net  33  00
..  60*10*10
H and......................................................
70
C o w ........................................................ ............  
............ 30*15
Call  .......................................................
G o n g ...................................................... ............ 
25
Door, Sargent...................................... ............ 60*10
dis.
Stove...................................................... ............ $ 
0
Carriage new  list................................. ............ 70*10
50
Plow  ........................ * .......................... ............  
Sleigh  shoe............................................ ............  
70
W rought Barrel  Bolts......................... ............ 
60
Cast Barrel Bolts................................. ............ 
40
Cast Barrell, brass  knobs................. ............ 
40
Cast Square Spring.............................. ............  
60
Cast C h ain ............................................ ............  
40
W rought  Barrel, brass knob.........  . ............  
60
W rought S q u are................................. ............  
60
W rought Sunk  F lu sh ........................ ............  
60
W rought Bronze and Plated Knob F lu sh .. .60*10
............ 60*10
Ives’ Door.............................................
B arber.................................................... ............  
40
B ack u s.................................................
.........  50*10
Spofford................................................. ............  
50
Am. B a ll............................................... ............  
net
Well,  plain ........................................... ............ $ 3  50
Well, sw ivel.......................................... ............   4  00

BUCKETS.

BRACES.

dis.

BUTTS, CAST.

dis.
............70*
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed__ ............ 70*
last Loose Joint, genuine bronzed................60&
W rought Narrow, bright 5ast jo in t................ 60*10
W rought Loose P in ............................................ 60*10
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip .........................60*05
W rought Loose Pin, jap an n ed ....................... 60&05
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped. 60&05
W rought  Table...................................................60&10
W rought Inside B lind.......................................60&10
W rought B rass..................................................  
75
Blind,  Clark’s .....................................................70&10
Blind,  Parker’s ...................................................70&10
70
Blind, Shepard’s ............................................... 

BLOCKS.

“ 

CAPS.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

CARPET  SWEEPEBS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85.......
Bissell  No. 5........................................per doz.$17 00
19 00
Bissell No. 7, new drop p a n ............  
36 00 
Bissell, G ra n d ....................................
Grand  Rapids......................................
24 00 
15 00
M agic....................................................
..  dis. 50&0S
Grain.
Cast Steel.................................................per lb 
Iron, Steel Points......................................  “ 
Ely’s 1-10...........................................'.... per m 
Hick’s  C. F ................................................ 
“ 
“ 
G. D ............................................................ 
M usket....................................................... 
“ 
Rim Fire, LT.  M. C. & W inchester new lis t..
Rim Fire, United  States...........................dis.
Central  F ire..........   ...................................dis.
CHISELS.
Socket F irm er........................
Socket Fram ing.......................
Socket Corner..........................
Socket Slicks..........................
Butchers’ Tanged  Firm er__
Barton’s  Socket  Firm ers___
Cold...........................................
COMBS.
Currv,  Lawrence’s 
H otchkiss................
CHALK.
W hite Crayons, per  gross__
COCKS.

dis. 
-70&10 
■ 70&10 
.70*10 
.70*10 
40 
20 
net 
dis. 
.40*10

04
314
65
60
35
60
50 
50 
25

. ,.12©12!4 dis. 10

CARTRIDGES.

Brass,  Racking’s ............................................... 
60
60
Bibb’s .................................................................. 
B ee r......................................................................40*10
Fenns’.................................................................. 
60
33
Planished, 14 oz cut to size.........per pound 
14x52,14x56,14x60 .......................... 
31
29
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..........................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48.............................................  
29
30
Bottom s................................  
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks...........................................  
40
Paper and straight Shank...............................  
40
Morse’s Taper Shank........................................ 
40

DRILLS. 

COPPER.

d is.

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DRIPPING PANS.

Smgll sizes, ser p o u n d ....................................  
07
6J4
Large sizes, per  pound....................................  
Com. 4  piece, 6 in ............................... doz. net 
75
Corrugated........................................... dis. 20*10*10
Adjustable.................................................. dis.  14*10

ELBOWS.

The Leading Hardware House in West­

ern Michigan•

Btu ornu _ -iS«.
«uàU'igS
g — .

WHGlEStLE OLFAgmrr

'The Finest Sample Room in the State«

EXPANSIVE BITS.

piles—New List.

Clark’s, small, $18; large, $36.....................
Ives’, 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30..........................
American File Association L ist................
Disston’s ........................................................
New  A m erican.............................................
Nicholson’s ...................................................
Heller’s ...........................................................
Heller’s Horse  Rasps...................................
os.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;
Discount, 60

GALVANIZED IRON.

List 

12 

13 

14

GAUGES.

HAMMERS.

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s ...................
50
Naydole  & Co.’s ...............................   ....... dis. 
25
25
Kip’s ..............................................................dis. 
Yerkes & Plumb’s ...................................... dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................... 30c list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand... ,30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .................................. dis. 
60
State.................................................per doz. net, 2  50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 4J4  14  and
314
lo n g er............................................................... 
Screw Hook and  Eye, % .......................... net 
10
%............................net  814
Si............................net  714
%............................net  714
70

Strap and T ..................................................dis. 

HINGES.

“ 
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“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

HANGERS. 

dis.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track __ 50&10
Champion,  anti-friction.................................  60&10
Kidder, wood tra c k .......................................... 
40

HOLLOW WARE

Pots.....................
Kettles................
S piders..............
Gray enam eled.

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

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

tamped  T inW are............................new list 70*10
Japanned Tin W are.......................................... 
25
Granite Iron W a re .......... ................................ 
25

Grub  1. 
Grub 2  , 
Grub 3.

HOES

.......$11, dis. 60
. ..$11.50, dis. 60 
........ $12, dis. 60

HORSE NAILS.

Au Sable...................................dis. 25&10@25&10*10
Putnam .........................................dis.  5*10*214 *214
N orthw estern..................................... 
dis. 10*10*5
knobs—New List. 

dis.

Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings....................... 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trim m ings...................  
Door, porcelain, plated trim m ings................ 
Door,  porcelain, trim m ings............................ 
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..........
Picture, H. L. Ju d d   *   Co.’s ................
H em acite..................................................
Russell & Irw in  Mfg.  Co.’s new list
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s . . : ..............
B ran fo rd 's.............................................
Norwalk’s ...............................................
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ............

LOCKS—DOOR.

LEVELS.

.......$16.00,
.......$15.00,
$18.50, dis.

MILLS.

MAULS.

MATTOCKS.
Adze E ye....................................
Hunt E ye...................................
Hunt’s..........................................
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.................
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .................................
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malléables
“  Landers,  Ferry & Clark’s ............
“  E nterp rise......................................
Stebbin’s  Pattern........................................
Stebbin’s G enuine......................................
Enterprise, self-measurin

MOLASSES GATES.

easurm g... 
N A I L  S
Advance above 12d nails.

FINE BLUED.

FENCE  AND  BRADS
50d to COd..........................................
lOd...................... - ...........................
8d and 9d..........................................
6d and 7d..........................................
4d and 5d..........................................
3d........................................................
2d........................................................
4(1..
3d..
2d . .
12d to 30d.
lOd............
8d to 9d 
6d to 7d... 
4d to 5d... 
3d..............
%   in c h ...

COMMON BAF.BEL.

CASTING AND BOX.

CLINCH.

1V4 and 
“ 
2  and  2J4 
254 and 2%  “ 
3 in ch .................................................................... 
354 and 454  in ch ................................................. 

in ch .................................................  1 35
...............................................  1 15
...............................................  1 00
85
75

Each half keg 10 cents extra.

oilers. 

dis.

dis.

planes. 

Rinc or tin. Chase’s P atent.............................. 60*i0
Zinc, w ith brass bottom ................................... 
50
Brass or Copper..................................................  
50
R eap er........................................... per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s ........................................................ 50*10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n c y ................................    .40@10
Sciota  B ench......................................................  @60
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy........................... 40@10
Bench, first quality...........................................   @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood........... 20*10
Fry,  Acme.................................................. dis. 50*10
Common,  polished........................, ......... dis. 60*10
50
Iron and  T inned............................................... 
Copper Rivets and B urs................................... 
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

rivets. 

PANS.

dis.

Broken packs 54c per pound extra.

ROPES.

Sisal, 54 inch and la rg e r.................................   1254
M anilla..........................................  
1454

 

 

squares. 

dis.

SHEET IRON.

Steel and  Iro n .....................................................70*10
Try and Bevels..................................................  
60
M itre.................................................................... 
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
$3 00
3  00
3  10
3  15
335
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14...........................................$4 20 
Nos. 15 to 17 ..........................................  4  20 
Nos.  18 to 21..........................................   4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..........................................  4  20 
Nos. 25 to 26..........................................  440 
No. 27......................................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra

dis.

SAND PAPER.

SASH CORD.

30 List acct. 19,  ’86................................... .......dis. 
25
Silver Lake, W hite  A ........................ .......list 
dis.
Drab A ........................... . .. .   “ 
60*10
W hite  B .......................
.......  “ 
60*10
.......  “ 
D rabB ..........................
60*10
60*10
W hite C........................
.......“  
50
50

Discount, 10.

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“ 
“ 

SASH WEIGHTS.

40
»
50
55
50
55
35

SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OK FILLERS. 

Solid Eyes.................................................. per ton S2&
‘
Miles’ “Challenge” __ per doz. $20, dis. S0@5d&05
Perry..................... per doz. No.  1, $15;  No. 0,
......................................................$21;  dis. 50^50*5
Draw Cut No. 4..........
.........each, $30, dia 30
Enterprise Mfg. Co...
..............dis. 20&10@30
Silver’s ........................
...................dis.  40*10

J  

55
55
55
55
70
40*10
45
dis.

70
dis. 60 
dis. 60 
20* 10. 
dis.
dis.

50
40
40
40

dis.
.60*10
.60*10

10 
25 
40 
60 
1  00 
1  50

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

SAWS.

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Disston’s  Circular.................................
Cross C ut...............................
H an d ......................................
♦Extras sometimes given by jobber;
Atkins’  Circular....................................
“  Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per fo o t,... 
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot... 
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot... 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  foot.................................................

TACKS.

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

TRAPS.

Steel, Game....................................   ..........
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .......... .
Oneida  Community, Hawley & Norton’s
Hotchkiss’....................................................
P. S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  ............
Mouse,  choker..........................
Mouse, delusion......................

WIRE.

Bright M arket.............................
Annealed M arket........................
Coppered M arket........................
Extra B ailin g .............................
Tinned M arket............................
Tinned  Broom.............................
Tinned M attress..........................
Coppered  Spring  Steel..............
Tinned  Spring Steel...................
Plain Fence...................................
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.......
p ain ted ..............
Copper...........................................
Brass...............................................
WIRE  GOODS.
B right.............................................
Screw  Eves...................................
Hook’s ..'........................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................
WRENCHES. 

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60
60
60
60
SO
50
50
50
50
45
35

dis.

dis.
.60*10'
70 
70
70
................ 
.. .18c per doz.
. .$1.50 per doz. 
.............   6754
.............. 70&10
.............   6254
................ 
55.
............  6254
..per pound 09 
.per  pound 854
i  50
..................  
................ 40*10
.. per pound 03
..................$3  75
.................  3 00
...new   list net-

dis.

.........70*10*10
.........70*10*10
.........70*10410
.........70*10*10

dis.

Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled....................... 
30
Coe’s  G enuine..................................................  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought,........................ 75
Coe’s  Patent, m alleable................................... 75*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dlS.

Bird C ages.........................................................  
50
Pumps, Cistern..................................................  
75
Screws, New L ist............................................... 70*05
Casters, Bed  and  Plate..............................50*10410
Dampers,  American.......................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.........  669£
Copper Bottoms..................................................   30c

M ETALS.

PIG TIN.

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

COPPER.

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

Lake..........................................................................1854
“Anchor” B rand.......................................................18

D uty:  Sheet, 254c per pound.
600 pound  casks...................................................... 654
Per  pound........................................................... 7@»54

ZINC.

l e a d . 

•

pound.  Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound.

D uty:  Pig, $2  per 100  pounds.  Old  Lead, 2e per 
American 
........................................................... @5
N ewark.................................................................. @5
B a r...............................................................................v . .8
S heet............................................................ 8c, dis. 20
54@54........................................................................... 16
Extra W iping........................................................ 1354
The  prices  of  the  many other  qualities  of
solder in the market indicated by private brands-
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONT.

SOLDER.

11^4

Cookson.............................................per  pound’
Hallett’s ............................................ 
TIN—MELTN GRADE.

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10xi4iC, Charcoal.............................................$ 6 00
*6  00
14x20 IC, 
‘6  25
12x12 IC, 
14x14 IC, 
10 00
10x28 IC, 
7  75
10x14 IX, 
775
14x20 IX, 
'8  00
12x12 IX, 
14x14 IX, 
12  59
20x28 IX, 

 
 
 
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Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

10x14 IC,  C harcoal...........................................$ 5 40
5  40
 
14x20 IC, 
............................................   S 65
12x12 IC, 
9j25
 
14x14 IC, 
11%)
 
29x28 IC, 
 
10x14 IX, 
6  00
6  90
 
14x20 IX, 
........................................ ....  7  15
12x12IX, 
11  65
14x14 IX, 
 
20x28 IX, 
 
14  80

TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
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ROOFING PLATES.

Worcester......................   5 50

14x20 IC, Terne  M. F ........................................$ 7 .60
20x28  IC, 
15 75
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
............................,  7®0
29x28 IC, 
........   11  BO
14x20 IC, 
..........   4 90
14x20 IX, 
..........   6 40
20x28  IC, 
..........  10 B0
20x28 IX,
...........  13  BO

Allaway  Grade.

“ 

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x28  EX....................................................................$12 00
14x31  IX ....................................................................  13 50
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 1 
14x60 IX,  “ 

!f per pound.

“  9 

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other.  The  canal  to  us  is almost a do­
mestic institution.

In the epoch of  its  history upon which 
a few weeks later the nation  will  enter, 
an  enterprise  like  this  is  appropriate. 
We shall begin afresh to demonstrate the 
constructive  energies  of 
the  United 
States,  and  to mark  by a robust, but not 
aggressive  policy of  foreign  affairs, the 
attitude we hold toward other  countries. 
The great canal of  the  Isthmus will be a 
fit work to signalize  the beginning of the 
new era. 

A. S. M.

The  History  of  Tobacco.

It is asserted that tobacco  was  in  use 
in China from the earliest times,  but  we 
have no certain knowledge that this  was 
the case. 
If it was so,  the knowledge of 
the plant and  its  uses  must  have  been 
carefully guarded by the Chinese,  for  it 
was not introduced into any other  Orien­
tal  nation  until  after  its  discovery  in 
America.  When Columbus  first  landed 
on the  island  of  San  Domingo,  in  the 
West  Indies,  he  found  tobacco  in  use 
among the natives there, who smoked  it 
when made  into  small  cylindrical  rolls j 
and wrapped in maize leaf.
The Indians on the  continent  smoked 
it in a pipe,  and  among  all  the  tribes, 
from Peru to Upper Canada, the first dis­
coverers found the plant to be in use, and 
to  have  been  known  to  them  from  so 
early a period that the  time  of  its  first 
discovery was unknown.  The  smoking 
of tobacco with the Indians partook large­
ly of the nature of a religious rite.  The 
seeds  of  the  tobacco  plant  were  first 
brought to Europe by Gonzalo Hernandez 
de Oviedo, who introduced it into  Spain, 
where it was first cultivated as  an  orna­
mental  plant,  till  a  traveler  who  had 
noted its  use  among  the  American  In­
dians,  called  attention  to  its  narcotic, 
properties.  The name  is  said  to  have 
been taken from Tobacco,  a  province  of 
Yucatan,  an island in the Carribean  Sea, 
and yet others from Tobasco, in the Gulf 
of Florida.  The practice of smoking the 
dried leaf of the plant became  general in 
Spain, and its manufacture into snuff fol­
lowed soon after.
It was  introduced  into  Italy  in  1560, 
and  about  the  same  time  into  France. 
The first to bring the seeds of  the  plant 
into the latter country  was  Jean  Nicot, 
the French embassador  to  Portugal,  in 
whose honor tobacco received its  botani­
cal nicotiano  whence the name  nicotine, 
applied to a poisonous  extract  from  the 
plant.  Tobacco is said to have been first 
introduced into England  by  Sir  Walter 
Raleigh.  From these beginnings the use 
of the weed spread over  the entire  East­
ern Continent. 
It did not become known 
in Asia  until  the  seventeenth  century,

but was taken up by  the  Orientals  with 
great eagerness,  and  they  are  now  the 
greatest smokers in the world.
Question of Hands.  .

Wealthy  physician—I  supposed  you 
wished  me to  look  at your  hand. 
I see 
it is all bound up.
Unknown  caller—No-o, sir;  I—I  wish 
to see  you about your  daughter’s hand.”
“Eh?”
“We love each other, sir, and I hope—”
“Great Galen!  I don’t know you.  How 
did  you  hurt  your  hand,  eh?  Get  hit 
with a beer bottle, or—”
“I  cut my hand  yesterday while  clip­
ping coupons.”
“Oh!  Bless you, my children.”

Interest as a Civilizer.

At  a  recent  banquet of  the  New  En­
gland Society of New York,  Congressman 
Thomas B. Reed, of  Maine, responded to 
the  toast,  “The  Mighty  West,”  in  the 
course  of  which  he paid  the  following 
tribute to  a  well-known commercial  fac­
tor:  It  is a hard  thing  to say, but  it  is 
the  truth, that an honest and  persistent 
desire  for  six per  cent, interest, with  a 
willingness to take ten,  has done more to 
civilize the world  than all the courage of 
the crusaders.»

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WIPED  OUT!

No  Pass  Books!
No Charging!
No  Posting!

No  Writing!

No Disputing of I ggoM s! 

No  Change to  Make!
'TRÆDBSMJLN

Credit GOUPON  Book!

If you  have  any 
to offer  send 
samples

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

71  Canal  Street.

The Finest 5-gI. Cigar fiamlfaGWred.

LONG HAVANA FILLER.

THEY HAVE NO EQUAL.

A.   S.  D A V I S ,  

70 Canal St,,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

To  t h e   M e r c h a n t s  o p  M ic h ig a n  — We  offer 

Marble and Granite

Monuments

at a elf ser margin of profit than  any  concern in 
the State.  Write for estimates on Building Stone 
or cemetery work.  First class material and work­
manship only.

SSM'L  PFFE T T .  Manager.

THE NEWEST AND BEST SYSTEM 

ON  THE  MARKET.

 
 
 

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We  quote  prices as  follows:
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$ 2 Coupons, per hundred..............................$2.50
$5 
3.00
$10 
4.00
$20 
5.00
Orders for 200 er over..........................5 per cent.

Subject to the following discounts:

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

“  500 
" 1000 
on a cash  basis.

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Send in sample order and put your  business 
E.  Ä,  STOWE  £  BRO., Grand  Rapids.

•* 
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THESE GOODS ARE “ PA S EXOELLENCE”
Pure, H ealthful and  Reliable,  w arran ted   to give satis­
faction in every p articu lar.  For sale by w holesale and 
reta il grocers th ro u g h o u t th t  United  States.  Ygtjwib 
Bros., M anufacturers, Cleveland and Chicago.

« —vJ^A RRAN TED   t o  b e  t h e
FINEST and LARGEST SMOKE
For the money in th e  U. S.  {stSTPiifc up 50 in  a box.  Ask 
JOHN E. KENNING & CO., Grand Kapids. 
_______________ Send for prices.______________

your dealer for them.  Manufactured only by 

CASH  SALE  CHECKS.

Encourage your trade to pay cash instead oi 
running book  Recounts  by  using  Cash  Sake 
Ctecks.  For sale at 50 cents  per  100  by  E.  A. 
STOWE & BKO-. Grand  Kapids.

O .  li. B R O W N

M IL L IN G   CO.

ELECTORS Morse Elevator Works, 

Philadelphia,  New  York 
and Detroit.  Mo  se, W il- 
liams  &   Go.,  proprietors. 
~  Detroit office, 91 Jefferson 

(f o r   p a s s e n g e r s   a n d   f r e ig h t .) 

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

DEALERS IN

NOS.  128 and  124  LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

WE CARRY A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR MILL  USE
WHBN  IN  MUSKBGON

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

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Fletcher’s  City  Creamery
54  W.  WESTERN  AVENUE.
W.  H.  FLETCHER, 

For the BEST LUNCH to be had in the State.

COAL!— COKE! — W  0 0 D !
Office under Nat’l City Baal. 

Wholesale  A.  HIMES.  and  Retail

Yards, •*" *»

Telephone  Call 490-2.  CAR LOTS  A  SPECIALTY.

The  Best  Fitting  Stock­

ing Rubber  in the 

Market.

HEEDEB,PALMBB&Co.

Grand  Rapids, 

Sole  Agents,

-  Mich.

SOAPS

MICHIGAN, 

CZAR, 

WABASH, 

ROYAL  BAR, 
MASCOTTE,
CAMEO,

Detroit Soap Co.,

DETROIT,  MICH.

Manufacturers of the  following  well-known 

brands of

QUEEN  ANNE. 
TRUE  BLUE, 
MONDAY, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN, 

SUPERIOR, 

PHCENIX, 

AND  OTHERS. 

W. G. HAWKINS,

For quotations address

Salesman for Western Michigan,

Lock Box 173, 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS

M O S E L E Y   B R O S ,

F r u its ,  S eed s, O y ste r s g 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 

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa  St., 

pleased to hear from you.
- 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

W M . SEA R S & CO.,

ßrackBr  Manilfadilrers,

JLGBNTS  BOR  A.MBOY  CHBBSB.

3 7 ,   3 9   a n d   41   K e n t   S t.,  G r a n d   R a p i d s .

1  

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JL  X  

FANCY  FRUIT—The  Cele-
O   brated Alligator Brand,  direct

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Grand Rapids. Oranges
GE0.E.BOWES KO.

from Florida in car lots by

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WHOLESALE

BROKER  IN  LUMBER.

P r o d u c e   C o m m i s s i o n   M e r c h a n t ,

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STANDARD  FIRST  GRADE  PLUG  TOBACCO

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

GRÄND  RÄPID8,  MICH.

B utter and Eggs, Oranges Lemons  and Bananas a specialty.

E O R I E D N R D ’ S

0 5
CD
CD
X
CD

33  OTTAWA STEET,

Telephone 269.

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Can now be  bought  at the following exceptionally
Ass’t’d lot
any quantity

LOW   FIG-UHLES:

Lese than 66 lbs.

56 lbs. or over.

Packages.
POUNDS. 12 x 3,16 oz., 6 cute,  40, 28 & 12 lbs, 
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.. 
42, 30 & 12  “
45, 25V4 & 16  “ 
FIVES, 6 X ltf. 81-5 oz., 
TWIN FOURS, 3 x 2, 7 to lb, 41, 27 & 13)4  “ 
FIGS, 3 x 1,14 to lb., 
41, 31 & 17  “
THESE PRICES  LOC

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The Michigan Tradesman

THE  CANAL  AT  NICARAGUA.
It did not  need the  collapse of  the en­
terprise of De Lesseps to show the neces­
sity and  fitness of  a canal at  Nicaragua, 
but  that  want  has  emphasized  facts 
already  familiar,  and  has  freshly  sum­
moned  the energies of  the United States 
to a work which is of  the  highest impor­
tance  to its  interests.  The  situation  at 
Panama  and  Paris  notifies this  country 
that the  time for  it to move  has arrived.
The  plan  of  piercing  the  Central 
American  isthmuses, at  one of  thr^e im­
portant  points—Panama, Nicaragua,  and 
Tehuantepec—is  old.  The  apparently 
slight obstacle which  Nature  has placed 
in the  way of  passing  the  commerce of 
the world through the Western Continent, 
and  realizing  the thought of  Columbus, 
that the route  from Europe to the  Indies 
lay westward,  has  suggested to  mariners 
and  engineers for  centuries  the  cutting 
of  such  a  canal.  That  it  has  been  so 
long  deferred was due to  circumstance^ 
which  now  have  substantially  yielded 
before the  pressure of  the  great design. 
The improvements in all  the  mechanical 
forces  which will  be called  into i^e, the 
advances  in  engineering  skill,  and  the 
accumulations of  capital,  join to  render 
feasible and almost easy the execution of 
the work.  The  power of  explosives has 
been developed  many fold,  the  capabili­
ties  of  hydraulic  removal,  of  dredging, 
of  power  drills, etc.,  have  been  prodig­
iously increased,  and  from the  construc­
tion of  works like the  canal at Manches­
ter, and  that across the Corinthian  isth­
mus,  and  from the  gigantic but  imprac­
ticable  work  at  Panama, lessons of  ex­
perience  are drawn  worth  untold values 
in  money, and  available  in practice  for 
the sure attainment of  the most valuable 
results.

No  one  has  been  so  well  acquainted 
with  the exact  topographical features of 
the  Central  American 
isthmuses  as 
American  engineers.  De  Lesseps was a 
tyro  on  the  subject  when  he  resolved 
upon  his  scheme.  He  was  earnestly 
warned  by Americans  against  it. * They 
knew  many times  better  than  he  could 
have done the obstacles of  Nature which 
forbade  the  attempt  to  cut  through,  at 
the ocean level, the  isthmus of  Panama. 
There  has never  been, in fact,  any ques­
tion  in  this  country,  on  the  subject. 
From  the  first, the  engineers and  capi­
talists  of  the  United  States  have  felt 
satisfied  that 
the  Panama  plan  was 
doomed  to failure, and  that it was  folly 
to embark in it.  As a consequence, there 
is  but  a  trifling  amount  of  American 
money involved  in the  present  collapse. 
Our  resources  have  not  been  thrown 
away in  the  fevers, floods and  follies of 
the French operations.

The route across  the  Nicaraguan isth­
mus  has  wonderful  advantages.  Had 
De Lesseps begun  there  he  would  now 
be  in  full  view  of  a great  success,  in­
stead of  in the  depths of  disastrous fail­
ure.  The  total  distance is greater,  but 
Lake  Nicaragua  furnishes  a  large  and 
deep  sum»it  level  and feeder which so 
far  develops  and  aids  the  whole  con­
struction  as  to make it simple, easy and 
comparatively inexpensive.  At  Panama 
the  probism  of  supplying  the  summit 
level  is certainly  tremendous  and  prob­
ably insurmountable, while at Nicaragua, 
Nature  bountifully provides  all the con­
ditions the engineer can desire.  So,  too, 
in  the  advantage  of  the  trade  winds 
which blow at  Nicaragua, instead of  the 
calms of  the lower  isthmus,  commerce is 
wafted to the one place and warned away 
from the other.  Health is all in favor of 
the northern route,  and  the terrible com­
panion of  the Panama route, the Chagres 
River,  has  no  counterpart at Nicaragua. 
And  finally, if  the  Panama  canal  were 
possible of  construction  at  all,  it  must 
be’at  a cost of  five, ten,  possibly twenty 
times that of  a canal at Nicaragua.

What will be  done at Paris—what  can 
be done, in fact—no one  can  now safely 
predict.  But practically nothing will be 
done.  The money spent has been wasted, 
and sums so vast Nthat  they stagger ordi­
nary estimate would have to be expended 
to carry on  the  work  with  even  a  fair 
hope of  final  success.  The  situation is, 
therefore,  plain  enough. 
It is now the 
turn  of  the  United  States  to  proceed 
with the plans  which  scientific  surveys 
and  studies,  covering many  years, have 
shown  to  be  practicable.  We  are  im­
mensely  interested.  Our commercial in­
terests  on  our  own  Pacifio  coast  are 
very  great,  and 
the  trade  we  should 
have with the  countries of  South  Amer­
ica,  with  Australia,  with  the  eastern 
coast  of  Asia,  with  the  islands  of  the 
Pacific,  demands  that  there  shall  be a 
short, easy and  safe passage through the 
Isthmus.  No other nation, in fact, great 
as is the world’s commerce  interested in 
such a construction,  can be so deeply and 
directly  concerned  in  it  as  the United 
States.  Other great nations  are  remote; 
this,  upon both  oceans, overshadows the 
very  gates  of 
the  canal.  Our  ships, 
whether  freighted  with  the  cargoes  of 
peace,  or  equipped  for  defense  of  our 
just rights, seek  such a passage in going 
from our great seaports  upon  one  coast 
to  the  corresponding  ports  upon  the

AT  THIS
THE  PENBERTHY  IMPROVED
Automatic  Injector
c a n ’t  BOILER  FEEDER  BEAT!

-----AS  A-----

16,000  in  18  Months Tells the Story.
S T W E Y   THEY  E X C E L S

They cost less than other Injectors.
Y ou 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 
Agents, HESTER  & FOX,
Every man is made satisfied, or be don’t  have to keep 
PENBERTHY  INJECTOR  CO.,  Manufacturers,  DETROIT, Mich.

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

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

Grand Rapids, Mich.

H E S T E R  

F O X ,

Manufacturers’ Agents for

SAW AETD GRIST MILL Mä CHUTEEV,
Send for 
Catalogue 

ATLASSE

and 
Price

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STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.
Carry Engines and  Boilers In Stock 

(or  immediate  delivery.

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

Saws, Belting  and  Oils.

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

Pulley and become convinced of their  superiority.

Write for Prices. 

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

'Brown’s Patent 
Brown’s Standard

Our Leadini Blands.

Our Baker’s 
Vienna Straight 

Every Barrel and Sack guaranteed. 

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W.C . 

DEN
Stationary  anil  Portable  Engines  and  Boilers

GENERAL  DEALER  IN

WHO  URGBS  YOU

t o   U - j a n p

T H E   F X T B T j 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.  Without effort 
on the grocer’s part the goods  sell themselves,  bring  purchas­
ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.
ANY JOBBER W ILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS.

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

baust Fans.  SAW  MILLS,  any Size or Capacity Wanted.

88,90 and 98 SOUTH  DIVISION ST., 

- 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

E stim ates Given on Com plete Outfits.

Lots ofSOAP
%JAX0N
because it beats them all 

but room  for

It is

QUICK,

EASY,

CHEAP.
It’s  worth trying.

SAVES

MONEY,
TIME.
LABOR,
STRENGTH,
CLOTHES.

5 Cents
IS  ALL  IT
COSTS.

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

5

C e n t s

COLBY,  CRAIG  &  CO.

MANUFAOTUB E

the  BEST  DELIVERY  WH60N  ON  EARTH.

R e p a i r i n g   in   a l l   its   B r a n c h e s .

CO LBY ,  C R A IG   &  CO,

West End Fulton St  Bridge.  Telephone No. 867.

W A N T E D .

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

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

E A R L   B E O S . ,

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

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO.

Reference:  First National  Bank,  Chicago. 
Michigan Tradesman. Grand Rapids.

POTATOES.

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

H. Tfiflim & Go

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

•i

166 South Water St., CHICAGO. 
Reference

Felsenthal.  Gross & Miller, Bankers, 

Chicago.

W. Steele Packing & Provision Co.,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Fresh and Salt Beef,

Fresh and Salt Pork,

Pork Loins,  Dry Salt Pork,

Hams,  Shoulders,

Bacon, Boneless Ham,

Sausage of all Kinds,

Dried Beef for Slicing.

LARD,

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

Pickled  Pigs’ Feet,  Tripe, Etc.

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

in every instance.

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

G R A N D   R A P I D S ,   M IC H

Rapids, Mich.

Try  sample  order  in   % dozen 
packages.  Prices, 81,  ®2, 83, $4, 
86 to 824 per doz.  For terms ad­
dress  Graham  Boys,  Grand

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

GRAND RAPIDS.

piomptness.  Nice Work, Quick Time 

Satisfaction Guaranteed.

W.  E. HALL, Jr., 
-  Manager.
MAGIC COFFEE  ROASTER

- 

- 

The  m ost practical 
h and  R oaster  in  the 
w orld.  Thousands in 
use—giving  satisfac­
tion.  They a re simple 
durable an d  econom­
ical. 
grocer 
should  be  w ithout 
one.  R oasts  coffee 
and  pea-nuts to   per 
fection.

No 

Address  fo r  C ata­

logue and prices.

Roll  8. West,

48-50 Long St., 

Cleveland, Ohio,

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

G L A S S ,

Imported 
and American 
Polished PLAT*.
Rough  and  Ribbed 
French  Window,  Ameri­
can  Window,  English  26 oz.
Enamelled, Cut and  Embossed.
Rolled Cathedral, Venetian, Muffled,
Frosted  Bohemian,  German  Looking 
Glass  Plates,  French  Mirror  Plates. 
.
The quality, variety and quantity of out stocK 
is exceeded by no  house in  the United  States-

73 &75  Lamed  Street We*t, DETROIT,  MICH. 

W M .  R E I D ,

Grand Rapids Store,  61 Waterloo Street.

l J
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Ä 30-3o]

Pria--------

Every  garment  bearing  the  above  ticket  is 
WARRANTED  NOT  TO  RIP, and,  if  not as re­
presented, you are requested  to  return  it to the 
M erchant 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.

The Michigan Tradesman

WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 2, 1889.

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief  Digests  of  Recent  Decisions 

Courts  of  Last  Resort.

TELEPHONE  CHARGES— POWER  TO  REG­

ULATE.

The  Supreme  Court  of  Missouri  has 
just rendered a decision  holding that the 
au-
city of  St. Louis  has  no  power 
thority to regulate telephone char]
AGENT— PRINCIPAL —  VOLUNTEER—EQUI­
Where an agent pays  money out of  his 
own  pocket  to  protect  the  estate  of  a 
principal that is in his charge, he  cannot 
be regarded as a volunteer, and  he is en­
titled to all the equities  that  his  princi­
pal would be entitled  to  had he  paid his 
demand  himself.  So  held  by the  Ken­
tucky Court of  Appeals.

TIES.

BICYCLE  HELD  TO  BE  A  VEHICLE.
A bicycle is a vehicle and entitled to all 
the protection afforded to other  vehicles, 
according  to  a  recent  decision  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Rhode  Island.  The 
case  was  one  in  which  an  expressman 
named  Collins was  convicted of  a viola­
tion of  the  law  requiring  him  to  drive 
reasonably to  the  right  of  the  traveled 
center  of  the  highway,  he  having  run 
into  and  injured  a  bicyclist  using  the 
road.

PAKTNEKSHIP---LAND— EJECTMENT.
The Supreme Court of  Georgia held, in 
the case of  Baker  vs. Middlebrooks, that 
land conveyed to a firm  but  never  used 
in the partnership business could not, as a 
whole, be recovered  in  ejectment by the 
surviving partner where  the partnership 
was dissolved before the death of  his co­
partner, but that the most  that  the  sur­
vivor  could  recover  would  be  his  due 
share as a tenant in common.

BILL OF  EXCHANGE— ACCEPTANCE.
A  written  order  by  one  person  to 
another  to pay the  bearer of  the order a 
certain  sum, but  without specifying  the 
time  of  payment, was  held  by  the  Su­
preme  Court of  Georgia to  be  a  bill  of 
exchange  and  due  as soon  as  presented 
and accepted.  The  court held, however, 
that  an  apparent  acceptance 
thereof, 
written  upon  the  bill  by the  party  di­
rected  to  pay,  but  not  signed, was  not 
binding as an acceptance.
RELIEF  ASSOCIATION— INABILITY  TO  LA­

BOR.

The phrase  “total  inability  to  labor’ 
in tlie constitution of  a relief  association 
was  construed  by the  Supreme  Court of 
Pennsylvania,  in  the  case  of  Baltimore
Ohio Employees’ Relief Association v 
Post.  The  court  held  that  the  phrase 
did  not  mean  simply  incapacity to  per 
form  the specific  kind of  work in  which 
the member had been employed at the time 
of  his accident,  but  an  inability to  earn 
money  in  any  other  employment,  ant 
that where a member was  able to earn a; 
much or more  money in another  employ 
ment he was not  entitled to benefits from 
the association.

Your  Best  at  All  Times.

It was an early resolution of  Dr. John 
son to  “do his best on every occasion and 
in every company,”  and  no  one  can  do 
more than this.  But  most are content to 
do  much  less.  They  save  their  bes 
speech,  their best manner and best effort 
for rare occasions, when  they feel that it 
will tell most  for  their  interests.  Such 
habits never fit easy when so rarely used. 
Good speech for one thing must be habit­
ual,  or it will never seem  like  one’s  na­
tive 
tongue.  Mortifying  slips  of  the 
tongue will come in at unsuitable places, 
revealing a great deal about one’s history 
and  Associates.  An  elegantly  dressed 
woman was once watched by a clerk who 
was  waiting upon  her  from  the  simple 
pronunciation of  “walenseuns lace.”  He 
knew that if  she was  the  lady  she  per­
sonated,  she would  have  known  better. 
His  watchfulness  was  rewarded  by de­
tecting  her in secreting a valuable  piece 
of  lace in her mantle;  just a word placed 
him on his  guard.
As  one  has  well  said,  “many a clerk 
in his first interview  with a shrewd  em­
ployer has evinced  business  capacity by 
his clearness of  experience, his  thought­
ful hesitation, or his  accurate  readiness 
in responding.”  No  person  is  likely to 
make this good business  impression who 
is not in the habit  of  doing  his  best  in 
conversation  at  all  times. 
If  he  has a 
loose-jointed  way of  expressing  himself 
when he is off  duty,  and among the boys; 
if  he falls into  the  dime  novel  style of 
slang, or even worse, it will tell strongly 
against  his  chances  of  rising  up in the 
world.
Clear expressions must have  their seat 
in clear, deliberate  methods of  thinking, 
and  those  are  the  bricks  out of  which 
fortunes are built up.  So cull over your 
language  and  choose  simple,  forcible 
words to express  your  meaning, and  try 
the effect ou the  boys  when  you  are  by 
yourself. 
It may  incite  others to do the 
same,  and there is  really margin  for im­
provement  among  our  very  best  boys. 
Good language does not necessarily mean 
long, high-sounding words.  Dean Alford 
says,  “Where a short  word  will  do, you 
always  lose  by using a long  one.  You 
lose in clearness;  you  lose in  honest ex­
pression  of  your  meaning,  and  in  the 
opinion of  men  qualified to  judge,  you 
lose in reputation for ability.”  The man 
who  reserves  his  coarse  speech  for in­
feriors is not a true  gentleman,  however 
he may put on polish  in  other positions, 
and  veneering  is  always  in  danger  of 
being clipped off.
But we may make our words more than 
a means of  securing  advantage  for  our­
selves.  They  are  the  chief  method  by 
which we act upon other  minds.  Surely 
there is a great  responsibility  attending 
the many volumes we send  out  from our 
lips every  year.  They are  more  imper­
ishable  than  if 
they  had  been  sent 
through  the  printing  press.  They  are 
cut  deep  in  the  hearts  and  minds  of 
those who hear us, and  their influence is 
imperishable

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

CLÄRK  i  SON

If  our  Travelers 
do not see you reg­
ularly, send for our 
Samples and Prices 
before  purchasing 
elsewhere.  We will 
surprise you.

WE  ERE  HEADQUARTERS

------- FOR-------

Teas
Syrups
M olasses
W h o l e s a l e   G r o c e r s
R U IV B N   &  A L L

Mail  Orders  al- 
r e c e i v e  
w a y s  
prompt  attention 
and lowest possible 
prices.

Sole Agents for the

The devil, Jack!  We’ve got 

Shark.  He’11 do for

Bliven & Allyn.

B E L K N A P

WAGON X SLEIGH GO.

M anufacturers of

I

BELIEF'S PH. SLEIGHS

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

SHOP,

We earrv 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.
A lfred  J. B r o w n
Foreign,  Tropical and  California
F R U I T S

C r a n b e r r i e s ,

16 and  18  No.  Division St..

S w e e t   P o t a t o e s ^  
a n d   G r a p e s
Bananas,  OUr  Specialty.
-  MICH
GRAND  RAPIDS, 
DO  YOU  HANDLE  IT?
IìÏ

C e l e b r a t e d   “ B I G   F . ’* T 3ran d   o f  O y s t e r s
In Cans and  Bulk,  and  Large  Handlers  of  OCEAN  FISH,  SHELL  CLAMS and OYSTERS. 
We make a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time.
We solicit consignments of all kinds of  Wild  Game,  such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, ete.
H. M. BUIV&N,  Manager. 

63  PEARL STREET.

Grand,  Sgilare  and  Upright  Pianos.

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

dict thatTie  Weber Stands Unrivaled.

Sheet  music  and  musical  merchandise 

Everything in the musical line.

Weber Pianos, 

Fischer Pianos,

Smith Pianos, 

Estey Organs, 

A. B. Chase Organs,

Hillstrom  Organs,

JULIUS A. J. FRIEDRICH,

(Successor  to  Friedrich  Bros.)

HOG  CHOLERA.—Cause,
Cure and Prevention.  Cir­
culars & Testimonials  Free.
For sale by Druggists.  Gro­
cers, etc.

Gives Universal Satisfaction for

Horses,  Cattle,  Hogs,  Sheep 
Colts,  Calves,  Pigs,  Lambs
Has  the  finest  line  of  illustrated  advertising 
and  most  attractive  Lithograph  Label. 
List 
price reduced August 1,1888.  A  75  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 throug' 
jobber.  Special  directions  for  building up 
large 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 knowi 
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  every  enter 
prising farmer or stockman.  D ealers!  We hav 
withdrawn our salesmen and  solicit  a  continu 
a nee of your trade through prominent jobbers 
Send to them for their special circular “TO THE 
TRADE,” for full information in regard to rub 
her 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 
per cent, profit.
The German Medicine Comp’y

SOLE MANUFACTURERS:

Minneapolis, Minn.

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

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

We also manufacture a  full  line  of  Sweet 

Goods.  Write  for  quotations 

and  samples.

JACKSON
MICH.

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

“ 

“ 

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

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

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

7:15 a  m
11:45 a  m
5:00 p m
7:15 a m  tra in   has  p arlo r  ch air  c a r  fo r  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  C anadian 
points, arriv in g  in D etroit a t 10:45 d. m.
Sleeping c ar rates—$1.50  to  P etoskey  o r  Mackinaw 
City;  $2 to Cincinnati.
All Trains daily except Sunday.

Muskegon, Gran«! Rapids & Indiana. 

Leave. 
Arrive.
7  05 a m .......................................................................10:45am
11:15 a m ......................................................................   4:45 p m
4:20 p m ......................................................................   7:45 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge street  depot 7 m inutes later.
C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

A  Common 

Idea.

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

The Niagara Falls  Route.

DEPART.

 

ARRIVE.

D etroit Express.................................................................... 6:45 a m
Day  Express..................................................  
1:10 p m
"Tew York Express.......................................................5:40 p m
A tlantic Express.......................................................10:45 p m
Mixed  ............................................................................ 6:50 a m
•Pacific  Express.......................................................... 6:00 a  m
Local P assenger......................................................... 10:00 a  m
M ail..........................................................................................3:15 p m
G rand  Rapids  Express.............................................10:15 p m
M ixed............................... 
6:30 p m
♦Daily.  All o th er dally except Sunday.  Sleeping cars 
ru n  oil A tlantic and Pacific Express tra in s to and from  
D etroit.  P arlo r cars ru n   on  Day  Express  and  G rand 
Rapids E xpress to  and  from   Detroit.  Direct  connec­
tions m ade a t D etroit w ith all th ro u g h  train s E ast over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)

O. W. Ruggles. Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agt., Chicago. 
Fred M. Briggs, Gen’l Agent.

Two Years
Test.

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W e   a r e   a g e n t s   fo r   t h e

- S T A G -

B r a n d   F A N C Y   O r a n g e s  
a n d   p a c k e d

s.  g r o w n  

^ ^ b y   W '  R '  H i l l y e r
O r a n g e   L ’k e  

I   F l o r i d a

s a l e  

a r e
a g e n t s X ^ f ^  
t h e  

W e  
a l s o
f o r  
o f   J.  G.  L a m o r -  
e a u x ’s  O r a n g e   C r o p  
T h i s  f r u it w i l l   b e   c a r e  
f u l l y  p a d d e d ,  b y   M r.  L . 
Wi
a n d  w i l l  b e  s o l d   in   lo t s   t o   s u it  
a n d   a t  
A s k   fo r   q u o t a t i o n s   b e f o r e   b u y i n g / ^ y ^
PUTNAM &  BROOKS

l o w e s t   p o s s i b l e   p r i e e s ? * S ^  

_  

E,  G,  8TUDLEY,
RUBBER  BOOTS 

W holesale D ealer in

HND  SHOES
Gandee Rubber Go.

Manufactured  by

Send  for  Large  Illustrated 
Price  List.

Catalogue  and

Telephone 464.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

Kalamazoo Division.

1 

A rrive.
S 
2 
4
19 
p m  a m  
p m  
a m  P m
1:10 
3:00 7:45D p ....G ran d   R apids................   9:45  0:10
....A lleg a n .............................  8:28  4:55
4:12 9:02 
3:25 
F rt 5-.03  10:00 A r... .K alam azoo.......................... 7:10  3:52
...  .W hite P igeon..................  
6:35 11:35 
2:25
....E lk h a rt..................................4:15  l:e0
8 .00 12:30  4 
p m   a m
a  m
....C h ic a g o ..............................11:30  8:50
7:50  7:10  4 
p m
1  ....T o led o ..................................11:25  0:00
10:25  5:05 
a  m
. ..  .Cleveland................Jl........7:15  5:45
1:35  9 .40  4 
a  m 
............ 1:00  11:40
6:20  3:30
Tickets for sale to  all  principal  points  in  th e U. S., 
Mexico and Canada a t  Union  Ticket  Office,  Geo.  Wil­
liamson, Agt., Depot Office, M. Bootz, Agt.

.B uffalo...

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

Cleveland, Ohio.
Detroit, Grand  Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING WEST.

Arrives. 

(M orning Express............................1:05 p m  
(T hrough M ail..................................4:55pm  
(Grand Rapids Express..................10:40 p m
♦Night Express......... . 
. . . . . . . . . . .   6:40 a m  
tMixed.................................................  
GOING EAST.
tD etrolt  Express..............................  
(T hrough M all..................................10:8> a  m  
(Evening Express........................... 8:40 p m  
♦Limited E xpress............................ 10:30pm  

Leaves.
1:10 p m
5:10pm
7:00 a m
7:45 a m
6:50 a m
10:30 a  m
3:50 p m
10:55pm
(Dally, Sundays excepted.  *Dally.
D etroit  Express  has p arlo r  c a r  to D etroit,  m aking 
direct connections fo r all points  E ast, a rriv in g  In New 
York 10:10 a. m. next day.  Lim ited  Express,  East, has 
th ro u g h   sleeper  G rand  Rapids  to   N iagara  FaUs, 
connecting  a t  M ilwaukee 
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. A M .R’v offices, 23 Monroe St., and a t th e depot.

Ju n ctio n   w ith  

jab. Campbell, City Passenger Agent.

No. 4 Monroe Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

R I N D G E ,  B E R T S C H   &  CO.,
BOOTS  and  SHOES

M anufacturers and W holesale Dealers in

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

1 2 ,  1 4   &  1 6   P e a r l   S t r e e t ,   G r a n d   R a p i d s ,   M ic h .
MICHIGAN  CIGAR  C O .,

B is  Rapids,  Mich.

MANUFACTURERS  OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED

“M.  C.  C.”“YumYum

The  Best Selling Cigar on the Market.

The Most Popular  Cigar.

SEND  FOR  TRIAL  ORDER.

GROCERIES.

In the city where they sleep away the ho u rs;

The  City  of  the  Dead.
They do neither plight nor wed 
In  the city of the dead,
B ut they lie, while o’er them range 
W inter blight and summer change,
No, they neither wed nor plight,
And the day is like the night,

A nd a hundred happy whisperings of flowers. 

For their vision is of other kind than ours.

W here the streets have grasses growing, cool and 
[long; 

They do neither sing nor sigh 
In the burgh of by and by,
But they rest within their bed, 
Leaving all their thoughts unsaid, 
No, they neither sigh nor sing,
Though the robin be a-wing, 

[strong.
Though the leaves of  autum n  march  a  million

Deeming silence better far than sob or song.

From the failings and the wailings ’ neath the su n ; 

There is only rest and peace 
In the city of  surcease
And the wings of the swift years 
Beat but gently o’er the  biers,
There Is only peace and re st;
But to them it seemeth  best,

Making music to the sleepers, every one.

For they lie at ease, and know that life  is  done.

—R ic h a r d  E . B u r t o n .

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

W ritten for The  Tradesman.

BY  A  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

 

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the 

While the great  civil  war was a neces­
sary and  inevitable  consequence  of  the 
inconsistencies  and  incongruities of  our 
political  system,  and  while  it  accom­
plished  more for the  rights of  humanity 
than  any contest of  historical  record,  it, 
nevertheless,  produced  effects  that  are 
not conducive to the  happiness and pros­
perity  of  the  masses  of  the  American 
people.  The  intent  of  the  founders of 
the government, or  at least  the intent of 
those  who  formulated  the  theories  for 
the  establishment  of  a new  and  model 
republic, was evidently that  the  control 
of  public  affairs  should,  as  far as prac­
ticable,  be  entrusted  to the care of  men 
distinguished  for  their  intelligence and 
patriotism, and in the  theory’, as  well as 
the  initial  management of  the  national 
machinery, there is  nothing to show that 
great wealth,  without  brainy possessors, 
had  the remotest  effect  in  securing offi­
cial  position  or  controling public legis­
lation.  And  this  unwritten  law of  the 
founders was hardly violated  for genera­
tions.  Cases of bribery and office buying 
may have occurred, but  until  the  rebel­
lion and its immediate results had passed 
into  history there is no evidence to show 
that—outsipe 
slavery  section  at 
least—wealth ever secured  majorities or 
dictated  legislation.
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But from the  gold  brokers,  snide con­
tractors, shoddyites  and  bounty brokers 
of  the  war  can be  practically dated the 
organization  of  the  great  order  of  the 
American  millionaire,  and  its  rapidly 
growing  influence on public  and private 
affairs. 
It  commenced  with  a  goodly 
membership,  and  the  railroads,  mines 
and  forests  have  augmented  its  ranks 
until the man with a thousand  thousand 
or  more  is  less  of  a financial  curiosity 
than the §50,000 capitalist of thirty years 
ago.  But if not a curiosity he is becoming 
an  object of  anxiety to those  who  have 
carefully  watched  the  evolution  of  the 
gigantic  money  power  of  the  country.
He,  personally,  and  his  million,  col­
lectively,  are  not  feared,  but  it  is his 
growing  and  insatiable  greed  for accu­
mulation;  his disregard  for the rights of 
the  tribute-paying  masses;  his  propen­
sity to combine with the  other  members 
of  his order for  legalized  extortion,  and 
the  steady  drift  of  legislation  in  his 
favor,  and  against  the  interests of  the 
people  at  large,  that  renders  him  dis­
liked and dreaded by those  whose  rights 
may be  jeopardized by his actions.
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It is not  envy that  renders  the  heavy 
capitalist  an object of  antipathy. 
If  he 
accumulates  his  money  honestly,  and 
uses it honestly, no intelligent  man  will 
regard  him  as a public  evil.  The  con­
centration of  wealth,  and its use in legit­
imate  enterprises, is of  immense  advan­
tage to any community, and  the  individ­
ual  or  individuals who use their wealth, 
even  at  a  large  rate  of  profit,  may fn 
many cases  rightly be regarded  as bene­
factors  instead  of  oppressors. 
It is the 
individuals who pool their capital with a 
deliberate  purpose  of  “bleeding” 
the 
public of  every drop obtainable;  and the 
individuals  who  keep  paid lobbyists in 
legislative  assemblages, to defeat  every 
effort for popular  legislation, that makes 
the great order of  American millionaires 
deservedly feared and detested.

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Is  there  any practical way to stop the 
growth of  the great money  octopus ?  If 
so,  the  statesman  who  discovers,  per­
fects  and  promulgates a successful plan 
will, as the  French say,  “deserve well of 
his country.” 
I never expect to see, and 
no  one  will  ever  see,  the  oppressive 
power  of  great  wealth  ever  entirely 
broken,  but  means  should be devised to 
curtail  it  materially. 
If  Smith, Brown, 
Jones  and  myself  are  all  doing a small 
but  safe  business,  in a certain  locality, 
and  Robinson  opens  up  an 
immense 
“emporium”  and  runs us all out of  bus­
iness  and  into  bankruptcy, I would  be 
almost idiotic in clamoring for a law that 
would make  Robinson a criminal;  but if 
Robinson, by ow ning shares in a railroad, 
sees  that  I  am  charged  three  times as 
much freight as  himself,  I want  the  of­
fense made indictable—even if  it doesn’t 
come  under  the  inter-state  commerce 
law. 
If  I buy up  every available pound 
of  sugar,  in a winter-bound  section,  the

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price I ask  for  it  is a personal  affair  of 
my  own—although  the  morality  of  the 
transaction  may  be  questionable—but 
the members of  a general  sugar “trust,” 
who  bind  themselves to advance  prices 
far beyond a reasonable  profit, should be 
regarded  as  conspirators  and  punished 
accordingly. 
In short,  the  interposition 
of  law  to  prevent  extortion  must,  it 
seems to me, step between the individual 
speculator  and  the  syndicates,  trusts, 
pools and combines.

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It wouldn’t be a bad  idea for the pres­
ent Michigan  Legislature  to take a little 
step in the direction of  reform by making 
money second to brains  in  the  selection 
of  a  new  United  States  Senator. 
It 
would be a very  excellent  idea  for it to 
entirely discountenance the  organization 
of  the  “Third  House.” 
It  would  be a 
magnificent  idea  for  the incoming Con­
gress  to  make  an  equilibrium  just  to 
both, in the laws regarding the protection 
of  the  capitalist  and  the  rights of  di­
versified labor.

But it is greatly to  be  feared  that  he 
who hopes to see even an approach to the 
millenium of  a practical  reform in these 
matters will need  the  patience of  a Job 
and the longevity of  a Methusaleh.

East Saginaw Jottings.

Thos. F. Ray succeeds Hugo G. Wesen- 
er  as  book-keeper  at  Seligman’s  bank, 
Mr. TVesener  having  accepted a position 
with Wm. Barie & Son as manager.

R. Phillips, dealer in fancy goods, who 
was closed up on a chattel  mortgage last 
week,  is  trying  to  effect  a compromise 
with  his  creditors.  We  understand  he 
will pay about twenty-five cents on a dol­
lar.

Captain  Armstrong’s  “Boy  Line”  of 
river boats has laid  up  for  the  season. 
The Captain now owns,  and  next  season 
will occupy, the store  The  Jas.  Stewart 
Co. has just vacated,  and  docks  in  the 
rear that English’s  river  line  has  used 
for the past season.

Symons Bros.  & Co., w holesale grocers, 
intend making  some  important  changes 
in their travelers’  routes.  S. E. Symons, 
who has been working the  city  trade for 
the past six  months,  will go back on the 
road again,  H. Goppelt  taking  the  city 
trade.  Seth Davis is all  right  where he 
is, and C. M. Wheaton has accepted a po­
sition with Ball, Barnhart &  Putman,  of 
Grand  Rapids.  All  join  in  wishing 
“Charlie” good luck.

Reported  in  Short  Hand.

•. The  following  conversation  recently 
occurred  in  the  store  of  a  Big  Rapids 
merchant, one of  the  persons  being  the 
owner  of  the  store  and  the  other  his 
next-door neighbor:

“I’m having bad luck  with  my oyster 

trade this winter.”

“How so?”
“What don’t spoil on my hands are bad 

before they reach me.”

“That’s  nothing.”
“Why ?”
“Because  you  don’t  buy of  the  right 
I haven’t  lost  a  can  of  oysters 

house. 
this season.”

“Who do  you buy of?”
“The best man in the business.” 
“Who’s that ?”
“Detten thaler.”
“What brand do  you use?”
“The best on earth.”
“What’s that?”
“The ‘Anchor’  brand.”

Annual Ball of the Grand  Rapids  Travel­

ing Men.

A goodly number of traveling men met 
Saturday  evening  and  resolved  to  hold 
the  fourth  annual  social  party  of  the 
fraternity  at the  Ionia  street  armory on 
Friday  evening,  Feb. 8.  Geo.  Seymour 
was appointed chairman of the Committee 
on  Arrangements,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  chair­
man  of  the  Committee  on  Printing  and 
Invitations  and  Chas.  Clouston,  chair­
man of  the  Committee on  Refreshments. 
Each  chairman was  authorized to  select 
his  own  associates. 
It  was the  sense of 
the  meeting  that no general  supper  be 
ordered, but  that  arrangements  be made 
with  some  caterer  to  furnish luncheon, 
either  in  the  building  or  within  con­
venient distance of  the hall.

After the  adjournment of  the  meeting 
it was found  that  several  contra  attrac­
tions  would  occur the  same  evening,  so 
that  the  Committee  on  Arrangements 
considered themselves warranted in post­
poning  the  event  one  week, making  it 
occur on Friday evening, Feb. 15.

Litmus and other test papers  are  now 
used  by progressive  druggists,  who  do 
not depend  entirely on the sense of  taste 
in analysis.  The Monthly Magazine says 
that Borntrager  has  published a note on 
the  preparation  of  litmus  paper.  He 
produces a very  sensitive  paper by acid 
ifying a  watery  extract  of  litmus  with 
sulphuric  acid, until decidedly acid, and 
then adding caustic  soda  until a strip of 
paper dipped into the solution, and dried, 
shows  the  proper  tint.  He  says  it is, 
difficult to find  paper  which is perfectly 
well  suited  for  this purpose,  but seems 
to  be  most  satisfied  with  the  results 
which he has obtained  with  some of  the 
best kinds of  German  filter paper.  Any 
kind of  writing  paper, which  has  been 
boiled in pure wTater for a short  time and 
then dried, will  do  well  for  the  litmus 
paper  and  turmeric  paper  used  by the 
pharmacist  and  the  industrial  chemist, 
but the purer kinds of filter paper, which 
are  stout  enough  for the  purpose, take 
the litmus far more evenly.

CHANGE

OF  FIRM

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G A S  O LEIN E s t o v e .

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—W inter  fru it  is  in  fair  demand  at 
$1.50@$2  per bbl.
Beans—Handlers are paying about 81.25 for un­
picked and getting $1.65@$1.75  for  hand-picked.
Batter—Creamery is in fair  supply  at  30@31c. 
Dairy is easier,  No.  1  readily  commanding  22@ 
23c.
Cabbages—Home gi own command 83@$5 per 100
Celery—20@22c per doz.
Cider—8@10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, 81.25;  produce barrels 
Cranberries—87.75@88  for Bell and Cherry  and 
Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried 
Eggs—Strictly  fresh  are  more  plenty,  com­
storage 

25c.
®8.50@f9 for Bell and Bugle.
at 5@5%c and evaporated at 6%@6%c.
m anding  20@21c.  Pickled  and  cold 
stock are in  fair  demand at 19c.

Grapes—Malaga, 86 per keg.
Honey—Scarce and hard  to  get,  readily  com­
m anding 18c per lb.
Onions—Too  low  to  quote,  purchases  being 
made only speculatively.
Pop Corn—2)4c per lb.
Potatoes—The market is flat  there  apparently 
being no demand anywhere.  Buyers  are paying 
25c per bu. here and 20®22c at the principal buy­
ing points out of town.

Squash—Hubbard, lc per lb.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln-dried  Jerseys,  83.50  per 
Turnips—25c per bn.

bbl.

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provi­

PROVISIONS
sion Co. quotes as follows:
Mess,  old.............................................................814 00
new...........:......................  .....................  15  00
16 00 
Short cut Morgan....................................
18 75 
Extra clear pig, short  c u t.....................
Extra clear,  heavy............................... '.
16  75 
Clear quill, short c u t..............................
16 75 
Boston clear, short c u t..........................
ltu75 
Clear back, short c u t..............................
16  75 
Standard clear, short cut, best............
16  75

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

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Hams, average 20 lb s............................................10)4
16 lb s........................................... 10%
12 to 14 lb s..................................11
p icn ic.........................................................   9)4
-test boneless............................................. 12%
Shoulders.................................................................8)4
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..................................10)4
Dried Beef, extra.....................................................8
ham prices........................................  9

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Long Clears, heavy...............................................  8%

DRY  SALT MEATS.

“  medium...............................
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lig h t.....................................
lard—Kettle Rendered.

lard—Compound.

T ierces....................................................................  9%
Tubs.........................................................................  9?
50 lb.  T ins...............................................................  9?
Tierces.....................................................................   8)
30 and 50 lb. T u b s.................................................  89
31b. Pails, 20 in a  case...
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case..........................................  8%
10 lb. Palls, 6 in a case..........................................8%
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case..........................................  8)<
50 lb. Cans................................................................ 8?i
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lb s.........................  7 0(
Extra Mess, Chicago packing...........................   7 51
P late.........................................................................7  2i
Extra P late............................................................   7 7!
Boneless, rump butts...............................
10 GO 
)4bbl......................
5 50
sausage—F resh and Smoked.

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

Pork Sausage............................................................7
Ham Sausage..........................................................12
Tongue Sausage....................................................   9
Frankfort  Sausage...............................................  8
Blood Sausage...................•...................................  5
Bologna, straight..................................................  5
Bologna*  th ick ......................................................  5
Head Cheese...........................................................   5

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pigs’ feet.

In half barrels.......................................................... 3 50
In  quarter  barrels................
tripe.

In half  barrels.........................................................3 00
In quarter barrels..................................................1
In  k its.....................................................................   85

F R E S H   M EATS.

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Beef,  carcass.............., ...............
hindqu arters...................
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fore 
Hogs...............................................
Pork  loins.....................................
shoulders............................
Bologna........................................
Frankfort  sausage.....................
Blood, liver and bead sausage. 
M u)ton..........................................

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OYSTERS  a n d   F IS H .

F. J.  Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

o y s t e r s  in  cans
S tandards......................................
A nchors..........................................
Selects..............................................
Fairhaven Counts.........................
OYSTERS  in  b u l k .
S tandards................*................................. .......   j oo
Selects....................................................................  1  40
C lam s.....................................................................  1  25

..........................  @16
..........................   @18
..........................21  @27
..........................  @35

f r e s h   f is h .

Black  B ass..........
T rout.....................
W hitefisb..............
smoked. 
P erch.....................

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@12): 
@ 8 
@  8 
@10 
@ 4

CANDIES,  FRUITS and NUTS.

Putnam & Brooks quote as foil  ws:

Standard, 25 
Twist, 
25 
Cut Loaf,  25

lb. boxes.

9):
..........................................10)4
MIXED.

Royal, 25 lb. p a ils............................................ 
9%
2001b.  bbls.................................................  9
Extra, 25 lb.  pails..................................................io
200 lb.  bbls.................................................  9%
French Cream, 25 lb.  pails...................   11)4@12
Cut Loaf, 25 lb. cases............................................ <o%
Broken, 40 lb. Bask...........................................*. io
2001b. bbls...............................................  914

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

Lemon Drops. ✓ ......................................................jg
Sour D rops...........................................................” 14
Peppermint Drops................................................. 14
Chocolate Drops................................................ ! .15
H. M. Chocolate  Drops....................................... 18
Gum  Drops............................................................10
Licorice Drops...................................................., A8
A. B. Licorice  Drops............................................12
14
Lozenges, plain..................  
printed................................................15
Im perials.................................................................14
Mottoes....................................................................15
Cream B ar............................................................... 13
Molasses  B ar..........................................................13
Caram els.................................................................19
Hand Made  Creams.............................................19
Plain Creams...’. .................................................. is
20
Decorated Creams.................................. 
String  Rock............................................................14
B urnt Almonds...................................................... 22
W intergreen  Berries............................................14

 

 

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

FRUITS.

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50-lb.  “ 

Bananas.......................................................1  25@2  60
Oranges, F lo rid as,...................................2 75@3 75
Lemons, choice...........................................   @3 00
fa n c y ........................................... 3 75@4  00
Figs, layers,  new ........................................  10@15
Bags, 50 lb ..........................................  @ 6
Dates, frails, 50 lb ......................................   @ 414
“  % frails, 50 lb .................................   @5)4
Fard, 10-lb.  box.............................   @10
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Persian, 50-lb.  box........................ 6)4@ 7)4
Almonds,  Tarragona....................................... @17
Ivaca..........................................  @15
California.................................  14@16
Brazils...........................................................  @7)4
Filberts,  Sicily 
...................................... 11  @11)4
W alnuts, Grenoble....................................13)4@14
French.......... .............. .v ..........  @11)4
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Pecans, Texas, H. P ........................)..........  s  @12
Cocoannts, per 100............................'.........  @4  50
C hestnuts................................................... 2 00@2 50
S to rk .............................................................  @ 6
Fancy, H. P ..................................................  @7
Choice White,  V irginia............................  @ 514
Fancy H  P., 
............................  @ 7)4
............................  @ 5)4
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PEANUTS.

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Wholesale Price  Current•

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

pay promptly and buy in fu ll packages.

BAKING  POWDER.

10c cans.
% lb.  “
6 oz.  “
% lb. “
12 oz. “
lib .  “
2% lb.“
31b.  “
41b.  “

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95
..  1  40
..  1  90
..  2  60
..  3  80
. .  4  95
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..13  75
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% lb.
% lb.
1 lb.
51b.

)4 lb. 
lib . 
14 lb. 
1 lb. 

Acme, % lb. cans, 3 doz 

Red Star, % lb. cans, 12 doz 

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Arctic, )4 lb. cans, 6  doz
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75
‘  2  “ !..  1  40
4  2  “ ...  2  40
‘  1  “ ...12 00
Absolute, % lb. cans, 100s..11  7; 
50s.. 10 00
50s.. 18
Telfer’s,  % lb. cans, 6 doz.  2  70
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“  1  “  .  1  50
)4 lb.  “  2  “  ....  1 50
1 lb.  “  1  “  ....  3 00
b u lk ...................  20
45
)4 lb.  “  6  “ 
85
1 50
1 lb.  “  4  “ 
English, 2 doz. in case..
Bristol,  2  “ 
American, 2 doz. in case
65
BROOMS.
No. 2 H url........................
2 00 
2 25 
No. 1  “ 
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2 50
No. 2 Carpet.....................
No. 1 
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Parlor Gem......................
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90 
Common W hisk..............
..  1 00 
Fancy 
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..  3  50
M ill...................................
W arehouse............................3 00
Kings 100 lb. cases............... 5 00

BUCKWHEAT.

BATH BRICK.

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BUTTE RINE

80  lb. cases................
Dairy, solid  packed............
rolls............................
Creamery, solid packed__
ro lls ...................
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes................
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Star,  40 
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Paraffine...............................
W icking.................................
CANNED  GOODS—Fish.
Clams, 1 lb, Little Neck__
Clam Chowder, 3  lb ............
Cove Oysters, 1  lb. stan d ... 
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Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic...........
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Salmon, 1 lb.  Colum bia..

Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.

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21b. 
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1  50
2  lb.  “ 
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1 lb.  S tar__
1  90
2  lb. Star............
..2  90
1  lb.  stan d .......
..1  25
2  lb. 
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3 lb. in Mustard ..3 00
31b.  soused__ ..3 00
. .2 00
21b.
..3 25
1 lb. Sacramento . .1  70
. .2 75
2 lb.
..®  8
Mustard %s....... @10
imported  %s__ 10@11
spiced,'% s......... 10@12

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Sardines, domestic  % s...
% s...

“ 

Trout, 3  lb. brook............

“ 

Apples, gallons,  stand..........2 00
Blackberries,  stand............... 1 00
Cherries, red standard..........2 50
p itte d .....................2   60
D am sons.................................. 1 00
Egg Plums, stan d ...................1 20
Gooseberries........................... 1 40
G rapes.....................................  90
Green  Gages..........................1  40
Peaches, all  yellow, stand. .1  45
seconds..................1  25
P ie ...........................100
Pears........................................1.30
Pineapples.....................1 10@1
Q uinces....................................1 50
Raspberries,  ex tra.................1 i
red .....................2 2
Straw berries.................1  10@1 2
W hortleberries...................... 1  20

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CANNED VEGETABLES.

Corn, Archer's Trophy.........

Asparagus, Oyster Bay....... 1  80
Beans, Lima,  stand..’. ........1  00
“  Green  Limas 
  @1  10
“ 
String...............   @  95
“  Stringlesg,  E rie...........  90
“  Lewis’ Boston Baked. .1  45
“ 
“  Morn’g Glory. 1  10
Early  G old.. .1  10
“ 
“ 
Peas, F rench.........................1  25
“  extram arro fat...  @110
“  soaked............................  70
“  June, stan d ..........1  j0@1 50
“ 
“  sifted....................r.i 55
“  French, extra  fine...  14 uO
Mushrooms, extra fine.......18 00
Pumpkin, 3 lb.  Golden.........  85
Succotash,  standard__  @  85
S quash...................................1  25
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat..  @1  10
Good E nough____1 10
B enH ar..................1 10
stand hr___ 1 05@1  10
M ichigan Full Cream  12  @12)4 
Sap  Sago.......................  17@18
CHOCOLATE.
Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet  22
“  Premium.......   33
“  Horn-Cocoa...  37
“  B reakfast___  48

CHEESE.

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7)4

CHICORY.

CHEWING  GUM.
200 

coffee—Green.

Rubber, 100 lumps................25
..................35
Spruce.....................................30
B ulk........................................   6
R ed....................................... 
Rio, fa ir.......................... 16  @17
“  good........................ 17  @18
“  prime.......................J8  @19
“  fancy,  w ashed.. .19  @20
“  golden.....................20  @21
Santos..............................15  @18
Mexican & Guatemala 17  @19
P eaberry........................ 17  @19
Java,  Interior............... 20  @22
“ 
fancy...................23  ©25
“  M andheling___ 26  @28
Mocha, genuine............ 25  @26
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add )4c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.

coffees—Package.

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30 lbs  60 lbs

100 lbs
Lion........................‘................22%
“  in cab in ets..................... 22%
Dil worth’s ............................... 22%
M agnolia...    ........................22
Acme................... 21%  81%  21)4
G erm an..................................22
b in s ......................... 22)4
Arbuckle’s Ariosa.................28%
Avo ric a ............21%
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX..........22%
Honey  Bee.............................24%
Nox  All  ................................. 23)4
O  B .........................................22%
T iger....................................... 22%
Arbuckle’s Avorica............. 19)4
Quaker  City___20)4
Best  R io.............21)4
Prime Maricabo 24

coffees—50 lb. bags.

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COFFEE EXTRACT.

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

Cotton,  40 f t ..........per doz.  1  25
1  50
1  60
2 00
2 25
1  00
1  15

CLOTHES  LINES.
f t ...  
50 
“ 
“ 
f t .... 
60 
f t ... 
70 
“ 
f t ... 
80 
“ 
“ 
60 f t ........... 
7 2 f f ......... 
“ 
CONDENSED MILK.

“ 
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Jute 
“ 

CRACKERS.

E agle......................................  7  60
Anglo-Swiss.........................   6 00
Kenosha B utter.....................  8%
Seymour  “
B utter...................
“  family.........
“  fancy .........
“  b iscu it.......

Boston......................................  8)4
City Soda.................................  8)4
Soda..................
fa n c y ..............................  6)4
S. O yster.........

38

34

City Oyster, XXX...................   7
Picnic.......................................  7
Fancy Oyster..........................   6)4

 

CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly  pure................. 
Grocers’.................................... 
d r ie d  f r u it s —Domestic. 
Apples, sun-dried.__   5%@ 6
“ 
evaporated... ■  7"@   7!
Apricots, 
“
.......... 16
Blackberries “
Nectarines  “
...........14
Peaches 
“
...........14
Plums 
“
Raspberries  “
.......... 24

dried  fruits—Foreign.

“ 

Citron, in  drum ...........  @23
in boxes..........   @25
Currants........................   @5)4
14
Lemon  Peel.................  
14
Orange Peel.................  
Prunes,  T urkey..........   @ 4%
Im perial.........  @ 6%
“ 
Raisins,  V alencias................  7%
“  Ondaras.................  .  8)4
“  Domestic Layers.. .2 45
“  Loose Californias. .2  05

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

“ 

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Farina, 100  lb. kegs..............  04
Hominy,  per  b b l.........................4 00
Macaroni, dom 12 lb bo x ....  60
im ported.......  @10
Pearl  Barley....................  @ 3
Peas, green...................   @140
“  split.......................  @  3%
Sago,  German..............  @ 6)4
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’r l . ..  @ 6%
Wheat,  cracked........... 
©   6)4
Vermicelli,  im port__   @10
domestic...  @60
fish—salt.

Cod, w hole.......................  @5)4
“  boneless...................  ©7)4
12)4
H a lib u t............................ 
Herring,  round, )4 bbl.. 
2 75
1 50
“  %  bbl.. 
10 00
“  Holland,  bbls.. 
“  Holland, kegs..  @85
“ 
Scaled.............. 
30
Mack,  sh’s, No. 1, )4  b b l....9 50 
“  12  lb  kit. .1  45
“ 
“ 
“ 
.1 3 5
“ 
“  10 
Trout,  )4  bbls..............  @5 00
“  10  lb.  k its...................   80
White,  No. 1, % bbls.............6 OO
“ 
“ 
12 lb.  k its........115
10 lb. k its........1  00
“ 
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Family,  %  bbls......... 3 00
k its.............55@65

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GUN  POWDER.

K e g s..............................................5 25
Half  kegs.....................................2 88

lamp wicks.

No. 0........................................ 
No. 1........................................ 
No. 2.......................................  

30
40
so

LICORICE.

MINCE  MEAT

Pure.......
Calabria. 
Sicily__

Buckets . 
Half bbls

‘  MOLASSES.

Black  Strap-......................... 16@17
Cuba  Baking....................... 22@25
Porto  Rico...........................24@35
New Orleans, good.............25@30
choice........ ,33@40
fancy...........45@48

One-half barrels, 3c extra. 

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o a t m e a l.

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OIL.

“ 
“ 
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RICE.

PIPES.

SEEDS.

PICKLES.

SALT
“ 

s a l e b a t u s.

Muscatine,  B arrels....................6 00

SAPOLIO.
“ 

3  “ 
SAUERKRAUT.
“ 

Half barrels.......3  15
Cases..........8  25@2 35
r o l l e d  oats
M uscatine,Barrels............   .6 00
Half barrels.........3  15
Cases..........2 25@2 35
Michigan  Test....................... 10%
W ater  W hite...........................12%
M edium.........................................4 75
“  % b b l............................ 2 88
Small,  bbl.....................................5 75
“ 
)4  bbl................................3  38
Clay, No.  216................................ 1 60
“  T. D. full count............   75
Cob. No.  3 ...............................   40
Carolina head...........................6%
No. 1...........................6)4
No. 2 ..................5%@6
No. 3 ...........................5%
J a p a n .........................................5%
DeLand’s,  pure....................... 5%
Cl  arch’s, Cap  Sheaf...............5
Dwight’s ................................... 5
Taylor’s ..................................... 5
Common Fine per bbl...........  84
carlots..  80
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks.......  23
28  pocket..................'..............2 00
60 
..................................2  10
100 
.................................2 20
Ashton bu. b a g s ...................   75
Higgins  “ 
...................   75
Warsaw “ 
...................   35
SAL  SODA.
Kegs.........................................   v.
Granulated,  boxes__
-  1%  
Kitchen, 3 doz.  In box.
2  35
Hand, 
.......  2 35
Silver Thread, 30 g al........... 3 7s
40  “  ............ 5 0o
Mixed b ird ..............................  4)4
Caraway..................................10
C anary.....................................  4
Hemp........................................4)4
Anise........................................   8%
R ap e........................................   4)4
M ustard...................................   7%
Scotch, in  bladders............. 37
Maccaboy, in ja rs.................35
French Rappee, In J a rs ...... 43
Dingman,  100  bars...............4 00
Don’t  Anti-W ashboard...... 4 75
J a x o n ......................................3 75
Queen  A nne..........................3 85
German fam ily......................2 40
Big B argain........................... 1  87
B oxes.......................................5%
Kegs, English.........................4%
Allspice.................................. 10
Cassia, China in m ats...........7)4
Batavia in bu n d ___11
Saigon in  rolls......... 42
Cloves,  Amboyna..................30
Zanzibar....................24
Mace  B atavia........................70
Nutmegs, fancy.....................70
“  No.  1.........................65
“  No.  2.........................60
“ 
w hite.........28
“ 
shot...........................21
spices—Ground—In Bulk.
A llspice.................................. 15
Cassia,  B atavia.....................20
and  Saigon.25
Saigon..................... 42
Cloves,  Amboyna..................35
Zanzibar..................28
Ginger, A frican.....................12%
Cochin......................15
Jam a ic a ..................is
Mace  B atavia........................80
Mustard,  E nglish................. 22
and T rie..25
Trieste......................27
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................70
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 22
w hite........ 30
C ayenne..;..............25
Mystic, 1 lb.  pkgs..................  7
barrels.........................6

Pepper, Singapore, black__ 18%

spices—Whole.

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STARCH.

SNUFF.

SODA.

SOAP.

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SUGARS.

“ 

fit  L oaf.......................
C ubes............................
Pow dered.....................
Granulated,  Stand__
O ff...........
Confectionery  A.........
Standard  A .................
No. 1, W hite Extra C ..
No. 2 E xtra  C..............
No. 3C, golden............
No. 4 C, d ark ................
No. 5  C..........................

@ 8%

©   1 
r%@7 
©  

7%@’ © 1 @ i @ i

@

SYRUPS.

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Corn,  barrels.....................
one-half  barrels...
kegs..........................
Pure  Sugar, bbl................
“ 
half barrel...
X

SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps................9
Sugar  Creams..............9
Frosted  Creams...........
Graham  Crackers.......
Oatmeal  Crackers.......
tob a cc os—Plug.
Clipper  ..............................
C lim ax................................
Corner  Stone.....................
Double  Pedro...................
W hopper.............................
Peach  Pie..........................
Wedding  Cake,  b lk __ -...

26@28 
28@39 
1  30 
29@33 
31 @35
XXX9)4
9)49%
9
9

....39
39@41
__ 39
----40
....40
....4 0
....40

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

OOLONG.

IMPERIAL.

SUN CURED.

GUNPOWDER.

YOUNG HYSON.

BASKET  FIRED.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

!  F a ir ............................... 12  @15
I  G ood.............................   @16
j  Choice..............................24  @28
I  Choicest.......................... 30  @33
I 
F a ir .................................12  @15
I G ood............................... 16  @20
!  Choice..............................24  @28
Choicest..........................30  @33
!  F a ir ...............................   @20
Choice............................  @25
I  Choicest........................   @35
[ Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
1  Common to  fair............ 25  @35
Extra fine to finest___ 50  @65
Choicest fancy..............75  @85
j  Common to  fa ir............20  @35
Superior to fine..............40  @50
I  Common to  fa ir............ 18  @26
Superior to  fine............ 30  ©40
Common to  fa ir............ 25  @30
Superior to  fine............ 30  @50
i Fine to choicest............ 55  @65
F a ir .................................25  @30
Choice..............................30  @35
B est................................. 55  @65
,  Tea  D ust........................  8  @10
50
Sweet Pippin................ 
50
I Five and  Seven..........  
68
H iaw atha..................... 
45
Sweet  Cuba.................  
55
Petoskey Chief............ 
40
I Sweet Russet...............  
42-
T h istle.......................... 
| Florida.......................... 
65
I Rose  Leaf..................... 
66
I  Red Domino.................  
38
\  Swamp A ngel.............. 
40
TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS.
j 
1  $  2, per  hundred...................  2 59
..................  3 00.
|  9 5,  “ 
i 810,  “ 
..................4 00
I  820,  “ 
..................  5 00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts :
200 or over.................5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 
30 ..............................................  9)4
40 g r......................................... 11
50 g r..........................................12
Above are the prices  fixed bv 
the  pool.  M anufacturers  out­
side the pool  usually  sell  5 gr. 
stronger goods at same prices.

10 
 
..............20 
VINEGAR.

tobaccos—F ine Cut.

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81 for barrel.

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

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PAPER.

TWINES.

Cocoa Shells,  bulk..............  3%
Jelly, 30-lb.  pails..................  4%
15
S ag e...................................... 
P A P E R ,  W O O D E S W A B E .
C u rtiss  &  Co.  q u o te   as 
fo llo w s:
S tra w .........................................1%
“  Light  W eight................ 2
S u g a r.........................................2
Rag  S u g a r................................2%
H ardw are..................................2%
B akers.......................................2%
Dry  Goods.............................. 5'
Ju te  M anilla........................... 8
Red  Express, No.  1...............5
No. 2.................4
48 Cotton..................................22
Cotton, No. 2 ...........................20
“  3...........................18
Sea  Island, assorted.......... 40
No. 5 H em p .............................16
No.  8 B ..................................... 17
W ool........................................   7%
Tubs, No. 1............................  7  75
“  No. 2............................  6 75
“  No. 3............................  5  75
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.........  1  60^
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__   1  75
Clothespin^, 5 gr. boxes...
60 1 00
v iv m v D y iiy ,  g i , W A
Bowls, 11 m eh ............
13
1  25
15
2  00 
17
2 75
assorted, 17s and  17s  2 50 
“  15s. 17s and 19s  2  75
Baskets, m arket...................   40
“ 
b u sh el...................  1  60
“  with covers  1  90 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l  5  50
“  No.2 
“ 
“  No.3  7 OO
“ 
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“  No.l 3  50
“ 
splint 
“ 
“  No.2 
“ 
“  No.3 

WOODENWARE.

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OATS.

CORN.

TFFS

MEAL.

FLOUR.

WHEAT.

95
5  50
5  70
6  50 
6  70
2 80 
3  60
14  OO
16  OO 
14  OO
17  00 
17  75
50
47
32
30

G R A IN S  an d  FEED STT
W h ite..............................
Red...................................
Straight, in sacks..........
“  barrels........
Patent 
“  sacks...........
“  barrels........
Bolted.............................
G ranulated.....................
MILLSTUFFS.
Bran..................................
Ships.................................
Screenings .....................
M iddlings........................
Mixed  F eed...................
Small  lo ts.......................
Car 
.......................
Small  lots.......................
Car 
“  .......................
No. 1, per 100 lb s ...........
No. 1.................................
1  30 
No. 2.................................
1  10
NO. 1.................................
14  00 
NO.2.................................
13  00
HIDES, FELTS  and  FURS.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as 
follows:
HIDES.
G reen ........................
Part  Cured................
Full 
................
D ry..............................
Dry  Kips  ..................
Calfskins,  green__
cared__
Deacon skins.......
% off for No. 2.

5  ©   5% 
@  5% @ 6
6  @  8 
@  5 
5%@  6 
...10  @25

6  @ 8

BARLEY.

HAY.

RYE.

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.PELTS.

FURS.

w ild....................... 

Shearlings.....................10  @30
Estimated wool, per ft 20  @28
M ink................................  
5@ 65
Coon...............................  
5@1  00
Skunk............................  E@1  10
M uskrat......................... 
l@  J6
Fox, red............................ 
5@1 50
“  cross.......................   50@5 00
“  grey..........................  5®  80
5@ 25
Cat,  house........................ 
iva 50
 
F ish e r...
1  00@6  00 
L ynx...............
50@3 00 
M artin,  dark. 
25©3  00 
10@1 00 
pale..
“ 
O tte r..............
50@8  00 
Wolf.
50@3 00
B ear.................................   50@20  00
B eav er..........................   50@6  00
B ad g er..........................  
5@1  OO
Deerskins, per lb......... 
5@  40
MISCELLANEOUS.
T allow ..........................   4%@  5%
Grease  b u tter................8  @  8%
Sw itches.......................  2  @ 2%
G inseng.........................2  00@2  10

6 00

4 25
5 00

Has eight separate and important improvements for 1889. 
Now is the time to  arrange for the  selling  agency for your 
town,  and we  invite  correspondence  from  previous  agents 
and  from  those  who  would like the  agency for the coming 
season.  Discount, terms of  delivery  and  dating  of invoice 
given on application.  Catalogue for  1889  now ready.

H.  L eonard  &  Sons,
Jobbers  of Grookery, Tinware and  Lamp Goods,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

C r o c k e r y   & G l a s s w a r e

A Triumph of Invention.
Fair customer—Are  those  pretty  little 
alarm clocks good for anything?
Dealer—Yes,  indeed,  madame;  I  have 
one of  the  smallest  sizes  at  home,  and 
always  depend  on  it  when  I  want  to 
catch a train.
“Well, I want one for the servant girl’s 
bedroom.”
“Hem—perhaps  I’d  better  show  you 
our  new patent  alarm, made  especially 
for that purpose. 
It is rather expensive, 
but Aery  effective,  being  a  mechanical 
compound of a w histling buoy, an engine 
bell and a fog horn.”

The Brooklyn bridge is no less  a  mar­
vel than it ever was, but it is now such a 
commonplace convenience that the people 
of the metropolis  wonder  how they ever 
got  along  without  it.  Over  83,000,000 
passengers passed over the bridge during 
the  year  ending  December  1,  of whom 
more than  30,000,000  were  railway  pas­
sengers.  Not a  single  serious  accident 
occurred  on  the  railway. 
Fifty-eight 
persons  Avere  injured  by falling on the 
stairs or  from  other  causes.  Five  lost
children were found on the bridge.  One 
person  committed  suicide  by  shooting, 
and there Avere forty-two  runaways  with 
slight damages.  The  bridge  is  Avell po­
liced,  so that women cross  alone at night 
w ithout the slightest annoyance.

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

VISITING  BUYERS.

v illa

P  Wierengra. M uskegon 
W N H utchinson, G rant 
H Colby & Co., Rockford 
E N P arker. Coopersville 
C H Deming, Dutton 
M oore & Sherw ood,Freeprt 
E Young, Ravenna 
8 8 Dry den &  Co., Allegan 
Sevey & H errington. Berlin 
D W C S h a ttu c k ,  W ay land 
C F W aldon,  M ancelona 
E Brown, EnglishviHe 
W m B arker, Sand Lake 
H Thompson. Canada Cor 
Huizenga & Son,  East man- 
W. E. Hinm an, S parta 
A Purchase, So Blendon 
J. Kamps, Z utber 
T Armock, W right 
John Sm ith, Ada 
S Sheldon, Pierson 
S Cooper, Jam estow n 
- 
H Browny&rd. Lake 
J  B Horton.  Jam estow n 
J  R aym ond, B erlin 
C S Comstock, Pierson 
J G unstra, L am ont 
Beach & Clugston,
L Maier, Fisher Station 
R T P arrish, Grandville 
H Ade, Conklin 
Wm  Vermeulen,  Beaver 
C F W alden, M ancelona 
E S H oughtaling. H art 
A Purchase, So Bleudon 
B F N arregang,  B yronCntr 
Jam es F itzpatrick,
St Johns
Jam es T Barber, Saranac

La G range, Ind 

Dam

G L anster & Son, Ionia
John Giles & Co, Lowell 
E Roberts, S parta 
E E Hew itt,  Rockford 
Wm Fagan, Dollarville 
W right& Friend. LkeOdessa 
P  P Leonard,  Muskegon 
D A Boelkins, Muskegon 
R T P arrish, Grandville 
B utters  &  Peters  Salt  and 
Lum ber Co, Ludington 
Magoon & Co, E astlake 
J  F C lark, Big Rapids 
G RHancoofa&Co, Montague 
Kellogg & Co, K alkaska 
W right & F  iendJLk Odessa 
A O ppenheimer, B angor 
John Tiesenga,  Forest Gve 
C K H oyt & Co. H udsonville 
J  E W inchcomb. Kingsley 
Jo h n  D am stra,  Gitchell 
A M C hurch,  Englisgville 
E R H utchins, Glenn 
H  Van  Noord, Jam estow n 
T VanEenenaam . Zeeland 
N F Miller. Lisbon 
R A H asting-, S parta 
P  H Hoonan, Reed C ity 
L M Wolf. Hudsonville 
HD alm on. Allendale 
Hessler Bros, Rockford 
D unlap Bros,  V erm ontuille 
Redpath & M urray,  M artin 
C F W illiam s, Caledonia 
J  R Odell, Frem ont 
G P  Stark. Cascode 
R G Sm ith, W ay land 
C 8 Comstock, P erson 
H M eyering, Jam estow n 
D D Dorm an, Cedar Springs 
J  H M anning, Lake 
H erder & Lahuis, Zeeland

C doz. In box.

LAMP  BURNER
No. 0 Sun......................................
No. 1  “ 
......................................
No. 2  “  ......................................
T u b u lar........................................
LAMP  CHIMNEY
No. 0 Sun......................................
No. 1  “ 
......................................
No. 2  “ 
......................................
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.................
No. 1  “ 
“  ..................
No. 2  “ 
“  .................
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.................
No. 1  “ 
“  ....................
No. 2  “

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 

Pearl top.

La Bastic.

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled. 
“
No. 2  “ 
No. 2 Hinge,  “
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb 
No. 2  “ 
“ 
No. 1 crim p.................
No. 2 
“ 
.................

“

STONEWARE-

Butter Crocks, per g al..
Jugs,  % gal., per doz...

1 

“ 

“

Meat Tubs, 10 gal., each 

“  12  “ 
“ 
15  “
“  20  “ 
1  “

“
“

“ 

‘ 
‘ 
‘ 

2  15

2  58 
2  80
3 80

3 70
4  70 
4  70
1  25 
1  50 
1  40 
1  60

06)4 
65 
90 
1  80
1 ¿0
1  65
60
78

Milk Pans, % gal.,  per doz.

glazed 66c) 
90c)
H A R D W O O D   L U M B E R  

“ 

The furniture factories  here pay as follows for 
dry  stock,  measured  merchantable,  m ill  culls 
out:
Basswood, log-run 
13 00@15 00 
Birch,  log-run.
15 00@16 00@22 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2__
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, lo g -ru n ............
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, >4 sawed, 8 inch 
40 00@45 00 
Red Oak, % sawed, regular 
30 00©35 00 
Red Oak, No. 1, step plank
@25 00 
W alnut, log ru n ..........
@55 00 
W alnut, Nos. 1 and 2..
@75 00 
Walnuts, c u l l ..............
@25 00
Grey Elm, log-run.......
12 60@13 05 
W hite Aso, log-run__
14 00@16 00 
Whitewood, log-run... 
20  00@22 00 
W hite Oak, log-run__
17 00@18 00

nd upw’d

The  Final  Test.

Citizen  (to  grocer)—I  say,  Smith,  do 
you know anything about  Brown’s finan­
cial standing in  the  community ?  Is he 
prompt ?
Grocer—Well, all I know is that I have 
been his grocer for seven  years,  and he’s 
always paid me;  and a man who will pay 
his grocer’s bill will pay anything.

E. C. Tew & Son, general dealers, Orange:  “We 
wish to renew  our  subscription  to  your  paper, 
which is a very welcome visitor.”

Drugs $k Medicines.

Annual  Meeting  of  the  Michigan  Com­

mercial Travelers’  Association.

_

.  _  .  _ 

this, 

,500  are  on 

“Take,  for  instance, 

H e t r o i t   Pharmaceutical  Society. 

M io h lg a n   ;4 U t«   P b s n u s o s u t l c a l   A t» ’n . 

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

Natural  G as  Not  Petering  Out.

Presidenr, Geo.  L. LeFevre.  Secretary, Jno. A. Tinbolt.

Uu.'iegon  Drug Clerks’  Asaeclatlon- 

Local S ecretary—A. Bassets, Detroit.________________
•rr a v *1  B a p ld s   P b a r n u c e n t i c a l  S o c ie ty . 
P resident, J. W, H ayw ard.  Secretary, F ran k  H. E scott.

P resident—Geo. Gundruin, Ionia.
F irst Vice-President—F. M.  Alsdorf, Lansing.
Second Vice-President— H. M  Dean, Nile».
T h ird  Vice-President—0 . Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
S ecretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—Win Dupont, Detroit. 
Executive Com mittee—A. H. Lym an,  M anistee;  A. Bas­
sett  D etroit; F. J.  W ureburg,  G rand R apids;  W.  A. 
H ail,G reenville;  B. T.  Webb, Jackson.

aiut-e  (Ward •(  ^harmicj.
Oae Year—Jam es  Y ernor, Detroit.
Two Year»—O ttm ar Eberbach. Ann Arbor.
Three Y ears—Geo. McDonald, Kalamaaoo.
F o u r Y ears—Stanley E. P arkill. Owosbo.
F ire   Years—Jacob  Jeason,  Muukegoa.
P reaident—Geo. McDonald 
S ecretary —Jacob Jenson.
T reasurer—Jas. V eraor. 
. .
Hext M eeting—At  Lansing,  on  h o rem b er  «.  7 and 8. 
C andidates will please re p ert a t 9 a. m. th e  second day 
o f m eeting.________________________________ _____ —

From  th e D etroit Free Press, Dec. 28.
The  Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’ 
Association held their annual  meeting in 
Cleland Hall, State  street, yesterday,  the 
session opening at 9.80.  The Association 
was organized  January 17, 1874, and was 
incorporated December 10,  1877.
President  John C. Pontius, of  Detroit, 
read  his annual  address, noting  the gen­
eral  prosperity of  the  organization,  the 
faithful  work of  the officers and  the loss 
by death of four members.
E.  P.  Kellogg,  Secretary-Treasurer, 
read  his  annual statement. 
It showred : 
Total membership at  last  annual  meet­
ing, 520;  admitted  during  the  year,- 20; 
stricken from membership, 8;  reinstated, 
2;  resigned, 2;  died, 4;  total  membership 
at  date,  528.  Those  who  died were H. 
Phillips,  D.  H. Hawes,  F. Benedict  and 
I.  B. Adams.
The  cash  on  hand  at  last report was 
I §3,517.89;  received  for  petitions,  §200; 
reinstatements, §6;  received  on  deposit, 
j §30;  on back  assessment,  §150;  on  death 
assessments,  §10,595.84;  total,  14,354.23.
Prof.  I.  C. White, Professor of Geology 
| The expenditures  were  §10,854.23,  leav- 
in the University of  West  Virginia,  and 
j ing a balance on hand of §3,500.  In  ad­
the mast noted  natural  gas  territory ex­
dition  to 
the  association  has 
pert in  the  world, was in  Pittsburgh re­
§27,263.28  in  special  reserve  funds and 
cently,  and  on  being  asked  by a  Com­
I furniture,  and  other  assets  worth §120, 
special  deposit. 
mercial Gazette reporter what he  thought j while 
of  the rumors  afloat concerning a failure 
There is an  increase of  §905.85  over the 
to the natural gas supply,  he said :
showing  of  one  year ago.
“Such rumors are most idle and have no 
A  communication  was read  from  the 
foundation whatever in fact.  Ihey were 
Michigan Stove Co. presenting each mem­
gotten up by persons who wished to bear 
ber  with a handsome  cane;  also an  invi­
the gas stock  market.  There is no indi­
tation  to  a  banquet  at  noon  from  the 
cation  whatever of  a failure of  the  sup- 
Banner  Cigar  Co.  Both  were  accepted 
ply—in  fact,  there will be more gas pro­
with thanks.
duced  in  the  next  few  years than ever 
The  remainder of  the morning  session 
before.  This is a statement  that  can be 
was  devoted  to  devising some means  by 
easily verified by taking an unprejudiced 
which the membership of the Association 
and common sense view of  the situation.
might  be  augmented.  Two  plans  were 
the  Northern 
discussed  at  length,  one  proposition  be­
fieltl—I mean that which  supplies-Titus- 
ing  the appointment of  a working  secre­
ville, Oil City and towns in their vicinity.
tary,  with a salary,  to  devote  his whole 
The  supply there  is  as  abundant  as at 
time  to the  work.  The  result  was  the 
first, and  yet these towns have been using 
appointment of  a committee  to draft  the 
the  fuel  for twenty  years.  There is no 
necessary changes in the constitution and 
evidence of  failure  there, nor  does  any 
by-laws.  Following  is  the  committee: 
person anticipate any such event,  unless 
M.  J. Mathews, T. J.  Haywood,  Thomas 
it be the croakers.  Now,  take  the Mur- j Macleod 
J.  T.  Lowry  and  George  L. 
raysville field, the wells  there  have  be­
Sampson.  When  ready  to  report,  a 
come  reduced  in  pressure, but it is only 
special meeting will  be called.
such  holes as have been in operation for 
At noon the  body adjourned  and  each 
a  long  time.  The  immense  demand 
man, carrying the cane  presented by the 
made on that  territory on account of  the 
Michigan  Stove  Works,  marched  down 
large  increase  in  the  number  of  con-
Woodward  avenue 
to  Jefferson,  and
sumers  is  sufficient  to  reduce the pres-  thence to the factory of the Banner Cigar 
sure of  those  particular wells, but there | Co., -where a banquet was served, 
is an immense stretch of  other equally as
good territory in that same district, which 
will last as long  as the Titusville field.
“After  all  the  gas  from  the  present 
strata  of  rock  is  exhausted, 
then  the 
wells can be drilled deeper  and  another 
Abundant  supply  obtained.  That  may 
become a necessity in  after  years,  but is 
not  an  immediate one.  Why ?  Simply 
because  we  have  the  Grapeville  field, 
which has  just been tapped.  This terri­
tory is  much  superior  to  the  Murrays- 
viile,  and  the  product  to  be  obtained 
from it will  last  years. 
I consider  that 
that the Grapeville  field  alone  shuts out 
the  possibility of  a  scarcity  of  supply, 
but the Philadelphia and other companies 
are  not  dependent  on  it  solely  by any 
means.  The  Bridgewater  Company’s 
wells in the  Milliscent  territory are also 
doing well.  The proper  management of 
gas producing  territory and  care  on the 
part  of  manufacturers  to  prevent  the 
-enormous  waste of  gas  are  what  is  re­
quired.  There  is  any  quantity  of  fuel 
wasted  now  in  the  mill  furnaces  that 
could with a little care be saved.
“I am  thoroughly conversant with the 
qualities of  the  fields I have  spoken of, 
because  I  have  surveyed  each  one  of 
■them. 
I have made  a  careful  study  of 
She geological formation of  the land, and 
for that reason am  prepared to state that 
there is not the slightest  foundation  for 
the  panic  about  the  failure  of  supply. 
Underlying  all  the  wells now' in opera­
tion  is  other  rock  in  which equally as
great quantity of  fuel 
duced can be found.”
Prof.  White stated  further that he was I 
not  employed  by  any  gas  company  at | 
present, nor was he financially interested I 
in  any  territory.  He  was  attending 
closely to his business as a teacher at the 
university  at  Morgantown,  W. Ya.  He 
"had  found  time  to  pay  a short  visit to 
friends in  Wheeling, and  while en route 
to  that  city  he  stopped  over  to call on 
-certain friends in this city.

Election of  officers resulted as follows: 
J. T.  Lowry,  President;  A.  W.  Culver, 
First  Vice-Presulent;  Charles  S. Robin­
son, Grand  Rapids;  Frank  Phillips, Kal­
amazoo;  E.  L. Greggs, Fast Saginaw, and 
E. F. Percival, Port Huron,  Second Vice- 
Presidents.  E.  P.  Kellogg,  Secretary- 
Treasurer;  George L. Sampson,  John E. 
Langley, M. J. Mathews, Trustees.  John 
Pontius was elected for the short term on 
the  committee  having  charge of  the re­
serve  fund,  and  John  A. Murray  and 
R. W.  Hawley for two  years each.
A vote of  thanks  was  tendered the re­
tiring  officers for the creditable  manner 
in  which  they  have  disehorged  their 
duties during the  past  year.
Mr.  Ailes  introduced a resolution ask­
ing Congress  to  amend the provisions of 
the inter-state  law  so that  the  railways 
may,  if  they  see  fit,  carry  commercial 
travelers  at  the  same  reduced  rate  as 
clergymen.  Mr.  Matthews  opposed  the 
resolution  as  he  was  opposed  to  class 
legislation.  Mr.  Ailes said the  Associa­
tion in passing the  resolution  would not 
commit itself  to  class  legislation.  “We 
are not asking  anything at the  hands of 
the  legislators,  but  at  the hands of  the 
railway companies,” said  he.  “That we 
have always  done.”
The  President  appointed  Herman  C. 
Feehheimer,  A. E.  Morey  and  Geo.  W. 
Edson  Finance  Committee  for  the  en- 
j suing  year and E. Mortlock  chairman of 
! the  committee,  and  the  meeting  ad-

has  been  pro- | journed sine die.

The New  Antiseptic.

a  pro­
Creolin, the new antiseptic,  is 
certain
duct  of  the  dry  distillation  of 
kinds of English  coal. 
It  occurs  as  a 
dark brown, syrupy fluid, having a strong 
tarry odor. 
It mixes  in  all  proportions 
with  water,  oil  and  glycerine,  and  is 
soluble in alcohol.  The w atery mixtures 
have at first a  milk-white  color,  but  on 
standing  a  finely  liocculent  precipitate 
separates  and  the  mixture  assumes  a 
brown color.  Creolin is a  “secret”  pre­
paration,  and is,moreover, a mixture and 
not a  definite  chemical  compound,  and 
Liebreich  has  very  properly  called  at­
tention to the fact that under the circum­
stances the makers can alter its composi­
tion as they see fit.  However,  Fisher’s 
investigations go to prove that at present 
creolin has a pretty constant composition. 
He  found  in  addition  to  a  number  of 
other coal bases, 18 per cent, of naphtha­
line.  He could find no trace  of  carbolic 
acid though it has been alleged that  ear- 
bolate of sodium is one  of  the  principal 
ingredients.

Curacao  Aloes.

At the evening meeting of the  London 
chemists recently, Mr.  Holmes, the  cura­
tor of the museums,  made an interesting 
explanation of the cause of the difference 
in color between Curacao and  Barbadoes 
aloes, which, it is  well  known,  are  the 
product  of  the  same  plant. 
It  seems 
that the natives bring the aloes  juice  to 
the factories  for  evaporation,  and  that 
the Curacao  variety  is  only  evaporated 
when a  certain  quantity  has  been  col­
lected, and while it waits  the  juice  un­
dergoes fermentation,  whereby the  aloes 
become dark  colored  and  glassy  in  ap­
pearance.  The  Barbadoes  aloes  juice, 
on the other hand,  is evaporated while  it 
is perfectly  fresh,  and  thereby  retains 
the fine liver appearance, as  well  as  its 
distinctive odor.

He  Came  to  Time.

From  th e  B is Rapids H erald.

The case of  Dr. Bradley,  charged with 
violating  the * State  Pharmacy  £aw  by 
putting up a prescription  without  being 
the  possessor of  a pharmacist’s  commis­
sion,  was  commenced  before  Justice 
Dewey,  but  speedily  brought to a close, 
the doctor deeming his time  worth  more 
to him than  contesting  the law,  and set 
tling the matter by paying a nominal fine 
and costs.

The  Wood  Oil  Industry  of Sweden.
The French  scientific  journal  La  Na­
ture states that the extraction of oil from 
wood  in  Sweden  is  becoming  year  by 
year a‘more important  industry.  Those 
parts of  the  trees  which  have  hitherto 
been  regarded  as  useless,  such  as  the 
stumps  and  roots,  are no  longer  left in 
the  forest  to  rot,  but  are  subjected to 
various  methods of  treatment, by which 
not  only wood  oil, but  also  turpentine, 
•creosote,  acid  of  vinegar,  charcoal  and 
tar are obtained  from  them.  The oil as 
it is  now  usually  extracted  cannot  be 
burnt  in  ordinary  lamps,  for it smokes 
too much;  but  it  may be used in special 
lamps,  which  are  not  dissimilar  to  the 
-usual  photogen  lamps.  The  latter can 
easily be adapted  to  wood oil,  and when 
the oil is  mixed  with a certain  quantity 
of  photogen it may be  consumed in ordi­
nary lamps. 
It costs about  3d. per pint, 
it does not explode, and  lasts twenty-five 
times  longer  than  photogen.  When in­
tended for lighting it is extracted wholly 
from pines  and  firs.  Thirty factories in 
Sweden make its extraction part of  their 
business,  and the  production is now con­
siderable.

Proposed  Legislation.

Daniel  R.  Noyes,  of  St.  Paul,  chair­
man of  the  Committee on  Legislation of 
the National  Wholesale Druggists’ Asso­
ciation, has  sent  out  the  following cir­
cular to members of  the body :
While it is improbable  that  any legis­
lation will be secured  at  this  session of 
Congress  looking  to  our relief  from tax 
on aleohol, etc.,  yet the whole  subject of 
tariff  and  tax  legislation  is  of  interest 
and  importance to us all.  Will  you  not 
kindly  give  me—for  the  benefit of  our 
Committee on Legislation—at the earliest 
practical  moment,  your  views  of  what 
changes are desirable, naming article and 
rates,  and  giving  the  reasons  for  pro­
posed  changes?  By  so  doing  you  will 
oblige.

Wholesale Drice  Current.

ACIDUM.

8© 10
A ceticum ........................ 
Beniolcum,  German..  80@1  00
Bor&cic........................  
80
Carbolicum ...................   40® 45
C itricum ........................   55®  00
Hydrochlor
H .y _ __JHL-  -
Nltrocum  .....................  10®
O xalicum .....................  13®  14
Phosphorium  d ll......... 
30
Salley Ileu m ................. 1  78@2  05
Sulphuricum ................  13i@  5
Tannlcum .....................1  40@1  60
50®  53
Tartaricum .

AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg..............
18  deg— . —
Carbonas  ...................
C liloridum .................

“ 

3®
4@
1 1®
12®

Black.. 
Brown. 
R ed.... 
Yellow

.2 00©2 25 
.  80@ï 00 
.  45©  50 
.2  50@3 00

8®

BACCAE.

Cubeae (po. 1  60.......... 1  85©2 00
1Juniperus 
Xantnoxylum
balsamum.
Copaiba........................
P eru ...............................
Terabin, Canada  .......
T o lu tan ........................

70®  75 
@1  30 
50®  55 
45®  50

25®

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian............
Cassiae  ............................
Cinchona F la v a ...........-
Euonvmus  atropurp—
Myrica  Cerifera, po.......
Prunus V irgini— .........
Quill aia,  grd ...................
Sassafras  ........................
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)..

EXTRACTTJM.
Glvevrrhiza  G labra...
p o ..........
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is............
its.........
FERRUM.

“ 
“ 
“ 

24®
33®11®
13®
14®
16©

Carb................................  12®
Chlorate,  (po. 20).........  18®
C yanide.........................  50®
Iodide............................2  85@3
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  35® 
Potassa, Bitart, com ...  ®
Potass  Nitras, opt....... 
8®
Potass N itras................ 
7®
P russiate.......................  25®
Sulphate  po..................  15®

RADIX.

A conitum .....................  20®
A lthae............................  25®
A n ch u sa .......................  15®
Arum,  po.......................  @
Calamus.........................  20®
Gentiana,  (po.  15).......  10©
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16® 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 65)....................... 
©
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__   15®
Inula,  po.......................  15®
Ipecac,  po.........t ..........2  15@2
Iris  pi ox  (po. 20@22)..  17®
30
Jalapa,  p r.....................   25®
Maranta.  J4s................ 
©
18
Podophyllum, po.........  15®
R hei...............................   75® 1  00
“  c u t........................   @1  75
“  p v ..........................   75©1  35
S pigelia........................   48©  53
Sangninavla,  (po  25)..  @  20
Serpentaria...................  30®  35
S enega..........................  75®  80
Similax, Officinalis,  H  ©   40 
M  @  20
Scillae,  (po. 35)............  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Fcetl-
©   35
dus.  po....................... 
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
G erm an...  15®  20
Zingiber a .....................  10©  15
Zingiber  j .....................  22®  25

“ 

“ 

“ 

SEM EN .

4® 

.  @  15
I Anisum,  (po.  20) —  
.  10®   12 
Apium  (graveleons),
. 
6
Bird, I s .......................
.  12©  15 
Carol, (po. 18)............
.1  00®1  25 
Cardam on..................
.  10®  12 
Corlandrum ...............
.  354®  4
Cannabis Sativa.......
.  75®1 00 
Cydonium................. .
.  10®  12 
Chenopodium  .........
.1  75@1  85 
Dipterix Odorate___
@  15
Foeniculum.
6®
Foenugreek,  p o ...----  
lin i................. —  I  ~
@  4
Ani, grd,  (bbl. 4  )..
Lobelia........................
i’harlaris Canarian...
ta p a ............................
Sinapis,  A lbu............
N igra..........
SPIRITUS.

«4®  4;4 
35®  40 
3!4@ 4)4 

“ 

Carbonate Precip. 
Citrate and Q uinia... 
Citrate  Soluble .......
Ferroeyanidum Sol..
Solut  Chloride..........
Sulphate,  com’l ........
pure...........
FLORA.

©®@
5®8®11® -1
54©@
14® 16 Frum enti, W., D.  Co. .2 09@2 50
00
.  D. F. R .... .1
30®
50
.1
30®
Juniperis  Co. O. T ... .1 75@1 75
.1 7.j®3 50
10® 12 Saacharum  N.  E ....... .1 75i').2 00
Barosma 
............ • • - • •
Spt.  Vini  Galli.......... .1 75® 6 50
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-
25® 28 Vini OiKjrto................ .1 25©2 00
nivellyj................... • •
35® 50 Vini  A lba................... .1 25@2 00
AIx.
Salvia  officinalis,  54s
10® 12
EraUrsl........................  8®  10

and  54a.......................  —,

Arnica  —  
Anthémis  . 
Matricaria

i .)@2 
10@1

SPON8ES.

FOLIA.

35
35

“ 

“ 

“ 

gummi.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
.* 

Acacia, 1st  picked—   ®1 08
2d 
.... 
90
3d 
.... 
®  80
sifted so rts... 
@ 65
p o .........  75@1 
00
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60)...  50®  60 
<©  1”
“  Cape,  (po.  20)... 
“  Socotri,  (po.  60).  @ 5 0
Catechu, Is, (54s, 14 54B< 
_  „„
A m m oniae...................   2o@  30
Assafoetida, (po. 30)...  &  15
Benzoinum...................   50®  5o
Cam phor».....................  “ j©  jo
Euphorbium, po..........   35®  10
Galbanum ..................... 
<©  80
Gamboge,  po— .........   86®
©   40 
Guaiaeum,  (po. 45)
@  20 
Kino,  (po.  25)...
@1  60 
M astic................
@  40 
Myrrh,  (po. 45)..
3 20@3 25 
Opii,  (po. 4  75)..
25®  33 
Shellac  ..............
25®  30 
bleached
30®  75
Tragacanth  .......

‘ 
h er b a—In ounce packages.

A bsinthium ............................
Eupatorium ............................
Lobelia.....................................
M ajorum .................................
Mentha  Piperita...................
V ir............................
R ue...........................................
Tanacetum, Y ........................
Thymus,  V .............................

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magnesia.

Calcined, P a t...............   55®
Carbonate,  Pat  ...........  20®
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20® 
Carbonate,  Jenning5..  35® 

OLEUM.

45®

A bsinthium ................. 5 00®5  50
Amygdalae, Dulc 
..7  25@7 50
Amydalae, Amarae
..2  00@2 10
A n isi.......................
..  @2 50
A uranti ; Cortex...
. .2  50@3 00
Bergami!  ..............
.. 
90©1 00
Cajiputi-.................
@2 00 
C aryophylli.........
.. 
35®  65
Cedar  .....................
©1
C henopodii..........
..  95® 1  00@
C innam om i..........
C itronella..............
..  35®  65 
Conium  M ac.........
..  90@1  00 
Copaiba.................
15i50@16 00 
Cubebae..................
..  90@1  00
Exechthitos...........
..1  20@1  30 
E rig ero n ...............
.. 2 :25@2 35 
G aultheria............
..  @
Geranium,  ounce. 
..  50©
Gossipii,  Sem. gal
Hedeóma  ..................... 1  15@1
Juniperi........................   50@2 00
L avendula...................   90®
L im onis..............................1  60@2 00
M entha Piper...........................2 75@3
Mentha  V erid................... 3 00@3 25
Morrhuae, gal..............  80@1  00
Myrcia, ounce..............  @  50
O live.........................................1 00@2
Pieis Liquida,  (gal. 35)  10®  12
R icin i............................  96@1  10
Rosm arini.....................  75@1  00
Rosae,  ounce................  @6 00
Sucelni..........................   40®
S ab in a..........................  90@1  00
Santal  ...........................3  50@7 00
Sassafras.......................  80©  85
Sinapis, ess, ounce__   @  65
T iglii.............................   @1  50
T hvm e..........................  40®  50
@  60 
opt  . 
20
Theobromas.
B iC arb..........................   15®
B ichrom ate..................  14®
Bromide........................   37®

p o t a s s iu m .

15®

“ 

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.....................2  25@2  50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
2 00
carriage  ...................  
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
1  10
wool  carriage........... 
E xtra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage..................... 
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .......................... 
65
75
Hard for  slate  use —  
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u s e .............................  
1  40

STHUPS.

A ccacia...................................  50
Zingiber  .................................  50
Ipecac......................................   60
Ferri  Io d .................................  50
Auranti  Cortes.........................  50
Rhei  Arom..............................  50
Similax  Officinalis................  60
Co.........  50
S enega.......................................  50
Scillae........................................   50
“  Co...................................  50
T o lu tan .....................................  50
Prunns  virg ..............................  50

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TINCTURES.

 

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“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Aconitum  Napellis R ...........  60
F ...........  50
Aloes..........................................  60
and  m yrrh.....................   60
A rn ic a .......................................  50
Asafoetida.................................   50
Atrope Belladonna..................  60
Benzoin.....................................  60
Co................................  50
Sanguinaria..............................  50
B arosm a...................................  50
Cantharides..............................  75
C apsicum ................................  50
Cardamon.................................   75
Co.......................  75
C astor......................................1  00
C atechu.....................................  50
Cinehona  .................................  50
Co.......................  60
C olum ba...................................  50
 
C onium ........................... 
Cubeba......................................   50
D ig italis...................................  50
E rgot..........................................  50
G entian.....................................  50
Co.................................   60
Guaica .,.....................................  50
ammon..................   60
Z in g ib er...................................  50
Hyoscyam us............................  50
Iodine........................................   75
Colorless.................  75
Ferri  Chloridum...............  35
K in o .......... ..............................   50
Lobelia......................................   50
M y rrh ........................................   50
N ux  Vomica............................  50
O p ii............................................  85
“  Camphorated...................   50
“  Deodor...........................2 00
Auranti Cortex.........................  50
Q uassia.....................................  50
Rhatany  ...................................  50
R hei............................................  50
Cassia  A cutifol.......................  50
“  Co................  50
S erpentaria..............................  50
Stramonium..............................  60
T o lu tan .....................................  60
V alerian ...................................  50
Veratrum V eride.....................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.
“ 
ground, 

Aither, Spts  Nit, 3 J f..  26®  28
“  4 F ..  30@  32
A lum en.......................... 2)4® 3)4
(po.
7)................................. 
3©  4
A nnatto........................   55®  60
4®  5
Antimoni, po...............  

“ \   et Potass T.  55®  60

•• 

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“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

A ntipyrin...........................1  S5®1 40
Argenti  Nitras, ounce  ®   68
A rsenicum ................... 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  B ud.......  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ................... 2  15@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is,  (%s
11;  }4s,  12)................  @ 
9
Cantharides  Russian,
p o ..............•................  @1  75
Capsici  Fructus, a f...  @  18
po__   @ 1 6
B p o ..  @  14
Carvophyllus,  (po.  30)  25®  28
Carmine,  No. 40..........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S.  & F .......  50®  55
Cera  ¿'lava.....................   28® 30
C occus........................ .  @  40
Cassia F ructus............   @  15
Centraria.......................  @  10
'C etaceum .....................  @ 3 5
C hloroform ....................  50® 55
squibbs ..  @1  00
Chloral  Ilyd C’rst__   .1  50@1  75
C hundrus.......................  10® 12
Cini-honidlne, P.  &  W  15®  20 
5®  12
German 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per 
@ 
cent  ..........................
@ @ 
C reasotum .................
Creta,  (bbl. 75)............
5® 8® 
“ 
prep....................
precip................
“ 
@ 
“  R ubra................
22® 
Crocus  ........................
@ 
Cudbear.......................
Cupri Sulph................
7© 
10® 
D ex trin e.....................
68® @ @
Ether Sulph................
Emery,  all  numbers.
po...................
...  40® 
Ergota,  (po.)  45.........
Flake  W hite..............
. . .   12® 
G alla............................
©
Gambier.......................
... 
7®@
Gelatin,  Cooper.........
“ 
F rench..........
...  40® 
Glassware .flint,  7 
per cent.
by box 66?i, less
9®
... 
Glue,  B ro w n ...,.........
“  W hite..................
13® 25
G lycerina.....................
23® 26
Grana Paradisi............
© 15
25® 40
H um ulus.......................
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..
@ 85
@ 75
“  C o r____
© 90
Ox Rubrum
©1 10
Ammoniati..
45® 55
Unguentum .
® 75
H ydrargyrum ..............
23(7) 1 50
Ichthyobolla,  Am...... 1
75® 1 00
Indigo............................
00®4 10
Iodine,  Resubl........... 4
@5 15
~j I  Iodoform.......................
85® 1 00
9  L upulin........................
2 |  !,ycopodium ................
55® 60
80® 85
j  M acis............................
I  Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
® 27
drarg Iod...................
10® 12
Liquor Potass Arsinitis 
Mag nesia,  Sulph  (bbl
2® 3
1« ) ...................................
90@1 00
Mannia,  S..F................
55@2 80
Morphia,  S.  P. & W .. .2 
S. N.  Y.  Q. &
55(7) 2 70
C. C o ..........................2
® 40
Moschus  Canton.........
60® 70
Myristiea,  No. 1.........,
@ 10
N ux Vomica,  (po 20)..
27® 29
Pepsin Saac, H.  & P. D.
©2 00
C o...............................
Picis  Liq, N.  C., )4 gal
@2 70
doz  ............................
@1  00
Picis Liq., q u a rts .......
@ 70
p in ts...........
@ 50
H I Hydrarg,  (po. 80).. 
@ 18
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)..
@ 35
Piper Alba,  (po g5)__
© 7
Pix  B urgun..................
14® 15
10@1  20
Pul vis Ipecac et opii.. 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
@1  25
<Sc P. D.  Co., doz.......
55® 60
Pyrethrum,  p v ............  55®
8® 10
Quassiae ......................
47® 52
Quinia,  S. P.  & W  __
33® 43
S.  German__
12® 14
Rubia  Tinctorum .......
@ 3o
Saccharum Lactis p v ..
50@2 75
Salacin..........................2
40® 50
Sanguis  Draconis.......
@4 50
Santoniue  ...................
12® 14
Sapo,  W ........................
8® 10
“  M..........................
© 15
"  G ..........................
@ 28
Seidlitz  M ixture.........
@ 18
Sinapis..........................
© 30
“  opt.....................
Snuff,  Maceaboy,  De
© 35
Snuff j Scotch, lie. Yoes 
'U?
il® 12
Soda Boras,  (po. 12).  ,
33® 35
Soda  et Potass T a rt...
2® >1/
Soda Carb.....................
4® 5
Soda,  Bi-Carb..............
3® 4
Soda,  A sh.....................
@ 2
Soda, Sulphas..............
50® 55@2 00
Spts.  Ether C o ............
“  Myrcia  Dom.......
"  Myrcia Im p.........
®2
Vini  Rect.  bbl.
©a
*  27)
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
@1  10 

“ 

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“ 

“ 

•• 

50

paints. 

..  2 3 ) 4

8®   10 
..  28®  30 
..  50®  55 
.9 00®16 00 
7®  8
Gal
90

S try c h n ia   Crystal.
Sulphur,  Subi.......
Roll.........
T am arinds............
Terebenth Venice.
Theobrom ae.........
V anilla...................
Zinei  Sulph...........
OILS.
Bbl. 
Whale, w inter__
.  70 
Lard,  ex tra..........
86 
56
Lard, No.  1..........
Linseed, pure raw —   o7
Lindseed,  boiled.......  60
Neat’s  Foot,  w inter
69
stra in e d ...................  50
Spirits Turpentine —   50 
55
bbl.  lb.
Red  V enetian................134  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ \%  2@4
“ 
B er.........\%  2@3
Putty,  commercial— 2)4 2)4@3
“  strictly  p ure.......2)4  234@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16
ican .............................. 
Vermilion,  English__  
70®75
Green,  Peninsular....... 
70@75
Lead,  red .......................  6?4@7)4
w h ite ....................634@7J4
@70
W hiting, white Span... 
W hiting,  Gilders’......... 
@90
White, Paris  American 
1  00
W hiting,  Paris  Eng.
c liff.............................. 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
P a in ts........................1  00@1  20
varnishes.
No. 1 Turp  Coach...... 1  10@1  20
Extra T urp.................. 1  60@1  70
Coach  Body.................2 75@3  00
No. 1  T u rp F u rn ........ 1  00@1  10
E utra Turk Dam ar__1  55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T u r p ..........................  70®  75

“ 

DANIEL LYNCH

Successor to  FBED  D.  YALE &  CO., 

M anufacturer of

F l a v o r i n g   E x t r a c t s ,  

B a k i n g   P o w d e r ,  
B l u i n g ,   E t c .
t o r s   ait  Driiists’  Sniiries.

And Jobber of

Gall and inspect  our  new  establishment 

when in the city.

19  S.  IONIA  ST.
The  Drug  Market.

There  are  no  changes  to  note  in  the 
drug market, everything being stationery 
and likely  to  remain so until  after  the 
annual inventories are completed.

WHITE  LEAD 

& COLOR WORKS I 

manufacturers of

DETROIT,
LATEST
ARTISTIC
SHADES

FOR

¡Interior
I .   » 
i
AND

I  EXTERIOR 
¡DECORATION
i F. J. WURZBURG, Wholesale Ageel,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

GX2TS252TG HOOT.
p r r i F   D D n e   W holesale  D ru g g ists, 
rilUJEL  ijilU io.,  GRAND RAPIDS.

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

HAZBLTIJSE

&  PERKINS
DRUG 

I m p o rte rs   a n d   Jo b b e rs   o f

.

—  D R U G S  —

Chemicals  and  Druggists’  Sundries.

Dealers  in

Patent Medicines, Paints,  Oils, Varnishes.

We  are  Sole  Proprietors  of

WEATHERLY’S  MICHIGAN  CATARRH  REMEDY.

We have in stock and offer a fall line of

‘Wh.iskies,  Brazidies,

Gins,  W ines,  Hums.

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

Henderson County, Hand Made  Sour Mash 

Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite 

Rye  Whisky.

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

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

keltinB  i Perkins  Driig  Go.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

“ filia

This Handsome Plush

Show  Case  Stand
and other attractive advertising m atter giv­

en FREE to Druggists who order 2  dozenRLU

FOR  CHILDREN.

Retail, 25c. bottle.  Wholesale,  §2  dozen.  Ad­
dress orders to Dr. H. C. PECKHAM & CO., Free­
port, Mich., naming your jobber.
A. W. Stevenson, 558 Western ave.,  Muskegon, 
writes Dec. 19, 1888: 
“Have never found a m ed­
icine more true to its name than your Peckham’s 
Croup Remedy.  I always use it for my own chil­
dren and recommend it to my customers.  I nev­
er knew it to fail.”

T

DIAMOND  YES

CURES

Diver and 

Kidney Troubles 
Blood Diseases 

Constipation

-AND-----

Female

C o m p l a i n t s
Being composed entirely of  HERBS, it 
is the only perfectly harmless  remedy on 
the market and  is  recommended  by  all 
who use it.

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

Place your order with 

our  Wholesale

House.

Diamond  filed« Go,

PROPRIETORS,

DETROIT,  -  MICH.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,

WHOLESALE  AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

IHWIM&GOl

APOTHECARY^  BRAND.

CUBAN,HAND MADE HAVANA,CI CARS
10%5*cfj-

78 Congress St., West,

Detroit, Mich., April 9,1888.

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

Yoars  truly,

Wm. G r a y , M. D.
.  Medical Sup’t.

E V E f f Y   C IG A R   BRANDED.

Los Doctores’

)) Is free  from  AR­
TIFICIAL  FLA­
VORING, is  a ci­
gar that will hold 
fire, contains one-third more pure Havana tobac­
co than any ten-cent Key West or two for 25 cents 
imported cigar you can get.

FREE  SMOKING,  MILD  AND  RICH.

For  Sale  by  20,000  Druggists  throughout  the 

V. S.Hazelline & Perkins Drill Co.,

Wholesale Agts., Grand Rapids

Midville, Geo., Feb. 24,1888.

Specialty D epart. P h. Best Brew ing Co.,
G e n t l e m e n —I think the “Tonic” a splendid 
medicine for all forms of  Dyspepsia and Indi­
gestion.  It is giving me great satisfaction.
J. M. J o h n s o n , M. D.

Very respectfully,

Yardley, Pa., March 18,1888.

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

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

Troy, New York, January 26,1888.

four product with  some  from another  house 

Specialty D epart. Ph. Best Brewing Co„
Dear Sirs—Your agent left me a sample of 
your liquid extract. Malt, and  as  I  use  much 
such  in  my  practice, I  thought  to  compare
had on hand; and finding  yours  superior  lu 
the  great essential,  the  politoble  nutriant  as 
well as in tonic stimulant properties, felt anx­
ious to  know about what  it  can  be furnished 
the dispensing physician.

Yours truly,

E. Jay Fisk, M. D.

East Genessee Street, 

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

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

Wm. O. Jaeger.

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

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

Respectfully.

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

Work-House Hospital, 

Blackwell’s Island, Feb. 10,1888. 
Ph. Best B rewing Co.,
G e n t l e m e n —A s  a matter of personal inter­
est, I have used  your “Best” Tonic In several 
cases of Impaired  nutritition.  The results In­
dicate that it is  an  agreeable  and  doubtless, 
highly efficacious remedy.  1 am,
Very truly yours,

E. W. F i e m i n o ,  M. D.

Specialty D epart. Ph. Brewing Co.,
your  “Best” 
G e n t l e m e n —Having  tried 
it my practice, 
Tonic to a great  extent amon 
have  had  the
I will state in its  behalf that  : 
best results with  nursing mothers  who  were 
deficient in  milk, increasing its fluids and se­
creting a more nourishing food for the infant, 
also ino> easing the appetite and in every way 
satisfa ctory for such cases.

Very respectfully,

D.  B o r n i o , M  D.

For Sale By

Hazeltine  &   Pe e k   D une  Co.

Grand Rapids, 

-  Mich.

Medicated

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gists;  Hawkins & Perry, Wholesale Grocers;  Mc- 
Causland & Co., Wholesale Grocers, E. Saginaw; 
W. J. Gould & Co.,  Wholesale  Grocers,  Detroit; 
D. Desenberg & Co., Wholesale Grocers,  Kalama­
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The Michigan Tradesman

o

THE  SPICE  TRADE  OF NEW  YORK.

[c o n t in u e d   f r o m   f ir s t   p a g e .] 

housewives  really  suppose  that  it  is a 
mixture of  all spices,  as the name would 
seem to imply, but  it  owes  its  puzzling 
designation to a supposed resemblance in 
flavor  to a mixture  of  nutmegs,  cloves 
and  cinnamon. 
In  other  words, it  has 
the fragrance of  a number of  spices. 
It 
is  brought  to  New York  by the  vessels 
which also  bring  the  fruits of  the West 
Indies. 
It is largely  used  in  the  berry 
in  fashionable  restaurants as a perfume 
for the breath after drinking liquor.
The trade in ginger is very large.  The 
importations here  last  year  were  18,855 
bags of  Calcutta,  8,880  bags  of  African, 
6,246  bags  of  white  Cochin  and  3,535 
barrels  of  Jamaica.  These  figures  are 
given in detail  because they are not gen­
erally  known,  even  among  importers. 
The  total  was  4,286,160  pounds.  The 
ginger  plant  is  a  native  of  India  and 
Southern  China, but is extensively culti­
vated  in  tropical  America  and  West 
Africa, as well as in its native soil.  Most 
of  the  ginger of  commerce  comes  from 
Calcutta,  but  considerable  is  also  ex­
ported  from  Jamaica.  There  are  like­
wise  l^rge  exports  of  preserved  ginger 
from  China  and  the  East and  West In­
dies.  This  consists  of  the  young  roots 
preserved  in  sugar  after  being  boiled. 
What  is  known  as  black  ginger is first 
scalded  and  then  dried;  it is  scalded to 
prevent  sprouting,  since  it  is  only the 
root  of  the  plant  which  is  used  as  a 
spice.  White  ginger is the root  scraped 
and  washed,  and  sometimes  bleached 
with chloride of  lime.  White and  black 
ginger  are  merely  relative  terms;  the 
white  is  not  perfectly  so,  nor  is  the 
black perfectly black.  The ginger plant 
either  lasts  two  years or  else  consider­
ably  longer,  according to the particular 
species. 
It is herbaceous, with  creeping 
and somewhat tuberous roots, and is gen­
erally  three  or  four  feet  high,  with 
smooth,  arrow-shaped leaves, and flowers 
about  the  size  of  a man’s  thumb,  of  a 
whitish color, with  the tip streaked with 
purple.  In  a  suitable  climate  it  is an 
easy  plant to cultivate,  and is seen at an 
altitude of  5,000 feet in moist soil on the 
Himalaya  Mountains  of  India.  Ginger 
is used as a flavoring for  food  and  med­
icines;  it  has  valuable  medicinal  prop­
erties. 
It  generally  reaches  the  con­
sumer  in  a  powdered  state,  and  is 
said 
to  be  considerably  adulterated. 
Various  compounds  are  prepared  from 
it. 
For  example,  essence  of  ginger, 
much  used  for  flavoring;  syrup  of 
ginger is used  ehiefly  by  druggists;  gin­
ger  tea, an  infusion of  ginger in boiling 
water, a domestic  remedy for  flatulence; 
ginger beer, a far-famed beverage, which, 
like  another  famous  plant  of  Asia, 
•‘cheers but not inebriates;” lastly, there 
is  ginger  wine, a cheap  liquor, to -which 
alcohol is often  added.  Ginger comes to 
New  York  in  bags  holding from  110 to 
120  pounds,  and  in  barrels  containing 
130  pounds.  Vessels  regularly engaged 
in the  West  India  trade bring  Jamaica 
ginger  to  New  York.  English steamers 
bring the  other kinds.
Many of  the  spice-vessels stop  at  Cal­
cutta on the way to New York, and there 
they take on  what is termed in the  trade 
It  is  a great  city of 
“Calcutta” ginger. 
the  East  Indies, with  a  population  of 
In a single year 658 sail­
nearly 900,000. 
ing- vessels  and  301 
steamers  have 
arrived  in  its  harbor. 
Its  exports  are 
numerous  and  large, and  the city is  the 
headquarters of  the Governor-general of 
India.  The  name  is  derived from  two 
words, Kali-Ghatta,  signifying  the  land­
ing place of the Goddess Kali. 
It has an 
eventful  history, and  is  identified  with 
the rise of  the British  East  India  Trad­
ing  Company and  the  establishment  of 
British  supremacy  over  a  wide  tract of 
India. 
It  is  sometimes called  the  “City 
of  Palaces” because  it  has so many fine 
buildings.  The Government  edifices are 
especially  imposing.  The  dwellings  of 
the  English  residents  are  spacious  and 
attractive, but  most of  the  large  native 
population  live  in  houses  built of  mud 
or bamboo. 
In a cyclone in November of 
1867 no less  than 30,000 of  these  misera­
ble  dwellings were  destroyed.  There  is 
a fine  town-hall,  a Jesuit  college,  a med­
ical  college, various  churches,  mosques, 
Hindoo temples,  a  university,  a theatre, 
and  many other  resources of  Occidental 
civilization.  Calcutta  will  always  be 
known,  however, as  the scene of  one of 
the  most  horrible  occurrences  that dis­
figure  the  pages of  history. 
It  was ¡in 
the  “Black  Hole  of  Calcutta,”  on  the 
night of  June 18, 1756, that  the garrison 
of  the fort  connected  with  the  English 
factory at  Calcutta, who  had  been  cap­
tured by the Nabob Suraja Dowlah, w ere 
confined.  The unfortunate English pris­
oners  numbered 146,  and the  apartment 
in  which  they were  confined  was  only 
twenty feet  square.  The cell  had  only 
two windows,  and  these were  obstructed 
by  a  veranda.  A  more  diabolical  act 
could  not  have  been  committed.  The 
prisoners, in their struggles to get to  the 
windows, trampled each other under foot 
in a horrible fight for life.  After a night 
of  fearful  agony from  fierce pressure in 
a  terrible  human  hive, heat, thirst  and 
suffocation, 123  of  the  total 146  persons 
thrust  in  the  night before were  found 
dead,  and  the  23  survivors  were  de­
scribed as “the ghastliest forms ever seen 
on earth.”

[c o n c l u d e d  n e x t   w e e k .]

How to Forget Sorrow.

A  druggist  recently  received  a  visit 
from a lantern-jawed, hollow-eyed  man, 
who  asked  in  cadaverous 
tones  if  he 
could give him  any  remedy  that  would 
drive  away  a  nightmare-like  care  that 
was preying upon his health.  The  man 
of drugs nodded, and compounded a mix­
ture of quinine, wormwood, rhubarb  and 
epsom salts,  with  a  dash  of  castor  oil, 
and offered it to the  despairing  patient, 
who apathetically gulped it down.  His­
tory avers that for six  months  he  could 
not think of anything except new schemes 
for getting the taste out of his mouth.

The Fatal Letters.

you played me about those trousers.” 
you all O. K.?”

“I  say, Jones, that  was a shabby trick 
“What’s the  matter;  didn’t they reach 
“No;  they came C. O. D.”

An  Hour  in  a  Pawnshop.

“No, it hasn’t  been a good  winter for 
overcoats,” said a pawnbroker  the other 
day.  “If  a man gets  along  until Christ­
mas  without  an  overcoat, he  generally 
manages to get along in the same way the 
remainder of  the winter.”
The money lender stopped talking as a 
tall, gaunt  man, with  unkempt hair and 
a  seedy  appearance  generally,  stalked 
into  the  store  and  handed  his  ticket 
across  the  counter  with  as  much com­
posure as if  he had  called  for a glass of 
ale.
“Three dollars,”  said  the  proprietor, 
“and  six  months’  interest—54  cents— 
83.54.”
The seedy-looking  man  dived  into his 
pocket and counted out the cash, seized a 
rusty  overcoat  which  the  pawnbroker 
pushed  toward  him  and  left  the  store 
with a look on his  face as if  he  had met 
a long-lost friend.
Then an old  weather-beaten  creature, 
who  ekes  out a scant living by peddling 
spectacles,  offered a bunch  of  his  stock 
in trade and requested the  loan of  82 for 
a week.
“I’ll let  you have81,” said  the  pawn­
broker.
“Can’t   you make it 81.50 ?”
“One,” was the metallic  response.
The forlorn old man  departed with his 
dollar.
A  buxom  Irishwoman,  whose  good 
humor  shone  all  over  her  Celtic  face, 
stepped up to the counter and spread out 
a parcel containing faded  coats, sacques, 
etc. 
the 
weather,”  said  the  woman,  cheerily, 
“and says plaze  sind  ’im  phwat  ye can 
spare  on  th’  pile.”  She  got  81.50 and 
went  away,  her  face  beaming  with 
smiles.
A dried-up, dark-visaged Italian limped 
into the place as  the door closed  behind 
the Irishwoman and asked the proprietor 
how much die  could get on a wooden leg.
“No,”  said  the  pawnbroker,  shaking 
his  head, “we  draw  the  line at wooden 
legs.”
A woman of  fragile form  and  respect­

“The  ould  mon 

is  under 

able  appearance  laid  some  bracelets, 
rings, etc., on the  counter and asked for 
830.  The money was handed to her with­
out a  word.
“When  women  begin  to  pawn  their 
jewelry,” said the pawnbroker, when she 
had  closed  the  door  behind  her,  “it  is 
only  after  all  other  expedients  have 
failed,  and  nine  times  out  of  ten  they 
eventually lose it.”
A  young man of  quiet  mien  took  his 
place before the money lender and handed 
him a ticket  and  four  810  notes.  The 
pawnbroker  handed  him  in  return  a 
handsome gold watch.  He fastened it in 
his waistcoat and went out whistling.
“I have  tried  for  years  to  get  that 
watch,”  said the man behind the counter, 
“but  he  comes  in  at  the  last  minute 
always and redeems i t ”
Next  on  this  list of  impecunious vis­
itors 4ras  a little girl hardly ten  years of 
age.  There  was  an  air  of  cleanliness 
about  her  thin  clothes that bespoke re­
spectable parents.  She unrolled two chil­
dren’s  dresses,  a  woman’s  dress  and  a 
cloak.
“Please, sir,  mother says send her 81,” 
said the child.  “She’s  too  sick to come 
to-day.”
“Fifty  cents  is  all  she  can  get  on 
these.”
A look of  disappointment  clouded  the 
innocent  young  face,  and  after  wrap­
ping  up the  miserable  pittance  several 
times in the folds of  her  apron  the child 
walked out.
And  so  the  scene  kept  constantly 
changing. 
Surely  one-half  the  world 
does not know how the  other  half  man­
ages to maintain an existence.

Bad Streak of Luck.

Doctor (despondently)—Just  my  luck. 
I  have  only  recently  succeeded  in  be­
coming  the regular  family  physician  of 
the  Westends,  and' now  they have  taken 
steps to render  further employment of  a 
doctor unnecessary, or nearly so.
Wife—Why, my  dear,  what  have they 
done?
“They have bought a filter.”

P. STEKETEE & SONS,
D ry  G oods I N otions,
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A  D og,  crossing  a   bridge  over  a 
stream  with  a  piece  of  flesh  in  his 
mouth,  saw  his  own  shadow  in  the 
water, and  took it for  that  of another 
D og, with a  piece of meat double  his 
own in size. He therefore let go his own, 
and  fiercely  attacked  the  other  Dog, 
to get his  larger  piece from  him.  H e 
thus lost both.  —SEsop's Fables.

I t  ALWAYS  PAYS  to 
hold on to a good thing. 
People  who  have  tried 
Santa Claus  Soap hold 
on  to  it  because  it  is 
good.  Some may think 
that  because  there  are
other  Soaps  that  give  more  in  bulk for the  money, that they are 
cheaper;  but such bulk is made up with rosin.  When quality is sacri­
ficed for  quantity,  such  soap  is  not  cheap  at  any  price.  Santa 
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