The  Michigan  Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  1,  1889.

NO. 293.

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FOURTH HAT10KAL BAM

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A.  J .  Bow ne, President.

Geo.  C. Pierce,  Vice President.

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

T ransacts a general  banking business.

M ak e a  S p ecialty  o f C ollections.  A ccounts 

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

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AND

EXPERT  ACCOUNTANT
Adjuster  of  Fire  Losses.
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The  Economy

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And sweeter than candy,

His  shoes  nicely  shined  and  a  shine  on his

But the sweet look of pleasure 
On the face of the treasure 

Disappeared when he  came  to  a  real  muddy 

place.

A little round stone 
He had picked up and thrown 

About half-way  across  where  he  thought  he 

could step;

W hen he took careful  aim,
And jumped to the same,

For a moment it seemed  that success crowned 

his leap.

And his foot struck the stone w ith an ominous 

But “there’s many a slip 
Twixt the cup and the  lip,”

thud;

The stone rolled around,
And his sweetness sat down 

On the floor of*his  pants in six inches of mud.

MR.  HEFFERNAN’S  RIDE.

the 

interrupted 

“ W hin I wor on the ould  dart,  byes,” 
said Mr.  Terence  Heffernan to his mates 
in the dinner hour,  “I had no occasion to 
work at such ondignifyin’ employmint as 
hod carry in’.  Me  father  wor  a  shmall 
farm er in the County  Clare, and his uncle 
on 
the  m other’s  side  wor  cousin  to  a 
brother-in-law  av  the  Mmyor  of  Cork. 
Indade, if it worn’t like boastin’, I moight 
say th at me ancisthors  claim  discint- 
“ From Brian  Boru  an’  the  kings  av 
Connaught,  I s’pose,”  interrupted Teddy 
“An’  so,  for the m atther o’ that, 
M’Gee. 
do  mine.  But,  sure,  in  this counthry 
we’re all  Raypublicans—that  is  to  say, 
Dimmicrats;  an’  I ’m not the  man  to  be 
flauntin’  me ryal  pidigree in the faces av 
the free citizens of this  great  raypublic 
I’m  contint  to  submerge  me  prayroga 
tives ontil the time  whin  ould Ireland is 
free from the yoke of the Saxon toyrant.” 
“As I wor saying,”  went on Mr. Heffer­
nan  with  a slight  accession  of  dignity 
but not otherwise noticing  the  interrup 
tion,  “me father wor a shmall farm er—’ 
“ It’s thrue as ye’re aloive,  Terry,  me 
bye!” 
irrepressible 
M’Gee;  “ an’  wasn’t  it  me own father as 
wor his landlord,  an’  didn’t  he  charrge 
him a raysonable rint,  an’  niver throuble 
him whin he was  in arrears?”
“Hould  yer  whist,  ye  lyin’  blather 
skite!”  said Mr.  Heffernan. 
“ Ye didn 
belong in Clare at all,  butinD onega . 
ye’re  father niver owned a scrap  av 
estate at all,  hut  w hat he carried aroundl 
wid him on the sowls of his brogues.  But 
as I wor sayin’,  me  father  wor a shmall 
farm er—”
“ I’m yer witness for that, Terry,  niver 
fear,”  said Teddy M’Gee;  ye’ve tould us 
that twice afore,  an’  be  the  time  ye’v 
made  up  the  round  dozen,  these jin tie 
men ’ll be  afther  wakin’  up  to the fact.’ 
“Did ye iver hear,  byes,”  resumed Mr 
Heffernan,  in desperation,  “how  I  came 
to be cornin’  to this counthry?”
“ Sure  an’  we  did,”  answered M’Gee 
“ the Im migration Society  gave ye a free 
steerage pass on the City of Brussels,  an' 
ye  came,  as  all  the  rest  of  us did,  be 
w ather.”
“ Bad cess to ye intirely,  ye spalpeen,” 
said  Terence,  in  a rage,  “ye’ve no  man­
ners  at  all,  at  all,  but what  ye  sthole 
from the pig  pen.  An’  if the jintlem en 
here don’t w ant to be listenin’ to me nar­
rative,  ’ tis meself as can resarve it  for  a 
more apprayciative audience!”
And he relapsed into a dignified silence, 
and refused to be appeased.  A t length, 
after profuse apologies  from Teddy,  and 
due representation from the  others  that 
no weight should  be given to the wander­
ings of such  an irresponsible character as 
he,  Mr,  Heffernan  consented  to  pocket 
the affront and resume:
As  I  wor  sayin’,  me  father  wor  a 
shmall farm er—”
Ye did,”  m urmured  Teddy.  B ut  a 
warning look checked him,  and  the  nar­
rator  was  allowed  to  continue w ithout 
interruption.
“ An’  kep’  his  nag  an’  jauntin’  car 
wid the best av  ’em. 
Faith,  ’twas  the 
iligant times we had.  W akes  an’  wed- 
din’s an’  christenin’s,  an’ fairs,  wid good 
atin’  an’  whisky  galore,  an’  wid  more 
broken heads at the ind  than  yez  could 
shake a shtick  at!  Ah,  byes,  but  thim 
was the days,  wid  twinty-four  hours  av 
sunlight,  an’  a glass an’  a song an’  a joke 
an’  a kiss for ivery  wan av ’em.
There  was  a 
weddin’  over  be  Ballyduff,  an’  me an’ 
I t  wor  to 
Patsey  Gahagan wor invited. 
be  a rale  gintale  affair,  wid  lashin’s av 
good  atin’  an’  dhrinkin’,  an’  wid the best 
fiddlers  an’  dancers  in  the  county,  an’ 
bein’  as it wor sivin miles or more away, 
we didn’t w ant to be futtin  it, but on the 
conthrairy, to be doin’  the thing in  style; 
so says I to him:
“ ‘Patsey,  don’t  ye think we’d betther 
be takin’  yer father’s  pony  an’  jauntin’ 
car?’
“ ‘Av  ye’re  axin’  me  opinion,’  says 
Patsey,  ‘me  answer’ll be in  the nigative.’ 
“  ‘An’  w hat  for,  now?’  says L 
“ ‘Becase,’  says  he,  ‘we’ve  been afther 
m indin’  the cabin chimley wid  the  flure 
av the car,  an’  usin’  the sate  for  chairs, 
an’  me father lint wan av the wheels  to a 
neighbor  who’d  had  a  m isfortune  wid 
his’n,  an’  the ’tother  wheel is  w antin’  a 
tire,  an’  most av the spokes, an’  the pony 
is as lame as a cripple  an’  has got the—’ 
“ ‘Say  no  more,  Patsey,’  says I,  ‘yer 
excuse is sufficient.’
“  ‘Why not  use  yer  father’s  shandry­

“But I was  tellin’  ye. 

dan,  Terry ?’  says he.
meself as’ll raise  anny objections.’

“ ‘Av  he  consints,’  says  I,  ‘ ’tis  not 
“ So the  nixt  m ornin’  says I to father: 
“ ‘Father,  me  an’  Patsey  Gahagan is 
afther goin’  to Aileen  McMurtagh’s wed­
din’ to-morrow.’
“ ‘ ’Tis an iligant  time  ye’ll be havin’ 
there,’  says he.
“ ‘An’  how’ll  we  be  goin’  fath er?’ 
says I.
“ ‘Ye can go be the  turnpike,’  says he, 
‘or  on  the  pad  road  round  be  Drum- 
shambo,  or, av  ye plaze,  ye can  take  the 
short cut across  the  bog,  though I’d not 
advise it.’
“ ‘’Tis a long  thram p,  father,’  says I. 
“ * ’Twill  be  good  exercise,’  says  he, 
‘an’  ’twill give  ye  an  ixcillent  appetite 
for the atables whin  ye git there.’

We’d rather be ridin,’  says I 

i 

wan 

slope’s 

‘Father,’  says  I,  T  wor 

“ ‘Sure,  an’  I don’s blame  ye,’  says he,
‘av  ye  can 
that’s  fool
enough to lind  ye the loan  av  their  con­
veyance.’
thinking 
twould be a good  idea  to  be takin’  our 
nag.’
Amn’t I afther  usin’  the same,’  says 
he,  ‘to be visitin’  the  high  sheriff in the 
county town, an’  would I be insultin’  his 
honor be goin’  afut ?’
T hin,’  says I,  ‘there’s  nothin’  for  it 
but borryin’  Tim Dooley’s m are.’
The  upshot  av  the  whole  m atther 
wor,”  rem arked Mr.  Heffernan,  “that we 
borrowed  Tim ’s  mare  an’  convaniency 
set out wan fine  m ornin’  in June,  me 
in an iligant blue  swallow-tail  coat  wid 
brass  buttons  which  belonged 
to  me 
grandfather,  an’  him in  a pink  shootin’ 
jacket which the squire giv’  him for rmi­
nin’  errands.  An’,  be the powers,  there 
worn’t  in  all  Ireland  two happier  byes 
than we  wor !
“Now,  Tim ’s mare wor a quare crathur 
whin  she started  ye  could niver shtop 
her,  and  whin  she  shtopped  ’twor  the 
divil’s  own  work  to  git her goin’  agin. 
She wasn’t what yez would call a beauty, 
but a dacent-lookin’  roadster,  barrin’  the 
spring  halt,  an’  ringbones  on her forrad 
feet,  an’  a blood  spavin  on her off  hind­
leg,  an’  a thrifle av  a hump  on her back. 
But,  saints  preserve  us !  whin  she  laid 
her ears  back an’  tuk  the bit betune her 
teeth,  she made  the  road  disappear  un- 
dhernathe  .her  like  wather down a mill- 
race.
The  sate’s  slippery,  T erry,’  said 
Patsey,  whin  we  got  fairly on the road.
“  ‘ ’Tis because  Tim  has  been  afther 
varnishin’  it,  to  make  it  Ink  nate and 
tidy,’  said I.
oncomfortably,’ 
it 
“ ‘An’ 
said  he. 
“  ‘A down-grade’s the  aisiest  tr a v e l ­
ing,’ says I.
“ ‘I’ll  be  failin’  off,  sure,’  said  he,  as 
the  mare  w int  off  wid  a  tare;  for  the 
convaniency,  bein’ widout springs,  jolted 
up an’  down  wid  ivery  ru t  an’  turn av 
the road.
“ ‘Yee  won’t,  if  ye  hould  on  tight, 
said I.
“W hin  she  fell  intil a quieter  gait,  I 
says to Patsey,  ‘If  the  traces  hould,  an 
the  shafts  don’t  come 
that  splice 
asundher,  we’ll do  the sivin miles as gin 
talely as possible in  less  nor  an  hour,’ 
says I.
“ ‘We’ll be shook  to  splinters  in  less 
time nor th at,’  says he.
“ ‘We’ll pull  ourselves  togither at the 
ind of  our  journey,’  says I.
“ ‘If  we iver rache it,’  returned  Patsy,
“ ‘We’re bound to do that,’  says I,  ‘on- 
liss we’re struck wid  perpetual  motion.
“ ‘It’s thrue for  ye.  But,  T erry,’  says 
he,  ‘what’s that thing lyin’ in undher the 
hedge  there ?’
‘ ’Tis a leather car 
pitbag,’  says I.
‘An’  how  did it 
come  there  wid  no  man  to  be  lookin 
afther it ?’
“ ‘No doubt,’  says I,  ‘’twor  left  there 
by some traveler who’s gone  on  an’  for 
got it.’
“ T w ondher  w hat’s  in  it? ’  says Pat 
sey.
“ ‘The  aisiest  way to be  findin’  out is 
by goin’  an’  seein’,’  says I. 
‘An’  be the 
same  token,  ’tw ill  be  a  charity  to  be 
lavin’  it  wid  ould  Gannon  at  the  toll 
gate,  for  some  wan’s  sure to be  makin 
inquiries afther it,’  says I.
*“ An’  widout more  ado,  Patsey jumped 
off  the car  and’wor back agin in am innit 
wid the carpet-bag.  B ut  jist as he sated 
himself  an’  wor  in  the  act  of  open in 
it  to  make an invintory of  the  eontints 
all of  a suddint,  wid  nayther  word  nor 
w arnin’,  away w int  Tim  Dooley’s mare, 
like a cork out of  a beer-bottle.

“ I turned to look. 
“ ‘It is th at,’ says he. 

in 

'

“Ju st 

thin,  a  man  jum ped  over 

the 
hedge  at  the  place  where  the  bag wor 
lyin’  wid a big shtick in his  hand, which 
it afterw ards turned out he had gone into 
the  woods  beyant  to cut,  lavin’  his  bag 
the  while  be  the  roadside.  W hin  he 
seen it were gone,  he tore along the road 
afther us,  wavin his  hands an’  yellin’  at 
the top of  his voice :

“ ‘Shtop,  ye thavin’ vilyuns, an7  gimme 
rpe bag that  ye’ve  shtole,  or  I ’ll  break 
ivery bone in  yer body !’
“ ‘Whoa, ye onruly, m isbehavin’  baste ! 
whoa,  I tell  ye,’  shouted I to  the  mare, 
sawin’  at  thè  reins  hard  enough to cut 
through  a  tin-inch  plank,  an’  wid  no 
more effect on her m outh than if I’d been 
ticklin’  her ears wid a feather.

it  for  ye !’  hollered 

Patsey to the man behind.

“ ‘We’re  kapin’ 
“  Shtop  yer horse !’  yelled the man.
“ ‘’Tis  a m are,’  hollered  Patsey,  ‘an’ 
we’d be thankful to  ye if  ye’d  shtop  her 
yerself,  for we can’t.’

“ On  w int the  mare  as if  all the bum- 
bailiffs in Connaught were afther her wid 
a w arrant;  an’  on  come the man  behind 
us,  bawlin’  an’  yellin’  an’  behavin’  alto­
gether  more  like  a maniac  nor a Chris­
tian.  Manewhile  Patsey an’  me  had  all 
we could do  to  kape  our sates,  jum pin’ 
from  side  to  side,  an’  bobbin’  up  an’ 
down like a battledore an’  shuttlecock.

“ ‘She’ll smash in the  front of  the car, 
T erry,’  says  Patsey,  in a fright;  for the 
ould  mare  wor  batin’  the rogue’s tattoo 
on the dashboard wid her heels, an’  ivery 
thum p she giv’  made  the  tim bers  creak 
an’  the whole  concarn  shiver like a ship 
in  a shtorm.
“ ‘Sorra  a  bit  do I   care,’  says I,  ‘if  I 
get out o’  this wid me  head on right side 
upperm ost.’
“ ‘Terry,  honey,’  says  Patsey,  “can’t 
ye spake  her gently,  an’ be sootherin’ her 
down  a little,  for this  wheel  won’t hould 
‘The  shpokes is rat­
out long,’  says he. 
tlin’  about like pays  in a bladdher.’
is  broke  a’ready 
“ ‘Sure  me 
houldin’  the reins,’  says I.
“ ‘An’  be  the  same  token  me  back’s 
broke  intirely,  houldin’  me  sate  an’  the 
carpit-bag,’  says Patsey;  ‘so we’re aven.’ 
“ ‘Bad  luck  go  wid  the  carpet-bag,’ 
“  ‘Be  jabers !’  says  Patsey,  ‘bad  luck

says I,  ‘and all its belongings.’

arms 

•

it 

‘Now, 

enough an’  to  shpare is  afther  goin’ wid 
it as  it is,  let alone wishin’  for more.’
“ ‘An,  here’s  plenty  more  of  it,  right 
atop  of  us,’  says I,  ‘widout  the  trouble 
of wishin’;  for here comes Corny Flynn’s 
hay-cart wid  a big load of  turf  on it; an’ 
how  we’ re to mate  an’  pass on this bit of 
a road widout a  smash-up  is  more nor. I 
know.’
“ ‘It’s  the  tru th   ye’re  shpakin’,’  says
Patsey,  ‘and’  the  nixt  time  I  risk  me
neck goin’  to a weddin’  behind  this mur- 
dherin’  baste,  I’ll  shtay  at  home  and 
walk there.’
“A t that  we  both  of  us givg a hurroo 
loud enough to waken the Sivin Sleepors; 
an’  whin  Corny Flynn  heard it,  an’  seen 
the plight we were  in,  he  did  his  best to 
turn the  cart  out of  the  roadway.  But 
the  ould  mare  wor  too  quick  for him. 
Jist  as  we  got  forninst the cart,  an’  he 
wor  in  the  act of  turnin’,  wan  av  his 
wheels  w int  intil a rut,  and  upset  the 
whole load of tu rf about the mare’s ears.
“ One pace struck me on  the  nose  an’ 
flattened 
intirely,”  continued  Mr. 
Heffernan, fingering that organ musingly, 
which  accounts  for  me  being slightly 
pug-nosed.  Afore  that  unlucky  day me 
iligant  Roman  nose  wor the admiration 
of  all the  barony.  Now,  ’tis  thè  wreck 
¡re see.  Howsomever,  that  has  nothin’ 
to do wid me story.
Ye  blunderin’  om adhauns,’  shouted 
Corny to us,  ‘where are  ye goin’?’
To  Sandy  McManus’  weddin’,’  says 
Patsey,  ‘an’  good  day  to  ye.’
□ “ ‘Don’t  ye  think,’  says  I,  whin  I ’d 
gotten the  turf-dust out of  me eyes,  ‘it’s 
time this thing come to a shtop ?’ 
I do  th at,’  says  Patsey;  ‘purvidin’ 
it don’t shtop  too  suddint,  I’m contint.’ 
At  that  I  giv’  the  reins  an  extry 
tw ist ’round  me  w rist  for a better  pur­
chase,  an’  braced up  agin the back av the 
sate,  to make  ready  for pullin’.
Throw  yer arm ’round  me  waist to 
hould me tight,’  says I to Patsey.
All  right,’  says  he. 
thin, 
pull for  yer life.’
An’  I did pull—so hard that no mouth 
in the worruld,  barrin’  it wor the  mouth 
of  the  Mississippi,  could  ha’  stood  it. 
But,  begorra,  that  shiftless  egiot,  Tim 
Dooley,  had  been  afther  m indin’  the 
reins wid a pace of  cord,  an’ in a moment 
snap they wint,  wid part of  ’em danglin’ 
about the mare’s  legs,  like to dhrive her 
distracted,  an’  the  lave  of  ’em  hangin’ 
loose  from  me  hands.  An’  if  it worn’t 
for  the  grip  Patsy had  av me waist an’ 
the  back  av 
the  sate,  we’d  ha’  been 
afther 
the  convaniency  widout 
lavin 
shtoppin’  to get off.
“ ‘Saints  betune  us  an’  all  harrum !’ 
says Patsey;  ‘but  what’ll  we  do?’  says 
he;  for if  the  mare  wor wild  afore, she 
wor frantic now.
“ ‘Hould  on  as  long  as  we  can,  and 
thrust to  luck for  the  rist,’  says I.  An’ 
we  wint down on the  flure of  the car an’ 
held on be the sate.
“ ‘Sure,  there’ll be  nothin’  to hould on 
by  afore  long,’  says  he;  ‘an’ as  to  the 
luck,  bad’s the best av it !’
“ ‘A t  all  evints,’  says  1,  to  comfort 
him,  ‘av she  kapes on at this  rate  we’ll 
be at the weddin’  in good  tim e.’
“ ‘Begorra,’  says  Patsy,  ‘we’re  more 
like to be  afther  attindin’  two  buryin’s.’ 
“ ‘A rrah, 
‘they’ll  be 
givin’  us an iligant wake.’
‘“ ’Tis  a  poor  relish  I  have  for  the 
whisky they’ll be drinkin’  at it,’  says he.
“ ‘Kape  up  yer  spirits,’  says  I,  ‘an’ 
don’t lose  yer courage.’
‘“ I’d sooner lose me  courage  than me 
futtin ’,’  says he.
“ All  this  time  the  mare  wor  gittin’ 
worse  instid of  betther,  and it wor  only 
a question av time  which would go first— 
the wheels or the shafts or  Tim Dooley’s 
rope harness.
“  ‘Lord  save  us !’  says  Patsy,  afther a 
bit,  ‘we’re close  to  ould  Gannon’s  toll- 
gate,  an’  w hat’ll we be doin’  th in ?’
“ ‘If  the gate’s open  we’ll go  through 
it,’  says I,  ‘an  av it’s shut  we’ll  go over 
it.’
“ ‘Be  jabers,’  says  Patsey,  whin  we 
came  in  sight  av  the  toll-gate,  ‘here’s 
ould  Gannon  runnin’  t-o’rds  us  snortin’ 
like  a stame-ingine.’
“ ‘He’s  cornin’  for  his  toll,  the  mane 
ould  nager,’  says  I;  ‘sure  he’d  skin 
toad  for  a  farden  an’  shpoil  a  knife 
worth sixpense.’
“ ‘T erry,’  says Patsey,  ‘the gate’s shut, 
an’  he’ll  niver  let  us  through  without 
payin.’
“ ‘All  the  worse  for his  gate,’  says I, 
‘for ’tis  ivident  that Tim  Dooley’s mare 
has  an  app’intm ent  to  kape,  an’  don’t 
mane to shtop till  she raches  the  ind  of 
her distination.’
“In  a  m inute  or  so  up  came  Gannin 
widin shoutin’  distance.
“ ‘Hello,  there!’  he  yelled,  ‘shtop  yer 
horse!’
“ ‘Sure we’re  only  passengers  on  this 
vahicle,’  returns  Patsey,  ‘an’  have  no 
conthrol over the movements av it, more’s 
the pity,’  says he.
“ ‘The toll’s thrippence,’  says Gannon 
‘“ ’T is chape  for  the  money,’  sis I,  as 
we w int  w hirlin’  past  him,  ‘an’  av I had 
the  tim e I’d  be for  shtoppin’  to pay ye.: 
“ ‘I’ll arrest  ye,’  he shouted afther us, 
“ ‘Av  ye  could  do  it  gintly,  so  as  to 
avoid  unplisint  consequences,’  hollered 
Patsey,  ‘we’d  thank  ye  kindly,  for  ’tis 
w hat we’re achin’  for.’

thin,’  says  I, 

“ ‘Blissid  saints !’  says  I,  ‘we’ll be on 
the  gates in  a m innit,  so shut  your eyes, 
Patsey,  an’  prepare for the worst.’
“ ‘I’m  prepared  for  worse  nor  that, 
T erry,’  says  he,  ‘av it’s  only th at I’ll  be 
thankful.’
“ ‘Byes!’  added  Mr.  Heffernan,  after 
an impressive pause, and with a solemni­
ty befitting  the  theme,  * ’tis  no use  me 
describin’  to  ye  the  ivintuation  of  the 
collision  that  attinded that  catastrophe, 
for ’tis  impossible  to  be  done.  Av  ye 
wor  in  a tundher  shtorm at a boiler  ex­
plosion  in  an  iron  foundry on  a Fourth 
of  July  ye  m ight  undhershtand  it,  but 
not anny other way.’
“ There  wor a  rush  an’  a roar,  a clat- 
ther an’  a jump,  an’  thin—darkness,  wid 
more  sky-rockets an’  m ateors  an’  shoot­
in’  stars  rushin’  through  me head  than

the 

“ Patsey  Gahagan  wint  head 

all the  asthronomers in the worruld  iver 
saw in a twelvemonth.
first 
toll-house  windy,  scarin’ 
through 
ould  Biddy  Gannon  out  of  her  wits, 
which  wor  aisy seein’  she  hadn’t  anny, 
knockin’  the  table,  wid  a big  skillet  of 
boilin’  w ather  on  it,  over  the  pig,  an’ 
the 
scattherin’  the  tu rf  fire  all  about 
cabin.’
“ ‘God save all here!’  says he,  whin  he

‘but 

Terry  Heffernan,  ye  good 

got his breath.
“ ‘Ye  m urdherin’  vagabone,’  screamed 
Biddy,  ‘what  d’ye  mane  by invadin’  da- 
cent  folk’s  homes  in  this  manner,  an* 
turnin’  ’em  out  of  house  an’  harbor?’ 
says  she,  an’  she  wint  for  him  wid  a 
broom.
“  ‘Will  ye hear me  Misthress Gannon,’ 
says Patsey.
“ ‘Niver a word,’  says  she;  ‘I’ve heard 
enough  of  ye  to  last  one’s  lifetim e,  ye 
disthroyin’  reprobate.  Look  at me  poor 
pig,  as  ye’ve  scalded  to dith,  an’  who’s 
squalin’  his lungs out,’  says she.
’Tis  thrue for ye,’  says  Patsey  in  a 
sootherin’  voice, 
thin,  ye  know, 
honey,’  says  he,  ‘a pig  m ust  be  scalded 
afore  he’s fit for  the  aitin’  anny way,  an 
tis only anticipatin’  m atters a bit.’
“ “ Tis anticipatin’  the  lock-up ye  are 
for  this  day’s  worruk,  ye  rascally Rap- 
paree,’  says Biddy,  in  a towerin’  timper, 
as  Patsey  for  very fear  av  her,  hobbled 
out  av doors  as well  as he  could,  wid  a 
siperate ache  an*  pain  in  ivery  bone  av 
his body.
“As  for  me, whin I  come to meself,  I 
wor  sated  in  the  middle  av  the  road, 
Patsey  houldin’  me  up,  wid  them wisps 
av  reins in me  hand,  an’  wid  little  bits 
an’ tatthersav  Tim Dooley’s convaniency 
scattered all round,  permiscous  like,  but 
sorry  a plank  av it big enough to make a 
m ortar  board ouf av.  The  toll-gate wor 
shatttered to shplinters,  an’  the mare wor 
nowhere to be seen.  An’  worse than all, 
byes,  an  iligant  bottle  av mountain-dew, 
that I’d  put  in the  pocket  av the tail  av 
me  coat to mate  the  ixigincies  of  anny 
contingint  emergencies,  wor  dashed  to 
pieces  an’  me  clothes  soaked  wid 
the 
liquor.
“ There wor ould  Gannon stannin’ over 
me  wid  a blackthorn  ready  to  bate  the 
life  out av  me  the  m innit I  opined  me 
eyes.
for 
nothing,’  says he,  ‘a nice pace of worruk 
ye’ve been  afther doin’,  wid yer reckless, 
tearaway diviltries,  deshtroyin’  property 
an’  breakin’  the  law.
Tis the toll gate an’  me head th at’s 
broken,’  says I,  ‘and  ’twas  not  me  that 
done  it  at  all,  but  Tim Dooley’s mare, 
bad scran to her.’
Tis meself  that’s  sorry  to  see the 
son  av a dacent man like yer father takin’ 
to avil ways.  Sure  ye’re on the high road 
to the gallows.’
‘“ ’Tis  nothin’  av the  sort,’  says  I; 
we’re on the road to Aileen McMurtagh’s 
weddin’,  an’  we’d be there  now  but  for 
ye obstructin’  the highway  wid  yer  toll 
gate.’
Thin  she’s  afther  choosin’  a quare 
place  to  be  m arried  in,’  says  Gannon, 
for  I  do  be  thinkin’  ye’re  both  av  ye 
bound for the  county jail  as  straight  as 
legs can carry ye.’
“ ‘Arrah,  M isther  Gannon,’  says  I, 
‘ye’d niver be for  bearin’  malice  agin  a 
couple av poor  byes  becase av a misfor- 
tunate  accident,  whin  ’tis  well  known 
that in yer young days ye were  the  loife 
av the whole counthry  side  wid yer rale 
ould Irish spirits and divilm ent.’
“ ‘F aith,’  says Gannon, T wor niver the 
dith  of  an  innocent  pig,  which is more 
nor ye can say,  wid yer  reckless  slaugh­
terin’.’
“ But  I  could see  that  me  blarneyin’ 
had tickled him,  for all he looked so sour, 
whin,  as  bad  luck  would  have  it,  who 
should turn up but the man  that  owned 
the carpit bag.
“ ‘W here’s thim  two  thavin’ robbers,’ 
says he,  ‘as  shtole  the  carpit  bag  av a 
dacint  man as niver  wronged  a neighbor 
out av a farden?’
“ ‘Is it so bad as that?’  says Gannon,  a 
lookin’  mighty serious;  ‘an’ are ye afther 
addin’  highway robbery  to  yer  lawless­
ness?’
“ ‘Indade,  Misther  Gannon,  honey,’ 
says Patsey,  ‘we niver  shtole  his  carpit 
bag  at  all,  more  be  token it’s been the 
cause av all our throubles,’  says he.
“ ‘Sure,  here’s the bag wid me name on 
it,’  says the man,  ‘to prove the  worth  av 
yer  word,’  an’  he  fished  it out av the re­
mains av the  conveyance  an’  held it up 
afore us.
“ ‘As I’m  a  livin’  sinner,’  says Patsey, 
‘we  did  but  take  it  to  be lavin’  it wid 
Misther Gannon here,  in case  anny  man 
should be lookin’  for it.’
“ ‘Tis a likely tale,’  says  Gannon,  ‘an’ 
yez had betther be tellin’  it to the magis­
t r a t e ,   As  to  lavin’  the  bag  wid me, 
’tis  an  impident  excuse  to  be  offerin’, 
whin ye’re well  aware  that  av  me  gate 
had  been  opin,  divil a bit av me toll I’d 
ha’  seen,  let alone the gintlem an’s carpit 
bag.’
“  ‘ ’Tis  the  tru th   we’re  tellin,’  says 
Patsey.
“ * ’Tis me  carpit  bag  ye  war  afther 
stalin’,’  says the man.
“  ‘ ’Tis false,’  says I,  ‘an’ the nixt time 
I do an act of charity to a man that’s,un­
able to take care of  his own propity,  I’ll 
be  thinkin’  betther  av  it  an actin’  the 
conthrairy way,’  says I.
“ ‘’Tis w hat I’d advise ye to  do,’  says 
Gannon,  ‘av ye want a good  view  of  the 
intarior of the jail from the outside.’
‘Take care  av me propity, is it?” says 
the man. 
‘Sure av I can’t take  care  of 
it betther  than a blundherin’  omadhaun 
that  smashes  his  vahicle  and  loses his 
nag,  an’  commits more  depridation  gen­
erally nor  an  earthquake  would,  I’ll re­
tire  from  business and hire a shteward!’ 
says  he.”
“ An’  didn’  yez get to the weddin’ afther 
all?”  queried  one  of  Mr.  Heffernan’s 
auditors.
“ Is it get to  the  weddin’  ye’re talkin’ 
about?”  said that gentleman in  tones  of 
immeasurable contempt.  “Didn’t a snak-

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AMONG  THE  TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Mrs. Sarah Wood has sold her m illinery 

stock to Mrs.  C.  E.  Smith.

John H.  Stander,  the  Caledonia  furni­

ture dealer,  has removed to this city.

Julius  A.  J.  Friedrich  has  sold  his 
German book stock to Eaton,  Lyon  & Co.
L.  A.  Scoville  has  engaged  in the gro­
cery business.  Olney, Shields & Co.  fur­
nished the stock.

John Reichert  has  engaged in the gro­
cery business  at  Petoskey.  L  M.  Clark 
& Son furnished the stock.

The organization of  the  Grand  Rapids 
W hip Co.  is  nearly  completed.  The pa­
pers will be filed this week.

Eli  Lyons has added a line of dry goods 
to his drug  and  grocery  stock  at Altona. 
Spring & Company furnished  the  stock.
J.  C.  Speicher,  whose  grocery  stock at 
Bloomingdale was  recently destroyed by 
fire,  has  re-engaged 
there. 
Olney,  Shields & Co.  furnished the stock.
The foundation walls of  the McCord & 
Bradfield  Furniture Co.’s new factory are 
completed,  and work on  the  superstruc­
ture  will  begin  in  a  few  days  and be 
pushed rapidly to completion.

trade 

in 

The  Widdicomb  Furniture  Co. 

is 
sending  out  a handsome  new  catalogue 
showing  the  latest  designs  in  its  line 
of  goods. 
It is from the engraving room 
and  press  of  the  Fuller  & Stowe  Com­
pany.

W.  S.  Gunn  has purchased a portion of 
the Quartell lot,  at  the  corner  of  Ionia 
and Fulton streets,  40 x 50 feet in dimen­
sions.  The price paid is said to be $7,500. 
W hat  disposition 
the  purchaser  will 
make of  the lot is not generally  known.
E.  Crofton and Charles Fox  have  suc­
ceeded in quieting the title to their lot at 
the corner of Ionia and Louis streets and 
will proeeed  with the erection  of  a  six- 
story  and  basement  block  early  next 
season.  They  will  put in  the foundation 
this season.

The  M artin’s  Middlings  Purifier  Co. 
has  just completed  the  refitting of  L.  & 
L.  Jenison’s  grist  mill,  at Jenisonville, 
converting  it  into  a full  roller  process 
mill.  The company has recently shipped 
purifiers to Spaulding & Fisher, at Peters­
burg  and  M.  G.  & N.  Sage,  at  Elkhart, 
and purifiers and flour  dressers to Mason 
and Climax.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

East Jordan—M.  D.  Kittel  has  opened 

Sheridan—A.  Short has closed  out  his 

a bakery.

grocery stock.

Hillsdale—Michael  Samm,  dealer 

in 

groceries,  is dead.

Sault Ste.  Marie—Mr. Grass has opened 

a confectionery store.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Louis  Metzger  will 

soon re- open his grocery.

Lake  Odessa—Mr.  Pearsall has opened 

a shop for cutting marble.

Cloverdale—Fred Pierce  will  soon en­

gage in the meat business.

Yermontville—John DeW itt  ssucceeds 

Loomis & Co.  in general trade.

Shelbyville—A man named  Fessenden 

will shortly open a meat m arket.

Advance—A.  B.  Steele  contemplates 

building an  addition to his store.

Hudson—Ed.  Grace  succeeds Mrs. E. J. 

W illiams in the harness business.

Sunfield—A man  by  the  name of  Pen­

nington is building a wagon shop.

Portland—Geo.  Childs,  of  Ionia,  will 

open a meat  m arket here A pril 27.

Byron — Burlingame  &  Son  started 

the ir brick and tile works April 22.

Owosso—Battle Creek  parties  contem­

plate  opening a crockery store here.

Mancelona—J.  Dale Smith,  of  Owosso. 

will engage in the tailoring business.

Monroe  Center—Jacob  Brenning  has 

opened a blacksm ith and  repair shop.

May—Nelson  K.  Lawrence  has  pur­

chased Johson Bros.’  hardware stock.

Ludington — Mrs.  S.  E.  Hellene  has 

removed her notion  stock to Baldwin.

Bessemer—K.  S.  M arkstrum  succeeds 

M arkstrum  & Larson in general trade.

Kent City—R.  McKinnon  has  removed 
his dry goods and grocery stock to Sparta.
Jackson—W.  D.  Loomis has purchased 
O.  B.  Hosmer’s cigar and  tobacco  store.
Marine  City—C.  L.  P orrett  succeeds 
Smith  & Porrett in the  grocery business.
Ludington—Spafford  &  Miller  have 
sold their  general  stock to Hansen & Co.
Plainw ell—W.  S.  Squierhas purchased 
th'e grocery stock of  Mrs.  H arriet  Steele.
Lake  Odessa—Harry Morse has bought 
the  jew elry  stock  of  J.  H.  Gibbons  & 
Son.

Rockford—J.  C.  Drew has sold his gro­
cery stock to G. H. Spencer, late of Green­
ville.

Salem—J.  M.  Gorden  will  add a stock 
of  m illinery goods to his  furniture  bus­
iness.

B ellaire— Schoolcraft  &  Nash  have 
added a line of dry goods to their grocery 
stock.

Brockway  Center—Holden  &  W aring 
are successors to Holden Bros, in general 
trade.

W hitehall—E.  D.  Thompson,  of 

the 
firm of  E.  D.  Thompson  &  Co.,  tinners, 
is dead.

Salem—John  D.  Haywood 

succeeds 
Haywood  &  McLaughlin  in  the  wagon 
business.

Byron—Ralph  Tubbs  has  bought  a 
half  interest  in M.  Comstock’s hardware 
business.

Ogden Center—L uther  King will build 
a shop  and  engage  in the blacksm ithing 
business.

Charlevoix—Kehoe’s  new  building  is 
is  being  stocked  with 

completed,  and 
groceries.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—C.  Robottom  will 
open  a fish  m arket  on  the  other side of 
the river.

Blissfield—F.  J.  Stein & Co. is the style 
of  the firm  succeeding  F* J.  Stein in the 
shoe business.

Corunna—Clarence  Kellogg  and L.  M. 
Chase  succeed W. R.  Chapell  in the  gro­
cery business.

Fremont—Richard Purdy has  removed 
his  grocery stock to Applegoss  Corners, 
near Lake P.  O.

Jackson—Jacob  Adams  has  sold  his 
tobacco and confectionery  establishm ent 
to Edward  E.  Cross.

Hudson—L.  C.  Garrison  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to A.  Garrison,  who  con­
tinues the  business.

Lisbon—Nelson  F.  Miller  and  Henry 
Rosenberger have engaged in the agricul­
tural implement  business.

Jackson—Butterfield  &  Eddy 

the 
style of the firm  succeeding P.  R.  B utter­
field  in tha grocery business.

Kalamazoo—Joseph  Weaver,  of 

the 
firm  of  W eaver  &  Co.,  dealers  in  wall 
paper and stationery,  is dead.

is 

Battle  Creek—The  clothing  firm  of 
J.  M. 

J.  M.  *fc L.  Jacobs  has  dissolved. 
Jacobs  continues the business.

Battle Creek—The boot  and  shoe  firm 
of  Dudley &  Dell  has  dissolved,  L.  A. 
Dudley continuing  the business.

Big  Rapids—Eugene  McGregor  suc­
ceeds G.  W.  W arren in the hardware  and 
agricultural implement business.

Evart—Mark Ardis  is  having  his  up­
town store painted  and  overhauled,  and 
will put  in  a new stock of  goods.

Altona—Eli  Lyons  succeeds  Frye  & 
Lyons in the drug  and  grocery business. 
Mr.  Frye has removed to Brinton.

Owosso—J.  C.  W illiams  will  remove 
his stock of  boots  and  shoes  to  Laings- 
burg while building  his new store.

Lake  Odessa—R.  Alden  has  placed  a 
stock of  organs and sewing  machines  in 
the  rooms  lately  occupied by J.  H.  Gib­
bons.

Clarksville—L.  A.  Scoville,  formerly 
engaged  in  the  hardware  business,  has 
engaged in the grocery  and  harness  bus­
iness.

Ogden  Center—A.  Pence  has  pur­
chased J.  N.  King’s  blacksmith shop and 
will remodel  the  building for store pur­
poses.

Frem ont—Frank  Boone 

and  C.  E. 
Pearson  have  purchased  the  North way 
hardware  stock  and  will  continue 
the 
business.

Sheridan—The  firm  of  DeCan & Fran­
cis,  dealers  in  general merchandise,  has 
dissolved.  Mr.  Francis  continues 
the 
business.

Shelby—Frank  Gardner  has  left 

the 
employ of  E.  B.  Gaylord and  is  looking 
for a location to engage in the  hardware 
business.

Big Rapids—Jam es  Smith  w ill  repair 
the  building  recently  vacated  by Capt- 
M artin  Oleson  and  occupy  it  w ith  his 
grocery stock.

Traverse  City—Charles  Levinson,  of 
Jennings,  will open  a stock of  dry goods 
and  ladies’  and men’s  furnishing  goods 
early in  May.

Ironton  —  Malcomb  McDonald  has 
rented R. Miller’s building,  on  the  west 
side of  the ferry,  and will move his stock 
of  goods into it.

Reed  City—Frank  Jersey’s  clothing 
store  was  entered  by burglars  A pril 24 
and  several  hundred  dollars’  worth  of 
goods carried  away.

Muskegon—Hagan  & Solheim will con­
duct  the  grocery business  formerly car­
ried  on  by  Haven  &  Solheim,  the  old 
firm having  dissolved.

Fennville—W.  A.  Swarts  &  Son  are 
building  an  addition to their drug store, 
a portion of  which  will  be  occupied  by 
the jew elry stock of  Raven & Swarts.

Rockford—E.  E.  Hewitt made  the  fol­
lowing shipments during  the  past  year:
5.000 pounds butter, 10,000 pounds grapes,
8.000 dozen  eggs,  1,675  barrels  apples, 
40 casks  cider,  10  casks  vinegar,  6,000 
pounds honey,  100 bushels  beans,  15,600 
bushels potatoes,  besides peaches,  pears, 
onions and other produce.

Cheboygan—Swift  Brothers’  sawmill 

started up A pril 22 for the season.

Summit—All the mills of Summit have 

begun running except the grist  mill.

Needmore—Win.  Crist  has  closed  his 

sawmill in order to m arket his lumber.

Muskegon—The  Muskegon  Chemical 
Engine Co.’s factory is nearly completed.
Oviatt—Lardie & Co. have repaired the 
DeGraw grist mill and have  begun  oper­
ations.

Cadillac—Cobbs,  Mitchell  &  Co.  and 
Clary  & Eaton have  begun running their 
m ills nights.

South  Arm—The saw and shingle mill 
of  George C.  Sweet was destroyed by fire 
on April 22.

L uther — L uther  &  Nichol’s  shingle 
mill burned A pril 25.  Loss  $2,500,  with 
no insurance.

Springport—R.  B.  Hoag succeeds C. H. 
W eldon  &  Co.  in  the  m anufacture  of 
sash,  doors  and blinds.

Muskegon—Nick  Schmidt  has  bought 
the  Muskegon  Bottling  W orks  of  the 
Muskegon Brewing Co.

Plainw ell—The m illing firm of  Bliss & 
Easley  has  dissolved.  Pinghley & Eas­
ley continue the business.

North Muskegon—A.  N.  Lane is build­
ing a  sawmill  large  enough to accommo­
date  a lathe and shingle machine.

Elk Rapids—The Elk  Rapids Manufac­
turing Co.  has engaged  in  the  manufac­
ture of  birch beer and carbonated drinks.
Owosso—The  opening  of  a  machine 
shop to m anufacture portable  steam  en­
gines is in contemplation by outside  par­
ties.

Ionia—The  Michigan  Overall  Co.  has 
absorbed  a  Chicago  overall,  pant  and 
shirt factory and  moved  the  machinery 
here.

Muskegon—The  Gray  Bros.  Manufac­
turing Co.  has  started a lumber  yard  at 
the corner of W ebster avenue  and Spring 
street.

Rondo—Bay  City  and  East  Saginaw 
parties have bought the  lumber in  M.  W. 
Pike’s  yard and  will  begin shipping the 
stock this week.

Cheshire—W.  L.  Torrey’s  shingle mill 
burned  A pril 23.  The  engine  and  ma­
chinery  were  saved.  Loss,  $200.  The 
m ill will be  rebuilt,

Muskegon—The Thayer  Lumber  Co.’s 
mills  started  up for the season A pril 25. 
The shingle part in the  big  mill  will be 
ready for operation soon.

Detroit—The Ham ilton Fabric Package 
Co.  has been  incorporated  with a capital 
stock of  $25,000  by  A rthur  Barnard,  B. 
Hanchett,  F.  R.  Potter and  M.  A.  Hamil­
ton.

Jackson—Weeks  &  Co.  have  merged 
their drug business into  a stock company 
under the  style  of the  W eeks  Drug  and 
Chemical Co. 
The  capital  stock is $15,- 
000,  all  paid  in.

Bear Lake—The  Hopkins M anufactur­
ing Co.  recently sold to  a Benton  Harbor 
concern about 3,000,000  feet of  hemlock, 
to be cut to  order  early in the season,  at 
about $7.50 delivered.

South  Haven—The  main  building  of 
the  Novelty M anufacturing  Co.  will  be 
50x80 feet in dimensions  and  two stories 
high.  The  engine  house  and  dry kilns 
will occupy as much more space.

Detroit—W illiam  B.  Moran,  President; 
Jam es A.  Randall, Vice-President;  James 
A.  Phelps,  Secretary,  and  Ralph Phelps, 
Jr.,  Treasurer,  are  the  officers  of 
the 
Cole Conduit Co.,  which  filed  articles of 
incorporation A pril 25.

Northyille—The  Globe  drill  plant, 
which has been idle for a long  time,  has 
been purchased by W.  I.  Ely,  of  Detroit, 
who is now remodeling the establishm ent 
preparatory to opening  a  branch  of  his 
Detroit doweling works.

Detroit—The  organization  of  a  stock 
company to buy the  plant  and  business 
of  the Craighead  & Kintz  M anufacturing 
Co.,  engaged 
the  m anufacture  of 
bronze  articles  at  Andover,  Mass.,  and 
move it here is  under  advisement.  The 
plant is worth $600,000.

in 

Muskegon—The  Muskegon  Chemical 
Engine Co.  has  bought  its  engines  and 
machinery  in  Chicago,  and  will  have 
them shipped and placed in position here 
in  the  factory  at  once.  The  Turnbull 
Boiler W orks  is making the boiler.  The 
factory is  fast  getting  in  readiness  for 
business  and  will  soon  be in operation 
w ith a good start  for orders.

Cadillac—The  Ducey  Lumber  Co.  will 
put in 21,500,000 feet of logs from Missau- I 
kee county this season,  and will have them 
all  banked by July 1.  They are propor­
tioned  60  per  cent,  white  pine,  30  per 
cent.  Norway and  10  per  cent,  hemlock. 
Concerning the present  season,  the com­
pany  rem arks:  “Very good  logging  has | 
been  done  at  least  20  per cent,  cheaper 
than last season.”

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Eastmanville  — The  sawmill  started 

A prill 23.

Oviatt—Lardie & Co.  have nearly com­

pleted their sawmill.

Stevensburg—The  Stevensburg  saw­

mill has begun  operations.

Muskegon—A  shirt  factory  has  been 

opened at 40 Terrace street.  ‘

Adrian—Orson  Knight,  of  the  milling 

firm of  Knight & Son.  is dead.

Ionia—W ork is progressing  rapidly on 

Steele & Gorham’s new  sawmill.

Cheboygan—Smith  &  Daly  expect  to 

start up their sawmill this  week.

Cadillac — Jas.  Haynes  &  Sons  are 
building a dry  kiln  which  will  have  a 
capacity of  36,000  feet. 
It is for drying 
pine  and  hardwood lumber for retailing. 
The same firm  has  contracted to build  a 
planing mill  at Brookings, on the Chicago 
&  W est  Michigan,  midway  between 
W hite Cloud  and Baldwin,  and to have it 
running  by  the  middle  of  July.  The 
mill’s capacity will be 150,000 feet a day, 
and it will do custom work for the Brook­
ings Lumber Co. and other m anufacturers 
of  the  extensive  tract  of  pine  in  that 
section.  The  Cadillac  mill  will  be  op­
erated as heretofore.

Muskegon—Most  of  the  mills  on  the 
Lake  are  now  running.  Ryerson,  Hills 
&  Co.’s  m ill  in  the  city and  their Bay 
mill  will hot start until logs are obtained. 
P.  P.  Leonard’s  m ill will also commence 
operations soon.  The C.  D.  Nelson mill, 
at the  “ m outh,”  will  not be  in operation 
this  summer unless the property is sold.
Ishpeming—The  necessary  cash  has 
been  subscribed by business  men  and a 
new  industry will  be  established in the 
shape of  the Vulcan  steel  welding man­
ufactory.  The process to be employed is 
,the invention and patent of  H.  G.  Hieks, 
of  Concord,  N.  H. 
It has  the  quality of 
making  steel  weld  as easily  as iron  and 
renders old  steel as good as new.

Manistee—Since  the  excitement  about 
oil from the salt  wells  has  subsided, we 
have had little talk of  anything but lum­
ber  and  salt,  but 
the  last  few  weeks 
there  has  been  a constant flow of  gas  at 
the  Rietz  well,  the  pressure  of  which 
was good and the supply unlimited.  They 
had it tested, found  it pure,  and  there is 
some talk of  forming a company to  util­
ize the flow in some manner.

tobacco. 

Detroit—Daniel Scotten has decided  to 
use the whole of  the present  factory  at 
the corner  of  Fort  and  Campau  streets 
for the m anufacture of  fine-cut  chewing 
and cut smoking tobaccos,  and will erect 
on Campau street,in the rear of the pres­
ent factory,  a new building for the  man­
ufacture  of  plug 
The  new 
building will be 80 x 140 feet, four stories 
and basement,  and will  cost  about  $35,- 
000. 
D raw back’s  in  the  Shoe  Clerk’s  Life.
“I  am  in  no  sen3e  a bicker,”  said  a 
Monroe  street  shoe  clerk,  the other day, 
“ but I am  frank  to admit  that  we  earn 
our salaries. 
It’s not the  long  hours  or 
the monotony of  the work  that brings us 
to  an  early grave,  so  much  as  it is the 
petty worrim ent  caused  by our  custom­
ers.

It will  be commenced this week.

“If  people  only  knew  w hat 

they 
wanted  and  would  say  so,  the  work 
would  be  nothing.  B ut  not  one  in  a 
hundred  does.  They  come  in  and  say 
they  want  to  buy a pair  of  shoes.  We 
ask  w hat style  and size.  They hem and 
haw,  and end by requesting  to be shown 
a few.  The  few 
to  a  great 
many.  The more shoes we pull from the 
shelves  and  try  on  the  customers,  the 
more unsettled  they  seem to get.

increases 

“We  always  do  our level best to help 
them  in  their  choice,  and  advise  them 
what  shoe is best  suited  to their wants. 
But,  if  you  will  believe  it,  this  almost 
invariably  makes  them  suspicious  and 
they  are  apt  to  choose  a  shoe  about 
which we have said nothing.  They think 
we  try to  ‘stick’  them  with  an  inferior 
article.  Of  course,  we  don’t,  as  such a 
proceeding would injure  trade.

leave  and  say 

“ B ut  even  this  is  better  than  when 
they 
they  don’t  think 
they’ll purchase  to-day—they were  only 
‘looking around.’  In  this case,  they have 
ju st wasted  their time,  and we have had 
our  labor for our pains. 
It may take  us 
half  an  hour 
to  pu t  the  shoes  away 
again properly.”

C ollapse  o f  th e  O atm eal  Com bination.
A Cedar Rapids  dispatch  thus  chron­
icles  the  abandonment  of  the  oatmeal 
pool:

It has leaked out  that  the  m eeting of 
the officers of  the  Oatmeal  Trust,  with 
the owners of  certain mills that are idle, 
held in this city early in the week,  was a 
stormy one,  and ended  in the  avowed de­
term ination  of 
the  idle  mills  to  start 
again,  each looking out for its own inter­
est.  When  the pool was  formed,  nearly 
three years ago,  the mills at Yonkers,  N. 
Y.,  Joliet  and  Rochelle,  111.,  and  Des 
Moines,  Cedar Falls and Sioux City, Iowa, 
were given a bonus  as  high  as $12,000  a 
year,  in some  cases,  to  remain idle,  and 
oatmeal went up from $3.75 per barrel to 
$5.50.  There were fifty-one mills  in  the 
United States  at the time,  but  the  num­
ber has  increased  to  fifty-five,  and  the 
tax on  the operating m ills had become so 
burdensome that they  refused  longer  to 
pay 
the  form er  bonus,  but  offered  a 
smaller consideration.  This was refused 
by the owners of  the  idle  mills  at  Des 
Moines and Cedar  Falls,  and  the  latter 
have announced,  it is alleged,  that  their 
product will  be ready  for  m arket  again 
May 15.  The  other  mills  will  follow, 
and the old war  will  be renewed.

“ C onspicuous  for  Its  C onfusion.”
A Port Huron  dispatch,  under date of 

April 19,  notes the following:

A State organization of  the Patrons  of 
Industry was organized here to-day, with 
these  officers: 
President,  Franklin  S. 
Porter,  of North  Branch,  Lapeer county; 
Vice President,  ex-Representative  A.  S. 
Partridge,  of Flushing,  Genesee  county; 
Secretary, Peter Scott, of Romeo, Macomb 
county;  Treasurer.  J.  J.  England,  of 
Tuscola county;  Sentinel. Henry Daniels, 
of  Tuscola  county. 
The  meeting  was 
conspicuous only  for  its  confusion,  this 
arising  from  charges  of  treachery,  and 
the predictions by some members  of  the 
early downfall of the order.  The  object 
of the society  is to  band  the members to­
gether in unions  pledged  to  trade  with 
only  one  m erchant  in  each  town,  that 
m erchant  to sell to them at reduced rates, 
and to take their produce,  etc.,  in  pay, 
at the best going  prices.

W ill Run  to M uskegon.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n  has received  a  com­
munication  from the  Burns  Transporta­
tion Co.,  of  Escauaba,  stating that it  has 
been  decided 
the 
southern term inal point of  its new  line, 
instead  of  Manistee.  This will be  wel­
come news to the cities  on  W hite  Lake, 
to Muskegon and Grand  Bapids  jobbers.

to  make  Muskegon 

W ool,  Hide and  T allow   M arket.

The 

The  wool  m arket 

is  drooping  and 
large  blocks  of  heavy­
lower. 
weight cloths carried over  begin  to  tell 
on  the  price  of  the  raw  article.  Last 
year  m anufacturers  paid  a higher  price 
for wool than during  the  previous  year, 
and  sold  cloths  at  less  money,  whieh 
they do  not  care  to repeat  again,  while 
the  jobbers  have  large  stocks  of  cloth 
and are in no hurry  to place  new orders. 
It is too early to give  prices  on the com­
ing clip, but the  outlook  is  for no higher 
prices than last  year.

For hides,  there  is  no  demand  and no 
sales. 
In the  absence of  orders or sales, 
we feel  like  withdrawing all  quotations, 
and,  at best,  m ust  consider  them  nom­
inal.  The  failures  in  the trade are un­
precedented, and tend to unsettle  securi- 
^ ties  which  were  considered  the  best.
| U ntil banks can be assured  that  tanners 
j  are realizing a profit for their work,  they 
will question all  calls for money and cur­
tail  lines  of  credit.  These  works  can­
not  step,  nor  is  it  necessary,  but  the 
bankers  will  force  values  down on the 
raw  hides  until  tanners  find  a profit in 
working them.  Consequently,  “dull and 
| lower”  only partly expresses the market.
Tallow is quiet and lower, in sympathy 

w ith the general line.

Furs are  in fair demand.

G ripsack  B rigade.

O.  A.  Taggart  and  M.  H.  Hawkins 
have gone on the road for Geo. H. Reader 
& Co.

L.  M.  Mills spent Sunday at Blanchard, 
looking over his stock of coffins, watches, 
clocks and toothache drops.

Jack McDonald,  the  well-known  trav­
eling man,  has purchased  the G.  B.  Gris­
wold boot and shoe stock at Grand Ledge.
Geo.  F.  Owen  has  been  laid  up for a 
week  as  the  result  of  a  sprained  leg, 
sustained  at  Alma.  George could stand 
most  any bodily  affliction except  a dislo­
cation of the  tongue.  T hat would  break 
his heart.

P urely  P ersonal.

G.  H.  Spencer,  the  Rockford  grocer, 

was in town Monday.

F.  L.  Burdick,  the  W indsor  general 
dealer,  was  in  town  a  couple  of  days 
last week.

Geo.  E.  Marvin,  the  Clarksville  hard 
ware  dealer,  was  in  town  last  Friday 
He  has  lately moved  into  a house of  his 
own.

Wm.  H.  Hoops  has returned  from  the 
U pper Peninsula,  where  he succeeded in 
accomplishing  two  weeks’  work  w ithin 
the space of  a single week.

A nything  to  B eat  the  Farm er.

The  farm er is now  induced to become 
an  agent  for  a  hay  fork  manufacturer, 
and,  ju st as a m atter of  form,  to  make it 
more binding,  as it  were,  he  signs a doc 
um ent  too  long  to  be  readily read  and 
sim ultaneously incurs  an  obligation  of  a 
couple  of  hundred  dollars.  This  de­
scribes the  latest  trap  that  stands open 
for the unwary.

Sligh tly  Profane.

W aiter—Have some Edam  cheese with 
Drummer—Yes,  Edam  or  any  other 

your dessert ?
d—  cheese.

“Our Knocker”  cigars  are  sold  by all 
first-class  dealers.  M.  H.  Treusch  & 
Bro.  supply the trade.

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED,  ETC. 

^^LdtQrSsemente^wuTbelnserteYunderThis^headfor
two  cents  a  word  the  first  insertion  and  one cent a 
word  for  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
m ent taken for less than 25 cents.  Advance  payment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

F. Gardner, St. Johns, Mich. 

brick store to rent;  good location.  Inquire of W. 
tig

F OR SALE—GROCERY  AND  BAZAAR  STOCK,  AND 
FOR  SALE — SMALL  STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE;
IX>R  SALE—IN  CENTRAL  MICHIGAN—STOCK  OF 

cash required, $500;  a good living and some more; 
can be  extended;  correspondence  solicited.  Box  11, 
Forest HU1, Mich. 

.  drugs, medicines  and  fixtures,  valued  at  $1,200; 
daily cash sales,  $15;  also  store  building,  storehouse 
and residence combined, valued at $800; reasons, other 
business.  Address, No. 420,  care Michigan Tradesman.

no

Fo r 8a l e —d r u g  sto c k a n d  p r a c t ic e in   w e st-

ern Michigan;  an  unusual bargain for a physician 
and druggist;  reason for  selling,  change  of  climate; 
terms  reasonable.  Address  No.  423,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

423

420

H E L P   W A N TED .

"ITTANTED—REGISTERED  PHARMACIST FOR COCN- 
TI 
try town.  Address  No. 424. care Michigan Trades­
man. 

424

SITU A TIO N S  W A N T E D .

W ANTED-REGISTERED  PHARMACIST.  GERMAN 
preferred.  Must  be  temperate  and  w illing  to 
work in general  store.  Bert  M.  Brown,  Stevensville, 
418
Mich. 
\TTANTED—SITUATION  AS  BOOK-KEEPER  BY MAN 
" f  
of eight years’ experience, who is fam iliar  with 
general  merchandise.  Address  A.  E.  Chambers.  95 
Monroe Street, Grand Rapids,  Mich. 

407

M ISCELLANEOUS.

421

YTTANTED—FRESH,  LIGHT,  BANKRUPT  STOCK OF 
VV  general merchandise;  terms  cash;  correspond­
ence confidential.  Address,  O. D. Cleveland, Stanton, 
Mich. 
‘VIT’ANTED—AGENTS IN EVERY  TOWN  AND  TOWN- 
f i  
ship in the United  States;  it  is  bright,  shining 
and new, and sells on sight;  everybody want-» it;  one 
agent cleared $118 last week  in  six  days;  another, $98 
in five days 
If you are  open  for  a  good  thing,  and 
mean business, address, for particulars,  W.  L.  -Harris 
& Co.. 5i and 52 Porter Block, Grand Rapids, Mich.
422
■ O EXCHANGE—I  HAVE  A  NEW,  BRIGHT,  WELL- 
selected little stock of  hardware to exchange for 
a farm  or  city  real  estate.  Address  No.  401,  care 
401
Michigan Tradesman. 
T   HAVE  SOME  FIRST-CLASS  PROPERTY,  WELL 
X  
improved  and  nicely  located,  in  South  Dakota; 
also  some other  property  to  exchange  for a stock of 
goods.  J. C. McKee, 23 Fountain  St. 
T IT  ANTED—TO  EXCHANGE — PRODUCTIVE  REAL 
? Y  estate in the  thriving village of Bailey on the  C. 
& W. M  Railway for house  and  lot  in  Grand  Rapids, 
worth  about  $1,500.  Address,  D.  B.  Galentine.  Cas­
no via, Mich. 
TTTANTED—1,000 MORE  MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR 
V Y 
Improved Coupon  Pass  Book System.  Send for 
samples.  E. A. Stowe <fc  Bro., Grand Rapids. 

the most pleasant streets “on  the  hill.”  Will ex­
change for stock in any good Institution.  Address 286, 
care Mich gan Tradesman. 

FOR  SALE—GOOD  RESIDENCE  LOT  ON  ONE  OF 
WANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  READS 

this  paper  to  give  the Sutliff  coupon system a 
trial.  It will abolish your pass  books,  do  away  with 
all your book-keeping, in  many instances save you the 
expense of one clerk, will bring your business  down to 
a  cash basis and  save  yon  all  the  worry and trouble 
that usually go with the pass-book plan.  Start the 1st 
of the month with the new  system and  von  will never 
regret it.  Having  two kinds, both  kinds  will be  sent 
by  addressing  (mentioning  this  paper)  J.  H.  Sutliff, 
Albany, N. Y. 

892

286

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372

214

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Product of Our Factory  at  Dixon,  111.

In view of the fact that we  have  GREATLY  INCREASED  our  FACILITIES 
for MANUFACTURING in OUR THREE  FACTORIES and owing to the PECULIAR 
and CLOSE COMPETITION existing in MICHIGAN,  C.  M. Henderson  &  Co.  have 
concluded  to MAKE A DECIDED CUT ON VARIOUS LINES of our  goods,  which 
will  ENABLE  ME  to  make  it  to  YOUR  ADVANTAGE to purchase your stock 
NEARER HOME the coming fall season.

Our LADIES’  FIN E GOAT,  DONGOLA,  GLOVE  and OIL GRAINS to retail at 
$2,  and FINER GRADES of  GOATS and DONGOLAS,  which consumers can buy at 
$2.50 and $3.00,  together with the MEDIUM PRICED lines of MEN’S  CALF,  DON­
GOLA,  and  KANGAROO  Shoes  of  our  own  make,  and  all having the MERIT of 
SOLIDITY  and  STYLE—w ith  satisfaction  guaranteed—will  be  worthy  your 
CAREFUL  CONSIDERATION. 
Our  heavier  grades  of  SPLIT,  GRAIN,  KIP, 
VEAL,  and CALF  BOOTS  are  UNEQUALED,  and  the  “Celebrated  Red  School 
House Shoes”  AS USUAL takes the  “ First Place.”

G. M. HENDERSON  l  GO.,  Ghicago.

Headquarters for the Celebrated W ales Goodyear Rubber Goods

F o n d  d u  L ac, W is

F a c to r ie s:
D ixon,  111.

W illa r d   H .  J a m e s,
th e   D ow er  P e n in su la .
Salesm an  fo r 

P. O.  address,

Morton  H ouse,  Grand  Bapids,  M ich.
W e  furnish  electrotypes  of  our  Specialties  to  Customers.

C hicago,  111.

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in   its  rich n ess  and  d elica cy   o f flavor.  Ju stly  ca lled   T h e  A ristocratic 
Coffee  of  A m erica.  A lw a y s pack ed   w h o le   ro a sted   (unground)  in  2  lb. 
air-tigh t tin   ca n s.
/M T > T T C I  A 
A   sk ilfu l b len d in g o f strong, fla-
JL#  vo ry   and  arom atic  h ig h   grade
I j JO i aJ j a A U ig i 
coffees.  W arranted n o t to   con tain   a   sin g le   Rio  b ean,  and guaran teed  to  
su it  y ou r  ta ste   a s  n o  other  coffee  w ill,  a t  a   m oderate  price.  A ’w a y s 
p acked w h o le  ro a sted  (unground),  in   1 lb.  air-tight  parchm ent p ack ages.
T e ll  us  th a t  th e ir   coffee  tra d e   h a s 
d o u b led  an d  tre b le d  since b u y in g  a n d  
W h at  i t   h as  d one  fo r  th e m   I t  w ill do fo r you.  S end fo r

RETAIL GROCERS

T U T  

se llin g   o n r  coffees, 
sam p les to

CHJLSE,  <£  SAJXBORN,

BROAD  STREET,

BOSTON,  MASS.

W estern  Department:
80  Franklin  St..  Chicago.

HERBERT  T.  CHASE,
M ichigan  and  Northern  Ohio,

Representative for

G R A N D   R A P ID S .

L IO N
COFFEE

Merchants,

YOU  W A N T  THIS CABINET

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

Are in use all  over the land. 
I t  does  away  with  the  unsightly barrels so 
often  seen  on  the  floor  of  the  average  grocer.  Beautifully grained and 
varnished  and  pu t  together  in  the  best  possible  manner. 
Inside each 
cabinet will be found one complete set of castors w ith screws.

Euery  Wide - Awake  Merchant

Should  Certainly  Sell

LION, THE  KING  OF  G0FFEE8.

An  Article  of Absolute  Merit.

I t 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 U nited States.

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

W oolson  Spice  Co.,

TOLEDO,  OHIO.

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

Ä8S0BIITI0N  DEPARTMENT.

M ichigan  Busin«»»  M an’»  A ssociation. 

President—Frank Well«, Lansing.
Firat vlce-President—H. Chanber*. Ohaboygan.
Second Viee-Freiident—C. Strong. Kalamazoo. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapida.

° S ? â ,ï ;s â
^ ^ ^ i s S S S ^ h ^ S S X

H-

L o T a f s e e r e t e ^ J ^ ò n n e ll,  Muskegen.
p u l c i a i  O r g a n —T h e  Mic h ig a n  fraAPEBMAN.______________ _
The following  auxiliary associations  are op­
eratin g  under  ch arters  g ranted  by th e Michi­
g an Business Men’s A ssociation:

'  

Ho. 1—T rav erse ctty B. M. A. 

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

President. M. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King^ 

No. 2—L o w sll  B. M. A. 
No. 3—S tu rg is B. M. A.

President. H. S. Ohnrch; Secretary, Wm. Jom .-----

No.  4 —G ran d   R ap id s  M.  A.
President. E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.--------
•------------« o   5__M uskegon B.  M. A.
President, John A. Müler;  Secretary. C. L. W hitney.
--------Ño. 6—A lb a B. M. A.
-President. F. W. Rinat: Secretary. P. T. Baldwin^ 

"  No.  7—D im o n d ale B. M. A. 

President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, S- H. Widger^

No. 8—E a s tp o rt B. M. A.
No. 9—L aw ren ce B. M. A.

President, F. H. T h nrsfn: Secretary, Geo. L. Thnrston. 
'  
President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, 
' 
President^W. J. Clark; Secretary. A. L. Thompson.-----
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President. H. P. Whipple; Secretary, P- Wynkoop.
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President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon.-----------

Mo  lO — H a r b o r  s p rin g s B .   M -   A .
"  N o .l l—K ingsley B.

Ño. 12—Q niney B. M. A.

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t
N o .  1 4

V. Crandall;  Secretary, W. Rasoo.

President, I
President, S. A. Howey ; Secretary

President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase^ 
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President, J-

No. M uskegon B. M. A.
~  C. Harens.
Ñ o T iA ^ t t ó y n ^ C lt j   B .  M . A . 
Ño.  16—Sand L ak e B. M. A.
17_P U iu w e il B. M. A.
.  Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
_____ _______ _— ,
3ÍO  18-OW*»M B. M, Ae
No.  19—A da  B. M. A
o. a * —S au g atu ek   M M. A.
N
No. a 1—W ay la n d  B.

“  Ä».
President, E. A 
' 
President,  Albert Todd; Secretary. S. Lamfro a t ^
----------- 
President, P. F. Watson; Secretary, E. «■ ChapeL_
Henry ; Secretary. L. A.  rhelpe.

President, John F

President, C. H 
President. A. B. Schumacher; Seeretary.W .  B.  Clarke.

N o .  2 8 —B r a n d   L e d g e   B . M . A . 

Wharton; Searetary» M. ▼.
______ __________— _

N o . 23—C a r so n  C ity

President, F. A. R o c k a fallow; Secretary, C. »• B*U*L-

N o   24—N # rU r 4 .  Ä« A- 

t, J.  E. Thurkow;  Sacretarr. W. H. Rlehmoad.

No. 25—P u l*  **■ * •  A*
D. Pew; Secretary, Okas. B. Johnson.
J. Clark.

* 
No. 26—O re e iT llle  B
President. A. C. Sarterlee;  Secretary,

’ 

N o   » 7 —D o r r   B . M .  A . 

President, E. S. Boteford; Secretary, L- N. FUBer. 
“ 
N o .  2 8 —C b e b e y g a n   B . M .  A
Paddock;  Secretary, H. 6 . Poser. 
President,
F r e e p o r t  B. Ä .  A.
No. 29
President, Wm. Moore Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrongk.
No. 30—O ceana B. M. A- 
President. A. G .Arery;  Wecretarr. « . S. Honghtaling.
-----------Ñ o . 31—C h arlo tte   B. M. A.
President, Thos. J. Green;  Secretary. A. Q- Flenry.------

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

No. 32_C oopereville B. S L A
Ño. 33—C h arlev o ix   B. M. A. 

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

" 

President, H. T.'Johnson;  Secretary. P. T. William».—
____
President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary,C. K. Pensmor*.

N o   3 4 —H aran ac  B .  M .  A..
No.  3 5 —B e llâ tre   B. M . A. 
No. 36—Ith a c a   B.  M. A.

President, O. F. Jackson;  Secretary ■ John  M. Mrerden.

No. 37—B a ttle  C roek B. M .A . 

President,  Ohaa. F  Bock;  S e c r e ta r y ,  E .  W. Moore.-------
------------ No. 38—S co ttv ille B.  M. A
President. H. E. Symons: Secretary, D  W. Higgln*.-----
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No. 39—B u rr O ak B. M. A.
President, W. S. Wilier; Secretary,  F. W. Sheldon.-------

No. 40—E a to n  R apid» B . B . A.
No. 4 l —B reck en rid g *   B . M. A.

President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert.-------
" 
President, C  H. Howd;  Secretary, L. Waggoner.---------

N o .  4 2 — F r e m o n t  B. M  A . 

President, Jos. Gerber:  Secretary  C. J. Rathbon.

Ño. 43 —T u stin  B. M. A.

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

No. 4 4 —R eed C ity B. M- A.
No. 45—H o y tv ille B. M. A.

President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smitn.
' 
President, D. E. Hallenbeok; Secretary, O. A. Hallaoay. 
'  
President, Wm. Hntchins; Secretary, B. M. Goaia.
' 
President, W. C. Pierce;  Secretary, W. H. Graham.-----

No. 46—L e s lie  B. M. A.
~No.  47—Flint  M.  U.

No. 48—H u b b ard sto n   B. M. A.

President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.______

President,  A.  Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith.______

No.  49—L eroy  B  M.  A.
No. 50—M anistee B. M. A. 

E. Fitzgerald.

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

President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary,C.  Grannis.
No. 51—C edar  S prings  B .  M.  A. 
No. 52—G rand H a re n  B. M. A, 
President, A. S. Kedzie;  Secretary, F. D. Vos. 
“  
President, Frank Phelps;  Secretary.

President, Thomas B. Dntcher;  Secretary, C. B. Waller. 
' 
President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary, A. C. Bowman.

No, 5 3 —B ellev u e B . M. A
No. 54—D ouglas B. M. A.
No.  55—P etesk ey   B. M. A.
No. 56—B an g o r  B.  M.  A.
N. W. Drake ;  Secretary, Geo. Chapman.
No. 57—R o ck fo rd   B. M. A. 
N o . 58—F ife  L ak e B. M. A. 
N o . 5 9 —F e n n v i ll e  B. M. A. 
S outh B o ard m an  B. M. 
N o . 6 0  
Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt.
President, H. 1
No.  61 —H a rtfo rd   B. M. A. 
President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes
No. 62—E a st Saginaw  M . A . 
President, Jas. H  .Moore;  Secretary,  C. W. Mnlholand.

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

President, L. S. Walter; Secreta n  ,C-S  Blakely.

President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen.

President, C. V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell._________ _

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

No. 63—K v art  B. M. A.
No. 64—M e r r ill B. M. A . 
No. 65—K a lk ask a  B. M. A.
No. 66—L an sin g  B. M.  A .

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

President. Frank Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.

No. 67—W a te rv lie t  B. M. A. 

President. W. L. Garrett: Secretary, F.  H.  Merrifleld.

No. 68—A llegan B. M. A.

President. H. H.  Pope;  Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.

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

President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers._______
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President, M. Netzorg;  Secretary,  Geo. E. Clutterbuck.

No.  70—N ash v ille  B, Jl. A, 
No. 7 1 —A sh ley   B.  M.  A .
No. 72—E d m o re B. M. A.
N o ,  7 3 —B e l d in g   B . M .  A . 

President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster.

N o .  7 4 — D a v is o n   M .  U . 

President, J.  F. Cartwright;  Secretary. L. Gifford.

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

President, Oscar P. Bills;  Secretary, F. Rosacrans.

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

President, S. S. McCamly;  Secretary.  Chauncey Strong.

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

President, E. J. Lockwood; Secretary, Volney Ross.

N o . 7 8 —<  a l* -d o n ia   B .  M .  A . 

President, J. O. Seibert;  Secretary, J. W. Saunders.
N o .  7 9 —
President, Chas. F. Dixon;  Secretary, L. C. Madison. 
N o 7 8 0 —B a y  C ity  a n d   W .  B a y   C ity   R . M , A . 
President, F. L. Harrison;  Secretary. Geo. Craig.

J o r t a n  s i» l   *s>-  A r m   B .  M . A , 

N o .  8 1 —F lu s h in g   B .  M . A . 

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

N o .  8 2 —A lm a   B   M . 
President,B. S. Webb;  Secretary, M. E

A.
Pollasky.

N o   8 3 —S h e r w o o d  B .  M . A . 

President, L- P. Wilcox;  Secretary. W. R. Mandigo.

President. P.  M. Angus; Secretary, D. W. Richardson.

N o . 8 4 —S t a n s lls h   B . M . A .  „ 

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President. J. M. Beeman;  Secretary, C. H. May.

N o - 8 5 —C lio   B . M . A . 

Blanchard—Stevens & Fancher succeed 

Stevens & Peak in the drug business.

A ssociation   N otes.

Muskegon News:  The question of the forma­
tion of a m utual insurance company, w ith head­
quarters at Muskegon, will  probably be decided 
Wednesday evening at the meeting of  the  Busi­
ness  Men’s  Association.  The  Insurance  Com­
mittee digested  the  replies  of  the  members  to 
questions  regarding  their  insurance  and  will 
present the result at the  meeting.  Every  mem­
ber who carries insurance is urged by  the  Asso­
ciation to be present.

Hudson G azette:  In answer to an enquiry, the 
Secretary of the Hudson  Business Man’s Associ­
ation has w ritten  L. G.  & E. T. Smith, m anufac­
turers  in  wood  at  McComb.  Ohio,  that  soft 
maple, basswood and  black  ash  timber  can  be 
found in abundance  in  this  locality, at from $7 
to $10 p»r thousand, delivered  at  the  saw  mill. 
The Messrs. Smith  were  assured  that  no  more 
feasible  point,  as  regards  shipping  facilities, 
could be found for an industry like  theirs  than 
Hudson.  The Association expects to  hear  from 
the gentlemen again.
A  Y ear’s  W ork  b y  the  S outh  H aven 

B.  M.  A.
South H a v e n , April 24,1889.

, 

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids;
D e a r Sir—Our annual  meeting, which should 
have been held on April  9,  was  delayed  on  ac­
count of  the  indisposition  of  your humble ser­
vant two weeks,  and  took  place  last  evening, 
with a fair attendance.  The election of officers 
for the ensuing year resulted as  follows: 

President—E. J.  Lockwood.
Vice-President—T. E. Tosapson.
Secretary—Volney Boss.
,
Treaiurer—S.-Van  Oitrand. 
Executive  Committee—E.  J.  Lockwood,  Vol­
ney Boss, L. •.  Monroe,  Jos.  H.  Johnson, M. V
Sclkork
The annual report shows good success  for  the 
initial year.  There has been over $800  collected 
by the Blae Letter, which had been given up for 
lost  About  $105  was  collected  through  the 
medium of the  W hite  Letter.  The  delinquent 
list shows $1,200 that has gone  where  the  wood­
bine tw ineth:  but  we  have  the  list  for  future 
reference and feel compensated.  We  have  had 
quite a  number  of  reinstatements  to  date  and 
more will get from under as soon as they can.
We  have,  sinee  starting,  been  successful  in 
getting  the  Novelty  Work»,  formerly  of  St. 
Joseph, to locate here, and will  be  in  operation 
this summer. 
We  have  also  secured a fire  department,  the 
i first we ever had.
We  are  now  reaching  for  another  railroad 
with good prospects.
We have thirty-eight  es good men on our rolls 
as stand up in eny  city  or  village  in  Michigan 
and three more just came in,  all  splendid  addi­
tions  Mr  Lockwood,  our President, is a very 
successful business man and w ill  very  ably  fill 
Mr  Monroe’s place, whom we disliked very much 
to lose;  but circumstances prevented his accept­
ance for this year.  Vice-President Tompson and 
Secretary Boss are also able men.
We are  proud  of  the  South  Haven  Bmsiness 
Men’s Association for w hat  it has done and will 
do for South Haven. 

Truly yours,

, 

. 

..

S.  V a n OeTBAND, Ex-Sec’y.

F lushing  T akes  E leven  Shares.

F l u sh in g, March 10,1889.

Gee. B. Caldwell, Greenville:
Dear  Sib—Enclosed you will  find  the  names 
of those taking stock in the new insurance torn- 
pany.  This is not quite our proportion, but  it  is 
the best we can do at this writing.

A .  E. R ansom,  Sec y

Respectfully, 
The list of subscribers is as follows:
L  A  Vickery & Sons, A. E. Ransom, Herriman 
& Fox, H.  H. Chatters, Perry Bros. &  Co.,  F.  A. 
Niles, Ira T. Sayre, Monroe  & Glynn, B. Turner 
Franklin P. Sayre and W. G. Sprague—one share 
each.

their 

W indow   D ressing— A  Unique  M ethod
In dressing windows,  the two  primary 
objects 
in  view  should  be  displaying 
goods and  attracting the  public.  Of  the 
two objects the  latter is undoubtedly the 
most im portant,  and,  therefore,  should 
receive  the  greater  share  of  attention 
for, if properly  and  artistically  done,  it 
can  be converted  into a most  useful and 
profitable  advertising  medium.  W hen 
dressing  a  window with  this  object  in 
view,  nearly  all authorities agree  that  it 
should be done with a view to  attracting 
the ladies and children.  To do this mean 
something  more than a mere artistic dis 
play of goods;  it means that  there  mus 
be something both  odd  and unique,  that 
will  immediately catch the eye  of  every 
passing child, call forth his or her admira 
tion or curiosity,  and  send  the  prattling 
juvenile to the  home of  the  parents  and 
friends to tell  what  Brown,  Smith & Co 
have in their window.  This,  of  course 
means that the parents m ust go  and  see 
it,  too;  but,  even if it  is  not  convenient 
to go ju st then,  depend upon it,  the curi 
osity which  permeates adults  as  well  a: 
children  will  attract 
footstep 
toward the store  which has attracted the 
child’s  attention,  when  an  opportunity 
oceurs.
The cogitation of schemes  for  the  at 
tractive dressing of windows m ust be left 
largely to the fertile  brains  of  window 
dressers,  but a true account of  the mode 
of procedure by a gentleman who has had 
considerable  experience  in  that  line  ' 
the United States,  may  m aterially  assist 
in the premises.  He  first  went  to  the 
school house and asked every  child  that 
possessed  a  doll  to  bring it to the store 
the next morning.  The  next morning he 
had a collection  of dolls num bering about 
200.  Then he made a large shoe of paste 
board and covered it with black cambric 
The largest doll he dressed up  as  an  old 
woman,  and put it  in  the  shoe.  Holes 
were next made in  the shoe,  and  out  of 
each was  thrust  the  head  of one of the 
dolls. 
In  the  background  dolls  were 
strung  from  one  side  of the window to 
the  other.  He  then  put a sign  in  the 
window  reading: 
“Can  you  find  your 
doll?”  and another reading:  “ A new lot 
of towels that will sell for 25 cents a pair. 
Don’t you want a pair of them?”  Before 
night he had sold 100 pairs of towels, and 
upon  enquiry  at 
the  time  of  selling, 
learned that the children of  89 of the  100 
he  had  sold  to had a doll in the window, 
and that,  had it not been that they heard 
of the doll  window  through  their  chil­
dren,  they  would  not  have come to the 
store on that  day.

The  Cham pion  Snorer on th e  Road.

From the Buffalo Express.

it  was  possible,  had 

A  commercial  traveler  who  has  just 
returned  from  a small  town in Michigan 
relates  a  funny  incident  that  occurred 
in a little  hotel in that burg.  The hotel 
was  crowded,  and a weary traveler  who 
came in  and enquired for a room was told 
by the clerk that every room in the house, 
where 
two  beds 
ih  it already,  except  one,  and  th at  one 
was  occupied  by  an  old  farm er  who 
snored loud  enough to kill  a horse. 
“ Is 
that all?”  exclaimed  the  traveler,  jubi­
lantly.  “Why, man, I want you to know 
that  I  am  the  champion  snorer  in  my 
town, and anybody who can beat me  at it 
m ust  be  a  cuckoo. 
Ju st  put  a  bed  in 
that room for me.”  The  clerk  told him 
that it was useless,  but  the  traveler  in­
sisted. 
“ I’ll tell  you what I’ll do,”  said 
h e :  “I’ll  just  bet  you  five  dollars  my 
snoring  drives  him  out  of  the  room.” 
The  clerk  was  looking for cinches,  and 
snapped  the  bet  up  quick.  Time wore 
on  until  the  hour  for retiring.  Singu-

larly,  both  men  wended  their way  up­
stairs together.  The  clerk  awaited  fur­
ther developments.  About au hour after­
ward a rustling was heard up  above,  and 
the  traveler,  half-dressed,  w ith his coat, 
vest and shirt on his arm,  came shuffling 
down  the  steps.  Suddenly  he  walked 
er to the desk and  planked  down a Y.
I  told  you  so,”  said 
the  clerk,  who 
laughter.
fairly 
W hat’s ailing  you,  you gilly ?”  said the 
traveler,  with  a  string  of  oaths. 
“ I’d 
have won the bet all right,  but the son of 
_ gun got to sleep  first.”  He  slept on  a 
hardwood bench for the rest of the night.

over  with 

rolled 

A   P retty  Fair  Liar.

Ever  been 

Woll,  I should say so. 

ou  see,  my lungs  are  weak. 

Two  men,  originally strangers to each 
other,  were  seated side by side in a train 
that  was  rapidly  approaching St.  Louis. 
One  of 
them,  as  could  be  seen  at  a 
glance,  was  unm istakably  a  drummer; 
the  gripsacks  and  his  hardened  cheek 
gave  him  away. 
It  was  difficult to de­
cide  what  the  other  party was,  but  he 
was,  comparatively  speaking,  quite  a 
oung man.
I  guess  we  will  be  in  St.  Louis in 
about  an  hour. 
there?” 
asked the drummer.
I was  cashier 
in a St.  Louis  hardware  store  for  more 
than ten  years,”  replied the other party.
How Chicago has taken the  wind out 
of  the sails of  St.  Louis !”
I should say so.  . I was  in  the  pork- 
packing business  in  Chicago  for  seven 
For  push  and  energy  Chicago 
ears. 
takes the  cake,  but  the  climate is some­
I couldn’t  stand  it,  so I 
thing  fearful. 
went to New Orleans,  where it was mild.
I was  a 
cotton broker there for eight  years.”
Isn’t  A tlanta,  Georgia  coming to the 
front ?  There is twice the git in A tlanta 
I  sell 
that  there 
is  in  New  Orleans. 
§50,000 worth of  goods  in  A tlanta  every 
ear,”  remarked the drum m er.”
“Talking  of  ‘git  up  and  git’  in  A t­
lanta,  I reckon  there  was  more  ‘git up 
and git’  in A tlanta during the latter part 
of  the war than there has been  since. 
I 
know  when  I  was 
the  Confederate 
army I had to  ‘git up  and  git’  away from 
A tlanta pretty lively.”
So  you  were 
the  Confederate 
in 
army ?”
Served four  years.  A fter  the  war I 
went to California  and  was  in the fruit 
lots  of 
business  for  six  years.  Made 
money.”
After some  further talk,  the  drummer 
looked quizzically  at his  companion  and 
asked him  his  age.
I will be twenty-four next June,”  was 
the reply.
W ere  you not rather  too  young to be 
in the  war ?”
“ Oh,  no,  you  remember  the  Confed 
eracy robbed the cradle and  the  grave.’ 
It  could  not  well rob a cradle before 
there  was anything in it,  but,  of  «ourse 
you belonged to the infantry.”
No, I  was  Captain  in a cavalry  reg 
You  seem  to  be  a  very  mysterious 

in 

iment.”
person.”

“ How so?”
“Well,  besides  being a Captain  in the 
Confederate army before  you  were born 
I  find  on calculation  that,  although  you 
are  only twenty-four  years  of  age,  you 
have been in active  business  for  thirty' 
Isn’t  that  rather  myster 
one  years. 
ious?”
T hat  is  rather  mysterious,  particu 
larly as  you have not  counted two  years 
that  I  have  been  employed  on  a  New 
York daily paper.”
“ So  you  are  on  a  New  York  daily 
paper,”  snorted  the  drummer. 
“ T hat 
I  suspected  that 
explains  everything. 
you were not a mere  am ateur  liar.  Un 
der the circumstances,  you  come  nearer 
the truth  than I deemed it possible  for 
New York  journalist.  You  ought  to be 
a great deal better liar, when youroppor 
tunities are taken into consideration than 
you are,  but you will improve, no doubt.’ 
The brakeman called  out  “ St.  Louis,’ 
and the two  men  got  into a ’bus for the 
same hotel.

CeUular Cloth.

its  name 

The new cellular clothing now  coming 
into use in England  is said to  be  a  sue 
I t is woven out of  the same mate 
cess. 
rial  as  the  common  weaves  of  cloth 
being  simply,  as 
indicates 
closely woven into cells,  the  network  of 
which is covered over with  a  thin  fluff 
Its porous quality allows the  slow  pass­
ing  of  the inside and outside air,  giving 
time for the outside  air to become of  the 
same tem perature  as the body,  obviating 
all  danger of  -atching colds and allowing 
vapors constantly’  exhaled  by  the  body 
to pass off,  thus  contributing  to  health 
and cleanliness.  The common  objection 
to cotton clothing,  that  it  is  productive 
of chills and colds,  is removed  if  woven 
in this  maiiner,  and  the  invention  can 
certainly be said to be strictly in  accord­
ance w ith  hygienic  and  scientific  prin­
ciples.

A   N ew   Sw indle.

to 

ju st  now  contributing 

The people  who never read the papers 
are 
the  ex­
chequer of  a swindler,  who  offers a bot­
tle  of  medicine,  a  box  of  salve  and  a 
bottle  of  perfum ed  disinfectant  for  a 
dollar.  He  specially commends  the dis­
infectant,  and says that  when the cork is 
left  out  of  the  bottle,  a  pleasant  and 
healthful  odor  is diffused.  He  leaves a 
sample  bottle, from  which he purposely 
removes  the  cork,  and  when  he calls  a 
few days later to take his  property or its 
price,  half 
the  bottle 
have evaporated.  Unless  he  gets a half 
a dollar as the  value of  the  goods,  he  is 
troublesome.  He usually gets the money, 
instead of  which  he  should be treated to 
a red-headed reception.

the  contents  of 

P hilosophy o f A pples.

One day last week,  according to an Al­
bany  Argus  correspondent,  a  certain 
Boston  lady had ocassion to send a newly 
greenhorn  servant  girl  to 
the  corner 
grocery for a dozen apples.
“Be  sure to get me the best  you  can,” 
she said,  “ and remember the pretty  ones 
are not usually the finest.  Those  which 
look the worst outside  are apt  to  be  the 
sweetest flavored.”
The  young  woman  trotted  off  confi­
dently with the  money  in  her  fist,  and 
presently  returned  with  twelve  of  the 
most deplorable rotten apples imaginable.
“They were the  worst  lookin’  ones  I 
cud find  in  the  barrel,  mum,”  she  re­
marked trium phantly,  and so they  ought 
to be the very best of eatin’.”

STARTING  IN  LIFE.

S ch em es  A dopted  b y  F akirs  to   R aise 

the W ind.

the  crowd  wouldn’t 

“ Speaking  about  humble  starts 

in 
life,”  said  a  traveling  man  the  other 
night,  “I  m et a traveling  man  recently 
who can draw his check for §15,000,  who 
owns  a  comfortable  little  house  in  the 
suburbs  of  Boston,  and he told  how  he 
got his start  in  life.  He  was  advance 
agent for  a cheap  show,  and got stranded 
in  a New Hampshire town with  25  cents 
in his pocket.  He  was  then  some  two 
hundred miles from home,  and  what  to 
do he did  not  know. 
Finally  a  happy 
idea struck him.  He  had  a  magificent 
voice and  was an expert on the banjo.
“ There  was a clerk  in  the  hotel  who 
had  a banjo,  and this chap,  whose  name 
was Dawson,  said he  would give the clerk 
lessons on  the  instrum ent  if  he  would 
loan it to him for one night.  The  clerk 
assented. 
It was in  the  afternoon,  and 
the  drummer  skirmished  around  town, 
calling at every tobacco store.
He returned to  the  hotel  ju st  before 
supper time  with  a  bundle  of  tin  foil, 
such  as is wrapped  around tobacco.  He 
went t* his  room  and  took  out  two  bars 
of  common yellow soap,  which he paid a 
grocers 18 cents for,  and  then  he  began 
work.
In  an  hour  he  had  about  300  nice 
little cakes  of  soap,  neatly  wrapped  in 
tin  foil,  and  a  sponge  saturated  with 
ammonia.
A fter supper he borrowed a dry goods 
box,  a torch,  which  a  fakir  had  left  in 
the hotel some months before  in  default 
of board, and  with  the  banjo  went  out 
into one of the squares
He struck  up  some  of  the  popular 
songs of  the  day,  and  in  five  m inutes 
had  a  crowd  of  two  or  three  hundred 
around  him. 
Then  he  began  to  sing 
sentim ental songs,  and finally  started  to 
talk,  but 
listen. 
They wanted to hear him sing  and  play. 
He played and sang,  and was  more  than 
surprised to see a  big,  strapping  fellow 
in  the crowd pass his  hat  around.  The 
dimes rolled  in.  and then the  big  fellow 
emptied  the  hat  on the  box  beside  the 
astonished  singer.  Thera  were  §15  ii 
silver.
He  then  offered  to  take  out  stain: 
from any one’s clothes,  stating  w ith  re 
m arkable  sauvity  that  when  a  boy  he 
was thrown among a  crowd  of  strolling 
gypsies and  by  accident learned that  the 
.uiee of a certain root had  the  power  to 
remove all  stains  from  clothing.  Two 
or three of  the  crowd  stepped  up  with 
big grease  spots on their clothes,  but the 
soap  together  with  the  ammonia  and 
water in the sponge,  dampened the cloth, 
and the stain was removed  (for a  time). 
He  sold 300  cakes  for  15  cents  a  piece 
and received  §45,  about  forty-four  dol­
lars and seventy-five cents of  which was 
profit.  He made §59,  or over,  in an hour 
and  a half,  paid  his  board  and  jumped 
the town.  He is to-day one  of  the  best 
drummers  of  woolens on the  road,  and 
that was how he got his start.”
One of  the best fakirs I ever saw stood 
up  in  a  wagon  in  M arket  square  one 
night and sold §200 worth of  blood puri 
fier,  which  cost  him  about  §10,  bottles 
and  all.  His  speech  was  a  revelation 
and the  crowd  evidently  swallowed  it. 
for they bought  his  stuff  as  fast  as  he 
co*ld make change.
He  wore a  “Wild  W est”  hat and had 
flowing locks,  which m ust have cost  him 
§15  at  a  wig  m aker’s,  and  the  sketch 
that he told  of  his  life,  how  he  spent 
years among the  Indians  and  stole  one 
of 
the  medicines  which  they  distilled 
from  roots  and  herbs,  and  they  alone 
knew their properties,  how he  made  hi 
escape and was bound  to  spend  the  re 
m ainder  of  his  life in administering  to 
the ills of  the human race.  As a m atter 
of  fact  he  got  out  of  town  about  one 
hundred and  seventy-five  dollars  ahead 
and next turned up in Bangor  where  he 
sold handkerchiefs and cologne.
Another one of  the  Nomads,  in  some 
way or other got hold of  a lot of  harmo 
nicas  that  had  been  damaged  by  fire 
He bought the lot  of  25  gross  for  §1 
gross.  He took them  home  and  began 
fixing them up.
Each one was  wrapped  in  red  paper 
and when the  paper  was  removed  they 
were ju st as good as new.
The fakir couldn’t play a note,  but  he 
sat down  and inside  of  a week had ma 
tered  “ Home,  Sweet  Home,” 
“Sweet 
Heather Bells,”   and other popular  airs 
He went  out  on  the  road,  and  in  tw 
weeks  had sold the 25 gross  for  over  §14 
a  gross,  and cleared §250.
The  king of  dentists  was another  big 
fakir.  This  man  pulled  teeth  without 
pain,  but the tru th  of the m atter was the 
individual  who  stepped  up  before  an 
audience would not yell for  fear  of  the 
crowd laughing at him.
The tfooth powder fiend  is  one  of  the 
worst fakirs on the  road.  He  will  take 
a boy out of  the crowd  whose  teeth  are 
in mourning,  and with  the  aid  of  pow 
dered pumice stone,  some  acid and elbow 
grease,  will  make 
than 
snow,  but the enamel of  that boy’s teeth 
is ruined.
will calmly address the audience  as  fol 
lows:
“Ladies and gentlemen—There is noth 
ing under heaven so bad as decayed teeth 
I have known  families  to  be  separated 
and divorces granted for that very cause 
“The  little  child,  which  every  one 
kisses,  has a breath as pure as snow  and 
is  nearly  kissed  to  death,. but  I  have 
known women to drive up  to  my  dental 
parlors,  on Chestnut  street,  in  Philadel 
phia: come there,  ladies  and  gentlemen, 
in  silks  and  satins attended by powdered 
footmen,  but,  bless  you,  their  breath 
would.draw a freight train.
“ Everyone likes to kiss  a  little  child. 
Even  a cat will crawl  to  the  little  one’s 
crib  at night and suck  their breath,  and 
those children die on  that  account,  but, 
gentlemen,  if  a  cat  crawled  into  your 
bed  at  night  and  caught  your  breath, 
the cat would die.
“W alk  right  up  everybody  now  and 
take a bottle,  only 25 cents  each.  There 
are only  a dozen left,”  and he dispenses 
a  concoction  of  flour  with  a  dash  of 
checkerberry in  it.
Moral—Patronize  home industry where 
you can get pure goods.

Then after accomplishing this task 

them  w hiter 

The  chemical 

journals  announce  as 
newly  discovered  solvents  of  Prussian 
blue,  molybdic  acid,  which  dissolves  it 
in  large  quantity,  and  molybdate  and 
tungstate  of  ammonia,  which  also  dis­
solve it very readily.

VISITING  BUYERS.

DenHw-der & Tanjs 

W G Tefft, Rockford

SoUlvan
Vriesland

CharaberlainBros, Plalnwll  Geo P Stark, Cascade 
E Roberts,  Sparta 
J H Kepner, Lake Odessa  Munger,Watson *  DeVoist. 
Geo E  Marvin,  Clarksville 
J L Handy, Boyne  City 
G H  Walbrink, Allendale 
F L Burdick &  Co,  Mendoa J R Cameron. 8beresan 
Dr Peter Beyer,jSullivam
John Smith, Ada 
R D McNaughton, 
W N Hutchinson,  Ashland
CooperSTille G 8 Putnam. Fruitport 
E S Botsford, Dorr 
W H Hicks. Morley
C A Clark, W iley 
M V Wilson, Sand Lake
A Juistema, Grand Haven  C H Adams, Otsego 
Sevey & Herrington, Berlin L Cook  Bauer
A W Fenton, Bailey 
S J Martin, Sullivan 
Bang & Co, Rodney 
R Craven A Co, Elmira 
J B Watson, Coopersvllle 
C Gregory, Fennville 
Goodrich Bros, Fennville 
T Armock, W right 
Heseler Bros, Rockford 
Chas Eddy, Grattan 
Adam Newell.Burnlp’s Cors 
E I Hewes, Newaygo 
J N Wait, Hudson ville 
H Brownyard, Lake 
G M Huntley, Reno 
C S Comstock, Pierson 
Steketee Bros, Holland
N F Miller,  Lisbon
J C Benbow,  Canr  -nsburg Gus Begman, Bauer 
C Steketse, Holland
F A Moore, Fennvhle 
C H Doming. Dutton 
J Bea vis & Co. Hart
W alling Bros,Lamont 
Watson & Devotst,
W N Hutchinson, Grant 
J L Thomas,  Cannonsburg John Gunstra, Lamont 
H Meijering, Jamestown  R Purdv. Grant 
T J W illiams,  White Cloud Myers A Dudley,

Coopersville

Isson’s Mills
Gee, W hitehall 
A E Bergy, Caledonia 
J Provin,  Cedar  Springs Plato A Renwlck, Rodney 
Brownyard, Ashland 
H Loomis,  Sparta 

S T McLellan. Denison 
S T Colson. Alaska 
Eli Runnels, Corning

John Farrowe,  So Blendon

Facts  for  the  Public.

BY  H.  F. BURTCH,

Any company having a paid up capital 
§100,000  can  gain  admittance  to do a 
fire insurance  business  in  Michigan;  no 
deposit is required in this State and there 
not one company  that  has  any deposit 
ith the State authorities  for the protec­
tion of its policies.  Any  company  with 
only  §100,000  capital  can  be  impaired 
§14,999.99  and do  business  in  Michigan 
under the  law.
W hy will business men  pay  the  same 
rates  to  small  irresponsible  companies 
ith little or no surplus,  when  they  can 
procure  policies  in  the  following  com 
panies at the same rates?  The  first  five 
companies  have  the  largest  surplus  to 
policy holders  of  any  companies  doing 
business in the U nited States:
Surplus.
.Etna of  H artford................$ 9,781,752 $ 7,606,515
4,502.463
Home of N. Y........................
Insurance  Company 
of
North America  of  Phila-
8,696,957
delphia................................
5,750,080
Hartford of H artford..........
5,388,533
German American of N. Y.
5,028,345
Continental of N. Y ............
3,202,802
Franklin of Philadelphia..
Springfield F. & M. of Mass 3,200,142
Pennsylvania  of  Phila-
3,106,553
delphia................................
2,326,581
Niagara of N.  Y ...................
2,360,135
National of  H artford..........
2,133,802
Queen of  E ngland..............
3,586,894
Underwriters of  N. Y ........

5,638,907
3,483,983
3,172,415
2,226,692
1,365,326
1,867,992
1,691,076
379,540
1,507,126
845,438
2,055,173
T otal.................................$63,524,233 $36,842,646

Assets. 
8,961,657

54 Pearl  street,  Grand Rapids. 

H.  F.  Btjrtch,

Telephone No.  732.

1 1Æ HI) WAHJj.
P r ic e s   C u rren t.

T h e se   p ric e s   a re   fo r  ca sh   b u y e rs,  w h o  
p a y   p ro m p tly   a n d   b u y   in   f u ll  p a ck a g e s.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

dlS.

6®
Ives’, old style  ................................................. 
Snell’s ..................... ............................................
Cook’s ..................................................................  
v0
Jennings’, genuine........................................... wn m 25
Jennings’,  Im itation..............
First Quality, S. B. Bronze..............................$  7 00

AXES.

D.  B. Bronze...................................  11 00
S. B. S. Steel...................................  8 50
D. B. Steel......................................   13 00

dlS,
dlS.

BALANCES. 
BARROWS. 

 

dls,

dis.

bells. 
 

Spring  ................................................................. 
40
R ailroad.................................................................14  00
G arden......................................................... net  30 00
H and............. 
60&10&10
c an   ■.■.v.v.:::v.v.y.v.v.:v.y.'.::v.v.::'.‘..'.'.'.v.3o&i5
G o n g .................................................................... 
®
Door, S argent....................................................
bolts. 
Stove.....................................................................^(hMO
Carriage new list.....................
Plow ..................................................................... 40&10
Sleigh  shoe.....................................................
W rought Barrel  Bolts..................................
Cast Barrel  Bolts..........................................
Cast Barrell, brass  knobs..........................
Cast Square Spring......................................
Cast C h ain .....................................................
W rought  Barrel, brass knob..........................  
60
W rought S q u are.....................
W rought Sunk  F lu sh ....................................... 
60
W rought Bronze and Plated Knob F lu sh .. .60&10 
Ives’ Door............................................................. 60*10
Barber..................................................................  
„40
B ack u s.............................................................  50&10
Spofford............................................................... 
50
Am. B a ll.............................................................   net
Well,  p lain.........................................................$ 3  50
Well, swivel........................................................  400
dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.....................................70&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed......................70&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed...............,60&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast jo in t................ 60&10
W rought Loose P in............................................ 60&10
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip .........................60&05
W rought Loose Pin, jap an n ed ....................... 60&05
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped.60&05
W rought  Table...................................................60&10
W rought Inside B lind.......................................60&10
W rought  Brass.......................
Blind,  Clark’s .....................................................70&10
Blind,  Parker’s ...................................................70&10
Blind, Shepard’s ...................
BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85.................. 

BUTTS, CAST. 

BUCKETS.

BRACES. 

diS.

40

CARPET  SWEEPERS.

‘ 

dis.

CAPS.

CROW BARS.

19  60 
36  00 
24 00 
15 00

Bissell  No. 5........................................per doz.$17
Bissell No. 7, new drop pan
Bissell, G ra n d ........................
Grand Rapids..........................
M agic...................................... .
CRADLES.
G rain............................................................ dis.  50&02
4y2
Cast Steel...................................................perffi 
3H
Iron, Steel Points.......................................  “ 
65
Ely’s 1-10...................................................p erm  
Hick’s  C. F ...............................................  
60
G. D ...........................................................  
35
M usket...................................................... 
60
50
Rim Fire, TJ. M. C.  & W inchester new lis t.. 
Rim Fire, United States............................dis. 
50
Central  F ire...........  ..................................dis. 
25
Socket F irm er.....................................................70&10
Socket Fram ing...................................................70&10
Socket Corner .......................................................70&10
Socket S licks...................................................... 70&10
40
Butchers’ Tanged Firm er................................ 
.........  
20
Barton’s  Socket  Firm ers....
................ 
net
Cold..........................................
COMBS.
................ 40&10
Curry,  Lawrence’s ..............
................ 
25
H otchkiss........................—
CHALK.
. 12@1254 dis. 10
W hite Crayons, per  gross...
COCKS.

CARTRIDGES.

chisels. 

COPPER.

60
Brass,  Racking’s ............................................... 
Bibb’s ................................................................... „ .6 0
B ee r..................  
40&10
66
Fenns’..................................................................  
Planished, 14 oz cut to size.........per pound 
33
14x52, 14x56, 14x60 ..........................  
31
29
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..........................  
29
Cold Rolled, 14x48............ 
30
B ottom s.............  
40
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks............................................ 
Paper and straight Shank...............................  
40
Morse’s Taper Shank........................................  
40

drills. 

dis.

dis.

“ 

 

 

 

 

DRIPPING PANS.

07
Small sizes, ser p o u n d ..................................... 
654
Large sizes, per  pound..................................... 
Com. 4  piece, 6 in ...............................doz. net 
75
Corrugated.......................................... dis. 20&10&10
A djustable.................................................. dls.  KA10

ELBOWS.

Iß

T^B VnS THEM A.EE.

251

6num

Write  for  Price  List  and  Discounts.

F o ster, S te v e n s  & Co.,

10  &  12  MONROE  ST. 

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

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

diS.

piles—New List. 

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

dls.

12 

14 

 

Discount, 60

13 
GAUGES. 

dlS.

HAMMERS.

50
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s ......................... 
Naydole  & Co.’s ............................................dis. 
25
Kip’s ................................................................ dls. 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s ...................................... dls. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............................30c list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, H and— 30c 40&10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .................................... dls. 
60
State.................................................per doz. net, 2  50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  in. 4%  14  and
lo n g er............................................................... 
3%
Screw Hook and  Eye, *4.............................net 
10
%..............................net  8H
5£..............................net  714
%..............................net  714
70

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

HINGES.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

HANGERS. 

dls.

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

HOLLOW WARE

Pots.....................
K ettles................
S piders..............
Gray enam eled.

.........60&05
.........60&05
.........60&05
50
.......  

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Stamped  Tin W are............................new list 70&10
Japanned Tin W are...........  ............................  
25
Granite Iron W a re ........................... new list73&10

HOES.

Grub  1..............................................................$11, dis. 60
Grub 2 ..........................................................$11.50, dis. 60
Grub 3 ...............................................................$12, dis. 60

HORSE NAILS.

dis.

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

Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings....................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trim m ings...................  
55
55
Door, porcelain, plated trim m ings................ 
Door,  porcelain, trim m ings............................ 
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..................... 
70
Picture, H. L. Ju d d   &  Co.’s .............................40&10
H em acite............................................................. 
45
Russell & Irw in  Mfg. Co.’s new list  ...........
Mallory, Wheeler  <St  Co.’s ...............................
Branford’s .......................................................... 
Norwalk’s ...........................................................  
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ........................  

LOCKS—DOOR. 

levels. 

55
55
1

diS.

dis.

MATTOCKS.

HAULS. 
mills. 

Adze E ye.....................................................$16.00, dls. 60
H unt E ye.....................................................$15.00, dis. 60
H unt’s ........................................... $18.50, dis. 20&10
dìS.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled........................  
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ........................................ 
“ 
p.  S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  M alleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Clark’s ...................  
“  E n terp rise.............................................. 

50
40
40
40
25
Stebbin’s  P attern................................................60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine..............................................60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring.......................

MOLASSES GATES. 

dis.

N A IL S
Advance above 12d nails.

FENCE  AND  BRADS.

50d to 60d......................................................
lOd..................................................................
8d and 9d......................................................
6d and 7d......................................................
4d and 5d......................................................
3d...................................................................

FINE BLUED.

4d...................................................................
3d..................................................................
2d..................................................................

CASTING AND BOX.

60 
1  00 
1  50

1  00
1  50
2  00

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

COMMON BARREL.

“ 

.......................................................  *

CLINCH.

154 and  15£ in ch ................................................  1 35
...............................................  1 15
2  and  254 
“ 
254 and  234  “ 
...............................................   1 60
3 in c h .................................................................... 
85
354 and 454  in ch ................................................. 
75

Each half keg 10 cents extra.

oilers. 

dis.

dis.

planes. 

Zinc or tin, Chase’s P atent............................ 60&Ì0
Zinc, with brass bottom ................................... 
50
Brass or Copper..................................................  
50
R eap er........................................... per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s ..........................................................50&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n c y .....................................40@10
Sciota  Bench......................................................  @60
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy............................ 40@10
Bench, first quality...........................................   @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood.............20&10
60
Fry,  Acme 
..........................................dis. 
Common,  polished.....................................dis. 
70
50
Iron and  T inned............................................... 
Copper Rivets and B urs................................... 
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“ B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

rivets. 

PANS.

dis.

Broken packs 54c per pound extra.

 

ROPES.

 

squares. 

Sisal, 54 inch and la rg e r.................................   1354
M anilla  ..................................................... 
  1654
dis.

Steel and  Iro n .....................................................70&10
Try and Bevels................................................... 
60
M itre.......................................  
20
8HEET IRON.
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
$3 00
3 00
3 10
3 15
3 35
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14........................................... $4 20 
Nos. 15 to 17...........................................  4 20 
Nos.  18 to 21...........................................  4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..........................................  4  20 
Nos. 25to26 ..........................................  4  40 
No. 27 ......................................................  4  60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra

 

 

SAND PAPER.

SASH CORD.

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

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

40
50
55
50
55
35

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR FILLERS.

Solid Eyes.-.................................................per ton $25
Miles’  “Challenge” __ per doz. $20, dls. 50t£$50&05
P erry.....................per doz. No. 1, $15;  No. 0,
.................................................. $21;  dls. 50@50&5
Draw Cut No. 4...............................each, $30, dls  30
Enterprise Mfg. Co............................. dis. 20&10Q30
Silver’s ........................ ................................ dls.  40A10
Disston’s  Circular........................................ 45®45&5
Cross  C ut.......................................45@45&5
H an d ..............................................25@25&5
Atkins’  Circular...............................................dis.  9
70
50
30
28

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

sa w s. 

dls.

“ 
“ 

tac k s. 

dis.

American, all kinds.......................................... 
Steel, all  kinds..................................................  
Swedes, all kinds............................................... 
Gimp and Lace.................................................. 
Cigar Box  N ails................................................. 
Finishing  N ails................................................. 
Common and  Patent  B rads............................ 
Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks.......................  50
Trunk and Clout N ails............................... 
 
Tinned Trunk and Clout N alls....................... 
Leathered Carpet Tacks................................... 

60
60
60
  60
50
50
50
50
45
35

t r a p s. 

dls.

dis.

w ir e. 

Steel, Game..........................................................60&10
35
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .................  
70
Oneida  Community, Hawley * Norton’s  ... 
Hotchkiss’...........................................................  
70
P. S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  ....................................... 
70
Mouse,  choker........................................ 18c per doz.
Mouse, delusion................................... $1.50 per doz.
Bright M arket........................., .........................   6754
Annealed M arket............................................... 70&10
Coppered M arket...............................................  62V4
E xtra B ailin g .................................................... 
56
Tinned M arket..................................................   6254
Tinned  Broom..................................... per pound 09
Tinned M attress................................ per  pound 854
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................................... 
50
Tinned  Spring Steel.......................................... 40&10
Plain Fence.......................................... per pound 03
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..................................... $3 75
painted .....................................  3  00
Copper...................................... ! .......... 
-isw  list n et
“  
Brass...................................................... 
wire goods. 
70&10&10
B right......................................... 
Screw  Eyes...................................................70&10&10
Hook’s ..................................................  
.70&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................  
, .70&10&10

“  “
dls.

“ 

WRENCHES. 

diS.

Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled....................... 
30
Coe’s  G enuine..................................................  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought,.......................  75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable................................... 75&10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

di8.
Bird C ages...............................................  
50
 
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
75
50
Screws, New List............................................... 
Casters, Bed  and  P late....................... 50&10&10
Dampers,  American........................................ 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods......... 
65
Copper Bottoms...................................................  30c

 

M ETALS.

PIG TIN.

Pig  Large.................................................................280
Pig B ars.......................................................... .........30c

COPPER.

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

INGOT.

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

ZINC.

lead.

D uty:  Sheet, 254c per pound.
660 pound  casks...................................................... 654
Per  pound........................................................... 7@754

pound.  Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound.

D uty:  Pig, $2  per 100  pounds.  Old  Lead, 2c per 
American 
.......................................................... @5
N ewark.................................................................@5
B a r............................... .;.............................................. 6
S heet.............................................................8c, dis. 20

SOLDER.

1154

54@54........................................................................... 16
Extra W ip in g ........................................................ 1354
The  prices  of  the many  other  qualities  of
solder in the market indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONT.

TIN—MELYN GRADE.

Cookson............................................. per  pound  1454
Hallett’s.
10xi4IC, Charcoal........................'___ 
................................ 
14x2010, 
 
12x12 IC, 
 
14x14 IC, 
10x28 IC, 
..............................................
10x14IX, 
 
14x20IX, 
................................ 
 
12x12 IX, 
 
14x14IX, 
 
20x28 IX, 
.............................................

..$   6 00
...  6  0C
6  25
...1 0  00
775
. . . .   7 75
8  00
12  50

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.

 
 

 

 

 

10x14 IC,  C harcoal........................................... $ 5  50
14x20 IC, 
.............................................   5  40
12xl2IC, 
............................   ..............   5  65
..............................................  9  25
14x14 IC, 
 
29x28 IC, 
11  80
10x14 IX, 
.............................................   6  90
..............................................  6  90
14x20 IX, 
12x12 IX, 
................... ..........................  7  15
14x14 IX, 
 
11  65
20x28 IX, 
 
14  80

TIN—ALLAWAT GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Each additional X on this grade $1.50.

 
 

 

ROOFING PLATES
“ 

14x20 IC, Terne  M. F ........................................$  7  60
20x28 IC, 
“ 
........................................   15  75
14x20  IC, “  W orcester.....................................  5  50
“ 
14x20 IX, 
..............................  7 00
..............................  11  50
“ 
29x28 IC, 
“  Allaway  G rade....................  4  90
14x20IC, 
6  40
“ 
14x20 IX, 
20x28  IC, 
“ 
10  50
20x28 IX, 
“ 
13  50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

14x28  IX .............................................................. $12  00
  13  50
14x31  IX ......................................................... 
14*30i x ’ f“r N“ ‘ I  B° u er8’ [ per pound....... 
09

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FADED/LIGHT  TEXT

The MichiganTradesman

Officiai Organ of Michigan Business Men’s  Association.

▲  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Retail  Trade  of the Woliierine State.

E .  A .  STOW E  &  B KO.,  P ro p rie to rs.

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Advertising Rates made known on application. 

strictly in advance.

Publication  Office,  100 Louis St.

Entered  a t  the  G rand  R apids  Post  Office.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

W ED N ESD A Y ,  M AY  1,  1889.

PRESENTING  DRAFTS.

A member of  the  Grand  Rapids  Mer­
cantile Association recently sent the New 
York  Journal  o f  Commerce  the  follow­
ing enquiry:

Our  bankers  here,  when  they  have 
drafts to collect,  are in the habit  of noti­
fying by telephone or  sending  mail  no­
tices to the effect that they hold the draft, 
and  if  not  paid by  a certain date  it will 
be considered a refusal  to  pay. 
In  all 
cases,  the payer is  expected  to  walk  to 
the bank and  settle.  The  question  is, 
are they not  bound  to  present  the  draft 
to the party or parties whom it is against 
before they can decide or report that pay­
m ent has  been  refused?  This  question 
came up  at a recent  meeting of our Mer­
cantile Association,  and  it  was  voted  to 
refer to you for final decision.

To this enquiry  the  Journal  o f  Com­

merce replied as follows:

If the address of the drawee is  known, 
the draft cannot be protested  until  it  is 
presented to him for acceptance  or  pay­
ment,  as the case may require.  A demand 
for  either  cannot  be  made  legally,  by 
telephone  or  mail;  a personal  presenta­
tion is required.

The  statem ent  of  facts  made  in  the 
above  enquiry  is  not  entirely  correct. 
It is  the  custom  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
banks  to  present  all  d-rafts  drawn  on 
houses  w ithin  convenient  distance  of 
the bank. 
It has not been the custom  to 
present drafts drawn  on  suburban  mer­
chants or  factories  on  the  outskirts  of 
the city,  but  to  notify  such  houses  by 
telephone or mail and then wait a reason­
able length of  time before returning  the 
drafts.  The banks argue—and the argu­
m ent seems plausible enough—that  they 
cannot afford to send a clerk a couple  or 
three miles to collect  a  draft  on  which 
they can deduct  but 10  cents  exchange, 
especially as the trip  has  frequently  to 
be repeated.

A   COVER  FOR  FRAUD.

The  recent  decision  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  in which  that  august  body takes 
the  ground  that  county clerks  have no 
right to disclose the nature of any papers 
placed  on file in their offices,  is found to 
serve  as  an  admirable  cover for fraud­
ulent practices.  One  of  the  abuses  the 
decision is  likely to  foster  is  thus  out­
lined by the Detroit Journal:

“ The first indication of a firm’s failure 
is  usually  found  in  the  county  clerk’s 
office,  in the shape of  a w rit of  replevin, 
attachm ent,  or  petition  for  a receiver,” 
said  a lawyer  recently. 
“The  commer­
immediately  notify  their 
cial  agencies 
clients  and  the  newspapers  notify  the 
general  public.  Other  creditors 
thus 
learn of  the m atter and  are enabled,  per­
haps,  to secure  themselves  or  force  an 
assignment,  and  thereby  gain  an  equal 
chance  for  the  recovery of  their  prop­
erty.  The  publication of  these  m atters 
also  serves  as  a warning  to  dealers  to 
give the firm no  more credit without am­
ple security.  Under  the  new  dispensa­
tion  neither  the  commercial  agency re­
porters  nor  newspaper  reporters are in­
formed  of  the  tumble.  A  few  favored 
creditors  may  possibly  be  notified  and 
allowed to put on attachments, which the 
clerk  of  the  court  will  dutifully  sup­
press.  The other  creditors may thereby 
be  swindled  out  of  their  ju st  due  and 
the  firm  may even go so far as to obtain 
new goods  on  credit,  the  public  being 
meanwhile kept  in  ignorance of  what is 
going on.”

It  is  very  evident  that  the  Supreme 
Court m ust recede from its  present posi­
tion  or 
that  business  men  m ust  find 
some way of avoiding the  inconvenience 
and loss incident to the attitude assumed 
by the county clerks.  One or  the  other 
is an absolute necessity.

California  has  a  new  law  relating  to 
assignments which  provides  that  all as­
signments shall be made to the  sheriff  of 
the  county in  which  the  assignor  does 
business.  The sheriff  then  calls a meet­
ing of  the  creditors,  who  select  an  as­
signee to take charge of  the estate.  The 
assignee  thus  becomes  the  agent of  the 
creditors,  instead  of  “ standing  in”   with 
the assignor,  as is too often the case under 
our  laws.  The law is said to  work well, 
so far as it has been  tried,  several Grand 
Rapids creditors having  been  the  recip­
ients of  dividends  from  estates  in  San 
Francisco which  would  otherwise  have 
yielded no retnrns to outside creditors.
. Every  reputable  druggist — that 
is, 
every druggist who does  not  sell  liquor 
by the glass or as a beverage—should im­
mediately  write  his  Senator,  requesting 
him  to  use  his  influence  to  defeat the 
Damon bill  in  its  present  form—not to 
perm it  it  to  pass  the  Senate  until  the 
present  obnoxious  clauses  relating 
to 
druggists  are stricken out.  Now  is  the 
time to act.  To-morrow or next week it 
may be too late.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n  is pleased to note the 
steps 
the  Muskegon 
B.  M.  A.  are taking relative to the organ­

the  members  of 

ization of  a m utual  insurance  company. 
Such activity indicates  an  abiding faith 
in the subject of  m utual insurance which 
presages the eventual supremacy of  that 
system  of  indem nity  over 
the  present 
more clumsy and expensive method.

Editor  Dexter,  of  the  Albany  Mer­
If  you 
chant's Mail,  is  a  philosopher. 
don’t  believe  it,  read  this  dripping  of 
wisdom,  taken from  the  last issue of  the 
Mail:

It is easier to  manage  a  surplus  than 

it is  a deficiency.

W hat  Invention  H as  D one  for  Milling;.
In the course of  a recent  speech,  Hon. 
H.  A.  Hayden,  the Jackson  m ill  owner, 
gave some  interesting  personal  reminis­
cences. 
It  seems  that  he started in  the 
m illing  business in  1845,  in a little  cus­
tom  mill three  miles south of  the city of 
Jackson.  He  had  enlarged  gradually, 
and w ithin a  year or two had  been  able 
to turn out 8,000  barrels of  flour a  year, 
which he considered a big  business.  He 
then increased  his  capacity to  fifty bar­
rels a day by the  addition  of  three  runs 
of  stones—the old flat  burr  stone,  capa­
ble  of  grinding  five  or  six  bushels  an 
hour with one half-chest of  reels.
The  best  cloths  used  in  those  days 
were  No.  10,  and  the  bulk  of  the  flour 
was made with No.  9.  But  the  product 
was  good  for  those  days,  and  found  a 
ready m arket.  Then  came  a demand for 
better flour.  Up to this time the  m illers 
had considered  middlings as offal,  and it 
was run through the flat stones and made 
into  a low grade flour  which was hard to 
sell.
A fter a  few  years  he  had  purchased 
other  mills and  adopted  modern  inven­
tions  as  rapidly  as  they  were  offered, 
but  always  with a feeling of  distrust  in 
“new-fangled  fixin’s.”  Millers in  those 
days worked from daylight until the day’s 
work  was  done,  be it  9,  10  or  12  p.  m. 
They  were  not  afraid of  work,  and  to 
this  labor the speaker  largely  attributed 
his success.
W hen  the  new  process was  talked of, 
he had considered  it  foolish,  but  he was 
finally forced  to  acknowledge  that with 
it the  best grades of  flour could be  made 
from  m aterial  thrown  away in  the  old 
methods.  He  reluctantly  adopted  the 
rollers  instead of  stones  and  remodeled 
his  mill.  The  success was  far  greater 
than had  been thought  possible.  Other 
improvements  followed,  and  to-day  the 
finest grades of  flour are made where the 
best  flour of  years ago could  not be  sold 
at any price.

C otton and  W ool.

The crop of cotton is reported as being 
very large,  possibly greater than that  of 
any recent  year.  Yet  the  demand  for 
the staple continues,  and the size  of  the 
crop seems justified by the demand.  The 
m anufacture of  cotton goods is now pro­
fitable,  and new  mills  are  in  course  of 
erection in  all parts of  America,  and  in 
this movement the South is  conspicuous. 
Soon the raw m aterial  will  be  m anufac­
tured on the large  scale  near  the  place 
where  it is grown,  and the New England 
mills  will  be  handicapped  by their  dis­
tance from the cotton fields, in the compe­
tition with their  Southern  rivals.  The 
outlook for  cotton  is  therefore  a  bright 
one.  Wool,  the other great textile staple, 
cannot be so well  placed in  the economic 
sense,  owing to  the  great  deficiency  of 
reliable statistics.  A t a  recent  conven­
tion,  the  National  Association  of  Wool 
Growers  took  steps  for  establishing  a 
better system,  including the organization 
of  a central bureau of  statistics.  W hen 
this  is  carried  out,  the  wool  producer 
will  be  greatly  benefited,  not  only  by 
accurate statem ents and forecasts of  the 
m arket,  but  by  a  better  gradation  of 
qualities. 
It  is  proposed  to  have  this 
m atter,  the grading of wool,  taken up by 
the Association.  Few staples need grad­
ing more imperatively,  as wool suited for 
one branch of  m anufacture may be quite 
unadapted to another;  the  carpet  m aker 
needs a  m aterial  totally  different  from 
that  required  by  the  m anufacturer  of 
zephyr worsted.

Start in Right w ith the  N ew  Clerk.
At the commencement  of  his  engage­
ment,  let  there  be  a  free  and  candid 
statem ent  of  w hat  is to be expected  of 
him;  the  rules  of  the  store,  and  what 
delinquencies will not be tolerated.  The 
employer can  always  say,  at  the  start, 
things that  later  on  will  be  difficult  to 
reach.  A full and free understanding at 
the beginning is sure to  save  trouble  in 
the future.
Take  time  and  exercise  patience  in 
making the  new-comer  acquainted  with 
the stock,  the peculiarities of  trade,  the 
whims  of  customers,  the  policy  of  the 
management,  their  views  regarding  the 
details and methods of keeping accounts, 
and many details,  simple  in  themselves, 
yet more or less puzzling to a new'  clerk. 
Establish  a  community  of 
interests, 
making the clerk feel  that the prosperity 
of  the  proprietor means  the  prosperity 
of the clerk.  A word  of  encouragement 
is a wonderful lever to develop  work  in 
an ambitious youth.

Glad. H e Took th e Mine.

From  th e  P hiladelphia  Press.

A  well-known  Philadelphia  business 
man took in part payment for a bad  debt 
two years ago the title to a lead  mine  in 
Southern  Colorado.  He  took  the  mine 
because he could  not  get  anything  else 
to show for his  $8,500.  The  mine  was 
neglected  until eight months  ago,  when 
some properties near it “panned out” well 
and  the Philadelphian began  to  investi­
gate his own property.  He went to  Col­
orado,  formed a company,  and last  Octo­
ber  began  to  work  the  mine.  Before 
Christmas it had paid  him  over  $20,000, 
and since then his dividends  have  aver­
aged about $1,200  a week.

A F lesh y  Subject.

Grocer—Fleischman  is  all  broke  up. 
The sheriff has seized  his  m eat  market.
Fish Dealer—Is  that  so? 
I  saw  him 
this morning,  and I ¿hough he looked  as 
if he’d lost flesh.

Tit  for Tat.

“I’d hate to be in your shoes,”  said  a 
“ You couldn’t get into them ,”  was the 

woman,  quarreling with a neighbor.
answer.

- 

W HIPS  AND  LASHES.

G ra n d   R ap id s.

5 4  L a k e  A ve., 

G R A H A M   BOYS,

L ow est P rice s  fo r  M all O rders. 

FLOUR

Owl, Crawn Prince, White Lilu, 

Standard, Rye, Graham.

Bolted Meal,

MAIL  ORDERS  SOLICITED.

Feed,  Etc.
NEWAYGO  ROLLER  MILLS.
H. SCHNEIDER l GO.,
Dick  anil  George,

M anufacturers of  the famous

Elks’ Social Session

And  other  Popular  Brands  of  Cigars,  and 

Jobbers of  All Brands of

F in e   Cut,  P lu g   a n d  

S m o k in g  T o b a c c o s

21  Monroe  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

BU Y

M uscatine
R O I I B O

OATS

I P   Y O U   W A N T
TUB  BESTI

20,000  Sold  to  the  Trade

In  Grand  Rapids  in  the  past  30  days. 
Over 150 retail dealers  in  Grand  Rapids 
are  handling  the  Famous  Five  Cent 
Cigar,

“THE WHITE DAISY”

This cigar we guarantee  to  he the best 
nickel cigar in the State, all long Havana 
filler with a Sumatra wrapper.  It is  sold 
to the trade for  $35  per  M.  Remember, 
you take no chances in ordering,  for  we 
guarantee the cigar to  give  entire  satis­
faction or they can be returned.

Beware  of  Imitations.

The  genuine  will  have  our signature 
on insiae  of  cover  of  each  box.  Send 
in your orders by mail.  The W hite Daisy 
Is m anufactured only by

M O R T O N   &  C L A R K ,

462  S.  D ivision  St.,  G ran d  R apids.

j ^ '!W ¡ W 9 W  W -:¿- J é

ÿOF-M AÎ

W e also manufacture a  full  line  of Sweet 

Goods.  Write  for  quotations 

and  samples.

HÄR1/EY 
Wall Paper and 

JOBBERS  IN

Paints, Oils, Etc.

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

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

Estimates Given on Complete Outfits.

88  9 0  a n d  92 SOUTH  D IV IS IO N   ST.. 

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

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

WHOLESALE  DEALER  IN

FRUITS.

JACKSO N
•I MICH.

k HEYSTEK

We  are  Offering  to  the  Trade  some 
SPECIAL BARGAINS  in  W all Paper at 
Less than M anufacturers’  Prices.  Your 
Correspondence  is Solicited.

74  and  76  Ottawa 8t„

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

H eadquarters for Bananas.

16 AND 18 NORTH  DIVISION ST.

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

D etroit Soap Co.,

DETROIT,  MICH.

M anufacturers of the  following  well-known 

brands of

PHOENIX, 

SUPERIOR, 

MICHIGAN, 

AND  OTHERS. 

MOTTLED  GERMAN, 

QUEEN  ANNE. 
TRUE  BLUE, 
MONDAY, 
•  VT.  H A W  JDlIJNO,  Lock B ox  173, 

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MICHIGAN  CIGAR  CO.,

ROYAL  BAR. 
MASCOTTE,
CAMEO

Salesman for Western Michigan,

T T   A  T T T T T  T N T C ?  

For quotations address

GRAND  RAPIDS

WABASH, 

CZAR, 

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B i g   R a p id s ,  M ic h •

M A N U FA C TU R ERS  O F   T H E   JU STL Y   C E L E B R A T E D

((M.  C.  C.”“Yum Yum

T h e   M ost  P o p u la r  C ig ar. 

T h e  B est  S ellin g   C ig ar o n  th e  M ark et.

99

HKfil/ENRIGH  BROS.

W 'h o le sa le   C lo th iers

MANUFACTURERS  OF

AT  LOWEST  PRICES.

R e r f e c t - R i t t i n g   'T a ilo r -M a d e   C lo th in g
138-140 Jefferson flue., 34-36  Woodbridge St., Detroit.
Cu r t is s & C o . ,

M A IL  ORDERS sent in  care L.  W. A T K IN S will receive  PROMPT  ATTENTION

SEND  FOR  TRIAL  ORDER.

Successors to CURTISS &  DUNTON.

RINDGE, BERTSCH  & CO.,
BOOTS  and  SH O E S

M anufacturers and Wholesale Dealers In

AGENTS  FOR  THE

Boston R ubber Shoe Co.,

1 2 ,1 4   &  16  P e a r l  S tr e e t,  G ra n d   R a p id s,  M ich,
P.  STBKBTBB  «£  SONS,
D ry   G oods I N otions,

W H O L E S A L E   •

83 Monroe  81.  and 10,12,14,16 k 18 Fountain  81.,

G r a n d   R a p id s ,  M ic h •

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 r d , 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 , 
'W h ite   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 .

STARK,

FRANKLINVILLE,

AMERICAN,
HOOKER,

Warps,  Geese  Feathers, 

Waddings,  Balls 

BURLAPS.

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

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and careful attention.

BDWIN  BABB AS,

Butter, Eggs, Oranges, Lemons, B an», Mince Meat, Nnts, Figs, Etc.
Eggs Orate Factory in connection.  Price List  furnished 

J O B B E R   O F

on  application.

M ail OrTlers  F ille d  C arefu lly  a n d  P ro m p tly  a t L o w est M a rk e t P ric e .

Cold  Storage at Nos, 217 and 219 Livingstone St.
Office  and  Salesroom,  No.  9 Ionia St.,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

W. c.  DENISON,

Stationary  and  Portable  Engines  and  Boilers,

GENERAL  DEALER  IN

Baas.

W H O L E S A L E

P a

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  W a r e h o u s e ,

Houseman Building,  Cor.  Pearl & Ottawa Sts.,

M IC H IG A N .

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

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W M . SEARS & CO.,

Orackor  MandfaGtdrors,

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

WHO  URGES  YOU

T O   B L E E P

THEE  F X JB 3L.IO!

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

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

H E S T E R   «Ss  F O X ,

M anufacturers’ A gents f o r

S A W  AXTD C R IST MIT.T. M ACH IN ER Y,
Send  for 
Catalogue 
and 
Prices-

ATLASENGINEWORKS

INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.,  U.  S.
STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.
__________M ANUFACTURERS  OP
Carry Engines and  Boilers In Stock 

for  immediate  delivery.

Saws, B elting  and  Oils.

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

W rite  fo r  P rice s. 

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

Pulley  and become convinced of their  superiority.

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

WHY BE 18LRUE

To the P ass Book S y ste m

W ith  its  attendant  losses  and  annoyances,  when  you  can 

supplant it by so inexpensive and labor-saving 

a  system  as  the

Tradesman  Bredit  Godpon  Book,

W hich is now used by over 2,000  Michigan  merchants.

The Tradesman Coupon  is  the  cheapest  and  most modem in 

the market, being sold as follows:

$  2 Coupons,  per hundred........ ........ $2.50
........ ........ 3.00
$ 5  
........ ........ 4.00
$10 
........ ........ 5.00
$20 

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

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E. Ä. 8Y0WEÄ BR0„ Grand Rapids.
N uts W e carry a large stock of Foreign 

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

P u t n a m   &  B r o o k s ,

The  Best  Fitting Stock­

ing Rubber  in the 

Market.

Geo.  H.  Heeder,
-  Mich
Grand  Rapids, 

Sole  A gents,

CQRLISSL^lane&bodley go.
WUIILlVVih  AUTOMATIC  cut  off
F meimes

D U R A B IL IT Y   a n d  

| U n RIVALLED for S T R E N G T H
C L O S E   R E G U L A T I O N
48 J o hn  s t r e e t ,
O m C I N K T A T I ,   O ,

THE  I  ANE A . R 0DLEY fìO ..« 

H.  Leonard  &  Sons.
Tricicli.

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

C or. S p rin g  an d  F u lto n  Sts.

N ear  U nion  D ep o t.

This is the  most  perfect  tricycle  on  the 
m arket for Ladies and Children.  It is recom­
mended by Physicians  as the First and Only 
Machine  invented  that  Ladies  and  Girls 
of  a  delicate  constitution  can 
ride  with 
benefit.

The GEM has Steel W ire W heels  with  Grooved Steel Tires and Forged Steel 

Axles. 

It  also has  an

Adjustable Spring  Seat

Upholstered  w ith  plush,  filled  w ith  Japanese  hair,  which  retains its elasticity, 

making  it  easy for the rider. 

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P r ic e s   q u o te d  w ith o u t  fen d ers:

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No.  3—28 
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3 25

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“  7  t o l l   “ 
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“  14  to 18  “  

8.00 
9.34 
12.00 

No.  7—20  inch  Rear W heels for  3  to  7  years,  $11.34  Each.
No.  8—24 
No.  9—28 
No.  10—32 

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to 11 
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12.67 
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ASK  FOR  QUOTATIONS.

H.  Leonard  &  Sons,
T he Dog and The  Shadow

A   D og,  crossing  a  bridge  over  a 
stream  with  a  piece  of  flesh  in  his 
mouth,  saw  his  own  shadow  in  the 
water, and  took it for  that  of another 
Dog, with a  piece of meat  double  his 
own in size. He therefore let go his own, 
and  fiercely  attacked  the  other  Dog, 
to get his  larger  piece  from  him.  He 
thus lost both.  —sEsop’s Fables.

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

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“The Michigan.

99

The Michigan Tradesman

W ED N ESD A Y ,  M AY  1,  1889.

LEISURE  HOUR  JOTTINGS.

Written tor Tan Tradesman.

£  

BY  A  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

On general principles the farmer,  whb, 
after a life  of  hard  but  reasonably suc­
cessful  labor,  finds  himself  in  circum­
stances to discontinue  his avocation,  and 
to  live  in  comparative  idleness  on  the 
earnings of  his modest accumulations,  is 
a desirable  addition to the population of 
our  country villages.  To  be  sure he  is 
not  usually  an  open-handed  capitalist, 
who causes activity and  rejoicing  among 
the local dealers, because the  yearly sum 
th at  m ust  suffice for his expenditures is 
generally a very  modest  one,  but  he  is 
an individual w ith whom  business  rela­
tions are  pleasant  and  satisfactory,  and 
an individual  whose life and deportm ent 
m arks  him  as  a good  neighbor  and up- 
right citizen.

W   Yet,  notwithstanding 

this,  I  have 
beard,  among the would-be  “ hustlers and 
boomers”  of  more  than one  community, 
fa r  more  disparaging 
than  approving 
comments,  when the  status of  the small, 
retired capitalist  is canvassed.  And the 
reason  for  this  is  obvious.  T hat large 
class  of  gentlemen  who  make it a duty 
to devote no inconsiderable proportion of 
their time  in  devising  ways  and  means 
a  for the disposal of  other people’s money, 
are rarely appreciated  or  encouraged by 
these same small capitalists.  The chronic 
speculator’s scheme by which Ex-Farmer 
Timothy’s  capital  of  $4,500  can  be 
income  of  $300 
doubled, 
quadrupled,  w ithin  a  year,  fails 
to 
awaken  the  remotest  interest  or enthu­
siasm,  and  hence 
the  professed  bene­
factor  of  Farm er T.  feels  himself  justi- 
fied in pronouncing that  graduate  of  the 
hay-field an ignoramus,  a penurious,  pig­
headed,  penny-squeezing fool,  and a man 
of  no possible benefit whatever to  an en­
terprising town.

and 

his 

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theories 

And  the  circulator  of  subscriptions, 
the  high  tax  advocate,  and  the  m ulti­
tudes  of  other  people  who  indulge  in 
various  semi-communistic 
re- 
^ g a rd in g   the  distribution of  wealth,  also 
^ n a tu ra lly  look upon  Ex-Farmer Timothy 
and  his  class  with coldness,  because he 
and they,  with their expenditures rigidly 
lim ited by their  financial circumstances, 
are not  habitually given  to  investing in 
anything  that  doesn’t  closely approach 
the necessary and  indispensible.
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this  nature,  unless  he 

* 
Of  course we suspect,  and have almost 
positive proof,  that a great  many people 
^   are  unreasonably  niggardly,  selfish  and 
uncharitable,  in  not  devoting some part 
of  their accumulations  to  objects which 
do not gratify,  solely,  the personal tastes 
and  habits  of  the  giver,  but,  after  all, 
who  has a perfectly  moral  right  to  de­
cide what any individual  shall  do  about 
m atters  of 
is 
equally posted  with  that  individual  re- 
garding his financial  and  business  mat­
ters ?  When thousands of  people,  in os­
tensibly  affluent  circumstances,  are  to­
day  existing  only  by the  tolerance  and 
good  nature  of  their  creditors;  when 
m ultitudes more have to study the closest 
principles of  economy in everything per­
taining 
the  outlay  of  money,  and 
when  there  are  doubtlessly great  num ­
bers  whose  surplus  means  are  yearly 
^   swallowed  up  by  family  charities,  and 
other private  but  almost  imperative de­
mands upon them,  what a gross injustice 
we are liable to commit,  and  what  gross 
injustice is hourly commited, by publicly 
condemning and abusing people who per­
sist in using their  personal  property ac­
cording to their own  will and  judgment.
 

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B ut there  are  almost  countless  num ­
bers of  people  who  assume  the right to 
arraign, 
try  and  condemn  individuals 
^  who  are  not disposed to pay the various 
assessments  made  upon 
them   without 
protest,  and many of  these  people,  w ith­
out  the  remotest  attem pt  to  get at the 
“ true inwardness” of  a single case,  seem 
to feel  themselves  justified in pillorying 
their  neighbors under  every inscription 
th a t  pertains 
to  miserly  meanness. 
Speaking of  this  defect of  character,  an 
old  resident of  my  locality  recently re­
m arked to m e :

to 

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™  “W atch  these  fellows  for  years,  as  I 
have done,  and  you  will  find  that they 
eventually divide  up  that  class of  indi­
viduals  who have a little property,  or at 
some  period  of  their  lives  had  a  little 
property, into exactly two lots—d—d hogs 
or  d—d  fools,  and  almost  anybody with 
any brains  can arrange for himself which 
way  he  will  be  labeled.  My  own  ex- 

■^perience will partially illustrate this. 

“ About the close of  the  war I sold my 
farm   for  afbout  $5,000, ''and  about  the 
same  time  my  brother  Jim ,  who  had 
made a few thousands by sutlering in the 
army,  came home and persuaded me to go
into a general  trade  w ith  him at M------.
W e  struck  a  good  business,  and  for a 
couple  of  years  I  imagined  we  were 
^ m a k in g   money. 
Jim   and I were of  ma- 
^ te ria lly   different  dispositions.  He  was 
free,  open-hearted,  and could  hardly say 
‘no’  to  anybody,  and  I  suspect  I  was 
nearly the  reverse.  He  was  always  in 
active  demand  as  a  salesman,  while  I 
.w a s seldom called into requisition except

in cases of  necessity,  and I couldn’t help 
noticing that,  while the dead-beats of the 
locality  hardly  ever  noticed  mfe,  they 
were loud in  their  approval of  my part­
ner,  and  pronounced  him  ‘one  of 
the 
best  fellows  in  the  world,’  and  ‘a thor­
ough business m an.’

“Jim  had  done  all  the  book-keeping 
and  attended  to  money m atters,  and  as 
we  appeared to be perfectly easy I never 
troubled myself about the financial part of 
the business.  But at last a notice of protest 
on a  $1,500  bank note  was served on me 
during  his absence,  and  then I began an 
investigation,  and 
investigation 
showed that my partner,  by his  reckless 
personal  extravance,  his  indiscrim inate 
endorsement of  other people’s paper,  and 
his  indulgence in dead-beat  custom  had 
evaporated  all  of  our  profits  for  two 
years,  and  sunk  nearly half  of  our cap­
ital besides.

that 

“ Well,  to  cut  the  m atter short,  when 
my brother returned we  divided  up  the 
remaining  property,  and  each  chattel- 
mortgaged for his  share of  the indebted­
ness.  A fter long  and anxious months of 
turning,  and  twisting,  and  struggling,  I 
finally  found  myself  on  safe  ground 
again.  Then I got a chance to trade my 
stock  for  a  farm,  and  in  a  few  years 
managed to work back to about my former 
financial standing.  Jim  continued to be a 
‘royal  good  fellow’  for  several  months, 
and then the sheriff  closed  him out,  and 
he is,  and  will  always remain,  next door 
to  a  pauper.  By  hard 
labor  and  the 
closest  economy,  I have  managed  to ar­
rive at a comparatively  old  age  without 
owing a dollar,  and  with  enough  prop­
erty to probably see me out of  the  world 
in the  same  shape,  and,  in consequence, 
I  have 
the  reputation  of  a  d—d  hog, j 
while  the  fellows  who,  by various  pro­
cesses,  swindled  my  brother  out of  his 
goods  and  money are  unanimous in the 
outspoken belief that he is a d—d fool.
*

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W hen any doubts  arise  in the mind of 
an 
individual  regarding  the  rights  of 
others  to  dictate  to  him  regarding the 
disbursem ent of  his  money,  he may per­
haps  derive  some  benefit by hunting up 
the old  story regarding  the man,  his son 
and his ass,  and his  unfortunate habit of 
trying to please everybody.

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Why you should send us your orders.  We handle 
nothin? but BEST ana  CHOICEST BRANDS; 
flat Manufacturers* and Importers* Prices; 
Ship at ONE DAY *S NOTICE, enabling 
you to  receive goods day followings 
Fill  orders  for ALL  KINDS o£
G L A S S ,

and American 
Polished PLAT*.  ~
Rough  and  Ribbed 
French Window,  Ameri­
can  Window,  English  s6 os.
Enamelled, Cut and  Embossed.
Rolled Cathedral, Venetian, Muffled,
Frosted  Bohemian,  German  Looking 
Glass  Plates,  French  Mirror  Plates.
The quality, variety and quantity of o u f-------
is exceeded by no  house in  the United States*
73 &75 Ltrned Street West, DETROIT, MICH. 
G ran d   R ap id s  S tore, 
61  W aterlo o   S treet.

W M .   R E I D ,

$ 1 ,0 0 0   R E W A R D !!
THE  LARGEST  AND  BEST 

CLEAR  LONG  HAVANA  FILLED 

SUMATRA  WRAPPED  CIGAR 

SOLD  FOR  5   CENTS.

M Ê È Ê Ê È

Igpg---

We agree to forfeit One Thousand Dollars to any person  ¡1 
Droving  the Filler of these Cigars to contain  anything |g  
but Havana Tobacoo. 
DILWOBTH BROTHERS,  jjg
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AmosS. Musselman&Go,
GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

S O L E   A G E N T S ,

C r o c k e r y   & G la s s w a r e
No. 0 Sun.................................................................  50
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LAMP  BURNERS.

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.

6 doz. in box.

No. 0 Sun................................................................   1 90
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WA.N'TBD.

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  REARS 

and all kinds of Produce.

I f  y o n   h av e  an y   o f  th e   above  goods  to  
sh ip ,  o r  a n y th in g   in   th e   P ro d u ce   lin e ,  le t 
ns  h e a r  fro m   you.  L ib e ra l  cash   advances 
m ad e  w h e n   d esired .

E A R L   B R O S . ,

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

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

R eference:  F ir s t   Nationa l  Bank,  Chicago. 
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La Bastic.

No. 0 Sun, crimp  top............................................2 58
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No. 2  “ 
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No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
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No. 1 Sun, plain b u lb ................................................1 25
No. 2  “ 
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No. 2 
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Jugs, Yt gal., per doz........................................   65
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Meat Tubs, 10 gal., each...................................  75
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Milk Pans, yt gal., per doz.  (glazed 66c)__   00
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MicMp Fire  aid  Marine  Insurance  Co.

O R G A N IZ E D   1881.

CASH  CAPITAL  $400,000.

CASH  ASSETS 01ÍER  $700,000,

LOSSES  PAID

D.  W hitney, Jr., President.

Eugene Harbeck,  Sec’y.

The Directors of  “ The Michigan”  are representative business men of 

our own  State.

F a ir   C o n tra cts, 

E q u ita b le   R a te s,

P r o m p t  S e ttle m e n ts,

Insure  in 
P E R K I N S   <&
H E S S
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

D E A L E R S  IN

NOS.  122  a n d   124  LOUIS  S T R E E T .  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N .

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE-

SW IFT’S
Choice Chicago

D ressed Beef

---- A NX)  M U T T O N  —

Gan be found at all  times  in  full  supply  and at 
popular prices at the branch houses in all the larg- 
ger cities and is retailed by all first-class  butchers.
The trade of all marketmen  and  meat  dealers  is 
solicited.  Our W holesale Branch House, L. F. Swift 
& Go., 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 w ill always receive the best.
S w i f t  and Company,

Union  Stock  Yards, 

CHICAGO.

*ÌJo\

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

Fruits, Seeds, Oysters § Produce.

------ W H O L E S A L E ------

All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

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

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa  St.,

pleased to hear from you.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

COLBY,  CRAIG  &  CO.

MANUFACTURE

THE  BE8T  DELIVERY WAGON  ON  EARTH.

W e M an u fac tu re  to  O rd e r  H ose a n d  P o lice  P a tro l W agons. P ed d lers, Bafaers, C re am ery , 

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

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

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

COBBY,  C R A IG   &  CO.,
B u y   th e  B e s t

It Is th e  C h eap est.

And  yon  can  always  find  the  BEST  Belting,  Hose,  Packings,  Saws, 
Files,  Emery  Wheels,  Shingle  Bands,  Band  Nails,  Oils  and  Greases, 
L ath Yarn,  Cotton W aste,  Oil  and  Grease  Cups,  Lubricators,  and  Any­
thing Else in Mill Supplies that you may desire  at  the

LO W EST  PRICES

F o r  th e   Q u a lity .

S a m u e l  L y o n ,

C o rn er  " W aterloo  a n d   L o u is  S ts.

GRAND  RA PIDS, 

-  MICH.

A m boy C h e e s e .

W e  have  the pleasure to advise the trade that 
we  have  received  the  agency  and  sole  control in 
this  State  of  the  “Amboy”  Cheese,  handled  for 
many years by Messrs. Wm. Sears & Go.  The qual­
ity of this brand has always been kept uniform and 
in every sense “Strictly  Full  Cream,” making it so 
well and favorably  known  and appreciated by the 
trade that no further recommendation or guarantee 
is necessary.

A c m e   Cheese.

We are also the  Sole  Agents  for  the  “Acme” 
Cheese, made in Herkimer Co., N. Y.  This brand is 
a Strictly  Full  Cream  Cheese  and  cannot  fail to 
give satisfaction.

Please send us your  orders.

Lemon,  Hoops  &  Peters.

Grand Rapids, April 24,1889.

T im o . B.  GOOSSBN,

WHOLESALE

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

BROKER  IN  LUMBER.

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

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

33  O TTA W A   ST EE T,

T elep h o n e 269.

GRIND  RÄPIDS,  MICH.

Grand Rapids PniitandProdirGB Go.,

(SUCCESSOR  TO  GEOi  E.  HOWES  &  CO.)

Jobbers  of

BORBIGN BRUITS.

Davenport Canning (j0>

Oa

D a v en p o rt,  la .

A T   T H IS

W h o le s a le A.  H IM E S
Cement Lime and Hair.
FIRE BRICK. 
FIRE  CLIY.
Sewer Pipe and Drain Tile,

Coal and "Wood

Office Opposite  Powers’ Opera House,

54 Pearl  Street.

R e ta il.

\

S pecial P ric e s to |B u ild e rs .

T e le p h o n e ,  490—1  R .

3  N O R T H   IO N IA   ST ..  G RAN D  R A P ID S .

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

O r a n g e s,  L e m o n s   a n d   B a n a n a s   a   S p e c ia lt y .

GROCERIES.

The

E xperience  o f  a  C hicago  D ebt 

C ollector.

The Condition o f Trade.

From the New York Shipping List.

that 

in  progress 

Advices from nearly all  the  most  im­
portant  interior  distributing  centers  of 
trade  indicate  a  fair amount of  activity 
in  every  department,  while 
the  usual 
guide  posts of  clearing  house  statistics 
and railroad  traffic  returns  make a very 
favorable  comparison  with 
the  corre­
sponding  period  last  year,  and  show a 
progressive  movement 
that  has  been 
stim ulated  to  a  considerable  extent by 
the  continuance  of  propitious  weather 
and the early development of spring.  In 
this city there has been  some  complaint 
because the volume of  trade  has  not ex­
panded  more  rapidly,  but  this is partly 
explained by the fact that  many  interior 
buyers are delaying their  visits until  the 
Centennial  celebration,  next  week,  in 
consequence of  the  low  rates and favor­
able conditions under which  railroad ex­
cursion  tickets  have  been  issued.  For 
this  reason  no special  activity is looked 
for during the  current  week  in  distrib­
utive  lines of  trade,  but apart  from  the 
influences  of  the  Centennial,  conserva­
tism  has more than usually characterized 
the  general  commercial  situation,  and 
although  the  outlook  is  not  altogether 
satisfactory,  there  is a  very fair  amount 
of  business 
is  of  a 
There  are  many 
healthy  character. 
favorable  influences in the  present  con­
dition  of  commercial 
affairs,  among 
which  is  the 
increasing  abundance  of 
money as reflected in  the bank statem ent 
th at was published last Saturday.  Then 
there  is 
the  satisfactory  condition  of 
railroad  traffic  as  shown  by increasing 
railroad earnings,  the larger  proportions 
of  the exports of  produce and  merchan 
dise,  and  the favorable  reports that thus 
early have been  aeceived  respecting crop 
these,  however, j 
conditions.  Against 
m ust be placed the  feeling of  depression 
th at prevails in the iron and steel  indus­
try,  the  subdued  temper of  speculation 
in*all departm ents  and  the  general ten­
dency toward  lower prices that is shown 
for  many  all  staple  commodities. 
Iron 
and  steel  are  lower,  leather is cheaper, 
w heat and  other  produce  has  declined, 
the  value  of  railroad  stocks  has 
and 
drifted  downward.  The  most  conspic­
uous 
instance  where  prices  have  ad­
vanced has  been  sugar,  which,  although 
not advancing as sharply as last week,  is 
still  buoyant  in  all  the m arkets of  the 
world.  The  wheat  m arket  has  been 
coming rather more  under  the control of 
legitim ate  influences as the result of  the 
liquidation of  a large  amount of  the old 
speculative interest  and  the looming up 
of  a large  surplus  that,  in  view  of  an 
early harvest  and  promising crop  condi­
tions,  has  a much  more  formidable  ap­
pearance than heretofore.  The low price 
of  grain has stimulated the export move­
ment,  and  the  shipments  of  both  corn 
and cotton have been quite heavy.

The  Coffee  M arket.

Chase &  Sanborn describe the situation 

as follow s:

table  shows  the  visi
poi

The action of the m arket since our last 
report has  brought  about  no  im portant 
change in the coffee situation.  W hile the 
general  trading,  both  in  actual goods and 
options,  has shown  but  slight  improve­
ment,  it has apparently been of sufficient 
volume  to  establish  a  higher  range  of 
value  on  nearly  every  description  of 
coffee.  The  continued  dullness  on  the 
Coffee Exchange is ample evidence of the 
fact that very few are  disposed to sell on 
the  present  basis of  price,  which is cer­
tainly one  of  the  strongest  features  of 
the market.
ible
The folic
nds
suppy of  coffee,  in  bag;s  of  132
each,  for the paist three  ;years :
1887.
1898.
1889.
Rio........................... . .  343,000
349.000
179,000
130.000 
170,000
Santos........................  251.000
Brazil grades........ ..  352,453
384,223 
235,466
Europe.................... .. 1,752,700 1,927,800
164,100
Afloat for U. S...... ...  153,000
291.000
138,000
Afloat for  Europe ...  480,000
530.000
240,000
4,148,323 
3,332,153 2,890,266
re figures 
It will he observed by the abov<
3ks  have 
th at the world’:s  first  h£ind  stoc:
igs since 
been reduced nearly  a m illiou  ba
This dif­
']
the days of  low -priced  (joffee. 
ference in the visible  supply  would seem 
to be of  sufficient importance in itself  to 
bring about a marked change in the price 
position of  coffee,  but the  present condi­
tion of  stocks  are  made to appear  more 
unsatisfactory  when  viewed  in  connec­
tion  with  the  unfavorable  outlook  re­
specting  the future supply.
Cable communications  from  Brazil  re­
port strong m arkets  with advancing ten­
dencies,  and quotations indicate  that the 
value of the higher grades have advanced 
%c per pound  above  the  relative worth 
of  the less desirable  class of  coffees.

The  G rocery  M arket.

This is likely to  be  an  “ off ”  week for 
business,  on  account  of  the  centennial 
holiday.  Sugar has walked  ahead  with 
a headstrong  movement  during the past 
week,  bnt  will  probably now  rest  on its 
laurels  until  next  week,  when  further 
advances  are  anticipated.  Corn  syrups 
are  a  trifle  higher.  Oatmeal  has  de­
clined,  on  account of  the  abandonment 
of  the pool.  The  outlook  for  cheese  is 
not particularly  good,  owing to the great 
amount of  stock which will be thrown on 
the m arket before  the  price  becomes so 
low  that  the  people  have  come  to eat 
cheese freely.  There is still  no price on 
oil,  the 
taking  whatever  the 
dealer is inclined to offer,  ranging all the 
way from 8 to 8%  for Michigan test to 10 
to 10%  for water white.

jobbers 

Sounds  A bout  Right.

Teacher—Now,  children,  I  will  give 
you three words—boys,  bees  and hears— 
and I want  you  to  compose  a  sentence 
which will include all  three words.

Small Boy—I have it.
Teacher—John  McCarthy,  you  may 
give us  your sentence.
John McCarthy—Boys bees  bare  whin 
they go in swimmin’.

Every  grocer 

Knocker”   cigars. 
It.  H.  Treusch &  Bro.

should  handle  “ Our 
sale  only  by 

For 

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  sold  his  eagle  to 
*

Wm.  K.  Yandervilt,  of  New York. 

From the Chicago News.

If  credence is to be put in  the  reports 
of  debt  collectors,  Chicagoans  have  an 
It 
unenviable reputation for bad  debts. 
is said that  credit is more  diffcult to get 
from our  local m erchants than from those 
of  most  Eastern  cities,  and  that  there 
are now over  500 commercial  lawyers in 
Chicago  whose firms are little more than 
collection  agencies.  The  tendency is to 
minimize  credit,  yet  the  collectors  are 
kept busy. 
"‘The public has no idea how 
widely the bad-debt  nuisance  prevails,” 
said a lawyer the  other  day in reference 
to this phase of  business experience.  “ I 
do  not  think it is an  exageration  to  say 
that fully one-half  the people of Chicago 
have  or  have  recently had  accounts  in 
the  hands  of  collectors.  The  ratio  of 
such  losses to the total sales of  our bus­
iness establishm ents would, of course,  be 
small,  but  I am  sure  that  an  accurate 
statem ent  of 
the  num ber  of  accounts 
turned  over  to  the  collectors  and  the 
amount  of  money  they  involve  would 
be astounding to most people.
“Retail  dealers  suffer  most,  though 
wholesalers are victimized  fully as  much 
as  the  nature  of  their  business  would 
lead one  to  expect.  Country merchants 
are  the  especial  bane of  the  wholesale 
dealers.  Their  accounts  are  as  a  rule 
not very large,  but altogether larger than 
the  capitalization  of  the  storekeepers 
warrants. 
I  should  say  that  about  50 
per cent,  of  the  wholesale accounts that 
are  put  into  the  collectors’  hands  are 
actually collected.  Retail  accounts  are 
more  numerous  and  not  so  easily  col­
lected.  Ten  per  cent,  for  liquor  bills, 
10 per  cent,  for  team sters’  bills,  50 per 
cent,  for  tailors’  bills,  75  per  cent,  for 
grocery accounts in fashionable neighbor­
hoods  and  25  in poorer districts,  would 
be  about  correct for the collectable  por­
tion of  retail bills,  and  would  represent 
the wide difference in value between dif­
ferent kinds of  accounts. 
It was  a com­
mon  custom to buy up so-called  bad  ac­
counts at 10 cents on the  dollar for spec­
ulative  purposes,  bnt,  considering 
the 
cost of  collecting,  I doubt if  smeh  traffic 
would now pay at that rate.
‘In general terms,  the  poorest  pay in 
the  city are  the  genteel  salaried people 
who  live beyond  their  means.  Working 
people—barring  only  those who drink- 
are  prom pt  in  payment,  and  in case of 
trouble or hardship  will  make desperate 
efforts to  wipe  out  old  scores  and  get 
straight  with  the  world.  So  far as the 
professional  dead-beat  is  concerned,  ] 
think he  is more  a creation than a reality 
■  speak  from  eighteen  years  of  ex­
perience  in  collecting  bad  debts,  and I 
firmly believe  that  the  man  who delib 
erately sets  to work to  beat  another out 
of  his pay  is one of  the  rarest  things in 
the  world.  The dead-beat would  not av 
erage more than one  debtor in 250.  The 
great  cause  of  the  bad-debt  trouble ^ is 
not  willful  dishonesty,  but  people’s in­
ability  to  calculate  what  they  can  do. 
and then,  too,  procrastinating about pay­
m en t 
the 
debtors whom a collector calls upon have 
the  money  on  the  first  visit,  but defer 
payment to a more convenient time.
“ No  scheme  or  cut-and-dried  policy 
can  be  adopted  and  systematically fol­
lowed 
Circumstances 
make  all  the  difference  in  the  world. 
There is in Chicago  comparatively  little 
making  over of  property to  wives,  since 
husband  and  wife  are  responsible  for 
debts  contracted for domestic  purposes. 
Judgm ents  are often secured and as often 
made  worthless by our  corrupt constab­
ulary.  Garnisheeing is very often resorted 
to,  but  chiefly  when  the  debtor  is em­
ployed by a corporation.  Such concerns, 
as a rule,  pay only once or twice a month, 
when the wages often run beyond the $50 
limit.  As  a  rule,  however,  nothing  is 
gained  by unnecessarily  crowding  men. 
Every successful  collector  has  his  own 
methods,  which  he  carefully  guards, 
since  there is no patent  on  ideas in our 
line of  business,  and every man  wants to 
keep his secrets to himself.”

Probably  99  per  cent,  of 

collecting. 

in 

The M ercantile  A gen cy

From the United States Economist.

the 

The  basis  of  modern  civilization 

is 
modern commerce.  The basis of modern 
commerce is credit.  The basis  of  credit 
is knowledge.  Before  two  individuals 
or two  business  houses  can  enter  into 
retail 
commercial  relations  above 
plane,  the  seller  m ust  know  something 
of the buyer’s means and  character. 
If 
both live  in  the  same  town  this  know­
ledge is easily  gained. 
If  they  are  lo­
cated in  different  counties,  in  seperate 
states or on opposite sides of  the  ocean, 
the difficulty and uncertainty  of  obtain­
ing  it  are  proportionately 
increased. 
Still the information  m ust  be  had,  and 
that of the best possible quality; for com­
petition is always keen,  and the more the 
merchant  knows  of  his  customers  the 
cheaper—because  the  more  safely — he 
can  sell his goods and the  more  custom­
ers he will  attract.
W ere  each  m erchant  obliged  to  rely 
upon his own  independent  investigation 
for his knowledge of credits, his business 
wonld have to  remain  restricted  within 
narrow  geographical  limits.  But  this, 
in an age when rails  and steamships  and 
wires make  of  the  world  one  country, 
could not be tolerated;  so  natural  selec­
tion,  through  modern  specialization  of 
effort,  evolve the m ercantile agency.
The germ idea of making the collection 
of  information about  credits  a  distinct 
occupation  was  probably  of  European 
origin; but it never attained the  rank  of 
a great enterprise—a saience and an art— 
until that idea was adopted by this coun­
try,  touched by  the  practical  genius  of 
America,  the genius which takes so much 
more  kindly  to  new  suggestions  with 
possibilities in  them  than  does  that  of 
the  Old  World, and  thereby  was  devel­
oped 
truly  magnificent  and 
the
wholly 
world’s commerce which it now is.

indispensable  adjunct  of 

into  the 

W rapping Paper for M etals.

in 

A new method for preparing paper  for 
wrapping  metallic  articles  to  prevent 
incorporating 
tarnishing,  consists 
with the paper or applying to its  surface 
a fine powder of  metallic zinc in  such  a 
manner that it will adhere,  so that  when 
silver,  copper,  brass,  or iron articles  are 
wrapped in the paper,  they will  be  pre­
served  from  rusting  or 
tarnishing  by 
reason of the mere affinity of the zinc for 
sulphuretted hydrogen,  chlorine  or  acid 
gases  or  vapors,  and  preventing  them 
from rusting or  tarnishing  the  metallic

PR O D U C E  M A R K E T .

,

, 

_____  _

Apples—Choice stock is hard to get;  fair stock 
commands »2@82.50 per  bbl.
Beans—Handlers are paying about 81.25 for un ­
picked and getting 81.65@8l.75  for  hand-picked.
Butter—Creamery is  in plentiful supply at24A 
25c  Dairy  Is  In  fair  demand  at  16@19c,  with 
price well m aintained,  on account of the unsea­
sonable weather. 
Cabbages—Home  grown  command  83@85 per 
100;  New Orleans stock, 81.50 per crate.
Celery—Scarce and hard to get.
___ _____  
Cider—10c per gal. 
Cooperage—Pork barrels, 81.25;  produce barrels
C ra n b e rrie s—Bell  and  Cherry  in fair d onsnd 
at 81.45 per bu box:  good  Bell  and  Bugle  stew  
readily  commands  56.75 per bbl.
,

Cucumbers—75c per doz. 
Dried Apples—Commission men hold su a dried 
at 3)£@4c and evaporated at 5 \& ic  per *>.
Eggs—The m arket has ruled  stiff,  on  account 
of the  cold  weather. 
Jobbers  pay  9)4@10)4«, 
holding at ll@12c.  A  few warm days, however, 
would send the  price  downward at a rapid rate, 
as the country is full of stock.

per lb.

.  _ 

lieC liC  

Green Onions—15c per doz. bunches.
Honey—More  plenty,  being  easy  at 
Lettuce—12c per lb.
Maple Sugar—10@llc per lb.
.
Onion Sets—12 per  bn. 
Onions—Buyers pay 18®20c for good stoek, and 
hold at  25@30c per bu.
Parsley—30c per doz.
Pieplant—3c per  lb.
Pop Corn—2y,c per lb. 
Pork—Hogs bring 5)4@5)4c on  the  streets  and 
Potatoes—No market.
Radishes—25c per doz. bunches.
Spinach—40c per bu.
Strawberries—82.50 per  box.
Sweet  Potatoes—Kiln-dried Jerseys, 84 pur Dbl. 
Turnips—25c per bu.
Vegetable Oysters—25©30c per  doz.

sell for 5)4®6c from jobbers’ hands.

. 

.

PR O V ISIO N S

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

 

 

Mess,  new............ ...................... 
£ 8
Short cut Morgan...............................................  "J 92
E xtra clear pig, short  c u t................................14 50
Extra clear,  heavy............................................ 
j"
Clear quill, short c u t........................................   1’  so
Boston clear, short c u t....................................   |4
Clear back, short c u t........................................   «   jjJJ
Standard clear, short cut, best.......... 14  50
  m a t s — Canvassed or Plain.

s m o k »

“ 

‘ 
‘ 
* 

Hams, avurage 20 lbs........................................£ $
12 to 14 lb s...................................10$
p ic n ic .......................................................................*34
best boneless............................................. ™

Shoulders...............................................................
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..................................10
Dried Beef, extra...................................................  •
ham prices........................................  »
Long Clears, heavy................................................. 7
Briskets,  medium.................................................
7*

l i g h t ......................................... 

“ 

•• 

‘ 

 

 

l a r d — Kettle Rendered.

laud—Compound.

Tierce*..................... ..............................................
Tubs......................................................................... ....
501b.  T ins...............................................................
Tierces......................................................................  1$
30 and 50 lb. T u b s.................................................
3 lb. Palls, 20 in a  case........................................   < X
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case...................................... . •  •»
10 lb. Palls, • In a case........................................... 1?»
20 lb. Palls, 4 In a case............   .....................
50 lb. Cans..........................................................
E xtra Mess, w arranted 200  lbs..............................  6 75
E xtra Mess, Chicago packing...............................   J 00
P late......................................................................... 7
E xtra Plate.................................................................  7 I®
Boneless, rum p butts..........................................  * '

S IS ?   IN  BARREL».

s a u s a g e —Fresh and Smoked.

Pork Sausage..........................................................  7
Ham Sausage.........................................................."
Tongue Sausage.....................................................   *
Frankfort  Sausage................................................  °
Blood Sausage........................................................
Bologna, straight..................................................
Bologna,  th ick ...........  ........................................."J*
Head Cheese......................................................
PIGS1  FEET.
In half barrels........................... 
In quarter  barrels................................................. 1
In half  barrels............................................................® j™
In quarter barrels.......................................................1 “j
In k its................................................................

TEIPE.

^  40

I R I S H   M EATS.

Swift and Company quote as follows:

“ 
“ 

“  i 

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

Beef, carcass...............................................  8  ®   ®
hindquarters...................................  o  ©   “
■[
fore 
Hogs...............................................................  ©   5
Pork  loins....................................................   ®   *?..
©
B ologna.......................................................  © 2
@  5 
Sausage, blood  or head
@  554 
liv er................
©  854
F rankfort
©   8

M utton........................ ................................  

shoulders............................................ 

“ 

“ 

OYSTERS  a n d   F IS H .
F. J. D ettenthaler quotes as follows

FBESH  FISH.

@  7 
Whitefish 
©   7 
T ro u t.... 
@  4 
Ciscoes... 
@15 
H alibut.. 
@  4 
H erring.. 
©  5
Perch,  skinned
Frogs’ legs,  per doz..................................   25@1  00

CA N D IES,  FR U IT S  a n d   NUTS, 

Putnam  & Brooks quote as follows:

“ 
“ 

.....................10
.................... 10
.......................11

STICK.
Standard, 25 lb. boxes...................................
25 
Twist, 
................................... .
...................................
Cut Loaf, 25 
MIXED.
Royal, 25 lb. p a ils..........................................
2001b.  bbls................
Extra, 25 lb.  palls................
200 lb.  bbls................
French Cream, 25 lb.  pails.
Cut Loaf, 25 lb. eases...........
Broken, 40 lb. Bask..............

..................10
.......................  954
..................... 11
........................1054
...................   1254
.:;:::::::::::io

200 lb. bbls.................... ...........................

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fa n c y—In 5 lb. boxes.

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Lemon Drops.................................................. —
Sour D rops.................................................................
Peppermint Drops................................................."
Chocolate Drops....................................................J"
H. M. Chocolate  Drops........................................
Gum  Drops.................................... .................
Licorice Drops...................................................
A. B. Licorice  Drops........................................... 14
Lozenges, plain..................................................... "
printed................................................ "
Im perials..............................................................."
Mottoes................................................................... "
Cream B ar............................................... '.............."
Molasses  B ar........................................................."j
Caram els................................................................J5
Hand Made  Creams.............................................«j
Plain Creams.........................................................¿¡?
Decorated Creams.................................................
String  Rock.......................................................... "
Burnt Almonds...............................
W intergreen  Berries...................
fan cy—In b u lk .
Lozenges, plain, in  palls. 
in  obis.

........................1254
........................ 1124
bbls................................... 12)4

printed, in pails................................13
Chocolate Drops, in pails.....................................12
Gum Drops, in pails.............................................
in bbls...............................................  5
Moss Drops, in pails..............-.............................18
in bbls...............................................   9)4
Sour Drops, in pails.............................................. 1*)4
Imperials, in pails........................
............................................ll)i
in bbls..........................
FRUITS.

.22
............ 14

.12

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50-lb.  “ 

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Oranges, fancy  California........................ 3 25@3 50
Messina  200s............................... 3 25@3 50
220s..............................  @3
300s..............................3 40@3 50
Lemons, choice.............................................8 j?8®8 78
fa n c y .............................................4 00@4 25
Figs, layers,  new ...............................   —
Dates, frails, 50 lb ......................................   @4)4
)4 frails, 50  lb .................................   @5)4
Fard, 10-lb.  box..............................   _  ©
..............................8  ©
Persian, 50-lb.  box........................   6  (® 7)4
B ananas.......................................................1  50@3  00
Almonds, Tarragona...................... .........16)4@17
California....................... .........  @14
.........7  @  8
.........  ©11
.........  @12
.........  @10)4
.........7)4@12
Cocoan’uts, per 100............................ .........  @1  50
............  @8)4
E x tra.................................................. ............   @7)4
............   @6)4

Filberts,  Sicily.................................
W alnuts, Grenoble............ .............

PEANUTS.

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W h o lesale  Price  Current.

The  quotations  gi/ven  below  ave  such  as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who 

pay promptly and buy in fu ll packages.

*

BAKING  POWDER.

8 T B  U PS.

CREAM TABTAB.

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38
24

M A S .

OOLONG.

IMPERIAL.

SUN CUBED.

GUNPOWDBB.

YOUNG HYSON.

BASKET  FIRED.

FA R IN A C E O U S  GOODS.

■ ja p a n —Regular.

“ 
F L A T O B IN S  BX TK A C TS. 

dbibd  fruit»—F oreign. 
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Strictly  p u re........................  
Grocers’................................. 
dried fruits—Domestic.

F a ir ..................................12  @16
G ood..............................  @17
Choice..............................24  @29
Choicest.......................... 30  @34

Ginger Snaps............... 9 
Sugar  Creams        .......9 
I Frosted  Creams........... 
Graham  Crackers....... 
t  Oatmeal  Crackers....... 

Corn,  b arrels.....................   @26
one-half  barrels__   @28
Pure  Sugar, bbl..................25@34
h alf barrel__ 27@38
“ 
SWEET GOODS. X  XXX
954
954
954
9
9

Lemon  Vanills
35
2 25
3  25 
1  60
4  00 
6  00 
2 50 
7  50
15 00

Farina, 100  lb. kegs............... _ 04
Hominy,  per  b b l.......
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box—   60
im ported.......  @10
Pearl  Barley................  @ 3
Peas, green...................  
'  @1  30
“  split.......................  @ 3
Sago,  German..............  @ 654
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’r l . ..  @ 6)4
Wheat,  cracked...........  @654
Vermicelli,  im port—   @10
dom estic...  @60

Apples, sun-dried.......  4  @ 454
evaporated__ 6  @  654
“  — 15  @20
Apricots. 
....'..........6
Blackberries “ 
14
 
Nectarines  “ 
14
 
Peaches 
“ 
 
10
Plums 
“ 
 
22
Raspberries  “ 
Citron, in  drum ...........  @23
in boxes...........  @25
Currants........................   454©  5
Lemon  Peel.................. 
13
Orange Peel.................  
14
Prunes  T urkey..........   454®  4&
Im perial.........  @ 654
“ 
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Raisins,  Valencias
854 I F a ir ................................ 12  @15
Ondaras.........8  @  854
“ 
G ood..............................16  @20
“  Domestic Layers.. .2  10
Choice.............................24  @28
Loose Californias.-l  65
Choicest........................ 30  @33
. F a ir ...............................  @20
4 00  Choice............................  @26
Choicest........................   @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to  fa ir...........25
Bxtra fine to finest___50
@65
I Choicest fancy.............75
@85
Common to  fa ir...........20
@35
Superior to fine.............40
@50
Common to  fair............ 18  @26
.  Superior to  fine............30  @40
i Common to  fa ir............25  @30
! Superior to  fine............30  @50
Fine to choicest............55  @65
1 F a ir ................................. 25  @30
Choice..............................30  @35
| B est..................................55  @65
Tea  D ust........................   8  @10
I C lim ax.................................... ...40
Corner Stone.............................. 35
Double  Pedro.............................37
Peach  Pie.............................‘....3 7
•  W edding  Cake,  blk..................37
j  Something  Good....................... 39
\  “Tobacco” ..................................37
tobacco*—Fine Cut.
Sweet Pippin.......
Five and  Severn.
ind  Seven..
H iaw atha.....................
Sweet  Cuba..................
45
Petoakey Chief............
55
@34
..6  00  T h istle..........................
42
Florida..........................
65
! Rose  Leaf.....................
32
| Rod Domino.................  
tobaccos—Smoking.
31 
1  Catlin’s Meerchaum,)4s. 
Kiln Dried 16 oz.,  “ 
..19@20
TRADESMAN  CREDIT COUPONS.
8 2, par  hundred..................2  50
*  5, 
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810, 
“ 
820, 
“ 
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts :
200 or over.................5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  • ' 
30 g r.........................................   9
40 g r......................................... 10
50 g r..........................................11

Jennings’ 
90 
2 oz. Panel, doz. 
“  1  10
“ 
4 oz. 
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6 oz. 
2  25
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No.  3, 
I X)
No.  8, 
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“  2  15
No.10, 
“ 
“  4  50
No.  4, Taper,  “  1  60 
54 pt,  Bound, “  4 25 
1  “ 
“  8  50
F IS K — SA LT.
Cod, w hole.......................  @ 4|£
“  boneless...................   7©  754
H a lib u t............................10©1154
2 50
Herring,  round, 54 bbl.. 
gibbed.............. 
2 75
Holland,  b b ls.. 
10 00
Holland, kegs..  ©  70
Scaled................ 
24
11  00 
Mask,  eh’s, No. 1,  54  bbl 
“  12  lb k it..145
“ 
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..1  35
“ 
“  10 
Trout,  54  bbls..............  ©4  50
“  10  lb.  k its...................  78
White,  No. 1, 54 bbls
12 lb. k its........115
16 lb. k its.......  90
Family,  54  bbls......... 2 50
k its................  55
.5  35 ;
.2  88  !
30 ! 
40 ; 
50

G U N   PO W D B B .
K e g s..............................
Half  kegs.....................
LA M P W IC K S.
No. 0...............................
No. 1................................
No. a...........................
LIC O R IC E.
.  30 
Pure................................
-  25
Calabria........................
Sicily........................................   18
Black  Strap........................  
16
Cuba  Baking.......................22@25
Porto  Rico...........................24@35 j
New Orleans, good.............25@30
choice......... 33@38 |
fancy...........45@48 |
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*  nn ! Sweet B asset................32

One-half barrels, 3c extra. 

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

B IC L U I BBBAKFAST.

tobaccos—Plug.

MISCELLANEOUS.

»1 for barrel

5068

M O LAS8BS.

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Muscatine,  B arrels................5  80 ]

OATMEAL.
Half barrels........3 00
Cases......... 2  25@2 36

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BOLLED OATS.

Cocoa Shells,  bulk..............  3$4
Jelly, 30-lb.  pails..................  4
Sage........................................   15
P A R I S ,  W O OD EN  W A R E . 
Curtiss  A  Co.  quote  as  fol­

PAPER.

3 00
4 00
5 00

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OIL.

SALT

BICE. 

PIPES.

TWINES.

SALBBATUS.

WOODENWABE.

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)4 bu  “ 

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

Muscatine, B arrels..................... 5 80

Half barrels........3 00
Cases..........2  25@2  35

Michigan  T est.......................  9
W ater  W hite...........................10%

Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.... 
Bowls, 11 in c h ............................  1 00

FICKLBS.
Medium.......................
“ 
)4 b b l........................2  75 |
Small,  b b l................................ 5 50 i
“  %  b b l................................. 3 25

lows:
S traw ........................................124
“  Light  W eight................ 2
S u g a r.........................................2
Rag  S u g a r...............................2)4
H ardw are.................................2)4
B akers......................................2)4
4  50 ) Dry  Goods................................5
Jute  M anilla........................... 8
Red  Express  No. 1................ 5
No. 2.................4
48 Cotton................................  22
Cotton, No. 2...........................20
“  3...........................18
Sea  Island, assorted.............40
No. 5 H em p .............................16
No. 8 B ......................................17
W ool.........................................8
Tubs, No. 1.............................   7 25
“  No. 2.............................   6 25
“  No. 3.............................   5 25
1  60
“  No. 1,  three-hoop....  1  75 
60
13  “ 
“ 
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15  “ 
........................  2 IK)
“ 
17  “ 
“ 
........................  2 75
assorted, 17s and  17s  2  50 
“ 
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2  75
“ 
40
b u sh el....................  1  60
“ 
“  with covers  1 90
“ 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l  5 50
“  No.2 6 00
“ 
“ 
“  No.3 7  00
“ 
“ 
“  No.l  3  50 
“ 
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“  No.2 4  25
“ 
“  No.3  5  00
G R A IN S a n d  FE E D S T U F F S
90
W h ite ................................... 
Red........................................ 
88
Straight, in  sacks...................   4 80
“  barrels............  5 00
sacks...................   5 80
barrels............  6  00
MEAL.
j  Bolted...................................  2  20
j  Granulated..........................   2  45
Bran......................................   13 00
j Ships.....................................  14  00  ^
!  Screenings..........................   12  00  4*
1  M iddlings............................   14 00
■  Mixed  F eed..................  
  14  00
;  Coarse m eal.........................  15 00
Small  lots............................  37
¡Car 
.  Small  lots............................   30
;
I  Car 
“  ...........................  28)4
j
No. 1...................................... 35@40
No. 1......................................   1  25
No. 2......................................   1  10
No. 1......................................   12  00
N o.2.......................................  10  50 A
H ID E S ,  P E L T S  a n d   FU RS.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 

Clay,No.  216.................. .....1   60
“  T. D. full count............   75
Cob. No.  3 ...............................   40
Carolina h ead...........................6)4
“  No. 1 ............ ........5 2 4
“  No. 2...................5)4®
No. 3...........................5
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DeLand’s,  p ure......................... 5)4 j
Church’s, Cap  Sheaf....................5 j
Dwight’s ................................... 5
Taylor’s ..................................... 5
Common Fine per bbl............   88 j
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks.......  24 |
28  pocket.................................2 05 i
.2  15 ! 
60 
...............
.2  40
.......................
100 
Ashton bu. b a g s .........
.........
Higgins  “ 
Warsaw “ 
.........
.........
SAL  SODA.
Kegs...............................
I Granulated,  boxes................  2
:  Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box.......  2  35
j Hand, 
....... 2 35
I  Mixed bird ..............................  4)4
! Caraway...................................10
C anary.....................................  4
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Hemp........................................  4 
I
Anise........................................   8)4 ! Patent
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R ap e........................................   4)4 | 
M ustard.....................................7)4
Scotch, in  bladders.............. 37
Maceaboy, in ja rs ..................35
French Rappee, in J a rs ........43
Dingman,  100  bars.................4 00 '
Don’t  Anti-W ashboard........4 75 j
J a x o n ....................................    .3 75 ;
Queen  A nne...........................4  00 :
German fam ily........................2 40 •
Big B argain.............................1  87 ,
B o x es.......................................5)4
Kegs, English.........................4% 
A llspice...................................10
Cassia, China in m ats...........7)4
“  Batavia in bund — 11
“ 
Saigon In rolls...........42
Cloves,  Amboyna..................30
“  Zanzibar..................... 24
Mace  B atavia.........................70
Nutmegs, fancy......................80
“  No.  1..........................75
“  No.  2..........................70
“ 
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shot...........................21
spices—Ground--In Bulk.

Pepper, Singapore, black — 18)4 

SAPOLIO.
“ 
SEEDS.

...........................  36)4

spices—Whole. 

“ w h ite .....28

MILLSTUFFS.

BARLEY.

splint 

WHEAT.

FLOUR.

SNUFF.

CORN.

3  “ 

SODA.

SOAP.

OATS.

HAY.

BYE.

1%

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A llspice.......................... . — 15
Cassia,  B atavia......................20
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon....................... 42
Cloves,  Amboyna..................35
“  Zanzibar....................28
Ginger, A frican.....................12)4
“  Cochin.......................15
Jam a ic a ................... 18
“ 
Mace  B atavia.........................80
M ustard,  English..................22
and T rie..25
Trieste.......................27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ......................70
Pepper, Singapore, black — 22
w hite.......30
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STARCH.

Mystic, 1 lb.  pkgs---------
barrels.................

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SUGARS.

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Cut  L oaf.......................
C ubes............................
Pow dered.....................
Granulated,H. & E.’s..
F ranklin..
Lakeside..
Knight’s...
Confectionery  A .........
Standard A...................
No.  1, W hite Extra C ..  8
No. 2 E xtra  C..............
No. 3C, golden............
No. 4 C, d ark ................
No. 5  C..........................

@10)4 
@  9)4 
@  9% 
@ 9 
©   9 
©   9 
@  9 
@  834 
@  8)4 
@  8)4 
@ 8)4 
®  7%

HIDES.

lows:
G reen............................  4  @ 4)4
Part  Cured...................  4  @  4)4
Full 
......  4)4® 5
D ry.................................  5  @  6
Dry  Kips  ......................  5  @ 6
Calfskins,  green......   3  @ 4
cured...... 4)4@  5
Deacon skins........................... 10 @20

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)4 off for No. 2.

FURS.

Shearlings................................ 10 @30
Estimated wool, per ft 20  @25  w
5@1 
M ink................................. 
| Coon..................................  
5@ 90
Skunk............................... 
5@1 
1@ 25
M uskrat............................ 
Fox, red...........................  
5@1 
“  cross.......................  50@5 
5© 75
“  grey.......................... 
i  Cat,  house........................ 
5@ 25
“  w ild.......................... 
5© 50
I 
F ish er...............................1  00@6 00
L ynx................................   50@5 
M artin,  d a rk ..................  25@4 
pale...................   10@1 
O tte r..............................  50@10  0 0 »
W olf.................................   50@4 
B ear.................................  50@30 00
B eav er............................   50@7 
B ad g er............................. 
5@1 
|  Deerskins, per lb......... 
5®  40
MISCELLANEOUS.

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I  T allow ..........................  3)4©  4
Grease  b u tte r..............3  ©   5
Sw itches..................'...  2  @  2 )4mA
G inseng..........................2  00@2 ioW

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Arctic, h   lb. cans, 6  doz— 
... 
75
4  “ 
U lb . “ 
...  1  40
2  “ 
y, lb. “ 
...  2  40
2  “ 
lib . “ 
...12 00
.1  “ 
51b. “ 
Absolute, )4 lb. cans, 100s. .11  75 
50s..10 00
“ 
hi lb. 
“ 
50s..18  75
lib . 
Telfer’s,  )4 lb.  eans, 6doz.  2  70 
“  3  “  .  2  55
lb. 
“  1  “  .  1  50
1 lb. 
75
2  “ 
yt lb. “ 
....  1  50
3 00
1  “ 
lib . “ 
b u lk ............................  20
45 
Red Star, M lb. cans, 12 do* 
6  “ 
85
4  “  1  50

Acme, M. lb. cans, 3 doz.... 

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54 lb.  “ 
1 lb 
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BATH BRICK.

English, 2 doz. In case....... 
80
 
7|
Bristol,  2  “ 
65
American. 2 doz. in case... 
Gross 
b l u in g . 
Arctic Liq,  4-oz...................  3  60
54 p t..................  7 00
“ 
1 p t...................   10 80
“ 
20
8-oz paper bot
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Pepper  Box  No.  2
4 00 
9 60

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BUCKWHEAT.

Maekerel, in Tomato Sauee.

ro lls... 
CANDLES.
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ro lls............................ 
Crsaiasry, solid peeked—  
... 

»BOOMS.
No. 2 H url..............................  2 00
..............................  2 25
No. 1  “ 
No. JC »rpet..........................  2 50
No. 1 
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Parlor Gem............................3 00
Common W hisk................... 
90 j
Fancy 
...................   1  00
Mill 
.......................................  3 50
W arehouse............................ 3 00
Kings 100 lb. cases.............. 5 06
80  lb. eases................4 25
13
14
15
16
Hotel, 40 lfi. boxee................  1654
954
Star,  46 
Paraffine................................ 
’2
W leking.................................  
25
caknbd eoons—Fish.
Clams. 1 lb. Little N eck.......I K
Clam Chowder, S  lb ..............2  25
Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stand —   90
Sib. 
....1 6 0
“ 
Lobsters, 1 lb. picnie............1  50
9  lb.  “ 
.............2  65
1 lb.  Star................. 2 00
2  lb. Star................. 3  75
1 lb.  stand............1  75
2  lb. 
............ 3 00
3 lb. in M ustard.. .3 50
3 lb.  soused..........3 00
Salmon, 1 lb.  Columbia...... 2 00
.......3  10
21b. 
1 lb. Sacram ento.. .1  85 
...2  75
21b. 
Sardines, domestic  54s .........  6
54«.........®  9
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“  M ustard K s.........9©10
Imported  54«....... 
“ 
954
“ 
spiced,  54s ........... 15©16
Trout, 3 lb. brook..............
CANNED GOODS—FrultS. 
Apples, gallons, stand.2  15@2 25
Blackberries,  stand..........  *0
Cherries, red standard....   90
p itte d ....................... 2 00
D am sons.................................   90
Egg Plums, stand.................. 1  20
Gooseberries...........................1  00
Grapes
Green  Gages.......................... 1  10
Peaches, all  yellow, stand.. 1  75
seconds................... 145
P ie ............................1  00
Pears........................................1  30
Pineapples................... 1  10©1  25
Q uinces.........................................1 00
Raspberries,  ex tra......................1 35
red .....................1  60
Straw berries..........................1  10
W hortleberries................... .
CANNED TBGBTABLaS.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.....
Beans, Lima,  stand.........  80
“  Green  Lim as—   ©1  06
“ 
Strings................  @  85
“  Stringlesg,  E rie......  90
“  Lewis’ Boston B aked.. 1  40
Corn, Archer’s Trophy.........1  00
“  Morn’g Glory. 1  00
“ 
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Early  G old... 100
“ 
Peas, F rench..........................1  68
“  extra m arrofat... 
“ 
“  June,  stan d ...................1  35
■*  sifted.....................1  55
“ 
“  French, extra  fine...  .1  50
Mushrooms, extra fine.........2  15
Pumpkin, 3 lb.  Golden...  85
Succotash,  standard............1  60
...................................1  10
Squash 
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat.. 
Good Enough —  1  00
B eu llar................1  00
stand  br__   @1  GO

soaked.......................  70

@1 10

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CHEESE.

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CHICORY.

Michigan Full Cream  1154@12 
Sap  Sago.......................16  @17
CHOCOLATE.
Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet  22
“  Prem ium ........  33
“  Horn-Cocoa...  37
“  B reakfast___  48
CHEWING  GUM.
200 

Rubber, 100 lumps..................25
35
Spruce..................................... 30
B ulk.........................................  6
R ed...........................................   7)4
Rio, fa ir........................17  @19
“  good......................18)4@20
“  prime.....................  @21
“  fancy, w ashed.. .19  @22
“  golden.................. 20  @23
Santos...........................17  @22
Mexican & Guatemala 19  @23
P eaberry..................... 20  @23
Java,  Interior.............20  @25
“  M andheling__26  @29
Mocha, genuine......... 25  @27
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.

coffee—Green.

coffees—Package.

100 lbs
Lion......................................... 24)4
“  in cab in ets.................... 243S4
Dilworth’s ..............................24)4
M agnolia................................ 24
Acme...................23)4  23)4  23)4
McLaughlin’s  XXXX..........24)4
Honey  B ee.............................26
T iger....................................... 24
Nox  All  .................................25
O  B .........................................24

30 lbs  60 lbs

COFFEE EXTRACT.

Valley City.................
F elix ............................

CLOTHES  LINES.

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

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Ju te 
“ 

50 f t .........  
60 f t .........  
70 f t ......... 
80 f t .........  
60 f t ........... 
72 f t- .......  

“
“
“
“
“
“
CONDENSED MILK.

1  10

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

E agle......................................   7  60
Anglo-Swiss..........................  6 00

CRACKERS.

“ 

Kenosha B utter.....................  8
Seymour 
..................... 6
B utter......................................   6
“  family............................  6
Boston......................................   8'
City Soda.................................  8
Soda..........................................  6)4
S. Oyster ................................   6
City Oyster, XXX...................  6
Picnic...................................... 6

00
00
50

00

50 Ml

00
00

00
00
00

articles wrapped in such paper.  This  is 
done by  sifting  on  the  sheet  of  paper 
pulp,  while it is in the process of  m anu­
facture,  and  before  it  is  pressed  and 
dried,  a metallic  zinc powder,  known  in 
commerce as blue powder,  in  convenient 
quantity,  about to the extent of  one-half 
the  weight  of  the  dried  paper. 
The 
paper is then run between the press rolls 
and over the drying cylinders in  the  or­
dinary  manner.  The  zinc  powder  will 
adhere to the paper and  be  partly  incor­
porated with it in  greater  or  less  quan­
tity,  as the sheet of  paper pulp  is  more 
or less thick or more  or  less  wet.  The 
paper  may  also  be  sized  with  glue ^ or 
starch  and  then  dusted  with  the  zinc 
powder,  or the  zinc powder may be mixed 
with the  size or  starch,  and then  applied 
to the surface of the paper by well known 
methods.

The  Drum m er  G ets  There  Som ehow .
“ Look  out,  young  feller;  w hat  are 
you  about?”   said 
the  policeman  in  a 
certain Southern town to a young travel­
ing  man who was  tapping with his  cane 
w ith  the  evident  intention of  smashing 
in the glass around  a street lamp.
“Ah! there  you  are,”  said  the  travel­
ing  man,  as the  glass  gave  way  with  a 
crash.  “ Now,  if you will  be good enough 
to  arrest  me,  I  will  be  obliged  to you.” 
“ You  seem  to  be  mighty  anxious  to 
get arrested,”  said the officer.
“Yes;  I  was  a  little  bit  afraid  you 
wouldn’t  notice  me. 
I’ve  got  to  stay 
here about  three  days  until I hear  from 
my  firm  on  a business m atter.”
“Well,  you  don’t  w ant to  spend  that 
“ Yes;  I ’ve tried both the hotels here.”

time in jail,  do you?”

C.  H. C O R N E L L ,

(Successor  to  CORNELL  & KERRY.)

F ruits and Produce.

W h o lesale  a n d   C o m m is s io n

A g e n t  for  th e   W a y  la n d   C h eese.

30  N O R T H   IO N IA   ST R E E T , 

T E L E P H O N E   253,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

T h e  B est S co u rin g  a n d  C l M i i i i  Soap ia  th e  W o rld
Costs as much to manufaetur» as Sapolio,  yet  sells  at 
about half the price  (»2.75 per box of 72 cakes).  Can be 
retailed for as  much  w ith  equal  or better value to the 
consumer,  although  it  is  generally  sold  at  5  cents  a 
cake  Cut this out, and ask your  Jobber  to  send you a 
box of Pride o f the K itchen.  It Is worth trying.

We Äre Headquarters

:f o r ;

C o n su lt  y o u r   o w n  

in te r e sts   toy  g e ttin g   o u r  

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 .

Teller Spice Company
THE  OLD  RELIABLE

PUT  UP  IN

Boxes, Cans, Pails,  Kegs,  Half 

Barrels and  Barrels.
Send for sample of the celebrated

Frazer Carriage Grease

T he F ra z e r Good* H a n d led   b y  tlie  J o b b in g  

-  T rad e E v e ry w h e re .

I.  M.  CLARK  1  SON,

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

WE  ARE  HEADQUARTERS

-FOR-

Teas
Syrups
Molasses
W holesale  Grocers

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

D r u g s  &£M edicin e s .

8ta.‘e   B o ard   o f  P harm acy*

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor.
Two Years—Gee. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Three Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Four  Years—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Five Years—James  Vernor, Detroit.
President—Geo. McDonald 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next  Meeting—At  Star 
Tuesday and Wednesday, July 2 and 3._______________
M ic h ig a n   S t a te   P h a r m a c e u t ic a l  A s s ’ll. 

sland  House,  near  Detroit, 

President—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
First Vice-President— F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing.
Second Vice-President—H. M. Dean, Niles.
Third Vice-President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—A. H. Lyman,  Manistee;  A. Bas 
sett,  Detroit; F. J.  Wurzburg,  Grand Rapids;  W.  A. 
Hall, Greenville;  E. T.  Webb, Jackson.
Local Secretary—A. Bassett, Detroit._________________
iv ra n d   R a p id s   P h a r m a c e u t ic a l  S o c ie t y . 

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

President. J. W. Hayward,  Secretary, Frank H. Escott. 
~ G ra n d  R a p id s   D r a g  C lerk s*  A s s o c ia t i o n . 
President, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, Albert Brower___
President, J.  W. Caldwell.  Secretary, B. W. Patterson.
President, C. S. Koon;  Secretary, J. W. Hoyt.
M eeting  o f  D ru ggists  at  L ansing  on 

M a s k e g o ii  D r u g   C le r k s ’  A s s o c ia t io n . 

W ed n esd ay.

President  Gundrum,  of  the  Michigan 
State  Pharm aceutical  Association,  sent 
out the following  letter to several  mem­
bers of  the Association last Thursday : 
I o n ia,  April 25,  1889.

The  Legislature 

adjourns  Friday, 
A pril 26,  to go to Ann Arbor,  and,  conse­
quently,  the  Damon  liquor bill  (already 
passed  in the  House  with  all  the objec­
tionable  features)  will  not  likely come 
up for consideration  in the Senate before 
Tuesday or  Wednesday,  or  possibly  not 
at all next week.
The  best  thing  for  us  to  do  in  the 
meantime is,  to  apply ourselves  individ­
ually  (and  our  friends  collectively)  in 
persuading our Senators,  with  our voices 
or  pen,  or  both,  to  oppose  the  Damon 
liquor  bill  as it stands  toward  the drug- 
ggist.  The  Damon  bill  will  only  be  a 
terror  to  those  that  are  observing  the 
present  liquor  law,  and  the  druggists 
th at  are  disgracing  the  profession now 
will  slip through under the  clause,  “ and 
any  such  druggist,  clerk,  or  employe, 
who shall in  any m anner or  respect will­
fu lly  make  a false or fraudulent  affidavit 
thereto,  shall  be  deemed 
in  relation 
guilty  of  perjury,  and  subject  to 
the 
pain and  penalties  therefor.”  The con­
scientious druggist will  be  appalled with 
the great oath he takes every full  moon, 
“And said  affidavit shall declare that the 
applications and  orders,  sales  and  gifts 
of  spiritous,  intoxicating,  malt,  brewed, 
ferm ented or vinous or mixed  liquors re­
corded w ithin the  record  book to  which 
the  affidavit  is  attached  include a ll th e  
sales or gifts of  any  such  liquors  afore­
said,  and  the  full  names of  the persons 
to whom sold,  together with the  purpose 
to  which  the  same  was  to  be  applied, 
made at the  store  of  the  affiant  during 
the  month last past.”
if 
passed  bring forth no better results than 
the present  liquor  law,  as it is left,  like 
the present law,  to enforce  itse lf;  it will 
depend  entirely on  the  character of  the 
druggist. 
It will  add  expense  and  an­
noyance  to  the already  poorly-paid pro­
fession of  pharmacy. 

in  my  opinion,  will, 

Yours truly, 
Geo.  Gu n d ru m ,  President.

This  bill, 

Frank  W ells,  of  Lansing,  has  since 
arranged  with 
the  Senate  committee 
having  the  Damon  bill  under  consider­
ation to give the  druggists of  the State a 
hearing  on  W ednesday evening,  May 1. 
President  Gtmdrum  has  accordingly 
named  Wednesday  afternoon  as 
the 
proper  time  to  meet  and  decide  upon 
w hat plan to pursue.

T h e  T r a d esm a n  would  urge  every 
druggist who can  possibly leave home to 
attend  the  meeting and make a personal 
appeal  to his Senator.  Those  who  can­
not  spare 
the  time  to  go  to  Lansing 
should  surely  write a letter  to his  Sen­
ator,  soliciting his  friendly action in the 
premises.

Grand  Rapida D rug  C lerks’ 

A ssocia-

tion.

About thirty of the drug «lerks  of  the 
city  have organized a society  under  the 
style of the Grand  Rapids  Drug  Clerks’ 
Association.  The Association is officered 
as follows:

H.  Middleton.

President—Frank  D.  Kipp.
Vice Presidents—W.  E.  Osborn  and V. 
Secretary—Albert  Browe.
Treasurer—W.  S. Temple.
Executive  Board — President,  Secre­
tary, Adolph Wilson, Wm. W olf and Earl 
Allen.

The  constitution  aud  by-laws  of  the 

Association are  as follows: 
p r e a m b l e .

Knowing 

the  benefits  to  be  derived 
from a  union of the  drug  clerks  of  this 
city,  and believing that  a degree of social 
feeling among its  members,  and  a  famil­
iarity with pharmaceutical m atters other­
wise  not  attainable,  can 
thereby  be 
secured,  we do hereby resolve and consti­
tute ourselves into  a  perm anent  organ­
ization,  to meet at  such times and places 
as  will be decided hereafter.

A R T IC L E   I.

Name and Objects.

Section 1.  This  organization  shall  be 
known as the Grand  Rapids Drug Clerks’ 
Association.
Sec.  2.  Its objects  are  to  advance  the 
interests of drug  clerks;  the  cultivation 
of  a greater degree of social harmony;  to 
promote  sociability  and  good  feeling 
among its members  by  uniting them into 
closer  fellowship  with  each  other;  and 
the acquisition of pharmaceutical knowl­
edge by the  discussion  of  subjects  per­
taining  to  pharmacy  and  its  branches, 
and the reading of scientific  papers  and 
essays.

A R T IC L E   I I.
Members.

into 

two-thirds  of 

Sec.  3.  A  vote  of 

Sec.  4.  Each  member  pays 

Section  1.  Any person,  not  a  proprie­
tor of  a pharmacy  (wholesale  or  retail), 
residing in  Grand Rapids or vicinity, who 
is  a  registered  or  assistant  registered 
pharmacist,  of  good  moral  character,  is 
eligible for membership.
Sec.  2.  Any  person desiring  admission 
to the  Association  shall  make a w ritten 
application,  signed by at least  two mem­
bers in good standing,  and  shall  be  bal­
loted  for,  as  directed  in  the  following 
section:
the 
members present at any meeting  elects a 
candidate  for membership.
the 
hands of  the  Treasurer $1  initiation  fee 
and  §2  annual  dues,  payable  semi-an­
nually.
Sec. 5.  A fter having  paid the required 
dues,  and  signed  the  constitution,  such 
to  vote  and  hold 
member  is  entitled 
office.
Sec.  6.  No  member  shall  have a right 
to vote or hold  office  who  has  not  paid 
his dues.
Sec.  7.  If  any  member  should  be 
charged with conduct unbecoming a mem­
ber of  this Association,  the charges shall 
be investigated by  a committee appointed 
for  the  purpose;  and,  if  substantiated, 
he  may be expelled by  a two-thirds  vote 
of  the  members  present  at  any regular 
meeting.
Sec.  8.  Any member  being  absent two 
or  mere  consecutive  meetings  will  be 
fined 25 cents for each meeting, unless he 
shall  be  excused  by  a  committee  ap­
pointed for that purpose.
Sec.  9.  Any  member  who  becomes  a 
proprietor of  a pharmacy may be elected 
an  honorary member.
Sec.  10.  Any person  of  eminent  scien­
tific standing may be elected an honorary 
member  on  the  recommendation of  the 
executive board.
Sec.  11.  Honorary  members  shall  be 
exempt from payment of  dues.

A R T IC L E   III.

Officers.

it 

E.  A. Stowe,  Grand Rapids:

"Let There Be L ight.”

Sherwood,  A pril 25,  1889.

Section  1.  The officers of  this  Associa­
tion  shall  be  a President, Vice-President, 
Second Vice-President,  Secretary,  Treas­
urer,  and an  Executive Board consisting 
of  five members.
Sec.  2.  The officers  shall be elected by 
ballot at the  annual meeting,  and remain 
in office until  their successors are elected.
See.  3.  At  the  regular  meeting  next 
preceding the annual meeting,  a commit­
tee  of  five  for  nomination  of  officers 
shall be  elected  by ballot,  and  report at 
the annual meeting.
Sec.  4.  Vacancies  occurring  by  resig­
nation  or  otherwise  shall  be  filled  by 
formal  election  at any meeting.

Sec. 2.  In  the  absence  of 

A R T IC L E   IV .

Duties o f  Officers.

De a r   Sir—A  letter  from  Corwin  F. 
Miller,  in  the last  issue of  T h e  T r a d e s­
I have  been 
m a n,  attracts my attention. 
in  the  drug  business  for  several  years 
and  I  have  tried  to  avoid  the  sale  of 
liquor in  various  ways:  I give bonds and 
try to live up to the law in  all  ways. 
I 
have had books arranged and  would  sell 
no liquor to any person, unless they would 
sign  their name  as requiring it for  medi­
cine—but that did not work.
I tried by selling none only on prescrip­
tions—but that did not work.
I have black-listed  (made for myself  a 
list of  persons whom  I would not sell  to 
under any circumstances)—but  they  get 
it often  in some unknown way or through 
some  person not on  the list.
Now,  I am only one  of  many  who  do 
not like  the liquor trade;  but how  can  a 
druggist keep  a drug store  and  not  keep 
liquors  in  stock for  prescription  trade?
I  have  many  prescriptions  that  require 
liquor,  either  brandy,  gin or whisky,  to 
say nothing of  the  uses  in  making  the 
preparations according to  the  Dispensa­
tory.  Then,  again,  there is a  legitimate 
trade  that honestly requires liquor.

I  would  like  an expression  from  others 
who are truly temperance men. 
I  never 
sell  by  the drink,  nor do I allow tippling 
in any form.  ‘I do not use it  myself. 
I 
know the improper use of  it is  a cuise.

Section 1.  It  shall  be  the duty of  the 
President  to  preside  at  all  meetings of 
the Association,  m aintain  order  among 
the  members,  and  appoint  all  special 
committees,  unless 
is  otherwise  or­
dered  by  a  m ajority  of 
the  members 
present.  A t the annual meeting he shall 
present  a  report  of  the  proceedings of 
the Association  for  the  year,  with  any 
suggestions  for  its  future  management 
that  may be gained from his experience.
the  Presi­
dent,  the  duties  of  the  chair  shall  de­
volve  upon  the  Vice-President. 
In the 
absence of  the  Vice-President,  the  Sec­
ond Vice-President shall  preside;  and if 
the  Second  Vice-President  be absent,  a 
chairman pro tern,  shall be chosen.
Sec.  3.  The Secretary shall  keep  a cor­
rect record of  all  the  proceedings of  the 
Association,  keep  a  complete 
list  of 
members,  and give  them  three days’  no­
tice of  all meetings.  He shall  make out 
all bills and deposit  them With the Treas­
urer and  take a receipt,  draw  all  orders 
on  the  Treasurer,  render a report at the 
annual meeting,  or as  often  as required, 
have  the  custody of  all  reports,  essays, 
and  communications  belonging  to  the 
Association,  receive  and  answer all cor­
respondence  and  keep it on  file,  and no­
tify  committees  of 
their  appointment, 
officers of  their election,  and members of 
their acceptance.
Sec.  4.  The  Treasurer  shall  keep  all 
the funds of  the Association,  keep  a cor­
rect account of  all  receipts and expendi­
tures,  collect all  money due  the Associa­
tion,  pay all orders drawn on him by  the
crop of  1889-90  are  said to be coming to j Secretary,  countersigned  by  the  Presi 
hand more or less  ambiguous  in  charac-  dent,  and  accompanied  by  the  proper 
ter,  and  probably not altogether  reliable  vouchers.  He shall  present a  statem ent 
as  yet,  though  they  generally indicate a j at  the  annual  meeting,  or  as  often  as 
larger  yield,  and,  in  some  cases,  have  ! may be required by the Executive Board, 
suggested  as  much  as 25 to 30 per  cent,  j who shall retain the right to examine,  at 
over the present  season. 
| any time,  the  books  of  the  Treasurer.

The  subject  above  referred  to  is  so 
im portant  in  its  bearings  on  the  drug 
trade that T h e  T r a d esm a n has request­
ed Mr.  M iller to  supplem ent  his  article 
in last week’s paper with a full  explana­
tion of thfe methods he found it necessary 
to adopt  in  order  to  carry  the  reform 
into effect.

If any  one can give  any  light upon  the 
question,  let them do  so  for  the  benefit 
of the druggists who are temperance men. 

Some  hints  regarding  the  China  tea 

W.  R.  Ma n d ig o.

___ ________

Yours truly,

to 

He  shall  deliver  to  his  successor  all 
books,  papers,  etc.,  belonging 
the 
Association.
Sec.  5.  The Executive Board shall have 
the general management of  the affairs of 
the Association;  appropriate  such  funds 
as they may deem necessary; levy special 
assessments  when  necessary;  provide 
suitable rooms  for  meeting,  and  report 
at every regular meeting of  the Associa 
tion.

A R T IC L E   v.
Meetings.

Section 1.  The Association  shall  meet 
on the second of  each  month during the 
year,  for the  purpose  of  social  and 
tellectual  advancement,  and 
the 
for 
transaction of business.
Sec.  2.  The regular  meeting  in  April 
shall be the annual meeting.
Sec.  3.  A special meeting of  the  Asso 
ciation may be called  by  the  President, 
at the request of  three  members  of  the 
Exesutive Board.
Sec.  4.  A  meeting  of  the  Executivi 
Board may be  called  by  the  President 
at the w ritten request of  three  members 
of  said Board.

A R T IC L E   V I.
Am endm ents.

No amendment or  alteration  shall  be 

made to  this  constitution,  except  by 
two-thirds  vote of  the  members  present 
at any meeting,  and  notice shall be given 
at a previous meeting.

A nother  D rug  Store  in  K alam azoo.
W ill  McDonald,  for  several  years  in 
the  employ of  his  brother,  Geo.  McDon­
ald,  at Kalamazoo,  has  concluded  to em­
bark  in  the  drug  business  on  his own 
account as  soon as the  necessary prelim­
inaries  can  be  arranged.  He  was  in 
Grand Rapids a couple of days last week, 
looking  up the subject of  fixtures.

N o  R egistered  P harm acist  There.
The  carelessness  of  the  managers  of 
the  Grange  store at Allegan  was  exem­
plified resently.  A Cheshire lady bought 
what  she  supposed  was  Epsom  salts. 
A fter  taking  one  dose  she  was  seized 
with 
terrible  pains,  and  but  for  a 
prom ptly administered emetic m ight have 
died.  The drug was saltpetre.

Every  druggist 

should  carry 
Knocker”  cigars  in  his  showcase, 
sale only by M.  H. Treusch & Bro.

GZXTSSXTG  ROOT.
-n -n iW   "DU HQ  ^ W h o le sa le   D ru g g ists,
i l i U l l   Jj A U ijA   g r a n d   r a p id s.

We pay the highest price for it.  Address

P olishina

T h is  Is  th e   T im e  to   P a in t.

The  Best is Älwap the Cheapest
Pioneer Prepared Paint

WE  HAVE  SOLD  THE

For many  years and

G U A R A N T E E

Same  to

G iv e  S a tisfa c tio n .

Dealers  in  paints  will  find  it  to  their 

interest to write us  for  prices 

and sample cards.

HMLTINE  l  PERKINS  DRUG CO.,

G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H .

Should  Send  $1 to 
E .  A .  S t o w e   &   B ro.
J for one of their Improved

GRAND  BAPID8,

LIQUOR#POISON REBORDS

Wholesale Price  C u rren t.

B Y -L A W S .
Article  I.

Section 1.  Nine  members,  the  presid 
ing officer and Secretary shall  constitute 
a quorum at any  meeting of  the Associa 
tion.
Sec.  2.  Three  members shall constitute 
a quorum at any meeting  of  the  Execu 
tive Board.

Order o f  Business.

1.  Roll call.
2.  Reading  of  m inutes  of  preceding 
if  necessary,  and 

meeting,  correcting, 
adoption.
ship.

3.  Election  of  candidates for member 
4.  Reports of committees.
5.  Unfinished business and  new  busi­

ness.

6.  Reports of officers.
7.  Election and installation.
8.  Reading of  essays and w ritten com 
9.  Queries,  debating, and conversation
10.  Adjournment.

munications.

D etroit  D rug  N otes.

Detroit druggists are  looking  forward 
with  pleasant  anticipation  to  the  next 
game of  base ball  with  their  Cleveland 
brethren.  The  game  will  probably  be 
played in the early part of  June. 
It  is 
proposed to  give  the  Cleveland  boys  a 
royal  welcome  and  a  good 
trouncing. 
A.  W.  Allen will captain  the Detroits.

that 

F.  W.  R.  Perry,  the popular Woodward 
avenue pharmacist,  has  gone  on  a  two 
m onths’  trip.  We can’t all afford  to  go 
for 
time,  but  no  one 
grudges Mr.  Perry  all  the  pleasure  he 
can  have.  There is no man in  the  busi­
ness thought more  of  by his competitors 
than F.  W.  R.  P.

length  of 

M ueller’s  new  drug  store,  corner  of 
Woodward avenue  and  Congress  street, 
is a handsome one.

The article published in T h e  T r a d e s­
m an some time ago,  suggesting  an  occa­
sional change on the Board of Pharmacy, 
is favorably commented  upon  by  many 
druggists of  this city.  The  impression 
seems quite general that if  a change was 
made each year there would be no trouble 
in securing the services of good men  for 
the place.

The members of  the  Detroit  Pharm a­
ceutical Society  are  more  than  pleased 
with their  new quarters,  they  are  airy, 
light and centrally located.

V iolet  C opying  Ink.

 

10 

According to the Journal de Pharmacie, 
the  following  makes  a  most  excellent 
w riting and  copying fluid:
E xtract of campechewood..........................  40 parts
Oxalic acid......................................................  5  “
Alum, in fine  powder...................................  30  “
Glycerin...................  
“
Rain or distilled w ater.................................900  “
Potassium  bichrom ate.................................   5  “
Wood vinegar...................................................50  “

Add the  glycerin  to  800  parts  of the 
water,  and  dissolve  the  extract,  oxalic 
acid and alum in the m ixture.  Dissolve 
the  bichromate  in  the  balance  of 
the 
water,  and  after  letting  the  solutions 
stand for twenty-four  hours,  mix  them. 
Let stand  for another day, and then pour 
the m ixture into a copper kettle, bring to 
a boil,  and while  boiling  add  the  wood 
vinegar.  A fter  allowing  the  liquid  to 
boil for a minute,  remove  from  the  fire 
and let cool.  Set  aside  to  settle,  after 
which rack off into suitable bottles.  This 
ink  gives a brilliant  script,  and  copies 
made therefrom  are bright and legible.

M ineral  W ax.

The  first  car-load  of  m ineral  wax,  a 
substitute  for  beeswax,  and  which  will 
be  largely used by electricians,  recently 
arrived in New York. 
It is  called  ozer- 
cerite,  and  is found  about 414 miles east 
of  Salt  Lake  City,  where  there  is  the 
only source of  supply  yet  known except 
in Galicia,  Austria.  Ozercerite  contains 
from 85 to 90 per cent,  of  pure wax. 
Its 
color  varies  from a light  yellow to dark 
brown or black. 
It requires  from 160  to 
190 degrees  Fahrenheit  to m elt it,  and it 
is claimed to be the best insulator known. 
It possesses  the greatest resistance to an 
electrical  substance  and  is  acid  proof. 
It has  been  used  by blacking  manufac­
turers and in the m anufacture of  sealing 
wax.  W hen it is refined it is called  cer- 
esin,  and can be used  j ust as  beeswax is 
used. 
It  costs  just  one-third  as  much 
as  beeswax.  Candles  and  dolls  can  he 
made  w ith it.

The D rug  M arket.

There  are  no  changes  to  note 

week.  Opium 
easy.  Morphia is steady.

is  firmer.  Quinine 

this 
is 

The  Home  Savings  Bank,  of  Detroit, 
has opened its branch  bank on  Junction 
avenue.

ACIDUM.

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

A ceticum ........................  8®  10
Benzoicum,  German..  80@1  00
Boracie 
30
C arbolicum ....................  40® 45
C itricum .........................  50® 55
H ydrochlor....................  
N itro cu m .......................  10® 12
O xalicum .......................   13® 14
Phosphorium  d ii......... 
20
Salicylicum .......................1 40@1 80
Sulph uricum ..................  134<5
Tannicum ...........................1 40®1 60
Tartaricum .....................  45® 50

3®

AMMONIA.

“ 

Aqua, 16  deg................ 
3®
4®
18  deg................ 
Carbonas  .....................   11®
C hloridum ................. •  12®

ANILINE.

B lack................................... 2 00@2 25
Brown..............................  80@1 00
R ed.................................   45®  50
Y ellow .................................2 50@3 00

BACCAE.

Cubeae (po. 1  60................ 1 85@2 00
Jn n ip eru s.....................  8®   10
X antnoxylum ..............  25®  30

BAIjSAMTTM.
Copaiba.........................  65®  70
P eru...............................  
®1  30
Terabin, Canada  .......  50@  55
T o lu tan .........................  45®  50

COBTEX.

Abies,  C anadian...................   18
Cassiae  ...................................  11
Cinchona F la v a ....................  18
Euonymus  atro p u rp ..........   30
Myrica  Cerifera, po..............   20
Prunus V irgini.......................  12
Quillaia,  grd ..........................   12
Sassafras  ................................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  12).........  10

EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza  G labra...
po.
Haematox, 15 lb. box.
Is ..............
“ 
“ 
V£s...........
“  Ms...........
FEBRUM.

24®
33®
11@
13®
14®
16®

Carbonate Precip.........  ®   15
Citrate and Q uinia....  @3 50
Citrate  Soluble............   @
Ferrocyanidum Sol —  
®
Solut  Chloride............  
®
Sulphate,  com’l ...........1M®
p ure..............  @

“ 

A rn ica.........................   14®
A nthem is.....................   30®
M atricaria...................   30®

FLORA.

FOLIA.

.....................  10®  12

n iv e lly ................  
“  Alx. 

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-
25®
 
35®
Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
and  Ms.......................  10®
Ura U rsi.........................  8®

“ 

GUMMI.

 
 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

  ®  
  @ 8 0

Acacia, 1st  picked....  @1  00
2d “ 
90
3d “ 
sifted sorts...  @  65
p o ...................   75@1  00
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60)...  50@  60 
Cape,  (po.  20)...  ®   12
Socotri,  (po.  60).  @ 5 0
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 54s,
@  1
16).............................. 
A m m oniae...................   25®  30
Assafoetida,  (po. 30)...  @  15
Benzoinum...................   50@  55
Cam phor*.....................  35®  38
Euphorbium  po  .........  35®  lo
Galbanum .....................   @  80
Gamboge,  po................  80®  95
Guaiacum,  (po. 45) —   @  40
Kino,  (po.  23)..............  @  20
M astic..............................  @1 00
Myrrh,  (po,  45)............   @  40
Opii,  (pc. 4 50).............3 
00@3 10
Shellac  ........................   25@  30
bleached.........  25®  28
T rag acan th ..................  30®  75

hebba—I n ounce packages.

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

MAGNESIA.

Calcined, P a t................  55@  60
Carbonate,  P a t ...........  20@  22
Carbonate, K. &  M __   20@  25
Carbonate,  Jenningö..  35®  j36

OLEUM.

00©5 50

A bsinthium .................. 5 
Amygdalae, D ulc____   45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarae___7 25@7  50
75@1 85
A n isi............................... 1 
Auranti  Cortex...........  @2 50
Bergamii  ..................... 2 
50@3 00
C ajiputi........................   90@1  00
C aryophylli.....................   @1 80
C e d a r............................  35®  65
C henopodii.....................   @1 75
Snnam onii................... 1 
10@1 20
C itronella..................... 
®   75
Conium  M ac................  35®  65
Copaiba........................   90@1  00
Cubebae.....................15 50@16  00
Exechthitos..................  90@1  00
E rig ero n ........................ 1 
20@1 30
G aultheria.................... 2 
15@2 25
©   75
Geranium,  ounce....... 
Gossipii,  Sem. gal.......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ..................... 1 
15@1 25
Juniper!........................   50@2  00
L avendula...................   90@2  00
L im onis..........................1 
Mentha PI per.................2 
Mentha  V erid...............2 
Morrhuae, gal..............  80@1  00
Myrcia, ounce..................  @ 50
00©2 75
O live............................... 1 
Pieis Liquida,  (gal. 35)  10®  12
R ic in i..............................1 
20@1 28
Rosmarin!.....................  75@1  00
Rosae,  ounce...................   @6 00
Succini..........................  40®  45
S ab in a..........................   90@1  00
Santal  ...........................3 
Sassafras.......................  55®  60
Sinapis, ess, ounce__   @  65
T iglii.................................   @1 50
T hym e..........................   40®  50
opt  ..'..............   @  60
Theobromas.................   15®  20
Bi Carb..........................   15®  18
B ichrom ate..................  15®  16
Bromide........................   37®  40

50@1 80
35@2 40
50@2 60

POTASSIUM.

50©7 00

“ 

C arb................................  12®  15
Chlorate,  (po. 20).........  18@  20
C yanide.........................  50®  55
Iodide...............................2 85@3 
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  28@  30 
©   15
Potassa, Bitart, com ... 
Potass  Nitras, o p t.......  8@  10
Potass N itras................ 
7@ 
9
P russiate.......................  25®  28
Sulphate  po..................  15®  18

BADIX.

A conitum .....................   20®  25
A lthae............................  25©  30
A n ch u sa .......................  15®  20
Arum,  po.......................  @  25
Calamus.........................  20®  50
Gentiana,  (po. 15).......   10®  12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16@  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 45).......................  @  40
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__   15®  20
Inula,  po.......................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po........................2 40@2 
Iris  plox (po. 20@22)..  18@  20
Jalapa,  p r.....................  25@  30
Maranta,  Ms................  @  ,35
Podophyllum, po.........  15@  18
R hei................................  75@1  00
“  c u t.........................  @1  75
“  p v ..........................   75@1  35
Spigelia.......... .............   48®  53
Sanguinaria,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentaria...................   30®  35
S enega..........................   75®  80
Similax, Officinalis,  H  @ 4 0
M  ©   20
Scillae, (po. 35)............   10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
dus,  po............ ..........  @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ©   25
G erm an...  15@  20
Zingiber a .....................  16®  15
Zingiber  j .....................  22®  25

“ 

“ 

“ 

SEMEN.

Anisum,  (po.  20)......... 
©   15
Apium  (graveleons)..  10®  12
Bird, I s ..........................  
4@  6
Carui, (po. 18)..............   8®   12
Cardam on..................... 1  00@1  25
Corlandrum ..................  10©  12
Cannabis Sativa...........3M@ 
4
Cydonium.....................  75@1  00
Ohenopodium  ............   10®   12
Dipterix Odorate.........1  75@1  85
Foeniculum .................  
©   15
Foenugreek,  po...........  6@  8
L in i.....................................4  @ 
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 4  ) ...  4M® 4M
Lobelia..........................   35®  40
Pharlaris C anarian__ 3M@  4M
R a p a .............................. 
5®  6
Sinapis,  A lbu..............  8®  
9
N igra............   11®   12

“ 

SPIBITUS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Frum enti, W., D.  C o..2 00@2  50
D. F. R ........1  75@2 00
 
1  10@1  50
Juniperis  Co. O. T ....1   75@1  75
“ 
...............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  E .........1  75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  G alli............ 1  75@6  50
Vini O porto..................1  25@2  00
Vini  A lba..................... 1  25@2  00

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

SYRUPS.

A ccacia...................................  50
Zingiber  .................................   50
Ipecac......................................   60
Ferri  Io d .................................   50
Auranti  Cortes.......................  56
Rhei  Arom..............................  50
Similax  Officinalis................  60
Senega ..........
Scillae......................................  50
Co.................................   50
T o lu tan ...................................   50
Prunus  virg ............................  50

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tt 

“ 
“ 

A ntipyrin.................... 1  35@1  40
Argenti  Nitras, ounce  ©   68
A rsenicum ................... 
5@  7
Balm Gilead  B ud.......  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............. 2  15@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is,  (Ms
1!;  Ms,  12)................ 
©   9
Cantharides  Russian,
,  PO...............................   @1  75
Capsici  Fructns, a f...  @  18
PO----  @  16
@  14
B po. 
Caryophyllus,  (po.  28)  23@  25
Carmine,  No. 40...........  @3 75
Cera  Alba, S.  & F .......  50@  55
Cera  F lava...................   28©  30
C occus..........................  @  40
Cassia F ructus............  
©   15
Centraria.......................  @  10
C etaceum .....................  ©   35
C hloroform ..................  50®  55
„ . .  
squibbs..  ©100
Chloral Hyd Crst.........1  50@1  75
50
C hondrus.....................  J 0@  12
Cinchonidine, P.  &  W  15©  20 
German 
4©  10 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  ..........................  
©   60
C reasotum ...................  @  50
Creta,  (bbl. 75)............  @  2
prep.....................  5®   5
precip..................  8®   10
R ubra..................  @  8
C rocus..........................  35®  38
.................. 
©   24
Cudbear 
Cupn Sulph..................  8©   9
io@  12
D ex trin e....................... 
E ther Sulph..................  68@  70
Emery,  all  num bers.. 
®   8
„   “ 
PO.....................  @  6
Ergota,  (po.)  45 ...........  40@  45
Flake  W hite................  12©  15
G alla.............................. 
©   23
Gambier........................  
7©   8
Gelatin,  Cooper...........  @ 9 0
F rench............  40©  60
“ 
Glassware  flint,  75  & 10 per 
cent, by box 70 less
Glue,  Brown................'  g@  15
“  W hite..................  13®   25
G lycenna.....................  22®  25
Grana Paradisi__ ___   @  15
H um ulus.......................  25®  40
Hydraag  Chlor  M ite..  @  80 
“  Cor  .... 
©   70
Ox Rubrum   @  85 
Ammoniati..  @1  05 
Unguentum .  45©  55
H ydrargyrum ..............  @  65
Ichthyobolla,  Am.......1  25@1  50
Indigo............................  75® i  00
Iodine,  Resubl.............4  00@4  10
Iodoform .......................  @5  15
L u p u lin .........................  85@1  00
Lycopodium ................  55©   60
M acis............................  80©  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
d ra rg lo d ...................  
©   27
Liquor Potass Arsinitis  10©  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
,   1M)........ 
2©  3
Manma,  S. F ................  45©  50
Morphia,  S.  P.  & W .. .2 55@2  80 
C. C o .........................2 55@2  70
Moschus  Canton.........  @ 4 0
Myristica,  No. 1...........  60®  70
N ux Vomica,  (p o 20) ..  @  10
Os.  Sepia.......................  27®  29
Pepsin Saac, H.  & P. D.
C o ..............................  @2 00
Picis  Liq, N.  C., M gal
doz  ............................  @2  70
Picis Liq., quarts  : __   @1  00
p in ts ...........  ©   70
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  ©   50
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22).. 
©   18
Piper Alba,  (po g5)__  
©   35
Pix  B urgun..................  @  7
Plumbi A c e t................  14©  15
Pulvis Ipecac et o p ii..l  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz.......  @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv ............   55©  60
Q uassiae.......................  8®   10
Quinia,  S. P. & W ___   41®  46
S.  German__   27®  35
Rubia  Tinctorum .......  12@  14
Saccharum Lactis p v ..  @ 3 5
Salacin..........................2 25@2  35
40©  50 
@4 50 
12®  14 
8®   10 
@  15 
@  25

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

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4M

“ 

“ 

“ 

 

Co!.......  50  Sanguis  Draconis

50  Santouine  ...................
Sapo,  W .........................
M..........................
11  G............ 
.........
Seidlitz  M ixture.........
Sinapis..............f ..........
“  opt........ : .   ___
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V o es..........................
@  35 
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes 
@  35 
Soda Boras,  (po. 12).  ,
il@   12 
Soda  et Potass T a rt...
30®  33 
2® 2)4 
Soda Carb.....................  
(H
4®
Soda,  Bi-Carb.............. 
5 
Soda,  A sh..................... 
3©
4
Soda, Sulphas.............. 
®
Spts. E ther Co  . . ; .......  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom.......  @2  00
“  Myrcia Im p.........  @2  50
“  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
2 05)............................  @2  15
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal.......  @1  10
Sulphur,  Subl..............295£@ 3M
R oll................  2M@ 3
T am arinds...................   8@  10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  30
Theobrom ae................  50®  55
V anilla........................ 9  00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph.................. 
7®  8

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OILS.

“ 

paints. 

Bbl.  Gal
Whale, w inter............   70 
70
Lard,  ex tra.................   86 
90 !
55
Lard, No.  1..................  56 
Linseed, pure raw __   57 
60
Lindseed,  boiled  __   60 
63
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
69
strain ed ...................  50 
Spirits Turpentine__   49 
53
bbl.  lb.  !
Red  V enetian............... \%  2@3 |
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ 134  2@4
“ 
B er.........134  2@3
Putty,  commercial__ 2M  2M@3
“  strictly  pure.......2M  234@3 j
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16
ican .............................. 
Vermilion,  English__  
70@75  '
Green,  Peninsular....... 
70@75 j
Lead,  re d .......................  63£@7M
w h ite ..................  634@7M
@70
Whiting, white Span... 
W hiting,  Gilders’......... 
@90
1  00 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Enk.
c liff.............................. 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
P a in ts....................... 1  00@1  20

“ 

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach......1  10@1  20
E xtra T urp.................. 1  60@1  70
Coach  Body................ 2  75@3 00
No.  1  Turp  F n rn ........1  00@1  10
E utra Turk Dam ar__1  55©1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T u r p ..........................   70®  75

TINCTURES.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Aconitum Napellis R ...........  60
F ...........  50
Aloes........................................   60
and  m yrrh...................   60
A rn ica.....................................  50
Asafcetida................................  50
Atrope Belladonna................  60
Benzoin...................................   60
Co..............................  50
Sanguinaria............................  50
B arosm a.................................   50
C antharides............................  75
C apsicum ................................  50
Cardamon................................  75
Co..........................  75
C astor...................................... 1  00
C atechu.............. :...................  50
C in eh o n a...............................   50
Co..........................  60
C olum ba.................................   50
C onium ...................................  50
Cubeba.....................................  50
D ig italis.................................  50
E rgot........................................  50
G entian...................................  50
Co...............................   60
G uaica.....................................  50
ammon.....................   60
Z in g ib er.................................   50
Hyoscyam us..........................   50
Iodine......................................   75
Colorless.....................  75
Ferri  Chloridum ...................   35
K in o ........................................   50
Lobelia.....................................  SO
M yrrh......................................   50
N ux  Vomica..........................   50
O p ii..........................................  85
Cam phorated.................   50
Deodor............................2 00
A uranti Cortex.......................  50
Q uassia...................................  50
R h a ta n y ............................ 
  50
R hei..........................................  50
Cassia  A cutifol.....................  50
Co................  50
S erpentaria............................  50
Stromonium............................  60
T o lu tan ...................................  60
V alerian .................................   50
V eratrum V eride...................   50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

.¿Ether, Spts  Nit, 3  F ..  26®  28
“ 4 F  .. 
30®  32
A lum en................2M@ 
3M
(po.
ground, 
4
3® 
7)....................... 
A nnatto..............  55® 
60
Antimoni, po..... 
4® 
5

“ 

“ et Potass T.  55®  60

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

Henderson County, Hand Made  Sour Mash 

Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite 

Rye  Whisky.

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

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

taltine i  Perkins  Dnfg  Go.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

WHITE  LEAD 
COLOR WORKS 

MANUFACTURERS OF

D E T R O I T ,
LATEST
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Interior
AND
EXTERIOR
! DECORATION  ^
! F. J. WURZBURG, Wholesale Agent,

GRAND  RAPID8.

DO  YOU  HANDLE  IT ?

T H F

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GIVES  UNIVERSAL  SATISFACTION  FOR

Horses,  Cattle, 
Hogs,  Sheep, 
Colts,  Calves,
Pigs,  Lambs,
Has the finest line of illustrated advertising and 
most attractive lithograph label.  A  75 c en t cash 
g u a ra n te e  on e v ery  box yo u  sell,  1,000 illus­
trated circulars in each case.  Rubber stamp and 
self-inking pad free  with your first order through 
jobber.  Special  d ire c tio n s  for  building up a 
large trade with every shipment.  Our new circu­
lar, “H og  C h o lera—C ause,  C ure  a n d   P r e ­
v en tiv e,”  is  attracting  universal 
attention. 
Contains the most scientific  and  practical  facts 
in regard to this terrible disease, and only known 
positively successful  treatment.  G ives  v a lu a ­
b le in fo rm a tio n  in  re g a rd   to   sw in e-raisin g  
fo r la rg e  p ro fit.  See  o th e r c irc u la rs  fo r a ll 
k in d s o f stock.  The  facts  contained  in  these 
circulars  are  worth  many  dollars  to  every 
enterprising 
Send  to 
jobbers  for  their  special  circular  “ TO  T H E  
T R A D E ,” for full information in regard to rub­
ber stamp—free—and also our  G R A N D   CASH 
P R IZ E S .  See circulars for  testimonials of reli­
able dealers from all parts of the country.  This 
trade  is  about  equally  divided  between  drug­
gists, general dealers and  grocers.  A good trade 
for one insures a satisfactory trade for the other. 
Order at once, save freight and  commence  tu rn ­
ing your money every thirty or  sixty  days, at 71 
per cent, profit.

farm er  or  stockman. 

M A N U FA C T U R E R S:

Tie  German  Medicine  Company,

M in n eap o lis,  M inn.

FOR  SALE  TO  THE  TRADE  BY

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug  Co.,  Wholesale Drug­
gists;  Hawkins  &  Periy,  Wholesale  Grocers, 
Grand  Rapids;  McCausland  &  Co.,  Wholesale 
Grocers, E.  Saginaw;  W. J. Gould & Co., Whole 
sale  Grocers,  Detroit;  B.  Desen berg  <Sc  Co., 
Wholesale Grocers, Kalamazoo.

CURES

Diver and 

Kidney Troubles 
Blood Diseases 

Constipation

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Female 

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

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

Place your order w itb 

our  Wholesale

House.

Diamond  (Jedißine  Go.,

PROPRIETORS,

DETROIT,  -  MICH.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co,

WHOLESALE  AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

HARDWOOD  DUMBER.

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

00@21 00

A. W N I N G S

A N D   TENTS.

Trade-Mark  Registered,  No,  16416,

PINGREE &

DETROIT,  MICH.

Six Unsolicited  Testimonials  from as many  States.
D aw son,  Min n.,  Feb.  18,  1889.

I have a strong preference for your goods,  which has  been  acquired 
by seven years’  handling,  and all  the  shoes  of  your  make  handled in 
that  time  I  have warranted every pair w ithout  a  single  pair  coming 
back to me. 
Ch a s.  H alvobson.

W e have received goods and looked them over and must acknowledge 
that this is the cleanest and nicest lot of shoes you have  ever  sent  us. 
It  affords  us great pleasure  to receive goods in this  way.

Monboe,  Mich.,  March 19,  1889.

E.  Ya eo er  & Son.

¿Life is  deaf:  anà  l^&t/yçr  too.
Lively  livply  beàjH are w
j5 /] o e irf§| fiffl 

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Your goods are  satisfactory in every  way.

Oconomowoc,  Wis.

March 15,  1889.

L.  J.  Sto n e  &  Co.

The goods all opened satisfactory.

The goods are  very satisfactory.

Sa v a n n a h ,  Mo.,  March 14,  1889. 

T homas.  J.  B ie b & Co.

Ch ica g o,  I I I .,  March 22,  1889.

Com an & Mu n g er.

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

Chas• A*  Coye,

“THERE’S  NOTHING  LIKE  LEATHER."  WE  USE  JiO IMITATIONS.

EVERT  PAIR  WARRANTED.

Telephone 106. 

MAGIC COFFEE  ROASTER ATTENTION,  RETAIL  M ER CH AN TS !

11 Pearl St.

Ca b lisl e,  Ky.,  A pril 16,  1889. 
Your  goods are always good  and your treatm ent always courteous.

J.  A.  Ch a pp e l.

PINGREE  &  SMITH, Detroit, Mich.

=FINE  AND  MEDIUM  GRADE  SHOES,=

MANUFACTURERS  OF

CHICAGO  OFFICE,  221  FIFTH  AVE.

The Michigan Tradesman

MR.  HEFFERNAN’S  RIDE.
[ c o n t i n u e d   f r o m   f i r s t   p a g e .]

they  charrged  us  wid 

“  ‘Ye  perjured  slanderers!’ 

in ’  party of mounted police happen along 
an’  haul me an’  Patsey  afore  the  magis­
trates,  to answer the charrge  they  made 
agin  us?
“ Was it charrge I said?”  continued Mr. 
Heffernan,  whose bile  was evidently ris­
ing at the recollection of the  injury  and 
hum iliation  inflicted  on  him. 
“ There 
were charrges enough  to last a regiment 
for a whole campaign.  F irst they charrged 
ns  wid  highway  robbery  an’  violence; 
then 
furious 
dhrivin’,  as  if  we  wor  answerable  for 
th at  crazy  fly-away  av  Tim  Dooley’s; 
then  wid  w ilful  disthruction  of county 
property,  bs  rason  of  breakin’  the toll 
gate an’  smashin’  the  windy;  then  they 
charrged  us  wid  cruelty  to animals for 
scaldin’  ould  Gannon’s  pig,  and last of 
all  wid  drunk  an’  disorderly  conduct. 
B ut that  charrge  wor  too much for me. 
Me sphirits wor that  broke  that  I  could 
bear a good dale,  but  I  couldn’t  shtand 
that.  To  think  of  all  that good liquor 
shpilled on  the  road  an’  on me clothes, 
wid  niver  a  thim bleful of it w ettin’  me 
lips,  and  me  as  dhry  as a smoke house 
chimley,  an’  thin  to charrge me wid bein’ 
dhrunk!
says  I; 
‘divil  a  dhrop  has  passed  me  lips this 
blessed day!’
“  ‘Faugh!’  says  the  m agisthrate;  ‘ye 
only  make  m atthers  worse by yer lyin’; 
ye shmell like a whisky still  now,’  says 
he.
“ ‘Yer honor,’ says I, ‘tis but an ixtarior 
an’  visible  sign  of  an  interm inal  an’ 
lam intable imptiness. 
Sure,  the full of 
a   shtandard quart av the  best liquor ivir 
distilled is  ju st thrown away over an  in- 
sinsible suit of clothes,  instid of refresh- 
in’  the insides of the owner of ’em,  worse 
luck to it!’  says I.
“ An’  I  whipped out av  me  pocket  the 
neck of  the  broken  bottle  wid the cork 
still in it,  to show I’d  been  shpakin’  the 
tru th .
“ ‘Yer honor can  see,’  says I,  ‘that the 
potheen that wor in  this bottle n h  ir left 
it by way of the neck.’
“  ‘Is it yerself,’  says  he,  ‘that has the 
effrontery to flourish before me  eyes  the 
ividences of yer chatin’  the  revenue,  be 
carryin’  smuggled whisky?’
“ ‘ ’Tis yer  honor  that’s  an  ixcellent- 
judge of that same,’  says I.
“  ‘W hat d’ye mane,  sor?’  says  he,  git- 
tin ’  as red as a turkey cock.
“  ‘T hat ’tis from the  same  barrel  yer 
four-gallon keg come  from,  which ye or­
dered  of  me three weeks agone,’  says  I. 
♦A n’  av I could be  dhrinkin’  her honor’s 
health  in  a thim bleful of it at the prisint 
momint,’  says I,  ‘we  could  procade  wid 
the  ixplanation  of  m atthers  wid  a dale 
more spirit.’
“ ‘Silence,  sor!’  thundhered the magis­
thrate;  ‘yer ontimely  livity on’y  adds to 
the milignity of yer offinse.  Ye are com­
m itted to  jail  for  thrial,  and  ye’re im­
prisoned besides,  for contim pt  of  coort,’ 
says he.
“ ‘W ill  yer  honor  be  kind  enough to 
inforrum   me,’  says I,  ‘which  sintince  is 
to  be  ixicuted first,  so that I may  know 
whin it is I’m  imprisoned  for  contimpt, 
an’  whin it is I ’m only in jail awaitin’ me 
thrial?’  says I.
“ ‘The coort will  not bandy words wid 
ye,’  says he wid a wave of his hhnd.  ’Tak 
’em  to  the  lockup to wanst?’  says he to 
the policemen.  An’  be the powers, byes, 
they  jist  bundled  us  off  to jail widout 
aven a ‘Good day!’  or  ‘Save  ye  kindly,’ 
an’  there we’d a laid  to  this  day  av  we 
hadn’t got out.”
“ And how did you manage to get  clear 
of the scrape,  Terry?”  said an interested 
.listener.
“ Sonny,”  answered  Mr.  Heffernan, 
w ith  an  indulgent wink,  “ in a week or so 
they  bailed  us  out,  an’  Patsey  an’  me 
thought  a  change  of  climate  would  be 
good  for  the  health,  so we both wint to 
England for the harvest worruk, as labor­
ers wor scarce just thin.”
“An’  is all  that  thrue,  Terry?”  said 
Mr.  M’Gee,  inquiringly.
“As thrue as that  thunderin’  whistle’s 
callin’  us back to  worruk,  Teddy,”  said 
Mr.  Heffernan,  “ an’  if we  don’t  be  hur- 
ryin’ they’ll be dockin’  us a quarter  of  a 
day,  the  haythens.”

F b e d e b ic   D .  St o b e y .

she 

said, 

Standing 

all  because, 

A  Sly  Salesm an.
in  a  prom inent  hardware 
store the other day,  a stroller  watched  a 
lady purchase a pair of shears.  She  de­
cided upon  the  size  and  style  desired, 
and  tried  four  or  five  pairs,  rejecting 
them  
they 
“ squeaked.”  But she was finally  suited 
w ith  a  pair  that  didn’t  “ squeak”  and 
went  her  way.  As  the  accepted  pair 
happened to be one of those first refused, 
the  salesman was  asked  how  the  meta­
morphosis  was  effected. 
“ T hat,”  said 
he,  “ is one  of  the very  simplest  secrets 
of  the man who  sells  shears.  Observe 
this.”  He picked up  a  pair  of  scissors 
which  “ squeaked” wofully when worked. 
Then he  ran  his  thumb  and  forefinger 
thoughtfully down the  side  of  his  nose 
and rubbed them over the scissors, which 
came together as  gently  and  noiselessly 
as though saturated  with  oil. 
“ T hat’s 
all there is of  it,”  he  said. 
“You  see, 
there is always  a  little  oil  collected  in 
the corners on the  outside  of  your  nos­
trils.  Scrub your nose  as  hard  as  you 
will,  the oil  will  be  back  there  in  five 
m inutes.  So when a customer comes  in, 
tries a pair of  shears and complains that 
they squeak and come together hard,  we 
can  oil  them  up  and  make  them  run 
smooth  without 
suspicion. 
W hat was the oil put on your nose for ?” 
“To  help  the  hardware  man  out,  I 
suppose.  B ut then what 1 told you  is  a 
good thing for all  nervous  people,  who 
don’t like squeaky shears,  to know.”

exciting 

stantly  increasing. 
In  Malmo,  for  in­
stance,  which  has  about  40,000  inhab­
itants,  there  are  600  subscribers.  This 
town 
thirty 
smaller  towns  and  country places,  with 
subscribers ranging between 200  and ten.

is  connected  with  about 

A  G reat  A ustralian Railw ay.

The  government of  western  A ustralia 
has come to definite  term s  with the pro­
moters of  the gigantic railway project for 
the construction of  a  line  from  Eucla to 
connect  with  the  west  A ustralian  sys­
tem,  a  distance  of  800  miles,  which, 
when completed,  will bring  into railway 
communion  Perth,  Adelaide,  Melbourne, 
Sydney  and  Brisbane.  It  is  expected 
that  the  work  w ill  occupy  ten  years. 
The contractors have  agreed to construct 
the  railway  on  the  understanding  that 
for every mile completed  they  shall  re­
ceive  from  the  government  the  gift of 
20,000  acres of  land.  Should  they keep 
their  promises,  the  contractors  will be­
come the owners of  an estate of 16,000,000 
acres,  equal in  size  to one-fourth the ter­
ritory of  Victoria.

0. R. ICE 1 GOAL GO.,
Wholesale and Retail  Dealers.

Now—Before  any  Advance—W rite  for 

Prices on Coal.

Grani  Rapids  Ice  &  Coal  Co.,

52  PEARL  ST.

HYDRAULIC

ELEYATORS
Water Motors and Specialties 
Send for New Catalogue.
Tuerk  Hydraulic 
NEW  YORK: 
CHICAGO:
12 Cortland St.  39 Dearborn St.

Power  Co.
W A N TED !

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

B. A.  CLARK & CO.

Lansing Mich.

Beal  Estate Brokers 

E. 6 .8TUDLKY.

M anufacturer and dealer In

Leather and Rilhher Belting, 
M her Goods, 
Sporting Goods, 
Mill and Fire Department Supplies

We m anufacture the  VERY  BEST  Pure  Oak 
Tanned, Short Lap, Leather  Belt  that  Is  made, 
and make them either Riveted, Pegged or Sewed. 
Belts repaired, made  endless and put on.
Agent for the  New  York  Belting  and  Packing 

Company’s Rubber Belting, Hose and Rub­

ber Goods for mechanical purposes.

Lubricating  Oils  and  Greases  of  all 
kinds, Cotton Waste, Lath Yarn, Hay and 
Hide Rope, Lace Leather, Belt Fastenings 
of all kinds, Babbit Metal, Emery Wheels, 
Disston’s  Saws,  Nicholson’s  and  Black 
Diamond  Files,  Hancock  Inspirators, 
Brass  Valves  of  all  kinds,  Steam  and 
W ater  Gauges,  Lubricators  and  Grease 
Cups, Packings of all kinds, Boiler  Com­
pound.

Sole Agent for A. G. Spaulding & Bro.’s sporting 

Goods, and  L. Candee & Co.’s rubber 

boots  and Shoes.

SEND  FOR  ILLUSTRATED PRICE LIST.

N  4  Monroe  Street,

Grand  Rapids, 

- 

-  Mich.

TO  M ONTANA,  OBEGON  A N D  

W ASH ING TO N.

If you are going west bear in mind the  follow­
ing facts:  The Northern Pacific Railroad  owns 
and operates 987 miles, or 57 per cent  of  the  en­
tire railroad mileage of Montana; spans  the  ter­
ritory with its main line from east to w est; is the 
short line to H elena; the only Pullman  and  din 
ing car line to Butte, and  is  the  only  line  that 
reaches Miles City, Billings, Bozeman, Missoula, 
the  Yellowstone  National  Park,  and,  in  fact, 
nine tenths of the cities and points of interest in 
the  territory.
The Northern  Pacific  owns  and  operates  621 
miles, ®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  of 
the Territory to Tacoma  and  Seattle,  and  from 
Tacoma to Portland.  No other trans-continental 
through rail line reaches any  portion  of  W ash­
ington Territory.  Ten days stop over  privileges 
are given on Northern Pacific second class tickets 
at Spokane Falls and all points West, thus afford­
ing intending settlers  an  excellent  opportunity 
to see the entire Territory without incurring  the 
expense of paying local fares from point to point.
The N orthern Pacific is the shortest route from 
St. Paul to Tacoma by 207 m iles; to Seattle by 177 
miles, and to Portland by 324 miles—time  corres­
pondingly shorter, varying from one to two days, 
according to destination.  No other line from St. 
Paul  or  Minneapolis  runs  through  passenger 
cars of any kind into Idaho, Oregon or Washing­
ton.
In addition to being the only rail  line  to  Spo­
kane Falls, Tacoma  and  Seattle,  the  Northern 
Pacific reaches  all the principal points in N orth­
ern  Minnesota  and  Dakota,  Montana,  Idaho, 
Oregon and Washington.  Bear in m ind that the 
Northern Pacific and Shasta line  is  the  famous 
scenic route to all points in California.
Send for illustrated pamphlets, maps and books 
giving you valuable information in reference  to 
the country traversed by this great line from  St, 
Paul, Minneapolis, D uluth and Ashland to  Port 
land, Oregon,  and  Tacoma  and  Seattle,  Wash 
ington Territory, and enclose stamps for the new 
1889 Rand McNally County  Map  of  W ashington 
Territory, printed in colors.
Address your nearest ticket agent, or  Chas.  S, 
F e e , General  Passenger  and  Ticket  Agent,  St 
Paul,  Minn.

Telephones  in  Sweden.

In probably no  country in  the  world, 
say« an English  exchange,  has  the  tele­
phone come  into more  general  use  than 
in  Sweden.  Not  only  can  Stockholm 
boast  the  most  perfect 
telephonic  ar­
rangem ents  of  any  capital,  in  addition 
to  the  largest  percentage of  telephone 
subscribers,  but  the  east  coast  and the 
west  coast  will  soon  be  in  telephonic 
communication,  a  line  between  Stock­
holm  and Gothenburg  being in course of 
erection.  Many small  towns are  in tele­
phonic communication  with  each  other, 
and  the  num ber  of  subscribers  is  con-

t K T R o f f M I

The m ost practical 
hand  Roaster  in  the 
world.  Thousands in 
use-^-giviiig  satisfac­
tion.  They are simple 
durable and econom­
ical. 
grocer 
should  be  without 
one.  Roasts  coffee 
and  pea-nuts to  per 
fection.

No 

Address  for  Cata­

logue and prices,

Roht.  8. West,

48-50 Long St., 

Cleveland, Ohio,

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.

WHY  WEAR  PANTS
That  do  not  fit  or  wear  satisfac­
torily,  when  you  can  buy 
the 
Detroit Brand,  that  are perfect in 
style and  workmanship.

J acob Browns Cos,

T   P e r f e c t  F i t , ,1'f ■■

Superior/Vke 
Z \ H T S   and
O V E R A L L S .

A S K   FOR  t h e m :

Aduerlising  Cards  and  Specialties

We carry a larger stock  of  these goods than any 
Are Manufacturers, Importers and Publishers of 

other house in this country.

7,000 styles.  Catalogue  free. 

charge at cost and allow a rebate after we 

receive orders sufficient to justify us. 

Samples  we 

AGENTS  WANTED.

Novelty  Card  and  Advertising  Co., 

103-5-7 Monroe  St., Chicago, 111.

TIME  TABLES.
Grand  Rapids  & Indiana.

GOING-  NORTH.
Arrives.
Traverse City & Mackinaw................
Traverse City & Mackinaw................9:05 a m
From Cincinnati....................................7:30 p m
ForPetoskey & Mackinaw City........3:55 p m
Saginaw Express................................11:30 a m
10:30 p m .

“ 

“ 

 

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

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

inaw City.
Mackinaw City.
some south.
Cincinnati  Express........................... 
Fort Wayne Express........................10:30am 
Cincinnati  Express..........................4:40p m  
From Traverse City...........................10:40 p m

7:15 a m
11:15am
5:00pm

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

Muskegon,  Grand Rapids  & Indiana 

Leave. 
Arrive
7 05 a m .......................................................................10:45 a m
11:15a m .......................................................................  4:45pm
4:20 p m ......................................................................  7:45 p m
Leaving time at  Bridge street  depot 7 minutes later.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
D etroit, Grand H aven & M ilw aukee.

GOING WEST.

Arrives. 
tMorning Express.............................   1:05 p m  
tThroughMail......................................4:55 p m 
[Grand Rapids Express...................10:40 p m
♦NightExpress....... . 
. . . . . . . . . . .   6:40am  
tM ixed...................... 
tDetroit  Express..... 
tThrough MaU...................................10:20 a m  
tEvening Express.............................   3:40 p m 
•Limited Express............................. 10:30 p m  

7:48 a
6:50a

GOING EAST.

Leaves,
1:10 p m
5:10 pm
7:00a

10:30 a
8:60p
10:55 p

tDaUy, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
Detroit  Express  has parlor  car  to Detroit,  making 
direct connections for all points  East, arriving in New 
York 10:10 a. m. next day.  Limited  Express,  Eastj has 
through  sleeper  Grand  Rapids  to Niagara  Falls,
connecting  at  Milwaukee 
through
sleeper to Toronto.
Through tickets and  sleeping  car  berths secured at 
D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot.

Junction with 

Jas. Campbell, City Passenger Agent.

Toledo,  Ann  Arbor  &  N orthern.

For Toledo and all points South and East, take 
the Toledo, Ann Arbor &  North  Michigan  R ail­
way from Owosso Junction.  Sure  connections 
at above point with trains of D., G. H.  & M., and 
connections at Toledo  w ith  evening  trains  for 
Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus,  Dayton,  Cincin­
nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville  and  all  promi­
nent points on connecting lines.

A. J. P a is l e y , Gen’l Pass. Agent

Increase  your  Cigar Trade  by  selling  the

Named, in  Compliment to  the

Michigan  B u sin ess  Men's

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

RETAIL  GROCERY  TRADE.

PRICE,  030 PER

Giaar  on  Earth!*
Absolutely  THE
T he  Telfer  Spice  C om pany,
CANDY!

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

MANUFACTURERS’  AGENTS,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

P U T N A . M  &

B R O O K S .

S BROWN'S OEEDO

Gloirer,
Timothy,
Alfalfa,
Alsike,
Red  Top, 
Hungarian, 
Millet.

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

P arties wishing  anything in this line  please write to us.

W.  STBEBB

Packing and. Provision Co.

GRAND  RAI*IDS,  MICH.

W H O L E S A L E   D E A L E R S   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. 

L A R D

strictly Pure and W arranted, in tierces, barrels, half-bbls.,,501b. cans, 20lb. cans, 3, 5 and 10lb. palls

R idded Rigs* Beet, Tripe, Etc*

Our prices for first-class goods are very low and all  goods  are  w arranted  first-class  in every In-
iOX

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When in Grand Rapids, give us a  call  and  look  over  our  establishment.

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prices.

Thompson’s

COBBEE.

Sold  Only by

H. THOMPSON I  CO.,

IM P O R T E E S   OF

Teas, Coffees

A N D

Spices,

DETROIT,  MICH.

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

Alfred  J,  Brown's  Seed  Store,
Ärctiß ManUMUring Co,

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

Grand Rapids,

PRIZE
BAKING
POWDER

OFFER  .TO  THE  TRADE  WHO  BUT

)^-lbs  Reward  Baking  Powder,  4-dozen 
Cases,  with  48  Prem ium s—Glass  Dishes, 
Assorted,  All Large Pieces,  for

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

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and New Assortments.

$8.00
$1100.

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.

faims! We  are  wholesale  agents  for 

the Fancy  California  Mountain 
Seedlings and headquarters for 
all kinds of Messina oranges.
PUTNAM & BROOKS.

