VOL.  7.

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A  New  Scale.

I will use my old scale just as long as  t'will  go. 
A new one would cost me ten dollars or so.
I may lose  at  each weighing a cent, so to speak. 
'Bout a dollar a day or six dollars a week. 
Twenty-six in a month, or three hundred a year. 
Fifteen hundred in five, bless me, isn’t it  queer 
How the totals  increase—how much may be lost 
JustJ by trying to save what a new  scale  would

About  Lead  Pencils.

“What does it cost to make a lead  pen­
cil?”  said the manufacturer,  in  reply to 
inquiry. 
a  New  York  Sun  reporter’s 
“First,  let  me  tell  you  how we make a 
pencil.
“See this fine  black  powder?  That’s 
graphite. 
It  costs  25  cents  a  pound. 
This white substance is German  clay.  It 
comes across the ocean  as ballast in sail­
ing vessels,  and all it  costs us is freight. 
We  mix  this  clay  and  this  powder to­
gether  and  grind them  in a mill,  adding 
moisture  during  the  process,  until  the 
two  are  thoroughly mixed  and  are  re­
duced to a paste about  the  thickness  of 
putty.
“This  paste  we  press into these dies, 
i each one  of  which  is the size of a pencil 
lead  except  in  length.  There are four 
leads  in  one  of  these.  After they are 
pressed,  we cut them into proper lengths 
and bake them in an oven kept at a  very 
high  temperature.  Then  we  have the 
lead made. 
Its hardness  is regulated by 
the greater or less amount of clay we mix 
with the graphite—the more  clay we put 
in the harder the lead.
“The cedar we use  comes  principally 
from  Florida,  and  is  obtained  entirely 
from the fallen trees that lie there.  The 
wood is delivered  to  us in  blocks,  sawed 
to pencil lengths, some of them  thick,  to 
receive the lead,  and some  thin,  for  the 
piece that  is  to  be  glued over the lead. 
The blocks  are  sawed  for  four  pencils 
each.  They  are  grooved  by  a saw,  the 
groove being the place where the  lead  is 
to lie.  The  leads  are kept in  hot glue, 
and  are  placed  in  the  grooves  as  the 
blocks are ready.  When  that  is  done, 
the  thin  piece  is  glued  fast to a thick 
one.  When  dry,  the  blocks  are  run 
through  a machine that cuts  the  pencils 
apart.  Another  machine  shapes them, 
making them octagonal,  or round,  or flat, 
or  three-cornered,  as  the  case  may be. 
The pencils are burnished by machinery, 
and are then ready  to be tied in  bunches, 
boxed and put out.
“The  different  grades  in  value  of  a 
lead pencil are made by  finer  manipula­
tion of the graphite and the use of better 
material.  The average  pencil  in  every 
day  use costs about oue-quarter of a cent 
to make.  We are  content  with  100  per 
cent,  profit  on  it  when  we sell it to the 
dealer.  What his profit is you may figure 
out for yourself  if  you  have one of  the 
pencils about you that you  paid  5  cents 
for.  Of this grade of pencil, an operator 
will turn out 2,500 in a day.
“The most valuable lead pencil  that  I 
know  of  is  owned  by a lawyer  in  this 
It  is a cheap-looking affair, but  I 
city. 
don’t believe it could be bought for $100. 
The  wood  in  this  pencil  came  from a 
cedar  tree  that  was  probably centuries 
old  before any cedar  tree  now  standing 
began  to  grow. 
It was taken from  the 
bottom of a marl bed in  Orange  County, 
at a depth  of  nearly  100  feet below the 
surface.  Near it was found the  remains 
of a mastodon.  The knob on the end of 
the pencil was made from  a piece  of  the 
mastodon’s  tooth.  The pencil  has never 
been sharpened,  and probably never will 
be.”

The Condition of Trade.

From the New York Shipping List.

Although  the  distributive  movement 
of  trade  continues fairly active for  this 
season,  as  indicated  by the  interior  de­
mand for funds,  clearing  house statistics 
which continue  to  be  in  excess  of  the 
corresponding  period 
last  year,  and

the  actual  demand  for  merchandise  in 
all  the  principal  distributive  centers, 
unfavorable crop  reports  and  the  close 
working  of  the  money  market  causes 
more  or  less  hesitation  in  commercial 
circles and there is a disposition to await 
further developments before undertaking 
fresh operations of any magnitude.  The 
crop situation must  necessarily occupy a 
prominent position as one of  the control­
ling features  of  the situation during the 
remainder  of  the  current  month,  but 
the Government report issued last  Satur­
day  shows  that  a  serious  shortage  is 
foreshadowed  in  wheat,  corn  and  oats, 
which means of  course  a  great  loss  to 
farmers and hence a check later on to the 
growth of prosperity.  Fortunately,  how­
ever,  there is not  wanting a bright  side 
to the picture,  for  the  cotton  crop  thus 
far maintains an  excellent  position  and 
premises  a  heavy  yield;  the  Louisiana 
sugar  crop  is  likely  to  be  one  of  the 
largest in several years and the Southern 
rice crop  is in excellent condition.  Then 
again,  manufacturing  industries  are all 
in good  shape,  being  actively employed 
with  orders  that  will  carry  them  well 
into the autumn  months.  This  applies 
particularly to the iron industry and  the 
boot  and  shoe  trade,  but a good  many 
cotton mills have taken  advantage of  the 
high  price of  raw  material  and the slow 
marketing of  the new crop to close down 
for the purpose  of  repairs and cleaning. 
The  movement  of  foreign  trade  con­
tinues  unsatisfactory,  because  of  the 
increasing  volu’ne  of  imports  and  the 
natural  falling  off  in exports,  but  gold 
exports  are  not  likely to be resumed  in 
the present condition  of  the money  mar­
ket,  which  is  beginning to feel  the  in­
terior demand for funds,  and last week’s 
heavy depletion  of  hank reserves points 
to a closer working of  the money market 
during  the  remainder  of 
the  month. 
The  speculation  in  produce  has  again 
been  active,  but  while  the fluctuations 
of  prices  have  been  irregular  and  at 
times erratic,  the  tendency has been  up­
ward.  The  stock  market  has  been  un­
settled  and  narrow,  influenced by tight 
money and  to  some  extent by the strike 
upon the Vanderbilt roads, but bear pres­
sure has met  with  resistance,  which in­
dicates a firm  undertone,  and  while the 
market  is  sensitive a firmer feeling pre­
vails  on  account  of  the  prospect  that 
the strike  will  collapse and also in view 
of  the  more  settled  feeling  in  London 
that  has  resulted  from  the 
improved 
condition  of  affairs 
in  the  Argentine 
Republic.  Values for produce generally 
are tending upward,  cotton fabrics being 
firmly held on account of  the high  prices 
of  raw  material,  provisions  and  hog 
products  are  influenced by the  advance 
in corn;  crude and refined petroleum are 
both  higher,  potatoes  and  nearly  all 
kinds of  vegetables are feeling the effect 
of  poor  crops,  raw and refined sugar  is 
advancing both here  and  abroad  on  ac­
count of  the strong position of  supplies, 
and the  same  influence  is  operating  to 
enhance the value  of  coffee.  The metal 
markets are generally inactive but steady, 
and  anthracite  coal  continues  slow  of 
sale,  with an accumulation of supplies at 
tide water  that  effectually prevents any 
advance in prices.

“Mishearing'.”

Spoken  sounds  often  have  the knack 
of  combining  so  as to produce  what  is 
generally known  as  “mis-hearing.”  The 
following is an  illustration.  Read  this 
question to a friend :  “There were twenty 
sick  sailors  on  board a ship;  one  died; 
how many were left ?”

Your friend will answer:
“Twenty-five.”
Now write the  same  question and ask 
your friend  to  read  it,  and  he  will  at 
once answer:
"Nineteen.”

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TWOMB LEY’S  FOLLY.

The  Widow  Appleby,  called  Aunt 
Samanthy by her neighbors,  was tidying 
up a room  which had been furnished for 
a  sleeping-room,  and  bad  in  it  also  a 
desk,  a  book-case  and  a  little  row  of 
drawers,  in  which fragments  precious to 
a geologist, had been stored.  The  desk 
and book-case  Aunt  Samanthy regarded 
with reverence.  The  case  she  did  not 
understand.  Bits of  stone,  bits  of  ore; 
she emptied them all into her apron,  and 
dumped them with  other  odds  and ends 
out  of  the  window  upon  a  flower  bed 
that  had  not  been  dug  up  that  year. 
Aunt  Samanthy had no heart for garden­
ing.  Things had gone  very wrong  with 
her,  and  the death of her only boarder,  a 
returned California miner, who had made 
and  lost  several fortunes,  had  put  the 
finishing touch to her  woes.  His  room 
it  was  that  she  was  now  putting  to 
rights;  knowing  that  she  would  never 
see the old white head  and  kindly smile 
again.
“ 1  felt  it  more  than  anything  else, 
after losing poor Peter,”  she sighed,  as a 
“He  was 
tear rolled down  her  cheek. 
always so kind to me.”
As she spoke,  there came a heavy step 
on  her  porch,  and,  looking out  of  the 
window,  she  saw  her  cousin,  Jedediah 
Twombley,  standing  there. 
Jedediah 
was  a rich man,  lately made richer by an 
inheritance  from  his  grandfather,  who 
had 
lived  to  be  one  hundred  and five 
years  old,  and  died  leaving  all  to  his 
wealthy grandson and  nothing to his ex­
tremely  poor  granddaughter. 
It  was 
natural that the thought should sting the 
widow  as she looked  at him.
"Morning !”  said Jedediah.  “Morning, 
Cousin  Samanthy. 
1  stepped up to get 
I feel the  sun  considerably, 
the shade. 
and my horse  has  lost a shoe,  and  I’ve 
sent  Simon  to  get it fixed;  thought  I’d 
light here and see how you got on.”
“I don’t get on at all,  Jedediah,”  said 
Samanthy.  “Not as 1 should  if Grandpa 
left  me  suthin,  as  I 
Twombley  had 
always reckoned he  would;  and  now my 
poor old boarder is gone,  I’ve got to that 
pass I’ve had to sell the cow.”
“Too  bad!”  said  Jedediah. 
“Well, 
come and get a pan of milk any time.” 
“Two  miles  there  and  back;  thank 
y e !”  said the widow.  “Do  you know if 
I’d 
I was  you,  Jedediah,  what I’d do ? 
say,  ‘Cousin  Samanthy, I’m rich and you 
are poor. 
I’ll  give  you  a little  slice  of 
the  big  un  grandpa  left  me.’  That’s 
your  Christian duty,  seein’  grandpa was 
a  hundred  and  five,  and  weak-minded 
when he died.  He’d hev  done it himself 
ten years ago,  and you know it.”
“But 
laughed  Jedediah. 
you’re a woman,  that’s  your  excuse for 
talkin’  idiotic. 
I’m  not  a  mean  man. 
I’ll give you five dollars down  Samanthy, 
and  property  is  property,  and  wills  is 
wills,  and not to be broken.”
"Well,  I don’t  set  up for  proud,  and 
I’m  so  poor  that  this is a good  deal to 
me.”  said  Samanthy,  taking the money. 
“I  reckon  grandpa’s  spirit 
is  around 
somewhere,  prompting  you  to  do  what 
is right,  seeing  you influenced him to do 
wrong.”
“Now,  Samanthy,  grandfather  wasn’t 
influenced by me !  That I can tell  you!” 
said  Cousin  Jedediah.  “He always felt 
you made  a  mistake  stepping  off  with 
Peter.  Peter was one of them  folks that 
never prospers.  ‘What’s the use,’  grand­
father  used  to  say  to  me,  ‘of  helping 
Samanthy,  when Peter—’ ”
“Poor Peter is gone,”  said the widow, 
taking her handkerchief from her  apron 
pocket.  “Don’t  talk  against  him.  He 
was jest as kind as kind could be to me.” 
“No doubt,”  said Jedediah,  hurriedly 
—“no doubt. 
I didn’t mean any offense. 
I  always  thought  Peter  quite—quite— 
But what was  you  a-doin’  when I came 
in—house-cleanin’ ?”
“I  was cleanin’  out  the  spare room,” 
said the widow.  “It’s been shut up quite 
a  spell—since  the  Californy gentleman 
died. 
I 
might take a few  boarders  this  summer, 
if they’d come.”
“I’ll  pay  for  an  advertisenent,”  said 
Jedediah,  who  was worth a  million and a 
half;  “and  I’ll let  you  have lots  of  cu­
cumbers off  our  place.  You could grow 
things here now,  if  you  was to seed this 
bed  up instead of  pitchin’  rubbish on it;

I thought  I’d let it,  if  I could. 

“Pshaw !” 

you could grow radishes right under your 
window. 
Summer  boarders  generally 
thinks radishes hulsome.”
“I jest emptied the bureau drawers out 
onto that bed.  There was a lot of rubbish 
in  ’em;  and 1 meant to dig it over,  only I 
ain’t very strong.”
“I’ll let Simon dig it,”  said  Jedediah; 
“and you seed it and it will be a comfort 
to you.”
By  this  time,  Simon,  who  had  been 
slowly driving  up  hill,  stopped  at  the 
gate,  and Jedediah called to him sharply: 
“Simon,  you  jest  take the spade,  and 
dig  over  Mrs.  Appleby’s  garden. 
I’ll 
drive home myself.  Good-bye,  Samanthy. 
I think the idee about the summer board­
ers is a good one;”  and jumping into his 
wagon,  drove up the road,  glad to be rid 
of his poor cousin.
Simon looked  after  his  master with a 
very peculiar expression.
“ ‘Some folks is born for luck and some 
for  children,’ ”  he  said,  sententiously. 
“I’ve got four.”
“And I’ve got three,”  said the widow. 
“Now, Simon,  don’t  you do that  unless 
I know you have plenty 
you feel like it. 
to do.”
“I’d jest as lief,”  said Simon.  “ What 
you been  throwin’  out here,  Mrs.  Apple­
by ?”
“Rubbish out of my Californy boarder’s 
bureau-drawers,” 
said  Mrs.  Appleby. 
“What he kept it there for I dunno.” 
Simon laughed,  and,  stooping,  picked 
up one or two bits of something,  and put 
them in his pocket.
The bed was nicely spaded  when  Mrs. 
Appleby  looked  out  again,  and  Simon 
was gone.
As Mr.  Jedediah  Twombley sat on his 
porch that night,  counting up the profits 
of his hay-crop,  a voice behind him cried: 
“Mr.  Twombley,  I’ve  got  suthin’  I 
want to show you J”
It  was  Simon  who  had 
He  turned. 
spoken,  and  he  held in his hand a frag­
ment  of  something that looked dark and 
heavy.
“See  here,”  he  said,  in  a  whisper; 
“I’ve been to the gold-mines  in my time, 
and if this ain’t gold, I’ll give up and say 
I’m  lacking.”
“Why,  to be sure!  To be sure!”  said 
old  Jedediah,  clutching the little chunk 
of ore in his hand.  “To be sure.  Where 
did you  find it ?”
"Why,  in the  Widder  Appleby’s  gar­
den.  Dug it up out’n the flower-bed you 
told me to spade up for her,” said Simon.
“Then there’s gold on the place,”  said 
Jedediah.  “I’ve  always  thought  there 
was gold here. 
“Yes,  r v e   heerd  you,”  said  Simon, 
with a twinkle in his  eye.  “Now,  what 
a thing that’ll be for the widder.  A gold­
mine on her  place.”
“Hush,”  whispered Jedediah,  with his 
eyes  gleaming  greenly in  the  twilight. 
“Hush,  Simon;  promise  me  you  won’t 
tell  her  or  anybody. 
I’ll  make  it  all 
right with  you.  You’re  kinder  uncom­
fortable where  you be,  with  your  small 
I’ll allow  you to hev the frame­
family. 
house  on  the  hill,  at  the  same  rent. 
Don’t  mention  anything  about it. 
I’ll 
make 
it  right  with  Mrs.  Appleby. 
Though,  after all,  this mayn’t be gold.” 
“P’r’aps not;  but old miners,  like me, 
rather calculates to know,”  said  Simon. 
“Ef  you don’t mind,  I’ll move up to the 
frame-house 
to-morrow.  Wait  a  bit. 
Let’s go over to the widder’s.  I’ll pretend 
its to sow the raddish-seed,  if you’ll  give 
me some;  and  we’ll  see  if  there’s  any 
more there.”
“Good!” 

said  Jedediah  Twombley. 

I’ve always said so.” 

“A bright idea!”

Accordingly,  to the  widow’s  surprise, 
Simon took the seed over;  and  the  sow­
ing done,  brought  back  to  his  master, 
waiting  in  the  wagon  under  the  trees, 
three or four more specimens of the same 
ore,  which  Jedediah  took,  at once,  to  a 
celebrated  mineralogist  of  the  nearest 
town,  who  declared  that  where  these 
came  from  there  was  assuredly a gold­
mine.  And  trembling  with  delight, 
Jedediah  went back to walk  around  the 
widow’s  house in  the  moonlight,  where 
she,  seeing  him  through  the  curtains, 
took  him for  a  tramp,  and  was  fright­
ened almost out of her senses.
Several things  happened to startle her 
that day.  The first  was  the appearance 
of  Simon at her door  in the early dawn,

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W .  BAKER &  CO.’S  R e g is t e r e d   T r a d e -M a r k .

No Chemicals are used in 
any of Walter Baker & Cols 
Chocolate and Cocoa Prep­
arations.
These  preparations  have 
stood  the test of public ap­
proval  for  more  than  one 
hundred years, and are  the 
acknowledged  standard  of 
purity and  excellence.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

3

Wholesale  dealer 

in  Foreign,  Tropical  and 
Domestic

A.  J.  BROWN,
Fruits and Seeds.
California  Oranges—
= M essin a  Lemons.

Direct Receivers of

---- AND----

head.

as  she  was  boiling  her  solitary cup of 
coffee over some splinters of wood.
“Widder,”  Simon whispered, solemnly.
“ ’Tend  to  what I say,  and  don’t forget 
it.  Mister  Twombley is goin’  to  make 
you an  offer  for  your  place.  Don’t let 
him have it cheap.  Rise on him as bold 
as brass.  Don’t chin on anything.  Don’t 
tell him nothin’.  Jest say :  ‘I  won’t sell 
for that,’  until  you get what’ll  keep you 
comfortable.  Mind,  do  as 1 say;  don't 
ask  questions;  don’t  chin;  you’ll  give 
yourself away.”
“I  don’t  half understand  you,”  said 
the widow;  “you  hev  such  curious  ex­
pressions kinder,  but if Cousin  Jedediah 
offers much  for two acres of stones and a 
house like this,  he’s goin’  crazy.”
“Mebbe he’s seen a ghost,”  said Simon; 
“but you mind me.”
He  was  off.  Not  too  soon,  for  the 
wheels of  Jedediah  Twombley’s  wagon 
rattled down the road the  next  moment, 
and  Jedediah  stood at  the  door  in  the 
place of his servant.
“What  you  said,  kind  o’  teched  me 
yesterday, Samanthy,”  he said,  “and I’ve 
been thinking.  What  you  want is rest. 
Sell  your  place  and go board in the vil­
lage.  I’ll buy it.  It ain’t worth much, but 
what’ll you take?”
"' The widow  looked at him. 
It was not 
benevolence  that  shone in his eyes,  but 
greed.
“Well ?”  she said cautiously;  some of 
the same blood ran  in  her  veins,  and she 
could bargain  also.  “Well,  what’ll  you 
give?”
“Five hundred dollars !”  said the rich 
man.  “Eh?”
Samanthy shook her head.
“Eight !”
“Lor’, no,” said Samanthy.
“A thousand!”
Samanthy turned pale,  but  shook  her 
“Two thousand !”  said Jedediah.
“I reckon  you’re calculating I’m half­
witted,” said Samanthy.
“She  knows  about  the  gold,”  said 
Jedediah to himself;  “or—yes,  some one 
else knows and has made an offer.”
The miser and the  gambler  sometimes 
mingle in one  man.  They had  in  Jede­
diah Twombley.
“Fifteen thousand dollars!”  he  cried, 
hurriedly.  “You  can  live  comfortably 
on that, eh ?”
“Grandfather’s  ghost  has  appeared,” 
thought Samanthy.
“Well,” she said,  “if  you’ll drive over 
to  the  lawyer’s,  and  pay me  now,  I’ll 
do it.”
Ten minutes after this,  the  two  were 
sitting  side by side in the  wagon.  Two 
hours more,  Samanthy was,  in  her  own 
opinion,  a rich  woman,  with  no fear  of 
suffering before her,  and  no  more  need 
to toil for her bread.  She  was  to  leave 
the cottage  that  day,  and bewildered by 
her sudden prosperity,  she  was  packing 
her few  poor  possessions,  when  again, 
as in  the dawn,  Simon stood at  her door. 
“Sold it ?”  he asked.
“Yes,”  said the  widow,  breathlessly 
I reckon 
Simon put  his  hand in his pocket and 
“What’s that?”  he asked.
The  widow 
looked  at  what  he  held 
toward  her.
“It’s a bit  of  the  rubbish I threw out 
of that case there,” she said.
“It’s gold  ore,”  said  Simon. 
“Your 
Californy boarder had a lot of  specimen 
of it in that case; he often showed ’em to 
I was a miner once.  1 took  an  in­
me. 
terest in ’em.  You throwed ’em into the 
radish bed;  1 dug ’em  up  out  of  it. 
I 
jest showed ’em to Mister Twombley.  His 
idee has always been that there’s gold  in 
these mountings.  He thinks there’s gold 
on your place.
“And he  wanted  to  give me five hun­
dred dollars!”  said the widow.

“ for fifteen  thousand  dollars. 
grandpa appeared  to him.”
drew out a bunch of something.

“It’s all right for you,  and 1 didn’t tell 
no lies,”  said Simon.  “1 did dig up them 
specimens in the radish bed.”

The widow  lives at ease in  the  village 
now,  and  keeps  her  own  counsel;  and 
there is a big hole,  with a windlass  near 
it,  where her  home once stood.  People 
call it “Twombley’s Folly,”  but  .ledediah 
Twombley intended  it  for  a  gold-mine, 
and spent a little fortune also in working 
it several years. 

A sa T.  F er r y.

Rubber  Cloth in  Germany. 

Kulilow'8, of Berlin, says that the prep­
aration  of  and  curing rubber for heavy 
clothing is similar to  that  employed  for 
boots and  shoes.  The  cloth  is  coated 
with  rubber  by  the  steam  calendering 
machine as for  boots  and  shoes.  The 
same care  is  necessary to insure perfect 
dryness and evennesss to the cloth.  The 
fabric then passes to the  cutting  rooms.
In  the manufacture of  gossamer clothing 
an  altogether  different  process  is  em­
ployed. 
Instead of being ground up and 
compounded  in  the  mixing  room,  the 
rubber  is  dissolved  with  naphtha  in a 
churn  made  expressly for this  purpose. 
These churns are iron cylinders in which 
a plunger works in  much  the same  man­
ner as the old dasher butter churn.  The 
mixture  is  reduced  to about the consis­
tency of printers’  ink.  It is then allowed 
to run or drop on the cloth,  which is rap­
idly  passed  under  a  knife  machine  or 
spreader,  the rollers of  which distribute 
the compound over  the cloth as it passes 
through.
Thus a web  of  cloth,  the  ends  being 
joined together and  forming  an  endless 
baud,  is run  under the knife from  six  to 
ixteen  times,  according  to  the  kind ot 
goods to be  made.  Each time the  fabric 
takes a  very  thin  coating  of  the  com­
pound,  the naphtha  being  rapidly dissi­
pated.  The  cloth  is  put  on rolls and 
then  taken  to  the  curing  tables in the 
open  fields,  which  sometimes  occupy 
acres  in  extent.  With a favorable sun 
the rubber cloth will  be  cured  in  about 
three  hours,  and  from  that  up to days, 
according  to  the  state  of  the weather. 
This process of  vulcanizing is known  as 
sun-curing and is not employed for heavy 
clothing,  which 
in  heaters. 
Some gossamers are  also vulcanized that 
way. 
In  vulcanizing  boots  and shoes 
and  heavy  clothing  what  is  known  as 
dry heat is  used,  but  in  all  mechanical 
goods steam heat or live steam is employed
In  making  mackintoshes,  where  the 
water-proof coating is between  the  out­
side  of  the  garment and the lining,  the 
goods  are  coated  on  a spreader  in  the 
same manner as for  the  other  clothing, 
but a better  quality  of  rubber  is  used 
than on ordinary  garments.  The  goods 
are then cured by being run over a steam 
heated  drying  surface.  The  lining  is 
coated with rubber  cement,  and the pre­
pared  surfaces  of  the  cloth  and lining 
are joined together  by passing them  un­
der  rollers.  By  this  means  they  are 
practically one piece,  and great skill and 
experience are  required  that  the  goods 
shall  retain  their  soft,  flexible  nature 
and not be  rendered  stiff  and  tinny  by 
the layers of rubber.

is  cured 

In making up the garments about 3,500 
women  and  girls  are  employed  by the 
different factories.  The cutting is done 
by men,  and  they are  also  employed in 
finishing  the  mackintoshes and a few in 
other  capacities,  but  the  garments are 
made up by women and girls.  The cut­
ting is done in  much  the same manner as 
in the manufacture  of  regular clothing. 
Several  thicknesses of  the cloth are laid 
on a table and cut to  pattern  at the same 
time.  After cutting,  a strip  is cemented 
round  the  arm  sizes  and  pockets  and 
over the button flap;  pieces are also put 
on where the  button  holes  are to come, 
and all are  carefully pressed on  by hand 
rollers. 
In heavy clothing the seams are 
cemented and not  sewn.  Mackintoshes 
and gossamers are stitched on  machines, 
button holes made and buttons sewed on. 
After  being  stitched  the  gossamers are 
folded up in  little  bags  and are packed 
in  cases  for  shipment.  Mackintoshes, 
after being stitched, have a strip of cloth 
cemented  over  the  seams  to  prevent 
water coming through the holes made  in 
stitching.  The  pocket  flaps,  etc.,  are 
then  cemented  on,  and  the  garment  is 
then  vulcanized  in  the  heater.  This 
completes it.  This final vulcanizing ren­
ders  them  much  superior  to  English 
goods for standing the extremes  of  tem­
perature. 
In  finishing  heavy  rubber 
surface luster clothing  the garments are 
sponged with varnish  and  vulcanized  by 
being hung in  the  heaters  or dry rooms 
for about five  hours.  With dull finished 
garments  the  final  process  consists  in 
sponging  with  soap  and  water,  after 
which  the  garments  are  aired and  vul­
canized.

HEADQUARTERS  ; FOR

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When in  want  of  large
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low  prices from fresh cars.

HOGLE  OIL.  CO„ 

Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in  Oils 

and Mahers of Fine Lubricants.

OFFICE—m and 21 Waterloo St. 

The largest aud  most complete oil’line in Michigan. 

I WORKS—On C  & W. M. and G. R. & I. R. R.,one
Telephone No. 319. | mile north of Junction.  Telephone No. 611-3R
Jobbers  of all  kinds of 
Cylinder Oils,  Engine Oils,  W.  Va.  Oils,  Lard  Oils,  Neatsfoot  Oils,  Harness  Oil, 
Signal Oil,  Axle Grease,  Boiler Purger,  Kerosene  Oils,  Naptha,  Turpentine,  Lin­
seed Oils,  Castor Oil,  Cooking Oils,  Axle  Oils,  Machinery  Grease,  Cotton  Waste, 
Etc. 

See Quotations.

W e Manufacture
Everything in the line of

Candy

Correspondence  solic­
ited  and  prices  quot­
ed with pleasure. 

Write  us.

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

ßraeker  Manilfactilro,

3 7 ,  3 9   an d   41  K en t  St.,  G rand  R ap id s.

We  Are  Headquarters,  as  Usual,  for 
Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Bruits  . 

and  Produce  Generally.

C. B. MBTZGBR,  Proprietor

3  NO.  IONIA  ST., GRAND  RAPIDS.

MOSEL.BY  BROS.,

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F r u its,  S eed s, O y sters g P roduce .

All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

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

pleased to hear from you.

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa  St.,

GRAND  RAPD S

C.  N .  R A P P   &  CO.,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits.

9  No. IONIA  ST., GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Mr.  C. N.  Rapp was  for  two  years  partner  and general  manager of Geo.  E. 
Howes & Co.  and for the past year has been  the senior partner and general manager 
of the Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce Co.

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AMONG THE  TRADE.

ABOUND  T H E   STA TE.

S t  Louis—C.  G.  Littlefield,. grocer,  is 

THE  iMTCTïIGAJNT  TRADESMAN,
Grand  Ledge—Daron  &  Smith,  boot 
and  shoe  dealers  at  Charlotte,  have 
opened a branch store at this place.

Saginaw—Whitney  &  Batchelor  will 
lumber near Arnold’s lake, Clare county, 
the coming  fall  and  winter,  beginning 
operations Sept.  1.

dead.

meat market.

meat market

Cadillac—J.  F.  Jones  has  opened  a 

Big Rapids—Tom Ward  has  opened  a 

Minden City—W.  A.  Saule has sold his 

general stock to  M.  A.  Cass.

Manistee—Miss  Emma  Sembach  has 

opened a confectionery store.

Cadillac—Miss L.  J.  Lacount will open 

a millinery store about Sept.  6.

East  Thetford—A.  B.  Black  has  sold 

his general stock to M.  L.  Miller.

Morrice—J.  G. Kern has purchased the 

jewelry stock of H.  H.  Tillapaugh.

Hersey—Andrew McFarlane has closed 

up his meat market for the present.

Battle  Creek—Basso  Bros.,  dealers in 

fruit,  etc.,  have gone out of business.

Hillsdale—Smith  &  Barsby  succeed 

Smith & Doty in the grocery business.

Mulliken—W.  H.  Davis  has purchased 

the furniture stock of  H.  Putterelline.

Big  Rapids—Walter  Hudson  has  en­
gaged in the merchant tailoring business.
Stanwood—Dodge,  Metcalf  &  Co.  are 
closing out their general stock at auction.
Saranac—Fred E. Cahoon has  removed 
his stocK of boots and shoes to Ishpeming.
Ann Arbor—Mellor & Martin,  tobacco 
dealers,  are  succeeded by G.  F.  Gruber.
Leonard—De  Cue Hagerman  succeeds 
Howland  & Dewey in  the meat business.
Stetson—H.  H.  Webb  &  Co.  succeed 
H.  E.  Hung'rford  in  the  drug business.
Greenville—Deloies  Roosa has opened 
a restaurant in  the  “Star Bakery”  build­
ing.

Applegate—Geo.  R.  McNish,  general 
dealer,  has removed  his stock to Carson- 
ville.

Battle Creek—Mrs.  Mary E.  Howe suc­
ceeds Clara Gregory in the millinery bus­
iness.

Mancelona—Mary S.  Haynes, dealer in 
second-hand goods, is succeeded by L. W. 
Stewart.

Detroit—Miller  &  Co.,  grocers,  have 
dissolved,  C.  A.  Miller  continuing  the 
business.

Hastings—J.  C.  Cole  succeeds Dickin­
son &  Cole  in  the  grocery  and  saloon 
business.

Martin  —  Stroble  &  Andrews  have 
rented  their meat  market to Syd.  Konkle 
for one  year.

Martin—Stoble &  Andrews  have  sold 
their meat market to Fessender & Konkle, 
of Shelby ville.

Manton—W.  H.  Campbell,  formerly  in 
business at this place,  will  soon  open  a 
furniture  store.

St.  Johns—Caldwell  Bros.,  dealers  in 
agricultural  implements,  are  succeeded 
by G.  W.  Oakes.

Springport—John Hammond  has  pur­
chased  the  stock of  groceries, crockery, 
etc., of  Letecia  (Mrs. J.  L.)  Murray.

Detroit—Joseph C.  Robinson  has  em­
barked  in  the  grocery  business  at  the 
corner of Champlain and Leib streets.

Leslie—S.  O.  Russell,  a pioneer  mer­
chant  of  this  place,  suffered a stroke of 
paralysis recently,  and  is still  very low.
Manistee—Tom A.  Hazlitt has sold his 
cigar stand to Donaldson Bros.,  who will 
open a restaurant in  connection with the 
business.

Whitehall—C.  W.  Redfern has  merged 
his hardware  business  into a stock com­
pany  under  the  style  of  the  Redfern 
Company.

Muskegon—R.  W.  Goucher  is  putting 
in a stock of  jewelry in the building for­
merly  occupied  by  Laughray  &  Co.’s 
music store.

Muskegon—J ulle  Bierema has sold  his 
hardware  store on  Pine  street to Lewis 
Spyk,  and  will probably engage  in  the 
meat business.

Stanton—Lew Sterling  has  purchased 
the interest of  F.  A.  Hunter in  the  firm 
of Lew Sterling  &  Co.,  dealers  in  agri­
cultural  implements.

Belleville—Samuel W.  Kingsley’s gen­
eral store  was  entered  by burglars,  the 
11th,  for the  third  time  in  three years, 
and a quantity of goods taken.

Charlotte—Albert Spaulding  has  pur­
chased an interest in the  boot  and  shoe 
business of J.  Q.  Thomas & Co.,  the  new 
firm to be known as Spaulding & Thomas.
Eaton  Rapids—H.  Kositchek  &  Bros 
have purchased the clothing stock of  H. 
Lederer &  Son,  at Lansing,  and will run 
it in connection with their business here.
Seney—Louis Danto has purchased the 
interest of  Wm. Saulson in the dry goods 
and clothing firm of  Wm.  Saulson  & Co., 
and will  continue the business at the old 
stand.

Muskegon—Andrew Wierengohas pur­
chased  of  Brown  & Friend,  of  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  the  Hotel  Cadillac  property,  for 
$17,500. 
It is generally considered  that 
Wierengo secured a bargain.

Ionia—James  W.  Morton  has  left  the 
employ  of  the  Ionia  Pants and Overall 
Co.,  with which he  has been engaged for 
several years past,  and contemplates em­
barking in  the mercantile business.

Detroit—George  S.  McDonald,  Charles 
F.  Rich  and  Lucius B.  West, of this city, 
A.  W.  Wright,  of  Alma,  and  J.  Henry 
Lancashire, of  Saginaw,  have  incorpor­
ated the firm of McDonald,  Rich  &  Co., 
which  will  do  a  wholesale  and  retail 
business  in  grates,  mantels,  etc.,  suc- 
suceeding the former  firm  of  McDonald 
Bros.  & Co.  The capital stock is $15,000.

Martin—J.  M.  Kelsey  &  Co.,  of  Will- 
iamstown,  N.  Y.,  have  bought  the  fruit 
evaporator formerly  owned  by  Kent  & 
Austin, and will run it this  fall.

Standish— Austin  &  Co.’s  sawmill, 
completed last spring,  has manufactured 
2,500,000  feet  of  lumber  in sixty days. 
The firm is building a lath mill.

Owosso—The Owosso  canning  factory 
is starting up for the season,  with  good 
prospects.  The  old  proprietor,  W.  E. 
Wiggins,  will  superintend the work.

Alpena—Up  to  last  week  there  had 
been shipped  from  this  port  99,158,000 
feet  of  lumber,  4,845,000  lath,  807,000 
shingles, 325,000 railway ties and 197,800 
cedar posts.

Sebewaing—The  Sebewaing  Coal  Co. 
has  been  incorporated  by  S.  O.  Fisher 
and Benj.  Busbridge,  of  Bay City;  W. T. 
Chappell,  of  Sebewaing,  J.  W.  Groves 
and J.  F.  Seeler, of  Caro.

Owosso—The  Owosso  Tool  Co. is en­
larging  its  premises,  building  a  brick 
addition to the present factory,  the pres­
ent building being too  small to meet the 
increasing demand for their goods.

Allegan—Arnold & Mizener  have  sold 
the balance of their stock of hoops to  an 
Indiana firm.  The sale  included twenty 
car  loads—about  400,000  hoops.  The 
shop  will  be  ready  to  begin  business 
again Sept.  1.

Standish—Carton Bros, have purchased 
C.  H.  Rose’s shingle mill and will shortly 
remove it to a point on  the  east  branch 
of  the  Tittabawassee,  about  two  miles 
from  Summit.  The mill has a capacity 
of 40,000 daily.

Saginaw—J.  W.  Howry  &  Sons,  who 
have been logging  in  the  Georgian Bay 
district,  where they own a large  body  of 
timber, have put in several  million  feet 
of logs which will  be  rafted to the Sagi­
naw river to be manufactured.

Detroit—The Detroit Heating & Light­
ing  Co.,  manufacturers  of  hot  water 
heater  and  radiators,  have established a 
New  England  branch at 42 Pearl  street, 
Boston,  managed  by J.  A.  Sargent,  well 
known  to the trade for many  years.

Bay  City — McKeon  &  Glover  have 
started a camp  in  Arenac county,  where 
they will put in 20,000,000 feet.  The logs 
will be railed  to  Pinconning  and rolled 
into  Saginaw  bay,  where  they  will  be 
made into rafts and towed to the river.

Hastings—The Hastings Furniture Co. 
has begun excavating for a new building 
which will be 64x156,  two  stories  high. 
The upper story will be used by the cab­
inet makers and for finishing  the  furni­
ture and the lower story for  storage  and 
shipping.

Roscommon—E.  P.  Stone,  who  has 
been running a logging road in  Roscom­
mon county,  putting  logs  into  the Mus­
kegon river for various parties  the  past 
five  years,  has  nearly  finished,  and the 
road  equipment  will  probably  be sold. 
He has put in 200,000,000 feet.

Ishpeming—John C. Brown has started 
five camps near this  place and will start 
more shortly.  He will put in about 30,- 
000,000  feet  on  the  Dead  river for the 
Hawley mill at the mouth of that stream, 
and will put in a number of  million  feet 
besides for himself and other  parties.

Saginaw—The Emery Lumber  Co.  has 
let the  contract  to  Thomas  Pickard, of 
Mt.  Pleasant,  to  cut  150,000,000  feet of 
logs on the Wahnapitse,  in  the  Georgian

Bay district.  Mr.  Pickard is already  on 
the ground starting  camps,  and will put* 
in 30,000,000 feet  annually.  A  portion 
of these logs will be rafted  to  the  Sagi­
naw river.

FOR SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

Advertisements will be inserted  under  th is  head for 
two  cents  a   word  the  first  insertion  and  one cent a 
word  for each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
m ent taken for less th an  26 cents.  Advance  paym ent.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

FOR SALE—THE BE8T  DRUG  AND  GROCERY  B us­

iness in live railroad and  manufacturing* tow n in 
Michigan of  1,200 inhabitants,  with  splendid farm ing 
country to back it up,  with  no  large  town  w ithin  20 
miles;  the  business  comprises  drugs  and  medicines, 
groceries, school books,  crockery, wall paper, notions, 
etc.;  also express  oflice  and  m ail to carry to depot in 
connection;  m ail  and  express  pay  clerk  hire;  stock 
complete;  business pays $1,000 per y ear n et; stock will 
invoice  about  $4,000;  business  m ostly  cash;  in  brick 
block;  rental  low;  best  location  in  tow n;  also  own 
one-third interest in the block,  which  rents for  $1,500 
per year;  will  sell  one  or  both;  reasons  for  selling, 
sickness and death, with other  business  to  attend  to. 
Address No. 91, care Michigan Tradesman. 

Fo r   s a l e —t h e   m a g n if ic e n t   e l e v a t o r   a n d

warehouse  a t  Carson  City, Mich.,  recently built 
by the Carson City E levator  Co.  a t  a   cost  of  $10,000; 
having become th e  property of  the  Carson  City Sav­
ings Bank now in liquidation, will to close out, be sold 
for $5,000;  will give tim e for  p art.  Address  J. E. Just, 
Ionia, Mich. 
86
Fo r   s a l e—a  r a r e   o p p o r t u n it y   f o r   a   sm a ll
investm ent to secure a  lig h t  m anufacturing busi­
ness  paying  large  profits;  correspondence  solicited 
only from  parties m eaning business.  Drawer No. 881, 
90
La Crosse, Wis. 

91

OR  BALE  CHEAP-ONE  LARGE  DRY  AIR  RE- 
frigerator,  McGea  patent;  one coffee  m ill;  show 
cases;  scales;  tea  caddies;  oil tank, etc., everything in 
fixtures to run a  grocery store.  W.  C. Davis,  K alam a­
zoo, Mich. 
OR SALE OR RENT—A GOOD TWO-STORY BUILD- 
ing,  24x80  feet,  w ith  basem ent  24x80  feet;  the 
second story is rented for lodge hall.  F or  particulars 
w rite to J. R. Harrison, 8parta, Mich._____________88

either by inventory  or  by  b u lk ;  good  trade  for 

cash custom er.  No. 85, care Michigan Tradesman.  85

Fo r   s a l e  — g r o c e r y   s t o c k   a n d  f ix t u r e s ,
Fo r   s a l e —25  p e r   c e n t ,  b e l o w   c o st,  o n l y

hardw are stock in Baldwin, lively town on line of 
two railw ays;  ill health  compels  sale;  store  building 
cheap.  Joseph H. Cobb, Baldwin, Mich. 

89

84

OR SALE—MACHINE  SHOP  PART OF OUR BU8I- 
ness;  a  rare  chance.  The  Castree-Mallery  com­

82

pany, Flint, Mich. 

IpOR SALE—STOCK OF  FURNITURE  AND  UNDER- 
: 
taking goods in one of  the  best  towns  ih  Michi­
gan;  stock  will  invoice  about  $3,000;  term s  cash; 
reason for selling, are engaged  in  the  M anufacturing 
business.  Address No. 81, care Michigan Tradesm an81
FOR  SALE—FIRST-CLA8S  DRUG  STOCK;  INVEN- 
to ry  $2,000;  also  real  estate;  a  good  chance for 
young  physician.  Address  P.  M.  Cleveland  &  Son, 
Nunica. Mich. 
■  JOB  OF  CONTRACT  SAWING  FOR  SOME  RE- 

sponsible  party ;  Michigan  preferred.  Address 
Holley & Bullen. North Aurelius, Mich. 
OR SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES AND FIXTURE8, 
splendid location;  good  reasons for  selling.  For 

particulars, address No. 58, care Tradesman. 

58

75

65

ANTED—I  HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  PAY  FOR  A 
general  or  grocery stock;  m ust be cheap.  Ad­

dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 

26

SITUATIONS WANTED.

SITUATION  WANTED—BY  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
kJ  cist of eight  year’s  experience;  first-class  refer­
ences.  Address 92, care Michigan Tradesman. 

SITUATION  WANTED—BY TRAVELING  SALESMAN 

of  four  years’  experience  in  furnishing  goods 

line.  Address 87 care Michigan Tradesm an. 
VT7"ANTED—SITUATION  BY A REGISTERED PHARM- 
VV 
references 
given.  Address No. 88. care Michigan Tradesman.  83

acist,  8  years’  experience;  good 

87

92

MISCELLANEOUS.

■BOLISH  THE PASS BOOK  AND SUBSTITUTE THE 

Tradesman  Coupon,  which is now in use by over 
praise  of  its  effectiveness.  Send  for  sample  order, 
which  will  be  sent  prepaid  on  receipt  of  $1.  The 
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.

5,000  Michigan  m erchants—all  of  whom are  w arm  in 

SAMPLES O r TWO  KINDS  OF  COUPONS  FOR  RE- 

tailers  will  be  sent free  to  any dealer  who  will 
w rite for them  to  the  Sutliff  Coupon  Pass  Book  Co., 
Albany, N. Y. 

664

B iG yte,
Tricycles
Velocipedes,
general Sporting Goods
I  Agents for A. O. Spalding & Bro.’s 

Sporting  and  Athletic  Goods  and 
American Powder Co.’s Powder.

AND

, 

We have on hand a complete line of Columbia, 
Victor and other  cheaper  bicycles, also a splen­
did assortment of  Misses’  Tricycles,  Children’s 
Velocipedes and small  Safety Bicycles.
E. G. Studlev,
4  Monroe  St.,

Call and  see  them 
or  send  for  large, 
illu s tr a te d   cata 
logue.

GRAND  RAPIDS

Manistee—A.  F.  Cottingham &  Co.,  of 
New York,  have  opened a clothing store 
at 443 River street.

Hastings—Holden & Hire have engaged 
in  the  boot  and  shoe  business.  They 
hail from  Bellevue.

Muskegon—R.  S.  Miner  has  sold  his 
stock of  groceries to F.  Lowey,  who will 
continue the business.

Shiawassee—John  Phillips, of Chicago, 
has purchased the paper  mill and is put­
ting it in  shape to run.

Walkerville—Butters & Peters general 
store No.  2 will  be closed  as soon  as  the 
present stock is exhausted.

Owosso—J.  Silverstein, of Chicago, will 
open a line of  clothing, furnishing goods 
and  boots and shoes about Sept 1.

M A N U FA CTU RIN G   M ATTERS.

Mason—J.  C.  Cannon,  Secretary of  the 

Rogers Manufacturing Co., is dead.

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Spring Co. 
is about to move to Harvey,  a new annex 
to Chicago.

Pentwater—Phillips  &  Jensen  have 
resumed 

purchased  the  foundry  and 
operations.

South  Sylvan—Parmenter  &  Dayton 
have sold their shingle  mill  and  timber 
on  the  Doc and Tom  creek to parties in 
Clare.

Grand  Haven—The Grand Haven Lum­
ber  Co.  is  shipping  16,000,000  feet  of 
lumber  to  A.  M.  Dodge & Co.,  of  Tona- 
wanda.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

P.  of  I.  Gossip.

J.  W.  Hurd,  the Clio dealer,  writes  as 
follows: 
“Please  drop  my name  from 
your list of  P.  of  I.  dealers,  as  my  con­
tract is no longer in force.  Keep  it  out 
of the repentance column,  also, as I have 
nothing to repent  of  in relation to deal­
ing with  that  faction  under  contract.”
A Lake Odessa  correspondent  writes: 
“I see by  your paper that  you still class 
Haller & Co.,  E.  F.  Colwell  &  Son  and 
Fred Miller as selling to the  P.  of  I. 
I 
wish  to say that  such  is  not  the  case. 
These contracts ran out about July 1 and 
were not renewed,  so  that  the  Patrons 
have no store here at present.”

Davison  Index:  “One  evening 

last 
week theDuffield P.  of  I.  enjoyed  them­
selves  in  hanging  in  effigy one of  their 
members  belonging to the Gaines Center 
lodge.  Next  morning  the  effigy  was 
found  suspended  over  the door of  their 
lodge and the building draped  in mourn­
ing,  and then they became wroth.”

O’Donnell  correspondence  Hastings 
Banner:  “The  P.  of  I.  stores,  Edwards 
and Covert,  have refused to renew  their 
contracts.  The  people are satisfied that 
Hastings is and has  been  selling just  as 
cheap as they can,  and  no  merchant can 
sell  goods on a 10 per  cent,  basis to the 
Patrons  and  have  two-thirds  of  them 
trade at Hastings. 
In one  of  their  pri-

5
vate meetings a short  time ago,  a gentle­
man made  a  resolution  that  ‘steps  be 
taken to have a P.  of I.  postoffice.’ ”

The  Grocer in  a  Fix.

“Mr.  Hopper,  I  find  my  last  lot  of 
“Well,  madam,  at  this  time  of  the 
“That doesn’t account for it,  Mr.  Hop­

sugar full of flies.”
year,  you know,  we—”
per.  These are sand flies.”

Standish—James  Norris’  sawmill  has 
manufactured  3,000,000  feet,  and  the 
shingle mill has  averaged  28,000  daily, 
but is now idle. 
It  will  resume  opera­
tions next month.

VISITING  BUYERS.

Mrs E  Scott,  Dunningville H Van Noord,  Jamestown 
G H Rem ington. Bangor
E S Botsford, Dorr 
WmVerMeulen.Be&verD&m 
S T McLellan, Denison 
Hessler Bros., Rockford  W D   Struik,  Byron  Center 
E E Hewitt, Rockford 
Geo Hirschburg. Bailey 
W R Lawton, Berlin 
Geo A Sage, Rockford 
G D Van Vranken, Cadillac Smith A  Bristol, Ada 
D M Skidmore, Alto 
Eli Runnels, Corning 
John Smith, Ada 
J B W atson, Coopersville 
D F W atson, Ada
L J  Law. Cadillac 
S McNitt. Byron Center 
C S Comstock, Pierson 
Den H erder  A  Tanis.
R G Beckwith, Bradley 
M Hirschberg. Bailey 
J F Clark, Big Rapids 
Ellen Kinney. Ensley 
Severance & Rich, 
A C Barkley, Crosby
J  L  Thomas,  Cannonsburg 
A P 8river,So GrandRapids Dayton A  P&rmenter,
A W Huntley, Saranac 
Crooked Lake
C arrington A North,  Trent Matthews & Chapel.WTroy 
John Gunstra, Lam ont 
M Rookledge, Frem ont 
S T Colson, Alaska 
Smallegan A Pickaard,
R Richards,-Allegan 
Forest Grove
P W Travis. Otsego 
G Ten Hoor,  Forest  Grove
A Purchase. So Blendon 
T Van Eenenaam.  Zeeland 
Jno Farrowe. So Blendon 
J  Riddering, Drenthe 
John Dam stra. Gitchell
Frank Cornell, Sebewa 
Alex Denton,  Howard City N F Miller, Lisbon 
L M Wolf, Hudsonville 
H F Clark, Lowell
E J  H arrington, Holland  M Heyboer & Bro., Oakland 
John De Vries,  Jam estow n J O Nessen, Nessen City 
H Meijerlng, Jamestown

Middleville 

Vriesland

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

I.  M.  Clark & Son have foreclosed their 
mortgage on the grocery stock of  Snyder 
& Porter at 3 Stocking street.

A.  M.  Amberg,  proprietor  of  the En­
terprise cigar store,  at 136 Monroe street, 
has  sold  out  to  B.  J.  Reynolds,  late  of 
Owosso.

Cook & Bergthold  have abandoned the 
manufacture of  show cases,  having  dis­
posed of their stock on hand  to  Heyman 
«& Company.

E.  E.  Walker  has  engaged in the vine­
gar,  pickle  and  bottled  goods  business 
at  22  and  24  Ottawa  street  under  the 
style of  the Grand Rapids Pickle Co.

Gripsack Brigade.

Will Jones has returned from  his  out­
ing at Chicago and resumed his  work on 
the road.

A.  S.  Doak  recently wagered  $10  that 
Cross  Village will have a railroad inside 
of three years.

Will Campbell was  in  town  Saturday 
on his  way home from  Petoskey,  where 
he had been spending  some time with D. 
N.  White.

Joseph  H.  Gibbons, 

the  Charlotte 
cracker salesman,  must  have some sinis­
ter object in  view in  disguising  himself 
so completely via the  barber shop.

W.  H.  Downs  and  wife  and  S.  F. 
Downs were called to  Union  City Satur­
day night by a telegram announcing that 
the  elder  Downs is near to death’s door.
It is reported that Dave  Smith has dis­
continued his  visits to Montague,  in con­
sequence  of  the  constant  importunities 
of the German who imagines himself  the 
victim  of  Dave’s duplicity  in  a  flower 
deal several years ago.

L.  J.  Koster  is  authority for the state­
ment that the Park  Place  Hotel,  at Ben- 
zonia,  has  doubled  its  rates,  while  the 
service  remains the same as before. 
In 
other words,  the traveling men are asked 
to pay $2 for $1 per day accommodations.
“Some  of  the  boys 
told Uncle Dave, Monday,  that  By-Gee- 
Crip Jennings had one of his checks, and 
the old  gentleman  inserted  the  brad in 
his cane about an inch in the rear side of 
Jennings’  left leg  with neatness and dis­
patch.”

Shelby Herald: 

Geo. F.  Owen  undertook  to  open  his 
sample  trunks  at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  last 
Wednesday  and  Thursday,  but  the  un­
dertaking  was too much for his strength 
and he is flat on his back again.  As soon 
as he is able to travel,  he  will go to Mt. 
Clemens  for a long  rest. 
In  the  mean­
time  his  customers  will be called on by 
Mr. Baxter.

The Board of Trustees of the Michigan 
Commercial  Travelers’  Association  met 
August 11 and ordered advance death as­
sessment No. 4,  for 1890.  Proofs  of  the 
death  of  L.  J.  Taylor,  of  Ann  Arbor, 
were  presented  and  a  check for  $2,500 
ordered  drawn.  The  death  occurred at 
Pontiac  on  July 29,  having been caused 
by paralysis.

Dave Smith stole a dog, while at Wood- 
ville  last  week,  and  expressed  the  an­
imal to Steve  Sears,  with a card reading, 
“With  the  compliments  of  the  boys.” 
Steve  didn’t  care to be mixed up in any 
larceny  case,  so  he  turned  the  canine 
over to Arthur  Gregory,  who is as proud 
of  his  new  possession as a boy with his 
first pair of  boots.

The base ball nines championed by Hi. 
Robertson and  B.  S.  Davenport  covered 
themselves with  glory and sand burrs at

the Fountain street park  Saturday after­
noon,  the score at the end of  six innings 
standing seventeen to twelve in favor  of 
Happy  Hi’s  nine.  Another  game  was 
arranged for Saturday  of  this week,  but 
on account of several of the players being 
absent at that time,  the  event  has  been 
postponed  another  week—until  August 
SO—when the contest will positively take 
place at Alger park.

“ T h e  T radesm an’s  reference  to  the 
decline  in  the  service at Moore’s Hotel, 
at Shelby,  will  have a beneficial  effect,” 
said a leading  grocery  salesman.  “The 
landlord spoke to  me  about  the  matter 
and I frankly told  him that he ought not 
to  put  the  traveling  man  who  pays 50 
cents for a meal on the same basis as the 
local  customer  who  pays a quarter. 
If 
traveling men are charged  double  price, 
they ought to be  given  something  extra 
for  the  money.  The old  fellow is pop­
ular  with  the  boys  and I think he will 
trim  his sails so as to keep their custom.”
The traveling men are having  no  end 
of fun with Walter  B.  Dudley  over  the 
way in  which  he  sold  cigars  for Thos. 
Heffernan,  the  Baldwin  druggist,  last 
Thursday morning.  Mr.  Heffernan  left 
Dudley  in  the  store  while  he  went to 
breakfast  and  on  his  return  was  sur­
prised  to  find  that  the  cigar trade had 
been something remarkable  in the mean­
time.  The occasion of the  increase  was 
soon discovered—Dudley had  been  sell­
ing  10-cent  cigars  for  5  cents  and the 
customers of  the store had improved the 
opportunity.  The  way  Dudley’s  jaw 
dropped when informed  of  the  mistake 
was enough to make, a cat laugh.

A.  L.  Braisted  was sitting in the store 
of  the  Osterhout & Fox  Lumber Co.,  at 
Deer Lake,  last  Wednesday,  when a boy 
approached him  with  the  request,  “A 
lady at the depot wants  you to come and 
see her baby.”  The  elephantine  drum­
mer  was  considerably  perplexed,  and 
would  have  undoubtedly  answered  the 
summons had not W. A. D. Rose explained 
that  the  messenger  had  evidently  mis­
taken Braisted for Dr.  Heckman,  of Reed 
City,  whose  gross  weight  probably  ex­
ceeds that of  the  representative  of  the 
Voigt  flour  monopoly.  Mr.  Braisted 
would do  well to lay in an  extra  supply 
of  cigars the next time he goes  to  Deer 
Lake—or  send  W.  A.  D.  a box  by first 
express for  coming  to  the  rescue at an 
embarrasing time.

“That  one-legged man is a fraud,”  re­
marked a well-known  traveling  man,  as 
the familiar figure  of  the man  with one 
leg off  at the hip passed through a G.  R. 
& 1.  train  between  Cadillac  and  Reed 
City.  T h e  T radesm an  representative 
expressed  surprise  how  such  an unfor­
tunate person could be a fraud,  when  the 
man of  samples continued :  “Of  course, 
there  is  no  denying  the fact  that he is 
unfortunate in the loss of  a  leg,  but the 
manner in which he spends his handsome 
income deprives him of  the sympathy of 
the people of  Cadillac,  where he and his 
‘acquaintance’  reside. 
I am the last man 
in the world  to decry a man who is striv­
ing to make  the  most  of  his  opportun­
ities,  but that fellow  uses the numerous 
nickles  which  are  contributed  by sym­
pathetic passengers  in riotous living and 
ought not to  be  given  the  privilege  of 
the trains by the railway company.”

Manistee—Henry  Clay  Ward  contrib­
utes $10,000 special  capital to the firm of 
W.  F.  Baker,  dealer  in lumber and shin­
gles.

We are now ready to make contracts for the season  of  1890.

81  SOUTH  DIVISION  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Correspondence solicited. 

Already  and  within  a  year’s  time,  our 
business  has  grown  to  such proportions as 
to demand  larger  quarters,  which  we have 
secured at 46 Ottawa St.,  where we shall be pleased to see our friends in the future. 
Net weights and fine goods tell the tale.  Be sure to give them a trial.

A .  E .  B R O O K S   &  CO.

Putnam  Gandy  Bo,

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

ORANGES,

LEMONS,

BANANAS, 
Rigs,  Dates,  Nuts,  etc•

CURTISS  A- 
WHOLESALE

C O . ,

P a p e r  W a reh o u se.

FLOUR SACKS,  GROCERY  BAGS,  TWINE  AND  WOODEN  WARE.

Houseman  Block, 

- 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

 

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I Atlantic  A..............7  ICliftonCCC.............  6*
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“  LL..............  53£ Full Yard Wide...... 6)4
[ Amory....................   7* j Honest Width.........   6*
I Archery  Bunting...  4)£jHartford A  ............   5)4
j Beaver Dam  A A ...  5* ! Madras cheese cloth 6*
Blackstone O, 32__5  (Noibe R......................5*
Black  Rock  ...........7  Our Level  Best........  6)4
j Boot,  AL...............   7)4 Oxford  R ................6)4
Chapman cheese cl.  3*{Pequot....................  7)4
Comet..................... 7  ¡Solar.......... 
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! Dwight Star............  7)4|Top of the Heap__ 7H
BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONB.

i Amsburg.................7  IGlen Mills................  7
Blackstone A A......8  Gold Medal..............   7)4
¡Beats All................ 4)4 Green  Ticket........... 8)4
Cleveland.............  7  Great Falls.............   6)4
Cabot......................   7)4 Hope........................  7)4
Cabot,  %...................6*
Just  Out........  43£@ 5
King  Phillip  .........   73i£
I Dwight Anchor......  9
shorts.  8*
OP......7)4
I Edwards.................   6
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10)4
Empire...................   7
Lonsdale...........  @ 8)4
Farwell...................  7*
Middlesex......   @ 5
Fruit of the  Loom..  8*
No Name................   7)4
Fitchville  ............... 7)4
Oak View..............  6
Our Own................   5)4
First Prize................6)4
I Fruit of the Loom %.  8
Pride of the West 
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Fairmount................4)4
Rosalind...................7)4
Full Value................6*
Sunlight..................  4)4
Geo.  Washington...  8)4
Vinyard..................  8)4
8)4

Cabot...................... 7)4IDwight Anchor..
Farwell...................  7341
UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
Tremont N..............  5)4 [Middlesex No.  1.
Hamilton N............ 6)4 
2.
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Middlesex  AT........8 
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No. 25....  9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
Hamilton N............ 7)4 ¡Middlesex A A...
Middlesex P T ..........8
2. A O.
A T ........  9
X A........  9
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Hamilton 
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Nameless................16
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Biddeford...............6  ¡Naumkeagsatteen..  7)4
Brunswick..............6)4|Rockport...................6)4
Allen, staple......  5)4
Merrim'ck shirtings.  4)4 
fancy......  5)4
“  Repp furn .  8)4
robes.......... 5
Pacific fancy..........6
American  fancy__ 6
robes............  6)4
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American Indigo__634
Portsmouth robes...  6 
American shirtings. 
Simpson mourning..  6)4
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Arnold 
greys........6)4
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long cloth B. 10)4
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Washington indigo.  6 
“  C. 8)4
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century cloth 7
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“  gold seal...... 10)4
“  India robes__ 7)4
“  Turkey red.. 10)4
“  plain Tky X *   8)4 
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“  oil blue.......   6)4
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red................ 6
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Cocheco fancy........  6
Martha Washington
“  madders...  6 
Turkeyred 34........7)4
Eddy stone  fancy...  6 
Martha Washington
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6)4
Turkeyred.......... 9)4
staple__  5)4
Riverpofnt robes__5
Manchester fancy.  6 
Windsor fancy........  6)4
new era.  6)4 
gold  ticket 
Merrimack D fancy.  6)4
Indigo blue......... 10)4
[NOS.AC  A......................12)4
Amoskeag A C A__13
Pemberton AAA__16
Hamilton  N..........7)4
York........................ 10)4
D..........8)4
Awning..11
Swift River............   7)4
Farmer....................8
Pearl  River.............12)4
First Prize..............11)4 Warren
COTTON  DRILL.
Atlanta,  D..............  634¡Stark...
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Boot........................  634 
Clifton, K...............   7 
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Simpson................. 20
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Coechco................. 10)4

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Black................9@  9)4
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Berlin solids......  5)4

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9oz...... 14)4 Lancaster  .............. 12)4
brown. 13  Lawrence, 9 oz.........13)4
No. 220— 13
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634
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Westbrook..............8
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York........................634
Hampton.................6)4
Windermeer........... 5
Cumberland........... 5
Essex......................  4)4

Andover.................11)4 
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Lancashire.............   6)4
Normandie.............  7)4
Renfrew Dress........7)4
Toil du Nord... .10® 10)4
Amoskeag................ 634
AFC........10)4
Persian...................   8)4
Bates.........................634
Warwick...............   8)4
Peerless, white.......1834|Peerless  colored.. .21

Lancaster,  staple 
fancies 

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GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag............  .17)4 (Valley City..............17
Harmony............... 17  Georgia....................17
Stark......................21  Pacific..................... 14)4
American.............. 17)41
Clark’s Mile End... .45  ¡Barbour s............... 88
Coats’, J. & P ........ 45  Marshall's................88
Holyoke.................22)41
White.  Colored. 

KNITTING  COTTON.

THREADS.

6  ..  ..33 
«8......... 34 
10 ........ 35 
12......... 36 

No.  14..........37 
“  16..........38 
“  18..........39 
“  20..........40 

White.  Colored.
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CAMBRICS.

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...... 8)4@10

RED  FLANNEL.

MIXED  FLANNEL.

DOMET  FLANNEL.

Slater......................  434|Washiugton............  434
White Star............   434 Red Cross................. 4)4
Kid Glove..............   434 Lockwood................ 434
Newmarket............   434 Wood’s..................   4*
Edwards.................4% ¡Brunswick.................434
Fireman.................32)4 |T W.......................... 22)4
Creedmore............. 27)4 F T ........................... 32)4
Talbot XXX...........30  J R F , XXX..............35
Nameless...............27)4|Buckeye...................32)4
Red & Blue,  plaid. .40  ¡Grey S R W............17)4
Union R.................22)4 Western W  ..............18)4
Windsor................. 18)4 D R P ..............  
18)4
6 oz Western..........21  Flushing XXX......... 23)4
Union  B................ 22341Manitoba................. 23)4
......  9 @10)4
Nameless...... 8 @ 9)4
12)4
Slate.  Brown. Black. Slate. Brown. Black.
13
9)4 
15
10)4 
17
11)4 
12)4 
20
Severen, 8 oz---- ...  9)4 West  Point, 8 oz ...10)4
“
Mayland, 8oz__ ...10)4
10 oz ...12)4
Greenwood, 7)4 oz..  9)4 Raven, lOoz......
...13)4
“  .... ...15
Greenwood, 8 oz ...11)4 Stark
WADDINGS.
White, doz............ 25  ¡Per bale, 40 doz___37 00
Colored, doz...........20 
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 

|
| Pawtucket...........  . 10)4
“ 
Red Cross....  9  Bundle...................   9
“  Best  ............10)4 Bedford..................10)4
Best AA...... 12)4lValley  City............. 10)4
“ 
Coraline................19 50|Wonderful............84 75
Schilling’s ............   9 00| Brighton............... 4 75
Corticelli, doz........ 75  [Corticelli knitting,

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
13
9)4
15
10)4
17
1D4
12)4
20

9)4 13
10)4 15
11)4 17
12)4 20
DUCKS.

SEWING  SILK.

BIL18IA8.

CORSETS.

..12 
“ 8 
..12  I “  10 

twist,doz..37)4  per )4oz  ball........30
50 yd, d o z.37)41
HOOKS AND ETES—PER GROSS.
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

No  1 Bl’k & White.,10  (No  4 Bl’k & White.,15 
“  2 
..20
“  3 
..25
No 2—20, M C.........50  ¡NO 4-15, F  3)4.........40
‘  3-18, S C ..........45  I
No  2 White & Bl’k..l2  ¡No  8 White & Bl’k..20 
“  4 
.23
“  6 
..26
|No3.......................... 36
No2........................28 

COTTON  TAPE.
..15 
“ 10 
..18  | “  12 
SAFETY PINS.

PINS.

“ 
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“ 
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NEEDLES—PER M.

A. James.................1  50i Steamboat...............   40
Crowelv’s............... 1  35 Gold  Eyed...................1 50
Marshall’s ..............1 00
5—4. ...2 25  6—4.. .3 25(5—4__1  95  6-4. .  2 95

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“ 

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...3 10|

J.&P.COATS

FOR

FOR  SALE  BY

TOTE,  BLACK  A D   COLORS,
Hand and Machine Usa
P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS
Voigt, HerDoMeimer & Go.

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

D r y   G o o d s

Manufacturers of

Shirts,  Pants,  Oileralls,  Etc.

Complete Spring  Stock  now ready for
inspection.  Chicago and  Detroit  prices 
guaranteed.

48,50 and 52 Ottawa St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

-  MICH

AVOID  THE

B Y   USING

“TRADESMAN

“SUPERIOR’r

OR

 Coiipon Books

Manufactured by

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Grand  Rapid*.

See quotations In  Grocery Price Current.

B E A C H ’S

]i|8w  York  Qoffe8  Rooms.

Nankeen  Cotton.
From the Textile Manufacturing World.
Cotton  planters  in  the  South  have 
shown considerable interest  of  late in a 
Chinese  cotton,  known as Nankeen,  and 
which is as  yet  but  little known in  this 
country. 
It has  been  raised  to  a  very 
limited extent here,  but the acreage of  it 
promises to increase,  now that the farm­
ers  have  realized  that it possesses a pe­
culiar  value,  and that there are custom­
ers ready to purchase what may be grown 
of  it.  The  cotton is described as fine in 
texture and fair in staple,  has  very long 
fibres;  such as has  been  raised here has 
been used for druggists’ cord, carpet yarn, 
hosiery and underwear yarn. 
It is  of  a 
beautiful  golden  color,  is a good  imita­
tion  of  camel’s  hair,  and has been  used 
in  many cases as a substitute for wool.
It is sold at an  advance  of  from 25 to 
S3 per cent,  above ordinary cotton.  At a 
recent  alliance  meeting a letter from an 
eastern manufacturer was read,  desiriug 
to  contract for  10,000  pounds  to be de­
livered next  season,  and a standing offer 
is made of $150 for the first bale.

He  W as on  His  First  Trip.

too.”

“This is the  very  worst  house  I ever 
put  up  a t!”  exclaimed  a  well-dressed 
commercial  traveler  in  the  lobby  of  a 
Western hotel.
“What’s  the  matter?”  questioned  an 
old-time  commercial  traveler  standing 
near.  “Beds bad ?”

“No;  beds are all right.”
“Poor table?”
“I am well enough  satisfied with that, 
“Service not up to the mark, eh ?”
“Nothing  to  complain  of  on  that 
“Overbearing clerks,  no doubt.”
“On  the  contrary,  all  pleasant  and 
“Rates too high for  your nut ?”
“No;  on  the  contrary,  charges  very 
reasonable.”
“For  heaven’s sake, of  what,  then, do 
you complain ?”
“Everything  in  general.  Don’t  you 
see that this is my first trip ?”
The  old  commercial  traveler  saw the 
point,  set  up  the  cigars,  and  thought a 
deep think.

obliging.”

score.”

Now  Guess.

What is that which  we  wish  for  and 
when obtained  we  never  know we have 
it?  Sleep.
What  is  that  which  has  never  been 
felt,  seen,  nor  heard,  never  existed  and 
never  will  exist,  and  yet  has a name? 
Nothing.
What is the longest and shortest  thing 
in the world,  the swiftest and  the  slow­
est,  without which  nothing can  be done, 
which devours all that is small  and gives 
life to all that is  great?  Time.
What is that  which has three feet,  but 
no legs,  is all body, but no  limbs,  has no 
toes  on  its  feet, no head,  moves a great 
deal and never uses its feet for that  pur­
pose,  has one  foot  at  each  end  and the 
other in  the center of  its body?  This  is 
a queer creature in  some respects, and is 
very popular among  the ladies and some 
men. 
It never walks out, and  goes with 
one foot where its head  might  be,  drag­
ging the other foot  behind.  These feet 
have nails,  but no toes,  no  heels  and  no 
bones in  the foot.  A yard measure.

The  New  Coats  Company.

It is announced  that  subscriptions  to 
the amount  of  $40,000,000 were received 
on the 12th for  the new limited company 
which  will assume the  business formerly 
conducted by the J.  & P.  Coats Co.  Only 
$5,000,000 in subscriptions were received 
in  this  country,  the  remainder  having 
been  tendered  by our  English  cousins. 
As  the  capitalization  of 
the  proposed 
company  is only £5,750,000—or  $27,983,- 
333 in our money—about one-third of the 
tenders will have to be rejected.

Cadmus—Mr.  Shepherd  has sold his in­
terest in the firm  of  Bailey & Shepherd, 
to Mr.  McLouth.

f .  

S T B K B T B B  «fe  S O N S ,

WHOLESALE

Dry  Goods  and  Notions,

New  Line  of  Simpsons  Prints  in  Satine  and Delaine Fnish,  and Zephyrs in 

Blacks, Silver Gray and Fancies—All  New Designs.

61  Pearl  Street.

GRAIN  BAGS—Stark,  American,  Amoskeag,  Harmony,  Park,  Georgia  and 

J  Valley  City.

WADDINGS,  BURLAP,  TWINE,  BATTS  and  COMFORTS.

88  (lom e  aid  10,12,  14,16  1  18  Potlntain  81a.,  BRAND  RAPIDS.

Five  Cents  Each  for  all  dishes  served 

from bill of fare.

Steaks,  Chops  and  All  Kinds  of  Order 

Cooking  a  Specialty.

FRANK  M.  BEACH,  Prop.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

(US.
dls.

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

LOCKS—DOOR. 

k no bs—New List. 

LEVELS. 
70
Stanley Rale and Level  Co.’s
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings—  
........ 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..................  
55
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
Mallory, Wheeler  & Co.’s............................ 
55
Branford’s .......................... 
Norwalk’s ....................................................  
56
MATTOCKS.
Adze Bye........................................  116.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye.  ....................................  115.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ...................................... $18.50, dls. 20*10.
d ls.
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled...............
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .....................

MAULS.
MILLS.

dlS.

 

 

“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables
“  Landers,  Ferry & Cli  k’s...........
..............................
“  Enterprise 

dls.

MOLASSES GATES.

 

NAILS

Advance over base: 

Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring.......................... 
25
Steel nails, base..............................................2 10
Wire nails, base..............................................2 60
Steel.  Wire.
Base
60.....................................................Base
50.....................................................Base
10
46.......................................................  05
20
10
30....................................................... 
2030
20..................................  
35
16....................................................... 
15
35
12....................................................... 
15
40
10....................................................   20
50
8.........................................................   25
65
7 * 6 ...................................................  40
90
4.........................................................   60
1  50
3........................................................ 1 00
2.................................................. 
1 50
2  00 
Fine 3............................................... 1 50
2 00
90 
Case  10..............................................   60
8.........................................  
1  00 
1  25 
6..............................................   90
Finish 10............................................  85
1  00 
1  25
8............................................1  00
1  50 
6  .......................................... 1  15
75 
Clinch  10...........................................   85
8..........................................1  00
6..........................................1  15
2 50 
Barren %..........................................1  75
dls.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   @40
Sclota Bench................................................  @60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  @40
Bench, first quality......................................   @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood...........  *10
Fry,  Acme............................................ dis.60—10
Common,  polished................................ dis. 
70
dls.
Iron and  Tinned.........................................  
40
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.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

901 00

rivets. 

PLANES.

  75

Broken packs He per pound extra.

FANS.

 

ROPES.

16
dls.

SQUARES.

Sisal, *4 inch and larger.........................  ..  12*4
Manilla
Steel and Iron.............................................
Try and Bevels...........................................
Mitre..........................................................
SHEET IRON.Com.  Smooth.
Nos. 10 to 14.....................................$4 20
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................4 20
Nos.  18 to 21.....................................  4 20
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4 20
Nos. 25 to 26 .....................................  4 40
No. 27 ...............................................   4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86.......................... ............dls. 40*10

75
60
20
Com. 
$3 10 
3 20 
3 20 
3 30 
3 40 
3 50
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

SAND PAPER

7

50
55
50
55
35

3 60

SASH CORD.

Silver Lake, White A..............................list 
Drab A .................................  “ 
White  B..............................   “ 
Drab B..................................  “ 
White C.................................“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dis.

dls.

wire. 

saws. 

traps. 

Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,  ... 

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton $25
20
“ 
Hand........................................ 
70
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot 
  50
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot....  30
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
30
Cuts,  per  foot............................................. 
Steel, Game................................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s  ... 
70
Mouse,  choker................................ 18c per doz.
Mouse, delusion..............................$1.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market  ..............................................   65
Annealed Market......................................   ,7C—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market........................................  ..  62*4
Coppered  Spring  Steel............................... 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized....................... 
painted.................................  3 00
Au Sable...............................dls. 25A10@25A10A05
dis. 05
Putnam.......................................... 
Northwestern................................  
dis. 10*10
dis.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
15
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,  ......... 
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75*10
Bird Cages................................................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern................. 
75
Screws, New List.........................................  
50
Casters, Bed  and  Plate...........................50*10*10
Dampers, American.................................. 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.......  
65

MISCELLANEOUS. 

WRENCHES. 

HORSE NAILS.

dls.

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METALS.
PIG TIN.

 

 

 

 

ZINC.

26c
28c

SOLDER

Pig  Large............................................  
Pig Bars.............. 
Duty:  Sheet, 2%c per pound.
680 pound  casks........................................... 
7%
Per pound....................................................  
7%
*4@*4.................................................................. 16
Extra W iping..................................................13*4
The  prices  of  the  many other  qualities  of
solder in the market Indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
Cook son........................................per  pound  16
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................ $660
6 60 
14x20 IC,
10x14 IX, 
8 35 
14x20 IX, 
8 35

.....................................
..................
Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.

“ 
“ 

“ 

. 

10x14 IC, Charcoal  ..................................... $600
14x20 IC, 
6 no
10x14 IX, 
7 50
14x20 IX, 
7  30

TIN—ALLA WAT  GRADE.
“ 
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......................................  
......................................  

Each additional X on this grade $1.50.

.........  

ROOFING PLATES
Worcester...............................  6 00

 

 

7 50

Allaway  Grade

“ 

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX,
14x28  IX. 
14x31  IX.
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers. I 
14x60 IX,  “ 

“  9 

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

 
12 50
5 25
6 75 
11  00 
14  00
$18 
.14  50
ou
»A

H A R D W A R E .

P r ic e s  C urrent.

The  Stove  Trade  Outlook.  »

From   Stores and Hardware.

A few  weeks since these columns con­
tained  some  observations  urging  upon 
dealers the advantages of ordering stoves 
in  advance of the activity of the fall sea­
son. 
It  would  appear  that  in this we 
anticipated  the  desire  of a majority  of 
the more enterprising dealers of the West 
and Southwest, for with large unanimity 
the stove  manufacturers  report  the  re­
ceipt  of  orders  earlier  and  with  more 
regularity than for  several seasons past.
An excellent  start  for  the season has 
thus been made in  the stove trade,  and it 
is not likely that  the annoyances attend­
ing shipments early in  September,  when 
manufacturers are at  their  busiest,  will 
be  so  pronounced  this  year  as  during 
former seasons.  There  is  also uniform 
expression of  satisfaction among dealers 
over the new patterns and improvements 
that the stove  foundries  are turning out 
this year and a cheerful feeling pervades 
the trade at large,  to which it has been  a 
stranger for at least  two seasons.  A be­
lief  generally  prevails,  and  is  at  least 
supported by historical precedent,  that a 
repetition of the last two open winters is 
most  unlikely.  Three  seasons  of  such 
character  have  rarely,  if  ever, followed 
in close succession; and it is remembered 
with some gratification  that former sum­
mers  characterized by intense heat were 
invariably  followed  by  seasonably cold 
winters.  There is some comfort  for  the 
stove trade in this latter reflection.
With  the  enterprise  characteristic of 
the trade,  the  stove manufacturers have 
made  extraordinary preparations for the 
fall  and  winter  trade,  and should their 
hopes of seasonable  weather be realized, 
they will be able to meet the largest con­
sumptive demand in  the  history  of  the 
trade and with a better  and more varied 
assortment  of  goods  than were ever be­
fore offered.  The dull months of trade, 
just passing,  have afforded  ample oppor­
tunity  for  the  busy employment of me­
chanical  genius  in  devising 
improve­
ments in construction and finish of stoves 
and ranges,  with a result that the output 
of the present season is believed to be  as 
near perfection as human  ingenuity  and 
skill can approximate.

Gasoline  Stoves.

From  th e American Artisan.

We occasionally hear  complaints from 
users of  gasoline  stoves,  as well as from 
dealers, that  some  of  these  stoves  “do 
not work.” 
Instances of  this kind have 
recently come to our notice  where  gaso­
line stoves were  returned  to  the  dealer 
with this same  complaint.  Examination 
developed the fact  that  coal oil or kero­
sene  had  been used to operate the stove 
instead of  gasoline,  a fact  which at once 
explained the difficulty.  Gasoline  stoves 
are not made  to  burn  kerosene  oil  and 
the  attempt to make  them do so will re­
sult  in  disappointment  to  the  experi­
menter and ruin to the stove.  There are 
many products obtained from  petroleum 
in the process of distillation and of these 
gasoline is one of the most volatile.  Goal 
oil is too heavy an oil to use in a gasoline 
stove,  which is constructed to operate by 
the generation of  vapor from the lighter 
fluid.  When  this  is  thoroughly under­
stood there will be less complaint against 
these  stoves; 
therefore,  every  dealer 
should make a point  of  cautioning  pur­
chasers upon this  point.

A Novel  Sign.

The following sign hangs in front of  a 
9tore in a town not  much over fifty miles 
from Grand Rapids:
HA

For Sail 

by

Jim Sweet.

Stetson—A.  J.  Felter  has  purchased 
the interest  of  his partner  in the  hard­
ware  business  of  Felter & Johnson and 
will continue the business under his own 
name. 

»

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
(Us.

66
Snell’s ........................................................... 
40
Cook’s ........................................................... 
........... 
25
Jennings’, genuine..........................
...........50*10
Jennings’,  Imitation.......................

▲HOURS AND BITS. 

AXES.

“ 
“ 
“ 

...........$ 8 50
First Quality, S. B. Bronze..............
...........  12 50
D.  B. Bronze..............
S. B. 8. Steel.............. ...........  9 50
D. B. Steel................. ...........  14 00
Railroad........................................... ......... $ 14 00
Garden.................................................  net  30 00

BARROWS.

dls.

bolts. 

die.

Stove.  ...........................................................50*10
70
Carriage new list.......................................... 
Plow.............................................................. 40*10
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70

dlS.
 

70*

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

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST. 

Cast Loose Pin, figured.......................... 
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 60*10
Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60*10
Wrought  Table.............................................60*10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60*10
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70*10
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70*10
Blind, Shepard’s .......................................... 
70

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

40

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

BLOCKS.
CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

CAPS.

Cast Steel............................................ per lb 
Ely’s 1-10............................................ perm 
“ 
Hick’s C .F .......................................... 
G. D .....................................................  “ 
Musket................................................ 
“ 
Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire............................................dls. 

CARTRIDGES.

5
65
60
35
60
50
25

chisels. 

dis.

dls.

Socket Firmer..............................................70*10
Socket Framing............................................70*10
Socket Corner............................................... 70*10
Socket Slicks............................................... 70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

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

40
25

White Crayons, per gross..............12@12*4 dls. 10

combs. 

CHALK.

COPPER.

“ 

Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
14x52,14x56, 14x60 ..............  ......  
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48........................................  
Bottoms....................................................   . 
Morse’s Bit Stocks......................................  
Taper and straight Shank............................ 
Morse’s Taper Shank.................................... 

drills. 

dis.

31
29
28
28
30
50
50
50

DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser pound................................  
07
Large sizes, per pound................................   6*4

ELBOWS.

Com. 4 piece, 6 in ........................... doz. net 
75
Corrugated..................................... dls. 20*10*10
Adjustable............................................ dis.  40*10

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, 118; large, $26....................... 
Ives’, 1, $18;  2, $24; 3, $30............................ 

30
25

files—New List. 

dls.

dis.

Disston’s ...................................................... 60*10
New  American............................................. 60*10
Nicholson’s ..................................................60*10
Heller’s
Heller’s Horse Rasps...................................  
50

GALVANIZED IRON

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

12 

14 

28
18

Discount, 60

13 
g au ges. 

d ls.

HINGES.

HAMMERS.

%..........
X..........
X ..........
X..........
HANGERS. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................... 
50
Maydole  *  Co.’s ..................................... dls. 
25
Kip’s ........................................................dis. 
25
Terkes *  Plumb’s.................................. dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand... ,30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 ................................dls.60&10
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 in. 4*4  14  and
3*410
.......... net
.......... net
8*4
.......... net
7*4
..........net
7*4
70
.......... dls.
Strap and T ----
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50*10
Champion,  antl-frlction...............................60*10
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The Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men's  Association« 

A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Retail  Trade  of the Wolilerine State.
Tradesman  Company,  Proprietor.

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

strictly in advance.

Publication  Office,  100 Louis St.

Entered at  the  Grand  Rapid» Post  Office.

E.  A   STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY.  AUGUST  20,  1890.

THE  FARMER  IN  POLITICS.

into  a  political  party 
It 
its 

The  organization of  any class  or  pro­
is  not 
fession 
is  apt 
a  desirable  arrangement. 
interde­
to  obscure  to  that  class 
pendence  of 
interest  with  all  other 
classes,  to  result  in  enacting  its  least 
reasonable  prejudices  into  laws,  and to 
put a check to  the  normal  development 
of  legislation through the antagonism of 
the  natural  parties.  For  there are two 
natural  parties in every community, one 
of  which'seeks  to  accelerate  the  devel­
opment of  the body politic  on  the  lines 
of  its historical growth,  while  the  other 
retards it.  No profession coincides with 
this  natural  cleavage;  all  contain  men 
who  belong  to  both.  To substitute po­
litical organization on the lines of  a bus­
iness or a profession for  political organ­
ization  on  the  lines  suggested  by  the 
general  life of  the  State,  must  always 
work  confusion  and  retard  progress, 
without  at  all  strengthening  the  ele­
ments of  political permanence.

In  this  country the  preponderance of 
the  farmers  above  all  other  industrial 
classes  very  naturally  suggests  some 
such movement as the  Farmers"  Alliance 
or  the  Farmers’  League,  which  at pres­
ent are  working  for  the  control of  pol­
itics  in  different  parts  of  the  country. 
The farmer  knows  he can outvote every­
body  else.  He  is  more  apt  to  cherish 
suspicion that he is not  getting fair play 
in  the  control  of  the  public  interests 
than is any worker who comes into closer 
and more  constant  contact  with his fel­
low-men. 
is  to  the  credit  of  our 
human  nature that the more  closely men 
are associated, the more they are inclined 
to believe in one another.  Just  because 
the farmer does his  work  in comparative 
solitude,  he is tempted to  be  suspicious, 
and is more ready to listen to demagogues 
who  assure  him  that  he  is  being  de­
spoiled  or  neglected by those who  man­
age the government.

It 

For  the  last  ten  years  the  American 
farmer  has  not  wanted  advisers of  this 
mischievous kind.  He has  been  told that 
he is in debt and  losing  ground;  that he 
alone  is  not  prosperous;  that he should 
take things  into  his  own  hands and  re- j 
model  the  system  of  taxation  and  the 
general  administration of  affairs.  And, 
on the other hand,  he  has  been outraged 
by the  rise of  a new  school of  economic 
vagarists,  who  propose  to substitute for 
all  other  taxes a rent  tax  on  land—the 
one  thing  on  which  he  depends for his 
subsistence and his  social  position.  He 
is  much 
land, 
especially  farm  lands,  already  pay  far 
too  much of  the  taxes,  and he is enam­
ored of  the  idea  that  all  kinds of  prop 
erty should  be taxed equally for the sup­
port of  the  government.  That  the  im-
ossibility and  the  unwisdom of  taxing 
everything has been demonstrated by the

inclined  to  think  that 

economists does not move him.  He wants 
to  repeat  an  experiment  which  has 
broken  down a score  of  times in  nearly 
every state.

We think  the  political  associations of 
farmers  will not last. long.  Their  mem­
bers will not go very far in  the control of 
state  or 
local  governments  without 
making  the  discovery  that  the  whole 
range  of  what  government  can  accom­
plish is a very limited  one,  and  that  no 
millennium  can  be  brought in  by legis­
lation. 
Some  abuses  and  evils  they 
probably will  be  able  to  get rid of. 
If 
they have really made up  their  minds to 
secure  the  adequate  representation  of 
their own class in our  legislatures,  there 
is one evil they may do away with.  The 
American  theory,  that these legislatures 
are composed of  actual specimens of  the 
people  for  whom  they legislate,  is  far 
from  the  fact.  Here,  as  elsewhere,  the 
business  of  governing  has  been  made 
over to a  class—to  the  class  which  has 
the  most  leisure,  the  most  practice  in 
speech-making,  and  the  most  technical 
familiarity  with  governmental  matters. 
This  has  been  because the farmer,  like 
the city business man,  has been too busy 
to  take  hold  of  politics.  The  lawyers 
fill  the  legislatures,  state  and national, 
through  the  default  of  the  rest of  the 
community,  and,  as a consequence,  our 
legislation is  more  narrowly a reflection 
of  the ideas  and  traditions of  the  legal 
profession than  that of  any other  coun­
try of  Christendom.

We see no reason  to expect  that  these 
political  organizations  of  farmers  will 
affect national  politics  seriously, except, 
perhaps,  in  the South.  There  seems  to 
be  some  hope  that  the breach they are 
making  within  the  Democratic  party 
there may result in obliterating the color 
line from politics.  But  in the North  the 
existing  situation is not favorable to the 
formation  of  parties which  shall  super­
sede the  old.  The  issues  which  divide 
Democrat  and  Republican  are  more dis­
tinct and  vital than at any time since the 
era of  reconstruction. 
It is two  decades 
since our politics  were in  so satisfactory 
a condition  in  this  respect.  Whatever 
the  merits  of  the  questions  that  have 
been  occupying  Congress,  and 
that 
formed  the  basis  of  the  last  national 
campaign,  they  certainly are  such as in­
volve great  principles,  and appeal  to the 
judgment  and  the  interest  of  every  in 
telligent  citizen.  The  parties  are  not 
mere  warring  factious,  gathered around 
the  personal  fortune of  clever  political 
adventurers.  They  are  parties  in  the 
broadest  and  truest  sense of  the  term. 
And  to  whatever  issue they carry their 
struggle in Congress and  elsewhere,  this 
is  not a time  of  which  it  will  be  said 
that,  for want of  genuine  political inter­
ests,  mere  class  interests  succeeded  in 
I coming to the front and  obliterating pre­
vious party lines.

The  editor  of  the Lyons Herald,  who 
took it upon  himself  to  institute a boy­
cott  against  certain  jobbing  houses for 
| refusing to sell certain  contract  dealers, 
announces  that  the  boycott  has  been 
: abandoned.  He bombastically asserts in 
the columns of his paper that the jobbers 
I humbly begged  him  to  remove the boy­
cott,  in  which case they would  jump out 
of their boots to sell Patron storekeepers. 
There  may be a few  greenies  who  will 
! believe  such  twaddle,  but  any man  of 
| sense will decline to accept the statement 
i that any wholesale house  of  importance

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

would condescend to ask a favor of  a no­
body  who  is  not  a  stranger  to  prison 
walls and would have had an opportunity 
to play checkers  with  his  nose a second 
time,  if  the boycott he endeavored to in­
stitute had been made effective.

One of the most important powers with 
which  the  Inter-state  Commerce  Com­
mission  was  invested  is  also one it has 
been  naturally the  slowest  to  exercise. 
It  is  that of  determining  what is a fair 
compensation  for  any service,  and com­
pelling  the  railroads  to  reduce  their 
charges  to  that  figure. 
It first exercise 
was  at  the  suggestion  of  the  National 
Senate,  which  last  February  instructed 
the Commission  to ascertain  the  reasons 
for the  inability of  the  farther Western 
States  to  compete  with  others  in  the 
grain market.  The Commission reported 
in  July that it had  made  the  investiga­
tion  and  found  the  rates  charged  the 
grain  producers  were  not  reasonable. 
Especially it found a much higher charge 
for corn than  for wheat west of  the  Mis­
souri,  a  difference  amounting  in  some 
cases to 25 per cent. 
It now orders a re­
duction  of  rates,  which  will  bring  the 
cost of  taking  corn  from those points to 
Chicago  from  13.5  to 9.3 cents a bushel.

The experiment  the  Delaware & Hud­
son Railroad  is making  in  the  substitu­
tion of steel for wooden ties is one which 
will  interest  the  whole  country.  The 
first American  railroads  were laid with­
out  ties  of  any  kind,  the  rail  being 
placed  on  the  top of  a wall of  masonry 
built  into  the  ground. 
It  was  quite a 
venture to replace this  with cross-ties of 
wood laid on the ground. 
In some  Brit­
ish  roads  heavy  beams  of  timber  laid 
lengthwise  were tried,  but abandoned  as 
too  expensive.  The  consumption  of 
wood  for  ties  has  reached  the point at 
which  the  demand  exceeds the  supply, 
and  probably  would  exceed it under the 
most careful  forestry.  Some  substitute 
must be found,  and the  reduction of  the 
cost of  low grade steel  seems to indicate 
that  as  the  best.  The  new  ties  are 
clamped to the  rails in  such a fashion as 
to obviate  the risk of  “spreading;”  but, 
of  course,  they will contract and expand 
with  changes of  temperature,  and  must 
run the  risk of  snapping In severe freez­
ing, just as the rails do.  But  the Amer­
ican  improvements  in  making Bessemer 
steel  diminish  this  risk  very much  by 
producing a grade much  less likely to be 
affected  by  such  changes  than  English 
steel  is.  And  allowance for contraction 
and  expansion is a matter for the wheel- 
makers.  As  it  is,  the  flange  of  every 
wheel is  much  wider than the rail.  The 
one  question to be  determined is that of 
cost.  We can do  almost  anything,  if  it 
will pay.  _______

Agitating  a  Cheese  Factory.

Hudsonville,  Aug.  19.—The farmers in 
I this vicinity are  agitating  the formation 
of  an association to engage in the manu­
facture of cheese and  will probably come 
to  a  final  decision  at  the  meeting  of 
I Pomona  Grange on  Aug.  22 and 23. 
In 
| the event of a factory being inaugurated, 
Richard  Redhead  will  probably  be  in­
stalled as cheese maker.

For the finest coffees in  the world,  high 
grade teas,  spices, etc.,  see  J.  P.  Yisner, 
17  Hermitage block,  Grand Rapids,  Mich. 
Agent for E.  J.  Gillies & Co.,  New  York 
City. 

352tf

C.  W.  Fox,  book-keeper  for  Daniel 
Lynch,  is spending a week with his fam­
ily at Macatawa Park.

LEATHER  VERY  HIGH.

The  Standing  Annies  of  Europe  Must 

Have  Shoes to  Stand  In.

From the New York San.
Since the beginning of  this  year there 
has  been an unprecendented  rise  in  the 
price  of  leather—a rise which has its re­
mote  cause in  the  large  bodies  of  men 
under  arms  across  the  Atlantic.  Ten 
years  ago  the  price  of  leather,  which 
before that time had been  comparatively 
low,  suddenly advanced  to  a  very high 
figure.  Since  that  time  the  price  has 
been falling,  with an occasional advance. 
Last fall leather  had dropped to the low­
est  price  it  has  ever  touched  in  this 
country.  A  great  many  fortunes  were 
lost,  and leather  was  regarded as a very 
unsafe commodity.
Early in the  present  year a number of 
causes which had  been  in  operation  for 
some  time  began  to  affect  the  leather 
market  visibly.  The  chief  of  these 
causes is the  change in the foreign  mar­
ket.  Three  years ago the United  States 
annually  imported  from  Europe  from 
1,000,000 to 5,000,000 calf skins and many 
hundreds of thousands of hides.  For the 
last two  years  this country not only has 
not 
imported  hides  but  has  exported 
them in great quantities.  Armies in time 
of  war  are  the  greatest  consumers  of 
leather, and they consume almost as much 
in  time  of  peace.  These  millions  of 
men in  the  standing  armies  across  the 
water,  who  are  consumers but not pro­
ducers,  have  begun  to  use  up  all  the 
home supplies of leather and  also  much 
that has to be  imported from  abroad.  As 
a result, all our surplus leather and hides 
have gone abroad  instead  of  remaining 
at home to keep down  prices.  A number 
of  rich  leather  dealers  have seized this 
opportunity to restore confidence  to  the 
leather  market  and  to  raise  the price. 
Their  efforts,  begun  last  January,  were 
soon  felt,  and leather  took a sudden and 
startling  boom. 
In  Jauuary,  rough 
leather could be bought for 163^  cents  a 
pound.  To-day  it  is  worth  75  cents  a 
pound.  The hides from which it is made 
have advanced  in the same time from 434 
cents a pound  to 9 cents a pound. 
Sole 
leather was then  16 cents.  To-day  it  is 
18 cents.  Union crop  leather was worth 
27 cents  and  has  now  advanced  to  31 
cents.  This surprising increase  in  cost 
extends to  all  light  leathers  of  which 
shoes,  harness  bindings  and  furniture 
fittings  are  made. 
Patent  leather has 
advanced in the same way.
Movements  in  the  leather  trade  are 
slow  to  extend  through  the  branches. 
The fact that there are large  supplies of 
leather on hand and also the well-stocked 
condition of  the  shoe  market  will  tend 
to  put off  the  advance  in  the  price  of 
shoes, but not very long.
The  cheaper  grades of  shoes  will  be 
the more naturally affected.  Cheap shoes 
are  manufactured  on  extremely  close 
margins.  Sometimes  the  manufacturer 
makes  a profit of  but  two or three  cents 
on each pair.  If  it costs him  four of  five 
cents more to make the shoes the advance 
in price by the  time they are sold by the 
retailer will certainly  be noticeable.
Said a wholesale leather dealer  yester­
day :  “The  present  advance is,  I  think, 
putting  the  price  beyond  the  actual 
value  of  leather.  The  law  of  supply 
and demand  will  soon come in to restore 
equilibrium.  But  leather  will  not  go 
back  to  its  low  price of  last  year,  and 
the price of  shoes will certainly advance, 
although  perhaps  not  so  much  as  the 
price of  raw  hides in  the market  would 
indicate.”

Slandered  a  Merchant’s  Son.

N. Justice is a merchant  and  postmas­
ter at  North  Morenci.  Last fall he was 
sued by L.  K.  Gay,  of  Morenci,  for  slan­
dering his son,  L.  K.,  Jr.  He  was tried, 
convicted  and  a  judgment  for  damages 
and costs entered  against him,  but when 
the officer went to take  an  execution  he 
found that Justice had placed  mortgages 
on his property  and  had  stepped  across 
the line into Ohio,  where he found a safe 
retreat in the impenetrable  fastnesses of 
the  “huckleberry  openings.”  A  short 
time ago he quietly returned to his native 
heath  and  was  escorted  over  to  the 
Adrian  jail,  which will be his  post-office 
address until he  weakens and pays up.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

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CRACKERS, BISCUITS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

M u sk e g o n  C ra c k e r Co
LARGBST VARIETY IN THE STATE
457,  459,  461,  463  W.  WESTERN  AVENUE, 
MUSKEOON,  MICH.

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SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PA ID   TO  MAIL  O R D E R S .

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GENERAL  MERCHANT,

find  dealer In  Bufcber, Eg£s. Seeds & Grain,

EAST  S A U C A T U C K , 

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W e   q u o te  th e  fo llo w in g   p rices  on  N o   4 
ta g s,  d e liv ered 'to  a n y  e x p r e ss office or jo b b in g  
h o u se   in  th is  city:
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o rd ers  on  sh o rt  n otice,

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

BROWN  <&  SEHLBR,

Dealers in ENG INES, BOILERS and MILL MACHINERY, Farm Machinery, 

A gricultural  Im plem ents,  W agons  and  Carriages.

tile 
in  excuses,  given  to  flattery,  as 
though  an  adept  in the art,  is cunning, 
plausible,  quick  as a flash,  sly as a fox, 
and will,  in  nine cases out of ten, get the 
best of  you  in  spite  of  yourself. 
I re­
call old  Mr. Goodpromise,  by occupation 
a  broker,  who  seemingly flourished dur­
ing  the  era  of  inflation,  just  after  the 
civil  war.  He  pretended  to  own a val­
uable  bit  of  real  estate  on  the  main 
avenue  and  to  be a real  estate  broker. 
His family was large and he bought with 
great  freedom,  and  before  we  knew  it 
owed  us $200.  His temper  was  difficult 
to  ruffle. 
If  we  approached  him  for 
money,  he was so suave and polite,  as he 
told  us  he  was  just closing a large real 
estate deal  and  would,  as soon as it was 
fixed,  settle in full,  that we believed him 
and allowed  the  account to be enlarged. 
Possibly the next time we called we were 
told  the  deal  was  still on,  but  “here is 
$25 which  credit  on  account,”  the  pay­
ment creating the impression that  Good- 
promise  was  truthful  and  honest.  He 
gained by this  device  the  right to trade 
another week or two,  and when  we again 
called,  he  said:  “All right,  come into my 
office  to-morrow  at  11  o’clock,  we  will 
square  the  bill.”  At 11  a.  m.  the  next 
day we were  on  hand  and,  after a long 
wait,  informed  that  the  gentleman was 
suddenly  called out of  town  and  would 
be  back  in  a  few  days.  Certainly,  we 
would  not  fail  to  honor  the  orders  of 
Mrs.  Goodpromise,  and so  the  bill grew.
At  last  patience  was  exhausted,  and 
we decided to try a new dodge and  make 
this plausible  old  sinner mad,  believing 
that in  his vexation he  would pay.  We, 
therefore,  deliberately  provoked a quar­
rel, impugned his motives and touched his 
seeming  sense  of  honor.  He  became 
wrathy,  and in his rage demonstrated his 
ability  to  pay  by  closing  the  account. 
The next day he was in good  humor and 
sent  in  a liberal  order,  which  was  re­
spectfully declined.  Our neighbors were 
less fortunate.  His  property was  in his 
wife’s  name,  his  business  dwindled,  he 
became  involved  in  disreputable trans­
actions  and  died 
in  extreme  poverty. 
This is a type  of  dead-beat  found  in all 
large cities and  suburban  towns.  They 
are  generated  from a class of  men  who 
believe  the  “world  owes  me a living,” 
and  who  trust  to  their  “wits”  to  get 
money.  They follow  the profession of a 
curbstone broker,  frequent bucket shops, 
serve  as  a  go-between  in  questionable 
transactions,  get  up  mining  companies, 
or speculate  in  some  patent.  They are 
ingenious and clever,  often  dishonest  or 
untrustworthy  from  force  of  circum­
stances.  Ofttimes they are men reduced 
to want by some sudden misfortune,  gen­
erally  the  failure  of  some  speculative 
deal.  Give  them  a wide  berth,  and  if 
once on  your books,  and  you can force a 
settlement,  keep such accounts  closed.

WHAT  A  FAMILY  COSTS.

Statement  of  a  Man  Who  Counted 

Expenses  Twenty-Six Years.

What does it cost to bring up a family? 
A gentleman  whose  experience  will  be 
recognized as having  points  in  common 
with  other  householders,  has  preserved 
an account  of  the  expense  to which he 
has  been  in  rearing  a  family  of  four 
children.  To-day he entered  the follow­
ing statement in his diary. 
It may  be  a 
valuable  statistical  fact  for  the census 
takers:
“To-day I close my diary.  Twenty-six 
years ago to-day I undertook  to keen  an 
accurate  statement  of  all  my  earnings 
and expenses, so that I might know actu­
ally how much it costs to live in the mar­
ried state.  Then all  was  anticipations.
I and  my  young  wife  counted  our  re­
sources and our expectations.  1 received 
$15 a week,  with a promise  of  more. 
I 
owned a house  comfortable  enough  for 
frugal young people to begin life in.  We 
were  spared  house  rent,  therefore,  and 
our  expenses  have  never  included this 
item.  Retrospectively,  I  see  that  we 
have  brought  up  four  children in com­
paratively easy circumstances.  My health 
has  been  good  and  my  earnings  have 
been constantly received. 
I now receive 
$30 a week,  and  we  still  own  the home­
stead  without  any  great  addition to its 
wealth,  except  in  an  increased amount 
of furniture.  1 have little  more  money 
than I had when first married.  Perhaps, 
all  told,  I  have  $3,500  now  of  assets; 
then  1  had  perhaps  $2,500.  We  have 
never wanted for bread. 
Sometimes we 
have felt in need of more money.  Three 
of  the  children  are  now  making  their 
own  way.  Next year the  fourth  gradu­
ates at the high  school,  having  received 
the same schooling that the  others  have 
had,  and will  begin  to look out for him­
self.
“I shall not necessarily  be at any more 
expense on account of  my children,  and 
the diary properly  ends  now.  Would  I 
be willing to go through the same experi­
ence again of raising a family? 
I asked 
my companion, who had borne the greater 
part,  this question,  and I know  that  she 
spoke with a heart full  of  love,  but was 
compelled  to  say: 
‘Not  for  all  that 
money  could  buy  would  I  go  through 
again  what has been  necessary to rear  a 
family.’
“Expressed  in  dollars,  the  totals  are 
these: 
In  twenty-six years we have re­
ceived  from  my  wages  and  incidental 
moneys that came  through  my wife and 
the  children,  $40,900—or  say  $40,000— 
besides  the  amount  of  increase  in  the 
permanent  assets.  Given  a  plant  of
about  $3,000  and  two  employes,  a man 
and wife,  it  has  taken,  therefore,  about 
$10,000 to each man produced.  This,  of 
course,  includes all  employes’  expenses. 
The plant is  slightly enhanced in value, 
but the  employes  have  seen  their  best 
days.  The quality of  the goods is yet to 
be  demonstrated.  Prospects  happily
point to  cessation  of  labor  and  increase 
of  receipts,  but  there  is  no  certainty 
about this.  The employes  are  proud  of 
their work,  but don’t want  another  job.
“Some  of  the items of  expense  have 
been these:  Doctors’  bills  (twenty-seven 
years), $2,100  (and all paid,  probably the 
only instance on record); groceries, aver­
age  per  week  first  five  years,  $7;  next 
three, $9;  remainder  of  the  twenty-six 
years, $13 a week.  For ten years it  has 
taken  on  an  average one pair  of  shoes 
per week  for  the  family,  including my­
self and wife.  The most annoying thing 
I have ever known  is  the  rapidity with 
which children  wear  out  shoes.  Only 
one thing approaches it—the  high  price 
of children’s shoes.  I never could under­
stand  how,  with  all  the  civilization  of 
the  age,  and  the  demand  for  cheaper 
results,  children’s  shoes  have  not been 
reduced in price.  The human  shoe is  a 
failure.  No man not rich  can  afford  to 
buy shoes for a family,  and if  I had it to 
do  1  would  go  to  Timbuctoo,  where 
neither  horses,  mules, camels  nor  men 
are shod.”

One  Type  of the  Dead-Beat.

From the American Grocer.

What  a  smooth,  oily  tongue  he  pos­
sesses !  He  is  never  ill  at  ease, never 
loses  his  poise  or  self-command,  is fer­

Goods o f Standard Purity and Strength.
Hawkins, Aug.  16.—Merchants,  wake 
up,  and let your  light shine through  the 
columns of T he Tradesman.  A s  T he 
T radesman  is  published  for  the  mer­
chants’  use,  why not use it?  If you have 
any experiences in trade which will be of 
interest  to  others  to  know,  do  not  be 
afraid to give all  information  to  brother 
merchants  through  the columns  of  the 
paper. 
If  you  buy  a  genuine  article 
which 
is  new  to  the  trade,  let  it  be 
known,  that our patrons may  receive the 
benefit while it is new;  for many articles 
in their infancy of  manufacture are gen­
uine in purity,  but after receiving a high 
reputation  they  lose  it,  on  account  of 
mixing  too  much  bogus  with the good. 
So far as my experience goes,  I am satis­
fied that the  best  is  none  too good  and 
that the  merchant  who deals in goods of 
standard purity and strength, only, makes 
the most money in the  long  run,  besides 
being at peace with all the rest  of  man­
kind. 

Delmore Hawkins.

Flushing—Wright & Ketcham are erect­
ing  a  hardwood  mill  here,  utilizing 
the machinery  of  the  mill  formerly at 
Averill,  which is one of  the  best  hard­
wood mills in the State.  There is a good 
deal of hardwood  timber about Flushing. 
They  have  also  established  a  lumber 
yard here.

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Drugs H Medicines.

<tme  Board  of  Pharmacy.

Jne T ear—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Two  Tears—Stanley E. P arkill, Owosso. 
rhree  Years—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Four  Years—Jam es Vernor, D etroit.
Wive Years—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor 
President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon, 
secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
»•easurer—Geo.  McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Next m eeting a t  Lansing, Nov. 5 and  6.______________
tflchigan  state  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 
President—Frank Inglis. Detroit.
First Vice-President— F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing.
Sec’d Vice-President— Henry K ephart, Berrien Springs 
Third Vice-President—Jas  vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—C. A. Bugbee,Cheboygan;  E. T. 
Webb, Jackson;  D. E. Prall,  East Saginaw;  Geo. Mc­
Donald. Kalamazoo;  J. J. Crowley. Detroit.
Next Meeting—At  Saginaw, beginning th ird  Tuesday
of September,  1890.____________________________ _____
iVraml  Rapid*  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President, J. W. Hayward,  Secretary, Frank H. Escott.
G r a n d  R a p id *   D r u g  C le rk s *  A s s o c ia tio n . 
**r* sident, F. p. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith________

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

resident, J.  W. Allen;  Secretary, W. F. Jackm an. 
H u s k e g o n   D r u g   C le rk s*   A s s o c ia tio n  

President, P. Van Deinse;  Secretary,  John A. Tinholt.

Bight  to  Use a Trade Name.

An  important  decision  regarding the 
right  to the use of a firm name  in  busi­
ness  was  rendered  by  the  New  York 
Court of Appeals in the recently-decided 
case of  Caswell  vs.  Hazard. 
It appears 
that  when  the firm of  Caswell,  Hazard & 
Co.  was organized, all the rights, interest 
and  reputation  which  the  representa­
tives of  those names had acquired m the 
business  of  manufacturing  drugs  and 
medicines  were  merged. 
In  1872  the 
principal  partner,  Philip  Caswell,  Jr., 
retired  from  the firm,  transferring,  with 
the  consent  of  auother  partner  of-the 
same  name,  John  R.  Caswell,  all  his 
interest and good  will to the  third  part­
ner,  Rowland  N.  Hazard,  covenanting 
that he  would not  go into the drug busi­
ness.  either  in  New  York or Newport, 
for twenty  years.  A new firm, consist­
ing of  Rowland  N.  Hazard, John R.  Cas­
well and John C.  Hazard,  was thereupon 
formed  to  carry on  the  business  under 
the old firm  name. 
In  1876 this firm was 
dissolved  by  mutual  consent,  John  R. 
Caswell  transferring  to  the  other part­
ners his interest in  the  property  of  the 
firm except its  trademarks and a part  of 
its  retail  stock  in  trade.  Among  the 
goods  transferred  were all signs,  labels, 
bottles  and  bottle-molds  used 
in  the 
business and having  the  old  firm  name 
printed upon or blown  into them.  About 
ten years after  his  withdrawal  from the 
firm John  R. Caswell brought suit against 
his  former  copartners, claiming the  ex­
clusive right to  use the name “Caswell” 
in connection  with  the business of man­
ufacturing and selling drugs,  and asking 
that  the  defendants  be  enjoined  from 
using the name in  any  way in the prose­
cution of such business.  The  Court  of 
Appeals denied  the  application  for  an 
injunction. 
It said, in giving judgment: 
“The  right  to  a trade-mark  is  derived 
from 
its  appropriation  and  continued 
user,  and becomes  the property of  those 
who  first  employ  it  and give it a name 
and  reputation. 
It  becomes 
part of the assets of  the firm  by which it 
was  used  and  established  and  can  be 
owned,  transferred  and  sold  like  other 
species of property.  Upon  the  dissolu­
tion  of a firm  which has acquired its pro­
prietorship,  it  must  be sold and its pro­
ceeds distributed like other  firm  assets; 
and if not so disposed of,  it  remains  the 
property  of  the  individual  members of 
the  dissolved  firm,  and  may 
lawfully 
thereafter  be  used  by any or  either  of 
such members  desiring  to  continue  the 
prosecution of  the business  in  which  it 
has been theretofore used. 
*
Assuming,  therefore,  the  correctness  of 
plaintiff’s claim,  that  upon  the  dissolu­
tion  of  the  firm  of  Caswell,  Hazard  & 
Co.,  in  1876,  there  was  no  transfer  by 
either party to the other of  the  right  to 
use its trade-marks  and  firm  name,  yet 
the  right  thereafter  to  use  its  trade­
marks  then  became  vested  in  the indi­
vidual  members of  such firm,  and  could 
be lawfully  employed  by either without 
trespassing upon the rights of the other.”

*  *  * 

* 

* 

Clove  Culture  in Zanzibar.

The  St.  Louis  Globe-Democrat  says 
that  “Zanzibar  and  the  neighboring 
island  of  Pemba furnish the world  with 
the bulk  of  the supply, about 13,000,000 
pounds a year.  Consul Pratt, in a report

THE  MTCHIGLAJSr  TRADESMAN,

“The 

industry  received  a  check 

just received  at  the  State  Department, 
says  the  clove tree  was first introduced 
into  Zanzibar by Sultan  Seyed  Said bin 
Sultan about the  year  1830,  since which 
time  its  cultivation  has  gradually  ex­
tended,  until it is now the chief industry 
of the islands.
in 
1872,  the  date  of  the  great  hurricane. 
At  least  nine-tenths  of  the  trees  were 
destroyed at that time,  so the larger part 
of those now standing are of new growth, 
A peculiarity of  the  clove  tree  is  that 
every part is aromatic,  but  the  greatest 
strength is found  in  the  bud,  which  is 
the  ‘clove’  of  commerce.  The  finest 
quality of cloves are dark brown  in color, 
with full,  perfect  heads,  free from  mois­
ture.
“In the  cultivation  of  the  clove  the 
first thing to be done  is  the  starting  of 
the shoot.  The  seeds are placed in long 
trenches,  and  are  well  watered  until 
after sprouting. 
In the  course  of  forty 
days  the  shoots  appear  above  ground. 
They are  carefully  watered  and  looked 
after for the space  of  two  years,  when 
they should be about three feet in  height. 
They  are  then  transplanted,  being  set 
about  thirty  feet  apart,  and  are  kept 
watered  till  they  become  well  rooted. 
From this time on,  the  young  trees  re­
quire only ordinary care,  though the best 
results  are  obtained  when  the  ground 
about the trees is well  watched over and 
kept free from  weeds.
“The growth of  the trees is very slow, 
and five or six_  years  are  required for it 
to come into bearing,  at which time it is 
about the size  of  an  ordinary pear tree, 
and  is  usually  very  shapely. 
It  is  a 
pretty sight  to  see  a  young  plantation 
just coming into bearing.  The leaves, of 
various shades of  green tinged with red, 
serve to set off  the  clusters  of  dull red 
clove buds.  As  soon  as  the  buds  are 
fully  formed  and  assume  this  reddish 
color the harvesting  commences,  and  is 
prosecuted for  fully  six  months  at  in­
tervals,  since  the  buds  do  not  form 
simultaneously, but at odd times through­
out the period.  The  limbs  of  the trees 
being  very brittle,  a peculiar  four-sided 
ladder is  brought  into  requisition,  and 
the harvesting proceeds apace.
“As  fast  as  collected  the  buds  are 
spread out in the sun  until  they assume 
a brownish  color,  when they are put  in 
the storehouse and are ready  for market. 
A ten-year-old plantation should  produce 
an average of twenty pounds of cloves to 
a tree.  Trees of twenty years frequently 
produce upward  of  one hundred  pounds 
each,  worth 10 cents a pound.  The sul­
tan derives no  inconsiderable  portion of 
his revenue from  this  source,  the  duty 
levied  placing to the  sultan’s  credit for 
the  present  year  nearly,  if  not  quite, 
$400,000.
“Besides the clove  buds  the stems are 
also  gathered,  and  form  an  article  of 
commerce  commanding  about  one-fifth 
the price of  cloves and having about the 
same  percentage  of  strength.  To  this 
circumstance  is  due  the  fact  that  the 
ground  clove  can  frequently  be  pur­
chased in the  home  market  at  a  lower 
price than whole  cloves.  For  the  past 
fifteen years the cultivation of cloves has 
been the  chief  occupation  of  the  Arab 
planters,  and has always netted  good re­
turns. 
It  seems  probable  that  it  will 
continue to  be  a  profitable  crop,  since 
the consumption of the article appears to 
keep pace with the inevitable increase of 
production.”

Success  of  the  Linseed  Oil  Combine.
The  first  annual  meeting  of  the  Na­
tional  Linseed  Oil  Company,  a corpora­
tion  which includes almost  every linseed 
oil concern  in  the  country,  was held in 
Chicago last Thursday.  About forty-five 
of  the fifty-two mills in the  organization 
were represented  at  the  meeting,  voting 
$13,700,000  of 
the  $18,000.000  capital 
stock.  Alexander  Euston, of  St.  Louis, 
presented a statement  showing  that  the 
net earnings had been  almost 7 per cent, 
on the capital stock.  In  his official state­
ment to the members, Mr. Euston said that 
within a short time it would be necessary 
iase  the  capital stock to $20,000,- 
to i*.; 
000 in order to take in the  plants not in­
cluded 
in 
the  present  membership. 
Operating expenses,  he  said,  had  been 
reduced $12,000  without  cutting  wages.

Clark  Woodman,  of  Omaha;  August O. 
Hall,  of  Chicago,  and M.  Simpson were 
elected  directors  for  three  years,  and 
P.  C.  Hanford chosen for  one  year to fill 
the vacancy caused by the death of  C.  D. 
Close.  Alexander Euston  was re-elected 
President  of 
the  company  and  T.  G. 
McCullogh Secretary.

The  Marquette  Meeting.

The  State  Board of  Pharmacy held an 
examination  at  Marquette  on  the  13th 
and  14th,  and 
licensed  the  following 
named  gentlemen:  Wm.  D.  Barnard, 
Manistee;  Oliver C.  Boynton,  S t  Ignace; 
Arthur  Ellsworth,  Menominee;  Jas.  F. 
Hocking,  Crystal  Falls;  Charles  Sorsen, 
Red  Jacket;  Wm.  C.  Royce,  Sault  Ste. 
Marie;  John Rupp,  West  Superior;  Geo. 
Newton, Vicksburg;  Valdemar  Johnson, 
Ironwood;  Ben.  H.  Hocking,  Iron  Moun­
tain;  Calvin Hollinger,  Sault Ste.  Marie.
Muskegon  Drug  Clerk’s  Association.
Muskegon,  Aug.  15.—At the  last regu­
lar meeting of the Muskegon Drug Clerk’s 
Association,  the  following  officers  were 
elected:

President—P.  Van Deinse. 
Vice-President—C.  S.  Koon.
Secretary and Treasurer—Jno.  A.  Tin- 
holt.
Our membership has been considerably 
increased  of  late  and  much  interest is 
taken  in  the work by each one,  individu­
ally. 

J no.  A.  T inholt,  Sec’y.

The Drug  Market.

Opium is steady.  Morphia and quinine 
are  unchanged.  Alcohol is firm  at  the 
advance.  Cuttle bone is higher.  Quick­
silver  is  lower.  Balsam  peru  has  ad­
vanced.  Jalap root  is  higher.  Golden 
seal  root  has  advanced.  Oil  sassafras 
has  advanced.  Glycerine  has  declined. 
Turpentine is lower.

Repentance  Column.

The following are some of  the merchants who 
have been under contract  with the P. of  I.,  but 
have found the level  profit  plan a delusion and 
a snare:

Aurelius—John D. Swart.
Belding—L. 8. Roell.
Bellaire—Schoolcraft & Nash.
Big Rapids—Verity A Co.
Blanchard—L. D. Wait.
Bridgeton—Geo. H. Rainouard.
Carlton Center—J. N. Covert.
Casnovia—John E. Parcell.
Cedar Springs—L. A. Gardiner.
Chapin—J. I. Vanderhoof.
Charlotte—C. P. Lock.
Chester—B. C. Smith.
Clam River—Andrew Anderson.
Clio—Nixon A Hubbell.
Cloverdale—Geo. Mosher.
Coopersville—W. D. Reynolds & Co.
Dimondale—Ellas Underhill.
Dushville—G. O. Adams.
Eaton Rapids—E. F. Knapp, G. W. Webster. 
Fork Center—D. Palmer A Co.
Fremont—J. B. Ketchum,  W.  Harmon.  Boone 
Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted  A Son, F. O. Lord. 
Grand Rapids—F. W. Wurzburg, Van Driele A 
Harvard—Ward Bros.
Hastings—J  G. Runyan.
Hersey—John Finkbeiner.
Hesperia—B.  Cohen.
Howard City—Henry Henkel.
Ionia—E.  S. Welch,  Wm. Wing.
Irving—J. T. Pierson.
Kent City—R. McKinnon.
Lake  Odessa—Christian  Haller  A  Co.,  E.  F. 
Colwell  A  Son,  Fred  Miller, McCartney Bros., 
Fred. Miller.

Kotvis, John Cordes, Huntley Russell.

A Pearson.

Fletcher.

A Son.

Lowell—Charles McCarty.
Manton—A. Curtis.
Maple Rapids—L. S . Aldrich.
Marshall—John Fletcher, John  Butler, Charles 
Millbrook—T. O.  (or J. W.)  Patti son. 
Millington—Forester A  Clough.
Mlnden  City—W.  A.  Soules,  F.  O.  Hetfield 
Mt.  Morris—H.  E.  Lamb,  J. Vermett A  Son. 
Nashville—Powers A Strlngham.
Newaygo—W. Harmon.
New Era—Peter Rankin.
North Dorr—John Homrich.
O’Donnell—J. E. Edwards.
Olivet—F. H. Gage.
Otisco—G. V. Snyder A Co.
Potterville—F. D. Lamb A Co.
Ravenna—R. D. Wheeler.
Reed City—J. M. Cadzow.
Richmond—Knight A Cud worth.
Rockford—H. Colby A Co.
St. Louis—Mary A. Brice.
Sand Lake—C. O. Cain.
Sebewa—P. F. Knapp.
Sparta—Wood in A van Wickle, Dole A Haynes. 
Svrlngport—Cortright  A Griffin.
Stanton—Fairbanks A  Co., Sterling A Co. 
Sumner—J. B. Tucker.

» .and—Pickett Bros.

amston—Michael Bowerman.

FOOBTB NiTIOKAl Biffi

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  B o w n e , President;

Geo.  C.  Pierce,  Vice President.

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

Transacts a general banking business.

Stake a  Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 
of Country Merchant* Solicited.______
GX2TS2S2TG  HOOT.
We pay the highest price for It.  Address 

D P H IT   ‘□ ‘DOC*  Wholesale  Druggist*. 
L I j O A   AJElUlOiy 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

T H E  M O S T  R E L I A B L E  F O O D ;
For Infants and Invalids. 
■Used  everywhere,  w ith  unqualified 
I success.  Aoi a medicine, but a steam- 
¡cooked  food,  suited  to  the  weakest 
¡stomach.  Take  no  other.  Sold  b y 
ugfrists.  In cans, 35c. and upward. 
I druggists.  In cans, 35c. and upward.
wooLEiCH   A  Co. on every labeL

Embossed  Cards,

Picture  Advertising Cards, 

Advertising  Folders.

Having  a  lot  of  the  above goods, 
consisting  of  several 
thousand  of 
different  designs, we offer the  cards 
much less than our usual prices.

The  Tradesman  Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS.
SUSPENDED!

®  jr £• 
£   B  I
g e o  
CD 
.
S s   ®
S s ®“ B pw  sr

g -a ET o

J E T T I N  E.
Warranted  not  to  Thicken,  Sour  or  Mold li 
any climate.  Quality Guaranteed Against Injur; 
by Freezing.  All  others  worthless  after freer 
lug.  See quotation.  HARTELL  BLACKIN' 
CO., Sole M anufacturers,  Chicago, 111.
Do  You  Observe  the  Law ?

If not, send $1 to

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

For their combined

LIQUOR St POISON  RECORD.

“THE  WEAR  IS  THE  TRUE  TEST 

OF  VALUE."

We still have in stock  the well-known brand

P io n e e r

P rep a red

P a in t.

MIXED  READY  FOR  USE.

Having sold  same  to  our  trade  for  over  ten 
years, we  can  say It  has  fulfilled the manufac­
turer’s guarantee.  Write  for  sample  card  and 
prices before making your spring purchases.
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

P O L IS H  I N A THB J™ ™ 1«

SOLE  AGENTS

I

T H E   M TCTTTG AN  T R A D E S M A N .

Wholesale Price Current•

Advanced—Balsam Peru, Golden Seal Root, Jalap Root, Cuttle  Bone.

Declined—Glycerina, Quicksilver,  Turpentine.

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paints. 

11
Lindseed,  boiled  __   61 
67
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.................  50 
69
Spirits Turpentine  ...  46%  53
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian..............1M  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars...  1M  2@4
“ 
Ber........1M  2®3
Putty,  commercial...  2%  2%@3
“  strictly  pure......2%  2M®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ...................  
13@16
 
Vermilion,  English__ 
8l>@82
Green,  Peninsular  __   70@75
Lead,  red....................  @7M
“  w hite...............   @7M
Whiting, white Span.  .  @70
Whiting,  Gilders'........  @90
1  00 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
I Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints..................... 1 00@1  20

VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach__1 
io@l  20
Extra Turp.................1 60@1  70
Coach  Body............... 2 75@3 00
No. 1  Turp  Furn........1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar 
.1   55@1  6« 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp. 
..................   70®  75

“ 

Morphia,  S. P. &W...2 
S. N.  Y.  Q. &
C. Co.......................2
Moschus Canton__
Myristica, No. 1.........
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..
Os.  Sepia....................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
C o ..........................
Picis  Liq, N.  C., M gal
doz  .........................
60
Picis Liq., quarts......
“ 
pints.........
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80).. 
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..
Piper Alba,  (po g5)__
Pix  Burgun...............
Plumbi A cet..............
Pulvis Ipecac et opii. .1 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......
Pyrethrum,  pv...........
Quassiae....................
Quinia, S. P. & W  ....
S.  German__
Rubia  Tinctorum......
Saccharum Lactis pv..
Salacin.......................1
Sanguis  Draconls......
Santonine  .................
Sapo,  W.....................

“ 

85@3 10 Seidlitz  Mixture......
@  25
Sinapis..... ................
@  18
85©3  10
®  30
“  opt.................
©  40 Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
70®  75 Voes.....................
@  35
@  10 Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
33®  38 Soda Boras, (po. 13).
12®  13
30®  33
Soda  et Potass Tart..
@2 00 Soda Carb................. 1%@  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
©  5
@2 00 Soda,  Ash................. 3%@  4
@1  00 Soda, Sulphas...........
@  2
50@  55
@  TO Spts. Ether C o.........
@  50
“  Myrcia  Dom__
@2 00
“  Myrcia Imp...  .
@  18
@2 50
@  35
‘  Vini  Rect.  bbl
2  2 5 ).......................
@2 35
@  7
14®  15
Less 5e gal., cash ten davs.
10@1  20 Strychnia  Crystal__
@1  10
Sulphur, Sub!........... 2V4® 3%
@1  25
Roll............
2M@ 3
30®  35 Tamarinds...............
8®  10
8®  10 Terebenth Venice__
28®  30
39®  44 Theobromae............
50®  55
27®  35 Vanilla..................... 9 00@1G 00
12®  14 Zinci  Sulph..............
7®  8
©  38
80@2 00
40®  50
Bbl.  Gal
@4  50 Whale, winter........... 70 
70
12®  14 Lard,  extra...............
55 
60
8®  10 Lard, No.  1...............
45 
50
@  15 Linseed, pure raw  ... 61 
64

OILS.

“ 

ACIDUM.

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

Aceticum.....................   8® 10
Benzoicum  German..  80@1  00
30
Boracic 
Carbolicum.................   33®  10
Citrieum......................  50© 55
Hydrochlor..................  3®  5
Nitrocum 
...................  10® 12
Oxalicum....................   11® 13
Phosphorium dll........ 
20
Salicylicum.................1 40@1 80
Sulpnuricum................  15i® 5
Tannicum....................1 40@1 60
Tart&ricum...................  40® 42

AMMONIA.

" 

Aqua, 16  deg................  
5®  7
20  deg................   7©  8
Carbonas  .....................  11® 13
Chloridum...................  12® 14

ANILINE.

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

BACCAE.

Cubeae (po. 1  50.......... 1 60®1  75
Juniperus.....................  8® 10
Xanthoxylum..............  25® 30

BALSAMUX.

Copaiba.......................   60® 65
Peru............................  ®1  35
Terabln, Canada  ........  35® 40
Tolutan........................  40® 45

COBTEX.

Abies,  Canadian.  ..............   18
Cassiae  ...............................
Cinchona F lav a.................   18
Euonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrica  Cerifera, po.............  20
Prunus Virgin!....................  12
QuiUaia,  grd.......................   «
Sassafras  ..................... 
1»
UlmuB Po (Ground 12)........  10

 

BXTRACTUM.

Glycyrrhiza  Glabra...  24®  25
1  “ 
po...........  33®  35
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12
is.................  13® 14
“ 
“  %s................  14® 15
g s ..............  16®  17
•• 
FERRUM.

Carbonate Precip........  @  15
Citrate and Quinia....  @3 50
Citrate  Soluble...........  ®  80
Ferrocyanidum Sol —   ®  50
Solut  Chloride...........  @  15
Sulphate,  com’l.........   1)4®  2
pure.............  ®  7

“ 

A rnica.......................   14®  16
Anthémis..................   20®  25
Matricaria.................  25®  30

FLORA.

FOLIA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

...................  12®  20
nivelly....................  25®  28
Alx.  35®  50
and  Ms....................   W@  }2
8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  &s
UraUrsi...................... 

« 

« 

SUMMI.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

2d 
3d 
sifted sorts... 
po .......   75@1 

Acacia,  1st  picked—   ®1 00
....  ®  90
....  ®  80
®  65
00
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
“  Socotri, (po.  60).  @ 50
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Me,
16)..........................   @  1
Ammoniae.................  25®  30
Assafoetida, (po. 30)...  @  15
Benzoinum.................  50®  55
Camphors...................  50®  52
Euphorbium  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum...................  @3 00
Gamboge,  po..............  80®  95
Guaiacum, (po.60)  ...  @ 55
Kino,  (po.  25)............   @  20
Mastic.......................   @  80
Myrrh, (po  45)...........  @  40
Opii,  (pc. 5 40)...........4  If@4 25
Shellac 
....................  25®  35
bleached........  27®  35
Tragacanth...............   30®  75

“ 
herba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium...................... 
•  25
Eupatorium.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
«  V ir.........................  25
Rue.......................................  30
Tanacetum, V ......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25

MAONESIA.

Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  P a t.........   20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25
Carbonate, JenningS..  35®  36

f

Cubebae.................... 14 00@14 50
Exechthitos................  90@1  00
Erigeron......................1  20@1 30
Gaultheria..................2  10@2 20
Geranium,  ounce......  @  75
Gossipii,  Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................1 75@1  80
Juniper!......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonis.......................1  50®1 80
Mentha Piper...............2 40@3 50
Mentha Verid............. 2 50@2 60
Morrhuae, gal............   80®1 00
Myrcia, ounce............   @ 50
Olive........................... 1  00@2 75
Plcis Liquida, (gal. 35)  10®  12
Rlcinl..........................1  2S®1 36
Rosmarini............  
75®1  00
Rosae, ounce..............  @6 00
Succini.......................  40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
Santal  ....................... 3 50©7 00
Sassafras....................  45®  50
Sinapis, ess, ounce—   @  65
TiglflT....................  ... @150
Thyme.......................  40®  50
opt  ................  @  60
Theobromas...............  15®  20
BiCarb.......................  15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide............  
37®  40
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate, (po. 18)........  16®  18
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..........................2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  3<@  33
Potassa, Bitart, eom...  @  15
Petass  Nitras, opt...... 
8®  10
Potass Nitras.............. 
7®  9
Prussiate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

POTASSIUM.

“ 

RADIX.

Aconitum..................   20®  25
Althae.........................  25®  30
Anchusa....................   15®  20
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  50
Gentiana,  (po. 15)......   10®  12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 45)....................  @  40
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po...................2 25@2 35
Iris  plox (po. 20@22).. 
IS®  20
Jalapa,  pr...................  45®  50
Maranta,  Mb..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei............................  75@1  00
“  cut......... ...........   @1  75
“  pv.......................   75©1 35
Spigelia......................  48®  53
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  40®  45
Senega.......................  45®  50
Slmilax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40
M  @ 20
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
dns,  po....................  @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ©  25
15®  20
“  German... 
Zingiber a ..................   10®  15
Zingiber  j .............. 
22®  25
SEMEN.
Anisum,  (po.  20). 
@ 15
Apium  (graveleons)..  15®  18
Bird, Is...................  
  4®  6
Carui, (po. 18)............   8®  12
Cardamon................... 1  00@1 25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Sativa......... 3M@ 
4
Cydonium...................  75@1 00
Cnenopodium  ...........  10®  12
Dipterfx Odorate........2 00®2 25
Foeniculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........  
L ini............................  4  ® 4M
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 4  )...  4M@ 4M
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Pharlaris Canarian —   3M@ 4M
Rapa..........................   6®  7
Sinapis,  Albu............   8®  9
,r  Nigra...........  11®  12

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SPIRITUS.
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

6®

SFONeES.

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
75
Hard for  slate  use__ 
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se.......................... 
1  40

Absinthium................ 5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarae— 8 00@8 25
A nisi............................1 90@2 00
Auranti  Cortex............  @2  50
Bergamii  ...................3 
Cajiputi.............   90@1 
00
Caryophylll.................1 
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodll.......  @1 
75
cinnamon!!................ 1 
Qltronella..................   @  45
conium  Mac..............  35®  65
copaiba  .................... 1 

25@4 00
25@1 30

40® 1 50

20® 1 30

8TRUP8.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferri  Iod.............................   50
Auranti  Cortes....................  50
Rhei  Arom..........................   50
Slmilax  Officinalis..............  60
CO........  50
Senega................................  50
Scillae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunus vlrg.........................  50

“ 

“ 

TINCTURES.

 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Aconitum Napellis R .........   60
F .........   50
Aloes.............................  
 
and myrrh..................   60
Arnica..................................   50
Asafoetida............................  0
Atrope Belladonna.....  ........  60
Benzoin.................................  60
“  Co............................  50
  50
Sanguinarla..................... 
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
Digitalis...............................  50
Ergot.....................................   50
Gentian.................................  50
Guaica..................................  50
ammon......................  60
Zingiber...............................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................  50
Iodine....................................  75
“  Colorless....................   75
Ferri  Chloridum...................  35
K ino.....................................   50
Lobelia..................................  50
Myrrh....................................  50
Nux  Vomica.........................  50
Opii  .......................................  85
“  Camphorated......... .......   50
“  Deodor........................2 00
Auranti Cortex......................  50
Quassia................................   50
Rhatany...............................  50
Rhei.......................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol....................   50
“ 
Co................  50
Serpentaria 
Stromonium 
Tolutan 
Valerian
V era t rum Veride............
MISCELLANEOUS.

“  Co.........................  
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H A Z E L T IN E

&  P E R K I N S

D R U G   CO.

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

---DRUGS--

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‘ 
“ 

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ground,  (po.

Aäther, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  26®  28 
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alumen......................  2M@ 3 %
7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antlmoni, po..............  4®  5
et Potass T  55®  60
Antipyrin..................1  35@I  40
Antifebrin..................  @  25
Argenti  Nitras, ounce  @  75
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
11;  Ms,  12) ..............  @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
po............................  @1  75
Capsici  Fructus, af...  @  22
po—   @  16
B po.  @  14
Caryophyllus, (po.  20)  15®  18
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......  50©  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus  .....................   @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  20
Centraria....................  @  10
Cetaceum...................  @  45
Chloroform...............   50®  55
squibbs ..  @1  00
Chloral Hyd Crst.......1  50@1  75
Chondrus..................   20®  25
Cinchonidine, P.  & W  15®  20
German  4®  10 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  .......................  @  60
Creasotum.................  @  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  @
“  prep...................  
5®  5
“  precip.................  8®  10
“  Rubra.................  @
Crocus.......................  35®  38
Cudbear......................  @  24
Cupri Sulph...............   8®  9
Dextrine....................  10®  12
Ether Sulph...............   68®  TO
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po  .................   @
Er got a, (po.)  60 .........   50®  55
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................  @  23
Gambier......................  8  @9
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @ 90
French...........  40®  60
“ 
Glassware  flint,  70 per cent, 
by box 60 less
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White...............   13®  25
Glycerina...................18M@  25
Grana Paradis!. 
Humulus....................  25®  40
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @1  00
“  Cor ...  @ 88
Ox Rubrum  @1  10
Ammoniati.  @1  20
Unguentum.  47®  57
Hydrargyrum...........  @  82
Jchthyobolla, Am......1  25®1  50
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl..........3 7E@3 85
Iodoform....................  @4  70
Lupulin......................  85@1 00
Lycopodium..............  55®  60
Macis.........................  80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnitis  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1M)..........................   2®  3
Mannia,  S. F ............   45®  50

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Chemicals  and  Druggists’  Sundrio

Dealers in

Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, l/arnislies.

Sole  Agents  for  the  Celebrated  Pioneer  Prepared  Paints

We  are  Sole  Proprietors ol

WEATHERLY’S  MICHIGAN  CATARRH  REMIT)!

We have in stock and offer a fall line of

W hls]sles,  Brandies,

Gins,  W ines,  Bums.

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

Henderson County, Hand Made  Sour Mash 

W hisky and Druggists’ Favorite 

Rye  W hisky.

W e sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
W e give our Personal Attention to Mail  Orders  and  Qu r 
All orders are Shipped and  Invoiced  the~sazne  day  we ie 

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

toltine 4 Perkins Drug Go,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

12

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

GRnJCBRIBS.
Opposed  to  the  Millers’  Combine.
“Why don’t  you  take  the  millers  of 
this city to task for the manner in  which 
they hold down the price of wheat here?” 
enquired  a  leading  business  man  the 
other day.

The  reporter  replied  that  the millers 
probably knew their own  business better 
than outsiders and  governed  themselves 
accordingly.

While  the  market is firm,  the outlook is 
uncertain.

Tallow is firm,  with  a slight  advance, 
which is doubtful  of  being  maintained. 
There is no export  demand,  except from 
Germany  and  France,  which  take  all 
suitable for their wants that is offered.

The  Grocery  Market.

The  sugar  market  is  active  and  ad­
vancing.  A sharp  demand  all  over the 
country and a disposition  on  the part of 
dealers to buy  speculatively  has  caused 

They know their  business altogether I an advance of  }£c.

Currants are  in  steady demand.  The 
new  crop,  which 
is  due  here  about 
Oct.  15,  is said  to  be  smaller  size  than 
usual,  on  account  of 
the  very  dry 
weather.
Rice continues very strong, with a very 
limited supply of  all grades.
Purely  Personal.

J.  Frank Clark,  the Big Rapids grocer, 

spent Sunday in this city.

A 
. .  T. 
.
it, is  the placing  of ^   resorf

. 
. 
..  . 

. 

.

,  G.  Hirschberg, the  Bailey 
dealer,  was in town Saturday.
. 

, 
„  _  __ 
O.  F.  Conklin came  down  from  Trav-

_
, erse Point Monday. He  will return to

general

. 

on Thursday.

perishable articles be light.  Renew sup­
plies frequently,  particularly coffee, but­
ter, cheese,  eggs,  crackers,  fruits,  fari­
naceous  goods,  provisions.  Have  the 
for  handling  butter  scalded 
utensils 
daily.  Examine  the  condition  of  the 
brine  on  pork  and  fish. 
Inspect  the 
cheese.  Watch  carefully  the  sauces, 
olive oil,  bottled  pickles,  bottled  goods 
generally and see that  they  are  not  ex 
posed  to the direct rays of the sweltering 
sun.  Keep out the flies.  Open the store 
early  and  close  early,  and  thus  avoid 
drawing in an  army  of  insects at night. 
Buy  frequently,  pay  promptly,  credit 
lightly, collect  systematically,  keep cool 
and then  when  the fall trade opens,  the 
retailer will be in fine trim.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

25c.

Apples—Dried,  7%@8Mc  for  sun-dried  and 
ll© 12c for evaporated.  The market is  strong.
Apples—Early  harvest  and Red  Astricans are 
coming  in  freely, commanding  *2.50@*2.75  per 
bbl.
Beans—Dry stock continues to get firmer, being 
now held at *2.25@82.50 for city hand-picked. 
Beets—New, 50@60c per bu.
Butter—Dairy  begins  to  look  up,  in  conse­
quence of the extended  dry  weather,  which  is 
unfavorable to a large milk yield.  Fair  grades 
command 14c and fancy 16c per lb.
Blackberries—Wild, 6c  per qt.  Cultivated are 
about out of market.
Cabbages—Home  grown  stock,  *2.50  per  two 
bbl crate.
Carrots—15c per doz.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, 11.25;  produce barrels 
Cucumbers—10c per doz.
Eggs—The market is steady.  Dealers pay  14c
Field  Seeds—Clover, mammoth,  *4.75  per  bu  : 
Grapes—Concords, *4  per  stand;  Niagaras, *6 
Green Corn—9@l0c per doz.
Maple  Sugar — 8@10c  per  lb.,  according  to 
Maple Syrup—75@85c per gal.
Musk Melons—Home grown, *1 per crate. 
Onions—Green,  15c  per  doz.  Home  grown,
1per bbl.
Pop Corn—4c per lb.
Potatoes—Home grown stock Is coming in more 
Pears—California, S3®*3.25 per case.
Peaches—California  *2@$2.26 per crate. 
Plums—California, *2 per crate.
Sweet Potatoes—Baltimores, *5 per bbl. 
Tomatoes—Home grown are coming  in freely 
Turnips—50@60c per bu.
Watermelons—Indiana stock is coming in very 
Whortleberries—*2.75@S3 per bu.

and  hold  at  16c.
medium, *4.60.  Timothy, 11.65 per bu 
per stand.

freely.  Dealers pay 60@70c and hold at 80c. 

Acme and Fijis being held at 60@80c per bu. 

plentifully, being held at 16@18c apiece. 

quality.

PROVISIONS.

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co 

sau sa ge—Fresh and Smoked.

quotes as follows:
„  
11  25
Mess,  new................................................ 
Shortcut.............................7.7.77.............  li  oo
Extra clear pig, short cut 
Extra clear,  heavy.........
Clear, fat  back....................7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7   12 00
Boston clear, short cut..................   ...........  12 50
Clear back, short cut........................ ..........  jg 50
Standard clear, short cut. best...7 7 7 7 7   12 50 
Pork Sausage.............................................. 
Ham Sausage.............................7 7 7 7 ...........9
Tongue Sausage......................7 7 7 7 7 ! ........  9
Frankfort  Sausage.  ..................7 7 7 7 .......... «
Blood Sausage.................................   ”  *........... 5
Bologna, straight........................................ 
 
Bologna,  thick.............................7 .7 7 ........... 5
Headcheese...............................7 7 7 7  
  
l a b» —Kettle Rendered..............
_  
Tierces..................................................  
Tubs......... .-........................... .........................I,
561b.  Tins.........................7 7 7 7 7 7 7   7 ' "   71
__ 
Tierces
30 and 50 lb. Tubs......................... 
31b. Pails, 20 in a  case..................   ..............
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case.
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case...............  
........... rv
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case............... ..................... r2
50 lb. Cans................................  
................* B
......................  *
„  
BEEF  IN  BARRELS. 
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs....................   7 no
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.... 
........7 no
Boneless, rump butts.................. 7 .7 7 7 7 7   9 50

l a r d —Family.....................

..............au

sm o ked  m eats—Canvassed or Plain.

Hams, average 20 lbs...............  

“ 

16 lbs.
,*,K- 
12 to 14 lbs.

“ 
picnic. 
bes
st boneless................. 

..............o
Shoulders..........................  
......................2,,
Breakfast Bacon, boneless. 7 7 7 7 7 7 .........
Dried beef, ham prices...............7.7 "....... io2
T.nnit clears, heavy....................’’’’ ..............  j
light.................7777777:*" s

ets,  medium.........

mu
...::::::::::io*

FISH and  OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

FRESH  FISH.  •

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Whitefish...............................................   @ 7$$
smoked.............................
@  8 
Trout...............................................
@ 7% 
Halibut__«.....................................
@15 
Ciscoes.............................................
@ 4 
Flounders........................................
@ 9 
Bluefish  ..........................................
@10 @25 
Mackerel.........................................
Cod..................................................
@10
California salmon..........................
Fairhaven  Counts..........................
FRESH  MEATS.

o y sters—Cans.

@35

“ 

Beef, carcass..........................................4*4® 6

Swift and Company quote as follows:
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

hindquarters...............................  6  @ Gyt
fore 
...............................  3  @3)4
loins, No. 3.................................   8H@ 9
ribs......................................   @ 8
rounds.....................................   @  5H
tongues............... 
@  9%

Hogs.......................................................   @
Bologna.................................................   @ 5
Pork loins............................  ................  @g
“  shoulders.......................................  @ 6
Sausage, blood or head............... 
  @ 5
liver.......................................  ® 5

“ 
“  Frankfort...................................  &  7%

Mutton...................................................  ©
Veal.......................................................   ©

 

 

 

CANDIES,  FRUITS and  NUTS.
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDT.

 

 

MIXED  CANDT.

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

Standard,  per  lb...................................   &«© 9
“  H -f.........................................   8V4@ 9
Cut  Loaf......................................................... 10
Assorted Cream  ............................................ 12
Extra H. H...................................................... n
Standard, per lb................................... 
  8H
Leader............................................................  8V4
Royal...............................................................  sT
Extra............................................................... 10
English  Rock..................................................10
Conserves........................................................ 10
Broken.............................................................. 9
Cut Loaf...........................................................10
French Creams.................... 
12
Valley  Creams................................................ 13
Lemon Drops................................................... 12
Sour Drops...................................................... 13
Peppermint Drops........................................... 14
Chocolate Drops...............................................14
H. M. ChocolateoDrops...... .............................18
Gum Drops................................................... ” 10
Licorice Drops........................................7 7 7  18
A. B. Licorice  Drops.................................... ” 14
Lozenges, plain............................................. ” 14
printed....................................77*15
Imperials.................................  
"14
Mottoes................................................... . . " ” 15
Cream Bar...............................................7 7 7 lS
Molasses Bar....................................  
13
Caramels........................................77.7716018
Hand Made  Creams.........................................is
Plain Creams.......................................7 7 7 !  16
Decorated Creams........................... 7 7 7 .  "20
String  Rock............................................77.15
Burnt Almonds....................... ..7  7 7  7 7 7 722
Wintergreen  Berries.................... 
. ! . .14
Lozenges, plain, in  palls.................................12
printed, In palls...........................713
Chocolate Drops, in pails............................ 
12
Gnm Drops, In palls......................................."  g
Moss Drops, in pails.........................................10
Sour Drops, in palls.........................7 7 7  
12
Imperials, In palls.................................7 7 7 l2
*
Rodi, choice, 200...................................   @ 750

fancy—In bulk.

ORANGES.

300....................................   ©

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LEMONS.

“ 

Messina, choice, 360.............................   @750
300-....................... 7.7  @ 8 00
,   “ 
fancy, 360.............................  @ 8 00
300.............................8 50®  9 00

5
5
Figs, Smyrna, new,  fancy  layers........14  @15

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

7

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choice
n h n i n a  

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11 

a

n u t s .

choice, 7 lb....................

“  M frails, 50 lb................7 7  

Dates, frails, 50 lb.................................  
box......................:: 
50-Id.  “  .......................  

a
a.
X
s »
Persian, 50-lb.  box.....................   kuEZ
,  m 
¿*17
J**54
ST,«

“ 
a 1 
Almonds, Tarragona............................. 

Brazils............................... 
Walnuts, Grenoble........77.7."..............
Pecans, Texas, H. P ............................  13  g « *
Cocoanuts, fall sacks..................   @4 25
_  
Fan.?y’  P-'SunB.......................   @10
Fancy,  H.  P.,  GameCocks...............7 

C ^ fo m ia 7 7 7 7 7 7 ”  

“  Roasted  .............. 

PEANUTS.

a , .
g jo

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1 ‘SS
choice, a } . ,  
Fancy, H. P„ Steamt^ateCd. 777 7.77.’  © “ ^

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For  Sale  by  Leading  W holesale  Grocers.

too well and  draw  the  lines  altogether 
too  tightly,”  responded  the  business 
man,  “and I,  for one.  believe  that they 
should  be  made  to  mend  their  ways. 
For  instance,  cash  wheat  closed in De­
troit to-day at 99 cents.  The city millers 
are  paying  90  cents,  a  difference  of  9 
cents  a  bushel,  while  the  freight from 
Grand  Rapids to Detroit is only 5 cents a 
bushel.  When  the  wheat  is  converted
into flour  and shipped East,  the freight 
, 
amounts to only 3 cents per bushel. 
., 
“Anotber  thing  which  is  manifestly 
. 
, 

i  *.• 
, 
. . 
, ,  t  

unjust, as I look  at 
all  the  towns  roundabout  on  the same
basis as Grand  Rapids.  This  helps  the 
towns,  to be sure,  but the Grand  Rapids 
price is held down  purposely,  in order to 
equalize the freight and commission paid 
on outside purchases.”

. 

. 

“Then  you do not approve of the com­
bination  the  city  millers  maintain  in 
buying wheat ?”

“I believe in a thorough understanding 
between  com petitors, 
to  the  end  that 
ruinous competition may be avoided,  but 
1  certainly cannot  commend a combina­
tion which deprives the farmer of from 3 
to 5 cents a bushel on his staple product 
Such a monopoly is not only antagonistic 
to the trade of the city,  but works injury 
to the producer as  well,  and  should  be 
abolished without further delay.”

THE  OTHER  KIBE.

Not satisfied  with  presenting only one 
side of  the  question,  to the  exclusion of 
the other side, T he Tradesman solicited 
an  interview  with  C. G.  A.  Voigt,  who 
claimed  that the  difference between  the 
Grand  Rapids  and  Detroit  markets sel­
dom  exceeded  7  cents  per  bushel,  but 
amounted to 10 cents  at  present,  due  to 
speculative excitement at the latter mar­
ket. 
If  No.  2  red  wheat  continues  to 
stand  at  $1 at Detroit  for  any  length of 
time,  the city millers will  advance  their 
paying  price  to 93 cents;  but as they do 
not go  down  immediately when  outside 
even 
speculative  markets  drop,  they 
advances
things  up  by  following  the 
slowly and conservatively.
W ool  Unchanged—Hides  Lower—Tal­

low   Firm.

The sales of  wool the past  week  were 
much  smaller  than  the  week  previous. 
Much of  the  week  was  given up to hol­
idays for G.  A.  R.  entertainment.  Prices 
are unchanged,  as the demand is limited. 
Cloth  sales  show  no  improvement  and 
importations  are  large.  For  dealers to 
realize  cost  on  their  wools,  they  must 
hold  long  enough  for these goods to get 
out of  the way,  in order  that home  man­
ufacturers may have an advance on their 
prodnctions.

Hides have received a check in advanc­
ing prices  and  gone  back a turn.  Tan­
ners have stopped  working in  at 10 to 25 
per  cent,  of  capacity as they could  see 
nothing  but a loss  ahead.  Hides are ac­
cumulating and are offered at a %c lower 
than the week  previous.  The  supply is 
mall  and  the  demand  is  much 
less.

Fred H.  Ball has received  a  two-year- 
old stallion he purchased  in Nova Scotia 
a couple of  years ago.

Roy Eaton,  of  Lowell,  has  taken the 
position of prescription clerk for A.  San­
ford at 148 West Fulton street.

Kryn Dykema has returned from a trip 
to Gladstone,  Eau Clair and Minneapolis, 
looking over the crop prospects.

Chas.  Frost,  book-keeper for Lemon  & 
P eters,  who has  been  spending ten  days 
at Ottawa Beach with his family, returns 
home Wednesday.

Heman  G.  Barlow,  who  was  confined 
to  his  house  last  week by a threatened 
attack of peritonitis,  has  recovered suffi­
ciently to be about again.

Lester J.  Rindge,  wife  and  daughter, 
who went  to  Boston a couple  of  weeks 
ago,  have take a sea  voyage to Baltimore 
and are now at  Norfolk,  Va.  They ex­
pect to return about Sept.  1.
Hints  to  Grocers.

From  the American Grocer.

It is the exception to find  the  grocery 
store  well ventilated.  The  majority  of 
grocery stores are closed  at  night  with­
out provision for a current of  air to pass 
through  the  place,  and  thus  a  musty 
smell pervades the  room when opened in 
the morning.  Fresh air is indispensable to 
the proper care of the stock, particularly 
tea,  salt, butter,  cheese and  other  goods 
which  readily  absorb  foreign  flavors. 
The high temperature and  muggy atmos­
phere  cause  dried  fruits  to sweat,  pro­
visions  to  mould,  crackers to lose  their 
brittleness and  does more or less damage 
to the quality or appearance of  all other 
goods. 
If the  shelves,  bins  and  boxes 
are not  tidy,  the  floor  frequently scrub­
bed,  corners  and  windows  kept  bright 
and clean,  there will be a combination of 
bad smells which  will not  only  depreci­
ate the quality of goods,  but disgust cus­
tomers. 
It also  operates  to  undermine 
the  health  of  all  engaged  in the store, 
thus reducing the capacity  of  the  force 
for work.
All stores should have a ventilator over 
the  door  and so fixed  that it should not 
be  closed  at  night.  Closed  show  win­
dows should be provided  with flues so as 
to secure  the  passage of  a current of air 
through them.
The cellar needs  continuous  care.  A 
coat of  whitewash  should  be  given  the 
walls once,  if  not twice,  a  year.  Barrels 
containing  salt  or  brine  should  be  re­
moved.  All  accumulations  of  rubbish 
heaps,  old  kegs  and  boxes  avoided. 
These  suggestions,  if  followed,  mean 
constant  watchfulness  and  trifling  ex­
pense;  if  neglected,  constant  and  large 
losses, to say nothing of  a reputation for 
keeping  an untidy store  and  selling in­
ferior goods.
During the heated term let the stock of

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

__________13

sale Price  Current.
slow  a/re  such  os are ordinarily offered cash buyers who 
U packages.

 

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COCOA  SHELLS.

coffee—Green.

COFFEE EXTRACT.

CHOCOLATB—BAKER’S.
German Sweet..................... 
23
35
Premium...............................  
38
Pure........................................ 
Breakfast  Cocoa................  
40
37
Broma................... 
 
B ulk..................................4  @434
Pound  packages............   @7
Valley City............................. 
80
F elix........................................   1  10
Rio, fair.............................   @21
good.........................21  @22
1  prime..........................  @23
fancy,  w ashed...  @24
1 
1  golden.....................23  @24
Santos..............................22  @23
Mexican & Guatemala 23  @24
Java,  Interior............... 24  @26
'*  M andheling___ 27  @30
Peaberry........................ 22  @24
Mocha, genuine.......   26  @28
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Me. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 pier  cent,  for shrink­
age.
coffees—Package.
Bunola......................................24 %
in cabinets..................25V
M cL aughlin's  XXXX ... ,25 V
L ion...........................................25>4
‘  In cab in ets....................26
Durham....................................25
Cotton, 40 f t ............perdoz.  1  35
1  50
175
2  00
2 25
90
1  10
E agle.........................................  7 50
Anglo-Swiss..............6 00@  7  60

CLOTHES  LINES.
“ 
5 0 ft............  
60 f t ............  
“ 
7 0 ft............ 
“ 
80 f t ............  
“ 
60 f t ............ 
“ 
72 f t ' ......... 
“ 
CONDENSED MILK.

“ 
“ 
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“ 
Jute 
I* 

1, per  hundred....................  2 50

.............. 20 
CRACKERS.
“ 

COUPONS.
“Superior.”
 
“ 
 
“ 
 
“ 
 
“ 
“Tradesman.”
 
“ 
 
“ 
“ 
 
“ 
 

8  2, 
8  5, 
810, 
— I, 
8  1, per  hundred....................2 00
“ 
8 2, 
“ 
8  5, 
“ 
810, 
820, 
“ 
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts:
200 or over...............5  per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 
Kenosha Butter....................  7%
Seymour 
534
Butter..........................................534
“  fam ily.............................  7%
“  b iscu it...........................  6}|
Boston..........................................7%
City Soda..................................   7v4
Soda...........................................   6
S. O yster..................................   534
City Oyster, XXX....................  534
S h ell..........................................6
Strictly  pure............................  
Grocers’.....................................  
DRIED FRUITS—Domestic.
Apples, sun-dried.......  @  3
evaporated__   @14
‘‘ 
Apricots, 
“ 
Blackberries“ 
Nectarines  “ 
Peaches 
“ 
Plums 
“ 
Raspberries  “ 
Turkey...........................  @  634
Bosnia.............................  @ 8
California.....................   @
Lemon............................  
18
Orange...........................  
18
In drum...........  ...........   @18
In boxes.........................  @20
Zante, in  barrels.........  @634
In less quantity  6%@  63£ 

—   @
....  @
................
...............
................
................
DRIED FRUITS—Prunes.

DRIED FRUITS—Currants.

dried  fruits—Citron.

dried  fruits—Peel.

CREAM TARTAR.

“ 
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10 
“

dried fruits—Raisins.

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SUN  POWDER.

FARINACEOUS  SOODS.

V alencias......................   @ 9
Ondaras.........................   @1134
Sultanas.........................  @10
London  Layers,  Cali­
fornia........................   2  75@3  00
London  Layers, for’n.  @
Muscatels, California.2  00@2  35
K e g s..........................................5  50
Half  k egs.................................3 00
Farina, 100  lb.  kegs...............  04
Hominy,  per  bbl.................... 3 00
Macaroni, dom 12 lb b ox__   60
imported.......   @1034
Pearl  Barley....................  @ 3
Peas, green....................  @110
split...........................   @ 3
Sago,  German..................   @ 6
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’r l... 
6@  7
Wheat,  cracked...........  @ 5
Vermicelli,  Import—   @1034
dom estic...  @60
fish—SALT.
Cod, w hole....................5  @ 6
boneless................ 6J4@ 8
H alib u t........................ 
@
2  90
Herring,  round,  34 bbl.. 
gibbed...................  
2 75
Holland,  bbls.. 
12 00 
“  kegs, 
S c a le d .............  @  20
12 60 
“  12 lb k it..130
“ 
4   ao
“ 
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Mack,  sh’s, No. 2,  34  bbl 
•• 

...  @ 6 0

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38
25

Trout,  34  bbls............   @5 25
“  10  lb.  kits.................  75
White,  No. 1, 34 bbls..  @5 50
“ 
“ 
121b. kits...... 100
101b. kits......  80
“ 
“ 
“ 
Family,  34 bbls........3 00
“ 
kits..............  65

“ 

HERBS.

LICORICE.

jellies.

LAMP WICKS.

Sage.....................................9
Hops....................................14
E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods..  6 
Chicago  goods....................5
.............  30
No.  ... 
No. 1....................................  40
No. 2...................................  50
Pure.....................................  30
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  18
Condensed, 2 doz...............1  25
No. 9  sulphur.....................2 00
Anchor parlor.................... 1 70
No. 2 home......................... 1  10
Export  parlor.....................4 00
20
Black  Strap...................... 
Cuba Baking.................... 
24
Porto  Rico....................... 
30
New Orleans, good........... 
24
choice........ 
30
fancy.........  
42
One-half barrels, 3c extra

MOLASSES.

MATCHES.

LYE.

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OIL.

PICKLES.

ROLLED OATS.

OATMEAL.
Muscatine, Barrels............ 6 00
Half barrels......3 25
Cases........2 15@2 25
Muscatine, Barrels—   @6 00
Half bbls..  @3 25 
Cases........2 15@2 25
Michigan  Test....................  934
Water White........................1034
Medium............................
3 00
“ 
34 b b l....................
4 00
Small, bbl..........................
5 00
“  34  bbl.........................
6 00
Clay, No.  216...................... 1  75
“  T. D. full count...........  75
2 50
Cob, No. 3...........................1 25
3 00
4 00
E. J. Mason & Co.'s goods..  8
5 00
Carolina head.......................7
“  No. 1....................... 634
“  No. 2............... 6  @
“
“  No. 3.......................
Japan, No. 1..........................7
“  No. 2.......................... 6
Scotch, In  bladders.............37
Maccaboy, in jars................35
French Rappee, in Jars......43

PRESERVES.

SNUFF.

PIPES.

RICE.

SOAP.

 

Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands.

SAL  SODA.

spices—Whole.

SAPOLIO.
“ 
SOUPS.

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Superior..............................3 30
Queen  Anne...................... 3 85
German  Family..................
Mottled  German................. 3 00
Old German.........................2 70
U. S. Big  Bargain................2 00
Frost, Floater......................3 75
Cocoa  Castile  ....................3 00
Cocoa Castile, Fancy...........3 36
Happy Family,  75................2 95
Old Country, 80....................3 30
Una, 100................................3 65
Bouncer, 100.........................3 15
Kegs................ 
134
Granulated,  boxes...............2
Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box......  2 50
Hand  3  “ 
......   2 50
Snider’s  Tomato................ 2 40
Allspice................................10
Cassia, China In mats........  8
Batavia in bund__ 15
Saigon In rolls........ 35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
Zanzibar..................16
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
“  No.  1......................75
“  No. 2..................... 66
Pepper, Singapore, black— 16 
** 
white...  .26
shot....................... 20
“ 
spices—Ground—In Bulk.
Allspice............................... 15
Cassia,  Batavia...................20
and  Saigon.25
“ 
“ 
Saigon...................42
Cloves.  Amboyna................26
“  Zanzibar................20
Ginger, African...................1234
“■  Cochin...................15
“ 
Jam aica................18
Mace  Batavia...................... 90
Mustard,  English................22
and Trie..25
Trieste...................27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................80
Pepper, Singapore, black — 18
•“   white.......30
r‘ 
“  Cayenne................ 25
SUGARS.

“ 
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Cut  Loaf....................   @734
Cubes........................   @634
Powdered...................  @7
Standard  Granulated.  @6.44
Fine...........  @6.44
Confectioners’ A____  @634
White Extra  C...........  @6
Extra  C......................  @534
C .................................  @ 5M
Y e l l o v f ........   434®  5

i  40
75
80
30
56
! 38
! 76
:  30
40
i  00I.
75
i 00
l  75
75
50
!  00
30
45
90
60
45
85
50
80
75
70
sen
30
60
90
75
00
25
50
75
90
30
25
75
0
934
1
5

10
!  10
10
:  00
75
!  65
! 35
: 65
!  00
30
!  00
!  85
! 85
90
60
G34
»  9
»10
»16
10
:  60
;  50
10
30
40
15
35
00
35
!  25! Ob
60
25
50
!  75
10
75
40
35
75

80
35
80
80
40
00
00
00
68
35
80
40
85
50
:  15
50
40
10
10
05
10
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35
: 30
! 50
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834
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SEEDS.

 

 
 
 

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SALT

“   
“   
34-bu  “   

Mixed bird.................  434@ 6
Caraway...............................  9
Canary.................................. 334
Hemp.....................................4
Anise..................................... 8
Rape....................................  6
Mustard.................................734
Common Fine per bbl.......90@95
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks......   27
28 pocket...................................1 90
“ 
60 
............................. 2 00
100  “ 
Ashton bu. bags.................  75
75
Higgins  “ 
Warsaw “ 
35
20
Diamond  Crystal,  cases__ 1  50
28-lb sacks  25
60  pocket.2 25
28 
.2 10
b arre ls...ire
SALERATUS.
Church’s, Arm & Hammer.. .534
D wight’s Com........................534
Taylor’s.................................5J4
DeLand’s Cap  Sheaf.............534
pure.........................534
Our Leader.........................  5
Corn, barrels.....................@30
one-half barrels__ @32
Pure  Sugar, bbl................26@35
“ 
half barrel__ 28@37

56-lb 
“ 

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SYRUPS.

“ 
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“ 50

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SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps.............. 
Sugar Creams............  
Frosted Creams.........  
Graham Crackers......  
Oatmeal  Crackers__ 
SHOE  POLISH.

8
834
8
8
8

Jettlne, 1 doz. in  box.............75

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SUN CUBED.

BASKET  FIRED.

F air............................. 14 @16
Good............................18  @22
Choice.......................... 24  @29
Choicest.......................32  @38
F air............................. 14  @15
Good............................16  @20
Choice.......................... 24  @28
Choicest.......................30  @33
F air............................  @20
Choice........................   @25
Choicest......................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40 
Common to fair...........25  @35
Extra fine to finest___50  @65
Choicest fancy............ 75  @85
Common to fair...........20  @35
Superior to fine............40  @50

GUNPOWDER.

IMPERIAL.

YOUNG HYSON.

Common to fair...........18  @26
Superior to  fine...........30  @40

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

F air............................. 25  @30
Choice.......................... 30  @35
Best............................. 55  @65
Tea  Dust.....................  8  @10

OOLONG.

Common to fair...........25  @30
Superior to  fine...........30  @50
Fine to choicest...........55  @65

SODA.

Boxes....................................534
Kegs, English....................... 4£

D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands.

tobaccos—Fine Cut.
Hiawatha.......................  
Sweet  Cuba....................  
OurLeadeT..................... 
tobaccos—Plug.

Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good.................... 38
Double Pedro.........................35
Peach  Pie...............................36
Wedding  Cake, blk................35
“Tobacco” ..............................37

2 25

tobacco—Shorts.

Our  Leader.............................15

tobaccos—Smoking.

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Our  Leader......................... 16
Hector.................................. 17
Plow Boy, 2  os.................... 32
4 oz.................... 31
16 oz.................... 32
VINEGAR.
40 gr.....................................634
50 gr.......................................734
PAPER & WOODEN WARE 

PAPER.

Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol 

lows:
Straw...................................150
“  Light  Weight..............200
Sugar....................................180
Hardware..............................234
Bakers.................................. 234
Dry  Goods............................6
Jute Manilla.........................8
Red  Express  No. 1............   5
No. 2.............4

“ 

TWINES.

  25

“ 

48 Cotton.........................  
Cotton, No. 1....................... 22
“  2.......................18
Sea  Island, assorted......... 40
No. 5 Hemp......................... 18
No. 6  “ .................................17
Wool................................... 8

WOODENWARE.

 
 
 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
« 

Tubs, No. 1...........................8 00
“  No. 2.......................... 7 00
«  No. 3.......................... 6 00
1  50
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1, three-hoop—   1  75
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes —   55
Bowls, 11 inch....................   1 00

13  “ 
15  “ 
17  “ 
assorted, 17s and  19s  2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s 2 75
Baskets, market.................   40
bushel..................  1 50
“  with covers  1  90 
willow cl’ths, No.l  5 75 
No.2 6 25
No.3 7 25 
No.l  3 50 
No.2 4 25 
No.3 5 00

splint

WHEAT.

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS 
W hite......................... 
87
Red............................ 
91
All wheat bought on 60 lb. test.
Coarse............................. 
1  10
Bolted...............................  1  25
Grannlated.......................  1  50

MEAL.

„  

f l o u r .

Straight, In  sacks...............  5  00
“ barrels............  5  20
Patent 
“ sacks...............  6  GO
“ barrels............  6  30

“ 
“ 

No. 1...................................   58@i6

RTS.

MILLSTUFFB.

62
36
35

Bran.......................................   16 00
Ships......................................   16  50
Screenings...........................  15  00
M iddlings.............................  17  50
Mixed  Feed.........................   23 00
Coarse m eal........................... 31  50
Small  lots.............................  58
Car 

.............................   5634

CORN.

“ 

OATS.

“ 

Small  lo ts................................42
...............................39
Car 
BARLEY.

NO. 1........................................  1  16
No. 8.......................................  1  10

HAT.

No. 1........................................  9  50
No. 2.......................................  9  00

HIDES,  PELTS  and  FUR8 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 

HIDBS.

lows:
Green.........................  5  @ 634
Part Cured.................  634@7
Full 
.................  7  @8
Dry.............................   6  @ 8
Kips, g reen...............   @6
“  cured.................  7  & 7%
Calfskins,  green........  5  @ 7
cared.......... 6 @ 834
Deacon skins..............10  @25

“ 

“ 

No. 2 hides % off.
PELTS.

Shearlings.................. 10  @35
Estimated wool, per lb 30  @28 
Washed............................20@28
Unwashed.......................10@20

WOOL.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow.......................3  @4
Grease  butter  ...........  1  @2
Switches....................  1344» 2
Ginseng......................2 00@8 00

LUBRICATING  OILS. 
The  Hogle  Oil  Co.  quote  as 
follows:
1 25
Extra WS Lard OH... 53  @58
2 00
“  No. 1...................45  @50
2 75
“  No. 2...................35  @40
Pure Neatsfoot.  ........ 52  @60
Harness  Oil................40  @50
W Va  Summer...........734@12
“  Medium  Winter.  8  @12 
15 Cold Test...............   9  @13
Zero............................ 10  @14
Old Reliable  Cylinder  @65 
600 Mecca 
“ 
@50
Anti-monopoly  “ 
..36  @40
Corliss Engine Oil__  @40
Golden Machine  Oil. .18  @25 
Mower and Reaper 01135  @30 
Castor Machine Oil.. .25  @30 
Boiled Linseed Oil.  .. 63  @66
Michigan WW...........  @10
Turpentine.................46  @51
Naptha.......................  8  @12
Gasoline.......................934@14
tor Oil,  Pure...... 81  26@1 30
“  Mineral....30  @35 
“  Distilled ..81  10@1  25

,

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floors,  employ  a 
eighteen 
_
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17 So. Ionia St., with an immense stock,  and  “don’t have to move.”  Our  output  is 
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trouble in finding us.  We are near the big Union Depot.
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14

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

“Well,  who  am  I?” 

manded the stranger.

laughingly  de­

“You  are the book-writer,”  said Alice. 
“The  author  who  is  going  to  write  a 
novel about the old ruined house in Wild 
Glen,  where the ghost  used to walk,  and 
the  pretty girl  drowned  herself  in  the 
days  of 
the  Revolution.  Oh,  we’ve 
heard all about  you,”  with  an  exultant 
little nod of the head.  “You came down 
to old  Owen  Hardy’s to make  inquiries, 
last  week,  and an artist from  Belhamp- 
ton is coming  to  sketch  the  ruins,  and 
make  the 
illustrations  for  the  book. 
Lulu Hardy saw  you,  but  she  declared 
you  were a stuffy,  middle-aged  old fogy. 
Now I should say  you were under thirty.” 
And she stopped  short,  and  surveyed 
him with a critical  air,  which  appeared 
to amuse him not a little.

“I am six-and-twenty,” said he.
“Lulu  Hardy  never  was  a  judge  of 
character,”  said  Alice,  loftily. 
“But 
Mrs.  Hardy said  you  were  quite a dissi­
pated man.”
“Did  she?”
“Yes,”  nodded  Alice. 

“You  called 
for a bottle of  brandy, and drank a glass 
of  it  raw—yes,  absolutely  raw!  And 
then  you smoked  three cigars afterward, 
and sat up  writing in a little  portfolio— 
probably the very  one  you  have  under 
your arm—half the night.  Now,  I must 
say,  you  don’t 
look  like  that  sort  of 
thing!”

“Don’t  I?”
“I never saw a drunkard,”  said  Alice 
still eying  her  companion  in  the  same 
intent,  abstracted sort of way.  “But I’ve 
always supposed they had red noses  and 
dim,  bleared eyes.  Your nose isn’t red 
a little sun-burned,  perhaps,  across  the 
bridge,  but not to signify—and your eyes 
are as bright and clear as  mine.  But,  if 
I were you—”
“Well?”  (Still with  the  same  amused 
look.)
“I would leave off brandy  and  cigars, 
They must  affect  your  nose  in time,  to 
say nothing  of  your  nerves.  And it 
quite  ridiculous  for  a young  man  like 
you  to  fall  into  such  horrid  habits as 
that!”
Thank you,”  said the stranger.  “ I’ll 
bear your advice  in  mind.”

So they walked on together, Alice cate 
chising her companion  on  the ways and 
customs of literary men, and sighing that 
she, too,  could not write a novel!

ALICE’S  ADVENTURE.

“Some  people’s  lives are all  so full of 
color,”  said Alice  Adams,  sadly.  “But 
mine is all  gray.”
She  was  leaning on the old stone stile 
in the woods,  where the pink  leaflets of 
the wild roses drifted  down  around  her 
at every breeze,  and the tall ferns drifted 
softly to and fro,  like a miniature army, 
with banners  of  emerald grasses.  The 
sultry summer day had burned itself to a 
close;  the fiery ashes  of  the sunset were 
piled  up  in  the  glowing  west  under 
columns  of  rose and gold and deepening 
violet.
Alice Adams,  the  tired  little  district 
school-teacher,  on  her  weary way home 
from  the one-story,  red  building,  where 
she had ruled her  small  kingdom all day­
long,  had  paused in the cool shadow  of 
the woods to stop and think.
She was an orphan,  but,  ever since she 
could remember,  Uncle Jabez Adams had 
given her a home and a father’s affection­
ate—though unsympathetic—care.
Aunt Abby had scolded her and fondled 
her,  by turns,  and  she  had  alternately 
romped  in  the fields  and  dreamed  over 
“Thaddeus of  Warsaw,”  and  “Charlotte 
Temple,”  until Uncle  Jabez pronounced 
her “old enough to earn her own living,” 
and she was  promoted to  the full-fledged 
dignity of a “school-ma'am.”
But it was a drudging and  monotonous 
life,  after all,  and there was many a time 
when  little  Alice  sighed for a wider ex­
perience—a more comprehensive  view of 
existence.
“I  feel  like a bird  shut  into a cage.” 
thought Alice. 
“I do so want to stretch 
my  wings.”
As she stood there,  her  bright  cheeks 
flushed  with  exercise,  and  the  evening 
wind  blowing  her flaxen  hair into a not 
unpicturesque  confusion,  a  heavy  foot­
step crushed the dead  boughs under foot, 
and  a  human  shadow  crossed  the  wild 
ferns at her feet.
“I beg your pardon,”  said a tall,  young 
man,  dressed  in  a  rough  suit  of  gray 
tweed,  as  he 
lifted  a  coarsely-braided 
hat from his luxuriant brown  locks, “but 
is this the way to Wild Glen ?”
Under his  arm  he  carried  a portfolio, 
in  one  hand  was balanced  a light  fishing- 
rod and satchel,  and,  as  she  looked  at 
him.  Miss Adams  decided  upon  his iden­
tity at once.
“You  have  taken  the  wrong  road,” 
said she.  “The foot-path  to  Wild  Glen 
branches off  to the right as  you  pass by 
the windmill  with both its arms  broken. 
You have taken  the  path  which  led  to 
the left—and here you are ?”
“Is it far from the  Glen ?”  he  asked, 
irresolutely.
“You  are  at  least  six  miles  distant 
from  it,”  Alice  answered,  with  quiet 
authority.
“And  how far is the nearest  house  of 
entertainment ?”  he  questioned,  in evi­
dent perplexity.
“Oh,  we don’t have any  around here,” 
said  Alice,  “unless  you  call old  Uncle 
Aaron Hodges’  beer-shop  one—and that 
has been closed for a mouth.  But if you 
want a  night’s  shelter,  I  dare  say,  my 
uncle  would  let  you  sleep in the  barn- 
chamber. 
It’s  quite  comfortable there, 
if  you  don’t  mind the chanting  of  the 
whip-poor-wills at night and  the  horses’ 
stamping in their stalls underneath?’'

“I shall be delighted to obtain any sort 
of a haven of  refuge,”  said the stranger, 
with great fervency,  “for I think,  by the 
looks of  the clouds,  that we are going to 
have a storm,  and I must  confess  that 1 
do not relish the idea  of  camping out in 
these  woods  without so much as an  um­
brella to shelter m e!”
“I  suppose  not,”  said  Miss  Adams, 
calmly leading the  way.  “Gentlemen of 
your profession  seldom are inured to the 
hardships of an open-air life.”

He looked quickly at her.
“Of my profession?”  he repeated,  with 
something of a puzzled air.
“A h !”  said  Alice,  demurely;  “you 
think  I  don’t  penetrate  your  disguise. 
But I do.”
“I am sure,”  said the young man, look­
ing  somewhat  discomfited,  “I  had  no 
idea—”
“1 know  all  about  you,”  pronounced 
Alice,  with an air  of  calm  superiority. 
“But  you’re  a  deal  younger  than 1 ex­
pected to see!”

[ t o   Some  Style  Bboilt  Yoil!

The  dealer  who  has no printed letter heads on which to ask for circu­
lars,  catalogues and prices,  and  conduct  his  general  correspondence 
with,  suffers  more  every  month  for  want of them than a five  years 
supply  would  cost.  He  economizes byusing postal cards, or cheap, 
and,  to his shame, often dirty scraps of paper,  and  whether  he  states 
so or not he expects the lowest prices,  the best trade.  He may be  ever 
so  good  for  his  purchases,  may  even  offer  to pay cash,  but there is 
something  so  careless,  shiftless  and  slovenly  about his letter that it 
excites  suspicion,  because  not  in keeping with well recognized,  good 
business principles.  When such an enquiry comes to a manufacturer 
or a jobber,  it goes through a most searching examination as to charac­
ter,  means and credibility, half condemned to begin with. 
It would be 
examined  anyhow,  even  if  handsomely  printed,  but the difference to 
begin with,  would be about equal to that of introducing a tramp  and  a 
gentleman on a witness stand in court.  Besides,  the printed  heading 
would answer the question as to whether the enquirer was a dealer and 
at the same time indicate his special line of  trade.  Bad penmanship, 
bad  spelling  and  bad grammar are pardonable,  because many unedu­
cated men have been and are now  very  successful  in  business.  But 
even those are less  objectionable  when  appearing  with  evidences  of 
care, neatness and prosperity.

lease write us for estimates.

The Tradesman Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

L E M O N   &  P E T E R S ,

IMPORTING  AND

Wholesale  Grocers.

“Because  my  life  here is so unevent 
ful,”  said she frankly.  “I’m nothing on 
earth  but a country schoolma’am.  I hav 
no outlook,  no  opportunities,  like  other 
girls.  If  Mr.  Meredith,  who  owns The 
Towers—you  can  just see the turrets  of 
the fine  old  stone  mansion  peeping out 
of those trees,  across  the  river—were to 
come  back  from  India,  or  China, 
Japan,  or  wherever  else  he  is  burying 
himself alive,  he  might, perhaps,  fall  in 
love with me.  Or I might possibly strike 
out a career  for  myself,  if  only I had 
chance to  get  beyond  the  stone  fences 
and sheep pastures of  The Glen.  But, 
with a deep sigh,  “it’s  no  use  wishing. 
Here we are.  Uncle Jabez!”  to a leather 
complexioned  old 
individual  who  sat 
shelling  Lima  beans on a wooden bench 
outside the farm house door, “this is Mr 
Layard,  the author.”
“Sarvant,  sir,  sarvant!”  said  the  old 
man,  looking with reverent eye upon thi 
embodiment  of  his idea of  the  literary 
world.
“He has lost his  way,”  went on  Alice 
“I  suppose  he  can  sleep  in  the  barn 
chamber?”
“And  welcome,”  said  Uncle  Jabez 
“Supper’s most  ready. 
Just  sit  down 
and make yourself to  home,  sir.  Go 
and help your aunt dish up the cold pork 
and  beans,  Allie,  that’s  a  good  girl 
Squire Seeley, he’s in there  waitin’  for 
bit of  supper  before he goes on to Mere 
dith Towers.”
At this moment,  Squire Seeley himself 
came out,  a bent  and  wrinkled old man, 
with  gold  spectacles and a shining  bald 
head.  The instant he saw  Alice Adams’ 
young  companion,  his  face  lighted  up 
with recognition, and he bowed low.

“Mr.  Meredith !”  he exclaimed.  “This 
is indeed an  unexpected pleasure,  sir.  I 
was hoping to meet  you  at  The  Towers 
to-morrow, but—”
“Mr.  Meredith!”

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SOLICITED.

Alice’s dimpled face bad turned scarlet 
with surprise and mortification.
“Then  you—you  are  not  the  book- 
writer,  after  all ?  You  have let me be­
lieve—”
“I beg  your  pardon,”  said Mr.  Mere­
dith,  with  a  quiet  smile;  “but is it fair 
to hold me responsible for the inferences 
you  yourself  chose to deduce ?  I  never 
told you I was a book-writer.”
Alice  covered  her  burning face  with 
both hands.
“And I dared  to  lecture  you  on tem­
perance !”  she cried.  “I told you—  Oh! 
what—what must you think of me ?”
She was  turning to hurry away,  when 
Mr.  Meredith gently detained her.
“I think,”  said he,  “that you are frank 
and  noble-natured  beyond the generality 
of women;  and I beg to assure  you  that 
you have spoken no word which you need 
wish to  recall.”
But it was long before  Alice  could re­
cover her mental balance.
“What  must  he  think  of  me?”  she 
kept  repeating  to  herself. 
“Oh!  why 
couldn’t I have held my prating tongue ? 
Well, I’ve had an adventure, at last!”
In a week or two,  however,  Mr.  Mere­
dith,  of  The Towers, came  back to Jabez 
Adams’  cottage—to  sketch  some  choice 
bits  of  scenery  in the neighborhood,  he 
said;  and  Alice  had  to  go  with him  to 
show  him  the  way,  and,  almost  before 
she knew it,  all the old awkwardness had 
disappeared,  and  she was chatting away 
as lively as ever;  and  it  happened  that 
he kept coming until  one  day  he  asked 
her to be is wife.

“You cannot mean i t !”  said  Alice.
“But I do,”  said he.
“I am only a silly little school teacher.”
“You are my ideal of the truest, purest 
womanhood,  dear Alice.”
And so our little heroine teaches school 
no  longer,  and  Meredith  Towers  has a 
mistress at  last. 

Cora. A.  T u ft s.

Civility in  Trade.

A  gentleman  bought  some  machine 
tools of a certain firm,  and,  not receiving 
them when promised,  wrote,  requesting 
to  know  why they  were  not  delivered. 
To this he received  no  reply.  Waiting 
for three days longer than it would  take 
for  an  answer,  he  telegraphed  briefly: 
“Send tools at once,  or let us know  why; 
in great need of  them.”  This brought a 
reply  from  the  superintendent,  who 
fancied  that  this  called  for  what  he 
thought was a dignified  rebuke.  So  he 
answered:  “Tools will be sent when we 
are  ready, not  before.”  The  customer 
took the next  train  to  the  works—only 
one hour’s  ride—and  brought  the  tele­
gram with him.  He ignored the superin­
tendent, and went to the  president  with 
his grievance,  who, being a sensible man, 
soon  arranged  matters  to  the  buyer’s 
satisfaction.  Then the  president  inter­
viewed the superintendent, and gave him 
some  good  advice  on  the  subject  of 
politeness  in  trade,  which  it  is  to  be 
hoped he profited by.
Human nature is weak,  and  the best of 
us are  liable to err,  but it is a bad thing 
to err on the side of  incivility.  No mat­
ter how large or small an order may be— 
five  cents  or fifty thousand  dollars—the 
buyer is entitled to  courteous  treatment 
and  prompt  attention. 
The  mouse 
gnawed the lion free  of  the net,  and the 
five  cent  order  man  may  know  a  fifty 
thousand  dollar  order  man,  whom  he 
will  take  where he will be  well treated. 
Civility  pays  every  time. 
It is a cardi­
nal point in business,  and  boors  should 
remember  that  rudeness  always recoils 
upon those who exhibit it.

A  Stumper.

“Why do they call these blackberries?” 

asked the small boy of  the  grocer.

“Because  they  are  black,”  was  the 

prompt reply.

“Then  why do  they  call  those  other 
black ones raspberries ?”
“Because—because—you  move  on ! 
What are  you hanging  around  here for, 
anyhow ?”

m  m  ^ ---------

A  Reason.

“Why did  you  marry  a  man  who  is 
“Because  I  couldn’t find  one  equally 

eighty years of age ?”
rich who was ninety.”

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  P.  of  I.  Dealers.

The following are the P. of I. dealers who had 

not cancelled their contracts at  last accounts: 

Ada—L. Burns.
Adrian—Powers  &  Burnham,  Anton  Wehle 

L. T. Lochner, Burleigh  Bros.

& Co., Mrs. Turk, J. K. Sharp, A. Markson. 

Allegan—Chas. Spear.
Allendale—Henry Dolman.
Almira—J. J. Gray.
Almont—Colerlck & Martin.
Altona—Ell Lyons.
Armada—C. J. Cudworth.
Assyria—J. W. Abbey.
Banfield—Andrew Brezee.
Bay City—Prank  Rosman & Co.
Belding—Llghtstone Bros., Weter & Wise. 
Bellevue—John Evans.
Big Rapids—A. V.  Young,  E.  P.  Shankweiler 
Blissfield—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr.
Bowen’s Mills—Chas. W. Armstrong.
Brice—J. B. Gardner.
Burnside—John G. Bruce & Son.
Caldwell—C. L. Moses.
Capac—H. C. Sigel.
Carson City—A. B. Loomis, A. Y. Sessions. 
Cedar  Springs—John  BeucuB,  B.  A.  Fish, B. 
ripp.
Charlotte — John  J.  Richardson,  Daron  & 
Smith, P. H. Goodby.
Chippewa Lake—G. A. Goodsell & Co. 
Coldwater—J. D. Benjamin.
Conklin—Wilson McWilliams.
Cook’s Corners—W. H. Hanks.
Coral—J. S. Newell & Co.
Dansville—Levi  Geer.
Deerfield—Henry W. Burghardt.
Dorr—Prank  Sommer.
Dowling—Rice & Webster.
Eaton  Rapids—H. Kosltchek & Bro.
Evart—Mark Ardis, E. P. Shaw, John C. Devitt. 
Fenwick—Thompson Bros., S. H. Rinker.
Flint—John B. Wilson, Geo. Stuart <& son, Bar­
Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark.
Forester—E. Smith.
Freeport—C. Y. Riegler.
Gladwin—John Graham,  J.  D.  Sanford,  Jas. 
Gowan—Rasmus Nellson.
Grand Haven—N. J. Braudry & Co.
Grand Junction—Adam Crouse.
Grand Ledge—Geo.  Coryell.
Grand  Rapids—Joseph  Berles,  A.  Wilzinski, 
Brown & Senler, Houseman, Donnally  &  Jones, 
Ed Struensee, Wasson & Lamb, Chas.  Pettersch, 
Morse & Co., Famous Shoe Store, Harvey & Hey- 
stek, Mrs. E. J. Reynolds, E. Burkhardt. 

ney Granite and Marble Works.

Croskery.

Bro.

man.

E. Covel.
Pelton.

Buck, E. E. Palmer.

Greenville—Jacobson & Netzorg.
Hart—Rhodes & Leonard,  W.  Weidman,  Mrs. 
Howard City—O. J. Knapp, Herold  Bros., C. E. 
Hubbardston—M. H. Cahalan.
Hudson—Henry C. Hall.
Imlay City—Cohn  Bros., Wyckoff  &  Co., C. J. 
Ionia—H. Silver.
Jackson—Hall & Rowan.
Jenisonville—L. & L. Jenison (mill only). 
Jones—R. C. Sloan.
Kalamo—L. R. Cessna.
Kent City—M. L. Whitney.
Kewadin—A.  Anderson 
Kingsley—J. E. Winchcomb.
Lacey—Wm. Thompson.
Laingsburg—D. Lebar.
Lake City—Sam. B. Ardis.
Lakeview—H.  C.  Thompson,  Andrew  All  & 
Langston—F  D.  Briggs.
Lansing—R. A. Bailey, Etta (Mrs. Israel) Glic- 
Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jennings. 
Lowell—Patrick Kelly.
McBain—Sam. B.  Ardis.
McBride’s—J. McOrae.
Mancelona—J. L. Farnham.
Manton—Mrs. E. Liddle.
Maple City—A. & O. Brow.
Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lepper & Son. 
Mason— Marcus Gregory.
Mecosta—J. Netzorg.
Mecosta—Robert D. Parks.
Milan—C. C.  (Mrs. H. S.) Knight, Chas. Gaunt­
lett, James Gauntlett, Jr.
Millbrook—Bendelson.
Millington—Chas. H. Valentine.
Minden City—I. Springer & Co.
Monroe Center—Geo. H. Wightman.
Morley—Henry Strope.
Mt. Morris—F. H.  Cowles.
Mt. Pleasant—Thos. McNamara.
Nashville—H.  M. Lee.
N Ottawa—Dudley Cutler.
Ogden—A. J.  Pence.
Olivet— F.  H.  Gage.
Onondaga—John Siillk.
Orange—Tew & Son.
Orono—C. A. Warren.
Oviatt—H. C. Pettingill.
Pearle—Geo. H. Smith.
Remus—C. V.  Hane.
Richmond—A.  W. Reed.
Riverdale—J. B. Adams.
Rockford—B. A.  Fish.
Sand  Lake—Frank  E.  Shattuck,  Braman  & 
Sebewa—John Bradley.
Shelbyville—Samuel  Wolcott.
Shepherd—H.  O. Bigelow.
Sheridan—M. Gray.
Shultz—Fred Otis.
Spencer Creek—M. M. Elder.
Spring Lake—Geo. Schwab, A. Bitz. 
Springport—Powers  &  Johnson, Wellington & 
Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter.
Traverse  City—John  Wilhelm,  S.  C. Darrow, 
Vassar—McHose & Gage.
Wheeler—Louise  (Mrs.  A.)  Johnson,  H.  C. 
White Cloud—J. C. Townsend, N. W. Wiley. 
Whitehall—Geo. Nelson, John Ilaverkate. 
Williamsburg—Mrs. Dr.  White.
Woodbury—Henry  Van  Houten, Chas. Lapo. 
Williamston—1Thos. Horton.
Woodland—Carpenter & Son.
Yankee Springs—T. Thurstop.

Hammond, Elmer Peters.

Breckenridge.

D. D.  Paine.

Blanchard.

TIME  TABLES.
Grand  Rapids  Sc Indiana.

In effect June 22,1890.
TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive. 

GOING SOUTH.

Leave.
6:55 am
7:25 a m
11:80 a m
4:10 pm
10:80 p m
Train  leaving  a t  10:80p m ,  runs  daily.  Sunday  in­

Big Rapids A Saginaw........................  
Traverse City A  Mackinaw.............  8 50 a m  
Traverse City  A   M ackinaw ...........9:15 a m  
Traverse City A  Saginaw.................. 2:15p m 
Mackinaw C ity......................................8:50 p m  
cluded.  Other trains daily except Sunday.
Cincinnati  Express............................. 6:00a m  
0 30am
10:25 a  m
F ort W ayne A  Chicago...................10:15 a m  
6:00 p m
Cincinnati  Express..........................5:40 p m 
Sturgis A Chicago............................ 10:50 p m  
11 :S0 p ro
From Big Rapids A Saginaw.........11:50  a m
Train  leaving  for  Cincinnati  a t  6 p.  m.  runs daily. 
Sundays  included.  Other train s daily except Sunday.
Sleeping and P arlo r Car  Service:  North—7:25a.m . 
and 10:80 p. m. train s have W agner sleeping and parlor 
cars to Petoskey  and  Mackinaw  City.  11:30 a  m train 
parlor chair cars to  Mackinaw  City.  South—6:80 a m 
train   has  parlor  chair  car and 6 p. m. train   sleeping 
car for  Cincinnati;  11:30  p  m  train, W agner  sleeping 
car for Chicago via. Kalamazoo.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids A Indiana. 
Leave 
Arrive.
7:00 a m .................................................................... 10:10 a m
11:20am ....................................................................   8:46p m
6:40 p m ....................................................................  8:46 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge street  depot 7 minutes later. 
Through tickets and full  inform ation  can be had by 
calling upon  A.  Almquist,  ticket  agent  a t  depot, or 
Geo. W. Munson, Union  Ticket  Agent.  67  Monroe  St., 
Grand  Rapids, Mich.

O. L. Lockwood. Gen’l Pass. Agent.
Detroit, Grand H aven Sc M ilwaukee

Arrives.

Leaves. 
00 p m 
15 p m 
30 p m 
45 a m  
SO a m

p 
tM oming Express..............................12:60 
tThrough Mail.....................................4:10 
p m
tG randR apids  Express...........................10:25 p m
•Night Express...................................6:40 a  m
tMixed................................................
GOING EAST.
tD etrolt  Express........................................6:45 a m
tThrough Mail....................................10:10 
a  
{•Evening Express...............................8:36 p m
•Night Express.................................. 9:50 p m

45 p m 
66 p m
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
Detroit Express  leaving 6:50 a m has W agner parlor 
and buffet car attached, and Evening  Express leaving 
8:45 p m has parlor car  attached.  These trains make 
direct connection in Detroit for all points East.
Express leaving a t  10:55  p  m  has  W agner  sleeping 
car to Detroit, arriving in D etroit  a t 7:20 a  m.
Steam boat  Express  makes  direct  connection  a 
Grand Haven with steam boat for Milwaukee, 
sleeping  oar 
secured  at 
tickets 
D., G. H. A  M. R’y offices, 28 Monroe St., and a t the depot.
J as. Campbell, City Passenger Agent. 

berths 

and 

J no. W. Loud, Traffic Manager, Detroit.

sours w e s t .

Toledo,  Arm  Arbor  Sc  Northern.

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

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

ARRIVE.

DEPART.

SHICAGO  &  WEST  MICHIGAN.

Mall and Express for Big Rapids, Lud- 
ington,  Manistee & Traverse City..  *7:30  a  m 
Express for Chicago and  Muskegon..  t9:00 a m
Fast Mall for Chicago.......................  tl :00 p m
Express for Muskegon and H a rt......   t5:4i  p m
Night Express for  Chicago 
........... *11:35  p m
Night Express for  Indianapolis  .......111:35  p m
Mail  for  Big  Rapids,  Manistee  and
Traverse C ity ....................................+5:05  p m
Ex. for Grand Haven &  Muskegon...  +8:40  p m 
Night Express from Chicago  .............  *6:30 a  m
Night Express from Indianapolis 
...  ;G:3U  a  m 
Ex. from Muskegon, Hart& Pentwater+10:45 a m 
Express  from  Big  Rapids,  Baldwin
and Traverse City............................+12:35 p m
Mail from Chicago and Muskegon 
+3:55  p m
Express from Grand Haven...............  +5:50  p m
Fast Express from  Chicago 
..........+10:15  p m
Ex. from  Muskegon and Pentwater..t 5:50 pm  
Ex. from Baldwin and Traverse City.  +1:50  p  m
Express from Traverse City  ........ 
*11:30 p m
»Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.  IDaily except 
Saturday. 
tDaily except Monday.
Through chair car  for  Chicago  on  9:00  a  m 
train;  no extra charge for seats.  Trains leaving 
Grand  Rapids  at  1:00  p  m  and 11:15 p  m  run 
through to  Chicago  solid.  Through  sleeping 
cars  between  Grand  Rapids  and  Chicago  on 
night  express  trains.  Through  combination 
sleeping and chair  car  between  Grand  Rapids 
and Indianapolis on night express trains.
Through sleeper between  Chicago  and  Trav­
erse City;  leaves Chicago 4:40 p m,  except  Sun­
day;  Grand Rapids, 11:30 pm ;  arrives in  Trav­
erse City at 6 a m.  Leaves Traverse City at 6:15 
p m, except Saturday;  arrives in  Grand  Rapids 
at 11:30 pm ;  Chicago 7:05 a m.
Rail and water  route  between  Grand  Rapids 
and Chicago via St. Joseph  and Graham & Mor­
ton’s new palace steamers, City  of  Chicago and 
Puritan.
Leave Grand  Rapids  1:00  p  m. arrive in Chi­
cago 8:30 pm.  Leave Chicago 9:00  p  m,  arrive 
Grand Rapids 6:30 a m.  The 5:05 p m train has 
through parlor car from Detroit to Manistee.

■ETROIT, LANSING &  NORTHERN.

Express for Saginaw and Bay City —   +6:55  a  m 
Mail for Lansing, Detroit  and East...  +7:25 a m 
Express for Lansing, Detroit and East  +1:0ii  p m 
Mail for Alma, St.  Louis and Saginaw  +4:10 p m 
Fast Ex. for Detroit, New York, Boston*6:25  p m
Mail from Saginaw and  Bay City.  .. .+11:50 a m  
Mail from Lansing, Detroit and  East.+12:05 a  m 
Fast Express from Lansing and East.  *5:C5 p m 
Express from Lansing  and Detroit...  +9:50  p m 
Ex. from Saginaw, St. Louis and Alma+10:50  p m 
•Daily. 
The shortest line to Detroit and  the  East.  Elegant 
parlor cars between D etroit  and Grand Rapids. 
GRAND  RAPIDS  AND  REED’S  LAKE  TIME  TABLE.
Daily trains leave Union depot a t 9,10.11 a  in,  1,2,3, 
4,*5, 8,7, 8, 9,10 p m.  Sundays only—1:30,2:30,3:30,1:30, 
5,5:30 p  m.  Dailv  trains  leave  Reed’s  Lake  (Alger 
Park) a t 9:30,10:30.11:30  a   m,  1:30,2:80,3:30 , 4:30,6:30, 
7:30, 8:30, 9:30,10:30 p m.  Sunday train s—2, 3, 4,5,6:30, 
6 p m .  For tickets and inform ation.

tDaily except Sunday.

WM.  A. GAVETT, Acting Gen. Pass. Agt.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

15
Michigan C entral

“ The Niagara Falls Route ”

DEPART.  ARRIVE
Detroit Express....................................  7:20 a m   10:00 p m
Mixed  ....................................................6:30 a m   5:00 pm
Day  Express........................................1166am   10:00 a m
•Atlantic A  Pacific Express............. 11:15 p m 
6:00 a m
New York Express.............................. 5:40 p m 
1 -.25 p m

trains to and from  Detroit.
Express to  and  from   Detroit.

•Dally.
All other daily except Sunday.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Express 
P arlor  cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand Rapid 
Fred M. Briggs. Gen'l Agent. 85 Monroe St.
G. S. Hawkins, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Geo. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St.
O. W. Ruggles.G. P.  A   T. Agent., Chicago.

CUTS for BOOM  EDITIONS

---- OR----

P A M P H L E T S

For the best work, at  reasonable prices, address 

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

m

in

THE  GREAT

EDMUND B, DiKEMflfl
Watch Maker

s  Jeweler,
Grand Rapids  -  JIM,

44 GÍML ST.,

W A N T E D .

and all kinds of Produce.

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

3EFORE BUYING GRATES
4et Circular and Testimonials.  S c o t   Fret*. 
ALPINE  FIRE  PLACE.  ARAM) RAPIDS, MICH.

Economical,  Sanitary,  Cleanly  and  Artistic.

FRUIT,  BEANS 

DRINK

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

E A R L   B R O S . ,  

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

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

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

L IO N
COFFEE

A True Combination  of  MOCHA, 
Picture  Card  Given
With every pound  package.  For 
Sale everywhere. Wool»« Spice Co^Toledo, 0.

JAVA and RIO.

U G TR oTY PffU

Bass  m  C

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Roy«/  W 6 o d »,m CTAl  FuRMIt URE
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W M .   R .   K E E L E R ,

W h o lesa le Confectioner

AND  JOBBER  IN  FOREIGN  AND  DOMESTIC  FRUITS.

4 1 *   SOUTH  D IV ISIO N   ST. 

T E L E P H O N E   9 2 -3 R .

I am  Sole  Agent  for  Rueckheim  Bros.’  Penny  Goods,  which  are Absolutely the 

Best Goods ofthe kindon the market.

S.  K.  BOLLES. 

E.  B.  D1KEMAN.

S .  K . 

H o lie s  &   Co.,

77  CANAL  ST..  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

AAfholesale  C igar  D ea lers.

“T O S S   U P ! ”

The  “TOSS  UP”  Cigar  is  not a competitor 
against  any  other 5c brands, but all 10c brands, 
because  it  is  equal  to  any  10c  cigar  on  the 
market.

H o l d f a s t s
An appliance  to prevent Ladies’ 
and Misses’  Rubbers from slipping 
off from the shoe.  The neatest and 
best device ever  invented  for  the 
purpose.  Do  not  fail  to  try  the 
men’s  Lycoming,  Pa.,  Stocking 
Rubber. 
It  is  the  King  of  all 
Stocking  Rubbers  made.  Both 
only manufactured by  the  Lycom­
ing Rubber  Co.  For sale by 
O.  H.  REEDER,  Grand  Rapids.

SEND FOR PRICE  LIST.

R I N D G E , B E R T S C H  «fe  CO .,
TO  THE  TRADE:
Ask  our salesman  to show 
you our factory line of Wom­
en’s  Shoes,  at  the  reduced 
price,in Milwaukee Oil Grain 
and Satin Calf—the best shoe 
on  earth  for  wear—to  sell 
for  $2.  We  also make the 
same  lines  in  Misses’  and 
Children’s,  at  prices in  pro­
portion.  And  see  our  new 
lines  of  Boys’  and  Youths’ 
shoes;  they  are  corkers  for 
the money.

Philosophy  and  Fun.

It  is hard to make  money,  but  you can 

lose it without any labor.

There  are  some  nice people that  you 

dislike without an effort.

As a rule,  people punish  their  friends 

more than they do their enemies.

A man who can’t borrow money is will­

ing to pay  almost any rate of  interest.

How  little and dried  up the cheese  ap­
pears to the  rat after he is caught in  the 
trap.

It is a very common thing to see a man 
who says  wise  things  and  does  foolish 
ones.

No  one  has a  poorer  opinion  of  you 
than  the one  who has worked  you for his 
own benefit.

A  m an’s  greatness  m akes  his  fam ily 
great;  a  woman’s  greatness  m akes  her 
fam ily insignificant.

If  a man  was built  in  such a way that 
he could  pat  himself  on  the back,  some 
men  would do nothing else.

The quarrel  with  the  man  who is too 
polite to give blows and call names is the 
quarrel  that hurts longest and most.

When a new girl  comes to town all the 
other girls call on  her  and  admire  her, 
and then go  away and  make  fun of  her.
The meanest things of  a man’s life are 
done  without deliberation,  and the mean­
est  things  of  a woman’s  life  are  done 
with it.

There  was  never  a  farmer  so  honest 
that when  he drove into town he did  not 
drive as though  he  had  hard  work hold­
ing in his plug work  horses.

A  woman  begins  to  find  beauty  in  a 
man  as  soon  as  he  shows that he likes 
her;  but  a  man  never  discovers  that a 
woman  has  freckles until he has  married 
her.

Somehow,  a man feels  much  worse the 
day  after he has  lost  an  hour’s sleep on 
account  of  the  baby  than  he  does  the 
day after he has  lost  five  hours’  sleep at 
the club.

How  easily  some  one  else  turns  the 
subject  when  the  conversation  is about 
your  good  deeds,  but  how hard it is  for 
you  to turn  it  when  the talk is about  the 
good acts of  your neighbor.

There  is  an  old  maid  in  Kalamazoo 
whose only pleasure is a stolen  one  that 
she would  be ashamed to own.  She locks 
herself  up in her  room  every night  and 
plays  with  her  dolls.  She  has  a large 
family of them, gives tea parties to them, 
and  has a pathetic  pleasure  with  them 
that nothing else on earth could  give her.

A.  S.  M.

The  L argest  Undivided  Tract  o f Pine.
Johnathan  Boyce,  the  millionaire lum­
berman  of  this  city,  is said to own  the 
largest undivided tract of  pine in  Lower 
Michigan. 
It is located in town 21 north, 
range  3  west,  Roscommon  county,  and 
comprises 10,000 acres,  estimated  to  cut 
300,000,000 feet of logs.  It has  been held 
about ten years by  Mr. Boyce, and  is said 
to  have  more  than  doubled  in  value, 
being  worth  about  $2,000,000. 
It  has 
never  been  disturbed,  but will  now  be 
placed  on  the  market.  The Michigan 
Central  has contracted  to build a line ten 
miles long to the tract  from  the  Macki­
naw division,  so as  to market the output 
in the Saginaw valley, about eighty miles 
distant,  and forming  an  extension  of  a 
logging line which  touches the main road 
at West Branch.  The surveyors are now 
at work,  and the  track  is expected to be 
laid  ready  for use by October.  Mr. Boyce 
has contracted to  cut  50,000,000 feet an­

nually and ship over the  Michigan  Cen­
tral  to  Saginaw  valley  mills,  at a $2.50 
rate.  About 400 men will  be  employed 
in getting out the logs.  Mr.  Boyce, after 
due consideration, determined not to saw 
the logs  at  Muskegon,  for  shipment to 
Chicago,  concluding  that  the  Saginaw 
valley was the  better  market.  He  has 
bound himself to  place the timber of the 
entire tract on the market in seven years. 
A saw and  shingle  mill  will be built on 
the tract,  with the especial  view of  util­
izing stock that  is  not desirable to send 
to the valley.  The logging road will run 
through another of  Mr.  Boyce’s tracts in 
township 22  north,  range  2  west,  con­
taining  considerable  pine  and  cedar, 
hitherto  rather  inaccessible,  and a mill 
w ill be b u ilt  on  th a t  la n d   also.
Travelers’  D ay  at  the  Detroit  Ex­

position.

Detr o it,  Aug.  16.—Travelers’  Day  at 
the Detroit exposition is being  talked  of 
among  commercial  travelers  and  is, no 
doubt,  being  looked  forward  to  as  the 
day of the exposition on which to attend. 
From  the  inquiries  and  reports  which 
come to our attention,  it is safe  to  infer 
that  there  will  be  more and larger del­
egations  in  attendance  this  year  than 
was the  case  last  year.  The exposition 
management  has  made  many noted  im­
provements  for  the  comfort  and  con­
venience  of 
its  patrons  and  has  also 
added new and  prominent  attractions to 
the already large aggregation  for  enter­
tainments.  Last  year the  Detroit  trav­
elers and merchants  assumed  the  direc­
tions  for  Travelers’  Day  and  provided 
especially for their entertainment.  This 
year Travelers’  Day  will  be  entirely un­
der the auspices of  the  exposition  asso- 
j  ciation  and it is safe to  presume  that if 
any  association  or  body  of  commercial 
travelers  attend  on  that  day,  they will 
receive a marked  reception  by the  man­
agement  of  the  exposition  association, 
which is composed of active and aggress­
ive business men,  who know the value of 
good  words spoken by the traveling rep­
resentatives  of  the  commercial  world. 
Should  the  commercial  travelers of  the 
several cities  of  the State  and adjoining 
cities in other States  visit the exposition 
in a body on  Travelers’  Day aud  form  in 
procession,  there  would  be  more  than 
any ordinary steamboat  could  accommo­
date  with  transportation  to  the exposi­
tion grounds and the coffers of  the ticket 
seller  would  groan  with 
load  of 
“four  bits.”
Come  on,  boys,  and  let  us  show that 
our name is legion.  M.  J.  Matthew’s.

its 

Good  W ords  U nsolicited.

M. A. Hance, groceries  and  boots  and  shoes, 

Olivet :  “The paner is excellent.”

Mrs. H. M. Buchanan, general  dealer, Ensley: 

“Could not do without the paper.”

T.  W.  Brown,  general  dealer,  Otia: 

“Your 
paper  is  of  great  help  to me and I would con­
tinue taking it, even  if  I  should go out of busi­
ness, which seems very unlikely to happen.”’

CONTRACTOBS  F O R

C alm iteli  Iron  Cornice, 

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

Dealers in

and  Qrates.

Weatherly & Pulte,

G R A N D   R A P ID S , 

-  

- 

M ICH .

We  also  solicit  your  fall 
order  for  Boston  and  Bay 
State rubber goods, and guar­
antee  prices  and  terms  as 
low as  any house selling the 
same brand.
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

12,  14  AND  16  PEARL  ST.,

El.  P u rita n o   Cigar.
The FinestlO Gent Gipr

O N   E A R T H

MANUFACTURED  BY

DILWORTH  BROTHERS,

PIT T SB U R G H .

TRADE  SUPPLIED BY

I.  M.  CLARK  &  SON,
Grand Rapids. 
BRADD0CK, BATEMAN  & CO., 
Bay  City.
-  Detroit.

T. E. B REV OORT, 

