Published  Weekly. 

VOL.  9. 

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS. 
GRAND  R A PID S,SEPTEM B ER   30,  1891. 

$1  Per  Year.
NO.  419

G .  

S .  B R O W N   &   C O . ,

Domestic Fruits and Vegetables £

--------  JO B B E R S   O F  --------

We carry the largest stock in the city and guarantee satisfaction.  We always bill goods at the 

lowest market prices. 

SE N D   FO R   «iU oT A T JO N s.

24 and 26 North Division St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS. 

PEACHES AND BANANAS.

WE  ARE  HEADQUARTERS. 

Mail  Orders  Receive  Prompt  Attention.

C  

N .   R A P P   &   C O . ,  

9 North  Ionia St., Grand Rapids.

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P ip e  W ir n li

M ade  o f F o rg ed  S teel an d   In te rch a n g ea b le ln 'a ll Its P arts.  Sold  by

HESTER  &  FOX, 
MUSKEGON  BRANCH  UNITED  STATES  BAKING  CO.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.  £

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M u s k e o o n  C r a c k e r   C o .,

S u c cesso rs  to

T E L F E R   S P I C E   C O M P A N Y ,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Spices  an d   B a k in g   P o w d e r ,  a n d   J o b b ers  o f 

T ea s, C offees  an d   G ro cers’  S u n d ries.

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and  3 Pearl  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS

T E N N I S   S H O E S ,

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............................. 38c  CHILDS’ 

lEN’S  OXFORDS,...............................40c  YOUTHS’  OXFORDS........................... 36c
\ 
SOYS’ 
3i c
Also a line  of  Candee  Tennis Shoes 50 per  cent,  off list.  A  nice  line of  Men’s, 
oyS’,  Youths’,  Women’s,  Misses’  and Child's Shoes in  Calf,  Grain,  Glove Grain, 
longola,  etc.  Would  be  pleased to show you  styles aud prices.
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G E O .  H .  R E E D E R   &   C O .,

188  &  1 6 0   F u lto n   S t ,  G rand  R a p id s,  M ich.

rflK  MEW  YORK  BI8GUIT  GO.,

S.  A.  SE A R S,  Manager.

C r a c k e r   M a n u f a c t u r e r s ,

Y7,  3 9   an d   41  K en t St., 

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G rand  R a p id s.

W .   H .   D O W N S ,

----- JOBBER  OF------

Crackers, Biscuits^Sweet Goods. ■

H A R R Y   FOX,  Manager.

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

SP E C IA L   A T T E N T IO N   P A ID   TO  M A IL   O R D E R S.

N o t i o n s   &   F a n c y   G o o d s .

8  So.  Ionia  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

[ have just received a fresh invoice of Ribbons, on which I am prepared to make unusually close prices.

New Line of 

PKNNY  GOODS  f°r September Trade.  ^3 - e t   t i e t i e   B

Order Tycoon Gum and Chocolate Triplets.

A .   E .   B R O O K S   &   C O . ,

No. 46  OTTAWA  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS 

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Jennings*

A g e n t s   W a n t e d   !  

S a g in a w ,  Mich.,  June 22,  1891.

Albion  Milling  Co., Albion,  Michigan: 
G e n t s— In  connection  with  our  order  for  “Albion  Patent  Flour” which  you 
will  find enclosed,  permit  us to say that we have  used  your Albion  Patent for the 
past fifteen  years and it has always  given universal  satisfaction.  We  consider  it 
the best brand of flour,  for family use,  that we handle.  Yours very truly,

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We wish to place  this  brand in every city and  town  in Michigan,  and  give the  “

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WELLS  STONE  MERCANTILE  CO.

particulars.  Perfect satisfaction guaranteed in every instance.

ALBION  MILLING  COMPANY,  Albion,  Midi. 
<Ss  H E S

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

D E A L E R S  IN  

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EE  QUOTATIONS.

Flavoring  E x tr a c ts

CACHES!  PEACHES!  PEACHES!

Send  your orders for PEACHES to

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T H E O .  

B ,   G O O S S E N ,

helesale Prodilce and  Commission  33 Ottawa St.,  Grand Rapids.
JBananas, Jersey Sweet Potatoes

R  o ' W «   f   "  e wtl1  P»Y m a rk et  p rice  for a ll fresh  E ggs  y o u  can 

Received in Car Lots.
send u s.  I f  a n y to offer w r ite  ns.

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3 / - ^ o  n e   f  

l f  y o u  h a v e  B ean s  for  sa le 

sen d  sa m p le and p rice. 
M O S E L E Y   B R O S .,

W H O L E SA L E :

F r u its,  Seeds,  B ean s  an d   P rod u ce.

NOS.  12 2   and  1 2 4   LO UIS  ST R E E T .  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N .

WE  CARET  A   STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOB  MILL  USE- 

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8 ,   28, SO and 32  Ottawa St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

I M P O R T E R S   A N D

Wholesale  ßroeers

GRAND  RAPIDS

Gral Bapifls Storage & Transfer Co., hü

Winter  St.,  between  Stiawmilt One.  and  W.  Fdltnn St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

General  Warehousemen  and  Transfer  Agents.

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

ALL  KINDS  OF  PERISHABLES.

Dealers and  Jobbers in Mowers,  Binders  Twine,  Threshers,  En­

gines, Straw Stackers, Drills, Bakes, Tedders, Cultivators, 

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

and Machine and Plow repairs, Etc.

H eym an  &  Company,

'Spring* &  Com pany,

Telephone  No.  945. 

J.  T .  F.  BLAKE,  Sup’t.

Manufacturers  of

SHov  Cases

Of  Every  Description.

WRITE FOR  PRICES.
First-Class  Work  Only.
-  G R A N D   R A P ID S

6 3   and  6 8   C anal  St., 

STANDARD  OIL  GO..
- O I L S -

Illuminating  and  Lubricating

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

N A PTH A   AN D   GASOLINES.

Dealers 

in 

Office,  Hawkins Block. 

Works,  Butterworth Ave.

I’.I  I.K  STATIO NS  AT

Grand  Rapids,  Big  Rapids, Cadillac,  Grand  Haven,  Ludington,  Howard  City,  Mus­

kegon.  Reed City,  Manistee,  Petoskey,  Allegan.

Highest Price Paid  for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels
R I N D G E ,   B E R T S C H   &  CO.,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots and Shoes.

Our  fall  lines  are 
now complete in every 
department.
Our  line  of  Men’s 
and  Boys’  boots  are 
the best we ever made 
or  handled.
For  durability  try 
our own  manufacture 
men’s,  boys’,  youths’, 
women’s,  misses’  and 
children’s shoes.
We  have the  finest 
lines  of  slippers  and 
warm  goods  we  ever 
carried.
We  handle all  the lead 
lines of felt boots and
We solicit  your  inspec- 
“Agents  for  the Boston 

before purchasing.

Robber Shoe Co.”

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

D ress  G oods,  S h a w ls,  C loak s, 
N o tio n s, 
H o siery , 
G lo v es,  U n d e r w e a r ,  W o o le n s , 
F la n n e ls,  B la n k ets,  G in g h a m s, 
P r in ts  a n d   D o m estic  C otton s

W e  invite  the  attention  of  the  trade  to  our  com plete  and  w ell 

assorted  stock  at  low est  m arket  prices.

S p rin g   &  Com pany.

BALI
BARNHART 
m  PUTMAN

JOBBER  OF

F.  J.  DETTENTHALER
OYSTERS
POULTRY  1  GAME

SALT  FISH

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. 

See Quotations in Another Column.

CONSIGNMENTS  OP  ALL  KINDS  OF  POULTRY  AND  GAME  SOLICITED.

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We  carry the  largest line  in  field and 
garden  seeds  of  any  house in  the  State 
west of Detroit, such  as Clover, Timothy, 
Hungarian,  Millet,  Red  Top;  all  kinds 
of  Seed  Corn,  Barley,  Peas,  in  fact any­
thing you need  in seeds.

We  pay  the  highest  price for  Eggs,  at 
all  times.  We  sell  Egg  Cases  No.  1  at 
35c,  Egg  case fillers,  10  sets  in  a case at 
$1.25 a case.

W. T,  LflMOREflUX  & CO.,

128, 130, 132 W. Bridge St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

E S T A B L ISH E D   1S41.

THE MERCANTILE  AGENCY'

R . G.  D u n   &  Co.

Reference Books issued  quarterly.  Collections 

attended to throughout United States 

and Canada

W A N T E D   !

I  W ANT  TO  BUY  one  or  two thou­
sand  cords  of  good  16-inch  beech  and 
maple wood.

I  ALSO  W ANT  TO  SELL  Lime, 
Imported  and  Domestic  Cements,  Fire 
Brick,  Sewer  Pipe,  Drain  Tile,  Hay, 
Grain,  Feed,  Oil  Meal,  Clover  and  Tim­
othy Seed,  Land Plaster,  Etc.

THOS.  E  W Y K ES,

W H O LESA LE  W A REH O U SE  AND  O F F IC E :

Cor. W ea lth y  A ve. and  Io n ia  o n  M . C.  R.  R. 

b r a n c h   o f f i c e :  B u ild e r s’  E xch an ge. 

Correspondence  Solicited.

PEOPLE’S  SAVINGS  B M X
Liability,  $100,000 
Capital,  $100,0(10. 

Cor.  M onroe  and  Io n ia   Sts.,

Depositors’  Seeority,  $200,000.

O FFIC E R S.

Thomas Hefferan, President.
Henry F.  Hastings, Vice-President.
Charles M. Heald,  2d Vice-President.
Charles B. Kelsey, Cashier.
D IRECTO RS.

D. D. Cody 
S. A.  Merman 
Jas. G.  McBride 
Wm. McMullen 
D.  B. Waters 
Jno. Patton, Jr 
Wm. Alden Smith

II. C.  Russell 
John Murray 
J.  H. Gibbs 
C. B.  Judd 
H.  F.  Hastings 
C. M.  Heald 
Don  J. Leathers 

Thomas  Hefferan.

Four per cent, interest paid on time certificates 
and  savings  deposits.  Collections  promptly 
made  at lowest rates.  Exchange  sold  on  New 
York, Chicago,  Detroit and all foreign countries. 
Money  transferred by mail or  telegraph.  Muni­
cipal  and county bonds  bought  and  sold.  Ac­
counts of  mercantile  firms as well as banks  and 
bankers solicited.
We  invite  correspondence  or  personal  inter 
view with a view to business relations.

.THE.

FIRE
I N S .
CO-
PR O M P T .  C O N SER VATIV E,  S A F e .

S. F. Asfinwall, Pres’t  

W  F hsj> McBain. Sec’y

IT Will r»f ÏÜ
GOOD f W fill

To Buy Al:

: ;%Vi?RlSL£Y'S

Grocers keep it

Leading Wh

We quote:

i l i d   B rand O ysters.

Selects............ .........28  E.  F ...........................   23
Standards...............   20

D a isy   B ran d   O ysters.

Selects....................... 20  Standards..................  18
Favorites..................  10

O ur  F a v o rite  B rand.

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Mrs.  W ith e y ’s H om e-m ad e M ince-M eat.
Large bbls................ 6‘£  Half bbls......................6 «
401b. pails  ..............   7 
20 lb.  pails  ..............7k
101b.  pails..............   7‘/4
2 lb. cans,  (usual  w eight)................ 11.50  per  doz.
5 lb. 
................$3.75  per  doz.
Choice Dairy  Butter...............................................  is
Pure Sweet Cider,  in  bbls.....................................   15
Pure Cider  Vinegar................................................   io
Choice300 and 300 Lem ons.................................$4.50
Will pay 40 cents each for Molasses half  bbls.
Ab .ve prices are made low to hid for trade.
Let your orders come.

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EDWIN  FflLLflS  1  SON,

Galley City Colt Storage,
Drns Store for Sale at a Bargain

On  long  time  if  desired,  or  w ill  exchange  for 
part  productive real  estate.  Stock  clea n   and 
w e ll assorted.  L ocation  th e  b est in th e city . 
I  wish to retire  permanently from  the drug  bus­
iness.

C.  L.  BRUNDAGE,

Opp. New Post Office. 

117 W. Western Ave. 

M u skegon,  M ich.

STUDLEY  &  BARCLAY

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CO Go  .
Agents for the C A N D £ E   Rubber  boots, shoes,  arc­

tics, lumbermen’s, etc.,  the best in the  market.

We carry the finest line of  felt and knit boots, socks 
and  rubber  clothing  in the  market.  Send  for  price 
list and discounts.

4  M on roe St.f G rand B a p id s,  M ich.

PENBERTÏÏY  INJECTORS.

SIMPLE

3LIABLE

T h e  Most  Perfect A uioni.itio  injector 
12,000 in actual  operation.  Manufactured by

M ade.

PENBERTHY  INJECTOR  C0„

D E T R O IT ,  M IC H .

THE  HARVEST  OF  FAITH. 

young girl sat in  a deep reverie.  Such a 
tender light was in her eyes, such a sweet 
smile of full satisfaction on  her face, that 
a  stranger  would  certainly  have  said: 
“She is thinking of  her  lover.”  But no 
lover  had  Mabel  Rae,  and  her pleasure 
sprang from  a  less  dangerous  source— 
from the handful of tuberoses in  her lap. 
Their spiritual,  dreamy beauty, and rare, 
rich  perfume,  always  held  her  as  in  a 
spell of  measureless content.  To breathe 
their odor was  to fill  her  soul  with  holy 
and tender thoughts, and the lovely wax­
en flowers,  pale,  pure and white as  moon­
shine,  haunted  her  heart  and  imagina­
tion,  and received  from  her a perpetual 
love and worship.

but he was utterly devoid  as  yet of  any
Under the shadow of  a  great tig tree a  experiences but such as  his  college  and
mountain  home had  brought him.  Nev­
ertheless he has  not destitute of  the tra­
ditional  business  capacity of  his house, 
as some late  transactions  in  cotton and 
sugar in New Orleans  had proven to Mr. 
Rae.  And  partly beeause  he  liked  the 
young  man,  and  partly  as  a  matter of 
interest,  he  had invited  him  to his home 
among  the  woods  and  lagoons  of  the 
Evergreen  bayou.  Mabel,  in this trans­
action,  had  been  properly  considered; 
but to her  father  she  was  yet  a  child. 
True,  he recognized  her wonderful beau­
ty,  and was  very  proud  of  it;  he  knew, 
too,  that  she  possessed  an  exquisite 
voice and  great  skill  in  music,  and  the 
passing 
idea  of  showing  his  pearl  of 
price to the foreigner rather flattered his 
vanity  than  alarmed  his  fears.  He did 
not  dream  that  he  was  introdneing  a 
new claimant for its possession.

There she sat  until  the heat and still­
ness of  the  tropical  noon  drove  her to 
the house,  a grand  old  home  hid  among 
giant  live-oaks  gray  with  the  solemn 
waving  southern  moss.  She  went first 
to  the  large,  dim  parlors,  intending  to 
put her favorites  among  the damp moss 
of  the hanging  baskets,  but  the dreamy 
langor of  the  darkened  room  overcame 
every desire  but  that  of  sleep,  and she 
lay down on  the  nearest  couch,  holding 
her flowers in  her hands.

Half an  hour  later Mr.  Rae opened  the 
door  and  ushered  in  a  gentleman  who 
had accompanied him  from New Orleans.
“Sit  down,  Allan,”  he  said.  “I  will 
soon  arouse  the  house.  You  see,  it  is 
the hour for siesta,  and I believe all take 
it at the same time when I am  away.”

For a few minutes  the  young man  be­
lieved himself  alone.  The  subtle,  pow­
erful  perfume—quite  unknown,  but  de­
licious beyond expression—was  his  first 
sensation.  Then, as his  eyes became ac- 
I customed  to  the  dim  light of  the care­
fully-closed  jalousies, he  saw  a picture 
that he never more forgot—a most lovely 
girl,  in  the  first  bloom  of  maidenhood, 
fast asleep on the  silken  cushions  piled 
on a low divan.  Her  white  robes made 
a kind of  glory in the  darkened  corner. 
One hand had  fallen  down,  and  the flow­
ers gemmed the  carpet  at  her  side;  the 
other lay across  her breast as if embrac­
ing the tuberoses which  it had scattered 
there.

Never  in  all  his  native  mountains, 
never  in  any  dream  of  love  or  fancy, 
had Allan  Monteitli  seen  a  woman  half 
so fair.  Almost entranced  he stood gaz­
ing  on  Mabel  as  if  he  had  “seen  a vis­
ion.”  There  lay his  destiny asleep;  he 
knew it,  and  opened  his  whole  soul  to 
welcome  “Love’s  young  dream.”  But 
when Mr. Rae, followed by a negro valet, 
returned,  and  Mabel  languidly  opened 
her great,  pensive eyes and stretched out 
her arms for  her father’s embrace,  Allan 
almost thought  he should  faint  from ex­
cess of  emotion,  and  it  was  with  diffi­
culty  he  controlled  himself  to  receive 
the  introduction  and  apologies  neces­
sary.

Allan  Monteith  was  a  young Scotch­
man,  the  only son  of  a  gentleman with 
whom in early life Mr.  Rae had formed a I 
most ardent friendship.  Allan was  rich, 
and by nature  and  birth  equally noble; I

Yet so it proved.  Allan lingered as  if 
in  an enchanted castle till he had no life, 
no will,  no  hopes  but  those  which cen­
tered in Mabel  Rae.  And  she,  innocent 
and impressible,  soon  returned  his  pas­
sion  with  a  love  even  more  absorbing 
and far less selfish than her lover’s.

Oh,  the  sweet,  warm,  love-laden  days 
in  those solemnly shaded  woods!  Oh, the 
blissful  hours in  the cool  evenings, when 
the  perfume  of  tuberoses  and  jasmine 
and oleanders  filled  the  air!  When the 
soft,  calm  moonlight  glorified  every 
lovely and every common thing. 
It  was 
like a dream of  those  days  when  the  old 
rustic gods  reigned,  and  to  live  was  to 
love,  and to love was to be  happy.

With the fall,  however, there came im­
perative letters from Scotland, and Allan 
could no longer delay.  Love has  its busi­
ness as well as its romance,  and this side 
was not so satisfactory.  Mr.  Rae  would 
hear of  no engagement for two years,  by 
which time,  he said,  he  hoped to  be able 
to give  Mabel  such  a  fortune  as would 
make her acceptable in  the  eyes  of  A l­
lan’s father.  But  for the preseut  he ab­
solutely declined to look  upon  the young 
people’s attachment  as binding on either 
side.

“In  less than  two years,  when the first 
tuberoses bloom,  I  will  he  here  again, 
Mabel, darling,”  were  Allan’s  last whis­
pered words,  as he  held  her tenderly in 
his arms and  kissed  again and again the 
face dearer than  all  the  world  to  him. 
And Mabel smiled  through  her tears, and 
held the last tuberose  of  the  summer to 
his lips for a partiug pledge.

But the two  years  brought  many  and 
unexpected  changes.  That  very  winter 
the first war-cloud gathered, and long be­
fore Allan could redeem  his promise the 
little inland plantation was  desolate and 
deserted.  Mr.  Rae had  gone to the war, 
and Mabel  boarded  in a  ladies’  school  in 
New Orleans.  These  were  but  the  be­
ginning of  sorrows.  Another year found 
her an orphan,  and  cruelly  embarrassed 
in  money  affairs.  Claimants  without 
I number appeared  against the Rae estate, 
and creditors  forced  the  plantation  into 
the market at the most unfavorable time. 
She  was driven  from  her  home in strict

.THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
During  this  winter  Mabel  had  many 
lovers,  and  report  said,  more  than  one 
excellent offer of  marriage,  but  she qui­
etly  ignored or else decidedly refused all 
advances.  Her heart  was  still  with the 
tall,  fair  mountaineer  who  had  won  it 
amid the warmth  and  perfume  of  trop­
ical  noons  and  moonlit  nights;  and 
though twice two  years  had  passed,  she 
refused to believe him  false.

She dressed  with  more  than ordinary 
care,  and was so impatient that her toilet 
was completed before the others  had be­
gun.  So she sat  down  in  the unlighted 
parlors,  saying  to  herself:  “1  must  be 
still. 
I  will  be calm.  For how should 1 
bear a disappointment,  aud what ground 
of  hope  have  1?  Absolutely  none  but 
that he  comes  from  the  same  country. 
No;  there in no hope/”

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accordance  with  the  letter  of  the  law, 
but she felt and knew,  though powerless 
to prevent it,  that  she  had  been shame­
fully wronged.

Poverty is  a  grand  teacher,  however, 
learned  disciples;  and 
and  has  many 
now,  for  the  first  time  in  all  her life, 
Mabel thought for  herself,  and  dared  to 
look  the  future  in  the  face.  She  had 
promised  her  father  never  to  write  to 
Allan  without  his  permission,  but  she 
considered  that  death  annuls  all  con­
tracts,  and  surely  now,  if  ever,  it  was 
Allan’s  duty  to  befriend  and  care  for 
her.  So she  sent  him  word  in  a  few, 
shy, timid  sentences  of  her  sorrow  and 
loneliness.  But it was  doubtful  if ever 
the  letter  would  reach  him;  mails  in 
those days were not certainties; and even 
if  it  did  reach  Allan,  it  was  still more 
uncertain whether he could reach  Mabel.
And in  the  meantime  she  must work 
or starve—a blessed alternative  in  great 
sorrows,  1 say.  People who have to fight 
“a  sea  of  troubles,”  do  not  go  mad. 
Work,  the  oldest  of  all  preached  evan­
gels,  is  the  consoler,  and  brings  them 
through.  And  though  Mabel  Rae could 
command  no higher position  than  that of 
nursery  governess,  yet  she  found  it  a 
higher life than  ever  the  dreamy,  luxu­
rious  selfishness  of  her  father’s  home 
had given  her.

Her  employers  were  of  the  ordinary 
class. 
I can  weave  no  romance  out  of 
them.  They  felt  no  special  interest  in 
Mabel,  neither did they  ill-use  her.  She 
was  useful  and  unobtrusive,  amt  asked 
neither for sympathy nor attention.  No 
letter came from  Allan  Monteith,  though 
she  waited  aud  hoped  with  failing heart 
and  paling cheeks for  more  than  a year. 
She had not the  courage  to write again, 
and  her  anxiety  and  distress  began  to 
tell  very  perceptibly on  a naturally  frail 
constitution.  Then  a  physician advised 
her to  try  at  once  a  more  invigorating 
climate,  and  she  not  unwillingly agreed 
to accompany  the invalid  wife of  an offi­
cer returning to her  home in New  York.
This was the dawn  of  a  brighter  day 
for  Mabel.  She  found  friends  even if 
she  did  not  find  health,  and  her  rare 
beauty  and  wonderful  musical  talents 
soon  procured  her  the  admiration of  a 
large and  influential  circle.  By  the ad­
vice of  her  friend,  she  established  her­
self  in  a  fashionable  locality,  and  com­
menced the  teaching  of  music.  1  think 
few  women  could  have  been  more  suc­
cessful.  Part  of  this  was  undoubtedly 
due to  the  social  power  of  her  friend; 
but neither this  nor  her  own  loveliness 
and  winning manners  would  have  been 
sufficient  without  the genuine knowledge 
of  her  art  and  that  wonderful  voice 
which  charmed all  who heard  it.

tact  and 

So,  in  the  second  winter  of  Mabel’s 
residence in  New  York,  it  became  “the 
thing”  to  invite  Miss  Rae  to  preside 
over select social  and  musical entertain­
ments.  1  have  a  friend  who  met  her 
during this  season  frequently,  and  who 
describes  her 
influence  as 
something  extraordina» y  and  magnetic. 
Her  rare  beauty  was  undiminished, 
though more thoughtful and  spiritual  in 
character.  Her dress  was  uniformly the 
same—a  pale,  pink,  lustreless silk,  with 
tuberoses in  her hair  and  at  her breast, 
for  her  passion  for  these  flowers  was 
stronger than ever;  and  when they  were 
to  be  procured,  at  any trouble  or cost, 
her little room was  always  full of  their 
peculiar fragrance.

She  was  right.  Allan  deserved  her 
fullest  faith.  Her 
letter  had  never 
reached  him,  aud  yet  he  had,  with  in­
credible difficulty,  made  his way to  New 
Orleans, only  to find  the  Rae plantation 
in  the  hands  of  strangers,  his  friend 
dead,  and  Mabel 
gone,  none  knew 
whither.  After a long and disappointing 
serrch,  he  left  Mabel’s  discovery in  the 
hands of  well-paid  agents,  and returned 
to Scotland  almost broken-hearted at the 
destruction of  all  his hopes.

But he still loved her passionately, and 
often  in  stormy nights,  when  the  winds 
tossed  the  tall  pines  like  straws,  and 
mountain snows beat at barred doors and 
windows,  he thought of the happy peace 
and the solemn  silences in  which he and 
his  love  had  walked,  listening  only to 
the beating  of  their  own  hearts, or  the 
passionate undernotes  of  the  mocking­
birds.  Often,  both  in sleeping and wak­
ing dreams,  he  saw  again  that dim par­
lor and  the  beautiful  girl  sleeping  on 
the silken  couch;  and  with  these memo­
ries  there always  came  the  same sensa­
tion  of  some delicate perfume in the  air. 
Far  away  amid 
the  heather  and  the 
broom and  the  strong  fresh  breezes  of 
the North Sea,  he still was  visited  by the 
breath of  the tropic  woods,  and the  fra­
grance of  the tuberose  and  the memory 
of  his lost Mabel  were  one and indivisi­
ble in his heart.

Th;  s  two  walked  apart  who  should 
have walked  hand in  hand, aud it seemed 
as if  the years only  widened  that breach 
over which  two  souls  looked  longingly 
and  called  vainly.  But  there  are  ills 
which happen for good;  and  I  think  any 
one  who would  have taken the trouble to 
analyze the gain  in character  which  this 
separation and struggle produced,  would 
have said  so.

For,  after five years of battle with life, 
Mabel  was no longer a lovely,  impulsive, 
thoughtless  child; 
she  was  a  noble 
woman,  beautiful  in  all  the  majesty  of 
completed suffering.  And  Allan’s whole 
nature had swelled  under  the  influence 
of  a mighty  and  unselfish  love,  as  seas 
swell  under the  influence of  the sun  and 
moon.

If  we  wait,  however,  the  harvest  of 
the heart  will  come.  One  day  early in 
the  winter,  Mabel  got  a  note  from  a 
friend  announcing  her  return 
from 
abroad,  and begging her to be present at 
a small,  informal  reunion  at  her house 
that evening.  She-went early  in the day, 
and spent the afternoon  in  that  pleasant 
gossip  which  young  and  happy  women 
enjoy.  Her  hostess  rallied  her  a good 
deal  upon her growing years,  and  laugh­
ing advised  her to secure a young Scotch­
man with  whom  they had  a  pleasant ac­
quaintance  in  their  travels,  and  who 
was  now  in  New  Yorh,  and  going  to 
spend  the evening with them.

Did Fate knock softly on  Mabel’s soul 
then?  For  she  blushed  violently;  and 
instantly,  as  if  by magic,  there  sprang 
up in  her heart  a  happy  refrain  which 
she could  not control,  and  which kept on 
singing:  “He  comen!  He  comee!  My 
lover comee!”

But  still,  above  the  doubt  and  fear, j 
she could hear the same  chiming  under­
tone:  “He comes!  He comes!  My lover 
comes!”

She became nervous and superstitious, 
and  when  silence was  broken  by  a quick 
ring  and  a  rapid  footstep,  she  rose  in­
voluntarily  from  her  chair,  and  stood 
trembling and  flushing  with  excitement 
in the middle of  the  room.  Ah!  Mabel! 
Mabel!  your heart has seen  further than 
your eyes.  A llan had come at last.

“Ah,  my darling!  my darling! my fair, 
sweet  flower  whose  perfume  has  fol­
lowed me o’er land and sea, 1 have found 
you again at  last!”  exclaimed  Allan,  as 
he clasped Mabel to his bosom.

And  so  Mabel’s  winter  of  discontent 
and sorrow  was  over.  Never  more  did 
she have grief  or  pain  uusoothed or un­
comforted.  1 only  wish 1 could  close  as 
the  old  fairy  tales  do,  and  say:  “So 
they lived happy ever afterward.”  But, 
alas!  Though a lovely Mabel  Monteith, 
with her father’s hair  and  her  mother’s 
eyes, makes  light and gladness in Allan’s 
home,  the far dearer  one  has  gone  “to 
the abodes  where the eternal are.”

In  a  little  country  church-yard,  not 
twenty mihs from New  York,  the  beau­
tiful  Mabel  Rae  “sleeps  the  sleep  that 
knows no waking.”  Half  the year round 
you  would  know  her  grave  by the deli­
cate odor of  tuberoses  with  which  it  is 
covered;  and even when  snows  cover it, 
and  wild winds  and  tains  beat  over  its 
senseless  turf,  one  noble  heart  offers 
there  still  the  incense  of  an  undying 
affection.

For,  be sure  that  a  true  love “strikes 
but one hour,” and  he or  she  has  never 
loved  at all  who can  say,  “I loved once.” 
Was  Mabel’s short  life  a  lost one?  Oh, 
no!  Life is perfect  in  small  measures, 
and she left upon  the  mountain-tops  of 
death  a light that makes  them  lovely to 
those  who shall  follow her.

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G o o d   A d v ic e   t o   Y o u n g   M en .

In  a  letter  to  the  Boston  Herald,  ad­
dressed  particularly  to  young  men,  Mr. 
George W. Childs  says:
It is thought  that because  I have been 
a young man,  and have worked hard  and 
achieved success,  I am qualified to advise 
others who are  starting in  life. 
It is not 
for me to decide  whether or not this idea 
is correct.  But I am  sure that few bene­
fits can  be conferred upon humanity more 
important than to help the  young to lead 
good  and  useful  lives; and  if  anything I 
can  say will  promote that  end I am  wil­
ling and happy to say  it.
There is nothing miraculous in the suc­
cess that I have  met  with. 
If a man has 
good  principles  and does  his best to  act 
up  to  them,  he  cannot  fail  of  success, 
though it may not be success of precisely 
the  same  kind  as  mine.  There  are  in­
numerable ways  of being  useful  in  this 
world,  and  each  man  has  his  peculiar 
gifts and qualifications.  Each  man  will 
walk in the path best adapted to him; but 
there is no reason why every path  should 
not lead toward one and  the same point— 
toward the  benefiting of men in  general. 
Good  principles are  just as good for  the 
artist as for  the artisan—for the  poet  as 
for the ploughman—for  the man of busi­
ness as for the  clergyman. 
It makes  no 
difference  what  you  do,  as  long  as it  is 
just and  you are  honest and  diligent  in 
the doing  of it:

“Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws,
Makes that and the action line.”
It is  well,  in  my opinion,  to  accustom 
one’s self early to work, and not be afraid 
of  any  kind  of  work  that is  honest  and 
useful. 
I began  to support myself when 
I was 13 years old,  and I have never been 
dependent on  others  since  then. 
I  had 
some  schooling,  but  not  much;  1  never 
went  to  college,  not  because  I  did  not 
think a college  career  might  be  a  good 
thing for  those  who  could  make a  good 
use of it,  but  because  I did not feel  that 
it was so important for me as to be  earn­
ing my own  living.  When I left home to 
come to Philadelphia, one of my relatives 
said that  I  would  soon  have  enough  of 
that  and  would  be  coming  back  again. 
But  I  made  up  my  mind  that  I  would 
never go back—I would  succeed. 
I  had 
health,  the  power  of  applying  myself, 
and, 1  suppose,  a fair  amount of  brains. 
1  came  to  Philadelphia  with  $3  in my 
pocket. 
I  found  board  and  lodging for 
$2.50,  and then got a  place  as  office  boy 
for  $3.  That  gave  me  a  surplus of  50 
cents a  week.
I did not merely do the work that-,1 was 
absolutely  required  to  do,  but  did all  1 
could,  and put my  heart into it. 
I want­
ed my  employer to feel  that I was  more 
useful to him thau  he expected me to be. 
I was not  afraid to clean and  sweep and 
perform  what  might  be  considered  by 
some  young  gentlemen  nowadays  as 
menial  work,  and,  therefore,  beneath 
them.  I did not think it beneath me then, 
and I should not now. 
If  it  were neces­
sary,  I would sweep out my office to-day, 
and I often carry bundles.  But the other 
day a youth  came to me to  ask if I could 
find  some  employment  for  him.  His 
father had died and his mother could not 
support  him,  and  he  wished  to  support 
himself.  I looked at him and saw that he 
had on very nice clothes  and  kid  gloves. 
I asked  him if  he would  like to wheel  a 
wheel-barrow.  He seemed surprised, and 
answered  that he  didn’t think he  would 
like that.  Then I asked him  if he would 
object  to  carrying  bundles.  Well,  he 
wasn’t anxious  to carry  bundles, either. 
He was  like many  young  men  who  talk 
about wanting to work, but when it comes 
to the  point  they  want  to  do  only  kid- 
glove sort  of work. 
I  must  say  I  don’t 
have  much  sympathy  with  that  sort  of 
feeling.  Men are all  brothers,  and what 
is worthy of one is not unworthy to  any­
one.  The  Bible  says it  is what  cometh 
out of the mouth that defileth a  man?  It 
is  not  work,  but  character,  that  can  be 
discreditable.
While  I  was  working  as  errand  and 
office boy I improved such opportunity as 
1 had to read  books,  and to  attend  book 
sales,  so as to  learn the market  value of 
books  and  anything  else  that  might  be 
useful to me  hereafter.  It  was  my  aim 
always  to be in a  position where I could 
use my best talents to the best advantage. 
I fixed my ambition  high, so that even if

I did  not realize  the  highest,  I  might at 
least always be tending upward.  A man 
should not only use  all  his faculties,  but 
be constantly developing them so that he 
can  do  more. 
If  you  jump  at  a  thing 
with your whole  heart and mind,  though 
you may  not be  exceptionally  able,  it is 
wonderful  how  much  you  may  accom­
plish, but if you are half hearted  you will 
fail.

The  Microbe’s  Lot.

Pasteur’s  plan  of  growing  disease 
germs outside the body in broth, although 
of the utmost  value,  did not allow a con­
venient separation of the different germs; 
but  this  can  now  readily  be  done  by 
Koch’s  plan  of  sowing  them,  not  in  a 
liquid  medium,  but  on  solid  gelatine 
spread on glass plates, so that the growth 
of the germs can  be  daily  watched  under 
the  microscope,  and  inoculations  made 
from single colonies on other plates until 
pure  cultures  have  been  obtained.  By 
thus isolating the different  microbes,  we 
learn their life history, the mode in which 
their growth is  influenced by  differences 
of soil,  of  temperature,  of  moisture,  by 
the addition of  various substances which 
either favor or retard their  growth,  and, 
last  but  uot  least,  the  effect  which  one 
microbe has upon another  when they  are 
grown together at the same time.
For even  amongst these minute  organ­
isms the  struggle  for  existence  and  the 
survival  of  the  fittest  exist,  like  that 
which  Darwin  pointed  out so  clearly  in 
the  case  of  higher  plants  and  animals. 
When  two microbes are growing together 
one may choke or  destroy the other,  just 
as  weeds  in  a  garden  may  choke  the 
flowers; or,  on  the other hand,  successive 
generations  of  one  microbe  may  render 
the soil  suitable  for another,  just as  de­
caying  algie  and  mosses  may  furnish 
mold in  which higher plants can grow.
But it is not merely  between  different 
species of microbes  or  different  cells  in 
an organism  that this struggle occurs.  It 
takes  place  also  between  the  disease 
germs and the cells of the organism which 
they invade,  and the  result of the  strug­
gle  may  be  determined,  not  by  some 
powerful agency  which  weakens  or  de­
stroys either the organism or the microbe, 
but by some  little thing which simply in­
clines  the  scale  in  favor  of  one  or  the 
other.  Thus,  in  the potato  disease,  the 
victory of the  invading  microbe and  the 
destruction of the potato,  or the death of 
the microbe  and the health of  the tuber, 
may depend upon some condition of mois­
ture or  possibly  of  electrical  change  in 
the atmosphere which aids the growth  of 
the microbe disproportionately to that of 
the  potato.  These  atmospheric “condi­
tions need not necessarily be antagonistic 
to  the  potato;  they  may  even  in  them­
selves be  advantageous to it;  but if  they 
help the microbe more than the plant, the 
microbe  will  gain  the  victory  and  the 
plant be destroyed.

T h e   O ld,  O ld   S c h e m e .

Prom the Hastings  Banner.

Agents of the  “Wholesale  Dealers’  As­
sociation,”  of  Chicago,  are  working  in 
various parts of the  State and it  is  very 
remarkable how many suckers are  biting 
at  the  old,  old  scheme,  changed  just  a 
little  bit.  For the  sum  of $5  the agent 
gives his dupe a book, which contains all 
of the  secret  prices  that  the  aforesaid 
dupe can take advantage of by buying in 
Chicago of this house.  The subscriber is 
supposed to keep the  book  in some  con­
cealed  spot about  the  household  where 
no  one  except  himself  can  become  ac­
quainted with  the mysteries it  contains. 
But it  seems  that  some  of the  suckers 
are beginning to get  their eyes open,  for 
they  made  their book  public  property, 
and by  doing  so  disclosed the  fact that 
goods  could  be  bought  10  per  cent, 
cheaper  in  any  city  in  Michigan  than 
they were  paying this  Chicago  concern. 
Besides  paying  10  per  cent,  more  for 
goods,  they  had to  pay the  freight  and 
buy in  larger quantities than  they would 
by buying  at home.  As  P.  T.  Barnum 
once said,  “The people  like to  be hum­
bugged,” and  as  long  as  they do  there 
will always be sharpers traveling around 
to fully accommodate them.  It is always 
cheaper  and better  to  buy  of the  home 
merchant,  but it often takes a little cost­
ly experience to discover this fact.

RUILT  FOR  BUSINESS!

Do yon 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  Goiipons.

COUPON  BOOK vs. PASS  BOOK.

We  beg leave to call  your  attention  to 
our coupon book and ask you to carefully 
consider  its  merits. 
It takes  the  place 
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  charge 
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 passbook 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 and  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 fa d e 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

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

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ABOUND  THE  STATE.

Belding — Demorest  &  Bigley  have ! 

opened a flour and feed store.

Reed City—J.  A.  Scoley  has  sold  his j 

grocery stock to John  Marvin.

Oscoda—Louis  Kaicben  has  removed j 

his jewelry stock to  Bay City.

Baldwin—Thos.  Heiferuan  has started j 

a branch drug store at Stearns.

Mt.  Pleasant—M.  Garvin  has  sold  his j 

grocery stock to  T.  W.  Swarts.

Albion—G.  W.  Sweeney  has  sold  his 

harness stock  to Lohoke  Bros.

Ludington—S.  1).  Moon succeeds Moon 

& Nichols in  the grocery  business.

Mt.  Pleasant—H.  1).  Bent  has sold  his J 

grocery stock to  Andrew  Allenbaugh.

Frankfort—L. E. Grisier has purchased 

the general stock of A.  S.  Barber & Co.

Cass City— Arthur  W.  Sharrard  has 

sold  his general stock  to Wm.  Elevier.

Gaines Station—W. E. Aldrich has sold 

his hardware stock  to Frank  Blodgett.

Red  Jacket — Werner  Nikander  suc­
ceeds Geo.  Ramsell  in the drug business.
Kalamazoo—Means  Bros,  have  sold 
their confectionery  shop  to  A.  C.  Davis.
Bellaire—Hisey  &  Son,  of  Baldwin, 
are putting in a new flour and feed store.
Midland—A.  E.  Cody  succeeds Cody & 
Shaw in the grocery  and notion business.
Saginaw'—The Hoyt Dry Goods Co.  has 
opened  a branch store in  West Bay City.
Leroy—John  Glerum  succeeds  Voor- 
horst  &  Glerum  in  the  hardware  busi­
ness.

Detroit—C.  E.  Smith  &  Co.  are  suc­
ceeded by J.  M.  Knight in  the meat busi- | 
ness.

Lake Linden—T. Bellieumeur succeeds j 
A.  E.  Deschamps & Co.  in  the  drug  bus- j 
iness.

Belleville—John W. Clark, manufactur­
er of  lumber and  cider,  has  removed  to 
Delhi,  La.

Jackson—Michael  J.  Norris is  succeed­
ed  by  Morton  E.  Beebe  in  the  grocery 
business.

Big Rapids—Thos.  Ward  has  sold  his 
meat  market  to  H.  Hagenbaugh,  late  of 
Mecosta.

Kalamazoo—C.  H. Brush has purchased 
the fruit and confectionery  stock of S.  S. 
Mittenthal.

Traverse City—Wm. Stiles has sold his 
fruit, tobacco and confectionery  stock  to
M.  J.  Kettle.

Dimondale—Mrs.  A.  C.  Baker  is  suc­
ceeded  by  Miss  Minnie  Bell  in  the  mil­
linery  business.

Detroit—The  Frontier  Brass  &  Iron 
Works  will  hereafter  be  known  as the 
Frontier Iron  Works.

Jackson—Evans  &  Denman  are  suc­
ceeded by Carl  Dettman  in  the wholesale 
meat and cold storage  business.

Lowell—Jos.  B.  Yeiter  has  retired 
from  the  drug  and  stationery  firm  of 
Yeiter & Look,  Dexter G.  Look  succeed­
ing.

Mancelona—The Blosser & Co.  grocery 
stock  has been  purchased  by  J.  L.  Farn- 
ham,  who has  consolidated  it  with  his 
own stock.

Lake—Ira  A.  Woodard  has  sold  his 
general  stock  to  Pollard  Bros,  and  has 
purchased  Henry  Avery’s  store  at  Slo­
cum’s Grove.

Wayland—D.  T.  Hersey  has  sold  his 
grocery stock and  leased  his store  build­
ing to  L.  R.  Lansing,  who  will  continue 
the business.

Ithaca—H.  Alpern,  formerly engaged 
in the  dry goods,  clothing and  boot  and

shoe business at Elk  Rapids  has engaged 
in  trade  here.

Hilliards—Rutkoski  &  Gwizdale  have j 
nearly completed  their  new store  build­
ing,  which  they  will  occupy  with  their j 
grocery sto -k.

Owosso—Wheeler  Brothers  have  sold  j 
their stock of  hardware  to A.  Lovell,  of 
Mason,  who  will  continue  the  business j 
at the same place.

Owosso—Chas.  R.  Pomeroy,  of  Flint,  1 
is to occupy  the Carpenter & Payne store ! 
with  a  grocery  and  feed  store,  opening j 
for business October 5.

Mecosta—Chas.  Calkins  has purchased  ! 

an  interest  in  the  furniture  stock of E.
F.  Burdick.  The new firm w'ill be known  : 
as Calkins &  Burdick.

Belding—C.  M.  Stoddard  &  Co.  have 
purchased 
the  A.  M.  Kenyon  bazaar 
stock and  will  run  it  in  connection with j 
their grocery business.

Mancelona—W.  A.  Davoll  has engaged j 
in  the  grocery  business  at  the  former j 
stand of  Blosser  &  Co.,  announcing  his 
intention of doing a cash  trade only.

Three  Oaks—The  Chamberlain,  War- j 
ren  &  Hatfield  Co.,  dealers  in  grain,  | 
wool  and  exchange,  will  hereafter  be 
known  as the  Three  Oaks  Exchange Co.  j
Cadillac—Dunham  & Black  have  sold ; 
their  building  and  stock of  groceries to j 
Perry  W.  Nichols,  who has just  removed I 
here from Copemish and  takes immediate | 
possession.

Breedsville—F.  E.  Hawley  has  pur­

chased  the  interest  of  G.  H.  Hawley  in I 
the  hardware  firm of  G.  A.  Hawley  & 
Son.  The  new  firm  will  be  known  as j 
j G.  A.  Hawley & Co.

Detroit—The  Home  Gas  Co.,  capital ; 
stock  $30,000,  has  been  incorporated  by , 
James  P.  Scranton.  George  Hargreaves j 
I and Edward  W.  Porter  for the  manufac- 
| ture and  sale of gas  machines.

Reed City—Henry  Niergarth  has  pur-I 
i chased  a  half 
interest  in  the  general I 
j stock  of  H.  M.  Patrick,  at  Leroy.  The I 
| stock  will  be  removed  to  this  place,
! where  business  will  be  continued  un- j 
! tier the style of Patrick &  Niergarth.

Muskegon—E.  R.  Ford  will  open  a j 
I meat market  in one  of ttie  stores  in  the 
| new  brick  block  on  the  corner of  Peck j 
| and Erwin  streets,  built by  N. P. Nelson,  |
! and  a Mr.  Williams,  of North Muskegon,  j 
will open  a grocery  in  the other store.

Ionia— Dr.  Moorman,  of  Belding.  con- 
j victed of  acting as  prescription  clerk  in | 
j a  drug store  without  being  a  registered j 
! pharmacist,  was  sentenced  by  Judge 
j Smith, of the  Ionia Circuit Court,  to pay 
a fine of $10 or be confined  todays in  the 
| county jail.  He  promptly  paid  the fine.  |
Eik  Rapids — Benj.  Plainondon,  of 
Provement,  is putting up a building here 
j and  expects  to run  a grocery  and  shoe 
| shop in  the same when it is finished, while 
| his two brothers,  Joe and  Van, are build- 
I ing near  his store and expect to use their 
! building for a meat  market.

Cobnioosa—H.  R.  Lattin,  John  Hessel,

I Harvey  and  Isaac  Cook  have  formed  a j 
j  copartnership and  are  putting  up a bowl  I 
factory  in  Elbridge township.  Part  of ! 
I the  material  is  on  the  ground,  ail  the ! 
j machinery  purchased,  and  they  expect! 
| to  begin operations inside of two months.
Evart—E.  F.  Birdsall and  David  Wolf, 
who have conducted a hardware business 
• here  for  the  past  two  years under  the 
! style of E. F. Birdsall  & Co., have merged 
! their  business 
into  a  stock  company 
under the style of  the E.  F.  Birdsall Co., 
i Limited,  the  new  partners  being  John

M.  Morley  and  Albert  M.  Marshall,  both ! 
of Saginaw.  The officers of the corpora­
tion  are  as  follows:  Chairman,  David 
Wolf;  Secretary,  E.  F.  Birdsall;  Treas­
urer, John  M.  Morley.

Big Rapids—F. Fairman announces his 
intention of merging  his drug,  dry goods 
and  grocery  business  into a stock  com- | 
pany  under  the  style of  the  Big  Four 
Mercantile  Co.,  with a capital  stock  of 
$100,000. 
It  is  proposed to add  lines of 
clothing,  boots  and  shoes,  crockery  and 
glassware,  making the  institution a com­
plete  general  store,  with  a cold  storage 
in connection  for the handling of  butter, 
eggs and  produce.  Mr.  Fairman expects 
to  place  most  of  the  stock  among  the 
farmers  and  consumers of  the  vicinity, 
to whom  he guarantees annual  dividends 
of 10 per cent.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Gladwin—Streeter  Bros,  have  added 
machinery to  their sawmill  for the  pur­
pose of manufacturing racked hoops.

West Bay City—The Wilson  Hoop  Co. 
has  added  a  new  piece  of  machinery 
which will plane  eighteen hoops at once.
Owosso—Fred  Beebe, who recently sold 
his  cigar  factory  to  Walter  Mumby,  of 
Corunna,  has purchased the grocery stock 
of P.  Stever.  west side.

Saginaw—The  A.  W.  Wright  Lumber 
Co.  is running its mill  night and day.  It 
has been  the practice of  the  company to 
run  the  mill  nights  during  the  fall 
months.

Saginaw—The  Stevens & La Due  saw­
mill  will  finish cutting logs  for the Corn­
ing Lumber Co.  this  season,  and will  de­
pend  upon  other sources of  supply next 
season.

Muskegon—The  Thayer  Lumber  Co.  I 
has  purchased  what  is  known  as  the 
Belknap timber,  located on Backus creek, 
Roscommon  county,  and  will  log  it  the 
coming winter.

Saginaw—It  is expected that the Titta- I 
wassee Boom Co.  will  finish  the season’s 
operations  about  October  15.  Owing to 
the low stage of  water during the season 
the -work has  been  more expensive  than 
usual.

St.  Charles—Williams  Bros,  have  es­
tablished a hoop  factory at Orner, Arenac 
county.  This firm  also  operates  a  fac­
tory  at  Standish. 
It  is  said  there  is 
more  hoop  timber  tributary  to  Omer 
than  100  men could  manufacture  in  ten 
years.

Zilwaukee—The  old  Mitchell  &  Mc­
Clure sawmill  has  been  in  operation  all 
season  and the  firm  expects to secure  a 
stock  this winter  for next  season’s  cut. 
Probably  some  logs  will  be  purchased 
and  contracts  will  be  taken  to saw  for 
other  parties.

Saginaw—J.  W.  Howry & Sons, of this j 
city, operating in  the  Georgian  Bay  dis­
trict,  have  brought  over  the last  raft of 
the  season,  and  have  started  camps  to 
put in 25,000.000 feet the coming winter. 
These  logs  will  come to Saginaw  River 
to be manufactured.

Marquette—R.  M.  Bradley’s  new shin­
gle  mill  in  this  city  was  only  fairly 
started  when  the  crew  began  to grumble 
over  the  amount of  work  required,  and 
finally struck.  The  superintendent  im­
mediately shut  the  mill  down,  and  left 
for Bay City to secure a new crew.

Marquette—Alger,  Smith  & Co.,  of De­
troit,  have  sold to R.  K.  Hawley,  for  his 
I mill  at the  mouth of  Dead  River,  4,500,- 
I 000 feet of logs to be cut in town 48 north,

range  15  west.  The  logs  will  be hauled 
on  the  Alger,  Smith  &  Co.  railroad  to 
Seney and hence by rail  to Marquette.

Grayling—George  Fiege,  of  Saginaw, 
is building a combined sawmill and hoop 
mill here and will  have it running within 
two  weeks.  The  mill  will  have  a  ca­
pacity of  40,000  feet of  lumber and  50,- 
000  hoops  daily.  Mr.  Fiege  has a  large 
quantity of  available timber  in  this sec­
tion.

Saginaw—Green, Ring & Co. will  finish 
lumbering  the  timber  bought  by  L.  D. 
Sanborn of  Sibley  &  Bearinger  on  the 
Au Gres  river,  about the middle of  next 
month.  This timber  has all  been  railed 
to  the  mill. 
The  firm  has  also  just 
finished sawing 2,000,000 feet of Canadian 
logs rafted across  the lake.

Detroit—Relying  on  the  annual  state­
ment of  the  Potts Salt  and  Lumber Co., 
showing a surplus of $000,000, the Russel 
Wheel  and  Foundry Co.,  of  Detroit,  fur­
nished the company  about $12,000  worth 
of  logging  cars,  etc.,  previous  to  the 
failure.  After  the  failure the  foundry 
company  replevined  the cars.  The  case 
was  tried  before  Judge  Simpson,  of  Au 
Sable,  last  week  and  a  judgment  was 
given  the  foundry  company  on 
the 
ground  that the annual statement  of  the 
Potts company  for  1880 was false.  This 
is the first time that a case involving this 
question has been  tried,  and  its determi­
nation  is  a great  victory  for  unsecured 
creditors of the defunct company.

FO R   S A L E .  W A N T E D ,  E T C .

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

BUSINESS  CH ANCES.

319

TAKUG  STORE FOR  SALE  AT  A  BARGAIN  IN  THE 
L J   growing  village  of  C.ledouia,  surrounded  by 
rich farming country.  Will  sell on easy terms.  Must 
quit the  business on account of  poor health.  Address 
J.  W. Armstrong, Caledonia, Mich. 

BX)R SALE—FRESH  STOCK  GROCERIES.  WILL IN- 
ventory  about  $700.  Centrally  located  in  this 
city.  Good  business  and  good  reasons  for  selling. 
Address No. 317. care  Michigan Tradesman._____317
t JOR  SALE — HARDWOOD  LUMBER  MILL,  SIX 

miles  from  railroad, with  plenty  of  timber  for 
several years* cut.  Shingle machine  in running order 
if desired.  Saw mill ready to set  up.  Teams, trucks, 
sleighs,  shop  and  building all  in order to begin work 
at once.  Address  J.  J.  Robbins,  Stanton.  Mich,  or O. 
H. Hunter, 122 Monroe street. Grand Rapids. 

I TOR  SALE—CLEAN~AND  CAREFULLY  SELECTED 
1  grocery stock,  located at a good couutry trading 
point.  Business  well  established.  Address  A.  C.
Adams, Administrator, Morley, Mich._________ 313
rpiNNERS TAKE  NOTICE-A  FIRST-CLASS  CHANCE 
_i. 
for a tinner with small capital.  Tools, bench and 
everything  ready to work.  Shop  doing  good  paying 
business.  Owner  is  obliged  to  give it up on  account 
of ill health.  Lease of  shop near business  center and 
well established patronage.  Also ageney of  best line 
of  furnaces,  samples  on  floor,  which  are  paid  for 
when sold.  This  is an  A1  chance for man with  little 
m o n ej, as present  owner must  seek  another  climate. 
No. 310, care Michigan Tradesman. 
ANTED—I HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  FAT  FOR  A 
general  or  grocery stock;  must be cheap.  Ad­

dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 

310

312

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SITU A TIO N S  W A N T E D .

T 17 ANTED—POSITION  BY  REGISTERED  PH ARM A- 
cist of  four  years’ experience.  References fur­
nished-  Address No. 307, Michigan Tradesman. 
309 
TirANTED—SITUATION  AS  BOOK-KEEPER  BY  A 
I f   married  man  who  can  give the  best of  refer­
ences.  Address  No.  305,  care  Michigan  Tradesman, 
Grand Rapids. 
\ITANTED^slTUATION  BY REGISTERED  PHARMX 
▼ t 
cist  Nine  years  experience.  Address  No.  315, 
care  Michigan  Tradesman.___________________315

305

M ISCELLANEO US.

Sll

187

H o r se s  fo r  sa l e—o n e  se v e n -y e a r -o l d  f il

ly, one three-year-old  filly,  and  one six-year-old 
gelding—all sired by Louis Napoleon,  dam by Wiscon­
sin Banner (Morgan].  All fine, handsome, and speedy;
|  never been  tracked.  Address  J.  J. Robbins, Stanton, 
Mich. 

FX)R  SALE—CHEAP  ENOUGH  FOR  AN  INVK8T- 
ment.  Corner  lot  and  5-room  house  on  North 
j  Lafayette  St.,  cellar,  brick  foundation,  soft  water 
j  in  kitchen.  $1,200.  Terms  to  suit.  Address No.  187, 
|  care Michigan Tradesman. 
1TOR  SALE  OR  RENT—CORNER  LOT  AND 5-ROOM 

house on North  Lafayette st., cellar, brick found- 
!  atiorrknd  soft  water  in  kitchen.  $1,200.  Terms  to 
!  suit.  Cheap enough  for  an  investment.  Address  No 
j  187, care Michigan Tradesman. 
187.
Sr  T.  BERNARD  DOGS — SOME  VERY  FINE  PUPS;
also two  brood  bitches, one  in whelp.  R. J. Saw­
yer, Menominee, Mich. 
YXTANTED—YOUNG  SINGLE  MAN  WITH  ONE  OR 
m  
two years* experience in the dry goods business. 
Wages moderate.  Address  304, care  Michigan Trades­
m an. 
I V T ANTED-AN  EXPERIENCED  DRY  GOODS  AND 
V V 
clothing clerk.  In writing give age and experi­
ence.  M. S. Keeler, Middleviile, Mich. 
T IT  ANTED—A REGISTERED PHARMACIST TO TAKE 
y t 
charge of  a small stock.  Address all communi­
cations,  stating wages  expected, to Van I. Witt,  Lake 
City. Mich. 

316

318

304

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THE  WHL8H--DE  R00  MILLING  GO.,

H O L L A N D ,  M ICH.

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G R A N D   R A P ID S   G O SS IP .

Chas.  W.  Graves  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  near  Mulliken.  Musselman  & 
Widdicomb furnished  the  stock.

The only feature of  note in  the  Strope 
failure,  at  Morley,  is the  repleviuiug  of 
the stock  from  the execution of  Geo.  H. 
Reeder & Co.  at the  instance of  the City 
National Bank  of Greenville.

Jonathan Boyce,  who  started  in to cut 
50,000,000  feet of  logs  annually on  his 
Roscommon  tract of  pine,  has  only  cut 
about  25,000,000 feet  thus far,  and  will 
suspend operations  until next  spring,  in 
a  few weeks,  after  cleaning up  the  sec­
tion he is now on.

N. 

B.  Clark  &  Co.  have  purchased the 

Abbott,  Thompson  and Cummer tracts of 
timber,  lying east and south of Kalkaska 
and  comprising  about  1,000  acres,  esti­
mated  to  contain 6,000,000  feet  of  hem­
lock,  pine  and  cedar.  They  have  con­
tracted  with  the  Smith  Lumber  Co.  to 
cut the  lumber,  with  Hills  Bros.,  late  of 
Holton,  to cut the shingles,  and  will peel 
the hemlock bark  themselves.  Clarence 
U.  Clark will remove to Kalkaska for the 
purpose of superintending the operations, 
which will require about two years.

ceeded $25 per year,  or an average of $10 
per  $1,000.  This is certainly  very cheap- 
insurance and  the man  who  is eligible to 
membership  in  this  Association  ought 
not to hesitate  very  long  before  making | 
application.  The most favorable plan of 
stock or mutual  insurance companies  at 
the age of 35  years  is said  to cost  about 
$20  per  $1,000,  which  would  be $50 per 
year for $2,500 insurance.  The commer­
cial man  who wants  moru  insurance  will 
certainly consult his best  interest by  an 
investigation of the plans of this Associa- | 
tion.

P u r e ly   P e r s o n a l.

Chas.  McKinster,  of the firm of C.  Wil­
kinson  &  Co.,  the  Colou  druggists,  is 
spending a week in  Chicago.

Frank  Heacox,  buyer  for W.  E.  Buel, 
the  Nashville  druggist,  is  spending  a 
fortnight with friends at  Lockport N.  V.
Heman  G.  Barlow  has  been  confined 
to his  home  during the  past week  with 
an acute attack of muscular rheumatism.
Fred  J.  McMurtie,  junior  member  of 
the firm of  McMurtie & Son,  druggists at 
Three Rivers,  is spending  a  month  with 
friends at  Huntsville, Ala.

E.  Brooks Martin,  formerly engaged in 
the grist mill  business at Reed  City,  has 
gone to  Bozeman,  Mont.,  where  he  will 
re-engage in  the same business.

G r ip sa c k   B r ig a d e

A.  C.  Cowing,  traveling representative 
for  A.  C.  McGraw  & Co.,  Detroit,  was in 
town Saturday.

Ed.  A .  Withee writes T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
that he  has  resigned  his  position  with 
the  Jas.  Biechele  Soap  Co.,  of  Canton, 
Ohio.

Frank  E.  Chase  says  that  the  Hotel 
Chase  is now  open  for  the  reception of 
guests,  Mrs. Chase having returned from 
Cape Cod.

Adrian  Times:  “Walter  Everts,  the 
traveling  salesman who  lost his  pocket- 
book on the Wabash train, recovered both 
book and contents  from Mr.  Tudor,  with 
whom  it had been left.  There was in the 
neighborhood  of  $750  in  the  book,  and 
he thought it was a goner when he missed 
it.  Chris. Hiner, a Wabash section hand, 
living at Butler, discovered the book, and 
is  entitled  to  credit  for his  honesty  in 
turning it over to the conductor.”

St.  Louis Shoe and Leather Gazette:  “A 
leading local  representative  of the  trav­
eling  fraternity  asserts  that  traveling 
men  rarely make a  success when  they go 
into  business  for  themselves,  although 
there  are  exceptions  to  this  rule.  He 
gives  as a  reason  that  the  traveler  has 
become  habituated  to  spending  money 
freely,  as  is  expected  by  many  of  the 
houses  employing  them.  The habit  be­
comes  second  nature  to  him  and  he 
knows no such word as economy, so neces­
sary  in  the  successful  conduct of  busi­
ness.  While  the  merchant  may  want 
his  travelers  to  be  liberal,  he  is  accus­
tomed  to  economize  in  every  other  de­
partment  of his  businesss,  a plan  which 
the  traveling man  who  becomes  a  mer­
chant seems to be unable to follow.” 

Secretary  Matthews,  of  the  Michigan 
Commercial  Travelers’  Association,  has 
recently compiled  from  the  Detroit  city 
directory a  list  of  commercial  travelers 
residing in that  city,  which makes a  list 
of 1,400.  They have all  been  addressed 
with  a circular,  setting  forth the benefits I 
of  being 
identified  with  the  Michigan j 
Commercial Travelers’Association, which 
pays  a  death  benefit  of  $2,500  to  the I 
beneficiary  of  a  member,  the  cost  of j 
which  for  seventeen  years  has  not  ex- i

W r e tc h e d   T e le p h o n e   S e r v ic e .

“I see that subscribers to the local  tele­
phone exchange frequently send the oper­
ators  ice  cream  and  peaches,  bananas 
and  oranges,”  said  a  representative 
wholesaler  the  other  day,  “but  I  feel 
more like sending up  a package of dyna­
mite.  The  service  has  never  been  so 
poor in  the  history  of the  invention;  in 
fact,  the time I  have to spend at the  tel­
ephone is  the  most  trying  experience  I 
have in  business life.  1 frequently work 
ten  minutes  to get  connected  with  some 
one whom I wish to communicate to,and I 
no  sooner  get  to  talking  than  I  am 
chopped off.  Several  minutes  are  then 
required  to  renew  the  connection,  and 
after  I  have  finished  the  conversation 
and rung off,  it frequently  happens  that 
ten to  twenty  minutes  elapse  before  I 
can get ‘central’ again.  This satisfies me 
that the trouble  is due solely to the care­
lessness of the operators who  have lately 
been petted and banqueted  so  much  that 
they appear to think they own  the earth. 
Traveling  by  ox  team  was  considered 
slow enough at the best,  but it was noth­
ing  compared  with  the  present  service 
rendered  by  the  Grand  Rapids  telephone 
exchange.”

From the Sherwood Press.

F a v o r a b ly   I m p r e s se d .

* 
While in Grand  Rapids  last  week  the 
writer  had  the  pleasure of  calling upon 
E.  A.  Stowe  and  seeing the  process  of 
printing,  folding,  binding  and  mailing 
5,000 copies of  T h e  Mic h ig a n   T r a d e s­
m a n ,  all  done  by machinery  run  by  an 
electric  motor.  But  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
is  not all  they print,  but  catalogues  of 
the  best half  tone,  wood  and  photo en­
graving—in  fact, all  art  work  done  by 
the best engravers and printers is turned 
out  by  The  Tradesman  Company.  We 
found in Mr.  Stowe a social,  genial  busi­
ness  man  and  are  glad to have  met  him 
and  hope to know more of him.

Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich.
$500,000  TO  INVEST  IN   BONDS
Issued  by  cities, counties,  towns  and  school  districts 
of  Michigan.  Officers  of  these  municipalities  about 
to issue  bonds will  find it to their  advantage to  apply 
to this bank.  Blank bonds and blanks for proceedings 
supplied  without  charge.  All  communications  and 
enquiries will  have prompt attention  This bank pays 
4 per cent, on  deposit-, compounded semi-annually.
8.  D. EL WOOD, Treasurer.

May. 1891. 

D a ily   C apacity. 

4 0 0   B bls.
B R A N D S:

Roller  Patent. 

SUNLIGHT,  Fancy  Roller Pat. 
DAISY, 
PURITY, 
do.
IDLE1Y1LD, 
do.
Mornimr  Star,  Sol.  Straich 
DAILY  BREAD, 
ECONOMY,  Family.

do. 

S P E C IA L T IE S :

Graham.

Wheatena, 

Buckwheat  Flour, 

Rye Flour,

Rye Graham, 

Bolted  Meal, 

Pearl Barley,
Feed and  Meal.

Rolled  Oats. 

Wheat Grits,

CORRESPONDENCE

PEACHES!

This is the week for Cheap Peaches.

The  very  hot  weather  during the  past week has  ripened 
the crop  of  Chilli  and  Late Crawfords and  heavy  markets are 
expected  daily.  Prices are low  and quality  good.

Please  bear  in mind  that it  will  not  last  long.  Now  is 

your chance.  Get your orders in  at once. 
ALFRED  J.  BROWN,  Grand  Rapids,  JVlich.

Address

If you w ould be  A   L E A D ER , handle only goods of

V A L U E .

If  you are satisfied  to   rem ain a t  T A IL   EN D   buy 

cheap, unreliable  goods.

GOOD  YEAST  IS  INDISPENSABLE.

FLEISCHMANN & CO.
^rYellow  Labeh-Best!

CITY  O F F IC E ; 
26  F o u n ta in  St, 

FACTORY  D E P O T  j

118  B ates  St., D etro it, Dl Ich.

PEACHES  PEACHES
This will be peach week  for everybody,  as Crawfords and  Barnards have  been 
coming in very slow  this  last  week  and we look  for  lower  prices if  it only  turns 
I warm.  We  can  give everybody all the peaches  they  want  and will  bill as low as 
| the lowest.  All we ask is for you to send  in your orders early enough to select you 
i fancy fruit and our having three large orchards to handle,  we can make prices that 
! will  suit all.  Write for prices or wire us.

TU C K ER ,  COADE  &  CO.,

| 56 and 58 South Ionia St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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THE  MICHIGAN  "TRADESMAN

KID  GLOVE  STOCKS.

M e r c h a n ts  n o t  P a r tic u la r   E n o u g h   w ith  

t h e   T r a d e .

From the Dry Goods Bulletin.

Merchants do not  take proper  pains to 
study the  kid  glove  trade  as  they  do 
other branches of the dry goods business. 
They  consider it a little  side  show  with 
little money in it for them at best.  They 
do not  buy at the  proper  place,  nor  the 
qualities  demanded  by  the  trade,  and 
have  themselves  to  blame if  at the  end 
of  the  season  they find a lot of  stuff  on 
their  hands,  poor  enough  at  first,  and 
constantly deteriorating on their shelves. 
Their  entire  system  is  wrong.  Buying 
from  a  straggling salesman  a  few sizes 
and colors to brighten  up their worthless 
stock  will not help them  any,  nor  jump­
ing  from  one  house  to  another  in  the 
endeavor  to  do  better  (from the  frying 
pan  into  the  fire),  nor  laying  in  still 
cheaper  stuff to undersell  their  success­
ful  neighbor,  who  profits  by  this  man­
euvering,  and  does  by this  time  all  the 
kid  glove  business  in  town.  Now our 
advice  to  all  such  unsuccessful  mer­
chants  is:  Advertise  your old  stock  at 
50  cents  on  the  dollar  or less,  and  get 
rid of  it as  quickly  as possible.  Lay in 
a new  stock of  such  grades  as  you  are 
positive  will  give  satisfaction  to  the 
wearer.  Shun the trashy grades entirely 
and  leave  experiments  to  the  “smart” j 
ones.  Buy of a house  that pays particu­
lar attention to this line exclusively, that j 
will  give  you  pointers  worthy  to  be 
studied,  buy  of  a  responsible  house, 
known as such,  not of  a house  that  pre­
tends to carry everything from a rat trap 
to  a  hay  wagon,  and  don’t  attempt  to 
build  up a trade in kid  gloves by selling 
the 
lady  customer 
splendid  value  in  the  medium  grades, 
also  be  prepared  for  any demand  for  a 
first-class  article,  and  be  known  as  a 
house  where all  demands as to style  and 
quality  can  be  satisfied.  When  your 
reputation in this line is established hold 
on  to  it,  don’t  change  your  source  of 
supply  by  buying of  somebody  else that 
seemingly sells 50 cents a dozen cheaper, 
but  stick  to  the  house  that  helps  you 
build  up your trade.  Be  cautious  as  to 
quantity  bought  at a time,  protect  your 
stock  on  hand  by  keeping  colors  and 
blacks  entirely  separate,  by  keeping 
stock clean and in good condition.  Don’t 
mark  your  price  inside  with  ink,  it is a 
vicious  practice,  soils  and  spoils  them 
and  makes an exchange  out of  the ques­
tion, even if  entitled  to  it.  Use a label 
or  string  ticket  for  that  purpose.  Be 
careful as to size of  hands,  and  fit  them 
on  if  first  quality  only, otherwise  give 
your customer  the  necessary advice how 
to  fit  them at first  trial. 
If  kid  gloves 
are  returned for exchange  change them, 
provided  they  are clean and not misused, 
otherwise, stand  upon your dignity.  The 
merchant that is most independent,  if  in 
the right,  is the most successful one.

lowest.  Give  your 

Bier  H o te ls  a s  B u y e r s .

Few realize what enormous  consumers 
of  household  textiles  are  the  colossal 
hotels of our modern  city  life.  We read 
of  some  new structure of  this  sort,  ten, 
twelve  or  fifteen  stories  high,  with  ac­
commodations  for  a  thousand  guests, 
without considering that it almost equals 
a  whole new town  in  its demand  for cer­
tain  lines of  dry goods.  The  rapid  ex­
tension of  these wholesale  homes has an 
important influence  in  keeping the mar­
ket  steady,  because  they often  buy dur­
ing  the  dull  season  in  order to get  an 
advantage  in  prices,  and  thus  help  out 
wonderfully 
in  the  “ between-seasons 
business ”  of jobbers and others.
The  demand of  the hotels  for carpets, 
rugs,  draperies, curtains, damasks, table­
cloths,  napkins,  towels,  sheetings,  Mar­
seilles and  crochet quilts,  comfortables, 
etc.,  comprise an  enormous  quantity  of | 
goods.  Take  for  example a hotel  with 
500  rooms,  of  which  400  are  used  as 
sleeping apartments. 
If these 500 rooms 
average only fifteen  feet  square,  to  car-1 
pet  them  will  require  15,000  yards  of 
twenty-seven  inch  carpet,  which,  with 
one-third  more  for  the  halls,  gives  a 
total of  400 rolls of  carpet of  fifty yards 
each.  Three pairs of sheets for 400 beds 
will  require  150 pieces of  10-4 sheetings. 
In  addition  the  hotel  will  require  800

blankets,  800  quilts,  600  comfortables 
and  200 dozen  towels  for  the  bedrooms 
alone.  Then  there  will  be  the  house­
keeping linen on a vast scale.
If  such is the consumption of  a single 
large hotel,  we have only to multiply the 
figures by the  number of  such  hotels in 
the United  States—and they exist by the 
score if  not by the hundred—to see what 
a  huge  consumption  in  the  aggregate 
they represent.
Another special  demand of  a  kindred 
sort comes from the seaside and mountain 
resorts.  Here again we find a prodigious 
demand.  There is not such a free use of 
carpets  or  elegant  upholstery,  but  the 
bedroom  furniture is on  an  equal  scale, 
and  so  is  the housekeeping department. 
We  may add  the  thousands of  sleeping- 
cars which  are  perpetually  rolling  over 
the  country,  and  the  fleets  of  splendid 
steamboats  which  ply  on  our  domestic 
waters or between  our  land and  foreign 
ports,  all of  which  have to  be well  pro­
vided  with carpets,  bedding  and  uphol­
stery.
And then  the smaller hotels,  dwindling 
down  into  the  country tavern  and  the 
| boarding-house,  furnish in  the aggregate 
a trade  which can  scarcely be measured. 
Nor is this demand ever satisfied.  Every 
week  we  read of  splendid  new  hotels 
going up in all the large cities;  and there 
is a constant replenishing of  stock in all 
well  managed  hotels,  large  or  small. 
Every  year the patrons of  hotels become 
more exacting in  their requirements, and 
hotels are fitted  up with greater elegance 
and expense.
We have still to consider the very large 
demand made by the clubs of the country. 
These  combine  the  requirements  of  a 
first-class hotel and a palatial  home,  and 
are becoming among the largest and best 
customers  in  various  important  lines of 
goods.

D a n g e r  in  H o te l S o a p .

From the New York Sun.

that  soap 

“There are a good  many thousands  of 
professional traveling men in this country 
and at least  one in fifty  has an  affection 
of the skin of a more or less serious char­
acter,”  said  a  well-known dermatologist 
of  this city.  “The  origin of  these cases 
of  skin  disease  may  almost  invariably 
be traced to hotel soap.
“Every  person  who  has  been a hotel 
guest,  no  matter  where,  is familiar with 
the  much-worn  and  razor-edged  cake of 
soap  that  lies  in  wait  for  him  on  the 
wash  stand  in his  room—sometimes  in a 
not over-clean soap-dish,  and  frequently 
glued to the cover of the stand where the 
last  occupant of  the room,  in  his haste, 
permitted  it to  repose,  the chambermaid 
not having disturbed it.
“Now  you  haven’t  the  slightest  idea 
in the world who the gentleman was who 
last,  and,  singularly 
used 
enough,  few  men,  even the  most fastidi­
ous,  ever  give the  matter a thought. 
It 
would  be  an  easygoing  individual 
in­
deed,  though,  and  one with  phenomenal 
indifference  to  considerations of  cleanli­
ness,  who  would  for a moment  think of 
using a towel  that  showed signs of  hav­
ing  done  even  the slightest  service  for 
the  previous  occupant of  a  hotel  room; 
but  instances  are  rare  when  the  same 
guest  will  hesitate  to  use the  soap  he 
finds in  the  same  room,  although it may 
yet be damp  and  sticky from  the part  it 
took  in  the ablutions of  the last  person 
who  used  it.  The  traveling  man  does 
not  stop to think  that  the  hotel  soap is 
unexcelled  as a medium  for the  convey­
ance of cutaneous maladies from one per­
son to another, and frequently distributes 
diseases of  the skin  that  are most  diffi­
cult of eradication.  The person who has 
occasion to stop at hotels, whether habit­
ually or only occasionally,  is  not wise  if 
he  does not carry  and  use his own  soap. 
If  he is thoughtless  enough  to  use  the 
stock  soap of  the hotel  rooms  wherever 
he  may  be,  he  deliberately  courts  the 
contracting of  what may be a most offen­
sive and distressing malady.”

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, 

Grand,  Rapids,  Mich.

“ 

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

Arrow Brand  514 

“ 
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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

“  World Wide..  7
«  LL..................  5

A driatic....................  7
Argyle  ..  '................  6*4
Atlanta A A .................614
Full Yard Wide.......   624
Atlantic  A ............... 7
Georgia  A ................   624
H ...............   6%
“ 
Honest W idth.......... 6%
P ............... 6
“ 
Hartford A  ..............   5
D .........   ...  6%
“ 
Indian Head............   754
“  LL.................  53k
Amory........................  7
King A  A ..................   6¡4
Archery  B u nting...  4 
King E C ....................  5
Beaver Dam  A A ..  514 
Lawrence  L L .........  554
Blackstone O, 32__ 5
Madras cheese cloth 63k
Black Crow.............. 654  Newmarket  G
B  ...........51*
Black  Rock  .............7 
N ..........  614
Boot,  AL..................  714 
Capital  A ..................  524 
D D ...  554
Cavanat V ................ 5141 
X .........7
Chapman cheese cl.  324! Noi be  R .....................  5
Clifton  C R ..............   524 Our Level  B est....... 614
Comet.........................7 
(Oxford  R ...................  624
Dwight Star..............  724(Pequot........................  714
Clifton C C C ............   614 Solar...........................  614
I Top of the  Heap__ 714
A B C ......................... 824
Geo.  W ashington...  8
Amazon........................8
Glen M ills................  7
Arnsburg......................7
Gold  M edal..............   714
Art  Cambric............. 10
Green  Ticket...........824
Blackstone  A A.......  8  I Great F alls...............   624
Beats A ll...................   414  Hope.................... ..._.  724
Boston
Just  Out.......   424© 5
Cabot..........................  7
King  Phillip............   734
Cabot,  % ...  ............   624
OP....... 714
Charter  Oak............ 514
Lonsdale Cambric.. 1024
Conway W ................714
Lonsdale............   ©   814
C leveland.................  7
M iddlesex..........  @ 5
Dwight Anchor.......  824
No Name...................   714
shorts. 824 Oak  V iew ...................6
Edwards....................   6  Our Own...................   514
Empire.......................  7  Pride of the W est.. .12
Farwell......................  724 Rosalind...................... 714
Fruit of the  Loom.  8 
|Sunlight.....................   414
Fitch ville
Utica  M ills.................814
First Prize................614
Nonpareil  ..11
Frnlt of the Loom X.
Vinyard.....................  814
Fairmount................   424
White  Horse...........  6
Full V alue................624
“  Rock.............. 814
Cabot..........................  724|DwightAnchor....... 9
Farwell......................8 
|
Trem ontN................   514
“ 
Hamilton N ..............   614
L .............. 7
“ 
Middlesex  A T.........8
“ 
X ............   9
“ 
No. 2 5 ....  9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
Middlesex No. 

2....11
3 ....12
7 ....18
8 ....19

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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1_10

“ 

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

2................12

Hamilton N ..............   714
Middlesex P T ...........8
A  T ...........9
X  A .........  9
X  F .........1014

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colored.... 2014 White Star................1814

CARPET  WARP.

DRESS  GOODS.

Peerless,  white........ 18 
Integrity....................18241 
Hamilton 

..................8
.  9 
1014
G G  Cashmere..........21
Nameless  ..................16
.18
CORSETS.

“ 

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A O .........1314
4.........1714
5.........16
¡Integrity, colored...21
“  colored..21
Nameless...................20
.............25
.............2714
............ 30
.............3214
...........35

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CORSET  JEANS.

Coral in e....................89 501W onderful.............. *4 50
Schilling’s .................   9 00 Brighton.................. 4 75
Davis  Waists  —   9 00 Bortree’s ................o9aOO
Grand  R apids........  4  50|Abdominal.............. 15 00
Arm ory......................654
Naum keagsatteen..  714
Androscoggin...........724
Rockport......................614
Blddeford.................   6
Conestoga....................624
Brunswick................614
Walworth 
..................¿24
Allen turkey  reds..  514 
Berwick fancies__   24
r o b es....’....  514 
Clyde  Robes............ 5
pink a purple  614
Charter Oak fancies  424 
b u ffs............   6
DelMarlne cashm’s.  6 
pink  checks.  524
mourn’g  6 
staples  .........  554
Eddy stone  fa n cy ...  6 
sh irtin g s...  4
chocolat  6 
American  fan cy__ 524
rober  ...  6 
American indigo__ 524
sateens..  6 
American Bhirtings.  4 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6
Argentine  G rays...  6 
staple__ 524
Anchor Shirtings...  42*
Manchester  fancy..  6 
Arnold 
___614
new era.  6 
Arnold  Merino 
...  6 
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
long cloth B.IO54 
Merrim’ck shirtings.  4 
“  C.  814
Repp furn .  814
century cloth  7
Pacific  fan cy............6
gold seal.......1014
robes..............  614
green seal T R 1014 
Portsmouth robes...  6 
yellow  seal.. 1014
Simpson mourning..  6
serge.............. 1114
greys......... 6
Turkey  red.. 1014 
solid black.  6 
Ballou solid black..  5 
Washington indigo.  6 
colors.  514 
Turkey robes..  714
Bengal blue,  green, 
India robes__ 714
red and  orange...  514
plain T’ky X 24  814 
Berlin solids............   514
“  X...10
oil blue.........614
Ottoman  Tur­
“  green ....  614 
key red...................   6
Foulards  ....  514
Martha Washington
red 24............ 7
Turkeyred 24..........714
“  X  ...........  914
Martha Washington
“   4 4........10
Turkey red............  914
“  3-4XXXX 12
Rlverpointrobes....  5
Cocheco fancy........6
Windsor fan cy.........614
madders...  6 
gold  ticket 
X X tw ills..  614 
indigo  blue...........1014
solids.........  514
Amoskeag AC A ....1254
Hamilton N ..............   714
D ..............814
A wning.. 11
Farmer.......................8
First  Prize................1114
Lenox M ills............18
Atlanta,  D ................  624|Stark  A 
...............  8
Boot............................ ¿24 No  Nam e.................... 754
Clifton, K ..................   6>4|Topof  Heap............. 10
Simpson.................... 20 
.18
___ 16

A C   A ........................ 1214
Pemberton AAA__ 16
York.......................... 1014
Swift R iver.............   714
Pearl  R iver............. 1214
Warren......................14

Imperial...................... 1014
Black...................9©  914
"  CB.............10@1014

COTTON  DRILL.

TICKINGS.

SATINES.

“ 

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Coechoo.................... 1014

“ 
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Amoskeag............. 1214
9 oz....... 1314
brown .13
Andover....................1114
BeaverCreek  A A ... 16 
B B ...  9
CC—  
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7 

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blue  814 
“  d a  twist  1014 

Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.19

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Columbian brown.. 12
Everett, blue.............12
brown.........12
Haymaker blue.......   1 \
brow n...  73k
Jeffrey........................ 1114
Lancaster  ................. 1214
Lawrence, 9 oz.........1314
No. 220 
13
No. 250...1114
No. 280.... 1014

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GINGHAMS.

Amoskeag

“ 

“  Persian dress  814 
Canton  ..  824
“ 
AFC.........1224
“ 
T eazle.. .1014 
“ 
“ 
Angola.. 1014 
“ 
Persian..  814 
Arlington Btaple —   624 
Arasapha  fan cy—   424 
Bates Warwick dres  824 
staples.  614
Centennial...............  1014
C riterion...................1014
Cumberland  staple.  514
Cumberland............. 5
E ssex............................414
Elfin...........................  724
Everett classics.......824
Exposition..................724
Glenarie....................  624
Glenarven................... 624
Glenwood................   714
Hampton......................614
Johnson Chalon cl 
14 
indigo blue  914 
zephyrs— 16

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Lancaster,  staple...  654

“ 
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fa n c ie s__ 7
Normandie  8

Lancashire................  614
Manchester...............  524
Monogram................   624
Normandie................  714
Persian.........................814
Renfrew Dress.........724
Rosemont.................... 614
Slatersville..............6
Somerset................... 7
Tacoma  ....................   714
Toil  du Nord...........1014
W abash......................  724
seersucker..  714
Warwick..................  814
Whittenden...............  654
heather dr.  8 
Indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  624
Westbrook................   8
................ 10
Windermeer............. 5
York..............................624

Amoskeag.................
Stark......................
American.............

Clark's Mile End.
Coats’,  J. & P —  
Holyoke.....................

GRAIN BAGS.
.1 7 Valley City
. 2 0 Georgia —
..1 6 1 4 P a c ific ___
TH R EA D S.
..45 Barbour's..
. 4 5 Marshall’s.
.2214

..........16
........... 16
.......... 15

...........88
..........88

KNITTING  COTTON.

White.  Colored.

White. Colored.

No. 
“  
“  
“  

6  . .  
..33
8 .............34
1 0 .............35
1 2 ............. 36

38 No.  1 4 ........... .37
39
1 6 ........... 38
40
1 8 ........... .39
41
2 0 ........... .4 0
CAHBRICS.

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42
43
44
45

Slater..........................  324
White Star...............  324
Kid Glove  ................  324
Newmarket...............  32*
Edwards....................  324

W ashington..............314
Red Cross. 
............... 314
Lockwood..........—   324
Wood’s .....................   324
B runsw ick.............  
.324

RED   FLANNEL.

Fireman.....................3214
Creedmore.................2714
Talbot XXX.............. 30
Nam eless................... 2714

T W ............................ 2214
F T ..............................3214
J R F , XXX ..............35
Buckeye....................3214

MIXED  FLANNEL.

Red & Blue,  plaid. .40
Union R ................... 2214
Windsor....................1814
6 oz W estern............20
Union  B ...................2224
N am eless....... 8 ©   914

....... 814@10

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DOMET  FLANNEL.

Grey S R  W ............... 1714
Western W  ............... 1814
D R P ..........................1814
Flushing XXX..........2314
Manitoba................... 2314
.......   9 ©1014
1214
Brown. Black.

914
1014
1114
1214

924 13
1014 15
1114 17
1214 20
DUCKS.

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
13
15
17
20

Slate.  Brown. Black. Slate.
13
914 
15
1014 
17
1114 
1214 
20
Severen, 8 oz— ...  914 West  Point, 8 oz ...1014
Mayland, 8 oz__ ...1014
10 oz •■•1214
Greenwood, 724 o z ..  914 Raven, lOoz.......
...1314
......... ...1314
Greenwood, 8 oz ...1114 Stark
W ADDINGS.

White, doz................ 25  I Per bale, 40 doz__ 67  50
Colored,  d oz............ 20 

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Slater, Iron Cross.
Red Cross..
B est............

L 
G

8ILB8IA S.
8 Pawtucket........
...1014
9 Dundie..............
....  9
10H Bedford.............
...1014
1214 Valley  City__ ....1014
K K ....................
...  1014
814

SEWING  SILK.

2 
3 

Corticelli, doz...........75  [Corticelli  knitting,

twist, d oz. .3714  per !4oz  b all.........30
50 yd, d o z..37141
HOOKS AND  ETES—PER GROSS.
“ 
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|No  4 Bl’k & W hite..15 
“
..20
..25
PINS.
|N o4—15  F  314..........40

No  1 Bl’k & W hite..10 
..12 
8 
“ 
- .12  J  “  10 
“ 
No 2—20, M  C...........50 
‘  3—18, S C ............ 45  I
No  2 White & Bl’k..12  INo  8 White & Bl’k..20 
.2 3
“ 
“ 
..26
No 2............................ 28 
|N o 3 ............................. 36

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

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4 
6 

NEEDLES—PER  M.

A. Jam es....................1  50| Steamboat..................  40
Crowely’s.................. 1  35 Gold  E yed..................1  50
Marshall's.................1 00 j
5—4. ...2  25  6—4.. .3 25|5—4 

1  95  6—4 .. .2  95

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“ 

...8   10|
COTTON TWINES.

“  ....2   10 

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown........................12
D om estic..................1814
A nchor......................16
B ristol.......................13
Cherry  V alley.........15
I X L ........................... 13

Alabama....................  63k
Alam ance.................   624
A ugu sta....................714
Arrsapha..................   6
Georgia......................  654
G ranite.....................   534
Haw  River...............  5
Haw  J .......................   6

7‘ 

N ashua..................... 18
Rising Star 4- ply__ 17
3-p l y ... 17
North  Star................20
Wool Standard 4 ply 1724 
P ow h attan ..............18

Mount  Pleasant___614
Oneida.......................   5
Pyrmont  ..................   55k
R andelm an.............. 6
Riverside..................   51*
Sibley  A . . . . .............  654
Toledo......................  6

PLA ID   O8NABURG8.

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

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Hardware Price Current.

T h e se   p r ic e s  are  fo r  c a sh   b u y e rs ,  w h o  
p a y   p ro m p tly   an d   b u y   in   fu ll  p a ck a g es.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

diS.

60
Snell’s ..................................................................... 
Cook’s ....................................................................  
40
25
3 ennlngs’, genuine............................................. 
Jennings’,  im itation..........................................50*10

A X ES.

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First Quality, S. B.  Bronze...............................1 7   50
D.  B. Bronze.................................  12 00
S.  B. S. Steel................................  8 50
D.  B. Steel....................................  13 50
Railroad............................................................... •   14 00
Garden.........................................................   net  30 00

BARROWS. 

dlS.

BOLTS. 

dlS.

Stove................... ................................................... 50*10
Carriage new list.  .............................................  
75
Plow .........................................................................40*10
Sleigh shoe...........................................................  
70

BUCKETS.

Well,  plain............................................................1 3 5 0
Well, sw ivel...............................................................  4 00

BUTTS, CAST. 

dlS.
Cast Loose Pin, figured...................................... 70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast join t.................... GO* 10
Wrought Loose Pin..............................................60*10
Wrought  Table.....................................................ooA10
Wrought Inside B lind........................................ 60*10
Wrought  Brass.................... 
75
Blind,  Clark’s .......................................................70*10
Blind,  Parker’s .....................................................70*10
Blind, Shepard’s ................................................. 
70

 

 

BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

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

60

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

Cast Steel....................................................per 1b 

5

Ely’s 1-10....................................................perm  
Hick’s  C.  F ............................................... 
G. D .............................................................  
M usket........................................................ 

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

CARTRIDGES.

chisels. 

65
60
35
60

56
25

Socket Firm er.....................................................70*10
Socket Framing...................................................70*16
Socket Corner.......................................................70*10
Socket S lick s.......................................................70*10
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer................................  
40

dls.

dls.

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

40
25

White Crayons, per  gross................12@12*4 dls. 10

combs. 

CHALK.

COFFER.

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

dl8.

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

DRIPPING FANS.

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

28
26
23
23
25

50
50
50

07
6ft

ELBOWS.

dls.

dls.

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

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, 118; large, >26........................... 
Ives’, 1,118;  2, «24;  3, f e e ................................  

90
26

FILES—New List. 

Dlsston’s ............................................................... 60*16
60*10
New  American.................................. 
Nicholson’s .......................................................... 60*10
Heller’s ..................................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse R a s p s ................................... 
50

 

galvanized iron

14 

12 

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

13 
gauges. 

Discount, 60

Stanley  Rule and  Level Co.’s .........................  
P R IC E   L IS T

28
18

50

HAMMERS.

May dole  A Co.’s .......................................... dls. 
25
25
Kip’S................................................................dls. 
Terkes *  Plumb’s ....................................... dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand__ 30c 40*10

HINGES.

“ 
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“ 

Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 , 3 ........... 
dis.60&10
State.................................................. per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 13  In. 4*4  14  and
3*4
lon ger................................................................. 
Screw Hook and  Bye,  Y%...........................net 
10
8 *
X ..............................net 
’* 
7*4
X ..............................net 
“ 
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%..............................net 
7*4
Strap and T ...................................................dls. 
50
dls.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50*10
Champion,  anti friction..................................   60*10
Kidder, wood tra ck ...........................................  
40
Pots..................... 
60
60
Kettles....................................................................  
60
S p id ers............... 
Gray enam eled........................................... 
40*10
HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

HOLLOW WARE.

HANGERS. 

 

 

 

 

 

... 

dlS.

dls.

m il l s. 

m a u l s. 

N A IL S

dls.
dls.

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

MATTOCKS.

wire goods. 

LOCKS—DOOR. 

knobs—N ew List. 

Stamped  Tin W are................................... new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware.........................................  
25
Granite Iron W are.........................new list 33*4*10
dls.
Bright............................................................... 70*10*10
Screw  E yes.................................................... 70*10*10
Hook’s ..............................................................70*10*10
70*10*10
Gate  Hooks and  Eyes.........................  
levels. 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s 
70
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings.......................  
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................ 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......  ...... 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings  ......... 
55
 
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain.....................  
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’b new list  ........... 
55
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s ................................ 
55
Branford’s ........................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s ....................................................... 
55
 
Adze Eye  .............................................. 116.00, dls. 60
Hunt E y e................................................615.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s .............................................618.50, dls. 20*10.
d ls .
50
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled.........................  
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ......................................... 
40
40
“  P. S.  & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables  . .. 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Clr .k’s .................... 
40
“  Enterprise 
.......................................... 
30
MOLASSES GATES. 
...  —  60*10
Stebbln’s  Pattern........................... 
Stebbin’s G enuine............................................... 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................... 
a
Steel nails,  base..........................................................1 80
Wire nails,  base......................................................... 2 15
Steel.  Wire.
Base
60...............................................................Base 
50.............................................................   Base 
10
20
05 
40......................  
10
30.................................................. 
20
30
15
20............................................................. 
35
16.............................................................  
15
12.
35
15
40
10................ .............................................  20
50
8...................................................................  25
65
7 * 6 ............................................................  40
90
4...................................................................  60
1  50
3 ..................................................................1 00
2..................................................................1 50
2  00 
Fine 3 ........... 
1  50
2  00
90 
Case  10......................................................  60
1  00 
8......................................................   75
1  25 
6......................................................   90
1  00 
Finish 10...................................................   85
1  25
8................................................... 1 00
1  50 
6 ................................................... 1 15
75 
Clinch; 10...................................................  85
90
8 ..................................................1 00
1  00
6 ..................................................1 15
2  50 
Barrell %..................................................1 75
Ohio Tool Co.’b, fa n c y .....................................   ©40
Sclota  Bench........................................................  ©60
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy.............................  ©40
Bench, first quality.............................................  ©60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’b, w ood............   *10
Fry,  A cm e...................................................dls.60—10
70
Common,  polished......................................dls. 
Iron and  Tinned................................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.................................. 
50
“A” Wood’B patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

Advance over base: 

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rivets. 

PLANES.

FANS.

dls.

dls.

Broken packs *4c per pound extra.

 

 

 

 

ROPES.

SQUARES.

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, *4 Inch and larger...........................  7
11*4
Manilla
dls.
Steel and  Iron....................................■................
75
Try and B evels....................................................
60
M itre................................ .....................................
20
Com.  Smooth.
Com. 
62 95 
3  (5 
3  (5 
3  15 
3  25 
3  35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14...........................................64 05
Nos. 15 to 17...........................................4  05
Nos.  18 to 21.........................................  4  (5
Nos. 22 to 24 ...........................................  4  05
Nos. 25 to 26 ...........................................  4  25
No. 27.......................................................   4  45
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86.............................................dls. 
Silver Lake, White  A .................................. list 
Drab A ......................................   “ 
 
White  B ..........................  
Drab B .......................................  “ 
White C.....................................  “ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
“ 50
55
35

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Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

 

dls.

dlB.

w i r e . 

s a w s . 

TRAPS. 

H a n d .............................................
“ 
Silver Steel  Dla.  X Cuts, per foot,.
Special Steel  Dex X Cuts, per foot__  
“ 
“ 
Special Steel Dia.  X Cuts,  per foot__  
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  foot.................................  

Solid Eyes............ .......................................per ton 626
20
50
30
30
Steel, Game............................................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .................. 
36
Oneida  Community, Hawley a Norton’s  ... 
70
Mouse,  choker..........................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion.................................... 61.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market.............................. .......................  65
Annealed Market.................................................70—10
Coppered Market................?..............................  60
Tinned Market....................................................  62*4
^ red  Spring  Steel...................................... 
50
painted...............   ..................   2  95
Au Sable....................................dls. 25*10©25*10*05
dls.  05
Putnam................................................. 
dls. 10*10
Northwestern......................  ............. 
dls.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled.......................  
30
Coe’s  G enuine.................................................... 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........................ 75
Coe’s  Patent, m alleable.................................... 75*10
Bird C ages.......................................... ............... 
50
Pumps, Cistern............................................... 
75
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

d  Fence, galvanized....................................  3 45
“ 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

dls.

M ETALS.

FIG TIN.

6%
7

ZINC.

26c
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large............................................................. 
Pig Bars................................................................  
D uty:  Sheet, 2*4c per pound.
660 pound  casks.................................................. 
Per  pound............................................................. 
*4@*4..............................................................................16
Extra W ip in g.........................................................   15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market Indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson.............................................. per  pound  16
Hallett’s
13
10x14 IC, Charcoal.........................................
..........................................
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
.........................................
14x20 IX, 
......................................
Each additional X on this grade, 61.75.
10x14 IC,  C harcoal.....................................
14x20 IC, 
.......................................
10x14 IX, 
.........................................
14x20 IX, 
........................................
Each additional X on this grade 61.50. 

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6 6  75 
6  75 
.  8  25 
.  9  25

TIN—  MELYN GRADE.

7  50 
9  25 
9  25

r o o f i n g  p l a t e s  
W orcester....................

................  
................  
Allaway  Grade.................. 
 

14x20 IC,
14x20 IX,
20x28  IC,
14x20 IC,
14x20 IX,
 
 
20x28  IC, 
 
 
...........
 
 
...........
20x28 IX, 
14X 28  IX .........................................................
14x31  IX .......................................................
1 4 x 5 6  IX, for No. 8 Bollera,  i 
_nnnd 
{ per  pound
114x60 IX.  “ 

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BOILER SIZE TIN  FLATS.

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6  50
8  50
18  50
6  CO
7  50
12  50
15  50
614  09 
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Lovely  Woman’s  Magic  Touch.

3.  W .  H o o p e r , in  A rk a n sa w  T ra v eler.

On a  broad  calculation,  we  may  sup­
pose that every man and woman  in every 
civilized  country,  that  is  to  say,  where 
shoes  are  worn,  is  the  possessor  of  at 
least one horny excrescence on some part 
of his or her foot;  which  said  horny  ex­
crescence is,  in vulgar  parlance, denomi­
nated  a  “corn.”  Consequently,  every 
man and  woman  of this,  the  greatest  of 
all  civilized  countries,  is  aware  of  the 
extraordinary watchfulness  and  anxious 
solicitude manifested by the owner of one 
single sample of  that phenomenon in na­
ture, which same persons suppose to be a 
spontaneous effusion  from the  life-blood 
of the human system.  How jealously he 
guards it against the contact  of the awk­
ward  and vulgar,  and  how delicately  he 
screens it from the gentle pressure of the 
kid-slippered,  sylph-like  extremities  of 
those aerial beings called women.
The  foregoing  remarks  are  merely  a 
preface to a short  story  about my buying 
a pair of shoes  a few days  ago.
When I visit a shoe store I prefer to be 
waited on by a man, and have a great dis­
like to a boy,  and  a most  decided  objec­
tion to a woman.
However,  on  the  day  in  question,  it 
was my  misfortune to  encounter both  a 
man  and a woman.
The man was one of those slow-moving, 
undecided sort of  individuals,  who could 
not offer a suggestion  even to save a per­
son from drowning,  for the person would 
be  beyond  the  possibility  of  salvation 
long before he  could form  an  idea.  On 
the other hand,  his wife was one of those 
vivacious little women,  quick to conceive 
and prompt to execute.
The  size  shoes  1  wear  are  number 
eight, although 1 have sometimes thought 
1 felt more comfortable in  nines.
After considerable fumbling in drawers 
and boxes,  he  singled out  a pair of  tens 
with elongated points, having an interior 
capacity  about  sufficient  to  contain  a 
man’s  big  toe,  with  the  remaining  four 
huddled  in a bunch like a family of little 
pigs  taking  their  breakfast  on  a  frosty 
morning.
Those miniature gondolas he handed to 
me with a triumphant grin,  as though he 
had discovered the  glass slippers of  Cin­
derella,  or  the  seven-leagued  boots  be­
longing  to  the  much-talked-of  “Spring- 
heeled  Jack.”
The  aforesaid  vivacious  little  woman 
immediately  perceived  his  error,  and 
rushed to the rescue, saying,  “Why, good 
gracious, George! don’t you see the gentle­
man  requires  a  broad-toed  eight?  You 
will find them in the sixth  drawer of the 
tenth row; be quick!”
After some more fumbling George pro­
duced a  pair of  number  eights,  but,  al­
though they  were  somewhat  broader  at 
the toe, that is, the big toe, than George’s 
previous  production,  they  had  scarcely 
sufficient  “breadth of  beam”  where  the 
little toe had its abode with its inevitable 
companion, the corn.
As  George,  with  the  assistance  of  a 
“horn,”  prevailed  on  the  foot  to  enter 
that “straight and narrow  way—freedom 
winced—seeing  which 
that  vivacious 
little  woman  pushed  George  aside,  and 
flopped on her  knees to attend to the  fit­
ting herself.
If  I had  been  left to my  own  devices, 
the  whole  business  could  have  been  ac 
complished with very little inconvenience 
for no one knows where the shoe pinches 
so well as he who wears it, but as soon as 
that  woman  took  an  active  part  in  the 
proceedings there was trouble.
In her  zeal  to  point  out  the  difficulty 
she placed her fingers on the big  toe and 
her thumb on the little one, and suddenly 
and energetically pressing them together, 
called out  “that’s the  spot,  by  George.”
In the  excruciating  agony I  uttered  a 
suppressed  scream,  and  that  vivacious 
little woman  added  insult  to  injury  by 
coolly asking,  “Why  don’t you  pare it?”
As soon  as I could recover my breath  1 
made reply in as polite a manner as I was 
capable  of  under  the  circumstances:  “1 
thank  you,  madam,  for  the  suggestion, 
but permit  me  to  remark  that  I  do  not 
wish  to  pair  it. 
I  am  not  naturally 
greedy,  and  do not crave  ‘two of a kind,’ 
especially corns,  one is quite sufficient to 
satisfy all my  desires.”

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DuPont Gunpowder.

R IF L E .

Kegs,  25 lbs. each,  Fg,  FFg and FFFg..................$5  50
Half kegs,  12K  lbs.  each, Fg,  FFg and  FFFg...  3  00 
Quar.  kegs,  6M  “ 
...  1  65
1  lb. cans (25 in case)............................................... 
30
X lb.  cans  (25 in a case)........................................... 
18

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C H O K E   B O R E .

Kegs,  25 lbs.  each,  Nos.  5 and 7............................. $6  50
Half kegs,  12K  lbs.  each,  Nos.  5 and  7................  3  50
lbs.  each,  Nos.  5 and 7................  1  90
Quar.  kegs, 
1  lb.  cans  (25 in ca se )............................................... 
34

E A G L E   D UC K .

Kegs, 25 lbs.  each,  Nos.  1, 2,  3 and  4 ................  $11  00
Half  kegs,  12X  lbs.  each,  Nos.  1, 2,  3 and 4 ...  5  75 
Quar.  “ 
“  1,2, 3 and 4 ...  3  00
1  lb.  cans  (25 in ca se )............................................. 
60

6M 

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CRYSTAL  G R A IN .

Nos.  1, 2, 3 and 4,  1 lb.  cans  each......................... $  90
Quarter kegs,  6K  lbs.................................................  4  50

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Entered a t the G rand R apids Post Oy.is.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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W E D N E SD A Y .  SE P T E M B E R   3 0 .  1 8 9 1 .|  j 
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The  Way land  Globe of  last  week  an­
nounced that  D.  T.  Hersey  had  sold  his 
grocery stock  and  would  occupy  the pul­
pit of  the  Congregational  church,  pend­
ing  the  absence  of  the  regular  pastor. 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n   has heard of  preachers 
it  never  before 
turning  grocers,  but 
heard  of  a  grocer  graduating 
into  a 
preacher.  _________________

The greatest  trotting event of  the  de­
cade will  take place at  the race track of 
the West Michigan  fair ground on Oct.  8, 
being a contest between  Nelson  and  Al- 
lerton  for  a  purse  of  $10,000  and  the 
stallion  championship  of 
the  world. 
Both contestants have  marvelous records 
and  the  event  will  probably  bring  to 
Grand  Rapids  the  largest  gathering  of 
people ever seen here.

Dozens of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n ’ s  patrons 
will  say amen to the  complaint  against 
the  wretched  service  rendered  by  the 
Grand  Rapids  telephone  exchange,  set 
forth  in  another column.  Resentment at 
the  apathy of  the management  and  the 
superciliousness of the operators is heard 
on  every  side  and,  unless  a  wholesome 
reform  is soon inaugurated, the exchange 
will  find  its  enormous  profits  considera­
bly  curtailed.

A  dangerous  counterfeit  50 cent piece 
is in circulation.  The  piece is a beauty, 
and  shows  great  care  and  skill  in  its 
make-up. 
It is one of the series of 1887, 
and  has  the  clear  ring  of  the  genuine 
article.  The  main  difference,  however, 
lies  in  the  thickness,  which  is  a  trifle 
more than  in  the  genuine  article.  The 
figure  on  one  side  is rather obscure,  but 
is  at  the  same  time  nearly  perfect,  al­
though  there  is  a  slight  depression  in 
the shield.

Twenty-eight scheming politicians and 
assumed  labor  leaders  met  behind  lock 
and  key  in  this city  one  day  last  week, 
arrogated  to  themselves  the 
title  of 
“People’s  Party” and  went  through  the 
farce of nominating a candidate for  Con­
gress.  The doubtful  honor happened  to 
fall on the shoulders of  Geo.  F.  Richard­
son,  whose  reputation  rests  solely  on a 
very  dubious  record  made  as  a P.  of I. 
member  of 
recent  Legislature. 
Whether  the candidate  and  his  twenty- 
eight henchmen  will  sell  out to  the  Re­
publican or  Democratic  parties is  as yet 
undecided — depending,  of  course,  on 
which  will  pay  the most  in  money  and 
official  promises.

the 

The  pension  rolls  now  contain  the 
names  of  676,160  pensioners,  according 
to  the  annual  report  of  Commissioner 
Raum, which has just been  made  public. 
This is  more  than  138,000  more  names 
than  were  on  the  rolls  at  the  close 
of the last  fiscal  year.  The  amount dis­

bursed  during  the  year  on  account  of 
pensions was  $118,548,959,  or  over  $12,- 
000,000 more than  during  the  preceding 
fiscal  year.  From  this  it  will  he  seen 
that the  number  of  pensioners  and  the 
amount collected  by  them from  the  na­
tional  Treasury  continue  to  grow. 
It 
appears from the  Commissioner’s  report 
that  about 30,000  pension certificates are 
issued every month. 
It is expected that 
as many as 350,000 claims will be adjudi­
cated during the current  year,  for which 
the present appropriation of $133,473,085 
will,  the  Commissioner  thinks,  be  suffi­
cient.  This amount it will  be remarked, 
is  about  $15,000,000 
in  excess  of  the 
amount disbursed on  account of pensions 
during the last fiscal  year.

T h e  P r e s e n t  S ta n d a r d   A ll  R ig h t.

So much  has been  said in  the  newspa­
pers of late in  regard to the new  test for 
kerosene  oil  adopted by  the  last Legisla­
ture,  on  the ground that it invalidates ex­
isting  insurance  policies,  that a  gentle­
man  interested  in the  subject  recently 
wrote  to the  State Commissioner  of  In­
surance  for  an authorative statement  in 
regard  to the  matter.  His  reply was as 
follows:

L a n s in g ,  Sept.  21,  1891.

D e a r   S ir —In  reply  to  yours  of  the 
18th,  I  have to  say that  upon  examina­
tion of the  United  States  statutes  1  find 
the legal  United States  test  for  illumi­
nating  oils made of  petroleum to  be 110 
degrees,  fire,  while  that  required  by re­
cent act of the Legislature is 120 degrees, 
same test, or 10 degrees higher thau  that 
of the United States.
The use of Michigan test oil can, there­
fore,  in  no manner  operate to  invalidate 
insurance  written  in  Michigan,  as  the 
standard  policy  requirement  is  for  oil 
equal  at  least to that of the United States 
test,  while it Is, in fact, 10 degrees above.

Respectfully’,

W m .  E .  H a g i l l , 

Commissioner of Insurance.

This statement ought to put an end,  at 
once and  forever,  to  all  talk  in  regard to 
the effect  of the  present  test  for  oil on 
Insurance policies and such will probably 
be the result.

T o o  L ittle  S le e p .

Doctor  Cold,  a  German  specialist,  has 
recently pleaded  for giving young people 
more  sleep.  A  healthy  infant  sleeps 
most of  the time  during the  first weeks; 
and,  in  the  early  years,  people  are  dis­
posed  to  let  children  sleep as much  as 
they  will.  But  from  six or seven,  when 
school begins, there i  a complete change. 
At  the  age of  ten  or  eleven,  the  child 
sleeps only eight or nine  hours,  when he 
needs  at  least  ten or eleven,  and  as  he 
grows older the time of  rest is shortened. 
Doctor Cold  believes  that,  up to twenty, 
a youth  needs  nine hours’  sleep,  and  an 
adult  should  have  eight or nine.  With 
insufficient  sleep  (the  nervous  system, 
and  brain especially,  not resting enough, 
and  ceasing to  work  normally)  we  find 
exhaustion,  excitability and  intellectual 
disorders  gradually  taking  the  place  of 
love of work, general well-being  and the 
spirit of initiative.

The Grocery Market.

Sugar  is  without  particular  change, 
the refiners  being  closely sold on  granu­
lated,  but  otherwise  in  good  shape,  so 
far as stock  on  hand  is concerned.  The 
manufacturers of package coffee have re-
duced the price  of their  product another 
%c,  but  the  attempt  of the  speculators 
to  manipulate  the price  of mild  coffees 
| may forestall further  declines.  Turkish 
I prunes will rule  higher this year,  as  the I 
| advanced duty of 2 cents  per pound goes | 
into effect this season.  The low price of 
j California prunes will  probably compen- 
! sate for the shortage.  “Spearhead” plug 
I is back  to the o ld   price again, 40 cents.

THE  MICHIGAN  TBADEBMAN

LIFE  BEHIND  THE  COUNTER. 

Written for The Tradesman

Does a life  behind the  counter tend to 
develop  the  highest  type  of  manhood? 
Is  there  any condition  necessarily  con­
nected  with  a  life  behind  the  counter 
which has a tendency to prevent the free 
and  full development to every God-given 
faculty that man  is endowed with?  Man j 
is naturally stupid,  gross,  selfish and im­
patient;  and,  as  the  rough,  ugly  metal 
must  pass  through  the  fire of  purifica­
tion and  be moulded,  tempered and  pol­
ished before it becomes the bright,  keen, 
useful blade,  so man,  in order to reach  a 
higher  level  in  the  scale of  humanity, 
must  be quickened,  refined and  polished 
by brisk  and  constant  contact  with  his 
fellowmen,  and  surely  no  condition  of 
things  can  be  more  favorable  to  bring 
about  this development  than that  found 
in  a life behind  the  counter.

The  conventions  held  by the business 
men of  Michigan in this city,  at  Cheboy­
gan  and  in  Muskegon,  established  the 
fact  that the  men  who  live  behind  the 
counter have  fully developed  perceptive 
faculties,  and  that  in  debate  they  are 
exceedingly  vivacious,  courteous  and 
witty,  and  at the  same time  logical,  sen­
tentious and  practical.  Was  it  because 
these business delegates possessed natur­
al  talents  that  their  brothers  who  re­
mained  on  the  farm  were  not  endowed 
with,  or was it because the business they 
were  engaged  in  necessarily  developed 
these very traits?  A moment’s reflection 
will convince you  that the  latter  theory 
is the correct one.  The man who follows 
his  team  from  morning  until  the  sun 
goes down,  with  nothing but the turning 
furrow  to  attract  his  eye,  may exercise 
his reflective  faculties,  but  he  certainly 
does not develop his perceptive faculties; 
and,  although he may  be better educated 
and  may  become  a  deeper reasoner  he 
will  always  appear  slower,  duller  and 
more obtuse than  his brother  behind the 
counter whose business drives every  fac­
ulty  into  action,  and  keeps  every latent 
energy  on  the  qui vive.  The  smith  at 
the  anvil  has  more muscle  in  his right 
arm  than  in  his  left,  and  more  than  his 
brother has,  not because  he  inherited it, 
but  because  his daily avocation  has  de­
veloped it.

Grossness is an  element in  the  human 
make up that  dies,  for the  want of  exer­
cise,  in a life  behind  the  counter.  Did 
you ever  hear a young  farmer address  a 
few  select  complimentary remarks  to  a 
gay  and  festive  pig in the  cornfield,  all 
because  his  hogship  had  carelessly  ne­
glected  to  make a memorandum  of  the 
hole in the  fence  through  which he first 
went  astray?  Did  you  ever  see a man 
give  up  and  leave a balky  horse  to  die 
in the back field bitched to a load of hay, 
and  then  try to milk  eight  cows  when 
the flies are at their  best?  I am sorry to 
say  I  have,  and  my  nerves  have  been 
shattered  ever  since.  Gentle  reader, do 
not  think  less  kindly of  the  plowman, 
the factoryman or the mechanic,  because 
his  deportment is less  charming  and his 
manners  less  refined  than  the  salesman
behind the counter,  for they are brothers 
and  what  differences  there  may  be  be­
tween them are  caused  by their  environ­
ments and  the one is no  more entitled to 
praise than  the other is to censure.

Selfishness  is  the  dead  weight which 
keeps a man down  to earth  and prevents 
him from rising to higher  planes of  true 
manhood.  We would  advise all  who are 
I suffering  from this  soul-destroying  mal­

ady  to  go  into  the  mercantile  business 
and  continue  therein  until  a permanent 
cure  is  effected,  which  will  be the  case 
sooner  or  later.  We  are  aware  that 
there are  many selfish  men  in business, 
but  they will  never succeed  until  they 
outlive their selfishness.  There is nothing 
to hinder a selfish  farmer from making a 
success  of  it  aud  a  manufacturer  or  a 
speculator  may indulge  in  selfishness to 
his  heart’s  satisfaction,  but  the  general 
public will  not  tolerate an exhibition of 
selfishness  on  the  part of  the  man who 
operates  behind  the counter  and weighs 
out  and measures off  its  supplies.  The 
merchant  may weigh and  measure  to  a 
particle of dust and a hair’s  breadth,  but 
he  must  not  allow  the  great  public  to 
catch  him  at  it.  Consistency is,  indeed, 
a rare  jewel.  This  same fickle  and  ty­
rannical  public,  with  a  great  trumpet 
blast,  will  accord  to each  man  the  ina­
lienable  right to secure  and  enjoy what 
belongs to him,  but when the retail mer­
chant  attempts  to  strictly  enforce  this 
conceded right,  this same  public will  sit 
down on him  and  call  him  an  old  hog. 
It will  uncover its head before the bank­
ers  and  humbly submit to the  most  un­
reasonable aud the most tyrannical  petty 
exactions; 
it  will  cringe  and  play  the 
sycophant  before  a  corporation  aud  be 
dictated to and  lorded over  by it;  it pas­
sively submits  to  being  gulled,  robbed, 
plundered,  drawn  and  quartered  by  itin­
erant and transient  swindlers and  fakirs 
of  all  kinds,  and  it  really seems to like 
it.  This  same  dear  public will  do  all 
this,  and  more,  too,  with a grace  which 
is surprising,  but  it  will  concentrate all 
its  spite and  focalize  all its spleen upon 
the  fellow  who  retails  merchandise over 
the counter.  As a  consideration  for  be­
stowing its favors,  it makes the most un­
reasonable demands and the retailer must 
meet them or take the “cold  shoulder” of 
a whimsical  public.  Of  course,  he  can­
not satisfy  every demand  made on  him, 
as the demands  are  always greatly in ex­
cess of the merchant’s ability to concede.
There  are four churches  in the village 
and  each  church  has  three  missionary 
societies and the  storekeeper is expected 
to  divide a portion of  his profits  among 
all of them.  The two destitute families 
in  the  outskirts  of  the village  must  be 
provided  for and,  of course, the merchant 
is  “tapped” for  the  larger portion of  it. 
Every succeeding day  brings  some  new 
demand for help.  The  band boys  must 
have new instruments or  new  uniforms; 
one of the churches is  without a bell  and 
the village  can endure  the  disgrace  no 
longer; another  church  must have a new 
organ or  go  out  of  business;  the  little 
church down  at the  end  of the  street is 
weak  and  poor in  pocket,  but  common 
decency demands a  coat of paint and  the 
generous  merchant  must  head  the  sub­
scription list; the  ladies of  the L.  L.  A., 
having  had a  lot  donated  to  them,  now 
propose to erect a library building there­
on,  aud the merchant  is  expected  to  do 
something  pretty  nice this  time; and  so 
these  public  demands  are  limitless  in 
number  and  endless in  variety.  These 
demands may be  partially or  wholly  re­
fused  with  impunity  by  the  capitalist, 
banker  or manufacturer; but  by  the  re­
tailer,  never.  He cannot carry the whole 
earth on his shoulders,  but he must  hold 
up a good  sized  portion of it, and he must 
do some sharp  practice in  selecting that 
portion of it.

I do not  pretend to  say that  all of the 
charitable  deeds  credited  to  the  retail

merchant are  prompted by pure and  no­
ble  impulses,  but  I  do  claim,  without 
fear  of  contradiction—and  it  is  all  I 
claim under  this  head—that a man  who 
takes up a life behind the counter to-day 
and  makes a success  of it,  will  have  all 
his  surplus stock  of  selfishness  frizzled 
and fried  out of  him  before  he  reaches 
the coveted goal.

Patience is a virtue and nowhere can a 
place be found  where the  conditions are 
so  favorable for  the cultivation  and  de­
velopment of this virtue as they are  in  a 
life behind  the counter. 
Indeed, if there 
is any one  virtue,  the practice  of  which 
pays the merchant a larger dividend than 
any  other,  it  is  this  virtue of  patience. 
Some  care-tossed  poet  speaks of  a time 
when  patience ceases to  be a virtue. 
It 
might be all right for poets to indulge in 
such  terms  as  that,  but  no  successful 
merchant could afford to experience more 
than  one  such  time  during  his  whole 
ipercantile  career.  Wherever  patience 
ceases  to be a virtue behind  the counter, 
the  shoal  of  bankruptcy  is  not  far off. 
He  who  would  succeed  must  quell  the 
rising storm  and grapple  with  his angry 
passions in mute silence. 
“Be ye angry 
and sin  not”  was  written  especially  for 
the  retailer,  and  it means  that  he  must 
never,  under any  circumstances,  lose his 
head in the presence of his customers.

I  h a v e  th u s  a ttem p ted   to  sh ow   th a t  a 
lif e   b eh in d   th e  co u n ter  is  a  d is c ip lin a r y  
o n e  and  te n d s  to   th e  d ev e lo p m e n t  o f  a 
h ig h e r   ty p e  o f m an hood .  E .  A .  Ow e n .

T h e  T im e s N o t O u t o f  J o in t.

M i d i .a n d ,  Sept. 24—Wm.  Vance is one 
of our most  intelligent  citizens,  having 
resided  here over  forty  years.  During 
the  past thirty  years he  has kept an  ac­
curate  memorandum  of  events which  is 
now  of considerable  historical  value,  as 
it shows that  while wages  are about  the 
same now as thirty  years ago,  the cost of 
living  has  measurable  decreased. 
In 
18(54 Mr.  Vance  cut pine logs on his own 
land  at  $3.50 a  thousand.  The  spring 
following  he  worked  on the  Tittabwas- 
see  river at  rafting at  $2 a  day,  and  in 
the winter  skidded  logs at  $1  a day. 
In 
1805 and 1860  he worked at  $1.25 and  $2 
a day in the woods,  a portion of the  time 
for  Sam  Sias. 
In  December,  1804,  he 
paid 88 cents for  half a pound of  tea,  75 
cents for half a pound of tobacco,  $12 for 
a  barrel  of  flour,  75  cents  for  three 
pounds  of  sugar. 
In  January,  1865,  he 
paid  60 cents  for  two pounds  of  sugar, 
$2  a gallon  for  syrup, 50 cents  a pound 
for  butter,  $2  a pound  for  tea, 60 cents 
a pound for butter, $14 a barrel for flour, 
45 cents a pound for  lard, 20 cents a box 
for matches,  $0 for  two shirts,  10 cents a 
pound for nails. 
In  1866,  he paid $7 for 
a pair of ordinary  working woolen shirts, 
20  cents  a  pound  for  pork,  19  cents  a 
pound  for  sugar,  $1.75 a  pound for  tea, 
and 50 cents a pound  for smoking tobac­
co.  People  who have the  cheerful habit 
of living are  better  clothed,  better  fed, 
better paid, and better off in every respect 
than  ever  before  in  the  history  of the 
country.

Keep  Good  Company.

Intercourse  with  persons  of  decided 
virtue and  excellence  is of  great  impor­
tance in the formation of a good character. 
The force of example is powerful; we are 
creatures of  imitation,  and,  by  a  neces­
sary  influence,  our  habits  and  tempers 
are very  much  formed  on  the  model  of 
those with whom we familiarly associate.

Country Callers.

Calls  have  been  received  at  The 
T radesman office during  the  past  week 
from  the  following  gentleman  in  trade:

J.  N.  Covert, Carleton Center.
J.  J.  Bowen, Ovid.
John Farrowe,  So.  Blendon.
O.  P.  De Witt,  St.  Johns.
Geo.  H.  Walbrink,  Allendale.
T.  H.  Atkins, Carlisle.

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Merciaits
111 Clot111

Will  best consult their own  interests and 
that of their trade if they will  post  them­
selves  with the  styles,  make  up.  perfect 
fit  and  remarkably  reasonable  prices  of 
our  entire line,  adapted  for all classes of 
trade.  Our  single  and  double  breasted

and  Ulsters

Box 340, 

Marshall,  Mich.

WII,UAM  CONNOR,

Overcoats

IH E   MICHIGAN  TRADESMA N
Mercantile  Methods in Bohemia.
“There is little  similarity between the 
mercantile  methods of  this  country  and 
Bohemia,”  said  L.  Winternitz,  who  has 
lately returned  from a visit to  Bohemia, 
to  a  reporter  of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   the 
other day.  “Such a thing as our general 
store  is  totally unknown,  each  line  of 
goods  having  a  separate  and  distinct 
representative.  For  instance,  a  grocer 
sells  simply  tea,  coffee, sugar  and a few 
other  plain  staples.  Flour,  meal  and 
compressed  yeast are  sold  in  stores  by 
themselves.  Fruits  and  vegetables  are 
sold  at  the  market  hall,  which 
is  a 
feature  in  every town of  importance  in 
the empire.  Cigars and  tobacco are sold 
in  separate stands,  owned by the govern­
ment  and  presided  over  by old  soldiers 
and  soldiers’ widows,  who  receive a per­
centage on  the  sales in lieu of a pension. 
The  handling  of  tobacco,  both  manu­
factured  and  unmanufactured,  is  con­
ducted under the supervision of  the gov­
ernment,  and  the tobacco stores  are also 
the  selling  agencies for  postage  stamps 
and  revenue  stamps, every  invoice,  re­
ceipt,  check,  draft  and note  being  void 
unless bearing a government stamp.  The 
government  also  has a monopoly  of  the 
salt  business, none  but  government offi­
cials being permitted  to  handle  it.  No 
merchant is permitted  to  engage in  bus­
iness  without  a  permit  from  the  city, 
which requires  him  to prove  his  ability 
to  conduct a store  by  showing  past  ex­
perience.  Drug stores are permitted only 
in certain  localities and  are also  limited
to a certain number of inhabitants.  This 
requirement  prevents  excessive  compe­
tition,  making  the holder of  a license  to 
open  a drug store a fortunate individual. 
Drug  stores are  compelled to keep  open 
all  night or have a clerk  in  readiness to 
answer  the  night  bell.  Although  the 
country  is  cursed with  holidays,  there 
being a holiday every few days, all  kinds 
of mercantile business is carried on seven 
days  in  the  week.  Of  late  years,  how­
ever,  a law has  been  enacted compelling 
all  places of  business to close  between 2 
and 5 o’clock  Sunday  afternoon,  except 
theatres,  cafes,  hotels and street cars.”

Boys’  and  Children's  OuerGoats  and
chants  assuring  him  that  they are the  nicest, 
season.  September,  1891.

while  being worn  cannot  possibly  be told  from  the best  made to order  garments. 
The demand  has  been so great  that  we are making up  a large  number  more in  all 
colors  and  grades, Cheviots,  Meltons.  Kerseys,  Homespuns,  Covert Cloth  in  full or 
half roll  box,  top and regular cuts, Chinchillas and Ulsters.
L* A T  T  CiTTTrpC|  Large selections and  newest novelties, double and 
single breasted  sacks,  nobby  three button cutaway
frocks  and  regular  frock  suits,  also  Prince Albert  and other  coats and  vests  in 
“Clays”  worsted  and other attractive materials.

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A  select  line  of  pants  well  worthy  of attention.

W ILLIAM   CONNOR our Michigan  representative  during the  past nine  years 
will  he  pleased  to call  upon  you at any  time,  if  you  will  favor  him  with a  line 
addressed  to him,  box 346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  where lie resides.
Having been established  thirty-one years,  during all of  which  time  we have  had 
a large  and  increasing  trade  in Michigan,  we know  pretty  well the requirements of 
the trade.

AUCHA.nL,  KOLB  &  S O N ,

Wholesale Clothiers, Rochester,  N. Y.
S iIH q  William  Connor  is  pleased  to state  that 
0UI to  he has  been  highly complimented  by mer 
cleanest, best  made and  lowest  in  price seen  this

“All things considered,  which  country 

do you prefer—America or Bohemia?”
“America is good  enough  for me.”

A   C le v e r   C o n c e p tio n  

From the Denver Commercial Tribune.

W.  F.  McLaughlin  &  Co., of  Chicago, 
hit  the  bull’s eye  square  in  the  center 
when  they conceived  the idea of  packing 
XXXX  .coffee  in  a  handsome  bureau 
which would  retail  in  any furniture  es­
tablishment for from six to seven dollars. 
There  is  no  occasion to dwell  upon  the 
merits  of  XXXX  coffee  when  the 
im­
porters  are  unable  to  keep  pace  with 
their  orders,  but  for  the  benefit  of  the 
retailer a word  in  regard  to  the  XXXX 
coffee  bureau  may  be  welcome. 
It  is 
made  of  selected  kiln-dried  wood 
in 
cherry imitation with top and back board 
of  hard  wood and  highly polished,  mak­
ing an article of  furniture  which  can  be 
sold  to good  profit or used  in  the  house­
hold of  the most fastidious store keeper. 
If  the merchant chooses to sell it.  it will 
certainly increase  his profit  two or three 
cents a pound  on  XXXX, quite an  item 
on this favorite staple.

We  have  a  few   thousand  5-pound 
colored statem ents, size 5\ xSk9 super­
fine paper, which  w e will  close  outt

Printed  and  blocked  in  tabs of  100 

( 
500,  $1  05
\  1,000, 
2  50
(  2,000, @  2  25

We have  the following  colors, Rink, 
Blue,  Canary,  Cherry,  Fawn,  Amber, 
Lilac.  We  cannot  break:  packages— 
that is, print  less than  500 of one color 
—o f   these goods.

The Tradesman  Company,

T h e   H a r d w a r e   M a r k e t.

Wire  nails  still  decline a  little.  Tin 
is  being  marked  up  by  the  jobbers  to 
correspond  with  the present  cost of  im­
portation.  There  is  no change  in  rope, 
I have a fine waterpower on Rapid  River, near 
the  present  price of  sisal  and  manilla! 
where the new extension of  the Chicago <Ss West 
Michigan crosses said  river, near enough to run 
being  lower  than ever  before known  in 
a side  track, which, with  the necessary  ground 
the history  of  the country. 
In  fact,  the 
I  for building  I  am  anxious  to  give away.  Who 
wants it? 
price  of  sisal is about  the  same  as  th e! 
I
1 cost of  the  fiber  from  which it is made.

Free  Waterpower  Privilege.

A a e w o o d , Kalkaska Co.,  Mich.

ALLAN  F.  LITTLE,

Grand  Rapids.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON,

Tar and  Gravel  Roofers,

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

Corner Louis and Campau Sts., 

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Wholesale Price  Current.

Advanced—Oil  cloves, po. jalap, tonka beans, German quinine, hemp Beed.
Declined—Gum arable,  nitrate silver, linseed oil,  turpentine, citric acid,  gum camphor.

ACIDUM.

8®  10
A ceticum ...................... 
Benzolcum  German..  50®  6o
Boracic 
.......................  
20
C arbolicum ..................  23®  35
C itricum ...................... 
48®  53
H ydroehior..................  
3®
Nitrocum 
....................  10®  12
O xalicum ......................  11®  13
Phosphorlum  d ll.........  
20
Salicylicum ........................1  3G®1 70
Sulphuricum................ 
Tannicum ............................1  40@1 60
Tartaricum....................  40®  42

IX®

AMMONIA.

“ 

Aqua, 16  d eg ................  3M@ 
5
7
20  d eg................   5)4® 
Carbonas  .....................    12©  14
C hloridum ....................  12®  14

ANILINS.

Black.................................... 2 00@2 25
Brown.............................  80@1  00
Red..................................   45®  50
Y ello w .................................2 50@3 00

Cubeae  (po.  90)......... 
90®1  10
8®  10
Juniperus...................... 
Xantnoxylum ...............  25®  30

BAL8AMUM.

Copaiba.........................   55®  60
Peru................................   @1  50
Terabln, Canada  .......   35®  40
T olutan.........................   35®  50

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian....................  18
Casslae  ....................................  11
Cinchona F la v a ....... ............   18
Rnonymus  atropurp.............  30
Myrica  Cerlfera, po...............  20
Prunus V irglnl.......................   12
Quillala,  grd...........................  14
Sassafras  ......... 
14
Ulmus Po (Ground  12).........  10

 

 

BXTRACTUM.

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24®  25
po.............  33®  35
Haematox, 15 lb. b ox..  11®  12
“ 
i s .................  13®  14
“ 
%a...............   14®  15
“  Ms...............   16®  17

FERRUM.

Carbonate Preclp.........  @  15
Citrate and Q ulnla....  @3  50
Citrate  Soluble............  @ 8 0
Ferrocyanidum Sol  ...  ®   50
Solut  Chloride............   @  15
Sulphate,  com’l  .........   1)4@ 
*
pare..............   @ 
7

“ 

FLORA.

A rn ica...................  22® 
A nthem ls.............   30® 
Matricaria 

25
50
.....   25®  30

(  

F O L IA .
 

“ 

.........  

n lv e lly ...............   25® 

Barosma 
 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-
“  A lx. 
Salvia  officinalis,  M® 
U raU rsl................. 
SUMMI.

and  Ms...............  12® 
8® 

20®  50
28
35®  50
_
15
10

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
11 

Acacia,  1st  picked....  @ 8 6
2d 
....  @ 6 0
3d 
....  @ 5 0
sifted sorts...  @  31
p o ...  60®  80
50®  60
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60)... 
“  Cape,  (po.  20)... 
®   12
Socotrl.  (po.  60).  @ 5 0
“ 
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Ms,
@ 
1
16)....................... 
A m m onlae...........   35® 
40
.  @ 2 2
Assafoetlda,  (po. 30). 
Benzolnum ...........   50® 
55
Cam phors................   - 
50®  53
Buphorblum  po 
lo
Galbanum......................   @3 00
Gamboge,  po............. - 
80®  95
Guaiacum,  (po  30)  .. 
@ 2 5
Kino,  (po.  25)......   @ 
20
M astic...............  .........  @ 9 6
Myrrh,  (po. 45)....   @ 
40
Opll,  (po. 3  30)..............2  10@2 20
..  ..............   25®  35
Shellac  .. 
bleached.  28® 
33
T ragacanth..........  30® 
75

.....   35® 

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hebba—In ounce packages.

A bsinthium .............................  25
Bupatorlum .............................  20
Lobelia......................................  25
M ajorum..................................  28
Mentha  Piperita....................  23
V lr.  .........................   25
R ue.............................................  30
Tanacetum, V .........................   22
Thymus,  V ...............................  25

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MAGNESIA.

Calcined, P at........  55® 
60
Carbonate,  Pat  ...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K.  &  M —  
20®  25
Carbonate,  Jenning5.. 
35®  36

OLSUM.

A bsinthium ................... 3 50®4 00
Amygdalae, D u lc.  45® 
75
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 00@8 25
A n lsi................................1  75@1 85
Auranti  Cortex............ 3 60@3 75
Bergamll  ......................3  75®4  00
C ajlputi................ 
80
70® 
C arvophyill...................   95®1 00
C ed ar.....................  35® 
65
C henopodii................... 
©2 00
C lnnam onll................... 1  15@1 20
C ltronella.............   @ 
45
Contain  M ac........  35® 
65
l-20@l  30
Copaiba 

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

Cubebae.............. .............   ©  
Exechthitos.................   2 50@2  75
E rigeron.............................2  25@2 50
G aultheria..........................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce.......  
©   75
Gossipi!,  Sem. g a l.......   50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................... l   40@1  50
Juniperl...........................   50@2 00
L avendula......................  90@2 00
Lim onis...............................2  50@3 10
Mentha Piper......................2 90@3 00
Mentha  Yerid....................2  20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal.....................1  00®1 10
Myrcla, ounce..............   @  50
O live................................   85@2 75
Picls Liquida,  (gal. 35)  10®  12
R icin i...................................1  00@1 20
Rosmarini.................... 
75@1 00
Rosse,  ounce................  @6  50
Succini.............................  4P® 45
S abin a.............................  90@1 00
San tal 
........................... 3 50@7 00
Sassafras.......................   50®  55
Sinapis, ess, ounce__   @  65
T igli!..............................  @1  00
T h ym e...........................  40®  50
..................  @  60
Theobromas..................  15®  20

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POTASSIUM.

Bi Carb...........................  15®  18
Bichrom ate..................  13®  14
Bromide.......................  
28©  30
Carb................................   12®  15
Chlorate,  (po. 16).........  14®  16
C yanide.........................   50®  55
Iodide.................................. 2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  28®  30 
©   15
Potassa, Bitart, com ... 
Potass  Nltras, opt....... 
8®  10
Potass Nitras................ 
7® 
9
P ressiate.......................   28®  30
Sulphate  po..................  15®  18

RADIX.

A conitum .....................   20®  25
A lthae.............................  25®  30
A nchu sa.......................   12®  15
Arum,  po.......................  @  25
Calamus.........................   20®  50
Gentiana,  (po.  15).........   10®  12
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
@  35
(po.  10)...................... 
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__   15®  20
Inula,  po.........................   15® 20
Ipecac,  po........................... 2  10@2 50
Iris  plox (po. 35@38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr........................  60®  65
Maranta,  Ms ... 
....  @  35
Podophyllum, po.........  15®  18
Rhei............................. 
“  cu t.........................  @1  75
“  pv...........................  75®1  35
S pigelia...........................  48® 53
Sanguinarla,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentaria......................  30®  35
S en ega.............................  40® 45
Simllax,  Officinalis,  H  @ 4 0  
M  @  20
Scillae,  (po. 35)...............  10® 12
Symplocarpus,  Fosti -
dus,  po.......................   @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ©   25
German...  15®  20
lnglber a ........................  10® 15
Zingiber  j ..................... 
22® 25

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75@1 00

Anisum,  (po.  20). 
@ 1 5
Apium  (graveleons)..  20®  22
Bird, Is.....................  
4® 
6
Carul, (po.  18)..............  
8®  12
Cardamon...................... 1  00® 1  25
Corlandrum..................  10®  12
Cannabis Sativa........... 
4&@5
Cydonlum.....................   75® 1  00
Cnenopodium  ............   10®  12
Dipterix Odorate.........2  10@2 20
F oenicu lu m ................  @  15
Foenugreek,  po.......  
8
6® 
U n i ..............................   4  @ 4)4
Linl, grd,  (bbl. 3)4) 
4  @ 4)4
Lobelia...........................  35®  40
Pharlarls Canarian—   3)4® 4)4
R apa..............................  
7
Slnapls,  A lbu..............  
9
N igra............   11®  12

6® 
8® 

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Frumenti, W ..D.  C o..2  00@2 50 
D. F.  R ........ 1  ?5@2 00
: ...i   io@i  50
Junlperls  Co. O. T — 1  75@1  75
............j  75@3  50
Saacharum  N.  E .........1  75@2 00
Spt.  Vlnl  Gall!............ 1  75@6 50
Yinl O porto...................1  25@2  00
Vlnl  Alba...................... 1  25@2  00

SPONGES.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage......................2  25@2  50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ...................  
2  00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage........... 
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage...................... 
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ........................... 
65
Hard for  slate  u se—  
75
Yellow  Reef, for  slate 
u s e ..............................  
1  40

STRUTS.

A cea cia ....................................  50
Zingiber  ..................................  50
Ipecac........................................  60
Ferri  Iod ..................................  50
Auranti  Cortes.......................   50
Rhei  Arom...............................  50
Simllax  Officinalis................  60
Co.........  50
S en ega......................................  50
Sclllae........................................  50
“  Co..................................   50
T olu tan ....................................  50
Prunus  vlrg............ ................  50

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TINCTURES.

 

 

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

Co........................  75

Aconitum  Napellls R ...........  6(1
p ...........  5(
A loes.......................................      6(
and  myrrh....................  6C
A rn ica ......................................  5(
Asafcetida.................... 
(
Atrope Belladonna................  61
Benzoin...................................  6C
Co...............................  5(
Sanguinarla  ...........................   5C
Barosm a..................................   50
Cantharides.............................  75
C apsicum .................................  50
Ca  damon................................   75
Castor....................................... 1  00
Catechu....................................   50
C in ch ona................................   50
.  60
C o lo m b a ...............................  50
C onium ....................................  50
Cubeba..................................  ..  50
D ig ita lis..................................  50
Ergot.........................................   50
G entian....................................  50
Co................................   60
G ualca......................................  50
ammon.......................   60
Z in gib er..................................  50
H yoscyam us...........................  50
Iodine........................................  75
Colorless......................  75
Ferri  Chloridum....................  35
K in o .........................................   50
Lobelia......................................  50
Myrrh........................................  50
Nux  Vom ica...........................  50
O p ii...........................................  85
“  Camphorated..................  50
“  Deodor.............................2 00
Auranti Cortex.......................   50
Q u assia....................................  50
Rhatany  ..................................  50
Rhei...........................................   50
Cassia  A cutifol......................  50
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Co................   50
Serpentaria.............................  50
Stromonium.............................  60
T olutan....................................   60
V alerian ..................................   50
V eratrum Verlde....................  50

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.¡Ether, Sots  Nit, 3 F ..  26®  28
30®  32
A lu m en ...........................2M@  3
(po.
7)  .............................  . 
4
3® 
A nnatto.........................   55®  60
Antimoni, po................ 
5
4® 
55®  60
A ntipyrin.....................   @1  40
Antifebrln  ...................   @  25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  67
Arsenicum .................... 
7
Balm Gilead  B ud.......   38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N .............. 2  10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, ()4s
11;  Ms.  12)................   @ 
9
Cantharides  Russian,
@1  20 
PO................................
Capslcl  Fructus, a f...
@  20@  25 
- po.
©  20 
12®  13 
Caryophyllus,  (po.  15)
@3 75 
Carmine,  No. 40...........
50®  55 
Cera  Alba, S. & F .......
38®  40
Cera  Flava....................
_
Coccus 
 
Cassia FructuB............   @  20
Centraria....................... 
©   10
C etaceum .....................   @  42
C hloroform ..................  60®  63
squlbbs  ..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst.........1  5C@1  70
Chondrus.....................   20®  25
Cinchonldlne, P.  &  W  15®  20 
German  3  @  12 
“ 
Corks, 
list,  die.  per
cent 
6(i
......................... 
Creasotum .................. 
@  50
2
Creta,  (bbl. 75)............   @ 
prep.....................  
5® 
5
preclp................ 
9®  11
R u b ra ................  @  S
C rocus...........................  28®  30
Cudbear......................... 
©   24
Cuprl Sulph  ................   5 ®  
6
D extrine.......................   10®  12
Ether Sulph..................  68®  70
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po  ....................  @  d
11 
jota,  (po.)  60 ...........  50®  55
Flake  w h ite................  12®  15
G alla..............................  @  23
Gambler.........................7  @ 8
Gelatin,  Cooper...........  @  70
French............   40®  60
Glassware  flint,  70 and 10. 

“ 
by box 60and 10

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Glue,  Brown................ 
9®  15
“  W hite..................  13®  25
G lycerlna..................... 17  @  25
@  22
Grana Paradisi......... 
Humulus.......................   25®  55
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..  @  90
@  80
“  C or 
 
Ox Rubrum  @ 1 10
Ammonlati. 
@1  10
Unguentum.  45®  65
Hydrargyrum..............   @ 7 0
.1  25®1  50
Ichthyobolla,  Am. 
Indigo.............................  75@1  00
Iodine,  Resubl.............3  75@3  85
Iodoform.......................   @4  70
L upulin.........................   35©  40
Lycopodium ................  40®  45
M a cis.............................  80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
drarg Iod....................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltis  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
a®  S
1)4)............................... 
Mannla,  S. F ............... 
50®  60

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S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S.  P.  & W .. .1  95@2 
C. C o ...........................1  85@2
Moschus  Canton.........  @
Myrlstica,  No. 1...........  70®
N ux Vomica,  (po 20)..  @
Os.  Sepia.......................   25®  !
Pepsin Saac, H.  & P.  D.
C o ................................   @2  1
Picls  Llq, N.  C.,  )4 gal
doz  .............................  @2  1
Picls Llq., quarts  __   @1  1
p in ts...........  @  1
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @  !
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)..  @
Piper Alba,  (po go)__  
®   :
Plx  Burgun..................  @
Plumb! A c e t................  14® 
:
Pulvis Ipecac et opii  . 1  10@1  i 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz.......  @1  i
Pyrethrum,  p v ............   30® 
i
:
Q uasslae.......................  
8® 
Quinia, S.  P.  & W  ....  31® 
i
S.  German__ 21  @ 
i
Rubla  Tinctorum.......  12®  1
@ 
!
Saccharum Lactis p v . 
Salacln...........................1  80@1  i
Sanguis  Draconls.......  40®  !
Santoinne  .......................  
4  !
Sapo,  W .........................  12®  1
...........  10®   1

M ............  

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Seldlitz  Mixture.........  @  25
Sinapis...............................   @ 18
'?  opt...................... 
®   30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V o e s ...........................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras,  (po.  12).  .  11®  12 
Soda  et Potass T art...  30®  33
Soda Carb...................   1 )4@  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb..............   @ 
5
Soda,  A sh.....................   3)4® 
4
Soda, Sulphas..............   @ 
2
Spts.  Ether C o ............   50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom.......  
®2  25
“  Myrcla  Imp.........  @3  00
*'  Vlnl  Reel.  bbl.
2  27)............................ 2 31@2  41
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal.......  @1  30
Sulphur, Subl.............. 3  @ 4
R oll................   2X@3)4
Tam arinds............ ....... 
8®  10
Terebenth V enice.......   28®  30
Theobrom ae................  45®  5G
V anilla.........................9  00@16 00
Zlnci  Sulph.................. 
8

7® 

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OILS.

Whale, winter............   70 
Lard,  extra..................  55 
Lard, No.  1..................  45 
Linseed, pure raw  ...  36 

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
56
39

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faints. 

Llndseed,  boiled  __   39 
Neat’s  Foet,  winter
strained.................. 
50 
SplritsTurpentlne__   41)4 
bbl. 

42
60
46
lb.
Red  Venetian................ 134  2@3
Ochre,yellow  M ars...  1M  2@4
“ 
Ber.........1M  2®3
Putty,  commercial__2M  2)4®3
“  strictly  pure......2)4  2M®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ............................... 
13@16
Vermilion,  E nglish__  
70@75
70®75
Green,  Peninsular  ___ 
Lead,  red.......................   7  @7)4
w h ite ..................7  @?W
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’......... 
@96
1  0
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
C liff..............................  
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
P aints.............. ..........1  00@1  20

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VARNISHES.

No.  1  Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp.................. 160@1  70
Coach  Body.................2 75@3  00
No.  1  Turp  Furn........1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 

.. 1  55@1  60
Turp.............................  70®  76

What You  Ask  F or!
Get 
—HINKLEY’S  BONE  LINIMENT-

FO R   T H IR T Y -F O U R   Y EA R S  T H E   FA V O R IT E .

Enclosed in  White  Wrappers and made by D. F. FOSTER,  Saginaw, Mich.

Drugs  Medicines.

State  B oard  o f  P h a rm a cy . 

One  Year—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Two  Years—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Three  Years—James Vernor. Detroit.
Four Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor 
Five Years—George Gundrum. Ionia. 
President—Jacob  Jesson. Muskegon. 
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gnndrum. Ionia.

Meetings  for  1891—Lansing, Nov. 4.
M ich igan   State  P h a rm a c eu tica l  A ss’n. 

President—D. E. Frail, 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. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Treasurer—Wm Dunont, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Ann  Arbor, Oct. 20,21 and 22,1891.
G rand  R apids  P h a rm a c eu tica l  S ociety. 
President. W. R. Jewett,  Secretary,  Frank H. Escott, 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March 

June, September and December,
Grand R a p id s  D r u e  C lerk s’ A sso cia tio n , 
resident, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith.

D etro it  P h a rm a c eu tica l  S ociety. 

President, F. Rohnert;  Secretary, J. P..Rheinfrank.
M uskegon  D ru g  C lerks’  A ssociation . 

President  N. Miller;  Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.

A   T R U E   M A N .

“Are my biscuits  light, John?-’ asks  the charm­

As she smiles on her husband, and he,

With  emphasis,  answers,  “They're  lovely,  my 

ing young wife.

life,

As light as the foam of the sea."

“Is  the  steak  cooked  to  suit  you?” she  gently 

inquires,

“It might have been cooked at celestial  fires,

And he says, as he sm ilingly noods,
And is tender enough for the gods.”

“And  the  coffee, that  pleases  you, too, does  it, 

She asks, overjoyed with his praise,

Which rather than strains of  sweet  music she’d 

“I never drank better,” he says.

So  she sits  down beside  him and with  him par­

And the rigid, no doubt will confess 

That  if  John  tells  her  lies  in the  answers  he 

He’s a gentleman, nevertheless.

U n g r a te fu l P e o p le .

You  may rest  upon  this as an  unfail­
ing  truth,  that there  neither is,  nor ever 
was,  any person  remarkably  ungrateful, 
who was not also insufferably proud; nor 
any one  proud  who was not  equally un­
grateful. 
Ingratitude overlooks all kind­
ness,  because  pride  makes  it  carry  its 
head so high. 
Ingratitude is too  base  to 
return  a  kindness,  and too proud  to  re­
gard it—much like the tops of mountains, 
lofty, yet  barren, which produce nothing, 
which yield nothing,  which feed nobody, 
which  clothe  nobody,  yet  are  high  and 
stately,  and 
look  down  upon  all  the 
world  about  them. 
It  was  ingratitude 
which put the poniard into Brutus’ hand, 
but  it  was  want  of  compassion  which 
thrust it into Caesar’s  heart.  Friendship 
consists  properly  in  mutual  offices,  and 
a  generous  strife  in  alternate  acts  of 
kindness.  But  he  who  does a kindness 
to an ungrateful  person  sets his seal to a

dear!”

hear,

takes.

makes,

flint,  and  sows  his seed  upon  the  sand; 
upon the former he makes no impression, 
and from the  latter finds  no  production.

Remarkable Fecundity.

The father of the  Duchesse d’Etampes, 
the  celebrated  favorite  of  Francis  1  of 
France,  Guillaume de  Pisselieu  Seigneur 
d’Heilly,  had  thirty  children  by  three 
wives.  Benjamin  Franklin  was  the  fif­
teenth  of  seventeen  children.  Dianora 
Freseobaldi,  an  Italian  lady  of  the  six­
teenth  century,  was  the  mother of  fifty- 
two  children.  The  inscription  on  her 
famous  portrait  by  Brougina in  the  San 
Donato  collection,  says  she  never  had 
less  than  three  children  at a birth  and 
there  is  a  tradition  in  the  Freseobaldi 
family that she once  had six.  Brand,  in 
his  history of  Newcastle,  meutions  as-» 
well-attested  fact  that a weaver  in Scot­
land had by one wife  sixty-two children, 
all of  whom  lived  to be  baptised,  and in 
Aberconway Church  may still  be seen  a 
monument  to  the  memory  of  Nicholas 
Hooker,  who  was  himself  a  forty-first 
child  and the  father of  twenty-seven  by 
one wife.

C h in e se  M a ttin g .

Samples of  new  Chinese mattings  are 
being  shown on  the  market.  The ship­
ments of this class of goods  to the United 
States is only  about  one-half of  what  it 
was  a  year  ago  at  this  time,  and  it  is 
probable  that  prices  may advance later 
in  the  season  unless there  should  be  a 
greater export from China to this country. 
The  sale of  mattings in the  West  is  on 
the increase,  as  it is a material  that  can 
be  used  profitably  both 
in  city  and 
country  homes  as  an  economical  floor 
covering. 
It  is especially  desirable as a 
summer covering for floors.

T h e F o u n d e r  o f  A n ilin e   D y e s .

The founder of  the aniline  dye  indus­
try,  Prof.  August  Wilhelm  von  Hof­
mann,  last month celebrated  the  fiftieth 
anniversary of his doctorate. 
It  was  on 
the 8th of August,  1841,  that  the  title of 
“doctor of philosophy” was awarded him 
on  the  strength  of  his  classic  essay on 
“The  presence  of aniline  and chinoline 
in  coal  tar.”  Prof.  V.  Hofmann  must 
be  ranked  with the greatest of modern 
chemists.

T h e  D r u g   M a r k e t.

Po.  jalap  root 

Gum  arabic  is  lower.  Oil cloves  has 
advanced. 
is  higher. 
Tonka beans  are  higher.  Nitrate silver 
has  declined.  Gum  opium  is  steady. 
Morphia is  unchanged.  German quinine 
has advanced.  Linseed oil has declined. 
Spirits turpentine is lower.

Au  Sable—J.  Solomon & Son  have  re­

moved their tailor shop to Saginaw.

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T H E   ]VfTCPTTOAIST  T R A D E S M A  N

T h e  T im e  t o   B u y .

T h e C r a n b e r r y  C rop .

g h o c b r i b s .

The  New  York  Shipping  List,  which 
is one of the most conservative  commer­
cial journals  in  the  country,  advises  i.s 
patrons  what to buy and  what not  to buy 
under the above eaption:

improved  machinery,  including the  only 
successful German  process of producing 
a palatable granulated white sugar with­
out double  refining,  thus  greatly  econo- 
I mixing  in the  cost of  manufacture  and 
I proportionately 
increasing  the  profits.
I The plau of operation is to  form  auxiiia- 
I ry  companies  in  the  South  and  West. 
The  parent  corporation  will 
furnish 
! everything wanted to construct the neces­
sary plants and take a  controlling inter­
We do not mean  that  it is  time to buy 
est.  Agents are to circulate  throughout
speculative stocks,  as advce is never giv-
en on that very  uncertain  point; we refer | the country to encourage  the plautiug of 
beets,  aud  make contracts with  farmers 
to merchandise only. 
Indications favor 
for purchasing entire  crops of  the sugar 
holders,  as  the Wall  street barometer  is 
producing vegetable.  The promoters be­
generally  followed  by  merchants,  and 
lieve  that  every  local  company  should 
the  developments  of the  past few  days 
pay at  least 20  per cent,  as  a  minimum 
have  greatly  strengthened  all  the  mar­
on the  capital  invested.  A  representa­
kets that  are not  burdened  with  surplus 
tive of the  corporation  visited  Germany 
stocks.  Prices on  most goods have ruled 
during the summer, and  after thoroughly 
low  for some months  because of the lack 
investigating  the  beet  sugar  industry, 
of  confidence  which  caused  buyers  to 
returns  with  the  belief  that  it can  be 
limit  orders  for  immediate  necessities 
conducted  on  a  cheaper  basis 
in  the 
only.  Holders  of 
large  stocks  found 
United  States.  The  bounty  here  is  a 
that important reductions in prices failed 
great  encouragement,  aud 
its  removal 
to  stimulate  businesss,  and  they  were 
would  not  seriously  interfere  with  the 
sometimes  forced  to  realized  at  auction 
business,  it is claimed.  The next Demo­
in order to obtain money to meet pressing 
cratic Congress is not  expected to revise 
obligations.  We are now on  the thresh-1 
or repeal  the bounty  feature  of the pres­
hold of prospeiity. and sellers are placed 
ent  law,  as  it  would  hurt  too  many con­
in a position to  dictate  terms, except  in 
stituents in  the South and West.
cases  where  over  production  interferes 
with  a higher range  of prices,  as  in  cot­
ton  and  cotfee.  Many  articles  in  the 
drug line are active and  higher,  but qui­
nine is not in  a  condition  to sympathize.
Canned goods are  not expected  to appre- j 
ciate in  value at  present  because of  the I 
large  supply.  Metals  may  sympathize j 
more or less with  the improved condition 
of general  business; lead  continues  firm 
without outside assistance: copper would 
probably advance  on  a  better  demand; 
tin  values  being  controlled  by  specula­
tors,  the  market  is  uncertain:  the  iron 
trade is feeling the effect of the improve­
ment  in  other  channels,  and  increased 
orders are hardening  prices.  The coffee 
market  is  in  the  mire,  and  some  time 
may he required to put  it on  a more solid 
foundation: teas are expected to enhance 
slightly in  value,  although  cireumstaces 
have  been  opposed 
to  any  upward 
change. 
Sugar  has  probably  touched 
the  highest  figure  to  be  reached  this 
.season  The large  crop of cotton  is  the 
principal  bearish feature in  that  trade.
Heavy crops of cereals  have  encouraged 
a large export  movement,  and the Euro­
pean  markets  are  ready  to  receive  all 
that  can  be  shipped; this  may  support 
grain  until  next  summer.  The railroad 
and ocean traffic has  seldom  been  great­
er,  and  good  dividends  are  promised 
from  that  source.  Paints  and oils  are 
favoring manufacturers,  with the excep­
tion of  linseed  and  probably  cotton oil, 
as  the  heavy  seed  crops  will  produce 
comparatively cheap raw material  unless 
an important export outlet  is found,  and 
that may be the case in flaxseed.
After  all,  the  law  of  supply  and  de­
mand rules the  markets,  but a better de­
mand  has  been created  by  the  restora­
tion of confidence,  by  the very favorable 
money  situation,  greatly  increased  busi­
ness of the  railroads  and other fortunate 
circumstances,  and 
it  would  he  very 
strange  if  this combination  of  unusual 
events failed to have  an  important influ­
ence on the  merchandise markets.  Now 
is the  time to  buy  with  the exercise  of 
discretion.  We  do  not  think  that  the 
Wall street  failure  will  be  far-reaching 
in its  results; it Is  purely  a  speculative 
failure,  and  may  influence  the  money 
market  for  a few days.

The  cranberry crop of  Michigan  is al­
most  a  complete  failure,  owing  to  the 
drought  during  July,  the  frost  on  the 
| 31st  of  that  mouth,  the  hail  storm  on 
| September 2 and  the  tip  worm—in some 
| cases singly and in others in combination, 
j  Dr.  Walker,  who  has  the  largest  marsh 
i in  the  State,  at  Glen  Arbor,  announces 
| that  his  crop  is  almost  a total  failure.
| The  same is true of  Mr.  Barton’s marsh, 
at  Belaud,  and  Mr.  Leach’s  marsh,  at 
| Walton  Junction.  Advices  from  other 
| parts of  the State are to the  same effect,
| and  reports  from  Wisconsin  are  by  no 
1 means  encouraging. 
The  tip  worm, 
j which  made its first  appearance in Mich­
igan  marshes  this  year,  is  viewed  with 
| alarm  by  the  cranberry  growers,  as  it 
| has  caused  a  complete  annihilation  of 
! the crop  in  some sections of the country, 
i It  attacks  the  plant  about  blossoming 
i time, enveloping the top  portion in  a fine 
! web and completely destroying the  blos­
soms and small berries.

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

No. 0 Sun..................................................................   45
50
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
75
Tubular...........................................  
75

J C r o ck er y   & G la ssw a r e

 
LAMP  CHIMNEYS.—Per l>OX.

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LAMP  BURNERS.

6 doz. In box.

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First quality.
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t Y l  Flint.
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No. 0 Sun.................................................................  1  75
No. 1  “ 
..................:.............................................. 1  88
..................................................................2 70
No. 2  “ 
2  25
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top............................. 
No. 1 
2  40
No. 2 
3  40
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.............................................2  60
No. 1  “ 
“  ......................................'__ 2  80
No. 2 
3  80
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|  Pearl top.
I No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................... 3 to
No. 2  “ 
“ 
....................... 4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................... 4  70
!  La Bastic.
[  No. 1  Sun, plain bulb,  per doz. 
..................... 1  26
...........................150
No. 2  “ 
j  No. 1 crimp, per doz................................................l 35
i  No. 2 
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FRUIT JARS.

Mason’s or  Lightning.

Pints .  .....................................................................13 00
I  Q uarts.............................. 
14  00
,  Half gallons............................................................ 17 00
Rubbers..................................................................  
55
|  Caps  o n ly...............................................................  4 50

STONEWARE—AKRON.
3  to 6 g a l..................................   06 54

]  Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 g a l.......................  .. 
06
Jugs, % gal., per doz.........................................   75
.........................................   90
......................................... 1  80
Milk Pans,  54 gai., per doz.  (glazed 75c)__   60
90c).  ..  72
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More  Sugar  Competition.

From the hew York  Shipping List.

The Beet S u g a r  Development Go. is the 
name of a New  York  corporation,  which 
is  represented  to  be  backed  by  heavy 
capital.  The evident  intention  is to get 
on the  ground  floor of  the beet sugar  in­
dustry,  and  to give it  more  importance 
than the cane sugar industry, if possible. 
The parties identified with the movement 
are not  acquainted  with  local sugar  in- 
interests,  but they see great  possibilities 
in the  extraction  of  sugar  from  beets, 
and  confidently  believe 
they 
can take  some of  the  laurels as well  as 
most of the profits  from the sugar  trust. 
The person  at the head of the new enter­
prise claims to have  secured control  for 
the  United  States of  all the  latest  and

that 

PR O D U CE  M A R K E T .

Apples—Fancy  eating command  $1.50 per bbl. 
Cooking are held at $1  per bbl
Beans—Dry beans  are  beginning  to  come  in 
freely, dealers  paying  $l.25@l 50  for  unpicked 
and  country picked  and  bolding at  $2 for  city 
picked.
Butter—Choice  dairy  now  commands  18@19c, 
w hile  factory  creamery  lias advanced to  24c.
Celery—20c per doz.  bunches.
Cabbages—35@4i'e per doz.
Cucumbers—Pickling, 15® 20c per 100.
Eggs—Dealers  pay  10c  and  freight,  bolding 
Grapes—Worden’s command 3c; Niagaras Del­
Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb.
Onions—65e per bu. for good  stock.
Muskmelon «—40c for common;  65c for Osage.
Peaches— The  market  is  unsteady,  ranging 
from  50c  to  $2  per  bushel.  Smocks  and seed­
lings are in  plentiful supply, but  choice fruit  is 
about played out.
Pears—Clapp's  Favorite  and Flemish  Beauties 
are  in  good  demand  at  $1  50@il.75  per  b u .; 
common grades are about out  of market.

at 18c.
awares and Catawba«. 4c. per ib.

Peppers—Green  i l   per bushel.
Potatoes—Little doing at about  35@40C per bu.
Quinces—$2.25 per bushel.
Sweet  Potatoes—$3.25 per  bbl.  for  choice  Jer­
Tomatoes—The supply is almost  unprecedent­

sey stock.
ed, dealers pay 2f c and sell at 25c.

PO ULTRY.

Local dealers pay as follows for dressed fowls:

Spring  chickens.........................................12  @13
Fall  chickens..............................................   @10
@11
Turkeys 
Spring ducks. 
@13
Fall  ducks 
@11@
Geese  .............

PRO VISIO NS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follow s:

PORK  IN  BARBELS.

lard—Kettle Rendered. 

s a u s a g e —Fresh and Smoked.

7
......................  9
......................9
................ .. ......................  8
.....................   5
5
......................5
......................5

Mess,  new .............................................................  11  75
Shortcut................................................................   d o 1
Extra clear pig, short  cu t................................   15 00
Extra clear,  heavy.............................................
Clear, fat  back....................................................  11  50
Boston clear, short cu t.....................................   !5 00
Clear back,  short cu t.........................................   14 50
Standard clear, short cut. best.
15  00
Pork Sausage..................................
Ham Sausage................................
Tongue Sausage.............................
Frankfort  Sausage 
Blood Sausage................................
Bologna, straight..........................
Bologna,  thick..............................
Head Cheese....................................
T ierces.............................. *..................
.........  8Q
Tubs...........................................
.........  PH
501b.  T ins..............................
.........8)4
LARD.
Com-
pound.
Family.
T ierces.............................. ..
....6t4
6Q
0 and  50 lb. Tubs...........
...  64£
6*4
7^
3 lb. Pails. 20 In a  case.........
-  7V4
5 lb.  Palls. 12 in a case...........
7%
10 lb. Pails, 0 In a case.......... ...,7 Q
6Q
90 lb. Pails. 4 In  a  case.........
...7
6k
50 lb. Cans................................
...6 *
6)4
BEEF  IN  BARRELS.
7  50
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs...................... 
Extra Mess, Chicago  packing...........................  7  50
Boneless, rump butts..................... ........  
.........10  50
Hams, average 20 lb s.............................................  9^
16 lb s.............................................. iok
12 to 14 lb s................................... 10*4
p icn ic................................................ .........  7j£
best boneless..................................... ‘___  914
Shoulders.................................................................  714
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..................................1014
Dried beef, ham prices ..................... .................9
Long Clears, heavy................................................ 8
Briskets,  medium..................................................  ¡u.
8*

s m o k e d   m e a t s — C a n v a s s e d   o r   P l a i n .

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Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beef, carcass................................................
4  @ 6 
hindquarters  ..................................
“ 
5-4®  ni/5 
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fore 
3  ©   3)4 
loins, No. 3................................
8V4@ 9 
ribs.
4®  8
rounds..............................................   5%@  6
tongues.
@
@  5©>  a 
©  7 
@  5 @ 5 @ 7% 

B ologna.............................
Pork  lo in s.........................
...........
Sausage, blood  or head.
liver................
Frankfort.........

Mutton .
@  7
V e a l.......................................................................  6H@  7

shoulders 

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1 

F.  J. Detteuthaler quotes as follows: 
FRESH  FISH.
Whiteflsh.......................................  ...
©  8
.............................................. ..... 
Trout.
@ 8
...................................  
Halibut...........................................................  @16
Ciscoes
@  5 
I Flounders.........................................
@   9 
! Bluefish.............................................
@10 
!  Mackerel...........................................
@25 
j Cod.....................................................
@12 @20
California salm on...........................
1 
oysters—B ulk.
Standards, per  gal.......................
$1  30 
...........................
Selects, 
1  75
o y s t e r s — Cans.
i  Falrhaven  Counts.........................
@35
@’■0
I  F. J. D.  S ele cts..............................
S elects............. 
..............................
@25
I......
F  J. D.............................................. .. 
@25
I Anchor...........................................................  @22
Standards  .....................   ...........................  @18
Favorites....................................... ................  @13
Oysters, per  100 
1 Clams, 

SHELL  GOODS.

1  25

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C A N D IE S,  F R U IT S  and  NUTS. 
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK   CANDY.
Bbls. 
Full  Weight.
.  6*
Standard,  per  lb ...........................
.  6)4
H .H ..................................
Twist  .............................
•  6 )i
Boston  Cream  ...............................
Cut  Loaf.
7)4
Extra H. H ...............................................7)4

“ 
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714
71471s
914
814S54

MIXED  CANDY.
Full  Weight.

 

“ 

• * 72

Bbls.
. . . . 1 0 ) 4
....11

f a n c y — I n  5 lb .  b o x e s . 

Pails.
714
714
8
8
814814
814
8
9
10
10)4
13)4

Bbls.
Standard............................................. 6)4
Leader......................................... ‘— 6)4
Special.................................................7
Royal................................................... 7
Nobby..........................  
754
Broken................................................ 7)4
English  R ock................................... 754
C onserves.......................................... 7
Broken Taffy .................................................
Peanut Squares..............................
E xtra..................................................
French Creams.................................
Valley  Creams..............   ..................
f a n c y —I n   b u lk .
Palls.
Full Weight.
11)4
Lozenges,  plain.............................
12%
printed...........................
12%
Chocolate Drops.......................................
14
Chocolate  M onumentals....................
Gum Drops...................................................... . . . .   5
6)4
9
Moss Drops....................................................
. . . .   8
9)4
Sour D r o p s ....................................................
. . . .   8)4
...10)4
11)4
I m p e r i a l s .............................  
....................
P e r   B o x .
Lemon Drops............................................................55
Sour D rops............................................................... 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
Hand Made  Creams..................................... :.85@95
Plain Creams.  ................................................. 80@9O
Decorated Creams.............................. 
1  00
String  Rock..............................................................70
Burnt Almonds.......................................................... 1 00
Wlntergreen  Berries............................................. 65
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.............................  34
51
No. 1, 
.  28 
No. 2, 
.  42 
No. 3, 
.1  10
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes................
ORANGES.
4
4

Sorrentos,  200........................................
Imperials,  160........... 
........................

CARAM ELS.

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3 
2 
3 

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50
50
50
@7 00
@7 50
@19 
@16 
@12)4 
@10 
@  S 
©
@17 
@16)4 
@17 @ 8 
@11)4 
@14)4 
@12 
@10 
@14 
@12)4 
@17)4 
@4  25

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fancy, 360............................
choice  300.........................
fancy 300.............................
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, Smyrna,  new,  fancy  layers__
....

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“ 
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“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

50-lb.  “ 

choice 
Paid, 10-lb.  b ox............
.........
Persian,50-lb.  b o x ....
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona...............
Ivaca........................
California...............
"Brazils, new...............................
F ilberts......................................
Walnuts, Grenoble..................
“  Marbot.......................
C hill...........................
“ 
Table  Nuts,  fan cy..................
ch oice..............
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  ...........
Cocoanuts, full sacks............
Fancy, H.  P.. Suns.PEANUTS.
@  5)4
Roasted
© 7)4
Fancy, H.  P., Flags.............................  @5)4
Roasted.
©  7)4 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras.............
@  4% 
“  Roasted.
©  6)4

“ 

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“ 

LEMONS.

EUDES,  PE L T S  and  FURS.

“ 

HIDES.

Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  follows:
Greeu  .........................................................
3 @  4 
Part  Cured....................................................
@ 5 
Full 
....................................................
@  5 
Dry..................................................................   6
©   7 
Kips, green  ..................................................   4
@  5 
cured.......   .........................................   5
@  5)4 
Calfskins,  green.........................................   4
©   5 
cured..........................................  5
@ 6
Deacon skins...................................................10  @30

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No. 2 hides X  off.

Shearlings........................................................ 10  @25
Lambs............................................................... 20  @75

PELTS.

WOOL.

Washed........................  .......................................20@30
Unwashed...................................................... 
10@20
T allow .......................................   ................   3)4@  4)»
Grease  batter  ..............................................   1  @ 2
S w itch es........................................................  1V4@  2
G in se n g ............................................. 

MISCELLANEOUS.

...  2  50@3 00

OILS.

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows,  i 

barrels, f. o.  b. Grand Rapids:

Water  W hite.................................................  @  8)4
Special White......................................  @8)4
Michigan Test.....................................  © 73£
Naptha...........................................................  
©   7)4
Gasoline......................................................... 
&   8)4
C ylinder........................................................27  @36
E n g in e ..........................................................13  @21
Black,  Summer............................................  @  8

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

18

Hummel’s, fo il......... 

.  .  1  50 j 

“ 

t i n ......................   2  50 j  Cracked..........................
CHICORT. 
F IS H —Salt.

Bulk...........................................  4Vi 

------

Wheat.

7 

I 

Bloaters.

Cotton,  40 f t ...........per doz.  1  25  Yarmouth.

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Jute 
“ 

...........................• —  
CLOTHES  LIN E S.
50 f t ....
60 f t ............  
70 f t ............  
80 f t ............  
60 ft............ 
72 f t - ..........
CONDENSED M ILK.
E agle..... 
...........................
Crown..................................
Genuine  Swiss..................
American Swiss................
c o r P O N   HO OK'

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“

..1  25
. .2  25
..1  40
: 1  S I   B e S S S I

A P P L E   BTITTER.

Chicago  goods.....................7V4@8

A X LE  GREA SE.

F razer’s.

“ 
“ 

Wood boxes, per  d o z......... 

80
“ 
3  doz. case...  2 40
“  per gross  —   9 00
25 lb. pails,.............................  1  00
 
75
15 lb.  “ 
A urora.
Wood boxes,  per  doz......... 
60
“ 
3 doz.  case...  1  75
“  per  gross___   6 00

“ 
“ 

 

D iam on d.

Wood boxes,  per doz  .......  

50
“ 
3 doz. case...  1  50
“  per  gross___   5  50

“ 
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P e erle ss.

Telfer’s,  a  lb. cans,  doz 

25 lb. p a ils ............................. 
90
B A K IN G   PO W D ER .
45
Acme, }* lb. cans, 3 doz  ... 
85
V4 lb.  “ 
2  “  .... 
1  “  ....  1  00
1 lb.  “ 
10
bulk............................. 
45 
“  .. 
85
“ 
“  ..  1  50
“ 
Arctic, H lb  c a n s ................  
60
................  1  30
................   2  00
................   9  60
Red Star,  Vi  1b  cans............  
40
............. 
80
......... .'  1  50

Vi lb. 
lib . 
Vi lb “ 
1 ft “ 
5 ft “ 
Vi ft  “ 
1 ft  “ 
BATH  B R IC K .

“ 
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“ 
“ 
•• 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

2 dozen in case.

b l u i n g . 

E n g lish ....................................   90
Bristol........................................  70
Domestic..................................   60
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals................4  CO
“ 
Soz 
7  00
pints,  round  ........... 10  50
“ 
“  No. 2, sifting b o x ...  2 75
“  No. 3, 
...  4 00
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
1 oz ball  ....................  4  50
“ 

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“ 

“ 

 

 

b r o o k s .

 

No. 2 H url............................  1  75
3  00
No.  1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet...................... ...  2  25
No.  1 
“ 
...........................  2  50
Parlor Gem.............................2  75
Common W hisk.................... 
90
Fancy 
1  20
M ill.........................................   3  25
W arehouse.............................2 75

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B U CK W H EA T  FLO U R .
Rising S un..............................5  00
York State..... .......................
Self R ising.............................. 4 50
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes................   10V4
Star,  40 
................   10Vi
Paraffine.................................12
W icking..................................  25

CANDLES
“ 

C A N N E D   GOODS.

“ 

“ 

<■ 

“ 
“ 

F IS H .
Clams.
Little Neck,  l i b ................... 1  10
“ 
2  lb ................... 1  90
Clam  Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb ........................ 2 30
Cove Oysters.
.1  10 
Standard,  l i b ..............
.2  10
21b..............
Lobsters.
.2  45 
Star,  1  lb .......................
.3 45 
2  lb .......................
.2  00 
Picnic, l i b .....................
.3 00
21b.....................
Mackerel.
.1   20 
Standard, 1 lb ...............
2  lb .............
.2  00 
.3 00 
Mustard,  31b..............
.3 00 
Tomato Sauce,  31b—
.3  00
Soused, 3  lb ..................
Salmon.
.1  90 
Columbia River,  fla t..
.1  75 
“  tails..
.1  40 
Alaska, 1  lb ..................
.2  10
21b....................
Sardines.
American  V4s................... 4Vs® 5
Vis................... 6V4@ 7
Imported  Vis........................ 11®12
Vis........................ 13@14
Mustard  Sis.........................   @8
Brook, 3  lb .............................. 2  50

Trout.

“ 
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F R U IT S .
Apples.

3  :

York State, gallons —  
Hamburgh,  “  —
Apricots.
Santa  Cruz....................
Lusk’s ................................
O verland........................
B lackberries
90
F. &  W .........................
Cherries.
1  20 
R ed.................................
Pitted Hamburgh 
..
1  75 1  60 
W h ite.............................
E r ie ...............................
1  30
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
E rie.................................  @1  60
Gooseberries.
C om m on.......................  
1  10
. 1  60@1  75
P ie .............
Maxwell  .. 
Shepard’s  . 
California.
Dom estic........................
Riverside.......................
Pineapples.
Common.........................
Johnson’s  sliced .........

Peaches.

Gages.

Pears.

60@2

1  30
2  10 
2  85

“ 

grated
Quinces.

Com m on........................
Raspberries.
Red  ................................
Black  Hamburg...........
Brie,  black....................

Whortleberries.

Strawberries.
L aw rence......................
1
2  25
H am burgh....................
Erie.................................
1  65
Common  ........................
1  40
1  25
F.  &  W ..........................
Blueberries..................
1  30
Corned  beef,  Libby’s __ ..2  10
Roast beef,  Armour’s ....
..1  75
Potted  ham,  Vi  l b ...........
..1  50
..1  00
\  lb ..............
. .1  10
tongue,  Vi lb  .......
Vi lb ... 
95
chicken, % lb .......
95

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VEGETABLES.
Hamburgh  stringless.

Beans.

MEATS.

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French  sty le ..
Limas  .............

Lewis Boston  Baked
Bay State  Baked__
World’s  Fair............
.  Corn.
Hamburgh 
..............
T iger...........................
Purity 
.......................
Honey  D ew ..............
Hamburgh marrofat

Peas

“ 
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1  35
early J u n e .......... 1  50
Champion E ng... 1  50
Hamburgh  petit  pois  ...
.1  90
fancy  sifted
Soaked ..............................
Harris  standard.............
Van Camp’s M arrofat 
Early June..
Early "Blossom
Archer's
French
Mushrooms. 

^ 

“ 

1  10 
1  80 
1  35 
1  80
»18

CHEESE.

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.

Pumpkin.
Squash.
.1  30 I
Hubbard
Succotash.
. .1  40 
Hamburg  ....................
..  85 
Soaked .........................
..1  60
Honey  D ew ................
Tomatoes.
..1 00 
Van  Camp’s..'............
..1  60 
No.  Collins..................
..1  10
H am burg....................
H ancock..................................  »•
G a llo n ......................................2  5(
German Sweet.............
Premium........................
Pure............. 
...............
Breakfast  Cocoa.........
N orw ay.........................
N. Y.  or Lenawee.......
Allegan 
......................
Skim ......................... ---
Sap  Sago......................
Edam  ...........................
Swiss, imported 
.......
domestic  —
Limburger....................
Brick..............................
CHEWING  GUM
Rubber, 100 lumps.......
Spruce, 200 pieces.
CATSUP.
Snider’s. Vi pint.............
p in t..................
quart  .............
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxes  ................
COCOA  SH ELLS.
B ulk.................................
Pound  packages...........
C O FFEE.

34
38
40
@10V£ 
@11 
@10 Vi 
@  9
@1  00 
@  25 
©13VÍ 
...  10 
12 Vi

.. .35
.40
.40
.1  35 
.2 30 
.3 50

@4
@7

“ 
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200

“ 

GREEN.
Rio.

Maracaibo.

.23 Vi
..26

.20 Vi 
.21 
.21 Vi
2264

.........................-....23

Fair........................................... 26 Vi
Good.........................................“1
Prim e........................................*lVi
G olden.....................................22  Vi
Peaberry 
Santos.
Fair.............................
G ood...........................
P rim e.........................
Peaberry  ..................
Mexican and Guatemala
F air........................................... .
Good........................................ ■
Fancy........................................
Prim e.........................
M ille d .......................
Java.
Interior....................
P r i v a t e  Growth.......
M a n d e h l i n g ...............
Mocha.
Im itation...............
Arabian.....................
BOASTED.

-286i
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Vic. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent,  for shrink­
age.
M cL au gh lin ’»  X X X X ----21%
................ 21%
Durham................
22I.4  I 
Lion, 60 lb.  ease 
22j*
Lion, 100 lb. case-
Cabinets con- 
t a i 11 i n g   120 
one  p ou  lid   . 
p'kages  (sim-  I 
ilar to accoin- j 
panying 
ill- 
j i l l   ^ ly d u s tr a tio n )
Si  ill i r R l sol<* 
:lt  c a se
price,with an  : 
“ ■ '"‘‘jijfa d d 11 i o n al 
charge  of  90 | 
cents for cab­
inet.

p a c k a g e .

1  30 
1  50 
1  40

EXTRACT.

Valley City............................. 
75
F elix ........................................  1  15 '

1  40 
1  60 
1  75 
1  90 
90 
1  00

6 50 
S to

4  0c
5  i*'

3  00
4  00

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"Tradesman.
9  1, per  hundred.........
$   2, 
............
.........
$ 3, 
“ 
.........
“ 
*  5, 
“ 
910, 
.........
*20,  “ 
.  . .
“ 
“Superior.” 
9  1  per  hundred.........
*  2, 
.............
* 5 , “ 
.........
910, 
.........
920, 

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••Universal 
.
“ 
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.  92  50 
..  3  00 
..  4 CO 
..  5 00 
. .   6  00

9  1.  per hun dred . 
9  2, 
9 3,
« 5 ,
910, 
$20, 
Bulk orders for above coupon 
books are subject to the follow ­
ing  discounts:
200 or over.................5  per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 

.............. 20

10 

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COUPON  PASS  BOOKS.

|Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from $10  down. |
20 books.............................$  1  00
50  “ 
.............................  2  00
...........................   3 00
100  “ 
500  “ 
iooo
1000 
...........................................   17  50
“  
CRACKERS.
Kenosha Butter..............
Seymour 
............
“ 
Butter................................
fam ily......................
“ 
“  b iscu it...................
Boston............................
City Soda.........................
Soda..................................
S. O yster.........................
City Oyster. XXX...........
CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly  pure..................
Telfer’s  Absolute.........
Grocers’ ...........................

10@.15

D R IE D   FRUITS. 

Apples.

Sundried........................  @ 8
Evaporated..................  @H
H

California Evaporated.

Apricots.........
Blackberries..
iNectarmes....................
Peaches  ........................
Pears,  sliced................
Plum s.............................
Prunes,  sw eet..............

Vi12

@  8
@  9
18
18
@24
@21
@  5M
©  564
©   6

1  75
2 00
2  25
1  50
i  eo
6

@  oVi
@

PRUNES.

PEEL.

CITRON.

Turkey...........................
Bosnia............................
French .........................
Lemon............................
Orange...........................
In drum.........................
In boxes........................
CURRANTS.
Zante, in  barrels.........
in  H -b b ls.......
In less quantity
r a i s i n s —California
London Layers,  2 cr’n
fancy.
M uscatels.2 crown  ...

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3  “
Foreign.

V alencias......................
Ondaras.........................
Sultanas.........................

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Farina.
Hominy.

Lima  Beans.

6
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
45
10

100 lb. kegs...................... 
4
Barrels.................................... 3 75
G rits........................................
Dried................................  
Domestic, 12 lb. box.... 
Imported.........................  
Pearl Barley
Kegs.
Green,  bu. 
Split,  bbl  .
German ... 
East India.

Sago.

Peas.

Nutmegs,  fancy...................

;; 

no.  i ............

“ 
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“ 
“ 
•’ 
“ 
“ 

“  w hite...

Pepper, Singapore, black... 
shot.........................
Pure Ground in Bulk.
!  A llsp ice..................................
|  t’assia,  B a ta v ia ............
and  Saigon
.saigon  ..................
Cloves,  Amboyua.
Zanzibar.........
Ginger. African.......
Cochin.......
Jamaica  ...

i  Mnce  Batavia.......................
|  Mustard.  Eng.  and Trieste.
Trieste  ................
;  Nutmegs, No. 2 ..................
!  i’epper, Singapore, black.
.
white 
Cayenne..........

“ 
“Absolute” in  Package

“ 

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A iisp ice..................  84
<  imiamon  ....................  81
Cloves 
.........................   84
Ginger, Jam ...........   84
A t . . . . ........  84
Mustard................. 
84
84
Pepper................... 
Sage...........................  84

“ 

........................ 1  10
Cod.
W hole.................................  @6
Bricks.................................7vi@8Vi
Strips.
........................ 7*@8Vi
Halibut.
Sm oked.........................
Herring.
Scaled.............................
Holland,  hbls...............
kegs................
Round shore,  Vi bbl...
“ 
Vi  bbl..
Mackerel.

“ 
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10*4

Pollock.
Sardines.
Trout.

No.  1.  V4 bbls. 90 lbs.......
No.  1  kits. 10 lbs...........
Family,  l4 bbls., ion lbs.
kits.  10  lbs.......
Fancy.........................  3
Russian,  kegs.......   : ....
bbls.,  10'ilbs__
1, kits,  lo lbs.............
No.  1,  Vi bbls., lOOlbs----
No.  1, kits,  10 lbs.............
Family,  Vi bbls .  100 lbs 

Whitefish.

i 
i0®4  00  ;

.7  00 
.1  00

FLAVO1!’HKG EXTRACTS.

kits. 10  ibi
Jennings’  1) C.
Lemon. Vanilla Powdered.........
.  75
... 1  00
“
...1  50
...2  Oh
“
.. .3 00
“
GIT!i  POWRKR.

@  5 Vi
Cut  Loaf.....................
©   51*
C ub es......... 
...........
%  5 V,
1  25 Granulated. 
Ú   4 %
.......
fth  4V4
1  50 1Confectioners’  A .  .  .
2 00 j Soft A  .........................
tfr&  4 %
@4.3
3 00 White Extra  C.........
4 -0 Extra  C....................  - • @  4>,
( ! 
....................  . .
©   4
Less than  100 lbs.  J4c advance

2 oz folding b ox. 
3 os 
4 oz
0 oz 
8 oz 
Kegs
Half  kegs
Sage..  —
Hops............
Chicago  goods..............
No. 
No.  1...........
No. 2.............

FELLIES.
LAMP  WR KS.

HERBS.

.  .

IJC ORICE.

“

Calabria  ...
Sicily.........
LYE. -
Condensed, 2  doz......... .......1  25
MATCHES.
.1  65 
No. 9  sulphur.............
.1 10 
Anchor  parlor............
.1  10
No. 2 home  .........  •
Export  parlor............
MINCE  MEAT

“ 

___ 5:  50 ! Yellow
....... 3 00
. . . . .  15 
. 
... 25

@3

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.. . .  
___ 

STARCH.
j
Corn.
i 20-lb  boxes....................... ...  6V4
....  61*
................ .
|  40-lb 
Gloss.
1 lb packages  .................. __ 6
30
..............   -....  6
31b 
40 |  6-lb 
.................... __ dVt
50
10 and 50 lb . boxes......... . . .   4?4
|  Barrels................... ..........
Scotch, In  bladders.......
.......   18 I  Maceaboy, in jars...........
French  Rappee, in Jars.
B o x es..............................  
5-4
Kegs,  English.........  ............... 4-8
Kegs 
1%
Granulated,  boxes. 
............  2
SEEDS.
Mixed bird....................46i© 0
Caraway.....................................Ip
Canary.............................. 
 
Hemp....................................
Anise....................................
R ape....................................
Mustard..............

....
...37
ÜÜ43
 

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

SAL  SODA.

SODA.

13

. 

 

or 6 doz

in case  per doz..
MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar h o u s e ........................
Ordinary..............................
P rim e....................................

New Orleans.

F a ir........................................
G ood......................................
Extra good...........................
C hoice..................................
Fancy....................................

ilne-half barrels. 3c extra

OATMEAL.

Barrels  20u....................
Half barrels  100.................
ROLLED OATS.
n a if  bbls 90................
Barrels  180....................

@5

@2

PICKLES.
Medium.

Small.

Barrels, 1,200  count...........
Half  barrels, 600  count  .. 
Barrels, 2.400  count-.........
Half barrels, 1,200 count. 
Clay, No.  216.....................
“  T. D. full count.......
Cob, No.  3 ..........................

PIPES.

RICE.

Domestic.

Imported.

Carolina head....................
“  No. 1....................
“  No. 2 ...................
Broken.................................
Japan, No. 1.......................
No. 2 .......................
Java..........................*.........
Patna....................................
Williams' Extract.
25 cent s iz e.........................
3 d ozen................................

ROOT BEER.

“ 

SAPOLIO.

Kitchen, 3 doz.  In box. 
Hand 
Snider’s  Tomato..............

“
SOUPS.

3  “ 

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

5  50 
3  65

@

$5  CO

65

SALT

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Warsaw.

Diamond Crystal.
100 3-lb.  sacks................
....................
60 5-lb 
“ 
2  15 
28 10-lb.  sacks..................
2014-lb.  “ 
....................
2  00 
1  50
24 3-lb  cases......................
50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
2.1
281b.  “ 
35
56 lb. dairv  in linen  bags.. 
If
28 lb. 
75
561b.  dairy  bags.................. 
56 lb. dairy  bags.................. 
75
56 lb.  sacks........................... 
25
Saginaw  and  Manistee. 
Common  Fine  per  bbl. 
9(
... 
Church’s, Arm & Hammer . . .5Vi
Dwight’s Cow............................5H
Taylor’s ...................................... 5%
DeLand’s Cap  Sheaf.............. 5Vs
p u r e ........................... 5Vi
Golden Harvest 

Ashton.
Higgins.

SA6EUATU3.

Solar Rock.

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

“ 

SYRUPS
Corn
 

 

Pure Cane.

Barrels............. 
..30
Half bbls...................................32
1  A m ber...........................23 
5
Fancy drips.......... — 28  @30
SWEET GOODS.
7
Ginger Snaps................ 
I Sugar  Creams----  . . . .  
8Vi
Frosted  Creams........... 
S
Graham  Crackers....... 
8
Oatmeal  Crackers—  
8

TEAS.

japan—Regu 1 ar.»

 

 

¡F a ir ................... 
@17
  @20
G ood.................  
Choice................................24 @20
C hoicest..........................32 @34
Dust 
............................. 10  @12
SUN CURED.
Fair  .,
G ood...............................
Choice............................. 24
Choicest..........................32
I D ust.................................10
BASKET  FIRED.
j F a ir.................................18
Choice............................
Choicest.........................
:  Extra choice, wire leaf 
GUNPOWDER.

:  Common to  fair........... 25
I  Extra line to finest 
I  Choicest faney —

@35 
50  @65 
75  @35

@35 
@46

OOLONG.

I  Common to  fair........... 23
|  Superior to  tine........... 28
Fine to choicest........... 45

@30
@55

IMPERIAL.

YOUNG  HYSON.

i Common to  fair  ......... 23  -226
Superior to fine.............. 30  @35
| Common to  fair.............18  @36
Superior to  fine. 
.. .30  @40
F a ir.................................. 18  @22
I  Choice.......................... ...i4   in28
B est.................................. 40  @50

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

TOBACCOS.

“ 

Plug.

.1 8
. .20

:  lllawatha 
1  Sweet  Cuba 

Pails uuless otherwise noted.

Fine Cut.
..................
...........
HO ;  MoGintv.......................
Vi b b ls .........
. .27
Little  D arlin g...........
. .75
Vi  bbl..
1791
20
. .30
:  1891,  V4  bbls..................
.. 25
.  Valiev  City..................
20
Dandy Jim .............  ...
►s.
Vis -  Searhead.......................
1  55 i  J o k er....... ...................
155 I  Zero.................................
155 |  L.  &  W ...........................
155 !  Here  it Is.........  .........
155 i  Old  style........................
155 |  Old  Honesty 
.............
1  55 i  Jolly Tar........................
I  H iaw atha.....................
j  Valiev C ity ..................
|  Jas.  g .  Butler  &  Co.’i
Something Good  .
Toss  Up..................
Out of  Sight  .........
Boss.........................................   12*4
Colonel’s Choice.....................13
Warpath..................  
14
B anner.....................................14
King Bee......  ......... 
20
Kiln  Dried.................... 
17
Nigger Head............................23
Honey  Dew............. 
.24
G old‘Block................. 
28
Peerless................. 
.24
Rob  Roy.......................................24 -
Uncle  Sam............................... 28
Tom and Jerry........................ 3 .
Brier  Pipe..  .'......................... 30
Yum  Y um ............................... 32
Red Clover............................... 32
N a v y ....................................... 32
Handmade................................40
F ro g ........................................  33
40 gr...........................................  S

Brands.
..........38
........ 26

Smoking.

VINEGAR.

33 
37
34

 

 

 

 

SI  for barrel.
WET  MUSTARD.

Bulk, per g a l ...................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz In c a se...  1  75 
yeast- Compressed. 
Ferine»turn  per doz. cakes  .  15 
“ 
per lb-  ................ 3.

 

PAPER.

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

3 Vi
P A P E R  & W OOD EM W A R  *•
Straw 
ijsi
R ockfalls..................................i
Rag sugar..................................2
Hardware 
Bakers 
Dry  Goods 
Jute  Manill 
Red  Exprèsis  No. 1 . 
No. 2
TWINES.

...  ¡¡H
Vs®“- @6V4 
. . .   5)4 
...4V4

WOODENWARE.

48 Cotton..  , 
Cotton,  No.
20
Sea  Island, assorted...........35
No. 5 H em p............................ 15
No. 6  “ ......................................15
Tubs,No. 1.............................  700
“  No. 2.............................  6 00
“  No. 3.............................5  00
Pails, No.  1,  two-hoop.. 
1  35
“  No. 1,  three-hoop  ... 
t  60
Clothespi ns, 5 gr. boxes__  
50
Bowls,  11 Inch................   1 
00
........................  1 25
13  “ 
15  “ 
......................   2 00
......................   2 75
17  “ 
assorted, 17s and  19s  2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
35
shipping  bushel..  1  2u 
..  1  30
fu ll  hoop  “ 
.....................  1 50
5  75
“  No.2 6  25
“  No.3 7  25
“  No.l 3  50
“  No.2 4  25
“  No.3 5  00

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

Baskets, market.................... 

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

splint 

WHEAT.

GRAINS and  FEEDSTUFF» 
90 
No.  1 White (58 lb. test) 
90
No.  1  Red  (60 lb.  test) 
MEAL.
Bolted.............................. . 
1  75
(J0
Granulated................
FLOUR.
Eks 
--irais
5  no
barrels, 
5  106 60 
sack s... 
barrels.. 
6  10 
2  45
sack s..
MILL9TUFF8.

Graham
Rye
1  Bran..................................
■  S creen in g s..........................
!  M iddlings  ..........................
:  Mixed  F eed.......  
........
; Coarse m eal.......   ...........
CORN.
| Car  lots.......................
j  Less than  car  lots.........
Car  l o t s ..................t —
|  Less than car lots  ...
I  No.  1 Timothy, car lots 
I No. 1 
.

HAY.
ton lots 

OATS.

“ 

15  00 
12  00 
20 00 
22 50 
22  50

. 12  50 
14 00

I  Cassia, China in mats......... 

..3%@3% i  A llspice....................................10
1V
“  Batavia in bund____15
......... 1  10
“ 
Saigon In  rolls...........35
........... 6  00
Cloves,  Ambovna...................22
“  Zanzibar......................13
Mace  Batavia........................ 80

14

THE  MICH10_A_IM  TKADE8MAN

B udge—R em iniscences of a  Drug Clerk.
1  do  not  know  exactly  why  I  have 
chosen such a title for this sketch except 
it be  that  1  am  sitting  in  the  old  store 
where ten years ago a lean,  lanky, enthu­
siastic  apprentice,  1 started  to learn  the 
mysteries of the  drug business,  and that 
the freshest  memories  of  those  by-gone 
days are connected with the name Budge.
In case  any  of  my  readers  should  be 
uncharitable  enough  to  ascribe  to  this 
peculiar  word  associations  suggesting 
frequent libations to Bacchus, 1 hasten to 
explain that  Budge Was nothiug  more or 
less  than  the  name of  a  dog,  but a  dog 
who  had  the  happy  faculty  of  getting 
himself and others (not dogs)  into no end 
of trouble,
It  has  become  customary  for  drug 
stores  to have a  dog or  cat  as  a  sort  of 
“household god;” 1 do not know  which  is 
the more correct, but from my experience 
with Budge  1 would  unhesitatingly  say, 
never have a dog.
We got Budge when he was only a few 
days  old—a  present  from  a  customer, 
who,  no  doubt,  wished  to  get  even  for 
some  unconscious sin one  of us had com­
mitted—and to the fact that he had  to be 
tenderly nursed  for a few  weeks may no 
doubt  be ascribed his  attachment to  my­
self, who, as junior apprentice, was given 
the task of guiding his youthful  footsteps 
toward adult doghood.
From the  nature of his surroundings it 
may easily  be  inferred  Budge  early  de­
veloped the analytical part of his disposi­
tion,  and  his  inquiring  mind  often  led 
him  to investigate  matters  which  could 
in no way be considered part of his duties, 
the result  of  such  investigations  invari­
ably proving not only a financial  loss, but 
testing  the  patience  of  proprietor  and 
clerks in no small degree, and eventually 
leading to his untimely demise.
He seemed to  consider  himself  pecul­
iarly qualified  for  examining  new  addi­
tions to our stock,  and  bent all his  ener­
gies toward testing the texture of sponges 
and  the 
toughness  of  combs,  tooth­
brushes,  etc.,  should  carelessness on our 
part cause any of  these to  be left  within 
reach of his  sharp  teeth. 
I have  known 
him  to tear up in  one night a dozen  fine 
bath-sponges;  while  at  another  time  he 
completely ruined a lot of  vulcanite  and 
horn combs that chanced to  be left on the 
counter.
A  hasty  examination  of  a  package  of 
rasped  soap-tree  bark,  and  another  of 
powdered  blood-root,  caused  him  to  in­
dulge in some doubts  as to his fitness for 
analytical  work,  but a  few  days  seemed 
to  settle  the  matter,  and  he  came  back 
with  a  determination  to  excel  all  past 
efforts,  a proceeding in which, 1 am sorry 
to say,  he was entirely successful.
Matters reached such a pass at last that 
the proprietor decided to do one  of three 
things:  Close the store; give Budge away, 
or  kill  him.  The  first  was  deemed  un­
wise,  the  latter  cruel,  so  it  was  ruled 
Budge  should  form  a  donation  to  some 
one who did not  entertain  friendly  feel­
ings  toward  our  establishment.  While 
looking  for  the  proper  person,  Budge 
settled all  perplexities as to his  disposal 
in  his own  peculiar fashion.
A  lot  of  goods  had  been  opened  and 
piled  on  the  back  counter  just  before 
closing one evening. 
In  the morning we 
found a package containing tartaric  acid 
had  been opened and part of the contents 
gone.  A  parcel  of  bicarbonate  of  soda 
had  been  similarly  treated;  pieces  of 
Budge  were  on  the  floor,  some  on  the 
ceiling,  and some on each  wall, but taken 
as an entire  dog  he  was  utterly  ruined. 
His knowledge of  chemical  combination 
was not  proportionate  with  the  bent  of 
his analytical  desires,  a fact which  some 
drug apprentices I  have known  would do 
well  to  bear  in  mind.  On  the  whole, I 
would  strongly  advise  against  a  dog 
forming one of the complements of assist­
ants in a drug store.

*  *  •*

The  fact  that  some  discerning  or  un­
charitably  disposed  persons  traced  in 
Budge some  resemblance  to  bis  master, 
leads  my  reminiscent  thoughts  quite 
naturally to my  preceptor.  Whether this 
likeness really  existed  or  not,  1  am  un­
prepared to state, but 1 can truly say that 
to his tenacity,  fixedness  of purpose  and 
kindness,  must  I  ascribe  the  basis  of 
whatever success I may  have attained in

my chosen profession.  He had  his pecul­
iarities; but who  has not?  One of  these 
was  a  love  of  debate,  and  the  forcible 
arguments he used to employ in closing a 
discussion  with  any  of  his  assistants 
which  seemed  to  be  going  against  him.  | 
These  varied 
in  accordance  with  the 
nature  of  whatever  chanced  to  be  near 
him at the time,  and was  not affected  by 
gravity to too  great an extent to  prevent 
a rapid change of position.  1  remember 
particularly the way in  which  he replied 
to an assertion of mine, one one occasion, 
by  throwing an  iron  pestle  at  my  head, 
which 1 dodged  and  forgave  him  for  on 
the  spot,  as  it  passed  clean  through  a 
sixty-dollar  plate-glass  window  and 
knocked a newsboy into the middle of the 
street.  Of course,  the newsboy got heavy 
damages!  Such strength of argument was 
but ill  in  keeping  with  a  disposition  as 
gentle as my  own,  and  1 decided  to retire 
from  the  contest  as  gracefully  as  pos­
sible.

*   *   *

A  newspaper  advertisement  induced 
me to apply for a  position  in  a  country 
drug store.  My application  was success­
ful,  so,  bidding  farewell  to  associations 
of  Budge  and  his  hot-headed  master,  1 
repaired  to  my  new  place  with  a  mind 
full of grand  plans for  the future,  and  a 
pocket not overloaded with currency.
My  prospective  employer  was  not  in 
I the store when I  called,  but  his  appren­
tice was;  and 1 decided to keep dark as to 
my identity and try to find out from  this 
embryo-pharmic  what  kind  of  a  man  1 
was to serve,  and  be thus the better  pre­
pared to please him.
Accosting  the  apprentice,  1  asked: 
“ Well,  how  do  you  like  the  drug  busi­
ness?”
“Oh, not very well,” he answered,  “the 
fact  of  the  matter  is,  it  is  too  great  a 
strain on my  system,  and  1  should  have 
given it up,  if the  boss  had  not  decided 
to engage another apprentice.  You see,” 
he  continued  as  he  put  up  fourteen 
ounces of  bird-seed  for  a  ‘ full  pound,’ 
“the old  man’s a great experimentor and 
as 1  take an active  part in all  his experi­
ments,  it is fast wearing me out.  There’s 
not a new drug placed on the market or a 
sample left  in  the  store  that  his  Jaggs 
does not try on  me.  When he first heard 
of apomorpbine as  an  emetic,  he  at once 
tried  a  hypodermatic  injection  of  the 
drug on  me.  1  gave  up  everything  for 
him  and  ’experimental  science’  on  that 
occasion.  He  nearly  killed  me  with  a 
large  dose  of opium  a few  months  ago, 
because he  wished to try  the  effects  of a 
new  restorative  on  comatose  persons. 
He made me sleep  in the damp cellar for 
three weeks,  in  the  hope  that  it  would 
induce  tuberculosis  and  give  him  an 
opportunity  of  testing his cure  for  con­
sumption.  1 have  gone round  with  one 
pupil  dilated  as  large  as  a  nickle  with 
atropine,  and  the  other  contracted  to  a 
mere speck with  eserine. 
I have to take 
a bottle of every new patent medicine  he 
buys,  and  once  when  a  much  vaunted 
‘female  regulator’  failed  to  have  any 
effect on  me,  he sent  the whole  business 
back  to the manufacturer.

Every part of my  body is freckled with 
marks of the hypodermatic  needle,  and  1 
have been cured of more fatal diseases in 
my short life-time than  are mentioned  in 
an ordinary medical lexicon.

See that  pile of green  fruit?  I’ve  got 
to  eat all  that  to-night so  as to give  his 
Giblets  an  opportunity  to  test  his  new 
‘certain cure for cholera.’  No, sir,  1 don’t 
like the drug business,  but thank heaven 
the new apprentice will have to  assist in 
these ‘experiments’ hereafter—not going, 
are  you?” 
I  assured  him  my  business 
was of no great moment and  1  would  see 
the proprietor at some time in  the remote 
future.

*  *   *

So here I sit in  the old store this morn­
ing  and  let  my  thoughts  ramble  where 
they  will through  the evergreen  fields of 
pleasant old memories.  1 am writing  of 
these memories not  so much to amuse as 
to cause my readers to glance  backward, 
also,  and  for  a few  moments  forget  the 
perplexities  and trials of the  present by 
dwelling  on those  days when  we  looked 
at our future through the rosy spectacles 
of youthful  ardor  and  enthusiastic  pur­
pose.  Even the  disappointments  of  the 
past are mellowed by  the caressing hand

of time,  and  we  are prone  to think,  that j 
no matter  what the  future  may  have  in ! 
store for us, the past was full of pleasant- j 
ries and  the future holds all our sorrows j 
and  troubles.  Perhaps  this  is  well  for 
us,  for what  would human  existence  be 
if all  its troubles were  magnified or even 
unchanged by the lapse of passing years. 
Let the present be to us as an opera-glass,  j 
through which  we may  view  the  future ' 
near and  brilliant,  but look  on the  past j 
through the reversed ends.  We may thus 
find the past  always contains the best  of j 
life after all,  and  naturally conclude the 
present is  doing the same,  and thus with j 
a brave heart and strong purpose we step j 
upon  the  threshold  of  the  unknown  fu- j 
ture,  feeling  the  same  law  holds  good  | 
through  all  three  stages of time.

A  N ervy  Shoplifter.

A professional  shoplifter  once  visited  j 
a shoe store in Pittsburg.  She had a small  ; 
It was no easy 
foot and  was proud of it. 
matter  to please  her,  the  affable  young i

salesman  found.  The  stock  of  fine  la­
dies’  shoes  was  ransacked  to  suit  her 
taste. 
It was all in vain,  for she depart­
ed  without buying anything.  Under her 
dress were two more shoes than a woman 
can  wear,  however.
When  she  looked  at  the  stolen shoes 
after returning home she found that they 
were  not  mates. 
She  was  very  much 
in  fact,  the  discovery  took 
annoyed; 
away her appetite for supper.
The  next  afternoon  found  her in  the 
shoe store again.  “The  shoes  yon  sold 
me the other day,” she  said  to the  sales­
man,  who was  not the one who had tried 
to  suit her  fastidious  taste  the  day  be­
fore,  “are not mates,  and  will you kindly 
change them?”
The  store  was  crowded—shoplifters 
seldom  venture into an empty store—and 
the young man hurried off at  once  with­
out further inquiry. 
In another minute 
he returned  with a pair of shoes properly 
mated  and  gave  them  to  the  supposed 
customer. 
She  did  not  stay  to  give 
thanks for the gift.

D o  You  w an t  a  C u t

O F   Y O U R

STORE  BUILDING

F o r   u se  on  y o u r   L etter  H ea d s,  B ill  H ead s, 

C ards,  E tc ?

In  either  case,  we  should  have  clear  photograph  to  work 

from.

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

ENGRAVERS  A N D   PRINTERS,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

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The Expulsion o f the Jew s from Russia.
The  most  pathetic  pictures of  human 
extremity and  destitution  are  presented 
in  the experience of  the Jews in  Russia, 
as  described  by a party of  fugitive  He­
brews  who  have  recently  arrived  from 
that  country.  They  relate  in  a graphic 
way  the  terrible  sufferings  that  they 
endured  under  the  Russian  system  of 
extermination,  which  finally  culminated 
in  the  burning down of  their  entire  vil­
lage,  The stirring  story is told  by these 
hapless exiles  in  the  following manner:
“It  was  a  little  farming  settlement, 
four  Russian  miles  from Veile,  contain­
ing eighteen  houses,  with  barns and out­
buildings. 
July  18,  about  midnight, 
about  a  dozen  Russians  from  the  city 
came  trooping  down  upon  them and  set 
fire  to  the  whole  settlement.  Fourteen 
of the Jews were burned  to  death,  while 
twenty were fearfully burned.  The Jews 
armed themselves with stones and  sticks 
and  gave  chase.  The  Russians  were 
thoroughly surprised at this, because they 
were accustomed  to  have their own  way 
with  these  people.  One  young  man 
whose mother  had  been  cruelly  burned 
took a crowbar and attacked three of  the 
Russians.  He  killed  two  of  them,  and 
struck the  third one such a blow  that  he 
died in an  hour.  All the  time the  Rus­
sians  were  rushing wildly  about  shout­
ing,  ‘Kill the Jews;  kill the Jews.’ ”

We believe that  this  demoniac  system 
of  persecution  is  tottering  to  its  fall, 
under the pressure of the focalized forces 
of  moral  sentiment and  public opinion, 
and  that  soon  the Russian  Bear will  be 
glad  to  withdraw  its  cruel  claws  from 
the bleeding and mangled  bodies of these 
suffering  Jews, 
its 
bloody instincts and brutal  habits.

notwithstanding 

At present  the darkness  is  dense,  and 
hope  hides its drooping  bead  beneath  a 
trembling  wing,  but  we can  just  descry 
a tantalizing gleam of light playing along 
the  edges  of  the  distant  horizon  hills, 
heralding  the  dawn  of  a  better  and 
brighter day.

Prejudice is giving place  to  sympathy 
and  friendship. 
In  the  past  Jewish 
habits  have  been  burlesqued  and  the 
Jewish  character  maligned,  But  the 
world  is  beginning to realize  that  there 
is  much  to admire in their domestic love 
and  fidelity,  and  in  their  freedom from 
debasing crimes and social outrages.  Our 
prisons  rarely  open  to  receive  a  Jew. 
Often in days past have they  been  thrust 
into  jail  for  their  religion,  but  seldom 
for crime.

In the presence of  this appalling spec, 
tacle  of  inexpressible  suffering,  involv­
ing millions of  human  beings of  a single 
race,  with  all  their  natural  and  social 
rights  ruthlessly  outraged,  their  homes 
and  property  confiscated,  and  branded 
with social and  political  ignominy,  such 
as  disgraces no criminal  in our  civilized 
country,  driven  forth as fugitives  upon 
the face of  the earth,  we cannot do other 
than  utter  a  prolonged  protest  against 
the  system  and  laws  that  render  such 
heathenish  barbarity possible. >

True to the genius of  her  free institu­
tions,  America has espoused the cause of 
these  victims  of  tyranny,  and  the  en­
lightened  nations of  Europe,  under  the 
stimulus of the American spirit,  are con­
templating the calling of a convention of 
nations  to  devise  some  means of  check­
ing  the  criminal  conduct of  Russia  to­
ward the unhappy Jews within her juris­
diction.

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Taking our stand  upon the  great priu- j 
ciples  of  civil  and  religious  liberty,  as 
universal  and  inalienable  human  rights, 
we  appeal  to the  best  thought and  feel- j 
ing  of  the world in  behalf  of  these  vie-1 
tiius of relentless persecution.

Holding  in  grateful remembrance  not I 
only the  ancient  Hebrew  worthies  who i 
inspired and  directed  the thought of  all 
aftertime by the glow of their genius, the 
purity of  their  precepts and  the wooing i 
warmth of  their sublime sentiments,  but j 
as well  the  Jews of  modern  times,  who 
have ornamented every profession, graced i 
every walk in  life,  filled  with distinction j 
and honor every position of  public trust, 
and  contributed  such  inestimable  intel­
lectual  and  moral  treasures  to  the civi­
lization of  the  age,  we cannot  refuse  to 
raise  our  voice  in  resentment  of  this 
savage  system  of  Russian  persecution 
that outrivals the horrors of  ancient bar­
barism and mediaeval  despotism.

R a d i x .

The  Law   on  Cancellation  of Orders.
From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.

So much has  been  written aud said  on 
the cancellation of orders and  the return 
of goods once  purchased  that the  rights 
of  both  seller  and  buyer  are  becoming 
more clearly defined under the law.  Both 
parties have certain  rights, and the suits 
that are occasionally  growing  out of  the 
infringement of these rights are having a 
good effect,  at  least in the way of defining 
precisely  what  one  can  or  cannot  do 
under the  law.
Many  retail  merchants  have  an  idea 
that they can  refuse  to  accept  goods  at 
any  time after  ordered.  Such would not 
seem to be the case under the decision of 
the supreme court of Georgia,  in the case 
of McCord  v.  Laidley  (18 S.  E.  Rep.  509), 
wherein a firm bought a carload  of goods 
to be shipped  and  paid for  on  delivery. 
The seller shipped  the car and forwarded 
a draft.  The draft was presented before 
the car arrived and payment was refused, 
and the  buying  firm  notified  the  seller 
that he  had  violated  the contract  by de­
manding payment  before the  delivery of 
the goods,  and that they would not accept 
the goods when they arrived.  When  the 
car arrived  it  was  tendered to the buyers 
and they refused  it.  It was then  sold for 
what it would  bring, which  was less than 
the  contract  price.  The  buyers  were 
liable for the deficit.
This decision  is not only good  law,  but 
sound  common  sense,  and  would  un­
doubtedly  be cited  as a precedent  in  all 
similar cases.
On the other  hand,  the same  court  has 
rendered a decision  upholding the rights 
of the retail  merchant  where goods  were 
bought by  sample,  in  the  case of  Erwin 
v.  Harris  (13  S.  E.  Rep.  513),  in  which 
the court says:
“Where a  contract for  the sale of  sev­
eral carloads of goods is made by sample, 
the buyer has  a right to inspect them be­
fore accepting them,  and  when  the draft 
for the first two carloads  shipped arrives 
before  the  cars  do,  the  refusal  of  the 
buyer to  accept the  draft until  the  cars 
arrive and the  consequent protest of this 
draft will not warrant the cancellation of 
the contract; and upou  the refusal ofjthe 
seller to  ship  the  balauce  of  the  order, 
damages  for  breach  of  contract  may  be 
recovered.”  These two  decisions  define 
pretty clearly  he law  as it relates to the 
return  of  goods  once  purchased,  and 
business men  should  govern  themselves 
accordingly.

W omen  as  Inventors.

In  a return recently made to the United 
States government of the statistics of the 
patent  office  at  Washington,  we  learn 
that,  from 1790 to July 1,1888, there were 
2,300 patents taken out by women.  They 
embrace all subjects,  from  dress improv­
ers  to  submarine  telescopes.  For  ten 
years before 1815  there were only two or 
three female patentees,  but every decade 
since has shown  a rapid increase.  Prob­
ably  in last year alone there  were nearly 
200.

133 Draper Block.

M ORSE’S

Siegel’s Cloak Department.

Manufacturers and  Importers of

Send for our Catalogue to

Morse’s  Department  Store, Corner  Spring and  Monroe Sts.
W H E R E   A L L   A R E
gf^e a t
W H I C H   I S
GREATEST 
O f  A L L ?

MERCHANTS:

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finely flavored,  perfectly  roasted  coffee,  free 
from glazing  and  impurities of  every  kind. 
LION  COFFEE  satisfies  this  demand  and 
therefore  is a winner. 
It  is  sold  by  whole­
sale grocers everywhere.  For  quotations see 
price list column,  or address  the

W00LS0N  SPICE  CO., Toledo, 0.

Buy  of  the Largest  Manufacturers 
Cou-  try  and  Save  Money.

The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids

in  tbt 

Onr Complete Fall Line of

For  The  Baby

TradesOULI ETTA*
Owing to the fact  that  we  were  unable 
to  meet  the  demand for Chamoise  moc­
casins  last  fall,  we advise  placing your 
orders now.

We  have  them  in  all  grades  ranging 

from $1.85  to $4.75 per dozen.
SEX!)  FOK  SAMPLE.

HIRTH & KRAUSE,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Will be ready September 10th.  It will pay 
every merchant handling this line of goods 
to examine onr samples.

EATON,  LYON  &  CO.,

20 & 22 Monroe St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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On a  “ Mixed ”  Train.

The particular  point of  the  following 
I  have heard  in  different  ways,  but  the 
incident  I  have iu mind,  coming  under 
my  own  observation,  was  too  good  to 
pass,  and  we  will  consider it fresh  and 
new,  for  I am very  sure that  the disgust­
ed grandmother of  my story  had  not the 
remotest  idea  that  she  was  laying  her­
self  liable  to  the  accusation of  plagiar­
ism.
Dear reader,  did  you ever  ride for any 
considerable distance  on a “mixed”  rail­
road  train—that  is,  a train  made  up  of 
passenger  coaches and  freight  cars?  If 
you  never  have,  then  you  know not how 
steam-power  can  be  insulted;  you know 
not what  weary,  wretched  waiting  on  a 
railroad  really  means.
Years ago, when the Western Delaware 
& Reading  Railroad was  first  opened  to 
public  travel,  1  purchased  a  ticket  at 
Wilmington,  Del.,  for  Reading,  Pa.,  a 
distance of somewhere about sixty miles; 
and when  I came to enter my car, I found 
myself  on  board  one  of  those  raided 
trains.  There  was  vastly  more  freight 
than there were passengers.
For myself,  however, I did not particu­
larly suffer.  The road  ran  for its whole 
distance  through the beautiful  valley of 
the  historic  Brandywine,  and  as  1  was 
not  driven  for  time,  I  found  plenty  of 
enjoyment  iu  the  picturesque  scenery 
that was continually opening to my view. 
Much of it  was  grandly magnificent,  and 
all of  it interesting;  and,  what  was very 
favorable  to sight-seeing,  I lost  no  pict­
ures  of  the  panorama  through  rapidity 
of transit.
But  it  was  not so with  others.  Many 
were in a hurry,  and  the  grumbling and 
growling  was general.  At nearly  every 
stopping  place  there was  freight  to  be 
left,  and  freight  to  be  taken  on.  The 
regular hands of the train  were not paid, 
they  declared,  to  handle  freight,  and 
they  worked  charily;  and,  moreover, 
those  stopping  places  were  many  and 
frequent.  You  can,  perhaps,  imagine 
the speed of that train.
We  left Wilmington  at  7:30  a.  m.  At 
noon  we  had  made  not  more  than  half 
the distance to the end of  our route.  At 
4:30 p.  m.  we  arrived  at the  junction  of 
the Philadelphia  and  Reading  Railroad, 
about  five miles  distant  from  the  latter 
city,  nine  mortal  hours on the  road thus 
far!
As  we  approached  this  place,  where 
we were  to  strike on  to the  other  road, 
our conductor came  along to take  up  the 
tickets of  the passengers.  Very  near to 
me  sat  an  elderly lady,  accompanied by 
a boy,  who,  during the  long and  tedious 
trip,  had called her grandma.  When  the 
conductor  came to her,  she  gave  to him 
two  tickets,  one of  which  had a corner 
cut  off,  signifying  only  half  a  ticket. 
The  official  looked at the  ticket,  then at 
the  strapping  boy,  and  then  he  looked 
back  upon  the elderly  lady.
“Say,  my good  woman, d’ye  call that 
boy of  yours the kind of a boy  to ride on 
a half-ticket?”

Never  did a human  face express  more 
of  disgust—more  of  bitter  repugnance 
and  dudgeon,  than  did the  face of  that 
woman—and  the face  had  been  so  mild 
and so benignant at times in prattle  with 
her grandson.  She looked into the man’s 
face;  and  she  answered  him,  in  tones 
which you may imagine:

“When I  bought that  ticket it was  all 
If he’s 

that was  required  for  this  boy. 
outgrown it since,  it isn't my fault."

The conductor passed  on  without fur­
ther  remark;  and,  really,  I  thought  he 
enjoyed it;  for evidently he was not fond 
of running that mixed train.

Marquette—The  refusal of  the United 
States  Court to  allow  the  Nester  estate 
to cut  any  of  the timber on  its  disputed 
lands in  Baraga  county will  likely delay 
the projected Baraga & Watersmeet Rail­
way,  as that line had the contract to haul 
30,000,000  feet  the  coming  winter,  and 
expected to have  ten  miles of  rail  ready 
to do it with before snow fell.  The road, 
however,  will  undoubtedly  be  built 
sooner or later,  and  will be an  important 
factor in the handling of forest products.

Additions to the  List  of  Cash  Mer­

chants.

The  advent  of  every  autumn  marks 
numerous  additions  to  the  list  of  mer­
chants  who bid  good  bye  to  the  credit 
system.  Among those who have adopted 
the  cash plan  this  fall  is  T.  H.  Atkins, 
the  Carlisle  general  dealer,  who  an­
nounces  the  change to his  customers  in 
the following manner:

Commencing  October  1.  1891,  I  shall 

STRICTLY  CASH

sell goods for
only.  Should  responsible  parties desire 
credit  for  a  short  time,  I will,  if  satis­
factory,  issue  Tradesman  coupon  books 
in  sums  of  $2,  $3,  $5  and  §10  on  good 
notes  for  thirty  days,  to  bear  interest 
after  maturity.  1  take  this  course,  be­
lieving it will enable me to
and  give  better  satisfaction  to  my  pat­
rons.
Thanking  you  for  your  past  liberal 
patronage,  and  soliciting  a  continuance 
of the same,  I remain.

SELL  GOODS  CLOSER

Yours truly,

T.  II.  A t k in s .

He,  Too,  Had  Pride.

A delegation of charitably-disposed la­
dies,  who have nothing else  to do,  called 
on a merchant to solicit his aid in  reliev­
ing the necessities of a poor family.
“What is the name of the reduced fam­
ily?”  asked the merchant.
“The lady has  seen better days and  is 
too proud to  allow her  name to  be  men­
tioned in  this ccnnection.”
“That’s  just  the  fix my  family  is in. 
If I  were to  contribute 1  might  be con­
tributing to  support  my own  family  as 
objects  of  charity.  My  pride  will  not 
suffer me to take  any such  risks  as that. 
Otherwise,  ladies,  1  would  be  only  too 
glad to assist you.”

A  Needed  Reform.

While engaged in  reforming the styles 
of woman’s dress  the Chautauqua world- 
improvers  utterly  forgot  a  very  impor­
tant point.  Beauty  is  all  well  enough, 
but the  invention of a  device whereby  a 
woman’s pocket could  be found  without 
the aid  of a  search-light  and  a  sheriff’s 
posse  would  have  been  of  much  more 
practical  value.

R E M O V A L   S A L E .

Having  leased  other  quarters,  better 
adapted  for  the  Drug  business,  I  offer 
my entire stock of
Holiday  and  Fancy  Goods, Novelties, 
Toys,  Dolls,  Gaines,  Minims,  Bas­
kets, Books and Stationery, Sport­
ing  Goods,  Notions,
GREATLY  REDUCED  PRICES.

AND  MANY DRUGGISTS’  SUNDRIES  AT

A  rare  chahce to buy  Fall  and  Holiday 

Goods  at  Bargain Prices.  Sam­

ples now ready.

Special  prices  on  all  surplus stock  be­

fore moving.  Lease expires 

November 1st.

sale.

Drug  Store  Shelving  and  Counters  for 
Large  Wall Cases for sale. 
Sample-Trunks for sale.
Small stock Drugs and Fixtures  for sale. 
Large comer store for rent until January 
Fred  Brand age,

1st.  Correspondence Invited.

21 to 27 Terrace St.,

Muskegon,  Michigan,

»Daily. 

tDaily except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 p. m., 
5:00 p. m. and 10:25 p. in.
Trains  arrive  from  the west, 6:45 a.  m .,  J0:10 
a.  m , 3:35 p.m. and 9:50 p. m.
Eastward—No.  14  has  Wagner  Parltr  Buffet 
car.  No.  18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward — No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Chair Car.  No.  15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
J o h n  W.  L o u d , Traffic Manager.
B en F l e t c h e r , Trav.  Pass. Agent. 
J as. Ca m p b e l l, City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

“

OHIO AGO 

&  WEST  MICHIGAN  RY.
;  a .  m. P. M. P. M. PM.

DEPART FOR
C hicago..................
...if   9:00 tl :05 *11:35
Indianapolis__
,t  9:00 tl :05 §11:35
Benton  Harbor___ ...,t   9:00 tl :05 *11:35
St.  Joseph.............
. ,.!t  9:00 tl :05 »11:35
Traverse  City.......
...!  t7:25
M itskegon  .
Manistee 
Ludington...........
B ig  Rapids.........
tW eek  D ays.  »D aily.  § E x c e p t S a tu rd a y .
( |  ,< \A   A.  M. h a s th ro u g h  c h a ir c a r to C hlca- 
• /  .1 OJ  go.  N o extra charge for seats.

.............. ___  +7:25 +5:17
.I  +7:25 +5:17
1  t7:25 t5:17

........ . . . . |  t9:00 tl :U5 t  5:30 t8:30

K   P.  M.  runs  through  to Chicago  solid 
with Wagner buffet car;  sea s  50 ets. 
, j 7   P. M. has  through free  chair  car  to 

, o r   P.  M.  is solid  train  with Wagner pal- 
ace sleeping  car  through  to Chicago.
and sleeper  to  Indianapolis via Ben­
ton Harbor.

• ) « l l   Manistee,  via M.  & N.  E. It.  R.
I f  
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DETROIT,

Lansing & Northern R R

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DEPART  FOR

A  M.
t6:50 
t6:50 
t6:50 
t6:50 
t7:05 
t7 :(15 
t7:05

P. M.  j  P. M.
t l  :00 
*0:25
*0:25
tl :00 
*6:25
tl:00 
tlaO  
*0:25
t4:3u 
t4:30 
t4:30

Detroit.........................................
Lansing......................................
Howell....................................  ..
Lowell..........................................
Alma......................  
.............
St.  Louis  ................................
Saginaw  City.............................
I fN F I A   A  M. runs through to Detroit with par- 
" •« J ’v/  lor car;  seats 25  cents.

1 »AA P.  M.  Has  through  Parlor  car  to  De- 
6 * 0 ^   P.  M. runs  through to Detroit  with par 
r7 «APC  A-  M. has parlor  car  to  Saginaw, seats 
• 
For  tickets  and  Information  apply  at  Union 
Ticket Office, 67 Monroe  street, or Union station.

lor  car, seats  25  cents.
25 cents.

- •V/vf  troit.  Seats, 25 cents.

G eo.  D e H a v e n , Gen. Pass’r Agt.

Toledo,  A n n   A r b o r   St  N o r th   M ic h ig a n  

R a ilw a y .

In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk  i 
offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  betwe 
Grand Rapids and Toledo.

VIA D ., L.  &  N.

Lv. Grand Rapids a t.......7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t ..................1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m.

C Z X T S S X T G   R O O T .
K B® -

¡PECK BEOS., 

We pay the highest price for it.  Address

VIA  D ., S .  H.  A  M.

Lv. Grand Rapids a t....... 6:50 a. m.  and 3:45 p. in.
Ar. Toledo a t................ 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p.  m.

Return connections equally as good.

W. _H.  B e n n e t t ,  General Pass. Agent, 

Toledo, Ohio.

'T E T K   M I C r n G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Michigan (Tbntfal

“ The Niagara Falls Route.’'

DEPART.  ARRIVE
Detroit Express.    ............................... 6:30 a m  10:00 p m
Mixed  ....................................................6:40 a m   4:30  pm
Day  Express........................................  1:20 p m  10:00 a in
* Atlantic & Pacific Express............. 11:16 p m 
6:00 am
New York Express...............................6:40 p m  18:40 p m

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

•Dally.
All other daily except Sunday.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Express 
Parlor cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand Rapid 
Fred M. Briggs. Qen'l Agent. 86 Monroe St.
G. S. H aw kins, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Gko. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. 
O. W. Ruggles. G. P.  Ac  T. Agent., Chicago.

TIME  TABLE

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

EASTWARD.

tNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 »No.  28
10 55pm 
6 50am
7 45am 
12 37am 
S 28am 
1 55am 
9 15am
3 15am
11 05am 
11 55am 
11  10am 
3 05pm
10 57am
11 5  am

3 45pm
4 52pm
5 40pm
6 40pm
8 45pm
9 35pm 
8 0i pm
10 30pm
8 55pm
9 50pm

I  20am
II 25am 
12 17am
1 20pm 
3 10pm 
3 45pm 
3 40pm 
6 00pm
3 05pm
4 05pm

5 40am 
7 35am 
5 50am 
7  Oam

WESTWARD.

 

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»No. 81 tNo. 11 tN o. 13
7 05am
8 50am 
 
...........

1  00pm
2  15pm

a  10pm  10 30pm 
6  15pm  11 30pm 
6  45am  6 45am 
6 00am|............

1
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1 

i

Trains Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
I o n ia .............Ar
St.  Johns  ...A r
Owosso  __   Ar
E.  Saginaw  Ar 
Bay City  — Ar
F l in t ...........Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
P ontiac.........Ar
Detroit..........Ar

Trains Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv 
G’d Haven,  Ar 
Milw’kee Str  “ 
Chicago Str.  “

Grand  Rapida  & Indiana.
Schedule in effect  September  10,1891.

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive from  Leave going 
North.
7:05  am
11:30 a m
4:30  pm
10:30  p m
Train  arriving at 9:20  daily;  all  other  trains  daily 

South. 
For Saginaw Ac  Traverse  City..  5:15 a m  
For Traverse City & Mackinaw 
9:20 a m  
For Saginaw  and  Cadillac.........  2:15 p m  
For  Petoskey & Mackinaw.......   8:60 p m 
except Sunday.

Sonth.
7:00 am
10:30  am
2:00  p m
6:00  pm
11:06 p m
Trains leaving at 6:00 p. m. and 11:05 p. m. run daily; 

North. 
For  Cincinnati...................  6:20 
am  
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago... 
For Fort Wayne and the  East..  11.50 a ra 
For  Cincinnati...................  5:30 
pm  
For  Chicago.......................  
10:40 p m 
From Saginaw...............................   10:40 p m
all other trains daily except Sunday.

 

For Muskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
10:10 a m 
7:00  a m 
11:25 a m 
4:55 pm  
5:40 pm
9:00 p m

From Muskegon—Arrive.

SLEEPING  &  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE.

NORTH-7 :0 5   am  train.—Parlor chair car  G*d 
Rapids to Traverse  Oity.
1 1 : 3 0   a m  train.—Parlor chair car  G’d 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
10:30 p m  train.—Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw. 
SOUTH—7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
10:30 a m  t r a in .—Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
6:00  p m train.—Wagner Sleeping  Car 
Grand  Rapids to Cincinnati.
11 ;0 5   p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car 
Grand Rapids to Chicago.

Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R.

'  10:30 a m 
3:55 p m  

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

11:05 p m
0:50 am
10:30 a ra train through Wagner Parlor Car.
11:05 p m train daily, through  Wagner  Sleeping Car. 
10:10 pm
5:15  am
3 10  p  m  through  Wagner  Parlor  Car.  10:10  p  m 

3:10 p m  
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
8-50pm 
train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

2:00 p m 
9:00 p m  

7:05 a m  
2:15pm 

Through tickets and full information  can  be had by 
calling upon A. Aimquist,  ticket  agent  at  Union Sta­
tion,  or  George  W.  Munson,  Union  Ticket  Agent, 67 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD.

Grand  Rapids  Electrotype  Co.,

W A .N TBD .

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

If you  have  any  of  the  above  goods  to 
ship,  or anything  in  the  Produce lin e,  let 
ns  hear  from  yon.  Liberal  cash advances 

made  when  desired.EARL  BROS.,
Co m m issio n   M e r c h a n t s

157 South  Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

R eference:  Fir st  Natio n a l  Ban k,  Chicago.
M ic h ig a n  T k  a d e s m a n . Grand Rapids.

anything 

That will help  a man  in  his business ought to  be 
of  vital  importance to  him.  Many a successful  mer­
chant has found  when

T O O   B A T S

That  he  has  allowed  his money to  leak  away.

-JVIopey ■ Won’t lake_ Bare of  Itself.

And  the  quicker you  tumble to  the  fact  that  the  old way of 
keeping it  is  not good  enough,  the  more of  it  yon 
will  have to count  up.

If  you  wish  to stop  all  the  leaks  incident to the  mercan­

tile  business,  adopt one of the

P^oupop  gystejris

Manufactured  in  our  establishment—“ Tradesman,”  “ Super­
ior”  or  “ Universal ”—and  put  your  business  on  a cash  basis.

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY

For Samples and  Price  I.ist,  address

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

C.  A.  LAMB. 

F.  J.  LAMB.

C.  A . ’L A M B   &  CO.,

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits  and  ProdUGe.

8 4   a n d   8 6   S o u th   D iv isio n   S t.

H o lts  W o n te d !

I  want  500   to  1,000  cords of  Poplar  Excel­

sior  Bolts,  18,  36 and  54  inches  long.

I  also  want  Basswood  Bolts, same  lengths 

as above.  For jHirticulars address

J.  W. FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Ouershirts.  Dress  Goods,

Yarns, Blankets, Comforts
Dress  Ginghams,  Prints, -Batts
Änd  a  New  Line of  Floor Oil  Glotll  in  5-4, 6-4, 8-4.
W.  STEKETEE  &  SONS

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

S 100  G IV E N   AWAY

T o   t h e   S m o k e r s   o f   t h e

P R I N C E   R U D O L P H   C I G A R S .

7 »   the  p en o a   guessing  th e   nearest  to   th e   n u m b er  o f  Im p s  th a t will 
appear in a  series o f  c u ts in  th e   E vening  News,  c u ts  not  to   exceed  100, 
1st Cash  Prize,  $50;  2d.  $25;  3d,  15;  4th,  $10.  G uess slips to  be h ad   w ith 
every 25c.  w o rth  o f  PR IN C E  RUDOLPH  CIGARS.  Sold  E veryw here. 
U p to  d a te  th e re  h a s been  p u blished 23cu ts, w ith a  to ta l of  3 0 3   Im ps.

MSMursoTuaca  av

A l u x .  G o r d o n ,   D e t r o i t ,   M i o n .
DANIEL  LYNCH,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale Agt.

OYSTERS!

The  O yster  Sens on  is  now  well  opened 
and  we  are “ in  the  swim,”  as  usual.  We  put up 
good goods  and  sell them right,  and  w e   W ant 
your trade•  Having  once  secured  it,  we 
will endeavor by  all  honorable  means  and methods 
to retain  it.  Send  us your orders.

THE  PUTNAM  GANDY GO.

STRAITON  &  STORM’S  CIGARS.

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

Correspondence solicited.

SOUTH  DIVISION  ST..  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Having  been  appointed  distributing  agents  in Grand  Rapids  for  the  OWL 
CIGAR COMPANY  (formerly Straiton  & Storm),  of New  York and  Florida,  we are 
prepared to supply the trade with the celebrated OWL BRANDS OF HIGH GRADE 
CIGARS,  also  their  SUPERIOR  NICKEL  GOODS,  and a complete assortment of 
I k e y   WEST  CIGARS,  manufactured  by the above well  known  firm at their  fac­
tories  in  New  York  and Florida.  The  Owl  Cigar  Company do not  manufacture 
low  grade  cigars,  and  their products are guaranteed  free from  drugs or adultera­
tions of any kind.  We solicit a trial order.

I. M.  CLARK GROCERY CO., Grand Rapids.

Our  stock  of  Decorated.Parlor  Lamps  and  Shades  to  match,  which it 
has seemed  impossible to get  in  sufficient  quantities  are  now in, and all  our 
back orders will be filled at once.

Have  you our  new  Lamp  Catalogue,  showing  these  beautiful  lamps in 

colors ? 

If not, send for it.  Mailed on request.  Prices  never so low,

H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Eapids.

S e e   our L ib r a r y   L a m p s   w ith   F o u n t &   S h a d e   to M a tc h .

S e n d   fo r  Illu s tr a tio n s   o f  our  M a m m o th   S to r e   L a m p s .

