Wholesale and  Retail Dealer in

VOL.  7.
G f. H. Behnke,
C O A L ,

W O O D ,
Flour, Feed,  Grain,  Hay.  Straw,  Etc,

30 East Bridge  St., Corner Kent. 

WEST SIDE YARD:

Winter St., one block south of Shawmut Ave.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

B u s i n e s s   P r a c t i c e
n p n n f t m p n t   at  the  Grand Rapids 
J L J e p a i   l l l l d l t   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. 8. PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens 
_______________________ ___
berg. 

flilskegon  Paper  Go,,

Dealers in

FINE  STATIONERY,  WRAPPING 
PAPERS, PAPER BAGS, TWINES, 

WOODEN  DISHES,  ETC.

To  the  Book  and  Stationery  Trade:

Mail  Orders  Promptly  Filled.

We are  now  State  Agents  for 
Messrs.  Harper Brothers’ School 
Books  and  can  furnish  them  at 
the publishers’ prices.

Eaton,  Lyon  &  Co.,

20  &  22  Monroe  St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

Wm•  B ru m m eler
Tinware,  Glassware  and  Notions.

Rags,  Rubbers  and  Metals  bought  at  Market 

JOBBER OF

Prices.

76  SPRING  ST., GRAND  RAPIDS, 

WE  CAN  UNDERSELL  ANY  ONE  ON  TINWARE.

HIRTH  i  KRAUSE,
Shoe

D E A L E R S   IN

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FRENCH  TOILET, 
SAFETY  BARREL, 
GILT EDGE, 
RAVEN  GLOSS, 
BIXBY’S  ROYAL, 
SPANISH  GLOSS, 
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BROWN’S  FRENCH.  1

D r e s s i n g s

BIXBY’S  “3 B,”

Polish
Blacking.
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JACQUOT’S  FRENCH,
BARTLETT’S 
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GENUINE  1.

A bill of fare  of  over  fifty  different well pre­
pared dishes to select from, at only 5 cents each. 
Ladies as well as gentlemen have found that the 
New York Coffee Rooms is the place to eat.

Try our eatables once and you will always there­

after be a steady customer.

F .  M,  B E A C H ,  P r o p .

61  Pearl  Street.

Daniel  6.  Garnsey, 

EXPERT  ACCOUNTANT

AND

Adjuster  of  Fire  Losses.
Tw enty Y ears Experience.  References furnished 
21 Fountain S t., Grand Rapids, Mich.

if  desired.

186  EAST  FULTON  ST.

The  Leading  Ladndrg

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.

Gook  it  Bergihold,
SHOW  BASES.

MANUFACTUREES  OF

Prices  Lower  than  those  of 
any competitor.  Write for cata­
logue and  prices.

106 Kent St.,  -  Grand Rapide, Mich.

44 Pine St.,  Muskegon, Mich.

flagiG  Goffee  Roaster.

The Best in the World.

Having on hand a large  stock of No. 1 
Roasters—capacity  35  lbs.—1  will  sell 
them  at  very  low  prices.  Write  for 
Special Discount.

ROBT.  S.  W E ST ,

48-50  Long  St.,  CLEVELAND,  OHIO.

THE  GREAT

EDMUND B.DIKEMRN
Watch pHaker 
§ Jeweler,
44  CRNRL  ST..
flick.
Grand Rapids,  - 
W  a r r e n ’s

"Elixir  of  Life”

C ig a r

Will be ready Sept.  1.

Price, $55 delivered.

Send orders at once to

GEO. T. WARREN  I   GO., Flint, Wick

Fine  Milliner!)!

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL.

Bought Direct from Importers 

and  Manufacturers.

A d a m s   &  Co.,

90 Monroe  St.,  Opposite  Morton  Bouse.

Cherryman  &  Bowen,

Undertakers  and  Embalmed,

IM M EDIATE  A TTEN TION   G IV EN  T O  CA LLS D A T  O R  N IG H T .
Telephone  1000. 
5 South  Division St.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Lady assistant  when desired.

Moot  Mi phi nan  BUSKfESS  u n iv e r s it y  
nool  JniblllyalL  a n d n o r m a l school.
(O riginally Lean’s Business College—Established 8 y’rs.)
A  thoroughly  equipped,  permanently  estab­
lished and pleasantly located College.  The class 
rooms have been  especially  designed in accord­
ance with the latest approved plans.  The faculty 
is composed of the most competent and practical 
teachers.  Students graduating from  this  Insti­
tution MUST be efficient and PRACTICAL.  The 
best of references  furnished  upon  application. 
Our Normal Department is in charge  of  experi­
enced teachers of established reputation.  Satis­
factory  boarding  places  secured  for  all  who 
apply to us.  Do not go  elsewhere  without  first 
personally  interviewing  or  writing  us  for full 
particulars. 
Investigate  and  decide  for your 
selves.  Students may enter at any time.  Address 
West Michigan Business University and Normal 
School,  19, 21, 23,25 and 27  South  Division  St., 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

J. U. Lean, 

A. E. Yerex,
Sec’y and Treas.

» 

Principal. 
S.  G.  K e tc h a m ,

D E A L E R  

IN

Lime, Hair,  Cement, Brick, 

Stucco,  Sewer  Pipe,  Tile, 
Fire Brick and Fire Olay.
14 West Bridge St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

GRAND  R A PID S,  W ED N ESD A Y ,  OCTOBER  16,  1889.

Allen Durfee. 

A. D. Leavenworth.

A lle n   D u rfee  &  Co.,
FUNERÄL  DIRECTORS,

REVISED  FORM

Of the  Organic Laws of the Patrons of

Industry.

CONSTITUTION.

have the right  of  representation  in  the county 
association  which  shall  not  have  paid  all  its 
dues.

ARTICLE  V.

Subordinate Association.

Sec. 1.  The officers of subordinate associations 
shall  consist of  president, vice-president, secre­
tary,  treasurer,  guide,  sentinel,  Minerva  and 
Demeter.
Sec. 2.  No subordinate  association  shall be or­
ganized with less  than ten members and it shall 
require five members to  form a quorum  for  the 
transaction of business.
Sec.  3.  All  persons  making  application  for 
membership shall be balloted  for  by  the subor­
dinate association where the application is made. 
Any applicant receiving a two-thirds vote  of  all 
members present shall he declared elected.
Sec. 4.  No person  becoming a member  of  this 
order shall be required to take an oath, but shall 
be received upon their honor  as a citizen.
Sec. 5.  All disputes and difficulties between the 
members of the order, including all disputes gen­
erally  settled  by  process  of  law,  shall, if pos­
sible, be settled  by  the court of the subordinate 
•association to which they  belong,  according  to 
instructions in the by laws.
Sec. 6.  Subordinate associations may  be  insti­
tuted hv the payment of a fee of $13, $10 of which 
shall be paid to the  organizer, and upon the for­
warding of the number of charter members, male 
and female, with $3 as a charter fee, the supreme 
secretary  shall  issue  to them a charter.  After 
the instituting of an  association,  the  fee  of  all 
initiations  shall  be  in  all  eases  one dollar for 
male members and fifty cents  for  female  mem­
bers.  The quarterly dues shall be not less  than 
twenty  cents  for  each  male  member  and  ten 
cents for each female member, payable quarterly 
on  the  first  days  of  January,  April,  July and 
October, of which an annual  per  capita  tax  of 
five cents per member he  forwarded  to  the  su­
preme association, twenty cents  per  member  to 
the grand association, fifteen cents  per  member 
to the county association,  the  residue  of  quar­
terly dues to remain in the  hands  of  the  treas­
urer of the subordinate association.
Sec. 7.  All books,  blanks  and  forms  required 
by  subordinate  associations shall be  purchased 
of the supreme association, and payment must be 
made  therefor  to  the  supreme secretary before 
the supplies are  forwarded.
Sec. 8  No subordinate  association shall be in­
stituted  nearer  than  three  miles  of  another, 
without the consent of the  nearest  subordinate 
association.
Sec. 9.  The age of admission  of  all applicants 
for  membership  shall  be  determined  by  the 
members of the  subordinate  association  where 
the application is  made.
Sec. I«.  All  dues  shall  be  paid  in  advance. 
Any  member of a subordinate  association  who 
shall not have paid  his  dues  for  three  months 
shall be suspended,  and  may  be  expelled from 
the order by a two-thirds vote of  the association 
to which the member may belong.
Sec.  11.  No  subordinate  association  shall  be 
liable for quarterly dues for the  quarter  during 
which it is organized.  Any subordinate associa­
tion that shall  fail  for  three  months  to pay its 
quarterly dues  shall  forfeit  its  charter, unless 
satisfactory  reasons  can  be  given to the grand 
association.  All  dues,  as  provided  by the su­
preme  constitution,  shall  be  forwarded by the 
subordinate secretary to the county secretary.
Sec. 12.  All  applicants  for  membership  snail 
send in with their application the initiation  fee, 
which  shall  be  returned immediately in case of 
their rejection.
Sec.  13.  The  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
subordinate association shall give good and suffi­
cient  bonds  for the  faithful  accounting  of  all 
funds coining into their  hands, and the deliver­
ing up at the expiration of their term of office of 
all funds, books,  papers  and  other  property of 
the order in their possession or under their care, 
to their successor in  office  or  other  authorized 
officers of the order.
Sec.  14.  Any  member  wishing  to  withdraw 
from an association may do so on payment of all 
charges against him on'the books of the associa­
tion, and shall be granted a withdrawal card  by 
his association  upon  application  therefor,  and 
upon presentation  of  the  card,  and making an 
application for membership in  another  associa­
tion, the applicant shall be balloted for  by  such 
association, and if elected shall be entered upon 
the hooks as a member of that association.

ORDER  OF  BUSINESS.

1.  Reading of the minutes of the  last  meeting.
2.  Reports of the committees on candidates.
3.  Balloting for candidates.
4.  Receiving of members.
5.  Proposals for membership.
6.  Is any member sick or disabled ?
7.  Reports of standing committees.
8.  Reports of special committees.
9.  Bills and accounts.
10.  Unfinished business.
11.  New business.
12.  Suggestions for the good of the order.
18.  Receipts and disbursements.
14.  Closing.  Remarks by the president.

BY-LAW S.
ARTICLE  I.

Sec. 1.  It shall be the  duty  of all  subordinate 
associations to appoint a relief committee, to visit 
the sick and report immediately to the president, 
who shall  see  to  it  that  suitable  watchers are 
provided each night, if  necessary;  and the sub­
ordinate  association  may,  by  its  by-laws, pro­
vide for a sick benefit  fund and for other extra­
ordinary association purposes.
ARTICLE  II.

Sec. 1.  In the case of the death of a member of 
any subordinate association, a meeting of the as­
sociation shall be immediately called, and adjoin­
ing  associations  shall  be  notified  and  all  the 
members  of  the  association  shall  attend  the 
funeral in a body;  but in  no case shall there be 
any funeral ceremonies  performed  by the asso­
ciation, as such.  Each  member  present  shall 
wear crape  on  the left arm as a token of respect 
for  the  deceased  member.

ARTICLE  III.

Sec. 1.  No  religious  ceremonies  are  enjoined 
for  assoeiational  meetings. 
If  a  minister  or 
church member he  present,  the  president  may, 
if he wishes, call upon him to open or close with 
praver.

ARTICLE  IV.

See.  1.  Any  person  making  application  for 
membership in the order must be of  good moral 
character, and it will be  expected that they will 
refrain from the violation of civil law.  Any mem­
ber  who  shall  be  accused of  the  violation  of 
civil law shall be cited to trial in the association 
of which he is a member and,  if  proved  guilty, 
shall be reproved, suspended or expelled, as  the 
case may require.

ARTICLE  V.

Sec. 1.  An accused member shall be brought to 
trial before a jury of not less than five members of 
the association.  In the selection of the jury, the 
party may challenge for cause. 
If the president 
judge it necessary, he may select the  jury  from 
any other association in the same  county.  The 
president  shall  preside  at  the  trial  and cause 
exact minutes of the evidence and proceedings in 
the case to be taken ; or, if he be personally inter 
ested in the ease, the vice-president shall preside ; 
or, if they both  should  be  personally interested 
or absent, the president shall  secure  the  presi­
dent  of  some  other  association  in  the  same 
county to  preside  In  the  trial.  The  rules and 
regulations prescribed  by  law  for  the  govern­
ment of  the  lower  civil  court  (justice  of  the 
peace) shall be adopted  by the presiding officer, 
with this restriction—that no  one outside of the 
subordinate  association  shall  be  permitted  to 
appear as counsel in behalf of either party.
Sec. 2.  On  any  disagreement  between  two  or 
more members of an association concerning busi­
ness transactions, which cannot be settled by the 
parties, the president of the association shall in­
quire  into  the  circumstances  of  the  case  and 
shall  recommend  to  the  parties  an arbitration 
consisting of  five, two  cho.-en  by  the  plaintiff 
and  two by the defendant, which  four  arbiters 
so chosen shall  choose a fifth.  The arbiters can 
be chosen from  any  other subordinate  associa­
tions in the same  county.  The  president shall 
preside and the  forms of trials shall be observed 
and an accurate record kept  of  the proceedings 
and testimony ;  but,  if  either  of  the  parties be 
dissatisfied with the verdict  of  the  arbitration, 
they may have  a right  to  appeal  to the county 
association.
Sec. 3.  In case of an appeal taken from an arbi­
tration  of  any  subordinate  association  to  the 
county association, said association shall appoint 
a  committee of twelve,  to  whom  the testimony 
taken in the arbitration shall be given  for  their 
decision. 
If  any  excluded  person  shall  feel 
aggrieved for reason of the finding of the county

association tribunal,  he  shall  have  a  right  of 
appeal  to  the  grand  association,  to  which  an 
exact record of the  proceedings  and  testimony 
of the trial shall be sent, and their decision shall 
be final.
Sec. 4.  In all the forego’ng cases of  trials, wit­
nesses not members shall not be  rejected.  Affi­
davits of  distant  parties  may  be  taken as  pre­
scribed by civil law.

ARTICLE  VI.

Sec. 1.  Cushing’s Manual  shall  be  the  recog­
nized parliamentary  authority  for  the  govern­
ment of all associations of the order.

RITU AL  AND  SECRET  WORK. 

President—-(Gives  one  rap  with  gavel to call 
meeting  to  order,  and  says:) 
“The  hour  for 
labor has arrived and the work  of  another  day 
demands our attention.”
Sentinel—(Will  receive  password  from  the 
president, take charge of the door, and admit no 
one without the  password,  except  by permit of 
the president. )
Guide—(Will get password  from the president 
and proceed to collect  the same and report if all 
members  present are qualified. )
Guide—“Mr.  President, I find that all  present 
(Or otherwise, as  the  case  may 
are qualified." 
be.)
President—“The association will now come  to 
order and assist me in opening.”  ( By two raps of 
the gavel from the president the association will 
rise to their  feet,  under  the  voting  sign of the 
order and assist  in  opening  the  association by 
singing. )
[Singing at the discretion of each association.] 
President—“I now declare the association open 
(Seating  the association by one 

for business.” 
rap of the gavel. >

IN IT IA T IO N .

door. )
door.”
is wanting.”
door?”
admitted.”
and duly prepared?”

Sentinel—(Makes  a  confused alarm  at  outer 
Guide—“Mr. President there is an alarm at the 
President—“Attend to that alarm and see what 
Guide—“Sentinel,  why  is  this  alarm  at  our 
Sentinel—“There  are  friends  wishing  to  be 
Guide—“Are they of proper age, well qualified 
Sentinel—“They  are.”
Guide—“Mr.  President, some  friends  wish to 
President—“Are they  of  proper age, duly pre­
Guide—“They are.”
President—“Let them enter.”
Guide takes  charge  of  the  candidate  at this 
time, and the  president  brings  the  association 
to their feet by two raps of the gavel and all join 
in singing the

be initiated into this our association.”
pared and well qualified?”

IN IT IA T O R Y   O D E
(Tune  Greenville.)

We shall need your help and care,
You shall have a rightful share. 

Welcome stranger to our order 
In the harvest and the vintage 
Welcome  Welcome 
Welcome  Welcome 
Heaven bless you, is our prayer.

sume?”

Guide, during this  time, will conduct the can­
didate around the room in front-of the president. 
At close of ode the president will seat  the  asso­
ciation with one  rap  of  the  gavel,  at the same 
time saying, “halt !” (sharp)  “who dares attempt 
to pass my station in so careless  and  heedless a 
manner?  Who are you and where do you come 
from?”

Guide—“From our occupation.”
President—“You  are  laborers,  then,  I  pre­
Guide—“We are.”
President—“By  what  right  do you claim  the 
privilege of passing my station?”
Guide—“I am a guide  conducting a candidate 
in search of  knowledge, wisdom and justice.” 
President—“By  what I have  learned  you  are 
entitled to pass to the station of Minerva.” 
Guide—“I will  now  present  you  to Minerva, 
who represents one of the  greater  divinities  of 
Roman  mythology.  She  was  regarded  as  the 
goddess of wisdom,  the  arts and sciences, or of 
the thinking, inventive  faculty.” 
(Now  leads 
the applicant  in  front  of  Minerva  and  says:) 
“ Minerva, I have the privilege of introducing to 
you  this  friend  who  seeks  admission  to  our 
ranks.”
Minerva—“My  dear  friend,  we  are  about to 
enter into a mutual agreement  to  labor together 
for the promotion of the interests of farmers and 
employees and the good  of  the nation of which 
we are a part.  The  purpose  of  our  order is to 
cultivate to the highest possible degree all those 
attributes and faculties with which  the  Creator 
has so generously endowed each and every  one. 
There certainly can be no nobler object than for 
one to labor for the improvement  and  elevation 
of bis fellow  man.
[We have entered into a mutual» agreement, to 
honor the imperishable  element  in man, which 
the power of the Creator  has  implanted  within 
him and to  excite  and  cultivate  to  the highest 
possible degree by an honorable competition the 
skill and  efforts  of  man,  for  the improvement 
and elevation of his present condition of  being. 
No object beneath the  effort to secure and bless 
the  immortality  of  men,  can  be  considered 
greater or of more importance.]
Our  prosperity,  as a people, is not so much to 
be attributed to soil and  climate as to the untir­
ing industry of  the  toiling  masses  and the ele­
vating  influence  of  Christian  education  upon 
youthful minds, and society in general.  These 
facts teach us to  honor  God's  word and to dig­
nify that most honorable condition of man, free 
labor upon a free soil,  making the cunning arti­
ficer an equal with  the eloquent orator, exalting 
thè head that has humbly bent for many a weary 
day over the bench of industry, to  preside  with 
the dignity, which commands  united reverence, 
upon the bench  of  judgment,  and  leading the 
feet that have  followed  through  many a weary 
furrow  in  the  field,  to  stand  on a level  with 
statesmen  in  the  councils  of  the nation.  To 
bring about this result, we ask your influence by 
precept and example.  You  will  now  introduce 
our friend to Sister Demeter.’’
Guide—“We will now Gall  upon  Demeter,  the 
representative  of  ancient  and  modern agricul­
tural industry.”  (Now lead in front of Demeter 
and say:)  “Demeter, I have the pleasure of pre­
senting to you this  friend, who seeks to become 
one of our members.”
Demeter—“Dear friend.  Human talent, indus­
try, wisdom and skill, under  the favoring bless­
ing of heaven,  must  now  go  forth to sow, and 
gather in  the  harvest  of  the  earth. 
It  is the 
province of this association to build not palaces, 
but men;  to exalt, not  titled  stations,  but  gen­
eral humanity :  to  dignify,  not  idle repose, but 
assiduous industry:  to elevate, not the few,  but 
the many, 
it is to this work  we ask your assist­
ance.  You will now  conduct  our  friend to the 
center of the  room,  to  receive  further instruc­
tions by the president.”
Guide—“Mr. President, this friend, wishing to 
unite with  us, and having passed the stations of 
Minerva  and  Demeter, I bring him  (or  her)  to 
you, for further instructions.”
It  becomes  my 
President—“My dear friend. 
duty, as president of  this association, to inform 
you*that it will be expected of  you as a member 
of this association, that you will  labor  to  bring 
within the fold of  organization all agricultural­
ists  and  laborers  not  generally  included  in 
trades unions and similar organizations, making 
knowledge a standpoint  for  action,  and  indus­
trial moral worth, not  wealth, the true standard 
of  individual  and  national  greatness;  to  use 
your influence to secure to toilers a proper share 
of the wealth that they  create:  more of the leis­
ure that rightfully belongs to them; more society 
advantages;  more of the benefits, privileges and 
emoluments  of  the world ;  in a word,  all  these 
rights and  privileges  necessary  to  make  them 
capable  of  enjoying,  appreciating,  defending 
and perpetuating the blessings  of  good  govern­
ment;  to do  what  you  can  as a citizen, for the 
reserving  of  the  public  lands—the heritage of 
the people—for the actual  settler ;  not  another 
acre for railroads or corporations.  Are you satis­
fied thus far, and do  you  still wish to become a 
member of our association?” 
(If the candidate 
replies  in  the  affirmative,  the  president  shall 
say :) 
“I will now proceed to give you the final 
instructions.  You will not be  required  to  take 
an  oath  or  affirmation,  but  you  shall promise 
upon  vour  honor  as a citizen that you will  ob­
serve the constitution  and  laws  of the subordi­
nate, grand and  supreme  associations, and that 
you will not reveal any of the secrets or unwrit­
ten  work  of  this  association,  in  or out of the 
order,  which  may  be  received by you as such. 
Do yon so promise?” 
(An  audible  response to 
the obligation must be given in all cases.)

U N W R IT T E N   W O R K .

1.  Raps of the association and how used.
2.  Sign, or voting  sign, and its use.

NO. 317.

3.  The hailing sign and its token.
4.  Sign of recognition and its token.
5.  Grip  and  words  of  recognition  and  how 
used.
6.  That you  will  aid  all  needy  brothers  and 
sisters, if you can do so  without injury to your­
self or family.
7.  That you will stand by, defend and  protect 
all  worthy  brothers  and  sisters  in  everything 
that is right.
“Are  you  satisfied  thus  far  and  do you still 
wish to become a  member  of our  association?” 
(If the candidate answers in the affirmative, the 
president will say:)  “I will proceed to give you 
the unwritten  work.” 
(Here  to -be  given  the 
unwritten work of  onr  association, after which 
there shall  be  an  intermission  of  five minutes 
for congratulations.)

SIG N S  A N D   PA SSW O R D S.

fl am.]

[Are yon a patron?]

1.  On entering an association give **8k  [four] 
distinct raps on the outer door.
Guide makes xaekjj [three] raps on  the  inner 
door and opens it. and upon your giving him the 
password,  and  producing a proper certificate of 
membership you will be admitted to a seat in the 
association.
2.  The next which I shall  give you is the sign 
or voting sign of the order, which’is given thus: 
k£t—t xaei k+jjsex ae£6§ 4txse xset  fl£la  Jzxi6§t§ 
xset xae8a|)  fl&+6x+6||  x.t  xsej  J£k. 
[Raise  the 
right hand, with the palm extended,  the  thumb 
pointing*to the ear. j 
It is under  this  sign  that 
you come to order that you may assist the  presi­
dent in opening the association. 
It is also upon 
this  sign that you vote.  And  in  raising  to  ad­
dress the president  this  sign  is  also  used, and 
should  you  presume  to  address  the  president 
without  first  using  this  sign  he  should  not 
recognize you.
3.  The next which I will give you  is  the hail­
ing sign, which is given thus: 
f>k+6|;  xae; +6§Jz 
“rffilltk **  xtej k+Jaex se£6§  t6  *1*—i  flk*z+a+x2 
x* xaej ££k 4+xse £ —1+11 sex  a*x+&6 &*  xsej se£6§ 
c*k4£fc§,  [Bring  the  index  finger  of the right 
hand in close proximity to the  ear, with a slight 
motion of the hand forward]  then letting it drop 
to its natural position by your side. 
(Its token, 
£k£ 2*8 £ fl£xk*6?) 
4.  The next is the sign  of  recognition,  which 
is given thus:  fll£*t xsej &fli6 k+||sex se£6S 8fl&6 
xse§ %*kt£—x 4+xse xsej xsefla^ J:zxi9§+6|18fl4£k§. 
[ Place the open right hand upon the breast, with 
the  thumb  extending  upward,] 
(Its  token,  t 
£a.) 
5.  The next  is  the  grip,  which is given thus: 
£ £811 *1£—fl A*  xaet kt||iex  se£H§,  fll£*+6J  xaej 
+6§tz f»+6Stk V!kal2 *6 xsei A81—t-  [A full clasp 
of the right hand, placing the index finger firmly 
on the pulse.]
The next is the password,  or  words, of recog­
nition, which is given thus:  I give you the first, 
you give me the second, and I give you the third, 
and as you are instructed your guide will prompt 
you.  The  words  are  fl*xk*6—  ac  +d§8—xk2. 
I Patrons of  Industry.] 
Its  use—when  you  ap­
proach an associ  tion, in  order  to  gain*  admit­
tance, you must give the password to  the  senti­
nel. and upon receiving the same  and  a  proper 
certificate of membership, h-  will admit  you.
The next is the final test word, which is given 
thus:  se£6§ x* ae£6§,  [Hand to  hand],  (accom­
panied by grip)  mouth to  ear and in low breath. 
It is given and received same as password.  The 
words are, flk*xt*x+&6 x& l£]p*k. 
[Protection 
to labor.]
Desirability  of Doing1  a  Cash Business.
A good  business«  man  must be a prac­
tical  financier,  i t  is not necessary  that 
he  should  understand  all  about  stocks 
and  bonds,  be  acquainted  with  the ex­
change markets in the  great  money cen­
ters of  the  globe,  and  master  the  prin­
ciples  of  quadratic  equations,  but  he 
should  understand  thoroughly the differ­
ence between profit  and  loss, know how 
to use bis capital  to good  advantage,  and 
see  that  his  expenses  are  kept  snugly 
within  his  income.  A  clearly  defined 
purpose of  honest money making  should 
be his intent.  With  this  object in view, 
and  steadily  pursuing  it,  success  will 
crown  his  efforts.  The  capital  may be 
small at the commencement, but its care­
ful  expenditure,  diligent  attention  to 
profits,  and  necessary economy in living 
and details will cause it to  grow  year by 
year  until  it becomes  sufficient  to  con­
duct  the  business  without  the  aid  of 
credit.  Just here is the  important point 
in any business career.  When a business 
man can manage his  affairs  without  the 
help of  friends  or  credit, it  is  then  he 
becomes truly independent.  He  is  free 
to buy in  any market, take  advantage of 
the  rise  or fall of  values and is enabled 
to compete successfully with competition 
in  trade.  The  manufacturer  who  pays 
prompt  cash  for  all  his  raw materials,, 
and  conducts  his  whole  operations  on 
that system, can  make  goods at less cost 
than  the  one  who buys on credit.  The 
credit manufacturer works at a disadvan­
tage, and can only make  both  ends meet 
on a strong rising  market.
It is the same way with  the  merchant. 
The one who buys  for  strict  cash is the 
most  sought  after  by  the  trade;  his 
money  gives  him  importance  and  po­
sition,  and  he  commands  the  situation. 
He  takes  advantage  of  all  discounts, 
secures the  best  bargains  and  occupies 
the  lead  in  business. 
If  he is opposed 
by those who buy on credit, that  kind of 
competition  is  not  to  be  feared,  as the 
advantage is all on  the  cash  side. 
It is 
important,  therefore, for  every  business 
man to reach the point where he can con­
duct  his  affairs  on  a cash  basis.  This 
position  reached, the  worse  half  of  the 
conflict  is  over.  To  buy  and  sell  for 
cash is the safe mode of  mercantile man­
agement.  This system relieves the mind 
of  much worriment and anxiety, enables 
the active prosecution to become a pleas­
ure and the  man  so  engaged to be inde­
pendent.  This  should  be  the  aim  of 
every merchant, manufacturer  and  bus­
iness  man;  a  fixed,  steady  purpose  to 
make  money,  save  it  when  made, con­
duct  all  operations  on  a  cash  basis as 
soon as possible,  so as in a certain  sense 
to  defy  competition,  dull  markets  or 
panic  revulsions.  Money  is  a  great 
power  in  the commercial world, a sheet 
anchor  in  business  panics,  and  an  im­
portant factor in the pursuits of  life.  It 
should be the firm  purpose of  every bus­
iness  man  to  make it honestly, spend it 
judiciously  and  thereby  become 
inde­
pendent.

A Kind Father.

“What have  you done with the money 

I  gave you?”

Wife—“I bought  shoes for the child.”
Husband  —  “Bought  shoes  for  the 
child !  Why didn’t you buy meat for the 
bull  pup ?”

the  English 

Secretary  Blaine  got  a  lesson  in  the 
use  of 
language,  while 
making  a  purchase  in  a  London  shoe 
store.  He  asked  the  salesman  why he 
knew he was not  an  Englishman.  “Be­
cause,” was the reply,  “your  looks  may 
be  English,  but  an  Englishman  would 
not have asked the ‘cost’ of  these  shoes, 
sir—he would have asked the ‘price.’ ”

103 Ottawa St.,  Grand Rapids.
Fehsenfeld  &  Grammel,
B R O O M S !

(Successors to  Steele & G ardner.) 

Manufacturers of

Whisks,  Toy  Brooms, Broom Corn, Broom 
Handles, and all Kinds  of  Broom Materials. 
10 and 12 Plainfield  Ave.,  Grand  Rapids.

W M .  M  C L A R K ,

Manufacturer  of

Giistom 

flade  Skirts,

Fit and Quality Guaranteed.

Our cutting is  done  by  Chas.  R.  Remington, 
who was for  nine  years  cutter  for  Gardiner & 
Baxter, who  will  cordially  welcome  his many 
friends in the  trade.

7  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Bartlett  Pears

Are in good demand and we have 
a large trade in them. 
Send us 
what  you  have  to  ship  to  this 
market.  Write for quotations to

BÄRNETT  BROS,,  Ciiicaoo.

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QUILITY  THE  BEST, 

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63—65 CANAL  ST. 

Over  5,000,000--five 
million—of our Cigars 
were  made  and  sold 
last year ?  Also that 
it will increase a mill­
ion this  year,  for  the 
demand has  been un­
precedented.

If  you  want  the 
best always ask your 
dealer for our

---- OR----

“ B E N   H U R ”
BREAKERS. ”
“ RECORD 
G E O .  M O E B S   &   C O .,
92  WOODWARD  AVE.,  DETROIT.

HEADQUARTERS:

(Formerly Shrlver, Weatherly & Co.) 

CONTRACTORS  F O R

Galuaniied Iron Cornier, 

Pliimting i Heating Work.
Pumps,  Pipes,  Etc.,  Mantels 

Dealers in

and  Grates.

W eatherly  &  Pulte,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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-  MICH.

PREAMBLE.

Being impressed with the fact that  all  parties 
interested in commerce, manufactures and other 
enterprises  of  importance  are  organized  and 
using their combined  influence  for  the  promo­
tion of  their  own  special  interests,  while  the 
farmers and employees, upon  whose  labors  de­
pend the  prosperity  of  the  nation,  are  almost 
entirely unorganized,
We,  the  citizens,  farmers  and  employees  of 
North  America,  believing  that  Almighty  God, 
as  the  source  of  all  power  and  the  ruler  of 
nations,  should  be  acknowledged  in  all  con­
stitutions  of  societies,  states  and  nations,  do 
hereby  with  due  reverence  to Him,  associate 
ourselves together under  the following articles, 
and do solemnly pledge ourselves, one to another, 
to labor together for the promotion of  the inter­
ests of farmers and employees  and  the  good  of 
the nation, of which we are a part.

ARTICLE  I.

Name.

Sec. 1.  This order shall be  called  the  Patrons 
of Industry of North America, and  its  object  is 
to secure the rights and interests  of  agricultur­
ists and laborers, and  shall be non-partisan and 
non sectarian.

ARTICLE  II.

The Supreme Association.

Sec. 1.  This  order  shall  cofisist  of a supreme 
association, grand associations,  county  associa­
tions and subordinate associations.
Sec. 2.  The  supreme  association  shall  have 
jurisdiction  over'  North  America,  and  is  the 
highest tribunal of the order.
Sec. 3.  The supreme  association  shall  consist 
of a supreme president, supreme  vice-president, 
supreme secretary, supreme  treasurer,  supreme 
sentinel and a board of three  trustees,  together 
with the delegates elected  by the grand associa­
tions entitled thereto,  and  shall  hold  biennial 
sessions at a time and place to be determined by 
a majority of  the  delegates present at the previ­
ous session.
Sec. 4.  The basis of  representation  in  the  su­
preme association shall be one delegate for each 
three  thousand  members  or  major  fraction 
thereof, the number for each state  to  be  appor­
tioned by the supreme secretary on the  basis  of 
the last quarterly report  received before issuing 
the call for the  convening  thereof.  Said  dele­
gates to be elected  by  the  grand  association of 
the state entitled thereto.
Sec. 5.  The term of office of the Supreme officers 
shall be for two years, provided, that at this first 
session the first trustee shall  be  elected  for  the 
term of two years, the second for four years and 
the third for six years, and that each succeeding 
supreme association shall elect one trustee whose 
term of office shall be six years.
Sec. 6.  The officers and trustees of the supreme 
association shall be elected by a majority vote of 
the delegates present  at  every  regular  session. 
They shall hold office until their successors have 
been elected and shall have  qualified.
Sec. 7.  At all times  when the supreme associa­
tion has met it shall require at least one-third of 
all  the  delegates  elected  to form a quorum for 
the  transaction  of  business,  and  the  supreme 
president shall preside, and  n  his  absence  the 
! supreme vice-president shall preside, and in case 
of the absence  of  both  the  supreme  president 
and supreme vice-president or any other supreme 
officer, the supreme association  may  select  offi­
cers pro tern.
Sec. 8.  The revenue of the supreme association 
shall be derived from the charter  fees,  sales  of 
supplies used  bv  subordinate  associations,  the 
regular per capita tax,  and quarterly dues from 
subordinate  associations  in  states  where  no 
grand association has been formed.
Sec. 9.  The secretary and treasurer  shall  give 
good  and  sufficient  bonds  for  the  faithful ac­
counting of all funds coming  into  their  hands, 
and the delivering up at the  expiration  of  their 
term of  office of  all  funds,  books,  papers  and 
other property of the order in their possession or 
under their care,  to  their  successor  in office or 
other authorized officers of the order.
Sec.  10.  Constitutional  amendments  may  be 
enacted at any regular  meeting  of  the supreme 
association, by a two-thirds vote of  all the mem­
bers  present.

ARTICLE  III.

Grand Association.

Sec.  4.  Grand  associations  shall  have 

See. 1.  A grand association may  be- formed  in 
any state within the bounds  of  which there are 
not less  than  six  county  associations  in  good 
standing.
Sec. 2.  The officers of a grand association shall 
consist  of a grand  president,  grand  vice-presi­
dent, grand secretary,grand treasurer and grand 
sentinel.  Their successors shall be elected by  a 
majority vote  of  the  delegates present at every 
regular grand  association,  which  shall  consist 
of delegates elected  by  the several county asso­
ciations, and shall convene on the last  Wednes­
day of February  in  each  year  at  such place as 
may  be  determined  by a majority  vote  of  the 
delegates present at  the preceding session.
Sec. 3.  All delegates to  the  grand  association 
shall be elected by the delegates  of  the  several 
subordinate associations  of  each  county when 
in association  assembled,  such election  to  take 
place at the county  association  next  preceding 
the grand  association.  Each  county  shall  be 
entitled to one delegate  to the grand association 
for every 400 members, or major fraction thereof.
the 
power to enact all by-laws for their government, 
providing  the  same  are  in  harmony  with  the 
supreme constitution.
Sec. 5.  The  financial  condition  of  the  grand 
association shall be  forwarded  to  the  supreme 
secretary immediately after each regular session.
See. 6." The  executive  officers  of  the  grand 
associations shall be a hoard  for the submission 
and adjustment of all matters of controversy, by 
or between organizers  or  members in that state, 
and to pass upon all recommendations and appli­
cations for commission from any person whatso 
ever.
Sec. 7.  The secretary and treasurer of the grand 
association shall give* good  and sufficient bonds 
for the faithful accounting of all funds  coming 
into their hands,  and  the  delivering  up  at the 
expiration  of  their  term  of  office of all funds, 
books, papers and other property of the order  in 
their possession or under  their care to their suc­
cessor in office or other authorized officers of the 
order.
Sec. 8.  The secretary of the  grand  association 
shall forward to the  supreme secretary all dues, 
as provided by the supreme constitution.

ARTICLE  IV.

County  Association.

Sec. 1.  A county association  may be organized 
in any county in which there  shall  be  not  less 
in  good 
than " four  subordinate  associations 
standing.
Sec. 2.  County associations  shall  consist  of  a 
county  president, county  vice-president,  secre­
tary, treasurer, sentinel, and one  delegate  from 
each subordinate association  in  the  county  in 
good standing.
Sec. 3.  County associations  shall  have  power 
to make by-laws for their  own government, pro­
viding  the  same  are  in  harmony  with the su­
preme constitution.
Sec. 4.  The county association  shall  meet  the 
last  Wednesday  in  January,  annually,  and  at 
such other times as the  county  committee  shall 
determine.
Sec. 5.  The secretary of the county association 
shall forward to the secretary of  the grand asso­
ciation all dues, as provided by "the supreme con­
stitution.
Sec.  6.  The  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
county association shall give good and sufficient 
bonds for the faithful  accounting  of  all  funds 
coming into their hands, and  the  delivering up 
at the expiration of  their  term  of  office  of  all 
funds, books, papers and  other  properly  of the 
order in their possession  or  under their care, to 
their successor in  office or other authorized offi­
cer of the order.
Sec. 7.  The  first  county  committees  shall  be 
composed of  the  first  three  subordinate  presi­
dents, all  subsequent  county  committees  to be 
elected  at  the  annual  county  association,  the 
number  always  to  be  three,  all  presidents  of 
subordinate associations, and one of whom shall 
act as chairman of  the  county  association. 
It 
shall be the duty of this committee to give notice 
to all subordinate associations  of  the  meetings 
of  county  associations,  and  to secure  a  place 
and make arrangements for the  meeting  of the 
association.  No  subordinate  association  shall

The Michigan Tradesman

AMONG THE  TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS GOSSIP.

Chas. Baxter succeeds  Baxter & Co.  in 
the grocery business at 152  North  Divis­
ion street.  _______________

J. F. Ranning  has  engaged in the gro- 
cesy  business  at  Manistee.  Lemon  & 
Peters furnished the stock.

John Bergthold  has  purchased  an  in­
terest in the show case business of Frank 
Cook, at 106 Kent  street.  The  new firm 
will be known as Cook & Bergthold.

S. McNitt,  dealer  in  drugs,  groceries 
and  hardware,  as  added  a  line  of  dry 
goods and boots and  shoes.  Voigt,  Her- 
polsheimer  &  Co.  furnished  the  former 
and Rindge, Bertsch & Co. the latter.

John S. Walker sold  his  cucumbers to 
Williams  Bros.  &  Charbonneau,  of  De­
troit,  and has opened an  office and sales­
room  at 323 South Division street, hand­
ling  a 
line  of  pickles,  vinegars,  jel­
lies, etc.  _______________

Mrs.  F. J.  Parker  has  purchased  the 
dry goods and notion  stock of  Mrs. J.  A. 
Logg,  at 201 East  Bridge street, and will 
add  a  line  of  millinery.  F.  J.  Parker 
will use the warehouse in the rear of  the 
store  for  his  butter  and  egg  business, 
having his office in the store.

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

Bay  City—T.  C. Newkirk  has  bought 

Loranger Bros.’ drug  business.

Stanwood—E.  Wilson  has  begun  the 

erection of  a new store building.

Newberry—Frank  Brabant  succeeds 

A. Jones in the grocery business.

Ithaca—G.  D. Maxwell  succeeds  Effie 

E. Davis in the millinery business.

Muskegon—I. D. Lloyd succeeds Lloyd 

& McShannock in the  tea  business.

Ishpeming—Geo. E. Voyer is succeeded, 
by J. P.  Outhwaite in the hotel business
Whitehall—Thos.  Bennett has sold his 
harness and saddlery stock to Chas.  Han- 
isch.

Burnip’s  Corners—Adam  Newell  has 
sold his drug  stock  to Dr.  C. W. Weaver 
& Co.

Owosso—Murphy  &  Connor  succeed 
Daniel L.  Murphy in the wall  paper bus­
iness.

Alpena—N. M.  Eddy has sold his agri­
cultural implement stock to  Campbell & 
Nicholson.

Bay  City—Craig  Bros,  are  succeeded 
in  the  grocery  business  by  Brucker, 
Craig & Co.

Athens—Robert H. Lewis  succeeds  G. 
W.  Ensminger  in  the grocery and hard­
ware business.

Nunica—P. M.  Cleveland  &  Son  suc­
ceed the estate of H. W. Cleveland in the 
drug business.

Edmore—A. M. Kingsbury  &  Co.  suc­
ceed  W. E. Kingsbury  in  the  boot  and 
shoe business.

Manistee—Nels Olsen,  successor to the 
drug firm of  Holm & Olsen, has assigned 
to James Nelson.

Republic—Kittle & Gamrad is the style 
of  the firm succeeding Casper & Kittle in 
the meat business.

Charlevoix—W.  H.  McCartney  &  Co. 
succeed  the  Litney Sisters in the ladies’ 
furnishing goods business.

Newberry—H.  Ingalls  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  Fred R. Fuller,  son of  R. 
Fuller, the Manton druggist.

Manistee—J. O. Nessen  has purchased 
the  general  stock  of  H. W.  Magoon  & 
Co.,  and will take it to Nessen City.

Battle Creek—Amberg & Murphy have 
purchased  the  Edward  J.  Smith  drug 
stock  and  will  hereafter  conduct  both 
stores.

Traverse City—G. Piltz has bought the 
Shadek undertaking stock  and  will  run 
the business in connection  with his mar­
ble works.

Stanwood—D.  E.  Reed  has 

retired 
from  the  general  firm of  Van Auken & 
Reed.  The  business  will  be  continued 
by J.  B. Van Auken.

Petoskey—R. T. Bower and M. A. Bar­
ber  have  formed a  copartnership  under 
the  style of  Bower  &  Barber  and  will 
shortly engage in the drug business.

Three  Rivers—Wm.  H.  Shepard  has 
purchased the interest of  Fred  Strutz in 
the drug firm of  Shepard  &  Strutz  and 
will continue  the  business  in  his  own 
name.

Ionia 

Blanchard—A.  W. Stevenson  succeeds 
Willis J. Mills as manager of L. M. Mills’ 
drug store.  Mr. Mills will take the man­
agement  of  Geo.  A.  McHenry  &  Co.’s 
drug store, at Chippewa Lake.

Belding—Cooper & Putney have bought 
the dry goods stock of  W. F. Bricker and 
will  continue 
the  business  under  the 
management of  C. W. Putney as a branch 
of 
establishment.  Mr. 
Bricker  will  continue  the  grocery bus­
iness, occupying the  rear  portion ofAhis 
old  store.

Muskegon—The assignee and  the Mus­
kegon National Bank have filed a petition 
in  the  Circuit  Court,  asking  for  a  re­
opening  of  the  S. S.  Morris  &  Bro.  as­
signment  matter,  on  the  ground  that 
valuable  real  estate  was transferred by 
the  Messrs.  Morris 
just  previous  to 
making the assignment.

their 

Sparta—J.  R.  Harrison  has  removed 
his dry goods  and  boot  and  shoe  stock 
from  Byron  Center to this place, his old 
stamping ground.  He  will  erect a brick 
building  for  the  reception of  his  stock 
next spring.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Saginaw—The  Cranbery  Lumber  Co. 
has been organized,  with  a  capital stock 
of  $600,000.

M.  M.  Cole  spent  last  week  among 
relatives  at  Schoolcraft.  His  wife still 
tarries there.

Saginawr—E. O.  & S.  L.  Eastman & Co. 
are erecting a large addition to their new 
planing  mill,  feeling  the  need of  more 
facilities.

W.  F.  Blake  has  purchased  the  res­
idence  of  Chas.  R.  Remington,  at  214 
College avenue, and will  take up his res­
idence there in the spring.

Coopersville  —  Lawton  &  Dorgan’s 
cheese  factory ceased  operations for the 
season  last  Saturday, having  enjoyed a 
profitable  year’s business.

Bay Springs—E. M. Chase  has  retired 
from  the  firm of  White & Chase, broom 
manufacturers.  The  business  will  be 
continued by A. M. White.

Detroit  —  Negotiations  are  now  in 
progress for the sale  of  the  shoe manu­
facturing  business  of  H.  S.  Robinson & 
Burtenshaw to Pingree & Smith.

East Saginaw—John  G.  Owen will  ex­
tend  his  logging  road at Owendale  two 
miles, and will put in a full stock for his 
mills there.  His new  planing  mill is in 
operation,  but  the  sawmill  shut  down 
last week.

Shelby—Geo.  B.  Getty  and  Geo.  E. 
Dewey have  purchased  the  interests  of 
J.  H.  Moore  and  Mrs. B. Moore  in  the 
Shelby Roller Mill,  and will continue the 
business in company with the other part­
ner, Alex. McLeod.

Alpena—This  is  said  to  be  the  last 
season of  partnership  in  lumber  manu­
facture  for  Fletcher,  Pack  &  Co.  Mr. 
Pack will probably run  one  mill and the 
Fletchers the other, but  the  partnership 
in the Hubbard Lake  logging  road  will 
continue.

Bay City—James  A.  Green  has  filed a 
petition  in  the  Circuit  Court to make a 
disposition of  the  Green & Stevens  mill 
site and property at the south end of  the 
city.  The mill was destroyed by fire last 
December,  and  the  firm  dissolved last 
February. 
It seems  that  an  agreement 
could not be reached as to the disposition 
of  the property, which is owned  equally 
by  the  members of  the  late  firm.  Mr. 
Green wants the property for the location 
of  a new mill,  and  says  that if  he could 
have secured the  interest of  Mr.  Stevens 
therein,  he  would  have  erected  a  mill 
thereon  early  in  the  season. 
It  will 
probably  take  several  months’  time  to 
adjust the matter.

Bank  Notes.

John  W.  Wilson  has  been  elected 
Cashier of the Merchants’ National Bank 
of  Muskegon,  vice  W.  B.  McLaughlin, 
who resigned to accept a similar position 
with the Union National Bank.

The  eight  national  banks  of  Detroit 
have a capital  stock  of  $4,400,000 and a 
surplus  of  $557,000,  and  the  thirteen 
State  banks  have  a  capital  stock  of 
$2,619,600, surplus of  $354,500 and undi­
vided  profits  of  $667,217.  The  savings 
deposits in  State  banks  aggregate  $17,- 
763,356.08.  The total  deposits in all the 
banks  amount  to  $32,979,112.16.  The 
State and national banks have $3,425,989.- 
09 in actual cash on hand.

Wool,  Hides  apd Tallow.

Wool has not sold freely the past week, 
but there has been  considerable  enquiry 
by manufacturers to find  choice  lots and 
bargains.  Sellers  say  they  have  out 
more sample bags than ever  before, indi­
cating  that  manufacturers  are  ready to 
buy, if  they can  find a margin  by work­
ing it.  They  evidently  are  in  need  of 
wool to run  their  mills, but  claim  that 
there is no profit in  running  on  present 
prices. 
It is a loss  to  dealers to sell on 
present  prices  and  but  little  will  be 
offered,  as it is strongly held,  and  justly 
so, by prices ruling  in  foreign  markets. 
Wools must necessarily go  higher before 
the  close  of  October.  Manufacturers 
decline  last  year’s  prices  on  heavy 
weight cloths and are asking an advance. 
Their  samples  are  out,  ready  for  the 
trade, when  there is a disposition on the 
part of  clothiers to buy.

Hides are in large  supply,  with a light 
demand,  except for  choice  selections  in 
light  weights,  with  a  fair  demand  for 
heavy and  harness  selections.  The un­
usual  decline  of  last  month  on  light 
hides is  fully warranted by the  slow de­
mand for light  leather, with a large sup­
ply, but  mostly of  an  inferior  tannage. 
Both  hides  and 
leather  seemingly  are 
seeking the low level of prices with other 
commodities.

Tallow is in fair demand at  unchanged 

prices.

In consequence of  the decline in sugar, 
prices  on  candy are lower.  Nuts of  all 
kinds  are  firm.  New  chestnuts  are  in 
market.  They  are  fine  in  quality  and 
prices  will  be  lower  soon.  New  figs, 
new  Malaga  grapes,  new  citron, orange 
peel,  lemon  peel, etc.,  are  also  now  in 
market.

P.  of  I.  Gossip.

It is reported  that C. O. Cain  and  the 
Sand  Lake P. of  L’s  have  parted  com­
pany.

F.  S.  Porter,  Grand  President  of  the 
Patrons of  Industry, will  lecture  at  the 
opera house,  at Nashville, on Wednesday 
evening.

Lyons  Herald: 

“The  Michigan 
Tradesman  classes  the  Patrons  of  In­
dustry schemers  with  lightning rod and 
Bohemian oat swindlers,  with whom hon­
est men should have nothing to do.”

The Nevins Lake Lodge of  the Patrons 
of  Industry  ordered  a  boycott  on  the 
Stanton Herald,  and  the  net  result was 
that the Herald lost  one  subscriber who 
owed  the  paper  $4.25  and  hasn’t  paid 
it  yet.
□ Hesperia News:  “The  P.  of  1.  store, 
which  a  little  dried-up,  consequential 
man from somewhere has  been  trying to 
start at this  place,  is having  hard  work 
to  catch a first  breath.  Our  merchants 
claim  they  cannot  take  hold  of 
the 
scheme and do it honestly.”

Evart  Review:  “The  Patrons  of  In­
dustry,  through  one  of  its  agents,  en­
deavored  to  organize  a  society  at  the 
Osceola  school  house  on Tuesday even­
ing, but did  not  succeed, from  the  fact 
that the people  failed to see the good re­
mits as  represented.”

Newaygo Republican: 

“The  Patrons 
of Industry' would stand better  with  the 
public if they would send better men out 
to organize lodges.  The records of Water- 
house, Payne, et al., follow  them  wher­
ever they go, and  it  is  needless  to  say 
does not  inspire  respect  for  the  cause 
they represent.”

Stanwood correspondence  Big  Rapids 
Current:  “F.  M.  Carpenter  has  opened 
his  new  store,  which  is  known  as  the 
P. 1. store.  He  is  said  to  have a large 
trade.  Just what  the  future of  this or­
ganization  will  be, it is hard to tell. 
It 
is  hoped  that  it  will  finally result in a 
benefit to the masses,  but  farmers  must 
look out for the cash to buy with,  as it is 
designed to do no credit business.”

A Flint  merchant  writes  as  follows: 
“Our merchants  are  well  pleased  with 
your  style  of  dealing  with  the P. of  I. 
nuisance.  We  feel  that in exposing the 
fraudulent  character  of  the  movement, 
and unmasking  its  originators,  you have 
done us a service which we can never re­
pay.  Any merchant  who  would  refuse 
to  take  The  Tradesman,  after  doing 
what  you  have  done, must  be a mighty 
mean man.”

Flint Daily News:  “There was quite a 
flurry at Flushing  Saturday,  about forty 
members of the Patrons of Industry enter­
ing the  village  with  their  teams  to do 
some trading at the Patrons’ store.  Many 
of the  farmers  came  from  Burton  and 
vicinity,  passing  Flint  on  their  way. 
After  making  their  purchases,  all  de­
parted in a body, bearing uplifted brooms 
in  their  wagons,  and  attracting  great 
attention as  they passed through the vil­
lage.”

A Flint  correspondent  writes  as  fol­
lows :  “John B. Wilson, hardware dealer, 
is the only man whom the P. of  L’s have 
been able to  induce to trade  with  them. 
He runs a little one-horse  concern in the 
west  part  of  town;  but  they  say  he  is 
quite a schemer  and  is  cutting  some of 
the  P.  of  L’s  wide  open.  The  better 
class of  farmers  have  left the P. of  L’s, 
are- denouncing  the  order  as  a swindle 
and are doing their  trading with the reg­
ular merchants.”

Port Huron Times:  “A correspondent 
asks  the  Times  to  notice  the fact that 
Rev. F. W. Yertican, Supreme  President 
of the Patrons of  Industry, is a minister 
in connection  with  the  United  Presby­
terian church.  He did not go with others 
in  this  State  who  recently  entered ihe 
Presbyterian  fellowship.  Our  corres­
pondent  says  the  United  Presbyterian 
church  claims  to  be  opposed  to secret 
orders, but it would seem  to  be  getting 
away  from  that  idea,  when  one  of  its 
clergy  is  leader  of  such  an  organiza­
tion.”
Adrian  Times:  “We  understand  that 
an  agreement  has  been  reached by the 
Patrons  of  Industry  as  to  what  profit 
will  be  paid  the  dealer  over  his  cost 
price.  It ranges, as we understand, from 
10 to 1 2 per cent., but  on  certain stan­
dard  articles,  such  as  cotton cloth, for 
instance,  which  is  universally  sold  at 
just  about  cost, no  such a profit will be 
allowed,  The  Patron  proposes  to  pay 
spot cash for everything  he  buys. 
It is 
the  professed  intention  in  many  quar­
ters  to  compel  the  entire  bulk  of  the 
Patrons’  trade to the  selected stores,  and 
to allow  no  skirmishing to other places, 
and no blandishments of  the skillful and 
shrewd  merchant  are  to  be  allowed to 
divert  the  patronage of  the  order from 
its chosen channels.”

Purely  Personal.

Perry Barker has taken the position of 

shipping clerk for A.  A.  Brooks & Co.

A.  S. Davis contemplates  the  erection 

of a $3,000 residence early next season.

B. Fisher,  general  dealer  at  Cressy’s 
Corners, was in town  one day last week.
Frank Hamilton, of  Traverse City, was 
in  town  last  Friday  on  his  way home 
from Chicago.

Geo. E. Steele,  of  Traverse  City,  was 
in town for a few hours  last  Friday and 
favored  The  Tradesman  office  with  a

S A F E   F O R   S A L E .
A  nearly  new,  fire-proof  safe,  with 
burglar-proof chest,  made  by Cincinnati 
Safe and Lock Co,  Will be sold at two- 
thirds first  cost.  E.  A.  Stowe  &  Bro., 
100 Louis St., Grand Rapids.

call.  He is now engaged in buying right 
of  way  for  the  C. & W. M. Railway  on 
the line of  its Traverse City extension.

S. S. Morris  has  taken  the position of 
traveling  representative  for  Swift  & 
Company  and  Friedman & Swift in  this 
State.

Wm. H.  Hoops  stumbled  over  a  skid 
in front of  Olney, Shields & Co.’s, Satur­
day,  sustaining severe  injuries to a hand 
and leg.

J. R. Abbott,  the  Howard  City  furni­
ture  dealer,  was  in  town  one  day last 
week  for  the  purpose of  securing legal 
advice  on  the  subject of  his  arrest  for j 
building a wooden addition  to  his  brick 
store,  which  is  located  within  the  fire 
district of  the place.

F. A.  Smith, Cashier of  the Charlevoix 
Savings  Bank  and  proprietor  of 
the 
Charlevoix Cigar Manufacturing Co., was 
in town a couple of  days last week.  Mr. 
Smith  is  a  hustler  from  Hustlerville, 
being  interested  in  most  of  the  active 
enterprises of  his  town.

FOR SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

A dvertisem ents will be inserted  under  th is  head for 
tw o  cents  a  word  th e  first  insertion  and  one cent a  
word  fo r  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise 
m ent tak en  fo r less th an  25 cents.  Advance  paym ent.

Badly  Twisted.

(rushing 

Customer 

copper, didn’t I?”
per.”

into  hardware 
store)—I’ve  just  got  time  to  catch  a 
train.  Give me a corn-popper.
Facetious  Dealer—Don’t  you  mean  a 
pop-corner ?
“Yes, a cop-porner.  Hurry u p !” 
“Don’t you mean a pon-corper !” 
“Hang it  (excitedly),  I  said  a  porn- 
“No  (also excited),  you  said pon-cor- 
“I said  corp-ponner.”
“You said porp-conner.”
“I didn’t.”
“You did.”
“You lie.”
“You’re another.”
“Take that.”
“And that.”
(Five dollars or thirty days next morn­

ing.)

Chance  to  Recover.

Miss Cunker—a million dollars cold.” 

“Smither is  going  to  marry that  rich 
“Hooray !”
“I’m surprised to  hear  you  rejoice, I 
•T do;  but he owes  me a hundred  dol­

thought you disliked him.”
lars.”

E.  W.  HALL  PLATING  WORKS,

ALL  KINDS  OF

Brass and  Iron Polishing

AND

Nickle and Silver Plating
Corner Pearl and Front Sts., Grand Rapids.

IF  YOU  WANT

The B e st

ACCEPT  NONE  BUT

Sauerkraut.

Order  this  brand  from 

your wholesale grocer.

BUSINEß  CHANCES.

Fo r   s a l e  -   w e l l -s e l e c t e d   s t o c k   o f   d r y  

goods, groceries, boots and shoes,  h a ts  and  caps, 
clothing and hardw are,  situ ated  in a  lively lum bering 
tow n  of  1,500  population;  stock  will  invoice  about 
96,000;  ren t  of  st^re  reasonable;  p u rchaser  will  be 
favored w ith th e trad e of over  100  men,  em ployed  in 
th e m ill of present owner.  Address No. 521, care Mich­
igan Tradesm an. 

521

OR  SALE—THE  FINEST  DRUG  STORE  IN  THE 
city  of M uskegoi^at 75 cents on th e dollar ; reasons 

o th er business.  C. L. Brundage, M uskegon  Mich.
520
Fo r  s a l e —a  g o o d   g r o c e r y   b u s in e s s  h a y in g
th e cream  of the trad e;  best  location  in  th e city ;  I 
stock clean and well a sso rted ; th is is a  rare  chance for 
any one to g et a  good  pay in g   business;  poor  h ealth  
th e only reason.  Address  S. Stern,  K alam azoo,  Mich.

518

507

m an. 

516

F o r   s a l e —s t o c k   o f   h a r d w a r e —w it h   o r

w ithout store b uilding;  an  excellent  chance  fo r a 
wide-awake  p a rty ;  good  reasons  given  for  selling. 
Address a t once Box 99.  Fowler, Mich. 

OR  SALE—DRUG STORE AND STOCK SITUATED IN 
a  lum bering tow n;  go jd farm ing  country around, 
a  very desirable place fo r a  good physician.  Address 
Box 442. Alpena, Mich. 
509
Fo r  s a l e - g r o c e r y   s t o c k   in   g o o d   l o c a t io n
Will inventory  97*»0  to  9800  and doing a  business 
of about $13,000.  Address No. 502, care Tradesm an.
502
E a r e   c h a n c e —d r u g  s t o c k   f o r   s a l e ;  w e l l

located, thoroughly established and doing a good 
paying business;  stock  new  and  well-selected;  term s 
easy;  will lease  o r  sell fixtures;  a  fine  opening fo r  a  
physician.  Address Lock Box 142, H astings, Mich. 
___________ 

F o r   s a l e —a  g o o d   p a y in g   b u s in e s s —g o o d

Inquire  of  F.  J.  Detten- 

reason fo r selling  out. 

th aler, 117 Monroe So. 

490

506

 

OR SALE  OR  TRADE—GENERAL  STOCK  IN GOOD 
location.  Address No. 507,  care  M ichigan  Trades­

SITUATIONS WANTED. 

M. W. M illard, K inney. Mich. 

MISCELLANEOUS.

g ray ;  well m atched;  w eight 3,100 pounds.  Address 

ITYANTED—POSITION  IN  DRUG  STORE  TO  FINISH 
VV 
learn in g   p harm acist  t   ade;  one  y ear’s  experi­
ence. F. J. Hill, H ow ard City,  Mich. 
519
Fo r   s a l e —a   Cin c in n a t i s a f e , w it h  b u r g l a r  
proof chest;  will be sold  a t  tw o-thirds  first  cost, 
alth o u g h  used  b u t  two  m onths.  E. A. Stowe & Bro., 
100 Louis St.
IX)R  8ALE—DRAFT  TEAM  5 YEARS  OLD — DARK 
WANTED—TO  EXCHANGE  KANSAS  LANDS  AND 
WANTED—WIDE-AWAKE  MERCHANTS  TO  COR- 

real estate fo r a  stock of  groceries  and  general 
m erchandise.  Address No. 517, care  M ichigan  Trades 
m an. 

respond w ith th e “Gobleville Sign W orks;” h ig h ­
way signs a  specialty.  Address G obleville Sign W orks, 
Gobleville, Mich. 
< f c * n n - THE  COMPLETE  MACHINERY  OF  A 
vy v /  first class  custom   g rist  m ill;  tw o  ru n   of 
stones, one feed, th e  o th er fo r feed;  all in good  order; 
read y   to  deliver  on  cars.  Address  Geo.  M.  Sayles, 
Attom ey-at-Law , F lin t, Mich. 

514

515

522

ANTED—SEND  A POSTAL  TO THE SUTLIFF COU- 
pon Pass Book Co.,  A lbany,  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 h at  every m er­
c h a n t should have  progressive m erchants all over the 
country are now using them . 

437

517

ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT  OUR 
Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System .  Send for 

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

OR  SALE—GOOD  RESIDENCE  LOT  ON  ONE  OF 
th e  m ost p leasan t streets “ on  th e   hill.”  W ill ex­
change for stock in any good in stitu tio n .  Address 286, 
care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

286

214

la w S S p fiÄ G t

i-i-  ■ y 1

'V4U.EV ClTV  ENG PRINT  CO.

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._________________

MERCHANTS

Von should not  listen to  overtures  from persons who try  to influence yon 

to substitute  inferior  brands of coffee in place of the Lion Coffee) 

simply because they pay a larger profit.

O u r   F a ll  S to c k

Is now Complete and Ready for Inspection.

F. fl. Wiirzbilrg  X  Go.,

(Successors to F. W. Wurzburg’s Sons & Co.) 

Exclusive Jobbers of

DRY  GOODS, HOSIERY, 

| 

NOTIONS, UNDERWEAR,

19  &  21  SOUTH  DIVISION  ST.,

R E M E M B E R  that  «Around  the  tree

fruit)  are  always  found  the  largest  clubs.”

that bears  the  best

C O N S U M E R S  are  entitled  to  the  hest  that  the  market

affords, and they know that “Lion Coffee”  is superior to all other pack­
age  coffee,  besides  in  each  package is found a  “Beautiful  Picture 
ca r d”  for HOME  DECORATION.

M E R C H A N T S  who continue  handling  Lion Coffee will

certainly increase their trade, consequently their popularity as dealers 
In first-class family supplies.

W O O LSO N   S P IC E  CO. have  arranged  a  ship­

ping Depot at GRAND RAPIDS for convenience of merchants who wish 
to purchase their supplies there.  Your orders will be promptly filled.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH. LION  C O F F E E   and  a full line  of  Bulk  Roasted  Coffee*

Spices, &c., will he kept in stock at our Grand Rapids Depot.

Y O U   CAN   B U Y   LION COFFEE  from  any Jobber in the

following cities i

BAY C IT Y ...................
BATTLE CREEK 
.
CHICAGO...................
DETROIT...................
EAST SAGINAW .  .
FT. WAYNE  . . . .
JACKSON...................

Telfer Spice Co., Grand Rapids.
.  MICH. KALAMAZOO  . . . . MICH.

LANSING........................
LaPORTE  ........................

IND.
.  ILLS.
.  MICH. MUSKEGON  ................... MICH.

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«

«

IND.

SAGINAW........................
SOUTH BEND  . . . .

.  MICH. MILWAUKEE 

it

IND.
. . . . WIS.

T h e   B e st  S -C en t  C igar 

o n   th e   M a rk et.

And of  all Jobbers Throughout the United States.

MANUFACTURED  BY

J.  K.  DELBRIDGE,

341 So. Division St.,  Grand Rapids.

W oolson Spice Co., Toledo, 0.

MANUFACTURERS  LION  COFFEE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  BRANCH,  106  KENT  STREET.

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Dry  Goods.

P r ic e s   C u rren t.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A .............. 754
Atlanta A. A........... 654
Archery  Bunting...  454
Amory..................... 7J4
Beaver Dam  A A ...
Berwick  L ..............   654
Blackstone O, 32—   5
Chapman.................  4
Cohasset A.............. 754
Comet......................  7
Clifton CCC...........  654
Conqueror XX........5
Dwight Star............  754
Exeter A..................  654
Full Yard Wide......   6554
Great Falls E ..........7
Honest Width......... 7
Hartford A.............. 554

Integrity XX........... 554
King, E F ................6 >4
“  E X................  654
“  E C, 32 in...... 54
Lawrence L L ......... 514
New  Market B........  5(*
Noibe  R...................  514
Newton...................6M
Onr Level  Best...... 7
Riverside XX.........   5
Sea Island R...........   6M
Sharon B  ...............   634
Top of the  Heap__   74
Williamsville.......... 7
Comet,  40 in ........... 814
Carlisle  “ 
..........  754
New MarketL,40in.  754

Í880CIÍT10K  DEPARTMENT.
Michigan  Business Men’» Association. 

P resid en t—C. L. W hitney, Muskegon.
F irst Vice-President—C. T. Bridgem an,  Flint.
Seoond V ice-President-M . C. Sherwood. Allegan. 
S ecretary—E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids.
T reasurer—H. W.  P arker, Owosso.
Rx ecu tire   B o ard -P resid en t:  F ran k   W ell^L an sln g ;
F ran k   H am ilton, T raverse C ity;  N. B .Blain, Lowell 
Chas  T.  Bridge m an,  F lin t;  O.  F.  Conklin, Grand
C ^nndtte^orT lnsurance—O.  F.  Conklin,  G rand  Rap 
Com m ittee  on  Legislation—F rank  W ells,  Lansing;

i d r o r e n   Stone, F lin t;  Wm. W oodard, Owosso. 

erse City:  Geo.  R.  H oyt,  Saginaw ;  L.  W.  Sprague,
Com m ittee on T ransportation—C. T. Bridgem an, FTint;
M. C. Sherwood. Allegan;  A. O. W heeler,  Manistee. 
Com m ittee on Building  and  Loan  A ssociations-N .  B. 
Blain, Lowell;  F. L. F uller, C edar Springs;  P. J. Con 
nell,  M uskegen. 

„

Local Secretary—Jas. H. Moor£ ’ Sa^ 1“ a.'^'
Official Organ—Th e Michigan Tradesman.

The following auxiliary  associations are oper­
ating under charters  granted  by  the  Michigan 
Business Men’s Association-

P resident. J. W. M llllken; Secretary, E. W. H astings.
" 
President, N. B. P lain; Secre ta ry , F ran k  T. King.

No. 1—Traverse City B. M. A. 
No. 2—Cowell B. M. A.  ~
No. 3—Sturgis B. M. A.

" 

President. H. S. C hurch: Sec retary , W m. Jorn.
N o .  4—G r a n d   R a p i d s   M. A. 
President, E. J. H errick; Secretary , K. A. Stowe.
No. 5—Muskegon B. M. A.

P resident. Jo h n  A. Miller;  Secretary. C. L. W hitney. 

No. 6—Alba B. M. A.

No. 7—Dimondale B. M.A.

President. F. W. Bloat; Secretary , P. T. Baldwin.----------
” 
P resident. T. M. Sloan; Secreta ry , B. H. W idger.---------
----------No. 8—Eastport B. M. A.
President, F. H. Thurston; Secretary, Geo.L.Thurston.

No. 8—Lawrence B. M. A.

P resident. W, J. C lark; S ecretary. A. L. Thompson.-----
” 
P resident. H. P. Whipple: Secretary,D . E.  W ynkoop. 

President, H. M. M arshall; Secre ta ry , J . H. Kelly.
No. lO—Harbor Springs B. M. A.
'  n o .ll—Kingsley B. M. A.
No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
No. 13—Sherman B. M. A.

P resident, C. McKay; S ecretary, Thos. Lennon.______ _

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

No. 14—N o .  M u s k e g o n   B. M. A. 
P resident, 8. A. Howey; S ecretary, G. C. Havens. 
No. 15—B o y n e  C i ty   B . M. A.
" 
President, R. R. P erkins; S ecretary, F. M. Chase.
N o .  1 6 —S a n d  L a k e  B .  M . A . 
President, J. V. C randall:  Secretary , W. Rasco.

President. Geo. H. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. Sidle.

'  No. 17—P l a i n  w e l l  B. M. A.
No. 18—Owosso B. M. A.
P resident, W arren P. W oodard: Secretary, S. Lam from .
------------  No.  19—Ada B. M. A.
President, D. F. W atson; S ecretary, E. E. Chapel.

President. John F. H en ry ; Secretary , L. A. Phelps.

N o .  2 0 —S a u g a t u c k   B .M . A . 
No. 21—Wayland B. M. A. 

President, A. B. Schum acher; Secretary. W.  R.  Clarke.

President, C. H. W harton; Secretary, M. V. H oyt.
N o .  2 2 - G r a n d   L e d g e   Ik M. A. 
No. 23—Carson City B. M. A.
John W. H allett:  S ecretary. L  A. Ly o n
No. 24—Morley B. M. A.
No. 25—Palo B. M. A. 

P resident, J. E. Thurkow ;  Secretary , W. H. R ichm ond.
President, H. D. Pew; Secretary. Chas. B. Johnson.
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President. A. C. S atterlee:  Secretary. E. J . Clark.

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

NO  )fi7—I>orr B. M. A. 

P resident, E. S. Botsford; S ecretary, L. N. Fisher.

P resident, A. J. Paddock;  S ecretary, H. G. Dozer.

No. 28—Cheboygan «. M. A 
No. 29—Freeport B. M. A.
N o .  3 0 —O c e a n a  B .  M . A .

P resident, W m. Moore;  S ecretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.

P resident. A. G. A very;  Secretary, S. B. H oughtaling. 

President, Thos. J. Green:  Secretary, A. G. n e u ry .____

N o . 3 1 —C h a r l o t t e   B . M . A .
No. 32—Coopersville B.JM. A. 
No. 33—Charlevoix B. M. A. 

President. W. G. Barnes;  Secretary, J. B. W atson.
P resident, L. D.  B artholom ew ;  Secretary. K. W . Kane.
President, H. T. J ohnson;  Secretaxy. P . T. W illiams.—  

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

President, H. M. H em street;8 ecretary, C. E. Densmore.
P resident, O. F. Jackson;  Secretary, John  M. Everden.

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No. 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.

P resident, H .°E.^ym ons: S ecretary, D. W. Higgins.

-Scottville B. M. A.
No. 39 -Bnrr Oak B. M. A. 

Piesident, W. S. W ilier; S ecretary,  F. W. Sheldon.

No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A. 
P resident, C. T. H artson; Secretary, W ill Emm ert.
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No. 41—Breckenridge B. M. A.
President. C  H. Howd;  S ecretary, L. W aggoner.
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P resident, Jos. G erber; Secretary  C. J. R athbun.

No. 42—Fremont B. M. A.
No. 43—Tustin B. M. A.
No. 44—Reed City B. M. A.
N o . 4 5 —H o y t v i l l e   B .  M .  A .

P resident, F rank J .L u ic k ;  Secretary . J. A. U ndstrom ,

President, E. B. M artin; Secretary, W. H. Smith._______

President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay.

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P resident, Wm  HutehinB: Secretary, B. M. Gould.

No. 46—Leslie B. M. A.

—  No. 47—Flint M. U.

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

No. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A. 

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

President,  A.  W ensell; Secretary, F rank Smith.

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

President, A. O. W heeler; Secretary,C.  Grannis.
No. 51—C e d a r   S p r in g s   B. M. A. 
President, L. M. Sellers; Secreta ry , W . C. Congdon.
No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.

President, A. S. Kedzie;  Secretary, F. D. Vos._______ __

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

No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A.
No. 54—Oouglas B. M. A.
No. 55—Petoskey B. M. A. 
No. 56—Bangor B.  M. A. 
No. 57—Rockford B. M. A. 
No. 58—Fife Lake B. M. A. 
N o . 5 9 —F e n n v i l l e  B . M . A .

President, C. F. H ankey, Secretary. A. C. Bowman.

P resident, N. W. D rake;  Secretary, Geo. Chapm an.

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

President, L. S. W alter; S eeretai; .C.S  Blakely.

President, Thomas B. D uteher; Secretary, C. B. W aller.

President 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 . M . A . 
P resident, H. E. H ogan; Secretary, S. E. K eihardt.

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

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

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

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

P re sid e n t,C. W. R obertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.

President, C. V. P riest; Secretary, C. E. Bell.______

N o .  6 3 —E v a r t  B. M . A .
No, 64—Merrill B. M. A. 
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A. 
President, Alf. G. D rake; Secretary, C. S. Blom.
No. 66—Lansing B. M. A. 
No. 67—Watervllet B. M. A. 
No. 68—Allegan B. M. A. 

President. F rank W ells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles,

P resident, W, L. G arrett; S ecretary, F.  H.  Merrifield.

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

No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. 
President, Lym an C lark; Secretary, F. B. WUllson.

President, Wm. Boston;  Secretary, W alter W ebster.

P resident, M. Netzorg;  Secretary,  Geo. E. Clntterbnek.

No. 70—Nashville B. M. A, 
No. 71— Ashley B.  M. A,
No. 72—Edmore B. M. A.
No, 73—Belding B. M. A. 
No. 74—Davison M. U. 

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

P resident, J.  F. C artw right; Secretary. C. W. H urd.

P resident, Oscar P. BiUs;  Secretary, F. Rosacrans.

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

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

P resident, E. J. Lockwood; S ecretary, Volney Ross.

No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A. 

P resident, J. O. Seibert;  Secretary, J. W. Saunders.
No. 79—E a s t  J o r d a n  a n d   S o .  A r m   B. M. J 
P resident, Chas. F. Dixon;  Secretary, L. C. Madison.
No. 80—Bay City and W. Bay City  R. M, A 
P resident,F. L. H arrison;  Secretary. Lee E. Joslyn.
P resident. L. A. Vickery;  S ecretary, A. E. Ransom.
President, B. S. W ebb;  S ecretary, M. E  Pollasky.

No. 81—Flushing B. M. A. 
No. 82—Alma B  M.  A. 
No. 83—Sherwood B. M. A. 
No. 84—Standiah B. M. A. 
No. 85—Clio B. M. A.  „ 

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

P resident, L. P. W ilcox;  S ecretary, W. R. M andlgo.

President. J. M. Beem an;  S ecretary, C. H. May.
No. 86—Millbrook and Blanchard B. M. A. 
P resident. T. W. Preston:  Secretary.  H.  P.  Blanchard
No. 87—ShepherdIB. M. A. 
P resident, H. D. B ent;  Secretary, A. W. H urst.

Gripsack Brigade.

Jas. A. Morrison is passing  around the 
cigars in consequence of  the  advent of  a 
brand new boy at his home.

Messrs. Edmunds, McKay and Dawley, 
of  the  new  firm  of  A. E. Brooks & Co., 
start out on the warpath next week.

Greg Luce is the  happy  father  of  an 
8K-pound girl, which put in  an  appear­
ance at the paternal home,  at Holland,  a 
few days ago.

Christian  Bertsch  is  expected  home 
from Boston to-night.  Wm.  Logie, who 
accompanied  Mr.  Bertsch  East,  will 
probably return home Saturday.

reports 

Geo. F. Owen is flat on his back  again, 
a relapse having  overtaken  him.  From 
present  indications he will not be able to 
get out on the road  again  under three or 
four weeks.

Secretary  Mills 

the 
Knights  of  the  Grip  now  number  700 
members,  with  every probability of  the 
number  reaching  1,000  by  January  1. 
Three additions have been  made  to  the 
hotel list during  the  past  week,  as  fol­
lows :  Anderson  House,  Eaton  Rapids; 
Palace  Hotel,  Milan;  Stadden’s  Hotel, 
Centerville.

that 

Trick of a Grasping Jeweler.

“It’s  scandalous  the  way  folks  are 
robbed in  some  branches  of  business,” 
said a young man who knows a good deal 
about things in general. 
“There’s  dia­
monds,  for  instance.  There  ain’t  one 
person  in  a  hundred  knows  anything 
about  diamonds.  1 once had a friend in 
the business,  who  used  to  tell  me  all 
about the tricks  of  the trade.  Once,  I 
remember,  a man  came  to him to buy a 
diamond ring.  My friend  showed him a 
ring the stone of  which was worth about 
$175, and offered it to him for $250.  The 
man said he didn’t like it, and after look­
ing at some  others,  went  away,  saying 
he would  look in again.  My friend took 
the  stone,  had it reset  in  a  manner  to 
show-  up  prominently,  whereas  it  had 
previously been set  deep,  and kept it to 
spring on the man when he came in.  He 
happened along in a day or two,  and my 
friend dragged forth the ring.
‘You didn’t like that other stone,’  he 
said,  ‘but here’s one that will catch  you. 
Just got  it  in  and  had  it  set. 
It’s  a 
beauty.  Of course,  it’s worth a good deal 
more  money  than  the  other,  but  it’s 
orth the difference.’
“The man looked  at  it  and  was  cap­
tured at a glance.  He went into raptures 
over it and finally asked the price.
‘Four  hundred  dollars,’  said  my 
friend,  ‘and dirt cheap, too.’
And  I’ll  be  doggoned  if  that  chap 
didn’t pay $400 for a ring he had refused 
at $250.  Oh, I tell you this thing of fall­
ing  into  the  hdnds  of  the  jewelers 
worse  than  running  against  highway­
men.”

THIRTY-THREE  MEN

Meet and Call Themselves a “National”

Convention.
CHAPTER  IV.

About two years ago twenty-seven men 
assembled  at  Washington,  voted to call 
themselves the  “National Pure Food As­
sociation,”  and  proceeded  to  instruct 
Congress  what  sort  of  a  measure  the 
sixty  millions  people  of  this  çountry 
needed to protect  themselves from being 
imposed upon by the  manufacturers and 
vendors of  sophisticated food and drink. 
The proposed  law  endorsed by that con­
vention is  covered  so  deeply with  dust 
that it  is  doubtful  whether  any of  the 
framers  of  the  measure could put their 
hands on a copy of  the document.  Both 
the convention and  its  work  have  long 
since  passed  into  obscurity  and forget­
fulness.

So  it  will  be  with  another  so-calied 
National”  convention,  held  at  Port 
Huron  on  May 1, 2 and 3,  1889,  and  at­
tended by thirty-three persons.

The original  constitution  of  the  Pat­
rons  of  Industry,  which  was  prepared 
in Krause’s  house  by Yertican,  Krause 
and  Wadsworth, contained the following 
provision:
The national  convention shall meet on 
the first  Wednesday  in  May,  1892,  and 
every four  years  thereafter on the same 
date.
In placing the date of  the first conven­
tion so far in the future, the conspirators 
imagined  that they would be able to line 
their pockets  with the  contributions  of 
the farmers  before  being  compelled  to 
render an accounting;  but the  victims of 
the  conspiracy were not so  green as the 
trio supposed  them to be.  They argued 
that the hand  which made could also un­
make—that  if  three  men could  make a 
constitution,  thirty  men  could  unmake 
it and make it over again.  Acting under 
this belief, the lay members of  the order 
demanded a  “National”  convention,  to 
the end that sueh revisions in the consti­
tution be  made as to curtail  the  perqui­
sites  of  the three men  who  had  up  to 
that  time  received  all  the  ‘‘benefits” 
which  had  resulted from  the  inaugura­
tion of the order.

The convention convened on the morn­
ing of May 1, but immediately adjourned 
until afternoon,  when  the  following res­
olution was adopted :
The National convention shall  be com­
posed of  the officers of  the  Grand  Asso­
ciation,  with  the  Grand  Auditing  Com­
mittee, together with two  delegates from 
the  state  and  two  delegates  from each 
county  the  said  delegates  having  been 
elected by the state convention.
Under this  rule, the  following  would 

one of  the top rungs of the social ladder, 
But  the  strawberries  came  and  went. 
The oyster season  closed  and  the  clam 
season opened.  The harvest  moon  shed 
her rounded luster  on  the  warm  earth, 
and  yet the russet shoes came not.  The 
ground  became  parched  with  August’s 
drought, the locust droned,  and  the  frog 
croaked in the fens, but  your heated feet 
still  displayed  to  my  aching,  weary 
vision  the  somber  covering  of  winter. 
“But  now,”  cried  the  beautiful  girl, 
rising from the gorgeous  chintz cushions 
on which she reclined,  and  fastening her 
gliitering  orbs  upon  him,  “now,  when 
the haze of  September softens  the  land­
scape, when  the  city people  are  facing 
homeward,  when  the  farm  houses  are 
getting  lonely, and the  leaves are begin­
ning to curl  and  drop  from  the  twigs, 
and winter  is  near at hand;  now,  at this 
ele\ enth hour,  you appear before me in a 
brand-new  pair  of  russet  shoes !  Go !”
The unhappy  young  man  tried  to ex­
plain that he  had  not  had $3 at any one 
time before this  year to spend  for russet 
shoes.  But she would not listen.
‘Go !”  she  cried,  with a sob.  “Go !  I 
have no use  for  sueh  a  laggard in fash­
ion !”

So he went out,  weeping bitterly.

Time of The  Arrival of  New  Goods in 

Market.

nuts.

beans 

From  th e  M erchants’ Review.
From  the  beginning  to the end of  the 
calendar  year, new crop groceries of one 
kind or another are to be expected in the 
markets,  and  it may be of  interest to the 
retail  trade  to  know  exactly when cer­
tain goods are due.  The  following sum­
mary will  inform them:
January — Foreign  molasses,  Paisley 
marmalade.
February—Mild coffees, olives, truffles.
March—Olive  oil,  Brazil  nuts, cocoa- 
April—Maple sugar, domestic sardines.
June—Canned  salmon, asparagus,  lob­
ster and peas.
July—Japan and  Souchong tea, citron, 
French  peas,  imported  sardines, French 
brandy cherries.  Southern honey,  Roque­
fort cheese, Louisiana  rice,  fruit  butter, 
jellies  and  canned cherries, pineapples, 
strawberries, 
and  mackerel, 
Palermo oranges and lemons.
August—Pingsuey  green  and  Oolong 
tea,  Rio  and  Santos  coffee,  lemon  and 
orange peel,  French brandy peaches, salt 
mackerel, Carolina rice, fruit butter,  jel­
lies, and  canned  blackberries,  peaches, 
raspberries and okra.
September—Edam  cheese,  State  and 
California  honey,  jellies,  fruit  butter, 
currants, French prunes, foreign raisins, 
Jordan  almonds,  French  vegetables, 
French brandy prunes, and canned  apri­
cots,  blueberries,  corn,  succotash  and 
tomatoes.
October—Domestic  molasses,  Moyune 
green  tea, figs, Turkish  prunes, various 
descriptions  of  almonds,  mince  meat, 
fruit butter, preserved  fruit, jellies, and 
canned  apples,  grapes,  pears,  plums, 
quinces,  pumpkins, clams and oysters.
November  —  Persian  dates,  Sicily 
shelled  almonds,  walnuts,  pecans,  pea­
nuts, filberts,  bird  seed,  dried  julienne, 
and  canned  turkey, chicken  and  duck, 
Malaga oranges and  lemons.

December—Fard dates.

A Lesson to the Engineer.

From  th e  Chicago H erald.
The  recent  railroad  disaster  on  the 
Rock  Island  has  recalled  a  number of 
tories  regarding 
the  carelessness  of 
engineers and other men ,in the operating 
department  of  railroads.  An  old  rail- 
oader was  telling  yesterday of  the time 
when  he  used  to  be  conductor  of  a 
freight train. 
It  was  his  misfortune to 
have  an  abnormally lazy engineer,  who 
would go to sleep on the  slightest  prov 
ocation.  Whenever the  train  was  side­
tracked to wait the passage of an express 
train the engineer  would lie down on his 
eat in the cab,  prop his feet  up  against 
the  boiler  head  and go fast asleep.  He 
would  remain  that  way until  the noise 
of  the flying express awoke him.  Then he 
would  yawn and prepare to pull out.  The 
boys in the  train crew did  not  like this 
Why can’t he stay awake and watch for 
signals  as  we do?”  asked  one  of  them 
one  night,  as  the  long  train  was  on a 
siding waiting for the arrival of “No. 6.’ 
Well, why don’t  you see that  he  keep 
awake?”  asked  the  old  railroader,  who 
was  in  charge  of  the  train.  “I will,’ 
aid the brakeman.  With the  assistance 
of the other boys he firmly set the brakes 
along the train and  then  hung a red lan­
tern  from  the roof  of  the engine cab so 
that it was  hanging  in front of  the win­
dow  just  in  front  of  the  slumbering 
engineer.  These  preparations  made, he 
put his foot on  the  old-fashioned  crank 
whistle  and  there  was an awful shriek. 
The  engineer jumped  up  and  saw  the 
red light.  Confused for the  moment, he 
thought  he  was  about  to  run  into  the 
rear end of  another  train, so he reversed 
his  engine  and  jumped  into  the  ditch, 
nearly  breaking  his  neck.  Of  course, 
the  engine  did  not  move  a  peg.  The 
boys were all back in the way-car by this 
time,  and  when  the  sleepy engineer re­
covered  himself  and  limped  out  of  the 
ditch,  he  thought  he  must  have  been 
dreaming.  However,  he  lost  a  year’s 
growth  and  never  went  to  sleep at his 
post after that.  He was cured.

VISITING  BUYERS.

Baldwin

H ickory Corners

Jno Smeenge, H olland 
F P faff, G rand H aven
H B W agar, Cedar  Springs
C F Sears. Rockford 
WmVerMeulen,BeaverDam C S Comstock, Pierson
O B G ranger, Plain well 
L M W olf, HndsonviUe 
Jno F itzgerald & Bro.,
H Van Noord, Jam estow n 
H J  Fisher, H am ilton 
H D Plum b, M illbrook 
Dr H B H atch, H art 
S A Bash, Lowell 
W W Peirce,  Moline 
Hessler Bros., Rockford 
F rank Sm ith.  Leroy 
Wm Black, C edar Springs 
C S Keifer, D ntton 
B G ilbert & Co., Moline 
W alling Bros., L am ont 
Jo h n  De Vries.  Jam estow n 
Bissei & Flansburg,
N F Miller, Lisbon
G Ten Hoor,  F orest  Grove C K Hoy t&  Co.,Hudson ville
L am bert & VanXorman, 
J  W Runner, Shelby 
G H W albrink, Allendale 
Baldwin
S H Ballard, S parta 
John Crispe, Plainw ell 
W McWilliams, Conklin 
C H Adams. Otego 
Broomings Lum ber  Co., 
D W Cook, Fulton 
Brookings
Geo L Coryell, Gd Ledge 
S McNitt, B yron Center 
J  H M anning, Lake P O 
M Heyboer & Bro,, Oakland 
H ughston & Read, Owens 
T Van Eenenaam ,  Zeeland 
Byron Fisher,
Sm allegan & P ickaard.
Cressey’s Com ers 
C F M iller. W olcottvile, Ind
Wm H Shepard, 3 Rivers 
Ella Kinney, Ensley 
H C Clapp & Son, Mendon  W  H H arrison,  H arrisburg 
O L H all.  W olcottvUle, Ind H Seegmlller, Kingsley
E L B oynton. Griswold 
J  Coon, Rockford 
H Dalmon, A llendale 
M asten & Ham mond,
Mrs M A Side, K ent City 
Grandville
A L Burtsch. Sturgis 
John D am stra, G ltchell 
John Blass, Sturgis 
H Meijering. Jam estow n 
P  Long & Co..Brighton, Ind 
J  R aym ond, Berlin 
A S Burch. Sturgis 
E W hite, Lee 
N M Davenport,
L Cook, B auer 
M M Robson, B erlin
J  R H arrison.B yron C enter W hite Bros.,  Lagange, Ind 
W E & J  W Y eager, 
L im a Ind 
H G Cobbs,  Rome City. Ind R B  Gooding&Son,Gooding 
L Maier, Fishers Station 
J  L Ash, Parm elee 
T H Shepard &  Bro..M artin W elt Bros.,  Lagrange, Ind 
W H Struik. Forest Grove  C B Miliiman & Co.,
T Armock, W rig h t 
H Thompson, C anada  Cors J  Kinney, K inney 
C C Tuxbury, Sullivan 
S J  M artin, Sullivan 
W  X H utchinson, G rant

Cham pion & Hayw ard,

Shipshew anna, Ind

Ballou & Rowe,

Lagrange, Ind

Forest Grove

W hite Cloud

B urr Oak

be entitled to seats in the convention : 
Officers  of  Grand  Association—F.  S. 
Porter,  North  Branch;  A.  F.  Partridge, 
Flushing;  Peter Scott, Romeo;  Joseph J. 
England, Caro;  H. A. Daniels,  Elva.
Grand  Auditing  Committee—H.  B. 
Gillard, Redman;  Louis  Baker,  Lexing­
ton;  M. D.  York,  Millington.
Delegates  at  Large—H. M. Buchanan, 
Lapeer;  John Chalmers, Sparta.
County  Delegates  —  Lapeer,  Carlton 
Peck,  James  P.  Smith;  Calhoun, F. A, 
Stark,  M.  A.  Lamb;  Huron,  Henry  B 
Gillard,  John  Hunt;  Tuscola,  Robert 
Smith,  M.  H.  Smith;  St.  Clair,  David 
Quail, Wm. Mason;  Genesee, B. F. Long, 
A. W. Whipple; Sanilac, John Nicholson, 
John  Mitchell;  Isabella  and  Gratiot, A. 
Townsend; Oakland,  G. W.  Scott;  Eaton, 
Clinton  Hockenberry,  C.  H.  Whittum; 
Livingston,  Chas. Abbott, Chas. Whited; 
Kent,  Charles  J.  Rice;  Lenawee, B. E. 
Niles,  Howard  Dowell;  Newaygo, 
Wm. R. Wolfe;  Macomb, Peter Scott.
Not all the  above  were  present at the 
sessions  of 
the 
Supreme  President  and  Vice-President, 
Supreme  Secretary and  Deputy  and Su­
preme  Treasurer  were  on  hand  at  all 
times, so that at one  session  there  were 
many  as  thirty-three  men  who  an­
the  first 

swered  to 
National” convention!
The sessions of  the  second  day of  the 
convention  were  given  up  wholly  to 
amendments to the  constitution, leaving 
it in the  revised  form  published on the 
first page of  this  week’s  issue.  During 
the  last  day’s  session,  the  report  that 
Secretary Wadsworth was a defaulter was 
denied;  each  delegate  was  voted  three 
cents  per  mile  milage  and $3 per diem; 
it was voted to hold the  next  convention 
in  Lansing  the  third  Wednesday  in 
March, 1891,  and  the  following  officers 
were  elected :

the  convention,  but 

roll-call  of 

the 

drew.

Supreme President—F. W. Yertican. 
Supreme  Vice-President— John  An­
Supreme  Secretary—I.  R. Wadsworth. 
Supreme Treasurer—F.  H.  Krause. 
Supreme Trustees—H. B. Gillard, B. E. 
Taken as a whole,  the  convention was 
chiefly remarkable  for  what it failed  to 
accomplish,  as  the  amount  of  work 
actually effected was next to nothing.

Niles, C.  H. Whittum.

Unfortunate  Procrastination.

From  the  Buffalo C ourier.

Mr. Phiggins  bought  a  pair of  russet 
shoes last night, put  them on, and  went 
to  call  on  Imogene.  He  has  known 
Imogene long and familiarly, and he calls 
her by her first name—when her  parents 
are  out  of  hearing.  The  moment  she 
saw the shoes a deathly pallor overspread 
her  cheeks,  and  murmuring  hoarsely, 
“Too late !  too late!”  fell fainting into a 
chair.  On  her  revival, fifteen  minutes 
later,  she  told  Mr.  Phiggins  that  she 
could no longer receive his attentions.
“I  endured  you  as  well  as  I  could 
through the summer,” said she, “hoping, 
even  so  late  as  the 1st of  August, that 
you would buy a pair of  russet shoes and 
at once assume a prominent  position  on

The  P.  of I.  Dealers.

The following are the P.  of  I. dealers 
who had not cancelled  their  contracts at 
last accounts:
,  Altona—Eli Lyons.

Berles, A. Wilzinski.

Assyria—J. W. Abbey.
Bellevue—John Evans.
Big Rapids—C. A. Verity, A. V. Young, 
E. P.  Shankweiler & Co., Mrs.  Turk.
Carson City—A.  B. Loomis,  A.  Y. Ses­
sions.
Cedar  Springs—John  Beucus,  B.  A. 
Fish, L. A. Gardiner.
Charlotte—John  J. Richardson,  Daron 
& Smith, J. Andrews, C. P.  Lock.
Coral—J.  S. Newell & Co.
East Saginaw—John P. Derby.
Flint—John B. Wilson.
Flushing—Sweet Bros.  & Clark.
Gardner—J.  B. Brice.
Grand  Rapids—John  Cordes,  Joseph 
Harvard—Ward Bros.
Howard City—Henry Henkel.
Hubbardston—M. Cahalen.
Kent  City—R. McKinnon, M.  L. Whit­
Lapeer—C.  Tuttle & Son,  W.  H.  Jen­
Maple Rapids—L.  S. Aldrich.
Mecosta—Parks  Bros.
Millington—Chas.  H.  Valentine.
Morley—Henry Strope.
Nashville—Powers & Stringham, H. M. 
Olivet—F. H. Gage.
Remus—Geo. Blank.
Rockford—B. A. Fish.
Sand  Lake—Brayman &1 Blanchard.
Shepherd—H.  O. Bigelow.
Sparta—Dole* Haynes, Woodin & Van 
Stanwood—F.  M. Carpenter.
Wheeler—Louise  (Mrs.  A.)  Johnson, 

ney.
nings.

Winkle.

Lee.

H. C. Breckenridge.

Test for  Blood.

A simple test for blood, and  one  easy 
of application, is made  by  the  addition 
of tincture of guaiac and  ozonized  ether 
to  a  weak  solution  of  blood,  when  a 
bright blue coloration is produced. 
If  a 
drop  of  blood  be  mixed  with  half  an 
ounce of distilled water, upon  the  addi­
tion  of  one  or  two drops of tincture of 
guaiac, a cloudy precipitate of the  resin 
appears,  and  the  solution  has  a  faint 
tint. 
If to this solution one  drop  of  an 
ethereal solution of hydrogen peroxide is 
added, a blue tint appears,  which,  upon 
a few minutes  exposure, gradually deep­
ens.  This test is very valuable for minute 
quantities of blood, and one experimentor 
has succeeded  in  obtaining  impressions 
from a stain upon cloth where the micro 
scope failed to show any blood.

Time’s  Changes.

In courting days we sometimes strolled 
And oft I stooped and gayly plucked 

Within the gloaming  fair,
A flower from out her nair.

But now since wed I often look 
As eating home-made bread I plucked 

With sadness on that hour,
A hair from out the flour.

Good Words  Unsolicited.
Charlevoix Cigar Manufacturing  Co.,  Charle­
“We  must  say  that you have an excel­
voix: 
lently made-up, well-printed, and  as  nicely dis­
played a sheet as  anything  in  this  State.  We 
admire a clean job and a nicely made-up paper.”

B L E A C H E D   COTTONS.
Blackstone A A......   8  iFirst Prize
Beats All.................454
Cleveland.............   7
Cabot.......................754
Cabot,  %.................   634
Dwight Anchor......   9
shorts.  834
Edwards..................6
Empire....................   7
Farwell................... 8
Fruit of the Loom..  834 
Fitch ville  ..............754

Fruit of the Loom %.  8
Fairmount...............  454
Lonsdale Cambric.. 1054
Lonsdale................... 854
Middlesex.................554
No Name.................  754
Oak View................  6
Our Own.................  554
Sunlight..................  454
Vinyard...................  854

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“ 

H A L F   B L E A C H E D   COTTONS.

U N B L E A C H E D   CANTON  F L A N N E L .

Cabot........................  754|Dwight Anchor......   9
Farwell...................   8541
TremontN............  f54
Hamilton N...............654
L .............7
Middlesex  AT........  8
X.............   9
No. 25....  9
B L E A C H E D   C ANTON  F L A N N E L .

Middlesex No.  1 — 10 
“  2....11
“  3....12
“  7....18
“ 
8....19

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

‘ 

Hamilton N .............754
Middlesex P T ........8
A T ........9
u .

“  
“ 
“ 
“ 
C O R SET  JE A N S .

9
1054

Middlesex A A.........11
2 ...............12
A O........1354
4.........1754
5......16

Biddeford................  6  INaumkeagsatteen
Brunswick..............  6541 Rockport..............

F R IN T S .

“ 

“ 
“ 

Allen, staple........... 6

fancy........... 654
robes........... 654
American  fancy—   6 
American indigo—   654 
American shirtings.  554 
“  —   654
Arnold 
long cloth B . 1054 
“ 
“ 
“  C.  854
“ 
century cloth 7
“  gold seal...... 1054
“  Turkey red.. 1054
Berlin solids...........   554
“  oil blue........  654
“  green__ 654
“ 
Cocheco fancy........6
“ 
madders...  6 
Eddystone  fancy...  6 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  654 
staple...  6 
Manchester  fancy..  6 
new era.  654 
Merrimack D fancy.  654

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Merrim’ck shirtings.  554 
Reppfurn .  854
Pacific  fancy.......... 6
robes........... 654
Portsmouth robes...  6 
Simpson mourning..  654
greys........ 654
solid black.  654 
Washington indigo.  654 
j  “  Turkey robes..  754 
!  “  India robes—   754 
“  plain T’ky X 34  854 
I  “ 
“  X...10
:  “  Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................   6
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 34........ 754
Martha Washington
Turkeyred...........  954
Riverpoint robes—   5
Windsor fancy..........654
gold  ticket 
indigo blue........ 1054

“ 

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Amoskeag AC A— 13541 Pearl  River............. 1234
Hamilton N .............  754l

T IC K IN G S .

D E M IN S.

Amoskeag................1354 ¡Everett.....................1254
Amoskeag, 9 oz..... 15  Lawrence XX..........1354
Andover.................. 11541 Lancaster.................1254

GIN G H A M S.

Glenarven...............  634 i Renfrew Dress........ 8
Lancashire..............  654¡Toil du Nord...........1054
Normandie..............8  I

Peerless, white....... 18541 Peerless,  colored... 21

C A R P E T   W A R P .

G R A IN   BAGS.

....  20 Georgia...............
.......17  Pacific...................

..16
Stark..............
.14
American......
Valley City — ...... 16 
iBurlap.................. -.114
Clark’s Mile End... .45 Barbour’s............. ..8»
Marshall’s ............ ..88
Coats’,  J. & P.
Holyoke.........

T H R E A D S .

...... 224
K N IT T IN G COTTON.

No.  6  ..  ..33
“ 
8........ 34
“  10........ 36
“  12.........36

White. Colored.
38 No.  14........ 37
“  16.........38
39
*•  18........ 39
40
“  20.........40
41
CA M BRICS.

White.  Colored.
42
43
44
45

.......4M |Kid Glove.............. ..  4M
..  4M

Slater..............
White Star.... __   4M ¡Newmarket........
R E D   F L A N N E L .
.......324IT w .....................
Fireman........
Creedmore__ ........274 F T ........................
JR F .X X X ........
...... 30
Talbot XXX...
Nam eless....... ...... 274 Buckeye..............
Red & Blue,  plaid. .40 Grey SR W ........
Union R ........ ........224 Western W ........
Windsor........
Flushing XXX...
6 oz Western.. ........21

-.174
..184
........184 D R P .................. -.184
..234
..23^

..224
..35
..324

M IX E D   F L A N N E L .

D U C K S.

Severen, 8 oz.. ........  94IGreenwood, 8 oz.
May land. 8 oz. ........11 West  Point, 8 oz.
Greenwood,

'2 oz..  94

W A D D IN G S.

Per bale, 40 doz..

White, doz__ .......20
Colored,  doz.. ........25
Slater, Iron Cross...  9 Pawtucket..........
Red Cross__  9 Dundie...............
....... 104 Bedford..............
Best  ..
Best  A A.......124

S IL E S IA S .

“ 
“ 
“ 

..1 1 4
..  94

.$7 25

..11
..  9
..11

C O R 8E T S.

Coraline......... ...... $9 56 [Wonderful.......... #4  75
Shilling’s ...... __   9 00¡Brighton............. ..  4  75
Corticelli, doz. ........85 (Corticelli  knitting,

8E W IN G   S IL K .

“ 
“ 

per %oz  ball... ...30

twist, doz. .42
50 yd, doz..42
HARDWARE.

The Hardware  Market.

The advancing  tendency in  the  hard 
ware  market  still  continues. 
Jobber; 
have advanced steel nails  to  $2.40  rates 
and wire  nails  to  $2.70  rates,  and  the 
indications are that all  articles  made of 
iron  and  steel  will  shortly  follow  the 
recent  advance in pig  iron and steel bil­
lets.

P r ic e s   C u rren t.

d iS .

A U G U R S A N D   B IT S . 

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages-
60
Ives’, old style  ............................................. 
Snell’s................................................. 
 
60
Cook’s .................................................... •....... 
40
Jennings’, genuine.......................................
Jennings’, imitation....................................50&10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.......................... * 7 (
D. B. Bronze............................  11 <
S. B. S. Steel.............................  8 I
D. B. Steel..............................   131
4o

Spring  ........................................................... 

B A L A N C ES. 

“ 
“ 
“ 

A X E S.

d iS .

Railroad........................................................# 14 00
Garden....................................................net  30 00

B A R R O W S. 

b e l l s . 

d iS .

d i s .

Hand......................................................  60A10&10
Cow..............................................................._ . TO
Call  .................... 
30&15
Gong.............................................................. 
85
dis.
Stove................................................................50&10
75
Carriage new list........................................... 
Plow................................................................40&10
Sleigh shoe....................................... 
 
70

b o l t s . 

 

 

Well, plain...................................................# 3 50
Well, swivel........................................................  4 00

B U C K E T S.

FOSTER, 

Write for Circular.

, 

SOLD  BY

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

STEV &  CO.,

COMMON BARREL.

%  inch...........................................................
34  “ 
........................................v ................  2 26
1>4 and  134 inch.............................................  1  35
2 and 2J4 
“ 
...........................................   1  i5
254 and 234  “ 
3inch......................................... 
%
354 and 454  inch............................................. 
75
Each half keg 10 cents extra.

CLINCH.

 

 

 

 

1 80

B R A C E S. 

d iS .

 

 

BLO CK S.

CAPS.

C B A O L E S.

CROW   B A R S.

B U T T S ,  CA ST. 

.40
Barber............................................................. 
Backus........................................................  50&10
Spofford.........................................................  
50
Am. B a ll........................................................  net
d iS .
Cast Loose Pin, figured..................................70&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint...............60&1O
Wrought Loose Pin........................................ 60&10
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
grain..................................................... dis. 50&02
Cast Steel..............................................perft
454
.per m
Ely’s 1-10...................................
Hick’s C. F ................................
G. D ......................................................  
Musket.................................................
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list..
Rim Fire, United States..........................dis.
Central  Fire.............................................dis.
Socket Firm er................................................ 70&10
Socket Framing.............................................. 70&10
Socket Comer..................................................70&10
Socket Slicks..................................................70&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................. 
40
Curry,  Lawrence’s  .......................................40&10
Hotchkiss...................................................... 
25
White Crayons, per  gross.............. 12@124 dis. 10
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
28
26
14x52,14x56,14x60 ........................ 
24
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60........................ 
Cold Rolled, 14x48.........................................  
24
Bottoms.........................................................  
85
40
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks........................................ 
Paper and straight Shank............................. 
40
Morse’s Taper Shank..................................... 
40

CHALK.
COPPER.

CARTRIDGES.

chisels. 

drills. 

combs. 

dis.

dis.

dis.

“ 

"

DRIPPING PANS.

ELBOWS.

Small sizes, ser pound................ ................. 
07
Large sizes, per pound...............1................  
6M
Com. 4  piece, 6 in ............................doz. net 
70
Corrugated...................................... dis. 20&10&10
Adjustable..............................................dis. 40&10
dis.
Clark’s, small, #18; large, 126........................ 
30
Ives’, 1, #1.8;  2, #24; 3, #30............................. 
25
Disston’s ........................................................ 60&10
New  American.............................................. 60&10
Nicholson’s ................................................... 60&10
Heller’s ........................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps..................................... 
50

files—New List. 

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dis.

GALVANIZED IRON.

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

12 

14 

!

Discount, 60

13 
gauges. 
HAMMERS.

dis.

Stanley Rule'and  Level Co.’s......................  
50
Maydole  & Co.’s........................................ dis.  25
Kip’s ........................................................... dis.  25
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. 454  14  and
longer.........................................................   354
Screw Hook and  Eye, 54...........................net 
10
“  %...........................net  854
34...........................net  754
“ 
%.......................... net  754
“ 
70

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

HINGES.

“ 
“ 
“ 

HANGERS. 

dis.

Bam Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track— 50&10
Champion,  anti-friction..............................   60&10
Kidder, wood track ......................................  
40
Pots..................................................................60&05
Kettles............................................................
Spiders........................................................... 60&05
50
Gray enameled..............................................  

HOLLOW WARE

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

dis.

HORSE NAILS.

LOCKS—DOOR. 

knobs—New List. 

Stamped  Tin Ware........................ new list 70&10
Japanned Tin Ware.............................. ;•••„  „ ^5
Granite Iro n w a re ......................new list3354&10
Au Sable................................dis. 25&1O025&1O&1O
Putnam......................................dis.  5&10&254&254
Northwestern.................................   dis. 10&10&5
dis.
55
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings.................. 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..............  
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings.........................  
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
70
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l i s t .......... 
55
55
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s............................. 
Branford’s ....................................................  
55
55
Norwalk’s ...................................................... 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ......................  
70
Adze Eye...........................................#16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye.......................................... #15.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s .  ....................................#18.50, dis. 20&10.
diS.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled......................  
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................  
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Clark’s.................. 
“  Enterprise.......................................... 

50
40
40
40
25
Stebbin’8 Pattern........................................... 60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine..........................................60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring........................... 
25

levels. 
MATTOCKS.

MAULS. 
mills. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

dlS.

dis.

NAILS
Advance above 12d nails.

PENCE  AND  BRADS.

 

25
50d to 60d........................................................ 
lOd...................................................................  W
25
8d and 9d........................................................ 
6dand7d........................................................ 
40
4d and 5d.................................. 
 
60
3d...................................................................  1 00
2d....................................................................  150
4d....................................................................   1 00
3d....................................................................   1 50
2d....................................................................   2 00
12d to 30d  ...................................................... 
50
60
lOd................................................................... 
8d to 9d  .................................... 
 
75
6dto7d...................... f .................................  
90
4dto5d...........................................................  1 10
3d...................................................................  1 50

CASEING AND BOX.

PINE BLUED.

 

rLANES. 

dis.

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy..................................40@10
Sciota  Bench..................................................  @60
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy.......................... 40@10
Bench, first quality........................................  @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood............20&10
Fry,  Acme.............................................. dis. 
60
Common,  polished................................. dis. 
70
dis.
Iron and  Tinned........................................... 
50
Copper Rivets and Burs................................  
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

rivets. 

PANS.

Broken packs 

per pound extra.
ROPES.

Sisal, Vt inch and larger..............................  
M anilla................. 

 

il%
134

SQUARES. 

dis.

SHEET IRON.

Steel an<f Iron................................................ 
Try and Bevels..............................................  
M itre..............................................................  

75
60
SO
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
List acct. 19, ’86........................................dis. 40&10
Silver Lake, White  A...............................list 
50
Drab A..................................  “ 
55
White  B...............................   “ 
50
Drab B...................................  “ 
55
White C.................................  “ 
35

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

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

SAUSAGE SUUPFER8 OR FILLERS.

dis.

saws. 

“ 
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__  
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 
“ 
champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  foot..............................................  

Miles’ “Challenge” .... per doz. $20, dis. 50@50&05
Perry................... per doz. No. 1, #15;  No. 0,
................................................. #21;  dis. 50@50&5
Draw Cut No. 4............................ each, #30, dis  30
Enterprise Mfg. Co...........................dis. 20&10@30
Silver’s.................................................... dis.  40&10
H and......................................... 25@25&5
70
50
30
28
Steel, Game.....................................................60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................ 
35
70
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s  ... 
Hotchkiss’...................................................... 
TO
P. S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  ...................................  
70
Mouse,  choker................................. 18c per doz.
Mouse, delusion...............................$1.50 per doz.
dis.
Bright Market................................................  674
Annealed Market........................................... 70&10
Coppered Market...........................................  624
Tinned Market..............................................  dftg
Compered  Spring  Steel.................................  
50
Plain Fence........................................per pound 03
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..................................83 45
painted.......................................  2 80

traps. 

wire. 

dis.

“ 

wire goods. 

dis.

 

WRENCHES. 

Bright............................... 
70&10&10
Screw  Eyes.............................................. 70&10A10
Hook’s ...................................................... 70&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...............................70&10&10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine..............................................  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,.....................  75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable...............................75&10
Bird Cages....................................................  
50
Pumps, Cistern...............  
75
50
Screws, New List........................................... 
Casters, Bed  and  Plate........................... 50&10&10
Dampers, American......................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods......... 
65

MISCELLANEOUS. 
 

dlS.

diS.

 

METALS,

PIG TIN.

ZINC.

LEAD.

pound.  Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound.

Pig  Large........................................................... 26c
Pig Bars.............................................................. 28c
Duty:  Sheet, 2 4 c per pound.
680 pound  casks..................................................64
Per pound...................................................... 
64
Duty:  Pig, #2  per 100 pounds.  Old  Lead, 2c per 
American 
.......................................................@5
Newark.............................................................@5
B ar......................................................................... 6
Sheet........................................................8c, dis. 20
4 @ 4 .....................................................................16
Extra W iping................................................... 134
The  prices  of  the  many other  qualities  of
solder In the market indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.

Cookson......................................... per  pound  144
Hallett’s ........................................ 
114
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal......................................... 8 6 00
14x201C, 
6 00
 
...........................................  7 75
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 
..........................................  7 75

Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.

SOLDER.

.  “ 

 

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

ROOFING PLATES

10x14 IC,  Charcoal.............................................So5 40
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

...........................................  5 40
...........................................  6
...............  ........................

Each additional X on this grade 81.50.

14x20 IC, Terne  M. F .....................................#7
......................................    15 75
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
“ 
...........................   7 00
“ 
..........................  11  50
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, “  Allaway  Grade......................   4 90
14x20 IX, 
“ 
6 40
10 50
“ 
20x28 IC, 
“ 
20x28 IX, 
13 50

“  “ 
“ Worcester....................................  5 50
“ 
“ 
“ 
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TheMichiganTradesman

O n d a i Organ of M ichigan Business Men’s  Association.

A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Retail  Trade  of the  Wolderine State.

IS. A. STOWE  &  15HO., 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  Qrand  Rapid»  Post  Office.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  16,  1889.

THE  PAN-AMERICAN  CONVENTION.
The  Congress  of  delegates  from  the 
principal  nations  of  North  and  South 
America,  which  honors  Grand  Rapids 
with a visit on Friday of  this  week,  will 
have  plenty  of  business  on  its  hands 
when it again  convenes on November 18. 
The  meeting  may prove to be one of the 
most important assemblies ever gathered 
on this  continent. 
It is in the  direction 
of  realizing  John  Quincy Adams’ dream 
of  an  organized  State  system  for  the 
Western world.  That, in  his  mind,  was 
the  correlative of  the  Monroe  doctrine. 
He  had  no  intention  to pull  England’s 
nuts out of  the lire,  by holding  the Holy 
Alliance at arm’s  length,  while the  Brit­
ish  monopolized  the  commerce  of  the 
nations  which  he  thus  preserved  from 
being dragged back to a colonial position. 
But,  in  effect,  that  is  exactly what we 
have  been  doing  since his day—in fact, 
for nearly seventy  years.  We have kept 
off  the w'olves, while  England  has shorn 
the sheep.  We have kept the  commerce 
of  those  countries  open to mankind, in­
stead of  allowing it to become once more 
an  appanage of  Spain,  and England  has 
entered  in  and  taken  position  for  her 
own  advantage.

The first remedy for this must be found 
in cultivating closer  and  more  friendly 
relations  with  these  countries,  which— 
with the exception of  Brazil—owe every­
thing  to  our  protectorate.  For  many 
years  past  these  relations  hardly  have 
been  even  cordial,  except in the case of 
Venezuela.  Chili  especially  has  been 
much  disinclined to our  friendship,  and 
has devoted  herself  to English  interests. 
Equador  has  been  alienated by its cler­
ical  party.  Colombia  and  the  Central 
American States have  been  fretful  over 
our conduct of  the  negotiations  about a 
possible canal to connect the two oceans. 
Mexico  balances  our service in ordering 
Napoleon III. out of  the  country against 
old invasion and recent squabbles. 
In a 
word,  we  have  managed  matters  very 
badly  with  these  sensitive  neighbors, 
and England has not been wanting in the 
effort to make matters worse for us.

By close and frank  conference we may 
get  rid  of  our  misunderstandings, and 
learn what sort of  people  our  neighbors 
to  the  south  really are.  We shall have 
to  study the  personal  manner  and  the 
business  methods of  Spanish and Portu­
guese  Americans  more  closely.  They 
are highly sensitive  to  any lack of  cour­
tesy,  and  “stand  upon  the  point  of 
honor”  as Americans no longer do.  And 
especially we shall  require to show them 
that we ask of  them  nothing  which will 
not  be for the benefit of both sides to the 
bargain,  and  that  we  have  no  arrange­
ment to make  which  will  stand  in  the 
way of  their industrial growth and  pros­
perity. 

_______________

The annual report of the Western Union 
Telegraph Co. shows net earnings, during 
the  past  year,  of  $6,218,041, or  29  per 
cent, of the real  value  of  the  property. 
As the octopus is capitalized for $86,000,- 
000, however, the  earnings  actually pay 
only 7 per cent,  on the watered stock.

The  Salt Outlook Not Encouraging1.
The  Michigan  Salt  Association  has 
about 200,000 barrels of salt less on hand 
than at a corresponding  date a year ago. 
There has been a fair movement, but the 
price is by no means satisfactory.  W. R. 
Burt,  President  of  the  Association,  is 
quoted as expressing the opinion that the 
proposed international combination is not 
dead, and that it will yet become a reality, 
but  in  view  of  the  sentiment  existing 
among many manufacturers it is doubtful 
if a combination can  be  effected.  The 
action of  the last Legislature,  in passing 
an  anti-combination  law,  also  puts  a 
quietus on the ambition of  many  manu­
facturers, among whom there is consider­
able dissatisfaction from  other causes as 
well.  The Manistee people are piling up 
salt in their  bins,  as  well as those else­
where, and there have been some predic­
tions of  a bolt  from  the  association,  as 
there are  at  present twenty-three manu­
facturers outside of  it, having a capacity 
to produce 600.000  barrels  annually. 
If 
the Association  should  collapse,  or  an­
other one be formed, whereby the product 
of  the  several  manufacturing  districts 
should be brought  into competition with 
each other,  the  price  of  the  commodity 
will materially decline.  Under the most 
favorable  conditions  the  outlook  is not 
encouraging.

ANTI-COMBINATIONS.

All  Price  Agreements  Proscribed  by 

Legislative  Enactment.

Sec.  8.  The  carrying  into  effect, 

The  Tradesman  herewith  gives  the 
full  text  of  the  anti-combination  law 
enacted by the last Legislature:
Section 1.  The  People  of  the  State  of 
Michigan enact, that all contracts,  agree­
ments,  understandings and  combinations 
made,  entered  into,  or  knowingly  as­
sented to,  by  and  between  any  parties 
capable  of  making a dontract  or  agree­
ment  which  would be valid at law or in 
equity, the purpose  or  object  or  intent 
of  which  shall  be to limit, control, or in 
any  manner  to  restrict  or  regulate the 
amount of  production or  the  quantity of 
any article  or  commodity to be raised or 
produced  by mining,  manufacture, agri­
culture or any other  branch  of  business 
or  labor,  or  to  enhance, control or reg­
ulate the market price  thereof, or in any 
manner to prevent  or  restrict  free com­
petition in the production or  sale of  any 
such  article  or  commodity, shall  be ut­
terly  illegal  and  void,  and  every such 
contract,  agreement,  understanding  and 
combination  shall  constitute  a criminal 
conspiracy.  And every person  who, for 
himself  personally, or as a member or in 
the  name of  a partnership, or as a mem­
ber.  agent, or  officer of  a corporation, or 
of  any association for business  purposes 
of  any kind,  shall  enter  into  or  know­
ingly  consent  tp  any  such  void  and 
illegal  contract,  agreement, understand­
ing  or  combination, shall  be  deemed  a 
party to such conspiracy.  And  all  par­
ties  so  offending  shall,  on  conviction 
thereof,  be  punished  by fine of  not less 
than fifty dollars,  nor  more  than  three 
hundred  dollars,  or by imprisonment  in 
the county  jail not more than six months, 
or by both such fine and imprisonment at 
the  discretion  of  the  court.  And  the 
prosecution  for  offenses  under this sec­
tion may be instituted  and  the trial had 
in any county where  any of  the conspir­
ators became parties to such  conspiracy, 
or in which  any one of  the  conspirators 
shall  reside:  Provided,  however,  That 
this section shall in no manner invalidate 
or affect contracts for what is known and 
recognized  at  common law and in equity 
as contracts for the “good will of a trade 
or business;”  but all such contracts shall 
be left to stand upon the  same terms and 
within the same limitations recognized at 
common law and in equity.
Sec. 2.  Every contract,  agreement, un­
derstanding  and  combination  declared 
void  and  illegal  by the  first  section of 
this act shall be equally void  and  illegal 
within  this  State,  whether  made  and 
entered into within or without this State.
in 
whole or in part, of any such illegal con­
tract, agreement,  understanding or com­
bination as mentioned in the first section 
of  this act, aud every act which shall be 
done  for  that  purpose  by  any  of  the 
parties  or  through  their  agency or  the 
agency of  any one of  them,  shall consti­
tute  a  misdemeanor  and  on  conviction 
the  offenders  shall  be  punished by im­
prisonment in the  State  prison not more 
than one  year,  or in the county  jail not 
more  than  six  months,  or by a fine not 
less than one hundred nor more than five 
hundred dollars, or by both such fine and 
imprisonment  in  the  discretion  of  the 
court.
Sec.  4.  Any corporation now  or  here­
after organized  under  the  laws  of  this 
State,  which  shall  enter  into  any con­
tract, agreement,  understanding or com­
bination declared illegal and  criminal by 
the first section of  this  act,  or  shall do 
any act  towards  or for  the  purpose  of 
carrying the same  into effect in whole or 
in part, and which shall not within thirty 
days from the time  when  this  act  shall 
take  effect,  withdraw its assent  thereto 
and repudiate  the  same  and file  in  the 
office of  the  Secretary of  State such re­
fusal  and  repudiation  under  its  cor­
porate seal,  shall forfeit its charter  and 
all its  rights and franchises  thereunder.
Sec.  5.  It shall be the duty of  the  At­
torney General upon his own relation,  or 
upon the relation of  any private person, 
whenever he shall have  good  reasons to 
believe that the same  can be established 
by proof,  to file  an  information  in  the 
nature  of  a  quo  warranto  against any 
corporation offending  against any of  the 
provisions of this act;  and thereupon the 
same proceedings  shall  be  had  as  pro­
vided  by  chapter  two  hundred  ninety- 
eight  of  Howell’s  Annotated  Statutes, 
relating  to  proceedings  by  information 
in the nature  of  quo  ivarranto,  against 
corporations  offending  against  any  of 
the provisions of the act or acts creating, 
altering or renewing  such  corporations, 
and in other cases.
Sec.  6.  The provisions of this act shall 
not apply to agricultural products or live 
stock while in the hands of  the producer 
or raiser, nor to tha services  of  laborers 
or artisans  who are formed into societies 
or organizations for  the  benefit and pro­
tection of their members.
Sec.  7.  It shall be the duty of  the Sec­
retary of  State  to  cause this  act  to  be 
published for  four  successive  weeks  in 
some daily paper in  each of  the cities of 
Lansing, Detroit, Grand Rapids and Mar­
quette,  commencing  within 
ten  days 
after this act  shall  take  effect,  and  he 
shall also  within the same  time cause to 
be  mailed  to  each  of  the  corporations 
whose  articles  of  association are on file 
in his office,  a printed copy of  this  act, 
with  a  notice  calling  special  attention 
thereto.

Approved July 1, 1889.
If  this law is enforced, all agreements 
to  maintain  prices  will  be  illegal  and 
will  subject  the  principals  to  punish­
ment.  The  members  of  the  Michigan 
Salt Association,  jobbers  who  sign con­
tracts with package coffee manufacturers, 
traveling men  who  join  the  anti-price­
cutting  association — these,  and  many 
others as well,  will  come  under the pro­
scribed list.

The law has been submitted to leading 
legal  authorities  of  Detroit  and  Grand 
Rapids and pronounced unconstitutional, 
and,  in  the  event  of  a prosecution, its 
validity will be contested in the court  of 
last resort. .

Johnny’s  New  Shoes.

Mother—Johnny, can’t  you keep  your 
shoes still ?  You make me nervous !
Johnny—I can’t keep ’em still!  These 
are “working shoes,” ain’t they?  That’s 
what you bought ’em for, anyway!

G. W. Grant, the Coloma general dealer, 
is making Grand Rapids his headquarters 
for a few weeks, by reason  of  his  being 
drawn  as a juror  in  the  United  States 
Court.

The  Value  of Positive  Opinions.
It was Sidney Smith—who  was a keen 
observer of human affairs—who said that 
a great deal of  talent is lost to the world 
from a want  of  courage.  A  man  who 
has the courage  of  his convictions,  and 
is not afraid  to  avow  them, is always a 
useful man so long  as  he  stands  inside 
the lines of  sound morals and  of  legiti­
mate human  rights. 
Indeed,  when  he 
gets  somewhat  outside  these  lines,  he 
may still be useful by provoking thought 
and discussion that will drive him inside 
if he is an honest  man,  and  that will at 
any rate prevent others from standing in 
a false position.  The truth often suffers 
from  stagnation,  and needs to be stirred 
up;  it  suffers  less  by  discussion  than 
from being let alone.  Rubbing  it makes 
it brighter,  just as it does with gold and 
silver and precious stones.

Hillers, Attention

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

6RIHD  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bowne, President.

Geo. C. Pierce, Vice President.

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

Transacts a general banking business.

"fake a Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

SEEDS!

If in want of Clover or Timothy, 
Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top, 
or, in  fact,  Any  Kind  of  Seed, 
send or  write to the
S e e d   Store,
71  Canal  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.
W .T .L A M O R E A U X .

Plumbing,

Steam  and  Hot  Water Heating, 
Brooks’  Hand  Force  Pump, In­
stantaneous  Water  Heater,  Hot 
Air  Furnaces,  Mantels,  Grates 
and Tiling,  Gas  Fixtures, Etc. 
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in

P lu m b e r s ’  S u p p lie s.
184 East  Pillion  81., Head of  Monroe,

Telephone No. 147.
21  Serilmer  Street,
Telephone No. 1109.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH. 

SOON  TO  BE  OUT.

The  Boston  Monthly  Magazine.

A New Popular Magazine of  the First Class.
The Boston  Monthly Magazine is designed 
to meet a want in popular literature that has not 
yet been filled;  viz., a periodical that  will  rank 
with  the leading magazines of the day, and  yet 
—without falling below their standard of literary- 
merit, moral tone, or  general  excellence—reach 
the great mass of the people.
The projectors of the  New  Magazine  believe 
that this can be accomplished by discarding sub­
jects not of universal interest, and  by  carefully- 
avoiding dry  and  tedious  or  too  lengthy treat­
ment of topics selected.
But, while intended to be of  a  character  that 
will  make  it  an  enlivening  companion  and  a 
welcome visitor  in  the  homes  of  the  lowly, it 
will appeal distinctly to  the  tastes  of  the  edu 
cated,  well-to-do,  and  cultured  classes  of  the 
country.
The New Magazine will cover the
General  Field  of  Literature,
presenting each  month  the  brightest  and  best 
FICTION,  POETRY,  BIOGRAPHY,  TRAVEL
POPULAR SCIENCE, ART, POLITICS, ETC. 
and will treat in a breezy and vigorous, yet non­
partisan manner, all timely topics of  general in­
terest to the American public.
It will consist of  upwards  of  100  pages  each 
issue, with  descriptive  illustrations,  printed in 
large, leaded type, on the best quality paper, and 
bound in a cover of tasteful design.
The first  issue  will  appear  early  in October, 
and will be  for  sale  by  all  booksellers  and at 
news stands throughout the country.
THE BOSTON MONTHLY MAGAZINE
offers Unrivaled Inducements  to  Advertiz- 
ers, as its rates  are  low, and a large circulation 
is guaranteed from the start.  Orders should  be 
placed at once, to take advantage  of  the special 
attention always given to  the  “First  Number” 
of a new magazine.
Subscription Price, $3 a Year, in advance.

productions  in

W A N T E D .

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

If yon have any  of  the  above  goods to 
ship, or anything in the  Produce  line, let 
os 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 Rapide. 1

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

F .  R a n iv ille ,
LEATHER  BELTING

Manufacturer of

JOBBER  OF

RilLber Goods and Mill Supplies.

1  to  5  Pearl  Street,

QRAND  RAPIDS.

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DEALERS IN

P E R K I N S
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
H ip  Fire  a i  Marine Insurance Co.

NOS.  122 and  124 LOUIS STREET. GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN.

WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL  USE

ORGANIZED  1881.

MICH.
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GASH  CAPITAL  $400,080.

GÄ8H  ASSETS  OVER  $700,1

LOSSES  PAID  $500,(

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 o n tra cts, 

E q u ita b le   R a te s

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

Insure in 

Piitnam  Bandy  Bo.
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HESTER  Sc  FOX,

MANUFACTURERS  OF  ALL  KINDS  OF

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Manufacturers’ Agents for

ATLASENG,NEWORKS

MANUFACTURERS  OF

INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.9  U.  8. A
STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.
Carry Engines and Boilers In Stock 

for  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 Sampb 
Write for Prices. 

Pulley and become convinced of their  superiority.

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

L e m o n   &  Peters,

WHOLESALE

GROCERS.

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

L autz B ros•  &  C o .’s   Soaps,

Niagara  Starch,

A.mhoy  C h e e s e .

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Single Numbers, 25  Cents. KOALI

WHOLESALE

Anthracite and Bituminous Goal.
Before ordering your coal write to us for prices.

State Trade a Specialty.

The  Boston  Publishing  Corporation. 

48 Winter St.,  Boston,  Mass.

GRAND  RAPIDS  ICE  Í  GOAL  GO,,  grand

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Selected Herbs ■< Süiees I
THOMSON  &  TAYLOR  SPICE  COMPANY,

P r e p a r e d   b y

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Is  a  C o m b in a tio n   o f

T h e   F in est  Ingredients  for  use  in 

Seasoning M eats,  P oultry,

Game  and P ish•

SOLD  BY   A LL  GROCERS.

S.  K.  BOLLES.

E.  B.  DIKEMAN.

S .  K.  Bolles  &  Co.,

77  CANAL  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

AA^holesale  C ig a r  D ealers.

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“The Michigan.9*

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

Headqilarters  for  8unfps  and  Molasses!

We  began  handling  Syrups  and  Molasses  on  Feb.  11,  1889, since which time we

have received

Nineteen  Carloads

Of these goods.  Our  goods  are  right  and  our prices are low, and merchants will 
consult their best interests by  comparing  samples  and  prices before placing their 
orders for fall stocks.

1  AND  3  PEARL  STREET.

Telfer  Spice  C o m p an y .
s ir  GEO. H. REEDER,
CD  O 
1 |   Lycoming  Rubbers
tS  efCPQ  g* 
11  M eta Price Shoes.
*  g  Grand Rapids, Mich.

and Jobber of

State  Agent

^ N o  C h e m ic a ls .^

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.

HEAVENRIGH  BR08.

W h o le sa le  C lothiers

MANUFACTURERS OF

P erfect-P ittin g   Failor-Made  Clothing

138-140 Jefferson Ave., 34-36  Woodbridge 81, Detroit.

AT LOWEST PRICES.

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

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, (4 sawed, 6 inch and upw’d.38 00@40 00
Red Oak, >4 sawed, regular...................30 00@32 00
Red Oak, No. 1, step plank.................   @25 00
Walnut, log ru n ...................................  @55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2...........................  @75 00
. Walnuts, cull 
.....................................  @25 00
Grev Elm, log-run................................. 12 00@13 05
T hite Aso, log-run............................... 14 00@16 00
Whitewood, log-run..............................20 00@22 00
White Oak, log-run............................... 17 00@18 00
hite Oak, *4 sawed. Nos. 1 and 2 —  42 00@43 00

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Barrels and  Barrels.
Send for sample of the celebrated

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The Michigan Tradesman

WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  16, 1889.

HISTORY  IN  FICTION.

W ritte n  io r The  Tradesman.

Some  one  has  said,  with  great  ac­
curacy,  that the value of  a book depends 
not  upon  what  the  author  has put into 
it, but upon what  the  reader gets out of 
it.  The remark is one  of  general  appli­
cation  and  furnishes a rule to which  no, 
exception  can  be  found.  How  often 
does it occur that an author  has  builded 
better than he knew;  that he has written 
a book, possibly for his own  amusement, 
more  frequently for  the  money  it  will 
bring him,  without  thought or care of its 
effect,  and  has  yet  unwittingly  taught 
his readers lessons of  the  highest  value 
to them.  How often,  too.  has it occurred 
that a book has been  written with a spe­
cific  purpose, but  has  wholly  failed  of 
that  purpose,  and  yet has  accomplished 
something  higher  and  nobler  than  the 
author had  conceived.

Wiiters  of  fiction,  as a rule,  have  in 
mind the amusement and interest of their- 
readers  rather  than  their  instruction. 
To this rule there are,  as all know, many 
notable  exceptions.  There  are  books 
written  assuming  the  outward  garb  of 
fiction  which are really protests  against 
some crying evil and a plea for  reforma­
tion.  Charles Reade’s “Very Hard Cash ’ 
and  “Put  Yourself  in  His  Place,” and 
Dickens’  “Little  Dorrit”  suggest  them­
selves  at  once  as  striking  instances of 
this  purposeful  fiction.  They were  in­
tended  to  call  attention  to  a  state  of 
affairs  which  demanded a change,  and it 
is well  known  that  they,  to a great  ex­
tent, accomplished their purpose.

But the question is not of  those novels 
whose  purpose  is  apparent  and  whose 
value  is  patent  that  we  speak, but  of 
those  which  teach,  or  may teach  to the 
careful reader  lessons of  value  in  spite 
of  themselves,  and  without  any such in­
tention  having  been  prominent  in  the 
mind of  the author. 
It is with this class 
of  fiction that we  are  concerned at pres- 
present;  and it is no  exaggeration to say 
that the most exhaustive, exact and  com­
plete  history  of  nations  and  of  epochs 
can  be  found  by a careful  study of  the 
fiction of  the  times.

A  distinction  must,  of  course,  be 
drawn  between  history  as  we  of  the 
present day understand the term—which, 
by  the  way, corresponds  very closely to 
Herodotus’  idea  of  history—and  as  the 
word was understood in the  time of  Gib­
bon and Hume, and, indeed, by most his­
torical  writers  before  Macaulay.  The 
old idea of  history was  that  no  one  be­
low  the  rank of  a knight  banneret  had 
any place in history,  and  that  the  more 
the pages of  the book were crowded with 
kings  and  queens,  with  battles  and 
sieges,  with  treaties  and  conventions, 
with  alliances  and  national  confedera­
tions, the higher was the rank of the his­
tory.  Macaulay,  and  since  his  time 
Green and McMaster and other writers of 
history,  have  taught  us  better.  They 
have taught us that the  relative value of 
kings  and  queens to pawns on the great 
chess-board of  the  world  or of  a nation 
has  been  exaggerated;  that  a change of 
dynasty  is  of  less  importance  than  a 
change  in  the  rate  of  laborers’  wages, 
and  that  the  true history of  a nation is 
to  be  sought  not  in  the palaces of  the 
noble  and  rich,  but  in  the  humbler 
dwellings of  the middle classes and even 
in the hovels of  the poor  and  degraded.
It is in this aspect of  the case that his­
tory is properly to  be sought  in  current 
fiction;  and  we  risk  little  in  asserting 
that from no other source can the myriad 
of  details, of  incidents  and of  events, as 
well  as  the  prevailing  tone  of  public 
sentiment  and  opinion, which  unite  to 
make history,  be so well or so completely 
gathered. 
It matters  not  how- frivolous 
or trashy the novel may be, if  the author 
has had the gift of  seeing what  is  about 
him  and  of  faithfully  recording his ob­
servations  and  impressions,  he  has  un­
consciously assisted to make  the  history 
of  the time in which he writes.

from 

It is hardly fair to support  this  claim 
by a reference  to  the  novels  of Walter 
Scott,  as it is conceded  that  most of  us 
derive our notions of  the lives and  char­
acters of  Louis  XI. of  France, James L, 
Elizabeth and  Oliver  Cromwell, of  Eng­
land;  Duke Charles, of  Burgundy;  Rich­
ard  Cœur de Lion,  and  many other  his­
toric  personages 
the  Waverly 
novels.  The  domestic  life  of  England, 
Scotland  and  France,  in  the  days  of 
which  he  wrote,  is, too, impressed upon 
us in a way which  history could not suc­
ceed  in  accomplishing.  We  prefer  to 
deal with  more  recent  novelists, and to 
make  our  claim  good, if  we can, by in­
stances  not so familiar  and  universally 
recognized.
The only difficulty is to know where to 
begin. 
Illustrations  of  the  position we 
have  assumed  are  so  numerous  as  to 
make a choice  embarrassing.  We might 
solve the difficulty by taking  the  novels 
of  Trollope  for a picture of  English  life 
and manners  in  the  cathedral towns, or 
those of  Dickens for  his  wonderful por­
trayals of  lower-class life in England, or 
Balzac,  with  his  “Comedie  Humaine,” 
giving  the  domestic  history  of  France, 
or Auerbach  in  Germany, or  Tolstoi  or

Gogol in  Russia;  but  these  are  masters 
of  the  craft,  and  it might  be  said  that 
the  case  could  not  be  proved  by  the 
works of  men of  genius,  as  their  many- 
sided, all-embracing  intellects  could not 
fail to get a firm grasp  upon  the  salient 
points  of  national  life  and  character. 
We  accept  the  issue,  and  will  not  at­
tempt  to  support  our  contention by ex­
treme cases.

Choosing quite at haphazard,  we select 
a novel,  by an anonymous author, called 
“One That Wins,”  as  a  partial  demon­
stration of the proposition that history is 
best sought for in fiction.  The scene of 
the story is laid chiefly in Rome,  and the 
central figure is that of  a  young woman, 
an artist, who is remotely descended from 
Greek ancestry and  who  is  depicted  as 
retaining many of  the characteristics  of 
the stock from  which she sprung.  The 
basic idea  of  the author in drawing  the 
portrait  of  his  heroine was to paint the 
conflict between her inherited tendencies 
and  her  environment;  to  portray  the 
strength and  effect  of  heredity as modi­
fied  and  softeued by nineteenth century 
civilization and by modern surroundings; 
and in so doing the author unconsciously 
gives  his  reader  an  insight  into  the 
philosophy of  the  day as taught by Gal- 
ton  and  Ribot  and  urged  by  Spencer 
and the materialistic school.  Some Cuv­
ier  of  the future might reconstruct  the
doctrine of  heredity and its concomitant 
features from a study of  this little novel 
of  half  a  hundred pages and determine 
the range of  current thought at the time 
it wag written.  But this is not all.  The 
author  denounces  the  narrowness  and 
bigotry of  certain classes of  English so­
ciety with a vigor  which  would  delight 
that  active  opponent' of  Philistinism, 
Matthew  Arnold,  and  illustrates a con­
dition  of  life and  manners  in  England 
which  contrasts  very forcibly  with  the 
freedom from restraint  which obtains in 
artistic circles in Italy.

Again,  the  author  shows  clearly  the 
condition and  manner  of  living  in  the 
rural districts of Italy, the ignorance and 
superstition  of  the peasantry, their  ab­
ject poverty, and,  withal,  their content­
edness  with  their  lot,  from  which  the 
political  economist  of  the  future  may 
draw the lesson that  where  ignorance is 
bliss,  t’were folly to be wise.  She—for 
the  author  is  probably  a  woman—also 
furnishes us with a picture of the Italian 
nobleman  of  high  rank  and  ancient 
lineage,  who  is  anxious  to  repair  his 
fallen  fortunes  by  marriage  with  an 
heiress; and we know that current events 
can supply us with  more than one proof 
of the accuracy of the portrait.

In  short,  this  little  work,  most  cer­
tainly written  without  any  purpose  of 
contributing  to  history,  gives us a  view 
of  high  and  low  life  in  Italy,  of  the 
tendency of  modern thought in England, 
of  manners  and  customs and  habits  of 
life in both  countries,  and  of  the  inti 
mate domestic relations of  husbands and 
wives, and parents and children,  both in 
the  stifling  air  of  conventional  life  in 
England and in  the  clearer  atmosphere 
of  Italy, besides  being  tinged  with the 
hues of  more than one school of  modern 
philosophy and imbued with ideas which 
are the subject of  discussion and contro­
versy in  all  the  intellectual  centers  of 
the world.

Is  not  this  history?  Will  not  our 
grandchildren  be  more  instructed  by 
knowing  what we ourselves did and said 
and thought  than in  knowing  that  Wil­
liam was  Emperor  of  Germany in 188 
or  that  four  anarchists  were  hung for 
murder in the same  year ?  Will not the 
story of  the intellectual  struggle of  the 
century, 
the  fierce  conflict  between 
reason and superstition, be of more value 
to them  than  the  dusty archives  which 
reveal a change  of  ministry or the recti 
fication  of  a  national frontier?  And if 
this be true,  the facts and circumstances 
of  the case  will have to be gathered not 
from ponderous  tomes and folios, monu 
ments  of  human industry and stupidity 
not from  volumes  of  statistics and cen 
sus  reports or from long  series  of  blue 
books  and  Congressional  records,  but 
from that  source  which  best  holds  the 
mirror  up  to nature,  the fiction  of  the 
age and time. 

A. S. M.

Brooklyn boasts of  having  the  largest 
bread bakery in the world, 300 barrels of 
flour  producing  daily  70,000 
loaves  of 
bread.

K.  KNUDSON,

MERCHANT  TAILOR.

And  Dealer in

Gents’ Furnishing Goods
Fine stock of Woolen  Suitings  and  Overcoat 
ings, which I will make to order cheaper than any 
other house in the city.  Perfect fit guaranteed 

20 W est  B ridge  St.,  G rand R apids.

FOR  SALE

Or exchange for stock of  general  merchandise, 
a perfect title to 240 acres of clay and  clay  loam 
soil, 160 acres of which is in a first class state  of 
cultivation.  The  land  is  slightly  undulating, 
free from stumps and can all be operated by ma­
chinery ;  is well fenced with board  fencing  and 
watered by living stream of  spring water,  filled 
with trout, planted about 8 years  ago.  Comfort­
able house, good and  commodious  barns,  auto­
matic water works  in  stock  yards  and  stables. 
Thrifty fruit-bearing orchard of  moderate  size, 
and well provided with shade trees.
This farm is  situated  in  the  Michigan  Fruit 
Belt  and  is  only  4 (4   miles  from  two thriving 
towns with first-class Lake Michigan harbor and 
good rail accommodations, is a model farm for a 
retiring merchant  interested  in  stock  or  fruit 
raising.  The present owner is young  and  acti­
vely engaged in business with  no time to devote 
to its management and will dispose of it at a low 
figure and on easy terms.  Enquiring parties will 
please address No. 474, care Michigan Tradesman.

9 Cords *10 J E

Runs Easy 

NO  BACKACHE.

B Y  O N E  M A N .  W rite fo r descriptive catalogue con- 
tam ing  testim onials  from   hundreds  of people  who  hare 
sawed from 4 to 3 cords daily.  25,OoOnow successfully used. 
Agency can  be had  w here th ere  is a  vacancy.  *  NEW 
INTENTION for filing saws sent free w ith each machine, by 
the use of th is tool everybody can file th eir own  saws 
now and do it better th an  th e g reatest expert can w ith­
out it.  Adapted  to   all cross-cut saws.  Every one who 
owns a  saw should have one.  Ask your dealers o r write 
F O L D IN G  S A W IN G   M A C H IN E   CO., 8 0 8   to  811 
S o u th  C a n a l S tre e t, C hicago, H i.

“COLUMBIA”

Steam  and  Hot  Water  Boiler  for  warming 
HUM  i  SCHNEIDER,  Grand  Rapids.

dwellings,  etc.

F O R

ON  BEST

Lowest Wholesale Quotations
Scranton  Coal!
A. B.  Knowlson,
25  Pearl Street, Grand Rapids,

Call oh  or  address

The F razer Goods H andled  by the  Jobbing 

Trade Everyw here.

D B A  T II

'To th e P a s s   Booh.

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

contact with the

Tradesman  Gredit  Gotlpon  Book,

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

The Tradesman Coupon  is  the  cheapest  and  most modem in 

the market, being sold as follows:

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

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

“  500  “ 
“  1000  “ 

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

E. A.STOWEiBRO., Grand Rapids.
H.  Leonard  &  Sons.

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

N ear  Union  D epot.

Cor. Spring and Fulton Sts.

I t w ill co st you  only  ONI5  C B A TT

Voigt, Bemolsbeiier & Go.
Dry  G o o d s

Importers and Jobbers of

STAPLE  and  FANCY.

To order a box  of  either size

PBarlTop Lamp Chimnay s

O v e r a lls,  P a n ts ,
OUR  OWN  MAKE.

Etc.,

By postal.  > o need to always sell “Nickle” chimneys.  The best are the 
cheapest.  The  Pearl  Top  Chimneys  are  made  from  the  finest  LEAD 
GLASS,  cleaned and wrapped in white paper.

A  COMPLETE  LINE  OF

Fancy  Crockery  and

Fancy  Woodenware

OUR  OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection  Solicited.  Chicago  and  De 

troit  prices  guaranteed.

C r o c k e r y   & G la s s w a r e

LAMP  BURNERS.

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

lamp  chimneys.—Per box.

6 doz. in box.

First quality.
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XXX Flint.
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No. 0 Sun.....................................  ..................1  90
No. 1  “  ...........................................................2 00
No. 2  “  ........................................................3  00
top......................................2 15
No. 0 Sun, crimp 
No. 1  “ 
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No. 2  “ 
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No. 0 Sun, crimp  top......................................2 58
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No. 1  “ 
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No. 2  “ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled.................... 3
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No. 2  “ 
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No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
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No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz........................1  25
No. 2  “ 
........................1  50
No. 1 crimp, per doz........................................ 1  40
........ ................................ 160
No. 2 
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Pearl top.

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STONEWARE—AKRON.

Butter Crocks, per gal.................................  
Jugs, (4 gal., per doz....................................   65
.....................................  90
...................................  1  80
Milk Pans, (4 gal., per doz.  (glazed 66c) —   60 
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fruit jars—Per  gro.

quarts.......................................... 

Mason's, pints..............................................  $ 9 50
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Lightning, quarts.........................................   12 00
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Made from Heavy Galvanized Iron with Wood Bottom and Improved Pump. 

Send for our Lamp Goods Catalogue now ready.

H.  Leonard  &  Sons.

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DIRECTIONS

We navr cooked the corn in this cm* 
sufficient!. 
should  be  Thoroughly 
Warmed ,not cooked) adding  piece o! 
UOO'*. Rutter (size of hen’s egg j and gLu 
of fresh  milk  (preferable  to  water. 
Season to suit when on the table. N< 
genuine unless bearing the signature of
Davenport  Canning’  (J0j 

Davenport,  la.
AT  THIS E»*0'

B O WIN  BABB AS,

Bitter, Effis, Fairfield Cheese, Foreip M s , Mince Meat, Nits, Etc.

JOBBER  OF

Oyster and Mince Meat Business Running Full  Blast.  Butter and Sweet Potatoes 

Going Like Hot Cakes.  Let your orders come.

Office  and  Salesroom,  No.  9  Ionia St.,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Grand Rapids F n l and P rote Go,

Headquarters  for  O.  WILKINSON  Sc  SON’S

Fancy Jersey

Sweet Potatoes.

3   N O R T H   I O N I A   8 T .,  G R A N D   R A P I D S .

MOSELEY  BROS.,

F r u its ,  Seeds, O y s te rs  « P r o d u c e .

-WHOLESALE-

All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

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

pleased to hear from you.

26,28, 30 and 32 Ottawa  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Alfred  J.  Brown,

WHOLESALE

16  and  18  North  Division  Street,  Grand Rapids.

A.  II1MB S,

Shipper and Retail, Dealer in 

LehighlialleyCoalCo.’s  ( 

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Office, 54 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Micb. 

Jmm^rn
THE  ABOVE  COMPANY’S  COAL  IN  CAR  LOTS  ALWAYS  ON  TRACK  READY  FOR

A 

SHIPMENT.

NotiGB  of Dissolution.

TO  ALL  WHOM IT M A Y CONCERN:

The  firm,  of  Putnam & Brooks,  consisting  of  the  undersigned 
members, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent of all the mem­
Said  firm  is  succeeded  by  the  Putnam  Candy Company, an 
bers. 
incorporated company,  which will continue  the  business  formerly car­
ried on try said firm, and to whom all bills due  said  firm must be paid, 
and  all  claims  against  said  firm should be presented to said Putnam 
Candy Company.

Dated September  21,  1889.

BENJ.  W.  PUTNAM,
A.  E.  BROOKS,
H.  C.  BROOKS.

Ännoilncement !

GRAND  RAPIDS,  SEPT.  21,  1889.

We take pleasure in announcing to our  friends  and  patrons  that  the
P u t n a m   C a n d y   C o m p a n y ,

Incorporated under the laws of the State of Michigan,  succeeds  to  the 
business of PUTNAM  &  BROOKS,  and will continue the
Wholesale  Manufacturing  and Jobbing Business
Formerly carried on by the late firm.  We hope, with increased facili­
ties, to retain for the new firm the same generous patronage, confidence 
and pleasant business relations  heretofore enjoyed, and to this end we 
pledge renewed and redoubled exertions.

THE  PUTNAM  CANDY  COMPANY.

Fac  Simile  of  the  Label  of

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.

GROCERIES.

NO  JUTTATIONS  ALLOWED.

A Pew Things  Advertisers  Will  Make 

Money by Learning.

W ashington Correspondence D etroit Journal.
“If  you  choose,  you  could  save  the 
merchants of  this country a cool quarter 
of a million a year,”  was  the  somewhat 
startling  remark  made  the other day by 
John 8.  Bell, the chief  of  the secret ser­
vice division of the treasury department, 
to the Philadelphia Times correspondent.
“How so?” he was asked.
“By letting them know that it is a vio­
lation of the statutes  to  make any color­
able imitation  of  United  States  bonds, 
currency or stamps, no matter how inno­
cent their intention may be.”
“And do you mean to say that $250,000 
a year are spent tor this purpose?”
“Without  question.  Come  into  my 
chamber of horrors and I will show you.”
The  chief’s  chamber  of  horrors  is  a 
good  sized  room,  commanding  a  very 
pretty  view  of  the  White  House,  its 
grounds, with the Washington monument 
in the rear  and  the  silvery  Potomac as 
the background.  The walls are covered 
with  pictures  of  noted  counterfeiters, 
forged bonds and securities of  all kinds.
The law is very  strict,  forbidding pri­
vate individuals to make anything which 
should  legitimately bear the government 
imprint.  The  statutes,  and  there  are 
many  of them, are explicit,  and briefly it 
may be said  that  all such imitations are 
regarded as counterfeit  and  are  treated 
accordingly.  Technically  the  manufac­
turers can be prosecuted  as  counterfeit­
ers,  but  that  is  never  done  when it is 
evident that there was no criminal intent.
The  majority  of  these  imitations  of 
money and  other  government  securities 
me  used  for  advertising  purposes,  al­
though some  of  them  are  made for the 
edification of children.  The commonest 
kind  of  an advertisement is a fac simile 
of a dollar with the card  of  the firm dis­
tributing it on the back.  Most  of  these 
are  very  cheap  affairs and  are  printed 
from coarse  wood  cuts,  the lettering as 
well  as  the  printing being of a very in­
ferior  description.  No  one,  it  would 
seem, should ever be deceived  by  them, 
and  yet  all  the  time  ignorant  country 
people  are  swindled  by  sharpers  with 
these so-called “flash” notes.  Especially 
is this so among the colored people of the 
South,  and every time a circus visits that 
section  the  nuniber  of  victims  is only 
limited  by  the  size  of  the community. 
Another and more costly medium  of  in­
forming the  public  of  the  address  of  a 
certain  house  is  by the use  of  reduced 
photographs of United States and national 
bank notes.  These are three inches long 
by an inch and a half wide and are pasted 
on cardboard.  On  the back is the name 
of the firm.
One inventive  genuis who also wanted 
to convey a moral lesson  got up what he 
called  the  “Mighty  dollar  advertising 
series.”  On the face  of  the  one  dollar 
bill is a representation of  a cell tenanted 
by a young man in the regulation striped 
suit.  Below  are the  words:  “Stole  $5 
only.”  The face  of  the  ten  dollar bill 
has the picture of a man calmly enjoying 
a good cigar  in  a  well-furnished  room. 
The legend below  is: 
“Took  $50,000.” 
The fifty dollar  bill  shows  a  portly in­
dividual in a handsome library.  A pomp­
ous footman has just handed him a scroll 
on which are the words:  “You are nom­
inated for governor.  Will  you accept?” 
The inscription  below reads:  “Appropri­
ated  $1,000,000.”  The  borders and cor­
ners of these notes are made to represent 
currency, and  on  the  backs  are the ad­
vertisements.
A newspaper not long ago printed what 
at a glance might be taken for a bond and 
ornamented it with pictures of President 
Cleveland and his cabinet,  In small type 
those  wrho run  might  read that the pro­
prietors of the paper would pay $1,000 to 
anyone who  could  prove  that the paper 
did not  have  the  largest  circulation  in 
America.  A  German  immigrant  who 
landed at  Castle  Garden was induced by 
a sharper to believe that the paper was a 
bond, and he parted with his hard-earned 
savings  in  exchange  for  one  of  them, 
whereupon  the  secret  service  officers 
swooped down on the enterprising  paper 
and gathered the whole issue in.
Perhaps the  prettiest  article  that Mr. 
Bell has in his whole collection is a sheet 
of stamps issued by all the nations of the 
world.  The stamps are most artistically 
arranged and represent a beautiful blend­
ing of  colors.  A steel die  was  used  to 
make  each  impression,  and  the  whole 
formed  a  really  clever  piece  of  work. 
But stamps cannot be  counterfeited  any 
more than  money, and  the  sheets  were 
confiscated.  A  cigar  manufacturer  got 
up a new brand of  cigars  and  called  it 
b|he  “Dollar Mark.” 
Inside of  each box 
was  a  loose  sheet  of  paper  containing 
a  big  $  sign  surrounded by bay leaves, 
and  on  either  side was the  reverse and 
obverse of  the silver dollar.  This  was 
held to  be  illegal.  The  manufacturer 
claimed that no one could be deceived by 
it, as  the  impression  was  much  larger 
than the real  silver  dollar.  But the se­
cret service people thought that as he had 
to make a die  there  was  nothing to pre­
vent him from making it the regular size, 
and  in  that  case  it  might  be  used for 
fraudulent  purposes.  Considering  an 
ounce of prevention to be worth a pound 
of  cure  they broke up the  die  business 
before any harm had been done.
The  making  of  foreign  money  is  re­
garded as  just  as  serious  an  offense as 
the  manufacture  of  domestic  currency. 
Chief Bell has in his collection some very 
good specimens of  Brazilian notes which 
came  under  the  ban.  The  business of 
making imitation confederate money sud­
denly became  very  brisk  about  a  year 
ago.  The patent  medicine  people  used 
them more  than any other, and put their 
advertisements  on  the  back.  Strictly 
speaking,  it  is  doubtful if  the printing 
of 
imitation  confederate  currency  is 
illegal,  but  the  secret officials hold that 
it is.  They do so on the general  ground 
that ignorant people may be swindled by 
believing  that  it  is  genuine money and 
has a value.  There is no  readier way of 
attracting  the  attention  of  the  general 
public than by the use of  the represent» 
tion of  money, and the numerous devices 
would surprise  one  who  has  not  given 
the  subject  some  little  study.  For in 
stance,  a well-known  story paper  of  the 
dime  novel  order not long ago printed a 
story with the  novel  title,  “The Half  of 
a Five-Dollar  Bill.”  A cut representing

the mutilated portion of a $5 note formed 
the background on which was  printed in 
large  type  the  title.  But  the  govern­
ment  officers, who  never  seem to sleep, 
came  down  on  that  publisher and  told 
him he was violating the  law  and  must 
destroy his cut.  He did so.
“How  to  invest  your  savings.  Save 
the dimes and the dollar^ will  take  care 
of  themselves,” was the  sensible  advice 
contained  on  the  card  of  a  Western 
mortgage  company.  But  the  concern 
lost  several  dimes and not a few dollars 
by ornamenting  their  card  with the im­
pressions of  the  elusive  dimes  and dol­
lars.
A  clever  advertisement  was  a  bank 
book with a bank note sticking  out from 
the end, and  another  scheme that had a 
big  run before the treasury officials took 
it under their  all-protecting  wing  was a 
gilt plaque  containing a folded  $5 bill,  a 
$5 bank of  England  note  and a $10 gold 
piece. 
In  the  center  was  the  name of 
the  firm  giving  these  plaques  to  their 
customers.
Another  class  of  these  goods  is  used 
for the amusement of  children.  A short 
time  ago a Chicago  toy  house  imported 
40,000 little  tin  boxes, about the  size of 
the box used for the ordinary wax match. 
On the lid was a reduced  fac  simile of  a 
$10  treasury  note.  The  box  contained 
$10  in  “gold”  and “silver,” everything 
from  a  cent  to  $20  being  represented. 
The  whole  was  confiscated.  Another 
pretty toy was a little  keg of  silver  dol­
lars,  and a paper-weight made of a whole 
collection of  silver and  gold coins would 
have been a handsome  addition to a desk 
could it have been put on the  market.
There are lots more things of  the same 
sort, but  enough  has  been said to show 
that it is a waste of money to get up any­
thing bearing any imitation of  money, as 
it  will  be  sure  to be confiscated by the 
government.

The Condition of Trade.

fro m  the New Y ork Shipping List.
Reports from  all  important  distribut­
ing centers  in  the  interior  continue  to 
represent active trade  movement.  Sea­
sonable weather,  satisfactory crop condi­
tions, an increasing movement of produce 
and  general  industrial  prosperity  com­
prising the prominent  features that con­
tribute toward  establishing  the  healthy 
commercial  situation  that  everywhere 
prevails. 
In  this  and  other  seaboard 
cities, the volume  of  business, although 
very  well  maintained,  is  beginning  to 
slacken as  compared  with  the  activity 
witnessed  last  month,  but  the  current 
demand for all descriptions  of  merchan­
dise is large and indicates that consump­
tion is considerably in excess of last year. 
Cooler weather has prevailed over a wide 
expanse  of  country,  and  this  fact  has 
stimulated  the  demand  for  seasonable 
goods and many staple products, and the 
outlook  in  all  directions  is  promising. 
The  substantial  improvement  that  has 
taken place in the iron  industry  contin­
ues to attract attention, not only because 
of the significance attached to  an  active 
and  buoyant  iron  market,  but further­
more, on account of the phenomenal pros­
perity  that  has  been  developed  in  the 
iron and steel industry in  Great  Britain 
and on the Continent.  The demand there 
for all kinds of  crude and finished prod­
ucts  has  been  so  urgent  that  supplies 
have been rapidly absorbed at hardening 
prices and are now  difficult to obtain for 
prompt or near delivery.  In this country 
there has been a distinct improvement in 
the  demand  for  all  kinds of  steel,  and 
steel  rails  are  now  held  at $30@$31 at 
Eastern mills, w ith the available produc­
ing capacity  pretty  closely  sold  up for 
the  remaining  months  of  the  calendar 
year.  The financial  situation is still un­
settled, with the  money  market  in  this 
city active and  firm, and working within 
comparatively narrow  limits.  The sur­
plus reserve of  the  associated  banks  in 
this city  has  fallen  considerably  below 
the legal requirements in consequence of 
the  active  absorption  of  funds  by  the 
interior and gold exports last week.  All 
financial  institutions  have  raised  their 
rate for loans to 6 per cent,  and in specu­
lative  circles  much  higher  rates  have 
been paid for money on call.  This con­
dition of affairs has necessarily restricted 
speculative operations, but  has  thus far 
caused but  little  inconvenience  in com­
mercial circles.  The export of $1,500,000 
of gold last week is now explained as for 
account  of  the  Rothschilds,  who in the 
negotiation of  a Brazilian  loan  found it 
to their advantage to buy gold  here  at  a 
premium, rather than  cause  an  advance 
in the rates of interest in London, which 
would have resulted from a further drain 
of the gold reserves of the Bank of  Eng­
land, but it is  said there will be no more 
shipments  of  gold  from here on this ac­
count,  especially  as  there  has  been  a 
further drop in the rates  of  sterling  ex­
change.  The stock market  still  reflects 
a strong undertone, but the  narrow  and 
professional character of the trading and 
unsettling influence of the money market

has resulted in irregular fluctuations and 
prevented the development of the normal 
features of the situation.  The  produce 
markets are without new features of spe­
cial  significance  except  the  heavy out­
ward shipments of  corn and  cotton  and 
an easier feeling for wheat.  There  has 
been an improved  demand for anthracite 
coal.  Staple groceries are  quiet and dry 
goods fairly active.  There  has  been  an 
improved  demand  for  wool  at  slightly 
lower prices, but  consumers  are  paying 
more attention  to  the  cheaper  descrip­
tions of foreign w'ool because of the com­
parative high cost of domestic.
Doesn’t Look Honest.

From  th e Denver Grocer.
It is hard to understand where honesty 
comes  in  when a man  advertises to sell 
sugar that cost him  $1.20 for  $1.00.  He 
may have a chance to stick his customers 
on some other goods,  or  he  may have a 
loophole  in  weights,  but  to  say that  a 
man can place on the market some of his 
leading  goods at a price  less  than  cost, 
pay  for  them  and  the  advertising  of

them, and at the end  of  the  year  come 
out ahead of  the  game, and at the  same 
time do an honest down weight business, 
is an argument  that  wouldn’t  go  down 
even among fools.  We don’t say it.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar  has sustained a further  decline 
of 
and  the  weak  condition  of  the 
market presages  another  decline  before 
the  end of  the  week.  New  raisins  are 
scarce  and  high  and  the market is well 
maintained.

Mountain Oysters.

What  is  considered  one  of  the  most 
unaccounted  for  sights  in  Utah  is  a 
mountain about  thirty-five  miles  north­
east of  Salt Lake City, occupying an area 
of  about  thirty  acres,  and  completely 
and thickly covered  with  oyster  shells. 
The  mountain  is  between  300  and  400 
feet  high,  and  situated  over  4,000 feet 
higher  than  Salt  Lake  City,  which  is 
4,300 feet  above the level of  the sea.

B. 

NEW 
HOUSE  AND  NEW GOODS.
BROOKS &  CO .,
A. 
WHOLESALE
Confectionery,  Nuts  and  Figs.

$3 per  bbl. •
*1 per bu.

Our  Specialty—Candy made from sugar and good  to  eat.

CODY  BLOCK,  158  EAST  FULTON  ST„ 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

MICHIGAN  CIGAR  CO.,

B ig  Rapids,  Mich,

MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED

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The Most  Popular Cigar. 

The Best Selling Cigar on the Market.

SEND  FOR  TRIAL  ORDER.

DETROIT SO A P  CO.,

Manufacturers of the following well-known brands:

QUEEN  ANNE, 
TRUE  BLUE,

MOTTLED  GERMAN,  ROYAL  BAR,  CZAR,
PHOENIX, 

AND  OTHERS. 

CAMEO,
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MASCOTTE, 

SUPERIOR, 

For quotations in single box lots,  see  Price  Current.

For quotations in larger

quantities,  address,

W / ^  

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Salesman for Western Michigan,

GRAND  RAPID8.

BLIVEN  &  ALLYN,

Sole Agents for the  Celebrated

“BIG F”  Brand of  Oysters.

In Cans and Balk, and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL CLAMS and OYSTERS.  We make 

a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time.  We solicit 

consignments of all kinds of Wild Game, such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, etc.

H.  M.  BLIVEN,  Manager.

63  Pearl  St.

Buy  a   C a s e   of

T I G E R

C O F F  B E .

Sold  Under  Our  Personal  Guarantee*

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F o r   S a le   b y   L e a d in g   W h o l e s a l e   G ro cers.

PRODUCE  M A RK ET.

at 10%c, jobbers holding at  11 %@12c.

Apples—Dealers  pay  25@50c  per  bu.  for  fall 
and winter fruit, holding such choice selection* 
of fall varieties  as  Snows,  Kings,  Pippins  and 
wavners  at  *2.25  per  bbl.  Ordinary  varieties 
command *1.75 per bbl.
Beans—Dealers  pay  *1.50  for  unpicked  and 
*1.60 for picked, holding at ll.75@*2 per bu. 
Beets—40c per bu.
Butter—Dairy is held steady at 19@20c.  Cream­
ery is firm at 24@25c.
Buckwheat.Flour—*6 per  bbl.  for  New  York 
Cabbages—*3 per 100.
Cheese—Makers are holding  September  stock 
Cider—10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, *1.25;  produce barrels 
25c.
Cranberries—Cape Cod readily command  *9.75 
per bbl.
Dried Apples—New evaporated are  held  at  8c 
and new sundried at 5%c.
Eggs—Jobbers pay 18c  for  fresh  and  hold  at 
20c.  Pickled ana cold storage  stock  commands 
about  19c.
Field  Seeds—Clover,  mammoth, *4.50 per bu.; 
medium, *4.25.  Timothy,  *1.50 per  bu 
Grapes—Concords,  4c ;  Catawbas,  6e;  Dela­
wares, 10c.
Honey—In small demand.  Clean  comb  com­
mands 15c per lb.
Onions—Dealers  pay 35c for clean stock, hold­
ing at 45®; 5c.
Peaches—About out of market.
Pears—Only  a  few  late  varieties  are  yet  in 
Pop Corn—4c per lb.
Potatoes—The  market is  weak.  Dealers pay 
Squash—Hubbard, 2c per lb.
Sweet Potatoes—Fancy Jersey stock commands 
Tomatoes—Green command 75c  per  bu.;  ripe, 
Turnips—30c per bu.

30c and sell at 35c.

market.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

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

quotes as follows:
Mess,  new......................................................   11  00
Short cut Morgan...........................................  10 50
Extra clear pig, short cut.............................  11  50
Extra clear,  heavy........................................  11  50
Clear, fat  back..............................................   11  50
Boston clear, short cut.................................   11  50
Clear back, short cut__ H............................ 11  50
Standard clear, short cut, best.....................  12 00

shored  heats—Canvassed or Plain.

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Hams, average 20 lbs........................................10%
16 lbs........................................10%
12 to 14 lbs................................ 11
picnic....................................................   6%
best boneless......................................... 9
5
boneless....................................... 8

Shoulders...........................  
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..............................   9%
Dried beef, ham prices....................................   9y
Long Clears, heavy......................... 
6
Briskets,  medium.............................................  6
lig h t...............................  
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lard—Kettle Rendered.

Tierces.............................................................   7%
Tubs...................................................................  7%
501b.  Tins......................................................... 7%

lard—Refined.

Tierces..................................................................6
30 and 50 lb. Tubs.............................................6%
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case.....................................  6%
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case.....................................   6?i
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case......................................   6%
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case........................................6%
50 lb. Cans........................................................... 6%

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

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs......................   7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing........................  7 00
Plate................................................................. 7 25
Extra Plate......................................................   7 75
Boneless, rump butts......................................   9 00

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

 

Pork Sausage...................... 
7
Ham Sausage..................................................... 12
Tongue Sausage................................................  9
Frankfort  Sausage.  ........................................  8
Blood Sausage...................................................  5%
Bologna, straight..............................................  5%
Bologna,  thick....................................................5%
Headcheese......................................:..............  5%

P IG S ’  F E E T .

In half barrels................................................... 300
In quarter barrels............................................. 2 00
T R IP E .
In half  barrels.......................................................2 75
In quarter barrels............ 
1  50
In kits................................................................  75

 

FRESH   MEATS.

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Swift and Company quote as follows:
“ 

Beef, carcass...........................................  4  @ 6
hindquarters.........................—   5  @ 6%
fore 
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loins.......
b  s ..........
tongues...............
Hogs................................
Pork  loins......................
“  shoulders..........
Bologna......................
Sausage, blood  or head.
liver.................
Frankfort........
M utton...........................

@  6% 
@10 
© 5% 
©  8 @ 5% 
@ 5 
@  5 
@  5 
@ 8 
@ 7%

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OYSTERS and FISH.

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FRESH  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
Whitefish.................................................
smoked.....*.............................
Trout........................................................
Halibut....................................................
Fairhaven  Counts.................................
Selects..................................................... i
F. J.  D.’s .................................................
Anchors...................................................

OYSTERS.

@ 8 
@ 7% 
@15
@35
@28
@20
@18

CANDIES,  FRUITS  and  NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK.
 

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HIXED.

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

2001b.  bbls...............................................9%
2001b.  bbls...................................... 
10%

Standard, 25 lb. boxes.......................................10
25 
Twist, 
10
Cut Loaf, 25 
............................................11
Royal, 25 lb. pails..........  .................................10
Extra, 25 lb.  pails............................................. 11
French Cream, 25 lb.  pails.............. ............   12
Lemon Drops..................................................... 12
Sour Drops........................................................ 13
Peppermint Drops............................................. 14
Chocolate Drops......................................... 
  14
H. M. Chocolate Drops..................................... 18
Gum Drops........................................................ 10
Licorice Drops................................................... 18
A. B. Licorice  Drops........................................ 14
Lozenges, plain..................................................14
printed.............................................15
Imperials............................................................14
Mottoes...............................................................15
Cream Bar..........................................................13
Molasses  Bar.....................................................13
Caramels.....................................................16@18
Hand Made  Creams..........................................18
Plain Creams..................................................... 18
Decorated Creams.............................................20
String  Rock.......................................................15
Burnt Almonds..................................................22
Wintergreen  Berries........................................ 14
fancy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, in  pails..................................12
in b b ls................................. 11%
printed, in pails...............................12%
Chocolate Drops, in pails..................................12%
Gum Drops, in pails.........................................   6%
in bbls...........................................  5%
Moss Drops, in pails..........................................10
in bbls...........................................  9%
Sour Drops, in pails..........................................12
Imperials, in pails......................  
11%
in bbls...............................................10%
@8 50 
.4-25@5 00 
@6 50 
@19 
@ 5
.  © 4%
@ 5% 
.  @  9
.  7%@ 8 
.  5%@ 7 
.1  25@2 50
@17 
@15 
.13  ©15 
@ 9
,10%@11 
@14 
@ 12% 
.  7%@12

F R U IT S .
Oranges bbl............................
Lemons, choice.....................
“ 
fancy, large  case...
Figs, layers, new.................
“  Bags, 50 lb...................
Dates, frails, 50 lb ................
“  % frails, 50 lb........... .
Fard, 10-lb.  box........ .
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“  50-lb.  “ 
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Persian, 50-lb.  box__
Bananas.................................
Almonds, Tarragona.
Ivaca.........
California.
Brazils........................
Filberts,  Sicily..........
Walnuts, Grenoble.  .
California.. 
Pecans, Texas, H. P .. 
Cocoanuts, per 100__
Game Cocks__ ."........................................   @8%
Star..............................................................  @7%
Horse...........................................  
@6%

in bbls................................ 12

PEANUTS.

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Wholesale P rice  C urrent•

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

pay promptly a/nd buy in fu ll packages.

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

DRIED FRUITS—Domestic.
Apples, sun-dried......   5%@ 6
evaporated__ 7%@ 8
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Apricots, 
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Blackberries “ 
12
Nectarines  “ 
 
Peaches 
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12
...............
Plums 
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Raspberries  “ 
20
 
dried fruits—Citron.
In drum......................   @23
Inboxes......................  @25
Zante, in  barrels........  @5%

dried fruits—Currants.
in less quantity  @ 6

dried fruits—Prunes.

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dried fruits—Raisins.

Turkey........................  4  @4%
Bosna..................... . 
5%@ 6
California...................  9% @10
Valencias....................  @ 8%
Ondaras......................   @10
London  Layers,  Cali­
fornia.......................  @2 65
London Layers,  for’n.  @
Muscatels. California.  @2  10
DRIED  FRUITS—Peel.
Lemon..............................  
13
Orange.............................  
14
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina, 100 lb. kegs.............  04
Hominy,  per  bbl.......................3 SO
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box__   60
Pearl  Barley..................  @ 3
Peas, green..................  @1  40
“  split.....................  @ 3
Sago,  German.............  @ 6%
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’r l...  @ 6%
Wheat,  cracked..........  @ 6%
Vermicelli,  import__   @10
domestic...  @60

imported......   @10

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

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2 50
7 50
15 00

Jennings’ D. C. Lemon  Vanills 
2 oz. Panel, doz.  85 
1 40 
4 oz. 
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2 25 
6 oz. 
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1 00 
No.  3,  “ 
No.  8,  “ 
2 75 
No.10,  “ 
4 50 
No.  4, Taper,  “  1 60 
% pt,  Round, “  4 25 
1  “ 
“  8 50 
FISH—SALT.
Cod, whole.....................  @5
“  boneless..................  @ 7%
H alibut.......................... 10@11%
Herring,  round, % bbl.. 
2 50
“ 
gibbed..............  
2 75
“  Holland,  bbls.. 
10 00
“  kegs, new  @  85
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Scaled  .............  
“ 
25
Mack,  sh’s, No. 2,  %  bbl  11  00 
“  12  lb k it..165
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..1  45
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Trout,  %  bbls.............  @5 00
10  lb.  kits.................   75
White,  No. 1, % bbls............5 50
121b. kits.......115
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10 lb. kits.......  90
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Family,  % bbls..........2 35
kits................  50

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LICORICE.

LAMP WICKS.

K egs..........................................5 25
Half  kegs..................................2 88
No. 0....................................   30
No. 1..................................... 
40
No. 2..................................... 
50
Pure.......................................  30
Calabria................................  25
Sicily.....................................  18
Black  Strap......................  
23
Cuba Baking.....................22@25
Porto  Rico........................ 24@35
New Orleans, good............25@30
choice........ 33@38
fancy..........45@48

HOLASSES.

One-half barrels, 3c extra.

OATMEAL.
Muscatine, Barrels..............5 75
Half barrels........3 12
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Cases.........2  15@2 25
Muscatine, Barrels....  @5  75
Half bbls..  @3 12
Cases.........2  15@2 25

ROLLED OATS.

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OIL.

RICE.

PIPES.

PICKLES.

Michigan  Test....................   9
Water White.........................10%
Medium.................................5 50
“  % b b l......................3 00
Small,  bbl..............................6 25
“  %  bbl................... 
3 50
Clay, No.  216......................... 1 75
“  T. D. full count...........   75
Cob, No. 3.............................  40
Carolina head........................ 6%
“  No. 1....................... 5%
“  No. 2................ 5%@
“  No. 3....................... 5

Jap an ............................. 5%@6%
Common Fine per bbl..........  80
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks......   28
28 pocket............................... 2 05
 
60 
2  15
2 40
100 
 
Ashton bu. bags..................  75
75
Higgins  “ 
Warsaw “ 
37
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SALERATUS.

SEEDS.

DeLand’s,  pure..................... 5
Church’s, Cap  Sheaf............. 5
Dwight’s ................................ 5
Taylor’s .................................. 5
Mixed bird...........................  4%
Caraway................................ 10
Canary.................................   4
Hemp.....................................  4
Anise.....................................  8%
R ape.....................................  4%
Mustard......................  
7%
SHOE  POLISH.
Jettine, 1 doz. in  box............. 75
Scotch, in  bladders............. 37
Maccaboy, in jars................ 35
French Rappee, in Jars...... 43

SNUFF.

 

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Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands.

spices—Whole.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

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 OO
Cocoa Castile, Fancy............3 36
Happy Family,  75................. 2 95
Old Country, 80..................... 3 30
Una, 100.................... 
3 65
Bouncer, 100.......................... 3 15
Allspice........ .......................  9
Cassia, China in mats..........  8
Batavia in bund__ 11
Saigon in rolls.........40
Cloves,  Amboyna.................26
Zanzibar.................20
Mace  Batavia.......................80
Nutmegs, fancy....................80
“  No.  1........................75
“  No.  2........................70
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 18
“ 
white...  .26
shot..........................20
“ 
spices—Ground--In Bulk.
Allspice................................ 15
Cassia,  Batavia....................20
and  Saigon.25
“ 
“  Saigon.....................42
Cloves,  Amboyna.................32
“  Zanzibar..................25
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
Herbs & Spices, small......   65
large...... 1  25

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
STARCH.

Mystic,  64  pkgs....................4 48

barrels.......................6

“ 

“ 
“ 

Cut  Loaf.....................  @ 8%
Cubes..........................  @ 8%
Powdered...................   @ 8%
Granulated,H. &E.’s..  7%@ 7% 
Franklin..  7%@ 7%
Knight’s...  7%@ 7%
Confectionery  A........6%@ 6%
No. 1, White Extra C..  @7
No. 2 Extra 1C.............  @ 6%
No. 3 C, golden...........   ®  6%
No. 4 C, dark..............   @ 6
No. 5  C........................  @5%

SUGARS.

“ 
“ 

BATH BRICK.

“ 
“ 
1 lb. 
51b. 

Red Star, % lb. cans, 

% lb.  “ 
lib .  “ 
% lb.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 

% lb.  “ 
1 lb 
“ 
AXLE GREASE.

% lb. “ 
lib . “ 
bulk.........................  

“ % lb. 
“ % lb. 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

45
Arctic, % lb. cans, 6  doz... 
4  “  ... 
75
2  “  ... 1  40
“  2  “  ... 2  40
“  1  “  ...12 00
Absolute, % lb. cans, 100s. .11  75 
50s..10 00
50s..18 75
Teller’s,  % lb. cans, doz..  45
85
“  .. 
“  ..  1  50
75
Acme, % lb. cans, 3 doz  —  
2  “  .... 1  50
1  “  ...  3  00
20
45
85
1  50
Frazer’s................................ *2 60
Aurora..................................  1 75
Diamond.................................1 60
English, 2 doz. in case......  
80
Bristol,  2  “ 
....... 
75
American. 2 doz. in case... 
70
Gross
Arctic Liq,  4-oz.................  3 40
“  % pt...............   7 00
i p t............... io oo
8-oz paper bot  7 20
“ 
Pepper  Box  No.  2  3 00 
“  4  4 00
“  5  8 00
No. 2 Hurl............................  1 70
1  90
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet.........................  2 00
2  25
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem..........................   2 60
Common Whisk.................. 
90
Fancy 
..................  1  00
M ill.....................................   3 25
Warehouse............................ 2 75
Kings 100 lb. cases............... 5 00
“  80 lb. cases................. 4 25

“ 
bluing. 

BUCKWHEAT.

BROOKS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

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“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

 

 

 

 

 

BUTTERINE

 

 

 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

21b.  “ 
 

Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.

Dairy, solid  packed.................... 13
rolls.........................  
Creamery, solid packed—  
rolls.................. 
CANDLES.
“ 

14
15
16
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes................ 10%
9%
Star,  40 
Paraffine............................. 
'2
Wicking..............................  
25
CANNED GOODS—Fish.
Clams. 1 lb. Little Neck...... 1  20
Clam Chowder, 3 lb— .......2  10
Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stand —
“ 
....175
Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic...........il 50
“ 
2  lb.  “ 
2 65
“ 
1 lb.  Star.................2 00
“ 
2 lb. Star.................3 75
“ 
lib .  stand..............1 75
“ 
2 lb. 
3 00
“ 
31b.in Mustard...3  00
“ 
31b.  soused........... 3 00
Salmon, 1 lb.  Columbia..  . .1  90
1 lb.  Alaska........... 1  80
“ 
Sardines, domestic  %s............... 5
%s........@ 9
“ 
“  Mustard % s......  @10
imported  %s.......  13%
“ 
spiced,  %s.......... 
“ 
10
Trout, 3 lb. brook.............
CANNED GOODS—FrUitS.
Apples, gallons, stand.......... 2 40
Blackberries,  stand.............  90
Cherries, red standard......... 1 35
pitted.....................2 00
Damsons..............................   90
Egg Plums, stand................. 1 30
Gooseberries......................... 1 00
Grapes ..................................
Green  Gages......................... 1 30
Peaches, all  yellow, stand.. 1  70
seconds..................1  45
P ie.......................... 115
Pears......................................1 30
Pineapples..................1  50@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.............  90
“  Green  Limas—   @1  00
Strings..............   @  90
“ 
“  Stringless,  Erie..........  90
“  Lewis’ Boston Baked.. 1  40
Corn, Archer’s Trophy.........1 00
“  Morn’g Glory. 1  00
“ 
“ 
Early Golden. 1  00
“ 
Peas, French.........................1 68
“  extram arrofat...  @135
“  soaked..........................  80
“  June,  stand.................. 1 35
“ 
“  sifted.....................1 55
“  French, extra fine...  .150
Mushrooms, extra fine.........2 15
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden......... 1 00
Succotash,  standard...........   95
Squash..................................1 10
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat..  @1 00
Good Enough— 100
BenHar............... 1  00
stand br___  @1  00
Michigan Full  Cream 11%@12 
Sap  Sago...........   .......16  ©16%
CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
23
German Sweet..................  
35
Premium............................ 
Cocoa................................. 
38
Breakfast  Cocoa..............  
48
Broma................................ 
37
Rubber, 100 lumps................ 25
35
Spruce...................................30
Bulk......................................  6
Red.......................................   7%
Rio, fair.......................17  @19
“  good..................... 18%@20
“  prime...................   @21
“  fancy,  washed... 19  @22
“  golden..................20  @23
Santos..........................17  @22
Mexican & Guatemala 19  @23
Peaberry.....................20  @23
Java,  Interior.............20  @25
“  Mandheling__26  @29
Mocha, genuine..........25  @27
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.

CHEWING  GUH.
200 

coffee—Green.

CHICORY.

CHEESE.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

coffees—Package.

 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Jute 
“ 

“ 
COFFEE EXTRACT.

CLOTHES LINES.
50 f t........... 
“ 
“ 
60 f t........... 
70 ft........... 
“ 
“ 
80 ft........... 
60 ft..........  
“ 
72 ft’......... 
“ 
CONDENSED HILK.

100 lbs
Lion.......................................23%
“  in cabinets....................24%
M cLaughlin’s  XX X X__ 23%
Durham................................ 23%
Thompson’s Honey  Bee— 25%
Tiger...............23%
Good  Morning..................... 23%
Valley City.........................  
75
Felix..................................... 1  10
Cotton,  40 f t......... per doz.  1  25
1 50
1 60
2 00
2 25
1 00
1 15
Eagle...................................  7  50
Anglo-Swiss.......................   6  00
Kenosha Butter...................  8
...................   6
Seymour 
Butter...................................  6
“  family.........................   6
“  biscuit........................  7
Boston...................................  8
City Soda..............................  8
Soda......................................   6%
S. OyBter..............................  6
City Oyster, XXX..................  6
Picnic................................... 6
Strictly  pure......................  
Grocers’...................... .—  

CRACKERS.
“ 

CREAH TARTAR.

38
24

SY R U P S .

SA L  SODA.

Kegs....................................
Granulated,  boxes..............   2
Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box......   2 35
Hand, 
.......2 35
Silver Thread, 15 gallons.... 2  95 
...,4   75

3  “ 
S A U E R K R A U T .
“ 
“ 

SA PO L IO .
“ 

88 

“ 

“ 

Corn,  barrels.....................
one-half barrels....  @28
Pure  Sugar, bbl................28@36
half barrel... ,30@38
XXY
9%
»%
9%9
9
•6* ■ 4%

SW E E T   GOODS.
X
Ginger Snaps...............9
Sugar  Creams...........   9
Frosted  Creams........
Graham  Crackers......
Oatmeal  Crackers......
Boxes..............................
Kegs, English............!."

SO D A .

t e a s .

JA P A N

Regular.
....................14
@16
................... 18
@22
....................24
@29
....................30
@34
SUN  C U R E D .
....................14
@15
................... 16
@ 20
....................24
....................30  @33
B A S K E T   F IR E D .
@20
@25
@35
@40

F a ir__
Good ... 
Choice.. 
Choicest
F a ir__
Good ... 
Choice.. 
Choicest
F a ir...........................
Choice..
Choicest..............
Extra choice, wire leaf 
G U N PO W D E R .
Common to  fair......... 25
Extra fine to finest__ 50
@66
Choicest fancy........ ” 75
1 25
@85
!  _ 
2 25
Common to fair........  20  ©3B
3 25
Superior to fine.............40  @go
1 60
4 00
i 
j  Common to  fair........  ir  ¡a,w
6 00
Superior to  fine........... 30  @40
_ 
Common to fair........... 25  @30
Superior to  fine........30 
ISo
Fine to choicest.... .[ .S   @66
E N G L I8 H   B R E A K F A S T .
F a ir...........................   25
@30
Choice..............  
an
@35
Best................... ;....... «
Tea  Dust.......................g
@10
tobaccos—Plug.

imperial.

YO U N G  H Y SO N .

golong.

S. W. Venable & Co.’s Brands 
Nimrod, 4x12 and  2x12 
37
Reception, 2 2-5x12,16 oz ! ! ! !” 36 
Vinco, 1x6, 4% to  » . . 
30
Big 5 Center, 3x12,  12oz!"!Ü 34
Wheel, 5 to  f t... 
37
Trinket, 3x9, 9 oz__ ÜÜÜÜ.25
Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good........ 
*7
Double Pedro.........  
............37
Peach  Pie........ 
 
37
Wedding  Cake, blk!!!” ” ” ” 37 
“Tobacco” .............................. ..

tobaccos—Fine Cut.

gg

-  
“ 

D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands.

T R A D ESM A N  C R E D IT  COU PO N S.

Hiawatha...................  
Sweet  Cuba...........37
* 2, per hundred........ 
2 50
« 5 “ 
:::::::::::  * 5
w>,  “ 
5 00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts :
200 or over.............5  per  cent.
560 
1000

sogr.............................;;;;;; ,

40 gr.................................. 

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

*1 for barrel.

V IN E G A R .

*■

7

Y EA ST.

Fermentum,  Compressed.  . 

m i s c e l l a n e o u s .

Cocoa Shells,  bulk.............  714
Jelly, 30-lb.  pails.............. 
5
Sage....................................   15
PAPER & WOODENWARE

P A P E R .

 

Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol­

lows:
Straw ......................... 
760
“  Light  Weight..!!” !!Ü200
Sugar...................................   Ian
Hardware............... .!..!.!!..2 %
Bakers .
2 %
Dry  Goods...................”..” !!!5
Jute  Manilla......................!!!g
Red  Express  No. 1...........!’g
No. 2...............4
48 Cotton.............................  22
Cotton, No. 2..............!.!!!.2 0
“  3.............!!!!!!i8
Sea  Island, assorted..........40
No. 5 Hemp..............  
ir
No. 8 B............................. 
17
Wool.....................................  73

t w i n e s .

“ 

W O O D EN W A R E.

, 

“ 

“ 
‘ 

“ 
“ 

MEAL.

FLOUR.

WHEAT.

splint 

No. 2
No. 3 

Baskets, market.................. 
“ with covers  1 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Tubs, No. 1..........................  7 25
6  25 
.... ..............
5 25 
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop..
1  60 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop.. 
1  75 
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.. 
„
60
Bowls, 11 inch....................   1  00
................... !  1  25
13  “ 
15  “ 
....................2  00
17  “ 
....................  2 75
assorted, 17s and  17s  2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
40
bushel.................  1 50
90
willow cl’ths, No.l  5 75
“  No.2  6 25
“  No.3  7 25
“  No.l  3  50
“  No.2  4 25
“  No.3  5 00
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFPS
New. Old.
W hite...........................  80 
80
Red.............................. 
80
80 
All wheat bought  on 60 lb.  test.
Straight, in sacks..............  4 70
“  barrels............  4 90
Patent  “  sacks..............  5 70
“  barrels............  5 90
Bolted................................  2 20
Granulated.............. .........   2  45
MILLSTUFFS.
Bran...................................  11  00
Ships........................  
  11  00
Screenings........................  n   06
Middlings..........................  12  00
Mixed Feed.........................15 00
Coarse meal......................  15  00
Small  lots..........................  38
Car 
“  .........................!  36
Small  lots............................. 26
Car 
“  .............................24
NO. 1...................................35@40
No. 1...................................  1  10
No.2...................................  105
No. 1...................................  11  00
No. 2...................................  9 00
HIDES,  PELTS  and  FURS.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
G reen..........................  4  @4%
Part  Cured..................  @  4%
Full 
..................  @ 5
Dry..............................   5  @ 6
Dry  Kips  ...................   5  @ 6
Calfskins,  green...... 3  @ 4
cured...... 4%@ 5
Deacon skins..............10  @20

BARLEY.

HIDES.

CORN.

OATS.

HAY.

RYE.

“ 

“ 

 

% off for No. 2.

PELTS.

Shearlings.................. 10  @25
Estimated wool, per ft 20  @28

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow........................  3%@  4
Grease  butter.............3  @ 5
Switches.....................2  @2%
Ginseng......................2 00@2  75
Washed............................. 2S@30
Unwashed.........................13@22

WOOL.

Drugs 0  Medicines»

State Board of Pharmacy. 

One Y ear—O ttm ar E b e rb ac h ,A in  Arbor.
Two Y ears—Geo. McDonald, K alam azoo. 
Three Y ears—Stanley E. Parkill.O w osso. 
F o u r  Y ears—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Five Y ears—Jam es  Vernor, D etroit.
P resident—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon. 
S ecretary—Jas.  V ernor, D etroit.
T reasu rer—Geo.  McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Next  Meeting—At Lansing Novem ber 5 and 6.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.

President—F ran k  Inglis,  D etroit.
F irst Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, L ansing.
Bec’d V ice-President—H enry K ephart, B errien Springs- 
T hird Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, D etroit.
Secretary—H. J . Brown, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—Win D upont, Detroit.
Executive C om m ittee—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan ;  E. T. 
W ebb, Jackson;  D. E. P rall,  E ast Saginaw ;  Geo. Mc­
Donald, K alam azoo;  J. J. Crowley. Detroit.
Next M eeting—At  Saginaw , beginning th ird  Tuesday 
of Septem ber,  1 8 9 0 . _________ ________________
Grand  R a p i d s   Pharmaceutical 8ociety. 
P resident. J. W. H ayw ard.  S ecretary, F rank H. Escott.
Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association. 

P resid en t, F. D. Kipp;  S ecretary, A lbert Brower.
D e t r o i t   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty  

P resident, J.  W. Allen;  Secretary, W. F. Jackm an.

M u s k e g o n   D r u g   C l e r k s ’  A s s o c ia tio n . 
P resident. C. 8. Koon;  Secretary, J. W. H oyt.______

The Drug  Market.

Quinine  has  advanced,  both  foreign 
and  domestic  brands.  Opium  is  very 
firm and likely to be higher.  Morphia is 
unchanged.

The following articles will  freeze, and 
cannot safely be shipped in cold weather: 

“ 

“ 

Acid, Carbolic, Solution.

“  Walker’s Vinegar.

“  Phosphoric, Solution.
“  Phosphates, Horsford’s.
“ 
Phillip’s.
“  Ginger.

Ale,  Bass.
Ambrosia, Ring’s.
Aureoline, Pozzoni’s.
Robare’s.
“ 
Balm, Hagan’s Magnolia.
Beer.
Bitters, Hop.
Blacking,  Liquid Shoe.
Blondine,  Elliott’s.
Bloom of  Youth, Laird’s.
Blueing,  Liquid Laundry.
Bonkocine.
Bromo-Chloral um.
Butter Coloring.
Capsules,  Mathey Cayles’.
Carbon, Bisulphuret.
Catliolicon, Graefenberg’s.
Cementine, Freese’s.
Comedone, Perry’s.
Compound, Pinkham’s.
Crab Orchard Salts,  Jones’ Liquid. 
Cream, Funk’s of Roses.

Freeman’s.

Marchisi’s.

“  Gouraud’s Olympian.
“ 
Oriental.
Cure,  Ballard’s Asthma.
“  Benson’s Skin.
“  Miller’s Asthma.
Sanford’s Radical.
“ 
“ 
Syke’s Catarrh.
“  Warner’s Kidney and Liver.
“  Warner’s Rheumatic.

“ 

“ 

Damonia.
Drops,  Lyon’s.
Dye Colors, Liquid.
Extract, Colden’s Liquid Beef.

Hayden’s Viburnum Comp.
“ 
Herold’s Malt.
“ 
Hoff’s Malt.
“ 
Kennedy’s  Pinus  Canadensis.
“ 
“  Maguire’s Malt.
Nicholson’s Malt.
“ 
Pond’s.
“ 
“  Witch  Hazel.
Fluid,  Darby’s.
Food, Moxie,s Nerve.
“  Murdock’s Liquid.
Glycerine,  Pearl’s White.
Hair  Dye, Bachelor’s.
“  Renewer,  Hall’s.
“  Restorer, Allen’s.
‘  Vigor, Ayer’s.

“ 
“ 

Hydrastis,  Fluid.
Hydroleine.
Hypophosphites,  Winchester’s. 
Injection,  Brou’s.
G.
Matico.

“ 
“ 
Inks.
Iron, Dialized.
Lactart.
Lightning,  Horner’s  Rheumatic. 
Liquid Pearl,  Champlin’s.
Stoddard’s Peerless.
Lotion, Grafenberg’s  Eye.
Perry’s Moth and Freckle. 
Magnesia, Phillips’ Milk  of.
Meat Juice, Valentine’s.
Mucilage.
Oleo-Chyle.
Ongaline, Pray’s.
Panacea, Graenfenberg’s.
Papillon Remedies.
Pepsin, Shaffer’s Liquid.
Phenol Sodique.
Porter, Guiness’ Stout.
Remedies,  Liquid Catarrh.
Shoe Dressings.
Solution, Citrate Magnesia.

“ 
“ 
*• 

Fowler’s.
Labarraque’s.

Swift’s.

Specific, Crossiqan’s.
Syrup, Mother Noble’s.
Tar,  Forrest’s Juniper.
Tonic, Coca Beef.
“  Wilhoft’s.
Tricopherous, Barry’s.
Wash, Helmbold’s Rose.
Water,  Cherry Laurel.

“ 
Chlorine.
Congress.
“ 
“  Distilled.
Florida.
“ 
Gregg’s Constitution.
“ 
“ 
Hathorn.
“ 
Orange Flower.
“ 
Rose.
“ 
Thompson’s Eye.
Waters, Eye, all kinds.  •
“  Medicated.
“  Mineral.
The Folly of Cutting  Prices.

Edw ard C. Pfingst before K entucky P harm . Ass’n.
What  is  to  be  gained  by cutting  the 
prices of  patents and toilet articles ?
Probably,  for a short  time, sales  may 
increase,  but  the  cutter’s  neighbor  is 
sure  to  meet  his  prices.  Patent  med­
icines are not like groceries, dry goods or 
clothing;  the  consumer  will  not  buy 
them  because  he  can  get  them  cheap. 
They  are  never  bought  until  actually 
wanted, and  persons  wishing a bottle of 
sarsaparilla  will  pay  $1  as  quickly  as 
seventy-five  cents;  they  will  not  pur­
chase  your “Anti-chill  Mixture” at even 
less figures unless they are having chills, 
while  the  consumption  of  paregoric, 
arnica  and  camphor remains  very much 
the same, whether  the  price is ten cents 
an ounce or five.

Nor do the sales of  postage stamps and i 
telephone  nuisance  add  either  to  the j 
revenue  or  amiability of  temper  of  the j 
druggist.  The undue lowering of  prices 
may attract customers  from other stores, | 
but such  advantage  will  be  short-lived' i 
as the “cuts”  will  be  met, the  final  re­
sult  being a general  loss of  profit, with­
out any corresponding  gain.  While this | 
lowering of  profits is going  on,  expenses I 
usually remain  the  same  with  remark-1 
able pertinacity—the  landlord  more  apt 
to  raise  than  lower  the  rent,  and  the 
assessors of  taxes are anything but “cut­
ters.”  There  is  another  item  of  ex­
pense,  too,  which  must  be  taken  in ac­
count—“dea4 stock.”  The  most careful 
and  economical  buyer will  find  himself 
burdened  with  some  unsalable  goods, 
and those who  are  less  careful  will ac­
quire a  considerable  quantity  in  a  few 
years.
No  way  has  yet  been  invented  by 
which  the  attractive “bargain  counter” 
can be adapted to the drug business, and 
when things in that line die  they are apt 
to remain dead, indeed.  Then  there  are 
leakages and breakages and other wastes 
which are usually not taken into  consid­
eration  as  expeuses;  they are so, practi­
cally, nevertheless.  When  these  items 
are added to those  customarily put down 
in the expense  account, the  figures  will 
yield quite a respectable  total.
It stands to reason that the gross profit 
on the  business  done  must  bear such a 
relation to this total that the  man  doing 
business  may have enough left to live on. 
If this relation does  not exist, the result 
is easy to foresee.  The pharmacist will 
struggle  along,  perhaps through a short 
lifetime,  at the  end  of  which  it will be 
found that, in the  process  of  making  a 
poor living, he has sunk his capital, and, 
perhaps, left  his  family unprovided for. 
Such  unhappy  results,  it  can safely be 
predicted,  will  become  the  rule  if  the 
modem  notion  of  “Cheap  John”  drug 
stores is permitted to work  itself  out  in 
general practice. 
No  doubt  some  one  will say that the 
estimate of twenty-five per  cent.,  as  the 
expense of  conducting a retail  business, 
is too high;  but it is  easy enough to con­
vince yourself  that  the  estimate  is  not 
overdrawn, and if  you sum up the differ­
ent  items  of  rent,  clerk’s  hire,  boy or 
porter, insurance,  light,  fuel, taxes, tele­
phone,  charity calls  and other incidental 
items, you will be surprised  at  the  sum 
total.  In conclusion, I will say that, even 
where full,  legitimate prices are realized 
on all sales, the average retail druggist is 
but poorly paid for his time and services; 
that while your  neighbors,  the  butcher, 
groceryman, baker  or  even  shoemaker, 
are gradually  accumulating  money  and 
getting rich,  the  poor druggist is becom­
ing gray and remaining  poor;  and, were 
it not for the love of his profession, would 
be better  off  in  conducting  some  other 
business  which  would not be dependent 
upon the ailments  of  mankind for a liv­
ing, and wherein his capacities as a mer­
chant  would  find a more  extensive  and 
lucrative field of labor.

•

No  Taxation  Without  Representation. 
From  th e P harm aceutical Era.
The  Board  of  Pharmacy of  any  state 
is, or should be, the  servant of  the phar­
macists of  that  state. 
It is created  and 
maintained for the sole  purposes of  con­
serving the interests of pharmacists, pro­
tecting them  against  unlawful encroach­
ments  and  onerous  restrictions,  prose­
cuting  wrongdoers, in  these  and  many 
other ways watching  over, elevating and 
lending dignity to the  chosen  calling  of 
its  constituents.  Therefore is it  proper 
and  eminently  just  that  the  druggists 
should  be  the  persons to  choose  those 
who  are  to  represent  them. 
In  most 
states  this  privilege  is  theirs,  but 
Michigan  it is otherwise.  The chief ex­
ecutive is at liberty to  appoint  whom he 
may.  His appointments  upon the Mich­
igan Board of  Pharmacy have been wise, 
have  given  universal  satisfaction,  and 
upon  the  character  and  amount of  the 
work  accomplished  by this  Board  have 
been  heard  no  adverse  criticisms,  yet 
druggists, the ones most interested in the 
operations of  the Board, feel with justice 
that they should be allowed  some  choice 
iu  the  selection of  members thereof.  It 
is a repetition, in miniature, of  the little 
fracas  that  occurred in Boston Harbor a 
trifle  over  a  hundred  years  ago.  “No 
taxation without representation.”
The M.  S.  P.  A.,  at its  recent  session 
wisely considered this  subject  and  took 
decisive  action  which  will meet the ap­
proval  of  the  body of  pharmacists. 
In 
a petition  to  the  Governor,  His  Excel 
lency will  be  respectfully  requested  to 
choose from the  three  gentlemen  whose 
names  are  presented,  one to succeed, as 
member  of  the  Board  or  Pharmacy, 
Ottmar  Eberbach,  of  Ann  Arbor, whose 
term of  office expires  with  December of 
this  year.  The  name of  Eberbach  him­
self  heads  this  list,  the  others  being 
Hugo  Thum,  Grand  Rapids,  and  Geo. 
Gundrum, Ionia.
The Association realizes it has no legal 
right  to  dictate  the appointment of any 
one of  these  geatlemen, but  confidently 
believes  the  Governor  will  consider its 
request, expressing, as it does, the desires 
of  the  organized  body  of  druggists  of 
the State.
Legislation  is  proverbially  slow  and 
uncertain, but the time is not far distant, 
it is hoped, when  the  druggists of  Mich­
igan will be  accorded the legal  right and 
privilege of  selecting the  men who shall 
serve them upon the Board.

The Wizard’s Predictions.

Thomas  A.  Edison  asserts  that  in  a 
few  years the world will be one gigantic 
ear.  Nobody will  then  dare  to  gossip, 
for fear  of  being  overheard  by  a  con­
cealed  phonograph.  Surely such a con­
dition  would  mark a long  step  towards 
the millenium. 
If  the harm done in the 
world by indiscreet  tongues could be es­
timated,  it would be found that the  mis­
ery of the human race is to a great extent 
due to the misrepresentations  of  people 
who  would  rather  talk  malicious  non­
sense than remain silent.

Every Man to His  Trade.

Tramp—Madam, will you  please  give 
me something to eat?
Lady—Yes, I will give  you  something 
if you will work for it.
Tramp—Certainly, madam;  I  will  be 
pleased to work for you in the line of my 
trade.

Lady—What is your trade?
Tramp—Grave digger.

E X A M IN A T IO N   Q U E S T IO N S .

Of the  N ebraska  S tate  Board  o f  P har­

m acy.

THEORETICAL  PHARMACY.

officinal ?
extract ergot ?

1.  What are vapors ?  How  many are 
2.  What acid  is  used  in  making fluid 
3.  Name a few officinal plasters ?
4.  When,  and how are poisonous drugs 
administered ?
5.  Give  the  theory  for  the  color  in 
chemicals ?
6.  What action  has  light  upon nearly 
all alkaline drugs ?
7.  What  menstruum  is  employed  in 
pharmacy when  percolating  drugs  that 
contain but little gums, resin or oil ?
8.  How many kinds  of  turpentine are 
officinal?  Name them.

PRACTICAL  PHARMACY.

Tr. Ferri Chloride, U. S. P.
der.
ture.
Ammonia and Aqua Ammonia?
of Turpentine and Oil of Turpentine ?

1.  Give  formula  and  preparation  of 
2.  Give formula for one  Seidlitz  Pow­
3.  Give formula for  4  oz.‘Chalk  Mix­
4.  What is the difference between Spts. 
5.  What is the difference between Spts. 
6.  Give  the  exact  difference  between
le  dram  Troy  and  one-eight  ounce
Avoirdupois.  Give the number of grains 
in one pound Avoirdupois.
7.  Name the best solvent for  (1.)  Iod­
ine.  (2.) Phosphorus.  (3.) Gutta Percha. 
(4.) Strychnia.
8.  What is meant  by an  officinal  pre­
paration ?  Name a few of them.
9.  What proportion  of  the crude drug 
does an ounce of fluid-Extract represent?
10.  Criticise the following prescription:
Sul.  Quinine........................................ grains, 30
Elixir Gentian and Iron....................ounces,  1
Fluid Extract Licorice...................... ounces,  34
Fluid Extract Aconite....................... ounces,  134
Simple Syrup.......................................ounces,  1

Mix.  Two teaspoonfuls every thiee hours.

MATERIA  MEDICA.

1.  Name  five  vegetable  astringents, 
and state average adult dose of each.
2.  Give the  pharmacopoeial  name  and 
therapeutic  action  of 
the  following 
plants:  Boneset,  Ladies’  Slipper,  Ele­
campane.
3.  Liquor Sodae Chlorinatse.  Give the
common name and state medical uses.
4.  Give the average  adult dose  of  the
following officinal  preparations,  viz:  1. 
Fluid Extract Pulsatilla, 2.  Sulphate At­
ropine,  3.  Oleum  Tiglii,  4.  Sulphate 
Strychnine, 5.  Resina Podophylli.
5.  Name five vegetable  cathartics, and 
state average adult dose of each.
6.  Scilla, state medical properties, and 
officinal  preparations and average  adult 
dose of each preparation.
7.  What is Oil of  Vitriol,  White  Vit­
riol,  Blue  Vitriol  and  Green  Vitriol ? 
Tell what  you know about each and how 
they are obtained.
8.  What parts of  the  following  plants 
are used  in  medicine ?  Arnica, Cubebs, 
Catechu, Capsicum and Dandelion.
9.  Axungia  Porcia.  With  what  is  it 
largely adulterated?  State  tests  to  de­
tect  adulterants  and  give  the  officinal 
preparations of which it is a constituent.
10.  Identification of  drugs,  ten  varie­
ties.

TOXICOLOGY.

Give antidote for  poisoning by each of 
the following,  also how  you  would  treat 
the same:

1.  Morphise Sulphas.
2.  Belladonna.
3.  Cantharides.
4.  Creasote.
5.  Tr. Gelsemium.
Give maximum doses of  the following:
6.  Sulphate Atropia.
7.  Tr. Nux Vomica.
8.  Chloral Hydrate.
9.  Liquor Potassa Ars.
Give maximum dose of all preparations 

containing Opium.

CHEMISTRY.

Give the chemical  name  for  Prussian 
Blue.  What chemical  would  you add to 
make it soluble ?  Why?
2.  What is essential for the  generation 
and  production  of  Volatile  Oil of  Mus­
tard prior to  the  process of  distillation ? 
Why?
3.  Give the  best  antidote to  poisoning 
by Oxalic  Acid.
4.  What  is  the  chief  source  of  Am­
monia ?  Give its chemical formula.
5.  How  would  you  determine 
the 
point of  neutralization  when an alkali is 
added to an  acid ?
6.  Give the chemical  and  physical dif­
ference between  Calomel  and  Corrosive 
Sublimate.
takes  place 
when Chlorate of  Potash is heated ?

7.  What  decomposition 
8.  Name the acids of  Sulphur.
9.  What  reactions  and  changes  take 
10.  What action  has  Permanganate of 
11.  What action  has  Nitrate of  Silver 

place when Seidlitz Powder is mixed ?
Potash upon organic matter ?
on organic matter ?

stepped 

Who  Wants this  Customer?
P utnam , Conn., Correspondence New York Snn.
Arnold Thompson is only sixteen years 
old, but he is over six  feet  tall  and  his 
feet  are  famous.  They are bigger  than 
any  other  feet  in  Windham county and 
perhaps  in  the  New  England  States. 
Young  Thompson 
into  Eli 
Tracy’s shoe shop at Central  Village the 
other day and said he  would like to have 
the shoe  man  make him a pair of  boots.
“All  right,”  said Eli,  “just  put  your 
foot  on  this  measure  and  I’ll get  your 
size.”
Thompson  tried to do as he  had  been 
bidden,  but  found it impossible to com­
ply  with  the  request.  Although Tracy 
slipped  the  marker out to the  jumping- 
off  place on the  measure, there  was  not 
nearly room  enough to accommodate  the 
young man’s  extraordinary foot.
“Well,”  said  he,  looking  up  aghast, 
“I never!  You beat  the  record.  What 
size boot do  you usually wear?”
“Oh, generally I can get on  sixteens,” 
replied  the  youth,  with  ingenuous com­
placency,  “but  latterly they’ve  pinched 
my feet some, and I guess I’ll take a size 
or two larger this time.”
Tracy then made  an  approximate esti­
mate of  the  big  foot, and  found  that it 
called  for  a boot  one  inch  and  a  half 
longer  than  his  measure.  “I  can’t  fill 
the bill for  you,” said he,  “for  you  take 
a boot that is bigger than any last that is 
made.”
So  young  Thompson  had  to  go  away 
without  hope,  and  he  is  in a dilemma. 
The prospect is that  he  will  have to go

Carb.............................  12®  15
Chlorate,  (po. 18)........  16®  18
Cyanide......................   50@  55
Iodide...........................2 
80@2 90
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

40@2 50

R A D IX .

Aconitum...................   20®  25
Althae..........................  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. 5(i).....................  ©  45
Hellebore,  Ala,  po—   15@  20
Inula,  po.....................  15@  20
Ipecac,  po....................2 
Iris  plox (po. 20@22)..  18@  20
Jalapa,  p r...................   25@  30
Maranta,  34s ..............   @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15@  18
Rhei  .......................   75@100
cut..................   ©1 75
pv........................... 75@1  35
Spigelia........................  48® 53
Sanguinaria,  (po  25)..  ®  20
Serpentaria...................   40® J5
Senega..........................  60® 65
Similax,  Officinalis, H  @ 40
«*  M  @  20
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
dus,  po.....................  @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
15©  20
Zingiber a .....................  10® 15
Zingiber  j .....................  22® 25

“  German... 

‘ 

SEM EN .

Anisum,  (po.  20)........  @  15
Apium  (graveleons)..  10®  12
Bird, Is........................ 
4® 6
Carui, (IK). 18)...............  
8® 12
Cardamon.................... 1 
00@1 25
CoTlandrum..................  10® 12
Cannabis Sativa..........334® 
4
Cydonium.....................  75@1 00
Cnenopodium  .............  10@ 12
Dipterfx Odorate........ 1  75@1  85
Foeniculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.......... 
6@  8
L in i.............................4  @434
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 4  ) ...  434@ 4)4
Lobelia.. .......................   35@ 40
Pharlaris Canarian—   334® 434
R apa.............................. 
6®  7
Sinapis,  Albu...............  
8®  9
Nigra...........  11®  12

“ 

S P IB IT U S .

1 

 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Frumenti, W., D.  Co. .2 00@2 50
D. F. R ........1  75@2 00
Juniperis  Co. O. T —  1 75@1  75
........... 1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  E ......... 1 75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............ 1 75@6 50
Vini Oporto.................1 
Vini  Alba.................... 1 

25@2 00
25@2 00

10@1 50

SPO N G ES.

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

25@2 50
2  00 
1  10

1  40

S Y R U PS.

Accacia................................  50
Zingiber  ..............................   50
Ipecac...................................   60
Ferri  Iod..............................   50
Auranti  Cortes.....................  56
Rhei  Aram...........................   50
Similax  Officinalis..............
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Scillae...................................   50
“  Co..............................   50
Tolutan................................  50
Prunus  virg..........................  50

“ 

“ 

T IN C T U R E S .

 

 

 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Aconitum Napellis R ..........  60
F ..........  50
Aloes.....................................  60
and myrrh..................  60
A rnica..................................  50
Asafoetida.............................  50
Atrope Belladonna..............   60
Benzoin................................   60
Co...........................   50
Sanguinaria.............  
50
Barosma..............................   50
Cantharides..........................  75
Capsicum.............................  50
Cardamon.............................  75
Co......................   75
Castor...................................1 00
Catechu................................  50
Cinehona...................... 
50
Co......................   60
Columba..............................   50
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 ino.....................................  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
50
Serpentaria..........................  50
Stramonium..........................  60
Tolutan................................  60
V alerian..............................   50
Veratrum Veride..................  50

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

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

M ISC ELLA N EO U S.

A C ID U M .

8® J®
Aceticum...................... 
80@ 1  00
B e n z o i c u m ,   G e r m a n . .  
Boracic 
92
..................... 
C a r b o l i c u m ............................  
4 0 ®   4 o
Citricum ..................... 
®
H y d r o c h l o r .......................... 
g
N itrocum .....................  Jg® Y
Oxalicum.....................  13@ «
P h o s p h o r i u m   d i i
Salicylicum................1  f0@l  80
Sulphurieum..............   1*©  ®
Tannicum...................1  40@1  60
'Tartarienm..................  4U<®

a m m o n i a .

3®
4 ®  

“  

A q u a ,   16   d e g ............
*
Carbonas  ...................   Jj®  “
14
C h l o r i d u m ............................  

18  d e g ....................... 

ANILINE.
R l a e k  
..........................2   0 0 @ 2   25
B r o w n ........................................  
8 0 ® 1 0 0
B r o w n . . . .  
.......................... 
4 5 ©   50
Y e U o W       .................................2   5 0 0 3   0 0

BACCAE.

Cubeae (po. 1 60........1 85®2 00
Juniperus...................
30
Xantnoxylum.............  «*©

bxlsamum.

^

P e
T e r a b i n ,   C a n a d a  
4 5 ®   50
Tolutan......................   *5®  90

* ® i
..........  

»

5 5 ®   60

C O R TEX .

Abies,  Canadian.................
Cassiae  ................................
C i n c h o n a  F l a v a .............................
Euonymus  atropurp...........   go
Myrica  Cerifera, po............. 
f i
Prunus Virgini..................... 
ig
Quillaia,  g rd .....................   fg
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)........  
io

extbactum.

Glycyrrhiza  Glabra...  M g  *

1 1 ®   12
1 3 ®
1 4 ®
1 6 ®

@   15 
® 3   50 
@   80  
®   50  
®   15  
2 
7

1 34©

1 4 ®
3 0 ®
3 0 ®

10®   12

2 5 ®
3 5 ®

H a e m a t o x ,  15   l b .   b o x . .  
I s ...................
34®.............
34s .............
F E B R U M .

“  
“ 
“ 

Carbonate Precip. —  
Citrate and Quima... 
Citrate  Soluble.......
Ferrocyanidum Sol...
Solut  Chloride.........
Sulphate,  com’l ........
pure...........

“ 

F L O R A .

Amica ... 
Anthémis  . 
Matricaria

f o l i a .

.....•   ••••••
Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin- 
nivelly ......  -•••••-
A * x .
Salvia  officinalis,  14s
and  34s.....................
UraUrsi......................

** 

* 

GUM MI.

“
“ 

® 1  00 
®   90

“ 
« 
» 

5 0 ®®

2 5 ®©

5 0 ®
3 5 ®
3 5 ®

Acacia,  1st  picked —  
....

2d 
3d 
sifted sorts.
®   65
p o ..................  75@1  00
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60)...  " V5*  fin 
60  
12 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...
“  Socotri, (po.  60).
50
Catechu, Is, (34s> 14 34s!
1
16) — ..................
Ammoniae...........
30  
Assafcetida, (po. 30)...
15 
Benzoinum..................
55  
Camphor*...................
38  
Euphorbium  po  ........
10 
Galbanum...................
80  
Gamboge,  po...... . —
95 
Guaiacum,  (po. 45) —
®   40  
®  20 
Kino,  (po.  25).............
@1  00 
M astic........................
Myrrh, (po  45)
@   4 0  
Opii,  (pc. 5 10)......
3   6 0 @ 3   6 5
Shellac  ..  ..................  30©  52
bleached........  28®  30
Tragacanth................  80®  71

“ 
herba—In ounce packages.
Absinthium.......................... 
jj®
Eupatorium
Lobelia.................................   ~
Majorum..............................
Mentha  Piperita..................
“  Vir.....................
Rue........................................
Tanacetum, Y ......................
Thymus,  Y...........................

M A G N ESIA .

Calcined, Pat..............  55®
Carbonate,  P a t ..........  20®
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20® 
Carbonate, Jenning5
O LEU M .

3 5 ®   3 6

Absinthium.....................5 <W@5 59
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45@  75
Amydalae, Amarae— 7 25@7  50
A ffisi....’...................1  85@195
Auranti  Cortex..........  @2  50
Bergami!  ................... 2 80®3 00
Cajiputi......................   90@1  00
Caryophylli................  @1  50
C edar..........................  35®  65
Chenopodii................  @1
Cinnamomi..................... 1 35@1 40
Citronella..................   @ 75
Conium  Mac..............   35@  65
Copaiba......................   90@1  00
Cubebae.................16 00@16 JJ0
Exechthitos................  90@1  00
Erigeron.......................... 1 20@1 30
Gaultheria.......................2 20@2 30
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 Verid..................2 50@2 60
Morrhuae, gal.............  80@1  00
Myrcia, ounce................   @ 50
Olive...............................1  00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
R icini...............................1  20@1 28
Rosmarini............. 
75@1  00
Rosae,  ounce..................  @8 00
Succini........................  40®  45
Sabina.......................  90@1  00
Santal  ........................3 50@7  00
Sassafras.....................  55®  60
Sinapis, ess, ounce....  @  65
Tiglii..........! ...............  @150
Thym e.......................   40®  50
opt  ................  @  60
Theobromas................  15®  20
BiCarb........................  15®  18
Bichromate................  13®  14
Bromide......................   37®  40

POTASSIUM.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

10©
15®
4 ®

Antipyrin.........................1  35@1 40
Argenti  Nitras, ounce  @  68
Arsenicum.................  
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......   38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............. 2  10®2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (34s
11;  34s,  12)..............   @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
p o .............................  @1  75
Capsicl  Fructus, a f ...  @  18
po—   @  16
@  14
B po. 
Caryophyllus,  (po.  28)  23®  25
Carmine,  No. 40..........  @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................   28@  30
Coccus........................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  15
Centrarla....................   @  10
Cetaceum...................   @  35
Chloroform................  32®  35
squlbbs ..  @1  00
Chloral Hyd Crst.........1  50@1  75
Chondrus
Cinchonidine, P.  &  W 
“ 
German 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  ....................
Creasotum...............
Creta, (bbl. 75)..........
5®
“  prep...................
8®
“  precip................
“  Rubra................
Crocus  ........................
35®
_
Cudbear......................  
Cupri Sulph................ 
8®
io@
D extrine..................... 
Ether Sulph................  68®
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po...................  @
Ergota,  (po.)  45...__   40@
Flake  White..............   12®
G alla...........................  @
Gambier......................  
io@
Gelatin,  Cooper..........  @
French...........  40®
“ 
Glassware  flint,  75  & 10 per 
eent. by box 70 less
Glue,  Brown..............  
9®
“  White................  13®
Glycerina...................   22®
Grana Paradisi...........  @
Humulus.....................  25®
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..  @
“  C or__   @
Ox Rubrum  @1  00 
Ammoniati. 
@1  10 
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum...........
Ichthyobolla,  Am...... 1  25@1  50
Indigo.........................   75@1  00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 ?E@3 85
Iodoform.....................  @4  70
Lupulin......................   83@1  00
Lycopodium................  55®
M acls..........................
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararglod....’...........
10®
Liquor Potass Arsinitis 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
134)...........................  
2®
Mannia,  S. F ................   45@
Morphia,  S.  P. & W .. .2 65@2  90 
C. C o....................... 2 65@2 90
Moschus  Canton........  @ 40
Myristlca,  No. 1.........   60®  70
Nux Vomica,  (po 20)..  @ 1 0
Os.  Sepia.....................  28®  30
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co.............................
@2 00
Picis  Liq, N.  C., 34 gal
doz  ..........................
@2  00 
Picis Liq., q u arts......
@1  00 
pints.......... 
@  70 
0
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @
@  50 
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)..  @
@  18 
Piper Alba,  (po go)__   @
@  35
Pix  Burgun................  ©
Plumbi A cet..............   14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......   @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  35@  40
8@  10
Quassiae..................... 
Quinia, S. P. & W ......   42@  4!
S.  German__   33®  4!
Rubia  Tinctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lac tis pv..  @ 35
Salacin....................... 2 25@2 35
Sanguis  Draconis......   40®  50
Santonine  .................   @4 50
Sapo,  W......................   12®  14

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

Roll..............   234® 3

“  M........................
’*  G...... . 
.......
Seidlitz  Mixture........
Sinapis........................
opt...................
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes........................
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes 
il@ 
Soda Boras, (po. 12}.  . 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  30@
Soda Carb...................  
2@  234
Soda,  Bi-Carb............. 
4®  5
Soda,  Ash................... 
3®  4
Soda, Sulphas................   @ 2
Spts. Ether Co'...........   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%@  334
Tamarinds.................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  30
Theobromae..............   50@  55
Vanilla...................... 9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph................ 
7®  8
Bbl.  Gal
Whale, winter...........  70 
70
Lard,  extra................  55 
60
50
Lard, No.  1................   45 
61
Linseed, pure raw ....  58 
64
Lindseed,  boiled__   61 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
69
strained..................  50 
Spirits Turpentine__   53 
58
lb.
bbl. 
Red  Venetian..............134  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__134  2@4
Ber........ 134  2@3
“ 
Putty,  commercial__ 234  234@3
“  strictly  pure.......234  234@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ........................... 
13@16
Vermilion,  English_________  70@75
Green,  Peninsular..................... 70@75
Lead,  red.....................  634@734
“  w h ite................  634©714
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

paints. 

O IL S.

“ 

‘ 
“ 

* 
ground,  (po.

Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  26®  28
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alomen......................  234® 334
7)..............................   3®  4
Annatto......................   55®  60
Antimobi, po..............   4®  5

“ et Potass T.  55®  60

V A R N ISH E S.

No. 1 Turp  Coach.......1  10@1  20
Extra Turn..................1  60@1 70
Coach Body................ 2 75®3 00
No. 1 Turp F um ........ 1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__ 1  55® 1  60
Jaroan
t v ........................  70®  75
Tun

Dryer,  No.  1

The Best Furniture Finish in the  Market. 

Specially  adapted  for  Pianos, 

Organs and Hard Woods.

Uni-ioli-ina  will  remove  grease  and  dirt, and 
ru llo llilld   will add a lustre which for  beauty 
and durability cannot be excelled.
Clnli olii no  is clean  and  easy  to  use,  as  full 
r u llo llilld   directions accompany  each  bottle.
IloliolrinQ   is  Put  UP  in  LARGE  BOTTLES, 
rO ilo liilld   and is sold at the moderate price of 
Twenty-five Cents.
Dnli oh ino  is the Best Furniture Finish in the 
rU ilo llllld   market.  Try it, andmake your old 
furniture look fresh and new.
Unit oil-inn  is for sale  by all Druggists, Furni- 
rU llo llllld   ture  Dealers,  Grocery  and  Hard­
ware Stores.

BEWARE  OF IMITATIONS.

FOR  SALE  WHOLESALE

HiXELTINE  i   PERKINS  DRU6  C0„

GRAND RAPIDS.  MICH.

CURES

L iver and 

K idn ey Troubles 
Blood D iseases 

Cons tipation

---- AND-----

F e m a l e

Complaints

Being composed entirely of  HERBS, 1’ 
is the only perfectly harmless  remedy on 
the market and  is  recommended  by  al) 
who use it.

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

Place your order w ith  our  Wholesale 

House.Diamond  (fle tae  Go.,

P B O P B IE T O B S ,

DETROIT,  -  MIOH.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

WHOLESALE  AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

unshod during the  remainder of  his life, 
unless  he  can  persuade  some  liberal- 
soled contractor to make a last especially 
for  his  use,  which  will  be  expensive. 
Thompson is not the  only six-footer  and 
big-footer in his family.  He has a sister 
who  is  six  feet  tall,  but it wouldn’t do 
for any one to draw  further conclusions.

He Knew.

Teacher (to class in arithmetic):  “John 
goes  marketing.  He  buys  two  and  a 
quarter pounds  of  sugar at eleven cents 
a pound,  two dozen eggs at sixteen cents 
a dozen,  and a gallon and a half of  milk 
at twenty cents a gallon.  What  does  it 
all make ?”
Smallest Boy (hugging  himself  ecsta- 
tically) : “Custard.”______________ _
G I N S E N G   R O O T .
We pay th e  hlgheet price for it.  Address 

T jr m r   n n n o   Wholesale  Druggists, 

D iiU O .t  GRAND RAPIDS.

LIQUOR X POISON  RECORD

COMBINED.

Acknowledged to be the

B e s t o n  th e  M a r k e t.
I p^

E. A.  STOWE i BRO-.g^ an^

s

“the old original.H 

e a l ’s

RE-PAINT
' T

""  75 cts.

C a r r i a g e
P aints

UADI  ONLY BY
ACME
White  Leid and 
Celer Works,
DETROIT, MICH.

T H E   M O S T  R E L I A B L E   F O O D  
For Ieifaeits an d   Invalids, 
f t ]   B I T   U   m A   Used  everywhere,  with  unqualified 
P ^ | I I I  M  W ftL   success.  \o t a medicine, b ut a steam - 
cooked  f o o d y   suited  to  th e  weakest 
stomach.  Take  no  other.  Sold  by 
druggists.  In  cans, 35c. and upward. 
W oolrich  &  Co. on  every label.

Wholesale  D rice  Current.

Advanced—Quinine, Opium, Opium (po).

HAZELTINE

&  P E R K IN S

DRUG  CO.

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

-

- D R U G S -

Chemicals  and  Druggists’  Sundries.

Dealers  in

Patent Medieines, Paints,  Oils, Varnishes.

Sole  Agentsjfor  the  Celebrated  Pioneer  Prepared  Paints.

We  are  Sole  Proprietors  of

WEATHERLY’S  MICHIGAN  CATARRH  REMEDY.

We have in stock and offer a fall line of

W h i s k i e s ,   B r a n d ie s ,

G in s ,  W i n e s ,  B um s.

W e are  Sole  Agents  in  Michigan  for  W. D. & Oon 

Henderson County, Hand Made  Sour Mash

Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite

Rye  Whisky.

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

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

toltine i  Pßrkins  Drug  Bo.
War Claims a Specialty.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

JP OIsISHINA.

(t r a d e   m a r k   r e g is t e r e d )

PENSIONS  FOR  DISABLED  SOLDIERS, 
their widows and children.
INCREASE  PENSIONS for  those  whose  dis­
abilities have increased, and for those who have 
become  entitled  to a higher  rate  by  a  depart­
mental ruling, or by act of  Congress.
VETERAN  BOUNTIES to all soldiers who re­
enlisted on or before  April  1,  1864,  during  the 
war of the rebellion,  having  previously  served 
in  the  army  at  any  time  for  a period  of  (or 
periods aggregating)  nine months.
OFFICERS’  TRAVEL  PAY  now  collectable 
in every instance where a discharge  or  resigna­
tion was based upon a disability incurred in ser­
vice.
ALL  KINDS  OF  CLAIMS  diligently  and per­
sistently prosecuted.
Sixteen years experience.  My  fees  and  other 
charges are  moderate  and  in  accordance  with 
the law.
ADVICE  FREE and  CHEERFULLY  GIVEN.
REFERENCES in every County  in  Michigan 
F. I. DARLING, Attorney,

on application.

Late  Special  Exam iner  0 . S. Bureau  of  Pensions, 

4 6   O ld   H o u s e m a n   B u i l d i n g ,

Grand Rapids, MIA,

SUSPENDED !

W
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PQ

J E T T I N E .

Warranted  not  to  Thicken,  Sour  or  Mold In 
any climate.  Quality Guaranteed Against Injury 
by Freezing.  AH  others  worthless  after freez 
ing.  See quotation.  MARTELL BLACKING 
CO., Sole Manufacturers, Chicago, HI.

WATCH  FOR

LYNGH’8  BEAUTY,

B e s t 

C ig a r

o n   th e   M a r k e t.

D. LYNCH,  Sole Owner,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

S.  P .  B e n n e tt,
The “Live COAL Man.”

Wilkesbarre and Pittston Anthracite 
Coal, Cumberland  Blossburg  Smith­
ing Coal, 72-hour  Connelsville Coke.

year around.  Write for prices.

A large supply  of  the  above  coals on track the 
8. P. BENNETT,  Grand Rapids, Mich.
Special  N otice !
All smithing coals sold  by us we guar­
antee to be mined  from  the  BIG  VEIN 
in the Georges  Creek  District.  This is 
the coal so  favorbly known as Piedmont 
or  Cumberland  Blossburg,  and  stands 
unrivalled for smithing purposes.

A   WN I N G S

AND  TENTS.

Horse and W agon  Covers.  W ater  Proof  Coats, Boggy 
Aprons, W ide C otton  Ducks, etc.  Send fo r  Illustraved 
Catalogue.

Ghas. .A.  C o y e ,

Telephone 106. 

11 Pearl St.

Errand Rapids  Fire  Insurance  Co.

Cash  Capital,  $200,000.

HI STO K Y—Commenced  Business  Novem­

ber,  1882:

Year.
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888

J

I

Assets 
Dec. 31st.
$100,359 «30
109,793
115,670
126.257
239,501
275,595
300,227

Total
Income.
®“
o
25,276
40,933
51,054
57,759
102,181
123,240

Total 
Expend’s Surplus.
o $ 2,675
16,505
35,142
41.168
45,660
66,556
99,249

$ 5,378
20,695
35,983

DIRECTORS:

Julius Houseman, George  W.  Gay,  Martin  L. 
Sweet,  I.  M.  Weston,  H.  Widdieomb,  J.  W. 
Champlin, D. A. Blodgett, S. F. Aspinwall, James 
Blair, T. Stewart White, Philo C. Fuller, E. Crof- 
ton Fox, A. J. Bowne,  Thos.  M.  Peck,  Francis 
Letellier, Grand Rapids;  C. T. Hills, Muskegon;
R.  A.  Alger,  Detroit;  Dwight  Cutler,  Grand 
Haven;  F.  B.  Stock bridge,  Kalamazoo;  O.  M. 
Barnes, Lansing;  W. R. Burt, East  Saginaw.

JULIUS  HOUSEMAN, President.
S. F. ASPINWALL, Secretary.

WAY  WEAR  PANTS
That  do  nor.  fit  or  wear  satisfac­
torily,  when  you  can  buy  the 
Detroit Brand,  that  are perfect in 
style and workmanship.

J acob Brow n&Cos

P erfect Fit,
S u p e rio r/^ a k e -

■&NTS and
O V E r â l l A
a s k   t o r   t h e m :.

TIME  TABLES.

Grand  Rapids  & Indiana.

In effect Oct. 6, 1889.
TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

GOING SOUTH.

Arrive.
.............. 7:00 a  m
.............9:30 a m
...........  8:45 p m

Cincinnati  Express.............
F o rt W ayne Express...........
Cincinnati  Express..............
K alam azoo and C hicago...

Traverse City & M ackinaw 
Traverse  City  E x p ress....
Prom C incinnati..................

Leave. 
7:20 a  m 
11:30 a  m
p
7:00 a  m 
12:45 a m 
6:00 p m 
11:05pm
Train leaving fo r Cincinnati a t 6 p.  m.  and  arriv in g  
from   C incinnati  a t  7 p.  m.,  runs  daily,  Sundays  in­
cluded.  O ther tra in s daily except Sunday.
Sleeping and P a rlo r C ar  8ervice:  N orth—7:20 a. m. 
and 4:10 p. m. tra in s have  sleeping and p a rlo r cars for 
Mackinaw City.  South—7 a. m. tra in  has c h air c a r and 
6 p. m. tra in  P ullm an sleeping c ar fo r C incinnati; 11:05 
p. m. tra in  has W agner sleeping c a r fo r Chicago.

...........11:45 a m
...........5:30 p m
...........10:40 p m

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. 
Arrive.
Leave 
7^00 a m ....................... .............................................. 10:15 a m
11:15am ....................... .......................................... 
8:45p m
5:40 p m ......................................................................  8:45 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge street  depot 7 m inutes later.
C. L. Lockwood. Gen’l Pass. Agent.

• 

7:00 a m

GOING WXST.

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
Leaves.
1:00pm
4.20 p m

Arrives. 
tM om ing Express............................ 12:50 p m 
tThrougn Mail...................................4:10 p m  
tG randR apids  Express...................10:40  p m
•N ight Express..................................... 6:40 a m  
tMlxed.................................................. 
GOING BAST.
tDetroit Express....................... 
tThrough Mail...................................10:10 a m  
fEvening E xpress................................ 8:35 p m  
•N ight Express................................... 10:30 p m 

7:80 a m
6:50 a m
10:20 a m
8:45 p m
10:55 p m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
D etroit  Express  has p arlo r  c a r  to D etroit,  m aking 
d irect connections fo r all points  E ast, a rriv in g  in New 
York 10:10 a. m. n ext day.
G rand  Rapids  express  has  p arlo r  c a r  D etroit  to 
G rand  Rapids.  N ight  express  has  W agner  sleeping 
car to D etroit, a rriv in g  in D etroit a t 7:20 a.  m.
steam ship 
tick ets 
secured  a t 
D., G. H. & M .R’y offices, 28 Monroe St., and a t th e depot.

sleeping 
JA8. Ca m pb e ll. Citv Passenger Agent.

tick ets  and  ocean 

Through  railroad 

b erth s 

J no. W. Loud, Traffic M anager, D etroit.

and 

car 

The MichiganTradesman

The  M anufacture  o f G lucose.

F rom  th e A m erican A nalyst.
The process  for  making  glucose  will 
be best understood by following the corn 
from the time it enters  the  factory until 
It  runs  out at a spigot,  a clear,  odorless 
liquid.  The shell corn is first soaked for 
several days  in water to soften  the  hull 
and prepare  it  for the cracking process. 
The  softened  corn  is  conveyed  by ele­
vators  to  one  of  the  highest  stories of 
the factory’ and shoveled  into  large hop­
pers from which it passes  into mills that 
merely crack the grains without reducing 
them at once to a fine meal.  The cracked 
grain  is  then  conducted  to a large  tank 
filled with rinsing water.  The hulls of the 
corn  float  at  the  top of  the  water, the 
germs  sink to the  bottom,  and  the  por­
tion of  the grain  containing  the  starch, 
becoming  gradually reduced  to  flour by 
friction, are held in solution in the water.
By an ingenious process, both the hulls 
and the germs are removed, and the flour 
part now held in solution  contains  noth­
ing but starch and gluten.  The liquid is 
then made to flow over a series of tables, 
representing  several  acres  in  area, and 
the  difference  in  the  specific gravity of 
the two substances causes the gluten and 
the starch to separate  without the use of 
chemicals.  The  gluten  is  of  a  golden 
color,  and the starch snow-white.
By the time gluten has been completely 
eliminated  the  starch  assumes a plastic 
form and is collected from the separating 
tables by wheelbarrowfuls and taken to a 
drying room, where it is  prepared as the 
starch  of  commerce,  or  is  placed  in  a 
chemical  apparatus to be conveyed  into 
glucose.  The  conversion  is  effected by 
submitting  the  starch to the action of  a 
minute  percentage  of  dilute  sulphuric 
acid,  which, without  being a constituent 
part of  the  compound,  produces  by  its 
presence  merely a  miraculous  chemical 
change.  This  change  from  starch  to 
glucose  is  a  gradual  process,  and  has 
four or five  well-defined  stages.  On the 
addition of  the  acid  the  first change re­
sults in the production of  what is known 
to  the  chemists  as  dextrine. 
If  at this 
stage the acid is neutralized  by the addi­
tion of  lime water, the process is checked 
and dextrine is the permanent result.
If  the  process is allowed  to go on,  the 
acid,  however,  works  a second  change, 
and maltose is the result.  Here the pro­
cess can,  if  necessary,  be  interrupted by 
neutralizing  the  acid  byr means of  lime 
water, and for some purposes  in  the  art 
of  brewing this is sometimes done.  The 
third and important  stage  in  the  chem­
ical  change  wrought  by  the  action  re­
sults  in  the  production of  glucose,  and 
just  here is where  the  greatest  skill  of 
the chemist is required.
The product  must  show by test that it 
responds  to  the  chemical  formula  C6, 
Hl*2,  Oh.  By  comparing  this  formula 
with that of starch, which is C6, HlO. 05, 
that  is,  six  parts  of  carbon  to  ten  of 
hydrogen  and  five of  oxygen—it will be 
seen that  sulphuric  acid  has  not  added 
to the starch,  but has taken up two parts 
of  hydrogen,  and  the  only  gin  in  the 
-starch is one  part of  oxygen.  The  lime 
water introduced  to  neutralize the  acid 
forms  with it a product  called  gyrpsum, 
which can be removed from  the  glucose 
without leaving  any appreciable trace.
The fourth stage in the  chemical  pro­
cess  results  in  crystalizing  the  liquid, 
and  then  the  product  is  called  grape 
sugar.  This  is  a  fifth  stage, in  which 
caramel, or  burnt  sugar,  could  be  pro­
duced  were it of  any commercial  value. 
The gypsum or sulphate of  lime, formed 
by the neutralizing  lime  water  and sul­
phuric  acid, sinks, by gravitation, to the 
bottom of  the vessel and the supernatent 
saccharine  liquid  is  drawn off  from the 
top.  This is almost  pure  chemical  glu­
cose,  but it is  still  subject to a filtering 
process  through  bone black, and refined 
in the same way as cane  sugar is refined. 
The  bone  black  has  anything  but  the 
appearance  of  a  purifying  agent,  but 
possesses  the  peculiar  property  of  at­
tracting  to itself  all coloring matter.
The  glucose,  passing  through a laby­
rinthine  system of  filtering, is drawn off 
through  spigots in the lower part of  the 
building,  and  is  ready  to  be  shipped 
away  in  barrels.  To  give  the  glucose 
the appearance of  cane syrup, as  well as 
to  impart  some  of  the  characteristic 
taste, a  small  amount  of  that  syrup  is 
added to suit the fancy of  buyers.
To  make  grape  sugar, the  glucose is 
dried in  rapidly revolving  vessels, from 
which much of  the  moisture  escapes by 
virtue of  the centrifugal  force.  Neither 
the glucose nor  the  grape  sugar is used 
for  domestic  purposes,  although  either 
one  is  about  two-thirds  as sweet as the 
sweetest  cane  sugar.  Glucose is chiefly 
used  for  fermenting  purposes,  and  of 
late  years  has  become  valuable  to  the 
the brewer in making beer and pale ales. 
It  is  also, largely used  in  mixing  with 
cane syrups and  molasses, and  esteemed 
more wholesome than the  cane  product, 
which is at  best  only a side  product  or 
residue in the manufacture of  sugar.

The  Honest Farmer Again.

From th e  Muskegon News.
A Montague township farmer has been 
detected  in  an  ingenious  trick  to make 
pork return profits. 
In selling to White­
hall butchers, it was  found  that  the  re­
turns fell short and a watch  was kept on 
the  old  man, resulting in the  discovery 
that  after  delivering  his pork he would 
empty a  five  gallon  jug  of  water  and 
weigh his wagon minus the water,  which 
had been weighed before  delivery of  the 
pork.  He was compelled to discount his 
hogs $1 a head on  his  last  delivery, and 
probably will not repeat  his  water trick 
in that town again.

There is no event  in  life  which  does 
not carry its own  lesson;  and that lesson 
ought to be  recognized  by us as the best 
we can learn at that particular  moment. 
Failure in any enterprise is just as much 
a fact as success in that same  enterprise 
would have been.  But it rests with each 
person to  make  every fact in his experi­
ence a factor in his progress.

A  good  many  merchants  are  getting 
down to the fact that  cheek and bravado 
in commercial  travelers  is a poor substi­
tute  for  tact  and  discretion.  Talmage 
once  said :  “The  fish  must  be  enticed; 
there is no use of  baiting with a piece of 
pork,  and  then  splashing  the  line  into 
the water with  the  exclamation,  ‘Bite or 
be damned.’ ”

Good

M o r n i n g  !

I  have  just  eaten  a  delicious 

dish  of

M uscatine
ROLLED

OATS

FLOUR

Owl, Crown Prince, White Lily, 

Standard, Rye, Graham.

Bolted M eal,

F eed ,  Etc.
HEWRYBO  ROLLER  WILLS.

MAIL  ORDERS  SOLICITED.

S o m e th in g   N e w

Bill Snort

We  guarantee  this  cigar  the 
best  $35  cigar  on  the  market. 
Send  us  trial  order, and  if  not 
ENTIRELY  SATISFACTORY 
return  them.  Advertising mat­
ter sent with each order.

Gtiarleiioix  Binar  M'f’g  Co.,

THE ELOPEMENT

after the painting by Eaemmerer,  issued by  G0W. 
ANS  &  STOVER,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  at  a  cost  a 
over  5,000 dollars,  a copy of which  they send  fre< 
to  any  address  on  receipt  of  2 5   wrappers  iron 
the

HaM eaf Soap

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, Columbns,  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

Every  garment  bearing  the  above  ticket  is 
WARRANTED  NOT  TO  RIP, and,  if  not as re-
Sresented, you are requested  to  return  it to the 
[erchant 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.

Mail Orders Receive Prompt  Attention.  See  Quotations  in Another  Column. 

CONSIGNMENTS OF  ALL  KINDS  OF  WILD  GAME  SOLICITED.

13,15,17  South  Ionia  St„  Grand  Rapids.

'The B elknap Wagon and Sleigh  C o .,  Grand Rapids, Mich•

Manufacturers  of 
Delivery  Wagons  of 
all descriptions. Also 
manufacturers 
full 
line of  Delivery  and 
Road Sleighs.  Write 
for  illustrated  cata­
logue and price list.

Ionia P a n ts & O v erall Co

E. D.  Voorhees,  Manager.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Pants,  Overalls,  Goats,  Jackets,  Shirts,  Ete

Warranted  Not to Rip.

Fit  Guaranteed.

Workmanship  Perfect.

Mr. Voorhees’ long experience in the manufacture of  these  goods  enables him 
to turn out a line especially adapted to the  Michigan  trade.  Samples  and  prices 
sent on application.

IONIA,

MICH.

/V commonIdea.

Two Years
Test.

E,  G.  8TUDLEÏ
Rubber

Wholesale  Dealer in

Boots and Shoes
GANDER  RUBBER  CO.

Manufactured by

Send  for  Large  Illustrated  Catalogue land 

Price List.

TELEPHONE  464.

No.  4  Monroe  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

CURTISS  &  CO .,

WHOLESALE

Paper  Warehouse.

We carry the VERY BEST double or single  bit,  hand-shaved  ax  handle
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
Houseman  Block, 

ever made.

- 

W M . SEARS & CO.,

Braßker  Manufacturers,

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

Engines,  Boilers  end  Hill  Macliory,  Fan Machinery,

Agricultural  Implements, Wagons and Carriages.

DEALERS  IN

Comer West Bridge and  North  Front  Sts.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

P.  Steketee  &  Sons,
Sell  th e   fo llo w in g   w e l l - k n o w n  

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

ALLEN’S, 
WASHINGTON’S, 
RIVERPOINT, 
CHARTER  OAK,

b r a n d s   of  calico:
AMERICANS, 
WINDSORS, 
STEEL  RIVER, 
ANCHOR,

SIMPSON’S, 
MERR1MAC, 
ST.  LEDGER, 
FRANKLIN,

HAMILTON’S,
COCHECO,
EDYSTONE,
HARMONY,

IMPERIAL BLACK, 

BERLIN  SOLIDS, 

SLATER  SOLIDS, 

COCHECO SOLIDS, SUTAN SOLIDS,  SATIN STYLES OF SIMPSON & GARNER, 

Also  Comforts at All  Prices.

8 3   M o n r o e   a n d   IO,  1 2 ,1 4 ,1 6  & 18 F o u n ta in  S ts. 

Grand  Rapids•

Rindge,  Bertsch  &  Co.,

MICHIGAN  AGENTS  FOR  THE

BOSTON  RU B BER  SHOE  C O .

We carry a full line in stock and  guarantee  terms and prices as good as any house 

selling the line.  Correspondence solicited.

12.  14  AND  16  PEARL  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Jot)  Printing!

We desire to  call  atten­
tion  to  our  facilities  for 
first-class  job 
producing 
printing for the  trade.

If  you  live  in a part  of 
the State where you cannot 
get satisfactory work, write 
us for estimates.  Samples 
and prices sent on applica­
tion.

We carry a complete line 
of  stationery,  papers—in 
fact all kinds  of  printers’ 
stock. 
Send  sample  of 
what you want.

Fuller X Stowe 

Company,

1 0 0  L o u is   S t.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

F. ,/.  DETTENTHÆEER,

JOBBER  OF

Seventeen  Years  on  the  Market

W ith a steady increase  in  demand.

Jennings’  Flavoring  Extrade

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

Jennings  &  Sm ith,

Grand Rapids,  Mich•

SEE  QUOTATIONS THIS PAPER.

WHO  URGES  YOU

T O   K E E P

THE  PUBLIC !

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.

P u tn am   Candy Co.,

'  

JOBBERS  OF

