VOL.  6,

T O U R I S T S ’

GKAND  RAPIDS,  W EDNESDAY,  JU LY   24,  1889

186  EAST  FULTON  ST.

The  Leading  Ladndry

IN  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Any one wishing agency in towns outside 

will please  write  for terms.

O T T E   B R O S .,  P r o p s.
DO YOU WANT A SHOWCASE?

S F E C I A L   O F F E R - T h i s  sty le o f oval case;  best 
quality;  all  glass,  heavy  double 
thick;  panel  or 
sliding d o o rs;  full length  m irro rs  and  spring  hinges; 
■olid ch erry  o r w alnut fram e, w ith  or  w ithout  m etal 
corners, 
trim m in g s; 
6 feet long,  28  inches  wide,  15  inches  high.  P r ic e «  
• l i t  net cash. 
I m ake th e sam e sty le  of  case  as  above,  17  inches 
high, from  w aln u t, cherry, oak or ash,  fo r $2 per foot. 
Boxing and c artag e free.

e x tra  heavy  base; 

silv etta 

. 

, 

.

D.  D.  C O O K ,

106 Kent St.,  -  Grand Rapids, Mich.

Eaton, Lyon 4 Bo.

B a s e   B a lls , 

R u b b e r   B a lls , 

M a r b l e s .

Base  Ball  Bals,

Pishing Tackle, 
_ _ _ _ _ _ _  

Ärchery.
STATIONERY,

BOXING  GLOVES. 

Eaton,  Lyon  X  Go,,

20 and 22 Monroe St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-  MICH.
Read!  Ponder ¡--Then Äot!

OFFICE  OF

KING  &  COOPER,

Raney Grocers.
St. J o s e p h , Mich., Feb. 23,1889. 

DANIEL  LYNCH,Grand Rapids:
DEAR SIR—Permit us to con­
gratulate you upon  the  trade  we 
are working up on your Imperial 
B a k in g  Powder.  We  have  had 
it  tested  by  the  most  competent 
cooks  in  the  city  and  they  pro­
nounce  it  fully  equal  to  any 
powder on the market;

Yours very truly,

KINO <fc COOPER.

F .J.D E T T E N T H M iE R

JOBBER  OF

F r e s h   a n d   S a lt

Lake  Fis

cean Fish

Mail  orders  receive  prompt  attention. 

See quotations in another column.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

FOURTH NiTlOML BANK

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  B o w s e , President.

Geo.  C. Pierce,  Vice President.

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

Transacts a general banking business.

Make a  Specialty rff Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.
Daniel  G.  Garnsey, 

EXPERT  ACCOUNTANT
Adjuster  of  Fire  Losses.
Twenty Y ears Experience.  References furnished 
24 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

if  desired.

AND

(Formerly Sliriver, Weatherly & Co.) 

CONTRACTORS  FOR

Galuaniietl  Iron Coim e, 

Plumbing & Heating Work,

Pumps,  Pipes,  Etc.,  Mantels 

Dealers  in

and  Grates.

Weatherly  &  Pulte,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

- 

MICH.

A l l e n   D u r f e e . 

A.  D.  L e a v e n w o r t h .

A lle n   D u rfee  &  Co.,
| FUNERAL  DiREGYORS, |

103 Ottawa St.,  Grand Rapids.

W m . R .  K e e le r ,
Gonfeßtioneru anaßigars,

412  So.  Division  St.,

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

Penny  Goods  a  Specialty.

1 have a complete line  and will call on 
all trade  within  reasonable  distance  of 
Grand Rapids.

Show Case

M A K E R S .

PriBBS Lower than Eller

|  
QUALITY  THE  BEST. 
W r it e   for  P r ic e s .  I

63—65  CANAL  ST. 

1

SEEDS!

If in want of Clover, Timothy, 
Hungarian,  Millett,  Orchard  or 
Blue  Grass,  Seed  Corn—Early 
Yellow or Dent, Turnip or  Ruta 
Baga, or, in  fact,  Any  Kind  of 
Seed,  send to the

Seed Store,

71 Canal  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

W .T .L A M O R E A U X .

That contains any  in­
tobacco,  "ill- 
ferior 
flavoring” or other in­
jurious  ingredients.
QUALITY

COUNTS.
Our  “BEN  HUR” 
CIGARS have  proved 
so  popular  over  all 
other 10c Cigars in the 
that  the  de­
market 
mand  is  overwhelm­
ing.

DEALERS.

SOLD  BY  ALL 
Ask for  Geo. Moebs 
“ BEN 
if  you  want 

and  Co.’s 
HUR” 
the best.

Wholesale and  Retail

HEADQUARTERS

92  Woodward  Ave.

M s  a i M in i Bais

MADE  TO  ORDER.

The Largest Line  of  Traveling Goods in 

the City at the Lowest Price. 

Repairing neatly done  on short notice at
G r o s k o p f  B r o s .,
91 CANAL  ST.,  TELEPHONE  906.
B u s i n e s s   P r a c t i c e
vv, o r l +  at  the  Grand Rapids 
n o r . Q 
L J t i p  ex l   11I I  fcî 1 1 1  Business College. Ed­
ucates pupils to transact and  record  business as 
it is done by our best  business  houses.  It  pays 
to go to  the  best.  Shorthand  and  Typewriting 
also thoroughly taught.  Send for circular.  Ad­
dress A. S.  PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens 
berg.
BARN ETT BROS.

FriJit  Commission

SO LIC IT  CO NSIGN M ENTS  OF

Write  for information on the  markets, etc.

F R U I T S .
killers, Attention

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

THE  GREAT

EDMUND B.DÏKEMHK
Watch fiter 
§  Jeweler,
Grand Rapids,  -  piieh,

44  BM RL  ST.,

BUY

d i l i s c a t i n e
RO TTED

O A T S

Will  not  turn  bitter  in  hot 

weather.

Best  the  year  around.

The  Drummer to His  Grip.

Full many a weary mile, old Grip,
Both in sunshine and the storm—

We’ve traveled o’er together,
In every kind of weather.

How many hours you've waited, Grip,
Alone in some hotel.
W h ile  I  w a s  s e llin g  p ile s o f g o o d s,
Or getting scooped lik e---- well.

I never was profane, old Grip,
You never heard me swear—
Not even when that bottle broke,
And I’d no shirt to wear.

How often you’ve held down the seat,
While 1 went to the smoking ear 

You darling, dear old Grip,
With friends to take a sn—smoke.
I’ve trusted you with secrets, Grip,
Which, were they known to folks at home, 

In fact, you hold some now,
Would raise an awful row.

You’ve kept my secrets well, old Grip,
Though scores and scores of times, old friend, 

At home and" “on the road,”
You’ve carried a “heavy load.”

You’ve seen me shed some tears, old Grip, 
When no one else was nigh,
A n d   o fte n  trie d  to  c o m fo rt m e 
W ith   d r in k s  o f g o o d   o ld  ry e.

We’ve seen some hard times too, old Grip— 
Sometimes,"like me, you’ve empty been,

Like me, you’ve stood abuse.
And sometimes “fnller’n a goose.”

Yet, I never saw the time, Grip,
When you were  really drunk,
Though oftentimes I’ve had to “preach”
To our old “sample trunk.”

We’re gray-haired, rusty chaps, old Grip,
And don’t look very fine;
The ladies never notice us,
As when we used to shine.

You  know the reason, too, old Grip,
They know the world we’ve seen;
So they “catch on” to newer grips,
A n d   tra v e lin g  m e n  in  gTeen.

Oh, well, we’ve seen the time, old Grip.
It was to leave some gentle heart 

Whene’er we left the train,
Just fluttering with pain.

And you could tell of letters, Grip, 
Which I have left, day after day,

And faces, sweet and fair,
In your most sacred care.

Well, we are aged now, old Grip—
Soon you’ll be “laid upon the shelf,” 

I’m forty-nine, you’re seven;
1—sailing off toward heaven.
But we will stick together, Grip,
The longest that we can,
For, next to woman, there’s no friend 
Like Grip to a traveling man.

ITIES.

JOHN  SINGLETON’S  RESPONSIBIL­
In the cottage at the  corner of  Creston 
Green, there  is a shop—a  nice, brisk lit­
tle  general  shop—where  one  can  get 
something—more or less satisfactory—of 
everything that one can call necessary to 
life.
Our  story  begins when  this  shop  was 
kept  by one “John  Singleton,”  and  it is 
about forty years ago since he died.
That  was  a  time  of  sad  disaster  at 
Creston..  The  Broadshire  Bank,  which 
had an office in  the nearest  market town 
(as  in  every  other  in  the  county),  had 
stopped  payment.  There  was  not  a 
household  in Creston which  did not  suf­
fer for that  somehow.  Those who  were 
too poor to be at all personally connected 
with  banks  anywhere  were  yet  depen­
dent for employment,  or support, or  suc­
cour from those who were so.  The blow 
was all the  harder  to  bear,  too, because 
it came after a period  of  lavish financial 
prosperity,  whose  ruinous  unreality had 
been  suspected  by nobody but the  bank 
directors.  The  dividends  had  been  so 
unusually  large!  And  so  wages  had 
been high,  and largesse liberal.
Everybody knew at that time that John 
Singleton’s  days  were  numbered.  But 
everybody who  had  lost  money came to 
John Singleton  for  his  sympathy—from 
the  squire,  who  had  to  sell  off  all  his 
horses, and  the  vicar,  who  had  to  take 
his hoys  from college and  put them  into 
offices, down to old  Mother Webb, whose 
annuity was  gone, and  who would  have 
to  retire to the workhouse.  John  found 
something cheery to  say to  each, though 
all  the  thanks he received in return  was 
usually but the  grudging  congratulation 
“that he was so well out of  the loss him­
self  that  he  could  easily  look  on  the 
bright  side.”  For  John  Singleton  had 
had no  money  in  the  Broadshire  Bank, 
only a current  account  which  happened 
to lie infinitesimally tiny,  because he had 
just  iuvested  the  small  savings  of  his 
industrious  life in  the  purchase of  two 
cottages on Creston Green, for the benefit 
of  his wife.  “Your  mother can  live  in | 
one, on  the  rent of  the  other, when she | 
begins  to  want  rest,  and  you  are  old 
enough to take the shop upon  yourself,” 
said John  Singleton  to his  sixteen-year- 
old  son—another  John,  very  like  his 
father. 
It  was  only  by little  pieces  of j 
forethought  such as this  that the  father j 
and son ever  alluded to the great change 
which  they  knew  was  coming.  What 
was  there to say about  death and dying? i 
That was all  in God’s  hands.  John Sin­
gleton was fearlessly ready for it, as they 
are  who,  having  done  their  best  with j 
what they have  seen  and do know,  have 
sounded 
their 
Father, and  know that He Is ready to fill 
up  their short  measures  and  to  satisfy 
all their wants.
John Singleton  died  in  the  first  days 
of  the  Broadshire  Bank  troubles.  His 
wife  always  thought  they hastened  his 
end;  his warm  sympathies  tempted  him 
to  hear too  much  and to  say too  much, 
and  his  excited  emotions  rapidly  wore j 
down  his  scanty  stock  of  strength. 
“Thank  God,  you  are  provided  for, 
Mary,” he  said,  with  his  failing  voice. 
“You will do as well without me as with 
me.”  And  Mary did  not  contradict  the 
humble delusion which  soothed him, but 
only said,  “Please God,  we’ll do our best 
to he a credit to you, John.”
The  widow paid  the  doctor’s bill  and 
legal  expenses  in  taking over  her  hus­
band’s  affairs.  These  were  expenses 
which would not  recur, and she and  her 
son John  could  live  very sparingly,  and 
they would soon make up the  difference.
But,  somehow,  that  proved  not  to  be 
so easily done.  Changes wrought by the 
bank failure took  away many customers; 
they  diminished 
the  expenditure  of

the  great  mercies  of 

others.  There  were  more  bad  debts. 
Then  old  Mr.  Action,  who  used to  keep 
a  big  shop  in  Blankton.  quite  out  of 
range of  Creston,  being  made  bankrupt 
by  his  bank  losses, retired  to  Snell,  a 
village near  Creston.  and  opened a little 
shop  there,  which  closed that  locality to 
the Singletons;  besides  that,  one or  two 
wealthy farmers  living midway  between 
Snell  and  Creston  thought it their  duty 
to  turn  to  their  old  crony  in  his  mis­
fortunes,  and  so  dropped  their dealings 
with the widow.
Mrs.  Singleton  could  hardly  realize 
how rapidly she got “behind the world.” 
First, she had to comprehend that she was 
really  doing  so, and  that  her  sense  of 
stagnation and  loss was  not bred  solely 
of her new isolated responsibility.  Then, 
she  had to  make a struggle  against  this 
turn of  the tide,  and  then at  last a fran­
tic  effort  to  extricate  herself  from  a 
whirlpool which was swamping all.  And 
more  was lost  before she  could get  free 
of  the losing  business,  and  might  walk 
out of the old shop a ruined woman, only 
saved  from the  incubus of  debt  by pay­
ing off  her creditors  through a mortgage 
on  her  husband’s  little  cottages,  which 
the  efforts of  a friendly  old  lawyer suc­
ceeded  in raising  almost  to  the  amount 
of their actual value!
“They are as  good as sold,” said  he to 
young  John.  “There  is  no  particular 
object in your mother’s beginning to pay 
interest.”  The solicitor spoke in a kind­
ly hope of  softening the blow,  for was it 
likely  that a widow like  Mrs.  Singleton, 
and a simple working lad—as John must 
be now—would  be able ever  to pay off a 
mortgage?
“It must  be  paid  off.  Father  meant 
the houses for mother,”  said young John 
simply.  And the lawyer thought to him­
self  that  he was a good  lad,  but  that as 
soon  as  he  began  really to earn  money 
he would  find something  else to do with 
it.
The  mother and  son  seemed to under­
stand  each  other  without  many  words. 
She was a strong woman still, and active, 
and  though  her  duties of  late years  had 
fitted  her  rather  for  the  position  of  a 
house-mother and a business woman than 
for  the  place of  a  working  woman,  she 
was  one  who  had  always  held  herself 
under  the  authority  of  the  little  word 
“must,” and was prepared for anything. 
The rent of  her cottages would  only pay 
the interest of the mortgages upon them, 
with  a  small margin  for  necessary  re­
pairs.  Young  John  got a situation  in a 
timber yard in the  county town,  and had 
to  lodge  there, walking  over on  Sunday 
to spend the  day with his  mother.  Mrs. 
Singleton herself found rent free quarters 
in a dreary little cottage at the  corner of 
the  green,  by  taking  charge of  two  old 
women,  one  half-blind,  and  the  other 
slightly  paralyzed.  Tlje  rest  of  her 
wants she  supplied by plain sewing, and 
sick-nursing,  and charing.
It seemed that most of the direct losers 
by the  Broadshire  Bank  were “wonder­
fully upheld.”  The  sale of  the squire’s 
horses  put an  end to his  betting, and he 
gained  by  that  loss.  The  vicar’s  sons 
were recommended to good appointments, 
especially on the ground of  their father’s 
ruin, and a large public subscription was 
divided  among  the other  sufferers  who 
could  be helped  so.  Even Molly  Webb 
was  saved  from  the workhouse  by  the 
exertions  of  former  employers.  But 
there was  no  sjmpathy for  the  Single- 
tons  under  loss  that  was  indirect  and 
unromantic.  Some  of  the  very  people 
who  talked  about the  wonderful  com­
pensations of  Providence,  and  how  one 
door  opened  when  another  shut  upon 
themselves, were  inclined  to  think  that 
dead John Singleton ought  to  have man­
aged  better  for  his widow  and  orphan. 
The women  seemed  to  think  that  Mrs. 
Singleton  was  not  likely  to  realize  her 
changed  position  unless they took  pains 
to  teach  it to  her.  The  farmers’  wives 
who used to chat with her, took no notice 
of  her  except to  issue a command  or  to 
find  fault.  Nobody felt  bound  to  help 
her,  hut many felt free to criticise.  Why 
didn’t  young  John  become  an  agricul­
tural  laborer and  live with  his  mother? 
they  asked:  Wouldn’t 
that  be  more 
natural  and  proper?  But  perhaps  the 
boy  was  wiser to  look  out for  himself, 
and to begin as he meant to go on.  Mrs. 
Singleton  found,  in  those  days,  that her 
best  friends—those  most  ready  to  give 
her  work,  and to  say a heartening  word 
to  her—were  those  who were  generally 
called  “hard  men,”  because  they  were 
not  ready to admit  the  unlimited  claims 
of  reckless  relatives, or to carry messes 
of  unsavory pottage  after the prodigals, 
in case they should otherwise have to eat 
of  those  terrible  swine’s  husks  which 
have  been  known to produce  such  salu­
tary  results. 
It  was  one of  these  who 
got John his situation in the timber-yard.
Years  after,  Mrs.  Singleton  used  to 
say,  “No woman  knows  the  good or the 
evil that is in  the world, or the help and 
strength  there  is in  God, until  she  has 
stood alone, a widow.”
At  the wages  which young  John  first 
received, he could  not save  more than  a 
few  pence a week.  But  he  began  with 
that.  All  the  other  men  in  the  yard 
smoked;  John  did  not.  All  the  other 
men drank  beer.  John took the  pledge. 
All  the  other  men  bought  themselves 
Sunday suits—quite unfit for after work­
ing  uses—with smart  satin  ties,  and oc­
casional silk  hats.  John’s  best suit was 
exactly  like  that  he wore  in  the  yard, 
only  fresh.  All  the  other men  bought 
newspapers, and  song-hooks  and  novel­
ettes,  which  they  tore  up  when  read. 
John  subscribed  a  yearly  mite  to  the 
Reading Club, and went there so regular­
ly that  he  got  quite  friendly  with  the 
gentleman—a young architect—who gave 
his services as the club’s supervisor,  and 
was  invited  to  his  house,  and  got  the 
loan of  books  from  his private  library, 
and his  help  and  sympathy in  choosing 
and reading them.
friends 
among lads of his own class and age than 
he  might  have  had, but  for  the  habits 
imposed on  him by his  life’s  aim.  But

John  Singleton  had 

fewer 

he  was  soon  a  good  friend  to  many 
whom  he  could  scarcely  call  friends. 
Somehow, 
they  came  to  him  in  their 
scrapes,  because he had none of his own. 
His life had a distinct purpose, and a life 
with a purpose always  gains a dignity of 
its own,  which  sets it in the chancellor’s 
place,  whence it can  reach out a hand of 
sympathy to  others.  Even  older  people 
began  to  talk  to  John  as  they  did  not 
always talk to each  other.  His  own life 
being  real,  he  was  made  free  of  the 
reality in other lives.
And  so  years  passed  on,  and  John’s 
wages  rose,  and  the little  store began to 
increase.  The goal of his  hopes appear­
ed on  the horizon,  and yet,  as is so often 
the case, the  last bit of  the race was  the 
hardest of all.  For John was now a man 
of  twenty-four,  and  John  fell  in  love. 
Kitty Ray,  the  daughter of  the  foreman 
at  the  timber  yard,  was such  a  pretty, 
lively girl,  and  she was always kind  and 
civil to John,  and  treated him on quite a 
different  footing  from  the  other  work­
men. 
(She heard her father praise John, 
and say  that he was a man who was sure 
to get  on—he must  he saving a  good  bit 
of  money already.)  John  never  said  a 
word of  love to Kitty Ray, but he  could 
not  help  feeling  as  if  sunshine  broke 
over  the  yard whenever  she  entered  it, 
and doubtless she could see the  sunshine 
on his face.  John never said much about 
Kitty to his mother,  but she noticed that 
he  grew  a  little  absent-minded.  And 
the good  woman  found  occasion  to  say 
that  every 
jus­
tice for  itself as well as  show generosity 
to others,  and  that the real  good of  any­
body  was  the  real  good  of  everybody, 
and that happy hearts made active hands, 
and that every good  soul  we  could link 
to our own must he a new  hand  on  that 
cable of  life at which  we must all take a 
long  pull,  and a strong  pull,  and a pull 
altogether.  Mrs.  Singleton actually made 
a  journey to  the  town  to  get a look  at 
Kitty.  She  thought  it  was  a  pity that 
she  wore  her  hair in a fringe  over  her 
forehead,  and it did  strike  her that Kit­
ty’s style of  dress would be a sore tax on 
such wages as  John’s.

should  have 

life 

John  was  sorely  tempted. 

“But.  after all,  it is not for me to make 
or to mar,” she  decided,  as  she  trudged 
home.  “The  lad  is  guided  by  better 
hands;  for houses and  riches may be the 
inheritance  from  parents—an’ it’s  little 
John has got  from  his  father  and me— 
but  a  prudent  wife  is  from  the  Lord. 
A’  the  heart  will  not be contradicted— 
only  sometimes  the  heart’s  not in it at 
all, but  just the fancy!”
It must be owned  that  Kitty’s appear­
ance  did  sometimes give  John a qualm. 
She certainly did not look dressed for the 
part  he wanted her to play.  But he had 
the  belief  of  his  young  man’s  vanity, 
thjit if  she loved him, all  would be well. 
It  hurt  him  once  when  he  heard  her 
speak  of  an  elderly  woman  who  was 
earning  her  living  as  his mother did as 
“a  scrubby  old  thing.”  But  that  was 
only her  thoughtlessness;  she  meant no 
harm.
The way in which John came finally to 
tell  her the story of  his  life  was  in this 
wise:  A  fellow-workman  of  his  pro­
posed to set  up  in  business for  himself 
in a little  town  not  far  off.  He  was a 
smart,  dashing, 
talkative  fellow,  hut 
very clever  at  his  trade.  He suggested 
to John  that  he  should  join  him as his 
partner.  He knew  John had saved a lit­
tle  money;  together  they  could  make 
such  use  of  it  that  it  would  he  soon 
doubled  and  trebled.  Risk?  There was 
hardly any risk.  There must be a little— 
you  know, just a little—or the  prospect 
would  not  be  so  good.  “Nothing ven­
ture, nothing have.”
If  this 
scheme  did  turn  out  well, it would en­
able him to discharge his responsibilities 
much  sooner  than  he  otherwise would, 
and he should be started  on so hopeful a 
line  that  he  might  actually propose  to 
Kitty at  once.  But  if  it  failed?  Then 
the savings of  years  would be gone,  and 
he might  even  have  other  liabilities to 
discharge  before  he  could  begin  to  ac­
cumulate  again.  His  mother’s  old  age 
had  been  put in sore peril of  bitter  de­
pendence through nobody’s fault.  Should 
he  imperil  it  again,  in  mere “haste  to 
grow rich ?”  No;  he felt  he  must  not. 
He felt quite sure Kitty would agree with 
him.  Now  was  an  opportunity to  con­
sult her by telling the  truth  about  him­
self,  which he had often wished she could 
know,  lest lie was lowered in her eyes by 
his  comrades’  sneers  about  his  “close­
ness.”
He  found  an  opportunity  one  day, 
standing in the  wood yard,  with the sun­
leaves 
beams  glinting  through  green 
their 
overhead  and  making 
shadow’s 
dance upon the  shaven  planks. 
(It was 
long  before  John  Singleton  could  see 
those dancing shadows without an aching 
at his heart.)
When  he  told  her of  the offer  which 
had  been  made  him,  she  remarked, 
eagerly, that of  course he  would take it.
“Not ‘of course’,” he said, quietly, “hut 
rather, I fear,  ‘of  course  not’—for  rea­
sons  which I will  explain,”  And  then 
he told his story.
If  John  could 
have borne to watch  her, he would  have 
seen her pout.  He did  hear  vexation iu 
the tone in w hich she said—
“And  if  you  let  this  chance  go  by, 
what outlook have  you?”
“When I have  freed  these  cottages,” 
said he,  “I will go hack  to  Creston  and 
start  there,  for  myself,  in a very  small 
way. 
I w’ill live  with  mother  in one of 
the  cottages, and  have  my  saw yard in 
its garden,  and we will let the other.  Or, 
my mother  will  live  in one cottage, and 
perhaps  take a lodger, and I will live in 
the  other, and pay rent to her.  That is, 
if  I marry,  you see,” he added quietly.
“It’s  not  a  way to  get  on  quickly,” 
said Kitty.
“Getting on isn’t everything,” returned 
John.  “Doing  one’s  duty  as  one  goes 
along is more.”
Kitty  was  silent.  Then  she  said, 
“Your mother  would  not like  your sac­

Kitty  looked  down. 

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rificing such prospects for her.  She may 
be able to work for a long while  yet.” -
“I sha’n’t ask  her  advice  here,”  said 
John,  resolutely.  “It’s not my business 
I hope she 
to tempt her to risk  herself. 
will  be able  to  work  for  years  yet;  but 
it’s not my place to keep her at it.”
There was a tone in John’s  voice  now 
which Kitty might  have understood,  had 
she been giving heed.
“You’ll be a poor  man  all  your  days, 
John Singleton,” she  said.  “This is the 
tide in  your affairs that  might  lead  you 
to  fortune;  but  if  you  won’t  take  it, 
you’ll go on in the  shallows, and have to 
marry some  dull  girl  who won’t expect 
anything  better  than  drudging  at  the 
washtub and the scrubbing brush.”
“I should not wish a wife who is ready 
to  risk  that  my mother in her age shall 
be condemned to labors she shrinks from 
in her own  youth and health,” said John 
Singleton.
“There was no use in  asking my opin­
ion,  if  your  own  was  made,”  retorted 
Kitty,  with real temper.
“I hoped our  opinions  would  agree,” 
said John Singleton, as he  turned slowly 
away.  At  that  moment,  he felt as if  he 
had  been  mad  ever  to  have  given two 
thoughts  to  Kitty Ray,  and  her  power 
over him  was  broken  forever.  Bui  an 
ache and a  longing was in hi.s heart.  He 
had  wakened  from  his  dream—yet  he 
could not forget  how  sweet it had been. 
For  the  first  time  he felt the burden of 
his  responsibilities. 
It  is  always  some 
human  hand 
laid  upon  our  circum­
stances  which  turns  the  balance  and 
makes them outweigh our courage.
John  Singleton  took to working regu­
larly  over  hours.  The  books  he  bor­
rowed in those  days  were  never  novels 
or poems.  He  used  to  shrink  irritated 
under  his  mother’s  silent,  searching 
glance.  He  buried  the  last of  his boy­
hood in the  grave of  his  love  for  Kitty 
Ray.  But  he  turned  away  from  those 
obsequies  a  strong,  cheerful  man.  He 
did  not  ever  speak  bitterly  of  women, 
though  he  was  sometimes  silent  when 
others  gushed  forth  in  sentiment,  as if 
every  girl  was  an  unselfish  and  un­
worldly angel.
“The  Bible  does not say that,”  he re­
marked.  “It says  that  the  price of  the 
virtuous woman is far above rubies—and 
rubies  are  not  lying  about everywhere 
the  moment  we  want  to  pick up some­
thing.”
He  had  conquered  the  pain  com­
pletely by the  time  that  Kitty Ray  was 
married to the  young  workman who had 
proposed to take  him  into  partnership, 
and who presently gave  forth every sign 
of  rampant prosperity.
Surely he had his  reward on that glor­
ious summer noon when his mother came 
up to the town and  met  him at the Mar­
ket Cross, and  they went  together to the 
lawyer’s  office  and  paid  off  the  mort­
gages !
They  went  straight  back  to  Creston, 
where all was ready now for  John’s  car­
rying  out  the  plan  which  he  had  un­
folded  to  the  scorn of  Kitty Ray.  And 
in this  day of  triumph  and  completion, 
they spoke  as  little  as  they had  at the 
beginning  of  the  struggle.  Only  his 
mother  put  her  hand  through his arm. 
And John could  remember she had  done 
so as she walked with him from his fath­
er’s grave.
That  is  many  years  ago  now.  Mrs. 
Singleton  does  really live  in one of  the 
little  cottages,  and  she  is  called  “old 
Mrs.  Singleton,”  because 
there  is  a 
pretty  young  Mrs. Singleton,  who lives, 
not in the other cottage—that has  grown 
too small for John  and  his  family—but 
in  the  old  square  house  at  the nearest 
corner  of  the  green.  For  John  has  a 
quiet hut substantial business,  and is one 
of  the people of  importance  in  Creston. 
“It  is  not  only  because  he  is  an  em­
ployer  of  labor.” says  the  squire,  “but 
he is a man of  character,  also.”
As  for  Kitty  and  her  husband,  they 
flourished  for  a  long  while,  during 
which  period  everybody said that it was 
really sad that John Singleton’s mistaken 
sense of  duty had  given  him such a ter­
rible  pullback.  Kitty drove  in her own 
gig,  and kept “a cook and a housemaid.” 
Presently people  said  she drank a little, 
and that the couple quarreled.  Finally, 
the  husband  ran  away,  when  it  was 
found that his affairs were utterly wrong, 
and  that  his  creditors  would  not  get 
three farthings in the pound.  And Kitty 
went home to her father’s house and dis­
graced it, and made everything there very 
miserable.
People  say  to  John  Singleton  some­
times,  “Nobody  knows  what  you might 
have  been if  you’d  only had a thorough 
education  and  a good  start,  instead  of 
being  handicapped  with  that  heavy re­
sponsibility.”
Says  John  Singleton,  “That responsi­
bility  was  my  education,  and  the  best 
education in the  world—what the wisest 
parent cannot give,  unless it’s the will of 
God. 
I don’t know  what I’d  have  been 
without it. 
It taught me what  money is 
and what it isn’t, and  what it can do and 
what  it  can’t,  and  how  it  may  make 
friends of  fools,  and  an  enemy of  God. 
There’s a deal  of  common  sense  in  the 
Bible.  You  don’t  get  high  spiritual 
meaning  without  common  sense,  but 
within  it.  And  I  think  I  know  the 
truth  of  the  prophet’s  saying,  “It  is 
good for a man  that  he bear the  yoke in 
his  youth.’ ” 

Edward  Garrett.

Disarming  Suspicion. 

this hair come from?”
black horse and he switched his tail.” 

Drummer’s wife (wildly)—“Where did 
Drummer—“ I  was  riding  behind  a 
“This is a fine hair.”
“Yes, it was a fine horse.”

His Pants Were  Short.

“Do you have  any difficulty with  your 
breathing?”  asked  one  drummer of  an­
other.

“No;  why?”
“I  notice  that  your  pants  are  quite 

short.”

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The Michigan Tradesman

AMONG THE TRADE.

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

The Telfer Spice Co. has  put  in a new 

roaster. 

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C. C. Davidson  succeeds  C.  E.  Hoga- 

done in the stationery business.

Mange & Arthur have  opened  a  meat 

market at 388 Jefferson avenue.

J. I.  Zerkle succeeds J. L Zerkle & Co. 
in the drug business  on  South  Division 
street. 

_______________

D. F. Lewis has opened a grocery store 
at Reed City.  The stock was purchased 
at this market.

John  Pikaard  has  opened  a  general 
store at Fremont.  Yoigt, Herpolsheimer 
& Co.  furnished the dry goods and Olney, 
Shields & Co. the groceries.

Fehsenfeld & Grammel succeed  Steele 
& Gardiner in the manufacture of-brooms 
at 526 and 528 Ottawa street.

Mrs. Nora Scott  has  added  largely to 
the grocery stock she purchased of Chris. 
Mynning, at Big Rapids, from  the estab­
lishment of  Lemon & Peters.

The Grand Rapids  Tank  Line Co.  has 
established  tank  stations  at  Muskegon 
and  Big  Rapids  and has arranged to es­
tablish a depot  at  Petoskey,  with  D. C. 
Osborne in charge.  Other  stations  will 
be inaugurated later  on.

Hester  &  Fox  have  sold  a  20-horse 
power  engine  and  boiler  to  Redpath & 
Campbell,  of  Martin;  a  20-horse  power 
outfit  to  P.  O. Herrington,  of  Herring­
ton, and  a  30-horse  power  engine  and 
boiler  to  Ryerson,  Davis & Co., of  Fre­
mont.  The first  two named will be used 
in elevators and the latter will do service 
in a shingle mill.

AROUND THE  STATE.

Hastings—Subscriptions to the amount 
of  $30,000 have been  secured toward the 
organization of  a stock  company  to  en­
gage  in  the  manufacture of  the  Walter 
L. Wilkins  refrigerator.

East Saginaw—The  new  planing  mill 
of  E. O.  & S.  L.  Eastman  &  Co.  is  com­
pleted.  Messrs.  Eastman  have  a  desir­
able site, covering twenty acres, and have 
leased  yard  room  to  J. C. Caskey,  who 
has  moved  his  lumber  yard  from  the 
east  side.

Hastings—The Michigan Whip Co. has 
been  organized  with a capital  stock  of 
$10,000 to engage in  the  manufacture of 
whips.  Henry  C.  Maentz,  of  Allegan, 
will serve the corporation in the capacity 
of  Secretary.  Business  will  be  begun 
about November 1.

Manistee—The  Manistee  Lumber  Co. 
started  its  new  purchase last week and 
will run two  circulars for the balance of 
the season,  but will  let  the band and the 
shingle mill still lie idle.  The  company 
will try to get some of its salt machinery 
in operation  as  soon  as  possible, but it 
takes a little longer  to  get  that  started 
than it does a sawmill.

West Bay City—The  Morton & Backus 
Co., which purchased the  Hotchkiss mill 
premises,  has  already  begun  removing 
the  debris  of 
the  sawmill  that  was 
burned last  December.  The  boiler  and 
engine in the  old  mill  are in fair condi­
tion,  and  will  be  utilized  in  the  new 
planing mill and box  factory.  The  new 
building will be 100x134 feet, with a rail­
road track on either tide.

favor  of 

Ludington—The  suit  brought  by  the 
Troy  Lumber  Co.  against A. E. Cartier, 
to  recover a  balance  on  a  timber  land 
purchase made in 1883, resulted in a ver­
dict 
the  plaintiff  for 
$42,137.37.  The  proof  shows  that  by 
means of  incorrect  estimates,  all  of  the 
timber in controversy,  situated near Lud­
ington,  was not paid for.  The  company 
sued for $80,000, the  suit  lasting  about 
two weeks before Judge Waterman.  The 
jury was out about two hours.

in 

market. 

Niles—Wesley Butts  has sold his meat 
,

Bronson—Henry Powers, general deal­

er, is dead.

Lakeview—H.  Robinson  &  Co.  have 

opened a meat market.

Whittemore  —  George  Charters, 

the 

hardware dealer,  is dead.

Morenci—Blair & Downer have given a 

bill of  sale on their drug stock.

Big Rapids—Nora Scott has  purchased 

the Chris. Mynning grocery stock.

Yassar—R. D. Mapes  is  succeeded  by 

N. G. Gossel in the grocery business.

Saginaw—H. Y. Hughes  has  sold  his 

grocery stock to  Freidlein & Graebner.

Adrian—Mulligan & Raesch  will  open 
a new clothing store  about  September 1.
Woodland—S.  E.  Wells  will  start  a 
harness shop here.  He  hails from Ohio.
Sparta — Geo.  French  has  opened  a 
branch  jewelry  establishment  at  Cas- 
novia.

Escanaba — J.  L.  Major’s  furniture 
stock has been closed out under a chattel 
mortgage.

Spring  Lake—C.  A.  Pearson’s  hard­
ware  stock  has  been  closed  on  chattel 
mortgage.

Custer—Wm.  H.  Danaher’s  grocery 
stock has  been closed  out  under  chattel 
mortgage.

Rockford  —  B.  A.  Fish,  the  Cedar 
Springs P. of  I. merchant,  has  opened a 
branch store here.

Carson City—The Carson City Elevator 
Co. will hereafter  be  managed by W. C. 
Hawley,  formerly of  Lyons.

Adrian—Henry  C.  Wiesinger  has  ar­
ranged to embark in the  bakery and con­
fectionery  business at Detroit.

Allegan—A.  Hoffmaster  has  sold  his 
grocery stock  to  Chas. Young,  formerly 
engaged in the drug business here.

Ionia—Wm.  G.  Long  has  purchased 
the interest of Wm. R. Dye in the grocery 
firm  of  John H. Welch & Co.  The  new 
firm will be known as Welch & Long.

Howard  City  —  Casper  Schutt  has 
traded  his  property here  for a business 
location  in  Lakeview,  and  will  move 
there  at  an  early date and re-engage in 
the grocery trade.

Howard  City—Ben. Ensley,  David Col­
lins, John  and  Michael Kinney and Jos. 
Tenewait  have  organized  a company to 
engage in the wholesale  and  retail meat 
business, having purchased the ice house, 
slaughter  house  and  fixtures  of  J.  F. 
Yan Denbergh & Co.

MANUFACTURING MATTEES.

Rondo—Clark & Hoffman, shingle mill, 

have dissolved.

Detroit—Chas. E. Colby succeeds Earle 

& Colby in the manufacture of  cigars.

Menominee — Fred  Achilles  succeeds 
in  cedar  posts, 

H.  Westerman  &  Co. 
shingles, etc.

Muskegon—Root &  McKillip  are  suc­
ceeded by McKillip, Stevens &  Whitman 
in the lumber business.

East Saginaw—Wells, Stone & Co. have 
purchased  of  Brown  &  Seaton,  of  Mt. 
Pleasant, some parcels of land in Isabella 
and  other  counties,  the  consideration 
being $36,000.

Manistee—The  East  Shore  Furniture 
Co.  has  gotten  fairly  to  work,  and  is 
driving  piles. 
It  will  dock  its  whole 
river  front, so  as  to  give lots of  piling 
and receiving  ground  for lumber, which 
for the most part  will  come in by water.

Bank  Notes.

The Soo  National  Bank of  Sault  Ste. 
Marie  declared  a  semi-annual  dividend 
of  3 per cent.

The  Mecosta  County  Savings  Bank 
opened  for  business  on  the 15th.  The 
Bank occupies the room formerly used as 
a  private  office  by  the  Big  Rapids 
National Bank.

Purely  Personal.

Les Freeman  is  expected  home  from 

Canada to-day.

Fred  B.  Clark is spending  about  half 

his time at Gun Lake these days.

N. B. Blain, the Lowell merchant, was 
in town last Thursday to attend the Mer­
cantile picnic.

B.  A. Fish, who conducts P. of I. stores 
at  Rockford  and  Cedar  Springs, w as in 
town last Friday.

Harry B. Wisner, of  the former firm of 
Wisner & Mansfield, has  entered the em­
ploy of  Wm. R. Keeler.

Wellington  Hibbard,  Secretary of  the 
Hibbard  Rheumatic  Syrup Co., of  Jack- 
son, was in town  Monday.

Frank J. Dettenthaler and family leave 
soon  for  Colorado Springs, Colo., where 
they expect to remain several months.

Frank  Barnes,  book-keeper  for  the 
Grand Rapids Tank Line Co., is spending 
ten  days  with  Cleveland  friends  and 
acquaintances.

Frank  A.  Rockafellow,  President  of 
the F.  A.  Rockafellowr Mercantile Co., of 
Carson City,  was  in  town  a  couple  of 
days last week.

Will Butts, book-keeper for  Hawkins, 
Perry  &  Co., leaves next  week for  Bay 
View',  where he  will  spend  a  fortnight 
with his family.

Daniel Lynch has  settled his family at 
Macatawa Park for the season and spends 
a portion of his  time  on  the piers when 
the perch are biting.

C. M. Piereson has returned from a visit 
with  friends  in  East  Saginaw  and  re­
sumed  his  position  with  the  W. Steele 
Packing & Provision Co.

C.  H.  Cornnell,  formerly  engaged  in 
the produce business on Ionia street, has 
gone to Petoskey, where  he will  spend a 
couple of  months,  engaging  in  the  car­
load produce business in the fall.

Isaac  Sanford, of  the  carpet  house of 
Smith & Sanford, is entitled to  an  extra 
large  monument.  He  recently returned 
an umbrella  which was left at the  store 
by a customer of  the establishment.

C. Corbitt, of  Detroit, Michigan Super­
intendent  of  the  Western  Union  Tele­
graph Co., is in town for a week  for  the 
purpose  of  investigating  the  numerous 
complaints made by business men against 
the management of  the  local  office.  He 
finds  many things  to  condemn, and few 
to commend,  in  the  management of  the 
office, having severely criticised the man­
ager  for  his  arbitrary methods  and his 
presumption  in  assuming  that he is au­
thorized to speak for the  company in the 
same w ay the  president of  the  company 
would ordinarily exercise authority.

Signed with the Patrons.

A  Kent  City  merchant  writes  The 

Tradesman as  follows:
M.  L. Whitney, proprietor of  the Kent 
City Mills,  having  signed  with the Pat­
rons  of  Industry, the local dealers  very 
properly refuse to handle his flour.
R. McKinnon, the general  dealer,  has 
also signed with the Patrons.

HAS  COME  TO  STAY.

day  a Permanency.

The  Mercantile  Picnic  and  Half Holi­
The third annual  picnic of  the  Grand 
Rapids Mercantile Association  has  come 
and  gone, leaving  naught  but  pleasant 
memories in its train.  The Tradesman 
ordinarily  presents  its  own  reports  of 
such  events, but, in  order  that  no  one 
may have  an  opportunity to  assert that 
the report in this  case is colored,  the ad­
mirable  report of  the  Daily Democrat is 
used instead:
The Mercantile picnic has come to stay. 
It is an institution founded on  the  glor­
ious  principles of  the Declaration of  In­
dependence  and  fills  a  long  felt  want. 
The picnic  yesterday at Reed’s Lake was 
a howling success.  Everybody who deals 
in pork and beans and  sugar  was  there. 
The retailers and wholesalers  were there 
with  their  families,  and  the  fewer  in 
number and more pompous, if  not better 
fed,  were  there  chaperoned  by  their 
wives  and  children.  Everybody  went 
out to have a good time and joined hands 
around  to  make  things merry.  Credits 
and  cash  accounts  were  forgotten,  and 
the  occasion  wras  turned  into a general 
romp.  Some  of  the  elder  people  wrere 
dignified  in  the  first  round  or two, but 
the prevailing spirit was too strong for it 
to last.  Corpulent  tradesmen with large 
bay  windows  took  off  their  coats  and 
with their handkerchiefs ties around their 
necks sprained their backs  and  blistered 
their  hands  rowing  and  playing  base 
ball.  Wives  and  daughters  joined  in 
playing  tag  and  bean bag,  and the chil­
dren were allowed to roll and romp about 
the lawns or wade in the water.  No one 
had  any time  to  talk  business,  and the 
picnic  from  dinner  time  until  evening 
was  a  merry  go-around  in  which  all 
joined with equal enthusiasm.
The neat programmes  which  were dis­
tributed and which, by the way, were not 
carried out to the  letter, announced that 
the picnic was the third annual picnic of 
the Grand Rapids Mercantile Association. 
The red silk badges which were  given to 
every one  who  landed  on  the  grounds 
made the same  announcement,  but to an 
onlooker  it  might  have  been  supposed 
that  the  crowd  had  been  regularly to­
gether for fifteen  years.  The  wholesale 
trade  was  the  host of  the occasion, and 
well did  the  cheery  host  dispense  hos­
pitality.
The  weather  clerk  had  been  impor­
tuned to furnish  perfect  weather for the 
picnic,  and  the  old  fellow,  who  rather 
went back on  the  crowd  last  year, kept 
his  trust  in  a way  that  was  charming. 
He was on the grounds  during the whole 
day and took scrupulous care that all the 
dark  little  clouds  should  blow  over. 
After supper he left  early before  resolu­
tions could  be  drafted in his behalf,  but 
he won such good favor that  he. has  un­
doubtedly established for  himself  a long 
line of  credit with the trade.
The  attendance  yesterday  was  much 
larger than  at  either  of  the  preceding 
picnics  of  the Association. 
In fact, ex­
cepting on holidays, the crowd was larger 
than any day this  year at the lake.  The 
stores down  town  were  closed  at  noon 
and proprietors and clerks  put  on  their 
good clothes and boarded the cars for the 
lake.  The first dummy after dinner  was 
crowded  and  each  succeeding  one  was 
called  upon to carry a bigger  load.  By 
2:30 o’clock there were 2,000 people about 
the pavilion,  drinking lemonade,  eating 
ice  cream  and  listening  to the droning 
music  of  the  band.  The afternoon was 
sultry  and  the  players  did  not  inflate 
their instruments with a vigor  contrived 
to  promote  profuse  prespiration.  The 
picnickers, too, showTed a manifest desire 
to reduce necessary exertion  to  a  mini­
mum, and their  efforts for  a  time  were 
confined  to  manipulating a fan.  About 
3 o’clock  a  breeze  sprung  up from  the 
lake and the gathering  began to be astir. 
At this time there were several thousand 
about  the  pavilion  and  the  lake front. 
Boating excursions  were  organized  and 
put into  effect  and  games  of  all  kinds 
were embarked in.

THE  BALL  GAMES.

Two base  ball  games  were  played  at 
Alger Park.  The first  game,  in  which 
the wholesale and retail clerks took part, 
resulted in a score of  16 to.ll in favor of 
the former.  The  game  between the fat 
men and the lean men resulted in a score 
of 19 to 6 in favor of the lean men.

THE  COLLATION.

The crowd  was fed  on  the  bounty of 
the jobbers  of this city and the situation 
soon simmered into  a  question  of capac­
ity.  S. M. Lemon, of  the firm of  Lemon 
& Peters, sat at the head of the table and 
dispensed  the  good cheer as representa­
tive  of  the  jobber’s  trade, 
^wetland, 
the caterer, under  whose supervision the 
collation was dished  up  had  set  covers 
for 400,  and  jobber  and  butcher,  com­
mission man and  green  grocer  sat  side 
by  side,  alternating  with  wives  and 
children, along the tables,  which looked 
as  if  they  had  no  end.  The  tables 
followed  the  piazza into every turn and 
angle and even the interior of  the pavil­
ion was made to accomodate three, which 
extended  its  entire  width. 
The  food 
was spread on the table and, picnic style, 
everybody waited  on his neighbor.  Col­
ored  waiters  called  out: 
“Black  or 
green;” 
if  the  picnicker addressed said 
“Black,” he got coffee, if he said “Green,” 
he  got  tea.  When  one  table full  was 
dined,  it  made  room  for  another,  and 
after the 490 covers had been replenished 
the requisite number of  times the crowd 
was fed.  The printed bill of fare was as 
follows:
Veal Roll. 

Spiced Tongue.

Cold Ham. 

Cold Roast Beef.

English Potato  Salad. 

Chicken  Salad.

COLD  M EA TS.
Pot Roast. 
SALADS.

Shrimp Salad.

BREADS.

Butter Sandwiches.  Vienna Rolls. 

Boston Brown Bread. 

White  Bread.

French  Bread.
Tomatoes.  Celery.  Radishes.

RELISHES.

Cucumbers. 

Mixed Pickles.  Pickled Beats.  Catsup.

Pepper Sauce.  Worcestershire Sauce.

White Mountain Cake.  Silver Cake.  Gold Cake.

Fruit Jellies.  Ice Cream.  Lemon Cake. 
Cocoanut Jelly Cake.  Cream Almond Cake.

DESSERT.

land pavilion  could  not  hold the crowd 
and a thousand people  or  more  crossed 
the lake to Alger park.  At both places, 
dancing was indulged in until late in the 
evening. 
In the upper story of the new 
pavilion at Alger  park is a large and ex­
cellent  dancing  hall.  This  hall  was 
crowded with people  standing five or six 
feet deep along  the  walls,  the  dancers 
moving in the center of the  rooms.  All 
the row boats about the lake were in con­
stant requisition during the evening, and 
the bathing resorts were well patronized. 
The evening was a pleasant finale to  the 
pleasant day.

picnic  notes. 

*

The  members  of  the  Association  are 
already beginning to talk  about the next 
picnic.

If  the retail  clerks  keep on improving 
in their playing, they will  be  able to de­
feat the wholesale nine by 1900.

M.  C.  Goossen  collected  $30  on  the 
grounds in voluntary subscriptions to as­
sist  in  liquidating  the  boat  and  badge 
funds.*
Seven hundred  and  ninety-eight  boat 
tickets were issued during the day by the 
Boat Committee,  good  on  the  Belknap, 
Sport, Florence and Trixie.

President  Herrick  was  unable  to  de­
liver  his  speech,  owing to the anxiety of 
the people to begin hostilities on the eat­
ables.  He has put it in cold storage un­
til the next picnic.

So far as  The Tradesman’s  informa­
tion goes, Ira Hatch was the  only grocer 
in  the  city who  denied  himself  and his 
clerks  the  privilege  of  a  half  holiday. 
His  store  was  open all day—a sad com­
mentary on the greed of  its owner.

An assessment will be  made  on  Steve 
Sears,  Fred  Fallas,  Fred  Blake,  Geo. 
Yan Every and  the  other  fat  men  who 
crowded on  the dock at Alger  Park  and 
broke it down.  No  one  would  suppose 
that Fred  Fallas  would be so mean as to 
push a lady in the  water under such cir­
cumstances,  but several persons who saw 
the  act stand  ready to swear to the fact.

Gripsack Brigade.

Scott  Swigart  spent  Sunday with  his 

family at Grand Ledge.

Fred.  W.  Powers  started  out  Monday 

after a rest of  seven weeks.

J.  H. McKelvey and wife  have  gone to 
Petoskey and will spend a month  among 
the Northern resorts.

There is a move on  foot to crown Max 
Mills poet laureate of the  Grand  Rapids 
Traveling Men’s Association.

W.  E.  Hampton,  of  Harbor  Springs, 
has  engaged  to  travel  on  the  road for 
Le Bar  &  Cornwell, of  Cadillac,  selling 
flour.

C.  S. Davis,  filer in  Filer & Son’s mill, 
at Manistee,  has  engaged  to  travel  for 
Perkins & Co.,  selling  shingle  mill  ma­
chinery.

A. R.  Ramage,  traveling  salesman  for 
the  Lustig  Cigar  Co.,  was  in  town  a 
couple of  days  last  week.  Mr. Ramage 
resides at Port Huron.

H. E. Borden,  formerly engaged in the 
grocery  business  at  East  Saginaw,  has 
taken  a  position  as  traveling  salesman 
for the Jas. Stewart Co., of  that city.
in 

the 
breeding  of  mastiff  pups.  Price,  $25 
apiece,  expressage  prepaid.  Out  of  a 
litter of  twelve,  “Hub” expects  to  real­
ize enough to buy a fast horse.

“Hub”  Baker  has  engaged 

Wool,  Hides  and Tallow.

In the wool  market,  the  same  uncer­
tainty exists,  and  the  two  extremes be­
tween  manufacturer  and  seller,  as  to 
prices,  does  not  change.  Some  of  the 
larger  manufacturers  bought  early  at 
home,  w hile  others bought in the States, 
helping to  advance  prices to the farmer, 
and  now  have  their  wools at relatively 
lower  prices  than  can  be  bought  in 
the Eartern markets.  They consequently 
made prices on cloths at which  those not 
stocked  can  buy  wools  and  compete. 
How  long  either  side  can hold out is a 
question,  to  be  forced  one  way or  the 
other—shall the  dealer lose, or the man­
ufacturer lose, or force  higher  prices of 
cloth ?

The hide  market  is  as  dull  as  ever, 
indifference,  whether 
with  a  general 
they  buy  or  not  at  any  price. 
In the 
meantime,  supplies  of  both  hides  and 
leather  are  ample,  yet  not so large,  but 
large  purchases of  leather  would  clean 
out  sufficient  to  give  more  tone  to the 
market.
low prices.

Tallow is quiet but in  fair  demand  at 

Allegan's  Wool  Purchase.

The Allegan  Gazette  places  the  wool 
purchase of that place at 137,000 pounds, 
distributed among  six  buyers in the fol­
lowing amounts:
H. Stern & Co.................... 
34,000
Sherwood & Griswold...................................18,000
Livingston & Co............................................ 25,000
Sutphin&Co  ................................................30,000
J. E. Travis....................................................20,000
J. Lederman...................................................10,000

 

To  Elect Delegates to  Muskegon.
A special meeting of  the Grand Rapids 
Mercantile  Association  will  be  held at 
T h e  T ra d esm a n office  this  evening for 
the purpose of  electing delegates  to  the 
Muskegon convention.  A full attendance 
is requested.

A  Cure  for Corns.

Iced Tea. 

Iced Coffee.

AFTER  SUPPER.

Cocoanut Jelly Cake.

For bunions and  corns, cannabis  indi- 
cus  and  glycerine,  equal  parts, painted 
on the bunion or corn and  bound around 
with Canton  flannel, adding a few  drops 
After  supper  the  crowd  doubled and 
trebled.  Every dummy in the early even­
of  the  liquid  to  the  flannel  where  it 
ing was  loaded  down,  and by dark 5,000 
comes in contact with the  affected parts, 
people were on the grounds.  The Swet-
will soon restore to health.
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A Good  Brand to  Tie  To.

“ Pioneer  Prepared,” the  well-known 
brand  of  paint  manufactured  by  T.  H. 
Nevin & Co., has  now  been  on the mar­
ket  ten  years,  being  one  of  the  few 
brands  which  is  sold  under a  personal 
guarantee  as  to  purity  and  durability. 
The trade can be  supplied by the  Hazel- 
tine & Perkins Drug Co.

Some  Engines.

The Ionia Pants and  Overall  Co.  and 
the  Flint  Road  Cart  Co.  ordered  last 
week  Westinghouse  engines  and  com­
plete steam plants  of  Wallace Franklin, 
of  this city, who also took an order from 
the  Ohio Paper  Co.,  of  Niles,  for a 250 
horse  power  compound, 
condensing 
Westinghouse engine.

POE SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

Advertisem ents will be inserted  under  th is  head fo r  } 
tw o  cents  a   word  th e  first  insertion  and  one cent a   , 
w ord  fo r  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise-  | 
m ent tak en  fo r less th an  25 cents.  Advance  paym ent,  i

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

F o r   s a l e —h a v in g   o t h e r   im p o r t a n t   in t e r -

ests, we offer fo r sale our stock of drugs, groceries, 
crockery, glassw are, w all paper, paints, oUs, e tc .;  one 
of th e best stocks in  best county seat in M ichigan; will 
invoice about  $7,000;  will  tra d e   o u t  $1,000.  Address 
B art ram  & M illington, Paw   Paw. 
168
F o r  s a l e   o n   e a s y   t e r m s —a   s t o c k   o f   g e n -
eral m erchandise in a sm all tow n in th e best farm ­
in g  country  of  S outhern  M ichigan;  profits  on  sales, 
$2,500 per annum , as per sales book;  reason fo r selling, 
failin g  h ealth.  Address, No. 167, care M ichigan T rades­
m a n ___________________________________________ 167

F o r   s a l e —s t o c k   o f   d r u g s,  m e d ic in e s ,  g r o -

ceries and provisions;  will also sell store building, 
22x36, tw o-story, w ith  cellar  and  store  room   an d   lo t 
1x8 rods;  also dw elling house, w ith tw o  acres of  land; 
building  b u ilt w ithin tw o  years;  reason  fo r  selling, 
poor h e a lth ;  no d ru g  and m edicine com petition; term s
easy.  A. D. Loomis. Levering, Mich._____________ 163
dtM  A n n   WILL BUY RESTAURANT, FURNITURE, 
v/V JV J  fixtures, stock and good will of  th e pres­
en t ow ner;  only resta u ra n t  in   th e  city of M arquette; 
good reasons fo r selling cheerfully  given  on  applica­
tion;  first-class ice  cream   trad e a  specialty.  Address 
F. Heppner, 105 Superior St., M arquette. Mich. 

161

HELP  WANTED.

TT7-ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  WOOD  ENGRAVER — A 
VV  good chance fo r th e  rig h t  m an;  would  p refer a 
m arried, m iddle-aged m an.  Address Jackson Electro- 
type and E ngraving Co.. Jackson, Mich._________ 166

SITUATIONS WANTED.

TxrANTED—SITUATION AS CLERK  IN  SMALL  GRO- 
VV  eery o r d ry goods store by a reliable y oung m an. 
Address O. D. Cleveland, H arrison, Mich. 
TTTANTED—SITUATION  AS  BOOK-KEEPER  BY MAN 
V V 
of eig h t years’ experience, w ho is fam iliar  w ith 
general  m erchandise.  Address  A.  E.  Cham bers,  95 
Monroe S treet, G rand Rapids.  Mich._____________ 407

469

MISCELLANEOUS.

F o r   s a l e   o r   e x c h a n g e —f a r m   o f   so  a c r e s—

Splendid  land,  3%  m iles  from   county  seat;  also 
house and lot, tw o blocks from  business cen ter of same 
city  of 3.500 in h ab itan ts,  in  C entral M ichigan;  will ex­
change fo r  stock  of  m erchandise.  Address  No.  465, 
care M ichigan  Tradesm an. 
TTrANTED—1,000 MORE  MERCHANTS JO  ADOPT OUR 
VV 
Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System.  Send for 
sam ples.  E. A. Stowe A   Bro., Grand R apids. 
F o r   s a l e —g o o d   r e s id e n c e   l o t   o n   o n e   o f
WANTED—SEND  A  POSTAL  TO THE SUTLIFF COU- 

th e m ost p leasan t streets “ on  th e   hill.”  W ill ex­
change for stock in  an y  good in stitu tio n .  Address 286, 
care M ichigan T radesm an. 

pon Pass Book Co.,*  Albany,  N.  Y., fo r  sam ples 
of th e new   Excelsior  Pass  Book,  th e   m ost  com plete 
and finest  on th e  m ark et,  and  ju st  w hat  every m er­
ch an t should h ave  progressive m erchants all over the 
country a re now u sin g  them . 

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286

465

437

E X C L U S IV E
C a r p e ts , 

Oil  C lo th s , 

R u g s ,

C h i p a   M a t t i n g s  

D r a p e r i e s ,

a n d

P a r l o r  S c r e e n s
Smith  l Sanford,
F O R   S A L E !
The  Drenthe  Cheese  Factory.  Well 
equipped for handling  the  milk  of  400 
cows.  Terms easy.  Address

Ottawa  and  Pearl  Sts.,  Ledyard  Block.

F  J.  LAMB  &  CO.

Grand  Rapids, 

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Product o f Our F actory  a t  Dixon,  111.

Iu 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. Heuderson  &  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’  FINE 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—with  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.”

C,  M,  HENDERSON  1  C0„  Chicago,

Headquarters for the Celebrated W ales Goodyear Rubber Goods

F a c to r ie s: 
 

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Fond du Lac, Wis- 

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Dixon,  111. 

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

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r. O.  address,

¡Morton  House,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
We  furnish  electrotypes  of  our  Specialties  to  Customers.

Chicago, ill. 

LIONCOFFEE

M e r c h a n t s ,

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

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

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

E m   Wide-Awake  Merchant

Should  Certainly  Sell

LION, THE  KINO  OF  B0FFKE8.

An  Article  of Absolute  Merit.

It is fast  supplanting  the  scores  of  inferior  roasted coffees. 

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

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

W o o lso n   Spice  Co.,

T O L E D O ,   O H I O .

L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids.

If y o u  w a n t the B est B read, a sk  y o u r 

g ro cer for  B ro w n ’s S tan d ard .

A lw a y s   S w e e t,  M o ist  a n d   G ood   C olor,

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'The  F a rm e rs’  Friend.

POTUTO  BUG  AND  PUNT  SPRINKLER.

This is the  only  practi­
cal  sprinkler  for  putting 
water and  Paris  Green on 
potato vines to destroy the 
beetle.

This  cut  gives  an  inside 
view, showing the Agitator, 
also the Valve and the man­
ner  in  which  the spring  is 
put in the tube, etc.

Where this  sprinkler  is 
known  it  is  regarded  by 
Potato  Growers  to  be  as 
necessary as the self binder 
to every farmer.

P R IC E —$ 7 .6 0   D o zen .

Foster, S tev en s & Co.,

W h o le s a le   A g e n ts

G ra n d   R a p id s,  M ieli

ASSOCIATION  DEPARTMENT.
Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association. 

P resident—F ran k  W ells, Lansing.
F irst Vice-President—H. Cham bers, Cheboygan.
Second Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids.
T reasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.
Executive Board—P resident; C. L. W hitney, Muskegon; 
F ran k   H am ilton, T raverse C ity;  N. B. Blain, Lowell; 
Chas. T. B ridgm an, F lin t;  H iram   DeLano,  Allegan; 
S ecretary.
I  Com m ittee  on  Insurance—Geo.  B.  Caldwell,  Green­
ville;  W .8. Pow ers, N ashville;  Oren  Stone, Flint. 
C om m ittee on L egislation—8.  E.  P arkill,  Owosso;  H.
A. H ydom , G rand R apids;  H. H. Pope, Allegan. 
C om m ittee on Trade In terests—Sm ith Barnes, Traverse 
C ity:  Geo. R. H oyt, E ast Saginaw ;  H. B. F argo, Mus­
kegon. 
Com m ittee on T ransportation—Jam es Osborn,Owosso; 
O.  F.  Conklin,  G rand  Rapids;  C.  F.  Bock,  B attle
C om m ittee on Building and Loan A ssociations—Chaun- 
cey Strong, Kalam azoo; W ill E m m ert, E aton R apids; 
W . E. C rotty, Lansing,

Local S ecretary—P. J- ConnelLM uskegen.
Official O rgan—Th e Michigan Tradesm an.___________ _
The following  auxiliary associations  are op­
erating under  charters  granted by the Michi­
gan Business Men’s Association :

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N o .  1 —T r a v e r s e   C ity   B .  M . A . 

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

N o .  2 —L o w e l l   B . M .  A .

P resident, N. B. Blain; Secretary, F ran k  T. King.
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P resident. H. S. Church; Secretary, W m. Jo ra .________

N o . 3 —S t u r g i s  B . M . A .

P resident, E. J. H errick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

N o .  4 —G r a n d   R a p i d s   M .  A . 
No. 5—Muskegon B. M. A.

P resident, Jo h n  A. Miller;  Secretary, C. L. W hitney.
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P resident. F. W. Sloat; Secretary. P. T. Baldwin.______

N o . 6 —A l b a   « .   M . A .

N o .  7—D i m o n d a l e  B .  M . A . 

P resident. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. W idger.

P resident, F. H. T hurston: Secretary, G eo.L.Thurston.

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

N o . 9 —L a w r e n c e  B .  M . A . 

P resident, H. M. M arshall; S ecretary, J. H. Kelly.
N o .  lO —H a r b o r  S p r in g s  B .  M .  A . 

P resid en t, W . J.  Clark; S ecretary, A. L- T hom pson.

P resident. H. P. W hinple: Secretary,D . E.  W ynkoop.

N o .1 1 —K i n g s l e y   B . M .  A . 

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

P resident, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon._______

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

P resident, H. B. S tu rtev an t;  Secretary, W.  J. Austin.

N o .  1 4 —N o .  M u s k e g o n   B . M . A . 
P resident, S. A. Howey; S ecretary, G. C. Havens.
_  
P resident. R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.

N o .  1 5 —B o r n e  C ity   B .  M . A .

N o .  1 6 —S a n d  L a k e   B .  M .  A . 
P resident, J. V. C randall;  Secretary, W. Rasco.
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P resident. Geo. H. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. Sidle.

N o .  1 7 —P l a i u w e l l  B .  M . A .

P resident, W arren P. W oodard; Secretary, S. Lam from .

N o   18—O w o s s o  B .  M . A .

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P resident, D. F. W atson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.

N o .  1 9 —A d a   B .  M . A . 

N o .  2 0 —s a u g a t u c k   B .  M . A .

P resident, John F. H enry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.

N o .  2 1 — V V a y la n d   B . M .  A .

P resident, C. H. W h arto n ; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.

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

P resident, A. B. Schum acher; Secretary, W.  R.  Clarke.
— 
P resident. John W .H allett:  S ecretary, L  A. Lyon.

N o . 23—C a r s o n   C ity   B .  M .  A .

N o .  2 4 —M o r l e y   B .  M .  A .

P resident. J. E. Thnrkow ;  Secretary, W. H. Richm ond.
--------------------N o . 2 5 —P a l o   B . M . A .
President, H. D .Pew ; Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson.

, M . A .
N o . 26—G r e e n v i l l e   **----- M B

P resident. A. C. S atterlee:  Secretary. E. J. Clark.

N o   2 7 —D o r r   B . M .  A .

N o .  2 8 —C h e b o y g a n   B . M . A

P resident, E. S. Botsford; S ecretary, L. N. Fisher.
‘ 
P resident, A. J. Paddock;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
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P resident, Wm. Moore;  Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.

N o . 29—F r e e p o r t  B . M .  A . 

N o . 30—O c e a n a  B . M . A .

P resident, A. G. A very;  Secretary , E. S. H onghtaling.

N o . 31—C h a r l o t t e   B . M . A .

P resident, Thos. J. Green;  Secretary, A. G. Fleury.
”  
P resident, W. G. Barnes;  Secretory, J. B. W atson.

N o .  3 2 —C o o p e r s v il le  B . M .A .

N o .  33—C h a r l e v o i x   B .  M . A . 

President,  L.  D.  B artholomew;  Secretory. R. W. Kane.

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

President, H. T. Johnson;  Secretary, P. T. W illiams.
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P resident, H. M. Hem street; Secretory, C. E. Densmore.

N o .  3 5 —B e l l a i r e   B . M . A .

P resident, O. F. Jackson;  Secretory, Jo h n   M- Everden.

N o . 3 6 —I t h a c a   B .  M . A .

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

President,  Chas. F. Bock;  S ecretary,  E  W. Moore.

N o . 3 8 —S c o t tv i ll e  B .  M . A . 

P resident, H. E. Sym ons: Secretory, D. W, Higgins.

N o .  3 9   - B u r r   O a k   B .  H .  A . 

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

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

P resident, C. T. H artson; Secreta ry , W ill Em m ert.

N o .  4 1 —B r e c k e n r i d g e   B . M . A . 

resident, C. H. Howd;  Secretory, L. W aggoner. 
— 
P resid en t. Jos. G erber;  Secretary  C. J. Rathbun.

N o . 48—F r e m o n t  B .  31.  A .

N o . 43—T u s t i n  B .  31.  A .

P resident, F rank J. Luick:  Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom .

N o .  4 4 —R e e d  C ity  B .  31. A .

P resident, E. B. M artin; Secreto ry, W, H. Smith.______
’ 
P resident, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretory, O. A. Halladay.

N o . 4 5 —H o y t v i ll e   B .  M .  A .

President, W m. H utchins; Secretory, B. M. Gould.

N o . 4 6 —L e s li e   B .  M .  A  

N o .  4 7 — F l i n t   M .  U.

P resident, W. C. Pierce;  Secretory, W. H. Graham.

N o . 48—H u b b a r d s t o n   B . 31. A . 

President, Boyd R edner; Secretory, W. J. Tabor.______

P resident,  A.  W enzell; Secreto ry, F rank Smith.

N o .  4 9 — L e r o y   B   M .  A . 

N o . 5 0 —3 I a n i s te e  B .  31.  A . 

President, A. O- W heeler; Secretory,C.  Grannis.
N o .  5 1 —C e d a r   S p r in g s   B .  31.  A . 

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

N o . 5 2 —G r a n d  H a v e n   B .  31. A . 

P resident, A. S. Kedzie;  Secretary, F. D- Vos.______

N o , 5 3 —B e l l e v u e   B . 31. A .

President, F rank Phelps:  Secretary, A. E .F itzgerald.

P resident, Thomas B. Dutcher;  Secretory. C. B. W aller.

N o . 5 4 — D o u g la s   B .  31. A .

P resident, C. F. H ankey; Secretory. A. C, Bowman.

N o .  5 5 — P e t o s k e y   B .  31. A .
A.

N o . 5 6 — B a n g o r   B .

President, y~ W, D rake;  Secretary; Geo. Chapm an.

> o . 5 7 —R o c k f o r d   B . 31. A . 

P resident, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretory. E. B. Lapham.

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

P resident, L. S. W alter; S ecretoi; ,G.S  Elakely.

N o . 5 9 —F e n n y i U e  B . 31. A . 

P resident F. S. Raym ond: Secretary, A. J. Capen.
N o . 6 0 —S o u t h   B o a r d m a n   B . 31. A . 
P resident, H. E. H ogan; Secretory, S. E. Keihardt.

N o .  6 1 —H a r t f o r d   B . 34. A .

President, V. E. M anley; Secretory, I. B. Barnes.______

N o .  6 2 —E a s t  > a g in a w  31. A . 

P resident, Jas. H  .Moore;  Secretory, C. W.  Mnlholand.

N o .  6 3 —E v a r t   B . M . A .

P resident, C. V. P riest; Secretory. C. E. Bell._________

N o , 6 4 —3 1 e r r i ll  B . M . A .

P resident, C. W. R obertson; Secretory, Wm. H orton.

N o . 6 5 —K a l k a s k a  B . M . A . 

P resident, Alf. G. D rake; Secretary, C- S. Blom.______

N o . 6 6 —E a n s in g  B .  M .  A . 

P resident, F rank W ells; Secretory, Chas. Cowles

N o . 6 7 —W a t e r v l i e t   B . 31. A . 

P resident. W. L. G arrett: Secretory, F.  H.  Merrifleld.

N o . 6 8 —A l l e g a n  B . 31. A . 

P resid en t. H. H.  Pope;  Secretory, E. T. VanOstrand.

N o . 6 9 —S c o tts  a n d   C lim a x  B . 31.  A . 
P resident, Lym an C lark; Secretory, F. 8. W illison.

N o .  7 0 —N a s h v i l l e   B .  31. A , 
P resident, H. M. Lee; Secretory, W. S. Powers.

P resident, M. Netzorg;  Secretory,  Geo. E. Clntterbnck. 

N o .  7 1 —A s h l e y   B .  M .  A ,

N o .  7 2 —E d m o r e  B . M .  A .
N o ,  7 3 —B e i d i n g  B . 31. A . 

P resident, A. L. Spencer; Secretory, O. F. W ebster.

N o . 7 4 —D a v is o n   31.  U . 

P resident, J.  F. C artw right;  Secretory. L. Gifford.

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

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

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

P resident, S. 8. McCamly;  Secretory,  Channcey Strong.

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

P resident, E. J. Lockwood; Secretory, Volney Ross.

N o . 7 8 — C a l e d o n ia   B .  31.  A . 

P resident, J. O. Seibert;  Secretory, J. W. Saunders.
N o .  7 9 —E a s t  J o r d a n   a n d   S o.  A r m   B .  M . A . 
P resident, Chas. F. Dixon;  Secretary, L. C.  Madison. 
N o .  8 0 —B a y  C ity  a n d   W .  B a y   C i ty   R . 31, A . 
P resident,F . L. H arrison;  S ecretary. Geo. Craig.

N o . 8 1 —F l u s h i n g   B .  31. A . 

P resident. L. A. V ickery;  Secretory, A. E. Ransom .

N o .  8 2 —A l m a   B   M .  A . 

P re sid e n t,B. S. W ebb;  Secretory, M. E  Pollasky.

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

President, L. P. W ilcox;  Secretory. W. R. Mandigo.

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

N o . 8 4 — S t a n d i s h   B .  31. A . 

N o - 8 5 —C lio   B . M . A . 

P resident. J. M. Beeman ;  Secretory, C. H. May.
N o . 8 6 - M i l l b r o o k  a n d   B l a n c h a r d   B .  31.  A . 
President. T. W. Preston;  Secretory,  H.  P.  Blanchard.

N o .  8 7 - S h e p h e r d   B .  M .  A . 
President, H. D. Bent;  Secretory, A. W. H urst.

Association Notes.

Gov.  Luce  has  accepted  an  invitation  to be 
present at the  Tuesday  evening  session  of the 
Muskegon convention.

Nashville  Neva»:  The  Nashville  Business 
Men’s Association should Bend  delegates  to  the 
State  meeting  at  Muskegon,  which  convenes 
July 30 and continues three days.

The  Kalamazoo  Business  Men’s  Association 
has had  under  advisement  for  some  time  the 
possibility  of  establishing a market  day  either 
once or twice a month for the sale of all kinds of 
live stock, where the buyer  and  seller  come  in 
direct contact.

Sherman Will Be Represented.

Sh e r m a n , July 17,1889.

E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids;
D e a r  Sir —You will  find  enclosed  post  office 
money order for $7, for dues for  fourteen  mem­
bers from the Sherman  B. M. A.
The official notice of  the  meeting,  at  Muske­
gon, was received, and at our meeting last even­
ing was read.  Delegates  were  elected to attend 
the convention.
Although we  have  been  rather  slack  in  our 
work in the past, there is good  prospect  now  of 
more life and interest, the general  sentiment  of 
the  members  being  that  we, as a local associa­
tion, must do more work,  if  we reap any benefit 
from the organization.  Yours respectfully,

W.  J. A u s t in , Sec’y.

Greenville Elects Delegates to the Con­

vention.
G r e e n v il l e , July 18,1889.

E. A. Stowe- Grand Rapids :
D e a r   Sir—At  the  regular  meeting  of  the 
Greenville  Business  Men’s  Association,  held 
July  17,  the  following  members  were  chosen 
delegates  to  represent  this  Association  at  the 
State convention, to  be  held at Muskegon, July 
30, 31 and August 1 :  E. S. Clark, Will  H.  Brad­
ley, T. J.  Phelps,  W.  B.  Wells,  A.  A.  Stitson. 
Alternates—A.  C.  Saterlee,  David  Hyde,  Lute 
Wright, Leroy Van Wormer, E. A. Kemp.
W.  B.  Wells  was  chosen  to  make the three- 
minute report of our Association.
Respectfully, 
E. J. Cl a r k , Sec’y.
Freeport  Awakening  from  Lethargy.
F r e e p o r t ,  July 18,1889.

E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids:
D e a r  Sir —Kindly inform us, the  Freeport  B. 
M. A., what steps to take  in  order  to he in good 
standing with the M. B. 31. A.
Mr. Cheeseborough, our Secretary, having gone 
out of business is the main reason  of  our  lapse 
from fellowship.
We desire to  send  representatives  to  the  an­
nual meeting at Muskegon.
Yours truly, 
The  Detroit  Merchants’  and Manufac­

H. C. P e c k h a m ,  T r e a s.

turers’ Exchange to be Represented.
D e t r o it , J u ly  20,1889.

E. A. Stowe, Grand R apids:
D e a r   Sir —Your  kind  invitation  to  attend 
your fourth annual  convention is just received. 
Please accept my thanks for the  same. 
I  shall 
be very glad to attend, and  if I can  possibly  do 
so, I think I shall.  Yours truly,

S.  S.  Se e f r e d . 
Actuary 31. & M. Exchange.

Completing  the  Arrangements  for the 

Convention.
From  the Muskegon News, July 18.
The  Muskegon  Business  Men’s Asso­
ciation met iii regular  session  last even­
ing  at  the  rooms  of  the  Association. 
Among the members  present  were  Pres­
ident J. A.  Miller,  Secretary C. L. Whit­
ney, L.  C.  Mangold, Ernest  Eimer,  Wm. 
Peer, Jacob Jesson, P. J. -Connell, Albert 
Towl, M. H. Desky and others.
Fred. L. Reynolds,  Towner  Hardware 
Co., Irving F.  Hopkins  and  W. R. Gren- 
heisen were  proposed as members of  the 
Association,  and  unanimously  elected. 
Several  more  of  the  business  men  of 
Muskegon  will  present  their  names for 
membership at the next meeting.
The following  delegates  were  elected 
to represent the Association  at the meet­
ing of the State Association in Muskegon: 
Chairman  John  A.  Miller,  M.  C.  Kelly, 
R.  S. Miner, Jacob Jesson, S. H.  Stevens, 
L.  C.  Mangold,  Ernest  Eimer,  Albert 
Towl, Wm. Peer, M. H. Deskey, Dr. C. P. 
Donelson, E.  C. Misner.  The  alternates 
will be selected at the  next meeting.
A committee to have  general oversight 
of  the matter  of  entertaining  the  State 
Association, with  power to appoint  sub­
committees, was  chosen.  This  commit­
tee is  composed of  three  members  from 
the Executive Committee of  the Associa­
tion,  Messrs.  John  A.  Miller,  C.  L. 
Whitney and P. J. Connell.
Among other  things  which  this  com­
mittee of  three will  take  under  consid­
eration are the details of  the  programme 
already outlined.  So  far,  arrangements 
have  been  or  are  being  made for exhi­
bitions by the  United  States  life saving 
crew at the  “mouth,” tests by the  chem­
ical  lire  engine,  exhibition  run  by the 
fire  department,  etc.  The  business 
meetings of  the  Association will be held 
in the , Good Templars’  hall and the pub­
lic reception in the opera house.
A committee  to  procure  clergymen to 
officiate  at  the  different  meetings  was 
appointed.  M. C.  Kelly  was  appointed 
to prepare a paper to be read at the meet­
ing on “Mutual  Insurance.”
P.  J.  Connell  will  read  a  paper  de­
scriptive  of  Muskegon,  her  history, 
growth  and  present  attainments.  One 
fact  which  will  be  brought  out  is the 
number  of  manufactories  now  running 
in  Muskegon,  of  which  Mr.  Connell 
states  there  are  eighty-six,  excluding 
sawmills,  that  employ  above  five  men 
each.  There are thirteen  planing  mills 
in  the  city.  He  has  prepared  a  great 
many  items  of  interest  bearing  upon 
Muskegon, which will place  this city be­
fore the  public in a very favorable  man­
ner.  He is well qualified for the task.
The  Association  adjourned until next 
Wednesday  evening,  when  it  will  still 
further take up the matter under  discus­
sion last evening.

The  Salt Trust.

It  is  authoritatively  stated  that  the 
North  American  Salt  Co.  will  go  into 
effect on January 1: that the capital stock 
will  be  $20,000,000, held  on  both  sides 
of  the  Atlantic;  that W.  R. Burt will be 
President  of  the  corporation,  and  that 
the  main  office  will  be  located in New 
York.

Later—Articles  of  association  of  the 
North American Salt Company were filed 
at Albany last  Friday.  W. R. Burt and 
John Canfield are  named as the directors 
from this  State.

Write the  Local  Secretary.

P. J. Connell, Local  Secretary for this 
year’s convention, at Muskegon, requests 
T h e  T r a d esm a n to ask  every man  who 
intends to attend the  convention to write 
him  to  that  effect,  stating  whether  he 
will  be  accompanied by his wife.  This 
will enable Mr.  Connell to make arrange­
ments for the accommodation of  all.

PARTIAL  PROGRAMME

For the  State  Convention at Muskegon 

Next Week.

TUESDAY—1:30  P.  M.

1.  Call to order.
2.  Prayer—Rev. S. M.  Cramblet.
3.  President’s  address.
4.  Secretary’s report.
5.  Treasurer’s report.
6.

Report of Executive  Board. 
Appointment of special Committees on
Credentials,  President’s  Address, 
Secretary’s Report,  Order of  Busi­
ness and Resolutions.

Reports of delegates.

TU E SD A Y—7:30 P .  M.
Music—Opera House Orchestra.
Prayer—Rev.  J. N.  Rippey.
Music.
Address of Welcome—
Response—
Music.
Address by Governor Luce.
Music.
Address—“Legal  and  Business  As­
pects of the Bonus,” H.  H.  Pope, 
Allegan.

Music.
Paper—“The Business Man  and  the 
Railways,  and their  Relative Rela 
tion,” Chas. Clarke,  Ovid.

Volunteer addresses.

12.

W E D N E S D A Y—9 A .  M.

Business.

Report  of  Committee  on  Order  of 
R eport of  Com m ittee on Credentials.
Report of Committee on Insurance.
Report of Committee on  Trade Inter­
Report of Committee  on Transporta­
Report of Committee  on Legislation.
Report of Committee on Building and 
Loan Associations.
Reports of delegates.

ests.
tion.

WEDNESDAY—2  P.  XI.

Excursion on  Steamer  Van  Raalte on 
Muskegon Lake and Lake  Michigan;  ex­
hibition drill of life saving crew;  visit to 
Interlake  Park;  returning 
to  city  in 
time for supper.

W ED N E SD A Y—7:30 P .  M.

1.  Consideration of report of Cdpimittee
on Transportation.
2.  Paper—“The Best Method  of  Secur­
ing  Manufacturing  Enterprises,” 
A.  O. Wheeler, Manistee.
3.  Consideration of report of Committee
on Legislation.
4.  Paper—"How  Shall  We  Deal  with
Jobbers Who Retail?” W. J. Clarke, 
Harbor Springs.
5.  Consideration of report of Committee
on Building and Loan Associations.
6.  Paper—“The Business Man  and  the
Legislature,” Hon. Milan Wiggins, 
Bloomingdale.
7.  Paper—“Why Not Become  a  Nation
of  Cheese  Eaters?”  Hon.  E.  N. 
Bates, Moline.

T H U R S D A Y—9 A .  M.

1.  Paper—“Mutual  Insurance,”  M.  C.
Kelley, Muskegon.
2.  Consideration of report of Committee
on Insurance.
3.  Consideration of report of Committee
on Trade Interests.
4.  Report of Committee  on  President’s
Address.
5.  Report of Committee  on  Secretary’s
Report.
6.  Address—“How to Deal with the Pat­
rons of  Industry,” C. L. Whitney, 
Muskegon.

TH U R S D A Y—1:30 P .  M.

1.  Paper—“Permanency  in  Business,”
O.  F. Conklin, Grand Rapids.
2.  Reports of  special committees.
3.  Reports of  delegates.
4.  Election of officers.
5.  Question box.
6.  Unfinished business.
7.  Adjournment.

TH U R S D A Y ----7:30  P .  M.

fire  department  and 

Exhibition  of 
chemical engine.

THURSDAY’—9:30  P. M. 

Complimentary banquet  at  Occidental 
Hotel, tendered by members of Muskegon 
B.  M. A.

How  OnADrummer Proposed.

He (a travenng man)—I  have but  five 
minutes.  Say, will  you  be  my wife?  I 
must catch that  train.

word, my darling!

She (never utters a word).
He—Only three  minutes  left;  say  the 
She (silent as the grave).
He—One minute  yet  left!  Promise to 
She—I promise.
He—I’ll take the next train.

be my wife!

D ry  Goochs,
P r ic e s   C u rren t.

long cloth B. 1034 

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614
6

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614
614
514

6 6 
8146

American shirtings.  5
Arnold 
: 

• • 654 Manchester  fancy.
.. 634 Merrimack D fancy

__   654
“ 
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“  C.  854
century cloth  7
“ 
“  gold seal...... 1034
“  Turkey red.. 1014
Berlin solids...........   534
6H 
“  oil blue.......
..  3*
“ 
“  green....
..  7V4
614
..  7 Cocheco fancy........
.  6 
“  madders..
• ■  654
..  4% Eddy stone  fancy..
..  754 Hamilton fancy.  ..
staple__
--  654
new era
shirtings...
• ■  554
Reppfurn
..  43i
..  6 Pacific  fancy.........
robes...........
..  6
.*.  554 Portsmouth robes..
..  554 Simpson mourning.
greys ........
..  554
solid black.  614 
Washington indigo.  614 
“  Turkey robes..  714
“  India robes__ 714
“  plain T’ky X %  814 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red............     6
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 34......   714
M a rth a   W a sh in g to n
Turkey red..........   914
Riverpoint robes....  5
Windsor faney........  614
gold  ticket 
• indigo  blue......... 10
TICKINGS.
iAmoskeag AC A ....13
i Hamilton N .........
¡Pearl  River.......... -.1224
Amoskeag............ ..1334
¡Amoskeag, 9 oz... ..15
'Andover............... ..1154
¡Everett................. ..12
¡Lawrence XX....... ..1354
iGlenarven.................6%
| Lancashire..............  614
¡Normandie..............  8
Renfrew Dress..........8
¡Toil du Nord........... 10
¡Peerless, white........1814
| 

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.
Atlantic  A..
Atlanta A. A 
Archery  Bunting
Amory...............
Beaver Dam  A J
Berwick  L ........
Blackstone O, 32
Chapman..........
Coh asset A........
Comet...............
Clifton CCC—  
Conqueror XX..
Dwight Star......
Exeter A ...........
Full Yard Wide.
Great Falls E ...
Honest Width...
Hartford A........
Integrity XX__
King, E F ..........
“  E X ..........
“  E C, 32 in. 
Lawrence L L ...
Maginnes..........
New  MarketB..
Noibe R ............
Newton.............
Our Level  Best. 
Riverside XX...
Sea Island R __
Sharon B  .........
Top of the  Heap 
Williamsville...
Comet,  40 in __
Carlisle  “  __
New Market L, 40 in.  7 
BLEACHED  COTTONS.
Blackstone A A
Beats All.........
Cleveland........
Cabot..............
Cabot,  %..........
Dwight Anchor 
Edwards............
Empire..............
Farwell.............
Fruit of the  Loo
Fitchville........
First Prize........
Fruit of the Loom 
Fairmount..
Lonsdale Camhr
Lonsdale......
Middlesex —
No Name......
Oak View__
Our Own......
Sunlight.......
Vinyard
h a l f  b l e a c h ’d  cottons ¡Stark...................... 1954
Cabot....................... 7V2 ! Franklinville........ .1854
Farwell................... 854 ¡American.............. .1654
Dwight Anchor...... 9  ¡Windsor................. • 1654
Biddeford............... 6  ¡Georgia................. .1554
Naumkeag satteen. 7  ¡Burlap................... .11
Rockport................. 654 
.47
American  faney__ 6  Coats’,  J.  & P ........ .47

Brunswick.  . .■......... 654 ¡Pacific.................... .1354
indigo__ 654 ¡Holyoke................. ■ 9254

CARPET  WARP.
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SPOOL  COTTON.
¡Clark’s Mile End..

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7»/ä 6
.1014 834 5M 

Valley City............ .16

colored__ 21

CORSET  JEANS.

shorts.  8%

GINGHAMS.

RAIN BAG!

PRINTS.

D EM IN S.

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BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief  Digests  of  Recent  Decisions  in 

Courts of  Last Resort.

P A T E N T  

PR O CESS —  A C TIO N — JU R IS D IC ­

TIO N .

In the case of Taylor et al. vs. DeLime, 
the Superior Court of Kentucky held that 
an  action  to  recover  upon  an  alleged 
contract  the  value  of  the  use of  a pro­
cess  for which the plaintiff  had a patent 
was not a case  arising  under  the patent 
laws  of  the  United  States,  and  that, 
therefore, the state courts have  jurisdic­
tion of  such an action.

PROMISSORY'  N O TE— DELIVERY*.

A note signed by the  maker and found 
among his private  papers after his death 
cannot be said to be delivered  within the 
meaning of  the law,  according  to the de­
cision of  the  Supreme  Court of  Indiana 
in  the  case  of  Purviance,  adm’r,  vs. 
Jones.  The  court  said  that in order to 
constitute  the  delivery of  a  promissory 
note, it must  appear  that  the  maker in 
some way evinced  an  intention  to make 
it an enforceable obligation  against him­
self,  according  to  its  terms,  by surren­
dering control over  it  and  intentionally 
placing it under the  power of  the payee, 
or of  some third person for his use.

S A L E — H O T E L   PROPERTY*— IC E.

In  the  case of  Hill  et  al.  vs. Handy, 
recently decided, it  appeared  that  hotel 
property was sold in the month of April, 
there being on the  premises an ice house 
which at the time  was  nearly full of ice. 
Nothing was said between the vendor and 
vendee in relation to the  ice.  The ques­
tion arose  whether the ice passed by the 
conveyance of  the property or not.  The 
court  held  that, in view of  the fact that 
the  property  was  purchased  for  hotel 
purposes and that  the season for gather­
ing ice  had  passed, the iee on the prem­
ises  must  be  regarded  as connected by 
the intention of  the parties with the par­
ticular business to be carried on upon the 
premises  and  as  passing by the convey­
ance of  the freehold.

IN D IA N A   D R E SSE D   M EA T  L A W   VO ID .
The last Legislature of  Indiana passed 
an act prohibiting the sale of  fresh  meat 
in any of  the  counties of  the  State,  ex­
cept in cases where the  animals had first 
been  inspected  alive  within the county 
where the meat was to be offered for sale. 
An  agent  of  a Chicago  firm  was  lately

M A N U FA C TU R ER S
H astin g s, M ich

Desiring a good location will find the City of

A very desirable place.  The Common Council and the Citizens will furnish

GOOD  SITES

Close to the different railroads,

They  will  take  stock  and give every encourage­
ment.  We have  .

H a rd   W o o d   L u m b e r

In abundance.  Address at once

City 

Improvement  Committee,

City  of  Hastings,

arrested and fined for selling  in  Indiana 
beef  slaughtered  in  Chicago. 
Judge 
Johnson,  of  the  Porter  County  Circuit 
Court, has  rendered  a  decision  holding 
this  act  unconstitutional.  Judge John­
son, in his opinion, says that the Indiana 
statute is akin to  the  exercise  of  power 
by the individual  states  over  interstate 
commerce,  which  rendered  the  articles 
of  confederation  a  rope  of  sand,  and 
which led to the  adoption of  the present 
national  constitution,  and that whatever 
may  be  the  nature  and  reach  of  the 
police  power  of  the  State,  it cannot  be 
exercised  over  a  subject  confined  ex­
clusively  to  Congress  by  the  Federal 
Constitution.

Is the Moon Inhabited?

Whether or not the moon  is  inhabited 
has always been  an  engrossing  specula­
tion.  but probably no more original mode 
of setting all doubts at rest  on  the  sub­
ject has  ever  been  attempted  than that 
credited to the King of  Wurtemburg. 
It 
is stated that this  enterprising  monarch 
has decided to have  photographs  of  the 
moon made, under the  best possible con­
ditions, and then to  have  the  negatives 
enlarged  100,000  times.  The  result  of 
this experiment,  if it is carried  out,  will 
be  watched  with  much  curiosity  and 
interest.

Crushed Again.

Boston  Drummer  (parting  from  his 
sweet heart)—“Now.  Miss  Jennie, I  am 
about to go on the  road again—to the far 
West, probably,—a  country full of  dan­
ger.  You may see me no more.”  (Voice 
chokes  with  emotion). 
“ What—what
have you to say?”
Miss  Jennie (cheerfully)—“Hurry up, 
Sam.  you may miss the train.”

IIJIRD

The Hardware  Market.

Sisal rope is down lc and  manilla rope 
is down 2c per pouud  from  the previous 
quotations  in  T h e  T r a d e sm a n. 
Iron 
and steel squares are  quoted 10 per cent, 
less.  The steel nail  manufacturers have 
arranged to  make their  product  lighter, 
making more to the  pound,  so as to com­
pare favorably with wire nails.  Window 
glass has advanced 5 per  cent.,  the  dis­
count  being 80 per  cent,  in  single  box 
lots  and  80  and  5  per  cent,  in  larger 
quantity.  Bar iron  has  been  advanced 
$1 per ton at all the factories,  Carriage 
bolts  are  firmer.  The  new  wire  nail 
card has been generally adopted.  Copies 
can be had of any jobber.

P r ic e s   C u rren t.”

AXES.

These  prices are  for cash buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dlS.
AUGURS AND BITS. 
Ives’, old style  ..............................
...........  
60
Snell’s..............................................
...........  
60
........... 
Jennings’, genuine.........................
25
Jennings’,  imitation......................
...........50&10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.............
...........* 7 00
D.  B. Bronze.............
...........   11  00
S. B. S. Steel.............
...........   8 50
D. B. Steel................
...........  13 00
Spring  ............................................
...........  
40
......... $ 14 00
Railroad...........................................
Garden.............................................. __net  30 00

Hand................................................. ...  60&10&10
...........60&10

Cow.................................................
Call  .................................................
Gong................................................
Door, Sargent.................................

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

BALANCES.

BARROWS.

dis.
dis.

BELLS.

70
25

“ 
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“ 

dis.

BOLTS.

dis.

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

Carriage new list.............................
Plow................................................. .............40&10
Sleigh shoe......................................
70
Wrought Barrel  Bolts.....................
60
Cast Barrel Bolts.............................
40
Cast Barrell, brass  knobs..............
40
Cast Square Spring.........................
60
Cast C hain......................................
40
Wrought  Barrel, brass knob........
60
60
Wrought Square.............................
Wrought Sunk  Flush.....................
60
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush.. .60&10
Ives’ Door......................................... .............60&10
Barber..............................................
...........  
40
Backus............................................. ..........  50&10
Spofford...........................................
...........  
50
...........   net
Am. B a ll.........................................
Well,  plain......................................

........... $ 3 504 no

BUCKETS.

BRACES.

dis.

 

 

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BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

BUTTS,  CAST.

CARPET  SWEEPERS.

dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured................... .............70&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed__ .............70&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..............60&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint...............60&10
Wrought Loose Pin........................................ 60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.......................60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned..................... 60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped. 60&05
Wrought  Table...............................................60&10
Wrought Inside Blind....................................60&10
Wrought Brass.................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s................................................ 70&10
Blind,  Parker’s...............................................70&10
70
Blind, Shepard’s ........................................... 
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85................ 
40
Bissell  No. 5.................................... per doz.$17 00
Bissell No. 7, new drop p a n ........... 
19 00
Bissell, G rand.................................  
36 00
24 00
Grand Rapids................................... 
Magic................................................ 
15 00
.............  dis. 50&02
Grain.
Cast Steel.............................................. per B>  4*4
Iron, Steel Points.................................  “ 
354
...perm  
65 
Ely’s 1-10 ... 
60
“ 
... 
Hick’s C. F.
... 
“ 
35
G. D ...........
60
... 
“ 
Musket......
50
Rim Fire, U. 31. C. & Winchester new list.. 
Rim Fire, United States......................... dis. 
50
Central  Fire............................................ dis. 
25
Socket Firm er............................................... 70&10
Socket Framing..............................................70&10
Socket Corner.................................................70&10
Socket Slicks.................................................70&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ 
40
 
Barton’s Socket Firmers..............................  
20
Cold...............................................................  
net
Curry,  Lawrence’s  .......................................40&10
Hotchkiss...................................................... 
25
White Crayons, per  gross..............12@1254 dis. 10
Brass,  Racking’s........................................... 
60
Bibb’s ............................................................  
60
B eer................................................................40&10
Fenns’............................................................  
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
28
26
14x52,14x56,14x60 ........................ 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60........................ 
24
 
24
Cold Rolled, 14x48..................................  
25
Bottoms.........................................................  
dis.
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks.......................................  
40
40
Paper and straight Shank............................. 
40
Morse’s Taper Shank....................................  

CARTRIDGES.

chisels. 

drills. 

combs. 

COPPER.

CHALK.

COCKS.

dis.

dis.

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dripping pans.

Small sizes, ser pound.................................  
07
6¡4
Large sizes, per pound........................  ......  
Com. 4  piece, 6 in ............................ doz. net 
75
Corrugated...................................... dis. 20&10&10
Adjustable..............................................dis.  34&10

elbows.

13 
GAUGES. 
HAMMERS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dis.

piles—New List. 

Clark’s, small, $18; large, $26........................ 
30
25
Ives’, 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30............................. 
American File Association List....................60&10
Disston’s ........................................................ 60&16
New  American...............................................60&10
Nicholson’s ................................................... 60&10
 
Heller’s.................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps..................................... 
50

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GALVANIZED IRON.

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
15 
List 

12 

14 

28
18

Discount, 60

HINGES.

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s......................  
50
25
Naydole  & Co.’s..................................... dis. 
25
Kip’s ........................................................ dis. 
Yerkes & Plumb’s...................................dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand__30c 40&10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ...............................dis.60&10
State............................................ per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 4%  14 and
longer.........................................................  
354
Screw Hook and  Eye, 54........................net 
10
854
54....... .................net 
“ 
754
54........................ net 
“ 
“ 
%........................ net 
754
Strap and T .............................................dis. 
70
dis.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50&10
Champion,  anti-friction..............................   60&10
Kidder, wood track .................................... 
    40

HANGERS. 

“ 
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“ 
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dis.

HOLLOW  WARE

Pots...................
Kettles..............
Spiders.............
Gray enameled.

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

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Stamped  Tin Ware......................... new list 70&10
Japanned Tin Ware...................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are......................new list 3334&10

HOES.

dis.

HORSE NAILS.

LOCKS—DOOR. 

knobs—New List. 

Grub  1......................................................... $11, dis. 60
Grub 2 .....................................................$11.50, dis. 60
Grub 3 ......................................................... $12, dis. 60
Au Sable................................dis. 25&10@25&10&10
Putnam......................................dis.  5&10&254&254
Northwestern.................................   dis. 10&10&5
55
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings.................. 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..............  
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................ 
  55
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain............. 
Picture, H. L. Judd  &  Co.’s................... 40&10
Hemacite.................................................  
45
dis.
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .......... 
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s ......................  
55
55
Branford’s ..............................................  
55
Norwalk’s ................................................ 
dis.
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s................ 
70
Adze Eye................................................$16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye................................................$15.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s........................................$18.50, dis. 20&10.
dis.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled................ 
50
•  dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .............................. 
40
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables..... 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Clark’s..............'... 
“  Enterprise...................................  
25
dlS.

LEVELS. 
MATTOCKS.

mauls. 
mills. 

Stebbin’s Pattern... I.....................................60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine..........................................60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring..................... 

MOLASSES GATES. 

40
40

25

55

NAILS
Advance above 12d nails.

PENCE  AND  BRADS.

50d to 60d.
lOd...........
8d and 9d. 
6d and 7d. 
4d and 5d.
3d.............
2d.............
4d__
3d__
2 d ___

25 
10 
25 
40 
60
...  1 00
1  50
...  1 00
...  1 50
...  2 00
12d to 30d. 
50 
lOd.
60
8d to 9d  .........................................................  
75
90
6d to 7d..........................................................  
4dto5d...........................................................  1  10
3d....................................................................  1  50

c a s t i n g   a n d   b o x .

PINE BLUED.

inch.

COMMON BABREL.

q 25

CLINCH.

Ii4 and  134 inch............................................   1  35
2 and 254 
..........................................   1  15
“ 
...........................................  1  00
254 and 234  “ 
3 inch.............................................................. 
85
354 a n d  454  inch............................................  
75

Each half keg 10 cents extra.

OILERS. 

diS.

PLANES.

Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent........................... 60&i0
Zinc, with brass bottom................................ 
50
Brass or Copper.............................................. 
50
Reaper....................................... per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .....................................................50&10
dis.
...40@10 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy .
...  ©60 
Sciota  Bench...........................................
...40@10 
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...................
...  @60 
Bench, first quality.................................
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood...
. . . 20&10
Fry,  Acme..............................................dis. 
60
Common,  polished................................. dis. 
70
50
Iron and  Tinned........................................... 
Copper Rivets and Burs................................ 
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

Broken packs 54c per pound extra.

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

r i v e t s . 

PANS.

d is .

 

dis

Sisal, 54 inch and larger..............................   1254
Manilla................ 
1454
Steel and  Iron.. 
Try and Bevels. 
M itre................

ROPES.
 
SQUARES
....................................... 
.....................................: .............. 
SHEET IRON.

60
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
$3 00
3  00
3  10
3  15
3  25
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

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

SAND PAPER.

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

SASH CORD.

“ 
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“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

55

40
50
55
50
35

SASH WEIGHTS.

SAUSAGE SUUPFER8 OR FILLERS.

Solid Eyes..............................................per ton $25
Miles’ “Challenge” .... per doz. $20, dis. 50@50&G5
Perry................... per doz. No. 1, $15;  No. 0,
.................................................$21;  dis. 50@50&5
Draw Cut No. 4............................ each, $30, dis  30
Enterprise Mfg. Co............................................ dis. 20&10@3G
Silver’s........  ......................................... dis.  40&10
Disston’s Circular.....................................45@45&5
Cross Cut....................................45@45&5,
H and.................................  

25@25&5

saws. 

dis.

“ 
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dis.

dis.

tacks. 

traps. 

♦Extras sometimes given by jobbers.
Atkins’  Circular................................................dis. 9
“  Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__  
70
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__ 
50
30
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot__ 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
28
Cuts,  per  foot.............................................. 
American, all kinds......................................  
60
60
Steel, all  kinds.............................................. 
60
Swedes, all kind«........................................... 
60
Gimp and Lace.............................................. 
Cigar Box Nails............................................  
50
Finishing  Nails............................................  
50
50
Common and  Patent  Brads.........................  
Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks..................... 50
Trunk and Clout Nails.................................  
50
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails  ................... 
45
Leathered Carpet Tacks................................ 
35
Steel, Game.....................................................60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................ 
35
Oneida  Community, Hawley & Norton’s  ... 
70
Hotchkiss’...................................................... 
70
P. S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  ................................... 
70
Mouse,  choker..................................... 18c per doz.
Mouse, delusion.................................$1.50 per doz.
dis.
Bright 3Iarket................................................  6754
Annealed 3Iarket....................................... .70&10
Extra Bailing...............................................  
56
Tinned Market..............................................  6254
Tinned  Broom................................... per pound 09
Tinned Mattress..............................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..............................................  aew list net
Brass..................................................  
Bright...............................................
Screw  Eves......................................
Hook’s ..............................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes......................

Coppered 3Iarket...........................................  6254

•*  “  “
dis.
.70&10&10 
.70&10&10 
.70&10&10 
..70&10&10

w ir e   g oo ds.

wire. 

“ 

WRENCHES.

Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled......
Coe's  Genuine...................................
Coe's Patent Agricultural, wrought,. 
Coe’s  Patent, malleable....................

dis.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

50
Bird Cages.................................... 
 
Pumps, Cistern.........................................  
75
50
j Screws, New List........................................... 
I Casters, Bed  and  Plate........................... 50&10&10
I Dampers,  American...................................... 
40
65
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........ 

 

dis.

-METALS.
PIG TIN.

Pig  Large...........................................................28c
Pig Bars..............................................................30C

COPPER.

Duty:  Pig, Bar  and  Ingot,  4c;  Old  Copper,  3c 
Manufactured  (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:

Lake.............................................. ................... 1854
“Anchor” Brand..................................................18

Duty:  Sheet, 254c per pound.

ZINC.

LEAD.

SOLDER.

pound.  Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound.

600 pound  casks..................................................654
Per  pound...................................................... 7@754
Duty:  Pig, $2  per 100  pounds.  Old  Lead, 2c per 
American 
......................................................@5
Newark............................................................@5
B ar......................................................................... 6
Sheet....................................................... 8c, dis. 20
54@54.....................................................................16
Extra W iping................................................... 1354
The  prices  of  the  many other  qualities  of
solder iir the market indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.

TIN—MELYN GRADE.

Cookson......................................... per  pound  1454
UK
Hallett’s........................................
...$ 6 0 0
10xi4 IC, Charcoal............................. 
14x20 IC, 
6 00
12x12 IC, 
6  25
10 00
14x14 IC, 
10x28 IC, 
7  75
10x14 IX, 
7  75
14x20 EX, 
12x12 IX, 
8  00
14x14 IX, 
12  50
20x28 EX, 

 
 
 
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“ 
“ 

Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.

 
 
 

 
 

 

10x14IC, Charcoal...............................................$5 50
14x20 IC, 
12x12 IC, 
14x14 IC, 
29x28 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 
12x12 EX, 
14x14 IX, 
20x28 EX, 

TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.
“ 
‘ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

5  40
5 65
9  25
11  80
6  90
6  90
7 15
11  65
14  80

Each additional X on this grade $1.50.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

11m

ROOFING PLATES
“ 

14x20 IC, Terne  M. F .................................... $  7 60
20x28 IC, 
....................................   15  75
14x20 IC, “  Worcester......................................   5 50
14x20 IX, 
................... .......   7 00
29x28 TC 
14x20IC,’ 
4  90
6  40
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
10  50
20x28 IX, 
13  50

“ 
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“  Allaway  Grade................ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

“ 
“ 
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“ 
“ 

14x28  EX.........................................................$12 00
14x31  IX.................................   ...................... 13 50
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I 
—
14x60IX,  “ 
09

’ j-Per pound.... 

“  9 

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j 

(

^ N o   C h e m i c a l s . ^
W .  BAKER
&   CO.’S
Breakfast  Cocoa
Is  absolutely  pure 

and  it  is  soluble.
To  increase  the  solubility  of 
' the powdered cocoa, various expe­
dients are employed,  most of them 
being  based  upon  the  action of  some  alkali, potash, soda  or 
even ammonia.  Cocoa  which  has been  prepared  by one of 
these chemical processes  can  usually be  recognized  at  once 
by the distinct alkaline reaction of the infusion  in water.
W .  Baker  & Co.’s  Breakfast Cocoa
is  manufactured  from  the  first  stage  to  the  last  by  perfect 
mechanical  processes,  no  chemical  being  used  in 
its preparation.  By one of the most ingenious of these 
mechanical  processes  the  greatest  degree  of  fineness  is 
secured without the sacrifice of  the  attractive  and  beautiful 
red color  which  is  characteristic  of  an absolutely pure and 
natural cocoa.
W .  Baker & Co., Dorchester,  Mass.

CANDY!
P U T K Æ M   < £
BROOKS.
F E R M E N T U M

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

The  Only  Reliable  Compressed  Yeast.

Grocers and Bakers not handling our yeast are requested to  write  for  samples 
and prices.  One trial will convince all of its superiority for freshness and strength.
L .  WINTERNITZ, \  Special care given  outside  shipments.
l Visiting merchants  are  invited to call at
the distributing depot.  106 Kent St.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

State jobbing Agent, 

W E   L  E   - 1   D  !

Eet  Others  Follow.

N o t  a  q u e stio n   o f  W h o   C an,  b u t  W h o   W i l l  

s e ll  th e   B est  G ood s for th e  L o w e s t  P r ic e s.

OUR NEW TEAS RRE NOW READY FOR INSPECTION.
Teller Spice C om pany

1  and  3  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

s.  K.  BOLLES.

E.  B.  DIKEMAN.

S .   K.  Bolles 

C o . ,

77  CANAL  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

" W h o le s a le   C i g a r   D e a le r s .

« T O S S   U P T

55

We  will  forfeit  $1,000  if  the  “TOSS  UP” 
Cigar  is  not  a  Cleâr  Long  Havana  Filler  of 
excellent quality,  equal  to  more  than  the  aver­
age ten cent cigars on the market.

The Michigan Tradesman

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

▲  W EE K L Y   JO U R N A L   D EVO TED   TO   T H E

Retail  Trade  of the  Wolverine  State,

E. A. STOWE  Sc  BRO..  Proprietors.

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

strictly in advance.

Publication  Office,  100 Louis St.

Entered  at  the  Grand  Rapids  Post  Office.

E. A.  STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  JULY  24,  1889.

THE  COMING  CONVENTION.

The  fourth  annual  convention of  the 
Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association 
will certainly not  fall  behind  its prede­
cessors,  either  in  point  of  attendance, 
programme  or  entertainment  features. 
Preparations  for  the  event  have  been 
carefully  consummated,  and  the  great 
interest manifested in the work of organ­
ization  all  over  the  State  gives  good 
ground for the belief  that the  Muskegon 
convention  will  surpass  the  Cheboygan 
meeting in the same way that  the  latter 
event surpassed the previous conventions 
of  the Association.

The  programme,  which  has  been  re­
peatedly  published  in  these  columns, 
comprises features which are  common to 
men  in  any branch of  business,  so  that 
no one will have cause  for  thinking that 
the  proceedings  of  the  convention  will 
possess less interest  for him than for an­
other.  The  question  of  insurance,  for 
instance, is as important to the manufac­
turer  as  to  the grocer,  and a discussion 
of  that subject will attract the  attention 
of  both,  while  a  desultory  controversy 
over the subjects  peculiar to each line of 
business would  invite  the  apathy of  all 
but  the  representatives of  that particu­
lar line.  To  the  absence of  such  class 
questions  and  distinctions,  and  the  en­
couragement  of  a  spirit  of  utilitarian­
ism, is largely due the wonderful success 
which  has  accompanied the work of  or 
ganization in this  State.

In one respect,  at least, the fourth con­
vention will  undoubtedly  take advanced 
ground—in  throwing  the  doors open to 
business men  of  all  classes,  no  matter 
under  what  auspices  they  attend  the 
meeting.  This  is  not  exactly  in  con­
formity  with  the  constitution,  but  the 
innovation  will probably be made in the 
manner suggested by President  Wells in 
a recent communication, as follows:
I  am  much  in favor  of  giving  every 
member  of  local  associations present at 
the meeting, the right to vote and speak. 
Personally, I  would  be  glad  to  have it 
published that a resolution to  this  effect 
will be  introduced  early in  the session. 
I think the result can be reached without 
an amendment  to  the  by-laws,  but  am 
not certain. 
In this  way, delegates will 
have no advantage, except  where  locals 
pay part or  all  the expenses  of  one  or 
more and, of  course,  in  such  cases  the 
association can  choose.  The  object  in 
this is to secure as  large  an  attendance 
as possible and it seems to  me  that  one 
way to accomplish this is to  make  mem­
bership at the annual  meeting as free as 
possible.
T h e  T ra desm a n urges every business 
man who can possibly attend the conven­
tion to do so, as there  are  ample  assur­
ances that  the  business  transacted will 
be of lasting benefit  to the business pub­
lic,  while the  entertainment provided by 
the Muskegon  people  will  be  of an ex­
ceedingly enjoyable character.

A  NEW  EXPERIMENT.

Minnesota is trying a new theory in its 
endeavors to get rid of  the  liquor traffic. 
Hitherto  the  motto  of  the  temperance 
workers has been,  “Moral suasion for the 
drinker and legal suasion for the seller,” 
but in  Minnesota  legal  suasion  is to be 
tried for  both  classes.  A new law went 
into effect in that State last month which 
provides  that  whoever  becomes  intox­
icated  by  voluntarily  drinking  intoxi­
cating liquors  shall be deemed  guilty of 
the  crime  of  drunkenness  and,  upon 
conviction thereof, shall  be  punished as 
follows:  For  the  first  offense, a  fine of 
not  less  than  $10 nor more than $40, or 
by imprisonment  for  not  less  than  ten 
nor more than  forty days;  for the second 
offense,  by  imprisonment  for  not  less 
than thirty nor  more  than sixty days, or 
by a fine of  not  less  than  $30  nor more 
than  $50:  for  the  third,  and  all  subse­
quent  offenses,  by imprisonment  of  not 
less than sixty days nor more than ninety 
days.

There is a semblance of justice in such 
a law, inasmuch as the man  who  volun­
tarily  gets  drunk  makes  himself  tem­
porarily insane and so becomes a menace 
to  the  community.  But  wouldn’t it be 
well to add  some of  the  features  of  the 
law  in  Denmark,  or  a  modification  of 
them ?  There the  man  too  drunk to go 
home is  arrested, taken  to  the  station, 
the name of  the man who  furnished him 
liquor taken and the  seller  compelled to 
hire  a  cab  to  take  the  man  home. 
If 
Minnesota  had added to  the law sending 
the drunkard to  jail a provision  that the 
man who sold him the liquor should sup­
port  the  family  of  the  drinker  during 
his imprisonment,  there would have been 
more  justice in it.  The  greatest  evil of 
the drinking habit is not the mere getting

drunk,  but  the  misery  that  it  entails 
upon  the  families  of  those  who  waste 
their  money, time  and  character  in the 
saloon.  With the amendment  suggested 
T h e  T ra d esm a n  would  be  disposed to 
favor the Minnesota  law,  but it does not 
believe  in  compelling  the  drunkard’s 
wife to support the  family while he is  in 
jail,  nor  in  having  the  public  support 
them.  Let the men who  make the profit 
from the business do it.

THE  ANTI-COMBINATION LAW.
Michigan now has a drastic  law against 
combinations  to  put  up or  keep up  the 
price  of  commodities,  whatever  the  na­
ture of the combination.  The bill passed 
the lower house without much resistance, 
but  when it  reached  the  Senate  it  was 
suggested that it applied just as much to 
farmers’  associations  and  trades’  unions 
as to pools and  trusts organized  by man­
ufacturers.  Thereupon it was so amend­
ed  as  to  exclude  expressly  those  two 
forms of  combination. 
Is this  just?  Is 
the  manufacturer, the  miner,  the  salt- 
maker, to buy his labor and raw materials 
in a close market,  and then be compelled 
to sell  his  product in  an  open  market? 
Manifestly whatever legislation is had to 
suppress or restrain or regulate combina­
tions  against  competition  must  apply 
equally to all  kinds of  combinations  for 
that purpose.  No  law will  stand which 
includes  one  class of  producers  and ex­
empts  the others. 
If  all such combina­
tions are to be forbidden, then the trades’ 
union  must  be forbidden  as  the first  in 
point of both time and importance.

Neither  can  any state  afford  to  enact 
heroic  remedies  against  combinations, 
when it has  no assurance  that this legis­
lation  will  be copied  by its  sister  com­
monwealths.  Michigan  might  go  very 
far  in  this  direction without  losing  its 
present  industries, as these are  based on 
its  natural  supply  of  iron  and  copper 
ores,  lumber and  salt.  But  such  legis­
lation will tend to drive into more lenient 
states those  industries  for which  Michi­
gan  possesses no  monopoly of  the  sup­
ply  of  materials.  Certainly  nothing 
could  be more  foolish  than to drive  out 
industries by tax laws or  any other kind 
of legislation.

PRISON  LABOR.

The agitation  concerning the  labor of 
the prisoners in  our  penitentiaries is de­
veloping some valuable thought.  Under 
the present  systems, which  compel  the 
prisoner  either to be idle  or to give  his 
labor for a fraction of  its value to a con­
tractor of prison labor, the family of  the 
prisoner are  left  without  any help  from 
him. 
It  has  been  suggested  that  our 
present  laws, which  put  men  in  prison 
for offences,  should  be entitled  acts “to 
punish  the  wife  and  children  of  the 
criminal.”  The  effect  of 
the  law  is 
really  to  do  this.  The  family of  the 
criminal  is  left  to  shift  for  themselves 
or to  go to  the county houses, to be sup­
ported  by the people, while  the work of 
the  prisoner  is  sold  by the  state  at  so 
low  a  rate  as  to  seriously  injure  me­
chanics outside the prisons.

Would  it  not  be  feasible  to sell  this 
labor  at a reasonable  price and  use  the 
money for  the  benefit of  the  family  of 
the  prisoner  or  for  the  benefit  of  the 
prisoner himself?  In the case  of  habit­
ual criminals, the  proceeds of their work 
could  go  to  the  state  as  a  part  of  the 
punishment of  the offender.

It  would  seem  as  though  the  oppor­
tunity to earn  something for  themselves 
and their  families  would be a benefit  to 
a  large class  of  criminals,  and, if  paid 
what  their  labor is worth,  there  would 
be  an  incentive to labor  that  does  not 
and  cannot  exist  under  present  condi­
tions.  This  matter has  been  often dis­
cussed,  but  T h e  T r a d esm a n  is  not 
aware that it has ever been tested.
SMALL  SATISFACTION.

Four  years  ago  the  editor  of  T h e 
T ra d esm a n  filed  a  complaint  against 
the local manager of  the Western Union 
Telegraph Co.  Since that  time  two  ad­
ditional complaints,  based on the stupid­
ity  of  the  company’s  representatives, 
have been filed.  No  attention  was paid 
to the matter  until last  week,  when the 
State manager called at the office of  T h e 
T ra desm a n for the purpose of admitting 
that in  each  case  the  company  was  at 
fault  and  to  express  regret  that  such 
glaring  and  inexcusable  errors  should 
have occurred.  No intimation was made 
that  the  errors  would  be  rectified—no 
assurances  were given that the mistakes 
would  not be repeated—simply a  regret 
that the  company  and  its  patrons  had 
been so .“unfortunate!”

And  yet the  company  invites  people 
who are subjected to loss and  annoyance 
through the incompetency of its employes 
to  file  complaints!  Four  years  elapse 
before  the  complaint is given any atten­
tion and  then  the  company sends its re­
grets.

This  is  what  T h e  T r a desm a n  con­

siders small satisfaction.

Grand Rapids jobbers did a very grace­
ful  act  last  Thursday in tendering  the 
retail  trade  of  the  city,  through  the 
Grand Rapids  Mercantile  Association,  a 
complimentary collation at Reed’s  Lake. 
Coming so unexpectedly and  without  so­
licitation of  any kind,  the act was all the 
more clever and  is  entitled to the gener­
ous recognition of  the trade.

MICHIGAN  KNIGHTS  OF  THE  GRIP.

President—A. F. Peake, Jackson. 
Secretary—L. M.  Mills,  Grand Rapids. 
Official Organ—Michigan Tradesman.

The  following  circular  is  being sent 

out to the members this  week:

Grand  Ra pid s,  July 20,  1889.

this 

We  have  in 

To  the  members  of  Michigan  Knights  of  the
Grip:
Thinking  it  would  be  of  interest  to 
each of you  to  know  what  we have ac­
complished  in  the  first  five  months  of 
our  existence,  I  submit  the  following:
time  organized, 
equipped and  put  into  active operation 
an association  of  commercial  travelers, 
with nearly 600 members.  Our Legisla­
tive Committee is securing the signatures 
of every  employer  of  commercial  trav­
elers, jobbers  and  manufacturers in the 
State,  to a petition to each United  States 
Congressman in this State, requesting his 
co-operation  in securing  the  passage of 
an  amendment  to  the  inter-state  com­
merce law, allowing railroads to grant us 
concessions  in  mileage,  baggage  and 
week-end  tickets.  The  Vice-President 
of each  district  has  the  supervision  of 
this work in his district.  We  have  ap­
pointed resident members  of  the  Relief 
Committee  in  prominent  cities  to  care 
for sick or inj ured members.
The following hotels of our State make 
no  charge  to  members  for  their wives 
accompanying them on regular trips, not 
oftener than one trip in each year.  The 
list is rapidly being  added to and will be 
published each week in our official organ, 
T h e  Mic h ig a n  T r a d e sm a n:

Mears Hotel, Whitehall.
Moore’s Hotel, Shelby.
Exchange Hotel, Baldwin.
Western Hotel, Big Rapids.
Train’s Hotel, Lowell.
De Haas Hotel, Fremont.
St. Charles Hotel, Fremont.
Elliott Hotel,  Ludington.
Imus House, Pentwater.
Wigton House, Hart.
Phoenix Hotel, Charlotte.
Commercial Hotel,  Vermontville.
Sherman House, Allegan.
Hastings House, Hastings.
Hotel Miner,  Lake Odessa.
New Tinkham,  Grand Ledge.
Hotel Exchange, Otsego.
Williams House, Battle Creek.
American House, Kalamazoo.
Kalamazoo House, Kalamazoo.
McElrain House, Vicksburg.
Goodwin House, Cassopolis.
Three Rivers House. Three River.
Hotel Belding, Belding.
New Commercial, Ionia.
Brackett House. Big Rapids.
Hotel McKinnon, Cadillac.
Manning House, Kalkaska.
United States Hotel, Boyne City.
Commercial House, East Jordan.
Cushman House, Petoskey.
Forest Hotel,  Fennville.
Smith’s Hotel, Grand Junction.
Central Hotel, Goblesville.
Higbee House, Benton Harbor.
Dyckman House, Paw Paw.
Bennett House, Mt. Pleasant.
Duncombe House, Decatur. 
St. Joe House, Mendon.
Arlington House, Coldwater.
South Michigan House, Coldwater.
Russell House, Jonesville.
Quincy House, Quincy.
Alger House,  Clare.
Decker House, Lakeview.
Retan House, Ithaca.
Commercial House, Boyne City.
Hibbard House, Jackson.
Smith’s Hotel,  Hillsdale.
Bryant House, Flint.
Keefer House,  Hillsdale.
Brown’s Hotel, Union City.
Hotel Phelps, Greenville.
City Hotel,  Holland.’
Wright House, Alma.
Commercial Hotel, St.  Louis.
New Paddock, Union City.
Lawrence House, Adrian.
Mancelona  House,  Manceiona.
Sherwood House, St. Ignace.
Gilbert House, Reed City.
Depot Dining Rooms,  Reed City.
Hotel Jackson, Cadillac.
Commercial House,  Manton.
Park Place,  Traverse City.
Park House, Portland.
Cook’s Hotel, Ann Arbor.
Hotel Cadillac, Detroit.
Welch House,  Portland.
Hotel Hodges, Pontiac.
The Northern.  Big  Rapids.
The Steele,  St. Johns.
Hotel Phelps,  Greenville.
Snow’s Hotel, Ludington.
The Oakland,  Oxford.
Sherman  House, Mt.  Clemens.
Edwards House, Marine City.
Commercial House, Richmond.
American House, Romeo.
All that we can expect to  do  the  first 
year  is  to 
thoroughly  organize,  make 
plans and arrange for their future devel­
opment,  and what we  most  need  is  the 
influence,  support  and  co-operation  of 
every commercial  traveler  in  the  State, 
and  to  this  end  it  is  earnestly desired 
that  each  member  use  the  application 
blank enclosed on  some brother commer­
cial  traveler  and  drop a postal  card  to 
the Secretary for more.
Our  annual  meeting  will  be  held  at 
Lansing,  Dec. 37 and 38.

A.  F.  P ea k e,  Pres.
L. M.  Mills,  Sec’y.

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A Ghostly Happening'.

From  th e Boston Courier.
Tales  of  ghostly  happenings,  even 
although they be but  the  veriest  coinci­
dences, are always attractive.
A lady  who  was a widow,  and  whose 
husband had been defrauded by his part­
ner,  came  down to bréakfast  one  morn­
ing  looking  strangely  disturbed.  Her 
husband’s  partner  had  been a man well 
known in Boston, but at this time he had 
given  up  his  residence  here,  and  was 
living in the  State of  Maine. 
It  may be 
that  his  removal  had  been, in  part  at 
least,  brought  about by the public indig­
nation  which  was  felt  at  his  crooked 
dealings  with  his late partner, and with 
the widow, whom  he  had  defrauded  in 
the most  high-handed  fashion,  although 
not  in  ways  which  made  legal  redress 
possible.
On  the  morning  in question,  the lady 
stated  that  she  had  passed  a  most 
troubled night.
“All night,”  she said,  “I was  pursued 
by  X.,  who  kept  declaring  that  he 
wanted to make  reparation to me for the 
wrong  he  had  done, and  that  he could 
have no peace until he had done so.”
The  family  made  various  comments 
upon  this, none of  which  were  compli­
mentary to X. or to the tenderness of  his 
conscience;  but  the  dream,  if  dream  it 
were, was fixed in their  minds and made 
memorable when that afternoon’s papers 
contained  a  telegram  announcing  the 
death of  X.  on the night before.

The  Type-Writer’s  Brilliant  Idea. 
“Miss  Blondine,” said  Mr.  Baxter  to 
his typewriter, “my wife is coming down 
to the office  to-morrow.  Would  it—er— 
be  asking too  much of  you  to—er—ap­
pear as  awkward as possible?”
“Certainly  not,”  replied  Miss  Blon­
dine,  “and,”  she  added  thoughtfully, 
“in order  to  have  no  doubt  about  the 
matter,  I will  wear a dress  that  buttons 
up the back.”

Working Up  Trade.

The moral of  this  item  is  plain:  For 
forty-eight  years  there  was  not  a  law 
case  in  the  town  of  Meddybemps, Me., 
neither  was  there  a  lawyer.  But  two 
weeks ago a lawyer  hung  out his sign in 
this  primitive  Paradise,  and  now  two 
citizens  are  going  to  law  over  a fence 
line.

Time Will  Correct It.

Customer—I don’t  like  the  shoes;  the 
soles are too thick.
Clerk—You will learn to like  them,  as 
the objection you speak of will gradually 
wear away.

R.  H.  EVANS  \  CO.,

Manufacturers’  Agents  for  Hardware, 

Iron and Metal Trades.

Soiltiiern  Pig 

Iron.

General  Southern  Agents  for  Office 
Specialties  and  Manufacturers’  Agents 
for Yellow  Pine  Lumber  and  Flooring 
for Northern and Eastern Trade.

15-Richardson  Block~15 

CHATTANOOGA, 

-  TENN.

Correspondence  Solicited.

Fehsenfeld  &  Grammel,
B R O O M S !

Manufacturers of

Whisks,  Toy  Brooms, Broom Corn, Broom 
Handles, and all Kinds  of  Broom Materials. 
526 and 528 Ottawa St., Grand  Rapids.

(flifskepn  Paper  Go,,

Dealers in

FINE  STATIONERY,  WRAPPING 
PAPERS, PAPER BAGS, TWINES, □ 

WOODEN  DISHES,  ETC.

Mail  Orders  Promptly  Filled.

44 Pine St.,  Muskegon, Mich.
A   W N I N G S

AND  TENTS.

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

Telephone 106. 

Chas. -A.  Coye,
11 Pearl St.

FLOUR

Owl, Crown Prince, White Lily, 

Standard, Rye, Graham.

Business  men  should remember that a 
half-fare  rate  has  been  obtained to the 
Muskegon  convention,  next  Tuesday, 
Wednesday and  Thursday, good  on  and 
over all the railroads of  the State.  Tick­
ets must  be  used  from  Monday noon to 
Tuesday noon, being good to return until 
the Friday evening following.

Belongs to the Drum Corps.

“Are you a musician?”  asked an elder­
ly lady of a young man in a music house.
“I may say that I am,” he replied with 
some hesitation.
“What do you play?”
“I belong to the drum  corps. '?
“To the drum corps?”
“Yes;  I am a commercial traveler.”

B o lte d  M e a l,

F e e d ,  Kte.

MAIL  ORDERS  SOLICITED.

JIKWKYGO  ROLLER  MILLS.

FIVE DOLLARS FINE,

Or imprisonment for ten days, is  the  legal  pen­
alty for selling  tobacco  in  any form to a minor 
without  a  written  order  from  the  parent  or 
guardian.  To

Gonform  Io 

the  Law

Merchants  should  procure  a  supply  of  blank 
orders, which will be sent postpaid on receipt of 
postal note, as follows:

250  TOBACCO  ORDERS  - 
500 
1,000 

.75
-  1.25
-  2.00

“ 
“ 

“ 
« 

All  orders  must  be  accompanied  by 
remit­
E.  Ä.  STOWE  %  BRO., Grand  Rapids.

tance.

The Rest is the

Grocers and H otels
Cheapest.
We  offer  you  a first- 
class article. Cut shows 
our No. 62,  in  Antique 
Ash,  Air-tight  Locks, 
Padded  Doors,  Patent 
Interior Circulation  of 
Dry,  Cold  Air,  seven 
feet  high,  shipped  in 
sections,  constantly  in 
stock  for 
immediate 
shipment.  We  pay 
freight.  Send for cata­
logue.  Mention paper.
LIQUID  COOLERS 
for milk, iced  tea,  etc.

t a d   Rapids  Refriprator  Co,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

SILVER STIRS

Also

No Equal in the State.

Wherever Introdnced it is a Stayer!

TO  THE TRADE:

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

Sole  Manufacturer,

A.  S.  DAYIS,
127 LoiJis St.,GRBND RRPIDS
THE  "EDITOR’S  CHOICE.’'

FLINT, Mich.. April 9,1889. 

To  Whom it May Concern:
We,  the  undersigned  committee,  se­
lected by Geo.  T.  Warren  &  Co. to can­
vas the list of names and select one for a 
Cigar Label from the  many names sent 
in  by  the  contestants,  have  this  day 
selected the following,  viz:  EDITOR'S 
CHOICE,  sent  in  by  Sig  Wolf,  o f 
Toledo,  Ohio.

J ohn J. Coon, E d ito r F lint Jo u rn al 
F. H. Rankin, J r., of W olverine Citizen 
A. L. Aldrich, of th e  F lin t Globe.

OUR  NEW  BRAND  OF  CIGARS,

‘E D IT O R ’S   C H O IC E ”

Will be ready for  shipment  in  about 

two weeks.

Price, Thirty-Three Dollars per Thousand.
We  shall be pleased to receive a sample  order 

from you. 

Yours respectfully,

Geo.  T.  Warren  Ä  Co.

9 1 ,0 0 0   R E W A R D U  

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THE  LARGEST  AND  BEST 

CLEAR  LONG  HAVANA  FILLED 

SUMATRA  WRAPPED  CIGAR 

SOLD  FOR  5   CENTS.

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We a Tree to forfeit One Thousand Dollars to any person  |»|r 
proven* the Fit hr of these Clears  to contain anythingl|g 
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but Havana Tobacco. 

À m osS .M usselm an& C o.

S O L E   A G E N T S ,

GRAFT)  RAPIDS,  1ÆICÏÏ.
WA.NTED.

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

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

E A R L   B R O S . ,

C o m m issio n  M e r c h a n t s
Reference: First National Bank,  Chicago. 
Michigan Tradesman, Grand Rapids.

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

The Michigan Tradesman

WEDNESDAY, JUEY 34,  1889.

LEISURE HOUR  JOTTINGS.

W  Written tor Thk T radesm an.

BY  A  COUNTKY  MERCHANT.

There is a good  deal of  solid  food  for 
reflection  to  the  honest  burgher  who 
passes his little  time  for  vacations, dur­
ing  the  heated  term,  in  endeavoring to 
extract  comfort  from  the  shade  of  his 
lawn trees, or the  grateful  breezes  that 
pass  through  his  porticos,  but,  unfor- 
tunately, it is a species of  reflection  that 
does  not  always  bring  satisfaction and 
thorough  enjoyment  to  the  party  who 
undertakes  to  digest it.  The  fact  that 
there is  no  inconsiderable  proportion of 
our citizens who  are  eternally conjuring 
their  brains  to  circulate  among  their 
neighbors new and  unique  specimens of 
animated  nature,  which  a  still  larger 
portion of  our people persistently refuse 
to accept  as  blessings, disguised or oth­
erwise,  continues,  and  apparently  will 
always  continue, to disgruntle  and  dis­
gust  the  unappreciative  and  “let  well 
enough  alone” class of  residents to  that 
extent  that  there is a continual  and un­
ceasing  protest  arising  against  the im­
portation and propagation of four-legged 
and  two-legged  animal  nuisances  from 
the  possession  of  which  the  im ^rters 
and  owners  appear  to  derive  immense 
satisfaction,  and  which,  unfortunately, 
their neighbors can, or will, regard in no 
other  light  than  that  of  unmitigated 
bores  and discomforts that add no incon­
siderable  amount to the unceasing  trials 
and  evils  that  constantly beset them at 
every turn of  their earthly journey.
*

* 
And,  as I say, the little warm  weather 
vacations under  your “own  vine  and fig 
tree” give  you  about  as  fair  an oppor­
tunity  to  indulge  in  mental  anathemas 
against these  peculiar, but perhaps well- 
meaning people, as any other means  you 
may  adopt  to  pass  away  your  leisure 
hours.  Taking  a  favorite  volume  and 
passable  cigar,  you  stretch  yourself  in 
the grateful shade  for  an  hour’s release 
from  the  treadmill  routine of  a routine 
business.  There  are  many  things  in 
your daily life  that  perplex  and  annoy 
you,  but here everything seems calm and 
enjoyable and satisfactory.  You haven’t 
noticed,  particularly, the  appearance of 
your  house  since  you  gave  it its spring 
coat of  paint,  and  indulged in a general 
cleaning up, but, in one of  the  intervals 
of  your  reading,  you  glance  up  at the 
cornices,  and  are  almost  horrified. 
In 
the  place of  a clean,  tidy front, you find 
the siding  streaked, mottled  and  disfig­
ured  by yards  of  liquid  guano.  Every 
bracket or other ornament is littered and 
clogged with hay, straw and filthy weeds, 
and  you make the sudden  discovery that 
you  are  the  possessor of  a fully  devel­
oped  aviary,  tenanted  by  the  foulest 
bird, of  its  size,  that  is  known  to  the 
ornithologist.

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I have no doubt  but  that  the individ­
ual who first imported  the  English spar­
row  fondly imagined  himself  a benefac­
tor of  his  kind,  but,  if  throughout  the 
length  and  breath  of  America  he  can 
find a hundred  parties  to  commend  his 
action,  I  will  warrant  that  a  hundred 
thousand will dissent from  their verdict, 
and  let  us  sincerely hope  that the next 
would-be  experimenter  in  the  line  of 
bringing  semi-tame  birds  to  our shores 
will stop and  reflect  that  nature, in her 
far-seeing  wisdom,  made  such  an  in­
finitely better, more  scientific  and  more 
sensible  distribution of  her  furred  and 
feathered  dependents,  that  it  is  worse 
than  folly for  mankind  to  endeavor  to 
improve upon her methods.
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There is a tradition that the gluttonous 
appetite  which,  for  many  years,  per­
vaded the Samoan group  for  baked  and 
stewed  missionary was  entirely  due  to 
the injudicious actions of  those itinerant 
experimenters in inoculating people with 
biblical  doctrines,  and  at the same time 
endeavoring  to  incorporate among their 
theological precepts and  practices a new 
and  untried  dietary system:, and while I 
am not going to appear  as  the  defender 
of  our  parti-colored  brethren, I am glad
to notice that,  since  that  unpleasant lit­
tle episode among  the expounders of  the 
various  “isms,”  in  the  far  away  South 
Seas,  there has been a complete  divorce­
ment  between  theology and gastronomy, 
and that even the most  limited  importa­
tion  of  foreign  birds  and  animals  is 
viewed with anxiety ond distrust.

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It appears  that  at  one  period  in  the 
latter  history of  Uncle  John  Sherman’s 
Sammy-o-ha,  a general  famine  pervaded 
the  islands.  There  was,  to  be  sure, 
plenty of wild game always ready for the 
harvest,  but  years  and  generations  de­
voted to the use of  tropical fruits, which 
grew spontaneously and  without  the re­
motest  need of  muscular  exertions, had 
witnessed  the  complete  decadence  of 
Nimrodism, and  then  came along a suc-
cession  of  poisonous  winds—due,  as 
some of  the  old  fogies  claimed,  to  the 
blasphemy  and  heresies  of  the  trans­
oceanic  priests  and 
their  followers— 
which almost  destroyed  every species of 
succulent  vegetation,  and  necessitated
the  fatigues of  hunting  or fishing  until

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the  affliction  could, in some  manner, be 
removed from the  stricken land.

And here the missionaries stepped for­
ward to  relieve  the  physical  as well  as 
the spiritual disabilities of their tattooed 
brethren.  Remembering  the  extraordi- 
narially prolic  habits of  the  rabbit, and 
the  ease with  which  cabbage  could  be 
grown in the climate they volunteered to 
put the natives on a liberal diet of boiled 
rabbit  and  cabbage  within  a  year,  and 
the chief dignitarie« of the country, after 
mature  deliberation  and a  great  wrest­
ling  with  sundry  Christian  and  pagan 
customs, appointed a national  feast day, 
to be held some  twelve months ahead, to 
gratify the  stomachs of  the  masses, and 
to proclaim that the god famine had been 
summarily expelled from the country.

There  was  nothing  in  the  actions  or 
performances  of  the  missionaries  that 
militated  against  their  character  as 
honest,  intelligent and truthful Christian 
gentlemen. 
In less  than a year the land 
was  overflowing,  if  not  with  milk  and 
honey, at  least  with  multitudinous  fat 
rabbits, and corpulent heads of  cabbage, 
and as these  esculents had  been  rigidly 
tabooed the  prospects for  the feast were 
most flattering.

The  great  feast  arrived and  immense 
crowds of  semi-starved  natives were  in 
attendance to replete their stomachs,  but 
there  was  enough  and to  spare; but  in 
this  case the old  adage  that “man  pro­
poses  but God  disposes”  appeared to be 
somewhat transposed.  The native “med­
icine  men,”  seeing  that,  with success of 
the  festival  their  vocation  was  ended, 
entered  into a dark  and  damning  con­
spiracy which,  alas,  was  eminently  suc­
cessful.  By  consulting  abstruse,  and 
partially  obsolete  Samoan  medical 
authorities  they formed  a vile  decoction 
which would  plunge the user into a long 
and alarming fit of vomiting, with all the 
symptoms  of  poisoning,  and  with  this 
mess  the  viands  for  the  thousands  of 
banqueters were thoroughly saturated by 
themselves  and  trusted  believers.  The 
next  day, after the festival was conclud­
ed,  thousands  of  gorged  natives  were 
rolling  in agony among  its debris.  The 
recovery of the  majority was  rapid, but 
as soon as  the  Samoan viscera  resumed 
its  normal  condition  the  grand  jury 
brought  in a true  bill  against  the  mis­
sionaries and their leading followers.  An 
immediate  trial  was  ordered,  and  the 
holy men  were  found  guilty of  conspir­
acy,  treason  and  premeditated  murder.
About  this  time  the  insatiable  appe­
tites  of  the  empty  stomached  feasters 
returned,  and  it  was  discovered  with 
great  alarm  that, with  the  exception of 
rabbits and cabbages, the land was totally 
devoid of  provisions.  A revolution was 
on  the  tapis,  and,  as  a  last  resort, the 
gentlemen who  governed the  country by 
reason of  possessing the largest  number 
of  shark  bones  concluded  to  hold  an 
emergency  convention in which the  cui­
sine.  and  afterwards,  the  theological 
status of  the land should be disposed of; 
and the “medicine men” were ordered to 
assist in the  deliberations.  By this con­
vention  it  was  proclaimed  that all  the 
distress  and  trouble  that  afflicted  the 
people  were  directly  traceable  to  the 
missionaries;  that  missionaries,  either 
boiled,  baked  or  fricasseed,  were  the 
most nourishing and satisfactory esculent 
know’n  to  build  up  a  famishing  race; 
and  it  wTas  decreed  that  for  a  period 
specified, 
the  good  men  and,  event­
ually,  those  inoculated  with  their  per­
nicious  principles,  should  be  carefully 
rationed out for the public stomach.

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It  may  be  added  that  irrepressible 
teachers  of  the  various  “isms”  have 
again become plenty in Sammy- o-ah, but 
that  they  evince  very little  interest  in 
zoology and leave the subject of  gastron­
omy to the native authorities.
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But  I  doubt  whether the  importer of 
the  English  sparrow,  even,  has  occa­
sioned  half  as  many  “cuss  words”  as 
those individuals wrho are  constantly un­
loading in our  midst strong-lunged dogs, 
cats and various  other animal nuisances, 
and  some  day I am  going  to  excoriate 
some  of  these  parties  who  regard  the 
pandemonium  of  a dog fight as far more 
celestial music than the sweetest heaven­
ly choir ever attempted to imagine.

Sturgis—C.  N. Fridley succeeds Joseph 
Hawley  in  the  bakery  and  restaurant

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here pay as follows for 
dry  stock,  measured  merchantable,  mill  culls 
out:
Basswood, log-run................................... 13 00@15 00
Birch,  log-run........................................... 15 00@16 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2..............................   @22 00
Black Ash, log-run................................... 14 00@16 00
Cherry, log-run......................................... 25 00@40 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2................................60 00@65 00
Cherry, Cull.........................................   @12  00
Maple, log-run..........................................12 00@13 00
Maple,  soft, log-run..................................11  00@13 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2..............................  @20 00
Maple,  clear, flooring.........................   @25 00
Maple,  white, selected........................  @25 00
Red Oak, log-run...................................... 20 00@21 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2.............................. 26 00@28 00
Red Oak, 
Red Oak, 54 sawed, regular...................... 30 00@32 00
Red Oak, No. 1, step plank.................  
@25 00
Walnut, log run...................................  @55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2...........................  @75 00
Walnuts, e u ll......................................  @25 00
Grey Elm, log-run.....................................12 60@13 05
White Aso, log-run................................... 14 00@16 00
Whitewood, log-run..................................20 00@22 00
White Oak, log-run................................... 17 00@18 00

White Oak, 54 sawed, Nos. 1 and2__42 00@43 00

sawed, 6 inch and upw’d.3S 00@40 00

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and pea-nuts to per 
fection.
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LAMP  BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun...........................................................  45
No. 1  “  ............................................ •.............  48
No. 2  “  ...........................................................  70
Tubular............................................................   75

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6 doz. in box.

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La Bastic.

First quality.
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No. 1  “  ........................................................... 2 00
No. 2  “  ...........................................................3 00
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.............................................2 15
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No. 1  “ 
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No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.............................................2 58
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No. 1  “ 
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No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled.................... 3 70
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No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
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No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz........................1  25
No. 2  “ 
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No. 1 crimp, per doz.............................................. i 40
.........................................160
No. 2 
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0614
Jugs, 14 gal., per doz....................................   65
.....................................  90
.................................... 1  80
Milk Pans. 54 gal., per doz.  (glazed 66c)__   60
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Mason’s, pints.................................................... $10 50
quarts.................................................   11 00
54-gallon.............................................   14 00
Lightning, quarts..............................................   12 00

54-gallon.......................................... 16 00

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BAKING  POWDER.

GROCERIES.

MANUFACTURE  OF  CRACKERS.

The Rapid Growth of an Extensive  In­

dustry.

From  th e  New Y ork Post.
The business of  manufacturing  crack­
ers—not  firecrackers,  but  the kind  that 
are  furnished  at  every lunch  table and 
picnic  party—has  grown  to  he a  great 
industry in this  country, and  in the  city 
of  New York alone  probably from  3,500 
to  4,000  men, women,  and children  are 
employed in this work. 
It is only within 
the  last  fifteen  years  that the  business 
has  grown to such  prominence.  Before 
1870 
the  only  crackers  made  in  this 
country  were  the old  style  or  standard 
soda,  milk,  butter,  lemon  and  oyster- 
crackers, ginger-snaps,  and pilot-biscuit. 
The  only kind of  fancy cracker made at 
that  time was  a  dry,  slightly  sweetened 
biscuit made  up  in  peculiar  forms;  but 
these  crackers  bore  about  as  much 
resemblance to  the  fancy  crackers  with 
which  picnic  parties of  the present  day 
can  regale  themselves  as the old  oblong 
box-cars  which were  run over  the  first 
railroad do to the magnificently equipped 
drawing-room  cars now in use on all  the 
principal railroad  lines.
This rapid  growth of  the cracker-bak­
ing industry can be ascribed to the  brisk 
demand  that  followed  the  introduction 
of  the fancy crrckers or English biscuits 
first  brought  into  this  country in  1868. 
These  biscuits  were imported  by a well- 
known  grocery house of  this  city.  Al­
though  their cost  to  the consumer  was 
more than double the price asked for the 
homely  domestic  cracker  of  the  day, 
there was at  once so  great a demand  for 
them that the  importers were not able to 
keep their customers supplied.  The first 
of these crackers brought to this country 
were known as “Cornhill” biscuit.  They 
were of  various  shapes,  were  toothsome 
and  novel, and  seemed to fill  a  void  in 
the  American  picnic  bill-of-fare.  The 
ready sale which these crackers met with 
induced the  firms  engaged in  supplying 
the American market  to  forward a large 
consignment  of  “Albert”  biscuit.  The 
youngest  child  in the  land  who  knows 
anything  about  crackers  has  made  the 
acquaintance of  this variety,  but  twenty 
years  ago his  parents  probably had  no 
idea what  the  term  meant.  These  bis­
cuits found as ready a sale as the  “Corn- 
hill”  crackers  did,  and  about  a  year 
later the  first  “fruit” crackers were  put 
on  sale  in  the  American  market.  For 
two  or  three  years  all the  crackers  of 
these three varieties used  here were  im­
ported  from  England,  and  were  sold  at 
prices ranging  from  twenty-five to  forty 
cents a pound.
The  first “Cornhill”  biscuit  made  in 
this  country were  manufactured in 1869 
by John  Holmes,  who is still engaged  in 
the  industry.  The  machines  in  which 
the  crackers were made and  the dies for 
cutting  them  out  were  imported  from 
England, and it is even reported that Mr. 
Holmes  employed  men  from ¡the  other 
side of  the  ocean to mix  the dough  and 
make the  crackers.  This,  however, was 
before  the  days of  the  law  prohibiting 
the  importation of  laborers  under  con­
tract. 
In  1870  the  first  “Albert”  bis­
cuits were  made in this  country.  These 
were  also  made  in  English  machines, 
and  cut  out  by dies imported  from that 
country,  but  these  were  the  only  ma­
chines  brought  to  this  country.  All 
others  were  made  here,  and  the  many 
improvements in  the  machines and  dies 
have  apparently brought cracker  manu­
facture  to a state  as near  perfection  as 
possible.  American  ingenuity  and  me­
chanism  have,  moreover,  advanced  the 
industry  much  more  rapidly  in  this 
country than it has advanced in England, 
and while  about fifteen  years ago  there 
were  probably  not  more  than  a  dozen 
varieties  of  fancy  cratkers,  most  of 
which  were  brought  from  England, to­
day  there  are  more  than  two  hundred 
varieties manufactured.  Moreover,  there 
are  more  crackers  shipped  from  the 
United  States  to  England  in  one  year 
than were  imported  into this  country in 
the three years previous to the date when 
the  manufacture was  begun  here.  Not 
only this,  but the United  States are also 
carrying  on  a  very  heavy  trade  with 
Brazil, Mexico, and  other  South  Ameri­
can  countries, and with  Cuba and  other 
islands in the West Indies.
There  are  in  this  city to-day sixteen 
cracker  bakeries,  two or three in Brook­
lyn,  and  factories  in  Boston,  Philadel­
phia,  Chicago, Buffalo, and  every  other 
large  city.  The  total  number  of  firms 
engaged in this  business  cannot be defi­
nitely  learned,  but a  well-known  man­
ufacturer  said  that it would  not  be  an 
exaggeration to  place the number at 400, 
with a producing  capacity ranging  from 
100  to  600  barrels  of  crackers  per day 
each.  There  is  apparently  no  end  of 
making new designs for crackers.  Some 
of  these  “take”  well,  and  meet with a 
steady sale.  The demand for others lasts 
a little  while  and  then  falls  off, while 
others still are a total  failure.  “Alpha­
bets”  and  “dominoes,”  both  of  which 
have  names  suficiently descriptive,  have 
about  had  their  run,  the  demand  for 
these  varieties  being  now  very  light. 
Medalions made to represent the faces of 
Gen.  Grant,  Peter  Cooper, Gen. Butler, 
and  other  well-known  persons, found a 
ready sale for a short  time. 
In the cam­
paign  of  1884,  “campaign”  crackers, 
made to represent the faces of  Cleveland 
and Blaine, were  put  on  the  market by 
one firm.  The smallest  cracker  made is 
the “imperial  dot,”  and  the  purchaser 
who  buys  a  pound  package  of 
this 
variety can,  if  he has fourteen  children, 
give 100 crackers to each of  them.  These 
crackers are very popular.  Other favor­
ites are the “Oswego,”  “snowflakes”  and 
macaroons.  Many of  the  finer  varieties 
have  a  coating  of  icing  or  chocolate, 
while  others  still,  of  the  larger  sizes, 
have  white  or  colored  L ing  laid on in 
fanciful  devices.  These  designs  are 
made  by means of  a pair of  bellows, the 
nozzle of  which  is  of  the  shape  of  the 
design  required,  and  icing  is  forced 
through upon the  surface of  the cracker 
while it is still warm.
In one of  the largest cracker  factories 
in this  city, the  work of  manufacturing 
was  watched  by a reporter of  the  Post. 
In this bakery the  weekly supply of  ma­
terials  is  600  barrels  of  flour,  3,000 
pounds of  butter,  20,000 pounds of  lard, 
80  barrels  of  sugar,  25  barrels of  mo­
lasses and 15  barrels  of  dried  currants, 
together  with  eggs, honey, corn  starch, 
flavoring extracts,  and  other  needed  in­

gredients.  The  mixing  of  the  dough, 
the  rolling,  the  stamping,  and,  in  fact, 
the  entire  process  of  making  all  but a 
few of  the  finer  grades  of  crackers, are 
done  by  machinery.  The  mixing  ma­
chine is on the second  floor of  the build 
ing.  This  is  a  large  wooden  cylinder, 
with a number of  wooden shutes leading 
into it.  Through one of  the  shutes  the 
necessary  amount  of  flour  is  supplied, 
through  another  the  sugar,  another the 
milk,  another  the  water,  etc. 
In  the 
mixer  are three bars or spoons, revolving 
alternately,  after  the  style  of  the  ice­
cream freezer,  which thoroughly mix the 
dough.  When mixed, the dough is taken 
to  the  third  floor,  where  a  number of 
bins  are  placed  in  which  it  is  set  to 
“rise.”  When  ready  for  baking,  it  is 
again  taken to the  floor  below, where it 
is  placed  on a tray and  kneaded  by the 
bakers.  As  they  knead it, portions  are 
sliced off, which  are  put  in  the rolling 
machines,  and are run  under  the rollers 
four  or  five  times,  until  the  paste  is 
thin  enough. 
It is then  placed  on  the 
cracker-making machine in the form of a 
continuous  belt of  dough.
This first passes  under  another roller, 
with  knives  at  each  end, which cut off 
superfluous  dough  at  the  edge  of  the 
belt,  and trim it to the proper  shape. 
It 
then passes to the cutting or die machine. 
This  is  a  large  drum  which  cuts  the 
dough into the form which  the  crackers 
are  to  have,  and  at 
the  same  time 
stamps  the  name of  the  cracker, or the 
manufacturer, or  any design  that  is de­
sired.  As the crackers pass out from un­
der the cutting machine, they are pushed 
onto  trays, which  are  taken  at  once to 
the ovens.  These  are  reel  or  cylinder 
ovens,  which  are  about  twenty feet  in 
diameter  and  have  the  fires at the  bot­
tom.  Above  the fire is a large  wheel or 
cylinder,  On the outer frame of this are 
ten swinging wire trays.  On these trays 
the  crackers,  as  they  are  turned  out 
from the stamping machines,  are placed, 
and the wheel  revolves  slowly, lowering 
the  next  tray into  position.  Thus  the 
wheel  is  kept  in  constant  motion,  the 
trays  stopping  over  the  fires  just  long 
enough  to  properly  bake  the  crackers, 
which  are  removed from the trays after 
making  one  circuit  of  the  oven. 
In 
stamping  or  cutting  soda  and  other 
square  crackers there is little waste,  but 
in  cutting  out  others  of  more  fanciful 
forms, fully  one-half  of  the  dough  that 
passes  under the die is unused.  This is 
not  wasted, as it is  again  passed  under 
the rollers.  The surplus material is sep­
arated  from  the perfectly formed crack­
ers by an ingenious  contrivance, consist­
ing of  an iron bar with a toothed edge.
The  soft  crackers,  such  as  “lady- 
fingers,” butter-scotch,”  “honey-cakes,” 
etc.,  are baked  in  square  ovens  resem­
bling the ordinary house  oven.  Some of 
these cakes  are  made by hand, but most 
of  them by machine.  The dough, which 
is  soft, is  placed  in  hoppers  with  per­
forations in the bottom.  Through  these 
holes the dough is dropped  upon pans in 
the  form  which  the  cracker  is to have. 
The  process of  making  cocoanut  cakes, 
for  instance, 
is  this:  The  dough  is 
dropped upon the pans, six or eight cakes 
on each.  Then, as it adheres to the pan, 
a baker turns it upside down, just touch­
ing  the  cakes  into  a  vat  of  pulverized 
cocoanut.  The trav is next  put  into the 
oven,  and in  two  or  three  minutes  the 
crackers are baked.  Then  the  crackers 
are taken to the upper floor of  the build­
ing,  and,  after  cooling  and  hardening, 
are  packed  in  barrels  or  in the square 
tins with glass  fronts  with  which every 
one is familiar.  This  work  is  done by 
boys and girls.
Everything  about  the bakeries is kept 
in  good  order, there  is  ud  dirt or dust, 
and all the materials used, the  manufac­
turers  declare,  are  of  the  best  grade. 
The  currants  used  in  making the fruit 
crackers are first wrashed and  then  care­
fully sorted  over.  The  process of  mak­
ing the  fruit  cracker is somewhat differ­
ent from that of  other flat or hard crack­
ers.  The dough is rolled a little thinner 
than for the  common  cracker, a layer of 
currants is spread  over it, and  then  an­
other layer of  dough is placed upon this. 
The  dough  is  next  run  through  the 
machine. 
In making  the “flake” crack­
ers, a very light  soda  biscuit, the dough 
is also rolled  very thin,  and the crackers 
are in the reel oven less than half  a min­
ute.  These  wafers are so thin  that  the 
name or design  on  them  can be read by 
looking at the reverse side as the cracker 
is held to the light.  Another  style  that 
calls  for  special  mention  is  the “char­
coal” cracker.  This  is  made by mixing 
finely-pulverized 
the 
dough,  and  the  variety is held  in  high 
esteem by dyspeptics.

charcoal  with 

The  Grocery  Market.

As a result of  the  declining  tendency 
of  the raw sugar  market,  the refiners re­
duced  their prices  J^c on Monday. 
It is 
not  thought  that  further  declines  will 
occur  at  present,  and  some  predict  an 
upward  movement  about  August 15, by 
which time the stocks  in  dealers’ hands 
will  be  pretty  well  exhausted.  Green 
coffees  have  advanced 
during  the 
week,  making  l%c  advance  from  the 
lowest  point,  and  the  manufacturers of 
package brands have raised  their  prices 
%c.  Canned  corn,  Harford  county 
grades,  have  advanced  about  10c  per 
dozen.

Brookings 

VISITING

D F  Lewis, Reed City 
Gus Begm an, Bauer 
J   DenHerder&Son, Overisel 
E M Stick ney. Paris 
DenH erder & Tanis
Vriesiand
Steketee & Bos, Holland 
J  C Benbow,  Cannons burg 
C S Comstock, Pierson 
H M eijering, Jam estow n 
H Van Noord, Jam estow n 
John Farrow e,  So Blendon 
John D am stra,  Gitehell 
G Ten Hoor,  F orest  Grove 
E Heinzelm an,  Logan 
Brookings Lum ber Co,
A C Barkley, Crosby 
Sm allegan & P ickaard,
S H B allard, S parta 
Mills & Mills, Ashland 
J  A Leiber, Caledonia 
A J  W hite, Bass R iver 
R Osterhoff, F errysburg 
Jno P ikaard, Frem ont 
M H eyboer & Bro,  O akland 
C K H oyt & Co.Hudsonville 
John G unstra, Lam ont 
S T Colson. Alaska 
C H Deming, D utton 
Cutler & W right, Morley 
J  N W ait, Hud8onville

BUYERS.
W H Hicks, Morley 
C arrington & N orth,  Trent 
W Ver Meulen, Beaver Dam 
Geo P  S tark, Cascade 
Dr H C Peckham  & Co,
Freeport 
G H W albrink. Allendale 
F O Lord. Grand Ledge 
Jo h n  DeVries. Jam estow n 
Johnson &  Seibert,
Caledonia
Sisson & L ivingston, A*da 
Wm K ars ten,  Beaver  Dam 
W S Adkins, Morgan 
A M P orter. M oorland 
G S C urtis, Edgerton 
Jo h n  Giles & Co. Lowell 
A & E Bergy, Caledonia 
Stulp & Son, Muskegon 
H B W ager,  Cedar  Springs 
H Forbes, Hopkins 
M unger,W atson & DeVoist.
C  H Loomis,  S parta 
J  C Scott. Lowell 
Silas Loew, B urnips Cors 
A R McKinnon, Shelby 
Fred H errick, Custer 
N F Miller,  Lisbon 
M M Mansfield, Hesperia 
F rank Sm ith,  Leroy 
J  Coon, Rockford 
W N H utchinson,  Ashland
A.  B. Bamage is  the  originator of  the 
“Maito” 5 cent  cigar.  Sold  only by the 
Lustig Cigar Co.

F orest Grove 

Sullivan

Inripg F. Clapp,

GROCER.

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♦  Shipper of Fruits, Batter, Eggs, end Vegetables, -e-

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Lem on  &  P eters,

W H O L E SA L E

G RO C ERS.

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

L autz Bros.  A  C o .’s  Soaps,

Niagara  Starch,

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A m boy  Cheese,

GRA.NDJRAPIDS.

Fac  Simile  of  the  Label  of

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The Best Scouring and Cleaning Soap in the World
Costs as much to manufacture as Sapolio,  yet  sells  at 
about half the price  (82.75 per box of 72 cakes).  Can be 
retailed for as  much  with  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 of the Kitchen.  It is worth trying.

PRODUCE MARKET.

25c.

there 

Apples—Choice eating,  83  per  bbl.;  cooking, 
Beans—Dry  stock  is  scarce,  but 
is 
Jobbers pay $1.75 per bu 

$2.50 per bbl.
scarcely any demand. 
and bold at $2®$2.25 per bu.

Beets—30c per doz.
Blackberries—81.75 per 16-qt. case.
Butter—While there has  been  no  advance  in 
price, butter  is  firmer  and  in  a little better de­
mand.  Creamery commands 16@17c,  and  dairy 
10@12c, according to quality.
Cabbages—Southern  Illinois stock is in plenti­
ful supply at $1.85 per crate.
Cheese—Lenawee and Allegan county  makers 
bill  their  stock  at  8c,  while  jobbers  hold  at 
8*4@9c.

mands I5@l6c per lb.

at 3@3%c and evaporated at 5)4@6c per lb.

Cherries—$1.75 per bu.
Cider—10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25;  produce barrels 
Cucumbers—40c per doz.
Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried 
Eggs—Jobbers pay 12c and hold at 13c.
Field  Seeds—Clover,  mammoth, $5  per  bu.; 
medium, $4.85.  Timothy,  $1.85 per  bu. 
Gooseberries—$1 per crate of 16 qts.
Green  Beans—String, $1.50 per bu.;  wax, $1.75 
Green Onions—12@.15c per doz. bunches.
Honey—In small demand.  Clean  comb  com­
Onions—Southern, $2.75 per  bbl.
Peaches—Scattering lots are  beginning  to  ar 
rive, but not in sufficient  quantities to establish 
the market.
Pears—California,  $2.50  per  crate;  Southern, 
$5 per bbl.
Peas—Green, 50c per bu.
Pop Corn—2*4 c per lb.
Potatoes—New  Southern  stock,  40c  per  bu. or 
Radishes—10@12c per doz. bunches. 
Raspberries—$1 per 16-qt. crate.
Tomatoes—95c  per 30-lb. crate.
Whortleberries—The indications  are  that  the 
crop will be  short,  on  account  of  frosts in the 
spring.  The price is now $3.25 per bu., although 
choice lots bring $3.75.

$1.25 per bbl.

per bu.

PROVISIONS.

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The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

quotes as follows:
Mess, new......................................................  12  00
Short cut Morgan...........................................  12  25
Extra clear pig, short cut.............................  13
Extra clear,  heavy........................................  13  50
Clear, fat  back..............................................  13 25
Boston clear, short cut.................................   13 50
Clear back, short cut.....................................  13 50
Standard clear, short cut, best.....................  13 50
Hams, average 20 lbs.......................................10Ji
16 lbs........................................11%
12 to 14 lbs.................................12
picnic....................................................   8)4
best boneless..........................................10
Shoulders.........................................................   0%
boneless........................................  8
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............................. 10
Dried Beef, extra................................
....  9 
ham prices......................
....  6% 
Long Clears, heavy.............................
....  6% 
Briskets,  medium..............................
....  6)4
lig h t...................................
lard—Kettle Rendered.
Tierces..............................................................  7%
Tubs..-...............................................................   8
501b.  Tins.........................................................   S
Tierces.......................................................i —   6)4
30 and 50 lb. Tubs............................................   63£
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case.....................................  7%
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case.....................  ...............  7%
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case......................................   7%
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case......................................  0%
501b. Cans.......................................................634
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs......................   7 GO
Extra Mess, Chicago packing........................  7 00
Plate.................................................... ............ 7 25
Extra Plate..............................................
9 00
Boneless, rump butts..............................
sausage—Fresh and Smoked.
Pork Sausage.....................................................  7
Ham Sausage..................................................... 12
Tongue Sausage............................................ 
Frankfort  Sausage...........................................  8
Blood Sausage...................................................  5%
Bologna, straight..............................................  5%
Bologna,  thick................................................... 5%
Head Cheese......................................................  5%
In half barrels........................................................3 00
In quarter barrels..................................................1 75
In half  barrels...................................................... 3 00
In quarter barrels.............................................1  75
In kits.................................................................   85

lard—Refined.

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

pigs’ feet.

TRIPE.

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FRESH  MEATS.

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Swift and Company quote as follows:
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Beef, carcass...........................................  43i@ 6
hindquarters................................  6  @7
fore 
................................  3)4@ 4
Hogs.........................................................   © 6
Pork  loins................................................  @ 7%
shoulders........................................  © 6
Bologna...................................................  © 5
Sausage, blood  or bead..........................  @ 5
liver...........................................  @5*4
Frankfort..................................   @8
M utton....................................................   6  © 6)4

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OYSTERS and  FISH.

F. J. Dettentbaler quotes as follows:

FRESH  FISH.

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smoked......................................  @ 7*4

Whitefish................................................   ©  6
Trout.......................................................   @6
Halibut....................................................  @15
Frogs’ legs,  per doz...............................   10@50

CANDIES,  FRUITS  and  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

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STICK.
Standard, 25 lb. boxes......................
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25 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf, 25 
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MIXED.
Royal, 25 lb. pails.............................
200jb.  bbls.............................
Extra, 25 lb.  pails.............................
200 lb. »-bbls..............................
French Cream, 25 lb.  pails................
Cut Loaf, 25 lb. cases........................................
Broken, 40 lb. Bask..................................... .....
“  '  200 lb. bbls...........................................

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...12 
. . . 11% 
■  13%

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

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Lemon Drops.....................................................13
Sour Drops........................................................ 14
Peppermint Drops.............................................15
Chocolate Drops................................................ 15
H. M. Chocolate Drops..................................... 18
Gum Drops........................................................ 10
Licorice Drops.............................................18@22
A. B. Licorice  Drops........................................ 14
Lozenges, plain.................................................15
printed.............................................16
Imperials........................................................... 15
Mottoes......................................... ....................15
Cream Bar........................................................ 14
Molasses Bar....................................................13
16@20
Caramels..........................................  
Hand Made  Creams..........................................20
Plain Creams....................................... 
 
18
Decorated Creams.............................................20
String  Rock.......................................................15
Burnt Almonds..................................................22
Wintergreen  Berries........................................ 15
fancy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, in  pails..................................13
in bbls....................................12

 

printed, in pails...............................13%
in bbls................................ 12%
Chocolate Drops, in pails..................................13%
  6%
Gum Drops, in pails................................  
in bbls...........................................  5
Moss Drops, in pails..........................................11)4
in bbls............................................10%
Sour Drops, in pails.......................................... 13
Imperials, in pails.............................................12%
inbbls...............................................11%
Oranges, fancy  Rodi............................. 5 50@5 75

FRUITS.

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220s...........................
300s..................... ......

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8@11
  @6

Lemons, choice........................................  @5 50
Figs, layers,  new....................................  
Bags, 50 lb..........................  
Dates, frails, 50 lb...................................  @ 4%
% frails, 50 lb..............................   @ 5%
Fard, 10-lb.  box...........................  @
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Persian, 50-lb.  box...................... 5)4© 6

Bananas..................................................1  25©2 50
Almonds, Tarragona............................. 16)4@17
Ivaca.............................. .......14  @14)4
California............................. 13  @14
Brazils......................................................  7  @8
Filberts,  Sicily........................................  @10)4
Walnuts, Grenoble..................................U%@12
French....................................   @10
Pecans, Texas, H. P ................................  7%@12
Cocoanuts, per 100.................................. 4 25@4 50
Chestnuts................................................
Peacocks.
Star.........
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PEANUTS.

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BATH BRICK.

AXLE GREASE.

Aurora..............................

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45
Arctic, % lb. cans, 6  doz..
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“  2  “  .. 1  40
“  2  “  .. 2 40
“  1  “  .. 12 00
50s. 10 00
50s. 18  75
45
85
1  50
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3 00
20
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Absolute, )4 lb. cans, 100s. 11  75
Telfer’s.  *4 lb. cans, doz.
Acme, *4 lb. cans, 3 doz...
2  “  ... 1  50
1  “  ...
45
Red Star, *4 lb. cans,
*4 lb.  “
1 lb 
Frazer’s............................. $2 60
Diamond............................ 1  60
1 pt............... 10 00
8-oz paper bot 7 20
1  70
1  90
No. 1  “ 
Parlor Gem........................ 2 60
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English, 2 doz. in case__
75
Bristol,  2  “ 
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American. 2 doz. in ease..
iross
Arctic Liq,  4-oz................. 3 40
7 00

No. 2 Hurl.........................
No. 2 Carpet......................
No. 1 
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Common Whisk................
Fancy 
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Warehouse........................
Kings 100 lb. cases...........
80  lb. cases.............
Dairy, solid  packed..........
rolls........................
Creamery, solid packed...

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BUCKWHEAT.

BUTTERINE

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Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.

Mustard )4s.
imported  *4s
spiced,  %s..

21b.
2  lb.  “ 

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Star,  40 
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9%
Paraffine...........................
25
Wicking.............................
CANNED GOODS—Fish.
Clams. 1 lb. Little Neck...
Clam Chowder, 3  lb____ .210
Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stand..
.  90
Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic......
1  50
2 65 
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1 lb.  Star.............
2  00
2 lb. Star..................3 75
1 lb.  stand............ 1  75
2 lb. 
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3 lb. in Mustard.. .3 00 
3 lb.  soused.......... 3 00
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1 lb.  Alaska
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Salmon, 1 lb.  Columbia..
Sardines, domestic  %s......... 

Trout, 3  lb. brook..............
Apples, gallons, stand.......... 2 25
Blackberries,  stand..............  90
Cherries, red standard......  90
pitted....................... 2 00
Damsons.................................  90
Egg Plums, stand...................1 20
Gooseberries...........................1 00
Grapes.....................................
Green  Gages........................... 1 10
Peaches, all  yellow, stand.. 1  75
seconds.................... 1 45
'  P ie .............................1 00
Pears......................................... 1 30
Pineapples...................1  40©2 50
Quinces....................................1 00
Raspberries,  extra.................1 35
red.....................1  60
Strawberries........................... 1 10
Whortleberries.......................  75
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.........
Beans, Lima,  stand..............  80
“  Green  Limas 
  @1  (X
“  Strings.................   @  Si
“  Stringless,  Erie...........  9(
“  Lewis’ Boston Baked.. 1  40
Corn, Archer’s Trophy.......... 1 00
“ 
“ 
Early Golden.1  00
Peas, French............................1 68
“  extramarrofat...  @1 16
“  soaked.......... ................  7t
.  “  June,  stand.....................1 35
“ 
sifted............... 1 55
“  French, extra fine...  . 1  50
Mushrooms, extra fine..........2 15
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden.........  85
Succotash,  standard..............1 U0
Squash  ................................... 1  10
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat..  @1  <X
Good Enough___100
BenHar....................1 00
stand br___   @1  00

“  Morn’g Glory
“ 

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coffee—Green.

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.

Mexican & Guatemala 19 @23

c o f f e e s —Package.
Lion.................................

.  CHEWING  GUM.
200 
•  CHICORY.

Michigan Full Cream  8  @  9
Sap  Sago........................ 16 @16)
German Sweet.................  
2
Premium............................ 
3
Cocoa.................................... 
Breakfast  Cocoa................ 
Broma................................ 
31
Rubber, 100 lumps..................25
35
Spruce...................................... 30
Bulk......................................  6
Red.............................   7M
Rio, fair................... ..17 @19
“  good................. .. 18)4@20
“  prime.................

@21
“  fancy,  washed. ..19 @22
“  golden................20 @23
Santos...................... . .17 @22
Peaberry...................20 @23
Java,  Interior...........20 @25
100 lbs 
...22)4
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX. ...22)4
Tiger.......... ...22*4

“  Mandheling.. ..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.

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

“  in cabinets.............. ...22%
Thompson’s Honey  Bee. ...24)4
NoxA ll__ ...23%
O  B........... ...22%
Valley City.........................  
75
Felix....................................1  10
Cotton,  40 ft..........per doz.  1  25
1  50
1  60
2  00
2  25
1  00
115
Eagle..................................  7 60
Anglo-Swiss....................... 6  00
Kenosha Butter...................  8
Seymour 
................... 6
Butter...................................  6
“  family.........................   6
“  biscuit........................  7
Boston...................................  8
City Soda...................... ........8
Soda......................................  6)4
S. Oyster..............................  6
City Oyster, XXX.................   6
Picnic................................... 6
Strictly  pure......................  
Grocers’.............................. 

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COFFEE EXTRACT.

CRACKERS.
“ 

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“ 
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Jute 
“ 

CREAM TARTAR.

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13
14

©   9

dried fruits—Domestic.
“ 

Apples, sun-dried.........  3 @  3%
evaporated___   6 @  6)4
14  @15
Apricots, 
“ 
5
Blackberries “ 
12
Nectarines  “ 
12
Peaches 
“ 
9
Plums 
“ 
Raspberries  “ 
20
In drum............ ...........   @23
In boxes........................  @25
Zante, in  barrels.........

 
dried  fruits—Citron.

dried fruits—Currants.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

1  60

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

dried  fruits—Peel.

dried fruits—Prunes.

©
dried fruits—Raisins.

“ 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

@ 6)4
1  60

in less quantity  @ 5 
Turkey........................  4%@  4%
Bosna............................   5)4© 6
Imperial........................ 
Valencias.......................   8 ©   834
Ondaras........................  
London  Layers,  Cali­
fornia.........................2 35@2 40
London Layers,  for’n.  @ 
Muscatels, California.  @2  00 
Lemon...........................  
Orange........................... 
Farina, 100 lb.  kegs..............  04
Hominy,  per  bbl...................4 00
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box....  60
imported.
@10 
Pearl  Barley...........
@ 3 
Peas, green...............
@1  30 
“  split..................
© 3 
Sago,  German.........
© 6)4 
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’rl.
Wheat,  cracked......
@ 6*4 
Vermicelli,  import.. 
@10 
domestic.
@60
Jennings’ D. C. Lemon  Vanills
2 oz. Panel, doz 
1  25
85
4 oz. 
“
2 25
1  40
“
6 oz. 
3 25 
2  25 
No.  3,  “
1  00 
No.  8, 
“
4 00 
2  75 
No.10, 
“
4  50 
6 00 
No.  4, Taper,  “
2 50 
)4 pt,  Round, “  4  25 
7  50
1  “ 
“  8 50
15 00
FISH—SALT.
Cod, whole.................
© 5 
“  boneless..............
©   7% 
10@ll*4 
H alibut......................
Herring,  round, % bbl
2 50
“ 
gibbed.............
“  Holland,  bbls..
10 00
“  Holland, kegs., 
Scaled.............
“ 
Mack,  sh’s, No. 1,  %  bbl 
“  12  lb kit
“ 
“
“ 
“  10 

11  00 
“ 
.1  45 
“ 
.1  35 
Trout,  %  bbls.............
@4 50 
*'  10  lb.  kits..........
..  78 
White,  No. 1, % bbls...
..6   00 
12 lb.  kits
“ 
..1  15 
10 lb. kits
“ 
..  90 
Family,  %  bbls.
“ 
.2  35 
“ 
“•   kits......
..  50
GUN  POWDER.
K egs.............................
. .5  25
Half  kegs.....................
..2 88
LAMP WICKS.
No. 0..............................
. 
30
NO. 1..............................
40 
No. 2.............................
. 
50
Pure......................................   30
Calabria................................  25
Sicily.....................................  18
Black  Strap......................  
16
Cuba Baking.....................22@25
Porto  Rico........................ 24©35
New Orleans, good........... 25@30
choice........ 33@38
fancy..........45©48

MOLASSES.

LICORICE.

One-half barrels, 3c extra.

OATMEAL.
Muscatine, Barrels............. 5  50
Half barrels...... 2 87
Cases,...... 2  15®2  25
Muscatine. Barrels__   @5  50
Half bbls..  ©2 87 
Cases........2 15©2 25

ROLLED OATS-

“ 
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“ 
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i

OIL.

SALERATUS.

“ 

SYRUPS.

DeLand’s,  pure.............
Church’s, Cap  Sheaf....
Dwight’s ....................
Taylor’s ..........................
Corn,  barrels..................
one-half  barrels..
Pure  Sugar, bbl.............
“ 
half barrel..

.  @25 
.  @27 
28@36 
30@38
SWEET GOODS.
XXX
Ginger Snaps..............9
9%
Sugar  Creams............9
9%
Frosted  Creams..........
9%
Graham  Crackers......
9
Oatmeal  Crackers.......
9
Boxes....................................5%
Kegs, English....................... 4%

SODA.

JAPAN
F air................
Good..............
Choice............
Choicest

SUN CURED.

F air.................................14  @15
Good...............................16  @20
Choice............................. 24  @28
Choicest..........................30  @33

BASKET  FIRED.

IMPERIAL.

GUNPOWDER.

F air...............................   @20
Choice............................  @25
Choicest........................   @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to  fair............25  @35
Extra fine to finest___ 50  @65
Choicest fancy..............75  @85
j  Common to fair...........20  @35
j  Superior to fine............40  @50
I  Common to  fair............18  @26
j  Superior to  fine............30  @40
Common to  fair............25  @30
Superior to  fine............30  @50
I  Fine to choicest............ 55  @65
! F air.................................25  @30
Choice............................. 30  @35
B est.................................55  @65
Tea  Dust........................  8  @10

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

YOUNG HYSON.

OOLONG.

TOBACCOS—Plug.

S. W. Venable & Co.’s Brands.
Nimrod, 4x12 and  2x12.............39
| Reception, 22-5x12,16 oz......... 39
i Vivco, 1x6, 4% to 
..................32
Big 5 Center, 3x12,  12 oz.........36
1 Wheel, 5 to  f t ............................ 39
Trinket, 3x9,  9  oz..................... 25

tobaccos—Fine Cut.

D.  Scotten & Co.’s Brands.

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TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS.

Hiawatha..................... 
Sweet  Cuba.................  
$ 2, per hundred.................   2  50
$ 5,  “ 
3 00
4  00
$10,  “ 
$20,  “ 
5  00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts :
200 or over.  ............  5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 

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10 “

 
 
 

 
 
 

 

..............20
VINEGAR.

30 gr..........................................  6)4
40 gr..........................................  8)4
50 gr.......................................... 10*4

$1 for barrel.

YEAST.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Fermentum,  Compressed.  .
Cocoa Shells,  bulk................  33£
Jelly, 30-lb.  pails.......... 4  @  4%
Sage........................................  15
PA PE R  & W OODESW ARB

PAPER.

PICKLES.

Michigan  Test.....................  9
Water White........................... 10 9*
Medium..................................... 4 00
“  % b b l...................... 2 50
Small, bbl...... ...................... 5 00
“  %  bbl...............................3 50
Clay, No.  216............................. 1 60
“  T. D. full count...........  75
Cob, No.  3.............................  40
Carolina bead........................ 6*4
No. 1.........................5%

PIPES.

RICE.

“ 

“ 
“ 

SALT

...  24 
...2 05

...  88 

“ 
“ 
*4 bu  “ 

“  No. 2.................5)4©
“  No. 3........................ 5
Jap an .............................5  @5)4
Common Fine per bbl..
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks
28 pocket......................
60 
......................
......................
100 
Ashton bu. b ag s..........
..........
Higgins  “ 
Warsaw“ 
.........
........
SAL  SODA.
Kegs..............................
Granulated,  boxes......
Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box.
Hand, 
4)4
Mixed bird....................
Caraway.........................
.10
4
C an ary ......................... . 
Hemp....................................  4
Anise.....................................8)4
Rape....................................   4*|
Mustard......................   ...... 7)4
Scotch, in  bladders............37
Maccaboy, in jars...............35
French Rappee, in Jars..... 43
Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands.

SAPOLIO.
“
SEEDS.

SNUFF.

SOAP.

3  “ 

Superior...............................3 30
Queen  Anne.......................3 85
German  Family..................2  40
Mottled  German.................3 00
Old German........................2 70
U. S. Big  Bargain..........  ... 1  87
Frost, Floater......................3 75
Cocoa  Castile  .....................3 00
Cocoa Castile, Fancy..........3 36

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Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

spices—Whole.

Happy Family,  75............... 2 95
Old Country, 80................... 3 30
Una, 100................................3 65
Bouncer, 100........................ 3 15
Allspice............................... 10
Cassia, China in mats..........  7%
Batavia in bund__11
Saigon in rolls........40
.30 
Cloves,  Amboyna.
Zanzibar.............
.23 
Mace  Batavia.................
.80 
.80 
Nutmegs, fancy..............
.75 
“  No.  1...................
.70 
“  No.  2..................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
.18 
“ 
white..
.26 
shot...................
“ 
.20
spices—Ground—In Bulk.
Allspice................................ 15
Cassia,  Batavia................... 20
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon.....................42
Cloves,  Amboyna................ 35
“  Zanzibar..................26
Ginger, African....................12%
“  Cochin.....................15
Jam aica..................18
“ 
Mace  Batavia.......................90
Mustard,  English................ 22
“ 
and Trie..25
“  Trieste.....................27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ....................80
Pepper, Singapore, black__21
“  white...... 30
Cayenne................ 25
STARCH.
Mystic,  64  pkgs...................4 48
barrels.......................6
Cut  Loaf.....................  @936
Cubes.........................   @  9%
Powdered...................   @ 934
Granulated, H. &E.’s..  @9)4
Franklin..  @  9%
Lakeside..  @ 9%
Knight’s...  @  9)4
Confectionery  A........  @ 9)4
Standard A..................  @836
No. 1, White Extra C..  @894
No. 2 Extra  C.............  @8)4
No. 3C, golden...........  ©  8
No. 4 C, dark..............   ©  734
No. 5  C........................ 
; @  7*4

SUGARS.

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165

Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol­

 

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TWINES.

lows :
Straw  ..................................  
“  Light  Weight................200
Sugar.........................................185
Rag  Sugar................................2)4
Hardware................................. 2%
Bakers.......................................2%
Dry  Goods..............................5
Jute  Manilla........................... 8
Red  Express 
No. 1.5
No. 2................. 4
48 Cotton...............................   22
Cotton, No. 2.........................20
“  3.........................18
Sea  Island, assorted..........   40
No. 5 H em p...........................16
No. 8 B ....................................17
W ool........................................  73£
Tubs, No. 1............................  7  25
No. 2............................  6  25
No. 3............................  5  25
1  60
.  1  75
60
. 
.  1  00
13  “ 
.  1  25
15  “ 
.  2 00
17  “ 
.  2 75
assorted, 17s and  17s  2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s 2 75

bushel................ 1  60
“  with  covers 1 90

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l  5 75
“ 
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
“ 
“  No.l  3  50
“  ■  splint 
“ 
“  No.2 4 25
“ 
“  No.3 5 00

37
20 Pails. No. 1, two-hoop..
“  No.l,  three-hoop..
19Í Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes..
2
Bowls, il inch.................
.................
35
.................
.................

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

WOODENWARE.

35

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

40

MEAL.

FLOUR.

WHEAT.

GRAINS  and  FEED STUFFS
W hite................................ 
90
Red....................................  
88
Straight, in sacks.............   4  80
“  barrels...........   5  00
“ 
Patent 
“  sacks.............   5  80
“  barrels...........   6  00
“ 
Bolted................................  2  20
Granulated........................  2  45-

Bran................................... 11  00

MILLSTUFFS.

Ships..................................  12 00
Screenings........................  12 00
Middlings.........................   13 00
Mixed  Feed......................   15  50
Coarse meal......................   15  50
Small  lots.........................   43
Car 

“  .........................   39)4,

CORN.

OATS.

RYE.

HAY.

Small  lots.........................   32
“  .........................   30
Car 

No. 1...................................35@40

BARLEY.

NO. 1...................................  1  25-
No. 2..................................   110

No. 1...................................  12  00-
No. 2...................................  10  50

HIDES.

HIDES,  PELTS  and  FURS.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

lows:
Green..........................   4  @  4*4
Part  Cured..................   4  @  4%
...................  4)4© 5
Full 
Dry...............................  5  @6
Dry  Kips  ....................   5  @6
Calfskins, gTeen.........3  @ 4
cured.........4)4® 5
Deacon skins..............10  @20

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% off for No. 2.

PELTS.

Shearlings.................... 10  @25
Estimated wool, per fi> 20  @28

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow........................  3v4@ 3*4
Grease  butter............... 3  ©  5
Switches .'...................   2  @2)4
Ginseng...................... 2 00@2  25--

WOOL.

Washed.............................25@30
Unwashed........................ 12@22-

Drugs 0  M edicines,

State  Board  of  Pharmacy.

One Y ear—O ttraar E berbach, Ann  Arbor.
Two Y ears—Geo. McDonald, K alam azoo.
Three Y ears—Stanley E. P ark ill, Owosso.
F o u r  Y ears—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Five Y ears—Jam es  Vernor, D etroit.
P resid en t—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
S ecretary—J a s.  Vernor, D etroit.
T reasurer—Geo.  McDonald, Kalamazoo.
N ext  Meeting—At Lansing, November 5, 6 and 7.

Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Ass’n. 

President—Geo. Gundrum , Ionia.
F irst V ice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing.
Second Vice-President—H. M. Dean, Niles.
T hird V ice-President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
S ecretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—W in D upont, Detroit.
Executive C om m ittee—A. H. Lym an,  M anistee;  A. Bas 
sett,  D etroit; F. J.  W urzburg,  Grand Rapids;  W.  A. 
Hall, G reenville;  E. T.  Webb, Jackson.

Local S ecretary—A. Bassett, Detroit.

P resident. J. W. H ayw ard,  Secretary, F ran k  H. Escott. 

G-rand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical  8ociety. 
Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, F. D. K ip p ;  Secretary, A lbert Brower______

Detroit  Pharmaceutical  S o c ie ty  

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

Muskegon  Drug Clerks’  Association. 

P resident, C. S. Koon;  Secretary, J. W. Hoyt.

As 

the 
the 

“westward 

Pharmacy;  Its  Origin  and  Position.* 
There is a widespread  impression that 
pharmacy is a comparatively recent  out­
growth of  the  practice of  medicine,  and 
that  some  time  in  the  not distant past 
the physician  himself  prepared the med­
icines  he  administered.  Some  people 
assert that the pharmacist is not a neces­
sary agent in the  healing of  disease,  and 
will not accord him  even  that  semi-pro­
fessional position to which he lays claim. 
He is charged  with shrouding  his  work 
in  mystery  by the  use  of  complex  for­
mulae  and  dead  languages,  that he may 
reap  enormous  profits  and  secure  a 
monopoly of  his business.
Turning  to  the  early  history  of  the 
world, we find  evidence  that the apothe­
cary was  then  known  and  was  held in 
some  esteem.  An  Egyptian  papyrus, 
dating  back  many centuries  before  the 
Christian  era, contains a list of  the rem­
edies that were kept in the shops of  that 
time.  Even the Holy Scriptures mention, 
incidentally, 
the  deteriorating  effects 
of  dead  flies  upon  the  ointment of  the 
apothecary.  Many of  the ancient writers 
record the fact that  man early sought re­
lief  from  pain  and  disease by using the 
minerals found  within the earth and the 
plants  that grow upon it. 
In Arabia,  as 
early as the  twelfth  century,  pharmacy 
was  regulated  by  law;  but  it  was  not 
till 200  years  later that it assumed a dis­
tinctive form in the  western countries of 
Europe.  As the  east  was  formerly the 
seat of  political and  intellectual  power, 
it was  there,  also,  that pharmacy had its 
origin. 
star 
of  empire  took  its  way,” 
field 
of  pharmacy  widened 
and  bright­
ened.  As out  of  the  crude  civilization 
of  those 
far-off  countries  arose  the 
higher  civilization  of  succeeding  cen­
turies,  so out of  the crude alchemy prac­
ticed  there,  arose  the  definite  methods 
and knowledge of modern pharmacy.  Its 
history  is not  that of  a decade  nor of  a 
century;  but it has  grown  with  the  his­
tory of  the world. 
In  the  possession of 
the Vienna  Medical  Society is a copper­
plate of  the year  1500, A.  D.,  represent­
ing  three divisions of  the healing  art— 
medicine, surgery,  and  pharmacy.  The 
latter  is  illustrated  by a shop,  its  win­
dows filled  with the curious vessels  em­
blematic of  the  craft, and  the  druggist 
himself  stands  at  the door  receiving  a 
prescription  from  the  hands  of  a  phy­
sician.
In the  eighteenth  century the  light of 
investigation 
laid  bare  many  of  the 
mysteries  of  physical  and  chemical 
science,  and one of  the most  earnest and 
successful  workers  in  that  field  was 
Scheele,  a Swedish  apothecary.  He was 
for  many years  a  clerk,  and  became  a 
proprietor  by  marrying  the  widow  in 
whose shop he was employed.  He shared 
with  Priestly  the  discovery  of  oxygen; 
he  discovered  citric, lactic,  malic,  and 
hydrocyanic  acids;  he  discovered  many 
tests for the  detection of  arsenic and its 
compounds;  he demonstrated  that  steel 
could  be  successfully made;  he  isolated 
glycerin;  and was the first to make many 
of the colors used by the painter.  Though 
his discoveries were for many years more 
curious than valuable, they have been so 
utilized  and  have  so  many  derivatives 
that  they are  considered  necessities  at 
the present time.
To  Woehler is  often  given the  credit 
of  laying  the  first  stone  in  the  great 
structure of  organic chemistry;  but long 
before Woehler, a German  druggist  dis­
covered  morphine,  and from  that  start­
ing point  the character and  composition 
of  thousands of  organic substances have 
been determined.  From that time chem­
istry,  with  applications to various indus­
tries,  has  been  steadily advancing,  and 
foremost  among  the  pioneers  are  men 
whom  we are  proud  to  claim  as  phar­
macists.
Discovery  has  followed  discovery  so 
rapidly that  we  are  no  longer  startled 
by an achievement  which,  if  made  one 
or two centuries ago, would have secured 
for  its author enduring fame.  The true 
pharmacist  of 
the  present  continues 
the  work.  He  analyzes every new drug 
and  lays  before  mankind  the  finished 
product  of  his  labors—it may be a new 
remedial  agent,  a  pleasant  vehicle,  an 
agreeable addition  to  the  toilet,  a  per­
fume.  a dye,  a  paint, a food,  a  drink— 
something of  value to the physician, the 
family, or the arts.
What is the position of  the pharmacist 
relative  to  the  practice  of  medicine? 
The tendency of  the  age is toward spec­
ialties.  So much  has  been  determined, 
and so many discoveries  are  being made 
in all the  branches  of  medical  science, 
that it is  impossible for  any man  to  at­
tain distinction, or even to be successful, 
who does not concentrate all his energies 
upon one fixed line of  action.  He  must 
have the goal in view  and press directly 
toward it. 
It  is  well  to  have  a  large 
fund of  general information,  and to take 
some  interest in the pursuits  of  others; 
but he  must *not «vander in the byways, 
nor  roam  in  the fields  that  border  his 
path.  Surgery, dentistry, pharmacy are 
closely  connected  at  some  points  with 
the practice  of  medicine;  but  in  their 
details  they  are  far  apart,  and  a  man 
can no more practice all of  them than he 
can travel several diverging  roads at the 
same time.  The reason  for a division of 
labor between the physician and pharma­
cist lies, then, in the difference of their re­
spective fields.  The physician deals with 
the delicate machinery of the human body, 
its  derangements  and  its  susceptibility 
to treatment.  He advises and prescribes;
"G raduating  address  b y   F. I*. Abbey,  K ansas  State 

University.

skillful 

he administers  a stimulant or a sedative, 
as the  case  may require;  he  knows how 
to expect a crisis and  how to prepare the 
patient to survive it.  His life is devoted 
to this work,  and a noble work it is.  The 
pharmacist  is  his  faithful  ally.  He  is 
familiar with the physical  and  chemical 
properties of  drugs, and  strives  to  pre­
sent remedies  in  their  most  acceptable 
form.  He  discovers  and  prepares;  the 
physician utilizes and administers.
There  are  many common  examples of 
this  mutual dependence.  The musician, 
with  skillful  touch,  ministers  to  your 
love  for ' harmonious  sounds.  Your ear 
is charmed with the melody he provokes, 
and  the  finer  elements  of  your  nature 
thrill in unison with  the  sweet  strains. 
You look with  admiration  upon the per­
former,  but  do  you  never  think of  the 
mind  that  designed  and  the  hand that 
constructed  the  instrument  that  yields 
such floods of  harmony ?  The  musician 
may know  little  or  nothing  of  the  de­
tails of  its  construction,  and  the maker 
may not be  able to render a single  selec­
tion upon it;  but  each  in his own line is 
proficient.
The physician is the skilled performer; 
the harmony he  strives to produce is the 
perfect concord of all the vital  functions 
of the human body.  His instruments are 
the  remedies  prepared  by the  pharma­
cist.  The latter is the physician’s indis­
pensable co-laborer.
How  is the  pharmacist  related to  the 
public?  Excepting  the physician,  there 
is no one who has greater responsibilities. 
When  your child  is stricken  with  fever 
is  it not all  important  that the medicine 
should be properly prepared?  Has there 
been a  time in  your own  life when  you 
were sick nigh  unto death?  Who knows 
what would  have  been the  result had  a 
less 
hand  prepared  your 
draughts?  It is from necessity that phy­
sicians and  pharmacists  are  patronized; 
and when that necessity becomes urgent, 
when the life of some dear one is in  dan­
ger, how  gladly will  you  ride for  miles 
or  give your  last  dollar to secure  their 
services.  Again,  the  pharmacist  is  a 
safeguard  to  you  from the  mistakes  of 
careless or ignorant  physicians.  To the 
credit of  the medical  profession,  it may 
be  said  that a mistake  in  writing  pre­
scriptions  does  not  often  occur.  But 
when  it  does  occur  it  is  the  careful, 
watchful pharmacist who detects it, and, 
it may be, saves  your life.
I  have  said  that  pharmacy claims  at 
least  a  semi-professional  position,  and 
have spoken for  the most part of its pro­
fessional  side. 
In  his  commercial  life 
the  pharmacist  is  brought  into contact 
with  other business  men;  and inasmuch 
as  he is a buyer  and  seller of  merchan­
dise, his  professional  status is lost  sight 
of  and  his  success  is  measured  by  his 
commercial  standing. 
It is hard to con­
vince people  that  he  is  entitled  to  any 
fee for professional  service.  They com­
pute the value of medicine upon the mar­
ket  price of  the crude  drug and  wages 
for  time  actually  employed.  They do 
not  remember  that the  pharmacist  has 
spent from  four to ten years of  the best 
part  of  his  life,  that  he has  expended 
hundreds of  dollars,  and  worked for low 
wages to prepare himself  for this  work. 
Strange as it may seem,  the  question in 
the mind of  the average customer is not: 
“Can I rely upon this pharmacist to com­
pound my medicine  properly?”  But  it 
is:  “What will he charge me?”  We can 
not  wonder,  then,  that many a pharma­
cist becomes  discouraged in his attempts 
to  practice  professional  pharmacy,  and 
finally  descends  to  the  level  of  mere 
shop-keeping.  All  study, analysis, and 
investigation  must  be  prompted  by his 
own  love for  them,  and  they are  often 
pursued at the  sacrifice  of  his  business 
prosperity.
The time is fast approaching  that will 
decide the future position  of  pharmacy. 
Unless  upheld  by  popular  sentiment 
there is danger  that professional pharm­
acy will no  longer  be  practiced  by our 
druggists, and that  they will  go  to  the 
other extreme,  and  pharmacy be lost  in 
other vocations.  Wherein lies our safety? 
In the earnest,  united  work of  practical 
pharmacists  and  colleges  of  pharmacy 
and in the  recognition by the  public  of 
the value  of  such work. 
If  necessary, 
let us  have  more  stringent  legislation; 
thrust the inefficient  pharmacist  out  of 
the  ranks;  resist  the  encroachments  of 
other  lines  of  business,  and  teach  the 
people that  their  health  depends  upon 
the  pharmacist  as  well  as  upon  the 
physician.
Then  will  pharmacy occupy the  high 
position to which it is justly entitled.
D eath  o f  M.  T.  Arbour,  the  O range­
On  Tuesday  night,  July  16,  M.  T. 
Arbour,  druggist  at  Orangeville  Mills, 
closed "liis  store  seemingly  as  well  as 
usual.  On  Wednesday morning  he  did 
not open the store,  but as his health was 
not very good,  his  neighbors thought he 
was  simply  sleeping  later  than  usual. 
Noon came and  still  the  store  was  not 
opened and no answer  was given to calls 
and  raps.  About 4 o’clock,  thoroughly 
alarmed,  the rear  door was  broken open 
and a terrible  sight met their  eyes.  He 
had  fallen  and  cut  his  head  and  face 
badly.  The coroner’s inquest  was  held 
and  it  was  found  that  his  death  was 
caused by apoplexy.  He had apparently 
partly prepared  for  bed  and  gone  into 
the shed where he fell.
Merrill T. Arbour was born in Steuben 
county,  N.  Y\,  September  4,  1834. 
In 
1846  he  came  to  Michigan  with  his 
parents,  who  settled  in  Grand  Rapids.
He was married in 1856 to Eliza Spauld­
ing, of  Kent county, who died about two 
years  ago.  He  leaves  one  son,  Henry 
Arbour, druggist at Deiton. and a brother 
and  sister  at  Grand  Rapids.  A  little 
daughter died in infancy.
He  was  in  business for several  years 
in Rockford, and also in Plainwell.
When  the  war  broke  out  he enlisted 
and was chosen  Quartermaster  Sergeant 
of  Co. A,  Sixth  Michigan  Cavalry.  He 
served three years and was honorably dis­
charged at Fort Leavenworth,  Kansas, at 
the close of  the war.  He  was a member 
of  the G. A.  R.  and his  funeral was con­
ducted by members  of  the  Morris  Eng­
land Post.
He  was  also  an  Odd Fellow  in  good 
standing. 

ville  Mills  D ruggist.

Henry  Arbour.

Charlevoix—A raft of  3,000,000 feet of 
logs was lately made  up  in  Lake  Mich­
igan, near this place,  to be  towed to Bay 
City.  Another raft of  1,000,000 feet will 
be added to it.

o f Opium.*

C hinese  M ethod  o f  Preparing  E xtract 
Some years  ago I had an excellent  op­
portunity  of  observing  the  process  of 
manufacturing  this  extract,  as followed 
by the  Chinese experts,  who prepare the 
domestic article  from  Turkey opium  in 
San Francisco.  The  details of  the  pro­
cess  are  kept  as  a profound  secret  by 
them and  their  employers,  the  wealthy 
Chinese  merchants,  but  owing to excep­
tional  circumstances  I  was  enabled  to 
study the subject and become thoroughly 
conversant with every point.  And I may 
as well  state before  proceeding  further, 
that I am  betraying no confidences,  and 
I paid  dearly  for the information  which 
I  am  about to place  before  you. 
I  do 
not  think that  even  now I should  have 
been  inclined to expose  the  details of a 
process  which  has a  considerable  com­
mercial value, except for the reason that 
this  occasion  is a remarkable one in the 
history of American pharmacy.
I need not tell  you how to prepare ex­
tract of  opium. 
It is merely an aqueous 
infusion evaporated  on a water-bath to a j 
pilular  consistence.  An  addition  of  5 
per  cent, of  glycerin  is  ordered  in  the 
last edition of the United States Pharma­
copoeia.
The  Chinaman  proceeds  otherwise. 
His  apparatus  consists of  two  charcoal 
burning fire-clay  furnaces,  about  fifteen 
inches high and of about the same width, 
open on three  sides;  some  palm  leaf or 
other  cheap  fans, for  fanning  himself 
and  the fire;  several  brass pans,  such  as 
are here shown;  a brass ladle and several 
tin  ones;  a large  spoon for skimming;  a 
gridiron;  two  pair of  pincers for  lifting 
the  pans, and some  thick  woolen  cloths 
to protect the hands;  some fiber brushes, 
several buckets, basket strainers, muslin 
for  straining, fibrous  material for draw­
ing off  the liquor;  some  heavy sticks  to 
be  used  as  pestles;  several  spatulas 
about a foot  long and  three  inches wide 
at lower  end,  and  made of  oak  or  ash, 
and a steel-bladed scraper.
One  or  two  low  stools  complete  the 
arrangements.  The  operator  does  not 
require  any tables or  benches, as all  the 
work is done on or near the ground.  The 
operation  requires  two  days, but  after 
the first  day the  two days’  work  goes on 
regularly,  and a batch of extract is turn­
ed out  by the  same  workmen  every eve­
ning.
The quantity of  opium operated upon, 
so  that  a  workman  can  do a fair  day’s 
work,  is  usually about  sixteen  or  eigh­
teen  pounds.  The  balls  a^i  placed  in 
tepid  water,  to  soften  the Surface,  and 
they are washed by  hand to remove grit, 
leaves, and other foreign substances.
The  material is then  placed in one  of 
the  shallow  concave  brass  pans,  which 
is  kept  gently  heated  over  the  naked 
charcoal fire,  and by means of  the wood­
en  pestlg  is  kneaded into  a  soft paste. 
When homogeneous, the  softened opium 
s  uniformly spread  over the  inner sur­
face of  the pan,  and  patted down  by the 
hand,  so  as to  give  it a smooth  surface. 
The  heat is continued  until  the  greater 
part  of the moisture has evaporated,  and 
the  opium has  become so  solid that  the 
pan can be turned over.  The direct heat 
of a very small fire is now allowed to act 
directly on the face of the opium by turn­
ing  the pan  upside  down.  This  has  to 
be carefully and skilfully done.  As soon 
,s the surface of the material has become 
ufficiently hardened it is deftly removed 
in thin layers, and this is continued until 
all the  opium has  been taken  from  the 
pan, except the dried  portion,  which re­
mains  attached to the  bottom and  sides 
of the vessel.  This is scraped  off.
The  gridiron  now  comes  into  play. 
The crusts  which were  laid  aside in the 
former  operation  are  now  put  on  the 
gridiron a few at a time,  with the  great­
est care,  to avoid breaking them,  and are 
toasted  over  the  charcoal at  a  low tem­
perature until they have become perfect­
ly crisp.  The  crusts  are then  placed in 
one of the brass pans,  covered with warm 
water,  and  left  standing  until  the  next 
morning.
On resuming work the infusion is drawn 
off  into  buckets  through  baskets  lined 
with mftslin strainers.
The brass  pan  is  slightly tilted,  and 
by means of a knot of vegetable fiber the 
liquor is drawn off  over  the edge of  the 
pan  without loss.  The roasted opium is 
drained,  and a second quantity of  warm 
water  added,  with as little  breakage of 
the crust as possible,  and the  extraction 
is  finished  with  a  third  lot  of  water. 
Only the first  and  second  infusions  are 
used for the  extract;  the  washings  and 
weak infusion  are  employed for  the ex­
traction of  the next batch, 
'there seems 
to be no  precise  rule as to the  quantity 
of  water for  making  the  infusion—the 
crusts are merely covered.
The infusion is then  mixed  with some 
egg  albumen,  and a part  of  it is placed 
in the largest  of  the brass pans over the 
naked  charcoal  fire,  and 
is  heated, 
skimmed,  and  boiled  constantly.  The 
pan is not filled,  but room is allowed for 
frothing,  and fresh portions of  warm in­
fusion  containing  albumen  are  added 
from time to time as the bulk diminishes. 
During  the  boiling  there  are  several 
matters to be attended  to,  such as keep­
ing  up the fire,  or  banking  it  up  with 
ashes  if  too hot,  prevention  .of  boiling 
over  by addition  of  small  quantities of 
the infusion,  or  of  water,  and keeping 
the sides  of  the pan free from hardened 
extract.  This  is  effected  by water  and 
the  fiber  scrubing  brushes.  When  all 
the  infusion  has  been  added,  and  the 
evaporation  has  proceeded  as far  as  is 
considered  to  be  necessary,  the  pan  is 
removed from  the fire,  and  the  extract 
constantly stirred by means of  a wooden 
spatula in a current  of  air produced  by 
fanning  until cool and uniformly mixed.
The  yield of  extract  varies  according 
to the  kind  and  quality of  opium, but I 
have  not  observed  any very remarkable 
difference  between  the  results  of  this 
and those of the ordinary pharmaceutical 
methods.  Eighteen pounds of  first qual­
ity Turkey opium generally  yields about 
ten pounds of  this extract.
The greatest  watchfulness is exercised 
over  the  roasting or toasting part of  the 
process.  Although  a  small  exposed 
corner of  the crusts may become charred 
occasionally, the object of  this operation 
is  to  expose  the  opium  to  such a heat 
only as  to  render  it  porous, to do away 
with the quality of  stickiness,  which  is 
said by some  authors to  be  produced by 
an  easily  decomposed  caoutchouc-like 
substance,  and to allow  the  aqueous ex­
* Read  before  th e  Am erican  P harm aceutical  Asso­
ciation,  a t  San  Francisco,  by  Jo h n   C alvert,  of  San 
Francisco.

tractive  matter  to  ooze  out  of  the ma­
terial without stirring.
Notwithstanding  the  constant  repeti­
tion  of  cautions  in  all  the  text-books, 
dispensatories,  and other pharmaceutical 
literature  respecting  the  care  to be ob­
served about subjecting  opium to heat, I 
do not find  that  there is any appreciable 
difference  in  the  yield of  morphia when 
opium has gone  through  this  barbarous 
process.
Whatever  changes  may  take  place 
among  the  other proximate constituents 
is not known,  but I am  quite  satisfied as 
to the fact that the natural morphia salts, 
protected  by extractive, are  not  decom­
posed, or  only to a very small extent, by 
such a heat  as  is  necessary for  the  de­
sired  alteration of  the valueless  or inert 
matters contained in opium.

Special  M eeting  o f  the  S tate  Board. 
From  th e M uskegon News, Ju ly  18.
The  State  Board  of  Pharmacy held a 
special session yesterday at the residence 
of  Jacob  Jesson,  the  President  of  the 
After  transacting  the  business 
on hand, the visitors  were  shown  about 
the  city.  There  were  present  George 
McDonald,  Kalamazoo;  James  Vernon, 
Detroit,  and  O.  Eberbach,  Ann  Arbor. 
They returned home last night.

The D rug  M arket.

There are  no  changes  of  importance 
to note this week.  Opium,  morphia and 
quinine are unchanged.  Carbolic acid is 
tending  higher,  as  the demand is larger. 
Cuttle fish  bone  is  very  firm  and  will 
probably advance  again  soon.  Golden 
seal root is scarce and higher.  Oil sassa­
fras is advancing.

Coopersville—Adrian DeVoist  has  re­
signed  his  position in the store of  Mun­
ger, Watson & DeVoist,  at  Sullivan,  and 
returned to Coopersville.

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ACIDUM.

8@ 10
Aceticum...................... 
Benzoicum,  German..  80@1 00
Boracic 
..................... 
30
Carbolicum..................  40® 45
Citricum.......................  50@ 55
Hydroehlor................... 
3®  5
Nitrocum  .....................  10© 12
Oxalicum.....................  13® 14
Phosphorium  dii........ 
20
Salley licum ...............1  40@1  80
Sulphuricum................   12i@ J>
Tannicum.................. 1  40@1  60
Tartari cum...................   40® 43

“ 

Aqua, 16  deg................. 
3®  5
18  deg.................  
4®  6
Carbonas  .....................  U© 13
Chloridum...................   12® 14

ANILINE.

Black................................2 00@2 25
Brown...........................   80@1 «0
Red................................  45® 50
Yellow.............................2 50@3 00

BACCAE.

Cubeae (po. 1  60..............1 85@2 00
Juniperus............  
Xantnoxylum.............  ¿w®  M

,

b a l s a m u m .
Copaiba......................   65®  70
Peru............................. 
tr
Terabin, C anada......   45®  50
Tolutan......................   45®  50

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian..................  18
Cassiae  ................................
Cinchona Flava  ..................  ¿8
Euonymus  atropurp...........   80
Myrica  Cerifera, po..............
Prunus Virgin!....................   1*
Quillaia,  grd........................
Sassafras  .................... 
J*
 
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)........  10

®  15 
@3 50 
@  80 
‘  50
15 
2

“ 
“ 
“ 

24®
33®
11©
13®
14®
16®

EXTRACTUM.
G ly c y rrb iz a   G la b r a ...
po.
Haematox, 15 lb. box
Is...........
Vis.........
Ms.........
FERKUM.
Carbonate Precip—
Citrate and Quinia..
Citrate  Soluble......
Ferrocyanidum Sol. -
Solut  Chloride...........   @
Sulphate,  com’l ..........1 Vi©
pure............   @

“ 

f l o r a .

Arnica  — ..................  14®
Antbemis...................   30®
M atricaria..................  30®

FOLIA.

...................   16®

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-
nivelly.............. .  ■ *
Salvia  officinalis,  Vis
U rallrsi......................  

Alx.  35®
and  Vis.....................  16®
8®

“ 

“ 

gummi.
Acacia,  1st  picked 

2d 
3d 
__________  
sifted sorts..
p o ........... . 
- 
Aloe,  iiarb,  (po. 60)

“ 
“ 

“
“

@1  00 
©  90 
@  80
®  65
75@1  00
60 
50®
®
12 
50

“  Cape,  (po.  20)...
“  Socotri,  (po.  60). 
Catechu, Is, (Vis, 14 Vis,
16).............................  ®
Ammomae..................
Assafcetida,  (po. 30)...
Benzoinum..................  ^6@
C amphorae..................  35®
Euphorbium  po  ........   35®
Galbanum...................   __©
Gamboge,  po........
®
Guaiacum, (po. 45)
Kino,  (po.  25)......
M astic..................
Myrrh,  (po  45) —
Opii,  (pc. 4 75)---
Shellac  ......................   25®
bleached........  25@
“ 
Tragacanth................   30®
h e r b a —In ounce packages

®@1 00 

®  40 
3 20@3 25 
-  30
28 
75

Absinthium..........................  25
Eupatorium.........................   20
Lobelia................................  25
Majorum........  ....
Mentha  Piperita...
“  V ir...........
Rue..........................
Tanaeetum, V ......................
Thymus,  V..............
MAGNESIA.
Calcined, Pat..............  55©  60
Carbonate,  Pat  ..........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25 
Carbonate, Jenning5..  35®  36

OLEUM.

Absinthium............... 5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc —  ..  45®  7" 
Amydalae, Amarae— 7 25@7 50
A nisi.......................... 1  75@1 85
Auranti  Cortex..........  @2 50
Bergamii  ................... 2 50@3 00
Cajipnti......................   90@1  00
Caryophylli................  @1  70
C edar..........................  35®  65
Chenopodii................  @1
Cinnamoni!...............1  20@1  25
Citronella...................   ©
Conium  Mac..............   35®  65
Copaiba......................  90@1  00
Cubebae...................15 50®16 00
Exechthitos................  90@1  00
Erigeron....................1  20@1  30
Gaultberia.................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......   ®
Gossipi!,  Sem. gal......   50©
Hedeoma  ...................1  15@1  25
Juniperi......................   50@2 00
Lavendula.................   90@2 00
Limonis.....................1  50@1  80
Mentha Piper.............2 35@2 40
Mentha Yerid........... 2 50@2 60
Morrhuae, gal.............  80@1 00
Myrcia, ounce................  @ 50
Olive..........................1  00@2
Pieis Liquida, (gal.,35)  10®  12
R icini........................ 1  24@1  32
Rosmarini............. 
75@1  00
Rosae,  ounce..................  ®6 00
Succini........................  40®  45
Sabina........................  90@1  00
Santa!  ........................3 50@7 00
Sassafras.....................  55©  60
Sinapis, ess, ounce__   @  65
Tiglii..............................   @1 50
Thym e........................  40®  50
,  opt  ................  @  60
Theobromas................  15®  20
BiCarb........................  15®  18
Bichromate................  15@  16
Bromide......................   37®  40

POTASSIUM.

“ 

Carb.............................  12®  15
Chlorate, (po. 18)........  16@  18
Cyanide......................   50®  55
Iodide...........................2 85@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27®  29 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  ©  15
Potass  Nitras, opt......  
8®  10
Potass Nitras..............  
7®  9
Prussiate.....................  25@  28
Sulphate  po................  15@  18

RADIX.

Aconitum...................   20@  25
Altbae.........................   25®  30
A nchusa.....................  15®  20
Arum,  po.....................  @  25
Calamus......................   20@  50
Gentiana,  (po. 15)......   10®  12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 45).....................  @  4(i
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__   15@  20
Inula,  po.....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po....................2 40®2 50
Iris  p!ox (po. 20@22).. 
IS®  20
Jalapa,  p r,..................  25®  30
Maranta, 
..............   @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei.............................  75®1  00
cut......................   @1  75
pv.......................... '  75@1 35
Spigelia......................   48®  53
Sanguinaria,  (po  25)..  ®  20
Serpentaria.................   25©  30
Senega........................  60@  65
Similax, Officinalis,  H  @ 4 0  
M  @  20
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
dus,  po.....................  @  35
aleriana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
Zingiber a ...................   10®  15
Zingiber  j ...................   22®  25

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SEMEN.

Anisum,  (po.  20)........  @  15
Apium  (graveleons)..  10®  12
Bird, Is........................ 
4®  6
Carui, (po. 18)............. 
8®  12
Cardamon.....................1 
Corlandrum................  10®  12
Cannabis Sativa..........3V4@ 
4
Cydonium...................   75@1  00
Chenopodium  ...........   10@  12
Dipterix Odorate......... 1 75®1  85
Foeniculum................  @  15
Foenugreek,  po.......... 
6@  8
L in i.............................4  ®  4V4
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 4  ) ...  4V4® 4V4
Lobelia........................  35©  40
Pharlaris Canarian —   3V4@ 4V4
R apa........................... 
5®  6
Sinapis,  Albu............. 
8®  9
Nigra...........  11©  12

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SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R .......1  75@2 00
 
Juniperis  Co. O. T —  1  75©1  75
“ 
............. 1  7o©3 50
Saacharum  N.  E .........1 75@2 00
Spt.  Ylni  Galli............1 
ini Oporto.................1 
Vini  Alba....................1 25@2 00

1 

75@6 50
25©2 00

10@1 50

SPONGES.

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

25@2 50
2 00
1  10
85
65
75
1  40

SYRUPS.

 

Accacia................................  50
Zingiber  ..............................   50
Ipecac.................... 
60
Ferri Iod..............................   50
Auranti  Cortes.....................  50
Rhei  Arom...........................   50
Similax  Officinalis..............   60
Co........  50
Senega.................................   50
Scillae...................................   50
  50
T olutan................................  50
Prunus virg..........................  50

Co.......................... 

TINCTURES.

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Aconitum Napellis R ..........  60
F ..........  50
Aloes.....................................  60
and  myrrh..................  60
A rnica.................................   50
Asafoetida.............................  50
Atrope Belladonna..............   60
Benzoin................................   60
Co__ 1.....................   50
Sanguinaria..........................  50
Barosma..............................   50
Cantharides..........................  75
Capsicum.............................  50
Cardamon.............................  75
Co............’............   75
Castor...............  
1  00
Catechu................................  50
Cinehona  .............................  50
Co......................   60
Columba..............................   50
Conium................................  50
Cubeba.................................   50
D igitalis..............................   50
Ergot.....................................  50
G entian................................  50
Co.............................  60
G uaica.................................   50
ammon..................   60
Zingiber..............................   50
Hyoscyamus........................  50
Iodine...................................  75
Colorless.................  75
Ferri  Chloridum...............   35
K in o .....................................  50
Lobelia.................................   50
Myrrh...................................  50
Nux  Vomica........................  50
O pii......................................   85
“  Camphorated................  50
“  Deodor......................... 2 00
Auranti Cortex........................ 50
Q uassia.................... 
50
Rhatany  ..............................   50
Rhei......................................   50
Cassia  Acutifol...................   50
Co..............   50
Serpentaria........................  50
Stromonium..........................  60
Tolutan................................  60
V alerian..................... 
  50
YeratrumVeride.................   50

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Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  26®  28
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alumen......................   2%@ 3V4

MISCELLANEOUS.
L 
ground,  (po.
7)..............................  
3®
Annatto......................   55®  60
Antimoni, po.............. 
4®  5

“ et Potass T.  55®  60

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squibbs 

Antipyrin.................. 1  35©1  40
Argenti  Nitras, ounce  @  68
Arsenicum.................  
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......   38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............2 15@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is,  (V4s
11;  Vis,  12)..............   @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
Capsici  Fructus, a f... @1 15 
PO...........................
18
16
Bpo.  @  14
Caryophyllus,  (po.  28)  23@  25
Carmine,  No. 40..........  @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................   28®
Coccus........................  @
Cassia Fructus...........  @
Centraria.....................  @
Cetaceum...................   @
Chloroform................  40®
M
@1 00
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  50@1
Chondrus...................   10@
Cincbonidine, P.  & W  15©
German  4@ 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  ........................  @
Creasotnm.................   @
Creta,  (bbl. 75)...........  @
“  prep.................... 
5®
8®
“  precip................  
“  Rubra.................  @
Crocus........................  35®
Cudbear.............. 
  @
Cupri Sulph................ 
8®
Dextrine.....................  10®
Ether Sulph................  68@
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po...................   @
Ergota,  (po.)  45..........  40@
Flake  White..............   12®
G alla...........................   @
Gambier......................  
8®
Gelatin,  Cooper..........  @
French...........  40©
Glassware  flint,  75  & 10 per 
Glue,  Brown..............  
9®
White................  13@
Glycerina...................   22®
Grana Paradisi...........   @
Humulus.....................  25@
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..  @
“  C or__   @
Ox Rubrum  @
Ammoniati..  @1
Unguentum.  45®

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S. N.  Y.  Q. &

M..........................  

Hydrargyrum.............  @  75
Ichthyobolla,  Am...... 1  25®1  50
Indigo.........................   75@1  00
Iodine,  Resubl...........4 00@4 10
Iodoform.....................  @5  15
Lupulin......................   85@1  00
Lycopodium..............   55®  60
M acis.........................   80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod..................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arsinitis  10@  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1V4)...........................  
2®  3
Mannia,  S. F ..............   45®  50
Morphia,  S.  P.  & W .. .2 55@2 80 
C. C o........................2 55@2  70
Moschus  Canton........  ©  40
Myristica,  No. 1..........  60®  70
Nux Vomica,  (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia.....................  25®  27
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co................................  @2 00
Pieis  Liq, N.  C., V4 gal
doz  .............................  @2 00
Pieis Liq., q u arts.......  @1  00
pints..........  @  70
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  ©  50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 18
Piper Alba,  (po g5)____   @ 35
Pix  Burgun...................   @ 7
Plumbi A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
&P. D.  Co., doz......   @125
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  35®  40
8@  10
Quassiae..................... 
Quinia, S. P. & W......   39@  44
S.  German__   26@  35
Rubia  Tinctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactis pv..  @ 35
Salacin........... . 
....2  25@2 35
Sanguis  Draconis......   40®  50
Santonine  .....................  @4 50
Sapo,  W......................   12®  14
8® 10
“  G...........................   © 15
Seidlitz  Mixture........  @  25
Sinapis............................  @ 18
“  opt......................   ® 30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes...........................   @ 35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
il@  12 
Soda Boras, (po. 12).  , 
Soda  et Potass T art...  30®  33
Soda Carb...................  
2® 2%
Soda,  Bi-Carb............. 
4®  5
Soda,  Ash................... 
3®  4
Soda, Sulphas.............  @
Spts. Ether C o...........   50@  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......   @2 00
“  Myrcia Imp........  @2 50
“  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
2 05).........................   @2  15
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal......   @1  10
Sulphur, Subl.............2%@ 3Vi
Tamarinds.................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae..............   50®  55
Vanilla...................... 9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph................ 
7®  8
Bbl.  Gal
Whale, winter...........  70 
70
Lard,  extra................  55 
60
56
Lard, No.  1................  45 
Linseed, pure raw__   62 
65
68
Lirffiseed,  b o iled __   65 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.................   50 
69
50
Spirits Turpentine__   43 
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian..............134  2@3
Ochre, vellow  Mars__134  2@4
“ 
Ber........134  2@3
Putty,  commercial__ 2)4  2V4@3
“  .strictly  pure.......2v5 234@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ........................... 
13@16
Vermilion,  English_________  70@75
Green,  Peninsular..................... 70@75
Lead,  red.....................  654©7J4
“  w h ite..................63£@7V4
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’....................... @90
1  00 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
Cliff........................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1 4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints...................... 1 00@1  20

Roll.............. 2 Vi® 3

paints. 

OILS.

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VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach...... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................. 1 60@1  70
Coach  Body................2 75@3  00
No. 1 Turp Furn........1 00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__ 1 55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T u rp .......................   70®  75

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The Michigan Tradesman j

THE  ABUSE  OF  DIVORCE.

W ritten  fo r The Tradesman.

On  one  day of  last week  two divorce ! 
cases were mentioned  among the current 1 
news, which  illustrate  the  lawless  and i 
confused condition of the country in this 
respect.  A  woman  of  Ephrata,  Penn., 
appeared before the  Register of  Wills at 
Lancaster,  to  claim  the  right to  admin­
ister the estate of  1 er deceased husband, 
only to discover  that  she had  been a di­
vorced  wife  for  eight  years,  without 
knowing it. 
In Missouri,  the  wife of  a 
former minister of  the gospel, sued for a 
share of  his  estate  on  the  ground  that 
she had never been divorced legally,  and 
that his  second wife was  not his  wife at 
all.  The  case  was  difficult  enough  to 
occupy  the  courts  of  Kansas  City  for 
some  time  in  getting  at  the  facts;  but 
finally  the  decision  is  in  favor  of  the 
second  wife, although  there  were  con­
siderations  which  weighed  against  her 
claim.
We have  reached the  point at which it 
is  hard to  say who is  married  to whom, 
and all this for want of a common law of 
marriage,  and  divorce  for 
the  whole 
country.  Those  who  insist  on the  sa­
credness of  the  marriage relation  often 
depreciate the  idea of  having it reduced 
to the level of a civil contract.  But there 
is no  civil  contract  known  to  the  law 
about which such a degree of uncertainty 
could exist,  as now has arisen about mar­
riage.  A  Pennsylvanian  who tries  and 
fails to obtain his release from a business 
partnership  under  the  law of  his  own 
state,  cannot  run off  to Nebraska  or to 
Indiana,  as these  two  husbands did, and 
get  a  dissolution  there,  after  residing 
three  months in the  State,  and  publish­
ing the legal  notice of  his application in 
some  obscure  country  newspaper.  He 
must give real  and not nominal notice of 
his  application.  He  must  sue  in  the 
courts which naturally have  jurisdiction 
over the contract.  He cannot  add to the 
number of  his natural  and  legal  rights 
by  playing  the vagabond.  But all  this 
he can do in the case of his marriage.

One of  the  remedies  which  should be 
applied  to  the  evil  is  a more  vigorous 
application of  the  idea  of  domicile. 
In 
the Pennsylvania case the  husband went 
off  to Nebraska expressly on this errand. 
When he had complied with the terms of 
the Nebraska laws—laws enacted for the 
purpose  of  attracting  settlers—he  re­
turned to Ephrata.  He was but “a short 
time”  away,  the  dispatch  says.  So of 
the  Missouri  husband’s  trip to Indiana. 
Why should  either  Missouri or Pennsyl­
vania  recognize  the  legality  of  such 
evasions ?  A domicile is not  secured by 
any  term  of  residence,  either  long  or 
short,  unless  the person  gives  evidence 
of  his purpose to fix his residence  there. 
Manifestly,  these  divorce-domiciles  con­
fer no right  to  sue for a divorce  and, if 
our  judges  did  their  duty by their own 
States, the worthlessness of  such evasion 
soon  would  be 
recognized.  Three 
States—Maine,  Massachusetts  and  Del­
aware—have  taken  this  ground.  Of 
course,  very  much  of  the  mischief  is 
due to the easy terms on  which  divorces 
are authorized and granted.  A writer in 
the  Andover  Review  has  searched  the 
statute  books  of  the  states.  He  found 
that  two  states  authorize  divorce  for 
“any  gross  neglect  of  duty;”  one  for 
“the  habitual  indulgence  of  a  violent 
and  ungovernable  temper;”  three states 
and 
territories  for  any  cause 
deemed  sufficient  by the  court.  Rhode 
Island,  Wyoming  (with  Woman  Suf­
frage !)  and  Washington  Territory  rank 
the  lowest, authorizing the court to give 
divorce  whenever, it  is  shown  that the 
welfare of  the  parties requires a separa­
tion !  At the other extreme stands South 
Carolina,  which  grants  none  at all,  and 
next to  it New  York,  which  admits  of 
no grounds except adultery.

three 

To see how these laws are administered 
we turn to an article in the  Westminster 
Review for  June, 1889.  The writer  has 
been examining the records of our courts, 
and  he  finds  that in some of  our  cities 
there  is  one  divorce  to  every six  mar­
riages, and  that  these are granted  often 
on  very  slight  grounds.  One  husband 
got a  divorce  because  his  wife “struck 
him  a  violent  blow  with  her  bustle” ; 
another because she had “evinced toward 
him  a  hasty  temper” ;  yet  another  be­
cause  she  had  called  him  “a  good-for- 
nothing  vagabond,  and  ‘wished  to  God 
he  would  go  away’” ;  another  because 
his wife  has  no  children  and  therefore 
“his  life  is  burdensome  and  his  home 
dreary.”  Nor  are  the wives  at all  be­
hind.  One secures a divorce because her 
husband  “does  not  wash  himself” ;  an­
other  because  he  “does not  come home 
until  10  o’clock at night  and  keeps  his 
wife  awake, 
talking  sometimes  until 
midnight” ;  yet  another “never  cuts  his 
toe-nails,  and  scratches  her  ’severely 
every  night.”  Worst  of  all,  one  Cali­
fornia  husband  was  divorced  for  “fre­
quently  quoting  Scripture  passages  to 
show his wife that she was to be obedient 
to her  husband,” the  court  ruling  this 
to  be “cruel  and  inhuman  treatment.” 
If a deeper depth of cruelty can be found 
it  is  that of  the  husband  who “ciit  off 
the  plaintiff’s  bangs  by  force,  thereby 
causing her great mental anguish.”

We are not in  favor of  rigorous  legis­
lation on this  subject.  We think  South 
Carolina is grossly  unjust  to  its  people 
in allowing of no divorce whatever.  Nor 
should we  like to see  the general accept­
ance  of  the  New  York  rule of  fixing 
upon  marital unfaithfulness as the  only 
valid reason.  That is the rule laid down 
in the New Testament for the conscience 
of  individual  Christians  and  for  the 
Church,  but  not for the  State.  Nothing 
but confusion has attended every attempt 
to legislate  the gospel  into  the  statute- 
book.  But our present laxity is not  jus­
tifiable  on  any  ground.  At  the  very 
least  the  marriage  contract  should  be 
made  as  sacred  as every  other,  and  no 
reason  should  be accepted  for  its  legal 
termination which  does  not  involve  its 
termination  morally  as  well  as  legally. 
Unless we can  come to this,  at  least, we 
shall find ourselves slipping on the moral 
down  grade  by  which  society  in  the 
Roman Empire  reached its  dissolution— 
a  dissolution  more  directly traceable  to 
the  looseness of  the law and  practice in 
this  matter  than  to  any  other  single 
cause.  That  we ever  shall  come to that 
depth of  degradation we do  not believe. 
But it can be avoided  only  by the quick­
ening of  the  national  conscience  as  to 
the sacredness  of  this  and  every  other 
contract 
into  which  men  voluntarily 
enter. 

A. S. M.

Our  B est  M arket.

The Cleveland Iron Trade  Review con­
tains the following interesting summary: 
The statistician of the Agricultural De­
partment  finds,  after a careful  inquiry, 
that Europe is  practically  our only mar­
ket  for  wheat,  importing  144,000,000 
bushels a year.  Her crop is 1,200,000,000 
bushels, or  twice ours, but is insufficient 
for her needs.  We actually send her an­
nually about 95,000,000 bushels.  Europe 
takes 19,000,000 bushels of oats, of which 
we supply 2,500,000 bushels.  Of rye  we 
export but 3,000,000 bushels, Russia being 
the great producer of this  grain.  Great 
Britain takes three-fourths of the world’s 
surplus of corn, that is to say,  62,000,000 
bushels.  Of the total we export 68,000,- 
000 bushels.  We supply not a pound of 
the 1,000,000,000 pounds  of  rice  Europe 
imports.  The European demand for but­
ter  is  25,000,000  pounds,  of  which  we 
supply 24,000,000 pounds.  The European 
deficiency of cheese is 140,000,000 pounds 
and we supply 118,000,000  pounds.  We 
supply 1,850,000,000 pounds of the 2,636,- 
000,000 pounds  of  cotton  Europe takes. 
Europe produces as  much  tobacco as we 
do—500,000,000  pounds a year—but ours 
is used because it is  cheap and is needed 
for mixing.  We send 242,000,000 pounds 
of tobacco across the Atlantic every year, 
Europe’s total  deficiency  being 324,000,- 
000  pounds.  About  one-tenth  of  our 
agricultural  products  is  exported.  Yet 
such is their amount that they constitute 
97 per cent,  of our total exports.”
THE  ALDINE  FAKE  PLACE
Before Baying Grates, get our 
circular, Sent Free.  The Aldine 
produces Warm  Floors,  Perfect 
Ventilation; keepsfireover night, 
and is cleanly.  Burns coal, coke, 
wood or gas.  Can be piped to com. 
mon  chimneys, or set  like  other 
grates, and can be run at hall the 
I cost of any other. AddressALDINE 
J UFO. CO.,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Importers and Jobbers of

Dry Goods

STAPLE  and  FARCY.

O v e r a lls,  P a n ts ,  Etc.,

OUR  OWN  MAKE.

J. F . T R O U T   &  CO.,

R eal  Estate,

5  1-3 N. DIVISION STREET,

ROOM  55,  PORTER  BLOCK,
G ra n d   R a p id s.

Realty Is the basis of all security and the basis 
of security in real estate transactions is found in 
the  knowledge  and  probity  of  those  through 
whom they are conducted.  Holding,  by  reason 
of prudence, integrity and  signal ability, a posi­
tion of prominence among the real estate dealers 
of Grand Rapids, J. F.  Trout  &  Co.,  who  com­
menced operation in May of this present year, are 
deserving of individual mention.  The interested 
principals  are  J.  F.  Trout  and  L. Taylor, and 
they conduct a general  real  estate  business  in 
city and suburban properties, farming  and  tim­
ber lands, etc.  They are agents for  the  sale  of 
40,000 acres of  excellent pine and farming lands 
in Southeastern Missouri, near Doniphan, Ripley 
county—a  region  which  supplies  Kansas  City 
with  fully  two-thirds  of  the  lumber  used  in 
carrying on  her  manufacturing enterprises, be­
sides  being  one  of  the  finest  stock  sections— 
especially for cattle  and  hogs—to be found any 
where in  the  country.  Mr.  Trout  personally 
owns some 2,200 acres of fine land in that section 
and offers genuine  bargains  to  purchasers, the 
lands having a double  productive energy in the 
natural timber growth, besides being one of  the 
most fertile agricultural sections  of  the  Union.
J. F  Trout’s  Addition  to  the  City  of  Grand 
Rapids comprises the most desirable of residence 
properties in the suburbs  for  homes  or  invest­
ment.  The plat is most  delightfully situated, is 
level, high and dry, convenient  to  railroad  and 
street car lines, being located  Southeast  of  the 
city and  only  eighty  rods  from  Oakdale  Park 
depot, on  the  Grand  Rapids,  Lansing  and De­
troit  Railway,  which  runs  suburban  trains  on 
regular  schedule, requiring but six to eight min­
utes to land you at Madison avenue, which leaves 
you only eighty rods from Trout’s addition.  The 
plat contains 128 lots,  is  splendidly shaded with 
native trees,  and  in  the  center  of the plat is a 
flowing fountain of living water.  Lots are sold 
at from $200 to $375.  Terms, $50 down,  and  bal­
ance on long  time  and  at  low  rate of interest. 
No cash  payment  is  required  from  those  who 
build at once.
To those who desire homes  or the most advan­
tageous of investments, J. F. Trout and Co.  can 
offer the most notable inducements, and  parties 
will do well to consult this reliable firm.  Special 
attention  is  also  given  to the handling of  city 
and suburban property of  all  kinds  and  to  the 
renting of houses.

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FenGtrOrDCkery  and

Fancy  Woodenware

OUR  OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection  Solicited.  Chicago  and  De­

troit  prices  guaranteed.

WHY  WEAR  PANTS
T h a t   d o   n o »   f it  o r   w e a r   s a ti s f a c ­
t o r i l y ,   w h e n   y o u   c a n   b u y  
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D e t r o i t  B r a n d ,   t h a t   a r e   p e r f e c t  i n  
s t y l e   a n d   w o r k m a n s h i p .

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HYDRAULIC
ELEVATORS
Water Motors and Specialties 
Send for New Catalogue.
Tuerk  Hydraulic 
NEW YORK: 
CHICAGO:
i  12 C ortland St.  39 Dearborn St.

Power  Co.

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

GRAND  K A PIUS.

piomptness.  Nice Work, Quick Time 

Satisfaction Guaranteed.

W, E, HALL, Jr., 

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  Manager.

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.

TIME  TABLES.

Grand  Rapids  & Indiana.

G O IN G   N O RT H .

20 p m  
3 0 p m
:30 a m  and  11:30  a.  m.  train s  have  c h air cars for 
10:30 p.  m, tra in   has  sleeping  car  fo r  P etoskey and 

Arrive*.
Traverse City & M ackinaw.............. 7:00am
Traverse City & M ackinaw.............. 9:30 a m
Traverse City  Express..................... 3:05  p m
Petoskey  & M ackinaw......................8:45 p m
Petoskey and Mackinaw City.
Mackinaw City.
Cincinnati  Express...........................6:25a m  
7:00a m
F o rt W ayne Express............................11:45 a m 
12.45 a m
Cincinnati  Express...............................5:40 p m 
6:00 p m
Chicago and S turgis............................10.40 p m   11:05 p m
7:00 a m  tra m   has  p arlo r  chair  car  for  Cincinnati. 
6:00 p m  tra in  has P ullm an sleeper for Cincinnati. 
11:05 p m tra in  has W agner sleeper  fo r  Chicago,  via 
Sleeping  car  rates—$1.50  to  Chicago,  Petoskey  or 

Kalamazoo.
M ackinaw C ity;  $2 to C incinnati.

G O IN G   SO U T H .

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. 

Leave 
Arrive.
7:00 am............................ 
10:15 am
11:15 a m .......................................................................  3:45 p m
5:40 p m .......................................................................  8:45 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge stre e t  depot 7 m inutes later.
C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

 

D etroit, Grand H aven & M ilw aukee.

S O IN Q  W EST .

GOING EAST.

Arrives.
tM orning Express---- ..................... 12:20 p m
tT hrough Mail............. ................ »•  1:25 p m
fS te a m b o a t  Express.......................10:40 p m
♦Night Express........... .....................   6:50 a m
t Mixed...........................
tD etro it  Express....... .....................   6:45 a m
tT hrough Mail....................................11:35 & m
fEvening Express___ ......................3:40 p m
♦Limited Express....... .....................  6:45 p m

Leaves.
12.25 p m
4:30 p m
10:45 p m
7:00 a m
7:30 a m
6:50 a  m
11:40 a  m
3:50 p m
6:50 p m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  "Daily.
D etroit  Express  has p arlo r  car  to D etroit,  m aking 
direct connections fo r all points  E ast, a rriv in g  in New 
York 10:10 a. m. next day.
Lim ited  Express has parlo r c ar  to  D etroit,  m aking 
close connections fo r all points East, also m akes direct 
connections a t D urand with special  Pullm an  through 
cars to New York and Philadelphia.  Steam boat express 
has p arlor c ar to G rand H aven, m aking direct connec­
tion w ith steam er for Milwaukee and the West.
Through tickets and  sleeping  car  berths secured at 
D., G. H. & M .R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and a t the depot.
J as. Ca m pb ell. City Passenger A gent.  ,

Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern.

For Toledo and all points South and East, take 
the Toledo, Ann Arbor &  North  Michigan  Rail­
way from Owosso Junction.  Sure  connections 
at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and 
connections at Toledo  with  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.

H E S T E R   <fc  F O X ,

Manufacturers’ Agents for

S A W   A I T S   G R I S T   M I L L   M A C H I N E R Y ,

Send  fo r 
C atalo 
and 
P rice

ATLAS B E

IN D IAN APO LIS.  IND.,  U.  S. A .
___________ M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O F
STEAM  ENGINES & BOILERS.

Carry Engines and  Boilers in Stock 

tor  Immediate delivery.

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

Saws, Belting  and  Oils.

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

Pullej  and become convinced of their  superiority.

Write for  Prices. 

*4. 46 and 48 So. Division St.. GRAND  RAPIDS.  HIOB.

THE  OLD  RELIABLE

PUT  UP  IN

j Boxes, Cans, Pails,  Kegs,  Half 

Barrels and  Barrels.
Send for sample of the celebrated

Fraier Garriap Grease

The Frazer Goods Handled by the  Jobbing 

Trade Everywhere.

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DEALERS IN

P E R K I N S   cfc
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
D B A  7  II

NOS.  132  and  134  LOUIS STREET. GRAND RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CARE TALLOW FOR MILL  USE-

To th e P ass Booh*

Such is the fate of the  Pass Book System wherever it comes in

contact with the

Tradesman  Credit  Boifpon  Book,

Which is now used by over 2,600  Michigan  merchants.

The Tradesman Coupon  is  the  cheapest  and  most modern in 

the market, being sold as follows:

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

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SU B JE C T   TO  T H E   FO LLO W IN G   D ISC O U N T S:
Orders for  200 or over...........5 per cent.

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“  500  “ 
“  1000  “ 

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

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

E l  STOWE 1BR0„ Grand Rapids.
R indge,  B ertseh   &  Co.

Carry in stock the best line of

Women’s  -  and -  Misses’  -  Low  - Gilt -  Shoes

AT  THIS  MARKET.

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

i c h .

AGENTS  FOR  BOSTON  RUBBER  CO.

D E TR O IT S O A P  CO.,

Manufacturers of the following well-known brands:

QUEEN  ANNE.  MOTTLED  GERMAN,  ROYAL  BAR.  CZAR,
________________ 

AND  OTHERS.

TRUE  BLUE, 

MASCOTTE, 

SUPERIOR, 

FHCENIX, 

CAMEO

For quotations in single box lots,  see  Price  Current.  For quotations in larger 

quantities,  address,

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g r a n d   b a p id s .

LOCK  BOX  173, 
We 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   <Ss  B r o o k s .
Seventeen  Years  on  the  Market

W ith a steady increase  in  demand.

Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts

ARE  ALWAYS  RELIABLE  AND  UNIFORM  IN  QUALITY  AND  PRICE,  BEING 

MADE EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE FINEST FRUIT THAT GROW CANNOT 

BE OTHERWISE  THAN  THE  FINEST  FLAVORS PRODUCED.

Dealers will always find Jennings’ Extracts saleable and profitable 
goods to add to their stock.  Order through your Jobber or  direct from

Je n n in g s  &  S m ith ,

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Grand Rapids,  Mich•

*EE QUOTATIONS THIS PAPER.

THE  3?TTBI_.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.  Without effort 
on the grocer’s part the goods  sell themselves,  bring  purchas­
ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.
ANY JOBBER W ILL BE GLAD  TO  FILL YOUR ORDERS.

HEÄI/ENRIGH BROS.

W h o le sa le  C lothiers

MANUFACTURERS  OF

P e rfe ct-F ittin g   Tailor-M ade  Clothing

138-140 Jefferson Sue., 34-36 Woodtridge 8t., Detroit.

MAIL  ORDERS sent in care L.  W. ATKINS will receive  PROMPT ATTENTION.

AT  LOWEST  PRICES.

1\  STEKETEE  &  SONS,
D ry  Goods I N otions,

WHOLESALE

83  Monroe  81.  and 10,12,14,16Æ18 Fodnlain  81., 

Grand Rapids,  Mich•

C o m fo rts  a n d   B la n k e ts,  Y a r n s   a n d   W o o le n s  

for  F a ll  T ra d e.

Warps,  Geese  Feathers, 

Waddings,  Baits 

STARK,

AMERICAN,
PACIFIC,

BURLAPS.

Agents  for Georgia and  Valley City  Bags.

and  Twines,
Prints, Ginghams, Dress Goods, Hosiery, Underwear and full line of Staple Notions.
Our  lemons  are  all  bought at 
the  cargo  sales  in  New  Orleans 
and are as free from frost or chill 
as in June,
PUTNAM &  BROOKS.

H ip  Fire  and  Marine Insurance Co.

ORGANIZED  1881.

CASH  CAPITAL  $40D,B80.

CÄSH  Ä8SETS  OVER  $700,000.

LOSSES  PHD  $500,000.

D.  Whitney, Jr., President.

Eugene Harbeck,  Sec’y.

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

our own  State.

F a ir  C on tracts, 

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  **The  Michigan.”
The  Best  Fitting  Stock­

ing Rubber  in the 

Market.

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

Sole Agents,

raies We  are  wholesale  agents  for 

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

