V O L .  6.

Voigt, HerooMeiior & 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

FanGU  Crockery  and

Fancy  Woodenware

OUR  OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection  Solicited.  Chicago  and  De­
troit  prices  guaranteed._______
F.  J.  DETTENTHALER,

JOBBER  OF

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M ail orders receive prompt attention.
See quotations in  another column.
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Encouraire your trad e to  pay cash instead of 
running1  book  account»  by  using  Cash  Sale 
Checks.  For sale a t 50 cents  p er  100  by  E.  A. 
STOWE & BRO.. Grand Rapids.

tail Trade solicited.

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FODBTH NATIOHAL B1M

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A.  J.  Boavne, President.

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

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

T ransacts a general  banking  business.

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

o f C o u n try  M erch an ts Solicited.

DO YOD WANT A SHOWCASE?

SPECIA L,  O F F E R —This style of oval case;  best 
q u ality ;  all  glass,  heavy  double 
th ick ;  panel  o r 
sliding doors;  full length  m irro rs  and  sp rin g   hinges; 
solid ch erry  or w alnut fram e, w ith  o r  w ith o u t  m etal 
corners, 
trim m ings; 
6 feet long,  28  inches  wide,  15  inches  high.  Price* 
$ 1 1 ,  n e t  t a s k .
I m ake th e same style  of  case  as  above,  17  inches 
high , from  w alnut, cherry, oak or ash,  fo r $2 p er foot. 
Q B oxing and cartag e free.

ex tra  heavy  base; 

silv etta 

D.  D.  C O O K ,

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21  Scribner St.,  G rand R apids, M ich.
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■ p  D   A   P  T  T P i r   at  the  Grand  Rapids 
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 L A N K   B O O K S

S ta tio n e r y ,

TABLETS, STEEL PENS,

OUR  NEW  LINE  OF

IN K S .
Ualentine  Samples
Eaton, Ly on Ä Go.,

are ready for inspection.

20 and 22 Monroe St.

,

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lOOO  C ig a r s  Free!

On o r about April 1st, 1889. we  propose p u ttin g  a  new 
bran d  of cigars on th e  m ark et which  we  shall  sell  to 
th e trad e a t 833 00 per thousand.  Now we w ant a>AME 
fo r th is cigar, and w ant it badly.  Hence we  m ake th e 
above  offer  of  1000 of these cigars  (the first thousand 
made) to  m y  wholesale or reta il dealer  who  will send 
us an original nan e t h a t will be acceptable, subject  to 
th e  following conditions, viz.: 
.
1st.  The name m ust be one  th a t has never been used 
fo r  a   cig ar  and  one  upon  w hich  we can g e t a  trade-
nl2nd.P T h e'n am e  W s t   to   us  upon a  le tte r head, bill 
head or  card of th e firm o r m em ber of th e firm  sending 
it.  The firm m ust be a   oona  fide  re ta il  o r  wholesale 
dealer  in   cigars.  Names  from   all  o thers  will  he re-
^ S rd f" This nam e m ust n o t reach us la te r  th a n   March 
15th, 1889, as th e aw ard will be m ade  on March  31st,  or 
as soon th ere a fte r as possible. 
4th  The aw ard or salection of th e  nam e  will be left 
to a  com m ittee of th ree (3) consisting of th e  editors of 
th e following papers published in th is • ity :  The  Flint 
Evening  Journal,  The  W olverine  Citizen,  The  Flint 
Globe.  We 
selected 
by th is com m ittee, and if  up9n  investigation, we  find 
it has never been used  as a   cig ar  b rand,  we  will  fo r­
w ard to the  w inner  one  thousand  cigars  by  express, 
charges prepaid. 
.
5th.  Should th e com m ittee select a   nam e,  th a t  had 
been sent to us oy m ore  th an   one  firm   o r  dealer, the 
thousand  cigars  will  go  to  th e  first  firm  o r  dealer 
sending it, as all nam es will  be  num bered  in  ro tatio n  
as received.  No firm or dealer will be allow ed  to   send 
m ore th an  one nam e.
A postal card containing th e  aw ard  o r  selection  by 
th e com m ittee will be m ailed to all contestants.
Address, GEO  T.  W A R R E N   &  CO„
Mfrs. H igh Grade Cigars.______________Flint*  M ich.
G.  M.  MUNGER  &  CO.,
Successors to Allen’s Laundry.
Mail and  E xpress' orders  attended  to  w ith 

G R A N D   R A P ID S .

p:om ptness.  N ice  W ork, Q u ick  T im e 

shall  accept 

nam e 

tn e  

,   . 

S atisfactio n  G u aran teed , 

tapids, Mich.

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

M anager.
Try  sample  order  in  % dozen 
jackages.  Prices, $1,  $2, S3, $4, 
JG to $24 per doz.  For terms ad­
dress  G raliam   H oys,  Grand

WHIPS I
J. ff. W elti’s Commercial Collep

This College offers th e m ost extensive course of study 
in business  college  branches  a t  th e  m ost  reasonable 
term s.  Do n o t fail to send fo r  a   forty-page catalogue 
giving full in form ation in reg ard  to course,tuition,etc.

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Address

W elton’s Com m ercial College,

23 Eountain St.,___________Grand Rapids, Mich.

DAfUELLYflGH

Successor  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  Dm iists’  Snndries.

And Jobber of

Call  and inspect  our  new  establishm ent 

when in the city.
19  S.  IONIA  ST.

WALES  -  GOODYEAR

and Connecticut Rubbers.

M uscatine
ROLLED

OATS

II-  YOU  WAJS'I'
THE  BEST!
GREOLE  STRAIGHT  GUT,

To all M erchant Handling Cigarettes:
A new era has been reached whereby all dealers 
selling cigarettes may now make  a  larger  profit 
than heretofore on any other brand.  The

CREOLE  STRAIGHT GUT.

W hich  has  recently  been  introduced  into  the 
State is becoming very popular, it being the only 
straight cut sold for five  cents,  thus  giving  the 
dealer a cigarette with w hich he  may  please  all 
classes of cigarette smokers.  The same are nicely 
put up in packages of ten  and  packed  w ith  ac­
tresses’ photos.  There is also a variety of  other 
inducements, a notice of which  is  contained  in 
each package.
G ive  tk e   C R E O L E   a   tr ia l  a n d   y o u   w ill 
find  i t   a   b ig   seller.

Sold by all Grand Rapids  jobbers,  and  m anu­

factured by

S.  F.  HESS  &  CO.

R O C H E S T E R , N . T . 

M anaFrs  of H ig h   G rade C igarettes.

T H E   G R A N D   R A P ID S

PAPER  BOX  FACTORY,

W.  \V.  HUELSTER,  Proprietor,

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

«¿tais

B E A N S

A n d  all dealers are  invited  to  send  sam­
ples and, write fo r   prices  that  can  be  ob­
tained in  this market.
We  do  a  COMMISSION  B U SIN E SS  
and our aim  is to obtain the  highest  m ar­
ket price fo r all goods sent us.  Not only

B E A N S

but 
We can sell as well as  anyone.

also A L L   K IN D S  OF  PRODUCE.

We invite correspondence.

B A R N E T T   BRO S.,

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  STARS

No Equal in the State.

Wherever Introdncsl it is a Stayer!

TO  T H E   T R A D E :

I  g u a ra n te e  “SIL V E R  STARS” to  be 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  n n lo n  la b o r, an d  to  g iv e  c o m p lete  satis­
factio n .

.A..  S.  3DATVIS,
70 Canal St„ GRAND RAPIDS.

Sole  M a n u fac tu re r,

Spring Heels.

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

THIS HA. HA. G ON
G.  R .  M a y h e w ,
86 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.

M ers, 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  Midilliis  PnriSer  Co.,
EDMUND B.DIKEMAN
Watch Maker 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH-

§  Jeweler,
44  GÄNAL  ST„
fflidi.
Grand Rapids,  - 

T H E   GREAT

G R A N D   R A P I D S ,  W E D N E S D A Y ,  F E B R U A R Y   6.  1889.
BUY

T H E   POETRY  OF  BUSINESS.

MISS  H ILD RETH .

that we all  know.

The  following  poem  was  read  at the  recent 
banquet  of  the  Owosso  B.  M.'A.  by  Dr.  E. B, 
Ward, of Laingsburg;
Business is Business! 
But the poetry in it comes m ournfully slow 
And  is  very  much  like  the  plan,  when  you 
Of finding how blood can be got from a turnip, 
Still,  there's life  there, and  music, for  friction 
And in these days you  have to keep  up with the 
For if  you don’t do so you’ll find this thing true, 
That the business  men ’round  have got through 

makes noise,
boys,

learn it.

w ith you.

left—

’Tis true and ’tis pity,  and pity ’tis, ’tis true 
That you old Salurians, past over-due,
Will creep out some morning and find yourselves 
Left to cold shoulders and of business bereft: 
Left to go down like a foundering steamer,
W ith  the  record  way  back  that  you  were  a 
And  able  to  travel  through business with  ease 
Like the  historic bullet  that  traveled “ through 

screamer

cheese.”

Yes, left to go down into business gangrene— 
They are through w ith you, yes, and it’s plain to 
Oh, yes;  it seems  sad  for  those  silver  tongued 
That  you  told a sweet  buyer as  you  looked  in 
And  remarked  that  the  duties  on  gauzes  and 
Were so  high  that no  one  could sell  them with 
While  ribbons  and  calicos,  gloves,  cashmeres 
You  were  selling  lower  than 
the  price  of 

be seen;
lies
her eyes,
lace
grace,
and silk
skimmed  milk.

teas,

Yes, you've  got through  selling rice, apples  and 
And sugar and coffee and Limburger cheese, 
And-iemons  and oranges, tigs, spices and soap, 
And oysters in which  you have lost  every hope, 
Who with troubles without  and ailm ents within 
Get  the  bulge on  you sometimes in spite of  the 
And worry yonrself and the customer too,
Till sometimes the  atmosphere  even turns  blue.

tin,

stoek
ping block,

Through with cutting off steak from “2-year-old” 
That is tougher than  strips from  your old  chop­
And so ancient  that reverence  due age  like that 
Should occasion each buyer to take off his hat 
And apologize  humbly, to the  meat not the man 
Who is doing, undoubtedly, as well as he can, 
And  who  tries  to  keep  back  the  on-creeping 
When  your dog  comes around  and the  sausage 

scowl
links growl.

see

brief,
thief,
withe

it cost,
host
schnide

Through  with  selling off  clothing for  less than 
Soft  clothing  which  goes  like  Sennacherib’s 
—But  perhaps  you've  forgotten  about  that old 
Who came from Assyria  just for a ride.
Perhaps w ith  a  large  stoek of  “eloddings"’ you 
To furnish the people in ancient Ju d e a :
But his trade was way off, his head wasn’t level. 
He came like  the dew  and he went like the d—1.
Through with  clients, divorces,  confession  and 
Through with  trying to  clear an  outrageous old 
And  w arping  your  conscience, 
'round  like  a 
To make a “faetorum” seem just like a myth, 
And befuddle the jury and strangle the truth 
W hich  grows  wrinkled  instead of  holding  its 
While .Justice blindfolded, jn  utter surprise 
Removes her old hoodwink to wipe her sad eyes.
Through with putting up  pills  and  plaster  and 
And balsam and peppermint,  powders and stuff, 
And  telling your  customers  old, stiff and blind, 
That  patent made  nostrums  are  good as they’ll 
And that doctors  now  use  them  right  off from 
When they haven’t got brains to think for  them ­
But  that  you  can’t  advise  them  for  anything 
Except  taking  some  m anner  of  cheap  kidney 

find,
the shelves
selves,
sure
cure.

youth.

snuff,

man

and nails,

Through with selling barbed  wire,  stones,  iron 
And telling just where your opponent  fails, 
While your customer goes  to  the  down-trodden 
And places his order as quick as he can,
And leaves you to wonder, regret and repine,
To think  that  perhaps  this  ain’t  quite  in your 
And to find that such business  as sure as you’re 
Will pull you out through the  small  end  of  the 

line.
born,
horn.

#

sow.

half,

thing,

they seek 

w hat you say

enough,
most off,

Machine,
clean,
prano,

Through with selling the  Sweet  Singing Sewing 
Which  runs  without  help  and  always  keeps 
And the beautiful  organ  which  alone  sings so­
And always keeps time  with the cheapest piano, 
Which  you  can’t  recommend  as  exactly  the 
But it helps when company comes in to sing, 
Still  the  thing  that  they  w ant  and  you know 
Is a high priced piano  quite easy to play.
Through with preaching  old  sermons—all right 
But  they’ve  traveled  so  far  that  their  sole  is 
And they need revamping or tapping, perhaps, 
To fit all the feet of the wandering chaps 
Who come to hear gospel truth week after week, 
And who  know  ju st  enough  of  the  thm g that 
That the seed must be  visible, w hether dr no,
Or they’d think that no  sower had been there to 
s 
Through with selling split leather stock for  just 
And declaring it Dongola kid and French calf, 
While with calmest  assurance  you say that you 
They w ill  stand  if  the  customers’  feet  do  not 
That your goods  are  so  low  there  is not a cent 
And you’ve worried until you’ve lost  your  front 
But still if the weather  keeps sloppy enough 
You hope that your sales will not be so tough.
Through  with  visiting  patients  so  fretful and 
That they torment your life and hang on so long 
That you fain would escape  and  go off to dwell 
On the  southwestern  shore  of  the  margin of— 
The margin of any respectable  place,
Where you’re likely to meet  an  old  townsman's 
And talk and be sociable just as you  choose, 
And feeling you’ve no reputation to lose.
Ah, yes!  there is music in  business, and fame 
If you come out on  top! 
If you don’t, who’s to 
No  one  but  yonrself,  and  the  world’s head  is 
When it counts  you a poor,  unfortunate  d-----1;
Because  you’ve  no  business  to  be  such  you 
You should play in the grand tent,  and  not  the 
For no  m atter  how  smart  you  are  men  can be 
Who think they can drive you right down in  the 

think
shrink,
there,
hair,

know ; 
side show,
found
ground.

blame?
level

strong,

well

face

*

But w hen we all reach,  as reach we all must 
The time when our dollars to us are as dust, 
When we climb to the mythical gates  ajar 
Away—out west on the fartherest  star—
St. Peter will rise up out of his chair 
And say “Did you ever?” and “ I declare!
If here ain’t a lot of Owosso men 
Chuck full of business and mercantile ken,
But let them come in at the lower gate 
And discount their tickets  the usual rate.”

them  over 

“ I  m ust  have a  peacock,  John,”  said 
Miss Hildreth,  as she met  her  man-serv­
“He  would  look so 
ant  on  the  lawn. 
finely  on the  balustrade,  with  his  feath­
ers  spread  or 
trailing 
the 
I really m ust  have  one, 
green  sward. 
John.”
“ They  be  an awful  nuisance,  m arm ,” 
demurred John. 
“ They’d  never stick to 
the balustrade.  They be  as hard to man­
age as  children,  an’  that’s a fac’.”
“ They  keeps  up  an  awful  squalling, 
miss.”  put  in  Jane,  the maid,  when the 
“ They’ll be 
m atter  reached  her  ears. 
worse than  Miss Noyes’  guinea hens, and 
Miss Dunn’s parrot,  or them  children  of 
Parson  Miller’s—I  never  did  see  such 
neglected  plagues as they  be,” she added 
irrelevantly. 
“I  wonder  their  mother 
don’t  rise  in  her  grave. 
But the poor 
man—w hat does he know of  the  care  of 
babies,  with his  sermons  and his prayer 
meetings,  and  his parochial visits and his 
poor.  He’s off to  this  wedding  or  that 
funeral,  or he’s reading the W ord  to  the 
sick and blind. 
It’s a shame  there’s  no 
women  folks,  but  hired  help,  to  look 
after  ’em. 
I see  him  myself one day a 
tidying of  them  up,  and pinning on their 
clean  collars  wrong side out and  upside 
I  s’pose he was thinking of free­
down. 
will and election, like as not.”
“ I wish him  joy  of  them ,”  said Miss 
Prudence. 
The first night  after  the peacock’s ar­
rival,  however,  Miss  Prudence  never 
closed her eyes,  or the bird his mouth,  so 
to speak;  but when he pranced across the 
lawn 
in  the  morning  light,  Miss  Prue 
thought she would rather  lose  her  sleep 
than the sight of so much beauty.
“Miss Dunn says she’ll have to  lay  in a 
stock of chloral  and  bromide,  if  you’re 
going 
to  keep  the  peacock,”   Jane  re­
ported;  and  Mrs.  Noyes herself dropped 
in to suggest that  he  could be killed and 
stuffed.
“ He’ll  be  quite  as  decorative,”   said 
she,  “ without disturbing the neighbors.” 
Every two or three days a small urchin 
would  appear  with the bird  in  tow,  and 
rem ark demurely;  “ Your peacock strayed 
over to  Dickens’,  and  I’ve  fetched him 
along home,”  for  which  civility  sundry 
pieces  of  small  change  would  be  dis­
bursed.
“And who are you?”  she  asked,  when 
the  same  youngster  had  performed the 
same benevolent service  some half-dozen 
times.

“I prefer the peacock.”

I 

“I?  Oh,  I’m  Parson  Miller’s boy.” 
“ His son?”
“Why,  yes ’nm—I reckon  so.”
“ I shall  have  to  shut  him  up,”   said 
“ His traveling expenses will 
Miss Prue. 
ruin me.”
By this  time  the  poor  bird  had  lost 
most of his fine tail-feathers  in  the  pro­
cess  of  being  run  down  by  the Miller 
brothers  and  their  contemporaries,  and 
presented  a  ragged  appearance  which 
went  to  its  owner’s  heart. 
So he was 
shut up in a tem porary pen  till he should 
learn  better  ways;  but  Miss  Prudence, 
going  to  look  after  him one afternoon, 
found 
the  two  Millers  inside  the  pen, 
chasing him  about  to  display  his  plum­
age,  while their little sister stood outside 
and clapped her hands,  and  a  crowd  of 
other children stood peeping betwe  n the 
slats.
“W hat are you  doing,  children?”  she 
cried.
“ Oh,  w e ’ve  been  reading  about  pea­
cocks,  and they  need  exercise,”   vouch­
safed the eldest Miller.
“It seems to me that you need a stick,” 
said Miss Prue.
“Father don’t approve  of  whipping,” 
chirruped the youngest; “do you, father?” 
And Miss Prue lifted  her eyes and met 
those of the  Rev.  Austin  Miller,  which 
wore  a  startled,  perplexed  expression, 
while the color palpitated across his pale 
face.
“My children  have  annoyed  you,”   he 
said,  with 
tone  which 
begged to be gainsaid.
“ They  have  only  annoyed  the  pea­
cock,”  answered Miss Prue, dropping her 
gaze,  and flushing rosy red in her turn.
“1 came in search of  these rogues,”  he 
went on. 
“ Bridget was sure  they  were 
in  some  mischief—I  did  not  expect  to 
find you.”
“ No, of course not,” said Miss Prue, in 
a voice studiously matter-of-fact.
“I have read somewhere,” the Rev. Mr. 
Miller  pursued,  “ that the only real hap­
piness which ever arrives to  us,  springs 
up quite unexpectedly in our  path—it  is 
not the result of search. 
I  dropped  the 
thread of my sermon,  against  my will,  at 
a critical  point  to  pick  up  these  little 
folks. 

I have my  reward.”

the  hesitating 

“No,  I  am not easily satisfied. 

“You  are  very  easily  satisfied,”  re­
turned Miss  Prue,  in  the  same  remote 
voice. 
She  was  hardening  her  heart 
against the persuasive  tones  which  had 
once been  like  the  music of the spheres 
to her.
I have 
never  been  satisfied  with  myself—with 
some hasty actions  of  my  own,  I should 
say.  Miss Prudence,  you have never for­
given me?”  he spoke half-questioningly, 
as if he would fain  be contradicted.
“I never thought of  it  as  anything  to 
forgive,  she said,  and  her  voice  melted 
and broke a  little in spite of herself.  “ It 
was so long ago,”  a little  proudly,  as  if 
she would not let him suppose that it sig­
nified. 
“ I  see  now  that fate or Provi­
dence was kinder  to  us  than I believed. 
I don’t think I was intended for a domes­
tic life,”  as her  eyes  fell upon the three 
harum-scarum  children 
torn 
frocks and  mischief—the  children  who 
m ight  have  been  her own,  but for their 
m other’s double-dealing.
A ustin  Miller  smiled  a  little sadly as 
his glance followed  hers.
“ They are torments to  the  neighbors, 
I fear,”  he  said;  “but  they are all  the 
comfort I have,”  holding a hand to them. 
“Come,  children,  make your bow to Miss 
H ildreth,  and tell  her you are sorry.” 
“But we are not a bit  sorry,”  said  lit­
tle Amy. 
“ The peacock is so beautiful, 
we are glad we comed.  We mean  to  do 
it again.”

their 

in 

“T ruth is no longer  at the bottom  of a 
well,”  said Miss Prue,  with a real  smile 
dimpling her face as  she said good-by.
If Deacon Brickett could  have seen the 
m anuscript of Mr.  Miller’s sermon  as  he 
reflected 
in  his  study  that  evening,  he 
would  have  supposed  that  the  words, 
“Come again,  dear dream ,”  scrawled  on 
the m argin,  referred beyond  a  doubt  to 
the  dream  of  Jacob  when  he  saw  the 
angels of  God ascending and descending.
“ Them there M iller boys  be enough to 
drive you to glory,  an’  no  m istake,”  de­
clared  Jane,  a  few  weeks 
“I 
wouldn’t  be 
their  m other—no,  not  if 
you’d give ’em to me.”

later. 

“W hat have they done now?”

“They’re not mine  to give,”  said Miss 
Prue. 
“Done?  They’ve  gone  and broke the 
peahen’s eggs,  to see  the little peacocks, 
su re ’s you’re  alive.  They  expected  to 
find  ’em  full-fledged,  long  tail  and all. 
Amy’s gone home crying.”

“And where are the boys?”
“ Mr.  Miller,  he’s  going to send ’em  to 
bed without their  supper,  and serve ’em 
right.  Their  m other’s  shirked  all  the 
bother of ’em sure  enough!”
“W ithout  their supper—poor things!” 
cried Miss Prue. 
“ Why,  it’s only three 
o’clock of a summer’s day. 
I remember 
when  I used to be sent to bed by daylight 
when I was  little and  naughty,  and it al­
ways seemed to me a  horrible  injustice. 
Jane,  run  over  to  the  parsonage,  and 
tell Mr.  M iller  he  will  do  me a favor if 
he will—”

“ Baste ’em soundly,”  put in Jane.
“ Jane!  how inhuman!  He will do me a 
favor if he will  let  them   off this tim e.”
“Now,  Miss  Prue,  if  you’d  w rite  it 
yourself—sure’s  you 
live—excuse  me, 
miss—but I ain’t  got  the  face  to  carry 
that there message.”  And it so happened 
that the Rev.  A ustin  Miller  found him­
self dream ing  over  a  perfum ed  note,  in 
his  study,  while  his  sermon  on  “The 
Mistakes  of  a  Christian”   lay  forgotten 
before him—dreaming of the first note he 
had ever received from Miss Prue, fifteen 
years  or  so  ago,  the  words  of  which 
started out  from  some  hidden corner of 
his brain where  they  had  been sleeping 
unknown to him;  dreaming of  the  dewy 
evenings  in  the  rose  garden  of the old 
parsonage,  where he studied Divinity and 
she taught the children their A B C’s;  of 
moonlight  nights  on  the river together, 
and spring mornings in the  woods  hunt­
ing for the first wild flower;  of  Sundays, 
when they sang together in the  choir;  of 
their stroll  home  through  green,  sweet- 
scented  lanes. 
The  thousand  and one 
dear hours they had spent in each other’s 
company  passed  before  his  mind’s  eye 
like some beautiful panorama.  He won­
dered if,  indeed,  he  was the hero of those 
dreams,  if  he  had  ever  been so happy. 
The first parting,  the first  estrangement, 
wrung  his  heart  anew,  as  if  they  had 
happened only  yesterday.  W hat a fool­
ish thing their little  quarrel  looked  like 
to-day,  seen  by  the  light  of  years  and 
knowledge—such  a trifle,  but  with  such 
large results!  Yet  he  had  been the first 
to make  an  overture  toward  reconcilia­
tion,  thank  God! 
If  she  accepted  his 
overture she was to write and say so; but 
no word had come to him  in  reply.  W hat 
days and  hours  of  dark  snspense  lifted 
their shadows before him;  how the whole 
world had seemed bleak and unprofitable 
w ithout her!  And in a season  of  weak­
ness,  when his wounded heart could bear 
no more,  he had accepted  the  sympathy 
and  comfort  nearest  at  hand,  and had 
finally m arried Letty Carew,  because she 
loved  him,  only  to  wake up one day to 
find that he owed all  his  unhappiness  to 
her.  Miss H ildreth had indeed answered 
him,  had given Letty  the letter to mail— 
they had been intim ate friends  in  those 
days,  intrusted  with  each  other’s heart­
beats—and  Letty  had  detained the mis­
sive that would have healed  the  breach. 
How did he  know  this?-  Years after it 
tumbled  out  of a draw er of  old  letters, 
and confronted him  w ith its fam iliar ad­
dress.  Miss  Carew 
thought  she  had 
secured herself  for  all  time by burning 
Prue’s 
letter,  but  she  had  tossed  the 
wrong envelope into the  grate.  Austin 
M iller had  lived  his  sorrow  over again 
after this discovery;  he  had  waked with 
it and wrestled  with  it  without  getting 
nearer happiness,  and had  long ago made 
up his mind  to do w ithout it.  But he had 
thought it due  to  Prudence  H ildreth  to 
send her  word  that  by  an  accident her 
letter  had  come  to  hand  five  years too 
late;  he said nothing of  L etty’s share  in 
the m atter,  but Prudence  understood all. 
These  memories  had  been  revived  by 
P rue’s hasty note  asking  him to forgive 
the children for breaking up the peahen’s 
nest!  Her children,  too!  He was at  the 
point  of  carrying  the  note  to  his lips, 
when his eye fell  upon his sermon,  “The 
Mistakes  of  a Christian,”  and  lest  this 
should be one of them,  he  threw   it  into 
the  waste  basket.  He 
the 
clock;  he had been idle two whole hours. 
“ Of what  was  he  thinking?”  he  asked 
himself;  “ where  was he drifting?  an au- 
nointed  priest,  the  example  and  coun­
sellor of sinners?”  A t  least he could go 
and  thank Prue with a clear  conscience; 
as for the children,  they were  already  in 
bed,  technically speaking,  and were  hav­
ing such a capital  pillow fight  that  they 
agreed to get into mischief every  day  of 
their  lives,  and be punished.

looked  at 

A fter that Mr.  M iller often  found him­
self dropping  in,  on  one  pretext or an­
other,  at The Elms;  to ask Miss  Prue  to 
play over the air of  some new psalmody, 
that he might  join  in the congregational 
singing;  to lend her the  latest  volume of 
religious  thought; 
to  beg  advice  about 
the children.  Sometimes he came bring­
ing those unruly infants, with their brown 
hands full of peacock feathers  and  their 
little hearts full of  impenitence.  They 
and  the  peacock  were  now  the best  of 
friends;  he ate  from their hands and en­
dured their petting,  which was much like 
punishm ent,  with  heroism;  if he  stayed 
away they hunted him  out  and  brought 
him home in  trium ph.
live 
here,”   said Jane.

“Those  children  m ight  as  well 

NO. 281

“And their father, too,” added John. 
“Not a bite of sweetbread can I keep in 
the  larder;  and  when  they  tears 
their 
frocks they  goes  straight  to  Miss Prue, 
and she mends them before Bridget scolds 
’em, ju st as  if  they’d  be her very own.” 
“A fine stepmother  she’d be m aking,” 
observed John. 
“ They  do  be  saying  in 
the village that it’s her cap she is setting 
for the parson.”
“ T hat’s ju st the way of the gossips!  If 
a man  takes to a woman  it’s  always  she 
that is a-setting of her cap for him.  The 
parson  ought  to  ask  ’em  to pick out a 
wife for him and suit theirselves.”
“ And then  there’s others  who say it’s 
her money,”  persisted John,  who,  like  a 
fair historian,  was  bound  to  state both 
sides;  “ an’  that he come here  a  purpose 
to m arry her.”
“ A great  deal  they  knows  about it,” 
cried Jane. 
“I heered him  tell her, with 
my own  blessed ears,  that  when  he  was 
call* d 
to 
this  ’ere  parish  he  never 
dreamed that she lived here.  They m ust 
hev  knowed each  other,  you  see,  when 
they was  young,  afore  Miss  Prue came 
into her great-uncle’s property,  and came 
to live at The Elms;  for I  hear ’em talk­
ing now and again of folks that don’t be­
long hereabouts.  And she says,  ‘Do you 
remember  the  day  we  went  hither and 
the day we went  yon?’  And he says,  ‘I 
remember,  I  remember,’  and looks away 
from  her face.  I thinks,  myself,  he must 
have been an old  beau  of  hers. 
I sees 
’em together a heap,  you  know,  bringing 
in  the tea things,  and the lamps, and pot­
tering ’round—”

“A t the keyhole,”   laughed John.
“ And I’ve never found ’em love-making 
onct,  though I  steps quiet-like,  John,  as 
you  know,  and  it  isn’t  like  opening a 
door to push the portiere aside.”
It  is  true  the  Miller  children were a 
great  deal  at  The Elms,  and gave their 
father  frequent  excuse  to  follow  them; 
and it is true  there  were  few congenial 
souls in the  parish  or  village,  and what 
so natural  as that he should see  more  or 
less of his pleasant neighbor,  with whom 
he could journey back to  the  past. 
In­
deed,  they never talked  of  to-day  or  to­
morrow;  it was always  yesterday  whose 
praises they sang,  whose  skies  they  ex­
tolled,  whose pleasures they coveted.  He 
was nothing like a lover,  to  be  sure,  ex­
cept in preferring  her society,  and yet  it 
was a happiness to Prue to see him there, 
to know that he would  come  to-morrow. 
It was  toward  night,  one  summer day, 
that Miss Prue,  looking  out on the lawn, 
where  the  shadows  of  the  leaves were 
dancing,  saw  Mr.  Miller—no  unusual 
sight—eomiug toward her door.  He  had 
been out qf town a whole week  on  busi­
ness;  Bridget  had  confided  to Jane that 
he had  “gone away  suddin’,  after a tele­
graph in ayaller wrapper come  for him;” 
but  he  had  been  at  home several days 
without  darkening,  or,  to  express  her 
feelings  better,  illum inating Miss P rue’s 
door.  Naturally,  she  wondered w hat his 
errand had  been;  if he had had  a  call  to 
leave the parish;  and  at that thought her 
heart stood  still.
“You have been  away,”  she said after 
the first greetings.
“Yes. 
I  hope you  did not suffer from 
an invasion  of young  Millers  during  my 
absence.”
“ ‘We met,  but we  missed  yon,’ ”   she 
admitted. 
“ I hope your vacation  was  a 
rest and recreation to you.”
“ My  journey  was  not a pleasure trip, 
Prue,”  he  said. 
“My  wife  died  sud­
denly at the  asylum  on  the  fifth of the 
month—”
“Y'our  wife!”   gasped  Miss  Prue. 
“ Your  wife—died—on  the  fifth  of 
the 
I  thought—Austin—Mr.  Miller 
month! 
—I thought she  had  been dead years and 
years!”
“I  thought  you  knew,”  he returned. 
“I supposed everybody  had  heard of  it; 
it was too sad a  story  to  rehearse  often 
or needlessly. 
It  was  in  all  tne dailies 
at the.time.  You m ust have been abroad 
then.  Amy was in her cradle when Letty 
left me—eloped with her  music  teacher. 
Two years ago  she  went  to the asylum, 
mad as Hamlet. 
Prue,  Prue,”  he cried, 
“do  you  think  I  have  hidden anything 
from you?  Is not the loss of fifteen years 
Shall  her ghost 
of happiness  enough? 
divide us still?”
loving  another 
“And  I  have  been 
woman’s  husband  all 
this  tim e,”  she 
said,  moving away  from  him.  Heaven 
only  knows  how  far  her  Puritan  con­
science would have carried her,  but  just 
then Jane burst into the room,  crying: 
“ It’s  little  Tom  Miller—the  peacock 
fell into the  river,  and  Tom jumped in to 
save him—and  the  bird’s safe—but Tom 
—the  cramp  took  him—John’s  brought 
him up the bank—”
It  was 
hours  before  consciousness  returned  to 
Master Tom,  and  weeks  before the roof 
of The Elms could be exchanged  for that 
of the parsonage,  owing to a fever  which 
succeeded.  Mr.  Miller  and  Miss  Prue 
passed many  a watchful night at his bed­
side,  and many  a day of sickening dread; 
but it was a year and  better  before  Miss 
H ildreth could forgive herself for having 
loved  another  woman’s husband  and be­
fore a wedding  which  had  been belated 
fifteen years,  took place at The  Elms.
H a r r i e t   P r e s c o t t   S p o f f o r d .

And then Jane fainted  away. 

How to Distinguish Chicory in  Coffee.
Chicory  can  be  detected  in  coffee  as 
follows:  P u t  a  teaspoonful of  coffee to 
be  tested  on  the  surface  of  a  glass  of 
cold  water. 
If  it is  pure coffee,  it  will 
float for some  time,  scarcely  coloring  the 
water.  Chicory,  if  any  is  present,  will 
at  once absorb the  w ater and  fall to the 
bottom of  the  glass,  giving to the  water 
a reddish-brown tint  as  it falls.
Another method  is to put a tablespoon­
ful of  the coffee  in  a small bottle of cold 
water,  qnd,  shaking  it  for a  moment,  if 
the coffee is pure it will  rise and  scarcely 
color  the water;  if  chickory is present  it 
will act same as above.

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

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WEDNESDAY^FEBRUART 6,1889.

THE  FRENCH  SITUATION.

Frenchmen,  of  course,  m ust  be  the 
best judges of  the way in which such an 
event  as the  election of  Gen.  Boulanger 
will  affect the  future of  the French  Re­
public.  But Americans generally will be 
puzzled to account for the  overwhelming 
significance which  seems  to  be  attached 
to  it  by all  parties in  France.  London 
more than once  has declared itself out of 
the  dominant  party  in 
harmony  w ith 
American-English  polities. 
In  America 
every great  city except  Philadelphia,  St. 
Louis  and  Boston  has  declared  against 
the  party which has received the approval 
of  ¡he  nation.  But  nobody in  England 
or  in America attaches much importance 
to  this.  London  is  a  bigger  city  than 
Paris,  both  absolutely and  in proportion 
to the  whole  population of  the country 
I t is ju st as much—what  Paris is,  but no 
American  city can  claim  to  be—the me 
tropolitan center,  to whose  judgm ents in 
all  m atters  the  rest of  the nation  refers 
w ith deference.  Yet it  is becoming pro 
verbial th at  London opinion is only  mis­
leading as to the general drift of  English 
opinion. 
In 1880 London was so Jingoish 
th at it was not  safe for  Mr.  Gladstone to 
walk  home from  church  on  a  Sunday 
morning;  yet 
that  very  year  England 
sw ept  the  Jingos  out of  office  by over 
whelming  m ajorities.  Across  the  Chan­
nel,  however,  all  France  holds its breath 
to  listen  for  a verdict  from  Paris,  a 
though 
that  carried  w ith  it a kind  of 
finality;  and  the  fact that  Gen.  Boulan­
ger has 80,000 m ajority over his Republi­
can  competitor is thought  fatal  for  the 
existing order of things.

liberties  and 

One reason  for this is found in the  ex­
tinction  of  local  life,  both  social  and 
political,  in  the  provices  of  France  by 
Louis XIV.,  and  the perpetuation  of  his 
methods  of  centralization  by  all 
the 
French  governments  from  that  time  to 
our  own.  He  made his  court 
the  one 
place of  social distinction,  and  Paris the 
only possible residence  for men of wealth 
or of  rank.  He  sw ept  away all  the  old 
local 
traditions  of  self- 
government,  which  had  differentiated 
the  provinces from each other, and as far 
as  possible reduced them  all to the dead 
level of  uniformity. 
From  that  day to 
this  Paris  has been  France,  in the sense 
in which  Rome was once  Italy and  even 
the  ancient  world;  and  that is the  only 
parallel  to  the  situation  which  history 
furnishes.  England  never has been cen­
tralized to anything like the same extent. 
The  sturdy Briton of  the shires  has his 
own ideas  and  stands  by them,  whatever 
the capital  may think;  and  he  loves out­
door  life and  country sports far  too well 
to sacrifice  his position in the  country to 
the demands of the city.  It was in France 
th at the  contemptuous sense of  the  word 
“ provincial”  was  originated,  and  no 
effort of the  Londoner or the sim ilar pre­
tender iu America has succeeded in quite 
naturalizing  that sense  in our  language.
Attention  has  been  called  sufficiently 
to  the  very  miscellaneous  character  of 
the  followers who  carried  Gen.  Boulan­
ger’s  election  so  strongly. 
It  is a huge 
Cave  of  Adullam,  into  which  everyone 
who  hates  the  existing  government  of 
France is welcome.  He may be a Repub­
lican extrem ist  like Rochefort,  or an  Im­
perialist like  Paul  Cassagnac,  or  a mon­
archist like  the  younger  Veuillot.  Of 
course,  such  a  combination  m ust  go  to 
pieces  tbe  moment  it  has  the  responsi­
bility of power thrust upon it, and  would 
count  for nothing  in  the  presence of  a 
stroug,  united  and vigorous  Republican 
party. 
Its  one source  of  strength is the 
fact  that  there  is no  such  party opposed 
it.  M.  Carnot  is an  able  man and  a 
to 
integrity;  but  his  office 
man  of  high 
amounts  to  nothing. 
It is  idle to  blame 
him  for having  proved  a  mere  figure­
head,  as  that is exactly what  the  French 
Constitution  condemns  him  to  be.  M. 
Flouquet,  who is at the  head of  the min­
istry,  is a  weak and ineffectual man, who 
is where  he is because  the system brings 
such  men  as he is to the  front.  He is  a 
compromise  between the  hostile factions 
into  which the  m ajority of  the  national 
legislature is rent,  and  in  addition to his 
personal  inefficiency  he  has  the  added 
weakness  of  an  insecure position. 
It is 
the  sense  of  the  worthlessness  of  that 
m ajority  which makes it tremble  before 
w hat  a  strong  party  would  treat  as  an 
incident of  only  tem porary  significance.
And there seems  very little  likelihood 
of  getting a better  Republican  majority 
by any election next  October.  France is 
suffering  from a political  prostration  of 
energy,  which  has  m any causes.  One is 
found  in that  long  interruption  of  self- 
governm ent  and  of  responsibility to the 
people,  which is called the second French

Empire. 
Everybody  recognizes  what 
that interruption cost France  in  the  de­
velopment of  intellectual  life,  when  he 
contrasts  w hat  French  literature,  both 
political and artistic,  was in the  eighteen 
years before 1848,  with what it became  in 
the  eighteen  which  followed  the  Coup 
d’Etat.  And  ju st  as much,  if  not  even 
more, was lost in  practical  capacity  for 
politics.  The French Republio  has been 
weak from  the  start,  because it has  had 
no  thinkers,  but  only  successful  man 
agers of  m ajorities like M.  Gambetta. 
has failed to impress France  with  ideas 
and,  w ith all its faults,  France  has  this 
greatness that its people  cannot  live  by 
bread  alone.  Clemeneeau  is  the  only 
man  who  has  the  m ark of  belonging to 
the old  succession of  leaders,  who had 
thought beyond the  next election and its 
possibilities—the only French  statesm an 
since  the  Revolution  who  has  had the 
courage to set his  face  against  the  tra 
ditional  centralization  of 
the  country 
B ut as his opinions  on  many points  are 
extreme,  he  never has had the chance to 
exercise a controlling  influence over the 
government, or to  make  France  feel his 
hand in  the  reorganization of  her polit 
ical methods.

in 

those 

It  thus  forces  every  man 

Another  source  of  political  debilita 
tion had been the extreme badness of the 
French Constitution. 
It  is  all  sail  and 
no ballast. 
It  leaves  every government 
at the mercy of  any fresh  drift of  public 
opinion. 
power to become an opportunist, whether 
he  will  or  not.  As  Sir  Henry Sumner 
Maine  has  pointed  out,  the greatness of 
Democracy  is 
its  exercising  proper 
precautions  against its owrn weaknesses 
and  especially  against 
sudden 
shifts of  opinion  which  have  been  the 
ruin  of  republics. 
It  is  ju st  here  that 
the  American  Constitution  exemplifie 
the  wisdom  not  only  of  the  men  who 
drafted it but of  the  communities which 
adopted 
their  fundam ental  law 
T hat Constitution establishes an order in 
which  the  executive,  the  judiciary,  and 
the higher  branch of  the  legislature are 
made more or less  independent of  public 
passions of  the moment,  and  are enabled 
to  do their duty in  the face of  outbursts 
of  popular  disfavor.  And  it  also  pro 
vides such a method for  its  own  altera 
tion  as makes  every change a subject for 
long discussion and gradual  adoption,  in 
which its m erits and dem erits are sure to 
be thoroughly sifted.

it  as 

to 

the 

legislature;  and 

France has nothing of  this.  The joint 
convention of  the Senate and the  Cham 
hers  has  the  power  to  make  whatever 
changes  in  the  Constitution  it pleases 
The  actual  government of  the country i: 
carried  on by a m inistry,  which 
is  re 
sponsible 
the 
President of  the  Republic is destitute of 
any power except  that of  trying  experi 
ments in the  organization of  new minis 
tries,  when,  as so often  happens,  the old 
one is outvoted in the Assembly.  French 
Democracy  has  not 
an 
it  has  made  no  provision 
to  Demos 
appeal  from  Demos  drunk 
sober. 
It is the  worst  form  of  Repub 
lican government that has been  set  up in 
modern 
times,  and  it  certainly is  dis 
heartening to find the French  people had 
profited  so 
little  from  their  own  ex 
perience and ours in  devising it.

its  hand 

tied 

for 

W hat Boulanger  will do is probably a: 
much of  a puzzle  to  him  as  the rest of 
mankind.  T hat  he has the  chance to do 
anything is  the result not of  any marked 
abilities in  him,  but of  his  skill in seiz 
ing a fortunate  moment  to  attack  a sys­
tem already fallen  into  effeteness.  But 
this  exactly reproduces  the  situation  of 
1850-51.

INSURANCE  STOCKS.

Something  of  an  idea of  the  average 
profit on the  stock of  fire  insurance com­
panies  may  be  derived  from  carefully 
reading  the  following  figures  c( 
piled
from  the sworn  statem ents of  tl 
com
panies during the year  1886:
Number paying no d iv id en d s........................  
7
Number paying 6 to 10 per cent.......7
Number paying 10 to 40 per cent.......... . . . . . . .  101
Of  the 189 companies whose  stock was 
on 
the  m arket  in  1886  there  are  only 
seventeen  whose stock  sold  at less  than 
par.  The  latest  sales of  stock of  31  of 
these  was  from 200 to 436  per  cent.,  and 
141  from 100 to 190 per  cent.

Capital 

invested  in  insurance  stocks 
pays better on the  average than  national 
bank  stock.

to 

New York is still considering  what she 
will do with  her  idle convicts.  The dis­
cussion  is  interesting  only  as  showing 
how firmly the idea of  making  the  pris­
ons a  source of  revenue  rather  than  of 
expense 
the  State  is  rooted  in  the 
official  mind.  The superintendents seem 
to be gentlemen  of  the  best  intentions, 
who  obtained  office  while  that was  the 
leading idea of  prison  reform,  and  they 
seem never to  have  entertained a single 
objection  to  its  expediency.  They  de­
cide between  different  methods of  keep­
ing convicts at work  with  reference sim­
ply to the profits of  each to the treasury. 
If told that the competition of these slaves 
of  the State worked to  the  disadvantage 
of 
they  probably 
would  reply  in  the old fashion that the 
working classes cannot afford to keep the 
crim inal  class  living  off  the  taxes,  as 
though  the  taxes  were  levied upon  the 
is
working  classes.  The  plain 

the  free  workman, 

issue 

w hether the property owners or the wage 
earners  can  best  afford  to  support the 
convicts. 
If  the  former, then no prison 
employment  can  be 
tolerated  which 
brings  prison  labor  or its products into 
competition  with  free  labor  or its  pro­
ducts.  T hat principle  once fully  admit­
ted,  it  becomes a question  as  to how to 
employ convict labor  w ithout  producing 
that competition  in  any  measure.  And 
to this problem the prison  m anagers and 
prison  reform ers  never  have  fairly  ad­
dressed themselves.

The  Legislature  has  received  a  long 
petition  from  the  “ fru it  growers of  the 
State,”  as  the  telegraph  reports  it,  ask­
ing  for the  establishm ent of  a food com­
mission  to  guard  against  adulterations. 
The  Legislature could go further  and do 
worse  than to create  such a  commission.

AMONG  TH E  TRADE.

G RAN D  R A P ID S  GOSSIP.

Josiah W.  Sherwood  has  sold  his 

eery stock to E.  H. Manly.

W isner & Mansfield  succeed  W isner & 
W isner  in  the  grocery  business  at 119 
Plainfield avenue.

John De Yries has  engaged in the g 

eery business at Jamestown.  I.  M.  Clark 
& Son  furnished the  stock.

Martin Y ander Veen has built an  addi 
tion  to  his  store  at  550  W est Leonard 
street and will  occupy  the  same  with  a 
m eat m arket.

J.  Y ander Veen  has  sold  his  lease of 
the  store at 122  Monroe  street  to  J.  C 
Holt,  who  has  leased the  store—as wTell 
as  the corner  store  adjoining—to Morse 
& Co.

Albert Stonehouse and Gilbert T. Haan 
have  purchased  the Wm.  E.  W hite drug 
stock,  at 126 Canal  street,  and  will  con 
tinue 
the  business  under  the  style of 
Stonehouse & Haan.

Clark & Morton—which is the new style 

of  the  form er  firm of  Morton  & Clark 
have  located  their  cigar  factory at  2S9 
South  Division  street.  Chas.  J.  Clark 
will continue on the read for the firm.

C.  V.  Hane,  the  Remus  general dealer 
and m ill operator,  has begun the erection 
of  a store building at South  Grand  Rap­
ids,  22x60  feet  in  dimensions,  which he 
will  occupy  with a general  stock  about 
the middle of  May, removing from Remu 
at that time.

The  complications  growing  out of  the 
failure  of  Fogg &  Hightower,  of  Ferry, 
was  adjusted  by  Judge  Dickerman,  at 
Muskegon,  one  day last week,  by return­
ing the  property to the custody of  Amos 
S.  Musselman as trustee.  The  litigation 
involved about S3,500.

AR OUND  TH E  STATE.

Mio—H uuter  Bros,  succeed  T.  H unter 

& Son in general trade.

Grand  Ledge—H arry  Snow,  dealer  in 

drugs and  jewelry,  has failed.

Fennville—N.  K.  Raven succeeds J.  H. 

Raven in the  jew elry business.

F lint—J.  E. Bussey & Co. have removed 

their hardware stock to Fenton.
Amadore  —  John  Graham 
Thomas Lount in general trade.

succeeds 

Davison—L.  Gifford  &  Co.  succeed 

Moss & Gifford in general  trade.

Sault Ste. Marie—Strauss & Hirschfield 

have assigned their clothing stock.

Hesperia—H.  Carbine & Co.  have 
their drug  business to L.  E.  Norton.
Coldwater—E.  D.  Chapman  has 
his lum ber business to Moses Smith.

sold

sold

Greenville—O.  W.  Green  is  arranging 

to retire from the  jew elry business.

Millbrook—L.  D.  W ait  has  purchased 

the meat  m arket of  S.  H.  McDowell.

Rondo—A.  N.  Partridge  has  engaged 

in the grocery and provision business.

Mason  —  W alter  M.  P ra tt  succeeds 

P ratt & Child in the grocery business.

Blissfield — Barrow  Bros,  have  sold 

their grocery store to A ustin & Strong.

Manton — Krohn  &  Alvin  announce 
their intention of  dissolving partnership.
Lansing — Frederick  Teller  succeeds 
P. E.  Dunham in the  hardware business.
W olverine—C.  J.  Brooks is considering 
the idea of  erecting a  full  roller flouring 
mill.

Fife Lake—Chas.  H.  Kimball,  the  gro­
cer,  was  recently m arried to Miss  Ida B. 
Codd.

Allegan—A.  Hoffmaster succeeds Kohl- 
man  &  Hoffmaster  in  the  grocery  bus­
iness.

Lake Odessa—John H. Kessner has en­
gaged  in  the  grocery and crockery bus­
iness.

Campbell  City—Dingman  &  Bowers 
their  store  at  this 

have  discontinued 
place.

Charlotte—Z.  G.  Call  has  sold his gro­
cery  stock  to  Jam es  Andrews,  late  of 
Chester.

Ovid—The Scofield Buggy Co. has been 
incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of 
50,000.
Nashville—J.  L.  W eber will  engage in 
the  restaurant  business  in  the  Graves 
building.

Grand  Ledge—G.  L.  Coryell  has  sold 
his  grocery  and  provision  stock  to Ed. 
Turnbull.

Berlin—Stanley Monroe has purchased 
the  meat  m arket  formerly owned by E. 
Kennedy.

East  Saginaw—O.  B.  Moore  succeeds 
Moore & Hassell in the gents’  furnishing 
goo€ s business.

M ulliken—Reed & Doolittle  are  erect­
ing a building which  they will occupy as 
a m eat market.

Kalamazoo  —  B au m an n   &  Bulchner 
succeed  Evers,  Baumann  &  Co.  in  the 
hardware business.

Morley—Fred C. Beard  will remove to 
Big Rapids,  continuing his business here 
the same  as before.

Alpena—A lbert C.  Frost,  the  agricul­
tural implement dealer,  has given a trust 
mortgage for $10,000.

Big  Rapids—Archie  W aters  has  ar­
ranged to engage in the  m erchant tailor­
ing business at Clare.

Manistee—Max  Baumann  and  W.  S. 
Denning will engage  in  the  bazaar bus­
iness about February 10.

Muskegon—H.  Haas  is  succeeded  in 
the  m erchant  tailoring  business  by the 
Haas Tailoring Co.,  incorporated.

Detroit — The  corporation  known  as 
M.  S.  Sm ith & Co.  is succeeded  by  F.  G. 
Smith,  Sons & Co.,  also incorporated.

Randolph — It  is  O.  W.  Newell—not 
Wheelock, as previously stated—who has 
been  commissioned  postm aster  at  this 
place.

Standish—Clarence  L.  Judd  has  pur­
chased  the  interest of  the  other  stock­
holders  in 
the  Standish  M anufactur 
ing Co.

Big Rapids—Geo.  F  Fairm an  will  put 
a grocery stock in the store  in  the  Fair 
man block soon to be vacated by J. Frank 
Clark.

Cedar  Creek—Dr.  A.  Broughton  has 
removed his drug stock  from  this  place 
to Manton,  where  he  has  re-engaged  in 
business.

Homer—Giles E.  Cooper,  dealer in gro 
ceries  and  agricultural  implements,  has 
uttered  two  chattel  mortgages,  amount­
ing to $3,410.

Antrim  City—Dan  Flanagin expects to 
remove his sawmill from  Kewadin to thi 
place  in  the  spring.  He is getting in a 
stock of  hemlock here.

Battle  Creek—Frank  Beach  has  sold 
his interest in the Battle  Creek  Machin 
ery  Co.  to  Chas.  T.  Allen,  of  the  road 
cart firm of  Allen & Lay.

Cheboygan—Louis  Pinkons  lias  been 
adm itted  to  partnership in the  clothing 
business of  H.  Pinkons.  The  new  firm 
name is H.  Pinkons & Son.

Ithaca  —  O.  H.  Heath  &  Son  have 
moved into their  new store,  which is Six 
100  feet  in  dimensions,  and  one of  the 
best arranged in  the State.

PawT Pawr—H arry Showerman  succeed 
H arris Oppenheim in the  boot  and  shoe 
and  furnishing  goods  business. 
II.  S. 
formerly clerked for E.  Smith  & Co.

Reed City—W hite & Co.  have sold their 
drug  stock  to  Sams  &  Woodruff.  Mr. 
Sams  was for several  years  prescription 
clerk for Osburn & Hammond,  at Luther.
Menddn—A.  Mapes,  who  traded  his 
grocery stock for a farm   last  December, 
has traded  back  again.  Mr.  Mapes is by 
no means  poorer by reason of  the  trans­
actions.

Adrian—David  Metcalf  has 

retired 
from the dry goods  firm of  Metcalf & Co. 
The  business  will  be  continued  by the 
remaining  partner  under  the  style  of 
Festus R.  Metcalf.

Prairieville—John  Cairns  has  with­
drawn from the drug and  grocery firm of 
Brown  & Cairns.  The  business  will  be 
continued by the  rem aining  partner un­
der the style of  W.  L.  Brown.

Traverse  City—J.  C.  Lardie  has  sold 
his  interest  in  the  commission  firm  of 
Perkett,  Lardie  &  Co.  to  his  partners, 
L.  F.  Perkett  and  E.  Lardie,  who  will 
continue 
the  business  as  heretofore. 
Mr.  Lardie’s  health  is  such  that  he is 
compelled  to  make  this  change,  having 
never  fully recovered  from  a injury re­
sulting in  a broken  rib,  received  over  a 
year ago.  He  will  probably go  to  Ann 
Arbor for treatm ent.

I  

STRAY  FA CTS.

Ludliigton—J.  G.  Ackerville  succeeds 
Ackerville & Brace in the livery business.

M A N UFA CTURIN G   M ATTERS.

Big  Rapids — Mannon  &  Chenoweth 
have engaged in the m anufacture of  con­
fectionery.

Scottville—A lbert  Yogle  will  not  re­
build  the  sawmill  burned  a short  time 
ago,  but  will  put  up  a  wooden  butter 
dish factory.

Muskegon—Torrent, M cLaughlin & Co. 
have brought suit against eighteen  insur­
ance companies to recover  insurance  on 
mill property burned several months  ago, 
the total of  which is $22,000.

Allegan—J.  B.  Streeter  &  Son  are 
placing  a  new  pulp  machine  in  their 
paper  mill  and  are  also  placing a hew 
sixty-horse-power  boiler  in 
their  saw­
mill,  and expect to have  the  latter  mill 
in  shape  for  sawing  lum ber  in  a  few 
days.

Detroit—The R.  C. Mudge  paper cloth­
ing company,  capital  $75,000,  of  which 
$50,000  is paid in, has been incorporated, 
and  will  m anufacture  clothing,  under­
garments,  bedding,  etc.,  by a paper  pro­
cess.  The  stockholders are :  Richard C. 
Mudge,  Edgar  M.  Wasson,  Jane  Ballen- 
tine, Robert W. Ballentine and D arrell F. 
Glidden.

Ludington—The  Ludington  Wooden- 
ware Co.  is the style of  a new stock com-

Bank  Notes.

The Preston National  Bank of  Detroit 
has  been  approved  as  the reserve agent 
for the Citizens’  National Bank of  Niles.
The Controller of  the Currency has  au­
thorized 
the  First  National  Bank  of 
Ironwood  to  begin  business with a cap­
ital of  $50,000.

The Second  National  Bank of  Owosso 
has purchased 
the  Sharpsteen  building 
for $8,500 and will occupy it as soon as a 
vault and  the  necessary fixtures  can  be 
pu t in.

The Valley City Cable  Car  Co.  is  put­
ting  in four  Roney stokers  and  smoke 
less furnaces, m anufactured  by W esting- 
house,  Church,  K err & Co.,  of  New York 
City.  The  Alabastine  Co.  is  putting in 
two  of 
the  same  stokers  under  their 
boilers.*

Step  have  been  taken  toward the or­
ganization  of  a  creamery  company  at 
Orion.  Flinn  &  Durfee,  of  Detroit,  are 
interested in the scheme.

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

H.  M.  11 LIVEN,  Manager. 

•

to  convert 

pany,  w ith  a  capital  stock  of  $35,000, 
which  proposes 
the  City 
Planing Mill property  into  the  plant re­
quired.  The  officers  are  as  follow s: 
L.  C.  Waldo,  President;  L.  K.  Baber, 
Vice-President;  H.  B.  Smith,  Secretary 
and  Treasurer.  Directors—H.  Butters, 
Frank  Filer,  H.  B.  Smith,  L.  C.  Waldo. 
L.  K.  Baker.

Dry  Goods  Men  at  War.

From  th e  New Y ork T ribune, Jan. SO.

to 

the  knife 

A war in  prices between  the New York 
and Chicago  jobbers caused  considerable 
commotion in the dry goods  district  yes 
terday.  The  strife  is  warm est  around 
Amoskeag  ginghams,  one  of  the  staple 
articles of  the  trade,  and  it  promises to 
be  a  war 
to  determine 
whether New York or Chicago  shall con 
trol the  W estern trade.  Marshall Field 
& Co.,  of  Chicago,  were  the  fir&t  to  be 
gin  the  fight.  On  January 21  this  firm 
sent a circular  to dealers  throughout the 
country offering 1,000 cases of  Amoskeag 
and York ginghams at 6}4 cents net cash 
This price  is  lower  than  the  manufac 
turers’  prices.  New York  jobbers  wTere 
forced  to  meet  the prices  or  stop their 
trade in  ginghams.  H.  B.  Claflin  &  Co. 
were  the  first  to  take  up the gauntlet, 
and 
they  were  followed  yesterday  by 
Tefft,  W eller & Co.  These  two  firms go 
a step further than  Marshall Field & Co. 
and offer the ginghams at 6)£  cents,  with 
2 per cent,  discount.
John  Beach,  a member of  the  firm  of 
Tefft,  W eller & Co.,  said to a Tribune re­
porter  yesterday  th at  the  trouble  orig­
inated  solely  in  Chicago’s  jealousy  of 
New York. 
“I have been  engaged in the 
dry goods business in this city for twenty 
years,”  said  Mr.  Beach,  “ and  I  have 
never  before  known a January trade  so 
large as it has been  this  year.  Much  of 
the trade has  come  from  the  West,  and 
Chicago  has had  a dull  time.  Marshall 
Field & Co. are  trying  to  get  Chicago’s 
trade back.  Mr.  Field  is  quoted as say­
ing that the natural channel of dry goods 
to the W est  was through Chicago,  and if 
this was not the case  he  proposed to ex­
pend a few millions to find out why.  The 
cut has affected nothing but ginghams so 
far,  and all other goods  are  firm,  but,  of 
course,  no  one  can  tell  what  the  next 
step will be.”
Dunham,  Buckley & Co.  do  not deal  in 
Amoskeag  ginghams,  but  a  member of 
the firm  said that all ginghams  had suf­
fered by the strife, and they were making 
few sales.
Butler,  Clapp, W entz  &  Co.  said  last 
night that their price for Amoskeag ging­
hams  was  nominally  7  cents,  but  they 
had no buyers.  The firm was  then  con­
sidering 
advisability  of  cutting 
prices,  and a decision would  be  reached 
to-day.  Sweetzer,  Pembroke  &  Co.  had 
not  yet  determ ined  upon  their  action, 
but  they  were  making  no sales.  F.  B. 
Dale,  the  head of  the  gingham  depart­
ment, said he m ight even cut  the price to 
6J^  cents.  The  gingham  m arket  had 
been  weak for a month  or  two,  and  he 
thought it m ight be some time before set­
tled prices were  reached.  The  fear that 
m anufacturers m ight reduce prices was a 
factor which added to the uncertainty.
The  expression  was  general  among 
jobbers 
if  M arshall  Field  &  Co. 
pushed  the  m atter,  it would  result  in a 
long struggle in which no one could fore­
see the end.

that 

the 

Gnpsack Brigade.

Wm.  Logie is  confined  to his  house by 
reason  of  a  badly  sprained  ankle.  He 
hopes to get  out on the road  again  about 
the middle of next week.

W ill L. Morley has ceased selling cigars 
for the  Massachusetts  house  to accept a 
position  as  traveling  salesman for Reid, 
Murdock & Co.,  of  Chicago.

Henry Sm ith  has  severed  his  connec 
tion  with  Lemon,  Hoops & Peters as  tea 
salesman 
tea 
buyer  for  W.  F.  McLaughlin  &  Co.,  of 
Chicago.

the  position  of 

to  take 

Mancelona  Herald,  Jan.  30:  E.  O 
W atkins  has  accepted 
the  position  of 
traveling  salesman  for  the  firm of  Pol 
lock,  Baird & Co., wholesale milliners,  of 
Detroit,  and  left  this  morning for that 
city to enter upon his duties.

W allace  Franklin,  for a score of  year 
in  the  scale  business  and  for  the past 
seven of  them  with  Fairbanks,  Morse & 
Co.,  has severed his connection w ith them 
and engaged with W estinghouse, Church, 
Kerr  &  Co.,  contracting  and  consulting 
engineers,  New York city,  with  offices in 
Pittsburgh and Chicago.

Frank E.  Rogers,  a  Chicago  traveling 
man,  was  taken  suddenly ill  at  Benton 
Harbor,  and,  as  his  friends  live  in  the 
East,  his affianced,  Miss  Zora  Daken,  of 
W est Bay City,  was  communicated with, 
and she put in  an  immediate appearance. 
The couple were m arried  aud  the  bride 
then 
took  upon  herself  the  duties  of 
nurse.  Mr.  Rogers  is  rapidly couvales 
cing.

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED,  ETC.

Advertisem ent« will be inserted  u nder  th is  head for 
tw o  cents  a   word  th e  first  insertion  an d   one cent a 
word  fo r  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
m ent tak en  fo r less th an  25 cents.  Advance  paym ent.

FOR SALE.

j  T K )R   SALE—AT  A  BARGAIN  A  PAYING  STORE, 
!  X  
hall, postom ce and th ree acres of iand.  Buildings 
I  cost $1,500.  All Tor  *1,000.  Must  sell.  Address.  J   C. 
|  Lardie. T raverse City, Mich. 

MO

OR  SALE  CHEAP—TWO  FIRST CLASS  MEAT MAR- 
k e ts ; one in N orth Muskegon and one in Muskegon 
I  City.  Both in best locations, and  doing  good  p ay in g  
i  business.  W ill sell one o r both.  52  W estern  avenue 
I  Muskegon. Mich.____________  
353  ’

364

3r9

355 

D r u g   s t o r e   f o r   s a l e   a t   a   g r e a t   b a r g a in .

Address, C. F. W illiam s, C aledonia. Mich. 

r p O  EXCHANGE—GOOD  IMPROVED  FARMS  IN THE 
JL  beau  iful  and  productive  Republican  Valley 
cou n ty  in N ebraska fo r m erchandise of an y   kind.  E. 
W . Giles. Real E state and L oans, Oxford, Neb. 

F o r   s a l e —a t  a  b a r g a in ,  t h e   o l d e s t   a n d

best established m eat m arke  in th e city,  central­
ly  located  and  doing  a   good  p acin g   business,  w ith 
slau g h ter house, utensils, etc.  Also one new and  com­
plete set of  b u tch er’s  tools,  cheap,  if  sold  inside  of 
th irty  days.  F o r term s and p articu lars apply to  Wm. 
H enry & Son, 8 W  W estern ave.,M uskegon, Mich.  362

F o r   s a l e —a   w e l l -s e l e c t e d   s t o c k   o f   g r o -

ceries, doing a  good business.  One of th e best  lo­
cations in th e city.  Owner w ishes to  retire  from  trade. 
W ill lease store fo r term   of  years.  Address  No.  364, 
care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

Fo r  s a l e —a t   a   b a r g a in ,  a   c l e a n ,  w e l l -a s-

sorted stock of  general  m erchandise  which  will 
inventory ab o u t S4,000.  The above lias  been  assigned 
to th e  undersigned in  tru s t  fo r creditors  and  will  be 
sold a t a  b arg ain   Address, R.  Lillie,  Assignee,  Coop- 
ersville,  Mich. 

tio n ery   establishm ent, 

Fo r   s a l e — d e s ir a b l e   b a k e r y   a n d   c o n f e c -

including  oven  and  all 
necessary fixtures.  Seven years  in  trad e.  Good  ru n  
of custom .  Correspondence  solicited.  Address  No. 
35o, care M ichigan Tradesm an. 
350
Fo r  8a l e —h o t e l  in  g o o d   r e s o r t   t o w n , w it h
nineteen beds.  House furnished com plete.  Price 
$3,500.  $2,000  down,  balance  on  tim e  to   suit.  Poor 
h ealth , reason fo r selling.  Barn, 34x60.  Sam ple  room  
and  livery  office.  16x24,  good  livery.  Mail  and stage 
line in b arn.  House paying $100 p er  m onth  now.  F or 
particular*, address “ H otel,” care T radesm an. 
349
Fo r   s a l e —g o o d   r e s id e n c e   l o t   o n   o n e   o f
th e m ost p leasan t streets “ on  th e   hill.”  W ill ex­
change for stock in any good in stitu tio n .  Address 286, 
286
care Mich g an  Tradesm an. 
IjiOR SALE—AT  A  BARGAIN,  FIXTURES  FOR A MIL 
Fo r   s a l e —s t o c k   o f   c l o t h in g   a n d   g e n t s ’

linery store.  Also sm all stock,  if  desired.  Good
rell established.  Address, Box  24,

furn ish in g  goods, located in a  good  tow n  of  1,300 
people in southern M ichigan.  B ut one  o th er  place  in 
tow n handles clothing  F o r p articu lars address  *‘C & 
T,” care M ichigan  Tradesm an. 

location.  Business 1 
Union City, Mich.

867

357

j

ticu lars address Adam Newel!, Burn ip’s Corners 

W^ANTED-REGISTERED  PHARMACIST.  FOR PAR- 
W

371 
Mich. 
ANTED—TO  BUY  GOOD  GENERAL  8TOCK  OF^ 
m erchandise, from  $5.000 to $8.000, in a   tow n  of 
ab o u t 1,200 population.  W ill  pay  spot  cash  down 
if 
offered cheap.  Address,Lock  Box 20,Sheridan .Mich. *369
TUT ANTED—TO  SELL  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR A HOUSE 
*  » 
and lo t in G rand Rapids a clean  stock  of  h a rd ­
w are and tin n e r’s  tools,  situ ated   in  a  live,  grow ing 
town of 1,600 in h ab itan ts and  doing  a   good  business. 
Address, Lon. A. Pelton. L uther. Mich. 
SITUATION WANTED—A  COMMERCIAL  TRAVELER 
Large  acquaintance 
w ith  grocery  tra d e   in  Mi< higan.  Address  Jackson, 
care M ichigan  Tradesm an. 

... is  open  fo r  engagera -nt. 

361

325

WANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  READ8 

th is  pap er  to  give  th e Sutliff  coupon system  a 
trial-  I t will abolish your pass  books,  do  aw ay  w ith 
all y our book-keeping, in  m any instances save you th e 
expense o f one clerk, will bring  yo u r business  down to 
a   cash basis and  save  you  all  th e   w orry and trouble 
t* a t usually go w ith the pass-book plan.  S ta rt th e  1st 
of th e m onth w ith th e new  system  and  you  w ill never 
reg re t it.  H aving  tw o kinds, both  kinds  will be  sen t 
by  addressing  (m entioning  th is  paper)  J.  H.  Sutliff. 
Albany, N. Y. 

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MISCELLAN EOUS.

r p H E  BIGGEST  LITTLE  INVENTION  OUT—ENGAGE 
-L  y o u r territo ry , go to  w ork and m ake some m oney, 
besides  cause  every  one  buying  one  of  o u r fru it  can 
holders a  life long happiness; 50c by m ail.  E. A. Foster. 
Inventor, P o rt C linton. Ohio. 
O H   O A A   CASH  BUYS  MANUFACTURING  BUSI- 
ness p ay in g  100  p er  cent.  Best  of  r e a - , 
sons  fo r  selling.  Address  Chas.  Kynoch,  St. Ignace, * 
Mich. 

WANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR 

Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System.  Send fo r 

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

370

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President. D. F. W atson; Secretary. E. E. Chapel.

N o . 3 0 —S a u g a t u e k  

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

President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary. M. V. Hoyt.
P r e s id e n t - A . B. Schumacher; Secretary, W.  R.  Clarke.
- 
President. F. A. RockafeUow; Secretary, C. G. Bal  y.

N o .  3 3 — G ra n d   l  e d g e   B. M . A .
N o .  3 3 —C a r so n  C ity   B. M . A .

President. J. E. Thurkow;  Secretary. W. H. Richmond.

N o   3 4 —M v r le y   B .  Id . A .

A  YEAR’S  WORK

As Set Forth by the Officers of the Allegan 

From the Allegan Gazette.

B.  M.  A.

Ä8SOC1ÄT10N  DEPARTMENT.
Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President—Frank W ells, Lansing, 
ytrst Vice-President—H. Chambers, Cheboygan.
Second Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo. 
Secretary—B. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.
Executive Board—President; C. L. W hitney, Muskegon; 
Frank  Hamilton, Traverse City;  N. B. Blain, Ix>well; 
Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint;  Hiram  DeLano,  Allegan;
C om m ittee  on  Insurance—Geo.  B.  Caldwell,  Green­
ville;  W .8. Powers, Nashville;  Oren  Stone, runt. 
Committee on Legislation—S.  E.  Parklll,  Owosso;  H.
A. Hydorn, Grand Rapids;.  H. H. Pppe, Allegan. 
Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barne», Traverse 
City:  Geo. R. Hoyt, East Saginaw;  H. B. Fargo, Mus-
Committee on T ransportation—Jam es Osbora,Owosso^
O.  F.  Conklin,  Grand  Rapids;  C.  F.  Bock,  Battle 
Creek.

____ nrsii  Cmmort  Ffltnn Runifis! 
* <(«y^tTOng,n¿tám a2o0rW ÍÍllÉm m ert, Eaton Rapids;
Local Secretary—P* J. Connell,  Muskeger.
Offleial O rg a n —T h e  Mich ig a n T radesm an.

W. E. Crotty, Lansing. 

■

T he following  auxiliary association s a re o i)- 
eratin g  u n der  charters  g ranted  hy th e Michi­
gan Business Men’s A ssociation:

v a  i _Traverse City B. M. A.

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

President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King._____

No. 2—Lowell it- M. A.
Xo. 3—S t u r g is  B. M. A. 

President. H. S. Chnrch; Secretary, Wm. Jorn.
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Xo.  4—Grand  Rapids  M.  A.
President. E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

X o .  5 —M u s k e g o n  B .  M . A .

President, John A. Miller;  Secretary. C. L. W hitney.  _
-------- 
President. F. W. Bloat; Secretary. P. T. Baldwin.______

xo. 6 —A lb a   B .  M . A .

-  

x o .   7 __D im o n d a le   B .  M .  A..

A .

X o .  9 —L a w r e n c e   B . 

X o . 8 —E a s t p o r t   B .  M . A .

President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.----------
— ' 
President. F. H. Thursten; Secretary. Geo.L.Thnrston. 
— 
President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly.--------
---------- NO.  lO — H a r b o r  S p r in g s   B .  M .  A .
President. W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.------
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President. H. P. Whipple: Secretary, G. W. Chanfty.

> 0 .1 1 — K i n g s le y  B . M . A .
No. 13—Quincy B. M. A.
<e„  i 3—S h e r m a n   B. M. A.

President, C. McKay; Secretary,Thos. Lennon.----------
- 
President, H.B. Stnrtevant;  Secretary, W.  J. Anstin.
---------Xo. 14—So. M u s k e g o n   B. M. A.
President, S. A. Howey; Secretary, G. C. Havens.
•-----------Xo. 15—Boyne City B. M. A.
President. R. R. Perkins: Secretary, F. M. Chase.
Xo. 16—Sand Lake B.M. A. 
p i m e n t . J. V. Crandall:  Secretary, W. Rasco.
N o , n —Plain welt B. M. A. 
A.  Owen. Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
Xo  IS—Owosso B. M. A. 

2H*e8ident, E.
President, Albert Todd ; Secretary. S. Lamfrom

,

, 

A .
ML. A.

N o . 3 5 __P a l o   B. M . A .

XT».  19—Ada B. M. A.

The  second  annual  meeting  of  the  Allegan 
Business  Men’s  Association  called  out  a  fair 
attendance,  but  m atters  were  there  discussed 
which deeply concern every member.
Secretary-  Van Ostrand  presented  two  letters 
which  caused  both  talk and  action.  The  first 
was  from  a  party  desiring  to  establish  here  a 
factory 
for  making  overalls,  blouses,  light 
trowsers, etc., if  88,000 of  capital  stock  can  be 
procured, the  party  himself  taking  $2.000 of  it. 
He is  already  in  the  business, running  twenty 
sewing  machines, but  needs  more capital  to  do 
the  business  to  advantage.  M.  C.  Sherwood
Building and L o a n  Associations—C h a u n -   -spoke highly of  the gentleman  making the  pro- 
_  . 
____ 1 
J  ..e  tLr, V,<iotnAoc  5*col f irli!r*Vi  ho said  is
posal, and of  the business itself which he said is 
profitable  and  must  be  permanent.  Mr.  Sher­
wood moved for the appointment of a committee 
to  investigate the  project and  secure the  stock, 
or make an  effort  to that end. if  they deem best. 
Messrs.  M. C. Sherwood, A. E. Calkins  and S. D. 
Pond were made the committee.
The other  letter concerned the formation of  a 
Michigan  Business Men’s  Fire  Insurance Com­
pany.  The  taking  by Allegan  people of  eighty 
shares  of  $23  each w hs  desired, and  considera­
tion of  it  was postponed' until  later in the  eve- 
ning. 
The  Secretary’s  report  showed  the disburse­
ment  of  $114.60  during the  year,  a  balance  of 
$19.04  remaining  unpaid, while  there  are  $31.17 
of unpaid but collectable  dues.  The total  mem­
bership at present is 61.
President  Calkins read  the  following  annual 
address which  was accepted  and its publication 
by the village papers requested:
In accordance  w ith the  rules of  your Associa­
tion, I submit this my annual report:
The work  accomplished  during  the past year 
renders any further reason  for its  continued ex­
istence  unnecessary. 
In  fact,  it  has  demon­
strated that its influence  is  indispensable to the 
growth, prosperity, and material interests of  the 
village.  Combined  effort  is  necessary  in  the 
accomplishment  of  public  enterprises.  System 
and  organization  can achieve where  individua 
effort fails.  It  aims  not  only to  encourage  ad 
visable  enterprises,  but  to  conceive  them—not 
only to foster business ventures  that are already 
established  here, but,  by a judicious representa­
tion of  Allegan, endeavor to secure the  location 
of  others  that  are  likely  to  go elsewhere. _  In 
this  organization, projects, when  first conceived 
or  considered, when  brought  to  its  notice, are 
first  discussed  and  criticised,  objectionable 
features removed, and  then, if  found desirable, 
brought to the  attention of  the public  for  such 
action as  may be recommended;  and  thus far in 
its history the  judgm ent of  this Association has 
been sustained.  The responsibility resting upon 
us is therefore  increased, and  great care  should 
be  exercised  in  determining  meritorious  pro­
jects.
The first business  before the  Association, one 
year  ago  to-night,  was  the  appointment  of  a 
committee  to  aid  the  effort  being  made for  a 
new  court-house.  We now find  the  project  ac­
complished.  The  record  of  the  next  meeting 
shows the  appointment of  a committee to  assist 
in securing  the meeting of  the soldiers’ reunion 
of Southwestern  Michigan, at this  place, which 
was successful.  At the next  meeting, in March, 
the electric  light  question was  brought up  and 
referred.  Subsequently  action  was  taken  en­
dorsing that project and  to-night we  can see the 
result of our labor in that direction in the beauti­
ful lights  adorning our streets, business  houses, 
and  dwellings.  Under  the  direction of  an effi­
cient committee, the  Fourth of  July celebration 
was made  one of  the features of  the year.  The 
meetings in  June, July  and  August were taken 
up in discussion of  the  C., J.  & M. Railroad  ex­
tension to  Saugatuek.  The  company  failed  to 
build  the  road, after  our part of  the work  was 
done  in  raising $60,000 in  subscription  notes  in 
aid of the project.  The result was the surrender 
of the notes to  individuals and an abandonment 
of that enterprise. 
In  September the C., L. & N. 
Railway m atter came  up.  Our  committee  have 
done  heroic work  in getting  annother $60.000 in 
notes,  and we are now waiting the action of  the 
company  in  locating its  line, when all  that  re­
mains  is  to  attain the  right  of  way, for  which 
the  money  needed  is  nearly,  if  not  entirely, 
raised.
M anufacturing  opportunities  have  not  been 
presented,  requiring  extra  effort  in  that direc­
tion, but we believe the  coming  year  will  give 
occasion for it—not to mention benefits accruing 
to its membership  through  an  increase of trade 
and  growth  of  the  place; 
through  a  better 
acquaintanceship  and  more  social 
feeling; 
through a nearer approach  to the cash system in 
the  various  lines  of  business,  and  through its 
influence in protecting  its  members against un­
just discriminations by railway companies.  This, 
in a brief statement,  is  the  record  of  the  past 
year.  It inspires us  to  go  ahead and take cour­
age.
While it is, perhaps, not best to claim the credit 
for all the beneficent public measures of the past 
year, our  Association  has  aided  by its votes, its 
members have contributed liberal cash subscrip­
tions, in aid of better roads leading from the vil­
lage.  The  policy  of  the  township officers has 
been to expend the moneys voted  at  the  annual 
township meeting  exclusively  in  preparing  the 
highway  for  the  road-bed  of  clay  and gravel, 
according to the grade first  established,  and  on 
such roads  only  when  a  guarantee  can  be ob­
tained from  the  citizens, that when the grade is 
made the gravel will  be put on without expense 
to the township.  No  improvements of equal im­
portance, not only to the business  interests,  but 
to the farmers, can be secured with the same out­
lay of  money. 
In  fact,  no tax can be less bur­
densome, because it is paid out to those who con­
tribute it.  If not directly, all share indirectly in 
its circulation,  besides  in  the  direct  benefit of 
the  improvement.  It is to be hoped that a liberal 
policy will prevail  during  the  coming  year,  in 
the same direction, and that this association will 
aid by its influence  the  carrying on of the work 
thus begun, until all  roads leading from the vil­
lage to the borders  of  the  township  shall be so 
constructed.  Adjoining towns will then  extend 
them.
We have been  ably  represented  in  the  State 
convention, and the Secretary's report will show 
all dues paid.
I would  recommend  a  change  in  section 2 
article 9 of the constitution, so that regularmeet, 
ings shall be held on the  first  Tuesday  of  each 
month, and that the President  be  authorized  tc- 
eall special  meetings  whenever  he may deem it 
expedient;  also  that  section  3, article 11, of by­
laws,  be repealed.
We are without printed copies of  our constitu­
tion and by-laws, and  suggest  that 100 copies be 
printed  in  pamphlet  form.  The  Eexeeutive 
Committee  should  meet  at  least  once  in each 
month and should provide a room  for  that  pur­
pose.
While we have lost several  active members by 
removal, death has claimed  but  one.  Our  rec­
ords  show  the  esteem  justly  rendered  to  one 
who was suddenly called in the midst of his use­
fulness to a better  life,  yet  we  shall  long miss 
the  counsel  and  good  judgment  of  Augustus 
Lilly.
Thanking the officers  for so ably assisting me, 
and the members of committees  it  has  been  my 
lot to appoint, for the many hard  days’  work  in 
behalf, not only of  this  organization, but in the 
interests of the  community  as  well, I close this 
my term of  office  and  the  second  year of your 
Association.
Messrs.  H.  H.  Pope,  W.  J.  Pollard  and I. P. 
Griswold  were  appointed  a  committee  to con­
sider and report  upon  the  recommendations  of 
this address.
After a unanimous vote of  thanks,  by  rising, 
to the retiring  officers,  the  annual election was 
held, with this result,  Mr.  Calkins declining re- 
election:

No. 46— Leslie B. M. A.
No. 47—Flint M. t .

W. Moore.

President, W. C. Pierce;  Secretary, W. H. Graham.

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

President,  A.  Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith.

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

President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary,C.  Grannis.
No. 51—Cedar  Springs  B. M.  A. 
No. 53—Grand Haven B. M. A. 

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

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

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

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

President, A. 8. Kedzie;  Secretary, F. P. Vos.
No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A. 
No. 54—Douglas B. M. A 
No.  55—Petoskey  B. M. A. 
No. 56—Bangor B. M. A. 
No. 57—Rockford  B. M. A. 
No. 58—Fife Cake B. M. A.
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.

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

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

President, L. S. W alter; Secretary ,C.£  Piakely.______
1 
President F. 8. Raymond: Secretary, P. S. Swarts.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A. 
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E.Seihardt.

No. 61—Hartford B. M. A.
No. 63—Fast Saginaw JR. A 

President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.______
President, Jas. H. Moore;  Secretary,  ■ W.  Muiholand.

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

No. 63—Kvart B. M. A. 
President, C. V. Priest; Secretary,C. E. Bell.
X«. 64—Merrill B. M. A.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
No. 66—Causing B. M.  A. 

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

President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.
No. 67—Watervliet B. M. A. 
President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.
President, H. H.  Pope;  Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.
No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. 
President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willlson.

No. 68—Allegan B. M. A. 

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

N o .  3 7 —B a t t le  C r e e k  B .J 1 L A . 

President,  Chas. F. Bock;  Secretary

President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, P. W. Higgins.

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

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

President. C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert.

No. 40—E a t o n   R a p id s  B. M. A. 
No. 41—B r e c k e n r ld g e   B. J»l. A. 
President. C  H. Howd;  Secretary, L. Waggoner.
President, Job. Gerber; Secretary  C. J. Rathbun.
President, Frank J. Luick;  Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom.

No. *3—F r e m o n t  B. M. A. 
No. 43—Tustin B. M. A,

President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. 8mlth

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

President, D. E. Hallenbech; Secretary, O. A. Hallaaay.

N o . 3 6 — G r e e n v ille   li. M .A . 

President, Chas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. D. Pew.------
— 
President. S. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.
' 
President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Flsner.-------_

X o   3 7 —D o r r   B . M .  A .

President, A. J. Paddock;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.--------

N o .  3» —C h e b o y g a n   B .  m . a  
No. 39—F r e e p o r t  B. M. A.
N o .  3 0 —O c e a n a   B .  M . A .

President. Wm! Soora;  S e c ^  A. J. Cheesehrongk 
Secretary, E. 8. Houghtaling. 

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

—C h a r lo t te   B .  M . A .

N o . 3 1

President. W. 6 . Barnes;  Secretary, J. B. Watsom

33—C o o p e r s v ille  B. M. A. 
No. 33—Charlevoix **. M. A. 

President,  L.  D.  y -w tsism sw :  Secretary. R. w . Kane.

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

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

President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary,C. E. Densmore. 

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

No. 70—Nashville B. M. A, 
President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. 8. Powers.
No. 71—Ashley  B.  M. A.
President, M. Netzorg;  Secretary,  Geo. E. Clntterbnck. 
No. 73—Kd in ore B. M. A.
No, 73—Belding B. M. A. 
No. 74—Davison M. U. 

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

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

President, 8. 8-McCamly;  Secretary.  Channcey Strong.

No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A. 

President—C. J. Monroe;  Secretary, 8. VanOstrand.
President, 0. F. W illiams;  Secretary, J. W. Saunders. 
No. 79—Ha»t Jordan snd  Ko  Arm  B. M. A,
President, Chas. F. Dixon;  Secretary, L. C. Madison.__
Xo. 80—Bay City and W.  Bay  City  R. M, A. 
President.F. L. Harrison;  Secretary. Geo. Craig.

President. L. A. Vickery ;  Secretary, A. E. Ransom.

No. 81—Flushing  B. M. A.
No. 83—Alma B  M.  A.
No  83—Sherwood B.  W. A.

President, B. S. Webb;  Secretary. M. E  Pollasky.

President, L. P. W ilcox:  Secretary. W. R. Mandigo.

Shelby Herald:  The time seems to be ripe for 
the organization of a Business Men’s Association 
in this town.  Some  of  our representative mer­
chants  have  expressed  themselves  in  favor of 
such a move.

wood.

President—Horace H.  Pope.
Vice-Presidents—A. E. Calkins and M. C. Sher­
Secretary—E. T. Van Ostrand.
Treasurer—W. J. Garrod.
Actuary—Fidus E. Fish.
Executive  Committee—I.  F.  Clapp,  I. P. Gris­
wold, C. G. Messinger.
Mr.  Pope  briefly  expressed  his  thanks  and 
promised  his  best  endeavors  for  a  successful 
year’s work.
Mr. E. A. Stowe, Secretary of  the State Associ­
ation,  being  present,  was  asked to explain the 
plan for an insurance  company  above  referred 
to.  He said that it was to  raise  $100,000  of  cap­
ital stock;  and to secure co-operation  of  all  the 
associations  this  has  been  apportioned  among 
them throughout the State.  At the end of  each 
year, after paying expenses and 10 per cent, upon 
the stock, a rebate of the  profits  would be made 
pro rata to the  stockholders.  Companies  m an­
aged on this plan are successfully doing business 
in New York,  Baltimore  and  Chicago. 
In one 
of these a Grand Rapids  firm  took  a  policy  for 
$30,000, paying  1%  per  cent,  premium.  At the 
end of the year  their  dividend  amounted  to 45 
per cent,  of  that  premium,  reducing the cost of 
their insurance much below what it could be ob­
tained for in any other way.  Mr. Stowe quoted 
from the State insurance report for 1887  to  show 
that in that year nearly a million and a half  dol­
lars more were paid for  insurance, in this State, 
than were received back for losses.  Under  the 
new  plan  a  portion  of  this,  at  least, could be 
saved to Michigan business men.
A committee to report upon  this matter, at  the 
next meeting,  was  comprised  of  Messrs. H. II. 
Pope, I. F. Clapp, and I.  P. Griswold.
The  next meeting will be held in G. A. R. hall

next Tuesday evening, when  the  standing com­
mittees will  be  announced,  reports  received as 
provided  for  in  these  proceedings,  and  other 
matters of interest presented

Association  Notes.

Manistee B. M. A. and South  Boardman  B. M.
A. have paid the dues for  the current fiscal year 
during the past week.

P.  A. Montgomery,  Secretary  of  the  Western 
M anufacturers’ M utual  Insurance Co., and C. E. 
Worthington, Secretary of the Protection Mutual 
Fire Insurance Co., were  callers at T h e T r a d e s­
man office last week.  Both  pronounced the in ­
surance  plan  put  forth  by  the Insurance Com­
mittee as the only  practical  method  open to the 
business  men  of  the  State,  although  both are 
representatives  of  premium  note  companies. 
Tney say the premium note plan would not work 
advantageously w ith a  miscellaneous  company.
Referring to the abandonm ent  of  the  Oceana
B.  M. A., in  order  to  enable  the towns of Pent 
water, Hart and Shelby to  organize  associations 
of their own, the Shelby Herald rem arks: “Now is 
the itme and let us improve it.  Shelby needs and 
has needed for some time a Business Men’s Asso­
ciation.  These  organizations  have  been  the 
means of great good in nearly  all  places  where 
they have been inaugurated, and there is no rea­
son why one should  not be here.  A  systematic 
and continuous booming this  town  and  section 
will redound to the advantage of all concerned.”
I). B. Ainger, ex-Congressman Lacey and  Geo. 
Huggett make the following appeal to  the  busi­
ness men of Charlotte through  the  local  papers 
of that  place:  The  undersigned,  having  been 
appointed a committee for  that  purpose,  invite 
all who are interested in  the  welfare  and  pros­
perity of Charlotte to meet in the  council  rooms 
at the court house next Wednesday  evening  for 
the purpose of assisting and aiding the  Business 
Men’s Association in efforts to advance the inter­
est of the city. 
It is of the  greatest  importance, 
as affecting  the  future  of  the  Business  Men’s 
Association and the prosperity  of the  city,  that 
this meeting be largely attended.

Sault Ste. Marie Herald:  The business men of 
this place have started a B.  M. A.,  thirty-two  of 
them having met last  night  and started the ball 
rolling.  J. E. Wirt, the Secretary, was  instruct­
ed to prepare for  publication  such  information 
as it is desirable the  public  should  have.  The 
leading merchants in  all  lines  of  business  are 
evidently hungry for this movement as  was  en- 
vineed by the spirit manifested last  night.  Co­
operation in regard  to  freight,  the  blacklisting 
of  dead-beats,  etc.,  will  be  considered  at  the 
next meeting.  It is predicted that inside  of  six 
weeks practically all  our  business  men  will  he 
connected with the Association.  The  initiation 
fee will  probably  be  one  dollar  with  monthly 
dues of 30 cents.

Think  Their  Rates  Too  High.

The  Insurance  Committee  of  the  Merchants 
and M anufacturers’ Association of  Jackson  has 
issued the following  circular  to  the  fire  insur­
ance companies doing business in that city :

The Merchants  and  M anufacturers’  Associa­
tion of Jackson, consisting of 130 members,  com­
prising  the  largest  business  firms  of  this city, 
nave instructed the undersigned,  Committee  on 
Insurance, to inform your  local  agents  that,  in 
their judgement, the rates of  insurance charged 
in this city are too high,  for  the  following  rea­
sons:
1.  We have a fire department second to none in 
the  State.
2.  We have the Holly water system, furnishing 
abundant water through  about  thirty  miles  of 
water pipes.
3.  267 hydrants have  been  placed  all through 
the city for fire protection.
4.  W ithin the last four  years  we  have  added, 
at a  considerable  cost,  two  large  chemicals  to 
our fire department.
5.  The  electric  fire  alarm  system  has  been 
added  to  our  fire  department  within  the same 
period.
6.  The losses by  fire  in  this city, since the ac­
quirement of  the  chemicals and the electric fire 
alarm  system,  for  the  last  four  years  has not 
averaged over $10,000 per annum, while  the  pre­
miums  paid  in  this  city have at least been $58,- 
000 per annum.
On our  invitations  your  agents  met  with us, 
and although they showed  that the losses by fire 
in Jackson previous to the  last  few  years  have 
been higher, the fact  that  the losses in Jackson 
during the last  four  years  had not exceeded an 
average of  $10,000  per  annum  remained  undis­
puted.
On our invitations your agents were then pres­
ent at a test of our fire department.
Although  your agents expressed their opinion 
that the rates paid in this city for  fire  insurance 
were not too high, we believe they can only sub­
stantiate  the  facts  which  we  have  laid before 
you  in this communication, and we believe that 
you could justly and safely make a reduction  on 
the rates paid in our city of about 25 per cent, all 
along the line.
Recommending  this  to  your  early  considera­
tion, we remain,

Yours Very  Respectfully,
Ma r t in G. Loe n ne ck e r, Mayor. 
Sa m uel W. P h il l ip s,
J ohn J. T uom ey,

Committee on Insurance..

No Electric Lights at Public Expense.

From the Grand Traverse Herald.

There was a large attendance at the adjourned 
meeting  of  the  Traverse  City  Business  Men’s 
Association,  on  Tuesday  evening.  Dr.  J.  D. 
Munson,  J.  A.  Wilson,  Jr.,  C.  M.  Prall,  Wm. 
Bauld and G. II. Lathrop were admitted to mem­
bership.  Prof.  Grawn  reported  for  the  com­
mittee  appointed to attend  the convention  held 
at Cadillac, last week, in the interest of a college 
for Northern  Michigan.  After some  discussion 
F.  Hamilton, C. T. Grawn  and  W. L. Hammond 
were appointed  a  committee to canvass  the mat­
ter  of  making a proposition  for the  location  of 
the college at this  place.
The main  discussion of  the evening was  then 
taken  up—that  of  electric 
lights,  and  after 
strong  arguments  had  been  presented  for  and 
against the village  bonding itself  for a plant for 
street  and  domestic  lighting,  a  test  vote  was 
taken,  as the  sense of  the meeting, that the vil­
lage  should  put  in  a  plant.  The  vote  stood: 
Yes,  11;  No, 27.
The following resolution was then introduced: 
W h e r e a s,  from our expression heretofore sub­
mitted, this  Association  has  decided  that  they 
wanted an electric  light system  introduced  into 
this village for general use, and 
W h e r e a s,  from  an  expression  recently  sub­
mitted, you  have  decided that in  your  opinion 
it  is  not  a  part of  wise economy  that electricity 
be introduced  at  the  expense of  the  taxpapers 
of  this village, therefore 
Resolved.  That inasm uch  as  in  our opinion  it 
is not  expedient to bond  the village for  the pur­
pose of  introducing an  electric light  and  power 
plant, that it is the sense of this Association that 
a  franchise  be  granted  in  the  near  future  to 
some  person, persons  or stock  company  for  the 
purpose of installing such a plant in this village, 
And  we  recommend  and  ask the  council  of 
this  village  to  give this  m atter due  considera­
tion  and grant  a franchise  in  accordance  with 
this resolution, as in their wisdom they see fit.
Some  further  discussion  was  held  and  an 
amendment  or  two  were  voted  down, and  the 
resolution as introduced was adopted.
M. E.  Haskell,  C. J. Kneeland  and  D. E. Car­
ter  were  appointed  committee to  convey to  the 
common council the wish of this Association,  as 
expressed by the above resolution.
In  the  codrse of  the  discussion the  needs of 
new school  buildings were  forcibly put by Prof. 
Grawn and Dr. Kneeland.  This is a m atter  that 
should  receive the  attention of  the Association 
in the near future.

Standing  Committees  of 

the  Tustin 

B.  M,  A.

T u st in , Jan. 31,1889.

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids;
D e a r  S ir —At  our  meeting  last Monday even­
ing, the President  appointed the following com 
m ittees:
On M anufacturing—D. S. Liddle, M. M. Holmes 
and A. A. Lovene.
On  Transportation—W alter  Kennedy,  A.  J. 
Thomson and H. Cole.
On Insurance—G.  A.  Estes,  J.  A.  Lindstrom 
and G. D. DeGoit.
On  Trade  Interests—R.  H.  Jones,  J.  S. Rich 
and D. S. Liddle.
On Entertainm ent—G. A. Estes,  J. S. Rich and 
A. J. Thomson. 

Yours truly,

J. A. Lin d st r o m , Sec’y.

TH E  GOLD  FEVE».

Experience  of  a Michigan Merchant Who 

Is  Sojourning  in  the  West.

The  following  graphic  description  of 
the excitem ent incident  to  the recent re­
ported discovery of gold in  Arizona  will 
be  appreciated  by  the  readers  of  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n :

Since I left Grand Rapids I have pu t in 
a solid m onth hunting.  You  will  say  I 
m ust be wild to break in upon a pleasure 
trip to go hunting.  B ut thereby hangs a 
tale,  which I will proceed to unfold.
I was not bear hunting, nor  deer hunt­
ing,  nor  dear  hunting,  although  it has 
proved to be rather dear for me. 
It  was 
gold hunting.  This tale has no relation 
to the “Gold Hunters  of  Australia,”  by 
Capt. Marryatt. 
I wish it did,  for  then 
there might possibly be  something  in  it 
for  me. 
I  was  in  Jerez,  old  Mexico, 
when 1 first  heard of the  new  gold  find 
up  in  the  Harqua  Hala  mountains  of 
Western Arizona. 
I  went.  Everybody 
went.  Of course I got left.  Every  one 
can’t be lucky in finding gold,  in  placer 
or pocket mining.  Before I got within a 
hundred miles of  the place,  I found doz­
ens of  miners  on  their  way  to the new 
“diggings”  from  New  Mexico, Old Mex­
ico, Arizona,  Nevada,  California,  Idaho 
and Montana. 
It  seemed to me that the 
scenes of ’49 were to be  repeated.  The 
new  mines  lay  way up in the northeast 
part of Yuma county.  The  route  from 
Yuma  lay  up  the  Colorado  river,  123 
miles  by  boat, to a place  called  Eliren- 
berg.  From there it was-119 miles over­
land.  The trouble commenced  after  we 
reached the mountains.  I knew absolutely 
nothing about mines or  mining, so I lost 
no time in forming a partnership with an 
old prospector who was out of  funds,  he 
furnishing the experience and I the grub 
for  the  two  of  us,  and  we  worked to­
gether.  Talk about  “roughing  it!” 
I 
thought I had seen Some tough times, but 
that  experience  lays  away  over  any­
thing I’ve ever seen  in  my  time.  Not 
even a tent to sleep under, and while the 
days were exceedingly  warm,  the nights 
were just  as  exceedingly cold—a peculi­
arity of the entire section of  the  United 
States lying south of the  36th  degree  of 
latitude.  Awfully tough grub,  at awfully 
high prices,  but a man is glad to get any­
thing to eat  under  some  circumstances.
I often wondered what my Eastern friends 
would think if they could see me  after  a 
hard  forenoon’s  work,  sitting on a rock 
or a stunted sage  bush,  gnawing a piece 
of “jerked” beef or venison,  and  a  soda 
biscuit as hard  as  the  nubs of h—1, and 
washing it down with  a  drink  of  water 
from  a  canteen  that had dangled in the 
sun all the forenoon.  And to think, when 
Christmas  and  New  Year’s came, and I 
sat and punched  my  dry lunch down my 
throat,  that  perhaps my Eastern friends 
were eating  roast  turkey  or  duck,  and 
chicken pie! 
I can’t give you a detailed 
account  of  the  life  there,  but  you can 
judge for yourself when I tell you that  I 
could not get a  shave:  nor a bath;  nor  a 
postage  stamp, if I had been able to pay 
$10,000  for  it.  And  only  one  wTell of 
water within a radius of  over a hundred 
miles.
I had sense enough to get out  before  I 
got  entirely  dead  broke,  but  there are 
hundreds of poor devils up there holding 
on to their  claims,  hoping  against hope 
that they may yet “pan  out”  well,  and 
the  last  account  that  came  to-day was 
that many were on the  verge  of  starva­
tion. 
I left there day  before  yesterday, 
and there were about forty came  when  I 
did.
It  is  all  over  now  and I am in God’s 
country  again. 
I have not got as much 
money as I had a month ago,  but  I  have 
added  to  my  experience,  and that is al­
ways what costs us the most.  And when 
I go gold  hunting  again,  it will  be when 
I come on earth again.
Perhaps you would like to  hear  some­
thing  about  the  town  I  have chosen to 
stop at for a few  days.  Riverside,  the 
second  town  in  size  in San Bernardino 
county, is six miles  south from San Ber­
nardino and sixty east from Los Angeles, 
on the California Southern Railway.  The 
town has long been  noted for its oranges 
and still more famous for its raisins.  Out 
of 283,000 boxes  of  raisins shipped from 
this  county  in  1888,  more  than 206,000 
wore put up and shipped from Riverside. 
In addition to this, there were over 3,000,- 
000 pounds  of  dried  fruit shipped from 
here, and large quantities of other fruits, 
while the picking,  packing and shipping 
of oranges is an industry  in  itself.  Al­
most as far as the eye can  reach,  in  any 
direction, one can see the  rich  green  of 
the orange groves, loaded with the yellow 
fruit;  and I can step  out on the porch at 
either side  of  the  house  and  pick  the 
golden spheres, cool  and  delicious  from 
the  heavy  laden  branches. 
Perhaps I 
am not  making  up  for  the hardships of 
last month!  The climate of Riverside  is 
is cooler in winter and warmer in summer 
than on the coast.  The valley in which 
the town lies contains about 20,000 acres, 
but this is not included within the limits 
of the town proper.  Besides being con­
nected by rail  with San Bernardino, Los 
Angeles  and  San Diego, Riverside is the 
eastern  terminus  of  that  branch of  the 
California Central  connecting Santa Ana 
with the California  Southern.  Eventu­
ally the through  overland  trains  of the 
Santa Fe will  be  run  through the town. 
West  Riverside, lying across  thi>  valley 
•from  the  older  town,  is  a  very  fertile 
stretch  of  country,  the soil and climate 
being of the same general characteristics.
Southern  California,  as  you  will  re­
member from  your  study  of  history  in 
your “school days,”  was  settled  by  the 
Spaniards, and by -them  turned  over  to 
the  Jesuits.  This  order,  in  founding 
their missions,  nearly  always gave them 
the  name  of  some patron saint,  and the 
flourishing  towns  that  have  sprung up 
nearly  two  hundred  years  later  on the 
sites of the old missions  still retain their 
names, “San” or “Santa” always meaning 
“Saint,”  as  Santa  Paula  (Saint  Paul); 
San Jose (pronounced  Ho-zay  and mean­
ing St. Joseph);  Santa Ana, Santa Clara, 
San Diego, San  Bernardino,  San  Pedro, 
San  Buenaventura,  San  Marcos,  Santa 
Barbara,  Santa Monica, and at least fifty 
more  that  I  could  string  together  for 
your amusement.  Just one more instance 
of a Spanish  name for a town,  and I will 
let you off for this time. 
It is Los Ange­
les.  The original Spanish name given to 
the place was L a  Puebla de la Regina de 
Los Angeles.  Literally, the town of  the 
queen of  the  angels.  How  is  that for 
poetry of motion,  eh?  You  may think

East Saginaw Jottings.

Business is  looking up.
A.  Hoyt,  of  the  Hoyt  Dry  Goods Co., 
has returned  from  New York,  where he 
has been buying goods.

The  Saginaw  Dry  Goods & Carpet Co. 
the  Hopkins  stock  of 
has  purchased 
fancy  goods,  as Mr.  H.  desires  to  close 
out  th at  business  and go into something 
else.

There  has  been  quite a scandal  going 
the rounds of  the papers about our well- 
known  furniture  man,.  Fay Wyckoff,  of 
Wyckoff,  Eddy & Co.  Mr. W. has proven 
that he  was not  the  man at all,  but,  nev­
ertheless,  it  leaves  a  stain  and  people 
seem to be only too  willing  to spread re­
ports,  w ithout  first  knowing  whether 
they are true or not.

Purely Personal.

Frank  E.  Leonard  returned  Saturday 
from  Pittsburg,  where  he spent  a week 
among the glass  factories.

E.  E.  Hewitt,  the Rockford grocer, was 
in town  Friday on his  way to  Cincinnati 
with several carloads of potatoes.

Wm.  H.  Hoops and wife sail from New 
York  on  T hursday  for  Bermuda,  where 
they will  spend a m onth in hope of bene­
fiting Mr.  Hoops’  health.

Í T A R D W A R B .

The  Hardware  Market.

Bar iron  is a little  weak.  Steel  nails 
have  advanced  5  cents  per  keg  at  the 
factory, but jobbers have made no change 
as  yet.  The  demoralization of  the  wire 
nail  market still  continues  and there  is 
no  telling  where  prices  will  go.  The 
glass  manufacturers, at their meeting  at 
Washington,  found it impossible to make 
a  combination,  owing 
the  great 
amount of  stock  in the  country and  the 
large  quantities  constantly  imported. 
Rope  is  still  firm, with no  indication  of 
an advance.

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P r ic e s   C u rren t.

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AXES.

BOLTS.

dis.
dis.
dis.

BALANCES.
BARROWS.
BELLS.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
AUGURS AND BITS.
dis.
Ives’, old style............................
60
........ 
Snell’s........................................
........ 
60
Cook’s ........................................ .........  
40
Jennings’, genuine...................... . . . . . . . .  
25
Jennings’, imitation.................... ......... 50&10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze............ ......... $ 7 00
D. B. Bronze............ .........   11 00
S. B. S. Steel............ .........   8 50
D. B. Steel............... .........   13 00
Spring  ...................................... .........  
4o
Railroad..................................... ........$ 14 00
Garden......................................
...net  33 00
Hand.........................................
..  60&10&10
Cow.......................................... .........  
70
Call  .......................................... ......... 30&15
Gong.........................................
Door, Sargent............................. ......... 60&10
dis.
Stove......................................... ............$  0
Carriage new list......................... ......... 70&10
Plow......................................... .........  
50
Sleigh shoe................................. .........  
70
Wrought Barrel Bolts................... .........  
60
Cast ffarrel Bolts......................... .........  
40
Cast Barrell, brass knobs............. .........  
40
Cast Square Spring...................... ............. 
60
Cast C h ain ............................................ ............  
40
W rought  Barrel, brass knob............ ............  
60
W rought S q u are................................. ............  
60
W rought Sunk  F lu sh ........................ ............  
60
W rought Bronze and Plated Knob F lu sh .. .60&10
Ives’ Door.............................................
............ 60*10
Barber.................................................... ............  
40
Backus  .................................................
.........  50&10
Spofford................................................. ............  
50
Am. B a ll............................................... ............  
net
Well,  plain............................................ ............ $ 3 50
Well, sw ivel.......................................... ............   4  00
dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.....................
............ 7Ö&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed__ .............70&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed................60&
W rought  arrow,bright 5ast jo in t................ 60&10
W rought Loose P in ............................................60& 10
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip ............... 
60&05
W rought Loose Pin, jap an n ed ....................... 60&05
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped.60&05
W rought  Table...................................................60&10
W rought Inside B lind.......................................60&10
W rought Brass................................................... 
75
Blind,  Clark’s .....................................................70&10
Blind,  Parker’s ...................................................70&10
Blind, Shepard’s ...............................................  
70
40
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85.................. 

BUTTS,  CAST.

BUCKETS.

BRACES.

BLOCKS.

dis.

CARPET  SWEEPERS.

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CAPS.

chisels. 

CROW BARS.

CARTRIDGES.

Bissell  No. 5........................................per doz.$17 00
Bissell No. 7, new drop p a n ............  
19 60
Bissell, G ra n d ............................
36 00 
24 00 
Grand Rapids..............................
M agic......................................... ,
15 00
CRADLES.
G rain............................................................dis. 50&02
Cast Steel.......................................................per fl>
04 
3 y,
Iron, Steel Points.....................................  “
Ely’s 1-10........................................................per m
65
60
Hick’s  C. F ...............................................  
G. D ...........................................................  
35
M u sk e t....................................................  
60
50
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & W inchester new lis t.. 
Rim Fire, United States............................dis. 
50
Central  F ire................................................ dis. 
25
Socket F irm e r....................................................70&10
Socket Fram ing.................................................. 70& 10
Socket Corner......................................................70&10
Socket Slicks......................................................70&10
40
Butchers’ Tanged  Firm er................................ 
Barton’s Socket  Firm ers.................................  
20
Cold...................................................................... 
net
Curry,  Lawrence’s  .......................................... 40&10
H otchkiss...........................................................  
25
CHALK.
W hite Crayons, per  gross...
COCKS.
Brass,  Racking’s ...................
Bibb’s ......................................
B eer........................................
Fenns’......................................
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size.........per pound 
14x52,14x56,14x60 ..........................  
Cold Rolled, 14x56 ana 14x60..........................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48.............................................  
B ottom s............................................................... 

...................  
60
60
.................... 
....................40&10

...12@12)4dis. 10

33
31
29
29
30

combs. 

dis.

dis.

“ 

'  

drills. 

dis.

Morse’s  Bit  Stocks...........................................  
Paper and straight Shank................................ 
Morse’s Taper Shank........................................  

40
40
40

DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser p o u n d ....................................  
07
6)4
Large sizes, per  pound..................................... 
Com. 4  piece, 6 in .............................. doz. net 
75
C orrugated..........................................dis. 20&10&10
Adjustable.................................................. dis.  %&10

ELBOWS.

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 ponnd.
Our  price  in  Grand Rapids  is  ONE  CENT  ABOVE  THESE 

PRICES.  We have in stock a new rope called
N.nw PROCESS.

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  ball  cord  shape,  thus  avoiding  the  necessity  of a 
reel.  We  keep  in  stock  “ New  Process”  from  1-4  up  to  5-8 
inclnsive, and our price to-day  is  only  9  1-2  cents  a  ponnd  for 
3*8 and larger, and 10  cents  for  1>4.  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   13 M onroe-St., 3 3 ,  3 5 ,  37  3 9   a n d   41  L onis-S t.

dis.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

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

f il e s—New List.

Clark’s, small, $18; large, $26................
30
Ives’, 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30.....................
25
American File Association L ist........... .........60&10
Disston’s ................................................... .........60&1Ö
New  American................................... .
.........60&10
Heller’s ...................................................... ......... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps.............................. ......... 
50
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and 
List 
14

GALVANIZED IRON.

dis.

26;

13 

12 

Discount, 60

GAUGES.

dis.

HAMMERS.

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

50
Naydole  & Co.’s .........................................dis. 
25
Kip’s ............................................................. dis. 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s......................................dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........................30c list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, H and__ 30c 40&10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 , 3 ..................................dis. 
60
State.................................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 4)4  14  and
lo n g er...............................................................  
3)4
Screw Hook and  Eye, H ............................ net 
10
%............................ net 
814
3£............................ net 
754
%............................net  7)4
Strap and T ................................................... dis. 
70

HINGES.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

hangers. 

dis.

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

HOLLOW WARE

Pots........................................................................60&10
K ettles...................................................................60&10
S piders.................................................................60&10
Gray enam eled................................................... 
50

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

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

Grub  1. 
Grub 2  . 
Grub 3.

HOES.

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

HORSE NAILS.

Au Sable...................................dis. 25&10@25&10&10
Putnam ..........................................dis.  5&10&2j4<fe2i4
N orthw estern..................................... 
dis. 10&10&5
k n o b s—New List. 
55
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings....................... 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trim m ings................... 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trim m ings__
55
Door,  porcelain, trim m ings.................
55
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..........
Picture, H. L. Ju d d   &  Co.’s ................
40&10
H etoacite..................................................
45
55

LOCKS—DOOR.

dis.

dis.

Rnssell & Irw in  Mfg. Co.’s new list
Mallory, W heeler  &  Co.’s ...................
Branford’s .............................................
Norwalk’s ...............................................
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ............
Adze E ye. 
H unt E ye. 
H unt’s __
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled..................

LEVELS.

MAULS.

MILLS.

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

.......$16.00, dis. 60
.......$15.00, dis. 60
$18.50, dis. 20&10 
50
..................... 
40 
40 
40
25

dis.
dis.

........  

dis.

MOLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s  P attern..............................
Stebbin’s Genuine............................
Enterprise, self-measuring............

NAILS
Advance above 12d nails.

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

FINE BLUED.

CASTING AND BOX.

COMMON BARREL.

12d to 30d.
lOd............
8d to 9d 
6d to 7d... 
4d to 5d... 
3d..............
%  inch.

dis.

.......60&10
.......60&10
....... 
25

10 
25 
40 
60 
1  00 
1  50

1  00
1  50
2 00
50 
60 
75 
90 
1  10 
1  50

25

CLINCH.

1) 4 and  1& in ch .................................................  1  35
“ 
2  and  2)4 
...............................................  1  j5
..............................................  100
2) 4 and 2=£  “ 
3 in ch .................................................................... 
85
3) 4 and 4)4  in ch ................................................. 
75

Each half keg 10 cents extra.

oilers. 

dis.

dis.

planes. 

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

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

rivets. 

FANS.

dis.

Broken packs lAc per pound extra.

ROPES.

squares. 

Sisal, )4 inch and la rg e r.................................   13
M anilla................................................................   16
dis.

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

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

SHEET IRON.

SAND PAPER.

List acct. 19, ’86...............................
Silver Lake, W hite  A ......................
Drab A ......................
W hite  B ........................
W hite C..........................

SASH CORD.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

....d is.

__ list

40
50
55
50
55
35

SASH WEIGHTS.

Solid Eyes.................................... ............. per ton $25

SAUSAGE 8UUFFERS OR FILLERS.

Miles’ “Challenge” .... per doz. $20, dis. 50@50&05
P erry.....................per doz. No. 1, $15;  No. 0,
......................................................» 1 ;  dis. 50@50&5
Draw Cut No. 4............................... each, $30, dis 30
Enterprise Mfg. Co..............................dis. 20&10@30
Silver’s .........................................................diS.  4(^10
_ .  
M  
Disstoirs  Circular....................................... 45@45&5
Cross C ut...................................: .45@45&5
Hand  ............................................25@2o&5
Atkins’  Circular...............................................dis.  9
70
50
30
28

»Extras sometimes given by jobbers.
“  Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__  
“  Special Steel D exX  Cuts, per fo o t.... 
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  foot...........................................

SAWS. 

d is.

“ 
“ 

TACKS.

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

dis.

60 
60 
60 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
45 
35

TRAPS. 

dlS.

dis.

Steel, Game..........................................................60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .................  
35
70
Oneida  Community, Hawley & Norton’s __  
Hotchkiss’...........................................................  
to
P. S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  ......................................  
TO
Mouse,  choker........................
.. .18c per doz. 
Mouse, delusion.....................
•.$1.50 per doz. 
WIRE.
Bright M arket........................................
..............  67)4
Annealed M arket...................................
...............70&10
Coppered M arket...................................
..............  62H
E xtra B ailin g ................................................... 
...
Tinned M arket........................................... . . . .
Tinned  Broom......................................per pound 09
Tinned M attress.................................per  pound 8)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................................... 
50
Tinned  Spring Steel..........................................40&10
Plain Fence...........................................per pound 03
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................$3 75
p ainted.....................................  3 00
Copper......................................................new  list net
Brass.........................................................   “ 
B right.........................................................
Screw  Eyes...............................................
Hook’s ........................................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes..............................

• 70&10&10 
. 70&10&10 
.70&10&I0 
.70&W&K)

WIRE GOODS.

“  “
dis.

“ 

WRENCHES.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

Bird C ages...............................................
Pumps, Cistern........................................
Screws, New L ist....................................
Casters, Bed  and  P late..........................
Dampers,  American...............................
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods 
Copper Bottoms........................................

dis.

......  

30
50
75
.......75&10

dis.

----- 
50
....... 
75
.......70&05
• 50&10&W)
....... 
40
-----  669£
.......  30c

METALS.

PIG TIN.

Pig  Large. 
Pig B ars...

...................28c
...................... 30c
D uty:  Pig, Bar  and  Ingot,  4c;  Old  Copper,  3c 
M anufactured  (including all articles  of which 
Copper is a component of  chief  value), 45  per 
cent  ad valorem.  For large lots  the following 
quotations are shaded:

COPPER.

Lake..........................................................................18)4
“Anchor” B rand......................................................

D uty;  Sheet, 2)4c per pound.
660 pound  casks...................................................... 6)4
Per  ponnd........................................................... 76s7)4

ZINC.

LEAD.

pound.  Pipe and Sheets 3c per ponnd.

D uty:  Pig, $2  per 100 pounds.  Old  Lead, 2c per 
American 
......................................................... @5
N ewark.................................................................@5
B a r..........................................................................    .6
S heet.............................................................8c, dis. 20
H@)4........................................................................... 16
E xtra W ip in g ........................................................ 13)4
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the m arket indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.

SOLDER.

Cookson............................................. per  pound  14)4
Hallett’s..... ...................................... 
1154
TIN—MELYN GRADE.

10xi4 IC, Charcoal..............................................$ 6 0 0
14x20 IC, 
6  00
12x12 IC, 
6 25 
14x14 IC, 
10 00
10x28 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
7 75 
14x20 EX, 
775
12x12 IX, 
8 00 
14x14 IX, 
12 50
20x28 IX, 

.......................................
.......................................
........................................
.......................................
.......................................
.......................................
.......................................
......................................
.......................................
Each additional X on this grade, $1.75,

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

10x14 IC,  C harcoal........................................... $ 5 40
.........................................   5 40
14x20 IC, 
.........................................   5 65
12x12 IC, 
14x14 IC, 
.........................................   9 25
......................................’....  11  80
29x28 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
.........................................   6 90
14x20 IX, 
.........................................   6 90
12x12 IX, 
.........................................   7 )5
 
14x14 IX, 
n t e
.............................................   14 80
20x28 IX, 

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.

ROOFING PLATES

14x20 IC, Tem e  M. F ....................................... $  7  80
.............. .........................  15 75
“ 
20x28 IC, 
“ W orcester...'............................  550
14x20IC, 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
..............................  7 00
..............................  11  50
29x28 IC, 
“ 
14x20. IC, 
“  Allaway G rade.....................  4  go
14x20 IX, 
“ 
“ 
ft®
 
“ 
“ 
20x28  IC, 
....................  10 60
“ 
“ 
20x28 IX, 
....................  13 go
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

14x28  IX ..............................................................$13-00
14x31  IX ...............................................................  13 bo
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers,  I ___ 
14x60 IX)  « 
09

« ’ ( P «  pound.......... 

“  9 

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Vo

The Michigan Tradesman

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief  Digests  of  Recent  Decisions 

Courts  of  Last  Resort.

CARRIERS’  IN A BILITY — LIM ITATION— CON­

TRACT.

The  Supreme  Court of  Georgia  lately 
liel>l  that  a contract  made in  Massachu­
setts  for  the  carriage  by rail  of  goods 
from  Boston  to Atlanta,  lim iting the car­
rier's  liability,  and  which  was  valid  in 
Massachusetts,  . was  valid 
in  Georgia, 
tho lgh  it would  not  be valid if  made in 
Georgia.

TRAVELERS

RIGHTS —  RAILRO AD - 

-BAG-

GAGE.

The  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania 
decided in  a  recent  case,  Lyon vs.  P itts­
burgh,  Cincinnati  &  St.  Louis  Railroad 
Company,  that  among the transportation 
rights of the traveling public is the right 
to stop off  and  receive their  baggage  at 
any regular  station or stopping place for 
the train on which they may be traveling, 
and  that  any  regulation which  deprives 
them  of  that  right  is  necessarily  arbi­
trary,  unreasonable  and 
The 
plaintiff  bought  a ticket  from W ashing­
ton  to  Pittsburgh,  and  in  getting off  at 
one of  the  regular  stations of  the  road 
w ithin the corporate lim its of Pittsburgh 
was  refused  his  baggage,  the  baggage 
agent 
the 
Union Depot.  Under  the  ruling of  the 
court  a  substantial  verdict  in  favor  of 
the plaintiff  was sustained.

insisting  on  carrying  it  to 

illegal. 

V A L ID IT Y   OF  FU TU R E  CONTRACTS.

In  a case tried before Judge H ill in the 
United  States  District  Court  at  Vicks­
burg,  Miss.,  lately the  judge  read a  very 
interesting  charge  to the  jury in  which 
the validity of  future  contracts was con­
sidered.  The suit was to recover margins 
and commissions.  The judge found that 
there  was  an  understanding  pf  actual 
delivery  which  could  be  enforced,  and 
that  being so he held  that  there was  no 
evidence in the  case to establish that the 
contracts  between the  parties were gam­
bling  and  invalid  contracts.  The  de­
fendant  contended 
the  plaintiff 
should have notified him of each sale and 
exchange of contracts,  but this under the 
rules of the Exchange was not necessary, 
and  the  judge held  that the  defendant, 
by his frequent  dealing with members of 
the  Exchange in  these  transactions and 
his  fam iliarity  with  all 
technical 
term s used  in these transactions,  was put 
upon  notice of these  rules and  the mode 
of  doing  business  in  the  Exchange,  and 
w hether he  put himself to  the trouble of 
knowing 
them  or  not,  was  bound  by 
them.

that 

the 

CONTRACT  —   LIM ITING  CARRIERS7  L IA ­

BIL IT Y .

A  contract was  entered  into  in  New 
York  between the  proprietor of  a  circus 
and  a  railroad  company  for  the  trans­
portation  of  certain  circus  properties, 
whereby the  former  released  the  latter 
from all responsibility for any loss,  dam­
age or injury caused by the negligence of 
the  road  or  its agents  or  employees,  or 
by the negligence of any of the companies 
over  whose roads the actual  transporta­
tion  was  to  be  done.  A  loss  occurred 
through  the  negligence of  an  engineer, 
and  the circus  proprietor sued  the com­
pany  to  recover. 
It  was  shown  at  the 
trial  that the  contract  entered  into  be­
tween the parties was  perfectly  valid by 
the law of  New York  State.  The Phila­
delphia  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  by 
which the case  (Forepaugh vs.  Delaware, 
Lackawanna  &  W estern Railroad  Com 
pany)  was decided,  noticed  the fact  that 
such contracts had been  held void by the 
Supreme  Court of  the Un  ted  States  as 
being against public policy,  but said that 
the  position  of  a  state  court in  passing 
upon the validity of  a contract made and 
to  be  performed  in  another  state  was 
quite  different from  that occupied by the 
U nited  States Supreme  Court,  in  which 
state  lines  are  obliterated. 
It  decided 
that  in  passing  upon  the  question  in­
volved  comity between  states required it 
to hold the contract to be a valid one.

CONSTITUTIONAL  LA W — PU N IT IV E   DAM ­

AG ES.

thirty  days  it  makes 
liable  to  the  owner  of 

A statute of Iowa makes  railroad com­
panies  neglecting  to  fence  their  lands 
liable  for  damages  for  stock 
injured 
through  such negligence,  and  where they 
refuse  to  pay the  value of  the  damage 
done  within 
the 
companies 
the 
stock  killed or injured  for  double  dam­
ages. 
In  a case  recently decided  by the 
Supreme  Court of  the  United  States,  in 
which  the  plaintiff  sued to  recover  the 
value of  some hogs killed  by  an  engine 
of 
the  railroad  company,  the  railroad 
company contended  that  the law was un­
constitutional as depriving the companies 
of  property without  due  process of  law 
and  denying  them  the equal  protection 
o f 
the  laws.  The  Supreme  Court  de­
cided against the contention, holding that 
the  Iowa statute  does  not withhold  the 
equal protection of the laws.  The clause 
in  the  constitution,  it  says,  is  not  de­
signed  to  limit the  police  power of  the 
states,  and  it has  been  repeatedly  held 
th a t  where a business  is  attended  with 
unusual  danger  the states  may  properly 
impose  restrictions  upon  the  business, 
the  only condition  being  that all  those 
engaged in the same pursuit shall be sub­
jected  to  the  same  restrictions.  As  to 
the  allowance of  double damages  being 
constitutional,  the  court  says that  it  is 
the duty of the railroad company to keep 
its track  free from  animals,  and that its 
neglect  to  do so  by adopting  reasonable 
means  for  that  purpose  justly subjects 
it to punitive damages where injuries are 
committed  by  reason of  such  neglect. 
The  imposition of  punitive or exemplary 
damages cannot be held  to  be a depriva­
tion of  property without  due  process of 
law. 
It  is only one  mode of  imposing a 
penalty for  the violation of duty,  and  its 
propriety and  legality have  been  recog­
nized  by repeated  judicial  decisions for 
more than a centurv.

Working  in  Your  Employer’s  Interests.
“When I was  fourteen  years of  age,” 
said  a  prominent  jobber,  I  went to  Chi­
cago  in  search  of  employment. 
I  had 
read  a great deal  of good  advice  and  had 
made up my mind to make my employer’s 
interest my own.  I started to work  for a

I cheerfully took them. 

large retail  store,  at the  magnificent  sal­
ary of  two dollars a week,  as a cash boy; 
there  were seven  or eight  other  lads do­
ing  the  same  work;  a  part of  my  duty 
was  to deliver  packages  at night on  my 
way home.  The first  day I had  two,  the 
next  four,  and on  Saturday night,  eight 
bundles. 
I was 
a  stranger in the  city,  and  the  packages 
were  to be  delivered over  quite an  area. 
I  tied the  bundles  together and  started 
m errily on my mission, thinking this was 
a  schooling and  that some  day  I  would 
employ  others  to  do 
the  same  work. 
Well,  I got  home that  night at  11:30,  all 
worn out.
I  noticed the  other boys did  not carry 
as many packages as I did,  and afterward 
found  out that  they  had a sore  foot,  or 
their  mother,  sister,  uncle or  aunt  was 
sick,  or  that if  they  were  not  home  by 
such a time  they  would  not get  supper, 
at  least  they  always  trum ped  up  some 
excuse that would let them off with one or 
two packages,while 1 (who wanted to show 
myself willing)  was  ready at all  times to 
do  anything  that  was  asked  of  me. 
I 
worked hard and found myself immensely 
I dusted more 
popular around the store. 
boxes,  swept  more of  the floor,  ran more 
errands,  got 
to  work  earlier,  remained 
later,  had  a shorter  dinner  hour and  in 
fact,  I did more than any two boys there. 
I was surprised in three weeks to find my 
salary  raised; 
in  a  couple  of  months  I 
was  promoted to assistant  inspector  and 
shipping  clerk at  a  still  better  salary. 
In  about six  months the  inspector  left, 
and I was given his place, while the boys 
who  had  shirked  and  put all  the  work 
on me  were still cash  boys,  and  1 was in 
charge of  them.  About  that  time I  got 
a short-hand  book and studied it at night. 
I  brought the book down  with me  every 
morning and  read 
I 
practiced  w riting short-hand  in  all  spare 
moments.
One  night as  I  was  going  home,  the 
proprietor  said,  “ W illiam,  what kind  of 
a  book have  you  there;  is it  a  novel?” 
I showed  it  to him  and he asked  me how 
long I  had  been  studying it. 
I  told  him 
six months.  He  said,  “ I am  glad  to see 
you  improving  your  time  in  that  man­
ner.”  Well,  the  next  day  my  employer 
tried  me  and  found I  was  quite  a  fair 
writer,  and  every day he  gave  me  some 
letters  to  write.  The  cashier  left  soon 
afterwards,  and  I was placed  in his  posi­
tion.  Here I wrote all  the  letters for the 
house  and  kept the  cash.  This went  on 
for some time  until the bookkeeper went 
in business  for himself  and  I was  given 
that position,  the highest in the store. 
I 
saved  up money and in  a year started out 
for myself and  the last words of  my em­
ployer  were,  “Wiliiam,  whenever  you 
are in  need of a situation,  come to me,  as 
I have a place  for you  as  long as I  am  in 
business.”  He  offered me  great induce­
ments to stay,  but  I  felt capable of doing 
business for myself and  left.

it  at  odd  times. 

I was with  the house seven  years,  and 
rose  from  cash  boy  at §2 a week to book­
keeper  at  SI,500 a  year. 
It  was  rather 
hard  for me  when I  had  to  do so  much, 
while the other boys were having an easy 
time,  but it  paid.  But one of 
the  cash 
boys ever  amounted  to much,  and  he  is 
running  a  small  store,  the  balance  are 
still  working for  small  pay  and  cursing 
their bad  luck.

The  Early  History of  Electric Motors.
In the year  1830 our great countrym an 
Professor  Joseph  Henry,  who  was  the 
pioneer discoverer  in  eleetro-magnetism 
in this country,  after a series of brilliant 
investigations of  the  principles  of  elec­
tricity,  produced  the  first  electro-motor 
ever known to man,  and  prophesied that 
future discoveries would  be made which 
would render the principle then exhibited 
available and valuable.  In 1831 Professor 
Henry  in  this  country,  and  Faraday  in 
England,  almost  simultaneously,  but in­
dependently  of  each  other,  discovered 
that electricity could be produced  in  in­
definite quantities  by the combination of 
horse-power  with  a  magnet;  and  elec­
tricity thus produced was called magneto- 
electricity.  This,  the greatest of all dis­
coveries in  electricity,  opened  the door 
to,an unlim ited application of  power  for 
its production,  and it  was  left to ingeni­
ous electricians to invent forms of appar­
atus by which,  in the most  effective  and 
economical way,  the  desired result could 
be accomplished.
The most  im portant improvement,  and 
which  has  practically  superseded  all 
others in the devices  for  developing  the 
principles  established by the discoveries 
of Professors  Henry  and  Faraday,  was 
made  by  Pacinotti,  whose  apparatus, 
modified  subsequently  by  ingenious  in­
ventors,  is now in  universal  use, produc­
ing practical results  so  near to the theo­
retical ones that more than 90 per cent,  of 
the power expended  upon the generating 
machine reappears  in  the  form  of elec­
tricity,  leaving less than  10  per  cent  to 
be saved  (if it can be saved)  by other im­
provements.  .
Founded thus  upon  the  discoveries of 
the scientists,  and  practically applied to 
the arts by the inventors,  a complete sys­
tem for the creation  aud  distribution  of 
power through the intervention  of  elec­
tricity  has  sprung  up,  occupying 
the 
attention  of 
thousands  of  skilled  and 
scientific  men,  giving  employment 
to 
hundreds of thousands of  operators,  and 
conferring  upon  hum anity  inestimable 
blessings.  So far as we now know,  this 
whole  system  depends  upon that means 
for generating power until,  in the future, 
the  discovery  shall  be  made  of  some 
means  for  converting  the  heat  of  com­
bustion directly  into  electricity without 
the  intervention  of  any  other  agency. 
W hen that  is  done—and  it 
is  entirely 
within 
laws  of  nature—then  the 
steam engine  w ill  disappear  in  connec­
tion with the generation of electricity.

the 

The Advantage of  One  Price.

From   th e  Toledo  Blade.
“ It’s  a  singular 

thing,”   remarked  a 
prom inent dry goods  jobber,  “how coun­
try m erchants coming  here to buy refuse 
to believe that we  are  selling  goods at a 
fair price  and  insist  on trying to cut us 
down on everything.  I had  an experience 
the other day which is in  point.  A mer­
chant from down  in  Indiana came in and 
began  to  look  over  things  with  one of 
my clerks.  We  try to  sell  on  the  one- 
price principle.  He  asked  the  price of 
some  prints.  The  clerk  told  him 
the 
price.  He offered  one  cent  a  yard  less.
“ ‘This is a one-price  house,’  said  the 
clerk. 
this  sm art  man 
“  ‘N onsense!’ 
from the  country. 
‘You  needn’t  try to

‘We can make  no reduction.’

said 

-------JO B B E R   IN -------

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

PURE

PUTNAM  &  BROOKS,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

lar.CANDY!

WHEN  IN  MUSKEGON

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

For the BEST LUNCH to be had in the State.

Fletcher's  City  Creamery
W.  H.  FLETCHER, 
54  W.  WESTERN  AVENUE.
P S R K I N S  
H E S S
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, •

DEALER S IN

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NOS.  188  and  184 LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS. MICHIGAN.

W E  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MTT.T.  [JSE-

C r a n b e r rie s,

S w e e t   P o ta to e sQ  
a n d   G ra p es.
Bananas,  Oilr  Specialty.

RUTNAM & BROOKS,  B ackers.

rLEse* 
Ss*® 
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P  0Q

16 and  18  No. Division St..

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MIOH.

Detroit Soap  C o .,

DETROIT,  MICH.

Manufacturers of the  following  well-known 

brands of

BOOK-KEEPING

WIPED  OUT!

No  Pass  Books!
No Charging!
No  Posting!

No  Writing!

No Disputing of Äßcoiints! 

No  Change to  Make!

T R A D E S M A N

Greift GOUPON  Book!

THE N EW EST  AND  BEST SYSTEM  

ON  TH E  M ARKET.

 

 
 
 

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$  2 Coupons, p er h undred..............................$2.50
3.00
$ 6  
$10 
4.00
$20 
5.00

We quote  prices as follows:
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Orders fo r 200 e r o v er..........................5 p er cent.

Subject to the following discounts:
“

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

“ 
“  500 
“ 
-  1000 
Send in sam ple order and p u t y our  business 
on a cash  basis.
E.  E.  STDWE  &  BRO., Grand  Rapids.

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W A N T E D .

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

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

E A R L   B R O S . ,

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   Nationa l  Bank,  Chicago. 
Mich ig a n T radesman. G rand Rapids.

In 

I’ll 
fool me with any such stuff  as that. 
give  you  one cent less.’
“ And the clerk could not persuade him 
that he was telling him  the  truth,  finally 
I  went out and 
coming to me in despair. 
took  the  man  in  hand.  1  offered  him 
goods at from three  to  five  cents  above 
marked price,  and then  would take what­
ever he  offered  me.  He finished his pur­
chases,  slapped  me on the  back,  remark­
ing:  ‘T hat’s  something  like.  None  of 
your  one-price  business  for  me,’  and 
went  out. 
the  afternoon  he  came 
back,  and  I  had  two  bills  made  out  for 
him.  The first 1 handed  him  was  made 
up  from  his  own  prices. 
It  was  for 
about $700.  He  looked  at  it  and  said : 
‘Those  are  good  prices.  Oh !  you can’t 
get  ahead  of  me  with  your  one-price 
business.  Then  1  handed  him  the  sec­
ond,  which  was  made  up of  the  actual 
prices at  which we  had  been selling. 
It 
was over $100  less.

“ ‘W hat’s that ?’  said  he.
“ ‘That  is the bill  we want  you  to pay. 
That is what the goods  cost  you  at  our 
prices.  I wanted  to show  you  how easily 
you  could  be  fooled  by  thinking  you 
know  more about our  business  than  we 
do ourselves.’
“ He  paid the  bill  meekly  and  thanked 
me for his  lesson.”
The Hammond  Tvpe  Writer.

The latest production and highest achievement 
yet reached in w riiiig  machines.
Noted  for  speed,  perfect  alignment,  n>  ¡form 
impression, beauty of work and changeable type.
Its work  is always in  sight of the operator.
Has fewer keys  to  learn,  ahd  produces  more 
characters than  any other type writer.
Send  for circular, or call  upon me at my  office, 
Room 60  New  Houseman  Building,  where  the 
Hammond Type W riters m e in constant use.

Full line of supplies on  hand.

H E N R Y   F.  W ALCH,

Agent fo- Western  Michigan.

I  ¿OREST®
L J V ç o d

EXTRACT!

BAKING POWDER

PURE

ÔÇsôuTin cans oh®  0

ABSOLUTELY
TRIPLE STRINIiSTHjy
THESE G"*0DS ARE “PAR EXCELLENCE”
Pure, H ealthful and  Reliable,  w arran ted   to giv&satis­
faction in every p articular.  F or sale by  whoie»-*» lc 
d 
reta il grocers th ro u g h o u t  th t  United  btates.  You wik 
Bros., Manufac tu rers. Cleveland aiiu Chicago.

Every  garm ent  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 O N ,   S A M P S O N   &  CO.,

Manufacturers. Detroit, Mich.

N uts We  carry  a  large  stock  of  alt 

kinds  of  Foreign  and  Domestic 
Nuts  and  are  prepared  to  sell in 
any quantity.
PUTNAM & BROOKS.
The  Best  Fitting  Stock­

ing Rubber  in the 

Market.

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

Sole Agents,

HE A  VENRICH

BRO TH ERS

W h o le s a le   C lo th iers

MANUFACTURERS  OF

B er fe e t "Eitting  Tailor-M ade  Clothing

QUEEN  ANNE. 
TRUE  BLUE, 
MONDAY, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN, 

SUPERIOR, 

PHtENIX, 

A N D   OTHERS. 

For quotations address

W .  G.  H A W K IN S ,

MICHIGAN, 

CZAR, 

WABASH, 

ROYAL  BAR. 
MASCOTTE
CAMEO

Salesm an fo r W estern M ichigan,

COAL !—COKE ! — WOOD !

Wholesale  A.  H I M E  3 .  and  Retail

Office miti Nati Citi W .

S h a w m u t A v e n u e , W in te r  and 

W .  D iv is io n   Sts.

Telephone  Call 490-8.  CAR LOTS A  SPECIALTY.

STANDARD  FIRST  GRADE  PLUG  TOBACCO

LORILLARH’S

C h i  M  A A  

Can  now  be  bought  at the following exceptionally

.

L O W   F IO U R E S

Less than 56 lbs. 56 lbs. or over.

CLUBS, 12 x  2,16 ox., 6 cuts, 
CLUBS, 12 x  2, 8 oz., 6 cuts, 
FO URS, 6 x  2, 4 oz..
F IV E S , 6 x  1 % .  3 1-5  oz., 
T W IN  FO U R S, 3 X 2, 7 to  lb, 
F IG S , 3 x  1,14 to lb..

1,  40, 28 & 12 lbs. 

Packages.
4 2 ,311 &  12  “
42, 30 & 12  « 
42, 30 & 12  “  
4 5 ,25V4  & 16  “ 
41,27 &  >3»4  “

41.31  & 17

.4 1

.4 3

A ss’t ’d lot 
any quantity

.3 9

.4 1

O
C

O
C

.4 1

THESE PRICES LOOK  TOO  GOOD  TO  LAST.

H E S T E R   Sc  F O X ,

M anufacturers’ A gents fo r

S A W   A 2 T D   G R I S T   M X X i Z .   M A C H I N E R Y ,

Send  for 
C atalogue 

and 
P rice».

ATLAS »

INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.,  U.  S.  A.
___________ M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O F
STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.,
Carry Engines and Boilers In Stock SBSjjiii 

for  immediate delivery.

AT  LOWEST  PRICES.

M A IL   ORDERS senta» core L.  W.  A T K IN S  w ill receive  PRO M PT  A TTE N T IO N

138-140 Jefferson Sue., 34-36  Wooûriflge 8t„ Detroit.
ATTENTION,  RETAIL  M ERCH AN TS!  .

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

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

Pulley  and become convinced of their  superiority.

Saws, Belting  and  Oils.

Write for Prices. 

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

In c re a s e   y o u r   C ig a r  T ra d e   b y   se llin g   th e

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Named in  C om plim ent  to  th e

Michigan

B u sin ess  M en9s   Association,

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

RETAIL  GROCERY  TRADE.

Äbsolillely  THE  BEST  5  Gent  Cigar  on  Earth!
T h e  Telfer  Spice  C o m p a n y ,'

PRICE, 030 PER THOUSAND.

MANUFACTURERS’  AGENTS,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

+

To  the  Merchants  of  Michigan — We  offer 

Marble and Granite

M onuments

at a closer margin of profit than  any  concern in 
the State.  W rite for estimates on Building’Stone 
or cemetery work.  First class material and work­
manship only.

SBM’Ii  JIIOFFETT,  Manager.

A

and
amount  and 
will try to buy them
W.

T.  LA M O R EA U X , 
71  Canal  Street.

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.

R.  A.  CLAR K  &  CO.

Real  Estate Brokers 
Lansing Mich.
C r o c k e r y   & G la s s w a r e
No. 0 Sun.................................................... ...........  50
No  2  “  .....................................................

LAMP  BURNERS.

LAMP CHIMNEYS.

C doz. in box.

No. 0 Sun.................................................... .........  1  90
.................................................... .......... 2  00
No. 1  “ 
.................................................... ...........3 OO
No. 2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top............................... ...........2  15
......................................................... ...........2  25
No. 1 

First quality.

XXX Flint.

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Pearl top.

La Bastic.

“  ............................... .......... 3 80
No! 2  “ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled.......... ...........3  70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
.....................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
.......................4 70
No. 1 Sun, plain b u lb ...........................................1  25
No. 2  “ 
..........................................150
“ 
No. 1 crim p..............................................................1  40
No. 3 
.............................................................160
“ 
Butter Crocks, per gal......................................   06)4
Jugs, yx gal., per doz........................................   65
.  90 
. i  80
!i oo
.1  65 
.2 25 
.  60 
.  78

Meat Tubs, 10 gal., each..............................
..............................
..............................
..............................
Milk Pans, l/t gal., per doz.  (glazed 66c). 
90c).

12  “ 
15  “ 
20  *' 
1 
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STONEWARE—AKRON.

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B E L K N A P

WAGON * SLEIGH GO,

M anufacturers of

l ( o 5

B U M P'S PIT. SLEIGHS

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

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

Cor. Front and  First Sts..  Grand Rapids.

also manufacture a  full  line  of  Sweet 

Goods.  Write  for  quotations 

and  samples.

JACKSON 
,  MICH.

brated Alligator Brand,  direct 
from Florida in car lots by

F lo rid a FANCY  FRUIT—The  Cele­
GE0H0M4C0,
Grand Rapids. O ran g es
COLBY, CRAIG &  CO.

MANUFACTURE

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 .  L A M O R E A U X ,

7 1  Canal Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

4 Q  u lc k m e a l ’

GASOLINE STOVE.

Horse and W agon  Covers.  W ater  Proof  Coats, Buggy 
Aprons, Wide C otton  Ducks, etc.  Send fo r  Illu strated  
Catalogue.

Chas. A. Coye,

Telephone 106. 

Over 73 Canal St.

MAGIC COFFEE  ROASTER

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

H.  Leonard  &  Sons,
J o iers  of GroGkenj,Tinware and  Lamp Goods,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

The  m ost practical 
h an d   R oaster  in  the 
world.  Thousands in 
use—giving  satisfae 
tion.  They are simp:» 
d urable an d   econom 
leal. 
groce* 
should  be  without 
one.  R oasts  coffee 
and  pea-nuts to   per 
fection.

No 

Address  fo r  C ata­

logue and prices,

Rotrt. 8. West,

48-50 Long St., 

C leveland, Ohio,

THE  BEST  DELIVERY  WAGON  ON  EARTH.

We Manufacture to Order Hose and Police Patrol Wagons, Peddlers, Bakers, Creamery, 

Dairy, Furniture, Builders, Dry Goods, Laundry, and Undertakers Wagons.

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

CO LBY ,  C R A IG   &  CO.,

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

LEMON, HOOPS i PETERS,

Wholesale

Grocers

AND

- T E A -

IMPORTERS.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

TheMichiganTradesman

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1889.

L E IS U R E   H O U R   J O T T IN G S

W ritten  fo r The  T ^ tdesman.

B Y   A   COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

The looking over of  my «omewhat vol­
uminous compilation of dead-beat,  played 
out  and outlawed notes  and  accounts  is 
very far from being  an  enticing and en­
joyable occupation,  but I have made  it  a 
sort of melancholy  duty  to  occasionally 
run  over  the  depressing  record in the, 
perhaps unfounded,  hope that the costly 
and exasperating experiences of  the past 
will guard me  against m aterial additions 
to the  list in the  future.

I have just completed my semi-periodi­
cal  investigation  of 
the  long  array of 
names,  w ith the  result  of  developing  a 
new,  or rather  a hitherto  unnoticed,  fea­
ture of  the  dead-beat  annex to the mer­
cantile business. 
I  find  that no incon­
siderable  proportion  of 
the  aggregate 
robberies of the tribe are due to the raids 
of  individuals  who  are  financially  and 
legally  responsible  for  their  indebted­
ness.  This,  at  first glance,  would iudi-j 
cate gross  and  unexcusable  negligence, 
and a lamentable want of business meth­
ods on the part of the  dealer;  but  let  us 
see.  Here  is  a  long  list  of  accounts 
against  responsible  dead-beats,  ranging 
in  amount  from  fifteen  to  seventy-five 
cents.  W hen  I  call  to mind the m ulti­
tudinous  times I have hinted,  suggested 
and demanded  the  adjustm ent  of  these 
little  m atters,  and then recall  the  vast 
num ber of  excuses,  evasions,  postpone­
m ents and denials which my efforts called 
forth,  I can easily  account  for  so  many 
of them sifting  in  among  the records of 
the irresponsible d.-b.’s  rascality. 
The 
accounts are all too small to  inteiest  the 
collector,  or  for  reasonable  legal  pro­
ceedings,  and  after they had become  an 
“ eye sore”  of  long  standing,  they were 
naturally interred in the tomb of defunct 
indebtedness.  There  are,  perhaps,  indi­
viduals who  m ight  have  infused  a little 
life into them,  but the  operation,  to  the 
party  of  average  patience  and  endur­
ance,  would have been too  hopeless  and 
depressing.

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But I  have an entry  which proves  that 
the responsible dead-beat  doesn’t alway 
confine  himself to petty swindling.  Some 
years ago a w ealthy resident  of  my  sec­
tion came into my place of  business,  one 
morning,  accompanied  by  his grown-up 
son.  1 had  had  some  few  transactions 
w ith the old  man,  and  supposed him to 
be  “ gilt edge”  in all m atters of deal.

“ Say!”  he  remarked,  “ my boy’s going 
up  North,  and  wants  to  take  up some 
goods with him.  Let him have what  he 
wants and I’ll  see  that  he pays you  in 
side of six weeks!”

I put up  some thirty-odd dollars’ worth 

of articles as  cheerfully as 1 ever  sold 
cash bill in  my  life. 
Six,  nine,  twelve 
weeks passed  and  the  account was still 
unsettled.  Then I informed  the  fathe 
that I was badly in  need  of  money  and 
suggested a settlement,  but my only con 
solation was,  “ Oh,  Jim ’ll pay you!  He’ll 
pay you,  don’t worry!”  But  Jim  neve 
paid  me,  and  over  a  year  afterward 
brought suit  against the  “ security,”  and 
was  beaten  on  the  ground  that  verbal 
promises,  in  such cases,  were void.

A responsible  agricultural  d.-b.  once 
swindled  me  out  of  eighteen or twenty 
dollars very  ingeniously,  n e  owed me on 
a long over-due note and a recently made 
account,  the amount on each being about 
equal.  Shortly after the receipt of a let­
ter,  calling his attention to  the  note,  he 
put in an appearance, accompanied by an 
honest  and reputable neighbor.  Leaving 
his companion in  the  front  part  of  the 
store,  he  came  back  to  the  desk,  and 
handed me the amount due on  the paper. 
A fter  placing  the  note  carefully  in his 
pocket,  he started  toward  the  door,  and 
then turned around.  His voice had, dur­
ing the transaction,  been  very  subdued, 
but now he spoke up  very loudly:

“ See!  How much  was that I paid you? 
Yes,  that’s so!  T hat  makes it  all square 
and satisfactory,  eh?”

A few months after this I sent the man 
a statem ent of his account, with a request 
for an early  settlement.  Shortly  there­
after he came in,  in an,  apparently,  very 
indignant state of mind,  and  wanted  my 
opinion  on  collecting  debts  twice,  re­
m arking that in dealings with  a  certain 
class of people  it  was  mighty  lucky  to 
have a witness;  that  Gregory  had heard 
me acknowledge the receipt of the amount 
in full,  and was ready to swear to it.  He 
had never given  me a note;  hadn’t had a 
note out in a year.  W ould  law  away  a 
hundred dollars before he’d pay the mat­
ter over  again.

Gregory  was  positive  that  I  had  ad­
m itted the payment of an indebtedness to 
date,  and was sure that if there’d been  a 
note 
in  the  transaction  he’d  have  no­
ticed it.

The circumstances and testimony were 
all against me,  and  my  first  impulse  to 
bring suit gradually  evaporated,  and the 
account  eventually  found 
its  natural 
place in the dead-beat  book.

I believe the responsible d.-b.,on the av-

erage,to be as equally heartless and consci­
enceless as  the average  irresponsible dit­
to.  Many years ago, while the prohibition 
law was in force in this State,  and liquor 
debts were non-collectable, a crippled old 
man,  in  a W estern Michigan town,  imag­
ined himself reduced to two alternatives, 
to go to the county poorhouse,  or  open  a 
small groggery,  and chose  the latter one. 
Probably from both  the care with which 
he dispensed his little stock, and the sym­
pathy felt  for  his  poverty  and debility, 
he was unmolested for a long time by the 
authorities,  and  managed,  in  his  small 
wray,  to keep even with the  world.  His
most im portant  customer was one J ------,
a well-to-do business  man  of  the  town, 
who liked his  “nips”  himself,  and imag­
ined it an im portant  lever  to  success  to 
et ’em up”  for the boys frequently and 
liberally.  At first J ------paid for his bev­
erages,  but  finally  began  to let the bills 
accumulate  on  “ the  slate,”  until,  one 
day,  the old  saloonist,  w hose  j ugs were 
getting alarmingly empty, and whose cap­
ital had gradually  drifted  into the stom­
achs  of  J ------  and  sundry  other  credit
customers, humbly importuned that indi­
vidual  for a settlement.

“ Owe you  $38,  eh?”   said J ------,  “ Well
th at’s all  right!  W hen the m atter reaches 
$50  come  around  and  I’ll  give  you  a 
check!”

The impecunious vender  succeeded  in 
partly replenishing his  stock by giving  a
J ------’s
chattel mortgage on his fixtures. 
account rapidly rose to $49,  and then that 
estimable gentleman transferred his cus­
tom to a new and  more pretentious grog­
gery,  and the almost tearful supplications 
of the old man  invariably  brought  forth 
the same reply:

‘I’m a man of my word,  sir,  to the let­
ter!  W hen  my  account  reaches $50 I’ll 
ay it!”
But it never did.  There are undoubt­
edly individuals who  would  paraphrase 
Judge Taney’s  famous  decision,  and de­
clare that  illegal  liquor  sellers  have no 
ghts that other-people  are bound to re­
ject,  but  I  have  never  thought,  for a
moment,  that J ------’s action was dictated
by a desire to vindicate the otfended maj- 

ty of  the law'.

F illin g   th e   T y p ew riter

thing 

window',  mamma?

the
Tommy—W hat  is  that 
Mamma—That is a typew riter, Tommy.
Tommy—Wliere  does  the  champagne 
go in ?
Mamma—Why,  what  are  you thinking 
of,  Tommy ?  No  one  puts  champagne 
in  it.
Tommy—Oh,  yes,  they do.  Papa  told 
Mr.  Goitt  last  night  that  it  often cost 
him  $10 to fill his  typew riter with cham­
pagne.  So now'.
Mamma—I  will  ask  your  papa  about 
that,  Tommy.

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

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The furniture factories  here pay as follows for 
dry  stock,  measured  merchantable,  mill  culls 
out:
Basswood, lo g -ru n ..................................13 00@15 00
Birch,  log-run.......................................... 15 00@16 00
Bireh, Nos. 1 and 2 ................................. 
@22 00
Black Ash, log-run................................. 14 00@»16 00
Cherry, log-run............................................. 35 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2...................................50 00@60 00
Cherry, C ull............................................. 
Maple, lo g -ru n ............................................. 12 00@14 00
Maple,  soft, log-run.....................................11  00@13 00
@20 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2 ................................. 
Maple,  clear, flooring............................ 
@25 00
Maple,  white, selected.......................... 
@*25 0(
Red Oak, log-run..........................................18 00@20 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2............................ 24 00@2 > 00
Red Oak, \\ sawed, 8 inch and upw’d.40 00@45 00
Red Oak, J4 sawed, regular........................ 30 00g>35 00
@25  00
Red Oak, No. 1, step plank................... 
W alnut, log ru n ...................................... 
@55 0#
W alnut, Nos.  1 and 2.............................  
@75 00
W alnuts, cull 
........................................ 
@25  0(
Grey Elm, log-run................................... 12 00@13 0:
White Aso, log-run...................................... 14  00@16 00
Whitewood. log-run....................................20 00@22 Of
White Oak, log-run..................................17 00@18 0

Notice of M e d   Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that  Frederic A. Wurz 
burg,  William  M.  W urzburg  and  William  F 
Wurzburg, as  general  partners, and  Zachary 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 
ital  stock  which  said  special  partner  has con 
tribted  to  the  common  stock,  is  twenty-seven 
hundred and fifty dollars, and that  said partner 
ship  is to  commence  January  28,1889, and  ter 
minate January 28,1891.

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

General Partners.
Special Partner.

91,000  R EW A R D !!

THE  LARGEST  AND  BEST 

CLEAR  LONG  HAVANA  FILLED 

SUMATRA  WRAPPED  CIGAR 

SOLD  FOR  5   CENTS.

AmosS.Musselman&Co.
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

SOLE AGENTS,

THE

nflilstrial  School  of Business
Its graduates succeed.  Write

Is noted fo r   T H O R O U G H N E SS.
W.  N.  FERRIS,

Big Rapids,  Mich.
J.  S.  WAIKES,

MANUFACTURER  OF

PICKLES and CATSUPS,
VINEGAR, PRESERVES and JELLIES.

And Jobber of 

I  quote  the  trade  the  following  rock bottom 

prices on Pickles;
Mediums, in bbls.......................................................W 00
Sweet Gherkin, in bbls............................................  9 50
Mixed, in bbls............................................................. 6 50
Large, in casks 45 gals........................................  4  E0
Small, in bbls........................................................5  00
herkin, in bbls..................................................   «00
Medium, in half-bbls..........................................2  50
Sweet Gherkin, in half-bbls...................................  4 75
Mixed 
“ 
............................3  75
Small 
 
3 00
Gherkin  “ 
............................  3  50
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.  W ALK ER ,

Box 471. 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

W.  H.  BEACH,

WHOLESALE DEALER  IN

GRAIN,

SEEDS,

BALED HAY,

MILL FEED

BALED  HAY A SPECIALTY.

and PRODUCE.
HOLLAND,  -  MICH.
W N I N G
A  

A N D   TENTS.

WARRANTED  TO BE Til E

FINEST and LARGEST SMOKE
For th e m oney in  th e  IT. S.  CSP’P u t up 50 in  a  box.  Ask 
JOHN E. KENNING & CO., Grand Rapids, 
Send fo r prices.__________________

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

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Leaves. 
7:60 a  m 
11:30 a  m
6:00 p m 
7:80 a  m 
4:10 p m

m

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

inaw  City. 
Mackinaw C ity.
GOING  80UTH.
C incinnati  Express........................... 
F ort W ayne Express.........................10 :S0 a  m 
C incinnati  Express............................... 4:40 p m  
From  Traverse C ity........................... 10:40 p m

7:15 a  m
11:45 a  m
6:00 p m
7:15 a m  tra in   has  p arlo r ch air  car  fo r  Cincinnati.
5:00 p m tra in  h as W oodruff sleeper fo r C incinnati. 
5:00 p.  m. tra in  connects  w ith M. C. R. R. a t K alam a­
zoo fo r B attle Creek,  Jackson,  D etroit  and  C anadian 
points, a rriv in g  in D etroit a t 10:45 p  m.
Sleeping c ar rates—$1.50  to   P etoskey  o r  Mackinaw 
C ity ;  $2 to C incinnati.
All T rains daily except Sunday.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids &  Indiana* 
Leave. 
.„Arrive.
7  05 a m .......................................................................10:45am
11:15 a m .......................................................................  4:45 p m
4 ;20 p    ......................................................................   " 
P m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge street depot 7 m inutes later.

C. L. L o c k w o o d , Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit, Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOINS WEST.

Leaves. 
1:10pm 
6:10 p m

Arrives.
tM orning Express...............................1:06 p m
tT hrough M ail.....................................4:55 p m
tO rand R apids Express...................10:40 p m
•N ight Express....................................6:40 a m
tMixed..................................................
GOING EAST.
tD etrolt  Express..............................
tThrough Mail....................................10:20 a  m
■(•Evening Express............................   3:40 p m
•Lim ited Express..............................10:30 p m

30 a m 
50 p  III 
65 p m
tDaily, Sundays exeepted.  *Daily.
D etroit  Express  has p arlo r  car  to D etroit,  m aking 
direct connections for all points  East, a rriv in g  in  New 
York 10:10 a. m. next day.  Lim ited  Express,  E ast, has 
th rough  sleeper  G rand  Rapids  to   N iagara  Falla, 
connecting  a t  M ilwaukee 
th ro u g h  
sleeper to Toronto.
Through tickets and  sleeping  car  berths secured at 
D., G. H. & M .R’y offices, 2.* Monroe St., and at the depot.

Junction  w ith 

J as. Campbell, City Passenger Agent.

I t don’t pay to  run  after  other 
brands, for in the  end wise house- 
—  keepers  settle  down  to  the  use 
~  kof  S A N T A   C L A U S   S O A P . 
I f  your grocer hasn’t  Santa Claus 

WHO  URGES  YOU

TO  BLEEP

m a d e   o n l y   BY 

Soap, he’ll get it for you.

N .  K .  F A IR B A N K   &  C O .,C hicago.  111-

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THE  PU BLIC !

By splendid and expensive advertising  the  manufacturers ere 
ate  a  demand,  and  only  ask  the trade  to  keep the goods in 
stock so as to supply the orders sent to  them.  Without effort 
on the grocer’s part the goods  sell themselves,  bring  purchas­
ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.
ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS.
O ranges I
We  carry  the  Largest  Line 
and  make  Special  Prices  on 
Round Lots.
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3 3;OTTAWA38TKET,
Telephone 269v ...

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

THEO.  B.  GOOSSEN,

J—i U l l l v J l l O   •

fGMND  RÄPID8,  MICH.

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

Grand Rapids. 

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

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GROCERIES.

SOME  POINTS  MADE  CLEAR.

Communication  from 

the  Chairman  of

the  Insurance  Committee.

-  Gr e e n v il l e, Feb. 2.

£ . A. Stowe, G rand R apids:

D e a r   S ib —The freedom with w hich you  open 
your columns to the discussion of  the insurance 
subject  appears  to  me a fair illustration of  the 
value  of  such  an  organ  as T h e  T r a d e sm a n  to 
our Association.  The  present  condition  of  the 
insurance question reminds me very much of an 
old-time  revival  meeting  wherein  every  one’s 
experience is offered, prayers are  asked  for,  all 
having at heart one desire—“To be saved.”
Referring  to  the  Muskegon letter and that  of 
friend Hankey, of Petoskey,  recently  published 
in your paper, and  the proposed insurance plan, 
but one idea seems  to  prevail, that is a desire to 
get Rood  insurance  at  cost.  We  differ only in 
method, and it is to overcome this difference and 
bring about harmonious  action that this letter is 
■requested published.
Mr. Hankey  has,  no  doubt,  found  out by ex 
■perience  that  the  Millers’  National  has  cost 
about one-half as much  as  stock  fire  insurance 
and  for this reason urges that it is  w hat  Michi­
gan business men want.  The  Muskegon  people 
point with pride to the Millers’ M utual  of  Lans­
in g   and  Citizens’  Mutual  of  Kent, Ottawa and 
Allegan counties, and  for  similar reasons say it 
Is ju st w hat we want  These  are all good insur­
ance companies—for  insuring what they are  in­
tended for.  It is true, also,  that  the  resolution 
passed  at  the  Cheboygan  convention  favored 
this plan.  It will be  remembered by those pres­
ent, however,  that  the  questions  so vital to the 
operation  of  a  business  men’s  insurance  com­
pany, after it was organized, were not considered 
—th at we had in mind  but  three  things,  “That 
we were paying  too  much for the fire protection 
wc  have;”  “ That  the  stock  companies  were 
bound  to  possess  a  combination  against  us to 
4eep up their  rates,”  and,  as  was expressed by 
th e venerable Conklin  from  Grand Rapids, that 
<it would be necessary for us, if we gain anything 
in  this direction,  “To  stop  talking  and  telling 
wb#t other companies are doing and organize an 
insurance company of  our  own.”  A resolution 
w.gs passed to do so and an Insurance Committee 
was appointed to take charge of the  work.  Let 
me say here, for  this  Committee, that they have 
spared  neither  time  nor  money  in giving this 
question  a  thorough  investigation—that  they 
■realize that it is a great and  grand  undertaking 
—great in  amount  of  responsibility  and  grand 
■only in success.  They  have  examined  the re­
ports  of  the  insurance  commissioners  of  dif- 
erent states.  They have examined the insurance 
business of this State, going  back for a period of 
tea years.  They  have  met  officers  of  m utual 
companies,  particularly  those  of  the  Millers’ 
M utual of Lansing and the  M anufacturers’  Mu­
tu al  of  Grand  Rapids,  and  have  had  in their 
hands the charters and  by-laws  of  all  kinds  of 
ffrS insurance  companies,  including  the  three 
manufacturers’ m utuals in Michigan,  the  West­
ern  M anufacturers’  Mutual  of  Chicago,  the 
M utual  Fire  of  New  York  and  the  Millers' 
National.  From  all  of  this  information  and 
•from the practical experience of your  Insurance 
Cctamittee, we  offered  you  the  plan  proposed, 
thinking it the most practical,  the  simplest,  the 
safest, the cheapest  and, consequently, the best. 
Desiring to carry out  your resolution, as near as 
possible, “that we have a similar company to the 
Millers’ M utual,” we  took  their  plan  and  rea­
soned upon it thusly:  Does  this  plan  take into 
consideration the amount of insurance our com­
pany would be expected to write, and the location 
and  numerous  concerns  with  which  we  must 
deal ?  No.  Is it not true that while m anufactur­
ing  risks  are  scattered,  that  while  few  cities 
and  towns  contain  more  than 
two  or  three 
flouring  mills,  frequently  standing  detached, 
th at we are expected to go into a town and write 
insurance on adjacent  stocks  and  stores?  Is it 
not also  true  that  our  policies  must vary from 
$500 to 810,000, according to the value of the prop­
erty insured and the material and moral hazard“ 
■Is  it  not  also  true 
that  while  it  is  possible 
and  practical  for  m anufacturers’  m utuals  to 
write large policies of $10,000 and upward, taking 
the premium note  of  responsible  parties, that a 
Business  Men’s Insurance Co. would have  to do 
w ith many of small  means  and questionable re 
sponsibilities?  Then,  having  to  do with more 
people  and  on a smaller scale,  there  would  be 
more business changes,  so  that the membership 
of any  mutual  company  would  be  continually 
changing  and a very uncertain  quantity,  while 
the premium notes held  as security might to-day 
be w orth  all  they  represent  and  to-morrow be­
come  impaired  and  worthless.  Reasoning  as 
best we could, your  Insurance Committee failed 
to form ulate  a ’premium  note  m utual  that  we 
could conscientiously recommend for a Business 
Men’s Fire Insurance Co.  In every case we  had 
to meet the objections  named and the additional 
fact that in soliciting insurance  we  must  ask  a 
cash premium and a premium note.  We further 
found we would have to have special legislation 
granting us a  charter to do  business throughout 
-the  State.  Considering  all  these  things,  and 
after  examining  the  law  explaining  now  we 
must proceed to  organize,  we  concluded it was 
not what the  business  men  of  Michigan would 
want.  We changed our course of reasoning, as­
sum ing that as  the  business  men  of  Michigan 
find no fault with  the  security  of  the  present 
stock companies—in fact, prefer it—it is only the 
high rate, the  amount  we  are  annually paying 
•for it, they object to—and,  even  as  it  is,  many 
prefer to pay the higher  rate for stock fire insur­
ance than for mutual  insurance.  This  settled 
the question of security for us—that a stock com­
pany. wherein  the  capital  stock  was  liable for 
twice its amount in case of  necessity, was better 
for  security  for  Michigan  business  men  than 
any premium note mutual we could recommend. 
Having  determined  this,  we  racked  our  brain 
for a means of making the  result  represent  the 
actual cost only.  We found, by applying to  the 
insurance  Commissioner,  that  any  stock  com­
pany  can  do  what  it  pleases  w ith  its  profits. 
There is no law compelling  any company to pay 
all  it  earns  to  the  stockholders,  to  pass  any 
amount to a surplus fund, or to  prevent  its  giv­
ing it to any charitable institution or to its policy 
holders.  So we concluded to make  it  a  charter 
regulation of our company that the capital stock 
should draw only  10  per  cent,  per  annum, and 
th at the remaining  profits,  if any, should be re­
turned pro rata to the policy holders.
B ut many say:  “Few if any  stock  fire  insur­
ance companies pay more than 10 per  cent.,  and 
m any less.  How  will  the  policy  holders save 
anything in this case?”  We examined thisques- 
tlon and found that under the  present  methods 
stock fire insurance  companies  pay  on an aver­
age of 40 per  cent,  for  expenses  of  doing busi­
ness.  This,  with  50  to 55  per  cent, loss, leaves 
only from 5 to 10 per cent,  profit.  We  also  dis­
covered that the  Mutual  Fire  of New York and 
other similar  companies  were  issuing a partici­
pating  policy  and  by  economy in management 
by dropping the  local  agent,  by doing the busi­
ness from one  office,  and  by means of frequent 
inspections,  they are able to reduce both the ex 
pense of management  and  the  fire  losses about 
one-half,  Supposing  we reduce them only one- 
third.  If the fire losses  and expenses under the 
Old method are 60 per  cent,  of  the  premium  re­
ceipts,  then  we  would  save  30  per cent.  The 
stock in both cases gets its 10 per cent.,  the  sav­
ing, if any, being the dividend the policy holder 
w ilt get.
The fact  that  we  will  be  successful, that we 
w ill be as able  to  do  this,  holds as good in this 
case as it does that your assessments in a mutual 
company will be no more than one-half what the 
stock companies charge you.  The practical ap­
plication  of  the  plan  has  proven it, as well by 
■this plan as the other.  A member of your Insur­
ance  Committee  has  a  policy  on  this plan, re­
turning  him  this  year  45  per  cent, of the pre­
m ium  he paid one year  ago. 
Is  it not safer for 
the insurance company to collect  for  insurance 
th e  premium for  a certain  length of time, which 
years  of  experience  of  other  companies  has 
■proven adequate  to  pay  losses,  expenses and a 
m argin, ana return  to  the assured, at the end of 
each year, any saving that may be affected, than 
to. deal with  Tom,  Dick  and  Harry  on the pre­
m ium  note and assessment plan ?  Is it not better 
for the assured to know  a  company  is  responsi­
ble, that they have  got  the  money  to  pay?  Do 
you,  as  business  men,  want  a  premium  note 
m utual, cheaply officered,  with  everybody  con­
cerned, or a stock  company  with a participating 
policy, or are  you  satisfied  with  things as they 
are?  Is it not true that  w hat we w ant in fire in­
surance to-day is to bring the  company  and  the 
assured nearer together  on a more friendly rela- 
-tionship?  A  m utual  company  aims  to do this, 
but  no  more  than  the  stock-mutual  plan pro­
posed.  In no case  are  the  members  concerned 
only in the results.
As a Committee,  we  claim  for  our  plan  that 
these results will be a source  of  greater profit to 
all  concerned  by  having  the  $100,000  stock  at 
stake than any other  wav,  and  by  competition 
w ith similar companies the strife will be,  not  to 
seg  who  can  pay  th e  largest  dividend to the 
stockholders—for  10  per  cent,  is a limit—not to 
see who  has  the  largest  surplus,  but  who can 
pay the largest dividends  to its policy holders.
If  your  Insurance  Committee  could  prevail 
upon  the  stock  fire  insurance  companies  in 
Michigan  to  issue  these  participating  policies 
and reform their  methods,  it would  not  recom­
mend our going into the insurance business, but 
this  cannot  be  done.  The  existence  of  such

companies, with the results as  they  have  been, 
will  alone  force  others  to  do  this  or quit the 
field.
W hat we now w ant is  to  place  this  stock.  It 
draws but 10 per cent.  We offer it to each asso­
ciation in  hopes  they  would  feel glad of the in ­
vestment, and as both  policy  holders and stock­
holders  have  a  voice  in the affairs of the com­
pany and all the profit there is  in  the  business. 
So far as the management being  outside  of  the 
Association, it is as it should be.  A  public body 
like the M.  B.  M.  A.  will  be  most  successful 
where it  only  seeks  the  general  good and pro­
motes it, and remains free  from  other  responsi­
bilities.  Let the stock be taken  by  members  of 
the Association,  and  let  the  stockholders elect 
their directors and the directors the officers.  The 
Business  Men’s  Association  would  thus be  re­
lieved of the responsibility  of  its  management, 
but have its benefits. 
In  the  mind  of your In­
surance Committee,  there  w ill  be enough work 
for  the  Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association 
each year w ithout its  quarreling over the affairs 
and the election of the officers  of  an  insurance 
company.  It is  intended  that  this  company  is 
for you, that its  success  will  bespeak praise for 
our Association  and  honor  for  all  concerned; 
and  your  Insurance  Committee,  for  these rea­
sons, feel confident that the  Michigan  Business 
Men’s  Association  can  in  no  safer  way  reach 
good results than  by  the  plan  proposed.  Your 
Executive Board have approved the plan. 
“Do 
you  w ant  it?” 
If  so,  help  raise  the stock re­
quired.  Take stock yourself and persuade your 
neighbor  to  take  hold  with  you.  Attend  the 
meetings  of  the  stockholders  and  elect  the 
officers you want.  Become  identified  with  the 
company and interested in  its  success.  Other­
wise, let us drop the  insurance business and de­
vote our time and money to other things.

Geo. B. Ca l d w el l, 
Chairman Insurance Committee.

No  Restriction  on  Commercial  Travelers.
A t last there seems to be some  definite 
opinion on the long  mooted  subject,  the 
right  o f a state  or  local  government to 
impose any restrictions  upon  the sale of 
merchandise by traveling  salesmen;  and 
the result has been announced that there 
is no right to place any tax or restriction 
on such traffic.  Such  has been the  com­
mon sense  judgm ent of  m erchants  for a 
long period,  but the  antique  jealousy,  in 
some  of 
the  less  populous  cities  and 
states,  that  they should  not  have  their 
local trade  interfered with by represent­
atives  from  more  enterprising  compet­
itors,  has  heretofore  defeated  every ef­
fort to have this  whole question properly 
and  authoritatively  settled.  But  it has 
come at last,  and  the  Supreme  Court of 
the  U nited  States  announces  that  all 
state  laws  which  impose  license  taxes 
upon commercial travelers  who  are  not 
residents  of  the  state  are  unconstitu­
tional.  The  laws  may rem ain  for some 
time longer on  the  statute  books of  the 
states,  but they are  inoperative and can­
not be enforced.  Should it be attem pted 
hereafter,  it would render  those  who at­
tem pted to enforce  it  subject  to  action 
for damages.

Gobleville  Starts  a  B.  M.  A.

Sixteen  business men of  Gobleville assembled 
at  the  hotel  parlor  at that  place  last  Tuesday 
evening for the purpose of organizing a B.  M. A. 
J. H. Darling was  elected chairm an of  the meet­
ing and A rthur B. Clark, who was chiefly instru­
mental 
in  bringing  about  the  meeting,  was 
elected  to  act  as secretary  pro tern.  The  State 
Organizer was  present  and  explained  the aims 
and objects of  the  B. M. A., citing numerous  in­
stances of  work accomplished  by different asso­
ciations.  At  the  close of  his remarks, a resolu­
tion to proceed to organize was carried, the regu­
lation  constitution  was adopted, and  the organ­
ization was completed by the election of  the fol­
lowing officers :

and E. David Wise.

President—A. W. Myers.
Vice-President—J. H. Darling.
Secretary—A. B. Clark.
Treasurer—W. S. Crosby.
Executive  Board—Geo.  A. Bush, J. II. Darling 
The Blue Letter collection system was adopted 
for the use of  the  Association, when  the  insur­
ance  subject  was  discussed  for  a  short  time, 
after which the meeting adjourned.

The Gobleville B. M. A. is composed of a lively 
set of men. and, being well officered, cannot fail 
to accomplish much good for  the members.

Get Incorporated and Fix the Fee.

F e n n v il l e, Feb. 1,1889.

E. A. Stowe, G rand R apids:

D e a r  S ir—Our  meeting,  held  on  Jan. 31, re­
quests me to w rite you in regard  to the peddling 
license.  Now,  we  wish  to  raise this license to 
such a figure that it will do away  with the thing 
entirely, and,  as  the  Legislature  is now in ses­
sion,  we  thought  now  would  be  the  time  to 
strike.  We are annoyed very much in  this  way 
and no doubt there are many others who are.
In regard  to  the  State  dues,  will say that we 
will attend to them at the next  meeting.  Please 
let us hear from you soon.

Respectfully,

A. J. Ca p e x , Sec’y.

The full bench of  the  Supreme Court has held 
that  a  municipality  has  a  right  to  enact ordi­
nances prescribing a reasonable  license for ped­
dlers—that the payment of such  fee  on the part 
of the peddler is an evidence of good faith.  T he 
T r a d esm a n  notes  that Fennville is taking steps 
to secure incorporation, and, as soon as the work 
is completed,  it  ■will  be  comparatively  easy  to 
secure relief from itinerant merchants.

A tax as high as to be prohibitive would not be 
sustained  by  the  Supreme  Court, that tribunal 
holding  that  regulation — not  prohibition—is 
justifiable.

The Grocery  Market.

The local sugar  m arket is  ju st now an 
object of  interest, owing  to the  struggle 
for  supremacy  between  a  New  York 
member of  the  tru st  and a Philadelphia 
refiner who is not in  the  trust,  in conse­
quence  of  which  Michigan  jobbers  are 
able to lay down sugar here at New York 
quotations.  How long  the  fight will  last 
is  wholly a m atter  of  speculation.  The 
Supreme  Court  of  New  York  decides 
that  Charles  Arbuckle  m ust  pay  his 
“ Bunnie” 
lower  court 
awarded  her  for  breach  of  promise  of 
marriage,  so that another advance in cof­
fee  may  be  expected  shortly.  Tobacco 
men  assert  that  the  tobacco  m arket is 
sure to  rule  strong  during  the  coming 
year,  on  account  of  the  m anufacturers 
concentrating their efforts.

the  $45,000  a 

From  th e  M orley Advance.
As will  be  seen  by  a notice  published 
in  this  issue  of  the  Advance,  the  bus­
iness men of  Morley  have been forced  to 
adopt  a  new  rule  respecting  credits. 
This they have done not from  choice but 
from necessity.  B ut  while this is a new 
thing  for  our  merchants,  it  is  exactly 
what is in vogue  in  nearly  every  other 
town in the State.  Go to  Grand Rapids, 
or Big  Rapids,  or  any point  where  cor­
rect business principles  are  maintained, 
and  you will find that settlements are re­
quired to be  made  on  the  first of  every 
month.  W holesale  houses  enforce  this 
rule,  and it is only ju st  that it should be 
made  to  apply  to  customers  of  retail 
dealers. 
“Short settlements  make  long 
friends.”

MUTUAL  INSURANCE

There  were  6,087  furniture  factories 

Eaid if such insurance  company  is  expected  to 

F ro m   th e  S ta n d p o in t of a  F a c to ry   M uru al.
The following paper was read  at  the  conven­
tion of  the  National  Furniture  M anufacturers’ 
Association, held in this city last week, by P.  A. 
Montgomery, Secretary of the W estern M anufac­
turers’ M utual Insurance Co.:
I have been requested by your President to  de­
liver an address on the  best  known  method  of 
constructing slow-burning factories, on the  best 
known methods  of  extinguishing  fires  in  said 
factories,  and  on  m utual  fire  insurance.  On 
my informing him that my time would be too ful­
ly occupied during this month  to aid in  making 
drawings, or making any other preparation to do 
the subject justice, I was then invited by him  to 
give a snort talk on m utual fire insurance.
All insurance is mutual.  The  premiums  paid 
to an insurance company, w hether it  be  known 
as a stock company or a  m utual  company,  con_ 
stitnte the only fund from w hich losses are to be
ave any stability.  The moment you  touch  the 
capital stock of a company  for  the  payment  of 
losses, that moment the company becomes unsafe 
to contract  with.  The  relative  distinction  be­
tween the capital of a  stock  company  and  that 
of a  m utual  company  is  that  the  capital  of  a 
stock  company  serves  as  a  sort  of  guarantee 
that the policies issued by the  company  will  be 
paid in case of loss;  the  liability  of  assessment 
on the  deposit  notes,  premium  notes,  or  other 
obligations assumed by  the  members  of  a  mu­
tual  company,  w hich  constitute  Its  capital, 
serves as such a guarantee.
The oldest insurance company doing a  fire  in­
surance  business  is  a  m utual  company.  The 
oldest company in the United States is a  mutual 
company, the Philadelphia Contributionship,  of 
Philadelphia, which commenced business in 1742 
and whose assets amount to  about  three  and  a 
h alf million dollars.
In buying insurance you want, first of  all,  in ­
demnify—the best is usually the cheapest.
But I am to  talk  on  mutual  insurance.  The 
successful m utual insurance company,  in  addi­
tion  to  being  well  managed,  should  associate 
together, as members of said company, men  who 
are in every way reliable and,  in  addition,  suc­
cessful  in  their  own  business.  Their  risks 
should be well built with a view of  being  slow- 
burning.  There should should be no  concealed 
spaces, or hollow walls or floors, for  the  best  of 
fire appliances rarely ever can  extinguish  a  fire 
when  it  is  concealed.  Buildings  and  yards 
should  be  kept  clean.  Everything  should  be 
kept picked up and in  order.  How  many  men 
are disgusted with their homes,  6imply  because 
of the careless way in w hich the  house  is  kep t! 
And the inspector  of a conservative  m utual  in ­
surance  company  has  the  same  disgust  for  a 
dirty and uncared for risk.  In factories,  machi­
nery should be kept in order,  and  when  not  in 
operation a man of some  ability  should  be _ em­
ployed as  watchm an,  and  should  be  provided 
with a good watch clock,  in  order  that  the  as­
sured  and  underw riter  may  both  have  proof 
that  he  is  performing his  work  as  instructed. 
Lastly,  they  should  be  provided  with  reliable 
facilities  for  extinguishing  fire—an  abundant 
number of casks with  fire  buckets;  and  where 
oils, naptha, turpentine  or  alcohol  are  used,  a 
good  supply  of  buckets  of  dry  sand,  woolen 
blankets, and chemical fire extinguishers; stand 
pipes, with  constant  water  pressure,  and  light 
nose with small nozzles already attached for  in­
stant use;  not  less  than  one  good  duplex  fire 
pump (two would be better)  located  in  a  good 
fire proof pump house, or fire proof boiler house, 
and should take suction from  a  body  of  water 
th at would give  an  ample  supply;  and  an  ad­
ditional improvement  would  be  to  equip  with 
approved automatic sprinklers, with two reliable 
sources of water supply.
in  the 
United States when the census was taken in 1880, 
and 1,404 fires were reported on this class of risks 
ffom 1875 to 1886, twelve  years,  23  per  cent.,  or 
ten a month of the total  number  burned.  Dur­
ing 1884-5-6-7, or four years, there  were  602  fires 
reported, with a loss on  property  amounting  to 
$6,099,877; loss paid by  insurance  companies  $3, 
755,553: or a loss to  m anufacturers  above  insur­
ance of $2,324,324; 61 per cent  of  the  am ount  of 
loss  being  covered  by  insurance.  Owners  of 
cotton and other textile factories are  more  pru­
dent, insuring for 80 to 90 per cent, of  the  value 
of their property.  The following are the  report­
ed origins of fires for the four years nam ed:
Exposure.................................................................. 194
Incendiary.................................................................34
Stoves....'................................................................   8
Sparks.......................................................................  20
Sparks from  Locomotive........................................ 18
Ignition of Sulphur...............................................  1
Ignition of Chemicals...........................................   3
Friction....................................................................   5
Cigar Stubs..............................................................  1
Sm okestack............................................................  1
Defective Heating Apparatus.............................   3
M atches....................................................................  3
Chemicals.................................... 
4
Bonfires....................................................................  1
Unknown.................................................................  97
Furnaces..................................................................  3
Ashes........................................................................   1
Lamps.......................................................................   8
Spontaneous Combustion.....................................  38
Ignition of Benzine...............................................  2
Ignition of Gas.......................................................  3
Ignition of V arnish...............................................  2
Defective Flues.  ...................................................  7
Explosion of Boiler...............................................  1
Oil  Stoves................................................................   2
Open Fire Places.....................................................  1
Dry K ilns.................................................................   2
The following is  the  best  known  method  of 
constructing slow burning factories from one  to 
five stories in height:
The timbers are 10 x 12, or 12 x 14 or  16:  8  feet 
9 feet or 10 feet bays, 4 inches on centers.  They 
may be solid or in two parts bolted together,  not 
exceeding  25  feet  span.  The  floor  plank  are 
laid flat on these  timbers,  grooved  and  splined 
three inches thick on the narrower bays; four in­
ches thick on the  wide  bays.  Over  this  a  top 
floor is laid one inch thick, but the work will  be 
better and safer if  m ortar or asphaltum  paper is 
placed between the plank and the top  floor.  No 
sheating is permitted upon the under side of the 
timbers so as to make a hollow  floor:  but  when 
sheating is required, it is nailed solid to the  un­
der side of the plank, between  the  timbers. 
In 
dangerous apartments the wood work is  covered 
first with asbestos paper,  then  w ith  tin  laid  to 
follow the wood work, w ithout  a  hollow  space, 
or plastering is  laid  on  wire  lathing  following 
the line of plank and timbers.  Square posts  u n ­
tapered are stronger than round posts  tapered.
In  some  of  the  more  recent  mills  the  main 
belts are carried up in a  separate  belt  tower  of 
brick, from which the shafts  are  carried.  The 
stairways are usually in a brick tower, in  which 
the stand pipes and hydrants  are  placed.  Out­
side stand pipes which can only be worked from 
narrow platforms are not  of  much  use.  Stand 
pipes are carried out  from  the  porch  upon  the 
roof with a dydrant thereon.  Exposed windows 
and doorways are protected with  wooden  doors 
of two thicknesses of  one  inch  pine  nailed  to­
gether,  and  fully  incased  in  tin.  The  main 
point is that the wood  shall  not  tw ist  or  crack 
under heat.  The  theory  is  this:  The  wood, 
being completely incased in tin well locked,  the 
surface only is carbonized;  Then the oxygen is 
exhausted and  combustion  ceases,  or  proceeds 
slowly, while the surface  or  charcoal  being  an 
excellent non-conductor of heat, keeps the heart 
of the wood cool, strong and sound.
the 
Western M anufacturers’ M utual Insura nee Com­
pany of Chicago, Central M anufacturers’ Mutual 
Insurance  Company  of  Vanwert,  Ohio,  Manu­
facturers  and  Merchants’  Mutual 
Insurance 
Company of Rockford, Ills., jointly meet  all  ex­
penses of employees, experimenting etc.,the bus­
iness being directed from the office of the  West­
ern M anufacturers’ Mutual Insurance Company. 
From this  office  is  furnished  sample  irons  by 
which a sliding or swinging fire door  or  shutter 
becomes  automatic  and  will  close 
It 
would be easy to rig shutters to windows  which 
are exposed to dangerous buildings  so  that  the 
heat of a fire  60  feet  off  would  cause  them  to 
close.
The hazard should be divided as much as  pos­
sible ; the manufacturing being done in one p art: 
putting together and  finishing  in  another,  and 
storing in still another building.
The average rate on furniture  factories in  the 
Western M anufacturers’ M utual Insurance Com­
pany for eight years was 2.8 per cent.  The aver­
age rate at the close of 1888 was 2.3 per cent,  and 
the company  has  returned  on  the  average  for 
nine years22percent,  of  the  premiums  to  the 
members.  The  cost  of  policies  expiring  this 
month on arate  of  2.3  per  cent,  is  but  1.6  per 
cent., the present rate of dividend  being  30  per 
cent.  A factory strictly  standard  on  construc­
tion, with the hazards well separated and  build­
ings  fully  equipped with  approved  automatic 
sprinklers, with  two  reliable  sources  of  water 
supply, can be written at a rate of  1.5  per  cent., 
and after deducting  the  present  dividends  de­
clared would make  the  actual  cost  about 1 per 
cent.  If our entire profit was  divided,  the  cost 
on such a factory would be about 75 cents.
A m utual company should make its rates  suffi­
ciently high tp be reasonably certain that it  can 
meet all  of  its  obligations  from  the  premiums 
collected, without being obliged  to  levy  an  as­
sessment, in which case it makes but little differ­
ence what the rate is in a m utual  company, pro­
vided that each risk pays  a  rate  commensurate 
to the hazard,  as  the  unearned  portion  of  the 
premium paid is  returned  to  the  assured  each

For  the  purpose  of  reducing  expenses 

itself. 

 

year in the shape of a dividend.  The expense of 
conducting the  business  by  the  New  England 
factory m utuals  is  less  than  that  the  Western 
m utuals for the following reasons:
First—The members of the New  England  mu­
tuals do the bulk of their soliciting  by  persuad­
ing others who have  similar  risks  to  insure  in 
the companies of w hich they are members.
Second—There  are  only  half  the  number  of 
m utual companies in the East  that  there  are  in 
the West competing for the same  class  of  busi­
ness;  and still more m utual companies are being 
organized in the West.
If  you  w ill  improve  your  risk  to the proper 
standard,  half  of  the  number  of  m utual com­
panies  now  doing  business  in  the  West  can 
easily carry all  of  your  insurance, and the cost 
of doing the business w ill  be  reduced  fully  40 
per cent.  Many  of  you  carry  insurance in not 
less than ten  m utual  companies.  You furnish 
all the premiums  and  additional  security these 
companies  have  with  w hich  to  pay  the losses 
and expenses.  This  being  the  case, is it not a 
fact  that  your  indem nity  is  not  increased  by 
multiplying the number  of  m utual  companies? 
Is it not also a fact that you have also materially 
increased the expense of  doing  the business by 
having the large  number  of  sets of officers ana 
employees instead of a few?
The  laws  of  Michigan  require  an  insurance 
company to pay 3 per cent, tax on their premium 
receipts.  This is practically a direct taxation on 
the property of the party who  carries  insurance 
and dees  not  equally  tax  the  property  not in ­
sured.  In  a m utual company this 3 per cent, tax 
means 3  per  cent,  less  dividend  to  the  policy 
holder,  because  the  company  must collect this 
from the assured.  Only a sufficient  amount  of 
money  should  be  collected  of  insurance  com­
panies  as  is  required  to  properly m aintain the 
insurance department.

HIS  PASSPORT.

“Who’s th ere!  that knocks,” St. Peter cried.

“On Heaven’s pearly  gate?”

“Tis I, a merchant, I’m outside—

How long, St.  Peter, m ust I wait?”

“Tell who thou art and whence thou came, 

W hat be thine deeds for good and sin,

We here weight all for good or shame 
And then decide who may come in.”

“Aye, Aye, St. Peter, a m erchant I,’

Of honor great, ’mongst brother  m an—”

“A rascal?”  “Well, I don’t deny,

They’re honored, sir, in Michigan.
I own, St. Peter, my ways are dark 

With all the catalogue of sin.

But I T h e  T r a d esm a n  read—”  “H ark !
Come in, God’s chosen kind, come in.”

M. J. W r isl e y .

Hides,  Pelts and Furs.

Wool  is  quiet,  with  fair  sales  at 

slightly  lower price  than at the  opening 
of  the year.  The  small  amount on  the 
m arket,  with  assortm ents broken and  in 
strong  hands,  together  with a firm  m ar­
ket  abroad,  tend 
to  create  a  firmness 
here,  but no advance.

The  January  receipts  of  hides  were 
large  and  tanners were  surprised  at  the 
quantity they  received at the low  prices. 
They  are wTell supplied  and are  not free 
buyers. 
It again looks like lower prices, 
as  hides are  poor at  this  season of  the 
year.

Tallow  is dull at %c per pound decline. 
Furs are active and excited,  with  a sharp 
advance at the London sales.  We change 
prices,  subject to  later  correction,  as we 
have not full reports.

Sherwood  Takes  Charter  No.  83.

Sh erw oo d, Jan. 29,1889.

E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids :

Dear Sir—Herein find application for charter, 
constitution and by-laws, as adopted by the Sher­
wood  Business  Men’s  Association,  and  New 
York  draft  for  $7.50  to  pay  for  charter and 50 
cents per capita on  our  nine  charter  members. 
Our  regular  meetings w ill  occur  on  the  first 
Tuesday of each month. 

Yours truly,

W .  R. M a nd ik o,  See’y.

Trustful.

Mr:

Della  Creme  (wearily)—I  know
everything  we  eat  is  adulterated;  but 
what  can  we  do,  Reginald?  We m ust 
trust our grocer.
Mr.  Reginald  Creme  (drearily)—Ah, 
yes,  Della,  very true;  and if—oh,  if—our 
grocer would only trust us !

VISITING  BUYERS.

A M  Cham berlain,Venn vile 
Hessler Bros, R ockford 
R A H astings, S parta 
H enry Barr,  G rand  Haven 
S T McLellan, Denison 
J  C Benbow,  C annonsburg 
W C W inchester,B yronC ntr 
Wm Riley, Dickinson 
Sm allegan & Piekaard,
F orest Grove 
S Stark, Cedar Springs 
C K H oyt & Co.Hudsonville 
C S Comstock, Pierson 
H M eijering, Jam estow n 
M Heyboer & Bro,  D renthe 
DenH erder & Tanis
V riesland
H Van Noord. Jam estow n 
G Ten Hoor,  F orest  Grove 
A J  W hite, Bass R iver 
W H Bartholom ew ,H olland 
Gus Begm an, B auer 
Eli Runnels, C orning 
E H agadom , Fife Lake 
F  N arregang,Byron C enter

E E H ew itt,  Rockford 
Cole & Chapel. Ada 
H A Seym our.  P ortland 
C arrington & N orth,  T rent 
Geo Lentz, C roton 
D W S hattuek. W ayland 
Chas D arling, S parta 
C S Comstock, Pierson 
John Hom rich, No D orr 
C M W  oodard, Kalamo 
Wood  rd  & Polland,Ashlntl 
W E H inm an, Sparta 
F red H errick, C uster 
S Cooper  Jam estow n 
E R oberts, S parta 
John H W elch & Co.Ionia 
Stevens & W innie,Traverse 
City
Ja y  M arlatt. B erlin 
McAuley & Co, E dgerton 
J  M Reid, G rattan  
E W  Ives. Coopersvilte 
Johnson &  Seibert,
S pring & Lindley. Bailey

Caledonia

Dissolution  Notice.

Notice is hereby  fiven  that  the copartnership 
formerly existing between F. J. Immen andL. E. 
Best under the style of the Champion Baking Co. 
was dissolved on Sept. 24,1888, by the withdrawal 
of L. E. Best.  The  business  is continued under 
the same style by the remaining partner.

F .  J.  I mmen,
L.  E.  B e st.

TO  M ONTANA,  OREGON  A N D  

W ASHINGTON.

If you are going west bear in mind the  follow­
ing facts:  The Northern Pacific Railroad  owns 
and operates 987 miles, or 57 per cent  of  the  en­
tire railroad mileage of Montana; spans  the  ter­
ritory with its main line from east to west; is the 
short line to Helena; the only Pullman  and  din 
ing car 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 points of interest in 
the  territory.
The Northern  Pacific  owns  and  operates  621 
miles, er 56 per cent 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.  No other trans-continental 
through rail line reaches any  portion  of  W ash­
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  opportunity 
to see the entire Territory w ithout incurring  the 
expense of paying local fares from point to point.
The N orthern Pacific is the shortest route from 
St. Paul to Tacoma by 207 m iles: to Seattle by 177 
miles, and to Portland by 324 miles—time  corres­
pondingly shorter, varying from one to two days, 
according to destination.  No other line from St. 
Paul  or  Minneapolis  runs  through  passenger 
cars of any kind into Idaho, Oregon or Washing­
ton.
In addition to being the only rail  line  to  Spo­
kane Falls, Tacoma  and  Seattle,  the  Northern 
Pacific reaches  all the principal points in North­
ern  Minnesota  and  Dakota,  Montana,  Idaho, 
Oregon and Washington.  Bear in m ind that the 
Northern Pacific and Shasta line  is  the  famous 
scenic route to all points in California.
Send for illustrated pamphlets, maps and books 
giving you valuable information in reference  to 
the country traversed by this great line from  St. 
Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and 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  W ashington 
Territory, printed in colors.
Address your nearest ticket agent, or  Ch a s.  S. 
F e e , General  Passenger  and  Ticket  Agent,  St. 
Paul,  Minn.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—In poor demand at $1.25@$1.50 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  23@25c. 
Dairy is in good demand at  14@18c, according to 
quality.
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  for Bell and Cherry  and $8 for 
Bell and  Bugle.
Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried 
at 4%@5c and evaporated at 6@6%c.
Eggs—There is no fixed  price on which to base 
predictions, buyers  not  being  anxious  to  take 
shipments at much above 12%c.
Honey—More plenty,  being  easy  at  15c.@17c. 
per lb.
Onions—Buyers pay 20@25c for good stock, and 
hold at  30@35c per bu.
Pop Corn—2%e per lb.
Potatoes—The m arket is remarkably quiet, few 
shipments being made—and those at  no  particu­
lar  profit.

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

bbl.

PROVISIONS

T h e   G ra n d   R a p id s  P a c k in g   a n d   P ro v i­

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

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Mess,  new................................... 
13 00
Short cut Morgan...............................................  13  75
E xtra clear pig, short  c u t...............................   15  25
E xtra clear,  heavy...........................................   15  25
Clear quill, short c u t........................................  15 25
Boston clear, short c u t............................... . 
15 25
Clear back, short cu t........................................   15 25
Standard clear, short cut, best.......................  15 25
Hams, average 20 lb s............................
16 lb s............................
12 to 14 lb s...................
p icn ic..........................................
:«est boneless..............................
Shoulders...............................................
boneless............................
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................
Dried Beef, extra...................................
ham prices........................
Long Clears, heavy...............................
Briskets,  medium.................................
lig h t.......................................
lard—Kettle Rendered.
Tierces ....................................................
Tubs.........................................................................   8%
50lb.  T ins...................................... ..
lard—Compound.
Tierces 
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30 and 50 lb. T u b s......................................
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case..............................
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case...............................
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case...............................
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case...............................
50 lb. Cans.................................... ...............
E xtra Mess, w arranted 200  lbs................
E xtra Mess, Chicago packing.................
P late...............................................................
E xtra Plate...................................................
Boneless, rump butts.................................
“  % bbl.......................
sausage—F resh and Smoked.
Pork Sausage...............................................
Ham Sausage...............................................
Tongue Sausage...................................... .
Frankfort  Sausage....................................
Blood Sausage.............................................
Bologna, straight............... .,.....................
Bologna,  th ick ...........................................
Head Cheese.................................................
In h alf barrels.............................................................3 50
In quarter  barrels...................................................... 2 00
In h alf  barrels............................................................3 00
In quarter barrels.......................................................1 75
In  k its......................................................................  85

beef  in  barrels.

figs’ feet.

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h in dquarters...................................  5  @  7
fore 
3%@ 4

H ogs.....................................................................   034®  5*4
Pork  loins...............................  
@  714
shoulders..........   ..............................  @  6)4
Bologna........................................................  @ 5
Frankfort  sausage.....................................  @  8)4
Blood, liver and head sausage................  @ 5
M utton.........................................................   @5)4

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F.  J.  D ettenthaler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS IN CANS.

S tandards..............
A nchors.................
Selects.....................
Fairhaven Counts.

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

OYSTERS IN RULK.

Standards..................................................................   1 00
Selects.........................................................................   1 40
C lam s..........................................................................  1 25

FRESH  FISH.

Black  Bass......................................................   @12)4
T rout.................................................................  @8)4
W hitefish..........................................................  @8)4
smoked........................................   @10
Perch.............................................................  @ 6

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P u tn a m   & B ro o k s  q u o te   as  fo il  w:

STICK.
Standard, 25 lb. boxes.....................................
25 
Twist, 
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Cut Loaf, 25 
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200 lb.  bbls................................
Extra, 25 lb.  palls...............................
2001b.  bbls................................
French Cream, 25 lb.  pails____ ____
Cut Loaf, 25 lb. cases..........................
Broken, 40 lb. Bask..............................
2001b. bbls..............................
fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.
Lemon Drops........................................
Sour D rops............................................
Peppermint Drops...............................
Chocolate Drops....................................
H. M. Chocolate  Drops.......................
Gum Drops...........................................
Licorice Drops......................................
A. B. Licorice  Drops..........................
Lozenges, plain.................................... .
printed...............................
Im perials................................................
Mottoes..................................................
Cream B ar.............................................
Molasses  B ar.........................................
Caram els.................................... ...........
Hand Made  Creams.............................
Plain Creams..........................................
Decorated Creams............................... .
String  Rock...........................................
Burnt Almonds......................................
W intergreen  Berries..........................

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Bags, 50 lb.

Lozenges,  plain, in pails...................................... 12
in bbls......................................11
printed, in pails................................ 12)4
in bbls.................................. 11)4
Chocolate Drops, in pails....................................12
Gum Drops, in p ails.............................................   6
in bbls...............................................  5
Moss Drops, in pails............................................ 10
in bbls...............................................  9
Sour Drops, in pails.............................................11
Imperials, in pails................................................11)4
in bbls....................................... - ........10)4
Bananas.........*............................................   @3 00
Oranges, F lo rid as,....................................2 50@3  00
Lemons, choice...........................................2 75@3 00
fa n c y ............................................  @3 50
Figs, layers,  new ........................................  10@15
@   6 @ 4)4 
Dates, frails, 50 lb ..................
@ 5)4
“  % frails, 50  lb ..............
Fard, 10-lb.  box...........
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n u t s.;
Almonds, Tarragona...........
Ivaea....................
California...........
Brazils........................................
Filberts,  Sicily........................
W alnuts, Grenoble.................
French.....................
Pecans, Texas, H. P ..............
Cocoanuts, per 100...................
C hestnuts.................................
FEANUTS.
Electric L ights........................................  @8)4
Peacocks...................................................   @8
S torks.......................................................   @7)4
E x tra.........................................................  @5)4
Y a c h t.......................................................   @5)4

.  6  @ 7)4
@17 
@15 
.  14@16 
.  7  @ 7)4
.11  @ 11)4
@12)4 
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.  8  @12 
..4 25@4 50 
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10c cans.. 
54 IK “  • 
6 oz.  “
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12 oz. “ 
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lb.  “ 
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lb.  “ 
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.  1  90 
.  2  60 
.  3  80 
.  4  95 
.11  78 
.13 75 
.17 76 
.22  20

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45
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75
... 1  40
... 2 40
1  “  ...12 00
Absolute, )4 lb. cans, 100s. .11  75 
50s..10 00
50s..18  75
Teller’s,  )4 lb. cans, 6 doz.  2 70
3  “  . 2 55
1  “  . 1  50
75
% lb.  “ 
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1  “  ....  3 00
1 lb.  “ 
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45 
Red Star, )4 lb.  cans, 12 doz 
6  “ 
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Acme, )4 lb. cans, 3 doz__  

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English, 2 doz. in case....... 
80
 
75
Bristol,  2  “ 
American. 2 doz. in case... 
65
Gross
b l u in g . 
Arctic Liq,  4-oz...................  3  60
)4 p t..................  7 00
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No. 2 H url...............................  2 00
No. 1  “ 
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No. 1 
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Common W hisk...................  
90
Fancy 
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M ill.........................................   3 50
W arehouse.............................. 3 00
Kings 100 lb. cases................5  00
“  80  lb. cases..................4  25

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Dairy, solid  packed...................... 13
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Creamery, solid packed__  
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Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce

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Hotel, 40 lb. boxes................  10)4
9)4
Star,  40 
Paraffine................................ 
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W icking.................................  
25
CANNED GOODS—Fish.
Clams, 1 lb, Little Neck........1  25
Clam Chowder, 3  lb .............. 3  00
Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stan d __ 1  00
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Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic.............1  50
2  lb.  “ 
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1 lb.  Star.................. 1  90
2  lb. Star..................2  90
1 lb.  stand.......
..1  25
2  lb. 
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..2 00
3 lb. in Mustard ..3 00
31b.  soused__ ..3 00
..2 00
21b.
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1 lb. Sacramento ..1  70
2 lb.
. .2  75
5
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“  M ustard )4s....... @10
imported  14s __ 10@11
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CANNED GOODS—Fruits.

Trout, 3 lb. brook
Apples, gallons,  stan d ..........2 00
Blackberries,  stand............... 1 00
Cherries, red standard..........2 50
p itte d ........................ 2 60
D am sons.................................. 1 00
Egg Plums, stan d ...................1 20
Gooseberries........................... 1 40
G rapes.....................................  90
Green  Gages............................1 40
Peaches, all  yellow, stand.. 1  45
seconds..................... 1 25
P ie ..............................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........I l 80
Beans, Lima,  stan d ..............\l 00
“  Green  Lim as__   @1  16
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String................  @  95
“  Stringlesg,  E rie.....  90
“  Lewis’ Boston Baked.. 1 45
“  Morn’g Glory.1  10
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Peas, F rench............................1 25
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extra m arrofat...  @ 110
soaked......................  <0
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“  sifted.....................1  55
“  French, extra  fine...  14 U0
Mushrooms, extra fine........ 18 00
Pumpkin, 3 lb.  Golden.........  85
Succotash,  standard__   @  85
S q u ash ......................................1 25
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat..  @1  10
Good E nough___110
B e n H a r..,............1  10
stand b r....l 05@1  10

Corn, Archer’s Trophy.........

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coffee—Green.

Michigan Full Cream 12)4@13
Sap  Sago.......................  16@i7
chocolate.
Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet  22
“  Premium........  33
“  Horn-Cocoa...  37
“  B reakfast___  48
chewing  gum.
200 

Rubber, 100 lumps..................25
35
Spruce...................................... 30
B ulk.........................................   6
R ed...........................................  7)4
Rio, fa ir..........................16  @17
“  good........................17  @18
“  prime.......................18  @19
“  fancy,  w ashed... 19  @20
“  golden.....................20  @21
Santos............................. 15  @18
Mexican & Guatemala 17  @19
P eaberry........................ 17  @19
Java,  Interior............... 20  @22
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“  M andheling___ 26  @28
Mocha, genuine............25  @26
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add )4c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.

coffees—Package.

30 lbs  60 lbs

100 lbs
Lion......................................... 22)4
“  in cabinets .....................23)4
Dii worth’s ....... ...................... 22%
Magnolia.......... ...................... 22 %
Acme................. .21%  21%  22
G erm an............ .....................22%
b in s ..........................23
McLaughlin’s  XXXX......... 2254
Honey  Bee.............................24%
Nox  All  ................................. 23*4
O  B .........................................22)4
T iger.......................................22)4
Valley City............................ 
75
F elix .......................................  1  10

COFFEE EXTRACT.

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1  50 
1  60
2 OO 
2 25 1 00 
1  15

7  60 
6 00

Cotton,  40 f t .......... per doz.

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E agle...................................
Anglo-Swiss......................

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Seymour 
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B utter.................................
“  family.......................
“   b iscu it.....................
Boston.................................
City Soda............................
Soda.....................................
S. O yster............................
City Oyster, XXX..............
P icnic.................................

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Grocers’.................................  
dried fruits—Domestic.
Apples, sun-dried.......  5%@ 6
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Blackberries “ 
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Nectarines 
Peaches 
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Plums 
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Raspberries  “ 
Citron, in  drum ...........  @23
in boxes...........  @25
Currants........................   @5)4
Lemon  Peel.................  
14
Orange Peel....................... 
14
Prunes,  T urkey..........   @  5
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Raisins, Valencias__ 7)4  @ 8)4
“  Ondaras...................... 8)4
“  Domestic Layers.. .2 45
“  Loose Californias. .2  05
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...................   @140
“  split.......................  @  3%
Sago,  German..............  @6)4
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’r l ...  @  6)4
W heat,  cracked...........  @ 6)4
Vermicelli,  im port__   @10
dom estic...  @60

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

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2 oz. Panel, doz.
90
“ 1  40
4 oz. 
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6 oz. 
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“ 2  75
No.  8,  “  
No.lO,  “ 
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No.  4, Taper,  “ 1  60
y2 pt,  Round, “ 4 25
1  “ 
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FISH—SALT.
2 25
Cod, w hole.......................
“  boneless...................
2 75
H a lib u t............................
Herring,  round, *4 bbl..
*4  bbl..
Holland,  bbls..
Holland, kegs..

..emon Vanills
1  35
2 25
3 25
1  60
4 00
6 00
2  50
7  50
15 00
@5*4 @7*4
m i
1  50 
10 00 
@85 
30 
.9  50 
.1  45 
.1  35
Trout,  )4  bbls..............  @5 00
“  10  lb.  k its...................   80
White,  No. 1,  )4 bbls........... 6  00
12 lb.  k its.......115
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kits 1......... 55@65

Mack,  sh’s, No. i, %  bbl.. 
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LICORICE.

LAMP WICKS.

K e g s..............................................5 25
Half  kegs.....................................2 88
No. 0........................................  30
No. 1........................................  
40
No. 2 .......................................  
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Pure..........................................   30
Calabria...................................   25
Sicily........................................   18
B uckets.................................   6)4
Half bbls................................  6
Black  Strap......................... 16@17
Cuba Baking....................... 22@25
Porto  Rico...........................24@35
New Orleans, good............25@30
choice.........33@40
fancy......... .45@48 Í

MINCE MEAT

MOLASSES.

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PIPES.

PICKLES.

OATMEAL.
Muscatine, B arrels___ .......6  00
Half barrels .......3  15 1
Cases.........2 25(e&2  35

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ROLLED OATS
Muscatine, B arrels........
Half barrels.
Cases.........2 25(tfj2 35 !
Michigan  T est.............. .......  934
W ater  W hite................. .......11%  !
M edium.......................... .......4  50
Small,  b b l....................... .......5 50
....3   25
Clay, No.  216..........................1  60 j
Cob. No.  3...............................   49
Carolina head...........................6)4
No. 1...........................534
ISb. 2 ................. 5)4@
No. 3 ...................... i.5
SALERATUS.

J a p a n ........................................5)4
DeLand’s,  pure.......................5)4
C'Ljrch’s, Cap  Sheaf............. 5
Dwight’s .................................. 5
Taylor’s .................................... 5
Common Fine per bbl..........   84
carlots..  80
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks.......  23
28  pocket..........................
-.2   00 
60 
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..2   10 
..2 20
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100 
Ashton bu. b a g s............
Higgins  “ 
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Warsaw “ 
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35
Kegs.........................................   1*4
Granulated,  boxes................  1%
K itchen,3 doz.  in b o x .......  2 35
Hand, 
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Silver Thread, 30 g al............3 50
40  “  ....... ...4  50
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SEEDS.
Mixed b ird ..............
Carawav............................
C anary.............................
Hemp...................................
Anise................................... ■ 
R ap e..............................
M ustard..............................

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Scotch, in  bladders.......
Maccaboy, in ja rs...........
French Rappee, in J a rs .

...37
...35
...43

SNUFF.

SOAP.

Dingman,  100  bars.........
...4  00
Don’t  Anti-Washboard.
...4   75
J a x o n ................................. ...3  75
Queen  A nne..................... ...3  85
German fam ily................
...2 40
Big B argain....................... ...1  87
B o x es.................................
Kegs, English................... ....434

SODA.

“ 

“  
“ 
“ 

spices—Whole.
A llspice............................. ...10
Cassia, China in m ats__
Batavia in bund. ...11
Saigon in rolls... ...42
...30
Cloves,  Amboyna............
...24
Zanzibar..............
Mace  B atavia................... ...70
...70
Nutmegs, fancy...............
...65
No.  1...................
“ 
No.  2................... ...60
“ 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
...18)4
“ 
w hite..
...28
shot..................... ...21
“ 
spices—Ground—In Bulk.
. .15
A llspice..............................
Cassia.  Batavia................ ...20
and  Saigon.25
Saigon................ ...42
Cloves,  Amboyna............ ...35
Zanzibar............ ...28
Ginger, A frican................ ...12%
Cochin................ ...15
Jam aica............ ...18
Mace  B atavia................... ...80
Mustard,  English............
...22
and Tri<
Î..25
Trieste................
Nutmegs, No. 2 ................
..70
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
...22
w h ite..
...30

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
STARCH.

Mystic, 1 lb.  pkgs............
barrels.................
' 

SU G A RS.

“ 

..  6

“ 

O ff........... @

Cut  L oaf.......................
@ 834
C ubes............................
@  7%
Pow dered.....................
@  734
Granulated,  Stand—   706@ 7)4
Confectionery  A .......
Standard  A.  . . : .......
No. 1, W hite E xtra C.
No. 2 E xtra  C............
No. 3C, golden..........
No. 4 C, d ark ..............
No. 5  C........................

6)4@ 67» 
@ 654
@  6*4 
@  6)£
@ 5?4

SYRUPS.

“ 
“ 

Corn,  barrels....................... 24@25
one-half  barrels__ 26@27
k e g s........................ 
1  20
Pure  Sugar, bbl.................. 25@32
“ 
half barrel__ 27@34
16
SWEET GOODS.
7
X  XXX
Ginger Snaps................9 
14
9)4
Sugar  Creams.............. 9 
14
954
Frosted  Creams........... 
914
24
Graham  Crackers....... 
9
Oatmeal  Crackers....... 
9
tobaccos—Plug.
C lim ax..................................39@41
Corner Stone...............................39
Double  Pedro.............................40
Peach  P ie............... 
40
Wedding  Cake,  b lk .................. 40
Something  Good....................... 40
“Tobacco” ..................................40

TEAS.

j apan—Regular.

IMPERIAL.

SUN CURED.

YOUNG HYSON.

BASKET  FIRED.

Fair  .............................. 12  @15.
Good..............................  @16.
Choice............................ 24
@28
Choicest.........................30
@33
F a ir ................................12
@15
G ood............................... is  @20
Choice..............................24  @28
Choicest..........................30  @33
F a ir ...............................   @20
Choice................................... @25
Choicest........................
@35
Extra choice, wire leaf
@40
GUNPOWDER.
Common to  fair...........25
@35
Extra fine to finest.... 50  @65-
Choicest fancy..............75  @55
Common to  fa ir............20  @35.
Superior to fine............. 40  @50
Common to  fa ir............18  @26
Superior to  fine............30  @40
Common to  fa ir............25  @30-
Superior to  fine............30  @50
Fine to choicest............55  @65
F a ir .................................25  @30
Choice............................. 30  @35-
B e s t................................55  @65-
Tea  D ust........................  8  @10
Sweet Pippin................ 
go
Five and  Seven........... 
50
H iaw atha.................  
68
Sweet  Cuba..................’ 
45
Petoskey Chief............ 
55,
Sweet Russet................ 
40
4»
T h istle.................. 
F lorida........................ .] 
65
Rose  L eaf..................... 
66
Red Domino.................  
38
Swamp A ngel.............. 
40
TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS.
$ 2, per  hundred....................2 59
..................3 OO
f   5,  “ 

tobaccos—Fine Cut.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

OOLONG.

“ 

Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts :
200 or over...............   5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 

10 
20 

“
“

 
 
VINEGAR.

» S ' ..........................................  9)4
4OffT.............................................
50 g r............................................

$1 for barrel.

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

"9

PAPER.

“  Light  W eight__  

Cocoa Shells,  bulk..............  av
Jelly, 30-lb.  pails................ 
414
Sage........................................ 
15
P A P E R ,  W O O D E M 7 A B E .
C u rtis s   &  Co.  q u o te   a s 
fo llo w s:
S tra w .........................................i3£
S u g a r........................
Rag  S u g ar................
H ardw are.................
B ak ers.......................................254
Dry  Goods........................
Ju te   M anilla.................
Red  Express, No. 1..
No. 2..
TWINES.
48 Cotton.....................
Cotton, No. 2............
“  3..............
Sea  Island, assorted.
No. 5 H em p................
No.  8 B ........................
W ool........................................   71z
WOODENWARE.
Tubs, No. 1....................... 
rr in.
“  No. 2......................
“  No. 3......................
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop..
“  No. 1,  three-hoop. 
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.
Bowls, 11 Inch.................
..................
..................
.......................  _

“ 
13  “ 
“ 
15  “ 
“ 
17  “ 
“ 
assorted, 17s and  17s  2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
□ d“ 
Baskets, m arket....................  40
“ 
b u sh el...................   1  60
“  with covers  1  90 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l  5  50
“  No.2  6 00
“ 
“  No.3 7 OO
“ 
splint 
**  No.l  3 50
“ 
“  No.2 4 25
“  No.3  5 OO
*» 
G R A IN S  a n d  F E E D S T U F F S
WHEAT.
W h ite ........................
Red..............................
FLOUR.
Straight, in  sacks...............   5  00
“  barrels.............  5  20
Patent  “  sacks...............   6  00
“  barrels.............   6  20
Bolted...................................  2  50
G ranulated..........................  3  00
Bran......................................  14  00
Ships...........................................  15 50
Screenings..........................  14  00
M iddlings............................  17  00
Mixed F eed..............................  17 75
CORN.
Small  lots.................
Car 
“  ...................
OATS.
Small  lots...................
Car 
...................

MILLSTUFFS.

MEAL.

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

RYE.

No: 1, per 100 lb s .......
BARLEY.
No. 1........................................   1 30
No. 2. .......................................  1 10

No. 1......................................   14 00
No.2 ......................................  13 00
HIDES, PELTS  and  FURS.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as 

follows:

HIDES.
G re e n ... 
...................   4  @  4)4
Part  Cured...................   @ 4
 
4%@  5)4
F » u  
“  
.....................  5  @ 6
Dry  K ip s .............. . 
5  @ 6
Calfskins,  green.........3  @ 4
cured.........4%@  5
Deacon skins................10  @20

“ 

% off for No. 2.

PELTS.

FURS.

Shearlings.....................
Estimated wool, per 9>

10  @30 
20  @28

M ink..............................
Coon...............................
Skunk............................
M uskrat.........................
Fox, red....................... .
“  cross.....................
“  grey.......................
Cat, house.....................
“  w ild.......................
F ish er............................
L ynx..............................
M artin,  d ark ................
pale.................
O tte r.......................
w o lf........................... ;;
B ear................................
B eaver........................
B adger..........................
Deerskins, per lb.........
MISCELLANEOU
T allow ..........................
Grease  b u tte r..............
S w itches.......................
Ginseng.........................

“ 

5@  90 
5@1  00 
5@1  20 
1@  25 
5@1  50 
50@5  00 
5@1  60 
5@  25 
5@  50 
1 00@6 00 
50@5  00 
25@4  00 
10@1  50 
50@8  00 
50@4  00 
50@30 00 
50@8  00 
5@1 00 
5@  40

4  @ 4*4
5  @  8)4 
2  @ 2)4
2  00@2  10

Drugs #  Medicines*

State  Board  of Pharmacy.

One Y ear—O ttm ar Eberb&ch, Ann Arbor.
Two Y ears—Geo. McDonald. Kalam azoo.
Three Y ears—Stanley E. P arkill, Owosso.
F our  Years—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
F ire  Y ears—Jam es Vernor, Detroit.
P resident—Geo. McDonald 
S ecretary —Jacob Jesson.
T reasu rer—Jas. Vernor.
N ext M eeting—At the lecture room  of H artm an s  H all, 
•Grand Rapids, Tuesday and W ednesday, March 5 and 6.

Attehisan  State  Pharmaceutical  Ass’n. 

P resident—Geo. G undrum , Ionia.
F irst Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, L ansing.
•Second Vice-President—H. M. Dean, Niles.
T hird Vice-President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor. • 
Secretary—H- J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
T reasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.
Executive C om mittee—A. H. Lym an,  M anistee;  A. Bas­
sett,  D etroit; F. J.  W urzburg,  G rand R apids;  W .  A. 
H all, Greenville;  E. T.  W ebb, Jackson.

Local Secretary—A. Bassett, D etroit.

Grand  Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. 
P resid en t. J. W. H ayw ard,  S ecretary, F ran k  H. Escott.

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. 

P resident. J.  W. Caldwell.  S ecretary, B. W. P atterson.

Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association. 

P resid en t, Geo.  L. LeFevre.  Secretary, Jno. A. Tinholt.

Revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia.

A lbert B. P rescott in P h arm aceu tical E ra.

for 

I t  is  the  last  year  of  the  Pharmaco- 
pceial decade.  Another  revision  conies, 
let us bethink ourselves, next  year in the 
fifth month.  The  next  revision is much 
nearer  than  the  last,  and  calls  a  good 
•deal  louder  upon  us  for  action.  Time 
takes  away  the  old  book;  we  have 
to 
m ake the new book for ourselves.  Phar 
macopceial  criticism  ought  to  bestir it­
self 
reconstruction.  Destructive 
criticism  is not  longer in demand for the 
¡pharmacopoeia.  On the contrary, if there 
ibe anything in the book  that  the  reader 
w ould  very  much  like  to  have remain 
ju st as it is*in  the next  revision,  let  him 
prefer a special  request to  have it saved 
for  his  sake. 
Inertia  is  defined  to  be 
that  property  of  m atter  by  which 
it 
tends  when  at  rest  to  rem ain  so  and 
when in motion  to  continue  in  motion.
when  a  pharmacopoeia is under  re­
vision by a committee of  twenty-five,  un- 
.der  orders  from  a convention of  a hun­
dred or more,  in  the  undertaking to rep­
resent the pharm acists and physicians of 
the United States,  then the  several parts 
of  that  Pharmacopoeia  are 
in  motion, 
;and it requires  an  expenditure  of  force 
¡to  set  any  one  of  them  at  rest.  Con­
structive criticism is at a premium.
A  classified  collection  of  criticisms 
upon  the  Pharmacopoeia of  1880,  drawn 
from current home and  foreign  publica­
tions,  from the date of  issue  down to the 
present  time,  is  about  to  be  published 
by  the  committee  of  revision. 
It  has 
been  prepared  by an  experienced  com­
piler  and  editor,  one  employed  by  the 
•committee,  but in no  way engaged in the 
»revision itself. 
Its scope  has  been  lim­
ited so as to comprise only criticism upon 
.all  the  subject  m atter,  the  work of  the 
committee of  revision,  and not to include 
discussion upon general questions settled 
by the decennial  convention. 
It  will be 
sent  in  sufiicient num bers  of  copies  to 
.all  the organized  bodies  entitled to send 
•delegates  to  the  next  convention,  and 
furnished  free  to  others  upon their ap­
plication. 
It is a contribution  from  the 
present  committee  of  revision,  serving 
from 1880  to  1890,  and  it is to furnish a 
digest of  the criticisms  which have been 
■made  upon  the  revision  during the de­
cade.  So  far  as  strictures  upon 
the 
pharmacopoeia have been  good  for some­
thing  they  m ust  be  made  useful,  and 
now is the time to  bring  them  all  alike 
to  trial  for  what  they are  worth.  All 
distinct suggestions for improvement de­
serve to be  brought  together  for a fuller 
.judgment upon them!  Some  industrious 
•contributions of  actual  m aterial  for the 
aiext revision have been  made,  and these 
may  be  of  great  value  and  should  be 
•brought again before the  pharmaceutical 
.public for further examination.  So wide 
has  been  the  extent  of  comment  upon 
the  last  pharmacopoeia,  it  cannot be ex­
pected that the summary undertaken will 
prove  to  be  complete.  As  a  digest  it 
will  itself  be  quite  sure  to be a subject 
•of  complaint here  and there. 
It may be 
•confidently  expected,  however,  that 
it 
w ill be one of  the best  possible  helps in 
•the hands of  the constructive workers.
Other  helps  there  are,  ever to be  re­
garded, 
the  pharmacopoeias  of  the 
more  advanced  nations  of  Europe. 
England,  the mother  country of  our own 
tongue,  has a code  made  anew  in  1885. 
•Germany,  the land of  chemical research, 
m aintaining  educational  apprenticeship 
with  universito 
training  in  pharmacy, 
has a pharmacopoeia of  nearly  the  same 
• date  as  ours  and  therew ith m aintains  a 
•committee for the continued  publication 
of  subject-m atter  for  their next edition. 
France,  with the credit of  holding  phar­
macy in most  honorable  estate as  a pro­
fession,  has  a code made new in 1884.  A 
comparative  abstract of  all  the pharma­
copoeias is being edited with commentary 
by Bruno  Hirsch,  in Berlin.  These are 
helps,  not models.  Certainly not  one of 
•the pharmacopoeias of  Europe would suit 
us  or  be  suitable  for  us.  We  have  to 
make  one  suitable  for  ourselves,  the 
pharmacists and physicians of the United 
States,  as well  as  we  can,  and  then,  ah 
then,  we  have 
to 
use it.
Is there a pharmacopoeia on  the  globe 
so much  in  disuse by those for whom  it 
exists  as our own has been ?  The extent 
•of  this  disuse  in  the  past,  even among 
well  established  pharmacists,  is  not  a 
m atter  to  speak about. 
It is not as bad 
as 
ten  years  ago.  W hatever 
causes remain  must be removed.  Legis­
lation  and 
societies,  publication  and 
schools,  all  the  impulses  of  science,  are 
•bearing upon pharmacists to compel them 
to know their authorized  standard better 
•than they  have known  it.  We must keep 
it  before  us  that  the  coming  pharma­
copoeia shall be so made  that  it  will  be 
an  authority  not  only  creditable to the 
profession but  acceptable  as  well. 
It is 
time already to speak for the fullest pos­
sible  representation  of  the  pharmacists 
of  our  State  and of  the  country in  the 
revising convention and  in  the  instruc­
tions  to  be  given by its constituents,  to 
the  end  that  in  every drug  store there 
may  be  a  vital 
the  book. 
There is nothing  more  needful for phar­
macy in the United  States  than to bring 
about the daily use of the pharmacopoeia, 
in its owrn individual  text,  separate from 
all commentaries,  in  the  hands of  every 
registered pharmacist.
The  joint*  action  of  physicians  and 
pharm acists 
the  production  of  the 
pharmacopoeia  is  a feature  most  happy 
for  both  professions,  and  we  are  most 
fortunate  in  its  wise  adoption  in  this 
•country.  The  medical  .public  are to be

to  bring  ourselves 

interest 

it  was 

in 

in 

in 

awakened,  somehow,  to  an  interest  in 
their part in the  revision.  Medical  rep­
resentatives have the  responsibility of  a 
num erical m ajority in the control.  Thus 
there were  sixty-eight per  cent,  of  med­
ical delegates,  and  thirty-two  per  cent, 
of  pharm aceutical  delegates  present  in 
the last  decennial  convention,  the  body 
that ordained  that  “ all  measures  of  ca­
pacity shall be abandoned and quantities 
shall  be  expressed  in  parts  by  weight, 
except that in  the  case of  fluid  extracts 
the committee  of  revision  and  publica­
tion shall  have  authority to adopt  such 
process or processes  as  shall  seem  to it 
best.”  And  there  were  sixty-fou»  per 
cent,  of  medical 
representatives  ap­
pointed  for  the  convention of  1870,  the 
body that ordered  “ that  measures of  ca­
pacity  be  abandoned 
the  pharma­
copoeia,  and  that  the  quantities  in  all 
formulas  be  expressed  both in  weights 
and  parts  by weight,”  an  order  which 
the  revising  committee  aftenvard  sub­
m itted  that they had  not  time  to  carry 
out. 
In  1880  the  constituent  pharma­
ceutical bodies sending  delegates consti­
tuted  only one-fourth  of  all  the  bodies 
represented. 
It  is of highest importance 
that medical sentim ent should  be so well 
defined and  represented  in  the  conven­
tion 
the  medical  public  shall  be 
suited in the  result.

that 

in 

The  Future  Role  of  Germicides  in  Phar­

macy.

the 

The 

investigation  of  bacteriologists 
have shown  that  many diseases  are  de­
pendent for their propagation and contin­
uation cn germs,  and modern  researches 
claim to have determined  the  identity of 
the germs producing certain diseases.
It follows from  these  discoveries  that 
germicides are likely to  play an  import- 
and role in the  pharmacy of  the  future. 
Indeed,  they are largely used at the pres­
ent day,  and  their  utility is only limited 
by the fact that it has  been  found  diffi­
cult  as  yet  to  find  efficient  germicides 
which  when  administered  internally do 
not affect the vitality of  normal tissue as 
well as that of  disease  germs.  This dif­
ficulty w'ill no doubt in time be evercome, 
and  in  this  there  is a promising field of 
wrork for progressive pharmacists.
Dr.  Austin  Flint,  of  New  York,  has 
recently published an  article on bacteria 
and their relation to disease,  in which he 
expresses  the  very hopeful  view of  the 
possibility  of  curing  all  diseases  by  a 
mere perfect knowledge of  bacteria.  The 
Scientific  American,  in  commenting on 
Dr.  Flint’s views,  under  the  title of  “ A 
Possible  Revolution in Medicine,”  sa y s:
Most people  have  read of  the bacteria 
and of  the  discoveries  concerning  them 
made by Pasteur and Koch.  The subject 
seems generally to be regarded as belong­
ing to the doctors—an  interesting  phase 
of  the  progress  of  our  time  and  some­
thing for students to sit up late over, but 
not  directly  interesting 
to  lay  minds. 
This  seems to be a grave  error,  for,  in  a 
recent paper on  “A Possible Revolution,” 
Dr.  A ustin  Flint  says  that  by a knowl­
edge of  bacteria nearly all  human ills of 
a physical  nature  may be  cured  or pre­
vented.  Hence  there  is no secular sub­
ject  that  may  fairly be  looked  upon as 
more engaging  and  timely.  Slowly  but 
surely  there  is  working a revolution  in 
the science and practice of  surgery.  He 
thinks 
time  will  come  when  the 
cause w'ill be  known  of  every infectious 
disease;  when they  will  be preventable, 
or,  having  broken  out,  will  be  easily 
curable;  and,  best  of  all,  when  it  w'ill 
be possible for the  intelligent  physician 
to afford protection against  all  such  dis­
eases  as  scarlet  fever,  measles,  yellow 
fever,  whooping cough,  etc.
Indeed,  there need not  be  any epidem­
ics,  and even  constitutional  diseases will 
be  curable  if  only  the  progress  in  the 
science of  bactesiology should  go  on  at 
the  present  rate,  because,  in  a  figure 
which 
the 
French,  “ The  higher  one  ascends,  the 
further off  seems the  horizon.”  T hat is 
to say,  the further we go in bacteriology, 
the greater appears the  promise.
In the last few  years there  has been a 
really  remarkable  advance,  “ an  evolu­
tion of  knowledge,”  the author  calls  it. 
There is  “Pasteur’s  work  with  the  fer­
mentations,  his discovery of  the microbe 
which  breeds in the  silkw'orm a peculiar 
disease,  and  especially  the  isolation  of 
the  microbe of  the  carbuncular  disease 
of  sheep—which sometimes  attack man. 
These  give  a  powerful  impulse  to  the 
study of  bacteriology.”  Koch’s  part  in 
the bacteriological era  would seem,  from 
W'hat  our  author  says,  to  be  somewhat 
similar  to  that  of  Ampere  in  electro­
magnetism;  he  supplemented  Pasteur’s 
discovery,  as Ampere did  Oersted’s.
Bacteria,  w hich  are  now  know n  to be 
vegetable and not animal growths,  are to 
be found  in  large  num bers in the intes­
tines even of  the most  healthy,  and  it is 
in knowing the nature and  habit of  these 
that will enable  the  student  to  prevent 
their  inroads  when the condition of  the 
system leave it disarmed.  Even  now',  so 
we  are  told,  consumption can no longer 
indi­
be  called 
gestions  are 
treated  by 
means of  disinfectants. 
In  many of  the 
skin  diseases  is  found  an  organism  at 
w'ork; 
in  diphtheria  the  germs  are  at 
w'ork in the mucous membrane. 
In both 
cases the physician  now'  addresses  him­
self  particularly  to  dealing  with  these 
germs.  Among  the  diseases  in  which, 
our author says,  the presence of  bacteria 
has already been surely traced,  and  their 
influence been distressed or destroyed,  to 
the  relief  or  cure  of  the  patient,  are: 
tuberculosis,  diphtheria,  typhoid  fever, 
yellow  fever,  relapsing  fever,  the  ma­
larial  fevers,  certain  catarrhs,  tetanus 
and many contagious and  skin  diseases.

tke  doctor  borrows  from 

incurable,  fermentive 

successfully 

A  Simple  Test  for  Some  Impurities  of 

Balsam  of  Tolu.

Balsam  of  tolu  is  one  of  those  pro­
ducts  which,  on account of  its price and 
resinous nature,  is very liable to adulter­
ation.  Such  obvious  adulterations  as 
sand,  earth,  chalk,  etc.,  can  readily  be 
detected,  but this is not  the  direction in 
which  most  adulterated  samples are so ■ 
phisticated,  other resins  being naturally 
selected for the purpose. 
I do not  claim 
any  originality  for  the  reaction  w'hich 
constitutes the test I  now  propose,  but 1 
have seen no communication recommend­
ing its use in testing  balsam  tolu,  which 
is sufficient reason  for  bringing it before 
your  notice  this evening.  About thirty 
grams  of  the  sample  are  digested  in 
bisulphide  of  carbon  for  about  fifteen 
minutes,  keeping it gently  warm  by oc­
casional  immersion  in  hot  water.  The

time. 

If,  however, 

clear  liquid is poured  off,  evaporated  to 
dryness,  and,  when  cold,  sulphuric  acid 
added to  dissolve  the  resinous  extract. 
A bright  red-rose  carnation is produced, 
which,  in the  case  of  genuine  tolu,  re­
mains of  a distinctly rose  hue  for  some 
considerable 
the 
sample he adulterated with  either storax 
or ordinary resin,  the rose  color  rapidly 
becomes  more  brown  in tint.  The best 
way to  apply the  test  is  by  perform ing 
the operation  upon a genuine  sample by 
the  side of  the  suspected  one. 
In   this 
way a distinct  difference  in  tin t  can be 
observed  if  only  one  per  cent,  of  the 
adulterant  be  present;  with  four  per 
cent,  of  resin,  or  rather  more of  storax, 
the difference in tint  can  be  readily dis-* 
tinguished  w ithout 
the  blank  experi­
ment. 
If  to the sulphuric  acid  solution 
a fluid ounce of  w ater be  rapidly added, 
the color of  the  resulting liquid is much 
duller  and paler  when  ordinary  resin  is 
present than with  the pure  balsam.

Regulating  the  Sale  of  Patent Medicines.
A t  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Kansas 
Board of  Health,  the  following  address 
was  presented by a committee  from  the 
Kansas Pharm aceutical A ssociation:

in  securing  a  trade  among 

it  contains.  Papine  is  said 

It was thought best to present ourselves 
at  your  regular  meeting  and  ask  your 
co-operation  on  some  plan  that  would 
unite all parties,  and  be  able  to  agree 
upon  such  measures for  the  prevention 
of  all dangers resulting  from the  sale of 
secret and proprietary  medicines  in  the 
State.  We  recognize  that  your  honor­
able body is intrusted w’ith  the  care and 
preservation of  the  health  of  this  com­
monwealth,  and is  an  organized  associa­
tion  under the  laws  of  this  State,  with 
power to enforce such  laws  and  regula­
tions as will prevent  the  spread  of  epi­
demics and contagious diseases,  also pre­
vent the sale of  inj urious food and  med­
icines.  We  believe  the course  you  are 
engaged  in  is  on«  of  the  noblest  and 
grandest  in  the  interest  of  humanity. 
As  representatives  of  Kansas  Pharm a­
ceutical  Association,  we  feel  proud  of 
the opportunity of  presenting  to you for 
your consideration  and  co-operation tht# 
vexed  question  of  patented  medicines 
and its  relation to the health of  the com­
munity. 
It is useless  for us to  speak  at 
length  on  the  great  num ber  of  secret 
medicines that are put up  and advertised 
to attract the attention  of  the  physician 
and the public,  but  in  order  to  make it 
clear to  you that  proprietary and  secret 
medicines containing poisoneus and nox­
ious compounds are  put  up  and  adver­
tised as simple  remedies,  we  refer,  for 
instance,  to  the  Scotch  Oats  Essence, 
represented to contain the valuable prop­
erties of  Scotch oats,  and  recommended 
to  be  a  nerve  food  and  for  producing 
quiet and healthy slumbex-.  An  analysis 
of  it showed it to be  simply a strong  so­
lution of  morphia. 
It  is  reported,  and 
probably true,  that  all  secret  emulsions 
of  cod liver oil  contain  morphia.  W in­
slow’s  Soothing  Syrup owes its popular­
ity and its quieting effect to the  morphia 
which 
to 
contain  the  active  principle  of  opium, 
without 
its  harm ful  properties.  No 
wonder that thousands of  the  citizens of 
Kansas are victims  of  the  opium  habit, 
who  are  leading  a  m iserable  existence 
which  is  only  relieved  by  death.  The 
public  are allured into  their  use without 
knowing their dreadful  and  baneful  in­
fluence on their  system.  Antipyrin,  an­
other  patented  article  used  by a  great 
many physicians, has  proved  to  be dan­
gerous  in  combination  with  spirits  of 
niter,  and  in many cases acts as a violent 
poison.  Cellerine  was  advertised  as  a 
patent  medicine  for  many  years,  but 
failed 
the 
people.  The  proprietors  changed  their 
plan  and  tried  the physicians by giving 
them  sample  bottles  and  a  published 
form ulary: 
the  result  was  a  financial 
success.
Bromidia  is  a  patented  preparation. 
The sample and  recipe  are  furnished to 
physicians, but  as  no  druggist can com­
pound  this  preparation,  it  is  in ferre d ! 
that form ula is not correct or fully given.
We  have  not  time to enum erate them 
all—most of  them  you  know.  They are | 
represented  to be purely  scientific  prep­
arations,  and  by good  advertising among 
the  physicians  and  plenty  of  recom­
mendations  from  members of  the  med­
ical  profession,  they  are  induced to pre­
scribe them,  and druggists are compelled 
to send away  to purchase  from  the man­
ufacturer w hat  he  could  easily prepare 
at one-fifth the price if  the true  formula 
was given.  We believe a law  should be 
pu t in operation that  would regulath the 
sale of  all  secret  preparations,  whether 
patented  or  copyrighted,  that  will  pre­
vent the community from being  imposed 
upon at the  expense of  life  and  health. 
Such regulations as proposed  should  be 
under the control of the Board of Health, 
and  co-operation 
is  earnestly  solicited. 
Our object is:
First.  To prohibit  the  sale  of  all se­
cret and  proprietary medicines  contain­
ing  poisons  as  scheduled  in  the  phar­
macy law, such as opium, chloral, aconite, 
cocaine,  etc.
Second.  Prohibit  the  sale  of  secret, 
proprietary  or  other  medicines  used  to 
produce  abortion.
Third.  Prohibit the  m anufacture and 
sale  of  cigars,  cigarettes  and  tobacco 
and  other 
containing  opium,  cocaine 
poisonous compounds.
Fourth.  Prohibit the  sale of  all  adul­
terated  liquors  or  alcoholic  compounds 
under whatever name  used as medicines.
Fifth.  Regulate  the  sale  of  all  pat­
ented,  secret,  proprietary  or  trade-mark 
p re p a ra tio n s .
Sixth.  Request  all  m anufacturers  of 
so-called medical preparations to present 
a true and correct working form ulary for 
examination  by 
the  State  Board  of 
Health. 
in  their  judgm ent  it  is  a 
safe compound for general use  and  con­
tains nothing injurious,  the  State  Board 
of  Health may issue a permit for the sale 
of  such remedy.
We  believe  this  plan  will  in a great 
measure  m itigate  the  present  existing 
evils;  we believe  you will have  the sym­
pathy  of  all  good  people,  and  every 
friend to hum anity will raise his voice  in 
favor of  a  reform  that is greatly needed 
in  the preservation of  health.

If 

The  Stenglein  M anufacturing  Co.,  of 
Saginaw  City,  has  contracted  with  Mr. 
W allace  Franklin,  of 
this  city,  for  a 
seventy-five-horsepower  W estinghouse 
automatic engine for their  new furniture 
factory.

Wholesale Drice  Current•

ACIDUM.

A ceticum .....................
Benzoicum,  German..
.......................
Boracic 
C arbolicum ..................
C itricum .......................
H ydrochlor..................
N ltro cu m .....................
O xalicum .....................
Phosphorium  d ii.........
Salicylicum ................. 1
Sulphuricum ................
Tannicum .....................*
Tartaricum ...................

8®   10 
80@1  00 
30
40@  45 
55®  60 
S@  5 
10@   12 
13®  14 
20
46®1  80 
134@  5 
40@1  60 
45®  50

“ 

Aqua, 16  deg.. 
18  deg................ 
Carbonas  .....................
C hloridum ................... 

3®

„
6
I*®  ”

ANILINE.
.................... 00©2 25
"Rlaek 
Brown::::.................
R ed.................................  4o@  50
Y ellow .......................... ~ o0@3 00

BACCi
Cubeae (po. 1  60.
Ju n ip eru s............
Xanthoxylum —

. ..1  85@2 00 
.. 
8®   10 
..  25®  30

b a l s a m u m .

Terabin, Canada  ....... 
T o lu tan .........................  ^5®

” 8 1 »
55

CORTEX.

Abies,  C anadian.........
Casslae  ........................
Cinchona Flava  .........
Euonymus  atropurp..
Myrica  Cerifera, p o ...
Prunus Y irgini............
Quillaia,  grd ................
Sassafras  ................... .
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)
EXTKACTUM.

Glycyrrhiza  G labra...  24@  25
po............  33@  oa
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11@  12
I s .................  13®  14
u s ...............  14®  15
14s ...............  16®  17
FEBBUH.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

@  15 
Carbonate Precip.........
®3 50 
Citrate and Q uim a....
®   80 
Citrate  S o lu b le........ 
•
®   50 
Ferrocyanidum Sol —  
<
15
Solut  Chloride.......... -- 
i
Sulphate,  com 'l..........   I /2J
p ure.............. 
«

“ 

A rn ic a __
Anthémis  . 
Matricaria

14®
30®
30®

FOLIA.

.....................  16®  12

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ ....
“ ....

gummi.

nivelly..............

Acacia, 1st  picked —

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-
Alx.
Salvia  officinalis,  )4®
and  54s .......................
U raU rsi........................

25®
35®
10®8®
®1
®
@
®
75@1
50®
®
®
@
25®
®30®
35®
35®
®
80®
®
@
@1
®
3 25@3 
25® 
25® 
4 
30©
h e e b a —In ounce package

2d 
3d 
sifted sorts...
po........   •••••
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60)...
“  Cape,  (po.  20)...
“  Soeotri,  (po.  60).
Catechu, is, ()4s, 14 Ms
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
Tragacanth  .......

A bsinthium ...........
E upatorium ..........
Lobelia..................
Ma jo ru m ................
M entha  Piperita..
Y ir ..........
R ue..........................
Tanacetum, V .......
Thymus,  V ............

“ 

MAGNESIA.

Calcined, P a t...............   55®  CO
Carbonate,  Pat  ...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K.  &  M —   20®  ~5
Carbonate,  Jennings..  35®  36

OLEUM.

20@1 30

00®3 50

00@2 10
50®3 00

A bsinthium ...................5 
Amygdalae, D ulc.  45®_ 75
Amvaalae, Amarae— 7  25@7 50
A n isi...............................2 
A uranti  Cortex...........  @2  50
Bergamii  .............  
  2 
C ajiputi...................  90@1 
00
Caryophylli...........   @2 
00
Cedar 
.......................  35®  65
C heuopodii............  @1 
75
C inuam onii...........   95@1 
00
C itronella..................... 
_@  75
Conium  Mac*..............  35®  65
C opaiba.......................   90@1  0C
Cuoebae.................15^50@16 
00
E xechthitos...........   90@1 
00
E rig ero n ........................ 1 
G aultheria............. 2-25@2 
35
Geranium,  ounce.......  @  75
Gossipii,  Sem. gal.......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ..............— 1  15@1  25
Jun ip eri..................  50®2 
00
L av en d u la.............  90@2 
00
60@2 00
L im onis.......................... 1 
M entha Pi per.................2 
75®3 75
00@3 25
M entha  V erid............... 3 
Morrhuae, gal........  80®1 
00
Myrcia. ounce.............. 
©   50
O live............................... 1 
00@2 75
Picis Liquida,  (gal. 35)  10®  12
10
R icin i......................  96@1 
Rosm arini...............  75@1 
00
Rosae,  ounce.........   @6 
00
Succini..........................  40@  45
S ab in a ....................   90®1 
00
Santal  .......................... 3 
Sassafras.......................  55®  60
Sinapis, ess, ounce__   @  65
Tiglii........................  @1 
50
T h y m e..........................  40®  50
opt  .................   @  GO
Theobrom as.................   15®  20
Bi Carb..........................   15®  18
B ichrom ate..................  15@  16
Bromide.........................  37@  40

POTASSIUM.

50@7 00

“ 

C arb............................
Chlorate,  (po. 20)__
C yanide...........
Iodide......................
Potassa, Bitart,  pure 
Potassa, Bitart, com . 
Potass  Nitras, o p t...
Potass N itras............
P russiate...................
Sulphate  po..............
RADIX.

A conitum .....................
A lthae............................
Anchusa  .......................
Arum,  po.......................
Calamus.........................
Gentiana,  (po. 15).......
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 65)...........
neflebore,  Ala,
Inula,  po
Ipecac,  po.....................2
Iris  plox  (po. 20@22)..
Jalapa,  p r.....................
Maranta,  )4 s ..............
Podophyllum, po.........
R hei...............................

po.

cut

“ 

Spige?ia__
Spigel 
Sanguinaria,  (po  25)
Serpentaria...................
Senega  ..........................
Similax, Officinalis,  H 
M
Scillae,  (po. 35).........
Symplocarpus,  Fceti-
dus,  p o .......................
Yaleriana, Eng.  (po.30) 
G erm an...
Zingiber a ...................
Zingiber  j .....................

“ 

“ 

.  12®  15 
.  18®  20 
.  50®  55 
.2 85@3 00 
.  28®  30 
©   15 
8®   10 
9
7® 
.  25®  28 
.  15®  18

20®  25 
25®  30 
15@  20 
@  25 
20@  50 
10®   12 
16®  18
®   60 
15®  20 
15®  20 
15@2 30 
12®  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
@  35 
®   25 
15©  80 
10®  15 
22®  85

SEMEN.

Anisum,  (po.  20).........
Apium  (graveleons)..
Bird, Is ..........................
Carui, (po. 18) —
Cardam on............
Corlandrum .........
Cannabis Sativa..
Cydonium............
Cnenopodium  ... 
Dipterix Odorate.
Foeniculum .........
Foenugreek,  po..
L in i.......................
)■
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 4
Lobelia.....................
Pharlaris C anarian.
Rapa  .........................
Sinapis,  A lbu.........
N igra.......
SPIRITU8.
Frum enti, W., D.  Co. 
D. F. R ....
Juniperis  Co. O. T ...
Saacharum  N.  E .......
Spt.  Vini  G alli..........
Vini O porto................
Vini  A lba...................
SpóngeS.

“ 

“ 

@  15 
.  10®   12 
4®  6
.  12®  15 
.1  00®1  25 
.  10©   12 
.  3)4®  4 
.  75® 1  00 
.  10@  12 
. 1  75©1  85 
.  ®   15
. 
6®  8 
.  4  ®  4Yt 
.  454® 454 
.  35®  40 
,  354® 454 
5@  6
8®  0 
. 
.  11®  12

2 00®2  50 
1  75@2 00 
1  10@1  50 
1  75@1  75 
1  75@3  50 
1  75@2 00 
1  75@6  50 
1  25@2 00 
,1  25®2 00

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

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

1  00 
50 
50 
60 
50

A c c a d a ..................
Zingiber  ................
Ipecac.......................................  60
Ferri  Io d .................................  50
A uranti  Cortes.......................  50
Rhei  Arom..............................  50
Similax  Officinalis................  60
Senega ....................
Scillae.....................
“  Co................
Tolutan..................
Prunus vlrg............
Tin c t u r e s.
Aconititm Napelli* 1 
F
Aloes....................
and myrrh....
Arnica.....................
Asafcetida................
Atrope Belladonna..
Benzoin....................
“  Co..............
Sanguinaria.............
Barosma..................
Cantharides..............
Capsicum.................
Cardamon.................
Co..............
Castor.....................
Catechu....................
Cinchona................
Co.............
Columba................
Conium....................
Cubeba.....................
Digitalis..................
Ergot........................
Gentian....................
“  Co................
Guaica.....................
ammon.........
“ 
Zingiber..................
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine......................
“  Colorless......
Ferri  Chloridum__
Kino........................
Lobelia.....................
Myrrh......................
Nux  Vomica..........
Opii........................
“  Camphorated__
“  Deodor..............
Auranti Cortex.........
Quassia..................
Rhatany  ................
Rhei........................
Cassia  Acutifol......
Co...
Serpentaria............
Stromonium............
Tolutan .'.................
Valerian..................
V eratrum Veride......
MISCELLANEO
ASther, Spts  Nit, 3 F 
“ 
“  4F
Alumen..................
ground,  (po
Annatto....................
Antimoni, po............
et Potass T

26®  28 
30®  32 
254® 354
3®  4
55®  60 
4®  5
55®  60

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“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

s 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

p o .....................  @ 

A ntipyrin.................... 1  35®1  40
Argent!  Nitras, ounce  ®   68
A rsenicum ...................  
5®  7
Balm Gilead  B ud.......  36®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............. 2  15@2  25
Calcium Chlor, Is,  (54s
11;  !4s,  12)................  @ 
9
Cantharides  Russian,
p o ................................  @1  75
Capsici  Fructus, a f...  @  18
po 
  @  16
B po..  @  14
Caryophyllus,  (po.  30)  25®  28
Carmine,  No. 40.....   @3 
75
Cera  Alba, S. & F .......  50®  55
Cera  F lava...................   28®  30
C occus..........................  @  40
Cassia F ructus............ 
®   15
C entrarla.......................  @  10
C etaceum .....................  ®   35
C hloroform .................   50@  55
squibbs ..  @1  00
Chloral Hyd C rst........ 1  50@1  75
C hondrus.....................  10@  12
Cinchonidine, P.  &  W  15©  20 
German  5®  12 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  ...........•.............   @  60
C reasotum ...................  @  50
Creta,  (bbl. 75)............ 
®   2
“ 
5
prep..................... 
5@ 
precip.................. 
8®  10
“ 
“  R ubra..................  @  8
C rocus..........................   30®  32
Cudbear......................... 
®  24
Cupri Sulph.................. 
7®  8
D ex trin e.......................  10®  12
E ther Sulph..................  68®  70
Emery,  all  num bers..  @  8
6
Ergota,  (po.)  45 ...........  40@  45
Flake  W hite................  12®  15
G alla.............................. 
®   23
Gambier......................... 
7®  8
Gelatin,  Cooper...........  @  90
“ 
F rench............   40®  60
Glassware  flint,  75 per cent, 
by box 66%, less
Glue,  Brow n................ 
9®  15
“  W hite..................  13©  25
G lycerina.....................  18®  22
Grana Paradisi............   @  15
H um ulus.......................  25®  40
Hydraag  Chlor  M ite.. 
®   85 
“  Cor  ....  @  75
Ox Rubrum   @  90 
Ammoniati.-  @ 110
U nguentum .  45®  55
H ydrargyrum ..............  @  75
Ichthyobolla,  Am ........1  25@1 50
00
Indigo.......................  75®1 
Iodine,  R esfb l............4 00®4  10
Iodoform ..................  @5 
15
L u p u lin ...................   85®1 
00
Lycopodium ................  55®  60
M acis............................  80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
dr arg Io d ...................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arsinitis  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
114).............................. 
2®  3
Mannia,  S. F ...........  90®1 
00
Morphia,  S.  P. & W .. .2  55®2 80
C. C o .........................2  55@2  70
Moschus  Canton.........  @  40
Myristica,  No. 1...........  60®  70
N ux Vomica,  (po20)..  ®   10
Os.  Sepia.......................  27®  29
Pepsin Saac, H.  & P. D.
C o ...............................   @2 00
Picis  Liq, N.  C., H gal
doz  ............................  ®2  70
Picis Liq., q u a rts .......  @1  00
p in ts ...........  @  70
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)..  @ 1 8
Piper Alba,  (po g5)....  @  35
Pix  B urgun..................  @ 
7
Plumbi A e e t................  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz.......  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv ............  55®  60
8@  10
Q uassiae....................... 
Quinia,  S. P.  & W .......  45®  50
S.  German__   32©  40
Rubia  Tinetorum .......  12®  14
Saecharum Lactis p v ..  @ 3 5
Salacin......................... 2 50@2 75
Sanguis  Draconis.......  40®  50
Santonine  .......................  @4 50
Sapo,  W .........................  12®  14
“  M.......................... 
8®  10
“  G..............................  @ 15
Seidlitz  M ixture.........  @  28
Sinapis..............................  @ 18
“  o p t........................   @ 30
Snuff,  Maceaboy,  De
V o es..............................  @ 35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
l l ®  12 
Sod a Boras, (po. 1 2 )
Soda  et Potass T art...  33®  35
Soda Carb..................... 
2® 2)4
Soda,  Bi-Carb............ 
5
4@ 
Soda,  A sh..................... 
3®  4
Soda, Sulphas..................  @ 2
Spts.  Ether C o ............  50®  55
••  Myrcia  Dorn.......  @2 00
“  Myrcia  Im p.........  @2 50
“  Vini  Reel.  bbl.
2  21)............................  @2  11
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal.......  @1  10
Sulphur,  Subl..............2=4@ 3‘,i
T am arinds...................  
8@  10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  30
Theobrom ae................  50®  55
V anilla........................ 9 00@16 00
Zinei  Sulph.................. 
7®  8
Bbl.  Gal
W hale, w inter............   70 
70
Lard,  ex tra.................   86 
90
Lard, No.  1..................  50 
55
Linseed, pure raw __   58 
61
Lindseed,  boiled.......  61 
64
Neat’s  Foot,  w inter
strain ed ...................   50 
69
Spirits T urpentine__   51)4  57
bbl.  lb.
Red  V enetian............... 1%  2@3
Ochre, vellow  M ars__ 134  2@4
“ 
B er.........134  2@3
Putty,  commercial__ 2)4 2)4@3
“  strictly  p ure.......2)4  234@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican .............................. 
13@16
Vermilion,  E nglish.
. 70@75
.
Green,  Peninsular....... 
70@75
Lead,  re d ... <................  634@7)4
w h ite ..................  634@734
@70
W hiting, white Span... 
W hiting,  Gilders’......... 
@90
White, Paris  American 
1  00
W hiting,  Paris  Eng.
c liff.............................. 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 

R oll................2)4® 3

paints. 

OILS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

P a in ts.......................... 1 

00@1 20

VARNISHES.

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

60@1 70
75@3 00

Michigan  Board of  Pharmacy.

Muskegon,  Feb.  1,  1889.

D e a i!  S ir —A meeting of the Michigan 
Board of Pharmacy,  for  the  purpose  of 
examining  candidates  for 
registration, 
will be held  at  Grand  Rapids,  Tuesday 
and Wednesday,  March 5  and 6,  1889.
The  examination  of  both  registered 
pharmacists  and  assistants  will  com­
mence on  Tuesday at 9 o’clock,  at which 
hour all  candidates will  please  report at 
lecture  room  of  Hartm an’s  Hall. 
the 
The  examination for registration  as reg­
istered  pharm acists  will  occupy’ 
two 
days,  that for assistants one day only.
Special railroad  rate of  one  and  one- 
third  regular fare for the round trip has 
been secured for this  meeting.  Reduced 
rate certificates will  be  mailed  by me to 
all who apply' for them.  Have  your cer­
tificate properly filled up  and  signed by 
the agent at  starting  point,  if  you  wish 
the benefit of  the reduced fare  returning 

Yours respectfully,

Jacob  Jesson,  Sec’y.

Chas.  F.  Nevin,  President  of  T.  H. 
Nevin  & Co.,  the  Pittsburg  paint  manu­
facturers,  was  in  town  Monday.  Mr. 
Nevin’s  annual  visits to this market  have 
come  to  be  a  feature  of  the  year.

COMMERCIAL  EVOLUTION.

W ritten  fo r T'ie   Tradesman 

The grasshopper eats the farm er’s crops.
The tramp burns down his  barn,
The ague all his labor stops 
And the mortgage takes his  farm.
Then forthwith goes he into trade 
Foresworn on gaining riches,
Buys on credit—his fortune’s made—
He busts—with sheekels in his  britches.
M.  J.  W r i s l i

The  Drug  Market.

is  weak.  Chlorate  potash 

Opium is very firm.  Morphia is steady. 
Quinine 
is 
lower.  Cream tartar  is  unchanged;  the 
fight is still on.  Shellacs  have advanced 
rapidly  and  will  be  higher. 
Ipecac  is 
tending higher.

Should  send $1 to 
E ,  A .  S tow e  &  B ro .
fo r one of th eir Im proved

GRAND  RAPIDS,

LIQUOR X POISON REG0RD8
azxTszxrc ro o t.

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

P P n i r   TJTjnQ!  Wholesale Druggists, 
r i l U A   J j i l U O . j  

G RAND  RAPIDS.

ê

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IRWIN&GOl

APOTHECARY'S  b r a n d .

CUBAN,HAND MADE.HAVANA.CIGAR5 

rE FROM ALL ARTIFICIAL f La vÍ r \ü A

“Los Dittoes'siaS

fire, contains one-third more pure Havana tobac­
co than any ten-eent Key West or two for 25 cents 
imported cigar you can get.

FREE  SMOKING,  MILD  AND  RICH. 

^ F o r  Sale  by  20,000  Druggists  throughout  the

DIAMOND  TEA

CURES

hiver and 

Kidney Troubles 
Blood Diseases 

Constipation

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Female

Complain t s

Hfflltine& Perto Drill Co,
Wholesale Agts., Grand Rapids

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

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

G L A SS,

Imported 
and American 
Polished PLATE,
Rough  and  Ribbed 
French Window,  Amen« 
can  Window,  English  9$ oz.
Enamelled, Cut and  Embossed»
Rolled Cathedral, Venetian, Muffled,.
Frosted  Bohemian,  German  Looking 
Glass  Plates,  French  Mirror  Plates.
The quality, variety and quantity of our stock 
Xs exceeded by no  house in   the United  States*

W  M •  R E I D ,

73 & 75  Lamed  Street W ert, DETROIT,  MICH« 
Grand  Rapids Store,  61  Waterloo Street.

P  OFISHINA

[trade  mark  registered.]

The Best Furniture Finish in the Mar­

ket.  Specially adapted for Pianos, 

Organs  and  Hard Woods.

U n i  I Q U IN  IT  wili remove grease and dirt, and 
r U U lo n lJ lA   w ill  add  a  luster  w hich 
for 
beauty and durability cannot  be excelled. 
D f lU K U llO   is  cIeal1  and  easy  to  use,  as 
r U u l o n i J i f l   full directions  accompany each 
bottle.
D ill  N U T M ir  is put up in Large Bottles and is 
r u U 1 0 j l l l i / i   sold  at  the  moderate  price  of 
Twenty-five cents.
Dill  UJUIMIT  is the best  Furniture  Finish  in 
r U I i l O j l I l i / l   the  market.  Try  it,  and  make 
vour old furniture look fresh and  new.
D m   IS  li IM IT  is for sale by all  Druggists, Fur 
r U u l O jlI J if l  niture  Dealers,  Grocery  and 
Hardware Stores.

J£3F”Beware of imitations.

TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY  THE

Hazeltine X Perkins Drilg Go,,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

House.

Place your order  vs itb 

our  Wholesale

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PROPRIETORS,

DETROIT,  -  MICH,

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co,

WHOLESALE AGENTS,

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

M IC H .

WHITE  LEAD 
& COLOR WORKS 

D E T R O I T ,

MANUFACTURERS OF

LATEST
ARTISTIC
SHADES
OF

I  EXTERIOR 
1 DECORATION
1 F. J. WURZBURG^Wholesale Agent,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

HAZELTINE

&  PE R K IN S

DRUG  CO.

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

-DRUGS--

Chemicals  and  Druggists’  Sundries.

Dealers  in

PatentiMediGines,  Paints,  Oils, l/arnishes,

We  are  Sole  Proprietors  of

WEATHERLY’S  MICHIGAN  CATARRH  REMEDY.

We have in stock and offer a full line of

‘W hiskies,  Brandies,

Gins,  W ines,  Bum s.

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

Henderson County, Hand Made  Sour Mash 

Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite 

Rye  Whisky.

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

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

toltine X Perkins  Drug  Bo.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

The M ichigan T radesman

H E   DRINKS  NO  MORE.

W ritten  f o r  T h e T radesm an.

“ Ever been  in  a lumber camp?”  asked 
Jim   Purdy the  other  day,  after  helping 
himself to a liberal chew of finecut.

“ Well,  hardly  ever. 

I  have  been  in 
one  or  two;  but don’t  know  anything 
about them from personal experience. 
I 
don’t  understand  the  inner workings  of 
them .”

“ W ell,”  said  Jim ,  “I  wisht  I’d  never 
got  acquainted  with  ’em. 
I’ve  worked 
into  nigh  onto a hundred  different  ones 
in  my time,  and  taking the  thing  right 
through,  it  ain’t  no  fun.  See  that scar 
back  o’  my  ear?  Well,  that’s  where  a 
dog  pine limb  struck  me five  years ago. 
A  failin’  tree  struck  another  old  dead 
un and  knocked it  off. 
It  lacerated  my 
skull  pretty bad.  The  boys  carried me 
to the camp  for dead;  but I’m tough and 
come out all  right.  See that front tooth?”

“ No.”
“ Well,  I mean  d’ye  see  where it uster 
be?  Well,  that’s  wrhere  Dutch  Bill  hit 
me.  He  knocked  me  pretty  near  two 
rod  before I ever  touched  ground.  But 
Bill  paid for it though.  He  was laid  up 
nigh 
three  weeks  after  I  got  through 
with  him,  and  he  haint  never  be’n  so 
good a man sence.

“W hisky?  Well,  some. 

I’ve  drinked 
more whisky ’n  ’d  float Hannah & Lay’s 
brick block down to Traverse. 
I ’ve seen 
the time when w ater didn’t taste nateral. 
I’ve  got  a  pretty  good  constitootion, 
pard,  er  I ’d ’a’  be’n dead  long ago.  But 
I’ve  swore off  on whisky now,  and  don’t 
touch it under  no  circumstances.  Goes 
agin 
the  grain,  too,  sometimes;  but  I 
can’t help  that.  How’d I come to do it ? 
Well,  I ’ll  tell  ye  how  it  was. 
It  ain’t 
every  duffer  th at  comes  along  that  I’d 
tell  it  to,  but  I   don’t  mind  you, pard, 
only  I   don’t want  you to tell  every  one 
you come acrost.

“ Four  year  ago we  had a pretty  snug 
winter,  if  I remember  anything about it, 
and,  though  wages  wasn’t  ter’ble  high, 
they was  fair. 
I  was working  in  Bill 
High’s  camp on the  Manistique,  and  we 
had  a  pretty  good  gang there  too.  We 
had good luck  that winter.  The’  wasn’t 
no  lost time. 
I went  into camp early in 
October and went to swampin’  roads and 
building  camp  and  chorin’  around  and 
worked  right  along ’till  the fifteenth  of 
April.  When I settled  up  with the com­
pany I  had a hundred  and forty  dollars 
cornin’  to  me  an’  they  paid it  all  down 
in brand new bank notes.

“ That w as about  noon of  a Thursday. 
I hadn’t drunk  no  licker  to speak of  in 
all  winter,  and  I  was  feelin’  good 
to 
think I had so much dust.  1 thought I’d 
go  down  to  the  bank  the first  thing  I 
done  and  leave all  but  twenty  dollars, 
and then  have a little fun with  the boys. 
As I was  going down  street I come up to 
Alec McCloud and Bill Peters and two or 
three  more of  the  lads,  and of  course I 
had to go in and take something.

“So  I  treated,  and  two or three  more 
treated and I started to go out when Alec 
said:

“  ‘Hold  on,  Jim,  let’s  have  a game  of 

T unk.’

“I wanted  to  go and  get  my business 
done but I  begun to feel  kinder good,  so 
after a m init I said I didn’t care.

“We  played  for 

the  hard  drinks  of 
course  and  it wasn’t  long before I got so 
that I didn’t  want that  money deposited 
in no bank in  St. Ignace. 
I don't remem­
ber very much^more that took place only 
that I got red roarin’  full  and put a head 
on  the  bartender  for  lettin’  somebody 
pay for the drinks  instead  o"  chargin’  it 
up  to  me.

“ Next  mornin’  I  woke  up  in  bed. 

I 
didn't know how I got  there  an’ I didn’t 
care.  My hair  pulled  and  my head was 
big enough  for five  men.  My mouth an’ 
throat was all dried  up an’  the first thing 
I thought of was getting a drink. 
I went 
down  to  the  barroom  and  called  for  a 
whisky straight.

“ When  I  went  down  after  a  dime  I 
couldn’t  find  one. 
I  couldn’t find  the 
buckskin  sack  I carry my bills  in either. 
I   went  through  every pocket I  had  and 
then  I  went  up  stairs  and  hunted  my 
room  all  over.  But  the’  wa’n’t  nothin’ 
there 
that  I  wanted.  There  was  the 
remains of  what  dinner  I’d  e’t the  day 
before,  that I’d  thrown  up,  an’  that was 
all.  A hundred and forty dollars out!

“Well,  I  beat  my  way  around 

towrn 
’till  I  got  sobered  up  a bit,  an’  then  I 
went back  and worked  on the  river. 
I 
thought  the  thingcall  over  and when  I 
got it all  figgered dow n  fine I ses  to my­
self,  I  ses,  “  ‘Jim   Purdy,  you’re  a d—d 
fool.’

“I swore off drinkin’  an’  playin’  cards, 
an’ I ’ve  stuck to  it four  years  an’  I cal- 
kulate  I ’m  good  to hang  o n ’s long  ’s I 
live. 
I ’ve  saved  up  nigh  five  hundred 
dollars  since  then,  an’  I’m  goin’  to  buy 
a  farm   over  in  Balsam 
township  this 
week  or  next  if  my  calkulations  haint 
piled.
“ You’re a young  man  yit an’  if  you’ll 
take a fool’s advice an’  let whisky alone, 
ye’ll never  regret it.”  

C.  O.  D.

The First  Maxim of the Railroader.

W ritten fo r Th e  Tradesman.

In  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   of  last  week  I 
noticed  an  article  headed  “The Railroad

L iar,”  in  which  the  writer,  after  sum­
ming  up the  numerous  liars  in  the em­
ploy  and  under the  instructions of 
the 
railroad  companies,  telling their  various 
m anners  and  commending 
their  profi­
ciency in the art,  asks:

Now what good  did all  this deceit  and 
m isrepresentation  do  the  railroad  com­
It didn’t make a pound of steam; 
pany? 
it  didn’t  clear  away  a  snow -drift; 
it 
didn’t deceive the public,  who have come 
to disbelieve  almost  anything  a  station 
employee tells them about delayed trains. 
It would be some  comfort to a man w ait­
ing  for a train to know  about how  long 
he  has to wait. 
If  it is  going  to be ten 
hours,  he  will  go  home  and  start  next 
day.  And when a train is ten  hours late 
surely  somebody  in  the  employ  of  the 
company m ust know something about  it. 
It is true the employees are pestered  and 
bothered  by the  endless  questioning  of 
the  waiting,  impatient,  restless  crowd, 
but if  they can’t  stand  questioning  they 
should  leave the railroad  and go to work 
in  a  powder-mill,  where  people will  not 
crowd  around  them  and  ask  questions. 
There  is need of a great reform here, and 
the  people  who wait  for  trains will  rise 
up and call that raihvay company blessed 
that  gives its employees opportunity and 
permission to tell the truth about delayed 
trains.  ,
The w riter  of  this  once  became  pos­
sessed of  the  spirit of  ambition to  be a 
railroad  magnate,  and  entered  the office
at the station of  S------,  then managed by
the  nowT prom inent  railway official,  Mr. 
M------,  to learn the rudim ents of  the bus­
iness,  as  all  successful  men  m ust do  in 
any  calling.  Sometime  during the  first 
day  of  service  a  heated  discussion  oc­
curred  between  the agent  and the  train 
dispatcher  relative  to the  time a certain 
train left  that  place,  and  through it all 
my friend  w ith not  a smile  on  his  face 
and  a  firm  hand  on  the  key,  positively 
declared that he  was right and that some 
other  operator had  made a mistake.  At 
last he trium phed and the  other fellow— 
poor  innocent—was compelled  to  take a
cussing.  Then,  turning to me,  Mr.  M------
remarked:  “ My  boy,  in  the railroad bus­
iness,  when  you  tell  a  lie,  stick  to  it.” 
This  was  the  first  lesson,  and,  coming 
from a man whose rapid promotions since 
that  time  have placed  him in the  envia­
ble position  he now holds,  I have  always 
treasured it.

Perhaps here  is an explanation of  why 
the p rem iere liar did not change his story 
from one  hour,  even  if the train was  ten 
hours  late.

All business calling have  their maxims. 
The  first  maxim  of  the  railroader  is, 
“When you lie,  stick to  i t ” 

R o y a l .

T H E   OFFICIAL  PLAN

Of  Insurance  Now  Before  the  Business 

Men.

The following is the official draft of the  insur­
ance plan now before the  business  men  of  this 
State:
To the............Business Men's Association:
The plans for a Michigan  Business Men’s Fire 
Insurance Company, as directed by  a  resolution 
passed at  the  Cheboygan  convention,  are  now 
ready to be  put  into  operation.  The  plan  pro­
posed  has  been  set  forth  in  T he  Michigan 
Tradesman and in the monthly  sheets  issued in 
October, and sent to all secretaries  for  distribu­
tion  to  the  members.  We  hope  this  has been 
done, but up to date we have heard  from  only a 
few associations on  this  question.  It  has  been 
intimated that the plan was not fully understood 
and that this circular  should  give  in  detail the 
plan proposed.
The  first  conclusion  reached  by  your  Insur­
ance Committee was that  a  Mutual  Fire  Insur­
ance Company for business  men  on  the  assess­
ment plan was not  practical  and  somewhat  be­
neath our dignity—that  our  organization,  if we 
have one, should rank with anything in the field 
in question of security.  To  do  this,  and  to or­
ganize under the  present  law,  we  must  be pos­
sessed of $100,000  paid-up  capital.  We  ask  that 
this be secured by the  local  associations  as  far 
as possible.  That the stock be in  shares  of  $25, 
and that for each $25 stock  subscribed  a  certifi­
cate of stock shall be issued  participating in the 
profits at 10 per cent.  Organized under the same 
law as the  Detroit  Fire  and  Marine.  Michigan 
Fire and Marine and Grand Rapids Fire, we pos­
sess  equal  security  and  a  financial  standing 
equal to the best fire insurance companies.
This  small  investment  on  your  part,  which 
will  earn  you 
least  10  per  cent,  in­
at 
terest,  should  bring  us  at  the  hands  of  ev­
ery  association 
its  proportionate  share  of 
the capital stock, with applications for insurance 
that  would  w arrant  the  company a  profitable 
business the first year, and our participating pol­
icies should reduce  the  fire  loss to  a minimum. 
As proposed, we can write  policies  of  from $500 
to $10,000.  according  to  the  class  of  building, 
kind of stock, fire protection and  the  moral and 
material hazard.  We write stores,  merchandise, 
dwellings and furniture, barring the special haz­
ards—shingle and saw mills, planing mills, flour­
ing mills, lumber  and  other  m anufacturing  es­
tablishments on which the stock  companies now 
lose money and charge the  merchants enough to 
make good their losses.  To enable the company 
to do a safe business and secure equitable profits 
the insurance is to be written at the current rates 
of other responsible stock companies which prof­
its are returned, not entirely  to  the  stock  hold­
ers, but to both stock holders and policy holders, 
first declaring the  dividend  on  the  stock,  then 
declaring dividends pro rata alike on the amount 
of premiums received.
As an illustration, supposing  our  premium re­
ceipts per year are $50,000.  that  $25,000  pays  our 
losses  and  expenses  and  dividend  on  capital 
stock, leaving $25,000 net earnings, to  be  distrib­
uted to the  policy  holders,  amounting to 50 per 
cent,  of 
Other 
m utual 
this, 
and  why  should  we  not  expect  to  do  as 
well?  For these dividends,  except  those on the 
capital stock, it is proposed to issue interest-bear­
ing scrip, redeemable at the option  of  the  Com­
pany for cash.
All business is to be done  from  one  office and 
confined to the State of  Michigan.  By  this,  we 
expect to save 40 per cent,  that  the  other  stock 
companies pay for conducting  their  business in 
the way of printing and advertising, commission 
and brokerage and local and  general  agency ex­
pense.  The prominent features of this Company 
shall  be  frequent  inspections  of  its  risks by a 
competent inspector,  the  encouragement  of  all 
means for reducing the danger from  fire, the co­
operation  of  the  Company  and  an  insurance 
committee  chosen  by  each  local association, to 
the  end  that  a  lessening  of  fire losses may in ­
crease the profits of the Company,  which, under 
this plan, means  an  increase  in  the  amount of 
dividends to each  policy  holder.  Summing  up 
the claims this company  possesses  for your con­
sideration, we  have:
1.  An organization for business men,  the  mer­
chant, wherein you  insure  yourselves  and  pay 
only what it costs.
2.  It assists to  educate  the  people  and  lessen 
the destruction by fire.
3.  Its affairs are conducted  upon  an  economi­
cal basis.
4.  Its officers and Board of Directors consist of 
business men familiar with their needs.
5.  The benefits of  the  Company  are  mutual, 
while  the  policy  holders  are  exempt from  any 
assessments.
6.  None but good moral and  material risks are 
accepted.
7.  The  Insurance  Commissioner’s  report  for 
1887 shows $3,312,000 paid out  for  premiums  for 
fire insurance alone in this State,  while  only $1,- 
892,000 are returned in  payment  for  losses.  By 
this  plan  $1,500,000,  now  sent out of  the State, 
can be kept  in  the  State  and  returned  to  the 
policy holders.  Will we do it?

companies  do  better 

the  premiums 

received. 

than 

the 

if  possible, 

is  detailed, 

Now  that  this  plan 

eany, to w hat  extent  you  will  patronize it and 

In ­
surance  Committee  hope 
to  hear  from  you 
find  out  how  well  this 
and, 
plan  meets  your  wants  for  an  insurance com-
ow far you will co-operate w ith us  to  complete 
the organization and make  the  company  a suc­
cess.  Articles of incorporation  are  already pre­
pared  and,  providing the  organization is imme­
diately  taken  up,  we  will  be able to secure the 
services of practical insurance men and members 
of our association for its officers.  You can readi­
ly understand that it is imperative  for the Insur 
ance Committee to hear from you  that  they may 
convey to the Executive Board, at their  meeting 
to be field January 16,1889, the facts in the  case. 
If we find the  majority  of  the  associations  ap­
prove this plan and will give  us  their  organized 
support, your  association  will  be  canvassed, at 
w hich time subscriptions to stock  will be solicit­
ed,  payable  when  the  $100,000  is  secured and 
your application for insurance taken and risk in ­
spected.
It is expected this year will see some insurance 
measure that will bring  us  practical  and  bene­
ficial results as the  result  of  the  combined  ef­
fort of our associations.  To do this, we must de­
mand the co-operation of the officers  and  insur­
ance committee of each association.  If this plan 
does not satisfy you, and you can amend or offer 
a substitute, let us hear from you.  The questions, 
“Will it pay?” “Is it safe?” “Is  the  management 
correct?” are questions  you  must  settle  in  this 
case  as  you do for any  or  all  business  invest­
ments.
Your  Executive  Board  and  Insurance  Com­
mittee  cannot 
they 
have  considered  your  interest,  and  offer  you 
this plan in preference to others because it seem­
ed safest and most practical.  We  will  do  what 
we can to carry out what we have recommended 
or w hat you may desire, and await  your  answer 
to this circular, which will be  final  to us,  in au­
thorizing the expenditure of more time or money 
in this  direction.  Address

guarantee 

this 

and 

Geo. B. Caldwell, Chairman, 
Greenville.
Oren Stone, Flint,
W. S. Powers,  Nashville,

Insurance Committee.

A  Misapprehension.

“ George,”  said  Mrs.  Simms,  “ did  I 
hear  you  say  ju st  uow  to  W alter  that 
you had  bought a horse ?”
“Yes, darling;  I bought a horse  to-day 
for—”
“No  m atter  what  you  bought  it  for, 
you  had  no  right to indulge in such ex­
travagance.  You know we cannot afford 
to keep  a horse upon  your  salary,  and it 
was not  ju st to  your  family to purchase 
one  anyhow  without  consulting me,*for 
you  know  that* I  am  constantly  going 
w ithout  things  th at  I   actually  need in 
order to make  both ends meet,  and—” 
“But,  darling,”  said  Mr.  Simms,  “ you 
don’t understand that it—”

“I gave up  the  idea of  getting  a seal­
skin  sacque  for  the  sake  of  economy. 
Harry wants  a  new  overcoat  this  very 
minute,  and Jennie  is  hardly fit to go to 
church  in 
th at  old  bonnet;  and  yet, 
while we are denying  ourselves,  you,  ut­
terly indifferent  to  the  feelings of  your 
family,  go  out  and  waste  money  reck­
lessly purchasing fast horses.”
“It is not so very fast,  dearest, because 
it—”
“ Fast  or  slow,  it  will  consume  your 
means too rapidly.  You know  you can’t 
keep the horse at a livery stable  for  less 
than $5 a week, and I should like to know 
where the mouey is going  to  come  from 
unless we discharge our  servant  girl,  so 
th at all the  work will come  upon  me. 
I 
should think you would enjoy riding  out 
behind a fast horse  very  little when  you 
know  your poor wife is at  home  toiling 
like a galley-slave  among  the  pots,  ket­
tles and p a n s!”
“If  you  will  perm it  me  to  explain, 
Emma,  you will see that  you are—” 
“Explain !  explain ! 
I wish  you could 
explain  how  our  bills  are  going  to be 
met while that  horse  is eating  his  head 
off  in  a livery stable,  and  the  coal in the 
cellar is still  unpaid  for and the gas bill 
comes  in  on  Thursday,  and  the sitting- 
room carpet is nearly in rags.  You need 
never  ask  me 
to  ride  out  with  y o u ! 
N ev er! 
I w ill not  give  my countenance 
to  such  folly by having  anything  to do 
with  that  miserable  beast. 
I will w ilk 
if  it kills  me—yes,  if  it kills  me !  And 
sometimes  I  half  believe  you  wish  it 
wrould kill me !”
to  me  for  a  moment, 
“Ju st  listen 
Emma,  and I will remove—”
“It seems too hard that our love should 
be  interfered  with  by a ho rse! 
I never 
thought  when  I m arried  you  that a vile 
horse  would  win  your  affections  from 
me  and  th at I should  have to suffer the 
bitter shame of  having  say husband pre­
fer a miserable  creature  on  four legs to 
me.  But that is what it is coming to, and 
I don’t see that  there is anything for me 
to do  but  to  pack  up my things and go 
back with a broken heart  to  poor  moth­
er’s,  where—”

“ E m m a!”
“ W hat?”
“ Stop for a m om ent!”
“W ell!”
“ Do  you know what kind of  a horse it 
“ No,  but  I know—”
“W ait!  w ait!”
“W ell,  what kind  of  a horse  was it? ” 
“Emnta !  it was a clothes-horse!”

w as that I bought ?”

The Many-Sided  Drummer.

You have seen him, seen him  often,
On the steamboat, stage and train, 
W ith his jaunty air and gripsack,
Full of business, fun and Cain.

Seen him  often in the smoker, 
Playing euchre or old sledge, 
Smoking ’till the air around him 
You could split it w ith a wedge.

Is his customer a deacon?
As he glibly talks of churches,

Mark the drummer’s serious phiz, 
And gets in a stroke of biz.

Is his customer a lady?
Very hard a lady’s heart is,

Mark his gallantry, his smiles,
That can stand a drummer’s wiles.

Is his customer a “statesman?” 
Either party, take your choice,
Of “our party,” talks the  drummer, 
In a confidential voice.

Thus he swings around the circle, 
From the book of hum an nature, 

Learning lessons ever new 
And his errors are but few.

Yes, a nuisance he may be, 
Sometimes, but in spite of that, 
He’s more oft a right good fellow. 
Ready for a joke or chat.

Then here’s to the jolly drummer, 
Full of business, wind and sand, 
Wonder  if  in heaven we’ll meet him 
With his gripsack in his hand?

The Montreal Carnival.

The Chicago & Grand  Trunk,  Detroit, 
Grand  Haven & Milwaukee  and  Toledo, 
Saginaw & Muskegon Railways  will  sell 
cheap excursion tickets from all of  their 
stations in Michigan to Montreal and  re­
turn February 2 to 8 inclusive,  good  for 
return passage until February 13  inclus­
ive.  The rate  from  Grand  Rapids  will 
he $20.90 for  the round  trip.

Expediency  is  man’s  wisdom;  doing 

right is God’s.

\

MICHIGAN  CIGAR  C O .,
“ M .  C .  C .” “ Y u m Y u m ”

Big  Rapids,  Mich.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED

The  Best Selling Cigar on the Market.

The Most Popular  Cigar. 

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SEND  FOR  TRIAL  ORDER.

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

M anufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in

B o sto n   R u b b e r  S h o e   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 .

AGENTS  FOR  THE

W.  STBBDB

Racking;  a n d   Provision Co.
R A RIPS MICH.
CRAMP 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IS

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

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

of all  Kinds,  Dried  Beef  for  Slicing. 

E A R D

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

R id d e d  Rigs* B eet, Tripe, E tc,

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.  Write  us  for 
prices.

J.  H.  THOMPSON  &  CO.,
T E A S ,

Honey Bee  Coffee

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C O F F E E S

S P IC E S B

Our Bunkum Coffee 
Princess Bkg. Powder 
Early Riser Bkg. Pdr.

SPICE  H M ILES |
SPICE GRINDERS

BEE  Mills  Gd.  Spices 
BEE  Mills  Extracts. 
BEE  Mills  BirdSeed. 
BEE  Mills  Starch.
BAKING  POWDERS.
[  BEE  Chop  Japan  Tea.
59 Jefferson  A ve.,  PBTRO IT,  MICH.

and  m anufacturers  of

SW IRT’S

Choice Chicago

Dressed Beef

—A M P   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 marks’men  and  meat  dealers  is 
solicited.  Our Wholesale Branch House, L. F. Swift 
&Go., located at,Grand Rapid-1, 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.
S w i f t  and

Union  S to ck   Yards, 

CHICAGO.

U .  c.  DENISON,

Stationary  anil  Portable  Engines  and  Boilers,

GENERAL  DEALER  IN

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

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

88,90 and 92 SOUTH  DIVISION ST.. 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

E stim ates Given on Com plete Outfits.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

F r u its ,  S eeds, O y ste rs * P ro d u c e .

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All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

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

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa  St., 

pleased to hear from you.
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GRAND  RAPIDS.

W M . SEARS & CO.,

Cracker  Manilfaetilrers,

AGENTS  BOR  A M B O Y  CHEESE. 

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

ÄrGfiG fflamlfactiJring Co.

A rctic B aking R ow der,

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

A rctic Bluings, 

RED  STA R   BAKING ROWDER, 

English Standard Extracts

When  making  Orders, Mention  the Above  Well Known  Brands. 

SEE  QUOTATIONS.

O. B. BROW N

MILLING  CO.

Brown’s Patent 
Brown’s Standard

Onr Leading; Brands.

Our Baker’s 
Vienna »Straight 

Every Barrel and Sack guaranteed. 

Correspondence Solicited.

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

P a p e r  

W a r,

Houseman Building,  Cor.  Pearl & Ottawa Sts.,

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

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M IC H IG A N .

WE  ARE  BEflDQUBRTERS

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

Syrups
Molasses
W holesale  Grocers

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

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