The  Michigan  Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  30,  1889.

NO. 280.

Voigt, HBTOOlsMier & Co .
Dry Goods

Importers and Jobbers of

STAPLE  and  FANCY.

O v e r a lls,  P a n ts ,  E tc.,

OUR  OWN  MAKE.

A  COMPLETE  LINE  OF

Fancy  Grocltery  and 
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Fancy  Woodenware

OUR  OWN  IMPORTATION.

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CASH  SALE  CHECKS.

Encourage your trad e to pay cash instead o< 
running  book  accounts  by  using  Cash  Sa* 
Checks.  For sale a t 50 cents  p er  100  by  F .  A. 
STOWE & BRO.. Grand  Rapids.

lOOO  C ig a r s  F r e e !

On or about April 1st, 1889. we  propose putting a n ew  
brand of cigars on the m arket which  we  shall  sell  to 
the trade at #33 00 per thousand.  Now we want a name 
for this cigar, and want it badly.  Hence we  make the 
above  offer  of  1000 of these cigars  (the first thousand 
made) to uny wholesale or retail dealer  who  w ill .end 
us an original na  e that will be acceptable, subject to
the following conditions, viz.: 
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1st.  The name must be one  that has never been used 
for  a  cigar  and  one  upon  which  we can get a trade-
2nd.^ The  name  must  to  us  upon a letter head, bill 
head o«  card of tne firm or member of the firm sending 
it  The firm must be a  bona  fide  retail  or  wholesale 
dealer  in  cigars.  Names  from  all  others  w ill  be re-
^Srdf  This name must not reach us later  than  March 
15th, 1889, as the award will be made  on March  31st,  or 
as soon thereafter as possible.
4th  The award or salection of the name  will be left 
to a committee of three (3) consisting of the  editors of
the following papers published m  this , ity :  The  Flint
Evening  Journal,  The  Wolverine  Citizen,  The  Flint 
Globe.  We 
selected 
by this committee, and  f  upon  investigation, we  find 
■  has never been used  as a  cigar  brand,  we  will  for­
ward to the  winner  one  thousand  cigars  by  express,
C*5tin 6 Should the commit fee select_a  name,  that  had 
been sent to us  ..y more  than  one  firm  or  dealer, the 
thousand  cigars  will  go  to  the  first  firm  or  dealer 
sending it, as all names will  be  numbered  m   rotation 
as received.  No firm or dealer will be allowed  to  send
more than one name. 
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A postal card containing the  award  or  selection  by 
the committee will be mailed to all contestants. 

shall  accept 

tne  name 

, 

, 

A d d r e s s , T   W A R R E N   &  CO.,

F lin t,  M id i.

Mfrs. High Grade Cigars.

G.  M.  MUNGER  &  CO.,
Successors to Allen’s Laundry.
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AND

Cranberries, Etc.

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Made  of  the  best  material.  The  finest 

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than heretofore on any other brand.  The

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W hich  has  recently  been  introduced  into  the 
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SOME  PEOPLE  AND  SOME  OTHER 

PEOPLE.

The Reverend John  Peter  Paul  Smith 
was a Methodist  minister.  He had  been 
several  years  in  the  itineracy,  and  had 
saved  $500 of  his meager  salary.  With 
this  sum  snugly deposited  in  bank,  Mr. 
Smith began to indulge dreams of  matri­
mony,  and no right-minded  person could 
blame him for it.
The  future  Mrs. Smith  had  been duly 
selected,  and  it  was  decided  that  they 
should be married just before Conference 
and  take their wedding trip in an  excur­
sion to that meeting.
Let it not  be insinuated  that the  Rev. 
John  Peter Paul was  influenced  in  this 
decision  by a laudable  desire to save  ex­
pense. 
The  newly-wedded  pair  were 
very  independent  in  their  feelings—as 
they  well  might  be  with  five  hundred 
dollars  in  bank—and  they proceeded at 
once to  the  best  hotel  in  the  town, and 
paid  their  bills without even  hinting at 
reduction on the  score of  the ministerial 
profession.
Mrs.  Smith  had  never  attended  Con­
ference  before, and she enjoyed  it amaz­
ingly.  She  was  made  much of, as  was 
quite  proper in consideration of  the fact 
that  she  was  a  bride.  The  hospitable 
people of  the  town  took  kindly to  Con­
ference,  and a succession  of  dinners and 
teas was given to the members.  Brother 
and  Sister  Smith were  especially  men­
tioned  in all  these  invitations,  and they 
kept up quite a rounds of this mild dissi­
pation.  Sister  Smith  made  such  a  de­
cidedly good impression  on the  minds of 
all  who  met  her, that  Mr.  Smith  was 
often  and  warmly congratulated  on  his 
choice.
At length the important day came when 
the appointments of  the Presiding  Elder 
were  to  be  read.  The  sisters  were 
grouped  anxiously  together,  waiting  to 
hear their fate for the next  year.  Sister 
Smith sat with  them.  After  several ap­
pointments had  been  read which  seemed 
to  give  great  satisfaction,  Mr.  Smith 
heard his own name pronounced:

“John Peter Paul Smith, Noxet.”
“Too bad!  Too bad!” chorused several 
of the sisters in one breath.
“I  am  glad  I  am  not in  your  place, 1 
Sister Smith,”  said a lady in brown dress 
and  bonnet,  extending  a  sympathetic 
hand.

“Why so,  Sister Jones?”
“Because they have such  queer people 
in  the  Noxet  church,”  replied  Sister 
Jones.
“Oh, is that all?” answered Mrs. Smith 
brightly. 
“I  think  we  can get  along 
with them for one year,  at any rate.”
Mr. Smith  was  commiserated  by  his 
xrethren  for  the blank  he had drawn  in 
the  distribution of  ecclesiastical  prizes. 
Jut  he did  not  pay #ueh  attention  to 
their  croaking.  To  tell  the  truth,  it 
med  to him that  any place  would  be 
delightful where he could  enjoy the con- 
tant  society of  Mrs.  John  Peter  Paul. 
He  was  young  then, and  new  alike  to 
ministry and matrimony.
It  was two  weeks  after  the  close  of 
onferenee  before the  minister  and  his 
wife  were  ready  to  start  for  Noxet. 
They spent  this  time with  Mrs.  Smith’s 
mother,  and while there they packed and 
forwarded  several  boxes of  bedding and 
household goods.
The  Noxet  people  had  shown  them- 
elves wise in one respect at least.  They 
owned a good parsonage, and had furnish­
ed  it  comfortably  at  their  own  expen 
with everything but bedding, china, silver 
and  such things as all  families  prefer to 
provide for themselves.  When Mr. Smith 
heard of this parsonage, he was decidedly 
prejudiced  in  favor of  Noxet,  notwith 
standing  the  doleful  predictions of  the 
brethren.
Behold  then,  on  a  .bright  fall  after 
noon, the  Rev. J.  P. P. Smith  and  wife 
on  their  way  to  Noxet.  The  had  only 
fifty  miles to travel—the  whole distance 
by rail.  The town yeas in the interior o 
the  State,  and in  a  region  that had  not 
been settled until a comparatively recent 
date.  As they neared their future home 
they  looked  anxiously at  every varying 
feature of  the landscape.  Certainly  the 
country  was  becoming  more  primitiv 
and the houses plainer and farther apart 
yet  it  was  evidently  a  rich  farming 
region, and  there  were no indications of 
poverty or lack of thrift.  They were, on 
the  whole, favorably impressed with  all 
they saw.
The  train  was  an  “accommodation,’ 
and  so  exceedingly accommodating  tha 
it stopped often and everywhere. 
It was 
nearly  dark  when  the  conductor  came 
into the car and announced:

‘ ‘N ext-stop-N oxet!”
Mr.  and  Mrs. Smith  at  once  began  to 
their  various  belongings,  and 
collect 
make  ready  for  leaving  the  train. 
It 
drew up, with a very wheezy puff, before 
a  rude  little  station.  No  one  alighted 
save  the minister and  his wife.  Several 
men were standing on the platform,  as is 
usual  at these  little  stations.  The bag­
gage  was  thrown off  the  train  and  it 
pulled  away.  Then  one  of  the  men 
stepped forward briskly, and  said:

“Mr.  and Mrs. Smith, I presume?”
“We are,” replied Mr. Smith.
“And  I  am  Mr.  Mason,  one  of  your 
members.  Glad  to  see  you,  sir,”  shak­
ing  hands  with his  new  pastor.  “And 
you,  too, ma’am,”  repeating the  cordial 
handshaking with her.  “Come right this 
way and  get into  my wagon. 
I’ll attend 
to your  baggage, and  then  I’ll take  you 
straight up to the parsonage.  Our people 
are all there waiting  for you, and I reck­
on  supper is about  ready by  this time.” 
Mr. Smith  helped  his  wife  into  the 
wagon  while  Mr.  Mason  went  for  the 
baggage.  The  men  who  were  standing 
near assisted  him in  bringing the trunks 
to  the wagon.
“I  like him,  at  any rate,” whispered 
Mrs.  Smith.
“So do I,” replied her husband.
The  town of  Noxet  was  small,  and it 
took but a few  minutes to reach the  par­
It  was  quite too  dark  to  form 
sonage. 
any  opinion  of  its  surroundings,  but

“ Boarders,” 

“Well, I  guess  I’ll  go home. 

’Twas  ever thus,’ ”  she said  to Mr. 
every window of the house was brilliant­
Smith, who stood at the  door with a can­
ly  lighted  up, indicating  a  large  com­
dle  in his  hand,  to shed  light on  her in­
pany.  Mrs.  Smith  felt a little  shiver of 
vestigations.  She  began  to comprehend 
dread,  when  Mr. Mason  lifted  her  from 
the meaning of  the  oft-returning basket, 
the  wagon, at  the  idea  of  meeting  so 
and  the  significant  glances  she  had  in­
many  strangers.  But  if  the  minister’sj 
tercepted.
new  wife  had  any one  qualification  for j 
The  next  morning  she  was  awake 
her difficult position,  it was that of being j 
bright  and  early. 
In  fact, the  novelty 
equal to any emergency;  so it was with a j 
of  her position  had  kept her awake  the 
composed  manner, 
though  somewhat 
greater part of the night.  She concluded 
flushed  face,  that  she followed  her  bus- j 
it might be well enough for her to attend 
band into the house.
to  clearing  away the  remnants  of  the 
They were met at the door by a woman 
feast  herself,  and  not  to wait  for  Mrs. 
with  a  small  shawl over  her  shoulders, 
Loone.  With  this  laudable  intention, 
notwithstanding it was a warm  fall  eve­
she went down to the pantry, and a close 
ning,  and  having her face  tied up with a 
search  resulted in the finding of  various 
whi  e handkerchief.
packages of  tea, coffee and  sugar snugly 
“Come  right  this  way, Brother  Smith 
hidden  away. 
It  occurred  to  her  that 
and Sister Smith,  and I’ll take  you up to 
there could be no objection to her remov­
your  room.  We  thought  inebbe  you’d 
ing  the  packages,  and  she  accordingly 
like  to wash  and  fix up a little  mite be­
transferred them  to a china-closet.
fore  seeing all  the people.  Just as soon 
She took some  butter, jelly, preserves, 
as you are  ready, you can  come down  to 
pickles  and a pie  or two  that she  found 
I must run  down and attend 
the parlor. 
and placed  them in the china-closet also. 
to things.”  And she departed.
Then she  managed  to get up a  very nice 
Each  gave  an amused  glance  at  the 
breakfast  from the  remnants of  the  re­
other as the door closed behind her.
ception  supper, and  Mr. Smith was  just 
“It  is  getting  interesting,  my  dear 
asking  a  blessing  when  Mrs.  Loone 
Paul.  Do  make  haste,  and  let  us  go 
walked  in,  without  the  ceremony  of 
iown  and  see  the  rest of  them,”  said 
knocking.
Mrs.  Smith,  as  she  brushed  her  brown 
“Good morning, Brother Smith.  Good 
hair.
morning,  Sister  Smith. 
I’ve  had  an 
She  hastily dressed  herself  in a  black 
awful night of  it with my neuraligy,  but 
silk,  so  plainly made  that  it  could  not 
1 said,  says I to Mr. Loone,  “I’ll go right 
jrovoke criticism on the score of  extrav­
down  to the  parsonage and  help  Sister 
agant display,  and then she pinned a lace 
Smith clear away.’  You just set still  at 
collar around her neck.  She had a pretty 
your  breakfast,  and I’ll go into the  pan­
good idea as to what her style of dress was 
try and  red  up,”  and  she  whisked  into 
expected to be.
the pantry, basket in hand.
They were  met at the  door of  the  par­
Mrs.  Smith  heard  her  moving  dishes 
lor by Mr.  Mason,  and by him introduced 
and  tin pans, and  she could  imagine the 
to several  men who were  grouped in the 
unsuccessful  search  that was  going  on. 
middle of  the room.  “Class-leaders  and 
Presently Mrs. Loone came out.
stewards,” he explained.  These, in turn, 
“Has  any of  the ladies  been  here this 
introduced  them to  the  people  as  they 
morning, Sister Smith?”
flocked around. 
In  the confusion of  the 
“No one.”
crowd it was impossible to remember any 
A  mystified  look  came  into  the  face 
name  in  connection  with  the  person  to 
that  was  still  tied  up  with  the  white 
whom it belonged.  The woman who had 
handkerchief,  but  evidently Mrs.  Loone 
welcomed  them to the  house  was  intro­
did  not consider  it  prudent  to ask  any 
duced as  “Sister  Loone,”  and  the  name 
more  questions.
struck  Mrs. Smith  as  eminently  appro­
I’ve got 
priate to her general appearance.
the neuraligy so bad,  and Mag—she’s my 
When  Sister Loone, who seemed to  be 
daughter—she  has  the  spine,  and  I’ve 
very  active,  announced  that  supper was 
got a big family of  boarders, and nobody 
eady and invited them out into the large 
but  my  bound-girl  to  help  me.  Good 
ining room,Mr. and Mrs. Smith took their 
morning.”  And  she  left with  an empty 
laces  at  the  table with a very  comfort­
basket.
able  home  feeling.  This  was, perhaps, 
thought  Mrs.  Smith. 
n part  owing  to  the  fact that  the table 
“John,  dear, I think  Mrs. Loone  under­
was  set  out  with  their own  china  and 
stands how to provide  for a family,” but 
ilver, which the ladies had unpacked. 
I she did not give him her  reasons for thi 
Such a  supper!  There  was the  great- 
belief.  She  would  not  prejudice  him 
st profusion of every tiling, nicely cooked 
against any of his people.
and appropriately served.  Noxet people 
Months  afterward  one of  those  same 
certainly knew  how to live well.
boarders  informed  Mrs. Smith  that they 
Directly in front of  Mrs. Smith,  as  she 
were still  occasionally treated  to a  piece 
at  by her  husband, half-way  down  the 
of  fruit-cake,  which  had*  been  an  un­
long  table,  was a pyramid loaf  of  fruit­
dreamed-of  luxury  previous to  the  eve­
cake,  at  least  eighteen inches  high, and 
ning of the reception.
elaborately  iced.  While  they were  eat- 
The parsonage was soon in prime order. 
upper  a very  sw e e t-lo o k in g  woman 
Mrs. Smith  made  a  notable  little house­
came  up  behind  Mrs. Smith  and  whis­
wife.  Her husband found he could safe­
pered to her:
ly trust in her psudent management,  and 
“That fruit  cake  is  not  to  be cut. ^  I 
he left  pecuniary affairs  pretty much  in 
jaked it especially for you, but the ladies 
her hands,  and gave himself  unreserved­
said  it must go on  the table, to make*the 
ly,  heart  and  soul,  to  his  own  proper 
table  look  nicely. 
It  will  keep  a  long 
work.  One bright morning,  a few weeks 
time, and I  know you will  have so much 
after  their  arrival  in  Noxet, Mr.  Smith 
to do for a while, that it will come handy 
started out to call  on some of  his parish­
to  have some  cake in the  house.  There 
ioners.  He  left  Mrs. Smith  singing  at 
is plenty for this evening without it.”
her work, her  busy hands  deftly putting 
‘It  was  very thoughtiul  of  you,” re­
some  finishing  touches  to  the  parlor, 
plied Mrs. Smith.
which already was as bright and cheerful, 
Tableful  after tableful  sat  down  and 
it  seemed to  the  happy young  minister, 
were  bountifully fed.  Still the  cake  re­
as room possibly could be.
mained  uncut, a  conspicuous feature  of 
There  was a  subdued  rap  at the  back 
the feast.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith were very 
door,  and  Mrs.  Smith  hastily  stepped 
busy  forming  the  acquaintance  of  the 
down  from the  chair  on which  she  was 
people until some of them began to leave, 
standing  dusting  off  a  picture  frame. 
and then Mrs. Smith thought it proper to 
Opening  the  door  she  saw  a  stranger, 
take her place as hostess.
dressed  like  a  fanner, who  introduced 
She was trying to find a lost  basket for 
himself  as  “Mr. Gray,  one of  the  stew­
one of the guests, when Mrs.  Loone, who 
ards.”  Mr.  Gray  had  fair  hair,  mild 
seemed to  be everywhere at once, said:
blue  eyes, a face  that was  exceptionally 
“Now,  Sister  Smith, don’t  give  your­
child-like  and  innocent  in  expression, 
self one  mite of  trouble. 
I'll  attend  to 
and a voice wonderfully soft and musical. 
everything before I go.”
Mrs.  Smitfi’s  heart  warmed  to  him  at 
“You  are  very  kind,”  replied  Mrs. 
once.
Smith.
“Sister  Smith, 1  dare say,”  he  added 
“Awful  kind,  ain’t she?”  said a sepul­
after  introducing  himself.  “Is  Brother 
chral  voice  in  the  pantry,  near  which 
Smith at home?”
they were standing.  Mrs.  Loone did not 
“No;  he has gone out for the morning.”
hear it,  but Mrs.  Smith did.
“Oh, I  am  so sorry!  I  wanted  to  see 
“Why  didn’t your  daughter  come  to­
him;  I  wanted  very much  to  say to  him 
night,  Sister  Loone?”  asked  a  lady who 
that  I  am  sure our  church  is going  to 
was  packing  her backet with  the dishes 
prosper under  his ministry’.  Our people 
she had brought.
are  all  delighted with  him;  and  Noxet 
“Well,  she’s got the  spine.  The  doc­
people  are  not  very  easy  to  please, 
tor said so to-day. 
It’s  in her  back, and 
either.”
hurts her  awful.”
Mrs.  Smith  was  more  than  delighted 
Just  then  a  half-grown  girl,  poorly 
with  the  man  who  so  thoroughly  ap­
dressed,  came  in  with  a  large  empty 
preciated  his  pastor.  Her  manner  was 
basket in her hand.  Mrs. Loone took the 
cordial,  and  her 
face  glowed  with 
basket  into the  pantry,  and  in  a  few 
pleasure.
minutes brought it out filled and coveieu 
“By the-way, Sister  Smith, I  thought, 
with a napkin.  Several ladies gave each 
as you were just commencing housekeep­
other  significant glances, which  did  not 
ing, you  would need  some  wood, and  I 
escape Mrs.  Smith.
have a load of  nice, dry hickory out here 
Mrs.  Loone  bustled  around,  carrying 
that I have brought for you.”
the  things  from the  table into  the  con­
“You  have?  How  thoughtful  and 
venient  and  capacious  pantry.  As  she 
kind!”  said Mrs. Smith gratefully.
went  back  and  forth she  explained  to 
“Where shall  I  put  it, Sister Smith?” 
Mrs.  Smith that she  did not  want her to 
“In the wood-house, please.”
have any trouble about clearing up in the 
The wood  was very speedily unloaded, 
morning.
and  Brother  Gray came to the  door once 
The half-grown  girl came  back at  this 
more.  His heart seemed so full of joy at 
juncture with her empty basket.
the prosperity of the church, and of  love 
“That’s my  bound-girl,  Sister  Smith. 
for  the new  pastor  who was doing  such 
She’s  taking  my  things  home.”  And 
efficient service in Noxet, that he seemed 
again Mrs. Loone disappeared in the pan­
unable  to  tear  himself  away.  ^  After 
try with the basket.
many  kind  messages  for  Mr.  Smith,  he 
“Just hear  that woman!” said  one sis­
said:
ter  to  another. 
“She  didn’t  bring  a 
“I  really must be starting  home.  Sis­
blessed crumb!”
ter Smith, if  it is  not too  much  trouble, 
All the same, she sent home the basket 
will you  please give me a receipt  for the 
again  and  yet  again, and  then  she  de­
wood, putting  the  value  at  two  dollars 
parted  herself,  with  an  injunction  to 
and a  half?  Hickory  wood  is selling  at 
Mrs. Smith  not to worry  about  things in 
three  dollars  a  cord, but  as  I  pay  two 
the  morning, for  she  would  be  around 
dollars and a half e ac h  quarter, and don’t 
and straighten up.
want to be mean with my pastor, we will 
The Rev. John Peter Paul and his wife 
and a  half, and
just  call  it  two  dollar 
were  too  tired  to talk  much  after  their 
Smith i that will make us even.”
last  visitor  departed.  But  Mrs.
M r s.  Smith  wrote the  receipt  and  Mr. 
was a thrifty  little  body, and  curiosity 
prompted  her  to  look  into  the  pantry  Gray went away. 
t?he thought she would 
before she retired,  and see what had been1 go out  and  take  a  look at her  purchase, 
“Is it possible  that little  pile can Jje a
left her for future use.  She found plenty | 
to  herself.  Such 
of fragments of bread,  a little cold meat, | cord?”  she  queried 
was,  too!  Knots,  crooked 
but  not a  scrap of  cake of  any  descrip-  wood  as  it 
limbs  of  dead  trees,  and  not  a 
tion.  The  pyramid of  fruit  c$ke  had | sticks, 
utterly and entirely vanished.

single good stick of  wood to be seen!

She  saw  she  had  been  cheated  in 
quality,  and  she  determined  to  assure 
herself  in  regard  to the  quantity.  She 
piled it up as well as she could,  and then 
went into the house for the tape measure.
Mr.  Smith  had  just  returned.  “Oh, 
John, come  and  help  me  measure  this 
load of  wood,”  and she  told  him of  her 
purchase.
“Now, John, you know a cord of  wood 
is four feet wide, four feet high and eight 
feet  long.”  They measured the pile and 
found  there was  less  than  one-third  of 
a cord!  She had paid the mild-mannered, 
affable  Mr.  Gray  three  times  what  the 
very  best wood could  have been  bought 
for on the street.
She  did not  repeat  to her  husband the 
pleasant things  Mr.  Gray had  said aboiit 
him.  They all  seemed to have  lost their 
value after that  little  wood  transaction.
When they had  been in Noxet  about a 
month a notice was handed to Mr.  Smith, 
one  Sabbath  morning,  inviting  all  the 
ladies of  the  congregation  to meet  that 
week  at the  house of  one of  the  promi­
nent  members  to  reorganize the  sewing 
society.  Mrs.  Smith  was  delighted  to 
hear  this  notice.  The  church  needed 
ome  repairs  and  this  seemed  such  a 
good way to  raise funds  for  that object.
The  ladies  met  promptly, exchanged 
pleasant  greetings,  and  sat  around  in 
mute expectancy.
Who is your  president, Mrs. Loone?” 
asked Mrs.  Smith of  that  lady, who still 
had her head tied up, and seemed to have 
a chronic  “neuraligy.”
We  haven’t  none now, Sister  Smith. 
Sister Porter—she was our last preacher’s 
wife—she  was president  until  she  went 
away.  You’ll have to be  president now, 
Sister Smith.”
“Oh, no;  you must elect some one older 
than I.  Who is vice-president?”
“Sister Mason.”
Then  Mrs. Smith suggested  that  Mrs. 
Mason call the ladies to order.  This was 
done,  and  Mrs.  Mason  told  them  their 
first business  was to  elect a president to 
fill  the vacancy caused by the removal of 
Sister Porter.

response on all sides.
a corner.
say ‘Aye.’ ”

“Will some one please nominate?"
“Sister SmPh!  Sister Smith!” was the 
“I second the  nomination,” came from 
“All  in  favor  of  Sister Smith  please 
There was a general  “Aye.”
“Sister Smith is elected unanimously,” 
said Mrs. Mason.
Mrs. Smith told  them she should much 
prefer  that  some  oue  older and  better 
acquainted  with  them  and their  ways of 
working should take the place.
Up  spoke  Mrs.  Loone :  “No,  Sister 
Smith;  that’s  what  a  preacher’s wife  is 
for.”
Seeing  it was  expected as  a  matter of 
course  that the  pastor’s  wife should  be 
president  of  the  sewing  society,  Mrs. 
Smith, with  great  dignity,  accepted  the 
position.  She made a neat  little speech, 
giving  them  her ideas  in  regard  to  the 
best way of running the society,  and tell­
ing them she  expected all to assist her in 
her  new  and  untried  duties.  They lis­
tened  with  great  deference,  and  Mrs. 
Smith  began  to  think  the office  rather 
pleasant, after all.
But if  she indulged  the idea  that  her 
position was  simply an  ornamental  one, 
and that all  she would  have  to do would 
be to  preside iu her  chair of  state at the 
fortnightly  meetings of  the  society,  she 
found herself very much mistaken.  There 
was  not  the  slightest  intention  on  the 
part of  any one that Sister  Smith should 
be carried to the skies on flowery beds of 
ease.  The  office  meant  business. 
It 
meant  leaning  over a table  and  cutting 
out  shirts  a whole  afternoon  at  a  time.
It  meant  stitching  bosoms  and  making 
button-holes. 
It  meant  ripping out  all 
the  poor work  and  doing it  over  again. 
Last,  but not  least, it meant finishing all 
the  work  that  was promised  at  a  given 
time,  but  that no  one  else  felt  at  all 
responsible for.
Mrs. Loone  once  said,  very  pointedly, 
when the question was asked,  “Who will 
take  home  this  work  and  finish  it?” 
“Let  them  as  has  neither  boarders or 
babies  do  it.”  And  Sister Smith  took 
the  garment  and  finished  it  some  time 
during the night.
One day several of  the young  ladies in 
the  society  were  making  night-caps  of 
Swiss  muslin,  embroidered  in  tambour 
stitch,  as was the fashion then and there. 
Mrs. Smith  had drawn  the  patterns  and 
taught  the  stitch  to  the  young  ladies.  « 
Their  needles  and  tongues  were  flying 
swiftly, when  all  at  once  there  was  a 
sudden  hush  in the  room.  Mrs. Smith 
looked  from her  work and  saw  an  ele­
gantly-dressed.  stylish-looking lady  just 
coming  in.  There  was  a  suppressed 
whisper of “Mrs. Grimshaw!  Mrs. Grim­
shaw!”  but  no one  rose to welcome  her. 
With true  courtesy Mrs.  Smith  went for­
ward to welcome  the stranger.
I 
“This  is  Sister  Smith,  I  presume. 
am  staying with a friend  for a few days, 
I 
and  am  to  leave  town  to-morrow. 
heard  you  were  trying  to  raise  some 
money to  repair  your  church,  and, as  I 
like to aid in every  good work, I thought 
I would  come  in  and  see what  you have 
for sale.” 
-
Mrs.  Smith  was  pleased,  and  politely 
led her around  the room and showed  her 
the  different  kinds  of  work  they were 
doing.  When  they reached  the group of 
young ladies, Mrs. Grimshaw paused.
“Let me see what you are making here. 
Night-caps, 
indeed.  Why,  they  are 
lovely!  Let  me  take  one, please,”  and 
she  held it  up in her  jeweled hand  and 
carried  it  to  the window for critical  ex­
amination.
I  wish it was 
I would  like two of them very 
finished. 
much.”
“We  can soon  finish  two,”  said  Mrs. 
Smith.
“But I leave to-morrow afternoon.'’ 
“You  can have  them  at  noon,  if  that 
“ O h,  charming! 
I  do  not  go  until 

“It is exquisitely  done. 

will do.”

[Concluded on page 4.]

tail Trade solicited.

Guaranteed  Absolutely  Pure.  Orders  from Re­
N e w a y g o   R o lle r   M ills
_______

FOURTH M O M ! Biffi

NEW AYGO,  M IC H . 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J. B ow ne, President.

Geo.  C.  P ier c e,  Vice P resident.

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

Transacts a general  banking  business.

M ake a  S pecialty o f C ollections.  A ccounts 
o f C o u n try  M erch an ts Solicited.______

DO YOU WANT A SHOWCASE?

, 

silvetta 

S P E C I A L   O F F E R —This styleof oval case;  best 
quality;  all  glass,  heavy  double  thick;  panel  or 
sliding doors;  full length  mirrors  and  spring  hinges; 
solid cherry or walnut frame, w ith  or  w ithout  m etal 
trim mings 
corners, 
6 feet long,  28  inches  wide,  15  inches  high.  P riee , 
8 1 1 ,  n e t  cash. 
„
X make the same style  of  ease  as  above,  17  inches 
high, from walnut, cherry, oak or ash,  for #2 per foot 
BB oxing and cartage free.

extra  heavy  base; 

C O O K ,
D.  D.
Grand Rapids, Mich
21 Scribner St.,
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

&  GO.

H.
COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,

166 South Water St., CHICAGO. 
Reference
Felsenthal. Gross & Miller, Bankers, 
Chicago. 
______ ' __________________

J. W.  WBlton’s Commercial Collep

This College offers the most extensive course of study 
in business  college  branches  at  the  m ost  reasonable 
terms.  Do not fail to send for  a  forty-page catalogue 
giving full inform ation in regard to course,tuition,etc 
AddressWelton’s Commercial College,
23 Eountain St.,___________Grand Rapids, Mich
*   A C T U A L   B U S I N E S S
t - it - )   a   F ' » T  I 
at  the  Grand  Rapids
X* I l  
I   1 L /J —<  Business College.  E d­
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 .  S.  P A R IS H ,  successor to C. G. Swens- 
berg.

B E A N S

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

B B A iV S
but  also  ALL  KINDS  OF PRODUCE. 
We can sell as well as  anyone.

We invite correspondence.

BARNETT BROS.,

159 So.  Water St., CHICAGO.

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  Safety Deposit  Co., Basement ol Wid 
dicomb Blk.

SILVER 8TRR8

No  Equal in the State.

Wherever Intentai it is a Staler!

TO  T H E   T R A D E ;

I  g u a ra n te e  “SIL V E R  STARS” to  b e a  long, 
s tra ig h t filler, w ith  S u m a tra  w ra p p e r, m ad e 
b y  u n io n  la b o r, a n d  to  g iv e  c o m p lete  satis 
factio n .

_A_.  S .  XD-A.’VXS,
70 Canal 8URRNDRRPID8.

Sole  M an u fac tu re r,

Spring Heels.

T H B   JPA.RA.G O N
in  Ladies’,  Misses’  and  Children’s,  Heels  and 
G.  R.  M ayhew,
86 Monroe St., Grand Rapids

liters, Attention

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

THE  GREAT

I  Jeweler,
44  CRNRL  8T„
Grani Rapids,  -

Rapids  School  Furniture  Co.,  and  will 
immediately begin the construction  of  a 
brick factory,  the  expectation being that 
the wheels will begin to turn about Aug­
ust 1.  Cheap and  medium  grade  furni­
ture will be manufactured.

The  Chicago  News  of  last  Saturday 
notes  the  following: 
“E.  B.  Millar  & 
Co., wholesale grocers, procured a capias 
for  the  arrest of  John  J. Hartman  and 
Fred  Antrim,  doing  business  in  Grand 
Rapids  as  Hartman & Antrim.  The  de­
fendant  bought $717.73  worth of  goods 
on  credit  from  Millar  &  Co.  and  gave 
them  a note  secured  by a chattel  mort­
gage.  The security would  have been all 
right  had  Millar  &  Co.  not  discovered 
that the defendants had given  mortgages 
covering  the  same  property  to  other 
parties w-hich took precedence over theirs 
and cut them off.”

One of the surprises of the  season  was 
the uttering of chattel  mortgages  by  H. 
J. Fisher, the  Hamilton  general  dealer, 
one day last week, to the tune of  $5,500. 
One mortgage for $2,400  wTas given to se­
cure three  persons  from  whom  he  had 
borrowed money, and a second for $3,100 
was made in favor of several Grand Rap­
ids  creditors. 
Some  of  the  unsecured 
creditors  subsequently  secured  a  third 
mortgage.  The  stock  will  inventory 
about $8,000 and is said to be in splendid 
condition.  Mr.  Fisher  expresses  confi­
dence in his ability to  extricate  himself 
from his difficulty in the course of a  few 
months.

ence has been that from 30 to 55 per cent, 
has been returned to  the  policy  holders 
at the end  of  each  year.  The  method 
pursued  by  the  Mutual  Fire  does  not 
differ in any essential particular from the 
plan proposed for the Michigan Business 
Men’s Fire Insurance Co.

In the face of these facts,  it  is  not  in 
order for any one to  assert that the plan 
is not practical  or  that  the  results will 
not be satisfactory—for  time has proved 
that the plan is practical and that the re­
sults are satisfactory.

AN  UNNECESSARY  TAX.

The tax of 3 per cent, on  the premium 
receipts, contributed  by the  outside  in 
surance companies authorized to do busi 
ness in this  State,  brought over  $138,000 
to  the  office of  the  Insurance  Commis 
sioner  last  year,  w’hile the  expenses  of 
maintaining  his  office  wras  less 
than 
$7,000. 
Indirectly, this  tax comes  from 
the  insuring  public,  as  the  insurance 
companies necessarily add  that much ad 
ditional  in  computing the  cost of  doin 
business.

Although  the  excess  is  covered  into 
the State  Treasury, reducing the general 
taxes by just that amount, T h e   T r a d e s 
m a n   apposes  the  plan  on  the  ground 
that  everything  ought  to  stand  on  its 
own bottom  and that  it is  unjust to  tax 
the  people who own  insurable  buildings 
more  than  those who  have their  means 
invested w’holly in  land. 
It  is a species 
of  class discrimination which ought  not 
to  exist  in so  great a commonwealth 
the State of Michigan.

T n E   T r a d e s m a n   will heartily lend its 
support to any movement looking toward 
the reduction  of  this unjust  and wholly 
indefensible tax to a figure that will meet 
the  bare  expenses of  the  Insurance  de 
partment.

O. C. Thompson in the hardware business 
and Dayton Travis in jthe furniture busi­
ness.

Charlotte—Frank  Hoyt, 

late  of  St. 
Louis,  will engage in the manufacture of 
road  carts,  beginning  business  about 
April 1.

Kalamazoo — Barrett  &  Torrey  and 
Hammond  Gerow  are  succeeded  in  the 
grocery and crockery business by Barrett 
& Gerow.

Blanchard—L.  M.  Mills  has  put in a 
line of furniture and  undertaking goods, 
running same in connection with his drug 
business.

Hastings — Chas.  Deane  has  retired 
from the grocery firm of Rogers & Deane. 
The  business  will  be  continued  by the 
remaining partner, Jas. Rogers.

Alba—Smith  Bros,  have  bought  the 
stock in the Alba Lumber Co.’s store and 
will  run  both  establishments,  one as a 
dry  goods  and  the  other  as  a  grocery 
store.

Harrisburg — Wm.  II.  Harrison  has 
formed a copartnership  with  John Keas, 
under  the  style of  Harrison  &  Keas,  to 
carry on the  general  merchandising bus­
iness.

Petoskey—Jas. A.  Shirk  has  sold  his 
hardware  stock to A. M. Coburn and W. 
W.  Rice, who will  continue the business 
under the style  of  Coburn  &  Co.  Mr. 
Coburn hails from Carthage,  N. Y.

Howard  City—II.  Steemnan  has  sold 
his furniture stock to  John  Herold,  for 
the  past  eight  years  connected  with 
Rindge, Bertsch &  Co.,  at Grand Rapids. 
He will add a line of boots and  shoes.

Detroit—Simon Simons &  Son recently 
got a verdict of $3,085 against  the  Corn- 
well  Manufacturing  Co.,  of  Ann  Ar­
bor.  The  defendants  argued 
for  a 
new trial,  but  were  overruled,  and the 
case now goes to the Supreme Court.

Battle  Creek—The  copartnership  ex 
isting  between  I.  B. Carlisle  and  L. A 
Paddock, under the firm name of Carlisle 
& Paddock, has been dissolved, I.  B.  Car 
lisle retiring.  The firm will hereafter be 
composed of L. A. and G. Paddock, doing 
business  under  the  style of  the  Battle 
Creek Hardware Co.

. 

°  H  Walbrink. Allendale

VISITING  BUYERS.
R A Hastings, Sparta 
FoEP8* Grove W J Roach, Lake City 
i amea‘0,y n 

Smallegan & Pickaard, 
„  T xi 
E J Harrington. HoUand  E S Botsford, Dorr 
r  
?T en  Hoor,  Forest  Grove Dr Van N Miller,  Fremont 
i„\,anilen Bf,sck;,Zeeland  Carrington & North,  Trent 
m u ^ a S r iI aViGlt<5lei? 
H A Sey-nour.  Portland 
f  « Sw r   i ,Gr,aa^ f , aap 8 T MeLellan, Denison 
A M Jiureh, Englishville  M C  Kattison. Millbrook
F D Warren,  Martin 
G N Reynolds, Belmont 
J P Cordes, Alpine 
Jay Marlatt, Berlin 
Geo P Stark, Cascade 
Smith & Bristol, Ada 
R D Wheeler, Ravenna 
W W Peirce,  Moline 
John Smith, Ada 
A C Barkley, Crosby
Carrie Chilson.Cedar Sprgs H Ade, Conklin 
S?™\BrTOWn’ Englishville  L & L  Jenison.  Jenisonvlie 
C 
k  £  if-oyt & Co.Hudsonville T Armock, Wright 
£ £  Dorman,Cedar Springs L Maier, Fishers station 
Hessler Bros  Rockford 
Ä ,^ £ lark&,c °.  WhiterCld L M  Wolf, Huds  uville 
Hntty & Dickenson, 
Brookings Lumber Co, 
.  r 
A L Thompson,HarborSpgs G F Cook,  Grove

H°n5b"ng  E L EIake- Middleville
John Kamps, Zutphen
D F  Clement.  Spring  Lake
„   T  Grand Haven Brott&Revnolds,Woodland 
JCBenbow,  Cannonsburg

Gus Begin an, Bauer 
Munger,Watson & DeVoist. 
__ 
H A Dailey, Lumberton 
AMulholland,  Ashton 
S J Martin. Sullivan 
P DeKraker. Holland 
Blood & Thomas,
M M Robson, Berlin

Brookings Chas Darling, Sparta

W nitneyville 

Sullivan

February 9 has  been  decided  upon  as 
the date for holding the meeting of  trav­
eling men at  Lansing to discuss the idea 
of forming a State league,  in  accordance 
with the plans outlined  in  a  recent  cir­
cular by A. F.  Peake and L. M. Mills.
FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

, Adv®rt*a®™entifwurbebnserted~under,thlfr'hcad7^
a  word  the  first  insertion  a n d o n e’J fn ta  
ea„cl1  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise 
ment taken for less than 25 cents.  Advance  payment.

FOK SALE.

1™« t!^i 

T T °?   SALE—AT  A  BARGAIN,  THE  OLDEST  AND 
m eat marke  *u the city,  central-
iTa,l»i^tedi.and  do.mB ,u  good  paying  business,  with
Diets setn f°W M i? e“ SVS’ f tc’  Also one new und  eom- 
P/f™ sat of  butcher’s  tools,  cheap,  if  sold  inside  of 
terms and particulars apply to  Wm.

<Ja,ys’ 

. 

. 

367

—
364

TfO R SALE—A  WELL-SELECTED  STOCK  OF  GRO- 
4.  cenes, doing a good business.  One of the best  lo. 
cations in the city.  Owner wishes to retire from trade 
lae. 8tore for term  of  years.  Address  No.  364 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

tion eiy  establishment, 

sorted stock of  arenerai  rr

Fo r   sa l e —a t  a   b a r g a in ,

. 
-----   -   CLEAN,  WELL-AS-
stock of  general  merchandise  which  will 
ab?ut ^ i’.000-  The above has  been  assigned 
trust  for creditors  and  will  be 
sold at a  bargain 
Address, R.  Lillie,  Assignee,  Coop- 
er8ville,  Mich
TpOR SALE—STOCK OF DRUGS AND  FIXTURES FINE
Will tra'în?v„ f °£  anJ  x>City;,  Invoice  81,800  to  $2,000.
r%or  ^-ra  „  Rapids  city  or  farm  property. 
Address,  Druggist,” case Tradesman. 
‘  353
L ’OR  SALE—DESIRABLE  BAKERY  AND  CONFEC- 
X 
including  oven  and  all 
necessary fixtures.  Seven years  In  trade.  Good  run 
ot custom.  Correspondence  solicited.  Address  No.
85p, care Michigan Tradesman.
Tj30R SALE—HOTEL IN GOOD  RESORT  TOWN, WITH 
5ed8-  ?°,use furnished complete.  Price 
s i  unn1
553,500.  $2,000  down,  balance  on  tim e  to  suit  Poor 
health, reason for seiling.  Barn, 34x60.  Sample  room 
of5rce*  16x24,  good  livery.  Mail  and stage 
line in barn.  House paying 8100 per  month  now.  For 
particular., address “ Hotel,” care Tradesman. 
349
FT OR  SALE—A  CLEAN,  WELL-ASSORTED  STOCK  OF 
. 
general hardware, stoves and tinware.  Tin shon 
m  connection.  Will inventory about $6,000.  Located 
P®a i rad*.Y and one of the best points for  retail business 
in the city.  Good reasons for  selling.  Address  Hard­
ware, care Michigan Tradesman. 
TflOR  SALE-GOOD  RESIDENCE  LOT  ON  ONE  OF 
-L 
the m ost pleasant streets “on  the  hill.”  W ill ex­
change for stock in any good institution.  Address 286 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
TTrANTED—SITUATION AS REGISTERED  rHAKMA- 
“ M;  No objection to working in general  store 
Address, No. 366, care Michigan Tradesman. 

350

366

300

oo.

J^OR SALE—AT  A  BARGAIN,  FIXTURES  FOR A'MIL- 
X  
linery store.  Also small stock,  if  desired.  * Good 
location.  Business well established.  Address, Box  it, 
Union City, Mich. 
ggg  *
•piOR  SALE  CHEAP—TWO  FIRST CLASS  MEAT MAR- 
X  
kets; one m  North Muskegon and one in Muskegon 
City.  Both in best locations, and  doing  good  paving 
business.  W  11 sell one or both.  52  W esternV venul' 
Muskegon. Mich.
[?OR  SALE—AT
.  _  
cost 81,500.  Ail for  81,000.  Must  sell 
Lardie. Traverse City,  Mich.

b a r g a in   a  p a y in g   s t o r e ,
,  n 
hail, postoffice and three acres of land.  Buildings 
Address,  J.MOW
i i’GR  sa l e—sto c k  o f   c l o t h in g   a n d  g e n t s* 
furnishing goods, located in a good  town  of  1 300 
But one  other  pince’  in 
particulars address  “C & 

people in southern Michigan. 

town handles clothing  For 
T.” care Michigan  Tradesman

357

W A N 1 \

TITAN TED—TO  BUY  GOOD  GENERAL  STOCK  OF 
; •  merchandise, from  $5,000 to $8.000, in a  town  of 
“bout 1,200 population.  Will  pay  spot  cash  down 
if 
offered cheap.  Address.Loelc Bov 20.Sheridan.Mich  ’369
TAHARMACIVT—SITUATION  W ANTED.  BY  A REGIS- 
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tered pharmacist of six  years  experience.  Be-t 
of references.  Address 368. this office. 
ATTANTED-JTO  SELL  OR  EX  HANGE  FOR A HOUSE 
and lot m Grand Rapids a clean  stock  of  hard- 
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ware and tinner’s  tools,  situated  in  a  live,  growing A  
town of I 600 inhabitants and  doing  a  good  b u sh es“ ™  
Address, Lon. A. Pelton. Luther. Mich. 
TXTANTED—A  position  as  bookkeeper.  Four  vears’ 
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368

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on com er.  One store, 24 x 80,  with  nice  living  r o S ^
L a r a  lot? Trith 
20  V k  (adjuiu’ug)  one  story.
LWI*h Burden spot, barn, ice house, etc.  Title 
perfect.  No  incumbrance.  The occupant is •  w  car­
rying on a general store  and  doing  a  g> od  business 
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A  Stowe &  Bro.. Grand RapidB. 

Notice of Limited  Partoerslip.

Notice is hereby given that  Frederic A. Wurz- 
hurg  William  M.  W urzburg  and  William  F. 
VVurzburg, as  general  partners, and  Zacharv T 
Aldrich’ as special partner, all of  Grand Rapids! 
-Michigan, have  this  day  formed a limited  part­
nership  in  pursuance  of  chapter  78  Howell’s 
Annotated  Statutes, for  the  purpose of  carrying 
on the business of jobbers of  dry goods, notions 
and similar  articles, at Grand Rapids, Michigan 
under the  firm name and  style of  “F.  W.  Wurz! 
burg’s  Sons & Co.,”  and  that the amount of cap- 
. sS0<Ik  'Vy,llt'h  said  special  partner  has con- 
tribted  to  the  common  stock,  is  twentv-seven 
hundred and fifty dollars, and that  said partner­
ship  is to  commence  January  28,1889. and  ter 
m inate January 28,1891.

FREDERIC  A.  WURZBURG 
WILLIAM  M.  WURZBURG. 
WILLIAM  F.  WURZBURG,
■7-. 
ZACHARY  T.  ALDRICH.
T,  , 
Dated, Grand Rapids, Jan. 28,1889.

General Partners.
Special Partner.

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in e iv iitiiig d ii 1 r a a c S m a n  : Collector of the  port 
from  whomthere
TVip M ir h liT Q n  T VCt ri p e r n  Q Ti  i placing these under the  direction  of  the
Official Organ o f Michigan Business Men’s  Association.  Shall be  an appeal in all cases to the Sec
retary of the Treasury.

A   W E E K L Y   JO U R N A L   D EV O TED   T O   T H E

Retail  Trade  of the tfoliierine State.

K. A.  STOWE &  BRO., Proprietors.

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

Entered  a t  the  Grand  Rapids  Post  Office.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

W EDNESDAY,  JA N U A R Y  30, 1889.

THE  SAMOAN  COMPLICATION. 
The complications at Samoa begin now 
to  attract  the  attention  which  should 
have been given  them  months  ago,  and 
nothing is more plain than the feebleness 
of our diplomatic  procedure there.  The 
German  policy  has been steadily to pr 
fes* a desire for peace  and a good under 
standing,  while at the same time pushing 
on in the  scheme  of  distracting  the na 
tives, securing one  of  the  factions  into 
which they divided,  and  obtaining  con 
trol of the island.  George  II. Bates, 
Wilmington,  Delaware,  who went  out 
Samoa as a Commissioner  of  the United 
States, some two  years  or more ago, ha 
expressed  himself very distinctly on th 
point. 
The whole course of Germany seems 1 
me to indicate a dogged determination t 
tiave possession  of  Samoa,  and implicit 
rel iance upon the fears  of  England  and 
the indifference of the United States gov 
eminent  to  secure  non-interference  by 
either of those governments. 
.  Ther 
can be little doubt  that unless somebody 
calls a halt in a tone which Germany can 
not  misunderstand, 
the  Germans  will 
pursue their policy of making war on the 
natives,  destroying  their  villages,  and 
under the pretense of  indemnity  for  in 
juries to German  property,  take  posse 
sion of the island.

In an interview, he says:

. 

And apparently Mr. Bates does not see 
any immediate prospect of more vigorou 
American  procedure.  He  says  he has 
read carefully the instructions  now  sent 
to our commander  in  these  waters,  Ad 
miral Kimberly,  and he  “cannot see that 
tie has  any  greater  authority  than  the 
officer who preceded him.  He is directed 
to  protest against German action  and  to 
co-operate with  the  German  authoritie 
there.  Our officers have been  protesting 
for the last two  or three years, and their 
protests have had about as much effect as 
the Pope’s bull  against a comet.”

Two elements in the situation  favor  j 
solution  satisfactory  to 
this  country 
whenever our case is properly presented 
One of these is the  spirit with which the 
natives fight against the German usurpa 
tion, and the other is the promise of Great 
Britain  to  actively  interest  herself 
maintaining a real neutrality  of  foreign 
influence  in  the  island.  Of  course,  if 
Samoa were near the bounds of Germany, 
it would be  easy  enough  to  overwhelm 
the native resistance.  But to send troops 
in any number around the globe for such 
a purpose would  neither  be a remunera­
tive undertaking in itself, nor suitable to 
German  policy  in  other  respects  at the 
present  moment.  With  a  considerable 
war on hand on the  Zanzibar  coast, and 
an  uncertain  faith  in  the  prospects of 
European peace,  they  probably  will not 
care to treat the repulse of their  men  in 
Samoa as a matter  which  “involves  the 
honor” of the Empire.

Some  of  these  propositions  commend 
themselves  at  first  sight;  others  are of 
doubtful expediency.  The bill will need 
much more consideration than  this  Con­
gress can give, and as a result of seeking 
so much at  once,  probably  nothing will 
be done.

THE  TIME  TO  ACT.

|  The White Caps have assumed the seri 
ousness  of  a  national  epidemic.  The 
attractions of this kind of moderate lynch 
law  for  ill  regulated  minds  threatens 
grave  consequences  to  modern  society 
unless State and local  authorities  bestir 
themselves to put down every attempt to 
organize this kind of terrorism.  In some 
cases  recently  reported, 
it  is  beyond 
doubt  that  practical  joking  of  a  very 
reprehensible sort was the real motive of 
the notices and warnings  sent.  But  in 
so many parts of the country  there  have 
been midnight raids and acts of violence, 
that the very report of such an organiza 
tion  existing  in  the  neighborhood  ii 
enough to cause distress  to timid people, 
And in far  too  many  cases  the  reports 
are well  substantiated.

Of course, it is a rough kind of  justice 
these lawless  bodies  aim  at  exercising; 
but many things  they  undertake to pun­
ish are  neither  legally  nor  morally ®e- 
serving of it;  and in nearly all cases they 
proceed upon ex parte statements,  which 
may do grave injustice to  their  victims. 
Even  the  old  Vehm-gerichte  gave  their 
victims  a  chance  to  defend  themselves 
before proceeding to treat them as guilty. 
But the American executors of lynch law 
omit this needless  formality,  and simply 
sume guilt  before  taking  proceedings 
for its punishment.  As  a  consequence, 
they are liable to become the instruments 
of  private  malice  to  an extent  they 
not  contemplate.  And  in  a  countr 
where the ordinary process  of  law  is 
open to all, and the law’ is so entirely the 
expression of public opinion,  there is not 
the slightest excuse for  organizing those 
secret and extemporary  tribunals  which 
have been the  resort  of  the sufferers by 
lawlessness  in  disorderly  times.  The 
only thing for  the  authorities to do is 
follow’ up every trace  of  such  offenders 
until they  make  these  outrages  so dan 
gerous  to  their  perpetrators  that  the 
practice of them shall cease.

AN  EXPERIMENTAL  PLAN.
The adoption of  the  “Australian 

tern” of voting, or  something equivalent 
to it, is mooted in no less than ten State 
our own being one.  Bills for “the reform 
of the ballot” in this sense are before  all 
their  legislatures,  although  the adapta 
bility of the  method  to our political sys­
tem has not yet been tested anywhere.
T h e   T r a d e s m a n   has  heretofore  di 
couraged hasty legislation on this subject, 
on the ground  that  it  is  an untried ex 
periment in this  country  and  might not 
be found adapted  to  our  methods—that 
it  is  to  be  tried  in  Massachusetts 
next year, it would be  better to wait and 
see  how  the  plan  works  in  that State 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n   further  notes that be 
sides the  objection  to  the  cumbersome 
ness  of  the  new’  method, where a large 
number of officials have to  be  chosen  at 
one time, two others are presented.  One 
that it would require  a  much  greater 
number  of  polling  places,  and thus in 
crease the expense considerably. 
In  the 
Northern tier of New England States the 
number of polling places is kept down in 
der not to increase the expenses of  the 
State government to  their sparse and not 
In  Maine,  for  in 
ealthy  population. 
tance,  it would be necessary everywhere 
to
ubdivide  the  present  districts  and 
more than double the force  of  paid  offi 
cials,  in  addition  to  maintaining repre­
sentatives of the parties at each  of  these 
places.

It also is objected that there is no mor 
publicity in the present system than each 
voter chooses to have, and that  the aver­
age American is not devoured by a desire 
to conceal his political preferences.  That 
any great  number  of  white  voters  are 
prevented from  casting  their  ballots  in 
accordance with their  convictions, is not 
in  evidence.  The  notion  that the em­
ployers of  labor  terrorize  their  men by- 
threats of  dismissal  and  the  like is not 
borne out by the facts.

TOO  LATE  FOR  THIS  SESSION.
Mr. Ford’s Committee on  Immigration 
has finished its  labor  much  too  late for 
the present Congress to avail itself of the 
suggestions it embodies in the bill  which 
accompanies its report. 
It  would  have 
been much wiser to have  reported  a  bill 
amendatory of the present  legislation  at 
those points  where  it  is  manifestly de­
fective and on  whose  amendment  there 
would have been little difference of opin­
ion.  The other  suggestions  might  have 
been embodied  in  the  report alone,  and 
thus  left  to  the  judgment  of  the  next 
Congress.  As it is,  the  Committee  pro­
poses to re-enact very  much  that  is  al­
ready  on  the  statute  book,  and is very 
inefficiently enforced  by  the  officials  in 
charge, partly,  at  least,  because  of  the 
insufficiency of  their  resources  for  that 
purpose. 
It  also  proposes  to  increase 
those resources  by  transferring the con­
trol of immigration  from  the  State gov­
ernments to that of the Nation,  by requir­
ing every  immigrant  to  come  provided 
with a certificate from  an American con­
sul,  by  levying  a  tax  of  five dollars a 
head on immigrant  aliens,  by increasing 
the penalties on the immigration  of  per­
sons forbidden by law, by  extending  the 
time for prosecution to two years, and by 
requiring  reports  from  masters of ships 
and  from  railroad  officials  as  to aliens 
coming into the  country  by  sea or land.
In addition to  the present exclusion of 
paupers, criminals, laborers brought  un­
der  contract,  dependent  persons,  etc., 
the Committee proposes to exclude polyg­
amists,  anarchists  and  socialists,  and  to 
The plan is  not  a  new  idea,  by  any 
limit the number of immigrants any  ves­
means,  but  embodies  the  essential fea­
sel may bring to  one  for  every five tons 
tures of several  mutual  insurance  com­
of burden.  The  bill  exempts  from  the 
panies which have been  tried  for  years 
prohibition of  the  importation  of  labor 
and not found  wanting.  Many  of  the 
under contract only ministers of  the gos­
jobbing firms  in  Grand  Rapids,  Detroit 
pel and college professors, and not actors, 
and other business  centers  in  the  State 
lecturers and other  persons  specified  in 
have carried policies in the  Mutual  Fire 
the law of 1885. 
It  also  authorizes  the
Insurance Company  of  New  York,  sev-
Treasury Department to increase the staff  eral  having  policies  for  $30,000  and  a 
of persons required  to  execute  the law, j number for larger amounts.  The experi-

The communication from the President 
of the Petoskey  B.  M.  A.,  printed  this 
w-eek, as well as the erratic criticism of a 
Muskegon  gentleman,  published 
last 
week, plainly shows that some misappre­
hension exists  as  to  the  insurance plan 
recommended by the  Insurance  Commit­
tee of the Michigan Business Men’s Asso­
ciation  and  approved  by  the  Executive 
Board of  that organization.

NOT  A  NEW  THING.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Quincy—E. Bidwell has engaged in the 

harness business.

Sunfield—Berra Bros, have j ust  moved 

into their new store.

Sunfield—Ed.  Stinchcomb is now pleas­

antly settled in his new store.

Cheboygan—S. LeGault succeeds S. Le- 

Gault & Son in general trade.

Bronson—W. F. Marton succeeds P.  A. 

Buck in the grocery business.

Coopersville—M. R. Griffin has assigned 

his general stock to R. Lillie.

Shelby—Smith & Freeman  succeed  D. 

C. Freeman in the meat business.

Manistee—Geo.  Davis  succeeds  Davis 

& Skytte in the clothing business.

Dollar Bay—Frank  Haun is  succeeded 

in general trade by Haun & Schulte.

Morenci—Pegg & Salisbury are arrang­

ing to construct a double brick store.

Flushing—Franklin A. Niles  has  sold 
his general stock to Sweet Bros. & Clark 
Middleville—A. Hanlon is succeeded in 
the drug  business  by A. Hanlon &  Son 
Oxford—Margetta  Losey’s  drug  store 
has been closed under  chattel  mortgage, 
Kalamazoo—J.  W.  Barker  succeeds 
Barker & Parker in the grocery business.
Bay  City—Brandette  &  Gustin  are a 
new grocery firm  at  911 Cambbell street 
South  Haven—Geo.  B.  Pomeroy  has 
sold his grocery stock to  G.  P.  Smith  & 
Son.

Three  Rivers — Jonathan  Reitz  suc­
ceeds  Chas. Rice  in the  restaurant busi­
ness.

Clare—J. H. Carpenter  has bought  the 
drug and  general  stock of  Henry  Trevi 
dick.

Schoolcraft—Stanton  Troxel  succeeds 
Gilman & Campbell  in  the grocery busi­
ness.

Battle  Creek—Edward  J.  Smith  sue 
ceeds Sedgwick & Smith in the drug bus­
iness.

Bay  City—F.  O.  Liever  &  Co.  have 
opened a grocery and market at 609 Third 
street.
Morenci — F.  E.  Benjamin  has  pur­
chased the  grocery stock of  A. D.  Steph­
enson.

Kalamazoo—Bidelman & Harwood suc­
ceed  F.  W.  Bidelman  in  the hardware 
business.

Shelby—Chas.  Moore  succeeds  L.  G. 
Shirts in the sewing machine and jewelry 
business.

Schoolcraft—J.  Clark  succeeds  A.  M. 
Munger  in  the  agricultural  implement 
business.

Three Rivers—F. A. Bellman  succeeds 
Bellman & Francisco in the  manufacture 
of  cigars.

Brockway  Center—Jas.  T.  Waterman 
succeeds G. W. Waring &  Co. in the gro- I 
eery business.

Pine Creek—V.  J.  Stimpsou  succeeds 
E. P. Simmons in the  hardware and gro­
cery business.

Flint—W. C. Lewis  succeeds  Lewis  & 
Pettibone in the  clothing and furnishing 
goods business.

Hickory  Corner—Bissel & Hoge is  the 
name of the new firm engaged in the drug 
and grocery business.

Petoskey—D.  R. Shearer  has sold  his 
grocery and  meat  market  to L.  E.  Lang 
& Son, late of Charlevoix.

Vicksburg—O. A. Carrier  &  Son,  for­
merly in trade at Rice Creek, have opened 
a grocery and notion store here.

Otsego—John Linton, formerly engaged 
in the  same  business  at  Plainwell,  has 
opened a boot and shoe stock  here.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

E. O’Brien has  engaged in the  grocery 
business  at  Fennville.  Olney,  Shields 
& Co.  furnished the stock.

Chas. F. McCrath succeeds Geo. Thayer 
as manager of  the local distributing  sta­
tion of Swift & Company.

Clark & Morton have moved their cigar 
manufacturing business  from Greenville 
to this city, locating  on  South  Division 
street.

The  sale  of  the  Wm.  E. White  drug 
stock  to  D.  E. Watters  still  hangs  fire 
over a disagreement  on the  result of  the 
inventory.

Arrangements have been made by which 
Mrs.  John  D.  Popp  will  continue  the 
grocery business of her late  husband,  at 
75 Clancy  street.

R.  D.  Wheeler,  formerly  engaged  in 
the meat business at Ravenna, has opened 
a grocery store. 
I.  M. Clark &  Son  fur­
nished  the  stock.

L.  Benjamin  has  leased  the  store  at 
39 Ionia street, now occupied by  Caswell 
Bros.,  and will occupy  it with a clothing 
stock,  in  connection  with  his  Monroe 
street store.

The  Pennock  drug  stock,  which  was 
recently sold  to  Geo.  F. Cummings,  was 
removed  to  Kingston,  Tuscola  county, 
where  business is  conducted  under  the 
management of Geo. McKenzie.

It is reported  that  Fred H. Emery, the 
West  Bridge  street  grocer,  will  offer 20 
per cent,  cash in full  settlement with his 
creditors.  One  wholesale grocery  house 
is interested in the failure to the tune  of 
$1,700.

Alonzo Herold,  the  Monroe street boot 
and shoe  dealer has  formed a copartner- 
liip with  his brother, John,  and the two 
have engaged  in the boot and  shoe busi­
ness at Howard  City under  the  style  of 
Herold Bros.

The West Michigan Oil Co.  has  estab­
lished barreling stations at Howard City, 
Big Rapids, Reed  City,  Cadillac,  Manis­
tee, Ludington anc  Grand  Haven, where 
oil will be drawn  direct  from  the  tank 
cars  into  barrels,  thus  saving the mer­
chant the freight and K cent  per gallon.
A gentleman  named  Ansden,  of  Elk­
hart,  Ind.,  has  rented  the  store  at  59 
Monroe  street,  now  occupied  by  Brad- 
field & Co.,  and  will  open  a  fancy dry 
goods  stock  there  about  the  middle of 
April.  The  present  occupants  of  the 
store  are  undecided  as  to  their  future 
movements.

P. Steketee & Sons  are building a par­
tition through the center  of  their Foun­
tain street store, when they will  use  the 
est half  for  wholesale purposes exclu­
sively,  transferring their  domestic  stock 
from the  second  floor, which will be de- 
oted to their notion stock,  and the third 
floor to  full  packages,  the  shipping de­
partment being changed  to the basement 
story.  The office will be  in  the  rear  of 
the first  floor.  The  new  order will go 
into effect about the middle of February.
The  Dunham  &  Chick  Furniture Co. 

West  Branch—Abbott  &  Moore  have 
stock to Sheriff

has  completed  the  organization  by  the j assigned their dry  good
election of tue following  officers:  Presi-  Phelps, who is taking an inventory.
dent,  Wm.  Dunham;  Vice-President,  D, 
Turner; Secretary, John Bradfield; Treas­
urer, Chas. H.  Chick.  The  corporation 
has purchased four acres of land  of  Lu- 
man  Jenison,  just  north  of  the  Grand

Plainwell—J.  H. Wagner  &  Bro.  will 
close out their  dry  goods  stock. 
J. D. 
Wagner will continue the  clothing  busi­
ness. 

Matamora—Travis  &  Lunday succeed

'

STRAY FACTS.

Raudolph—This is the name of  a  new 
postoffice  in  Osceola  county.  O.  "W 
Wheelock is postmaster.

Dundee—Dundee’s  gas  well  is  2,278 
feet deep. 
It was shot twice  last  week 
and  the  only  result  was the loss of 100 
quarts of nitro-glycerine.

Irving—A. D. Hughes & Co. write Tin 
T r a d e s m a n  that a receiver  has not been 
asked for in connection  with  their  busi­
ness,  reports  to  the  contrary  notwith­
standing.

Henrietta—This  is  the name of a new’ 
town, founded by  the  T., A. A. & N. M. 
Railway,  twenty  miles  northwest  from 
Cadillac and nine  miles  from  Sherman. 
The town is  named  in  honor  of  Henry 
Ashley and Etta Burt,  who were married 
a week or so ago.

Chester—The town is  considerably ex­
cited over a coal  find.  Two  veins  have 
already been discovered, the width being 
five to six and one-half feet.  The coal is 
of good  quality  and  grows  better  as it 
reaches a greater depth.  The mineral  is 
found 140 feet below the surface.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Port Huron—The  sulphite fiber works 

will be ready for business February 1.

Flint—F.  P.  Smith  has  merged  his 
hardwood lumber and stave business into 
a  stock  company  under  the  style of  F 
P. Smith Lumber Co.

Marquette—Duluth  has offered a bribe 
of $100,000  to  the Iron Bay Manufactur­
ing Co.  to remove  their  works from this 
city  to  the  zenith  city  of  the unsalted 
seas.

Marquette—Bice, Powell & Co., a lum 
her and planing mill  concern,  making  a 
specialty of  house  finishing,  have  been 
succeeded by S.  Bice & Son, composed of 
Joseph H.  and Clarence E.  Bice,  Powell 
& Co.  retiring.  The product of the shops 
last year amounted to over $40,000.  •

Bank  Notes.

The  National  Bank  of  the  Republic, 
New York, has been  made reserve agent 
of the First National Bank of Utica.

John Campbell, of  Flint,  has  gone  to 
Evart to see what can be done in the way 
of straightening the affairs of  his  broth­
er’s defunct bank.  If John Campbell can 
discover the whereabouts of his  brother, 
he will undertake to persuade him  to re­
turn and  clean  up  his  business  affairs 
and remove the charge of dishonesty from 
the record.

The First National Bank  of Allegan is 
officered almost entirely by the Chichester 
family.  The father  is  President, while 
one son officiates as Cashier and the other 
acts as ’Teller.

The  Blake  Failure.

Clement  Smith,  assignee  for  F.  L. 
Blake,  the  Middleville  general  dealer, 
makes  the  following  report to the cred­
itors:
Stock in  store....................................................-¥10,140
232
Fixtures and F u rn itu re................................. 
l 493
Accounts and Notes........................................ 
Real  E state........................................................ 
400
E levator.............................................................  
300
T otal......................................... .................. ¥12,565
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The  indebted-

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ASSOCIATION  DEPARTMENT.

ntchigüB  Business  Men’s  Association.

ville-  W.S. Powers, Nashville:  Oren  Stone, Flint. 

President—Frank Wells, Lansing.
V|r»f Vice-President—H. Chambers, Cheboygan.
Second Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo. 
Seeretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.
Executive Board-President ; C. L. ''^utaey.M n^egon; 
Frank  Hamilton, Traverse City ;  N. B. Blam .LoweU, 
CUas. T. Bridgman, Flint;  Hiram  DeLano,  Allegan,
Committee  on  Insurance—Geo.  B.  CaJ ^ ® Ut,li® ïcen' 
^Committee on Legisl’a tio n -S •  E ^ a r k fil ^O wojjo;  H. 
"  a  Hvdom. Grand Rapids -,  H. H. rope, anegau. 
Committee on Trade Interests-Sm ith ßarae^Trav^rse 
City :  Geo. R. Hoyt, East Saginaw;  H. B. Fargo, Mus-
Commlttee on Transportation-Jam es Osborn Owosso^
O.  F.  Conklin,  Grand  Rapids;  C.  F.  Bock,  Hattie
Committee on Building and Loan Assoeiatlons-Chaun- 
ceVSfcrong,Kalamazoo; WU1 Emmert, Eaton Rapids; 
W. E. Crotty, Lansing.

Local Secretary—P- J- Connell,  Muskege_. 
S S i o S L - T h e Michigan Tradesman.

The following  auxiliary associations  are o{> 
eratin g  under  charters  g ranted  by th e Michi­
gan Business Men’s Associatio n :

y 0 

| _T rav erse O itv B. M.  A.

’ 

r President" J. W. Milliken ; Secretary, E. W. Hastings.

President. H. S. Chnrch; Secretary, ffm . Jom -________

President, N. B. Blaln; Secretary, Frank T. King- 

jfo . 2—L ow ell  l-t. M. A.
"  No. 3—S tu rg is B. M. A.
No.  4—G ran d   R ap id s  M.  A. 
No.  5—M uskegon B.  M. A.

President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. 
~ 
President, John A. Miller;  Secretary, C. L. Whitney.

_  

No. 6—A lb a  K. M. A.

President. F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.______

President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary. N- H. Widger.______
fc 
r President, F. H. Thurston; Secretary, Geo.L.Thurston. 

No.  7—D im o n d ale B. M. A.
No. 8—E ast-port B. M. A . 
No. 9 - L a n r e n c e  B . M. A.

President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly._____

.

-so.  10—H a rb o r sp rin g s  B. M. A. 

President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.___

President. H.  P. W hiople; Secretary. G. W. Chantry.

S o. 11—K in g sley  B. M. A.
No. 12—Q uincy B . M. A.
No.  13—S h erm an  B. M . A.

President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon.------------
" 
President, H. B. Stnrtevant;  Secretary, W.  J. Anstm. 

No.  14—No.  M uskegon B. M. A.

President, S. A. H owey; Secretary, G. C. Havens.---------

President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.---------
|  
President, J. V. Crandall^Secretary, W. Rasco._______

No. 1 5 - B oyne C ity  B. M. A.
So.  16—Sand C ake B.  M. A.
No. 17—P la in tv e ll B . M. A.
No.  18—Owosso B. M. A.
No.  19—A da  B. M. A. 

President, E. A.  Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.______

President, Albert Todd; Secretary, S. Lamfrom.

President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.

President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.

No. «O—sa u g a tu c k  B. M . A. 
N o . 21—W ay la n d   B. M. A. 

President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.

Persident, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W.  R.  Clarke.

No. 22—G ran d   L edge B. M. A. 
No. 23—C arson c ity  B. M. A.

President, F. A. Rockafellow; Secretary, C. 6 . Bailey.

President, J. E. Thnrkow;  Secretary, W. H. Richmond.

No. 24 —Nlorley  B.  M. A.

No. 25—P a lo  B.  M. A .

President, Chas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. D. Pew.

No. 26—G re e n v ille   B. M. A. 

President. S. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.

President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.

No  27—D o rr  B. M.  A. 

President, A. J. Paddock;  Secretary, H. 6 . Dozer.

No. 28—C heboygan B. M. A 
No. 29—F re e p o rt B. M. A 
No. 30—O ceana  B. M. A.
N«*. 31—C h arlo tte  B. M. A.
No. 32—C oopersville B. M . A. 
No. 33—C h arlev o ix   B. M. A.
N o . 34 —S a r a n a c   B. M. A. 
N o .  3 5 —B e l la i r e   B . M . A .

President, Thos. J. Green;  Secretary, A. G. Flenry.

President, W. G. Barnes;  Secretary, J. B. Watson

President, H. T. Johnson;  Secretary, P. T. Williams.

President,  L.  D.  Bartholomew;  Secretary. R. W. Kane.

President, Wm. Moore;  Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrongn.

|  President, A. G. Avery;  Secretary, E. S. Honghtaiing.

President, H. M. Hem street; Secretary, C. E. Densmore.

President, O. F. Jackson;  Secretary, John  M. Everden.

N o . 3 6 —I t h a c a   B .  M . A .

N o .  3 7 —B a t t le  C r e e k   B .  M . A . 

President,  Chas. F. Book;  Secretary,  E. W. Moore.

flk  President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D- W. Higgins. 
^  

No. 3 8—S cottville B.  M. A. 
No. 39  - B u r r  O ak B. M. A.

President, W. S. Wilier; Secretary,  F. W. Sheldon.

No. 40—B ato n  R ap id s B. ML. A. 
No. 41—B re ck c n rid g e   B. M. A. 

President, C. T. Hartson: Secretary, Will Emmert.
President, W  O. Watson; Secretary, C.  E. Scudder.

N o . * 2 —F r e u io  
President, Jos. Gerber; Secret;
No. 43—T u stin  B. ML. A.

U B. M.  A. 
ry  C. J. Rathbun.

President, Frank J. Luick ;  Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom.

No. 44—R eed C ity B . M. A.
No. 45—H o y lv ille B. M. A. 

President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.______
<
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary,O- A. Halladay.

President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould. 

No. 46 —L eslie B. M. A. 
No.  47—F lin t  M.  V.

President, W. C. Pierce;  Secretary, W. H. Graham.
- 
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.

No. 48—H u b liard sto n   B. M . A.

President,  A.  Wenzell; Secretary. Frank Smith.

No. 4 9 —L eroy  B   M.  A . 
No. 50 —M anistee B. 31. A. 

President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary A '■  Grannis
No. 51—C edar  S prings  IÎ.  31.  A. 
No. 52—G ran d  H av en  B. 31. A. 

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

President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, John H. York.

President, A. S. Kedzie;  Secretary, F. D. Vos.
No, 53—B ellev u e B . 31. A. 
No. 54—D ouglas 1Î. 31. A.
No.  55—P eto sk ey   B. 31. A. 

President, Thomas B. Butcher;  Secretary. C. B. Waller.

President, C. F. Hankey: Secretary. A. C. Bowman.

President, N. W. Drake ;  Secretary, Geo. Chapman.

N o . 5 6 — B a n g o r   B .  ML.  A . 
No. 57 —R ockford  B. 31. A . 
No. 58—F ife L ak e B . 31. A. 
No. 59 —F e n n v ille  B. 31. A. 

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

President, L. S. Walter; Secretai3 ,C.C  Plakely.

President F. S. Raymond : Secretary, P. S. Swarts.
No. 60—S outh B o ard m an  IÍ. 31. A. 
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E.Kelhardt.

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

No.  61—H a rtfo rd   B. 31. A . 
No. 62—R ast Saginaw  31. A. 

President, Jas. H. Moore;  Secretary,  C. W.  Mullioland.

President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. 8. Blom.

President, C.W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.

No. 63—E v a rt B. M. A . 
President, C. V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell.
No. 64—M e rrill B . 31. A . 
No. 65—K a lk ask a  B. M. A. 
No. 66—L an sin g  B. M.  A . 
President. Frank Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.
No. 67—W aterv liet  B. 31. A. 
President, Geo. Persons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.
President. A. E. Calkins;  Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.

No. 68—A lleg an  B. 31. A.

No. 69—Scotts an d  C lim ax B. M. A. 
iRresident, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. S. Willison.

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

No.  70—N ash v ille  B. M. A, 
President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers.
No. 7 1 —A sh ley   B.  31.  A.
No.  72—E d in o re B. 31. A.
No, 73—B eid in g  B. 31. A. 
No. 74—D avison  M.  U. 

President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster.
President, J.  F. Cartwright;  Secretary. L. Gifford.

President, Oscar P. Bills;  Secretary, F. Rosacraus.
President, 8. S.McCamly;  Secretary,  Chauncey Strong.

No.  75—T ecn m seh   B.  M.  A. 
No. 76—K alam azo o  B. 31. A. 
No.  77—S o u th   H av en   B.  M .  A. 

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

No. 78—C aledonia  B .  M.  A . 

President, C. F. W illiams;  Secretary. J. W. Saunders.
NTe.  79—Fant J o rd a n  a n d   So  A rm   B.  M. A . 
President, Chas. F. Dixon;  Secretary, L. C. Madison. 
Wo. 80—B ay  C ity a n d  W .  B ay   C ity  R. M ,A . 
President. F. L. Harrison:  Secretary, Geo. Craig.
President. L. A. Vickery ;  Secretary, A. E. Ransom.
President,B. 8. Webb;  Secretary. M. E  Pollasky.
Gobleville Ready to Organize, 

No. 8 1—F lu sh in g   15.  31. A. 
No.  82—A lm a   B.  31.  A, 

G o b l e v il l e , Jan. 25,1889.

a  
T3. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear  Sir—Enclosed I send  you call signed by 
most  of  our  business  men.  We  would  like  to 
have  you  come down  here as  soon as  possible. 
Let me hear  from  you at  once, giving a date  on 
which we may look for you.

Yours truly,

A. B. Clark.

Annual Meeting of the Petoskey  B.  M.  A.
At the annual meeting of the Petoskey B. M. A., 
held on Jan.  16, President  Hankey  read  his  ex- 
augural address, as follows :

Gentlemen  of  the  Petoskey  Business  Men's 
Association :
Upon retiring from  the  position  of  presiding 
officer of the Petoskey  Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion, it has occured to me that it would  be  right 
and proper to say something for  the  interest  of 
the Association. 
I do not consider  it  necessary 
to go over our work during  the  year.  You  are 
all well aware that we have met with failure and 
success.  All  business  undertakings  share  this 
fate and we are no exception to  that  rule.  But 
w hat I desire to speak of is the future—to impress 
upon your minds the importance of  standing  by 
and supporting  my  successor.  Don’t  imagine 
your duty to this Association ends by the paying 
of  your  dues.  Support  your  officers  by  your 
prompt  attendance  at  the  meetings.  W ithout 
this support, officers are mere  figure  heads,  and 
their position becomes one of embarrassment  in 
stead of honor.  You  cannot  hold  an  organiza­
tion together without the proper  support  of  the 
members.  Non-attendence is fatal to any organ­
ization and I would, therefore, in  behalf  of  the 
officers to be elected, and in behalf of  the  Busi­
ness Men’s Association, urge upon you the neces­
sity of  your  personal  attendance  at  our  meet­
ings.  In behalf of tills Association I want to say 
this—that  for  practical  usefulness  to  advance 
our business interests, for actual  benefit  to  our 
village  and  citizens  throughout  the  State  of 
Michigan, this organization stands to-day  above 
any other  organization  in  the  country.  Why? 
Because  it  is  non-political,  non-sectarian :  all 
creeds are left outside of our meetings, we  meet 
for one common interest ; we can all agree  upon 
that question for the purpose of  benefitting  and 
elevating our business interests.  This  Associa­
tion is the rallying point for  public  enterprises, 
and through this Association our village council 
can always learn the wishes of the business men 
and tax payers.  If we desire to  change  legisla­
tion for the benefit of business interests, we  can 
work through the State Association.  We  are  a 
power that politicians will resnect.  This  Asso­
ciation is just  in  its  infancy^  though  growing 
stronger daily ; and I predict it  will  have  great 
influence in legislation, in bringing  about  more 
honest business methods, in stopping food  adul­
teration, short weights  by  jobbers,  the  peddler 
nuisance, and many other matters that need  im­
provement.  The State convention at Cheboygan 
sounded the key note  of  a  higher  standard  of 
business, as these questions were  taken  up  and 
discussed.  Michigan  leads  in  schools,  and  in 
her Business  3Ien’s  Association.  Other  states 
are following.  Wrong and  evils  cannot  be  ob­
literated by the individual. 
It must be  done  by 
organization.  Business  men  generally  take  a 
narrow view of this  Association,  many  looking 
at it only as  a  collecting  agency  of  bad  debts. 
This is only a part of  the  workings  of  this  As­
sociation, as already stated.  It carries Influence 
along all lines of improvement.  Let  this  Asso­
ciation make its  wishes  known  to  our  council  j 
and they will act in accordance with  this  Asso­
ciation.  The  State  Association  will  have  the 
same  effect  on  State  legislation.  The  aim  of 
this organization is of the highest; but  in  order 
to  be  of  any  benefit  we  must  work  together. 
The individual is lost sight of at this day  in  im­
portant business transactions,  and  organization 
must meet organization.  We see the importance 
of this in all lines  of  business.  Therefore,  let 
us lay aside  business  jealousnes  and  come  to­
gether  here,  talk  over  and  if  possible  adjust 
small matters that appear like  mountains  to  us, 
for without  this  sociability  we  cannot  prosper 
and in this way, and  in  this  way  only  can  we ! 
succeed in building  up  our  individual  interest i 
and Petoskey’s interest.  We  have a tine natural 
location for many things, but should  not  forget ! 
that nature must be assisted  to  improve  it  and  i 
beautify  it.  We  lack  business  sociability  and I 
here is the place to cultivate it.  The large  busi­
ness centers are getting wealthy from  the  small j 
business centers, and in order  to  hold  our  own j 
and grow larger we must be  united  in  building 
up Petoskey interests.  During my  past  year  as 
presiding officer I have not failed  to  notice  the I 
want of interest expressed bv non-attendance  at 
our meetings.  As to why this is  so,  1  can  only 
give two reasons ;  One is that your officers are not 
what they should be  or  else  the  importance  of 
this  organization  is  not  properly  understood. 
Now, gentlemen, we are about to  have  an  elec­
tion and I trust you  will  select  a  member  who 
represents Petoskey's business  interests,  and  is 
able to lead and build  up  the  Petoskey's  Busi- 
nes Men’s Associatian and by so doing  you  will 
benefit every business man and  property  holder 
in Petoskey.
A unanimous vote of thanks was tendered Mr. 
Ilankey for the  able  manner  in  which  he  had 
supervised  the affairs of the Association  during 
the past year.

The  reports  of  the  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
were presented, the latter showing a balance  on 
hand of $18.40.
Watson Snyder was admitted to membership.
Election of officers resulted as follows :
President—C. F. Hankey.
Vice-President—James Bucklev.
Secretary—A. C. Bowman.
Treasurer—F. Ruddiman.
Executive Conmiittee—YV.  L. Curtis and 

Call.
Electric Lighting Before the Traverse City j 

E.

B.  M.  A.
From the Grand Traverse Herald.

The  B.  31.  A. meeting,  Saturday  evening, was 
very largely  attended, and  electric  lighting was 
discussed.  It  was voted  the  sense of  the meet­
ing that  we  needed  electric  lights, but no  vote I 
was  taken  as  to  the  best  m anner  to  provide 
them.  3ir.  Campbell  said  he was  prepared  to 
canvass  the  town  for  subscribers  to the  light.  ! 
and if  enough could  be  secured  to w arrant  the j 
venture  he  would  put  in  a  plant, entirely  dis­
tinct  from  the  water  works,  would  place  the | 
lamps in business  places and residences  of  su b -! 
seribers, free of  charge, give a thirty  days’ trial, 
free, and then if any were not satisfied he would j 
take out the  lamps, and such  subscribers would j 
be  released from all  obligations, and  no charge 
would be made them in any way.
This, certainly, is  a  fair  enough  proposition. 
The question, then, to  arise would be: 
Is it bet­
ter  for the  town to  put  in a plant  at public  ex­
pense, or  to let it be  done at individual  risk and | 
expense?  If  the town  puts  it  in  it  means  the 
issue of  bonds  for $15,010  to  $20,000. 
In  return I 
the  town  would  have  its  own  street  lighting  | 
free,  and  such revenue  as might i rise  from the 
use  of  lights  by private  parties.  The  expense 
would  be  the  interest,  fuel,  care  and  natural 
wear and tear of the plant.  In considering this: 
1st—Has  the  time  come when  the town is  pre­
pared to assume this responsibility and, perhaps, 
risk?  2d—If so, is there any money in  it  for the 
village?  There  are good  arguments  to  he  used 
pro and  eon.  It  would  seem if  there is  money 
in  it  to  induce private  capital  to seek the  ven­
ture, then  there  would  be money  in  it  for  the 
village.  This  looks reasonablesenough, but the

for the  corporation to make the  investment?  If 
done  by the  village  it  would  be, mainly, to  se­
cure street  lighting without  a  direct  appropria­
tion for  that  purpose.  Now  street  lighting  is 
very desirable, but, after  all, it is in  one  sense, a 
luxury,  and  can  be  dispensed  with  if  it  must 
needs  be  secured  at  public  expense. 
If  an 
electric  plant  is  placed  in the  town  bv private 
enterprise,  many  neighborhood  stree't 
lights 
■would  be used  at individual  neighborhood  ex­
pense.  This is now  done in several parts of  the 
town, and would be done on a much larger scale 
if the  annoyance of  caring for the  lamp is done 
away with, as would be the case with electricity. 
We believe  quite a large  number of  street lights 
would  be  put  in, in  this  way, without  general 
tax,  those  paying  for  them  who  could  best 
afford to do  so.
If the editor of  the Herald, would  like electric 
lights in his office and residence he ought to pay 
for them himself, and. not ask the man who does 
not care  for  this  luxury or cannot  afford to  in ­
dulge  in it, to help  pav  for  it  by a direct or  in­
direct tax.
Traverse  City needs  school  houses  just  now 
more than it needs  electric  lights for its  streets. 
This  former  will  soon  become an  absolute  ne­
cessity ;  the latter can be postponed.
By  all  means  let  us  have electric  lights  for 
those  who  w ant  them, but  go  slow  on  street 
lighting at  public  expense.  Give  us the  school 
houses first.

Does Not Favor the Proposed Plar.

P eto sk e y, Jan.  23,1889. 

To the Insurance Committee, M. B. M. A .:
G e n t l e m e n —Accepting your request of saving 
something, either  for  or  against  the  Michigan 
Business  Men’s  Insurance  Co.,  I  think  it  my 
duty to state  the  objections  brought  up  in our 
meeting of the 4th instant.
To start with, all, as far as  I  have  heard,  are 
in  favor  of such  an insurance company, but, in 
carefully looking over the  circular  presented, it 
was argued that this could not properly be a mu­
tual company, but  a  regular stock company, ac­
cording  to  the  plan  set  forth  in your circular. 
The  stock  so  sold  would  naturally  drift  into 
moneyed  men’s  hands,  be  controlled  by a few 
men and would become like all other stock' com

panics.  The business men would have  very  lit­
tle interest in it, except to  furnish  business  for 
this  company,  therefore  there  was  no  action 
taken  by  our  Association  and  the  m atter was 
dropped as not practical.  I,  myself,  was  in  fa­
vor  of  the  plan  adopted and would have taken 
stock, but, upon its being presented as  above set 
forth, I must say that in my opinion it  would be 
a failure, as set forth in your circular.
Why  not  operate  like  the  Millers’  National! 
I have for seven years carried $7,500  to  $8,500  in
this  comp
red from 40 to 50 per 
red  is  a  stockholder, 
cent.  Every  man  i 
giving his premium n< 
Besides the  low  rate, 
ickholders, we  have  a 
this company gives its 
surplus of over  $300,0( 
n  hand  for  a  reserve 
guiar  or  old line com- 
fund.  No agent of an 
panv  will  now  quesl 
the  reliability  of  the 
Millers’  National.  It  is  g! 
gilt-edge  in  every  re- 
experimental  point  so 
speet. 
It has passed the  e> 
ations.
dangerous to new organizat 
,et us  have  a  mutual, 
I would suggest th is:  Le 
be a stockholder, adopt 
Let  every  man  insured  be 
itional; make the head- 
the plan of the Millers' Nati 
¡ men for  the examina- 
quarters at Lansing:  have 1 
tion  of  risks  who  favor  i 
no  one;  accept those 
who offer good risks;  make 
:e your rate  low.  Men 
re doing now,  not  the 
want to know what they are 
high  per  cent,  their  mone 
lev  is  going  to  make 
re  often  fail  and 
them.  Promises  in  the  fu 
men take no stock in  them, 
The  business  man
says,  “ If  your  rate  is  as  high  as  the old com 
pany  I  will  not  change.  Your  promised  divi-
dends are no  inducem ent:  men  m in t  to  know 
w hat  you  can 
w hat  you  can  do  now—not w liaflb u  are going
to do in future.
I  know  from  experience  that  this  Michigan 
Business  Men’s  Insurance  Company  is a grand 
undertaking and will save thousands  of  dollars 
to  those  who  insure.  Start  it rig h t;  place true 
and fearless men at the head and it  will  be  one 
of the grandest business undertakings the  Asso­
ciations have ever accomplished.
Yours truly,
President Petoskev B.  31.  A-
Circular  Letter From  the Insurance Com­

C.  F. Hankey, 

mittee.

Greenville, Jan. 27,1889. 

The  Insurance  Committee  of  the  3Iichigan 
Business  3Ien’s  Association  has  sent  out  the 
following letter to the local associations,  accom­
panying  same  with  blanks  for  recording  sub­
scriptions :
To th e ........................................B. M. A:
We take  this means of  informing you that the 
plan  for  a  Michigan  Business  Men’s  Fire  In­
surance Company. as proposed by your Insurance 
Committee,  was  thoroughly  discussed  by  the 
Executive  Board at their  meeting  held  at  Lan­
sing on January 16. and approved.
The  Insurance  Committee  were  instructed  to 
prepare  articles of  association  and  blanks, and 
furnish  blanks  to  each  local  association,  for 
securing subscriptions to the capital stock of the 
company.
The success of  the project  depends  largely on 
the  support  the  local  associations  give  us  in 
raising the $100,000 capital stock required by law.
Your  Insurance  Committee  suggest  that  you 
immediately put  these  blanks  in  the  hands  of 
your  Insurance Committee, with  instructions to 
make a prompt and thorough earyass of  your lo­
cality, to  the  end  that an  opportunity  limy  be 
given  every business  man  to  subscribe  to  the 
capital  stock.  The  shares  are  to  be $25  each, 
and a small  amount  from  each of  us will  raise 
the $100,000.
Your  association  is  expected  to  secure-------
shares,  the  capital  stock  being  apportioned 
among  the local  bodies in such  amounts  as we 
think theymre willing and able to handle.  Under 
the proposed plan the 3Iutual Fire of New York, 
the Fire  Association of  Baltimore, and  the Pru­
dential of  Chicago, are  doing a large  and  pros­
perous business and  returning  from 3)  to 50 per 
cent, of  their  premium reoieptx  to  their  policy 
holders.  The  fact  that  they  write  only  large 
policies of  from  $10,000  to  $100,000, in  the large 
cities,  make  it practical  and  possible  for  the 
retailer and small  dealer to save a portion of the 
money  he  has  to  pay  annually for  indemnity 
against loss by fire.
Advise  the  Chairman of  the  Insurance  Com­
mittee of  the  result  of  your  canvass  not  later 
than  February  25, and  earlier  if  possible,  en 
■ losing to him  the subscriptions taken for stock, 
together with a list of  your members.

G e o . B. Ca l d w e l l , Chairman.
Ur e x  St o x e.
W.  S. Powers.

Committee on Insurance.

The Key-Note of Organization.

From the Owosso Times.
The  annual  banquet of  the  Owosso B.  31.  A., 
held on  Thursday  evening of  last  week, and of 
which  there was a brief  notice in the last  issue 
of  the Times, was a gathering of  unusual impor­
tance  to the  people of  Owosso. 
Its  importance 
did not consist in the luxurious repast served by 
the  ladies of  the  M. E.  church, though  that of 
itself would be worthy of special note, nor yet in 
the  number  in  attendance, or  in  the  flow  of 
reason,  wit,  and  eloquence  that  followed  the 
supper:  neither  in the soul  inspiring music that 
filled  the  hall,  while  the  guests  enjoyed  the 
palate-inciting  and  stomach-deranging  luxuries 
so  bountifully provided, but  in  the united  and 
concentrated  action  of  the  men  of  Owosso  to 
push to the  very front the  industries of  our city 
so  decidedly  expressed  by  the  President  and 
other  leading  men of  the Association.  In  this 
purpose, the  only one worthy of  the effort  now 
being made, they will  do well to heed the words 
of  wisdom  w hich  fell  in such  eloquent tones 
from the  lips of  3Ir. Wells, of  Lansing, and 31r. 
Hamilton, of Traverse City.  It  is not  worthy of 
the cost, if  the only purpose of  such an organiz­
ation  is  to  black  list a few  men who  from  ad­
verse  circumstances  or  any other  cause fail  to 
meet  their business  engagements, nor yet  when 
the  profits  are not  satisfactory  “to  ru n   about 
among  their associates  and agree  to put  up the 
price of  eggs one  cent a dozen, or of  calico one- 
half cent a yard.”  All that may be wise, though 
we doubt  its utility, and  question w hether  even 
penny profits will  result.  But when an  associa­
tion of  men  who  have a m utual  interest in  the 
prosperity  of  a  city  unite  their  energies  and 
influence  to  bring  manufactures  to  the  place, 
to  improve  fhe  approaches  to  the city, whether 
by  dirt or  railroads—to  attract  by proper  repre­
sentations  public  attention  to  the  varied  ad­
vantages  of  their  locality in  its  moral,  social, 
educational  and  business  characteristics  then, 
as  Mr. Wells  so  forcibly  said,  “its  success  is 
assured  and  sharp  competition  only  displays 
still  plainer  to  the  public  the  advantages  of 
w hich  others  are  so  jealous.”  This  purpose 
seems to be the sole  inspiring motive of the bus­
iness  men of  Owosso, and to  this  end  the ban­
quet was of  great  importance to our  city, as the 
result of the spirit and harmony inspiredby such 
gatherings the  concentrated energies of  the citi­
zens will  be felt  in  the  continued  growth  and 
development  of  all  that  constitutes  the  true 
prosperity and future success of our city.

They Go  Back to the Blue Letter.

From the  Manistee Advocate.

The  Business  Men’s  Association  had  a  very 
interesting  meeting  at  their  new rooms  in  the 
Van  Buren  block, Tuesday  evening.  After  dis­
cussing  the  relative  merits of  the  Blue  Letter 
collecting  system  of  dealing  w ith  delinquent 
debtors, the  experience of  all  drifted  in  favor 
of the Blue  Letter, and  by unanimous consent it 
was  re-adopted.  To  prevent  the  system  being 
abused, a  resolution  was  approved,  making  a 
member  liable  to  expulsion  who  sends  a  Blue 
Letter to a creditor when the account is disputed 
or  in  doubt.  The  intention  is  to prevent  the 
system being  used  for  oppression or  blackmail. 
Another  innovation  was  approved, 
to  have 
printed from time to time  the names of  all mem­
bers of  the Association on  the back of  the Blue 
Letter.  This is intended  as an  intimation to the 
person  receiving the  letter of  w hat  will  be the 
effect of  a refusal to pay attention to  the notice. 
Every  member is  pledged  on honor  not to trust 
anyone whose  name appears on  the  delinquent 
list, and  to  make it more binding, a  fine  of  $10 
is  imposed.
A resolution was adopted instructing the Com­
mittee on Improvements to petition the  manager 
of  the Western Union  Telegraph Co. to  keep the 
office here  open at  night  or  at  least until  mid­
night.  It  was claimed  there  was  no other  city 
in   the  country the  size of  Manistee  where  the 
telegraph office was not open  night and day.
A  motion to have  two regular  meetings  each 
month  until  May  1 was  carried.  The  first and 
third Friday of  each month  were designated for 
the regular  meetings.  Specials  may be called at 
any time by the president.  Three  new members 
were gathered in.  At no  time  since the  society 
was  organized are  the  prospects as  bright as  at 
present.
Sherwood Effects a Preliminary Organiza­

tion.
S h e r w o o d ,  Jan. 2 5,1889.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D e a r   Sir —Last  Tuesday evening  a  prelimin­
ary  organization was  made, officers elected, etc. 
Next  Monday evening, we  will complete  same, 
fill  out  the  application  for  charter, etc.  Now 
if we can  get Union  City, Athens and  Colan  to 
join  with us and  the State body, I will  be satis- 
ged. 

Yours truly,

W.  R.  Mandigo.

A sso ciatn n   N o tes.

Shepherd  is considering  the  m atter of  organ 

izing a B. M. A.

Eighteen persons w hae names  have appeared 
on  the  delinquent  listof  the Muskegon  B.  31. 
A.  have found it convelient  to pay up  in  order 
to get off  the  list.  The amounts  thus  secured 
are in  excess of $450.

Eaton Rapids  Herald’.  The  Lansing Business 
Men’s  Association  is  agitating  the  subject  of 
another  passenger  trait  over  the  Lake  Shore 
branch. 
It  would  be  i  great  convenience  to 
people all along the line,

The  Traverse  City  B. 31. A. has  gotten  out a 
very attractive outline nap of Traverse City and 
the  surrounding countr;, for use on the  reverse 
side of the letter heads <f business men.  It will 
prove a good advertisingmedium.

L. C. Madison,  Secretary  of  the  East  Jordan 
and South Arm B. M. A.,writes:  “We  are  get­
ting along well.  New numbers are coming in at 
every meeting.  All  maintain  their  interest  in 
the Association, so that Te have  a  good  attend­
ance.”

Luther  Enterprise: 

leighboring  towns  are 
forming  Business  Men’;  Associations  for  the 
purpose  of  booming  the  town.  Why would  it 
not be a  good  idea for otr  citizens to form such 
an association, advertiseour cheap farming land 
and attract settlers here?

Hart  Argus:  The  Octana  Business  Men’s 
Association  held its final meeting at  the council 
rooms, on January 22, anl closed up its business. 
It was  found  that a couity  association  covered 
too much ground, and’eaih village In the county 
is expected to form an asiociation of its own.

Buckeye  Grocer:  T h e M ic h ig a n   T r a d e sm a n  
is  busy  encouraging  the  establishment  of  an 
insurance  association  anong the  business  men 
connected w ith the Michigan Business Men’s As­
sociation.  We do not takemuch stock in a move­
ment of this kind, but as Th e  T r a d e sm a n   seems 
to  have  entered  into the m atter with  its accus­
tomed  energy and  spunk,it is  altogether  likely 
to  succeed. 
that 
T r a d e sm a n .  We  wish it success of  the highest 
sort.

Pretty  wile-awake  paper 

Allegan Gazette:  The Allegan Business Men’s 
Association will  hold a refular  meeting at G. A. 
R. hall, on  Tuesday evening, to elect  officers for 
the  ensuing  year, hear  rqiorts of  the Secretary 
and  Treasurer,  also  of  tbe  Railway  and  other 
committees.  Business of  especial  importance is 
to be considered  and  eveiy member is earnestly 
requested to be  present.  Secretary Stowe of the 
State  B.  31.  A., will  be  present  with  numerous 
pointers.

East  Jordan Enterprise.  At  the  meeting  of 
the Business 3fen’s Associition, on  Monday eve­
ning,  the  members  expressed  themselves  gen­
erally as well  satisfied with the  new freight and 
express  line.  The  extra  nail route  committee 
reported  that  the  requisition to  the Postmaster 
General  would  be circulated  during the  week, 
and  forwarded.  Dr.  F.  C. Warne’s  name  was 
added  to the  membership of  the  organization. 
Delinquent names were handed to the Secretary.
Manton Tribune:  A  few months ago  3Ianton 
if so  disposed, might  have  boasted  over an  or­
ganization  known  as the  Business Men’s  Asso­
ciation, which  did more  for  a  time to  advance 
the  commercial  interests o:  the place  than any 
one  thing that  has existed  here  before or since. 
By  this  Association  our  business  men  were 
brought  together,  discussed  subjects  of  local 
value  and  as a result of  such  meetings  it  was 
possible  to  secure  united  action on  any impor­
tant  subject.  Why these  meetings should  have 
beeis discontinued  and with  their  postponment 
all  desire to push  our  town  have  died, is  more 
than we can explain.  Other towns keep up their 
organized  efforts  and  the  more  thorough  the 
work  the  more  prosperous  are  the  towns, and 
what is  good  for  other places  is  good  for this. 
W hile our  natural  resources  are good  and  our 
village reasonably prosperous, there is no reason 
why we  should  not take hold  and aid  nature a 
little.
Annual Meeting of the Gseenville B. M.A.
G r e e n v il l e ,  Jan. 24,1889.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dear  Sir—Our annual  meeting last night was 
well  attended.  New  officers  were  elected  as 
follows:

President—A. C. Satterlee.
Vice-President—W. A. Hall.
Secretary—Geo. B. Caldwell.
Treasurer—W. W. Slawson.
Executive  Committee—L.  W.  Sprague,  E.  J. 
Clark and S. R. Stevens.
It was  decided to hold our  annual banquet on 
Friday evening, February  15, at “Hotel Phelps.” 
The Committee  on Arrangements  consists of  E. 
Z. Guild, Eli Clark and W. H.  Bradley.
The interest in Association work is improving.

Yours,
G e o .  B. Ca l d w e l l , Sec’y.

Alma Takes Charter No. 8:.

A l m a ,  J a n .   26,1889.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

D e a r   S ir —Enclosed  please  find  application 
for charter for Alma Business Men’s Association, 
accompanied  by a copy  of  our  constitution and 
by-laws;  also usual fee  for charter  and per cap­
ita  tax  on  thirty-one  members.  Please forward 
charter as soon as you can.
Our  Association  is in  splendid  working  con­
dition.  Every  member  is  h  ghly  plea: ed with 
the  work  done so far and  takes an active  inter­
est.  We  shall, without  doubt, have  every busi­
ness  man  in our city  join  our ranks  before the 
1st of  3Iarch.  So don’t  be  surprised if  you  see 
our  membership  increased  to  fifty  and  over. 
Please send us with  charter  ten or twelve  blank 
applications for membership.

Yours,

M.  E.  P o l l a s k y , Sec'v.

Annual  Meeting  of  the  East  Saginaw 

Association.
E ast Saginaw, Jan. 25,1889.

E. A. Stowe, Grand  Rapids:

Dear  Sir—The  East  Saginaw 3Iercantile  As 
sociation  held an open  meeting from  January  4 
until  January 17 for  the  election of  officers, re­
sulting as  follows:

President—.lames H. Moore. 
Vice-President—P. Tranor.
Treasurer—Wm.  Neuman.
Secretary—C. W. 3Iulholand.
Executive  Committee—G.  W. Meyer  and R. S. 
Yours truly,

Stewart. 

•

C. W. Mulholand, See’y.
Paw Paw Considering  Organization 
P a w   P a w , Jan. 2 2,1889.

£ . A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dear  Sir—A  few  of  us  have  concluded 

to 
make an effort toward forming a Business Men’s 
Association, to  affiliate with  the  State  Associa­
tion.  Some of us feel it would be  a  good  thing 
if we could pull more together,  and,  at  the  in­
stance of several, I write you for printed  matter 
relating to the plans for such  an  organization.
Please forward w hat yau  would  judge  neces­
sary to give us an idea sf the working planS.

Yours truly,

F. S. M il l in g t o n .

Conscience Money.

From the Charlotte Republican.
Reynolds  Bros., of  Eaton  Rapids, had 
an experience  last  week  that  does not 
often fall to the lot of the  average  man. 
A gentleman came to  the store and, call­
ing the proprietor, stated that  about  six 
years before he purchased a bill of goods 
there and, owing to the negligence of the 
clerk, managed to  leave  without  paying 
for them.  The matter had preyed on his 
mind ever since, but as  times  had  been 
hard with  him,  he  had  been  unable to 
spare the  money  until  now  and that he 
had now come to pay it.  The proprietor, 
of course, knew nothing about  the  mat­
ter and declined to  take  the  money, but 
the man insisted  and  he  took  it.  The 
amount was $4.

The  Insurance  Question  in a  Nut  Shell.
If  stock  fire  Insurance can  be  conducted  on 
the  stock  plan  at  present  rates,  provide 50 per 
cent, of its income for  losses, 40 per cent, for the 
expenses  of  doing  business  and  pay  a  10  per 
cent,  dividend,  while  writing  on  nearly  all 
classes of  property, can  we  not  by doing  away 
with the local agent, by frequent  inspections  of 
our  risks, by  making  a  specialty of  mercantile 
insurance, w ith  good fire  protection,  and  econ­
omical management, save more than 10 percent.? 
If  we can, under  our proposed  plan, it shall  be 
returned  to  the  policy  holder.  The  stock  in 
each case draws the same rate.

C a l d w e l l .

HAHDWJLRE.

The Manufacture of  Tacks.

A tack machine will make from  250  to 
275 tacks per minute.  The  work,  how- 
e3rer,  does not end here,  as the  tacks  are 
galvanized,  tinned,  polished,  leathered 
and a variety of processes  gone  through 
with before the  tack reaches the i acking 
room.  The  total  output of tacks in the 
United  States  is  300  tons  a  day, all of 
which are readily  consumed.  The  larg­
est plant in America is that of A.  Fields, 
of Taunton, Mass., who operates 300 ma­
chines.  There are forty or fifty different 
other manufactures in this  country,  and 
the trade amounts to more than  $50,000,- 
000 annually. 
It  is  a  remarkable  fact 
that there are only about 350 skilled tack 
operators in America, and the wages paid 
to  them  range  from  $150  to  $250  per 
month.  No regular salary is paid in any 
department  of  the  works, the operators 
being paid in proportion  to  the  amount 
of work actually done.

A Machine for Riveting Stovepipe.

The Iron World says  that a recent  in­
vention is a machine  for  riveting  stove­
pipe. 
In the old way each of the six  or 
nine  rivets  in a piece of  stovepipe  was 
drawn  and  driven  separately.  By the 
use of this riveting  machine all the rivets 
are drawn by one  drop  of  the  hammer, 
and all of them are set by one drop of the 
hammer.  One  man  with  this machine 
can turn out from 600 to  1,000  joints  of 
pipe per day.  The pipe is formed  on  a 
cylinder connected with  the riveting ma­
chine,  and this makes  it  uniform in size 
and leaves the lap  smooth and free from 
buckles.  There is,  we  believe,  no  ma­
chine of this description  in  the  market, 
and it is said  the  invention will  mark  a 
new era in the manufacture of stovepipe. 
It is easily operated, there is  no  compli­
cated machinery about it, and it does  the 
work  perfectly.

P r ic e s   C u rren t.

AUGURS AND BITS.

These  prices are  for cash buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dis.
Ives’, old sty le .....................................
60
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Snell’s ....................................................
60
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Cook’s .................................................... ............  
40
Jennings’, genuine..............................
Jennings’,  im itation.......................... . . . . . . . . 50Æ10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze................
............ $ 7 00
D.  B. Bronze................
..............  11  00
S. B. S. Steel................
.............. 
8   50
D. B. Steel................... ............   13 00

AXES.

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BALANCES.
BARROWS.

dis.

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BOLTS.

BELLS.

BRACES.

BUTTS,  CAST.

Spring  ................................................... ............  
40
R ailroad................................................. .......... $ 14 00
G arden..................................................
...n e t  33 00
H and......................................................
..  60& 10&10
C ow ....................................................... ............  
70
Call  ........................................................ ............ 30&15
Gong ...................................................... ............  
25
Door, Sargent......................................
...........60&10
S tove...................................................... ............ $ 
0
Carriage new  list:
P lo w .................................................................
Sleigh  shoe......................................................
W rought Barrel  Bolts...................................
ast Barrel  Bolts............................................
Cast Barrell, brass  knobs............................
Cast Square Spring........................................
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 Bvonze and Plated Knob Flush. 
. .60& 10 
Ives’ Door........................................................
...60*10 
Barber...............................................................
40
B ack u s.............................................................
.  50&10 
Spofford...........................................................
50 
Am. B a ll.........................................................
net
Well,  plain ..........................................
...$ 3  50 
Well, swivel........................................
...  4  00 
dis. 
Cast Loose Pin, figured.....................
...70&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed__
.. .70& 
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.
...60& 
W rought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.
...60&1O 
W rought Loose P in ............................
...60&10 
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip .........
.60&05 
Wrought 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 Brass........................ 
75
Blind,  Clark’s .....................................................70&10
Blind,  Parker’s ................................................... 70&10
Blind, Shepard’s ............................................... 
70
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85..
CARPET  SWEEPERS.

40
Bissen  No. 5........................................per doz.$17 00
Bissell No. 7, new drop p a n ............  
19 60
Bissell, G ra n d ..................................... 
36 00
Grand  Rapids......................................  
24 00
M agic....................................................  
15 00
Grain.
Cast Steel...
Iron, Steel Points.
Ely’s 1-10...............
Hick’s  C. F ...........
G. D ...........................................................
M usket......................................................
Rim Fire, U. 31. C. & W inchester new
Rim Fire, United  States........................
Central  F ire.............................................
Socket F irm e r..........................................
Socket Fram ing........................................
Socket Corner...........................................
Socket Slicks............................................
Butchers’ Tanged  Firm er.....................
Barton’s  Socket  Firm ers.......................
Cold.............................................................
Curry,  Lawrence’s  .....................
H otchkiss......................................
W hite Crayons, per  gross..........

50 
50 
25
....................70&10
....................70&10
....................70&10
....................70&10
40
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20
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net
....................40&10
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jvO

..  dis. 50&02
.per lb

...12@12J4 dis. 10

list.. 
. .dis. 
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CARTRIDGES.

CROW BARS.

CRADLES.

CHISELS.

BLOCKS.

.per m

CHALK.

COMBS.

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COCKS.

“ 

COPPER.

Brass,  Racking’s ..........................
Bibb’s .............................................
B eer.................................................
Fenns’.............................................
Planished, 14 oz cut to size.........
14x52, 14x56, 14x60 __
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60__
Cold Rolled, 14x48.......................
Bottom s..........................................
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks......................
Paper and straight Shank...........
Morse’s Taper Shank...................
DRIPPING PANS.
Small sizes, ser p o u n d ...............
Large sizes, per  pound................
Com. 4  piece, 6 in ..........................
Corrugated....................................
Adjustable......................................

ELBOWS.

DRILLS.

...................  
60
60
- î................ 
....................40&10
...................  
60
33
per pound 

d is .

.doz.net 
75 
.dis. 20&10&10 
.......dis.  Já&lO

Office  of

Foster,  S tev en s &  Co.,
WHOLESALE  HARDWARE.

day is,

The fiber from which Sisal  and  Manilla  Rope  is made is now 
cornered *’  and  very  high.  The  price  of rope in New York to­

Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 29,  1889.

Sisal,  12  1-2 cents per pound.
Manilla,  15  cents per pound.
Our  price  in  Grand Rapids  is  ONE  CENT  AR0YE  THESE 

PRICES.  We have in stock a new rope called
n e w  p r o c e s s .

Its  superiority  to  Sisal  in  every  respect  is now universally ad­
mitted, and where it has  been  substituted  for Manilla, favorably 
impresses  the  purchaser  with  confidence  in  its  utility  and suc­
cess.  It is  manufactured  in  all  sizes,  the  smaller  coils  being 
made up in a  hall  cord  shape,  thus  avoiding  the  necessity  of a 
reel.  We  keep  in  stock  “ New  Process”  from  1-4  up  to  5-8 
inclusive, and our price to-day  is  only  9  1-2  cents  a  pound  for 
3-8 and larger, and 10  cents  for  14.  This price, however,  will 
not hold and must go higher  if Sisal and Manilla keep advancing.
A  trial  coil  will  convince  you  the  days  of  Sisal  rope  are 
numbered. 

FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO.

10 a n d   12 3Ionroe-S t., 3 3 ,  3 5 ,  37  39  a n d   41  L ouis-St.

diS.

d is.

30
25

Clark’s, small, $18; large, $26..........................  
Ives’, 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, ¡3 0 ...............................  

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

p il e s—New List. 

American File Association L ist......................60&10
Disston’s ..............................................................60&19
New  American...................................................60&10
Nicholson’s ........................................................ 60&10
Heller’s ................................................................  
50
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps........................................ 
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
28
18
15 
List 

GALVANIZED IRON.

12 

14 

13 

Discount, 60

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s ......................... 

50

dis.

g a u g es. 

HAMMERS.

25
Naydole  & Co.’s..........................................dis. 
Kip’s .............................................................. dis. 
25
Yerkes & Plum b’s .......................................dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............................30c list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, H and__ 30C40&10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ...................................dis. 
60
State.................................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 4y2  14  and 
3'Á
10
54............ ..............net
%............ ..............net
SYs
............ ..............net
7Uî
%............ ..............net
70
............ dis.

Strap and T .......

lo n g er............

HINGES.

hangers. 

dis.

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

hollow w a re

Pots....................
K ettles................
Spiders..............
Gray enameled.

..60&10
..60&10
..6 0 & 1 0
50

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Stamped  Tin W are............................new list 70&10
Japanned Tin W are.......................................... 
25
Granite Iron W a re ...........................................  
»5

HOES.

 

Grub  1. 
Grub 2  . 
Grub 3.

.....................................$11, dis. 60
..................................$11.50, dis. 60
.....................  
$12, dis. 60
HORSE NAILS.
Au Sable..........
...................dis. 25&10@25&10&10
Putnam ............
.......................dis.  5&10&2$í&2}¿
N orthw estern..
.............................. 
dis. 10&10&5
k n o b s—New List.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings.....
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 
.
Door,  porcelain, trim m ings................
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain.........
Picture, H. L. Judd  &  Co.’s ...............
H em acite............................................

......... 
o5
70
......... 
.......... 40&10
......... 
45
Russell & Irwin  3Ifg. Co.’s new list  ........... 
55
3Iallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s ...............................  
55
Branford’s .........................................................  
55
N orwalk’s ...................................................................35

LOCKS—DOOR. 

dis.

dis.

levels. 
MATTOCKS.

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ........................  
70
Adze E ye...............................................$16.00, dis. 60
Hunt E ye...............................................$15.00, dis. 60
H unt’s ............................................$18.50, dis. 20&10.
dis.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled........................  
50

mauls. 

dis.

mills. 

dis.

Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ........................................  
“  P.  S.  & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables__  
“  Landers,  Ferry & Clark’s ...................  
“  E n terp rise.............................................. 

40
40
40
05

molasses gates.

Stebbin’s  P attern.................................
Stebbin’s G enuine...............................
Enterprise, self-measuring................

N A IL S
Advance above 12d nails.

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

PINE BLUED.

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

CASTING AND BOX.

COMMON BARREL.

CLINCH.

114 and  1% in c h ...........................
“ 
2  and 2J4 
..........................
214 and 23£  “ 
..........................
3 in c h ...............................................
3J4 and 414  in ch ............................
Each half keg 10 cents extra.

OILERS.

PLANES.

.......per gross,

Zinc or tin, Chase’s P atent.......
Zinc, w ith brass bottom ..............
Brass or Copper.............................
Reaper 
Olmstead's
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n c y ...................................
Sciota  Bench....................................................
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy..........................
Bench, first quality.........................................
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood.........
Fry,  Acme.................................................. dis
Common,  polished.................................... dis
Iron and  T inned.............................................
Copper Rivets and B urs.................................
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 toff 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27.. 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

Broken packs !4c per pound extra.

RIVETS.

PANS.

dis.
..60&Í0
50
50
$12 net 
..50&10 
dis.
..40@10 
..  @60 
..40@10 
..  @60 
. . 20&10
i. 50&10
ï. 60&10
dis.
50
50
10 20 
9 20

ROPES.

Sisal, 14 inch and la rg e r.................................  13
M anilla................................................................   16
dis.

Steel and  Iron.....................................................70&10
Try and Bevels..................................................  
60
M itre.................................................................... 
20

squares. 

SHEET IRON.

Com.  Smooth.  Com.
$3 00
3 00
3 10
3 15
3 35
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............................................ 4 40 
No. 27.,..................................................   4  60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra

SAND PAPER.

SASH CORD.

List acct. 19,’86........................................... dis. 
Silver Lake, W hite  A .................................list 
Drab A .....................................  “ 
W hite  B ..................................  “ 
Drab B .....................................   “ 
White C'..................................... “ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

40
50
55
go
55
35

SASH WEIGHTS.

dis.

saws. 

SAUSAGE SUUFFEBS OR FILLERS.

Solid Eyes.................................................. per ton $25
Miles’ “Challenge” . .. .per doz. $20, dis. 50@50&05 
P erry.....................per doz. No. 1, $15;  No. 0,
TU  '  V.  ViU ' V............................*M;  dis.50@50&5
Draw Cut No  4...............................each, $30, dis  30
Enterprise Mfg. Co............................. dis. 20&10@30
S ilvers......................................................... (jjg>  40&IO
Disston’s  Circular......................................   45@4rj&5
Cross C ut..................................... ,45@45&5
Hand ..............................................25@25&5
Atkins’  Circular.............................................. ais.  9
70
50
30
28

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

American, all k inds...................  
«n
Steel, all  k inds..........................................................eo
Swedes, all kinds............................................ 
eo
Gimp and Lace..........................................................eo
Cigar Box N ails............................... . . . . . . . . . . 
50
Finishing  N ails.........................................  [ ’ * 
go
Common and  Patent  Brads......... 
go
50
Hungarian Fails and Miners’ T acks..........  
go
Trunk and Clout N ails............................ 
Tinned Trunk and Clout N ails............‘ ‘ ‘  ’ 
45
 
Leathered Carpet Tacks............................. 
35
dis.  .
............................... 60&10
35
e’s .................  
4 Norton’s __  
70
........... 
70
.................. 
7 0 .
.. 18c per doz. 
.$1.50 per doz. 

tacks. 

TRAPS.
Steel, Game............................
Oneida Community, Newhou: 
Oneida  Community, Hawley
Hotchkiss’.............................
P. S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  ...........
Mouse,  choker........................
Mouse, delusion.....................
WIRE.
Bright M arket........................
Annealed M arket...................
Coppered M arket...................
E xtra B ailin g ........................
Tinned M arket......................
Tinned  Broom........................
Tinned M attress.....................
Coppered Spring Steel......
Tinned  Spring Steel..............
Plain Fence.............................
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..
p ain ted .......
Copper......................................
Brass..........................................
w ir e   c o o r
B right........................................
Screw  Eyes..............................
Hook’s ......................................
Gate Hooks ami Eyes............

“ 

dis.

..............  6714
.............70&10
....................  
62*4
............  6-14
.. per pound 09 
.per  pound 814
..................... 
50
................ 40A-10
..per pound03
................. $3 75
.................   3  00
...new   list net

di«.

.. 70&10Á10 
.. 70&10A10 
. -70&10&10 
.  VOAKktlO

dis.

.......70AC
.Ö0&10&1

. .28C 
..30c

w r e n c h e s.

Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled............
Coe’s  G enuine........................................
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought,.. 
Coe’s  Patent, m alleable.................

m isc e l l a n e o u s.

Bird C ages................... ..........................
Pumps, Cistern........................................
Screws, New List........................ . . . . . . .
Casters, Bed  and  Plate............... .  .
Dampers,  American...............................
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods 
Copper Bottoms....................................

M ETALS.

PIG  TIN.

Pig  Large. 
Pig B ars...

dis.

..60&10 
. .60&10

COPPER.

Duty:  Pig, Bar  and  Ingot,  4c;  Old  Copper, 
M anufactured  (including all articles  of whit 
Copper is a component of  chief  valué), 45  pi 
cent  ad valorem.  For large lots  the foilowir 
quotations are shaded:

1  00
1  502 00

Lake.................................................................. .  1814
“Anchor” B rand............................" ] . . . . . . . . . . . . .  fg

D uty:  Sheet, 2)4c per pound.
680 pouud  casks................................... 
Per  pound................................................ 

ZINC.

gu
4

LEAD.

pound.  Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound.

...........................................................jg.g
.......................«*5

D uty:  Pig, $2  per 100 pounds.  Old  Lead, 2e per 
American 
Newark....................................  
g a r ....................................................
S heet............................................................ 8c, dis. 20
114@14.........................................................................   16
E xtra W iping................................................
The  prices  of  the  many  other’ qualities  of 
solder in the market indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.

SOLDER.

Cookson.............................................per  pound  14L
Hallett s ...........................................  
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10xi4 IC, Charcoal............................ 
12x12 IC ,#  

$ 6 0 0
..............................................  e 2 5

“

10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 
14x14 IX, 
20x28 ix , 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

.....................  
................ 
..................... 
" ’ 
.......................... ; ; ; ;; ;;;;;;;

....................  77=
..................  7 75
go

Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.

$ 5 4 0
10x14IC,  C harcoal................... 
14x20 IC, 
...................   5 Si
...................  
s ®
............................::::: :::::: 
M I C ,  
i )  S,
...........? 
29x28 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
............................  ¿90
........... 
......... 
14x20 IX, 
............................  «.ffi
r i g
12x12 IX, 
.............................................  
14x14IX, 
............   "   .....................  "  it  63

TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
;; 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

ROOFING PLATES
“ 

Each additional X on this grade, $1.56.
14x20 IC, Tem e  M. F ...............................  
20x28  IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
29x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IX, 

“ 
“  W orcester.............................  
“ 
“ 
“ Allaway G rade.................. 
“ 

........................................:  s
“ 
“ 
“ 

$  7  60
i
5  go
7 on
490
.......  
'  <5 Jo
...................   13 50

................ 
.................... " " " l l S O

“ 
“ 

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x28  IX ................................................................$12 00
14x31  IX ...............................................................   13 50
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, i  _
^
14x60 ix ;  “ 
09

“  9  “ ’ fp er pound............... 

. 

 

The Michigan Tradesman
Some  People  and  Some  Other  People j 

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief  Digests  of  Recent  Decisions 

Courts  of Last  Resort.

IDO  YOU  HANDLE

§TO($]foOI
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| 

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

i 

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  cen t, cash 
g u a ra n te e  on e v ery  box  y o u  sell,  1,000 illus­
trated circulars in each ease.  Rubber stamp and 
self-inking pad f i ee with your first order through 
jobber,  (special  d ire c tio n s  for  building up a 
large trade with every shipment.  Our new circu­
lar, "H o g   C h olera—Cause,  C ure  an d   P r e ­
v e n tiv e ,”  is  attracting  universal 
attention. 
Contains the most scientific  and  practical  facts 
in regard to this terrible disease, and only known 
positively successful  treatment.  G ives' v a lu a ­
ble in fo rm a tio n  in  re g a rd   to   sw in e-raisin g  
fo r la rg e  profit,  see  o th e r c irc u la rs  fo r a ll 
k in d s o f stock.  The  facts  contained  in  these 
circulars are worth many dollars to  every  enter­
prising farm er or stockman.  D ealers!  We have 
withdrawn our salesmen and  solicit  a  continu 
anee of your trade through p ro m in e n t .jobbers. 
Send to them for their special circular “TO  TH E 
T R A D E ,” for full information in regard to rub­
ber stamp—free —and also our  G R A N D   CASH 
P R IZ E S .  See circulars for  testimonials of reli­
able dealers from all parts of the country.  This 
trade  is  about  equally  divided  between  drug­
gists, general dealers and  grocers.  A good trade 
for one insures a satisfactory trade for the other. 
Order at once, save freight and  commence  turn­
ing your money every thirty or  sixty  days, at 71 
per cent, profit]

SO L E  M A N U FA C TU R ERS:

The German Medicine Oomp’y
ì sel tine 
, whole-

For sale in Grand  Rapids.  Mich., l>y 
& Perkins Drug Co. and Hawkins & Pe: 
sale grocers.

M in n eap o lis,  M inn,

I

mm

■

u.:.

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

Marble and Granite

Mon ii in en ts

at a closer margin of profit than  any  concern in
state.  W rite for estimates on Building Stone 
em etery work.  First class material! sand work­

m anship only.

SflM’L  JUOFFETT,  Manager,

TEADE-MARK— “ LA FAVOEITA.

The  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States lately held,  in the  case of  Menen- 
dez vs.  Holt, that  the  words “La Favor- 
ita”  constituted a valid  trade-mark  for 
flour.

CITY  ORDINANCE— SALE  OF  MILK.
The  Recorder of  Kansas City  has  just 
rendered a decision in the case of  Kansas 
City  vs.  White,  holding  that  an  ordi­
nance of  the city prohibiting, under pen­
alty, 
the  selling  of  skimmed  milk,  is 
constitutional.

STATUS  OF  CIDEK  AS  A  LIQUOR.

PANIES.

In a case involving the  construction of 
the  Pennsylvania  excise  statutes,  the 
Supreme  Court of  that  State  held  that 
the question whether  cider  came within 
the  class  of  “vinous  or 
spirituous 
liquors” was one  to  be  determined by a 
jury.
CONSTITUTIONAL  LAW  —   TRUST  COM­
The Supreme Court of Minnesota lately 
decided  that the act of  1883, authorizing 
the  incorporation  of  annuity,  safe  de­
posit and trust  companies,  and  granting 
them  power  to  act  as guardians of  the 
estates of  insane  persons, was  constitu­
tional.
LIMITED  PARTNERSHIPS— PENNSYLVANIA 
The  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania 
decided lately,  in the  case of  Lauder vs. 
Logan  et al., that in  the case of  an asso 
ciation  organized  under  the  Limited 
Partnership  Act of  1874,  where the cash 
capital which is  required  under the filed 
statement to be paid  at the  outset, is ac­
tually  in  the  treasury,  and  the  stock- 
book, which the act  requires  to be kept, 
shows  f  on  whom  the  unpaid  balances 
are  due,  the  purpose  of  the  act  is ac­
complished, and that no member or  cred­
itor  can be misled as to the  condition of 
the association in these respects.

LAW.

FESSION.

CONSTITUTION,

LAW— RIGHT 

TO  PRO-
A  statute  of  West  Virginia  requires 
every  practitioner  of  medicine  in  the 
State to obtain a certificate from the State 
Board of  Health to the  effect that he is a 
graduate of  a reputable  medical college, 
or that lie has  practiced  medicine in the 
State continuously for  ten  years,  or that 
he has been found,  upon  examination by 
the  Board,  to  be  qualified  to  practice 
medicine.  A person convicted of  unlaw­
fully practicing  medicine  without a cer­
tificate,  in  violation of  this  statute,  ap­
pealed to the State Court oi  Appeals and 
thence  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States, on  the  ground  that  this 
act was  unconstitutional, inasmuch as it 
deprived  him  of  liberty  and  property 
without  due  process of  law, contrary to 
the fourteenth  amendment to the Consti­
tution.  The  Supreme  Court  has  just 
handed  down a decision,holding that the 
act  is  not  unconstitutional.  The court 
*aid :  The right to continue  the  practice 
of professions  is  often  of  great  value, 
and cannot be arbitrarily taken away any 
more than real or personal  property can. 
But there is so  arbitrary  deprivation  of 
such rights where its  exercise is not per­
mitted  beearise  of  a  failure  to  comply 
with conditions imposed  by the State for 
the protection cf  society.  The  power of 
the  State to provide for the general wel­
fare of  its  people  authorizes  it  to  pre­
scribe  all  such  regulations  a»  may*  be 
necessary to  secure  the  people  against 
the  consequences  of ignorance  and  in­
capacity  as  well  as  of  deception  and 
fraud.  * One means to sicure  this  cud is 
the  method  adopted  by  West  Virginia. 
If  the means adopted  arer appropriate to 
the calling or profession  and  obtainable 
by reasonable  study  or  application,  s o ; 
objection to their  validity can  be raised. 
The  court  sees  nothing  in  the  statute 
which  indicates an  intention' of  the Leg-
stature  to  deprive  one  of  any  of  bis 
htSv  3fo  one  has a  right  1)o  practice 
medicihe  without  having  the- necessary 
qualifications,  and  the  statute  only re­
quires  that whoever offers his services as 
a physician shall present evidence of  his 
fitness therefor.  Legislation  is not open 
to  the  charge  of  depriving  one  of his 
rights  without  due  process of  Raw if  it 
be general in its  operation upon ifce sub­
jects  to  which it  relates and is enforce­
able in the usual inodes.  The great pur­
pose  of  the  requirement  is  to  prevent 
arbitrary  and  capricious  legislats?«  af­
fecting the rights of  the  citizen.

Grains  of Gold.
Be regular in  your habits.
Love laughs at  locksmiths.
Do not  j udge a man by his coat.
The many fail;  the one succeeds.
Never try to  outshine, but to please. 
The greatest scholars are not the wisest 
Pride and avarice are a most whimsical 
The proof  of  the  pudding  is in the di­
Be fit for more  than  the thing  yon are 
There are peculiar  temptations  which 
Law in the visible  is  the  invisible  in 
If  possible, go to bed at the same hour 
As love -castetli  out  fear, so doth fear 
Expediency  is  man’s  wisdom;  doing 
Go up hill  as  fast  as  you  please, but 
“After'*misfortune  comes fortune,” is 
If  the time don’t  suit  you,  suit  your­
Nothing is so uncertain as the minds of 
Many reputations are founded on more 

men.
mixture.
gestion.
now doing.
assail man.
the visible.
every night.
cast out love.
right is God’s.
go down slow.
a gipsy proverb.
self  to the time.
the multitude.
hollowness.

[Continued  from  page  l.j 

three.  Please  send  them  to  my nieces, 
where I am visiting.”
The  velvet-elad  lady,  whose  solitaire 
diamond  ear-rings  alone  would  nearly 
have  built the Noxet  church, went away 
with  a  graciously  benevolent  smile  on 
her  face.  Then  all  tongues  were  un­
loosed.  The ladies  made  haste  to  tell 
Mrs. Smith  that  Mrs. Grimshaw lived in 
Boston;  that  she  had  no  end of  money, 
and  came  once a year  to visit  her niece.
•  Well, she  shall  have  those  caps if  I 
have to set up all  night  to  finish them,” 
said  Sister  Smith,  enthusiastically;  and 
she  thought,  with  a  glow  of  pleasure, 
how the building fund would be enriched 
by Mrs. Grimshaw’s contribution.  “But 
what  price  shall  I  ask for  them?” said 
the practical president.
They had  already sold  several  at fifty 
cents apiece.  But they unanimously con- 
cluded  that  Mrs.  Grimshaw would  not 
even  ask  the  price,  as  the  caps  were 
merely a pretext  for a generous donation 
to the church.
“They  say  she  is  a  Unitaryist, too,” 
said Mrs.  Loone, who had a fatal facility 
for  manufacturing  and  misapplying 
words.
“A  what,  Sister  Loone?”  asked  Mrs. 
Smith.
“A Unitaryist.  All them Boston folks 
are.”
Mrs. Smith  took the  caps  home to fin­
ish  them,  and  also some  narrow  thread 
lace that had  been  given to  the  society. 
Tne ladies  thought it no more than right 
to trim  the caps  with the  lace, and thus 
show  their  appreciation  of  Mrs.  Grim- 
sliaw’s kindness.
Mrs. Smith sat up until after midnight. 
She would have finished  the caps  before 
retiring, but Rev. John  Peter Paul w oke 
up as the  clock  struck  twelve,  and  saw 
her lamp burning

“Are you still sewing?”
“Yes, Paul.”
“Well, I am not  going to let you  spoil 
your eyes  for this  church,  or  any other. 
You married me, not  the  2soxet  church, 
and  I  want  you to  put  your sewing  up 
and come to bed.”
Mrs.  Smith  dutifully  obeyed, but  she 
rose  with  the  first  streak of  dawn.  At 
noon  the caps  w ere  done and  she  took 
them  herself  to  Mrs.  Grimshaw.  That 
lady looked  them over  very  closely,  and 
asked:

“What is the price?”
“We have  sold  some without  lace  for 
fifty cents.”
“I presume this lace was  given the so­
ciety?  You did not buy it?”
Mrs. Smith had  to  acknowledge it had 
been given to the society.
“Of course, then,  you cannot ask extra 
for  the  lace.  Here  is  a dollar  for  the 
cays.  Excuse mo, I must finish my pack­
ing.”  And she left the room.
As :a veracious  narrator of  facts. I am 
sorry to have to record  that Sister Smith 
did not threw the two silver  half-dollars 
after  the retreating  form of  Mrs. Grim­
shaw'.  But  she  was  young  then  and 
raii her overawed  by  the  magnificence of 
¡this aristocratic Bostonian.
As  she  walked  rather  dispiritedly 
homeward,  she  reflected  that  perhaps, 
after all, some  Bostonian  “Unitaryists” 
could give  points to some  Xoxet  Metho- 
dists.

A.nwa F a k e .

A Forty-five  Foot  Bed  of Salt.

,

Extensive 

explorations', 

coiltiiiufid 
through  several  years,  and  extending 
aver a wide  region in  the  upper part of 
the  Onondaga  Valley,  about  seventeen 
viniles  southward  from the  city of  Syra- 
«sase, have been  rewarded with complete 
Under the direction of William 
SUCc.
"»eil!,  general  manager  of  the 
B.  Cogg
Works, wells  have been
Solvav  Process 
sunk in five  different  localities-one  on 
the  hillside  at  JamesvillS,  another  at 
Cedarville,  one  near  Onondaga  valley 
(village)  one  in  the  south  part  of  the 
town of  Lafayette, and  now  another  in 
that  town, also  up  the  valley near Car- j 
diff.On  the  fourth  trial  full  success was 
attained.  The  fifth,  now  in  progress, 
promises  a  like  result. 
In  other  in­
stances salt w ater was found.  The  suc­
cessful  boring  was at a point  seventeen 
miles  south of  this  city,  on  the easterly 
side  of  the  valley,  at  the  foot  of  the 
hills. 
It  was  carried  to  a  sufficient 
depth, and a solid bed of  rock salt forty- 
five  feet  in  depth was discovered.  The 
boring  was  in  the  shales  through  735 
feet of  the deposit, then through 500 feet 
of  limestone, when, underneath and next 
to it, at a depth  of  1.210  feet  from  the 
surface,  a solid  body of  rock  salt forty 
five feet thick was  reached.  The boring 
was  carried  through  the  deposit.  Op­
erations  were begun early in the season, 
but  some  obstacles  were  encountered, 
making  necessary  a change  of  location, 
when  the  work  was  prosecuted  to this 
successful  termination.  The  well  now 
in progress is thirteen miles south of the 
city, four miles nearer than  the place at 
which  the “great  find” was  made,  and 
there is every  prospect  of  equally  good 
results  there,  without  the  necessity of 
boring more  than  1,000  feet.  The pro­
cess is expensive  and  laborious,  and the 
Solvay  Process  Company  has  ^pended 
thereon  not  less than 835,000, wr w’hich 
the success attained will give full recom­
pense.

Elettri

Light vs. Kerosene  Oil.

T r a v er se Cit y , Jan. 21,1889. 

5 pl

effect  of bi

;s, “that w< 
should hav 
sion follow

id Rapids:
ist Saturday evening we called an 
ting of our'Association  to discuss 
it question. 
It  had  the  desired 
ing out a good attendance, so  the 
retty well discussed, both  for and 
iking the sense of the meeting the 
•ried, wdth only  a  few dissenting 
: believe the time has  come  when 
e  electric  lights.”  Further  dis- 
ed on the advisibility  of  the  cor- 
po
individual owning  and  controll- 
We then adjourned until  Jan.  29 
n ss  the  question  and  get  “more
to fu rth e r------ -—  —  
light ”  but it  looks  as  if  there  might  be  some 
prospects of our getting out of  the  darkness  of 
“ ve olden  times.”
T should also like to call your attention  to  the 
map of this  section of  country  on  the  back  of 
this sheet.  This  has  been  brought  out  by  the 
Association, as an advertising  scheme, our  busi­
ness men agreeing to use the paper pretty  gener-
a,Our President, Mr. Milliken, has always  taken 
an active Interest in the  Association,  being  one 
of those men who “get to the front,” as the  boys 
say.  We expect to see some good  results  before 
th e year is out. 

“ ■
Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.

, 

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No  Writing!
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3.00
$ 5  
$18 
4.00
$20 
5-00
Orders fo r 200 e r ove’........................... 5 p e r cent.

S u b ject to  th e  a llo w in g  d isco u n ts:
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on a  cash  basis.

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I, L  STOWE *BR0„ Grand  Rapids.

 
10 
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POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

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

E A R L   B R O S . ,

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

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO.

Reference:  F ir s t  I aTIo sa l  Bank,  Chicago. 
Mich ig a n Tradesman. Grand Rapids.

C r a n b e r rie s,

S w e e t   P o ta to e sQ  
a n d   G rap es.
Bananas,  Olir  Specialty.
-  MICH.
GRAND  RAPIDS, 

16 and 18 No. Division St..

Lot.

30-

Size1

Price-

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

M an u fac tu re rs;  D e tro it,  M ich.

N u t s We  carry  a  large  stocl^  of  alt 

kinds  of  Foreign  and  Domestic 
Nuts  and  are  prepared  to  sell in 
any quantity.
P U T N A M &  BROOKS.

PURE

PUTNAM  &  BROOKS,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

We  manufacture  a  full  line, 
and warrant onr goods to be pure 
and first class in  every  particu-

CAN DY  l

WHEN  IN  M U SK E G O N

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

For the BEST LUNCH to be had in the State.

Fletcher’s  City  Creamery
W.  H.  FLETCHER, 
54  W.  WESTERN  AVENUE.
P E H K I N S   Sc  H E S S
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

D E A L E R S IN

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NOS.  123  a n d   124  LO U IS  S T R E E T , G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H IG A N .

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE-

5<1

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P f  o  ®
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to P a-

P U TN A M  & BROOKS,  P a ck ers.

Detroit Soap  C o .,

DETROIT,  MICH.

Manufacturers of the  following well-known 

brands of

QUEEN  A N N E . 
T R U E   B L U E , 
M ONDAY, 

M O TTLED   G ER M A N , 

S U P E R IO R , 

P H O iN IX . 

A N D   O TH E RS. 

For quotations address

M IC H IG A N , 

CZAR, 

W A B A SH , 

R O Y A L  B A R , 
M ASCOTTE,
CAM EO,

W .  G.  H A W K I N S ,

COAL!-COKE!-WOOD!

Lock Box 173, 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS

Salesm an fo r W estern Michigan,

Wholesale  A .  H I M E S ,   and  Retail
M er Nati C ityM .

W .  D iv isio n   Sts.

S h a w m u t A v en u e, W in te r an d  

T e lep h o n e  C all  4 90-2,  C A R   LOTS  A   SPEC IA LT Y ,

STANDARD  FIRST  GRADE  PLUG  TOBACCO^

L O RILL A  RTJ9 S
C L I M A X

The  Best  Fitting  Stock-  Qa n   n o w   b e   b o u g h t  a t  th e  fo llo w in g  e x c e p tio n a lly

ing Rubber in the

Market,

,Geo.  H.  Reeder,
Mich.
Grand  Rapids,

Sole  A gents

H E  A  Y E N  R ICH

B R O T H E R S

W h o le sa le  C lothiers

MANUFACTURERS  OF

CLUBS, 12 X 2,16 ox., 8 cuts, 
CLUBS, 12 X 2,8 oz., 6 cuts, 
FO U RS, 6 X 2, 4 oz..
F IV E S, 6 X 1%. 31-5  oz.. 
T W IN  FOURS, 3 X 2, 7 to  lb. 
FIG S , 3 X 1,14 to lb..

,  40,28 & 12 lbs. 

Less th an  56 lbs.

LOW  FIGURES:
.39
.41

Packages.
42, 30 & 12  “
42, 30 & 12  “
42, 30 & 12  “ 
45,25V4  & 16  “ 
41, 27 &  i3yt  “ 
41,31 & 17  “

.41

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T H E S E   P R IC E S   L O O K   TOO  GOOD  TO  LAST.

56 lbs. or over.

A ss’t ’d lot 
any q u an tity

.39
.41

H E

S T

E R   <&  F O X ,

M anufacturers’ A gents fo r

S A W  A 2T D   G B . I S T   M I L L   M A C H I N E R Y ,
Send for 
C atalogue 

Prices. ATLAS

and 

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138-141} Jefferson t e ,  34-36  Wnodbridge 8t„ Detroit.
A T T E N T IO N ,  R E T A IL   M E R C H A N T S !

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

Pulley and become convinced of their  superiority.

44. 46 a n d  48 So. D iv isio n  St..  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

W rite  fo r  P rice s. 

Saws, Belting and  Oils.

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

If you have  any 
to offer  send 
samples

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Increase  y o u r  Cigar T rade  by  selling  the

B .   UVE.  -A ..

V

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

s

71  Canal  Street.

DIPLLYP

S uccessor  to   F R E D   D.  Y A L E  &  CO*, 

M anufacturer of

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

B a k in g   P o w d e r , 
B lu in g ,  E tc
Grocers  and  Droiists’  Sundries

And Jobber of

Named in  Compliment to  the
Michigan B u sin ess  Men*s

And  especially adapted,  both  in  Quality  and  Price,  to  the  requirements  of  the

RETAIL  GROCERY  TRADE.

RteoliMy
T h e   T elfer  S p ice  C o m p a n y ,

PRICE,  0 3 0 PER  THOUSAND.

Earth Í

MANUFACTURERS’  AGENTS,  GRAND  RAPIDS. 

«

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.

Call and inspect  our  new  establishment 

when in the city.
19  S.  IONIA  ST.

The Michigan Tradesman

W ED N ESD A Y ,  JA N U A R Y  30,  1889,

LEISURE  HOUR  JOTTINGS.

W ritten for The  T radesm an.

B Y   A   COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

With what unction aud fervor does the 
millionaire  governor pen  his Thanksgiv­
ing  proclamation,  calling  attention  to 
the  beautiful  harvests, exuberant  pros­
perity  of  the  people, and  phenomenal 
increase  of  wealth.  How smoothly  and 
gracefully  the  millionaire  senator  an­
nounces  from  his se.at  that  his  fellow 
citizens,  those marvelously favored deni­
zens of  this land  flowing with  milk  and 
honey,  are  clamoring  for  increased  ex­
penditures and increased taxation.  How 
glibly and plausibly  the well-paid official 
statisticians  proceed  to  show  that  vast 
accumulations of money and property in­
dicate a  marked  and more  than satisfac­
tory financial  outlook  for  the  country. 
And  what  manifest  and  persistent  de­
termination  is  exhibited  by nine-tenths 
of  those  who  are  selected to  make  our 
laws, and provide for our taxation, to see 
that the people—aside from a few favored 
individuals—are  not allowed  to  become 
unduly and  unreasonably burdened with 
the accumulation of riches.

Are these people, or even a respectable 
proportion of  them,  honest  and  sincere 
in the  belief  that the  prosperity of  the 
American  people, en  masse  is  perfectly 
satisfactory  to  the  people  themselves? 
And  do  they, or  a  fair  proportion  of 
them,  even,  conscientiously  think  that 
each downward  turn of  the screw in  the 
tax  mill is welcomed  by the  parties who 
are being pressed?

If some of them are honest in their ex 
pressed views we can possibly find some­
thing approaching a plausable reason for 
their belief.  When a man is fattening at 
the public crib, or who has been fattened 
by  class or  special  legislation  looks  at 
the situation, it is not excessively strange 
that  his  own  prosperity  should  blind 
him, when the  general status of  the peo 
pie  is  brought  into  question, but  when 
those  few  metropolitan  and  numerous 
bucelic gentlemen,  who  are  nowT experi­
menting  with the  legislation at Lansing, 
come directly from  the midst of  the peo 
pie,  and,  if  of  ordinary brain  capacity 
ought to  be reasonably  conversant  with 
the  situation of  the  people, it  is  mort 
than  strange  that  they should, as  they 
undoubtedly will, become permeated with 
the evident belief that  the more extrava 
gant  their  session, the  greater  will  b< 
their  reputation  as  public  benefactor! 
and  “statesmen.-’

drummed  by  the  small  manufacturers 
that  the prescription  trade  is  almost  a 
thing of  the past.  Then  add to all  this 
the  solid  but  disagreeable  facts  that 
profits  have  decreased  one-fifth  to  one- 
fourth;  that  store  and  family  expenses 
can’t be made to follow the cash receipts; 
that taxes and  insurance  increase rather 
than  decrease,  and  you  can  somewhat 
appreciate the situation.  The boy might 
eventually make a little money by* getting 
his  certificate  as a pharmacist, and  then 
opening a saloon drug store, but it would
be  a  ti-----d  sight  more  honorable  and
manly  to  make  an  acknowledged  gin- 
slinger of him,  and done w ith it.”

Supposing this  unsatisfactory state  of 
affairs  to be peculiar to  only one  branch 
of  traffic,  K—  commenced  a  round  of 
application  among the other  dealers.  A 
hardware  man was  disgruntled over  the 
carcity of  buyers, and  the  competition 
of  an  irresponsible and  reckless opposi­
tion dealer.  A dry  goods and a clothing 
dealer sold some cheap staples and indis- 
pensables,  but  the  alluring  advertise­
ments  of  the  city  dealers  carried  the 
bulk  of  the  desirable  trade away  from 
the  town.  A  boot  and  shoe  party w*as 
oured  over  the  advent  of  a  foreign 
bankrupt  stock.  The  furniture  trade 
,*as  waiting  for  wheat  to  yield  better 
and bring better prices.  The butter and 
gg  trade  alone  induced  three or  four 
grocerymen to keep their doors open, and 
,  jewelry  man  emphatically  declared 
hat  he'd  as  soon  have his  stock at the 
North Pole.

Well,  my*  boy!” said  K—,  climbing 
into the  buggy,  “looks rather  discourag- 
, don't  it?  I  guess  you’d  better  go 
into a lawyer’s  office.  There’s  nothing 
harder  for the  average  man  to  learn, 
when  his income  is  steadily  decreasing, 
than  to  keep  his expenses proportioned 
to it.  There’s  going  to  be no  let up  in 
;axation.  from the  school  district to  the 
general  government, and  unless  there's 
a revival of business soon there won’t be 
lawyers  enough in this  section to attend 
to the  assignment  business.  And  when 
oil get so you ean successfully  unload a 
man's  honest debts  on to  the  shoulders 
f his creditors  you’ll find  you've struck 
a bonanza.”

An Entry  Clerk.

Merchant (to  applicant  for a position) 
—Have you  had  any experience as entry- 
clerk?

I have indeed, sir.
Where?
At  my 

last  place,  sir,  in  a  hoarding 
I stood  in the  entry to  keep fel­

house. 
lows  from  stealing  the  boarders’  hat
nr.

J .  S .  WJÜLKBR,

MANUFACTURER  OF

PICKLES and CATSUPS,

And Jobber of

V IN E G A R , PR E S E R V E S  a n d  JE L L IE S .

rock bottom

I  quote  the  trade  the  following 

prices on Pickles:
Mediums, in hbls............................................... 00
Sweet Gherkin, in  hbls......................................   »50
Mixed, in bbls......................................................  0 50
Large, in casks 45 gals........................................4  J)
Small, in bbls........................................................  »00
Gherkin, in bbls.................................................. 0  00
Medium, in half-bbls..........................................2  oO
Sweet Gherkin, in half-bbls.............................   4 <o

“ 

Gherkin  “ 
Chow-Chow.........................................................   5 00
These goods are sold  on  30 days time and w ar­
ranted to be  pure,  home-made  pickles.  Satisfac­
tion guaranteed or no sale.

............................"

J.  S.  WALKER,

Box  471. 

G r a n d   R a p id s ,  M ic li.

WHOLESALE DEALER  IN

!

GRAIN,

SEEDS,

BALED HAY,

MILL FEED

and PRODUCE.

B A L E D   HA Y   A  SPECIALTY*.

HOLLAND,  -  MICH.
1   W N I J X G S

AND  TENTS.

f

a

Horse and Wagon  Covers,  W ater  Proof  Coats, Buggj 
Aprons, Wide Cotton  Ducks, etc.  Send for  Illustrated 
Catalogue.

(Chas,

A.,  C o y e,

Over 73 Canal St

Telephone 106.

MAGIC COFFEE  ROASTER
The  m ost practical 
hand  Roaster  in  the 
world.  Thousands in 
use—m i i j i   satisfac­
tion.  They  ir e simple 
durable and  econom 
ical. 
grocer 
should  be  without 
one.  Roasts  coffee 
1 and  pea-nuts to  per 
fection.

2

No 

Address  for  Cata­

logue and prices,

iRobt.  S.  lest,

48-50 Long St., 

C leveland, O hio,

There, for  instance, is Farmer  Subsoil 
and  Lawyer  Tangier,  wrho are  both  en 
gaged  in  trying  to  keep the  legislativ 
hopper  full,  at  the  capitol.  Farmer  S 
knows, to an absolute certainty that half 
the  farms in his  immediate  locality ar 
mortgaged,  and  that  two-thirds  of  the 
agriculturalists whom he knows are com 
plaining that,  with the  closest economy 
it is almost impossible to pay current ex 
penses.  Lawyer Tangier knows that the 
depression  among  the  farming  classe 
has reacted seriously upon his own town 
whose trade is almost  exclusively among 
these classes.  He know s that an unusual 
flood of  assignments, chattel  mortgage 
and “trust” bills of  sale, indicate an un 
healthy state of  business.  And  he can 
help  noticing  the  fact  that  about  the 
only  parties  who appear  to  be  entirel 
satisfied with the situation are the money 
loaners.  Yet a safer bet could hardly be 
made  than  that  neither  Farmer  S.  or 
Lawyer T. will appear before the people, 
this session,  as champions of tax reform.

Until recently the village of, let us say, 
Barrelville, has always had an exception­
able  reputation for  enterprise and  pros­
perity, yet  Barrelville  has  been  struck 
with  the—let  us  hope  temporary—de­
pression  that is common to a great many 
small  towns in the  agricultural sections. 
An acquaintance, who has a sharp, bright, 
intelligent nephew of nineteen or twenty, 
recently took the young man down to B., 
where  he  w as well  acquainted,  and  en­
deavored  to procure  him a situation in a 
store.  The  first  dealer  approached was 
a  druggist,  who,  after listening  courte­
ously to the applicant, observed:

“I  haven’t  the  remotest  opening  for 
the boy,  K—,  and if I had I’d  advise you 
to make a mason, or carpenter, or even a 
liod-carrier of  him rather  than  have him 
learn  this  business.  Why ?  Why,  be­
cause  the  average  country*  drug  man’s 
profits  for  a  year,  these  times,  won’t 
equal  the wages of  a  skilled  mechanic. 
So  put his time  against the  workman’s, 
and  he l>as from S3,000 to 36,000 of  capi­
tal laying practically idle.  When I went 
into  trade there  w*as money in  the  busi­
ness;  now'  it’s almost  a  business  farce. 
In  those days trade  was  lively', competi­
tion  not  unreasonable,  and  full  prices 
were  maintained;  to-day  the  profitable 
knick-knack,  fancy  goods  trade  is  vir­
tually ‘played  out’;  there  are  five  drug 
stores where  two  are  hardly demanded; 
medicine  wagons are traveling  the coun­
try in all directions, and street fakirs gull 
the  gullable under  your  very  nose;  and 
even  the  doctors  are  so  successfully

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

The furniture factories  here pay as follows for 

dry  stock,  measured  merchantable,  mill  cull
out:
.............13 00@15 00
Basswood, lo g -ru n .......
.............15 00©16 00
Birch,  log-run................
............ 
©22 00
Birch, Nos.  1 and 2.......
............14 00@16 00
Black Ash, log-run.......
............ 25 00@35 00
Cherry, log-run..............
............50 00@60 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2...
.............  
@12 00
Cherry, C ull...................
.............12 00@14 00
Maple, lo g -ru n ..............
.............11  00@13 00
Maple,  soft, log-run —
.............. 
@20 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2.......
..................  
@25 00
Maple,  clear, flooring.. 
.................. 
@25 00
Maple,  white, selected. 
..............18 00@20 00
Red Oak, log-run.
Red Oak; Nos. 1 and 2................................. 24 00@25 00
Red Oak, *4 sawed, 8 inch and upw’d.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
@25 00
■Walnuts, cull 
............................................. 
Grey Elm, log-run........................................ 12 00@13 05
White Aso, log-run.......................................14 00@16 00
Whitewood, log-run.....................................20 00@22 00
White Oak, log-run.......................................17 00@18 00

W A R R A N T E D   T O  B E  T H E _______
FINEST and LARGEST SMOKE
For the m oney in the U. S.  EF"Put up 50 in a box.  Ask 
JOHN E. KENNING & CO., Grand Rapids. 

your dealer for them.  Manufactured only by 

Send for prices.

BLANK  BOOKS

OUR  NEW  LINE  OF

TABLETS, STEEL PENS,

S ta tio n e r y ,
IN K S .
Ualentins  Samples
Eaton, Lyon i  Go,

are ready for inspection.

20 and 22 Monroe St.

$1,000  REWARD!
THE  LARGEST  AND  BEST 

CLEAR  LONG  HAVANA  FILLED 

SUMATRA  WRAPPED  CIGAR 

SOLD  FOR  S   CENTS.

T H E   JUDG E

Hasana. HBff

TIME  TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.
GOING  NORTH.
Arrives.
Traverse City & Mackinaw...........* *
Traverse City & Mackinaw................ 9:06 a m
From Cincinnati................................... 7 :30 p m
ForPetoskey & Mackinaw City........3:55 p m
Saginaw Express.................................11:30 a m
10:30 pm .

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

Saginaw express runs through solid.
7:00 a. m. tram  has chair car to Traverse City.
11:30 a. m. train has chair car for Petoskey and Mack­
5 :00 p.  m, train  has  sleeping  car  for  Petoskey  and 

inaw City.
Mackinaw City.
G O IN G   SO U T H .
Cincinnati  Express........................... 
Fort Wayne Express.........................10.30 a m 
Cincinnati  Express...........................4:40 p m  
From Traverse City...........................10 :40 p m

7:15 a m
11:45 a m
5 :00 p m

7:15am  train  has  parlor  chair  car  for  Cincinnati. 
5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati. 
5:00 p.  m. train connects  with M. C. R. R. at Kalama­
zoo for Battle Creek,  Jackson,  Detroit  and  Canadian 
points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m.
Sleeping car rates—$1.50  to  Petoskey  or  Mackinaw 
City;  $2 to Cincinnati.
All Trains daily except Sunday.

M uskegon,  G ra n d   R ap id s &  In d ia n a . 

Leave. 
7  05 a m ................................................................................ 10:45 am
11:15 a m ...............................................................................  4:45 pm
4:20 p m ...............................................................................  7:45 pm
Leaving tim e at  Bridge street  depot 7 m inutes later.

Arrive.

C. L. Lockwood. Gen’l Pass. Agent.

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

T he  N ia g ara   F a lls  R o u te.

D E PA R T .

A R R IV E .

Detroit Express.....................................................................6:45 a m
Day  Express................................................................  1:10 p m
New York Express.......................................................5:40 p m
•Atlantic.Exprese....................................................... 10:45 p m
Mixed  .......................................................................... .....  a m
•Pacific  Express........................................................ 6:00am
Local Passenger......................................................... 10:03 a m
M ail................................................................................. 3:15 p m
Grand  Rapids  Express............................................  10:15 
M ixed...............................................................................  
p m
•Daily.  All other daily except Sunday.  Sleeping cars 
run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from 
Detroit.  Parlor  cars ran  on  Day  Express  and  Grand 
Rapids Express to  and  from  Detroit.  Direct  connec­
tions made at Detroit with all through trains East over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)

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

p m

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

GO IN G   W EST .

Arrives. 
tMorning Express.............................  1:05pm  
tThroughMail....................................4:55pm  
tGrand Rapids Express..................10  40 p m
•NightExpress.............  . . . . . . . . . . .   6:40am  
t Mixed.............................................................. 
tDetroit  Express...........".............. 
 
tThroughM ail.................................. 10:80 a m  
tEveningExpress............................   3:40p m  
•Limited Express.............................10:30 p m  

G O IN G  E A ST.

Leaves.
1:10 p m
5:10pm
7:00am
7:45 a m
6:50am
10:30 a m
3:50pm
10:55 p m

tDaily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
Detroit  Express  has parlor  car  to Detroit,  making 
direct connections for all points  East, arriving in New 
York 10:10 a. m. next day.  Limited  Express,  East, has 
through  sleeper  Grand  Rapids  to  Niagara  Falls, 
connecting  at  Milwaukee  Junction  with 
through 
sleeper to Toronto.
Through tickets and  sleeping  car  berths secured at 
D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, »M onroe St., and at the depot.

Jas. Campbell, City Passenger Agent.

Amos S. Musselman & Go.
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

S O L E   A G E N T S ,

FADED/LIGHT  TEXT

S o le   A g e n ts   for W e s t e r n   M ic h ig a n  

for  th e

‘ Q u i c k m e a l

GASOLINE  STOVE.

Has  eight separate  and important improvements for 1889. 
Now is the time  to  arrange  for  the  selling  agency  for yonr 
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.  Leonard  &
Jobbers  of Groekeru.Tinware and

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

Sons,
Lamp Goods

eReiCAj/peJilA.

doVK  ]K£
To fEjeH yKe.

Ton i r a i  Had

hjfjh

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Which  keil

HAD  S o b Q H jH E fL

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jAsi< your qroeer  for
7 <?  7  n...., x
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LAUS  VO AP.

fi¡CfA\RpAm %

ÇROMWATER

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D IR E C T IO N S

We hav° cooked the corn in this can 
sufficient!’ 
Should  be  Thoroughly 
Wanned ( not cooked ) adding  piece oi 
Good Butter ( size of hen’s egg ) aud gul 
of fresh  milk  (preferable  to  water.) 
Season to suit when on the table. Noue 
genuine uniess beariug the signature oi

Davenport  Canning  (Jo.

D a v en p o rt,  la .

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W A N T E D !
We want stocks of goods in exchange 
for $100,000 worth of productive  real 
estate in Lansing city property and im­
proved farms.
Real  Estate Brokers 
Lansing Mich.
C r o c k e r y   & G la s s w a r e

R. A.  CLARK & CO.

NÆA.IDE.

B E L K N A P

wagon x sleigh go.

M anufacturers of

LAMP  BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun...............................................
No. 1  “ 
...............................................
No. 2  “ 
...............................................
T u b u lar................................................

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.

6 doz. in box.

“ 

Pearl top.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.

No. 0 Sun...............................................
No. 1  “ 
...............................................
No. 6  “ 
...............................................
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top..........................
No. 1  " 
“  ..........................
No. 2  “  
“  ..........................
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top........................
No. 1 ...................................................
No. 2  “ 
“  .........................
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled —  
“
No. 2  “ 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
“  —
No. 1 Sun, plain b u lb .......................
No. 2  “ 
“ 
.......................
No. 1 crim p..........................................
No. 2 
“ 
..........................................
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks, per g al.......................
Jugs, H gal., per doz........................
...................
“  1  “ 
Meat Tubs, 10 
12
“  
15
“ 
20
“  
Milk Pans, 'A i
“ 
1

“ 
taL, each.

La Bastic.

“  
“ 
“  
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

(

, per doz.  (glazed 66c).
90c).

1  90 
.2  00 
.3 00

.1  00 
.1  65

Weighs only 16 lbs,;  always stands up 
alone  when  not  in  use.  Send  $3.50 
and  I will send  you  one, charges  paid. 
Warranted to suit.
W.  T.  LAMOKEAUX,

71  C an al  S treet,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

BELKNAP’S PAT. SLEIGHS 1

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

We carry a large stock of  material  and  have ev-  I 
ery facility for  making  first-class  Sleighs  of all  T 

iH
W e   also   m a n u fa c tu re  a   full  lin e  of  S w e e t 

Grand Rapid,|M S 0fl (MOT CO.,

a n d  sam p les,
*  r.

G oods.  W rite   for  q u o tatio n s 
,  

,  

M IC H .

brated Alligator Brand,  direct 
from Flor, da in car lots by

Florida FANCY  FRUIT—The  Cele­
GEO! HOWES &C0„
Grand Rapids. Oranges
CO LBY,  C R A IG   &  CO.

MANUFACTURE

THE  BEST  DELIUERY M O N   ON  EARTH.

W e M a n u fac tu re  to  O rd e r  H ose a n d  P o lice P a tro l W agons, P e d d le rs, B ak e rs, C ream ery , 

D airy ,  F u r n itu re , B u ild e rs, D ry  Goods, L a u n d ry ,  a n d  U n d e rta k e rs W agons.

R e p a ir in g   in   a ll  its  B r a n c h e s.

C O L B Y ,  C R A IG   &  CO.,

W est End Fulton St  Bridge.  Telephone No. 867.

LEMON, HOOPS S PETERS,

Wholesale

Grocers

AND

- T E A -

IMPORTERS.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

WHO  URGES  YOU

TO  K.EEP

T H E   IPTJBXjIO  !

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.
AKTY.TfTRRKR. WTT.T.BEGLAD TO  FILL YOUR  ORDERS.
We  carry  the  Largest  Line 
and  make  Special  Prices  on 
Hound Lots.

O ranges I

PUTNAM  &  BROORS,  T .  n y y i  rVUl Q   T 
J—J V l i l U i i O   .

Grand Rapids. 

THEO.B.  G O O S S E N ,

WHOLESALE

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

BROKER  IN  LUMBER.

*

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

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

33JO T TA W A   STKET,

T e lep h o n e 369.

GRAND  RÄPID8,  MICH.

Wholesale Price  Current•

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

pay promptly and buy in fu ll packages.

The  Hammoad  Tvpe  Writer,

BAKING  POWDER.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—In fair demand at $1.50@$2  per bbl. 
Beans—Handlers are paying about $1.25 for u n ­
picked and getting $1.65@$1.75  for  hand-picked.
Butter—Creamery is in fair  supply  at  28@30c. 
Dairy is easier,  No.  1  readily  commanding  18® 
20c.
Cabbages—Home giown command $3@$5 per 100 
Celery—18@20c per doz.
Cider—8@10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25;  produce barrels 
25c.
Cranberries—$7.75@j$8  for Bell and Cherry  and 
$8.5Q@$9 for Bell and Bugle.
Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried 
at 4}4@5c and evaporated at 6@614c.
Eggs—The warm weather has brought  in  con­
siderable  quantities,  so  that  dealers  have  re­
duced  their  paying  price  to  14c.  and  selling 
price to 15c.  They were quoted at 1314c.  at  Chi­
cago on Saturday and only  J4c.  higher  in  New 
York.

per lb.
35c. per bu.

Grapes—Malaga, $4©$5 per keg.
Honey—More plenty,  being  easy  at  15c.@16e. 
Onions—Buyers pay 20@25c.  and  hold  at  30® 
Pop Corn—214c per lb.
Potatoes—The  market is looking up a little, on 
account of a limited demand from the  South for 
seed  stock.  There  is  no  visible  stiffening  in 
prices, however.

Squash—Hubbard, lc per lb.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln-dried  Jersevs,  $3.75  per 
Turnips—25c per bu.

bbl.

PROVISIONS

T h e   G ra n d   R ap id s  P a c k in  

sio n   Co.  q u o te s  as  fo llo w s:

and Provi-

PORK  IX  BARRELS.

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“ 
“ 
“ 

Mess,  new...........................................................
Short cut Morgan.............................................
E xtra clear pig, short  c u t..............................
E xtra clear,  heavy...........................................
Clear quill, short c u t...................................... .
Boston clear, short c u t...................................,
Clear back, short cu t......................................
Standard clear, short cut, best......................
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lb s......................................

13  50
14  25
15 75 
15 75 
15  75 
15  75 
15  75 
15  75
.10
16 lb s...........................................1014
12 to 14 lbs....................................1014
p icn ic.........................................................   814
*est boneless..............................................12
Shoulders.................................................................814
b oneless...............................................  9 ”
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..................................10
Dried Beef, extra.....................................................8
ham prices........................................  9
Long Clears, heavy...............................................  8
Briskets,  m edium ................................................   s
lig h t......................................................   8
T ierces....................................................................  9
Tubs.........................................................................   914
501b.  T ins...............................................................  914

lard—Kettle Rendered.

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lard—Compound.

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BEEF  IX  BARRELS.

Tierces.....................................................................   7?»
30 and 50 lb. T u b s................................................   7%
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case.......................................... 8?4
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case..........................................  814
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case..........................................  8
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case..........................................  7%
50 lb. Cans.................................................................7%
Extra Mess, w arranted 200  lbs..........................  7 00
E xtra Mess, Chicago packing...........................   7 50
Plate.........................................................................7  25
Extra Plate............................................................   7 75
Boneless, rump butts...........................................  9 75
44  14 bbl................................  5 50
Pork Sausage............................................................714
Ham Sausage..........................................................12
Tongue Sausage................................................ 
 
Frankfort  Sausage...............................................  8
Blood Sausage........................................................  514
Bologna, straight..................................................  514
Bologna,  thick........................................................ 514
Head Cheese...........................................................   514
In half barrels........................................................ 3 50
In quarter  barrels..................................................2 00
In half  barrels.......................................................3 00
In quarter barrels.................................................. 1 75
In k its......................................................................  85

sausage—F resh and Smoked.

PIGS’ FEET.

TRIPE.

FRESH  MEATS.

44

44 
44 

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

• •  414@ 6 
.  5  @  4 
..  3  ©  7
Hogs........................................................ ---- ójá©  ¿i
Pork  loins.............................................
@ 8
shoulders.....................................
©  7>
B ologna__ ; .........................................
© 5
Frankfort  sausage.............................. __   @ 8!
Blood, liver and head sausage.........
@ 5
M utton.................................................. ....  @ 5

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OYSTERS and  FISH

F.  J.  Dettenthalcr quotes as follows:

OYSTERS IX CANS.

S tandards.............................................
@16
A nchors................................................. ----  @18
Selects.................................................... ....21  @27
Fairhaven Counts.................................—   @35

OYSTERS  IX BULK.

Standards............................................................  10
Selects.................................................... ..............  1  4
Clam s........... ........................................................  12

FRESH  FISH.

Black  Bass..................................................   @121
T rout.............................................................  @81
W hitefish......................................................  @814
smoked........................................  @io’
Perch.................................................... . 
@ 6

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CANDIES, FRUITS and  NUTS.

Putnam & Brooks quote as foil  ws:

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

44 
“ 

STICK.
9
......................... ................  91
......................... ................10
MIXED.

........... 

“ 
44 

Royal, 25 lb. p ails..............................
..............  9
2001b.  bbls............................... ................  81
Extra, 251b.  pails............................... ................10
200 lb.  bbls............................... .......... 
9
French Cream, 25 lb.  pails..  .........................  1114
Cut Loaf, 25 lb. cases........................................... ;o
Broken, 40 lb. B ask...............................................  91
2001b. bbls...............................................  9

44 

fa n c y—In 5 lb. boxes.

“ 

Lemon Drops........................................; ...............13
Sour D rops.............................................................14
Peppermint Drops............................................. [ ’14
Chocolate Drops....................................................15
H. M. Chocolate  Drops........................................18
Gum Drops.............................................................10
Licorice Drops.........................................
...........18
A. B. Licorice  Drops..............................
...........12
Lozenges, plain........................................
...........14
printed...................................
.......... 15
Im perials..................................................
.......... 14
Mottoes......................................................
...........15
Cream B ar.................................................
...........13
.  13
Molasses  B ar....................................
Caram els...................................
19
Hand Made  Creams............
...........19
Plain Creams............................
.......... 16
Decorated Creams................
.......... 20
Strine-  Rock..........................
14
Burnt Al->1'vnds..........................
W intergreen  Berries........................
...........14

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“ 

fancy—In  bulk.
Lozenges, plain, in  pails.......................
in bbls........................
printed, in pails...................
in bbls.....................
Chocolate Drops, in pails.......................
Gum Drops, in pails...............................
in bbls.................................
Moss Drops, in pails...............................
in bbls............................
Sour Drops, in pails..............................
Imperials, in pails...................................
in bbls.....................................

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FRUITS.

CROCERIBS.

The Grocery Market.

Business was fairly good the first three 
days of last week,  but the last three days 
did not bring the same volume  of  trade. 
Most houses, however,  report the week’s 
business to be ahead of the corresponding 
week of a year  ago.  The  condition  of 
the staples is as follows:

Coffee—The market on Kios and Santos 
is  still  characterized  by  uncertainty. 
Such crop news as  has come from Brazil 
has been of a bullish nature, and the ten­
dency  in  New  York  has  been upward. 
The  market  on  mill  coffees  has  ruled 
quiet, no new features having been intro­
duced.  Mocha has sold at slightly lower 
prices.

Fish—Mackerel  is  held with consider­
able steadiness.  Cod has advanced a frac­
tion.  Box  and  barrel herring are slow 
sale.  There  is  practically  no  sale for 
whitefish and trout.

Fruits—Currants  are  steady,  the for­
eign advices being of a strong  character. 
Turkish and French prunes  are  in  light 
demand.  Raisins  are  also  in  light de­
mand,  especially  in  the  case of Malaga 
stock.  Good  grades  of  Valencias  are 
scarce  and  high,  readily  commanding 
8}4c.  Lower prices should  be  regarded 
with suspicion,  as the goods are probably 
poor and not likely to keep any length of 
time.

Molasses—New Orleans is  in  good de­
mand.  Sugar  syrups have ruled steady, 
with moderate demand.
□Rice—The  Shipping  List  says:  The 
movement in domestic sorts is scarcely so 
large as during the period of our last  re­
port, but being  quite  up  to  that  which 
ordinarily prevails  at  this season of  the 
year, prices are firmly  maintained.  The 
demand is about evenly  distributed  over 
both Carolina and  Louisiana, the former 
commanding 
the  preference  on  high 
grades,  the  latter  on  the  lower  sorts. 
Advices  from  all  Southern  points note 
fair movement, the ratio being sufficiently 
large to give assurance that the crop w ill 
be placed long before the “new”  can  be 
reached.  The  combination  Avhich  had 
been entered into by the millers  in  New’ 
Orleans, with a  view  of  depressing  the 
prices of rough, is reported to have come 
to grief,  and planters  are quite confident 
that the outcome  will  be  a much higher 
range  of  values  in  rough, and if so, an 
appreciation of prices  in  cleaned.  For­
eign sorts continue in  fair  demand,  but 
no enlargement is likely  to occur so long 
as the  domestic  rules  at  about  present 
values.

Sugar is  w ithout  change,  no  fluctua­

tions having occurred in the market.

Tea—The market has  been  strong,  in 
the face of a light demand, which  led  to 
higher prices on  last  Wednesday’s offer­
ings  In  New  York.  Lower  grades  of 
Japans have advanced lc.

Pickles  and  sauerkraut  are  a  little 

lower.

East Saginaw Jottings.

Trade in general is quiet, but  the  late 
snow  will have a tendency  to  liven  up 
things.

A. D. Spangler & Co.  have  moved  out 
of their old store  and are now’ occupying 
the store vacated by the  Courier,  which 
has moved into a new block on  Jefferson 
avenue.

There  is a splendid  chance  for  some 
one to start a commission  house  or  ship 
chandler  business  in  the store on Water 
street  recently vacated by the Jas. Stew­
art Co.

Some important changes  will  be made 
on Genesee avenue next spring.  We un­
derstand that the  Savings Bank has pur­
chased the block where Foster  &  Post’s 
bazaar now is and will build  an  elegant 
new  bank  there.  The  East  Saginaw 
National  Bank  has  leased  the  corner 
where the M. C. ticket office now’  is  and 
will  have  the  same  fitted up in elegant 
style.  They  will  also occupy the store 
where  Ferguson’s  insurance  office  now 
is,  Mr. Ferguson  moving  into  the  store 
on Washington avenue which  his  father 
occupied in years gone by.

The  Union  Association  of  Lumber 
Dealers  of  Indiana,  Ohio  and Pennsyl­
vania  came  last  Thursday,  about  175 
strong, and made us a very pleasant visit 
of two days.  There w ere 300 at the con­
vention at Columbus,¿but  all  could  not 
spare the time to come.  We did our best 
to entertain them and  all seemed to have 
a pleasant time. 
It is j ust such visits as 
this that booms a city  and  we  sincerely 
hope that our business men will profit by 
this,  which  they  surely  will,  and  that 
our other branches of  trade  will  follow 
the lumbermen’s example.

Hides, Pelts and Furs.

There is no change in wool.  Manufac­
turers are not buying, as they get no cor­
responding advance for cloths.

Hides are  in  full  supply  at  slightly 
lower prices and uncertain demand. 
In 
the absence of sales,  it  is  hard to quote 
prices.

Tallow is plenty at  }{@%c decline.
Furs are in> demand  at  excited prices, 
which will be corrected after the London 
sales, held on the 28th, 29th and  30th  of 
this month.  These sales will govern the 
pjrioes for export until March.

Gripsack Brigade.

Willard H. James, traveling represent­
ative for C. M.  Henderson & Co.,  was  in 
town a couple of days last week.

Will Hubbard, Michigan representative 
for Chas. P. Kellogg  &  Co.,  of  Chicago, 
was in town a couple of days  last  w’eelc.
Abe Lineweaver,  the  invincible repre­
sentative of Cook, Lyman,  Smith  &  Co., 
of Chicago,  wras  in  town  last  week  in 
charge of a couple of friends.

Don't forget to communicate with Geo. 
F.  Ow’en, if  you  have  any  friends  you 
wish invited to the traveling men’s party 
on the evening of February 15.

No one would suspect Max Mills of be­
ing  an  undertaker,  but  such  is  a  fact 
nevertheless.  As he also conducts a drug 
store, it is in order to infer that  he  pays 
a commission at both  ends—to  the  doc­
tors.
Frank L.  Kelly  is  visiting  friends  at 
Lawrence.  His four weeks’  stay  at  Mt. 
Clemens did not help him as much  as  he 
hoped it would,  but  he  is  now  gaining 
slowly and expects to be able  to  resume 
his trips on the road in a few weeks.

Purely Personal.

N.  W.  Wiley, the  White  Cloud  mer 

chant, was in town Monday.

Jas. E. Davis, the  Detroit drug jobber, 
was in town a couple of days  last  week.
F. Ii.  Burrows, right  bower  for  Swift 
& Company, was in town Monday for the 
purpose of  inspecting the business of L. 
F. Swift & Co.

A. E. Loomis, Secretary and Treasurer 
of  the  Grocers’  Mercantile  Agency,  of 
New York, was in  town  last Friday and 
left Saturday for East Saginaw’.

Geo. Purkiss, the  Northport  fish  mer­
chant,  was in town a couple of  days last 
week.  He  will  establish  an  office  at 
Traverse City the coming season.

L. E. Hawkins w’as returned from  Col­
orado,  greatly  improved  in  health  and 
spirits.  He  says he  gained  ten  pounds 
in weight  while  in the  Centennial State, 
but lost it on his way home.

Wm.  II.  Hoops,  accompanied  by  his 
wife  and  daughter, expect  to  sail  from 
New York on Feb.  16 on the Barra couta 
for a  six  weeks’ trip to  British  Guinea, 
touching  at all  the  principal  islands of 
the Windw ard group on the outgoing and 
incoming trip.

The Tyranny of Peddlers.

From the Chicago News.
There are scores of people in  this  city 
who make their  living  by  ringing  door 
bells.  They are  peddlers  of  many  de­
scriptions, w’hining  beggars and insolent 
tramps.  They are the terror of the house­
wife and the detestation  of  the  servant 
girl.  They shed tears or  they  threaten, 
they quote scripture or they swear.  Some 
are neat in appearance;  most of them are 
wretchedly  unclean.  Their  morals  in 
many  cases  are  more  dilapidated  than 
their garments.  Some  are  thieves  and 
some w ould not stop at  robbery,  if  they 
saw  an  opportunity  for  it.  This  the 
housewife know’s.  During the daytime, 
while  her  husband  is away from home, 
these bold rascals fill her with apprehen­
sion.  She has been  bullied,  threatened, 
disgusted and alarmed by scores  of  such 
people. 
It  is  not surprising, therefore, 
that w’hen alone  in  her  own  house  she 
feels a certain degree of  alarm whenever 
the  door-bell  rings — as  it  does  ring 
twenty  times  a  day—in response to the 
pulls  of  peddlers,  tramps,  and  nonde­
scripts.
Justice Charles J. White  on  Saturday, 
in dealing with the case of two swindlers 
w’ho wrere  arrested  while  ringing  door­
bells, spoke these sensible w ords:
“What we  need  is  an  ordinance pro­
hibiting peddlers from ringing door-bells. 
A hundred  thousand  families  are  with 
me when i declare it  to  be  a  nuisance. 
Some door-bells are ringing  from  morn­
ing to  night.  There  are  thousands of 
these peddlers,  and  many  ari 
! unprmci- 
pled scoundrels. 
If they ring 
the  door- 
bell and no one answers,  they 
open  the 
door if they can, w’alk in,  and 
appropri
ate whatever is within reach  in the hall­
way.  Some  public-spirited  alderman 
hould have the  gumption to remedy the 
evil.”
Nothing would give the  housewives of 
Chicago greater joy than the passage and 
enforcement of such an ordinance.  They 
are now’ subject to constant interruptions, 
insults,  and  dangers  by  the  swarms  of 
nomads who are abroad in the city.  The 
tyranny of such people  is too much to be 
endured.  Thousands of  delicate  women 
who are now compelled every day to meet 
at their doors strangers with  coarse,  un­
friendly and depraved faces,  and  to  run 
the risk of insult  and  bodily harm from 
these  unwelcome  callers,  would  be  re­
lieved  of  the  most  unpleasant  task  of 
their  lives  if  some  means  could be de­
vised to keep peddlers  and all such wan­
dering  autocrats  away 
from  private 
houses.
In this relation it may be  said that the 
residence  portions  of  this  city  are  at 
present overrun w ith  beggars.  Many  of 
them  are  burly  rascals  who  delight in 
terrorizing women.  The  police  should 
look after these ruffians more  closely.

Discounts are Worth  Saving.

From the Hosiery and Knit Goods Journal.
Have you ever thought how  much  you 
might save on discounts?  Just take your 
pencil and  figure a  little.  Suppose  you 
have bought goods to the amount of $500, 
and  the terms of  the  invoice read:  5 off, 
ten  days;  4  off, thirty  days;  2 off,  sixty- 
days.  Now, if  you pay  the  bill  within 
ten days you deduct the discount of 5 per 
cent, on  $500,  w’hich  is  $25,  and  remit 
$47*.  You  have  saved  the  interest  on 
$500 at 5 per  cent,  for one  year. 
If  you 
accept the second and pay in twenty days 
at 4 per cent, you would be paying $5 for 
the use of $500 for twenty days, which is 
at the  rate of  25 cents a day, or  $91.25 a 
year.  Worth  saving,  isn’t  it?  At  any 
rate,  save  your  discounts.  However 
small, they amount to considerable in the 
long run, and unless you cut  your prices 
so low as to be without gain of discounts, 
it will increase your margin of profit.

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...........11
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...........12  ■
...........6
.......... 10
..........   9
.......... 11
.......... 1114
...........10 %
...1  00@2 50 
.. .2  50@3 50 
.. .2 75@3 00 
... 3 50@3  75 
...  10@15 
@ 6 
@ 4% 
@ 5H  

...  ©
. . .   8  @
...  6  @ 714

...........  @17
...........  @15
..........   14@16
.............   7   @   714
.......... 11  @1114
.......... 13  @
..........   @1014
......  8  @12
.......... 4 25@4 50
..........   @2 50

@ 814
@ 8
@7
@5}4
@514

4 4 

50-lb.  44 

Bananas.........•
Oranges, F lo rid as,.............
Lemons, choice.....................
fa n c y .....................
44 
Figs, layers,  new .................
44  Bags, 50 lb ...................
Dates, frails, 50 lb ................
J4 frails, 50 lb ...........
44 
Fard, 10-lb.  box........
44 
44 
.......
Persian, 50-lb.  box..
44 
NUTS.J
Almonds, Tarragona.  .......
Ivaca....................
California...........
Brazils....................................
Filberts,  Sicily.....................
Walnuts, Grenoble..............
F rench.................
Pecans, Texas, H. P ............
Cocoanuts, per 100................
C hestnuts...............................
PEANUT!
Electric Lights.....................
Peacocks__ -..........................
S torks......................................
E xtra........................................
Y a ch t......................................

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Industrial  School  of Business

THE

Its  g raduates succeed.  W rite

Is noted fo r  THOROUGHNESS.
W.  N.  FERRIS,

Big  Rapids, Mich.

THF,SB GOODS AR-  “PAR  EX  ELLENCE”
Pure, Healthful and  Reliable,  warranted  to give satis­
faction in every particular.  For sale by  wholesale and 
retail grocers throughout  tht  United  States.  Voiw ib 
Bros., ¿j anufar t urerp.Cleveland ana Chicago.

the  Acme  or  Ut il it y ano

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N o te d   f o r
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c a b le  ty jie .

im i »re s io n . b e a u t v o f

c h a r a ■ters  t h a n   a n

I t s  w o r k   i «  n lw a v s  in stiri i t  o f t h e   o p e r a to r .
H a s f e w e r k e y s

a li d   p ro f u e e s   m o r e
i r e v l n r o r v ili u p o n   m e   a m y   o ffic e.
R o o m 60  N e w   H o r s e n i Ul B u i ld iw r , w h e r e   t h e
Hammond Typo Writers are in constant use.

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Oïl e r

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S e m f o r

Full  line of supplies on hand.

H E N R Y   F.  WALCH,

Agent for Western  Michigan

WASHINGTON. 

TO  MONTANA,  OREGON 
,
If you  are going west bear in mind th 
ing facts:  The Northern Pacific Railro 
and operates 9. 7 miles, or 57 per cent  oi 
tire railroad niileage of Montana:  spans' 
ritory  with its main  line from east to west: : 
short line to Helena :  the only  Pullman  and 
ing ear line to Butte,  and  is  the  only  line  that 
reaches Miles City, Billings.  Bozeman. Missoula, 
the  Yellowstone  National  Park,  and,  in 
fact, 
nine tenths of the cities and  i*,ints of interest in 
the  territory.
The Northern  Pacific  owns  and  operates  621 
m iles.-r 56 per rent of  the  railroad  mileage  of 
Washington, its main  line  extending  from  the 
Idaho line via  Spokane Falls.  Cheney,  Sprague, 
Yakima and  Ellensburg, through  the  center  of 
the Territory to Tacoma  and  Seattle,  and  from 
Tacoma to Portland.  Noother trans-continental 
through  rail  line reaches any  j>ortion  of  Wash­
ington Territory.  Ten days'stop over  privileges 
are given on Northern Pacific second class tickets 
at Spokane Falls and all  points West, thus afford­
ing intending settlers  an  excellent  opportu 
orv with. mt ineurriilg the
to see the entire Terril 
expense of paying loC;
ii  n 1 res f ri01:1 point to IX)int.
:* is the slilorltst route f;roin
The Northern Paeifi 
St. Paul  to Tacoma by 
207 miles :  to Seattle by 177
by 324 mi les—time  <•orres-
miles, and  to  Portland by 
pondingly  shorter 
yin g Iron 1 one to tweidiavs,
according to destination 
jii. No 0tlier line from St.
Paul  or  Minneapolis  runs  through  passenger 
cars of any kind into  Idaho. < iregon or Washing­
ton.
In addition  to being the only rail  line  to  Spo- 
k are Falls, Tacoma  and  Seattle,  the  Northern 
Pacific r-e iches  all the principal points in  North­
ern  Minnesota  and  Dakota.  Montana.  Idaho. 
Oregon and Washington.  Bear in  mind  that the 
Northern  Pacific and Shasta line  is  the  famous 
scenic route to all  points in California.
Send for illustrated pamphlets, maps and hooks 
giving you  valuable information  in  reference  to 
the country traversed by this great line from  St. 
Paul, Minneapolis. D ulnth ami  Ashland to  Port­
land, Oregon,  and  Tacoma  and  Seattle,  W ash­
ington Territory, and enclose stamps for the new 
1889 Rand  McNally County  Map  of  Washington 
Territory,  printed in colors.
Address your nearest ticket 
F e e. General  Passenger  and 
Paul,  Minn.

Chas
Vgent.

Ti<

The  article  entitled  ”A  Good  Store­

to 

Liberal  dis­
count 
the 
trade.  Special 
In d u c e m e n ts  
to parties intro 
dueing 
t h i s  
system of store 
fitting  in   any 
locality.

keeper,”  published  last  week,  originated ■ 
with the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter and 1 
should have been  credited  to that publi-
- t E a « * .. ..  
ha
to  “The  Rookery,”  where 
better offices have been engaged.

removed from  the Lakeside building i 354 Main St.,  PEORIA,  TT.Tl.
]  48-50Lake St., Chicago;  114 W ater  St., Cleveland

.« Chicago,  K O C H  A .  
larger  and 

BORDEN, SELLECK & CO., Agts.,

C O . ,

M anufactur 

ed  by

B L IV B N

The devil, Jack!  TV 

Shark.  He’ll do for

Bliven & Allyn.

A L L Y N .

Sole Agents for the

SYRUPS.

X

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44 

Corn,  barrels....................... 24®25
one-half barrels___ 26@27
kegs..........................  
1  20
Pure  Sugar, bbl..................25@32
41 
h alf barrel__ 27@34
XXX
914
914

SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps............... 9
Sugar  Creams............. 9
Frosted  Creams...........
Graham  Crackers.......
Oatmeal  Crackers.......
tobaccos—Plug.
C lim ax...............................
Corner  Stone.....................
Double  Pedro...................
Peach  P ie..........................
W edding  Cake,  blk.........
Something  Good..............
“Tobacco” ........................

39@ 4l
___ 39
----- 40
. . . . 4 0
-----40
.  - ..4 0
----- 40

TEAS.

OOLON<

IM PERIAL.

SUN CURED.

j a p a n —Regular.
F a ir ................................ 12
G ood..............................
Choice............................ 24
Choicest.........................30
F a ir ................................ jo
G ood.............................. 16
Choice.............................24
Choicest.........
.......... 30
BASKET  FIRED.
F a ir ...............................
Choice.................
Choicest........................
E xtra choice, wire leaf
GUNPOWDER.
Common to  fa ir...........25
Extra fine to finest.. .'so  
Choicest fancy.............75
Common to  fair........... 20
Superior to fine.......... . 40
YOUNG HYSON.
Common to  fair........... 18
Superior to  fine........... 30

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@28
@33
@15
@20
@28
@33
@20
@25
@35
@40
@35
@65
@85
@35
@50
1  60 
@26
4  00 
@40
6  00
ä 50 Common to  fair. . . . . . . 2 5 @30
T 50  ! Superior to  fine. ........... 30 @50
15 00 I Fine to choicest. ........... 55 © 65
(ëÿ.5*4 Fair
........... 25 ©30
P.1  i!  Choice..
......3 0 @
Best
ii
@65
2 75  i Tea Dus
. .. .. .   8 @10
1 50  j
10  00  j 
@ 85 
30 : 
. . . 9   50 
t . . l   45 
.1  35 
@ 5  00  ; 
. . .  
80 
. . . 6 00 :
...1   15  I 
...1  00 ! 
. . . 3   00  ! 
. 55@ 65  i 

Sweet Pippin... 
Five and  Seven
H iaw atha.........
Sweet  Cuba__
Petoskey Chief. 
Sweet R usset...
T h istle..............
Florida..........
Rose  Leaf.........
Red Domino__
Swamp  A ngel..
40
TRADESMAN CR.
EDIT  COUPONS.
$  2, per  hundred
.........  2   59
$5,
.......3 00
.......4  00
$10,
$ 20.
I  Subject to  the  following  dis-
count
200 or over................ 5
 
500  44 
10
..............20
1000  “ 
VINEGAR.
30 g r...............................
40 g r...............................
50 g r ........................................

TO£SACCOS—Fine Cut

EXlILISH  BU¡EAKFAST

$1 for barrel.

 

44 

614

CREAM TARTAR.

d r ie d   f r u it s—Foreign.
44 

Soda......................................614
S. O yster..... ........ 
City Oyster, XXX..............  614
P icnic...................................614
Strictly  p ure....................  
38
Grocers’............................. 
24
d r ie d  f r u it s—Domestic.
Apples, sun-dried.......514©  6
evaporated__ 7  @714
44 
Apricots, 
"
.16
Blackberries 
Nectarines 
Peaches 
Plums 
Raspberries
.24
Citron, in  drum.
@23 
in b o x es__
@25 
Currants...................
@514 
Lemon  Peel............
14 
Orange Peel............
14 
Prunes,  Turkey__
@  5 
Imperial  ... 
@  614 
Raisins, Valencias. 
814 
O ndaras..
..  814
44  Domestic Layers ...2  4.'
Loose Californias. .2 05
44 
Farina, 100 lb. kegs..............  04
Hominy,  per  b b l................... 4 00
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box__   60
im ported.......  @10
Pearl  Barley................  @ 3
Peas, green...................   @1  40
44  s p lit.....................  @314
Sago,  German..............  @ 614
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’r h .. 
©   614
W heat,  cracked...........  @614
Vermicelli,-import__   @10
dom estic...  @60
Lemon  Vanill
90
1  35
1  40
1  00
2  75 
4  50
1 60
4 25
8 50
-SALT.

Jennings’ 
2 oz.  Pane 
4 oz. 
" 
6 OZ. 
44
No.  3,  44 
No.  8,  *•
No.10,  44 
No.  4, Taper,  “ 
14 pt,  Round, ”
1
FISH —
Cod, w hole.......
“  boneless...
H a lib u t............
Herring,  round.

44 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

44

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

12 bbl. !
hi bbl..
IIol land,’bbls
44 
Holland, kegs.
44 
Scaled............
44 
Mack,  sh’s, No.  1,  »4  bb 
" 
-  
“  12  lb
44 
,
“  1() 
“ 
Trout,  14  bbls..............
“  10  lb.  k its..........
White,  No. 1,14 bbls... 
12 lb.  kits
“ 
10 lb. kits
“ 
“ 
Family,  14  bbls.
k its.......
GUN  POWDER.
K eg s...................
Half  kegs.......................
LAMP  WICKS.
NO. 0..................
no. 1............................
No. 2................................
LICORICE.
Pure.................................
Calabria..........................
Sicily...............................
MINCE  MEAT
B uckets................ 
Half bbls.......................0
Black  Strap......................... 16@17 !
Cuba Baking........................22@25 !
Porto  Rico..................... [ ,24@35 |
New Orleans, good.............25@30 1

MOLASSES.

18
014

_

One-half barrels, 3c extra.

choice........33@40
fancy..........45@48

PAPER.

MISCELLANEOUS
Cocoa Shells,  bulk__
Jelly, 30-lb.  pails.........
Sage...............................
P A P E R ,  W O O D E N «

15
IKK.
C u rtis s   &  Co.  q u o te   as 
fo llo w s:
S tra w .....................................  4 ax
“  Light  W eight. . . . . . .   "2
S u g a r.................................  
2
Rag  S u g a r...............            2%
H ardw are....................... 
2U
B akers.....................................  244
Dry  Goods....................!... 
5
Ju te  M anilla............
Red  Express, No.  1__ 
‘5
No.  2............. .4
48 Cotton...................................
Cotton, No. 2 ......................! .20
, ,  “  3........................” 18
„ 
Sea  Island, assorted.............40
No. 5 H em p ................ 
16
No.  8 B ..............................
W ool..............................!..!!!  754
Tubs, No. 1..........

TWINES.

WOODENWARE.
“  N o.2..............;;;;
"  No. 3.....................
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop..
“  No.  1,  three-hooj 
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes
Bowls, 11 in c h ............
..............

13  “ 

; 

splint 

44 
; 
2 10 I

Baskets, m arket................... 

2  00
assorted, 17s and  17s  2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
40
b u sh el..................1  60
“  with covers  1  90 
willow cl’ths,N o.l  5  50 
“  N0.2 6 00
“ 
“  N0.3  7 00
44  No.l  3 50
“  N0.2 4 25
44  N0.3 5 00
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
W hite .
98
R ed....
95
Straight
, in  sacks.........
..  5 20
“  barrels__ _ ...  5 40
Patent
44  sacks.........
..  6  20
“  barrels....... ...  6 40

w h ea t.

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44 

“ 

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“ 

“ 
44 

OIL.

44 
44 

“ 
44 

44 
“ 

RICE.

“ 
44 
“ 

PIPES.

SEEDS.

4  50 i

f l o u r .

PICKLES.

SAL  SODA.

SALERATUS.

SALT
“ 

SAPOLIO.
“ 

3  “ 
SAUERKRAUT.
44 

OATMEAL.
Muscatine,  B arrels..............6 00 1
Half barrels..........3 15 |
Cases.......... 2 25@2  35 I
ROLLED  OATS.
M uscatine, Barrels................. 6  00 !
Half barrels..........3 15 !
Cases.........2 25@2  35 i
Michigan  Test.........................  2% 1
W ater  W hite.........................'.11%
M edium............................ 
“  % b b l........................ 2 75
Small,  b b l.................................5 50
“  14 bbl........................ . .3 25
Clay, No.  216............................1 60
“  T. D. full count............   75 .
Cob. No.  3 ...............................   40i
Carolina head...........................644
No.  1...........................aii
No. 2..................5!4@
No. 3 .......................
Japan .....................................
DeLand’s,  p ure...................
Church's, Cap  Sheaf...........
Dwight’s ...............................
Tayior’s .................................
Common Fine per bbl...........  84:
earlots..  80 1
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks.... 
23 |
28  pocket..................................2  00 i
60 
100 
.................................2 20'
Ashton bu. b a g s ...................   75 ■
................. 
Higgins*4 
75
...................   3 5 1
Warsaw “ 
Kegs.........................................   114 :
Granulated,  boxes................  1% .
Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box.......2 35 !
Hand, 
.......   2 35'
Silver Thread, 30 g al.............3  50 1
40  “  ............ 4  50 -
Mixed bird ................................  414 '
J1EAL.
;  Bolted........................
Caraway.........................................40 i
f Granulated................
C anary....................................   4 
j
Hemp..................... 
414 1
MILLSTUFFS
Bran............................
Anise......................................   814
Ships...........................
R ap e...................................... '  45.4
Screenings................
M ustard..................................... 714
I  M iddlings...................
Mixed F eed..............
Scotch, in  bladders...............37
Maccaboy, in ja rs....................... 35 I
CORN.
1  Small  lots................
French Rappee, in J a rs ........43
¡C ar 
44  ...................
Dingman,  100  bars................ 4 00
OATS.
'  Small  lo ts...................
Don’t  Anti-W ashboard........4 75
1  Car 
“  ...................
J a x o n .......................................3 75
Queen  A nne..........................3 85
German fam ily....................... 2 40
Big B argain.............................1  87
B oxes.........................................514
Kegs, English.......................'. .4%
A llspice....................................10  •
Cassia, China in m ats...........714
..11 
-.42 
..30 
..24 
-.70 
..70 
..65 
..60 
.. IHjJ
_____ 28
shot..........................21
spices—Ground—In Bulk.
.20
and  Saigon.25
.42 
.35
............ 28
............ 1214
............ 15
............ 18
............ 80
.22
and Trie. .25
Trieste..................... 27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ..................... 70
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 22
w hite.......30
Cayenne..................25
Mystic, 1 lb.  pkgs..................  7
barrels.........................6

Batavia in b u n d .
Saigon in rolls...
Cloves,  Amboyna............
Zanzibar..............
Mace  B atavia...................
Nutmegs, fancy..............
44  No.  1.....................
44  No.  2.....................
Pepper, Singapore, black.
w hite..

A llspice__
Cassia,  Batavia.
Saigon 
Cloves,  A m boyna.. 
Zanzibar..
Ginger, A frican__
Cochin__
Jam aica ..
Mace  B atavia.........
Mustard,  English..

No. 1, per 100 lb s .......
BARLEY.
NO. 1.............................
NO. 2.............................

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STARCH.

M off for No. 2.

spices—Whole.

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44 
*• 
44 

SNUFF.

44 
“ 
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PELTS.

SODA.

SOAP.

HAY.

RYE.

“ 
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44 

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No. 1.. 
14 00 
No. 2..
13 00
HIDES, PELTS  and  FURS.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as 
follows:
G reen............................  4  ©   414
Part  Cured...................  @ 4 ’
“ 
D ry......... 
Dry  Kips 
Calfskins
green.......
cured__
Deacon skins.............

...............  4H@
~  ■
@ 6 
.  3  ©  4 
•  414©  5 
.10  @20

@ 6 

HIDES.

“ 

FURS.
prices.

Shearlings.....................10  @30
Estim ated wool, per ft 20  @28
10  per  cent,  above  following 
Mink ..
5©  65 
Coon..............
5@1  00 
Skunk..........
5@1  10 
M uskrat.......
1©  16 
Fox, red.......
5@1  50 
44  cross... 
50@5 00 
“  grey.... 
5@  80 
Cat, house...
5©  25 
44  w ild__
5©  50 
F ish er..........
.1  00@6 00
L ynx................................  50@3 00
M artin,  d ark ..................  25@3 00
pale...................   10@1 00
O tte r................................  50@8 00
W olf................................   50@3 00
B ear...............................   30@20 00
B eaver............................  50@6 00
B adger............................. 
5@1 00
Deerskins, per lb......... 
5©  40
MISCELLANEOUS.
T allow ............ .............  4  @ 414
Grease  b u tter..............8  © 814
Sw itches.......................  2  ©  214
Ginseng........................ 2 C0@2  10

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SUGARS.

44 

O ff........... 

Cut  Loaf.......................  @ 8%
C ubes............................
Pow dered.....................  @7%
Granulated,  Stand 
  714© 718
Confectionery  A .........  @706
Standard  A ..................  @ 7
No. 1, W hite Extra C ..  @ e%
No. 2 E xtra  C..............  @614
No. 3 C, golden............   @  6J£
No. 4 C, d ark ................ 
©  <5
No. 5  C..........................  @ 5%

©

Acme, 14 lb. cans, 3 doz__  

“ 
44 
44 
44 
44 
44 
44 
44 
44 
44 
44 

J4lb. 
44  4  44 
14 lb.  44  2  44 
1 lb.  44  2  44 
5 1b.  44  1  44 

Arctic, 14 lb. cans, 6  doz...  45
...  75
...  1 40
...  2 40
...12 00
Absolute, 14lb. cans, 100s.. 11  75
44  50s..10  00
14 lb. 
lib . 
44  50s..18  75
Telfer’s,  14 lb. cans, 6doz.  2  70 
14 lb.  44  3  44  . 2  55
44  . 1  50
1 lb.  44  1 
75
.... 1  50
14  lb.  44  2  44 
.... 3  00
1  lb.  44  1 
“ 
20
b u lk ..........................  
45 
Red Star, 14 lb. cans, 12 doz 
85
4  44  1  50
English, 2 doz. in case....... 
80
Bristol,  2  “ 
....... 
75
American. 2 doz. in ease... 
65
Gross
Arctic Liq,  4-oz.................  3  60
44  14 p t................  7  00
44 
1 p t...............  10  80
44  8-oz paper bot  7  20
Pepper  Box  No.  2  3 00 
4  4 00
5  9 00

141b. 
1 lb 
BATH BRICK.

44  6  44 
44 

bluing. 

44 
44 
44 
44 
44 

4 4 
4 4 

44 
“ 

4 4 
44 

44 
44 

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44 

44 

44 

44 

44 
44 

BUTTERINE

44 
44 
44 
44 
“ 
44 
44 
44 
44 
44 

2 1b.  44 
 

. . .®  8 
.  @10 
.10@11 
-10@12

Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.

BROOMS.
No. 2 H url......................
2 00 
.......................
No. 1  44 
2  25
No. 2 Carpet...................
2 50
No. 1 
4- 
...................
Parlor Gem.....................
3 00 
Common W hisk............
90
Fancy 
............
1  00 
M ill.................................
3  50 
■Warehouse.....................
3 00
BUCKWHEAT.
Kings 100 lb. cases.......
.5 00 
80  lb. cases.........
.4  25
Dairy, solid  packed__
13
rolls.....................
14
Creamery, solid packed
15
ro lls ............
16
candles.
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes.........
10149*4
Star,  40 
’  44 
.........
Paraffine.........................
25
W icking................................. 
canned goods—F ish.
Clams, 1 lb, Little Neck.......1  25
Clam Chowder, 3  lb ..............3 00
Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stand__ 1  00
....1 6 0
Lobsters, 1 lb.  picnic..............1 50
2  65

44 
2  lb.  44 
1 lb.  Star.........................1 90
2  lb. Star........................ 2 90
1  lb.  stand...............1 25
2  lb. 
2  00
3 lb. in M ustard.. .3 00
3 1b.  so u sed ...__ 3 00
Salmon, 1 lb.  Columbia.........2 00
3  25
2 1b. 
1 lb.  Sacramento.. .1  70
2 1b. 
...2  75

44 
44 
Sardines, domestic  34
44  Mustard 14s.
44 
imported  14s
44 
spiced,  14s..
Trout, 3  lb. brook__
CANNED GOODS—FmitS.
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  G ages...............................1 40
Peaches, all  yellow, stan d .. 1  45
seconds.....................1  25
P ie ..............................1  00
Pears..............................................1 30
Pineapples.................... 1  10@1 25
Q uinces.........................................1 50
Raspberries,  ex tra......................1 25
red .....................2 25
Straw berries................. 1  10@1 25
W hortleberries.............................1 20
Asparagus, Oyster B ay..........1  80
Beans, Lima,  stand.."...........1  00
“  Green  Lim as___  ©1  16
44  String.....................   @ 95
44  Stringlesg,  E rie...........  90
“  Lewis’ Boston Baked.. 1  45
“  Morn’g Glory. 1  10
44 
44 
44 
Early  G o ld ...l  10
44  extram arro fat... 
“  soaked............................  <’0
44  June,  stan d .......... 1  j0@1 50
44 
44  sifted......................1  55
“  French, extra  fine...  14 U0
Mushrooms, extra fine........18 00
Pumpkin, 31b. Golden.........  85
Succotash,  standard__   @  85
S quash..........................................1 25
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat..  @1  10
Good Enough___1  10
B enH ar......................1 10
tand br.
.1  05@1  10
CHEESE.
Michigan Full Cream  12  @12‘4 
Sap  Sago.......................  16@17
CHOCOLATE.
Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet  22
Prem ium .......  33
44 
“  Horn-Cocoa...  37
44  B reakfast 
  48
CHEWING  GUM.
2 0 0 

Peas, F rench................................ 1 25
@1 lu

Corn, Archer’s Trophy........

CANNED VEGETABLES.

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44 

44 

44 

44 

44 

.35
-.30
6

coffee—Green.

Rubber, 100 lum ps...
...
Spruce........................
CHICORY.
B ulk............................
R ed.............................
Rio, fa ir......................... 16  @17
“  good....................... 17  @18
prime..................... 18  @19
44  fancy,  w ashed.. .19  @20
44  golden....................20  @21
Santos............................ 15  @18
Mexican & Guatemala 17  @19
P eaberry....................... 17  @19
Java,  Interior.............. 20  @22
44 
fancy..................23  @25
44  M andheling— 26  @28
Mocha, genuine.......... 25  @26
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 14c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.

coffees—Package.

30 lbs  60 lbs

100 lbs
Lion.......................................... 2254
44  in cabinets..................... 2314
Dilworth’s ............................... 2254
Magnolia................................. 2214
Acme................... 21%  21 Jg  22
G erm an.................................. 22*4
b in s ..........................23
Arbuekle’s Ariosa.................2234
Avorica............. 21%
McLaughlin’s  XXXX..........2234
Honey  Bee............................. 24y2
Nox  All  ................................. 2314
O  B ......................................... 2214
T iger........................................2214
Arbuckle’s Avorica..............2014

coffees—50 lb. bags.

44 
44 

44 
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Quaker  City__ 21
Best  R io............22
Prime Maricabo 25

COFFEE EXTRACT.

44 
44 
“ 
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Ju te  

CLOTHES  LINES.
50  f t ........... 
44 
60  f t ........... 
44 
44 
70  f t ........... 
80  f t ........... 
44 
00 f t...........  
44 
72 f t ’ ......... 
44 
CONDENSED MILK.

Valley City............................ 
75
F elix ........................................  1  10
Cotton,  40 f t .......... per doz.  1  25
150
1  60
2 00
2 25
100
1  15
Eagle......................................  7  60
Anglo-Swiss..........................  6  00
Kenosha B utter.....................  8
614
Seymour 
B utter......................................   614
44  family............................  614
“  b iscu it..........................  7
Boston......................................  8
City Soda.................................  8 

CRACKERS.
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C e leb ra ted   “BIG   F .”  B r a n d   o f O y ste r s
n Cans and  Bulk,  and  Large  Handlers  of  OCEAN FISH,  SHELL CLAMS and  OYSTERS. 
We make a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time.
We solicit consignments of all kinds of  Wild  Game,  such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, etc.
H. M.  HhI VliA,  Manager. 
63 PEARL STREET.

♦

Wholesale Drice  Current.

Advanced—Opium, Gum Shellac, Oil Sassafras.  Declined—Pure Cream Tartar, Tartari acid.

m

C arb..............................
Chlorate,  (po. 20).......
C yanide.......................
Iodide..........................
Potassa, Bitart,  pure. 
Potassa, Bitart, com...
Potass  Nitras, opt.......
Potass N itras................
P russiate......................
Sulphate  po..................

.  12©  15 
18©  20 
50©  55 
2 85@3 00
28©©
8©
7©
25©
15©

A ntipyrin.....................
Argenti  Nitras, ounce
A rsenicum ...................
Balm Gilead  B ud.......
Bismuth  S.  N ..............i
Calcium Chlor, Is,  (34s
11;  34s,  12).................
Cantharides  Russian,
po........................
Capsici  Fructus, a f .. .

RADIX.

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cent

20©
25©
15©®
20©
10©
16©
©
15©
15©
1.®  20 
25©  30 
©   35 
15©  18 
75@1  00 
@1  75 
75®1  35 
48©  53 
®  20 
30©  35 
75©  80 
®   40 
©  20 
10©   12

A conitum .....................
A ltbae............................
Anchusa  .......................
Arum,  po......................
Calamus.........................
Gentiana,  (po. 15).......
Glychrrbiza, (pv. 15).. 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 65)..."  ................
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__
Inula,  po.......................
Ipecac,  po.....................2
Iris  plox  (po. 20@22)..
Jala pa,  p r.....................
Maranta,  }£s................
Podophyllum, po.........
R hei...............................
“  c u t........................
“  pv....................
Spigelia........................
Sanguinaria,  (po  25)..
Serpentaria...................
Senega  ..........................
Similax, Officinalis,  H 
M
Scillae,  (po. 35)............
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
dus,  po.......................
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30) 
G erm an...
Zingiber a .....................
Zingiber  j .....................

Caryophyllus,  (po.
Carininej  No. 40.......
Cera  Alba, S. & F ...
Cera  F lava................
Coccus .......................
Cassia F ructus.........
C entraria...................
Cetaceum ...................
C hloroform ..............
squibbs
Chloral Hyd Crst__
C bondrus...................
Cinchonidine, P.  &  W 
German 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per 
C reasotum __
Greta,  (bbl. 75).
“ 
prep.......
.“ 
precip__
“  R ubra__
Crocus  ............
Cudbear............
Cupri Sulph__
D ex trin e.................   io@
Ether Sulph..................  68©
Emery,  all  num bers..  @
©
Ergota,  (po.)  45 ...........  40@
Flake  W hite................  12©
G alla..............................  @
Gambier........................  
7©
Gelatin,  Cooper...........  @
F rench............   40@
“ 
Glassware  flint,  ~
by box 66M, less
Glue,  Brown.........
“  W hite...........
25 Cardam on................... .1  00@1 25 G lycerina..............
35 Corlandrum ................ .  10© 12 Grana Paradisi__
12 Cannabis Sativa......... .  334© 4 K um ulus................

Anisum,
12
10 Apium  (graveleons). 
B ird ,Is........................
6
Carili, (po. 18)............ .  12© 15

po..................... 

.  10© 
- 
4®

@©15©

10©
22©

SEMEN.

“  

“ 

“ 

“ 

ACIDUJH.

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

A ceticum ........................ 
8© 10
Benzoicum,  German..  80@1  00
Boracic 
30
C arbolicum ....................  40© 45
C itricum ........................   55© 60
H ydrochlor....................  
3©  5
N itro cu m .......................  10© 12
O xalicum .......................  13© 14
Phosphorium  d ii......... 
20
Salieylicum ................. 1  40@1  80
Sulphuricum ..................  134© 5
.1  40@1  60 
Tannieum . 
45©  50
Tartaricum ...............
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg............
18  deg.............
Carbon as  ..................
C hloridum ................
ANILINE.

3©
4©
11©
12@

.2 00@2 25 
Black.. 
80@1  00 
Brown. 
45©  50
Red.
Y ellow ..........................2 50@3 00

“ 

BACCAE.

Cubeae  (po. 1  60.......... 1  85@2 00
Ju n ip eru s..................... 
8@  10
X anthoxylum ................  25@ 30

BALSAMUM.
Copaiba..........................   T0@ 75
P eru...............................  
©1  30
Terabin, Canada  .........  50@
T o lu tan ..........................   45© 50

COBTEX.

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“ 
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Abies,  Canadian...................   18
Cassiae  ...................................  U
Cinchona F la v a ....................  18
Euonymus  atropurp............   30
Myrica  Cerifera, po—
Prunus V irgini......................   12
Quillaia,  grd.
Sassafras  .......................
Úlmus Po (Ground  12).
EXTBACTUM.
Glycyrrliiza  G labra...
po.........
Haematox, 15 lb. b o x ..
Is............
...........
348...........
FERRCM. 
Carbonate Precip —  
Citrate and Q uinia..
Citrate  Soluble.........
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut  Chloride.........
Sulphate,  com’l .......
p ure..........
FLORA.
A rn ic a ......................
A nthem is..................
M atricaria...............
FOLIA.

©  If 
@3  50 ©  I
©
©134@
©

24©
33©
11©
13©
14©
16©

14®
30©
30©

“ 

25©
35©
10©
8©

nivellyj...

Barosma 
..................
Cassia  Acutifol,  Ti 
Aix.
Salvia  offieinali
4 s
and  34s.......................
Ura U rsi........................

GUMMI.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Acacia, 1st  picked —
2d 
....
....
3d 
sifted sorts...
p o ....................
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60)... 
“  Cape,  (po.  20)... 
“  Socotri,  (po.  60). 
Catechu, Is, (‘4s, 14 34s
16)...............................
A m m oniae...................
Assafcetida,  (po. 30)...
Benzoinum...................
Camphor®.....................
Euphorbium, po..........
Galbanum .....................
Gamboge,  po................
Guaiacum,  (po. 45) —
Kino,  (po.  25)..............
M astic..........................
Myrrh,  (po. 45).........•
Opii,  (po. 4  75)............
Shellac  ........................
bleached.........

Drugs 0  Medicines.

sta e  lioard  of  Pharmacy.

One Year—Ottmar Eberbaeh, Ann  Arbor.
Two Years—Geo. McDonald. Kalamazoo.
Three Years—Stanley E.  Park ill, Owosso.
F.our  Years—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskepron.
Five  Years—James  Vernor, Detroit.
President—Geo. McDonald 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next Meeting—At the lecture room of Hartman’s  Hall, 
Grand Rapids, Tuesday and Wednesday, March 5 and 6.

^lishigan 

Pharmaceulical  Ass'n.

President—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
First Vice-President— F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing.
Second Vice-President—H. M  Dean, Niles.
Third Vice-President—O. Eberbaeh, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—A. H. Lyman,  Manistee;  A. Bas 
sett,  Detroit; F. J.  Wurzburg,  Grand Rapids;  W.  A. 
Hall, Greenville;  IS. T  Webb, Jackson.

Local Secretary—A. Bassett, Detroit.

Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
P resident. J.  W. Hayward.  Secretary, Frank H. Escott.

O ^ tr o it  P h a r m a c e u t ic a l  S o c ie t y  

President, J.  W. Caldwell.  Secretary, B. W. Patterson.

M iiK U egon  D r u g   C le r k s ’  A sso c ia tio n  

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

Teaching  in a Drug Store. 
jEL  J. Kennedy, Ph. C. in Pharmaceutical  Era.
It is an unfortunate  fact that  many of 
those  who enter  the drug  business as  a 
profession  have not  been  favored with a 
liberal  education,  unfortunate  for  them­
selves and  extremely unfortunate for the 
profession.  There  have doubtless  been 
times  in  the  history  of  pharmaceutical 
education  when  the  force  of  circum­
stances and the  lack of  needful  aids and 
opportunities were against those who de­
sired  to enter it  as  a  chosen  profession, 
as also against  those who could  not com­
mand sufficient time  for the mastery of a 
broad  and general  education  before  be­
ginning it as  one of  life’s chosen  duties.
In  this  day and  age we  are,  however, 
confronted with a new era of things, and 
surrounded by a new sphere of expansion; 
with these new conditions we have liberal 
advantages and  facilities unthought  and 
undreamed of by the most  advanced edu­
cator of  the past. 
In coming in  contact 
with  and  being  surrounded  by such  in­
fluences, the  profession  in  common with 
other  professions,  has  been  forced,  as it 
were, to do something, and to take an ad­
vanced stand  in  regard  to  the  require­
ments and  fundamental  knowledge upon 
which the groundwork of pharmaceutical 
advancement and success is built.
The  profession of  pharmacy  has  been 
one  of  expansion and  development  ever 
since  its  inception with  and  divergence 
from medicine in general, and its further 
success  and  development  presuppose 
and demands that we, as individual mem­
bers of it, have those qualifications neces 
sary to  start  with,  and  to have  acquired 
that  knowiedge  which  will  enable  us 
best  to  prosecute successfully the  study 
of it as  a profession.
It  is  a  well  defined  principle of  this 
age  and these  times  that a general  edu­
cation is, and  ought to  be, the  steppin 
stone indispensible to any branch of pro­
fessional specialty. 
In  looking over  the 
status  of  the  educational  field  at  the 
present  time,  we  find  that  which  to 
great  extent  has  been  considered  chief 
among the primary requisites of any pro­
fession  is not  what  it  should  be, viz:  a 
fundamental  knowledge of  English.  No 
question  has  beeu  discussed  with  more 
interest  than this  self-same  one on  the 
elementary  qualifications of  the  student 
beginning the  study of  pharmacy.  Sta 
tistics  show  to us  that  the  tendency of 
pupils  is  to  terminate their  school  life 
•earlier than ever  before,  the  average age 
being about  13J^ years. 
It is from these 
indifferent stages  of advancement chiefly 
and  mainly that  the  pharmacist  must 
look  for the  coming  pharmacist, and the 
recruiting elements of the profession. 
It 
is  not  strange,  then,  in  view of  these 
facts, that  there is  something  lacking in 
the  “make-up”  of  necessary  qualifica­
tions.  The next question which presents 
itself is the  remedy or  correction of  thi 
deficiency.  Much of  it, I  am  sure, can 
be  traced  indirectly,  if  not  directly, to 
the  pharmacist as  a  preceptor,  himself.
While it is granted that the pharmacist 
has  much to  contend with  in the  hurry 
and  skurry of  active  business  life,  and 
while  many things  could  be said  to  ex­
cuse,  in  a measure,  the  existence of  the 
many imperfections in  elementary quali­
fications, yet nothing can be said nor any 
«xcuse presented why such imperfections 
shall  not  be  corrected  by  training 
and  instruction 
from  the  pharmacist 
is  where  it  can  be 
himself.  This 
best  treated,  and  right  where  the  treat­
ment belongs. 
If an apprentice is quali­
fied enough  to  commence  work for you, 
your obligation as teacher  commences  at 
once.
In the  discussion  of  this  question of 
preliminary  education  before  the A. P. 
A., the propriety and feasibility of a pro­
fessorship, or  course  in  English  in  our 
professional schools, was  suggested  as  a 
remedy  for  this  deficiency. 
It did not 
meet with general approval. 
It  is  easy, 
upon a moment’s  reflection,  to  see  the 
impossibility of a preparatory  course  in 
English or other  rudimentary  studies  at 
professional schools of  any kind.  Why? 
The student has no time in a professional 
course  to  take  up 
those  elementary 
branches he  should  have  passed earlier 
in life;  again, a preparatory department, 
acting as a part of any professional school, 
cannot certainly elevate the  professional 
standard of  that school,  and any scheme 
to let in or take in students without some 
well defined qualifications  as  to  ability, 
when  indulged  in  by  either  college  or 
pharmacist, is retarding  in  its influence, 
unprofessional and  a  hindrance  to  the 
successful  study  of  professional  phar­
macy.
It is in the  beginning,  then,  that  the 
student’s qualifications interest every one 
engaged in the  drug  business,  and with 
none does this responsibility rest so much 
as with the pharmacist himself.
This brings one  to the consideration of 
the relation between the  pharmacist  as a 
preceptor  and  the  apprentice  as  a stu­
dent.  Teaching in a drug store,  to  pro­
duce successful  results,  must  have  two 
objects in view.  These are:
First—Training  and  developing 
the 
mind.
Second — Accuracy  and  dispatch  in 
practice.
Successful results of the  latter  propo­
sition cannot be thought of,  entertained, 
or even produced without the aid and full 
co-operation of the first,  and  as  applied 
to  a  pharmaceutical  education — vice 
versa.  The attainment of  these  are  the 
propositions that  address  themselves  to 
•every pharmacist, and to  every man who 
has a profession.
In taking the student  as an apprentice

then,  the pharmacist’s responsibility as a 
j  preceptor begins,  and to him individually 
the profession must look for the student’s 
success.
Where shall I begin?  What method or 
methods of instruction shall I use?  How 
shall the  desideratum  be  best  brought 
about?  How can I encourage and stimu- 
! late his exertions without  advancing him 
beyond his powers of  comprehension,  or 
without overloading or superseding them? 
These are questions we can imaginer every 
pharmacist,  who  takes  an  apprentice, 
asks himself.
We  answer  them—begin  somew'here. 
Find out the student’s educational weak­
ness and deficiency, then seek  to  correct 
the same.  Have  some  method  in your 
teaching,  then follow  it.  Endeavor  to 
! develop the mind  in  whatever  direction 
necessary  at  the  earliest  opportunity. 
Do  not teach in a dry,  unscientific  way, 
or load the memory as you would a dump 
cart, only to be  dumped  out when some­
thing practical is demanded.  Pharmacy, 
aside  from  its  professional  status,  is a 
subject of pre-eminently practical value, 
and as such it should be treated.
The teacher should remember that  not 
all of the  principles  and  rules  the  ap­
prentice reads in his  text  book are used 
in  the  ordinary  every  day  practice  of 
pharmacy,  and,  therefore,  his  reading 
should be so  directed  as  to best supple­
ment practice by an  intelligent  observa­
tion,  being  suggestive  rather  than  ex­
haustive, the student instructing himself 
to a certain extent by means  of  his  own 
reading.
Duty neglected—A  duty  of  the phar­
macist too often  neglected  is the failure 
to give the student a clear idea  and  elu­
cidation of practical drug  store  work;  a 
failure  to  impart  a  clear understanding 
of the operations employed and the trans­
actions  involved  in  the  performance of 
the same.
Another failure is the neglect to  bring 
each new operation and each new  acqui­
sition of fact into relation with those the 
student  has learned before,  as  the  rela­
tion of weights and measures,  of  sp.  gr. 
and  volume.  Endeavor  to  teach  in  a 
comprehensive  manner;  much  can  be 
learned in this way.
Often  by  bringing  out  the many sim­
ilarities  and  differences  one  can  teach 
facts that in any other way would escape 
notice  altogether,  and  being  thus  ob­
tained they are unincumbered by the per­
plexing details  Of  theory,  or  the  more 
philosophical  reasoning  of  abstruse sci­
ence.
Special  attention  should  be  paid  to 
nomenclature.  Labels play an important 
part in the acquirement of nomenclature, 
and every effort should  be  made to have 
them correctly  written.  Experience as a 
teacher in the public schools,  as  also  in 
practical drug store work, has proven  to 
the writer that the real meaning of many 
names, especially  pharmaceutical  titles, 
can be best understood by a study of  the 
formation rather than by abstract  defini­
tions,  so that  w ords  made  up  by stems 
and modified by prefixes or suffixes should 
be especially noticed.
Pharmaceutical  principles  should  be 
carefully  taught  and  studied,  for  they 
are  the  foundation  and  groundwork  of 
the profession.  Buies and formulae need 
not always  be  memorized,  for it is next 
to impossible for the mind to retain proc­
esses, etc., without frequent  recourse  to 
works of  reference  to  insure  accuracy. 
If the  apprentice  has  properly  learned 
what  precedes  rules,  formulae,  etc., he 
should be able to refer to them and know' 
where such references can be found.
In conclusion,  we  cannot estimate too 
highly  the  value  of  a  higher  specific 
technical education,  and  wre  should  en­
deavor  to  lay  a  broad  and  substantial 
foundation  for  the  subsequent  instruc­
tion the apprentice should  afterward  re­
ceive in a school  of  pharmacy. 
If  the 
foundation has been  well  built, our stu­
dent  need  have  no  fear  but  that  as  a 
matriculant he is qualified for the further 
study of a profession at any school.
One great fact, however,  we should not 
lose sight of,  and that is, to sift out from 
the less important the useful and  practi­
cal,  for these,  with accuracy, facility and 
dispatch,  are the substratum upon which 
only can be  built  a  successful  business 
career.
Plans for  the  study  of  pharmacy are 
many, but each one as a teacher  to a cer­
tain extent must  adopt  one  of  his owrn. 
The necessity of the times  demands  that 
that  plan  be  methodical—progressive— 
this necessity is the dynamic force which, 
w'hile substantiating  the  claims and pre­
rogatives of  pharmacy  as one of the pro­
fessions, has set in  motion  the  convinc­
ing  arguments  of  need  and  want, and 
demanding that great  proficiency,  disci­
pline,  and knowledge be the locus standi 
of professional training and education.
Your “Plan of Instruction” may be de­
fective and incomplete, but we know that 
“even a poor book in the hands of  a true 
teacher  may  be  made  to  give forth the 
sw'eet waters of instruction.”  How-much 
more, then,  is it, with a profession second 
to none, a business if you like, which w'hen 
and  where  conscientiously  mastered  is 
there that can give any  greater  promise 
of intellectual development and advance­
ment  than  that of  the  pharmaceutical 
chemist ?  The  golden  age of  education 
has  long since  dawned, but the  day for 
better  and  more systematic  standard  of 
preparatory 
scarcely 
reached  its  morning;  those  essential re­
quirements  are study—mental  discipline
aptitude as  prefatory  to  thorough  pre­
paration  and  teaching;  these are  factors 
that  will  influence the  future  career of 
pharmacy more than everything else.

education  has 

The three Detroit druggists arrested at 
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Court  there  last  Tuesday.  Charles  E. 
Bleakley was fined §18 and Charles Bryan 
§13  The  complaint  against the  latter’s 
father, Dr. Adam  Bryan,  was  dismissed. 
Charles  was  clerking  for  him,  and  had 
been  advised  by  his  father  not  to  sell 
drugs, but, eager  to  make a sale,  he  had 
done so and accordingly was  fined.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium  has  advanced.  Morphine  is 
steady.  Quinine  is  dull. 
Pure  cream 
tartar is a trifle lower.  Tartaric acid has 
declined.  Gum  shellacs  are advancing 
rapidly.  Oil sassafras is again higher.

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J. M. J ohnson, M. D.
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Very respectfully,

Ph. Best Brewing Co.,
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Elias Wildman, M. D.

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E. W. Fieming, M. D.

Troy, New York, January 28,1888. 
Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co„
Dear Sirs—Your agent left me a sample of 
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such  in  my  practice, I  thought  to  compel» 
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Yours truly,

E . J a y  F i s k , M. D.

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

Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co.,
Gentlemen—I have  used the “Best” Tonie 
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and after taking this tonic I  never felt better 
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Wm. O.  J a e g e r .

322 South Fifth Street, 
Philadelphia, Feb. 4,1888. 
Ph. Best Brewing Co., 28  College Place. N. Y.,
Gentlemen—I  have  tested  the sample  of 
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Cydonium...................
Chenopodium  ..........
Dipterix Odorate.......
Foeniculum ................
Foenugreek,  po.........
L in i............................
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 4  ) ..
Lobelia........................
Pbarlaris C anarian...
R a p a ............................
Sinapis,  A lbu............
N igra...........
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1  75© 2  00 
1  1J@ 1  50 
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1  75@ 1  75 
1  7 5 ® 3   50
Saacharum  N.  E .........1  75©2 00
Spt.  Vini  G alli............1  75©0  50
Vini O porto..................1  25© 2 00
Vini  A lba.....................1  25©s 00

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Florida  sheeps'
carriage.........
.......2  25@2
Nassau  sheeps’
wool
@1  00 
carriage  .................
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Velvet  extra  sheeps'
©   80 
wool  carriage.........
©   65 
Extra  yellow  sheeps 
75© 1  00 
carriage................... .
50©  60 <é
n a g e ..........................
@ 50
Hard for  slate  use__
© 13 Yellow  Reef,  for  slate
u s e .............................
25(& 30
© 15
50© 55
38 A ceaeia............................... ..  50
35@ 10 Zingiber  .............................. ..  50
@ 80 Ipecac................................... ..  60
HO© 95 Ferri  Io d .............................. ..  50
@ 40 Auranti  Cortes................... ..  56
® 20 Rhei  A ram .......................... ..  50
@1  00 Similax  Officinalis............ ..  60
Co — ..  50
© 40
25®3 35 Senega ................................. ..  50
25© 30 Scillae................................... ..  50
Co.............................. ..  50
25© 30
30© 75 T o lu tan ............................... ..  50

SYRUPS.

44 

Prunus  virg.

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herba—I n ounce packages.

A bsinthium ............................  25
E upatorium ............................  20
Lobelia.....................................  25
M ajorum .................................   28
M entha  Piperita...................   23
V ir............................  25
R ue............................................  30
Tanacetum, V ........................   22
Thymus,  V ..............................  25

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Carbonate,  P a t ...........  20©  22
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25 
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Amygdalae, D ulc.........  45@  75
Amydalae, Amarae__ 7 25@7 50
A n isi...................................2 00@2 10
A uranti 'C ortex................ 
©2 50
Bergamii  ..................... 2  50@3  00
C ajiputi..............................  90®1 00
C aryophylli.......................  @2 00
..............................  35© 65
Cedar  .
C henopodii.......................  ©1 75
C innam onii.......................  95© 1 00
C'itronella............................  @ 75
Conium  Mae.......................  35© 65
Copaiba..............................  90@1 0C
Cubebae......................13’50@16  00
Exechthitos.......................  90@1 00
E rig ero n .............................1  20@1 30
G aultheria.........................2_25®2 35
Geranium,  ounce....... 
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Gossipii,  Sem. g al.......  50©  75
Iledeoma  ..................... 1  15@1  25
Juniperi..............................  50@2 00
L avendula........................  90@2 00
L im onis..............................1  60@2 00
M entha Pi per..................... 2 75®3 75
M entha  Y erid....................3 00@3 25
Morrhuae, gal....................  80@1 00
Myrcia, ounce..............  @  50
O live................................... 1  00©2 75
Picis Liquida,  (gal. 35)  10©  12
R icin i..................................  96@1 10
Rosm arini..........................   75@1 00
Rosae,  ounce.....................  @6 00
Succini..........................   40©  45
S ab in a................................  90@1 00
.......................... 3  50@7  00
Santa! 
Sassafras.......................  55©  60
Sinapis, ess, ounce__  
©   65
T iglii...................................  @1 50
T hym e..........................  40©
opt  ..................  @
Theobromas.................   15@
B iC arb..........................   15®
B ichrom ate..................  15©
Bromide........................   37©

POTASSIUM.

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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
A trope Belladonna................  60
Benzoin...................................  60
Co.............................  50
Sanguinaria............................  50
B arosm a.................................   50
Cantbarides............................  75
C apsicum ................................  50
Cardam on................................  75
Co..........................  75
C astor.....................................1  00
C atechu...................................  50
C inch o n a...............................   50
Co..........................  60
C olum ba.................................  50
C onium ...................................  50
Cubeba.....................................  50
D ig italis.................................  50
Ergot........................................  50
G entian...................................  50
Co...............................   60
G uaica.....................................  go
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 yrrh......................................   50
Nux  Vomica..........................  50
O p ii..........................................  85
“  Cam phorated.................   50
“  Deoaor...........................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
V eratrum  Y eride...................   50

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A lum en........................
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Troubles of a City Druggist.

“The drug trade  has  of  late  suffered 
serious reverses,” said a leading Chicago 
druggist,  “so thatfew make much money 
out of the business.  The big department 
stores have done us much harm.  There 
was a time when we  had a large trade in 
fancy and toilet articles, from  which  we 
made good  profits;  but  the  department 
stores have  systematically  been  cutting 
prices,  offering  such  goods  at or below 
cost as baits to their  customers,  till  our 
trade in fancy articles and, in a measure, 
patent medicines is gone.  Take cuticura 
soap  for  instance,  I  can’t buy it by the 
quantity  at  wholesale  and  retail it at a 
living profit for less than 20 cents a cake. 
Yet last week one of our city department 
stores  advertised  this  soap  at 9 cents  a 
cake, 6 cents  less  than I can  buy it for. 
They, of course,  trust  to their customers 
buying  enough  other  stuff  to  make up 
their loss.  However much it may be for 
the benefit of the  public,  it is an illegiti­
mate practice. 
It is a fact that many of 
the articles we have  to  keep we can buy 
at these stores  at  lower  prices  than we 
can at the wholesale establishments.” 

“How about prescriptions?”
“We consider  about  twenty  prescrip­
tions an average day’s  work  for  a  good 
registered elerk.  The  prescriptions will

average,  say, 50 cents apiece, or an aggre­
gate  of  §10.  We have to pay §3 or §4  a 
day for the clerk,  and  from  the  remain­
ing §6 cr §7 we  have  to  pay for the raw 
material and  the  proper  proportion  of 
rent and current  expenses,  and have for 
our profit the  remainder—a comparative 
insignificant  sum.  When you take into 
consideration that druggtsts have to keep 
hundreds of dollars’ worth  of  expensive 
drugs for prescription purposes  that  are 
not called for a dozen times a  year,  that 
many balsams  and  mixtures  have to be 
kept for the same  purpose,  of which the 
loss from spoiling  on  our hands is prob­
ably fifty per  cent.,  it  is  apparent  that 
druggists haven’t a bonanza  in  the  pre­
scription business.”

Hard on the Butchers.

Customer—“Have you any venison?” 
Butcher—“Jackey! Jackey! Is dere any 
Jackey  (in  back  room)—“Yaw.  We 

more fenison out dere?”
killed doo calfs dis morgen.”

Chas. F. Nevin, President  of  the  Pio­
neer Paint  Works,  at  Pittsburg,  writes 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n   that  he  will  pay  his 
annual visit  to  Grand  Rapids next Mon­
day.

C U T S  E X T G   R O O T
We pay the highest price for it.  Address 
I L JZlOxY  -DllUO.,  GRAND RAP lsts,
P P P I T T   T J 'D n Q   W holesale  D rill 
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TheMichiganTradesman

SHE  WAS  FRENCH  AND  HE—

Written fo r Tt ì Tradesman

“ H ow  m u c h ? ”
And,  as  the  fair, 
lisped this  question 
and hid her face.

young  thing  who 
spoke, she  blushed

she  was

’Twas  but  for  a  moment 

taking a fresh chew of  gum.

Still,  it  frightened  the  clerk,  for  he 
was afraid  that  in  thoughtless haste he 
had said  something to  offend the beauti­
ful customer now before  him,  and it was 
his first sale.

She knew this.
But he hadn’t  yet made the sale.
She knew  this,  also.
“I  beg  your  pardon,”  she  resumed, 
“Yes,” 
gently  masticating  the  while. 
I 
apologetically,  “I  beg  your  pardon. 
did not  hear  your  reply. 
If  1 ask  your 
forgiveness,  monsieur, it is because I am 
French. 
If  you  spoke  and  I  did  not 
hear,  it is because I am  English,  and the 
English  are  always  deaf.  The English 
are brutes;  do  you  not  think  so?  Ah, I 
see  you  do  not  concur  with  me.  You 
are, then,  an Englishman.”

The clerk bowed.
“I  am a beast,  and  you  are  Beauty,” 

said he.

“Morbleu!  You flatter.  You are, then, 
French.  How  much  did  you  say  the 
shoes  would  be?  Six  dollars?  Ah,  I 
see  you reckon  here in English. 
I rancs 
are much more poetic.”

“You  are  right,  mademoiselle,”  re­
plied  the  clerk.  “ ’Tis  but a custom of 
the  house,  however,  and I will  have  it 
abolished.”

“And  now,  mon  clier  ami,”  she  pro­
ceeded,  with  a  sigh,  “we  come  to  the 
difficult  part.  Parlcz  vous  Francai*. 
Monsieur ?  Xo ?  That is bad.  It makes 
my  explanation  much  the  mòre  hard. 
But I will  try.  One  can  but  do  one’s 
best, and I am  small. 
I am  not  strong.
I am  only a woman,  and  it is so hard to 
make a man understand.  But it is about 
the  shoes.  Those  with  large  feet  say, 
‘Give me a size, so and so,’ and quick, so,
I snap my thumb, there;  they are ser ved. 
•Au revoir.' says  the  merchant, T  have 
your money.  You have my shoes.  Bah !
I shall soon be wealthy.’  And  the  mer­
chant is right.

“They with w ide feet do but say,  ‘Give 
me  some  shoes, so w ide.  There !  That 
is  superb !  Magnijiquc! 
i  am  fitted.’ 
And again they are right.

“But  here  am I.  My feet  are  small. 
What  shall I do ?  Must I  try  on  shoes 
where all may come ?  My feet are not so 
ugly.  See for  yourself, monsieur.  They 
are  feet to be proud of. 
I then  ask, sir, 
have  you a wife ?  A sister ?  Have you— 
pardon  me  the liberty;  I tremble—have 
you a sweetheart ?  Ah !  I see  you  have, 
impudence !

“Then, I say,  would  you  Hke  them— 
her—to try on  shoes  in  the  boulevard? 
In the  public  shop ?  Ali, I see  you  are 
still a Frenchman.  My sister  lives  next 
In  just one moment—one instant, 
door. 
it will be done. 
I shall then know that I 
have a fit.  Then will I return, monsieur. 
Your sweetheart must, indeed, be happy. 
A u revoir.”

And,  with  the  shoes  under  her  arm, 
she glides down the aisle and, as the por­
ter  opens  the  door,  she  smiles a sweet 
glance—half  of  love,  half  of  promise— 
to our friend behind the counter.

An  hour  passes. 

“ Where  is  mad- 
amoiselle?”  he  wonders. 
“ ’Tis  noth­
ing.  She is  changing  her  dress.”  An­
other hour.  "She is doing up her hair— 
her beautiful hair.”  Another hour.  He 
goes in deep humiliation to his employer.
“Yes,”  remarked the  great  man, with 
a smile,  “I know7 her.  She works all the 
gillies in  the  city.  Here,  Jones,  charge 
up Smith one pair shoes, SO.”

“It  wras  because  I am  English.” said 

the clerk.

“Oh,  no. 

It  was  because  you  are  a 

dashed, blanked fool.”

“She is at least French?”
“Not  so, my boy.  She  is  Irish.  She 
sometimes  dances at the opera,  and  her 
name is Maggie O’Donohue.”  C. O. D.

Success  of  the  Little  New  Clerk.

C, N. Hood in Shoe and Leather Review.

It had been a fearfully dull  day.  The 
poor little new clerk had  felt nervous all 
day becanse things  had  not  been  going 
at a little more lively pace, and  the  pro­
prietor had  looked  unusually glum, and 
had wandered around and taken a dissat­
isfied look at the  sales-book  numberless 
times.
The  little  new7  clerk  was not at all to 
blame  for  this  state  of  things,  and  he 
was perfectly conscious of  that  fact, but 
at the same time he did  wish  that  some 
one  would  come  in  so that he could be 
busy at something besides  this  everlast­
ing  brushing of  boxes,  which  were  al­
ready innocent of  dust, and putting rows 
of  cartons into more orderly rows, which 
already presented an  even and uubroken 
front.
He did not dare to be idle.  He did not 
dare to give the  proprietor  an excuse for 
venting his troubled feelings on him, and 
so the little  new  clerk, with  even  more 
consciousness of  his newness than usual, 
kept steadily at work.
It was no wonder  that  trade  was  not 
lively.  The  wind  whirled  down  the 
street  and  swept  great  clouds of  snow 
high into the air, and  roared and howled 
as it played  with  the  light  flakes,  and 
made the air so dense  that it was almost 
impossible at times to see the  drug store 
across  the  way.  No  wonder customers

did not venture out;  no wonder  the shoe 
emporium w7as deserted.
Suddenly, when  the  little  shoe  cierk 
had  almost  despaired of  ever seeing an­
other customer, a hand was placed on the 
door-latch,  and, accompanied  by a whirl 
of  snow,  and  a breath of  winter, a very 
much bundled up female form drifted in.
The  little  clerk  breathed  an  inward 
prayer  of  thanksgiving,  and,  knowing 
that his superior  was  listening  eagerly, 
he  hurried  forward  to greet  the  snowy 
customer.
“Good afternoon,” he said,  as  soon  as 
the  outside  layer of  blanket  shawl and 
snow had  been  carelessly thrown on one 
of  the  upholstered  settees,  revealing  a 
female of  undoubted Irish descent.

“Gud afthernoon.”
“Is there  something I can show  you in 
the shoe line this afternoon ?”
“Wall, mabbe there is and mabbe there 
isn’t.  Whar’s tlier boss ?’ ’
“He’s busy at present.”
“I mostly always trade with the boss.” 
“Couldn’t I show  you something ?”
“Ye may be  afther  showin’ me a  pair 
of  sthrong shuses.”
Would  you  like  somethin’  pretty 
good ?”
Wall, I  hope  ye  don’t  think  I’d  be 
askin  for  somethin’ pretty poor.  Ye’ll 
show me somethin’ poor enough  without 
that.  Do  ye think I’m  grane ?”
“Certainly not.  How would  you like a 
laced calf  shoe like  this?”
“What do  ye think I’d be  doin’ vyith a 
lace shoe, with  the  sthrings bushtin’  all 
the while ?”

Ha!  H a!  Ha !”

“Would  you prefer buttoned ones?” 
“Indade I would.  Don’t  you  suppos 
that I want to be inshtoile at all, at all ? 
“Then here’s a calf  shoe.”
“Thet wan ain’t big enough for me.”
“We have any size.”
“Than give me a pair of  sevenzes.” 
“Here  they  are.  Would  you  like  to 
try them on?”
“Av  course.”
“How does it fit?”
“Et  boinds  me  little  toe  loike  the 
divil.”
“Perhaps a  wider one would be better. 
Here’s anE.”
-A phwat?”
“A n‘E,’  you  know7.  Very wide.”
“Oi see.”
“There’s ease in  E’s, you  know.  Ha 
“Phwat?”
“I say there’s ease  in E’s, you  know.’ 
•Wall, phwat of it?”
“Nothing, nothing at all.  Just a little 
joke,  you  know.  Ease  and  E’s.  Don’t 
you see?”
“Wall,  you want  to be  afther  talkin 
what ye  mane when  yer  talkin’  to me.
“Oh, certainly.  Xo offense.  How does 
this one fit?”
“Purty  gud. 
It’s a great  hoof  I  hev 
ain’t it?”
“Oh, not so very large.”
“How much  be ye  goin’  to tax  me fur 
“Two dollars.”
“Two dollars!  What’r ye talkin’  about? 
Git off yer high horse and talk sinse.
“That  is  a  very  low  price  for  such 
good  stock  as that. 
It  will  pay you  to 
get  something soft  and firm.  This  pair 
will wear a great deal  better than any of 
those  poor  shoddy goods  you could  get 
for a lower price.”
“Oh,  but  yer  a  good  talker.  What 
wild ye  be afther  runnin’ down  yer own 
goods for?  Oi s’ pose oi cud git the same 
shuzes  fur  half  the  price  at the  other 
shtore.”

’em?”

“Oh, no,  you couldn’t.”
“Now, don’t  ye be  talkin’.  Oi’ll give 
ye gist a round dollar  and a half  fer ’em 
before I go to the other shtore.”
“I can’t do it.”
“Well thin, ye kin kape ’em.”
“IT1 tell vou what, Mrs. Blarney.” 
“Well, phwat?”
“Rather  than  have  you  go  anywhere 
else I’ll split the difference with you and 
«ill it a  dollar  and  seventy-five cents,  a 
price I never  sold them for  before in my 
life.”
“Aw, don't ye be talkin’.  I know ye. 
“That’s  a  fact,  Mrs.  Blarney.  What 
“Give ’em to me fur a dollar’n a half.
“I can’t do it.”
“Wall,  thin.  Oi’ll jist give ye a dollar 
sixty-five,  and Oi won’t give ye  another 
cint, and jist take it or lave it.”

do you say?”

••Make it a dime  more.”
“Oi will not.”
“All right. 

I’ll make you this pair for 
§1.65 because trade is  so dull to-day, and 
I don’t like to lose a sale.”
“All  right, do  ’em  up;  but  Oi  bet  oi 
cud a got ’im fer  twelve shillins if I cud 
a traded with the boss.”
And  Mrs. Blarney  fished a dollar  and 
sixty-five cents in silver out of the toe  of 
an old  stocking, and wandered out again 
into  the  storm,  and  the  satisfied  little 
new  clerk  allowed  the  coins  to  rattle 
musically into the drawer before he made 
an  entry  in  the  sales  book in  a  large 
round hand.
“Robbie,”  said  the  proprietor,  as  he 
dropped the Review he had been reading 
and  looked  over  his  glasses,  “Robbie, 
was  that one of  the glove grain  button I 
said that we could  sell for a dollar and a 
quarter?”

one as low as fourteen shillings?”

“Yes, sir.”
“Anddidn’t you say we had never sold 
“Xo,  sir.”
“What did you say?”
“I said we had never sold one for four­
teen  shillings  before, and we  never did, 
did we?”
I’m afraid, Robbie, you 
are not remembering all that you learned 
of your Sunday school teacher, are you?” 

“I guess  not. 

“I’m afraid not, sir.”
“But Robbie-----”
“Yes, sir.”
“You  are getting  to  be a good  sales­
“I hope so, sir.”
“And, Robbie.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Yrou are  the first  salesman that  ever 
succeeded  in  selling  Mrs. Blarney  any­
thing out of  this store.”

man.”

The Drummer’s Choice.

She was a clerk in a big hotel,
He was a drummer with seventeen  trunks, 

A family one, it is true,
And he was her lover, too.

“ Shall I call you a cab,” she naively  said, 
As even a drummer—a drummer in love— 

W hen the drummer began his adieu.
Sooner or later must do.

“I think,” he replied, as he looked at  her  lips 
“I think, as there’s nobody here but ourselves 

And thought of a chance of a  fu ss;
I’d rather you’d call it a'buss.”

OUR  DAILY  BREAD.

The  Chemistry Involved  in the  Familiar 

Process.

From Popular Science News.

The  transformation  of  the  flour,  ob­
tained  by  grinding  wheat, into  a  soft, 
spongy, nutritious mass known as bread, 
although a matter of everyday  occurrence, 
dependent  upon  some  very  peculiar 
and  important  chemical  changes. 
If 
flour  is  mixed  with  water  to  form  a 
dough,  and  dried  at  the  temperature of 
the  air,  an  unpleasant  tasting  mass  is 
obtained, which  contains  the  starch  of 
the  flour  in an  unaltered and  insoluble 
state,  and very difficult of digestion;  and 
to  obtain  a  nutritious  and  palatable 
bread, it  is  necessary to  induce  certain 
chemical  and  physical  changes  in  the 
flour.  Wheat  flour  is  principally  com­
posed  of  starch,  and  contains,  on  an 
average,  about  sixty-three  per  cent,  of 
that  substance, with  fifteen per  cent,  of 
water.  The  remainder  is  made  up  of 
small  amounts of  sugar, fat, casein,  and 
mixture  of  various  gummy  bodies, 
generally known as gluten.  This gluten 
an  important  part of  the flour, giving 
it  consistency  and  flavor, and  also  ren­
dering  it  more nutritious.  By kneading 
flour under a gentle stream of  water,  the 
starch can be washed  away and  the glu­
ten  separated.  The  action of  the  heat 
in baking causes certain changes  to  take 
place in  the  starch, by which  it  is  ren­
dered  soluble,  and to  some extent  con- 
erted into another substance resembling 
gum, and  known  as  dextrine.  The  out­
side of the loaf  is altered to a greater ex­
tent, forming the crust.  These changes 
have  the  effect  of  rendering  the  bread 
both  nutritious  and  palatable,  but  to 
prevent its becoming a heavy, solid mass 
of  dried  dough, it  must be ‘"raised,” or 
inflated  with gas, so as to convert it into 
a light,  spongy substance  which  can be 
easily masticated and digested.  The gas 
used for this  purpose is always  carbonic 
dioxide, and  the best  method to develop 
it in  the  mass  of  dough  is  to  set up a 
vinous or  alcoholic  fermentation  by the 
addition  of  yeast.  This  substance is a 
most remarkable living organism,  which, 
when  introduced  into the dough, begins 
to feed upon the starch, which it changes 
into  alcohol  and  carbonic  acid  gas. 
Owing  to  the  tenacious  nature  of  the 
dough, the gas  eannot  escape, but,  as it 
expands,  renders  it  spongy  and  light. 
The heat of  the baking oven still further 
expands the gas, and  completes  the pro- 
at the same  time  killing the  yeast, 
and  preventing 
further  fermentation.
If  the fermentation  continues  too  long, 
it passes over into the  acetic variety, the 
alcohol  is  changed  to  vinegar, and  the 
bread  “sours.”  The  alcohol  produced 
in the process is nearly all  dissipated  in 
the  baking;  but  it  is  an  appreciable 
quantity,  and  some  years ago a company 
was formed in  England  to  introduce ap­
pliances  for  condensing  and  saving  it. 
The  method  was  found  impracticable, 
but  it  created  considerable  excitement, 
and  one  baker  advertised  to  sell  his 
bread “with  all  the  gin  in it.”  When 
baking  powder  is  used  as  a  leavening 
agent, earbonie acid  gas is formed in the 
dough  as  with  yeast, only  it is set  free 
by the reaction of certain che'micals upon 
each other,  forming  salts  which  remain 
the  bread,  and  none 6f  the  constit 
uents  of  the  flour  are  decomposed.  A 
process has also  been  tried of  kneadins 
the dough in  closed  vessels  with  watei 
containing carbonic acid gas  in  solution 
under pressure,  like soda water, the suj 
position  being  that  when  the  pressure 
was removed the gas would  expand  and 
cause  the  dough  to rise.  This  aerated 
bread,  as it was  called,  has  been  made 
both  in  this  country and  England,  but 
the method has not been  successful,  and 
it is not  now  in use. 
It is interesting tc 
note that the  style of  oven  and  methed 
of  bread-making  in  use  in  Europe  f 
present has undergone little or no clianf. 
since  the  earliest  times.  The old-fash 
ioned  brick  oven is still  used,  and  the 
fire built  inside  until the  necessary heat 
is obtained,  when it is raked  out and the 
loaves  put  in  its  place.  Although the 
method is a clumsy and  wasteful  one,  i 
must  be  confessed  that  the  bread pro 
dueed by the  French  and  German,  and 
especially the  Viennese,  bakers  is unex 
ceptionable  in  quality.  Probably  the 
care used in mixing and  kneading has a 
much to do with  the result as the baking 
itself.  Bread  is  not  often  adulterated 
but  the  deficiencies  of  a  poor  flour ar 
sometimes covered up by the  addition of 
alum or a minute quantity of  sulphate of 
copper (blue vitriol).  These substances 
render the  bread  whiter and of  a better 
consistency,  but  are  not  only  a  fraud 
upon  the  purse  of  the  consumer,  but 
detrimental to his  health  as well.  Most 
of  the cheaper  varieties of  baking  pow 
der contain  alum,  and  their  use cannot 
be  recommended.  The  art  of  bread 
making has  been  known  from  the  ear­
liest times, and as  early as the  period of 
the Jewish exodus the process of  leaven 
ing was in general use. 
In the museum 
at Naples  there  are  exhibited  loaves of 
bread taken  from a shop  at Pompeii and 
am pod  with  the' name  of  the  baker 
They are perfect in  shape, but are quite 
black,  probably  from  the  he at  of  the 
volcanic ashes which were  cast upon the 
city  from  Vesuvius.  When  properly 
made,  bread  is  a  most  wholesome  and 
nutritious  food,  and,  with  the  other 
cereal  products,  forms 
the  principal 
means of  sustenance of  a large  majority 
of  the human race.

Robinson’s  Failure.

said a Xew-York business man.
Xew-York business man.
the first.
sets at all.”

‘I hear that Robinson has failed again,” 
‘Yes, so I  hear,”  replied  the  second 
“Total wreck, everything  gone?”  said 
“Yes, everything; all liabilities, no  as­
“Yes, that’s so.  Lost all he’s got.”
“Yes.”
“Well, I knew it had to come.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes, said so a year ago.”
“How did you know?”
“Oh, Robinson  is slow—terribly  slow. 
Why, t have known him to  be  gone  ten 
minutes to his luncheon.  Yes,  sir;  and 
he always took seven  or  eight  minutes. 
Can’t succeed in business and waste good 
time like that.  Good-bye!”

Buy flour  manufactured  by  the  Cres­
cent Roller Mills.  Every sack warran ed 
VoigtMilling Co.

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

Fruits,  Seeds, Oysters * Produce.

-WHOLESALE-

AU kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seedj  Beans or  Potatoes, 

will be

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa  St., 

pleased to hear from you.
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GRAND  RAPIDS.

W M . SEARS & CO.,

Cracker  Manilfactilrers,

I G E V T S   F O R   A M B O Y   C H E E S E .

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

ÄrctiG Maniifactüring ßo

A r c tic  B a k i n g  B o w d e r ,

A r c t i c  B lu in g s , 

A r c tic   In k s  a n d   M u c ila g e ,

R I3 D   S T A R   B A K I N G   B O W D B R , 

English Standard Extracts

When making Order3, Mention the Above  Well Known Brands. 

SEE  QUOTATIONS.

O.  B.  B R O W N

M IBBING  CO.

MICHIGAN  CIGAR  C O .,

B is:  R a p id s ,  M ic h •

MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY  CELEBRATED

“M.  C.  C.” “Yum Yum

The Most Popular  Cigar. 

The Best Selling Cigar on the Market.

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SEND  FOR  TRIAL  ORDER.

R IN D G E ,  B E R T S C H   &  CO.,
B O O T S   and  S H O E S

M anufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in

AGENTS  FOR  THE

Boston  R u b b e r Shoe  Co.,

12,  14  & 16  P e a r l  S tr e e t,  G ra n d   R a p id s,  M ich .

W.  STEPPE

Packing: and Provision Co.

G R A N D  

R A P ID S

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IS

Fresh and Salt Beef, Fresh and Salt Pork, Pork Loins, Dry Salt 

Pork, Hams,  Shoulders,  Bacon, Boneless Ham, Sausage 

of  aU  Kinds,  Dried  Beef  for  Slicing. 

B A R D

strictly Pure and W arranted, in tierces, barrels, half-bbls., 501b. cans,20lb. cans, 3, 5 and 101b. pails

B ic ic le  d  B i g s 9 B e e t ,  T r ip e , B t c .

Our prices for first-class goods are very low and all  goods  are  w arranted  first-class  in every in 
stance.  When in Grand Rapids, give us a  call  and  look  over  our  establishment.  W rite  us  for 
prices.

J.  H.  THOMPSON  &  C O .,

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS

T E A S ,

C O F F E E S

-SPEC IA LT IES

Our Bunkum Coffee 

Honey Bee  Coffee
Princess Bkg. Powder 
Early Riser Bkg. Pdr

M IL L S

S P IC E S
S P IC E
Gd.  Spices 
BEE  Mills 
SPICE GRINDERS
Extracts. 
BEE  Mills 
Bird Seed. 
BEE  Müls 
Starch.
BEE  Mills
B M P  
POWDERS.
BEE  Chop  Japan  Tea
5 9   J e f f e r s o n   A v e .,  D E T R O I T ,  M IC H

and  m anufacturers  of

S W I F T S

Choice Chicago

Dressed Beef

— A N D   M U T T O N —

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

U n io n   S t o c k   Y a r d s , 

C H I C A G O .

w.
Stationary

C.  D B N IS O N ,
and  Portable  Engines  anil  Boilers.

GENERAL  DEALER  IN

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

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

88,90 and 98 SOUTH  DIVISION ST., 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

Estimates Given on Complete Outfits.

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Brown’s  Patent 
Brown’s  Standard

Every Barrel and Sack guaranteed. 

Correspondence Solicited.

Our M i l  Brands.

Our Baker’s _ 
Vienna Straight

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

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

Successors to CURTISS &  DUNTON.

W H O L E S A L E

jPaper  W a r e h o u s e ,

Houseman Building,  Cor,  Pearl &  Ottawa Sts.,

M IC H IG A N .

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

l l M,  CLARK
ARE  HEADQUARTERS

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Teas

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

Syrups
Alolusses
W holesale  Grocers

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

