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AND

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F IT   BOR

11 Gentleman's

TA.BL,E:
All goods bearing the name 

of.  Thurber,  Whyland 

&  Oo.  or  Alexis 

Godillot, Jr.

E. W. HALL PLATING WORKS,

ALL  KINDS  OF

Brass  and Iron Polishing

MY  SARAH.

Written for T h e  T r a d e s m a n .
The golden lilies, tall and trimmed,

With dewy diamonds studded,
Astors white and violet rimmed.
Dahlias bloomed and  budded—
Each and all are handsome, very,
But none rival thee, my Sarah.
The graceful swimming of  the  swan 

Through limpid, crystal water,

Coursing here, gliding on,
Gay aquatic daughter—

Grace nor beauty hath she, nary,
To compare with thee, my Sarah.
The fairest ladies I have wooed,
Sweet, rosy, modest, charming,
Seen them in their happy moods,

Diffidence disarming;

Each, in turn, I thought a fairy,
But none compared with thee, my Sarah.
But,  Sarah,  you  have  been  romancing,

To lovers  silly taffy giving;

While  you  are  riding,  flirting,  dancing—

You have just three husbands living;

Four times a mother you are, Sarah,
Grass widow, heartless mercenary.

M. J. W r is l e y .

WILD  OATS.

I.

went that she  was  bound  for  America 
That  was  a  hint  from  Providence—an 
easy way  out  of  all  perplexities.  He 
sold as secretly as he could all he  had  to 
dispose of,  and  scraped  enough together 
to pay the passage  for  two.  He  spent 
two days in anxiously watching  through 
an opera glass the  movements  on  board 
the barque,  and  being  born and bred by 
the sea he knew exactly what every com­
mand meant. 
It  was  toward  night  on 
the second day that the breeze sprung up 
brisk and the doleful wails of  the sailors 
announced  that  they  were  raising  the 
anchor.  Then the runaway  lovers  stole 
out  in a boat  together,  he  rowing,  she 
lying flat in the  bottom  hidden  under  a 
tarpaulin, and thus, in spite of  the clear 
twilight,  they  reached  the  Englishman 
without attracting notice.  Half an  hour 
later they were tacking out  of  the  fiord 
before a stiff  northwester.  An  invalid 
clergyman was found on board who made 
the sea voyage for his health, and by him 
they  were  on  the  following  day  pro­
nounced man  and wife.  Nearly a week 
elapsed before  they  reached  Southamp­
ton, where they put  in for a fresh cargo. 
They  felt  happy  and  careless, and  the 
future opened  large  and  radiant before 
them.  After some debate,  they  decided 
to go ashore and take a look at the town, 
and a sailor was found who  promised  to 
fetch them back in a boat whenever they 
should  signal  to  him  from  the  wharf. 
With  a  buoyancy  which  sought  veut 
in sudden  outbursts  of  song  and gayly 
extravagant speech,  they  skipped  along 
the deck, descended the ladders and took 
their seats in the stern of  the  boat. 
It 
was wonderful  how large the world was 
There  was  elbow  room  for everybody, 
apparently, and  everything  had such an 
encouraging  air—looked  so  fresh  and 
beautiful. 
In America  they were  going 
to  be  rich;  everybody  grew  rich 
America.  Why,  rail  splitters,  tailors 
and all sorts of queer people  were  made 
Presidents! 
It  wasn’t  true,  however, 
that the pavements  in  the  streets  were 
made of silver.  Gerda had it on the very 
best authority  that  that  was  not  true 
nor were they likely to  find  any  money 
in the gutters.  But when they had grown 
terribly  rich,  then  they  would  return 
home  to Norway,  and  how  they  would 
stun  the  people  in  the  valley  by their 
grand  airs  and  their  beautiful clothes 
Albert  should  have a gold  watch,  that 
was sure;  and she, well she  would  have 
a long  gold  chain  about  her  neck, fas­
tened at  the waist so as to look as if  she 
had a gold watch.  But  as  they  would 
always be together it  was  hardly  neces­
sary  that  they  should  both  wear  gold 
watches;  extravagance  was  sinful, even 
if they were ever so rich.
Thus  ran  their  talk  until  the  boat 
struck against the pier.  Albert  sprang 
up and  took  his  stand  on  the stairs to 
hand Gerda up, for the  steps  were  slip­
pery.  He seized hold  of  the railing and 
swung himself up after  her,  but  hardly 
had  he  gained  his  footing  when  Lars 
Tronnem,  whose face he  knew  only  too 
well, came rushing at him and gave  him 
such a blow on the forehead that  sparks 
He  reeled  and 
fell backwards into the water.  He  had 
a  sensation  of  shooting  with  a furious 
speed  through  a  luminous  void,  but 
whether it was  upward or downward  he 
did not know.  Then a great  calm  came 
over  him;  he  floated  blissfully  in  the 
sun-steeped  air,  whose  warm  rays  en­
folded  him,  and  far  below him lay the 
crowns of the forests, the green meadows 
and the populous world.  He  had  never 
felt such a calm  before,  and the thought 
shot dimly through him that he  must  be 
dead.
When he woke up he found himself  in 
his berth  on  board  the  Childe Harold, 
which  was  steering  westward  from the 
Irish  coast  with  a  lively  breeze.  He 
raised himself painfully and looked about 
the cabin,  but he was  alone and alone he 
remained

the

Yours truly,

D.  L.  GARLING.

Pearl  and Front Sts., Grand Rapids.

Nickle and Silver Plating

Rem u s  R o ll er  Mil l s, 

i 
Remus, Mich., Jan. 20, 1890.  ) 

S e e d  S to re ,

71  Canal  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.
W.T.LAMOKEATJX.

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

SEEDS!

They met every evening  in  the  birch 
grove above  her  father’s  farm.  There 
they sat under the  drooping  trees  whis­
pering together,  though there was no one 
but  the  birds  who  could  hear  them 
Whenever  a  breeze  stirred the leaves, a 
delicious shudder ran through him, while 
she was really frightened.  He  had been 
reading “Ivanhoe”  and was thirsting for 
adventures in love and war, and as there
was  n0  war  conveniently  at  hand, his 
Martin’s Middlings Purifier Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  heroism could find  vent only in love. 
It 
Mlch-: 
was  very  romantic,  too,  he thought, to
Gentlemen—The roller  mill  put  in  by  love a maiden of lowly birth,  and  there- 
you last August has  run from  twelve  to  jore? when one day he saw a pretty  little 
fifteen  hours  every  day  since  it started  djmpied peasant girl  at church, he made 
and is giving entire  satisfaction. 
eves  at  her  and  the quick blush which
Your Purifier  and  Flour  Dresser are  Spread over her  neck  and face made her 
I  have used nearly all  the  best  t 0 0 ^. doubly beautiful.  The  same  night 
dandies. 
watched his chance to escape from his 
purifiers and bolting machines made, and 
can  say yours discounts them all. 
father’s  company,  and  while  the  sun
Any miller  who  intends  making  any  huQg large and red ijke a ball of fire over 
change in his mill will  save money to use 
western  mountain  range, he ran  as
as kjs feet would carry  him  toward
your  machines,  for  They  Can  Do  the ] 
Work.
the  birch  glen  which  overlooked  Lar 
Tronnem’s farm.  How  it  chanced  that 
Gerda,  too,  was  abroad  that night I do 
not know, but  probably she had been up 
to milk the  cows  in  the  home  pasture.
There  was  a  faint odor of  cattle  about 
her,  something sweet, fragrant  and  pas­
toral, which reminded him of the idyls of 
Theocritus.  Then  there was in her eyes 
something  dumbly  appealing  which 
touched him indescribably.  “I know you 
will not do me  any  harm” each of  those 
innocent  glances  seemed to say.  They 
reminded him in some indefinable way of 
the eyes of the kine, and they  gave  him 
an idea  of  what  Homer  meant when he 
called Hera heifer-eyed. 
In fact,  he was 
always reminded  of  something,  and that 
was what made this  kind of courtship so 
much  more  interesting  than  a  conven­
tional drawing room  flirtation.  He  was
only eighteen years  old and had just en- j danced before his  eye; 
tered college, but he  spent  the  summer 
at home on his father’s  estate.  The  old 
gentleman  was  not  rich  by any means, 
but  he  was  the  hearer  of a great name 
which imposed a considerable  amount of 
dignity and style upon its possessor.  He 
strained  every  nerve  to enable his sons 
to make  an  appearance  worthy  of  the 
family traditions, but he exacted of them 
in return  respect  and  strict  obedience. 
There was  an  old-fashioned  stiffness in 
his demeanor which admitted  no  one  to 
terms  of  equality.  Even  Albert,  who 
being the eldest was also his favorite son, 
rarely  saw  him  relax  from  his  stately 
attitude,  and  having  in  the  city  been 
accustomed  to  livelier  society he began 
to find his vacations  wearisome—that is, 
previous  to  the  incident which  I  have 
just related.
What they said to each other up  there 
in the birch grove I do not know.  It was 
probably  not  of  much  consequence  to 
anybody  but  Gerda. 
She  had such an 
odd  way  of  remembering  all  sorts  of 
nothings.  She  said  very  little  herself, 
but  she  listened with a wide-eyed devo­
tion  which  was  extremely  becoming to 
her.  Albert  at  least  thought  so,  and 
when he saw  with  what wonder and de­
light  she  devoured  his  most  common­
place remarks, he felt his heart strangely 
warming toward her, and  her  loveliness 
grew irresistible. 
In  such a moment  of 
overflowing  emotion  he  kissed  her;  it 
seemed a natural thing to do  and  yet  it 
frightened  her,  only, as  she  afterward 
remarked, because she  had not expected 
it.  He  found a dozen  historic  parallels 
to just such a relation as theirs, and their 
love  derived  in  his eyes a romantic dig­
nity from the example of  all the illustri­
ous men in history and  fiction who loved 
“not wisely but too well.” 
In  this  ex­
alted  mood  even  death  and  disaster 
seemed preferable  to  a  tame  Philistine 
prosperity, and there  was nothing which 
he could not imagine himself doing rather 
than deserting this sweet  little  creature 
who trusted so implicitly in him. 
It was 
with a very heavy heart  that  he  looked 
forward to his return to college.  Some­
how this  relation  had  developed,  quite 
contrary  to  his  purpose,  into a serious 
affair,  and  being  a  soft-hearted  fellow 
who  had  inherited  a  conscience  and  a 
sympathetic  susceptibility  to  suffering, 
he  could  not  contemplate  the  conse­
quences of his romantic  folly  without  a 
positive  shudder.  The  pathetic  trem­
bling of Gerda’s  lips  when  he  casually 
mentioned the  possibility of a temporary 
parting cut him to the heart;  for he was 
perfectly well aware  that the temporary 
parting,  in  such  a  case,  would  but be 
preliminary  to  a  permanent  one.  He 
racked  his  brains  to  invent  some  less 
cruel  compromise  between  conscience 
and expediency,  but  nothing  suggested 
itself which seemed compatible with hon­
esty and self-respect. 
It was while this 
conflict  was  raging  within  him  that  a 
great English barque, the CMlde Harold. 
hove at anchor in the fiord, and the rumor

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II

8

Albert’s  first  thought  on  arriving  in 
New York was how he should  get  home 
again.  Having no money, he wrote a re­
pentant letter to his father requesting his 
forgiveness and a check  for one hundred 
dollars.  He lived  on  board  the  Childe 
Harold as long as she lay in the  harbor, 
but when at  the  end  of  two  weeks she 
lifted anchor,  he was forced to take some 
practical  steps  to  stave  off  starvation 
until  his  father  should  forward  him 
money with or without his blessing.  He 
foresaw plainly that  the old gentleman’s 
temper would  be  terribly  ruffled and in 
all likelihood he  would need time before 
he could  reconcile  himself  to the inevi 
table.  But  while  he  deliberated there 
would be ample time for the son to starve, 
Being vividly impressed with the peril of 
his situation, he  dressed  himself  up  in 
his best  and  started  on a tour of recon 
noissance up Broadway.  He had learned 
English  in  school,  understood  it  per­
fectly,  and  had  during  the voyage and 
his stay  on  board  improved  the oppor­
tunity to enrich his vocabulary,  which in 
consequence had a quaint nautical flavor 
I  shall  not  attempt  to  describe  his 
gradual  disillusioning  nor  to  chronicle 
his many cruel disappointments.  Having 
started with a high  estimate  of  himself 
as the possessor  of a winning appearance 
and \  large fund of unapplied ability, he 
arrived,  at  the  end  of a month,  at  the 
disheartening conclusion that he was the 
most miserable  failure  on  God’s  earth, 
There  was  absolutely  nothing to which 
he could turn his hand with  any hope  of 
success.  He had sold  or  pawned  every 
article  of  clothing  he  possessed except 
the shiny  broadcloth suit  he  wore, and, 
as he looked at his shabby figure reflected 
in the shop  windows, he felt for himself 
a oommiseration which  was  closely akin 
to contempt.  He felt positively grateful 
to a man who thought  him  of  sufficient 
consequence to present him with a hand 
bill, which invited him  in most  alluring 
language  to  have  his  corns  extracted 
without pain. 
It was  in  this  desperate 
strait that he mounted at random a flight 
of stairs, at the second landing of  which

he met  a  man  whose  face  was  full of 
kindness and dignity.
“Pardon me, sir,” he  said, with an air 
which was free from all  fawning  humil­
If 
ity,  “I am greatly in want  of  work. 
you would have the kindness to  test  me 
before you reject me, you will—well, you 
will  save  a  man  who  is in a desperate 
situation.”
The  strange  man,  who  had  listened 
attentively while Albert spoke, stood for 
a  moment  looking  searchingly  at  him; 
then he said abruptly:
You don’t look like a rogue;  1 have a 
good  mind  to  help you;  I have been de­
ceived  a  hundred  times,  but  I  would 
rather be imposed upon once  more  than 
withhold my aid from  one  who  may  be 
worthy.  What can you do ?”
I can do everything indifferently well, 
but as yet I can really do nothing as well 
as others might do it.”
“H’m, that is bad;  and yet your  reply 
shows a degree  of  judgment  which few 
I suppose,  at 
have gained at your age. 
all events, you can run errands?”

“You  may try me.”
“Very  well, then;  here is a dollar;  go 
and get yourself something  to  eat;  then 
present yourself at this  office  to-morrow 
morning at eight.”
Half of that dollar was spent in buying 
a map of the city,  which  he studied dur­
ing the greater part of the night.  There 
is a good and a bad  way  of  doing  even 
the simplest thing, he reasoned, and after 
the sharp experience he  had  had  of  ad­
versity,  he  was  determined  to  improve 
even the slenderest chance to  its  utmost 
capacity.  He was no longer  ashamed  to 
labor.  A month of misery had made him 
a good American.

III.

in  possession  of  an 

There  are  two  distinct species of  im­
migrants—one to whom America is but a 
rich  pasture  inhabited  by  a  nation  of 
thrifty barbarians,  who are sadly in need 
of  the  enlightened  guidance  of  their 
European  cousins,  and  another to whom 
she is,  with all her  imperfections,  a land 
of  noble  endeavors  and  brave  exper­
iments  in  humanity’s  behalf, the  stan­
dard  bearer  of  freedom  who  marches 
fearlessly  in  the  vanguard of  the  age. 
Tho  former  class  fight  with  might and 
main  against  the  process  of  American­
ization  which  they feel,  in  spite  of  all 
their opposition,  to  be  going  on  within 
them, and  only succeed in wasting much 
of  their energy,  which might  have  been 
consciously applied to the  national  pro­
gress.  The latter  class  join with hearty 
good will and undismayed by failures, in 
the political and industrial labor of  their 
adopted country, and they lose, to a great 
extent, their feeling for their, old father- 
land,  and  would,  if  their  names  and 
sometimes  their  accent  did  not  betray 
them,  rarely  be  thought  of  except  as 
Americans. 
It was  to  this  latter  class 
that Albert Westerholm  belonged, and it 
was, therefore, not strange  that, outside 
of  the circle of  his  more  intimate  asso­
ciates, there were few  who  were  aware 
that he was a Norwegian.
It was now twelve  years  since  he  ar­
rived in the United States,  and he owned 
a large number of  shares  in  the  steam­
boat company of which his first employer, 
Mr. Nettleship,  was  the  president.  He 
held  a responsible  position,  and  found 
himself 
income 
which would warrant him in establishing 
a  household  of  his  own  on  a  liberal 
scale.  There was  among  his  acquaint­
ances  a  certain  lady,  Miss  Lucy  Yan 
Hurst, about  whom he had  been  hover­
ing  with  vague  desires  and  half-form­
ulated aspirations for the last  five years, 
and as she obviously favored  his  suit,  it 
was a mystery to every  one  that  he  did 
not take some decisive step.  After much 
unaccountable  delay,  the  engagement 
was finally announced,  and rumors of  an 
approaching  wedding  at a certain  fash­
ionable mansion began to be discussed in 
the  matrimonial  column  of  the  society 
papers.  Miss Yan  Hurst  was a striking 
brunette, with that trimness of figure and 
attire  which  characterizes  the  female 
denizens of  New York from the altitudes 
of  Murray  Hill  down  to  the very shop 
girls.  Although  she  was  by no  means 
lacking  in' intelligence, a hasty observer 
might have  described  her as a handsome 
costume  personified. 
It  was  delicious 
our  Norseman  thought, to gaze at those 
clear,  beautiful  features,  the  cool  tint 
and  perfect  rondure  of  her  arms,  and 
the  gentle  undulations of  her  tall, wil 
lowy form. 
I do  not  know  but  that  it 
was the constant  and  irresistible  desire 
to  touch  her,  which  kept  him  for  so 
many  years at her  feet, until  her  frank 
worldliness  no  longer  grated  upon  his 
ears,  and  her  complete disavowal of  all 
youthful  illusion  began  to  assume  the 
character of  an attractive  rather  than a 
repelling  peculiarity.  He  had,  indeed 
himself  become a little  callous, and  the 
romantic fancies which  once  held  sway 
over him seemed to him now mere puerile 
follies.  The  ideals of  happiness  and of 
male  and  female  perfection, which  had 
distorted  all  his  notions of  life  during 
his Walter Scott  period, and  led  him to 
commit  one  cruel  and 
irretrievable 
wrong, he had  now  not  only  outgrown 
but  there  was  even  a  smouldering re 
sentment  within  him  against  the poets 
who, by fostering  a morbid  sentimental 
ism, had precipitated him  into the follies 
which  had  come  near  ruining  his life. 
He might have been a happy man now if 
he  had  had  a  clean  conscience—if 
sweet,  blonde  face, with  wide, wonder 
ing  child-eyes  had  not  haunted  his 
dreams,  and that trustful  glance had not 
pursued  him  with  its  mute  reproach 
Often  he  walked  at  evening  along the 
esplanade  of 
the  Battery  Park  and 
looked  at  the  foreign  steamboats  that 
came  and  went, debating  with  himself 
whether he should not return to  Norway 
and  ascertain  the  fate  of  her who was 
before God  his  wife,  instead of  loading 
upon  himself  a  new  guilt  by a  second 
marriage.  But then came  the  reflection 
that a  marriage  performed  at  sea  by 
foreign  clergyman, between two minors, 
without  the  consent  of  their  parents, 
would,  according to Norwegian  law, not

NO. 332.

be  valid,  and  moreover it was  only too 
probable  that  Gerda,  who  undoubtedly 
believed  him  dead,  had  married  some 
peasant lad and had  long  ago  forgotten 
him.  At  any rate, if  she  believed  him 
alive, twelve years’ desertion  would give 
her  ground  for  divorce,  of  which  she 
had  no  doubt  availed  herself. 
It was 
with  such  arguments  that  he  tried  to 
sooth his troubled  conscience, but out of 
the depth of  his soul  came  ever  an  ac­
cusing voice, distinct and  terrible, like a 
whisper in  the  dark.  He  did  not  love 
Gerda  any  more;  he  demanded  other 
things now of  the  companion of  his  life 
than  dimples  and  innocence;  but a ten­
der memory she always remained,  and as 
such  she  possessed a power  to  torment 
him, which she would not have possessed 
had  she  stood  before  his  fancy  armed 
with the  weapons of  the  law.  With all 
his  sophistry, he  never  yet  got  beyond 
the  proposition  that he was the offender 
and she the one he had wronged.
With  these  lugubrious reflections,  Al­
bert beguiled  his  leisure  until his wed­
ding  day was at hand;  and  although  he 
had  resolved  to  make a clean  breast  of 
everything to Miss  Van Hurst, in the de­
cisive  moment  he 
lacked  courage  to 
speak.
I Y

It was  on a Sunday forenoon  in  May, 
about a month  after  the  wedding,  that 
Mr.  and  Mrs. Westerholm  took a notion 
to  drive  down to the  Battery to  look at 
the  immigrants  who,  according  to  the 
newspapers, were  at  that  time  arriving 
at the rate of  four to six  thousand daily. 
Mrs. Westerholm  had especially a desire 
to see  what  her  husband’s  countrymen 
looked  like  “in  the  rough,”  and  as  a 
steamboat had arrived  direct  from  Nor­
way  the  night  before,  she  would  have 
ample  opportunity  to  satisfy  her  cur­
iosity.
They met a crowd which  had gathered 
about the  gate of  Castle  Garden  to  see 
the immigrants as they issued forth, dull­
eyed  and  clumsy  figures,  grimy  with 
steamboat soot, in all  sorts of  queer cos­
tumes,  bent  under  the  weight  of  their 
heavy bundles.  The  police  were  push­
ing the crowd back  so  as  to open a pas­
sage for the weary European  pilgrims.
“Ah, these are  your compatriots,  Bert, 
are  they ?”  asked  Mrs.  Westerholm, 
teasingly.  “Did  you  look  like  one  of 
these  when  you  arrived  here, 
twelve 
ears ago ?”
Her  husband  did  not  answer.  The 
sight  of  these  toil-hardened,  weather­
beaten  men  and  women  with  their un­
couth forms and grave,  rugged  features 
awakened in him a train of painful mem­
ories. 
If  she  were  among  them—she 
whom he had wronged—would  she  look 
like one  of  these ?  Had  his  eyes  been 
changed  during  these  years  of  his  ab­
sence from home  and  become  estranged 
from the sights  that  were once dear and 
familiar  to  them?  He  shuddered  to 
think  that  the 
little  dimpled,  rosy- 
cheeked girl whom  he had once found so 
lovely might  now,  through a life of  tc’l 
and  hardship,  have  developed  into  a 
coarse-skinned and  coarse-featured peas­
ant  woman  of  thirty,  and  the  thought 
shot through his brain that no law, either 
civil  or  divine,  could  demand  of  him 
that he should, on account of  a  youthful 
folly, deliberately  sacrifice  his  life  and 
his happiness,  by re-attaching to himself 
one  who  was  so  widely removed  from 
him in culture and  station. 
It  was  just 
at  that  moment  that  a  blonde-haired 
woman  with a  red  kerchief  tied  about 
her head, and holding a bright-eyed little 
boy ten or eleven  years  old  by the hand, 
came moving wearily through the throng. 
She  had  the  heavy and  graceless  walk 
peculiar to peasants,  and  there  was,  in 
spite  of  the  deep  lines  of  her  face,  a 
kind of  bovine  innocence and wonder in 
her expression.  Her  heavy,  iron-heeled 
shoes clattered on the pavement, and her 
short  black  skirt,  showed  her  coarse • 
woolen stockings.  Having  gazed  about 
her  for a moment  in a bewildered  way, 
she  paused  before a policeman, and  ad­
dressing  him in Norwegian,  said :  “You 
don’t  happen  to  know  a  man  named 
Albert  Westerholm?”
The  policeman,  who  did  not  under­
stand a word of  what she  said, shook his 
head.
“I know he is alive and  he  lives  here 
in America,”  the  peasant  woman  went 
on stolidly.  “I thought  you might know 
him.  He  is  my husband,  and  this  lad 
here is his son.”
The  policeman  shook  his  head  more 
emphatically,  and,  taking  her  by  the 
arm, pointed  back  toward  the  entrance 
of  Castle Garden,  to indicate  that  there 
she could (jbtain all  the  information she 
desired, 
Albert, realizing the necessity for self- 
control, clenched  his teeth  and strove to 
betray  no  emotion..  He  felt a horrible 
oppression  which  almost  stopped  his 
breathing,  and  a  chill  numbness  crept 
over  him.  He  glanced  sideways at the 
beautiful creature  leaning upon his arm, 
and it gave him relief to observe that her 
face  showed  no  sign of  agitation.  She 
had apparently  not  heard  his name pro­
nounced  by  the  peasant  woman,  or, if 
she had heard it, had  failed to  recognize 
it with the queer Norse  pronunciation.
“I never knew that  innocence .could be 
so unattractive,” she  observed, brightly, 
as her eyes  met those of  the  immigrant. 
“We  always  picture  it  clean  and  lily­
like,  with a sort of  downy, infantine air. 
But dirt and innocence are, in Norway, I 
should  judge,  not  incompatible.  That 
woman there has a pathetically dirty and 
innocently bewildered  look.  She would 
excite  my  sympathy if  she  were  clean. 
But, don’t  you agree  with me, Bert, it is 
difficult  to  extend  one’s  Christianity to 
the steerage ?  If  you  had  remained  in 
Norway, Bert, dear,”  she  added, revert­
ing to her  favorite  theme of  banter,  “is 
that the style of  woman  you would have 
married ?”
He was about  to answer, hut  just then 
the little flaxen-haired  boy caught  sight 
of  him and pointed his finger at him with 
evident  admiration;  and  the  mother’s

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Palmer & Crozier  have  removed  their 
boot and  shoe  stock  from 29 to 18 Canal 
street. 

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M.  Torcuette,  grocer  at  Yolney,  has 
arranged  to  put  in  a  sawmill  at  that 
place.  Hester & Fox  furnish  the plant.
H.  Barker has embarked in the grocery 
and meat business at  Pierson.  The 01- 
ney & Judson  Grocer  Co. furnished  the 
grocery stock.

Goossen & Daane, grocers at 149  Mon­
roe  street, have  dissolved  partnership. 
Business will be  continued  at  the  old 
stand  by M. C. Goossen.

Spaulding  &  Co.  succeed  L.  S. Hill & 
Co.  in the sporting goods line, the change 
in  style  occurring  at the time of  the re­
moval from Pearl to Monroe streets.

W. D.  Reynolds  &  Co., formerly  en­
gaged in the  grocery business  at  Coop- 
ersville and Lake Odessa, have  opened  a 
grocery store at Ionia. 
I.  M.  Clark  & 
Son furnished the stock.

The store  now occupied  by Wasson & 
Lamb,  at  120  Monroe  street,  has  been 
leased to the  Morse’s,  and  the  present 
occupants will  be  compelled to find an­
other location by April 1.

L.  M.  Wilson,  late  of  Kansas  City, 
has  opened  a  grocery  store  on  South 
Division  street,  about a half-mile  south 
of  the  city  limits.  The Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman Co. furnished the stock.

John Ten  Hope  has  withdrawn  from 
the  firm  of  Boss, Norton  &  Ten Hope, 
dealers  in  carpets, at 27 South  Division 
street.  The  remaining  partners  will 
continue  the  business under the style of 
Boss & Norton.

The  Martin’s  Middlings  Purifier  Co 
has  voted  to  increase  its  stock  from 
$25,000 to $100,000,  and  is  arranging to 
place the new stock on the market.  Two 
new  patents of  Mr. Martin’s—a dust  ar­
rester  and  a  scalper  and  grader—have 
been  added  to the line of  goods  already 
manufactured by the company.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Stetson—Geo.  N. North  has  removed 

his drug stock to Yolney.

Owosso—W. S. Hunt opened  his  new 

grocery store on the 25th.

Clarion—W. H.  Ellis  succeeds  W. H. 

Ellis & Co., general dealers.

Detroit—John B. Price, tailor,  has  as­

signed to Thomas O’Rourke.

St. Johns—Clark Putt succeeds Putt  & 

Davis in the grocery business.

Moscow—E. D. Buck  has  removed his 

notion stock to North Adams.

Flint—J.  K.  Montrose  has  sold  his 

stock of groceries to W. H. Brooks.

Harrison—Dr. H.  Thompson is seeking 

another location for his drug stock.

Richmond—Chas.  Knight 

succeeds 

Knight & Cudworth, general dealers.

Lawrence—O. E.  Holmes,  shoemaker, 

has sold his stock to Chas.  H.  Holmes.

Yicksburg—A.  B.  Kingsbury  has  sold 

his harness business to Cline & Mahn.

Hubbardston—J. M. Holbrook has sold 
his stock  of groceries to John L. Dommy.
Pine  Grove—A.  M.  Byers,  of  Bloom- 
ingdale, has gone into the  meat  business 
here.

St. Johns—Albert  Retan  has  sold  his 
dry goods stock  to  Thelan  &  Dever,  of 
Detroit.

Mt. Clemens—Geo.  C.  Fenton,  dealer 
in boots and shoes, has sold out to Frank 
Ullrich.

Detroit  —  M.  J.  Ciganek 

succeeds 
■Ciganek  &  Steiger  in  the  hat  and  cap 
business.

Lowell—A.  S.  Howk  &  Son  succeed 
Howk & Bostwick in the  boot  and  shoe 
business.

Sherman—H.  Saperston  is closing  out 
his  stock  of  clothing, dry  goods,  boots 
and shoes.

Detroit—H.  D.  Harris  &  Son,  cigar 
dealers,  have  mortgaged  their  stock to 
Henry George.

Tustin—G. A.  Skaglin  has  opened  a 
meat market in connection with  his flour 
and feed store.

Grand  Haven—John  Duursema,  suc­
ceeds Wm. Meiras  &  Co. in  the  bakery 
and grocery business.

White Pigeon—John J. Davis, Jr., will 
continue  the  business  of  Bracken  & 
Davis, general dealers.

Geo.  Kerry, formerly  engaged  in  the 
commission business here, is now located 
at Gale’s Creek, Oregon.

Detroit—Huettemann,  Rademacher  & 
Co. succeed John F. Behlow & Co. in  the 
wholesale grocery business.

Carson City—Lane  &  Hamilton  have 
embarked  in  general  trade, occupying 
the former stand of B. F.  Sweet.

Cheboygan—W. A. Lynn  &  Co., meat 
dealers,  have  dissolved.  The  business 
will be continued  by W. A.  Lynn.

Jackson—W. L.  Seaton  will  close  up 
the affairs of  the  late  firm  of  Pilcher & 
Williams, of  which  he is assignee.

Nashville—W. S. Powers has  sold  his 
interest in  the  grocery business of Pow­
ers & Stringham to C. H.  Reynolds.

Fremont—Lewis  Vallier  has  bought 
the interest of his  partner, Wesley Pear­
son, in the grocery and  bakery business.

Maple City—R. W. Burke  & Sons have 
embarked in the real  estate business un­
der  the  style  of  Burke’s  Real  Estate 
Agency.

Holland—Gilmore & Walsh, dealers  in 
furniture  and  carpets,  have  dissolved. 
The business will be continued by Walter 
C. Walsh.

Cheboygan—Martin  &  Silliman  pro­
pose  extending  their  business  in  the 
spring by opening a branch office at Ash­
land, Wis.

Petoskey—Thompson  Bros, have  sold 
their Elkhorn  bakery and  confectionery 
business  to  G.  W.  Ferguson  &  Son, of 
Jonesville.

West  Windsor—Carman  &  Rumsey 
have  sold  their  grocery stock  to Will 
Kimball  and  Plynn  Rumsey, who  will 
continue the business.

Battle Creek—Alva Davis succeeds'the 
agricultural  implement  firm of  Davis & 
Bayley, having  purchased the interest of 
his partner, John C. Bayley.

Middleton—The  McLeod  drug  stock 
has been purchased by D. H. Meeker, the 
Perrinton  druggist,  who  will  continue 
the business as a branch store.

East  Jordan—J.  E.  Watson, of  Cedar 
Springs, has purchased an interest in the 
hardware  business  of  H. L. Page.  The 
firm will be known as Page & Co.

Detroit—H. E. Hatch,  of  Lapeer,  will 
remove  to  this  city and  enter  into  the 
hardware  business  with  John A. Boyle, 
for many  years with Standart Bros.

Greenville—Clark Bros,  are  succeeded 
by E. S. Clark in the dry goods business. 
The  retiring  partner,  E.  J. Clark,  will 
embark  in  the  same  business  at  Kal­
amazoo.

Yernon—Henry  Clark, of  this  place, 
and M. K. Clark, of Durand, have bought 
the stock of dry goods  and groceries for­
merly belonging  to  R.  P.  Nichols,  and 
will continue the business.

Carson  City—Mr.  Petteys  has  retired 
from  the drug and  grocery firm of  Kel­
ley, Petteys & Co.  The  business will  be 
continued  by  D.  Kelley  and  Geo.  W. 
Cadwell under the style of Kelley & Cad- 
well.

Grand  Haven—T.  Vanden  Bosch  & 
Bro., dealers in dry goods  and  clothing, 
have  dissolved.  T. Yanden  Bosch  & 
Bro. continue in  the  clothing  business 
and  G. Yanden  Bosch  &  Bro. continue 
in the dry goods business.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Curtis  &  Pelton 
dealers in dry goods, clothing,  boots  and 
shoes,  have  dissolved.  The  business 
will  be  continued  by Ira  Curtis.  Mr, 
Pelton will engage in the dry goods busi 
ness in Conneaut, Ohio.

Harrison—The  drug  stock  of  P.  E, 
Wither spoon  sustained  a  loss of  $500 
one day last week by its  sudden removal 
from the  store,  when  fire  in  adjoining 
buildings  led  the  proprietor  to  think 
that his store would also be a prey to the 
flames.

Detroit—John  Barry,  who  has  been 
book-keeper  and  manager  for  Brand & 
McCullough, painters and paper hangers, 
for  the  past  eight  years,  has  taken the 
place  of  Mr.  McCullough  in  the  firm 
which will be known hereafter as Charles 
R. Brand & Co.

Grand  Ledge—Geo.  L.  Coryell,  who 
runs a drug store and  saloon  under  the 
same roof, has  settled  the  suit  brought 
against  him  by  the  widow  of  the  late 
George Shipman for $400.  Shipman was 
killed  while  under 
influence  of 
Coryell’s whisky.

the 

Kalamazoo—Huntley & Baker,  dealer 
in  agricultural 
implements,  buggies 
and  harnesses,  were  closed  on  chattel 
mortgage by S. A.  Browne  one  day  last 
week, a first mortgage having previously 
been  given L. Waterbury & Co., of  New 
York, for  $620.  While the  stock was in 
the hands of  the sheriff, Mr. Baker broke 
open the safe and carried away the notes 
and books of  the  firm.  As this property 
was  covered  by Mr. Browne’s mortgage, 
a  criminal  action  is  likely to follow in 
the wake of  the failure.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Detroit—The Hoffman Machine Co. has 

assigned to Chas.  H. Fisk.

Charlotte—Deaninger  Bros.,  millers, 

have sold out to Perkins & Moon.
East  Tawas— Emery  Bros., 

lumber 
dealers, have  dissolved.  Temple Emery 
continues the business.

Lowell—Misner  &  Burdick, 

lumber 
Fred  Misner 

dealers, have  dissolved. 
will continue the business.

Owosso—T. J. Perkins, of Bennington, 
has entered  into  partnership with  Mr. 
Greer, in the spoke manufactory.

Dowagiac—The Round Oak  Stove  Co. 
has worsted the Indiana  stove  company, 
which was stealing its trade mark.

Detroit—The Russell Wheel  &  Foun­
dry Co.  recently shipped 100  heavy log­
ging cars to the Norfolk & Carolina Rail­
road Co.

Flint—Solomon  Aberdee  has  retired 
from the firm  G. F. Warren &  Co., cigar 
manufacturers, his  interest  having been 
purchased by D. D. Aitken.

Nashville—The Bell  Furniture & Nov 
elty Co. has been organized, with  a  cap 
ital of $10,000, to  engage  in  the  manu­
facture of special lines in  furniture  and 
novelties  in  wood.  The  officers  are 
President,  John  Bell;  Yice-President, 
C. L. Glasgow;  Secretary, E. M. Evarts 
Treasurer, C. A.  Hough.

West  Bay  City—Danforth,  Lloyd  & 
Smith,  manufacturers  of  staves  and 
heading here and at Gladwin,  have  sold 
out to Kerns,  Heisner & Co.

Ionia—The Wagar Lumber  Co. is ship­
ping to Mobile, Ala., thirty-five car loads 
of mill machinery, railroad iron and roll­
ing stock.  This  is pulling up stakes in 
earnest.

Manistee—It is rumored  that  Charles 
Perry will build  a  hardwood  and  hem­
lock mill at Pierport, north of here, next 
summer.  He already has a grist mill  at 
that point.

Charlotte—The proposed  consolidation 
of the lumber business of the Richardson 
Mill Co.  and that of R.  H.  Bohn, of Ches­
ter, has  not yet been carried into  effect, 
owing to a hitch in the negotiations.

Big  Rapids—L.  W.  Bowen,  formerly 
manager of the Lansing Lumber Co., has 
gone into the lumber  and  shingle  busi­
ness  here,  having  arranged  to  handle 
the cut of  several  mills in  this vicinity.
Charlotte—jThe  common  council  has 
voted John L. Dolson a bonus  of  $5,000, 
in consideration of his  erecting  a  brick 
carriage factory, with a  capacity for  200 
workmen, and have same in operation by 
October 1.

Plainwell—The annual  meeting of  the 
Michigan  Paper  Co. closed a very  pros­
perous  year.  The mill  has  done  about 
$10,000  worth of  business a month, real­
izing a profit of  12  per cent, on the  cap­
ital stock.

Detroit—James B. Delbridge,  Frank J. 
Dingeman,  and  Morral,  Minnie  T.  and 
Alice  H.  Cameron  have  organized  the 
Delbridge,  Cameron  &  Dingeman  Co., 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $20,000,  to  op­
erate a planing mill.

West Bay City—E. M.  Danforth,  D.  S. 
Lloyd and Peter  C. Smith  have  sold  to 
Kern, Heisner & Co.  five  acres of land at 
Gladwin and a stave  mill,  the considera­
tion being $5,000.  The  purchasers will 
begin the manufacture of  staves at once.
Cadillac—The  most  active  dealer  in 
pine here this winter  is  G. A. Bergland, 
who  last week  made  another  sale, this 
time 1,200,000 feet of  timber in  Hender­
son township to Salter &  Munn, of  East 
Saginaw.  This firm will get some square 
timber  from  this  tract,  and  probably 
bank the rest  of  the  logs  on  the Clam 
lakes.

Manistique—The  Manistique  Railroad 
Company,  composed  of  the  Manistique 
Lumber Co., the  Chicago Lumbering Co, 
and  Hall & Buell,  all of  Manistique, has 
extended  its  logging  road  eight or nine 
miles the past  season.  Hall & Buell are 
putting  in  50,000,000  feet  of  logs  this 
winter  for  the  Manistique and Bay City 
mills.

East  Saginaw—E.  O.  &  S.  L.  East 
man & Co. have purchased  the salt block 
on the  C.  &  E.  Ten  Eyck  shingle  mill 
premises,  and  will  remove  it  to  their 
planing mill premises on  the west  side 
They expect to  have  the  new block  in 
operation April  1, and will manufacture 
100 barrels daily in connection  with  the 
planing mill.

Flint—A new firm, consisting of W.  G, 
Braman, H. M. Sperry and  Sol. Aberdee, 
has been formed for the  purpose of man 
ufacturing cigars.  The two former  gen­
tlemen have for a number  of  years  con­
ducted  a  wholesale  cigar  store  here, 
while the latter, on  the  1st  inst., with 
drew from the cigar  manufacturing  firm 
of Geo. T. Warren & Co.

P urely  P ersonal.

John  W.  Mead,  the  Berlin  merchant 

was in town Monday.

Thos.  Sloan,  the  Dimondale  general 
dealer,  was  in  town  several  days  Iasi 
week.  He was accompanied by his wife
Peter Steketee, of  the firm of  P. Stek- 
etee & Sons, contemplates  establishing  s 
matrimonial bureau,  having already sup 
plied  Geo.  F. Cook, the  Grove  general 
dealer,  with a  handsome  partner  of  the 
female persuasion.

O. B. Pickett, the  presiding  genius in 
the  general  store  of  M.  V. Gundrum  & 
Co.,  at Leroy,  was in  town  Saturday,  on 
his way  home  from a trip of  six  weeks’ 
duration, which included  Buffalo, Wash 
ington and Evansville,  lnd.

Mrs.  Maria  Clark,  wife  of  Nathaniel 
Clark, 
the  pioneer  merchant  of  Reed 
City, died recently of  lung trouble.  The 
deceased was  the  mother of  eleven chil­
dren—one  of  whom,  N. B.  Clark,  i 
resident of  this  city—and  possessed the 
respect  and 
friendship  of  everyone 
fortunate  enough to enjoy her  acquaint 
ance.

R ivals  for  Popular  Favor.

Coal (to ice)—Never had a  more  com 
fortable season, thank you !  Have been 
allowed to stay in my bin undisturbed all 
winter so far.  Usually about  this  time 
a big ruffian has come along and, without 
saying  a word, or  asking  my leave, has 
cremated me.  Whereas, I would rather 
be buried, as I am this winter, in a vault, 
with a big brick monument  over me.
Ice—Oh, well, if you  think  you  have 
been well  treated, just wait  until  next 
summer.  You’ll  see  people  so  fond  of 
me  that  they  won’t  give  me  a  minute’s 
chance  to  run  away,  but will  hurry me 
into that same cellar you like so much.

A  P ertinent  Q uestion.

“I  would  like  to ask  you a question,” 
said a  gentleman  to  a  fellow  who  was 
spreading  himself  over  four  seats  in a 
crowded railway car.

“What is it ?”
“What  brand  of  nerve  food  do  you 

use ?”

P.  o f  I.  G ossip.

A. J.  Halsted has thrown the  P.  of  I. 

overboard at Grand Ledge.

Shelby Herald: 

“The  P. of  I. have 
been unable to  find  any one  in  Shelby 
willing to contract to  furnish  them with 
goods  at  a  fixed  percentage,  and  dis­
criminating between them and other cus­
tomers.”

Allegan Gazette :  “The  P. of  I. have 
boycotted Bangor. 
It has  been said that 
they were going to  combine together and 
hold their wheat and  force people to pay 
them their price for it, which sounds bad 
beside their everlasting cry of down with 
monopoly.”

Having satisfied themselves  that  they 
can  obtain  no  permanent  advantage of 
consequence  in  pursuing  the  present 
policy toward  the  mercantile  classes of 
the  State,  the  leaders of  the P. of  I.  or­
ganization  have  concluded to tackle the 
milling business,  and  announce their in­
tention of  erecting and operating milling 
plants at the principal  business  centers.
A fool and his money are soon parted.” 
Geo.  H.  Wright  &  Co., the  Mt.  Pleas­
ant  notion  dealers,  write  as  follows: 
We notice  in  the  last  issue  of  your 
paper that G.  H.  Wright  &  Co. have  en­
tered  into  contract  with  the  P.  of  I. 
society.  We feel that a  report  of  this 
kind, going out among  the business peo­
ple of this and other states, will  do  us  a 
great  injury, and would  be  pleased  to 
have the matter made  right, if  possible. 
We wish to have it  distinctly understood 
that we have no  contract with  the  P.  of 
I., and never will have.  We  hope  you 
will see to it that the error is corrected.” 
A  Harvard  correspondent  writes  as 
follows:  “We had a P. of  I.  store in this 
town  for  some  time,  but  the  Patrons 
found that they were paying  more  than 
12 per cent., which was  the  profit agreed 
upon.  For instance, they had to pay fifty 
cents  for  Spearhead  plug,  while  other 
dealers sold the same brand for forty-five 
cents.  As it cost thirty-seven cents,  the 
contract dealer made  a  clear profit of  35 
per cent. 
In spite of  such  drawbacks, 
however, the Patrons  are now endeavor­
ing to secure a renewal  of  the  old  con­
tract,  which leads us  to believe that they 
take delight in being swindled.”

Cadillac  News: 

“It  is  now an  es­
tablished fact that the Patrons of  Indus­
try  have  formed  organizations  in Wex 
ford county.  Delegations from some  of 
the branch societies were in the city, one 
day  last  week, looking  for  merchants 
who would agree to conform  to their  re 
quirements in order to  secure the order’s 
trade. 
So  far as we  can learn, no mer­
chant was found who  thought his  profits 
too great, or who could afford to  risk the 
scheme of selling goods to  one  class  of 
customers at a lower  rate than to others, 
It is very probable that the  Patrons  will 
have  to  establish  their  own  stores, if 
they have  mercantile  representatives  in 
Cadillac,  especially  in  the  grocery  or 
clothing line.”

Geo.  Yernier,  the  Crystal  hardware 
dealer,  writes as  follows :  “Some  time 
ago you  stated  that  the  P.’s of  I.  had 
boycotted  the village  of  Crystal, which 
was true (with the exception of  the drug 
store and the saloon),  and we are obliged 
to make the best of it.  We  notice  that 
when a P.  of  I. enters  a  store, he looks 
guilty, and acts as if  officers were  look­
ing for him  to  answer  for  some  great 
crime,  when, in  reality, he  is  the  one 
who is plotting against his neighbor.  A 
Patron  told me that  he could not  do  as 
well at a P. of  I.  store  as  at  any other, 
either in  Carson  City or  Stanton.  He 
thinks it is  all  a  humbug, and  has had 
all he wants of  it;  but  there  are  some 
who, instead  of  benefitting  others  by 
their experience,  try to  induce  them  to 
join, and be beaten  as  they were  them­
selves.  We  understand that there  has 
been trouble in  one  of  our  lodges, and 
that  the  president  has withdrawn,  but 
we hope this  not  true, as we  dislike to 
see trouble in any family.”

Hart Tribune:  “Here’s a joke on  a  P. 
of I., who  doesn’t live a  thousand  miles 
from WalkerVille, of how he  caught  on 
to  their  10-per-cent.-above-cost  plan : 
A few days ago  he went  to  their  store 
and  bought  some  sugar  and  tobacco. 
After  the goods were  done up, he  paid 
for them  and  then  presented  his  card 
and demanded a rebate  of  10  per  cent, 
in cash.  The  clerk  informed him that 
he had already got the benefit  of  the  10 
per cent, on  the  purchase,  and  tried  to 
explain the matter, telling  him they sold 
everything at 10 per cent,  above cost, but 
his mind was not quite clear on  the  sub­
ject, and he left the  store somewhat dis­
satisfied at the manner of doing business, 
vowing  to  himself  that  he would  look 
into it.  Having  at  last  figured  it out 
satisfactorily to himself, he again visited 
the  store, wearing  a  confident,  compla­
cent smile, and said  to the clerk,  “Well, 
since I was here before  I’ve  been  figur­
ing out this thing, and I  think  I’ve  got 
it,”  at the same time  laying  sixty cents 
upon the counter.  “There’s sixty cents, 
ain’t there ?  Well,  10 per cent,  of sixty 
cents is six cents, ain’t it?”  Being  an­
swered in the  affirmative, he said,  “Give 
me a pound of your sixty-cent tea,”  and, 
without  more  ado,  he 
took  his  tea, 
handed the clerk sixty-six  cents and  de­
parted, happy in the thought  that  he  a; 
last understood  the  difficult  solution of 
buying goods at 10 per cent, above cost.”

A nnual  M eeting1  o f  the  Salt  M akers.
At the annual meeting of the Michigan 
Salt Association, held  at  East  Saginaw, 
all of  the  salt  producing  districts  were 
represented.  Mr. Burt’s  report  »showed 
that  during  the  season  of  1889 
there 
were  made  3,847,000  barrels  of  salt, 
being  19,000  barrels  less  than  in  1888. 
There  were  manufactured on account of 
the  Michigan  Salt  Association,  in 1889,
2.986.000  barrels—280,00  barrels 
less 
than in 1888.  There were  manufactured 
in 1889, for parties  outside  the  Associa­
tion,  860,000—260,000  barrels more  than 
in 1888.  On December 1,  1888, the Asso­
ciation  had  on  hand  1,883,000  barrels, 
and December 1, 1889, 1,620,000 barrels— 
a decrease  of  263,000  barrels,  or  about 
the same amount  as  the  increase of  the 
manufacturers  outside  the  Association. 
December,  1,  1889,  there  were  in  the 
hands of  parties  outside the Association
181.000  barrels.
During the season of  1889 the Associa­
tion shipped 3,140,000 barrels,  divided as 
follows :
East Shore...................................................  98,000
Tawas..........................................................    92,000
Oscoda.........................................................   219,000
St. Clair River........................................... 
97,000
Manistee and Ludington...........................  909,000
Bay County.................................................   790,000
Saginaw County.........................................   935,000
December 1,  1889, there were  1,619,000 
barrels  in  the  hands  of  the  manufac­
turers.
The  sales  of  the  Association  during 
the season of 1889 were 3,228,000 barrels, 
as against 3,284,000 in 1888, a decrease of
56.000  barrels. 
In  1889, salt  netted  the 
manufacturer  54  3-10  cents a barrel;  in 
1888, 58}£ cents.
The  grievance  of  the  Ludington  and 
Manistee  manufacturers  was  adjusted, 
they  being  allowed  a  differential  of  4 
cents a barrel to make up  for  the  differ­
ence in freight rates.

A  Thrifty  Butcher.

From  th e Lowell Courier.
Lady—I paid  you the full price, seven­
teen  cents a pound  for  this  steak,  and 
the weight was short.
Butcher—Madam, you  are right  about 
the  price.  As  to  the  weight,  I  don’t 
know.  I believe in the old adage, “Look 
out for the pennies and  the  pounds will 
take care of  themselves.”
It pays  to  handle the 

P  &  B. cough

drops.

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED,  ETC.

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

B U S IN E S S   C D A N C E S .

579

580

of Tradesm an, 8w ift & Co., o r T elfer Spice Co. 

location;  w ith o r w ithout stock.  Apply  a t  office 

cum bered land fo r stock of  dry goods, groceries, 
boots and shoes o r h ardw are.  Address.  F.  A.  Thorns, 
Newark, South Dakota. 

WASTED—TO  TRADE—A  HALF  SECTION  UNIN- 
Fo r   r e n t —g r o c e r y  a n d  m e a t  m a r k e t —g o o d
F o r   s a l e —a t  o n c e —a  n e w ,  w e l l -s e l e c t e d

stock of general m erchandise in  a   live  tow n  and 
w ealthy and prosperous  farm in g   com m unity  on  the 
M ichigan  Centra)  R ailroad;  inventory  about  85,000; 
annual business  828,000;  new,  m odern,  double,  brick 
6tore;  best location;  low re n t  and  insurance;  can  re­
duce stock;  reason fo r selling, poor  health.  Address, 
Box 178, care Tradesm an. 

____________________ 575

R a r e   c h a n c e   t o   b u y   t h e   o n l y   d r u g   s t o r e

in C entral M ichigan railro ad  tow n of  n early   400, 
w ith fast-grow ing farm in g  c o u n try ; stock and fixtures 
invoice 81,300;  h a lf cash, balance  on  easy  paym ents; 
good new fixtures;  only  drug,  book,  statio n ery ,  wall 
paper,  p ain t  an d   jew elry  stock  in  tow n;  splendid 
opening for young m an;  good reasons fo r  selling. 
If 
you w ant it, address  for  particu lars,  L.  M,  Mills,  568 
W ealthy Ave., G rand Rapids, Mich.______________ 578
<ttH ft  AAA  STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MERCHAN- 
5 5 J_ v /.V y w  vy  dise to  exchange  fo r  city   property, 
lum ber'or shingles;  we also  have 3 d ru g  stocks, 4 gro­
cery stocks, 3 hardw are stocks and  3  cig ar  stocks  for 
sale o r exchange.  A. J. Fogg & Co., 8 & 4 Tower Block

76

571.

570.

its size on 

F o r  s a l e  o r  e x c h a n g e —in   t h e   b e s t  t o w n  o f

th e  G. R. &  I. R.R., a   clean, new stock 
of  groceries  and  th ree  houses, besides  some  vacan t 
lots;  also five and one-half m iles west o f Traverse City, 
an  80 acre piece o f tim bered land, all o f w hich is owned 
by a  p a rty  who, for  good  and  sufficient  reasons, de­
sires to rem ove fa rth e r south; 
th e village has a  popu­
lation of about 2,000, and is  th e  county seat;  an y  one 
w anting to buy o r h av in g  a  good  business to  exchange 
fo r an y  o r all of above, is invited to  correspond;  it will 
b ear investigation.  Address K., care M ichigan Trades­
m an. 

F o r  s a l e —85,000 s t o c k   o f   h a r d w a r e , s t o v e s,

fu rn itu re and  crockery, w ith  fu ll  stock  of  tools 
fo r tin , w ater and gas jobs;  a  barg ain  fo r cash o r p a rt 
low re n t  for  building.  Lock  box 73, 
cash and tim e; 
Greenville, Mich.___________________________ 

village  property  fo r  stock  of  goods, hardw are 
preferred.  Address No. 573. caie  M ichigan T radesm an.

lage surrounded by a  good  c o u n try ;  good  trad e; 
object of selling, p ractice here.  Address Dr. H. E. Hun- 
gerford. Stetson,  Mich._________________________ 572.

Fo r   s a l e —s t o c k   o f   d r u g s, l o c a t e d  in  a  v il -
WANTED—TO EXCHANGE FARM OF 120  ACRES  OR 
Ba r g a in -  $3,500 s t o c k   g e n e r a l  m e r c h a n d is e
F OR  SALE—HARDWARE  STOCK, 

fo r  sale  cheap,  or will  exchange  fo r  im proved, 
rentable real estate;  m ust sell soon.  W. Wood, Sheri­
dan, Mich. 

INVENTORING 
about 81,000,  doing  a   very prosperous  business; 
can reduce th e stock to su it p u rchaser;  best of  reason 
fo r  selling.  Address  A.  L.  Paine  &  Co.,  Reed  City 
Mich. 

_______________ 568

Fo r  s a l e —s t o c k   o f   c l o t h in g ,  f u r n is h in g

goods  and  h a ts  and caps in th e  best city of  6,000 
in h ab itan ts  in   th e   S tate;  o th er  business;  no  trad e 
taken.  W. R. Dennis & Co., Cadillac, Mich._______567  .
T F   YOU  WANT  TO  EXCHANGE  YOUR  STOCK  OF 
-L  goods fo r a  farm , large o r sm all,  w rite  to   No.  563, 
care M ichigan Tradesm an.
FOR 8ALE—CLEAN  STOCK  OF  DRY  GOOD8,  GRO 

eeries.  boots  and  shoes,  hardw are  and  drugs 
situated in good  trad in g   p oint;  will  inventory about 
83.000;  sales fo r  p ast  th ree  years,  842,000;  reason for 
selling, ow ner has  o th er  business.  Address  No.  559, 
care M ichigan Tradesm an. 
T   HAVE  SEVERAL  FARMS  WHICH  I  W ILL  EX- 
JL  change for stock of goods, G rand Rapids  city  prop 
erty , o r will sell on easy paym ents;  these  farm s  have 
th e best of soil, a re  under  good  sta te   o f  cu ltiv atio n , 
and located betw een th e  cities  of  G rand  Rapids  and 
Muskegon.  O. F. Conklin, G rand R apids, Mich._______

Fo r   s a l e —w e  

_________ OFFER  FOR  SALE,  ON  VERY
:

_  favorable term s, th e  F.  H. E scott dru g  stock, a t 75
Canal street. G rand R apids,  H azeltine & P erkins Drug 

574.

573.

559

Price, 84,000. 

__________________ 531

MISCELLANEOUS.

QO M PLETE  HISTORY  OF  THE_  PATRONS  OF  IN-
_   dustry, from   th e  inception  of  th e  organization 
only a  few copies left;  sent postpaid  fo r  10  cents  per 
copy.  Address  The  Tradesm an Com pany, G’d Rapids
— LIVE  TRAVELING  MEN  TO  CARRY 
VV  paying  side  line;  lig h t  sam ples;  quick  sales. 
M erchants’ Specialty Co., Chicago,  111
Be g in   t h e   n e w   y e a r   b y   d is c a r d in g   t h e  

annoying  Pass  Book  System   and  adopting  in 
sam ple order, w hich w ill be sent  prepaid.  E. A. Stowe 
& Bro., G rand Rapids. 

its place th e Tradesm an Credit  Coupon.  Send  81  to r 

Sa m p l e s   o f   t w o   k in d s   o f   c o u p o n s 

f o r
retailers w ill be  sent  free  to  any  dealer w ho w ill 
w rite fo r them  to  th e  Sutliff  Coupon  Pass  Book  Co.‘ 
Albany, N. Y. 

____

564

F. ñ, Wiírzbiírg  X  Go.,

Exclusive Jobbers of

DRY  GOODS, HOSIERY,

NOTIONS, UNDERWEAR,

19  &  21  SOUTH  DIVISION  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MIOH.

F o r  

S i
D R YG O O D S,

THE  ENTIRE  STOCK  OF

Notions  and  Fixtures

Of John J. Timmer,  Muskegon,  Mich.,  the  ap­
praised  value  of  which  is  12,200.  Will be sold 
at a great bargain.

FOR  FULL  PARTICULARS,  APPLY  TO

SPRING  &  COMPANY,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Drum m er  v s.  D ruggist.

Commercial travelers  are men of  keen 
perceptive  powers  and  good  judges  of 
humsp nature, or they do  not  succed  in 
their line  of  business.  The  druggist 
may  have  a  practical  knowledge  of 
pharmacy, but the  practical information 
of  the  competent “drummer” covers  a 
far greater field, for it embraces  an  un­
derstanding of  the varying  propensities 
of human beings.  Not long  ago  a  mem­
ber of the  force representing  one  of  our 
large wholesale drug  firms  incidentally 
referred to the manner  in which a  retail 
druggist will expose  his ignorance while 
buying  goods.  The  speaker  said  he 
sometimes  erred  in  his  judgment, but 
seldom failed when  he  set  a  druggist 
down as a careless,  incompetent pharma­
cist because  he  ordered  a  long  list of 
preparations  which  every  druggist  can 
easily make at a good profit.  His  expe­
rience goes to teach  him  that  the  man 
who  orders  paregoric,  laudanum,  medi­
cated waters  and  such  readily prepared 
articles  is  the  one who will  pay  good 
round prices for goods  and  think  he  is 
buying for rock bottom prices.

SHOW  CASES!

6 - f t  ease lik e ab ove

6- f t  case,  square, w ith  metal  corners,  same  prioe.

The  above  offer  is  no  “ bluff ”  or 
snide  w ork.  W e   shall  continue  to 
turn out only the BKST of w ork.  All 
other eases at equally low  prices.

PYM ñN  i   COMPANY,

63  AND  65  CANAL  STREET,

Grand  Rapids,

Mich,

L IO N
COFFEE

M erchants,

Y O U   W A N T   T H IS  C A B IN E T

Thousands  of  Them

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

Every  Wide - Awake  Merehant

Should  Certainly  Sell

LION, THE  KING  OF  G0FFEE8.

An  Article  of Absolute  Merit.

It is fast supplanting  the  scores  of  inferior  roasted coffees. 

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

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

W o o lso n   Spice  Co.,

T O L E D O ,  OHIO.

L. WINTEB.NITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids.

ASSOCIATION  DEPARTMENT.
Michigan  Business Men’s  Association.

President—C. L. Whitney,'Muskegon.
First Vice-President—C. T. Bridgeman,  Flint 
Second Vice-President—M. C- Sherwood, Allegan. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—H. W. Parker, Owosso.
Executive  Board—President;  Frank  Wells,  Lansing; 
Frank  Hamilton, Traverse City;  N. B.Blain, Lowell 
Ohas.  T.  Bridgeman,  Flint;  O.  F.  Conklin, Grand
Committee on Insurance—O.  F.  Conklin,  Grand  Rap 
ids:  Oren  Stone, Flint;  Wm. Woodard, Owosso. 
Committee  on  Legislation—Frank  Wells,  Lansing;
H. H. Pope, Allegan;  C. H. May, Clio.
Committee on Trade Interests—Prank Hamilton, Trav 
erse city:  Geo.  R.  Hoyt,  Saginaw;  L.  W.  Sprague,
Oomndttee on Transportation—C.T. Bridgeman, Flint;
M. C. Sherwood, Allegan;  A. O. Wheeler, Manistee. 
Committee on Building  and  Loan  Associations-N.  B. 
Hi »in  Lowell;  F. L. Fuller, Cedar Springs;  P. J. Con
nell,  Muskegen. 

Local Secretary—Jas. H. Moore, Saginaw.
O ffic ia l O r g a n —T h b  Mic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n .

___

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

" 

K e,  i —T ra v erse C ity B . M .  A . 

President. J. W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings.
------------N o . 2—L o w ellfB . M . A .
President, N. B. Plain; Secretary, Frank T. King.
President, H. S. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jom._______
President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. 

N o.  4 —G rand  R a p id s  M .  A . 
N o.  5 —M u sk eg o n  B .  M . A .

N o. 3 —S tu r g is B . M . A .

N o. 6 —A lb a   B. M . A .

President;  Secretary, C. L.  Whitney.__________
President. F. W. Bloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.
President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.
’ 
President, F. H. Thurston; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.

N o.  7—D im o n d a le  B . M . A .
N o. 8 —E a stp o r t B . M . A .
N o. 9 —L a w ren ce B . M . A . 

” 

P resident. H. M. M arshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly.
No.  10 —H arb or ¡Springs B .M . A . 

N o .1 1 —K in g sle y  B . M . A .

President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.
President, H. P. Whipple; Secretary,D. E.  Wynkoop.
President, Edson Blackman; secretary, W ■ H. Lockerby.

N o.  1 3 —Q u in cy  B . M . A .
N o. 13—S h erm a n  B . M . A .

N o  2 7 —D o rr  B . M .  A . 

N o. 2 6 —G r e e n v ille   1». M . A . 

N o. 2 4 —M orley  B .  M . A .
N o. 2 5 —P a lo  B . M . A , 

N o. 2 0 —sa u g a tu c k   B . M . A . 
N o. 2 1 —W ay la n d  B . M . A . 
N o. 2 2 —G rand  L ed g e B . M . A .
N o. 2 3 —C arson C ity B . M . A .

N o.  1 5 —B o y n e  C ity  B . M . A .
N o. 1 6 —Sand L a k e B . M . A .
N o. 17—P la in w e ll B . M. A . 
N o.  18—O w osso B . M , A .
N o.  1 9 —A d a   B . M . A . 

President. H. B. Sturtevant;  Secretary, W. J. Austin.
---------- N o.  14—N o. M u sk eg o n  B . M . A .
President, S. A. Howey; Secretary, G. C. Havens._____
' 
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.
President, 1. V. Crandall;  Secretary, W. Raaco-_______
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President, John F. Henry; Secretary, N. L. Rowe.
President, C. H. W harton; S ecretary, M. V. H oyt.
P re sid e n t, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W.  R.  Clarke.
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President, John W. Hallett;  Secretary, L. A. Lyon.
President, J. E. Thurkow;  Secretary. W. H. Richmond.
President, F. A. Hargrave; Secretary, I. S. Jeffers.
President. A. C. Satteriee;  Secretary. E. J. Clark.
President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L. S. Fisher.
■»resident, A. J. Paddock;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer._____
President, Wm. Moore;  Secretary, A. J. Cheesebroagh, 
President, A.G. Avery;  Secretary, E. S. Houghtaling.
President, Thos. J. Green;  Secretary, A. G. Fleury.
President, W. G. Barnes;  Secretary, J. B. Watson.
■resident, L. D. Bartholomew;  Secretary, R. W. Kane.
President, H. T. Johnson;  Secretary, P. T. Williams.
President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C. E. Densmore.
■resident, O. F. Jackson;  Secretary, John  M. Everden.
»resident. Chas. F. Bock;  Secretary, E. W. Moore.
resident, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins. 
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resident, W. 3. Wilier; Secretary,  F. W. Sheldon.
resident, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert.
resident, C. H. Howd;  Secretary, L. Waggoner._____
resident, Jos. Gerber; Secretary  C. J. Rathbun._____
resident, Frank J. Lnick;  Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom. 
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resident, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.______
resident, D. E. Kallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay.

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President, Boyd Redner; Secretary,|W. J. Tabor.______
President, A. Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith.
President, A, O. Wheeler; Secretary,C.  Grannis.
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President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary, A. C. Bowman.
President, Silas DeLong;  Secretary, Geo. Chapman.
resident. Geo. A. Sage; Secretary, H. S. Holden.
President, L. S. W alter; S ecretai; ,G.S  Blakely.
President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen.
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President,B. S. W ebb;  S ecretary, M. E  Pollasky.
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A ssociation  N otes.

At the annual meeting of the Bangor B. M. A., 
Silas DeLong was elected President  and  George 
Chapman Secretary.

The  P.  of I.  Dealers.

The following are the P.  of  I.  dealers 
who had not cancelled  their  contracts at 
last accounts:
Wehle, L.  T. Lochner.

Adrian—Powers  &  Burnham,  Anton 
Allendale—Henry Dalman.
Alrnont—Colerick & Martin.
Altona—Eli Lyons.
Assyria—J. W. Abbey.
Bay City—Frank Rosman & Co.
Belding—L. S.  Roell.
Big Rapids—W. A. Verity, A. V. Young, 
E.  P.  Shankweiler  &  Co.,  Mrs.  Turk, 
J. K. Sharp.

Blanchard—L. A.  Wait.
Blissfield—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr.
Brice—J.  B. Gardner.
Burnside—Jno.  G. Bruce  & Son.
Capac—H. C. Sigel.
Carson City—A. B. Loomis,  A. Y. Ses­
sions.
Casnovia—Ed. Hayward, John  E. Par- 
cell.
Cedar  Springs—John  Beucus,  B.  A. 
Fish.
Charlotte—John  J. Richardson,  Daron 
& Smith, J. Andrews,  C.  P. Lock, F. H. 
Goodby.

Chester—P.  C. Smith.
Chippewa Lake—G. A. Goodsell.
Clio—Nixon &  Hubbell.
Conklin—Wilson McWilliams.
Coral—J. S. Newell & Co.
Deerfield—Henry W. Burghardt.
Eaton Rapids—Knapp & Rich, H. Kosit- 
chek & Bro.
Evart—Mark Ardis,  E. F. Shaw, Stev­
ens & Farrar, John C. Devitt.
Fenwick—Thompson Bros.
Flint—John B. Wilson.
Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark.
Fremont—Boone  &  Pearson,  J.  B. 
Gladwin—John Graham, J. D. Sanford, 
Gowan—Rasmus Neilson.
Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted & Son.
Grand Rapids—Joseph  Berles, A. Wil- 
zinski. Brown &  Sehler,  Volmari & Von 
Keppel.

Ketchum.
Jas. Croskery.

Bros., E. C. Pelton.

Hart—Rhodes &  Leonard.
Hersey—John Finkbeiner.
Hesperia—B.  Cohen.
Howard  City — O.  J.  Knapp,  Herold 
Hubbardston—M. Cahalen.
Imlay City—Cohn Bros.
Jackson—Hall & Rowan.
Kalamo—L. R. Cessna.
Kent  City—M. L. Whitney.
Laingsburg—D. Lebar.
Lake Odessa—Christian  Haller &  Co., 
E. F. Colwell  &  Son,  McCartney  Bros., 
Fred Miller.

Israel) Glicman.
nings.

Lakeview—H. C.  Thompson.
Langston—F. D. Briggs.
Lansing—R.  A.  Bailey,  Etta  (Mrs. 
Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son,  W.  H.  Jen­
Lowell—Patrick Kelly.
McBride’s—J.  McCrae.
Maple Rapids—L.  S. Aldrich.
Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lep- 
per & Son, Jno.  Butler.  Richard  Butler, 
John Fletcher.

Lee.

& Son, F. H. Cowles.

Mecosta—Parks  Bros.
Milan—C. C.  (Mrs. H. S.) Knight.
Millbrook—T.  O.  (or J. W.) Pattison.
Millington—Chas. H.  Valentine.
Milton  Junction—C. A.  Warren.
Morley—Henry Strope.
Mt.  Morris—H. E. Lamb,  J.  Vermett 
Mt. Pleasant—Thos. McNamara.
Nashville—Powers & Stringham, H. M. 
North Dorr—John Homrich.
Ogden—A. J. Pence.
Olivet—F. H.  Gage.
Onondaga—John Sillik.
Orono—C. A. Warren.
Potterville—F. D. Lamb & Co.
Reed City—J. M. Cadzow.
Remus—C. V. Hane.
Richmond—Knight & Cudworth.
Riverdale—J. B. Adams.
Rockford—B. A. Fish.
Sand  Lake—Brayman  &  Blanchard, 
Frank E. Shattuck & Co.
Shelby—Angus  Rankin.
Shepherd—H. O. Bigelow.
Sheridan—M.  Gray.
Sparta—Dole & Haynes.
Springport—Powers & Johnson.
Stanton—Fairbanks &  Co., Sterling  & 
Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter.
Trufant—I. Terwilliger.
Vassar—McHose & Gage.
Wheeler—Louise  (Mrs.  A.)  Johnson, 
White Cloud—J.  C. Townsend,  N.  W 
Williamston—Thos. Horton.

H.  C.  Breckenridge.
Wiley.

Co.

Getting-  B eady  to   Boom   th e  Grand 

Traverse  Region.

The Traverse  City B. M. A.  has issued 
the following  call for a meeting of  those 
most  interested in the  material prosper­
ity of  the Grand Traverse  region :

T r a v e r se  Cit y ,  Jan.  16, 1890.

We desire to call  your  attention to the 
Northern part of  the Lower Peninsula of 
Michigan.  There are about  thirty coun­
ties in this portion of  the State that have 
a  large  quantity  of  available  farming 
lands, and in addition, untold millions of 
extremely  valuable  hard  wood.  This 
territory needs immigrants to occupy and 
develop its farming lands  and  capital to 
utilize  its  magnificent  forests  and 
crease its manufacturing interests.  Rail­
roads  are  pushing  their extensions into 
this region, capital is looking this way to 
a limited extent, summer resort  associa­
tions  are  learning of  its  attractions,  its 
own  citizens fully appreciate its  advan­
tages  and  opportunities;  but  the  great 
public  does  not  know, or,  if  it  knows 
does not  realize  its  future  possibilities 
fully. 
It  seems  to  need  at  this time a 
combined  effort by all  interested  to put 
these facts  properly before the public in 
an  exhaustive,  legitimate,  truthful and 
persistent  advertisement conducted on a 
broad and liberal plan.
We  believe  that  every transportation 
line  depending  largely on  the  develop 
ment  of  this  country  for  its  business 
every real  estate  agent  who  wants  to 
make his loans a better investment, every 
summer  resort  association,  as  well  as 
every town  and  county in  the  territory 
named, should be keenly interested in its

development,  and  ready to assist  in for­
warding it in every possible way.
The following plan has been suggested 
as having some advantage as a method of 
inaugurating this movement:
Such  parties  as  are  most directly in­
terested in this  matter  should, by them­
selves, or their  representatives,  meet for 
general  discussion at an appointed  time 
and place.  At that meeting  the  follow­
ing questions might be considered:
1.  The territory to  be  included  in the 
movement.
2.  What interests are  involved,  as, for 
instance,  transportation  lines,  summer 
resort associations,  proprietors of  towns 
or  villages,  manufacturing  industries, 
real estate men, etc.
3.  To what  extent, and  in  what way, 
these various interests can  be enlisted in 
pushing the  development  of  the  terri­
tory and advancing the  enterprise.
4.  How can finances  be  provided  for 
inaugurating  and  maintaining  a  sys­
tematic and well-digested plan fp  opera­
tions ?
5.  The  advisability  of  calling  a  con­
vention of all who are,  or who  are likely 
to  be,  interested  in  the  matter, at  an 
early day,  at  some  place  to  be  decided 
upon at the initial meeting.
Other  points will  suggest  themselves 
to all.
Feeling confident that  you will  be  di­
rectly  interested  in  the  matter, we  ex­
tend to you  a most cordial  invitation  to 
meet, with  others  equally  interested,  at 
Traverse  City on the 13th day of  Febru­
ary,  at  9  o’clock  a. m., for  a  friendly 
consultation regarding this matter.
Trusting  that  out  of  this  may come 
something that may be  of  direct  benefit 
to your special interest,  we are 

Yours truly,

J.  W.  Mil l ik e n ,
S.  B a r n e s,
S.  E.  W a it ,

Advertising  Committee,  Business  Men’s

Association.

A pproves  o f “The  Tradesm an’s ” Stand 

on  th e  P.  o f I.

M u ir ,  Ja n .  22,  1890. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:
I am always sure to read  the “P.  of  I. 
Gossip,” and such  other  kindred  news 
items as  are  such welcome  features  of 
T h e T ra d esm a n to us injured dealers.
Accept my thanks  for  the  stand  you 
have and are taking on  the matter of the 
P. of L
The ‘•Scene’5- in the  two leading stores 
of your city call to  mind the same weap­
on  (falsehood) which  is  the  stock  in 
trade of  the organizations  in  this vicin­
ity. 
If other merchants get their  share 
of  the abuse which  is  heaped  onto  me 
for not favoring the  soulless institution, 
I pity them. 
Scarcely a day passes that 
I do not hear  of  some  disagreeable  lie 
which the “county  organizers” start,  or 
which are  started  “in secret  session  of 
the various  sessions.”  One  day  it  is 
that I  say I  do  not want  a  P. of L to 
come into my store.  The next day it  is 
stated as a fact that I turned  out  of  my 
store one of the  leading  farmers  of  the 
vicinity.  This is usually followed the next 
day by the assertion that  I  have  kicked 
an old customer out of  doors, because  of 
his leaning towards the P.  of L doctrine. 
If I open the door for  a lady customer to 
leave the store, though done  in  the  ut­
most civility,  1  look for  the  report, the 
next day,  that this same  lady was turned 
out of my store by the proprietor.
These are samples  of what  one  hears 
here,  and  if  the whole  State  is  in  the 
same  condition  of  things, then  can  I 
truly say, I  am  sorry for  the  deluded, 
misguided  farmer,  who  is  being  led 
astray by such false  doctrines.
I hope the future will  bring  things  to 
the old stand,  and  that,  if there is a way 
for farmers to be  benefitted by organiza­
tion, the  present  excitement  will  show 
that way. 

Yours truly,

L. A.  E l y .

A roused  H is  Suspicion.

Customer  (getting  measured  for  a 
suit)—I want a pocket  made  to hold my 
check book.

Tailor—Certainly, sir.
As the customer  passed  out, the tailor 
observed to the clerk:
“James,  be  sure  and  have  that coat 
sente, o.'d. 
I’ve  been  fooled by  such 
remarks  too  many  times  to be taken in 
again.” 

______
A  Sign  W hich  F ailed.

Young  Husband—Seems 
to  me,  my 
Young Wife—I know it  is, and I can’t 
I picked it out my­

dear, this chicken is pretty tough.
understand it at all. 
self.

“Did you examine it closely?”
“Indeed, I did. 

I looked in its mouth 
the first  thing,  and I could see it hadn’t 
even cut its first teeth yet.

The  R etort  C ourteous.

Customer  (in  tea  store,  tasting  the 
It tastes  like 
Exasperated Clerk—I  don’t  know, sir, 
I’m  not  such a 

tea)—I don’t like this tea. 
hay.
whether  it does or not. 
donkey as to know how hay tastes.

No  P leasure  in  It.

me. 

It doesn’t do her any good.

First Boy—No, my mother never whips 
Second Boy—How’s that ?
“Why,  she’s deaf,  you  know, and she 

can’t  hear me  yell.”

An Ancient Refrain.

Grocer—What  noise  is  that in the cel­
lar, John ?
Boy (after  an  investigation)—Its only 
the  vinegar  singing,  “No One  Cares for 
Mother. Now.”

W anted  a  W arm   Kind.

ters, young feller.

Old  Lady—I’d  like to buy some  plas­
Drug  Clerk—Yes, ma’am:  porous?
Old Lady—Do ye s’posel want to ketch 
my death o’  cold ?  Let’s see  yer winter 
styles. 

___

A  Slander  on  the  Sex.

“Postage  stamps  at cost!”  is a sign in 
a  Chestnut  street,  Philadelphia,  drug 
store, and 98 per cent, of the women who 
read it  nearly  run  each  other  down  in 
their haste to lay in a supply.

Some men work harder to avoid paying 
an honest debt than they would  have  to 
work to earn the money to pay it with.

P rom ptness  in  B usiness.

Promptness in  meeting  money obliga­
tions is a quality that soon  gives  a  man 
or firm a marked  and  enviable  position 
in trade  circles,  to  say nothing  of  the 
many advantages  it gains.

Punctuality is, in part, at least, a habit 
capable of cultivation, but to compel cir­
cumstance  to  wait upon  obligations  re­
brains of good fiber !  Foresight, wisdom, 
caution and energy must  be  continually 
exercised that  one may be  invariably at 
a given point at a  specified time,  and the 
man who does it secures the  respect  and 
confidence  of  buyers  and  sellers, asso­
ciates,  employes  and 
friends,  beside 
gaining for himself  a  comfortable  con­
science.  Loose methods  and  procrasti­
nation  in  the  matter  of  payments  too 
often  react with severity upon  innocent 
parties.  The relation of  man  to  man  is 
necessarily close and  dependent, and  in­
dividual conduct often  sets  in  motion a 
train  of  circumstances,  which,  passing 
individual  control, may cause  inconven­
ience,  anxiety  and  sometimes  loss  of 
character  to  persons  whose  intentions 
are upright,  but who are  the victims  of 
procrastination,  either 
intentional  or 
careless in others.

But perhaps it is in the  matter  of  dis­
counts  that  the  tradesman  reaps  the 
most  substantial  benefits  arising  from 
prompt payments,  and  by prudence  and 
sagacity he is often  able  to  increase  his 
profits one-half  from  this  source  alone. 
Jobbers  always  favor  a  prompt  pay­
master, not  only  by giving  him  better 
terms, but by keeping him in mind when 
advantages 
taken  up 
promptly  not  only  save  money,  but 
worry also, and leave the  mind clear and 
the purse  ready to “catch  on” to  pass­
ing opportunities. 
It is also not only  a 
legitimate  and  proper  way of  making 
and saving  money, but  one  which  the 
trade like to see  practiced, as  it enables 
all hands  to  see  just where  they stand 
every time.

arise.  Bills 

The  Florida  O range  Crop.

“ 

“ 

“ 

The  Florida  orange  crop is large this 
year,  and  began  coming  to  Northern 
markets  in  heavy shipments  at  least  a 
month  earlier 
than  in  any  previous I 
season.  Last  year  Florida  shipped!
North  2,000,000  boxes  of  oranges,  but 
owing  to  the  yellow  fever  epidemic 
which  prevailed,  the  shipments for the 
holiday trade  were  light.  The  receipts 
in New York alone  last  year for Novem­
ber were 45,000 boxes,  and for  December 
147,000  boxes.  This season  the Novem­
ber receipts were  181,000  boxes,  and for 
December upward of  150,000 boxes.  The 
crop this  year is said to be  about 250,000 
boxes  short of  a  year  ago, but it is esti­
mated  that  fully two-thirds  of  the crop 
has left  Florida by now.  The quality of [ First Prize 
the  latest  shipments is fair 
of  the  fruit  sells  in  Boston  at $2.50 to 
$2.75 per box for  good  to  choice,  and at 
$1.75  to  $2.25  for  ordinary. 
In  New 
York  the  fruit  has  brought  at auction 
from $2 to $2.25 a box,  and the fancy fruit 
from  $2.50  to  $3.  Prices  are  holding 
firm, and the commission  men  expect an 
advance  in  January.  New  York  takes 
about  ono-fourth of  the whole crop, and 
the proportion  is  growing  larger as the 
Florida  orange  grows in popularity. 
In 
some  parts of  Florida  the “lady bug” is 
being 
for  dissemination 
among  the  orange  groves infested with 
what is called the white scale.  This pest
seems  the  most  difficult  to  cope  with, 
and,  had  no  remedy been  found,  the in- j American 
dustry  in  the  sections  affected  by  it 
would probably have been destroyed.

[propagated 

Amoskeag.

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Hamilton 

h a l f   b l e a c h e d   c o t t o n s .

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

Atlantic  A..............   734

Hamilton N ......
Middlesex P T ..
.  A T..
X A ..
X F ..
........

Clifton CCC...........  634
Conqueror XX........5
Dwight Star............  734
Exeter A .................   634
Full Yard Wide......   634
Great Falls E ..........7
Honest Width.........   634
Hartford A..............   534
Integrity XX........... 5-
King, E F ..................634
“  E X ................  634
“  EC, 32 in ......   534
Lawrence L L ..........534
New  Market B........53»
Noihe R ...................  534
Newton...................6i£
Our Level  Best...... 7
Riverside XX..........4M
Sea Island R ........... 634
Sharon B  ...............   6M
Top of the  Heap—   734
Williamsville.......... 7
Comet,  40 In...........834
Carlisle  “ 
...........  734
New Market L, 40in.  734
B L E A C H E D   COTTONS.
Glen Mills
Gold Medal.............  734
Green  Ticket..........834
Great Falls..............  634
Hope........................  734
Just  Out........4M®  5
King  Phillip........... 7M
OP......   734
Lonsdale Cambric.. 1034
Lonsdale................... 83«
Middlesex................. 534
No Name.................  734
Oak View................  6
Our Own.................   534
Pride of the W est.. .12
Rosalind..................  734
Sunlight..................  434
Vinyard...................  834

H.............. 7
“ 
«* 
P ..............   6
D ................ 6%
“ 
“  LL..............   53i£
Atlanta A. A........... 634
Archery  Bunting...  434
Amory.....................   734
Beaver Dam  A A ...  55£
Berwick  L ..............   634
Blackstone O, 32—   5
Black  Rock  ...........   7
Boat, F F ................  654
2X..................  6
“ 
“ 
C................  534
“  AL..................  734
“ PL, 40 Inch...  834
Continental, C........734
D,  40-in  834
E, 42-inlO 
W, 45-inll
H, 48-inl2
Chapman.................  4
CohassetA..............   734
Comet......................7
Amsburg  ................7
Blackstone A A.....  8
Beats All............... 434
Cleveland.............   7
Cabot.................»...  734
Cabot,  %................  6M
Dwight Anchor.....  9
shorts.  8M
Edwards................   6
Empire..................   7
Farwell.................   7M
Fruit of the Loom.. 8M
Fitchville............. 734
First Prize.............7
Fruit of the Loom %. 8
Fairmount.............434
Full Value............. 6M
Geo. Washington
Cabot.......................  734|DwightAnchor...,.  9
Farwell................... 7MI
...  534 Middlesex No. 1.. ..10
Tremont N ........
2.. ..11
Hamilton N.......
...  634
3.. ..12
...  7
L......
7.. ..18
...  8
Middlesex  AT..
8.. ..19
...  9
X ....
No. 25 ...  9
B L E A C H E D   CANTON  FL A N N E L .
...  734 Middlesex A A
“
2
...  8
“
A O
...  9
“
4
...  9
5
“
...1034
D R E SS GOODS.
...  8 Nameless
“
...  9
.  1034
“
...21
“
...16
“
...18
S A T IN E S.
Imperial.
Simpson............ ....20
....18 Black__
. .. .
....16
...1034
C O R SET  JE A N S .
__ 6  INaumkeagsatteen..  734
__   634! Rock port................. 634
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  534 
Reppfurn .  834
Pacific fancy.......... 6
robes.............. 634
Portsmouth robes...  6 
Simpson mourning..  634
greys........  634
solid black.  634 
Washington indigo.  634 
“  Turkey robes..  734
“  India robes__ 734
“  plain T’ky X M  834 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red..................  6
Martha Washington
TurkevredM..... 734
Martha Washington
Turkey red...........  934
Riverpoint robes....  5
Windsor fancy........  634
gold  ticket 
indigo  blue..........1034
1234
Pemberton AAA__ 17
York.........................1034
Swift River.............  634
Pearl  River............. 1234
Warren.....................14
T he  b u lk   Amoskeag............... 1234[Jaffrey..................... 1134
9 oz........1434 Lancaster  ...............1234
brown .13  Lawrence, 9 oz  ...... 1334
“  No. 220---- 13
“  No. 250— 1134
“  No.280.... 1034
Atlanta,  D ..............   6M|Stark........................  734
Boat.........................6M  “ 
Clifton, K ................  7  J  “ 
GIN G H A M S.
Lancaster,  staple...  6M
Glenarven.................6M
“ 
Lancashire..............  634
Normandie..............  8
“  Normandie  834
Westbrook...............  834
Renfrew Dress........8
Toil du Nord........... 1034
^  
1034
“ 
Amoskeag...............  7
Hampton................... 634
AFC.........1034
Windermeer............534
Persian......................834
Cumberland............  4M
Bates..........................6M
Essex.........................434
Warwick................  834
Peerless, white.......18341 Peerless,  colored...21

Coechco............
Biddeford.. 
Brunswick.
Allen, staple...........  6
fancy...........  634
robes...........634
American  fancy—   6 
American Indigo—   634 
American shirtings.  534 
“  —   634
Arnold 
long cloth B. 1034 
“ 
«  C.  834
“ 
century cloth  7
“ 
“  gold seal...... 1034
“  Turkey red. .1034
Berlin solids...........   534
“  oil blue........  634

green 
icy 
Cocheco fancy........  6
.ddi
madders.
Eddystone  fancy.. 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  oh 
staple...  6 
Manchester fancy..  6 
new era.  634 
Merrimack D fancy.  634
Amoskeag A C A .... 1334
Hamilton N .............  734
D ............   834
Awning.. 11
Farmer.................... 8

..11
..12
..1334
..1734
..16
..20
..25
..2734
..30
..3834
..35
-.1034
..  934
.1034

Andover..................1134 
Everett, blue.......... 12 
brown.......12  j 

G G  Cashmere..
Nameless..........
..........

..........................  7
........................ 10

T IC K IN G S.AC A.............. 

fancies__   7

COTTON  D R IL L .

C A R P E T   W A R P .

...1134

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D E M IN S.

P R IN T S .

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T H B E A D S .

G R A IN   B A G S.
”20^

¡Valley City............. 16
Georgia.................. 16
Pacific.....................14
Burlap.................... 1134
Clark’s Mile End.... 45  I Barbour’s.................88
Coats’,  J. 4 P ..........45  Marshall’s................88
Holyoke...................22341
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....37
“  16... ....38
39
40
“  18... ....39
41
“  20... ....40
CAMBRICS.

6  ..
8...
10...
12...

..33
...34
...35
...36

K N IT T IN G   COTTON.

42
43
44
45

No.

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9V&

...... 834@10

934 13 
1034 15 
1134 17 
1234 20 
D U C K S.

Slater.......................4M|Washiugton..............   4M
White Star.............  434 Red Cross.................  434
Kid Glove...............   4M Lockwood
4M
Newmarket.............  4M Wood’s
434 ¡Brunswick............. 4%
Edwards.
B E D   F L A N N E L .
...... 3234IT W...‘...............
Fireman........
-.2234
Creedmore__ ...... 2734 F T ....................... ...3234
J R F , XXX......
...... 30
...35
Talbot XXX...
...... 2734|Buckeye............
Nameless  ......
-■•3234
M IX E D   F L A N N E L .
Red & Blue,  plaid. .40 Grey S R W......
...1734
...... 2234 Western W ......
Union R ........
...1834
...... 1834 D R P ................
Windsor........
...1834
Flushing XXX..
6 oz W estern.. .......21
...2334
...... 2234 Manitoba............ ...2334
Union  B........
D O M ET  FL A N N E L .
Nameless...... 8 
......   9 @1034
1234
CANVASS  A N D   P A D D IN G .
Slate.  Brown Black. Slate.  Brown. Black.
13
13
934
934 
15
15
1034
1034 
17
17
1I34
1134 
20
20
1234 
1234
Greenwood, 8 oz ...1134
Severen, 8 oz..
Mayland, 8oz.
...... 11 West  Point, 8 oz ?..  934
10 oz ...1034
Greenwood, 734 oz..  934
White, doz__ ....  20 Per bale, 40 doz.
..87 25
Colored,  doz... ...... 25
Slater, Iron Cross...  834 Pawtucket.......... ...1034
Red Cross—   9 Dundie............... ...  9
Best__ ...... 1034 Bedford.............. ...1034
Best  AA ...... 1234 Valley  City......
...II.34
. ..94 75
Coraline......... __ 69 5C| Wonderful__  
Shilling’s ........ __   9 00[Brighton............. ..  4 75
Corticelli, doz......... 85
twist, doz.. 42 
50 yd, doz. .42
HO O K S  AND  E T E S — P E R   GROSS.
No  1 Bl’k 4  Whlte.,10
“ 
“ 
“  2 
..12
“ 
“  3 
“ 
..12
No 2—20, M C .........50  INo 4—15, F  334
‘  3—18, S C.......... 45  I
No  2 White 4  Bl’k..l2  INo  8 White 4  Bl’k..20 
23
,r
“  4 
..26
“
“  6 
No 2......................... 28  INo 3.............
36

[No  4 Bl’k 4  White.,15
..20
..25
.40

COTTON  T A P E .
..15  “  10 
..18  I  “  12 
SA F E T Y   P IN S .

Corticelli  knitting, 
per 34oz  ball........30

SE W IN G   S IL K .

‘ 8 
‘  10 

W A D D IN G S.

S IL E S IA S .

C O RSETS.

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P IN S .

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N E E D L E S — P E R   M.

A. James................. 1  501 Steamboat................  40
Crowely’s................ 1  35 Gold  Eyed...............1  50
Marshall’s............... 1  00|
5 -4 ....2  25  6—4.. .3 2515—4 —  1  95  6—4...2 95

T A B L E   O IL   C LO TH .
“ 

. . .310]___________n

“ ....210 

a

a

K eep  Your  Credit  Good.

From the Inter-State Grocer.

It 

should  be 

The  country merchant, as a rule, does 
not think  enough of  his credit.  Many a 
good  merchant, by allowing  his  bills to 
run  over  time,  from a week to ten days 
and  even |longer,  has  caused  the city 
house  owith  whom  he 
is  dealing
to 
look f uponf his  account  with  dis­
favor. 
the  pride
of  every  good  merchant  to  meet  his 
bills the day they become due,  and  thus 
inspire  the* trade  with  confidence  and 
make his business sought after.  Country 
merchants  often  write  to 
their  city 
houses,  asking  why there is such a delay 
in shipping their goods.  The reason may j 
often be found in the fact that  the  mer­
chant is behind in  his  payments and the 
order is placed on file to  await  a  remit­
tance. In all first-class city houses there is 
an 
intimate  relation  existing between 
the book-keeper and  the  shipping clerk, 
and when the book-keeper cannot  report 
“nothing  past due,” the  shipping  clerk 
is likely to be derelict in  the  matter  of 
filling'orders.  Orders for goods received 
by the credit man  from those who  make 
prompt payments are  seldom  delayed  in 
shipment

An  U nprofitable  Salesm an.

It was a Haverhill  shoe  manufacturer 
who, on  being  asked if  his  salesman on 
the road was  a good  one, replied :  “You 
can bet he is.  He  can  sell  shoes  every 
time cheaper than I can make them.”

A Kalamazoo  county  man  buried  his 
wife, put up  a  headstone, repainted  his 
house, married  a  second wife  and  dug 
five acres  of  potatoes within  seventeen 
days,  and yet he says  he  can’t  begin  to 
hustle as his father used to.

ROPE

The rope market is high  and  advancing, and the 

price at present is as follows:
- 

- 

SISAL 
MANILLA 

- 

- 

13c  pound.
16c  pound.

If  you  cannot  stand  these  prices,  we  have  in 
stock what is called
New Process Rope
Which we guarantee is equal to Sisal.  W e  have  the 
following sizes and  quote:
- 
- 
WILL  YOU  TRY  IT?

.  1-4, 5-16, 3-8 
7-16  and 5-8 

9 l-2c pound.
9c 
pound.

- 

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

Wholesale  Hardware,

10 and 12 Monroe St., 

33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

HAJtnWAJEtt.
Prices  Current.

T hese  p rices  are  fo r cash  buyers,  w ho 
pay p rom ptly  and  buy in   fu ll  packages.
dls.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

60
Snell’s............................................................ 
Cook’s ............................................................  
40
25
J  ennings’, genuine........................................ 
Jennings’,  Imitation.....................................50&10

 
dl8.

dls.

AXES.

BARROWS. 

rolts. 

RUCKETS.

First Quality, S. B. Bronze...........................I 7 00
D.  B. Bronze...........................  11  00
S.B.S. Steel.......................... 
8 50
D. B. Steel....................................   13 00

“  
“ 
“ 

Railroad........................................................8 14 00
Garden........... ........................................net  30 00

Stove................................-............................. 50&10
Carriage new list........................................... 
70
Plow.   ........................................................; .40410
Sleigh shoe....................................................  
70

Well,  plain..................... -........................... * 3 50
Well, swivel........................................................  4 00

BUTTS, CAST. 

diS.
Cast Loose Pin, figured..................................704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint...............60410
Wrought Loose Pin........................................ 60410
Wrought Table.............................................. 60410
Wrought Inside Blind................................... 60410
Wrought Brass.......  .....................................  „„75
Blind,  Clark’s................................................70410
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................. 70410
Blind, Shepard’s ........................................... 
70

Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85................ 

40

Grain...................................... ...............dls. 50402

Cast Steel..............................................per lb  5

BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10..............................................per m  65
Hick’s C.  F .........................................  
60
“ 
G. D ......................................................   “ 
35
Musket.................................................  
“ 
60

CARTRIDGES.
Rim  Fire..........  ................... 
Central  Fire............................................ dls. 
chisels. 

 

50
25

dls.

Socket Firm er................................................70410
Socket Framing............................................  70410
Socket Corner................................................. 70410
Socket Slicks..................................................70410
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................. 
40

Curry,  Lawrence’s ...................................
Hotchkiss.................................................

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

40
25

dls.

White Crayons, per gross.............. 12@1234 dls. 10

COM BS.

CHALK.

COFFER.

“ 

Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
14x52,14x56,14x60 ........................ 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60........................ 
Cold RoUed, 14x48.........................................  
Bottoms..............  

 

 
DRILLS. 

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

DRIPPING FANS.

Small sizes, ser pound.................................  
Large sizes, per  pound.................................  

diS.

28
26
25
25
27

40
40
40

07
634

ELBOWS.

Com. 4  piece, 6 in ............................ doz. net 
75
Corrugated...................................... dls. 20410410
Adjustable..............................................dls.  40410
diS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, 118; large, 826........................ 
Ives’, 1,118; 2,124;  3, $30............................. 

30
25

files—New List. 

dis.

Dlsston’s ........................................................60410
New  American.............................................. 60410
Nicholson’s ................................................... 60410
Heller’s ........................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................  
50

GALVANIZED IRON.

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

12 

14 

Discount, 50410

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

28
18

50

dls.

13 
gauges. 
HAMMERS.

Maydole  4  Co.’s......................................dls. 
25
Kip’s ........................................................ dls. 
25
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s...................................dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand__30c 40410

HINGES.

M A U LS.

Sperry 4 Co.’s, Post,  handled..................
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s  ..............................
“  P. S. 4 W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malléables.
“  Landers,  Ferry 4 Cl«'» k’s.............
“  Enterprise

M IL L S.

M O LASSES  G A TES.

Stebbin’s Pattern.................................... .
Stebbin’s Genuine....................................
Enterprise, self-measuring......................

dls.
dls.

50
40
40
40
25
dls.
.60410
.60410
25

NAILS

 

 

 

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“ 
“ 
“ 

Advance over base: 

Steel nails, base.........................................
Wire nails, base.........................................
Steel.
60.......................................................   25
50........................................................  25
40 4  30.............................................. Base
20..........  .. — ................................Base
16 412......................... 
Base
10...................................................... 
10
8.........................................................  25
7 4  6...................................................  40
4.........................................................  60
3 .......................................... 
2..........................................................1  50
Fine 3.................................................1  50
Case  10..............................................  60
8..............................................  75
6........  
90
Finish 10............................................  85
8.............................................1  00
6  ........................................... 1  15
Clinch 10...........................................  85
8 ...........................................1  00
6........................................... 1  15
Barrell %........................................... 1  75

...2 75 
...3 20 
Wire. 
Base 
10 
20 
30 
35 
40 
50 
65 
90
1 00
1  50
2  00 
2  00
90 
1  00 
1  25 
1  00 
1  25
1  50 
75 
90
1  00
2 50
dlS.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................   @30
Sciota  Bench.................... 
’  @50
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy.........................    @30
Bench, first quality........................................  @50
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood......... .  410
60
Fry,  Acme...............................................dls. 
Common,  polished................................... dls. 
70
40
Iron and  Tinned........................................... 
Copper Rivets and Burs................................ 
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

PLANES. 

rivets. 

Broken packs 34c per pound extra.

PANS.

dis.

 

HOPES.

 

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, 34 inch and larger..............................   14
Manilla..........................................................   17
dis.
Steel and  Iron................................................ 
Try and Bevels....................................  
 
M itre.............................................................. 

squAREs. 

75
60
ao
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

325
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14......................................94 20 
Nos. 15 to  17....................................... 4 20 
Nos.  18 to  21......................................  4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24...................................... 420 
Nos. 25 to 26 ............................  
..  4 40 
No. 27 .................................................  4  60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86.......................................dls. 40410
Silver Lake, White A .............................. list 
50
Drab A ..................................   “ 
“ 
55
50
“ 
White  B ................................  “ 
Drab B...................................   “ 
“ 
55
“  White C.................................. “ 
35

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

93 10
3 10
3 20

3 45

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

SAWS. 

traps. 

“ 
Sliver Steel  Dia. X Cats, per foot,__  
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__  
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot__  
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot.............................................. 

Solid Eyes..............................................per ton 925
H and.........................................25@2546
70
50
30
28
Steel, Game.....................................................60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................ 
35
Oneida  Community, Hawley a Norton’s __ 
70
Mouse,  choker.....................................18c per doz.
Mouse, delusion................................91.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market................................................  65
Annealed Market...........................................  70
Coppered Market...........................................  60
Tinned Market..............................................  6234
Coppered  Spring  Steel.................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized................................  4 00
painted.....................................  3 40

wire. 

dls.

“ 

wire goods. 

dis.

 

Bright........................................................70410410
Screw  Eyes.............................................. 70410410
Hook’s ...................................................... 70410410
70410410
Gate Hooks and Eyes.............. 
WRENCHES. 
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.....................  
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................... 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,.....................  75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable................................75410
Bird Cages....................................................  
50
Pumps, Cistern.......................................... 
75
50
Screws, New List........................................... 
Casters, Bed  and  Plate........................... 50410410
Dampers, American......................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.................. 60

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dls.

dls.

 

 

dls.

“ 
“ 
“ 

HANGEBS. 

HOLLOW WABE

HOUSE  FUBNISHING  GOODS.

Gate, Clark’s, 1 ,2 ,3 ...............................dls.60410
State............................................ per doz. net, 2  50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 434  14  and
334
longer.........................................................  
Screw Hook and  Eye, 34........................ net 
10
“ 
“  %......................... net 
834
“  M................. ........net 
“ 
734
734
“  %......................... net 
“ 
Strap and T............................................. dls. 
70
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50410
Champion,  anti-friction..............................   60410
40
Kidder, wood track ......................................  
Pots................................................................. 
60
Kettles.............................................   
60
Spiders........................................................... 
60
Gray enameled...............................................40410
Stamped  Tin Ware......................... new list 70410
Japanned Tin Ware......................................  
25
Granite Iron W are...................new list 3334410
Au Sable................................dls. 25410^25410405
Putnam...........................................  
dls.  05
N orthwestem.................................  
dls. 10410
dis.
knobs—New List. 
55
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings.................. 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..............  
56
Door,  porcelain, trimmings.........................  
55
Drawer  and  Shatter, porcelain................... 
70
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new li s t .................... 55
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s ............................  
55
55
Branford’s ....................................................  
55
Norwalk’s ...................................................... 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ......................  
70
Adze Eye.......................................... 916.60, dls. 60
Hunt Eye.......................................... 915.00, dls. 60
Htmt’s........................................918.50, dls. 20410.

LEVELS. 
MATTOCKS.

locks—door. 

HORSE NAILS.

dl8.

dis.

METALS.
PIG TIN.

ZINC.

634
7

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.....................................................     26c
Pig Bars........................................................  
28c
Duty:  Sheet, 234c per pound.
680 pound  casks............................................. 
Per pound...................................................... 
34® 34.....................................................................16
Extra W iping................................................... (¿jz
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  or 
solder in the market Indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
antimony.
Cookson.........................................per  pound  16
Hallett’s........................................ 
13
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................ 9 6 60
6  60
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
8 38
14x20 IX, 
8 35

Each additional X on this grade, 91.75.

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10x14 IC,  Charcoal.........................   ........... 9 6 00
6 00
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
7 so
14x20 IX, 
7  60

Each additional X on this grade 81.50.

 
 
 

 
 
 

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TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.
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ROOFING PLATES
Worcester................. 
 

 

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‘ 
“ 

Allaway  Grade................  

  6 00
 
7  60
..........................  12 80
5 25
6 75
 
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....................   11 00
“ 
 
14 00

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 EX,
14x28  IX..........................................................618
14x31  IX................................................................14 an
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 1 ___
14x60ix;  “ 

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

f per pound....

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Tie Michigan Tradesman

Organ of Michigan Business Men’s  Association. 

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 89,  1890.

RURAL  HIGHWAYS.

Governor  Hill  found  time  to  say  a 
word in behalf  of  the necessity of  better 
country highways in his  annual message 
to  the  New  York  Legislature. 
“Our 
highways,”  he writes,  “are, as a general 
rule, in a most  unsatisfactory condition, 
many of  them  being  almost  impassable 
without  great  discomfort  during  large 
portions of  the  year,  while  few are kept 
in  a  proper  state  of  repair.  They  are 
inferior to those throughout England and 
several other countries  in  Europe, while 
the  public  roads  of  New  England  are 
conspicuously better  than  ours.”  This 
is a subject  with  regard to which  there 
has  been  a very  general  awakening  of 
interest, to which  we  have reason to be­
lieve  our  own  articles  on  methods  of 
making good roads  contributed not a lit­
tle.  The  newspapers  of 
the  State 
ascribe  the  badness  of  the  roads to the 
old-fashioned  method  of  allowing  the 
farmers to “work out  their  road tax”  in 
a lazy  way  which  does  very  little  for 
their 
In  early  times, 
when money was scarce and labor plenty, 
this way of  proceeding was unavoidable. 
But,  like  many  other  usages  of  those 
times, it has outlived its  usefulness, and 
the  business  of  road-making  should  be 
put into the hands of experts, who would 
not be content  with  shoveling loose soil 
from the roadside ditch  into  the  middle 
of  the  highway  and  spreading it there. 
Yery few, indeed, are the districts of this 
country where a good  road  can be made 
out of  materials  close  at  hand, and  the 
farmers  are  indisposed  to 
the 
trouble  and  expense of  going  to  gravel 
beds and quarries for the material needed 
to  construct  a  road-bed  that  will  last. 
But  we  have  reached  a stage  in  social 
development when nothing less than this 
should be tolerated by public opinion.

improvement. 

incur 

Governor Hill proposes that  the  State 
shall set the  example of  doing  better by 
constructing  two  good  roads  in  each 
county.  We  fear  that  this  would only 
ease the farmers’ minds  about  the  rest. 
What is needed is an  effective  system of 
State  supervision,  or,  better  still, that 
road-making  be  taken over by the State 
from the  counties  and  townships.  But 
we do not expect to see the States under­
take this work effectively, so long as they 
are obliged to depend  on  direct taxation 
for the whole of  their  revenue.  This is 
one of  the openings  for  the  wise use of 
the  national  surplus of  revenue,  which 
our legislators of  both parties seem most 
anxious to  throw away.

MUNICIPAL  PROSPERITY.

Prof. Albert B. Hart, of  Harvard Uni­
versity,  has  an  interesting  article  on 
“The Rise  of  American  Cities,” in  the 
Quarterly Journal  of  Economics,  show­
ing the  change which  has  passed  over 
the country within a hundred years. 
In 
1789, not 100,000  of  the  something  less 
than 4,000.000 of our  population lived  in 
cities.  Now there  are  nearly  sixteen 
millions, out of  less than sixty,  gathered 
in,  some  .350  cities.  Looking  at  the 
question on its  economic  side, Professor 
Hart thinks that the possession of  a port 
like that of New York is the surest guar­
antee of  a  city’s  permanent  eminence. 
We think that this is a mistake that grows 
out of  an overestimate of foreign  trade. 
If  it were  true,  how should we  account 
for  the  early  decay  of  Newport  and 
Salem, and the  present  decay of  Boston 
in relative importance ?  And the  rapid 
growth of cities like  Chicago, Minneapo­
lis and St.  Paul, to  say nothing  of  the 
way in which  Cincinnati  holds  its  own 
in the last three  decades, while  Charles­
ton,  Savannah  and  Mobile  have 
lost 
ground,  and  New  Orleans  threatens  to 
take its place  beside “the dead  cities of 
the Zuyder Zee,” is  proof  enough  that 
the secret  of  municipal  prosperity is  a 
much more  complex  matter  than  Pro­
fessor Hart assumes. 
Indeed, he himself 
abandons his  own  case when  he  admits 
that the  geological  conformation  of  the 
Mohawk Yalley, admitting of  canal com­
munication  with  the  West, has  been  of 
as great importance  to  New York  as  its 
harbor;  and yet that  advantage  declines 
in relative importance with every year, al­
though it sufficed to put New York ahead 
of Philadelphia after 1830.

It is said in the article  that  cities  like 
New York owe much  to  the  stimulus  of 
direct contact with the rest of  the world, 
and are more open to new ideas  than are 
those of manufacturing  centers.  This is 
true as far as it goes, but it  remains  un­
certain whether  the  real  growth  of  a 
community is to be  traced  to  its  eager­
ness to hear  some  new thing  every day, 
or  to a more solid and earnest  apprecia­
tion of the truths of  its own  intellectual 
heritage.

It  is  given  out  by the  officers of  the 
Detroit exposition that the net  profits on 
last  year’s  exposition  were  $27,000  of 
which $10,000  went for a 5 per cent, div­
idend and $17,000  remains in the surplus 
fund. 
It  is  understood,  however,  that 
the net receipts  were  about  double  the 
amount  above  given,  as  no  account  is 
given of  the receipts from  exhibitors for 
floor space. 
It was thought best to make 
the showing  as  small  as possible, in or­
der to avoid the impression  that  the  ex­
position is such a money-making  institu­
tion. 

_________ _

The man who attempts  to  combat  the 
P. of  L craze with  argument  is wasting 
his breath. 
It is as  reasonable to expect 
to carry a point  by argument  before  the 
inmates of a lunatic asylum as to be able 
to convince an 
ignorant  individual who 
is 
inflamed  with  unjust  resentment 
against the man who  has  been  his  best 
friend.  Fortunately, there  is a  weapon 
when argument does not avail—a weapon 
as keen as steel—ridicule. 
Its shafts are 
piercing the rotten  fabric of the P.  of  L 
on every side, and  depleting  the  ranks 
faster than any amount of  facts  and  fig­
ures could do.

The present policy of  the  great  naval 
powers is  to  depend  largely on convert­
ing ordinary merchantmen  into  cruisers 
and transporters  in case  of war,  instead 
of depending on their  navy alone.  Mr. 
Whitney took  the first  step in this  direc­
tion, by having all the steamships sailing 
under  the  American  flag  examined by 
naval boards with reference  to their war 
capabilities.  There are at  least eighty- 
two such steamships now afloat, of which 
thirty-three  could be converted  into fast 
cruisers for the capture or destruction of 
ships  of  commerce, by the  employment 
of a few guns and  some changes in their 
structure.  Thirty-nine others are capa­
ble of conversion into  effective transport 
vessels for  carrying  troops  and  stores. 
All of these vessels  except a dozen  were 
built on the Delaware,  and most of  them 
within a few years past.  The New York 
Times very properly urges  that the work 
of preparing  for  such  a  use  of  these 
ships should not be delayed until the mo­
ment when we  may need  to  so  employ 
them.  Alterations which would  have  to 
be made should be made at once on govern­
ment account,  and  the  necessary  arma­
ment should be in readiness to fit them out 
for this service.  But  thus far the Gov­
ernment has not  been  able  to  do  any­
thing of the  sort, because  Congress  has 
not heeded its application  for money for 
such purpose.

A Better Pull.

“Do you  expect  a  raise  of  salary on 
the 1st?”  he asked  as  they came  down 
town together.

didn’t get it.”
ferent now.”
daughter?”

“I do,” was the confident reply.
“So you did last year  at this time, but 
“I know it;  but circumstances  are dif­
“Going  to  marry the  old  man’s  only 
“Better than that.”
“Whew!  You must have got an inside 
“So I have.”
“What is it?”
“Last year he  had  three  men  of  us 
who knew how to mix beans, chicory and 
coffee together to make O. G. Java.  The 
other two are dead.”

“And you?”
“A rival concern has  offered me an ad­
vance of five dollars  a week.  He  must 
come up to it or  I  go.  His only daugh­
ter !  She  isn’t  shucks compared  to 68 
per cent,  adulteration.”

track.”

Dirt in Lozenges.

A  wholesale grocery house of St. Louis 
recently  made a claim  against  the South 
Shore  Railway  for  damages  to  half  a 
dozen  barrels of  lozenges, shipped  from 
Boston.  The railway company sent sam­
ples  of  the  lozenges  to a chemist,  who 
discovered  them  to  consist “entirely of 
terra  alba  bound  together  with a little 
gelatine or gum.” 
Investigation showed 
them  to  yet  require  dipping  in  syrups 
flavored  with  peppermint, wintergreen, 
sassafras,  and  the  like,  before  being 
ready  for  infantile  consumption.  As 
terra  alba is a mineral  utterly insoluble 
in the saliva  or  gastric  juice—a danger­
ous  compound  to  put  within  even  a 
healthy stomach—the  railroad  company 
very properly refused  to  pay  any  dam­
ages, and the  grocery house, fearing  ex­
posure,  ceased to press the claim.
The Board of Trade  Journal, of  Port­
land, Me., says  that  6,000  tons of  terra 
alba were recently imported  through the 
port of  New York alone.

Must Be New.

to git a pair o’ shoes, young man.
pretty nice, ma’am?

Old Lady (from  the  country)—I’d like 
Polite Clerk—Yes, ma’am.  Something 
Old Lady—I want ’em good ’n’ stout.
Polite  Clerk—Well,  ma’am,  here’s  a 
strong shoe, an excellent strong shoe.  It 
has been  worn a great deal this winter—
Old Lady—Man  alive, I don’t  want no 
shoe  that’s  been  worn  this  winter nor 
any  other  winter;  I  want  a  bran’ new 
pair!

An Average Irishman.

“If  I put  my money into  the  savings 
bank,” said Pat, “when can I draw it out 
again ?”
“Oh,”  answered  his  fellow-country­
man,  “if  you  put it in  to-day,  you  can 
draw it out  to-morrow  by  giving a fort­
night’s notice.”

Heard on a  Street Car.

From the Philadelphia Record.
“Going  to  open  a  drug  store, I hear. 
Got capital enough ?”
“Well, I’ve got a directory and a lot of 
postage  stamps,  and  I’ll  get  the  other 
things together by degrees.”

W r i t t e n  t o r  T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

WHAT  AILED  UNCLE  BILLY. 
It was  a very cold  day, and  the  little 
storm that  had  been  in  progress  early 
that morning had almost  developed  into 
a blizzard.  The crowd which  generally 
adorns the post-office on stormy days was 
there,  and  was  considerably  augmented 
by those who  usually  attended  to  their 
own business, but  through the inclement 
weather  were  unable  to  continue  their 
customary  avocations. 
Some  one  had 
just suggested  that  it would  be well  to 
call  the roll, as all the loafers had  come 
in,  when the door  opened,  and  the  griz­
zled visage  of  Uncle  Billy Daniels  ap­
peared in the aperture.

“Hello, Uncle Billy,”  “How do, Uncle 
Billy,”  “You  here  ag’in,  Uncle  Billy? 
Thought  you  was  dead!”  “Bully  for 
you,  uncle. 
Just  needed  somebody  to 
take the chair,” were some of  the  greet­
ings which were  showered upon him  al­
most with one  breath.

“Yes, it’s  me,”  said  the  patriarch,  as 
he stepped inside and slowly and painfully 
closed the door after him. 
“It’s me yit; 
but  the  Lord  knows  it’s  mighty nigh 
bein’  somebody  elst;”  and  then we  no­
ticed that he carried a crutch and limped 
as  he walked.

“Why,  what’s  the  matter,  uncle?” 
“Sakes alive?  what ails you?”  “Hain’t 
sick, be ye ?” were fired  at him  from all 
sides, and  several  of  the  loafers  made 
places  for  him  by the  stove, and  con­
ducted him in state to a chair.

“Waal,  boys, it’d be  more  like fer  me 
to tell ye what hain’t  the  matter  of  me 
than to tell ye what is. 
I’m a tarnation 
old wrack, that’s what  I be—a  total and 
onconditional  old  wrack. 
Say, any  o’ 
you fellers got any chewin’ ?”

Half a dozen plugs and as many papers 
of fine  cut were  tendered  him.  Uncle 
Billy selected  a  piece  of  black  twist, 
and pulled off a liberal allowance.  Part 
of this went between his  toothless  jaws, 
and the balance he held and gently rolled 
between his fingers as he talked.

“Terbacker  hain’t what it uster  be,” 
“I  uster  git  toback- 

he soliloquized. 
e r--------”

“But say, Uncle  Billy, you  didn’t tell 

us what made you lame.”

“Bless me;  guess I  didn’t. 

I  didn’t, 
did I, boys ?  Waal, that’s afack, I didn’t. 
Beats all  how fergitful  a  feller’ll  git. 
Now, I uster remember  like  a  cuss. 
I 
uster pride myself on  allers rememberin’ 
everything. 
forgot  nothin’. 
C’d tell ye to the  day an’ hour jess what 
I’d done fer the  month  past.  Now  my 
old woman,  she was  allers ter’ble fergit­
ful.  Never  c’d 
remember  nothin’.
Oncet when we was--------”

Never 

“But say, Uncle  Billy, did  you  break 

your leg?”

“No.  Don’t interrupt a feller.”
“Yes, but  you were  going  to  tell  us 

what made you so lame.”

“Of  course.  Declare, but  I  must  er 
fergot.  Why, I was took down with the 
roomertiz week afore las’ of  a  Tuesday. 
No, it wasn’t nuther. 
It was of  a Mon­
day.  Hold  on, now, but I guess it was 
of a Tuesday,  arter all. 
It was the  day 
but one  arter  Jim  brought  home  them 
yoke of steers he got f’m Pete Snyder.  Say, 
them’s as  good  a yoke o’ steers  fer their 
heft as the’ is in this  county—don’t keer 
a  cuss whose.  Yist’day  Jim  had  ’em 
hitched up, ’n’ he tried ’em  on a log,  an’ 
cuss me, if ------- ”

“Was it the rheumatiz  that made  you 
lame, Uncle Billy ?”  asked Jack  Jones. 

“Hey ?”
“I say, did  the  rheumatiz  make  you 

limp like that?”

“No.”
“Well, what was it,  then ?”
“If  you’ll  keep  still  for  a  minute, 
I 

young  feller,  mebbe  you’ll  find  out. 
was  just a tellin’ of  ye.”

“No  you  weren’t,  either.  You  were 

telling about Jim’s steers.”

Uncle  Billy glared in silence  upon his 
inquisitor  for  a  moment,  and  then  re­
sumed :

“Granny  Williams  she  came  to  our 
house, an’ I was  flat  onto my back  with 
the blamed  roomertiz.

“ ‘Mornin’  to  ye,  uncle,’  ses 
‘what’s  the  best  word  with  ye, 
mornin’?’

she, 
this 

“ ‘Nothin’ very good,’ ses I.  ‘I’ve be’n 
took down agin with  the  bloody roomer­
tiz,  an’  not  to  be  a  deceiving  of  ye, 
granny, I never  felt  so  tarnation  mean 
in all my borned days.’

“ ‘Lordy massy,’ ses she,  ‘uncle,  but I 
kin  help  ye  out  of  that, I reckon.  Got 
any turkytime in the house ?’

“ ‘Nary bit,’ ses I.
“ ‘Turkytime’s  a  prime 

thing  fer 
roomytiz,’ ses she. 
,The’ hain’t  nothin’ 
elst what’ll help it like  that.  You  send 
Jim right down town fer some turkytime, 
an’ when  you git it  you  rub it onto  you 
where the mos’ of  the pain is, an’ that’ll 
help it right away.’

“Waal, Jim  he  got  the  turkytime an’ 
the  old  woman  she  rubbed  it on,  an’ I 
’lowed it made me feel some better.  But 
along  in the  night I got  to  feelin’ wuss 
ag’in, an’ the more turkytime ma rubbed 
on, the  wuss I felt, an’  finally I got Jim 
to heat some flatirons an’ put to  my back 
an’ laigs,  an’ I’ll be  tetotally chawed up 
if  it  didn’t  raise  blisters  everywhere 
them irons teched.”

“Hurt any, uncle ?”
“H urt!  Thunder  an’  blazes!  No, it

didn’t hurt. 
It  don’t  hurt to skin a fel­
ler alive, do it ?  It  was  nice.  Sornp’n’ 
like pullin’ teeth,  ’cordin’ to my tell.” 

And Uncle  Billy’s usually solemn  vis­

age spread itself  into a derisive grin.

“Waal,”  he  resumed,  “I  was  purty 
nigh  floored  before,  an’  that  made  me 
wuss. 
I  ketched  cold  f’m  kickin’ the 
kivers  off, an’ then  this  here  bloody la 
grippy  sot  in  an’ I cum  within  one  o’ 
croakin’ right there.”

“We’re glad to see  you out again,  any­
way, uncle.  Was  it  the  grippe  or  the 
blisters that made  you lame?”

“Blisters?  No.  Them’s well.  ’Twan’t 

the grippy, nuther.”

“What  was  it,  then ?”  queried Jones

ment the man was gone he  called  to  his 
clerk and said:
“Take that check  to the bank  and col­
lect the cash on it if  it  is  any good. 
I 
don’t think myself that it is.”
But when the clerk  came back he  said 
the  check  was  perfectly  good, and  he 
handed to  Mr. Smith  the $500.
When the case came into  court  a  few 
days later, and the  schedule  for  $99,700 
was brought up, the  lawyer on the oppo­
site side offered to  give  proof  that  Mr. 
Smith was possessed of more money than 
this.  Mr.  Smith  had 
received,  he 
claimed, a check  for  $500  only a day or 
two before, and  in  evidence  his  check 
was produced  as having  been  collected 
by  Mr.  Smith  and  paid  to  his  order. 
That  settled  the  matter.  Mr.  Smith’s 
wealth was, therefore, over $100,000, and 
the result was a verdict  for the plaintiff.

again.

“Say,  young  feller,  ef  you’d  a  kep’ 
still  a  while  ago,  you’d  a  found  out. 
When Jim  had  his  steers  hitched up to 
that air saw lawg, yist’day, the tarnation 
lawg slewed around and whacked me one 
right  onto  my  left  laig.  That’s  what 
ailded  me an’  made  me  the  mos’  lame 
of  all.”

And  then,  as  Uncle  Billy  concluded 
his  narrative,  he  centered  a  spittoon 
about ten feet away with an accumulated 
quantity of  tobacco  juice, tied  his faded 
scarf  once more about  his  wrinkled and 
bearded  throat,  hobbled  slowly  toward 
the door and was soon lost to view.

Geo.  L .  T hu rsto n.

Verdict for the Plaintiff.

When  John  Jones  and  James  Smith 
were  young  men,  Mr. Jones  did a great 
kindness for Mr. Smith, which Mr.  Smith 
at that time was  not  able to repay.  Mr. 
Smith, then,  half  in  humor  and  half  in 
earnest, gave  the  following  note to Mr. 
Jones:
“For  value  received, I promise to pay 
John  Jones  the  sum  of  $10,000,  pro­
viding that at the  time  this  note is pre­
sented,  1 shall  have  accumulated  prop­
erty to the value of  $100,000.

“ J a m es  Sm it h .”

The  young men separated.  Smith was 
a very shrewd  brain,  and  in time he be­
came wealthy.  He  located in  St. Louis, 
Mo., and Jones  heard nothing from him. 
Jones, in the meanwhile, never got along 
in the world.  He was of  too  generous a 
disposition,  and then,  again, he had a run 
of  hard luck,  until at last he found  him­
self,  as the physician  told  him, close to 
death’s  door,  and  he  realized  that  his 
wife and family  would  be  left  in  want. 
In rummaging  through  his  papers  and 
assorting  them  out  for  him,  his  wife 
came across this note for $10,000.
“Who  was  this  Mr.  Smith  that  you 
went to college with?”  she asked him.
“Oh, he was a friend  of  mine  at  that 
time.  He  went  to  St. Louis. 
I believe 
that he is now very wealthy.”
“And how about  this  note  which  you 
have ?”
“What note ?” asked  Jones.  “Let me 
see it.”
His wife  handed it to him,  and  Jones 
read  it  through  carefully  and  thought 
over it for a while.
“That is no use, I expect,” he said.  “I 
applied to Smith for some little help that 
he might  easily have  given  me. 
It was 
only  a  matter  of  recommendation,  not 
money at all,  and  he  refused  it.  That 
was five  years ago.”
“But,”  said  his  wife,  “are  you  sure 
that the note is not good ?”
“I doubt if  I could  collect it.  He has 
the  money  to  fight,  and I have  not. 
I 
think  the  best  thing  to  do  is  to  tear 
it up.”
But  his  wife  did  nothing of  the sort. 
She  took  it  to  a  young  lawyer  of  her 
acquaintance  and  asked  him  whether 
anything could be done in  the  matter or 
not.  .
“It is perfectly  legal,”  said the  young 
man,  “but there might be some difficulty 
in collecting it.  You see, we would have i 
to  prove  that  he  was  worth  at  least 
$100,000, and that is sometimes a difficult 
thing to do.  But I haven’t any too much 
business,  and if  you like I will  take this 
note in hand—it will cost  you  nothing— 
and see what can be done with it.”
The  lawyer  wrote  to Mr. Smith,  and 
received an answer repudiating the affair 
altogether.  He had no recollection of it. 
So the case was brought into court.  The 
document, it was  easily seen by the law­
yers of the other side, could be proved to 
be a genuine  note.  Their  defense was 
that  Mr.  Smith  was  not  possessed  of 
$100,000.  A  schedule was  then  drawn 
up,  showing  the  actual  possessions  of 
Mr. Smith,  and  that schedule  put  it  up 
to $99,700. 
Into it had been put all  the 
property  of  Mr.  Smith  that  could  be 
easily traced,  and the  young lawyer  was 
nonplussed as to how to  prove  that  Mr. 
Smith  owned  more  than  this  amount. 
Smith,  however, was  a  very  avaricious 
man, and  thus  it was  that  the  lawyer 
managed to secure  his verdict.
Mr. Smith  was  sitting  in  his  office, 
when a gentleman called on him one day, 
and said:
“I understand that  a frivolous suit has 
been  brought  against  you  for  $10,000 
on some note  that  you  gave when  you 
were a young man. 
“That  is  perfectly  true,”  said  Mr. 
Smith.
“I hope then, sir, that you, in  the  in­
terest of  the  community, will  fight  the 
suit to the last inch.”

Is this true ?”

“I intend to do so,” said Mr.  Smith.
“I hope you will not spare any costs in 
the matter, because  it  is  something  of 
deep interest to  the  community in  gen­
eral that the  frivolous  suits  should  be 
unsuccessful as often as possible.”
“I  quite  agree with  you,”  said  Mr. 
Smith.
“Now, sir, I am  President  of  the  So­
ciety  for  the  Prevention  of  Needless 
Litigation,  and as the  President  of  that 
society I  beg to  say that we will  stand 
all the costs of this sui$.”
“That is very good  of  you,” said  Mr. 
Smith.
“In order t© show you that I am not mak­
ing a promise that I am  unable to fulfill, 
I have the pleasure of giving you a check 
for $500 with which to bear  the  prelim­
inary expense  of  the suit. 
If  it  comes 
to more,  1 hope that you will call on us.” 
Mr. Smith took the  check  and  looked 
at it rather dubiously.  He  evidently ex­
pected that  it was  bogus,  and  the  mo-

Dr.  Jenkinson and Dr.  Rybold.

From  th e Akicago Tribune.
“This^’  said the  man who was  travel­
ing on the cars, as  he  opened  his valise 
and  took  out  a  bottle,  “is  a  mixture 
called Dr. Jenkinson’s Indispensable. 
I 
never travel without it. 
It  is  the  best 
and  most  agreeable  tonic  now on  the 
market,  by all  odds.”  .  “I  am  not  so 
sure about  that,” replied  the  man who 
was occupying  the  seat with  him. 
“I 
have here (and he  opened his own valise 
and took out a bottle)  a tonic  called  Dr. 
Rybold’s Extract, which  I  have used for 
several  years,  and  consider  it  the very 
best preparation made.  No  man ought 
ever to --------”
“I have no  doubt  it  is  a  fairly  good 
medicine in its way,”  broke in the other, 
“but if you had ever  tasted  Dr.  Jenkin­
son’s Indispensable you would throw that 
stuff of yours away.”
“I know all about Dr. Jenkinson’s nos­
trum, sir. 
I  know exactly  what  it  is 
made of.”

“You do, hey ?”
“Yes,  sir;  and  I  know Dr. Rybold’s 
Extract is made from  precisely the  same 
formula, only  from  pure  materials, in­
stead of the vile and  adulterated ingred­
ients old Jenkinson uses.”
the  same  formula, 
is it ?”

“It’s  made  from 
“Exactly the same.”
“You lying old ignoramus, how do you 
“How  do  I  know, you  insulting  old 
“I am  glad I have found you  out, you 
I  am  Dr. Jenkinson.”

know what it is made of ?”
scoundrel ?  I’m  Dr. Rybold, sir.”
infernal villain. 

Niagara Falls in Art.

The  Michigan  Central,  “The  Niagara 
Falls Route,”  has published  a  remarka 
bly fine reproduction of  Graham’s water- 
color of Niagara Falls.  A limited num­
ber  will be furnished the  public at  fifty 
cents each, which is much less than their 
commercial  or  artistic  value,  but  not 
more than two copies will  be sent to any 
one address.  Send postal  note or money 
order for  the  amount to  O.  W. Ruggles, 
General  Passenger  and  Ticket  Agent, 
Chicago, 111. 

332

Questionable Proof of Merit.

From  th e B oston Herald.
Old  Gent  (looking  for a pair of  stout 
shoes  for  boy)—Can  you  warrant  these 
shoes ?
Dealer—I  know of  a pair of  the  same 
make which  have  been  in  constant use 
for three years.
Old  Gent—Is  that  so ?  Who  wore 
them ?
Dealer—A messenger boy.

Notice to  Stockholders.

The annual meeting of the stockholders 
of  the  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  Rail­
road  Co.  will  be  held  at  the  general 
office, in the city of Grand Rapids, Mich., 
on  Wednesday,  March  5,  1890,  at  1 
o’clock p. m., for the election of  thirteen 
directors constituting  a  board  to  serve 
for the ensuing year,  and  for  the  trans­
action of such other  business  as may be 
presented at the meeting.

J.  H.  P.  H u g h a r t,  Secretary.

The  Phenomenon Explained.

From  th e D etroit F ree Press.
Lady in drug store (who has just taken 
a dose of  belladonna,  picking up a hand 
mirror)—Oh, my!  My right pupil’s ever 
so much larger than my left.
Drug  Clerk  (gravely)—You  probably 
swallowed  your  medicine  all  on  that 
side, madam.
Crockery & G lassware

L A M P  B U R N E R S .

No. 0 Sun.............................................. -...........  45
No. 1  “  ...........................................................   48
No. 8  “  ........... ...............................................   TO
Tubular.............................................................  75

L A M P   C H IM N E Y S.— P e r   bO X .

6 doz. in box.

“ 
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First quality.
“ 
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YYY Flint.
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No. 0 Sun......................................................... 1  85
No. 1  “  ...........................................................2 00
No. 2  “  ...........................................................3 00
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top....................................... 2 25
No. 1 
“  ........................................2 40
No. 2 
“  ........................................3 40
No. 0 Sun, crimp top....................................... 2 60
No. 1  “ 
........................................2 80
No. 2 
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Pearl top.
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled.....................3 70
No. 2  “ 
................... 4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
.....................4 70
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz........................1  25
........................ 150
No. 2  “ 
No. 1 crimp, per doz........................................ 1  35
No. 2 
“ 
......................................... 160
Butter Crock's, per gal...................................  06*4
Jugs, H gal., per doz.....................................  75
.....................................  90
.................................... 1  80
Milk Pans, % gal., per doz.  (glazed 66c)....  65 
« 
“  90c).  ..  78

“ 
STONEWARE—AKRON.

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“  2 
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La Bastic.

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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, \  sawed, 6 inch and upw’d.38 00@40 00
Red Oak, M 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, c u ll..................................... ■  „ J®2® °0
Grey Elm, log-run...............................12 60@13 06
White Aso, log-run............................. 14 00@16 00
Whitewood, log-run........................... 20 00@22 00
White Oak, log-run............................. 17 00@18 00
White Oak, % sawed.,Nos. 1 and2....42 00@43 00

Having stood the test of time and the  battle  of  competition  and 
come  off  victorious,  we  have  no hesitation  in  recommending  to  the 
trade our line of

Our Leader  Gigars,

Olir  Leader  Smoking,

Olir  Leader  Pine  Gilt,

Olir  Leader  Baking 
Olir  Leader 
Olir

Powder,
Saieraiifs,
Leader  Brooms.

WHICH  ARE  NOW

L E A D E R S  

IN  FA C T

In hundreds of stores throughout the State. 

If  you  are not handling these goods, 

send  in  sample  order  for  the* full  line and see how your 

trade in these goods will increase.

I.  M. 

COA.RK &

W e   have  received  large  shipm ents  of 
m olasses, direct from the  planters  in  Louisi­
ana, w hich  w e are offering to the trade at our 
usual low   prices.

T elfer  S pice  C o m p a n y ,

IMPORTERS  OF  TEAS.  COFFEES  AND  SPICES.

1  AND  3  PEARL  STREET.

W holesale  Dry  Goods.

P.  S T B K B T B B   &  SONS,
Our new line  of  fancy  prints are 
all  in  stock  for  coming  season. 
Allen’s,  Hamilton,  Washington, 
Indigo,  Merrimac,  Simpson’s,  Gar­
ner’s, plain and  satine styles.
imported  fine 
Also 
Satines in  new colors and patterns.
Dress Ginghams, Seersuckers and 
Fancy Flannels,  Zephyrs,  Toile du 
Nord,  Amoskeag,  A.  F.  O., Cotton 
Hosiery,  Underwear,  Overshirts, 
Jackets, Overalls,  Pants.
A  large  line  of  Notions,  Neck­
wear, Windsor Ties, Etc.

our  new 

Correspondence  solicited.

BE

Monroe  and  10,12,  14,  IB  A  18  Foiintam  Sts.,

We Import All Our  Fancy  Buttons  and  Laces.
GRAND RÄPID8.

Wall  Paper  anil Window  Shades.
N E L S O N   BRO S. &  CO.,

House and Store Shades Made to  Order.

68  MONROE  STREET.

B L JV F N   &  A LLYN ,

Sole Agents for the  Celebrated

“BIG F” Brand of Oysters.

In Cans and Bulk, and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL CLAMS and OYSTERS.  W emaki 

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

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

H.  M.  BLIVEN,  Manager. 

63  Pearl  St.

Bomon &  JPeters,

W HOLESALE

GROCERS.

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

Lautz Bros.l&JCo, 9s  Soaps,

Niagara  Starch,

Amboy  Choosom

GRA.NO  RA.PIDS.

A-.D. Spangler<& Col  Alfred  J .  Brow!!,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

FRUITS ««oPRODUGE

And General Commission Merchants. 

EAST  SAGINAW,  MICH.

WHOLESALE

ForeipFnits, Nuts, Dates.Fiis, Etc

16  and  18  North  Division  Street,  Grand Rapids.

We buy and sell all kinds of  fruit  and 
produce and solicit  correspondence with j 
both-buyers and  sellers.

EDW IN FALLAS,
Creamery Outfit For Sale or Trade.|Bntter, ftp , Fairfield Cheese, Foreip Fruits, Mince Meat, Nats, Etc.

JOBBER  OF

outfit, consisting  of  the following :

pounds of  butter in trays.
1-pound prints.

I  have  on  hand a complete  creamery 
One 200-gallon square churn.
Two 200-gallon cream vats.
One Mason butter worker.
Six galvanized gathering cans.
One  Reids’  shipping  box, to  hold 120 
One  I.  X.  L.  butter  print  machine, 
Two skimming pails, covered.
One strainer pail.
One buttermilk strainer.
A quantity of  glass testing tubes.
Lot of  pointed skimmers.
About 100 5X-gallon  Fairlamb  setting 
cans.
Will sell the whole  outfit at a bargain 
It is all practically as good  as  new,  hav­
ing run but  four  months.  The country 
here is too new for  the  business. 
I will 
sell  this  at a big  discount  for  cash  or 
good  security,  or  will  take  in  trade a 
good team of  work  horses.  Would  take 
a good Perkins or Hall  shingle  mill or a 
planer and matcher, but  machinery must 
be in good  repair,  practically as good as 
If  parties  have  a  good  shingle 
new. 
mill without  power, will  pay the  differ­
ence. 
Is  I can not  sell all together,  will 
sell any of  the articles separate.

J o h n  K oopm an, 

Falmouth, Mich.

For Infants and Invalids.

T H E  3VCOST R E L IA B L E  FOOD| 
Used  everywhere,  with  unqualified 
success.  Not a medicine, but a steam-1 
cooked  food,  suited  to  the  weakest! 
stomach.  Take  no  other.  Sold  byl 
jista.  In  cans, 35c. and upward.! 
drug
O O LB IC H   &  Co. on every labeLl

(Successors to Steele & Gardner.) 

Fehsenfeld  &  Grammel,
B R O O M S !

Manufacturers of

Whisks,  Toy  Brooms, Broom Corn, Broom 
Handles, and all Kinds  of  Broom Materials. 
10 and 19 Plainfield  Are.,  Grand  Rapids.

SHIPPERS

BLOW’S
r  SHIPPING
BLANKS.-ÄfOfc
SAMPLE SHÉETfÎiSPRICES 
BARLOW BROS.GRAND RAPIDS,MICK

Oyster and Mince Meat Business Running Full  Blast. 

Special  Bargain  in Choice 

Dairy Butter.  Let your orders come.

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

Brand Rapids Frilit and ProddGe Bo.,

JOBBER  OF

FOREIGN  B R U ITS.

Oranges,  Lem ons  and  Bananas  a  Specialty.

3 NORTH IONIA  ST., GRAND RAPIDS.

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

------WHOLESALE------

F ru its,  Seeds, O ysters § P rod u ce.

All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

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

26,28, 30 and 32 Ottawa  St., 

pleased to hear from yon.
- 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

BUILT FOR BUSINESS

Do you want to increase your trade in a safe way ?
Do you want to do your customers justice ?
Do you want the confidence of all who trade with you ?
Would you like to rid yourself of  the  bother  of  “posting”  your  books and 

“patching up” pass-book accounts ?

Did you ever have a pass-book  account  foot  up  and balance with the corre­

sponding ledger account, without having to “doctor” it?

Do not many of  your  customers  complain  that  they have been charged for 
items they never had,  and is not your memory a little clouded  as  to  whether  they 
| have or not ?

Do you not want pay  for  all  the  small  items that go out of your store, that 

yourself and clerks are so prone to forget  to charge ?

Then why not adopt a system  of  crediting  that  will  abolish all these and a 
hundred  other objectionable features of the old method, and one that establishes  a 
CASH  BASIS  of  crediting?

ity and brand of  an  article, as  well as to 
discover  its  selling  price.  They  must 
hide their  business  from  those they spy 
upon  as  carefully and  ingeniously as  a 
detective works among criminals.  They 
must pretend to be shoppers, messengers 
from invalids wanting samples, eccentric 
ladies  who  scarcely  know  what  they 
want,  and  so  ask  about  many  things. 
They must  in  some  cases  work  in  one 
great  store  and  draw salaries from two, 
the  second  salary  being  their  pay  for 
acquainting a rival with their employer’s 
business.

W A N T E D .

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

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

E A R L   B R O S .,
157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

Co m m issio n  M e r c h a n t s

Reference:  F i r s t   N a t i o n a l   B a n k ,  Chicago. 
Mi c h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n . Grand Rapids.

TIME  TABLES.
Grand  Rapids  & Indiana.

In  effect Nov. 17,1880.
T RA IN S  GO IN G   N O RT H .

^

GOING  SOUTH.

Leave. 
7:10 a m  
11:30 a  m 
1:10pm

T hrough coaches fo r Saginaw  on  7:10 a  m  and 4:10 p 

Arrive.
Traverse C ity & Mackinaw................
Traverse  City  Express......................9:20 a m
T raverse City & M ackinaw................ 3:15 p m
From  C incinnati..................................8:50 p m
Cadillac  (Mixed)................................... 
m  tra in .
C incinnati  Express..................................... 
_ 
F o rt W ayne Express...........................11:45 a m  
C incinnati  Express............................   5:80 p m  
From  M ackinaw & T raverse C ity..10:40 p m
From  CadUlac.........................................a  m
T rain leaving fo r C incinnati a t 6 p.  m.  an d   arriv in g  
from   C incinnati  a t 9:20 p. m ., ru n s daily,  Sundays  in­
cluded.  O ther tra in s daily except Sunday.
Sleeping and P a rlo r C ar  S ervice:  N orth—7: :0 a. m. 
and 4:10 p. m. tra in s have  sleeping and p a rlo r cars for 
Mackinaw  City.  South—7:15 a. m. tra in  h as c h air car 
and 6 p. m. tra in  P ullm an sleeping c ar  fo r  Cincinnati. 

1.15 a  m
12:50 p m
6:00 p m

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.

In  effect Nov. 10,1889.

Leave 
Arrive.
7:00 a m .......................................................................
11:16 a m .......................................................................  8:46 p m
i:40 p    .......................................................................  8:45 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge s tre e t  depot 7 m inutes later. 
T hrough tick ets and full  inform ation  can be had by 
caU ingupon  A.  Alm quist.  tic k e t  a g e n t  a t  depot, or 
Geo. W. Munson, Union  Ticket  A gent,  67  Monroe  St., 
G rand Rapids, Mich.

O. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING WEST.

Leaves. 
1:00 p m 
4:20 p m

Arrives.
fM oraing Express............................. 12:50 p m
fT hrough M ail.....................................4:10 p m
tG rand R apids  Express...................10:40  p m
N ight Express....................................8:40 a m
fMixed..................................................
GOING BAST.
8:50 a  m 
fD etroit  Express..............................
fThrough M ail....................................10:10 a  m
10:20 a m  
3:45 p m 
fEvening E xpress...............................3:35 p m
10:55 p m
N ig h t Express..................................10:30 p m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
D etroit Express  and  Evening  Express  have  p a rlo r 
cars attach ed  and m ake direct connections  in   D etroit 
fo r all p oints East. 
M orning express and G rand Rapids express nave p a r­
lor cars attached.  N ight express h as W agner sleeping 
c a r to  D etroit, arriv in g  in D etroit a t 7:20 a.  m.
steam ship 
sleeping 
tick ets 
secured  a t 
D.  G. H. & M .R*y offices, 28 Monroe St., and a t th e depot.
J a b. C a m p b e l l , Citv P assenger Agent. 

tick ets  and  ocean 

Through  railro ad  

b erth s 

and 

car 

, _  

_

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

Toledo,  Ann  Arbor  &  N orthern.

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

A. J. P a is l e t , Gen’l Pass.  Agent

The Michigan Tradesman

WEDNESDAY. JANUARY  89,  1890.

WILD  OATS.

LCONTraUED  FROM  FIRST  PAGE.!

eyes followed  those of  her child, and for 
an  instant  she  gazed  vaguely  at  the 
bearded man with the foreign air and the 
elegant attire, but there was not a gleam 
of  recognition in her dull  blue eyes.
“Come, Lucy,” Albert  remarked,  in a 
voice which  he  strove  to  make  steady, 
I think  you  have  had 
“let us go home. 
enough of  the immigrants.”
Something  unusual in his  voice or his 
manner startled her.  He was  very pale, 
but a small red spot burned in the middle 
of  each cheek.
“ W h y ,   I  really believe  you  are  angry 
because I found  your flaxen-haired coun­
trywoman  unpoetic,”  she  cried,  gayly. 
I, for my 
“Well, every one to his  taste. 
part, prefer  to  take  my Norseman duly 
diluted—garni  en  Americain, 
if  you 
please—re-costumed  mentally and  phys- 
cally  by  the  masculine  equivalent  for 
Worth.  Au  naturel,  he  is  too  strong 
for me.”
Albert was far from relishing this kind 
of  pleasantry;  but  in  his  present  mood 
he had no  heart for a dispute.  He helped 
his wife  silently into  the  carriage,  and 
ordered the coachman to drive home.

Y.

It was about 11 o’clock in the  evening.
It  was  quite  dark in Castle Garden.  A 
few scattered  gas-jets  burned under the 
wide rotunda in rings of  steam and dust, 
and  served  but  to  make  the density of 
the atmosphere visible.
It was  yet half  an hour from midnight 
when a  well-dressed  gentleman,  having 
shown  the  door-keeper  his  card of  ad­
mission, entered the inner  enclosure and 
picked  his  way  cautiously  among  the 
sleeping  figures, stooping  now  and then 
to scrutinize some  face  which  attracted 
his  attention.  He  had  a  haggard  and 
careworn look, and  his  movements were 
hesitating and reluctant, as if  it were but 
a strong sense of  duty which  urged  him 
on.  Nearly twenty minutes  elapsed  be­
fore he paused in  his  search.  Upon the 
bare  floor  at  his  feet, amid a confusion 
of  boxes  and  bundles,  lay  a  sleeping 
peasant woman, and a little flaxen-haired 
boy was  reposing  with  his body upon a 
wadded petticoat and his head in his moth­
er’s lap.  There was something touching 
in the care she had bestowed for his com­
fort  while  having  no  thought  for  her 
own;  it was pretty, too, to see her rough, 
toil-worn  hand 
resting  unconsciously 
upon his head, as if  to protect  him  from 
any harm that  might come to him in this 
great foreign land.  The gentleman stood 
long contemplating the group before dis­
turbing the  two  sleepers.  He was  even 
for a moment tempted to withdraw with­
out making himself  known to them.  But 
the sight of  the  boy, whose  features, as 
he plainly saw, bore a vague resemblance 
to his own, drew him back and quickened 
the voice  of  his  conscience.  Finally he 
stooped down and touched the woman on 
the shoulder.  She did not stir.  He then 
seized  her  arm  and  shook  her,  but she 
only  turned  and  continued  her  heavy 
sleep.  At his third effort he was equally 
unsuccessful;  it  seemed  impossible  to 
arouse  her. 
It  then  occurred to him to 
wake the  child,  and  to  his  surprise the 
boy sprang  up  the  moment  he  touched 
him.  He  stared  fearlessly  at  his  dis­
turber and asked  him, defiantly, what he 
wanted.
“I  want  you  to  wake  your  mother,” 
answered  Albert  (for,  of  course,  the 
stranger was no other  than  he),  “I want 
to speak to her.”
But the sound of  the  child’s voice had 
already  roused  the  woman;  she  arose 
somewhat wonderingly, gazed  timidly at 
the  strange  visitor,  and then, in her be­
wilderment, made a deep courtesy.
* “Gentlefolk  out  walkin’  so  late?” 
she observed, in her  broad  peasant  dia­
lect,  “perhaps  you  know  sdbiethin’  of 
my husband, Albert Westerholm.”
“Yes, I do, Gerda,” he answered, in as 
friendly a voice  as  he  could  command. 
I am 
You  evidently do  not  know  me. 
Albert Westerholm.”
He  had  expected  her  to  betray some 
emotion, or,  at  least,  surprise. 
Instead 
of  that, she  lifted  her  eyes to him with 
an embarrassed  smile, wiped  her  hand, 
peasant  fashion, on  her  apron  and  ex­
tended it to him.
remarked,  hesi­
tatingly,  “isn’t  that  queer?  I  didn’t 
know  you.”
Her  embarrassment  was  to  him  pa­
thetic, and her  extreme  deference  inex­
pressibly painful.  That  there  was con­
siderable  feeling  hidden  under this im­
passive mask  he  knew  full well, and he 
knew,  too,  that  the  disappointment  of 
their  meeting was hardly less terrible to 
her  than  it  was to him.  But the Norse 
peasants  are  an  undemonstrative  race; 
they do not know  the  language  of  emo­
tion.
“I shohld not have known  you, either, 
Gerda,” he  replied, gently.  “You  have 
changed much.”
“Yes;  I had a hard time with this boy, 
God bless him. 
I have never been  quite 
the same since he was born.”
He did  not  know what to answer, and 
there  was  a long, awkward  pause.  The 
thought rose  dimly in his mind  how  she 
must  have  hungered  during  many 
weary  years  for  this  meeting;  how her 
simple  fancy  must  have  pictured  the 
mutual  joy of  their  reunited  lives,  and 
how bitterly he would in her place resent 
such a monstrous  wrong.  And  yet,  the 
consequences of  a surrender to  his  gen 
erous  impulse  would  be  too  terrible 
He had not the  strength  to  contemplate 
them, far less to bear them.  He must be 
well  on  his  guard  so  as  not to be sur­
prised into disadvantageous  concessions 
he  must  smother  his  pity, and under a 
stern mask hide his bleeding heart.  The 
courage almost failed  him, however, and 
he  did  not  dare  to  meet  her  guileless 
eyes as he said:
“And  why  did  you  come  here  now, 
Gerda, after so many  years ?  You ought 
to have come  before or not at all.”
His  change  of  tone  startled  her,  but 
the  splendor  of  his  person  was  to  her 
simple  soul  so  awe-inspiring  that  she 
lacked spirit to resent it.
“Oh yes, you might well  say  so,” she 
answered, awkwardly pulling  at the cor­
ners  of  her  apron;  “but I didn’t  know 
you  was  alive  until  four  weeks ago;  a 
kinsman of ours came from America, and 
he told me for  sure  you  was  alive  and

“Well’  now,”  she 

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edly,  then  heaved a sigh  of  relief,  and 
thrivin’.  Then my father  died, too, and 
sank bank among the pillows.
I had nothin’ more to keep me.  But, beg- 
‘‘You  are a truthful  man,  Bert,”  she 
gin’ your pardon, you used to be so sorter 
said, calmly,  “and  that  suffices  me. 
I 
talkative  and  friendly-like and not a bit 
don’t  wish  to  hear  your  story.  Every 
grand;  and  then—and  then—I  thought 
man, they say, must  sow  his  wild  oats, 
you wouldn’t mind,”  she  finished,  des­
but he needn’t ask  his  wife to help har­
perately.
vest them.  You  are  my  husband  now.
‘Well,  to  be  frank  with  you,  I  do
mind,”  he said, with a severity of  which  What  you  were I do not wish to know.”
She suppressed a  yawn,  nestled  down 
he would not a moment ago have thought 
luxuriously  among 
the  pillows,  and 
himself capable.
looked at the wall  beyond.  He  sat long 
“Oh yes, yes,  you  might well say so!” 
listening  to  the  light  rhythm  of  her 
she responded, pitifully, resorting in her 
breath while she  dozed off  into  her  un­
“I 
distress  to  her  customary  phrase. 
troubled  slumber.  An  overwhelming
sorter  of  knowed  at  the  start, before I
set eyes on you, that things was goin’  all  pity,  both for himself  and  for  her, took
possession of  him.  He  felt, almost as a 
wrong. 
I dreamed bad dreams  on  ship­
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sensible tap upon his shoulder, the finger 
board, though it may have been  the  bad 
soup as went to my head;  and the  coffee j of  Nemesis 
was sorter queer, too.  But, beggin’ your 
leave, sir, I made a mistake, as I oughtn’t 
to have done at my time of life.  And we 
won’t trouble you any  more.  We’ll  go 
From  th e  M erchants’ Review.
It has  probably occurred  to  the  mem­
back  to-morrow, and  then  the  boy  can 
bers  of  the  Farmers’ Alliance  by  this 
leastways say he has seen his father.”
time that their resolution  proposing  the 
The meek and dispirited way in which 
extermination of  that valuable  factor  in 
she  uttered  these  words,  waiving  her 
trade, the  commercial  traveler, was  not 
rights, and only conscious of the spiritual 
calculated to reflect  credit  on  their  sa­
gulf which divided them, cut him  to  the 
gacity.  But whether the  proposition is 
quick. 
If  she  had  indignantly  recited 
commendable or not, there will be no dis­
her wrongs, it would  have  been  easy to 
puting the difficulty of  enforcing  it, and 
shake  her  off.  But  this  magnanimity, 
the class aimed at  is  not  likely to worry 
which took more account of  his  feelings 
itself over the matter, as  no  one  knows 
than  of  her  own,  betrayed, after  all,  a 
better than the  drummer  how necessary 
fineness  of  perception  of which her ex­
he is to  the  proper  distribution  of  the 
terior gave no evidence.  She  made  him 
necessaries  of  life.  Necessary  though 
appear  mean  and  contemptible  in  his 
he  may  be,  yet,  considering  the  im-
own  sight,  and  he  writhed  under the 
1______   portance  and  arduous  nature  of  his
sense of his  own  baseness.  Neverthe-
less,  he  could  not  protest  against  her I duties, they are not so remunerative as to
call for the expression of such sentiments 
resolution.
the  hayseeds  gave  voice  to  at 
as 
“Let me, at all events,  have  the  boy, 
their  recent  convention.  Only  those 
Gerda,” he  said, rather from a desire  to 
over 
who  have  carried 
repair his own self-respect than from any 
can  form  the  slightest 
the  road” 
natural impulse of affection;  “ 1 will take 
idea  of 
the  drum­
good care of him and bring him up well.”
mer’s  avocation,  and 
the  generally 
“The  boy!  the  boy!”  she  repeated, 
inadequate extent of its rewards.  When 
wonderingly,  as  if  she  had  not  quite 
a customer has been  secured by frequent 
grasped his idea;  then  suddenly,  as  the 
visits and  an  expenditure  of  skill  and
meaning  of  the  proposal  dawned upon
unin-
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her.  she sprang forward  and flinging her  patience that would  surprise  the
‘itiated, the  rest  is  by no  means  easy
arms about her  child  cried  out:  “No,
There is always the danger that travelers 
no,  don’t  take  him  from  me!  You
secure him, and the
for  rival  firms will
wouldn’t  go  away  from  your  mother, 
drummer  has  to  be  constantly on  the 
Albert, dear;  you would not  leave  your 
qui vine  in  order  to  retain  the • trade. 
mother  as  has  no  one in the world but 
Many of the drummer’s  troubles are  due 
you.”
to the neglect  or  mistakes  of  shipping 
The  boy clenched  his  fist  and  gazed 
clerks and book-keepers at headquarters. 
defiantly at his father.
First-class customers are  either  lost  en­
“I  will  stay  with  you,  mother,”  he 
tirely or made  so angry as  to  endanger 
said,  soothingly;  “the  strange man shall 
the  relations  between 
them  and  the 
I would kick  him  if 
not take me away. 
salesman by the  assiduity of  book-keep- 
he dared.”
minutes | ers in sending in  statements before  they 
are due, or by drawing  on  the  customer 
kneeling with her  arm  about  her  son’s 
before he has had time  to  check  the  in­
neck, but the sudden passion had quickly 
voices, or by errors in  accounts.  Then
spent  itself, and  when  she  looked  up 
. .  „
again her face wore its former expression | the delay  m  shipping goods^ordereti in a
hurry is a  fruitful  cause  of  trouble  to 
of  weariness and meek resignation.  The 
traveling  salesmen,  also  the  careless 
scene was every moment  becoming more 
marking of goods, which  causes  them  to 
painful,  and if  it had  not  been  for  the 
go astray;  in the meantime the customer 
desire to put himself in a more favorable 
becomes disgusted and  orders  from  an­
light,  Albert  would  not  have  tarried. 
other  house.  When such instances  oc­
The twilight roundabout, with the small, 
cur, the  traveling  salesman  has a hard 
sparsely scattered  gas-jets  and the dole­
time of it in pacifying patrons.  To  the 
ful chorus of heavy breathing, oppressed 
merchant, the drummer  generally serves 
him  and  made  him  yearn  for the fresh 
as a shield,  a guide  and  a  faithful  and 
air.  But  yet  the  persistent  craving  to 
prudent counselor; 
to  the large number 
put himself  aright  made  him  linger ir 
of dealers who have  but  little  practical 
resolutely at her  side.  By a turn of  her 
knowledge of the goods  handled by them 
head  the  light  from  above  fell  dimly 
gradually growing smaller year by year, 
upon  her  countenance,  and  its  dumb 
fortunately—he  is  their  chief  reliance 
pathos struck him with strange force.  A 
in the matters of  quality and  suitability 
great wave of  pity swept  away all pusil­
of the goods to the  trade  for which  they 
lanimous  considerations  and  he  flung 
are intended.  Lest the  salesman  should 
himself  down  at  her  side,  seizing  her 
wax too complacent and have  too  easy a 
hands and  gazing  intently into her eyes. 
time, the  firm  generally provide  a  sure
“Gerda,” he  broke  forth, in a hushed,
breathless voice,  “I have  been  faithless  specific in constant notifications  that  his
route must be worked over more energet­
I am  married,  Gerda;  I  have a 
to  you. 
ically and his  trade  extended. 
Profits, 
wife here!  I don’t ask  you to spare me. 
however  large, rarely  satisfy  the  firm; 
Do as  you  think  best;  I shall  not  com­
the cry is always  that  he  is  selling too 
plain.”  He bent eagerly forward,  watch­
low. 
Interspersed  between these hints 
ing her unresponsive  face  with  anxious 
come requests  to  stir  up  his customers 
scrutiny.
and hasten collections.  Customers  also 
“I know’d something  was  wrong with 
help to make'the drummer’s  lot  a  bur­
you,”  she  said,  simply.  “But  there is 
den;  being naturally as  anxious  to  scale 
no help for it now.  I wouldn’t give your 
prices  down  as  the  house  is  to  scale
fine lady-wife  trouble,  sir, not I.  But ef
you hadn’t had no other wife, I wouldn’t I them up.  The discomforts of the travel- 
stay  with  you.  You  are  a  fine  gentle-1 ing salesman’s life are too well known to 
young  man
man,  and I  am a plain  peasant  woman, | need mention,  and unless
has  an  unusually good  constitution  he 
and  shall  never  be  nothin’  else.  We 
will find traveling on the  road is not  cal 
don’t match now, as  once  we  did, when 
culated to ensure  a hale  old  age.  The 
we was both  young  and silly.  God have 
drummer has  his faults, of  course.  The 
pity  on  u s!  You  didn’t  mean  no 
temptation to induce a  customer to over 
harm, and you was born of genteel folks, 
load is sometimes  too  strong  to  be  re 
and  you couldn’t help  growin’  inter the 
sisted, but  this  fault  is  common  chiefly 
sorter chap  as  your  own  folks  was. 
I 
among  young,  inexperienced  salesmen 
oughter have know’d better, but I didn’t.
who  are 
the  fact  that 
God forgive m e!’
there 
quicker 
or 
no 
is 
In spite of the generous impulse which 
way  of  killing 
than  by 
in­
his pity had prompted, he  gave a sigh of 
ducing  customers  to  buy  either  in  ex­
relief;  and  rising  from  his  kneeling 
cessive quantities  or  of  goods  that are 
position,  he  whipped  the  dust  off  his 
not salable.  Take  him  all in all,  how 
trousers and prepared to take  his  leave.
ever, the drummer is a valuable  member 
If  you are in need of money, Gerda,” 
of the community;  to dispense with  him 
he said, a trifle  awkwardly (for the offer 
would necessitate a  complete  revolution 
following upon such a scene seemed hor­
of the manner  of  distributing  merchan­
ribly  sordid),  “I  need  not  say  that  I 
dise, with no prospect of improvement in 
shall  be  happy  to  supply  all  your 
efficiency or cheapening of the cost of do-
wants.”
“Oh, yes, yes,” she answered, vaguely; | ing business
it’s  very nice of  you  to  say so.  But 1 
don’t  need  nothin’.  My father  left  me 
the farm, and it seems God’s  providence 
now  that  I couldn’t  find  nobody to buy 
it.  If  it wasn’t  for  the  neighbors  and 
the parish talk, I shouldn’t be a bit sorry 
to be home again.”
Her  voice  broke  a  little  at  the last 
words, and  there  was a nervous  twitch 
ing at  the  corners of  her  mouth;  other 
wise  her  tired  face  betrayed no sign of 
feeling.  Albert  recognized  by this very 
immobility, and the uncomplaining meek­
ness of  her demeanor, how  wide was the 
gulf  that separated  them,  and how inad 
equate,  on  this  account, any reparation 
he could offer.
“Farewell, Gerda,” he  said;  and with 
out waiting for her reply, hastened away.
When heYelî a g ^ lh e   fr7sh  aTr aboÜi  drew the
him, he flung his  hands  passionately to­
ward  the  heavens  and  groaned  aloud. 
But  it  was  but  for a moment;  the pain 
nestled  deeply  about  his  heart, though 
soon again he was calm.
An hour later, worn with the struggle, 
humiliated  and  remorseful,  he  entered 
his house, went to  his  wife’s  room  and 
roused her from her slumber.
“Why, Bert,”  she  exclaimed,  as  she 
sat up and flung her hair  back  from her 
shoulder,  “how  you frightened me !  You 
look as if  you had seen a ghost.”
“So  I  have,  Lucy,” he  said,  mourn­
fully, “and  that is what I wished to talk 
with  you  about.  The  peasant  woman 
you saw this morning—”
“Was  your  wife,” she  cried,  flinging 
herself  forward and  clutching  his  arm, 
breathlessly.

U nderstood  th e  M onkey’s  W eak n ess.
From  th e New Y ork Sun.
One of the attractions  at a church fair 
recently  held  in  this  city was a lottery 
conducted  on a small  scale.  Ten  per­
sons contributed ten  cents  each.  Each 
subscriber  drew a slip  of  paper  from a 
hat.  The slips were numbered from 1 to 
10.  The papers were  then placed in an­
other hat, and a monkey  was  allowed to 
pick one  out.  The  person  who,  at the 
first  drawing,  had  obtained  the  slip 
selected by the monkey,  was  entitled  to 
90 cents, 10 cents going  to the fair fund. 
After each drawing  by  the monkey, the 
slips were destroyed.  One night a young 
man won over $20 at  this  little  game of 
chance.  Nearly every time, the  monkey
at the first drawing.  Those present mar­
velled at the  young  man’s luck,  and but 
for  an  accident  they  never would have 
ascribed  his  winnings  to any cause but 
good fortune.  Every slip  of  paper  the 
young man drew he  rubbed with a piece 
of lump sugar.  Of course, the monkey’s 
weakness for sweets led him to  pick  out 
the  sugared  slip.  The  young  man 
dropped the piece of  sugar while he was 
rubbing it on a slip, and then  his  smart 
little game was discovered.

Quite peculiar are the clever  men  and 
women who are known as “pricers,” and 
who  are  employed by the proprietors of 
the  great  shopping  stores  to  learn the 
prices  at  which  their  competitors  are 
offering  goods,  says  Harper’s  Weekly. 
These “pricers”  must  be  very talented, 
experienced  and 
judicious  specialists. 
They must be able to  judge of  the  qual-

“No,” he answered,  “not my wife.” 
She looked  at  him  for a moment,  fix-

ignorant  of 
surer 
trade 

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ity,  are draggy.  There is no excitement 
or  even  strength  to  the  trade, t ist  or 
west,  but  tanners  have  never  before 
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quently,  take all that are offered  and fill 
their  houses.  They have  now  three  to 
six  months’  supply  ahead,  being  more 
than they have  carried  for  some  years, 
and keep taking.  Yet  there is no end in 
sight to the supply.  Mach or any higher 
prices  need  not  be  looked for until the 
quality is better.

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is  light  and  the  supply large.  The de­
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result of  the London sales this week.
Fighting  Fire  with  Fire  at  Lake 

Odessa.

L a k e  Od e ssa,  Jan. 25,1890. 

shoes.

Editor Michigan Tradesman:
Last Saturday the  Patrons of Industry 
closed contracts with the  following firms 
in our village:

truthfully  said 

McCartney Bros., dry goods.
Fred  Miller,  clothing  and  boots  and 
E. F. Colwell & Son, hardware.
This,  with the grocer already arranged 
with, completes  the  list,  and,  according 
to the  P. of  L plans, the  remainder  of 
the dealers will have  to emigrate.  This, 
of  course, would  seem  a  hardship,  as 
the most  of  those  left  out  in  the cold 
have built their stores  and  shops,  and, I 
venture to say,  are owing  on  them. 
It 
has  been 
that  Lake 
Odessa  is  the  only town  yet  heard  of 
since  the  P. of  1. came  into  existence 
where the merchants  ran  after  the  or­
ganization,  which  must,  if  they  carry 
their point, tear  down  and  ruin  every 
village.
A few evenings ago  our citizens called 
a business  men’s  meeting  and all  uni­
versally  adopted  deep-cut  prices  on 
their wares, which,  at  the  present writ­
ing, are  below  in  prices  the  P. of  I. 
stores.  At the same  meeting the follow­
ing  petition was  introduced,  which  will 
explain itself:

TO  WHOM IT  MAY  CONCERN.

As we, citizens  of  Lake  Odessa  and 
surrounding country, have  no  direct op­
portunity of  buying  clothing  or  gent’s 
furnishing  goods,  except  to  patronize 
one store  in  the village which  has  re­
cently signed a  contract  to  sell  certain 
persons at less price than  to  others, we, 
therefore, are desirous of having another 
store which will furnish  goods  to all  at 
one uniform  price;  and we, the  under­
signed,  hereby  pledge  ourselves  to  pat­
ronize and use our influence in  their  be­
half.
Signed by 110 good, reputable- citizens.
Later—It is reported  that  one  or  two 
parties will  visit  our  village  at  once, 
with a view to locating with  a  first-class 
stock here. 

A P io n e e r .

In a Book Store.

ter?
works.

Workman—What  might  that  be, mis­
Book  Clerk — That’s  Shakspeare’s 
Workman—What’s  them?
Clerk—Why, his plays, you know.

•  Workman—Dura  me if  I know  how a 
man’s play can be his  work.

Great Luck.

“I vas in great luck.”
“How vas dot?”
“Vy, I find  $500  yesterday  belonging 
to  dot miser, Marx, und ven I gif it back 
to him dis morning he  nefer  sharge  me 
no interest for der use  of dot monish for 
twenty-four hours.”

“Marx vas getting shildish.”

A Clearer Statement.

“Now Patrick, in  regard to wages, I’ll 
give  you  thirty  dollars  a  month,  with 
board, or fifty dollars without board.”
“I don’t understand that, sor;  but I’ll 
take fifty dollars a month and ate meself, 
or I’ll  take  thirty dollars,  and  lave  me 
ate you.”

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars are quiet  and  a  little  lower. 
Canned goods  are  moving  more freely. 
Raisins  are  higher, especially  Ondaras. 
Crackers and sweet  goods  are  down )4c 
per pound.

Elem ents  o f S u ccess.

To  be a success,  a  merchant  must  in 
business  matters “say what  he  means” 
and do it.  A vacillating policy in prices, 
terms,  etc.,  is  invariably followed by a 
lack  of  confidence.  A  deception  prac­
ticed  upon  the  most  unimportant  cus- 
omer has its inevitable rebound and con­
sequent  effect.  Failure  with  the  best 
and most honest management  sometimes 
happens, but  in  nine cases out of  ten it 
is the  honest  merchant  who  succeeds. 
A.  T.  Stewart, the  dry  goods  prince  of 
New York, always made it his invariable 
rule  that  no  article  he  sold  should be 
rated above its value.  That rule created 
the  foundation  of  his  immense  patron­
age.  People bought of  him because they 
knew he would not cheat  them.  He was 
a hard master to his clerks, and  far from 
being a generous man;  but the dry goods 
his customers bought of him were always 
up to the quality stipulated, for  Stewart 
had sense  enough to know  that  honesty 
is  always  the  best  policy.  Deception 
practiced or indulged in by the head of  a 
firm soon permeates the  entire establish­
ment, from  the  confidential clerk in the 
private  office  to  the  cash-boy  at  the 
counter, and many a defaulter or dishon­
est clerk  has received his first lessons  in 
larceny from his  employer.  Has not the 
traveling salesman often been  instructed 
to deceive, and has not his  compensation 
oftentimes been based upon his power of 
misrepresentation ?  If  he  can  or  will 
work off  old  stock  or  inferior  goods at 
prices which he and  his  employer know 
to be unjust  and  unfair, he is accounted 
a smart man, sharp and  shrewd,  looking 
out  for  his  employer’s  interests,  to  be 
rewarded for his falsehoods  and  gullible 
powers.  As long as he can  successfully 
practice his nefarious arts upon  the cus­
tomer, all goes smoothly for  him  at  the 
house, but if  the cheat  be  discovered by 
the victim,  the firm will  quickly disavow 
the action and throw all the onus on their 
pliant tool.  Should  the  traveling  man, 
following  the  example  and  precepts of 
an  unscrupulous  employer, deceive him 
in any way, by exaggerated  expense  ac­
counts. or seek  for  gain by indulging in 
games  of  chance,  how  quickly  is  he 
pounced upon,  “hauled  over  the  coals” 
and denounced as a swindling  vagabond, 
not fit to be trusted.  Who  offered him a 
premium  for  deception,  and encouraged 
him in the  devious  ways of  unfairness ? 
As like begets  like,  so  deceit  practiced 
by employer  produces  similar  traits  in 
employe.  It engenders for each a mutual 
contempt.  The 
robe  of  confidence, 
which should be their common  garment, 
is  rent  in  twain. 
It  may be  sewed to­
gether again with  the  thread of  circum­
stances,  but  the  warp  and woof  of  es­
teem and trust is forever  unraveled,  and 
the  fair  pattern of  probity irredeemably 
disfigured.

He  Was Not  a Purchaser.

From  th e Comic ercial Traveler.
“I would like to look at  an  overcoat,” 
said a seedy-looking  individual, entering 
one of our leading houses  the other  day. 
The  gentlemanly clerk  eyed  him suspi­
ciously for a moment, and then said :

“About what price ?”
“Oh, that’s no matter,”  said  the seedy 
stranger.  “Show me something nice and 
warm.”
“Aha,”  thought  the  clerk,  “one  of 
those  fellow's  from  the  country with a 
pocketful  of  money. 
Just  watch  me 
now.”
He overhauled pile after pile  of  coats, 
Finally he brought 
but nothing suited. 
out a fine, soft coat, fur  cuffs  and  large 
fur collar.  Only forty dollars. 
Just  as 
good as a tailor would  charge you eighty 
dollars for.
The stranger looked at it  carefully  for 
about five  minutes,  and  the  salesman’s 
eyes sparkled in anticipation  of  an  easy 
sale.  Then the seedy individual turned 
to the salesman  and said with a sigh :
It’s  been so 
long since I’ve seed  a  good warm  over­
coat that I thought it would do  me  good 
to see one  again,  sir.  Lord  bless  you, 
no, I couldn’t buy it, not if  it was  forty 
cents. 
I jest wanted to  see it, that’s all. 
Good-bye, sir,  good-bye.”

“Thankee, sir,  thankee. 

Taking  Time  by the  Forelock.

From  th e  Chicago Herald.
One of  the  brightest  advertising  men 
in Chicago made his rise through the fall 
It  was  some  years  ago, 
of  another. 
when,  as a mere  boy,  he  was  tramping 
the  streets  of  Chicago,  broke  and  in 
search of any sort of a job which offered. 
His last  nickel  had  gone  for food,  and 
one afternoon he was  walking through a 
down-town  alley,  tired  and  disgusted. 
Happening  to  glance  upward, he saw a 
boy leaning  out  of  a window. 
In a mo­
ment the boy lost his  balance  and fell to 
the  ground  with  the  customary  dull, 
sickening  thud.  The  discouraged  man 
hastened to the boy’s side and discovered 
that  death  had  been 
instantaneous. 
Looking  up  at  the  open  window  from

which he  had  fallen,  the  man  counted i 
the stories and then  sought the stairway 
near by.  Mounting the stairs, he dashed 
into  the  editor’s  room,  for  it  was  the 
office of  the Prairie Farmer,  and blurted 
out:  “Do  you  want  a  boy?”  Looking 
up  in  surprise,  the  editor  answered: 
“No,  we  have  a boy.”  Then  the  man 
said,  “I’ll  bet  you  haven’t—your  boy 
just fell from the window and is dead.  I 
want  his  place.” 
Investigation  found 
that the  man  was  right,  and he was en­
gaged for his  pushing  way.  Since then 
hfe has risen by degrees and made money, 
and very few  of  his  friends  know  how 
he gained his place.

How Doctors Disagree.

The retail druggist is in  a  position  to 
observe peculiarities of  human nature in 
his customers,  and it  sometimes happens 
that  he finds individual or class  charac­
teristics which he regrets to meet.  The 
observing druggist also becomes familiar 
through his customers with  methods and 
practices  of  physicians.  Among  those 
which every druggist must have observed 
is the diversity of opinion  held by physi­
cians  in  regard 
to  what  constitutes 
wholesome  food,  and  what  is  harmful. 
One doctor will forbid  his  patients  this, 
while another will  recommend  the  same 
article of  diet  and  denounce  others  as 
injurious.  This  evidently comes  from 
the physicians  judging  others  by them­
selves, and  excluding  everything which 
does  not  meet  with 
their  individual 
tastes.  Of course, all  physicians are not 
subject  to  this  criticism, but  many  of 
them are,  as  can  be  testified  to  by the 
druggist who is the confidante of his cus­
tomers.

The  Law Held Valid.

The law of 1885, providing for  the  in­
corporation of  mercantile and  manufac­
turing  companies,  has  emerged  intact 
from its  constitutional  test  in  the  Su­
preme Court.  The  application  of  Mr: 
Jenkins, of  Detroit,  for  a  mandamus  to 
compel the Secretary of  State  to  accept 
the articles of association of  a  new man­
ufacturing  company, drawn  under  the 
provisions of the law of 1875,  was denied 
by the Supreme  Court on  the  24th,  and, 
in  announcing  its  decision,  the  court 
held that the present  law is  unconstitu­
tional.
California’s  Beet  Sugar  Experiment.
The  San  Francisco  Bulletin says  that 
the California beet-sugar experiment is a 
“Last  year  2,000  acres  were 
success. 
planted, and yielded 13,500 tons of  sugar 
beets, from  which  were  extracted  1,650 
tons  of  sugar.  This  was  done  at  the 
Watsonville  factory,  which  ran  forty- 
seven days.  The beets  brought an aver­
age of  $5 a ton, and the farmers feel sat­
isfied that they can raise them at a profit. 
They have guaranteed to greatly increase 
the  acreage  this  year,  and  the  output 
will probably be more than doubled.”

The  ditch  digger  is  the  man who al­

ways “gets in his work.”

VISITING  BUYERS.

Vriesland
Ashland

H  Ade, Conklin 
G F Cook. Grove 
J  Raym ond, Berlin 
H Van Noord, Jam estow n 
J H H oogstraat,  Conklin 
J  Coon, R ockford 
Den H erder & Tanis,
Jorgensen & Hem ingsen,
A P urchase, So Blendon 
L M auer, F isher Sta 
J  G unstra.  Lam ont 
S Cooper, Jam estow n 
W H S truik. Forest Grove 
T A rmock, W right 
Geo E M cLaughlin. L’kev’w 
John D am stra. Gitchell 
Jno M Cook,  G rand  Haven 
S McNitt, Byron C enter 
G W Reynolds, Belmont 
N Bouma, F isher Sta 
F N arregang, Byron Center 
S H B allard, S parta 
John Sm ith, Ada 
W R Law ton,  Berlin 
J  R  H arrison, S parta 
J  V C randall & Co.,Sand Lk 
A M C hurch,  Englishville

Forest Grove 

G Ten Hoor.  F orest  Grove 
Sm allegan & Pickaard,
J  W Mead, Berlin 
John P ik aart,  Frem ont 
A E B ergy, Caledonia 
E Y oung, Ravenna 
C S Comstock, Pierson 
Silas Loew, B urm p’s Cors 
A M Church, Alpine 
D C P utnam , Douglas 
J  W Dunning.  H esperia 
Jos Rodgers, H astings 
J  L Purchase, Bauer 
H Dalmon, Allendale 
Geo  P S tark, Cascade 
L M W olf, H udsonville 
E E H ew itt,  Rockford 
Eli Runnels, Corning 
G ilbert Bros,  Trent 
W H M orris, Evans 
S T Colson, Alaska 
J  B W atson,  Coopersville 
Tucker, Hoops & Co, L uther 
J  N W ait, H udson ville 
Jo h n  W  Mead. B erlin 
Gundrum  & Co, Leroy 
Thos Sloan.  Dimondale 
S C 8cott. H ow ard City

Proprietors of

B .  J* Mason  <6  Co.,
Old Homestead Factory
Preserves, Evaporated Apples

MANUFACTURERS  OF

GRANT,  MICH. 

Jellies  a i  Apple  Batter,

Our  goods  are  guaranteed  to  be  made 

from wholesome  fruit  and  are  free 

from any adulteration or  sophis­
tication.  See quotations in 

grocery  price current.

The Grand Rapids  trade  can  be  sup­
plied  by  GOSS  &  DORAN,  138  South 
Division street.  Telephone, 1150.

GROCERIES.

G ripsack B rigade.

L. M. Mills has  concluded  to  dispose 

of his drug stock at Blanchard.

Geo. F. Owen, L. M. Mills  and Jas. N. 
Bradford are no  longer  disciples  at  the 
throne of la grippe.

J.  H. Brill,  who was ill  at  St. Mark’s 
Home for  about  six weeks, left  for  his 
home at St. Clair last Saturday.

W. W. Gorball,  formerly  with  Lemon 
& Peters, but  for  the past two  years on 
the  road  for  Hawkins, Perry & Co., has 
gone back to the old love.

Frank  Miles  and  wife  are  rejoicing 
over  the  advent  of  a brand-new  daugh­
ter, who  arrived  last  Monday night and 
tips the beam at 8)4 pounds.

N. A. Parker, traveling  salesman  for 
Daniel Lynch,  who has  been  confined to 
his  house by illness for the past  month, 
is out on  the warpath again.

Those wishing invitations to the travel­
ing men’s ball, either  for  themselves  or 
friends,  should  communicate  with  Geo. 
F. Owen, 181 Jefierson avenue.

Daniel Lynch’s traveling force for 1890 
comprises  J.  C.  Watson,  N. A. Parker, 
John M. Shields  and  H. B. Amer.  The 
latter covers the  city trade of  the house.
John M.  Shields, for several years past 
shipping  clerk  for  Daniel Lynch, now 
represents that house  on the road, cover­
ing the trade formerly seen  by Willis  P. 
Townsend.

A  Hesperia  correspondent  suggests 
that Max Mills’ recent illness was caused 
by his  eatiug  too  much  turkey at  Hes­
peria,  in  the  vain  endeavor to keep up 
with Frank Utley.

W. J. Richards  has  concluded  to  re 
main  with  the  Massasoit  Whip  Co.,  of 
Westfield, Mass., another  year.  He will 
cover Michigan and all the Northwestern 
States to Puget Sound.

Jas. N. Bradford has  purchased  stock 
in the  Olney &  Judson  Grocer  Co. and 
will hereafter “carry a key.” 
“Jim”  is 
a hard worker, and richly deserves all the 
smiles  Dame  Fortune  can  lavish  upon 
Mm.

Murphy, Wesey &  Co. have  presented 
the  M.  C.  T.  A.  with  three  handsome 
office chairs and  a  Detroit  safe  factory 
has replaced the J old  safe with  one  of 
more modern appointments at a moderate 
figure.

D. G. Crotty, formerly with Henderson 
& Peterson, of Muskegon, has engaged to 
travel for  Monroe, Rosenfield  &  Co.,  of 
Detroit, carrying a  line  of  notions  and 
fancy goods to the  trade  in Western and 
Northern  Michigan.

Cornelius Crawford was the owner of a 
drug  stock, at Middleton, for  about  one 
hour  one  day last  week.  He  took  the 
McLeod  &  Co. stock  on  a  bill  of  sa\e 
subsequently  disposing  of  it  to  D.  JL 
Meeker, of  Perrinton.

Must-Make  Better Butter.

While factory creamery butter  readily 
commands  26@27c  per  pound  and  gilt 
edge dairy butter is  always in active de 
mand at 20@30c per  pound, the  country 
is literally glutted with poor farm butter 
which  has  no  particular  market value 
anywhere  and is a source of  annoyance 
and loss to  everyone who  is  connected 
with the sale of the article.  Referring to 
this subject, the Allegan Gazette remarks
Most of the  time  of  the  dairymen’: 
convention will  be  occupied  with  dis 
cussion  of  domestic  methods  of  butter 
and  cheese  making. 
There  is  need 
enough, too, of  the  butter  part  of  the 
programme,  in view  of the great amount 
of  the  miserable  grease  annually sold 
here  under  the  name  of  butter.  A 
Stegeman  recently  said  he  had  2,000 
pounds here  and  4,000  pounds  more  in 
Chicago for which he  paid sixteen  cents 
and which he would  be  glad  to  sell  for 
seven.
Poor butter appears  to  have  also  be 
come a strong competitor of  4  cent  tal 
low, judging from the  following circular 
from a New York tallow exporter:
A while ago there was a  demand  from 
Europe  for  “edible  tallow,” which  re 
lieved us  of  a  considerable  quantity of 
choice  at  good  prices.  But  the very 
heavy production of  butter in this coun 
try this winter and big  yield and exports 
of oleomargarine have resulted  in  lower 
—much lower—prices.  Cotton  oil, lard
and lard greases are so  cheap and  abun­
dant and the present  shipments  to  Eu­
rope of  tallow from  other  countries are 
so great that tallow seems  unlikely to go 
much higher for quite a while.
The lesson to be drawn from the situa­
tion is that the average  farmer stands  in 
his own light in not making a better arti­
cle of butter. 
Instead  of  continuing to 
produce an article  for which  there is  no 
sale at remunerative prices, he should so 
improve  his  product  that  the  market 
would seek  him, instead  of  being  con­
stantly compelled to seek  a  market him­
self.

Wool,  Hides,  Furs and Tallow.

Manufacturers  abstain  from  buying 
wools only [ as  they are  obliged to in or­
der to run their mills.  They watch with 
care  to  avoid  loss,  hence  the  January 
sales  are  limited.  With  the  firmness 
abroad, ; prohibiting  importations,  our 
home  market  must  sooner  or  later  re­
spond  and  fall  into  line  with  that  of 
Europe.  Wools  suitable  for  combing 
and  worsteds,  especially  of  the  finer 
grades,  are  sought  after  and  wanted, 
while  territory  and  heavy  shrinkage 
fleeces are neglected  and sold at lc off.

Hides have apparently touched bottom

F o r“Sale£b y  L ead in g  W h o le sa le   G rocers.

PRODUCE  M A RK ET.

ll@12c.

*2.75 per bbl.,
*1.30 for picked, holding at *1.75 per Du.

Apples—Dealers  hold  winter  fruit  at  *2.25@ 
Beans—Dealers  pay  *1.25  for  unpicked  and 
Beets—40c per bn.
Butter—Dead as a mackerel, pretty fair grades 
of  dairy  not  being  in  even  sluggish  demand. 
Country merchants, commission houses, jobbing 
houses—all  are  loaded  up  with  poor  grades, 
which  will  probably  be  consigned  to  the salt 
blocks as soon as spring opens.
Buckwheat  Flour—*4  per  bbl. for  New  York
Cabbages—*5@*6 per 100.
Cheese—Fair  stock  of  full  cream commands 
Cider—9©10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, *1.25;  produce barrels 
25c.
Cranberries—Bell and Cherry is in fair demand 
at *4 per box or *10 per  bbl.
Dried  Apples  — Evaporated  are  held  at  8® 
854 c  and sundried at 5@5Mc.
Eggs—The market is dull and sluggish  Deal­
ers pay 14c per doz. for most offerings  and  hold 
at 17c.  The retail trade of the  city  manages  to 
pick up about all it needs at 15c.
Field  Seeds—Clover,  mammoth, *4.35 per bu.; 
medium, *3.75.  Timothy,  *1.50 per bu 
Honey—Quiet and slow sale.  Clean comb com­
mands 15c per lb.
Onions—Good  shipping  stock  is  scarce  and 
high, *1 per bu. having been offered  by  dealers 
during the past  week, without  enough  coming 
to the surface to  fill  all  orders.  Spanish  stock 
commands 11.25 pe ibox.

Pop Corn—4c per lb.
Pork—Buyers pay 4c, shipping out at 454c. 
Potatoes—There  is  a  fair  snipping  demand 
from the South and East, but not strong  enough 
to build any high hopes  on.  Dealers  continue 
to pay 36@58c per bu.

Squash—Hu  bard, 2c per lb.
Sweet  Potatoes—Illinois  stock  commands  *4 
Turnips—30c per bu.

per bbl.

PROVISIONS.

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FORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

lard—Kettle Rendered.

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

quotes as follows:
Mess,  new........................................................ 10 50
Short c u t.......................................................   10  50
Extra clear pig, short cut.............................  12 00
Extra clear,  heavy........................................  12 00
Clear, fat  back..............................................   11  50
Boston clear, short cut.................................   12 00
Clear back, short cut.....................................  12 00
Standard clear, short cut. best.....................  12 00
Hams, average 20 lbs........................................  8%
16 lbs.......................................9
12 to 14 lbs..................................954
picnic.................................................... 6
best boneless........................................... 854
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..............................  854
Dried beef, ham prices....................................  8
Long Clears, heavy...........................................  6
Briskets,  medium............................................  6
lig h t..................................................6
Tierces.............................................................  7
Tubs...................................................................  754
501b.  Tins.........................................................   754
Tierces..............................................................  534
30 and 50 lb. Tubs.............................................  6
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case.....................................  634
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case........................................634
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case......................................   654
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case........... ..........................   654
501b. Cans.......................................................... 6
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs................... j..  7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing..................... 7 00
Boneless, rump butts......................................  8 50
Pork Sausage.................................................... 6
Ham Sausage.................................................... 12
Tongue Sausage................................................  9
Frankfort  Sausage.  ........................................  8
Blood Sausage...................................................  554
Bologna, straight..............................................  554
Bologna,  thick..................................... 
  554
Headcheese......................................................   554

sausase—Fresh and Smoked.

lard—Refined.

BEEF  IN  BARBELS.

 

FRESH   MEATS.

 

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Swift and Company quote as follows:
“  hindquarters.................................  554®  654
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Beef, carcass...........................................  454® 6
354® 4
854®  9
©10 
® 454 @ 654 
@ 454 
@ 5 
® 5 
®  5 

fore 
 
loins.................................. 
ribs.......................
tongues...............
Hogs................................
Pork loins......................
shoulders..........  ..
Bologna......................
Sausage, blood  or head.
liver..............
Frankfort........
M utton...........................

@  8 
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OYSTERS and  FISH .

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

FRESH   FISH .

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oysters—Cans.

Whitefish.................................................  @854
smoked.....................................  @ 8
Trout........................................................  @ 8
Halibut....................................................   @20
Haddies...................................................   @ 7
Ciscoes.  .. ...............................................  © 6
Fairhaven  Counts..................................  @35
Selects..  ................................................ 22  @27
F. J.  D.’s .................................................   @20
Anchors....................................... 
  @18
Standards...................................'...........  @16
Favorites.................................................   @14
Standards....................................  .......  @*115
Selects..................................................  @  1  50
Clams..........................................................   @1 50
Scrimps............................................. • • • •  @1  50
Scallops.......................................................  @1 50
Horseradish................................................  @ 75
Shell oysters, per 100..............................1  00@1  50

oysters—Bulk.

 

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CANDIES,  FRUITS and  NUTS.

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The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as foUows:

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1054

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fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

STICK.
Standard, 25 lb. boxes......................................   9
.......................................  9
25 
Twist, 
 
Cut Loaf, 25 
MIXED.
Royal, 25 lb. pails.............................................  9
2001b.  bbls.............................................. 854
Extra, 251b.  pails........................................... 10
2001b.  bbls.............................................  9:._
French Cream, 25 lb.  pails...........................   1154
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..................................... 
Hand Made  Creams..........................................18
Plain Creams.....................................................16
Decorated Creams.............................................20
String  Rock.......................................................15
Burnt Almonds..................................................22
Wintergreen  Berries........................................ 14
fancy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, In  palls..................................12
in bbls........... ....................... 11
printed, in palls............................... 1254
“ in bbls................................ 1154
Chocolate Drops, In palls..................................12
Gum Drops, In palls.........................................   654
554
in bbls.............  
Moss Drops, in pails..........................................10
in bbls.......................................   954
Sour Drops, in {tails..........................................12
Imperials, in pails.............................................11

in bbls...............................................1054

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choice  “ 

Oranges,  Florida,  choice.......................

Lemons,  Messina, choice, 360................

“  Ex.  “ 
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fancy, 
golden russets..........3  25@3 75
300...............   @4 50
fancy,  360...............   @4 50
300...............  @5 00

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“ 
“  Malagas,  choice, ripe..............  @
Figs, Smyrna,  new,  fancy  layers........14  @15
“ 
.......11  @1254
“  choice, 7 lb.....................................  @
Dates, frails, 50 lb ...................................  @
54 frails, 5ff lb..............................   @
“ 
Fard, 10-lb.  box...........................  @10
“ 
“ 
...........................  @ 8
“ 
Persian, 50-lb.  box......................   6  @654
NUTS.

Almonds, Tarragona..............................   @16
Ivaca......................................   @15
California..............................15  @16
Brazils......................................................  @12
Walnuts, Grenoble.  ...............................  @16
California...............................   @14
Pecans, Texas, H. P ................................  9  @13
Fancy, H. P., Bells.................................  © 854
“  Roasted....................  @1054
Fancy, H. P., Suns.................................   @ 854
“  Roasted.....................  @1054
Choice,  H. P.,  G .... 
........................  @754
“  Roasted....................   @ 954

50-lb.  “ 

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PEANUTS.

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APPLE  BUTTER.
AXLE GREASE.

541b.  “ 
“ 
lib. 

54 lb.  “ 
lib .  “ 

BAKING POWDER.

541b.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 
BATH BRICK.

Acme, 54 lb. cans, 3 doz —  

E. J. Mason & Co.’s  goods..  5
Frazer’s............................... *2 60
Aurora.................................  1 75
Diamond............................... 1 60
Absolute, 54 lb. cans, 1008..11  75 
50s..10 00
50s..18 75
75
54 lb.  “  2  “  ....  1 50
lib .  “  1  “  ....  3 00
bulk.........................   20
Our Leader, 54lb.  cans......  
45
90
......  
.......1  60
Telfer’s,  54 lb. cans, doz..  45
“  .. 
85
“  ..  1  50
English, 2 doz. in case......  
80
75
Bristol,  2  “ 
 
70
American. 2 doz. in case... 
Dozen
Mexican,  4oz...................  
30
8  oz..........................60
16  oz.................. 
90
BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl...........................  1  75
........................... 2 00
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet........................  2 25
No. 1 
“ 
........................  2 50
Parlor Gem........................... 2 75
Common Whisk.................. 
90
Fancy 
..................  1 00
M ill.....................................  3 25
Warehouse........................... 2 75
Dairy, solid  packed...........1254
rolls.........................   13
Creamery, solid packed—   1354 
..  14

BUTTEBINE

bluing. 

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rolls  .. 
CANDLES
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2 00

 

 

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21b.  “ 

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes................ 1054
954
Star,  40 
Paraffine............................. 
*2
Wieking..............................  
25
CANNED GOODS—Fish.
Clams. 1 lb. Little Neck.......1  20
Clam Chowder, 3 lb..................2 10
Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stand —  1  10 
....190
Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic............1  75
 

“ 
“ 
2  lb.  “ 
2 65
“ 
1 lb.  Star.....................2 10
“ 
2 lb. Star.....................3 15
Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.2 85
“ 
1 lb.  stand............. 1  20
“ 
2 lb. 
“ 
3 lb. in Mustard.. .2  85
“ 
3 lb.  soused........... 2  85
Salmon, 1 lb.  Columbia..  . .2 00
“ 
1 lb.  Alaska.................1 90
6
Sardines, domestic  54s........ 
“ 
54s........® 9
“  Mustard 54s.........  @ 9
imported  54s... 1054@16
“ 
“ 
10
spiced,  54s........... 
CANNED GOODS—Fruits. 

Trout, 3 Id. brook...........
Apples, gallons, stand.  .... .2 25
Blackberries,  stand.............  90
Cherries,red standard 1  10@1  20
pitted.......................... 1 40
Damsons....................................1 15
Egg Plums, stand.......1 15@1  35
Gooseberries............................. 1 00
Grapes..................................
Green  Gages..............1 15@1  35
Peaches, all  yellow, stand.. 1  70
seconds........1 10@1  45
“ 
P ie...............................1 15
“ 
Ppfll*Q 
J 95
Pineapples................. i  10@1  50
Quinces..................................... 1 00
Raspberries,  extra....................1 75
red................... 1  40
Strawberries..............1 15@1  35
Whortleberries.....................  75
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay........
Beaus, Lima,  stand.............  85
“  Green  Limas 
  @1  26
“  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...  @125
“  soaked.........................    80
“  June, stand.......................1 40
“ 
“  sifted......... 1 65@1  85
“  French, extra fine...  .150
Mushrooms, extra fine........ 2  15
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden. .85@1  00 
Succotash,  standard— 90@1  40
Squash.......................................1 10
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat..  95@1  00 
Good Enough95@l  00 
BenHar  ...  95®1 00
stand br___  95@1  00
Michigan Full  Cream 1154@12 
Sap  Sago...........   .......16  @1654
CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
23
German Sweet..................  
Premium............................ 
35
Cocoa.................................  
38
Breakfast  Cocoa..............  
j
Broma................................ 
>
Rubber, 100 lumps................ 25
35
Spruce...................................30
Bulk......................................  6
Red.............................:.......... 754
Rio, fair..................... 17  @19
“  good................ 1854@20
“  prime...............  @21
“  fancy,  washed... 19  @22
“  golden.................20  @23
Santos........................ 17  @22
Mexican & Guatemala 19  @23
Peaberry....................20  @23
Java,  Interior............20  @25
“  Mandheling__26  @29
Mocha, genuine.........25  @27
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast 
ing and 15 pier  cent,  for shrink 
age. 

CHEWING  GUM.
200 

coffee—Green.

CHICORY.

CHEESE.

„   _

@ 75

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coffee s—Package.

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3 50@3
3 50@4 00

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C O F F E E   E X T R A C T .

C R A C K E R S.
“ 

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Jute 
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CLO TH ES  L IN E S .
50ft..........  
“ 
60 f t.......... 
“  1
70 ft.......... 
“ 
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80ft..........  
60 f t.......... 
“ 
72 ft-........  
“ 
CO N D EN SED  M IL K .

16®18
Lion..................................... 2454
“  in cabinets.................. 2434
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX —  2454
Durham...............................24
Thompson’s Honey  Bee— 26
Tiger.............. 24
Good  Morning....................2454
Valley City.........................  
85
Felix....................................1  10
Cotton,  40 f t..........per doz.  1  25
1  50
2  00
2  25
100
1  15
Eagle..................................   7 50
Anglo-Swiss.............6 00@ 7 60
Kenosha Butter..................  754
Seymour 
554
Butter.....................................554
“  family.........................   154
“  biscuit........................  6
Boston...................................  654
City Soda................................ 754
Soda......................................   7*4
S. Oyster ............ 
554
City Oyster, XXX..................  554
Picnic..................................... 554
Strictly  pure......................   38
Grocers’.............................. 
24
dried fruits—Domestic,
Apples, sun-dried......   5  @  554
“ 
evaporated__   @ 854
Apricots, 
Iackberries “ 
Bj
Nectarines 
Peaches 
Plums 
.28
Raspberries
In drum......................   @23
Inboxes......................  @25
d r i e d   f r u i t s —Currants.
Zante, in barrels........  @ 6
in less quantity  @ 6J

“  — 15  @16
.............. 7

d r i e d   f r u i t s —Citron.

CREA M  T A R T A R .

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554

“

1  00

dried fruits—Raisins.

F A R IN A C E O U S  GOODS.

dried  fruits—Peel.

Valencias....................  @ 834  :
Ondaras......................   @10
Sultanas...................... 1054@1034  ;
London  Layers,  Cali­
fornia.....................   2 50@2 75 \
London Layers, for’n.  @ 
Muscatels, California. 1  75@2 25 ! 
dried fruits—Prunes.
Turkey........................  454® 5 
[
Bosna..........................  554® 6
|
California...................  9  @10 
|
18 
Lemon......................... 
Orange........................  
18 
j
Farina, 100 lb. kegs..............   04 I
Hominy,  per  bbl...................3 50 j
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box__   60 j
imported.......  @ 954
Pearl  Barley..............   254® 234  |
Peas, green..................  @1  10
split.....................  @ 3 
!
Sago,  German.............  @ 654 )
6@ 7 
|
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’r i... 
Wheat,  cracked..........  @ 5 
I
Vermicelli,  Import__   @10  1
domestic...  @60 
fish—salt.
Cod, whole..................  5  @ 6 
boneless..............   754© 8
H alibut.....................  954@10 
Herring,  round, 54 bbl.. 
2 75
gibbed.............  
2  75
Holland,  bbls.. 
12 00 j
“  kegs, new  @  75 i
Scaled  ............20@  22 1
Mack,  sb’s, No. 2, 54  bbl  12 00 
12 lb k it..1  30 i 
..120
10 
Trout,  54  bbls.............4 00@4 50
10  lb.  kits................  60 i
White,  No. 1, 54 bbls...........5 75 1
121b. kits.......100]
10 lb. kits.......  80 I
Family,  54  bbls........2 50
kits................  50 ]

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G U N   P O W D E R .

JE L L IE S .

LIC O R IC E .

M A TCH ES.

herbs.

L A M P W IC K S.

K egs.................................... 5 25
Half  kegs............................ 2 88
Sage......................................   9
Hops..................................... 14
E. J. Mason & Co.’s  goods..  6 
Chicago  goods.....................  4
No. 0....................................  
30
40
No. 1..................................... 
No. 2....................................   50
Pure......................................   30
Calabria................................   25
Sicily.....................................  18
No. 9  sulphur.......................2 00
Anchor parlor...................... 1  '0
No. 2 home.......................... 1  10
Export  parlor..................... 4 00
M O LASSES.
Black  Strap.............  
20
Cuba Baking.....................24@25
Porto  Rico........................ 30@35
New Orleans, good............24@28
choice........ 30@35
fancy..........42@45

One-half barrels, 3c extra 

R O L L E D   O A TS.

oatmeal:'
Muscatine, Barrels '. ...........5  75
Half barrels...... 3 00
Cases........2  15@2 25
Muscatine, Barrels__   @5  75
Half bbls..  @3 00
Cases........2 15@2 25
Michigan  Test.....................  954
Water White........................ 10J4
Medium...................... 5 50@5 95
“ 
54 b b l...................  3 40
Small, bbl............................. 6 75
“  54  b b l........................ 3 85

P IC K L E S .

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SHOE  POLISH.

Jettine, 1 doz. in  box............. 75
Boxes......................... 
Kegs, English........................434

SODA.

 

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SUN CURED.

BASKET  FIRED.

F a ir...............................14 @16
Good..............................18 @22
Choice.....................  ..24  @29 ,
Choicest........................ 32 @38
F a ir...............................14 @15
Good............................. 16 @20
Choice............................24 @28
Choicest........................ 30 @33
F a ir................................  @20
Choice.............................  @25
Choicest..........................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  ©40
Common to  fair........... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest___ 50 @65
Choicest fancy.............75 @85
Common to  fair.......20  @35
Superior to fine.............40 @50
Common to  fair............18 @26
Superior to  fine........... 30  @40
Common to fair........... 25  @30
Superior to  fine........... 30 @50
Fine to choicest........... 55  @65

YOUNG HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

imperial.

OOLONG.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

TOBACCOS—Plug.

F a ir.............................. 25  @30
Choice........................... 30  @35
Best...............................55  @65
Tea  Dust......................  8  @10
|  S. W. Venable & Co.’s Brands.
: Nimrod, 4x12 and  2x12........... 37
i  Reception, 22-5x12,16 oz........ 36
Vinco, 1x6,454 to  fl>................30
:  Big 5 Center, 3x12,  12 oz........ 34
Wheel, 5 to  fi>..........................37
i Trinket, 3x9,  9 oz................... 25
I Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s Brands.
i  Something Good.....................38
Double Pedro..........................38
Peach  Pie................................38
Wedding  Cake, blk................ 38
“Tobacco” ...............................38

tobaccos—Fine Cut.

“ 
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D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands.

tobaccos—Smoking.

Hiawatha...................  
62
37
Sweet  Cuba................  
Our Leader...........   .. 
35
Our  Leader........................ 16
Hector..................................17
Plow Boy, 2  oz..................... 32
4 oz.....................31
15 oz.....................32
TRADESMAN credit coupons.
* 2, per hundred................2 50
................ 3 00
* 5,  “ 
*10,  “ 
................ 4 00
*20,  “ 
................ 5 00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts:
200 or over.............  5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 
40 gr......................................   7
50 gr......................................   9

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

10 
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*1 for barrel

MISCELLANEOUS.

PAPER.

Cocoa Shells,  bulk...............  5
P A P E R  & WOODEN W ARE 
Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol­
lows:
Straw ..................................... 160
“  Light  Weight...............200
Sugar..................................... 180
Hardware...............................254
Bakers....................................254
Dry  Goods............................. 6
Jute  Manilla..........................8
Red  Express  No. 
1....  5
No. 
TWINES.

“ 

2.4

P IP E S .

P R E S E R V E S .

Clay, No.  216............................. 1 75
“  T. D. full count...........   75
Cob, NO.  3............................. 1  25
E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods..  8
Carolina bead........................654
“  No. 1........................534
“  No. 2.................554®
“  No. 3........................5

R IC E .

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SA LT

“ 
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SO A P.

S E E D S .

SNUFF.

splint 

FLOUR.

SA L E R A T U S.

54 bu  “ 

WOODENWABE.

“   
...- ........... 

Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands.

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

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“ willow cl’tbs, No.l  5 75
“ 
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“ 

Jap an .............................554@654
Common Fine per bbl..........  80
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks.......  27
28 pocket....................................1 90
60 
.............................. 2 00
2  15
100 
 
Ashton bu. bags..................  75
Higgins  “ 
75
W arsaw“  “ 
  35
..................  20

DeLaud’s,  pure.....................5
Church’s, Cap  Sheaf.............5
Dwight’s ................................5
Taylor’s ..................................5
Our Leader..........................  434
Mixed bird.............................454
Caraway........... ....................  9
Canary................................... 354
Hemp....................................4
Anise.....................................  8
R ape.....................................*¿54
Mustard......................   .....  154
Scotch, in  bladders............. 37
Maccaboy, in jars................ 35
French Rappee, in Jars.......43

48 Cotton........................... :  22
Cotton, No. 2........................ 20
“  3.........................18
Sea  Island, assorted..........40
No. 5 Hem p.......................... 16
No. 8 B.................................. 17
Wool.....................................  8
Tubs, No. 1...........................  7 00
“  No. 2...........................  6 00
“  No. 3............................5 00
1  60
Pails, No. 1,  two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  1  75
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes__  
60
Bowls, 11 inch.... ................   1 00
13  “ 
......................  1 25
15  “ 
.......................2 00
17  “ 
......................  2 75
assorted, 17s and  17s  2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s 2 75
40
bushel...................  1 50
“  with covers  1  90
“  No.2 (L25
“ 
“  No.3 ^25
“ 
“  No.l  3 50
“ 
“  No.2 4 25
“ 
“  No.3 5 00
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
WHEAT.
W hite.......................... 
78
Red............................. 
78
All wheat bought  on 60 lb. test.
Straight, in sacks...............   4 00
Superior.....................................3 30
“  barrels............  4  20
Queen  Anne.............................3 85
Patent  “  sacks................  5 00
German  Family..................
“  barrels............  5  20
Mottled  German...................... 3 00
Old German..............................2 70
Bolted................................  1  00
U. S. Big  Bargain...........— 2 00
Granulated........................  1  10
Frost, Floater........................... 3 75
Cocoa  Castile  .....................3 00
Bran....................................  11 00
Cocoa Castile, Fancy...........3 36
Ships...................................  11 50
Happy Family,  75.................2  95 Screenings.......................   11  00
Ola Country, 80.....................3  30 Middlings.........................  13 00
Una, 100.................. 
3  65 i Mixed Feed........................13  50
Coarse meal......................   13  50
Bouncer, 100.........................3  15
Small  lots..........................  33
Allspice................................10
Car 
“  ..........................  30
Cassia, China In mats............8
Batavia in bund— 11
Small  lots............................. 28
Saigon in rolls.........40
Car 
“  ............................. 26
Cloves,  Amboyna................ 26
Zanzibar..................20
N o .l..................................   @40
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
NO. 1...................................  1  10
“  No.  1........................ 75
No. 2..................................   1  05
“  No.  2........................ 65
Pepper, Singapore, black — 18 
No. 1...................................  10  00
“ 
“  w hite...  .26
No. 2......................... 
9  00
shot.......................... 20
“ 
spices—Ground—In Bulk.
HIDES, PELTS  and  FURS.
Allspice................................15
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 
Cassia,  Batavia...................20
lows:
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon..................... 42
Green...........................   4 @  454
Cloves,  Amboyna................32
Part Cured..................  @ 4
“  Zanzibar.................. 25
Full 
4  @454
Ginger, African...................1254
Heavy  steers, extra...
“  Cochin..................... 15
Dry..............................   5  @6
Jam aica.................. 18
“ 
Dry  Kips  ...................   5  @ 6
Mace  Batavia......................90
Calfskins,  green.......3  @ 4
Mustard,  English................22
cured.......  454®  5
“ 
“  and Trie..25
Deacon skins................ 10 @20
“  Trieste......................87
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................80
Pepper, Singapore, black— 21
“ 
“  white........30
“  Cayenne...................25

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

54 off for No. 2.

spices—Whole.

MILLSTUFFS.

MEAL.

BARLEY.

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FELTS.

CORN.

“ 
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OAT8.

HAY.

RYE.

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FURS.

SUGARS.

8  I

@25
@28

@6.69 ! 
@6.69 i 

@ 654 © 6  I@ 534

Shearlings....................10
Estimated wool, per B> 20
Cut  Loaf.....................
Mink, dark...................   25@ 75
Cubes.........................
pale....................  25@ 50
Powdered...................
Raccoon........................   40@ 80
Standard  Granulated.
Skunk...........................   80® 
Fine..............
Muskrat........................   15@ 20
Confectioners’ A........
Fox, red............................ 1  25@1 50
White Extra  C...........
“  cross.........................2 00@5 00
Extra  C......................
“  grey.......................  40@ 70
C .................................   5J4@  554
I Badger ....'...................   75@1 00
Yellow........................  @ 5
Cat, wild.......................  50@ 75
Fisher...............................4 00@5 00
Kegs....................................  134
Lynx.................................3 00@4 00
Granulated,  boxes..............  2
Martin,  dark....................1  25@3 00
Kitcben, 3 doz. in box........  2 B0 ! Otter,  dark........................ 6 00@8 00
Hand, 
  2  50 Wolf...................................2 00@3 00

_______ 
SAFOLIO.
“ 
! Bear......................... 15 00@20 00
,, 
„ ^  i Beaver........................2 oO@6 oO
Silver ThreaU, 15 gallons... .2 90  Oppossum......................  15® 20
“  — 4 45  Deerskins, per lb........   15@  25
I  Above prices  for No. 1 skins

pale  &  yellow  60@  75

3  “ 
 
sauerkraut. 

syrups. 

SAL  SODA.

30 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Com, barrels.....................  ©271 oniy.
one-balf  barrels__   @89
Pure  Sugar, bbl................ 28@36
half barrel__ 30@38
“ 

SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps..............  
Sugar Creams............. 
Frosted  Creams.......... 
Graham  Crackers......  
Oatmeal  Crackers......  

WOOL.

W ashed............................. 25@30
Unwashed.........................12@22
Tallow........................  3  @ 3*£
Grease  butter.............3  @  5
Switches....................   154@ 2
Ginseng.......................2 00@2 50

MISCELLANEOUS.

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854
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C U R E ,

“La  Grippe"

A  sure  cure  for  the 
is 
Russian  M alady 
selling  like  Hot Cakes.

Order a sample dozen  of  yonr  jobber. 
Price $8 per doz.  Or sent prepaid to any 
part of the U. S. on receipt of  $1  or  six 
for $5.
“ La  Grippe”  Medicine  Co.,

252  Grandville  At«.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

-  MICH.

Begin the  New  Year  R ig h t!
By using the “Com plete  Business  R egister,” 
the best arranged  book  for  keeping a record of 
Daily, Weekly and Monthly Sales, Expenditures, 
etc.  Call at “The Tradesman’’ office and inspect 
the books.
E.  A.  STOWE  &  BRO.,  Grand Rapids.

WHOLESALE

THE  DETROIT  NEWS  COMPANY,
STATIONERY,  FANCY  GOODS, 
BOOKS, 
The larg est and m ost com plete line of  above  goods in 
th e State, a t reasonable  prices.  Dealers a re invited to 
call.  Send fo r o a r circulars and price lists.
Corner Larned  and  Wayne  Sts.,  Detroit.

OUR  HOLIDAY  LINE  IS  NOW  COMPLETE. 

PERIODICALS.

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DETROIT,  MICH.

500,000  TO  INVEST IN  BONDS 

Issued by cities, counties, towns  and school dis­
tricts of Michigan.  Officers of these municipali­
ties  about  to  isFue  bonds  will  find  it to their 
advantage to apply to this  bank.  Blank  bonds 
and  blanks  for  proceedings  supplied  without 
charge.  All communications ana inquiries will 
have prompt attention.

S. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer.

January, 1890. 

SUSPENDED!

he is neither  liable to be overinsured  or 
likely to be caught with  insufficient pro­
tection.
A drawback to quick  and  satisfactory 
adjustments is  often  found  in  the  fact 
that  the  majority  believe  that  an  in­
surance  company  is  formed  to  collect 
premiums  and  then  shirk out of  losses. 
When many start with  this  assumption, 
is  it  strange  is  insurance  adjusters  do 
sometimes  attempt  to get even ?  Insur­
ance is like every other  business, it con­
tains all kinds.
A spirit of  fairness and honor in every 
trade is usually met more than half  way, 
and  the  disposition  to  secure  what  is 
right  and  fair  goes  a  long way toward 
securing generous treatment.
Above all,  avoid the  fault of  begrudg­
ing the amounts paid  out  for  insurance 
protection.  Every serious  fire  gives the 
companies the worst of  it.
Carry  a  good  line  of  insurance  and 
this  means  ease to  yourself,  confidence 
on  the  part  of  your  creditors, and also 
leaves you in case of  loss  money in hand 
to replenish a stock without any vain re­
grets.
For your  own  defense,  look  carefully 
after  your premises.  A little care of the 
waste  paper,  shavings  and  rags,  may 
save  destruction;  a  little  attention to a 
clesely and compactly kept  stock,  every-

thing  in  its  place,  may  be  an  aid  to 
saving  property, when there is plenty of 
warning.
Finally, take  care of  valuable  papers, 
especially  those  memoranda  showing 
amounts  on  hand  at any one time.  Ex­
amine  your  papers  and 
judge  what 
would be  wanted,  if  gone.  Many a man 
has been burned out to learn that certain 
papers and books habitually strewn care­
lessly  about  the  counters  were  worth 
something. 
It  is  better  to  have  a safe 
large  enough  to  put  in  one  paper  too 
many than to mourn  for  some  valuable 
item which would  not go in. 
Is this not 
true ?

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5:30 p m
Mixed 
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Day  Express................ ...................... 10:55 a m   10:00 a m
*Atlantic &  Pacific Express.............. 10:45 p m  
6:00 a  m
New Y ork Express................................5:40 p m  
1:35 p m

tra in s to  and from  Detroit.
Express to  and  from   Detroit.

•Daily.
All o th er dally except Sunday.
Sleeping  cars  ru n   on  A tlantic  and  Pacific  Express 
P a rlo r  cars ru n   on  Day  Express  an d   G rand Rapids 
FRED M. B r ig g s.  Gen’l Agent. 85 Monroe St.
G. S. Hawkins, Ticket A gent, Union  Depot.
Geo. W. Mu n so n, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. 
O. W. R u g g l e s, G. P.  &  T. Agent., Chicago.

A dvanced—Gum Opium, Gum Opium (po), Jalap  Root,  Corrosive  Sublimate,  Calomel,  Red  Pre- 

Aceticum...................
Benzoicum  German..
.....................
Boraeie 
Carbolicum................
Citrieum.....................
Hydrochlor................
Nitrocum 
..................
Oxalicum...................
P h o s p h o riu m   dii........
Salicylicum............... 1
Sulphuricum..............
Tannicum.................. 1
T a r ta r ic u m .......................

AM M ONIA.

“ 

Aqua, 16  deg................. 
3®  ®
18  deg.................  
4®  g
Carbonas  .....................   11®
Chloridum...................   I2® 14

a n i l i n e .

Black................................2 00®2 25
Brown...........................   80@1
Red 
Yellow.............................2 SO®3 00

..........................  45® 50

B A CCA E.

Cubeae (po. 1  60...............1 85®2 00
™
Juniperus...................  
Xanthoxylum...............  25® 30

b a l s a m u m .

Copaiba........................  70® 73
Peru.............................  ®1 30
Terabin, Canada  ........  45® 50
Tolutan........................   45® 50

“ 

“ 

8®   10 
80@1  00 
30
40®  45 
50®  55 
3®  5
10®   12 
10®  12 
20
46@1  SO 
1VÍ@  5 
40@1  60 
40®  43

20®  25 
25®  30 
15®  20 
@  25 
20®  50 
10©, 12 
16®  18
®  45 
15®  20 
15®  20 
00@2 20 
18®  20 
30®  35 
©  35 
15®  18 
75@1 00 
©1  75 
75©1  35 
48®  53 
@  20 
40®  45 
60@  65 
®  40 
©  20 
10®   12
®   35 
@  25 
15®  20 
10®  15 
22®  25

Garb.............................  12@  15
Chlorate,  (po. 18)........  16®  18
Cyanide......................   50@  55
Iodide..........................2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  33@  3f 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  ®  15
Potass  Nitras, opt----- 
8@  10
Potass Nitras..............  
7@  9
Prussiate.....................  25@  28
Sulphate  po................  15®  18

Wholesale Price  Current»
cipitate, White Precipitate, Morphia.  Declined—Turpentine._______________
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,  (V4S
11;  Vis,  12)..............   @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
@1  75 
p o .............................
Capsici  Fructus, a f...
@  18 
@  16 
“  V a v
“ 
@  14 
Caryophyllus,  (po.  28)
23®  25 
Carmine,  No. 40..........
@3 75 
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......
50®  55 
Cera Flava.................   28®
28®  30 
Coccus........................  @
40 
Cassia Fructus...........  @
15 
Centraria.....................  ©
10 
Cetaceum...................   @
35
Chloroform................  50®  55
squlbbs..  @1  00
Chloral Hyd Crst.........1  50@1 75
Chondrus...................   20®  25
Cinchonidine, P.  &  W  15®  20
German 
4® 10
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  ........................
@ 60
Creasotum.................
@ 50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........
@ 2
“  prep...................
5® 5
“  precip................
8® 10
_
“  Rubra................  
@ 8
Crocus........................  35®
35® 38
Cudbear.............
® 24
_
Cupri Sulph......  
8® 9
D extrine.....................  10@
10® 12
Ether Sulph.............
68® 70
Emery,  all  numbers
® 8
@ 6
po................
„   “ 
Ergota,  (po.)  45......
40® 45
Flake  White...........
12® 15
G alla........................
@ 23
Gambier...................
7V4®  3V4
_
Gelatin,  Cooper......  
@ 90
“ 
French...........  40®
40® 
60
Glassware  flint,  75  & 10 per 
10 per
cent, by box 70 less
Glue,  Brown........... 
_
9® 15
“  White................  13®
13® 25
Glycerina..........
22® 25
_
Grana Paradis!.. 
@ 15
Humulus.....................  25®
25® 40
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..
@ 95
“  C or__
@ 85
Ox Rubrum
@1  05 
Ammoniati..
@1  15 
45®  55 
Unguentum.
Hydrargyrum............. 
_
■  80
Ichthyobolla,  Am.......1  25@1  50
Indigo.........................   75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl............3 75@3 85
Iodoform.....................  @4 70
Lupulin......................   85©1  00
Lycopodium..............   55@  60
M acis.........................   80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod.................   @  27
Liquor Potass Arsinitis  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
134)...........................  
2®  3
Mannia,  S. F ..............   45@  50
Morphia,  S.  P. & W .. .2 85©3  10 
C. C o.............................2 85@3 10

Aconitum...................
Althae..........................
A n c h u s a ........................
Arum,  po.....................
Calamus.......................
Gentiana,  (po. 15).......
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
Hellebore,  Ala,  po —
Inula,  po.....................
Ipecac,  po...................2
Iris  plox (po. 20@22)..
Jalapa,  p r...................
Maranta,  Vis..............
Podophyllum, po........
Rhei.............................
cut......................
Spigélia......................
pigelia
Sanguinaria,  (po  25)..
Serpentaria..................
Senega  ........................
Similax, Officinalis,  H 
M
Scillae, (po. 35)...........
Symplocarpus,  Fceti-
dus,  po....................
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)
German...
Zingiber a ...................
Zingiber  j ..............
SE M E N .
..  @ 15
Anisum,  (po.  20).. 
Apium  (graveleons)..  10®  12
Bird, Is....................  
4®  6
Carui, (po. 18)............. 
8®  12
Cardamon.........................1  00@1 25
Corlandrum................  10®  12
Cannabis Sativa..........3V4@ 
4
Cydonium...................   75@1  00
Chenopodium  ...........  10®  12
Dipterix Odorate.........1  75@1  85
Foeniculum................  @  15
Foenugreek,  po.......... 
6®  8
L in i.............................4  ®  4V4
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 4  ) ...  4V4@ 4)1
Lobelia........................  35®  40
Pharlaris Canarian—   3V£@ 4V4
R apa........................... 
6®  7
Sinapis,  Albu............. 
8®  9
Nigra...........  11®  12

Frumenti, W., D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R .......1  75@2 00
 
1  10@1  50
Juniperis  Co. O. T — 1  75@1  75
“ 
...........1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  E .........1  75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto..................... 1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba........................ 1  25@2 00

@  15 
@3 50 
®  80 
®  50 
@  15 
1V4®  2 
©  7

24®  25 
33®  35 
11©   12 
13®  14 
14®  15 
16®  I7

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□ nil oil in  9  is clean  and  easy  to  use,  as  full 
rU llo llllid   directions accompany  each  bottle
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rU llo llllid   market.  Try it, and make your old 
furniture look fresh and new.
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Drugs 0tMedicin.es»

State  Board of Pharmacy.

One Y ear—O ttm ar Eberb&ch, Ann Arbor.
Two Year»—Geo. McDonald, Kalam azoo.
Three Year»—Stanley E. P ark ill, Owosso.
F o u r  Year»—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Five Years—Jam es Vernor, D etroit.
President—Jacob  Jesson, M uskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
T reasurer—Geo.  McDonald, Kalamazoo.
*  M eetings du rin g   1890—G rand  Rapids, March 4 and 5; 
8 tar Island, Ju ly  l and  2;  M arquette,  Aug.  13  and 14; 
Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6.________ ______________________ _

Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Ass’n.

P resident—F ran k  Inglis,  Detroit.
F irst Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, L ansing.
Sec’d Vice-President—H enry K ephart, Berrien Springs 
T hird Vice-President—Jas. V ernor, Detroit.
Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
T reasurer—W m D upont, Detroit.
Ezecstive Com m ittee—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan;  E. T. 
Webb, Jackson;  D. E. P rall,  E ast Saginaw ;  Geo. Mc­
Donald, K alam azoo;  J. J. Crowley. D etroit.
Next Meeting—At  Saginaw , b eginning th ird  Tuesday 

of Septem ber,  1898._____________ ________________

G r a n d   R a p i d s   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   8 o c ie ty . 
P resident. J. W. H ayw ard,  S ecretary, F ran k  H. Escott.
ids Drug Clerks’ Association. 
. Kipp;  Secretary, 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  

Grand Rap 
P resident, F. D.

President, 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 t io n . 

President, C. S. Koon;  Secretary, J. W. H oyt.

The  Pharmacopoeia  o f 1890.

The coming  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  of 
1890 is looked forward to with  much  in­
terest by pharmacists,  and  doubtless  by 
physicians, as well. 
Its  advent  is like 
the inauguration of  a new ruler, and  the 
questions which  are  rife  concerning its 
publication are :  In what manner will  it 
change  established  customs, issue  new 
edicts,  reward 
those  who  are  found 
worthy, and  discard  those  things which, 
from  past  experience,  are  found  to  be 
worthless and  unsatisfactory ?
A  large  power  is  vested  in  the  com­
mittee  on  the  compilation  to  influence 
pharmacy for the better or worse.  How­
ever,  when  taking into consideration the 
advance  medicine  and  pharmacy  have 
made  during the past ten  years,  we nat­
urally look  for  many improvements  in 
this new issue.
Among  the  several  subjects  that  will 
be treated, probably not  one will receive 
more careful attention  than  that  of  the 
manufacture of fluid  extracts.  Hereto­
fore, the Pharmacopoeia has sought to  be 
wide and  liberal  in  its  construction  of 
what a  fluid  extract  should  be, but  un­
fortunately  the  conditions  prescribed 
have  been  such  as  to  permit  the  un­
scrupulous  to  evade  their  intent,  and 
thus defeat their object.  That a gramme 
of crude drug  of  good  quality, properly 
manipulated,  should  produce  a  cubic 
centimetre of fluid extract is a good rule, 
but when  one  considers  the variability 
of crude drugs and the consequent varia­
bility of  fluid extracts  produced  there­
from,  one cannot but hope  that  the  new 
Pharmacopoeia will recognize  a  class  of 
fluids 
to  be  standardized  upon  some 
safer  and  surer  foundation, by which a 
preparation must be produced which may 
be used with some confidence in  its  defi­
nite therapeutic value.
Individuals and manufacturing  houses 
have, in a measure, recognized the neces­
sity for such a standardization,  and  have 
in the  past, in various ways, endeavored 
to meet the requirements of  the  medical 
profession.  The most  notable  advance 
made in this direction  has  been  by the 
introduction, in 1883, of “normal liquids” 
—standardized  fluids.  The  data  upon 
which  these  standards  are  based  were 
carefully  compiled  from  numerous  ex­
periments  previously made  during many 
years  in  the  laboratory of  the  house in­
troducing  them, whose  ample  facilities 
and wide experience gave them abundant 
opportunities for thus  accurately found­
ing their work.  Their  action, therefore, 
being the inception of standardized fluids, 
it must be natural  to  suppose  that  the 
Pharmacopceial committee will  carefully 
consider the valuable  information which 
has already been contributed by this well- 
known  house, whose  assayed  products, 
especially their  “Normal Liquids,” have 
become a desideratum in  the  practice  of 
medicine.  Availing  themselves of  this 
information, they will be quite willing,to 
award to these enterprising and scientific 
pharmacists,  in  return  for  the  knowl­
edge they may receive on the subject,  the 
full meed  of  praise for  their  advance  in 
scientific  pharmacy,  dating  almost  back 
to the issue of the Pharmacopoeia in 1880.
As the  time  approaches when  this  re­
vision  is  likely  to 
take  place  (and 
throughout  the  mind  of  thinking men 
the standardization  of  fluid  extracts  is 
already an  accepted  fact),  there will, no 
doubt, be  many competitors  for  similar 
honors, who',  forcing  themselves  to  the 
notice  of  the  committee, may  claim, by 
reason of a mushroom-like growth on the 
field of this  new departure, equal  recog­
nition for scientific work.
Therefore, it will  be necessary,  on  the 
part of this body, to carefully investigate 
the claims for scientic labors  in  this  di­
rection, and  when  awarding  the  credit 
for  such  work, to  see  that  they do  not 
place the laurels upon the wrong brow.
Unsupported  and  disinterested  scien­
tific  labor, no matter from what  source, 
should  always  be welcomed with  praise 
and endorsement  of  scientific  men, and 
we sincerely trust that  the  efforts  made 
in this  direction  by those  deserving  it 
will receive  their  full  conpensation  at 
the hands of the scientific body now com­
piling our new Pharmacopoeia.

The  R elative  V alue  o f  M alt  E xtracts.
Malt extracts, if intelligently prepared, 
possess  both a nutritive  and a digestive 
value, the former  depending  upon  such 
predigested  starch  as  may  be  present, 
while  the  latter  depends  upon the veg­
etable  diastase.  Obviously, it  is impos­
sible  for  manufacturers  to  attain  more 
than a certain fixed  nutritive  value, pro­
viding the consistency of  all the extracts 
be the same. 
In  other  words, one  may 
pretty accurately judge of the nourishing 
value  of  malt  extract  —  barring,  of 
course, adulterations—by the appearance 
of  the  product. 
If  one sample contains 
50 per cent, of  pre-digested starch, while 
another  sample  contains  but  28,  the 
former  will  be  twice  as  thick  as  the 
latter.
Digestive activity is quite another mat­
ter,  and  here  the measure of  each man­
ufacturer’s success depends entirely upon 
the skill and  knowledge  brought to bear 
in  the  malting of  the  grain, its  extrac­
tion,  and  the  final  treatment  of  the re­
sulting product.
Diatase,  like  pepsin, has  never  been 
completely isolated,  but  one  may safely 
assume  that  very little of  the  pure fer­
ment by actual weight  is  contained  in a 
pint  of  even  the  best  malt  extract.

Therefore, the  possibilities in this direc­
tion are unlimited.
By actual  analysis, one  preparation is 
found to possess between two  and  three 
times  the  amylolytic value of  any other 
product in the market;  and  as  the  ther­
apeutic  merit  really depends upon what; 
diastase is present, the  relative  value of j 
this extract  becomes  patent.  This may i 
be  illustrated  thusly:  If  one product is j 
twice as active as  another,  and it is mar­
keted  at  the  same  price, it  becomes  a 
matter  of  actual  economy  to  prescribe 
the former product, inasmuch as the phy- j 
sician  may legitimately expect to realize j 
the  same  effect  from  one-half  the dose •. 
required  of  the  latter. 
If  this  relative 
difference  in  commercial  value is not at j 
once  recognized, it  may  be  emphasized j 
by stating that if  the physician will take 
one  pound  of  a  strong  extract  at,  say 
$1.25  and  dilute it with a pound of  glu­
cose at six cents—which is nothing  more | 
than  pre-digested  starch—two  pounds 
will  result, at a cost of  $1.31,  which  are 
fully as efficient and fully as nutritive as 
two pounds of a weaker art a cost of $2.50. 
So much for  the  superiority of  malt ex- \ 
tracts  as  considered  from a commercial 
standpoint.
In  physical  appearance,  one  may  be 
clearer than another preparation;  it may 
be lighter in color,  and at the  same  time 
far more palatable.  These  are consider­
ations  which  should  carry with  them a 
great deal of  weight.  One  product may 
be  absolutely  permanent,  not  only  in 
digestive  activity, but  also  in  its  free­
dom from fermentative changes.  Others 
will grow  dark  in  time,  and  gradually 
lose their starch-digesting power.

H ow   Can  th e  N ational  F orm ulary  be
M ade  M ost  U seful  to  the  Pharm a­
cist?
E. F. A llen before M innesota Pharm . Ass’n.
This is certainly a subject of  much  in­
terest  to  all of  us.  Our  shelves  are be 
coming more  and  more  overloaded with 
elixirs,  syrups,  solutions, etc.,  of  a mul­
titude  of  manufacturers, to  say nothing 
of  the  vast  and  increasing  number  of 
what I will  designate as “semi-patents.” 
These  “semi-patents”  differ  from  the 
regular line of  patent  medicines  chiefly 
in one particular;  they are  advertised to 
the  physician  instead  of  to  the  public 
generally.  We do  not  intend to discuss 
the  merits  or  demerits of  this  class  of 
preparations,  but rather a way to get rid 
of  them.  The National Formulary seems 
to  present a way,  and  if  properly used 
will no doubt  remedy this evil to a great 
extent.
The method we have tried  in  our bus­
iness, and with  which we have had some 
success  already,  is the one I will  recom­
mend. 
It is  similar  to  the  way the dif­
ferent  manufacturers  of  the  goods  we 
complain  of  introduce  theirs.  As  they 
have  had  such  wonderful  success,  we 
concluded to try our luck with  the  same 
process. 
It  is  as  follows:  First  make 
up a small  quantity  of  each  of  several 
preparations, the  ones  most  called  for, 
and take the trouble to show them to  the 
physicians with whom you are acquainted 
and  others,  also,  if  you  wish,  giving 
them  the exact  formulae,  and  not  being 
too  modest  to  inform  them of  the “su­
perior  merits”  of  these  preparations; 
how you know they contain exactly what 
they are  represented to contain, nothing 
less and nothing more;  that the only way 
to  be  positive ol  this  is to make  them; 
ask  them to specify “N. F.”  when want­
ing  any  of  these  preparations,  and  to 
give  them  a  fair  trial. 
I  believe,  and 
have partly confirmed  this  belief  by ex­
perience,  that the  physician  whose bus­
iness  is  worth  courting  will  not  only 
commend  the  enterprise  displayed,  but 
will  become  interested  in  the  prepara­
tions and want to try more  of  them.  At 
the same  time, it tends to strengthen the 
confidence of the physician in the ability 
of  the pharmacist, and  this  is  certainly 
of  great benefit to the pharmacist.
I would further  recommend that  after 
getting the physicians interested in these 
preparations, they be presented  with  an 
epitome  of 
the  Formulary,  which  is 
much better for  their use than a  copy of 
the  book  itself.  Either  get  up  such a 
book or  buy some of  a house  that  does, 
and  distribute  them  liberally.  A  few 
copies given out in this way will do more 
good  than  thousands  presented to  phy­
sicians  without  first  having  interested 
them  somewhat in the  preparations. 
It 
would  certainly  be a  good  plan  to  get 
our  State  Medical  Society,  as  well  as 
local  medical  societies,  to  pass  resolu­
tions favoring the use of the preparations 
of  the National Formulary by their mem­
bers;  but  these  resolutions will amount 
to very little  unless  we, as pharmacists, 
make  some  effort to induce  them to use 
them.
As  the  condition of  affairs as  regards 
these “semi-patents” and  other prepara­
tions  of  which  we  complain  so  much 
(and which are, sure enough, becoming a 
burden), has been brought  about largely 
by the  inactivity of  the  pharmacists, it 
will necessarily require  some activity on 
their part to  change  this  condition, but 
by the proper use of  this  book  and plan 
we may succeed.

The D rug  M arket.

Gum  opium  has  advanced  and  will 
likely be  still higher.  Morphia has  ad­
vanced.  Quinine is higher.  Corrosive 
sublimate, calomel  and  red  precipitate 
have  advanced.  Malaga  olive  oil  is 
tending upward. 
Jalap  root  is higher. 
Gum camphor has advanced.  Turpentine 
is lower.

A   N ew   Trust.

Minnie—I  wish I were a small  orange 
dealer.
John—Why  should  a  lovely  orange 
blossom desire to become a mere plebeian 
trader ?
Minnie—Because  I  hear  of  a  trust 
which is to be formed  with  the  avowed 
intention of  squeezing the small dealers.

John constituted himself  a trust.

The  N ew   German  Pharmacopoeia.
It is rumored  that  antifebrin,  antipy­
rin, phenacetm and  sulphonal have been 
incorported in the  new German Pharma­
copoeia which  will  shortly appear;  but 
that lanolin, thiol and ichthyol have been 
rejected.

The P.  &  B. cough  drops  give  great 

satisfaction.

Protection 

Sensible  S u ggestion s  Concerning  Fire 

Insurance.
From  th e  B oot and Shoe R ecorder.
that  protects  is  the  one 
thing needed for safety and  peace.  No 
protection is more  productive of  ease  of 
mind to the hard-working and care-taking 
merchant than  that  afforded  by his fire 
insurance policies.
The successful merchant  pays  his  in­
surance tax cheerfully, with the  hope  in 
his heart that  he  may never  be  obliged 
to draw its  benefits.
That one’s  goods  should  be  properly 
protected by good and  sufficient amounts 
against loss  by fire  is  theoretically  ad­
mitted by all.  Yet practically there  are 
many in the  community who  carelessly, 
or for the sake of  economy, run  the risk 
of  loss  for  themselves,  thinking  that 
others  may  suffer  from  fire,  but  they 
themselves are  almost  sure  to  go “scot 
free.”
“To lock the barn  after  the  horse  is 
stolen,” is a  characteristic  habit  almost 
So we  find 
universal among  mankind. 
to-day  many  and  various  wise  resolu­
tions and plans for the  better  protection 
of  property  holders, the  half  of which 
ultimately carried into effect would prove 
a lasting boon to the public.
“That it is  the  unexpected  that  hap-1 
pens”  is the experience of all.  Accident 
is  the hardest element to guard  against, 
and its uncertainties and misfortunes no­
where  reign  more supreme than  in  the 
realm of fire devastation.
As  its  causes  and  disastrous  results 
are,  in  the  large  majority of  cases,  un­
mistakably beyond the  loser’s control,  it 
is unquestionably the  duty of  the  care­
less  business  man  to  protect  himself 
against loss from that which is  so  often 
brought about  through  another’s  fault, 
and unavoidable on the part of  the  suf­
ferer.  One’s  duty to  himself,  to those 
dependent upon him, and to the creditors 
or parties from whom  his  stock  is  pur- j 
chased should lead  to care on this point.
Duty  carefully followed  also  in  this 
case brings with  it  as  reward  for  the 
time being ease and  relief from the anx­
iety which is a constant  companion with 
the lightly-insured  merchant, and which 
becomes to him a heavy burden as  an ac­
companiment to every stroke  of  the  fire 
alarm bell, unless it is  ascertained to  be 
away from his own locality.
Said a party recently after  paying  for 
an insurance on his household furniture: 
“There, now,  a man with a  policy  of  in­
surance  in  a  good  company can  sleep 
better, and will not be  quite so liable  to 
the temptation of risking  his life for  the 
salvation of a ten-eent tin  dipper.”
So in more cases than  one the  sense of 
security  and  additional  ease  of  mind 
is worth half  the premium.  Those  ig­
norant by experience of  loss  by fire  are 
apt to groan  at  heavy premiums  at  the 
time they are paid.
One fact, however, seems always  to be 
forgotten, i. e., that all the money that is 
made is  made  on  the  premiums  that 
never mean a loss.  A  fire  means  loss 
not only to the  insured  but  to  the  com­
pany, and any loss must be a very trivial 
one that does not  completely swallow up 
the  paltry premium, not  only  for  one 
year, but for several even.
Lack of  experience is a  drawback  to 
success in any business or in  the  settle­
ment of  any difficulty.  Yet  there  are 
situations where  experience would be  of 
advantage to any party, but  yet  the get­
ting of experience by practical  trial  is  a 
lesson which none desire to learn.
This is  characteristic  in  an  especial 
manner of  fire  losses.  To  know what 
best to  do under  the  circumstances, es­
pecially in  the  case  of  a  total  loss, is 
something which  any  party has  learned 
well after they have  suffered, but is also 
one of  those  lessons well  learned,  from 
which they have  no  desire  to  reap any 
further  practical 
from  their 
In  other  words,  once  is 
knowledge. 
enough,  and the man who pays insurance 
all his life and never  draws  a benefit  is 
the best off,  as far as his  pocket  is  con­
cerned.
The question  of  rates  is  a vexed and 
disputed one  between  insured  and 
in­
surer.  To say that the  insured  almost 
invariably thinks his rate is  too  high, is 
to state a fact the truth  of which can  be 
satisfactorily  demonstrated  in  a  short 
time by any one who will make  the  tour 
of his acquaintances and try them on the 
subject.  His  own  particular  rate  is a 
tender  subject  to  every man who  gets 
insured.  He never insures for himself, 
but always against  his  neighbor’s care­
lessness.  That fires occur is not strange, 
because everybody else is careless.
The average  man  never  expects a fire 
on his own premises  and  seldom  makes 
In addition,  he 
any preparation  for  it. 
is  surprised  that  his  neighbors  do not 
burn up.  Do  you  doubt  this ?  Make a 
tour among  your friends and see.
“In  peace,  prepare  for war.”  When 
everything  is right  and  intact, is also a 
good time to give  some  thought to what 
may be necessary in case of  loss. 
If  the 
loss never comes, the thought  and  prep­
aration may do somebody good.
The  insurance  adjuster  will  base his 
calculations from  the  trial  balance and 
account  of  stock  generally  from  the 
season previous, or from  that time when 
the books were  properly closed  up.  As 
a consequence, it  is  timely  and  advan­
tageous  for  settlement of  fire  loss  that 
the  books  should  be  clearly and  accu­
rately  kept.  A  careful  inventory  of 
stock  is  probably  entered  on  every  re­
liable  firm’s  books  at  the beginning of 
the  year.  To  this  is  added  and  sub­
tracted sales and purchases, so  that with 
deduction on profits and expenses the net 
stock ought to be easily shown.
While  the  books  show the amount of 
stock,  the  item of  machinery, tools  fix­
tures, furniture and the numberless other 
purchases  which  go  to  fit  up  a  store, 
often make very little  showing upon the 
books.  Why ?  Because  the  successful 
merchant  does  business  for a profit and 
is  apt  to  charge  off  many  of  these ex­
penditures  and  carry them  into  the ex­
pense  of  the  business.  As  a  remedy, 
every merchant  ought  with  his  annual 
stock-taking  also  to  enter  on his  stock 
book a careful and  reliable  inventory of 
machinery  and  fixtures  at a fair  valua­
tion.  This, 
if  entered  in  the  proper 
place, will show for itself  when  needed, 
even though a large  proportion of  it has 
been  charged off  the  books  to  close up 
the  year.
A good custom  for  any merchant is to 
take  an  approximate  running inventory 
of  his goods  and  belongings  at  regular 
intervals  between  his  annual  stock­
takings.  This keeps him posted  so  that

results 

C O R T E X .

Abies,  Canadian..........
Cassiae  ........................
Cinchona F la v a ..........
Euonymus  atropurp...
Myrica  Cerifera, po... .
Prunus Virgin!.............
Quillaia,  grd................
Sassafras  ........... ••••••
Ulmus Po (Ground  12).
E X T R A C TU M .
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra...
Haematox, 15 lb. box.
“ 
Is............
“  Vis..........
FERRUM.
Carbonate Precip. —  
Citrate and Quinia... 
Citrate  Soluble......
Ferrocy anidum Sol..
Solut  Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l ........
pure..........
flora.

“ 

Arnica ...  .................. 
I4®
Anthem is...................
M atricaria..................  3**®

F O L IA .

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin- 

............■••••  1®®
nivelly ......  •-•••••  25©
Alx.  35®
and  Vis.....................  10®
»©

Salvia  officinalis,  V4s
UraUrsi......................  

« 

“ 

GUM M I.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

©

Acacia, 1st  picked—   @1
2d 
....  ®
3d 
....  ©
sifted sorts...  _@
p o .........   75@1
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60)...  50®
“  Cape,  (po.  20)...  ®
“  Socotri, (po.  60).  @

16)........................................- 

Catechu, Is, (Vis, 14 V4s,
Ammoniae........... •••-  25®
Assafoetida, (po. 30)... 
<®
Benzoinum.................. 
-j0@
Camphor®...................   45®
Euphorbium  po  ........   J5@
Gafbanum.............. . • •  ©
Gamboge,  po..............   80®
Guaiacum,  (po.55) 
...  @
Kino,  (po.  25)......  ©
M astic...............   ®*
Myrrh,  (po  45)........... 
'  @
Opii,  (pc. 5 25)........... 3  ‘5@3
Shellac  ......................   g ®
“ 
bleached........  27(®
Tragacanth................  30@
herba—In ounce packages.
Absinthium..........................
Eupatorium.........................
Lobelia.................................
Majorum..............................
Mentha  Piperita.................
“  V ir..........................
Rue........................................
Tanacetum, Y ......................
Thymus,  V ...........................

M A G N ESIA .

Calcined, Pat..............   55®
Carbonate,  P a t ..........  20®
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20® 
Carbonate, Jenningö..  35®

O LEU M .

Absinthium .................5 00®5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 00@8 25
A n isi................................ 1  90@2 00
Auranti  Cortex..........  @2  50
Bergamil  ................... 2 80@3 2^
Cajiputi........................  90@1 00
Caryophyili..................... 1  35@1 40
Cedar  ..........................  35®  65
Chenopodii................  ®1  75
Cinnamon!!..................... 1 35®1 40
Citronella...................   ®  15
Conium  Mac..............   35@  65
Copaiba............................1  20@1 30
CuDebae...................16 00@16 SO
Exechthitos................  90@1  00
Erigeron..........................1  20@1 30
Gaultheria.......................2 26@2 30
Geranium,  ounce......   ®  75
Gossipii,  Sem. gal......   50®
Hedeoma  ................... 2 10@2  20
Juniper!......................   50@2 00
Lavendula.................   90@2 00
Limonis............................1  50@1 80
Mentha Piper................... 2 10®2 25
Mentha Verid..................2 50@2 60
Morrhuae, gal.............  80@1  00
Myrcia, ounce.............  @  50
Ofive................................ 1  00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
Ricini...............................1  24@1 36
Rosmarin!............. 
75@1  00
Rosae,  ounce..............   @6 00
Succini........................  40®  45
Sabina........................  90@1  00
Santal  ........................3 50®7 00
Sassafras.....................  50®  55
Sinapis, ess, ounce__   @  65
Tiglfi...........................  @1  50
50 
Thorne
60
Theobromas................  15®  20
BlCarb........................  15®  18
Bichromate................  13®  14
Bromide......................   37®  40

P O T A SSIU M .

opt

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage................... 2 25@2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  .................  
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
1  10
wool  carriage.......... 
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage...................  
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ........................ 
65
Hard for  slate  use—  
75
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se ........................... 
140

S Y R U PS.

Accacia................................  50
Zingiber  ..............................   50
ipecac...................................  60
Ferri Iod..............................   50
Auranti  Cortes.....................  50
Rhei  Arom...........................  50
Similax  Officinalis..............   60
Co........  50
Senega.................................   50
Scillae...................................  50
“  Co..........................  ...  50
T olutan................................  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
Asafcetida.............................  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
Cinchona.............................  50
Co.....................  60
Columba..............................   50
Conium................................  50
Cubeba.................................   50
D igitalis..............................   50
Ergot....................................   50
G entian................................  50
“  C o ..........................   60
Guaica.................................   50
ammon.................  60
“ 
Zingiber..............................   50
Hyoscyamus........................  50
Iodine...................................  75
Colorless...............   75
Ferri  Cbloridum..............  35
K ino.....................................  50
Lobelia.................................   50
Myrrh.............................  
  50
Nux  Vomica........................  50
O pii......................................  85
“  Camphorated................  50
“  Deoaor.......................... 2 00
Auranti Cortex.....................  50
Quassia................................  50
R hatany..............................  ; 50
Rhei......................................  .50
Cassia  Acutifol...................   50
“  Co...............  50
Serpentaria.........................   50
Stromonium..........................  60
Tolutan................................  60
V alerian..............................   50
VeratrumVeride.................   50

“ 

“ 

 

M ISC ELLA N EO U S.

‘ 
“ 

r‘ 
ground,  (po.

dither, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  26®  % 
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alumen.............. '. —   2%@ 3V4
3®  4
7)................................  
Annatto........................  55® 60
Antimoni, po................. 
4®  5

“ et Potass T.  55®  60

“ 

“ 

Moschus  Canton........  @ 40
Myristica,  No. 1.........   60®  70
Nux Vomica,  (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia.....................  30®  32
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co.............................
@2 00
Pieis  Liq, N.  C., V4 gal
doz  ..........................
@2  00 
Picis Liq., q u arts......
@1  00 
pints..........
@  70 
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..
50 
@
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)..
18 
Piper Alba,  (po g5)__   @
35 
Pix  Burgun................  @
7 
Plum biA cet..............   14®
15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......
©1  25 
Pyrethrum,  pv...........
0®  35 
8@
Quassiae..................... 
8®   10 
Quinia, S. P. & W......   42@
47 
S.  German__   37®
47 
Rubia  Tinctorum......   12®
14 
35
Saccharum Lactis pv..  @
Salacin........................2 25©2 35
Sanguis  Draconis......   40®  50
Santonine
@4 50 
Sapo,  W ......................
2®  14 
M........................
8®   10 
“  G........................
@  15 
Seidlitz  Mixture........
@  25 
Sinapis........................
@  18 
“  opt...................
30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes........................
35 
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes 
35 
11®
Soda Boras,  (po. 12}.  .
12 
Soda  et Potass T art... 
_
33
30©
Soda Carb...................  
2® 2V4
Soda,  Bi-Carb............. 
4@  5
Soda,  Ash................... 
3®  4
Soda, Sulphas................   @ 2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......   @2 00
“  Myrcia Imp........  @2 50
“  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
2 05).............................  @2 15
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal......   @1  10
Sulphur, Subl...............2*£@ 3V4
Tamarinds.................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae..............   50®  55
Vanilla...................... 9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph................ 
7®  8
Gal70
60
50

Bbl.
Whale, winter...........  70
Lard,  extra................  55
Lard, No.  1................  45
Linseed, pure raw __  60
Lindseed,  boiled  __   63
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.................   50
69
Spirits Turpentine__   49V4
55
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian...............1J£  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ 1V£  2@4
“ 
Ber........1J£  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2V4 2V&@3
“  strictly  pure...... 2%  2M@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16
ican ........................... 
Vermilion,  English—  
75@80
Green,  Peninsular......  
70@75
Lead,  red.....................  @7V4
“  w h ite................  @7V4
©70
Whiting, white Span... 
Whiting,  Gilders’........  @90
1  00
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff........................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints......................1 00@1  20

Roll................ 2V4® 3

faints. 

6366

O IL S.

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V A R N ISH E S.

No. 1 Turp  Coach...... 1 10@1  20
Extra Turp................. 1  66@1  70
Coach Body................2 75®3  00
No. 1 Turp F um ........1 00@1  10
Eutra Turk D&mar__ 1 55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T u rp ........................  70®  75

J E T T I N E .

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any climate.  Quality Guaranteed Against Injury 
by Freezing.  All  others  worthless  after frees 
ing.  See quotation.  MARTELL BLACKING 
CO., Sole Manufacturers,  Chicago, 111.

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excellent quality,  equal  to  more  than  the  aver­
age ten cent cigars on the market.

Io n ia  P a n ts  & O v e ra ll 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,  MIOH.

The Michigan Tradesman

ANTI-ADULTERATION.

and 

and Drugs.

•pill  P repared  for  C ongress  b y   th e  U.
S.  D airy  and  F ood  Com m issioners’ 
A ssociation.
Bill to Prevent  Adulteration  of  Food 
Section  1.  Be  it  enacted,  etc.,  that 
there shall be  established in the Depart­
ment o f------- a bureau to  be  known  as
the Bureau on Adulteration.  The Presi­
dent shall  appoint  by and with  the  ad­
vice of the Senate a competent  chief  of­
ficer of said bureau, who  shall  receive  a 
salary of  $5,000  a  year, and  hold  office 
for four years and until  his  successor is 
appointed.  The chief of the bureau may 
appoint, with the approval  of  the Secre­
tary  of  the  Department  o f------- , such
chemists,  inspectors  and  clerks, not  ex­
ceeding ten in number, with such salaries 
as the  Secretary of  the  Department  of
--------  may approve,  provided  that  the
total  expenses  of  inspectors  and  em­
ployes, but exclusive of  suitable  offices, 
laboratory,  stationery 
supplies, 
which shall be provided by the Secretary
of the  Department  o f------- , shall  not
exceed $50,000 per annum.
Sec. 2.  That no person  or  corporation 
shall  transport  or  cause  to  be  trans­
ported from the  State, district  or  terri­
tory in which he resides or does business, 
into any State or  territory, or  from  any 
foreign country or other  State  or  terri­
tory, into the State  or territory in which 
he resides or  does  business, for  sale  or 
barter, or to be offered for sale or barter, 
any article of food or  drugs  adulterated 
within the meaning of  this act, and  any 
person  violating  the  above  provisions 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall, for 
the first offence, be fined  not  more  than 
$100, and for each subsequent offence not 
more than $500, or imprisonment  not ex­
ceeding one year, or both,  in  the  discre­
tion of the  court.
Sec. 3.  That  no  person  shall, within 
the District of Columbia, or in any of the 
territories, or in  any fort,  arsenal, dock­
yard or reservation, or  other place under 
the jurisdiction  of  the  United  States, 
manufacture, offer  for  sale, or  sell  any 
article of food or drugs which is  adulter­
ated within the meaning of  this act;  and 
any person violating  this provision shall 
be deemed guilty of  a misdemeanor,  and 
upon conviction  thereof  shall  be  pun­
ished as provided in  the  preceding  sec­
tion.
Sec. 4.  That it shall be the duty of  all 
collectors  of  customs, through  the  ap­
praisers or other proper officers, to cause 
examinations to  be  made  of  articles of 
food  or  drugs which  may appear  to  be 
adulterated, and  if, on  examination  of 
any article of  food  or  drugs,  imported 
from any foreign  country,  it is  found  to 
be  adulterated  within  the  meaning  of 
this act, a return to  that  effect  shall  be 
made upon  the  invoice, and  articles  so 
noted shall not be permitted  to  pass  the 
custom-house, or be delivered to the con­
signees,  unless,  on  re-examination,  as 
provided for in this act,  it shall be found 
that the said articles are not adulterated.
Sec. 5.  That  the  owner  or  consignee 
shall have the privilege of calling,  at  his 
own expense, for re-examination,  and  on 
depositing with the collector  of  customs 
such sum as said collector may deem suf­
ficient to defray such expense, it shall be 
the duty of the collector  of  customs  to 
procure a certificate  under  oath, from  a 
public analyst, of a  careful  analysis  of 
the articles in question;  and in case the re­
port by certificate of the analyst shall de­
clare the report of the  officer who  exam­
ined the goods to  be  erroneous  and  the 
said  articles  to  be  unadulterated,  the 
said articles  shall  be  returned  to  the 
owner  or  consignee,  and  pass without 
reservation on payment of duties, if any. 
But in case the  officer’s  return  be  sus­
tained by the  analyst, the  said  articles 
shall  be  destroyed;  provided  that  the 
owner  or  consignee,  on  payment  of 
charges of  storage  and  other  expenses 
necessarily  incurred  by 
the  United 
States,  and on giving bond, with sureties 
satisfactory to the  collector,  agreeing  to 
remove  said  articles  from  the  United 
States, shall have the  privilege of  re-ex­
porting them at  any time within the  pe­
riod of six months after the  date  of  the 
report of the inspector or public analyst.
Sec. 6.  That in order  to  carry into  ef­
fect the provisions of this act, the  Secre­
tary of  the  Treasury is  hereby author­
ized to appoint, from names submitted to 
him for  that  purpose  by the  National 
Bureau  on  Adulteration, one  or  more 
suitably qualified  persons  as'inspectors 
and public analysts for  adulterated food 
and drugs at  such  ports  of  entry, and 
with such compensation, as the Secretary 
of  the  Treasury  may deem  expedient; 
and it shall be the  duty of  the  National 
Bureau  on  Adulteration to prepare  in­
structions  governing  the work of  such 
inspectors and analysts, which, when ap­
proved by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
shall govern their  actions  and  that  of 
collectors of  customs, in  preventing  im­
portation from foreign  countries  of food 
or drugs adulterated within  the meaning 
of this act.
Sec. 7.  That  the  National  Bureau  on 
Adulteration  shall  make,  or cause to be 
made, examination of  specimens  of  food 
and drugs  collected  under  its  direction 
in various parts of the country, and shall 
publish in a weekly bulletin  the  results 
of  such  analysis. 
If  it  shall  appear 
from  such  examination  that any of  the 
provisions of  this act have been violated, 
the bureau shall at once  report  the  fact 
to  the  proper  United  States  District 
Attorney,  with a copy of  the  results  of 
the  analysis,  duly authenticated  by the 
analyst under oath. •
Sec. 8.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
every  district  attorney,  to  whom  the 
National Bureau on Adulteration or  any 
collector  of  customs  shall  report  any 
violation  of  this  act,  to  cause  proper 
proceedings to  be commenced  and  pros­
ecuted  without  delay  for  the  fines  and 
penalties in such  case  provided,  unless 
upon inquiry and  examination  he  shall 
decide  that  such  proceedings  cannot 
probably be sustained,  in which  case  he 
shall  report  the  facts  to  the  National 
Bureau  on  Adulteration.  And  for  the 
expenses incurred  and services  rendered 
in  all  such  cases  the  district  attorney 
shall receive and be paid from the Treas­
ury  such  sum  as  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  shall  deem  just  and  reason­
able,  upon  the  certificate  of  the  judge

before whom such  cases  are tried or dis­
posed of.
Sec. 9.  That an article shall be deemed 
to be adulterated within  the  meaning of 
this act—

(a)  In the case of  drugs:
1.  If, when  sold  under  or  by a name 
recognized in the United  States Pharma­
copoeia, it differs  from  the  standard  of 
strength,  quality  or  purity  laid  down 
therein.
2.  If, when  sold  under  or  by a name 
not  recognized  in  the  United  States 
Pharmacopoeia,  but  which  is  found  in 
some other  pharmacopoeia or other  stan­
dard work  on  materia  medica, it differs 
materially from the standard of  strength 
quality or purity laid down in such work.
3.  If  its strength or  purity falls below 
the professed  standard  under which it is 
sold.

(b)  In the case of  food:
1.  If  any substance or substances have 
been mixed  with it, so as to lower or de­
preciate  or  injuriously affect its quality, 
strength or purity.
2.  If  any inferior or cheaper substance 
or  substances  have  been  substituted, 
wholly or in part, for it.
3.  If  any  valuable  or  necessary  con­
stituent  or  ingredient  has been, wholly 
or in part, subtracted from it.
4.  If  it  is  an  imitation of, or  is  sold 
under the name of  another article.
5.  If  it consists,  wholly or in  part, of 
a diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected, 
tainted  or  rotten  animal  or  vegetable 
substance or  article,  whether  manufac­
tured or not;  or in the  case of  milk, if it 
is the product of  a diseased animal.
6.  If  it is colored,  coated,  polished or 
powdered,  whereby damage or inferiority 
is concealed;  or if, by  any  means,  it  is 
made to appear better or of greater value 
than it really is.
7.  If  it contains  any added  substance 
or ingredient  which  is  poisonous  or in­
jurious to health;  provided  that the pro­
visions  of  this  act  shall  not  apply  to 
mixtures  or  compounds  recognized  as 
ordinary articles  of  food, if  the  same be 
distinctly  labeled  as  mixtures  or  com­
pounds with the  name  and  per cent, of 
each  ingredient  therein, and  are not in­
jurious to health.
Sec.  10.  The  term “drug,”  as  used  in 
this act, shall  include  all  medicines for 
internal  or  external  use.  The  term 
“food,” as used herein,  shall  include  all 
articles  used  for  food or drink by man, 
whether simple, mixed or compound.
Sec. 11.  Every  person  manufacturing, 
offering or exposing  for  sale, or deliver­
ing to a purchaser, any drug or article of 
food  included  in  the  provisions of  this 
act,  shall  furnish  to  any person  inter­
ested, or demanding the same, who  shall 
apply to him  for  the  purpose,  and shall 
tender him the value of  the same, a sam­
ple sufficient for the analysis of any such 
article of  food which is in his possession.
Sec.  12.  Whoever  refuses  to  comply, 
upon demand, with  the  requirements of 
Section  11,  shall  be  guilty  of  a misde­
meanor, and,  upon  conviction,  shall  be 
fined not exceeding  one  hundred, or less 
than  ten  dollars,  or  imprisonment  not 
exceeding  one  hundred,  or  less  than 
thirty  days,  or  both.  And  any  person 
found  guilty of  manufacturing,  offering 
for sale, or selling an  adulterated article 
of  food or drug under  the  provisions of 
this act, shall be adjudged  to  pay, in ad­
dition  to  the  penalties  heretofore  pro­
vided  for,  all  the  necessary  costs  and 
expenses 
incurred  in  inspecting  and 
analyzing  such  adulterated  articles,  of 
which said  person may  have  been found 
guilty  of  manufacturing, 
selling,  or 
offering for sale.
Sec. 13.  This  act  shall  take effect and 
be in force from and after its passage.

The  “House”  to Blame.

From  th e Ohio S tate Journal.
Much has been said  and written about 
the ability of the  salesman  to  represent 
his  employer  properly and  build  up  a 
trade  to  make  it valuable  to  both  of 
them.  The salesman, in many instances, 
is blamed if  a  certain  trade  is  worked 
disastrously, but if it  results  in  a  good 
and prosperous business  being  built up, 
the house wants the  large  part  of  the 
credit for “good goods,” low prices,  etc., 
thinking  any  man  of  ordinary  ability, 
backed  by  their  “modus  operandi,” 
could have done  as  much,  and  perhaps 
even go so far as to  regret  having  paid 
the  salesman  a  large  salary  when  a 
cheaper  man  might  have  accomplished 
the same  results.  The  forces  spoken 
of, i. e., house and  salesman, must work 
in  perfect  harmony  and  operate  with 
the same end  in view as  to  promptness, 
carefulness and honor  to insure success, 
and  without which  hearty co-operation, 
the result must be  disastrous.  Many  a 
good, competent,  careful  salesman  has 
had his reputation blasted  by a  caretless 
office force or bad help in  getting out the 
goods which were not up to  the  sample, 
owing to mistakes in shipping the proper 
articles, or being out of  the  ones  desig­
nated on  the  order, something “just  as 
good” has  been  substituted,  but  which 
is not “just  as good” to  the  purchaser, 
and  the  salesman, being  the  only  one 
ever seen, must  stand  the abuse for  the 
house.  An incident came  under  our ob­
servation recently which serves  to  illus­
trate.  A retail grocer bought of  a prom­
inent and elegant house  a  bill  of  goods 
at thirty days net.  The goods were sat­
isfactory. but the  house made  a draft  in 
ten  days, which, to  avoid  trouble  and 
complications,  the  retailer  paid.  The 
j salesman was taxed with  the  matter  on 
his next visit and  convinced  the  buyer 
it was  an  error, and, being  anxious  to 
sell  a  certain  article, the  retailer said 
that as he  had  enough  to  do  him  for 
thirty days he could send it at the end of 
that time on thirty days’ time, or at  once 
and give him sixty days.  Fearing  some 
rival  salesman would  load  the  retailer 
up,  and that  possession was  ten  points 
in law, he sent  the goods at  once, billed 
at sixty days net.  At  the  end  of  the 
thirty  days, and  just  when  the  goods 
should  have  been  shipped, the  house 
made a draft for the  amount  of  the  in­
voice.  The buyer was  rightly incensed 
at what he called an  unfair  transaction, 
and when the salesman  called was  con­
fronted by a man with his war  paint  on, 
and barely civil  to  the  innocent victim 
of the error.  The  result was  that  the 
retailer said,  “We will  not  buy another 
dollar of your house, but get goods where 
we have a  definite  understanding  as  to 
terms, etc.”  Trade lost, customer gone 
elsewhere, and no fault  of  any one  but 
the house.

Som e  A d van tages o f th e  Cash System .
A leading grocery firm of Olean, N. Y., 
writes  the  American Qrocer as follows:
We are  still  holding  to the cash plan. 
This month we begin  the  sixth  year un­
der circumstances  more  favorable  to us 
and more satisfactory, on the whole,  than 
any previous  year.
Our  rule  is  iron-clad;  that  is, we  do 
not let the  goods  go  out of  our  posses­
sion without the  pay therefor.  We send 
out  quite a quantity of  goods  c. o. d., in 
which case the driver  carries the change 
and  collects  the  bills.  We  also have a 
fine shipping trade,  amounting to several 
thousand  dollars  yearly,  with  families 
and  lumbermen  residing  in  adjoining 
counties.  The cash plan  includes  them 
as  well  as  residents of  our  city  (about 
10,000  inhabitants).  They  send  us  the 
money before we ship the goods.
We  regard  the  iron-clad  rule  as  the 
only  safe  and  sure  one  for a would-be 
cash  grocer  to  adopt.  We  have  no 
monthly  pay-roll  (i. e., where  manufac­
turers  pay monthly).  We cater very lit­
tle to that  class  of  trade.  To  be  sure, 
we get  more or less of  it, generally from 
foremen,  superintendents,  or  those  not 
classed  among  the  poor.  We  do, how­
ever,  sell credit coupon  books in  denom­
inations of  $5 and  $10  at 2 per cent, dis­
count.  Many  well-to-do  customers  use 
the  coupon  books—the 2 per  cent,  dis­
count fairly remunerating  them  for  the 
advance cash  they are  obliged  to  make.
The greatest difficulties to overcome in 
adopting the change were:
1.  To make up our minds to do it.  We 
had  been  selling  groceries  on  careful 
credit  for  seven  years  from  the  same 
store as the one in which  we proposed to 
adopt  tfle  cash  system.  Our customers 
were among the best in town  (our village 
then  had  about  7,500  inhabitants).  A 
fair  proportion  of  our  trade,  probably 
one-quarter,  was  from  monthly custom­
ers,  and  to  cut  loose  from  these  was 
quite  an  undertaking.  The discussions 
we had read  in  the  American Qrocer in 
favor of  the cash plan, local competition, 
and  the  advantages  we  knew  the  cash 
system  possessed,  led  us  to  make  the 
change.
2.  To make  the  public,  and  our  cus­
tomers in particular, believe we meant to 
adopt  permanently  the  iron-clad  cash 
plan.  Of  course,  we  published  our  in­
tentions two or three  months previous to 
the change, talked with  most of  our best 
customers  and  found  they  favored  the 
plan, so that when  the  change  came we 
found  that  we  lost only a few of  these, 
while  those  we  lost  from  our monthly 
pay list were more  than  made  good  by 
the new trade that had been  attracted by 
the  change.  The  volume  of  our  trade 
has  been  larger  under  the  cash system 
than it was under the credit.
3.  Competition.  Our  competitors said 
it was a bluff.  They watched our  move­
ments,  copied  our  prices  and  tried for 
five  or  six  months  to  “tire  us out” by 
cutting  prices.  We  pursued  a  steady 
course,  held  our  prices  as  low  as  our 
competitors,  advertised  the  advantages 
of  the  cash  system  and, on  the  whole, 
succeeded  admirably in convincing  most 
people  that  the  grocer  who  bought for 
cash  and  sold  for  cash  could  adopt  a 
lower range of  prices  than  he  who car­
ried on a credit  business.  For  the  last 
three  years or more  we  have  had  com­
paratively pleasant sailing.  We  do  not 
find it necessary to hold prices below our 
competitors  on  staple goods.  We make 
our  stores  as  attractive as possible, de­
pend very much upon the service we ren­
der, and take special  pride in keeping in 
stock the  best  and  freshest  goods.  He 
who adopts the cash  business must make 
up  his  mind  to  lead, and not to follow, 
and he can do it.
If  we  were  to  name  some of  the ad­
vantages  of  the  cash  plan,  we  should 
enumerate them about as follows:
1.  Less  capital  is  required.  With 
$1,000 invested  on  the cash plan,  a mer­
chant can do  quite  as  large a volume of 
business as $2,000 will do on credit.
2.  Several  hundred  dollars  of  worth­
less accounts.
3.  Several  thousand  dollars of  capital 
locked up in accounts.
4.  A nice sum every  year  in  discount­
ing his bills.
5.  The expenses of  a book-keeper  and 
a collector of  his accounts.

The Way It Works.

Customer—What is this  watch  worth ? 
Jewelry Salesman—That one ?  That’s 
a  very  handsome  watch.  Solid  gold 
eighteen  karat  cases,  very  heavy,  A1 
movement and warranted to keep perfect 
time.  We have  more  demand  for  that 
kind of  watch—”

“Well, what is it worth?”
“We are selling that  watch at $90, and 
there  is  no  profit  in it at all.  But it is 
such  an  excellent  article that it recom­
mends our business.”
“Ninety dollars is too much  money for 
me to lay out at once.”
“Oh, you want to pay cash ?” 
“Certainly.”
“We can let  you  have that  watch  for 
I  thought  you  wanted  it  on  our 

$20. 
instalment plan.”

Curious Method, of Book-Keeping1. 
The  bakers  of  Paris  have  a  rather 
original  system  of  keeping  accounts, 
which  may  be  called  a  kind  of  book­
keeping  by  double  entry.  When  the 
carrier  delivers  a  loaf  of  bread, which, 
by the way, is about five or six feet long, 
he is handed a wooden  lath  about a foot 
long  by the  party to  whom  he delivers 
the  bread.  From  a  collection  of  laths 
of  the same size, one  for each  customer, 
he picks out  this  particular  customer’s 
one,  and placing the two parallel, he cuts 
a groove across the  face of  both. 
In the 
final  adjustment of  accounts, both  laths 
have  to  have 
the  same  number  of 
notches.  Cheap, but ingenious.
A   N ovel  S uggestion.

“Yes,  I  am  badly  in  debt  and  can’t 
meet a man  who  isn’t  my creditor,” re­
plied a  young man  the  other  day, as he 
stood off  a creditor for the  dozenth time. 
I  may,  however,  call  a 

“But can’t  you set a time?”
“Hardly. 
meeting of  my creditors soon.”
“What for?”
“To lay a plan  before  them  by which 
“What is  your idea ?”
“To have them  elect  me  President of 
the United States.  The salary is $50,000 
a  year,  and I can easily  live  on  $10,000 
and divide the  rest  among my creditors. 
Just mention it to your folks, will you ?”

they can get their money.”

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selling the line.  Correspondence solicited.

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

HOLLAND,  MICH.

Daily  Capacity, 

400 Bble.
BRANDS: 
SUNLIGHT, 

DAISY, 
PURITY,
IDLEWILD, 
ECONOMY.

MORNING STAR, 
DAILY  BREAD, 

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SPECIALTIES: 
Wheatena,

Buckwheat Flour, 

Rye Flour,

Bolted  Meal, 
Rye Meal, 
Buckwheat Grits, 

Wheat Grits,

Pearl Barley,
Oat  Meal, 

Rolled Oats,

Correspondence  Solicited.

Grand.  Rapids,  Mich•

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No.  4  Monroe  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDSy  MICH.

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