VOL.  8.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER 1,  1890.

NO.  387.

W. C. WILLIAMS. 

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Among  the  many  inventions,  or  at­
tempts at invention, of the age, few,  per­
haps,  have a more  curious  history  than 
the one at the head of this article.  Some
time back in the sixties, a man whom we 
will call Wilson—because  that is not his 
name—whose  vocation  was  that  of  a 
druggist,  and  who,  by  the  way,  was 
always  prying  into  practical chemistry, 
sat  listening  to  a  conversation  be­
tween his  employer  and  the  agent of  a 
large cork company.  They were discuss­
ing the m agnitude of the business and the 
inability  of  manufacturers  to  supply  a 
sufficient quantity of the XX grade, which 
was then the best quality of corks sold to 
the trade.

Wilson listened  with  intense  interest 
to this conversation  and noted the state­
ment that this immense business  ran  up 
into millions a year  in the United States 
alone;  also that the  demand  apparently 
exceeded the production of  the  bark, or 
raw material,  and,  as was natural, prices 
of all  grades  of  the  product  were con­
stantly  advancing.  The  fact  that  the 
cork  tree  was  one  of  slow growth and 
that  years  must  elapse  before the bark 
became of sufficient  thickness  for  stop­
pers;  that  this  tree, like  many  others, 
had its insect enemies and that thousands 
of trees were destroyed in  various ways, 
gave birth  at  once  in  Wilson’s mind to 
the  question,  “Cannot  some  other  ma­
terial be made a substitute for this bark?” 
To be a success,  he reasoned, this substi­
tute must possess various properties. 
It 
must also be impervious to all liquids;  of 
great strength and not soluble,  unless  in 
a slight degree.  His first ideas were that 
this  material  must  be  a  new  chemical 
composition,  rolled to the requisite thick­
ness for the length of his corks, and then 
cut or stamped out  rapidly with dies for 
the purpose;  or,  if it were more feasible, 
they might be cast rapidly in moulds.

No experiments  were  made  until sev­
eral  years  had elapsed,  and  were  then 
suggested to him by watching the process 
of  casting  the rollers used  in  printing. 
He then made a tough,  elastic compound 
substance,  one  of  the  ingredients  of 
which  was  finely  ground  leather,  and 
after several  weeks  labor  produced  an 
apparently fair article of bottle stoppers, 
which now,  however,  required the test of 
time  to  withstand  disintegration  from 
different liquids. These stoppers were rap­
idly cast in moulds  and were  sufficiently 
soft, elastic  and  perfect in external  ap­
pearance.  They were  made  and  tested 
in various  ways during  the hot  summer 
months and several  dozen  of  them were 
placed in a drawer of the store for future 
examination. 
In time,  it was observable 
that they imparted the flavor  of  some of 
their ingredients to  the  contents  of  the 
bottle, but a friend of  his,  who had been 
taken into confidence, suggested a remedy.
A press  of  other  business  caused the 
corks in  the  drawer to be lost  sight  of, 
until  sometime  the  following  winter. 
His friend  happening  in  one  cold  day,

and the subject of corks being discussed, 
he  suddenly exclaimed,  “Let  me  show 
you how nicely my new  corks  withstand 
the  test  of  tim e!”  and,  going  to  the 
drawer, 
judge  of  his  confusion  and 
astonishment to find them nearly as hard 
as if  cast from metal,  and rattling like a 
lot of filberts! The low temperature of the 
atmosphere had ruined them for the pur­
pose  intended  and  demonstrated  their 
worthlessness.  Nothing  daunted,  how­
ever,  by this,  he would  remedy this one 
defect in changing the proportions of the 
same ingredients.

The  next  compound  produced  corks 
far smoother  and  of  better  appearance
than  the  others in every respect,  which 
would not harden in the coldest weather. 
A sample lot of these was then laid aside 
to test  them  by the effects  of  time  and 
changes;  but,  again,  alas for human ex­
pectations !  the  heat  of  summer  came, 
and one hot day, on going  to bring a few 
corks to exhibit to congratulating friends, 
they were found clinging  to  each  other 
in one grand perspiring  embrace.  Now 
thoroughly disgusted,  he  threw them all 
away and for a time  dismissed  the  sub­
ject.

Nil  desperandum  rang  through  Wil­
son’s brain,  and a few months later found 
him  experimenting  again  with  many 
kinds of  fibrous material and at one time 
he  almost  reached  success  with  paper 
pulp.  Then  another  year  had  passed 
without further  work  and,  in the mean­
time, he had removed to California.  One 
day, while strolling along  the  wharf  in 
San  Francisco,  he noticed floating in the 
bay large pieces of  very white wood, de­
nuded of its bark,  of  exceeding lightness 
in  weight,  slightly  porous,  but  close 
grained and firm,  which at once arrested 
his attention as the long-sought  material 
for his cork.  Searching farther and. con­
versing with masters of  ships in the har­
bor,  he  found 
that  these  apparently 
round limbs of  a  tree were really pieces 
of  the  young  tree  itself—a  species  of 
tropical willow  growing in great quanti­
ties and of various sizes on several of the 
Sandwich and other Islands, from 1,000 to 
1,500 miles away,  which were rudely tied 
into grates in which to transport tropical 
fruit and  other  merchandise  from  that 
distant  region,  and,  being  considered 
useless,  were thrown  overboard  as  soon 
as empty.

It  was  not  very  encouraging  to  find 
that  this  willow  was  of  comparatively 
small  growth,  and  rather  knotty  and 
crooked,  thereby causing much waste for 
the purpose required.  Some  of  it  was, 
however,  carried  home  and,  being  a 
Yankee,  his  pocketknife  was  at  once 
brought  into  requisition,  a  quantity of 
corks was  soon  whittled  out  and  sand 
papered  for  another  experiment.  We 
need not stop  to give in detail  his  treat­
ment of this wood,  as a copy of  that may 
be had by any person for the  sum  of  25 
cents by addressing the  Patent  Office in 
Washington.  Suffice  it  to  say,  he  im­
mersed  them  in  an  alkaline  solution 
until  they  were  exceedingly  soft  and 
pliable,  after which they were thoroughly 
washed in cold  water to free  them from

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TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

that  solution,  and  again  immersed in a 
second  bath  of  another  substance,  in 
order to forever prevent  their  becoming 
hard again,  then dried slowly upon seives 
by natural or  artificial  warmth.  These 
were beautiful corks in every respect but 
one:  in softening  them,  a small  portion | 
of  the  wood  had  dissolved  and  been 
washed  away,  thus  causing  an  almost 
imperceptible leakage through them.

Two gentlemen—both personal friends 
of Wilson and who  were  really furnish­
ing the funds to keep  him at work in his 
experiments—were  so  confident  of  ulti- j 
mate success that they at  once  proposed 
to  apply  for  a  patent  on the invention j 
and form a company  to  manufacture  it.  | 
To  this  Wilson  at  first  objected,  fore­
seeing  the  many  obstacles  yet lying in I 
the path to success,  and, above all,  desir- 
iug  to  save  his  friends  from  probable 
loss.  But  they  were  both so sanguine 
that  his  fears  were  laughed  away  as 
groundless. 
in  the  meantime,  a  plan 
was  devised  on a small scale to  fill  the 
pores of the wood  with  beeswax,  which, 
without  injuring  their elasticity, served 
to remedy the defect.

them 

It was  found  that  the  corks  must be 
cut in some  manner  from  the dry wood 
and  put  through the  various  processes 
afterward,  and  that  the  ordinary  bark 
cork machines were  useless,  except  for 
tapering  them,  as  they  would  splinter 
and tear the wood  in  pieces.  Thus,  the 
next step was to invent and manufacture 
machinery  for  the  special  purpose  of 
making  the  corks.  Here  was a severe 
obstacle  for  poor  men  to  encounter. 
While Wilson had nothing but his brains 
(and was really in danger of losing them, 
from anxiety and want of rest),  his  two 
more  than  brotherly  companions  were 
fast sinking every dollar  they possessed. 
At this stage of  the work,  a consultation 
was  held  by  them  to  determine  what 
should be done.  Wilson, almost in tears, 
begged 
to  abandon  the  project 
which,  in  their  united  poverty, seemed 
no  longer  feasible.  This  consultation 
ended in a verbal  agreement,  which  was 
afterward  carried  out  to  the  letter,  to 
obtain a U.  S. patent for the invention at 
once  and  to  include  in  the application 
the use of  this prepared wood for elastic 
springs  of  every  kind, for  floats  upon 
fish seines and for various other purposes; 
also  that,  after  the  patent  should  be 
granted,  a  joint stock  company  of  the 
required  number  of  persons  should  be 
organized  and 
incorporated  under  the 
laws of California,  with an issue of  100,- 
000 shares of  unassessable stock,  having 
a par value of 85 a share. 
In considera­
tion of  Wilson’s two friends  paying  for 
this  patent  and  for  all  their  previous 
outlay, he agreed  to assign equal  shares 
to them.  Few can ever know  the  vexa­
tious  delays  of  obtaining a patent,  but 
almost  insurmountable  obstacles  arose 
in their way, as it appeared other patents 
for  the  treatment  and  preservation  of 
wood  covered  almost  everything  they 
asked for.  One  of  Wilson’s  friends,  a 
Mr.  R-,  was a  man  of  undaunted  nerve 
and  persistency,  and  his  iron  will  and 
determination conquered at last.  Having 
competent and influential  friends  resid­
ing at Washington,  they  were  called  to
his  aid  and  told  to  secure an  audience 
with  certain  officials  and  ask  for a re­
hearing in the case and this time to cover 
with  the  specifications  bottle  stoppers 
and bungs only.

At  this  point,  all  work,  except  still 
further  experiments  with  the  singular

and  refractory  wood  they  were  using, 
ceased  for  want  of  funds. 
It seemed 
impossible, while using the  same  chem­
icals  and,  to  all  appearance, the  same 
wood, to obtain the same results.  A cer­
tain  number  of  the corks would be fine 
and  very  elastic,  while  others  were  so 
hard  as  to  be  worthless,  and  the  only 
method of assorting them was  to  handle 
each one separately,  as the eye could not 
distinguish  the  difference.  Time  after 
time,  Wilson  and  his  friend,  Mr.  R., 
might  have  been  found  locked in their 
room long  after  the  hour  of  midnight, 
prosecuting their experiments in various 
directions  to  unlock  the  secret  of  this 
most obstinate timber.  Then they would 
wend their way through ihe silent streets 
of the city  toward  their lodgings, one of 
them,  at  least,  quite  discouraged,  and 
again they would appear  as  elated  with 
success as if a gold mine  had  opened  at 
their feet.  These  two  persons  were al­
most  inseparable  companions,  the  one 
doubting, 
thoughtful,  silent  and  dis-- 
heartened;  the other, cheerful,  sanguine, 
confident and  positive—a truly minister­
ing spirit  to  his  friend.  Not yet even 
sure of obtaining a patent  after so many 
perplexities and trials, this was  now  the 
darkest hour in the history of their work.
According  to  his  own  story,  Wilson 
was at this time upon the verge of losing 
his reason.  There were  instances  when 
he certainly had forgotten the  object  he 
had  in  view,  as he  would  find  himself 
late at night wandering alone  about  the 
streets in the rain and weeping over some 
fancied  grievance.  Home  and  family 
were  thousands  of  miles  away;  he had 
met with financial  losses and reverses of
fortune had attended all his  steps  since 
entering the State.  His only son realized 
the situation and begged him to abandon 
everything and return home or the result 
would  be,  a  cell  for  him  in a lunatic 
asylum.

We will pass  over  the events of a few 
succeeding months until about  one  year 
had  elapsed  since  the. patent  was first 
applied for.  Wilson and his companions 
were  engaged  in  other  business;  their 
purses were more plethoric, and all were 
happier.  The two friends  were  quietly 
managing  the  Washington  correspon­
dence,  but  gave  Wilson  no grounds for 
encouragement. 
Late  in  the  autumn, 
the trio were one day quietly enjoying an 
after  dinner  cigar  and a glass  of  Cali­
fornia  muscatel,  when  Mr.  R.  remarked 
that  there  was  to  be a select, convivial 
party  of  gentlemen  that evening in the 
city,  to which they  were all  invited  and 
must not fail to be present.  He  named 
a few of those who would honor the occa­
sion and said there would  be  toasts  and 
speechmaking and a jolly good time gen­
erally.  At  the  appointed  hour,  Wilson 
entered the rooms  with  a  friend,  where 
he found Mr.  R.  surrounded  with a com­
pany of distinguished citizens,  to  whom 
he was  at  once  introduced  and led to a 
prominent seat at  the table.  The repast 
being over,  Mr.  R., as the master of cere­
monies,  arose from his seat and, drawing 
from his pocket a rather formidable docu­
ment, remarked that  he held in his hand 
letters patent which would  soon  bestow 
honors,  fame and wealth to one  of  their 
number  and  class  him  among the most 
distinguished inventors and  chemists  of 
the century.  Thereupon,  he  proceeded 
to  read  the  paper  aloud,  while all eyes 
were  turned  upon  the  now  pale  and 
trembling  Wilson,  whose  surprise  and 
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ter be imagined than described.  Wilson’s 
reply, with the letters patent lying before 
him,  was brief and gave the largest share 
of  the  honors  to  his  two faithful com­
panions,  after which a toast  was  offered 
to the hero of the hour.

[continued  n ex t  w e ek]
Repentance  Column.

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

Altona—Eli Lyons.
Aurelius—John D. Swart.
Belding~L. S. Roell.
Bellaire—Schoolcraft & Nash.
Big Rapids—Verity & Co.
Blanchard—L. D. Wait.
Bridgeton—Geo. H. Rainouard.
Carlton Center—J. N. Covert.
Carson City—A. B. Loomis, A. T. Sessions. 
Casnovia—John E. Parcell.
Cedar Springs—L. A. Gardiner, B. Tripp. 
Chapin—J. L Vanderhoof.
Charlotte—C. P. Lock.
Chester—B. C. Smith.
Clio—Nixon & Hubbell.
Cloverdale—Geo. Mosher.
Conklin—Wilson McWilliams.
Coopersville—W. D. Reynolds & Co.
Dimondale—Elias Underhill.
Dorr—Frank  Sommer.
Duphville—G. O. Adams.
Eaton Rapids—E. F. Knapp, G. W. Webster, H 
Fork Center—D. Palmer & Co.
Fremont—J. B. Ketchum,  W.  Harmon,  Boone 
Gladwin—J. D. Sanford.
Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted & Son, F. O. Lord, 
Grand Rapids—F. W. Wurzburg, Van Driele & 
Harvard—Ward Bros..
Hastings—J  G. Runyan.
Hersey—John Finkbeiner.
Hesperia—B.  Cohen.
Howard City—Henry Henkel.
Imlay City—C. J. Buck.
Ionia—E.  S. Welch,  Wm. Wing.
Irving—J. T. Pierson.
Kent City—R. McKinnon.
Kewadin—A. Anderson & Son 
Lake  Odessa—Christian  Haller  &  Co.,  E.  F. 
Colwell  &  Son, Fred  Miller, McCartney Bros., 
Fred. Miller.

Geo.  Coryell.
Kotvis, John Cordes, Huntley Russell.

Kositchek & Bro.

& Pearson.

Fletcher.

_

Johnson.

Lansing—Etta (Mrs. Israel) Glicman.
Lowell—Charles McCarty, Patrick Kelly. 
McBride’s—J. McCrae.
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 
& Son.Mt.  Morris—H.  E.  Lamb,  J. Vermett &  Son. 
Nashville—Powers & Stringham.
Newaygo—W. Harmon.
North Dorr—John Homrich.
O’Donnell—J. E. Edwards.
Olivet—F. H. Gage.
Otisco—G. V. Snyder &  Co., W. H. Hanks. 
Oviatt—H. C. Pettingill. 
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.
Shepherd—H.  O. Bigelow.
Sheridan—M. Gray.
Sparta—Woodin & Van Wickle, Dole & Haynes. 
Spencer Creek—M. M. Elder.
Springport—Cortright  &  Griffin,  Powers  & 
Stanton—Fairbanks & Co., Sterling & Co. 
Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter & Co.
Sumner—J. B. Tucker.
Wavland—Pickett Bros.
Wiliiamston—Michael Bowerman.
Woodbury—Henry Van  Houten.
BUI Nye’s  Experience with Bran.
Many theories have  been  advanced by 
editorial  farmers  for 
the  hard  times 
among agriculturists,  but I incline to be­
lieve it is a falling off in the use of  bran. 
I have a piquant little  taffy-colored  Jer­
sey cow on my country seat  who  was,  a 
year ago, a mental  and  physical  wreck. 
She  suffered  from  insomnia,  and  life 
seemed to her altogether  unlovely.  Her 
only remaining offspring  had  been  kid­
napped,  and was said to have been in the 
soup—the mock-turtle  soup.  She  pined 
and fretted a good deal,  and  this preyed 
upon  her  vitality,  impairing  digestion 
and  threatening  her  with  hollow-horn 
and early death. 
I got her a large quan­
tity of  bran  and  made  a  pleasant  and 
soothing mash upon her by means  of  it. 
At first she would  insert her  nose  in  it 
up to the top  of  the  lower  eyelid,  and 
then looking far  away  over  the  purple 
hills,  she  would  blow  this  bran  mash 
across the State,  and what did not go up 
the sleeves  of  my overcoat  would chink 
up  the  barn  and freckle our family car­
riage.  But after awhile she ate it almost 
greedily and soon the birds sang again in 
her  sorrowing  heart. 
She  forgot  her 
grief,  had no  more  acidity of  stomach,

Thing's  Which  Attract  Men.

A woman’s smile, for example, attracts 
a man;  but an even temper  retains  him.
A  pretty  gown  attracts  a  man;  the 
knowledge that  it  was  inexpensive  de­
lights him.
A  pleasant  manner  attracts  a  man; 
brightness of brain holds him.
A knowledge of  how,  when and where 
to be a little stately,  attracts  a  man;  an 
appreciation of the folly of frivolity wins 
his respect.
A respect  for  the  religious  belief  of 
every  human  being  attracts  a  man;  a 
continuation  of  this  makes  him  your 
most humble slave.
A chat  in  which  there  is  no  malice 
attracts a man;  neither  scandal nor evil 
speaking make a woman  seem sweet and 
lovely to  him.

Playing Baris

WE  ARE  HEADQUARTERS

SEND  FOR  PRICE  LIST.

Daniel  Lynch,

19  So. Ionia  St.,  Grand Rapids.

M AK F.  M O N E Y

BY  SAVING  IT.

I am in New York  to  purchase  goods 
of all kinds for responsible people in any 
section of the country.  My  connections 
are with the best houses,  and  my  refer­
ences shall be satisfactory to you.

I can save you money.
I want your account.
Write.

S. L. McQONIGAL,

37 College Place,  N. Y. City.
FIT  FOR

Table:

All goods bearing the 

name of

THURBER. WHYLAND  & CO.,

ALEXIS  GODILLOT, JR.

Grocers visiting New York are cordially invited 
to call and  see  us, and if they  wish, have  their 
correspondence addressed in our care.  We shall 
he glad to be of use  to them in any way.  Write 
us about anything you wish to know.

THHBBEB, WHYLAND  &  0 0 .,

West Broadway, Beade & Hudson Streets, 

*New York Oily.

TH E  M ICHIGAN  TEADESM AN,

flashes of  beat or sinking, ringing in the 
ears, dizziness  or  tired feeling,  and now 
she is  perfectly well.  Last fall  she  ate 
not only her  three  meals a day, but also 
a scarlet geranium belonging to my wife" 
a Mackinac straw hat of mine,  two yards 
of  brocaded ribbon from the costume  of 
a  young lady from Chicago who was pat­
ting her on the head,  $4  worth  of  glad* 
iolus bulbs,  a child’s  shirt  and a dish of 
blanc mange,  which  was  cooling on the 
rain-water barrel for the pastor.

3
W e Manufacture
Everything in the line of

Candy

Correspondence  solic­
ited  and  prices  quot­
ed with pleasure. 

Write  us.

We  Ajre  Headquarters,  as  Usual,  for 

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Bruits 

and  Produce  Generally•

3  NO.  IONIA  ST., GRAND  RAPIDS.

C . B. MHTZGBR,  Proprietor

GRAND RAPIDS FRUIT AM PRODUCE CO.,
P E R K I N S   &   H B ^ S
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
W M .  H .  T H O M P S O N  & CO.,

NOS.  122  and  134  LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN, 

w y   C A R R Y   A  STOCK  O F   C A K F   TAT.T.OW  FO R  V I r r  r o v

DEALERS IN

C O M M ISSIO N   M E R C H A N T S .

WHOLESALE

SPECIALTY

P O T A T O E S !

No.  166  South W ater St., Chicago.  F air cash advances m ade on consignments.
Offers of stock for direct purchase,  in car lots,  will not  be  entertained  unless 
quality,  size,  variety and  condition  of  stock  is  stated, condition guaranteed,  and 
price named per  bushel  delivered  track  Chicago,  with weights guaranteed not to 
fall short over two  per cent,  from invoice billing.

T T T T t   / r  
V V   JjyC L . 

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J T t .  

X g r ""L«""l " C .1T  
f s -   C L iJBL i J   1  M  

Li  11,1 III?

,

JOBBER  OF

( M e in  aid Fruits, Nits aid Cigars,

413  SOUTH  DIVISION  8T.

TELEPHONE  93-3R.

My stock includes everything generally kept in my line, which 1 sell at rock bottom 

prices.  Send me your mail orders.  1 will guarantee satisfaction.

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

----- WHOLESALE-----

F r u its,  S eed s, O y sters § P r o d u c e .

A ll kinds o f Field Seeds a Specialty.

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

26, 28, 3 0  and 32 O ttawa  St., 

pleased to hear from yon.
- 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS

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

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits.
Head quarters for Jersey Sweet Potatoes
A L F R E D   J.  B R I O  W3ST,

WE  HANDLE  MICHIGAN  POTATOES  IN   CAR  LOTS.

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

Wholesale  Fruit  Commission Merchant and Dealer in All Kinds

Farm and  Garden Seeds.

We are direct receivers of California and Florida Oranges and make a specialty 
of BANANAS.  Headquarters  for  all  kinds  GRAPES.  Regular  price list sent 
weekly,  and special prices quoted with pleasure.

THE  ALFRED  BROWN  SEED  AND  FRUIT STORE.

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4

AMONO THE TRADE.

ABOUND THE STATE.

Ludington—R. Shaw, confectioner, has 

removed to Reed City.

Tale—C.  A.  Wells  has  sold  his  drag 

stock to Grant  Holden & Co.

Fowlerville — Chris  Bessert  succeeds 

Chas. Yores, dealer in harness.

Thompsonville—C. W. Gardner, late o f; 

Fremont, has opened a feed store.

Deiton—Henry Arbor  is  succeeded by 

J. A.  Hynes in the drug business.

Detroit—August  Magdalena  has  sold ; 

his stock of drugs to Max Magdalena.

Canada  Corners — H.  Thompson  has j 

sold his general stock to G.  E. Burley.

Camden—Bushong & Bugbee have pur- i 

chased the meat market of Curtis & Black.

Glenn—G. T. Clapp has traded his gen- j 
eral stock for real estate in Grand Rapids. J
Stetson—H.  H.  Webb  &  Co.  succeed j 
H.  E.  Hungerford in  the  drug  business. \
Coleman—J.  D.  Carpenter  has  pur-j 
chased the general store of Mrs. A.  Rich- j 
ards.
Jackson—Grant Wilson  has purchased 
the stock of drugs  of  Geo.  W.  Longwell j 
Sc Son.
Lowell—O.  G.  Hale  has  bought  out 
Mrs.  S.  A. Bush, dealer in stationery and 
news.

Nashville—The  blacksmith  shop  of 
Frank Reynolds has been sold to Stephen 
Hicks.

Union City—Woodruff  &  Caswell  are 
succeeded by Calkins  Bros,  in the  meat 
business.

White Cloud—Wm.  Hutley will shortly | 
engage in the drug  and  grocery trade at| 
Beecher.

Thompsonville—A hardware store will j 
be  erected  by Richardson  &  Foster,  of j 
Sherman.

Otsego — George  Mangold,  of  Grand: 
Rapids,  has purchased N. W.  Mills’ stock j 
of dry goods.
Copemish—A stock of  boots and  shoes j 
will soon be opened in a new store,  built | 
by Huff  Bros.

White  Pigeon—Krawitz & Rosen  have j 
removed  their  general  stock  to  Mish- j 
awaka, Indiana.

Reed  City—Merner  &  Peppier,  meat | 
market, have dissolved.  A.  R.  Merner j 
is the successor.

S t Charles—A.  D.  Jones is the succes­
sor to  J. M.  Freman,  having  purchased j 
his general stock.

Lakeview—G.  E.  McLaughlin  has re­
moved his dry goods and  boots  and shoe j 
stock to Petoskey.

Bay City—Adolph Semplines  succeeds j 
Adolph Semplines & Co.  in the merchant j 
tailoring business.

Stevensville — The  death  of  Patrick j 
Stapleton,  of the firm  of  C.  E. Jillson & 
Co., is announced.

Menominee—P.  Lavelle  is  closing out 
his  general  stock,  and  will  remove  to 
near  Peshtigo,  Wis.

Goodrich—S.  A.  Salisbury  has  pur­
chased  the  hardware  from  the  general 
stock of Hill Milton.

Traverse City—Q. A. Boughey succeeds j 
Douglas & Boughey  in  the  agricultural 
implement businesss.

Galien—The death of  G.  A.  Blakeslee, 
of  the firm  of  Geo.  A.  Blakeslee & Co., 
general dealers,  is  announced.

Flat  Rock—C.  A. Chamberlain,  dealer 
in hardware and agricultural implements, 
has sold to Louis T.  Longprey.

Benton  Harbor—S. B.  Yan  Horn  sue-1 
ceeds M.  A.  Bronson in the clothing, fur­
nishing and dry goods business.

Battle Creek—Pittman & Flower, deal­
ers in  hardware, have  dissolved.  Frank 
I P.  Pittman continues the business.

Cedar Springs—W.  H.  McConnell  has 
| sold his meat market to C.  H.  Gross—not 
; his grocery stock,  as stated last week.

Detroit—Joseph W.  Crothers has given 
: a bill of  sale  of  his dry goods and  mil- 
| linery  stock  to  Charles  E.  Bresler  for 
$7,000.

Carson  City—J.  W.  Hallett  has  pur- 
1 chased  the  hardware  stock  of  Dunn &
| Co.  and will continue the business at the 
old stand.

Eaton  Rapids—Louis  C.  Yan  Gorden 
has purchased  an  interest  in  the  drug 
and grocery business  of  the firm  of  W. 
D. Brainerd & Co.

Stan wood — Carpenter  &  Ward  will 
begin  handling  grain  and  produce  as 
soon  as a warehouse,  now  in  process of j 
construction,  is completed.

Mancelona—H.  L.  Welling,  dealer  in 1 
clothing  and  dry  goods, has  purchased | 
the boot and shoe stock of Bailey & Beach, j 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the j 
same location.

Carson City—The Carson  City Savings j 
Bank has sold the  elevator property for- j 
merly owned  and  conducted by the Car- 
son City Elevator Co. to the F. A. Rocka- | 
fellow Mercantile Co.

Levering—E.  E. Cross has retired from 
the firm of F.  L.  Burger & Co., dealers in 
groceries and  provisions.  The  business j 
will be continued  by the remaining part- ] 
ner under his own name.

Cadillac—Mr. Sampson has sold his in- | 
terest in the hardware business of Samp­
son  &  Drury to  A.  W.  Newark,  and the 
firm will hereafter be  known as Newark 
& Drury.  Mr. Sampson  will  remain  in j 
Cadillac and engage in other business.

Saginaw—Arthur Hill  recently  sold  a 
large block of  stump  lands  in  Midland j 
county to the  Estey Manufacturing  Co.,
| of Owosso.  These lands  contain a large 
: quantity of good hardwood timber, which 
will be lumbered and shipped to Owosso. |
Moline—E. N.  Bates  has  arranged  to j 
purchase the interest of B. Gilbert in the j 
firm of B. Gilbert <k Co., general dealers, 
and will  continue'the  business  in  con-I 
junction with the present  partner,  Wm. j 
V.  Trautman.  The change will not occur 
until  Jan.  1,  when  Mr. Trautman  will 
probably  purchase  an  interest  in  Mr. 
Bates’ cheese factory.

Bay City—The  Continental  Insurance 
Co.  bad to pay a loss  of  $1,000  on  some | 
property owned by Rix  Bros. 
It  made ! 
the company mad and they sued the Loud 
Lumber Co.,  claiming  that  the fire  was 
caused by a spark  from  the  latter’s  en- j 
gine.  They proved  it,  too,  and  a  Bay 
City  jury recently returned  a  verdict of 
$856.20 against the defendants.

MAHTTFACTDECffl  MATTERS.

Ionia—Operations  were commenced  at 
the  Ionia  furniture  factory on  Monday 
last with twenty men.

South Boardman—R.  N.  Thompson  is 
putting  in  machinery for  the  manufac­
ture of wooden bowls.

Big Rapids—The Geo. F. Stearns Land 
and Lumber Co.  has received an offer for 
a portion of its lands  in  Tennessee,  but 
the deal is not yet consummated.

Detroit—The  Singer  Fire  Alarm  Co. 
has  been  incorporated,  with  a  capital 
stock of  $200,000 and  $20.000  has  been 
paid in.  The  stockholders  are  John B. 
Wood, Albert Maxwell and John B.  Price, 
of Detroit;  J. J.  Baldwin,  of Buffalo, and 
J.  W.  Hoyt, of  New York.

Fenton—J ad son  B.  Phillips  has  been j 
admitted  to  the  firm  of  A. J.  Phillips’ j 
Sons, manufacturers of wooden ware.  The j 
new firm will be known  as A. J. Phillips j 
& Co.

Lapeer— Kudner  &  Me  Carty  have; 
manufactured  this  season,  near  Flint, j
3.000. 
are  now  cutting  on  an  extensive tract j 
near Hadley.

000  feet  of  hardwood lumber,  and I 

Saginaw—A.  P.  Brewer & Sons  have \ 
purchased  a  tract  of  40.000,000  feet of j 
timber  on  the  north  shore  of  Lake j 
Superior, tributary to Duluth, from Fow- j 
ler & Chapman.

Saginaw—E. A.  Gyde,  extensively en­
gaged in the manufacture of  hoops here, 
has contracted for a large amount of  elm | 
logs to be  cut  thirteen feet  long,  to  be j 
manufactured at his factory.
Harrison—Wilson  Bros,  recently  pur- j 
chased a large quantity  of  stump  lands j 
in  Clare  county  of  E.  H.  Pearson,  of j 
Saginaw,  and  will  erect a portable mill 
to cut shingles and hardwood.

Coleman—T.  B.  Simons, who has oper­
ated a shingle mill on the Coleman branch 
the past five years,  has cut up his timber j 
and shut down the mill.  He is interested 
in timber on the Pacific coast.

Bay City—The Michigan Pipe  Co.  has 
sold to Woods. Jenks&Co., of Cleveland,  j
5.000. 
the  stock  has  been  cut  and  will  be 
shipped  this  season.  The  price is not 
quoted.

000 feet of lumber.  A  portion  of 

Saginaw—E.  P.  Stone,  who  has  been 
operating a logging railroad  in  Roscom­
mon county the  past five  years,  putting 
in  200,000,000  feet  for  various  parties, 
has completed operations  and  is  taking 
up the rail.

Stan wood — Geo.  W.  Reed  has  pur­
chased the interest of 0. M.  Bieler in the 
firm of  Reed & Bieler, manufacturers  of 
shingles.  A new mill, to replace the one 
recently destroyed  by fire,  will  be  built 
as soon as a suitable  site can be secured.  |
Saginaw — E.  R.  Phinney  has  leased | 
the  Hugh  planing  mill,  for  five  years 
from  October 1.  The plant is being put 
in  first-class  condition,  and  will  begin ! 
operations after an idleness of two years, 
on October  10. 
It  is  one  of  the  best 
equipped planing mills in the west,  hav-1 
ing cost $64,000.

Saginaw—T. E.  Dorr & Co.  have  built j 
a  logging  railroad  in  from  Coleman  to I 
Bluff  creek,  where they will put in sev­
eral million feet.  They  have  lumbered 
on this stream  several  years and experi­
enced much  trouble  in  getting  out  the | 
logs.  Whitney &  Stinchfield  have  sev- i 
eral  million feet,  which  will be cut and j 
come out over the same road.

Gripsack  Brigade.

M.  M.  Mallory has engaged to travel in j 
this State for the P. J. Sorg  Co.,  the en- j 
gagement to date from Oct.  1.

Jas.  J.  Wright,  formerly  with  J.  S. I 
Walker,  has engaged  to  represent E.  E.  j 
| Walker,  working both  city  and  outside { 
i trade.

F.  D.  Millington,  formerly engaged  iD 
| the drug business at Paw Paw,  is now on | 
the  road for  Dreiss,  Thompson  &  Co., j 
| wholesale  druggists  at  San  Antonia, j 
I Texas.

Eben N. Thorn,  who covers  the  trade 
j of  this section for  Marshall  Field & Co., 1 
went fishing at St. Joseph last Wedneday.  j 
| The boys on the road  aver  that  the fish 
liar  has  been  running  at  random  ever 
i since—in close proximity, at all times,  to 
I Mr. Thorn.

Cal.  L.  Martin,  the  Elk  Rapids, drug­
gist,  has  engaged  to travel for a whole­
sale drug  house  at  Chicago,  taking the 
trade of Wisconsin  and  Minnesota as his 
territory.  The business  at  Elk  Rapids 
will be managed  by  the  junior partner, 
C.  E.  Mahan.

John Fell,  who  was unable to be pres­
ent on the occasion of  the last ball play, 
is  anxious  to  repeat  the  game  of  two 
Saturdays ago.  Those  who took part in 
that game and dallied  with the sand burs 
in their  hands  and clothes are not at all 
anxious to duplicate the previous experi­
ence.

One  Secret  Safe.

Dr.  Handsome—Oh, you know, mother, 

women can’t keep a secret.

His  Mother—Yes  they  can,  my  son. 
You  have  been  industriously  courting 
that  Miss  Highfiy  for  a  year  and  you 
don’t know her real age yet.

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

Advertisements will be inserted  under  this  head for 
two  cents  a   word  the  first  insertion  and  one cent a 
word  for  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
ment taken for less than 25 cents.  Advance  payment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

Fo r  sa l e—a  n ic e  c lean  stock  o f  d r u g s,

located on corner in a (rood town  of  6,000  inhabi­
tants;  (rood point for a physician;  nice  paying1  trade; 
owner has other business to look after.  N. H. Winans, 
3 and 4 Tower Block, Grand Rapids. 

Ill

109

OR  8ALE—A  TRACT  OF  TIMBER,  CONTAINING 
about  100,000  feet  oak.  30,000  pine,  50,000  ash, 
cherry, maple  and  basswood,  1.000,000  hemlock,  one 
mile from White River;  price,  $2,000.  Address  Lock 
box 896, Big Rapids, Mich. 
OR  8ALE—ONLY MILLINERY  STORE IN TOWN OF 
2.300  population;  also  light  stock  of  fancy  dry 
goods:  good chance for making  money.  For  particu­
lars address No. 110, care Michigan Tradesman. 

shoes, all new, clean stock;  store can be  rented for $10 

fX)R  8ALV-IN  ONE  OF  THE  BEST  LOCATIONS  IN 

the city. $900 worth  of  dry goods  and  boots  and 
per  month;  purchaser  will  get  a  bargain,  as  the 
owners have other  business  which  requires  their  at­
tention.  John Degan A Co.,  800 and 802 South Division 
street. Grand  Rapids. 
OR SALE^STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MERCHANDISE, 
in  good  farming  community;  good  prospects; 
cold storage in connection with store.  Address  F.  E. 
8., Sand Lake, Mich. 

110

108

112

96

105

100

107
103

digo, Sherwood, Mich. 

I JOE 8ALE— FORTY  ACRES  OF  TIMBER  IN  WEX- 
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—UNBOUND SCRIBNER’S, 

ford county, elm,  beech and maple.  W.  R.  Man- 
104
Peterson’s and  Harper’s  Magazines;  make me an 
offer.  W. R. Mandigo. Sherwood, Mich. 
Q  EALED  TENDE^’WIlX^E^RECEIVED  BY “THE 
O   undersigned  for  three  weeks  for  the  stock  of 
goods of Dodge  Metcalf A Co.,  at Stanwood;  the right 
is reserved to  decline  any offer;  dated  Sept.  13,  1890. 
Address Talmon Dodge, Stanwood. Mich. 

box 13, Clayton, Mich. 

dress No. 96, care Michigan Tradesman. 

ing in the best town of  Northern  Michigan.  Ad­

store at Flint. Mich. 
best location and  trade;  reasons for  sale.  Lock 

For  sa l e—b r a d t’s  b a z a a r  a n d  m il l in e r y
FOR SALE—DESIRABLE DRUG  STOCK; CITY  1.500;
FOR SALE^-8TOCK~OF  HARDWARE- AND- BUILD- 
iX>R  SALE—A  FIR8T-CLA88  DRUG  STOCK  AND 

business in  Grand  Rapids  worth  $2,500  must  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. 
OR SALE—TELE  BE8T  DRUG  AND GROCERY  BU8- 
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  mail to carry to depot in 
connection;  mail  and  express  pay  clerk  hire;  stock 
complete;  business pays $1,000 per year net; stock will 
invoice  about  $4,000;  business  mostly  cash;  in  brick 
block;  rental  low;  best  location  in  town;  also  own 
one-third interest in the block,  which  rents for  $1,500 
per year;  will  sell  one  or  both;  reasons  for  selling, 
sickness and death, with other  business  to  attend  to. 
Address No. 91. care Michigan Tradesman. 
OR SALE OR RENT—A GOOD TWO-STORY BUILD- 
ing,  24x80  feet,  with  basement  24x60  feet;  the 
second story is rented for lodge hall.  For  particulars 
write to J. R  Harrison, Sparta, Mich. 

FOR  SALE—25  PER  CENT.  BELOW  COST,  ONLY 

hardware stock In Baldwin, lively town on line of 
two railways;  ill health  compels  sale;  store  building 
cheap.  Joseph H. Cobb, Baldwin, Mich. 
TTrANTED—I HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  PAY  FOR  A 
V V 
general  or  grocery stock;  must be cheap.  Ad- 
dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 
MISCELLANEOUS.

97

88

84

96

91

A  BOLISH  THE  PASS BOOK  AND  SUBSTITUTE  THE 
i l .   Tradesman  Coupon,  which is now in use by over 
5,000  Michigan  merchants—all  of  whom are  warm in 
praise  of  its  effectiveness.  Send  for  sample  order, 
which  will  be  sent  prepaid  on  receipt  of  $1.  The 
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.
QAMPLES OF TWO  KINDS  OF  COUPONS  FOR  R if 
O   tailers  will  he  sent free  to  any dealer  who  will 
write for them to  the  Sutliff  Coupon  Pass  Book  Co., 
Albany. N. Y. 

664

NOT  C E   OF  DISSOLUTION.

!  Notie#  is  hereby  given  that  the partnership 
:  heretofore existing under the firm nam e of F.  L.
Burger Sc Co.  was dissolved Sept.  12  by  m utual 
I  consent.  The  business  w ill  be  continued  by 
F. L. Burger, who assum esilt  udebtedness and 
w ill collect all money due the s t  i  firm.

F.  L.  B u r g e e. 
E. E. Cr o ss.

Levering, Sept. 12,1890.

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QUEER  PLACE  FOR  SHOES.

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ta d  Rapids  Fire  Insurance  Co. S . A.. M a r in a r i

CASH  CAPITAL 

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$200,000.00

F a ir   R a tes. 

P r o m p t 

S e ttlem en ts.

Call on our agent in your town. 

JULIUS  HOUSEMAN,  President.

S  F.  ASPINWALL, Secretary.

W H O LESA LE

Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio

LIME,

Akron,  Buffalo and  Louisville

C E M E N T S ,

Stucco and Hair, Sewer  Pipe, Fire Brick 

and Clay.

W rite  for  Prices.

69  CANAL  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

ine records ot the Grand  Kap- 
ids  Custom  House  disclose  the 
fact that we are the  only  jobbing 
house in  this  city  which  imports 
its  teas  direct  from  Japan  and 
clears them at the  Port  of  Entry 
here.

This  is  a  broad statement,  but 
its  truth  can  be  established  by 
enquiry  of  the  Collector of  Cus­
toms in the Government Building.

Teller Spice Company

R in cisre,  B e r ts o li  Sc  O o .

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

Skirts of a  Shoplifter.

Ingenious Contrivance Attached to the 
From the Philadelphia Item.
“I  would  like  to  see a pair  of  shoes 
with  French heel, patent leather vamps, 
and ooze-calf  uppers.”
The speaker was a blonde, a fair young 
woman  of  about  19  years.  Dressed  in 
the  latest  fashion  was  she, in  a lovely 
princess gown of  mignonette green nun’s 
veiling,  with  epaulettes  and  braces  in 
pleated Pongee silk, outlined with a gold 
ribbon,  which  finished off  each shoulder 
in  a  butterfly  bow;  long  sleeves;  front 
and back plastrons in cream-colored Ben- 
galine silk, glittering  with  gold and sil­
ver  embroidery.  On  her  head  was  a 
lovely hat of fancy white straw,  trimmed 
with  satin-striped  gauze  ribbon  orna­
mented with a tuft  of  pink convolvulus, 
standing  up  at  the  back of  the narrow 
brim.
She had  walked  into  Harrison’s  shoe 
store at Ridge  and  Girard  avennes  and 
asked the question.
A clerk was told to show  the  goods to 
the  lovely customer, and,  while  he  was 
carrying  out  his  instructions,  the  pro­
prietor’s daughter,  a dashing  young lady 
of  seventeen  summers,  stood  watching 
the  young woman out of  mere  curiosity. 
After  perhaps  fifteen  minutes,  she  de­
cided that she would  not  take the shoes 
shown, telling the  clerk  that  she would 
call again.  She  had  hardly passed  out 
of  the  store  before a pair of  shoes  was 
missed,  and  Miss  Harrison,  with  light­
ning-like  perception,  realized  that  the 
stranger  had  something  to  do  with it. 
Stepping  rapidly to the door, she  called 
to the retreating woman, who, in  answer, 
turned  and  walked  back  to  the  store. 
Miss  Harrison  shrewdly told  the  young 
woman to come back, as she thought they 
had found something that would suit her.
The  bait  was  taken,  and  when  she 
walked  into  the  place  again Miss Har­
rison told her that  her  skirt  was  disar­
ranged and invited her to walk  back into 
the house,  which  adjoins the store,  to fix 
it.  The  chambermaid  was  called,  and 
when  the  trio  reached  Miss  Harrison’s 
bed-room the visitor  was  accused of  the 
theft.  She stoutly denied all  kdowledge 
of  the affair,  but her accuser persisted in 
demanding a search, so that  she  at  last 
consented,
The  woman’s  overskirt  was  removed 
and  the  garment  thoroughly examined, 
but no trace of  the  shoes  could be seen. 
The  amateur  detective  would  not  give 
up,  and  after  examining  several  other 
garments she found the  missing articles. 
The manner in which they had  been  se­
creted  proclaimed the professional shop­
lifter,  and had it not  been  for the rigor­
ous search  instituted by the  proprietor’s 
daughter  they  would  never  have  been 
found.
But  how  had  she  managed  to  put a 
pair of  shoes under  her  skirts  and then 
to fasten them around her waist, without 
even  raising  her  skirts  high enough to 
expose her ankles ?
It  was  simple  enough.  Around  her 
waist  was  a strap  and  attached  to  the 
strap were elastics with  clamps fastened 
to  the  end of  them.  The  clamps  were 
fastened  to  her  shoe-tops,  the  elastics 
being stretched to their full length.
When she  wished  to  hide  an  article, 
she  reached  down  and  detached one of 
the clamps from her own  shoes and fast­
to 
ened 
then 
‘•Presto!”  change,  and  the  thing  was 
consummated. 
The  elastics,  released 
from the  strain, jerked  their  burden up 
under  the  skirts.  No  man  could  have 
penetrated the  puzzle, as it remained for 
a woman to solve the mystery.
Magistrate  Romig  was  in  his  office 
across the street,  so an officer  was called 
and the woman taken over for a hearing.

the  stolen  goods, 

it 

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

White «8; Reed, dealers in lumber, have 
sold  out  the  business  to  R.  G.  Forbes 
& Co.

Hollister & Chormann succeed Shulte & 
Chormann in the  grocery business  at  21 
North Front street.

H. Knapp  &  Son,  general  dealers  at 
Sunfield,  have added a line of  dry goods. 
Spring & Company furnished  the  stock.
The Tradesman is authoritatively in­
formed that a change in the management 
of a retail grocery store on  Canal  street 
is imminent.

R.  Van  Bochove,  druggist  on  West 
Fulton  street,  has  arranged  to  open  a 
branch store near the corner of Lyon and 
North Union  streets.

H. A. Durkee has sold  his  drug  stock 
at 198 West Bridge street to W. A. Swarts 
&  Son,  who  were  formerly  engaged  in 
the drug business at  Fennville.

Bauer  &  Curtiss  have  removed their 
drug stock from the corner of East Bridge 
and Barclay streets to the corner of  East 
Bridge and North Union streets.

R.  A. Steketee  has  purchased the gro­
cery stock formerly owned by Burt Ema, 
at 416 and 418 South Division street,  and 
will add a line of drygoods.  P.  Steketee 
& Sons furnished the latter.

L. J.  Buchsieb has effected a settlement 
with the creditors of the  former  firm  of 
Joslin & Buchsieb,  on the basis of 50 per 
cent., and has resumed  the jewelry busi­
ness at  the  location  of  the former firm, 
159 Monroe street.

The change  in  the  firm  of  Spring  & 
Company,  predicted by T h e T radesm an 
two  weeks  ago, was  consummated  last 
week,  R.  D.  Swartout’s  interest  in  the 
business  having  been  purchased by the 
senior partner,  Henry Spring.

C. G. Pitkin has purchased that portion 
of  the drug stock of  L. T.  Covell  saved 
from  the  recent  fire  at  Whitehall and, 
adding thereto from the repository of the 
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.,  has en­
gaged in business on his own account.

O.  H.  Richmond  has  retired from  the 
firm of  O.  H.  Richmond & Co., druggists 
at 141 South Division street,  on  account 
of  ill  health,  and will  take up  his resi­
dence in Chicago.  The  business  will be 
continued by the remaining partner, L. J. 
Shafer.

W.  T.  Lamoreaux has removed from 71 
Canal street to his new warehouse at 128, 
130 and 132 West Bridge  street, just east 
of the C.  & W.  M.  Railway track.  With 
side tracks on both sides of  the  building 
and enlarged elevator  and storage facili­
ties,  he is in better shape than  before  to 
handle the staples in his line.

Just before J.  F.  Homan  retired  from 
the jewelry business, several months ago, 
his stock was attached by  Eppenstein  & 
Co., of Chicago.  The claim of the attach­
ing creditor  was  satisfied,  when  Homan 
secured his wife for an alleged indebted­
ness by transferring to  her  the  jewelry 
stock,  sòme real estate and  $4,000  stock 
in the Grand Rapids ^Folding  Table  and 
Chair  Co.  Other  creditors  thereupon 
attempted to have the transfers set aside, 
on the ground  that the consideration was 
inadequate,  but  Judge  Grove  held  that 
the claim  of  Mrs.  Homan  was valid and 
that Homan had as much  right to secure 
his wife as any other  creditor.

Can Be Depended Upon Hereafter.
Through an unfortunate oversight, the 
advertisement  of  Michael  Kolb  &  Son 
was  not  changed last week,  as  was  the 
intention of the firm’s representative, the 
indefatigable Wm. Connor. 
It  appears 
in revised  form  this  week,  and  may be 
depended  upon  hereafter  to  furnish  a
correct  calendar  of  the  genial English- 
man’s visits to this market. 

Send us your rubber order before the rush.  We are prepared to fill your order 

in Boston and Bay State goods at lowest market price.

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'l’HTC  M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

Dry  Goods•

P r ic e s  C urrent.

U N BLEA CH ED   COTTONS.

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shorts.  8341 

BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.

H A L F  BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.

U N BLEA C H ED   CANTON  F L A N N E L .

P aid   in   This B usiness.

Atlantic  A. 
H. 
P. 
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ft  DRY  GOODS  SALARIES.

V ery  L ow   an d   V ery   H igh  W ag es  a re  

“It is not generally known,” said C. B.  ^  ^  ^  __

Cabot......................   7)4| Dwight Anchor...... 8)4
Farwell...................7341
TremontN..............  6)4[Middlesex No.  1— 10
Hamilton N............ 6)4 
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Middlesex  AT........  8
X.............  9
No. 25....  9
BLEA CH ED   CANTON  FL A N N EL.

Amsburg...7  I Glen Mills............................   7
Blackstone A A.8  Gold Medal.....................  7)4
Beats All.  4)4 Green  Ticket..........................8)4
Cleveland.  7  Great Falls...........................  6)4
Cabot..............7)4 Hope................................... 7)4
Cabot,  %.................  6)4 Just  Out........  43£@ 5
Dwight Anchor.  9  Ring  Phillip.................   734
OP......  7)4
Edwards.  6  ¡Lonsdale Cambric.. 10)4
Empire....................7  Lonsdale.............  @ 8)4
Farwell...................7314 Middlesex..........   @5
Fruit of the  Loom.. 8)4 No Name....................7)4
Fitchville  .............7)4 ¡Oak View................... 6
First Prize..6)4 Our Own..............................   5)4
¿f the Loom % 8"|Prideof the West  . .12
4)4 Rosalind................. 7)4
Fairmount------
Full Value..............654 Sunlight...................   4)4
Geo.  Washington...  8)4lVinyard..................  8)4

Clifton CCC...........  63t
Arrow Brand 5)4 
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LL...............   5
“  LL..............  5^ Pull Yard Wide...... 6)4
Amory....................   714’Honest Width......... 63¿
Archery  Bunting...  4  Hartford A  ............ 5)4
Beaver Dam  A A ...  5)4|Madras cheese cloth 63£
Worth, of H.  B. Claflin & Co., a few days I Blackstone 0*32  • •  5 '¡Noibe R................5),
ago to a New  Y ork  S ta r  reporter,  “ th a t I Black  R ock...........7  [Our Level  Best........6V4
Boot, AL..  7)4 Oxford  R  ...........................  6)4
some of  the highest salaries are  paid  in 
Chapman cheese  cl. 
3% iPequot.............   7)4
our business.  We are  often  accused  of 
Comet............. 7  Solar................................... 6)4
Dwight Star............  TiilTopofthe Heap....  7)4
paying starvation wages to our  clerks by 
people  who never  look  at  the  expense 
entailed  in  running  an  establishment.
Take the  buyers,  for  instance.  There 
are firms in this  city who  pay men from
810.000 to 830,000 a year for simply being 
able to tell  three-quarters  of  a  year  in 
advance what the fashion  is going to be.
One gentleman who buys for a wholesale 
house  on  Broadway  is  said  to  earn
850.000 a year.
‘Dry goods  houses  are noted for  pay-
ing low wages to their clerks because the 
supply of clerks is so abundant.  In some 
M M  
of  the smaller stores the pay runs as low 
as 83 a week.  But the  buyer  on  whose 
judgment the sale of  next  year’s fabrics 
depends gets  half  as  much as the presi­
dent of the United States.  The smallest, 
and some of the largest, salaries are paid 
in the dry goods business.”
“How  does  the  buyer  for  the  house 
distinguish in advance  what  the fashion 
for next year is to be ?”
“Ah, that is where  it  requires a wide­
awake man.  He must watch the growing 
tendencies among the firm’s,  richest and 
most fashionable  customers at home and 
abroad.  Whatever has  become  popular 
among them will make its way among the 
masses,  and  this  tide  the  house  must 
catch and swim along with it.
textile  manufacturers 
make few  goods except on orders.  The 
buyer  for a firm  must  decide  what  his 
house can sell next season and  order  his 
supplies  of  cloth  made in advance.  A 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4)4 
serious  mistake  might  be  sufficient  to 
Repp furn .  8)4
bankrupt the firm by leaving  them  with 
Pacific  fancy..........6
a stock on hand of  unsalable  goods,  the 
robes............6)4
Portsmouth robes...  6 
patterns  not  being to the  liking  of  the 
Simpson mourning..  6)4
firm’s customers.  So  you  can easily see 
greys........6)4
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solid black.  6)4 
why a skillful  buyer  can  command  his 
Washington indigo.  6 
own price.”
Turkey robes..  7)4 
“How  do  you select a mau for  such a 
India robes —   7)4 
plain T’ky X 34  8)4 
position ?”
“  X...10
“Nothing less than a kind of  intuition 
Ottoman  Tur­
is demanded for such a place. 
In  addi­
key red................ 6
Martha Washington
tion, 
the  buyer  must  estimate  what 
Turkeyred 34......  7)4
amount his employer can sell of  a  given
Martha Washington
style of goods.  If he overstocks the firm, | niimiium  fancy” ■  6)4)  Turkey red...7....  9)4
then they are left  with old-fashioned ar- 
staple...  5)4 Riverpoint robes....  5
tides on hand which  they must resort to | ManchesterJmcy..  6^  WindsorJ^cy—   6*
indigo blue......... 10)4
the  ‘bargain counter’ devices to get rid of j Merrimack D fancy.  6)41 
at a severe loss.” 
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Amoskeag AC A. ...I2)4!A C  A..................12)4
,   M______  
Hamilton N ...............7)4 Pemberton AAA....16
Printing of Carpets. 

Biddeford...............  6  INaumkeagsatteen..  7)4
Brunswick..............6)4! Rockport.................. 6)4
Allen, staple...........  5)4
fancy...........  5)4
robes...........  5
American  fancy—   6 
American indigo—   634 
American shirtings. 
“  —   6)4
Arnold 
long cloth B.10)4
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century cloth 7
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“  gold seal......10)4
“  Turkey red..10)4
Berlin solids...........  5)4
“  oil blue.......  6)4
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“  green —   6)4
Cocheco fancy........  6
“  madders...  6 
Eddystone  fancy...  6

Hamilton N ............   7)4
Middlesex P T ........  8
A T ........  9
X A..........9
X F ........ 10)4
............. 8
.................  9
.................10)4
G G  Cashmere........21
Nameless................16
.................18

Middlesex A A........11
2 .........12
A O........13)4
4....... 17)4
5....... 16
N am eless...................20
.................25
.................27)4
...... ,.........30
.................32)4
..............  35

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“In  Europe, 

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cotton  drill.

From the Textile Mercury. 
S 2 ri  I v « ! !!!!!!! W
The carpet trade of late years seems to  pjrgt p ^ e ........... lmjwarren..................14
have displayed more  activity,  as  far  as 
the  invention  of  new  appliances is con- | Atlanta,  D.............  63£lStark........................8
........................ 7
Boot........................634  “ 
cerned, than at any former period  in  its 
Clifton, K............... 7  I  “ 
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history.  The most recent  novelty in the 
trade  is a machine for  printing  carpets 
Simpson..................20  ¡Imperial.............^10)4
...............18  Black...............9® 9)4
already woven.  We  are  unable to give 
....................10)4
...............16 
details  this  week,  but may briefly  state 
in this preliminary announcement that if 
the machinery comes up to  the  expecta­
tions  one  is  led  to form from  what has 
been said as to the  work  it  has  already 
done,  an  important  addition  will  have 
been made to the  mechanical  appliances 
necessary  for  the  rapid and economical 
production  of  carpets.  The  advance 
from  printing  on  the  warp, as  is  now 
done in tapestries, to  printing the whole 
fabric after  being  woven  is  manifestly 
great.  Like  most  other  inventions  in 
connection  with carpets, the  one  under 
notice is American.

Coechco................. 10)41

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Amoskeag.............. 12)4
9oz......14)4
brown .13
Andover................. 11)4
Everett, blue..........12
brown.......12

Jaffrey....................11)4
Lancaster...............12)4
Lawrence, 9 oz........13)4
No. 220....13
No. 250....11)4
No. 280.... 10)4
Lancaster,  staple...  634 

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fancies —   7 
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Westbrook..............8
.........................10
York........................634
Hampton.................6)4
Windermeer........... 5
Cumberland........... 5
Essex......................4)4
colored... 21

Glenarven................ 634
Lancashire.............   6)4
Normandie............... 7)4
Renfrew Dress........7)4
Toil du Nord... .l0@10)4
Amoskeag................ 634
AFC.......10)4
Persian...................   8)4
Bates.........................634
Warwick...............   8)4
C A R PET  W A R P.
Peerless, white.......l8)4|Peerles8

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G RA IN   BAGS.

TH R EA D S.

No. 
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Valley City.............16
Georgia................. 16
Pacific.................. 14)4

White.  Colored.
42
43
44
45

Amoskeag..............17
Harmony................17
Stark..................... 20)4
American...............17
Clark’s Mile End.... 45  I Barbour s.
Coats’, J. & P ........ 45  Marshall’s
Holyoke.................22)41
White.  Colored.
38
6 ..  ..33 
8....... 34 
39
10....... 35 
40
12........ 36 
41
CAM BRICS.

No.  14.........37 
16.........38 
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18  
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Wa8hiugton............  4)4
Slater......................  4)4
Red Cross...............   4)4
White Star............   4)4
Lockwood................ 4)4
Kid Glove...............  4)4
Wood’s ..................   4)4
Newmarket............ 4)4
Brunswick ...............4)4
Edwards.................  4)4
.22)4
TW.
Fireman................. 32)4
.32)4
F T ..............
Creedmore............. 27)4
.35
J R F, XXX. 
Talbot XXX........... 30
.32)4
Buckeye —
Nameless............... 27)4
Red & Blue,  plaid. .40  ¡Grey S E W ............ 17)4
Union R.................22)4 Western W  ............. Jg)4
Windsor.................18)4 D R P .......................18)4
6 oz Western..........21  Flushing XXX.........23)4
Union  B ................ 22)4|Manitoba................. 23)4
DOM ET  FLA N N EL.
Nameless...... 8  @ ?)4| 
...... »  @J0)4
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8)4@10  I 

M IX ED   FL A N N E L .

R E D   FL A N N E L .

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Black. 

13 
15 
17 
20

13 
15 
17 
20

9)4 13
10)4 15
11)4 17
12)4 20
D U CK S.

CANVASS  AND  PA D D IN G .Brown. 
9)4
10)4
11)4
12)4

Slate.
9) 4
10) 4
11) 4
12) 4
Severen,8 oz..........   9)4|West Point,8 oz.... 10)4
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Mayland, 8 oz......... 10)4 
10 oz— 12)4
Greenwood, 7)4 oz..  9)4 Raven, lOoz............13)4
Greenwood, 8 oz— ll)4lStark 
............ 15
W AD D IN G S.
White, doz............ 25  ¡Per bale, 40 doz— 17 00
Colored, doz...........20  I
siL E B iA S .Pawtucket..............10)4
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Dundie...................   9
“  Red Cross....  9
“  Best..............10)4 Bedford..................10)4
“  Best AA.......12)4i Valley  City............ 10)4

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CORSETS.

SEW IN G   SIL K .

Coraline................19 50IWonderful............ 84
Schilling’s ............   9 00 Brighton................4 75
Corticelli, doz......... 75  I Corriceli!  knitting,

twist, doz. .37)4  per )4oz  ball....... 30
50 yd, doz..37)41
HOOKS  AND  E T E S— P E R  GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k & White..l0 
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No 2-20, M C...........50 INO 4-15, F  3)4......... 40
‘  3—18, S C ...........45 I
No  2 White & Bl’k..12

P IN S .

COTTON  T A PE .
INo  8 White & Bl’k..20 
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“  12 
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SA FETY   P IN S .
.36
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N EED LES— P E R   M.

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A. Jam es...................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.
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B E A C H ’S  

Yew  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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WÜTE,  BLICK  AHI  COLOBS,

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FOR

FOR  SALE  BY

Hand and M achine U sa
P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS
Voigt,
ImporteiDry Goods

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

NOTIONS AND HOLIDAY GOODS.

Manufacturers of

Shirts,  Pants,  OUerails,  Etc.

Complete  Fall  Stock  now  ready  for 
inspection, including a fine line of Prints, 
Underwear, Pants, Gloves,  Mittens  and 
Lumbermen’s Goods.  Chicago and Detroit 
prices guaranteed.

48,50 and 52 Ottawa St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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-   MICH

W H O L E S A L E .

Carpets,  Linoleums, 
Mattings,  Oil  Cloths, 
Rugs  and  Mats,  Dra­
peries,  Brass and Wood 
Poles,  Brass  Rings, 
Brackets,  Etc.
Send for circular and price list.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

P » .  STBKBTBB  & 

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WHOLESALE

Dry  Goods  and  Motions

W h y   H e  D istu rb ed   th e   D rum m er.
F ro m  t h e  P i t t s b u r g   D is p a tc h .
Drummer—What  do  you  mean  by. 
pounding on the door at this  hour in the 
morning ? 
to  be
waked up. 

1  gave  no  order 

I specs  yer to gib me half  a dollar  when j 
you  leabs  de  house,  and 1 wanted to ao 
suffin to earn the money, so I jes pounded 
yn  yo’ do’ to  make  yer  feel  you  wasn’t 
bein’ robbed.

Colored  Porter—I know  dat, Boss, but j Valley  City.

F a ll  L in e  o f  D ress G oods,  F la n n e ls ,  B la n k e ts

Y a m , U n d e r w e a r , H o sie ry   a n d   G loves.
GRAIN  BAGS—Stark,  American,  Amoskeag,  Harmony,  Park, Georgia  and

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WADDINGS,  BURLAP, TWINE,  BATTS  and  COMFORTS.

jtonroe  and  10, 12,  14,16  1  18  PoMain  81s.,  GRIND  RÄPID8

TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.
dls.
dis.

P r ic e s   C urrent.

k n o b s—New List. 

7

è

H A R D W A R B .
Selling  G lass  w ith   H a rd w a re .

From  Hardware.
There is  no  reason  why  the  sale  of 
glass and glassware should  not  form  an 
important feature in  the retail hardware 
trade.  Window glass  has a natural con­
nection  with  builders’  hardware,  while 
lamps,  fruit jars and many other articles 
into which glass enters might be handled 
conveniently  by  the  hardware  retailer 
who  sells  already  many  articles  for 
household furnishing. 
If  one may sell 
picture  nails  and picture cord,  why  not 
picture glass as well ?
In many towns  glass  is already a part 
of the stock of the hardware retailer, but 
in a greater number this trade  is  left  to 
the druggist or dealers in  builders’  sup­
plies.
In the East, however, such matters are 
more generally controlled by custom than 
in the far West, where the chief develop­
ment of the hardware trade is now taking 
place.  The hardware store which pushed 
its  way  to  the  frontier  along with the 
first settlers has expanded as the pioneers 
have prospered and built up great states, 
and it has  got  into  the  habit of supply­
ing the people with what they want with­
out asking how the  trade  “used  to  be” 
carried on.  But we do not  believe  that 
even  in  the  West,  glass is as generally 
sold by the hardware man as it might be.
A handsome display of lamps and other 
glass goods of general utility  would  add 
to the limited variety of goods which can 
be used  to  ornament  a  hardware store, 
and  by  adding  to  the  attractiveness of 
the place might prove of advantage  to  a 
greater  extent  than  the  mere  profit on 
the glassware sold.  Of late, manufactur­
ers of such goods have made it a point to 
supply glass goods specially suited to the 
hardware trade,  and it is worth while for 
the latter to look into  the  matter  while 
considering the fall and winter  orders.

T hey  C row ed  A gain.

Next to a dog  that amuses  himself  by 
barking all night, a rooster that  persists 
in exercising  his  voice  is  nature’s own 
nuisance,especially when the rooster lives 
in  town.  A  banker  who  used  to  live 
next door to a Dr. White, just beyond the 
city line, owned two little bantam  roost­
ers,  that  he  had  taught  to  crow  for a 
grain of  corn.  He  would  take a double 
handful of  corn  out in his  back  porch, 
lift  his  hand  and  the  chickens  would 
crow.  Then  he  gave a grain to each  of 
them.  This was  continued  until all the 
corn  was  exhausted  and  the  roosters 
were  hoarse.  This  sort  of 
thing  an­
noyed  Dr.  White.  One  day  a  medical 
student dropped into his office  about the 
time the serenade began.
“I’d  give  $5  to  shut off  that  noise,” 
said the doctor.
“You can  do  it  for  less  than  that,” 
said  the  stndent.  “Why don’t  you  en­
tice them into  your back  yard some time 
when old Rufe is down town,  catch them 
and cut their vocal chords ?”
“By  Jove!  That’s  the  thing.  Come 
around  tomorrow at 11 o’clock,  and  as­
sist me  in the  operation.”
The  next day,  at the  appointed  hour, 
the  student was at the office on  time;  so 
were the roosters.
Within two minutes one vocal chord of 
each chicken  was cut,  and  then the birds 
were tossed over the fence to their home. 
At  noon 
the  owner  came  out  on  his 
porch  for  his daily  amusement.  White 
and the student  watched  him  through a 
crack in the fence.  He  lifted  his  hand 
and the little  squallers  reared  back and 
went  through  the  motions,  but  did not 
utter sound.
The banker lifted his hand again,  with 
the same result.  He went  into the  yard 
and walked around his pets,  but couldn’t 
see anything wrong.
Then he called his  wife,  and  the  two 
made  a critical  examination.  He  made 
them go through their  pantomime for an 
hour  and  got  disgusted.  He  tried  it 
every day for a week and  then  killed the 
roosters  and  ate them.  When he found 
out  six  months  afterward  what  White 
had done,  he bought  two  large  donkey­
voiced  parrots, 
to  say,
“-----  Dr.  White,”  and  “White  is  an
ass,” and hung their  cages  in  his  back 
porch.

trained 

them 

Then Dr. White moved.

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

Snell’s ................................................................  
60
Cook’s ................................................................  
40
25
J  ennlngs’, genuine..........................................  
Jennings’,  im itation............•..........................50&10

AUOUR8 AND BITS. 

AXES.

“  
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First Quality, S. B. Bronze............................. 1850
D.  B. Bronze.............................   12 50
S. B. S. Steel..............................   9 50
D. B. Steel................................   1400
Kail road...........................................................S  14 00
G arden....................................................   net  30 00

BABBOWS. 

dlS.

bolts. 

dls.

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

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST. 

Well,  plain....................................................... I 3  50
Well, swivel................................................ 
 

 
dls.
Cast Loose Pin, figured....................................TO*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint................60*10
Wrought Loose Pin...........................................60*10
Wrought  Table................................................. 60*10
Wrought Inside Blind......................................60*10
Wrought  Brass.................................................  
75
Blind,  Clark’s ...................................................70*16
Blind,  Parker’s ................................................. 70*10
Blind, Shepard’s .............................................. 
70

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

40

Grain......................................................... dls. 50*02

Cast Steel.................................................per 1b 
Ely’s 1-10............................................... per m 
Hick’s  C. F ..............................................  
“ 
G. D ........................................ 
“ 
M usket.....................................................  
“ 

CAPS.

 

Kim  F ire........................................................... 
Central  Fire...............................................dls. 

CARTRIDGES.

chisels. 

5

65
60
35
60

50
25

Socket F irm er..................................................70*10
Socket Framing................................................70*10
Socket Corner................................................... 70*10
Socket Slicks................................................... 70*10
Butchers’ Tanged  Firm er.............................. 
40

dls.

dls.

Curry,  Lawrence’s  ........................... 
H otchkiss.........................................................  

 

40
25

BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW BABS.

combs. 

CHALK.

COPPER.

White Crayons, per  gross............... 12@1254 dls. 10

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

dls.

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

DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser p o u n d ...................................  
Large sizes, per  pound...................................  

31
29
28
28
30

50
50
50

07
654

ELBOWS.

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

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dlS.

Clark’s, small, 818; large, 826.........................  
Ives’, 1, *18;  2, *24;  3, *30..............................  

files—New List. 

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

 

30
25

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

12 

14 

28
18

Discount, 60

13 
gauges. 

dls.

 

 

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. 

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HIN G ES.

HAMMERS.

50
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................... 
Maydole  * Co.’s ..................................  dls. 
25
dls. 
Kip’s 
25
Yerkes * Plumb’s...............................  dls. 40*10
Mason's Solid Cast Steel......... 
80c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand 
. .80c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ........................dls.60*l0
State...........................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 454  14  and
longer  ................................... 
354
 
Screw Hook and  Eye, 54.....................   net 
10
*•  %...................... 
“ 
net  854
“  M.......................  net  754
“ 
“ 
“  %.......................  net  754
Strap md T  ........................ 
70
dls.
H A N GERS. 
Barn  Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track  .. .50*10
■ Champion,  anti friction.  ........... 
60410
40
Kidder, wood track ............... 
HOLLOW  W AKE
60
Pots............................................................... 
Kettles..........................................................  
60
Spiders 
60
Gray enameled................................  —  40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware.........................new list 70*10
Japanned Tin Ware............................... 
25
Granite Iron W are......................new list 33)4*10
Bright...................................................... 70*10*10
Screw  Byes.............................................70*10*10
Hook’s .....................................................70*10*10
* Gate Hooks and Eyes...........................   70*10*10

HOUSE  FU R N ISH IN G   GOODS.

w i r e   g o o d s . 

.........  

...... 

dls. 

dis.

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dls.

dls.

NAILS

LOCKS— DOOR. 

MATTOCKS.

MAULS. 
mills. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

Advance over base: 

l e v e l s . 
TO
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s 
—  
55
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings.............. 
56
.........  
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 
Door,  porcelsln, trimmings....................... 
55
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..........  
56
........ 
Rnssell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.'s new list 
Mallory, Wheeler *   Co.’s.............. 
55
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s .................................... 
Adze Bye.....................................   116. <», dls. 60
Hunt Bye.  ................................  
115.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s ...................................... *18.50, dls. 20*10.
dlS.
Sperry * Co.’s, Post,  handled....... . 
50
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .. 

.. 
40
.. 
“  P. S. * W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cli  k’s ................ 
................................. 
“  Enterprise 

40
40
25
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring.......................... 
25
Steel nails, base................................................... 2 10
4 00
Wire nails, base...................................................2 65
60......................................................Base 
50......................................................Base 
40............................... 
05 
30.....................................................  10 
20.........  
15 
16.....................................................  15 
12.....................................................  15 
10.....................................................  20 
8........................................................  25 
7 * 6 ..................................................  40 
4 .......................................................   60 
3 ........................................................1  00 
2.........................................................1  50 
Fine 3................................................ 1  50 
Case  10......................  
60 
8.............................................  75 
6.............................................  90 
Finish 10..........................................   85 
8.............................................1  00 
6  .......................................... 1  15 
Clinch  10.........................................   85 
8..........................................1 00 
6...........................................1  15 
Barrell %...........................................1  75 
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................................dls. 
TO
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 tic per pound extra.

Steel.  Wire.
Base
10
20
20
30
35
35
40
50
65
90
1 50
2 00
2 00
90
1 00
1 25
1 00
1 25
1 50
75
90
1 00
2 50

PA T E N T   P L A N ISH E D   IRO N .

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PLANES. 

BIVETS. 

PANS.

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RO PES.

squares. 

Sisal, 54 Inch and larger.............................   1154
Manilla.........................................................  16
dis.
Steel and Iron..............................................  
Try and Bevels............................................. 
Mitre............................................................  

75
60
20
SH E E T   IRON.Com.  Smooth.  Com.
*3 10
3 20
3 20
3 30
3 40
3 50
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. 25to 26    .................................  4 40 
No. 27 ................................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND  P A P E R .
List acct. 19, ’86.....................  

.  dls. 40*10

BASH  CORD.

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

50
55
50
  “  55
35

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Discount, 10.

SASH  W EIG H TS.

dls.

s a w s . 

tra ps. 

“ 
Hand........................................  
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__ 
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot 
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot.... 
“  Champion  and  Blectric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  root........................................... 

Solid Byes............................................ 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.
dls.
Bright M arket.............................................  65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market............................................   6254
Coppered  Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  3 60
painted....................................  3 60

w ire. 

dls.

“ 

w renches. 

An Sable...............................dis. 25*10@25*10*05
Putnam.......................................... 
dls. 06
dls. 10*10
N orthwestern................................  
dls.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75*10
Bird Cages................................................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
75
50
Screws, New List.........................................  
Casters, Bed  and  Plate...........................50*10*10
Dampers, American.................................. 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods........ 
65

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dlS.

HORSE NAILS.

ZINC.

SO LD ER.

26c
28C

M E T A L S .  
P IG  T IN .
Pig  Large................................
Pig Bars..................................
Duty:  Sheet, 254c per pound.'
680 pound  casks.......................
7*
Per pound................................
754
54@54..................................................................16
Extra W iping.................................................1354
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
Cookson.
.......................per  ponnd  16
Hallett’s
...................... 
13
TIN — M ELYN G RADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................*700
14x20 IC, 
..................................   7 f 0
10x14 IX, 
....................................   8  75
14x20 IX, 
....................................   8 75

Each additional X on this grade, 11.75.

“ 
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“ 

“ 

10x14IC, Charcoal....................................... *625
....................................  6 25
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
...................................   7 75
14x20IX, 
..................................  7  75

TIN — ALLAW AY G RA D E.
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Each additional X on this grade *1.50.

 

ROOFING PLA TES

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“  Worcester.............................   6 25
“ 
..........................   7 75
.........................  18 00
“ 
“  Allaway Grade....................  5 50
“ 
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“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
B O IL E R  SIZ E  T IN  PL A T E .

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
14x28  IX.......................................................»14 00
14x31  IX................................ ........................15 50
,n
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I ___ 
14x60rx!  “ 
io

I per pound  ... 

“  9 

 
 
 

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A P P L E   PRESSES,

S c r e w  an d   L ev er.

7 00
11 50
14 50

SPECIAL  LOW  PRICES.

Foster,  S tevens  &  Co.,

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

10 «-nri 12 Monroe St., 

33, 35, 37, 39 and 4J^Louis St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

TH E  MXCHXaA.lSr  TRADESM AN.

8
Ih e MichiganTradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men's  Association. 

▲  W EEK LY   JO U RN A L  D EVOTED  TO  T H E

Retail  Trade of the Wolilerine State.
Tradesm an  Company, Proprietor.

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

strictly in advance.

Publication  Office, 100 Louis St.

Entered at  the  Grand  Rapid»  Poet  Office.

B.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER  1,  1890.

Much  interesting  information,  never 
before  made public,  will be disclosed  in 
the narrative, begun this week, detailing 
the  attempt  to make  a  success  of  the 
manufacture of wooden corks.  It affords 
T h e T radesm an no small pleasure to be 
able to be the first journal in the country 
to  present  this  unique  and  interesting
history.  ________________

A fireman’s electric hand lamp is being 
introduced in England.  Now let us have 
the  Prince  of  all  Lanterns,  from  this 
initial introduction of the subtle fluid and 
also with an entire new  departure, place 
the light  where it ought to be.  Give  us 
a hat containing  the  tiny battery  which 
shall be donned at night  only,  and bring 
the light  directly to the front  just  over 
the forehead,  leaving  both hands free to 
use in any emergency.  The  age and the 
times demand  it,  and  a  fortune  awaits 
the inventor.________

than  one 

Some good ideas  are  set forth  on  an­
other page this  week  under the head  of 
“ The Ideal  Merchant.”  To  all  of  the 
statements made T h e  T radesm an gives 
hearty  assent,  except  that  a  merchant 
should  carry  more 
line  of 
goods,  in  order  to  accomplish  the best 
results.  While  some  localities and con­
ditions  of  trade demand general  stores, 
others favor the division of business into 
legitimate channels, so that any sweeping 
assertion to the effect that one method of 
merchandising  is  right  and  the  other 
wrong  serves  only  to  display  lack  of 
breadth on the part of the writer.

P rice of D ry  G oods  W ill  Go  Up.

All  lines  of  dry  goods affected by the 
McKinley bill will soon  advance in price 
from 10 to 20 per cent.  All  the  leading 
wholesale dry goods  dealers interviewed 
on this  subject  agree  that  such will be 
the case. 
Just  when  the  advance will 
take place they are not  so certain, but it 
will probably be soon after Oct. 1.  Com­
petition, the stocks on  hand and various 
other  circumstances  may  postpone  the 
rise  in  price,  but they will  not  prevent 
it.  The dealers are as  unanimous in at­
tributing  the  coming  advance  solely to 
the  effect  of  the  McKinley  bill as they 
are that there will be an  advance.  The 
idea  that  it  is  due  to  a  combination 
among dealers is denied all around.  The 
advance,  too,  will  be  in  the  cheaper 
grades of goods in a ratio out of  all pro­
portion to the advance  in  higher  priced 
goods. 

_______

G ood  W o rd s  U nsolicited.

Milo  J.  Thomas,  hardware  and  agricultural 
implements, Corunna,  In d .:  “ Th e  T radesm an 
is a good paper and  well worth the money.

The  Philadelphia*patent  flat-opening 
back is controlled in Michigan by Barlow 
Bros., of  Grand  Rapids.  Don’t  fail  to 
have your next ledger or  journal  bound 
with it. 
It  adds  very  little to the cost 
and makes the strongest blank  book  ever 
known.  Send for prices.

THE  CORNER  STORE.

“So the corner store is let!”  said  Mrs. 
Deane.
“ And high time,” chimed  in  Miss Me­
linda  Murgatroyd,  “since  it  has  stood 
empty ten months, come Christmas!”
“Ah, no wonder!” said old Mrs. Hunter. 
“There’s  been  a  many to look at it,  but 
not one has come the  second  time, after 
they heard of how old Trestles hung him­
self in the middle  of  the  front room,  at 
midnight”
“You  don’t  suppose 
it’s—haunted?” 
said Mrs. Deane.
“I don’t  say  ‘Yes,’ ” said  she,  “and I 
don’t  say  ‘No!’  But  there’s  the  facts. 
You can judge for yourselves.”
“Well, anyhow,” said Miss Murgatroyd, 
“It’s a comfort  to  see  the  place  awake 
and alive again, after  the  wooden  shut­
ters and the ‘To Let’ staring  you  in  the 
face for well-nigh a year!  And it’s  to  be 
a doctor, too!”
“That  makes  four  in  the  village al­
ready,” said Mrs. Deane,  sourly.  “1 won­
der if they expect  to  make  their  living 
off us poor  sufferers!”
“I wonder if he’s a married man,” said 
Miss Melinda,  adjusting  the blue ribbon 
bow  which  she  wore  at  her  withered 
throat, a sort of fluttering signal that her 
maiden  affections were  still  disengaged.
“ Humph!” said old  Mrs.  Hunter,  who 
had three single daughters. 
“We  shall 
all  find  out  in  time,  if  we  wait  long 
enough.”
“If he’s young and agreeable,” said the 
Widow  Percival, who  had  not  hitherto 
mingled in the conversation,  “he  will be 
a decided acquisition to our society.”
“Did  I  understand  that  his  name is 
Doctor  Wigg?”  simpered  Mrs.  Walker, 
who was rather deaf.
“_Ins!” sharply corrected Mrs. Hunter
» I - n- s!*
“Doctor  Ins!”  giggled  Miss  Murga­
troyd.  “What a very peculiar name!  He 
must be of German parentage, or—”
“ Who said anything  about  ‘Dr.  Ins!5 ” 
shrieked old Mrs.  Hunter,  fairly  losing 
“I  think  you’re all gone 
her patience. 
‘Wiggins!’  That’s  the 
crazy  together! 
name!  Neither  ‘Wigg’ or ‘Ins,’ but  both 
together!” 
“A  partnership?”  enquired  Mrs. 
Walker,  with her head on one side like  a 
sickly linnet.  And just then the tea and 
hot  biscuit  came  in,  and the  Dykeville 
Sewing Society broke up its working ses­
sion,  and became transformed into a ban­
queting assembly.
But that the corner store was let, there 
was no kind of doubt.  There was a buzz 
of expectation on the subject,  a  thrill  of 
agreeable anticipation.  Mr.  Jones  had 
heard  that  Dr.  Wiggins  was a married 
man,  with a large family  of  grown sons 
and daughters.  Squire  Goshawk had it, 
on no less  incontrovertible  foundations, 
that he was a young  student, just gradu­
ated,  on the lookout  for a wife. 
It  was 
supposed  that  he  would  occupy, as  an 
office,  the  lower  room,  in  which  the 
lamented Trestles  had  hanged  himself, 
and furnish the  upper apartments either 
as  a  bachelor  sanctum,  or  as  family 
rooms,  according  to  his  needs.  This 
seemed  rather  a  peculiar  location  in 
which to select a home, but then, as Miss 
Melinda  Murgatroyd  observed,  people’s 
tastes differed.  And because old Trestles 
didn’t choose to live there, it was no rea­
son  that  any  one  else  should share his 
prejudices.  And  as  days  crept on, and 
the house was neatly painted outside and 
in,  the missing  panes  of  glass  replaced 
and a new furnace put into the basement, 
the tide of popular curiosity rose  higher 
and  higher.

And at last the little tin sign,

. 

.

D r. W iggins.

was nailed with  four  brass-headed nails 
on the side of the private entrance.
“Very  strange,” said  the  eldest  Miss 
Hunter.  “Why didn’t he have  it  gilded 
in the middle of the bow-window?”
“And put out  his surgical instruments 
and  quinine  bottles,  and  all  the  big 
j double teeth he has drawn, as if he meant 
to  keep  a  store?” sneered  her  brother. 
“That’s  your  idea of  a doctor’s office, is 
it.  But  I  guess  Wiggins  knows better 
than  that.”
“He is no doubt  a  very modest  man,” 
I said  Mrs. Percival,  sighing  behind  her

solemnly enunciated Miss Murgatroyd. 

crape streamers,  “and  does  not  wish to 
obtrude his sign.”
“He’s a jolly old cove,” said Mr. Jones, 
who had met him at dinner.  “And when 
I told him how mad the other  three  doc­
tors were at the news of  his coming into 
the place,  I thought  he’d  have  split his 
sides laughing.”
“I 
“Old!”  cried  Miss  Murgatroyd. 
heard he was just in the  prime  of  life.” 
“ Well,  he’s  forty  odd, if that’s  what 
you call ‘the prime of  life,’ ” said Jones. 
“And you’ll all have  a  chance  to  judge 
for yourselves before long,  for  they  tell 
me he’s going  to move in this week.”
Mrs. Deane was  darning her husband’s 
stockings by the  light of a shaded lamp, 
the  next  evening  but  one,  when  Miss 
Melinda  Murgatroyd  rushed  in,  pale, 
breathless and excited.
“Oh, my dear!  my dear!  such  a  thing 
has happened!” she cried.
“Eh?” said Mrs. Deane.
“He’s avillainr said Miss Murgatroyd. 
“Who is ?” asked Mrs. Deane.
“Doctor Wiggins,  at the corner  store,” 
“Bless me!” said Mrs. Deane.
“A  medical  demonstrator,” said  Miss 
Murgatroyd.  “An  anatomist  A  man 
that deals in—dead bodies!”
“Impossible!”  cried Mrs.  Deane, with 
the needle sticking  straight into the toes 
of the lawyer’s best blue, yam stockings.
“Ah,”  sighed Miss Murgatroyd,  with a 
little hysterical catching for breath,  “it’s 
all very well to  say  ‘impossible;’  but  I 
saw ’em myself. 
I was  just  on  my way 
to the  Dorcas  meeting,  when I saw  the 
wagon drive  up.  All  full  of  things. 
Every  possible  piece  of  furniture  you 
could dream of.  Reclining-chairs, tables, 
glass-cases,  velvet-topped stools—■”
“He’s going  to  open  an  apothecary’s 
shop in connection  with  his  business,” 
exclaimed Mrs. Deane.
“And at the very bottom, my dear, just 
wrapped in sheets,were twopoor corpses!” 
melodramatically exclaimed Miss Murga­
troyd.
Mrs. Deane’s jaw dropped.  “Are  you 
quite sure?”  she asked.
“I saw their poor,  pale faces  myself,” 
replied  Miss  Melinda. 
“The  wretch 
hadn’t even the  decency to cover  them.” 
“Well,  I  never!”  said  Mrs.  Deane. 
“This ought  to  be  seen  to.  Dykeville 
isn’t a place to countenance  such  iniqui­
ties. 
I’ll let Deane know right off.  He’s 
smoking his pipe in his  office,  snug  and 
handy!”
“And I’ll  step  over  to  Hunter’s,  and 
mention the thing to Squire Goshawk, on 
the way,”  excitedly cried  Miss  Melinda, 
with the sensation of  a modern  Joan  of 
Arc.
Dr. Wiggins  had had a hard time mov­
ing  his  worldly goods  from  the freight 
depot of  the Boxtown & Dykeville  Rail­
way.  His skeleton had become disarticu­
lated,  and the manikin had been doubled 
up under a forty-pound demijohn of  car­
bolic  acid,  and  hopelesly ruined.  The 
bottles were broken in  his  case  of  best 
Otard brandy;  he couldn’t find his ampu­
instruments;  and  his  favorite 
tating 
meerschaum  had  cracked in two pieces.
“I’ll be hanged  if  ever  you  catch me 
moving again !”  he fervently ejaculated, 
as he sat down  to  eat  some  bread  and 
meat out of a paper, in front of  a smoky 
fire,  and drink cold  coffee from a tin can 
which  leaked.  And  just  then  there 
came a solemn tap-tap-tap at his door.
“My first  patient,”  thought  Dr.  Wig­
gins,  hiding the bread and meat behind a 
medical encyclopaedia,  and  hurrying  to 
open the door.
There stood three tall  men:  Leonidas 
Hunter,  Squire  William  Goshawk  and 
Mr. Deane.
“Walk in,  gentlemen;  walk  in,”  said 
the doctor;  and he rubbed his hands,  and 
looked at them with an air of smiling ex­
pectancy.  “In what way can I serve you 
this evening ?”
“Sir,”  said Squire Goshawk,  “we’re a 
peaceable  and 
law-abiding  populace 
here,  but  there are  some  things  which 
human flesh and blood can’t stand.”
“And this is one of ’em,” sputtered Mr. 
Deane.
“We  can’t  allow  it,”  said  Leonidas 
Hunter.
“You must  either  leave  Dykeville  or 
abandon that branch of your profession,” 
said Mr.  Deane.

“And the  sooner  you  understand this 
fact, the better,” added Squire Goshawk, 
with dignity.
All the  while they spoke  the  eyes  of 
the  three  inquisitors  were  wandering 
around the room in a restless, erratic sort 
of  way,  which  struck  the  doctor  with 
amazement.
“Gentlemen,” said he,  “what on earth 
do you mean ?”
“Where  are  they?”  said  Squire  Go- 
shdwk«
“I  don’t  know  what  you’re  talking 
about,” said Doctor Wiggins.
“No  equivoques,  sir,”  sternly uttered 
Mr. Deane.  “You  are  greatly mistaken 
if  you  think  that the criminal law  will 
not reach you.”
“We allude, sir,”  said  Leonidas  Hun­
ter “to the bodies.”
“What bodies ?” said  Doctor  Wiggins. 
“Come,”  said the lawyer,  “this  won’t 
go down !  They were  seen to be carried 
into this house,  wrapped in white sheets, 
in the broad light of—of—” he was going 
to say  “day,”  but  corrected  himself  by 
adding:  “the street-lamps!”
“Oh!”  said  Doctor  Wiggins,  a  light 
breaking in upon the  troubled  darkness 
of his brain.  “O-o-h!  Y es!  Exactly!  I 
understand!”
And then Doctor Wiggins fell back into 
the dislocated  chair,  and  laughed  until 
he was  purple in the face.
“H a! h a ! h a !” he chuckled.  “They’re 
down-stairs !  H a!  h a !  h a !  Come  and 
look at them !”
“The man is devoid of natural feeling,” 
thought the three gentlemen.  But  they 
accompanied him down-stairs to  the  big 
store,  where heaps  of  boxes,  bales  and 
draperies  lay  about,  and,  standing  up 
against the  counter,  the  senseless faces 
of two life-sized wooden figures simpered 
at them.
“They belong to Miss Mix, the milliner 
who has rented the store of me,” said Dr. 
Wiggins.  “To put in  the  window,  you 
know,  with fashionable gowns and spring 
bonnets on ’em !  And you really believed 
they were dead bodies ?  Ha, ha,  h a !  Ha, 
ha,  h a !”
And off  went Dr.  Wiggins into a fresh 
paroxysm of laughter, in which the three 
gentlemen joined but feebly.  There was 
a  joke  in  the  matter, undoubtedly, but 
they didn’t see it.
Miss Mix  “opened”  the next day,  with 
a fine  assortment  of  seasonable  goods; 
and by the noon train  Mrs.  Wiggins and 
the six little Wigginses arrived.  And the 
feminine  neighborhood  has  ceased  to 
take  any interest  in  the  affairs  of  the 
new-comers;  and  Squire  Goshawk,  Mr. 
Deane and Leonidas Hunter unanimously 
say:
“We guess the ladies will know  it,  the 
next  time  we  are  induced  to meddle in 
other people’s business!”

A my Ra n d o lph.

Jacob J. Baker,  the Grand Haven gro­
cer,  was in town last  Thursday, for  the
first time in three years.______
VISITING  BUYERS.

Kent City

Vriesland

8 T Colson, Alaska

Grandvllle  J Kinney, Kinney 

A C Cutter, Traverse City
E E Hewitt, Rockford 
Geo A Sage, Rockford 
8 T McLellan, Denison

WatrousA Bags ford, WTroy
Alex Denton,  Howard City 
J Rodgers, Hastings 
J Dursema, Fremont 
Nelson Hlgbee, Morley
F A Jenlson, Man ton
Forest Grove  Hansen Bros, Morley 

C 8 Comstock, Pierson  Warne A Calkins, E Jordan
C E Coburn, Pierson 
W N Hutchinson. Orant 
Earl Bros, Glen  Arbor 
Mas ton A Hammond, 
E N Parker,Coopersville  O'Conner A Thompson.
Geo E Marvin,Clarksville 
Eli Runnels. Corning 
G M Hartwell,Cannonsburg Jas Gleason, Volney 
H Meijering, Jamestown  Den Herder  A Tame,
H Van Noord,  Jamestown 
L Cook, Bauer 
J Riddering, Drenthe 
G H Walbrink, Allendale 
Geo Schiechlet, No Dorr  G 8 Putnam, Fruitport 
M Minderhout, Hanley 
D C Blood, Whitney vllle  Casper Schutt,  Lakevlew 
Dean Bros, Freesoil 
Small egan A Pickaard, 
J H Hoogstraat. Conklin  Robt Johnson, Cadillac 
L O Granger,  Charlotte 
John Baker, Chauncey 
J J Baker, Grand Haven 
E 8 Pase, Cedar Springs 
A Norris A Son,  Oasnovia  A L Crawford, Ionia 
J W Colburn A Bro, 
D N White, Petoskey
O F Sears, Rockford 
J L Purchase, Bauer
Hessler Bros., Rockford  W R Lawton, Berlin 
Barry A Co., Rodney 
W D  Strulk,  Byron  Center
L N Fisher, Dorr 
Brookings Lumber Co,
W Watson, Parmalee 
JWRutherford.Hungerford T Van Eenenaam,  Zeeland 
O W Knox, Hart 
John Damstra, Gitchell
J N Wait, Hudsonvllle 
D D Plumb, Mill Creek 
Walling Bros., Lamont 
B Gilbert A Co., Moline
John Gunstra, Lamont 
J D Noah, Moline
J H Manning, Lake P O 
E A Hoyt, E Jordan
L A L Jenlson, Jenisonville A M Church, English vllle 
H Morley, Cedar Springs
J Ritzema, Gd Haven 
H T Hamilton, Sand Lake  A C Barkley, Crosby 
L E Paige, Sparta 
M E Snell, Wayland
Isaac Quick. Allendale
C AjBrott, Moorland 
E w & N L  Noble,Muskegon Smith A Bristol, Ada 
A Steketee, Holland 
G Ten Hoor,  Forest  Grove
M Heyboer A Bro., Oakland
A W Fenton. Bailey 
8 McNitt, Byron Center  Mrs A H Barber, Saranac 
L L Holmes A Connell, 
H O Ward, Btanwood 

Caledonia  A J White, Bass Rlrer 

Brookings

Belding

sarily stunted,  he  is  constantly  on  the 
lookout for new lines to add.
That  he  insists  on  strict  economy in 
all branches of his business goes without 
saying,  but his economy stops a long way 
short  of  parsimony.  The  expense  ac­
count is watched  sharply,  and  its  debit 
side kept down to the last penny, but our 
ideal merchant is  not the one to “save at 
the spigot and  lose  at  the  bung.”  He 
does  not,  for  instance,  groan  in  spirit 
every time an advertising bill is presented 
for payment, nor begrudge clerk hire for 
enough  people to  wait on his trade com­
fortably.
He is strictly honorable in all his deal­
ings,  because  he is an honest  man,  but 
he would be  anyway because  he  knows 
“honesty  is  the  best  policy.”  He  is 
shrewd enough to see  that  a  reputation 
for integrity and honorable dealing is the 
only safe basis on  which to build a busi­
ness.
Our ideal merchant is thorough  in  all 
he does, fearless of adverse criticism, and 
a law unto himself in matters pertaining to 
his business.  He pays his bills promptly 
and is firm in insisting that his customers 
shall settle  their  accounts on time.  He 
believes  in  large  sales  at  a  small  per 
cent, of profit rather than  the  converse, 
because he knows  the  latter plan fixes a 
narrow limit to one’s ambition.  He pays 
his employes  well  enough,  so that  they 
willingly  give  him  their  best  abilities. 
He is  courteous  and  affable to everyone 
and requires that all  under  him shall be 
the  same.

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. 

See Quotations in Another Column.
CONSIGNMENTS OF  ALL  KINDS OF  WILD GAME  SOLICITED.____________

Salt  Fish
Muskegon Cracker Co
L A R G E S T  
457,  459,  461,  463  W.  WESTERN AVENUE, 
No  CoimecttOD  with  My  M et  Trost

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PA ID   TO  MAIL  ORDERS.

CRACKERS, BISCUITS  AND  SWEETiGOODS.

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

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V A R I E T Y  I N  T H E  S T A T E

FINANCIAL.

L ocal  S to ck   Q u o tatio n s.

Reported by the Michigan Trust Company.
Anti-Kalsomine  Co.......................................... ISO
Alpine Gravel Road Co...................................   77
Alaine Manufacturing Co.................................60
Belknap Wagon & Sleigh Co............................100
Canal Street Gravel  Road Co..........................   80
Fifth National Bank.........................................100
Fourth National Bank......................................100
Grand Rapids  Brush Co....................................85
Grand Rapids Packing  and Provision Co.  ...102
Grand Rapids Fire insurance Co.................... 105
Grand Rapids Electric Light and Power Co...  75
Grand Rapids  Savings Bank...........................120
Grand Rapids Chair Co  .................................. 110
Grand Rapids National Bank...........................135
Grand Rapids Felt Boot Co..............................107
Grandville Avenue  Plank Road Co................150
Kent County Savings Bank..............................125
Michigan Barrel Co............... 
100
New England  Furniture Co..............................95
National City Bank.......................................... 132
Old National  Bank.......................................... 132
Plainfield Avenue Gravel Road Co...................25
Phcenix Furniture Co.......................................  60
Sligh Furniture  Co..........................................  85
Street Railway Co. of Grand Rapids..............  40
Walker Gravel  Road Co  ................................   80
Peninsular Club 4 per cent. Bonds...................75

 

The Ideal Merchant.

H. P. Knapp in the  Drummer.
Doubtless, every man engaged in trade, 
wholesale or retail,  pictures for  himself 
an ideal business man.  This  ideal  may 
or may not be traced  out  in its  author’s 
mind,  but all of us have some kind of  an 
idea  of  what a business  man should be. 
Perhaps  nobody realizes  his  ideal,  and 
very few  even approach theirs,  but it is 
at least  well to have  them  placed high. 
An  arrow  shot  toward  the  stars  goes 
higher than one shot at the ground.  Our 
own ideal will perhaps not accord exactly 
with that of  any one of  our readers,  but 
we are  safe  in  guaranteeing  that  who­
ever will adopt it for  his  own,  and  en­
deavor  to  live  up  to  it,  will  make  a 
marked success of  any business  he  may 
enter.
In the first place,  our ideal merchant is 
thoroughly self-reliant.  He  has learned 
to lean on himself  and  ask help from no 
one.  He does not care  the  snap  of  his 
finger what other business men have done 
in the past  or  are  doing to-day.  He  is 
not bound to any particular policy merely 
because it is in  general  use. 
If  a  new 
thing is good  and an old one bad,  he ac­
cepts the former and  rejects  the  latter, 
or vice  versa.  He  always  prefers  an 
original idea to a borrowed one.
He  is  wide-awake,  energetic  and  ag­
gressive, always up with the  times,  and 
sometimes in advance of them.  He keeps 
both eyes  open  to see that all goes on in 
his own business  and  outside it as well. 
He  is a thorough-going  “pusher,”  driv­
ing  business  hard  in  busy seasons  and 
working  like a beaver  to make it at dull 
periods.
His trained  judgment enables  him  to 
preserve a happy  balance  between  cau­
tion and “nerve.”  When an opportunity 
presents  itself 
to  make  an  increased 
profit by some unusual outlay, he weighs 
the matter carefully, and if his judgment 
pronounces it a wise  venture  he  is  not 
held  back by the  timidity which  handi­
caps most men.  He is  willing  to  “take 
chances,”  if  the probable returns are in 
proper proportion, and when the outcome 
is adverse, as it must  be  sometimes,  he 
salves the hurt  with  the  reflection  that 
the experience  gained is worth  more  to 
him than the money lost.
Our ideal merchant fixes no limit to his 
ambition.  He  is  never  satisfied  with 
what  has  been  gained,  but  pushes  on 
tirelessly for  higher  ground.  He  may 
prosper more than  he  dared  hope at the 
beginning, but his ambition is of the sort 
which grows on success.

His ideas are too broad  and  his  ambi 
tion too high to  be  confined  within  the 
cramped limits of any one set line of bus 
iness.  He  must  have room to grow. 
If 
he sees that he can  add  another  line  of 
goods profitably, he  does  so,  regardless 
of  the shock to the supersensitive nerves 
of  poky, 
long-settled  competitors.  He 
makes business a business  and  is  eager 
to claim  every opportunity he honorably 
may. 
It is plain  to  him  that  the  men 
who  make a success  nowadays are those 
who handle several lines  of  goods  with 
but a single  rent  and one set  of  clerks 
Therefore,  as he is in business  to  make 
money, he follows their example.  Seeing 
clearly that when a business is restricted 
to one line of  goods its growth is  neces

TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

9
F. J. D ETTEN TH A LER,

JOBBER  OF

Oysters

-AND-

Purely  Personal.

Thos. Yan Eenenaam, general dealer at 
Zeeland,  was in town one day last week.
the  elongated  Big 
Rapids grocer,  was  in  town one day last 
week.

J.  Frank  Clark, 

Gideon  Kellogg,  the  large-sized  belt 
manufacturer, of Chicago,  was  in  town 
several days last week.

John Pain, formerly with Delano & Co., 
at Allegan,  has  taken a position  in  the 
office of the Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.

F.  A. Earl,  of  the firm of  Earl  Bros., 
saw and shingle  mill  operators and gen­
eral dealers at Glen  Arbor,  was in town 
three days last week.

Michael Ducey is no longer  a  member 
of the firm of Kellogg,  Ducey  &  McCau­
ley,  belt manufacturers  at Chicago,  hav­
ing recently retired from the firm.

Henry F.  Webb,  the  Cassopolis  drug­
gist,  was in town last  Friday on his way 
to Traverse Point,  where he will spend a 
month.  He  was  accompanied  by  his 
wife.

A. B.  Dean,  of the firm of  Dean Bros., 
druggists  at  Freesoil,  was in town  over 
Sunday.  He  was  accompanied  by  his 
bride,  and they were on  their  way home 
from their wedding trip.

C U R T I S S   &   CO.,

WHOLESALE

Paper  Warehouse,

FLOUR  SACKS,  GROCERY  BAGS,  TWINE  AND  WOODEN  WARE.

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Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in  Oils 

and Makers of Pine Lubiicants•

OFFICE—19 and 21 Waterloo St. 

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Jobbers  of all kinds of 
Cylinder Oils, Engine Oils, W. Va.  Oils, Lard  Oils,  Neatsfoot  Oils,  Harness  Oil, 
Signal Oil, Axle Grease,  Boiler Purger, Kerosene  Oils,  Naptha,  Turpentine,  Lin­
seed Oils, Castor Oil, Cooking Oils, Axle  Oils,  Machinery  Grease,  Cotton  Waste, 
Etc. 

See Quotations.
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Dealers in ENGINES, BOILERS and MILL MACHINERY, Farm Machinery, 

Agricultural Implements, "Wagons and Carriages.
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W ool H ig h er— H ides  a n d   T allow  Firm .
Wools have sold freely the past  week; 
in fact,  the largest sales  for a long time. 
Prices have been better and  dealers  feel 
more hopeful.  Prices are back to where 
they were in July,  and conservative buy­
ers can see a margin on  their purchases. 
The  market  is  firm  and  at good prices 
and ready sales.

Hides are firm at the last  decline, with 
good demand,  but tanners  will  not  pay 
any advance.

Tallow  is  firm  and in  good  demand. 

The supply is limited.

Bank  Notes.

Smith  Cole & Co.  will  engage  in  the 
banking business at  Battle  Creek  about 
Oct.  1.

The Ionia  County  Savings  Bank  has 
declared a stock dividend of  50 per cent, 
and placed $5,000 more stock on the mar­
ket,  making  the  present  capital of  the 
institution $5,000.

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TETE  M ICm OASr  TRADESM AN,

Stale  Board  of  Pharm acy. 

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

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 

President—D. E. Prall. Saginaw.
First Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. 
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor. 
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—C. A. Bugbee. Cheboygan.
Treasurer—W m Dupont, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in  October, 1891._______ _
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President. J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott.
Brand Rapids D rug Clerks’ Association, 
•resident, 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. Tinholt.

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E lem en ts  o f S uccess 
B usiness.

th e   D rug 
The  successful  druggist  requires  the 
personal supervision of  a person  who  is 
a business man as  well  as a pharmacist.
It  takes  even  more  than  this,  for  the 
manager  must  be  personally  identified 
with the business  in  order to succeed to 
the best advantage.  The trade of a drug 
store is entirely different from  that  of  a 
shoe store or any other  of  the lines that 
combine and are  owned by some capital­
ist.  By judicious advertising, these con­
cerns draw trade from remote sections of 
the city or even from neighboring towns. 
The drug store cannot do this.  Custom­
ers look for some  store  near  their  resi­
dence  or  place  of  business.  They go 
there  because  definite  business  in  the 
way of a prescription  or  order for drugs 
demands  it.  Clearing  sales  and price 
slaughtering days cannot draw trade in a 
drug store.
The inability of capital successfully to 
conduct a store  under  the  management 
of  some  one  else  is shown in all of the 
large cities where wholesale firms attempt 
it.  No matter how competent a clerk is 
secured  to  manage a store,  it  does  not 
pay as it would in the hands of  the  pro­
prietor.  When  a  wholesale firm  comes 
in  possession  of a store,  they  are  ever 
ready to dispose of it,  for experience has 
taught them the fallacy of attempting  to 
keep a store with the  idea  of  making  a 
double  profit  by  pocketing  both  the 
wholesale and retail margin. 
It is even 
questionable whether it pays  a  druggist 
to own more than one retail store.  Some 
times under peculiarly favorable circum 
stances a druggist  can  look  after  more 
than  one  store  and  make money out of 
all of them.  The  rule is otherwise and 
we find that the  majority  of  those  who 
open a second or third store are ready  to 
sell it after a few months or years.
When a general  view  is taken  of  the 
retail drug business of this country,  and 
the pharmacists are picked  out  who  are 
making a success  of  their occupation,  it 
will be found that the  men  selected  are 
such as  would  succeed  in  any  line  of 
business undertaken.  On the other hand 
the  unfortunate  ones  would  have been 
just as unlucky in  any other line as that 
of pharmacy.  This is encouraging to the 
young man who has  determined to make 
a success of  life even  if  it  does require 
hard work. 
It  is  equally discouraging 
to  those  who  have  conceived  the  idea 
that  many  druggists are lucky  in  busi 
ness  and  that a lucky  star  shines  over 
their heads.

In co m p eten t  P h arm acists.

From  the  Western  Druggist.

literature  that 

At the present  day we  have  so  many 
good colleges of pharmacy located in this 
country  and  such a flood  of  pharmacal 
works  and  current 
knowledge of  the  drug  business can  be 
gained at a small  cost  in  money and en 
ergy  by  those  who  earnestly  seek  it. 
This  lessens  the  excuse  for  some  who 
hold responsible positions as pharmacists 
without  the  proper  knowledge  of  the 
goods which are handled.  We  refer  to 
some  of  those  who were  registered  on 
account  of  being in business  when  the 
pharmacy law passed, or  who are violat­
ing the legal regulation of  their state by 
not registering.  Yes, and in some states 
we find the self-styled druggist  who does 
not know  enough  about the business  to

recognize a dozen common  drugs bat has 
certificate from the board of  pharmacy 
entitling him  to  dispense  prescriptions. 
This has been issued on the result  of  an 
examination.  Fortunately for  the  fair 
name of  the profession which  druggists 
follow  the number  of  such incompetent 
druggists  is  growing  beautifully  less, 
but still there are many of them scattered 
all  over  the  country.  They  must  be 
eliminated by the  process  of  evolution, 
and it is the duty of  every pharmacist in 
the land to see that the  clerks  hired are 
suited to the  work and get a start on the 
right road to a pharmacal  education. 
It 
is difficult to reach  or  reform those now 
business, for  they find  no  time  nor 
use for journals or new books.  To them 
Dispensatory is a library in itself  and 
the date  of  the  work  makes  but  little 
difference  unless  they  are  baying  one, 
when the older  it  is  the  less  the  cost. 
The  National  Formulary  and  revised 
Pharmacopoeia are out  of  the  question. 
Their almanacs are  revised  every  year, 
and the manufacturers of pharmaceuticals 
furnish free of charge formularies which 
tell how to manufacture everything from 
fluid extracts.  They  never  attend  the 
meetings of state or local associations and 
do not recognize  any obligations to other 
pharmacists,  the physician or the public. 
May their shadows ever grow less.

S ystem .

F a v o rs  th e   A doption  o f 

th e   M etric 
The  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso­
ciation,  in convention  assembled  at  Old 
Point Comfort  last  month,  adopted  the 
following resolutions:

W h er ea s,  The  Constitution  of  the 
United States imposes upon Congress the 
duty  of  establishing  fixed  standards of 
weights and measures for the use  of  the 
people:  and
W h er ea s,  The customary weights and 
measures in use in the United  States are 
arbitrary,  unsystematic, 
inconvenient 
and indefinite, governed partly  by  Eng­
lish law,  partly by  tradition  and  partly 
by chance;  and
W h er ea s,  N o  laws  of  the  United 
States  exist  establishing a national  sys­
tem  of  weights and measures  or  fixing 
the values of the customary units;  there 
fore,  be it
Resolved,  By  the  American  Pharma­
ceutical  Association,  that  Congress  be 
and is  hereby  respectfully  requested to 
consider without  unnecessary  delay  the 
importance  of  legislation upon this sub­
ject;  and further
Resolved,  That it is  the  sense  of  this 
Association  that  it  would be worthy of 
the dignity  of  the  American  nation  to 
celebrate  the  400th  anniversary  of  the 
discovery of  America by the adoption of 
the decimal system of  weights and meas 
ures  in  all  Governmental  transactions 
and for  purposes  of  foreign  and  inter 
state commerce, to take effect on the date 
of the landing of  Christopher  Columbus 
on this  continent.

B uying  H er  F irs t  S h irts.

From the New Tork Furnisher.

“Good morning, madam ?”
“I wish to see some men’s shirts.”
“For yourself ?”
“Men’s  shirts.”
“For your brother?”
“The size is thirteen and a half.” 
“Young  man?”
“About my age.”
“Of course I would not dare—” 
“ Nineteen.”
“What kind of a shirt does your brother 
“Oh,  something  that  sets  up  well 
“Jaunty ?  For your brother ?”
“I know what I want—I mean what he 
“I think this cheviot will about fit him.’ 
“You  guarantee this fit?”
“Well if  you would like to—that is,  if 
your  brother  would  like  to  try it on— 
why—”

want?”
around the neck—something jaunty.” 

“Wrap it up !”
“Anything else ?”
“Yes, a four-in-hand—blue.”
“How does this strike you ?”
“Do  you  think it would go well  with 
this dress ?”
“Ah !”
“Pshgw !” 

wants.”

[Exit]

head.

clothes,

The  P uzzled  Drug:  C lerk.

The  drug  clerk  was  sitting  in  slumber  and 

A prescription he handed to him of the doze; 

When a stranger came in to be waited on;
With result that he ne’er calculated on.

The squill brewer stared at the paper he read,
The first item  called,  and  he  scratched  at  his 

As a child at a novel Invention;

For a half ounce of “tincture of gentian.”

before,

But the next  was  a  something  he’d  ne’er seen 

store

So he went to his boss and he  buzzed ’im,
Pray tell me, oh  master,  have  we  now  in the 
Such a thing as ‘infusion ejusdem ?’
Tincture of gentian, Infusion ejusdem—
Half ounce of the former to six  of  the  next,” 
The  “boss”  was  cafuzzled,  the  doctors,  he 
And  he  and  his  clerk  were  both  sadly  per­

cussed ’em,
plexed.

Then the “boss”  told  the  purchaser, “sorry In­

But we’re out of ‘infusion ejusdem,’

If you’ll call In the morning, we’ll look  to  your 
And we thank you, kind sir, for your custom.”
Then  the  clerk  sailed  away  with  intelligent 

need

On a tack for “Infusion ejusdem;”

Not a druggist  he  found  that had heard of the 

luff.

deed,

stuff/

With confusion, th’ infusion befuzzed ’em.

store,

Then he  wended  his  way  to  his  boss and the 

Not a bit of “ejusdem” was hid in its lore,

And the pharmacopoea was studied;
And the minds of  the twain became muddled.

same,

While in fearful dilemma the customer came 
And demanded his hard to-fix mixture;
Good morning,” said he, who was “out” of the 
“I am sorry to say we can’t fix yer.
We’ve asked  every  druggist  and  clerk  in  the 
For this wondrous ‘infusion ejusdem,’
Can produce it, tho’ shelves they have mussed 

But nary a ‘piller,’ for paper or siller,

town

’em.”

‘Well, this is amusing,” quoth he of the  buy, 
And he laughed his suspenders to bust ’em; 
‘You’re a beautiful  lot,  thus the public to guy 
With your blasted ‘infusion ejusdem.’
‘Infusion ejusdem’s a tea of  the same.
Of that ‘same’ you have plenty, ’tis gentian. 
The law would do well if for you she’d prescribe 
An infusion of Latin declension.

W illiam S. B rooke.

L a rg e   C hecks.

Probably the  largest  individual  check 
ever  issued  was  recently given by Van­
derbilt for $8,000,000.  When  the  Penn 
ylvania Company acquired a controlling 
interest in the Philadelphia, Wilmington 
&  Baltimore  Railway, a few  years  ago, 
it gave a check on the  National  Bank of 
Commerce  for  $14,000,000. 
It  is no un­
common thing  for  the  Treasurer of  the 
United  States  to  make “reimbursement 
drafts  on  the  Assistant  Treasurer  at 
New York for  $20,000,000 and upward.
c x x r s z x r c   r o o t .

We pay the highest price for it.  Addreaa 

D W   T j u n o   W h o le s a le   D r u g g ist* . 
t T lO n .  -D-UiU o . i 

G R A N D   R A P ID S .

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For Infants and Invalids.  ]
¡Used  everywhere,  with  unqualified! 
¡success.  Not a medicine, but a steam 
cooked  food,  suited  to  the  weakest! 
stomach.  Take  no other.  Sold  bv* 
druggists.  In cans. 35c. and upwardJ 
W o o l b ic h   &  Co. on every labeU

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m a n u f a c t u r e r s  of

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LATEST
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FOR
Interior

AND

EXTERIOR
DECORATION 
F. J. WURZBURG, Wholesile Agen

GRAND  RAPIDS.

F o rm u la  fo r  "L o v e  P o w d ers.”

A correspondent of  the  Medical  Brief 
asked for a formula for  “love  powders” 
and was informed that the following had 
never been known to fail, when prepared 
and used as directed:
Take  the  blood  of  a  wooden  mallet, 
brains of an iron wedge,  stir  them up  in 
a hog’s left ear  with a blue cat’s feather 
percolate through the skin of a 3,000-year 
old Egyptian mummy of  female  persua­
sion,  evaporate  for  ninety-nine  years, 
then pulverize in the left hind hoof  of  a 
common house fly.  Dose, sixteen ounces 
three times a day,  always  before  break­
fast. 

_____ _ 
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The D rug  M arket.

Opium  and  morphia  are  unchanged. 
Quinine is easier.  Prussiate  potash  has 
advanced.  Alcohol is lower,  on account 
of  the trust cutting  the price, to compel 
wholesale  druggists  to  buy from  them 
instead  of  “outside houses.”  Castor oil 
has  declined. 
Imported  bay  rum  has 
advanced,  on  account  of  the  increased 
duty  of  the  McKinley  tariff  bill.  Oil 
cubebs has declined.  Oil  pennyroyal  is 
lower.  Oil  wintergreen  is  lower.  Sal 
soda has advanced.

A  D isobedient  P atien t.

Irate  Patron—You  advertise  to  cure 
consumption, don’t you ?
Doctor Quack—Yes,  sir. 
I  never fail 
when my instructions are followed.
Irate Patron—My son took  your  medi­
cine for  a  year  and  died an hour  after 
the last dose.
Doctor  Quack—My  instructions  were 
not followed. 
I  told  him to take it two 
years.

It is asserted by many physicians  that 
as a  stimulant  nothing  equals a cup  of 
freshly-made, hot coffee.  As a substitute 
for spirits  of  any kind  there is nothing 
better.  Coffee  is also a universal  disin­
fectant and a small  quantity of  the  raw 
berry burned on some  live coals or a hot 
metal surface in the sick room is in some 
contagious diseases almost a specific,

Do  You  Observe  the  Law ?

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

If not, send II to
For their combined

LIQUOR i POISON RECORD.

'THE  W EAR  IS  THE  TRUE  TEST 

OF  VALU E."

We still have in stock  the well-known brand

P io n e e r

P rep a red

P a in t.

MIXED  READY  FOR  USE.

Having sold  same  to  our  trade  for  over  ten 
years, we  can  say it  has  fnlfilled 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,  M ICH.

P O L IS  H IN A  TBE ! M TURB

BOLE  AGENTS

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A.  J .  B o w s e , P resid en t.

G e o .  C. P ie r c e ,  Vice President.

CAPITAL, 

-  - 

H.  w .  Nash, Cashier
-  $300,000.

T ra n sa cts a  g en era l  b a n k in g   b u sin e ss.

Specialty
Country M erchants Solicited.

o f

T H hi  MICHlG^LlSr  TRADESM AN

1 1

Wholesale lárice Current•

Advanced—Prussiate Potash. 
Declined—Oil Cubebs, Oil Wintergreen, Oil Pennyroyal, Castor Oil, Alcohol.

. . . . . .

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
Plcis Llq, N.  C., % gal
doz  .........................  @2  00
Plcis Llq., quarts......  @1 00
pints.........   @  70
Pii Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 18
Piper Alba, (po g5) —   @  35
Pix  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumb! A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......   @125
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®  35
Quassiae.................... 
8®  10
Quinia, S. P. & W ......  39®  44
S.  German__  30®  40
Rubia  Tinctorum......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactis pv..  @ 35
Salacin......................1  80@2 00
Sanguis  Draconls......  40®  50
Santonine  .................  @4 50
W ......................  12®  14
Sapo,
8®  10
M....................... 
G.......................  @  15

“ 

Seidlitz  Mixture........  @  25
Sinapls.......................   @  18
“  opt..................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 13).  .  12®  13
Soda  et Potass Tart...  30®  33
Soda Carb.................  1)4®  2
Soda,  Bi-Cart)............   @  5
Soda,  Ash..................   3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......  @2 00
“  Myrcia Imp........  @2 50
2 10).........................  @2 20
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal......   @1  10
Sulphur, Subl..............2)4® 3)4
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae..............  50®  55
Vanilla......................9 00@16 00
7®  8
Zincl  Sulph.

“  Roll..............  2M@ 3

Vinl  Rect.  bbl.

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   55 
Lard, No.  1...............   45 
Linseed, pure raw —   62 

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
50
65

“ 

paints. 

68
Llndseed,  boiled  —   65 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.................  50 
69
Spirits Turpentine—   44)4  50
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian..............IX  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__IX  2@4
“ 
Ber........IX  2@3
Putty,  commercial— 2)4  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure......2)4 2X@3
Vermillou Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English—   80@82
Green,  Peninsular......  70@75
Lead,  red....................  @7)4
“  w hite................  @7)4
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’........  @90
1 00 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
140
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1 4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
Paints.....................1 00@1  20
No. lTurp  Coach....1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................ 160@1  70
Coach  Body...............2 75@3  00
No. 1 Turp Fum ........1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar— 1  55@1 60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp.........................  70®  75

cliff.............. 

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HAZELTINE

&  PERKINS 

DRUG CO.

Importers  and  Jobbers of

-DRUGS---

Chemicals  and  Druggists’  Sundrier.

Dealers in

Patent  MediGines,  Paints,  Oils, liarnisliBS.

Sole  Agents  fo rth e  Celebrated  Pioneer  Prepared  Paints.

We  are  Sole  Proprietors of

WEATHERLY’S  MICHIGAN  CATARRH  REMED7

We have in stock and offer a full line of

CTbislsies, Brandies,

Gins,  tSTlnes, Brune.

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

Henderson County, Hand Made  Sour Mash 

W hisky and Druggists’ Favorite 

Rye  W hisky.

W e sell Liquors for M edicinal Purposes only.
W e give our Personal Attention to Mail  Orders  and  Qua 
A ll orders are Shipped and  Invoiced  the  sam e  day  we s © 

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

fkeltine  4 Perkins  Dnig  Go.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

ic m in .

Acetlcum...................  8®  10
Benzoicum  German..  80@1  00
BoTacic  .................... .........30
Carbollcum................  33®  40
Cltricum....................   SO®  65
Hydrochlor................  3®  5
Nltrocum 
.................   10@  12
Oxalicum...................  U@  13
Phosphorium dll........ 
....20
Salley licum ...............1  40@1 80
Sulphuricum......... ... •  IX®  #
Tannlcum..................1 40@1  60
Tartaricum.................  40®  «

a m m o n i a .

Aqua, 16  deg..............  g® 
J
Carbonas  ...................  JJ®  JJ
Chloridum.................  12®  14

a n il in e.

Black............................. 2 ¡*¡@2 j®
Brown.............................  Sjj®1
f c : : : . : ..............2 6o@3oo

baccae.

Cubeae (po. 1  60...........1  60®1  TO
Ju n ip eru s....................... 
8® iu
Xantnoxylum................  25® 30
'
BAL8AM UM . 
Copaiba........................ 
®
P ero;.............................  @1  31»
Terabin, C an a d a .......  35®  40
T olutan..........................  45®

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian.................   18
Cassiae  .................................... 
i i
Cinchona F la v a ...................  «
Euonymus  atropurp............
Myrica  Cerlfera, po..............  »0
Prunus Virginl......................  J“
Quillaia,  grd.........................   “
Ulmus Po (Ground  12).........  10

EX TBACTUM .

po........

Glycyrrhlza  G labra...  24®
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®
is ................   13®
2 b............   16®  «
FEB R U M .

“ 
•< 
« 

Carbonate P red p ........ 
*£
Citrate and Q uinia—   @3  50
Citrate  S o lu b le........  9
Ferrocyanidum Sol—   9
Solut  Chloride...........   9
Sulphate,  com’l .......... 1)4®
@

pure.......

A rnica.......................   18®
Anthemls...................  §0®
Matricaria.................   25@

FO L IA .

13®

20

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-

«• 

“ 
“ 

. . 7 

nlvelly.................. • •  25®  »
Alx.  35®  50

•• 
•• 
“ 
« 

Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
UraTJrsl........................ 

and  J4s......................   M®
8®
OUMMI.
®1  00 
Acacia, 1st  picked.
®  90 
.
2d 
@  80 
3d 
.
®  65
sifted sorts 
_ _   ^
po ..................  75@1  00
60 
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  ““
12 
@  50

“  Cape, (po.  20V...
“  Socotri, (po.  60).
Catechu, Is, (Mis, 14 54«,
16).......................  @
Ammonlae.........25®
Assafcetida, (po. 30)... 
Benzoinum...................  ¿0®
Cam phors.....................  50®
Eupnorbium  p o .........  85®
Galbanum.  .................   _@8  r?
Gamboge,  p
88® 
Gualacum, (po  50)  ...  @
Kino,  (po.  2S)..............  @  20
M astic.........................   @  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)............  @

15

o

.

5

*@  «
bleached........   >3®  35
Pragacanth.................   30®  75

“ 
hebba—In ounce packages.

A bsinthium ...........................
Eupatorium ...........................
L o b elia................................
M alorum ..............'*................  „
M entha  Piperita...................
“  Yir......................  25
...... ...............  
30
Rue.
Tanacetiim, V ......................  22
Thymus, V.......................  25
Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M....  20®  25
Carbonate, JennlngS..  35®  36 

MAGNESIA.

 

O LEUM .

Absinthium...............5 00@5  50
Amygdalae, Dule........  45®  75
Amy dal ae, Amarae.... 8 00@8 25
...............................2 00@2  10
Auranti  Cortex.........   @2  50
Bergamli  ...................3 25@4  00
Callputi.....................  90@1 00
Cary ophy 111...............1  25@1  30
Cedar  .........................   35®  66
Chenopodli................  @1  75
Clnnamonll...............1 40®1  50
Cltronella...................  @  45
Conlum  Mac............._  35®  66
Copaiba  .................... 1  20@1  30

Cubebae................. 13 50@14 00
Exechthltos................  90@1 00
Erigeron................... 1  20®1  30
Gaultheria................ 2 00@2  10
Geranium,  ounce......   ®  75
Gossipll, Sem. gal......   50®  75
Hedeoma  .................. 1 60@1  70
Juniper!......................  S0®2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonls.....................1  50®2 20
Mentha Piper.............2 40®3 50
Mentha Yerid........... 2 50©2 60
Morrhuae, gal............   80@1  00
Myrcia, ounce............   ®  50
Olive......................... 1 00@2 75
Plcis Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
Klein!........................1 24@1  32
Rosmarin!............  
75@1  00
Rosae, ounce..............  @6 00
Succinl.......................  40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
Santal  .......................3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  55®  60
Sinapls, ess, ounce—   @  65
Tlglfl...................  ...  @150
Thyme.......................   40®  50
opt  ...............   @  60
Theobromas...............  15®  20
BiCarb.......................  15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide....................  37®  40
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate, (po. 20)........  18®  20
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide.......................2 88@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  30®  33 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @ 15
Potass Nitras, opt......  8®  10
Potass Nltras..............  7®  9
Prussiate....................  33®  35
Sulphate  po................  15®  18

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Althae.........................  25®  30
Anchusa....................   15®  20
Arum,  po....................   @  25
Calamus......................  20®  50
Gentiana, (po. 15)......   10®  12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 50)....................   ©  45
Hellebore,  Ala,  po—   15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po..................2 40@2 50
Iris  plox (po. 20®22)..  18®  20
Jalapa,  pr...................  75®  80
Maranta,  Mb..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
R h e i.........................  75@1  00
cut......................  @1  75
pv.......................   75@1  35
Spigella......................  48®  53
Sanguinaria, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  40®  45
Senega.......................  50®  55
Slmilax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40
M  @ 20
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Poetl-
  @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
Zingiber a ...................  10®  15
Zingiber  j .............. 
22®  25
SEM EN .
Anlsum,  (po. 20). 
..  @ 13
Apium  (graveleons)..  15®  18
Bird, Is.................... 
Carul, (po. 18)............   8®  12
Cardamon.................1  00@1  25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Sativa......... 3)4® 
4
Cydonium...................  75@1 00
Cnenopodium  ...........  10®  12
Dlpterix Odorate........ 2 00@2 25
Foenlculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L lni........................... 4  @ 4)4
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 4  )...  454® 454
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Pharlarls Canarian—   354® 454
Rapa..........................   6®  7
Sinapls,  Albu............   8®  9
Nigra...........  11®  12

dus,  po................  

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Frumentl, W.,D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R ...... 1  75@2 00
1  10@1  50
 
Juniperls  Co. O. T — 1  75@1  75
Saacharum  N.  E ........1  75@2 00
Spt.  Vinl  Gall!........... 1  75@6 50
Vlnl Oporto.................... 1  25®2 00
Vini  Alba....................... 1 25@2 00

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 25®2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  .................
2 00 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage..................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage .......................
Hard for  slate  use—
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................

1  40

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Auranti Cortes....................  56
Rhei  Aron»..........................   50
Slmilax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega..................... 
50
Scillae..................................  50
“  Co.........................  ••  50
Tolutan...........................  50
PrunHS virg.....................  50

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Aconltum Napellls R.........  60
F .........   50
Aloes...................................   60
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica................................   50
Asafcetlda............................  0
Atrope Belladonna.............   60
Benzoin...............................  60
“  Co..........................   50
Sanguinaria  .......................   50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharides.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Cardamon............................  75
Co........................  75
Castor.................................1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona............................  50
Co........................  60
Columba.............................   50
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba................................   50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian...............................  50
1  Co............................  60
Gnalca................................   50
amnion....................   60
‘ 
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Iodine..................................  75
Colorless...................  75
Ferri  Chloridum.................  35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
O pii.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
Deodor....................... 2 00
Auranti Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany....................... —   50
Rbel.....................................   50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
C o..»........   50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stromonlum.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVeride.................  50

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Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F. 
7. 
“  4F .
30®  32
Alumen....................... 2)4® 3)4
ground,  (po.
7).............................   3®  4
Annetto......................  55®  60
Antimoni, po..............  4®  5
et Potass T  55®  60
Antlpyrin...................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, ()4s
11;  Ms,  12)..............  @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
@1  75 
PO..............................
®  22 
Capsicl  Fructus, af...
®  16 
@  14 
“  B po.
15®  18 
Caryophyllus, (po.  20)
@3 75
Carmine, No. 40.........
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  20
Centraria....................  @  10
Cetaceum...................  @  45
Chloroform...............   50®  55
squibbs ..  @1  00
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  50@1  75
Chondrus...................  20®  %
Cinchonidlne, P.  & W  15®  20
German  4®  10
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  .......................  @  60
Creasotum.................  @  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  @  2
“  prep...................  5®  5
“  preclp................  8®  10
“  Rubra................  @  8
Crocus.......................  35®  38
~ 
“  24
Cudbear.
Cupri Sulph...............   8®
9 
Dextrine....................  10®
12 70
Ether Sulph................  68®
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
i
po................  @
55 
Ergota, (po.)  60 .........   50®
15 
Flake  white..............  12®
23
Galla
@ 9
Gambler......................  8
Gelatin,  Cooper................. _
French.............   40®
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Glassware  flint,  70 per cent, 
byboxeoiess
Glue,  Brown................   9®
“  White..................  13®
Glycerins..................18)4®
Ghana Paradisl...........  @
Humulus......................   25®
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..  @1  05
“  Cor ...  @ 95
Ox Rubrum  @1  15
Ammoniati.  @1  25
Unguentum.  50®  60
Hydrargyrum........ 
@ 90
Ijhthyobolla, Am. 
.1 25@1  50
Indigo..........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl..........3 75@3 85
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin.......................  85@1 00
Lycopodium................  55® 60
M ade..........................   80® 85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy 
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Liquor Potass Arslultls  10® 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1M)............................. 
2®
Mannla,  8. F .............. 
45®

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TH E  MICHia^ISr  TRADESM AN

GROCERIES.

M aking  a   L ittle  M oney.

the 

From Art in  Advertising.
Several  things  have  occurred  lately 
which  should  direct  the  attention  of 
thinking business  men  toward  the  suc­
cess  of  firms  who  have  been known as 
bold advertisers.
A short time ago the manufacturers  of 
“Ivory  Soap,” Messrs.  Proctor  &  Gam­
ble,  sold  out  to  a  stock  company,  and 
their proved statement  showed  that  the 
net profits  on  the  business  for the past 
three years had averaged more than §500.- 
000 per year.  No wonder “Ivory Soap” 
floats.
A  still  more  recent  case  is  that  of 
Coates, Son & Co., the great thread  man­
ufacturers, whose lithograph and circular 
advertising  has  covered the face  of  the 
globe.  In selling out the private concern 
to a stock company,  the profits  sworn  to 
have  averaged §2,130,240 a year  for  the 
past  seven  years;  for  1889  they  were 
§2.373,875.
When  the  Royal  Baking  Powder Co. 
was called  upon to make  a  statement  in 
court of  their  profits, they  proved  up  a 
net  profit  of  §720,000  for the year,  and 
this has  no  doubt  increased  during the 
past two years.
Take the firm who make Allcock’s Por­
ous Plasters;  it is said that this one item 
nets a profit of §200,000 a year.  Suppose 
you are a jobbing drug firm and you want 
to  buy  Allcock's  Porous  Plaster—you 
have got to have them or  your trade will 
leave you;  no drummer  ever  calls  upon 
you to sell these  plasters,  so you have to 
go and buy them  yourself  from the man­
ufacturers.  When  you get to their oflice 
and apply at a small  window,  like a tele­
graph  boy  at a broker’s office,  a conver­
sation  something  like 
following 
occurs:
Customer—I would  like to buy a large 
quantity  of  your  plasters, and want the 
best  prices.
P.  P.  Man—All right;  five per cent, off 
on a car load, cash in advance.
Customer—But a car  load is too many.
P. P.  Man—Then you don’t get the five 
per cent.
Customer—Well,  send  me  a  car load 
with a bill.
P.  P.  Man—We  don’t  deliver  goods; 
send  your check and we will dump a car 
load on the sidewalk;  you can cart them 
away yourself.  Good-day.
You  go  away  with a sublime  respect 
for the power of advertising.
Suppose you are a grocer  and want  (or 
rather are forced) to buy Pearline, out of 
which  old  Mr. James Pyle and his  sons 
draw some §400,000  profit  a  year.  You 
will find that  Messrs.  Pyle  don’t  care  a 
rap whether you sell  Pearline or not, and 
don’t give you enough profit to keep your 
best  girl  in  soda  water.  They  have 
advertised  Pearline  until  it is indepen­
dent of the grocery trade; they have made 
people  want  it,  and  you  must  supply 
Pearline or go out of  the business.
The Potter Drug  and  Chemical Co., of 
Boston  (of whom, by the way, Mr.  White 
is now the head,  though  he  entered  the 
company’s  service  as  an  errand  boy), 
spend §200,000 a year in advertising, and 
make an annual profit of  something  like 
§400,000.
The Eastman Dry Plate Co., of Roches­
ter, started their  “Kodak”  by  spending 
about  §25,000  for  the  first  year,  and 
drawing  out  something  like  §85,000  in 
profits during the next  twelve months.
Ivers & Pond, the piano  men,  of  Bos­
ton, took up magazine advertising a little 
over  two  years  ago,  and  spent  money 
liberally  but  carefully, and  followed  up 
the correspondence secured through their 
announcements promptly.  The business 
has increased exactly threefold.

Tlie  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar  is  without  change.  The  im­
ported fruit market  is  unsettled,  owing 
to uncertainty as to when  the new  tariff 
will go into effect.  The  bill  lowers  the 
duty on currants %c per lb. and increases 
the tax  on  raisins  and prunes lc per lb. 
The  manufacturers  of  “Spear  Head” 
plug  tobacco  announce  an  advance  in 
price from 39 to 40c on Oct. 10.

W h a t  is  “ W h ite  C innam on?”

The so-called white cinnamon, says the 
London  Grocer,  is an article  now  rarely 
It is the  dried 
met  with in  commerce. 
bark of  the Canilla alba,  a tree which is 
indigenous to the  West  Indian  Islands, 
the Bahamas,  and the southern  parts  of 
Florida.  The  spice  comes into the mar­
ket in the form of  “quills,”  which,  how­
ever,  are not so regularly shaped as those 
of cinnamon.  The outer skin of the bark 
is of  a silvery white appearance;  and as, 
through careless  preparation,  this is not 
always  entirely  removed, 
the  name 
“white cinnamon”  has been  given to it. 
When this outer  cortex  is  removed  the
bark has a bright buff  color,  whilst  the 
innermost  surface  greatly resembles the 
coloration  of 
true  cinnamon.  White 
cinnamon 
is  prepared  by  very  crude 
methods for  the  market.  The  bark  is 
usually stripped  off  the tree without re­
gard to the shape of  the pieces,  and then 
gently beaten  with  a  stick  in  order  to 
loosen  the  subserous  layer;  it  is then 
peeled and dried  in  the  sun.  The  ex­
portation  of  white  cinnamon  from  the 
various  islands  in  the  West  Indies  is 
very limited; probably less than 150 cwts. 
per  annum  finds  its  way  into  Europe. 
This is rather  remarkable, for the  spice 
possesses certain  aromatic  and  pungent 
principles which might well be taken ad­
vantage of  in the preparation  of  condi­
ments.  The odor  of  a  good  sample  of 
the bark closely resemble» that of  cinna­
mon, and its taste is pungent and slightly 
bitter;  the  general  flavor  is  distinctly 
aromatic.  Meyer  and  Von  Reiche have 
isolated from  white cinnamon a peculiar 
volatile  oil  which  possesses  a  complex 
character;  one  constituent  is  identical 
with eugenol  or  oil  of  cloves,  and  an­
other  is  related  to  Cajeput  oil.  The 
nature of  the bitter  principle is at pres­
ent unknown.

Taking:  G rocery  O rders.

From the Denver Grocer.

In this city the  majority of  the  retail 
grocer’s best trade is the order patronage. 
Nearly  every  merchant  depends  alto­
gether  on  this  kind  of  custom  for  his 
support,  and  will  naturally put his best 
salesman on the wagon.  First-class gro­
cery  clerks  are  scarce  in  Denver  and 
command  good  wages,  for  a good  man 
can earn good  wages if  he  will  take the 
trouble to enumerate  the  different  arti­
cles he has for sale  when  he calls at the 
house of  his customers.
The  average  housekeeper is generally 
busy when the  salesman calls, and is apt 
to forget a great  many  things  she is ab­
solutely in  need  of  if  she  does  not  re­
ceive a reminder. 
If  he simply calls and 
asks her what she  wants  and  takes  her 
order,  as  if  he  was  in a hurry  to  get 
back,  he will find that she  will be forced 
to go to the nearest  store and purchase a 
number of things she had forgotten when 
he was there.
A good clerk will  always take care that 
this does not happen  on  his  route.  He 
will make a specialty of some new goods, 
and will recommend them at every house, 
and  in  the  majority  of  places  he  will 
succeed  in  making a sale.  A  first-class 
man  will  endeavor  to  sell  perishable 
goods,  while  a  careless  clerk  can  soon 
ruin a good business.
A good customer  will  always look out 
for  good  weights, but  does  not  expect 
nineteen  ounces to the pound.  There is 
every opportunity for waste in a grocery, 
and  a clerk  should  always  be  on  the 
watch  to  prevent it.  Such a man is ap­
preciated by his  employer,  who  is  will­
ing to pay a good salary for such services.

L ook  O ut  fo r  C oun terfeit  C ertificates.
The Secret Service Bureau of the United 
States Treasury warns the public against 
a dangerous counterfeit  of  the §2 silver 
certificate. 
It is said  that no closer imi-
tation  of  a  genuine note  has  appeared 
for many years.  While  no  attempt has 
been made to imitate the threads or fibres 
running lengthwise  through the genuine 
note, the color is good and the mechanical 
work excellent.  The portrait of General 
Hancock is well  engraved and the whole 
appearance  of  the note is such as easily 
to deceive even expert handlers of money. 
The note has the round carmine seal,  but 
bears the  wrong  check  letter,  which is 
“C”  when  it  ought to be “A.”  Minor

differences are the absence of  a dot over 
the  “i”  in  “register”  and  of  a  period 
after the word “Treasury.”  The  coun­
terfeit is so dangerous, however,  that the 
Secret  Service  officers  recommend  the 
utmost caution  caution  in  accepting §2 
silver  certificates  with  the  check  let­
ter “C.”  _____ _________

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

352tf

PRODCCE  MARKET.

25c.

per lb.  Creamery finds moderate sale at 23c.

Apples—Sundried  are  held  at  854@9c,  while 
the manufacturers of new  evaporated  are  talk­
ing  14@16c.  The  market  will  probably  settle 
down at 12@l8c.
Apples—Fall fruit commands $2.75@3  for  eat 
ing and $2.50 for cooking  stock.
Beans—Firmer  and  a  little  higher.  Local 
dealers pay $1.50@1.75 and  hold at $2.
Beets—New, 50c per bu.
Butter—Dairy  is  in  good  demand  at  14@16c 
Cabbages—50c  per doz. or $4 per 100.
Carrots—30c per bu.
Celery—20@ 5c per doz.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25;  produce barrels 
Crabapples—9uc@$l per bu.
Cranberries—Michigan  berries  are in fair de­
mand at $2.50 per bu.  Cape  Cod  commands  $10 
per bbl. and Bell  and Cherry are held atjBS.
Eggs—Scarce and higher.  Dealers pay 15c for 
fresh stock, holding at \  ©I7c.
Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth,  $4.65  per  bu. 
medium, $4i40.  Timothy, $1.6 ) per bu.
Grapes—Concords  and  Wordens  are  still  in 
ample supply, dealers holding at  254@3c,  while 
Niagaras and Delawares find  moderate  demand 
at 4© oc.
Maple  Sugar — 8@10c  per  lb.,  according  to 
quality.
Maple Syrup—7o@85c per gal.
Musk Melons—Home grown, $1 per crate.
Onions—SO®90c per bu.
Pop Corn—4c per lb.
Potatoes—Local handlers are paying  60c  here 
and at the principal buying points in  the  State. 
Reports of  favorable  yields continue to come in 
from nearly all quarters, giving  grounds for the 
belief that the crop will be  a  great  deal  larger 
than was anticipated.

Pears—California, $3.75 per box.
Peaches—White stock finds ready sale at  $2.50, 
while yellow stock is picked up quickly  at  $3.50 
@$4.50"per bu.

seys, $3.25 per bbl.

Quinces—$2@2.25 per  bu.
Sweet Potatoes—Baltimores, $3  per  bbl;  Jer 
Tomatoes—Home stock  commands  75c per bu.
Turnips—30@35c per bu.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

PO R K   IN   B A R R ELS.

s a u s a g e — Fresh and Smoked.

quotes as follows:
Mess, new....................................................   12 25
Short c u t....................................................... 12 00
Extra clear pig, short cut............................
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat back.............................................  13 00
Boston clear, short cut................................  13 50
Clear back, short cut..................................... 13 50
Standard clear, short cut. best....................  13 50
Pork Sausage.....................................................7
Ham Sausage.....................................................9
Tongue Sausage................................................ 9
Frankfort  Sausage..........................................  8
Blood Sausage................................................... 5
Bologna, straight.............................................. 5
Bologna,  thick..................................................5
Headcheese........................................................... 5
lar d—Kettle Rendered.
Tierces ..............................................
7
Tubs...................................................
501b.  Tins..........................................
Tierces ..............................................
30 and 50 lb. Tubs..............................
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case....................
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case.......................
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case.......................
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case.......................
50 lb. Cans..........................................

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

l a r d —Family.

B E E F   i n   b a r r e l s .

SNORED  n e a t s —Canvassed or Plain.

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16 lbs.........
12 to 14 lbs..
picnic.....................
best boneless...........
Shoulders..........................
Breakfast Bacon, boneless
Dried beef, ham prices......
Long Clears, heavy...........
Briskets,  medium..............
light....................

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FISH and  OYSTERS.

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F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows :
Whitefish...............................................
smoked...................................
Trout......................................................
Halibut..................................................
Ciscoes........................ .........................
Flounders...........................................
Bluefish  .......................   ......................
Mackerel...............................................
Cod  .......................................................
California salmon.................................
Fairhaven  Counts................................
F. J. D. Selects......................................
Selects..................................................
F. J. D..................................................
Anchors.................................................
Standards,  per gal................................
Selects, 
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oysters—Bulk.

oysters—Cans.

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Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beef, carcass..........................................
hindquarters...............................
“ 
fore 
“ 
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loins, No. 3..................................
ribs............................................
“ 
rounds........................................
“ 
tongues.......................................
Hogs................. ......................................
Bologna.................................................
Pork loins..............................................
“  shoulders......... .............................
Sausage, blood or head.........................
liver.........................................
Frankfort....................... .........
Mutton................................................
Veal.......................................................

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

STIC K   CANDY.

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-  844 
•  854 
.  9 
10 
.10 
.10 
.  9 
.10 
.12 
.13
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....14
....14
....18
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...18
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-----14
-----15
-----13
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16@18
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...16
___20
___15
.......22
-----14
.....12
___ 13
......12
......   6
...... 10
__ 12
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Standard,  per  lb.......   .........................  8!4@  9
“  H. H.........................................   814© 9
Twist  ........................................814©  9
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Cut  Loaf...................................................  ..  10
Assorted Cream  ............................................12
Extra H. H ..................................................... n
Standard, per lb..................................
Leader.................................................
Royal...................................................
Extra.................. ...............................
English  Rock.....................................
Conserves.................................... .
Broken................................................
Cut Loaf..............................................
French Creams...................................
Valley  Creams...................................
fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.
Lemon Drops......................................
Sour Drops.........................................
Peppermint Drops..............................
Chocolate Drops.................................
H. M. Chocolates D rops...........................
Gum Drops.........................................
Licorice Drops................................... .
A. B. Licorice  Drops.........................
Lozenges, plain...................................
printed............................. .
Imperials........................................... .
Mottoes.............................................. .
Cream Bar..........................................
Molasses Bar......................................
Caramels........................................... .
Hand Made  Creams......   ................. .
Plain Creams......................................
Decorated Creams.............................
String  Rock.......................................
Burnt Almonds..............................
Wintergreen  Berries.........................
fancy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, in  pails..................
printed, in pails...............
Chocolate Drops, in pails..................
Gum Drops, in pails............ .............
Moss Drops, in palls.......................... .
Sour Drops, in pails.......................... .
Imperials, in palls.............................
Rodi, choice, 200................................
300................................
Messina, choice, 360..........................
300...........................
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O T H E R   FO R E IG N   F R U IT S .
Figs, Smyrna, new,  fancy  layers...,
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Persian, 50-lb.  box.................
N U TS.
Almonds, Tarragona.........................
Ivaca.................................
California..........................
Brazils................................................
Walnuts, Grenoble............................
“  Marbot..............................
Pecans, Texas, H. P ..........................
Cocoanuts, full sack s..................... .
Fancy, H.  P.,  Bell............................
“  Roasted 
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Fancy, H.  P., Stars 
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“  Roasted................
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Choice, H. P., Ex P rin ce.................
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“  Roasted..............
Fancy, H. P., Steamboats.................
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I  @16 
@17* @14 
.14  @16 
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© 954 
@1154 
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@3154 
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For  Sale  by  Leading  W holesale  Grocers.

Wholesale Price Current•

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

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APPLE  BUTTER.
AXLE GREASE.

Chicago  goods......................
Frazer’s ..................................13 40
Aurora......................................1 75
Diamond..................................1 80
BAKING POWDER.
Thepure, 10c packages.  .. .$1  30
1  56
 
% lb. 
3  38
 
6 oz. 
 
H lb. 
2 76
4  30
 
12 oz. 
lib . 
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51b. 
 
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Less 30 peT cent, to retailers. 
Absolute, M lb. cans, doz.. .1  00 
“ ...190
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54 lb. 
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lib . 
75
>4lb.  “ 
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1  " . . . . 3  00
lib .  « 
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Our Leader, 54lb.  cans...... 
45
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90
.........1  60
45
Telfer’s,  54 lb. cans, doz.. 
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85
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80
75
70
30

English, 2 doz. in case....... 
Bristol,  2  “ 
 
American. 2 doz. in case... 
Mexican,  4 oz....................  

V4lb.  “ 
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Acme, H lb. cans, 3 doz__  

bluing.  Dozen
60
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8  oz................ 
16  oz............... 

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CANDLES
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BROOMS.
No. 2 H url...............................1  75
...............................2 00
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet.........................   2 25
2  50
No. 1 
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Parlor Gem.............................2  75
Common W hisk................... 
90
Fancy 
...................  1  20
M ill.........................................3  ~5
W arehouse............................. 2  75
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes................. 10
954
Star,  40 
Paraffine.................................11
W icking..............  
25
Clams. 1 lb. Little Neck.......1  10
Clam Chowder, 3 lb ..............2  10
Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stand.... 1  15
-----2  20
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2 lb. 
Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic............1  90
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2  lb.  “ 
2  65
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1 lb.  Star..................2  50
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2 lb. Star................. 3  25
Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.2 25
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1  lb.  s ta n d ............1 20
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2  1b. 
2 00
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2  lb. in M ustard.. .2 35
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31b.  soused...........
Salmon.l lb. Columbia 1  75@1  90 
@1  60
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1 lb.  Alaska 
Sardines, domestic  J4s........  
6
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548........ @  8
“  Mustard 54s.........  @1‘>
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imported  54s.. .11  @12
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spiced,  54s......... 
10
Trout, 3 Id. brook  ..........  
2 50
CANNED GOODS—Fruits.
Apples, gallons......................
Apricots  ,..............................~  ™
Blackberries.........   .............. 120
Cherries, red ..........................1
p itted .....................1  40
Damsons................................
Egg  Plum s............................J  OJ
Gooseberries........................ 1  25
Grapes ....................................
Green  Gages........................ 1  »0
Peaches,  p ie ........................*
seconds..................*  ■*>
s ta n d .....................2  65
California............. 2  85
Pears......................................\ jj®
Pineapples, common...........1  ~

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grated..................... 2 75

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canned  goods—Vegetables.

Q uinces.......•;••••...............}  ix
Raspberries,  black..............1  30
red.................... 1  40
Strawberries........................1  35
Whortleberries.....................l  40
Asparagus  ... 
Beans, soaked  Lima............  80
“  Green  Lima...........@1  60
“  String......................@  90
"  Stringless.................  
  90
“  Lewis’Boston Baked.. 1  40 
Corn, stand,  brands.. 1  00@1  25
Peas,  soaked.................... -- 
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“  m arrofat.........................@1 30
“  stan d Ju n e..........................1 40
“  sifted  ‘ 
“  fine French........................ 2 10
Mushrooms...............................-•} 80
P u m p k in .................................@J 45
Squash........•  ••■........................ 1 J®
Succotash, soaked................  85
standard................... 1 30
Tomatoes, stand br’ds 1  05@1  10

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Snider’s, 54 pint....................1  35

p in t...............................2 30
quart.............................3 50

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Fancy Full  Cream —  1054@U 
Good 
“  —   954@10
Part Skimmed.............  754© 854
Sap  Sago......................  @20
Edam  ...........................  @1  00
Swiss, imported 
.......  24®  35
domestic  —   15©  16
CHEWING  GUM.
200 

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

CHICORT.

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C O FFEE EX TRA CT.

coffee—Green.

CHOCOLATE— B A K E R ’S.
32
German Sweet.. 
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Premium............................. 
34
38
Pure.....................................  
40
Breakfast  Cocoa...............  
37
Broma.................................. 
Bulk............................... 4  @454
Pound  packages............  @7
Valley City........................... 
80
Felix.............................................1 10
Hummel’s ............................. 
70
Rio, fair...........................   @31
“  good........................21  @22
“  prime........................ 
©23
“  fancy,  w ashed...  @24
“  golden....................23  @24
Santos.............................22  @23
Mexican & Guatemala 23  @24
Java,  Interior............... 24  @26
“  M andheling___ 27  @30
Peaberry........................22  @24
Mocha, genuine.......  26  @28
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
coffees—Package.
Bunola...................................24 94
in cabinets................2554
M cL aughlin’s  XXXX....2554
Lion  ......................... .............2554
in cabinets  ................. 26
Durham...............   ............... 25
CLOTHES  LIN E S.
Cotton,  40 f t.per doz.  1 
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70 f t........... 
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150
175
2 00
2 25
1  00
1  15
Eagle.....................................  7  50
Anglo-Swiss................6 00@ 7  60

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10 
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CRACK ERS.
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“Superior.”
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*2,  “ 
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$5.  “ 
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810,  “ 
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820,  “ 
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8  1, per  hundred.................  2 00
2  50
8 2,  “ 
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8 5,  “ 
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820,  “ 
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Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts :
200 or over.................5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 
Kenosha B utter...................  754
Seymour 
554
B utter....................................... 554
“  family...........................  554
“  biscuit.........................   654
Boston.......................................754
City Soda................................  7i4
Soda........................................ 6
S. Oyster ............. 
554
City Oyster, XXX...................  554
Shell....................................... 6
Strictly  pure........................ 
Grocers’................................ 
dried fruits—Domestic.
Apples, sun-dried.......  854®  9
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Apricots, 
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Nectarines  “ 
Peaches 
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Plums 
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Raspberries  “ 
Turkey.........................   @654
Bosnia...........................  @ 8
California....................   @
dried  fruits—Peel. 
18
Lemon.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
Orange............... .......... 
18
In drum ..........   ..........   @18
Inboxes.......................  @20
Zante, in barrels........   @ 654
in less quantity  654®  694 
Valencias.....................  @954
Ondaras........................  @1054
Sultanas.......................   ®
London  Layers,  Cali­
London Layers, for’n.  @
Mus’tels. Cal., 2 crown  @

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dried fruits—Prunes.

fornia......................   2 60@2 75

dried fruits—Currants.

dried fruits—Raisins.

dried fruits—Citron.

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FA RIN A CEO U S  GOODS.

@2  60
K egs.......................................5  50
Half  kegs...............................3 00
Farina, 100 lb.  kegs...........   04
Hominy, per  bbl...................4 00
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box —   60
Imported.......  @1054
Pearl  Barley...............   @ 3
Peas, green...................  @1  10
“  split......................  @ 3
Sago,  German..............  ©  6
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’r l... 
6@ 7
Wheat,  cracked..........   @ 5
Vermicelli,  import—   @1054
domestic...  @60
fish—salt.
Cod, whole...................5  @ 6
H alib u t...................... 
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Herring,  round, 54 bbl.. 
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“  Holland,  bbls.. 
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2  75
12 00
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Scaled  ............  @  20

“  boneless...............  654@ 8

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Trout,  54  bbls............   @5 25
■'  10  lb.  kits.................  75
Mack,  sh’s, No. 2, 54  bbl  12 00 
“  12 lb kit..130
.1  20 
“  10 
ite,  No. 1, 54 bbls..  @5 50
121b. kits...... 100
10 lb. kits......  80
Family,  54 bbls........3 00
kits......  65

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LICORICE.

LA M P W ICK S.

Sage...  .............................. 9
Hops....................................14
Chicago  goods......................554
No.  ... 
30
No. 1...................................   40
No. 2...................................  50
Pure.....................................   30
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  18
Condensed, 2 doz.............. 1  25
No. 9  sulphur.....................2  00
Anchor parlor....................1  70
No. 2 home......................... 1  10
Export  parlor.................... 4  00
17
Black  Strap...................... 
Cuba Baking.................... 
22
Porto  Rico....................... 26@33
New Orleans, good........... 
35
choice........ 
40
fancy.........  
50
One-half barrels, 3c extra

M OLASSES.

MATCHES.

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P IP E S .

PIC K L E S.

Barrels  ............................... 6 00
Half barrels................  
3 25
R O LLED   OATS.
Barrels...................... 
@6 00
Half bbls....................  @3 25
Michigan  Test....................  954
Water White......................10
Medium................................   88 ro
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Small, bbl.................................9 00
"  54  bbl..............................4 75
Clay, No.  216............................ 1 75
Cob, No. 3.................................1 25
Chicago  goods....................
Carolina head.......................7
“  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

P R E SE R V E S.

S N U FF.

R IC E .

SOAP.

SA L   SODA.

Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands.

s p i c e s —Whole.

SAPOLIO.
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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 75
Cocoa  Castile  .................... 3 00
Cocoa Castile, Fancy..........3 36
Happy Family,  75...............2 95
Old Country, 80................... 3 30
Una, 100...............................3 65
Bouncer, 100........................3 15
Kegs.................................  
194
Granulated, boxes..............  2
Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box...... 2 50
Hand  3  “ 
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Snider’s  Tomato.................2 40
Allspice...............................10
Cassia, China in mats........  8
Batavia in bund— 15
Saigon in rolls........35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
Zanzibar..................16
Mace  Batavia.....................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
“  No.  1......................75
“  No. 2...................... 65
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16 
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“  white...  .26
shot....................... 20
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Allspice.............................. 15
Cassia,  Batavia..................20
and  Saigon.25
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Cloves,  Amboyna...............26
“  Zanzibar.................20
Ginger, African..................1254
*•  Cochin...................15
Jam aica................. 18
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Mace  Batavia.....................90
Mustard,  English.............. 22
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“  Trieste...................27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ................. 80
Pepper, Singapore, black — 18
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“  Cayenne..................25

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Cut  Loaf....................  @  794
Cubes.........................  @ 754
Powdered..................   @  7%
Standard  Granulated.  @ 6%
Fine...........  @  674
Confectioners’ A........  @6.69
White Extra  C.........   654@ 694
Extra  C....  ..............   @654
C ................................  594® 6
Yellow.......................  554® 594

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Mixed bird. .!*E.D8‘....  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
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2 OO
 
100  “ 
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Ashton bu. bags...............  75
 
Higgins  “ 
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Warsaw “ 
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Diamond  Crystal,  cases__1  50
28-lb sacks  25
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56-lb 
60  pocket.2  25
28 
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barrels ..  .1  75
Church’s, Arm & Hammer.. .554
Dwight’s Com........................554
Taylor’s.................................554
DeLand’s Cap  Sheaf.............554
pure.........................554
Our Leader.........................  5
Corn, barrels....................@34
one-half barrels__@36
Pure  Sugar, bbl................30@40
half barrel__32@42
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SW EET  GOODS.
Ginger Snaps.............. 
Sugar  Creams............  
Frosted  Creams.........  
Graham  Crackers...... 
Oatmeal Crackers__ 
SHOE  PO LISH .

SALERA TU S.

Jettine, 1 doz. in  box.............75

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japan—Regular.

SUN C U RED .

GUNPO W D ER.

B A SK ET  F IR E D .

F air............................  @20
Good..........................   @22
Choice...........................24 @29
Choicest....................... 32  @36
D ust.............................10 @14
F air............................  @20
Good..........................   @22
Choice.......................... 24  @29
Choicest....................... 32  @?6
Dust................... 
....10  @14
F air............................  @20
Choice........................   @25
Choicest......................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to  fair...........25  @35
Extra fine to finest__50  @65
Choicest fancy.............75 @85
Common to fair...........20 @35
Superior to fine............ 40 @50
Common to fair........... 18 @26
Superior to  fine........... 30 @40
F air............................. 25 @30
Choice.......................... 30 @35
Best..............................55  @65
Tea Dust....................... 8 @10
Common to  fair...........25 @30
Superior to  fine...........30 @50
Fine to choicest...........55 @65

EN G LISH   BR EA K FA ST.

YOUNG HYSON.

IM PE R IA L .

rOOLONG.

SODA.

B oxes......................................554
Kegs, English........................ 494

tobaccos—Fine Cut.

D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands.

H iaw atha....................  
Sweet  Cuba................. 
Our Leader............ 
TOBACCOS—Plug.

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

tobacco—Shorts.

tobaccos—Smoking.

Our  Leader............................... 15
Our  Leader............................16
Hector..................................... 17
Plow Boy, 2  oz...................... 32
4 oz...................... 31
16 oz...................... 32
VINEGAR.
40 g r...........................................8
50gr........................................   9

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Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol 

WOODENWARE.

lows:
Straw 
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“  Light  W eight.............200
S ugar....................................... 180
Hardw are............................. 254
Bakers......................................254
Dry  Goods.............................6
Jute  Manilla.......................... 8
Red  Express No. 1..............   5
No. 2................ 4
48 Cotton..............................  25
Cotton, No. 1........................ 22
“  2........................ 18
Sea  Island, assorted..........  40
No. 5 H em p..........................18
No. 6  “ .................................. 17
W ool.................... 
8
Tubs, No. 1...........................  8  00
“  No. 2...........................  7 00
“  No. 3.............................6 00
1 50
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop  ...  1  75
55
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes —  
Bowls, 11 inch...........   .......  1  00
13  “ 
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15  “ 
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......................  2  75
17  “ 
assorted, 17s and  19s  2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
35
bushel  .................  1  50
5 75
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l 3 50
“  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 5 00
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W hite........................... 
92
Red.............................. 
92
All wheat bought  on 60 lb. test.
FLOUR.
in sacks  .........  
Straight, 
5  10
“ barrels...........  5 30
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Patent 
“  sacks___  
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“ barrels...........  6 30
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Bolted...............................  1  35
Granulated.......................  1  55

M IL L ST U FFS.

R Y E.

OATS.

CORN.

BA R LEY .

57
5254

Bran..................................  14  00
Ships.................................  15 00
Screenings.......................  15 00
Middlings........................   17 00
Mixed  Feed....................... 21  00
Coarse meal....................... 21  00
No.l  ..............................   50@53
NO. 1..................................  1  15
No. 2..................................  1  10
Small  lots....................... 
Car 
“  ....................... 
Small  lots..........................  45
Car 
“  ..........................  42
No. 1..................................  10 00
No.2.................................   9 00
HIDES,  PELTS  and  FURS.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 
lows:
Green..........................  6 @ 654
Part  Cured.................  654® 7
Full 
.................  654© 7
Dry......... ...................   6  @8
Kips, green  ...............   @654
“  cured.................  654® ~
Calfskins,  green...... 5  @7
cured........  7  @ 8
Deacon skins............... 10 @30

H ID E S .

H AY.

“ 

“ 

No. 2 hides 54 off.
P E L T S .

W OOL.

Shearlings....................10 @25
Estimated wool, per lb 20  @25
Washed.............................20@28
Unwashed................ 
10@20
M ISCELLANEOUS.
Tallow.......................  3  @4
Grease  b u tte r.............1  @2
Switches....................  m@  2
Ginseng 

..................2 oo@3 00

LUBRICATING  OILS. 
The  Hogle  Oil  Co.  quote  as 

ANIM AL  O IL S.

LU B RICA TIN G   O ILS.

“  No. 1  “ 
“ 

follows:
Extra WS Lard..........53  @58
..........45  @50
..........35  @40
No. 1.  .. 
PureNeatsfoot............52  @60
WVa  Summer...........  754@12
“  Medium  Winter.  8  @12
15 Cold Test................  9  @13
Zero.............................10  @14
Old Reliable  Cylinder  @65 
“ 
600 Mecca 
@50
Anti-monopoly  “ 
..35  @40
Corliss Engine  .........   @40
Golden  Machine.........18  @25
Mower and Reaper— 25  @30
Castor Machine..........25  @30
Pure...........................$1  26©1 30
Distilled....................SI  in@l 25
M ineral.....................  30®  35
Water  white  ............   @10
Michigan test 
Gasoline.....................  954@14

BU R N IN G   O IL S.
.........

CASTOR  O IL .

P A IN T   O IL S.
Linseed  Oil, boiled.. .65  @75
“  raw....... 62  @72
Naptha  .....................   754©10
Turpentine.................45  @50

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R E M E M B E R
B U N O L A

T HA T

C O F F E E .

Is  better  and.  costs  less  than  m o s t  

package  coffees.

IOO-POUND  CASES,  2*  3-4 ; 

lOO-CABINETS,  25  1-4.

lp .  b . 

FO R  SALE  BY  A LL  G RAND  R A PID S  JO B B E R S

oystersp .  b .

The  packing  and  distributing  of  FRESH  OYSTERS  among  the  trade in 
Michigan is one of the features of our business, and  from  September  first  to  the 
May  following,  we  are  headquarters  for  these  goods, and shall appreciate  and 
promptly attend to all orders sent us,  as heretofore, guaranteeing  quality,  measure 
and satisfaction.

THU PUTNAM CANDY  C O .

TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

The  M odern  B anking  M ethod.

A.  —My dear  friend,  I  am  obliged  to 

have $1,000 immediately.  Can’t  you ac­
commodate me with that amount ?
long do you require the money ?

B.  —I expect  1  can  do  so.  For  how 
A.—For twelve months.
B-—It’s all right, but you know I am a 
man who never  does something for noth­
If  you  use  my money I’ll  expect 
ing. 
you to pay for the use of it.
A. 
B. 

—I understand that, perfectly.
—I am no banker, nor am I a usurer.

REMOVAL.

Having leased my block  at  71 Canal street for a 
term  of  years, I have  constructed a warehouse  and 
elevator  at  128,  130  and  132  West  Bridge  street, 
where I am better prepared than  ever  to  serve  the 
wants of my patrons.  With  ample  room,  enlarged 
elevator capacity and side tracks on both sides of my 
building, I can  handle  twice  the grain, beans, etc., 
which I did at my old  store at one-half the expense.
I shall  resume  the  handling of corn, oats,  hay, 
feed and grain in car lots, and to this end solicit cor­
respondence  with  those  who  are  in  the  market, 
either to buy or sell.

W. T. l a m o r b a u x .

14

HE  W A S  LIBERAL.

Wanted  a  Present  for  the  Girl,  and 

W anted a Nice  One.

„  _

here and can easily please you.”

j. w . Hyder in the Epoch.
“Say, young feller, hev  yer  got  sum- 
pin’ ’at ’uld make a feller’s  gal  er  nice 
present?”  asked  Jason  Gaul  of a clerk 
in a general store on Main street, one day 
last week.
the 
replied 
young salesman, in  his politest way.

“Certainly,  certainly,” 
“ Hev, eh?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Wat be  it?”
“We have a large assortment  of  goods 
“Can, eh ?”
“Yes.” 
“ Whar  be  ther  ’sortment? 
I  never
seed one on ’em.”
“ You misunderstand me, perhaps.  We 
have a great variety of goods from which 
you can select a suitable present.
“Wal, er variety’ll do, 1 reckon.^ How 
much do ther nicest ’uns come at?”
“It depends.”
“Does, eh ?”
“ Want  something  nice,  real  nice,  or 
very nice ?”
“Ther  veryest  purtyest  wat  yer  got. 
It’s  fer  ther  goldarnedest  beautifullest 
gal in ther ken try, an’  I want  to  s’prise 
’er ’ith er mouty fine  present. 
I’m none 
o’  yer  measley,  close-fisted  fellers, 111 
hev yer ter un’erstan’.  1  want  sumpin’ 
nice,  an’  I’m goin’  ter hev it, ef  it  takes 
er mint o’ money  ter  git  it.  Wat’d ye 
say ye hed ?”

_ 

. 

. 

. _ 

. . .

ness.” 
aid you in the selection.”

“ Is it for  a birthday present ?
“ Na-aw.”
“ What then?”
“Don’t known ’at it’s enny o’ your biz-
. . .
“I merely wanted to know that 1 might 
“That erway ?”
“Yes.” 
,  T
‘Wal,  it’s fer er monstrous fine  gal, 1
tell ye.” 
“I know that;  but why do  you wish to 
make her  the present?”
“Bekase 1 like her,  an’  she’s  sich  er 
fine gal an’ likes me, an’ I ’anted ter guv 
’er sumpin’  wat is sumpin’, an’  wat she’d 
’preshiate.”

“How will a fine dress pattern do?”
“She don’t  need  enny dress  patterns. 
She’s got ’er hull passel o’ dress patterns 
wat Ole Dan  Skinner’s  ’oman cut fer ’er 
afore she dide.  She  mount  like ter hev 
er fine dress,  though,  but not  enny pat­
terns.”
“Well, here is the finest piece of  dress 
goods ever made.  Perhaps—”
“Thar’s  nuthin’  too  fine fer  that  air 
gal I tell ye, an’  I’m  just bound  ter  get 
sumpin’  fine, ef it costs—”
“This  is  beautiful for  a  pretty  girl, 
and I’m sure—”
“Say,  ’uld that  make  er  gal  er  nice 
weddin’ present?”
“To be sure it would, and it is cheap. 
“ How much ?”
“A dress  of  that  goods  usually  sells 
for $75, but we will make it $50 for you.” 
“Guess  that  won’t  do.  She  needs 
sumpin’  wat she kin war  wen  she s cut- 
tin’  sprouts,  hoein’  ther corn, er totin’ in 
wood.”

handle ?”

“Well, here is one at $25.”
“Won’t do.”
“ How is this one for $10 ?”
“Nope.”
“ Well, here is one for—”
“Say,  wat does that air  hoe  kum at ?” 
“Twenty-five cents.”
“Couldn’t  take  fifteen an’ throw in er 
“No, sir.”
“Wal,  I’ll take it.”
“All right.  But what  about  the pres­
“Fer ther gal ?”
“Yes.”
“Ther  hoe’ll  do, I  reckon,  fer  she 11 
need  it  next  week  ter  cut  ther  weeds 
outen ther corn, an’  er  noo  hoe’ll  kum 
mouty  handy,  ennyhow.  Say,  young 
feller,  that  air  gal’s  ter  jine  me  ter- 
morry nite,  an’  1 ’uz ded bent on s’prisin’ 
her ’ith er fine  present, ef  it’d  tuck  ten 
bushels o’ corn ter  do it.”

ent ?”

Newberry—Charles  A.  Dean,  under­
taker and dealer in furniture,  has  made 
an assignment.

A.  —That’s what I expected to pay, but 

1 shall expect you to pay a very moderate 
rate of  interest.  Ten per  cent,  is  all I 
shall expect.  You give me your note for 
$1,000,  and I’ll deduct the amount of  the 
interest and pay you $900 cash.
now that I’ve come to think  of  it  I will 
probably not  be  able  to  pay the money 
back at the end of the year,  so I had bet­
ter make the note run for two years.
you $800 for your $1,000-note.
four years.

B.  —Very well.  Then I will  just  give 
A.  —Suppose you make the note out for 
B. 
—Then you would get $600.
A.—Yes,  that  would be all right,  but 
as I may not be able to pay at the  end of 
four  years,  I  think  it  would be best to 
make the note payable in ten  years.  By 
that arrangement  you would  keep  your 
$1,000 and I would keep the note.

Grand  Haven—The  Challenge  Corn 
Planter Co.  has  arranged  to  put on the 
market a line of  cigar boxes for  the  use 
of dealers handling  Key West goods.

Bicycles.
Tricples,
Velocipedes
General Sportif Goods

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.
E. G. Studley,
4  Monroe  St.,

Call and see  them 
or  send  for  large, 
i l l u s t r a t e d   cata­

GRAND RAPIDS

logue.Filrnitilrß-AT-

Nelson, 

M atter 
&  Co.’s

P.  &  B.  Brand  Oysters.

The trade throughout Western and Northern Michigan are  requested  to  order 
the reliable P. and B.  BRAND  OF  OYSTERS.  Your  order  may  be sent to any 
of the Grand Rapids wholesale houses  or  given  to  their agents, and same will be 
promptly filled.  They  are  fine  goods—packed  daily—and  guaranteed to be the 
equal of any brand ever placed upon the market.  We shall appreciate your favors, 
either to us direct or to your jobber.

The  P u t n a m   C a n d y   C o .

LEMON  &  PETERS,

IMPORTING  ANDGrocers.

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

McGinty’s Fine Cut Tobacco,
Lautz Bros.  &  C o .’s   Soaps,
Niagara  Starch,
A c m e  Cheese—Herkimer Co*, N. Y. 
Castor O i l  A x l e  G r e a s e .

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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.

RED T h e   m o st  e ffectiv e  C ou gh   D rop  in
COUGH  E ».Try 
DROPS

A. E. BROOKS & CO.
The Finest  Line  of  Gandy  in  the  State.

S e lls   th e
th e   m a r k e t 
q u ick est  a n d   p a y s  th e

MANUFACTURED  BY

Grand Rapids, Micli.

T he  P.  ot  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.
Aliegan—Chas. Spear 
Allendale—Henry Dolman.
Almlrar—J. J. Gray.
Almont—Colerick & Martin.
Armada—C. J. Cudworth.
Assyria—J. W. Abbey.
Banfield—Andrew Brezee.
Bay City—Frank  Rosman & Co.
Belding—Lightstone Bros., Weter & Wise. 
Bellevue—John Evans.
Big Rapids—A. V.  Young,  E.  P.  Shankweiler 
Blissfield—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr.
Bowen’s Mills—Chas. W. Armstrong.
Brice—J. B. Gardner.
Burnside—John G. Bruce & Son.
Caldwell—C. L. Moses.
Capac—H. C. Slgel.
Cedar  Springs—John  Beucus,  B. A. Fish. 
Charlotte — John  J.  Richardson,  Daron  & 
Chippewa Lake—G. A. Goodsell & Co.
Clam River—Andrew Anderson.
Coldwater—J. D. Benjamin.
Dansvllle—Levi  Geer.
Deerfield—Henry W. Burghardt.
Dowling—Rice & Webster.
Evart—Mark Ardis, E  F. Shaw, John C. Devitt. 
Fenwick—Thompson Bros., S. H. Rinker.
Flint—John B. Wilson, Geo. Stuart & Son, Bar­
Forester—E. Smith.
Freeport—C.  V. Riegler.
Gladwin—John Graham, Jas. Croskery. 
Gowan—Rasmus Nellson.
Grand Haven—Braudry *  Co.
Grand Junction—Adam Crouse.
Grand  Rapids—Joseph  Berles,  A.  Wilzlnski, 
Brown & Sehler, Houseman, Donnally  &  Jones. 
Ed Struensee, Wasson & Lamb, Chas.  Pettersch, 
Morse & Co., Famous Shoe Store, Harvey & Hey- 
stek, Mrs. E. J. Reynolds, B. Burkhardt. 

ney Granite and Marble Works.

Smith, F. H. Goodby.

E.  Covel.

Greenville—Jacobson & Netzorg.
Hart—Rhodes & Leonard,  W.  Weidman,  Mrs. 
Hopkins—R. McKinnon.
Hopkins Station—Peter Dendel.
Howard City—O. J. Knapp, Herold  Bros., C. E. 
Felton.Hubbardston—M. H. Cahalan.
Hudson—Henry C. Hall.
Imlay  City—Cohn  Bros.,  H.  A.  R.  Wyckoff, 
E. E. Palmer.
Ionia—H. Silver.
Jackson—Hall & Rowan.
Jenisonville—L. & L. Jenison  (mill only). 
Jennings—Kennedy Bros.
Jones—R. C. Sloan.
Kalamo—L. R. Cessna.
Kent City—M. L. Whitney.
Kingsley—Stinson & Linton.
Lacey—wm. Thompson.
Laingsburg—D. Lebar.
Lake City—Sam. B. Ardis.
Lakeview—H.  C.  Thompson,  Andrew  All  & 
Bro.Langston—F  D.  Briggs.
Lansing—R. A. Bailey.
Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jennings. 
Ludington—Wm. Huysett.
McBain—Sam. B.  Ardis.
Mancelona—J. L. Farnham.
Man ton—Mrs. E. Liddle.
Maple City—A. & O. Brow.
Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lepper & Son. 
Mason—Marcus Gregory.
Mecosta—J. Netzorg.
Mecosta—Robert D. Parks.
Milan—C. C. (Mrs. H. S.) Knight, Chas. Gaunt­
lett, James Gauntlett, Jr.
Millbrook—Bendelson.
Millington—Chas. H. Valentine.
Mlnden City—I. Springer & Co.
Monroe Center—Geo. H. Wightman.
Morley—Henry Strope.
Mt. Morris—F. H. Cowles.
Mt. Pleasant—Thos. McNamara.
Nashville—H. M. Lee.
Nottswa—Dudley Cutler.
Ogden—A. J.  Pence.
Olivet—F.  H.  Gage.
Onondaga—John Sillik.
Orange—Tew & Son.
Orono—C. A. Warren.
Pearle—Geo. H. Smith.
Portland—L. S. Roell.
Remus—C. V.  Hane.
Richmond—A.  W. Reed.
Riverdale—J. B. Adams.
Rockford—B. A. Fish.
Sand  Lake—Frank E.  Shattuck, T. J. Blanch 
ard.Sebewa—John Bradley.
Shelbyville—Samuel  Wolcott.
Shultz—Fred Otis.
Spring Lake—Geo. Schwab, A. Bilz. 
Springport—Wellington  <Sc  Hammond,  Elmer
^Traverse  City—John  Wilhelm,  S.  C. Darrow 
D. D.  Paine.
Vassar—McHose & 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—Chas. Lapo.
Wllliamston—Thos. Horton.
Woodland—Carpenter & Son.
Yankee Springs—T. Thurston.

Breckenridge. 

„

A  H ap p y   E x p ed ien t.

Beggar—Help me, good  sir!  I  have 

large family, and  can  scarcely keep  the 
wolf  from  the  door.  We are in need of 
food.

Crusty—H’m;  have you got a gun ?
“Yes, sir!”
“Well,  here’s  5  cents.  Go  and buy 
some  ammunition  and  the  next  time 
wolf  comes  around,  kill  him  and  eat 
him.”

6 doz. in box.

LA M P  B U R N E R S.

No. 0 Sun.........................................................   40
No. 1  “  .........................................................   46
No. 2  “  ....................................•'...................   60
Tubular.....................................  
76

 
l a m p   c h i m n e y s .— Per box.

 

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Pearl top.

La Basnc.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.

No. 0 Sun..................................... .................. 1  75
No. 1  “  .........................................................1 88
No. 2  “  .........................................................2 70
No. 0 Snn, crimp  top.....................................2  25
No. 1  “ 
....................................2 40
No. 2  “ 
“  ....................................... 3 40
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.....................................2  60
No. 2  “ 
“  .......................................3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled....................3 70
>r 
No. 2  •* 
...................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
.................... 4 70
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.  ....................1  25
No. 2  “ 
....................... ISO
No. 1 crimp, per doz....................................... 1  35
No. 2  “ 
........................................160
Butter Crocks, per gal................................  06)4
Jugs, )4 gal., per doz...................................   75
: :: : :: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :   i   so
Milk Pans, )4 gal., per doz.  (glazed 66c)  ...  65 
“  90c).  ..  78
“ 
...........8 7 50
Pints.......................................... 
Quarts.......................................................  800
Half-gallons 
........................................  11  00

•• 
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Mason’s, Boyd’s or Rowley’s caps.

“ 
STONEW ARE— AKRON.

( 
PB tT IT   JA B S .

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Above quotations are f. o. b.

HIRTH  X  KRRU8E

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

RUssBtt Shoe Polish,

Billions,
Laces,

Porpoise  Shoe  Laces  in  light,  medium 
and  heavy.  Parisian  Leather Reviver, 
Glycerine Leather Reviver,  “Rubberine” 
waterproof  dressing.  We  carry  13 
distinct  shoe  dressings  and  a complete 
line  of  Shoe  Store  Supplies. 
Send us 
our orders.

[.Established  1780.]

“ I.A  b e l l e   c h o c o l a t iArk."

W.  BAKER A  CO.'S  Riqistbred  Trade-Mark
No Chemicals are  used  in 
any of Walter B aker & Cols 
Chocolate and  Cocoa  Prep­
arations.

These  preparations  have 
stood  the test of  public  ap­
proval  for  more  than  one 
hundred years,  and  are  the 
acknowledged  standard  oi 
purity and  excellence.

TH E  MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

C ro ck ery   & G la ssw a r e

TIME  TABLES.

G rand  R apids  & In d ian a.

In effect June 22,1890.
TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive.

GOING  SOUTH.

Leave. 
6:55 am  
7:25 am  
11:30 am  
4.10 p m 
10:30 p m
Train  leaving  at  10:30pm ,  runs  daily.  Sunday  in 

Big Rapids A Saginaw........................
Traverse City A Mackinaw.............  6 :50 a m
Traverse City  A  Mackinaw.............9:15 am
Traverse City A Sasrinaw..................2:15 p m
Mackinaw City.................................... 8:50 p m
eluded.  Other trains daily except Sunday.
6.30 a m 
Cincinnati  Express........................... .6:00am
10:25 am  
Fort Wayne A Chicago...................10:15 a m
6:00 p m 
Cincinnati  Express..........................5:40 pm
11:30 p m
Sturgis A Chicago............................ 10:50 p m
From Big Rapids A Saginaw.........11:50  am
Train  leaving  for  Cincinnati  at  6p.  m.  runs daily, 
Sundays  included.  Other trains daily except Sunday.
Sleeping and Parlor Car  Service:  North—7:25 a. 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 am  
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.
Leaye 

Muskegon, G rand Rapids & Indiana. 
Arrive.
00 a m................................................................... 10:10 a m
2 0 a m . 
3.46pm
:40 p m ........................................................•••••••  8:45pm
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 etro it, G ran d  H aven Sc M ilw aukee.

 

S O IN 9  W EST. Arrives.
Leaves. 
1:00 p m 
tMornlng Express............................12  50 p m
6:15 pm 
(Through Mall............................................4:10 pm
10:30 p m 
tG rand Rapids  Express...................... 10:25  p m
8:45 a m 
•Night Express....................................... 0:40 a m
7:30 am
fMlxed................................................
GOING  EAST.
6:50 am  
t Detroit  Express............................ *:45  am
tThrough Mall....................... 
10:10 a m
10:20 a m  
3:46 p m 
(Evening Express.................................. S:S6 p m
10:55 pm
Night Express................................ *:50pm
tDaUy, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Detroit Express  leaving 6:50 a m has Wagner parlor 
and ballet car attached, and Evening  Express leaving 
5:45 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, 
secured  at 
tickets  and  sleeping  car  berths 
D..9.H.4M .R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot.
Jas. Campbell. Citv Passenger Agent. 
Jno.;W. Loud, Traffic Manager, Detroit.

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D E PA B T .

ARRIVE.

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

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

For Toledo and all points South and EaBt, take 
the Toledo, Ann Arbor &  North  Michigan  Rail­
way from Owos80 Junction.  Sure  connections 
at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and 
connections at Toledo  with  evening  trains  for 
Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus,  Dayton,  Cincin­
nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville  and  all  proml 
nent points on connecting lines.
CHICAGO  &  W EST  MICHIGAN.
Mail and Express for Big Rapids, Lud­
ington,  Manistee &;Traverse City. .  *7:30 a m 
Express for Chicago and  Muskegon..  t9:00 a  m
Fast Mail for Chicago........................ tl :00 p m
Express for Muskegon and Hart  ......+5:4»  p m
Night Express for  Chicago  ............   «11:35  p m
Night Express for  Indianapolis 
111:35  pm
Mail  for  Big  Rapids,  Manistee  and
Traverse City  ..................................+5:05 p m
Ex. for Grand Haven & Muskegon...  +8:40 p m
Night Express from Chicago  ............   *6:30 a  m
Night Express from Indianapolis 
$6:30 a  m 
Ex. from Muskegon, Hart & Pentwater+10:45 a m 
Express  from  Big  Rapids,  Baldwin
and Traverse City............................+*2:35 p m
Mail from Chicago and Muskegon 
+3:55  p m
Express from Grand Haven...............   +5:50 p  in
Fast Express from  Chicago 
.  .......+10:15 p  m
Ex. from  Muskegon and Pentwater. .t 5:50 p m 
Ex. from Baldwin and Traverse City.  t t:50pm 
Express from Traverse City 
. 
*11:30 p m
»Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.  IDaily 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  1:0n  p  m  and 11: <5 p  m  run 
through to  Chicago  solid.  Through  sleeping 
cars  between  Grand  Rapids  and  Chicago  on 
night  express  trains.  Through_ combination
sleeping and chair  car  between  Grand  Rapids 
and Indianapolis on night express trains.
Through sleeper between  Chicago  and  Trav­
erse City;  leaves Chicago 4:10 pm,  except  Sun­
day;  Grand Rapids, 11:30 pm ;  arrives in  Trav­
erse City at 6 a m.  Leaves Traverse City at 6:'5 
pm, except Saturday;  arrives in  Grand  Rapids 
at 11:30pm ;  Chicago7:05am.
Rail and water  route  between  Grand  Rapids 
and Chicago via St. Joseph  and Graham & Mor­
ton’s new palace steamers, City  of  Chicago and 
Puritan. 
,
Leave Grand  Rapids  1:00  p  m. arrive in Chi­
cago 8:30 pm.  Leave Chicago 9:00  p  m,  arrive 
Grand Rapids 6:30 a m.  The 5:05 p m train has 
through parlor car from Detroit to Manistee.

■ETROIT, LANSING &  NORTHERN.

Express for Saginaw and Bay City —   +6:55 a  m 
Mail for Lansing, Detroit  and East...  +7:25 a m 
Express for Lansing, Detroit and East +l:0u  p m 
Mall 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 am  
Mail from Lansing, Detroit and  East. +12:05 a  m 
Fast Express from Lansing and East.  *5:i 5 p m  
Express from Lansing  ana Detroit...  +9:50 p  m 
Ex. from Saginaw, St. Louis and Alma+10:50 p m 
•Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
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 at 9,10.11 a m,  1,2,3, 
4,5, 0.-7.8,9.10 p m.  Sundays only—1:30,2 :S0,3:30, 4:30, 
5,6:30 p  m.  Dailv  trains  leave  Reed’s  Lake  (Alger 
Park) at 9:30,10:30. 11:30  a  m.  1:30, 2:30, 3:30 , 4:30, 6:30, 
7:30,8:80,9:30.10:30 p m.  Sunday trains—2, 3,4,5,5:30, 
6 pm .  For tickets and Information.

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

D E PA B T .

A R R IV E.

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"  The Niagara Falls Route.’'

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M i c h  i g a n  (T e n t r a l
.  7:20 a m 10 00 P ra
D SPA RT.  A RRIV E
.  6:30 & m 5 00 P m
 
.11:55 a m 10 00 a m
.11:15 p m 6 00 a m
.  5:40 p m 1 25 P m
•Daily.
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All other daily except Sunday. 
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Express 
Parlor cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand Rapid 
Fred M. Briggs. Gen'l Agent. 85 Monroe 8t.
G. 8. Hawkins, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Geo. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. 
O. W. Ruggx.es. G. P.  A  T. Agent., Chicago.

Detroit Express..  ...............................  7:20ai
Mixed  .................................  
Day  Express........................................11:55*
•Atlantic A Pacific Express...............11:15 p i
New York Express.................................5:40 p m

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

CUTS for BOOM  EDITIONS

6:30 

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P A M P H L E T S .

For the best work, at  reasonable  prices, address

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

G rand  R apids.  M ich.___________

T H E   GREAT

EDMUND B.DIKEMÍN
Watch Maker 

§  Jeweler,
44 CINE 8T„
Grand Rapids  -  ph.

W A N T E D .

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

3EFORE BUYING GRATES
Jret  Circular and Testimonials.  S e n t   F r e e .  I 
i   Economical.  Sanitary.  Cleanly  and  Artistic. 
|A L O IN £ i F I R E ^ L A C ^

FRUIT,  REANS 

DRINK

and all kinds of Produce.

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

E A R L   BROS.,

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

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  First  National  Bank,  Chicago. 
Michigan Tradesman. Grand Rapids.

L IO N
COFFEE

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

JAVA and RIO.

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TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

RANDOM  REFLECTIONS.

“Why don’t you buy your bread at the 
other  bakery,  then ?” 
I  enquired  of  a 
friend  who  was  finding fault  with  the 
kind he was eating.  “Well,  to  be plain 
with you,”  was the answer,  “we do pre­
fer that  bakery, but as I passed it to-day 
I  saw  the  baker’s  disagreeable,  crusty 
boy alone  at  the counter;  and I will not 
purchase  anything  of  him.”  All  my 
friend said of  the lad was true.  Every­
one in town avoids him,  if  possible, but 
all have a good  word for  the proprietor, 
who is a true  gentleman.  How  careful 
every merchant ought to be  in  selecting 
the help in his business!  Even  his own 
children should  be  watched  and  repri­
manded,  if  not strictly courteous to cus­
tomers.  The  above is only one incident 
which  came  under  my  personal  notice 
and with the withdrawal  of  my friend’s 
patronage  went ninety cents  a  week  in 
cash  from  his  receipts. 
I  know  that 
other customers are leaving  him for pre­
cisely the  same  reason,  and for  a  time 
the proprietor will wonder  why they are 
doing so.  Merchants cannot be too care­
ful in selecting  good-natured,  courteous 
and long-suffering assistants.

*   *   *

*   *   *

It is rather late in the season for spon­
taneous combustion and rather  early for 
over-heated pipes and flues,  and  yet too 
many  mysterious  fires  are  recorded  in 
our exchanges from  all  portions  of  the 
State.  Many  of  them  are  probably in­
cendiary,  and  all  stores  and  places  of 
business should have a watchful eye over 
them from this time forward,  and  no in­
surance policy be allowed to lapse.
The  Bloomington  Pantograph 

says 
“ the coffee plant is dying and the time is 
not far distant  when it will cease to be a 
beverage.”  Don’t you believe i t !  Some 
one is trying to make a corner  and a few 
millions  on  tea. 
The  world’s  yearly 
production  of  coffee  is  not  short,  not­
withstanding  the  planters  of  Ceylon 
“saw the berries drop  off  and the plants 
die.” 
If  we  could  have both our coffee 
and tea unadulterated,  it  would be best; 
but,  as we cannot, let us choose the least 
of two evils and trust the fragrant berry. 
The consumption of  coffee was never in­
creasing more rapidly, and  new fields for 
its successful  cultivation  are fast  open­
ing  up  on  this  continent.  Away with 
all fictitious  preparations,  but  give  the 
people an infusion of the real article and 
no beverage equals it in health,  except it 
be  water  alone.  Every  merchant  will 
bear me out in the  statement  that  it  is 
always possible to purchase  pure  coffee, 
and plenty of  it,  and  there is no neces­
sity for losing  any sleep  over  the  little 
island of Ceylon and the loss of its coffee 
crop.

*   *   *

It is said  that  a  vegetable  substitute 
for butter has been  discovered  in  West 
Africa. 
Its  seed  yields  a  yellowish 
butter, like fat of  a nutty flavor.  Some 
of  our  state  papers  are  dragging  this 
greasy product into politics  and  making 
it a scapegoat for  their  sins,  instead  of 
giving us  information  about it as an ar­
ticle of diet, or  of  its probable  commer­
cial  value.  A live Yankee would at once 
enquire how much it was worth a pound, 
if only to use as wool grease,  and, if  the 
priee would  warrant,  bring  over a ship 
load at once.  For the credit of our econ­
omic  forefathers,  gentlemen,  attend  to 
business.  No levity.  Don’t any of you 
expect to slide  into  office  on  this  new 
and unctions article.  Don’t fritter away

several fortunes  while  they  may  be  so 
easily within your grasp.

*   *   *

It would seem that a “famine”  of  raw 
materials will never be possible,  as other 
and often far better  articles are found to 
take their place.  We refer  to  the  com­
paratively  new  mineral, 
aluminum. 
Those  who  are familiar  with  the  best 
quality of  what is known as  “blue,”  or 
modeling clay, will  recall its smooth and 
metallic  appearance  on  the 
surface. 
Aluminum is the  cause.  The  clay con­
tains it in large  quantities.  Every brick 
is  its  receptacle. 
It  is  a  beautifully 
brilliant white metal,  and has heretofore 
been too expensive for any except chemi­
cal  or  scientific  use,  owing  to the fact 
that  the  process  for  extracting  it from 
the  clay  was  impracticable,  so  far  as 
known, except in small  quantities.  The 
Chicago News is now responsible for say­
ing that Prof.  Joseph M.  Hirsh,  of  that 
city, reports  a  process by which  he  ex­
tracts  this  metal  readily and easily at a 
cost  of  only  16  cents a pound,  and, to 
verify his statement,  claims  to  have al­
ready manufactured  2,000  pounds.  He 
has formed the  Chicago  Aluminum  Co., 
with  $100,000  capital,  and  has  leased 
buildings in which to begin active opera­
tions.  As this metal is remarkably light 
in weight, it will  enter  into  the  manu­
facture  of  hundreds  of  useful  articles 
and will,  without doubt,  be used in por­
tions of buildings, cars,  ships,  furniture, 
etc. 
It  is  truly  among  the  wonderful 
achievements of  the Nineteenth century.

He Didn’t Forget.

A merchant’s  wife recently gave him a 
sealed letter,  begging him not to open it 
until he  got  to  his  place  of  business. 
When he did so he read:
“I am forced to tell you something that 
1 know will trouble you, but it is my duty 
to do  so. 
I  am  determined  you  shall 
know  it,  let  the  result be what it may. 
I  have  known for  a  week  that  it  was 
coming,  but  kept it to myself  until  to­
day,  when it has reached  a  crisis,  and I 
cannot  keep  it  any longer.  You  must 
not censure me too harshly, for you must 
reap the results as well as myself. 
I do 
hope it won’t crush you.”
□ Here  he  turned  the  page,  his  hair 
slowly  rising.
“The flour  is  out.  Please  send  me 
some this afternoon. 
I  thought  that by 
this method you would not forget it.”

“Very Reliable.”

From the Vermontville Echo.
With  last  week’s  number  of  The 
M ic h i g a n   T r a d e s m a n ,  it  commenced 
its eighth year. 
It is a No. 1 trade paper 
and a  model  of  typographical  neatness 
and very reliable in  its  market  reports. 
Mr. Stowe has the congratulations of  the 
Echo on  his  success as a live,  energetic 
publisher.

(Formerly Shri ver, Weatherly A Co.)

CONTRACTORS  F O B

Galnaniied Iron  Cornice, 

Plumbing l Heating Work.
Pumps,  Pipes,  Etc.,  M antels 

Dealers in

and  Orates.

Weatherly  &  Pulte,

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

- 

- 

MICH.

R IN D G B , B E R T S  CM   &  CO.,

Say, we are going 
to  have  some  wet 
weather  soon,  and 
we  would  like  to 
have you have some 
of  our  own  make 
goods to show your 
customers.  They 
will  keep  their  feet 
dryer and wear longer 
than  any  other  shoe 
you  can  buy  for  a 
medium  price,  and 
don’t  you  forget  it. 
Ask to see them.  We 
make them in oil grain 
satin and  F. S. Calf.
If  you  haven’t  bo’t 
y o u r  
rubbers,  we 
would  like to sell you 
the  Boston  and  Bay 
State goods.  We do not 
think they will be any 
cheaper  and  we  will 
give you as low prices 
as anybody selling the 
same line.

12,  14  AND  16  PEARL  ST., 

- 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

El.  Puritano  Cigar.
TheFinestlOCentGlpr

O N   E A R T H

MANUFACTURED  BY

DILW0RTH  BROTHERS,

PITTSBURGH.

TRADE  SUPPLIED BY

I.  M.  CLARK  &  SON,

Grand Rapids. 
BRADDOCK, BATEMAN  & CO., 
Bay  City.
-  Detroit.

T. E. BREY00RT, 

W M . SE A R S & CO.,

Cracker  Manufacturers,

8 7 , 8 9  a n d   41 K e n t St.,  G rand  R a p id s.

S.  K.  BOLLES. 

E.  B.  DIEEMAN.

S .  K .  H o lie s  &  C o.,

17  CANAL  ST..  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

"W holesale  C igar, D ea lers.

“ T O S S   U P ! ”

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

H o ld fa s t s

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

SEND  FOR  PRICE  LIST.

