VOL.  8.
REMPIS &  GALLMEYER,
F O U N D E R S

General Jobbers and Manufacturers of 

Settees,  Lawn  Vases,  Roof  Crestings,  Carriage 

Steps, Hit 

g Posts and Stair Steps. 

84-56 N. Front St. 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

GRAND  R A PID S,  W EDNESDAY,  OCTOBER 8,  1890.
H o w   to  K e ep   a  S tore.
By  Samuel  H.  Terry.  A  book  of  400  pages 
written from the experience and observation  of 
an old merchant  It treats of Selection  of Busi 
ness,  Location,  Buying,  Selling, Credit, Adver­
tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships,  etc.  Of 
great interest to every one in trade.  $1.50.
THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

Experience of the Inventor of Wooden 

WOOD  CORKS.

Bottle  Stoppers.

W ritten  fo r  Th e Tradesman.

P A K T   n .

NO.  308.

had been  seen  by a great number of per­
sons competent to  judge of  their merits, 
such as druggists,  wine  and  champaign 
bottlers,  soda  and  mineral  water  pro­
ducers,  patent  medicine  men, etc., con­
sequently a large amount  of  stock could 
have been  sold at once at a merely nomi­
nal price.  But it was the  wish  of  the 
three persons  who owned it to part  with 
just as little as possible  and  still  prose­
cute the work.  A  few  thousand  shares 
at once readily found takers at from one- 
fifth to one-tenth its face value. 
In issu­
ing the stock, Wilson’s friends paid more 
than was nominated in the bond.  They 
decided that notwithstanding  his  agree­
ment  with  them,  and the assignment of 
the  patent declared,  that the  ownership 
should  he  equal,  they  would  issue  an 
even 35,000 shares  to  him  and issue the 
balance  equally  to  themselves.  We 
speak  of  this,  not only to show the  ex­
treme confidence of  these two gentlemen' 
in the merit and prospective value of the 
invention,  hut also  their  high  apprecia­
tion of Wilson as a partner and friend.

It now seemed  to  be  necessary that at 
least the officers of the  company  should 
devote nearly all their time to  the  work 
they  had  undertaken.  Suitable  rooms 
and steam power attached  were  at  once 
leased  for a temporary  factory  and me­
chanics hired to turn  out the corks in an 
ordinary lathe and prepare them  for  the 
baths, etc., which part  of  the work was, 
for a time, superintended  by  the  Presi­
dent  himself.  These  workmen  were 
generally  willing  and  even  anxious  to 
receive a part of their wages in the stock 
of the company at a low price,  but  this, 
for a time,  was not  entertained and cash 
was paid instead.  The press of  the  city 
and State had quickly noticed  the  exist­
ence  of  this  “Cork  Company,”  and  it 
was  already  attracting  the attention  of 
thousands.  When on the street,  Wilson, 
unless  alone  and  often  disguised  (his 
seedy  appearance  was  generally  suffi­
cient),  also  invited  more  public  notice 
than  was  agreeable  to  him.  Naturally 
diffident and retiring in his  contact  with 
others,  and believing  “ all men equal”— 
he  was  by  birthright a member  of  the 
Society of  Friends—he could see nothing 
he had  done  worthy  of  undue personal 
distinction.

There were many  amusing,  though,  to 
him, annoying incidents that occurred at 
this time, one  or  two  of  which we will 
relate.  One day his Secretary, taking up 
a dozen or  more  fine  wine  corks,  asked

P e r fe c tio n   S c a le •

The Latest  Improved  and  Best.

Does  Not  R epo  Down  Weight.

Will Soon Save  Its  Cost on any Counter. 

For  sale  by  leading  wholesale grocers.

AVOID  TH E

Cnrse of Credit

B Y   USINO

‘TRADESMAN

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TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

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See quotations in  Grocery Price Current.

SEEDS!

Write  for  jobbing  prices  on 
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Alfalfa Clover, Timothy, Orchard 
Grass,  Red  Top,  Bine  Grass, 
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A lle n   D u rfee  & Co.,
FUNERAL  DIRECTORS,
Eaton,  Lyon  It  Go.,

108 Ottawa St.,  Grand Rapids.

Olir Fall Line Now Ready

E A T O N , L Y O N   & CO.,

80 and 88 Monroe St», Grand Rapids.

.  Grand  Rapids.

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A.  S.  BROOKS.

WILLIAMS,
S R B L B Y

&   BRO O K S
Successors  to

FARRAND,  WILLIAMS  &  CO., 

Wholesale Druggists,
AT  THE  OLD  STAND.

Corner  Bates  and  I.arned Streets, Detroit.

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Standards........................... 20
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Favorites............................ 16

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2-lb. Cans (usual weight), 81.50 per doz. 
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Sweet  Cider,  Pure, 15c per gal.
Pure Cider Vinegar, 10c 
Choice  Dairy Butter, 16c.
Fresh Eggs,  18c.
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SEEDS!

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Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top, 
or, in  fact,  Any  Kind  of  Seed, 
send or  write to the

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W.T. LAMORE AUX.

While Wilson’s companions  were  now 
exulting over  the  success  of having ob­
tained a patent on this invention,  he was 
silent and thoughtful and still filled with 
anxiety.  He foresaw numberless obstacles 
in the path to  success,  which,  as yet, his 
friends did not seem to apprehend.  There 
were difficulties in the  way of  obtaining 
the kind of  wood which should make the 
invention profitable;  and its very refrac­
tory nature,  and the mysterious action of 
the  chemicals  upon  it,  were  still to be 
overcome,  in  order  that  the  stoppers 
might be uniform in quality.  Very little 
knowledge  could  be  obtained regarding 
the size or quantity of this wood.  Even 
if  it  could  all  be used for the purpose, 
how abundant was  the  supply?  Then, 
also,  as  one  invention  necessitates  an­
other,  he  already  saw  that special ma­
chinery must be had for the work.  These 
and many other difficult questions, which 
were yet to be solved,  arose  in his mind. 
But  the  most  weighty  question  of  all 
others was,  how shall sufficient money be 
obtained to pay for the requisite machin­
ery, procure the wood  in sufficient quan­
tity, and go forward with the work?

Inventors  are  very  apt  to be poor, in 
all except their handful of  brains, and it 
is the  experience  of  hundreds  of  them 
that practical demonstration is necessary 
before capital can  be  induced  to  notice 
their work. 
It  was,  therefore,  decided 
by this trio of friends to at  once  form  a 
joint stock  company,  incorporated under 
the laws of the State; issue 100,000 shares 
of stock at the par value of  $5 per share 
and  then  to  sell  (even at a low price) a 
sufficient  quantity  to  defray the  neces­
sary expense  required.  This  company 
was soon formed, received its charter and 
issued  its  stock.  Wilson  was  elected 
President of  the company and one of  his 
two companions  Secretary. 
It  was the 
personal wish of the  President  to  make 
this stock on its face the  most  desirable 
in the  State  and  he  therefore  strongly 
urged  that  it  be  made  unassessable, 
which,  after  much  discussion  and some 
delay,  was  agreed  upon.  Unless  this 
notification was placed upon  the  certifi­
cates  of  all  stock  in  that State,  it was 
subject to assessments  by  the  directors 
or  a  majority  of  the stockholders and, 
unless promptly paid, this “freezing out” 
process caused a forfeiture of  the  stock 
and the ruin of hundreds of  men of  lim­
ited means.  Most kinds  of  stock in the 
State was assessable. 
It was also stipu­
lated  that  the  certificates should be en 
graved,  and  the  finest  lithograph  work 
and bond paper on the coast  used.  „Wil- 
son himself drew the  design and person­
ally  superintended  the  work.  These 
certificates,  we  believe,  were  issued  for 
not less  than  100  nor  more  than 5,000 
shares each and, when completed on gold 
tinted paper,  were  in  point  of  artistic 
work and beauty almost  equal to a bank 
note and were not much larger in dimen 
sions.  The few  corks  heretofore  made

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T H E   M IC H IG A N   THAJD^SM^TST.

him  to  visit  a  well-known  champaign 
factory with him, as they were wanted on 
business.  Arriving  at  the  house,  they 
were ushered into the private  parlors  of 
the proprietor, where Wilson  was  intro­
duced.  Only one  or  two  other  persons 
were  present.  The  corks  in  question 
were exhibited and their merits discussed 
by  the  company,  with  an  occasional 
modest  comment  from  Wilson.  Then 
they  adjourned  to  the  bottling room to 
test the use  of  them  in corking the bot­
tles by machinery.  This test was highly 
satisfactory,  for,  unlike the  bark  corks, 
these had no elasticity longitudinally but 
only laterally, and the  machinery forced 
them in place better  and tied them more 
rapidly.  The proprietor looked on with 
astonishment and,  turning to Wilson,  he 
said,  in his broken  English: 
“Give  me 
your  hand,  Mynheer?  Let  me  shake 
bands  with a witch or”—he added,  after 
seeing the blood  rush into Wilson’s  face 
and hearing the roars  of  laughter  from 
the  company—“a  greater  chemist  than 
Liebig!  Now,  see  here,  my  friend,  if 
yon will make these corks  large  enough 
and good enough  for  my purpose,  I will 
bind  myself  to  take  a  million  dollars’ 
worth!  I now have two car loads of wine 
corks in my  house  and  yet I cannot get 
half  enough  to  bottle  my wine.  Why? 
Because I must have  them made perfect, 
like yours appear to be,  and  not  enough 
such bark can be procured from which to 
make them.”  Again all returned to the 
office and various sample bottles of cham­
paign were opened and the goblets filled. 
Wilson asked to be excused, but  the pro­
prietor,  assuring  him  that  there  “ was 
not a headache  in a whole cask of it,” he 
was induced to try several samples, much 
to the amusement  of  his  Secretary.  At 
another  time,  while  investigating  the 
ways and means  of  obtaining a shipload 
of the desired wood, he came  in  contact 
with a bluff  and  comical  New  England 
sea captain, to whom he  was  introduced 
and stated the ebject of his visit.  “Well, 
well!”  uttered the captain, still retaining 
the  hand  he  had  grasped;  “shiver  my 
timbers,  if  1 don’t  believe  you  are  the 
cork man the papers are  making  such  a 
fuss  over.”  Then  turning  to  Wilson’s 
companions,  he bowed and said:  “Come 
on  board,  gentlemen,  (pointing  to  his 
vessel which lay at the dock) and we will 
try a cigar and talk over this matter;  be­
sides,  I am  anxious  to  see  the article I 
hear so much  about.”  Being  seated  in 
his  office, he was handed a  few  samples 
which he closely examined, turning them 
over and tossing them  up  and  catching 
them occasionally.  Then,  laying them on 
the table and giving Wilson a scrutinizing 
glance,  he dryly remarked:  “ Yankee all 
over,  b’gosh! 
1  believe  you  began  life 
whittling.  But how in  creation  do  you 
get  them  as  soft  as  rubber?  and  how 
long  will  they  remain  so?  But  smoke 
with  me  now”—and he reached  for  his 
box of Havanas—“as in a short time you 
will forget you ever saw me.”  “Why do 
you  say that, Captain?”  was  the  reply. 
“ Because I think I see millions of money 
for you  in  those' bits of wood,  and they 
say money  makes  us  forget poor devils 
who work for wages.  But,” he continued, 
“ we will  talk  business.  You want the 
wood  and I  know  just  where  it  is. 
I 
think this  ship  can  be  chartered  for a 
run to the islands  for a cargo and one of 
your company can go as super-cargo. 
It 
will cost you $1,000. 
I will  be  ready  to 
start  in  about 
twenty  days  and  the 
natives  there  will  load  the ship for us.

Drop me a line any  time  before  sailing, 
Box No. —,  San Francisco.”

It is sufficient to say that the project of 
obtaining a cargo of the wood in question 
was abandoned  for  the  time being.  As 
the supply now on hand, which had from 
time to time been procured from the ves­
sels,  exceeded  ten  cords,  attention  was 
directed toward a more rapid  method  of 
manufacturing. 
Skilled  mechanics  on 
this coast  were  not  numerous and their 
services were in constant demand at high 
rates.  Their engagements  were usually 
so far in advance that  the  company was 
compelled to delay the work,  and  to pay 
from 75c to $1 per hour for the time actu­
ally  employed.  Parties  skilled  in  the 
manufacture  of  wood  machinery  were 
appealed  to  for  aid,  shown  what  was 
required  to  be  done  and  their services 
secured.  Several gave the subject  close 
attention, examined samples of the wood, 
and thought there  would be no difficulty 
in the production of machines to cut and 
finish from forty to  sixty corks per min­
ute.  One machinist, who laughed at the 
failures of his fellows, offered to produce 
a tool which  should cut one dozen of any 
given size at once  and  completely finish 
them  ready  for  the  baths at one opera­
tion.  He obtained his idea  from watch­
ing  the  process  of  cutting them singly 
with a chisel in an ordinary lathe.  When 
finished,  it presented  the  appearance  of 
a series of  chisels,  set to the same bevel, 
and was mounted  upon a light steel rail­
way, which was fastened in  front  of  the 
lathe. 
It  was  then  only necessary for 
the  operator  to  place  the  stick  in the 
lathe, apply the power and with one hand 
push the instrument or tool  rapidly  and 
firmly against it.  The man was a highly 
skillful workman  and  produced  a  most 
beautiful,  unique  and  finely 
finished 
piece of work,  upon which he had  given 
the best part of two weeks’ labor.  This 
mechanic had previously and voluntarily 
offered to forfeit the fifty dollars  he  was 
to receive for the tool,  if it  did  not  per­
form the work as agreed upon. 
In  test­
ing it,  however,  the wood was  torn  into 
fragments—not  one  stopper  could  be 
completed with it.  To  say that both the 
mechanic  and  the  company  were  dis­
gusted  and  astonished,  would  only  be 
speaking  very mildly.

We will not weary the reader with  the 
number  or  details  of  the repetitions of 
such  failures  and  the 
large  expense 
incurred by the company.  By the primi­
tive way of  hand  turning,  the  company 
were finishing several  gross  of  assorted 
sizes  of  small  corks  daily,  which  were 
rapidly sold and added  to  the  notoriety 
of  the new enterprise.

There were two or three  firms  a t‘this 
time manufacturing corks  from  the bark 
of the cork tree  (quer.cus  xuber)  on  the 
Pacific coast;  and  these wooden stoppers 
of Wilson’s seemed  to  throw a dynamite 
bomb  in  their  midst,  as they  feared  it 
would prove a stopper  which would stop 
all  their  operations.  They  courteously 
requested the new  company not to make 
their  price  list  below  one  which  they 
themselves submitted, as  it was asserted 
that the great demand for  good  corks or 
stoppers  warranted  the  production  of 
both kinds.  They  did  not,  of  course, 
profess to know how cheaply the wooden 
stoppers  could  be  made,  but  reasoned 
that  to  reduce  the  price would cause a 
ruinous  rate  war  between both parties. 
They  acknowledged  the  superiority  in 
appearance  of  the  wood  stoppers,  but 
thought that time alone must  test  them

The sweetest music of nature  is  the  singing 
of these little angels of  the trees.  The  Hartz 
Mountain  district  in  Germany is  the home of 
the best and handsomest  German Song Canary.

WE  HAVE  IMPORTED  EXACTLY 

8,000  OF  THE  GENUINE  GERMAN.  HARTZ 

MOUNTAIN  CANARIES.

We Propose to Give these 2,000 Canaries to our Customers

on the  following basis:

1. 

2. 

—With an order for300of our “Canary” Cigars we will

send  One  Canary  (male  or  female),  without  a 
cage.

—On order for 400 Cigars we will send One Canary and

—On  an  order  for  600  Cigars  we  will  send  Two

3. 

handsome,  square,  brass,  finest  finished,  Osborne 
Cage.
Canaries and the above cage.
This  is a rare  opportunity  to  secure a valu­
able bird  at  no  expense.  The  price  of  the 
Cigars is $35.00 per thousand,  with  or  without 
the Canaries.

W euo Macily as WeAilvertise

VALLBY  FORGE  MERCHANDISE  CO.
Valley Fokob, Mo., Aug. 11,1890. 
Detroit Tobacco Co., Detroit Mich.: 
Gentlemen—Enclosed find  check  for 
Invoice 4th.
Your goods and  premium  are  as  you 
represented them, which  is not the case 
in one out of a thousand,  and  we  must 
say that we were  agreeably  surprised to 
find it so.  Our Biid so far is doing well, 
and the Cigars  hold  their  own  against 
any $35.00 cigar we have.

Respectfully yours,

VALLEY  FORGE  MDSE  CO.,

F. G ie s s in g , Mngr.

C.  L.  COWDERY,
O t t a w a , K a n .,  S e p t.  22,  1890. 

A Canary is a beautiful  and  appropriate gift 
to a friend, and by its  constant voice recalls  to 
mind the giver.  Nothing  can  equal  a German 
Hartz Mountain Canary for a Christmas present 
to a lady.

DRUGS,  MEDICINES,  PAINTS,  OILS,  ETC.
Detroit Tobacco Co., Detroit. Mich.: 
G e n t l e m e n —Please  forward  me  400 
Cigars  and  Canary  (male)  and  cage. 
Please send me  a  good  singer. 
I  pur­
chased  the  Parrot  Cigars  and bird and 
am highly pleased with both.  The cigars 
give perfect satisfaction and  the  parrot 
is a fine bird.  I would like  to  have  an­
other  parrot  to  mate  the  one  i   have. 
As we will only have one supply of birds  this 
Have you  any  left?  Can  you  send  me 
another order?  Please let me hear from 
year, parties desiring one should  send  in  their
you. 
The above are someof the many letters  order at once.  We guarantee  safe  delivery  of 

C. L. COWDERY.

Yours truly,

received.  We  can  send  hundreds  of 
testimonials  embracing  nearly  every  birds.
State in the Union.

Address  DETROIT  TOBACCO  CO.,

Please Mention The Tradesman. 

G llSW O ld  S t r e e t , D e t r o it ,  M id i.

ESTABLISHED  N E A R L Y   30  YEARS.

Michael  Kolb  &  Son.,
Wholesale M in g   ManilfaGttlrers,

ONE  OF  THE  OLDEST  AND  MOST  RELIABLE

R O C H E S T E R ,  N .  Y .

The name of Michael  Kolb is so famil­
iar in the  clothing  manufacturing  busi­
ness,  he being a practical mechanic from 
his boyhood,  and  so  great  in  his  judg­
ment of the stability of  goods that other 
manufacturers ask at the  mills  or  their 
representatives  for  what  Mr.  Kolb  has 
bought,  and  his  styles  and  make  up 
are  being  constantly 
imitated.  Their 
goods  are  always  reliable  and  sold  to 
retailers at one  and  the  most-equitable 
prices and terms. 
It will pay merchants 
who  have  not  seen  their  line  to write 
their  representative,  WILLIAM  CON­
NOR,  Marshall,  Mich., to call upon them, 
and if they  decide toobuy,  they will soon 
find that they  will  save money and busi­
ness increase.  All  garments guaranteed 
as represented.

W I L L I A M   C O N N O R ,

For eight years our Michigan representative,  attends  periodically at Sweet's Hotel,. 
In Grand Rapids, where many  merchants  meet  him,  and whose expenses are paid. 
Mr.  Connor  will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel  on  Thursday  and  Friday, Oct.  16 and 17. 
Room 82.

T H E   M IC H IG A N   TB A D ESM A N .

And jnst here it is pertinent  to  say that 
Wilson can to-day exhibit samples of  his 
first stoppers, made  thirteen  years  ago, 
which are as perfect in every  respect  as 
the day  they  were  finished.  Druggists 
in San Francisco commenced to  use  and 
to  praise  them,  more  particularly  for 
securely  holding  powerful  acids  and 
alkalies, for which purpose  they  nearly 
equalled glass.  The San  Francisco  Gas 
Light  Co.,  which  was  bottling  crude 
aipmonia for  commercial  purposes,  sent 
orders to the factory for all  the  wooden 
stoppers  of a certain  size  it  was  then 
making.  This caustic  liquid (which, we 
believe,  is one of the  waste  products  in 
the manufacture of  hydrogen gas)  would 
soon destroy the bark  cork,  if in contact 
withit, while these wooden stoppers were 
impervious  and,  for  all  practical  pur­
poses, indestructable.

[c o n t in u e d   n e x t   w e e k ]

Status  of the  Spalding: Failure.

Assignee  Renwick  has  filed his state­
ment of the assets and  liabilities  of  the 
Spalding & Co. estate, showing stock and 
accounts  valued  at  $6,361.35  and  ap­
praised at $5,258.70.  The  liabilities are 
$9,681.82,  divided  among  about  eighty 
creditors,  the  heaviest  creditor  being 
Schoverling, Daly & Gates, of New York, 
who  are  interested  to  the  amount  of 
$1,642.18.  The Chicago creditors are  as 
folllows:
Chas. F. Stahes Mfg Co..........................$1,495 27
Chas. Morris & Co...................................   1,085 99
Chicago Shot Tower Co..........................   576 48
40 65
Hibbard, Spencer, B. & Co...................... 
Foley & Williams Mfg Co.......................  
2 80
2 38
Jno. Wilkinson & Co............................... 
Geo. Barnard & C o ...............................   101  75
Capital Mfg Co.................-......................  
10 40
Feather Duster Co................................... 
7 50
Montgomery  Ward & C o .......................   315 00
Odell  Typewriter Co.............................. 
66 00
Western Wheel Works............................ 
66 43
Blain-Hazard  Powder Co.......................  147 02
The claims of  local  creditors are gen­
erally  small,  aggregating  only  a  little
over $1,000,  as follows:
Rowson Bros.......................
Voigt, Herpolshelmer & Co.
Lucius  Sargeant.................
A. B. Turner Co...................
S. Hey man &  Co.................
E. W. Hall...........................
Mrs. L. S. Hill......................
W. H. Salisbury &  Co.........
Weatherly & Pulte..............
W. O.  Westfall....................
Brobst & Himes...................
W. C.  Dewev.......................
Grand Rapids Cycle Co...  . 
Geo. A. Hall........................
H. Rade maker.....................
I. M. Clark &  Son...............
Eaton, Lyon & Co...............
E. G. Studley.......................
Curtiss &Co.........................
Frank Way..........................
W. S. Pugh..........................

,$285 52
5 70 
.  14 80
27 68 
60
1 75 
459 54
6 52 
42
3 00
4 06
6 OS 
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Straw-Paper Factories Combine.
Representatives  of 

the  seventy-two 
manufacturers of  straw  wrapping paper 
whose mills are west of  the  Alleghanies 
held a meeting at  Chicago  last  Wednes­
day to  form  a  combination  to  regulate 
prices  and  restrict  the  production  of 
straw wrapping paper.  The mills repre­
sented have a daily capacity of  300 tons. 
M.  B.  Castle,  of  Sandwich,  111.,  was 
elected President  and  H.  G.  Meade,  of 
Dayton,  was  made  Secretary. 
J.  H. 
Halladay, of  Chicago,  and H. G.  Meade, 
of  Dayton,  were appointed sales  agents, 
to whom is intrusted the  disposal  of  the 
product  of  the mills,  and  it  is  part  of 
their  duty to see  that  the  market  does 
not become  glutted  by  over-production, 
so  that  prices  may be maintained  on  a 
profitable basis.  M. B. Castle,  of  Sand­
wich, 111., J. C. Richardson, of Cincinnati, 
and F.  C. Trebine, of Trebine, Ohio, were 
appointed a  committee  to  see  that  the 
manufacturers’ interests are protected by 
the sales  agents.  Thirty-one  mill-own­
ers, producing three-fifths of the tonnage 
represented, signed the agreement.

Horton’s  Bay—Dell  Ford,  who  con­
ducted  a  general  store  here  for  many 
years, has taken up his residence in Wis­
consin.

MAKE  MONEY

BY SAVING IT.

1 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.
1 want your account.
Write.

S. L. McGONIGAL,

37 College Place, N.  Y.  City.

S . A . M o rin  an
•  L I M E ,

Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio

WHOLESALE

Akron, Buffalo and  Louisville

C E M E N T S ,
Stucco and Hair, Sewer  Pipe, Fire Brick 

and Clay.

Write  for  Prices.

69  CANAL  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Grand Rapids  Fire  Insurance  Co.

CASH  CAPITAL 

- 

$200,000.00

Fair  Hates. 

Prompt  Settlements.

Call on our agent in your town. 

JULIUS  HOUSEMAN,  President.

S  P. ASPINWALL, Secretary.

PlayingGards

WE  ARE  HEÄDQUBRTER8

SEND  FOR  PRICE  LIST.

Daniel  Lynch,

19  So. Ionia  St., Grand Rapide.

Table:

All  goods bearing the 

name  of

THURBER, WHYLAND  & CO.. 

OB

ALEXIS  GODILLOT, JR.

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

THOBBEE, WHYLAND  &  00., 

West Broadway, Beads & Hudson Streets, 

New York Oity.

3
ALFRED  J.  BROWN,

Wholesale  Fruit  Commission Merchant and Dealer in All Kinds

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.

Farm and  Garden Seeds,
Candy

THE  ALFRED  BROWN  SEED  AND  FRUIT STORE.

We Manufacture
Everything in the line of

Correspondence  solic­
ited  and  prices  quot­
ed with pleasure. 

Write us.

W e  A re  H e a d q u a r te r s ,  as  U su a l,  fo r  

O r a n g es, L e m o n s , B a n a n a s, B r u its  

and  P r o d u c e   G e n e r a lly •

GRAND RAPIDS FRUIT  AND  PRODUCE  GO.,

C. B ,  MjBTZGBR,  P r o p r ie to r .

3_.NO.uION LA  ST., GRAND  RAPIDS.

P E R K I N S   &  HE ESS
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

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

______________WF CARRY  A  STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW  FOR MTT.T.  USE_______________

W M .  H .  T H O M P S O N  <fe CO.,

WHOLESALE

SPECIALTY

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

P O T A T O E S !

No.  166 South Water St., Chicago.  Fair cash advances made 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.

•W"iyr  IR..  KEELER,

CoaMouery  and  Fruits, Nuts aufl Cigars,

JOBBER  OF

412  SOUTH  DIVISION  8T. 

TELEPHONE  92-3R.

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.
MOSELEY  BROS,

----- WHOLESALE-----

F r u its,  S eed s, O ysters § P ro d u ce.

AH kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

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

26,28, 30 and 32 Ottawa  St., 

pleased to hear from you.
- 

- 

GRAND  RAPII f

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

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits.
Headquarters for Jersey Sweet Potatoes

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

WE  HANDLE  MICHIGAN  POTATOES  IN   CAR  LOTS.

■ajmoxs  s e ¿

-A. D. Sari

T H E   inC H T G A X   TR A D ESM A N .

body  of  homesteaders,  and,  failing  to 
comply, the squatters opened fire,  killing ! 
a team of  horses.  The  matter  Is  being 
held  open,  and  an  understanding  will | 
probaby be reached, pending the decision 
of  the  courts as to who is the  owner  of j

tea ad. and  Mr. McKenna  will  cat  10.000

'Mgis.aw—E.  R.  PMnney  is  harrying 
forward repairs to the Hoyt pianinz mill, 
which he Las leased for a term  of  years, 
and It will start about October 10.  with a 
force of fifty men. which will be increased

simmer  by Frank  Whittemore was  sold 
,a*t week oc a chattel mortgage of ¡Ji.sOO, 
held by H.  B.  Kease.  Sos 4 Co., of  Sagi­
naw.  who bid in the property. an>l,  it  is 
•aid.  will iterate Is.

Tpsilasti—The  Tpsilann  Limber Co. 
has teen  organized  with a capital  stock

sess.  The incorporators are B.  B.  Hazel- 
ton.  Harrison  Fairchild.  R.  W.  Hemp- 
Sill and Max L.  Pease.

Detroit—The Central  Car  Supply Co..

T5 per cent,  paid in.  has 
association.  Edward !
D.  Webb and Solon EL 
ford, are eqssl owners

e filed artteles of
Phipps. AlmoB
niheim,  <if  Mû­

mill facteries  of
J.  M.  Ballou and Xevii 
4  Lindsiey have
been consolidated  with the Stuart  Chair 
Works,  the  new  concern to be known  as 
the Otsego  Chair  Co.  and  incorporated 
with a 

?tOf k of $50.000.

Bay Citv—S. G.  M. Gate

pi

on

ipped

expec

It  will 

band saw*  and  i 
pacity of  TO.000  feet. 
te«4 dozing the winter.
—The Detroit Boat and Oar  Co. 
organized  with  a capital  stock 
. of  which §2,200 has been paid 
rkhoSders  are  Edgar  A.

Detn

The

Why  Some  Men Do Not Succeed.
Two of the most successful  men on the 
North  American continent were recently 
asked the question.  “What are the causes 
of  poverty?“  One replied,  “Ignorance 
and incapacity.”  The other said that the 
is  “The  number  of 
prevalent  cause 
young  men  who are wanting in decision 
and fixity of purpose. 
If  they get into a 
good place at the start, they should stick 
to it,  knowing  that by perseverance,  in­
dustry and  ability,  they win  promotion 
In due coarse  as  vacancies  occur.  But 
they see  or  hear  of  some one making a 
fortune in Wall  street, or in ranching,  or 
in mining,  and away they go to try their 
luck.  When  they  lose,  as  they do  in 
ninety-nine cases out of  a  hundred, that 
is the end of  them:  they can never settle 
down to ordinary  ways of  earning a liv­
ing after that, and their descent is rapid."’ 
This reason hits the  nail  square  on  the 
bead.  Go where  we  will,  we  will find 
men who commenced life under  the most 
favorable  circumstances,  but  who  are 
such complete financial wrecks that there 
is but little  hope for  their  reformation. 
They may be honest and temperate:  they 
may  even  possess  natural  ability  of  a 
high order,  but  lacking in steadiness  of 
purpose, they will  never  succeed.  Had 
they  sufficient  will force to stick  to  one | 
thing,  no  matter  how  disagreeable  it | 
might  be  at first,  were  they content  to ] 
advance  slowly,  they  would  have  no ] 
reason now to talk of the “ luck“ of those j 
who have  pushed forward  into the front j 
ranks. 
Another  cause  of  poverty is a lack of i 
self-confidence.  Many men seem to have j 
no faith In  themselves,  consequently no j 
assertiveness,  no independence, no pluck, 
and no push.  They are  afraid  to  stand 
up and speak for themselves,  preferring j 
to lean on others.  They  are  afraid  to 1 
make an investment,  because of  the pos- j 
sibility of  failure:  they are afraid to tell j 
what they can do. as they might make an 
error  in  doing it;  they  are  cowards  in 1 
every sense of  the word.  This  is  often j 
the  result  of  early  training.  A  boy, 
naturally timid, is kept in the background i

.

FOB BALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

Adrertkaeaum tm  « ill be t a i w f d   B a d e r  t U t   h ead  fo r 
i tw o   e e n ti  a   w ord  th e   t i n t   tn ie r tlo a   a n d   o n e c e n t a  
S o   a d re rtise - 
i  w ord  fo r  ea ch   *obwoqo«at  i u e r t i o a  
:  m en t ta k e n  fo r leas th a n  *6 e e n ti. 
l d r a x m   p ay m e n t.

BC8IXK&8  CHANCES.

xiS

14* jH  s a l e - a t   a   b a r g a i n   a   s m a l l   s t o c k   o f

drug», alco  tw o   c o u n te r*   a n d   prew eriptien  ca ie.
!  F o r In fo rm a tio n , add r e «   D ru g g ist,  c a re   o f  w i^*iig in  
T ra d e tm a n . 
!  IT O R   SALE—A  FIRST-CLASS  DRUG  STOCK  AND 
b  usine*« In  G ran d   R apids  w o rth   9ZJM   m o st  be
1  
sold o w in g  to  th e  ab sen ce o f p ro p rie to r o n   a c c o u n t  of 
sickness;  co rresp o n d e n ce 
so licited .  A ddress  O.  H.
;  R ichm ond A   Co..  I l l   S o u th   Dfrtsfton 
s tre e t..  G rand 
R apids.  M ention th is p a p e r. 
LX )K   8ALE—T H REEHBTORY  FRAME  HOTEL,  W ITH 
1 
good  sto n e  b ase m e n t  a n d   c o n n e cted   w ith   la rg e  
tw o s to ry  b a m , lo ca te d  o p p o site  ra ilro a d  d ep o t in   one 
o f th e  m o st p ro sp é ro n s c itie s i s  M ichigan,  w ith  a  pop­
u la tio n  o f 11.090;  p rice , w ith  fu r n itu re   a n d   good  w ill, 
b ig   b a rg a in ,  $*,999.  A ddress  A.  C.  F ro st.  A lpena! 
Mich. 

PX>R  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE — t t W   STOCK  OF 

clo th in g , o f  a b o u t  $7,999;  w ill  sell  c h e a p   o r  ex 
ch a n g e fo r fa rm  o r c ity  p ro p e rty ;  m u st be disposed o f 
im m e d iately .  A ddress Q. W . EL, c a re  M ichigan T rades­
m an, G ran d  R apids, M ich. 

u s

u *

97

Fo r   b a l e —a   n i c e   c l e a n   s t o c k   o f   d r u g s ,

lo ca te d  on co rn e r in a  good to w n   o f  9,999  in h a b i­
tan t« ;  good p o in t fo r a  p h y sic ia n ;  n ice  p a y in g   tra d e ; 
o w n e r h as o th e r busin ess to  look a f te r.  9 . H.  W inans, 
3 a n d  1 T ow er B lock, G ran d  R apids. 

i l l

OR  8ALE—A  TRACT  O F   TIMBER.  C 09T A I9IK G  
a b o u t  199,999  fe e t  o a k .  39,999  p in e.  59.990  ash, 
c h e rry , m ap le  an d   bassw ood.  1,999,499  hem lock,  one 
m ile fro m   w h ite  R iv e r;  p ric e ,  $2,999.  A ddress  L ock 
box 899, B ig R apids, Mich. 

199

OR  SALE—ONLY  M ILLINERY STORK IN TOWN OF 
2.309  p o p u la tio n ;  also   lig h t  sto c k   o f  fa n c y   d ry  
goods:  good ch a n c e  fo r m a k in g   m oney.  F o r  p a rtic u ­
la rs  ad d ress No. 119, c a re  M ichigan T ra d esm an . 

in   good  fa rm in g   co m m u n ity ;  good  pro sp ects; 
cold p to  ra g e  in  co n n e ctio n  w ith  sto re .  A ddress  F.  E. 
8., Sand L ak e , Mich. 

FOR 8ALE—STOCK  O F  GENERAL  MERCHANDISE.
I~^O R  SALE—FORTY  ACRES  O F  TIM BER  IN  WEX- 
IX)R  S \L E  OR~EXCHANGE—UNBOUND SCRIBNER’S, 

fo rd  c o u n ty , elm ,  beech  a n d  m ap le.  W .  R.  Man- 

P e te rso n ’s a n d   H a rp e r's   M agazines-,  m ak e m e a n  

digo, S herw ood, M ich. 

offer.  W .  R. M andigo. S herw ood, M ich. 

196

199

1M

110

dress No. 99, c a re  M ichigan T ra d esm an . 

in g  in  th e  b e st to w n  o f  N o rth e rn   M ichigan.  Ad­

FOR  SALE-STO CK   OF  HARDW ARE  AND  BUILD- 
FOR  8ALE—25  P E R   CENT.  BELOW   COOT,  ONLY 
h a rd w a re  sto ck  in  B aldw in, liv e ly  to w n  on lin e of 
tw o ra ilw a y s;  ill h e a lth   com pels  sa le ;  s to re   b u ild in g
cheap.  Jo sep h  H. C obb, B aldw in, M ich.____________3*
W
d re ss No. 29, c a re  M ichigan T ra d esm an . 

ANTED—I   H A TE  SPOT  CASH  TO  P A T   FOR  A 
g e n e ra l  o r  g ro c e ry  sto c k ;  m u st b e c h e ap .  Ad­

99

99

SITUATION'S  W ASTED.

w 'ANTED—SITUATION  BT  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
e ist  o f  7  y e a rs ’  ex p e rien c e:  g o o d   re feren ce. 
A ddress No. 119, c a re  M ichigan T ra d esm an . 
O  ITU ATI ON  W ANTED —  B T   A  PHARMACIST  OF 
O  
fo n r y e a rs  e x p e rien c e;  b ee t o f  re fe re n c e s.  Post- 
office Box 170, B an g o r. R ich._______________________111

119

MISCELLANEOUS.

JA N T E D   —  SECOND-HAND,  UPRIG H T.  SQUARE 
W
show case  by  d ru g g ist.  A ddress  No.  117  c a re  
M ichigan  T ra d esm an . 
11731
A  BOL1SH  TH E  PASS  BOOK  AND  SUBSTITUTE  THE 
-xjl  T ra d esm an   C oupon,  w h ich  is now  in  use by o v er 
5,000  M ichigan  m e rc h a n ts—a ll  o f  w hom  a r e   w arm  in 
p ra ise   o f  its   effectiveness. 
Send  fo r  sam p le  o rd e r, 
w hich  w ill  be  se n t  p re p a id   on  re c e ip t  o f  $L   The 
T ra d esm an  C om pany, G ra n d  R apids.
Q A M PL E 8 O r  TW O  KINDS  OP  COUPONS  FOR  RE 
O  
ta ile rs   w ill  be  s e n t fre e   to   a n y  d e a le r  w ho  will 
w rite  fo r th e m  to   th e   S u tllff  C oupon  P ass  B ook  Oo., 
A lbany. N. T . 

599

S&erma®—A-  Bessert  A  C<s.  - :

Mí

LJkB*;az—teas. 

uar

Perrlason—M. X Mlaer 

is¿  líss
elevator here,  which  will  be  n n   i 
She maEAzeaaent of  R.  H. Allsopp.

Lament—Rankin 4  €*%  are the §t 

sozs Oi. 
Ran ¡a.in. dea.er m
ware and  agricultural implement*.
Allendale—H.  Dalntes.  who  has

fielding—W.  D.  Day has  psreha- 
W.
half interest In the drug stock  of  C 
Ires.  The  sew firm  will  he  known  as 
Ives 4  Day.

Crystal—The  H.  EL  steffy  zeneral

Tow n,  who ha* been for fire  years  with 
Ira E. Swart, at Auburn.

Maple  Rapids—Otto  Baliis  has  par-

Srm of  Owen 4   Bull Is, dealers  in drags, 
groceries and boots and  shoes.

Fenwiek—S.  EL  Einker  has  sold  hi* 
drag stock to Dr. O. O. Osborn,  who ha- 
€ O Q ? o I t l * €   stock  with  Li?  o m  
Mr.  Einker wilt  eon tin ne  the  dry goods 
and grocery business.

Whitehall—John O.  Reed.  whose cloth­
ing stock  was  bcrne-i in the recent  eon- 
fiagrratson here,  hi?  opcci'd a s€w  «tore 
in  the  Mears  block,  carrying  lines  of 
boots and  shoes,  clothing and famishing 
goods.

Fean vitile—W.  A.  Sw
drTLZ $tfj<ük was destroys
fir*e here.,  and who ha¥
a drug §toek at Grand
ranginj: t,o openi a branel
the management  of  Dr. W.  EL Andrews.
Big Rapids—J.  EL  Mezarzle  has  par- 
chi?€4  thf  groeerw  ?tock  of  J.  Frank 
Clark, heretofore  engaged  in the grocery 
and  meat  business.  The  groceries  will 
be added to the  stock  of  Megarzle.  and 
Mr. Clark will continue the meat market.
Otsego—The  sale  of  the  X.  W. Mills 
dry goods  stock  to  G.  A.  Mangold.  of 
Grand  Rapids,  was  not  cons am mated, 
owing  to the failure  of  the  prospective 
purchaser to return  and take possession. 
Mills claims damages for  time  and trade 
lost,  while the  store  was  closed for in­
ventory.  and announces that be will seek 
a remedy in the courts.

M A N U F A C T U R IN G   W A T T E R S .

Ovid—Samuel  F.  Pearl  has  been  ap­
pointed receiver for  the  Scofield  Buggy 
Co.

Coleman—J.  E.  Habbell has purchased 
the interest  of  L.  Hiles  in  the  lumber 
and shingle mill firm of Habbell 4  Hiles.

Davi*. Charles S. Davis.  Ed ward P.  Bur- j sei
reí!.  Dennis  SaliiIvan  and  Murdock Me- Ian
of
Aaley.
Sagi na w—The sawmill  of  Ssevens  4 of

La Due is earring logs  for  the Corning ;
Lumber  Co., two large  raft*  <rjf  which j
were  brought  d<own  from 
Peninsula.  The company has do timber

r  to  tne  miti 
little money 
thousand for

Has tii

Ln consideration of  a bonus 
of -S500.  John Pendergast  has  agreed to 
give up his position  as  manager  of  the 
Grand Rapids  Felt  Boot  Co.  and engage 
in  the  manufacture  of  shoddy  at  this 
place.  The Goodyear  mill  property has 
been  leased  for  that  purpose. 
From 
fifteen to twenty hands  will be employed 
at the outset.

Marquette—The  Metropolitan Lumber 
Co.,  which a short  time  ago  purchased 
from the Lake Superior Canal  4  Iron Co. 
large tracts of  timber near Iron River.  Is 
having  trouble  with  the  homesteaders. 
The  lumbering  concern  has built a fine 
mill  at Beech wood,  which  is reached by 
a branch of  the Chicago 4  Northwestern 
railroad.  This extension of  the railroad 
runs through land,  the  timber on which 
was purchased from the  canal  company, 
but  which  is  now  claimed  by  home­
steaders.  Employes of  the lumber com­
pany.  who were loading logs on the right 
of  way through  these  lands a few  days 
ago.  were  ordered  off  by  aa  armed

A Big Consumer.

The  United States contains about one-

the  Upper! tw>
it (
p reduction of  coffee,  nearly one-third of 
the  world's  production  of 
iron,  about 
one-third of the world’s steel and copper, 
and more than a quarter  of  the  world’s 
cotton and wool.

and  claims 1 
to  be  made 
ther parties. ■

NOTICE  OF  DISSOLUTION.

I  Notice  is   hereby  given  that  the partnership 
j heretofore existing under the firm name of F. L. 
j  Burger & Co. was dissolved Sept.  12  by  mutual 
I consent.  The  business  will  t>e  continued  by 
| F. L. Burger, who assumes tU  ndebtedness and 
will collect all money due the sa  1 firm.

Levering, Sept. 12,1890.

F .  L .  B u r g e r . 
E. E .  C r o s s .

VISITING  BUYERS.

H  C olby ft Co. R o ck fo rd  
C F  S ears. R ockford 
H e a k f  B ros... R ockford 
E E H e w itt, R ockford 
G eo A Sage. R ockford 
D D H a rris. S h elbyville 
Ä x n g er. W a b o n ft D evotst, 
S ullivan
S H B allard . S p a rta  
G H O tis. S hults 
C H F ra n c is. S h erid an  
S ail!v an  L am  Co..  S ullivan 
R A H a stin g s. S p a rta  
J  Y C ran d a ll A  Co.JSa&d Lk 
W  R L aw ton, B erlin 
L  C ook. B au er 
J R aym ond, B erlin 
A D M artin , B itely  
F R iem sm a. B arcu ia 
W m K a rsten ,  B eaver  Dam 
W  R  Mi w in k , B ailey 
R G B eckw ith. B radley 
M ills ft M ills, A shland 
G H W albrim k. A llendale 
E N P a rk e r,C o o p ersv ille 
E li R an aela. C o m in g  
H B W a g a r. C ed ar  S prings 
A C  W a lt, C h a t’s G rove 
J  W  C olburn A  B ro,
G F C ook. G rove 
Mastom ft H am m ond,
Gra& dville.
J  J  B y rn e, G ra tta n  
P eser B eyer.  G randvfiie 
8 C ooper. Jam esto w n  
L f t l   firn le n n .Its a o n v ille  
H K e ije ria g . Jam esto w n  
H F an N oord.  J a n c u o w i  
J o h n  G iles A Co«, L o v ell 
J  P B aker, L a b o rs*

C aledonia 

W a llin g  B ros.. L am ont 
C asp er S ch u tt,  L akevlew  
D r W 8 H a rt,  L ake  O dessa  i 
Jo h n  G u n stra . L am o n t 
T H C ondra. Lisbon 
E P a rm e n te t. E lgin 
J  Horn rich . No D orr 
M  H eyboer A  Bro., O akland  j 
W atrousftt B assford.W T rov 
W m  A bbott ft Co,
W est C am pbell 
C A P an g b o rn ,  M ecosta 
W  S A dkins, M organ 
C K H o y t ft C o.H ndsonville 
B S tek etee,  H olland 
A S tek etee. H olland 
J  N W a lt. H udsonvllle 
W  H H a rriso n ,  H a rrisb u rg  
W m C C ram er,
J a s  G leason, Voinov 
E S Rose, Y elsy 
G eo M eijerlng. V riesland 
Den H e rd e r  ft  T aais,
Y riealand
S T M cLellan, D enison 
R B red ew ay .  D renthe 
H B a k k e r ft 8on,  D ren th e 
L  N F ish e r. D orr 
C 8 K iefer. D utton 
H e rd e r A  L ah u is.  Z eeland  1 
D H D ecker, Z eeland 
S m alleg an  ft P ie k aa rd .
F o re st G rove 
G  M H arw ood, P eto sk ey  
C C H a n m d , Petoskey 
PB resnahan. Parnell 
H E Stover. K alkaska 
M A Side, K ent City 
J K inney, K inney 
H Scegm iller. K ingsley

H a rb o r S prin g s 

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Bicydes.
TricijGles,
Velocipedes
General Sporting Goods

Agents for A. G. Spalding A 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  bicycle«, also a splen­
did assortment of  Misses*  Tricycles,  Children's 
Velocipedes and small  Safety Bicycle«.
E. G. Studlev,

4  Monroe 8t.,

GRAND RAPIDS

Call and  see  them 
or  send  for  large. 
Illu strated   cata 
logue.

T H E   MICTHGLAJST  T R A D E SM A N .
Glimpses at Men We All Know.

to pass  through  the  gate  at  the Union 
depot until he had shown his ticket,  not­
withstanding  the  fact  that  he owns no 
small part of the road  on  which he trav­
eled.

V i n d e x .

Queer Names  of Firms.

F ro m  th e  P itts b u rg  D ispatch.
“Did  you  ever  notice  the  names  of 
business firms on their signs as you walk 
along the street ?”  remarked  a  man yes­
terday with an observant  turn  of  mind. 
“On the principle that present  company 
is always excepted, I won’t  refer  to  the 
names  of  business  firms  in  Pittsburg. 
But what do you think of  this for a com­
bination:
“A few  days  ago I was in a neighbor­
ing town,  when I  was  attracted  by  this 
sign,  ‘Love, Sunshine &  Co.’  The  two | 
should  go  together, but whether in  this 
case the partners  loved  each  other, and 
in consequence there was much sunshine,
I didn’t stop to enquire. 
It struck me as 
peculiar,  and  I  couldn’t  help  stopping 
and  looking at it.  Such names, combined 
as they are, ought to  make  men  famous 
in spite of the saw that  there is  nothing 
in a name,  anyhow. 
‘Irish  <fe  English’ 
was another sign that  caught  me.  Just 
at this time, when these two classes have 
no  particular  love  for  each  other,  the 
association  of  the  names  resembles the 
lying  down  of  the  lion  and  the lamb. 
Hereafter,  look  at  the  names that com­
pose  partnerships,  and  you  will  fre­
quently be amused.”

5
Re-organization  of  the  Farwell  Firm.
J. V. Farwell & Co.,  the wholesale dry 
goods house of  Chicago,  will be  merged 
into a stock  company on  Jan.  1,  with a 
capital  stock  of  $5,000,000.  No  stock 
will be offered on  the  market,  nor  wil 
any new  people  be  taken into the busi­
ness.

R a n g ela n d Mfg. Co.

Wholesale  Manufacturers  of

S A S f i

---- AND----

DOORS

DEALERS  IN

Limber, N I  aid  Shingles.

Office,  Mill  and  Yard:
East  Muskegon  Ave.,  ou  C.  &  W. M. R’y.,

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Danaher & Buckkout  have  engaged in 
general trade at Tallman.  The  Olney & 
Judson Grocer Go. furnished the stock.

John Pendergast, manager of the Grand 
Rapids Felt  Boot Go.,  will engage in the 
manufacture  of  shoddy  at  Hastings  in 
about three months.

Walter  H.  Struik,  who  was  formerly 
engaged in general trade at Forest Grove, 
has engaged in the  boot  and  shoe  busi­
ness on Grandville avenue.

N. Silvius  will  remove  his  dry goods 
stock from 549 to 521 Ottawa  street,  the 
unoccupied  store  in  the  new  Goossen 
block.  The change will take place about 
the 20th.  ________________

W. R. Keeler  has  leased  the  store  at 
414 South Division  street,  adjoining  his 
present  location on the  south,  and  will 
connect the  two  rooms by means  of  an 
archway.

R. Bos  has  sold  his  store building at 
the  corner  of  Jefferson  and  Blakeley 
avenues to S.  K.  Beecher  and  proposes 
to try his fortune in New  Mexico or Ari­
zona.  Mr. Bos has been engaged  in  the 
grocery business on that corner for many 
years.

Thos. D.  Gilbert has decided to erect a 
two-story, brick building, 20x132  feet  in 
dimensions,  in  the  rear  of  the building 
occupied  by  the  Tradesman  Company. 
The ground floor will  be occupied by the 
commission houses doing  business in the 
Gilbert block on Ottawa street.

W. T.  Lamoreaux  has  sold  his three- 
story brick block  at  71  Canal  street  to 
Enos  Putman,  the  consideration  being 
$14,000.  The purchaser now  owns three 
blocks side by side,  titles to the Morman 
and Hill blocks having  been acquired by 
Mr.  Putman about two months ago.

It  is  now  an  established  fact  that a 
corporation  will be formed here to engage 
in  the  grinding  and  silvering  of  plate 
glass, large quantities of  which are used 
by  the  furniture  manufacturers  at this 
market.  The company will  have a cap­
ital stock of $100,000,  nearly all of which 
has been subscribed  by local capitalists.
The Phoenix Furniture Co. has decided 
to abandon its handsome  show  rooms  in 
the  Blodgett building  as  soon  as  other 
tenants for the quarters  can  be secured, 
when the salesroom will  be re-opened  at 
the factory.  Experience has demonstrated 
that the  maintenance  of  the  salesroom 
and general offices apart from the factory 
is far from satisfactory.

W atson’s Grand  Rapids  Dates.

Chas. E. Watson,  Michigan representa­
tive for S.  A.  Maxwell & Co.,  will  be  at 
Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand  Rapids,  with  his 
to 
full  holiday  line  from  October  14 
November  7.  Book  and 
stationery 
dealers and  druggists  who  can  make it 
convenient to visit Grand  Rapids at that 
time  will  be  cordially  welcomed by the 
genial  salesman  and  shown  a  line  of 
goods which is superior  to  all  previous 
attempts in that direction.

In buying your  blank books, don’t for­
get  that  Barlow  Bros.,  Grand  Rapids, 
keep in stock ledgers and  journals made 
from A 1 linen paper and bouud with the 
Philadelphia  patent  flat opening back— 
the strongest blank book ever made.  Send 
for sample sheets with prices.

A chat  with  Amos  S.  Musselman dis­
closes the fact that he is  thoroughly  dis­
gusted with the  red tape attendant upon 
the taking of the industrial census which 
was consigned  to  his  hands. 
Some  of 
the enquiries propounded  are so prepos­
terous as to  disgust a saint, yet the inex­
perienced  clerks  in  the  census office at 
Washington appear to be more particular 
about answers to such questions  than  to 
those of vastly more  importance.  As  a 
case  in  point,  the  Mayhew  report  fur­
nishes a good illustration.  Mr.  Mayhew 
is a manufacturer to  the  extent  of  em­
ploying a cobbler.  In reporting the work 
of that one man, he was asked to state the 
value of the building in  which  his  busi­
ness  was  situated  and 
the  ground  on 
which  it  rested  and 
the  proportionate 
value of the space occupied by the cobbler 
to the whole!  This question  was left  un­
answered as too trivial for notice, but the 
captious  clerks  at  Washington  insisted 
upon a reply,  whereupon Mr. Musselman 
stated the  circumstances  and  suggested 
that they formulate their own answer.

*   *   *

“The  new  tariff  is  d— —d  robbery,” 
exclaimed James Bowne, President of the 
Fourth  National  Bank  and the financial 
backer of  C.  Ainsworth,  the wool dealer, 
“but it puts money in our pocket through 
the advance in  wool.”
*   *   *

The recent purchase of the Lamoreaux 
block  by  Enos  Putman  naturally  calls 
forth the enquiry,  Where did the money 
come from to make  the many realty pur­
chases  which  have lately been made  by 
that successful gentleman,  including the 
Morman and  Hill blocks on Canal  street 
and  the  Morey  and  Telegram  Herald 
blocks on Pearl street?  A friend of  Mr. 
Putman’s  informs  the  writer  that  the 
greater portion  of  his fortune  is  due to 
the purchase  of  the  Long Lake tract of 
pine,  which  was  effected  by  Willard 
Barnhart in the absence  of  his  partner. 
So doubtful was Mr.  Putman  as  to  the 
expediency  of  the purchase,  on learning 
of  the same on his return,  that  he  laid 
awake nights until  unrest  was succeeded 
by a  stroke  of  apoplexy.  D.  D.  Cody 
and  Chas. E. Olney were  then  taken  in 
on  the  deal,  from  which  the  quartette 
netted  nearly  a  million  dollars.  Mr. 
Cody and Mr.  Barnhart  have  also  made 
extensive realty purchases and both have 
erected business structures  which are an 
ornament to the  city and an honor to the 
owners.

*   *   *

The innate love for the place  of  one’s 
birth,  cherished in the heart of everyone, 
is recently exemplified in the selection of 
Tanderagee as the name of the new town 
now  being  founded  by  the  Northern 
Michigan  Lumber Co.,  in Emmet county. 
The designation of  a name for  the town 
was left  to  the  Secretary and Treasurer 
of  the company,  whereupon  Mr.  Lemon 
immediately  christened the future  scene 
of  activity  Tanderagee,  in honor  of  the 
famous  market  town  in  Ireland  which 
was near the place of his birth.

*   *   *

Thos.  D.  Gilbert does not like the term 
“option” and  emphatically protests  that 
he did not give an option on the plant  of 
the Grand Rapids Gas Light Go., as stated 
by  the  daily  papers.  He says it was a 
“contract  to  sell” under  certain  condi­
tions.

*  *  *

“Uncle  Jimmy”  Converse  started  for 
home last Friday, but  was not permitted

Wall  Paper  and Window  Shades.
N ELSO N   BROS. &  CO.,

House  and Store Shades Made toIOrder.

68  MONROE  STREET.

HOGLE  OIL.  CO,

W h o le sa le   and  R e t a il  D e a le r s   in  O ils 

and M a h e r s  o f F in e  L,ubi ica n ts,

OFFICE—19 and 21 Waterloo St. 

The largest and most complete oil  line iu Michigan. 

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

See Quotations.
BROWN  &  SEHLER

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

Agricultural Implements, Wagons and Carriages.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

H  E S T E  IR.  S e  E O X ,

Manufacturers’ Agents for

SAW £LHTD GRIST MU,I* MACHINERY,
Send for  p. 
C a t a l o g u e   !? 
* 

ENGINE
WORKS

and 
P r i c e s

MANUFACTURERS  OF

IN D IA N A P O L IS .  IN D .V  U .  S . A .
STEAM EH6IHES&BOILERS.
Carry Engines and Boilers In Stock 

for  Immediate delivery.

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

Saws, Belting and  Oils.

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

Pulley and become convinced of their  superiority.

Write fotfPrlces. 

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

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T h e   M Tcrm a^Tsr  t :r a :d ^ s m .a :n\

D r y   G o o d s.

Prices  Current.

H ard   o f H earing.

The landlord of  a  really good hotel in 
the State  of  New  York is quite  hard of 
hearing,  and is often  the  victim  of  his 
own affliction.  The  drummers  or  com­
mercial travelers make it a point, if  pos­
sible,  to arrive there so as to remain over 
Sunday, not  only  to  compare  notes and 
visit  with  each other,  but  to  enjoy the 
good things  of  his table.  One Saturday 
evening  there  was  an  unusually  jolly 
crowd in the office,  in  which also is dis­
pensed cigars,  ale,  and such other creat­
ure comforts as the law  admits. 
It  was 
past 9 o’clock, and  mine  host  stood be­
hind  the  bar  quietly  smoking,  when  a 
stranger  arose  from  his  seat  and,  ap­
proaching him,  remarked in an ordinary 
tone that  he  would  take  some  whisky. 
Hesitating an instant as if to assure him­
self he had understood,  be reached for a 
box of  cigars,  which was  placed  before 
his guest,  “I asked for a glass of  whisky 
—not cigars,”  said  the  stranger.  The 
box was quickly pushed aside and,  reach­
ing beneath the counter,  he drew a glass 
of  ale,  which 
took  its  place.  The 
stranger,  now  raising  his voice so as to 
attract  the  attention  of 
the  entire 
audience, some of whom had been watch­
ing  the  proceedings,  and  looking  the 
landlord—whose  hand  was now  behind 
one ear in a listening  attitude—squarely 
in the face,  he thundered,  “I said it was 
whisky  I  wanted!”  With  one  swift 
glance at the clock,  his  hand still in po­
sition  by  the  ear,  the  host  leaned for­
ward  and  good  naturedly  asked,  “Did 
you say you wanted to go to bed ?” 
It is 
needless  to  add  that  the  landlord  dis­
tinctly  heard  the  screams  of 
laughter 
from those present  and that the reply of 
the  now  thoroughly  disgusted  stranger 
was drowned,  while he caught up a hand 
lamp  and  motioned  the  host  to  show 
him to his room.

The P lug H a t a n d  th e  W h ite Shirt.
“No, sir,”  said the drummer,  “there is 
not a place in the country  now  where  a 
man who  behaves  himself  can’t  wear a 
plug hat. 
I don’t mean to say that there 
are no lively towns,  but  there  is  practi­
cally no frontier such as there used to be.
“ The cowboy  still  occasionally  drops 
into the saloon  and shoots the lights out; 
he likes now and  then  to shoot the insu­
lators off  the  telegraph  poles,  and there 
are  other  eccentric  and somewhat bois­
terous forms of amusement that still find 
favor with him;  but  it  is no longer con­
sidered  good  form  anywhere  to  evince 
disapprobation  of  the  wearing  of  plug 
hat by shooting it off  the  head of  a  the 
wearer.
“In some places this pleasing condition 
of affairs has been brought about  by  the 
active work of a single  man,  aided  in  a 
measure, doubtless,  by the  natural  fair­
ness of men when their feelings are prop­
erly appealed  to.  For  example,  in one I 
camp,  after it had been discovered by the 
man who conveyed  the  remonstrance  of 
the older inhabitants that  the  quiet,  un­
assuming  stranger who had  persisted  in 
wearing a white  shirt  had an arm as big i 
around as an oyster keg, muscles of steel, 
the heart of a lion and the tiger's sudden­
ness  of  movement,  there arose a feeling 
that  possibly  the  shirt  question  was 
debatable,  and  some  men went so far as 
to say openly that a man ought to be per-1 
mi tied to wear a white shirt if he wanted f 
to;  and when  the quiet man had, in quick 
succession, knocked out seven supporters 
of the negative side, the change of  senti­
ment was so great that it amounted prac­
tically  to a  reversal  of  public  opinion, 
and by common consent he was permitted 
to wear his shirt.”

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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Clifton CCC...........

Atlantic A. 
H. 
P. 
D. 
LL.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

“  Arrow Brand 534 
“  World Wide.. 7
“  LL............  B
Full Yard W ide.....  634
Amory.....................7Ji
Honest Width.........   65S£
Archery  Bunting...  4
Hartford A ............   5J£
Beaver'Dam  A A ...  5%|Madras cheese cloth 6*£
Blackstone O, 32__5  Noibe R....................  53»
Black  Rock  ...........  7  Our Level  Best...... 634
Boot, AL...............   714 Oxford  R ................. 6J4
Chapman cheese cl.  3%, Pequot......................734
Comet..................... 7  Solar.........................   634
Dwight Star............  7J4|Top of the  Heap__ 734
Amsburg................ 7
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold Medal............   7%
Blackstone A A......8
Beats All.................. 434
Green  Ticket......... 834
Cleveland..............  7
Great Falls.............   6%
Cabot...................... 734 Hope.........................   734
Cabot,  X ■ - -  ...........63£ Just  Out.......... 
5
Dwight Anchor......  9
King  Phillip...........  734
OP......734
Lonsdale Cambric.. 1034
Bdwards.................   6
Empire...............•...  7
Lonsdale...........  @ 834
Farwell...................  734
Middlesex........   @5
Fruit of the  Loom..  834 No Name..............   7%
Fitch ville  ...............734  Oak View............ 6
First Prize................634  Our Own..............   534
Fruit of the Loom X.  8  ¡Prideof the West.. .12
Fairmount..............  434 Rosalind
Full Value..............634 Sunlight.............
Geo.  Washington...  834IVInyard............

shorts.  834

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HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

“ 
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..10
...11

3 .. 
7.. 
8.. 

Cabot......................  734|Dwight Anchor.
Farwell...................  7341
UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
TremontN..............  534¡Middlesex No.  1
Hamilton N............  634
L............  7
Middlesex AT....... 8
X..........   9
No. 25....  9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
Hamilton N ............   754 Middlesex A A.
2.
Middlesex P T....... 8 
A T .......   9 
AO.
X A.......   9 
4.
X F ....... 1034 
5.
Hamilton 
............. 8
.................   9
 
G G Cashmere........21
Nameless............... 16
.................18

.11
.12
.1334
.1734
.16
Nameless................20
......... 25
........ 2734
.........30
.........3234
.........35

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“ 
DBESS  GOODS.

1034

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COBSET  JEANS.

 

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Biddeford...............  6  INaumkeag satteen..  734
Brunswick..............  634 ¡Rock port.................634
Allen, staple...........  534
Merrim’ck shirtings.  434 
fancy...........  534
Repp fura .  834
robes...........  5
Pacific  fancy..........6
American  fancy__6
robes..............634
American indigo__634
Portsmouth robes...  6 
American shirtings.
Simpson mourning..  634
Arnold 
634
greys........634
long cloth B.1034 
solid black.  634 
Washington indigo.  6 
“  C.  834
century cloth  7
“  Turkey robes..  734
gold seal.......1034
“  India robes__734
Turkey red.. 1034
“  plain Tkv X 34  834 
Berlin solids...........  534
“ 
“  X...10
“  oil blue......... 634
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red................ 6
“ 
“  green ....  634
Cocheco fancy........6
Martha Washington
“  madders...  6 
Turkevred 34 ......   734
Eddy stone  fancy...  6 
Martha Washington
H a m ilto n  fancy.  ...  634
Turkevred..........   934
staple__ 534
Riverpolntrobes....  5
Manchester  fancy..  6  1 
Windsor fancy........634
new era.  634 
gold  ticket 
Merrimack D fancy.  634]
indigo  blue......... 1034
Amoskeag AC A  ... 13  IAC A..................... 1234
Hamilton N............   734 Pemberton AAA__16
D............   834 York....................... 1034
Awning.. 11  Swift River............   734
Farmer....................8  Pearl  River............. 1234
First Prize..............1134iWarren....................14
Atlanta,  D..............  6341 Stark  A 
...........  8
Boot........................   634  “ 
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Clifton, K............... 7>41  “ 
..................10
Simpson................. 20
Imperiai.................IO34
.................18
Black...............9@ 934
...... .........16
..................... 1034
Coechco................. 1034

COTTON  DBILL.

TICKINGS.

SATINES.

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Amoskeag.

DEVINS.
1234
9 oz...... 1434
brown .13
Andover................. 1134
Everett, blue.......... 12
brown.......12

Jaffrey................... 1134
Lancaster...............1234
Lawrence, 9 oz........1334
No. 220....13
No. 250— 1134
No. 280.... 1034
Lancaster,  staple...  634

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SmOHAMS.
“ 
fancies__7
“  Normandie  8
Westbrook..............8
.........................10
York..........................634
Hampton.................634
Winaermeer............ 5
uuuiueriauu........
Essex................... ..  434

Gleuarven..................634
Lancashire.............   634
Normandie.............   734
Renfrew Dress........734
Toil du Nord....l0@1034j
Amoskeag................ 634
AFC........1034
Persian.....................834
Diues..............
Warwick......... ...... o*
....  834
CARPET  WARP.
Peerless, wnite ......18341Peerless  colored. ..21

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GRAIN BAGS.

..12
..18
..19

THREADS.

KNITTING COTTON.

......17 Valley City.......... ..16
..16
.H34

Amoskeag......
Harmony......... ...... 17 Georgia..............
Stark............... ...... 2034 Pacific................
American........ ...... 17
Clark’s Mile End__45 Barbour's............. ..88
Coats’, J. & P.. ...... 45 Marshall’s........... ..88
Holyoke.......... ......2234
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14........37
39
“  16........ 38
40
“  18........ 39
“  20........ 40
41
CAMBRICS.

White.  Colored.
No.  6  ..  ..33
42
“ 
8........34
43
“  10........35
44
45
“  12........ 36
Slater.............. ......  434 Washington......... •  434
White Star...... ....  434 Red Cross............ ■  4)4
Kid Glove....... ......434 Lockwood...........
•  434
Newmarket— ......  434 Wood’s.................
434
Edwards......... ......434 Brunswick.......... ■  434
RED  FLANNEL.
Fireman........
......3234 TW ...................... • 2234
Creedmore....... ...... 2734 F T .......................
.3234
Talbot XXX__ ......30
J R F , XXX.........
.35
....2734 Buckeye............... ■ 3234
Nameless........
MIXED  FLANNEL.
Red & Blue,  plaid. .40  I Grey S R W............ 1734
Union R ................. 2234 Western W ..............1834
Windsor................. 1834 D K P .............. 
1834
6 oz Western.......... 21  Flushing XXX........ 2334
Union  B...... ..........2234!Manitoba.................2334
Nameless...... 8  @ 9341 
...... 9  @1034
...  834@10  I 
....... 
1234
CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
Slate.  Brown.  Black. Slate.  Brown.  Black.
13
13
934
934 
15
15
1034
1034 
17
17
1134 
1134
20
20
1234 
1234
Severen. 8 oz......... ■  934 West  Point, 8 oz....1034
Mavland, Soz........ .1034
10 oz. -.1234
**
Greenwood, 734 oz. .  934 Raven, lOoz......... ..1334
Greenwood, 8 ó * . . . ■ 1134 Stark
............. ■  1334
WADDINGS.
White, doz..............25  ¡Per bale, 40 doz__ 87 50
Colored,  doz...........20 
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
“  Red Cross....  9
“  '  Best............. IO34
“  Best AA...... 1234

Pawtucket...............IO34
Dun die...................   9
Bedford.................... 1034
Valley  City...'........ I034
Coraline................89 501Wonderful............84 75
Schilling's............   9 00| Brighton............... 4 75
Corticelll, doz......... 75  [Corticelll  knitting,

9« 13
1034 15
1134 17
1234 20
DUCKS.

DOMET  FLANNEL.

SEWING  SILK.

COSSETS.

“ 
“ 

“  

|

“ 

..12 
“ 8 
-.12  I  “  10 

twist, doz. .3734  per 34oz  ball........30
50 yd, doz. .37341
HOOKS  AND EYES—PEB GBOSS.
“ 
“ 

No  1 Bl’k & White..l0  [No  4 Bl’k & White..15 
“  2 
..20 
“ 
..25
3 
No 2-20, M C........50  INo 4-15, F 334.......40
‘  3—18, S C ..........45  I
No  2 White & Bl’k..l2  INo  8 White & Bl’k..20 
.23
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..26
No2........................28 
|No3..........................36

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

PINS.

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4 
6 

NEEDLES—PEB   X.

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

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“ 

“ ....2 10 

...3 101

f » .  

S T E K B T B B  &  

,

WHOLESALE

Dry  Goods  and  potions.

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

Y a rn , 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 

Valley  City.

WADDINGS,  BURLAP, TWINE, BATTS  and  COMFORTS.

Belding—W. 

bazaar store.

S.  Brown  has  opened  a <88  Monroe.;aiid  10,12,  14,16.1  18  Follatala  Sts.,  GRIND  RIP1D8.

W H O L B S A J s B .

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

Sm i & M ori,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

B E A C H ’S

New  York  ßoffee 

flooms,

61  Pearl  Street.

Five  Cents  Each  for  all  dishes  served 

from bill of fare.

Steaks,  Chops  and  All  Kinds  of  Order 

Cooking  a  Specialty.

FRAN K  M.  BEACH,  Prop.

J.&P.COATS’

SIX-CORD

Spool  Cotton

*  
IN
TOTE,  BU CK 
FOR

ISl)  COLORS,

FOR  SALE  BY

H and and M ach in e U sa
P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS
Voigt, Hemolsheiir & Go.,
Dry Goods

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

NOTIONS AND HOLIDAY GOODS.

Manufacturers of

Shirts,  Pants,  Overalls,  Ete.

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

48, B0 and 62 Ottawa St.,

GRAND  RAPID S, 

- 

-  MICH

T H E   M IC H IG A N   TR A D ESM A N .

7

50
55
50
55
35

3 00

H A R D W A R E .

The Lightning1 Times.

The  cut  of  an  electric  locomotive in 
the New York Tribune of Oct.  1  is  sug­
gestive  of  prophecy. 
It  may  interest 
even commercial readers of T h e T ra des­
man to learn  that  during  the  winter of 
1848-9, a young  man,’then  only  twenty 
years old,  at a scientific  lecture  and  ex­
hibition  in  the  State  of  New  York, 
stepped before the audience and sang the 
following comic song,  written by himself 
for the occasion.  His apparently vision­
ary ideas are being rapidly  realized  and 
tbe commercial  value  of  those  doggrel 
rhymes may be guessed at, but will never 
be known.  The  (now) old  gentleman  is 
now a resident of Grand Rapids:

THE  LIGHTNING  TINES.

Ob, ladies and gents, your attention, I pray,
I’ll tell you some facts I discovered to-day.
If it is your wish to keep pace with the age,
You must know electricity’s now all the rage.

In these lightning times.

On the magnetic engine  you’ll  soon take a ride. 
There’s no danger, ladies, of  “sparks”  by  your 

The boiler can’t burst, for there’s no fire aboard, 
And the noise  and  confusion  of  steam  is  not 

side.

heard,

In these lightning times.

The butter is made by this wonderful power 
And rapid improvements are made  every  hour, 
For fine, healthy children, I’m sure it is best, 
For  the  cradle  is  rocked  by  the lightning out 

West,

In these lightning times.

As time rolls away, there surely will be 
Telegraphic dispatches sent under the sea;
As the wisdom of man to invent never tires. 
You'll soon pop the question  through  telegraph 

wires,

In those lightning times.

Electric Flat-Iron Described.

Electrically heated  flat-irons  are  now 
made which are  very  serviceable.  The 
flat-iron is of  the usual  form,  but  made 
hollow.  The  interior  contains a lot  of 
coiled wires, through which the electrical 
current  passes  and  heats  the wires red 
hot.  The  latter  are  arranged  between 
protecting sheets  of  mica  and asbestos. 
By turning a switch, the flat-iron at once 
heats up ready for use.  The street wires 
supply  the  electrical  curreut. 
In  the 
same way all kinds  of  domestic utensils 
may be heated, such as cake bakers, meat 
broilers, coffee pots, etc.  Electrical plat­
ters for keeping  food  warm on the table 
may be had.  Electrical heaters for warm­
ing apartments are also made.  There is, 
indeed, no end to the  useful applications 
of wire and electricity.
h i P E R F E C T I O N

■  Meat Cutter

T h e Latest, 
Best and 

Most  Improved 
for Family Use.

CUTS

In stead  o f  M ashes.

Requires 
No Repairs.

E qualled 
By None for 
Family Use.
Simple to Use.

Easy to Clean.
Cannot get  Dull 

or Out of 

Order.

No. 1-12.00.  No. 2-S2.75.  No. 3-S4.00.

Liberal discount to the trade,  and 
descriptive  circulars  on  application  to 
A M E R IC A N   M A C H IN E   C O .,
Lehigh Ave. and American St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

MANUFACTURERS OF  HARDWARE SPECIALTIES,

JOHN  hT gTr AHAM &  CO.,

Mnfrs. agent». 

i 13 Chambers St., New York.

P r ic e s  C urrent.

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

AUGURS AND BITS. 

diS.

Snell’s ................................................................  
Cook’s ................................................................ 
J ennings’, genuine..........................................  
Jennings’,  im itation........................... 
 

60
40
25

AXES.

 

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

BARROWS. 

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

bolts. 

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST. 

Well,  plain.......................................................* 3 50
Well, swivel...........................................................  4 00
dls.
Cast Loose Pin, figured....................................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5aBt joint................60&10
Wrought Loose P in ...........................................60&10
Wrought  Table................................................. 60*10
Wrought Inside Blind......................................60&10
Wrought Brass................................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s ...................................................70*10
Blind,  Parker’s ................................................. 70*10
Blind, Shepard’s ....................................... ■... 
70

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

40

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

BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel................................................ per lb 
5
Ely’s 1-10.................................................per m  65
Hick’s  C. F .............................................. 
G. D ........ ................................................. 
M usket....................................................  

CAPS.

“ 
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“ 

CARTRIDGES.

Rim  F ire ...........................................................  
Central  Fire............................................... dls. 

chisels. 

dls.

Socket F irm er.................................................. 70&10
Socket Frami ng................................................ 70*10
Socket Comer....................................................70&10
Socket Slicks....................................................70*10
Butchers’ Tanged  Firm er............................... 
40

60
35
60

50
25

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

dls.
40
  25

combs. 

CHALK.

COFFER.

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

“ 

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

drills. 

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

31
29
28
28
  so

50
50
50

DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser po u n d ...................................  
Large sizes, per  pound...................................  

07
6J£

ELBOWS.

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

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, 118; large, 826.........................  
Ives’, 1, *18;  2, *24;  3, $30..............................  

30
25

piles—New List. 

Disston’s ........................................................... 60*16
New  American................................................. 60*10
Nicholson’s 
00&10
 
Heller’s ....................................  
50
Heller’s Horse  R asp s.................................  
50

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

 
 

 

dis.

dls.

GALVANIZED IRON

28
18

13 
GAUGES. 
hammers.

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  34;  35  and  36;  27 
List 
15 
dis.

Discount, 60

12 

14 

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HINGES.

5k........  ......  
H  .............. 
................................... 

Stanley  Rule and  Level C'o.’s .......................  
50
Maydole  & Co.’s ........................................dis. 
25
Kip's.......................................................  
dls. 
25
Yerkes A Plumb’s .................................   dls  40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..........  ....... 
30c list 60
. ,30c 40*10
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand 
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .......................... 
dls.60&10
State  ............................................. per doz  net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 4%  14  and
longer  ...................................... 
. 
3%
10
net 
Screw Hook and  Eye, V4__ ___ 
“  % .............  
“ 
net  8V4
net 
7V4
“ 
“ 
7V4
net 
“ 
“ 
-trap and T 
70
dls. 
dis.
50&IO 
Barn  Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood traafe 
¿0*10
* *h am pi on,  anti-friction. 
Kidder, wood track 
40
................. 
HOLLOW WARE
60
Pots................................................. 
60
Kettles.................... 
Spiders 
  «60
............................................... 
Gray enam eled...............................................   40*10
BOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.
Stamped  Tin W are..................................new list 10
Japanned Tin Ware.  ............................. 
25
Granite Iron W are....................... new llst33%*10
Bright........................... ' ............................. 70*10*10
Screw  Eyes................................................. 70*10*10
Hook’s ..  .....................................................70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...........................  
70*10*10

wire goods. 

hangers. 

dls.

 

 

dls.
dis.

LEVELS. 

 

dls.

dig.

NAILS

MATTOCKS.

locks—door. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

knobs—New List. 

Advance over base: 
 

“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables__ 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Clr. k’s................. 
“  Enterprise 
...................................  

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s  ..................  
70
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.........  .. 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings  ....................... 
55
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................. 
Russell * Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
55
Mallory, Wheeler  *  Co.’s...........................  
50*10
Branford’s ..................................................  
55
Norwalk’s ................................................... 
55
Adze Eye........................................    116.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye..........................................115.00, 
dis. 60
Hunt’s ...................................... *18.50, dls. 20*10.
dls.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled.....................  
50
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .......................... 
40
 
40
40
25
Stebbin’s Pattern......................................... 60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring.......................... 
25
Steel nails, base...................................................2 10
Wire nails, base...................................................2 65
Steel.  Wire.
Base
Bose 
60......... 
50...................................................... Base 
10
20
05 
40................................... 
30............... 
20
10 
30
15 
20.........  
16...................................................... 
15 
35
12...................................................... 
15 
35
10 ....................................................  20 
40
50
8 .......................................................   25 
65
7 * 6 ..................................................   40 
90
4 .......................................................   60 
1 50
3............................. 
1  00 
2 00
2........................................................ 1  50 
Fine 3................................................1  50 
2 00
90
Case  10..............................................  60 
8................................... 
  75 
100
6..............................................  90 
1 25
Finish 10...........................................   85 
1 00
8............................................ 1  OO 
1 25
1 50
6  ..........................................1  15 
Clinch 10..........................................   85 
75
90
8..........................................1 00 
1 00
6......... ............................... 1  15 
Barrell %.......................................... 1  75 
2 50
dls.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy............................  @40
Sciota  Bench...........................................  @60
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy....................   @40
Bench, first quality..................................  @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood......   *10
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................dls. 
70
dls.
Iron and  Tinned..................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................  
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED  IRON.

“ 
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PLANES. 

rivets. 

PANS.

Broken packs He per pound extra.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

ROPES.

SQUARES. 

Sisal, 14 Inch and larger.........................  ..  114
Manilla........................................................   16
d lS .
Steel and Iron..............................................  
75
Try and Bevels...................................................60
Mitre............................................................ 
20
SHEET IRON.Com.  Smooth.  Com.
*3 10
3 20
3 20
3 30
340
3 50
A11  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

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

SAND PAPER.

SASH CORD.

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

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

dls.

s a w s. 

wire. 

traps. 

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

Solid Eyes.......................................per ton t:5
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 Market.............................. ’. .............  65
Annealed Market......................................... 70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market............................................   62H
Coppered  Spring  Steel................................ 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  3 60
 
 
Au Sable...........................dls. 25*10@25*10&05
dls. 05
Putnam.......................................... 
Northwestern................................  
dis. 10*10
dls.
Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled.................  
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..........  
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable...............................75*10
50
Bird Cages..................................  .............. 
Pumps, Cistern........*>.............................. 
75
50
Screws, New List............................  
 
Casters, Bed  and  Plate...........................50*10*10
Dampers, American.................................. 
40
ForkB, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.......  
65

painted.......................  

MISCELLANEOUS. 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

d ls .

“ 

METALS,
PIG TIN.

 

 

 

ZINC.

28c
30c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.................................................... 
Pig Bars.................. 
Duty:  Sheet, 2%c per pound.
680 pound  casks............................. 
7%
Per  pound....................................................  1%
%®%.................................................................. 18
Extra Wiping.................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONT.
Cooksou......................................   per  pound  16
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MELTN GRADS.
10x14 1C, Charcoal........................................* 7 00
14x20 IC, 
.........................................   7  CO
10x14 IX, 
.....................   .................  8 75
14x20 IX, 
.........................................   8 75

Each additional X on this grade, *1.75.

“ 
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“ 

“ 

10x14IC, Charcoal........................................ 1625
14x20 IC, 
..............................   ........  6  25
10x14 IX, 
..........................................  7 75
14x20 IX, 
.........................................   7  75

TIN—ALLA WAT GRADE.
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Each additional X on this grade 11.50.

ROOFING PLATES

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“ Worcester...................................  6 25
“ 
“ 
“  Allaway  Grade...............  
“ 
“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
..........................  7 75
20x28 IC, 
........................  13 00
14x20IC, 
5  50
14x20 IX, 
7 00
“ 
 
 
20x28 IC, 
................  11  50
“ 
20x28 IX, 
“ . . . . . . . . . .  
14 50
14x28  IX.......................................................»14 00
14x31  EX....................................................... 15 50
S
Pound  ...  10

 if] f“r N“ • I B° “er8, \ 

A P P L E   PR ESSES,

S c r e w  an d   L ev er.

SJRBCIAX,  L O W

Foster,  S tev en s  &  Co.,

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

10 and 12JMonro©jSt.,  ™  33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis St.,

GRAND  &APEDS,  MIOH.

8

T H E   MTCTTTG^lSr  TRATDESMAJST.

The Michigan Tradesman
Official Organ o f M ichigan Business Men’s  A ssociation. 

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

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

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

strictly in advance.

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Publication  Office, 100 Louis St.

Entered at the  Grand  Rapids Post  Office.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER  8,  1890.

PAST  ITS  USEFULNESS.

the  gentlemen  composing 

When the Inter-State  Commerce  Com­
mission issued its mandate to  the  Grand 
Trunk Railway,  a few  months ago, com­
manding it to cease giving the merchants 
and shippers  of  Grand Rapids free cart­
age, 
that 
August  body possibly  thought  that  the 
edict  would be observed.  The  railway 
company,  however,  paid  no more  atten­
tion to the matter than  it  would  to  the 
gesticulations of a belated passenger, and 
the  same  course is  now  pursued by the 
Michigan  Central  Railway,  as  regards 
all points in competition  with the Grand 
Trunk system.

The  same  appears to be  the  case  all 
over  the  country.  Neither  transporta­
tion lines nor  shippers pay any attention 
to  either  the  Inter-State  law,  nor  the 
Commission charged with the duty of en­
forcing its  provisions.  When a law  has 
ceased to have  any effect on the  people, 
and is ignored  and  defied at every turn, 
it would  appear  as though it was a good 
time to expunge it from the statute books.

The  telegraph  is  responsible  for  the 
report that the manufacturers of Brussels 
carpet  have formed  a  combination  and 
that prices are to be forced  up  25  to  30 
per cent.  ________________

of  iu most  instances exactly as we make 
use of butter.  They use it to baste their 
fish  and fowls  when  cooking  and  they 
pour a small  quantity over  their  boiled 
rice before eating it, and those  who  can 
afford  it mix  sugar  with it also;  making 
it  analagous  to  our  butter  and  sugar 
sauce whipped together. 
If some man or 
men can be found  with  sufficient  moral 
honesty to  put  this  oil  on  the  market 
pure and in five and ten pound packages, 
properly  labelled,  with  full  directions 
for using alone—not  combined  with any 
other  grease—they  will  soon  be  sur­
prised at  the  demand.  Do  not  call  it 
“Gossypium  Oil,”  as  some one has sug­
gested,  but plain  “Cotton Seed Oil,” and 
it will stand and flourish on  its merits.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

Christian  Bertsch  returned from  Bos­

ton last Friday.

Guy M. Harwood,  the  Fetoskey  drug­
gist,  was in town  several days last week.
D.  H.  Meeker,  the  Perrinton druggist, 
will go to Alba Nov. 5 for a month’s deer 
hunting.

Wm.  Struik,  general  dealer  at  Debri 
Corners,  recently  spent a week with  his 
brother at Petoskey.

O.  A. Ball, Willard Barnhart and N. A. 
Earle  went  to  White  Birch  Point,  on 
Bear  Lake, Saturday, for  a  week’s fish­
ing.

Dr. Chas. S.  Hazeltine,  who  has  been 
in  Washington  and  New  York  for  a 
couple of  weeks,  is expected home about 
the 10th.

O.  H.  Richmond has  “retired from the 
active  practice  of  pharmacy,”  but  has 
decided to retain his  interest in the drug 
firm of O.  H.  Richmond & Co.

J.  E.  Bevins, the  Leroy grain  and im­
plement dealer,  was in town last  Thurs­
day,  on  his  way  home  from  Pontiac, 
whither he went  with  a  load  of  lambs 
and sheep.

S heep  R aising  a ro u n d   L eroy.

that 

however, 

It  is  not  many  years  since Osceola 
county was  considered  as  lying  too far 
north  to  successfully engage in the rais­
ing of cattle and sheep.  Experience  has 
demonstrated, 
both 
branches  of  agriculture  can  be  prose­
cuted there with profit,  stockraisers hav­
ing made marked success  in  both  direc­
tions.  The  farmers  around  Leroy  are 
increasing  their  flocks  of  sheep,  as  is 
evidenced  by the marketing of over 6,000 
pounds  of  wool  at  that  point the  past 
summer and the occasional  shipment  of 
lambs in carlots to outside markets.

The Supreme Court  of  Minnesota  has 
just decided that when  not in actual  use 
the upper  berths  in  sleeping  cars must 
T he  T radesman  has 
be kept  closed. 
advocated  the  enactment  of  such a law 
by  the  Michigan  Legislature  for  years 
and shall continue to do so until that end 
is accomplished.  There is no  more  rea­
son  why the upper  berth  should  be  let 
down over the occupant of a lower berth, 
when the former is not in  use, than there 
would  be  in  compelling  all the passen­
gers in an ordinary coach to sit two  in  a 
seat when there is room  enough  to  give 
each  passenger a seat apiece.  The policy 
pursued  by  the  sleeping car managers iu 
this  respect is susceptible  of no feasible 
excuse and, since  public  sentiment  does ] 
not appear to be strong enough  to  abate 
the nuisance,  it should  be suppressed by 
the strong arm of  the law.

The  Business  World  suggests 

that 
some one  should  put  up  in  convenient 
packages  cotton  seed oil and place it on 
the market under  its  own  name for cul­
inary purposes.  To this T he T radesman 
gives  hearty amen.  The  oil is—if pure, 
as it  should  be—far  sweeter  and  more 
healthful than hog lard, and would prove 
more  economical.  We  have no squeam­
ishness about eating  melted butter;  then 
why  reject  a  sweet  vegetable  oil? 
If 
kept in a proper  manner,  vegetable  oils I 
will  not  become  rancid  as  soon.  The 
Chinese are far in  advance  of  us in this 
particular.  They  use  quantities  of  a 
sweet  nut  oil  which  they import to the 
It is made use '
western  coast in barrels. 

A  Freak of Nature.

H.  E.  Hogan,  the South Boardman gen­
eral  dealer,  sends  The  T radesman  a 
j potato which bears a striking resemblance 
to the fore part  of  a  human foot.  The 
tuber  has  five  distinct  toes, 
the  two 
larger  toes  being  completely  digitated 
j and the  others  more  or  less  separated. 
The  appearance  of 
the  potato  on  the 
I under side is not unlike that of  the aver- 
{ age foot.  How the tuber came to assume 
such a form is the theme of all who  have 
seen the peculiar freak of  nature,  which 
can  be  inspected  at any time by calling 
at T he T radesman office.

G ood  W o rd s  U nsolicited.

it a dandy.” 

M. E. Town, general dealer,Crystal:  “I think 
*
S. D. Thompson, grocer, Newaygo:  “Couldn’t 
possibly  miss  T h e   T r a d e s m a n ,  even  for  one 
week.”

Nelson Hower, druggist, Mendon:  “It  is  the 

best paper for business men I know of.”

RANDOM  REFLECTIONS.

A merchant’s clerk  may be deficient in 
the organs  of  hearing and seeing and he 
may have a convenient  memory and still 
be a  valuable  aid  to  his  employer. 
I 
have in  mind  a  clerk  or  two  who  ap­
parently  fails  to  hear  the  12  o’clock 
whistle or  even to hear  the  clock  itself 
strike the hour at noon or at 6 p.  m.  He 
also may forget that it  is  time  to  cease 
work;  forget,  in fact,  that  he is  weary. 
He may never hear a word when the pro­
prietor  is  talking to others, or strangers 
are conversing;  and  yet,  if  spoken to on 
matters  pertaining to the  store  and  his 
employment, his hearing is acute at once. 
I am  talking  to  boys  and  young  men 
now, and will add,  if  you  wish for suc­
cess in the broadest  sense  of  the  word, 
do not  shrink from  a  little  extra  work 
and never leave it unfinished  over night, 
if a half hour  or  even an hour will com­
plete it. 
In time, some  one  will  notice 
it and when  trade is dull and help  must 
be discharged,  it  will  not  be  you. 
It 
will be the  boy whose  deficient  memory 
was  not  in favor  of  his  employer  and 
who heard the first stroke  of  the  bell at 
noon or night and forgot to leave his own 
work in proper  order,  but  dropped it in 
disorder and left  instantly.  Oftentimes 
the  employer  may not  say  anything  to 
you and may treat  you kindly, but,  just 
about  the  time  you  are  whispering  to 
your chum  that  you are having  a  “soft 
snap,”  he wili  hand  you  the  pay some 
Saturday  night  and  quietly  remark, 
“James,  I shall  have  no further  use for 
you.”

*  *  *

Isolated stores in new  sections  of  the 
country and in small villages, especially, 
should  constantly have  an  occupant  at 
It will pay the  merchant  well to 
night. 
attend to this matter. 
It  does  not  take 
the place of  insurance,  but is an invalu­
able aid to  it  and,  if  the  custom  were 
universal,  would  soon  lower  the  rates. 
Burglars  prefer  attempting to enter  an 
unoccupied  building, 
rather  than  one 
with a tenant, all else  being  equal,  and 
the mere fact of knowing  it  is  occupied 
implies watchfulness  and,  usually fore­
stalls  the  attempt.  Two  of  the  main 
points with burglars are, not to be killed 
themselves,  nor to kill any one else;  and 
their first investigation  of  the  premises 
is,  therefore,  to  find  whether  they are 
occupied at night.  A faithful dog should 
also,  if  possible,  be  kept  in  the  room 
of  the occupant,  and will be found to be 
a burglar alarm  with  brains and reason­
ing  power—not  instinct.  He  will  not 
sleep as soundly as his  master  and  will 
give  an  alarm  on  the  first  attempt  to 
enter  the  building.  Many  a  valuable 
life and stock  of  merchandise have been 
saved from  destruction  by the  cry of  a 
dog,  when an  incipient fire  was  caused 
by the  incendiary  or  spontaneous  com­
bustion. 
it  will pay those  who  are  in­
terested in this matter to think it over.

*   *   *

“How is business,  and  do  you  suffer 
many losses  in  it ?”  said I to my neigh­
bor,  who dealt in groceries.  He  smiled 
as he answered,  “Business is good,”  and 
he turned to glance at several  customers 
who  were  being  served,  one  of  whom 
was  eating  a  cucumber  pickle from an 
open  tub  near  him.  Our  loss  is from 
one source  only,  and  even  that,  to  the 
uninitiated,  seems  too  small to speak— 
or  even  think—about.  “What  can  it
be ?”  I asked,  “for I g,m  aware  you  do 
not credit?”  “Nibbles ?”  was his reply; 
I looked at him
“nothing  but nibbles.” 

in  astonishment. 
“Nibbles,”  and I re­
peated the word slowly and thoughtfully. 
“Do you mean to say that people are eat­
ing  you  poor ?”  He smiled  again as he 
replied,  “No,  not exactly that,  but it is 
the fashion or custom—call it which  you 
will—for  nearly  every  one,  young  and 
old, to taste of  every eatable article,  and 
you may  judge  what it costs  me to feed 
them,  when I inform you that all the way 
from 150 to 400 people visit my store each 
day.”  “But have  you  never  spoken to 
them ?”  I  enquired. 
“Frequently  to 
children  and, 
if  possible,  within  the 
hearing of adult offenders,”  he answered. 
“It has,  as I remarked,  become  a  habit 
with the  public,  and  many of  our  best 
people  are  thoughtlessly addicted  to it, 
but like other  habits it will  bye and bye 
—let us hope—go out of  fashion.”  And 
he walked away to wait  upon a new cus­
tomer.

FINANCIAL.

Local  Stock  Quotations. 
Reported by the Michigan Trust Company.
Anti-Kalsomine  Co.......................................... 150
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
Phoenix 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

F in an cial  M iscellany.

Eastern capitalists have formed a com­
pany  with  $7,000,000  capital,  at  Pitts­
burg,  to control the tin plate trade of the 
United States.

Russell Sage says that Jay  Gould  now 
owns  $10,000,000  of  Manhattan  stock, 
$12,500,000 of Missouri Pacific  and  $25,- 
000,000 of Western Union.

It is said that  the  gross  sales  of  the 
manufacturing concerns of which George 
Westinghouse  is  the  head  amounted to 
$17,000,000 in 1889 and showed $7,000,000 
profit.

As a reprisal for the heathenish atroci­
ties and inhuman barbarities of the  Rus­
sian Empire against the helpless Jews in 
Russia,  the  Jewish  bankers  of  Europe 
have decided to block  Russian  finances. 
The great bankers,  the  Rothchilds,  have 
taken the initiative.

The  semi-annual  dividends  of 

the 
sixty-one banks within the limits of Bos­
ton,  payable  in  October  and  thus  far 
declared,  aggregate  $1,481,000,  which  is 
the same amount to a dollar  as  in  April 
last.  The amount in October of last year 
was  $1,411,000,  and 
in  April,  1889, 
$1,481,750.

The New York Central declared a quar­
terly dividend of 1 per cent, for the three 
months  ending  Sept.  30.  A  deficit  of 
$100,957 for the quarter  is shown,  which 
is more  than  accounted  for  by  loss on 
account of  strikes,  and  liberal  expendi­
tures for betterments  charged  to operat­
ing expenses.

Bank  Notes.

The charter of the First National Bank 
of  Whitehall having expired, it has been 
re-organized  under  the  State law as the 
Whitehall  State  Savings  Bank.  The 
capital stock is  $50,000,  the  same as be­
fore, and the same  officers  remain at the 
helm—L  M.  Weston,  President;  S.  H. 
Lasley, Cashier.

TETE  MICmGAN  T R A D E SM A N

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SPECIAL  PRICES  ON  LAMPS  AND  LAMP  GOODS.

We show on this page a few leaders in this great department of our stock.  These are the goods used in every family and quoted by us at new and reduced prices. 
We want your orders on them and all other goods in our line,  and can save you  money,  time  and  freight.  We  especially  ask  you to call at our wholesale 
sample room when in the city, only one block from Union Depot,  which we have now arranged so as to be the finest sample room in  the  West.

Our  “WORLD’S  PAIR”  Assortment  of 
Table Lamps with Opal glass foot and Screw 
Socket,  thus  never  getting  loose.  New 
Styles never before shown.

Barrel contains

2 doz. Assorted Stand Lamps of Six Different 

Styles,

F o r   O n ly   $ 6 ,9 2 .

Barrel 35 cents.

“SPIRAL.”

Assortment All Glass Stand Lamps.  New 
Shapes never before offered for sale.  Finest 
Quality Crystal Flint Glass.

Barrel contains

3 doz. Assorted Styles, Best Shapes,
F o r   O n ly   $ 4 .2 0

Barrel 35 cents.

WHY  NOT  USE  THE  GREATEST  OIL

LIGHT  KNOWN  TO THE  WORLD. 
This  is  it.  The  Incandescent,  Brass

Finish, complete, with reflector..........$3.50
3.75

Same style, only Nickel Finish......... 
Same  style,  with  White  Dome  Shade,

Brass...................................................... 4.00
Nickel Finish........................................... 4.25

EQUAL  TO  400  CANDLES.

THE  SENSIBLE  SEWING  LAMP. 

Solid  Brass  Feet,  with  Bowl  and  Shade 
Decorated to Match.  Extra  large  one-inch 
wick, making the best work or reading lamp 
known, for the price.

Six Complete Lamps in  Package,
F o r   O n ly   $ 6 .7 5 .

Barrel 35 cents.

O rder  H o lid a y   G ood s  E a r ly   B efo re  O ur  A sso r tm e n t  Is  B ro k en .

M.  B R O N A R D   &   S O N S ,  G ra n d   R a p id s ,  M ic h .

KITCHEN  AND  SIDE  LAMPS, 

[ade to Hang or Carry Around, 
est Radiant Reflector, Complete,
For Only  $3.25  Per  Doz.

gfgi 

The  Famous  Hardened  “ LA  BASTIE” 

W 4. N o^"
French Glass Lamp Chimney.
“ 

No. 1 Sun Chimneys, per doz— $1.25 
No. 2  “ 
....  1.50
No. 2  “  Hinge  Chimneys,doz.  1.60 

These  are  positively  unbreakable  by  heat, 

ana are warranted to please.

“ 

LIBRARY LAMPS.

Assorted Package Elegant
This is only one example  of  an  enormous 
variety.  “Assorted Package No. 60” contains 
all the leaders  for  plain,  every-day  people. 
Our lamps always please, as we buy only the 
best.  Package with Every  Lamp  Complete, 
with Decorated Founts and Shades to Match

F o r   O n ly   $18.75.

Package 70 cents.

DASHBOARD.

No. 13,  Tubular,  Dashboard  Lantern  and 
reflector  attached.  Blue  Japanned  Finish. 
Impossible  to  blow  out,  and  handy  about 
house or barn:  V4 doz. in case.

PER  DOZEN  $7.50.

Case no charge.

BUY THE 

PEARL  TOP 
CHIMNEY.

It pleases every time.

Per case of 6 doz 
No. 1 Sun, Pearl Top. .13.70 
“ 
No. 2  “ 
..  4.70
..  4.70
No. 2  “  Hge,  “ 

Every Style of Chimney Constantly on 

Hand,  from cheapest  to  best.

MAMMOTH  CHIMNEYS.

Per Doz
Incandescent Chimneys,  like cut......... $2.oO

REGULAR  GLASS. 

(Above fits the Incandescent or B & H 
No. 89, Mammoth Lamp.)

FLINT  GLASS.

No. 3 Rochester Chimneys......................  1.50
Driffield Chimneys..................................  1.25
Incandescent  Chimneys.........................  2.25
No. 3 Rochester 
2.00
Dufiield Chimneys..................................  1.50
Special  prices  on  above  Mammoth Chim­
neys, when ordered in cases of 3  doz.  each. 
Write for quotations.

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If every one of  these  items are not 
in your stock, they  should  be.  Send 
us  your  order  and  get  invoice  by 
return mail.  We  want  every  dealer 
to have  our  complete  catalogue. 
If 
you have not received  one, please ask 
for it. 

Yours truly,

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS.

IO
D r u g s  $£ M e d ic in e s*

State  Board of Pharmacy.

O ne  T e a r—G eo. M cD onald, K a la m azo o .
Tw o  T e a rs —S ta n le y  E. P a rk ill, Owoeao- 
T h re e   T e a rs —J a c o b   Je sso n ,  M uskegon.
F o u r  Y ears—Ja m e s  V e ra o r, D e tro it.
F iv e Y e ars—O ttm a r E b e rb a c h , A nn  A rb o r 
P re sid e n t—Ja c o b   Je sso n , M uskegon.
S e c re ta ry —ja s .  V e rn o r, D e tro it.
T re a su re r—G eo.  M cD onald, K alam azoo.
Nex t m e e tin g  a t   L an sin g , N ov. 5 a n d   6. 

____________

M i c h i g a n   S t a t e   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A s s 'l l .  

P resid en t—D. E. P ra ll. S aginaw .
F irs t V ice-P resident—H . G. C olem an, K alam azo o . 
Second V ice-P resident—P ro f. A. B. P re sc o tt. A nn A rbor. 
T h ird  V ice-P resident—Ja s. V e rn o r, D e tro it.
S e cretary —C. A. B ugbee, C heboygan.
T re a su re r—W m  D upont, D etro it.
N ext M eeting—A t A nn A rbor, in   O ctober, 1891.________ _

G r a n d   R a p i d s   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c i e t y .  

P re sid e n t, J . W . H a y w ard .  S ec re ta ry , F ra n k  H. E sco tt.
G r a n d  R a p i d s   D r u g  C l e r k s ’ A s s o c i a t i o n .  
P re sid e n t, F. D. K ipp;  S e c re ta ry , W , C. S m ith.________

D e t r o i t   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c i e t y . 
P re sid e n t. J . W. A llen;  S e c re ta ry , W . F. Ja c k m a n .

M u s k e g o n   D r u g   C l e r k s ’  A s s o c i a t i o n .  

P re sid e n t, P. V an D einse;  S e c re ta ry ,  Jo h n  A. T inholt.

The D ru g   M arket.

Opium and morphia are  steady.  Qui­
nine  is  lower for foreign  brands.  Do­
mestic  manufactures  are  unchanged. 
Chlorate  potash  is  lower  (McKinley). 
Nitrate  silver  has  declined.  African 
capsicum  is  higher  (McKinley).  Sage 
leaves  have advanced (McKinley).  Mal­
aga olive oil is tending lower (McKinley). 
Salad oil has advanced  10 per cent.  (Mc­
Kinley).  Buchu leaves are higher.  Ex­
tract licorice,  P.  & S., has  declined (Mc­
Kinley).  Norwegian  cod  liver  oil  has 
advanced  (McKinley.)  Oil  peppermint 
is higher, on account of small strikes and 
increased duty  o b   Japanese  oil  (McKin­
ley).  Sugar of milk has  advanced  (Mc­
Kinley).  Bay rum  has advanced 50c per 
gallon  (McKinley).  Quicksilver  has ad 
vanced  (McKinley).  Mercurials 
lend 
higher.  English vermilliou has advanced 
(McKinley).  Alcohol,  which sold down 
to  82.02  net,  has  advanced  to  82.21 in 
barrels, 82.26 in half-barrels, 82.29 in ten 
gallon lots and 82.31 in  five  gallon  lots, 
thirty days, or 5c per gallon  discount for 
cash in ten days.  Cocoa butter is higher. 
Menthol  is  higher  (McKinley).  Arnica 
flowers have  advanced.  The  retailers’ 
bonus  checks,  given  with  each  case of 
Swiss milk and  English  milk,  manufac­
tured by the Anglo-SwissCondensed Milk 
Co.,  amounting  to  a  rebate  of  48c per 
case,  has been  withdrawn,  on account of 
the  new  tariff,  which  raises  the  duty 
from 76c to 81.90  per case.  The price of 
both  brands  remains  at  87.70 per case, 
net.

M ichigan  B oard  o f P h arm acy .

Detk o it,  Oct.  1, 1890.

A meeting  of  the  Michigan  Board of 
Pharmacy,  for the purpose of  examining 
candidates for registration,  will  be  held 
at  Lansing,  Wednesday  and  Thursday, 
Nov. 5 and 6, 1890.
The  examination  of  both  registered 
pharmacists and assistants will commence 
on  Wednesday,  at  9  o’clock  a.  m., at 
which  hour  all  candidates  will  please 
report at Representatives Hall.  The ex­
amination  will occupy two days.
Special railroad rates  of  one and one- 
third regular fare for the round trip have 
been secured for this meeting.  Reduced 
rate certificates will  be  mailed by me to 
all who apply for them.

Yours respectfully,

J am es V ebnob,  Sec’y.

M orphine  fo r  Q uinine.

F ro m  th e   D ro g g iste’ C ircu lar.

A  physician, 

A  fatal  mistake  recently  occured  in 
Montreal in the substitution of morphine 
for quinine.  The  circumstances  under 
which the mistake occurred were unusual.
intending  to  prescribe 
quinine  bisulphate,  wrote morphine  bi­
sulphate.  The  dispenser  thinking  that 
the error was in  the  last  word  sent out 
morphine  sulphate.  The  medicine  was 
administered to a child  which  died,  but 
the death was ascribed to natural causes, 
and the fatal mistake  was not discovered

them  without  putting  them  over  my 
head.  1 wouldn’t  put  a  shirt  over  my 
head on  my life.”
“And  yet  you’re  not  superstitious?”
“Not a bit of  it,”  he  replied,  emphat­
ically.  At  that  moment  he  suddenly 
stood up and  just  as  suddenly sat down 
again.
“What’s  that  for?”  asked  the  re­
porter.
“We’ve  just  passed a station  without 
stopping,”  said  he.  “I  always  do  so 
when I can  see  the  station.  But  don’t 
you go away with the  idea  that  I’m su­
perstitious,  for I’m not.”

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A  J.  Bowne, President.

Geo.  C. P ierce,  Vice President.

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

Transacts a general banking business.

Make a Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

GZ2TSZ2TG ROOT.

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P rep a red

P a i n t .

MIXED  READY  FOR  USE.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

SOLE  AOBNTB

P O L IS H IN  A  THB JäRisHTURB

T H E   M IC H IG A N   TR A D ESM A N

until a second child came near  losing its 
life from being given some  of  the  same 
medicine.
Public  opinion  is  said  to  be  much 
divided  as  to  the  responsibility for the 
accident.  The physician does  not  deny 
that he wrote  morphine  instead  of  qui­
nine, but contends that as his prescription 
did not read  correctly it should not have 
been dispensed without inquiry. 
In this 
we think that dispassionate observers will 
at least partly agree  with  him.  Active 
poisons  should  not  be  dispensed  when 
there is the shadow of  a  doubt as to the 
intention of  the  prescriber,  and the pre­
fix  “bi”  certainly cast a shadow,  which 
should  have  been  regarded  with  sus­
picion.  We  say  this  not  so  much  in 
blame as in warning, to  render  this  ac­
cident useful in preventing  its  own  re­
currence.

M isplaced  Confidence.

I favored  him,  of  course. 

The  following  experience  of  a  drug 
clerk, described in his own  language,  is 
going the rounds of the drug  journals:
Somewhat  seedy  in  appearance  was 
Mr. Fraud as he  came  up to the counter 
and asked that two prescriptions be filled 
which  called for a hypodermic  injection 
and forty pills.  He then  sat  down  and 
said he would  while  away  the  time  of 
waiting  by writing,  and  would I kindly 
favor him with paper,  pen,  ink, envelop 
and a postage stamp ?  I favored him, of 
course.  After finishing  the letter, I was 
requested to  take  charge  of  two  small 
packages  while he went forth to mail his 
epistle. 
In 
due time the prescriptions were ready for 
delivery, but the owner,  where  was he ? 
For him 1 am  still  waiting;  so  are  the 
prescriptions and the angry “boss.”
It is not necessary for  me  to  describe 
my  feelings  when,  upon  opening  the 
packages  left  in  my charge, I found an 
empty pop bottle iu one and a match box 
in  the  other.  That  was  all. 
It  was 
enough,  however,  for  certain 1 was  that 
I had been taken in  by a clever  swindler 
with eyes of  blue and whiskers of  a red­
dish  hue.  The  “boss”  says I must  be 
more careful.
I am  seriously  thinking  of  having  a 
sign painted with these  words  inscribed 
thereon:.  “Packages  not  received  as 
security for  prescriptions.  Please  pay 
in advance.”

P h y sician   W an ted .

There is no physician  at  Alanson  and 
the druggist at that place is satisfied that 
a competent practitioner  could  secure a 
paying practice.  For  particulars  as  to 
the number and  character  of  the people 
in  the  vicinity,  address  E.  R.  White, 
Alanson, Mich.

S ensible  S entim ents.
There are  two  sides to every question 
—the wrong side and our side.
It is not the amount of  goods sold,  but 
the profit on them,  that  makes one grow 
wealthy.
He who gives all his time and thoughts 
to ambition  has  none left for friendship 
and happiness.
Never get mad  when  the  other fellow 
does.  Wait until he  cools  off  and  then 
you will have the field to  yourself.
The man  who  says that he is going to 
“get  there  and  don’t  you  forget  it,” 
makes more  noise  about it than the man 
who is actually there.

When  you  do  anything from  a  clear 
judgment that it ought to be done,  never 
shrink from  being  seen  to  do  it,  even 
though 
the  world  should  misunder­
stand it.

call;
all;

When it comes to saving dollars, a man 
is more of  a  genius than a  woman;  but 
when  it  comes  to  saving  pennies,  a 
woman  will save a dollar  before  a  man 
has saved ten  cents.
If  you’ve  money to spend, there are chances on 
If  you’ve  money to lend,  there's  no  trouble at 
If  you’ve  money to make, the chances are few; 
If  you’ve  money to borrow,  the  Lord pity you.
When a man  has  two  cigars,  a  good 
one and one intolerably bad,  and he gives 
away the former and smokes the  “stoga” 
himself,  that man comes  about  as  near 
Christian  perfection  as it is possible for 
man to get.

B erlin  le tte r  to  th e  H a rtfo rd  C o u ran t.

M ark etin g   C ustom s  in  G erm any.
Most  of  the marketing is  done by the 
servant  girls,  who  carry immense  bas­
kets, and bring  home everything for the 
day—potatoes and other vegetables, meat 
and sometimes the  bread.  They  never 
have hats on their  heads,  nor  any para­
sols.  Ladies  go  to  market  with  their 
maids,  and they bring the bag  or  basket 
in the  street-car.  A  seat  is  bought for 
the vegetables  and  often  you  must  sit 
next to  them,  and  if  they happen to be 
in  a  corded  bag  and  among  them  are 
some soft articles the juice may inundate 
the seat  and the floor,  as  did  that from 
an old lady’s gooseberries  before me one 
day.
When  you go  into  a  store  every one 
says  “guten  morgen” ;  when  you  buy 
any thing they thank you  “sehr”  heartily. 
When  they give  you  change  you  must 
thank  them  heartily  (“danke,  sehr” ), 
and when  you go out all join in a chorus 
of  “adieu.”  When  a  gentleman  gets 
onto a car  the conductor and he both tip 
hats.  When you get off  the car he bows 
to  you,  or if  he gets off  he bows to  you 
and bows to the  conductor.  When  you 
are  at a hotel  table,  strangers,  if  Ger­
man,  partly rise  when  you  come  in  or 
when  you  leave,  and  the  military men 
are bowing  and  scraping all the time on 
the street.  The guards who are stationed 
at different parts of the city present arms 
when  officers  appear,  and  all  of  the 
soldiers who see a broader stripe  of  red 
than theirs  coming up  the street assume 
the position  of  a  poker  on  the nearest 
building or door,  and  hold  on  to  their 
hats  while  the  broader  stripe  goes by. 
The officer  himself  touches his hat,  and 
so it is  “Simon says thumbs up”  most of 
the time with the army.
1 am surprised to find how  much  hard 
work the poorest class of German women 
do. 
I should think that any of us should 
be satisfied at the branches of  work that 
are left open to them.  At least the num­
ber of  offices  they can fill is adequate  if 
not  the  quality,  but  they  are  menial. 
They  carry  newspapers  day and  night, 
and trunks  to  the  station  and  up  and 
down  stairs;  they  care  for  lawns  and 
black  men’s  boots;  they  keep  markets 
and stores of  every kind,  and  they will 
never let their  husbands carry a bundle, 
they are loaded down,  and so is the hus­
band—with beer.
I am told that beer  has almost no alco­
hol  in  this  country  as  compared  with 
that at home.  This is fortunate,  though 
we do see intoxication here frequently.
The Germans are  always  just going to 
or returning from  an  excursion,  if  you 
can  judge from  the omni-present  lunch 
baskets.  Perhaps that  accounts for  the 
fact  that  they are drinking so often,  for 
I can  bear  witness  that  a  picnic  on  a 
warm  day  with  ham  or  sausage  sand­
wiches makes  one  very thirsty.  There 
are little booths on the street where soda, 
milk and  beer  can  be  bought;  they are 
neat, pretty places,  too,  and  pretty girls 
are behind the counter, with white aprons 
and rosy cheeks.  You can get a drink for 
a cent and a quarter, and you can imagine 
that they are well patronized.  The water 
here is not good; tastes badly, and I have 
taken but little of it.  Of the many kinds 
of  beer (some  of  which I have  tried  to 
swallow)  I find white the least objection­
able. 
If I get 
back  home I shall  drink  water  to  my 
heart’s  content.

It is like weak old cider. 

A  D rum m er’s  W eak n ess.

F ro m  th e  B oston H erald .
“I am not the least bit  superstitious,” 
said a dapper-looking  drummer.  “Some 
people  say  I  am,  but  they  make a big 
mistake.  Superstition is all well enough 
for base ball players and old women,  but 
men in my business  have  no  use for  it. 
Yet I admit that 1 do some things  which 
may be reckoned as rather peculiar.  For 
instance, I always  put  my left  sock  on 
first. 
I’ve  done  so  for  years,  and  I 
wouldn’t  change  my custom for a barrel 
of  money. 
I don’t do so through fear of 
anything,  you know,  but then—well,  I’d 
hate to do different,  that’s all.
“And  do  you  know  the way I put on 
my shirt ?”  he continued, interrogatively.
The  reporter  regretted  his  ignorance 
on  the  subject, and  the  drummer said: 
“Well,  I  rip  all  of  my  shirts  straight 
down  the  back,  so  that I can  get  into

W h o le s a le   P r i c e   C u r r e n t•
Sugar Milk, Bay Rum, Quicksilver, English Vermillion, Alcohol, Cocoa Butter.

Advanced—African Capsicum, Sage Leaves  (Italian),  Buchu  Leaves,  Arnica Flowers, Salad Oil, 
Declined—German Quinine, Chlorate Potash, Nitrate Silver.

* 

“ 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

]VrrCTTTG .ATST  TR A D ESM
Morphia,  S. P. & W .. .2 85@3  10 
C. Co.......................2 85@3 10
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myristica, No. 1.........   70®  75
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia....................  33®  38
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co...........................   @2 00
Picis Liq, N.  C., )4 gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Picis Liq., quarts......   @1  00
pints.........   @  70
Pil 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......  @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®  35
Quassiae....................  8®  10
Quinia, S. P. & W......  39®  44
S.  German__  29®  40
Rubia  Tinctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactis pv..  @ 38
Salacin.......................1  80@2 00
Sanguis  Draconis......  40®  50
Santonine  .................  @4 50
Sapo,  W.....................   12®  14
a  M.......................  8®  10
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

“ 

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture.......
@  25 
Sinapis.......................
@  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-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash..................   3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......   ®2 25
“  Myrcia Imp........  @3 00
'•  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
2 21).........................  @2 31
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal......  @1  10
Sulphur, Subl..............2)4® 3)4
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae..............  55®  60
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph...............   7®  8

“  Roll................2)4® 3

Bbl. Gal
Whale, winter........ ..  TO 70
Lard,  extra............ ..  55
60
Lard, No.  1............ ..  45
50
Linseed, pure raw.. ..  62
65

“ 

p a i n t s . 

11
Lindseed,  boiled__   65 
68
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.................  50 
69
SplritBTurpentine....  44)4 
50
lb .
b b l. 
Red Venetian..............1J£  2@3
Ochre, yellow Mars__Hf  2@4
“ 
Ber........IX  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2)4 2)4®3
“  strictly  pure......2)4 2X®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................   13@16
Vermilion,  English....  85@88
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red....................  @7)4
“  w hite................  @7)4
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’........  @90
White, Paris  American 
1 00 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints..................... 1 00@1 20

VARNISHES.

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

ACLDUM.

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

Aceticum...................  8®  10
Benzoicum  German..  80@1  oo
Boracic 
30
Carbollcum.................   33®  10
Citricum......................  50® 55
Hydrochlor................  3®  5
Nitrocum 
...................  10® 12
Oxalicum.....................  11® 13
Phosphorium dil........ 
20
Salicyllcum.....................1  40@1 80
Sulpnurlcum..............  15i@  5
Tannicum........................1  40@1 60
Tartaricum...................  10® 42

AMMONIA.

“ 

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

a n il i n e .

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

BAGCAB.

Cubeae (po. 1 50.............. 1 6Q@1 75
Juniperus................... 
10
Xanthoxylum..............   25® 30

BALSAMUM.

Copaiba........................  60® 65
Peru.............  
  @135
Terabin, Canada......   35®  40
Tolutan........................  45® 50

 

COBTKX.

Abies,  Canadian............   18
Cassiae  ...............................  JJ
Cinchona F la v a ............   18
Euonymus  atropurp........  30
Myrica  Cerifera, po-......   20
Prunus Virgini...............   }2
Quillaia,  grd...................  12
Sassafras  ................  
 
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...  10

}«

 

BXTRACTUM.

1 

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24®  25
po...........  33®  35
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12
“ 
Is.................  13® 14
“  Us...............   14® 15
*•  & ..............  16®  17
Carbonate Precip........  ®  15
Citrate and Quinia....  @3 50
Citrate  Soluble........  ©  80
Ferrocyanidum Sol....  &
Solut  Chloride...........  ®  15
Sulphate,  com’l ......... 1H@ 
*
pure.............  @  7

7SBRUM.

FLORA.

A rnica.......................   20®  22
Anthemis...................  20®  25
Matricaria.................  25®  30

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

...................  20®
nivelly........  ..........  25®
“  Alx.  35®
Salvia  officinalis,  )4s
and  )4s....................   12®
UraUrsl........................   8®

“ 

OUMMI.
“ 
“ 

“  2d 
“  3d 
“ 
“ 

icacla, 1st picked—   @1
....  ®
....  @
sifted sorts...  @
po.................   75@1
Joe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50® 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®
“  Socotri. (po.  60).  @
Catechu, Is, (Hs, 14 &s,
16)............................  @
Ammonlae.................   25®
Assafoetlda, (po. 30)...  @
Benzoinum.................   50®
Camphors...................  50®
Eupnorblum  p o ........  35®
Galbanum...................  ®3
Gamboge,  po..............  80®
Guaiacum, (po  50),...  @
Kino,  (po. 25)................  @
Mastic..........................   ®
Myrrh, (po. 45)..............   ®
Opii,  (po. 5 40)...........4 0G®4
Shellac  ..  .................  28®
“ 
bleached........  ?3@
Tragacanth................  30®
hebba—In ounce packages.
Absinthium.........................
Eupatorium.........................
Lobelia.................................
Majorum.............................
Mentha  Piperita.................
“  V lr.........................
Rue.......................................
Tanacetum, V......................
Thymus,  V..........................

MAGNESIA.

Calcined, Pat..............  55®
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®
Carbonate, K. &  M__  20®
Carbonate, Jennings..  35® 

OLEUM.

Cubebae.................. 13 50@14 00
Exechthitos...............   S0®1  00
Erigeron......................... 1  20@1 30
Gaultheria......................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......  @  75
Gossipii,  Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................1  60@1  70
Juniper!.......................   50@2 00
Lavendula...................  90@2 00
Limonis...........................1  50@2 20
Mentha Piper...................2 40®3 50
Mentha Verid................. 2 50@2 60
Morrhuae, gal..............   80®1 00
Myrcia, ounce...... @  50
Olive............................... 1  00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal.,35)  10®  12
R id n i.............................1  24@1 32
Rosmarinl............  
75®1  00
Rosae, ounce..............  @6 00
Succlnl.......................   40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
Santal  ....................... 3 50©7 00
Sassafras.  .................   55®  60
Sinapis, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tlglfl..........................   @1  50
Thyme.......................   40®  50
opt  ................  @  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20
Bi Carb.......................  15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide......................  37®  40
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate, (po. 16)........  14®  16
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..............................2 8G@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  30®  33
Potassa, Bitart, com...  ©  15
Potass Nitras, opt......   8®  10
Potass Nitras..............  7©  9
Prussiate....................  33®  35
Sulphate  po................  15®  18

POTASSIUM.

“ 

BADIX.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  25®  30
Anchusa....................   15®  20
Arum,  po....................  ®  25
Calamus......................  20®  50
Gentiana, (po. 15)......   10®  12
Glychrrhlza, (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)..  IS®  20
Jalapa,  pr...................  75®  80
Maranta,  %s..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei............................  75@l  oo
“  cut......................  @1  75
“  pv.......................   75@1  35
Spigelia......................  48®  53
Sanguinaria, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  40®  45
Senega.......................  50®  55
Slmilax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40
M  @  20
Sciliae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Syuiplocarpus,  Foeti
dus,  po....................  @ 35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ©  25
German...  15®  20
Zingiber a ...................  10®  15
Zingiber  j .............. 
22®  25
SEMEN.
..  @ 15
Anlsum,  (po. 20).. 
Apium  (graveleons)..  15®  18
Bird, 1b...................... 
4®  6
8®  12
Carui, (po. 18)............  
Cardamon........................1  00@1 25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Sativa......... 3)4® 
4
Cydonlum...................  75@1  00
Cnenopodium  ...........  10®  12
Dipterix Odor ate........ 2 00®2 25
Foenicuium...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L lnl............................4  ® 4)4
Llni, grd,  (bbl. 4  )...  4M® 4)4
Lobelia.......................   35®  40
Pharlaris Canarian__3)4® 4)4
Rapa..........................   6®  7
Sinapis,  Albu............   8®  9
Nigra...........  11®  12
SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R.......1  75@2 00
1  10@1  50
 
Juniperis  Co. O. T __ 1  75@1  75
“ 
.............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  E ........ 1  75®2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galll................1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto.................... 1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba....................... 1  25@2 00

“ 
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“ 

SPONGES.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage....................... 2 25@2 50
Nassau  sheet»’  wool
carriage  ................. 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage................... 
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ....................... 
Hard for  slate  use__ 
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se..........................  

2 00
1  10
85
65
75
1  40

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“ 

TINCTURES.
Aconitum  NapellisR. 
F.
Aloes..........................
and myrrh........
A rnica.......................
Asafœtida..................
Atrope Belladonna__
Benzoin......................
“  Co.................
Sanguinaria...............
Barosma....................
Cantharides...............
Capsicum...................
Cardamon...................
Co..........
Castor.........................
Catechu....................
Cinchona  ..................
Co...............
Columba....................
Conlum............... ......
Cubeba.......................
Digitalis....................
Ergot..........................
Gentian.....................
“  Co..................
Guaica.......................
ammon...........
“ 
Zingiber....................
Hyoscyamus..............
Iodine.......................
“  Colorless..........
Ferri  Chloridum........
K ino..........................
Lobelia.......................
Myrrh.........................
Nux  Vomica..............
Oj)ii
“  Deoaor.........................2
Auranti Cortex...............
Quassia..........................
Rhatany.......................
Rhei................................
Cassia  Acutifol............
“  Co........
Serpentarla....................
Stromonium....................
Tolutan..........................
Valerian....................
Veratrum Veride............
MISCELLANEOUS.

Camphorated...............

.¿Ether, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  26®  28 
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alumen......................2)4® 3)4

ground,  (po.

‘ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

7).......................   3® 
4
60
Annatto................  55® 
Antlmonl, po........ 
5
4® 
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrin.................. 1 35@1 40
Antiiebrin__.............  @  25
©  80
Argent!  Nitras, ounce 
Arsenicum........... 
5® 
7
Balm Gilead  Bud.  38® 
40
Bismuth  S.  N ............2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, ()4s
11;  >4s,  12)........  @ 
9
Cantharides  Russian,
po ............................  @1 75
Capsid  Fructus, af...  @ 16
po....  @  20
B po.  @  15
Caryophyllus,  (po.  20)  15®  18
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F .  50® 
55
Cera Flava...........  38® 
40
Coccus.................  @ 
40
Cassia Fructus...........  @ 20
io
Centraria..............  @ 
Cetaceum.............  @ 
45
Chloroform..........  50® 
55
squibbs ..  @1  00
Chloral Hyd Crst.......1 50@1 75
25
Chondrus.............  20® 
Cinchonidine, P.  & W  15® 20
German  4®  10 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  .......................  ©  60
Crea80tu m ...........  @ 
50
2
Creta, (bbl. 75).....   @ 
“  prep.............  5® 
5
“  precip...............   8®  10
“  Rubra...............   @  8
35
Crocus.................   30® 
24
Cudbear................  @ 
Cupri Sulph..........  8® 
9
Dextrine..............   10® 
12
Ether Sulph...............   68®  70
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po..................   @  3
Ergota,_(po.)  60 .........   50®  65
Flake  white...........'..  12®  15
Galla....................   @ 
23
Gambler.....................   8  @9
Gelatin,  Cooper........   @  90
“ 
60
Glassware  flint,  70 per cent, 
by box 60 less
Glue,  Brown........  9® 
15
“  White...............   13®  25
Glycerins.............18)4® 
25
Grana Paradis!..........  @  22
Humulus..............   25® 
40
Uydraag  Chlor  Mite..  @1  05
“  Cor__  @  95
Ox Rubrum  @1  15
Ammoniati..  @1  25
Unguentum.  £0® 60
Hydrargyrum........  ..  @ 92
.1  25®1  50
JchthyoDolla, Am.. 
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl..........3 75@3 85
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin........  ...........  85@1 00
Lycopodium........   56® 
60
Macis...................  80® 
85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod...........   © 
27
Liquor Potass Arslnitis  10® 12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl  ■
1)4).....................  2® 
8
60
Mannia,  S, F ........  50® 

French.....  40® 

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&.  PBRKINS

DRUG  CO.

Importers and Jobben of

-■DRUGS--

Chemicals  and  Druggists’  Sundrier,

Dealen in

Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes.

Sole  Agents  forothe  Celebrated  Pioneer  Prepared  Paints.

We are Sole Proprietors of

WEATHERLY’S  MICHIGAN  CATARRH  REMEDY

We have in stock and offer a fall lins of

W2^Ls3sies, Brandies,

Gins, Wines, Bums.

W e are  Sole  Agents  in  Michigan  for  W . D. & Oo., 

Henderson County, Hand Made  Sour Mash 

W hisky and Druggists’ Favorite 

Rye  W hisky.

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

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

ftoltine i  Pßrkiitö  Drug  ßo„

■  GRAND  RAPIDS.QMICH.

Absinthium......................... 5 00@5
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®
Amydalae, Amarae__8 00@8
A nlsl....................................2 00@2
Aurantl  Cortex.........   @2
Bergamli  ...................3 25®4
Cajiputi......................  90@1
Cary ophy 111......................... 1 25®1
Cedar.........................  35®
Chenopodll................  ®l
Clnnamonll.........................1 40@1
Cltronella...................  @
Conlum  Mac..............  85®
Copaiba  .....................1  20®i

8TBUP8.

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

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T H E   M IC H IG A N   TR A D ESM A N .

GRO CBRIBS.

G ripsack B rigade.

Mrs. L. M.  Mills is spending  a  couple 
of  weeks  at Detroit,  the  guest  of  Mrs. 
L. W. Atkins.

The wife and daughter of  Will Rindge 
are visiting the paternal roof  in Chicago 
for two or three weeks.

“Hub“ Baker  claims  to  have  broken 
the record,  having sold 101 chests  of  tea 
from Sept.  19  until Oct.  1.

Frank Taylor  has gone on the road for 
Horton &  Johnston,  covering  the  trade 
of Eastern and Northern Michigan.

The widow and  daughter  of  the  late 
L.  L.  Loomis have removed  to  Lansing, 
where they will reside  in the future.

D.  E.  McVean  and  Fred  Walters will 
come  in  Thursday  with the Indiana ex­
cursionists,  assisting  their customers to 
seethe elephant during the day.

W.  N. Ford,  general  Western manager 
for J. G.  Butler & Co.,  of  St.  Louis, has 
concluded  to  transfer  his  headquarters 
from this city to Chicago.  The Michigan 
trade will be looked  after from this time 
on by W.  T.  Welch,  who has lately been 
on the road for  Reid,  Murdoch & Co., of 
Chicago.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar is a sixpence lower.  New raisins 
are fine  in  quality  and  cheap  in price. 
Bulk cocoanut has advanced lc per pound. 
Sap  Sago  cheese  has  advanced  3c  per 
pound,  the first variation in  years.  The 
National  Tobacco  Co.  announces  an ad­
vance on  “Piper Heidsick’" from 59 to 60c 
on  the  11th,  while  J. G.  Butler  &  Co. 
reduced the price of  their brands 2c  per 
pound  by  celebrating  the  enactment of 
the McKinley bill  by rebating  tax on all 
stock in jobbers' hands.  The  Proctor  & 
Gamble Co.  has changed  the  appearance 
and quality of  its “Lenox'’ soap.

The Masonic  Fair.

The indications  are  that  the  Masonic 
fair, which will be held here  from  Nov. 
5 to 10  for  the  benefit  of  the  Masonic 
Home,  will  be largely attended and yield 
handsome  returns  for  the  magnificent 
charity in whose behalf  the fair is given. 
The officers  and  committees  having the 
matter in charge are working  like  beav­
ers to ensure  the  success  of  the under­
taking  and  they  appear  to  have  the 
co-operation  of  the  fraternity  all  over 
the State.

Somewhat  Mixed.

A farmer  who  was on  intimate  terms 
with his merchant  sent  him  the follow­
ing bit of news considerably mixed  with 
an order for  goods:  “Send me a sack of 
flower 5 pounds of cofe and one pound of 
tee.  My wife  gave  berth to a big  baby 
boy last  night also five  pounds  of  corn 
starch and a screw  driver  and a fly trap. 
It weighed ten pounds and a straw  h at!”

Caffeine from  Tea Leaves.

All the  caffeine  used is made from tea 
leaves.  For  many  years it has been  be­
lieved  that  this  alkaloid  was  identical 
with that of  coffee, coca,  guarana,  kola 
and Paraguay tea.  Latterly the separate 
study of  these alkaloids has proved a de­
cided difference in the therapeutic effects 
of  those  extracted from  these  different 
plants.

One hundred thousand  dollars  a  year 
for advertising  is  quite a sum to expend 
for the  extension  of  the  business  of  a 
single  shoe  firm;  yet  that  is  what  the 
W.  L.  Douglas  Shoe  Co.  will  expend 
among  the  newspapers  of  the  country 
this  year.  Orders for advertising to the 
amount  of  $50,000 were sent out by this 
firm in one day early in January.

TWELVE  THOUSAND  DOLLARS.

I Prizes  Offered by the  Manufacturers of 

“Something1  Good” Plug Tobacco, 

j  No brand of  plug tobacco ever jumped 
| into public favor more rapidly  or  main­
tained its supremacy  more securely than 
j “Something Good,” which was originated 
at the factory of  Jas. G.  Butler & Co., of 
St.  Louis,  in  January,  1889.  Although 
only 25,000  pounds  of  this  brand  were 
sold the first month, the  sales  increased 
to 230,000  per  month  by  the  following 
August and at the beginning of  this year 
it was found that the  trade  was  calling 
for their favorite brand at the rate of a
H A L F   M ILLION  POUNDS  A   MONTH.
The increase this year has been no less 
surprising,  the sales so far indicating  an 
increase of 327 per cent.  The reason for 
the remarkable popularity of  this  brand 
is easy to ascertain—it suits  the  chewer 
and  pays  the  retailer a handsome profit.
Gratified at the success of  “Something 
Good,”  as well as the hardly less success­
ful brands—“Peach  Pie” and  “Tobacco” 
—Messrs. Butler & Co. have inaugurated 
a plan by  which they can show their ap­
preciation to the retail trade  and  travel­
ing fraternity for  the efficient work done 
in their behalf.  From  Oct.  1 until May 
1,  1891, every caddy of the  three  brands 
above mentioned will contain a certificate 
entitling the dealer to vote for  the  most 
popular traveling salesman  selling  their 
brands  of  tobacco  in  the retailer’s dis­
trict.  The salesman  receiving the high­
est number of  votes  will  be  given a six 
weeks’  tour  through  Europe,  including 
every expense of transportation and sub­
sistence from the  salesman’s home to his 
destination and return. 
If the winner is 
not  in  a position  to  take  the  free  trip 
through  Europe,  he  can 
transfer  the 
privilege  to some one else, or, if  he pre­
fers,  he can  receive  $350  in cash in lieu 
thereof.  A  second  prize  of $100 and a 
third prize of  $50 completes  the  list  of 
generous  offers.

In prizes  to  the  retail  trade, Messrs. 
Butler & Co. are most liberal.  The dealer 
sending in the  largest  number  of  votes 
will receive a cash prize  of  $50;  the sec­
ond largest, $25;  the third, $15,  and  the 
fourth, $10.  Votes may be mailed at any 
time, but all must be in  St.  Louis  on  or 
before  May  1,  1891,  when  the  contest 
closes.

As this is one of the best opportunities 
ever offered popular salesmen  and  wide 
awake  merchants, 
this  distribution — 
which involves the expenditure of twelve 
thousand dollars—will  undoubtedly tend 
to still further  popularize the celebrated 
brands of plug tobacco manufactured  by 
Jas. G. Butler & Co.

Wool  Higher—Hides  W eaker—Tallow 

Firm—Furs  Weak.

Wools  again  sold freely the past week 
and  assortments  are  broken.  The  ad­
vance of 2 cents per pound has been well 
sustained.  Wools  held  above  the  mar­
ket a few weeks ago would be considered 
cheap now.  Carpet  manufacturers have 
advanced prices and,  in fact,  such is the 
case in all wool grades.  The  market  is 
well established for  wool  and prices are 
likely to hold firm,  if  not  advance  still 
more.

Hides are weaker, with larger offerings 
Tanners hold  off  at  the  price,  and  we 
hear of  others  shutting  down,  as  they 
claim there  has  been  no  money in tan­
ning.  This fact  is  apparent  except  in 
j the case of special lines.
I  Tallow is selling freely at  good  prices

for  good  qualities,  both for  home  con­
sumption and  export,  with  no  accumu­
lation of stocks.

Furs have a bad outlook as to price and 
will open low,  with a demand for  prime 
silky skins only.

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

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PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—Green, $3.50  for  eating  and  $2.50@$3 
for cooking stock.
Apples—Dried, new stock has not yet begun to 
arrive in sufficient quantities to  warrant  quota­
tion.
Beans—The  crop  is  coming  In  freely, faster 
than some dealers can handle it, purchases being 
made  on  the  basis  of  $1.60@1.60  for  countiy 
hand-picked.  City picked is held at $2@2.10.

per lb.  Creamery finds moderate sale at 23c.

Beets—New, 50c per bu.
Butter—Dairy  is  in  good  demand  at  14@16c 
Cabbages—EOc  per doz. or $4 per 100.
Carrots—30c per bu.
Celery—20® 5c per doz.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25;  produce barrels 
25c.
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 at $8.
Eggs—The market is steady, owing to the high 
prices ruling  in  the  eastern  markets.  Dealers 
pay 15c and hold at 17c.
Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth,  $4.60  per  bu.; 
medium, $4.25.  Timothy, $1.51 per bu.
Grapes—The crop is  nearly all marketed, Con­
cords having entirely disappeared.  Wordens are 
still  in  small  supply  at  4c,  Niagaras at Ec and 
Delawares at 7c.
Maple  Sugar — 8@10c  per  lb.,  according  to 
quality.
Maple Syrup—75@85c per gal.
Onions—S0@90c per bu.
Pop Corn—4c per lb.
Potatoes—Local handlers are  paying  60c  here 
and at the principal buying points in  the  State. 
The crop in  Michigan appears to be  au  average 
one, but it is yet too early to ascertain the needs 
of the country at the  eastern and southern ship­
ping points.
Peaches—About out of market.  As  a  matter 
of fact, they have not been in market at all  this 
year.

seys, $3.25 per bbl.

Quinces—$2@2.50 per bu.
Sweet Potatoes—Baltimores, $3  per  bbl;  Jer 
Tomatoes—Home stock  commands  $1  per bu.
Turnips—30@35c per bu.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co. 

FORK  IN  BARRELS.

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

quotes as follows:
.Mess, new....................................................   It  50
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 cnt. 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
Tierces..............................................................7
Tubs.................................................................  796
561b.  Tins......................................................... 794
TM prPPfl 
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30and50lb.'Tubs 
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3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case....................................  7
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case.......................................6%
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case.....................................  654
20 lb. Palls, 4 in a case.....................................  694
50 lb. Cans........................................................ ,6J4

lard—Kettle Rendered.

lard—Family.

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs......................  7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................  7 00
Boneless, rump butts.....................................  900

snored  neats—Canvassed or Plain.

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16 lbs.......................................1094
12 to 14 lbs............................... 1094
picnic...................................................  8
best boneless..........................................994
Shoulders............................................ 
 
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...............................8
Dried beef, ham prices...................................  994
Long Clears, heavy.........................................   694
Briskets,  medium...........................................   694
light...........  ..................................   694

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FISH and OYSTERS.

F. 3. De tien thaler quotes as follows:

FRESH  FISH.

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Whltefish.
smoked.
Trout...................
Halibut...............
Ciscoes...............
Flounders...........
Bluefish  ............
Mackerel............
Cod.
California salmon.......................
o y s t e r s —Cans.
Fairhaven  Counts.......................
F. J. D. Selects.............................
S elects  ..................   ................................
F. J. D..........................................
Anchors........................................
Standards.....................................
OYSTERS—Bulk.
Standards,  per gal.......................
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Selects, 
FRESH MEATS.

@794 
@ 8 
@ 794 
@15 
@ 4 
© 9 
@10 
@25 
@10 
@22
@35
@28
@25
@25
@20@18D
@1  30 
@1  75

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Swift and Company quote as follows:
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Beef, carcass..........................................4  @694
hindquarters...............................  5  @694
...............................  @394
fore 
loins, No. 3..................................  7  @ 794
ribs.............................................  @794
rounds........................................   @ 6
tongues.......................................   @
Hogs........................................................  @
Bologna..................................................  @ 5
Pork loins..............................................  @8
“  shoulders.......................................  @6
Sausage, blood  or head.........................  @5
liver..............  ........................  @5
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Mutton....................... ...........................6  @694
Veal.......................................................   6  @7

CANDIES,  FRUITS and  NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

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NIXED  CANDY.

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

Standard,  per  lb....................................  694@ 9
“  H.H...........................................   894©  9
“  T w ist........................................  894©  9
Cut  Loaf................................. 
10
Assorted Cream  ............................................. 12
Extra H. H.......................................................11
Standard, per lb.............................................. 894
Leader.............................................................   894
Royal...............................................................  9
E xtra..,...................... 
10
English  Rock..................................................10
Conserves............................. 
10
Broken............................................................   9
Cut Loaf...........................................................10
French Creams............  
12
Valley  Creams................................................ 13
Lemon Drops................................................... 12
Sour Drops.......................................................13
Peppermint Drops............................................14
Chocolate Drops...............................................14
H. M. ChocolateaDrops...........................*....... 18
Gum Drops..................................................... 10
Licorice Drops..................................................18
A. B. Licorice  Drops........................... 
14
Lozenges, plain................................................ 14
printed...............................; .......... 15
Imperials..........................................................14
Mottoes.............................................................15
Cream Bar........................................................ 13
Molasses  Bar................................................... 13
Caramels................................................... 16@18
Hand Made  Creams.........................................18
Plain Creams....................................................16
Decorated Creams............................................20
String  Rock.....................................................15
Burnt Almonds................................................ 22
Wintergreen  Berries....................................... 14
Lozenges, plain, in  palls.................................12
printed, In pails..............................13
Chocolate Drops, In pails.................................12
Gum Drops, In pails........................................   6
Moss Drops, In palls.........................................10
Sour Drops, in pails.........................................12
Imperials, in pails...................... 
12
Rodi, choice, 200...................................   @
300....................................  @

fancy—In bulk.

ORANGES.

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Messina, choice, 360............................  @  7 50
fancy,  360............................   @  8 50

“  300..............................  @
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300............................   @
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

Figs, Smyrna, new,  fancy  layers........  @16
Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................   @io
..........................  @8
Persian, 50-lb.  box......................  @ 7
NUTS.

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Ivaca.....................................  @17
California.............................   @
Brazils....................................................   @16
Walnuts, Grenoble................................   @1794
“  Marbot...................................  @14
Pecans, Texas, H. P .....................-........ 14  @16
Cocoanuts, full sacks  ..........................   @5 00
Fancy, H.  P.,  Bell................................   @1094
.................   @1294
“  Roasted 
Fancy, H.  P., Stars................................  @994
“  Roasted..................  @1194
Choice, H. P.,Ex P rin ce.....................   @ 994
“  Roasted...................  @1194
Fancy, H. P., Steamboats......................  @994

PEANUTS.

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WHOLESALE

Paper  Warehouse.

FLOUR SACKS,  GROCERY  BAGS,  TWENE  AND WOODEN  WARE.

Houseman  Block, 

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Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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W h o le s a le   P r i c e   C u r r e n t•

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

pay promptly and buy in fu ll 'packages.

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AXLE  ORE ABE.

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CANNED GOODS—Fish.

Acme, *4 lb. cans, 3 doz__ 

Onr Leader, {¿lb.  cans......  

R  H lb. 
6 oz. 
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12 oz. 
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Hlb.  “ 
lib.  “ 
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BATH  BRICK.

Chicago goods....................
Frazer's...................................*2 40
Aurora.....................................  1 75
Diamond...................................1 80
BAKING  POWDER.
Thepure, 10c packages.  ...$120
  1  56
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Less 20 per cent, to retailers. 
Absolute, !4 lb. cans, doz.. .1  00 
“ ...190
“ ...3 50
75
*4 lb.  “ 
2  “  ....  1  50
1  “  ....  3 00
1 lb.  “ 
bulk.........................  20
45
......   75
.......   1  50
Telfer’s,  *A lb. cans, doz..  45
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85
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English, 2 doz. in case......  
80
75
Bristol,  2  “ 
 
70
American. 2 doz. in case... 
Dozen
Mexican,  4oz................... 
30
60
8  oz.................  
16  oz................ 
90
No. 2 Hurl..........................   1  75
No. 1  “ 
2 00
No. 2 Carpet.........................2 00
No. 1 
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Parlor Gem.........................  2 50
Common Whisk................ 
90
Fancy 
.................   1  20
M ill....................................  3 25
Warehouse...........................2 75
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes..............10
Star,  40 
Paraffine............................  11
Wicking......... ••...........  ...  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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Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic........... 1  90
2  lb.  “ 
2 65
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1 lb.  Star.....................2 50
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2 lb. Star................ 3 25
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Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.2 25
1 lb.  stand  ........... 1  20
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2 lb. 
2 00
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2 lb. in Mustard.. .2 25
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31b.  soused.........
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Salmon,1 lb. Columbia 1  75@1  90 
lib.  Alaska..  @1  60
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Sardines, domestic  *4s........ 
6
54s.......@8
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imported  ¡4s...11  @12
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10
Trout, 3 Id. brook.........   2 50
CANNED GOODS—Fruits.
Apples, gallons....................
Apricots............................. 2 50
Blackberries........................1  20
Cherries, red....................... 1  30
pitted....................1  40
Damsons...........................
Egg  Plums..........................1  53
Gooseberries........... ........... 1 25
Grapes............ ...................
Green  Gages.......................1  50
Peaches,  pie.......................1 90
seconds.................2 30
sta n d ....................2 65
California.............2 85
Pears................................... 1  50
Pineapples, common.......... 1  25
sliced............... 2 50
grated................2 75
Quinces.............................. 110
Raspberries, black..............1  30
red...................1  40
Strawberries.............................1 35
Whortleberries......................... 1 40
Asparagus...........................
Beans, soaked  Lima...........  85
“  Green  Lima..........@1  60
“  String.....................@  90
“  Strlngless.....................  90
“  Lewis’Boston Baked. .1 40 
Corn, stand,  brands.. 1  00@1  25
Peas, soaked...'.....................  75
“  marrofat.......................@1 30
“  standJune........................1 40
“  sifted  ‘ 
“  fine French...................... 2 10
Mushrooms...............................1 80
Pum pkin..............................@1 45
Squash......................................1 10
Succotash, soaked................  85
standard..................1 30
Tomatoes, stand br’ds 1  05@1  10
Snider’s, *4 pint...... ............1  35

canned  goods—Vegetables.

@1  75

CATSUP.

“ 
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“ 

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pint............................2 30
quart.......................... 3 50

“ 
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CHEESE.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Fancy Full Cream.... 10*4@11 
Good 
....  9!4@10
Part Skimmed............  7*4® 8*4
Sap Sago...........  .......  @23
E dam ........................  @1  00
Swiss, imported........  24®  25
domestic  __  15@  16
CHEWING  GUM.
200  “ 

Rubber, 100 lumps....... »... .30
40
Spruce, 200 pieces................40
Bulk....... .............................. 6
Bed...........  .....................  

CHICORY.

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COCOA  SHELLS.

COFFEE  EXTRACT.

coffee—Green.

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
22
German Sweet.................... 
Premium.............................  
34
38
Pure..................................... 
Breakfast  Cocoa...............  
40
Broma.................................. 
37
Bulk............................... 4  @4*4
Pound  packages............  @7
Valley City........................... 
75
Felix......................................  1  15
Hummel’s............................. 
65
Rio, fair............... . 
@21
“  good.......................21 @22
@23
“  prime...............
@24
“  fancy,  washed
“  golden....................23 @24
Santos............................22 @23
Mexican & Guatemala 23 @24
Java,  Interior.............. 24 @26
“  Mandheling___27 @30
Peaberry.......................22 @24
Mocha, genuine.......  26 @28
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add He. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
coffees—Package.
Bunola....................................2434
in cabinets.................25&
M cL aughlin’s  XXXX....25H
Lion  ....................................... 2514
in cabinets  ..................26
Durham...............   ............... 25
clothes  lines.
Cotton,  40ft...
...per doz.  1 
loz.
1
“ 
50 ft...
1  50 
5
1
“ 
60 ft...
“ 
70 ft...
2 00 
2
“ 
2
80 ft...
2 25 
1
" 
60 ft...
1  00 
72 f t . .
1
“ 
1  15
CONDENSED MILK.
Eagle............... .................  7
50 
Anglo-Swiss__ ...... 6 00® 7
60

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Jute 
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COUPONS.
“Superior.”

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

10 “
“

“  “ 
“  “ 
 
“  “ 
 
“  “ 
“Tradesman.”
“  “ 
“  “ 
“  “ 
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$  1. per hundred.................  2  50
*2, 
3 00
 
$5, 
4  00
*10, 
5 00
 
*20, 
.................. 6  00
1 1, per  hundred.................  2 00
2 50
*2, 
*5, 
3 00
*10, 
4  00
*20, 
5 00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts :
200 or over.5  per  cent.
500  " 
1000  “ 
............. 20 
CRACKERS.
Kenosha Butter....................   7*4
“ 
Seymour 
5*4
B utter....................................... 5*4
“  family............................. 5*4
“  biscuit............................6*4
Boston................... 
7*4
City Soda.................................. 7v4
Soda...........................................6
S. O yster.................................. 5*4
City Oyster, XXX........................5 *4
Shell..........................................6
Strictly  pure........................ 
Grocers’................................  
dried fruits—Domestic.
Apples, sun-dried.......8*4@  9
evaporated__   @14
“ 
Apricots, 
“  —   @21
....  @10
Blackberries“ 
Nectarines  “ 
................
Peaches 
“ 
..............  16*4
Plums 
“ 
................
Raspberries  “ 
...............
dried fruits—Prunes.
Turkey..........................  @714
Bosnia...........................  @ 814
California....................   @

CREAM TARTAR.

38
25

 

 

dried  fruits—Peel.

“ 

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' •  3  “ 

GUN  POWDER.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

dried  fruits—Citron.

dried fruits—Raisins.

dried fruits—Currants.

18
Lemon........................... 
Orange.......................... 
18
In drum ........................  @18
In boxes.......................   @20
Zante, in barrels........   @614
. in less quantity  6%@  634
Valencias.....................  @ 814
Ondaras........................  @  914
Sultanas.......................   @12
London  Layers,  Cali­
Mus’tels, Cal., 2 crown  @

fornia........................ 2 60@2  75
@2 35
K egs...................................... 5  50
Half  kegs..............................3  00
Farina, 100 lb.  kegs..............  04
Hominy, per  bbl..................4 00
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box__   60
@1014 
Pearl  Barley...........
@ 3 
@1  10 
Peas, green..............
@ 3 
“  split.................
Sago, German.........
@ 6 
6@ 7 
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’rl.
@ 5 
Wheat,  cracked......
Vermicelli,  import.. 
@1014 
domestic.
@60
FISH—SALT.
Cod, whole.................5  @6
“  boneless..............  614® 8
H alibut....................  @
Herring,  round, 14 bbl.. 
“ 
gibbed.............  
“  Holland,  bbls.. 
“ 
“ 

2 90
2 75
12 00
...  @  60
Scaled...........  @  20

Imported.

“  kegs, 

“ 

7H

“ 

SALT

“ 
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*4 bu  “ 
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Mixed bird.................4*4® 6
Caraway...............................9
Canary.................................. 3*4
Hemp...................................4
Anise.'..................................8
Rape...................................   6
Mustard.................................7*4
Common Fine per bbl......  @90
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks......  27
28 pocket.............................1  75
60 
“ 
............................. 2 00
............................. 2 15
100  “ 
Ashton bu. bags..............   75
.................  75
Higgins  “ 
Warsaw “ 
.................  35
.................   20
Diamond  Crystal,  cases__ 1  50
28-lb sacks  25
50
56-lb 
60  pocket.2 25
28 
.2 10
barrels..  .1  75
Church’s, Arm & Hammer.. .5*4
Dwight’s Com........................5*4
Taylor’s.................................5*4
DeLand’s Cap  Sheaf.............5*4
pure.........................5*4
Our Leader........................   5
Corn, barrels.................... @34
one-half  barrels__ @36
Pure  Sugar, bbl................30@40
half barrel__32@42
“ 
8
8*4
8
8
8

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

SALERATUS.

SYRUPS.

“ 

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“ 

“ 

Jettine, 1 doz. In box__ . 

.75

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SUN CURED.

GUNPOWDER.

BASKET  FIRED.

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

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

YOUNG HYSON.

IMPERIAL.

rOOLONG.

SODA.

Boxes.................................. 5J*
Kegs, English...................... 4%

tobaccos—Fine Cut.

D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands.

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

62
36
35

Jas. G. Butler'&  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good..................   37
Double P edro....................... 33
Peach  Pie  ............................  34
Wedding  Cake, blk  .............. 33
“Tobacco” ..............................35

tobacco—Shorts.

tobaccos—Smoking.

Out  Leader.............................15
Our  Leader......................... 16
Hector.................................. 17
Plow Boy, 2  oz.................... 32
4 oz.................... 31
15 oz..  . 
........... 32
VINEGAR.
40 gr.....................................  8
50 gr.....................................  9
PAPER & WOODENWARF

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PAPER.

“ 

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TWINES.

Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol 
lows:
Straw 
.................................150
“  Light  Weight.............. 200
Sugar..................................  iso
Hardware............................. 2*4
Bakers.................................. 2*4
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 Hemp......................... 18
No. 6  “ .................................17
Wool....................................  8
Tubs,No. 1........................   800
“  No. 2........................   7 00
“  No. 3.........................  6  00
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
1 50
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  1  75
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes__ 
55
Bowls, 11 inch...................   1  00
13  “ 
....................  1  25
15  “ 
......................2 00
....................  2 75
17  “ 
assorted, 17s and  19s 2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s 2 75
Baskets, market.................   35
bushel.................  1  50
5 75

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“ 
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“  No.2 
“  No.3 
“  No.l 3 50
“  No.2 
“  No.3 

WOODENWARE.

6 25
7 25
4 25
5 00

splint 

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92
92

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF'S
WHEAT.
W hite................... 
Red....................... 
All wheat bought  on 60 lb. test.
FLOUR.
in sacks  .........  5  10
Straight, 
“ 
“ barrels.........  5 30
Patent 
“ sacks..........   6  10
“ barrels.........  6 30
“ 
“ sacks..........   4 8»
Graham 
Rye 
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MEAL.

Bolted..............................   1  Mg
Granulated..................  
1  55

MILLSTUFFB.

RYE.

OATS.

CORN.

BARLEY.

Bran..................................  14  (0
Ships.................................  15  00
Screenings.......................  15 00
Middlings........................   17  00
Mixed  Feed........................21  00
Coai-se meal....................... 21  00
No.l  .............................  50@53
No. 1..................................  1  15
No. 2...............................  
1  10
Small  lots........................   57
“  ..................... !'  53
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.........................   G @ 6*4
Part  Cured.................  6*4@  7
Full 
.................  g*4@ 7
Dry.............................  6  @ 8
Kips, green  ...............  
cured.................  6*4® 7
Calfskins,  green........  5  @ 7
“ 
cured........7  @ 9
Deacon skins............... 10 @30

  @ 6*4

HIDES.

HAY.

“ 

No. 2 hides *4 off.
PELTS.

WOOL.

Shearlings....................10 @25
Estimated wool, per lb 20  @25
Washed.............................20@28
Unwashed......................  10@20
Tallow........................   3 @ 4
Grease  butter  ............  1  @ 2
Switches....................  1V4@ 2
Ginseng 

...................3 00@3 50

MISCELLANEOUS.

LUBRICATING  OILS. 
The  IIogle  Oil  Co.  quote  as 

ANIMAL  OILS.

l u b r i c a t i n g   o i l s .

“  No. 1  “ 
“ 

follows:
Extra W S Lard...........53 @58
..........45  @50
N o .l.... 
..........35  @40
PureNeatsfoot.........  52  @60
W Va  Summer.............7*4@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....................*1  io@i 35
M ineral.....................  30®  35
Water White..............  @10
Michigan  test 
Gasoline.....................  9*4@14

BURNING  OILS.
.........

c a s t o r   o i l .

PAINT  OILS.
Linseed  Oil, boiled.. .65  @75
“  raw.......62  @72
Naptha.........................7*4@10
Turpentine..................45  @50

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l\   Li.  OYSTERS. 

JP.  Li.

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.

T U B   P U T N A M   C A N D Y  CO.

R E M E M B E R

T  H A   T

B U N O L .  1

C O F F E E .

Is   b e t t e r   and  c o s ts  

le s s  

p a c k a g e   c o ffe e s .

th a n   m o s t 

IOO-POUND  CASES,  24  3-4; 

lOO-CABINETS,  25  1-4.

FOR SALE  BY  ALL  GRAND  RAPIDS JOBBERS

Trout,  14  bbls............   @5 25
“  10  lb.  kits.................  75
Mack,  sh’s, No. 2,14  bbl  12 00 
“ 
“  12 lb kit.. 130
“  10 
“ 
.1  20 
White,  No. 1, 14 bbls..  @5 50
“ 
12 1b. kits...... 100
“ 
10 1b. kits......  80
Family,  14  bbls........3 00
“ 
*’ 
“  kits................  65

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LYE.

JELLIES.

LICORICE.

MATCHES.

OATMEAL.

MOLASSES.

LAMP WICKS.

Sage...  ...............................9
Hops.................................... 14
Chicago  goods......................514
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
Black  Strap...................... 
17
Cuba Baking.................... 
22
Porto  Rico....................... 26@33
35
New Orleans, good........... 
40
choice.......  
fancy.........  
£0
One-half barrels, 3c extra
arrels  ............................... 5 75
Half barrels..........................3 00
B  rrels......................  @5  75
Half bbls....................  @3 00
Michigan  Test....................  9U
Water White........................10
Medium.............................. *8 fO
14 b b l..................... 4 25
“ 
Small, bbl.............................9 00
“  H  bbl........................4 75
Clay, No.  216........................ 1 75
“  T. D. full count...........  75
Cob, No. 3.............................1 25
Chicago goods....................
Carolina head....................... 7
“  No. 1........................614
“  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

ROLLED OATS.

PRESERVES.

PICKLES.

SNUFF.

PIPES.

RICE.

OIL.

SOAP.

 

3  “ 

SAL  SODA.

Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands.

spices—Whole.

8A POLIO.
“ 
SOUPS.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Superior............................... 3 30
Queen  Anne........................ 3 85
German  Family..................
Mottled  German..................3 00
Old German.........................2 70
U. S. Big  Bargain................ 2 00
Frost, Floater...................... 3 75
Cocoa  Castile  .................... 3 00
Cocoa Castile, Fancy........... 3 36
Happy Family,  75................ 2 95
Old Country, 80.....................3 30
r   a, 100................................ 3 65
B  ncer, 100..................  ...3  15
Kegs.................................  
1=4
Granulated,  boxes................2
Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box.........2 50
Hand 
2 50
Snider’s  Tomato..................2 40
Allspice............................... 10
CasBia, China in mats........  8
Batavia in bund__ 15
Saigon in rolls........ 35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
Zanzibar..................!6
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
“  No.  1....................... 75
“  No. 2....................... 65
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16 
“ 
“  white...  .26
shot......................... 20
“ 
spices—Ground- In Bulk.
Allspice............................... 15
Cassia,  Batavia...................20
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon.................... 42
Cloves,  Amboyna................26
“ 
Zanzibar................20
Ginger, African................... 12=4
K  Cochin.....................15
Jam aica................18
“ 
Mace  Batavia...................... 90
Mustard, English................22
and Trie..25
Trieste 
27
Nutmegs, No. 2 
" " "  ” .‘80
Pepper, Singapore, black— 18
“  white...... 30
Cayenne................25
SUGARS.

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Cut  Loaf....................  @  7%
Cubes.........................  @  7*4
Powdered...................  @7%
Standard  Granulated.  @6 81
Fine...........  @>.81
Confectioners’ A........  @6%
White Extra  C...........  6&@ 6%
Extra  C......................  @  6%
C ......... ......................  5J£@ 6
i Yellow.........................5*4® 6X

There will  be a difference,  as the present 
rate  is 6 to 7 per  cent.  The  difference 
can  easily  be  reduced  to  dollars  and 
cents and  some  one  will have to pay it. 
Plenty of  politicians  can be found  who 
would pledge that, if  elected, their  vote 
would go to reduce  it,  but  if  it  snould 
come  to  a • subscription  list  the  result 
would  be ^repetition  of  England’s  ex­
perience.  So,  if  any one  paid this dif­
ference  in  interest, 
the  government 
would  have  to.  Then  why  not  go 
straight to the remedy and propose a bill 
to  have  the  government  remit  to  each 
farmer the difference between  the  inter­
est he pays and 1  per cent. ?  This would 
bring out  before  the  people  what  they 
are really claiming  to  the  farmers. 
It 
would  put a premium  on  indebtedness. 
A could mortgage to B, B to C and C back 
to  A.  all  draw  their “difference” —and 
what would be  the  remedy ?  They  do 
not mean  it.  They  are  not  honest  in 
their intentions and the farmers are find­
ing it out.
The  “cry”  is now, as it was then,  any 
one who does not fall in with the illusive 
schemes of  these charlatans is ranked as 
opposed  to  the  masses  and in favor  of 
the  classes.  T he  Tradesman  proves 
itself  the  better  friend  to  the  farmer 
when it is willing to incur the temporary 
disfavor of  those who expect to  gain by 
this scheme and point  out the  defects in 
it. 

Edwin G. P ip p.

Bay City,  Mich.

N oise  M eans  B usiness.

From the St. Louis Star.
Quiet in a large city means stagnation; 
noise means business;  the loudest streets 
are the  best  streets, and  any attempt to 
suppress the  noise  incident to any legit­
imate  calling is downright folly if  noth- 
ing worse. 
_____________________

Fornitore

------a t ------

Nelson, 

M atter 

&  Co.'s

S ty le s   N e w ,  C heap, 
M ed iu m   a n d   E x p e n ­
siv e.

Large  Variety. 

Prices Low.

1 4

One  P e r  C ent. 

In te re st,  H istorically 

C onsidered.

W ritte n  fo r Thk T radesman.

Two  years after Chamberlayne’s Land 
Hank bill had died in the House of  Com­
mons, another  project  was  brought for­
ward  to  organize  an  institution  with 
similar  objects  but  on  a more  sensible 
plan.  Chamberlayne’s pet theories were:
1.  That the  government,  by stamping 
so  many  million  pounds  sterling  on  a 
certain amount of  paper, could add  just 
that amount of wealth to the nation.

2.  That a lease  of  land for  100  years 
was worth  just 100 times a lease  of  the 
same  land  for  one  year.  This  would 
make  a  lease  for  100  years  worth five 
times the full value of the land, for then, 
as now, the purchasing price of  land did 
not exceed twenty times  its  yearly rent­
ing price.

It is not surprising that both  of  these 
fallacious doctrines should emanate from 
the  same  erratic  brain. 
England’s 
greatest  historian  informs  us  that  the 
once  numerous  sect  that  followed  him 
had by this time been  reduced to a small 
and select company of  incorrigible fools. 
Though  Chamberlayne’s  sun had set be­
low the horizon of  derision,  there  were 
men from  the  rural  districts  who  still 
thought that the establishment of a bank 
for the distinct purpose of loaning money 
on landed security would prove a boon to 
the people.  The capital of the bank this 
time was to be real money and,  to secure 
to the farmers the benefit of  the  institu­
tion,  it was to be prohibited from loaning 
money on any private  securities  except­
ing mortgages  on land. 
It was bound to 
provide at least half a million  yearly for 
these borrowers at a rate  of  interest  no 
higher  than  3%  per  cent.,  when  paid 
quarterly  and  4  per  cent.,  when  paid 
semi-annually.  Money  was  then  worth 
6 per cent.  On April  27,  1696,  the  bill 
had passed both houses and  received the 
King’s approval. 
It was  confidently ex­
pected that a sufficient amount  would be 
subscribed  before  August 1,  so that,  in 
addition to the  private  loans,  the  King 
could  make  a  loan  of  a  few  hundred 
thousand  pounds.  A  commission  was 
appointed  to  receive  subscriptions;  a 
great  meeting  was  held;  offices  were 
opened  and,  to  start  the  ball  rolling, 
the King had his name put down for 5,000 
pounds.

It is needless to narrate the  efforts put 
forth by Horley and Foley,  the  two  de­
luded projectors of  the plan,  to raise the 
millions they had promised.  At the  end 
of the time specified there had been  just 
2,100  pounds added by the entire nation. 
The commission  ended  and  the  second 
Land Bank scheme was a failure.

The fault  of  the  scheme was that the 
promoters had promised to loan money to 
land owners at 3%  and 4 per cent., when 
money was worth 6 per cent.  The prom­
ise  could  not  be  fulfilled.  Every sane 
man  who  helped  to  vote  the  scheme 
through  Parliament  knew  that  it must 
fail;  but to oppose it would  appear  like 
opposing the tillers  of  the soil and their 
lack  of  courage  or  wisdom,  or  both, 
nearly ruined the Bank  of  England  and 
left  King  William on the continent with 
a  lot  of  half  starved  soldiers  and  no 
money with which to buy food.

If  the politicians  of  the  present  day 
who are so much in love with the farmers 
at  voting  time  mean  what  they say;  if 
their  object is to reduce  the farmer’s in­
terest from what it now  is to 1 per cent., 
why don’t  they go at it in a direct  way ?

T H E   M IC H IG A N   TR A D ESM A N .

RED T h e   m o st  e ffectiv e  C o u g h   D rop  in
COUGH  ££, Try 
DROPS

th e   m a rk et,  S e lls   th e  
V-7  A .  a I X L   q u ic k e st  a n d   p a y s  th e

A. E. BROOKS & CO.
The  Fines!  Line  of  Candy  in  the  State.

MANUFACTURED  BY

Grand Rapids, Midi.

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 E  A  U X .

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.
______________'T h e  P u tn a m   C a n d y   Co.

LEMON  &  PETERS,

IMPORTING  AND

Wholesale  Grocers.

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

j M c G in t y ’s  F in e   C u t  T o b a c c o ,
L n u t z   B ro s*  &   Co.’s  S o a p s,
N ia g a ra   S ta r c h ,
A c m e   C h e e s e —H e r k im e r  Co., N , Y. 
C a s to r  O il A x l e  G r e a s e •

G R A N O   R A .F ID S .

T H E   M IC H IG A N   TR A D ESM A N

C ro ck ery   & G la ssw a r e

LAMP  BURNERS.

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Pearl top.

La Bastic.

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.—Per bOX.

First quality.
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No. 0 Sun.......... ...................................................   40
No. 1  “  ..............••...............................................  45
No. 2  “  ..............................................................  60
T ubular......................................... 
.................   75
6 doz. in box.
No. 0 Sun.............................. .............................  1  75
No. 1  “  ..............................................................1  88
No. 2  “  ..............................................................2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top......................................... 2 Si
No. 1 
“  ..........................................2 40
No. 2 
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No. 0 Sun, crimp top..........................................2 60
No. 1 
“  .......................................... 2 80
No. 2 
“  ..........................................3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled......................3 70
No. ...............................  
......................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
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No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.........................1  25
No. 2  “ 
..........................150
No. 1 crimp, per doz.......................................... 1  35
No. 2 
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Butter Crocks, per gal...................................  
06ft
Jugs,  ft gal., per doz.......................................  75
.......................................  90
.....................................   1  80
Milk Pans, ft gal., per doz.  (glazed 66c) —   65 
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H1RTH  X  KRÎIU8E,

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Mason’s, Boyd’s or Rowley’s caps.

Pints.................... ..........................................# 7 50
Q uarts..........................................................   8 00
Half-gallons  ................................................  11  00

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Above quotations are f. o. b.

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FRUIT  JARS.

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HEADQUARTERS  FOR

R t o t t  Shoe Polish,

Billions,
Laces,

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

[Established  1780.]

The  S uccessful  M erchant.

D. T. M allett in  H a rd w a re.

to  be  original 

He believes  that  strict integrity is the 
legitimate  business 
foundation  of  ail 
success.
He places  no  limit  to  his  ambition, 
since the field is free to all and  work the 
price of progress.
He pushes for more  business  in  busy 
seasons and,  if customers are scarce,  still 
pursues.
He  depends  upon  his  own  exertions 
and  abilities  and  they reward  his  con­
fidence.
He practices strict  business  economy, 
but does  not  condescend  to  penurious­
ness.
He has an eye open constantly for new 
goods and accepts  valuable ideas regard­
less of their source.
He realizes  that  the  prime  object  of 
business is to make  money and he there­
fore  refrains from  extreme  competition 
in  prices.
He is not bounded by his surroundings 
and,  if  they prove too meager,  he  seeks 
wider fields for his operations.
in  his 
He  prefers 
methods and leads rather than follows.
He  never  allows customers to prevent 
departure or  prejudice  defeat  progress, 
or obscure facts.
He stands on the happy medium  plane 
between  commercial  timidity on the one 
hand,  and  ill-digested  schemes  on  the 
other.
He is  not  utterly defeated  by  defeat, 
nor careless from success.
He is aware of  the changes which  are 
almost  imperceptibly  creeping  around 
his business and tacks to catch the wind.
He is honest,  not only from policy,  but 
from  principle;  he  considers  success 
lacking  self-approbation,  as  failure  in 
disguise.
He is not  intimidated  by unmerited or 
ignorant  criticisms. 
Opinions  have 
weight with him in comparison with their 
source and cause.
He pays  promptly and  collects  as  he 
pays;  rather than pays as he collects.
He is courteous in manner  and  appre­
ciates the commercial value of cordiality.
He is careful in details,  knowing  that 
they are the mortar  which bind his oper­
ations.
He thinks first and  deeply,  and speaks 
last and concisely.
He believes in system, but does not de­
pend blindly upon it for results, since he 
considers demand the power  and  system 
the method of supply.
He keeps  his  hand  on  “to-day,”  but 
his eye on  “to-morrow,”  and  works  in 
the present, while scrutinizing the future.
He possesses  executive ability to a de­
gree which renders  him  appreciative  of 
the valuable points of his employes.
He seeks education both inside and out­
side of  business and  widens his  horizon 
of  ideas by a healthy interest  in  the in­
terests of the world.
He believes  in  judicious  advertising, 
but never  advertises his  competitors  by 
adverse criticisms.
He considers his business his  means of 
existence,  but he remembers  his duty to 
his neighbor, and—himself.

H is  F irst  P a ir  o f Boots.

De W itt T alm ag e .
I have  seen  many  days  of  joy,  but I 
remember no  such  exhilaration  as  that 
which I felt when I mounted my first pair 
of boots.
To appreciate  such  an era in  life,  one 
needs  to  be  brought  up in the country. 
Boys in town come to  this  crisis  before 
they can appreciate the height and depth 
of such an acquisition.
1 felt that robust  school boys could no 
longer  strike  me  across  the cheek, and 
when I turned cry,  “What are  you  look­
ing at?”  Nay,  the time  was  past  when 
worse than any possible insult could hap­
pen,  and that was for anybody  to  chuck 
me under the chin  and call me “Bub.”
I do not think there is any law, human 
or  divine,  demanding  that a boy should 
submit to the school bully. 
I remember 
with  what  deep  satisfaction,  after  Jim 
Johnson had knocked my hat in  the mud 
and  spat  in  my  face  and  torn my new 
coat,  I felt called upon  to  vindicate  the 
majesty  of  my  new  boots.  That, how­
ever, was before I had any idea of becom- 
c ing a minister.

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

No Chemicals are used in 
any of Walter Baker & Co.'s 
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  ol 
purity and  excellence.

TIME  TABLES.
G ran d   R apids  St In d ian a.

In  effect Ju n e  28,1890.
TRA INS  GOING  NORTH.

A rriv e. 

GOING  SOUTH.

L eave.
6:56 a m
7:25 a  m
11:30 a  m
1:10 p m
10:30 p m
T ra in   le a v in g   a t   10:30 p m ,  ru n s  d aily .  S unday  in ­

B ig  R a p id s  A  S a g i n a w .. . ........................ 
T ra v erse  C ity  A  M ackinaw ..............   I   50 a m  
T ra v erse C ity  &  M ackinaw ............... 9:16 a  m  
T ra v erse C ity A  S ag in aw ....................2:15 p m  
M ackinaw  C ity ........................................8:50 p m  
cluded.  O th er tra in s  d a ily  ex c ep t S unday.
C in c in n ati  E x p re ss............................... 6 :0 0 a m  
6:30a m
10:25 a  m
F o rt W ay n e A  C h icag o ....................... 10:15 a  m  
6:00 p  m
C in c in n ati  E x p re ss................................ 5:40 p  m  
S tu rg is A  C h ic ag o ................................ 10:50  p m  
11 :S0 p  m
F ro m  B ig R apids & S ag in aw ......... 11:50  a m
T ra in   le a v in g   fo r  C in c in n ati  a t   6 p .  m .  ru n s d aily , 
Sundays  included.  O th er tra in s  d a ily  ex c ep t S unday.
S leeping an d  P a rlo r C a r  S ervice:  N o rth —7 :2 5 a.m . 
an d  10:30 p. m. tra in s  h a v e  W a g n e r sleep in g  a n d  p a rlo r 
c a rs to  P eto sk ey   a n d   M ackinaw   C ity.  11:30 a m  tra in  
p a r le r c h a ir ca re to   M ackinaw   C ity.  S outh—6 :3 0 am  
tr a in   h a s  p a rlo r  c h a ir  c a r a n d  6 p. m . tr a in   sleep in g  
c a r fo r  C in c in n ati;  11:30  p   m   tra in , W a g n e r  sleep in g  
c a r fo r C hicago v ia. K alam azoo.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. 

A rrive.
L eave 
7:00 am......................................................... .  10:10 am
11:20 a m .............................................. ....................... . 
3:45 p m
5:40 p m ..........................................................................  8:45 p m
L ea v in g  tim e  a t   B ridge s tre e t  d e p o t 7 m in u te s la te r. 
T h ro u g h  tic k e ts a n d  fu ll  in fo rm a tio n   ca n  be h ad  by 
c a llin g  u p o n   A.  A lm quist,  tic k e t  a g e n t  a t   d ep o t, o r 
Geo. W .  M unson, U nion  T ick e t  A g en t,  67  M onroe  S t., 
G ran d   R apids, Mich.

O. L. L o c k w o o d . G en’l P ass. A gent.
D etroit, G ran d  H aven & M ilw aukee.

GOING W EST.

A rrives.
tM o ra in r E x p re ss...............................12:50 p  m
tT h ro u g h  M ail.......................................4:10 p  m
fG ran d  R apids  E x p re ss....................10:25  p  m
•N ig h t E x p re ss......................................6:40 a  m
tM lxed....................................................
GOING BAST.
tD e tro lt  E x p re ss...........................................6:45 a m
tT h ro u g h  M ail..................................... 10:10 a  m
fE v e n in g  E x p re ss................................3:35 p  m
*N ight  E x p re ss.....................................9:50 p m

Leaves. 
1:00 p  m 
6:15 p m 
10:30 p  m 
8:45 a  m 
7:30 a m
6:50 a  m 
10:20 a  m 
3:45 p  m 
10:55 p m
tD aily , Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
D e tro it E xpress  le a v in g   6:50 a  m  h a s W a g n e r p a rlo r 
a n d  b u ffet c a r a tta c h e d , an d  E v en in g   E xpress lea v in g  
3:45 p m  h as p a rlo r c a r  a tta c h e d .  T hese tra in s  m ake 
d ire c t c o n n e ctio n  in  D e tro it fo r a ll p o in ts E ast.
E xpress lea v in g  a t   10:55  p  m   h as  W a g n e r  sleep in g  
c a r to  D e tro it, a rriv in g  in D e tro it  a t  7:20 a  m .
S te am b o at  E xpress  m ak e s  d ire c t  co n n e ctio n   a  
G rand H av en  w ith  ste a m b o a t fo r M ilw aukee, 
sleep in g  
a t 
tic k e ts 
D., G. H. A  M .R’y  offices, 23 M onroe St., a n d  a t  th e  depot.
J as. Cam pbell. C ity  P assen g e r A gent. 

sec u red  

b e rth s  

a n d  

c a r 

J no. W . Loun.fTrafflc M anager, D e tro it.

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

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

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

CHICAGO  & WEST MICHIGAN.

D E PA R T .

ARRIVE.

Mail and Express for Big Rapids, Lud- 
ington,  Manistee &;Traverse City..  *7:30  a m 
Express for Chicago and  Muskegon..  +9:00 a m
Fast Mail for Chicago........................ tl :00 p m
Express for Mnskegon and Hart........  +5:41  p m
Night Express for  Chicago  ............   *11:35  p m
Night Express for  Indianapolis__  *[11:35  p m
Mail  for  Big  Rapids,  Manistee  and
Traverse City  ..................................  +5:05 p m
Ex. for Grand Haven &  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............................+12:35 p m
Mail from Chicago and Muskegon  ..  +3:55  p m
Express from Grand Haven............... +5:50 p m
Fast Express from  Chicago  ..  ......... +10:15 p m
Ex. from  Muskegon and Pentwater..+ 5:50 p m 
Ex. from Baldwin and Traverse City.  +4:50 p m
Express from Traverse City...............*11:30 p m
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.  TDaily except 
Saturday.  +Daily except Monday.
Through chair  car  for  Chicago  on  9:00  a  m 
train;  no extra charge for seats.  Trains leaving 
Grand  Rapids  at  1:00  p  m  and 11:35 p  m  run 
through to  Chicago  solid.  Through  sleeping 
cars  between  Grand  Rapids  and  Chicago  on 
night  express  trains.  Through  combination 
sleeping and chair  car  between  Grand  Rapids 
and Indianapolis on night express trains.
Through sleeper between  Chicago  and  Trav- 
erseCity;  leaves Chicago 4:40 p m,  except  Sun­
day;  Grand Rapids, 11:30 pm ;  arrives  in  Trav­
erse City at 6 a m.  Leaves Traverse City at 6:15 
p m, except Saturday;  arrives in  Grand  Rapids 
at 11:30 p m;  Chicago 7:05am.
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.

Detroit, lansing &  northern.

Express for Saginaw and Bay City —   +6:55  a  m 
Mall for Lansing,Detroit  and East...  +7:25 a  m 
Express for Lansing, Detroit and East +1:00  p  m 
Mail for Alma, St. Louis and Saginaw  +4:10  p  m 
Fast Ex. for Detroit, New York, Boston*« :25 p m
Mail from Saginaw and  Bay City.  .. .+11:50 a  m 
Mail from Lansing, Detroit and  East. +12:05 a m 
Fast Express from Lansing and East.  *5:15 p  m 
Express from Lansing  and Detroit...  +9:50  p m 
Ex. from Saginaw, St. Louis and Almat 10:50 p m 
‘D aily. 
T he s h o rte s t lin e to  D e tro it a n d   th e   E ast.  E le g a n t 
p a r lo r c a rs betw een D e tro it  an d  G ran d  R apids. 
GRAND  RAPIDS  AND  REED ’S  LAKE  TIME  TABLE.
D aily tra in s  le a v e  U nion d e p o t a t  9,10.11 a  m ,  1 ,2 ,3 . 
4, 5, 6.7. 8, 9,10 p m .  S undays on ly —1:30,2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 
5,5:30 p  m.  D aily  tra in s   lea v e  R eed’s  L ak e  (A lger 
P a rk ) a t  9:30,10:30.11:30  a   m ,  1:30,2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 
7:30,3:30,9:30.10:30 p m .  S un d ay  tra in s —3,3,4 ,5 ,5 :3 0 , 
I p m .   F o r tic k e ts  an d  in fo rm a tio n .

tD a ily  e x c ep t Sunday.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

WM.  A. GAVETT, A c tin g  Gen. P ass. A gt.

1 5
Michigan ( Tbntfal

“ The Niagara Falls Route/*

D K P A RT.  ARRIVK
D e tro it E x p re ss......................................   7:20 a  m   10:00 p m
6 :0 0 p m
M ixed  ........................................................6 :3 0 a m  
D ay  E x p re ss...........................................11:55 a m   10:00 a m
•A tla n tic  A  Pacific E x p re ss.............. 11:15 p m  
6:00 a  m
New Y ork E xp ress................................ 5:40 p  m  
1:25 p m

tra in s  to  an d  fro m  D etro it.
E xpress to   a n d   fro m   D etro it.

•D ally.
All o th e r d a ily  e x c ep t Sunday.
S leeping  c a rs  ru n   on  A tla n tic   an d   Pacific  E xpress 
P a rlo r  c a rs ru n   on  D ay  E xpress  a n d   G ran d  R apid 
F rrd M. Brig g s. G en'l A gent, 85 M onroe St.
G. S. H aw kins, T ick e t A gent, U nion  D epot.
G ko. W . Munson, U nion T ic k e t Office, 67 M onroe St. 
O. W .R uoolbs.G . P .  A   T. A gent., C hicago.

OUTS for BOOM  EDITIONS

----OR----

P A M P H L E T S

For the best work, at  reasonable  prices, address

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

__________Grand  Rapids, Mich.__________

THE  GREAT

EDMUND B. DIKEMMN
WatGti f/laker 

s Jeweler,
44  GRNÄL  8T„
Grand Rapids  -  JIHgIi.

and all kinds of Produce.

,BEFORE  BUYING  GRATES!
L et  Circular and Testimonials.  S e n t   F r e e .
I  Economical,  Sanitary.  Cleanly  and  Artistic.
lALOINE  FIRE  PLACE.  GRAND RAPIDi, M10B. |

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

W Æ N TB D .

FRUIT,  BEANS 

DRINK

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

E A R L   B R O S . ,

Co m m issio n Mer c h a n ts

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

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

L IO N
COFFEE

A  True Combination  of  MOCHA, 
P ic tu r e   Card  G iv en
W ith every pound  package.  For 
Sale everywhere. Woolson Spice Co.,Toledo, 0.

JAVA and  RIO.

r | \ g î ç  * l i j f e
îj^LÊAOS 
Bov«/ 
S a f t ?  

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W o o d  a n iCTAl  FÏÏ*n it 0R£
GRAND RAPIOÎM ICH .’

T S E   M IC H IG A N   TEASESMAIST.

A d m itted   to   th e   B ar.

“Well, Thompson,  you look  smilingly 
happy  to-day,”  and  I  greeted  my  old 
friend with both hands.  “ Have  a  good 
situation now, 1 suppose?”
“Yes, indeed!  I  was  admitted  to the 
bar last week,” he replied.
“Why, bless  me!  I  had  no  idea  you 
were studying law!”
“Well—not—exactly—that, but  I  was 
admitted  behind  the  bar  of 
the  ‘Free 
Lunch’  at  $8  a  week.  See?”  And  he 
rapidly  moved  out  of  the reach  of  my 
cane.

N o t  Playing.

“I guess I have played every game that 
ever was,” remarked  a  white-whiskered 
man with a straw hot  on  to  a  traveling 
man on the cars.
“Ever  play bunko ?”  asked  the  trav­
eler,  in a spirit of mild jest.
“Well,” returned his new acquaintance, 
thoughtfully, “I wouldn’t hardly say that 
I played that game. 
I  went at it in such 
dog-goned  earnest  that  it  wasn't  what 
you would call  playin’.”

(Formerly Shriver, Weatherly &  Co.) 

CONTRACTORS  PO R

C alm iieil Iron  Cornice, 

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

Dealers in

and  Grates.

Weatherly  &  Pulte,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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•  MICH.

The records of the Grand  Rap­
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

F. J. DETTENTH ALER,

JOBBER  OF

Salt Fish

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. 

See Quotations in Another Column.

CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL  KINDS OF  WILD  GAME  SOLICITED.

CRACKERS, BISCUITS AND SWEETcGOODS.

Muskegon Cracker Co
Do  Coiecttoi  with  My  Cracker  Trust

L A R G E S T  V A R I E T Y  I N  T H E  S T A T E
457,  459,  461,  463  W.  WESTERN AVENUE, 
MUSKEGON,  MICH.

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PAID  TO  MAIL  ORDERS.

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

SEND  FOR  PRICE  LIST.

R IN D G B , B B R T S C H  &   CO.,

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

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.

El.  P u ritan o   Cigar.
TheFinestlOGentBigar

O N   E A R T H

MANUFACTURED  BY

DILWORTH  BROTHERS,

PITTSBURGH.

TRADE  SUPPLIED BY

I. M.  CLARK  &  HON,
Grand Rapids. 
BRADDOCK, BATEMAN  & CO., 
Bay  City.
-  Detroit.
T. E. BREVOORT, 

W M . SE A R S & CO.,

Gracker  Manufacturers,

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

S.  K.  BOLLES. 

E.  B.  D1KEMAN.

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

T7  CANAL  ST..  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

W h o le s a le   C igar  D ea lers.

«

T O S S   U P ! ”

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

