The  Michigan  Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, APRIL  3,  1889.

N O .  289.

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VOL.  6.

Eaton, Lyon S Bo.

B a s e   B a lls , 

R u b b e r   B a lls , 

M a rb les.

Base  Ball  Bats,

Pishing Tadele, 
_ _ _ _ _ _ _   Ärdiery.
STATIONERY.

BOXING  GLOVES., 

Eaton,  Lyon  X  Go.,

20 and 22 Monroe St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-  MICH.
CREOLE  STRAIGHT  GUT,

To all Merchm's 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 CUT,

Which  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 which he  may  please  all 
classes of cigarette smokers.  The same are nicely 
put up in packages of ten  and  packed  with  ac­
tresses’ photos.  There is also a variety of  other 
inducements, a notice of which  is  contained in 
each package.

Give  tl»e  CBEOLG  a  tria l  and  yeu   w ill 

find  it  a  big  seller.

Sold by all Grand Rapids  jobbers,  and manu­

factured by

S  F.  HESS &  CO.

R O C H E ST E R , N . V. 
M anoTrs of H ig h  G rade C igarettes.
F.  J.  DETTENTHALER,

JOBBER  OF

A n d   S a lt  F ish .

M ail orders receive prom pt attention.

See quotations in  another column.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

FOURTH NATIONAL Biffi

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A.  J.  Bowne, President.

Geo.  C.  P ierce,  Vice President.

H.  W.  Nash,  Cashier
CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general  banking business.

M ake a  Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

>»f Country M erchants Solicited.

WALES  -  GOODYEAR

and  Connecticut Rubbers.

THE HA. JR A. G ON

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

Spring Heels.

G.  R .  M a y h e w ,
86 Monroe Sf., Grand Rapids.
DO  YOU WANT A SHOWCASE?

SPECIAL.  O F F E R —This style of oval case;  best 
q u ality ;  all  glass,  heavy  double 
th ick ;  panel  or 
sliding doors;  full length  m irro rs  and  spring  hinges; 
solid cherry or w alnut fram e, w ith  o r  w ithout  m etal 
corners, 
trim m ings; 
6 feet long,  28  inches  wide,  15  inches  high.  Price« 
911«  n e t  cash.
1 m ake the same style  of  case  as  above,  17  inches 
high, from  w alnut, cherry, oak or ash,  fo r $2 p er foot. 
Boxing and cartag e free.

ex tra  heavy  base; 

silv etta 

D.  D.  COOK,

106 K ent St., 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

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T H E   GREAT

EDMUND B.DIKElffl
Watch Maker 
= Jeweler,
Grand Rapids,  -  flieh.

44  CANAL  8T„

L o o k  Out
F o rGeo.T. 
W a r r e n  
&  Co.’s

N e w

Cent
Cigar.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS.

promptness.  Nice  W ork, Q uick Time 

Satisfaction G uaranteed.

Manager,

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W.  E.  HALL.  J r., 

DANIEL L Y P

Successor to  FRED   D.  TA LE  &  CO„ 

Manufacturer 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  an!  D rip ts’  Sundries

And Jobber of

Call and inspect  our  new  establishm ent 

when in the city.
19  S.  IONIA  ST.

CUBAN,HAND  MADE HAVANA.CIGAR5 

- r  rROM ALL ARTIFICIAL F L A V O N I

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E V E R Y   C I G A R   BRANDED.

Los Doctors gar that will hold 

M Is free  from  AR

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

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For  Sale  by  20,000  Druggists  throughout  the 

U. S.

J.  H .  I.  C igar.

The  Very  Best  Nickel  Cigar  in  America.

H azeltM  M m  Drill Co.,
Wholesale Agts., Grand Rapids

Hillers, Attention

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

grand  RAPIDS,  MICH-

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  mar­
ket price fo r  all goods sent us.  Not only

BEANS
but  also  A L L   K IN D S  OF.  PRODUCE. 
We can sell as well as  anyone.

We invite correspondence.

B A R N E T T   BROS.,

159 So.  Water St.,  CHICAGO.

FLOR DE  MOEBS,” 
BEN HUR,”

Straight 10c.
3 for 25c.

AND

“Record  Breakers”
“Detroit  Sluggers,” 
Favorite  5-Centers.

; FEÀGRANT.

Sold hy Dealers Everywhere.

ASK  FOR  THEM.

M A N U FA C TU R ED   B Y

CEO.  MOEBS  &  CO.,
92  WOODWARD  ATE.,

DETROIT.

S h o w   C a s e

M A K E R S .

PriGßs Lower t a  Eller

QUALITY  THE  BEST.

T V rite  for  P r ic e s.

63—65  CANAL  ST.

W.  H.  BEÄGH,

W H O L E SA L E   D E A L E R   IN

GRAIN,

SEEDS,

BALED HAY,

MILL FEED

and PRODUCE.

BALED  HAY A SPECIALTY.

H O L L A N D , 

-  M I C H .

WESTFIELD  WHIPS.

S a v e   F r e ig h t

AND  O R D E R   OF

GRAHAM  ROYS,  Ä st,

54  LAKE  AVE.,

GRAND RAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

G R A N D   R A P I D S

Paper - Box  Factory.

tf.  W.  HUEL8TER,  Prop.

P ap er Boxes of E very D escription Made to 

O rder on  Short Notice.

We make a specialty of

Confectionery,  Millinery  and 

Shelf Boxes.

All  work  guaranteed  first  class  and  at  low 
prices.  Write or call for estimates  on  anything 
you mayjwant in my line.  Telephone 850.

.OFFICE  AND  FACTORY,

81 & 83 Cam pau St.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

TH A T  HONEST  FARMER. 

[Dedicated to the farmer who packed  my  last 
barrel of apples—in hopes to get even with him.] 

Who, when he packs his apple crop,
The biggest fruit  puts on the top?

That honest  farmer.

Who, when he makes a bale of hay,
Hides rocks inside to make it weigh?

That honest farmer.

Who, when we for pure butter yearn,
Puts oil of oieo in the churn?

That honest farmer.

Who skims the milk until its  blue,
And adds some chalk and water, too?

That honest farmer.

Who stuffs the turkey’s crop before 
It’s killed to make it weigh some more?

That honest farmer.

Who cuts the spurs from roosters old,
And labels them spring chickens, bold?

That honest farmer.

Who sends bob veal to market so 
Health officers will never  know?

That honest farmer.

Who offers board with bounteous fare, 
“Fresh from the farm” and free as air?

That honest farmer.

Who feeds canned vegetables few 
To boarders starved and roasted, too?

That honest farmer.

Who wants a dinner and some notes 
Of Uncle Sam before he votes?

That honest farmer.

Who goes to town to lay a trap 
To catch the bunco steering chap?

That honest farmer.

Who,when he’s caught himself, bewails 
The wicked world where fraud prevails? 

That honest farmer.

THE  COPPERING  PET.

in  himself. 

I  was wandering through  the  suburbs 
of  one of  our  sm allest  and  most vener­
able  seaport  towns,  when I came  upon 
the graveyard.  One  of  the  graves  par­
ticularly attracted  my attention. 
It was 
covered by  a large  and  flat stone,  which 
bore  an inscription reading as follow s:
“ Here  lies  the  body  and worldly sub­
stance  of  Captain  W illiam  Mereen,  a 
skipper of  this  port,  and father of  Polly 
Mereen,  who  sailed  from  here  in  the 
Coppering  Pet,  in  July,  1869. 
In  1801 
he was born in this  town,  where  he died 
in  1871.  The body shall remain here un­
til resurrected  by  the last trum p,  and the 
worldly substance  shall  stay  with  it un­
til  his  daughter  Polly  shall  raise  this 
stone  and  take from under  it her own.”
As I was turning away  from the grave, 
1 saw  on  the  road  an  elderly man  ap­
proaching. 
I had  met  him  before.  He 
was  a weather-beaten  personage,  with a 
seafaring  demeanor,  and  his  name  was 
W onderment  Sanchez. 
I saw  he  was in 
a hurry,  but I  stopped  him  and  asked if 
he could  explain  the  inscription on this 
tomb.
“ It’s cur’us,”  he said, “ that youshould 
ask  me  such  a thing at  this  time.  The 
Copperin’  Pet is  a lyin’  off  the  bar;  I’ve 
been a watchin’  fur her  fu r  years,  and I 
can’t  be  mistook  in  her.  She’ll  come 
over  at high water,  and 1’ ve been to hunt 
our pilots,  but all three of ’em have gone 
up  the  river  fishing. 
I’m  no  pilot,  but 
I ’m goin’  out to the Pet in my boat.  The 
captain  ought  to  know  the  bar,  fur he 
was raised here, and  perhaps he’ll  bring 
her 
If  you  like,  I’ll  take 
you  out  with  me,  and  I’ll  tell  you  all 
about that tombstone on the way.”
I  replied  that  nothing  would  please 
me  better,  and 
in  fifteen  m inutes  we 
wTere rowing over the  harbor  toward the
bar.
“ Billy  Mereen,”  said  Wonderment, 
“ was  an  old  friend of  mine.  He made 
many  v’yages  and  brought  back  many 
cur’us  things,  principally made  out  of 
whales’ 
jaw  bones.  He  had  a  great 
liking  fur  such  m atters,  and he’d a had 
his  own  bones  made of  whales’  jaw s if 
he  could a done it.  He  had  one  child,
I named Polly,  and  her  mother died  when 
she  was  little.  Nine  years  ago,  when 
I Polly  was  about  eighteen,  she  m arried 
I young  Alba,  of 
this  town,  and  sailed 
I  away as  is  stated  on  that  stone.  Two 
j years after that the old man died,  and  he 
I  left  all  he  had  to Polly.  As  I’ve been 
told,  everythin’  was turned  into  money, 
which  was put into an  iron  box  and  bur­
ied  under  his  gravestone.  Accordin’  to 
directions  he  left,  the  money is  to wait 
there  fur  her  fur  a hundred  years,  fur 
some of  the  wTomen  Mereens  live a long 
time. 
If  she  don’t  come  fur  it  in  the 
hundred  years,  the  money is to be  given 
to the oldest  man  in the  towrn,  and  when 
he dies to the  oldest  one  left,  and  so on 
until  it’s all gone.”
I  thought  old  Billy  Mereen  was  the 
most foolish  testator I had  yet  heard of; 
I  suggested,  how­
but  I did not  say  so. 
ever,  that the  iron  box  might be stolen.
“ Some folks thinks,”   said  the old man, 
“ that  there’s  nothin’  much in that box, 
and  some folks thinks  there’s lots.  But 
however ’tis,  there’s no man  in this town 
would touch that grave.”
I was  greatly interested  in this  story, 
and was  almost  as  anxious  as old Won­
derm ent him self  to get out  to  the  Cop­
pering Pet and  see  what  would  come of 
it all.
We  were  soon  out  at  sea,  and  as we 
approached  the  vessel  I saw  thatj Won­
derment  had  not  been  mistaken.  Her 
name,  the  “Coppering Pet,”  was  painted 
in  fresh  white  letters  on  her bow.  As 
she  lay  to,  before a moderate  breeze  we 
were soon on board.
W hen  we  reached  the  deck,  Wonder­
ment asked for the captain.
“ All  right,  sir !”  said a sailor,  “she is 
coming.”
She !  The old  man and I opened wide 
our eyes,  but none  too wide for the sight 
we  saw.  Up  a  short  companion-way 
there stepped a  young  woman,  who with 
a quick  and sea-trained  step came toward
She  wore  a  close-fitting  dress  of 
us. 
blue  and a broad straw  hat.
“Why,  if  this isn’t W onderm ent! ’  she 
exclaimed,  advancing 
the  old 
man  with outstretched  hands.
“I’m real  glad to see  you,  Polly,”  said 
W onderment; 
finely. 
And how’s—”
“ He is not living,”  said Polly,  quietly. 
“ I am so glad  you came on board.  This 
is  your friend,  I suppose.”

“ you’re 

looking 

toward 

closely. 

W onderment introduced me.
“Come into the cabin,” she  said,  “ and 
I  wiil tell  you'  everything that  has hap­
pened.”
W hen  two  glasses  of  grog  had  been 
brought,  Polly  told  her  story. 
It  was 
not  a  very  long  one.  He  husband  had 
died  about  three  years  after  they  first 
sailed away in the  Coppering Pet.  This 
happened  when they were  in  the Japan­
ese seas.  She would  have  sold  the ves­
sel  and  returned  to  her  home,  but she 
found  it  was  not  easy to make suitable 
arrangem ents of  this kind;  and then, be­
fore  any  plan  could  be  carried out,  she 
heard of  her  father’s  death.  When  she 
recovered  from  this  new shock,  she did 
not  want to come  home,  and if  she sold 
her vessel,  she felt that she  would  have 
no  abiding place in this world,  so she de­
term ined to  keep  the  Coppering Pet,  the 
only home she had;  and  haying a compe­
tent  mate  and a good  crew,  and  being 
accompanied  by  a  middle-aged  Scotch 
woman,  who  acted  as  both  maid  and 
companion,  she  had  sailed and traded in 
those Eastern waters  until  a few months 
ago,  when  she  had  determined  to  see 
once more her native town.
W hile  Captain  Polly was  speaking,  I 
had  watched  her 
She  was 
really  a very handsome  woman  and  her 
face was but little sunburned.
“ And now.”  she  said,  “I  want to hear 
everything that has happened here.” 
Thereupon W onderment  told the  story 
of  Captain  Mereen’s  death  and the sin­
gular  disposition  of  his  wnrldly  sub­
stance.
“ This is a strange story,”  said Captain 
Polly,  “ and 1 m ust  think it over before I 
say  anything  about it.  And  now,  Won­
derment,  did  you  come  out  to  take Pet 
over the bar ?”
“ I didn’t come fur  th at,”  said  the  old 
man,  inspired  by the  grog,  “ but though 
I’m not a pilot by trade,  I’ve  been  over 
this bar,  back’ards  and for’ards,  as aften 
as  any man livin’. 
If  any of  the reg’lar 
pilots  had  been  in  the town,  1 suppose 
they’d  a  come,  but  they’re  away,  and 
here I stand ready for the  job.”
“All  right,”  said  Captain Polly,  “ you 
shall  take us over.”
I  was not at all  satisfied  with  this  de­
cision.  W hen he came  aboard,  Wonder­
ment  had  supposed  that  Captain  Alba 
was in command,  and  knowing the chan­
nel,  he  would  scarcely  need a pilot. 
I 
took Captain  Polly  aside  and  explained 
the  m atter to her.
“ It will soon be high  w ater.”  she said, 
“ and I don’t w ant to w ait  outside twelve 
hours more.  There is nobody else here, 
and  I  am  certain  old W onderment would 
not  offer  to  pilot us  if  he did not know 
the bar.  He  can’t  help  knowing it;  he 
has lived here all his life.”
It was not long after this that the sails 
wrere set to a fresh  southeastern  breeze, 
and we were  steadily  moving  along  to­
ward the narrow  entrance to the harbor. 
W onderment  stood  leaning  against  the 
foremast,  his  feet  wide  apart,  and  his 
frequent  orders  were  passed to the man 
at 
the  wheel.  We  had  now  almost 
reached  the  bar.  On  either  side of  us 
stretched  a long expanse of  sandy beach, 
with a gentle surf  rolling up on  it.
“H ard-a-port!  Starbu’d !  Hard-star- 
bu’d ! 
Starbu’d  D— !”  shouted  Won­
derment.  And  then  there  was  a  grate 
and a grind,  and the vessel stopped !  We 
were aground on the north beach.
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The  next  day after  this,  I was sitting 
with Polly  in the  parlor of  a little house 
in  the town where  she  had  taken  lodg­
ings.  Captain Polly was much troubled, 
but  kept  up  a good  heart  and  blamed 
only herself  for trusting Wonderment.
I felt anxious to  help her in every way 
that I could,  and  I was  now  discussing 
with her what wras best to be  done.  The 
Coppering Pet was  high  and  firm  upon 
the  north beach.  Every effort  had  been 
made by  the  crew  and  the inhabitants of 
the town to get her off,  but  all  were  un­
It had been decided to  send to 
availing. 
a  more  northern  port  for  a  steam-tug, 
and 
in 
the  meantime  Polly  and  her 
woman  Sarah  had  taken  lodgings in the 
town.
Two w’eeks  elapsed,  during  which the 
Coppering Pet  remained  firm  upon  the 
beach.  The tug  had  arrived,  but it had 
been found too small to  move the  vessel. 
Another and  a larger one  had  been  sent 
for,  and in the  meantime  the  cargo was 
being taken out and removed to the town 
in  lighters.
During this time I saw much of  Polly, 
and  became,  indeed,  her  most  trusted 
adviser.  She  had  no  relatives  in  the 
town,  and  turned  to me as if  I had been 
an  old  friend.  To  me  she  was  a very 
charming  woman,  and  I  soon  became 
much more than  a friend.
One  day  I  told  her  my  love.  Polly 
listened to m e  very quietly. 
“I am glad 
you told  me  this.”  she  said,  “ after  you 
knew  how  poor I  am,  but I cannot  con­
sent to drag  you down.”
“Polly,”  I cried,  “ this  has  ceased  to 
be a question of  poverty  or  riches.  All 
I ask  is this—do  you love me ?”
I looked  in  her  eyes,  and  then 1 took 
her in my arms.  The^matter was settled.
In  the  course  of  another  week 
the 
larger tug-boat had  arrived,  and  during 
three  high  tides it hauled  and  pulled  at 
the stranded Pet,  but was  unable to move 
her.  Her captain  had  been paid with a 
portion of  the  cargo,  sold  at  a sacrifice 
in  the town,  and  he had gone away.

W hen everything  had  been  done,  and 
Polly’s  affairs  had  been  placed  in  the 
hands of  a responsible  business  man  of 
the town,  Polly  and I were married.

It  was  not  necessary  for  us to stay  at 
this  place  any  longer.  The  Pet  would 
j be disposed of  to the best advantage,  and 
the  crew  would  remain in  the  town un­
til  money should  come  in  to  pay them 
off.
It  was  our  last  day in  the old town, 
and  as we were walking  along the w ater 
front of  the  town  we  saw  a  little boat 
approaching,  with  a  man  in  it  rowing 
violently.
“It’s  old  W onderment,”  said  Polly. 
And  we  stood  to await his coming.  He

ran his  boat ashore,  and  when he landed 
and  saw  us  he  was  so  excited that he 
could scarcely speak.
“ She’s off!”  he  gasped;  “the  Copper­
ing Pet’s afloat!  There  was  the highest 
tide  this  forenoon  we’ve  had fur seven 
year,  and  the  men  working  on  board 
have  got  her  off  the  beach.  She’s  an­
chored now  ju st inside the  bar.”
“ The  Coppering  Pet  afloat!”  cried 
Polly,  grasping me by both  hands,  while 
her eyes sparkled with delight.  “Where- 
ever we  go we’ll go in her  !”

And go in her  we did.
On a lovely afternoon,  late in the sum­
mer,  we  sailed  out of  the harbor.  Ow­
ing to his  repeated  and  earnest requests, 
old W onderm ent  was  wdth  us,  but  this 
time  he  did  not  pilot  us  over the bar. 
We sailed,  and  we  sailed  over  summer 
seas,  and were very happy.
One  beautiful  moonlight  evening  we 
were  sitting  on  deck,  old  W onderment 
“Well,  said  Polly,  “ I think, 
near  .by. 
for poor people,  we  are  about as happy 
and independent  as  anybody could  be.” 
“If  you’re  poor,”  said  the  old  man, 
“it’s  your  own  fault.  Your  father left 
you  everythin’  he  was  worth,  and  all 
you  had to do  was to  take it.”
“If  he had  left  me  anything in  a reg­
ular way,”  said  Polly,  quietly,  “ 1 should 
have  been  glad  to  have  it.  But I  will 
never dig in  his  grave  to see what I can 
find. 
I  am  glad  that  every tem ptation 
of  the kind is left far behind us.”

she 

Polly  sprang 

“ W onderment,” 

“ ’T ain’t  so  very  far  behind,  either,” 
“As  you  was  actin’ 
said Wonderment. 
through  agents,  I  made  myself  your 
agent  in this thing,  and  here’s  the box.” 
And  he  dramatically  arose  and  pointed 
to a small iron  box on which he had  been 
sitting.
to  her  feet,  her  eyes 
ablaze. 
cried, 
“ throw that box overboard !”
“All  rig h t!”  said  the  old  man;  and 
over the taffrail  it went with a splash.
Breathing  hard,  but  saying  nothing, 
Polly entered  the  cabin.  Half  an  hour 
afterward I stood  on  deck  with  the old 
man.
“W onderment,”  I  said,  “you  did  not 
show much prudence  in  forcing that box 
so  suddenly  upon  Polly.  You  should 
have  told  me  of 
it,  and  have  let  me 
break the m atter gradually to her.” 
“Perhaps I  didn’t  show  no  prudence 
in  speaking  so  plum p,”  said  he,  “ hut I 
showed  some  when I made a  line fast to 
the  le’ward  handle  of  the box,  before I 
said a word about it. 
I’ve hauled her on 
board  agen.”
The next  m orning I talked to Polly on 
the subject. 
“ Perhaps I  was too hasty,” 
she  said,  “hut  I  was  angry. 
If  my 
father wanted me to have the box, it may 
be  that I should  have taken  it.”
“ Well,  you  can  take  it now,”  I said. 
And  then I told her about the line on the 
leeward handle.
We  went into the cabin,  where  upon  a 
table stood the box  which I had  opened.
“ Yes,”  said  Polly,  “ looking  into  the 
box,  “I rember them  well.  They are all 
made  of  whales’  jaw   bones.  Some  of 
them  are  spectacle  cases  and  some  to­
bacco  boxes,  and  some,  I  suppose,  in­
tended 
to  hold  matches.  And  now  I 
hope that  you and W onderment  are  sat­
isfied.”
“If  I  was  you,”   said  the  old  man, 
going up  to  the  box,  “I’d  see what was 
in  these  tobacco  boxes.”  And  one  by 
one  he  opened  them  and  emptied 
the 
gold coin  they contained  upon  the table. 
“Now,”  said  he,  “ I’m  satisfied,  too.” 

F r a n k   R.  Stockton.

R ather  E m barrassing  to  the  Girl.
A  young  woman  brought  a  ring to a 
jew eler the other day and  requested him 
to  reset  the  stone,  which  she said  was 
loose.  She  spoke  of  it  as  a  diamond* 
solitaire.  Tne  jew eler took  the ring and 
said he  wrould  attend to  it.  As the cus­
tomer was  leaving  the  store,  the  jeweler 
called her back  and  said:  “ This stone is 
glass,  ma’am—I  want  you to  understand 
that.”
The  young  woman  colored up  and  ex­
claimed, with  w rath in her  voice :  “ It’s 
thing—it’s  a  real  diamond. 
no  such 
Glass,  indeed !”
“Excuse me,  ma’am,” politely rejoined 
the  jeweler,  “ it is nothing  more  than a 
piece of common crystall  or glass.  There 
is no doubt whatever about it.”

“But it was  a present  given  to me lost 
Christmas  by  a  very  dear  friend,  who 
think  of  giving  me  a  sham 
wouldn’t 
diamond,”  the  young  woman  persisted.
“ I’m  sorry,  ma’am,”  replied the  jew­
eler;  “somebody’s  been  deceived,  very 
likely,  hut this stone is absolutely worth­
less—a chip of  glass.”
Well,  the  young  woman  argued  still 
further  about  the  ring  and  insisted  it 
was  very  valuable,  and  at  last  took  it 
away  with  her,  saying  that  she  would 
take  it  somewhere  else  to  be  repaired. 
She was nearly  in tears  when  she left the 
store.
A fter  she  had  gone,  the  jeweler  said 
to me :  “I did not want to hurt that gill’s 
feelings,  but  when a ring  of  that  kind 
is given  to  me  to  be  repaired,  I always 
make  it a practice  of  having  it  clearly 
understood  that  the  stone  is valueless. 
If  I  did  not  1  should  run  the  risk  of 
having  that  young  woman  come  back 
after she  had  discovered  that  the  stone 
w as  not  a diamond,  and  accuse  me  of 
changing  it  in  the  resetting. 
Such  a 
charge  was once made  against  me under 
circumstances  of 
this  kind,  and  since 
then  I  have  followed  a cautious  policy 
for  my own protection.  T hat  girl  was 
honest,  I’ve  no  doubt,  but  I  cannot 
afford  to  take  any chances.”

Considerable  confusion 

exists  with 
reference to the use  of  the  term  “ base,” 
it  being  quite  frequently  employed  to 
designate  forming  shbstance,  such  as 
fats,  lard,  petrolatum ,  etc., in ointments, 
suppositories,  plasters,  etc. 
It  is  gen­
erally  being  conceded,  however,  that the 
j active  ingredients  of  a  m ixture  is  the 
' base,  as  it is  the  medicinal  basis of  the 
compound.

Some  Points  on  Tea.

From   a  Cup of Tea, by J. M. W alsh.

Old 

tea,  and  noting 
that  gives 

The tastes of  communities  differ,  and 
a  dealer m ust  study  and  learn the  par­
ticular  kind  and  flavor  of  the  tea  best 
adapted  to  the  locality  or  town  he  is 
doing  business  in.  This  can  be accom­
plished  by  a  series of  experiments  with 
various  kinds  of 
the 
character  and  quality 
the 
most  general  satisfaction.  A  tea  that 
may  suit one  community will  not sell  at 
all  in  another.  The  dealer  m ust  learn 
himself what tea best suits  his  trade. 
It 
is  much  easier to  describe  what  flavors 
to  avoid  than  to make  known  what  will 
be  best adapted  to  a  particular  locality.
Generally  in  a  m anufacturing district, 
or  among working classes in this country, 
dark-leaved,  heavy-bodied Foochows  and 
Amoy oolongs will  prove the most  popu­
lar teas.
In  a  community where  a  great  many 
Irish or English people reside,  Formosas, 
Congous, Souchongs and the better grades 
of  India teas  will  give  the  best  satisfac­
tion.
Oolongs,  of  an herby,  weedy or  smoky 
flavor  are 
to  he  avoided.  These  are 
Japans 
principally  mixed  with Ankois. 
of a fishy, metallic  or musty flavor should 
also  be  shunned.
Pingsueys,  Cantons  and  artificially- 
colored green teas  should  he tabooed al­
together  by  the  dealer. 
If  cheap  green 
teas m ust be had,  procure a true  Moyune 
hyson,  of 
low  grade,  or  a  Twankay. 
These will  give better  satisfaction  than 
the  best grades of the above-named.
teas,  in  particular,  of  all  kinds 
should  not  be  handled.  There  is  no 
profit in  them  for the  dealer and no  sat­
isfaction 
In  brief, 
keep  good goods  and get  your  jirice. 
It 
will  pay best in the end.
Teas should be kept as much  as possi­
ble  from  the  light  and air,  and  also far 
apart from  any  high or  foul-smelling ar­
ticle in  stock, such as fish, coal-oil, spices, 
etc.,  as  they  very  quickly  absorb  any 
pungent  flavors that may be in their im­
mediate  vicinity.  They  should  never  be 
sold  out of  freshly painted  bins or  cad­
It  is,  in  fact,  much  better  at  all 
dies. 
times  to  deal them out  from the  original 
packages,  replacing 
lid 
wh ?n  through.  The most successful  tea 
dealers  we have  m et sold  their  teas  in 
that manner.  Do not keep  your teas too 
close  to  a  fire or  stove.  A  dry,  cool  at­
mosphere will  be found  the  best.
It is essential  for retail  dealers  to pay 
particular  attention 
to  the  kind  and 
quality of  the tea  they  serve  their  cus­
tomers.  There 
is  no  commodity  they 
handle  that will  draw  trade as  rapidly 
and  retain  it like a good  tea.
If  the customers ouce  lose  confidence 
in either your  ability or honesty,  or they 
should  he driven off by  selling them poor 
teas,  it will  he  next to  impossible  to get 
them  back again.
A  fine  tea will  create more  favorable 
comment  in  a  neighborhood  than  any 
other article used at the table.
It does not pay  a dealer to make a mis­
take 
it 
proves  fatal  to attracting or holding his 
trade.  Poor  teas  will  drive  more  cus­
tomers away  in  a week than  can be made 
in a  year. 
It is  much  better  and  more 
profitable  in  the  long run  to sell a good 
tea at a smaller  profit  than  it  would be 
to sell poor teas at a larger.

the  selection  of  his  teas; 

to  the  consumer. 

lead  and 

the 

in 

Some  dealers  m ake  use  of  the  argu­
ment :  “ I bought  so  much  cheaper  and 
my customers do not appear to notice the 
difference;  they do not complain.”  Peo­
ple  seldom  return to complain;  they try 
elsewhere and  get better value.

Every community  becomes accustomed 
to  drinking  a  partieular  description  of 
tea,  and  is quick to discover  any change 
in  the  character  and  flavor  of  the  tea 
that may  be substituted,  and become dis­
satisfied.  notwithstanding  that  a higher- 
priced or more valuable tea may he given 
them.  For this  reason,  the  dealer  will 
do well  to  keep  his teas as nearly uniform 
as possih  e. 
It  remains  for him to learn 
as near as  he can  what kind  and  flavor of 
tea his  trade  prefers.  This is best done 
by first trying  them  with  various  kinds 
until  he  has found the  flavor best  suited 
to the majority of his customers.  Having 
succeeded  in  this,  let  him  stick to that 
particular  flavor evewafter.  As any  one 
tea  will  not  suit  all  tastes,  he can  find 
the flavor adapted to the  m inority by the 
same  method,  and  keep  these  two  or 
three  kinds,  as 
the  case  may  be.  A 
dealer can,  however,  educate his trade to 
a particular flavored  tea,  as the taste for 
teas of  a certain  flavor is,  after all,  only 
an acquired  one.  A dealer  may,  for in­
stance,  he  selling,  say,  Foochow tea,  and 
should  he  suddenly  change to Formosa, 
his trade would  be  very apt to find  fault 
at  first,  notwithstanding  that  the  latter 
m ight  be  choicer  and  better  than  the 
former,  but  by ignoring  the  complaints 
and  continuing  to  give  it to them  they 
eventually  acquire a taste  for it and  will 
I not  have  Foochows  afterward.  So it is 
with other teas.  They may  he educated 
to their  use.
Green  teas are sold chiefly in the South; 
Japans in  the  West;  oolongs  are most in 
demand  in  the  Eastern  States,  Formosa 
being preferred in the  larger  cities  and 
Amoys  in  the  provinces  and  manufac­
turing  districts.  Foochow  oolongs  are 
the  favorites  in  the  Middle  States and 
cities,  where  every  effort  to  supplant 
them  fails.
W hat  little  English  breakfast and In­
dian teas  that  are  disposed of  are prin­
cipally consumed  in  the  seaboard  cities 
of  the  East.

An  E gg  Trust.

The New York  Shipping  List,  in  view 
of  the fact that the hens  are  laying  too 
many eggs,  suggests  that  they  get  their 
herds together and form  a trust.

At the  Bank of  England  they  always 
keep a million  pound  bank  note  in  the 
safe  in case the  president’s wife  should 
come  in  and  want a little  money  for  a 
spring bonnet.

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

P opular  C ourtesy  Ignored.

“ There are very  few smokers who will 
hesitate  to  ask  an  u tter  stranger for a 
match,  and  men  who  m ight  pass  each 
other  on  the  street every day for weeks 
w ithout  even  a nod  of  recognition  will 
exchange  ‘lights’  in  a smoking-car  with­
out the slightest  restraint.”  So spoke  a 
young  man  to  a  group  of  friends,  the 
other day.
“B ut,”  he  continued,  “I  m et  a  man 
yesterday on the cars who  was an excep­
tion to the rule. 
I was  passing  through 
the  smoker  with  a  cigar  all  ready  to 
light,  and felt in  my pocket  for a match. 
He gave me a cold  stare,  and paid no at- 
I tention to my request.”
the 
“W as  he  deaf?”  asked  one  of 
crowd.
“ No,  he  was  handcuffed,  and  I  felt 
like  a thief  when  I  discovered  it,  too,” 
was the sad reply.

a *

The Michigan Tradesman

Oflloial Organ of M ichigan Business Men’s  Association.

ing all the rights and immunities secured 
to  the  nations  of  Christendom  by  the 
rules of international  law.

A  W EEK LY   JO U R N A L   D EVO TED   TO  T H E

Retail  Trade  of the Wolderine State.

E.  A.  STOWE  &  BRO., Proprietors.

Subscription Price, One Dollar per year. 
Advertising Rates made known on application. 
Publication  Office,  100 Louis St.

Entered  at  the  Grand  Rapide  Poet  Office.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  3, 1889.

DOUBLE  TAXATION.

It  is  the  stock  argument  of  spread 
eagle  orators  that  in  this  “land of  the 
free  and  home  of  the  brave”   everyone 
contributes  his  proper quota to the sup­
the  government,  national  and 
port  of 
state; 
fairly  and 
equitably;  that  no  preferred classes are 
perm itted to exist.

that  all  are 

taxed 

the  pride  of 

Such  appeals  to 

the 
patriotic sound  well and tend to send the 
blood  tingling  through  the  veins.  But 
when these statem ents are  weighed  and 
examined,  it is found  that  they  are—in 
one  respect,  at  least—the  veriest  bun­
combe.  For instance,  the State of  Mich­
igan  imposes a tax of  3 per  cent,  of  the 
premium  receipts  of  all  fire  insurance 
companies not  actually organized in this 
State.  This  tax  is,  therefore,  levied on 
insurable  buildings—not  on 
the  bare 
land.  The  result  is,  the  owner  of  in­
surable property pays taxes  twice—once 
to  the  tax  collector and again to the in­
surance company.  The  latter  turns the 
tax over to the Insurance  Commissioner, 
and that officer turns $130,000 a year over 
to the  State  Treasurer,  who  passes it to 
the  general  fund,  where  it reduces the 
annual taxes by  just that  amount.  The 
objection  still 
remains,  however—the 
man who owns insurable property is sub­
ject to double  taxation.

to 

remedy 

There  is  a  bill  now  pending  in  the 
Legislature 
this  evil,  yet 
apathy on the part of  the  very  men  who 
suffer  most  from  this abuse is likely  to 
allow it to die.  Again T h e  T ra d esm a n 
asserts,  without  fear  of  contradiction, 
“ Business  men  are  too  often  blind  to 
their own interests.”

JOHN  BRIGHT.

The  death  of  John  Bright  was  an­
nounced  Wednesday  morning. 
It  had 
been anticipated  for  a  day  or  two,  and 
has been  imminent for many weeks.  The 
event  is  marked  in  this  country  as  in 
England  by  an  earnest  expression  of 
deep regret. 
John  Bright made  himself 
dear to America  in  her time of  severest 
trial,  by his  splendid  appeal  to  his  own 
countrymen  in  our  behalf,  and  he  was 
at all times  a  hearty and brave  advocate 
of  those general  principles upon  which 
free government rests.  He  sympathized 
w ith  the  Republic,  believed  in it,  hoped 
for it,  and never despaired of  it.  When 
it  came  down to questions of  policy  he 
was  absurdly intolerant of our protective 
system,  as  it  prevented  him  securing  a 
m arket  in this  country for  the  product 
of  his  Birmingham  mill;  and,  when  at 
the same time, he broke  away from Glad­
stone  and  tied  himself  with  the  shoe­
strings of  the  Tory opposition  to  Home 
Rule,  we  saw  in  that  simply the  decay 
of  his m ental  powers. 
In the  main  he 
was right,  and when he was right he was 
grandly and  heroically  so.  His was  the 
character which has truly the  courage of 
its  convictions,  and  when in  1882 he  re­
signed  from  the  Gladstone  Cabinet  be­
cause he would  not share the  iniquity of 
the bombardment of Alexandria,  and the 
Egyptian  war,  he  illustrated  his  own 
moral  bravery,  and  his determination to 
preserve unbroken  his consistent  record 
as  the  friend  of 
justice. 
England has  had few  sons cast  in  so re­
m arkable a mould as John Bright.
AMERICA'S  ADVANTAGE  IN  JAPAN.
Japan  is  discovering a way to circum­
vent  her  European  oppressors  without 
fighting  them.  The  treaties of  1868,  by 
which she  was deprived of her autonomy 
in  the  m atter of  customs,  duties  and  of 
a ll  jurisdiction  over resident foreigners, 
■confined those foreigners to certain treaty 
ports,  after  the  fashion  of  the  treaties 
w ith  China.  But the  Im perial  Govern­
m ent  now  offers  the  freest  intercourse 
w ith all  parts of the country in exchange 
for  the  surrender  of  the  two  objection­
able  concessions  of  1868. 
Already 
treaties have been  negotiated with Mexi­
co  and  the  United  States  on  this  new 
basis.  The  B ritish  trade  journals  are 
calling  the  attention of  their  own  gov­
ernm ents to these large  concessions,  and 
to  their  worth  from a commercial  point 
of  view.  They  sav that  with  these ad­
vantages Americans will  be able to mon­
opolize  the trade of the Empire, especial­
ly  as  their  more  generous  policy com­
mands the good will of the Japanese peo­
ple and their  government. 
It  is  hinted 
very  plainly  that  in  comparison  with 
this  larger  liberty  of 
the 
advantages  wrung  from  Japan  in  the 
treaties of  1868  are of  very  little value. 
We hope the European powers which are 
parties  to  those  treaties  will  take  this 
view  of  it,  and  that  at  an  early  date 
Japan  will  be  acknowledged as possess­

international 

intercourse, 

“ Im itation  is 

the  sincerest  form  of 
flattery.”   T he  T radesm an  was 
the 
first trade paper in  the  country  to  intro­
duce 
the  “ Visiting  B uyers”  feature, 
which has  since  been copied  by  several 
other trade journals.

Purely  Personal.

Chas.  E.  Olney  is1  expected back from 

Santa Barbara about May 1.

John G.  Shields will  return to Colorado 

Springs the  fore part of next week.

N.  B.  Clark  is  making  a  tour  of  the 
Ohio  valley  cities,  making  contracts  for 
bark for the  coming  season.

E.  A.  Mosely has  returned from  Mexi­
co  well  pleased  with  his  trip  and  the 
sights he saw during his absence.

Chas.  J.  Reed,  Secretary  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  School  Furniture Co.,  leaves  for 
the Hot Springs on Thursday.

Geo.  H.  Hess,  Jr.,  son  of  the  Chicago 
furnace  m anufacturer,  was in  town  yes­
terday,  the  guest of  his  uncle,  Wm.  T. 
Hess.

Gaius  W.  Perkins,  President  of 

the 
Grand  Rapids  School  Furniture Co.,  re­
turned  from  the  South  yesterday.  His 
wife  accompanied him home.

The sympathy of  the  trade will go out 
to Henry Idema  and  wife  in  the loss of 
their  oldest  son,  a  bright 
lad  of  six 
years.  The interm ent took place on Sat­
urday.

H. F. Hastings and JohnW . Blodgett sail 
from New York on June 12 on  the steam­
ship A ller of the North German Line, land­
ing at Southampton  and spend ing a short 
time in England.  Four  weeks will then 
be  spent  at  Carlsbad,  when a couple of 
months will  be  consumed  in visiting the 
principal  points  of  interest  in  France, 
Spain and Italy.

G ripsack B rigade.

Perley W.  Hall,  who has been ill at his 
home  in  Benton  Harbor  for  about  ten 
days,  has started out on  his  route again.
Ionia  Standard:  Emory  W.  More,  of j 
this  city,  is  now  traveling  for  a  Grand 
Rapids fru it  house.  He carries  his grip 
like a veteran.

Louis Immegart,  State  agent  for  the 
Catlin  Tobacco  Co.,  of  St.  Louis,  will 
spend the next  two months  in  this city, 
having  established  him self  on  Summer 
street.  He is accompanied by his wife.

Merchant  Traveler:  Commercial  men 
should not allow their  agitation in favor 
of  a uniform   and  interchangeable  mile­
age  ticket  to  cease.  The  subject  has 
been  brought  up  in  many  legislatures 
and  is discussed  by the  press of  the en­
tire  country.  There  is  practicaHy  no 
argument  offered  by  its opponents other 
than the old stock  stories,  which  cannot 
be  considered  arguments  at  all.  The 
proposition is an  eminently  fair one and 
the  adoption  of  such  a  system  would 
inure  to  the  benefit of  the  railroads as 
much  as  of  the  commercial  fraternity. 
Travelers  have a right  to  ask  consider­
ation  at  the  hands of  the railroads and 
the  latter  will  find  it  more to their ad­
vantage to meet the  m ercantile  commu­
nity half-way. 
In  no  spirit of  hostility 
to the railroads,  it may be  said  that  the 
commercial  men  have  done a great deal 
more for  railroads  than  railroads  have 
ever done for them.

S tatu s  of  the  M ichigan  K nights  of the 

Grip.

Gr and Ra pid s,  March 29,  1889.

L etters  of 

To  the  Members  of  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip:
It  is  due to  each of  you  to  know the 
condition  and  progress  of  the  work  of 
our officers  and members.
For the  short  time of  six weeks  since 
our  organization at  Lansing,  the  results 
have far exceeded our  most sanguine ex­
pectations.  The first membership blanks 
were  issued  February 25,  and  from  that 
date  until  March  30,  we  have  granted 
memberships to 333.
instructions  to  our  Vice- 
Presidents  were  prom ptly  forwarded  to 
each  of  them  and 
in  every  instance 
prom pt replies  have  been  received,  and 
letters  asking advice and  reporting  pro­
gress  of  each  are  continually  being  re­
ceived,  showing  earnest  work  on  their 
part  and  that  our  confidence  in  their 
ability  was  not  misplaced; 
that  when 
the  final  roll  call shall  be made on  the 
amendment  that  is  of  so  much  impor­
tance  to  every  commercial  traveler  in 
the United  States,  the  votes of  the  hon­
orable  gentlemen from  Michigan  will  be 
found  in  our  favor.  Every  Knight  of 
the  Grip  can  enjoy  no small  degree  of 
satisfaction  in  knowing  that  Michigan 
commercial  travelers did their part.
the  different  com­
mittees are  promptly  and  systematically 
forming their plans and  ideas for  future 
work  and  soon  good  results will  show 
the  effectiveness and  desirability of  this 
part of  our organization.  Each  member 
is  earnestly  requested to  aid or  suggest 
to any officer or committeeman  any  ideas 
that will be  of benefit to our association.
I would most earnestly urge upon every 
member  the 
importance  of  keeping  a 
supply  of  application  blanks  in  your 
sample case and the securing of  the name 
of  every  commercial  traveler  you  meet 
on  our application  blanks,  as it is  their 
influence we need  quite  as much  as their 
money. 
There 
is  not  a  commercial 
traveler  in  our  State  but  can  afford to 
become a member.
I  will  be  pleased  to  forward  any in­
formation or blanks at any time.

The  chairmen  of 

Very truly yours,

L.  M.  Mills,  Sec’y.

Vermontville—Blair & Barrett, dealers 
in harness and  agricultural  implements, 
have  dissolved,  Mr.  B arrett  continuing.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

T.  W.  Greenley  succeeds H.  B.  Huston 

in the hardware business.

Wm.  Robinson  &  Co.  have  purchased 
the m eat m arket of the late M artin Mohr- 
hard,  at 194 East Bridge street.

Malone & W atkins  succeed  Alexander 
& Malone  in  the  produce  business  and 
A.  J.  W atkins in the meat business.

D.  E.  L attin & Son,  general  dealers  at 
Scottville,  have added a line of groceries. 
Hawkins & Perry furnished  the stock.

J.  P.  Ferguson  will  shortly  open  a 
new  drug  store  at  Middleville.  The 
Hazeltine & Perkins  Drug  Co.  is putting 
up  the stock.

W hite  &  W hite  expect  to  open  their 
new  drug  store on Saturday,  The  Hazel- 
tine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  having  deliv­
ered the entire stock.

Amos S.  Musselman & Co. have shipped 
a  new  grocery  stock  to  Jas.  Allen,  at 
Ce lar Springs, whose stock was destroyed 
in the recent fire at that place.

Foster,  Stevens & Co.  have finally fore­
closed their  mortgage on the Frank Rose 
hardware  stock,  which  will  now  pass 
into  the  possession of  E.  H.  Foster,  Fife 
Lake.

Caswell Bros,  have removed their flour 
and  feed business to 11  No.  Ionia street, 
occupying  the  store  vacated  by  Cary & 
Loveridge.  The  latter  will  office  with 
the firm for a few weeks.

Olney,  Shields & Co.  have  taken  pos­
session  of 
the  M.  P.  Hedges  grocery 
6tock  by  reason  of  a bil  lof  sale.  Mr. 
Hedges has decided that the grocery bus­
iness has no  attractions for him.

N.  B.  Clark  has  formed  a copartner­
ship  with  W.  A.  Phelps,  of  W hitehall, 
under  the  style of  N.  B.  Clark & Co.,  to 
continue the hemlock  bark business here­
tofore  conducted  by  each partner  inde­
pendently.  They  will  make  a  strong 
team.

Chas.  H.  Leonard has invented,  and ap­
plied for a patent on,  a combined creamer 
and refrigerator.  The invention involves 
a  new  application  of  an  old  principle, 
doing away with  the  pum ping of  water, 
which necessitates  the  use of  expensive 
tank  and coupling attachm ents,  w ith  the 
consequent  liability of  frequent repairs. 
The  cans  are  easily  lifted  out  of  the 
creamer,  when cleaning is necessary, and 
the  entire  device  is as simple  and  com­
plete as possible.

A R O U N D   T H E   8 T A T E .

Blanchard—H.  H.  Knapp has opened a 

harness  shop.

his general  stock.

his new drug store.

Mapleton—Alex.  Lardie  is  selling out 

Owosso—Dr. J. W. K irtland has opened 

Bellaire—E.  J.  Childs  will  re-engage 

in the furniture business.

Benton  H arbor—A.  L.  Smith  has sold 

his furniture business to Wm.  Gates.

Elk Rapids—W.  A.  Sprague has moved 

his harness stock to Detroit.

Grayling—Maurice J. Finn has sold his 

general stock  to L.  Jensen  & Co.

Saginaw—F.  C.  Achard  has  sold  his 

hardware stock to C.  J.  May  & Co.

Flint—Beal  &  Joslin  succeed  J.  H. 

Shackleton in the hardware business.

Flint—W.  F.  Todd & Co.  succeed E. M. 
(Mrs.  F.  E.)  Morse in the drug  business.
Boyne  City—P.  F.  M cIntyre  succeeds 
Chase & M cIntyre  in the  hardware busi­
ness.

Flint—Mrs.  H annah C.  Livermore  has 
moved  her  m illinery stock to East  Sag­
inaw.

Grand  Haven—J.  C.  Vanderveen  has 
sold  his  boot  and  shoe stock to A.  Juis- 
tema.

Mulliken—A. F. Shinkle succeeds E. L. 
(Mrs.  Oliver A.)  Halladay in the  grocery 
business.

Petoskey—L.  G.  Grimes  succeeds  E. 
Grimes  & Co.  in the furniture  and crock­
ery business.

Chesaning—Adolph  J.  Perot  succeeds 
Perot  &  Goetzin  in  the  dry  goods  and 
grocery business.

Kalamazoo — Dr.  McKibbin, 

late  of 
Marion,  Ind.,  will  open  a drug  store on 
the corner of  Burdick and W ater streets.
Prairieville—A.  H.  Dodge  and  C.  B. 
Robinson  have  opened  a  furniture and 
undertaking establishm ent.

Greenville — Guild  &  Albertson, 

the 
dry goods  dealers,  have  dissolved  part­
nership,  Mr.  Guild retiring.

Nashville—A.  R.  W olcott  has sold  his 
interest  in  the elevator firm of  Wolcott, 
Smith & Co.,  to H.  A.  Brooks.  The new 
style  will be  Smith,  Townsend  & Co.

Manton—Frank  Rose  having  relin­
quished his  hardware  stock to creditors, 
will hereafter  devote his entire attention 
to his brick  and  cant  hook  m anufactur­
ing business.

Sparta—Fred Clifford and Cal. Crane are 
putting  in  shelving,  counters and  other 
fixtures  and  getting  the store  formerly 
occupied  by  J.  R.  H arrison  ready  for 
business again.

Cadillac—The  balance of  the McAdam 
dry goods stock has  been  sold to Edson, 
Moore & Co., of  Detroit, who are now ar­
ranging to secure the location of  another 
dry goods store here.

Vicksburg—Barney Julius will  occupy 
the  store  lately  vacated  by E.  T.  Trim ­
mer with his clothing  stock.

Hastings—Ira  V an  Valkenberg  suc­
ceeds  Spangemacher & Van  Valkenberg 
in  the  furniture  and  undertaking  bus­
iness.

Hubbardston—L.  E.  Gardner  has  re­
moved  his  grocery  and  boot  and  shoe 
stock to Battle  Creek  and will  take in  a 
partner.

Cheboygan—H.  Chambers has removed 
his dry goods and carpet stock from Elsie 
and will  open  up  in his  old  store  room 
about the 15th.

H artland—G.  W.  W allace  will  shortly 
open  a  general  store.  He  has  been  a 
clerk  for several  years  and  stands well 
in the community.

Newaygo—Frank Standish  has  retired 
from  the  book  and  stationery  firm  of 
Geo.  E.  Taylor & Co.  The  business  will 
be  continued  by  the  rem aining  partner 
under the style of Geo.  E.  Taylor.

Decatur—Chas.  Schuster,  who  sold his 
dry goods stock some time ago, has lately j 
disposed of  his clothing  stock  and  will 
spend  the  summer  in  Germany,  re-en­
gaging  in  trade  in  a  larger  town on his 
return in the  fall.

Allegan—L.  Perrigo  has  sold  a  half 
interest in his  extract  and  patent  med­
icine business  to  Bartram   & Millington, 
of  Paw Paw,  to which  place  be  has  re­
moved.  The  business  will  hereafter be 
conducted  under  the style of  L.  Perrigo 
& Co.

Charlotte—The  store  lately  occupied 
by  J.  Q.  Thomas & Co.  is  to  be  over­
hauled  and  repaired,  a modern  front put 
in  and  the  building otherwise improved. 
W hen completed it will be occupied by W. 
M.  Davis & Co.,  with a line of  undertak­
ing goods.

their  harness  stock 

Manistee — Nelson  &  W aal  have  as­
signed 
to  P.  W. 
Niskern.  The liabilities  are about $1,300, 
which  is  about  the  value of  the  stock. 
Two  exemptions  and  a  $300  secured 
claim  will  probably 
the  other 
creditors  about 25 cents on  the dollar.

leave 

Vicksburg—E.  T.-  Trimmer,  who  has 
been engaged in  general  trade  here  for 
the past twenty  years,  has  sold  his  dry 
goods and boot and shoe  stock to C.  Con­
rad,  of  Woonsocket,  Dak.,  and  w ill  go 
on  the  road  for  Myron  F.  Thomas,  of 
Boston, traveling in the States of Dakota, 
Iowa and Nebraska.  He  will  make  his 
headquarters  at  some  central  point  in 
Iowa.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Reed City—E.  Brooks  M artin  succeeds 
Morris & M artin  in  the m illing  business.
Reed  City—Wood  Jackson  succeeds 
Jackson  &  Cavis in the  m anufacture  of 
cigars.

Moorestown—Moores,  Weed  &  Co.’s
saw and shingle mill  burned  last Thurs­
day,  with  a loss  of  $2,500.

Rodney—Gordon  Earl has purchased  a 
tract of  pine  and cedar near Glen  Arbor 
and  will  remove to  that place in about a 
month.

Onekama—The  Onekama  Lumber  Co. 
has decided to go out of  the merchandise 
business as soon  as  the  present  stock is 
disposed of.

Charlotte—Jno.  D.  Klock  &  Co.  have 
engaged  in  the  m anufacture  of  cigars 
under  the  style  of 
the  “ P urity  Cigar 
Factory.”

Holly—Geo.  E.  Pomeroy  has  sold  his 
lumber  business  to  the  Holly  Lumber 
and M anufacturing Co.  He  still  retains 
his  coal business.

Saginaw—The  Ring-Brady Co.,  manu­
facturers of furniture,  have uttered chat­
tel mortgages  and been burned  out—and 
will probably as sign.

Sparta—The Sparta  Mills,  which  have 
been  refitted  with  full  roller  process, 
will  start up  again  next week under  the 
management of R.  A.  Hastings.

Detroit—J.  B.  Delbridge,  N.  Cameron 
and F.  J.  Dingeman  have gone  into  the 
m anufacture  of  sash,  doors  and  blinds 
under the style of  Delbridge,  Cameron & 
Dingeman.

Muskegon—Hovey  &  McCracken  are 
putting  in  two  band  saws  to  replace  a 
circular.  The  Thayer  Lumber  Co.  will 
put  in  a compensating  gang,  and  a  10- 
blocker shingle machine.

Woodland—The  Woodland  Roller Mill 
Co.,  Limited,  has  been  formed  for  the 
purpose  of  erecting a mill  and  carrying 
on a roller mill business.  R. T. F. Dodds, 
of  the  Delton  Mills,  is  President of  the 
company.

Detroit—The  D etroit  Cooperage Co.  is 
succeeded  by  H.  Doyle,  the  secretary, 
treasurer  and  manager,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  m anufacture of  coiled  hoops, 
staves and  head  linings  under the style 
of  the D etroit  Hoop  & Stave Co.

W ayne—C.  F.  Blackman  and  Jam es 
Johnson,  composing  the  newly-formed 
firm  of  Blackman & Co.,  were  recently 
arrested  at  the  instance of  E.  R.  Ayers 
& Co.,  of  Saginaw,  under  the fraudulent 
debtors’  act,  on the  claim that Blackman 
& Co.  had  disposed  of  lumber  obtained 
of  them  and  quit business,  w ithout try­
ing  to  pay  their  debts.  Ayers &  Co.’s 
claim  is  for $1,500,  and  the  defendants 
were held in $1,500 bail  each and placed 
in charge of  a constable,  who  perm itted 
them to go to  their homes for  the  night, 
when  they  took  advantage  of  his  good 
nature and fled  to Canada.

Pencil  P o rtra it of  a  D etroit  Jobber.

From  th e  D etroit News.

in  any 

Tall,  full-bearded, thin-faced,  with the 
students’  pallor,  steady-eyed,  grave but 
amiable,  Mr.  J.  H.  Thompson,  of  the 
firm  of  J.  H.  Thompson  &  Co.,  has  a 
strong  and  stable  presence;  evidently 
m arked  for  success 
sphere  of 
life.  T hat he sought a commercial career 
may well be  doubted,  since  he  began  it 
at an age when  a boy’s  choice  turns un- 
j  erringly  as  well  as  lightly  to  fun  and 
frolic.  He  was born  in  Liverpool,  Eng­
land,  in  1848,  and  came to America  with 
I his parents  when  three  years  old.  His 
■  first  venture in  business was in carrying 
[ papers  for  the  news  stores in Windsor,
| and  it  is  needless  to  say that  he  was 
I faithful  in  the  small  things  and  there- 
! fore worthy of  the  larger  trust. 
In 1865 
j  he,  like scores  of  others  in  the  limited 
i  field of  the slow-going  Dominion,  meved 
j across  the  river and took  up a perm anent 
residence  in Detroit.  Here  he clerked  it 
for  a short time  with  Dickerson,  the hat­
ter,  and  changed  his  place  of  employ­
ment  for  the  firm  of  Evans &  W alker, 
in  the spice  trade,  with whom he served 
three  years.  He  was  then  secured  by 
Johnson & W heeler in the same line,  and 
remained with them  until  he  went  into 
business  for  himself,  a  period  of  ten 
years. 
It was  as  the  junior  partner of 
the firm of  S.  M.  Tyler & Co.  that he en­
tered business as a principal  and  in  the 
line  with  which  his  long  experience and 
close  attention  had  made  him  familiar, 
that of  teas,  coffees and  spices, 
In 1884 
he became  the  head of  the firm of  J.  H. 
Thompson  &  Co.,  formed  in  that  year, 
and has  successfully conducted  the bus­
iness  until  it  now  rests on  a broad and 
ample  foundation.  Mr.  Thompson  is  a 
member of  St.  John’s  Episcopal  Church 
and takes  an  active part in church affairs. 
He  is  a member of  the  A.  O.  U.  W.  and 
Royal  Arcanum  benefit  associations;  is 
happily  m arried  and 
is  the  father  of 
three children.  He  is  one  of  the  best 
specimens  of  Detroit’s  stable  and  con­
servative  business men.

B ank  Notes.

F.  W.  McKinney is endeavoring  to  or­
ganize a State  bank at Manistique with a 
paid-in  capital  of $50,000.

John  D.  W allace  succeeds  Jas.  L. 
the  F irst 

Dempsey  as  book-keeper  for 
National Bank of Manistee.

C.  A.  Hough,  of  Hastings,  has  taken 
the  position  of  Cashier  of  the  Farm ers 
and Merchants’  Bank  of  Nashville.
FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC. 

*"*AiR'eTtisemen£fwiiibetai^^
tw o  cents  a   word  th e  first  insertion  and  one c en t a  
word  for  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
m en t tak en  fo r less th an  25 cents.  Advance  paym ent.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

i X>R  SALE—A  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  HARDWARE  AT 
Rockford, M ich.; will invoice about $2,000.  Enquire 
of  J.  F ran k   Mead,  Agt.,  Rockford,  o r  S.  F.  Stevens 
(Foster, Stevens Sc Co.), G rand Rapids. 

OR  SALE—FULL  SET  OF  TINNERS’  TOOLS, 

show  cases  and  baruw are  fixtures—all  in 
condition and cheap fo r cash.  W ill sell one o r ai 
V ander Veen, 122 Monroe street, G rand  Rapids. 

FOR SALE—HOTEL IN  GOOD RESORT TOWN, WITH 

nineteen beds;  house  fu rn ish rd   com plete;  price 
$3,500, $2,000 down, balance on tim e to su it; poor h ealth  
reason fo r selling;  barn. 34x60;  sam ple  room   and  liv­
ery  office, 16x24;  good  livery;  m ail  and  stage  line  in 
b arn ;  house pay in g   $100 p er m onth  now.  F or p artic­
u lars, address “ H otel,” care Tradesm an. 

409

399

373

OR SALE—A GENERAL STOCK OF  MERCHANDISE; 
will invoice $ 10.000. including fixtures;  business of 
1838 was over $40,000;  located  in th riv in g  town of 1,500 
in  C entral  M ichigan;  buildings  fo r  sale  o r  ren t;  to 
p arties  purchasing,  we  w ill  give  o u r  trad e,  which 
am ounts to from  $600 to $1,000  per m onth;  reasons for 
selling,  o th er  business.  Address  M,  care  M ichigan 
Tradesm an. 

Fo r   s a l e —s t o c k   o f   d r y   g o o d s,  c l o t h in g ,

boots and shoos, in live town in  Central M ichigan; 
w ill  invoice  ab o u t  $7,500,  fixtures  included;  trad e of 
1888 ab o u t $22.000;  will ren t o r  sell building;  o u r trad e 
will be  given  to  buyer;  reasons,  too  m uch  business. 
Address B, care M ichigan  Tradesm an. 

376

377

SNAP—GROCERY STORE  IN  EAU CLAIRE, WIS. 
th a t pays fo r itself tw ice a   y e a r  will  be  sold  to 
th e  r ig h t p a rty  fo r  cash,  if  it  can  be sold a t once;  it 
w ill pay to look  into  this.  F or  p articu lars,  address 
Box 485, Eau C laire,  W is. 

FOR SALE—BRIGHT, CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIES, 

crockery and glass-w are, in grow ing town  of  over 
1,200;  stock  an d   fixtures  will  invoice  ab o u t  $2,500; 
business averages  $1.500 per m onth;  store  building is 
one of th e finest  in  th e   S tate  fo r business and will be 
rented o r sold; reasons, o th er business needs our atten- 
tlon.  Address A, care M ichigan Traoesm an.______378

405

HELP  WANTED.

TT/-ANTED—ACTIVE,  HONEST  YOUNG  MAN  WHO 
VV  has had two y ears’ experience in  th e  d rug  busi­
ness.  Address No. 388. care Tradesm an. 

388

SITUATIONS WANTED.

WANTED—POSITION IN HARDWARE STORE OR TO 

trav el;  ten   y ears’  experience  in   reta il  store; 
would p refer to tra v e l;  best of  reference, if required. 
Address, Lock Box IS, Chelsea, Mich. 

ANTED—SITUATION  AS  BOOK-KEEPER  BY MAN 
of e ig h t years’ experience, who is fam iliar  w ith 
general  m erchandise.  Address  A.  E.  Cham bers,  95 
Monroe S treet, G rand Rapids,  Mich. 

ANTED—SITUATION—BY A PHARMACIST, REGI8- 
references. 

tered  by  exam ination;  best  of 

Address No. 402, care Michigan  Tradesm an. 

SITUATION WANTED—A  COMMERCIAL  TRAVELER 

is  open  fo r  engagem ent.  L arge  acquaintance 
w ith  g rocery  trad e  in  M ichigan.  Address  Jackson, 
care M ichigan  Tradesm an. 

410

325

402

407

MISCELLANEOUS.

Ml

411

228

IN 
Illinois,  Iowa  and  N ebraska,  fo r  stock  of m er­
chandise.  For particu lars,  address  S.  Peck,  B arring­
ton, Ills. 

TO  EXCHANGE — NO.  1  IMPROVED  FARMS 
TO EXCHANGE—I HAVE  A  NEW,  BRIGHT,  WELL- 

selected little  stock of  hardw are to exchange for 
a  farm   o r  city  real  estate.  Address  No.  401,  care 
M ichigan Tradesm an. 
<tt1  O H O   CASH  BUYS  MANUFACTURING  BUSI- 
«JpXaJJvyvy  ness pav in g  100  p er  cent.  Best  of  rea ­
sons 1 fo r  selling.  Address  Chas.  Kynoch,  St. Ignace, 
|  Mich. 
T   HAVE  SOME  FIRST-CLASS  PROPERTY,  WELL 
X  
im proved  and  nicely  located,  in  South  D akota; 
also  some o th er  p roperty  to  exchange  fo r a  stock of 
goods.  J. C. McKee, 28 F ountain  St. 

W ANTED—TO  EXCHANGE —PRODUCTIVE  REAL 
estate in the  th riv in g  village of Bailey on th e   C. 
Sc W. M  Railw ay for house  and  lo t  in ' G rand  Rapids, 
w orth  about  $1,500.  Address,  D.  B.  G alentine.  Cas- 
novia, Mich. 
WANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR 

Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System.  Send for 

sam ples.  E. A. Stowe Sc  Bro., G rand Rapids. 
OR  SALE—GOOD  RESIDENCE  LOT  ON  ONE  OF 
th e  m ost p leasant streets “on  th e   hill.”  W ill ex­
change for stock in any good in stitu tio n .  Address 286, 
care Mich gan Tradesm an. 

WANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  READS 

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

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C H A S E   &   S A N B O R N .

THE FINECT CROWN.

OUR COFFEES HAVE  A  NATIONAL  REPUTATION  REPRESENTING 
SEAL  BR A N D   COFFEE  su rrassin sr a ll  o th ers
Ju stly  called  T b ^   /  rirtocrFitlc 
in  its  rich n e ss  an d   delicacy  of flavor. 
Coffee of  America.  A lw ays packed  w hole  ro a ste d   (unground)  in  2 lb. 
a ir-tig h t tin  cans.
r * D T T G   A   T I T *   D T  Y 'T V T T I  A  skilftilblendinerof strong, fla- 
JL9  v o ry   and  arom atic  fci'rh  grade
CDffees.  W a rra n te d  n o t to   con tain   a   sin g le   Rio  bean,  an d  g u a ran tee d  to  
su it  y ou r  ta ste   a s  n o  o th er  coffee  w ill,  a t  a   m oderate  price.  A lw ays 
packed w h o le roasted   (unground),  in  1 lb.  air-tight  p arch m en t packages.
D E P T  A   | |  
Tell  us  that  their  coffee  trade  has
I  M I L   V lI K  w v E i n i O   doubled and trebled since buyiug and 
selling  our  coffees.  What  it  has  done  for  them  it  will do for you.  Send for 
samples to

U  O i i X / J u  

C 2 2 A S B   &   S A J X B O R N ,

BROAD  STREET, 

- 

BOSTON,  MASS.

Western  Department:

80  Franklin  St.,  Chicago.

HERBERT  T.  CHASE,
M ichigan  and  Northern  Ohio,

Representative for

GRAND  RAPID*.

M e r c h a n ts,

Y O U   W A N T   T H I S  C A B I N E T

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T h o u s a n d s   o f  T h e m

Are  in use all over the  land. 
often  seen  on  the  floor  of  the  average  grocer. 
varnished  and  put  together  In  the  best  possible  manner. 
cabinet will  be  found one  complete set of castors with screws.

It  does  away  with  the  unsightly  barrels so 
Beautifully grained  and 
Inside each 

Every  Wide-Awake  Merchant

Should  Certainly  Sell

LION, THE  KING  OF  G0FFEE8,

An  Article  of Absolute  Merit.

It is fast  supplanting  the  scores  of  inferior  roasted coffees. 

only in one pound packages. 
120  one-pound  packages. 
Shipping depots in all first-class cities in the United States.

Packed 
P ut  up  in  100-lb  cases,  also  in  cabinets of 
For  sale  by  the  wholesale  trade  everywhere. 

W o o lso n   Spice  Co.,

T O L E D O ,  O H IO .

L. W IN TERNITZ,  Resident A gent, Grand Rapids.

Product of Our Factory at Fon du Lac, Wis.

You can buy a better $3 Men’s Calf Shoe and other  grades  made  by  C.  M.  HENDERSON 
& CO. near your own door  than  other  manufacturers  can  offer,  and  this is true of our Ladles’ 
Fine Dongola and Goat $2.50  Shoe  and  our  $3 Henderson French Kid, and  other  grades 
made  at  onr  Dixon  Factory,  where  our  celebrated  “Red School Bouse” Shoes are produced. 
We have special advantages for manufacturing them and make them all on the theory of merit and 
style.  “The proof of  the  pudding  is  in  chewing  the  string," and if you will test them we shall 
highly appreciate It and  are sure it  will  prove  to  your  advantage.  Our heavier grades of goods 
made at onr third factory  are also acknowledged to be unequaled.

214 

0.  M.  HENDERSON  &  CO.,  Chicago.

Fon du Lac, Wis-

F a c to r ie s:
Dixon,  III.

'W illa r d   H .  J a m e s,
Salesman  for  the  Uower  Peninsula.

P. O.  address,

Chicago, 111.

Morton  H ouse,  Grand  Rapids,  M ich.

We  furnish  electrotypes  of  our  Specialties  to  Customers.

I880BIÄTIÜN  DEPJRTPttT.

Michigan  Bas!ness  Men’s  Association.

P resident—F rank W ells, Lansing.
f l n t  V ice-President—H. Cham bers, Cheboygan.
Second V ice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo. 
Secretary—E.  A. 8to we, G rand Rapids.
T reasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.
Executive Board—President; C. L. W hitney, M uskegon; 
F ran k   H am ilton, T raverse City;  N. B. Blaln. Lowell, 
Chas. T. B ridgm an, F lin t;  H iram   DeLano,  Allegan,
Com m ittee  on  Insurance-G eo.  B.  Ca'? ’T®'1U m)6611 
Com m ittee on  Legislation—S  E  P ark ill.  Owosso;  H.
C om m ittee on T rade In te r e s ts —Sm ith ®a ™ t, ’

ville;  W  S  Powers. Nashville;  Oren  Stone, Flint. 
A. H ydorn, Grand Rapids;  H. H. Pop©, Allegan. 
City ;  Geo. R. H oyt, E ast Saginaw ;  H. B. Fargo, M ue
Com m ittee on T ransporta-io n -Ja m e s Osborn O w o ^
O.  F.  Conklin,  Grand  Rapids;  C.  F.  Bock,  B attle
C om m ittee on Building and I,oan A ssociations-U haun- 
My Strong  K alam azoo; W ill E m m ert, Eaton Rapids;

L^sd^Secretory—P  J   Connell,  M uskegec.
Official O rgan—T h e Mich ig a n T radesm an._____________
The following  auxiliary associations  are op­
erating under  charters  granted  by the Michi­
gan Business Men’s Association:

jf o .  I —T r a v e r s e   C i ty   B . 1VI.  A . 

President) J. W. M illiken; S ecretary, E. W. H astings.

8— L o w e ll  K. M .  A .

N<
N o   3 —S t u r g i s   B .  M .  A .

President. N. B. S lain; Secretary, F rank T. King. 
1 
President. H. S. C hurch; S ecretary, Wm. Jo ra- 

4 —G r a n d   R a p i d s   M .  A .

P resident, E. J. H errick; Secretary , E. A. Stowe.
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P resident, Jo h n  A  M iller;  S ecretary,C . L. W hitney.

5 — M u s k e g o n   B .  M   A .

N

N o . 6 — A lh a   H.  »1.  A .

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

N o .  1 —D i m o n d a l e  B .  M .  A . 
N o   8 —E a s t p o r t  B .  M .  A

P resident. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. W idger.
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P resident, F.  H. T hurston; Sec  etary, Geo. L. T hurston. 

N o .  » - U a r m c e   B .  M .  A.

President, H. M.  M arshall; Secretary , J   H  Kelly._____
" 
President. W . J. C lark ; S ecretary. A. L. Thompson.___

v o .  I « — H n r l io r  apriniit*  B .  M.  A.

%o  1 1 —K i n g s le y   B .  M .  A . 

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N o .  1 2 —Q u i a c y   B .  M .  A .

N o .  1 3 —S h e r m a n   B .  M .  A .

P resident. H.  P.  W hipple; Secretary. D. E.  W ynkoop.
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P resident, C. McKay . Secretary, Thos. Lennon.------------
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P resident, H. B. S turtevant:  S ecretary. W .  J.  Austin.
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President. S.  A. Howey: Secretary, G. C  Havens.---------
* 
President. R. R- Perkins? Secretary, F. M. Chase.______

N o  1 4 — v o .  V lu s k e g o n   B   M .  A .

N o .  1 5   B o y n e   C ity   B.  M

\ o .   1 6 —S a n d   L a k e   B .  M .  A .

P resident, J. V. Crandall:  Secretary, W. Rasco._______

N o   1 T— P l a i n w e l l   B .  VI.  A.

P resident, E.  A.  Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle._________

N o   1 8 —O w o s s o   B   M .  A .

President, A lb e r t Todd; S ecretary, S. Lam from ._______
•------------------N o.  i n — A d a   B .  M .  A . 
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President, D. F. W atson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.

President, John F.  H enry; Secretary. L. A.  Phelps.------

N o .  JO —v a u g a r u c k   K.  M .  A .
N o .  2 i — W a v la n d   B.  M .  A 

P resident, C  H  W harton: Secretary. M. V. Hoyt.

N o .  2 2 —iir.« n d   L e d g e   B .  M . A . 

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

N o   2 3 —C a r s o n   <  i t y   K.  II.  A . 

President, F .  A . R o c k a fe llo w  - Secretary, C. G .  Bailey.
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P resident, J.  E.  Thurkow:  Secretary. W. H.  Richmond.
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President. H. 11.  Pew; Secretary. Chas. B. Jo h n so n .___

N o .  2 4   - M«»rle>  B.  M  A .

N o .  3 5 — P a i o   B   M  A .  “

N o .  3 6 —t i r e e n v i U e   M .  A .

P resident, A. C.  S atterlee;  Secretary. Geo. B. Caldwell.

N„ „   — l»«*rr  K.  M .  A .

P resident, E. 3-  Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.
‘ 
P resident, A. J. Paddock;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer._____

N o .  38—C h e b o y g a n   B .  M .  A

P resident, Wm.  Moore;  Secretary. A. J. Cheesebrough.

N o.  2 9 —F r e e p o r t   B.  *1.  4 .

N o .  3 9 —O c e a n a   I*.  M  A 

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P resident, A. G.  Avery;  Secretary, E. S. H oughtalm g. 
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President, Thos. J. G ieen;  Secretary, A. G. Flenry.

N   - .3 1 —C h a r l o t t e   B   M .  A .

N o .  :12—C o o p e n * v llle   B .  M .  A .

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

N o .  3 3 —<  h a r l e v o i x   K.  VI  A . 

President,  L.  D.  B artholom ew ;  Secretary JR. W. Kane. 

N o .  3 4 —.^ a r a n o c   B .  M .  A .

President, H. T. Johnson^ Secretary, P. T. W illiams.  .

President, H. M. H em stre e t, Secretary, C. E. Densmore.
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P resident, O. F. Jackson;  S ecretary, John  M. Everden.

N o .  3 5 —K e l l a i r e   B . M . A  
N«736— I t h a c a   B .  M . A .

N<*.  3 7 —B a 'f l e   -  r e e k   B .  M .  A . 

P resident,  Chas. F  Bock;  Secretary.  E  W. Moore.

N o . 3 8 —S c o ff v l l l e   B.  M   A . 

P resident. H.  E. Symons: Secretary, D  W. Higgins.

N o .  3 9   B u r r   O a k   B .  >1.  A . 

P resident, W. S. W ilier; Secretary,  F. W. Sheldon.

N o .  4 0 —E a t   n   R a p i d s   B .  M .  A . 

P resident, C. T. H artson; S ecretary, W ill Em m ert.

N " .  4 1 — B r e i- k e n r i d g e   B . M .  A . 
P resident. C  H  H ow d;  Secretary. L  W aggoner.

N o.  >2— i  r e m o m   B .  M  A . 

P resident, Jos. Gerber;  Secretary  C. J. R athbun.

N o .   4 3 — T a s i  i n   B .   M .   A .

P resident, F rank J. Luick;  S ecretary, J. A. Lindstrom .

N o .  4 4 — R e e d   C ity   R .  M .  A .

P resident, E. B.  M artin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.______
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P resident, D. E. H allenbeck; Secretary,O . A. Halladay.

N o  4 5 — H*>y  v l l l e   B .  M .  1.

N o . 4 6 — L e s lie   B .  M .  A 

P resident, Wm. H utchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould.
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P resident, W. C. Pierce;  S ecretary. W. H. G raham. 

N o .  4 7 — F l i n t   M .  C-

N o .  4 8 —H u b b a r d  s to n   B . M .  A .

P resident, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.______
' 
P resident,  A.  W enzel!; Secretary. F rank Smith.______

N o .  4 9 — I  e r - iy   B   M .  A .

N o .  5 0 —M a n is t e e  B .  M .  A .

P resident, A. O. W heeler; Secretary,C.  Grannis.______

N o .  5 1 —C e d a r   S p r in g s   B .  M .  A . 

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

N o . 5 2 —G r a n d  H a v e n   B .  M .  A .

President, A. S. Kedzie;  Secretary, F. D- Vos._________

N o ,  5 3 —B e l l e v u e   B . M .  A .

P resident, F rank Phelps;  Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald.

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

N o .  5 4 — '» o u g la s   B .  M . A .

N o .  5 5 — F e t o s k e y   B .  M .  A . 

P resident, C. F .  Hankey ; Secretary  A. C. Bowman.

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

N o .  5 6 — B . n g o r   B .  *».  A . 

V 

5 7 —R o c k f o r d   B .  M . A .

P resident, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham.
P resident, L . S  W alter; Secretai: ,C.Z  Blakely.

N o . 5 8 —F i f e   L a k e  B . M .  A . 

N o .  5 9 —F e n n v i J l e  B . M .  A . 

P resident F. S. Raym ond ; Secretary, A. J. Capen.
N o . 6 0 —S o u th   B o a r d i n a h  B .  M .  ». 
President, H. E. Hogan; S ecretary, S. E. N eihardt.

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

N o .  6 1 — H a r t f o r d   B .  M   A . 
No  62—Fast -aginaw  M.  4. 

P resident, Jas. H  .Moore;  S ecretary,  C  W.  Mulholand.

P resident, C. W. Robertson ; Secretary, Wm. Horton.

N o .  6 3 — t  v a r i   K.  M .  A . 
P resident, C  V  P riest; Secretary,C . E. Beli.
No, 64—M orrill B. M. A. 
No. 65—K alkaska  B. M. A. 
N o . 6 6 —L a n s in g   B .  M .  A  

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

P resident, Frank W ells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.

N o   6 7 —W a t o r v l i e t   B . M .  A . 
P resident. Geo. Parsons: Secretary, J.  M. Hall.

No  68—Allegan B. M. A 

P resident, H  H.  Pope;  Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.

N o . 6 9 —s c o tt a   a n d   C lim a x   B .  M .  A. 
President, Lyman C lark; Secretary, F. S. W lllison.

N o   7 0 —N a s h v i ll e   B .  VI.  A , 
P resident, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers.

P resident, M. N etzorg;  Secretary,  Geo. E. Clutterbuck.

N o .  7 1 —A s h le y   B   M .  A .

12—E d m o r e  B .  M .  A .
N o .  7 3 —B e l d i n g   B .  M .  A . 

President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. W ebster.

v o .  7 4 — O o v ls o n   M .  U . 

P resident. J.  F. C artw right;  Secretary  L. Gifford.

N o .  7 5 —T e e n m s e h   B .  M .  A. 

P resident, Oscar P. Bills;  Secretary. F. Rosacraus.

N o .  7 6 — K a l a m a z o o  B .  M .  A . 

P resident. S. S.McCamly;  Secretary.  Chauncey Strong.

N o.  7 7 —S o u t h   H a v e n   B   M .  A . 

P resident—L. S  Monroe;  Secretary, 8  VanOstrand.

No. 78—* al-doni»  B.  M.  A. 

P resident, J  O  Seibert;  Secretary. J. W. Saunders.
N»  79—**  t .Tor-*aii ano  - o  A »ni  B  w .A . 
P resident, chas. F. Dixon:  S ecretary, L. C. Madison. 
NoT80—B a v   CUv and  W  Bay  City  R. M. A. 
P resident,F . L. H arris  n;  S ecretary. Geo  Craig.

P resident. L.  A  Vickery;  S ecretary, A  E. Ransom.

N o   8 « — F l u s h i n g   B   M   A . 
N*».  82—A im .  B  M 
President,B . R. Webb;  Secretary, M. E

A.
Pollasky.

P r e s i d e n t .   L   P   W i:

<h-  r  w o o d   B   *>.  A
»y-  Secretary, W  R. Mandigo.

President  P  M.  >ngn»; S ecretary ,D  W  Richardson.

N o . 8 4 —S t a n d i a h   B .  M .  A . 

Association  Notes.

L. M. Mills organizes  Blanchard this evening.
The Vicksburg B.  M.  A.  held  an  interesting 
meeting at  the  corporation  hall  last  Tuesday. 
State Secretary Stowe was present and delivered 
an  address,  after  which  six  applications  for 
membership  were  received.  Two  more  were 
secured the next  morning,  giving  the  Associa­
tion a working membership  of  thirty.  A  com­
mittee of the Association is spending much time 
in securing leases of  5,000  acres  of  land,  when 
the Grand  Rapids  syndicate  will  begin  boring 
for oil or gas.

Petoskey Independant:  There  will  be  a  spe­
cial meeting of the  Business  Men’s  Association 
on Wednesday evening next to  adopt  measures 
for the  suitable  entertainment  of  the  Soldiers 
and  Sailors,  who  will  hold  their encampment 
here in July next.  It is hoped every one will be 
present, as the matter is one of great importance 
and requires the hearty co-operation of all.
C o m m u n icatio n   fro m   tlie   S ta te   I n s u r­

a n c e  C o m m ittee.

G r een v ille, March 30,1889.

E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids:
Dea r  Sir—The  State  Insurance  Committee ! 
would call the attention of  all local associations 
or their insurance  committees to certain legisla­
tion now before our  State  Legislature  afiFecting I 
the interests of all purchasers of insurance.  We j 
would suggest, in consequence of not being able 
to  hold  a  spring  convention,  that  each  local 
association  discuss  these  measures  and  then 
have its insurance committee  or  officers prevail I 
upon the local Representative to vote  and  work 
to carry out such desire.  This can be done and 
with more effect than for the  Committee  of  the 
State  Association  to  labor  with  them  alone. 
Among the measures of importance are :
1.  The  valued  policy  bill,  providing  that  in 
cases of total  loss  the  insurance company shall 
pay the full amount of the policies, whether  the 
loss actually sustained is that amount or not.
2.  House  bill  No.  202,  authorizing  mutual 
insurance committees of this State,  possessed  of 
$li*),000 of cash or assessable assets,  to  write  on 
all classes of insurable property.  This measure 
is  worthy  of  considerable  consideration.  At 
present our premium  note  mutuals are confined 
to manufacturing business only,  while  the  pre­
mium note mutuals of other states come  in  here 
and write on all classes of  property.  This  bill 
will help correct this  discrimination against our 
own companies.
3.  This  measure  is  Senator  Wisner’s  bill, 
offered as a substitute for  the Cole anti-compact 
bill, passed two years ago.  This bill is nearer a 
perfect  measure  for  preventing  compacts  or 
unions  of  the  insurance  companies  than  the 
Cole law, as it  corrects  some  of  the  omissions 
and provisions of that law,  as  demonstrated  by 
experience.
Copies of these measures may be had by apply­
ing to your local  Representative  or  Senator,  or 
to  J.  L.  Preston,  chairman  of  the  Insurance 
Committee of thè House, or  Philip  T.  Colgrove, 
chairman  of  the  Insurance  Committee  of  the 
Senate.
We trust  this  mention  of  these  matters  will 
call  forth  some  discussion  and  expression  of 
vour desire, which you will make known to your 
local Representatives in the  House  and  Senate.
One important measure is omitted in the above 
enumeration and that is  the  bill to reduce the 3 
per cent, tax oil all premiums collected in  Mich­
igan  by  companies  organized  outside  of  the 
State.  As this matter is discussed at some length 
on  the  editorial  page,  further  comment under 
this head is unnecessary.

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

S ta n d ish   O rg an izes  B ra n c h   No.  8 4 .
Standish, March 28,1889.

E. A. Stowe. G rand Rapids:
D e a r   S i r —The business men of  Standish  met 
on March 26 and proceeded to organize  a  B.  M. 
A., which was done by the adoption of the regu­
lation constitution  and  the  election  of the fol­
lowing officers:

President—P. M. Angus.
Vice-President—A. H.  Wells.
Secretary—D. W.  Richardson.
Treasurer—R. MeGurk.
Executive  Committee — J.  B.  Davis,  J.  M. 
Groat,  K. C. Thompson.
Enclosed find $1  for  annual dues on fourteen 
charter members and charter.
We hope and believe that  it will be the means 
of doing good in many ways.
Very truly yours,

D.  W .  R ic h a r d s o n , Sec’y.

T he  TuBtin  B.  M.  A.  R a ises  I ts   Q u o ta 

o f  S to ck .

T u b t in , March  27,1889. 

Geo. B. Caldwell.  Greenville:
D e a r   Sir —We have at  last  secured  the  four 
shares apportioned to us  as  an  Association and 
trust it is not  too  late  yet.  Our  business  men 
have  taken  lots  of  time  to  consider this little 
matter, which should have been considered long 
ago.  We hope you will soon get the remainder of 
the stock and that the  new  insurance  company 
will be in running order before long.  Our  firm 
will take a policy among the first ones.

J. A. L in d s t r o m , Sec’y.

Yours truly, 

S h e rw o o d  to  B a n q u e t  th is  Evening:.
Sh e r w o o d , March 26,1889.

E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids:
Dear  Sir —Our  B.  M.  A.  is  all O. K. and we 
are all well pleased with its workings.  We hope 
to see Colon,  Athens  and  Union  City  organize 
soon, as we realize that in union there is strength.
We have a banquet  next  Tuesdiy evening for 
members  of  the  B.  M.  A. and their wives, and 
expect to have a good time.  Yours,

W. R. M a n d ig o ,  Sec’y.

W ool,  H ides,  T allo w   a n d   F u rs.

The  wool  m arket  is  quiet  and  firm. 
There  is  little  to  offer  and but little is 
wanted.  A decision by the new adminis­
tration says that broken flocks m ust  pay 
the  36c.  duty the  same as scoured wool, 
instead  of  being  admitted  as  waste, 
which was a fraud.

Hides  are  low  and  dull.  Prices  are 
nominal,  being  held  W est at  %c.  above 
what  tanners  want  to  pay. 
In  the ab­
sence of  sales,  no  m arket  prices  can be 
quoted.

Tallow is  in  -good  demand  at the de­

cline,  with no accumulation.

The  excitement in  furs is over.  Hud­
son Bay sales did not bring  the  advance 
expected.  Fine furs are in  good  demand 
at  good  prices,  while  skunk,  «oon,  fox 
and  pale,  late-caught  m ink  are  20  per 
cent,  lower.

T he H a rd w a re   M a rk e t.

The  wire nail men are  trying to stiffen 
prices  by  agreement,  with  no change  as 
yet.  The  steel  nail  combination  hold 
firm.  The surplus is now out of jobbers’ 
hands,  making the  m arket  more  steady. 
Bar iron does not improve.  Barbed wire 
is  still * unsettled.  A  large  num ber  of 
glass factories are shutting  down,  owing 
to  the  extreme  low  prices. 
It  would 
seem  as  though  an  advance would  have 
to take  place  soon.  The  rope  combina­
tion still holds on.

D ecline  in   R u b b e r  G oods.

The rubber m anufacturers have  agreed 
to a reduction of 13 percent,  in the price 
of  boots  and  shoes,  the old  discount  of 
40 off  being  changed to 45 and 5 for  first 
quality  and 45, 5 and  10 for second quali­
ty. 
into  effect  on 
Monday,  the  retail  trade  having  been 
generally notified of  the change  by their 
jobbing friends.

The  decline  went 

R.  A.  Hastings,  the  Sparta  druggist, 

was  in town  Saturday.

4

Foster, Stevens &  Co.

E X P R E S S   WXGONS.

hübüüBBS

"Write for Illustrated Price List and Discount.

Foster, S tev en s & Co.,

10  &  12  MONROE  ST. 

33, 35, 37, 39  & 41  LOUIS  ST.

d i s .

E X P A N S IV E   B IT S . 

f il e s —New List. 

Clark’s, small, $18; large, $26........................ 
30
Ives’, 1, $18;  2, $24:  3, *30  ............................. 
25
American File Association List....................60&10
Disston’s ........................................................ 60&10
New  American...............................................60&10
Nicholson’s ................................................... 60&10
50
Heller’s........................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse  Rasps..................................... 
28
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
List 
15 
18

G A LV A N IZED   IR O N .

dis.

13 

12 

14 

Discount, 60

gauges. 

dis.

50

H A M M ERS.

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s ......................  
Naydole  & Co.’s..............................................¡fcKlis. 25
Kip’s ................................................................... dis. 25
Yerkes & Plumb’s ..............................................dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..........................30c list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand__ 30c 40&1Û
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .. 
60
State................

H IN G E S.

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

List acct. 19, ’86....................................... dis. 
40
5Q
Silver Lake, White A ...............................list 
Drab A ..................................  “  K>
White  B...............................   “ 
go
Drab B..................................   “ 
55
White C...............................      “  35

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Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

SAUSAGE 8UUFFERS OR FILLERS.

Solid Eyes............................................. per ton «25
Miles’ “Challenge” .... per doz. $20, dis. 50gA50&05
Perry................... per doz. No. 1, $15;  No. 0,
..................................................«21;  dis. 50@50&5
Draw Cut No. 4.............................each, $30, dis  30
Enterprise Mfg. Co............................................ dis. 20&10@30
Silver’s.....................................................dis.  40&10
Disston’s  Circular.....................................45@45&5
Cross Cut................................ !.45@45&5
Hand ..........................................25@25&5
♦Extras sometimes given by jobbers.
Atkins’  Circular......................................... <us  9
“  Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,....  ’ 70
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__  
50
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot__  
30
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  foot.............................................. 
28

saws. 

dis.

“ 
“ 

. ..dis.
p, to 12 in. 4%  14  and
)£....... ..................net
%...... ..................net
3£...... ..................net
%...... ..................net
................dis.

3)4
10
8»/,
7)4
7Vt
70

H A N G E R S. 

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50&10
Champion,  anti-friction..............................   60&10
Kidder, wood track ....................................... 
40

d i s .

H O LLO W   W A R E

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

H O U SE  F U R N IS H IN G   GOODS.

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

H O ES.

dis.

HORSE NAILS.

locks—door. 

Grub  1. 
Grub 2 . 
Grub 3.

knobs—New List. 

..........$11, dis. 60
...... $11.50, dis. 60
..........$12, dis. 60
Au Sable................................dis. 25&10@25&10&10
Putnam...................................... dis.  5&10&2V4&2y2
Northwestern.................................   dis. 10&10&5
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings.................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..............  
55
Door,  porcelnin, trimmings.........................  
55
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
Picture, H. L. Judd  &  Co.’s ..........................40&10
45
Hemacite........................................................ 
55
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l i s t .......... 
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s ............................  
55
Branford’s ....................................................  
55
55
Norwalk’s ...................................................... 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ......................  
70
Adze Eye...........................................$16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye...........................................$15.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s........................................$18.50, dis. 20&10.
diS.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled......................  
50
dis.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ..................................... 
40
“  P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Clark’s.................. 
40
“  Enterprise......................... 
25
MOLASSES GATES. 
Stebbin’8  Pattern........................................... 60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine..........................................60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring...........................  
25

levels. 
MATTOCKS.

MAULS. 
mills. 

dlS.

dis.

dis.

 

NAILS
Advance above 12d nails.

FENCE  AND  BRADS.

FINE BLUED.

25
50d to 60d........................................................ 
10
lOd................................................................... 
25
8d and 9d........................................................ 
40
6d and 7d........................................................ 
4d and 5d........................................................ 
60
3d......................................................................  1 00
2d......................................................................  1 50
4d......................................................................   1 00
3d......................................................................   1 50
2d.,.................................................................   200
50
12d to 30d........................................................ 
60
lOd................................................................... 
8d to 9d  .........................................................  
75
6d to 7d........................................................... 
90
4d to 5d.............................................................  1 10
3d...................................................  
 
COMMON  B A R R E L .
%  inch.

CASTING AND BOX.

 

25

C LIN C H .

1V4 and  13£ inch.............................................  135
...........................................  1  is
2 and  2)4 
“ 
...........................................  1  00
2H and 23£  “ 
3 inch.............................................................. 
85
3)4 and 4)4  inch............................................. 
75

Each half keg 10 cents extra.

dis.

planes. 

dis. 
O IL E R S.
Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent...
.60&10 
Zinc, with brass bottom........
50 
Brass or Copper......................
50
.per gross, $12 net
Reaper
j Olmstead’s  .....................................................50&10
Ohio. Tool Co.’s, fancy..................................40@10
Sciota  Bench.................................................  @60
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy..........................40@10
Bench, first quality........................................  @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’b, wood............20&10
Fry,  Acme..............................................dis. 50&10
Common,  polished.................................dis. 60&10
Iron and  Tinned........................................... 
50
Copper Rivets and  Burs................................ 
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

P A T E N T   P L A N IS H E D   IR O N .

rivets. 

Broken packs )4c per pound extra.

dis.

P A N S .

R O PE S.
 

 

SQUARES. 

Sisal, Vi inch and larger..............................   13
Manilla  ............. 
16
dig.
Steel and  Iron................................................ 70&10
Try and Bevels..............................................  
60
M itre........................................H.................... 
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
3 00

$3 00
3 10
3 15
3 35
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

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

S H E E T   IR O N .

 

tacks. 

dis.

American, all kinds......................................  
60
Steel, all  kinds...................................! ” )!! 
60
Sweaes, all kinds................................. . . . . . . 
60
Gimp and Lace................................ 60
Cigar Box  Nails................................................... 50
Finishing  Nails................................................... 50
Common and  Patent  Brads__ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
50
50
Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks....!... 
Trunk and Clout Nails.................................  
50
Tinned Trunk and  Clout Nails..........!.!... 
45
Leathered Carpet Tacks............................... 
  35
dis.

traps. 

dis.

WIRE. 

Steel, Game.....................................................60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ........... 
35
Oneida  Community, Hawley & Norton’s  ... 
70
Hotchkiss’...................................................... 
70
p. s. & w.  Mfg.co.’s ......................................... 70
Mouse,  choker.....................................18c per doz.
Mouse, delusion................................$1.50 per doz.
Bright Market................................................  6754
Annealed Market.......................................... .70&10
Coppered Market.................................................. . . 62V4
Extra Bailing................................................ 
55
Tinned M arket.................................................6254
Tinned  Broom.................................. per pound 09
Tinned  Mattress...............................per  pound 8K
Coppered  Spring  Steel.................................  
50
Tinned  Spring Steel.......................  
..........40&10
Plain Fence....................................... per pound 08
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..................................$3 75
painted......................................   3 00
Copper.............................................. 
Brass..................................................... 
W IR E   GOODS.
Bright.........................................
Screw  Eyes................................
Hook’s ........................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes................
W R EN C H ES.

.70&10&10
•TO&10&1C
.70&10&10
..7Ü&10&10

list net
•* «  «
dis.

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

dis.

“ 

M ISC ELLA N EO U S. 

Bird Cages........................................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern..............................................  
75
Screws, New List...................... -...................70&05
Casters, Bed  and  Plate........................... 50A10&10
Dampers,  American...................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........  66?i
Copper Bottoms..............................................  36c

 

d i s .
 

METALS.
P IG   T IN .

Pig  Large. 
Pig Bars...

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

C O PPE R .

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

Lake........................................  ........................18)4
“Anchor” Brand..................................................16

ZIN C.

 

 

 

“ 

L E A D .

pound.  Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound.

Duty:  Sheet, 2)4c per pound.
680 pound  casks..................................................6)4
Per  pound...................................................... 7©7)4
Duty:  Pig, $2 per 100  pounds.  Old  Lead, 2c per 
American 
...................................................... @5
1 50
Newark.............................................................................. @5
.6
B ar.............................  
Sheet....................................................... 8c, dis. 20
)4®)4.............................. 
..............................16
Extra W iping................................................... 13U
solder in the market indicated by private  brands
vary according to composition.
A N TIM O N Y .

The  prices  of  the  many other qualities  of

SO LD ER .

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
** 
“ 
“ 

Cookson......................................... per  pound  14)4
Hallett’s........................................ 
11)4
T IN — M ELY N   G RA D E.
10xi4 IC, Charcoal.............................
...$ 6 00 
.............................- 
14x20 IC, 
..
...  6 00 
12x12 IC, 
......................................
...  6 26 
.............................
14x1410, 
...  10 06
......................................
10x28 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
.......  .......................... .
! 
7 75
14x20 IX, 
........... ..........................
...  7 75 
12x12 IX, 
.............................
...  8 00 
.............. .......................
14x14 IX, 
...  12 50
20x28 IX, 
.............'........................
Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.
10x14 IC,  Charcoal........................  ..........
........ .............................
14x20 IC, 
12x12 IC, 
......................................
14x14 IC, 
................................... .
29x28 IC, 
................................
......................................
10x14 IX, 
................... ..................
14x20 IX, 
......................................
12x12 IX, 
14x14 IX, 
......................................
20x28 IX, 
......................................
Each additional X on this grade $1.50.

5 40 
5 40
5 65 
9 25
11  80
6  90
6 90
7  15 
11  06 
14 80
14x20 IC, Terne  M. F .................................... $ 7 00
20x28  IC, 
15 75
14x20  IC, 
5  9Û 
14x20 IX, 
7 00
29x28 IC, 
11  50 
14x20 IC, 
4  90
14x20 IX, 
6 40 
20x28  IC, 
10 50 
20x28 IX,
13 50

T IN — A LLA W A Y   G R A D E .
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“ 
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“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Allaway  Grade.

Worcester__

R O O FIN G   PL A T E S

B O IL E R   SIZ E   T IN  P L A T E .

14x28  IX.........................................................$12 00
14x31  IX.........................................................  13  50
Ö  il; f“r N“‘ 9 Bo“ers’ ( *** p°und....   09

FROM  A  RURAL  STANDPOINT.

The  “ Patrons of Industry,”  as  Viewed 

by  Farmer  Crandall.

Written fo r Th e Tradesman.

the 

As 1889 will  be  memorable for its un­
paralleled March,  even so  will  the  year 
be also  remembered  as hatching out one 
of 
thinnest-skinned,  mugwump 
frauds  ever  perpetrated  on  a  gullible 
though  confiding  public.  We  refer  to 
the 
latest  edition  of  secret  societies, 
styled  “ Patrons  of  Industry” —a society 
conceived 
in  fraud;  built  on  a  false 
basis;  leading  the  unsuspecting  farm er 
and patron to break  down  his  only bul­
wark  of  safety, 
competition,  which 
shields  him  from  the  clutches  of  un­
scrupulous  dealers  and  double-dealing.
It is a scheme worked in rural sections, 
principally  in  school  districts,  among 
the  farm ers  who  are  led to believe that 
they pay  too  much  for  w hat  they buy, 
and  get  too  little  for w hat they  sell—a 
sort  of  a  back-action,  double-barreled 
argument. 
The  same  old  battle-cry, 
“ Down with the  Middle Man,”  is stuffed 
down  the  throats  of  an  outraged,  con­
fiding,  robbed community.

As  an  instance  of  the  duplicity used 
to  arouse 
their  cupidity,  one  of  their 
faithful  told  a farm er in our section that 
if  he  would  join  their  society he could 
buy a first-class axe handle for five cents, 
a new  axe for thirty-five cents  and a first- 
class mowing-machine  for  $22.50.  Com­
m ent is unnecessary.

. 

, 

, 

. 

_ 

_  .. 

E. A. Stowe,  Grand Rapids:

,  ! usually  converted 

Sand Lake,  A pril 1,  1889.

J.  V.  Cr a n d a l l,  Farm er.

“ ANOTHER BOHEMIAN OAT  SCHEME.”
D a v iso n,  March 27,  1889.

De a r   Sib —Your letter of  the 23rd  at 
hand.  W ill say  that your answer  to  my 
letter through the columns of T h e Mic h i­
It 
g a n  T ra d esm a n  was  satisfactory. 
was copied by the  F lint  Globe  and  was 
thoroughly  circulated 
throughout 
the 
county.  Your answer was well  received 
here  by all except the Patrons. 
I  heard 
one  express  his  opinion  in 
this  way, 
“ They think us Patrons  a  set  of  know- 
nothings.” 
I think  it is only  a  question 
of a little time when the  farm er  who  is 
possessed  of  a little more than  ordinary 
judgm ent will see in the Patrons another 
Bohemian  Oat  scheme  or  Hedge  Fence 
swindle,  when the  “ sharper”  is sure  to 
get the start of  the  farmers.  They  al­
ways seem ready to be swindled  and  you 
can never make them  see the point  until 
it is too late.
I think that the members of  our Union 
who  have  been  supplying  the  Patrons 
have seen their mistake,  as one has  gone 
back on that way of doing business.

you  to  turn  “ fool m erchants”  and  lead  way  some  companies  have  a  surplus 
you to put  yourself  on record as a  jack-  equal  to  the  original  capital,  which  is 
into  stock  and  the
ass of  the  first  w ater  and  play the role , jj0ider eventually gets  interest on  two or
of  the “ poor m an’s friend,”  with  bulged 
four times his first capital stock.  Where 
this  conversion  has  Lot  been  made the
invoices,  shoddy goods  and  adulterated 
stock ot  the old  companies  sells  at $200 
spices.  You know that  first-class  goods 
to $436.  From  this showing  any  one can 
cannot  be  sold  at 
third-rate  prices. 
see that especially  a new  company could 
Neither  can  you  pay  15  cents  for eggs 
not start w ithout  having  the  Israelite’s j 
1  per cent,  aud prosper.
and  sell  them   at  12%  cents,  to  please 
' To avoid  this  extravagant  cost of  fire 
your Patron friends.
protection,  m utual  insurance  companies 
have  been  organized  in  great  numbers. 
W here all  classes of  risks  have  beeu in­
cluded,  the m utuals  have  usually failed. 
The cost  and  loss in  collecting small  as­
sessments  has  been  an  obstacle.  The 
m utuals organized  for class insurance  in 
large volumes have been very successful. 
This  success has  caused  some  losses  by 
enabling men  without ability,  experience 
or  patronage to start  companies and  se­
cure a  small  line  of  risks,  to  be  closed 
out  by  the  first  fire or,  more  generally, 
by  the  extravagance  of  the  managers. 
Again,  the  directors of  a company  fairly 
under  way  will  start  another  in  same 
office  or  city  and  use substantially  the 
same  set of  officers,  thus  giving them  a 
chance  to  draw  two  salaries.  Having 
the  same class of  patrons it makes  little 
difference  whether  a  $5.000  policy 
is 
issued in one company  of  $2,500  in  each. 
The true  theory  would  be to  reinsure in 
a  company with  a different  set of  policy 
holders.
The Consolidated Insurance Compani  s 
of New England have succeeded  for some 
years in returning to the  insured over  70 
per  cent,  of  the annual  premium.  This 
is  a  wonderful success aud  a  sad  com­
m entary on  the  usual  wasteful  methods 
of fire insurance companies.  So far,  our 
W estern m utuals  have not returned over 
20 or 25 per  cent,  on an  average  to their 
customers.  A  notable  exception  is  the 
Mill  Owners’  M utual  Insurance  Com­
pany of  Des  Moines,  Iowa.  This  com­
pany  was  organized  in  1875,  and  up  to 
January  1,  1889,  had  returned  to  policy 
holders an average of almost 52 per cent, 
per  annum.  This  has  been  done while 
handling  flour mills  exclusively—a class 
of  risks deemed  very  undesirable  by  or­
dinary  insurance men.  The Mill  Owners’ 
Mutual  Insurance  Company  has  been 
managed  largely  by  a  father  and  son, 
very  much  as  they  would  manage their 
private business.  Nothing has beeu paid 
for  figure  heads 
to 
favorites  for  special  work.  Though  a 
small  company,  the  per  centage  of  ex­
pense for  management is  about  one-half 
that of the ordinary W estern  m utual.

C.  W.  H e r d ,  Sec’y.

in  the  hoard  or 

Very truly yours,

From  th e  Saranac  Local.

H A R D W A R E .
P r ic e s   C u rren t.

into 

instilled 

POOR  POLICY.

too  heavy  profits. 

There  is  one  thought  pervading  the 
minds  of  rural  purchasers,  and  th at is 
th at dealers in general  m erchandise  and 
T h e Mic h ig a n  T r a d esm a n has begun 
a  vigorous  crusade  against  the  fellows 
grocerymen are  getting  immensely rich. 
who are going  the  rounds instituting an 
It  would  be  useless  to  attem pt to con­
organization  called  the  “ Patrons of  In­
vince  them  to  the contrary,  by showing 
dustry”  among  the  farm ers.  This  or­
them  the  statistics,  that ninety-four out 
ganization  is ostensibly  for  the  purpose 
of  enabling  the  farm er  to  buy his gro­
of  every 100 m erchants fail in business— 
ceries  and  dry  goods  at  a  very  small 
failures in too many instances  caused by 
m argin  above  the  actual cost. 
If  such 
selling goods on  credit to these  same re­
an institution could be made  permanent, 
The 
formers—at 
the  result  would  be  that  other dealers 
would  be obliged to close  out  their  bus­
grand  central 
the 
idea 
iness,  the  home  m arkets  would  be de­
pranium  of 
the  wronged,  outraged 
stroyed,  land  would depreciate still more 
farm er is—10 per cent,  above cost.  This 
in  value,  and in the end  the  person  who 
they  are  willing  to  pay  for  goods,  but 
had  stood  in  with  the ring would have 
his customers in his power.  A t the pres­
not a farthing more.  Our  rural  friends 
ent ruinous competition  there is no need 
fully  believe  10  per  cent,  a  suflicient 
for the  farm er to organize  for  the  pur­
m argin  for  our  m erchants  and  general 
pose  of  buying  his  necessities  of 
life
dealers 
is  a
cheaper.  He  could  do  better  devoting 
well-known fact  that farm ers,  as a class,  i his time to the  implement fiend,  the pat- 
keep no dccount  with  their farm  or bus- j  ent right sharpers and  the  Bohemian oat 
iness and,  consequently,  are  not the best
judges in the wdrld as  to  what  m ercan­
tile  business  costs.  We  subm it  a  few 
facts  for  their  consideration,  and when 
they  digest  them  fully,  they can  better 
sit  in 
judgm ent,  as  honest  jurors,  in 
this m atter:

to  do  business  on. 

From  th e S p arta Sentinel.

swindlers

in 

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dis.

dlS.

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.  77 

° 
in 

AXES.

B U C K E T S.

bells. 

dlS.
dis.

BRACES.

B U T T S ,  CA ST. 

AUGURS AND BITS. 

poor  cans; 
poor  cans, 

insurance  on 

“ GO ING  B A C K W A R D .”

BALANCES. 
BARROWS. 

W est Kalamo Cor. Nashville News

STRONG  IN   E A T O N   COUNTY.

the  school  district 

spoiled  meats—all
spoiled  m eats 

R a d ic al  V iew   o f F ire   In su ra n c e .

axe  handles;  poor-tem pered j  centage,  and  th e  tick et  sellers  g et tn e ir j wrought Narrow,bright5ast joint...

A  lodge  of  Patrons  of  Industry  was 
organized  at the  Matteson  school-house. 
It is already a  very  strong  organization 
in Eaton county,  despite  T h e  Mic h ig a n  
T r a d esm a n’s timely warning.

The  “ Patrons  of  Industry,”   of  whom 
mention  was  made  in  the Sentinel last 
week,  have since  then  completed  an or­
ganization 
just 
south of  the  village.  They  are  merely 
going backward over the ground that the 
Grange  abandoned  in  disgust  years ago.

The  following  communication,  from 
the  Chicago  Tiniberman,  does  not  ex­
actly  express  T h e  T r a d esm a n’s ideas, 
but the grounds taken are so radical that 
the  article  is,  nevertheless,  worthy of  a 
careful p eru sal:

A business  man—or  a  farm er,  if  you 
please—wishes to enter  the field of  mer­
cantile  pursuits,  with a cash  capital of 
$10,000.  He  m ust  seek a thriving town 
in which  to  invest  that amount of  cap­
ital—no  shanty  town  nor  cross roads— 
but a busy,  hustling town.  He will have 
to  pay  for  rent  of  store,  $300;  for  a 
dwelling to live  in,  $200;  for a horse and 
carriage,  $150; 
stock,
| $10,000  at 4  per cent.,  $400;  on  dwelling 
and  contents,  $40;  two  clerks  in  store, 
$1,000;  fuel  and  light,  $150;  benevolent 
and church societies, $100; railway fares, 
$100;  keeping his sons  and  daughters in 
school and properly m aintaing his family 
As one who  has  had  experience as  an 
in  their  position, $1,000.  Besides  this, 
insurer,  I offer a few  comments from the 
there is the leakage  through  the  gimlet 
standpoint of  the assured :
holes  in  his  barrels;  in  the  m atter  of
First,  it is generally conceded  that the
shortage;  drayage;  leakage;  waste;  dry-  business  is  fairly  and  honorably  con­
ing  out;  wear  and  tear;  breakage;  bad  ducted.  So,  also,  is  the Louisiana  State 
debts;  spoiled  goods;  wormy apples;  de-  Lothuy»  and  both 
institutions  return 
their  customers  about  the  same  50 per
, . 
cayed vegetables;  unseasonable  and  un-  cen^  Gf  the money received. 
In  the lot-
salable  goods;  goods  out  of 
. 
° 
J 
kn o ts 
scythes  and  axes;  rem n an ts;  half-filled | com m issions,  and  the  ad vertising  is  paid  | Wrought Loose Pin
lo o lv u o j  WUU  PU.V  **'* V w* 
and 
amounting to a grand total of  over  $500;! agers,  Messrs.  Dauphin,  Beauregard  and j Wrought  Table 
interest  on  his  capital,  $800;  making a j  Longstreet,  are  compensated,  the  cash 
grand 
total  expense  for  one  year  of  received is haif  expended  and the ticket |
| $4,740. 

T hese  p rices  are  fo r cash  buyers,  who 
pay  prom ptly  and  buy  in  fu ll  packages.
Ives’, old style  ...! ......................................  
60
60
Snell’s............................................................. 
Cook’s ............................................................. 
40
Jennings’, genuine........................................ 
25
Jennings’,  im itation..................................... 50&10
First Quality, S.  B. Bronze........................$ 7 00
D.  B. Bronze............................  11  00
S. B. S. Steel.............................  8 50
D. B. Steel................................  13 00
Spring  ........................................................... 
40
Railroad........................................................$ 14 00
Garden.................................................... net  33 00
Hand......................................................   60&10&10
70
Cow ................................................................ 
Call  ................................................................30&15
G ong..............................................................  
25
Door, Sargent...................... 
60&10
bolts. 
dis.
Stove.............................................................$ 
0
Carriage new list............................................70&10
Plow  ..............................................................  
50
Sleigh  shoe....................................................  
70
Wrought Barrel  Bolts................................... 
60
Cast Barrel  Bolts.........................................  
40
Cast Barrell, brass  knobs............................. 
40
60
Cast Square Spring........................................ 
40
Cast C hain..................................................... 
Wrought  Barrel, brass knob........................ 
60
Wrought Square........................................... 
60
Wrought Sunk  Flush...................................  
60
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush 
.60*10 
Ives’ Door...................................................
dis.
Barber............................................................. 
40
Backus........................................................  50&10
Spofford.........................................................  
50
Am. B a ll........................................................  net
Well,  plain....................................................$ 3 50
Well, swivel........................................................  4 00
d lS .
Cast Loose Pin, figured..................................70&
fashion; j tery,  by the time the State  gets  its  per- ! £asi L°ose Hn, Berlin  bronzed..................70&
I 
| oast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.............. 60&
■ 60&10 
60&10 
zzvwuv.  » * ** - .........................
j  '' * 
I 
60&05 
for,  and  the  sm all  arm y  of  agents  and  Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip ... 
I 
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned  .
,  ’ 
60&05
| clerks  are  settled  w ith,  and  the  nian-  j wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped.60&05
60&10
60&10
70&10
j  holders as  a body  receive  back  th e o th er  Blind,  Parker’s...................................... .— 70&10
half  in prizes. 
70
40
aged than the  Louisiana State Lottery at  Bissell  No. 5....................................................perdoz.$i7 00
1Q «n
19 eo
36 00 
’ 
24 00 
Grand  Rapids. 
15 00
Magic .
Grain.............................................. ...... dis. 50&02
__ per lb 
04
Cast Steel........................................
....  “ 
3)4
Iron, Steel Points.........................
65 
....p erm  
Ely’s 1-10........................................
60
.... 
Hick’s C. F .....................................
.... 
G. D ..............................................
35
60
Musket........................................... .... 
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 
50
Rim Fire, United  States..............
50
........ dis. 
Central  Fire.................................
........dis. 
25
Socket Firm er..............................
.............. 70&10
Socket Framing.............................
.............. 7Ü&10
Socket Corner................................
..............-70&10
.............. 70&10
Socket Slicks................................
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer...........
..............  
40
20
Barton's Socket  Firmers.............. ..............  
net
Cold................................................ ............... 
Curry,  Lawrence’s  .....................
.............. 40&10
..............  
25
Hotchkiss.....................................
CH A LK .
White Crayons, per  gross...
. 12@12)4 dis. 10
COCKS.
Brass,  Racking’s .................
..............  
60
60
..............  
Bibb’8 ...................................
B eer....................................
...............40&10
60
..............  
Fenns’...................................
C O P P E R .
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
3
14x52, 14x56, 14x60 ........................ 
3
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60........................ 
2
Cold  Rolled, 14x48.........................................  
2
Bottoms..............   ........... ............................ 
3
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks........................................ 
4
Paper and straight Shank............................. 
4
Morse’s Taper shank....................................  
4

New Orleans,  and  yet the patrons neces-  ®iss®}| **,a  F new dr°PPan  •• 
sarily  lose  one-half  their  money  in  ex- 
penses and tax e s!
in  each  ward, 
town or city  would be satisfied  to  come 
together once a month  and  put  up $1 or 
$100 each and draw  lots for it, they could 
receive  hack  100  cents  of  their  invest-
question :  You  have  $10,000  cash to in- i  m ent and know  the  results of  the draw- 
vest.  You  can  start  a  loan  office  and  in« the same night  thus saving half their I 
i money  and  avoiding  all  their  anxiety,
loan  to  brother  farm ers  and  brother | jfow,  we will  ask  how  fire  insurance is 
patrons  your  money  at 8 per cent,  (and j  conducted,  and  how  it  should  he.  A 
many of  you  pay  that  amount  of  inter-  large percentage of  insurance companies
est,  besides  a  bonus)  and  sit  in  j o u r f f l .   Another  large percentage reinsure 
\ their  risks  and  retire.  As  a m atter  ot \
office defying the tax  collector,  and snap j 
a stock insurance company that has j 
your  fingers at losses by fire or  poor  re- j  been  compelled  to pay  losses  for  sev eral, 
lations 
| years  exceeding  one-half  its receipts,  is
It  is either  bankrupt  or  dis-
couraged  and drops out of  business.  To
your  stock of  $10,000  happens  to burn, j  contribute  $2  in  order to get back $1  in
you cannot expect to realize  over  three- 
case of  fire,  seems expensive  protection. 
It cannot  be  much  different  under  the 
fourths  of  your  loss,  which  would  be 
present system :
$7,500.  Don’t  the  m ercantile  business 
(1)  The  soliciting  agent  m ust  have 
look inviting ?  Hadn’t  you  better mort­
his  15 per cent,  and  new  or  weak  com­
panies  give  20  or  25 per  cent,  commis­
gage  your  farm   and  launch  out  in the 
sion.
business? 
Ju st  look  around  you  and 
(2)  The state  agent or the manager of 
count over the men who  have  left  their
agencies  generally  tolls 
the  premiums
farms,  shops, drays  and trades to become  about 5  per cent.
(3)  Then  come the  general  expenses 
m erchants or grocerymen,  with  the same 
| idea  you  have of  a short  road to wealth I of  the home office.  This  includes adver- 
tisiug,  stationery,  agents’  supplies,  fire j 
and  affluence!  Where  are  they?  One 
maps,  rents,  salaries  of  officers,  clerks ! 
!  brief,  short  line or word  tells their fate : 
and adjusters.
(4)  Dividends  on  the  original  stock. 
j  “ Busted.”
These  m ust be liberal,  as the  business is 
I close  with  a single  thought  for bus- 
I 
considered  hazardous.  Among  strong 
! iness  men  who  are  engaged in the gro­
companies  it  is  the  custom  to  let  the
cery or  m ercantile  pursuits.  This skel- j  ¿ ¿ r n i i i g s   accumulate  and  only  divide a 
* eton of  10  per  cent,  may  induce  some of '  legal  rate of  interest  annually. 
In  this

i  a  year— double  his  capital,  which  is  a  States  is  more  fairly  and squarely man- j 
! good average—and  we  have  23  7-10 per I “p 
I 
cent,  as  the  cost  of  doing a mercantile 
business.  Mr.  Tenpercent,  does 
this 
look  inviting?  Can  you  see  yourself 
emerge  into a m illionaire  in  a few  short 
years ? 

Small sizes, ser pound......   ........................
Large sizes, per  pound.................................
75
Com. 4  piece, 6 in ............................doz. net
Corrugated......................................dis. 20&10&10
Adjustable..............................................dis.

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the  United ! ordinary Tackle, HstApril i?, ’85................ 

One more thought and I have done:  i f   crippled 

Now,  we  will  call  his  sales  $20,000 j or 

I imagine  that  no  hank : Blind. Shepard’s 

Take  another view of  this  10 per cent.

If  the  sporting  men 

insurance  company 

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To th e  Pass B o o k  S y s te m
With  its  attendant  losses  and  annoyances,  when  you  can 

supplant it by so inexpensive and labor-saving 

a  system  as  the

Tradesman  Gredit  Coupon  Book,

Which is now used by over 2,000  Michigan  merchants.

The Tradesman Coupon  is  the  cheapest  and  most modern in 

the market, being sold as follows:

$  2 .Coupons,  per hundred 
$ 5  
 
$10 
 
$20 

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.......... $2.50 | su b je c t  to  t h e  fo llo w in g d isc o u n ts:
3.00 | Orders for  200 or over...............5 per cent.
4.00 
5.001 

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“  1000  “ 

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SEND IN SAMPLE  ORDER AND  PUT YOUR  BUSINESS ON  A CASH  BASIS.

E. A.8Y0 WE M R0„ Grand Rapids.
N uts We carry a large stock of Foreign 
EÄl/ENRIßH  BROS.

and  Domestic  Nuts  and are at all 
times  prepared  to  fill  orders  for 
car lots or less at lowest  prices.

Putnam  Sc  Brooks.

W h o le sa le  C lothiers

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Perfect-Fitting  Tailor-Made  Clothing

138-140 Jefferson  Hue.. 34-36  Woodbridge 8t„ Detroit.

M A IL   O RDERS sent in  care L.  W.  A T K IN S  w ill receive  PRO M PT  A TTE N T IO N

AT  LOWEST PRICES.

Our  lemons  are  all  bought at 
the  cargo  sales  in  New  Orleans 
and are as free from frost or chill 
as in June.
PUTNAM &  BROOKS.

HESTER  Sc  FOX,

S A W  A 2TD G R IS T  M IL L  M A C H IN E R Y ,

Manufacturers’ Agents for

ATLASENGINEWORKS

M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O F

INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.,  U.  S . A.
(STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.
► Carry Engines and Boilers in Stock I 

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

ßraGker Manufacturers,

A G B A T S   EOR  AM BOY  CHEESE. 

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

A L F R E D  J. B R O W N ,
Foreign,  Tropical  and  California

WHOLESALE  DEALER  IN

F R U I T S .

H e a d q u a r te r s   for  B a n a n a s .

a s ¡ P i l l s

16  AND 18 NORTH  DIVISION ST.

D e tro it S o a p  Go.

DETR  IT,  MICH

M anufacturers of the  following  well-known 

brands of

GRAND  RAPIDS, SIICH.

QUEEN  ANNE, 
TRUE  BLUE, 
MONDAY, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN, 

nU P E kTOR, 

PHCENIX. 

MICHIGAN. 

CZAR, 

WABASH, 

ROYAL  BAR, 
MASCOTTE,
CAMEO,

AND  OTHERS. 

For quotations address

W .  G.  H A W K IN S. 
P. 
D ry   G oods ? N otions,

S T E K E T E E  &

Salesman for Western Michigan,

L o c k   Box  173,

W H O L E S A L E

GRAND  RAPIDS

83  Monroe  St.  and 10,12,14,16A 18 Fountain  81.,
.  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

N e w   L in e   o f  P r in ts,  S e e r s u c k e r s , 
T o ile   D u  N o rd , G in g h a m s, D r e ss G ood s, 
H o sie r y ,  U n d e r w e a r ,  VV'hite  G oods, 
L a c e s, E m b r o id e r ie s  a n d   F u ll  L in e   o f 
N e c k   W e a r .

Warps,  Geese  Feathers,

Waddings,  Batts 

STARK,

FRANKLINVILLE,

AMERICAN,
HOOKER,

and careful  attention.

BURLAPS.

and  Twines.
Sole Agents for Valley City and Georgia  Bags.  Mail  orders  receive  prom pt 

S e n d   fo r 
C a ta lo g u e  

a n d  
P n ces-

DEALERS IN

HES S
P E R K I N S   Sc
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
ATTENTION,  RETAIL  MERCHANTS!

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

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

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

WE  CARRY A  STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL  USE-

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

Pulley  and become convinced of their  superiority.

Saws, B elting  and  Oils.

Write for Prices. 

lor  immediate  delivery.

In c r e a se   y o u r   C igar  T r a d e   b y   s e llin g   the

I B .  

I M L

Michigan  Business  Men9s   Association,

Named in  Compliment to  the

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

RETAIL  GROCERY  TRADE.

Absolutely  THE  BEST  5  Cent  Cigar  on  Earth I .
The  Telfer  Spice  C om pany,  .

PR IC E , $ 3 0   P E R   THOUSAND.

MANUFACTURERS’  AGENTS,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

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BUSINESS  LAW .

Brief  D igests  of  Recent  Decisions 

C ourts of L ast Resort.

in 

P A R T N E R S H IP   P R O P E R T Y  —  IN V E N T IO N  —  

P A T E N T .

In a case where an invention is put  in 
as part of the capital stock of  a partner­
ship,  a patent granted  on  the  invention 
becomes partnership property,  according 
to the  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court of 
California in the case of  Hill  vs.  Miller.

E M PLO Y ER S’  L IA B IL IT Y   —   F E L L O W   S E R ­

V A N T S.

According to the decision of the United 
States Circuit Court for  Colorado  in  the 
case of  Mealman vs.  Railroad  Company, 
a section boss and a section hand are  not 
fellow servants,  within  the  meaning  of 
the law  relating to  the  liability  of  em­
ployers.

CONTRACT— ST IP U L A T IO N — W A IV E R .
A contract for the building  of  a  house 
contained  a  stipulation  that  no  charge 
should  be  made  for  extra  work  unless 
the same should be  ordered  in  writing. 
The  Supreme  Judical  Court  of  Massa­
chusetts held,  in the case of  B artlett vs. 
Stanchfield,  that evidence that the owner 
had orally requested the performance  of 
certain  work might  be  held  to  show  a 
waiver of the  stipulation.

M ORTGA GE— M A C H IN ER Y — R E A L   E S T A T E .
The Supreme Judical  Court  of  Massa­
chusetts held,  in  the  recent  case  of  the 
Southbridge  Savings  Bank  vs.  Mason, 
“th a t as between mortgagor and mortgagee 
all machinery necessary to  the  business 
for which  a building was erected,  resting 
upon stone foundations  laid  as  a  part  of 
the construction of the building especially 
for their support,  or  for  the  accomoda­
tion  of  which  places  were  fixed  in  the 
floors,  as well  as  other  very  heavy  ma­
chinery fastened to the building  or  rest­
ing  in  position  by its own  weight,  would 
be held  to be part of the real estate.

B A N K — C O LLEC TIO N — A G EN CY .

The Superior Court of Kentucky  held, 
in the  case  of  Armstrong  vs.  National 
Bank  of  Boyertown.  that when  paper is 
delivered to a banker for  “ collection and 
credit”  the  banker  becomes 
the  cus­
tomer’s agent to  collect,  with  authority 
to pass  the  proceeds  to  the  customer’s 
account  by a credit  after  they  are  col­
lected,  that he cannot  term inate  his  re­
sponsibility  as  an  agent  until  he  has 
fully discharged  it  and  has  substituted 
in its place his unqualified  obligation  as 
a debtor,  and that until then he  acquires 
no title to the  proceeds of  the  paper  be­
yond the banker’s lien.

E M IN E N T   D O M A IN -C 'O M PE N SA TIO N -C R O PS.
The  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania 
held,  in  the  case  of  Lafferty  vs.  The 
Schuylkill River East Side Railroad Com­
pany,  that the mere location of  the lines 
of a railroad over an owner’s land is  not 
notice of the time when actual possession 
will be required,  and that  crops  planted 
by  him in the meantime  before notice  of 
possession or bond given by the  railroad 
company were  proper  subjects  of  com­
pensation.  The  court  said: 
“W hen  a 
railroad company locates its lines of road 
over the lands of private owners it there­
by  secures  a  -right  to  enter  upon  and 
occupy the land covered by such location. 
The actual entry  cannot  be  made  until 
the damages accruing to the owner  shall 
be paid  or  secured,  but  the  means  for 
ascertaining  the  damages  are  provided 
by law,  where the  parties  cannot  agree 
upon them,  and  the  owner  cannot  pre­
vent the  exercise  of  the  right  of  emi­
nent domain by the company.  But while 
the owner has notice,  by the  location  of 
the road over his  lands,  of  the  purpose 
of  the  company  to appropriate so much 
as the line of the road covers,  he  has  no 
notice of the time when actual possession 
will  be  required.  He  may  doubtless 
abandon the land covered by the  line  as 
located to the  company  and  proceed  to 
have his  damages  assessed;  or  he  may 
wait for the company to take  the  initia­
tive  and  continue  in  the  meantime  to 
occupy and cultivate it. 
If he takes  the 
latter  branch  of  the  alternative,  crops 
planted  after  the  location  and  before 
notice or bond given by the railroad com­
pany are proper  subjects  for  compensa­
tion.  The reason for this is that  it  may 
be months,  or even years,  after the  loca­
tion of  the line before the company  will 
be ready to enter upon the land for  pur­
poses of construction or to take the steps 
necessary for the assessment of damages, 
and the owner has a  right  to  remain  in 
possession  until actual  appropriation  of 
his land by the company.”

Liability  of  the  M erchant  for  Goods 

L ost  in  Transit.

T r a v e r se  Cit y ,  March 20,  1889.

E. A.  Stowe, Grand Rapids :

D e a r  Sir—I  would  like to have  your 
-opinion on a question of  law.
Suppose  a  merchant,  living  here  in 
Traverse  City,  orders  a  bill  of  goods 
from a  jobber  in  Chicago,  giving  ship­
ping directions.  The  goods are shipped, 
b u t never  reach  the  consignee,  and  the 
goods  are  nowhere  to  be  found.  The 
consignee  notifies  the  shippers that the 
goods did not come.  Upon this informa­
tion,  the shipper sends a tracer  after the 
missing  box  through  the  main office of 
the transportation  company  for  indorse­
m ent by their agent at  the  place of  des­
tination.  The  agent  indorses  on  said 
the  goods  were  never  re­
tracer 
ceived at Traverse City.
Now,  who does the  shipper look to for 
his  pay  for  the  lost  goods  or  missing 
goods—the  transportation  company  or 
the m erchant ? 

..  Yours truly,

that 

J ohn  H el m .

As  a  general  principle  of  law,  the 
liability of  the shipper  ceases  when the 
goods are receipted for in good condition. 
The transportation  company  is  in  duty 
bound  to  deliver  the  goods  to the con­
signee and in  as good condition  as  when 
received. 
the  company  fails  to  do 
either,  the consignee has a claim  against 
the  company.

If  the  jobber  from  whom  you  pur­
chased 
the  goods  sent  you  a  bill  of 
lading,  it  is  proper  for  you  to  pay the

If 

amount  of  the 
invoice,  as  you  have 
ample recourse against the transportation 
company.  Make out  your claim in item­
ized form,  and  present  it to the agent of 
the transportation  company,  with bill of 
lading attached,  for adjustm ent  and  set­
tlement.

This  is  the  proper method to pursue. 
As  a  m atter of  fact,  local  agents  gen­
erally make  poor  work of  pushing such 
claims through, and the jobber frequently 
volunteers to father  the  claims  and  ex­
pedite  their  adjustm ent—not because of 
any liability  to  do  so,  but  because  he 
values the  retailer’s trade and is willing 
to go out of  his way to help him.

If  the  jobber  failed to send  you  a bill 
of  lading,  you have  no  evidence that he 
ever  sent  you  the  goods  for  which  he 
now claims  pay and  you  are  not  bound 
to  pay the  claim,  unless  you  see  fit  to 
do so.

The  Retail  Salesm en.

There is the  chap  who unbends to no­
body.  His  own  importance  can  not  be 
sacrificed.  He is somewhat of the wooden 
image order,  and treats  all  comers  with 
uniform  stolidity.  He  may  have  some 
ability,  but he  is not pleasing.  He pushes 
his  own  choice  upon  customers,  rather 
than  seeking to learn theirs  and  satisfy 
them.  He  has  too slight an opinion  of 
other  people  to  be  able to respect their 
wishes,  and if  he does not actually  bull­
doze  them,  he  opposes  to their views  a 
degree of  inertia,  which quite overcomes 
some sensitive people,  but  is  agreeable 
to none.
The contrast  to  this bumptious  fellow 
is the chap  who  is  all receptiveness and 
exerts  no  centrifugal  power  whatever. 
He is a sort  of  putty man,  shows a dim­
ple wherever  touched,  and  is  bound to 
let everybody have his own way,  right or 
wrong,  survive  or  perish.  He  makes 
just  the same  mistake  the  other  fellow 
does,  that  of  treating  everybody alike. 
In  one case  the  treatm ent  is  all  ice,  in 
the other it is  all mush.  He  will  dance 
anxious# attendance  for  any  length  of 
time  upon any sort of customer who cares 
to abuse his  services.  He  will correct 
no error  and  resent  no  slur.  His  one 
notion 
be 
humored and  that only.  He  is unable to 
impress with a positive opinion or  guide 
his  choice  for  the  good,  either  of 
the 
buyer himself or  the  business. 
If  his 
views are  asked,  they  will  be found of 
little  value,  for  he  is  accustomed  to a 
total  subordination  of  self,  so  that he 
really has no  convictions.  His  alleged 
mind  is  in  such  a  cronic  condition of 
flighty  suspense  as  to  be  incapable  of 
calm decision and influential  advice.

that  a  customer  m ust 

is 

Really able salesmen are  not  all  con­
fined to the largest  towns and the biggest 
It  was our fortune once 
establishm ents. 
to observe a case of the  most  refreshing 
character,  in  a clothing  store  in  a small 
town in Ohio.  The salesman was  a tall, 
slim,  pleasant looking young  man.  We 
watched his treatm ent of  various  orders 
of m ankind. 
To  some he was defferen- 
tial,  to  others  courteous  merely;  to no 
two exactly  alike. 
Finally,  there came 
in a young farm er and his wife in search 
of clothing for the  former.  Our young 
man  seemed  to  m easure both mind  and 
body  at the same time.  He began opera­
tions in  a fam iliar and friendly way.  The 
young wife called  her spouse by the first 
name,  and lo! in a few m inutes our young 
man was doing the same.  “ There!”  said 
he,  as  he pulled a coat  around his manly 
breast,  buttoned it up,  yanked the wrin­
kles out  of  the skirts and smoothed  the 
back,  “ there,  D’rius, just step over there, 
so she can  see  how  nice  that  becomes 
you.  Never  saw  you  look  so well  be­
fore.”  Which was true,  as he never saw 
him  before. 
Such  fam iliarity  would 
have been  dangerous  with many people, 
but with  “D’rius”  and his tittering help­
mate  it was ju st the  right medicine,  and 
it succeeded.

Salesm en of the P a st  and Present. 

From  th e Dallas M ercantile  Journal.

Marriage is not a failure,  but the  busi­
ness lie is.  Some years ago the pert,  flip 
salesman  who  could  talk  all  around  a 
credulous customer and sell him an over­
coat in August was in demand.  Custom­
ers  have  come  to know a piece  of  gall 
when they see it,  and,  while they  rather 
enjoy as a m atter  of  social  refreshm ent 
the  argumentative  talkativeness  of  the 
old-fashioned solicitor,  they are more apt 
to tumble out  than  in  when  he talks to 
them too  much.
Of course,  all  customers  are not alike 
and are not to be treated  as if they were. 
It is better in trading with  some  merely 
to state the price  and answer briefly any 
question  they  may  ask.  W ith  others 
something in the way  of  friendly  over­
ture  and inducement may be offered.  But 
we believe it is generally agreed that mis­
representation  and extravagant bidding, 
while the same may be practically harm­
less,  should  not  be  resorted  to. 
Such 
methods are deceitful  and  unsuccessful.
A salesman  may  be  sociable and still 
not talk too much.  He may put out  his 
goods and prices  to  the  best  advantage 
without m isrepresentation  of  any  kind. 
The  best  m erchants  are  convinced  of 
this,  and  the  “one price”  rule is a good 
result  of  their  conviction. 
Tricks  of 
trade and business lies that  were  in very 
general use twenty-five  years  ago would 
not  be 
respectable 
houses.

tolerated  now 

in 

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here pay as follows for 
dry  stock,  measured  merchantable,  mill  culls 
out:
Basswood, log-run...............................13 00@15 00
Birch,  log-run.......................................15 00@16 00
Bireh, Nos. 1 and 2..............................   @22 00
Black Ash, log-run............................... 14 00@16 00
Cherry, log-run..................................... 25 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2............................50 00@60 00
Cherry, Cull.........................................   @12  00
Maple, log-run..................................... 12 00@13 00
Maple,  soft, log-run..............................11  00@13 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2..............................  @20 00
Maple,  clear, flooring.........................   @25 00
Maple,  white, selected........................  @25 00
Rea Oak, log-run.................................. 20 00@21 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2.......................... 24 00@25 00
Red Oak, 14 sawed, 6 inch and upw’d.38 00@40 00
Red Oak, 14 sawed, regular.................. 30 00@35 00
Red Oak, No. 1, step plank.................   @25 00
Walnut, log run...................................  @55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2...........................  @75 00
Walnuts, c u ll......................................  @25 00
Grey Elm, log-run.................................12 60@13 05
White Aso, log-run...............................14 00@16 00
Whitewood, log-run............................. 20 00@22 00
White Oak, log-run...............................17 00@18 00
White Oak, 14 sawed, Nos. 1 and 2__ 42 00@43 00

A  W om an’s  Reason.

Jane—I  hate  to  have 

the  policeman 
take  hold  of  my  arm  in  crossing  the 
street.

E thel—Yes;  it  is  very  im pertinent of 

him.

Jane—Oh!  I  don’t  mean  that;  but  I 
almost die of  mortification,  my arm  is so 
thin.

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Reference:  F ir s t  National  Bank,  Chicago. 
Mich ig a n Tradesman. G rand Rapids.

LEMON, HOOPS i PETERS,

Wholesale

Grocers

,The Michigan Tradesman-

WEDNESDAY. APRII.  3.  1889.

LEISURE  HOUR  JOTTINGS.

W ritten fo r Thb  Tradesm an.

B Y   A   CO UN TRY  M ER C H A N T.

W hen a boy I remember of  hearing  an 
anecdote of  a very  popular  Lord  Mayor 
of  London,  who  filled 
that  dignified 
office during  the  earlier half  of  the last 
century.  He  was  born  and  passed his 
early  years  in  one of  the  New England 
States;  went  to  sea  while quite  young, 
and  with  true  Yankee  economy  began 
the  collection  of  the  nucleus  of  what 
w a9  afterward  a  colossal  fortune  for 
those days.

One intensely  hot day,  however,  while 
on a W est  India  trading  voyage,  he de­
term ined  to  seek  some  relief  from  the 
exhausting tem perature  by a salt  water 
bath,  and,  notw ithstanding  the  protests 
of  the older  and  more  experienced  sea­
men,  he  stripped  and  jum ped overboard.
A t first he heeded the  advice of  his com­
rades  and  continued  close to the vessel, 
but  finally  concluded 
take  a  half- 
m ile’s  swim  before  going on board; but 
had  completed  only a small  part  of  his 
undertaking when he found himself  sud­
denly antagonized by an  enormous  man- 
eating shark.  His actions at once showed 
his peril,  and a boat was  hastily manned 
for  his  rescue,  but,  notwithstanding the 
dexterity of  the  swimmer and  the  rapid 
rowing of  his  friends,  he  was  seized by 
the monster,  and  one of  his  legs  bitten 
off  close to the thigh.

to 

Thanks to good  health  and  a vigorous 
constitution,  he  rapidly  recovered  from 
the injury;  turned  his attention to small 
m ercantile  ventures 
the  colonies; 
gradually  became  wealthy,  and  even­
tually  found  himself  one  of  the  mer­
chant  princes  of  London,  and  at 
the 
head of  its municipal  affairs.

in 

Of  course,  the  New  Englanders  were 
proud  of 
their  compatriot,  and  about 
every Yankee  visitor to London  made it 
a point  to  call  on him.  He was always 
hospitable  and  social;  treated  every re­
spectable caller with  friendly considera­
tion,  and  was  exceptionally  tolerant in 
answering the floods of  questions  which 
the 
conspicuous  “ bump”  of  Yankee 
curiosity  was  always  suggesting;  but, 
after a time,  it  became  a  m atter of  cur­
ren t comment among  the Americans that 
in  no  instance  had  it  ever 
transpired 
how his  lordship was put to the necessity 
of  wearing  a wooden  leg.  As  this  im­
portant  m atter  m ust  be  decided before 
the  voyage  home,  a couple  of  new  ar­
rivals,  who had just  been invited to dine 
w ith 
their  distinguished  countryman, 
were  enjoined  to  procure  the  inform a­
tion at all  hazards,  and  solemnly  prom­
ised to do so.

The two New Englanders  were royally 
entertained  by their host,  and as soon  as 
dinner  was  over  at  once  opened  their 
battery of  interrogations.  His  lordship 
answered  cheerfully and  cordially until 
their ammunition was  about  exhausted, 
and  nothing  suggested 
itself  but  the 
momentous question they were delegated 
to ask.  A fter a pause,  one  of  the  visit­
ors drew  a long breath and observed : 

“And  now,  will  your  lordship,  to  de­
cide a dispute,  have  the  goodness to in­
form us how  your  lordship  happened to 
lose his leg?”

The  Mayor  looked  very  grave  for 

moment,  and then rep lied :

“ Gentlemen!  I think  you will concede 
th at I have been more  than liberal in  re 
sponding to  your m ultituninous  queries, 
but I  will  answer  your  question  on one 
condition. 
I t is that  you execute a bond 
in the sum of  £5,000,  providing that said 
am ount  shall  be forfeited to me if,  after 
the said question is asked and  answered 
you shall,  in any manner,  interrogate me 
further during  your stay in L ondon!” 

The  Yankees  agreed  to  the  proposi 
tion.  The  Mayor’s  clerk  drew  up  an 
iron-clad  bond,  which  was  properly 
signed,  sealed and  witnessed  and depos­
ited in a desk.

“ Now,  gentlem en,”  said  his  lordship 

I  am ready fo r  your question !”

“Then  will  your  lordship  inform  us 
in w hat manner  your  lordship’s leg  was 
taken off ?”

“ It was bitten off!”
“ Who—”
“ How—”
The  Mayor  put  his  fingers to his lips 
and pointed to the  desk that inclosed the 
bond.  The  inquisitors  looked  at  each 
other  hopelessly,  and 
the 
anxious 
inquiry  among  the  American 
visitors  in  London  w a s:  “Who  do  you 
’spose bit off  the Mayor’s leg?”

for  days 

For a prefacatory  narrative,  that  was 
merely  intended to show that the general 
prevalence in the  belief  that  the Amer­
ican organ of  curiosity is abnormally and 
unreasonably  developed,  had  its  origin 
generations ago,  I suspect that the  above 
is unnecessarily  voluminous,  but,  luck­
ily,  the subject has at last been launched, 
after a fashion.
* 

* 
Those numerous American w riters who 
periodically  volunteer  to  defend 
their 
countrym en  from 
the  charge  of  un­
reasonable  inquisitiveness  are  rarely to 
be congratulated on  the  success of  their 
efforts. 
individual  alleges  that

If  an 

* 

* 

* 

* 

* 

this is a very illiterate country,  and cites 
as  proof  the  blacks,  “ sand-hillers”  and 
“elay-eaters”  of the South,  and the scum 
of our large cities, it is of as much value, 
to  me,  as  evidence  as  is  his  bringing 
witnesses  to  the  absence  of  obtrusive 
curiosity in  people’s  private affaire from 
the  ultra-fashionables  of  our  society 
centers.

impelled 

Is  it  strang«  when  the  obtrusiveness 
im perti­
and,  probably  unintentional, 
nences of  a large  class of  our people are 
the  common  subject of  comment among 
their own countrymen,  that the traveling 
foreigner  frequently  feels 
to 
characterize  the  habit  as  almost  a  na­
tional evil ?  And  is  it  not strange that 
the  volunteer 
inquisitor,  after  his  ef­
fusiveness has been  ventilated for  years 
in  about  every  conceivable  manner, 
should  continue  yearly as  ubiquitous as 
ever.  Why cannot he learn from observa­
tion and experience  that a person’s indi­
vidual  affairs  are  as  much  his  private 
and inviolate  property  as the contents of 
his safe,  desk or  pocket-book,  or the ma-‘ 
terials he packs in his trunk or valise?

that  makes 

I t  is  a  lack  of 

the  use  of  ordinary 
common  sense 
the  ultra- 
curious  man  effusive.  Of  two  individ­
uals,  with  an. equal  development of  the 
organ  of 
inquisitiveness,  one  may  be 
catalogued  as  an  intolerable  bore  and 
nuisance,  and  the other be regarded as a 
rather pleasant  and  desirable  acquaint­
ance.  You  have  a  m aterially  different 
feeling for the  man  who  wants to know 
how  much  you  have  made  or  lost  the 
past  year,  or  the  one  who 
inquires 
whether  you®  last  year’s  business  was 
satisfactory  or  not.  One  casual  ac­
quaintance,  on  a railroad  journey,  may 
disgust  you  by  his  m inute  questioning 
regarding  your 
leaving 
home,  while  another  may  voluntarily 
learn  your  reasons  during  a  pleasánt 
conversation.

reasons 

for 

Perhaps  the  passing acquaintance, on 
a railroad  excursion,  wrho develops  into 
an  inquisitor,  would  be  regarded  with 
much more tolerance if  he didn’t,  uncon­
sciously to  himself,  suggest  the  profes­
ional  confidence  man,  w ith  a  confed­
erate  waiting to be posted  on  the infor­
mation extracted from  you.

W A N T E D !

W e want stocks of goods in exchange 
for $100,000 worth of productive  real 
estate in Laosing city property and im­
proved farms.

R  A.  CLARK & CO.

Real  E state Brokers 

Lansing Mich.

TIME  TABLES.
Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

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GOING NORTH.
Leaves.
Traverse C ity & M ackinaw.............. 
7:00 a m
Traverse City & M ackinaw..................9:05 a m   11:30 a
From  C incinnati....................................7:30 p m
For Petoskey & Mackinaw C ity........3:55 p m 
Saginaw Express................................... 11:30 a m 
.................................10:30 p m . 

5:00 p m
7:80 a m
4:10 p m

Arrives. 

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

inaw  City. 
M ackinaw City.
GOING  SOUTH.
C incinnati  Express........................... 
F o rt W ayne Express.
Cincinnati  Express.......................... 4
From  T raverse City..........................10 

7:16 a m
11:45 a m
5:00 p m
7:15 a m  tra in   has  p arlo r  ch air  c a r  fo r  Cincinnati. 
5:00 p m  tra in  has W oodruff sleeper fo r C incinnati.
5 :00 p.  m. tra in  connects  w ith M. C. R. R. a t K alam a­
zoo fo r B attle Creek,  Jackson,  D etroit  and  C anadian 
points, arriv in g  in D etroit a t 10:45 p. m.
Sleeping car rates—$1.50  to   Petoskey  o r  Mackinaw 
City;  $2 to Cincinnati.
All Trains d aily except Sunday.

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Leave.
7 0 5 a m .......................................................................10:45 a m
11:15 a m .......................................................................  4:45 p m
4 :2 0 p m ....... ....................................................... 
7:45pm
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge street  depot 7 m inutes later.

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C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven  &  Milwaukee.

GOING WEST.

Arrives. 
fM om ing Express............................... 1:05 p m  
tT hrough Mail......................................4:55 p m  
tG rand Rapids Express...................10:40 p m
N ight Express.....................................6:40 a m  
tMixed.................................................. 
GOING EAST.
tD etroit  Express............... 
tT hrough Mail...................................10:2 0 am  
¿Evening Express............................... 3:40 p m  
"Limited Express...........................10:30 p m  

6:50 a  i%

Leaves.
1:10 p m
5:10 p m
7:0C
7:4£

10:30am
3:50 p m
10:55 p

tD aily, Sundays excepted.  "Daily.
D etroit  Express  has p arlo r  car  to D etroit,  m aking 
direct connections fo r all points  E ast, arriv in g  in New 
York 10:10 a. m. next day.  Lim ited  Express,  East, has 
th ro u g h   sleeper  G rand  Rapids  to   N iagara  Falls, 
connecting 
th ro u g h
sleeper to  Toronto.
Through tick ets and  sleeping  c a r  b erth s secured a t 
D., G. H. & M .R’y offices, 28 Monroe St., and a t th e d ep o t 

Ju n ctio n  w ith 

a t M ilwaukee 

J ab. Campbell, C ity Passenger Agent.

TO M ONTANA,  OREGON 

A N D

W ASH ING TO N.

If vou 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 oply 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 
the  territory.
The Northern  Pacific  owns  and  operates  621 
miles, ®r 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  ol 
the Territory to Tacoma  and  Seattle,  and  from 
Tacoma to Portland.  No other trans-continental 
through rail line reaches any  portion  of  Wash 
ington Territory.  Ten days stop over  privileges 
are given on Northern Pacific second class tickets 
at Spokane Falls and all pointsWest.thus afford­
ing intending settlers  an  excellent  opportunity 
to see the entire Territory without incurring  the 
expense of paying local fares from point to poi nt
The Northern Pacific is the shortest route from. 
St. Paul to Tacoma by 207 miles; 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 mind 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
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ington Territory, and enclose stamps for the new 
1889 Rand McNally County  Map  of  Washington 
Territory, printed in colors.
Address your nearest ticket agent, or  Chas.  S. 
Fee, General  Passenger  and  Ticket  Agent,  St. 
Paul,  Minn.

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No Equal in the State. ■
Wherever Introilucel it is a Stayer!

TO  THE TRADE:

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

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the  close  of 

From  th e New Y ork Shipping List.

The Condition of Trade.

to  expand,  stim ulated  by 

GROCERIES.

Extract from letter from  Brazil,  dated 
Feb.  12:  “ After a very careful  personal 
investigation,  together with  uninterested 
information from correspondents  in  the 
several Provinces, I should say  that  the 
apparent stocks  in  Brazil  would  range 
from 2,400,000 to 2,650,000 bags, although 
it m ight possibly go  to  2,800,000  bags.” 
W ith the  aid of  the  above figures  it  is 
an easy m atter to settle the  long  debated 
question as to what  is  to  be  the  coffee 
production of  Brazil for  1888  and  1889, 
(crop year from July 1 to June 30).
Receipts at Rio July 1,1888, to  Feb.
11,  1889.......................... 
Receipts at Santos  July  1,  1888,  to
Feb. 11,1889.................................. 1,590,000  “
Estimated amount to come  forward 
to June 30,  1889............................2,800,000  “

are rapidly diminishing,  and  the  whole 
stocks do not  go  over  130,000  bags,  al­
though I  think that certain  growers  are 
holding back to  get  higher  prices  later 
on.  The outlook for next Central Amer­
ican  crop 
looks  well,  and  I  think  if 
The  distributive  movement  of  trade 
speculation does  not  spoil  business  (as 
has been a progressive  character  and in 
some commision istas have already  began 
various departm ents  the  outlet has con­
in offering 20 cents per  pound  for  fru it 
tinued 
the 
from the next crop),  we  will  have  good 
mild,  spring-like  weather  that  has pre­
luck next year.”
vailed in nearly all  parts of  the  country 
E xtract  from  South  American  letter, 
and  the  quickening  of  the  demand for 
dated Feb.  11:  “It will be impossible  to 
nearly  a l l ' kinds  of  merchandise 
that 
secure Peruvian coffee from this crop,  as 
comes  with  the  resum ption of  outdoor 
it would cost over  30  cents  per  pound, 
activity.  The  early  opening  of 
river 
and the supply is not sufficient for  home 
and lake navigation  has  also been a fac­
consumption. 
It is a singular  fact  that 
tor in the  increasing  activity of  general 
the estim ates of the growing Brazil crops, 
trade,  and in some  sections of  the  coun­
which are rendered while the coffee trees 
try it is  said  th at  agricultural  work  is 
are  in blossom  and some six months prior 
fully  a  month  in  advance  of  last  year. 
to the development of the fruit,  have  in 
The  result  of  these  favorable  weather 
the  m ajority  of  cases  closely  approxi­
conditions is found in  the active  demand 
m ated the actual  yield  of  this  country. 
for dry goods,  while they also account to 
The  present  crop,  however,  has  been 
some  extent  for  the  heavy demand  for 
subject to many  unforseen  and  unusual 
refined sugar that  has  been  experienced 
conditions,  and even  now,  when  w ithin 
during  the  past  ten  days.  There is no 
three months of  its  conclusion,  various 
longer any doubt  as  to  the  strong posi­
reports  of  a  contradictory  nature  are 
tion  of  raw  sugar  in  all  parts  of  the 
being received  from  different  Brazilian 
world,  and present indications point very 
In this  connection  we  be-
authorities. 
distinctly to a further  steady advance in
prices as a result of  the  shortage in sev-  lieve  that  the  following  advices 
from 
eral of  the most  im portant cane-growing  perfectly reliable constituents who them- 
crops  and  a smaller  yield  of  beet  than  selves  are  not  interested  financially  in 
was  estimated  at  the  beginning  of  the  the course of  the  m arket  can  safely  be
accepted as very closely  representing  an 
year.  The speculative situation does not 
seem  to  have  undergone  any  m aterial 
actual  count  of  the  present  available 
change  since 
last  week. 
coffee now awaiting shipm ent.”
W all Street continues to be influenced by 
the little speculative catspaws that ruffle 
the  surface  from  day  to  day and  are 
created  for the most part by professional 
m anipulation,  and  for  this  reason  it  is 
m uch  less  an  exponent  of  the  present 
sentim ent of  financial  circles than  when 
a  large  outside  interest  is  engaged  in I 
active  speculation.  The  disturbed  con- | 
dition  of  financial  affairs  in  Paris  has | 
caused  the  liquidation of  a good deal of j 
stock for foreign  account  and  the bears 
have  taken  advantage  thereof  to  ham- j 
m er  the  m arket,  but the  railroad  situa- j 
tion is undergoing constant improvement,  i 
not only because  rates  are  being  main­
tained  and  traffic  is  of  greater  volume j 
and  steadily 
increasing,  but  because 
there has been  scarcely any interruption 
Total.......................................... 7,401,000
from severe  winter  weather  and  conse­
quently  an  avoidance  of  the  heavy ex­
The recent decline  of some  %  of a cent 
penses 
thereby  entailed.  A 
per pound in values at  Rio  is  now  gen­
comparison  of  earnings  and 
tonnage 
erally considered  as  a  politic  move  on 
the  part  of  operators  located  at 
this 
w ith last year is not specially significant, 
because of  the  interruption to traffic  last
point,  and  this  opinion  seems  to  be  a
year on account of  the severe storms that j  reasonable conclusion  in view of the fact 
were  experienced  during  the  month of j  that  large  buying  orders  for  Brazilian
March.  The  money m arket  has  contin­
account have been filled on the New York 
ued to reflect a much  easier  temper than 
Coffee Exchange.
had  been expected  during  the  last week 
The Santos m arket has shown  no  evi­
dence  of  weakness,  and  the  latest  cable 
of  the month,  and  loanable  funds  have 
been available at comparatively low rates 
from  this place reports an advance o f  A  
The recent  exports  of  gold |  cent per  pound  with  strong  advancing
of  interest, 
are  not  an  im portant  feature,  for  the 
tendencies.  The  significance  of  such 
news  may  be  better  appreciated  when 
reason  that they have  been  in the nature 
of  special  transactions  and  not  regular 
taken in connection  with  the  fact  that 
exchange  operations,  as present rates do 
values at this  point are already 1A   cents 
not  admit of  shipments  at  a profit. 
In­
per pound above the parity of the United 
terest  still  centers upon what action the 
States.
Secretary of  the  Treasury will  take  re­
Judging  by  the advices received  from 
specting  the  purchase  of  bonds.  The 
Batavia,  the  March  sale  of  Java  (now 
fluctuations  of  the  wheat  m arket  are 
about  taking  place)  will  realize  very 
still due to the adjustm ent of speculative 
high  prices  and  as  a  result,  a  higher 
deals.  Last  week 
the  shorts  became 
m arket for spot and  afloat coffees of  this 
alarmed  and  rushed  pell-mell  to  cover 
description  may  be  anticipated  in 
the 
their  contracts,  with  the  result  of  bid­
near future.
ding  up  the  prices  of  options,  but  as 
soon  as  this  demand  had been satisfied 
the  m arket  commenced  to  drift  down­
ward,  because of  the abseuce of any sup­
porting influence,  and  hence the reaction 
has been almost as sharp as the advance. 
The export movement of  both wheat and 
flour  continues  phenomenally  small  in 
comparison with  last  year,  but there has 
been  a heavy gain in the  outward  move­
m ent of  corn.  For the  eight  months of 
the government  fiscal  year  ending  with 
February 28,  the  total  exports of  wheat 
and 
the  flour  equivalent  amounted  to 
The developments of  the week all over 
61,729,567 bushels,  against 90,025,103 last 
the  sugar  world  have  brought  to more 
year,  while the  exports of  corn  are very 
the 
conspicuous  view  the  strength  of 
nearly double  what  they were  last  year. 
sugar  position  and  the poorly  prepared 
The cotton m arket  has presented no new 
state  of 
the  United  States  m arkets  to 
features  and  the  fluctuations have been 
meet  such  an  issue  as now stares us in
comparatively  narrow,  but 
crop 
the face.  Refiners  have  secured  all the 
movement has been remarkably large for
this season of  the  year,  and  the  exports \ spot centrifugals  and  all the afloats,  but 
are likewise excessive, being 108,000 bales i  the  quantity  is insignificant  when  corn- 
greater than last  year;  but  although the i pared  writh  the  requirements of  the ap- 
quantity of  cotton that has come in sight I proaching  large  season of  consumption, 
and it remains to be seen a t  what 
is somewhat  in  excess  of  last  year,  the | and  it remains to  be seen at  what  prices
producing countries will part  with their 
increased exports  and  enlarged  domestic 
moderate  supplies,  a  considerable  por­
consumption  have  more 
than  utilized 
tion of  which are already in the hands of 
the  excess,  and  stocks  at  the ports and 
local  speculators.  The  beet  countries 
interior towns are 148,000 bales less than a 
are  advancing  prices  rapidly,  thus put­
year ago.  Speculation in coffee has been 
ting  out of  reach  the  only  competition 
rather  tame  and  there  is  a  feeling  of 
which  cane  producers 
fear.  Under 
hesitation among  operators that shows a 
these circumstances,  we  have  to  record 
lack of  confidence  in  the  present  level 
for the week the  remarkable  advance of 
of  prices.  There  has  been no improve­
lA c .  per  pound  on  raw  sugar,  leading
m ent in the demand  for  anthracite coal.
Production during January and February j also to au equal rise in refined, with such 
an increased demand  for  the  latter  that 
shows a decrease of  only 63,800 tons, and 
on  some days refiners  refused  to meet it, 
on  March 1 the  stock  at  tidewater  had 
or were unable to do so.  With  stocks in 
run up to 837,200  tons.
United  States  decreased  7,744  tons  for 
the week,  and now reduced to 47,358 tons 
total,  or.  say,  71,496 tons less than  at the 
same  time  last  year,  we have to note on 
the other hand an increased consumption 
of  say  11,606  tons,  thus  far  this  year, 
over the same  time  last  year.  Raw  and 
refined  are  now  lc.  per  pound  higher 
than  at this  time  last  year,  and the con­
ditions  are  certainly 
indicative  of  a 
much  more considerable  advauce before 
new crops,  not yet sown,  can come to the 
relief  of  the m arket.  The  present  con­
dition  is  more  or  less  due to,  or is the 
m aterial result of,  the  depressing policy 
pursued by  refiners  since  the  formation 
of  the  “ T rust.”  This  great  power  ig­
nored  the  existence  of  a well-organized 
sugar business  which heretofore included 
consignees,  consignors,  m erchants,  im­
porters,  bankers,  brokers  and  agents, 
who,  in their combined capacities, helped 
the producer to carry  his  sugar  and dis­
pose of  it,  and  naturally  created a sur­
plus of  available  stock  always  existing 
in  the  consuming  markets.  B ut  now, 
without  this  assistance,  the  producer is 
forced  to curtail  production,  as has been 
notoriously  shown  in  Brazil,  for  exam- 
I pie,  this season.  But for this policy,  as 
shown in the  Brazil  crop,  the  increased 
| amount  of  sugar  from 
that  country 
alone would have gone far to prevent the 
present  dearth 
the  United  States. 
Planters have learned  a lesson  this  year, 
and from  being  forced to curtail  produc­
tion,  because  of 
the 
former  m ercantile  machinery 
to  help 
them  to  carry  and  m arket  it,  they may 
hereafter  voluntarily  curtail  production 
and  find 
their  profit  in  the  enhanced 
prices obtained for  their  smaller  crops. 
Total  stocks  in  all  the  principal  coun-

The  m arket  has  ruled  comparatively j 
steady  during  the  week  and  while  Ex­
change transactions may  show a  slightly | 
higher range of value,  no special changes j 
have occurred  in  the  prices  for  actual 
coffee.
financial j 
troubles  in  France,  together  with 
the j 
easier tone of  the m arket at Rio,  and the 
exceptionally dull  trade  experienced  by 
the jobbers,  the fact that the m arket  has J 
about held  its own  is ample  evidence  of i 
the inherent strength of  the coffee situa- j 
tion,  the statistical  position of  fair grade 
Rio,  estimated at cargo cost prices,  being 
as follows:
1889 
1888
$17 45 
February  7....................................$14 55
19 15 
March  12........................, ..............11  70
18 70
March  26.......................................  12 55
Net increase in roasted  cost in  1889,  1A 
cents per  lb; net increase in roasted  cost 
over 1888,  7 A   cents per  ft.
The  above  pric.es  are  based  on  Ex­
change  quotations,  which  are  A   cent 
per pound  below  the  present  value  of 
actual goods.
In the  absence of new features pertain­
ing to the  prospective  Brazil  crops  the 
following  information  respecting  some 
of  the minor producing countries may be 
of general interest to the trade:
Extract from Central American  letter, 
dated March 8,  1889: 
“ Your  belief  ap- 
nears to have been  well  founded,  as  the 
crop  is quite short here,  and  prices  are 
on the advance.  Your advance of  limits 
will allow me certainly more  latitude  to 
buy good lots when  found.  The  stocks

Business continues fairly active,  while 
collections are  quite as  good  as  could be 
expected.  The sugar m arket  is  a  good 
deal  of  a  conundrum,  some  predicting 
higher  prices,  while  others  are  equally 
confident  that  a  downward  movement 
will  shortly  occur.  W illett  &  Hamlen, 
who are  considered  conservative author­
ity,  describe the situation  as follows:

Chase & Sanborn describe  the situation 

In  view  of  the  threatened 

The  G rocery  M arket.

The  Coffee  M arket.

the  absence  of 

as follow s:

exces

the 

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We carry  a large assortm ent of all  kinds  of  Seeds,  Onion  Sets  and  Seed  Potatoes. 

Parties wishing anything in this line  please w rite to us.

We have taken great pains  to have our seeds  pure  and  reliable.  Our stock is 
fresh,  and  if you want anything in the way of Garden or  Field  Seeds,  you  can  get 
them  of us cheaper than sending out of  the State.

Alfred  J.  Brown’s  Seed  Store,

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

We  manufacture  a  full 
line,  carry  a  heavy  stock, 
and  warrant  our  goods  to 
be STRICTLY  PURE  and 
* first class.

P U T N A J M   &  B R O O K S .
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If you want  Medium or Mammoth, 
Alsike,  Lucerne  or  W hite  Clover, 
Timothy,  Hungarian,  Millet,  Red 
Top,  Orchard,  Kentucky Blue Grass, 
Spring W heat,  Rye  or  Barley,  Field 
Peas;  or,  in fact,  Seeds  of  any Kind 
for the Field or Garden,  w rite to

Grand  Rapids

Seed  Store,
AMERICAN  BANNER  OATS

We have  also a limited  supply of the

I offer to the trade at prices that ought 
to induce many  m erchants  to handle 
a large quantity of them.  They  are 
certainly

T h e   C o m in g   O at

And should be  introduced into every 
section of W estern  Michigan.
WRITE  FOR  PRICES  TO

W.  T.  LAMOREAUX.

71  CANAL  ST.,

Grand  Rapids,  Midi.

tries  are 1,062,234 tons,  against  1,174,120 
tons at same time last  year.
Coffees are  a  trifle  weaker,  inducing  a 
decline of X c on the part of  the package 
m anufacturers.  Nutmegs  are  higher. 
Jelly  is  lower.  Other articles  are  with­
out m aterial  change. 
S tatu s of the  O range  and Lem on Crop.

_______

Gr a n d  R a p id s,  A p ril 1,  1889. 
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Editor Michigan Tradesman: 
From  the Grand Rapids F ruit and Pro­
duce  Exchange  report,  posted  in 
the 
Board of  Trade  rooms,  there are  held  in 
this  m arket at the  present  time,  in  the 
hands of  the members of  the  Exchange, 
1,382 boxes  oranges,  1,599 boxes  lemons, 
1,095 bunches bananas.  We also find  by 
reference to the cable reports,  as reported 
by  the  F ruit  Exchange  of  New  York, 
that  there  are  now afloat,  bound  for  all 
United  States  ports,  9,350  cases  of 
oranges,  164,000  boxes  oranges,  154,000 
boxes of lemons.
One  year ago at  this  time  the  record 
showed 6,600 cases oranges, 185,000 boxes 
oranges,  235,500  boxes 
thus 
showing  a  heavy  falling  off  in  supply 
from  one  year  ago. 
this  fruit,  together 
with  the California stock which is coming 
in  freely,  is  to  supply  the  demands of 
trade for nearly or quite four weeks,  and 
it 
favorable 
weather  prices  will  naturally  advance 
more  or  lc ss  during  that  period. 
It is 
believed,  however,  that the Sicily  erop is 
large and that the increased prices in  the 
American  m arkets  will 
immediately 
stim ulate  heavy  shipm ents  from  Sicily 
and  eventually  supply our  m arkets  lib­
erally.  There  was  sold  in  the various

is  predicted 

that  with 

lemons; 

cases 

oranges,  127,400 

fru it  auction  rooms  last week a total of 
8,750 
boxes 
oranges,  81,400  boxes lemons;  which,  to­
gether  with  the  receipts  of  California 
and  Florida  fruit,  would  make a grand 
total of  at least  275,000  boxes  fruit  for 
one  week’s distribution.

Surely we are a great people.

Yours truly, 

B.  W.  P u tn a m .

VISITING  BUYERS.

J  P  D-f?an, Cannonsburg
J  L Pu-chase, Bauer 
M unger.W atson & DeVoiat. J  L Thomas,  Cannonsburg 
E  A H ansen,  Greenville 
ttj  ” ■ 
S  llivan
A D F arling, Millbrook 
R D W heeler, R avenna 
Geo Hirwchberur,  Bailey 
W H  W atts, Bowne 
E E H ew itt.  Rockford 
F J Clark, Lacota 
Myers & B urton, Lillie  P  O 
J  W Robinson, stetso n  
M M Robson  Berlin 
H  Van  Noord. Jam estow ji 
MnAuley & Co. Edgrerton 
T VanEe  enaara, Zeeland 
John DeVries, Jam estow n
W G Tefft. Rockford
Jo h n  Farrow e,  So  rtlendon E H artgerink,
New G roningen
H Dalmon, Allendale 
J  V anden Bosch, Zeeland 
L M Wolf,  Hudsonville 
G H  W albrink. Allendale  Mrs M A Side. K ent City 
F Na  regang. B>ron «'enter B Volmari  Fillm ore 
Car i ington & N orth,  T rent Den H arder & Tam s 
W H  Hicks, Mo rley
John D am stra,  Gitcheil 
R A Basting-*, S parta 
John Sm ith, Ada 
D D  H arris, Shelbyville 
J   Den H erder&Son Overisel 
E zra Brown, Englishville 
Jorgensen &  Heminursen,
j   B W atson, Coouersvble 
Ashland
A & E B»-rgy, Caledonia 
L Perrigo & Co, Paw  aw 
S Juistem a, Grand  H aven 
Sm allegan &  r'ickaa- d.
Gus B-ginao, Bauer 
F orest G rove
W  Ver  -»eulen, Beaver Dam
G T*-n Hoor,  F orest  «*»ove John Kam ps, Zutphen 
Dr W S H art,L ak   Odessa  E G Pipp,  Howard City 
B  A  Kisn, Ced *r Springs 
Dr A G Goooso  , P ierson 
W illin g   Bios,La m out 
R T P arrish. Grand ville
E T Van Ostrand, Allegan  F E Carapau. Alaska 
Geo J  Stephenson,  Bangor John G unstra, Lam ont 
M V  Wilson. S >nd Lake  W  E H inm an. S parta
W oodruff & Sain>,KeedCity  L N Fisher, D orr 
Sevey &  Her ington, 
J  Raym ond, Berlin

Vriesland 

H erington J  S Toland, Ross S tation
R etail  G rocers!

Buy  your  pickles at wholesale  prices. 
Basis,  $3.50  for  mediums,  guaranteed 
1,200 count and quality guaranteed.
W alker & Sons,

Box 456,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

A  C LEA N  S W E E P

S tim u la te d  b y  th e  s u c c e s s  o f o u r

Molasses  and  Syrifp  Department,

W e   h a v e   a r r a n g e d   to  h a n d le   a  lin e   o f

Pilre  Apple

W 'h ic h   w e   a r e   p u ttin g   on   th e   m a r k e t  u n d e r  

th e   fo llo w in g   b ra n d s:

DOUBLE  STRENGTH  CIDER  VINEGAR,

WHITE  WINE VINEGAR, 
CHOICE  CIDER VINEGAR.
S e e   o u r   g o o d s   a n d   p r ic e s  b efo re  p u r c h a s in g

e ls e w h e r e .

Telfer  Spice  C o m p an y ,

1  A N D   3   P E A R L   S T R E E T .

doner,
Timotlig,
Alfalfa, 
fllsike,
Red  Top, 
Hungarian, 
Millet.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

,

25c
S7.50 for Bell and  Bugle. 
at 4*4@5c and evaporated at 6@694c.
jobbers still holding the buying price at 10c.
per lb.

Apples—In poor demand at SI.25@S1.75 per tobl. 
Beans—Handlers are paying about 81.25 for un­
picked and getting 81.65@S1.75  for  hand-picked.
Butter—Creamery Is In fair  supply  at  25@26c. 
Dairv is in good demand at  18@20c, according to 
quality.
Cabbages—Home  grown  command  83@$5 per 
100;  New Orleans stock, $1.50 per crate.
Celery—Scarce and hard to get.
Cider—10c per gal. 
Cooperage—Pork barrels, 81.25;  produce barrels 
Cranberries—85.50@6.50 for Bell and Cherryand 
.  .  .
Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried 
Eggs—No change since last week’s quotations, 
Honey—More  plenty,  being  easy  at  15c@17c 
Lettuce—15@17c per lb.
Maple Sugar—10@12c per lb.
Onion Sets—$3 per  bu. 
Onions—Buyers pay 18@20c for good stock, and 
hold at  25@30c per bu.
Pieplant—6c per  lb.
Pop Corn—294c per lb.
Pork—Hogs bring 594@594c on  the  streets  and 
sell for 59£@6c from jobbers’ hands.
Potatoes—There is practically  no market, buy­
ers being able to pick up all they can use  at  13c 
per bu.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln-dried  Jerseys,  $3.50 per 
obi.
Turnips—25c per bu.

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PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

F O R K   IN   B A R R E L S .

 

 

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Mess,  new......................................................   J3 25
Short cut Morgan........................................... 
*5
Extra clear pig, short cut.............................  15
Extra clear,  heavy........................................ 
00
Clear quill, short cut.....................................  J5 00
Boston clear, short cut.................................   15 60
Clear back, short cut.....................................  15 00
Standard clear, short cut, best.....................  15 00
Hams, average 20 lbs........................................

s m o k e d   m e a t s —Canvassed or Plain.

l a r d —Compound.

L A B n — Kettle Rendered.

16 lbs........................................1014
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picnic.......................................................SJ4
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Shoulders..........................................................  1%
boneless........................................  °
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...............................10
Dried Beef, extra................................................ 7
ham prices..................................  9
Long Clears, heavy...........................................  7
Briskets,  medium.............................................  Jh
lig h t..................................................  "14
Tierces......................... 
814
Tubs........... .......................................................  “J*
50 lb.  Tins..........................................................  -14
Tierces,
30 and 50 lb. Tubs...........
3 lb. Palls, 20 iD   a  case.....................................  7Ti
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case 
10 lb. Palls, 6 in a case—
20 lb. Pails, 4 In a case,
50 lb. Can
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs.
Extra Mess, Chicago packing..
Plate
Extra Plate................
Boneless, rump butts,
Pork Sausage.....................................................  7
Ham Sausage..................................................... 1*
Tongue Sausage................................................  ®
Frankfort  Sausage...........................................  8
Blood Sausage...................................................  5%
Bologna, straight..............................-..............  554
Bologna,  thick.................................................   554
Headcheese......................................................   554
In half barrels....................................................3 50
In quarter  barrels............................................. 2 00
In half  barrels.................................................. 3 00
In quarter barrels..............................................1 ¿5
In kits................................................................  ®5

s a u s a g e — Fresh and Smoked.

B E E F   IN   B A R B E L S .

p i g s ’  f e e t .

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hindquarters................................  554@ 7
fore 
................................  @ 4
Hogs.........................................................   & 2
Pork loins................................................  754@ 8
Bologna...................................................   ©
Sausage, blood or head..........................  @ 5

shoulders........................................  @ 694

liver..........................................  @  554
Frankfort.................................   @ 854

Mutton.....................................................  © 7

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OYSTERS and  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

O Y STER S  IN   CANS.

O Y ST E R S  IN  B U L K .

Standards................................................  @17
Anchors...................................................  ©19
Selects...................................................... 22  @27
Fairhaven Counts...................................   @35
Standards........................................'...............  1  60
Selects..............................................................   1  40
Whitefish.................................................  @ 7
Trout........................................................  @ 7
Ciscoes.....................................................  @  4
Halibut....................................................   @15
Herring....................................................  @ 4
Perch, skinned........................................  @ 5

F R E S H   F IS H .

CANDIES,  FRUITS  and  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

 

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2001b.  bbls.............................................854
2001b.  bbls.................................... . 

ST IC K .
9
Standard, 25 lb. boxes.................................. 
954
 
Twist, 
25 
Cut Loaf, 25 
...................................... 10
M IX E D .
Royal, 25 lb. pails.....................  
................   9
Extra, 25 lb.  pails............................................ 10
9
French Cream, 25 lb.  pails...........................   1154
Cut Loaf, 25 lb.  eases...................................... 10
Broken, 401b. Bask...........................................  954
200 lb. bbls...........................................   9
Lemon Drops................................. ...................13
Sour Drops........................................................ 14
Peppermint Drops................................. ..........14
Chocolate Drops................................................ 15
H. M. Chocolate  Drops..................................... 18
Gum  Drops........................................................ 10
Licorice Drops................................................... 18
A. B. Licorice  Drops........................................ 12
Lozenges, plain.............. ..................................14
printed.............................................15
Imperials............................................................14
Mottoes...............................................................15
Cream Bar..........................................................13
Molasses  Bar..................................................... 13
Caramels........................................................... 19
Hand Made  Creams..........................................19
Plain Creams........... .................................... .  16
Decorated Creams.............................................20
String  Rock.......................................................14
Burnt Almonds..................................................22
Wintergreen  Berries........................................ 14
fancy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, In  pails..........................  
 
in bbls....................................11

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in bbls................................ 1154

Chocolate Drops, In pails..................................12
Gum Drops, in palls..........................................  6
in bbls...........................................  5
Moss Drops, in pails..........................................10
in b b ls....................................... 
9
Sour Drops, in pails.......................................... 11
Imperials, in pails............................................. 1154
in bbls...............................................1054
.3 25@3 35 
.3  25@3 35 
.  @3 25
.3  40@3 50 
.3 25@3 35 
.3 25@3 50 
.3 50@3 5 
.  10@15 
©   6 
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@554 

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Oranges, fancy  California...
Messina  200s.........
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220s .........
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300s.........
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Lemons, choice.....................
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fancy......................
Figs, layers,  new.................
“  Bags, ¿0 lb...................
Dates, frails, 50 lb................
“  M frails, 50 lb...........
Fard, 10-lb.  box.........
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Persian,50-lb.  box..., 
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Bananas.................................
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona...........
Ivaca...................
California........
Brazils....................................
Filberts,  Sicily.....................
Walnuts, Grenbble..............
French...................
Pecans, Texas, H. P .............
Gocoanuts, per 100................
Chestnuts.............................
P E A N U T S .
Peacocks.
Storks__
Y acht__

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.1  50@2 50
.  @17
@15 
@14 
@  8 
@11
.  @1254
@1054 
.  754@12 
@4 25 
@1  50

@754
@634

Wholesale Price  Current• 

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

pay prom ptly and buy in  fu ll packages.

B A K IN G   P O W D E R .

SY R U PS.
38  Corn,  barrels......... 
9A' 

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o m
one-half  barréis!” .  @34
...... !"  .'25@S6
hal f barrel__27@38

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imported.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

d r i e d   f r u i t s —Foreign.

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Strictly  pure......................  
Grocers
Gi,n,’w  
d r i e d   f r u i t s —Domestic.
Apples, sun-dried.......  4 @ 454
evaporated___ 6 @ 654
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Apricots, 
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Blackberries “ 
6
Nectarines  “ 
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Peaches 
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10
Plums 
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22
Raspberries  “ 
Citron, in  drum, 
@23
@25
in boxes.
Currants...................
@5
Lemon  Peel.............
13
Orange Peel.............
14
Prunes,  Turkey......
@494
Imperial__
@ 6
Raisins, Valencias.. • •794  @ 894
Ondaras.................   854
“  Domestic Layers.. .2 40 
Loose Californias. .1  65
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Farina, 100 lb. kegs.............  04
Hominy,  per  bbl................. 4 00
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box__   60
@10 
Pearl  Barley..............
@  3 
@1  30 
Peas, green..................
“  split.....................
@ 3 
Sago,  German.............
@ 654 
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’r l...
@ 654 
Wheat,  cracked..........
@ 654 
Vermicelli,  import__
@10 
domestic...
@60
Lemon Vanills
Jennings’ 
00
2 oz. Panel, doz. 
35
2 25
“  1  to
4 oz. 
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6 oz. 
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“ IX)
No.  3,  “ 
1  60 I
4 00 !
“  2  15
No.  8,  “ 
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No. 10,  “ 
6 00 1
No.  4, Taper,  “  1  60
2  50 !
94 pt,  Round, “  4 25
7 50
1  “ 
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15 00 j
FISH—SALT.
Cod, whole................... @  594
“  boneless................ @ 794 ;
H alibut........................
Herring,  round, 94 bbl.
1  50
“  Holland,  bbls.
10 00 :
“  Holland, kegs. @  70
Scaled...........
“ 
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Mack,  sh’s, No. 1, 94  bb ......9 50 1
“  12  lb lit.. 1  45 1
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Trout,  94  bbls............. @4 75 i
10  lb.  kits......... __   78 1
White,  No. 1, 94 bbls...
....6 00 ;
12 lb.  kits ...... 1  15
10 lb. kits ......   90
Family,  94  bbls. ...  .2 50
kits...... ......   55
__ 5 25
Half  kegs..................... .......2 88
No. 0.............................. .... 
30
No. 1.............................. .... 
40
No. 2..............................
Pure.............................. .......  30
Calabria........................ ......   25
Sicily............................. .......  18
Buckets........................ ....  694
Half bbls...................... ....  6
MOLASSES.
Black  Strap..............
...... 16@17
Cuba Baking.............
.  , .22@25
Porto  Rieo................
...... 24@35
New Orleans, good...
...... 25@30
choice.
.33@40 
fancy..
,45@48
OATMEAL.
Half barrels........3  15
Cases.........2 25@2  35
ROLLED OATS
Half barrels........3  15
Cases......... 2 25@2  35

One-half barrels, 3c extra.

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LAMP WICKS.

MINCE MEAT

LICORICE.

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Muscatine, Barrels..................6 00

OIL.

10%

PICKLES.

Michigan  Test.....................  9
Water  White................... 
Medium..................................... 4 50
“ 
94 b b l..........................2 75
Small,  bbl..................................5 50
“  94  bbl...............................3 25
Clay, No.  216............................. 1 60
“  T. D. full count...........   75
Cob. No.  3.............................  40
Carolina head.......................694
“  No. 1....................... 5?4
“  No. 2.................594@
“  No. 3....................... 5

PIPES.

RICE.

SALT

SALERATUS.

Jap an ..................................... 594
DeLand’s,  pure.....................594
CL_rch’s, Cap  Sheaf............5
Dwight’s ...............................5
Taylor’s .................................5
Common Fine per bbl..........  88
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks.......  24
28 pocket...............................2 (6
60 
.............................. 2  15
100 
.............................. 2 40
Ashton bu. bags..................  75
75
Higgins  “ 
Warsaw “ 
37
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SODA.

SEEDS.

SNUFF.

SAPOLIO.
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Kegs...................................
Granulated,  boxes..............  194
Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box......   2 35
Hand, 
2 35
Silver Thread, 30 gal............3 50
40  “  ........... 4 50
Mixed bird...........................  494
Caraway................................ 10
Canary.................................   4
Hemp...............
Anise................
894
Rape . ..: .........
499
Mustard................................   794
Scotch, in  bladders............. 37
Maccaboy, in jars................ 35
French Rappee, in Jars...... 43
Dingman,  100  bars..............4 00
Don’t  Anti-Washboard...... 4 75
Jax o n .................................. 3 75
Queen  Anne....................... 4 00
German family....................2 40
Big Bargain.........................1  87
Boxes.................... ...............594
Kegs, English.......................494
Allspice............................... 10
Cassia, China in mats..........794
Batavia in bund — 11
Saigon in rolls........42
Cloves,  Amboyna............... 30
Zanzibar.................24
Mace  Batavia......................70
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
“  No.  1......................75
“  No.  2......................70
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“  white........28
shot..’.................... 21
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spices—Ground- -In Bulk.
Allspice............................... 15
Cassia,  Batavia...................20
and  Saigon.25
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Cloves,  Amboyna............... 35
“  Zanzibar................. 28
Ginger, African...................1294
“  Cochin.....................15
Jam aica.................18
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Mace  Batavia......................80
Mustard,  English............... 22
and Trie..25
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Nutmegs, No. 2 .................. 70
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 22
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“  Cayenne..................25

Pepper, Singapore, black — 1894

spices—Whole.

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barrels 

Mystic, 1 lb.  pkgs................  7
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Cut  Loaf.....................  @  83a
Cubes.........................   @ 894
Powdered...................   @  894
Granulated,H. &E.’s..  @  894
Franklin..  @894
Lakeside..  @  894
Knight’s...  @  894
Confectionery  A........  @ 7%
Standard  A.................   @  794
No. 1, White Extra C..  @794
No. 2 Extra  C.............  @7
No. 3C, golden...........  ©  694
No. 4 C, dark..............   © 694
No. 5  C........................  @c69i

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54 lb. 
lib . 
51b. 

Acme, 54 lb. cans, 3 doz__  

54 lb.  “ 
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Arctic, 5« in. cans, 6  doz... 
“  4  “  ... 
75
1  40
“  2  “ 
“  2  “  ...  2 40
“  1  “  ...12 00
Absolute, 34 lb. cans, 100s..11  75 
50s..10 00
>4 lb. 
lib . 
50s.. 18 75
Telfer’s,  54 lb. cans,6doz.  2 70 
54 lb.  “  3  “  . 2 55
1 lb.  “  1  “  . 1  50
75
541b.  “  2 
.... 1  50
.... 3 00
lib .  “  1 
bulk.........................   20
Red Star, 54 lb. cans, 12 doz  45 
6  “ 
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4  “  1  50
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English, 2 doz. in case......  
80
Bristol,  2  “ 
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75
American. 2 doz. in case... 
65
bluing. 
Gross
Arctic Liq,  4-oz.................  3 60
54 pt.................  7 00
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1 pt......... . 
8-oz paper bot  7  20
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“  4  400
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No. 2 Hurl...........................  2 00
2  25
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet........................  2  50
2  75
No. 1 
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Common Whisk.................  
90
Fancy 
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M ill.....................................  3  50
Warehouse................................ 3 00
Kings 100 lb. cases.....................5 0(*
80 lb. cases..................... 4 2o

BROOMS.
 

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Sardines, domestic  54s........

Dairy, solid  packed...........  
rolls.......................... 
Creamery, solid packed__  
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CANDLES.
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Hotel, 40 lb. boxes................ 1054
954
Star,  40 
Pdraffine............................. 
'2
Wieking..............................  
25
CANNED GOODS—Fish.
Clams. 1 lb. Little Neck.......1  25
Clam Chowder, 3 lb..................2 50
Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stand___1  00
....1   60
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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
Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.
1 lb.  stand.............1
2  lb. 
3  10
3 lb. in Mustard.. .3 50
31b.  soused...........3 00
Salmon, 1 lb.  Columbia.......2 00
21b. 
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lib . Sacramento...1  70
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imported  54s ........ 10@11
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Trout, 3 lb. brook.............
CANNED GOODS—Fruits. 
Apples, gallons, stand.2 00@2 25
Blackberries,  stand.............
Cherries, red standard........ 1  00
pitted..................... 1  H|
Damsons...............................1  00
Egg Plums, stand.................1  20
Gooseberries........................ 1  10
Grapes..................................  90
Green  Gages........................ 1  30
Peaches, sill  yellow, stand.. 1  45
seconds............... <.125
P ie..........................1  00
Pears..................................... 1  30
Pineapples.................1  10@1  25
Quinces................................1  00
Raspberries,  extra...............1  10
red................... 2  00
Strawberries........................1  10
Whortleberries.....................  90
Asparagus, Oyster Bay........ 1  80
Beans, Lima,  stand.............1  00
“  Green  Limas__   @1  16
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String..................  @ 95
“  Stringlesg,  Erie.....  90
“  Lewis’ Boston Baked.. 1 45
“  Morn’g Glory. 1  00
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Early  G old...l  10
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extram arrofat...  @ 110
“ 
soaked....................   ¿0
“  June,  stand.......1  40@,1  50
“  sifted................... 1  55
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“  French, extra fine...  14 U0
Mushrooms, extra fine......18  00
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden........  85
Succotesb,  standard__   @  85
Squash .................................. 1  10
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat..  @1  00
Good Enough__ 100
BenIJar................1  00
stand br 
@1  00
CHEESE.
Michigan Full Cream 1254@13 
Sap  Sago...........  .......  16@17
CHOCOLATE.
Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet  22
“  Premium.......   33
“  Horn-Cocoa...  37
“  Breakfast___  48
CHEWING  GUM.
200 

Corn, Archer’s Trophy........

CANNED VEGETABLES.

Rubber, 100 lumps................ 25
35
Spruce...................................30
Bulk......................................  6
Red................. .....................   754
Rio, fair.......................17  @19
“  good..................... 1854@20
“  prime...................   @21
“  fancy,  washed.. .19  @22
“  golden..................20  @23
Santos..........................17  @22
Mexican & Guatemala 19  @23
Peaberry.....................20  @23
Java,  Interior............. 20  @25
“  Mandheling__ 26  @29
Mocha, genuine..........25  @27
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
12
100 lbs
Lion..................................... 2334
“  in cabinets.................. 2454
Dilworth’s ........................... 23J4
Magnolia............................. 2354
Acme................. 2234  23 
2354
German...............................2394
bins....................... 2454
McLaughlin’s  A.XXX.........2334
Honey  Bee.......................... 26
Tiger....................................24
Nox  All  .............................. 25
O  B..................................... 24
Valley City.........................  
75
Felix...................................   1  10

coffees—Package.

COFFEE EXTRACT.

coffee—Green.

30 lbs 60 lbs

CHICORY.

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

CLOTHES  LINES.
50 ft 
60 ft 
70 ft 
80 ft 
60 ft 
72 ft
C O N D EN SED  M IL K .

Eagle...................................  7 60
Anglo-Swiss.......................   6 00

C R A C K E R S.
“ 

Kenosha Butter.................   8
...................  694
Seymour 
Buttep...................................694
“  family................. ........  694
“  biscuit.............. ........  7
Boston......................... ........  8
City Soda..................... ........  8
Soda............................. ........  694
S. Ovster..................... ........  694
City Oyster, XXX........ ........694
Picnic'......................... ........694

@20

SW E E T   GOODS.
Ginger Snaps............. 9^
Sugar  Creams......... ” 9
Frosted  Creams.........
Graham  Crackers......
Oatmeal  Crackers......

XXX
994
954
9549
9

TEAS.

OOLONG.

SUN CURED.

@16
@17
@29
@34
@15
@20
@28
@33

j a p a n —Regular. 
Fair .
............................ 12
Good...................
Choice..................
..24 
Choicest..............
. .30
F a ir..............................
Good.................
Choice................!.’!!!. 24
Choicest......................30
B A S K E T   F IR E D .
F a ir.............................
@20
c h o ic e ....................
@25
Choicest..............
@35
Extra choice, wire leaf
@40
g u n p o w d e r
Common to  fair......... 25  @35
Extra fine to finest..
■ 50  @65 
Choicest fancy........
75  @85
i m p e r i a l .
Common to  fair..........20
@35
Superior to fine...........40
@50
YOUNG  HYSON.
Common to  fair..........18
@26
Superior to  fine..........30
@40
Common to  fair..........25
@30
Superior to  fine..........30
@50
Fine to choicest......... 55
@65
E N G L ISH   B R E A K FA ST .
.25 
@30
....30
@35
---- 55
@65
@10
-Plug.

Choice..................
Best.....................
Tea  Dust.............
TOBACCOS-
Climax................
Corner Stone........... ...............%
Double  Pedro.................!.! !s7
Peach  Pie....................!!!..  37
Wedding  Cake,  blk..!...!.!. !37
Something  Good.....................39
“Tobacco” ...............................37
Sweet Pippin..............
Five and  Seven.........
Hiawatha...................
Sweet  Cuba................
Petoskey Chief......... !
Sweet Russet.............32
Thistle.
Florida........................
Rose  Leaf.............!!.
Red Domino...............
Merchaum, 94s, cloth.. 
Kiln Dried loz.,  “ 
$ 2, per hundred................  2 50

32
31
..19  @20
TR A D ESM A N   C R E D IT   COUPONS.

--- 8

tobaccos—Smoking. 

tobaccos—Fine Cut.

5068
6566 

45
55
@34
42

50

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*20. 
. 
................  5 00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts:
200 or over............... 5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 
30 gr......................................  9
40 gr.......................................
50 gr...................................... 11

 
 
V IN EG A R .

10 
20 

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M ISCELLA N EO U S.

Cocoa Shells,  bulk............  3%
Jelly, 30-lb.  pails..............  
4
Sage....................................   15
PA PER ,  WOODENWAKE
Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol­

P A P E R .

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splint 

W O O D EN W A RE.

Baskets, market.................. 

lows:
Straw .................................... 194
“  Light  Weight...............2
Sugar.....................................2
Rag  Sugar.............................294
Hardware............................. 294
Bakers................................... 294
Dry  Goods............................. 5
Jute  Manilla..........................8
Red  Express  No. 1............. 5
No. 2............. 4
48 Cotton.............................  22
Cotton, No. 2........................ 20
“  3........................ 18
Sea  Island, assorted......... 40
No. 5 Hemp.......................... 16
No. 8 B.................................. 17
W’ool.....................................  8
Tubs, No. 1.........................   7  75
“  No. 2..........................  6  75
“  No. 3..........................  5  v>>
1  60
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__   1  75
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes__  
60
Bowls, 11 inch....................  1  00
.....................  1  25
13  “ 
“ 
.......................2 00
15  “ 
“ 
.....................  2  75
17  “ 
“ 
assorted, 17s and  17s 2 50 
“ 
“  15s. 17s and 19s 2 75
“ 
40
“ 
bushel..................  1  60
“  with covers  1  90
“ 
“  willow cl’tbs, No.l  5 50 
“  No.2 6 00
“ 
“ 
No.3 7 00
“ 
“ 
“ 
“  No.l  3 50
“ 
“ 
No.2 4 25
“ 
“  No.3 5 00
“ 
GRAINS and FKEDSTUFFS
94
W hite................................ 
Red....................................  
94
Straight, in sacks..............  5 (JO
“  barrels............   5  20
“  sacks..............  6  OO
Patent 
“  barrels............   6  20
Bolted................................  2 20
Granulated.......................   2  45
Bran...................................  13 00
Ships.................................   14 00
Screenings........................  12 00
Middlings.........................   14 00
Mixed  Feed............................. 14 00
Small  lots.........................   35
Car 
Small  lots..........................  30
“  ..........................  2894
Car 
No. 1, per 100 lb s..............   2 00
No. 1...................................  1  30
; No. 2..................................   1  10
i No. 1...................................  12 00
No. 2..................................   10  60
HIDES.  PEETS  and  FURS.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 
lows:
H ID E S .
:  G reen.....................
4  @ 494 
I  Part  Cured.............
@  494
| Full 
.............
4*4@ 594
5  @  6 
Dry..........................
5  @  6 
! Dry  K ip s...............
3  @  4
;  Calfskins,  green__
cured........  4*4@  594
Deacon skins..............10  @20

“  ..........................  3494

M IL L S T U F F S .

B A R L E Y .

W H E A T .

F L O U R .

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CORN.

O ATS.

H A Y .

R Y E .

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P E L T S .

F U R S .

Shearli ngs...................10  @30
Estimated wool, per lb 20  @28
M ink.............................  
5@1 00
Coon............................... 
5@1 00
Skunk............................ 
5@l OO
Muskrat......................... 
1@ 30
5@1 50
Fox, red......................... 
“  cross.....................  50@5 00
“ 
'grey.......................  
5@1 00
Cat, bouse.....................   5@ 25
“  wild.......................  
5@ 50
Fisher......................... 1  00@6 00
Lynx..............................  5fl@5 00
Martin,  dark................  25@4 00
pale..................  1G@1 50
O tter............................   50@10 00
Wolf..............................   50@4 00
B e ar...:.......................   50@30 OO
Beaver..........................  5C@8 OO
Badger..........................  
5@1 00
Deerskins, per lb........ 
5@  40
M ISC E L L A N E O U S.
Tallow........................   3*4®  394
Grease  butter  ........... 5  @7
Switches.....................  2  @294
Ginseng......................2 00@2  10

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D e c l i n e d — Acid Citric, Gnm Opium, Gum Opium (po.), Cinhonidine  (German),  Quinine, Salacine>
_______

Turpentine. 

45®  50

ACIDUM.

®
®

Aceticum . ../ .................... 
Benzoicum,  German..  80@1  00
.....................
Boracic 
Carbolicum................
Citricum..................... 
H ydrochlor.................. 
Nitrocum  ...................  J®®
Oxalicum — . •  ........   13<®
P h o s p h o riu m   d i i ..........
Salicylicum................1 
Sulphuricum ....................... 
Tannicum...................1 
Tartancum..............
a m m o n i a .
Aqua, 16  deg...........
18  deg...........
Carbones  ................
Chloridum..............
a n i l i n e .
H la c k  
..................... 2  00@2  25
B r o w n " "  
.................  80@1  00
£ 3 W n ..........  
Y m ö w  :::::::................2  5o@ soo

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2V
4 m   50

4@ 
11®

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b a o c a e .

C u b e a e   (po.  1  60...........1  85@2  00
Ju n ip eru s.......................  J i g   £
X a n tn o x y lu m .................  25®   du

b a l s a m u m .

. 

* l l   30
T e ra b in , C a n a d a   ........   50@  55
45®  50
T o l u t a n ...................

C O B T E X .

Abies,  Canadian..................  18
Cassiae  ................................
Cinchona F la v a ..................  15
Euonymus  atropurp...........
Myrica  Cerifera, po.............  “9
Prunus Virgini................. 
  "
Quillaia,  .............................
, n
Sassafras  ......... - • - - 
.........  
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)......... 
lu

po.

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

SX T B A C T U M .
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra...
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is.............
*8............
*8............
f e b b u m . 
@  15 
Carbonate Precip...
@3 50 
Citrate and Quinia.
®  80 
Citrate  Soluble..... 
®
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut  Chloride-.........   1U5J
Sulphate,  com’l ..........  17*¡g’

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Carb.............................  12®  151
Chlorate,  (po. 20)........  18@  20 i
J®
Cyanide......................   50®  55
Iodide..........................2 85@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  28®  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  ®  15
Potass  Nitras, opt......   8®  10
Potass Nitras..............  
7®  9
Prnssiate.....................  25®  28
Sulphate  po................  15®  18

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Aconitum...................   20®
Althae..........................  25@
A nchusa.....................  15®
Arum,  po.....................
Calamus......................   20®
Gentiana, (po. 15)......   10®
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16® 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 55). 
Hellebore,  Ala,  po—   15®  20
[efleb
Inula,  po.-...................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po...................2 40@2 50
Iris  plox (po. 20@22)..  19®  20
Jalapa,  pr...................   25®  30
Maranta,  )4s ..............   @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15©  18
Khei.............................  75@1  00
cut......................   @1  J5
PY.............  
75©1  35
Spigelia......................   48®  53
20
Sanguinaria,  (po  25).. 
Serpen taria..................  30®
75®  80
Senega......................  
Similax, Officinalis,  H  ®  40 
M  @  20
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Poeti-
dus,  po.....................  @  j®
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
Zingiber a ...................   16®  15
Zingiber  j ...................   22®  25

Antipyrin.........................1  35@1 40
Argenti  Nitras, ounce  @  68
Arsenicum.................  
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......   38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ..................2 15@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, 04s
11;  Ü»,  12)..............   @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
p o .............................  @1  75
Capsici  Fructus, af...  ®  18
po__   ®  16
Bpo..  @  14
Caryophyllus,  (po.  28)  23®  25
Carmine,  No. 40..........  @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......   50®  55
Cera  Flava.................   28®  30
Coccus........................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  15
Centraria.....................  @  10
Cetaceum...................   @  35
Chloroform................  50®  55
squibbs ..  @1  00
Chloral HydCrst.........1  50@1  75
Chondrus.............I...  10®  12
Cinchonidine, P.  &  W  15®  20 
German  4®  10 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  ........................  @  60
Creasotum....................  @ 50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  @  2
“  prep......................  5®  5
“  precip................  8®  10
“  Rubra................  @  8
Crocus..........................   35® 38
Cudbear.........................  @ 24
■ Cupri Snlph...................  8®  9
Dextrine.......................   10® 12
Ether Sulph................  68©  70
Emery,  all  numbers..  @  8
po...................   @  6
Ergota, (po.)  45 .........   40@  46
Flake  White.................  12® 15
G alla.............................   @ 23
Gambier........................  
7®  8
Gelatin,  Cooper..........  @ 9 0
“ 
French.............   40® 60
Glassware  Hint,  75  & 10 per 
cent, by box 70 less
Glue,  Brown................. 
9® 15
“  White................  13®  25
Glveerina.....................  22® 25
Gr'ana Paradisi...........   @  15
Humulus.......................  25© 40
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..  @  80
“  C or__   @ 7 0
Ox Rubrum  @  85
Ammoniati..  @1  05
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.............  @  65
Ichthyobolla,  Am....... 1  25@1  50
Indigo..........................  75®1  00
Iodine,  Resubl...........4 00@4  10
Iodoform.....................  @5 15
Lupulin......................   85@1 00
Lycopodium................  55®  60
M acis...........................  80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
S P IB IT U S .
.2 00@2 50 
drarg Iod.................
Frumenti, W., D.  Co.
1  75@2 00
Liquor Potass Arsinitis  10®
D. F. R ....
1  10@1  50,  Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
.1  75@1  75 
Juniperis  Co. O. T .
.1  75@3  50
Saacharum  N.  E ......... 1 75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............ 1 
Vini Oporto................. 1 
Vini  Alba.................... 1 

Anisum,  (po.  20)........  @  15
Apium  (graveleons)..  10®  12
Bird, Is........................ 
j®   «
Carui, (po. 18).............  12®  1?
Cardamon................... 1  00@1  25
Corlandrnm................  10®  12
Cannabis Sativa...........354® 
4
Cydonium...................   75@1  00
Cnenopodium  ...........   10®  12
Dipterix Odorate........1  75@1  85
Foeniculum................  @  15
Foenugreek,  po..........  6®  8
L in i......................,••••!  ®
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 4  )...  454@ 4A
Lobelia........................ 
f®
Pharlaris Canarian—   354© 454
R apa...........................  
3®  8
Sinapis,  Albu.............  8®  9
Nigra...........  11®  12

75@6 50
25@2 00
25@2 00

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Im p o rte rs  and  Jobbers  of

-DRUGS-

Chemicals  and  Druggists’  Sundries.

D ealers  in

Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes.

Sole  Agents  for  the  Celebrated  Pioneer  Prepared  Paints.

W e  are  Sole  P ro p rieto rs  of

WEATHERLY’S  MICHIGAN  CATARRH  REMEDY.

W e have in stock and offer a full line of

W h isk ies,  Brandies,

Gins,  W in es,  Rum s.

We are  Sole  Agents in  Michigan for  W. D. & Oo. 

Henderson County, Hand Made  Sour Mash 

Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite 

Rye  Whisky.

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

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Drugs 0  M e d ic in e s #

Stale  Board  of  Pharm acy.

One Y ear—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor.
Two Y ears—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
T hree Years—Stanley E. P ark ill, Owosao.
F o u r  Hears—Jacob  lesson,  Muskegon.
Five Years—Jam es  V em or, D etroit.
President—Geo. McDonald 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Next*M eeting^A  * S tar  Island  House,  n ear  D etroit, 
Tuesday and W ednesday, July 2 and 3.________
1  M i c h i g a n   State  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   Ass’n.
President—Geo. G undrum , Ionia.
F irst Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, L ansing.
Second Vice-President— H.M.  Dean, S ues.
T hird Vice-President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
S ecretary— H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
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Local S ecretary—A. Bassett, Detroit. 
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• i r a n d   R a p i d s   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   8 ® « ie ty . 
P resident. J. W. Hayw ard.  Secretary, F ran k  H. Escott.

D e lim it  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty  

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

M u s k e g o n   ( t r u g   C l e r k s ’  A s s o c ia tio n . 

President. C. S. Koon;  S ecretary. J. W .H oyt.

Pharmacal  Education.

Pharm acists, 

The changes in  pharmacy,  as  in  other 
trades  and professions,  though of  differ­
ent  origin,  have  a  common  purpose, 
namely,  to demand that they shall occupy 
a  higher  plane.  The  selling  of  ready­
made  medicines  and  fancy  articles  re­
quires  no  skill  or  educational  attain­
m ents  beyond  that of  the ordinary mer­
chant,  and  as  such  m ust  share 
trade 
competition. 
like  other 
persons,  do  best  when  under pressure, 
and  in  this  instance  it  is  the force of 
ruinous  competition  which  is driving  it 
into its proper channels.
As in other  branches  of  industry,  the 
one  sovereign  remedy  suggested is edu­
cation.  This  is  held  out  as  the  only 
factor to lift up struggling hum anity into 
a  haven  of  prosperity  and  contentment. 
W hile  there is no  denying  the  corrects 
ness of  this as an  abstruse  theory,  yet it 
may be desirable  to  have  the  question, 
“ W hat constitutes education  as  applied 
to  pharmacy?”  defined.
From  the  time  Paracelsus  made  his 
concoctions down to the present time,  the 
novice  has  stood  beside  the  m aster  to 
learn the art,  so  that  through  gradually 
ascending steps he should  become  famil­
iar  with  the  methods  of  pharmacy  by 
actual  observation and  instruction.  By 
careful  application  through  an extended 
period a point is  finally reached when the 
learner,  a  novice  no 
longer,  has  sur­
m ounted  all  the-  mechanical  or  m anip­
ulative difficulties,  from putting up pack­
ages to dispensing  prescriptions.
By this very practice he  has  observed 
th at  there  is  a great  deal  yet  to  learn 
about crude drugs,  chemical  compounds, 
and even the preparation and  dispensing 
of  pharmaceutical  compounds,  and  that 
he requires a more  definite  and  system­
atic  knowledge 
than  he  can  obtain 
through  his  own  resources.  At  this 
stage can the  knowledge  gained  from a 
college course be best appreciated.  Such 
is  the  idea  of  a  pharmacal  education, 
such  the  curriculum   which  would  pro­
duce men who are students,  after as well 
as  before  attending  college.  This 
is 
w hat we would call education.

Then and Now.

“It’s a heap of  fun  to  be  a  traveling 
m an,”  said a  knight of the grip thé other 
day while sitting in the  lobby  of a hotel 
near 
the  corner;  “ at  least  those  who 
haven’t  tried it think so.  I t isn’t all that 
it is cracked up  to  be,  even by the most 
enthusiastic of the boys who lug big sam­
ple  cases  around  with  them   and jum p 
from town to  town,  making the quickest 
time and biggest sales possible.  A  few 
years ago the drum mer  led a happy life, 
but  in  these  days  of  competition more 
work is expected  of  us  and  we  have a 
harder time to sell our  goods.  Our  ex­
penses  are  watched  closer  than  iii the 
days of yore  and  we are expected to make 
better  time  in  getting  over our routes. 
But withal the right kind of a fellow can 
have  ‘oodles’  of fun on the road.  Occa­
sionally,  when several of the  boys  meet 
at the same town,  they  ‘whoop ’er up’ for 
a few hours,  but  depend  upon  it,  they 
never go so far as  to  ‘miss a trick’  when 
it comes to making a sale.  No,  I  have 
never w ritten  any of my experiences, but 
had  I  the  time  I could tell you of some 
adventures  th at  would  make your sides 
split w ith laughter  and the next moment 
cause you to shed  a silent  tear  of  grief. 
Fdont like the business,  but  1 guess that 
is because I have  a darling  wife and two 
small children.  They are all well and so 
on,  but you know I hate to be  away from 
them so much.  Sometimes I think I will 
quit the road and settle down,  but blame 
the luck I ain’t fit'for anything  else. 
I 
wish I was  a butcher or a newspaper man 
or  something  else  besides  a  worthless 
drummer.  Let’s smoke.”
H o w  He Brought the  Factory  to  Time.
An  amusing incident is related  in  the 
rubber departm ent of  Boots  and  Shoes. 
I t  seems  th at  a  certain  jobber  gave  a 
large order to a leading factory  for  rub­
ber boots.  The order  was  not  filled  as 
prom ptly as it should have been  and  the 
result was that large shipm ents of  goods 
began to reach the jobber  long  after  all 
call for them had ceased.  So the  jobber 
notified the  factory  not -to  deliver  any 
more goods on the order.  To this reason­
able request the factory replied th at  the 
order was given them to be filled  during 
the season and th at as the season did not 
expire until April  1,  and as  the  jobber s 
credit was  perfectly  good,  they  should 
continue shipping until  they  had  deliv­
ered  his  full  order.  The  jobber  said 
nothing more,  but  sat  down  and  wrote 
an advertisement,  which he  had  printed 
on postal cards,  and  flooded the territory 
throughout  which  he  sold  goods  with 
the announcement that  he was  ready  to 
accept orders for the next  season’s  sup­
ply of boots of  this factory’s make,  at 50 
per cent,  off,  payable December next. 
It 
took  about  24  hours  for  those  postal 
cards to reach the retailers  and  then  to 
get into the hands of  competing  jobbers 
handling the same line of  goods,  and  it 
took  about  two  hours  more  for 
those 
jobbers to telegraph the factory and have 
a representative of the factory call  upon 
the jobber and offer terms of  settlem ent. 
The m atter  was  soon  settled  upon  the 
jobber’s terms,  and the next mail carried 
out postal cards withdrawing the  offer.

Too  W eak  Vinegar — Warning  to  the 

Trade.

Grand Ra p id s,  March 30,  1889. 

Editor Michigan  Tradesman:

We  wish to call  your  attention to  the 
reprehensible  practice  of  putting  up 
pickles  in  watered  vinegar,  which 
is 
practiced by many pickle manufacturers, 
in  order  to  save  a  few  cents’ worth  of 
vinegar  on  each  barrel  of  pickles,  in 
order to  undersell  those  m anufacturers 
whose  first  aim is a reputation  for first- 
class goods.  T hat  this practice is at the 
expense of  the retail  grocer and his cus­
tomer  is  shown  by  the  weak  vinegar 
soon ceasing to do its duty of  preserving 
the pickles,  when  the pickles  scum  over 
with a fungus, caused  by decay.  T hat it 
is a decay of the pickles is proved  by the 
fact that after pickles commence to scum, 
they  soon  become softer,  until  finally the 
grocer  is  obliged  to  throw  them  away. 
The instruction of  the m anufacturers,  to 
shake the  barrel  when the  pickles  com­
mence to scum, is also bad, as the fungus 
is  precipitated to the  bottom of  the  bar­
rel,  where  it  gives  off  its  decaying  and 
inj urious properties  to  the  goods,  while 
the top pickles,  thus  relieved of  its tell­
tale decay, are made to appear sound and 
wholesome.
The  only  proper  way  to  treat  such 
goods,  should a grocer  be so unfortunate 
as  to  have  them,  is  to  rinse  them  well 
and put on  fresh vinegar  at his  own ex­
pense and trouble.
Some of these m anufacturers acknowl­
edge  th at  they can  m anufacture pickles 
th at will  not  scum  and spoil,  but  their 
excuse is that  the trade  will not pay the 
additional  price.  But  as buyers expect, 
when  they  buy  goods,  that 
they  will 
keep  in good order,  the trade should pro­
test against such  practices,  which  are to 
the  advantage of  the m anufacturer  and 
the  expense of  the trade,  as  the sight  of 
such  goods  hurt their  sale,  besides  the 
loss 
to  be 
thrown  away.  Respectfully yours,

in  many  cases  in  having 

Ch a s.  W.  Sh edd & Co.

The  Unpardonable  Sin.

Penitent  P rinter—I have  been  such a 
terrible sinner that I fear there  is no sal­
vation for me.
M inister—Cheer up,  my friend.  There 
is hope for even the vilest.
“ But I  have  been  such a great  sinner.
I have  worked  on  Sunday  papers,  put­
ting  in  type  accounts  of  prize  fights, 
m urders  and  all  m anner of  crime, thus 
helping  to  spread  its  influence  all over 
the land.”
“ But there is still  hope for  you if  you 
truly repent.”
I have 
“I am glad to hear  you say so. 
often  put  your  sermons  in 
type  and 
thought  how  full  of 
they  were, 
love 
and—”
“ Are  you the fiend  who,  when I wrote 
of  ‘Pale m artyrs in their shrouds of fire,’ 
made it read :  ‘Pale  m artyrs  with  their 
shirts on  fire ?’ ”

“ I am afraid I am. 
“ Then I  am  happy to say that I do not 
believe the hereafter  holds  any hope for 
you.” 

______  

______

I—”

The Druggist’s  Specter.

The  Boy  Who  Says  “ W e.”

From  the Springfield Union.

Among the  many  things  that  detract 
from the  pleasure  of  the druggist’s life 
Don’t laugh at  the  boy who  magnifies 
and have a tendency to  make  him  rest­
his  place.  You  may  see  him  coming 
less,  is the ever-present thought  that  he 
from the postoffice  with a big  bundle  of 
is liable to make  a  fatal  m istake  while
his employer’s letters,  which he  displays
filling a prescription  and  thus  rum   h is .  w}th  ^g  ¿ uch  pride  as if  they  were his 
business,  if not cause him  to  spend  the  Qwn 
j j e feelg im portant  and  he  looks 
remainder of his days behind  the  prison 
But he  ig proud of  his  place.  He is 
It is the duty of each  druggist  to 
It is the duty of each  druggist  to  attending to business.  He  likes to have
bars. 
take every reasonable precaution to  pre 
the world  know  that he is at work for a 
vent dispensing  accidents  in  his  store. I 
busy concern.  One of  the  Lawrences of 
Each person has his own idea as to which 
Boston once sa id :
is the most reliable  method  of  guarding 
“ I would  not  give  much  for  the boy 
against using one drug or preparation  in | 
who does not say  ‘we’  before he has been 
the place of another  that  has  been  pre­
with us a fortnight.”
scribed,  and the  subject  has  been  thor­
The boy who says  “ we”   identifies him­
oughly  discussed  in  all 
its  bearings. 
self  with the concern. 
Its  interests  are 
There is,  however,  another  factor  that 
his.  He sticks up for its  credit and rep­
enters  into  the  question  of  safety  and 
utation.  He  takes  pleasure in his  work 
accuracy in  dispensing  as  practiced  in 
and hopes some day to say  “ we”  in earn­
many  stores,  and  it  is  frequently  over­
est.  The boy will  reap  what he sows,  if 
looked.  We refer  to  the  habit  of  con­
he  keeps  his  grit  and sticks to his  job. 
verting  m etric  weights  and  measures 
You may take off  your  hat  to him as one 
into  apothecaries’  weights  and  wine 
of  the  future  solid  men  of 
the  town. 
measure when  a  prescription  comes  in 
Let  his  employer  do  the  fair  thing by 
th at  has  been  w ritten  by  a  physician 
him;  check him kindly if  he shows signs 
who uses the decimal  system.  No  m at­
of  being too  big  for  his  plaee;  counsel 
ter how  fam iliar  a  person  is  with  the 
him as to his  habits  and  associates,  and 
principles involved in changing a denom­
occasionally  show  him  a pleasant  pros­
ination  in  one system to the  correspond­
pect  of  advancement.  A  little  praise 
ing  in  another,  there remains  a  liability 
does  an  honest  boy  a  heap  of  good. 
to make  an  error. 
In  addition  to  this 
Good luck to the boy  who says  “we.”
the relative denominations  are  only  ap­
proximate,  and  frequently,  as  used  by 
the druggists,  very roughly approximate. 
Sets of metric weights and measures  are 
not expensive  and  can  be  readily  pro­
cured from any wholesale  firm.  We  ad­
vise those of our readers who  have  been 
following  the  careless  and  dangerous 
method of conversion  to  order  an  outfit 
with the next bill of goods and  see  how 
convenient they are compared to  the  old 
method.

How  to  Treat  Rude  Customers.

there 

W hen the customer  professes  to know 
so much and to be  so  positive  in his as­
is  nothing 
sertions,  and  when 
really  in  the  character  or  price of  the 
goods w arranting  the  invidious remarks 
he may make, the best way to parry them, 
if  it  be  desirable  not to give offense,  is 
by a little  gentle  raillery,  which he can­
not  take  amiss,  by  which  he is given to 
understand  that  he  is  saying  what  he 
does not truly think  about  the goods,  so 
th at he may have  them  offered  cheaper. 
The extent to which this resource can be 
availed  of  m ust  depend  upon  the  ac­
quaintance  and  relative  position  as  to 
age,  etc.,  of  the  salesman  and  the  cus­
tomer. 
It is at best a dangerous remedy, 
and  unless  there is a fair  certainty that 
it will answer the purpose  in any partic­
ular  case,  it  is  best  to  avoid  risk by  a 
silent  submission  to  the  remarks,  with 
perhaps  a  simple  expression  of  regret 
that the  articles do not suit.  Still  there 
will occur instances when the salesmen’s 
self-respect  requires  that  the  customer 
should  be informed,  in  the  politest  way 
possible,  that his  unjust  assertions  and 
remarks  are  without  influence or effect.

Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association.

Muskegon,  March 28,  1889.

E.  A.  Stowe,  Grand  Rapids:

Dear  Sir—A  regular  meeting  of  the 
M.  D.  C.  A.  was  held  March  26,  with  a 
full membership.  E.  Johnson  and W alt. 
Glover were admitted  as  members of  the 
Association.  The following officers were 
elected for the coming term  :

President—C.  S.  Koon.
Vice-President—Emile Johnson. 
Secretary  and  Treasurer—Jesse  W. 
Hoyt.
A  social  meeting  followed,  at  which 
questions  were  given  each  member  to 
the  next  regular  meeting, 
answer  at 
April 9. 

J.  W.  Hoyt,  Sec’y.

Stockbridge—Brown  &  Nichols  have 

sold their grocery and drug stock.

A  Provision  W hich Should Be Enforced.
From  th e New York Shipping  List.

the 

There is one of  the amendments to the 
Interstate  Commerce law which ought to 
be brought to the  attention of shippers 
and  th at  is, 
the  penalty  provided  for 
m isrepresentation  with  respect  to 
the 
contents of  packages in order to obtain a 
lower  classification  and, 
therefore,  a 
lower  rate of freight.  This is one of  the 
ways  in  which the old law  was  evaded, 
and this kind  of  deception  was  winked 
a t by the roads in order  to  induce  ship­
pers to patronize their roads and thereby 
stim ulate  competition.  Now 
law 
not only punishes the road  for such  eva­
sion,  but likewise provides a  penalty  of 
fine  and  imprisonment  for  the  shipper 
who  is  guilty  of  such  practices.  Now 
th at the proper  machinery  for  carrying 
the  law into effect  has  been  provided— 
the question is,  will  it be  put  in  opera­
tion ? 
In other words,  will  a  complaint 
be made against the  law  breaking  ship­
per by the  very  agency  that  has  hereto­
fore encouraged him   in  the  practice  of 
this deception ?  This question,  as  well 
as a number of others with  respect to the 
recent amendments to the  law,  will  de­
pend for their solution upon the  manner 
in which the Interstate  Commission  dis­
charges its duty; or, in  other  words,  the 
integrity  with which it lends its  support 
to the enforcement of the Interstate Com­
merce  law.  The  best  interest  of 
the 
railroads are now found to be in  putting 
forth efforts to enforce the  provisions  of 
this law.  The evasion of  its  provisions 
resulted in the condition  of  affairs  that 
reached their climax last Autumn.

V alue  o f the  Pharmacopoeia.

in 

It  is  not  every  druggist who realizes 
what  a  fund  of  information  is 
to  be 
found 
the  U nited  States  Pharma- 
copoeia and  ju st  how  valuable a work it 
is for study.  The  dispensatories are en 
cyclopedias  of  general  information  for 
the druggist,  and tell everything  about a 
drug—from  how  it  happened 
to  come 
into  the  m ateria  medica down to how it 
was  used  to  cure  the  cancer  in  some 
emperor’s  throat. 
In  fact,  it  tells  so 
mueh  that  when  a  boy is  to  study the 
dispensatory he soon has  his  head  filled 
with disconnected facts about the method 
of  catching whales,  making  citrine oint­
ment,  adm inistering 
antidote  to 
arsenic,  numerous  chemical 
form ulas 
and any num ber of  botanical and zoolog­
ical  names.  The  U nited  States  Phar­
macopoeia  gives  short  and  concise  de­
scriptions  th at  are  easily  understood. 
W hen  the  eleventh  decennial  revision 
comes out with the  doses  stated,  as it is 
likely to do,  the work will  be  still  more 
useful. 

the 

_______
______  
The Drug  Market.

German  quinine  has  again  declined, 
with  no  present  prospect  of  a  change 
either way.  Domestic  makers  have  not 
as  yet changed  their price,  but will  un­
doubtedly  do  so  soon.  Opium  has  de­
clined  and 
is  dull.  Morphia  is  un­
changed.  Cinchonidia  has declined.  Cit­
ric  acid  is  lower.  Golden  seal  root  is 
tending  lower.  Chlorate  potash  is  de­
clining.  Gum  camphor  was  much  de­
pressed  during  the work,  but  rallied on 
Saturday  and  is  very  firm at our  quota­
tion.  Salacine  has  declined.  Turpen­
tine is lower.

“ Just  W hat  They  All  S a y !” 

B A L L ,  B A R N H A R T   &  PU T M A N ,  W H O L E ­

S A L E   GROCERS.

Gr and Ra p id s,  March 30,  1889.

W. H. Herrick, St. Agt. Pacific Accident Ins. Co 
Grand Rapids:
I wish to acknowledge the receipt from 
you of seventy-five dollars,  being amount 
due  me  from  your  Company  for  five 
weeks’  disability on account of a fall.

The amount was  prom ptly paid  and 

can  heartily recommend  your  Company 
for prom pt and fair dealing.
Respectfully,

A nthony  J.  Qu ist.

A   Queer  Sign.

A placard  placed  in  the  window of 

shoemaker’s 
shop,  near  Cripplegate 
London,  many years  ago,  is  said to have 
read as follow s:

“ Surgery  perform ed  on  aged 
boots and  shoes;  broken  legs set 
and  bound  upright;  disordered 
feet repaired,  and  the  wounded 
heeled; 
the  whole  constitution 
mended,  and the body supported 
by a new  sole.”

The  Price  of  Quinine.

The  low water-m ark for  quinine  was 
reached  last  week when  that  drug  sold 
at 25c  an  ounce  to  the  regular trade  in 
jobbing  quantities. 
Foreign  manufac­
turers are free sellers for future delivery 
at this  price.  The  low price of  bark 
the  moving cause of  the present  depres­
sion in this line.

A r n ic a  
.............................   g ^ t
Anthém is...................   Sjvra

Irifìflrìa  .......................

F O L IA .

10®   12
25®
35®
10©

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Barosma  — • ■ • •••:•• 
Cassia  Acutifol,  lin-
nivelly.............. ■ • • •
Alx.
Salvia  officinalis,  54s
and  54s.......................
UraUrsi......................
Acacia,  1st  picked.... 
----
. . . .

(iUMMI.

“ 
“  

@1  00 
@   90 
“  2d 
@   80 
g(j 
u  
@ 6 5
sifted sorts
S o ^ 7 5 @ 1   00 
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50©  60 
“  Cape,  (po.  20)...  ®  I*
«  Socotri, (po.  60).  @ S0
Catechu, Is, (%s, 14 )4S> 
^   13
16)..........................
Ammoniac  •••••••-•
Assafoetida, (po. 30).
Benzoinum................... 
Camphor*...................
Euphorbium  po..........
Gafbanum...................
Gamboge,  p o .-..--—  
Guaiacum,  (po. 45)—
Kino,  (po.  2o)...
@1  00 @  40
M astic..............
Myrrh,  (po  45)......
O p ii,  (p c.  4  5 0 ).............. 3  W ®3  U
S h e lla c ............ -.......... 
55
bleached........  25®  28
Tragacanth..................  30® 75

“ 
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25®
@
50@
^

Absinthium..........................  S
Eupatorium..........................  ~
Lobelia.................................
Majorum..............................   ™
Mentha  Piperita..................  **
“  Y ir..........................  S
Rue.............; ; .......................   $
Tanacetum, V — .................   ~z
Thymus,  ..............................  **
M A G N ESIA .
55®  60 
Calcined, P at.............
20®   22 
Carbonate,  Pat  ........
20®  25 
Carbonate, K. &  M... 
35®  36
Carbonate, Jenning5.
O LEU M .
. .5 00@5 50 
Absinthium..............
..  45®  75 
Amygdalae, Dulc..
. .7 25@7 50 
Amydalae, Amarae
..1  80@1  90 
A nisi.....................
@2 50 
Auranti  Cortex...
2 50@3 00
Bergamii
Cajiputi......................   OO©!  00
Caryophylli................
C edar..........................  35®  65
Chenopodi!................ 
75
Cinnamomi................1  00@l  10
Citronella...................   @  75
Conium  Mac..............   35®  65
Copaiba.................   9U@l 
ut
Cuhebae................15_50@16 
00
Exechthitos................ _  90@1  00
Erigeron..................... 1  ^0@1  30
Gaultheria............ *'**!l^ 
¡S
Geranium,  ounce......   ®  75
Gossìpii,  Sem. gal......   50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................1  15@1
Juniperi.................  59^5 
99
Lavendula............  ®9®? 
99
Limonis.......................1  50@1  80
Mentha Piper...............2 50®3 50
Mentha Verid............. 3 00@3 25
Morrhuae, gal.......   80@1 
00
Myrcia, ounce................... 50
Olive............................1  00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35) 
10@ 12
R icini..........................1 04@1  18
UO
Rosmarini.............   75@1 
Rosae,  ounce..............   @8 00
Succini..................   40®, 
45
Sabina................... . • •  90@1  00
Santal  ........................3 50@7 00
Sassafras................  55® 
60
Sinapis, ess, ounce —  
@ 65
Tiglu...........................  @1  50
Thym e..................   40® 
50
opt  ................  @  60
20
Theobromas..........   15® 
BiCarb..................   15© 
18
Bichromate..........   15® 
16
Bromide................   37® 
40

P O T A SSIU M .

“ 

SPO N G ES.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage....................2 
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  .................
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage..........
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage...................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ........................
Hard for  slate  use —
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se ...........................

25@2 50
2 00 
1 10
85

1  40

S Y B U PS.

50
Accacia  .  ___
Zingiber  ..............................   •**
Ipecac...................................  ”9
Ferri  Iod..............................   50
Auranti  Cortes.....................  56
Rhei  Arom...........................   50
Similax  Officinalis..............   60
Co............  50
Senega.................................   50
Scillae...................................   50
“  Co..............................  50
T olutan......
50
Prunus  virg.

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TINCTURES.

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Aconitum Napellis R..........  60
F .............   50
Aloes.....................................  8°
and myrrh..................  60
A rnica..................................  50
Asafoetida.............................  50
A tro p e  B e lla d o n n a ...................  60
Benzoin................................   60
Co...........................   50
Sanguinaria..........................  50
Barosma..............................   50
Cantharides..........................  75
Capsicum.............................  50
Cardamon.............................  75
Co..........................   75
Castor...................................1  00
Catechu................................  50
Cinehona.............................  50
Co..........................   60
Columba..............................   50 J  Theobromae
Conium................................  50
Cubeba..................................  50
D igitalis..............................   50
Ergot.....................................  50
G entian................................   50
Co.............................  60
G uaica.................................   50
ammon.....................  60
Zingiber..............................   50
Hyoscyamus........................  50
Iodine...................................   75
Colorless...................   75
Ferri  Chloridum..................  35
K in o .....................................     50
Lobelia..................................  50
Myrrh...................................   50
Nux  Vomica........................  50
O pii......................................   85
“  Camphorated................   50
“  Deodor......................... 2 00
Auranti Cortex.....................  50
Q nassia................................  50
Rhatany  ..............................   50
Rhei......................................   50
Cassia  Acutifol...................   50
Co...............  50
Serpentaria..........................  50
Stromonium..........................  60
Tolutan................................  60
V alerian..............................   50
Veratrum Veride..................  50

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M ISC ELLA N EO U S.
Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  26®  28
“  4 F ..  30®  32
“ 
A lum en........................   254® 354
ground,  (po.
3®  4
7)  ............................. 
Annatto......................   55@  60
Antimoni, po.............. 
4®  5
et Potass T.  55@  60

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8 1 h (G T (riiaN

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Roll..............   254@ 3

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

DO  YOU  HANDLE  I T ?  

154)...........................   2®  3
Mannia,  S. F ..............   45@  50
Morphia,  S.  P. & W .. .2 55@2 80 
C. C o....................... 2 55@2 70
Moschus  Canton........  @  40
Myristica,  No. 1..........  60®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia.....................  27®  29
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
<5o .............................  @2 00
Picis  Liq, N.  C., 54 gal
doz  ..........  
  @2 70
Picis Liq., q u arts.......  @1  00
pints..........  @  70
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1 8
Piper Alba,  (po g5)....  @  35
Pix  Burgun................   @  7
Plumbi A cet..............   14@  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......   @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  55®  60
Quassiae.....................  8®  10
Quinia, S. P. & W  ....  43®  48
S.  German__   27®  35
Rubia  Tinctorum......   12@  14
Saccharum Lactis pv..  @ 3 5
Salacin...................... 2 25@2 35
Sanguis  Draconis......   40®  50
Sautonine  .................   @4 50
Sapo,  W......................   12®  14
•”   M........................  8®  10
“  G........................  @  15
Seidlitz  Mixture........  @  28
Sinapis........................  ©   18
“  opt...................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
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“  Myrcia Imp........  @2 50
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90
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The Michigan Tradesman

T he  Inventor  of  the  Sewing:  M achine.
F ro m  th e Sewing Machine W orld.

If  you should  inquire  from  some  one 
of the  numerous  persons now  using  the 
sewing  machine,  Who  is the  inventor of 
the  sewing  machine?  every one,  accus­
tomed  as  he  is  to  see  everywhere  the 
picture  of  Elias  Howe,  and the  gigantic 
S  of 
the  Singer  Sewing  Machine  Co., 
would undoubtedly answer  you  that  the 
sewing machine  was devised by American 
inventors.  Well,  this is not true.  Amer­
ican  inventors have  unquestionably con­
tributed largely to endow the sewing ma­
chine  with  thè  numerous  improvements 
which  it  has  received  for  some 
thirty 
years,  but  they did not  originate  it.  As 
early  as  1830,  a  man—a  modest  tailor— 
had  appeared  who  had  succeeded  in 
building  and  running  in  an  industrial 
way.  a  sewing machine  supplied  with  a 
continuous  thread,  and 
the  needle  of 
which  was not  passed  entirely  through 
the  cloth,  and  that  man was  neither  an 
American  nor an  Englishman;  he  was  a 
Frenchman,  by  name  Barthelen y  Thi- 
monnier.
The  English  and  Americans  have  so 
many  industrial devices of  their own  in­
vention,  that  we  do not  hesitate  to  take 
away from  them,  in  behalf  of  a  modest 
French  inventor,  who  struggled  during 
his  whole  life,  the  glory  of  having  de­
vised  a  machine  by  means  of  which 
m any m anufacturers—Elias  Howe,  Sing­
er,  W heeler  &  W ilson,  among  others— 
secured large fortunes.
Barthelemy Thimonnier was the son of 
a   dyer  of  Lyons,  and  was  born  at  the 
A rbresle  (Rhone,)  in  the year 1793.  He 
studied a  little  while  at the  seminary of 
Saint  Jean,  aud  was  put  to  the  tailor 
trade,  which  he  practiced  at Amplepuis, 
Rhone,  where  he  had  been  brought  up. 
Thimonnier. who had many opportunities 
of  seeing the  female  sock  embroiderers 
working for the manufacturers of Tarare, 
took into  his head  to build a machine  to 
perform  with  it  the  work  of  the  em­
broiderer and tailor.
In 1S28  he removed  to  Saint  Etienne, 
and  during  several  years  neglected  his 
own business,  his only means of  earning 
a livelihood  for  himself  and his  family, 
and devoted  himself  in  a  lonely  room to 
many  pursuits  and  studies,  which  his 
friends,  as  they  were  unable  to  under­
stand  them,  considered  at  once foolish. 
A t last,  in  1829,  after  four  years’  hard 
work,  which,  ignorant  as  he  was of  me­
chanics,  was  the  more  painful,  he mas­
tered  his  idea,  aud,  in  1830.  he  applied 
for  a  patent  for  a  chain  stitch  patent 
sewing machine.
Taken  to  Paris  by  Mr.  Beaunier.  a su­
pervisor of  mines,  who  guessed  at  first 
the real value of  the  invention,  and  be­
came morally and  pecuniarily  interested 
in  its  success,  Thimonnier  was,  in  1831, 
made a partner,  and  appointed  manager 
of  the  firm  Germain  Petit & Co.,  and set 
up  on  Sevres  street,  in  Paris,  a  work­
shop  where  he  used  eighty  machines, 
making army clothing.
At this time,  the workingmen were  ad­
verse  to 'ev ery  kind of  new  machinery, 
and  used  sometimes to destroy  it,  as the 
boatmen  on  the  So an  River broke Mar­
quis de Joulfroy’s steamboat  about twen­
ty-five  years before  Fulton  launched his 
boat  on 
the  Hudson  River.  Thimon­
nier’s  machine  shared  the  fate  of  the 
other machines;  the inventor was obliged 
to  take  flight,  and,  a few  months  later, 
on  account of  the death of  Mr.  Beaunier, 
the  partnership  with  Germain  P etit  & 
Co.  was  dissolved,  and Thimonnier  re­
turned  to  Amplepuis, in  1831. 
In  1834 
he  went  back  to  Paris,  and,  as  a  jour­
neyman,  ran  his machine,  which  he  was 
always  studying ts improve.
In 1836 he was penniless,  and  obliged 
to go once more to  Amplepuis;  he  went 
on foot, carrying his machine on his back, 
and  to earn iris  living during his journey 
he made  a show  of  it as a curious  piece 
of  mechanism.  He  m anufactured  at 
Amplepuis  a  few  machines,  which  he 
sold  with a great deal  of  trouble  in  his 
neighborhood;  in 1845 his machine would 
run  at a  rate  of  200  stiches  a  minute. 
He  made  then  a  partnership  with  Mr. 
Magnin,  and built in  Villefranche  some 
machines which he used  to  sell  at  fifty 
francs  apiece;  and  on  August  5,  1848, 
jointly  with Mr.  Magnin.  he  applied  for 
an improvement patent for his  machine, 
which  he  called  “Cousobrodeur”  (the 
English patent was applied  for  on  Feb­
ruary 9,  1848,)  and  which  he  no  longer 
made of  wood,  but of  metal,  and  with 
accuracy.
The revolution of  1848  having  stopped 
Thimonnier’s  business,  he  started 
for 
England,  where he  stayed a few  months, 
and sold his patent to a Manchester firm.
At the London exhibition  in  1851,  on 
account of inexplicable bad  luck,  Thim­
onnier’s machine was not  ready  for  the 
examination of the commisioners;  where­
as  the  Americans  exhibited  their  first 
improvements to Thimonnier’s  machine, 
and the shuttle and  the  two-thread  ma­
chine of Elias Howe.  As  early  as  1832 
Thimonnier had studied this kind of  ma­
chine,  and  was  yet studying it  in  1856. 
But,  exhausted  "by  thirty  years’  strug­
gling and suffering,  he died  penniless  at 
Amplepuis on August 5,  1856,  leaving  a 
.  widow and several  children.  Later,  in 
1866 and 1872,  the  French  Government, 
at the request  of  the  Industrial  Sciences 
Society,  of  Lyons,  relieved  by  its  sub­
sidies the last  days of  that  poor  widow, 
who died  on  August 9,  1872.
The Board of Commissioners of the Ex­
hibition  of  Paris in  1855  wrote  the  fol­
lowing  about  Thimonnier’s  machine: 
“ Thimonnier’s  machine  was  evidently 
the  standard of  all  the  modern  sewing 
machines,”  and  they bestowed on  Thim- 
onnier-Magnin’s  “Cousobrodeur”  a  first- 
class medal;  the prize  was well  deserved, 
as the  “ Cousobrodeur”  of  1855  was  by 
far  superior  to  the  machine  of  1830, 
which,  made of  wood,  and put in  motion 
directly by  a cord,  was  unable  to  make 
more than one stitch  at  each  oscillation 
of  the  treadle.

G rocers in  th e   Middle  Ages.

G raham  Thomson in  N. J. Trade Review.

The most of  historians  in  writing the 
history  of  a  nation  ignore  to  a certain 
extent  all  reference  to  mechanics, arti­
sans or shop-keepers.  According to them,
a truthful  record  of  any country  is that 
of the  lives of its rulers,  its public meas­
ures,  its  wars,  its  victories,  its  defeats, 
and the rise and  fall of  its  distinguished 
men.  Their  theme may be too lofty and 
their  style of  composition  too  grand  to

lacking 

reach  of 

Coffee  was 

In  view,  of 

tail  M erchants,

Strange  to  say,  the 

admit of  mention of  the  working classes  G rangers  A ttem pt  to   C rush  O ut  Re- 
aud their pursuits,  but a narration of the 
progress of  a people  cannot be complete  From  the San Francisco G rocer, 
unless it embraces that of  the masses. 
There can be no question  that,  outside
For information about the grocery bus-  of  a limited num ber of  progressive men, 
iness,  one  m ust  seek for it in other than  there is no class in the community  which
the bA ten  track  of  the  chronicles.  The 
improvements  or 
is  so  slow  to  adopt 
pages of Hume,  Macaulay or Froude may 
which  profits  so  little  by experience as 
be searched  in  vain  for  enlightenm ent 
farm ers,  or grangers,  as  they  are  called. 
In  this  we  make  no  reflection  on  the 
regarding  the  business  of  a grocer  300 
morals  or  integrity of  farm ers—in  this 
years ago or less.
The  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  of 
respect  they are  probably no  better nor 
England,  which  extended  from  1558 to 
no worse than their  neighbors,  the store­
1603,  jvas  prolific  of  great  men.  This 
keepers or the  mechanics;  but while  the 
was the Augustine age  of  English  liter­
latter  are  generally abreast of  the  times 
ature. 
Spenser,  Bacon,  Shakespeare 
in  all that concerns  the  practical  affairs 
and  “Orare  Ben  Jo n so n !”  added  luster 
of  life,  the  tillers  of  the  soil  are  to a 
to the crown,  and it was  during her sov-1 
considerable  degree 
in  enter­
ereignty that  the  Company  of  Merchant 
prise.  There is perhaps  no  state in  the 
A dventurers was  formed,  which laid the 
Union where this  peculiarity is more  ap­
foundations  of  England’s  colonies  and 
parent than in Iowa,  a State  where  Cal­
brought to her  m arkets  many articles of 
ifornia  wine  is  regarded  as  a thing ac­
luxury until then  unknown.
cursed and where beer drinking is almost 
Sir W alter  Raleigh,  the hero of  “ Fain 
a  felony. 
this  benighted 
condition of  affairs,  it  is  not  surprising 
would I climb  but  th at  I  fear  to  fall” 
episode,  and  who  adorned  Elizabeth’s 
that  the  grangers of  Iowa,  who  largely 
court  by  his  learning  and  genius,  was 
control public sentim ent and  legislation, 
not  content  with 
their  so-called  anti- 
the first to  introduce  tobacco  into  Eng­
monopoly  laws,  which  have  caused  the 
land and the first  to  cultivate the potato 
total  cessation  of  railroad  construction 
on  his land in Ireland.
From  India  came  perfumes,  spices, 
in 
th at  uuprogressive  commonwealth, 
rice,  cotton,  indigo  and  precious stones. 
are  now  m editating  another  brilliant 
The  New  W orld  sent  over  sugar,  rare 
stroke  of  policy  by  which  retail  mer­
woods,  gold,  silver and  pearls,  and from 
chants shall find  their  occupation  gone. 
As  a substitute for  the  grocer,  the  hard­
the south of  Europe were brought pome­
granates,  lemons  and  oranges,  scented 
ware dealer and other  storekeepers,  sup­
plies  are  to  be  purchased  on 
the  co­
soaps and  oils.
Sugar was  almost  as  precious as gold 
operative  plan  by  the  farm ers 
them­
dust  and  only  w ithin 
the 
selves.  The same  thing  was  attempted 
wealthy,  and  in  the  year  1615 or there­
in Iowa fourieen  years  since  and  later, 
abouts,  tea,  “ nature’s  sweet  restorer,” 
as  many  of  our  readers  well  know,  in 
was sold  for the  exorbitant  price of  $50 
this  State. 
In  both  instances,  and  in 
others,  in  various  parts  of  the  country 
per pound.
introduced  from  Arabia 
the  experiment  proved a complete  fail­
into Europe  in the sixteenth century, but 
ure,  as  was,  of  course,  expected  by  all 
it  was not  until 1652 that the  first  coffee 
having  any  experience  with  business 
house was opened in  London,  when  that 
affairs.  T hat  the  revival of  this musty 
delicious  and  stim ulating  beverage  be­
attem pt 
to  combine  wheat  and  corn 
growing  with  buying  and selling goods 
came popular.
introduction  of 
will  be  any more  successful,  there  is no 
those  commodities 
into  England  was 
reason  to  believe.  The  Iowa  grangers, 
viewed by her statesmen with  consterna­
however,  seem  determined  to lose  their 
tion and  dismay.  They  were  fully  con­
money in  trying  to  accomplish  the  im­
vinced that the country  would be ruined; 
possible,  and,  as was  the  case  formerly 
it would be drained of  its  wealth;  sloth­
in California under sim ilar circumstances, 
ful  and  luxurious  habits  would  be ac­
there  are plenty of men  who have proved 
quired  by  the  people,  and 
the  nation 
total  failures  when  doing  business  on 
would  eventually prove  an easy prey to 
their  own  account  who are ready to as­
an  invading force.  They fought  against 
sist  them  along  this easy  road to bank­
the use of  many  articles  which to us are 
ruptcy.  To offset this  movement of  the 
prime  necessities,  and  tried  to impress 
Iowa grangers,  we  learn  that  the  busi­
upon the minds of the people that heaven 
ness men with whom they have heretofore 
was  of  more 
than  either 
dealt have  made  a  combination  with  a 
earthly  pleasures  or  a  “square  m eal.” 
view of  breaking  the  grangers’  associa­
Sum ptuary  laws  were  passed,  but  no 
tions in their  infancy.  The  m erchants’ 
laws could hinder the commercial growth 
plan  is  to  simultaneously  push  the col­
of  a  people  so  aggressive  and  enter­
lection  of  accounts  they  hold  against 
prising  in  their  methods  of  doing bus­
private individuals  in  the  associations. 
them  by  Sir  Francis 
iness  as  shown 
The storekeepers will  no  doubt  succeed 
in  this  effort,  as  they certainly  deserve 
Drake.
were  small 
those  days 
The  shops  in 
to  do.
in  the rear
; apartments
and  had sleepin 
the  apprentices.  The  sway  of  the 
for 
5ter  was  despotic.  The clerks  stood
ma
and
in  front  of  their  respective  shops 
handed the goods  for sale to the  passers. 
"W hat  do  ye  lack,  my  noble  gentle­
m en?”  “ W hat do  ye lack,  my beauteous 
m aiden?”  wyere  the  stereotyped  cries, 
and  to  vary  the  monotony  sometimes 
business  a  la  Baxter  street  was  done, 
which  often  brought  unpleasant conse­
quences  to  both  parties.  The  verbal 
recommendation  of 
the  quality  and 
cheapness  of  their  goods  was  done  by 
both Jew and Gentile,  and took the place 
of  newspaper advertisements  and  circu­
lars of  our day.
The apprentices of  London  were  quite 
a  power 
time:”  They 
banded together for their own protection, 
and frequently gave  trouble  to  the gov­
ernment.  Their employers required them 
to perform menial  services,  such as wait­
ing  upon  them  and  their  guests at the 
table,  escorting  them  when  they  went 
out on  business or to make  s.ocial  calls, 
and other lowly offices  were  expected of 
them  which  would  be derogatory to the 
self-esteem  and  beneath  the  dignity of 
grocery clerks of  this period.

A V erm ont Tea  Store  in  Trouble.
It has  always  been customary  for  the 
Union  Pacific  Tea  Co.,  Rutland,  Vt.,  to 
give to each  purchaser of  tea and  coffee 
a check,  redeemable in  crockery or other 
goods  of  like  kind,  when  presented  at 
the  store.  Recently  a  lady  presented 
quite a num ber of  the company’s  checks 
for  redemption  and  wished  in  exchange 
a toilet  set,  but was  somewhat surprised 
and  astonished  to  find  that  the  agent 
refused to x’edeem them, unless she would 
state on her  honor that  the  articles were 
for  herself.  T his  she very  indignantly 
refused  to do,  considering it none of  the 
agent’s  business  whether  she  wished  to 
keep  the articles or give them away.
A  reporter  called  on  Mr.  Moore,  the 
agent  of 
the  company,  and  asked  his 
reason  for refusing to redeem the checks. 
Mr.  Moore  stated  that  the  checks  were 
not all  hers,  and  were  obtained  by mis­
representation  and  unless  she  would 
state  on her  honor that  she  wanted  the 
articles  for  her  own  use he  should  not 
redeem  them.

in  “ ye  olden 

importance 

The  lot  of  the  grocer was a hard one 
during  Elizabeth’s  time,  and that of  his 
help  was  still  worse.  They were  “cab­
ined,  cribbed  and  confined,”  and had  lit­
tle opportunity  of  improving their minds 
or  enjoying  the  pleasures  of  life.  No 
doubt the tradesmen who supplied Bacon 
(who  died  with  debts 
aggregating 
$120,000)  with  goods,  suffered  heavy 
iosses financially by his  demise,  and it is 
safe to say that  the  unfortunate  grocer 
would  be  among  those  who  were  his 
largest creditors.  W hat with  keen  com­
petition,  small  profits and hard  labor, the 
grocer of  to-day is not to  be  envied,  but 
he  has  more  amusements,  he  enjoys 
more of  the solid  comforts of  life  and  is 
infinitely better off  than  the  shop-keeper 
of  two or three hundred  years ago.

“But is it not  customary for the  ladies 
to  sometimes  club  together 
to  obtain 
articles,  like  a  toilet  set for  instance?” 
asked the reporter.
“ Yes,”  replied  Mr.  Moore,  “ they  very 
often  do that  and  we do  not mind it  in 
the least;  but we are  getting tired of fur­
nishing crockery for other stores.”
“But  you will  have  to  redeem  your 
checks,  won’t  you?”  asked the  reporter.
“ No,  not unless  she will  state  on  her 
honor  that the  goods are for  herself and 
no one  else,”   replied  Mr.  Moore. 
“You 
see,”  he  continued,  “ the  company  give 
full value  for the money and do not  bind 
themselves  to give  presents,  only  so  far 
as their  honor is concerned,  and  we need 
not  redeem our checks  unless  we see  fit, 
and  in  this  case  we do not.”
»  It  is  understood  th a t the  husband  of 
the  lady  has  put the case iuto the  hands 
of  a  lawyer and  intends  to test  the case.

The One Price System .

F r o m  t h e   M e r c h a n ts ’ R e v ie w .

W ith  the  cash  retail  stores  a  single 
undeviating price for each article  is  the 
rule almost invariably,  but  in  many  re­
tail  establishments,  mainly  those  con­
ducted on the credit  system,  prices  ap 
pear to  be  quite  often  to  be  regulated 
according to  the personal  appearance  of 
the  customer  and  the  audacity  of  the 
storekeeper  or  his  assistants. 
Even 
where some  attem pts are made  to  secure 
a uniform price,  the  persistency  of  pat­
rons often  prevails over the  prudence  of 
the grocer,  and  he cuts  his  price,  think­
ing,  foolish  man,  that  it  will  be  kept 
secret.  On  the  contrary,  however,  the 
customer,  if  she is not a unique specimen 
of  her sex,  hastens to inform  her friends 
that she can  buy  such an article  at  such 
a  price at Blanks.  As the  friends  prob­
ably trade  at the same store,  but haven’t 
obtained the low rate,  they naturally  are 
vexed,  and the grocer  either  loses  some 
trade or  is  again  compelled  to  cut  his 
prices below a proper  figure.  This  cir­
cumstance is the cause  of  more  or  less 
loss of trade to every dealer who becomes 
a victim to the  wiles of  that class of  the 
public that  always  demands  a  bargain. 
But when the  price of an article is  delib­
erately increased because the customer  is 
a stranger and  looks  prosperous,  if  the 
dealer’s  business  suffers  afterward,  he 
has no one but  himself  to  blame.  The 
wise merchant has at least one rule which 
he never allows to be violated,  and  that 
is the one price rule, applying to  all  his 
customers, rich or poor.

“ Say,  Sam !  W hen  you  proposed  to 
Miss Shekels,  did  you get down  on  your 
knees?”   “ No,  old  man,  I couldn’t,  she 
was sitting on them .” 5

WEY  WEAR  PANTS
T hat  do  nor-  fit  or  w ear  satisfac­
to rily ,  w hen  you  can  buy 
th e 
D etroit R rand,  th a t  arc perfect in 
s t v l e  a n d   w o r k m a n s h i p .

J acob B r o w n ffCp's- jj

kit,--*-  -  aas
Superior/VkeC 

P I N T S   and

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W &  - A SK   FOR  TH EM U,  V  :

Lot J-

Size

7+

+   Price.

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

FADED/LIGHT  TEXT

w.
Stationary

C.  DENISON,
and  Portatile  Engines  and  Boilers,

GENERAL  DEALER  IN

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

haust  Fans.  SA W   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.

M ICH IGAN  CIG AR  CO.,

Big  Rapids,  Mich•

MANUFACTURERS  OF TH E  JUSTLY  CELEBRATED

“ Af.  C. 

The  Mont  P opular  Cigar.

C.”“Yum

99

The  Best  Selling  Cigar on th e  M arket.

SEND  FOE  TRIAL  ORDER.

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

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in

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

A G EN TS  F O R   T H E

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

W.  STE E E E  

P a ck in g  iim l  P ro v isio n  Co.

G B A X P   NAI'IDS,  MICH.

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WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

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

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

of  all  Kinds,  Dried  Beef  for  Slicing.

EJS.RD

strictly Pure and Warranted, in tierces, barrels, half-bbls., 501b. cans, 30lb. cans, 3, 5 and 101b. pails

Bichled Bigs9 Beet, Tripe, Etc*

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

Thompson’s

Sold  Only by

J. H. THOMPSON Ì GO.,

IM P O R T ER S  OF

Fens, 

Cofees

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COFFEE.

S p ic e s,

DETROIT,  MICH.

SWIET’S

Choice Chicago

Dressed Beef

— A N D  M U T T O N  —
Can be found at all  times  in  full  supply  and at 
popular prices at the branch houses in all the larg- 
ger cities and is retailed by all first-class  butchers.
The trade of all market men  and  meat  dealers  is 
solicited.  Our Wholesale Branch House, L. F. Swift 
& Co., located at Grand Rapids, 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 ift an d C om pany, 

Union  Stock  Yards,

CHICAGO.

We  are  wholesale  agents  for 
the Fancy  California  Mountain 
Seedlings and headquarters for 
all kinds of Messina oranges.
PUTNAM &BKOOKS.

1,  M,  CLARK  i  80N,-
WE  ARE  HEADQUARTERS

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

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

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Teas

Syrups

Afolasses
W h o le sa le   G rocers
BEI VEN  &  AEEYN,

Sole A gents for  th e 

The devil. Jack!  We’ve got a 

Shark.  He’ll do for

Bliven & Allyn.

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C e leb ra ted   “ BIG   FV’  B ra n d   o f O y ste rs
In Cans and  Bulk,  and  Large  Handlers  of  OCEAN  FISH ,  SHELL  CL4 MS  and  OYSTERS. 
We make a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time.
We solicit consignments of all kinds of  Wild  Game,  such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, etc.
H. M. BLIVEN,  Manager. 
63 PEIRL STREET.

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

Successors to CURTISS &  DUNTON.

W H O L E S A L E

a p e r   W a reh o u se,

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 .

WHO  URGES  YOU

T O  

Ï E P

T I K E   P U B L I C !

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 YODR ORDERS.

ArctiG Manufacturing Co.
PRIZE
BAKING

3^-lbs  Reward  Baking  Powder,  4-dozen 
Cases,  with  48  Premiums—Glass  Dishes, 
Assorted,  All  Large Pieces,  for

$8,00
$11,00

1-lbs  Reward  Baking  Powder,  4-dozen 
Cases,  with 49 Premiums,  Decorated  China 
Dishes,  All Large  Pieces,  for 
The above Prizes are Very Attractive Goods 

Grand Rapids,

O FFER  TO  THE  TRADE  W HO  BUY

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and New Assortments.

The quality of  Reward  Baking  Powder  is  unequaled and 
warranted to make  light, nutritious  bread, biscuits and cakes. 
Saves eggs, milk  and  shortening  and  makes 40 pounds more 
bread to the barrel of flour.

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