Michigan Tradesman.

VOL.  8.

GRAND  RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER 26,  1890.

NO.  375.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

For  Rent  by  Dunton  &  Bates,
A corner store on Cherry  Street.  One  of  the 
best locations in the city for a hardware  store.
A single store on Ionia  Street.  An  excellent 
location for a restaurant or harness shop.
A single or double corner store on South Divi­
sion St.  Good place for drug store and grocery.
Low  ren t  to  food  tenants.  DUNTON  A   BATES, 
Rooms 13 & 14  Widdicomb  B’ld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

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from bill of fare.

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GRAND  RAPIDS. MICH

Parties  having  beans  or  clover  seed 
for sale will find a purchaser,  if  samples 
and prices are right.

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In car lots.

We pay highest market  price  and  are 

always in the  market.

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MICH.

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GOOD CHEER SOAR

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Leading Wholesale Grocers keep it.

A  FRONTIER  STORE.

True  Story  of  the  Indian  Massacre in 

Minnesota.

V rlttbn for The Tradesman.

[c o n t in u e d  fr o m   l a st  WEEK.)

Sentinels were now stationed at points 
of  observation  in  the  store  and  quiet
reigned  over  the  anxious company. 
It 
was break  of  day the following morning 
when a company of Indians, estimated at
the time to have  been  not  less than 125 
in number, in full  war  dress  and  fully 
armed,  came  in  sight  from  the North­
east.  Many were mounted upon horses— 
evidently stolen—a few on  ponies,  while 
a greater number were on  foot,  and  all, 
without exception,  hurried  forward as if 
confident  of  their  superior  force  and 
power. 
It  is  not  necessary to add that 
every  man  in  that  small store was in a 
moment at his post of  duty  and  quietly 
awaiting  Magnussen’s  order.  When 
within 300 yards of the house  and  store, 
as if by preconcerted action, they quickly 
divided  into  two  companies,  one  party 
taking the  right  and  the  other the left 
and surrounded the  buildings.  After an 
apparent talk among themselves  for  ten 
or fifteen minutes,  dancing  and  yelling 
commenced, and soon the painted demons 
were seen with  flaming  wisps  of  grass, 
running to the house and  barns.  Know­
ing it would be impossible to  save  those 
buildings and contents  from  destruction 
at their hands, no  hostile movement was 
yet made against them.  As  soon  as  the 
fires were well under  way,  so  that they 
lighted up the entire  farm,  with hideous 
song and yell, a grand rush of the Indians 
was  at  once  made  upon  both the front 
and rear of the store.  To the dismay of 
the inmates,  axes and ladders  were  seen 
among  them.  Magnussen  had  foreseen 
their movements and divined  their  pur­
pose, and  had  withdrawn  nearly  every 
man from the sides  of  the  building  and 
massed them  at  each  end. 
Shot  guns 
were ordered used instead  of  rifles  and, 
as there were ten  loop  holes at each end 
of the store,  it will be seen that even one 
volley might do  considerable  execution. 
The women  were  brave  under  the  cir­
cumstances  and  were  directed  to  load 
and hand the extra guns as fast as others 
were discharged.  Each man was ordered 
to  make  sure  of  one  Indian,  whether 
others were wounded or not, so as to thin 
their ranks as rapidly as possible.  When 
once started, the savages came on like an 
avalanche and,  when  within  twenty-five 
feet of the building, Magnussen gave the 
order to fire.  A  few  of  the guns were 
double-barreled  and  the  execution  was 
fearful. 
In  less  time  than I can write 
it, half as many more guns were in place 
of those  discharged  and  another  volley 
went forth at still  closer range.  By this 
time two ladders were placed against the 
sides of the store, but for a few  minutes 
every Indian was  shot  down who set his 
foot  upon  it.  The  ladders  were then 
pushed up hard against the walls  of  the 
building  and,  of  course,  out  of  reach 
from the  loop  holes,  and  two  Indians 
held  them  in  place  while  two or three 
passed  up  safely  to  the roof,  but  still 
others were killed or crippled and fell to

the ground.  The few upon the roof were 
now heard endeavoring to cut through  it 
with their axes.  At this  crisis,  the  In­
dians,  who had fired one  volley  at  each 
end of the building without  any damage 
to the inmates  except badly—though not
seriously—wounding four or  five  at  the
loop holes, now hastily withdrew.  Loaded 
rifles had taken the  place  of  shot  guns 
inside the little fortress and a murderous 
fire was poured  into  the  savages  while 
gathering  up  and  carrying  away  their 
wounded.  Language could hardly depict 
the  surprise  of  the  Indians  at  such a 
deathly reception as  they had met at the 
store,  as they had no idea that more than 
four or five  men  were  in  the  building, 
which they considered  an easy and valu­
able prize, expecting,  as they did,  to fur­
nish  themselves  with  any  number  of 
guns and ammunition and  all  the  other 
goods  they  desired.  They  had  found 
more  than  they  bargained  for  and,  as 
soon as possible,  left  the place, carrying 
their ladders and axes but  burying  none 
of  their  dead.  The  number  of  badly 
wounded being  large,  a small party hav­
ing  them  in  charge  started  back  with 
them from the  way they came,  while the 
main body left  in  another  direction  for 
other scenes  of  destruction  and  death. 
No one ventured outside  the little garri­
son  for  hours  afterward,  but they were 
then enabled  to  count  twenty-six  dead 
Indians  and,  from  the  appearance  of 
their  wounded,  it  was  thought  half as 
many more would die.  No families dared 
leave for their homes  until  four  or  five 
days had elapsed. 
In the meantime, hos­
tile bands were  seen  at  a  distance, and 
one that ventured too near  was  peremp­
torily ordered to leave, which it did upon 
counting  the  number  of  guns  peeping 
from the loop holes.

Carl Magnussen never  rebuilt his once 
comfortable  borne.  Having  an  oppor­
tunity to dispose of  his  property during 
the winter of 1862-3, he  and  his  family 
moved farther West,  settling  in the then 
new territory of Nebraska.  Two months 
after quiet was restored and  most of  the 
refugees  had  returned  to  their farms— 
the  buildings  had  generally  been  de­
stroyed—what was the surprise  of  Mag­
nussen, one  day,  to  see  Chief  Charley, 
Shoojohn and Swiftwind enter  his  store 
and, after  greeting  him  kindly, inform 
him it was they who had driven away all 
his stock from the farm  on  the  evening 
preceding  the  general  massacre  of  the 
whites,  knowing,  as  they did,  that every 
animal would  have  been  killed  if they 
had not done  so.  They  had  vainly  en­
deavored to  make  themselves  known to 
him at the time, by  displaying  a  flag of 
truce  (peace),  by  standing  ont  singly 
against  the  horizon, etc., but  all  to  no 
purpose.  He was further informed that 
all his animals were  at  that  moment  in 
the keeping of a farmer  in  Clay county, 
in Northern Iowa,  and  that a small  sum 
of  money  would  redeem  them.  They 
knew Magnussen’s goodness of heart and 
were  his  true  friends,  although he had 
not dared to trust them. 
It  is  but  just 
to Magnussen to add that upon regaining 
his  stock  his  Indian  friends were most

The  supposed  canse  of 

2
liberally and  substantially remembered.
this  Indian 
massacre, so far as known, may be briefly 
stated  and  our  story  is  ended:  The 
United States Government  had promised 
to pay  the  Indians  for  their  lands  in 
specie and,  after the  declaration  of  war 
with the South,  it was  found  impossible 
to make all public payments in  coin  and 
paper money was made by an act of Con­
It  is  questionable 
gress a legal tender. 
whether  the  Government  intended 
to 
include  annuities  to  the  Indians,  also. 
Be that as it  may, the  first  year  of  the 
war the Indians were paid,  as  formerly, 
in specie. 
In 1862,  for some  reason  un­
known  to  the  writer, there was a delay 
from time to time in the annual  payment 
which should have occurred in the month 
of May.  The Indians, as  usual,  were  in 
debt and supposed that in obtaining addi­
tional credit—and  what  was liable to be 
the  case—they  would  really  pay  more 
than they ought for goods.  Besides, they 
had promised to  pay the merchants with j 
whom they dealt at stipulated times and, 
as  any  honest  people  should  be,  were 
j ustly indignant at delays from the Great 
Father  of a  great  country.  They  only 
wanted  what  was  justly theirs, for  the 
purpose of paying their just debts.  Can 
we blame them ?

When,  at  last,  Mr.  Thompson, 

the 
agent  at  St.  Paul,  was  called  upon  to 
explain, it is said he appointed  an  early 
day, and when the  Indians  were  assem­
bled and one of  the old chiefs was called 
forward and his  money tendered in bank 
notes, he  promptly handed it back,  with 
the remark,  “Injun  take no rag money.” 
They were then promised the specie, pro­
vided they were  patient  in  waiting,  but 
there  came  a  day  when  they  believed 
“ patience  had  ceased  to  be  a virtue.” 
The history of that  time  strongly  hints 
that emissaries of the  rebel  government 
in  the  South  deliberately  fanned  the

already  feeble  flames  of  revolt  in  the 
Indian heart,  through a spirit of revenge, 
but,  for the good name of Americans and 
the innocent victims of  the slaughter,  it 
is to be hoped  that  such dastardly coun­
sel  was never given.  Many of  the chief 
leaders  in  the  massacre  were arrested, 
given  an  impartial 
trial,  pronounced 
guilty of premeditated murder in its most 
inhuman form,  and some twenty or thirty 
of them were executed by hanging, while 
as many more were placed  in  prison  for 
life.

While it is true that the  spirit  of  the 
age is  aggressive  toward  the  red  man, 
who was once the original  owner  of  the 
land,  let us do him the justice to say that 
when dealt with equitably,  he is  not  the 
infamous cut-throat our people have pic­
tured him.  Only one important treaty is 
on record where both parties acted strictly 
honorably; and, perhaps, the  true  broth­
erly kindness toward Magnussen deserves 
a like record. 
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THW  M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

POOR  PENMANSHIP.

W ritten (or Thh Tradibmah.

Of all the branches of edacation taught 
in onr public schools, the  least attention 
is paid to chlrography.  Special teachers 
are often employed—not all of them good 
writers in the broad  sense  which  is  de­
manded of a teacher—yet their pupils  as 
men or women do not  write either  beau­
tiful or readily legible  letters.  Not  all 
who write well can teach others  the  art. 
Imparting  what  we  know  to  others  is 
.strictly the province of  all teachers,  and 
any branch  they  are  unable  to  impart 
they should abandon. 
It would  seem  as 
if the tyranny of fashion had much to do 
with  writing  and  that  the  reader  was 
supposed to have attended and graduated 
at a  guessing  school  before  he  entered 
upon the business of real life,  for we find 
in  numberless  instances  he  is  left  no 
other  alternative  than  to  guess  at  the 
contents  of  a  document. 
public opinion that it is  generally found 
to be the reader (and  not  the  writer  of 
such  scrawls)  who  is  laughed  at  and 
viewed  with  disrespect.  Almost  every 
young man or  young woman,  graduating 
from a district school and  desiring to en­
ter a business service,  is  found  serving 
an extra term or  year  at  some  business 
college,  partially or  wholly  on  purpose 
to obtain a better knowledge  of  writing. 
This should not be, and I  ask,  “Why  Is 
it?” for I cannot  answer  my  own  ques­
tion.

Such 

I think every reader will  bear me wit­
ness in the assertion that there was never 
a period in their  remembrance  when  so 
large a percentage of  people were  really 
poor writers. 
It is  no  apology  to  say 
that some one else can read It. 
It should 
be so plain that  a  person  who  can  de­

cipher ordinary  writing can read it read 
ily.  All  admire  beautiful  writing,  but 
seldom have a word of  praise for its  au­
thor. 
If  it be  said  that  in  this  age  of 
haste we cannot afford the time  to  write 
well, I  reply,  How  about  affording  the 
time it will take to read it?  One thing  I 
do notice, that if a merchant  is  in  want 
of  a clerk  where  much  writing  is  done, 
the one who writes a good  plain  hand— 
all  other  things  being  equal—will  have 
the first choice of position. 
If otherwise 
great  and  brilliant  men  or women write 
a  barely  legible  hand,  it  is  no  credit to 
them,  and  I  trust  no  one  will  imitate a 
Greeley’s  writing,  expecting  by so doing 
either  to follow in his footsteps or attain 
his  fame,  as  in  all  other  respects  they 
might be disappointed. 

Ob ser v er.

The Honest Farmer Again.

From the Detroit News.
A  Bay  City  groceryman  tested  the 
youthfulness of eggs about to be  bought 
by  shaking  them.  A  wise  old  farmer 
stood the rule  for  one  box,  smiled  be­
nignly,  and carried  about  half  of  them 
home.  The next day  the  same  farmer 
appeared  with  another  box,  and  the 
shaking test failed to rattle a single  egg. 
But the groceryman was rattled  later  in 
the day,  when a lady sent back  a  basket 
saying  she  wanted  raw  eggs  and  not 
boiled ones.  The honest farmer  is  still 
at large.

A Good  Substitute.

Customer (to small boy in the  grocery) 
—Have you  any good West India  molas­
ses?

Boy (who had been  told  when  out  of 
any article  to endeavor to sell something 
as nearly resembling it as possible)—No, 
sir; but  we  have  some  excellent  North 
American tar!

BANKRUPT SALE

b o u g h t  

O f  S p o r tin g   G oods.
H a v in g  

s t o c k   o f  
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lO O   M o n r o e   S t.,  o f   t h e  
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b e l o w   w h o l e s a l e   p r ic e s .  A v a i l   y o u r s e lv e s   o f
t h is   o p p o r t u n it y .

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SEEDSMAN  AND

Fruit Commission Merchant•

We are direct receivers of  CALIFORNIA  and  FLORIDA ORANGES  and  are  headquarters 

make you a satisfactory price.

for BANANAS all the year round.  The leading features in our line just now are

Parties having Clover Seed and Beans  to  offer  please mail samples and we will endeavor to 

THE  ALFRED  BROWN  SEED  STORE,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Cranberries,  Crapes,  California  Emit,  Bananas,  Oranps,  Etc.,  Etc.
SEEDS
GRAIN

W . H .  M O R E H O U S E & C O
GRAIN, CLOVER andTIMOTHY
Red Top, 
Hungarian, 
Millet,  Alfalfa  or  Lucerne,  Blue Grass, 
Orchard Grass, Lawn Grass, POPCORN,etc.

CHOICE  CLOVER  and  TIMOTHY  SEEDS 

Orders  (or  purchase  or  sale  of  Seeds  (o r  (uture  delivery 
W arehouses—325 A 327 Erie St.  i  TUI v illi  lim n  
Office—46  Produce  Exchange.!  TOLEDO.  OHIO.

prom ptly attended to.  Correspondence solicited. 

Wholesale Dealers in

White Clover, 

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a specialty.

Mention  this  paper.

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

CoMim and Frits, Nits and Cigars,

JOBBER  OF

412  SOUTH  DIVISION  ST.

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.______

P E R K I N S   &
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

T * T   TV I  r—V
■xTIXa  J 2 j

DEALERS IN

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

WF  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  i’AKR TALLOW FOR  MTT.T.  USE_____________

WANTED!

P o ta to e s   a n d   O n io n s 

in  

C a r   E o ts .

G R A N D   R A P ID S   F R U IT   A N D   P R O D U C E   CO.,
W M .  H .  T H O M P S O N  &  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

WHOLESALE

C O M M IS S IO N   M E R C H A N T S .

SPECIALTY

P O T A T O  E SI

No.  166 8outh;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.___________________________

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

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

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

All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

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

20, 28, 30 and 32 O ttaw a  St., 

pleased to hear from yon.
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GRAND  RAPJJ  ?

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.

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

AMONG THE  TRADE.

ABOUND  T H E   STA TE.

Saginaw—Carl Andreas,  druggist,  has 

been closed on chattel mortgage.

Minden  City—Geo.  Wade,  dealer  in 

agricultural  inplements,  has resigned.

Marshall—Frank  B.  Snyder  succeeds 
Snyder & Prior in the furniture business.
North  Star—Geo.  F.  Hoisington  has 
sold his general stock to Mrs.  R. C. Gard­
ner.

Frankfort—Arthur  K.  McMullen  has 
sold  his  hardware  stock  to  Chas.  D. 
Driggs.

Saginaw—-Weil,  Martin  &  Fish  suc­
ceed S. Weil  &  Co.  in  the  commission 
business.

Springport—The Co-operative  P.  of  1. 
Association is being organized on a stock 
company  basis  to  engage  in  general 
trade.

Big  Rapids—Jas.  K.  Sharp’s  grocery 
store has been closed on chattel mortgage 
held by 1.  M.  Clark  &  Son  and  Darrah 
Bros.  & Co"

Holton—Dr. Peter Beyer has re-opened 
a drug and notion store at this place.  He 
still continues  in  the  drug  business  at 
Grandville.

Saginaw—Ground has been  broken for 
L.  H. Cornwall’s  new refrigerator build­
ing,  which will be one of  the finest of its 
kind in  Michigan.

Muskegon—Edwin R.  Ford has sold his 
interest in the grocery firm of  Christie & 
Co.  to his partner,  who will  continue the 
business  under  the  style of D. Christie.
Mancelona—H.  L.  Welling  recently
uttered six chattel mortgages on  his  dry 
goods  and  clothing  stock,  aggregating 
nearly $ 9 ,0 f0 ,  and  the  stock  is  now  in 
the hands of the sheriff.

Fremont—Jas.  P.  Odell  has  gone  to 
Ann  Arbor  to  pursue  a  course  in  the 
medical  department  of  the  University. 
His drug store is being  managed  in  the 
meantime by Dallas D.  Alton.

Kalamazoo—Wm.  Brownell  has  pur­
chased the grocery stock of T. A. Palmer, 
and will continue the  business at the old 
stand.  He will also  continue  the  same 
business at his down-town stand.
M A N U FA CTU RIN G   M ATTERS.

Standish—James Norn has  shut  down 
his sawmill for  repairs,  which  will  in­
clude a battery of boilers.

Owosso—The  Eureka  Cement  Co.  has 
incorporated under the  same  style,  with 
an authorized capital stock of $100,000.

Grand Ledge—The  Grand  Ledge  Tile
Co. Is making  arrangements  to  increase 
its capital stock from $10,000  to  $25,000.
St.  Helen—Henry Stephens  &  Co.  are 
extending their logging  railroad  several 
miles.  The route is now being surveyed.
Detroit—The Baugh  Steam  Forge  Co. 
is succeeded  by  the  Michigan  Forge  & 
Iron Co.,  with a paid in capital of  $250,- 
000.

Union City—C.  W.  Johnson  has  been 
induced to remove his stave factory from 
Coldwater to this  place  by  reason  of  a 
$6,000 bonus.

Kalkaska—C. B.  Shaver has completed 
his lumbering contract,  having  handled 
48,000,000 feet  of  logs  during  the  past 
eighteen months.

Detroit—The Berlin Weissbeer Co. has 
been  incorporated  with  $10,000  capital, 
$3,000 being paid in.  The  stockholders 
are  George  Stroh,  Adolph  and  George 
Osius and M.  Wigener.

Bay City—The Robinson Salt  &  Lum­
ber Co.’s mill,  which has been  idle  some 
time,  has  resumed  operations,  and  is

sawing for  S.  G.  M.  Gates.  The  Peters 
lumber on the docks  of  this  concern  is 
being shipped.

Marion—F.  E.  Stanley,  who  formerly 
operated a small  sawmill  at  Millington,
| has  purchased  mill  machinery  and  is 
] putting up a  mill  in  Marion  township, 
j  where he owns a tract  of  timber. 
It  is 
on the line of the Toledo, Ann Arbor and 
North Michigan.

Detroit—Munger,  Freeman  & Co.  have 
been incorporated with  $250,000  capital,
| $150,000 being paid in.  Sidney D.  Miller 
holds 10,000 shares  of  stock,  S. A.  Mun­
ger,  John  Freeman  and  D.  C.  Lamater 
1,500 shares each,  and  H.  S.  Sibley  500 
shares.  The  company  succeeds  S.  A. 
Munger & Co.  in the  wholesale hardware 
business.

The officers of  the Grand Rapids Trav- 
I eling Men’s Association have selected the 
I following  committees  to  serve  on  the 
| occasion of the sixth annual social party, 
on Dec.  12:

Reception—L.  M.  Mills, Manley Jones, 
John  C.  Utman,  W.  Fred  Blake,  D.  S. 
Haugh,  Jas.  A.  Massie,  R.  D.  Warner, 
Chas.  S.  Remington,  Albert  C.  Antrim, 
John C. Kenning, John Fell, R. J. Coppes, 
A.  H.  Nichols, Wm.  B.  Edmonds.

Introductory — Geo.  F.  Owen,  Wm. 
Logie,  J. N. Bradford,  Fred  W.  Powers, 
S. A.  Sears,  A. B. Cole,  H.  Baker,  J. B. 
Mclnnes.

Floor—H. S.  Robertson,  Chas.  S. Rob­

inson, Chas.  M.  McLain, A.  D. Baker.

Door—W. H. Jennings, W. G. Hawkins, 

Thos. Ferguson,  J. B. Tanner.

The  Ionia  street  armory  has  been  se­
cured  for  the  occasion.  Wurzburg  & 
Bronson  will furnish the music.

Behind the Bars.

Justice has  finally overtaken a portion 
of  the  disreputable gang  of  mercantile 
plunderers who  have  made  their  head­
quarters at Mulliken.  D.  E.  Hallenback 
and J.  H. Wasson  have  each  been  sen­
tenced to one year at the Ionia  House  of 
Correction and Justice of  the Peace Dar- 
kin,  who appears to have  been  the  ring 
leader  of  the  gang,  goes  to Jackson for 
two years.  These sentences grow out  of 
the swindling  operations  of  the  trio at 
North  Branch,  Lapeer  county. 
It  is 
understood that other charges, equally as 
serious, will be  preferred  against  them 
on the  expiration  of  their  present sen­
tences.

Good  Words  Unsolicited, 

j. K. Wylie & Bro., general  dealers, Richland: 

•‘It is money well invested.”

W. R. Dennis & Co.,  wholesale  hats  and  fur­
nishing goods, Kansas City:  “It  is  a  welcome 
visitor.”

VISITING
ith A  Bristol. Ada 
gensen & Hemiogsen,
Ashland
[ K ilm artin A  Son.
Orange
Walker. Glen Arbor 
W hite. Base H irer 
1 Rice. Croton 
Thurkow, Morley 
un Newell, Bu m i p’sCors
> D Van Vranken,
Cadillac 
7 Fenton. Bailey 
»1er Bros., Rockford 
Rotsford, Dorr 
J Johnson,T rarrse Ci’y 
tk VerMenlen, Bea ver Dam 
W ait. H udsonrille 
F Nagler, Howard City 
r Mead, Berlin 
il J Tanis. Muskegon 
Idea A Hire, Hastings 
[eintzleman,  Lyon 
ran Noord,  Jamestown 
l H erder  A  Tanis,
Jddering. Drenthe 
) E Barley, Canada C on 
Thomas,  Cannonsburg 
R. Lawton, Berlin 
&r Dendel, Hopkins 
roiwg, Ravenna 
Runnels, Com ing 
Id A  Ballard. Sparta
> H arris. Shelby ville 
Fitch, Way laud 
allegan A Pickaard,
Forest Grove 
>p Bros. A M artindale,
K alkaska
9 Schichtel .New Salem

Vriesland 

BUYERS,
M M inderhout, Hanley 
M Heyboer A Bro., Oakland 
A Lahuis, Zeeland 
John G unstra. Lamont 
H Bakker A  Son, Drenthe 
W W atson. Parm alie 
G F Cook. Grove 
J McPherson, Lowell 
D H Decker, Zeeland 
N Bouma. Fisher Station 
Mills A Mills, Ashland 
John Damstra,  Gitcbell 
W McWilliams, Conklin 
H Meijering, Jamestown 
M J  B utler, Sand Lake 
B Gilbert A  Co., Moline 
D F W atson, Ada 
A M Church, Englishville 
P Voorhorst, Overisel 
John  De Vries, Jamestown 
P  Bresnahan, Parnell 
Barber Bros, Harbor Spr'gs 
Dan Horton,  Remus 
T 8 Jordon.  Elm ira 
Carlson Bros. G ilbert 
H B Hanlon, Middleville 
D M Skidmore,  Alto 
J  L Purchase, Bauer 
Geo A Sage, Rockford 
E E Hewitt, Rockford 
C B Johnson. Palo 
E Hagedorn  Fife 
E  White, Lee 
John Baker, Chauncey 
Rhodes A  Leonard, H art 
Gus Begman, Bauer 
W alling Bros., Lam ont 
DeVoist Bros., Alba 
K E Adams, Morley 
S titt A Sanford, H art

NEW  DEPARTURE.

—

1 Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.  Specialize  An­

other Important Department.

Foster,  Stevens & Co.  are  now  receiv­
ing from Chicago the  stock  and  fixtures 
I of C.  B. James, who for several years has 
carried on a large business in machinists’ 
supplies and carpenter tools  at  98  Lake 
street.  Mr.  James,  desiring to go to the 
Pacific  Coast, offered  his  stock  and  fix­
tures at a bargain which  Foster,  Stevens 
& Co.  took advantage of,  as they  desired 
pushing and  developing  this  branch  of 
their business.  They have  also secured 
the services of  Mr. E.  B. James,  who has 
been with  his*father ever since he started 
and is thoroughly posted ou  tools  of  all 
kinds.  Mr. James  will  have  charge  of 
this line of gaods,  and very  soon  Foster, 
Stevens  &  Co.  will  issue  an  exclusive 
machinists’ supply and tool catalogue for 
distribution to the trade  and  mechanics. 
Mr. C.  B. James did a large  business  all 
over  the  United  States  with  machine 
shops and factories, all of  which Foster, 
Stevens & Co.  will try and hold.

In speaking of  this  purchase,  Foster, 
Stevens & Co. say that while they carried 
the largest  line  of  carpenter  tools  and 
machinists’  supplies  of  auy  house  in 
Grand  Rapids,  and  had  a  very  large 
trade, they felt the necessity  of  increas­
ing their assortment and placing this  de­
partment  in  charge  of  an  experienced 
salesman.

Association Notes.

Owosso Times: 

Allegan  Gazette:  “H.  II.  Pope  will  tell  the 
Michigan Business Men's  Association, in Grand 
Rapids next week ‘What I know about oil wells.’ 
It is safe to say the paper will not be a dull one.”
“There is a possibility that a 
large foundry  and  machine  shop  may  soon be 
established  in  Owosso.  The  Manufacturing 
Committee  of  the  Business  Men’s Association 
has had  correspondence  with  a  first-class  firm 
looking to that end.  The matter will be decided 
within a few days.”
Referring  to  the  convention,  Ex-President 
Hamilton writes:  “I am desirous that  our  con­
vention on the 25th should be well attended and 
I propose  to  make  every  effort  to  have one or 
more delegates  from  our  surrounding  associa­
tions attend. 
I  am  in  receipt  of a letter from 
President Whitney, urging  a  full attendance of 
the Executive Board and asking for co-operation 
in securing a full meeting.  Our delegates have 
already been appointed and I think you  will see 
the full number present.  I have  sometimes  re­
gretted that the above date was selected, but the 
fact of the convention being held in a city where 
our business men are coming and going so often 
and where every merchant  finds  both  pleasure 
and profit, will, I hope,  secure  us  a  full  atten­
dance.  The local associations should remember 
the good done in the past,  and  send full delega­
tions  to  represent  them.  The  programme is a 
good one and it promises an enjoyable occasion. 
1 hope all members will feel  the  importance  of 
the meeting and turn out in full.”

FOR SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

119

110

tory.  O. H. Richmond A  Co., Orand Rapids, Mich.

business;  established six years;  will  sell  a tin v e n . 

I TOR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  AND  FIXTURE8—GOOD 
ITOR SALE—A  SPOT CASH  CLOTHING  AND  GENT’S 

furnishing goods  business  in a   live  town of 2,000 
population;  factories  pay ont  regularly  every  week 
in  wages  $2,500;  only  clothing  store  in  town;  rent 
$150 a   year;  stock will  inventory  $4,000 by 1st of  De­
cember:  good  reasons  for  selling.  W rite a t  once to 
M.  8. ROGAN,  Otsego, Allegan Co.. Mich. 

Desirable business forisale at a bargain—a

$7,000 stock of dry goods, well  selected  and  well 
arranged, with a well established patronage of tw enty 
years’  standing;  best  location  in  St.  Johns, a   lively 
town of 2,500  population  and  one of  th e  best  county 
seats in Michigan f >r general trade.  For  inform ation 
apply to W. Bunday, St. Johns, Mich. 

Michigan Tradesm an. 

Savings  Bank.  Address  No.  147,  care  Michigan 

Hazeltlne A  Perkins Drug Co. a t 105.  No. 140, care 

F or  s a l e - t w e n t y   shares  stock  in  the
F OR SALE—BLOCK OF  STOCK IN  THE  PEOPLES’ 
F or  sale- ooo  shares  full  paid  stock

American Eagle Tobacco Company a t 15 p er  cent, 
UST  BE  SOLD  ON  ACCOUNT  OF  FAILING 
health, a  No. 1 stock of boots, shoes and rubbers, 
groceries  and  provisions;  best 
iocation  and  good 
trade;  easy term s and a big bargain.  For  particulars 
see Rindge, Bertsch & Co., Olney &  Judson Grocer Co., 
Grand Rapids, o r address Lock Box 25, H arbor Springs, 
Mich._________________________________________ 143

discount.  Wm.  S.  Hopkins,  St.  Clair,  Mich. 

ITOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE — A  GOOD  HOME  IN 

1  C harlotte for grocery stock; any location  Address 

J. D. Burkhead, 594 South Madison, Grand Rapids. 142 

Tradesman. 

147

140

148

US

139

135
13«

giac. Mich. 

LOTHING MEN—ATTENTION—NEW  STÖBE  VERY 
centrally located in one  of  the  sm artest  villages 
in  Michigan  can  be  had  for  the  clothing  business; 
rent reasonable.  Address  139,  care  Michigan  Trades­
m an. 

■ OR  SALE—WELL-SELECTED  DRUG  STOCK  AND 

new  fixtures  in  desirable  location  in  th is  city; 
will sell  a t  invoice  on  reasonable  term s;  reason  for 
selling,  owner  has  o ther  business.  L.  M.  Mills,  64 
South Ionia street,  Orand Rapids. 

F OR SALE—SHOE  8TO 3K.  J.  E.  FOSTER,  DOWA- 
WANTED—TO  PURCHASE  STOCK  OF  MERCHAN- 

dise, hardw are, groceries, boots and shoes;  send 

particulars.  Address Box 67, Salem, Neb. 
r p o   EXCHANGE—I  HAVE  $40.tf0  IN  FARMS  AND 
X   city  property  to  exchange  for  m erchandise  in 
stocks of $1,000 or  upwards.  G. W. W atrous,  Lansing, 
Mich. 

tures;  stock well  assorted  can  be  bought  a t  a 
bargain.  Address for  particulars  3. P. Hicks,  Lowell, 
Mich,__________________________________________124

FOR SALE—A COMPLETE  DRUG STOCK  AND F ix ­
ITOR SALE—$300 STOCK  OF DRUGS.  ADDRESS J. B.. 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
115
F or sale—stock  of  hardware  and  build-
lng in the best town of  N orthern  Michigan.  Ad­
96
dress No. 96, care Michigan Tradesman. 
ANTED—I HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  PAY  FOR  A 
general  or  grocery stock;  must be cheap.  Ad­

dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman.___________ 26

130

137

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

TT7-ANTED—SITUATION  IN  GROCERY  BY  AN  EX 
VY  perienced  grocery  clerk  twenty-one  years  old; 
best  of  references.  Address  No.  144,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
144
■ ANTED—POSITION  BY  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
cist;  four  years’  practical  experience.  Address 
141
Box 170. Bangor, Mich. 
WANTED — SITUATION  IN  OFFICE  BY  YOUNG 

lady of 20, who  has  had  the  advantage  of  col­
legiate education;  does n ot  w rite  short  hand,  but  is 
good penman; wages i o t so m uch an object as a  pleas­
a n t place to work.  Address Z,  care Michigan  Trades 
m an  ________________________________________ 122

MISCELLANEOUS.

WANTED—6,000 BU8HELS OF NEW CLOVER SEED;

state price  and  how  much  you  have  for  sale. 

Gooding A Son. Gooding, Mich. 

133

OR SALE  OR  RENT—A  NICE  BRICK  STORE  IN 
the village of  Morrice;  size  of  store,  25x60 feet; 
insurance low;  good opening for general  store.  Call 
on o r address B. F. R ann & Son, Morrice, Mich. 

BOLISH  THE  PASS BOOK  AND  SUBSTITUTE THE 
Tradesman  Oonpon,  which is now in use by over 
6,000  Michigan  m erchant»—all  of  whom are  w arm  in 
praise  of  its  effectiveness.  Send  for  sample  order, 
which  will  be  sent  prepaid  on  receipt  of  $1.  The 
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.
QAMPLES OF TWO  KINDS  OF  COUPONS  FOR  RE- 
O  
t&ilers  will  be  sent free  to  any dealer  who  will 
write for them  to  the  SutUff  Coupon  Pass  Book  Co., 
Albany. N. Y. 

121 

604

R E D  T h e   m o s t   e ff e c tiv e   C o u g h   D r o p   in

i  the  market  Sells  the
q u ic k e s t   a n d   p a y s   t h e

Grand Rapids, Mich

MANUFACTURED  BY

A. E. BROOKS & 0 0 .
The Fine  Line  of  Gandy  in  the  State.
F*. 

C O U G H   t h e m   T r y
D R O r S
OYSTERSP.  B.
The  packing  and  distributing  ot  FRESH  OYSTERS  among  the  trade in 
I Michigan  is one of the features of qur business,  and  from  September  first  to  the 
I 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.

B . 

T H E   P U T N A M   C A N D Y   C O . .

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

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In theDealer’s OwnHands.
D ead-beats,

In our opinion the three chief drawbacks of the retail  trade are

P e d d le rs a n d

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Jas.  Kilmartin has opened a meat  mar­

ket at 999 South Division street.

E.  Baker  has  removed  his  grocery 
stock from 490 Turner street to  the  hay- 
market, on Canal  street.

Perkins  &  Co.  succeed 

the  Grand 
Rapids Machinery Co.  in  the  manufact­
ure of universal trimmers.

C. M. Woodard,  bazaar  dealer  at  the 
corner of  Coit  avenue  and  Fifth street, 
has added a line of notions.  P.  Steketee 
& Sons furnished the stock.

Hester &  Fox  have  sold  a  seventeen 
horse-power engine  and  boiler  to  Wm. 
H.  Pettit & Co.,  who  are  manufacturing 
baby carriages on the west side.

Cheney & Barnhart, dealers in  lumber 
and shingles at  19  Lyon street,  will  dis­
solve partnership  Jan.  1.  Each  partner 
will continue the business alone.

P.  Steketee & Sons  have taken posses­
sion of the store at 81 Monroe street, hav­
ing  refinished  the  interior  and  added 
electr'c lights and other modern improve­
ments.

R. Bos, who carried on the grocery busi­
ness nine years at corner of Jefferson and 
Wenham avenues, has concluded to locate 
at Orange City,  Iowa,  where  he  will em­
bark in the grocery  business.
•  The annual meeting of  the  Ball-Barn- 
hart-Putman Co.  was held  last  Monday. 
Fred H.  Ball was elected Secretary of the 
corporation, O.  A.  Ball  having  volunta­
rily relinquished that office to his son.

C.  H.  Rose  and  Jas.  Forbes  have 
formed a copartnership  under  the  style 
of  Rose  &  Forbes  and  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at Shelby.  The  Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
the 
stock.

furnished 

W.  F.  Nagler, formerly  engaged in  the 
drug business at Caledonia,  has  leased  a 
store at  Howard  City  and  will  open  a 
drug store there about Dec.  1.  The Haz- 
eltine & Herkins Drug Co.  is  putting  up 
the stock.

E. B.  Wright has leased the  factory  of 
the  Grand  Rapids  Refining  Co.  to  two 
former employes of  the  firm,  who  will 
continue the business.  He will  also  re­
tire from the Hogle  Oil  Co.  on  Jan.  1, 
when that business will be  continued, by 
Thos. C.  Hogle.

Foster,  Stevens &  Co.  have  purchased 
the stock of machinists’ supplies and car­
penter  tools  formerly  owned  by  C.  B. 
James,  at  Chicago,  and  have  removed 
the  same  to  this  city,  where it will  be 
incorporated in their already large stock. 
The  department  will  be  managed  by 
E. B. James,  a son of  the former propri­
etor,  who has been engaged for  the  pur­
pose and will give  it his exclusive atten­
tion.

A  Druggist’s  Protest.

Grand  Ra pid s,  N ov. 24—I  am  a drug­
g ist  and  have  never  gone  beyond  the 
legitim ate lim its of my business. 
I  have 
never sold  an  article  w hich  belongs  to 
the dry goods, grocery or hardw are dealer. 
Such being  the case, I deplore  the action 
of a certain dry  goods dealer  in  p utting 
in a line of goods foreign to the dry goods 
business—goods w hich belong to the drug 
trade  and ought never  to be sold  outside 
of  a drug store.  By prom ptly m eeting the 
prices  established  by  th eir  illegitim ate 
com petitor,  the  druggists  have  deprived 
him of any  advantage  in  an  advertising 
way and  he  has sim ply  added one  more 
line of goods  w hich  will  be sold  at  no 
profit,  which  is by  no means a  desirable

thing to do.  Perhaps  Mr. Spring  imag­
ines that  the  antagonism of a half  hun­
dred  druggists  will  help  his  business. 
If he does harbor  such  an opinion,  per­
haps the future  will  cause him  to  look 
at the matter  in an  altogether  different 
light.

South Div isio n.

Mr. Levi’s Ideas of a Carnival.

“Ex-Mayor Dikeman’s suggestion  as to 
a  carnival  in  last  week’s  T radesm an 
meets  my  hearty  approval,”  remarked 
1. C.  Levi,  the  other  day,  “ but I think 
that  fair  week  would  be a poor time to 
hold it.  The city is full  of  strangers  at 
that time and needs  no additional attrac­
tion.  The  most  advantageous  time  to 
hold a carnival,  in my opinion,  is  in  the 
month  of  May,  when  spring  trade has 
fairly begun and  the  people need an in­
centive to visit the city.  The expense of 
the parades, illumination, music and fire­
works  need  not  exceed  $2,000  for  six 
nights’ entertainment and the  merchants 
could  well  afford 
to  contribute  that 
amount for the sake  of  the  extra  trade 
the outside visitors would  give  them. 
I 
am  confident  the  furniture  and  other 
manufacturers would add to  the  attrac­
tiveness of the parade by a series of trade 
displays,  making the  event  one  long  to 
be  remembered.  The  experiment  is 
worthy of a trial,  at all events.”

Another Enormous  Combine.

Twenty-five reaper  and  mower  facto­
ries have pooled  their  issues  under  the 
style  of  the  American  Harvester  Co., 
which  has  been  organized  at  Chicago 
with a capital  stock of  $¡15,000,000.  The 
new company is not a trust,  but  an  actu­
al consolidation, all the firms losing their 
identity in the  new  corporation. 
It  is 
claimed that this move  will  allow  a  re­
duction of  price  in  the  harvesters  and 
also of binding twine.  The capacity  of 
the new corporation will be about 150,000 
mowers and binders annually.  Increased 
profits are expected to be made  by a cur­
tailment of  agents and agency expenses, 
especially  at  the  principal  distributing 
markets in foreign countries.

FINANCIAL.

L ocal  S to ch   Q uotations. 
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 C o ................... 115
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 C o .................................. 80
Peninsular  Club 4 per cent. Bonds...................75

Financial  Miscellany.

The oldest bank note of which we have 
any  record  was  issued  in  China as far 
back  as  2697 B. C.
The Distillers and  Cattle  Feeders’ Co. 
has  declared  a  monthly  dividend of  % 
per cent., payable Dec. 1.

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

C o m b in atio n  Goods.

The Dead-beat can  be avoided by giving no credit; 

the Peddler can  be ostra­
cized by enforcing the State law;  and goods not controlled  by  trusts and combina­
tions can be obtained by  dealing  with  our  house.  Every dealer,  therefore,  has it 
in his own hands to curtail the abuses which serve to make retail trade unprofitable.
Tolfoi*  S p io e  C om p an y ,
F. J.  D E T T E N T H A L E R ,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

JOBBER  OF

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. 

See Quotations in Another Column.

CONSIGNMENTS OF  ALL  KINDS  OF  WILD  GAME  SOLICITED.

T h e  P   B.  Cough  D ro p s

H AVE  NO  EQUAL. 

SOLD  EVERYW H ERE. 

MANUFACTURED  B Y

PU T N A M   C A N D Y   GO.

T h e   P .  B.  C ou gh   D ro p s

A R E   PURE,  CLEAN  AND  H IG H LY MEDICATED.  MANUFACTURED B Y

PU T N A M   C A N D Y   CO.

EL  P u rita n o   Cigar.
The Finest 10 GgntGigar

ON  E A R T H .

MANUFACrURED  BY

DILWORTH  BROTHERS

'  PITTSBURGH.

TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY

I.  M.  CLARK  &  SON,

Grand Rapids.
BRADDOCK, BATEMAN  & CO., 
___  
Bay  City.

C U R T I S S   &   CO.,

WHOLESALE

Paper  Warehouse.

FLOUR SACKS,  GROCERY  BAGS,  TWINE  AND WOODEN  WARE.

Houseman  Block, 

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

6

D ry  Goods*

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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shorts.  8kl 

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

“ ‘No,’  she  said. 

“ T aking  a n   In te re s t.”

Clifton CCC...........6k
Atlantic  A..............7
“  Arrow Brand 5k 
“  H.................   63£
“  World Wide.. 7
*• 
P ..............6
“  LL...............   5
D................6k
“ 
Pull Yard Wide...... 6k
“  LL................   5k
Honest Width.........  6k
Amory.................... 714
Hartford A  ............   5k
Archery  Bunting--.  4k 
Madras cheese cloth 6k
Beaver Dam  A A ...  5k 
Noibe R..................5k
Blackstone O, 32 —   5
Our Level  Best......6k
Black  Bock  ...........7
Oxford  B ..............  6k
Boot, AL................  7k
Chapman cheese cl.  3k|P©<luot....................  7k
Comet..................... 7  Solar.........................  6k
Dwight Star............  7klTopofthe  Heap....  7k

From  the Youth’s Companion.
“She,” said the manager of a  great  re­
tail establishment, pointing out the fore­
woman  of  one  of  the  departments,  “is 
the most successful of  all the three  hun­
dred salespeople in the house.  She  be­
gan behind a small counter where differ­
ent colored embroidering silks were sold.
I observed that customers would  ask  for 
her, and if  she was engaged  would  wait 
Arnsburg.................7  ¡Glen Mills..............   7
until  she was ready to serve them.
Blackstone A A......8  Gold Medal..............   7k
“I  wished to  find  out  the  reason  for 
Beats All................   4k Green  Ticket......... 8k
this,  and offered to  bring  another  sales­
Cleveland.............  7  Great Falls..............  6k
woman to a patient customer one day.
Cabot...................... 7k Hope......................-   7k
Cabot,  X.................6k ¡Just  Out..........4k@ 5
‘Miss  Crale  never
Dwight Anchor...... 9  ¡King  Phillip.............7k
forgets the kind of silk which I use.  She 
_  OP....._7k
remembers the  grade and even the shade j  Edwards................. 6  ¡Lonsdale Cambrie^-lOH
And  she  takes Empire....................7  ¡Lonsdale.............  @ 8k
which I bought before, 
Farwell...................7k Middlesex..........   @5
such  an interest in it?
Fruit of the  Loom..  8k No Name.................. 7k
“These two  qualities—her  memory  of 
Fitchville  .............7k Oak View.................   6
First Prize..............6k Our Own.................... 5k
the preferences of her customers and her 
Fruit of the Loom X.  8  Pride of the W est...12
interest in them—have made her the best 
Fairmount..............4k Rosalind.....................7k
FuU Value..............6k Sunlight...................   4k
saleswoman that we have ever had.”
Geo. Washington...  8klVinyard..................  8k
A  daughter  of  a  prominent  Senator 
made his house  the  most  popular  resort 
in  Washington a few winters ago.
“There are many women here,”  said  a 
friend,  “more beautiful  and  more  brill­
iant than Miss Dash, but  she  never  for­
g es  you or anything that  concerns  you.
After years of absence,  if  you go  to  her 
house,  she will remember that  you  take 
three lumps of  sugar  in  your  tea,  that
you dislike the color  of  yellow,  and that  “ ^ lto n  i^ .-.......  H
your favorite songs  are  Scotch  ballads.  Jluatuesex 
It is a  trifling  quality,  but  certainly  it 
gives her a wonderful charm.”
No quality  will  strengthen  the  influ­
ence of a sister, a  wife  or  a  mother  so 
much  in  their  home  as  this  persistent 
remembrance of the little likes  and  dis­
likes of  those about  her, with  a  hearty 
effort to indulge them.
Surely  every  woman  should  try  to 
strengthen her influence  in  the  field  in 
which God has set her to work.  Some of 
them may  complain  that  they  have  no 
memory for trifles, nor a keen  sympathy 
with the wants or feelings of others.  As 
a rule, this is because they are exclusive­
ly occupied  with  their  own  wants  and 
feelings.
Put  self  out  of  your  heart, and  you 
will be surprised to  find  how  large  and 
warm a tenement it is!

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

............. 8
................. 9
 
G G  Cashmere........21
Nameless..............16
............... 18

Middlesex No.  1 — 10
2 . ...11
3....12
7....18
8....19

UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

Middlesex A A........11

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

DRESS  GOODS.

Hamilton 

PRINTS.

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CORSET  JEANS.

Nameless................ 20
......... 25
..........27k
......... 30
......... 32k
......   35
Biddeford...............  6  INaumkeagsatteen..  7k
Brunswick..............èklRockport.....................6k
Merrim’ck shirtings.  4 k  
Allen, staple...........  5k
Repp f urn .  8 k
fancy...........  5k
Pacific fancy..........6
robes...........  5
robes..............6k
American  fancy—   5k 
Portsmouth robes...  6 
American indigo—   5k 
Simpson mourning..  6k
American shirtings.  4k 
greys........6k
“  —   6k
Arnold 
solid black.  6 k  
long cloth B. 10k 
“ 
Washington indigo.  6 
“  C.  8k
“ 
“  Turkey robes..  7 k  
century cloth 7
“ 
“  India robes—   7 k  
“  gold seal......10k
“  plain T’ky X k   8 k  
“  Turkey red.. 10k
“ 
“  X...10
Berlin solids...........  5k
“  Ottoman  Tur­
“  oil blue.......6k
key red................ 6
“ 
“  green —   6k
Martha Washington
Cocheco fancy........6
Turkey red k ......7k
“  madders...  6 
Martha Washington
Eddystone fancy...  6 
Turkey red..........   9k
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6k 
Riverpolntrobes....  5
staple....  5k 
Windsor fancy........6k
Manchester fancy..  6 
gold  ticket 
new era.  6k 
indigo blue......... 10k
Merrimack D fancy.  6k
AC  A.....................12k
Amoskeag A C A.... 13
Pemberton AAA— 16
Hamilton N............ 7k
York...................... 10k
D............ 8k
Swift River............ 7k
Awning.. 11
Pearl  River............12k
Farmer....................8
Warren.................. 14
First Prize.............Ilk
COTTON  DRILL
Atlanta,  D..............6k|Stark  A 
.............7k
Boot.......................6k No  Name................. 7k
Clifton, K............... 7klTop of  Heap........... 10
Simpson..................20  ! Imperial................. 10k
.................18  Black.................9@ 9k
.................16 
Coechco................ lOkl

TICKINGS.

SATINBS.

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CARPET  WARP.

KNITTING  COTTON.

Amoakeag. ............. 12kl
9 O*......14k
brown .13
Andover.................Ilk
Everett, blue..........12
brown...... 12

Jaffrey.....................Ilk
Lancaster................12k
Lawrence. 9 o i........ 13k
No. 220....13
No. 260.. ..Ilk
No. 280.. ..10k
Lancaster,  staple...  6k 

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fancies....  7 
“ 
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Westbrook..............8
.........................10
York........................6k
Hampton.................6k
Windermeer........... 5
Cumberland........... 5
Essex...................... 4k

Glenarven................ 6k
Lancashire.............   6k
Normandie............... 7k
Renfrew Dress....... 7k
Toil du Nord...  10@10k
Amoakeag...............7
AFC........10k
Persian..................... 8k
Bates.........................6k
Warwick...............   8k
Peerless, wnlte....... 18  ¡Peerless  colored

8.........34 
10.........36 
12.........36 

•20k
GRAIN  BASS.Valley City..............15k
Georgia...................15k
Pacific....................14k

No.  14..........37 
16 .........88 
18..........39 
20..........40 

Amoakeag...............17
Harmony................ 16k
Stark.......................20k
American............... 16k
Clark’s Mile End... .45  IBarbonr's................88
Coats’, J. & P .........45  Marshall’s ................88
Holyoke..................22k I
White.  Colored.
38
No. 6  ..  ..33 
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40
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CAMBBICS.
Slater........................4k
White Star............   4k
Kid Glove...............  4k
Newmarket............   4k
Edwards.................  4k
Fireman..................32k
Creedmore..............27k
Talbot XXX............30
Nameless................27k
Red & Blue,  plaid. .40
Union R.................22k
Windsor.................18k
6 oz Western..........21
Union  B................22k
Nameless...... 8  @ 9k| 
...... 8k@10  I 

White.  Colored.
42
43
44
45
Washington............  4k
Red Cross..................4k
Lockwood.................4k
Wood’s..................   4k
Brunswick............  4k
T W ........................ 22k
F T ............ ............. 32k
JR F .X X X ............85
Buckeye.................32k
Grey SR W.............17k
Western W .............18k
D R P ............ ......... 18k
Flushing XXX........ 23k
Manitoba................ 23k
®10k
12k
Slate.  Brown.  Black. I Slate. Brown. Black.
13
9k 
15
10k 
17
Ilk  
20
12k 
Severen, 8oz......... ■  9k West  Point, 8 oz ...10k
“
10 oz ...12k
May laud, 8oz........ ■ 10k
Greenwood, 7k oz. •  9k Raven, lOoz......
...13k
Greenwood, 8 oz.. • Ilk Stark
......
...13k
WADDINGS.
.•7 50
White, doz............ 25  ¡Per bale, 40 doz.
Colored,  doz...........20 
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
“  Red Cross....  9
10k
“  Best 
12k
“  Best AA 
CORSETS.

Pawtucket...............10k
Dundie...................   9
Bedford...................10k
Valley  City.............l(>k
Coraline................39 501Wonderful.............34 75
Schilling’s ............9 OOlBrighton..................4 75
Cortlcelli, doz......... 75  [Corticelli  knitting,

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
13
9k
15
10k
17
litt
20
12k

9k 13
10k 15
litt 17
12k|20
DUCKS.

MIXED  FLANNEL.

DO MET  FLANNEL.

RED  FLANNEL.

SEWING  SILK.

SILESIAS.

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50yd,doz..37ki
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
|No  4 Bl’k A White.. 15 
No  1 Bl’k & White..l0 
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“ 8 
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.-12  |  “  10 
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‘  3—18, S C.......... 45  |
COTTON  TAPE.
No  2 White A Bl’k.,12  INo  8 White & Bl’k..20 
..15 
“ 10 
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-.26
.18 
SAFETY  FINS.
No 2........................28 
|No3.......................... 36

PINS.

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NEEDLES—PER  M.

A. James.................1  501 Steamboat...............   40
Crowely’s............... 1  35 Gold  Eyed................... 1 50
Marshall's...............1 00|
5—4....2 25  6—4...3 2515-4....1 95  6—4...2 96 
10k
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TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
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WHOLBSAJLB.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS.

OQBTH E M IL  BAM

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

D. A B l o d g e t t, Vice-President.

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

Transacts a general banking business.

Make a Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

J.&P.COATS

SIX-CORD

Spool  Cotton

TOTE, BLACK  ADD  C0L0B3,

IN

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FOR

FOR  SALE  BY

Hand and Machine Usa
F.  STEKETEE  &  SONS
Yoittt, 
& Co.,
Dry Goods

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

17413069

NOTIONS AND HOLIDAY GOODS.

Manufacturers of

Shirts,  Pants,  Oiferalls,  Its.

T he  D ry  G oods  M arket.

Prints are a trifle  lower, owing  to  the 
decline  in  printing  cloths.  American 
ginghams  have  advanced  &c. 
Some 
brands of brown  cottons  have  declined. 
Burlaps have advanced He.

The  wholesale  price  of  whalebone is 
now $10,000 a ton.  A project is  on  foot 
to  organize  whaling  expeditions  from 
Australia to the  Antarctic seas,  where it 
is  believed  plenty  of  whales  are  to be 
found. 
It is an almost untouched whal­
ing ground.

Fennville—W. A. Smith  has  sold 

meat market to Bay & Woodard.

his

Eaton,  Lyon 

Go.,

Oifr Fall Line Nov Ready 

E A T O N , L Y O N   &  C O .,
St.,  Grand Rapids.

O  nd 

XMAS  HOODS

IN  HANDKERCHIEFS,  MUFFLERS,  GLOVES,  NECKWEAR,
TABLE  COVERS,  NAPKINS,  SPLASHERS, APRONS, DOLLS, 
PERFUMES,  JEWELRY,  CLOCKS,  POCKETBOOKS, KNIVES,
FANCY  SOAPS,  FANCY  CASES,  PAPETERIES,  AND  A 
COMPLETE  LINE  OF  FANCY  NOTIONS.

P . 

S T E K E T E E  &  
IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS,

S O N S

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

81  »nd  83 MONROE 8T. 

lO, 18, 14, 16, 18 FOUNTAIN 8T

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

48,50 and 52 Ottawa S t, 

GRAND  RAPID », 

-  MICH

H A J Z D W J L R n .

Prices  Current.

T H E   MICHIQ-AlSr  TRADESMAN.

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wire goods. 

locks—door. 

knobs—New List. 

25
Maydole & Co.’s....................................dls. 
Kip’s............................. »........................ dls. 
25
Yerkee * Plumb’s...............................  dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..................  
30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand 
. ,30c 40410
Gate, d a rk ’s, 1, 2, 3 ............................... dls.60&10
State...........................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 4)4  14  and
longer.......................................................   3)4
Screw Hook and Eye, %.....................   net 
10
net  8)4
96.................... 
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net  7)4
Strap and T ................................... 
70
dls. 
dls.
Bara Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50*10
Champion,  anti-friction.............. 
60*10
Kidder, wood track..................................... 
40
  60
Pots............................................................. 
Kettles..........................................................  
60
Spiders........................................................  
60
Gray enameled................................ 
..  40*10
HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.
Stamped  Tin Ware...............................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..........................  
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33X*10
Bright...................................................... 70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.  .......................................... 70*10*10
Hook’s .....................................................70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes.....................  
70*10*10
levels. 
70
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings.............. 
56
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings  ............  
55
Door,  porcelsin, trimmings....................... 
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain...... 
70
55
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s ...........................  
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s  .................................. 
.  . 
55
Adze Bye....................................  
116.00, dls. 60
Hunt Eye..........................................115.00, 
dls. 60
Hunt’s ....................... 
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled.....................  
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .....................  
... 
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable« 
.. 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cl»’  k’s................. 
“  Enterprise 
................................  

...........»18.50, dls. 20*10.
dig.
50
dls.
40
40
40
25
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring...................  
25
Steel nails, base...............................................195
Wire nails, base................................................... 2 45
Steel.  Wire.
60......................................................Base 
Base
10
50...................................................... Base 
20
06 
40 ....................................................  
30.....................................................  
20
10 
20.........  
30
15 
35
16.....................................................  
15 
12.....................................................  
35
15 
10......................................................  20 
40
8.........................................................  25 
50
7 * 6 ...................................................  40 
65
4 .......................................................   60 
90
1  50
3......................... 
1  00 
2  00
2.........................................................1 50 
2  00
Fine 3................................................1 50 
90
Case  10.  ..........................................  60 
8.................................. 
  75 
100
6...............................................   90 
1 25
Finish 10.............................................  85 
1 00
1  25
8............................................ 1 00 
6  .......................................... 1  15 
1  50
75
Clinch; 10...........................................  85 
90
8..........................................1  00 
6...........................................1 15 
1  00
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
dig.
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 

Advance over base: 

PATENT PLANISHED IBON.

MOLASSBS GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

PLANES. 

rivets. 

NAILS

PANS.

Broken packs %c per pound extra.

dig.

 

 

 

 

 

ROPES.

Sisal, )4 inch and larger ........................... 
10
Manilla...............   ......................................   15
dls.
Steel and  Iron.. 
Try and BevelB. 
Mitre...............

SHEET IRON.

Com.  Smooth.
Com. 
Nos. 10 to  14.................................... $4 20
•3 10 
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................  4 20
3 20 
Nos.  18 to 21.....................................  4 20
3 20 
Nos. 22 to 24.....................................  4 20
3 30 
Nos. 25 to 26 .......................... 
.  4 40
3 40 
No. 27...............................................  4  6 0 ___
3 SO
A11  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86...................................... dig. 40A10
Silver Lake, White A............................. list 
50
Drab A..................................  •« 
“ 
55
“  White  B...............................  “ 
50
“ 
Drab B..................................  “ 
55
“ 
White C............................. ’  “ 
35

SAND PAPER.

BASH CORD.

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dig.

saw s. 

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton (25

„ 

diS.

Hand

wire. 

TRAPS. 

Silver Steel  Dla. 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........................................... 

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.........................................  
g5
Annealed Market..........................  .  . .  .  70—10
Coppered Market............................. . . . . . 
60
Tinned Market................................                    62)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel................  
 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.  ......................]  3 50
painted.................... .” !!!!  2 90
Au Sable...............................dls. 25*10@26410*05
P“taam. 
dls. 06
.....................................  
dls. 10*10
N orth western................................ 
dlS
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 
'30
Coe’s  Genuine............ , ............................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,  . . . . . . . 
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75*10
Birdcages......................................... 
55
Pumps, Cistern'..............................  
"5
Screws, New List................................................50
Casters, Bed and  Plate...............   . . . . .  50*10410
Dampers, American............................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods 
65

MISCELLANEOUS. 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

........... dig

“ 

ZINC.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................   28c
Pig Bars..............................., ...................  
» c
Duty:  Sheet, 2)4c per pound.
7«
600 pound  casks..................................... 
Per pound......................................................... 7)4
)4@)4............................................................ 
is
Extra W iping.................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY

........................................per  pound  16
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................ »700
14x20 IC,
7 ro
10x14IX, 
8  75 
14x20 ix, 
8 75

......  
.........
.......................... ;;;
Each additional X on this grade, »1.75.

“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.

“ 

10x14 IC,  Charcoal....................
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 ix, 

“ 

“ 

 

Each additional X on this grade H.50.

“ 
BOOPING  PLATES
Worcester............................  o 25
 
“ 
13 00
. „  
5 so
Allaway  Grade.................. 
7 00
11  50 
14  50
114 00 
15 50

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX,
14x28 IX.
14x31  IX............................
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 1 
14x60 IX,  “  “  9 

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

per  pound

 
 

»

 

• 6 25
6 25
7 75 
7 75

........
 
...

‘ "

METALS.
PIG TIN.

7 75

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
60
Snell's........................................................... 
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine.........................7............ 
25
Jennings’,  Imitation...................................50*10

AUGURS AND BITS. 

dig.

AXES.

“ 
“ 

BABBOWB. 

First Quality, S. B. Bronze..........................1850
D.  B. Bronze  ........................   12 50
S. B. S. Steel...........................   9 50
D. B. Steel..............................   14 00
Railroad......................................................{ 14 00
Garden.................................................   net  30 00
bolts. 
dls.
Stove................................... 
50*10
Carriage new list.......................................... 
70
Plow............................................................. 40*10
Sleigh shoe  .................................................  
70

dig.

 

BUCKETS.

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

BUTTS, CAST. 

dig.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 60*10
Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60*10
Wrought Table.............................................60*10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 6O&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.

CAPS.

CARTRIDGES.

Cast Steel............................................ per #>  5
Ely’s 1-10............................................ per m  65
Hick’s C. F .........................................  
60
“ 
G. D ....................................................   “ 
35
Musket................................................ 
“ 
60
Rim  Fire.................   ..........................j 
50
25
Central  Fire........................................... dls. 
dls.
Socket Firmer............................................. 70*10
Socket Framing........................................... 70&IS
Socket Comer...............................................70&10
Socket Slicks...............................................70*10
Butchers’Tanged Firmer............................ 
40
•Curry,  Lawrence’s ....................................... 
Hotchkiss....................................................  

chisels. 

combs. 

40
26

dls.

CHALK.
copper.

White Crayons, per gross..............13@12)4 dls. 10

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

dls.

31
29
28
28
30
50
50
50

DRIPPING PANS.

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

ELBOWS.

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

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dig.

dark ’s, small, 118; large, $26....................... 
Ives’, 1, »18;  2,124; 3, fee............................ 

piles—New List. 

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

30
25

 

GALVANIZED IRON

Nos.  16  to  20;a 22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
List 
15 
di8.

13 
GAUGES. 

Discount, 60

12 

14 

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

28
18

50

The  W indow   G lass  Com bine.

A  Pittsburg  dispatch,  under  date of 

Nov. 20, is as follows:
.The American Window Glass Company, 
incorporated  yesterday  at  (Springfield, 
111.,  with a capital of $600,000 and  a sub­
scribed capital of about $500,000 includes 
forty-one  firms.  All  the  Pittsburg  win­
dow glass manufacturers are in  the com­
pany,  as well as  nearly all  of  those west 
of  Pittsburg.  The  concern  will  begin 
business on Dec.  1, and the firms will turn 
all their business into its  hands.  A cen­
tral office will be opened in  Chicago, and 
a  branch office  in  Pittsburg.  The com­
pany  was  organized  for  the  purpose of 
regulating  prices  and  also to  raise  the 
standard  of  American  window  glass. 
The  company  is  to  have  a  competitor 
shortly.  When  the  American  company 
was proposed about  450  pots refused  to 
enter  the combine  for  various  reasons. 
These 450 pots were mainly in  the  East, 
and the owners of them are now working 
up a plan for  the  formation  of  another 
combine to control the  trade in  the east­
ern territory.  There  will  be a  meeting 
of the American  Glass  Company at  Chi­
cago on Nov. 25, when the proposed Phil­
adelphia trust will  be discussed.
T he H a rd w a re   M arket.

Nails continue weak.  Barbed and an­
nealed wire is weak and large buyers are 
able to obtain some concessions over pre­
vious prices.  Sheet  zinc  has  advanced 
Jic. at the mill.  There is no change,  as 
yet, in window glass.  Jobbers have been 
informed that all orders must be  sent  to 
the headquarters of  the new  association 
hereafter.  Plate  glass  has  advanced  5 
per  cent,  and  the  manufacturers  have 
withdrawn  the  sound  delivery  clause, 
selling hereafter  f.  o. b. factory.

A nything:  to   D raw   T rad e.

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.  have  added  a 
phonograph  to  the  equipment  of  their 
wholesale department.  They  have pro­
cured several musical  cylinders,  for  the 
benefit of  their  country  customers,  who 
have  now  an  extra  incentive  to  leave 
their  orders—they  can  hear  the  band 
play.

Double  Duty.

Girl  (to  her  betrothed)—Why  do  you 

squeeze my waist with both arms?

Lover—Don’t  you  know  that  the  Mc­
Kinley bill doubles the  duty  on corsets?

ai PERFECTION
*  M e a t  C u t t e r

Th«  Latest, 

Best mo

for Family Use. 

CUT8

Instead  of  Mm h is

Requires 
No Repairs.

Equalled 
By None for 
Family Use.

8 imple to Use.

Easy to Clean.

Cannot get  Dull 

or Out of 

Order.

No. 1— $2.00.  No. 2— $2.76.  No. $-$4.00.

Liberal discount to the trade,  and 
descriptive  circulars  on  application  to 
AMERICAN  MACHINE  CO.,
Lehigh Ave. and American St., Philadelphia, Pa.

MANUFACTURERS OF  HARDWARE  SPECIALTIES,

JOHN  H.  GRAHAM  <&  CO., 

------OR  TO-----
113 Chambers St., New York.

earn. AQENTt. 

H E A D Q U A R T E R S   E O R

P O S T E R ,  S T E V E N S   &  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

Send for Price List,

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8
The Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s  Association.

▲  WISELY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

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

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

strictly in advance.

Publication Office,  100 Louis St.

Entered at the  Grand  Rapids Post  Office.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

W E D N E S D A Y ,  N O V  KM B E K   2 6 ,1 8 9 0 .

IS  IT  GOOD  POLICY?

The stock of a retail dry  goods store is 
generally a large and varied one.  Natur­
ally,  it possesses  a  broader  range  in the 
variety  and  number  of  articles  on  its 
shelves than  almost  any  other  kind. 
It 
has, 
therefore,  more  to  attract  atten­
tion  and  draws  from  a  wide  circle  of 
customers.  Considering  the  amount  of 
his annual sales, the  dry goods merchaut 
realizes a percentage  of profit which will 
equal that of  others  who follow the mer­
cantile  business  as  a  vocation. 
Is  it, 
then, good  policy  for  him  to become en­
vious of  others  and  seek  to increase his 
sales by the addition of lines he has never 
before kept and which are  strictly legiti­
mate lines of  a different  class  of  stores? 
To be sure, he  is  often  tempted  to  keep 
these  outside  lines  sffe  an advertisement, 
and  to  give  them  special  prominence as 
“ leaders,”  and  sell 
them  without  a 
thought  of  the  profit  he  should  make. 
His legal  right in this matter is not ques­
tioned, but for the dignity of his business, 
his reciprocal  friendship  and  trade with 
his fellow  merchants  of  all  classes,  and 
the  approval  of  his  customers,  it  is  not 
good  policy.  Even  many  of  those who 
purchase  the  goods  will  express  their 
disapproval of  such a course and will,  in 
that  way,  help  to defeat  the end  it was 
intended  to serve.  There  would  have 
been an apology for  this  in the past, but 
in  this  age  of  specialties  and  special 
stores it would  seem inexcusable, except 
in the  case  of  the  general  stores  in  the 
country.  The endless variety of mercan­
tile goods in all lines are in this day such 
that any merchant can  use all  his capital 
to  advantage,  without  encroaching  upon 
the  legitimate  boundaries  of  his  neigh­
bor.  Sometimes  a  merchant  says,  “I 
have put in a special line of goods which 
I  intend  solely  as  an  advertisement. 
I 
have found if  I can attract customers in­
side my store by any means they  are cer­
tain to see and purchase many goods they 
want. 
I  am  thus  only  advertising  and 
do not expect or desire a  penny  of  profit 
upon  these  articles.”  Satisfactory  as 
this plan may  appear  to  be  on  its face, 
it will  be  found  to  rest on a substratum 
of quicksand,  as  the  active opposition of 
those whose  business  is  effected  by this 
policy  will  more  than  counter-balance 
the  advantage  sought  to  be  obtained. 
If  the dry goods dealer wishes to make a 
leader  of  something  besides  prints  and 
sheetings, let him select a line of goods in 
his own stock—gloves, for instance—ticket 
them at  cost  and  fill  his  show  window 
with  a  tempting  display.  This  will 
serve to attract crowds of  ladies  and the 
same object  will  be  accomplished,  with­
out injuring  the  business  of  merchants 
in other lines.______________

COUNT  YOUR  PICKLES.

Two years ago the Grand Rapids Retail 
Grocers’  Association inaugurated  a  cru­
sade  against  short-count  pickles,  conse­

quent  upon  the  discovery 
that  fully 
three-fourths of  the manufacturers were 
purposely putting their goods  up  short- 
count.  Opposition to such a policy  was 
so spirited and determined and the retail 
trade of the city acted  so  closely in  con­
cert that the • manufacturers  soon  found 
that no short-count goods  could  be  sold 
in this market and  governed  themselves 
accordingly. 
In the meantime, the retail 
dealers have  relaxed  in  their  vigilance 
and goods from  5  to  20  per  cent,  short 
are again offered to the  trade.  Particu­
larly is this the case with  Chicago  pack­
ers,  nearly all of  whom  are  putting  up 
their pickles short this season.  The let­
ter from an  Owosso  grocery  firm,  pub­
lished in another column, ought to  serve 
as a reminder  to  the  dealer  that  he  is 
probably suffering a  severe  loss  in  this 
respect and prompt him to buy no pickles 
which are not guaranteed to  contain  the 
number stamped on the barrel.

T h e  T radesm an  solicits  correspond­
ence with  dealers  who  have  discovered 
discrepancies in  this  line, giving  in  all 
cases  the  names  of  both  jobber  and 
packer.

Two more immense combinations  have 
been consummated  during the past week 
—window glass and  harvesting machine­
ry. 
If  the  solidification of  allied manu­
facturing  enterprises  continues  much 
longer  at  the  present  ratio,  the  inde­
pendent producer  will  soon  be  as  much 
of a curiosity as the museum freak.

T h e T radesm an has a  treat  in  store 
for its readers,  next week,  in  the  shape 
of a complete report of  the  fifth  annual 
convention  of  the  Michigan  Business 
Men’s Association,  which  will  be  pub­
lished  in  pamphlet  form  and  sent  out 
with  its  regular  edition  of  the  paper. 
Patrons  of  T h e  T radesm an  who  may 
wish extra copies  of the  special  edition 
for their friends or for distribution among 
those interesed in the organized co-opera­
tion  of  business  men  will  be  supplied 
with  same,  free of cost.

Some of the leading agricultural papers 
are  discussing  the  probability  of  $2 
wheat. 
It  is  not  certain  that  $2  per 
bushel  for wheat  would  be more  than a 
very temporary benefit  to  this  country. 
High prices would  greatlyr.stimulate  the 
production of wheat in Russia,  India and 
Australia,  and  would  simply  hasten  the 
day,  almost  certain  to  come  anyway, 
when those countries will  supply  all  the 
wheat needed by  western  Europe.  Eu­
rope is now the greatest wheat producing 
country in  the  world,  and  imports only 
enough to make up a comparatively small 
deficiency.  This country  must now  face 
the  probability  that in  the near  future 
her  market  for  breadstuffs  in  western 
Europe will  be taken  away  from her  by 
the  competitiou  of  Russia  and  India. 
The United  States cannot  hope  to retain 
that  market  unless  she  undersells  India 
and  Russia.  How  is  it  possible  to  do 
this?  Wheat  has not  been a very  profit­
able  crop  to  the  American  farmer  for 
several years past  He can find no profit 
in wheat cheaper than  he has  been rais­
ing.  He  can,  therefore,  make  up  his 
mind at once  that  the  European'market 
for  his surplus  breadstuffs is a  very un­
certain one,  and  will not do to depend on 
in the future.

Muskegon—C. J.  French, formerly  en­
gaged in trade at  Whitehall, has  opened 
a new dry goods  store  on  Ottawa  street.

KLEPTOMANIA.

Som e P h ase s  o f th e   S u b ject— V iew s  of 

L ocal  M erchants.

Written for Th* T radesman.

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•  Money 

The approach to the holidays, with the 
rush of business incident to  the  season, 
brings with it a considerable  increase  in 
losses from two sources—theft  and klep­
tomania.  With the former the merchant 
generally feels himself able  to  cope,  as 
he can make short work of it,  while with 
the latter he is confronted by the sympa­
thies of the public on  one hand and bus­
iness policy on the other and is  left  in  a 
quandary as to what course  he  ought  to 
pursue.  Not all by any means  visit the 
stores to buy. 
It is not their real intent. 
There is a  class  of  both  sexes  who  are 
known as kleptomaniacs—in plain Anglo- 
Saxon,  “crazy to steal,” and it  is  neces­
sary to watch  them.  They  are  as  cun­
ning as the most insane and as sly as  the 
black fox.  Not one  time  in  a  hundred 
have they any use  for  the  goods  taken, 
nor can they give any sensible reason for 
having taken them.  Born kleptomaniacs 
are more  to  be  pitied  than  condemned, 
for it is surely a disease and is often her­
editary.  Says  Chambers’ Encyclopedia: 
“This disease is  sometimes  observed  in 
extreme  youth 
is  associated 
with pregnancy,  is hereditary,  and  often 
follows  affections  of the brain. 
.
The inclination to steal is a  premonitory 
indication of many forms of  mental  dis­
order, and is a characteristic symptom of 
many others where violence delusion and 
incoherence  leave  no  doubt  as  to  its 
source.  Sometimes the appropriation is 
involuntary  and  the  perpetrator  irre­
sponsible. 
is  rarely
taken.  Bright  and  colored  objects  are 
.
often  selected. 
In  establishing 
the  reality  of 
the  disease,  consider 
mailed  cases  in  relation  to  character, 
nature  of  articles  taken, motives  of  ac­
tion, etc.  Each case must  be  tested  on 
its  own  merits. 
Instances  of
kleptomania  in  a  baronet,  a  physician 
and a clergyman—all of  them wealthy— 
are cited as having occurred in  Europe.”
It must be  remembered,  however,  that 
it is the particular  business  of  the  pro­
fessional thief  to  play  the  kleptomania 
dodge,  and much sagacity is  required  to 
distinguish between the sane and  the in­
sane upon this  subject.  Kleptomaniacs 
are found among  all  classes, but  by  far 
the greater number are those  in  affluent 
circumstances.  These persons  arev gen­
erally sane and eminently respectable  in 
every other way and herein lie  the  most 
distressing  features  of  such  incidents. 
Another singular phase of this disease  is 
that nine-tenths of its victims are women.
While it would seem wrong to severely 
punish kleptomaniacs,  they should all be 
treated  with  equal  leniency,  regardless 
of  social  standing  in  the  community. 
Such is not the case,  and  there  are  vari­
ous reasons why it is so.  Money and in­
fluence  become  a  power  and  often  the 
merchant  dreads  the  loss  of  time  and 
money in prosecuting  the  clearest  case, 
against the time and power which can be 
brought  in  rebuttal,  together  with  the 
loss  of  trade  be  may  afterward  incur. 
His first object  is,  therefore,  to  find  out 
who the person is,  whether a  resident  of 
his town or city,  and whether  a  member 
of a wealthy and  Influential  family. 
If 
he finds such is  the  case,  the  person  is 
summoned before him  and  a  settlement 
is  quietly  effected,  often  before  it  is 
known  outside  the  store;  while,  if  the 
party is in indigent  circumstances,  little 
I leniency is likely to be shown.

. 

. 

. 

The  kleptomaniac  may  often  be  dis­
tinguished from the real  thief  from  the 
circumstances surrounding the  case  and 
also the  kind  and  class  of  goods  pur­
loined.  Real kleptomaniacs are quite as 
apt to take an article of  no  possible  use 
to  them  as  anything else;  in  fact,  they 
take whatever can be  most  conveniently 
secreted  at  the  time.  Ladies  of  great 
wealth  have  been  known  to  take  dry 
goods of the poorest texture,  out of style 
and fashion,  and  for  which  they  could 
have  no  possible  use.  A  professional 
thief, on the other  hand,  has  a choice  in 
his selections and usually  chooses  intel­
ligently and takes the most  valuable artr 
icles he can lay his hands on.

T h e T radesm an presents herewith the 
results  of  interviews  with  the  leading 
dry goods merchants of Grand Rapids  on 
this  subject  For  obvious  reasons  the 
names  of  all  parties  are  withheld,  the 
persons interviewed being referred to  by 
number:
No.  1: 

“1  knew  that  kleptomaniacs
existed and required close  watching. 
I 
at once  provided  myself  with  watchers 
and  thus  avoided  both  lawsuits  and 
losses.  Probably I have chosen the better 
way. 
If  I have  met  with  small  losses 
and never knew it,  I  am,  perhaps,  just 
as well off, as ‘where  ignorance  is  bliss 
’tis  folly  to  be  wise.’  My  experience 
with thieves has been quite  limited.  A 
woman came into my store  one  day,  os­
tensibly to purchase and did  buy  a  few 
goods, but  when  about  to  leave  took  a 
costly piece of  silk velvet  with  her,  for 
which she had not paid. 
I followed her 
at once and had her arrested.  The officer 
found she had a companion  registered at 
the  same  hotel.  Both  of  their  trunks 
were  searched  and  between  $700  and 
$1,000 in value of  the  most  costly  mer­
chandise was found in  their  possession. 
It appeared  they  had  been  in  the  city 
several weeks,  and  had  been  separately 
working  the  stores.  Those  merchants 
who had missed goods of  any kind  came 
forward to examine this  illicit stock and 
most  of  it  found  owners.  They  were 
both convicted and imprisoned and, after 
serving their full  sentence  and  were  at 
liberty,  were  again  discovered  plying 
their old business of stealing from stores. 
Some persons might call these  kleptoma­
niacs,  but  I  call 
them  professional 
thieves.”
No. 2: 

“I  can  speak  of  little 

that 
would be valuable to you  upon  this sub­
ject from the fact  that  I  cannot  decide 
whether  those  who  steal  from  me  are 
kleptomaniacs or  professionals.  Possi­
bly you might be able to do so, if I relate 
the particulars in one  or  two  instances. 
I employ a large force of  clerks  and  we 
were at one time puzzled with the actions 
of  a  woman  who  came,  as  I  afterward 
discovered,  from a long  distance  in  the 
country. 
She  seated  herself  and  re­
mained several  hours, as  if  waiting  for 
or expecting some one.  When  asked  if 
there were any goods  she  would  like  to 
look at, she replied  in  the  negative, but 
would occasionally walk about  the  store 
for a few minutes viewing the goods  and 
again resume her  seat, often  in  another 
part of the room.  The basement of  our 
store was well  stocked  with  goods,  dis­
played  for  the 
retail  trade,  and,  of 
course,  she observed many persons going 
and returning from that part of it.  She 
at length arose  and  leisurely  descended 
the stairway. 
I  followed  and  saw  her 
pick  up  a  small  market  basket  which 
stood  conveniently  near, place  it  npon

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involuntarily,  and  to 
the  subsequent 
mortification,  and  regret  of  themselves 
and their parents. 
It is  but  justice  to 
the opinions of  others  of  equal  experi­
ence to add that they  differ  with  me  as 
to the causes prompting such  acts.”

No. 4:  “My experience has been princi­
pally  if  not  wholly  with  professional 
thieves.  1 judge, of  course,  both  from 
the circumstances surrounding  the cases 
and from the quality and amount  of  the 
goods taken.  I have no startling cases to 
describe  which  would  be of use to you. 
I  will  say  to  you  that  1  adopted  one 
policy  when  1  commenced  business 
which,  thus far,  I see no cause  to  regret 
and,  as it regards the true kleptomaniac, 
1 believe to be the true one, as his appro­
priations  are  generally  trifling. 
This 
policy was to know when  and  by  whom 
the  small  peculations  occurred,  but  at 
the same time to  refrain  from  prosecut­
ing such cases or even, in many instances, 
making our knowledge  known  to  them. 
I make it a point,  however,  to  know  the 
parties  at  sight  ever  afterward  and to 
have my employes  know  them, also,  and 
whenever they enter the store,  the ‘shad­
owy  sword  of  Damocles’  is  suspended 
over them while they remain. 
It  is  an 
axiom of mine that it is cheaper and bet­
ter for all parties in the  minor  thefts  to 
pay for watching  than  for  prosecution. 
There is also a humane  side to this mat­
ter,  and I am sure it is  better  to  err  on 
that side than to punish  a  diseased  and 
irresponsible  fellow  creature.  Beside 
this,  numbers  of  sympathizing  people 
are made enemies,  instead  of  friends,  as 
we cannot always be certain whether the 
culprit is a professional thief  or  not. 
I 
have never,  to  my  knowledge,  known  a 
man or boy to steal from me.  All  were 
females.”
No.  6: 

“The  kleptomaniacs  I  have 
met have been a source  of  profit  to  me. 
I have two floor walkers and one of them 
does nothing but move around  the  store 
and keep sharp watch.  She reported  to 
me one day that a  middle  aged  lady  of 
fine appearance and richly dressed was  a 
frequent visitor  on  busy  days;  that  she 
seldom  made  any  purchases  or,  if  so, 
only small ones,  and that  her visits were 
not less than an hour when  she came. 
I 
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the store,  and found her  to  be  the  wife 
of a very wealthy capitalist, and then de­
termined  in  my  mind  that  if  she  was 
caught pilfering I would  make an exam­
ple of her.  A few weeks afterward  one 
of my girls hurriedly  came  to  me  with 
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her  arm,  as  if  it  belonged  to  her,  and 
walk slowly  about  with  the  customers. 
Her  quiet  yet  conspicuous  movements 
•  might have suggested  somnambulism,  as 
she  hardly  appeared  to  notice  others. 
She  stealthily  picked  up  different  arti­
cles, one at a time, without regard  to  se­
lection  or  value,  dropping  them  in  the 
basket on her  arm.  Lastly,  throwing  a 
remnant of printed goods over the whole, 
she started for the street by a  side  door, 
instead  of  returning  by 
the  way  she 
came.  As she did so, I intercepted  her, 
calling her attention  to  the  basket  and 
reminding her that she had  stolen it and 
the goods, and must come  with  me,  and 
pay for them at once or be placed  in  the 
hands of an officer.  She  made some out­
cry of astonishment and asked how much 
money would pay  for  them. 
I  replied 
$15,  when she promptly produced  a  roll 
of bank notes,  paid the  amount  and  de­
parted  with  her  purchase.  We  never 
saw the woman  again,  although  I  inci­
dentally heard about her afterward.  She 
may or may not have been a  kleptomani­
ac.  Yes, I did charge her a pretty round 
price  for  that  basket  of  trinkets,  but 
hear me  relate  another  occurrence,  and 
you will admit that 1 am forced to  do  so 
in some instances or  submit  to  loss  and 
imposition,  as the sequel will show:  At 
one time a man passing along  the  street 
took an article from a pile of  goods  just 
outside my door which  1  should  hardly 
have missed had not an  officer  who  saw 
him afterward recognized  the goods  and, 
believing  them  stolen,  led  him  back 
into my presence.  The fellow would not 
make  any  explanation  of  his  conduct, 
not even talk,  and I concluded  to  prose­
cute  him,  but  found,  too  late,  that  he 
had  influential  friends,  and  as  no  one 
saw  him  take  the  goods,  even  though 
found in his  possession,  a  jury  actually 
brought him in not  guilty.  Having  be­
come disgusted with attempts  to  punish 
thieves,  I now think it best to  deal  with 
them myself,  and  that  it  is  cheaper  to 
pay for watchers  than  to  pay  my  own 
costs and lose my time in the  courts.  ,  I 
am of the opinion  there are more  actual 
petty thieves who make it their  business 
to steal than there are kleptomaniacs.” 

No.  3: 

“In  my  own  mind  and  my 
study  of  the  subject, I  make  a  strong 
point  in  the  pre-natal  development  of 
kleptomania.  My  life-long  mercantile 
business,  with a  consciousness  of  many 
peculations during  this  period,  confirms 
my belief that at this fountain of  nature 
originates the largest percentage  of  this 
unfortunate class.  Let us  take,  for  ex­
ample,  a young  couple  of  good  or  fair 
education  and  of  respectable  families, 
who  have,  perhaps,  only  a  moderate 
share  of  wealth,  but  who,  amid  the 
glamour  of  love  and  affection,  promise 
each other all  the  ease  and  luxury  the 
world can give, without a thought of how 
it is to be accomplished. 
In  time  it  be­
comes apparent to them that ‘life is real, 
life is earnest,’  and while love  in  a  cot­
tage in theory is delightful,  in  fact  it  is 
gross and material, especially  without  a 
good,  bank  account. 
It  is  found  they 
have hugged  a  delusion  and  a  fallacy, 
yet  the  interminable  desire  for 
that 
which they  had  hoped  and  expected  to 
obtain is ever  present  in  the  minds  of 
one or both.  About this  period children 
are born to them who have  surely inher­
ited the desire for the riches their parents 
never  obtained—so  strongly  inherited 
that some time in their lives  they cannot 
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Three  Tears—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Four  Tears—Jam es  Vernor, Detroit.
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President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
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W ritten to r The  Tradesman.

Among  the  many  puzzling  questions 
that  the  druggist  has to  perplex  him, 
none are more intricate and embarrassing 
in tlieir nature than what to do  with  the 
morphine and opium  takers.  Within  a 
comparatively  few  years,  other  drugs 
have been included  with these narcotics, 
such as chloral  hydrate, antipyrine, and 
stimulants  of  greater  or  less  strength. 
That this habit of making  use  of  drugs 
is largely owing to  our manner of living 
and doing business  in this hurrying age, 
the writer fully believes.  The nervous­
ness and consequent feebleness  of  body 
and mind caused by  the  habit  calls  for 
some kind of prop or  stimulant  to  keep 
up  the  vitality  and  anything  is  used 
which  is  found  to  answer the purpose, 
with  little  or  no  thought of  the  after 
effects.  The  victim  is  apparently  not 
aware that the effects are but  temporary 
and  that  he  is  gradually  being  drawn 
into  the  coils  of  a  monster,  whence 
escape  is  impossible  and  whose  final 
embrace is death.  While,  in  one  sense, 
it is to the interest of the druggist to sell 
the  articles  enumerated,  or  others  of 
their class,  he often feels it wrong  to  be 
a party to administer  to  snch  depraved 
appetites. 
I  am  led  to  speak  briefly 
upon this subject by noticing the surpris­
ing increase in the number of  victims of 
the drug-taking habit in general through­
out the entire country.  The  usual opin­
ion is that these victims  are  principally 
females, but I know there is a very large 
class of men who may also  be  included.
The  secrecy  with  which  this  fearful 
habit is surrounded none  so  well  know 
as those who dispense the drugs.  Many 
amusing, but  truly pathetic, acts  of  the 
drug-takers,  in  order  to  obtain  their 
favorite article without the knowledge of 
friends, are often disclosed. 
I recall one 
case of a lady in good circumstances who 
had always slyly made her  purchases  of 
one druggist  The  latter  removed  his 
stock to a distant  city,  when she discon­
tinued  her  purchases  of  the  article in 
that county,  hut enclosed  the  money for 
double the quantity in  letters directed to 
the same  man,  requesting  its  value  of 
“some of th a t” to be sent to her by mail. 
She was always careful  not  to  give  the 
drug  any  name.  This  was  done for a 
long time,  when,  at length, the man went 
out  of  the  business,  others  taking  his 
place.  His successor being in the secret 
however,  was  told  to  open  any letters 
from the lady,  take  the  money and for­
ward the drug,  which  was  done and has 
been continued since;  the lady still sup-

posing she is yet dealing with her friend, 
whom she often thanks  for  his  prompt­
ness. 
In another  case,  a man was swal­
lowing  three  small  vials  of  antipyrin 
daily and yet persisted in saying  it  was 
for  an  external  application  for  some 
trilling affection  which, at  once, proved 
he had told an untruth.  To such straits 
are  the  victims  of  this  terrible  habit 
driven.

W h a t  M ight  H ave  Been.

“One night” said a druggist,  “a  doc­
tor  came  and  woke  me  out of a sound 
sleep  to  prepare morphine  powders  for 
an  old  gentleman  named  Martin,  who 
had been ill for  some  time. 
1 weighed 
out the morphine  and  put  it up accord 
ing to direction,  but thought while I was 
doing so that the powders  seemed  to  be 
unusually large.  Next  morning,  when I 
was arranging things in the shop, I found 
that there was a ten-grain  weight  in  the 
scale beneath  the  one  the  prescription 
called for,  and each of those powders was 
ten grains too large!  A  cold  chill  ran 
down  my back when I realized  the  mis­
take, for it’meant almost  certain  death. 
A short time afterward the  doctor  came 
in,  and  I  thought  my  time  had come. 
Bracing up  as  well as possible, I asked.
“ ‘How is  Martin  this  morning,  Doc­
tor?’
“ ‘He’s dead.’
“ ‘Did those powders kill him?’ I stam­
mered out,  and  in  fear  and  trembling 
awaited the answer.  But the first words 
re’ieved me:
“ ‘No; the powders had nothing  to  do 
with it.  He  died  half  an  hour before 
they were received.” ’

A  Mild  S u b stitu te .

“What  shall I do, Mr.  Pestle?”  asked 
the drug clerk of  his employer. 
“Here 
is an order for two  pounds  of  condition 
powder  in  which  five  ounces  of  black 
antimony is wanted,  and  we  haven’t  an 
ounce  in  the  store.  Can’t I run  some 
gunpowder  through  the  drug  mill  and 
substitute that?”

“ No, that’s  too  expensive  altogether. 
Put in the same amount  of  charcoal  and 
make the price twenty cents extra.”

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Sassafras  ............ 
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Ulmus Po (Ground 12)........  10

 

 

b x tb a c tu m . 

•6 
•• 
» 
•• 

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24®  25
pO...........  33©  »
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  l2
14
is................   13®
15 
Vis.............   14®
17
14s...............   16®
FKBRUM.

16
Carbonate Precip........  ©
Citrate and Quinia....  @3 50
Citrate  Soluble........  @  «0
Perrocyanldum Sol....  @  00
Solut  Chloride...........  ©
Sulphate,  com’l......... In®
pure.............  @

7* 

FLORA.

A rnica...  .................  
£
®
Anthémis................... 
M atricaria.................  25@  30

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin- 

...................  20®
g §

nivelly....... 

22

Salvia  officinalis,  üs
and  V4s....................
Ura Ural......................  8®

“  
“ 

Acacia,  1st picked....  @1 00
  @ 
90
....  ©  80
®  65
00
60 
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  "* 
12 
®  50

«  2d 
«  3d 
sifted sorts... 
“ 
«*  po........  75@1 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...
“  Socotri, (po.  60).
Catechu, Is, (Vis. 14 V4B>
16)............................  ®
Ammoni a e .................   25®
AssafcBtlda, (po. 30)...  ®
Benzoinum.................  50®  55
Camphors................... 
w
Euphorbium  p o ........  35®  lo
Qafbanam..................  @3 00
Gamboge,  po..............  80®  95
Quaiacum, (po  40)  ...  @ 36
Kino,  (po.  25)............   @  »
M astic.......................  @  8?
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40

bleached........  >3®  35
Tragacanth ................  30®  75

“ 
hkrba—In ounce packages.

MAGNESIA.

Absinthium.........................  25
Eupatorium.........................  20
Lobelia................................   §5
Maiorum.............................   »
Mentha  Piperita.................   23
»  V lr.........................  28
Rue.......................................  £
Tan ace tum, V......................  22
Thymus,  v ............ : ...........   25
Calcined, Pat..............  56®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M —   20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36 
Absinthium............... 5 00©5  50
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarao__8 00@8 25
A lift!.......................... 2 00®2 10
Aurantl  Cortex.........   @2 50
Bergamil  ...................3 25®4  00
Cajiputi......................  90@1  00
Caryophylll............... 1 2S®1  30
C edar\......................   ®®  65
Chenopodll................  ®2 00
Cinnamonli...............1 20®1  25
Cltronella...................  @  45
Conium  Mao..............  35®  65
Oopdba  ....................1 20®l  80

OLBUM.

1601 28

8502 00

Cubebae.................. 12 00®12 50
Exechthitos................  90®1  00
Erigeron......................1 90® i 00
Ganltheria.................. 2  00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......  ®  75
Gossipil, Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................1 
Juniper!.......................   5002 00
Lavendula...................  90®2 00
Limonls...................... 1 5002 20
Menthafflper.............. 2 9003 00
Mentha Verid.............2 5002 60
Morrhuae, gal..............  8001 00
Myrcla, ounce............   @  50
Olive............................  90@2 75
Picls Liquida, (gal. .35)  10®  12
Ricini..........................1 
Rosmarinl............  
75®1  00
Rosae, ounce..............  ©6 00
Succinl.......................   40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
Santal  ........  ............ 3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
Sinapis, ess, ounce—  
0   65
TlglfiT/.................  ...  ®1  50
Thyme.......................   400  50
opt  ................  @  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20
Bi Carb.......................   15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide....................  37®  40
Carb............................  120  15
Chlorate, (po. 16)........  14®  16
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..............................2 8002 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  30®  33 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @ 15
Potass NItras, opt......   8®  10
Potass Kitras..............  7®  9
Prussiate....................   30®  33
Sulphate  po................  16®  18

POTASSIUM.

“ 

RADIX.

@ 25

Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  25®  30
Anchusa....................   15®  20
Arum,  po................ :.. 
Calamus......................  20®  50
Gentiana, (po. 15)......   10®  12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 45)....................   @  40
Heuebore,  Ala,  po__   15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po....................... 2 4002 50
Iris plox (po. 20®22)..  18®  20
Jalapa,  pr..................   55®  60
Maranta, 
..............  ®  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei..............................  7501 00
cut......................  @1  75
pv.........................  75@1 35
Spigeua......................  48®  53
~ 
20
“
-------- 
• 
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..
45 
Serpentaria.................  40®
55 
Senega.......................   60®
40 
Simllax, Officinalis,  H  ®
20 
M  @
12
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®
Symplocarpus,  Fœtl-
dus,  po............ .... 
35 
0
25 
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ®
20 
German...  15®
15 
ingiber a ...................  10®
25
Zingiber  j .............. 
22®

“ 

“ 

“ 

• 

Anlsum,  (po.  20). 
Apium  (graveleons).. 15®
Apium 
4®  6 
Bud, Is
Carui, (po. 18)............   8®
12
Cardamon..................1  0001  25
Corlandrum................  10®  12
Cannabis Sativa......... 3)4©
Cydonium...................  75®1  00
Chenopodium  ...........  10®  12
Dipterfx Odorate.......2 0002 25
Foeniculum................  ®
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®
L in i.......................... 4  @4)4
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 3%)...  4  0  4)4
Lobelia.......................   350  40
Pharlaris Canarian—   3)40 4)4
Rapa..........................   6®
Sinapis,  Albu............   8®

Nigra........... 

li®   12

“ 

“ 
“ 

Frumenti, W., D.  Co. .2 0002 50
D. F. R ...... 1  7502 00
1  1001  50
 
Juniperis  Co. O. T — 1  7501  75
Saacharum  N.  E .........1  7502 00
Spt,  Vini  Galli............1 75@6 50
Vini Oporto................ 1 2502 00
Vini  Alba................... 1 25@2 00

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 2502 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  .................
2 00 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage...................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .......................
Hard for  slate  use—
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................

1  40

SYRUPS.

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferri  Iod.............................   50
Aurantl Cortes....................  50
Rhei  Aram..........................   50
Simllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Scillae..................................  50
“  Co...........................    50
Tolntan...............................  50
Prunus rirg.............. 
50

« 

« 

 

TINCTURES.

 

 

“ 

" 

“ 

^  

Aconitum Napellis R.........   60
F .........   50
Aloes....................................  60
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica................................   50
Asafoetida............................  0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin.................. 
60
“  Co..........................   50
Sanguinaria  .......................   50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharides.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Cardamon..............................  75
Co........................   75
Castor.................................1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona............................  50
Co........................   60
Columba.......................... 
  60
Conium.........................  
 
Cubeba.................................  50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................   80
Gentian...............................  50
1  Co............................  60
Guaica................................   60
ammon.....................  60
1 
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Iodine.................. 
75
Colorless...................  75
Ferri  Chloridum.................  35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................   50
Opii.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
Deoaor....................... 2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
WhatAwy..........  
50
Rhei.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan..............................   60
Valerian.............................   50
Veratrum Verlde.................  50

“ 

• 

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

« 

«  4 F .. 
ground,  (po.

et Potass T
A n tip y rin .....................
Antif ebrin..................
Argenti  NItras, ounce

260 28
30® 32
2)4® 3)4
3® 4
56® 60
4® 6
55® 60
1  3501  40
@ 25
@ 74
5® 7
38® 40
2 10®2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (V4s 
® 9
11;  XB<  12)
Cantharides  Russian,
@1  75
po ..........................
Capsid  Fructus, af..
@ 16
@ 20
@ 15
Fpo.
15® 18
Caryophyllus, (po.  20)
03 75
Carmine,  No. 40 
50® 55
Cera  Alba, S. &
38® 40
Cera Flava......
@ 40
Coccus ............
@ 20
Cassia Fructus.
@ 10
Centraria.........
Cetaceum..................   @  45
Chloroform...............   60®  63
squibbs..  @1  10
Chloral Hyd erst........1  8502 00
Chondrus..................   20®  25
Clnchonidine, P.  &  W  15®  20
German 
5@   12
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
0   60 
cent  .......................
Creasotum.................
®  50
2 
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........
5 
50
“  prep..................
11 
90
8
Crocus.......................  300  36
0   24
Cudbear...................... 
Cupri Sulph...............   60  7
Dextrine....................  10®  12
Ether Sulph...............   68®  TO
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po..................   @  5
Ergota, (po.)  60.........   50®  65
FlakeW hite..............  12®  15
Galla..........................  @  23
Gambler.....................   8  @9
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  90
French...........  40®  60
“ 
Glassware  flint,  TO per cent, 
by box 60 less
Glae,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White...............   13®  25
Glycerins..................18  @
0   22
Grana Paradisi........... 
Humulus....................  250  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @1  05
“  Cor__  @  95
Ox Rubrum  @1  15
Ammonisti.  @1  25
Unguentum.  C0@  60
Hydrargyrum............   @  85
Ton thy ¿bolla, Am. 
.1 2501  50
Indigo........................   75@1 00
Iodine,  Resnbl..........3 7503 85
Iodoform....................  @4 TO
Lnpulin.....................   60®  65
Lycopodium..............  55®  60
80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod................. 
0
Liquor Potass Arsinitis  100 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mhuuíiáj a . ' * . s o ®

precip.
irecip
Robra.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W .. .2 6002 85 
C. Co.......................2 50@2 75
Moschus Canton........  @  40
Myrlstica, No. 1.........   70®  75
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  ©  10
Os.  Sepia....................  33®  38
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
© 2  00
Picls Liq, N.  C„ H gal
doz  ......................
0 2  00 
Picls Liq., quarts......
@1  00 
®  70 
{nuts.........
0   50 
Pii Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..
®  18 
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..
®  35 
Piper Alba, (po g5) —
Plx  Burgun................
®  7
14®  15 
Piombi A cet..............
Pulvls Ipecac et opti 
1  1001  20
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
@1  25 
& P. D.  Co., doz......
0®  35 
Pyrethrum,  pv...........
Quaes] a e ....................
8®   10 
9®  14 
Quinia, S. P. <6 W......
37
S.  German....
Rubia Tinctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactis pv..  @ 40
Salacin.......................2 4002 50
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
5G
Santonine  ................. 
04 50
Sapo,  W......................  120  14
"  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

0   25 
®  18 
®  30

Seidlltz  Mixture. 
Sinapisopt
Snuff,Voes....................
De
®
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes 
12®30®
Soda Boras, (po. 13).  .
Soda  et Potass Tart...
Soda Carb.................  154®
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   ®
Soda, Ash.................... 3J4®
Soda, Sulphas...........  @
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®

Myrcia  Dom
Myrcla Imp.
Vini  Rect.  bbl.

@2 25 
@3 00
2 23)........................   @2 33
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal......   @1  10
Sulphur, Subl..............2V4® 3V4
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae..............  55®  60
Vanilla......................9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph....................   7® 8

“  Roll................2V4® 3

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra................  55 
Lard, No.  1................  45 
Linseed, pure raw  ...  57 

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
50
60

“ 

faints. 

11
63
Lindseed,  boiled  ....  60 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.................  50 
69
SplritsTurpentine—   48V4  50
bbL  lb.
Red Venetian..............1%  2@3
Ochre,yellow  Mars...  IX  2@4
“ 
Ber........IX  2®3
Putty,  commercial— 2%  2)403
“  strictly  pure......2)4  2X03
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13016
Vermilion,  English....  85088
Green,  Peninsular......  70075
Lead,  red....................  ©7X
“  w hite................  ®7X
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’........  @90
1  00
White, Paris  American 
Whiting  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20®1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.....................1 00®1  20
VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach....1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................ 16001  TO
Coach Body...............2 7503  00
No. 1 Turp Furn....... 1 00®1  10
Eutra Turk Damar —  1  5501  60
rapan
rp.........................  70®  75
Tun

Dryer,  No.  1 

HAZBBTINB

&  PBR K IN S 

DRUG CO.

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R y e   W h isk y .

W e sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
W e give our Personal Attention to Mail  Orders  and  Guar­
A il  orders are Shipped and  Invoiced*the  same  day  we re­

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

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G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICH .

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

12

CROCBRIBS. 
_____ ______________________________________  
Wool Firm—Hides and Tallow Weak— 

Furs Lower.

Wools remain firm,  but  the  stringency 
of  money  prevents  sales.  Holders  of 
wool prefer  the  wool  to  any  manufac­
turer’s paper  and,  while  they  are  busy 
delivering  previous  sales,  they  do  not 
care  to  urge  buyers.  With  the  many 
new spindles running and  a  strong  for­
eign market,  the future has a  strong and 
bright  outlook.

Hides are  decidedly  weak,  with  large 
offerings and no sales.  Tanners will buy 
only from hand to mouth and then at low 
prices.  While prices seem low, they  are 
not at bottom.  All offers are withdrawn, 
and to effect sales concession in price for 
below the cost of  present  holding  must 
be made.

Tallow is weak and  in  light  demand, 
with no excess  of  accumulations.  The 
low price of meats tends  to  weaken  the 
market still more.

Furs of the better grades  are  in  good 
demand for  present  working  and  home 
trade.  The off  grades are in no demand 
and  must  be  bought  extremely 
low. 
They are not wanted.  The  catch for so 
early in  the  season  is  large  and  comes 
forward freely.

The  G rocery  M arket.

Hard sugars are  lower, Spreckles  hav­
ing bewildered the market by offering bis 
goods  at  3-16c.  below  the  trust  prices. 
The corn  syrup market  is completely de­
moralized, owing to  the  abandonment of 
the  price  established  by  the  pool.  No 
quotation  can  be  given,  as  there  is  no 
assurance  that  the  price  will  remain 
where  it  is  any  length  of  time.  Straw 
paper is a little higher.

S h o rt  C ount  P ickles.

Owosso,  Nov.  19.—We  bought  from a 
dealer in  this  State  five  barrels of  2,400 
pickles  and  two  half  barrels  of  1,200 
pickles, which were guaranteed to be full 
count.  We are one of  those kind of gro­
cers who weigh and count  our  purchases 
when  they  are  received.  We  do  not 
always  weigh  or  count  every  package, 
but we do every second or third. 
In this 
case,  we counted  the  first  barrel.  As it 
fell short over 200,  we counted the whole 
lot and we are short  over  1,200  pickles. 
We sell them by the dozen and,  if we had 
sold  them  at  the  price 
intended,  you 
can see where our  profit  would  be.  We 
think  you  can  benefit  th e' retailers  by 
exposing  this  kind  of  a  swindle.  We 
have  rejected  the  goods, as  the  jobber 
would not  make  the shortage good.  We 
had them counted by two different parties, 
so we know  what  we are  talking  about.

L a w ren ce  & Son.

Nebraska is  rejoicing over  a  new  and 
valuable industry.  The  beet  sugar  fac­
tory at Grand  Island is  reported  to  be a 
great  success. 
It  has  been  turning  out 
sugar at the  rate of  thirty  tons  per day. 
The success of this,  the first  and  experi­
mental  season,  assures the  future of  the 
industry.  The soil  and  climate  of  Ne­
braska  are  both  adapted  to  the  sugar j 
beet.  The cool climate,  the nature of the 
soil,  the spring moisture and the summer I 
drought all favor the production of  beets 
rich in sugar.  The  success in  Nebraska i 
will stimulate other states equally adapt- 
to the growth of the sugar beet.

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

352tf 

‘

KLEPTOMANIA.

[c o n t in u e d  fr o m   n in t h   f a s e ]

her possession  which both  of  them  saw 
her  take.  What  she  wanted  of  such 
goods was a puzzle to me, as I  knew  she 
had no use for  them, though  they  were 
small and easily  secreted. 
I went to her 
at once,* introduced myself and asked her 
kindly to step  into  another  department 
of the store. 
I  was fully  determined to 
confront  her with the crime,  but did  not 
desire a scene before  my  customers. 
I 
kept my eyes upon her,  neither  allowing 
her  to  walk  behind  or  before  me, but 
purposely  walked  beside  her,  that  she 
might not make  a  movement  I  did  not 
observe.  She came,  and without a word 
or look that  betrayed  the  least  anxiety. 
As I closed the door behind me—the par­
tition  was  glass—I  faced  a  mirror and 
saw a rapid movement of  her hand,  as it 
disclosed  one  or 
two  colored  hoods. 
Even then my heart failed me  as  I  was 
about to speak and  to  accuse  her;  and, 
busying  myself  with  a  piece  of  goods 
which had fallen  to  the  floor,  I  took  a 
moment to think of some  excuse for ask­
‘M rs.-----’,  I said, calling
ing her here. 
her by name,  ‘I  have  invited  you  here 
quietly away from the crowd in the store 
to show you  some  costly  goods  I  have 
just  received,  and  desired  you  should 
have the first  choice  of,  before  they  are 
placed on the shelves for  sale,  and  as  I 
spoke I laid some  rich  dress  goods  and 
Mantillas before her.  She was  not,  ap­
parently, disconcerted, bowed her thanks 
and commenced to look them over.  She 
seemed to think I  was conferring  a  spe­
cial  favor and within  half  an  hour  she 
had a receipted  bill in her hand  for  over 
S180 worth  of  those  goods,  and  it  was 
then  my  turn  to  be  astonished.  Of 
course,  1 «said  nothing  about  the  small 
articles she had stolen,  but I had secured 
a valuable and lasting customer who was 
ever  afterward  closely  watched.  More 
than  six  months  after  this  occurrence 
her  husband—probably  having  discov­
ered she had a new place for making  her 
purchases—came  to  me  with  the  very 
confidential  information 
that  his  wife 
was  a  kleptomaniac  and  asked  me  to 
quietly place her under  surveilance  and 
send all  bills to him. 
I never had any to 
send.”

Furniture

-----AT-----

Nelson, 

Matter 

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—Green,  $3.50  for  choice  eating  and 
$3 for cooking stock.  Evaporated are firm at 13c, 
with every  Indication  of  an  advance  to He in 
the near future.
Beans—The market is hardly as strong as it has 
been.  Handlers pay $1.65@1.80 for country picked 
and  find  no  difficulty  in  making  sales  at  $2.10 
@2.15 for city picked.
Beets—50c per bu.
Butter—Dairy  is firm and in  good  demand  at 
17@20c per lb.  Creamery finds moderate sale at 
25@26c.
Cabbages—fOc  per doz. or $4 per 100.
Carrots—20@25c per bu.
Celery—20@.5c per doz.
Cooperage—Pork barrels,(1.25;  produce barrels 
25c.
Cranberries—Michigan  berries  are in fair de­
mand at $2.75 per bu.  Cape  Cod  commands  $10 
per bbl and Bell and Cherry  are held at $9.  The 
market is firm.
E g g s—F re sh  sto c k   is so sc arc e  as to   b e  h a rd ly  
q u o tab le , b u t a ll  lo ts   w h ic h   find  th e ir  w ay  to 
m a rk e t a re  g rab b e d   u p  a t 2 te.  C old sto ra g e  a n d  
p ick le d   sto ck  a re  In  good d e m a n d   a t 20c.
Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth,  $4.60  per  bu.; 
medium, $4.30@4.4 >.  Timothy, $1.51 per bu.
Game—Venison, 13c  per  lb.;  Rabbits,  15c  per 
doz.;  Partridges, 25c per pair.
Grapes—Catawbas  and  Concords, 35@40c  per 
9-lb basket.
Maple  Sugar — 8@10c  per  lb.,  according  to 
quality.
Maple Syrup—75@85c per gal.
Onions—1The  market  is  firmer, dealers paying 
30c and holding at $1.
Potatoes—The  market  holds  up  remarkably, 
Cleveland being the only  point  which  exhibits 
any signs of weakness.  Buyers  are  anxious  as 
ever to make purchases and the  active  competi­
tion at the  principal  buying  points  has  forced 
prices up to l5'5@80e.  There is no decline in pros­
pect,  every  indication  pointing  to  still  higher 
prices.

Squash—1 54c per lb.
Sweet Potatoes—Baltimores, $2.75 per bbl;  Jer­
Turnips—30@35c per bu.

seys, $3.25 per bbl.

The Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co. 

pork  in  barrels.

quotes as follows:
Mess,  new...................................................... ll  50
Shortcut..............................-......................   12 00
Extra clear pig, short cut.........................  .  13 75
Extra clear,  heavy......................................   13 00
Clear, fat back........................................  ..  12 75
Boston clear, short cut...............................   13 00
Clear back, short cut..................................]  13 85
Standard clear, short cut. best............ 
13 25
sausase—Fresh and Smoked.
Pork Sausage........................................ ..........gu
Ham Sausage........................................... 9
Tongue Sausage..........................................9
Frankfort Sausage................................ .....!! 8
Blood Sausage..........................................!!!!!! 5
Bologna, straight.............................. 5
Bologna,  thick................................ . 
. 
5
Headcheese.  ...................................... 5
lard—Kettle Slendered.
Tierces............................................................ 7
Tubs....................................................  
........  73/
5oib.  Tins............................................ ;;;;;;;
TiprOP.fi 
a
30and 50 lb. Tubs.......................  
65£
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case................................ ”   7^
5 lb. Pails, 12in a case..........................         ¿X
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case.................................. "   gv
90 lb. Pails, 4 in a case........................  
,..."   6V4
50 lb. Cans.......................................................1.654
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs....................  7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................  7 00
Boneless, rump butts.....................................  9 50
Hams, average 20 lbs.......................................  gu
16 lbs...................................... 10
12 to 14 lbs............................... 1054
picnic.....................................................954
Shoulders........................................................  g^
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.............................  8
Dried beef, ham prices..................................  9
Long Clears, heavy............................. 
  654
Briskets,  medium...........................................   g£
light..................................................654

shored  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

lard—Family

BEEF  IN  BARBELS.

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FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

FRESH  FISH.

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Whitefish.....................................
s m o k e d ................................
Trout...........................................
Halibut........................................
Ciscoes 
..............  ......................
Flounders  ..................................
Bluefish  .....................................
Mackerel  ....................................
Cod..............................................
California salmon.......................
o y sters—Cans.
Fairhavfen  Counts......................
F. J. D. Selects............................
Selects  ........................................
F. J. D.........................................
Anchors.......................................
Standards...........  ......................
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100. 
Clams, 

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& 754 
@ 8 @ 754 @15 
@ 4 
@ 9 
@10 @25 
@10 
@22
©35
@28
@25
@23
@21
@19

1  25@1  50 
75@1 50

& Co.'s

21U

2054

...........854
..........   854
..........   9
..........   9
..........   954
........  9V4
.........10
.........10
.........10
.........10
..........10
.........10
.........1054
.. 
.  11
.........11
.........12
.........13
Per Box
........65
........65
........75

Standards,  per gal................................  
Selects, 
Scrimps, 
Clams, 
Scallops, 

BULK  GOODS.
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75
1  50
1  cn
2  50

FRESH  MEATS.

Swift and Company quote as follows;

Beef, carcass..........................................354®  854

hindquarters...............................4  a  5
!®£ns> No- 3..................................  8  @854
n b s  ....................................................  
@ 7
rounds........................................   5  @g
tongues........... 
.........................  @

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Bologna.............................................."  
Pork loins.............................................. ...  js  7
a g
“  shoulders......... ........................ . 
Sausage, blood or head.............. 
@  5
liver..........................................  
a s
Frankfort.............................

Mutton  ................................................. g  @ 654
V e a l........................................................................  iV4@  7

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

STICK  CANDY.

Standard,  per lb...................................   @ 9
IS
;;  T w ist.....  ...................  
palls or packages, net  weight.  ........ 954
“  24! -lb. bbls  ......................................   9

Boston  Cream  ...........................................  
Cut  Loaf.  ............................................. 
Extra H. H......................................... ......U
Standard, per lb.
Leader............
Special..............

Broken............
Midget  ............
English  Rock..
Conserves........
Cut Loaf...........
Ribbon...........
Broken Taffy... 
Peanut Squares
Extra  ..............
Kindergarten  .. 
French Creams. 
Valley  Creams.

 

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fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.
Lemon Drops.....................................
Sour Drops........................................
Peppermint Drops.............................
Chocolate Drops...............................
H. M. ChocolateoDrops......................
Gum Drops..................................
Licorice Drops...................................
A. B. Licorice  Drops.........................
Lozenges, plain..................................
printed.............................
Imperials.................................. 
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Mottoes............ .*............................;.
Cream Bar..........................................
Molasses- Bar.....................................
Caramels...........................................
Hand Made  Creams...... ...................
Plain Creams................................
Decorated Creams............................."
String  Rock................................. .1"
Burnt Almonds..................................
Wintergreen  Berries.........................
Lozenges, plain, In  palls...................
printed, in palls...............
Chocolate Drops, in pails...................
Gum Drops, in pails..........................
Moss Drops, in pails..........................
Sour Drops, in pails.........................
Imperials, In palls.............................
Jamaica, Bbl.....................................
Box 176................................
Florida..............................................
Messina, choice, 360.........................
“ 
360........................
.....................................
Malaga 
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, Smyrna, new,  fancy  layers  .., 
...,

fancy, 300................. .

fancy—In bulk.

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NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona............

“  50-lb.  “ 

Persian, 50-lb.  box.................

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ORANGES.

choice 

LEMONS.

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Ivaca.......................
California...................

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Brazils...............................
Walnuts, Grenoble............
“  Marbot................
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Naples.............................
Chili..............................
Table Nuts, No. 1.......................
No. 1.........................
Pecans, Texas. H. P  ...........
Cocoanuts, full sacks  ............
PEANUTS.
.  .... .............
Fancy, H.  P., Suns 
..  ..
“  Roasted 
Fancy, H.  P., Stars 
. 
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“  Roasted 
..........
Choice, H. P.,Ex Prince  .........
“  Roasted............
Fancy, H. P., Steamboats......
Roasted__

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40@50 
..1 00
..... 80
......70
......75
..... 70
.............65
.............65
......16® 18
...90@1 00
............80
...........1  00
.......... ?■>
1 00©1 10 
...........70
12
13
13
6
11
11
12

4 00® 4  25

@«W
@
@  5 50 
®  6 00 @
.  18®19 
@16 
@15 
@10 
@8
.  6  @ 654
...  @1754
@1754
@1754
@1354
@17
@12
@16
...14  @16 
@5 00
@8

@954@8
• ■  @954
@10

S t y le s   N e w ,  C h e a p , 
M e d iu m   a n d   E x p e n ­
s iv e .

Large  Variety. 
i

Prices Low; 

For  Sale  by  Leading  W holesale  Grocers.

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s a l e   Erice  C u r r e n t .
'low  are  such  as are ordinarily offered cash buyers it ho 
ll packages.

CHICORY.

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...1 0   @1C%

B u lk ........... .......................6%
Red 
..............  7
CHEESE.
Fancy Pull  Cream 
Good 
Part Skimmed............  8  @9
Sap Sago....................  @22
Edam  ......................   @1  no
......  24@  25
Swiss, imported 
domestic  __  15®  16
CHEWING  GUM.
200  “ 

Rubber, 100 lumps................30
Spruce, 200 pieces................40
Snider’s, % pint....................1 35

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pint............................2 30
quart.......................... 3 50
CLOTHES PINS.
COCOA  SHELLS.

COFFEE EXTRACT.

co ffbe—Green.

5 gross boxes  ...................... f'5
Bulk.............................4  @4%
Pound  packages...........  @7
75
Valley City......................... 
Felix....................................  1 15
Hummel’s ....... ................. 
65
Rio, fair......................  @21
“  good  ...................21  @22
“  prime................ 
  @23
“  fancy,  washed...  @24
“  golden................. 23  @24
Santos.........................22  @23
Mexican & Guatemala 23  @24
Java,  Interior.............24  @26
Mandheling  . . .27  @30
Peaberry.................... 22  @24
Mocha, genuine......  26  @28
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
coffees—Package.
Bunola................................ 24%
in cabinets...............25%
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX....25%
Lion  ....................................25%
in cabinets  ................26
Durham..............  ..............25
Cotton,  40 ft......... perdoz.  1  35

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CLOTHES  LINES.
50 ft.......... 
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60 f t.......... 
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70 ft.......... 
“ 
80 ft..........  
60 ft.......... 
“ 
72fC........ 
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CONDENSED MILK
Eagle.............................
Anglo-Swiss...

1 50
1 75
2 00
2 25
1 00
1 15
7 .SO
6 00@ 7 70

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Tapioca, fl’k or  p’rl  .  5  @ 6
Wheat,  cracked..........  @ 5D
Vermicelli,  Import....  @11
domestic...  @55
FISH—SALT.

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Cod, whole...................  5%@ 5%
“  b ric k s................  7%@  7%
•  7%@  8
“  »trips 
5  25
Herring, gibbed,  bbl —  
3 00
%  bbl.. 
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12 00 
“  Holland,  bbls.. 
75
“  kegs, 
“ 
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S caled ............ 
20
Mackerel, No. 1,  % bbl.. 
12 00
40
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10  lb k it..110
Trout,  %  bbls.............   @4  75
**  10  lb.  kits..................   60
White,  No. 1, V4 bbls . .  @5 50
10 lb. kits.......  80
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Family,  %  bbls........3 00
« 
kits 
65
FLAVORING EXTRACTS-Jennings’ 
Lemon. Vanilla 
1  25
2 oz folding box...  75 
1 50
.  .1  00 
3oz 
“ 
2 00
.. .1  50 
“ 
4 oz 
“ 
G oz 
...2  0*' 
3 00
5 oz 
...3  00 
4  0
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GUN  POWDER.
K egs......................................5  50
Half  kegs 
............. 3 00
Sage........................................10
Hops....................  .................2>
Chicago  goods......................  5%
30
No.  ... 
No. 1....................................... 
40
No. 2...................................... 
50
Pure.........................................  30
Calabria..................................  25
Sicily.......................................  18
Condensed,  2  doz................1  25
No. 9  sulphur.........................2 00
Anchor parlor.........................1 70
No. 2 home  ............................1  10
Export  parlor.........................4 00
Black  Strap........................ 
17
Cuba Baking...................... 
22
Porto  Rico..........................26@33
New Orleans, good......................  35
choice...................  40
fancy..........  
One-half barrels. 3c extra

LAMP WICKS.

.. 
HERBS.

MOLASSES.

MATCHES.

LICORICE.

JELLIES.

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CODPONS.
“Superior.”
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$ 1  per hundred..............  2 50
“ 
..............  3 00
$2, 
“ 
...............   4 00
*5. 
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*10, 
...............   5 00
“ “ 
*20, 
....................  6 00
“Tradesman.”
* 1, per  hundred...............   2 00
“ 
• 2, 
............... 2 50
................3 00
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*5, 
“ 
*10, 
................4 00
*20, 
“ 
................5 00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts:
200 or over.............  5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 
Kenosha Butter.................   7%
Seymour 
5%
Butter...........r..................... 5%
“  family.........................  5%
“  biscuit......................... 6%
Boston....................................7%
City Soda............................... 7%
Soda.....................................6
S. Oyster............................... 5%
City Oyster, XXX.................5%
Strictly  pure......................  38
Grocers’....................:....... 
25
DRIED  FRUITS. 

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CRACKERS.
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@20
@ 5% 
@ 5% 
@   6

Apples, sun-dried......  8  @  9
evaporated__13  @14
“  — 20  @21
Apricots, 
Blackberries “
10 
Peaches
20 @ 22
Turkey. 
@  8% @ 9
Bosnia..
Lemon., 
Orange.
In drum. 
In boxes.
CURRANTS.
Zante, in  barrels........
in  %-bbls........
in less quantity 
r a isin s —California 
B ags.........................
3  ■’
2 50
fancy
2  75
Muscatels. 2 crown  ..
2 (|0
3  “ 
...
2 25
Foreign.
8
Valencias..................
Ondaras....................
8%@ 9
Sultanas.................... 13 @17
Farina, 100 lb. kegs..
Hominy, per  bbl......
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box.
imported__
Pearl  Barley............
Peas, green...............
“  split...................
Sago,  German...........

...  04
...4 00
..  55
@11
3 @ 3%
@1  10
@ 3%
@ 5

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

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PICKLES.

Barrels  ..................................6  7
Half barrels..........................3 50
ROLLED OATS.
Barrels........................ 
@6  5
Half bbls......................  @3  50
Michigan  Test......................  9%
Water W hite..........................10
Medium...............................   *7 50
“  % b b l........................4 25
Small,  bbl................................9 00
“  %  bbl............................ 5 60
Clay, No.  216...........................1 75
“  T. D. full count............  75
Cob, No.  3................................1 25
Carolina head..........................7
“  No. 1..........................6%
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No. 2.................6  @
Japan, No. 1.............................7
“  No. 2............................. 6

PIPES.

RICE.

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SAPOLIO.
“ 
SOUPS.

Barrels.....................................5 50
Half barrels............................ 3 25
Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box.......  2 50
Hand 
  2 50
Snider’s  Tomato....................2 40
Allspice................................. 10
Cassia, China in m ats........   8
Batavia in bund___15
Saigon in rolls.........35
Cloves,  Amboyna................. 22
Zanzibar................... 16
Mace  Batavia.......................80
Nutmegs, fancy....................80
“  No.  1.........................75
“  No.  2.........................65
Pepper, Singapore, black— 16 
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shot...........................20
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spices—Ground—In Bulk.
Allspice.................................15
Cassia,  Batavia....................20
and  Saigon.25
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Saigon......................42
Cloves,  Amboyna................26
“  Zanzibar...................20
Ginger, African....................12%
“•  Cochin......................15
Jam aica...................18
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Mace  Batavia.......................90
Mustard,  English................22
“ 
and T rie..25
“  Trieste......................27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ................... 80
Pepper, Singapore, black— 18
“  white........30
“ 
“  Cayenne................... 25
SUGARS.
Cut  Loaf......................  @7%
C ubes...........................  @6%
Powdered....................   @6%
Standard  Granulated.6.18@  t%
Fine............6.18@  6%
Confectioners’ A ........   6  @6%
White Extra  C..........   5%@ 6
Extra  C.......................   5%@  5%
C . . ................................  @5%
Yellow 
.......................   @5%
Dark  Molasses............  @ 5
Less than bbl.  %c advance.

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Tea, 2-B>,  tin  scoop......... * 6 50

sc ales—Perfection.
“  brass  “ 
“  brass  “

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“  5-lb,  tin  scoop.
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22-ft,  tin 

Lump in Bulk.

Grocers’, 11-lb,  tin  scoop.  11  00 
brass  “  ..  12 25
“ ..13 25
brass  “  ..  14 75
starch  — Combination  Prices. 
Large boxes and barrels__  4%
12-lb boxes 
................... 5%
Gloss.
l-lb packages  .....................   6%
 
3-lb 
6%
6-lb 
.......................  7
Corn.
20-lb  boxes..........................  7
40-lb 
6%
Lots of  20f>  lbs., freight paid. 
Lots of 500 lbs., freight paid and 
5 per cent,  discount 
Goods made by manufacturers 
not in  the  trust  are  sold from 
%@%c lower.
Scotch, In  bladders.............37
j Maccaboy, in jars................35
French Rappee, in Jars......43

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SOAP.

Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands.

Superior...................................3 30
Queen  Anne  ......................3 85
German  Family..................
Mottled  German......................3 00
Old  German— .......................2 70
H. S. Big  Bargain.................... 2 00
Frost,  Floater  .................... 3 75
Cocoa  Castile  .................... 3 00
| Cocoa Castile, Fancy...........3 36
Old Country, 80............... ...3 20
...3 50
Uno, 100.........................
...3 00
Bouncer, 100..................

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

SODA.

 

SALT

SEEDS.

Boxes..........................
...5%
Kegs, English.............. — 4%
SAL  SODA.
Kegs................................
1%
Granulated,  boxes..............  2
Mixed bird........ ........  4%@ 6
Caraway............ .................  9
Canary.............. .................3%
.................  4
Hemp.............
Anise................. .................13
Rape................. .................  6
Mustard............ ................. 7%
Common Fine per bbl.  ...  @95
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks......  27
28 pocket.............................1  75
60 
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100  “ 
............................. 2 15
Ashton bu. bags.................  75
 
Higgins  “ 
75
.................  35
Warsaw “ 
.................  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%
Dwight’s Com.......................5%
Taylor’s................................5%
DeLand’sCap  Sheaf........... 5%
pure........................5%
Our Leader........................   5
Corn, barrels....................
one-half  barrels —
Pure  Sugar, bbl................30@40
half barrel__ 3¿@42
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SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps.............. 
Sugar Creams............. 
Frosted  Creams.........  
Graham Crackers...... 
Oatmeal Crackers—  
SHOE  POLISH.
Jettine, 1 doz. in  box............ 75

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Japan—Regular.

SUN CURED.

BASKET  FIRED.

F air...........................   @20
Good...  ....................  @22
Choice..........................24  @29
Choicest.......................32  @36
Dust  ..........................10  @11
F air............................  @20
Good..........................  @22
Choice.......................... 24  @29
Choicest.......................32  @T6
Dust...................  — 10  @14
F air............................  @20
Choice........................   @25
Choicest......................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to  fair...........25 @35
Extra One to finest.  .. 50  @65
Choicest fancy  ..........75  @85
Common to fair...........25 @30
Superior to  fine  ........30  @50
Fine to choicest...........55  @65
Common to fair...........20  @35
Superiortoflne............ 40  @50
Common to fair  ........ 18  @2t’
Superiortoflne...........30  @40
F air.............................25  @30
Choice..........................30  @35
Best............................. 55  @65
Tea Dust.......................8  @10

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

YOUNG HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

IMPERIAL.

tobaccos—Fine Cut.

O O L O N G .

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D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands.

tobaccos—Smoking

Hiawatha  .................  
62
Sweet  Cuba...............  
36
tobaccos—Plug.
Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands.
Something Good  .................. 37
Peach  Pie  .................
“Tobacco” .................
Hector........................
Plow Boy, 2  o z .........
4  oz.............
.
16 oz..  . 
VINEGAR.
40 gr............................
50 gr...........................
PA PER AWOODENWARE 
Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol­
lows:
Straw 
.................................165
Sugar....................................190
Hardware............................. 2%
Bakers.................................. 2%
Dry  Goods...............   5%@6
Jute  Manilla................6%@8
Red  Express 
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
WOODENWARE.
Tubs, No. 1........................   8 00
7 00
“  No. 2.................. 
“  No. 3.......................... 6 00
1 50
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop 
..  1  75
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes —  
50
Bowls, 11 inch...................  1  00
...  ..............  1  25
13  “ 
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
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l 3 50
“  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 5 00

“ 
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“ willow cl’ths, No.l 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
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splint 

TWINES.

“ 
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“ 

“ 

“ 

No. 1.  5

“ 

MEAL.

FLOUR.

WHEAT.

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF'S
W hite......................... 
88
Red............................ 
88
All wheat bought  on 60 lb. test.
Bolted....................................  1 30
Granulated................. 
1  75
Straight, in sa ck s...........   5 10
“ 
“  barrels...........   5 30
Patent 
“  sacks.............  6 10
“  barrels...........   6 30
“ 
Graham  “  sacks...........  4 80
Rye 
“ 
.........   3 70
M IL L S T U F F S .
Bran..................................  16  50
Screenings.......................  16  5“
Middlings  .......................  20 05
Mixed  Feed......................  23 00
Coarse meal....................... 23 «0
RYE.
No. 1  ................ 
  @60
 
BARLEY.
NO. 1......................................   1 20
No. 2.  ...............................  1  15
Small  lots.........................  61
Car 
“  .........................  58
Small  lots............................53
Car 
“  ...................  ......49
No. 1..................................  9 00
No. 2.  ...............................  8 00
HIDES,  PELTS  and  FURS’.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 
lows, nominal:
Green............................4 @5
Part  Cured  ...............   @5
Full 
Dry  ............................. 6  @7
Kips,green  ...............   4  @5
“  • cured..................5  @5%
Calfskins,  green  ____  5  @6
cured...........6 @ 8
Deacon skins...............10 @30

HIDES.

CORN.

@5%

OATS.

HAY.

“ 

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No. 2 hides % off.
FELTS.

 

WOOL.
 

Shearlings....................10 @25
Estimated wool, per lb 20  @28
Washed  . 
20@30
Unwashed.......................10@22
Tallow  ....................... 3  @4
Grease  b u tte r.............. 1 @2
Switches........  .........   1%@ 2
Ginseng 
2 5 >@3 00
LUBRICATING  OILS. 
The  Hogle  Oil  Co.  quote  as 

MISCELLANEOUS.

ANIMAL  OILS.

LUBRICATING  OILS.

“  No. 1  “ 
“ 

follows:
Extra W S Lard...........53 @58
..........45  @50
No. 1  ... 
..........35  @40
PureNeatsfoo'—  
52 @60
W Va  Summer...........7%@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 
Distilled.................... *1 
M ineral....................   30@  35
BURNING  OILS.
Water White..............  @10
.........
Michigan test 
Gasoline.......................9%@14
PAINT  OILS.
Linseed  Oil, boiled.. .65  @75
“  raw.......62  @72
Naptha.........................7%@10
Turpentine................ 45  @50

CASTOR  OIL.

“ 

26@1 30
in@l 25

562,500  Envelopes

IN   O N E   IN V O IC E .
These goods are now  in transit and 

w ill sw ell our stock to

Over a 

M.

By buying in large quantities,  direct  from  the manufacturer, and 
taking advantage of the cash discount, we obtain the lowest  price  and 
are able to distance all competitors.
We solicit orders from the trade,  printed or unprinted, case lots or 
less.  Samples and prices sent on application.
THE  TRADESMAN  C O M P A J V y ,

PAPER  DEALERS  AND  PRINTERS.

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T H E   M I C H i a ^ l S r   T T lA X )E S ]V r ^ I S r .

W ritten to r  Thk  Tradesman.

CAUGHT AT HIS  OSTN  GAME.
“Ah!  here is something  I  wanted. 

I 
see these axes are warranted.”  And  the 
man took one from the box and looked  it 
over. 
“Now that’s what 1 like,” he con­
tinued;  “when  a  thing  is  warranted  I 
don’t mind paying for it.  Warranted not 
to break for one  year,  I  suppose?”  and 
the man looked up at the merchant.

“O.  no, sir! we can’t do that,”  was  the 
answer.  “It is warranted for sixty days, 
not to beeak  with  ordinary  usage;  and 
that also means that it is  fine  steel  and 
will hold an edge and is evenly tempered, 
being neither too soft nor too hard.”

“That’s  the  kind!”  replied  the  man, 
“ and the only thing to be settled  now  is 
the price for  cash.”

“One  dollar  and  a  half  will buy that 
axe,” said the merchant, “ and  it is well 
worth the money.”

The man selected a handle  which  was 
thirty cents  extra, paid for both and  left 
the  store.

“There is a man I am  afraid  you  will 
have trouble  with,”  said  a  farmer  who 
sat in the shadow back of the 'stove  and 
who  had  listened  to  the  conversation. 
“ Do you know him?”

“No,  Mr.  Carmen,”  replied  the  mer­
chant,  “but  he  made  no  objections  to 
anything and seems all  right.”

“1 know him well, Mr. Southwick, and 
he knows me, but he didn’t notice  1  was 
here  or  you  might  not  have  made  the 
sale.  He  invariably  buys  such  goods 
when there are no witnesses present  and 
all his  purchases  and  trades  for  horses 
and cattle are made in the same way. 
If 
that axe will stand his test, it will be the 
first time any  warranted  piece  of  hard­
ware has.  He’s an  unscrupulous man in 
his  dealings.”

“Where does he live  and  has  he  any 
hired help on the farm?”  asked  the mer­
chant.

“He  lives  in  Bradley  township  and 
that is probably the  reason he is a stran­
ger to you.  His farm  is  thirteen  miles 
from here and it is not often he trades in 
Henrietta. 
I  understand  he  has  just 
hired a young man to assist  him  in  cut­
ting firewood, although I  don’t know the 
man.  His name is Knowlson.”

“Knowlson?”  repeated  the  merchant, 
“Do  you  know  his  ini­

thoughtfully. 
tials?”

“I do not,” replied Mr.  Carmen.
“I  really  believe  he  is  a  nephew  of 
mine.  My sister’s family  reside not far 
from there and  they  have  a  son  about 
twenty-two  years  old,”  continued  Mr. 
Southwick and it  is  probable  he  is  the 
hired  hand. 
If  such  is  the  case,  I’ll 
have a close watch on that axe.”

The  case  of  Oliver  vs.  Southwick, a 
suit for the recovery of  purchase money, 
with damages,  was called by the  justice. 
The  attorney  for  the  plaintiff  was  in 
earnest conversation with his client for a 
few moments and then  asked  the  court 
that his client might be sworn and testify 
in bis own behalf.  Mr. Oliver  took  the 
stand and was duly sworn.

“Now,”  said  his  attorney,  “you  will 
please  state  the  conversation  between 
yourself and Mr. Southwick at  the  time 
of the purchase of  this axe and how long 
and in what manner it  was  warranted?”
Mr.  Oliver  stated,  in  substance, that 
the axe was warranted  for  ninety  days, 
and within the first twenty days the blade 
had broken at different times, while chop­
ping bard maple  and  hickory,  as  could 
be proven by the axe.

“You understood  what  treatment  the 
axe should have, did you not?” asked the 
defendant’s  attorney.

“I did,” was the reply.
“And  you  now  say  before  this  jury 
that you gave this axe the ordinary usage 
and care and nothing else?”

“I  do.”
“Mr. Southwick, you  will  bring  your 
witnesses to the stand,” said the  justice.
“Your  Honor,”  said  the  plaintiff’s 
attorney,  rising from his seat,  “allow me 
to protest.  My client  is willing to make 
oath that no  witnesses  were  present  at 
the time of the purchase.

“May  it  please  the  court,”  said  the 
defendant’s  attorney,  now  leading  for­
ward Mr. Carmen,  “ we  would  like  this 
witness sworn.”

At  this  juncture,  the  face of  Oliver 
was a study for an artist,  as  the  varied 
changes  of  his  features  followed  the 
answers of  this unintentional witness  of 
the sale of  the  axe.  His  knees  fairly 
smote each other as  the  sixty days’  war­
rant instead of  ninety convicted  him  of 
false swearing.

“Your Honor,” again said  the  defend­
ant’s  attorney,  “ we  have  still  another 
very important  witness,”  and  he  beck­
oned to  a  young  man  to come forward 
and be sworn.

“Mr. Knowlson,  were you  in  the  em­
ploy of the plaintiff in  this  case  during 
the months of  January  and  February?”

“ 1 was,” the witness answered.
“State, in brief, what  you know about 

the damage to this axe in question.”

Grand  Rapids  A Indiana.

In effect October 6,1890.
TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

South. 
For S&ffln&w, solid t r a i n ........... 
For Traverse City........................ I  5:15 a  m 
For Traverse  City A  Mackinaw |  9:20 a m  
For Saginaw, solid tra in ............. 
For Cadillac...................................t   2:15 p m  
For M ackinaw .............................t   8:50 p m 
From Kalamazoo..........................t  3:65 p m

Arrive from   Leave going 
North.
t   7:30  a m
t  7:06  a m
+11:20  a m
t  4:30 p m
t   5:00 p m
|10:30  p m

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

North. 
For  Cincinnati..............................|  6:00 a  m 
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago.. .+10:15 a  m 
From Saginaw............................... 11:45a m
For F ort W ayne and the  B ast.. 
ForC incinnati...............................t  5:30 p m 
For Kalamazo and  Chicago....+10:50 p m  
From Saginaw.............................. +10:30 p m

Arrive from   Leave going 
South.
t   6:30  a  m
+10:30  a m
t  2 .00  p m
I  6:00 p m
|11:30  p m
Trains m arked (|) ru n  daily; (t) daily except Sunday. 
Sleeping and parlor car  service:  North—11:30  a   m 
train , p arlor  chair  car  fo r  Mackinaw C ity;  10:30 p m 
for  Mackinaw  City. 
train ,  W agner  sleeping  car 
South—6:30 a m train , parlor chair car for  Cincinnati; 
10:30 a m train , through p arlor coach to Chicago: 6 p m  
train , W agner sleeping car fo r  Cincinnati;  11:30  p  m 
train , W agner sleeping car  for Chicago.

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
7:00 a m  
11:16 a m  
5:40 p m  

From  Muskegon—Arrive.
10:10 a m
8:45 p m
Through tickets and full inform ation  can  be had by 
calling upon A. Almquist.  tick et  agent  a t  Union Sta­
tion,  or  George  W.  Munson,  Union  Ticket  Agent, 67 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids. Mich.

3:45 p m

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
Detroit, Grand Haven A Milwaukee.

O. L. LOCKWOOD.

GOING WEST.

Leaves. 
1 .-00 p m 
5:10 p m

p m

Arrives.
fMorning Express............................ 12:50 p m
tThrougnM ail.................................    5:00 
tGrand Rapids  Express..................10:25 p m
N ight Express...................................6:40 a m
t  Mixed................................................
GOING EAST.
tD etroit  Express..............................
tThrough M ail..................................10:10 a  m
t  Evening Express..............................3:36 p m
•Night Express.................................. 9:50 p m

6:50 a m  
10:20 am 
3:45 p m 
10:56 p m
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  «Daily.
D etroit Express  leaving 6:50 a  m has W agner parlor 
and buffet car attached, and Evening  Express leaving 
3 :45 p m has p arlor car  attached.  These train s m ake 
direct connection in D etroit for all points East.
Express leaving a t  10:55  p  m  has  W agner  sleeping 
car to«Detroit, arriving in D etroit a t 7:20 a  m.
Tickets  and 
ear  berths  secured  a t 
D.,G. EL A  M .R'y offices, 23 Monroe 8t., and a t the depot.
J as. Campbell. City Passenger Agent. 

sleeping 

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

“The axe was used by Mr.  Oliver only, 
so far as I know, during the  entire  time 
I was with him.  We  were  engaged  in 
cutting the timber  together  and  during 
January the axe cut  well,  but,  as  time 
wore on,  Mr. Oliver found  fault  with it, 
particularly  its  weight,  and  expressed 
regret at having purchased one so heavy; 
and on or  about  the 14th  of  February 1 
saw him from the  window  of  my  room 
one frosty morning, with  a  steel  punch 
and hammer break at  least  three  pieces 
from the blade of the axe. 
I  said  noth­
ing  to  him  in  reference  to  what I had 
witnessed,  although  I  noticed  he  was 
using another  that  day  and  when I en­
quired about the'new one, his  reply was 
he  had  broken  it  in  cutting  a frosted 
stick of timber that  morning and that he 
would be obliged to return it.”

It  need  only  be  said  that  the  jury 
brought in a verdict  against the plaintiff 
for the costs of the suit.

Muskegon—W. E. Jeannot has sold his 
cigar and confectionery stock  to  Barney 
Pelman.

BiGydes,
Tricples,
Velocipedes
General Sporting Goods

AND

Agents for A. G. Spalding & Bro.’s 
Sporting  and  Athletic  Goods  and 
American Powder Co.’s Powder.

We have on hand a complete line of Colombia. 
Victor and other  cheaper  bicycles, also a splen­
did assortment of  Misses'  Tricycles,  Children’s 
Velocipedes and small  Safety Bicycles.

£. G. Studley,

4  Monroe St.,

GRAND RAPIDS

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

Toledo,  Ann  Arbor  A Northern.

For Toledo and all points South and East, take 
the Toledo, Ann Arbor &  North  Michigan  Rail­
way from O WO880 Junction.  Sure  connections 
at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and 
connections at Toledo  with  evening  trains  for 
Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus,  Dayton,  Cincin­
nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville  and  all  promi­
nent points on connecting lines.

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

ARRIVE.

DEPART.

Fruit Belt Line.

S HICAGO  A  WEST  MICHIGAN  RAILWAY. 
Mall and Express for Big Rapids, Lud- 
ington,  Manistee & Traverse City..  *7:25 a  m 
Express for Chicago and  Mnskegon..  t9:00 a m
Fast Mall for Chicago.........................tl :00 p m
Express for Muskegon and Hart........  +5:0t p m
Night Express for  Chicago  .............. *11:35 p m
Night Express for  Indianapolis  __  1+1:35 p m
Mail  for  Big  Rapids,  Manistee  and
Traverse City  .................................. t5:05 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, HartA Pentwater+10:45 a m 
Express  from  Big  Rapids,  Baldwin
and Traverse City........................... +12:15 p m
Mall 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.  +5:40 p m
Express from Traverse City............... *10:40 p m
•Daily. 
tDailv except Sunday.  IDaily except 
Saturday.  ¿Daily except Monday.
Through chair car  for  Chicago  on  9:00 .a  m 
train:  no extra charge for seats.  Trains leaving 
Grand  Rapids  at  1:00  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.
Wagner drawing  room  buffet  cars  on  trains 
leaving  Grand  Rapids  1  p  m and Chicago 4:40 
pm.  4:40pm  train  leaving  Chicago  connects 
with sleeper leaving Grand Rapids  11:30 p m for 
Traverse City.  The 5:06 p m train  has  through 
free parlor car to Manistee via M. & N. E. R’y.
For tickets  and  Information, apply  at  Union 
Ticket Office, 67 Monroe street, and Union Depot 

Gen  Pass. & Ticket Agt, Grand Rapids.

Geo DeHaven,

ARRIVE.

DEFABT.

Lansing Route.

ETROIT,  LANSING  &  NORTHERN R.  R. 

D
Express for Saginaw and Bay City —   +7:30 a m 
Mail for Lansing, Detroit and East...  +7:25 a  m 
Express for Lansing, Detroit and East tl :20 p m 
Mall for Alma, St. Louis and Saginaw  +4:30 p m 
Fast Ex. for Detroit, New York, Boston*6:2S  p  m
Mall from Saginaw and  Bay City.  ...+11:45 a m 
Mail from Lansing, Detroit and  East.+12:10 a m 
Fast Express from Lansing and East.  *5:05 p m 
Express from Lansing  ana Detroit...  +9:50 p  m 
Ex. from Saginaw, St. Louis and Alma+10:90 p m 
•Daily, 
The shortest fine to D etroit and th e  East.  Elegant 
parlor cara between D etroit  and Grand Rapida.
Solid  tralna  between  Grand  Rapida  and  Saginaw. 
Two solid tralna between  Grand  Rapida  and  Detroit, 
leaving Grand Rapida 7:S6 a m  and  0:S5  p  m,  leaving 
D etroit 1:15 p m and 6:00 p  m.
For tickets and Inform ation, apply  a t Union  Ticket 
Office, 07 Monroe street, and  Union Depot.
Geo. DeHavbx, Gen. Paisa. A Ticket Agt., Grand Rapida.

tDaily except Sunday.

Michigan ( Textra!,

“  The Niagara Fallt Route."

DEPART.  ARRIVE
D etroit Express.................................... 7:20 a m   10:00 p m
Mixed  ..................................................6 :3 0  a m   5:00 p m
Day  Express....................................... 11:65 a m   10:00 a m
«Atlantic A  Pacific E xpress....... ..11:15 p m  6:00 a  m
New York Express...............................6:40p m  
1:25p m

train s to  and from  Detroit. 
Express to  and  from   Detroit.

•Daily.
All other daily except Sunday.
Sleeping  cars  ru n   on  A tlantic  and  Pacific  Express 
SOP”""
P arlor  cars ru n   on  Day  Express  and  Grand Rapid 
Fred M. Briggs. Gen'l Agent, 85 Monroe St.
G . S. H a w k in s , Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Geo. W. Munson. Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. 
O. W. Ruggle8, G. P.  A  T. Agent., Chicago..

THE  GREAT

EDMUND B.DIKEMRN
Watch JVIaker 
Jeweler,

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44 BINE 8Y„
Grand Rapids  • 
W A .N TB D .

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POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

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

E A R L   B R O S.,

C o m m is s io n   M e r c h a n t s
Reference:  F ir s t   N a t io n a l   B a n k ,  Chicago. 
Mic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n . Grand Rapids.

157 South  W ater St.,  C H IC A G O . 

FIT  FOR

Table:
name of

All goods bearing the 

THURBER, WHYLAND  &  CO.. 

OB

ALEXIS  GODILLOT, JR.

Grocers visiting New  York  are  cordially Invited ■ 
to  call and  see  us, and  if   they  wish, have  th e ir 
correspondence addressed in   our  care.  We  sh a ll 
be glad to be o f use  to  them  in   any way.  Write 
us about anything you wish to know.

THtJRBEB, WHYLAND  & 00,

West Broadway, Beade & Hudson Streets.

New York Oity

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Best  Lines  Holiday  Goods.

ASSORTED  PACKAGE  No.  48  TIN  TOYS.

ASSORTED  PACKAGE  1890  HOLIDAY  GOODS.

39  Tin Animals on  Wheels...........................
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“ Wagons,  assorted..........................
133 
“ 
1
% II
.......   7 5 ....
2 
it 
44 Horses on Wheels...............................
tt
“ City Horse Cars..................................
242 
“ 
1
% 46
2%  “ Trotting Horses.................................. ......... 1  00___
“ 
% it
“ Animals  on Wheels........................... .........   75___
38 
» 
% it
“ Horses on Wheels............................... .........1  50___
3 
“ 
% tt
13&B  “ Assorted  Wagons......... ..................... ......... 2  25___
“ 
% tt
“ Engines and  Cars............................... .........  90___
“ 
665 
tt
“  400-31-2 “ Engines and 2 Cars............................. ......... 2  25___
X
1-12 tt
“  400-4  “ Engines,  Tender  and 3 Cars............. .........4  25___
“  401-2  “ Locomotive  with Ringing Bell......... ...................4  00___
1-6
“ Mechanical Locomotives........................................ ......... 4  75___
“ 
500 
1-12 t t
.................... ......... 9  00--------
“  500-4  “
1-12 t t
“ Assorted  Tin Wagons........................
“ 
134 
1
t t
“ Steamboats........................................ ... ......... 8  00___
“  1102 
1-12
“ Bell Toys and 2 Horses......................
“ 
405 
1-6
“ 170-26-0  “ Stoves...................................................................................................
1
“ 170-26-2%“
...................  42______
“ Kitchens............... ...........................................................................
% t t
...................1  75______
25 
“ 
“ Kitchens............................................................................................
1-6
...................  45.
“  D4 
“ Kitchen  Sets...............................................................................
% i t
...................1  80--------
“ Kitchen Sets................................................................................
1 
“ 
X
“ Sheet Dust  Pans, 3 colors................................. .........  44___
“  % 
% t t
“ Toys.....................................................
3 
“ 
1
“ T rum pets...,.............................. . ...
“ 
1 
1
“ Tin Flutes..........................................
“ 
14 
1
“ Gothic  Banks.....................................
1

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35
45
38
80
50
38
50
1  13
45
56
36
67
40
75
75
66
70
75
88
21
44
23
45
22
36
40
35
35
14  43

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ASSORTED  PACKAGE  McLOUGHLIN  BROS.’ TOY  PICTURE  BOOKS.

1
2
1
1
%
%
%
%
%
X
X
X
X
X
X
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Doz. Robin Hood Series,  6  kinds..............................................................
Farm Yard  A B C ............................................... .................................   25___
No.  55  Snow  Flake, 4 kinds.......................................................
46  Little  Folks, 4 kinds...........................
“ 
63  Artists’ Painting  Book»............................................
“ 
54  Home  Primer........................................ ................   75 ....
“ 
62  Over the Hills, 6  kinds........................ ................   75___
“ 
.................................   75______
“ 
67  Arthur’s  Alphabet..............................................................
“ 
82  Aunt Katy’s, 6 kinds.......................................................
“  121  Mother Goose  Series.......................................................
“  103  Merry  Alphabet......................................................................
“  100  Child’s First  Book..............................................................
“  163  Aunt Louisa, 12 kinds....................................................
“ 
Old Nursery Mother  Goose.................................
“  202  Santa Claus...........................................
“  188  Mother  Hubbard..................................

.................................   90______
................................. 1  20---------
................................. 1  20______
................1  52___

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9 0 ______

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09
50
42
45
38
38
38
38
38
23
23
23
30
30
38
76
5  79

20
75

Per Doz.
Doz. 
37
4 inch  Silver Vases....................................................................................... 
1 
1-6  7 inch  Silver Vases........................................................................   87----  
15
9 inch  Silver Vases.................................. ....................................1  20- 
1-6 
1127  Opalescent Vases...................................................................   85----  
% 
28
604 Decorated  Vases.......................................................................1 50- 
X  
6942  Assorted Vases.........................................................................2 25----  1  13
X  
1-6 
7191  Assorted Vases.......................................................................4 0 0 .... 
67
1-6  944 Child’s Toy Tea Set...................................................................1 4 0 .... 
24
31
1-12  1864 Child’s Toy Tea Set...............................................................3  75----- 
X   A B C Picture  Mug....................... .................................................  4 2 .... 
21
Blue and Gold  Mug.........................................................................  8 5 .... 
X  
43
198 Decorated  Mug........................................................................ 2 00— .  1  00
X  
X  
7772-47 Shaving Mug.......................................................................2 00-  1  00
X  
916><i Moustache "Coffee................................................................... 2 00. ...  1 00
828% Moustache  Coffee...............................................................-.3  75----  1  88
X  
909 Child’s Cup and Saucer, assorted  colors................................   90 ... - 
X  
45
858 Open Coffee, assorted  colors.....................................................1 7 5 .... 
X  
87
1 50
923 Open Coffee, assorted  colors.....................................................3 00 .... 
X  
812 Open Coffee, assorted  colors.....................................................5 00....  2 50
X  
X  
1666-354 Ladies’ Cups and  Saucers,  assorted............................... 2 25---- 
1  13
X  
750 Bread and Milk Sets, 3 colors..............................................  2  25- 
56
856 Bread and Milk Sets, 4 colors................................................... 6 00----  2  00
X  
737-6 Plate Sets, 3  colors................................................................1 75- 
X 
44
94
9097 Plate Sets, 3 colors.................................................................3 75- 
X 
42
X  
113 Iron  Bank..................................................................................  85---- 
119 Iron  Bank...............................  
X 
2  25- 
56
46
1-12  475 Iron Bank, Combination  Lock............................................................. 
43
X  
46 Rabbits on Wheels.....................................................................  85---- 
753% Fruit Plates, 6 assorted decorations...................................  
X  
45
90----  
892 Fruit Plates, 6 assorted decorations........................................ 2 00----  1  00
% 
87
2249 Assorted Bisque  Figures......................................................... 
1 
 
377 Dressed China Babies, 3 in.  long............................................ 
1 
 
40
1 
287 Dressed China Limb Dolls, 8  in.  long....................................  —  
75
% 
401-42 Washable Dolls,  15 in.  long,  with hair............................... 2 00----  1  00
1-12  9020-40-27 Dressed Doll, with bonnet............................................4 00- 
2-52 Washable Dolls, 20 in., with hair............................................3 50----  1  75
% 
1-6  76 Washable Dolls, 30 in.,  with hair..............................................8 00----  1  33
6201-20  Assorted Whips,  with  w histles..................................................... 
1 
75
1-12  9 inch Striped Ten Pins.............................................— ............3  50—  
29
X 
21 Building Blocks........................... 
2  00—  
50
X  
24 A B C Picture Blocks, Sea  Side............................................... 2 00- 
1-12  Universal Spelling  Boards............................................................ 8 00- 
159 Cut Up Fairy Tales  Puzzle  .................................................. 2  15  ... 
X  
54
1-12  597 Dissected Map of  the United States...................................... 4 00 ----  
33
9 inch Drums and  Sticks................................................................. 4 50----   1  13
X 
% 
4490 Flower Bowls,  assorted  colors............................................... 4 50----   1  50
1-12  87 Smoking Sets..............................................................................8 00 ----  
67
1-12  33-54 Tobacco Jar,  (Dog’s  Head)................................................. 3 75- 
372-2 Cream  Pitchers, decorated.....................................................2 00----   1  00
% 
Package....................................................................................................................  
50
38  45

50
67

31

33

 

 

If impossible to call upon us and select these goods in person,  try one  or  all  of  above  packages,  selected  with  the 

greatest care and representing  “sure sellers.”  Send references with order,  if strangers to us.

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

G ra n d

R a p id s ,  M ic h .

salesman,  is in town.

Egbert Kuyers  will hereafter cover the 
territory  heretofore  traveled  by  Ezra 
O.  Phillips for P.  Steketee & Sons.

Chas.  F.  Bigelow  has  returned  from  a 
three months’ trip  through  the  west  in 
the interest of  the  Universal  Tripod  Co.
traveling  representa­
tive for the  Muskegon  Cracker  Co.,  was 
in town  Monday on  his way to the Upper 
Peninsula.

Cass  Bradford, 

The officers of the Grand  Rapids Trav­
eling  Men’s  Association  have  received 
handsome invitations to the tenth annual 
convention of the  Iowa  State  Traveling 
Men’s  Association,  which  meets  at  Des 
Moines on Dec. 5.

The usual  number  of  changes  among 
the boys are  in  store  for  the new year. 
Among  those  who  will  transfer  their 
allegiance to othei  markets  is  Frank  L. | 
Kelly,  who will carry  the trunks of Car- | 
son,  Pirie, Scott & Co., of Chicago.

Some Wants of  Michigan Towns.
Mancelona wants a bank.
Walker wants a stove works.
Reed City wants a stave factory.
Holly wants a furuitnre factory.
Lake City  wants a sash, door and blind 

factory.

factories.

ditto Belding.

Grand  Haven  wants  nail  and  brush 

Ionia wants the Capitol  Wagon Works; 

Grand  Rapids  wants  soap  and  match 

factories and  a cannery.

Purely  Personal.

P.  H.  Kilmartin, of the  firm  of  P.  H. 
Kilmartin  &  Son,  general  dealers  at 
Orange,  was in town over  Sunday.

B.  Jonker,  the  Alpine  avenue  grocer 
and druggist, has gone to Holland, where 
he will spend a  couple  of  months  with 
relatives and friends.

C. F.  Walker,  general  dealer  at  Glen 
Arbor, is in town  for a week or ten days. 
It is understood that dealers in the ardent 
have laid in a sufficient  quantity  to  last 
through.

Bank  Notes.

After about two years’ existence as the 
Flint National  Bank,  the  pioneer  organ­
ization of Flint resumes its  former  title 
of First National Bank.

Another bank is in  process  of  incuba­
tion at  Manistee.  The  propagators  are 
Edwin  Russell,  E. G.  Filer, James Shrig- 
ley, Thomas  Kenny,  Patrick  Noud  and 
McAlvay & Grant.  No one  interested in 
either of the other banks will be admitted 
to the enterprise.

8 7 ,  3 9   a n d   41  K e n t   S t.,  G r a n d   R a p id s .

F lorid a   O ran ges

Dodge  Wood  S ol  Pulleys.

We carry a large stock and are prepared 
to quote factory prices.  Send for sample 
pulley and be convinced of  their  super­
iority.
44,46 & 48  So. Division  St., Grand Rapids.
L a n g e l a n d  M fg * C o.

W e   a r e   a g e n t s  

fo r   H il ly e r ’s  c e le b r a t e d  
S t a g   b r a n d ,  w h i c h   is   t h e   f in e s t   fr u it  s o ld   in  
M ic h ig a n .
T J ie   P u tn a m   C a n d y   Co.
Muskegon Cracker Co
D OORS 1   Coiecfion  i t   Any  Crate  Tmst

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  ATTENTIONS PAID  TO  MAIL  ORDERS.

CRACKERS,  BISCUITS AND  SWEET GOODS.

S A S l i

Wholes  Manufacturers  of

---- AND----

- 

S.  K.  BOLLES.

E.  B.  DIKEMAN.

D EA LER S  IN

Lumber, Lull  anil  Singles.

Office,  Mill  and  Yard:
East  Muskegon  Ave.,  on  C-  A  W.  M. R’y.

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

KNIGHTS  OF  THE  DRIP

Would  you  like  to carry a side line and 
establish  agents  or  sell  to  the  trade ? 
If so,  address

Bell  Furniture  ani  Novelty  Co,

NA8HVILLE,  MICH.

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

17  CANAL  8T..  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

"W holesale  C igar  D ealers.

“T O S S   U P ! ”

The  "TOSS  U P”  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.

Pennsylvania  L u M a is.

The  best  fitting  Stocking  Rub­
bers in the market.  A  full line of 
Lycoming Rubbers on hand.  Try 
them.
GEO. H.  REEDER & CO.,

State  Agents for 

LYCOMING  RUBBER  CO.

158  and  160  East  Fulton  Street.

T H E   M IC H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N ,

Gripsack  Brigade.

Wm.  Connor, 

the  hustling  clothing 

H e ste r <& F o x

m anufacturers’  agents  fo r

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

Bracker  ManiMUro,

DON’T  SCATTER  10DR  FIRE, OR  WASTE  COSTLY  AMMUNITION

UNNECESSARILY--DECIDE  UPON  WHAT  YOU  WANT,THEN  REACH  FOR  IT.

lUMQe

'ÂÛASTEU

HEBE  IT  IS !  AND WE GIVE  THEM AWAY FREE!  They  are  dollars 
and cents to you, Boxes and Barrels are  good in their  place, but these Cabinets dress up  your store, 
and cost you nothing.  They are made  by regular Cabinet  Makers at a slight expense over the cost 
of  making  Boxes, consequently we  can  use  them  instead  of  the  old-tumbled-down-Barrels  and 
worthless  boxe;.  These  Cabinets  are  beautifully Panelled, Painted  and Varnished.  Their use in 
the Store is apparent.  The  50 lb.  Cabinet  is  made  particularly for the  Counter 
Shelf;  the  lOO lb.  Cabinets  to take the  place  of  the  unsightly  Barrels so 
often  seen  on  the floor.  To  secure these Cabinets  you have only to buy your Bulk Roast­
ed Coffee of the Woolson Spice Co., or order through your Jobber.  You assume no risk for we fully 
guarantee the Coffee to  give  perfect satisfaction. 
It will cost  you only one cent  for a Postal Card 
addressed to the Woolson Spice Company, Toledo, Ohio, for Price-list of Roasted Coffee in Cabinets.

THIS CABINET HOLDS 50 lbs

»©"LION  COFFEE  NOT  SOLD  IN  TH ESE  CABINETS."^*

THIS CABINET HOLDS  100 lbs.

