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If he has a new story 
For the lambs of his fold.

A  ROMANCE  OF  LABOR.

The unwritten romance of  real life far 
exceeds  in  beauty and  instruction  any­
thing  that  simple fancy ever  imagined; 
and I have had only to keep my eyes and 
ears open,  as I went up and down in the 
world, to fill the  storehouse  of  memory 
with many a strange drama.  The follow­
ing true incident  was  brought to my re­
membrance this morning, while listening 
to the rebellious words of  a  young man, 
who could not see his father’s wisdom in 
desiring him to learn a trade.
“It will  make a common  man  of  me, 
father,”  he said, querulously;  “I  shall 
be  as  dirty as  a  blacksmith,  and  have 
hands like a coalheaver.”
“And if  you think,  Fred, that wearing 
tine clothes and having white hands make 
you a gentleman, let me tell you, sir, you 
are now a very common  man,  indeed, to 
begin with.  A  good  trade  might  help 
you to truer notions of  gentlemanhood.” 
Then I looked  at  the handsome fellow 
—for  he  was  handsome—and I thought 
involuntarily  of  young  Steve  Gaskiil. 
Steve has made his mark  now,  but many 
a  year  ago I heard  just  such a talk  be­
tween him and  old  Josiali  Gaskiil  rela­
tive  to  the  young  man  learning  his 
father’s trade of a woolstapler.
“It’s  a  dirty  business,  father,”  said 
the  splendid  Steve,  in  a  full  evening 
dress,  “and I hate the smell  of  oil, and 
the  sight  of  those  men  in  blue  linen 
I  hope  I  shall  do  something 
blouses. 
better for myself than that.”
“Very well,  lad;  whaten  is  thou fain 
to be ?”
“A lawyer, father.”
“They’re  naught  but  a lazy, quarrel­
some  set,  but  thou  sha’  not  say I iver 
stood i’ thy gate.  Be a lawyer,  lad,  I’ll 
speak to Denham to-morrow about thee.” 
So young Steve was articled to Denham 
& Downes,  to  study law.  and  specially 
“conveyancing.”  He  was  an  only son, 
but he had three sisters,  and  over  them 
and  his  mother  he  exercised  supreme 
influence.  Whatever  Steve  did,  was 
right;  whatever he said, was beyond dis­
pute.  Even  old  Josiah,  with  all  his 
sound sense,  was,  in  spite  of  himself, 
swayed by this  undisputed  acknowledg­
ment of  Steve’s  superiority.  He would 
not have  advised his  son to be a lawyer, 
but seeing  that  Steve  was not afraid of 
being one,  he was  rather  proud  of  the 
lad’s pluck and ambition.
It cost him a good deal.  Steve’s tastes 
were  expensive,  and  he  fell  naturally 
among a class  of  men  who led him into 
many  extravagances.  There  was  oc­
casional awkward scenes, but Steve, sup­
ported by his mother and sisters,  always 
cleared every scrape, and finally satisfied 
the  family  pride 
in  being  regularly 
admited upon the  roll  of  her  majesty’s 
attorneys.
In the meantime,  his father  had  been 
daily failing  in  health,  and  soon  after 
this event he died.  Most  of  his savings 
had been secured for  the  benefit  of  the 
helpless  women  of  the  Gaskiil  family; 
and Steve now found himself with a pro­
fession  and a thousand  pounds  to  give 
him a fair start in  it.  People  said  old 
Gaskiil had acted  very wisely, and Steve 
had  sense  enough to acquiesce in public 
opinion.  He knew, too, that just as long 
as his mother or  sisters  had  a  shilling, 
they would share it with him.
So he hopefully opened his office in his 
native  town  of  Leeds,  and  waited  for 
clients.  But Yorkshire men are proverb­
ially  cautious;  a  young,  good-natured, 
fashionably dressed lawyer was not their 
ideal.  Steve could  not  look  crafty and 
wise  under any circumstances,  and  the 
first  year he did not make enough to pay 
his rent.

Nevertheless,  he  did not,  in any way, 
curtail expenses;  and  when  the summer 
holidays  arrived,  he  went as usual to a 
fashionable watering-place.  It happened 
that  year saw the  debut  of  Miss  Eliza­
beth Braithwaite, a great  heiress,  and a 
handsome girl.  Steve  was  attracted by 
her  beauty,  and  her  great  wealth  was 
certainly no drawback in his  eyes. 
In a 
short  time,  he  perceived  Miss  Braith­
waite favored him  above  all  other  pre­
tenders to her hand, ami  he  began  seri­
ously  to  consider  the  advantages  of  a 
rich wife.
His  profession  hitherto  had  been  a 
failure;  his  one  thousand  pounds were 
nearly spent;  his three  sisters  were  all 
on  the  point  of  marriage,  a  condition 
which  might  seriously  modify  their 
sisterly instincts; and his mother’s whole 
annual  income  would not support him a 
month.  Would it not be the best plan to 
accept  the  good  fortune  so  evidently 
within his  reach ?
Elizabeth was handsome  and  inclined 
to favor  him,  and  though  she  had  the 
reputation of  being both authoritative in 
temper and economical in money matters, 
he  did  not  doubt  but  that  she  would 
finally acknowledge  his  power  as  com­
pletely as  his  own  mother  and  sisters. 
So he  set  himself  to  win  Miss  Braith­
waite.  and  before  Christmas  they were 
married.
True,  he had  been  compelled  to  give 
up a great deal  more  than he liked;  but 
he  promised  himself  plenty  of  marital 
compensations.  Elizabeth 
insisted  on 
retaining her own  house,  and  as  Steve 
had really no house to otter  her, he must 
needs  go  to  Braithwaite  Hall,  as  the 
husband of its proprietress.  She insisted 
upon his removing  his  office  to  Braith­
waite. a small  village,  offering  none  of 
the advantages for killing time,  which a 
large city like  Leeds  did;  and  she  had 
all her  money scrupulously settled upon 
herself for  her  own use,  and under her 
absolute control.
Steve felt very much as if his wife had 
bought  him;  but, for  a  little  time,  the 
eclat  of  having married a great  heiress, 
the  bridal festivities  and foreign  travel 
compensated for the loss of  his freedom. 
But when they returned  to  Braithwaite, 
life soon showed him a far  more  prosaic 
side.  Mrs. Gaskill’s  economical disposi­
tion  soon  became  particularly offensive 
to  Steve.  She  inquired  closely into his 
business, and  did  not  scruple  to  make 
unpleasantly  witty  remarks  about  his 
income.  She rapidly developed,  too,  an 
authoritative disposition,  against  which 
Steve daily more and more rebelled.  The 
young  couple  were  soon very unhappy.
The truth was that  a  great  transition 
was taking  place  in  Steve’s  mind,  and 
times  of  transition are always  times  of 
unrest and misery.  The  better  part  of 
his nature was beginning to claim a hear­
ing.  He  had  seen  now  all  that  good 
society could show him;  he had tasted of 
all  pleasures  money could  buy, and  he 
was not happy.
His wife had no  ennui and no dissatis­
faction  with  herself.  There  was  her 
large house to oversee, her  gardens  and 
conservatories, her  servants and charity-
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schools, her toilet, and a whole colony of 
pet animals.  Her  days  were  too  short 
for  all 
the  small  interests  that  filled 
them;  and  these 
interests  she  would 
willingly have shared with Steve,  but to 
him they soon became  intolerable  bores.
Under  some  circumstances  he  might 
have found his work in the ordering  and 
investing of  his  wife’s large estate;  but 
Elizabeth was far  too  cautious a woman 
to trust it in untried hands.  Her father’s 
agent was  her  agent;  her  banker  man­
aged all her  investments;  her  park  and 
farms and  gardens  were  all  under  the 
care  of  old  and  experienced  servants, 
who 
looked  upon  Steve  merely  as 
“Missis’s husband.”
In the second  year of  his marriage he 
began  to  have  some  thoughts  which 
would have  astonished  his  wife,  could 
she have  thought it worth  while  to  in­
quire what occupied his mind in the long, 
moody hours when he  paced  the  shrub­
bery, or sat  silently looking  out  of  the 
window.  But  Steve was now  ready for 
any houest thing that would take him out 
of the purposelesss, dependent life which 
he had so foolishly chosen for himself.
One day, greatly to his surprise, Eliza­
beth said to him:
“Steve,  I  have  a  letter from a cousin 
of  my mother’s,  who  lives in  Glasgow. 
She is going to Australia,  and  wants me 
to buy her house.  She  says it is a great 
bargain; and 1 wrote to Barrett to go and 
see about it. 
I have a letter  this  morn­
ing,  saying he is too ill to leave  his bed. 
I wonder  if  you  could go and  attend to 
it ?”
Anything for a change.  Steve  showed 
a very proper business like interest,  and 
said:

“Yes, 1 would be very glad to go.”
“Very well. 

I should think you knew 
enough  of  titles  and deeds and convey­
ancing, and all that kind of thing.  1 will 
trust the affair to you, Steve.”
So the next morning  Steve found him­
self on  the  Caledonian  Line,  with  one 
hundred  pounds  in  his  pocket,  and  a 
veritable piece of business on hand.  The 
first twenty miles out of Leeds he enjoyed 
with the abandon of a bird set free;  then 
he began to think again.  At  Crewe  he 
missed a train,  and, wandering about the 
station,  fell into talk  with  the  engineer 
of  the next one,  who  was cleaning  and 
examining his engine  with  all  the  love 
and  pride  a  mother  might  give  to  a 
favorite child.
The two men fraternized at  once,  and 
Steve made the trip  over  the Caledonian 
line in the  cuddy of  the  engineer,  who 
was a fine fellow,  “one of the seven,” he 
said,  “all  machinists  and  engineers.” 
The  young  mechanic  was  only serving 
his  time,  learning  every branch  of  his 
business  practically;  he  had  brothers 
who made engines, and he hoped to do-so 
some day.
In  spite  of  his  soiled  face  and  oily 
clothes, Steve recognized that refinement 
that comes with education; and when his 
new friend called upon him at the Queen’s 
Hotel,  he would  not  have been ashamed 
of  his appearance, even in his  most fas­
tidious days.
“Mr. Dalrymple, I am glad to see you,” 
said  Steve,  holding  out  both  hands  to 
him.
“ 1 thought you would be,  sir;  it is not 
often I am mistaken in my likings.  1 will 
go with you now to see my father’s  works, 
if it suits you.”
Never had such a place entered Stephen 
Gaskill’s conception;  the  immense  fur­
naces, the hundreds  of  giants  working 
around  them, the  clang  of  machinery, 
the mighty struggle of mind with matter, 
of intellect over the elements, was a rev­
elation.  He envied these Cyclops in their 
leathern masks and aprons;  he longed to 
lift their mighty  hammers.  He  looked 
upon  the  craftsmen  with  their  bare, 
brawny arms and  blackened  hands, and 
felt his heart glow with admiration when 
he saw the mighty works those hands had 
fashioned.  The  tears  were in his eyes 
when Andrew Dalrymple and  he  parted 
at the gate  of  the  great walled-in yard.
“Thank you,” he said; “you have done 
me the greatest possible service. 
I shall 
remember it.”
That night Steve  formed a strange but 
noble resolution.  First of all, he devoted 
himself to his  wife’s  business,  and  ac­
complished it in a manner which elicited

Mr.  Barrett’s  warm  praise,  and  made 
Elizabeth  wonder whether she might not 
spare  her  agent’s  fees  for  the future. 
Then  he  had  a  long, confidential  talk 
with the  owner  of  the  Dalrymple  Iron 
and Machine Works, the result of  which 
was the following  letter to Mrs. Gaskill: 
□ “ My  De a r W i f e :  I shall not be home 
again  for  at  least two years, for I have 
begun an  apprenticeship to Thomas Dal­
rymple here, as an ironmaster.  I propose 
to learn the whole  business  practically. 
I have lived too  long  upon your bounty, 
for 1 have lost your esteem as well as my 
own, and I do  not  say  but  what I have 
deserved  the  loss.  Please  God, I will 
redeem  my  wasted  past, and, with  His 
help, make a man  of  myself.  When  1 
am worthy to be your husband  you  will 
respect  me,  and,  until  then,  think  as 
kindly as possible of

“ St e ph e n   Ga sk il l.”

This letter struck  the first noble chord 
in Elizabeth’s  heart. 
From  that  hour 
not even her  favorite  maid  durst  make 
her usual  little  compassionate  sneer  at 
“poor master.”
Steve,  in  leathern  apron  and coarse 
working clothes, began laboriously happy 
days, which brought him nights of sweet­
est sleep;  and  Elizabeth  began a series 
of letters to her husband which gradually 
grew more  and  more  imbued  with  the 
tenderest interest and respect. 
In a few 
weeks  she  visited  him  of her own free 
will, and purposely going to  the  works, 
saw  her  self-banished  lord  wielding  a 
ponderous  hammer upon a bar of white- 
hot iron.  Swarthy, bare-armed,  clothed 
in leather, he had  never looked so hand­
some in Elizabeth’s  eyes;  and  her  eyes 
revealed this fact to Steve,  for  in  them 
was  the  tender  light  of a love founded 
upon a genuine  respect.
Steve deserved it.  He wrought faith­
fully out his two  years’ service, cheered 
by his wife’s letters and visits, and when 
he came  out  of  the  Dalrymple Works, 
there was  no  more  finished  ironmaster 
than he.  He  held  his head frankly up 
now, and  looked  fortune  boldly  in the 
face;  he could earn his own  living  any­
where, and,  better than all, he  had  con­
quered  his  wife—won  her  esteem  and 
compelled her to acknowledge a physical 
strength  and  a  moral  purpose  greater 
than her own.
Between Leeds  and  Braith waite  Hall 
there have been for  many years gigantic 
iron works.  The mills  and  railways of 
the West Riding know them  well;  their 
work is famous for its excellence, for the 
master is a practical  machinist and over­
sees every detail  Their profits are enor­
mous, and Stephen  Gaskill, their propri­
etor, is also  the  well-beloved  and  thor­
oughly respected master  of  Braithwaite 
Hall and of  Braithwaite Hall’s mistress.

A m elia  E.  Ba r r.

A N ew  C heck  U pon  C hecks.

From the  Philadelphia  Inquirer.
“There, I’ve  got  it  down  fine at last, 
and no mistake,”  and  one  of  Philadel­
phia’s best-known business men  laid  his 
pen down with a sigh of relief and hastily 
blotted  his name on a check with a blot­
ter.

“Got what down?” asked a visitor.
“A new wrinkle adopted by merchants 
and others  to  prevent  their names from 
being forged to  checks. 
It is this way: 
After  signing  my name, I turn  the  pen 
up and draw a line  through it from right 
to left, and  it  looks  as  if the name had 
been cancelled.  The peculiar little twirl 
at the end where the long line of the pen 
commences is where the forger of a man’s 
name gets left.  He doesn’t tumble to it, 
so to speak,  but the  cashiers of the bank 
where I do  business  do,  and they know 
instantly whether the  signature is genu­
ine or not.  You see also, this line drawn 
through the name makes the  check  look 
as if it was no good in case it is lost, and 
the finder will not present  it  for  collec­
tion.
“It is a great idea and is being adopted 
by many business men of  the  city.  Of 
course, we have to explain it to the bank 
people, who, once they know  it, have  no 
further trouble with us over it.  But the 
difficulty is the practicing  to get it down 
fine, and it takes some little work  to  do 
so,”  and  he  gazed  proudly  at  the  un­
sightly line drawn through  his  name  at 
the bottom of a check for $7,000,

INTEREST  HISTORICALLY  CONSID­

ERED.

Probably no method  of  money-getting 
has  aroused  so  much  hostility  in  all 
times  as  lending  money  at  interest. 
There  has  seemed  to  be  something 
against  nature in making  money, which 
is  naturally  sterile, 
reproduce  itself. 
Aristotle held that  “it is the function of 
nature to supply food to all that is born,” 
and so making  gain from fruits  and ani­
mals is natural  and  praiseworthy.  But 
the gain  connected  with  barter is to be 
blamed, for  it is not  natural,  but a rob­
bing of man from man.

“Most  reasonably of  all,  however,  is 
hated the  trade  of  the  usurer,  because 
the  gain  comes  from  the  money itself, 
and not from  the  use for  which  money 
was  devised, for  it came  into  existence 
for  the  help  of  exchange;  but  interest 
(which  means  ‘breeding,’ 
in­
creases it more and  more,  whence inter­
est  .  .  .  becomes money bred  of  money; 
so that,  of  the means  of  making  gain, 
this is by far the most unnatural.”

tokos,) 

This  view  of  interest  persisted  all 
through  the  Middle  Ages.  Curiously 
enough, the view  of  barter or exchange, 
that  if  one  party gains by it  the  other 
must  lose,  survives  even at the present 
day  in  the  case  of  international  ex­
changes, though no man thinks of accus­
ing his  grocer,  say,  of  robbing  him by 
charging him  more  than  the  wholesale 
price for a barrel of flour.

The aversion of  interest manifested in 
the  Old  Testament is familiar.  A simi­
lar aversion is shown in the Koran.  The 
fathers  of  the  Church,  on  the  whole, 
looked with disfavor  upon interest,  and 
the  antipathy  of  the  Church  in  latter 
times  to  this  method  of  gain  is  well- 
known. 
In  uncivilized  nations, in gen­
eral, the taking of interest is regarded as 
reprehensible.  Here the  borrower  usu­
ally contracts  the  loan  from  necessity, 
and not for the purpose of  making  gain, 
and the rate of interest is very high.

With an  advance  of  civilization,  the 
rate of interest usually declines.  Accord­
ing to a law of  the  Visigoths,  the  max- 
ium rate on loans of  money was 12% per 
cent.;  on  other  res  fungiblles,  50  per 
cent.  The  Jews  and  the  Lombards  in 
France and England  took  about  20  per 
cent, from  the  twelfth to the fourteenth 
centuries.  About 1430, the  Florentines, 
in order to lower  the  high  rates  which 
prevailed, invited the  Jews to their city, 
and  the  latter  promised  not  to  charge 
over 20 per cent.

In Russia, it is stated,  with how much 
accuracy I  do  not  know,  that  the  rate 
was 40 per cent,  in the eleventh century. 
The  decline  of  the  rate  of  interest  in 
England  and  France  may  be  thus  ex­
hibited. 
In  the  former,  under  Henry 
III., the legal rate was 10 per  cent.;  un­
der  James I., 8 per cent;  about  1651,  6 
per cent. 
In the latter, from  the  begin­
ning of the sixteenth to the latter part of 
the seventeenth  centuries,  the  rate  de­
clined from 10 per cent, to 5.  In ancient 
Greece  the  rate  was  18  per  cent,  in 
Solon’s time.  Aristotle  mentions 12 per 
cent.,  which Demosthenes and ASscbines 
call low.

In one respect  the  taking  of  interest 
remains on the same footing  as  in  early 
and mediaeval times. 
I refer to the busi­
ness of  pawnbroking.  Here the borrow­
ing is effected from urgent necessity, and 
the debtor is frequently not in a position, 
from ignorance of arithmetic, to estimate 
I the magnitude of the burden he is under­

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be glad to b e  o f  use  to  them  in   any  way.  W rite 
us about anything you wish to know .

THUBBEB, WHYLAND  &  00.,

West Broadway, Beads & Hudson Streets, 

New York Oity. 

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possessors to lend it.  Interest  has  been 
very  frequently  confounded  with  the 
price of  money.  The most  popular fal­
lacy upon  the  subject  now  is  that  the 
rate  of  interest  can  be  lowered  by in­
creasing the amount of  currency.  What 
men  really  wish  to  borrow  usually  is 
capital—agencies  of  production — and 
money  is  only a means for  the  transfer 
of  these.  The amount  of  currency can 
have  no  effect  upon  the  abundance  of 
capital,  and  even  an  increase  in  the 
abundance  of  capital,  does  not  always 
lower the rate  of  interest;  this is partly 
determined  by  the  value  of  capital  in 
use.

The existence  of  interest  depends, of 
course,  primarily upon  the  existence of 
private  property.  Until  the  right  of 
property is recognized  as  extending  be­
yond actual possession there is not likely 
to be  much  lending.  The  aversion  to 
interest  has  now  nearly disappeared;  it 
is recognized that  if  one man  lends  an­
other  anything,  the  first  has  done  the 
second  a  favor,  and  some  inducement 
proves necessary to induce  men  to  lend 
to one another.  The price for the use of 
capital tends to become lower and lower, 
like the price of  commodities.  Expecta­
tions  have  been  entertained that it will 
eventually become  zero;  but  this  stage 
will  probably  be  reached  only  when 
iconomic products  become free property 
of the human race. 

F.  A.  II.

Newberry—Henderson  Bros.,  dealers 
in dry goods, clothing, boots  and  shoes, 
have sold their stock to  Host  &  Mertes.

Furniture

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Nelson, 

Matter 
&   C o .’s

S ty le s   N e w ,  C h eap , 
M ed iu m   a n d   E x p e n ­
sive.
Large  Variety. 

Prices Low.

taking.  Under such conditions, the bus­
iness  of  loaning is still  considered  dis­
honorable by the public,  and  the  result 
in this  case  is  that, as a rule,  only bad 
men engage in it, as is usual with a busi­
ness  which is necessary and at the  same 
time held to be disreputable.  Many laws 
have recognized this fact,  and made pro­
vision for it.  Thus,  formerly Jews were 
permitted to receive higher  interest than 
Christians. 
to 
“illustrious  personages”  only  4  per 
cent., to ordinary private  persons,  6 per 
cent.,  and  to  money-changers  and  the 
like, 8 per  cent.  According to the Laws 
of  Menu, the  Brahmin may receive only 
2, the warrior, 3, lower  castes, 4 or 5 per 
cent,  a  month. 
Public  regulation  of 
pawnbroking does not succeed any better 
than  the  regulation  of  other  business; 
secrecy is desired by both parties, so that 
laws are  easily invaded.

Justinian  permitted 

indebtedness  to 

A symptom of a condition is frequently 
mistaken for it cause.  Thus  it  was  ob­
served  that  a  low  rate  of  interest fre­
quently coincided  with a period of  pros­
perity,  and the inference was drawn that 
the former  was  the cause  of  the latter. 
So, after governments had given  up  try­
ing to prohibit interest, a plan  was  con­
ceived of  making their subjects prosper­
ous,  by  fixing  the  rate.  When  Louis 
X1Y. lowered the rate to 5 per  cent.,  he 
asserted in  the  preamble  to  his  decree 
that  it  would  promote  the  welfare  of 
land-owners and business  men,  and pre­
vent  idleness.  Several  early  English 
writers  took  the  same  view;  thus  one 
says, that every lowering  of  the  rate of 
interest by law  produced  a  correspond­
ing  increase  in  the  national  wealth. 
Whether or not this is true  must  always 
remain doubtful, because  it  has  proved 
absolutely  impossible  to  lower  interest 
by law.  The expedients by which usury 
laws were evaded  have  been  many—ac­
knowledgments  of 
larger  amount  than  that  actually  re­
ceived,  acknowledging  it  in  a  higher 
kind  of  money than  that  in  which the 
loan was made, taking commodities at an 
exorbitantly high  price by the debtor  or 
selling them to the creditor  at  a  dispro­
portionately  low  one,  fixing  terms  of 
payment in such a way that the debtor is 
always forced to  let  them  slip  by—the 
list is almost inexhaustible.  Even if the 
government  were  successful  in  forcing 
interest below the natural rate,  less cap 
ital would certainly be loaned,  and more 
would  go  to  foreign  parts;  less,  also, 
would be saved.  Governments  are able 
however, to make the rate of interest un 
naturally high. 
In  Switzerland,  at one 
time, those who  took  less  than the pre­
scribed rate were  punished,  as  well  as 
those who took more.  But  the  most ef 
fective way is for  the  government to fix 
a low  rate  and  impose  heavy penalties 
for exceeding it;  because in this case the 
debtor, being usually more in need of ob­
taining the  loan  than  the  creditor is of 
investing  his  capital,  is forced to pay to 
the latter  not  only the  natural  interest 
but also a compensation for  the risk that 
is run in violating the law.

More confusion has existed on the sub­
ject of  interest than upon most economi 
cal  subjects—at  any rate,  it has existed 
longer.  As late as 1754, a writer of some 
interest  as 
pretensions  accounted  for 
follows:  Some  people  hoard 
their
money, instead of  spending it,  and thus 
produce a scarcity; so others, who need to 
obtain  some  of  this  money, are obliged 
to  pay interest  in  order  to  induce  the

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

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits.

9  No. IONIA  ST., GRAND  RAM OS,  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.  We are h a ndling potatoes  in  car  lots.
ALFRED  J.  BROWN,
ForeipF r is a i Profiles.
Oalifornia & Florida  Oranges

MESSINA  LEMONS.

WHOLESALE  DEALER  IN

DIRECT  RECEIVER  OF

Floi
-AND-
---- AND----

Headquarters  for Bananas.

24  and  26  North  Division  St., 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Weekly Price List sent on application.

C U R T I S S   &  CO.,

WHOLESALE!

Paper  Warehouse.

FLOUR  SACKS,  GROCERY  BAGS,  TWINE  AND WOODEN  WARE.

Houseman  Block,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

HOO-I-.E  OIL  CO,

Wholesale  and  R etail  Dealers  in  Oils 

and M akers of Bine Dubiicants•

OFFICE—19 and 21 Waterloo St.

The largest and most complete oil’line in Michigan. 

I WORKS—On C  & W.  M. and G. R. & I. R. It.,one 
Telephone No. 319.  | mile north of Junction.  Telephone No. G11-3R
Jobbers  of all kinds of 
Cylinder Oils, Engine Oils, W. Ya. 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

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

Correspondence  solic­
ited  and  prices  quot­
ed with pleasure. 

Write us.

GraGker  Manufacturers,

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

We  Ajre  Headquarters,  as  Usual,  for 

Oranges, Demons, Bananas, Bruits 

and  Produce  Generally•

GRAND RAPIDS FRUIT AM  PRODUCE  CO,

C .   B.  METZGER,  Proprietor.

3  NO.  IONIA  ST., GRAND  RAPIDS. 

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MOSELEY  BROS,

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F r u its,  S eed s, O y sters § P rod u ct

All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

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

26,28, 30 and 32 Ottawa  St., 

pleased to hear from you.
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T  E T E   M I C I Ï I G ^ J N r   T R A D E S M A N ,

AMONG  THE  TRADE.
AKOUHD THE STATE.

Evart—S. Stephens  has  opened a bak­

Grand  H aven—ffm .  Ballgoyne, grocer, 

ery-

is dead.

Detroit—W.  L.  Day  succeeds  Waples 

Grafton in the drug business.

Manistee—L.  P.  Smith  has  opened  a j 

jewelry store at 69 Maple street.

Saranac—Mrs.  N.  T.  Hubbell has en­

gaged in the millinery business.

Menominee—O. B.  Olson  succeeds  C. 

H.  Ludwig in the drug business.

Fowlerville—O. H. Corbett has sold his 

stock of  groceries to O. A. Fowler.

Hastings—A. D.  Cook  has  purchased 

the grocery stock of J.  G. Runyan.

Gobleville—F. Post has bought  a  half 

interest in J.  H.  Darling’s drug store.

Addison  —  Mrs.  Frank  Barnes  and 
’Genie Bowen will open a millinery store.
Imlay City—Wm. Fairweather succeeds 
T. B.  Keyworth  in  the  bakery business.
Cadillac—Wm.  Hans  succeeds  Isaac 
Fairbrothers in the  restaurant  business.
St.  Johns—C.  M.  Johnson  has  pur­
chased the grocery stock of W.  F.  Gard­
ner.

Onekama—John  Bond  has  opened  a 
general store in  the  Chamberlain  build­
ing.

Nashville—Henry Roe is putting  up  a 
new  building,  which  he  will  use as a 
meat market.

lshpeming—J.  F. Johnston &  Son  are 
succeeded by Johnston  &  Butler  in  the 
meat business.

Hesperia—D.  Weaver  and  Co.  have 
sold out their  general  stock  and retired 
from business.

Carney—L. A. Jennings & Co.  succeed 
C. A. Brown & Co.  in  the  general  mer­
chandise business.

Cambridge—Onsted  &  Wemple  have 
rented the Tipton elevator  and  will buy 
grain at that place.

Kalamazoo—It  is  reported  that A. P. 
Connor & Co. contemplate  retiring  from 
the clothing  business.

Lansing—R.  E.  Brackett & Son,  jew­
elers, have  dissolved.  R.  E.  Brackett, 
Jr., continues the business.

Belding—A. M. Simmons will put in  a 
stock of wall paper  and bazaar goods on 
one side of A. M.  Kenyon’s store.

South  Boardman—H. P. Whipple  has 
sold his grocery stock to Jas.  H. Murray, 
having  purchased a dry  goods  stock  at 
Belding.
Sparta—E.  W.  Noble  has  exchanged 
his  property  here for  a  drug  stock  in 
Muskegon, and expects to remove to that 
place soon.

Cheshire—John Schoolcraft has bought 
out  the  grocery  stock  of  his  brother 
Charles,  and  will  continue  business at 
the old stand.

Onekama—Geo. Williams has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  Onekama  bakery to Mr. 
Daily, and will  take  a  position  in  the 
Empire Lumber Co.’s store.

Mancelona—D.  A.  Frazer  has  pur­
chased  the  Burdick  building  and  will 
occupy it with his  stock  of  sewing  ma­
chines and machine supplies.

by burglars the night of [the 19th.  They 
carried  away  $300  worth  of  cloths and 
custom made garments.

Mancelona—L.  W.  Stewart,  who  re­
cently  purchased  the stock of  Mary  S. 
Haynes, will  handle  confectionery,  sta­
tionery and notions—but no second-hand 
goods,  as stated last week.

Detroit—The firm of  Peters Bros., car­
pet renovaters, has  dissolved.  Louis M. 
Peters  takes  charge  of  A.  Posselius & 
Co.’s carpet  department,  and  John  B. 
Peters continues the old  business  under 
the old firm’s name.

Belding—Cooper &  Putney  have  sold 
their dry goods stock  to  H. P. Whipple, 
of  South  Boardman,  the  consideration 
being $5,000 cash.  It is thought that Mr. 
Whipple  will  remove to this  place  and 
make it his future home.

Elk Rapids—After a business  partner­
ship of  thirty-four  years, the copartner­
ship of  Dexter & Noble  has  been  term­
inated by the death of Wirt Dexter.  All 
the property of  the firm has been  trans­
ferred to the Elk Rapids Iron Co.,  which 
will  continue  the  business  under  the 
same general and departmental  manage­
ment as before.

Big  Rapids—W.  A.  Verity  was  ar­
ranged before  U. S.  Commissioner  Not­
tingham on  the  18th  on  the  charge  of 
violating  the  internal  revenue  law  by 
selling tobacco without a license.  It ap­
pears that when he purchased  his broth­
er’s  stock  of  groceries,  some  months 
since,  he  neglected  to  procure  a  new 
license, under the impression  that it was 
not necessary to do so.  He  waived  ex­
amination and  was  held  upon  his  own 
recognizance for trial in  the  U.  S.  Dis­
trict  Court  at  Grand  Rapids in October 
next.

MANTTFACTURIN0   MATTERS.

Maple Rapids—Jones,  Barnard  &  Co. 
have moved their  oar factory to Durand.
Gaylord—Brodie  &  Bolton  have  en­
gaged in  the  manufacture  of  butcher’s 
knives.
Albion—The  Albion  Malleable  Iron 
Works Co. is contemplating  removing to 
Saginaw.

Standish—James Norn  has  contracted 
to manufacture  1,500,000 feet of  lumber 
for Andrew Kent.

Hart—Geo.  L.  Spencer  has  bought a 
half interest of P. P.  Roberts in the Hart 
Tile and Stone Works.

Jonesville—John A. Selfridge, a prom­
inent citizen and lumber  merchant, died 
on the 15th, after an illness of two weeks.
Flint—J. J. Pellet has sold his interest 
in the firm  of  Pellet Bros. & Co.  manu­
facturers  of  tables, etc., to Wm. B. Pel- 
lett.
Portland—A  company  has  been  or­
ganized for the manufacture  of  TerrifPs 
Perfect  Washer,  with a capital  stock of 
$ 10,000.
Gladwin — Cook  &  Cunningham  are 
erecting a saw and planing mill here and 
will  be  in  shape  to  begin  operations 
about Sept.  1.

Saginaw—John G. Owen  is  arranging 
to  put  in  5,000,000 feet  of  logs  at  his 
mill at Owendale.  His sawmill has been 
idle all season.

Meredith—The Wells-Stone Mercantile 
Co.’s warehouse here burned on the 19th. 
It was full of grain.  The loss is figured 
at $10,000,  with $8,000 insurance.

Muskegon—The Muskegon Cracker Co. 
has plans in  preparation  for a two-story 
warehouse, 50x75 feet in dimensions, and 
a two-story ice  house  and  stable, 42x48 
feet in  dimensions.

Lowell—The Lowell  mills  have  been 
sold to King,  Quick & King and  Charles 
McCarty, who  have  incorporated  under 
the style of  the King Milling  Co., with a 
capital stock of  $25,000.
Fenton—L.  C.  Gleason,  who  has  op­
erated a factory  here  for  the  manufac­
ture of  handles of  all kinds, has  put his 
plant into a stock  corporation,  and  will 
remove it to  Little Rock, Ark.
Cadillac—Cobbs & Mitchell  have  pur­
chased 800,000 feet of  pine in Henderson 
township, this  county, of  Sawyer & Mil­
ler, and  the  latter  will  cut and bank it 
on the Big Clam Lake this winter.

Manistee—Henry Magoon, who was in­
terested in a sawmill  at  Clare, has  sold 
out  his  interest  to  his  partner,  Alf. 
Touchette,  who will for the  future  con­
tinue the business in his own name.

Marion—F. E. Stanley  and  Jas. Allen 
are in  the  sawmill  business, having re­
cently  bought  the  Beatty  mill, located 
five miles east of  here,  of  Chadwick  & 
Corwin.  They are now sawing ties.

Saginaw—H. B. Nease, Son & Co. have 
been  negotiating  for  the  Hoyt  planing 
mill, which has  been  idle the past  year. 
It is owned by the  Hoyt  estate, the tim­
ber  of  which  is  all  closed  out.  The 
price  asked  is  $40,000,  which  is  more 
than the Nease people are willing to pay.
East  Tawas—Alva  Wood  has  pur­
chased  all  the  timber  on  lands  in 21-4 
east, owned by the old Keystone Lumber 
Co.,  of  Saginaw.  Mr.  Wood  owns  a 
small  mill  at  Prescott, on  the  Detroit, 
Bay City & Alpena  Railway and  will cut 
the  timber  and  manufacture  it  at  his 
mill.
Manistee—Geo.  Billings, of  this  city, 
J. N. Brodie, S. Rice, C. J. Berdan, O. A. 
Larue  and  Thomas  Simpson,  of  Bear 
Lake, are  making  arrangements to erect 
a portable sawmill in  that  township, on 
the  Glover  place,  two  and a half  miles 
east of  the village.  The capacity of  the 
mill will be about 15,000 feet per day.

Eaton Rapids—Wm. Smith has sold his 
planing  mill  property  to  J.  C.  Selby. 
The  sale  includes  the  building,  boiler 
and engine, and the balance  of  the  ma­
chinery will be moved  away.  Mr. Selby. 
has  already put  a fruit  evaporator  into 
the mill, and will  pursue  that  business 
the coming fall,  embarking in the manu­
facture of  evaporator  machinery during 
the dull season for fruit drying.

West Bay City—F.  W.  Wheeler & Co. 
have  contracted  to  build for  Cleveland 
parties a steamship 310 feet long,  41 feet 
beam and 23 feet depth of  hold, at a cost 
of  $125,000.  At  present there are four 
boats on the stocks at this  yard, three of 
which are steel.  Since January 1, twelve 
boats have been launched from this yard, 
and at the Davidson  yard  eight  wooden 
vessels have been launched since naviga­
tion opened.
Muskegon—H. P. Snyder,  of  Detroit, 
has purchased twenty acres  of  land east 
of this city, ten acres  of  which  he  will 
plat as  an  addition  to  the  city, the re­
mainder  to  be  reserved  as  a  site for a 
furniture factory.  Mr. Snyder  purposes 
to manufacture cheap grades of furniture 
and  will  employ  about  thirty  men  at 
first.  Negotiations  are in progress look­
ing  to  the  running of a side track from 
the C.  &  W.  M.  air  line  through  this 
property,  across  to  North  Muskegon, 
over John Torrent’s land.  This will fit 
in nicely with  Mr. Torrent’s  scheme  to 
dam the Muskegon river and put factories 
along  the  face  of  the  dam.  The side 
track  will  run  close  to  the  site of the 
proposed dam.

FOR SALE, WANTED,  ETC.

~iURertisementrwuff>einsOTted~nndwn£uTiMd?or 
two  cents  a  word  the  first  Insertion  and  one eent a 
word  for  each  snbseqnent  insertion.  No  advertise­
ment taken for less than 25 cents.  Advanoe  payment. 

BUSINESS  CHANGES.

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IpOR SALE—STOCK  OF  HARDWARE  AND  BUILD- 
dress S o. 96, care Michigan Tradesman.__________ 98

lag In the best town of  Northern  Michigan.  Ad­
OR8ALE—DRUG STOCK;  THE FINEST  LOCATION 
and best paying  store  on  Booth  Division  street. 
Grand  Rapids;  stock  and  fixtures  inventory  about 
•1,800.  Address No. 95, care Michigan Tradesman.  96

For  bale- a  first-class  drug  stock  and

business in  Grand  Rapids  worth  92,600  m ost  be 
sold owing to the absence of proprietor on  account  of 
sickness;  correspondence  solicited.  Address  L.  J. 
Shafer,  77  Madison  Ave..  Grand  Rapids.  Mention 
this paper. 

FOR SALE—THE  BEST  DRUG  AND GROCERY B u s­

iness in live railroad and  manufacturing town in 
Michigan of  1,200 inhabitants,  with  splendid farming 
country to back it up,  with  no  large  town  within  20 
miles;  the  business  comprises  drugs  and  medicines, 
groceries, school books,  crockery, wall paper, notions, 
etc.;  also express  office  and  mall to carry to depot in 
connection;  mail  and  express  pay  olerk  hire;  stock 
complete;  business pays $1,000 per year net; stock will 
Invoice  about  91,000;  business  mostly  oash;  in  brick 
block;  rental  low;  best  location  in  town;  also  own 
one-third interest in the block,  which  rents for  91,500 
per year;  will  Bell  one  or  both;  reasons  fer  selling, 
sickness and death, with other  business  to  attend  to.
Address No. 91, care Michigan Tradesman.________ 91_
OR  SALE—THE  MAGNIFICENT  ELEVATOR  AND 
warehouse  at  Carson  City, Mich.,  recently buUt 
by the Carson City Elevator Co.  at  a  cost  of  $10,080; 
having become the  property of  the  Carson  City Sav­
ings Bank now in liquidation, will to close out, be sold 
for 95,000;  will give time for  part.  Address  J. E. Just, 
Ionia, Mich. 
OR SALE—A RARE  OPPORTUNITY FOR A SMALL 
Investment to secure a light  manufacturing busi­
ness  paying  large  profits;  correspondence  solicited 
only from parties meaning business.  Drawer No. 831,
La Crosse, Wia.  ______ ____ ____________________ 90
OR  SALE  CHEAP—ONE  LARGE  DRY  AIR  RE- 
frlgerator,  McGea  patent;  one coffee  mUl;  show 
cases:  scales;  tea caddies;  oU tank, etc., everything in 
fixtures to run a grocery store.  W.  C. Davis,  Kalama­
zoo, Mich. 
OR SALE OR RENT—A  GOOD TWO-STORY BUILD- 
ing,  21x88  feet,  with  basement  21x80  feet;  the 
second story is rented for lodge hall.  For  particulars
write to J. R. Harrison, 8parta, Mich._____________88
OR  SALE — GROCERY  STOCK  AND  FIXTURES, 
either by inventory  or  by  bulk;  good  trade  for 
OR  SALE—25  PER  CENT.  BELOW  OOBT,  ONLY 
hardware stock in Baldwin, lively town on line of 
two raUways;  U1 health  compels  sale;  store  building
cheap.  Joseph H. Cobb, Baldwin, Mich.__________ 81
OR SALE—MACHINE  SHOP  PART OF  OUR BUSI- 
ness;  a rare  chance.  The  Castree-Mallery  com­
OR SALE-STOCK OF  FURNITURE  AND  UNDER- 
taking goods in one of  the  best  towns  ih  Michi­
gan;  stock  will  invoice  about  $3,000;  terms  cash; 
reason for selling, are engaged  in  the  Manufacturing 
business.  Address No. 81, care Michigan Tradesman

cash customer.  No. 85, care Michigan Tradesman.  85 

pany, Flint, Mich. 

88

89

82

OR  BALE—FIRST-CLASS  DRUG  STOCK;  INVEN- 
tory $2,000;  also  real  estate;  a  good  chance for 
young  physician.  Address  P.  M.  Cleveland  A  Son, 
Nunica. Mich. 

______________________________

■  JOB  OF  CONTRACT  SAWING  FOR  SOME  RE- 

sponsible  party;  Michigan  preferred.  Address
Holley & BuUen, North Aurelius. Mich,___________ 85_
OR SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES AND FIXTURE8, 
splendid location;  good  reasons for  selling.  For
ANTED—I  HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  PAY  FOR  A 
general  or  grocery stock;  must be cheap.  Ad­

particulars, address No. 58, care Tradesman.______ 58

dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman.___________ 28

SITUATIONS  W ANTED.

ITUATION  WANTED  OCT.  1ST—A8  TRAVELING 
salesman,  by  a man of 30,  with  17  years’  expert- 
ence in the retail drug and grocery business;  would be 
willing  to  work for  moderate  salary and expenses to 
start with.  Address W. care Michigan Tradesman  94 
ITUATIOy  WANTED—BY  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
cist of eight  year's  experience;  first-class  refer-
ITUATION  WANTED—BY TRAVELING  SALESMAN 
of  four  years’  experience  in  furnishing  goods
ANTED—SITUATION  BY A REGISTERED PHARM- 
aclst,  8  years’  experience;  good  references 

line.  Address 87 care Michigan Tradesman.______ 87

ences.  Address 92, care Michigan Tradesman._____92

given.  Address No. 83. care Mlohlgan Tradesman.  83 

MISCELLANEOUS.

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rpHOROUGHBRED  IRISH  (SETTER  PUPS  From 
registered  parents  $5  each.  Chas.  K.  Farmer,
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Hartman, Mich, 
BOL1SH  THE  PASS BOOK  AND SUBSTITUTE THE 
Tradesman  Coupon,  which is now In use by over 
6,000  Michigan  merchants—all  of  whom are  warm in 
praise  of  its  effectiveness.  Send  for  sample  order, 
which  will  be  sent  prepaid  on  receipt  of  91.  The 
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.

tailers  will  be  sent free  to  any dealer  who  will 
write for them to  the  Sutliff  Coupon  Pass  Book  Co., 
Albany. N. Y.__________________________________ 888

SAMPLES OF TWO  KINDS  OF  COUPONS  FOR  RE- 
Bieyeles, 
Trieples, 
Velocipedes
General Sporting Goods
I  Agents for A. G. Spalding & Bro.’s 
Sporting  and  Athletic  Goods  and 
American Powder Co.'s Powder.
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.

AND

E. G. Studley,

4  Monroe  St.,

GRAND RAPIDS

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

Battle Creek—Bowen & Smith,  dealers 
in clothing and  men’s furnishing  goods, 
have  dissolved.  The  business  will  be 
continued by Arthur T. Smith.

Muskegon—Albert Bush, who has been | 
a  clerk  in  the  grocery  store  of  R.  S. 
Miner the past six  years,  has  purchased 
the grocery stock of M. A.  Vickers.

Adrian—Peckham &  Schroeder’s  mer­
chant tailoring establishment was visited

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

A. D. Cook has  re-engaged  in the gro­
cery  business  at  Hastings.  The  stock 
was  furnished  by  Musselman & Widdi- 
comb.

Fuller & Anderson  have opened a gro­
cery stock  at  the  corner  of  Fifth  and 
Stocking streets. 
I. M. Clark & Son fur­
nished the stock.

Joseph Glowczynski, grocer at the cor­
ner of  East Bridge street and Grand ave­
nue, has added a line  of  dry  goods.  F. 
Steketee & Sons furnished the stock.

Subsequent to the foreclosure of  their 
mortgage on the Snyder & Porter grocery 
stock,  the  partners  gave  I. M. Clark & 
Son a bill of sale, and the stock has been 
absorbed in the wholesale  store.

W.  A.  Strong  and  Ed.  Strong  have 
formed a copartnership  under  the  style 
of  W. A. Strong & Son and  embarked in 
the drug  business  at  Reed  City.  The 
Hazeltine & Perkins  Drug Co.  furnished 
the stock.

W. T. Lamoreaux has  leased  his store 
building at 71 Canal  street to the  West­
ern Beef  Co., which  will  embark in the 
wholesale and retail  meat  business here 
about Oct. 1.  Mr.  Lamoreaux will there­
after  conduct  his  business  in  a  ware­
house, the location of  which has not  yet 
been decided upon.

G rip sack   B rigade.

Wm.  H.  and  S.  F.  Downs  have  re­
turned from  Uhion  City, where they at­
tended the funeral of  their father.

A. S. McWilliams, late of  Detroit,  has 
taken the  position  of  Upper  Peninsula 
traveling representative for the Muskegon 
Cracker Co.

The veteran Thos. MacLeod,  who  has 
sold  shoes  out  of  Detroit for  the  past 
quarter of  a  century,  put  in  Sunday at 
this market.

Clark  F.  Williams  has  completed  a 
fortnight’s  trip  through  the  Saginaw 
Valley in  the  interest  of  L.  Perrigo & 
Co., of Paw Paw.

The  Travelers’  Club,  of  Detroit, 
opened their new club rooms on Monday. 
It is  reported  that  the  Club  will  keep 
“open house” during  the exposition.

G. S. Escott has been called home from 
Chicago to assume the office management 
of  the  Valley City Milling  Co., pending 
the illness of  W. N. Rowe at Charlevoix.
Geo. F. Owen is still  too  weak  to  un­
dertake  the  Journey to Mt. Clemens, his 
attending physician  having  advised him 
to defer the trip for a week  or  ten days.
Will  Campbell, formerly on  the  road 
for  Hawkins, Perry & Co.,  has  engaged 
to travel  for  the McNeal & Higgins Co., 
of  Chicago, covering  the trade of  South­
ern Michigan.

W. B. Simmonds  is  now  covering the 
trade  of  this  territory  for  the  Vacuum 
Oil Co., of  Rochester, Wm. H. Swan hav­
ing been detailed to look  after  the  rail­
road trade of  the house in this State.

“I have been  going  to  Traverse  City 
for  thirteen  years,”  remarked  John E. 
Kenning,  the  other  day,  “and  in  that 
time I  have  lost  less  than  $20  in  the 
town.  1 never saw a place so  free  from 
failures or  a  class  of  dealers  who pay 
their bills so  promptly  as  the  Traverse 
City trade.”

“The shoe trade does  not  take  kindly 
to  the 10 per cent, advance we have been 
compelled to make on cheap goods,” said 
a Detroit shoe salesman,  the  other  day. 
“The dealers haggle  over  the  increased

price like fury, but  we  must get the ad­
vance or do business at a loss;  and  I, for 
one, am not at all anxious to book orders 
which the house fills under protest.”

The Detroit traveling men spent $1,200 
in entertaining  their friends  on  the  oc­
casion  of  “Drummers’  Day”  at the De­
troit exposition last  year,  but  they will 
not repeat  the  programme  this  season. 
The directors of the exposition broke faith 
with the boys in refusing  to  permit  the 
celebrated New York  band to head their 
procession,  after  such  an  arrangement 
had been  agreed to by the directors.  As 
the  exposition  is a pronounced  success, 
so far as netting enormous  profits is con­
cerned, the  travelers  very properly con­
sider it the duty of  the  exposition  man­
agers to act the part of entertainers.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

S. M. Lemon went to Petoskey Monday 

morning.

Chas. M. Norton has returned from his 

trip to Hartford, Conn.

C.  H.  Hopkins,  the  Cedar  Springs 

grocer, was in town last Wednesday.

Jas. Blair, Jr., has taken  the  position 

of receiving clerk for Lemon & Peters.

Harry Fox, Manager of  the  Muskegon 
Cracker Co., was in town fora few hours 
last Thursday.

L. Perrigo, of the firm of L. Perrigo  & 
Co., manufacturing chemists at Paw Paw, 
was in town last Wednesday.

the 

Heman  G.  Barlow  and  family  have 
been  spending  a  few  days  at  Ottawa 
Beach, the  guests  of  Chas. B. Judd  and 
family.

E. E. Judd, retail  salesman for Foster, 
Stevens  & Co.,  is  spending a couple  of 
weeks  among 
resorts  of  Grand 
Traverse Bay.

W. C. Smith,  clerk for  E.  R.  Wilson, 
the Monroe street  druggist,  goes to Chi­
cago Sept. 25 to begin a two years’ course 
at the Chicago College of Dentistry.

Frank H. Graves,  stove  salesman  for 
Foster,  Stevens & Co., is spending a few 
days in Chicago and will  take  in the De­
troit  Exposition  before returning home.
A. C. Crawford,  cashier  of  the  First 
National Bank of  Traverse City, was the 
guest  of  A. D. Baker a  couple  of  days 
last week.  He was accompanied  by  his 
family.
M. C. Russell, formerly engaged in the 
commission business here, but for several 
years past the  head of a carriage reposi­
tory in Chicago, put in a couple  of  days 
at Grand Rapids last week.

Sumner M. Wells, assistant  buyer  for 
L M. Clark & Son, has  returned  from  a 
ten days’ trip through  the Upper Penin­
sula, going as far west  as  Republic  and 
Champion and returning  via  Sault  Ste. 
Marie.
Dan. C.  Steketee  will  be  married  on 
Sept.  4  to  Miss  Gertrude  Doornink, 
daughter  of  D.  J.  Doornink,  the  cere 
mony occurring at  the  residence  of  the 
bride’s parents, 96 North College avenue. 
An evening  reception  will follow,  after 
which the happy couple  will  leave for a 
fortnight’s trip throuph the dells of Wis­
consin,  Minneapolis being the  objective 
point.  Mr.  Steketee  is  a  promising 
young business man and his many friends 
will be glad to learn  that he has  been so 
fortunate as  to  capture  so  charming  a 
lady. 

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

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as she entered the grocery.

E x tra   C au tio u s.

“Have you  any eggs?” the girl asked, 
“Yes,” answered the grocer.
“Are they nice?”
“Yes.”
“And fresh?”
“Yes, nice and fresh.”
“How long ago were they laid?” 
“About a few days ago.”
“What size are they;  are they large?” 
“Oh,  medium.”
“Are they hen’s eggs?”
“Certainly.”
“And they’re not limed eggs?”
“No.”
“Because I don’t want any poor eggs.” 
“Oh, they’re all  right.”
“Where did they come  from—are they 
“Yes.”
“How much are they a dozen?” 
“Twenty-five cents.”
“And they’re nice and fresh, you say?” 
“Yes.”
“Give me one.”

Cape Cod eggs?”

The  R etail  G rocer’s Life.

From the Commercial Bulletin.
She had consumed one hour of the gro­
cer’s time and purchased a quart of blue­
berries for 10 cents.  Finally she espied 
the  stock  of  watermelons  and  another 
seige commenced.  She critically exam­
ined  every  one,  lifted  them, pressed in 
the  rind  with  her  thumb, and  at  last 
asked to have the  largest one in the pile 
plugged to test its  quality.  After  this 
operation had been  performed, she said;
“That is good;  if you’ve got one as big 
as  that  Saturday  for  fifteen  cents, I’ll 
take it.”
After the  grocer  had  recovered  from 
the shock, she asked  to  have  the  blue­
berries delivered at once, as  she  wanted 
them to use right away.  The  boy  was 
hurried up to her house, and  in  half  an 
hour came back with  the  berries.  She 
had stopped on the road home  to  gossip 
with a neighbor and forgot all about  her 
rush  and  the  boy  who  had  been  dis­
patched in all haste to deliver her  fruit. 
Such is life with the  grocer.

Good  E n o u g h   for  M ince  M eat.

A local produce  house  advertises sun- 
dried  apples,  “good  enough  for  mince 
meat.”  The  sequel  of  the  announce­
ment  is  that  the  apples  are  slightly 
wormy, the inference  being that what is 
lost  in  fruit  is  more  than  made  up in 
meat.

C ream ery  in  O p eratio n  A gain.

Northport,  Aug.  21.—The  creamery 
here, formerly owned by  Nelson  &  Co., 
has been purchased  by a stock  company 
which will  conduct  the  business  under 
the style of  the Northport Creamery and 
Cheese  Co.  H. E. Gill  is  President of 
the  corporation  and  C.  B. Kehl, Secre­
tary.  Operations were begun on the 20th.
Manistee—R. G. Peters  is  tearing  out 
eight grainers in his old salt  block, so as 
to make more  packing room, and by this 
means will have  room  for  about  20,000 
barrels more salt.  He  has  had  to  shut

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down  packing for  some 
time,  as  his 
storage  sheds  at  this  point are all full, 
and,  as  the  same  condition  prevails 
across  the  lake, the boats have not been 
moving  salt  freely of  late.  Those  who 
have  been  shipping  out salt in bulk are 
about the only ones who  are  doing  any­
thing  just  now,  and a good  many  tons 
have  gone  forward  recently, one  barge 
having  made  eighteen  trips  this season 
loaded with bulk salt.

BUYERS.
S E Phillips, Hastings 
J O Doesburg.  Holland 
H J Fisher, Hamilton 
J N Wait, Hudsonville 
J C Benbow, Hartford 
H L Gleason, Hartford 
Alex Denton.  Howard City 
G F Cook. Grove 
Maston & Hammond,
Grandville 
A Crouse,Grand Junction 
Colburn & Bro,Caledonia 
L A Gardiner.CedarSprings 
Geo P Stark, Cascade 
Eli Runnels, Coming 
L B Bellaire,  Cadillac 
John Olander, Cadillac 
8 R Arthur, Covert 
Sampson & Drury, Cadillac 
C H Hopkins,Cedar Springs 
Dr H C Peckham,  Freeport 
E S Botaford, Dorr 
S T McLellan, Denison 
E E Hewitt, Rockford 
Geo A Sage, Rockford 
Williams &Kerry,ReedCity 
Jas Lambert, Reed City 
W G Teilt, Rockford 
Stoddard Bros, Reed  City 
Hesaler Bros., Rockford 
B Steketee, Holland

VISITING
L Cook, Bauer 
Wm Karsten,  Beaver  Dam 
M B Pinch comb,Big Rapids 
Geo Hirschburg, Bailey 
H Shafer, Big Rapids 
Silas Loew, Bunn p's Core 
C P Judson, Big Rapids 
R G Beckwith. Bradley 
C Rosenraad, Zeeland 
A H Barber, Saranac 
M M Elder, Spencer Creek 
A P Sri ver,So GrandRapids 
G C W illey, Summit City 
A Purchase, So Blendon 
Frank Cornell, Sebewa 
N O Ward, Stanwood 
W S Adkins, Morgan 
Severance & Rich,
B E Terrill. Muir 
A H AEckerman.Muskegon 
Wisler «& Co. Mancelona 
J S Barker, Morley 
Walling Bros., Lamont 
W 8 Winegar, Lowell 
John Gunstra, Lamont 
H K Aimes, Lake City 
D D Walton, Lake City 
S A Howey, Lake City 
U T Baldwin. Luther 
A Steketee, Holland
P attern  Making»
Models  of  Mechanical  Patent  Office 
Drawings.  131 Front  St., West  End  of 
Pearl St. Bridge.

Middleville 

Grand  Rapids, 

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WM.  HETTERSCHIED,

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Mich.

Price.

if you start right. 
The  f i r s t   ste p  
should  be  an  ex­
amination  of  Mr. 
Shoppell’s  building  designs—the  only  large 
collection  of designs that  are  artistic,  prac­
tical and reliable.  The estimates are guaran­
teed.  Mr.  Shoppell’s  publications  are  as 
follows: 
* Portfolio of $1,000 Rouses, 30 designs,  $2 00
¡00
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200
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200
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•The  first Portfolio contains designs  that cost as 
low as  $SUU. $(>00, $700 and $8110.
Any 3 of the above Port folios for $5: any 7 
for $10; the complete set (13) for $15.  Bound 
volume containing over 300 designs selected 
from the various portfolios, price $5, return­
able if not satisfactory.
Architect, ¿3 li’way, Hew York.

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2,000 
2,500 
8,000 
3,500 
4.000 
5,000 
6,000 
7,500 
10,000 
Stables 

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

81  SOUTH DIVISION ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Correspondence solicited. 

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MTCTTIGAÎST  T E A D E S M A N “.

D ry  Goods•

P r ic e s  C urrent.

B E A C H ’S

New  York  Qoffee  Rooms.

61  Pearl  Street.

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.

J.&P.COATS

SIX-CORD

Spool  Cotton

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FOR

FOR  SALE  BY

f l T E ,  BLACK  A H   COLORS,
Hand and Machine Use
P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS
Voigt, HemolsMiir k Go.,

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

D r y   Goods

Manufacturers of

Shirts,  Pants,  Overalls,  Ite.

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

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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“TRADESMAN”
“SUPERIOR”

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Coupon Books

Manufactured by

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Grand  Rapids.

See quotations in Grocery Price Current.

P rin te d   C an to n   F lannels.

From the American Wool Reporter.
Something like ten years ago there was 
put  upon  the  market  a  double-napped 
canton flannel, dyed in solid colors, which 
was  eagerly  taken by the trade  for  the 
purpose of door hangings or portieres.  A 
large demand was created for them: they 
furnished  persons  of  moderate means a 
cheap, durable and  sightly drapery,  and 
were  used  for  portieres,  lambrequins, 
mantel covers and the various other uses 
to which draperies are put.  They were 
used to  beautify  and  render  attractive 
the homes  of  those  of  limited  means. 
They  were  colored  in  all  the  popular 
shades of the day, from the dark  Turkey 
red to the olive and old gold.  The  sale 
for those  goods  has  steadily  increased, 
and it has  furnished  employment  for  a 
large number of mills.
The demand for the  solid colored flan­
nels opened up the avenues of investiga­
tion, and  led  to  improving  the  beauty 
and desirableness of this fabric.  Various 
attempts were made to add to the attract- 
tiveness  of  these  flannels  by  printiug 
designs upon them, but it was  not  until 
about three years ago that these attempts 
were successful.  The strides in printing 
a piled or napped cloth  have been rapid, 
until the difficulties have been overcome, 
and  the  most  intricate  and  elaborate 
designs of the most varied  colorings  are 
as readily and  clearly  transferred  upon 
it  as  upon a smooth-faced  cloth.  The 
double-napped  goods  can  now  be  had 
printed on both  sides.  There  are  some 
five manufacturers  in  this  country, and 
they  are  finding  an  increasing demand 
for their production.

A m erican  M a n u fac tu re  o f  H en rietta. 
From tbe Boston Journal of Commerce.
The manufacture of  alapacas  for  um­
brellas and silk warp henrietta cloths  in 
this country is of very recent date.  Pre­
vious  to  1878,  umbrella  alapacas  were 
imported altogether. 
In that year their 
manufacture  was  begun  on  a  limited 
scale by a Philadelphia  concern, and has 
been continued with  satisfactory results 
in  the  quality  of  the  goods,  in  lower 
prices and greater  popularity. 
If  this 
class of goods was made before this time, 
the efforts  must  have  been  abortive, as 
no impression was made upon the market 
then held by Bradford.  The first success­
ful manufacture of henriettas commenced 
about 1882, but it was not until two years 
later  that  the  goods  reached  a  proper 
standard so  as  to  compete  with foreign 
goods. 
It is due to the enterprise of  an 
American manufacturer to first make and 
popularize  henrietta  cloths  in  colors 
other than black.  Before that  time  the 
latter  color  was  alone known, as it was 
supposed to be the only  one  that  could 
be  satisfactorily  applied  to  the  fabric. 
English, French  and  German  manufac­
turers have followed these pioneer efforts 
of  an  American  manufacturer.  The 
ability of  our domestic manufacturers to 
make anything in  this  direction  is  only 
limited  by  the question as to whether it 
can be done at a remunerative price.

F all  R iver  C otton  Mill  P rofits.

“The  dividends  paid  by  the  cotton 
manufacturing corporations of Fall River 
during the past  quarter,” says  the  Bos­
ton  Journal,  “make  a  better  showing 
than was anticipated, in the face  of  ad­
verse  conditions  existing  most  of  the 
time.  Most  of  the  mills  delayed pay­
ment until the last moment in  order  not 
to pass a dividend, yet  even  under  that 
scheme  only  twenty-five  mills  have de­
clared  dividends.  That  number,  how­
ever, will be  a  surprise  to  many  indi­
viduals.  During  the  past  quarter,  the 
twenty-five corporations paid $147,650 on 
a capital of  $13,560,000, or an average of 
1.82 per cent.  In the first quarter of this 
year the rate was the highest ever known, 
thirty-two corporations  paying  2.71  per 
cent., or $487,560 on a capital of $27,933,- 
000. 
In  the  July  dividend list of last 
year, twenty-nine corporations paid $421,- 
270, or an average  of  2>£  per cent, on a
capital of $16,383,000, since  which  time 
the dividend-paying capital  has been in­
creased $800,000.”

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.
............  7  ICUftonCCC...........  6%
Atlantic  A.
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“  Arrow Brand  53f
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“  LL..............  5* Full Yard Wide...... 6*
Amory.....................  7*¡Honest Width.........   6*
4* I Hartford A  ............   5*
Archery  Bunting. 
.r)* Madras cheese cloth 6* 
Beaver Dam  A A. 
5  INoibe R..................  5>*
Blackstone O, 32.
Black  Rock  ...........7  Our Level  Best........6*
7* Oxford  R  ..............  654
Boot, AL. 
3?i Pequot....................  7*
chapman cheese cl 
7  Solar........ 
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Comet
Dwight Star............  7*1 Top of the  Heap—   7*

 

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Amsburg.................7  IGlen Mills...............   7
Black stone A A......  8  Gold Medal............   7*
Beats All................ 4* Green  Ticket........... 8*
Cleveland.............  7  Great Falls..............  6*
Cabot...................... 7* Hope........................... 7*
Cabot,  X.................  6* Just  Out........  4*@ 5
Dwight Anchor......   9  King  Phillip...........  7*
OP...... 7*
Edwards..................  6  Lonsdale Cambric. .10*
Empire....................7  Lonsdale.............  @ 8*
Farwell...................7* Middlesex..........   @5
Fruit of the  Loom..  8* No Name................   7*
Fitchville  ............. 7* Oak View........   ...... 6
First Prize..............6* Our Own..................  5*
Fruit of the Loom X.  8  Prideof the West  . .12
Fairmount.............. 4* Rosalind.....................7*
Full Value..............  6* Sunlight..................  4*
Geo. Washington...  8*|Vinyard..................  8*

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UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

Cabot...................... 7*|Dwight Anchor........8*
Farwell...................7*1
TremontN..............  5*
Hamilton N............   6*
L..............  7
Middlesex  AT........8
X..............  9
No. 25....  9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

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G G  Cashmere........21
Nameless............... 16
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Hamilton N ............ 7* Middlesex A A..........11
Middlesex P T ........8 
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X A.........  9 
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Nameless................ 20
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.........32*
......... 35
Biddeford............... 6  INaumkeagsatteen..  7*
Brunswick..............6* | Rockport...................6*
Allen, staple.............5*
fancy...........  5*
robes...........  5
American  fancy__  6
American indigo__6
American shirtings
Arnold 

Merrim’ck shirtings.  4* 
Repp furn .  8*
Pacific fancy..........6
robes............6*
Portsmouth robes...  6 
Simpson mourning..  6*
greys........6*
solid black.  6* 
Washington Indigo.  6 
“  Turkey robes..  7*
“  India robes__ 7*
“  plain T’ky X *   8* 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red................ 6
Martha Washington
Turkey red * ........7*
Martha Washington
Turkey red............ 9*
Riverpointrobes....  5
Windsor fancy..........6*
gold  ticket 
indigo blue..........10*
12*
|A C  A
Pemberton AAA__16
York........................10*
Swift River............   7*
Pearl  River.............12*

“  —   6*
long cloth B.10* 
“  C.  8*
century cloth  7
gold seal......10*1
Turkey red.. 10*
Berlin solids...........  5*
oil blue.......   6*
“  green —   6*
Coeheco fancy........  6
madders...  6 
Eddystone  fancy...  6 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6* 
staple ....  5* 
Manchester fancy..  6 
new era.  6* 
Merrimack D fancy.  6*
Amoskeag AC A....13 
Hamilton N ............7*
D.............8*
Awning..11 
Farmer....................8
11* Warren................... 14
First Prize.
Atlanta,  D..............  6*|Stark....................... 8
Boot........................ 6*  “ 
.........................7
|  “ 
Clifton, K...............7 
......................... 10
SATINES.
Simpson................. 20 
Imperial.................. 10*
Black................9@ 9*
.18
.16
10*
.10*

“ 
TICKINGS.

COTTON  DRILL.

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Amoskeag...............12*
9oz......14*
brown .13
Andover................. 11*
Everett, blue.......... 12
brown.......12

Jeffrey....................11*
Lancaster............... 12*
Lawrence, 9 oz........13*
“ 
No. 220.... 13
« 
No. 250....11*
“ 
No. 280....10*
GINGHAMS.
e*
Glenarven................ 6*
fancies__7
“ 
Lancashire.............   6*
“  Normandie  8
Normandie............... 7*
Westbrook...............8
Renfrew Dress........7*
Toil du Nord...  10@10*
.........................10
“  
York........................6*
Amoskeag................ 6*
Hampton.................6*
AFC........10*
Windermeer............5
Persian...................   8*
Cumberland........... 5
Bates.......................  6*
Essex...................... 4*
Warwick...............   8*
Peerless, white.......18* I Peerless  colored... 21

Lancaster,  staple

CARPET  WARP.

“ 

GRAIN  BAGS.

“ 

“ 

BED  FLANNEL.

MIXED  FLANNEL.

KNITTING COTTON.

Valley City.............17
Georgia..................17
Pacific...................14*

Amoskeag.............. .17*
Harmony................. 17
Stark........................21
American................17*
THREADS.
.45 Barbour's........... .. .88
Clark’s Mile End..
Coats’, J. & P ........ .45 Marshall’s .......... ...88
Holyoke................. .22*
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14........ 37
“  16........ 38
39
“  18........ 39
40
“  20........ 40
41
CAMBRICS.

White.  Colored.
42
No.  6  ..  ..33
43
“ 
8........ 34
44
“  10........ 35
45
“  12........ 36
Slater................... ■  4* Washington....... ...  4J£
...4 *
4-K Red Cross.........
White Star...........
.  4X Lockwood.......... ...4M
Kid Glove............
..  4M
.  4X Wood’s..............
Newmarket.........
.  4X Brunswick.......
...  4%
Edwards..............
...22*
.32* T W..................
Fireman...............
• 27* F T ...................... ...82*
Creedmore...........
...35
.30 J RF, XXX......
Talbot XXX.........
...32*
.27* Buckeye...........
Nameless.............
...17*
Red & Blue,  plaid .40 Grey SR W......
...18*
.22* Western W ......
Union R..............
...18*
.18* D R P ...............
Windsor...............
.21 Flushing XXX... ...23*
6 oz Western........
Union  B.............. • 22* Manitoba........... ...23*
...... 9 @10*
Nameless...... 8  @ 9*
12*
...... 8*@10
Slate.  Brown.  Black. Slate.  Brown. Black.
13
9* 13 
9* 
15
10*4 15 
10*  
17
ii* 17 
11* 
20
12* 20 
12* 
DUCKS.
•  9* West  Point, 8 oz ...10*
Severen, 8 oz.......
10 oz ...12*
“ 
.10*
May land, 8oz......
...13*
Greenwood, 7* oz •  9* Raven, lOoz......
...15
......
Greenwood, 8 o* .. 11* Stark 
WADDINGS.
White, doz........... 25 Per bale, 40 doz. ..«7 00
.20
Colored,  doz........
SILESIAS.
.  8 Pawtucket........
Slater, Iron Cross.
.  9 Dundie.............
“  Red Cross..
.10* Bedford...........
“  Best  .........
.12* Valley  City......
“ 
Best AA...
CORSETS.
Coraline............... 19 50|Wonderful.......
9 OOj Brighton...........
Schilling’s ...........
.75 Corticelli  knitting.
Corticelli, doz......

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
13
9*
15
lo*
17
ll*
20
12*

...10*
...  9
.1 0 *
...10*
..»4 75
..  4 75

DOMET  FLANNEL.

SEWING  SILK.

“ 8 
“  10 

per *oz  ball..

twist, doz .37*
50 yd, doz .37*
HOOKS AND  EYES—PER GROSS.
“
“

No  1 Bl’k & White.,10 No  4 Bl’k & White..l5
..20
“  2 
..25
«•  3 
. ..40
No 2-20, M C...... ..50 No 4—15, F  3* ..
‘  3—18, S C........ ..45
No  2 White & Bl’k..12 ¡No  8 White & Bl’k..20
.  23
“  4 
..26
“  6 
No 2...................... ..28 INo 3 ........................ ...3 6

COTTON  TAPE.
“  10 
.15
..18 1  “  12 
SAFETY  PINS.

..12
..12

...30

PINS.

“
“

“
“

“
“

“ 

NEEDLES—PER  M.

A. James.............. ..1  50 Steamboat......... ....  40
Crowely’s............. ..1  35[Gold  Eyed........ ....1  50
Marshall's...............1 00|
5—4....2 25  6—4...3 2515—4....1  95  6—4...2 96 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“ 

“ ....2 10 

...3 10|

1*.  S T E K E T E E   &  S O N S ,

WHOLESALE

Dry  Goods  and  potions.

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

Blacks, Silver Gray and Fancies—All  New Designs.

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

Valley  City.

WADDINGS,  BURLAP, TWINE,  BATTS  and  COMFORTS.

83  Jlooroe  and  10.12,  14,16  1  18  FoM ain  Sts,,  G R IP   RAPID8.

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .
dls.
dis.

P r ic e s   C u r r e n t.

knobs—New List. 

levels. 

HJLRDWAJm.

No Uppers for Him.

“Travel never sharpens some people,” 
said the drummer, as he  threw  the  stub 
of his cigar out of the window.

“In what respect?”
“Well, I’ve been  on  the road for eight 
years,  traveling  by  day  and  by  night, 
and  I’ve  never  had  to  take  an  upper 
berth yet.”

“That’s luck.”
“No, it isn’t—it’s  management. 

I, of 
course,  buy  a  lower  berth  when I can. 
When I can’t, I take an upper.  Price  is 
the same, you know,  but  there’s a heap 
of difference in the  comfort.  Then  the 
management comes in.”

“But how?”
“See this bottle of  camphor;  I’ve  car­
ried it ever since I first  started  out,  but 
have  had  it refilled about once a month. 
When I get  seated  in  the  car I am sud­
denly taken faint.  I pull  out  my  cam­
phor  bottle.  You  can  smell  camphor 
from  end  to  end of a car. 
It isn’t two 
minutes before some one comes to ask:
□ “ ‘Anything  wrong, sir?’
□ “ ‘I’m feeling very badly.’
□ “ ‘Can I do anything for you?’
□ “ ‘No, thanks.  That is—’
*  “ ‘Don’t be afraid of making me  trou­
ble.  What is it?’
“ ‘I have an upper berth, and I’m—I’m 
afraid I  can  never  get  into  it.  Been 
troubled with palpitation for the last ten 
years.  Reaching up increases it.  I don’t 
want to ask  any  one  to  exchange  with 
me, but—’
“ ‘Why, certainly, I  have a lower, and 
under the circumstances  I  shall be only 
too glad to exchange with you.’
“That’s  all  there  is  to  it,” said  the 
drummer,  as  he  opened  his  grip  for a 
novel;  “it’s all in the  management.  A 
proper  demeanor—a  little  camphor- 
few  words  of  thanks,  and I snug away
into a lower and sleep  the  sleep  of  the 
just.  The other man has got  all he paid 
for, any way, and if he doesn’t sleep well 
that’s not my look out.”

The Manufacture of Celluloid.

The manner in which celluloid is made 
in France is as follows:  A huge roll  of 
paper is unwound slowly, and  while un 
winding is saturated  with  a  mixture  of 
five parts of sulphuric and  two  parts  of 
nitric  acid,  which is  carefully  sprayed 
upon the paper.  The effect of this bath 
is to change  the  cellulose  in  the paper 
into  pyroxyline.  The  next  process  is 
the expelling of  the excess of acid in the 
paper by pressure and its  washing  with 
plenty of water. 
pulp  and  bleached,  after  which  it  is 
strained, and then mixed with from 20 to 
40 per cent, of its weight in water.  Then 
follows  another  mixing  and  grinding 
after which  the  pulp  is  spread  in thin 
sheets,  which  are  put  under enormous 
hydraulic pressure and squeezed  until  it 
is as  dry  as  tinder.  These  sheets are 
then  put  between  heated  rollers  and 
come out  in  quite  elastic  strips, which 
are worked up into the various  forms  in 
which celluloid is made.

It  is then reduced to 

Shears and  Scissors.

For a long time the  difference between 
scissors and  shears  was  determined  by 
the former having two sharp  points  and 
the latter one.  This difference has gradu 
ally lost its determining technicality, and 
the shears of to-day are called so because 
one of the bows has room  for  three  fin 
gers.  It is not always so, but shears are 
generally longer and  of  heavier  weight 
than scissors, as would be implied by the 
necessity of the strength of  using  three 
fingers in the leverage.  The cutting  of 
stronger  textures  has led to a difference 
in the manufacture  and  general form of 
these articles of  cutlery, but what deter­
mines the name is the fact of using three 
fingers, or less than that number  in  one 
of the bows. 

______

_ 

Detroit—The Pacific  Copper Co. is the 
name of a new  mining  company just or­
ganized for the purpose of mining copper 
on  land  north  of  the  Atlantic  mine 
Houghton  county. 
It  is  controlled by
the St. Mary’s Mineral  Land  and  Canal
Co.

ÀUGUR8 AND BITS.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dig.
Snell’s. 
Cook’s .
Jennings’, genuine..........................
Jennings’, Imitation.......................
...........> 8 50
First Quality, S. B. Bronze..............
...........  12 50
D.  B. Bronze..............
S. B. S. Steel.............. ..........   9 50
D. B. Steel................. ...........  14 00
Railroad........................................... ......... > 14 00
Garden...................................................net  30 00

........... 
25
...........50*10

BARROWS.

AXES.

‘‘ 
“ 
“ 

dls.

bolts. 

dls.

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

BUCKETS.

Well, plain................................................... I 3 50
Well, Bwivel......................................................   4 00

BUTTS, CAST. 

dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70*
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...............................................7O&10
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70*10
70
Blind, Shepard’s .......................................... 
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85................ 
40
Grain.................................................... dls. 50*02

BLOCKS.
CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

CAPS.

Cast Steel............................................per lb  5
Bly’sl-10............................................per m  65
“ 
Hick’s C .F .......................................... 
G. D .....................................................  “ 
Musket................................................  “ 
Rim  Fire.........   ..........................................  
Central  Fire......... .................................dls. 

CARTRIDGES.

60
35
60
50
25

Socket Firm er...............................................70&10
Socket Framing................................................ 70& 16
Socket Corner....................................................70<St 10
Socket SUcks................................................ 70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

chisels. 

COMBS.

dls.

dls.

Curry 
Hotchkiss .

Lawrence’s ...........................

CHALK.
White Crayons, per gross...
COPPER.

“ 

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

...... 12@12*4 dls. 10

1
!

dis.

DRILLS. 

Morse’s Bit  Stocks..................................... 
Taper and straight Shank............................ 
Morse’s Taper Shank.................................... 
DRIPPING PANS.
Small slzeB, ser pound..............
07
Large sizes, per pound...................................  6V4

50
50
50

ELBOWS.

13 
gauges. 
HAMMERS.

Com. 4  piece, 6 In.................... . 
75
Corrugated...................................... dls. 20*10*10
Adjustable............................................ dls. 40*10
dig.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

.doz. net 

piles—New List. 

Clark’s, small, >18; large, *26.......................  
30
25
Ives’, 1, >18; 2, >24; 3,130............................ 
dls.
Disston’s ......... ................................. 
..60*10
New  American............................................. 60*10
Nicholson’s ..................................................60*10
Heller’s ......................................................... 
50
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................................... 

GALVANIZED IRON

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

12 

14 

28
18

Discount, 60

dls.

“ 
“ 
“ 

HINGES.

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s......   ............. 
50
Maydole  & Co.’s.................................... dls. 
25
Kip’S.......................................................dls. 
25
Terkes *  Plumb’s..................................dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................80c 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. 4K  14  and
longer........................................................  3V4
Screw Hook and Eye, V4.......................net 
10
8Vi
“  %.........................net 
“ 
7V4
“  H.........................net 
“ 
« 
“  X.........................net 
7V4
Strap and T ............................................dls. 
70
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track— 50*10
Champion,  anti-frlctlon............................... 60*10
40
Bidder, wood track.....................................  
§0
Pots...............................................................  
KettleB........................................................... 
60
Spiders  ........................................................  
60
Gray enameled..............................................40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware.........................new list 70*10
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are......................new lIst33M&10
Bright......................................................70*10*10
Screw  Eyes......................  
70*10410
Hook’s ............................................... 
.70410*10
Gate Hooks and Byes.........................  70*10*10

HOUSE PURNISHING  GOODS.

HOLLOW WARE

WIRE GOODS. 

HANGERS. 

dlS.

dls.

 

 

 

dls.

dlB.

NAILS

locks—door. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MOLASSES OATES. 

Advance over base: 

70
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s  .
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
5
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
5
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
5
5
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..................  
7
55
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list
oo
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s ............................ 
Brahford’s ...................................................  
55
Norwalk’s .................. 
55
Adze Bye......................................... >16.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye.  ......................................>15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ...................................... >18.50, dls. 20*10.
dlS.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
50
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
•!  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
"  Landers,  Ferry A Clr. k’s.................  
40
“  Enterprise 
.................................... 
25
Stebbin’s Pattern................................ 
  60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Steel nails, base................................................... 2 10
Wire nails, base................................................... 2 60
60...................................................... Base 
50...................................................... Base 

Steel.  Wire.
Base
10
20
2030
35
35
40
50
65
7 * 6 .................................................   40
90
..........................................  60
1  50
..........................................1  00
...........................................1  50
2  00 
Fine 3..............................................1  50
2  0090 
Case  10.............................................  60
1 00 
8.................................. ..........  75
1  25 
6.............................................  90
1 00 
Finish 10..........................................   85
1  25
8........................................... 1 00
1  50 
6...........................................1 15
75 
Clinch  10.........................................   85
90
8......................................... 1 00
1 00
6......................................... 1 15
2 50 
Barren %......................................... 1 75
dls.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   @40
Sciota 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 
Broken packs Vic per pound extra.

p a t e n t  p l a n is h e d   ir o n .

rivets. 

PLANES.

PANS.

ROPES.

 

SqUARES. 

Sisal, V4 Inch and larger.............................   12V4
Manilla.........................................................  16
dls.
Steel and Iron..............................................  
Try and Bevels...................................  
 
Mitre............................................................ 

75
60
20
SHEET IRON.Com.  Smooth.  Com.
>3 10
3 20
3 20
3 30
340
3 60
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14...................................... >4 20 
Nos. 15 to 17......................................  4 20 
Nos.  18 to 21......................................  4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4  20 
Nos. 25 to 26 .....................................  440 
No. 27...............................................   4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86...................................... dls. 40*10

SAND PAPER.

7

50
55
50
55
35

SASH CORD.

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

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

Hand........................................  

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton >25
20
70
50
30 
30
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.
dis.
Bright Market..................................  .........   65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppered Market..........................................  60
Tinned Market............................................   62Vi
Coppered  Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  3 60
painted....................................  3 OO

wire. 

dls.

“ 

WRENCHES. 

An Sable...............................dls. 25*10@25&10*05
Putnam.......................................... 
dis. 05
N orth western................................  
dls. 10*10
dls.
30
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........... 
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75*10
MISCELLANEOUS. 
50
Bird Cages................................ 
 
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

dls.
 

 

 

HORSE NAILS.

METALS,
PIG TIN.

26c
28c

ZINC.

SOLDER.

The  prices  of  the  many other  qualities  of

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars....................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2Vic per pound.
600 pound  casks...........................................   7 \
Per pound....................................................  
7 Vi
Vi@Vi.................................................................. 16
Extra W iping..................................................13Vi
solder in the market indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
Cookson........................................per  pound  16
Hallett’s...... ............................... 
13
TIN—MELTS GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.........................................>660
6 60 
14x20IC,
10x14 IX, 
8 35 
8 35
14x20 IX, 

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

“ 
“ 

“ 

10x14 IC, Charcoal.............................................>6 00
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

.........................................   6 00
..........................................  7  50
........................................   7  50

TIN— ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

Each additional X on this grade >1.50.

 
 

1 
‘

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“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

ROOPING PLATES
Worcester...............................  6 00

7  50
12 50
Allaway  Grade...............   5  25
6  75
 
................  11 00
14  00
 

14x20 IC,
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC,
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX,
20x28 IC,
20x28 IX,
14X28  IX....................................................... >13
14x31  IX.................................................  ..  .14 50
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, i 
9Vi
14x60 IX,  “ 

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

 
 
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2 Quart Japanned 

List—$3.

4 Quart Japanned 

List—$5.

8 Quart Japanned 

List—$6.

Write  for  Discount.

Foster,  S tevens  &  Co.,

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

GRAND

RAPIDS,  MIOH.

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

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1’ H hi  M IC H IG A N '  T R A D E S M A N .

The M ic h ig a n  T ra d e s m a n
Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s  Association.

A  W K IK L Y   JO U RN A L  D EVOTED  TO  T H E

Retail  Trade  of the Woliierine State.

T rad e sm an   C om pany,  P ro p rie to r.

Subscription Price, One  Dollar per year, payable 
A d vertising Kates m ade know n on application. 

strictlv in advance.

Publication  Office,  100 Louis St.

Entered at  the  Grand  Rapid» Post  Office.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  Al'GINT  27,  1890.

Uncle  Sam  has  done  a  wise  act  in 
throwing  the  Patron’s Guide out of  the | 
mails, as the publication  was  in  nowise 
entitled  to  transmission 
through  the 
mails at pound rates.  It was not a news­
paper  in  any  sense  of  the  term, being 
solely  a  money-making  enterprise—dis­
seminating a false and malicious doctrine 
at the expense of  the people.

The editor  of  the  Lyons  Herald—the 
pseudo organ of  the Patrons of  Industry 
of  Ionia  county—sadly  announces  that 
he must cease to treat the  editor of  T he 
T radesm an  as  an  equal.  As the indi­
vidual thus deserted  was never the equal 
of  Mr. Reynolds in  one  respect—having 
never  worn  stripes in a  penitentiary (a 
privilege  once  enjoyed  by the editor of 
the  Herald)—the  loss  will  have  to  be 
borne—terrible  as it is to contemplate.

Information comes from Brazil  to  the 
effect that a syndicate  of  wealthy coffee 
merchants have banded together  for  the 
purpose of monopolizing the  coffee trade 
of that republic.  The enterprise  is  en­
titled  the  “Bagging Coffee Co.,” with  a 
capital stock of $13,500,000, only one-half 
of which is expected to  be paid in.  The 
purpose  of  the  organization  is  to pur­
chase coffee direct from the planters, and 
ship it direct to the  principal markets of 
the  world, where the  syndicate  will  be 
represented by agents.  The  promoters 
estimate that the enterprise will  pay  an 
annual profit of 25 per cent, on a capital­
ization  of  §6,250,000,  which  dissipates 
the possibility that the  members  of  the 
syndicate are  philanthropists.  As  the 
combination starts out on the assumption 
that it  can  ignore  the  ordinary laws of 
trade, it is  safe  to  predict  that  it  will 
meet the same fate as the French  copper
syndicate._______________

Back from  Birch Point.

The resorters at  Birch  Point,  situated 
on the north arm of  Bear  Lake, have re­
turned to the  city.  Those  who  formed 
the initial party this year are I). 1). Cody, 
Willard  Barnhart, O.  A.  Ball, E. Crofton 
Fox.  John  H.  P.  Hughart, N.  A.  Earle 
and Gen.  I. C.  Sm ith—all  who have fam­
ilies having  been  accompanied by them. 
Four  cottages  have  been  erected  the 
present  season  and  a  little  later  the 
property  will  be  merged  into  a  stock 
company, under  the  style  of  the  Birch 
Point  Resort Association.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.
A.  R.  Gilmore,  grocer,  Schoolcraft: 

“Your 

price list is very good indeed.’’
Jas. Lisa, general dealer,  Red Jacket:  “Keep 
on  sending  your  good  trade  paper. 
I do not 
want to be without  It.”
Geo.  II.  Spencer,  general  dealer,  Pomona: 
“ Every merchant ought  to take your paper, as it 
has the ‘get up and get’ qualities about it.”
C. A.  Barnes,  grocer  and  druggist,  Otsego: 
“Enclosed find  ¥1  for  the  paper  another year. 
There is no bill I |iay more  cheerfully than that 
for The Trades* an.  It is the right paper in the 
right place.”

MILLS  VS.  PARTRIDGE.

Fallacy  of  a  Statement  Made by the 

Scheming: Politician.

Grand  Ra pid s,  Aug.  25.—For  some 
unaccountable  or  unexplained  reason, 
certain so-called  leaders  and  ten-dollar- 
a-day-organizers  of  the  Patrons  of  In­
dustry and Farmers’ Alliance, have been 
most  vituperative in calling  down  upon 
the  heads  of  commercial  travelers  the 
most  unwarranted  and  unreasonable 
abuse.  Their stock  argument  is,  “We 
are an expensive  and  unnecessary para­
site upon the commercial  world  in  gen­
eral and  the  poor farmer in particular;” 
“our princely salaries and  enormous ex­
penses are  a  direct  tax  upon  the  tiller 
of the soil,” etc.;  and, in the words of  a 
recognized leader,  “We propose  to  buy 
our  goods only of  such  dealers  as  buy 
their  supplies  direct  from  wholesale 
houses, thereby saving the extra expense 
of  buying  through  drummers,  as  they 
had no drummers  twenty-five  years  ago 
and we can get along without them now.”
Twenty-five  years ago the  writer  was 
in the employ of  one of  the most  enter­
prising  and  successful  merchants  in 
Western New  York.  He carried a large 
stock of  general  merchandise,  owned  a 
large cheese factory and farm.  No sales­
man called on him,  but four  times  each 
year he was obliged to go to Philadelphia, 
New  York  and  Boston at an expense of 
from $75 to $125  each trip.  This money 
was spent on  the  railroads  and  in  the 
cities  named,  and  was  of  no  possible 
benefit to his own town.  He  was absent 
from his business from  six  to  ten  days 
each  trip,  very frequently to his  or  his 
customers’  loss.
Now,  compare  the  above  manner  of 
transacting business,  with  the  extrava­
gant (?) and  unnecessary method  of  to­
day.  We  will  take  any reputable firm, 
dealing in  general  merchandise.  They 
probably purchase their groceries of  two 
different salesmen,  who  call  once  each 
per month;  their  dry goods and boot and 
shoes  salesmen  call  every  sixty  days; 
their  clothing  man four times per  year, 
making the total number of visits during 
the  year of  forty.  We  will  place  the 
daily salary and expense of each of these 
salesmen at $10,  which is far  above  the 
average.  We  will  say  that  they  only 
visit  five  customers  per  day,  which  is 
far below  the  rule,  making  an  average 
expense of  $2 to visit each dealer.  This 
amount,  multiplied  by  forty, the  num­
ber  of  visits  made  during  the  year, 
makes a total of $80 as the expense of buy­
ing goods through commercial travelers.as 
against $300 to $500 per year by the plan 
which  the  so-called  “commerce  adjus­
ters”  propose  to  return  to. 
Further­
more, the 300,000 commercial travelers of 
the United  States (not 1,800, as  recently 
stated by the would-be P. of I. candidate 
for Governor,) are distributing annually, 
as traveling expenses, to hotels, liveries, 
etc., through the smaller cities and towns 
of the United States, the  handsome  sum 
of over $750,000,000.  This immense sum, 
instead of  being poured directly into the 
largest cities,  is  distributed all over the 
smaller cities and villages, which need it
most.
When a merchant  goes  to  the city  to
purchase goods, he is unable to take suf­
ficient time to  properly make  his  selec­
tions  or to compare  goods  needed  with 
those  now in stock, as where  the  sales­
man  brings  his  sample  trunks  to  the 
dealer’s store;  and,  no  matter  how care­
fully he may go  over  his  stock or make 
out liis want list before leaving home, he 
is certain to purchase  some goods which 
he  already  has  in  stock  or  which had 
proven unsalable in the past.
Again,  any  enterprising  dealer  will 
tell  you  that  he  can  in many instances 
get  closer  prices of  a salesman  than of 
the house lie represents. 
In making this 
statement,  I  do  not charge the salesman 
with a lack of  fealty  to  his  bouse,  nor 
the house  with a disposition to take  any 
undue  advantage  of  customers  who. in 
confidence, send their orders direct.  The 
reason is plain.  The wide-awake, enter­
prising  commercial  traveler  makes it a 
constant  study  day and  night to “catch 
on” to  the  “cuts”  and “drives” offered 
by competing  houses,  and he is in much 
better position to do so by the  assistance 
of  his customers  than is the home office.

Furthermore,  an  intelligent,  earnest, 
successful  commercial  traveler is one of 
the best commercial  educators  possible, 
as every candid  business  man  will  tell 
you that some of  his  best  and most suc­
cessful  ideas  in  the management of  his 
business,  displaying  his  goods  in  win­
dows or on  shelf,  advertising  novelties, 
or  pointers  in  purchasing  goods,  have 
been  received  from  traveling  men, and 
any dealer  who  says  he  has no  use for 
traveling men is very certain to have hut 
little or no  use  for  merchandise or cus­
tomers.
This  idea  of  selling  goods  through 
traveling  salesmen  is  an  invention  of 
which  necessity is  the  mother, and one 
which, like all other  great  inventions or 
improvements,  has  stood  the  ordeal of 
ridicule and opposition;  and old conserv­
ative houses, after  years of unsuccessful 
striving  to  do  business  with the dealer 
direct, have been compelled to send forth 
their representatives, in order to keep up 
with  the  advanced  ideas of  their  more 
enterprising and successful  competitors. 
No greater burlesque on truth  was  ever 
perpetrated  than 
threadbare 
motto, which, fortunately,  is  but seldom 
seen now,  “Save the  enormous  expense 
of  buying  of  drummers,  and send your 
mail orders direct to us.”

the  old 

____ ______ L. M.  Mills.

Quick Work at Muskegon.

About six months  ago  Julie  Bierema 
purchased the Wierengo hardware stock, 
at Muskegon, of  the Gunn Hardware Co.
A  few  days  ago  he  gave  his  nephew, 
Lewis Spyk, a bill of  sale  of  the stock, 
but  as  Spyk  was  never  known to have 
any  property  in  his  own right, several 
creditors  immediately  attached,  on  the 
ground that the bill of sale was void and 
without  consideration.  Foster,  Stevens 
&  Co.,  whose  traveling  representative 
happened to be in Muskegon at the time, 
placed  an  attachment  on  the  stock for 
$450  within  an  hour  after  the filing of 
the bill of sale.  The Gunn Hardware Co. 
followed  suit  with a claim for $950, and 
the Ohio  Valley  Foundry Co. and a Chi­
cago paint house came next  with  claims 
aggregating  $1,000.  Spyk  replevined 
the stock, but was unable to  give  bonds 
and finally concluded to  compromise  the 
claims  on  the  basis of  75 per cent.—an 
offer  which  was  accepted  by  all  the 
attaching creditors.

P.  of I.  Gossip.

The Patrons of Industry have boycotted 

Stanton for sixty days.

The Patron’s Guide, the  official  organ 
of  the Patrons of  Industry, has been de­
nied  the  privilege of  the  mails  by  the 
Postoffice Department.

Stanton Clipper:  “In  a  recent  inter­
view with John  E. Taylor,  State  Secre­
tary of the P. of I., on the subject  of  P. 
of I. contracts,  he  said  he  thought  the 
contracts  were  going  into  disuse  and 
would soon be a thing of  the past.  He
said the reason was because  the  P. of  I. 
movement had had the effect of  bringing 
prices generally down  so low that it was 
hardly worth while for the order to go to 
the trouble of negotiating contracts.”
The Muir Condensed Milk Factory. 
Muir,  Aug.  22.—The  factory  of  the 
Rogers  Condensing  Co.  is  now  nearly 
completed and the  officers  are  sanguine 
that everything  will  be  in  readiness to 
begin operations by Oct. 1.  The  build­
ing  has  a  frontage  of  130 feet—not in­
cluding  boiler  and  engine  house—and 
{comprises  basement  and  one  story, the 
I walls being  of  stone  and  brick.  Two 
flowing artesian  wells  supply the  neces­
sary water.  All  the machinery is of  the 
most  improved  pattern, giving the  fac­
tory a capacity of handling 50,000 pounds 
of milk daily.  Condensed  milk  will  be 
the staple product,  but  both  butter  and 
cheese  can  be  turned  out,  if  circum­
stances render a change to either product 
necessary.

WHAT THE CIGAR  BOX TELLS.

Covered with Comprehensive  Informa­

tion Regarding: the Cigar Inside.
Few  men  know  that  the history of a 
cigar can be traced accurately by its box. 
The  box  is  like  the  trunk  that a man 
takes around with him  through  Europe. 
Every time that it is put into the baggage 
van of a train it gets a tab showing where 
it is going.  The  hotel keepers add their 
tabs  and  the  steamers paste  on  theirs. 
The tabs show what  kind of a traveler  a 
man is. 
If he goes in  the  steerage  his 
baggage has a paster of  one. color, while 
if he is in the  cabin  his  baggage  has  a 
paster of anpther color.  A good deal can 
be told about a man from  these  pasters; 
a great  deal  more  can  be told from his 
empty cigar boxes.  They are all  opened 
differently if they are  bought  unopened 
by the man who smokes them, for no two 
individual  smokers  open  cigar  boxes 
alike  any  more  than  any  two smokers 
hold cigars in exactly the  same  way be­
tween their teeth and puff  in exactly the 
same manner.  Some men’s  cigars  burn 
crooked, others burn even.  Some of them 
open  their  cigar  boxes with a penknife, 
and  break  the  blade  while  they do  it; 
others  take  a  hatchet, others  carefully 
cut the stamps and pry the box  open  by 
degrees.  This shows  whether  they  are 
impetuous,  obstinate,  conservative,  or 
emphatic.
To a  much  greater  degree  than  the 
empty cigar box shows  the  character  of 
the  man,  the  brands  and  stamps on it 
show the kind of cigars that  he  smokes. 
There are any number of sizes and shapes 
of cigar boxes—the  small  25-box, where 
the cigars are worth 18 to 50 cents apiece; 
the  larger  50-boxes,  which  may  hold 
domestic cigars not worth one-quarter  as 
much as the smaller  boxes;  the  big  box 
of 100 small  cigars,  and  the  mammoth 
boxes that hold  250.  These boxes bear 
their history on them.  They are made of 
cedar in the first place, sawed and planed 
to a quarter of an inch in thickness,  and 
tacked  together  with  canvas  strips  to 
make the hinges of the lid.  That is what 
the cigar box is in its crude state.  Then 
it goes to the manufacturer,  who has  his 
lithographs and brands  put  on  it.  The 
the  better 
better  workmanship  and 
lithography usually go  with the inferior 
cigar; 
lithographs  are 
cruder, not  so  well  drawn  or  so  well 
tinted  as  those  on  domestic cigars, but 
they have  a  different  and  more  costly 
look to them.  The tint of the paper also 
shows whether the  cigar  is  imported or 
not,  for  the  Havana  manufacturers  do 
not pack their cigars in paper of the same 
tints that the domestic manufacturers do.
These  interior  wrappings  and  litho­
graphs tell about the  cigar when the box 
is opened, but more can be told  about  it 
from the outside. 
It requires  somewhat 
close observation to note  all  the  marks 
on a cigar  box.  On a box  of  imported 
cigars, for instance, there is  branded the 
mark of the manufacturer.  That is usu­
ally the  name  of  some  factory  and the 
place where the factory is.  The name of 
the factory gives an indication  about  its 
location.  The  brand “Campa  Gral  de 
Tabaco de  Filipinas”  shows  unmistak­
ably where the  cigars  that  were  put in 
that box were made, unless  the  brand is
a counterfeit. 
It is seldom that counter­
feit brands are found on imported cigars, 
as the import  stamp is a guarantee  that 
the  cigar  has  gone  through the custom 
house.  This stamp is put on first.  Each 
of the  Havana  factories  has  its stamp, 
the  Garcia,  the  Clay,  the  Carolina, or 
whatever it may be, on the lid of the box. 
It may be hid afterward by  the  revenue 
stamp and the  lithographs, but  the  first 
thing  done  is  to  brand  that  name on. 
The  Havana  cigars 
frequently  have 
stamped  on  them  also “Habana.”  with 
the Spanish abbreviation designating the 
quality of tobacco or  the  size.  This  is 
put on when the boxes are sorted  out  to 
be filled;  the stamp of the factory is  put 
on them in the first  place.  This stamp 
also  is  not  branded  like  the  factory 
stamp, but is put on with a stencil.  The 
name of the factory  can  not be taken off 
without  planing  into  the  lid,  but  the 
brand of the quality and color can.
Before the cigars are put iu,  the box is 
further branded with the color,  “claro,” 
“Colorado claro,”  "Colorado,”  “Colorado

the  imported 

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Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
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Ho  Connection  with  Any  Crater  Trust,

LARGEST VARIETY IN THE STATE
457,  459,  461,  463  W.  WESTERN AVENUE, 
MUSKEOON,  MICH.

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PAID  TO  MAIL  ORDER*.

CRACKERS, BISCUITS  AND  SWEET-GOODS.

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that the dealer in  refilling  the  box  was 
not careful enough to put in cigars of the 
same color.  But the  best  way  to  do  is 
to examine the box first and then to have 
the dealer open it afterward to see if  the 
cigars are what is wanted.  The  age  of 
the  cigar  can  be  told  from the import 
stamp, the color from  the  brand  on  the 
back  of  the  box, the  factory  from  the 
factory brand,  and  the  shape  from  the 
size  of  the  box.  Almost  everything 
about cigars which go through  the  stan­
dard Havana factories can be  told  with­
out opening the box.  A cigar  box  with 
the blue label of  the Cigarmakers’ Inter­
national Union does  not  hold  imported, 
but  domestic  cigars.  Domestic  cigars 
can further be told by an examination of 
the bottom of  the box and the stamp and 
the  warning  not  to  use  the  box again, 
which has on it the district and the num­
ber  of  the  factory.  According to law, 
this warning must  be  on the box;  it is a 
sure sign of a domestic cigar.

Belding on a Boom.

Belding, Aug. 25.—The corner store in 
the  Belding  block, which has stood  va­
cant nearly a year, as  Mrs. Hiram  Beld­
ing refused to lease it to  any  one  but  a 
druggist,  has  been  rented  to  a Detroit 
man, who will put in a full line of  drugs 
about Sept. 15.
Belding  is  growing  very  rapidly and 
good returns await  those  who  invest  in 
either business or residence property.
C.  M.  Woodard,  of  Kalamo,  was  in 
town last week for the purpose of  effect- 
ng  the  preliminary  arrangements  for 
embarking  in  the  bazaar  business, but 
as unable to secure a store.
It is now generally believed  that Beld­
ing  will  secure  the  Central  Michigan 
Railroad, as the amount required  by  the 
projectors has nearly all been pledged.

East Jordan—The  Bruce  stock of  dry 
goods, groceries, etc.,  was sold at public 
auction  last  week  to  A. Heston.  Alva 
Coulter  will  probably  return  here  and 
open the store for business.
INCREASE  YOUR  SALES  B Y   A 

WELL-LIGHTED  STORE.

maduro,”  “rnaduro,”  or,  as  kuowu  to 
Americans,  very  mild,  mild,  medium, 
fairly strong, and strong.  These are not 
enough grades to  mark  the  distinctions 
in color and strength,  but  they are  gen­
erally  approximated.  Some  brands  of 
Colorado claro cigars are milder than the 
claro  cigars  of  other  brands,  but  the 
mildest ones are always put into the claro 
boxes.  There has been  some  change  in 
the strictness of marking in recent  years 
caused  by  the  fact  that  the  American 
trade prefers Colorado claro and  claro  to 
the maduro and Colorado maduro.
When the box has been  marked in this 
way it is filled and the final tacks are put 
in.  The manufacturer usually then pastes 
some advertisements on it  in  order  that 
the box may  not  be  opened  and  other 
cigars substituted without its  being  evi­
dent to  the  purchaser.  Manufacturers 
have  labels  which  they  paste  over the 
seams, which contain advertisements and 
notices of various  kinds. 
If  the  manu­
facturer  has  taken  prizes  at any inter­
national  exhibition,  fac  similes  of  the 
medals  will  probably be  found  on  the 
label.  Usually there is a picture of  the 
factory, with the firm name, coat of arms, 
and other  designs. 
In  this  shape, the 
box is ready to be sent here.
It arrives  with  tens  of  thousands  of 
other  boxes  and  is  examined  by an in­
spector.  He  pastes  over it the  import 
stamp so that the box cannot  be  opened 
without destroying the stamp.  The im­
port  stamp  certifies  to  the  number  of 
cigars in the box and that the tax is paid. 
Besides that, there are  blank  spaces  on 
the stamp which  the  inspector  fills  out 
with a stencil.  When filled up, the stamp 
shows  not  only  that  the  cigars  went 
through the custom house, but the steamer 
in which they came,  the  port  at  which 
they  were  entered,  the  date  at  which 
they were received and stamped, and the 
name of the inspector who stamped them. 
This  is  an  unfailing  certificate  of  the 
length of  time the cigar has been in this 
country.  The  stamps  are  finely  made, 
in order to prevent  counterfeit;  there  is 
more tracery and vignette work  than  on 
the ordinary revenue stamp.
When the import stamp has been pasted 
on the box, the  internal  revenue  stamp 
is put on before the cigars  can  be  sold. 
The internal revenue  stamp is a cheaper 
affair on bluish-green paper. 
It  is  can­
celled  at the same time that it is put on, 
and with a stamp which, if it were plain, 
might show the date;  but  this  stamping 
is done much more hastily  and  does  not 
aid in the history of  the cigar.
A cigar box with  an  internal  revenue 
stamp on it  and  no  import  stamp  does 
not once in 50,000 times contain imported 
cigars, smuggled or otherwise.  Some of 
the fictitious  smugglers  who  go  around 
among  down-town  offices  and  peddle 
cigars which they say are  imported, pro­
duce them in boxes with only the internal 
revenue  stamp  on.  Smuggled  cigars 
have no stamps  whatever.  Any  cigars 
that go through the  custom  house  have 
the 
the  internal 
revenue stamp both.  A  cigar which has 
only an internal revenue  stamp has been 
stamped at some domestic  factory. 
If it 
was smuggled, it was taken to  a  factory 
to be stamped, which  would  be  foolish 
ness and waste of money on  the  part  of
the smuggler, and besides, he  would  run 
a great deal of risk, as  the internal reve 
nue officer  who  stamped  the  box could 
readily tell, if he was  an  expert  in  his 
business,  the  difference  between  the 
boxes used in the Havana  trade  and  the 
boxes used in the domestic trade.  There 
are details in the way  of  packing,  litho­
graphing and  branding  which  show un 
mistakably, unless they are very cleverly 
counterfeited.
A man who is going to buy  cigars  and 
wants to be sure of  what  he  is  getting, 
can tell by the  box,  if  it  has  not  been 
opened.  It is more risk to take an opened 
box, for some unscrupulous  dealers  will 
put cheaper cigars into a box which held 
high-grade  cigars  and  sell  them as im 
ported cigars.  Still, these  dealers  often 
make mistakes, as it is hard for  them  to 
get the same size of domestic  cigars  and 
the same color. 
If a man is buying what 
is said to be an  imported cigar, and sees 
that the  cigar  is  dark  while  the box is 
marked claro,  he may be sure  that  there 
is some imposition  somewhere, probably

import  stamp  and 

:FROM-

J.  HEERINCA,

GENERAL  MERCHANT,

find  dealer 1n Butter, Eggs. Seeds & Grain,

EA ST  S A U C A T U C K , 

-  M ICH ICAN .

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 e r ed   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:
1 .0 0 0  
2 .0 0 0  
5 . 0 0 0  

$ 1 .5 0
2 .5 0
4 . 5 0

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- 
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W e   ea rry ja lln o th er  sizes  o f  ta g s  a n d   ca n   fill 

o rd ers o n   sh o rt  n otice,

rTJIE;  T IiA H E SM A A r  COMF*JLNY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

BROWN  Sc  SEHLER,

Dealers in ENGINES, BOILERS and MILL MACHINERY, Farm Machinery, 

Agricultural  Implements, Wagons  and  Carnages.
is

Corner W est Bridge and  N orth F ro n t  Sts.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

HESTER  Sc  FOX,

Manufacturers’ Agents for 

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S e n d   for 
Catalogue 

and 
Prices-

a  n r i   A  C   ENGINE 
A  I LAO WORKS

INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.,  U.  S.
________   M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O P
STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.
Carry Engines and Boilers In Stock 
1

for  immediate delivery. 

*• 

NO.  2  INCANDESCENT.
“  without springs at  top
No  10 Mammoth Rochester, same style 

No  2 Incau. Lamp, as shown, brass .. .85.50 Each 
•* 
and with tin reflector only, complete 3.50 Each 
. 3.50 Each
complete
| H . Leonard ft Sons, 134-HO Fulton St., G d Rapida.

Bend for  C om plete  C atalogue.

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

Saws, Belting and  Oils.

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

Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.

4 4 .4« and 48 So. Division S t. GRAND  RAPIDS. MICH.

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N ,

lO
Drugs  Medicines*

State  Board  o f Pharm acy. 

One Tear—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Two  Years—Stanley EL Parkill, Owosso. 
Three  Tears—Jacob  Jesaom, Muskegon.
Four  Tears—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Tears—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor 
President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon. 
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo.  McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Next meeting at Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6._____

M ichigan  State  Pharm aceutical  A m 'd. 

President—Frank Inglis,  Detroit.
First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing.
Sec’d Vice-President—Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs. 
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan;  K. T. 
Webb, Jackson;  D. EL Frail,  East Saginaw;  Geo. Mc­
Donald, Kalamazoo;  J. J. Crowley. Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Saginaw, beginning third Tuesday 

of September,  1890.

Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President. J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott.
Grand Rapids D rug Clerks* A ssociation. 
President, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith._______

D etroit Pharm aceutical  Society 

President, J. W. Allen;  Secretary, W. F. Jackman.
Muskegon  Drug  Clerks*  Association. 

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

Compound  Syrup  of  Hypophosphites. 
Chas. G. Houser in the Western Druggist.
I  have  been  making  syrup  hypo- 
phosphites compound after the  National 
Formulary for some time, but have never 
been able to  get  a  satisfactory prepara­
tion when working according to its direc­
tions.  At first I thought  the  hypophos­
phites  were  at fault,  but,  after  trying 
three different brands, I came to the con­
clusion that some other  method  must be 
followed.  After a good  deal  of  experi­
m enting,  I have  succeeded  in  m aking as 
nice a syrup as can be prepared,  accord­
ing to the following process :
First, I dissolve the quinine muriate in 
six fiuid ounces of  water, then added the 
calcium  hypophosphite to this  solution, 
and set aside for  twelve or fifteen hours, 
with occasional  agitation.  By this  time 
all the calcium salt will  have  dissolved. 
Then I added  the  potassium  hypophos­
phite, and, lastly, the sodium salt.  This 
solution  was then allowed to settle,  and 
the clear  solution  poured  off  from  the 
sediment.  To  this  insoluble  portion  I 
added one-half  the citric acid directed in 
the formula and three-fourths  of  a fluid 
ounce of  water, making a perfectly clear 
solution, and then mixed the two liquids. 
The solution  of  the  hypophosphites  of 
iron  and  manganese  was  effected  with 
the potassium citrate and  the  remaining 
one-half of citric acid, not being quite so 
green  as  when  made  with  the  whole 
amount of acid, yet being wholly soluble.
In mixing the liquids  with the sugar I 
observed the following order:
First, 1 put the solution  of  hypophos­
phites of  iron  and  manganese  into  the 
bottle;  next  added  about  one-half  the 
sugar, then the tincture nux  vomica, the 
balance  of  the  sugar,  and,  lastly,  the 
solution  of  hypophosphites  of 
lime, 
potassium and sodium.  After  the sugar 
is all dissolved,  1 add  water  enough  to 
make up the measure to one pint.  1 gen­
erally use  a  little  less  sugar  than  the 
formula calls for, as I find it very difficult 
to dissolve that amount of dry granulated.
If  any one has  succeeded in making a 
satisfactory syrup by following  the  Na­
tional  Formulary, I would  like  to  hear 
of it.

The Drug Market.

Quinine,  German, is  higher,  with  an 
upward tendency.  Opium  and  morphia 
are unchanged.  Oil wiutergreen has ad­
vanced.  Oil  lemon  is  higher.  Nitrate 
silver  has  advanced  and  tends  higher. 
Oil sassafras has advanced.

The nostrum trade in  Italy is now reg­
ulated by a very stringent law.  All nos­
trums to be sold must have  the  sanction 
of  the  superior  sanitary  commission, 
which is given arbitrary power.  Its rules 
exclude  all  proprietary  medicines  not 
compounded  by apothecaries;  of  which 
the exact  working  formula  is withheld; 
the composition of  which cannot be con­
trolled;  the ingredients of  which may be 
sold by apothecaries only;  which may be 
harmless,  but by the wording of the label 
would  prevent  patients  from  seeking 
proper medical aid;  and  finally, the sell­
ing price of which is out of proportion to 
their real value.

THE  COMING  MEETING.

Appeals  from  President  Inglis  and 

Local Secretary Prall.

President Inglis has  issued the follow­
ing circular  address  to  the  members of 
the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso­
ciation:

Detr o it, August 18, 1890.

To add to the  interest  of  the  coming 
meeting of the Association,  it  has  been 
decided to devote  one  entire  session  to 
the discussion of business topics.  This 
will be  a  new  departure  and  will  un­
doubtedly prove a great  success.
Several interesting papers  on  matters 
pertaining  to  business  topics  will  be 
read. 
It is  hoped  that  every  member 
will be present and  take  part in the dis­
cussions  which  will  follow the reading 
of these papers.  The  drug business in 
its present state cannot be fun on strictly 
scientific  principles,  and,  while  there 
will be  a  large  number  of  interesting 
papers presented of  a  scientific  nature, 
it is proposed to devote more  time  than 
we have  formerly  to  the  discussion  of 
I trade matters.  The Local Secretary  in­
forms me that the prospect is good  for  a 
large attendance.  You and your wife, if 
you  have  one,  will  have a  good  time. 
Make  it a point to be with  us  and  help 
to  make  this  the  most  successful and 
interesting meeting  since  our  organiza­
tion.  Very respectfully,

F ra nk I n g lis,  Pres.

O U TLIN E  OF  T H E   PROGRAM M E.

Local Secretary Prall has  sent out the 

following outline of  the programme: 
S a g i n a w ,  Aug. 21, 1890.

The  eighth  annual  meeting  of  the 
Michigan State Pharmaceutical  Associa­
tion is to be held in the city of  Saginaw, 
September 16, 17  and 18, 1890.
It is the purpose of the Association, in 
holding its meeting in  Saginaw,  to  give 
the pharmacists of this valley and  vicin­
ity the opportunity to  show  their  devo­
tion to the true interests of pharmacy, as 
exhibited in the work of the Association.
It affords the pharmacists  of  Saginaw 
and the Bay Cities  great pleasure to pos­
sess  this  opportunity  of  reciprocating 
the hospitality so generously accorded at 
every former meeting.
To meet the expectations of  the  Asso­
ciation and satisfy the  half-hundred  en­
tertainers, the pharmacists of  the  State 
are  cordially  invited  to  be present, ac­
companied by their ladies.  The pharma­
cists  of  the  consolidated  Saginaws, of 
Bay City and West Bay City are  co-oper­
ating to  make  this  meeting  a  jubilant 
success,  and  we  hope  for  a  generous 
attendance to partake of  the  success  of 
our efforts.
The following is a synopsis of the pro­
gramme:
The business sessions  will  be  held in 
the assembly room of the  Hoyt  Library, 
South Jefferson street  (East  Side), com­
mencing Tuesday  afternoon,  continuing 
Wednesday morning  and  afternoon  and 
Thursday morning.  The  exhibit will be 
held  in  the  ground  floor  room  of  the 
Aldine building. South Cass street.  At 
convenient  hours  there  will  be  excur­
sions over the F.  & P.  M.  belt  line  and 
the electric car lines  and  carriage  rides 
about the city.  Tuesday  evening there 
will be an entertainment at the Academy 
of Music.  Wednesday evening a banquet 
at Teutonia  hall  (West  Side),  presided 
over by  Saginaw’s  famous  toastmaster, 
Dr. O. P. Barber.
There will also  be informal receptions 
at the East Side  Club and the West  Side 
Club and visits to various points of inter­
est.  Thursday  afternoon  and  evening 
the  Association  will  be  entertained by 
the pharmacists  of  Bay  City  and West 
Bay City, and the Crystal Water Co.
You  are  urged  to  heed  our  cordial 
solicitation and favor  us with your pres­
ence.  Fraternally yours,

D. E.  P r a l l ,  Local Sec’y.
It Was His Way of  Advertising.
“I beg pardon for intruding upon your 
time,” said the  polite, smiling man with 
the small valise in bis hand.  “A peddler 
I know it as well as  any­
is a nuisance. 
body.  But  there  are  various kinds  of 
peddlers,  and  all  of  us must live. 
It

isn’t our fault that we are here.  Those 
of us that earn our living  honestly  have 
to  share  the  odium  that belongs to  the 
calling. 
I’m not  complaining  of  this, 
gentlemen. 
It is part of  the  curse  that 
came in the original  package  to  Adam. 
If there is any one of you that has a spot 
of grease on his coat, vest or pant—trou­
sers,” he added, opening  his  valise  and 
taking  out  a  small  cake  of  soap  and 
sponge,  “1 shall  be  happy  to remove it 
and without charging a cent and without 
asking anybody to buy my soap.  It’s my 
way of advertising.  My  dear  sir, allow 
me.  There is a little spot on your vest.”
He  rubbed  the  spot  with  a  piece of 
soap, deftly applied  the  sponge, made  a 
few passes over the cloth with a piece  of 
cotton sheeting, and said:
‘‘There  sir, that  spot  is  gone.  You 
will never see it  again.  And  probably 
you will never see me  again, either, as  I 
travel  but  once  through  a  community. 
My goods will be found at the stores. 
I 
take it for granted  nobody wishes to buy 
a  cake  of  my  soap. 
1  wish you good 
morning, gentlemen.”
After the  polite,  smiling  visitor  had 
gone away, the gentleman whose garment 
had been operated upon had  occasion  to 
consult his watch.
It wasn’t there.
It had disappeared with the  spot.

R e p en tan ce  Colum n.

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—'Verify & Co.
Blanchard—L. D. Walt.
Bridgeton—Geo. H. Rainouard.
Carlton Center—J. N. Covert.
Casnovia—John E. Parcell.
Cedar Springs—L. A. Gardiner.
Chapin—J. L Vanderhoof.
Charlotte—C. P. Lock.
Chester—B. C. Smith.
Clam River—Andrew Anderson.
Clio—Nixon & Hubbell.
Cloverdale—Geo. Mosher.
Coopersville—W. D. Reynolds & Co.
Dimondale—Elias Underhill.
Dushville—G. O. Adams.
Eaton Rapids—E. P. Knapp, G. W. Webster. 
Fork Center—D. Palmer & Co.
Fremont—-J. B. Ketchum,  W.  Harmon,  Boone 
Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted  & Son, F. O. Lord. 
Grand Rapids—F. W. Wurzburg, Van Driele & 
Harvard—Ward Bros.
Hastings—J  G. Rnnyan.
Hersey—John Finkbeiner.
Hesperia—B. Cohen.
Howard City—Henry Henkel.
Ionia—E.  S. Welch, Wm. Wing.
I  ring—J. T. Pierson, 
t  ,nt City—R. McKinnon, 
ake  Odessa—Christian  Haller  &  Co.,  E.  F. 
Colwell  <&  Son,  Fred  Miller, McCartney BroB., 
Fred. Miller.

Kotvis, John Cordes, Huntley Russell.

& Pearson.

Fletcher.

& Son.

Lowell—Charles McCarty.
Manton—A. Curtis.
Maple Rapids—L. S. Aldrich.
Marshall—John Fletcher, John  Butler, Charles 
Millbrook—T. O.  (or J. W.) Pattison. 
Millington—Forester & Clough.
Minden City—W.  A.  Soules,  F.  O.  Hetfield 
Mt.  Morris—H.  E.  Lamb,  J. Vermett &  Son. 
Nashville—Powers & Stringham.
Newaygo—W. Harmon.
New Era—Peter Rankin.
North Dorr—John Homrich.
O’Donnell—J. E. Edwards.
Olivet—F. H. Gage.
Otisco—G. V. Snyder & Co.
Potterville—F. D. Lamb & Co.
Ravenna—R. D. Wheeler.
Reed City—J. M. Cadzow.
Richmond—Knight & Cudworth.
Rockford—H. Colby & Co.
St. Louis—Mary A. Brice.
Sand Lake—C. O. Cain.
Sebewa—P. F. Knapp.
Sparta—Woodin & Van Wickle, Dole & Haynes. 
Sprfngport—Cortright  & Griffin.
Stanton—Fairbanks &  Co., Sterling & Co. 
Sumner—J. B. Tucker.
Wayland—Pickett Bros.
Williamston—Michael Bowerman.
Two Good Tests.

To detect ammonia  in baking powder: 
Mix one spoonful of  the  suspected  bak­
ing powder with one spoonful  of  water, 
in  a tin  cnp;  boil it a minute  to  prevent 
its  burning, and if  ammonia  is  present 
you can smell it in the rising steam.
To  detect  alum:  Stir  two  or  three 
spoonfuls of the suspected  baking  pow­
der in oue-third glass of  cold water,  and 
after  about  an  hour  pour  off  the cold 
water, and  if  alum  is  present  you can 
taste it in the  sediment.

Kalamazoo — Weaver  Bros,  are  suc­
ceeded by Thos.  J.  Meyers in the furni­
ture business.

“THE  WEAR  IS  THE  TRUE  TEST 

OF  VALUE.”

We still have in stock  the well-known brand

P io n e e r

P r ep 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  R A PID S,  MICH.

BOLE  AGENTS

POLISH IN A THE JŒ™RE
FOQBTH MTIOMAL BAM

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

Gbo.  C.  P i b k c e ,   Vice President.

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

Transacts a general  banking business.

H ake a  Specialty o f C ollections.  Accounts 
o f Country M erchants Solicited._____
GXXTS2E2TG  ROOT.
We pay the highest prloe for It.  Address 
p r n 7   P P H C !  W holesale  Druggists, 
CllO A   d lU O if  GRAND  RAPIDS.
T h e  m o s t  r e l i a b l e  f o o i  
'¿W |  ,T s'l J/«Y .F or Infants and Invalids.!
M J  11 I HSK w lURed  ever7 where,  with  unqualified! 
P E  11 l u  ^K^Jaucceaa.  Not a medicine, but i steam«] 
food, suited to  the weak«
■  U ^ T T  111 |itomsch.  Juke no other.  Bold
■  1 1 1  
druggists.  In cans. SSe. and up*
Embossed  Cards,

I

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'ou^usual prices.

The  Tradesman  Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS.
SUSPENDED I

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g-vaw
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J E T T I N E .
Warranted  not  to  Thicken,  Sour  or  Mold Is 
any climate.  Quality Guaranteed Against Injury 
by Freezing.  All  others  worthless  after free* 
lng.  See quotation.  KARTELL  BLACKING 
CO., Sole M anufacturers,  Chicago, HI.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

Do  You  Observe  the  Law ?
LIQUOR i POISON RECORD.

If not, send 81 to
For their combined

TETE  M ICHIGAN  TRAJDESM^VlSr.

11

Wholesale P rice  Current.

Advanced—Quinine (German),  Nitrate  Silver, Oil Wintergreen, Oil Sassafras, Oil Lemon.

ACIDUM.

Aceticum..................... 
8® 10
Benzoicum  German..  80@1  oo
Boracic 
....................  
...30
Carbolicum................  33® 
to
Citricum......................  50® 55
Hydrochlor..................  3®  J
Nitrocum 
...................  J0@ «
O x a lic u m .......... ................  U ®
Phosphorium dii........
Salley licum............... 1 40@1  80
Sulpnuricum................  JM®
.1  40®1  60
Tannicum
Taftaricum...................  40®

a m m o n ia .

* 

Aqua, 16  deg.............. 
5®  1
20  deg................  J ®   8
Carbonas  ....................   }J® «
”
C h lo rid u m ......................  

a n i l i n e .

Black........................... 2 S9®?

T d lo V :.'....................2 

50®3 00

b a o c a e .

Cubeae (po. 1  50.......... 1 
Juni;penis......
Lhoxylum.

8®
25®

60®1 75

b a l s a m u m .

Copaiba......................  ®°®  ®
Terabin, Canada......   35®  40
Tolutan......................  4°®  45

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian.................   18
Cassiae  ............................... 
li
Cinchona F la v a.................
Euonymus  atropurp...........
Myrica  Cerifera, po............
Prunus Virgini....................
Quill ala,  grd.......................   “
Sassafras  ...................  
if
 
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)........  1«

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

24®33®
11®
13®
14®
16®

EXTRACTCM. 
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra...
po...........
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is...........
)4s...........
K».........
Carbonate Precip.......
Citrate and Quinla—
Citrate  Soluble........  ®
FerrocyanidumSol....  ©
Solut  Chloride..........   ©
Sulphate,  com’l ......... 1*®
pure............  ©

F E R R U M .

«  

®  15 
@3 50 
-  80 
50 
15 
2 
7

FLORA.

A rnica.......................   ¿4®
Anthemis...................  *3®
Matricaria.................   -®@

« 

“ 
“ 

U 7 

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

I2®  20
n ivelly..................  25®  28
Alx.  35®  50

Salvia  officinalis,  »48
and  14s....................   W@
UraUrsi......................  8®
OUMMI.
Acacia,  1st picked....  @1 00
 
  @  90
2d 
....  @  80
3d 
sifted sorts...  ®  65
po.................   75@1  00
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)..•  50®  "» 

» 
« 
« 
«• 

“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®
“  Socotri. (po.  60).  ®
Catechu, Is, (V4s, 14 14s,
16)......................  ^®
Ammonlae.................   *8®
<©
Assafcetida, (po. 30)... 
Benzolnum.................  *®
Camphors...................  50®
Euphorbium  p o ........  35®
Gafbanum...................  @3 TO
Gamboge,  po ...... 
80®  95
Guaiacum, (po. 60)  ...  @ 55
Kino,  (po.  25)............   @  2«
Mastic.......................   ©
Myrrh, (po  4B)...........  ©  40
OpiL  ¿0 .5  40)...........4  10@4 25
Shellac  ..  .................   25®  35
bleached........  27®  35
Tragacanth...............   30®  75

“ 
h e b b a —In ounce packages.
Absinthium......................... 
j®
Eupatorium.........................  ¿J
Lobelia.................................  »
Majorum.............................
Mentha  Piperita.................   g
“  Vir.....................  *
Rue.Tanàcetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   28
Calcined, Pat...............  55®  60
Carbonate,  P a t............   20®  22
C arbonate, K. 4   M ----  20®
Carbonate,  Jen n in g s..  35®  36

M A G N E S IA .

OLEUM.

“ 

POTASSIUM.

Cnbebae.................. 14 00® 14 50
Exechthitos...............   90®1  00
Erigeron......................... 1  20®1 30
Gaultheria......................2 20®2 30
Geranium,  ounce......   ®  75
Gossipii,  Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................1  75@1  80
Juniper!......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonis...........................1 50@2 20
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
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35)  10®  12
Ricini..............................1  28®1 36
Rosmarini............  
75@1  00
Rosae, ounce..............  @6 00
Succinl.......................   40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
Santa!  ....................... 3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  55®  60
Slnapis, ess, ounce —   ®  65
Tiglfi..............................  @1 50
Thyme.......................   40®  50
opt  ...............   @  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20
B1 Carb.......................   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..  3i@  33 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @  15
Potass  Nitras, opt......   8®  10
Potass Nitras..............  7®  9
Prussiate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po................  15®  18
25

Aconitum...................  20®
Althae.........................  25®
Anchusa....................   15®
25
Arum,  po....................  @
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)..  12®  20
Jalapa,  pr...................  45®  50
Maranta,  K8..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
R h e i.........................  75@1  00
cut......................  @1  75
pv.......................   75@1  35

RADIX.

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Spigelia
Sanguinaria, (po  25)..  ®
Serpen tar la.................  40®
Senega.......................   45®
Similar, Officinalis,  H  @
M  @
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
dus,  po............   —   @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
Zingiber a ...................  10®  15
Zingiber  j .............. 
22®  25
BBMBN.
Anisum,  (po.  20). 
..  @ 15
Apium  (graveleons)..  15®  18
Bird, Is.....................  
Cariti, (po. 18)............   8®  12
Cardamon........................1  00@1 25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Sativa......... 3)4®
Cydonium...................  75@1 00
Chenopodium  ...........  10®  12
Dipterix Odorate........ 2 00@2 25
Foeniculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®
Lini ............................  4  @4)4
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 4  )...  4)4® 4)4
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Pharlaris Canarian —   3)4® 4)4
R apa..........................   6®
Slnapis,  Albu.............  8®

Nigra..........   11®  t

4®

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SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W.,D.  Co. 
D. F. R .  ..

2 00@2 50 
1  75@2 00 
1  10@1  50 
Juniperis  Co. 0. T —  1  75@1  75
......... .17503 50
Saacharum  N.  E ........ 1  75@2 00
Spt  Vini  Galli........... 1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto.................... 1 25®2 00
Vini  A%a........................1  25@2 00

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

1  40

Absinthium................ 5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarao— 8 00@8 25
Ante! .................... ....1  90@2 00
Aurantl  Cortex.............   @2 50
Bergami!  ...................3 
C alm iti...................... 
00
Caryophylli.................1 
Cedar  . .. ......................   85®  65
Chenopodi!........  ®1 
75
Clnnamonli.................. 1 
Citronella...................  @  45
Conium  Mac..............  35®  66
Copaiba  ....................1 

25®4 00
25@1 30

40® 1 50

20® 1 30

SYRUPS.

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferri Iod.......................   ...  50
Aurantl  Cortes....................   50
Rhei  Arom..........................   50
Slmilax  Officinalis..............  60
co ........  50
Senega................................   50
Scillae..................................  50
“  CO...........................     50
Tolutan ...............................   50
Prunus vlrg.........................  50

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K 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W ...2 85@3  10 
C. Co.......................2 85®3 10
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myristica, No. 1.........   70®  75
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  33®  38
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Picis Liq, N.  C., )4 gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Picis IJq., quarts......   @1  00
pints.........   @  70
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 18
Piper Alba, (po g5) —   @  35
Pix  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbi A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
&P. D.  Co., doz......   @125
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®  35
Guassiae....................  8®  10
Quinla, S. P. & W......  39®  44
S.  German__   30®  40
Rubia  Tinctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactis pv..  @ 30
Salacin...................... 1  80@2 TO
Sanguis  Draconls......  40®  50
Santonlne  .................  @4 50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

Seidlitz  Mixture.........   @  25
Slnapis....................   @ 
18
30
“  opt...............   ® 
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes....................  @ 
35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
.  12®  13
Soda Boras, (po. 13). 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  30®  33
Soda Carb.................  1)4®  2
5
Soda,  Bi Carb.........  @ 
Soda,  Ash................3)4® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........  @ 
2
Spts. Ether C o.......   50® 
55
“  Myrcia  Dom......  @2 00
“  Myrcia Imp........  @2 50
•  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
2 25).........................  @2 35
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal......  @1  10
Sulphur, Subl............ 2)4® 3)4
2M® 3
11  Roll......... 
Tamarinds.............  
10
8® 
Terebenth Venice..  28® 
30
55
Theobromae..........   50® 
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph............  7® 
8

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   55 
Lard, No.  1...............   45 
Linseed, pure raw —   61 

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
50
64

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faints. 

67
Lindseed,  boiled  —   61 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.................  50 
69
Spirits Turpentine—   46)4  63
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian..............1*  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars— 15£  2@4
“ 
Ber........IK  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2M  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure...... 2)4  2K@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16
ican ..........................  
Vermilion,  English__ 
80@82
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red.......................   ®7M
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’........  @90
1  TO
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
Cliff.......................... 
1 40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1 4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints..................... 1 00@1  20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach__1  10@1  20
Extra Turp............... 160@1  70
Coach  Body..............2 75®3  00
No. 1 Turp  Furn...... 1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar —  1  55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp.........................  70®  75

H A Z E L T IN E

&  P E R K I N S  

D R U G CO.

Importers  and Jobbers of

- D R U G S -

Chemicals  and  Druggists’  Sundries

Dealers in

Patent  Medieines,  Paints,  Oils, Varnishes.

Sole  Agents  forothe  Oelebrated  Pioneer  Prepared  Paints.

We are  Sole Proprietors ol

WEATHERLY’S  MICHIGAN  CATARRH  REMEDY

We have in stock and offer a fall line of

Whlslsies,  Brandies,

Gins,  W ines,  Rums.

W e are  Sole  Agents  in  Michigan  for  W . D. & Go.t 

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  Ordersand  Guar 
All orders are Shipped and  Invoiced  the^same  day  we re* 

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

}M tine i Perkins  Drug  Go.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

TIN C TU R ES.

 

 

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

Aconitum Napellis R .........   60
F .........   50
Aloes...................................   60
and  myrrh.................  60
Arnica.................................  50
Asafuetida............................  0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
50
Sanguinaria.........................  50
Barosma.........   .................   50
Cantharlde8.........................  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
Co............................  60
Gualca................................   50
ammon....................  60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..  ..............................  75
Colorless...................  75
Ferri  Chloridum.................  35
K ino...................................   50
lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nnx  Vomica.......................  50
O pil.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
Deoaor......................... 2 TO
Aurantl Cortex....................   50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany  .........  
50
Rbei.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stromonium....   .................   60
Tolutan...............................   60
Valerian.............................   50
Veratrum Veride.................  50

 

 

miscellaneous.

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“ 

* 
“ 

Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F. 
26®  28 
“  4 F .
7* 
30®  32
Alumen....................... 2)4® 3)4
ground,  (po.
7).............................   3®  4
Annetto......................  55®  60
Antimoni, po.............. 
4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrin..................1 35@1 40
Antifebrin..................  @  25
Argenti  Nitras, ounce  @  83
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (%s
11;  Ms,  12)..............  @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
@1  75 
po............................
@  22 
Capsid  Fructus, af...
@  16 
¡po.
@  14 
Caryophyllus, (po.  20)
15®  18 
@3 75 
Carmine,  No. 40.........
50®  55 
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......
Cera Flava.................
38®  40 
@  40
Coccus.......................
Cassia Fructus...........
Centraria....................  ®  10
Cetaceum...................  @  45
Chloroform...............   50®  55
squlbbs..  @1  00
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  50® 1  75
Chondrus..................   20®  25
Cinchonidine, P.  A  W  15®
German  4®
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  .......................   @
Creasotum.................  @
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  @
“  prep................... 
5®
“  precip.............   8®
“  Rubra................  @
Crocus.......................   35®
Cudbear......................  @
Cupri Sulph...............   8®
Dextrine....................  10®
Ether Sulph................  68®
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po...................  @
Ergota, (po.)  60 .........   50®
Flake  White..............  12®
Galla..........................  @
Gambler......................  8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........
French...........  40®
“ 
Glassware  flint,  70 per cent, 
hy box 60 less
15 
Glue,  Brown..............  9®
25 
“  White...............   13®
25 
Glycerine...................18)4®
Grana Paradis!...........  @
22 40
H u m u lu s..........................  25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @1  00
“  Cor ..
Ox Rubrum  @1  10
Ammoniati.  @1  20
Unguentum.  47®  57
Hydrargyrum............  @  82
Lmthyobolla, Am......1  25@1  50
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 75@3 85
Iodoform....................  ®4
Lupulin......................  85@1 00
Lycopodium..............  55®  60
Macis.........................  80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
drarg Iod.................  @ 27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl 
IK)..........................   2®
Mannla,  S. F .............  45®

@ 9

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T H E   M I C H I G A N "   T R A D E S M A N .

GRiJCERI&S.

low   H igher.

W ool  Still D ep ressed —H ides F irm —T al­
Wools are still depressed, with nothing 
visible  in  the  future to advance  prices. 
The  trouble  is  with  the  goods market, 
made worse the past week by a stringent 
money market, which  is  likely  to  hold 
for some time.  The banks  are  scanning 
their  collaterals closely and are inclined 
to curtail their lines of  discount to  man­
ufacturers.  The importation of  foreign 
wool bids fair to be large.  English mills 
are running  night  and day on goods for 
this country, and are  simply flooding us, 
which  they will do until our tariff  shuts 
them out, which can’t take  effect  before 
January,  if  passed  now.  The  law  of 
supply  and  demand  is  ignored  by this 
importation, and  goods  are  likely to be 
slaughtered  later,  which  cripples  our 
home  manufacturers.  Many  of  our 
woolen mills are  shut down.  Those buy­
ing are for immediate  wants only and in 
small  lots.  Holders  of  wool  are  firm 
and anxiously look  for  the  turn  hoped 
for, and which they have every reason to 
believe will come—but “when ?”

Hides are firm, with  no  late  advance. 
As  the  weather  cools,  the  take-off  is 
larger,  and  when  the  supply  is  more 
ample,  prices  are 
likely  to  go  off. 
Leather has an upward  turn to meet the 
advance in hides.

Tallow  is  firm  and  higher,  with  the 

supply ample.

R o b ertso n  vs. D av en p o rt.

The base ball nines selected  by Happy 
Hi  Robertson  and  Byron  S. Davenport 
will  meet  at  Alger  Park, at  3  o’clock 
Saturday  afternoon,  and  play  for  the 
championship of the  city.  Davenport’s 
nine, as selected by that gentleman, is as 
follows:
Harry Gregory,  pitcher;  Greg.  Luce, 
s. s.;  M. K.  Walton,  3b.;  W.  R.  Keeler, 
3b.;  Russell Bertsch,  lb.;  B.  S.  Daven­
port,  catcher;  C. J. Flynn,  r.  f.;  John 
King,  1.  f.;  Clarence  Bradley,  c.  f.; 
Charlie McLean and Orson Stebbins, sub­
stitutes.

B ank  N otes.

Noble & Wegner have sold  the  Huron 
County  Bank,  at  Sand  Beach,  to A. E. 
Case &  Co.

The  Hackley National  Bank  of  Mus­
kegon succeeds  the  Muskegon  National 
Bank on the 37th.

Charles P. Toll, Paying  Teller  at  the 
People’s Savings Bank,  at  Detroit,  has 
resigned  after  a  connection  of  many 
years with  the  institution.  His  plans 
for the future are not fully matured.

The  Irrep ressib le  W atso n .

Chas.  E. Watson, Michigan  represent­
ative for S. A. Maxwell & Co., has estab­
lished  himself  at  the Hotel Cadillac, at 
Detroit, and will hold forth at that place 
until  Sept.  14.  He  has a finer line  of 
goods than  ever—which is saying a good 
deal—and he will take good  care  of  any 
of his trade who  can make it convenient 
to meet him  in  Detroit  during the next 
three weeks.  Send  him word when  you 
are going and  the  brass  band will be at 
'the train.

The  G rocery  M arket.

Sugars are 1-lGc lower, in  consequence 
of  the  improved  condition  of  the  beet 
crop  in  Europe.  Cheese  is  growing 
firmer  and  the  price is steadily advanc­
ing.  Hominy  has  advanced  $1.15  per 
barrel  within  the  past  week.  Jelly  is 
>£c higher.

TIGHTENING  THE  TOILS.

The  N ew   Y ork  B iscuit  Co.  S how s  Its 

F ine  Ita lia n   H and.

Chicago,  Aug. 

33.  — When  T h e 
T radesm an stated, as it did a few weeks 
ago, that  the  cracker  situation  was de­
cidedly  strained  and  that  a  heavy war 
cloud hung over  the  horizon, it spoke in 
the nature  of  prophesy, as the first  gun 
has  already been fired  and  the  spirited 
skirmish now  on  will  undoubtedly soon 
be followed by the heavy guns of  all the 
organizations  in  the  field.  The  New 
York Biscuit  Co.—apparently anxious to 
show  its  strength — has  decreed  that 
Kennedy’s goods  shall  hereafter be sold 
to the jobber at 10 percent, off list, which 
is the same discount the large retail trade 
is given.  This action on the part of  the 
Cracker Co. has aroused a storm  of  pro­
tests  from  the  jobbing  trade,  but  the 
company is stubborn and announces that 
it  will  not  recede  from  its  position. 
What the outcome will be I am unable to 
foresee.
In no  respect is the  character  of  the 
Biscuit Co.  better  disclosed  than in the 
steps it has taken to secure  the  absolute 
control of the patents for machinery used 
in the manufacture of crackers and sweet 
goods. 
It is no longer a secret that most 
of 
the  valuable  patents  have  been 
gobbled  up  by  the  company,  which 
means that no concern  outside  the  Bis­
cuit  Co.  can secure a machine or any re­
pairs for one already in  use.  An  inde­
pendent manufacturer spent several days 
in the  World’s  Fair  City last  week and 
used every effort  he  could  command  to 
secure duplicates  of  machines he is now 
using for the purpose  of  increasing  the 
capacity of his plant, but he was frankly 
informed that the manufacturers of such 
machinery were under contract  with the 
Biscuit  Co.  to furnish  no  machinery to 
bakeries  not  owned  by  the  syndicate. 
This  coup  d'etat  takes  the  trade  com­
pletely by surprise,  as  it  was  not  sup­
posed  the  Biscuit  Co.  would  carry the 
war into  Africa in this direction.  What 
course the crafty managers  will  yet  de­
vise to secure  even  more  absolute  con­
trol  of  the  situation  and prevent  inde­
pendent  manufacturers  from  pursuing 
their  business in a legitimate  manner, I 
am not in  a  position  to  state;  but  my 
knowledge of  the great executive ability 
of  the  leading  lights  in  the  syndicate 
leads me  to  believe  that  inside  of  five 
years the New  York  Biscuit Co. will oc­
cupy the same position, relatively speak­
ing, that the Standard  Oil  Co. has main­
tained for the past dozen years.

Vindex.

N ovel M ethod to  In tro d u c e  Ceylon Tea. 
From the New York Shipping  List,
The effort  to  introduce  Ceylon  tea to 
the American  tea  drinker  has  not thus 
far met with any great  measure  of  suc­
cess, but  the  latest  mail  advices  from 
Colombo  give  the  details  of  a  scheme 
which is about to be undertaken  for  the 
purpose of  increasing  the  consumption 
of Ceylon tea in this  country, that  is  at 
least unique. 
It is a proposal to  form  a 
joint  stock  company,  with a capital  of 
$1,000,000, divided into  50,000  shares  of 
$30 each, which is to buy out the existing 
company in Ceylon and carry on the bus­
iness  upon a much  larger  scale  than  at 
present,  upon what  is  termed  the  “co­
operative system.”  The capital is to be 
allotted as follows:
Working capital...................^ono" 
Purchase or old company — 12,000 
For promoting the  scheme.. .28,000 
50,000 

*200,000
210,0' 0
560,000
81,000,000
The shares set aside  for promoting the 
company  are  to  be' distributed  among 
grocers and tea  dealers  throughout  the 
country who will consent to act as agents 
for the sale of the company’s product, to 
the extent of $100 to $1,000 each.  These 
shares (fully paid up) are to be deposited 
with the city  agents  as  security for tea 
sold,  which  will  be  billed at a price to 
enable  the  agent  to  make a handsome 
profit and at the same time give the com­
pany good returns.  The  dealer,  who  is 
thus  to  be  at  the  same  time  a share­
holder,  will  therefore  have  the double 
incentive of a profit on sales and  a  divi­
dend on  his  stock;  besides  which, it is 
I argued that his ownership  of  stock will

give him an interest in keeping  at  work 
in  his  territory,  even  should  sales not 
prove large at first, as  he  would  realize 
that his investment  in  the  stock  would 
prove valueless  unless  himself  and  his 
fellow  agents  all  continue  to work for 
the common good.  The scheme may  re­
sult  in  distributing  Ceylon  tea,  but 
whether at prices that will return a hand­
some profit is quite another question, for 
there will be  a  sharp  competition  with 
the  teas  from  China,  and  the average 
consumer in this country does not  pay  a 
high price for the “cup that cheers.”

Eaton  Rapids—E.  D.  Crittenden  has 
sold his news  and confectionery stock to 
Mrs.  L. Holcomb.

PRODUCE  M ARKET.

and  hold  at  16c.
medium, 84.60.  Timothy, 81.45 per bu.
per 10 lb basket;  Ives, 85.50 per 100 lb stand.

ll@12c  for evaporated.  The market 1b  strong.
coming  In freely, commanding *2.50 per bbl.
now held at I2.25@82.50 for city hand-picked.

Apples—Dried,  8@8)4c 
for  sun-dried  and 
Apples — Duchess  and  Red  Astrlcans  are 
Beans—Dry stock continues to get firmer, being 
Beets—New, 50@60c per bu.
Butter—Dairy  begins  to  look  up,  In  conse­
quence of the extended dry weather. Fair grades 
command 14c and fancy 16c per lb.
Blackberries—Wild, 6c  per  qt.  Cultivated are 
about out of market.
Cabbages—Home  grown, 75c  per doz. or *6 per 
100.Carrots—15c per doz.
Celery—20@25c per doz.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, 81.25;  produce barrels 
25c.
Cucumbers—10c per doz.
Eggs—The market is steady.  Dealers pay  14c
Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth,  84.75  per  bu.; 
Grapes—Concords, 87  per  100-lb  stand  or  75c 
Green Corn—8@10c per doz.
Maple  Sugar — 8@10e  per  lb.,  according  to
quality.
Maple Syrup—75@85c per gal.
Maple
Musk Melons—Home grown, 81.25 per crate.
Onions—Green,  15c  per  doz.  Home  grown, 
Pop Corn—4c per lb.
Potatoes—Home grown stock is coming in more 
freely.  Dealers pay 55@65c and hold at 70@75c.
Pears—California, 83@83.25 per case.
Peaches—California  82@S2.25 per crate.
Plums—California, 82 per crate.
Sweet Potatoes—Baltimores, 84.50 per bbl;  Jer­
Tomatoes—Home grown are coming  in freely, 
Turnips—50@60c per bu.
Watermelons—Indiana stock is coming in very 
Whortleberries—82.50 per bu.
PROVISIONS.

seys, 85.50 per bbl.
being held at 90c@Sl per bu.

plentifully, being held at 10@20c apiece.

*3 per bbl.

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

SAUSAOR—Fresh and Smoked.

quotes as follows:
Mess,  new.......................   ....  ...................  12 25
Short c u t......................................................  11  50
Extra clear pig, short cut............................
Extra clear,  heavy.......................................
Clear, fat back.............................................  12 00
Boston clear, short cut................................   18 50
Clear back, snort cut......................................12 50
Standard clear, short cut. best....................   12 50
Pork Sausage.....................................................7
Ham Sausage.....................................................9
Tongue Sausage.............................................. 9
Frankfort Sausage..........................................8
Blood Sausage................................................. 5
Bologna, straight.............................................. 5
Bologna,  thick....................................  ..........5
Headcheese.....................................................5
Tierces............................................................ 7
Tubs.................................................................7%
501b.  Tins..........................................................7)4
Tierces............................................................ 6
30 and 50 lb. Tubs........................................... 6*
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case...................................   7
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case.....................................6%
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case.....................................684
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case.....................................6)4
50 lb. Cans.........................................................6)4
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs......................   7 0G
Extra Mess, Chicago packing........................  7 00
Boneless, rump butts......................................  9 50

lard—Kettle Rendered.

lard—Family.

BEEP  IN  BARRELS.

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

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

10)4
16 lbs........................................ 1084
12 to 14 lbs................................
picnic...................................................8
best boneless........................................ 8)4
Shoulders.......................................................   7)4
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............................. 8)4
Dried beef, ham prices....................................10)4
Long Clears, heavy............... ..........................6
Briskets,  medium...........................................  6
light.................................  .............6

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FISH and OYSTERS. 
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

FRESH  FISH.

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Whlteflsh..
smoked.
Trout...................
Halibut................
Ciscoes......... ...
Flounders...........
Bluefish..............
Mackerel............
Cod.
California salmon.......................
o y s t e r s—Cans.
Fairhaven  Counts......................
F. J. D. Selects............................
Selects.........................................
F. J. D.........................................
Anchors.......................................
FRESH  MEATS.

@ 7)4 

@  8 @7)4 @15 

@ 4 
@9 
@10 
@25 
@10

@35
@30
@25
@23

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Swift and Company quote as follows:

Beef, carcass..........................................4  @6
hindquarters...............................6  @ 6)4
fore 
............................... _  @3
loins, No. 3.................................. 7)4® 8)4
ribs.............................................  @ 8
rounds........................................   @  6
9  tongues.......................................   @2
Hoot..............................................   @
Bologna..................................................  @ 6
Pork loins...............................................  @  8
“  shoulders.......................................  @ 6
Sausage, blood or head...........................  @  5
liver...........................................  @  6

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Mutton...................................................   ®
Veal........................................................  @

CANDIES, FRUITS and  NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDY.

 

MIXED  CANDY.

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

Standard,  per lb..................................... 8)4@ 9
“  H.H............................................. 8)4@  9
“  T w ist..........................................8)4® 9
Cut  Loaf....................... 
10
Assorted Cream  ............................................. 12
Extra H. H.......................................................11
Standard, per lb...............................................8)4
Leader............................................................. 8)4
Royal................................................................. 9
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..................................................18
A. B. Licorice  Drops....................................... 14
Lozenges, plain................................................ 14
printed............................................15
Imperials..........................................................14
Mottoes.............................................................15
Cream Bar.............  
13
Molasses Bar....................................................13
Caramels....................................................16@18
Hand Made  Creams.........................................18
Plain Creams....................................................16
Decorated Creams............................................20
String  Rock.....................................................15
Burnt Almonds...  ..........................................22
Wintergreen  Berries.......................................14
Lozenges, plain, in pails.................................12
printed, in pails..............................13
Chocolate Drops, in pails.................................12
Gum Drops, in pails.......................................... 6
Moss Drops, in pails.........................................10
Sour Drops, in pails.........................................12
Imperials, in pails............................................12
Rodi, choice, 200...................................   @ 750

fancy—In bulk.

300.......................................  @
Messina, choice, 360................................   @ 
fancy, 360................................  @ 

300.............................  @ 8 00
300.............................8 50@  9 00

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ORANGES.

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Figs, Smyrna, new,  fancy  layers........14  @15
Fard, 10-lb.  box..............................  @10
..........................   @8
Persian, 50-lb.  box........................5)4@
NUTS.

Almonds, Tarragona.................................  @17
Ivaca.......................................   @16)4
California.............................   @
Brazils.......................................................  @15
Walnuts, Grenoble....................................  @17
“  Marbot....................................   @12)4
Pecans, Texas, H. P ............................... 13)4015
Cocoanuts, full sacks...............................  @4 25
Fancy, H.  P.,  Bell................................   @10
“  Roasted  ...................  @12
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Fancy,  H.  P.,  Game Cocks......................  @10
Roasted........  @12
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Fancy, H. P., Stags  ..............................  @9)4
“  Roasted...................   @11)4
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Choice, H. P., Ex Prince  ......................  @9)4
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“  Roasted...................  @11
Fancy, H. P„ Steamboats......................  @ 9)4
'•____ “____ “_____Roasted.........   @11

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PEANUTS.

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7 50

8 00

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.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

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SALT

Mixed bird.................  454® 6
Caraway............................... 9
Canary.................................. 354
Hemp.....................................4
Anise......................................8
Rape....................................  6
Mustard.................................754
Common Fine per bbl......  @90
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks......   27
28 pocket.............................1  75
60 
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............................. 2 15
100  “ 
Ashton bu. bags.................  TO
 
Higgins  “ 
75
Warsaw “ 
35
 
.................   20
Diamond Crystal,  cases__1  50
28-lb sacks  TO
50
56-lb 
60  pocket.2  25
28 
.2  10
barrels ..  .1  TO
Church’s, Arm & Hammer.. .554
Dwight’s Com.......................554
Taylor’s................................5*4
DeLand’s Cap  Sheaf............554
pure........................554
Our Leader........................   5
Corn, barrels.................... @32
one-half barrels__@34
Pure Sugar, bbl................26@35
half barrel__ 28@3?

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SALERATUS.

SYRUPS.

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SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps.............. 
Sugar Creams............  
Frosted Creams.........  
Graham Crackers......  
Oatmeal Crackers__ 
shoe  polish.

8
854
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8

^ettine, 1 doz. in  box.............75

TEAS.

ja p a n —Regular.

F air............................
Good..........................
Choice......................... 24
Choicest......................32
SUN CURED.
F air............................
Good..........................
Choice.........................24
Choicest......................30
b a s k e t  f ir e d .
F air............................
Choice........................
Choicest......................
Extra choice, wire leaf
GUNPOWDER
Common to  fair..........TO
Extra fine to finest__50
Choicest fancy........... 75
Common to fair..........20
Superior to fine........... 40

IMPERIAL.

YOUNG HYSON.

Common to  fair..........18
Superior to  fine..........30
ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

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

OOLONG.

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

SODA.

Boxes.................................. 554
Kegs, English...................... 494

tobaccos—Fine Cut.

D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands.

Hiawatha................... 
Sweet  Cuba...............  
Our Leader...............  
tobaccos—Plug.

62
36
35

Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good.................... 39
Double Pedro.........................35
Peach  Pie  ..............................36
Wedding Cake, blk................35
“Tobacco” ..............................37

tobacco—Shorts.

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

tobaccos—Smoking.

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Our  Leader......................... 16
Hector.................................. 17
Plow Boy, 2  oz.................... 32
4  oz.................... 31
18 oz.................... 32
VINEGAR.
40 gr.......................................8
50 gr.......................................9
PA PER A WOODENWARK 

PAPER

Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol 

lows:
Straw....................................150
“  Light  Weight.............. 200
Sugar....................................180
Hardware..............................254
Bakers.................................. 254
Dry  Goods............................ 6
Jute Manilla.........................8
Red  Express  No. 1...........  5
No. 2.............4

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

WOODENWARE.

Tubs,No. 1.........................  800
“  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
....................  1  TO
13  “ 
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15  “ 
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“ 
17  “ 
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assorted, 17s and  19s  2 50 
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“  15s, 17s and 19s 2 TO
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Baskets, market.................   40
“ 
bushel..................  1  50
“  with covers  1 90
“ 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l  5 75
“  No.2 6 TO
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“  No.3 7 TO
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WHEAT.

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
W hite......................... 
94
Red............................ 
97
All wheat bought on 60 lb. test.
Coarse............................. 
1  10
Bolted...............................  1  25
Granulated.......................  1  5o

MEAL.

FLOUR

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Straight, In sacks.............  5  10
“  barrels...........   5 30
Patent  “  sacks.............  6  10
“  barrels...........  6  30
N o.l.................................53@56

bye.

MILLSTUFFS.

Brau..................................  16  00
Ships.................................  16 50
Screenings.......................  16 00
Middlings.........................  18 00
Mixed Feed....................... 21  50
Coarse meal....................... 21  50
Small  lots.........................  58
Car 
“  .........................  55
Small  lots............................40
Car 
“  ............................ 39

CORN.

OATS.

BARLEY.

No. 1..................................  1  15
No.2.................................  110
No. 1..................................  9 50
No.2.................................   9 00

HAY.

HIDES.

HIDES,  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 

lows:
Green.........................  654@ 7
Part Cured.................7  ®  754
Full  “ 
.................  754® 8
Dry.............................   6  @ 8
Kips, g reen................  @654
“  cured.................  7  @ 8
Calfskins,  green........  5  @ 7
cured........7  @ 9
Deacon skins.............. 10  @30

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No. 2 hides 54 off.
PELTS.

Shearlings...................10  @25
Estimated wool, per lb 20  @25 
Washed.............................20@28
Unwashed........................ 10@20

WOOL.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow.......................  3  @4
Grease  butter  .............1  @2
Switches.................... 154®  2
Ginseng......................2 00@3 00

LUBRICATING  OILS. 
The  Hogle  Oil  Co.  quote  as 

follows:
Extra W S Lard Oil.. .53  @58
“  No. 1....................45  @50
“  No. 2................... 35  @40
Pure Neatsfoot............52  @60
Harness Oil................ 40  @50
W Va  Summer...........?54@12
“  Medium  Winter.  8  @12
15 Cold Test...............   9  @13
Zero............................ 10  @14
Old Reliable  Cylinder  @65 
600 Mecca 
“ 
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Anti-monopoly  “ 
..35  @40 
Corliss Engine  Oil—   @40
Golden Machine  Oil. .18  @25 
Mower and Reaper OilTO  @30 
Castor Machine Oil... TO  @30 
Boiled Linseed Oil 
.63  @66
Michigan WW...........  @10
Turpentine.................46  @61
Naptha.......................  8  @12
Gasoline.....................  954@14
tor Oil,  Pure.......*1  26@1  30
“  Mineral —  30  @35
“  Distilled . .$1  10@1  TO

@20
@22@29
@38
@20
@22@28
@33

@20@25
@35
@40
@35
@65

@35
@50

@26
@40

Wholesale P rice  Current•

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

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............  954

APPLE  BUTTER.
AXLE GREASE.

54 lb.  “ 
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CANDLES
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CANNED SOODB—Fish.

BAKING  POWDER.
 
ii lb. 
 
6 oz. 
 
54 lb. 
 
12 oz. 
lib. 
 
51b. 
 

E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods..  6
Frazer’s.............................. 12 40
Aurora................................  1  TO
Diamond.............................. 1  80
Thepure, 10c packages...... $1  20
1  56
2 28
2 76
4 20
5 40
26 00
Less 20 per cent, to retailers. 
Absolute, 14 lb. canB, 100s. .11 75 
50s..10 00
60s..18 75
Acme, 14 lb. cans, 3 doz....  75
5%lb.  “ 
2  “  ....  1  50
1  “  ....  3 00
lib .  “ 
bulk.........................  20
Our Leader, 14lb.  cans......   45
.......  *0
........ 1  60
Telfer’s,  54 lb. cans, doz..  45
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541b.  “ 
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BATH BRICK.
English, 2 doz. In case.....  
Bristol,  2  “ 
American. 2 doz. in case... 
Mexican,  4 oz..............  
8  oz..............  
16 oz........... . 

80
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70
Dozen
30
60

90
No. 2 Hurl..........................   1  TO
2 00
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet.........................2 25
No. 1 
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Parlor Gem.......................... 2 75
Common Whisk................. 
90
Fancy 
................. 1  20
M ill..................................... 3 25
Warehouse.......................... 2 TO
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes................10
Star,  40 
Paraffine..............................11
Wicklng............................... 25
Clams. 1 lb. Little Neck...... 1  10
Clam Chowder, 3 lb.............2  10
Core Oysters, 1 lb. stand— 1  15 
....2 00
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Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic...........1  TO
“ 
2  lb.  “ 
2 65
“ 
1 lb. Star................2 35
“ 
2 lb. Star................3 65
Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.2 00
“ 
1 lb.  stand...........1  20
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2 lb. 
2 00
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3 lb. in Mustard.. .2 85
“ 
Sib.  soused......... 2 85
Salmon,1 lb. Columbia 1  50@1  90 
1 lb. Alaska..1  25@1  60
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Sardines, domestic  54s..........654
“ 
54s........® 9
“  Mustard 54s.........  @10
“ 
imported  54s... 1054@16
“ 
spiced,  548..........  
10
Trout, 3 Id. brook...........  2 60
CANNED OOODS—Fruits.
Apples, gallons, stand.........
Blackberries,  stand.............1  10
Cherries,red standard 1  10@1 20
pitted.....................1  40
Damsons..............................1  15
Egg Plums, stand...... 1  15@1  35
Gooseberries........................1 00
Grapes.................................
Green  Gages.............. 1  15@1  35
Peaches, yellow, stand  @2 50
“ 
seconds........  @2 25
'•  P ie..........................175
Pineapples, common.. 1  10@1  SO 
Johnson’s.2 50@2 TO
Quinces............................... 1  10
Raspberries,  extra.............. 1  TO
red...................1  40
Strawberries.............. 1  15@l  35
Whortleberries....................
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay........
Beans, Lima,  stand.............  80
“  Green  Limas —   @1  35
“  Strings.............  @  80
“  Stringless,  Erie.........   80
“  Lewis’Boston Baked.. 1 40
Corn, Archer’s Trophy........1 00
“  Mortfg Glory.1  00
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Early Golden. 1 00
“ 
Peas, French........................1  68
“  extramarrofat...  @125
“  soaked.........................  80
“  June, stand................. 1  40
“  sifted......... 1  65@1  85
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“  French, extra fine...  .150
Mushrooms, extra fine........2 15
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden  @1  50 
Succotash,  standard— 90@1  40
Squash.................................1  10
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat..  @1  10 
Good Enough  @1  05 
BenHar  ...  @1  10
stand br....  @1  05
Snider’s, 54 pint...................1  35
“  pint........................ 2 30
“  quart...................... 3 50
Fancy Full  Cream....  9  @ 954 
Good 
....  @ 854
Part Skimmed............  654®  754
Sap Sago....................  @20
Eaam  .........................  @1  00
Swiss, imported........  24@  25
domestic  ....  15®  16
CHEWING GUM.

CHEESE.

CATSUP.

“  200 

Rubber, 100 lumps...............30
................40
Spruce, 200 pieces............... 40
Bulk.....................................6
Red...................................... 754

CHICORY.

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coppee—Green.

COFFEE EXTRACT.

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’ 8.
German Sweet.................. 
23
Premium........................... 
35
Pure.................................. 
38
Breakfast Cocoa.............. 
40
Broma...............................  
37
Bulk.............................4  @454
Pound  packages...........  @7
Valley City.........................  80
Felix...................................1  10
Rio, fair.........................  @21
“  good.................... 21  @22
“  prime......................  @23
“  fancy,  washed...  @24
"  golden................. 23  @24
Santos.........................22  @23
Mexican & Guatemala 23  @24
Java,  Interior.............24  @26
“  Mandheling....27  @30
Peaberry.................... 22  @24
Mocha, genuine......  26  @28
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
coppees—Package.
Bunola................................. 249£
in cabinets................2554
M cLaughlin's  XXXX....2554
Lion  ....................................25?4
“  in cabinets..................26
Durham...............................25
Cotton,  40 ft......... per doz.  1  35

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CLOTHES LINES.
50 ft........... 
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70ft........... 
80ft........... 
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60 ft.........  
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CONDENSED MILK.

1 50
1 TO
2 00
2 25
90
1 10
Eagle......................................  7 50
Anglo-Swlss............6 00@ 7 60

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“Superior.”
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10 
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CRACKERS.
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S  1, per hundred......................2 50
8 2,  “ 
8 5,  “ 
810,  “ 
820,  “ 
8 1, per hundred......................2 00
8 2,  “ 
8 5,  “ 
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820,  “ 
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts:
200 or over............ 5 per cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 
Kenosha Butter...................  754
Seymour 
554
Butter....................................554
“  family...........................55»
“  biscuit.......................   654
Boston..................................  754
City Soda.............................   754
Soda.....................................6
S. Oyster............ 
554
Cdty Oyster, XXX...................554
Shell.................................... 6
Strictly  pure........................  38
Grocers’ ...<........................... 
25
dried PRurrs—Domestic.
Apples, sun-dried......  854®  9
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evaporated....  @14
Apricots, 
Blackberries “ 
Nectarines  “ 
Peaches 
“ 
Plums 
“ 
Raspberries  “ 
Turkey.......................   @ 654
Bosnia.........................  @ 8
California..................   @
18
Lemon........................  
Orange........................ 
18
In drum......................  @18
In boxes.....................  @20
Zante, in barrels........  @654
In less quantity 654® 654 

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dried pbuits—Prunes.

dried pbuits—Currants.

dried pbuits—Citron.

dried pbuits—Peel.

CREAK TARTAR.

dried pbuits—Raisins.

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PARINACEOUS GOODS.

Valencias...................   @9
Ondaras......................  @1154
Sultanas......................  @10
London  Layers,  Cali­
fornia......................2 75@3 00
London Layers, for’n.  @ 
Muscatels. California.2 00@2 35
Kegs........................................ 5 50
Half  kegs.................................8 00
Farina, 100 lb. kegs............   04
Hominy, per  bbl......................4 00
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box__   60
Imported.......  @1054
Pearl  Barley..............  @ 3
Peas, green.................  @110
“  split....................   @ 3
Sago,  German............   @ 6
Tapioca, fl’k or p’rl...  6® 7
Wheat,  cracked.........   @ 5
Vermicelli, Import—   @1054
domestic...  @60
PISH—SALT.
Cod, whole................. 5  @6
“  boneless..............  654® 8
Halibut....................   @
Herring,  round, 54 bbl.. 
“ 
gibbed.................  
“  Holland,  bbls.. 
“ 
“ 

2 90
2 TO
12 00
...  @ 60
Scaled...........  ©  20
Mack,  sh’s, No. 2, 54 bbl  12 00
“ 
“  12 lb kit..130
“ 
.1 ao
“  10 
“ 
I  “ 

“  kegs, 

“ 

Trout,  54  bbls.............   @5 25
“  10 lb.  kits..................   75
White,  No. 1, 54 bbls..  @5 50
“ 
“ 
121b. kits........100
101b. kits........  80
“ 
“ 
“ 
Family,  54 bbls........ 3 00
kits...............   65
“ 

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JELLIES.

LICORICE.

LAMP WICKS.
 

Sage.....................................  9
Hops....................................14
E. J. Mason & Co.’s  goods..  6 
Chicago  goods......................554
No..............  
30
No. 1....................................  40
No. 2...................................   50
Pure.....................................  30
Calabria...............................  TO
Sicily....................................  18
Condensed, 2 doz.....................1 TO
No. 9  sulphur.......................... 2 00
Anchor parlor.......................... 1 70
No. 2 home............................... 1 10
Export  patlor.......................... 4 00
Black  Strap...................... 
Cuba Baking.................... 
Porto  Rico.......................  
New Orleans, good........... 
choice........ 
fancy.........  
One-half barrels. 3c extra

20
24
30
24
30
42

KOLASSES.

MATCHES.

LYE.

“ 
“ 

OATMEAL.

OIL.

PIPES.

PICKLES.

ROLLED OATS.

B arrels....................................6 00
Half barrels..............................3 TO
Barrels........'.............   @6 00
Half bbls....................  @3 TO
Michigan  Test....................  954
Water White........................1054
Medium............................
“ 
54 b b l....................
Small, bbl..........................
3 00
“  54  bbl.........................
4 00
5 00
Clay, No.  216............................ 1 75
Cob, No.  3.................................1 TO
2 50
E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods..  8
3 00
4 00
Carolina head....................... 7
5 00
“  No. 1........................654
“  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

“  T. D. full count...........  75

PRESERVES.

SNUPP.

RICE.

SOAP.

 

3  “ 

Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands.

SAL  SODA.

spices—Whole.

SAPOLIO.
“ 
SOUPS.

Allen B. Wrisley’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 TO
Cocoa  Castile  .................... 3 00
Cocoa Castile, Fancy...........3 36
Happy Family,  75.................... 2 95
Ola Country, 80........................ 3 30
Una, 100.................................... 3 65
Bouncer, 100.......................  ...3 15
Kegs...................................  114
Granulated,  boxes................2
Kitchen,3 doz.  Inbox......2 50
Hand 
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.......................TO
“  No. 2.......................65
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16 
" 
“  white...  .26
shot............ .......... 20
“ 
spices—Ground—In Bulk.
Allspice..............................15
Cassia,  Batavia................20
“ 
and  Saigon.TO
“  Saigon.................... 42
Cloves,  Amboyna.............. 26
“  Zanzibar................. 20
Ginger, African................. 1254
*•  Cochin....................15
Jamaica.................18
“ 
Mace  Batavia..................... 90
Mustard,  English.............. 22
“ 
and Trie..TO
“  Trieste....................27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ................. 80
Pepper, Singapore, black— 18
“  Cayenne................. 25

« 

“ 

SUGARS.

“ 

Cut  Loaf....................  7  @ 754
Cubes................   @614
Powdered...........   @ 7
Standard  Granulated.  @ 6%
Fine..........  @ 694
Confectioners’ A.......  @6.19
White Extra  C..........  @594
Extra  C.............  @  594
C ........................  @554
Yellow   .....................  154® 5

R E M E M B E R
BU N O LA

T  II  T

Is  b e tte r   and  costs  less  than  m ost 

package  coffees.

IOO-POUND  CASES,  »4  3-4; 

lOO-CABINETS,  25  1-4.

L li  • 

FOR SALE  BY  ALL  GRAND  RAPIDS JOBBERS
We do not want it, but we do want to do  the  greatest 
J. ilC / 
to the greatest  number,  and,  as  our  productions
“tickle the palate” of the consumer, the seller of them reaps a profit,  thereby both 
are benefited.  We are scattering through trade channels  tons  of  manufactured 
sweetness that please the masses by their  purity  and  superior quality, and to still 
further  introduce  our  various  new specialties we desire to open a personal corre­
spondence with every dealer in confectionery who has an eye open to his own inter­
ests.  Our goods are winners and our name a guarantee for excellency, and the fact 
that our factory (which is one of the largest and best equipped in the State) is kept 
humming early and late goes to  show  that  our  efforts  to merit confidence, which
u *   wSe .  bu.U ,«,  -   pleasure  call.  ,„u   to

S w i K e a S i o r r 

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Piltnam  Bandy  Go.

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

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NUTS,  ETC.
1 8 9 0 .

RECIPROCITY  TREATIES.

Nations, after having reached a certain 
stage of civilization, are  eager  to  trade 
with other nations.  Even  savages  are 
willing to barter  goods  with  foreigners 
for trinkets and whisky.  Governments, 
however, being  very  conservative  insti­
tutions,  and, perhaps,  remembering  that 
when their  subjects  were  savages  they 
were very likely  to  exchange  substance 
for  show, have  always  looked  askance 
upon trade.  They have not been able to 
suppress  it  completely,  but  have  been 
obliged  to  content  themselves  with ob­
structing it.  A very strong  belief  pre­
vails  that  the  advantages  of  a  trade 
entirely accrue to the  seller;  thus  inter­
national  trade  has  been  regarded  as  a 
matter  for  diplomacy. 
In commercial 
treaties the object  is, naturally  enough, 
to get more than is given;  and the nation 
which  goes  furthest  in  abolishing  the 
impediments to  trade  which  have  been 
imposed, is thought to grant  most.

Many provisions that have  been  made 
in  commercial  treaties  in  ancient  and 
medheval times, and some in  later  days, 
are somewhat curious.  The first consid­
eration is to induce  the state with which 
the treaty is made to give  legal  security 
to citizens of  the other,  who reside there 
for purposes of  trade, in case this secur­
ity is not  already  enjoyed.  The treaty 
of 1850, between England  and  Morocco, 
covenanted  that  the  countrymen  of  a 
debtor should not be held responsible for 
debts  which  they  had  no  part  in con­
tracting; that between England and Mex­
ico, in  1826,  guaranteed,  among  other 
things, that prices should be freely deter­
mined between buyers  and  sellers;  that 
citizens of each country,  resident  in  the 
other, should  be  free  from  forced con­
scription for  military service;  that  they 
should freely exercise their religion; and 
that  their  graves  should  be  inviolate. 
Treaties of this kind were  very common 
in  ancient  times, and  some  were  made 
very early. 
It is thought that the places 
in  the  suburbs  of  Jerusalem,  where 
Astarte  and  other  heathen  gods  were 
worshipped unhindered, owed their exist­
ence to commercial treaties with  Phoeni­
cians, Moabites, and other peoples.
After industrialism had made consider­
able progress in Europe, matters of com­
merce entered into  treaties  which  were 
primarily political. 
For  example, in a 
treaty  between  the  Venetians  and the 
Latin Empire, in  Constantinople, it  was 
agreed  that  no citizen of a state at  war 
with Venice  should  be  permitted to so­
journ in the  Byzantine  Empire.  Like­
wise,  while the  Dutch were  the  foes  of 
Spain, they  were  favored  commercially 
by  France;  by  a  treaty  made  in 1596, 
they were put upon an equality with  the 
French.  Such treaties were not  entirely 
unknown to the ancients.  The  King  of 
Bosporus had the rights of citizenship in 
Athens, and his property there  was  free 
from taxation.  By a treaty  of  the  Em­
peror Justinian with  Ethiopia,  the latter 
was to furnish aid against  the  Persians, 
while Byzantium was to  import  its  silk 
from Ethiopia,  instead of  from Persia.

These economical alliances  have  been 
most frequently  formed  between  states 
in which, by reason of  differences in the 
nature of their soil and  of  national  cul­
ture, the industries  of  the  one  do  not 
compete much with  those  of  the  other. 
Still,  two  states  can  hardly  be  found 
which have not some industries  in  com­
mon, and in making treaties,  the  art  of 
the negotiator has been  extensively  em-

ployed  to  over-reach—to  obtain  more 
“concessions” than are granted.  A. treaty 
of England with  Portugal, made in 1703, 
was regarded  as  a  masterpiece  in  this 
line, because, by  its  workings, Portugal 
exported to England a considerable quan­
tity  of  Brazilian  gold.  A Portuguese 
writer, in  the  middle  of  the  century, 
delivered himself thus: 
“Through  un­
exampled stupidity,  we permit ourselves 
to be clothed (by foreigners) 
.  Eng­
land robs us every year, by  its industry, 
of the products of our mines.”  ’And yet 
the provisions  of  the  treaty  were  very 
simple;  Portugal withdrew  her  prohibi­
tion of English woolen goods and restored 
the  former  duty  of  15  per cent.,  while 
England permitted Portuguese  wines  to 
pay a duty  one-third  less  than  that  on 
French wines.

. 

Commercial treaties have been made of 
all  degrees  of  liberality.  They  have 
even been used with  a  view  to  general 
freedom of trade. 
In the latter case, the 
promise is frequently made  to  treat  the 
products of the other party on  an  equal 
footing with those  of  the  most  favored 
nations, as regards import duties.  Per­
haps the nearest approach to  one  was a 
sort of reciprocal granting of  the  rights 
of  citizenship  between  Athens  and 
Rhodes.  Early  in  the  fourteenth  cen­
tury, Flanders adopted  free  trade  prin­
ciples  somewhat  similar  to  those  later 
followed by Holland. 
In 1490, Florence 
promised to permit England to enter into 
all  the  treaties  it  should  make  with 
others. 
In a treaty of the same  country 
with France,  at about this  time,  it  was 
stipulated that  Florentine  ships  should 
be treated as Gallic, and Florentinejmer- 
chants as true Gauls.  Many  treaties  of 
this character were made between  many 
states  of  Europe  in  the  sixteenth and 
seventeenth centuries.  In the eighteenth 
century,  however, these  principles  were 
receded from, but in the nineteenth  they 
have again become common.

It would be  perfectly possible for uni­
versal freedom of trade to be secured  by 
commercial treaties.  Still, this result  is 
not  likely  to  be  brought  about in that 
way.  The treaties may contribute to the 
result,  however. 
If  it is seen that trade 
with one country is beneficial, there  is  a 
chance that in the course  of  generations 
the inference may  be  drawn  that  trade 
with two countries would  be still better, 
and eventually that there is no good rea­
son why a nation should refuse  to  trade 
with any other wishing it.

The desirability of freer trade between 
this country and  South  America has re­
ceived consideration  lately. 
It has been 
held that in removing obstructions which 
we have  placed  upon  trade  with  those 
countries, we should try to  induce  them 
to  remove  their  obstructions  also.  A 
writer in the Boston Herald says:
Naturally, if we repeal our sugar duty, 
and demand nothing  of  these South and 
Central American governments, they will 
not of themselves come forward and offer 
us favors for  what  they  can  obtain  for 
nothing.  They  will  look upon us as a 
race  of  men  so  absorbed  in  our  own 
affairs as to be little  better  than  idiots, 
when  we come to  take into account mat­
ters of international importance.
There can be no objection to the course 
here advocated;  but  even  if  these  gov­
ernments should refuse  to  abolish  their 
obstructions to trade,  that  would  be  no 
reason why we should retain ours. 
It  is 
always well to  speak  to  people  in  lan­
guage which they can understand,  if you 
speak at all, and if these peoples are not 
sufficiently  enlightened to  see  the  true

ORANGES,

LEMONS,

BANANAS, 
Rigs,  Dates,  Nuts,  etc»

[tana  Some  Style  Moilt  Yod!

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.

Please write us for estimates.

The Tradesman Company,

GRAND  R A PID S,  MICH

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

IMPORTING  AND

Wholesale  Grocers.

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

McGinty9s Rine Cut Tobacco,
Lautz Bros•  A  C o.’s   Soaps,
Niagara  Starch,
A cm e Cheese^"Herkimer Co., N, Y. 
Castor Oil A x le Grease•

G R A N D   R A D IO S .

Wall  Paper  and Window  Shades.
NELSON  BROS. &  CO.,

House and Store Shades Made toIOrder.

MONROE  STREET.

T H E   M T C H T f í A T sr  T R A D E S M A N .

reasons  for  removing  the  duties  they 
have  placed  upon our products,  it  may 
be well  enough  to  talk  to  them  about 
“mutual concessions;”  but  there  is  no 
occasion for being  deceived ourselves by 
the  words  we  use.  Trade  is,  by  its 
nature, reciprocal; “tout achat  est  vente 
et Unite  vente  est  achat."  If  we buy of 
these  people,  they  must  buy  of  us, 
directly or indirectly. 
If  they  refuse to 
take our goods directly  in  exchange  for 
theirs, it may be necessary for us to make 
payment in English goods  for  which  we 
have exchanged others of our own.

As long  as  South  Americans  buy the 
same  amount  of  our  goods, it  does not 
make much difference to us whether their 
governments impose duties upon them or 
not;  but it is not a matter of indifference 
to us if  their  duties  cause  them to buy 
less of our goods.  But even in the latter 
case  we  cannot  profitably  retaliate  by 
placing duties upon their goods.  Trade 
with  these  countries  would  be  a good 
thing for us, or it would not;  if not, then 
we should not  probably trade much with 
them  anyway; 
if  it  would  be  a  good 
thing, then the  fact  that  they interpose 
obstructions  to  trade  and  diminish  its 
volume does not make it wise  for  us  to 
interpose  further  obstructions  and  re­
strict it still more. 

A. S. M.

P hilosophy  o f th e   C igar.

From the New York Sun.
A cigar is more than  a  brown  roll  of 
tobacco.  Simply  as  that  it may bring 
profit to the dealer  and enjoyment to the 
eye through its  symmetry and color,  but 
its force is potential.  It has to be burned 
to  have  the  enjoyment  it  contains  let 
loose.  A smoker  should  always look at 
a cigar first.  Cigar dealers have appealed 
to this in arranging their  boxes  open  in 
glass  cases.  So  far as the factory, the 
size, shape,  quality,  price,  brand,  color 
and grade go, the cigars might as well be 
kept in closed boxes.  They  would  also 
keep better that way.  A  smoker should 
look over the case;  he  should  look  over 
cigar  after  cigar  until  some  particular 
cigar appeals to him. 
It is the same way 
with a box.  No  two  cigars  are  alike. 
There  is a little speck  or  spot  on  one, 
there is a little tear of  the cover, a little 
different twist to the end, a little  change 
in  the  convolutions  of  the  filler,  the 
binder and  the  wrapper, as they are ex­
posed to view before the match is applied. 
Notice  these  little  points  in cigars and 
pick out one  that  has  some  little point 
that you particularly  notice.  Some men 
prefer cigars  with  yellow  spots,  others 
prefer a hard looking cigar, others a loose 
cigar, and so on.  The preference  is  not 
material,  the  pleasing  of  the  eye  is. 
When a selection satisfactory to  the  eye 
has  been  made,  the  start  at  least to a 
good smoke is assured.  Always look at 
the  cigar  before  lighting  it.  Turn  it 
around in your fingers and look at it. 
It 
is going to give you pleasure.  Then light 
it, not  by  sticking  it  in a flame, nor by 
poking it in a small globe,  but  by  light­
ing a piece of paper,  stick  or  match and 
holding it up.  Do  not  put the cigar in 
your  mouth  and  poke  your  face into a 
flame.  That prevents the eyes from see­
ing  what  is  going  on;  but  take a light 
and  notice  the  flame  as  it  goes  to  the 
cigar.  The smoke begins to curl before 
the eyes,  the  lips  fit  around  the  cigar 
like a mould.  Then an enjoyable  smoke 
has begun.

A m erican   L an sd o w n s.

Silk warp  lansdowns  have  about  the 
same history as henriettas, so far as their 
manufacture in the  United States is con­
cerned, perhaps of  later  date,  or  about 
1885, when they were first attempted.  It 
is only very recently  that  the  domestic 
goods have been realiy appreciated.  The 
methods of  manufacturers are about  the 
same as at first, the  improvements being 
almost exclusively  in  the  correction  of 
errors in fabrication and in dyeing.

T he  P .  of  I.  D ealers.

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

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.
Allegan—Chas. Spear.
Allendale—Henry Holman.
Almira—J. J. Gray.
Almont—Colerick & Martin.
Altona—Ell Lyons.
Armada—C. J. Cudworth.
Assyria—J. W. Abbey.
Banfield—Andrew Brezee.
Bay City—Prank  Rosman A Co.
Beldlng—Lightstone Bros., Weter & Wise. 
Bellevue—John Evans.
Big Rapids—A. V.  Young,  E.  P.  Shankweiler 
Blissfleld—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr.
Bowen’s Mills—Chas. W. Armstrong.
Brice—J. B. Gardner.
Burnside—John G. Bruce & Son.
CaldweU—C. L. Moses.
Capac—H. C. Sigel.
Carson City—A. B. Loomis, A. Y. Sessions. 
Cedar  Springs—John  Beucus,  B.  A.  Fish, B.
Charlotte — John  J.  Richardson,  Daron  & 
Chippewa Lake—G. A. Goodsell & Co. 
Coldwater—J. D. Beniamin.
Conklin—Wilson McWilliams.
Cook’s Corners—W. H. Hanks.
Coral—J. S. Newell & Co.
Dansville—Levi  Geer.
Heerfleld—Henry W. Burghardt.
Dorr—Prank  Sommer.
Dowling—Rice & Webster.
Eaton  Rapids—H. Eositchek & Bro.
Evart—Mark Ardis, E. F. Shaw, John C. Devitt. 
Fenwick—Thompson Bros., S. 11. Rinker. 
Flint—John B. Wilson, Geo. Stuart & son, Bar­
Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark.
Forester—E. Smith.
Freeport—C. V. Riegler.
Gladwin—John Graham,  J.  D.  Sanford,  Jas. 
Gowan—Rasmus Nellson.
Grand Haven—N. J. Braudry A Co.
Grand Junction—Adam Crouse.
Grand Ledge—Geo.  Coryell.
Grand  Rapids—Joseph  Berles,  A.  Wilzinski, 
Brown A Senler, Houseman, Donnally  A  Jones, 
Ed Struensee, Wasson A Lamb, Chas.  Pettersch, 
Morse A Co., Famous Shoe Store, Harvey A Hey- 
stek, Mrs. E. J. Reynolds, E.  Burkhardt. 

ney Granite and Marble Works.

Smith, F. H. Goodby.

Croskery.

Bro.

man.

E.  Covel.
Pelton.

Greenville—Jacobson A Netzorg.
Hart—Rhodes A Leonard,  W.  Weidman,  Mrs. 
Howard City—O. J. Knapp, Herold  Bros., C. E. 
Hubbardston—M. H. Cahalan.
Hudson—Henry C. Hall.
Imlav City—Cohn  Bros., Wyckoff  A  Co., C. J. 
Buck. E. E. Palmer.
Ionia—H. Silver.
Jackson—Hall A Rowan.
Jenisonville—L. A L. Jenison (mill only). 
Jones—R. C. Sloan.
Kalamo—L. R. Cessna.
Kent City—M. L. Whitney.
Kewadin—A.  Anderson 
Lacey—Wm. Thompson.
Laingsburg—D. Lebar.
Lake City—Sam. B. Ardis.
Lakeview—H.  C.  Thompson,  Andrew  All  A 
Langston—F  D.  Briggs.
LanBing—R. A. Bailey, Etta (Mrs. Israel) Glic- 
Lapeer—C. Tuttle A Son, W. H. Jennings. 
Lowell—Patrick Kelly.
McBain—Sam. B.  Arpis.
McBride’s—J. McCrae.
Mancelona—J. L. Farnham.
Manton—Mrs. E. Liddle.
Maple City—A. A O. Brow.
Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lepper A 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 A Co.
Monroe Center—Geo. H. Wightman.
Morley—Henry Strope.
Mt. Morris—F. H. Cowles.
Mt. Pleasant—Thos. McNamara.
Nashville—H. M. Lee.
Nottawa—Dudley Cutler.
Ogden—A. J.  Pence.
Olivet—F.  H.  Gage.
Onondagar-John Sillik.
Orange—Tew A 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  A 
Sebewa—John Bradley, 
shelbyville—Samuel  Wolcott.
Shepherd—II.  O. Bigelow.
Sheridan—M. Gray.
Shultz—Fred Otis.
Spencer Creek—M. M. Elder.
Spring Lake—Geo. Schwab, A. Bitz. 
Springport—Powers  A  Johnson, Wellington A 
Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter.
Traverse  City—John  Wilhelm,  S.  C. Darrow, 
Vassar—McHose A Gage.
Wheeler—Louise  (Mrs.  A.)  Johnson,  H.  C. 
White Cloud—J. C. Townsend, N. W. Wiley. 
Whitehall—Geo. Nelson, John Haverkate. 
Williamsburg—Mrs. Dr.  White.
Woodbury—Henry  Van  Houten, Chas. Lapo. 
Wllllamston—Thos. Horton.
Woodland—Carpenter A Son.
Yankee Springs—T. Thurston.
Stanwood—Ira W.  Mercer has engaged 

Hammond, Elmer Peters.

Breckenridge.

D. D. Paine.

Blanchard.

jn the meat business,

TIME  TABLES.
G ran d   R apids  & Indiana.

In effect Jane 88,1890.
TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive. 

GOING  SOUTH.

Leave.
6:66 am
7:86 am
11.80 a m
4:10 pm
10:30 p m
Train  leaving  at  10:80 p m ,  runs  daily,  Sunday  in­

Traverse  City A Mackinaw..............  6:50 am  
Biff Rapids A  Saginaw........................  
Traverse City  &  M ackinaw...........9:15 a m 
Traverse City A Saginaw.................. 8:15pm 
Mackinaw City..................................... 8:50 pm  
cluded.  Other trains daily except Sunday.
Cincinnati  Express.............................6:00 am  
6:30 am
Fort Wayne A Chicago......................10:15 am   10:85 a m
Cincinnati  Express..............................5:40 p m 
6:00 p m
Sturgis A Chicago..............................10:50 p m  11:30 p m
From Big Rapids A Saginaw.........11:50  am
Train  leaving  for  Cincinnati  at  6 p.  m.  runs daily, 
Sundays  included.  Other trains daily except Sunday.
Sleeping and Parlor Car  Service:  North—7:85a.  m. 
and 10:30 p. m. trains have Wagner sleeping and parlor 
cars to Petoskey  and  Mackinaw  City.  11:30 a m train 
parlor chair cars to  Mackinaw  City.  South—6:30 a m 
train  has  parlor  chair  car and 6 p. m. train  sleeping 
car for  Cincinnati;  11:30  p  m  train, Wagner  sleeping 
car for Chicago via. Kalamazoo.

M aikegon, Grand Rapids A Indiana. 

Leave 
Arrive.
7:00 a m....................................................................10:10 a m
11:80am....................................................................   8:45pm
5:40 p m ....................................................................   8:45 pm
Leaving time at  Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. 
Through tickets and full  information  can be had by 
calling upon  A.  Almquist,  ticket  agent  at  depot, or 
Geo. W. Munson, Union  Ticket ’Agent,  67  Monroe  St., 
Grand  Rapids, Mich.

O. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
D etroit, G rand H aven & M ilw aukee.

Arrives.
tThrougn Mail....................................4:10 p m
tGrand Rapids  Express..................10:85  p m
•Night Express...........................................6:40 am
tMlxed................................................
GOING RA8T.
tDetroit  Express................................6:45 am  
tThrough Mail................................... 10:10 am  
tEvening Express...............................8:35 pm  
»Night Express................................... 9:50 p m 

Leaves. 
1:00 p m  
6:15 p m 
10:30 p m 
8:45 a  I 
7:30 a  K
6:50am
10:80 am
8:45 p m
10:55 p m
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Detroit Express  leaving 6:50 a m has Wagner 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 at  10:55  p  m  has  Wagner  sleeping 
car to Detroit, arriving in Detroit  at 7:20 a m.
Steamboat  Express  makes  direct  connection  a 
Grand Haven with steamboat for Milwaukee, 
sleeping 
secured  at 
tickets  and 
D., G. H. & M .R’y offices, 83 Monroe St., and at the depot.
J as. Campbell, City Passenger Agent. 

car  berths 

Jno. W. Loud, Traffic Manager, Detroit.

GOING WR8T.

ARRIVE.

DEPART.

Toledo,  A nn  A rb o r  &  N o rth ern .

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

For Toledo and all points South and East, take 
the Toledo, Ann Arbor A  North  Michigan  Rail­
way from Owosso Junction.  Sure  connections 
at above point with trains of D., G. H. A 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.
BHICAGO & WEST MICHIGAN.
Mail and Express for Big Rapids, Lud- 
ington,  Manistee A Traverse City..  *7:30 a  m 
Express for Chicago and  Muskegon..  +9:00 a m
Fast Mail for Chicago........................ +1:00 p m
Express for Muskegon and Hart........  +5:45 p m
Night Express for  Chicago................ *11:35 p m
Night Express for  Indianapolis........^11:35 p m
Mail  for  Big  Rapids,  Manistee  and
Traverse City  ..................................  +5:05 p m
Ex. for Grand Haven A  Muskegon...  +8:40  p m
Night Express from Chicago  ............   *6:30 a  m
Night Express from Indianapolis  __  +6:30 a  m
Ex. from Muskegon, Hart A 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..+ 5:50  p m 
Ex. from Baldwin and Traverse City.  +4:50 p m
Express from Traverse City............... *11:30 p m
»Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.  tDaily except 
Saturday.  +Daily 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 IX :35 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- 
erseCity;  leaves Chicago 4:10 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 p m;  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 6:30am.  The 5:05 p m train has
through parlor car from Detroit to Manistee.
■ ETROIT, LANSING A  NORTHERN.
Express for Saginaw and Bay City—   +6:55 a m 
Mall for Lansing, Detroit  and East...  +7:25 a m 
Express for Lansing, Detroit and East tl:00 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.  *5:05  p m 
Express from Lansing  ana 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 Detroit  and Grand Rapids. 
GRAND  RAPIDS  AND  REED’S  LAKE  TIME  TABLE.
Daily trains leave Union depot a t 9,10.11 a m,  1,2,3, 
4 «5  6,7.8,9,10 p m.  Sundays only—1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 
5,5:30 p  m.  Daily  trains  leave  Reed’s  Lake  (Alger 
Park) a t 9:30,10:30.11:30  a  m,  1:30, 2:30, 3:30 , 4:30, 6:30, 
7 :S0, 8:30, 9:30.10 30 p m.  Sunday trains—2, 3, 4, 5,5:30, 
8 p m.  For tickets and inform ation.

tDaily except Sunday.

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

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

15
Michigan(Tentral

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’*

D EPA RT.  ARRIV E
Detroit Express....................................7:80 am   10:00 pm
Mixed  ....................................................6:80am  
6:00pm
Day  Express........................................11:55 a m   10:00 am
»Atlantic A  Pacific Express.............11:15 p m  6:00 a m
1:25 p m
New York Express............................. 5:40 p m 
r 

»Daily.
]
All other daily except Sunday. 
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Express 
Parlor  cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand Rapid 
F r e d  M. Brig g s. Gen'l Agent. 85 Monroe St.
G. S. H aw k ins, 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

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

P A M P H L E T S .

For the best work, at  reasonable prices, address

THE  TRADESMAN COMPANY,

____________ G ra n d   R a p id s ,  M ic h .____________

EDMUND B.DIKEMHN
Watch jMer 

THE  GREAT

s Jeweler,
44  CÄNÄL  8Y„
]Äißii.
- 

Grand Rapids 

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

and all kinds of Produce.

W A N TE D .

FRUIT,  BEANS 

DRINK

I f  y o n   h a v e   a n y   o f   t h e   a b o v e   g o o d s   t o  
s h ip ,  o r   a n y t h in g   in   t h e   P r o d u c e   l i n e ,   l e t  
n s   h e a r   fr o m   y o u .  L ib e r a l  c a s h   a d v a n c e s  
m a d e   w h e n   d e s ir e d .

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 ir 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.

LIO N
COFFEE

A True Combination  of  MOCHA, 
Picture  Card  Given
W ith every pound  p a c k a g e .  For 
S ale everyw here.  WooIsob Spice Co., Toledo, 0.

JAVA and RIO.

T H E   M T C H I G A I S T   T R A D E S M A N .

H ead s v s. Books.

Muir, Aug. 21, 1890.—If the  following 
shall be found worthy  of  space  in your 
paper, publish it.  Otherwise, drop it  in 
the cavernous depths of  your waste bas­
ket and forget that it ever was.
1 would respond to the “Replies” found 
in your issue of August 13, and  will first 
consider No. 9, from  my  standpoint,  re­
garding a cash dealer keeping a “full set 
of books.”
The writer of  the  article  in  question 
seems to have  adopted a new  system  of 
“single entry” that  would  make a sorry 
showing were the  occasion  to  arise  for 
his business to be settled up  by,  say  an 
administrator or sheriff, for  his  “single 
entry” is  all  in  his bead, where, in the 
case supposed, the  one settling the busi­
ness  would  have  no  knowledge  of  the 
exact  standing  of  affairs, in  which  it 
would be an easy matter  to  defraud  the 
estate out of a debt that  had  been  once 
paid.
1 am trying to run on  cash  principles, 
yet I find a full set of books  very  handy 
for the purpose of  keeping the following 
series of accounts in something like busi­
ness style:
An account for each house 1 deal with, 
showing everything at a glance.
Cash sales and cash account.
Stock account.
Bank account.
A few  regular  credit  customers  who 
would  take  offense  at  finding  their ac­
count running  in  my  head.  Few men 
doing  a  general  country  business  but 
have a few such  accounts.
Then  I  handle  considerable produce, 
which  necessitates  keeping a very strict 
double account—that is, against the com­
mission  house,  and  also,  as a check, a 
produce account
Then I like to  keep a freight  account, 
to which I charge the total  pounds  sent 
by freight and credit  what  I  bring  into 
the store.

Then I keep an express account.
One is also needed for each person in my 
employ, while that for  general  and  pri­
vate expenses registers  facts which even 
a  cash  man  ought  never  to  trust  his 
memory with.
Then who would think  of  keeping ac­
count of profit and loss in his head ?  In­
surance,  bills  receivable  and  payable 
furnish  need  for  another  page  each, 
while an account  of  “time  wasted  and 
saved”  brings up a  very satisfactory ac­
count, especially when hung conspicously 
up for all employes, as well as myself  to 
watch, as it is balanced weekly.
From these  account headings  you  see 
were I to throw  aside my books my head 
would be a poor  support to fall back  on 
and I am sure I would mix  some  of  the 
aforementioned  accounts,  were  they  to 
be  carried in my head. 
I  hardly think 
the man exists  who  can  carry these  all 
without the aid of  a  full  set  of  books, 
unless he strains some point.
In  regard to a cost  mark  I  hold  that 
every salesman  should  know  the  exact 
cost of  every article he sells,  so as to be 
able to form a reasonable opinion  of  his 
worth to his  employer. 
I  find  that  in 
case  necessity arises  to  banter  (which, 
by the way, I hold should not be indulged 
in at all), the presence  of  the cost mark 
shows  a  face  evidence  that  you  know 
whether you can afford to make the price 
less or not,  which,  if  done, even  to  the 
slightest  degree,  changes 
the  selling 
mark. 
If  one  trusts to a cost mark, his 
mind  has  less in it to hinder its steadier 
application to  business,  which,  in these 
times of  push, needs the undivided mind 
strength of  a large majority of  us retail 
merchants in this  section,  while  if  the 
goods are carefully marked on  arrival in 
the store,  the  matter  rests  in  business 
form, whether one  sleeps  or  works. 
I 
practice marking a date  on  each  article 
which corresponds with the date  of  put­
ting into stock.  Thus, for  this  day, the 
figure forming one line in the mark would 
be 82190.  Ninety out of  a hundred look 
at this as a part of  the cost mark,  while 
some of  the other  ten think it is used as 
a blind.
With due respect for  each man’s opin­
ion, I am, yours truly, 

L. A. Ely.

C a rd   Clothing'  C om bination.

Practically, every card clothing factory 
in the United States  has  entered  into  a

combination—a gigantic corporation, un­
der  the  name  of  the  American  Card 
Clothing Co., with a capital of $1,500,000, 
and headquarters at Worcester, Mass.  It 
is  claimed  that  this  move  was  made 
necessary  because  of  the  enormous ex­
pense of  securing  business,  and also  to 
shut out, so  far  as  possible, all foreign 
competition.  The members of the syndi­
cate claim that prices  will not be raised, 
but rather lowered to the trade.
C ro ck ery   & G la ssw a r e
No. 0 Sun.........................................................  40
No. 1  “  .........................................................   45
No. 2  “  .........................................................   60
Tubular..........................................................   75

LAMP BURNERS.

LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per bOX.

6 doz. In box.

“ 
“ 

Pearl top.

La Bastic.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No. 0 Sun......................................................*  1  75
No. 1  “  .........................................................1  88
No. 2  “  .........................................................2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top..................................... 2  25
“  .......................................2 40
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
“  ...................................... 3 40
No. 0 Sun, crimp top..................................... 2  60
No. 1  “ 
“  .......................................2 80
No. 2  “ 
“  ...................................... 3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
No. 2  “ 
...................4 70
.................... 4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.......................1  25
No. 2  “ 
....................... 1  50
No. 1 crimp, per doz.......................................1  35
No. 2  “ 
........................................160
Butter Crocks, per gal................................  06H
Jugs, V4 gal., per doz...................................   75
....................................  90
..................................  1  80
Milk Pans, V4 gal., per doz.  (glazed 66c)__  65
“ 
“  90c).  ..  78

“  1 
“ 
“  2  “ 
“ 
Mason’s, Boyd’s or Rowley’s caps.

“ 
STONEWARE— AKRON.

“ 
“ 
1  “ 

Pints......................................................... $ 7 50
Quarts.......................................................  8 00
Half-gallons  ............................................  11  00

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“T O S S   U P ! ”

The  “ TOSS  U P”  Cigar  is  not a competitor 
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because  it  is  equal  to  any  10c  cigar  on  the 
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(■END FOR  PRICE  LIST.

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As it nears the  time  for school to start, 
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