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THE  LOST  TRAIN—A  MYSTERY.
At 7 o’clock in the evening  of  August 
29,1881, there stood on  the  railroad plat­
form of the little station  of  Silver  Bow 
seven persons.  Silver Bow is a new set­
tlement on one of the numerous branches 
of  the  Atchison,  Topeka  and  Santa  Fe 
Railroad.  Twenty  miles  southwest  of 
Silver  Bow, on  the same track,  is  Lone 
Tomb.  A  like  distance  beyond  this 
place lies  Blue Canon, and  still  farther 
Golconda City, where the line terminates. 
Five of these persons  had bought tickets 
for  the  Atlantic  Express.  They  were 
the  momentarily 
waiting 
expected  train  for  Topeka, 
to 
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of Chicago.  The remaining two individ­
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NO.  401

was not unusual,  for  “67”  had  been  at 
times half an hour late. As the SilverBow 
travelers  were  beginning  to  get  impa­
tient,  the  telegraph  operator  wired  to 
Lone Tomb and asked at  what  time  the 
train had left.  The answer soon came:

Bow at 6:20.  Fair load.”

“ ‘67,’ in charge of Harris,  left here  for  Silver 
“Well,”  remarked  the  ticket  agent, 
who was in charge  of  the  station,  “she 
must be along in a few minutes now.”

The passengers were satisfied and  con­
tent to wait.  They walked up and down 
the platform and rested  occasionally  on 
their trunks  and  baggage,  which  were 
piled up  ready  to  be  deposited  in  the 
baggage car of “67.”

It  was now  eight  o’clock  and  almost 
dark,  without any indications of  the  ap­
proach  of  the  train. 
Those  who  be­
fore  had  been  impatient  now  became 
alarmed,  especially  the  step-mother  of 
the bridegroom who,  with his father,  in­
tended  accompanying the  young  people 
as far as  Topeka,  as  neither  had  been 
able to be present at the  wedding.  The 
telegraph operator,  at the  request of the 
ticket agent,  wired  once  more  to  Lone 
Tomb as follows:

night.  Going  home.”

“ ‘67’ not yet arrived.  What's wrong?”
Lone Tomb  replied:
“Must be all  right.  Perhaps  hot-box.  Good­
“It  is  nine  o’clock,”  said  the  ticket 
agent to the  tired  and  anxious  persons 
on  the  platform,  as  he  looked  at  has 
watch;  “something must have happened, 
but I don’t think it can be anything seri­
ous.  A  piece  of  machinery  may  have 
got out of order,  and Tiernan’s repairing 
it. 
I guess  ‘67’ will  turn  up  by  and  by 
in good shape.”  The ticket agent talked 
in  this  way 
to  keep  up  the  spirits 
of the others,  but it  was  easy  to  see  by 
his forced jollity that he did not like the 
looks of things,  “What  can  have  hap­
pened?”  he  muttered  to  himself;  “she 
can’t have jumped the track  or  tumbled 
into the little creek—or,  have the  James 
boys got aboard,  stopped  the  train  and 
shot Tim Tiernan? 
If  anything  of  the 
sort has taken place,  it  would be at least 
another hour before we could hear  of  it 
here or at Lone Tomb.”

At a quarter-past ten the  ticket  agent 
came  to  the  conclusion  that  a  serious 
mishap had befallen  the  train,  and  re­
solved to organize a party  to  go  up  the 
track toward Lone Tomb  and  learn  the 
cause of the detention.  The  first  thing 
he did was to send to a neighboring min­
ing-camp,  two miles away, to get the ser­
vices of the sheriff and some of the  min­
ers to aid him in searching  for the  train 
and  render  the  necessary  assistance. 
Within less than an hour twenty resolute 
men,  headed by the sheriff and the ticket 
agent,  started  for  Lone  Tomb.  They 
were  all  well  armed,  and 
a  doz­
en  of them  carried  lanterns.  The  tel­
egraph operator and the step-mother and 
the  father  of  the  expected  bridegroom 
remained  behind  and  made  themselves 
as comfortable as they  could  under  the 
circumstances.  They  knew that several 
hours must elapse  before any  tidings of 
the train could reach  them.  The  night

On the platform at Lone Tomb were  a 
dozen persons,  among them a party  con­
sisting of a bride and  groom,  just  mar­
ried,  and a mysterious stranger,  dressed 
in a long black  cloak  and a slouch  hat, 
who glanced furtively,  from time to time, 
at the happy pair.  The train  fiom Blue 
Canon came slowly into Lone Tomb,  and 
the passengers took their seats,  the bride 
and groom going into the parlor-ear,  and 
the  mysterious  stranger  entering 
the 
smoker.  There were a few interchanges 
of  courtesies  between  the  loiterers  on 
the platform and  the  conductor,  brake- 
men and engineer, then  the  bell  of  the 
locomotive rang,  and  the train moved on 
the single track toward Silver Bow.

There was not a great deal of traffie on 
this branch of the  Atchison,  Topeka and 
Santa  Fe.  But  two  trains  ran  daily, 
Sunday  excepted,  through  the  seventy 
miles of wild,  but  fairly  level  country 
that had occasionally been well traversed 
by  the  James  boys  and  other  desper­
adoes, for the United States Express  car 
often carried in its safe a  large  amount 
of specie.  The train that  had  just  left 
Lone Tomb was known as “No. 67.” 
It 
consisted  of  a  Pullman  Palace  Parlor 
Sleeper,  a smoker,  an ordinary passenger 
coach,  a baggage ear,  a United States Ex­
press and  a  caboose.  The  conductor, 
Jem Harris,  was  an  Antietam  hero,  fa­
vorably known through Kansas,Colorado, 
New  Mexico and Texas.  The  engineer, 
Tim Tiernan, enjoyed  equally  as  much 
popularity, not solely on account  of  his 
general  good-nature,  but  also  for  his 
skill in the  game  of  poker. 
In  remote 
regions such as these the  arrival and de­
parture of the train is, outside  of  an  oc­
casional  lynching,  the  only  excitement, 
and  the  trainmen are looked  upon very 
much as were  the  driver  and  guard  in 
the old coaching days in England.

“We’re twenty minutes  behind  time,” 
said Conductor Harris to  Engineer  Tier- 
nan. 
“Shakeher up, Tim;  we’ll  get  to 
Silver Bow by seven.”

The seven persons on  the  platform  at 
Silver Bow toward  seven  o’clock looked 
anxiously up the track for “No.  67,” but 
there were  no  signs  of  it.  A  quarter- 
past  seven,  and  still  the  well-known 
whistle, which could be  heard often at a 
distance of three miles,  had  not  echoed 
through the thickly-wooded hills.  This

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THE  MICHIGAN  TEADESMA IST,

was dark and cloudy,  aud only  occasion-1 
ally was  the faint glimmer of a star vis- 
ible  through  the  overhanging  firs  that 
grew in rich luxuriance for a mile or two 
along the  track,  forming  an  avenue  of I 
plumed ghosts with bowing heads.

When the  party  had  proceeded  about 
half an hour without seeing any trace  of 
the train,it stopped to rest and discuss the 
situation.  The  men  looked  at  one  an­
other as well as they could iu  the  black­
ness of the wood,  and for a few  minutes 
no one spoke.

“ Well,”  said  the sheriff  as  he  rested 
his rifle on one  of the rails of the  solita­
ry track,  “I guess this is the James boys’ 
work.  We may have to have a  fight  af­
ter all.  Who knows but  that  they  may 
have murdered  everybody  on  the  train 
and got away with all the treasure in the 
safe?  It’s rough across country,  and it’s 
almost  certain  they’ll  come  this  way. 
Keep a sharp lookout,boys; we may catch 
’em.  We’d  better  travel  in  military 
style.  Advance  guard,  main  body  and 
rear guard!”

“Perhaps it  ain’t  the  James  boys  at 
all,” said a weather-beaten,  red-bearded 
miner.  “The  train  may  have tumbled 
over a bridge or down a  ravine.  Let  us 
look at both sides of the track  as  we  go 
along and—”

“That isn’t  very  likely,”  interrupted 
the  ticket  agent.  “This  branch  is  as 
well built as any line in  the  West.  The 
rails are steel and  the  road is  ballasted 
with rock.  The  two  bridges  on  it  are 
thoroughly  substantial,  and  the  creeks 
they  cross  aren’t  big  enough  or  deep 
enough to hold a horse-car, much  less  a 
whole  train.  Besides,  there  isn’t  a  ra­
vine worth talking about within two hun­
dred yards of the track.”

‘Let’s get  along,  boys,  and  keep  our 
eyes open,”  said the sheriff;  “it’s  of  no 
use staying here chinning.”

As  the  ticket  agent  had  stated,  the 
track between Lone Tomb and Silver Bow 
was a good one and beset with  few  dan­
gers. 
It is true that there  were  several 
sharp curves, but the trains always went 
slowly  around  these.  There  was  one 
bridge that crossed a shallow stream; an­
other spanned a small  mountain torrent, 
and above a  cutting  through the  rocks, 
about seven miles from  Lone Tomb,  was 
a  natural arch,  formed  by  boulders  in 
by-gone  ages, 
lodging  in  the  narrow 
gorge.  These were the only parts of the 
road where an accident might  be  likely, 
but at the same time  highly  improbable.
the  party 
reached the first bridge.  The gentle rip­
ple of the stream  fell  on  their  ears  as 
the lanterns were held close to the track. 
The  rails,  ties  and  frogs  were  intact. 
The parapets wore iu  perfect  condition. 
No train could possibly  have run off  the 
track there.  Some of  the  men  plunged 
into the  dense  uudergrowth  among  the 
willows near  the  water  and  swept  the 
scene with the lurid light of their lanterns, 
which flashed in the woods like huge fire­
flies.  The  brook,  for  it  was  nothing 
more,  flowed  silently  on.  No  railroad 
disaster had disturbed  its  limpid  calm­
ness.

The  night  crept  on,  aud 

“We’ve got to keep on,  boys,” said the 
sheriff,  with an  air of  painfully-assumed 
cheerfulness.  “We’ll  have  ‘67’s’  head­
light blazing down on us yet.  She  can’t i 
be far off now.  We’re  only  nine  miles ! 
from Lone Tomb.  We’ll soon know w hat! 
the trouble  is.”

No one  had  anything 

to  add  to  the |

sheriff’s remarks,so the weary aud,so far, 
fruitless march was resumed.

“ Hanged if 1  don't  think,”  exclaimed 
the red-bearded miner,  stopping  sudden­
ly,  “that them  James  boys  has  ditched 
the train by  putting  logs  on  the  track, 
and we’ll find the wreck before we get to 
One Tree Bridge.”

One Tree Bridge was so called because 
a huge pine stood  like a sentinel close to 
the small  but petulant mountain  torrent 
that the  structure  crossed.  Again  the 
lanterns  were  swung  over  the  water. 
Again  the  party  scattered  among  the 
trees  and searched  carefully  for  traces 
of the missing train and  its  passengers, 
but without the smallest measure of suc­
cess.

“Guess I’ve had about enough of this,” 
said the  ticket  agent.  “Let’s  go  back; 
the  company  don’t  pay  me 
to  walk 
twelve or fourteen miles to look after its 
trains.”

“ Well,”  remarked  one  of  the  party, 
who had had  but  little  to  say,  “ we’ve 
come  so  far,  we  may  as  well  see  it 
through.  The thing ought to be followed 
up.  Something very  unusual  has  hap­
pened,  and it is our duty to find out what 
it is.  Who knows but we  may yet come 
upon the corpses of all  who  were aboard 
that train!”

“Oh!  it  ain’t  going  to  be  as  bad  as 
that,”  said the sheriff;  “ but,  anyhow,  it 
of no use going back. 
‘67’ must be close 
at hand,  and  then,  when  we’ve  found 
out what the trouble  is,  we’ll  all have  a 
nap at Lone Tomb and take  the morning 
train for Silver Bow.  We shall fetch up 
in time for breakfast.”

“What licks me,” the red-bearded min­
er blurted out,  “is  why  some  of  them 
Lone Tomb fellows ain’t found their way 
here before this.”

“They hadn’t any reason to,” observed 
another  miner,  who  carried  very  con­
spicuously two  six-shooters,  “as the ac­
cident’s  happened  up  their  way.  But 
do any of you know what the time is?”

There was  an  immediate  pulling  out 
and examination  of  watches,  and  then 
several  voices chorused:

“ Half-after  three.”
“I didn’t think it was so  late  as  that; 

let us push on,  boys.”

The gloom  which  had  hung  over  the 
party like a pall during  the  earlier  part 
of the  march  gave  way  to lightness  of 
spirit aud jocularity.  The  terrible  fate 
which had probably  befallen  seventy  or 
eighty  human  beings  was  apparantly 
lost sight of for  the  moment.  Whisky- 
flasks  received  attention.  Cigars  and 
pipes were lighted,  while  various  theo­
ries were  advanced 
to  account  for  the 
non-appearance  of  the  missing  train. 
One man suggested that it  was  taking  a 
journey through the air attached to  spe­
cial baloons.  Another that  it  had  been 
blown up with dynamite by Nihilists.  A 
third that the track had caved in and that 
“67”  was  running  through  a  private 
tunnel  of  its  own.  The  red-bearded 
miner seemed to think that the train saw 
the  sheriff  coming  and  had  run  round 
into the woods to get  out of the way.

“ You may  joke  away,  gentlemen,  as 
much  as  you please,  but in my  opinion 
it’s  no  joking  matter,”  said  the  ticket 
agent  gloomily.  “Here  is 
this  single 
track.  That  train  left  Lone  Tomb  at 
6:20, and it  hasn’t  got as far as this yet, 
and it is now nearly four.  Where  can it 
be?  There are no precipices  over which 
it could tumble.  We  don’t  know  what 
horrors may  be in store for us. 
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most  sorry that  I  didn’t  go  back;  this 
long  and anxious  tramp  has  played  me 
out.”

It was the dark  hour  before daylight, 
rendered doubly gloomy by the high rocks 
on each side.  The track curved  sharply 
here as it entered the narrow gorge  with 
the  natural  arch  of  boulders.  No  dis­
aster to a train had  taken  place  at  this 
spot.  The  track,  the  ties  and  every­
thing  were  found  to be in  perfect  con­
dition.  The  detention,  from  whatever 
cause,  must have  occurred  nearer  Lone 
Tomb.  The mystified and  tired  search­
ers  became  absolutely  desperate  with 
disappointmeut.  The air grew cold  and 
a light rain began  to fall.  The walking, 
too,  was difficult,  owing  the  thicket  on 
both sides of the track,  the  tangled  un­
derbrush and felled  trees.

“We shall soon know  the worst,”  said 
the sheriff,  who had been a soldier,  “but 
we may as well do the thing right  up  to 
the handle.  We’ll  form in extended line, 
so that we can cover some of the  ground 
in  these  woods,  although  1  don’t  see 
very  well how  a  train  could  get there, 
anyway.”

The  line  was  formed,  as  suggested,
just as the faint streaks of dawn appeared. 
The  ground  was  carefully  examined, 
the prickly branches of  the  underbrush 
tearing the clothes of several of  the par­
ty.  Now the track again  turned abrupt­
ly,  and then came  open  and  very  level 
country,  with wooded, purple hills in the 
distance,  looking  shadowy  in  the  dim, 
gray dawn.  The regular order of march 
was once more  adopted.  There  was  no 
longer any conversation;  everybody  felt 
exhausted.  Suddenly there  was  a  loud 
cry.  It was a shout of unmistakable joy.
I see  the  light 
—the headlight  of  Tim  Tiernan’s  loco­
motive.”

“Hurrah!  I  see  her. 

“Where?” all asked at once.
“There,  right ahead  on  the  track,  as 
straight  as you  can look,”  answered the 
red-bearded  miner,  who  had made  the 
discovery.  “What the  blooming  blazes 
can he be doing there?” he added.

“I’ll  be  shot if I can see  any  blamed 

headlight.”

“Why,  sheriff,  you  can’t  help  seeing 
“Just follow 

it,”  said the ticket agent. 
my  finger.”

through 

“Oh! I’ve got it now.”
Everybody  saw  it  and  felt  elated  in 
consequence.  The long tramp  was  for­
gotten.  The  light  loomed  larger  each 
minute 
the  gray  morning 
mist.  The party no longer  walked  hur­
riedly; their object was achieved.  There 
would  they  find  the  train  still  on  the 
track, without having been  rifled by  the 
James  boys. 
It  was  probably  some 
trifling accident  to  the  locomotive  that 
Tim  Tiernan  was  waiting  for  daylight 
to repair.  The whole  crowd  could  now 
run  back with  Conductor Jem Harris  to 
breakfast  at  Silver  Bow.  And what  a
splendid joke  was this hunt for “67.”  It 
would  be  in  all  the  newspapers,  and 
written  up  by  professional  humorists 
and cause no end of fun.  The now light­
hearted  wayfarers  walked  briskly  on. 
They  “spurted”  a  little, as  there  was 
some distance yet to go before coming up 
to the gleaming headlight. 
Indeed,  the 
outline of the train could  not  be  distin­
guished  clearly  in  the  early  morning 
darkness,  the misty atmosphere  making 
the light on the open  and  level  country 
appear nearer than it really was.

“Well,  boys,”  the  sheriff  said,  “this 
may be the  last  time  I  may  have  occa-

A  Conservative  Credit  Policy.

From the M inneapolis  Commercial  Bulletin.
The  Bulletin  has  commented  occa­
sionally on the improvement in the credit 
policy  of  Northwestern  retailers.  The 
rule a few years ago was to sell as  many 
goods  as  possible  almost  regardless  of 
the  ability  of  purchasers  to  pay.  The 
result  of this  policy was  of course  dis­
astrous to  the  retailer,  for  profits  will 
disappear  with  great  rapidity  under a 
free credit policy.
The time was in the Northwest when it 
was entirely a matter of uncertainty as to 
what the  wheat  crops  would  be. 
It is 
now nearly the reverse. 
It is a certainty 
almost that  Minnesota  will  raise  every 
year  close  to  fifty  million  bushels  of 
wheat.  The  danger  to the  merchant is 
that some  locality  may  suffer,  and for 
this reason a retailer  is  justified  in  not 
taking too great chances on the crop.  A 
little restraint  is  better  for both  sides.
It is not to the  interest  of the  retailer 
that  his  customers  should  make  pur­
chases beyond  their  real  need,  because 
any  excess  of  that  amount  in  buying 
means so much delay  in  paying  for  the 
farm and  acquiring  a really  comfortable 
condition.  The principle is  the  same as 
with the retailer  himself.  He  is a loser 
every  time  he  over-buys.  He  ties  his 
capital up,  when it  might  be  employed 
in securing  discounts on his  bills  which 
would be a saving  that could  be  passed 
at once to profit account. 
It is  the same 
with the farmer,  and as  jobbers  caution 
retailers  by  advising  them  as  to  their 
purchases,  so retailers should take frank 
counsel  with  their  customers,  discuss 
prospects and limit  credit  to a  business 
basis,  and not  rely  wholly  on  a  big 
crop,  which for some  reason  not  appar­
ent at this time may not  materialize.
It may  require  a  little  courage  to  re­
fuse credit,  but  it  is a  retailer’s duty to 
do  it.  He  often  sells  a  bill  of  goods 
when he is  almost  certain  that  he  will 
never be  paid  for  it,  yet he hasn’t  the | 
courage to  refuse.  Now,  what  is  the j 
effect of such  a  proceeding?  The  mer­
chant  simply  gives 
the 
buyer,  and he  will  have  to  sell a  good 
many more  to  make  up  for  their  cost.
Is there any excuse for doing  business 
in that  way?  We  think  not.
The country merchant should  not con­
sider his  store  a  general  supply  depot 
for  everybody.  He  has  risks,  and  he

the  goods  to 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRAJDESMAJST.

cannot  afford 
to  assume  unnecessary 
ones.  But,  says  one  merchant,  if I  do 
not sell to a certain  individual because  I 
do not  consider  his  credit  good,  some 
other  merchant  will.  What 
if  some 
other merchant  does  sell  to him?  You 
I have not been injured,  because you have 
lost  no trade that is worth having,  when 
the risk is considered.  There  is many  a 
worthless buyer  who will  obtain  credit 
| from a merchant  and  then forsake  him, 
spending  what money he  gets at another 
store and  letting his bill run  unpaid.
Pursue a conservative  policy in giving 
credits,  and the results will be better for 
all  concerned.

Convenient  Cost  Mars.

A  correspondent  of  Office  offers  the 

following valuable suggestion:
I suggest  for  use  as  a  cost  mark  in 
those lines of business where  a small tag 
or label  is  employed the words  “ Ma in 
Source.”   The advantage following  the 
use of the  letters  composing  the  words 
named is that there are  no  loop  letters. 
Further,  “U.  S.”  would  be  75  cents. 
Then articles which are  sold at  33>«  per 
cent,  profit could be  marked as  follows: 
$  (U.  S.)  There 
several  other 
combinations  that  will  readily  suggest 
themselves to  the  reader.  They  afford 
the opportunity  of giving price  and cost 
in  the  same  characters.

are 

CUTS  FOR  ADVERTISING.

sion to address you  in  a  body. 
I  think 
we all  ought to be  proud  of  our  work. 
We’ve  stood 
the  cold  and 
the tramp without flinching,  and I’ll  see 
that the Atchison,  Topeka  aud  Santa Fe 
takes care of us.”

the  rain, 

“Let’s  get it over as soon as  possible. 
What d’ye say to a run?”  suggested  the 
ticket agent.  “We’ve  been  walking  all 
the time.”

“Good!”  was the response from  a  doz­

en husky throats.

“A  run  be  it,  then!”  exclaimed  the 

sheriff.  “Forward!  Double quick!”

The whole  party  set  off  toward  the 
light at a high  rate  of  speed.  The now 
damp earth  resounded  with  the  quick, 
measured  step of  the  courageous  little 
band.  The headlight was  at  hand.  An­
other couple of hundred  yards  and they 
would  reach it.  The  runners  breathed 
hard,  but there  would be rest  in a min­
ute  or  two.  Hurrah!  the  red-bearded 
miner is the first man to disappear in the 
mist  ahead of the  others.  He  must  be 
on the train by this time.  The sheriff  is 
a good second.  There was a deep  growl 
of disappointment.  The light  from  the 
fixed kerosene lamp  with bright reflector
threw its rays over the excited  men  and 
the bare  railroad track,  and they  looked 
up and read, by the  faint  daylight,  the 
legend,  LONE  TOMB,  above  the  plat­
form of the station.

B. B.  V a l l e n t in e.

N o te:  The question is:  What became 
of the lost train?  The  author  does  not 
know.

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M etals, Iron,  Rubber and  W iping Rags

264 So. Ionia St., GRAND  RAPIDS. 

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THE  TRADESMEN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

PENBERTHY  INJECTORS.

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H o w   to  K eep   a  Store.
By  Samuel  II.  Terry.  A  book  of  400  pages 
written from the experience and  observation  of 
an old merchant.  It treats of Selection  of Bnsi 
ness,  Location,  Buying,  Selling, Credit, Adver­
tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships,  etc.  Of 
great interest to every one in trade.  $1.50.
THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

G rand  Rapida.

It  la a pure, concentrated  E xtract of Roots 
It makes a refreshing, healthful  summer  bever­

and  Herbs.

age at a moderate cost, for family use.

Every dozen  is  packed  in  a  SIIOW  STAND, 
which  greatly Increases the  sale, as it is  always 
in sight.

25-eent size only $1.75 per doz.

3 dozen for $5.

For  sale  by  all  jobbers.  Order  a  supply from 
your  wholesale house.  Show cards  and  adver 
tising matter are packed in each dozen.

H. F. HASTINGS,

M anufacturers’ Agent,

G RA N D   R A PID S, M ICH .

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TH hi  MICHIQAlSr  TRADESMAN,

the company  saw a  supposed  chance to 
sell the  property  to  Sailing,  Hanson & 
Co.,  of Grayling,  and  returned  the $500 
in a letter to Mr. Kanouse, with the notice 
that the contract was annulled.  Mr.  Ka­
nouse, of course, was thunderstruck by this 
action and  consulted  his  attorney,  who 
informed him that he has a clear case for 
damages against the  company,  and a big 
fight in  the  court  will  undoubtedly  re­
sult.

Country Callers.

Calls  have  been 

received  at  The 
T radesm an office during  the  past  week 
from  the  following  gentleman  in  trade:

0. J.  Eldred,  Clarksville.
C. E. Coburn,  Pierson.
W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.
1. F.  Tucker,  Sumner.
J. V. Crandall, Sand Lake.
C.  B.  Lovejoy, Big Rapids.
J. J.  Gee, Whitehall.
Henry Henkel, Howard City.
W.  R.  McMurray, Ada.
Brown & Spafford, Ganges.

AMONG THE  TRADE.

ABOUND THE STATE.

Sumner—J. B.  Tucker  has  re-engaged 

in the grocery  business.

Belding—Wm.  Warren  has  purchased 

the jewelry stock of Clyde  Brown.

Alpena — Wm.  Manion  succeeds  Mc­

Kenzie & Co.  in the grocery business.

Harrison—Geo.  Cimmerer is succeeded 
by Henry Husman in the  furniture busi­
ness.

Detroit—Wm.  Wertheimer 

succeeds 
Wm.  Wertheimer & Bro.  in the  clothing 
business.

Galesburg—Oliver L.  Evans  succeeds 
Evans Bros,  in  the  grocery  and  notion 
business.

Detroit—W.  J.  Fitzpatrick 

succeeds 
Fitzpatrick  & Draper  in  the  wholesale 
and retail  cigar  and  tobacco  business.
Flower Creek—Lillie Bros, are erecting 
a new store  building,  and  expect  to em­
bark in general  trade in  about  a month.
Saranac—Mrs.  Anna  Haller  Stowe has 
purchased Mrs.  C.  E.  Huhn’s  interest in 
the millinery establishment  of  Williams 
& Huhn.  The  new  firm  will  be known 
as Williams & Stowe.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Coldwater—C.  W. Johnson will  remove 

his stave factory to Union City.

Detroit—The Acme Emery  Wheel  Co. 
is  succeeded  by  Acme  Safety  Emery 
Wheel  Co.

West Bay City — R.  O.  Crump’s  new 
box factory and planing mill  will  be  in 
operation about June 15.

Saginaw—Frank  Pohlmau  succeeds 
Pohlman  Bros,  in  the  tobacco  business 
and manufacture  of  cigars.

Saginaw—The  Arthur  Hill  Company, 
of this city,  will have  20,000,000  feet  of 
logs  manufactured  at  Cheboygan  this 
season.

Cheboygan—The Benham  shingle  mill 
is  receiving  a  new  boiler,  and  will  be 
ready for business about the first of next 
month.  A full stock of logs has been se­
cured.

Trout Creek—The Trout Creek Lumber 
Co. has  begun  the  erection  of  a  large 
planing mill  here.  A  large  part  of the 
cut  of  the  mill  at 
this  point  will  be 
shipped  east  via  the  Canadian  Pacific 
Railway and  connections.

Miehigamme—T.  W.  Read &  Co.  have 
started the circular side of their sawmill. 
During the  winter 
they  put  in  a  band 
saw,  but  have  been  so  delayed  in  re­
ceiving  machinery  that it is  not yet  in 
readiness,  but will be started up  shortly.
Saginaw—Wiggins & Howry  are  ship­
ping lumber to this city,  cut by  Button’s 
portable mill,  near  Sanford,  from  logs 
that were hung up a year ago.  They had 
about 4,000,000  feet  hung up,  and a por­
tion of them were put alloat this  spring. 
They have about  1,000,000 feet of lumber 
yet to bring down.

Saginaw — George  Fiege  has  let  the 
contract for the building  of his saw  and 
hoop  mill,  at  Gaylord,  and  expects  to 
have the plant completed  and  in  opera­
tion in three months.  He may  ultimate­
ly  put up a furniture factory  in  connec­
tion,  as there is an  abundance  of  hard­
woods in that locality.

Harrison—It is reported that W.  H.  & 
F.  A.  Wilson, who have been  engaged in 
the  manufacture  of  lumber  here  many 
years,  will dissolve shortly.  W.  H.  Wil­
son  will remain at  Harrison and look  af­
ter the sawmill  here,  while  F.  A.  Wilson

will go south,  where he is  interested ex­
tensively in timber property.

Detroit—Mabley &  Company  now  pay 
rentals of $41,700 a  year.  The  owner of 
the  store  occupied  by  the  shoe  depart­
ment has given the  company  notice that 
the rent will be advanced  Aug.  1,  when 
the present lease expires,  and  President 
Goodfellow asserts that in case the terms 
offered are not accepted  before that time 
the  shoe  stock  will  be  moved  into  the 
j building  at  present  occupied  by  the 
I bazaar  and  the  latter  disposed  of  en- 
! tirely.

St.  Ignace—The  Mackinaw  Lumber 
Co.  has  probably  got  a  lawsuit  on  its 
hands.  J.  B.  Kanouse,  of Bay City,  who 
ran  the  mill  last  season,  met  the  re- 
I presentative of  the  company  in Chicago 
I and  secured  a  written  proposition  for 
the use of the mill.  He came home,  sent 
$300  as  called  for  in  -the  proposition,
! which was accepted by the company  and 
I receipted  for,  and  then  secured  stock 
; and prepared for business.  Subsequently

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orders for our

Cushion  Tired Clippers.
C lip p e r S a fe tie s, [solid tire]  List price,  SO0 ,0 0

Cushion Tire. $iO extra.  Clipper  Saddles, $5.

GRAND  RAPIDS  CYCLE  CO.,

Erie St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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DEALERS IN

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Cleaned  ami  Adjusted.  E xpert  W ork 

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BURGLAR  PROOF 

WATER  PROOF

Movers and Raisers of wood and  brick build­

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

WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

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 th an  25 cents.  Advance  paym ent.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

: 

256

.  dress  J.  A.  Scollay, Reed  City.  Mich. 

■  N  ESTABLISHED  GROCERY  FOR  SALE.  AD 
I^OR  SALE — I  HAVE  A  STOCK  OF  DRUGS  AND 
Dr u g  st o c k —n e a t   a n d a t t r a c t iv e , a n d n e w

1  books to the am ount of §51,500, situated in the best 
little town in Michigan,  which 1 offer for  sale for cash 
or  its equivalent.  W.  R. Mandigo, Sherwood. Mich 248

hardwood  fixtures.  Excellent  location  on  best 
retail street  in  G rand  Rapids.  Expenses  very  light 
and  trade  steadily  increasing.  Low  inventory,  ju st 
completed, $2,600.  On account  of  failing  health,  will 
sell  a t  invoice  or  for  $2,100  cash,  if  sold  by  March 
15.  Otherwise will hold it as an  investm ent.  A  genu­
ine  bargain.  Personal  investigation  solicited.  Ad- 
dress “F.,” care Hazeltine Perkins Drug Co.  City. 197

FOR SALE —  A  FIRST-CLASS,  WELL - ASSORTED 

stock of  hardw are and building  m aterial, situ at­
ed a t P o rt Huron.  Did a business of  $68,000 last  year. 
No old  stock or rubbish.  W ill  invoice  about  $20,000. 
P roprietor  sick in  bed  and  unable  to  attend  to  the 
business.  Address Geo. M. Payton, Lansing, Mich.  228

located 

th riv in g  

INTEREST 

I7»OR  SALE—FINE  STOCK  OF  BOOTS  AND  SHOES 
IX>R SALE—COMPLETE DRUG  STOCK  IN  A  GROW- 

special  line.  No  old  goods.  E verything  desira 
ble.  Good  trade,  m ostly  cash.  Excellent 
fan n in g  
country. Address “Shoes,” care Michigan Tradesm an 214
ing village on good line  of  railroad,  surrounded 
by as fine farm ing  country  as  there  is  anywhere  in 
Michigan.  Must quit the business  on  account  of  fail­
ing  health.  Address  No.  213  care  Michigan  Trades­
m an. 

cer.  care  Michigan Trades man. 

tion.  A bonanza to the rig h t  m an.  Address Gro­

IN  A  GENERAL 
town.  Capital 
necessary,  about  $1.200.  address  No.  241, care  Mich­
igan Tradesm an. 

IlOR  SALE—HALF 
I TOR  8 ALE—G ROCER Y l*TOCK~ ^DESIR ABLELOC A- 
FOR  SALE—WELL-SELECTED  DRUG  STOCK,  IN- 

ventorying about $ 1,200,  situated  in  good  coun­
try  town of 500 people.  Reason for selling, proprietor 
has o th er  business.  Address  No.  173,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

WANTED—1 HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  PAY  FOR  A 

OR 8A LE-A   COMPLETE  DRUG  STOCK  AND FIX- 
tures;  stock well  assorted  can  be  bought  a t  a 
bargain.  Address for  particulars  S. P. Hicks,  Lowell, 
Mich. 

g e n e r a l  or  grocery stock;  m ust be cheap.  Ad- 

dresB  No. 26, c a r e  Michigan Tradesman.___________ 26

stock 

in  a  

213

246

173

241

124

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SITUATIONS  WANTED.

WrANTED—  BY YOUNG  MAN, SITUATION A8 BOOK- 

keeper,  assistant  book-keeper  o r  collector 
Rest  of  references. Address  E. care  Michigan  Trades­
m an.  ____________________________________ 243
V I T  ANTED— POSITION  BY  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
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cist.  Best of  references and no bad  habits. Ad­
dress  No.  251 care  Michigan  Tradesm an. 
\ \ T ANTED—SITUATION  BY A  REGISTERED  ASSIST
VT 
two  years’  experience. 
Good  references.  Address  Lock  Box  O.,  Lowell, 
Mich._______________________________________ 252

ta n t  pharm acist, of 

251

MISCËLLANEOUS.

ation  and  soft  w ater  in  kitchen.  $1.200.  Terms  to 

 

187

249

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187.

A  GENTS  WANTED—FOR  A  NEW  ARTICLE  JUST 
iJ L   out.  Most  wonderful  advertising  device  ever 
known.  Sells to  every  m erchant  and  Mfr.  Splendid 
employment.  Big 
pay.  Steady  work.  Enclose 
stam p.  Arc Mt.  Mfg  Co ,  Racine,  Wis. 
/BANNING  WORK8  WANTED—WILL  GIVE A BONUS 
to rig h t parties.  Address Box 46, Sheridan. Mich.
\ y
250

I'OR  SALE—CHEAP  ENOUGH  FOR  AN  1NVE8T- 

ment.  Corner  lot  and  5-room  house  on  North 
L afayette  St.,  cellar,  brick  foundation,  soft  w ater 
in  kitchen.  $ 1,200.  Terms  to  suit.  Address No.  187, 
care Michigan Tradesm an. 

IjVOR SALE—TWELVE  TO TWENTY ACRES  OF LAND 

for sum m er  home.  Seven  miles  north  of Trav­
erse  City  on  the  E ast  Arm  of Traverse  Bay on the 
Peninsula  ready  fitted  for  building.  C.  £ .  Clapp, 
Archie,  Mich. 

I TOR  SALE  OR  RENT—CORNER  LOT  AND  5-ROOM 

house on North  L afayette st., cellar, brick found­
suit.  Cheap enough  for  an  investm ent.  Address  No 
187, care Michigan Tradesman. 
ORSE FOR SALE—IRON GREY GELDING.  STANDS 
1 6 hands  high.  W eight,  1,650.  Suitable  for 
heavy  work.  F.  Goodman  <fc  Co.,  Burnips  Corners, 
Mich. 
YX)R  SALE —8TORE  AND  DWELLING  COMBINED, 
1. 
also good barn.  All  in  good  repair.  Located  iii 
one of the best towns in M ichigan of  1,000 inhabitants. 
Will trade for stock of goods.  For particulars address 
No. 258, care Michigan Tradesm an. 
ANTED—REGI8TER EiniHARMAClST, WITH TWO 
V? 
o r  three  years’  experience.  Must  be  able  to 
give  good references.  Address  No. 247, care.Michigan 
Tradesman. 
TKTANTED—FIVE  SALESMEN  BY  THE  GEORGE  D.
I t   Hawkins  Medicine  Co.  (M anufacturers  and 
wholesale  dealers  in  Hawkins  G reat Specific Cures) 
to represent them  on  the  road.  Commencing  on  July 
10th.  No  one  b u t  first-class  experienced  salesmen 
need  apply.  Good  positions  guaranteed 
to  good 
salesmen.  W rite  for  term s 
to  George  D.  Hawkins 
Medicine  Company,  Hawkins.  Mich. 
\IJ'A N TED —SALESMAN FOR OENERAL8TORE.  JNE 
?v  who is capable  of  tak in g  care of  the dry goods 
and shoe departm ent.  Address  No. 254, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
W T ANTED—8ALES 1JEN  ON  SALARY  OR  COMMIs- 
V v 
sion  to  handle  th**  New  Patent  Chemical  Ink 
Erasing  Pencil.  The  g reatest  selling  novelty  ever 
produced.  Erases ink  thoroughly in two seconds;  no 
abrasion of  paper,  200  to  600  per  cent,  profit.  One 
agent’s sales  am ounted to  $620  in  six  days;  another 
$32  in  tW o  hours.  We  w ant  one  energetic  general 
agent  for  each  state and  territo ry .  For  term s  and 
full particulars,  address  The  Monroe  Eraser Mfg. Co., 
La  Crosse.  Wis. 

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254

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Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich.
$500,000  TO  IN V E S T   IN   BONDS
Issued  by  cities, counties,  towns  and  school  districts 
of  Michigan.  Officers  of  these  m unicipalities  about 
to issue  bonds will  find It to th eir  advantage to  apply 
to th is bank.  Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings 
supplied  w ithout  charge.  All  comm unications  and 
enquiries will have prom pt attention.  This bank pays 
4 per  cent, on  deposits, compounded semi-annually. 
S.  D. ELWOOD, Treasurer.

May, 1891. 

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

A. Brogger succeeds A.  Brogger & Co. 

in the grocery  business.

T.  Keefe  &  Co.  is  succeeded  by  B. 

Mergener in the grocery  business.

B. A. Hoxie has removed his drug stock 
from  40 West Fulton street to  180 Butter- 
worth avenue.

Henry  W.  Noy has  opened a  grocery 
store  at  Watrousville.  The  Ball-Barn- 
hart-Putman Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Spalding  &  Co.,  who  were  formerly 
engaged in  the  sporting  goods  business 
at  100  Monroe  street,  have  secured  a 
settlement  with  most  of  the  unsecured 
creditors on the basis of  25  cents on  the 
dollar.

R. C.  Luce & Son,  who own 7,000 acres 
of pine land  in  Jackson  county,  Miss., 
will shortly begin the erection  of  a  cir­
cular sawmill  at  Plum  Bluff,  having  a 
capacity  of 40,000 feet  per  day.  They 
will erect a  dry kiln  and planing mill in 
connection.  The firm will also erect and 
stock  a general store 40x100  feet  in  di­
mensions.

A.  Bartholomew has formed  a  copart­
nership  with  Irvin  Ganung  under  the 
style of  Bartholomew & Ganung and the 
firm will embark in the  grocery business 
at  the  corner  of  Wealthy  avenue  and 
James street as soon as the building now 
in process of  construction  is  completed. 
The  stock  will  be  divided  among  the 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.,  the  Olney  & 
Judson  Grocer  Co.,  the 1.  M. Clark Gro­
cery Co.  and the Telfer Spice Co.

Chas.  E.  Belknap,  H.  P.  Belknap  and 
II.  P.  Baker  have  formed  a  copartner­
ship under the  style  of  Belknap, Baker 
& Co.  for the purpose  of engaging in the 
sale of wagons and  carriages  on  an  ex­
tensive  scale.  The  firm  has  rented the 
double store  ou  South  Ionia  street,  re­
cently  vacated  by  the  Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.,  and  will  carry  a  complete 
line of Belknap  wagons,  Columbus  bug­
gies  and  specialties 
in  wagons  and 
sleighs.  The business  will be under the 
personal  management of Henry P. Baker.

Gripsack Brigade.

Greg.  M.  I -.lice,  formerly  on  the  road 
for Hawkins  &  Company,  but  now  en­
gaged in  the  lumber  business  at  Plum 
Bluff,  Miss.,  is in  town  for  a few days.

Aaron B.  Gates  has  the  sympathy  of 
the fraternity  in  the  death  of  his  wife, 
which occurred at the  home  of  the  lat­
ter’s  parents at  Charlevoix  week  before 
last.  The interment  was  made  at  that 
place.

returned 

John  Cummins  has 

from 
Pennsylvania and  resumed  his  trips  on 
the  road.  He  was  compelled  to  leave 
his  family at  Salamanca,  N.  Y., for the 
preseut,  owing  to  the  serious  illgess of 
his wife.

President  Robertson 

requests  Tiie 
Tradesman  to  call  a  meeting  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Traveling  Men’s Associa­
tion,  to be held at  Sweet’s Hotel Sunday 
noon,  May 31,  for the purpose of hearing 
the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Club 
Rooms and  transact such  other  business 
as may come before the meeting.

Jerry Woltman  has  the  sympathy  of 
the fraternity  in  the  death  of  his  son, 
Harry, a  promising  youth  of  14  years. 
He died last Tuesday at the  family  resi­
dence  at Grand  Haven  the  funeral  and 
interment having  occurred on Thursday. 
The house was represented at  the  funer­

THE  MICHIGAN'  TRADESMAN.

5

al  by Wm.  Judson,  Edward  Frick  and 
R.  R.  Bean.

A written contract provided that a com­
mercial  traveler  should  travel  over his 
route six time a year  paying  his own ex­
penses, and that he should receive a com­
mission  on  all  orders  accepted 
from 
boiuifi.de purchasers, amounting to 10 per 
cent,  on  all  goods  “sold  to  trade  not 
heretofore  sold  by us.”  and  5 per cent, 
on  all  goods  “to  our  regular  trade.” 
The  New  York Court  of  Appeals  held 
(Taylor vs.  Enoch  Morgan’s  Sons  Com­
pany)  that the  traveler  was  entitled  to 
commissions on all  orders made by  pur­
chasers on the  line of his route, whether 
taken and forwarded by him  or not,  and 
also on orders from  responsible  parties, 
whether  accepted  by  his  employers  or 
not.

A case of interest to traveling men  and 
mercantile houses is the appeal of James
H.  Walker & Co.  from the  Circuit  Court 
judgmeut in  favor of William  J.  Grant, 
a  traveling  salesman  for the firm.  He 
had a contract to work for a year  on sal­
ary and expenses.  Mr.  Walker  warned 
him that his expenses were too high  and 
on the next trip must be kept down to $5 
a day  by  traveling  slower.  They  were 
not so kept  down,  and  the  firm  would 
not pay the excess over $5 a  day.  Grant 
sued  and  recovered;  the  dry-goods  firm 
appealed.  Judge  Morse  held  that  the 
judgment  of  the  lower  court  was  cor­
rect, on the ground that  the firm had  no 
power to  change  or  limit  the  contract 
while it was in force.

“Most  people  think  that  commercial 
travelers are a pretty hard  crowd,”  says 
a traveling salesman,  “and  it  must  be 
admitted that there are some  men in the 
business who desire  no  higher  place  in 
public estimation.  But  taking us  as  a 
whole,  we are done  great injustice.  Com­
petition is so keen  in  these times that  a 
man on the  road  can’t  expect  to  dissi­
pate and hold his trade too.  The young­
sters,  when they first start out,  enjoy the 
change of scene and  faces,  and  are  apt 
to  let their  animal  spirits  occasionally 
get the best of their judgment;  but  they 
soon  find  that  selling  goods  is mighty 
hard work and that success  in  this  line 
requires just as good habits as are looked 
for in a clerk in the office right under the 
firm’s nose.  It does not take a house long 
to  ascertain the habits and  character  of 
a man traveling in its interest, and if his 
morals are at all  ‘off color,’  he  will  find 
difference 
that  it  makes  a  decided 
in  his 
us 
have 
and 
couldn’t afford to lead the  life commonly 
pictured.  Oftentimes  you  will  read  or 
hear  of  some  escapade  of  a  man  who 
claims  to be  a  traveling  salesman,  but 
who in reality  is not  a commercial  man. 
The offenses of  a  good  many  outsiders 
are saddled on us,  and we have  to  stand 
it, because it  is  in  the  line  of  popular 
fancy.  Every  fellow  who  peddles  tin­
ware or garden  seeds  from a  wagon,  or 
pastes  up  posters  for  quack  doctors, 
claims to be  a  traveling  salesman,  and 
the people he meets are more than likely 
to accept him at his own estimation.”

treatment.  Most 

of 
for, 

to  care 

families 

RUILY  FOR  BUSINESS !

Do you want to do your customers justice?
Do you want to increase your trade in a safe way?
Do you want the confidence of  all who trade with you?
Would  you  like to rid  yourself  of  the  bother of  “posting” your  books  and 

“patching up” pass-book accounts?

Do you  not  want  pay for all  the  small  items  that go  out of  your  store,  which 

yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge?

Did  you  ever have a pass-book  account  foot up and  balance  with the  corres­

ponding ledger account without having  to  “doctor”  it?
Do  not  many of  your  customers  complain that  they have  been  charged  for 
items they never  had,  and is not your  memory a little  clouded  as  to whether they 
have or not?
Then  why  not  adopt a system of  crediting  that will  abolish  all  these  and a 
hundred other objectionable features of  the old  method,  and  one  that  establishes 
a CASH  BASIS  of  crediting?
A new era  dawns,  and  with it new  commodities for its  new demands;  and  all 
enterprising merchants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the

Tradesman  or  Superior  Coupons.

COUPON  BOOK vs. PASS  BOOK.

We beg leave to call  your  attention to 
our coupon book and ask you to carefully 
It takes  the  place 
consider  its  merits. 
of  the  pass  book  which  you  now hand 
your customer and ask him to bring each 
time  he  buys  anything,  that  you  may 
enter  the  article  and  price  in  it.  You 
know  from  experience that  many times 
the  customer  does  not  bring the  book, 
and,  as  a  result,  you  have  to  eharge 
many  items  on  your  book  that  do  not 
appear on the customer’s pass book. This 
is sometimes  the  cause of  much ill  feel­
ing  when  bills  are  presented.  Many 
times the pass  book is lost,  thus  causing 
considerable 
trouble  when  settlement 
day  comes.  But  probably  the  most  se­
rious objection to the pass book system is 
that many  times while  busy  waiting  on 
customers  you  neglect  to  make  some 
charges,  thus  losing  many  a  dollar;  or, 
if  you  stop to make  those  entries,  it  is 
done when  you can  illy afford  the time, 
as  you  keep  customers  waiting  when it 
might be avoided.  The aggregate amount 
of  time consumed in a month  in  making 
these small  entries  is  no inconsiderable 
thing,  but,  by  the  use  of  the  coupon 
system,  it is avoided.
Now as to the use of the  coupon book: 
Instead of giving your customer the pass 
book,  you hand him a coupon  book,  say 
of the denomination  of  $10,  taking  his 
note  for  the  amount.  When  he  buys 
anything,  he  hands  you  or  your  clerk 
the  book,  from  which  you  tear  out 
coupons for the amount purchased,  be  it 
1 cent,  12 cents,  75  cents  or  any  other 
sum.  As the book never  passes  out  of 
your customer’s hands,  except when you 
tear off the coupons,it is just like so much 
money to him,  and when the coupons are 
all gone,  and he has had  their  worth  in 
goods, there is  no  grumbling  or  suspi­
cion of wrong  dealing. 
In  fact,  by the 
use of the coupon book, you have all  the 
advantages of both  the  cash  and  credit 
systems and none  of  the  disadvantages 
of either.  The coupons  taken  in,  being 
put into the cash drawer,  the  aggregate 
amount of them,  together with the  cash, 
shows at once  the  day’s  business.  The 
notes,  which are  perforated  at  one  end 
so that they can  be readily detached from 
the book,  can  be  kept  in  the  safe  or 
money drawer until the  time has arrived

for the makers to  pay  them.  This  ren­
ders unnecessary the keeping of accounts 
with each customer and  enables  a  mer­
chant to avoid the friction  and  ill  feel­
ing incident to the use of the pass  book. 
As the notes bear interest after a certain 
date,  they  are  much  easier  to  collect 
than book  accounts,  being  prima  facie 
evidence of indebtedness  in any court of 
law or equity.
One of the strong points of the coupon 
system is  the  ease  with  which  a  mer­
chant is enabled  to  hold  his  customers 
down to a certain limit of  credit.  Give 
some men a pass book and a line  of  $10, 
and they will  overrun  the  limit  before 
you discover it.  Give them a ten  dollar 
coupon book,  however,  and  they  must 
necessarily stop when they have obtained 
goods to that amount.  It  then rests with 
the merchant to determine whether he will 
issue  another  book  before  the  one  al­
ready used is paid for.
In many localities  merchants  are  sell­
ing  coupon  books  for  cash  in  advance, 
giving a discount of from 2 to 5 per cent, 
for advance payment.  This is especially 
pleasing  to  the  cash  customer,  because 
it gives him an advantage over the patron 
who  runs  a  book  account  or  buys  on 
credit.  The cash man  ought to have  an 
advantage  over the credit  customer,  and 
this  is easily  accomplished  in  this  way 
without making  any actual  difference in 
the  prices of  goods—a  thing which  will 
always create dissatisfaction aud  loss.
Briefly stated, the coupon system is pref­
erable to the pass book  method because it 
(1) saves the time consumed in recording 
the  sales on  the pass  book  and  copying 
same in blotter, day book and  ledger;  (2) 
prevents  the  disputing  of  accounts;  (3) 
puts the obligation in the form of a note, 
which is prima facie evidence of  indebt­
edness;  (4) enables  the  merchant to col­
lect  interest on overdue notes,  which  he 
is unable to do with ledger  accounts;  (5) 
holds  the customer  down to the  limit of 
credit established  by the  merchant,  as it 
is almost  impossible to do  with the  pass 
book.
Are  not  the  advantages  above  enu­
merated sufficient to warrant a trial of the 
coupon  system? 
If  so, order  from  the 
largest  manufacturers of  coupons in the 
country and address your letters to

H.  M. REY N O LD S  & SON,
Ta~  and  Gravel  Roofers

And  dealers  in  Tarred  Felt,  Building  Paper, 
Pitch,  Coal  Tar,  Asphaltum.  Rosin,  Mineral 
Wool, Etc.

Corner lo u ts and Campau'Sts., 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

G R A N D   R A P I D S .

t h e   Turrara a-nt  t r a d e s m a n ,
Dry Goods Price Current.

DEMINS.

44 

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Amoskeag.............. 1254
9 oz...... 1454
brown .13
Andover................. 1154
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
BB...  9
“ 
44 
CC.... 
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
44 
blue  854 
44  d a  twist  1054 

Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

44 
44 

Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12
brown....... 12
Haymaker blue........ 734
brown...  734
Jeffrey.....................1154
Lancaster................1254
Lawrence, 9 oz........1354
No. 220 
13
No. 250....1154
No. 280.... 1054

44 
44 
44 
GINGHAMS.
44 
fancies__7
44  Normandie  8

Amoskeag................ 754
44  Persian dress 854 
Canton ..  854
44 
AFC........1254
44 
Arlington staple__654
Arasapha  fancy__  4J
Bates War wick dres  85 
B taples.  654
Centennial............   1054
Criterion  ......... — 1054
Cumberland  staple.  554
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................454
Elfin.......................   754
Everett classics......854
Exposition............... 754
Glenarie.................  634
Glenarven................ 634
Glenwood.................754
Hampton............... .  654 Wamsutta staples.
Johnson Chalón cl
Indigo blue 954
zephyrs..

Lancashire.............   654
Manchester............   534
Monogram..............  654
Normandie............... 754
Persian...................   854
Renfrew DresB..........754
Rosemont................. 654
Slatersville............ 6
Somerset..................  7
Tacoma  ................... 754
Toil  duNord..........1054
Wabash...................  754
seersucker..  754
Warwick.................  854
Whittenden............   634
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue  9
.  634
54 Westbrook............. .  8
......... .10
.16 Windermeer.......... .  5
Lancaster,  staple.. -  634 York...................... •  634
GRAIN BAGS.
Amoskeag............
.1634 ¡Valley City............ .1554
Stark...................... .20 Georgia................. .1554
American.............. .1654! Pacific  .................. .1454
Clark’s Mile End....45 Barbour's.............. .88
Coats’, J. & P ........ .45 Marshall’s ............. .88
Holyoke................ .8254
White.  Colored. 

KNITTING  COTTON.

THREADS.

44 
44 

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No.  14 ........ 37 
44  16.........38 
**  18.........39 
44  20.........40 

White.  Colored.
42
43
44
45

38
39
40
41
CAMBRICS.

Washington..............334
Red Cross.................334
Lockwood.................454
Wood's..................   454
Brunswick...........   434

RED  FLANNEL.

T W........................2254
F T ............ ............. 3254
JR F , XXX........... 35
Buckeye.................3254

Slater......................   454
White Star............   434
Kid Glove...............  434
Newmarket............   454
Edwards.................  454
Fireman.................3254
Creedmore.............2754
Talbot XXX...........30
Nameless...............2754

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

6

A  ’LONGSHORE  EPISODE.

We never could  settle why it  was that 
Sue and 1 spent our vacation at Connor’s 
Landing.  I almost thought it was kismet, 
as  those  picturesque  orientals  say,  only 
I do not approve of fatalism.

We  were  country  school-ma’ams,  Sue 
and I,  from  a region of  mountain  farms, 
where,  according  to  report,  the  farmers 
stood  on  ladders to  harvest their  crops, 
so steep and  rugged were  the  fields,  and 
we had decided for months that our  holi­
day should  be spent within  reach of  the 
innumerable  tongues of  the many-voiced 
sea.

At least,  that  is  what  I  said,  for 1 am 
an  aesthetic young  woman  with a  yearn­
ing  for  Culture—with a big  C—but  Sue 
said she wanted to study up the personal 
habits of clams and fiddler crabs,  and all 
sorts  of  dreadful, slimy  creatures.  Sue 
was  not  very  poetic  in  her  tendencies, 
and  she  used to pour  over Darwin  and 
Lubbock, 
though  I  often  thought  she 
might  have  more  improving  instructors 
than  men  who  were  so  familiar  with 
worms and ants. 
I wouldn’t say so much 
about  ants,  since  our  good  Dr.  Watts 
found them worthy of notice,  but 1 think 
a man of  genius  should draw  the line  at 
earth-worms.

Well,  you  may think it easy  to  find  a 
seaside 
resort  good  enough  for  two 
school-ma’ams,  considering our length of 
coast,  but  the  more  we  thought of  the 
matter the more puzzled we became.  We 
wanted  to  be  quiet, because  1  intended 
writing  a  few  marine  sonnets,  and  bal­
lads,  and  things,  for  my projected  book 
“Ballads and  Other  Poems,  by a  Moun­
tain  Singer” —and  Sue  said  she  didn’t 
want to  be  interrupted  by  any tiresome 
children  or  idiotic young men when  she 
was  endeavoring  to  gain the  confidence 
of a cephalopod.

You  may  think  from  her  biological 
yearnings  that Sue  was an  emancipated 
female of the most virulent type, but she 
was a tall  and  graceful  girl of  twenty- 
three,  her  small  head  crowned  with 
bronzy-brown  hair,  and  her  oval  face 
lighted  by dark  gray eyes  that were  in­
cisive, tender and appealing by turns.

We  never  arrived  at a decision  about 
our  destination  until  we had  started on 
our  journey.  We  were  waiting  in  the 
railway  station—one of  those  gruesome, 
barn-like  structures  our  country  de­
lights  in,  where  gaudy  lithographs con­
fuse the brain of  the traveler,  until he is 
uncertain  whether to change cars at Kal­
amazoo for Capadura, or take the air-line 
route  from  Nova  Scotia  to  Neuralgiue. 
We had  decided  to  try Squid’s Neck—at 
least  Sue  had,  as she  thought the  name 
rather  promising,  but,  woman-like,  we 
missed our train, and found there was no 
way  of  reaching  that  place  until even­
ing.  A sympathetic  gateman  suggested 
our  going to Connor’s  Landing,  there  to 
hire a carriage and drive to Squid’s Neck, 
a distance of  six or eight  miles.  Before 
reaching  Connor’s  Landing  we  asked  a 
few j udicial questions of a mild-mannered 
brakeman  concerning  our  destination. 
Finding  that  it was  on  a  large  estuary 
opening into the sea,  possessed of a good 
beach,  and  secluded in the  extreme,  we 
resolved to make it our  camping ground, 
instead of the zoologically-named Squid’s 
Neck.

I  shall  never  forget  the  brakeman’s 
look  of  pitying  surprise  when  1  asked 
him if the beach was sandy.

“Marm,”  he  said,  impressively,  “the 
folks  down  there what  plants  anything

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

“  Arrow Brand  554 
Adriatic
“  World Wide.. 7
Argyle  ...................  654
“  LL............... 5
Atlanta A A............   654
Atlantic A...........
Pull Yard Wide...... 654
“ 
H...........
Georgia  A................654
“ 
P.........
Honest Width.........  634
“  D..........
Hartford A  ............ 5
Indian Head...........  754
“  LL...........
Amory..................
King A  A................  654
Archery  Bunting. 
King EC.................5
Beaver Dam  A A.
Lawrence  L L........  554
Blackstone O, 32__5
Madras cheese cloth 634
Black Crow............ 634
Newmarket  G........6
Black  Rock  ...........  7
B .......554
Boot, AL...............   754
N........ 654
Capital  A............... 5>4
DD....  554
Cavanat Y..............554
X ....... 7
Chapman cheese cl.  354
Noibe R..................  5
Clifton C R ............   554 Our Level  Best...... 654
Comet.....................   7  Oxford  R ................  654
Dwight Star............  754 Pequot.....................   754
Clifton CCC...........  654 Solar........................   654

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.
Glen Mills
Gold Medal............   754
Green  Ticket......... 854
Great Falls.............   654
Hope.......................   754
Just  Out........  454® 5
King  Phillip...........754
OP......754
Lonsdale Cambric.. 1054
Lonsdale...........  @854
Middlesex........   @ 5
No Name.................  754
Oak View............... 6
Our Own................   554
Pride of the West... 12
Rosalind................. 754
Sunlight.................   454
Utica  Mills............ 854
Nonpareil  ..11
Yinyard..................  854
White Horse.........  6
Rock............ 854
0

¡Top of the Heap__754
A B C ......................  854 Geo. Washington...  8
Amazon................... 8
Amsburg..................7
Art  Cambric............10
Blackstone A A.......   8
Beats All..................  454
Boston.....................12
Cabot.......................   754
Cabot,  X..................  634
Charter  Oak............  554
Conway W...............  754
Cleveland................  7
Dwight Anchor.......   834
shorts.  834
Edwards...................  6
Empire.....................  7
Farwell....................734
Fruit of the  Loom.  734
Fitchville  ............. 7
First Prize...............654
Fruit of the Loom X.
Falrmount.....  ........ 454
Full Value...............634
Cabot......................   7341 Dwight Anchor
Farwell...................8 
UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
TremontN...............   554 Middlesex No.  1
Hamilton N............   654 
“  2
L.........  7 
M  3.
Middlesex  AT........8 
“
7.
X...........  9 
“  8.
No. 25....  9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

..10
...11
..12
...18
...19

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1054

PRINTS.

CORSETS.

DRESS  GOODS.

CORSET  JEANS.
....  634

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CARPET  WARP.

G G  Cashmere........21
Nameless  ...............16
............... 18

Hamilton N ............   754 Middlesex A A........11
2....... 12
Middlesex P T ........8 
A T .......... 9 
A O .......1354
4.......1754
X A...........9 
X F ........ 1054 
5.......16
Peerless, white.......18  ¡Integrity, colored...21
colored— 2054 White Star............. 1854
Integrity.................18541 
“  colored..21
Hamilton
Nameless................20
...........25
...........8754
...........30
...........3254
......   35
Coraline................$9 50 ¡Wonderful.............$4 50
Schilling’s ............  9 00j Brighton................4 75
Armory.........
Naumkeag satteen.. 754
, Kockport.................654
A n d ro sco g g in
Biddeford..............   6
Conestoga.................634
Brunswick..............654
Walworth ...............634
Allen turkey  reds..  534¡Berwick fancies__  54
robes...........  554 Clyde Robes...........  5
pink a purple 654 Charter Oak fancies 454
buffs...........  6 
' Del Marine cashm’s. 6
mourn’g  6
pink  checks.  554 
staples........  554¡Eddystone  fancy...  6
shirtings...  434 
chocolat  6
American  fancy__  5341 
rober__   6
American indigo__ 5341 
sateens..  6
American shirtings.  454¡Hamilton fancy.  ...  6
staple__554
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  434 Manchester fancy..  6 
Arnold 
new era.  6
j Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Arnold  Merino 
long cloth B. 1054 Merrlm’ckshirtings.  454 
“  C.  8541 
Reppfurn.  854
century cloth  7  ¡Pacific  fancy..........6
gold seal......10541 
robes.............  654
green seal TRIO341 Portsmouth robes...  6 
yellow seal.. 1054 Simpson mourning..  6
serge........... 1154
greys........6
Turkey red.. 1054 
solid black.  6
Ballou solid black..  5 
Washington Indigo.  6 
colors.  554 
“  Turkey robes..  754
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  India robes___ 754
red and orange  ..  554
“  plain T’ky X 34  854 
Berlin solids..........  554
“ 
“  X...10
oil blue.......   654
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................. 6
“  green ....  654 
Foulards ....  554
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 34......  754
red 34...........7
Martha Washington
“  X  .........   954
“  4 4.........10
Turkeyred..........   954
Riverpomtrobes....  5
“  3-4XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy.......  6
Windsor fancy........654
madders...  6
XX twills..  6541 
indigo blue..........1054
solids........  554!

“  —   654 

gold  ticket

“ 
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“ 
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“ 
“ 

...  6 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

AC A.....................1254
Pemberton AAA__16
York.......................1054
Swift River...........   754
Pearl  River........... 1254
Warren...................14

TICKINGS.

“ 

Amoskeag A C A.... 13
Hamilton N................ 754
D................ 854
Awning..11
Farmer....................8
First Prize................. 1154
Lenox M ills...........18
COTTON  DRILL.
Atlanta,  D..............6%¡Stark  A
Boot.............................634 No  Name_
Clifton, K...................  754 ¡Top 
Simpson................. 20
................. 18
................. 16
Coechco...............1054

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“ 

Imperial.................1054
Black................ 9@ 954
.....................1054

of Heap

J.&P.GOATS’

IN

SIX-CORD

Spool  Cotton

FOR

WHITE,  BLACK  AND  COLORS,
Hand and Machine Usa
P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS.

FOR  SALE  BY

Spring  Season 1801.

I f   You  desire  to  sell

Carpets  tig  Sample

Send for

Circular  and  Price  List.

S o l & M ori,
Voigt, Herpoleiier & Go.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

DRY GOODS,

NOTIONS,

CARPETS,

CURTAINS.
Shirts,  Pants,  Overalls,  Ite.

Manufacturers of

Elegant  Spring  Line  of  Prints, Ging­
hams,  Toile  Du  Nord,  Challies,  White 
and  Black  Goods,  Percales,  Satteens, 
Serges,  Pants  Cloth,  Cottonades  and 
Hosiery now ready for inspection.
Chicago and D etroit Prices G uaranteed.

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St. 

GRAND RAPIDS, 

- 

-  MICH.

A   W N I N  G S

A N D   T E N T S .

Flags, Horse and  W agon  Covers.  Seat  Shadee,  Large 
Umbrellas,  Oiled  Clothing,  Wide  C otton  Ducks,  etc. 
It  Pearl  Street.
CHAS.  A.  COYS, 

Send  (o r  Illustrated  Catalogue.

Telephone  106.

MIXED  FLANNEL.

44

Red & Blue,  plaid.. 40 
| Grey S R W.............1754
Union R.................2254 Western W  ..............1854
Windsor................. 1854 D R P ....................... 1854
6 oz Western.......... 21  Flushing XXX......... 2354
Union  B................ 2254|Manitoba................. 2354

DOMET  FLANNEL.
Nameless...... 8  @ 954! 
854@10

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
13
954
15
1054
17
1154
20
1254

9  @1054 
1854
Brown. Black. Slate. Brown. Black.
13
15
17
20

Slate.
954
1054
1154
1854
Severen. 8 oz..........   954 ¡West  Point, 8 oz__1054
Mayland, 8 oz......... 1054 
10 oz — 1254
41 
Greenwood, 754 oz..  954 Raven, 10oz............ 1354
Greenwood, 8 oz — 1134 ¡Stark 
............ 1334
WADDINGS.

934 13
1054 15
1154 17
1854 20

White, doz..............25  I Per bale, 40 doz__ 87
Colored, doz...........20 

50

44 

|

Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
44  Red Cross....  9
44 
44 

Best  AA 

Best.1054
1254

Pawtucket...............1054
Dundie...................   9
Bedford...................1054
Valley  City.............1034

SEWING  SILK.

Cortlcelll, doz.........75  [Corticelll  knitting,

twist, doz. .3734  per 34oz  ball........30
50 yd, doz. .37541
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
44 
44 
44 
44 

No  1 Bl’k & White..l0  (No  4 Bl’k & White.,15 
..12 
44  2 
..20
44  8 
] 44  10 
44  3 
..12 
..25
No 2—20, M  C......... 50 
|No4—15  F  354........40
4  3-18, S C ...........45  I
COTTON  TAPE.
No  2 White & Bl’k..l2  ¡No  8 White & Bl’k.,20 
..15 
.  23
44  10 
44  4 
I 44  12 
44  6 
..18 
..26
SAFETY  FINS.
No2........................ 28 
|No3..  .....................36

PINS.

44 
44 

44 
44 

NEEDLES—PER  M.

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

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
44 

...3 10|
COTTON TWINES.

‘‘ ....2 10 

44 

Nashua................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
3-ply....17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 ply 1754 
Powhattan  .............18

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.................... 12
Domestic............... 1854
Anchor.................. 16
Bristol....................13
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL....................... 13
Alabama.................634 Mount  Pleasant
Alamance...............   654
Augusta'.................754
Ar> sapha...............   6
Georgia...................654
G ranite..................  534
Haw  River............ 5
Haw .J ............ . 
6

854
Oneida....................  5
Pyrmont  ...............   534
Randelman............6
Riversi ds................  634
Sibley  A.................  654
Toledo...................  6

PLAID  OSNABURGS.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
d is.
go
Snell’s........................................................... 
Cook’s .................................................. ’. ’ 
40
Jennings’, genuine................................... 
25
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................50&10

AUGURS AND BITS. 

 

AXES.

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First Quality, S. B. Bronze............
D.  B. Bronze............
S. B. S. Steel............
D. B. Steel...............
Railroad.........................................
Garden...........................................

BARROWS.

BOLTS.

Stove.............................................. .
Carriage new list.  .........................
Plow................................................
Sleigh shoe.....................................

BUCKETS.

Well,  plain.....................................
Well, swivel..................................

BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured..................
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.
Wrought Loose Pin........................
Wrought  Table..............................
Wrought Inside Blind....................
Wrought Brass...............................
Blind,  Clark’s................................
Blind,  Parker’s..............................
Blind, Shepard's............................

BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, '85..
Grain..............................................

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel........................................
Ely’s 1-10........................................
Hick’s C. F .....................................
G. D ................................................
Musket...........................................

CAPS.

CARTRIDGES.

Rim  Fire........................................
Central  Fire..................................

CHISELS.

Socket Firmer...............................
Socket Framing.............................
Socket Corner................................
Socket Slicks................................ .
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer..............

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

COMBS.

CHALK.

COPPER.

dis.

dis.

......I 7 50
....  12 00
......   8 50
......   13 50
....(  14 00 
net  30 00 
...... 50*10
75
......  
...... 40&10
.....  
70
I 3 50 
4 00 
dis. 
.70& 
.60&1O 
.60*10 
.00*10 
.60*10 
75
.70*10
.70*10
70

40

.  dis. 50*02

per fi>  5
perm 

“ 
“ 
“ 

___ 
dis. 

65
60
35
60

50
25

dis.
.70*10
.70*16
.70*10
.70*10
40

dis.

40
25

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

“ 

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

drills. 

 

DRIPPINO FANS.

Small sizes, ser pound............................ 
Large sizes, per  pound............................ 

30
28

50

25
25
27
dis.
50
50

07
6H

ELBOWS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, (IS; large, 626................... 
Ives’, 1,118;  2,124; 3, 830.......................  

Com. 4  piece, 6 In............................doz. net 
75
Corrugated......................................dis. 20*10*10
Adjustable............................................ dis. 40*10
diS.
30
25
dis.
Dlsston’s ..................................................60*10
New American........................................ 60*10
Nicholson’s .............................................60*10
Heller’s ....................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps............................... 
50

piles—New List. 

SALVANIZED IRON

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

12 

14 

28
18

Discount, 60

13 
oauoes. 

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

dis.
50

besides oysters  would thank  you consid­
erable if  you  could point  out  a  square 
foot of land anywheres what ain’t sandy, 
and the meanest kind of sand at that.”

With 

this  discouraging  statement, 

which we soon  verified, he left us.

On  arriving  at  the  Landing,  we  soon 
made  arrangements  for  our  temporary 
home,  and  evening  found  us  domiciled 
with Aunt Jane Applegate.

Connor’s  Landing  does not  appear  on 
any map, nor  is it  the  subject of  guide­
book  eulogy—it  is  shy,  shrinking  from 
publicity, like
“Sweet Auburn, lovliest village of the plain.”
Apart from its shrinking modesty, how­
ever,  it  differs  widely  from  the  poet’s 
village. 
It  is  on  the  bank  of  a  broad 
estuary, where the flat beach,  not silvery 
sand or  shingle,  but melancholy  and un­
compromising black  mud,  is bordered by 
a  weary length of  flat salt  meadow, this 
dimly  relieved  by  a  background of  rug­
ged and careworn pines.

And  the  natives,  we found  are  singu­
larly  in  harmony with  their  surround­
ings.  They  are  Aborigines;  as  Aphro­
dite  sprang  from  the  sea-foam 
they 
developed from  the river  mud, equipped 
for their  calling  with a boat-hook  and  a 
pair of  oyster tongs.  Their  lank  forms 
suggest  a  mossbunky  diet—the  moss- 
bunker is  a  silvery but  deceptive  little 
wretch  of  the  herring  tribe, containing 
no  more  real  nourishment  than a news­
paper on toast.

The Connor’s  Landingite does  not feel 
himself  in  full  dress  without  a knitted 
jersey,  overlapping  in  folds  like  a  rhi­
noceros hide, and a tarpaulin hat, possess­
ing a rear extension like a sugar scoop, this 
headgear  being  technically  known  as  a 
sou’wester. 
It is an interesting question 
to  the  thoughtful  student,  whether  the 
native has  been  gradually  evolved from 
the  oyster,  primeval  lord of  the  soil,  or 
whether the  oyster  has  been  developed 
by the retrogression of the native.

After  a  night’s  rest  in  a  big,  bare, 
drowsy  chamber,  with  the  soft  wash- 
wash of  the  waves  below our  windows, 
we  descended  to  our  breakfast, to  find 
Aunt  Jane  and  Cordy,  her  daughter, 
awaiting us.  The  master of  the  house, 
we learned,  had  started on an  early fish­
ing  expedition  with the  other  boarder, 
of  whose  existence we now  learned  for 
the  first  time.  He  was  a  young  man, 
Mrs.  Applegate  told  us,  whereat  Sue’s 
brow  displayed  a  portentious  frown, 
which  was  not  entirely smoothed  away 
when  Aunt  Jane  supplied  us  with  an 
omelette  and  an  outline  sketch  of  the 
young man together.

“He  ain’t  one of  the regular  summer 
vacation  young  men,”  said  our  hostess, 
with  a tone  displaying fine contempt for 
this briefly described order of  humanity. 
“He’ll spend a hull  forenoon  under  the 
pines  out  on  the  bluff, or  he’ll  wander 
off around the clay banks, an’  bring home 
a pocket full of rocks and pirates.”

“Pirates!”  I  ejaculated,  in  astonish­

ment.

call ’em.”

“Yes, them  iron pirates,  clay  balls we 

“She  means  iron  pyrites,”  explained 

Sue,  in an aside.

“Anyway,  he don’t  give us no trouble, 
an’ is as pleasant-spoken  a young man as 
I  ever  see,”  concluded  our  hostess,  as 
she left us.

“Precisely,  ‘as  mild  a mannered  man 
as ever  scuttled a ship or cut a throat,’ ” 
muttered the incorrigible  Sue.

[Completed on 14 th and 15th pages  !

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Hardware Price Current.

HAMMERS.

7

75
60
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

ROPES.

Sisal, H inch and larger.........
Manilla.....................................
SQUARES.
Steel and  Iron..........................
Try and Bevels.......................
Mitre........................................
SHEET IRON.

 

dlS.

dis.

“ 
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HINGES.

HANGERS. 

dig.
dis.

levels. 

MATTOCKS.

HOLLOW WARE.

wire goods. 

LOCKS—DOOR. 

knobs—New List. 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Maydole *  Co.’s......................................dis. 
25
Kip’s ........................................................dis. 
25
Yerkes * Plumb’s............................................ dis. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand__30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .............................. dis.60*10
State...........................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12  in. 4%  14  and
longer.......................................................   3H
Screw Hook and  Eye, 54.........................net 
10
“  %.......................... net  654
“ 
3i.......................... net  754
“ 
“ 
“ 
“  %.......................... net  754
Strap and T ............................................ dis. 
50
Barn 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
Stamped  Tin Ware...............................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are...................new list 3354*10
dis.
Bright......................................................70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10*10
Hook’s .............................  
70*10*10
70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s  ..................  
70
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porceluin, trimmings  ....................... 
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..................  
70
55
Russell * Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s...........................  
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s ............................................. ... 
55
Adze Eye...........................................(16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye.  .......................................(15.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s...................................... (18.50, dis. 20*10.
dlS.
50
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ................................... 
40
40
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Clc  k’s................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
.................................... 
25
Stebbin’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Steel nails,  base............................................1  90
Wire nails,  base.................................................2 30
Steel.  Wire.
60......................................................Base 
Base
10
50......................................................Base 
40 ....................................................   05 
20
20
10 
30..................................................... 
30
15 
20............................. 
16.....................................................  
35
15 
35
12..................................................... 
15 
10......................................................   20 
40
8........................................................  25 
50
7 * 6 ..................................................  40 
65
90
4........................................................  60 
1 50
3.........................................................1 00 
2.........................................................1 50 
2 00
Fine 3................................................ 1 50 
2 00
60 
90
Case  10......................  
1 00
8..............................................  75 
6............................ 
 
Finish 10...........................................  85 
100
8.............................................1 00 
6 ........................... 
1  15 
Clinch; 10..........................................   85 
8......................................... 1  00 
6........................................... 1 15 
Barren %........................................... 1 75 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................  @40
Sciota Bench................................................  @60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  @40
Bench, fi rst quality......................................   @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood...........  *10
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................dis. 
70
40
Iron and  Tinned.........................................  
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 IRON.

MOLASSES GATES. 

1 25
1 50
75
90
1 00
2 50

MAULS. 
mills. 

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PLANES. 

rivets. 

NAILS

PANS.

dlS.

dis.

dlS.

Broken packs He per pound extra.

 

 

 

SASH WEIGHTS.

(3 10
3 20
3 20

330
3 40
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14......................................(4 20 
Nos. 15 to 17......................................  4 20 
Nos.  18 to 21....................................... 4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24.....................................  420 
Nos. 25 to 26 ...........................  
...  4 40 
No. 27...............................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86...................................... dis.
Silver Lake, White A.......................... 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

3 50

list
«
Drab A................................ 
“
White  B............................. 
DrabB................................   »
WhiteC............................  
  »

50
50
55
50
55
35

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Discount, 10.

dis.

saws. 

TRAPS. 

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

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton (25
20
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,....  70
50
30
30
I 
ills.
Steel, Game..................................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s  ... 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion...............................(1.50 per doz.
dis.
Bright Market..............................................  65
Annealed Market........................................ 70__10
Coppered Market...................................... . ’  go
Tinned M arket..........................................       62H
Coppered  Spring  Steel........................... 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  3 50
painted....................................   2 95

wire. 

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HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

Au Sable...............................dig. 25&10@25&10*06
Putnam..........................................  
dis. 05
N orth western................................ 
dis. 10*10
dis.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................ 
  50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,.......! 
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75*10
Bird Cages................................................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................ 
*5
Screws, New I ist..........................................70*10
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50*10*10
Dampers, American..................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.......  
65

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dig.

METALS,
PIG TIN.

6%
7

ZINC.

26c
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2Hc per pound.
600 pound  casks...........................................  
Per pound....................................................  
H@H................................ .............. .....16
Extra W iping..............................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.
Cookson........................................per pound  16
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
90 1 25
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................( 7 50
7  50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
9 25
14x20 IX, 
9 25

Each additional X on this grade, (1.75.

ANTIMONY

“ 
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TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.

10x14IC, Charcoal...................................... (6 5 0
6  50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
8 00
14x20 IX, 
00

 
 
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Each additional X on this grade (1.50.

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ROOFING PLATES

“ 
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“  Worcester................................  6 50
“ 
“ 
“ Allaway  Grade...................  
“ 
“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
14x28  IX............................  
14x31  IX......................................................... 15
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I
10
14x601X1  “ 

..........................  8  50
.........................  18 50
5 75
7  ¿5
“ 
12 GO
“ 
15 00
“ 
(14 GO

Per Pound 

“  9 

 
 
 

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We  have  taken  hold of  this  line  of  goods  with  our  ac­
customed  energy  and  shall  carry  a  full  assortm ent  of  the 
best  makes.  We  shall  be  glad  to  give  full  inform ation  and 
prices  to any  one  desiring to  secure an  agency.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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THE  MICHIGAN'  TRADESMAN.

MichiganTradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s  Association. 

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E.  A.  STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  27,  1891.

THE  ECONOMY  OF  GOOD  MANNERS.
The business  view  of the  question of 
good manners  is a  very  important  one. 
Good manners  are a necessary  lubricant 
in  the  machinery  of  social  life.  While 
it is very true that if a machine is set up 
perfectly true  and its  parts  are  rightly 
and  tightly  adjusted,  there  will  be the 
least necessity for grease and  oil,  never­
theless,  such  is the  imperfection of  the 
very  best  material,  that  an  absolutely 
smooth  and  even service  is  hardly  pos­
sible;  therefore  oil  is  a  necessity.

The  same  rule  holds  good  in  life. 
There are a great many excellent people, 
absolutely  upright,  dutiful,  exact,  and 
always  in  place; yet  these  same  people 
cannot get along  together, and  presently 
there will be  so much heat  generated by 
mere  friction  that  the  machine  has  to 
stop.

Good manners are  a saving of  time, of 
labor,  of energy, of  money  and of  com­
fort; indeed, of almost everything that is 
worth having or saving.  A rough,  abrupt 
or  ill-mannered  order - or  answer  very 
often  makes a  quarrel  right  off,  often a 
fight,  and either  delays  business  or de­
feats it  altogether,  while  a kindly,  res­
pectful though determined  order  arouses 
instant  enthusiasm  and  quickens work. 
Indeed,  we  may  take  it as  a  business 
truth 
rough 
word  must  be  paid 
for  sooner  or 
later in  one  way  or  another.

that  every  churlish  and 

The labor  that is  saved by a  pleasant 
way of doing things cannot be estimated. 
From the  first  exchange  of hard  words 
to the final  adjustment of  the difficulty, 
all  is  a  horrid  waste  of 
trouble  and 
disagreeable work.  What  might not  be 
labor  be­
accomplished  by  the  same 
stowed on  the  simplest  enterprise? 
Ill 
manners throw a man’s whole machinery 
out  of gear,  out of working  order,  mind, 
heart and  body.  They  destroy  his  en­
ergy, except  for  a  row,  and  make only 
one  idea  prominent  in  his  mind,  and 
that is to get even with the churl.  As to 
money  that  is  saved, 
there  is  no  es­
timating that.  The  lawyers and  doctors 
grow  rich  on  the  ill-manners  of  their 
clients  towards  one  another.  And  a 
large part  of the  police machinery  is as 
chargeable  to that trouble  as to  general 
villainy.  And as to the personal comfort 
of the individual and of the circle he lives 
in,  its peace  and quiet and happiness are 
dependent on the good manners and cour­
tesies that prevail  in him and  it.

There  is one  horrible  heresy  that pre­
vails commonly in the teeth of all reason 
and common sense,  and that is that there 
are  certain  people  privileged 
to  get 
through  the world  without any  manners 
at all.  The result  of  this  error  is that 
the social  philosopher  who  entertains it 
becomes  indebted  to  almost  every man 
he meets.  He leaves an enemy and a fire 
in the  rear all  along  his  way.  And the 
general  world looks hopefully  after him,

assured  that  presently  he’ll  meet  his 
man.  And so  he  does.  After the  con­
flict, he is a wiser though sadder man,  and 
nobody is sorry.

a   d iv o r c e   c u r io s it y .

Divorce  courts  occasionally  present 
curious legal phases.  The general  term 
of the Supreme Court considered  an  odd 
case at Poughkeepsie, N.  Y.,  last  week. 
The appellant asked for the opening of a 
divorce judgment granted in  1886.  She 
asserted  that  she  was  deceived by  her 
husband,  that she was not  informed that 
the suit was going on,  that  she  did  not 
appear to defend and that,  therefore,  de­
fault was  taken against her.

Fraudulant  proceedings  of  this  kind 
are by no means so rare as they ought  to 
be, but this case has another and a novel 
feature.  The appellant alleges  that  af­
ter the  divorce  had  been  obtained  the 
parties lived together as man and wife in 
and out of town  without  a  suspicion  on 
the  part  of  their  friends  and acquaint­
ances of a legal  severing  of  the  marital 
bond. 
It is doubtful that a precedent for 
this situation can be found.  Dissatisfied 
persons usually procure  divorces  in  or­
der  that  they  may  live  apart.  Actual 
separation is indeed commonly  a  condi­
tion precedent to the litigation.

At 

and 

peacefully. 

Speculation  will 

In this case,  the divorce would seem to 
have been obtained in order that the con­
cerned persons might live together  more 
safely 
least 
the  plaintiff’s  conduct  goes  to  show 
as  much. 
not 
not be slow  in  suggesting  explanations 
and  uses for such a dissolution of union. 
The  judgment  might  be  considered  as 
taking  effect  conditionally.  The  hus­
band might assume that execution of the 
decree should be suspended during  good 
behavior.  He might hold the order over 
his wife in terror a sa rod of discipline in 
the event of  misconduct.  As  in  “The 
Honeymoon”  the  duke  upon  occasion 
brings his shrewish  partner  to terms by 
merely holding up  the  key  with  which 
Juliana has  been locked up in  rebellious 
moments, so the husband might constrain 
his  wife  to  obedience  by  exhibiting  a 
certified copy of the  judgment of divoce, 
perhaps by simply pointing  to  the  coat 
pocket which contained it.  The train of 
thought just  started  naturally  leads  to 
the conclusion that very often  a  divorce 
might  be  very  handy 
to  have  in  the 
house,  something,  in fact,  which no fam­
ily should be without.

The comedy of  the  situation,  as  dis­
closed in this case,  is scarcely  more  gro­
tesque and extravagant  than  its  serious 
side as made familiar by  the daily news­
papers. 
In  this  case  the  plaintiff  was 
; himself  divorced  by  his  first  wife  ten 
years earlier, but a little thing  like  that 
was  not  allowed  to  interfere  with  his 
marrying  again.  He  then  turned  the 
tables by getting a divorce,  and  again  a 
little  thing  like  that  did  not  interfere 
with his continuing to live  with his  sec­
ond  wife.

The ease  with  which  matrimonial  al­
liances are made,  unmade and remade of 
I late seems to be passing  from  the  cate- 
I gory of household tragedy  and becoming 
a  domestic  farce.  Decency  cries  aloud 
for uniform and  effective  legislation  on 
the  subject. 
Indignation  has  accom­
plished nothing in  this  direction.  Per­
haps ridicule may be effective.
! A  CHANCE  FOR  THE  CHARITABLE.
The  “reindeer problem”  threatens  to 
1 become  a  cause  of  contention.  Senti­

mental people are advocating the  impor­
tation of these animals from  Siberia  for 
use in Alaska,  and the question was dur­
ing the last session of  Congress  referred 
to the  House  Committee  on  Education. 
How the reindeer question  ever  got  be­
fore this Committee is one of  the  incon­
gruities of legislation  which  statesman­
ship  will  not  explain,  if  it  can.  The 
Committee,  however,  supported the prop­
osition to  import  these animals from Si­
beria into Alaska.

Before we  got  possession  of  Alaska, 
the natives had an abundance of fish and 
seal oil and flesh for  food,  but  now  the 
greaj fisheries  are  taking  so  many  fish 
for canning and  sale  in  distant markets 
that  the  natives  find  their  food 
sup­
If they had  any  cattle 
ply diminished. 
or sheep to  start with,  there  would  not 
be pasturage enough to sustain them. The 
reindeer subsists on lichens,  moss or any 
vegetable edible that grows in the Arctic 
regions and grows fat  on his scanty diet.
The proposition is to  raise  $10,000  to 
buy and import reindeers from Siberia to 
Alaska.  This sum will buy 1,000 of these 
animals,  and  give 
the  Alaskans  fleet 
draught animals,  and  animal  food  as  a 
substitute for fish,  if they do not  eat  up 
this small  number  of  deer  before  they 
have had a fair chance to increase poster­
ity.  The Chicago Inter  Ocean  offers  its 
services  to  receive  $10  or  larger  sub­
scriptions  from  any  of  the  charitably 
disposed,  who are willing to buy  one  or 
more reindeers for the Alaskans.

If  we  are  depriving  these  people  of 
their  principal article  of food, it  is  but 
fair that  we  should  provide  them  with 
other  means  of  subsistence.  The  gov­
ernment, though,  should  appropriate the 
amount necessary,  instead  of  leaving  it 
to 
the  charity  of  individuals  to  raise 
them. 

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A PUBLIC  LOSS.

this  city, 

the  deceased  come 

In  the  death  of  Isaac  M.  Clark,  the 
wholesale trade  of  Grand  Rapids  loses 
one of its strongest  pillars and stanchest 
exponents.  For  sixteen  years  at  the 
head  of  a  wholesale  grocery  house 
in 
to 
be known,  by  name  and  reputation,  to 
nearly  every  dealer  doing  business  in 
the  Grand  Rapids  market,  and  it  is 
not  stating 
it  too  strongly  to  assert 
that no one ever rightfully laid a  charge 
of wrong dealing  at  his  door.  Whether 
following the plow on the  farm,  dealing 
out  the  necessities  of  life  behind  the 
retail  counter  or  directing  the manage­
ment  of  a  great  mercantile  house,  in­
herent  integrity  appears  to  have  been 
his  guiding  star,  and  to  this  quality, 
coupled  with  a  spirit  of  persistence 
which  laughed  at  failure  and  knew  no 
such word as defeat,  is  largely  due  the 
remarkable  success  which  attended  the 
commercial transactions of the  deceased.
Every life is  valuable  as  an  example, 
and the career of  Mr. Clark  is especially 
encouraging  to  young  men,  as  showing 
the  measure  of  success  which  can  be 
secured  when truth and justice are made 
the  foundation  stones.  Embarking  in 
business  thirty-two  years  ago  with  a 
capital  of  only  a  dozen  dollars, 
the 
deceased was able  to  leave  his  relatives 
a legacy of over a quarter of  a  million— 
doubly  valuable  becanse  of  the  knowl­
edge that not a penny  of  the  estate ever 
came to it wrongfully.

THE  USUAL  ACCURACY.

As  an  instance  of  the  utter careless­
ness  with  which  facts  and  figures  are

from 

handled by the average daily  paper,  the 
following  clipping 
the  Detroit 
News of May 23 is an admirable example:
E.  S.  Noble  of  the  Elk  Rapids  iron 
furnace,  says  Michigan  pig  iron  is  now 
worth only about $17.50 a ton, while  last 
year it demanded from  $21 to  $23.  Ores 
have declined from 50 cents  to  $1  a  ton 
during the last few months.  There were 
10,000,000 tons of ore mined in  the coun­
try  last  year,  and  the  producers  must 
have kept it in reserve  and  recently put 
it upon the  market.  Business  is so dull 
that  out  of  twenty-six  furnaces  in  the 
State only twelve are  in  full blast.  Mr. 
Noble’s company  has  about 700,000 tons 
of pig iron on  hand  now,  bnt  it will not 
sell at the present prices.

If the statement of  the  News  is  to  be 
believed,  the  Elk  Rapids  company  has 
$12,250,000 worth of pig iron  piled  in its 
yard  on  the  banks  of Elk Lake.  Those 
familiar  with  the  facts,  however,  will 
probably  estimate 
the 
product  on  hand  at  about  one-tenth  of 
the News'  figures.

the  value  of 

This is about  as  near  the  truth as the 
daily  papers  usually  get  in  the  dis­
cussion  of  matters  pertaining  to  trade 
and commerce.

The  last census shows  that  the  cities 
have increased their  population at a fas­
ter rate during the  last decade than dur­
ing any former.  The  urban  population 
is fast  gaining  on  the  rural,  and  may 
soon equal it.  There seems to have been 
a strong  drift  of  the  population  away 
from the farms to the cities. 
It has been 
claimed that improved  agricultural  ma­
chinery  has  driven  laborers  from  the 
farm to the  city.  But  such  is  not  the 
case.  The  scarcity  of  farm  labor  has 
largely increased the  sale and use of im­
proved farm  implements.  On  this  ac­
count,  many  farmers  were  obliged  to 
purchase  labor-saving  implements  long 
before they would  have done  so,  if  tha 
number  of farm laborers  had been equal 
to the demand.  The drift from  farm  to 
town has greatly  stimulated  the  manu­
facture of agricultural  machinery.

An agent of the  Department  of  Agri­
culture has lately been in  Florida inves­
tigating the prospects  there for growing 
sisal  hemp,  from  which  binding  twine 
and cordage are  made.  The sisal  hemp 
fiber now used is imported from Yucatan, 
at an annual cost of about $5,000,000.  In 
southernFlorida a better variety than that 
imported is found growing wild,  and in a 
few years that state could more than sup­
ply the needs of the  whole country,  if it 
would undertake to do  it.  The  lack  of 
suitable  machinery  for  separating  the 
fiber from the leaves is the greatest draw­
back; but that is one  that  American  in­
ventive genius can soon remove.  A for­
tune awaits the  successful inventor of  a 
sisal hemp fiber machine.

The past week has witnessed  the  final 
collapse  of  the  coke-workers’  strike, 
after  lasting  more  than  three  months. 
The  strikers  are  reported  applying  for 
work by thousands,  but  in  spite  of  this 
the labor  leaders  continue  to  claim  the 
strike  exists,  and  are  calling  for  more 
subscriptions.  One result  of  this  great 
labor 
the 
adoption by most of  the  operators of the 
sliding  scale  as a  basis for the payment 
of  wages.  The  situation  in  the mining 
industry  generally  is  quieter,  and  it is 
estimated that 10,000  men who struck on 
or  before  May  1  have  resumed  work, 
most of them at the old rates.

trouble  will  probably  be 

THE  MICHlGAJSr  TRADESMAN.

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to win  success  in  the  face of  adversity 
and maintain  the respect  and friendship 
of every one  with whom he  came in con­
tact.  His  father was descended from an 
alliance of  English and  German  and  in 
his mother was  united the lineage of  the 
Scotch and Spanish.  Such  an  ancestry, 
combined with parentage of the most stur­
dy  sort, gave  the  deceased an advantage 
which  he  appreciated  at  its  full  worth 
and improved  to  the  best of  his ability. 
As  a  boy,  the  same  determined  spirit 
which  subsequently  marked  his  career 
was  early  displayed.  A  school  teacher 
who attempted to chastise him for an act 
for  which he was  not  to  blame was told 
by the pupil  that the punishment  would 
not be endured and took the  youth at his 
word.  When only 12  years old  he drove 
a team  fifty  miles to the  lumber  woods, 
returning  home only when  refused work 
on  account of  his  youth.  A  year  later 
he  pined  to  see  a  sister  who  had 
been  his constant  companion in boyhood 
and walked  all  alone  all the  way to De­
troit,  200  miles  by  wagon  road,  to  see 
her.  This  act  serves  to  show both  the 
affection  he  bore  his  relatives and  the 
determined manner  in  which  he  carried 
out  every  undertaking.  As  he  grew 
older, some  elements of  the Scotch char­
acter became  more  noticeable.  Sturdy 
honesty and  innate firmness  of  purpose 
became distinguishing traits. 
If he hap­
pened to  sell a man  goods  at  a  loss, the 
purchaser  got  the  goods  just the  same 
and he got the goods he ordered,  without 
substitution or  adulteration.  He  invar­
iably lived up to his agreements, and was 
one of  the men  whose word  was as good 
as a bond.  If he made an appointment, he 
met  it  squarely,  as  he  believed  that 
nothing but  death er sickness  should  be 
allowed  to  stand  in  the way.  When he 
started  out  to  accomplish  an  object, he 
never  permitted  any discouragement  to 
interfere with his  purpose,  and when he 
thought  he  was  in  the  right  he  never 
stopped  short  of  success.  He  was  no 
club  man,  home  and  business  being all 
he cared  for.  When not  at  the store  he 
was at his own hearthstone, around which 
cluttered, all that  was  near  and dear  to 
him.  Stern  and  unyielding  in  many 
respects,  his  heart  was  as  warm  as  a 
woman’s  and  every  man  in  his  employ 
looked upon him  as  a  friend.  He never 
gave  any  of  his  employes or  associates 
an  unkind  word  and  he  was  unable to 
discharge a man,  usually delegating such 
unpleasant  duties  to  others.  Steadfast 
in  every  endeavor, he  was  conservative 
in  counsel  and  action,  no  breach  ever 
having  been  made  wider  by  his  inter­
ference.  To  summarize  the  virtues  of 
the  deceased,  he  was  a  model  business 
man,  a  model  husband  and  father,  a 
model citizen,  and the example he leaves 
behind  will  long  be  cherished  by  all 
who  possessed  the  privilege  of  his  ac­
quaintance.

RESOLUTIONS OF  RESPECT.

At  the weekly  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Wholesale Grocers’  Association, 
held  last  Thursday evening,  the follow­
ing resolutions were unanimously adopt­
ed:
W h er ea s,  The  Great  Ruler  of  the 
universe  in His infinite  wisdom  has re­
moved from  our  midst  our worthy  and 
esteemed fellow member, Isaac M.  Clark, 
and
W h er ea s,  The  intimate  relation  held 
by him  with  the  members  of this  Asso­
ciation,  he  having  been  our  first  Pres­
ident, makes it fitting that we record our 
appreciation of his worth; therefore,

Resolved,  That the  integrity  and old- 
fashioned honesty that  has characterized 
his  business  career  have  been  grand 
influences  in 
the  furtherance  of  the 
wholesale trade  of  our city  and  his ex­
ample  worthy  of  the  emulation  of the 
business men of the entire community.
Resolved,  That his removal  from our 
midst  and the position of  honor and  re­
gard with which he has  been held by  us 
leaves  a vacancy that will  be felt by  all 
our members and  the trade  at  large and 
will  prove a grievous loss to this city.
Resolved,  That  with  deep  sympathy 
for  the afflicted relatives  and  friends of 
the deceased,  we extend the earnest hope 
that even  so  great  a  bereavement  may 
be overruled for their higher good.
Resolved,  That  these  resolutions  be 
spread upon  the  records  of our Associa­
tion  and  that  copies  be  furnished  the 
city papers for publication,  and a proper­
ly  engrossed  copy  be 
the 
family of the deceased;  and 
Resolved,  That  we  close  our  places 
of business  and  attend  the  funeral in a 
body.

furnished 

A   F R IE N D ’ S  TR IB U T E .

Hon.  Moses  Taggart  thus  pays  his 

respects  to his  departed  friend:

The death of Isaac M.  Clark,  when but 
little  past the prime  of life,  is a sad  loss 
to the business community,and particular­
ly to  his  friends who knew  his sterling 
worth  and  character.  With  but  few 
words, whether in business deal or social 
converse,  whatever  he  said was  always 
to the point, conveyed his exact meaning, 
and when he had  given  his word,  it was 
never retracted,  directly or  by  evasion. 
Honesty  and  truth  were  his  guidance, 
and  from  the time he  commenced  busi­
ness,  a poor young man  in  the northern 
part of Kent  county,  through  all of his 
successful  life,  until  he  became  one of 
the  leading  wholesale  merchants  of 
Grand Rapids,  and  until  the time of his 
death,  he never departed  from this  stan­
dard.  Unassuming  in  his  mauners,  he 
was  always  the  same  cordial 
friend. 
Such a life of integrity,  never marked or 
marred by  dishonest  act  or conduct,  in 
these  days  of  sharp  deals,  strategic 
trades, and too common corrupt practices 
in  business  methods,  teaches  an  inva­
luable  lesson,  is  in  itself  a sermon  by 
example,  the  influence  of  which,  upon 
those with whom he was  brought in con­
tact, is far reaching and beyond estimate. 
While deepest sorrow will follow this sad 
breaking of  family ties that time cannot 
heal,  the  thought  of  his  many  noble 
qualities  will  assuage  in  some  degree, 
the grief which sympathy cannot remove.

T H E   F U N E R A L .

The  obsequies  of  the  deceased  were 
held  at  the  family  residence  Saturday 
afternoon, every  wholesale  house  in  the 
city being represented.  The  ceremonies 
were  conducted  by  Rev.  Mr.  Hobbs,, 
rector of Grace church,  of  which  parish 
the deceased was a regular communicant. 
Suitable vocal music  was furnished  by a 
quartette  composed  of  Messrs.  Eddy, 
Loomis,  Kromer  and  Morehead,  Prof. 
Wellenstein presiding at the piano.  The 
remains  were  bourn  to  their temporary 
resting  place  in  the  receiving  vanlt  of 
Valley City  Cemetery,  by  the  traveling 
men of  the  house—H.  A.  Hudson,  Jas. 
McBurney,  H.  S.  Powell,  John Q.  Ryan,
J.  E.  Ireland,  Jas.  A.  Massie,  J.  G. 
Cloyes,  O.  B.  Shaw  and J.  A.  King.
A  Hat  Trust  Combination.

The  wool  hat  manufacturers  of  the 
country  formed a  combination  recently 
in New York City and gave it the title ot 
the  National  Hat  Co.  The  corporation 
is  organized  under  the  laws  of  New 
Jersey,  and  has  a  paid  up  capital  of 
$1,500,000.  The claim  is  made  that “it 
is not a trust in the ordinary  acceptance 
of the term.”  The  cause  assigned  for 
the  formation  of 
the  combination  is 
overproduction.  The corporation counts 
on leasing all  the wool  hat  factories  in 
the country. 
It is said that there is  but 
one large concern which has not yet gone 
into  the combination.

GOOD  MAN  GONE.

Death  of  I.  M.  Clark,  the  Veteran 

•  Wholesale  Grocer.

I.  M.  Clark,  President  of  the  I.  M. 

Clark  Grocery  Co.,  who  was  ill  several 
weeks with diabetes  and  gangrene,  died 
at the  family residence on  Cherry street 
Wednesday evening  and was interred  in 
Valley City Cemetery Saturday afternoon.

the  brothers  purchased a carload  of  tea 
in the San Francisco market and returned 
to Grand  Rapids, engaging in the whole­
sale grocery business in the  Morey block 
—now  occupied  by Weatherly & Pulte— 
under  the  style  of  I.  M.  Clark  &  Co. 
Four  years  later  the  house removed  to 
the  double  store on South  Ionia  street, 
lately  vacated  by  the  Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.,  discontinuing  the  business 
in  1881,  to  resume  it  again  two  years 
later under  the  style of  Clark, Jewell & 
Co.,  Frank  Jewell  and  Fred  B.  Clark 
having become partners  in  the business. 
In  1889, M.  J. Clark  and  Frank  Jewell 
retired  from  the  firm,  when  the  name 
was changed to I.  M. Clark & Son,  which 
style  continued  until the  business  was 
merged  into  a  stock  company,  a couple 
of  weeks  ago,  under  the style of  the  I. 
M.  Clark Grocery Co.

FORTUNE OF  THE DECEASED.

In  addition to his  interest  in  the  gro­
cery business, the  deceased  was  a  large 
operator  in pine  lands in Wisconsin  and 
Minnesota  and  to  fortunate investments 
in both  states are  largely due the  hand­
some competence  he was able to accumu­
late, which is estimated at about $300,000. 
He was a heavy stockholder in the  Clark 
& Scudder Lumber Co.  and  also  a  stock­
holder  in  the  Grand  Rapids  National 
Bank.

SURVIVING RELATIVES.

The deceased  was  married  in  1862  to 
Miss Mary Maria Jewell, of Cannon town­
ship, who survives him.  The union was 
an unusually happy one.

Five children  survive  the deceased, as 
follows:  Fred  B.  Clark,  residing at 183 
South  Union  street;  Mrs.  Gertrude  L. 
Partridge, whose home will be in Boston; 
Edith  Ethelyn,  now at Smith  College, in 
Northampton,  Mass.;  Irving  Marshall, 
aged 9 years;  and Leland Jewell,  aged 6.
Three brothers  and two sisters survive 
the  deceased,  as  follows:  M.  J.  Clark, 
who resides on Cherry street;  J. D. Clark, 
of  Cedar  Springs;  Edward  Cutler,  who 
resides  in  Oregon;  Mrs.  Robinson  and 
Mrs. London,  of this city.

CHARACTER OF  THE DECEASED.

To the antecedents of  the deceased are 
clearly attributable  those  sterling quali­
ties of head and heart which enabled him

SKETCH OF  HIS LIFE.

Isaac Massie  Clark  was  born  in  Kent 
county, Ont.,  March 23,  1837.  At the age 
of five years his parents  removed to Can­
non  township, in  this  county,  where  he 
spent  his  youth  and  early  manhood, 
working  on  the  farm  summers  and  at­
tending  school  winters.  During  this 
time he varied the monotony of farm life 
by  occasionally  working  in  the  lumber 
woods and driving logs on the Muskegon 
River,  but  neither  occupation  claimed 
his  attention  long. 
In  1859,  when only 
22  years of  age, he  formed a copartner­
ship  with  his  brother,  Melvin  J.,  and 
engaged in the grocery  business at Solon 
Center.  The  combined  capital  of  the 
two partners was  only $25 and  the place 
of business  was an old  granary. 
In the 
face of such discouraging circumstances, 
business was  continued until  the  break­
ing  out of  the  war,  when  the  deceased 
resumed  the  pursuit of  agriculture. 
In 
1862,  the  brothers  again  formed  a  co­
partnership and embarked in the grocery 
business at Cedar Springs under the style 
of  Clark Bros., continuing together until 
1867, when  M.  J.  succeeded  to  the  busi­
ness of the firm and the deceased resumed 
farming,  for which  he had  a  particular 
liking.  He was a most  thorough  farmer 
and  old  residents of  Cannon  never  tire 
of  describing  what remarkable crops  he 
raised  and  the  prosperous  appearance 
which  marked  the old  homestead when­
ever he  directed its management.  From 
1868  to  1872  he  conducted  the  grocery 
business  on  his  own  account  at  Cedar 
Springs,  closing it out in the  latter  year 
to remove to California  with his brother, 
for  the  purpose  of  embarking  in  the 
wholesale grocery  business at San  FraH- 
cisco.  Careful  investigation  culminated 
in  the  abandonment of  this  plan,  when 
the  deceased  purchased  a  stock  ranch 
near Petaluma, which he conducted with 
In  1874
varying success  for  two  years. 

ÎO
D ru g s  M edicines*

State Board of Pharmacy.

One T ear—Stanley E. Parkill, Owobso.
Two  Tears—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Three  Tears—Jam es  Vernor, D etroit.
Four Years—O ttm ar E berbach, Ann Arbor 
F ire  Y ears—George Gundrum, Ionia.
President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—S . E. Parkill,  O w obso.
Meetings  for  1891—Ann  Arbor,  May  5;  Star  Island 
(Detroit) July 7;  Houghton, Sept. 1;  Lansing  Nov. 4.
Michigan State  Pharmaceutical A n ’q . 

President—D. E. Prall, Saginaw.
Tirst Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. 
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor. 
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—C. A. Bug-bee, Cheboygan.
Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in  October, 1891.

| Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. 
President. W. R. Jew ett,  Secretary,  Frank H. Escott 
R egular Meetings—First W ednesday evening of March, 

June, September and December._____________
Grand Rapids Drug Clerks' Association, 
resident, F. D. Kipp ;  Secretary, W. C. Smith.______

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. 

President. F. W. R. P erry;  Secretary,  E.  8.  Anderson.

Muskegon  Drug Clerks’ Association. 

President  C. S. Koon;  Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.

N ew   Medicinal  Soaps.

skin 

The Edinburg Medical Journal, Febru­
ary,  1891,  says that  Eichhoff,  of  Elber- 
feld, who has  lately  added  to the list of 
medicinal soaps some of real  value,  and 
embodying some valuable improvements, 
has  continued  his  researches  into  the 
subject.  He  reviews  the  conditions  of 
the skin in  which  soap  treatment  is  to 
be recommended.  This  is  specially  in­
dicated  in  cases  where  the 
is 
unctuous.  The soap removes the  excess 
of  fat,  while  the  incorporated  drug,  if 
suitably  chosen,  acts  at  the  same  time 
on the  disease  itself,  and,  as  Eichhoff 
thinks,  can  chase  the  offending  organ­
isms  from  the  ducts of  the  cutaneous 
glands.  He quotes in support of this the 
treatment by medical  soaps of  psoriasis, 
which  he  regards  as  parasitic,  and  of 
acne, the  postules  in which are now be­
lieved to be  due to the  pyogenic  micro­
cocci.  He praises  also  the  cleanliness, 
the innocuousness,  and the cheapness  of 
this method with the vigor of a true par­
tisan.
Soaps may  be for convenience  divided 
into (1) alkaline, containing an excess of 
free alkali; (2) neutral,  in  which  all  the 
alkali is combined  with the  fatty  acids; 
(2) so-called acid soaps,  which  are  pre­
pared  either  by  the  addition  of  weak 
acids  or  by  being  superfatted, 
and 
eventually react faintly acid.  The alka­
line  may  be  used to  remove  masses  of 
scales; while in  acute  inflamation of the 
skin, or  when it is irritable, the  neutral 
or superfatted soaps are to  be employed. 
The superfatting of the  new  soaps  con­
sists of two per cent.  Ianoline,  and 3 per 
cent  olive  oil,  and  they  are  made  by 
Ferdinand Muhlens at  Cologne.  Among 
these new soaps may be  especially  men­
tioned a menthol  soap,  containing 5  per 
cent, of menthol.  The  local  anaesthetic 
influence of menthol on the skin  is  well 
known,  and  the  principal  use  of  this 
soap will probably be  found in lessening 
puritus.  Eichhoff cites some cases where 
cure has resulted in  pruritus senilis and 
pruritus  genitalium.  He  recommends 
that, should  the  soap  be  employed  for 
the head or face,  the eyes should be kept 
firmly shut,  else an  unpleasant,  though 
he says, not  dangerous  coldness  of  the 
conjunctiva is  perceived.  A 5 per  cent, 
salol soap is one which may prove useful 
in psoriasis.  The salol, when so used in 
water,  breaks  up into  carbolic  and sali­
cylic acids,  and  these  in  their  nascent 
condition may  be  expected  to  act  with 
energy.  A  5  per  cent,  resorcin  soap 
promises  to  be  of  advantage  in  cases 
where  this valuable drug is indicated.

O ccupations  o f W omen.

It is remarkable  that nearly thirty per 
cent, of  the  total  female  population  is 
employed  in  remunerative  occupations. 
In  the last decade  the  percentage  was 
only 21.33 per cent,  of  the  whole.  Out 
of  the  eleven  classes  of  occupations, 
women have increased  comparatively  in 
nine,  viz.:  Government  service,  profes­
sional and  domestic service,  trade,  agri­
culture,  fisheries,  manufactures  and  as 
apprentices;  while  they have  decreased 
comparatively as  laborers and in person­
al service. 
In 1875 there  were  nineteen 
branches  of  industry  in  which  women 
were  not employed;  in 1885 the  number 
was reduced to seven.

T H E   MICEUG^JST  TBAJDESMA3ST.

POLLY,  BUT  FUN.

T en dollars !  Quite a sum to pay 
For one who earns but two a day,
For just a single evening’s fun.
It seems so, now the thing is done.
Three for the carriage, for you know 
I never could ask her to go 

With that swell dress—the shade ecru 
And the train strung out a yard or two— 

In the plain horse car.  And so nice 
She looked, I do  not grudge the price. 

Three more for seats—down center aisle 
And four rows back—just right for style. 

The curtain rose.  How time will pass 
While gazing through an opera glass!

The curtain fell.  Once more we stood 
Outside, and then the thought of food 
Itself presented.  She said yes,
She felt quite hungry.  You can guess 

That what we ate, with just a bit 
Of rosy wine to season it,
Used up the other four.  Time sped.
I took her home.  Good-night was said, 

Then to my own home came I straight; 
And here 1 sit and meditate.
The cash I haa four hours ago 
Is gone.  I’ve naught for it to show.

Have I regrets for it?  Not  one.
’Twas folly, but, by  Jove, ’twas fun!

L IMPROVEMENT  ASSOCIATIONS.

in  Country  Towns.

How  to  Organize  and  Maintain  Them 
“How can we  start  a public improve­
ment  association 
in  our  town,  where 
there is little interest in  the  subject?”  is 
a question now asked oftener than  ever. 
In this work the main tug is at the  start 
and the result  of  ignorance  or  indiffer­
ence. 
It is the first  step  that  costs—at 
least it costs effort,  information and per­
suasion to set this thing on foot, but that 
step once taken others are sure to follow. 
The indifference complained  of  is  to  be 
expected where  attention  has  not  been 
called to the  importance  and  results  of 
such  improvements,  while  interest  and 
often  enthusiasm  naturally follow  the 
proper presentation  of the subject.
Experience  shows  that  the  best  way 
to begin this work in a town is  to  invite 
the people to a  lecture defining the aims 
and results of this  movement, and  then 
strike while the  iron is hot by  adopting 
a constitution and appointing the proper 
officers.  To give a single  example  of  a 
town where there was supposed to be lit­
tle or  no  interest:  One  citizen  deter­
mined to try the  experiment  of a  public 
meeting,  though with  many  misgivings. 
After  the  lecture  an  association  was 
formed,  a constitution previously prepar­
ed was adopted,  the  proper  officers  ap­
pointed,  and over  three  hundred dollars 
raised by membership  fees,  and  all  this 
was done in less than  an  hour  after  the 
close of the  lecture.  Some  of  the  im­
provements recommended  at  this  meet­
ing were begun the next morning  before 
the lecturer left town.  The  next  week 
$2,000 were  raised  by 
the  association. 
This was a case  of  exceptional  prompt­
ness.  But delay or difficulty  in  initiat­
ing the movement  should nowhere  be  a 
ground  of  discouragement.  Ultimate j 
success is assured wherever  one  or  two 
persons  of  influence  and  persistence 
make an effort.  A  proper  presentation 
of the subject will show that no  commu­
nity can afford to continue without  such 
au organization.  The  towns  that  have 
done most rejoice in  the  results.  They 
have already  learned that money  wisely 
expended for public improvements proves 
a good investment.  Such  improvements 
pay in many ways.  They help  to retain 
in a town  its wealthy and public-spirited j 
citizens,  and  attract  desirable  residents 
from abroad whom a  narrow  and unpro­
gressive  policy  would  repel.  Ample 
experience proves  that  public  improve­
ments and growth  stand related as cause 
and effect.
It is a good omen  that  public  interest 
in the embellishment of rural homes and 
villages  is  widely  extending,  and  that 
the varied charms of  the  country,  with 
its superior advantages for the  physical, 
mental and  moral  training  of  children, 
are  prompting  wealthy  men  from  oar 
large cities to find  summer residences  or 
permanent  homes  in  surburban  towns, 
and often  in  those  remote  from  cities. 
Many public-spirited towns happily real­
ize what opportunities of thrift and pros­
perity are thus open to them.  The  new­
comers from the cities to our progressive 
towns  are  the  friends  of  rural  adorn­
ments, knowing well that these are invest­
ments which enrich any community.  On 
the other  hand,  a  penurious  policy  is 
penny wise and  pound  foolish. 
It  de­
feats its own aim of saving,  and  results

2. 

than 

in deterioration and loss.  Men of culture 
and wealth  shun  a  narrow-minded  and 
illiberal community.  A good name tends 
to enrich a town as well as an individual, 
while a bad one may impoverish both.
As to detailed plans:  First of all enlist 
the ladies.  Many of our successful asso­
ciations have been started by  them,  and 
all need  their  sympathy  and  co-opera­
tion.  This is woman’s special sphere.  I 
feel sure of success  in  any  town  where 
two or three earnest ladies  take  hold  of 
this matter.  The “Laurel Hill Associa­
tion” at Stockbridge,  Massachusetts,  the 
pioneer  in  this  work,  was  organized  in 
1853 by  Miss  Hopkins,  now  Mrs.  J.  Z. 
Goodrich,  who still enjoys  there the rich 
fruits of  her  taste,  efficiency  and  fore­
sight.  Through her efforts the place has 
been completely transformed, and Stock- 
bridge is to-day  one of the  most  beauti­
ful towns in New England.
Interest the youth of  the  town  in 
this good work.  Give the children some­
thing to do in improving the grounds and 
and surroundings of  their  homes  if  not 
the roadside.
3.  Money may be raised by the annual 
payment of  membership  fees  or  by  life 
membership.
4.  Get subscriptions from the  willing 
and the wealthy in the town.
Invite  the  co-operation  of  non­
5. 
resident sons of the  town  whom fortune 
has favored and who  are glad to remem­
ber their mother soil, and thus be  recog­
nized as the benefactors of  their  towns­
men and future  generations.  Such  im­
provements make a proud monument for 
any man.  There is a luxury in  witness­
ing  the fruits of one’s  benefaction,  giv­
en  while  living,  rather 
leaving 
legacies  to  be  lessened  at  last  in  the 
wrangles of contending heirs.
6.  Lectures, concerts,  fairs and  vari­
ous entertainments by home  talent  may 
replenish the treasury.
7.  Prizes are  often  offered  for  tree­
planting,  giving  for  example  $60,  $50, 
$40, $30,  $20  for  the  longest  and  best 
rows of trees by the wayside.  Two hun­
dred dollars offered in  this  way  in  one 
town  stimulated  extraordinary  interest 
in tree planting.  Sometimes  one  town­
ship challenges another to  meet it at the 
town line with a continuous row of trees 
by the roadside.
As  the  plan or  constitution  of  these 
associations is often called for the follow­
ing is given as a sample form, which may 
be  changed according  to  circumstances. 
The membership fee  may  properly vary 
with the wealth and  liberality  of  differ 
ent places,  or  may  include  an  annual 
payment except to life members:
1.  This  association  shall  be  called
“The  Rural  Improvement  Association 
of--------”
2.  The object of this association shall 
be to cultivate public  spirit, quicken the 
social and intellectual life  of the people, 
promote good fellowship and secure pub­
lic health by  better  hygieuic  conditions 
in our homes and surroundings; improve 
our streets, roads,  public  grounds, side­
walks; establish  good  grass  borders  in 
the streets and  public  squares,  provide 
drinking 
troughs,  break  out  paths 
through the snow,  light  the  streets,  re­
move nuisances,  and in  general build up 
and beautify  the  whole  town,  thus  en­
hancing the  value of its  real estate  and 
rendering it a still more inviting place of 
residence.
3.  The  officers  of  this  association 
shall consist of a president,  a vice presi­
dent,  a treasurer, a secretary  and  an ex­
ecutive committee of fifteen,  at least six 
of whom shall be ladies.
It shall be the  duty  of  the  execu­
tive committee to make all contracts, em­
ploy all laborers, expend all  moneys and 
superintend all  improvements  made  by 
the association.  They shall  hold  meet­
ings monthly from  April  to  October  in 
each year,  and  as much oftener  as  they 
may deem expedient.
5.  Every person.who shall plant three 
trees by the roadside  under the direction 
of the executive committe, or  pay  three 
dollars in one year or one  dollar annual­
ly and obligate himself or  herself to pay 
the  same annually for  three years  shall 
be a member of this association.
6.  The payment of ten dollars annual­
ly for three years,  or of  twenty-five  dol­
lars in one  sum  shall  constitute  a  life- 
membership in this association.

4. 

beyond 

commmittee 

7.  Five members of the executive com­
mittee present at any meeting  shall con­
stitute a quorum.
8.  No debt shall be contracted  by the 
executive 
the 
amount of  available means  within  their 
control,and no member of the association 
shall  be  liable for any  debt  of the asso­
ciation beyond the  amount of his or  her 
subscription.
9.  The executive committee shall  call 
an annual meeting,  giving  due notice  of 
the same,  for the  election  of  officers  of 
this association,and the said meeting shall 
make a detailed report of  all  moneys re­
ceived  and  expended  during  the  year, 
the number of  trees planted under  their 
direction and the number  planted by  in­
dividuals, length of  sidewalks  made  or 
repaired and the doings of the committee 
in general.
10.  This constitution may  be  amend­
ed at any annual meeting by a two-thirds 
vote of the members present and  voting.

B.  G.  N obthrop.

Sophisticated  Linseed  OU.

“

“ 

“  55c 

“  Boiled 

returnable at our expense.

A Cleveland  house is sending  out pos­
tal card quotations on linseed oil,  as  fol­
lows:
Prime Raw Linseed Oil, 52c delivered.
All goods guaranteed  to  give  satisfaction,  or 
As the quotations are several cents  be­
low the market price of pure  oil, several 
dealers  have  been  impelled  to  order 
goods from the house,  but  an  investiga­
tion of the oil  on  arrival  shows  that  it 
is  heavily  adulterated  with  a  mineral 
paint oil,  worth about 35 cents  a  gallon. 
When complaint  is made  to  the  house, 
a reply is promptly  forthcoming  to  the 
effect that the oil is not guaranteed to be 
pure, but prime.  As  that  term  has  no 
definite meaning,  the  purchaser  is  com­
pelled to pocket  his  loss  with  as  good 
grace  as  his  feelings  will  permit,  as 
there is no recourse in law in such cases.

D ruggists’ L osses at  M uskegon.

Two drug stores were  destroyed in the 
Muskegon  conflagration—A.  H.  Ecker- 
man and Tinholt & Abbott.  The former 
lost both  stock and  store  building,  with 
the  exception  of  $800  worth  of  goods 
removed,  valued  at  $4,000.  He  carried 
an insurance of  $2,200.  He has resumed 
business  at  the  corner  of  Terrace and 
Walton streets.

Tinholt  <6  Abbott  sustained  a  loss of 
about  $3,000  on  stock and  fixtures,  par­
tially covered by $2,200 insurance.  They 
will resume business as soon as  they can 
secure a location.

Don’t  Order  L ess  Than  Three  Bottles.
The proprietors of R.  Y.  Pierce’s  and

J.  C.  Ayer  &  Co.’s  medicines,  in  their 
new  contract,  compel 
to 
charge 10 per cent,  advance on all orders 
for their preparations less than  %  dozen 
at a time.

the  jobber 

The  Drug  Market.

Foreign  quinine  has  advanced.  Do­
mestic  brands  are  unchanged.  Gum 
opium  is dull.  Morphia  is  unchanged. 
Alcohol has declined  2c per  gallon.  Oil 
cajiput is lower.

C U T S S X T G   R O O T .

We p ay the highest price for It.  Address

P r n i r   U U n Q   Wholesale Druggists, 
r u i j j l   D A U O if 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Dnf Store for Sale at a Bargain

On  long  time  If  desired,  or will  exchange  for 
part  productive real  estate.  Stock clean  and 
well assorted.  Location the best In the city. 
I wish to retire  permanently from  the drug  bus-
In688' 
Opp. New Post Office. 

C.  L.  B RU N D A G E,

117 W. Western Ave. 

Muskegon,  Mich.

TETE  MICHIGAN  TRAHESMAJS*.

11

W h olesale P r ic e   Current*
Advanced—Foreign quinine.  Declined—Alcohol, oil cajipnt.

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“ 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W .. .2 20@2  45 
C. CO.......................2 10@2 35
Moschus Canton........  @  40
Myrlstlca, No. 1..........  70®  75
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  33®  38
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Picis Liq, N. C., Vi gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Picis Liq., quarts......  @1 00
pints.........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,f(po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5) __   @  3
Plx  Burgun................   @  7
Plumbl A cet...............  14®  15
Pulvls Ipecac et opll.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......   @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........   30®  35
Quassiae.....................  8®  10
Quinia, S. P. & W.......   33®  36
S.  German___24  ®  30
Rubla  Tinctorum.......   12®  14
SaccharumLactispv. 
@  33
SalaCin.......................1  80@1  85
Sanguis  Draconls.......   40®  50
Santonine  .................  @4 50
Sapo,  W.......................  12®  14
"   M........................   10®  12
  @  15
“  G........ 

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p a in t s. 

Seldlltz  Mixture........
62
@  25  Llndseed,  boiled__  59 
Sinapls........................
@  18 I Neat’s  Foot,  winter
“  opt..................
@  30 
strained............... 
69
50 
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
I Spirits Turpentine__  43V4  50
...
@35 
Voes.......................
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes 
@   35 
lb .
bbl. 
Soda Boras, (po. 13}.  .
12®  13  Red Venetian.............194  2®3
_
Soda et Potass Tart... 
30®  33 I Ochre, yellow  Mars...  194  2@4
Soda Carb.................  1V4®
“ 
Her....... 194  2@3
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Putty,  commercial....2J4  2Vi@3
Soda, Ash.................... 3Vi@  4
“  strictly  pure...... 2Vi  294@3
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
13@16
Vermilion,  English 
  70@75
“  Myrcia  Dom......   @2 25
Green,  Peninsular.
“  Myrcia Imp........  @3 00
:0@75
Lead,  red....................  @794
*'  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
“  w hite................  @7V4
2 27).........................  @2 37
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Whiting, white Span... 
@70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @96
Strychnia Crystal......   @1  10
White, Paris  American 
1  00 
Sulphur, Subl............ 3  @4
Whiting,  PariB  Eng.
“  Roll..............  2?4@ 3 Vi
cliff.................................. 140
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Pioneer Prepared Paintl 20®1 4
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Theobromae..............  45®  50
Paints..................... 1 00@1  20
Vanilla...  ............... 9 00@16 00
Zinc!  Sulph...............   7®  8
No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp............... 160@1  70
Coach  Body..............2 75@3  00
No. 1 Turp  Furn...... 1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar_1  55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp.........................  70®  7o

Bbl. Gal
TO
70
55
60
45
50
59
56

Linseed, pure raw

Whale, winter.

VARNISHES.

H A Z E L  T IN E

&  P E R K I N S

D R U G   CO.

Im porters and  Jobbern o f

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT  MEDICINES
Paints, Oils % Varnishes.

D E A L E R S  IN

(M e Agents for the Celebrated

SWIS3  VILLA  PREPARED  PÄIHT8.

M  Line of Staple  Dints' Sundries.

W e are  Sole  Proprietor* o f

Weatherly’s  Jlicbigau  Catarrh  Remedy.

W e H ave In Stock and  Offer a  F u ll  U m  o i

W H ISK IE S,  B R A N D IE S ,

GINS,  W INES,  R U M S .

We sell Liquors for M edicinal Purposes only.
We give oar Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction.
A ll orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive chem.  Send In  a 

trial order.ftoltiiiB l Perkins Drug Bo,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.  *

ACIDUM.

Aceticum................... 
8@  10
Benzoicnm  German..  80@1 oo
Boracic 
....................
Carbolicnm...............   23®
Citricum....................  58®
Hydrocülor...............   3®
Nltrocum 
.................   10®
Oxalicum...................  11®
Phosphor!am dii........
Salley licum...............1  40® 1  80
Sulpnurlcum..............  194®
Tannicum..................1  40@1  60
Tartaricum.................  40®  4!

ñ 

Aqua, 16  deg..............  3>4@
20  deg..............5 Vi®
Carbonas  ...................  12®
Chloridnm.................  12®

ANILINS.

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

BACCAB.

Cubeae (po.  90)..........   90@1 10
Junlperus..................  
8®  10
Xanthoxylum..............   25® 30

BALSAMUM.

Copaiba.......................   55® 60
Peru............................  @1
Terabin, Canada  ........  35® 40
Tolutan.......................   35® 50

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Cassiae  ...............................  11
Cinchona F lav a.................  18
Enonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrica  Cerifera, po............   20
Primus Virgini....................  12
Quillala,  grd.......................  14
Sassafras  ............................  14
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)........  10

EXTRACTUM.

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11®
13®
14®
16®

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24®  25 
pq.........   33®  35
Haematox, 15 lb. box 
Is.
14
15 1
Vis
!4s
FERRUM.
Carbonate Precip........  ®  15
Citrate and Quinia—   @3 50
Citrate  Soluble...........  @ 80
Ferrocyanldum Sol —   @ 50
Solut  Chloride...........  @  15
Sulphate,  com’l ......... 1)4® 
2
® 7

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pure 
FLORA.

 
FOLIA.

Arnica.......................  18®  20
Anthemls..................   20®  25
Matricaria 
25®  30

 

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OUMMI.
Acacia,  1st  picked.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

Salvia  officlnallB,  >48
UraUrsi........................ 

...................  20®  38
nivelly....................  25®  28
Alx.  35®  50
and  Vis....................  12®  15
8® 10
@1 00 
@  90 
2d 
®  80 
3d
©  65
sifted sorts
po.................  75@1 00
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
“  Socotrl. (po. 60).  @ 50
Catechu, Is, (Vis, 14 Ms,
16)............................  @  1
Ammoniac.................  25®  30
Assafcetlda, (po. 30)...  @  20
Benzolnum.................  50©  55
Camphors..................   52®  55
Euphorblum  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum...................  @3 00
Gamboge,  po..............  80®  95
Guaiacum, (po  40)  ...  @ 35
Elno,  (po.  23)............   ©  20
Mastic.......................  @  90
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
Opll,  (po. 3 40)................2 25@2 40
Shellac 
....................  23®  30
bleached........  28®  33
Tragacanth...............   30®  75

“ 
hebba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Sanatorium.........................  20
Lobelia................................   25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
«  V lr.........................  25
Rue.......................................  30
Tanacetum, V ......................  22
Thymus,  V ..........................  25

MAGNESIA.

Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36

OLEUM.

Absinthium.................... 5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dole------  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 00@8 25
A nisl............................... 1  70@1 80
Aurantl  Cortex.......... 2 75@3 00
Bergamll  ...................3 75@4 00
Cajlputi.................... 
70®  80
Cary ophy 111.....................1  20@1 25
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodil...............   ®2 00
Cinnamon!!.................... 1  1E@1 20
Cltronella..................   @  45
Conlum  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba  .................... 1-20@1  30

Cubebae.....................8 50®9 00
Exechthltos...............   90@1 00
Eiigeron................... 1  90@2 00
Ganltheria................ 2 00®2  10
Geranium,  ounce......   @  75
Gossipi!, Sem. gal.......   50®  75
Hedeoma  .................. l 85®2 oo
Juniperl......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonls......................2 50@3  10
Mentha Piper.............. 2 90@3 00
Mentha Verld.............2 50®2 60
Morrhuae, gal.............1 00@1  10
Myrcia, ounce............   @  50
Olive..........................1 00®2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal..35)  10@  12
Ricini ...----1.................1  04@1 20
Rosmarini............  
75@1 00
Rosae, ounce..............  @6 00
Succinl.......................  40®  45
Sabina.......................  go@l  00
Santal  ....................... 3 50©7 00
Sassafras...................   45®  50
Sinapls, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tigli!..........................  @1  50
Thyme.......................  40®  50
opt  ...............   @ 60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

POTASSIUM.
Bi Cam....................... 
is®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide.....................   37®  40
Carb...........................  
ia@  15
Chlorate, (po. 16)........  14©  16
Cyanide.....................   50®  55
Iodide............................. 2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  30®  33
Potassa, Bitart, com...  ®  15
Potass NItras, opt......  8®  10
Potass NItras.............. 
7©  9
Prussiate....................  30®  33
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

RADIX.

Aconitum..................   20®  25
Althae........................   25®  30
Anchusa....................  15©  20
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus.....................   20®  50
Gentiana,  (po. 15)......  10®  12
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 40)...................  @  35
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po....................... 2 40@2 50
Iris plox (po. 35@38)..  32®  35
Jalapa,  pr..................   35®  40
Maranta,  54s ..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei............................  75@1  00
cut......................  @1
pv.......................  75@1  35
Spigelia.....................   48®  53
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentarla.................  40®  45
Senega.......................  50®  55
Similax, Officinalis,  H @ 40
M  @  20
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Fceti-
  ©  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
inglbera..................   10®  15
22®  25
Zingiber  j .............. 

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

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..  @ 15
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
Apium  (gT aveleons)..  22®  25
Bird, Is.....................  
4®  6
Carul, (po. 18)............  
8®  12
Cardamon..................1  00@1  25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Satlva......... 4V4© 
5
'ydonlum..................   75@1  00
henopodlum  ..........   10®  12
Dlpterlx Odorate........2 00®2 25
Foeniculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........  
6®  8
L inl............................4  @ 4Vi
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 3Vi)...  4  @ 4Vi
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Pharlarls Canarian__3Vi®  4Vi
Rapa..........................  
6®  7
Sinapls,  Albu............  
8®  9
Nigra...........  11®  12

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

2 00@2 50 
1  75@2 00 
1  10@1  50 
Junlperls  Co. O. T.
1  75@1  75 
1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N. E ......... 1 75@2 00
Spt.  Vlnl  Gain............1 75@6 50
Vinl Oporto.................1 
25®2 00
VIni  Alba....................1  25@2 00

SPONGES.

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

2 00
1  10
85
65
75
1  40

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................  50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri Iod.............................  50
Aurantl  Cortes....................  50
Rhei  Arom..........................  50
Similax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................  50
Scillae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunus vlrg.....................   50

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TINCTURES.

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Aconltum Napellis R.........   60
V .........   50
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica................................   go
Asafcetida............................ 
0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  (¡0
“  Co..........................   50
_ 
Sanguin aria........................   go
Barosma.............................   go
Cantharides.........................  75
Capsicum............................  go
Us damon............................  75
Co..........................  75
Castor.................................1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona...........................   50
Co...........................   60
Columba.............................  go
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba............................... 
50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian...............................  go
Co............................  60
„  
Guaica................................   go
ammon....................  60
Zingiber.............................   go
Hyoscyamus.......................  go
Iodine..................................  75
“  Colorless...................  75
Ferri  Chloridum.................  35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................  50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opll.....................................  85
Camphorated...............   50
“  Deoaor........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  go
Hhatany.............................   50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol..................   50
Co..............  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Strom onium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................  50
Veratrum Verlde.................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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

ground,  (po.

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“ et Potass T.  55®  60

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antimoni, po.............. 
4®  5
Antipyrin..................   @1 40
Antifebrin..................  @  25
Argentl  Nitras, ounce  ®  66
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......  38®  40
Bismuth  8.  N............ 2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Vis
11;  Vis,  12)..............
@  9
Cantharides  Russian,
po ............................
@1  40 
Capslcl  Fructus, af...
@  20 
@  25 
* po.
@  20 
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)
12®  13 
Carmine,  No. 40.........  
_
@3 75
Cera Alba, S. & F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  20
Centraria....................  ©  10
Cetaceum...................  @  42
Chloroform...............   60®  63
squibbs ..  @1  10
Chloral HydCrst........1  50@1  70
Chondrus..................   20®  25
Cinchonldlne, P.  &  W  15®  20
German 3V4@  12
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
60
cent  ...................... 
Creasotum...............   @  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  @  2
prep..................  
5®  5
precip.............. 
9®  11
Rubra...............   @  8
Crocus.......................  28®  30
Cudbear......................  @  24
Cuprl Sulph...............   6®
Dextrine....................  10®
70
Ether Sulph..........  68® 
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po..................   @  8
Ergota,(po.)  60 .........   50®  65
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................  @  23
Gambler......................7  @ 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
“ 
French...........  40®  60
Glassware  flint,  70 and 10. 
bybox60and 10
Glue,  Brown.............. 
9®  15
“  White...............   13®  25
Glycerlna..................17  @  25
Grana Paradlsl...........  @  22
Humulus....................  25®  55
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..  @  90 
“ Cor ....  @ 80
Ox Rubrum  @1  CO 
Ammonlatl..  @1 10
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  70
.1  25@l 50
Icnthyobolla, Am. 
00
Indigo...................  75®1 
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 75@3 85
Iodoform..............  @4 
70
Lupulln......................  50®  55
Lycopodium..............  40®  42
Macis.........................  80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1V4)..........................   2®  3
Manilla,  S. F ............   50®  60

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

G R O C E R IE S .

Purely  Personal.

0.  J.  Eldred, general dealer at Clarks- 

vill,  was in  town last  Friday.

J. J. Gee, the Whitehall  hardware and 
furniture dealer,  was  in  town Saturday.
D.  A.  Brown,  of the  firm  of  Brown  & 
Spafford,  general dealers at  Ganges,  was 
in town Monday.

Geo.  J.  Stephenson, 

the  Bangor 
druggist,  mourns  the  loss  of  his  wife, 
who  died  from  the  effects  of  la grippe 
and was buried on the 16th.

L.  Winternitz  is  the  prince  of enter­
tainers,  if the dinner  he  gave  the  “Fer- 
mentum”  attaches  at  the  Owashtanong 
club is any criterion.  His  guests  assert 
that he does  not know how to “do things 
by halves.”

N. J.  Whitney,  formerly  with  the Tel- 
fer Spice Co.,  but more recently engaged 
in the yeast  business  at  Kalamazoo,  has 
taken the local  management of the Vien­
na Yeast Co.. James Higgins having been 
promoted 
to  the  management  of  the 
Cleveland branch.

1.  F.  Tucker,  hardware 

dealer  at 
Sumner,  was in town  several  days  last 
week with  the model  of  a  wind  mill he 
has  lately  iuvented.  The  mill  is  con­
structed  entirely  of  iron,  producing  a 
machine much  more substantial than the 
wood mill at one-half  the expense.

The many friends of  Henry  P.  Baker 
are  rejoicing  over  his  mastery  of  the 
disease  which  has  clouded  his  life for 
the  past  half  dozen  years,  he  having 
survived  the  ordeal  with  unimpaired 
health,  spirits  and  intellect.  Mr.  Baker 
made a brave  fight in  what  appeared to 
be a  hopless  struggle,  and every  friend 
and business  associate  will  bespeak for 
him the  success  he  deserves in his  new 
business undertaking.

L ow er.

W ool  L o w er---- H ides  L o w er---- T allow
Wool is again lower  and  much  lower. 
Manufacturers  do  not  want  it,  as  they 
have  no  orders  of  consequence  and 
prices  are  too  high  for  any future out­
In  some  instances,  holders  of 
look. 
wool  have  conceded  3c  per  pound 
in 
price  and  are  yet  above  what  manu­
facturers  will  pay.  The  drop  of lc per 
pound  last  week  was  not  sufficient  to 
induce  manufacturers  to  buy  only  as 
immediate  necessities  require  to  com­
plete orders.  As a result, many spindles 
have stopped and  more  are  likely  to,  to 
remain idle all summer.  The  outlook is 
a blue one.

Hides  are  lower,  and  trade  for  both 
hides and leather are stagnant.  Tanners 
say  they  are  going  fishing.  The heavy 
failures  in  the  shoe  trade  take  away 
what little hope leather  dealers  had  for 
the present.  Tanners cannot on present 
prices  obtain  a  new  dollar  for  the  old 
one and  prefer  to  go  fishing to battling 
with trade on any such market.
Tallow is lower and dull,  with holders 
crowding stock on the market, conceding 
as little as possible to effect sales.

Business  Change  at  McCords.

McCords,  May 20.—Chas.  Freyermuth 
has sold his general stock to J. W. Reuter, 
who formerly  managed the general  store 
of Arthur Meigs &  Co.,  at  Crofton.  Mr. 
Reuter will continue the business  at  the 
same location.
Mr.  Freyermuth will devote his  entire 
attention to the  handling  of  grain  and 
farm  produce,  having  begun  the  con­
struction  of  an elevator with a  capacity 
of 3,000 bushels.  He  is  considering the 
place  of  patting  cold  storage  in  his 
warehouse.

Official  Call  for  the  Semi-Annual 

M eeting.
Detr o it,  May 20,  1891.

At  the  last  annual  meeting  of  the 
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Asso­
ciation,  a  resolution  was  unanimously 
adopted that there  be a  meeting  of  the 
Association held in Grand Rapids during 
the summer of 1891.
Your committee,  having  the matter  in 
eharge,  are  pleased 
to  announce  that 
they have received from the  Grand Rap­
ids  Traveling  Men’s  Association  a  re­
quest  to name Saturday,  July  25,  as the 
date for the  convention.
A cordial invitation is  extended to  all 
to attend,  with their ladies.
Please make  your arrangements  to  be 
presenty  at  the  meeting.  Particulars 
regarding railroad fare,  etc.,  will be  an­
nounced later on.

M.  J.  Ma tth ew s,  Sec’y.

Crazy  for  a  Ball  Game.

Grand Rapids,  May 25.—In  behalf of 
my nine, which has never been defeated, 
I hereby challenge any  nine of traveling 
men  to  meet  us  on  the diamond at any 
time or place they may elect.
All  traveling  men  interested  in  base 
ball  are  requested  to  meet  at  Sweet’s 
Hotel Saturday  afternoon,  May 30,  after 
which an adjournment will be taken to a 
ball park for a practice game.

Hi.  Robertson.

The  Grocery  Market.

Hard  sugars  are  a  fraction  higher. 
Oatmeal  and rolled oats are lower.  Dried 
apples  are  weaker  and  lower.  Pickles 
are getting scarce  and  are  firmer.  The 
Diamond  Match  Co.  has  reduced 
the 
price of  No. 9 sulphurs 35c.

For the finest coffees in the world, high 
grade teas, spices,  etc.,  see  J.  P.  Visner, 
304  North  Ionia  street,  Grand  Rapids, 
| Mich., general  representative  for  E.  J. 
Gillies & Co.,  New  York City.

PRODUCE MARKET.

and hold at 15c.

Asparagus—40c per doz. bu.
Beans—The  market  is  quiet.  Handlers  are 
offering  11.80  per  bu.  for  country  picked  and 
holding city picked at $2.25©$2.30.
Butter—The  supply  is  now  equal  to  the  de­
mand.  Dealers pay 13@14c  for choice dairy and 
bold at 15@16c.
Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand at $3.50 I 
per crate.
Carrots—20@25c per bu.
Cucumbers—75c per doz.
Eggs—The market is steady.  Dealers  pay  14c 
Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb.
Lettuce—8c for Grand Rapids Forcing
New Potatoes—Advices from Tennessee are to 
the effect that new stock will  be  ready  to  ship 
about June  10.  The acreage is the  largest  ever 
known in that State and, unless the present cold 
weather continues, the crop will be a large  one.
Onions—Green  command  14c.  per  doz.  Ber­
mudas bring $2.50 per crate.
Parsnips—40c per bushel.
Potatoes — The  market 
Pieplant—2c per lb.
Peas—$1.75 per bu. crate.
Radishes—20c per dozen bunches.
Strawberries—The  market  is  well  supplied at 
$2  per  24  qt.  case.  The  indications  are  that 
prices will be  higher  before  borne  grown  fruit 
comes  in.  as  present  prices  give  the  growers 
small returns.
Tomatoes—Florida,  $4  for  6  basket  crate  or 
$3.75 for bushel boxes.

is 
handlers pay 90c and hold at $1.

steady.  Local 

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

 

 

Mess,  new................................ 
ll  75
Shortcut.....................................................   12 50
Extra clear pig, short cut...........................   14 00
Extra clear, heavy...................................
Clear, fat back...........................................,  13 75
Boston clear, short cut.............................    ;i 00
Clear back, short cut................................ , ’  h  oo
Standard clear, short cut, best............... . 
14 25

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

Pork Sausage......................................................
Ham Sausage......... ..................................... .  9
Tongue Sausage........................................”   9
Frankfort Sausage  .............................!_____  3
Blood Sausage............................................. . . ”  5
Bologna,straight........................................... .’ 5  .
Bologna,  thick..............................................   ’ 5
Head Cheese................................................ ”   5

lard—Kettle Rendered.

Tierces............................................................  8«
Tubs................................................................” a%
501b.  Tins........................................................i 344

THOS.  E.  WYKES,

WHOLESALE

M arblehead  and  Ohio  W h ite  lam e, 

Buffalo, L ouisville and Portland 

Cem ents, F ire Brick dfc Clay.

Agent  for  the “Dyckerhoff ” imported  Portland 
cement, the best  cement in the  market  for side­
walks.  Also buy and sell  Grain. Hay, Feed, Oil 
Meal, Wood, Etc., Clover and Timothy Seed.

WAREHOUSE AND MAIN OFFICE:

Cor. W ealthy Ave. and  Ionia on M. C. R. R.

BRANCH OFFICE :

B uilders’ Exchange.

B E A C H ’S

New  York  goffee  Rooms.

61  Pearl  Street.

Five  Cents  Each  for  all  dishes  served 

from bill of fare.

Steaks, Chops, Oysters and All  Kinds  of 

Order  Cooking  a  Specialty. 
FRANK  M.  BEACH,  Prop.

FOURTH NATIONAL BAM

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bo w n e, President.

D. A.  s  c  d u e t t, Vice-President.

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

Transacts a general banking business.

Hake a Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

LARD. 

Family. 

Corn-
pound.
644
6%
7%
7U
64*
6}|
694

Tierces......................................644 
0 and 50 lb. Tubs..................... 6J£ 
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case............. 714 
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case...............7% 
10 lb. Palls, 6 in a case...............7M 
20 lb. Pails, 4 In a case............. 7 
50 lb. Cans................................. 6$£ 
beef  in barrels.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs......................  9 25
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.....................[  9 25
Boneless, rump butts.....................................
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

Hams, average 20 lbs......................................   9«
16 lbs.....................................
12 to 14 lbs..............................lou

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best boneless....................................... "
Shoulders.......................................................   gvr
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.......................  . ’'
Dried beef, ham prices..................................   1044
Long Clears, heavy........................................... gV4
Briskets,  medium...........................................
light................................................6%

1. 

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FRESH  MEATS.

 

“ 

Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beef, carcass..........................................65*@ 8
“  hindquarters.................................  7 @  9
fore 
“ 
4  @ 5
loins, No. 3..................................  @
“ 
ribs..............................................  11  @12
“ 
“ 
rounds........................................   @9
“ 
tongues...........................................11 @12
Bologna........................ 
@514
Pork loins..............................................   @10
“  shoulders......................................   @ 7
¡a 544
Sausage, blood or head......................... 
................................  @ 5*

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Mutton...................................................7  @ 8
Veal........................................................  5  <a 6

FISH and  OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

FRESH  FISH.

White fish...............................................   @8
Trout......................................................  @ 8
Halibut..................................................   @15
Ciscoes...................................................  @ 5
Flounders..............................................   @ 9
Bluefish..............  .................................  @10
Mackerel................................................  @25
Cod.........................................................  @12
California salmon.................................   @20

otsters—Cans.

Falrhaven  Counts................................   @40

SHELL  GOODS.

Oysters, per 100................................  
Clams, 
.....................................  

“ 

1 so
1 00

CANDIES. FRUITS and NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDY.
Full  Weight. 

Standard,  per  lb.................................. 614 
“  H. H......................................   614 
T w ist................................  614 
“ 
Boston Cream  .................................. 
Cut  Loaf.............................................  714 
Extra H. H ......................... 
714 

Bbls.  Pails.
714
714
714
914
814
814

 

MIXED  CANDY.
Full Weight.

Bbls. 
Standard.......................................G14 
Leader.......................................... 644 
Special..........................................7 
Royal............................................7 
Nobby...........................................714 
Broken......................................... 714 
English  Rock.............................. 714 
Conserves.................................... 7 
Broken Taffy................................714 
Peanut Squares.............................  
Extra............................................ 
French Creams.............................  
Valley  Creams.............................  

fancy—In bulk.
Full Weight. 

Pails.
714
714
8
8
814
814
814
8
814
9
10
10*4
1314
Bbls.  Palls.
1114
1214
1214
14
614
9
914
1154
Per Box

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fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Lozenges, plain................................1014 
printed.............................11 
Chocolate Drops................................. 
Chocolate Monumentals................... 
Gum Drops........................................ 5 
Moss Drops........................................ 8 
Sour Drops.........................................   814 
Imperials.............................................1014 
Lemon Drops..................................................55
Sour Drops..................................................... 55
Peppermint Drops...........................................65
Chocolate Drops..............................................70
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................90
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops....................................................1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops....................................... 80
Lozenges, plain................................................ 65
printed............................................70
Imperials..........................................................65
Mottoes.............................................................75
Cream Bar........................................................60
Molasses Bar....................................................55
Caramels....................................................15@17
Hand Made  Creams.................................. 85@95
Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams............................................. 1 00
String  Rock.....................................................70
Burnt Almonds..................................................1 00
Wintergreen  Berries.......................................65
ORANGES.
California,  128....................................... 
150................... 
 
176-2 0-226. a ..................... 
LEMONS.

3 00
3  50
3 50
Messina, choice, 360..............................  5 2 @5 50
5@6 00
5 50
6  00

fancy, 360............................  
choice 300............................  
fancy 300............................  
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

“ 
“ 
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choice

“  50-lb.  “ 

Figs, Smyrna, new,  fancy  layers........  18@20
@16 
@1254 
@10 @ 8 
@17 

@ 6
Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................
..........................
Persian, 50-lb.  box......................4
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.............................
Ivaca.....................................
@16J4 @17 ® 8 
California.............................
Brazils, new...........................................
Filberts..................................................
@11 @15 
Walnuts, Grenoble................................
“  Marbot.....................................
@12 
Chili........................................
“ 
© 
Table Nuts, No. 1..................................
@14 
No. 2.................................. 
_
@13
Pecans, Texas, H. P ...............................  15@17
Cocoanuts, full sacks.
@4 00
PEANUTS.
@ 554 
Fancy, H.  P., Suns.................
“  Roasted
®  744 
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............
@ 544 
“  Roasted...
@ 744 
Choice, H. P., Extras............
@ 444 
“  Roasted..
© 644

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5 @6

OILS.

The Standard OU  Co. quotes as follows

Water White..........................................
Special White........................................
Michigan Test.......................................
Naptha...................................................
Gasoline.................................................
Cylinder............................................... 27
Engine  ................. ................................13
Black,  Summer.....................................
HIDES, PELTS  and  FURS 

Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fo’lows:

@  9 © 83£ 
© 844 
@ 744 © 944 
@30 
@21 
© 944

HIDES.

“ 

Green.....................................................   4  @5
Part Cured................. '..........................   @5
Full 
Dry..........................................................  6  @7
Kips, green  ............................................. 4  @5
“  cured............................................... 5  @6
Calfskins,  green....................................   5  @6
cured....................................  6  @8
Deacon skins........................................ 
10 @30

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No. 2 hides 44 off.

FELTS.

WOOL.

Shearlings............................................... 10  @25
Estimated wool, per 9>.................... —  20  @28
Washed.. 
.  20@28
............................................. 
Unwashed............................  ...............  
10@20
Tallow...................................................  344@ 444
Grease  butter  ........................................  1  @ 2
Switches................................................  144@  2
Ginseng 

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

2 5*as or>

E N G R A V I N G

It paysto illustrate your  business.  Portraits, 
Cuts  of  Business  Blocks,  Hotels,  Factories, 
Machinery,  etc.,  made  to  order  from  photo­
graphs.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Qramd Rapids,  Mich.

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

Whortleberries.

Quinces.
Common....................
Raspberries.
Red.............................
Black  Hamburg.........
Erie, black.................
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................
Hamburg....................
Erie............................
Common.................
P. &  W.......................
Blueberries...............
Corned  beef,  Libby’s...
Roast beef,  Armour’s ...
Potted  ham, Yt lb.........
“  M lb...........
tongue, *  lb......
“ 
lb...
chicken, ¡4 lb....
VEGETABLES.

MEATS.

“ 
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Beans.

1  10
1  30 
1  50 
1  40
1
1  65
1  40 
1  25
1  30
2  10 
1  75 
1  10
65 
65 
95

1 10 

Lion...................
“  In cabinets 
Durham.............
EXTRACT.
Valley City...............
Felix.........................
Hummel’s, foil.........
t i n ...........
CHICORY.

“ 

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“ 
“ 
“ 
Jute 
“ 

Bulk...................................
Red....................................
Cotton,  40 ft......... per doz.

CLOTHES  LINES.
50 ft........... 
“
“
60 ft........... 
“
70 ft........... 
80 ft..........  
“
60 ft..........  
“
72 ft-......... 
“
CONDENSED MILK.
Eagle................................
Crown  .............................
Genuine  Swiss.................
American Swiss...............

COUPONS.

!

.26*
.25*

1  151 50
2 50
■  4* 
7
1  25 
1  40 
1  60 
1  75 
1  90 
90 
1  00
7 40
6 50
8 CO7 00

 
10 
............ 20 
CRACKERS.
“ 

 

 

 
 

‘B&E'T coggjjfr
“Superior.”
“ 
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“Tradesman.”

$  1  per hundred...............   2 50
3 00
* 2, 
4 00
$ 5, 
*10, 
5 00
*20, 
....................  6 00

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“ 
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“ 

*  1, per  hundred............... 2 00
“ 
2 50
* 2, 
3 00
“ 
#5, 
“ 
#10, 
4 00
“ 
#30, 
5 00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts :
200 or over.  .........  5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 

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“

Kenosha Butter..................   7*
Seymour 
5*
Butter....................................5*
“  family.......................... 5*
“  biscuit..........................6*
Boston....................................7*
City Soda...............................7*
Soda.......................................6
S. Oyster............................... 5*
City Oyster. XXX.................  5*
Strictly  pure......................  30
Telfer’s  Absolute..............  35
Grocers’............................ 10@15

CREAM TARTAR.

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Apples.

PEEL.

PRUNES.

California Evaporated.

Sundried....................   @10
Evaporated................13  @14
Apricots...... ...............  
19
10
Blackberries..............  
18
Nectarines.................  
20
Peaches;..................... 
17
Pears,  sliced...... ....... 
Plums......................... 
19
Prunes, sweet............. 
13
Turkey.......................   @  9
Bosnia........................   @10
French......... .............   @11
Lemon........................  
18
Orange.......................  
18
In drum.....................   @18
In boxes.....................  @20
Zaute, in  barrels........  @ 5*
in  *-bbls........  @ 57b
in less quantity  @ 5% 
r a isin s —California.

Bags.................* ...... 7
2  10
London Layers, 2 cr’n 
3  “ 
2 35
fancy. 
Muscatels,2crown  ... 
1  75
.... 
Valencias................... 
7%
Ondaras.....................  8  @ 8*
Sultanas....................16  @17

Foreign.

CURRANTS.

. 
“ 
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CITRON.

3  “ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

PARINACEOUS  GOODS.

“ 

“ 

...1

“ 
“ 

“ 
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Hamburg  stringless  ...

ü'.’.’.'.î 00
........ 1  10
........1  15

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

French style....... 2 25
Limas..................1  40
Lima, green.........................l 30
soaked.....................   90
Lewis Boston  Baked
...1 35
Bay State  Baked__
....... 1  35
World’s  Pair..........
........1  35
Corn.
Hamburgh..............
Tiger;.......................
Purity....................
E rie........................
Peas
Hamburgh marrofat...........
early June...........1
champion of  En-
land.................................
Hamburgh  petit  pois  ........1
fancy  sifted
1  90 
Soaked.......................;
65
Harris  standard..........
Van Camp’s Marrofat
.1  10
Early June...........130
Archer’s  Early Blossom__1  35
French.....................................1 80
French..............................17@18
Erie.....................................   90
Hubbard...................................1 30
Hamburg................................. 1 40
Soaked................................   85
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 60
Hamburg.............................
Van  Camp’s..............................1 10
No. Collins’............................... 1 10
Hamburg................................. 1 30
Hancock.................................. 1 05
Gallon..................................... 2 75
German Sweet...........
Premium......................
Pure.............................
Breakfast  Cocoa.........
N. Y. or Lenawee...... @12
Allegan  .................... @11*
Ordinary cream......... @11
Skim........  ......... ...... @10
Sap  Sago.................... @22
Edam  ........................ @1  00
Swiss, imported........ 24®  25
domestic  __ 15@  16
Limburger..................
...  15
CHEWING  GUM.
....35
Rubber, 100 lumps.......
.... 40
200  “ 
........
Spruce,’200 pieces........ ......40
Snider’s, *  pint........... ...  .1  35
pint............... ......2 30
quart............
......3 50
CLOTHES PINS.
....40
5 gross boxes  ..............
COCOA  SHELLS.
Bulk............................
@4
Pound  packages......... @7

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.

Tomatoes.

CHEESE.

22
34
38
40

CATSUP.

“ 
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“ 

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COFFEE.
GREEN.Rio.

Sautos.

.  . .20*
Fair..............................
Good............................
... .21
....21*
Prime..........................
... .22*
Golden.........................
Peaberry..................... ......23
....20*
Fair.............................
....21
Good............................
Prime.......................... ...... 21*
....22*
Peaberry  ....................
Mexican and Guatamala.
....22
Fair.............................
....23
Good............................
Maracaibo.
Prime.......................... __22V6
...2 3 *
Milled.........................
Interior....................... ......26
....29
Mandehling...............
Imitation....................
Arabian.......................

....28*
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add *c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent,  for shrink­
age.
M c L a u g h lin ’s  X X X X -----25%

PACKAGE.

ROASTED.

Mocha.

Java.

*@8

80
2 40
»  00
1  oo
75
60
1  75
6  00

50
1  50
5 50
90
45
85
1  1010
45
85
1  50
60
1  20
2  009 60
40
80
1 50

.  90
.  70
.  60
Irosa
4 00
7 00
10 50
2 75
4 00
8 00
4  50
1  75
2  00
2 50
2 75
90
1  20
3 25
2 75
.5 00
.4 50

13*
14
11
11 Y,
10 *
10*
12
25

1  10
1  90
.2 30
.1  10
2  10
.2 50
.3 50
.2  00
.3 00
.1  20
.2  00
.3 00
.3 00
.3 00
1  85
.1  60
.1  35
2  10
5® 6
i@ 8
l@12
>@14
@ 9
.2 50

4 00

2 50
2 35
1  10
1  201  75
1  60
1  30
reen
i l  60
1  10
61  75
2 25
C2 75
1  25
2 25
1  30
2 60
2 85

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HERBS.

JELLIES.

Herring.
Scaled.........................
24
Holland,  bbls............
11  00
75
kegs.............
Round shore, *  bbl...
2 75
1  50
“ 
J4 bbl..
Mackerel.
No. 1, *  bbls. 90 lbs....
...12 00
No. 1. bits, 10 lbs........... ...  1  25
Family, *  bbls., 90 lbs. 
kits, 10  lbs......

LAMP  WICKS.

Whitefish.

Pollock.
Sardines.
Trout.

“ 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Fancy.......................   3 50@4 00
Russian, kegs.«............
No. 1, *  bbls., 90 lbs.... ....5  50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs........... ....  80
No. 1, *  bbls., 90 lbs.... __ 7 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs........... ....  80
Family, *  bbls., 90 lbs.. 
....3 00
kits. 10  lbs......
__   50
Jennings’ D C.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding box...  75
1  25
3 oz 
...1  00
“ 
1  50
...1  50
“ 
4 oz 
2 00
...2 00
“ 
6 oz 
3 00
8 oz 
.. .3 00
“ 
4 CO
GUN  POWDER.
K egs............................. ....5 50
Half  kegs..................... ....3 00
Sage..................... ....15
Hops........................ ....25
Chicago  goods........ 4*@5
No...................... ...  30
No. 1.................... ...  40
No. 2.............................. ...  50
Pure............................... ....  30
Calabria.........................
Sicily............................. ....  18
Condensed,  2 doz......... ....1  25
No. 9  sulphur............... .... 1  65
Anchor parlor.........
. .1  70
No. 2 home............. ....1  10
Export  parlor.......... ....4 25
MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house...........
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary...............
19
Porto Rico.
Prim e..................
19
Fancy..................
23
New Orleans.
F air....................
17
Good...................
20
Extra good.............
26
Choice.................
30
Fancy...................
36
One-half barrels, 3c extra
Barrels 200........... @6  75
Half barrels 100........
.@3 50
ROLLED OATS.
Half  bbls 90......... @3 50
Barrels  180........... @6  75
Barrels, 1,200 count.... ...*6 75
Half  barrels, 600 count. ...  3 88
Barrels, 2.400 count  _ ..  9 00
Half barrels, 1,200 count... 5 00
Clay, No.  216...........
...1   75
....  75
“  T. D. full count...
...1  25
Cob, No. 3....................

PICKLES.
Medium.

OATMEAL.

MATCHES.

LICORICE.

Small.

PIPES.

LYE.

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head............... ...... 7
“  No. 1.......... .... 6
“  No. 2.......... @ 5
Broken.................
Japan, No. 1............
“  No.2............ ....6*
....5*
Java....................................
Patna..................................

Imported.

ROOT BEER.

Williams' Extract.

25 cent size............................... 1 75
3 dozen...................................#5 (10
Barrels..................................... 4 00
Half barrels..............................2 50

SAUERKRAUT.

SAPOLIO.
“ 
so u ps.

Kitchen,3 doz. inbox........  2 50
Hand  3  “ 
...... 2 50
Snider’s  Tomato......................2 40

2 20
1 60

*s
84  1  55 
84  1  55 
84  1 55 
84  1  55
84  1  55
84  1  55
84

“Absolute” in Packages. 
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Cinnamon.................
Cloves.......................
Ginger, Jam ............ .
“  Af.................
Mustard....................
Pepper  ......................
Sage...........................
SUGAR.
Cut  Loaf..................
@  5?s
Cubes.......................
© 5
Powdered.................
© 5*
Granulated...............
Confectioners’ A...... @  4.44-*
White Extra  O.........
@  4%
Extra  C....................
c ...............................
@ 4
Yellow 
....................
@ 3%
Less than 100 lbs.  *c advance
....* 6 50
Tea, 2-lb,  tin  scoop.
..  7 25
..
“  5-lb,  tin  scoop..
....  8 75
....  8 75
..
“ 
Grocers’, 11-lb,  tin  scoop.  11  00
brass “  ..  12 25
“  ..  13 25
brass “  ..  14 75

scales—Perfection.
“  brass  “ 
“ 
: brass  “ 

22-lb,  tin
STARCH.
Corn.
20-lb  boxes...............
Gloss.
........6
1-lb packages  ...........
3-lb 
........6
............
6-lb 
............
........6*4
........  4%
40 and 50 lb. boxes...
........4%
Barrels......................
Scotch, in  bladders.. ........37
Maccaboy, In jars__ ........35
French Rappee, in Jars......43
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 80....’......... ...3 20
...3 50
Uno, 100..........................
...3 00
Bouncer, 100..................
....5*
Boxes...........................
Kegs, English........................ 4%
SAL  SODA.
Kegs.  .............................
.  1%
Granulated,  boxes.........
Mixed bird.................  4*@ 6
Caraway...............................10
Canary................................ 3*
Hemp...................................4*
Anise................................... 13
Rape.......................

........  6*

SNUFF.

SEEDS.

SODA.

SOAP.

“ 
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18

ENGLISH BREAKPAST.

Fair...............................18  @22
Choice.........................24  @28
Best............................ 40  @50

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

“ 

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Plug.

Pails unless otherwise noted.
Hiawatha .
Sweet  Cuba...............
McGinty....................
*  bbls.........
Little  Darling...........
*  bbl..
20
1791.........................
19
1891, *   bbls...............  
Valley  City...............  
33
27
Dandy Jim ................. 
Searhead.................... 
40
24
Joker......................... 
22
Zero............................ 
! L. & W.......................  
26
28
i Here  It Is................... 
Old Style.................... 
31
Old  Honesty.............. 
4 1
33
Jolly Tar....................  
I Hiawatha................... 
37
I Valley City...............  
34
I Jas. G. Butler &  Co.’s  brands.
| Something Good.................... 37
: Toss Up.................................. 26
Out of Sight........................... 24
Boss....................................  12*
Colonel's Choice.................13
Warpath.............................14
Banner...............................14
King Bee............................ 20
Kiln Dried..........................17
Nigger Head.......................23
Honey  Dew........................24
Gold  Block  ....................... 28
Peerless.............................. 24
Rob  Roy.............................25
Uncle  Sam..........................28
Tom and Jerrp....................25
Brier Pipe........................... 30
Yum  Yum..........................32
Red Clover..........................30
Navy................................... 32
Handmade.......................... 40
Frog
.33
40 gr.....................................  8
50 gr.....................................9

Smoking.

VINEGAR.

*1 for barrel. 

t ea st—Compressed.

Tin foil cakes, per doz...........15
Baker’s, per  lb.... ..................30
PAPER & WOODENWARE

SALT

“

“ 

“ 

Warsaw.

Diamond Crystal.
100 3-lb. sacks.................
“ 
.................
60 5-lb 
28 10-lb. sacks...............
2014-lb.  “ 
.................
24 3-lb  cases..................
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags 
28 lb.  “ 
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags 
28 lb.  “ 
“
56 lb. dairy  bags............
56 lb. dairy  bags............
56 lb.  sacks....................
Saginaw and Manistee
Common Fine  per bbl__
SALERATUS.
Church’s, Arm & Hammer
Dwight’s Cow..........
Taylor’s ...............
DeLand’sCap  Sheaf
pure...........
Golden Harvest........
SYRUPS.
Corn.

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.

“ 

Pure Cane.

Barrels................................30
Half bbls.............................32
Amber.......................23  @25
Fancy drips...............28  @30
SWEET GOODS.
7
Ginger Snaps............
8*
Sugar  Creams.......
8
Frosted  Creams........
8
Graham  Crackers —
Oatmeal  Crackers__
8
SHOE  POLISH
.75
Jettine, 1 doz. in  box

.. 

BASKET  FIRED.

ja p a n—Regular.

TEAS.
@17
F air..........................
@20
Good.........................
Choice....................  - 21 @26
Choicest.................... 32 @34
Dust......................... 10 @12
SUN CURED.
©17
F air..........................
Good......................... @20
@26
Choice.......................
Dust.......................... 10 @12
F air.......................... 18 @20
@25
Choice.......................
Choicest......................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40 
Common to fair...........25  @35
Extra fine to finest___50  @65
Choicest fancy............ 75  @85
Common to  fair.......... 23  @26
Superior to  fine.......... 28  @30
Fine to choicest.......... 45  @55
Common to  fair.......... 23  @26
Superior to fine............30  @35
Common to fair.......... 18  @26
Superior to  fine..........30  @40

YOUNG HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG.

PAPER.

•  7 *  

“ 

“ 

as  fol-

TWINES.

“  2....

lows:
Straw 

CurtisB  &  Co.  quote 
12  40  i
.......................
2  25 Rockfalls....................
2  15 Rag sugar....................
...... 2*
2  00 Hardware....................
........ 2 *
1  50 Bakers.........................
...... 2*
50 Dry  Goods.................. 5*@ 6
Jute  Manilla............... 6*@ S
25
35 1Red  Express  No. 1__
___5
No. 2__
...... 4
18
48 Cotton......................
...  25
75 Cotton, No. 1............... __22
....is
75 Sea  Island, assorted...
...  40
2V No. 5 Hemp............
...1 8  
No. 6  “ .........................
...... 17
Wool...
90
WOODENWARE.
Tubs, No. 1.......................... 700
i  “ 
No. 2........................ 6 00
No. 3........................ 5 00
“ 
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
1  50
“
j 
 No. 1,  three-hoop_____   1  75
1 Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes______  50
Bowls, 11 inch....................  1  00
.......................  1  25
........................ 2 00
.......................  2 75
assorted, 17s and  19s  2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s 2 75
Baskets, market.........'......   35
bushel.................  1  50
5 75

“  13  “ 
“  15  “ 
“  17  “ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ willow cl’ths, No.l 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“  No.2 
“  No.3 
splint ‘  “  No.l 
“  No.2 
“  No.3 

..5*
..5*
..5*

6 25
7 25
3 50
4 25
5 00

“ 
“ 
• 
“ 

“ 

MEAL.

........

FLOUR.

WHEAT.

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF«
W hite........................  
1  01
Red............................. 
1  04
All wheat bought  on 60-lb. test.
Bolted............................ ..  1  50
Granulated.................... ..  1  60
Straight, In  sacks......... ..  5 60
“  barrels....... ..  5 80
“ 
Patent 
“  sacks......... ..  6 60
“  barrels........ ..  6 80
“ 
Graham  “  sacks........ ..  2  60
Rye 
“ 
2 50
MILLSTUFFS.
Bran.............................. ..  18 00
Screenings....................
..  19 10
Middlings
Mixed Feed.................. ..  25 00
Coarse meal.................. ..  24 CO
Milling.......................... ....  80
F eed............................. ....  60
Brewers, per  100  lbs__ --- 1  25
Feed, per  bn................. ....  60
Small  lots.....................
[ Car 
“  ...................... ..  54
! Small  lots...................... ...6 0
I Car 
“  ...................... ....56

BARLEY.

CORN.

OATS.

RYE.

HAY.

No.2..................................  12 00

Farina.
Hominy.

4
3 75

100 lb. kegs................... 
Barrels......................  
 
G rits..................................
Lima  Beans.
Dried............................ 
6
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__ 
60
Imported...................... 
11
Pearl Barley.
Kegs............................... 3*@3%
Green,  bu.............. 
1  20
Split, bbl.................................. 6 50
German.................. 
 
East India..........................  
Wheat.
Cracked..............................  

Sago.

Peas.

5
5
5

 

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth.
Whole............. 
6  @6*
Bricks..............................6 @8
Strips...............................8 @9
Smoked...................... 

Halibut.

10*

 

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

Allspice...............................10
Cassia, China in mats........  7*
“  Batavia in bund___15
“  Saigon in rolls......... 35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“  Zanzibar...................13
Mace  Batavia.....................80
Nutmegs, fancy..................80
“  No.  1......................75
“  No. 2......................65
Pepper, Singapore, black — 15 
“ 
“  white...  .25
shot........................19
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Allspice..............................17
Cassia,  Batavia..................20
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon...................35
Cloves,  Amboyna.............. 30
Zanzibar...............20
Ginger, African................. 15
“  •  Cochin...................18
Jamaica................ 20
“ 
Mace  Batavia.....................80
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste..25
“  Trieste...................27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ................. 75
Pepper, Singapore, black— 20
“  white.......30
“ 
“  Cayenne................. 25
Sage....................................20

“ 

14

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

A  ’LONGSHORE  EPISODE.
fCONTINUED  FROM  SEVENTH  FAGE.l

“Oh,  Sue!” 

I  cried.  “I’m  sure  he 

must be something—■”

‘•Probably he is,” interpolated Sue.
“ Perhaps  some  scientific  or 

literary 

character,” I suggested.

“ Scientific  or 

literary  fiddlesticks,” 
said  Sue, calmly.  “Now,  Dulcinea,  put 
on  your  hat,  and  our  exploration  shall 
begin.”

I didn’t really care about exploring, as 
I had an idea  for a sonnet I was going to 
write;  besides,  I  felt sure  the  sun  glar­
ing on so much  sand must be bad for the 
complexion.  Aunt  Jane  and  Cordy had 
a  complexion like  a  tiger-lily,  but 1  felt 
it was no use objecting,  so off I went.

I should  have enjoyed  that walk  more 
if  I  had  been  in  a carriage,  for,  apart 
from sand and chuckle-burrs and prickly 
pears, everything  seemed alive  with in­
sects,  and  dreadfully  familiar  and con­
fiding creatures they were.

But  overhead it was  like  gazing  into 
the  heart of  a  glowing  sapphire,  paling 
to  faintest  azure  on  the  horizon,  where 
the fringe of  scarred  and  rugged  pines 
relieved  the  blue.  Below  us  was  the 
broad bay. Hinging its complaining waters 
against  the shingle;  not  clear and  blue, 
as  orthodox  salt  water  should  be,  but 
reddish chocolate in hue.

The  beach  was the  only place  in  the 
district where 1 ever saw a stone;  as Sue 
said,  when we  were off  in the  woods we 
should have to walk  about two  miles be­
fore we could  find a stone  big  enough  to 
throw at a dog.

We  went  up  on  the  bluff, to  a  little 
grove  of  pines,  where  Sue  cast  herself 
down on the fragrant pine needles in the 
reckless manner  she  is  so  addicted  to. 
Lounging attitudes  always  seem  to  suit 
her,  and  she  never  had  that regard  for 
her clothes  possessed by most well-regu­
lated young women.

For a few moments  there was a restful 
silence;  only the  lazy rustle of  the pines 
and  the  subdued  lapping  of  the  water 
below.  Then  we heard  the crackling of 
dry twigs under a heavy, hesitating foot­
step,  and, turning  round,  with  that feel­
ing  of  horror  we  women  reserve  for 
tramps,  mice  and  the 
like  desperate 
characters,  we  beheld  an aborigine.  He 
was not by any means prepossessing,  but 
even  a  timid  school-ma’am  could  not 
gaze on Jonty Bloodgood with dread.

Jonty—the  local diminutive  for  Jona­
than—stood  about  six  feet four  in  his 
rawhide  boots;  in  build  he  strongly re­
called the  mossbunker which formed  his 
lie had a small head,  rudely 
staple diet, 
thatched  with 
lank,  hay-colored  hair, 
and  he  possessed  washed-out  blue eyes 
which were not a pair.  One of these orbs 
was  fixed  on us,  while  the  other  gazed 
impressively  at  the  zenith.  Over  his 
shoulder  be  carried  a  decrepit-looking 
shot-gun,  while following and  preceding 
him were several gaunt hounds of an un­
determinate species.

This  apparition  gazed  at  us  for a few 
minutes  in  evident  amazement,  then, 
taking  courage,  remarked  conversation­
ally,  as  we  might  comment  on  the 
weather:

“ Hain’t  seen no fleckers  this way,  hev 

ye?”

“Fleckers” being unknown  game to us 
both,  we  answered,  with  an  emphatic 
negative,  and  our  interlocutor slouched 
away,  with  the  air  of  a  man  who  had 
done his duty  to  society.  Sue  said  she

would like  to  study him;  she has  such a 
cold-blooded  way  of  looking  at  people, 
as if  she would  like to impale them on a 
piece of cork, like the unfortunate insects 
she  collects. 
I  thought  he  might  be 
worked up into a poem,  beginning:
Lone dweller ’neath the balmy pines.

Only I should  have  to  ignore his inac­
curate  eyes.  And  he  could  hardly be 
called  a  “lone  dweller” either,  as  Sue, 
who  does not  see poetic  license,  pointed 
out;  we found seven of  the  dirtiest chil­
dren I ever  saw,  all of  them  cross-eyed, 
and a lank wife who dipped  snuff.

For an entire week we wandered about I 
all  day,  by woodland  and shore,  and  we 
never had a glimpse of the other boarder, 
whom Sue flippantly designated  as O. B. 
in familiar converse.  He was always off 
before  we  were  up,  either  boating  or 
tramping  the  country with  Jonty Blood- 
good, who appeared to be a kindred spirit. 
Sue said probably he was  cross-eyed too, 
or  knock-kneed,  or  something  of  the 
kind,  but Cordy said  he was the likeliest 
young  man  that  ever  stepped,  so  we 
judged him to be some big,  hulking, stu­
pid  wretch  who  wasn’t  really  fit  for 
ladies’ society,  anyway.

I  don’t  really  care  for  young  men— 
unless  they possess  soul—and Sue  cares 
a  good  deal  more  for  polystichums and 
polypodiums,  to  say  nothing  of  polly- 
wogs.  But I  must  confess  that,  as time 
went  on,  we  began  to  think a good  deal 
about that mysterious Other Boarder. 
It 
wasn’t  curiosity,  you  know, but  simply 
interest  in  humanity.  We  didn’t  even 
know his  name.  He  never  got  any let­
ters,  and Mrs.  Applegate  called  him Mr. 
Jim;  he had told her it was not his name, 
but would do as well as any  other.  Just 
like one  one of  Bulwer’s  heroes,  only as 
Sue  pointed  out,  we  never  heard  him 
give  a  cold  laugh  in  two  syllables, or 
impatiently stride  his  room at midnight, 
as  the  characters in question always do; 
nor,  as nearly as  we could  learn, did  he 
possess a raven  brow and marble locks— 
I mean vice versa.

Cordy said  he was  something  like me, 
so  he  could  never  be a hero,  for  I  am 
little  and  sandy, with  pale  eyes  and  a 
tendency to freckles.

Our  curiosity  gradually  settled  down 
to a sort  of  dead  level of  mystery,  until 
one  day  Cordy told  us  that  the  Other 
Boarder  expected  a  visitor  to  spend  a 
few days with him.

“A  young  man,  Miss  Denning,”  she 
explained.  “Mr.  Jim  says  how him an’ 
this friend goes  about together every va­
cation,  being  cousins, an’  he’s  a  lawyer, 
an’  his name’s Mr. Hort.”

“Sue  Farrell,”  I  said,  solemnly,  as 
soon as Cordy  had  left  us,  “if we  don’t 
see this hateful  Mr. Jim and his disrepu­
table friend—”

“We  will,” said  Sue,  with  emphasis, 
“ if  we  have  to  lurk  in  ambush  for  a 
week.”

I  saw  by  this  that  Sue  had got  her 
mind removed for once off  those abomin­
able  cephalopods,  and  as  we  strolled 
| towards  our  favorite lounging  place  on 
the bluff we thought of a dozen plans for 
setting our doubts at rest;  for I must say 
I had  my  doubts of  a  young  man  who 
would  display  such  a  Guy  Fawkes ret­
icence towards two intelligent girls.

We  sat  there, talking about  secretive 
young men,  and such  conspirators,  when 
we  heard  the  crackling  of 
the  pine 
needles,  and  the  sound  of  murmuring 
voices.  We  looked  up,  to  behold  at  a 
short distance a disreputable blue flannel

We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1891.

81  SOUTH DIVISION ST..  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Correspondence solicited. 

“ 
“ 

Women’s Button Newports in Dongola, Grain and Glove Grain.
Lace or Tie Dongola  Newport in plain or patent tip.
Russet Lace Newport in plain or patent  tip.
Misses’  and Child’s Newport  Ties in Black or Russet.
A Nice Line of Ladies’ Fancy and House Slippers.
Men’s, Boys’ and Youths’ Canvas Bals.
Bay  State  Tennis  Shoes,  the  best  line  for  the  money  in  the  market.  We 
keep them  in  stock  in  Men’s  and  Boys’  Bals  and in Men’s,  Boys’, Youths’ 
Women’s, Misses’ and Child’s Oxfords.

We would be pleased to show them to you or quote you prices.

RINDGE, BERTSCH  &  CO.,

G R A N D   R A P ID S .

PARROTS  GIVEN AWAY!

know at once the number required.

Our agent is now securing  them  and it is important  that we 
■AST year  we  secured  1,000  Live  Parrots 

|# r P jS e ll 

for our  customers, but  the  demand  far ex- 
j@Q§3jpjj. 
furnish  birds  to  all who  desired  them.  This 
year we shall endeavor to secure a larger supply,
so that  every one of  our customers who  so  de- 
sires may have

A Real Live Parrot FREE.

ceeded our  expectations and  we were unable to

The best variety of talking parrots are secured 
on  the  Isle of  Pines,  about  50  miles  south  of 
Cuba.  They  are  beautiful  birds,  with  green 
plumage  and  red  breast,  easily  cared  for  and 
intelligent.  If  captured when  young and  well 
cared  fo r, a Pine Island  Parrot  n e v e r  f a il s to 
beco m e  a good  t a l k e r .  Our  birds  are all  se­
cured by O ur Own  Agent,  He  Is a competent 
man of  fifty years’  experience, and will  secure 
only  healthy,  selected  young  birds.  He  has 
now  sailed  for  the  Island,  and  in  order  to 
araange for the number required, we wish every 
dealer

Let ns  know soon  if he wants  a  Bird.

These parrots  are  given to onr customers who 
handle  our  “PRETT V  POLLY”  cigars,  and 
there is no better 5 cent cigar in the market. The 
trade is strictly net.$35 per l,000(wlth or without 
a  parrot).  They  give  satisfaction  to  smokers, 
and the parrots increase your sales.
With  an  order  for  600 “Pretty Polly” cigars, 
we will give ONE parrot free.
With an  order  for  700 “Pretty Polly” cigars, 
we give ONE parrot  in a  h an dso m e  w ir e   caoe

OUR  GUARANTEE

To any responsible dealer who don’t know the 
goods, we will express p r e p a id  200 of the “Pretty 
Polly” cigars for e x a m in a tio n , to be returned if 
not satisfactory.  If the cigars suit, the balance, 
400 or  500,  can  be  shipped  with  the  parrot  or 
sooner if desired.
With sample order we will refer you to respon­
sible dealers  throughout the  United  States who 
had our parrots las  season.

STATE OF MICHIGAN.

County of Wayne.

Î S3.
21  Grani

Jam es  B.  W ilkinson,  of  21  Grand  River a v e n u e , De­
tro it,  M ichigan.  being  d u ly  sworn,  deposes  and  says 
th a t he has in his  possession and  owns a  p arro t of the 
Cuban o r Pine  Island variety;  th a t he has  owned said 
p arro t  5  years;  th a t when  s a id   p arro t  was 3  years of 
age  th is  deponent  was  offered  one  hundred  dollars 
(9100)  for said  p arro t;  th a t he refused  said  offer  and 
would not  take five hundred dollars for said p arro t a t 
the present tim e, and fu rth er deponent saith not.

June,  1800. 

Subscribed and sworn  to  before me  this 12th  day of 

Notary Public in and for W ayne Co., Mich.

E u g e n e  S. C l a r k s o n ,

Jambs B. Wilkinson.

DETROIT  TOBACCO  CO.,

G risw o ld   St. 

D e tr o it, M ich.

lying  about 
coat,  which  we  had  seen 
Aunt Jane’s hall. 
It was  to  us a verita­
ble flag of battle, for it was  the property 
of the Other Boarder.

For  a  moment  we  hesitated—and the 
woman  who  hesitates  is  lost—when we 
heard a laughing voice say:

“School-ma’ams be hanged! 

If you’ve 
dodged  them for  three weeks I guess the 
pair  of  us  can  dodge  them  for  three 
days,”

At  this  juncture,  to  Sue’s  profound 
astonishment,  I rushed  forward, precipi­
tated myself  upon  the blue  flannel coat, 
and  seized  a  suuburned  ear  above  it, 
turned towards us the face of a very sur­
prised young  man,  while  the  disrespect­
ful  individual who  had  alluded  to  the 
possibility  of  dodging  us  laid  himself 
down on  the  fragrant  pine  needles, and 
indulged 
that 
threatened serious consequences.

in  convulsive  mirth 

“You good-for-nothing,  horrid  boy,” I 
began,  as I embraced  the Other Boarder, 
while  Sue,  evidently under  the  impres­
sion 
that  we  were  all  suffering  from 
emotional insanity,  seated  herself  at the 
foot of  a pine tree  with an air of  saintly 
resignation.

“It’s my brother Ned!” I explained.
“And  here  for three weeks  I’ve  been 
dodging my own sister!  Why didn’t you 
tell a fellow where you were going?”

“Because  Sue  and  I  wanted  to  be 
quiet,” I said, with much dignity.  “This 
is Sue Farrell, whom  I’ve always wanted 
you to know;  she is just as fond of  hate­
ful  beasts  and  things as you  are.  And 
as soon as cousin Horace can  stop laugh­
ing  and  look  like  a  rational  being,  we 
will go back to the house.”

Well,  as we  strolled  along  the  beach, 
Ned  explained  how he had  come to Con­
nor’s  Landing to rest—he is a civil  engi­
neer—and  kept  out of  our way  because 
be  was rather  afraid of  school-ma’ams— 
they were not always as beautiful as they 
were  intellectual.  He  looked  apprecia­
tively at  Sue  as  he said  this.  And  we 
explained  that  we  were  devotiug  our 
time  to  intellectual  culture,  and  didn’t 
want to be  bothered by young  men.  Of 
course, we did  not say  how we had been 
scurrying around  to get a sight of him.

Well,  for the remainder of our stay we 
four  had  a  joily  time  together.  Some­
how,  wherever  Sue  was,  Ned  always 
seemed in  the  same  vicinity, discussing 
fiddler crabs or something  equally slimy, 
and they seem likely to zoologize through 
life together.

Horace and I have amused one another 
ever since  I  wore  brown  Holland  piua- 
fores, but I am  little  and  sandy,  with  a

tendency to freckles,  as I said  before,  so 
sentiment  is  not  in  my line,  in  spite  of 
my  poetic  yearnings. 
It  is  utterly use­
less for a girl  to be  sentimental if  she is 
not at least passably nice looking.

So 1 have gone back to my school again, 
and  am  cultivating  as  much  divine 
afflatus  as  a  very  crabbed  board  of 
trustees  will  allow.  Perhaps,  after  all, 
the “Ballads  of  a Mountain  Singer” will 
never  see the  light,  so I am  fortunate  if 
allowed to approach the glory of print in 
this episode of Connor’s Landing.

E m ily Louise T a p l in .

Points  for  Retailers.

that  want  most 

Success in trade is  not accidental.
The  dealer  who  notes  what  a 
community is most in need of,  and  sup­
thoroughly, 
plies 
possesses  the attributes  of  a  merchant.
Experience demonstrates  that the mer­
chant  who  keeps  his  purchases  fairly 
within  the  line of  the current  wants of 
his trade is the one in the  long run  who 
makes the most  money.
Dealers  had  far  better  cry  over  the 
goods on their shelves  than  to cry  over 
accounts  in  their  books,  for  goods  in 
hand represent  a  value  that  can  never 
be found in  scattered  accounts.
Many  a  good  country  merchant,  by 
allowing his  bills  to  run  over  time—a 
week to ten days,  and  even  longer—has 
caused the city  house with  whom  he  is 
dealing to look upon  his  accounts  with 
disfavor.
It is  generally  far  better  to  suffer  a 
small loss and  maintain  the  reputation 
of being a good merchant,  than to  show 
the contrary by returning  goods,  which 
is very often regarded  as an evidence  of 
poor  buying.
Selling goods for  glory  is  one  thing, 
and selling them  to make money is quite 
another  and  different 
thing.  Anyone 
who  has  money  or  credit  can  do  the 
former; but to do the latter, it requires a 
merchant  in  the  fullest  sense  of  the 
term.
together  with 
the  circumstances,  and  necessities  of 
any market, usually establish such  rates 
of prices  for  goods  as  are  normal  and 
legitimate,  and the  dealer  who  ignores 
this  fact  generally  suffers  the  conse­
quences.
In  nine cases out of  ten the quality of 
goods has more to do with the making  or 
the  losing of a customer  than  the price, 
for the reason if the customer is  pleased 
and  well  satisfied  with  the  former  he 
does  not  generally  take 
the  time  to 
compare prices.

General  competition, 

No  U se  for  a Husband.

A Williamsport girl, who in the matter 
of beauty  and  affectionate  exuberance 
was not to say  “fresh  as  first  love  and 
rosy as the dawn,”  was  asked  why  she 
did not get married, and this  is what she 
said 
reply:  “I  have  considerable 
money of my own, I have  a  parrot  that 
can  swear,  and  a  monkey  that  chews 
tobacco,  so  that  I  have  no  need  of a 
husband.”

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Grand Rapids Storage Si Transfer Co,  a s

Winter  St.,  between  Shawmiit Sue.  and  W.  Fiilton St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

General  Warehousemen  and  Transfer  Agents,

COLD  STORAGE  FOR  BUTTER,  EGGS,  CHEESE,  FRUITS,  AND 

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Dealers and  Jobbers in Mowers,  Binders  Twine,  Threshers  En­

gines,  Straw Stackers, Drills, Rakes, Tedders,  Cultivators, 

Plows,  Pumps,  Carts,  Wagons,  Buggies,  Wind Mills 

and Machine and Plow repairs, Etc.

Telephone  No.  945. 

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Possibly  we  can 

^ ^ R IT E   us for  Samples and  Prices.
save  you 
money.  We  have  a  good  white  en­
velope (our 154) which we se ll:

500
1,000
2,000
5,000
10,000

No  6
Size 3\ixG
$1.40
2.40
2.15
1.75
1 60

No  6/4
Size 3%x6ÿ$
$1.50
2.50
2.25
1.85
1.70
Special  prices  on  larger  quantities. 
This  is  not a cheap  stock,  but  good 
fair envelope.  We  have  cheaper and 
have  better  grades,  but  can  recom­
mend this one.

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Confectioners, 46 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

F E R M E N T U M ,

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Hot  weather is near at hand,  when  dealers and bakers must have  fresh  yeast. 
In  buying “Fermentum,”  you  invariably secure  the  best  results,  as  it  is  always 
fresb and reliable,  having  long taken the lead  over all competitors.  The wants of 
the Grand Rapids and Western  Michigan trade are supplied  from  the headquarters 
in this  city. 
If  there is a dealer or baker  who is not  familiar  with  the  merits  of 
our yeast,  we want to hear from him in the way of a sample order.

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EXPERT  OPINIONS.

Sugar Prospects Under the  New Tariff 

Law.

Henry 0.  Havemeyer,  President of the 
American Sugar  Refining Go.,  in  speak­
ing  of  the  operations  of  the  new  tariff 
law,  said:
“ It is too early to accurately fix the in­
crease  in  the  consumption  of  refined 
sugar due  to  the  lowering  of  the  price 
consequent upon  the importation of  raw 
material free under  the  tariff  act.  The 
consumption  in  March,  the  last  month 
under  the  duty  paid,  was  extremely 
small.  Of  a  monthly  consumption  of
100.000  tons  the  figures  show  scarcely
6.000 
tons sold.  The operation of the re­
fineries  in  bond  to  supply  free  sugar, 
commencing  on  the  1st  of  March,  did | 
very little to fill the  vacuum  occasioned 
by the reduced  supplies  in March of  the 
duty paid article, and  the refineries dur­
ing the month  of  April  were  unable  to 
supply  that  vacuum  plus the  usual  de­
mand. 
I think that it will  be  well  into 
June  before the existing refining  capaci­
ty of this country can  supply the month­
ly  requirements based  upon  last  year’s j 
consumption and the  vacuum  created in 
March.  The tariff act reduced  the  duty 
on sugar about  $8  a  barrel,  and  the  re­
sult  of  this  has  been that everybody  in 
the  country  appears  to  have  bought  a 
barrel of sugar.
“The result upon  the  raw  sugar  pro­
ducing countries,  in  the matter of  price, 
has been what always  takes  place  upon 
a large reduction of the duty, an advance 
in price in the producing country.  Since 
the middle of February raw sugars  have 
advanced  half a-cent  a  pound;  and  the 
feeling in the trade  is  that this  advance 
will  be maintained until the infiuence  of 
the next November  and  December  crop 
is made manifest.  The beet sowings and 
the  general  cultivation  of  raw  sugar 
throughout the world  will have  received 
an enormus  stimulus  due  to  free sugar 
in the United States  and  its  consequent 
consumption,  and  for  this  year  and  a 
part  of next,  a  portion  of  the  benefits 
which  this country only  was intended  to 
receive is being shared  by  sugar produc­
ing countries.  When  the next  crop  be­
gins to be  harvested,  however,  the  price 
■ will fall  to its normal level,  and  the en­
tire benefit of  the  tariff  act  will  accrue 
exclusively to the people  of  the  United 
States,  to whom  undoubtedly  it will  be a 
great blessing,  as it furnishes  them  one 
of the cheapest articles of food known at 
the lowest cost of production.
Another aspect of the case is, however, 
touched  upon by  John  E.  Searles,  the 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  same 
company,  who said:
“There can be no  possible  doubt as to 
the benefit to the community of the tariff 
bill, so far as it relates to  sugar.  What­
ever may  be the effect  upon  raw  sugars 
from producing countries,  at the  outset, 
it cannot be otherwise than  that the  na­
tural competition  between  the producing 
countries to supply this market  with  its 
raw sugar,  will  give  us  our  supply  of 
raw material  as  cheaply as it  can be  ob­
tained by any country in the  world,  and 
I have no doubt but that  the price of re­
fined  sugar  in  this  country  will  be  as 
cheap  to the consumer as  in  any  other 
country  in  the  world.  The  margin  of 
protection on refined sugars is very  nar­
row,  but  the American  refiners  will  be 
stimulated to economize  in  every  possi­
ble  way  in  the  production  of  refined 
sugar,  in order  to  compete  for the sup­
ply of the markets of the  world  as  well 
as  our  home  market. 
I  look  to  see  a 
very large increase  in  the  consumption 
of sugar per capita  in  this  country,  for 
while it is true  that  Eugland  shows  at 
present a larger per  capita  consumption 
than  the  United  States,  I  believe  the 
sugar actually consumed by  the  people, 
aside from that  used  in  manufacturing 
industries in England, is less than in this 
country.  And when the laboring classes 
and  the agricultural portion of the popu­
lation of  this  country  can  buy  twenty 
pounds or more  of  white  sugar  for  SI, 
there is no  question  but  that  they  will 
use it much  more freely than in the past.”
“What  effect  do  you  think  this  bill 
will have upon the domestic sugar indus­
try?”
“With reference to the  effect upon the

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

domestic  sugar  industry  of  the  bounty 
provision in  the  tariff  bill,  it  will  un­
doubtedly  largely  stimulate  production 
in Louisana,  where  every effort  will  be 
made to plant  the  largest  acreage  ever 
put in in the history of the country. 
In 
Florida also there is an  immense tract of 
sugar  country  which,  under  the  stimu­
lus  of  the  bounty, will  very likely  be 
speedily  converted  into  sugar 
lands. 
There are probably 250,000 acres of sugar 
lands  in  Florida  capable  of  producing 
crops equal to the best of those produced 
in Cuba and it  only  requires  confidence 
in the continuance of the bounty  during 
the term provided in the bill,  to  interest 
a sufficient amount of capital to  develop 
these lands very rapidly.  The  promoters 
of the beet sugar industry are  also  very 
sanguine,  and  new  factories  are  being 
built in Nebraska and Kansas.  This in­
dustry  is  very  largely  an  agricultural 
problem,  and 
it  remains  to  be  seen 
whether the laborers can be  found to  go 
down on their knees  and  weed  beets  in 
competition with the labor of Europe.  If 
the beets can be  raised there is no  ques­
tion as to the ability of  the  factories  to 
convert them into  sugar. 
In Europe the 
development of the beet  sugar  industry 
has outrun  the product  of  all  the  cane 
growing countries of the  world  and  the 
price of the beet sugars of  the  world to­
day. 
In the event of any attempt on the 
part of the  cane  sugar  producing  coun­
tries, for instance,  Cuba  and  the  West 
Indias, to advance the price of their pro­
duct beyond the  relative  value  of  beets 
in  the  London  market,  the  refiners  of 
this country could  immediately  transfer 
their  orders to Europe,  and the consum­
ers here are thereby protected, so that the 
American consumer is bound  to  get  his 
supply  of  sugars on a basis of its  value 
in the world’s markets.”
B.  F.  Bowerman,  a  well-known  sugar 
broker,  said:
“ As far as the tariff bill  is  concerned, 
1 have no  doubt that it  will increase the 
consumption of sugar  to the extent of 20 
per cent,  to 25 per cent.,  although  I  am 
generally considered to be  an  extremist. 
So far as the bill is concerned,  we do not 
like it all.”
“Do you think it probable that all  the 
sugar producing conntries will come into 
the scheme  contemplated  by  the  clause 
which gives the  President  the  right  to 
reimpose the duty  on  sugar  from  those 
countries which have  not given us recip­
rocal trade?”
“I should think the  various  countries 
would 
reciproci­
ty business.  We  are  the  greatest  mar­
ket in the world for  sugars, or  shall  be, 
especially for those raised on  this  conti­
It would  be  almost  suicidal  for 
nent. 
some countries to accept  it and others to 
refuse. 
I have understood from a  relia­
ble bouse that Spain would  undoubtedly 
come into the arrangement and grant  us 
a fair show in the island of Cuba.  Cubans 
desire reciprocity.”
“When do you suppose the price of the 
raw material  will  return  to  its  normal 
condition?”
“I  think  when  the  foreign  planters 
raise sufficiently large crops  to  be  in  a 
then  the 
hurry  to  sell 
weight of the crop will crowd the market 
back to where it was.”
“Do you think the  increase  of  half  a 
cent a pound  on  the  raw  material  will 
perceptibly affect the retail market?”
“Sugar is cheaper now than it  was be­
fore that bill went into effect.”
“You think that will last,  do you?”
“Certainly.  Sugar,  you  see,  can  be 
produced in so many  different  countries 
and climates, both from  beet  and  cane, 
that there is no prospect of  a  dearth  of 
sugar.”
“Or of a combination to  maintain high 
prices?”
“Oh, no; it is too big an article.  Take 
an article like copper,  for example.  You 
remember they tried to combine on  that, 
but you  know how quickly they  came to 
grief, and copper is a very  small  article 
compared to sugar.  So that any man  or 
combination that  undertakes  to  control 
sugar will come to grief.  No sugar trust 
can control the price of sugar.”
“What do you  think  of  the  prospect 
for the raising of sugar in our own coun­
try?”
“It can never be a  success unless  you

their  sugars, 

enter 

into 

the 

furnish the man undertaking to  raise  it 
with crutches to stand  on. 
If  you  pay 
him a bounty of two cents a  pound,  the 
price at which sugar can be put on board 
in  foreign  countries,  it  can  be  raised 
here, otherwise  we  can  never  compete 
with tropical countries. 
In  respect  to 
this, however,  I do not  consider it a  fair 
thing to discriminate in this way, by giv­
ing to one class  of  people an  advantage 
over another class.  The consumption of 
sugar  is  being  increased,  the  price  is 
lower than it has been,  and the consumer 
is benefited thereby.”

By  the  M uddy  M aumee.

From  the Toledo Business World.
T h e  Mic h ig a n  T ra desm an has  blos­
somed out in  a new cover of  a  subdued 
goose color, which has all  the  effects  of 
richness  without  the  correlative  objec­
tionable  quality.  Bro.  Stowe  explains 
that this new departure  is  made  at  the 
urgent solicitation of  large  numbers  of 
new advertisers who refuse  to  be  satis­
fied until they find  a place on  the  cover 
of T h e  T ra desm an. 
____________

WILLIAM  CONNOR,

Box 346, 

Marshall, Mich,

and the many congratulations we receive 
satisfactory prices,  and

EÄT0N,  LYON  it  CO.,

JO B B E R S  OF

A  Complete Line of

HAMMOCKS,

FISHING  TACKLE,

MARBLES,
===BASE  BALL  GOODS = =
Our new sporting goods catalogue will  be  ready 

about February 10th.

EATO N, LY O N   & CO.,

20 and 22  Monroe  St.

To  GloEiiBg  and  General  Store  Mer­

chants:

If  your stock is running  low or out  of 
sizes  we  have  still a fair  line of  spring 
and summer suitings to select  from,  also 
Overcoats, Pants, etc., and if you require 
samples  to  select  from,  send  us  word 
about the style and  price and  they shall 
be expressed to you,  or,  if  you write  our 
Michigan  representative,  W il lia m   Con­
nor,  who  resides  at  Marshall, Mich.,  he 
will  be  pleased  to  call  upon  you.  All 
mail orders promptly attended  to. 
It is 
wonderful the number of  mail orders we 
receive  for  our  elegant  diagonal,  also 
cork  screw worsted  Prince  Albert  coat 
and  vests  and  three  button  cut  away, 
frock and sack suitings of  same material 
from the merchants of  our perfect fit and

Please Remember
That  no  manufacturers  sell  more  ready-made  clothing in Michigan,  and  that we 
catered for the Michigan trade for thirty years and knows their wants.

Our Fall and Winter line will be up to the usual standard.

MICHAEL  KOLB  &  SON,

ROCHESTER,  N.  Y.

William  Connor  begs  also to intimate  that he has  still on  hand a fair  line of 

Boys’ and Children’s suitings to select from.

SOMETHING  NEW!

Our Folding Basket Rack.

The  two  main  objections  to  other 
racks  now  in  use,  are  first,  they  are 
not  strong  enough,  and  second,  they 
take up too  much  room  when  not in 
use.

Our racks  will  support a weight of 
several  hundred  pounds,  and  when 
closed  are  but  three  inches  square, 
and yet cost less than  others.

They  will  hold  baskets  level,  or 
tipped at  any angle  desired,  and will 
stand solidly on uneven floors.

They  are  made  in  three  heights, 

viz., 16, 22 and 28 inches.

Price per dox.  {2.
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