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A bride  who  waits at the  altar for the 
bridegroom  that  never  comes  is  not al­
ways an  object of  pity.  Frequently her 
friends  might  well  congratulate  her. 
Her faithless  lover,  at  the  last  moment 
possible for him to do so,  saved her from 
the  life-long  misery  of  being  his  wife. 
Without him, her  heart aches for a time; 
with him,  it would have broken.  Thrice 
happy and fortunate maiden!

If  you  do  not  believe  this,  read  the 
following story and  be  converted  to  my 
view  of  the  matter.  The  names  are 
fictitious;  I would  that  I  might  say  the 
same of the characters.

Doctor  Hugh  Macnair  and  his  wife 
dropped,  one  spring  day,  into  our  little 
European  and American  colony at Naga­
saki  as  suddenly  as  if  they  had  fallen 
from the sky.  No one had heard of their 
coming;  no  one  knew  anything  about 
them.  They  were  both  very  tali,  both 
red-haired;  neither  of  them  was  hand­
some.  Doctor  Macnair  could  not  have 
been more than thirty years old,  his wife 
must  have  been  considerable  younger. 
They had no children.

The  foreign  concession  at  Nagasaki 
has  grown  very much,  I am  told,  during 
the past  few years, bpt in 188- it did not 
contain  more  than  twenty-five  families, 
and  these  were  about  equally  divided 
among  attaches of  the consular  service, 
members of  missionary boards and  mer­
chants.  Our  life  was  a  quiet  one,  and 
the coming of  a new  family,  like the  de­
parture of  an old one,  was always  some­
thing of  a  noteworthy  event.  The sud­
den appearance of  the  Macnairs  created 
an unusual amount of interest.

“What is the  fellow’s  business?”  men 
asked;  and the newcomer answered their 
enquiries by hanging out his shingle:

Hugu Ma c n a ir,  M.  D.

“Is  she  sociable?”  the  women  won­
dered;  and  Mrs.  Macnair  satisfied  them 
that she  was  uncommonly  so  by calling 
on every woman  in the concession before 
half of  them  had  got  around to call  on 
her.  This  was a  new  departure  in  the 
social regime of  our  little  colony;  it cre­
ated a sensation;  it  wore  a revolutioniz­
ing  aspect,  and  called  for  prompt  and 
vigorous action.

The ladies met and discussed  the  mat­
ter over Mrs.  Greatly’s teacups.  Greatly 
was  British  consul,  and  therefore  Mrs. 
Greatly  claimed  social  precedence  as  a 
matter of course.  Her claim was allowed. 
Even  the  wife  of  the  American  consul 
accepted  the  situation with  all  that  de­
lightfully unselfish devotion  which  char­
acterizes  the  genuine Anglomaniac,  and 
her  fellow-countrywomen  took their cue 
from  her. 
It was in Mrs.  Greatly’s  par­
lors,  therefore,  that  the  Macnairs  were 
arraigned  for trial. 
It was there that an 
imposing  array  of  witnesses  testified  to 
the  very indiscreet  sayings  and  doings 
of  the  doctors’s wife. 
It  was there that 
this  portentous  sentence fell  from  Mrs. 
Greatly’s lips:

“Wasn’t  it  bad  enough to be  running

n o .  437

about where she  wasn’t wanted?  But to 
solicit practice  for her  husband in every 
house  she  went  to,  just fancy!  Call on 
her,  who wants to,  but I shan’t!”

“I  shan’t!”  “I  shan’t!”  came back a 
chorus of echoes  from  every part of  the 
room,  and then the court arose.

It  was  very  unfortunate  indeed  that 
Mrs.  Macnair’s  zeal  to  help her husband 
had so outrun  the  bounds of  discretion. 
There was  just at that time a place for a 
new  doctor in our  little  colony.  Doctor 
Gower  had  died  a  few  months  before, 
and the  only foreign  physician in Naga­
saki  was  Doctor Van  Eck,  and  his time 
was  fully  occupied  with  his  duties  as 
superintendent of the large native hospi­
tal  in  the  city.  Had  the  right  sort  of 
a man  appeared he  would  have  found  a 
tolerably lucrative practice awaiting him. 
But  no  one  seemed  to  regard  Doctor 
Hugh  Macnair as the  right sort of  a per­
son.

The Macnairs  had  rented a small  bun­
galow  just  below my place,  on the  slop­
ing  hillside,  and.  from  my  library  win­
dow,  I could  see  them as they  passed in 
and  out of  their  house. 
It  was  clear 
that  they were  in  very straightened cir­
cumstances.  Throughout all their rooms 
cheap  Japanese  matting  did  service for 
carpets,  their  furniture  was  old  and 
worn,  and,  saving  the  parlor»  the  walls 
of which were adorned with a few native 
hanging pictures,  their house was devoid 
of any artistic embellishment.

During  the  summer  months  Macnair 
gradually built up a ship practice.  There 
is  always  in  Nagasaki  harbor  a  goodly 
number of sailing-ships from every quar­
ter  of  the  globe,  and  their  officers  and 
crews  depend  for  their  medical  service 
upon  the  physicians  of  the  ports  they 
visit. 
I cannot  say why it is,  hut  it  is a 
fact  that  throughout  the  Far  East  re­
spectable  doctors  avoid  ship  practice, 
and the man who follows it as a business 
is always looked down  upon by the shore 
community.  Soon  as  it  became  known 
among  us,  therefore,  that  Macnair  was 
paying professional  visits to the ships in 
the  harbor,  what  had  been  before hut a 
vague distrust of  the man  deepened into 
a  positive  dislike.  Rather  than  have 
sought medical aid of  him,  the  people,  I 
really  believe,  would  have  called  iu  a 
native physician.

1  noticed  that  Mrs.  Macnair  always 
accompanied  her  husband  as far  as  the 
bund  (an  embankment  or  esplanade), 
where he took a sampan (a Japanese boat) 
to  convey him  about  the  harbor  from 
ship to ship.  Here  she  would  wait  for 
hours  until  he  came  ashore,  and then, 
arm  in  arm,  the  two  would  return  to 
their bungalow on the bluff. 
I could not 
understand  this  strange  conduct,  for  I 
had  seen  enough  of  their  private  life, 
and their one  servant had  told  my cook 
enough  to  satisfy me  that  they did  not 
live  happily  together. 
I  finally  dis­
covered  the  reason  for  Mrs.  Macuair’s 
watchfulness.  Passing one evening along 
the  bund,  I saw her  seated on the  stoue 
sea-wall,  anxiously  looking  out over  the 
water  for the  doctor’s return.  She was 
very  pale  and  haggard,  like  one  ex-

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fascination for her.

hausted  by a long  sickness,  and,  though  man,  she said,  always threw  her  into  a 
she turned  her face  away as she  saw me  state of  nervous excitement,  from which 
coming  up  to  her,  she  did  not  do  so  she did  not recover  for  days.  Yet  the 
quickly  enough  to  prevent  my  seeing I doctor’s  house seemed to have  a  strange
that she had  been  crying.  A few hours i 
later,  as I was walking  homeward in the 
dusk  of  the  summer  twilight,  I saw the 
doctor  and  his  wife  ahead of  me.  His 
voice  was  raised  in  a  loud,  incoherent 
babble,  and  1  perceived  that  he  leaned 
heavily  upon  his  wife,  who,  with  her 
arm  about  her  husband’s  waist,  was 
fruitlessly endeavoring to steady his  un­
certain,  staggering  steps.  Macnair  was 
drunk.  He  had  evidently  made  more 
than  his  usual  number of  professional 
visits that  afternoon,  and on every ship,
1 presume,  he had  drunk  to the recovery 
of  his  patient  and  to the  health of  his 
brother tars.  As  a  consequence,  Hugh 
Macnair,  M.  D.,  was  garrulously, glor­
iously drunk.

One evening,  on  our way down to  the 
bund,  Harry and I pa-sed  the  Macnairs.
He was  drunk,  as  usual,  and  she  was 
helping him home.  After we had passed 
beyond  earshot of  the  wretched  couple,
I said:
□ “Poor woman!  It had  been better had 
she  died  before  she  bound  herself  to 
such a living  death as her  life with that 
brute  must be.”

To my surprise,  Harry  stopped  in the 
middle of  the  road,  and,  turning  upon 
me a look that I  shall  never  forget,  he 
cried,  passionately:

During the remaining  summer and the 
autumn  and  the  winter  months,  1  often 
saw Mrs.  Macnair  piloting  her  intoxica­
ted husband home from the bund.

In  the  following  spring  my  college 
classmate  and  friend,  Harry  Bressel, 
made me a visit.  After  we had gradua­
ted from the  university together,  Harry 
had wandered off  to  Colorado,  and  by  a 
streak of  luck in  mining speculation had 
acquired a large fortune.  The previous 
year he  had  spent  in  Scotland,  among 
his mother’s kinsfolk,  and it was  at  Ed­
inburgh that  he  had  met  Agnes  Dean, 
who was now Mrs.  Bressel. 
It was their 
wedding trip,  this journey of theirs from 
the Firth of  Forth  to  Harry’s  home  on 
the Hudson,  via India and Japan.

Harry was a good  fellow,  and  1  liked 
him.  Agnes  Dean  had certainly made a 
good match.  Her husband was a million 
aire; but,  better  than all  his wealth,  he 
was as honest and  noble  a  man as  ever 
wooed and  won the woman  of his choice. 
It  was  only  natural,  therefore,  that  I 
should be a little  curious to  learn  what 
sort of  a person  the fortunate Mrs. Bres­
sel  might be. 
It was on Sunday evening 
that the MUsu  Bishi  steamship,  Genkai 
Maru,  brought  Harry  and  his  bride  to 
Nagasaki,  and,  before the week  was out,
I was  satisfied  that  my  old  friend  had 
chosen a wife  in  every  way  worthy  of 
him.  Agnes Bressel  was  not  what  the 
fastidious  would  call  beautiful,  but  she 
was a thoroughly good woman.

Harry and Agnes were  delighted  with 
Nagasaki—as who that has ever wandered 
through 
its  crooked  and  picturesque 
streets,  or has gazed  upon the  charming 
prospects unfolded from  the  summits  of 
its encircling hills,  or has  sailed  its  sil­
very,  land-locked  bay,  is  not? 
I,  too, 
was overjoyed  to  have  them  with  me, 
and so the brief  limit  of  their  intended 
stay glided into two weeks and  then into 
a  month.  Agnes,  1  noticed,  after  the 
first few days,  formed a liking for sitting 
in  the large  bay  window  of  my  library. 
This window,  I believe  1  have  already 
said,  commanded  a  view  of  the  bunga­
low occupied by the Macnairs.  Toward 
this I frequently perceived Harry’s  wife 
directing  her  gaze,  her  countenance  at 
the same time wearing such a strange ex­
pression  that I could not help  wondering 
what it all  could mean. 
I was  sure that 
she had not  met either the doctor or  his 
wife  since  she  and  her  husband  had 
been my guests; indeed,  Harry  had  told 
me that in our walks about the  city  Ag­
nes had hoped that  we  might  not  meet 
the Macnairs. 
She had heard me speak 
of  them,  and  the  sight  of  a  drunken

“She  deserves  it  all!  Are  not  the 
wages of  sin death?  If  Jane Campbell’s 
life is a  living  death,  it  is  God’s  judg­
ment upon her.  She stole Hugh Macnair 
from the bride that was awaiting him  at 
the altar.  Now let her enjoy  her theft!”
I need  scarcely  say  that  this  sudden 
outburst of  my friend greatly astonished 
me.

“What!” I exclaimed,  “you  know  the 
Macnairs!  How  is  it  possible?  What 
does all this you are saying mean?”

“No,  I don’t  know  them,”  Harry  re­
turned,  more calmly;  “neither do I wish 
to know them. 
I  never  saw either Mac­
nair or his wife  until  a  few  days  ago, 
but I have heard of  them.”

Then,  as  we resumed  our  walk  down 
the hill,"my friend told me  the  story  of 
the Macnairs.  Harry was never addicted 
to the use of  many  words,  and  here  is 
what he said,  briefly  as  he  told it to  me 
that May evening:

“Six years ago,  the  present  Mrs. Mac­
nair,  then 'Jane  Campbell,  was  living 
with her cousin,  a young woman of about 
her own age.  Jane’s  parents  bad  died, 
leaving her a penniless orphan,  and,  had 
it not been for  this  cousin  who  opened 
her heart and  her  home to  receive  her, 
she would have had  a  hard  struggle  to 
earn  a livelihood.  This  cousin was en­
gaged to  Hugh  Macnair,  who  had  just 
attained to his degree in  medicine;  and, 
during the latter’s  visits at the  home  of 
his betrothed,  he and Jane Campbell  fre­
quently m et  But no  one  dreamed  that 
he  was base enough to  prove false to the 
woman  who 
loved  him,  or  that  Jane 
Campbell would repay her cousin’s kind­
ness by attempting to lure away her lover. 
The day set for  the  wedding  came,  the 
guests assembled,  the clergyman  was in 
waiting,  but  company  and minister  and 
bride waited in  vain.  Hugh Macnair did 
not come.  Toward  evening  it  was  dis­
covered that he and  Jane  Campbell  had 
fled  to  Glasgow  to  be  married; 
they 
had been  seen  going aboard the train to­
gether that very morning.”

Harry  was silent for a  time. 

I waited 
patiently  for  the  speaker  to  continue.
At length he said:

“You will scarcely  believe it,  but the 
next thing that was heard of the runaway 
couple  was that Macnair  had secured an 
appointment  as  medical  missionary  to 
China.  He was to have charge of  a mis­
sion hospital  in Nankin,  I think  it  was. 
Three years ago tidings again came from 
them.  The doctor had  become so intem­
perate that he had  been  dismissed  from 
the mission.  He and his wife then went 
down  to  Foo Chow,  where  he  tried  to | 
build up a  practice in the foreign  settle­
ment.  He  could  have  done  very  well 
there,  I have been told, had  he  not been

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Blank Books, Stationery,  Wrapping Paper  and Twine.

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The  New York 

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reliable wholesale
i T H r e o   M A N U F A C T U R E R S

Co»« r e ta l 

one  of  the  oldest  and  most 
JjJ],  jj,

established 1838,  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  says:
“The  clothing  industry  has  been  one 
of  the  leading  features  of  the  city  of 
Rochester for  many years.  Many of  the 
present  firms  began  business  in  a very 
modest  way,  but  have  siuce  developed 
into  some of  the  leading  manufacturers 
in  the  country.  So  extensive is the  in­
dustry carried  on  here  that a very large 
per  cent,  of  the  city’s  inhabitants  are 
supported  by  it.  Good  hands  can  get 
plenty of  work  and  demand a fair  com­
pensation  for  their  labor.  One of  the 
oldest firms  here engaged  in the clothing 
trade is  that  of  Messrs.  Mic h a el  Kolb 
&  Son.  This  concern  was  established 
thirty-four years ago  by the senior mem­
ber of  the  firm, and  has  enjoyed a won­
derfully  successful  career.  They  have 
for  many  years  occupied  their 
large 
building  at  Nos.  135 and  137 North  St. 
Paul  street,  but  for want of  more  room 
and  improved  facilities  with  which  to 
better prosecute their extensive business 
they have  resolved to erect a fine,  large 
building in the  spring,  consisting of  six 
stories  above  ground,  two  basements, 
and  with a frontage of  seventy-two feet. 
The structure is to  be  an  imposing  one 
and an  ornament to the  city,  and  one of 
which its owners  may  justly feel proud. 
As  a  further  evidence of  the  prosperity 
of  the clothing  manufacturers  Mr.  Kolb 
states  that  quite a number  are  contem­
plating building their own  houses, which 
will  probably occur  during the  present 
year. 
In  this  respect,  however,  he  does 
not propose to  be outdone.  The business 
with this house for the past year has been 
all  that  could  be  desired.  Sales  have 
been  larger,  collections  easy, and  their

boobs  show a decided  increase  over  the 
year  preceding.  The  outlook  for  the 
present  is  even  more  flattering  than  it 
has been for many years past.  Although 
they manufacture a genera)  line of goods 
their  specialty  consists of  a  fine  grade. 
In  these  they  are  not  surpassed,  the 
strictest  attention  being  paid  to  every 
detail,  and  none  but  the  most  skilled 
hands are employed in their manufacture. 
As  a  guarantee  of  the  most  thorough 
workmanship and  finish  being  given  to 
goods  turned  out of  this  house,  it  may 
be stated that  the  senior  member of  the 
firm, Mr. Michael  Kolb, devotes his whole 
and  undivided  attention  to  the  manu­
facturing  department  of  the  establish­
ment,  he having  been a practical  man in 
the  manufacturing  of  clothing,  and  is 
eminently  fitted to fill  so  important and 
responsible  a  position.  His  son,  Mr. 
Jacob  M.  Kolb,  attends  to  the  business 
on  the  road. 
In  connection with  their 
manufacturing  they also do an extensive 
jobbing  trade,  but  principally  in  fine 
goods.  With a long and honorable career 
this  firm has  established  a  demand  for 
their  goods in almost  every State  in  the 
Union,  aud  enjoy the  most implicit  con­
fidence  and  esteem  of  all  with  whom 
they have dealings.”

Mr.  Tripp,  a clothing traveler says:
“Wm. Connor—There  can  be  no diffi­
culty selling Kolb’s goods, for they are as 
staple as flour,  aud  that is why  you  sell 
so many.”
Write  our  Michigan  representative, 
William  Connor,  for  printed opinions of 
the leading clothing  merchants in Michi­
gan.

W INTER  CLOTHING -We  still  have  some  nice  ulsters,  overcoats  and  heavy 
weight  suits, salable  all  the  year  around.  Mail  orders  promptly attended to,  or 
write  our  Michigan  agent,  William  Connor,  box  346,  Marshall,  Mich.;  also  I.  W. 
Morton,  of Big Rapids,  Mich., and look at our line,  learn our  prices,  and judge for 
yourselves.

C .  Gr.  A .  VOIGT  &  C O .,

Proprietors of the

S T A R   R O L L E R   M I L L S .

OUR  BRANDS;

j 

OUR  PATENT.
STAR.

GILT  EDGE.

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CALLA  LILY.

GOLDEN  SHEAF,

PEARL. 

gSBAKERS’  CHOICE,

BOSS.
PATENT  ROLLER  FLOUR.

SPECIALTIES :

GRAHAM,  RYE  and  BUCKWHEAT 
GRANULATED  and  BOLTED  MEAL. 

FLOUR,

Prompt attention given to mail orders.
G rand  R a p id s,  M ich.

No  B ogu s!

“ 

Heaton 

GENUINE Peninsular Button Fasteners in  lots of 10 gt.  gr.  at 
Fast Shank Buttons, best on the market at 
HIRTH  &  KRAUSE,  12-14 Lyon St.,  G’d  Rapids.

45c per gt.  gr.

$1  “ 
40c  “ 

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“ 

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Headquarters for Shoe Store Supplies.

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3

cursed with a foolish  woman for  a  wife 
and unconquerable love for strong drink. 
He was finally  starved  out of Foo Chow. 
Next  they  went  to  Che Foo,  and failed 
there; and now it seems that he has come 
down to ship practice here in Japan.”

Late that  evening,  as  we  were seated 
in my library,  the  door  that  opened  on 
the  veranda  was  suddenly  flung  open, 
and Mrs.  Macnair, pale as a ghost, rushed 
into the room.

“Oh,  gentlemen!”  she  cried. 

“Help! 
Help!  Gentlemen,  run,  save  my  hus­
band!  He is trying to  kill  himself!  He 
is in the field  behind  the house  hanging 
himself!  Oh!  Oh!”  And  then she stag­
gered back  against the wall with such an 
unearthly scream that I thought  she was 
going mad.

Then I saw that she  had caught  sight 
of  Harry’s  wife,  who  had  arisen  from 
her seat in  the  shadow  of  the  window- 
curtain and had  come  forward  into  the 
light.  Oh,  such a look of compassionate 
pity as  was that which  transfigured  the 
countenance  of  Agnes  Bressel,  as  she 
gazed into  the  haggard,  terror-stricken 
face of  the cowering creature before her.
Then Harry and I rushed out to search 
for the  doctor.  The  two  women  were 
left  alone,  but  what  passed  between 
them I never heard.

We found the would-be  suicide behind 
the  hedge  that  enclosed  his  grounds. 
The poor TIrunken  wretch  was  actually 
trying to hang himself  from  the limb  of 
a large orange-tree,  but,  in  his intoxicat­
ed condition,  his efforts had  been  futile. 
We carried him  by sheer  force  into  his 
house,  and,  despite  his  struggles  and 
screams, put him to bed.  Harry then re­
turned,  but I  stayed with Macnair.  His 
wife did not come into the  room while  I 
was there.  She was in the  house,  how­
ever, for I could hear  her all  night  long 
moving about and  moaning  and  talking 
to  herself. 
In  the  morning  the  doctor 
awoke  from  the  drunken  slumber  into 
which he had  fallen.  He  was sufficient­
ly sobered off  to  realize what an  exhibi­
tion  he  had  made  of  himself,  and  he 
begged  my  pardon  for  the  trouble  he 
had  caused.  He  promised  to  drink  no 
more,  but scarcely  had I  closed the door 
of  his room when I heard him calling for 
brandy.

Two days later the  foreign  concession 
of  Nagasaki  was  agreeably surprised to 
hear that the Macnairs had left for  parts 
unknown.  Where they  went  and  what 
became  of 
them  remains  a  mystery. 
Harry and Agnes  stayed  with  me  until 
June,  but  neither of  them  ever spoke to 
me again of  the Macuairs. 
I sometimes 
wish that they  had,  yet  it  was  scarcely 
necessary.  To Agnes,  at  least,  the sub­
ject was doubtless a painful one,  and,  as 
far as my curiosity is concerned,  I fancy 
that I know who Jane  Campbell’s cousin 
was. 

W. C.  K i t c h i k .

Legal Points on Book Accounts.

Original  entries  are  evidences  of  the 
sale and delivery of goods and work done.
Entries of transactions should be made 
at or near the time of their occurrence.
The  time to  make an  entry  against  a 
purchaser  is  when the  goods  are  ready 
for delivery.

Entries,  to be  admissable as  evidence, 
should be made  by a proper  person,  and 
be  without  erasure,  alteration  or  inter­
lineation.
Mistakes should be  corrected by mark­
ing the  erroneous  entry  void,  and  then 
making a  correct entry; or,  if  the  entry 
has been  transferred  to  other books,  by 
making another entry in explanation.
Items and particulars  should be speci­
fied,  as a general  charge  cannot be  sup­

ported  by  this  kind  of  evidence.  The | 
entry  must be  made for  the purpose  of 
charging the debtor;a mere memorandum 
for  any other purpose is  insufficient.
As a general  rule,  copies  of all impor­
tant  papers,  such  as letters,  orders,  ac­
counts current, and account sales,  should 
be  kept,  as  they  may  be  required  for 
proof  or reference; but usually, a copy is 
not a voucher,  and nothing but the origi­
nal paper will answer.
To collect a debt on  the  evidence  of  a 
book account  from  a person  in a distant 
place,  a  copy of  the  account  should  be 
made out,  and  accompanied with an  affi­
davit  in  the  usual  form,  setting  forth, 
first,  that  the  above  copy  of  account  is 
correctly taken from the book of original 
entries;  second,  that  the  charges  were 
made at  or about  the  times  of their  re­
spective dates;  third,  that the goods were 
sold and  delivered  at or  about  the  time 
the charges  were made;  fourth,  that  the 
charges  are  correct  and  the  accounts 
just; and fifth,  that  the person named  is 
not entitled to  any credits.  This  affida­
vit  should be  sworn  to  before  a  magis­
trate or  commissioner,  and will save  the 
trouble of producing the books.

The  Wear  of Shoe  Heels.

From th e Boston H erald.

“What  percentage  of  your  customers 
wear off the heels  of  their  shoes  on the 
outside?”  was  asked  of  a  Washington 
street shoe dealer.
“Well, I should say about 75,  while 10 
per cent,  strike heel squarely  in the cen­
ter, and 5 per cent,  wear  on the inside.” 
“How do you account  for these  varia­
tions?”
“It  comes  through  the  knee  joints. 
For  instance,  a  bow-legged  man  always 
wears  on  the  extreme  outside  of  the 
heel,  while a leg  that is hung  in such  a 
way as to give the  appearance  that it  is 
on hindside before will always  grind the 
heel  down  in  the  center.  The  knock- 
kneed  man  invariably  wears  on the  in­
side.  All  kinds  of  schemes  have  been 
adopted to prevent  the  wearing down of 
the heel,  the latest  device  being a small 
wedge-shaped  piece  of  very  hard  steel 
inserted  on  the  side  where  the  greater 
wear  comes.  While  this  arrangement 
meets  the  case,  it  is  not  altogether  ac­
ceptable because of  the  liability to slip, 
especially on  a tiled or marble floor.” 
“Are there  any  who wear  their  heels 
down  even all around?”
“Not  one  in  20,000.  You  will  some­
times  observe a man  whose  lower  limb, 
just before  the  foot  strikes  the ground, 
dangles  momentarily  as  if  it was  unde­
cided  as  to  the  point  of  contact. 
In 
cases of this nature it  will  be found that 
the heel wears off squarely;  but instances 
of this kind are very rare.”

Another P. of I. Lodge Disbands.

A  correspondent  of  the  St.  Johns Re­
publican  thus  relates  the  manner  in 
which  another  Patrons  of  Industry  or­
ganization  blew out  the light and retired 
from business:

At  a  meeting  of  the  P.  of  I.  lodge, 
held in  district No.  10,  Bath,  last  Thurs­
day  night,  it was  unanimously  resolved 
that while we kick like a bay steer against 
“soulless corporations,” “thorny-handed” 
middle-men  and  “monopolies,”  yet  we 
are fully resolved  that  while we tremble 
at the  nation’s  fate we are not  going  to 
neglect  our  woodpiles  to  preserve  the 
State.  Therefore, be it resolved that we, 
the  members  of  No.  10  Lodge,  Bath, 
Mich.,  are  tired  and  sick of  monkeying 
with the muzzle end of  the ship of  state 
when  we  know  it  is  loaded;  therefore, 
let us  eat,  drink  and  be  merry while we 
live,  and  let politics and  monopolies go 
plumb to that place where the coal never 
gives out and the worm dieth not.  There 
was $8 left in the  treasury,  so  the Presi­
dent  sent a committee  down  to  the vil­
lage  for  oysters  and  pepper sass  while 
the members repaired to Wm.  H. Court’s, 
and  when  they  had  eaten  oysters  and 
played  “snap  and  kiss  ’em”  with  the 
sisters until two o’clock  in  the  morning, 
they  adjourned  sine  die.  Thus another 
“secret”  industry  is  wiped out of  exist­
ence.  This  is the  wind-up of  the  P.  of 
I.  in  Bath  township.  We  are  sorry  to 
see  it  collapse,  but  don’t  know  how  it 
can be helped.

WIGHTMAN  &  IVES,

Albion,  Midi.,

S t a t e   A g e n t s

New Model Hall Typewriter.

P a r d o n   th e   co n ceit,  b u t  w e  th in k   i t   a  f a c t  th a t  so m e  o f  th e   re a d e rs  o f 
“  T h e   T ra d e s m a n ”   w h ile   b e lie v in g   in   th e   T y p e w rite r  as  a  time  saver 
a n d   trade  producer,  a re   still 
la b o rio u sly   w ig g lin g   th a t   a n c ie n t,  a n d  
fo rm e rly   m u ch   u se d   re lic ,  th e   p en .  W h y ?   w e  re sp e c tfu lly   a sk ,  a n d   th e  
h o n e st  to ile r  fo r  h o n e s t  g a in   ra ise s  h is  h e a d   fro m   h is  in k -sta in e d   d esk , 
s tra ig h te n s   h is   c ra m p e d   fin g ers  a n d   sa y s  in   re p ly ,  “ W e   c a n ’t  g e t  a   p ra c ti­
cal  T y p e w rite r  fo r  a   re a so n a b le   p ric e .”

F rie n d s ,  is  th a t  th e   p ic k le   y o u ’re   in ?   W e ’ll  h e lp   y o u   o u t  o f 

th e  

b rin e .

A re   th o se   th e   re m n a n ts  th a t  a re   h a n g in g   fire?  W e ’ll  close  ’em   o u t 

fo r  y o u   a t  a b o u t  th e   o rig in a l  price.

Is   th a t  w h e re   th e   sh o e  p in c h e s?   W e ’ll  s tre tc h   it   fo r  y o u   a t  th a t 

p a rtic u la r  p o in t.
L IS T E N   !
T h e   w e ll  k n o w n   a n d   u n riv a le d   NEW  MODEL  HALL  TYPE­
WRITER  is  a  p ra c tic a l  a n d   ra p id   m a c h in e ,  w ritin g   82  c h a ra c te rs,  th a t 
yo u   c a n   affo rd   to   buy.

THE  TRUTH  ABOUT  THE  HALL.

s lig h t  h a n d   m o v e m e n t  in   m a n ip u la tio n .

Rapid  b ecau se  o f  c o m p a c t  k e y -b o a rd   o r  in d e x   p la te ,  re q u irin g   o n ly  
Durable b ecau se  sim p le ,  a n d   o f  c o m p a ra tiv e ly   fe w   p a rts.
Easily  Learned  b y   c h ild   o r  g ro w n   p erso n .  G o o d   w o rk   th e   first 

u se d   w ith   th e   sa m e  w rite r. 
fu l.

h o u r  o r  n o   sale.
J n o .  E .  W a lk e r,  M o ren ci,  M ic h .,  to ta lly   b lin d ,  w rite s  J a n .  4,  ’92,  a fte r 
te n   d a y s ’  u se,  ‘It g iv e s  m e  m o re  p le a su re   th a n   a n y th in g  I e v e r  p o ssessed .”
Portable,  y e t  h e a v y   en o u g h   to   sta y   p u t  a n d   sta n d   th e   b a n g in g .
Type and color of ink changed in   te n   seco n d s.
F if ty   sty le s  o f  ty p e   in c lu d in g   fo re ig n   lan g u a g e s.  A ll  sty le s  can   b e  
S om e  a re   p la in ,  o th e rs  a re   u n iq u e   a n d   b e a u ti­
Alignment and Impression a re  a s  p e rfe c t  in   five  y e a rs  as  first  d ay , 
f o r   th e re   isn ’t   a   w o b b lin g   ty p e -b a r  n o r  an   in c h   o f  in k y   rib b o n   in   th is  
w o n d e rfu lly   c o n stru c te d   m ach in e.
WTrites  on   th e   lin e s  w h e re   th e   p a p e r  is  ru le d ,  q u ic k ly   a d ju s te d — a 
v a lu a b le   fe a tu re — e n a b lin g   o n e  to   b ill  g o o d s  o r  fill  le g a l  b la n k s  o r  re p o rts.
Makes e le g a n t  le tte r   p re ss  copies.
M a n ifo ld s  to   six   im p re ssio n s,  w ith   sp e cial  ty p e ,  a n d   is  u se d   w ith   th e  

E d is o n   M im eo g rap h .

to   m e e t 

S o ld   in   a ll  la n d s  a n d   in d o rse d   b y   p ro m in e n t  u sers.
N o t  to   b e   c o n fo u n d e d   w ith   th e   lig h t  a n d   lo w -p riced   w rite rs,  w h ich , 
th o u g h   n o t  w o rth le ss,  fa il 
th e   d e m a n d .  T h e   “  H A L L  ”  is  a 
S ta n d a rd   M a ch in e,  o f  h o n o re d   n a m e   a n d   trie d   m e rit,  th e   w in n e r  o f  sev ­
e ra l  first  a w a rd s  a t  le a d in g   e x p o sitio n s 
th is  a n d   fo re ig n   co u n trie s, 
th o ro u g h ly   p ra c tic a l  fo r  b u sin e ss  a n d  
in d iv id u a l  u se  a n d   d o in g   b e tte r  
w o rk   a n d   in  g re a te r   v a rie ty   th a n   a n y   o th e r  w r ite r   o n   e a rth ,  a t  a n y   p rice.
Price,  h a n d so m e ly   cased   in   p o lish e d   w a ln u t,  b ra ss  h a n d le ,  a u to m a tic  
lo ck ,  w ith   su p p lie s  to   la s t  a  y e a r  (n o t  in c lu d in g   p a p e r),  $ 3 0.00.  Size, 
clo se d ,  9 x16  in ch es.

S ce p tic a l?   So  w e re   w e,  till  w e  sa w   it,  u se d   it,  p ro v e d   its   w o rth   a n d  
a sc e rta in e d  
th e  
m e rits  o f  th e   H A L L ,  o r  w e  w o u ld   n e v e r  a sk   y o u   to   sig n   a n d   se n d   u s  th e  
fo llo w in g :

th e   re a so n s  fo r  its   p h e n o m e n a l  sa le.  W e   b e lie v e  

in  

in 

_______________________________________ 1892.
W lg h tm a n   &   Iv e s,  M ich. S ta te   A g ts.  H a ll  T y p e w rite r,  A lb io n ,  M ich .:

G e n t l e m e n — W e  d e sire   to   lo o k   in to   th e   m e rits  o f  th e   “ N e w   M o d e l 
H a ll”  T y p e w rite r   w ith   a  v ie w   to   p u rc h a sin g ,  if   sam e  is  sa tisfa c to ry .  T o  
th is   e n d   p lease  ex p ress  us  a   m a c h in e  f o r   in sp e c tio n   a n d   tria l.

W e   w ill  fo llo w   as  b e st  w e  c a n   th e   in stru c tio n s  w h ic h   m a y   acco m p an y  
w rite r,  a n d   g iv e   th e   la tte r   g o o d   c a re . 
I f   th e   m a c h in e   is  sa tis fa c to ry   w e 
w ill  re m it  $30  fo r  sa m e  w ith in   30  d a y s  fro m   d a te   o f  sh ip m e n t. 
I f   i t   is 
n o t  sa tis fa c to ry   w e  w ill  re tu rn   in   g o o d   o rd e r  w ith in   te n   d a y s  a f te r   re c e ip t 
o f  sam e. 
I f   w e  d o   n o t  r e tu rn   m ac h in e   as  ab o v e,  y o u   m a y   re g a rd   th e   sale 
as  effe cted   a n d   e x p e c t  se ttle m e n t  in   30  d a y s  as  a b o v e   a g re e d .

(Signed)

Name_________________________________

P .  O .___________________________ S ta te ________________

Express Office__________________________

R e fe re n c e — F ir s t  N a tio n a l  B a n k ,  A lb io n ,  M ic h .,  (w h e re   th e   c o rre s­
p o n d e n c e   an d   re p o rts o f  10  in su ra n c e  co m p an ies a re   h a n d le d  w ith   th e  H a ll.)

I llu s tra te d   c a ta lo g u e   s e n t  on   a p p lic a tio n .

P. S.—Don't look for this ad. in next week’s “Tradesman.”  It will not appear again.  Moral— 

What thou doest do quickly.

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AMONO THE  TRADE.
AROUND THK  STATE.

Hart—W.  Wing has opened a store  for 

the sale of hay  and feed.

New Boston—Fred  Nowland  succeeds 

Wm Rice in the meat business.

Kalamazoo — Odell  &  Cross  succeed 

Odell & Co.  in the grocery business.

Big Rapids—A. E. Wells has purchased 

the hardware stock of W.  E.  Overton.

Ithaca—Ben J. Marshall succeeds Web­

ster & Marshall  in the meat business.

Jackson—J. F. Boutcher succeeds Chas. 

W.  Reid in the boot and shoe business.

Jackson—Smith  &  Adams  succeed  C. 

C.  Pond & Co.,  in the lumber business.

Ann Arbor—J.  N.  Lord & Co.  succeed 

Warner & Sou in the grocery business.

Marquette—Laterell Bros,  succeed Du- 
mand & Winter  in  the  grocery  business.
Gagetown—Miles  R.  Lyman  succeeds 
Lyman & Robertson in the drug business.
Monroe—Nadeau  &  Navaree  succeed 
B. J.  Adams  in the undertaking business.
Imlay  City—T.  F.  Holden  succeeds 
Holden & Forsythe in  the drug  business.
Spencer Creek—P.  Voglesong has  pur­
chased the meat market  of  Horace Hoff­
man.

Lowell — Kopf  Bros,  succeed  A.  L. 
Coons in  the  furniture  and  undertaking 
business.

Burlington—French  Bros.  &  Co.  are 
succeeded  in  the  hardware  business  by 
Martin French.

Ishpeming—It  is  reported  that  Jabez 
Tribilcock  has  sold  his book  business to 
John Mugford.

West Bay City—Daniel  S.  Dunn  suc­
ceeds Dunn  & Connelly in  the bazaar and 
notion business.

Otter  Lake—J.  S.  Harris  &  Co.  suc­
ceed  Mason & Son  in  the  hardware  and 
lumber and lath business.

Scottviile— C.  F.  Meads,  formerly  en­
gaged in the drug  business  at  Thurman, 
has opened a drug store at this place.

St.  Ignace—Louis Winkleman succeeds 
Wm.  Saulson  in  the  dry goods,  clothing 
and men’s furnishing goods business.

Muskegon—Peter Dainm has purchased 
the C.  J.  French  stock  of  dry  goods  on 
Ottawa street,  from the the assignee,  for 
81,600.

Pontiac—C.  W.  Horton  &  Co.  succeed 
D.  L.  Davis  in  general  trade.  The  lat­
ter, however,  retains  his  boot  and  shoe 
business.

THTS  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

at  Holland,  is now in the  hotel  business  affirmed by the Supreme Court last week, 
In this case Almond Partlow sold a stock
at this place. 
Charlotte—J.  J.  Curtis,  H.  H.  Curtis  of  goods  to  his  brother,  Levi,  to  pay 
and E. V. Yanderhoof  have  organized  a  debts aggregating about 83,000.  Detroit 
company to be known as the Curtis Lum- | parties brought suit by attachment to set
aside  the  sale  on  the  ground of  fraud, 
ber Co., to embark in the  hardwood lum­
claiming  the  indebtedness was  less than 
ber business.
stated  by  defendant.  The  jury  found 
there  was  no  fraud,  and  the  Supreme 
Court affirmed the finding.

Muskegon—J. Yonker & Co.have bought 
out the Muskegon  shoe  store,  heretofore 
owned  by  E.  H.  Yonker,  and  will  con­
tinue the business at  the  same  location, 
17 Pine street.

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

Nunica—Louis F.  Lane  has  purchased 
the  interest of  his  partuer in the  firm of 
Lane & Atwell and has removed  to Lake 
Ann,  where  he  has  opened  a  grocery, 
meat and feed store.

Holland—George Cathcart,  at one  time 
a  resident  of  Grand  Rapids,  but  more 
recently from  the wild  and  wooly West, 
succeeds  William  Boyd 
in  the  saloon 
business at this place.

Holland— The  Walsh-DeRoo  Milling 
Co.  declared a 6 per cent, dividend on the 
business  done  the first  half  of 1891 and 
10 per cent,  from  the  profits of  the  last 
half.  Sixteen per cent, a year is not bad.
Montague—G.  Klett  has  retired  from 
the  firm of*Klett  &  Wurtzler, dealers in 
harness  and  saddlery goods.  The  busi­
ness will  be continued  by the remaining 
partner  under  the  style of  A.  Wurtzler.
Otsego—Mary Shepard,  wife of  George 
W.  Shepard,  has purchased of  Sherwood 
Bros,  the  stock  formerly owned  by  her 
husband.  The  business  will  be  con­
tinued in her  name  under the husband’s 
management.

Saranac—S.  A.  Watt  has  purchased 
the interest of N.  K. Jepson  in  the  gen­
eral  stock at  Clarksville  owned  by S.  A. 
Watt & Co.  The store will  be  continued 
at Clarksville  and  L.  Johnson,  formerly 
1 manager of Henkel’s store in this village, 
has taken charge.

Scottviile—Mrs.  Ann  B.  Quirk,  who 
purchased the  hardware stock of Reed & 
Burgdorf,  will  conduct  the  business 
under  the  style  of  L.  F.  Bertran & Co. 
Mr.  Bertran  has  had  considerable  ex­
perience in this line and  their  prospects 
are considered good.

Fennville—Raymond <& Hutchinson are 
arranging to erect a brick block  in which 
they will locate their bank.  J.  E.  Hutch­
inson will occupy  one of the stores  with 
his general stock  and  another will be oc­
cupied  by  Dickinson  &  Raymond  with 
their hardware stock.

Detroit—W.  E.  Moloney  is  succeeded 
in  the  brewing  business  by the  Vienna 
Brewing Co.

Pontiac—C.  E.  Wakeman  &  Co.,  pro­
prietors  of  the  Pontiac  Knitting  Mills, 
have merged their business  into  a  stock 
company under the  style  of  the  Pontiac 
Knitting Works Co.

Moline—Bates & Troutman  have  pur­
chased  the  Coldspring  cheese  factory, 
near  Hilliards,  formerly  owned  by F.  E. 
Pickett,  but  for  the  past  two  seasons 
operated by the late N.  Hanna.

Muskegon—Louis  Kanitz  has  merged 
his lime  business  into  a  stock  company 
under  the  style of  the  Muskegon  Lime 
Works.  The  capital  stock  of  the  cor­
poration is 810,000,  all paid in.

Rogers  City—It 

is  reported  that  J. 
Erskine & Co.  will  build  a  shingle  mill 
at this place  and  manufacture  pine and 
cedar shingles.  They  are  putting  in  a 
large quantity of pine and cedar logs.

Detroit—David D. Buick, Jesse Kinney, 
William  Sherwood,  G.  W.  Busch  and 
Albert D. Babcock have incorporated the 
Kinney  Disinfectant Co.,  with  a  capital 
tock of 830,000,  of  which 825,000 is paid 
in.

Hastings—On  account of  the  great de­
mand  for  the rawhide halters  manufact­
ured  by  the  Michigan  Whip  Co.,  that 
concern  will cut  down  its  line of  whips 
and  increase  the capacity  for  manufact­
uring halters.

Frankenmuth—Lor. Hubinger received
2.580.000  pounds of  milk  at  his  cheese 
factory during 1891,  turning  out  262,46 
pounds of  cheese.  He  claims  he is  the 
largest  producer of  cheese  for  a  single 
factory of any manufacturer in Michigan.
South Mauistique—Hall  &  Buell  have 
on  skids  and  in  the  Manistique  river 
about 50,000,000 feet of  logs, 64 per cent 
of  which  are  of  24  inches  and  over  in 
diameter.  At  one  camp  2,500,000  feet 
are said to have averaged one and a quar­
ter logs to the thousand.

, 

store  erected  by  Dr.  S.  E.  Gillam.

Montague—W.  H.  Ricaby  has  conclud­
ed to remove  his  jewelry stock  to  Beld-
ing.  He will  make  the  change in  about  February  10, 
two weeks. 

Durand—M.  C.  Terry,  of  St.  Johns, 
will put in  a stock of clothing here about 
He  will  occupy  a  new 
Mr
Detroit—M.  E.  Pollaskey  has  merged  Terry  has  had  considerable  experience 
the  clothing stores  of  St. Johns  and 

his notion  business  into a stock company 
under the style of M.  E. Pollaskey & Co.,  comes well recommended
Incorporated. 

Cadillac—Albert  E.  Smith,  who  has 
long  been engaged  in  the  grocery busi
dent of Carson City, is now in the general  ness  in  this  city,  has  sold  his stock  to 
store  business here under the style of  J.  Harry  A.  and  Frank  Beaver,  who  will 
E.  Davis & Co. 
continue the business  under the style  of
Harrison—W.  H.  and  F.  A.  Wilson,  H.  A.  Beaver & Co.,  at the same location, 
lumber  and  general  dealers,  are  out  of  Mr.  Smith will  hereafter  devote his  en- 
business.  They are succeeded in general  tire time to his real  estate and  live stock 
trade by C.  Shadboldt. 

Durand—J.  E. Davis,  formerly a  resi-

business.

Grand  Haven—G.  Van  Lopik  &  Son  Owosso—M.  L.  Stewart  &  Co.  bid  in
have closed out  their  business  here  and  the crockery  stock  of  D.  W.  Watters at 
will embark  in  the  clothing  business  at | the chattel  mortgage sale.  Considerable 
| excitement  was  occasioned  by  the  ap-
Kalamazoo about March 1. 
Manton—J.  W.  Bailey  has  been  ad-  pearance  of  Treasurer  Murphy  at  the 
mitted to partnership  in the general store  sale with several men to seize part of the 
of  C.  B.  Bailey.  The  new  firm  will  be  stock in  payment  of the taxes.  After  a 
known as C.  B.  Bailey & Co. 
| lively skirmish  the  officer  succeeded  in

Jonesville—William  Boyd,  at one time I securing two large tables full of goods, 

in the boot and  shoe  business at Nunica, I  St. Johns—The  case  of  Levi  Partlow 
but more  recently proprietor of  a  saloon * vs.  R.  M.  Swigart,  sheriff,  et  al.,  was

St.  Ignace—The Mackinaw Lumber Co, 
has recovered 86,165.58 from  the  owners 
of  the steamer Kittle M.  Forbes  and  the 
schooner  Mabel  Wilson,  for  the  loss  of
5.000 
between a raft belonging to the company 
and the schooner in tow  of  the  steamer, 
in the fall of  1888.

telegraph poles through  a  collision 

Saginaw—Several buyers are  scouring 
this  .section  for  oak  and  ash  lumber, 
Oak is  reported  very  scarce,  and  only 
small and  scattering  quantities  can  be 
secured,  mostly  from  farmers. 
Ash, 
basswood  and  elm  are  more  plentiful 
and  a  large  quantity  is  being  put  in 
along streams and the  line  of  railroads.
Detroit—The  McAlpine  Shoe  Co.  has 
been organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
820,000, of which 85,000 is paid  up.  The 
stock is held  as  follows:  Wilbur H.  Me 
Alpine,  500;  Bartholomew  McCormick, 
300;  W.  H.  Stevens,  500;  William  A. 
Jackson,  150;  Frank  E.  Snow,  100;  W. 
Q.  Hunt, 50;  John C. Hickey,  50;  Geo. H. 
Hickey, 50.

Hastings—The receiver  of  the firm  of

Bentley  Bros.  & Wilkins expects to soon 
be able to pay  a dividend to the creditors 
of that concern  of  33 per  cent.  He  has 
leased  the  planing  mill 
to  Gertrude 
Bentley,  Geo.  Tomlinson and Edward  A. 
Rider,  who will continue the busness un­
der  the  style  o f Bentley,  Tomlinscn  & 
Rider.

FOR SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

Advertisem ents w m  be inserted  under  th is  head fo r 
tw o  cents  a  word  th e  Drat  insertion   and  one cen t a 
word  fo r  each  subsequent  insertion .  No  ad vertise­
m ent tak en  fo r less th an  S5 cents.  A dvance  paym en t.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

383

________ 382

_______ ___________ 

________AN  OLD  AND  WELL  ESTAB-
l^lOR  SALK-
lished  bakery;  good  location,  cheap  rent, 
good  reason for selling.  Excellent  chance  for 
the  right party.  For  particulars  address  393,
care  Michigan  Tradesman.__________   393
OR  SALE—GOOD  NEW  STOCK  Os'  BOOTS 
and shoes in best  town In Michigan.  Cause 
of  selling,  ill  health.  Address  No.  383,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
imOR  SALE- WELL  ASSORTED  LINK  OF 
bazaar goods.  Will  inventory  about  $2,200. 
Good  location and  trade.  Address J. F. Anson, 
admin’r for J. L.  Neden  Estate, 433  Main street, 
Menominee, Mich. 
THE  UNDBR-
■piOR  SALE  AT  A  BARGAIN.
_  signed will  sell  his  stock of  drugs,  etc., at
89  Monroe  street  and  take  in  payment  Grand 
Rapids  real  estate.  This  store  is well  known 
throughout  this  and near  counties and  has an 
established  trade  of  over  twenty  years.  As  I 
desire  to  devote  my whole  time  to  the  manu­
facture of  my Family Remedies, therefore,  and 
for  no  other  reason, I offer  my stock  for  sale. 
G. Steketee. 
_________________   STOCK  IN  GROW-
"ClOR  SALE-GROCERY
ing  town of  about 1,8(0  inhabitants.  Only 
exclusive  grocery store in the county.  Owners 
engaged in other business, the reason for selling. 
Kritzer Milling Co., Newaygo, Mich. 
)R  SALE—FIRST-CLASS  GROCERY  BUS- 
_  
iness in the  best  town  of  5,000  Inhabitants 
in Northern Michigan.  The purchaser can have 
a  trade of  $50,000 a year  at  the  start.  No  town 
in  the  State has  better  prospects.  This  is  the 
chance  of  a  life  time.  Address  No.  363,  care
Michigan Tradesman._______________ 363
)R  SALE—DRUG  STORE;  WELL LOCAT- 
ed in good  country  town, Minnesota;  good 
prescription  trade.  Address  W.  S.  Johnson, 
Osseo, Minn. 
________ 377
WELL  SELECTED 
Address F. A.

F or  sa le  c h ea p

drug stock — New and clean 

Jones. M. D. Muskegon,  Mich.

_____ 384

385

SITUATIONS WANTED.

SITUATION  WANTED  BY  A  YOUNG LADY 

competent to keep a set of books and willing 
to make  herself  generally  useful  about a store. 
One  year’s  experience.  Not  afraid  of  work. 
Wages low.  Good references,  Address No. 376, 
care Michigan  Tradesman.____________   376

MISCELLANEOUS.

______ 

I 
IF  SO, DO
TQO  YOU  USE COUPON  BOOKS 1
you buy of the largest manufacturers in the 
United States?  If  you do, you  are  customers of 
the Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.______
17 OR SALE—TWO  HUNDRED  ACRES  LAND  (160  IM- 
1  proved), located In th e fruit b elt o f  O ceana coun­
ty ,  Mich.  Land  fitted  fo r  m achinery,  good  fences, 
large  curb  roof  b&ru  w ith   underground  fo r  stock, 
horse barn and o th er n ecessary farm  buildings.  New 
windm ill furnishes w ater fo r house and barns.  E igh t­
een acres apple bearing orchard, also 1,000 peach trees, 
tw o years old, lookin g th rifty .  Price, $30 per  acre, or 
w ill exchange fo r stock o f dry goods.  I f any difference 
w ill p ay cash.  A. Re tan . L ittle Rock, Ark.______361
CHEAP  ENOUGH  FOR  AN  IN 
TGIOR SALE-
vestment  Corner  lot and  5-room house on 
North  Lafayette  St.,  cellar,  brick  foundation, 
soft water  in  kitchen.  $1,200.  Terms  to  suit. 
Address No. 187. care Michigan  Tradesman.  187
Grand Rapids, 70x175 feet, beautifully shad­
ed with  native  oaks, situated in good residence 
locality,  only 200  feet  from  e ectric  street  car 
line.  Will sell  for $2 500 cash, or part cash, pay­
ments to suit.  E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 
T W ANTED—GROCERY  STOCK BY PARTIES 
TV  who  can  pay cash  down.  Must  be  dirt 
cheap.  Address  No. 343, care  Michigan Trades­
man._______  ________________ .______343
OR  SALE  OR WILL  TRADE  FOR  STOCK 
of  merchandise,  the  I.  O.  O.  F.  block  in 
Sparta.  For  particulars, write to Box 219. Spar­
ta, Mich.  Here’s a bargain 1___________386

Fo r  sa l e  -  b e s t  r e s id e n c e  lo t  in

354

fractions  and  leaders.  Just  the  thing  for  a 

F o r  sa l e—a bout  ioo  po u n d s  o f  n o n- 

parell  type,  well  assorted  as  to  figures, 
country  paper  for use in tax  sales  and  general 
work  Laid in two  cases.  Will sell for 25 cents 
per pound and $1 per pair for cases.  Tradesman 
Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.__________ 359

I^OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  NORTH- 

*  ern property—stock of goods preferred—1,280 
acres of fine timber and cotton land in Northern 
Louisiana, four miles  from railroad  and  parish 
seat.  No. 1 land.  Title perfect.  For particulars 
address No. 390. care Michigan Tradesman.  390
■
____   GOOD  DIVIDEND - PAYING
•piOR  SALE
stocks in  banking, manufacturing  and mer­
cantile  companies.  E. A. Stowe,  100  Louis  St., 
Grand Rapids. 

■ ANTED—GOOD  PHYSICIAN TO LOCATE 

at  North  Muskegon, one  who  is  a  regis­
tered pharmacist preferred.  The town  has 1,500 
population and no doctor.  One drug store.  Good 
opening.  Address  Chas.  H.  Leslie,  druggist, 
North MUBkegon, Mich. 

370

392

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

5

SOME  MEN  I  KNOW .

Frequent reference  has  been  made  in 
these  columns  to  the  most  remarkable 
success  of  the  Woolson  Spice  Co.,  of 
Toledo;  but  the  financial  success of  the 
is  by  no  means  the  most 
corporation 
remarkable  feature  of  the 
institution. 
Mr.  Woolson,  himself,  is  a.  far  greater 
marvel.  Twenty years  ago  he was  a re­
tail  grocer in  a suburban  portion of  the 
city.  Now  he  is the  head of  the second 
largest  coffee  business  of  the  world. 
The same  unassuming  manner  and sim­
plicity of  taste which  marked  the  retail 
grocer  of  1870  characterize  the  Coffee 
King  of  1892.  An 
institution  whose 
stock is worth  ten times  its  par value is 
a great  thing,  but far  greater is the  man 
who  can  attain  a competence  in  a  few 
years and  be in  possession of  a princely 
income,  without  also  acquiring  the  big 
headedness  and 
selfish  exclusiveness 
which  almost  invariably  accompany the 
sudden  attainment  of  wealth.  The 
writers  of  Holy  Writ  prophesy  great 
things  for  the  man  who  can  hold  his 
temper,  but still  greater  treasures are in 
store for the man  who can possess wealth 
and still maintain  the mental  balance of 
his younger days.

chasing the interest of Mr.  Horning.  The 
mill,  which has been idle  several weeks, 
resumed operations  last  week,  and  it  is 
the intention of the owner to keep it fully 
stocked.  The  Horning  Bros,  have  re­
moved to Mt.  Pleasant,  where they  built 
a shingle mill.

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PROPRIETORS OP

65  Monroe  St., 

Grand  Rapids.

Telephone  166.

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P E N I N S U L A R

IF  NOT,  WHY  NOT?

STANTON,  MOREY & CO„

DETROIT,  MICH.

G e o.  F .  O w e n , Traveling Salesman, 59 N .  Union 

St., Grand  Rapids.

FOURTH M O B IL  BAM

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

S. F. A s n s w A L L , Vice-President.

Wm. H. A n d e r s o n ,  Cashier.
CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general  banking business.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

The Hogle Oil Co.  is succeeded in busi­

ness by the Eugene Klien Co.

D.  B.  Miller has opened a grocery store 
at 299 West Fulton street.  The  Olney & 
Judson Grocer Co.  furnished the stock.

The Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company  fur­
nished  the stock  for J.  W.  Kenney,  who 
has  opened  a  general  store  at  South 
Haven  as a branch  of  his  Covert  estab­
lishment.

The  Wolverine  Drug  Co.,  which  con­
ducts a  drug store on East Bridge street, 
has  arranged  to open  a  branch  store  on 
Plainfield  avenue  under  the  manage­
ment  of  Jas.  Wells.  The  Hazeltine  & 
Perkins Drug Co.  will furnish the  stock.
Hubart  Daane,  cf  the  former  firm  of 
Goossen  &  Daane,  has  formed  acopart- 
nership  with  John  Witters,  under  the 
style of  Daane & Witters,  and  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  the  corner  of  Monroe 
and West  Park streets.  The  Ball-Barn- 
hart-Putman Co.  furnished the stock.

Co-operative  distribution is to be tried 
by the Holland grocers of  the city in the 
handling  of  compressed  yeast  in  bulk. 
The  Grocers’  Associate  Yeast  Co.  has 
organized  by ten  retail  grocers,  as  fol­
lows: M.  C.  Goosen  (President),  A.  Buys 
(Vice-President),  C.  Quint  (Secretary).
C.  Stryker (Treasurer), H.  Timmer, John
D.  Van  Wyck,  A.  Brink,  H.  Veldman, 
A.  J.  Ten  Raa  and  S.  Postma.  The 
yeast is purchased  of  the  Prussing  Vin­
egar Works, Chicago, at 15 cents a pound, 
and sold at 25 cents  a  pound  to  bakers 
and  30  cents  to  grocers.  Two  wagons 
are employed  in  distributing  the  yeast, 
one of  which  has  twenty-eight  custom­
ers,  while the other has thirty-five.  The 
office of  the company is  in  the basement 
of  153 Monroe street.  Just what  course 
will be taken to meet the competition  by 
the  Fermentum,  Fleischmann, Vienna, 
Biederburg and Red Star  companies—all 
of  whom  are  represented  in  the  city— 
has not yet been  foreshadowed,  but  ag­
gressive action  of  some  sort  will  prob­
ably soon  be taken.

F o rm al A n n ouncem ent o f D eath .
The  employers  of  the  late  Chas.  F. 
McLain  announced  his  demise  to  the 
trade in a circular letter  couched  in  the 
following terms:

It  is  our  sad  duty  to  announce  the 
death  of  Mr.  Chas.  F.  McLain,  at  the 
Warwick hotel,  in this  city,  on Tuesday, 
January 26,  at 7 p.  m.,  after an illness of 
about a week’s duration.
Mr.  McLain  had  been  in  our  employ 
for the last three  years,  and  so  pleasant 
had  been  our  relations  that  we  felt 
towards him almost as a brother.  By his 
death, not only  ourselves  but  the  trade 
that he called  on,  lose  a  true  and  tried 
friend.
His  remains  will  be  taken  to  Tiffin, 
Ohio,  Friday  morning,  to  be  placed  by 
the  side  of  his  father  and  mother,  who 
some years  ago were  taken to  their  last 
resting  place.

B a l l -B a r n h a k t -P u t m a x   Co.

Grand  Rapids, Jan. 27,1892.

T he  L a rg e st  S oap  O rder.

The  Olney & Judson  Grocer  Co.,  last 
week, made the largest order for a single 
brand of  soap,  one shipment,  ever made 
in Michigan.—Adv.

The  Standard Oil Co.  has  reduced  the 
jobbing price of  water  white  and  water 
white  headlight  oil  M  cent  per  gallon. 
Owing to the cheapness  of  other grades, 
the Standard has discontinued the manu­
facture of the grades known as “Michigan 
Test.”

In  the  removal  of  Edward  Telfer  to 
Detroit, Grand Rapids loses a citizen who 
will  be greatly missed in  the usual chan­
nels of  trade.  Ambitious  to  stand  well 
with  his  customers  and  friends,  he  has 
succeeded in the  half  dozen  years of  his 
residence here in  winning  the friendship 
of nearly every dealer with whom he has 
come  in  contact,  all  of  whom  will  join 
with T h e  T radesm an  in  extending the 
heartiest wishes for his future prosperity 
and happiness.

* 

* 

*

In  the  death  of  Chas.  L.  McLain,  the 
traveling  fraternity  of  Michigan 
loses 
one of  its  most  exemplary members and 
a man  who would  reflect  credit  on  any 
profession with  which  he was identified. 
Although he had  been a resident of Grand 
Rapids less than four years, he succeeded 
In  acquiring a reputation  second to none 
as  an  efficient  and  successful salesman, 
and  his  untimely end  leaves a sore spot 
in the heart of every man  who knew him, 
in  the  capacity of  either  employe,  cus­
tomer  or  associate.  Genial  in  manner, 
generous in disposition,  honest in  speech 
and  action,  he  leaves  behind  a  record 
which  every  traveling  man  would  do 
well to emulate.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

Ludwig  Wiuternitz,  State  agent  for 
the Fermentum  Yeast  Co.,  has  returned 
from a tour  of  inspection  of  the  selling 
agencies at  Omaha,  Topeka,  St.  Joseph 
and Kansas City.  Mr.  Winternitz stands 
close to  “the powers that be” in the yeast 
company  and  his  ultimate  promotion  to 
a larger field is a foregone conclusion.

John H.  Bonnell,  manager of  the  local 
branch of the Standard Oil  Co.,  has gone 
to  Cleveland,  and  will  visit  New  York 
and  his  parents  at  Philadelphia  before 
returning.  He  will  be  accompanied  by 
his wife, the trip being to all intents and 
purposes  a  wedding  tour,  which  was 
omitted  on  the  occasion  of  their  mar­
riage,  eight  months  ago.  Mr.  Bonnell 
has  earned  a vacation  and  his  friends 
will  be  glad  to  learn  that  he  has con­
cluded to take one.

Clare—Sexsmith & Horning, who erect­
ed a sawmill  here  last  season,  have  dis- 
I solved  partnership,  John  Sexsmith  pur-

Make a Specialty of Collections.  Account* 

of Country Merchant« Solicited.

ELSIE ROLLER MILLS
°" h“ '
On  Bist  Pate«  M tM .  E« c Æ “

A.  SCHENCK  &  SON,  Elsie,  Mich.

Granulated Meal,

: «  

OUR  BRANDS:

Feed.
Prompt attention to Mail orders.

SPECIALTIES—A l i.  t h e   A b o v e .

O ra n g es  &  B a n a n a s !

WE  ARE  HEADQUARTERS. 

Mail  Orders  Receive  Prompt  Attention.

O .  N .  R A P P   &   C O ..

9 North  Ionia St.^Grand Rapids.

Florida  Oranges  a  Specialty.

A g e n t s   W a n ted  !

We can give  you  exclusive territory  on  a  large  line  of  Bicycles.  Send for  catalogue.  Our  line 
includes the:
COLUMBIA
VICTOR
RUDGE
KITE
TELEPHONE 
OVERLAND 
LOVELL DIA 
MOND
Also others too numerous to mention.  Wholesale and retail dealers in Bicycles, Cyclists’ Sundries, 
Rubber and Sporting Goods, Mill and Fire Department Supplies.

CLIPPER 
PARAGON 
IROQUOIS 
PHOENIX 
GENDRONS 

Western  Wheel  Works

and all the

Line.

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DEALERS IN

G™nd RaPids, Mich.
t t  
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4 Monroe St. 
P E R K I N  S  Sc
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,
GoUDon  Books Buy  of  the Largest  Manufacturers  in  tb e 

The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapid*

NOS.  182 and  124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. 

WB GARRT  A  STOCK OF CARR TALLOW TOH jinJJ^g

Country  and  Save  Money.

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M odest  P u rc h a se s b y  W e a lth y   P eople.
W ashington L etter to  Cleveland Leader.
Mrs.  Inland Stanford,  wife of  the mil­
lionaire Senator from California, recently 
called  at a Washington  carpet store  and 
asked to be shown  something that would 
be suitable for her dining-room.
“Would  you  like  a  Wilton or  a  Mo- 
quette?” asked the clerk,
“Show me some tapestries that sell  for 
a dollar a yard,” replied the millionaire’s 
wife.
Mrs.  Philip H.  Sheridan  has laid down 
ingrain  carpets in all  her  chambers,  and 
the  daughter of  one of  the  rich  Phila­
delphia Drexels  has nothing  but iugrain 
carpets in her  halls.  Many  Washington 
parlors are covered  with filling in carpet 
which sells for 90 cents a yard, but costly 
rugs are  laid on it here  and there.  The 
late Senator Hearst,  of  California,  had a 
rug  in  his  parlor  for  which  he  paid 
$5,000.  Blaine lives in an old brick man­
sion, the windows of which are extremely 
wide and filled with  very small  panes of 
glass.  The  curtains of  the  lower  floor 
are  rich and  beautiful,  but  those of  the 
upper  floors  are  of  Swiss  muslin,  the 
retail cost of  which could  not have  been 
more  than  40  cents a yard.  Last  year 
Blaine took dinner  at  Tilden’s old home 
in  Gramercy Park.  He  was  captivated 
with the  decorations of  the dining-room. 
Next  day  he  looked  up  the  decorator. 
“I  want  you to convert  my dining-room 
into just such a room as the one at Gram­
ercy Park,” said he.
“I shall be delighted to do so,”  replied 
the man,  “but the  cost----- ”
“Never  mind  the  cost,”  said  Blaine. 
“I  know it will  be large, but  you do the 
work and I will pay you for it.”
“Yes,  I know  you  will,”  persisted  the 
man,  “but I think you  had  better  know 
just  what  you  will  be  expected to pay. 
That  room  at  Gramercy  Park  brought 
me $50,000.”  Blaine  got  over  his  infat­
uation  immediately,  and  told  the  deco­
rator that he  would call on him  later.

E v ery d ay   P hilosophy.

The biggest cut in  wages is not cutting 

close in management.

Using a vote to spite an enemy  is  like 
loading a gun  with gold  dollars  to  shoot 
rats.

•   *

*  *

One  reason  you  can’t bleed  a turnip is 
because the turnip wasn’t intended to  be 
beet.

•   *

Taxes  aren’t  quite  as  sure  as  death, 
but they sometimes make almost as clean 
a sweep.

*  *

A man set in his way is like old plaster 
of  Paris.  You  can’t  sell  him  or  make 
him over.

#  •

When you’ve picked  the  bird  of  hard 
times, you find that there are more feathers 
than meat.

*  *

A rogue can’t escape his own meanness 
any more than a locomotive can run away 
from  its own smoke.

*  *

The most  expensive  luxury  in  life  is 
getting mad  and  using  physical  capital 
that never can  be replaced.  *

i   *

More  young men  are h it  by  the  boom­
erang of over-sm artness in m aking money 
than  are killed  by  the cars.

*  *

The man who smiles in  a  funeral  pro­
cession is not heartless; but he’s thinking 
how  much  cheaper  it  is  than  keeping 
one’s own carriage.

*  •

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

r t-TV:  M IC H IG A N   t r a d e s m a n
Dry Goods Price Current.

Do  You  Desire  to  Sell

By Sample?

Send for olir Spring catalogue

SM ITH   &  SANFORD,

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Voigt, Hemolsbeier & Go.,
Dry  Goods.  Carpets i Cloaks.

WHOLESALE

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, 

Guilts & Live Geese Feathers.

Overalls  of  oilr  own  )ianilfactiir8.
Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen’s 

Socks.

Voigt, HemolsMmer k Go.,

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

-   MICH.

Selin Corset Co.’s

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

“  Arrow Brand 534

..  7 
Adriatic.................7
World Wide..  7
Argyle..................   614
LL............... 5
Atlanta AA............ 614
Pull Yard Wide...... 614
Atlantic A..............7
Georgia  A..............614
H.............   614
“ 
Honest Width......... 654
“ 
P ..............6
Hartford A ............ 5
D..............  614
“ 
Indian Head...........  714
“  LL..............514
King A  A............... 6H
Amory.................... 7
King EC.................  5
Archery  Bunting...  4 
¡Lawrence  L L ........  514
Beaver Dam  A A ..  514
Madras cheese cloth 614
Blackstone O, 32—   5  --------
Black Crow.............614 Newmarket  G.........  6
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Black Rock  ...........7 
B ........  514
Boot, AL...............   714 
N 
....  614
„ 
Capital  A............... 514 
CD—   514
Cavanat V..............514 
_ 
x ...... J
Chapman cheese cl.  354|NoIbe R..................  5
Clifton C R .............. 514 Our Level Best........614
Comet.....................7  Oxford  R.................   614
Dwight Star............  734 Pequot....................   714
Clifton CCC...........  614 Solar......  ..............614
¡Top of the Heap—   714
Geo. Washington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold Medal..............714
Green  Ticket......... 814
Great Falls.............   614
Hope.......................  734
Just  Out......   454® 5
King Phillip...........754
OP......  714
Lonsdale Cambric.. 1014
Lonsdale...........  ® 814
Middlesex........   ® 5
No Name................   714
Oak View....... . 
6
Our Own................   514
Pride of the West... 12
Rosalind...................714
Sunlight.................   414
Utica  Mills..............834
“  Nonpareil  ..11
Vlnyard..................  814
White Horse...........  6
“  Rock...........814

A B C ..................... 814
Amazon...................8
Amsburg................ 7
Art  Cambric.......... 10
Blackstone  A A....8
Beats All................ 414
Boston................... 12
Cabot......................7
Cabot,  X.................654
Charter  Oak...........514
Conway W..............754
Cleveland.............. 7
Dwight Anchor......  854
shorts.  834
Edwards................. 6
Empire...................   7
Parwell.................. 754
Fruit of the Loom.  814
Fitch ville  .............7
First Prize..............614
Fruit of the Loom %.
Fairmount..............414
Full Value..............6%
Cabot.......................  754|Dwight Anchor......8
Farwell...................8 
|
TremontN................514
“ 
Hamilton N.............. 614
“ 
L............ 7
“ 
Middlesex  AT........8
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BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
2.
AO.

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

.12
.1314
.1734
.16
! Integrity, colored.. .21
colored__2034|White Star.............. 1814
“  colored..21
Nameless................20
......... 25
......... 2714
......... 30
.........3214
.........35

Peerless, white. ....18
Integrity................. 18341
Hamilton................8
.................9
.................1014
G G  Cashmere........21
Nameless..............16
............... 18

Hamilton N — ....  714
Middlesex P T.
A T.
X A.
X F.

....  8
....  9
....  9
...1014
CARPE!

UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

DRESS  GOODS.

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CORSETS.

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PRINTS.

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CORSET  JEANS.

“  new era. 

Coraline................89  50(Wonderful.............84 50
Schilling’s ............   9 00 Brighton............... *75
Davis  Waists......   9 00 Bortree’s ...............  9 00
Grand  Rapids......  4 50! Abdominal........... 15  00
Naumkeagsatteen..  714
Armory.................. 654
Androscoggin.........734
Rockport.................. 614
Conestoga...............654
Biddeford..............   6
Brunswick............. 634
Walworth..............   654
ITS.Berwick fancies —   %
Allen turkey  reds..  514
Clyde Robes...........  5
robes...........5*4
pink * purple 634
Charter Oak fancies 414 
buffs...........  6
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
mourn’g  6 
pink  checks.  534
Eddy stone fancy...  6 
staples........  534
chocolat  6
shirtings'...  354 
rober_6
American fancy—   534
American indigo__534
sateens..  6 
Hamilton fancy.  ... 6
American shirtings.  354 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
staple_514
Anchor Shirtings...  434 
Manchester fancy..  6 
“  —   634
Arnold 
6
Arnold  Merino......6
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
long cloth B. 1014 
“ 
Merrim’ck shirtings.  4 
•..................C.  814
“  Repp fu rn .  8H
Pacific fancy..........6
“ 
century cloth  7
“  gold seal......1034
“ 
robes............  614
Portsmouth robes...  6 
“  green seal TR1014 
Simpson mourning..  6
“  yellow seal.. 1014
serge............ 1114
greys........  6
“ 
solid black.  6 
“  Turkey red.. 1014 
Ballou solid black..  5 
Washington Indigo.  6 
“ 
“  colors.  514
“  Turkey robes..  714 
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  India robes....  734 
red and orange...  514
“  plain T’ky X 54  834 
Berlin solids...........514
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
“  oil blue.......614
key red................   6
“  green —   654
“ 
“  Foulards ....  514 
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 54........ 714
“ 
red 54...........7
••  %  .........   914¡Martha Washington
" 
“ 
“  4 4..........10 
Turkeyred...........914
“ 
“ 3 4XXXX 12 Rlverpolntrobes....  5
Cocheco fancy........  6  Windsor fancy......614
“  madders...  6  1 “ 
“  XX twills..  6141 
Indigo blue......1014
solids.........   5341
“ 
Amosk eag A C A.... 1234
Hamilton N..............714
.  “ 
D..............814
“ 
Awning. .11
Farmer................... 8
First Prize.............. 1114
Lenox M ills.......... 18
Atlanta,  D..............  654 ¡Stark  A
Boot........................  654 No  Name—
Clifton, K...............   6*4 ¡Top of  Heap
Simpson................. 20
................18
................16
Coechco................1014

AC A.....................1214
Pemberton AAA— 16
York.......................1014
Swift River............   714
Pearl  River............12
Warren...................13

Imperial................. 1014
Black................  9® 914
“  BC...........  @10

gold  ticket

COTTON  DRILL.

TICKINGS.

SATINES.

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Amoskeag...............1214
9 oz.......1314
brown .13
Andover................. 1114
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
B B ...9
^  ^
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
blue  814
Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

“ 
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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12
brown....... 12
Haymaker blue........ 754
brown...  754
Jaffrey.....................1114
Lancaster................1234
Lawrence, 9 oz........ 1314
“  NO.220....13
“  No. 250....1114
“  No. 280.... 1014

“ 

Lancaster,  staple...  654 

Amoskeag...............734
“  Persian dress 814 
Canton ..  814
11 
“ 
AFC........1214
“ 
Teazle.. .1014 
“ 
Angola.. 1014 
Persian..  814 
“ 
Arlington staple —   634 
Arasapha  fancy—   454 
Bates Warwick dres 814 
staples.  614
Centennial..............  1014
Criterion  ................ 1014
Cumberland staple.  514
Cumberland........... 5
Essex....................... 434
Elfin........................  734
Everett classics......814
Exposition...............734
Glenarie..................   634
Glenarven................654
Glen wood................ 714
Hampton..................614
Johnson Chalon cl 
14 
Indigo blue 914 
zephyrs— 16

GINGHAMS.
fancies....  7 
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire.............   614
Manchester............   554
Monogram..............  634
Normandie...............734
Persian..................... 814
Renfrew Dress........714
Rosemont................. 614
Slatersvllle.............. 6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  ................... 714
Toll  duNord......... 1014
Wabash.................... 734
seersucker..  714
Warwick................  814
Whittenden............ 654
heather dr.  8
indigo blue 9
Wamsuttastaples...  654
Westbrook................8
..............10
Wlndermeer............. 5
York..........................654

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GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag...............16141 Valley City.
Stark.......................  1914 Georgia...
American................16141 Pacific.......
Clark’s Mile End... .45  ¡Barbour's................88
Coats’, J. & P ......... 45  Marshall’s ...............88
Holyoke............v ..22141

THREADS.

.1554 
.1554 
■ 1414

KNITTING  COTTON.

No.

6  ..
8...
10...
12...

..33
...34
...35
...38

White.  Colored.
42
43
44
45

White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ...37
...38
“  16...
39
“  18... ....39
40
“  20... ....40
41
CAMBRICS.
Edwards................  4
Lockwood.................4
Wood’s..................   4
Brunswick............  4

Slater......................  4
White Star............   4
Kid Glove...............  4
Newmarket............   4

RED  FLANNEL.

Fireman................. 3214
Creedmore............. 2714
Talbot XXX........... 80
Nameless................2714

T W ........................ 2214
F T .............  
8214
JR F .X X X ............35
Buckeye.................3214

MIXED  FLANNEL.

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15
17
20

WADDINGS.

93413
101415 
111417 
1214 20 
DUCKS.

DOMET  FLANNEL.
814@10

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
914 
1014 
11% 
1214 

Red & Blue,  plaid. .40  IGrey 8 R W............ 1714
Union R.................2234 Western W  .............. 1814
Windsor.................1814 D R P ......................J8K
6 oz Western..........20  Flushing XXX......... 2314
Union  B................2214lManItoba..................2314
Nameless...... 8  ® 9141 
.......9  @1034
1214
Black.
13
15
17
20

Slate.  Brown.  Black. Slate.  Brown. 
914 
1014 
11% 
1214 
Severen, 8 oz..........   914
May land, 8 oz.........1014
Greenwood, 714 oz..  914 
Greenwood, 8 oz— 1114 
Boston, 8 oz............1014
White, doz............. 25 
Colored, doz..........20 
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
“  Red Cross....  9
“  Best...............1014
“  Best AA........1214
L............................. 714
G............................. 814
Corticelli, doz.........75  (Corticelli  knitting,

West  Point, 8 oz— 1014 
10 oz  ...1214
“ 
Raven, lOoz.............1334
.............1314
Stark 
Boston, 10 oz........... 1214
.17.60

Pawtucket...............1014
Dundle....................  9
Bedford...................1014
Valley  City.............1014
KK 

|Per bale, 40 doz
|

SEWING  SILK.

-.12  “ 8 
.12  I  “  10 

twist, doz..3714  per Koz ball....... 30
50 yd, doz..37 lil
BOOKS AND  KTS8—FEB GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k & White..l0  ¡No  4 Bl’k & Whlte..l5
“  2 
.20
»  3 
.-25
|N oi—15 F  314...........40
No 2-20, M  C........50 
■'  3-18,8 C..........45 
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No  2 White & Bl’k.,12  ¡No  8 White & Bl’k..20 
.23
“  4 
“  6 
--26
¡No 8..........................36
No 2........................28 

COTTON  TAPE. 
..15 
“  10 
.18  1 “  12 
SAFETY  FINS.

SILESIAB.

FINS.

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1014

NSSDL1B—PER  M.

A. James.................1  401 Steamboat................  40
Crowely’s...............1 35lGold  Eyed....................1 50
Marshall’s.............. 1 00|
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5-4. ...2 25  6—4. ..3 25[5—4....1  95  6—4. ..2 95 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH. 
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...310)
COTTON TWINES.

.2 10 

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic............... 1834
Anchor.................. 16
Bristol................... 13
Cherry  Valley........15
I X L.... ...................1814
Alabama.................  654
Alamance................  614
Augusta...................714
Ar  sapha................  6
Georgia...................  634
Granite..................  554
Haw  River............   5
Haw  J ....................  5

^  

Nashua.................. 18
Rising Star 4-ply— 17 
3-ply..-. 17
North Star..............20
Wool Standard 4 ply 1734 
Powhattan.............18

.  614
Mount  Pleasant..
.  5
Oneida.................
Prymont  .............. .  65i
.  6
Randelman.........
Riverside............
•  534
Sibley  A.............
•  #34 
.  6
Toledo............ .

PLAID  OSNABURGB

Greatest  Seller  on  Earth!

Send for ülustrated  Catalogue.  See  price liât 
in this journal.
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Detroit, Mich, and Chicago, 111.

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Hardware Price Cnrrent.

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

60
Snell’s........................................................... 
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
28
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
Jennings’,  imitation....................................50*10

AUGURS AND BITS. 

AXES.

First Quality, S. B. Bronze..........................I 7 50

D.  B. Bronze...............................  12 00
S.B.S. Steel................................  8 50
D. B. Steel...................................  13 50

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Railroad......................................................• 14 00
Garden.................................................. net  30 00

BARROWS. 

b o l t s. 

UlS.

d ls.

Stove.  ...........................................................50*W
Carriage new list...........................................<0*10
Plow.  ...........................................................40*10
Sleigh shoe............................-..................... 
70

BUCKRTS.

BUTTS,  CAST. 

Well,  plain................................................... • 3 50
Well, swivel......................................................  4 00
diS.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70<&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 66*10
Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60*10
Wrought Table.............................................60*10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60*10
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70*10
Blind,  Parker’s .............................................70*10
70
Blind, Shepard’s .......................................... 
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85...............  
60

BLOCKS.

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

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

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

CAPS.

CARTRIDGES.

chisels. 

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

56
25

Socket Firm er................................................... 70*10
Socket Fram ing................................................. 70*16
Socket Corner.....................................................70*10
Socket Slicks.....................................................70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firm er............................... 
40

dls.

dls.

Curry,  Lawrence’s ..........................................  
40
H otchkiss.......................................................... 
25
White Crayons, per  gross...............12@12)4 dls. 10

CHALK.

combs. 

COPPER.

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

28
26
23
23

50
50
50

dls.
 

DRIPPING PANS.

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

 

07
6)4

ELBOWS.

dls.

dls.

30
25

Com. 4  piece, 6 in .............................. do*, net 
75
Corrugated..................................................dls 
40
Adlustable..................................................61*. 40*10

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

. 

Clark’s, small, 318; large, 126.........................  
Ives’, 1,118;  2,124;  3,138............................... 

FILES—New List. 

Dlsston’s ............................................................60*10
New  American................................................. 80*10
Nicholson’s .......................................................60*10
Heller’s ..............................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps..........-..........................  
50

GALVANIZED IRON

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

12 

15 

28
16 17

13 
Discount, GO

14 
GAUGES. 

dls.

Stanlev Rule and  Level Co.’s ........................ 

50

P O S T ’S

TALKS  WITH  A  LAWYER.

NATURALIZATION.

W ritten fo r The Tradesman.

In our last we talked on the subject  of 
naturalization,  as to where  the  power  is 
vested and who may be naturalized.  We 
found  that  there  were  five  privileged 
classes,  and  two  of  these—minors  and 
wives of citizens—were specially referred 
to.  The last three  classes  of  privileged 
persons are: first,  the widow and children 
of  one  who  has  made  the  preliminary 
declarations,  but who dies before his  ad­
mission to  citizenship;  second, aliens  in 
the military service of the United States, 
and,  third,  seamen.  As stated in the pre­
ceding  talk,  the alien must make a  pre­
liminary declaration of  his  intention  to 
become  a  citizen.  Now,  when  he  has 
made  this  declaration,  but  dies  before 
his admission as a citizen,  his widow and 
his  children  become  citizens  upon  the 
taking of the oath prescribed by the law.
As to the second class,  the declaration of 
intention is not required  from  the  alien 
who  is  over  twenty-one  years  old,  and 
has been honorably  discharged  from  the 
military  service  of  the  United  States. 
All that is required of him is that he prove 
one year’s residence previous  to  his  ap­
plication.  He is  required  also  to  show 
good moral character.  .  It has  been  held 
in  a federal case that  this  law  does  not 
apply  to  marines,  but the law  has  been 
held to include the  navy  as  well  as  the 
army in at least one case,  arising in  New 
York.  We do not know that  the  matter 
is entirely settled. 
Inasmuch as the law 
does not specify as to what races  are  in­
cluded  under  the  term  “ alien, ”  it  is 
thought that there are no qualifications as 
to the race  required,  and  that  the  dis­
charged soldier or sailor may be admitted 
to citizenship without regard to  his race. 
Third,  as  to  seamen:  In  order  for  the 
foreigner who is  a  seaman  to  become  a 
citizen,  he must declare  his  intention  to 
become such in a  competent  court,  must 
have served three  years  on  board  of  a 
merchant vessel of the United States sub­
sequent to the date of the declaration, and 
must produce  a  certificate  of  discharge 
and  good  conduct  during  that  time,  to­
gether  with  the certificate of  his  decla­
ration of intention to become a citizen. A 
seaman who is a foreigner,  after  making 
his declaration  and  after  serving  three 
years,  is deemed a citizen for the purpose 
of manning and serving on board a United 
States merchant vessel.  Such seaman  is 
for purpose of protection as an American 
citizen, deemed  such  after  the  filing  of 
his  declaration  of  intention  to  become 
such citizen. 
It is held that none of  the 
provisions of  the  law  as  to  seamen  as 
above referred to apply to  sail  or  steam 
vessels engaged in the coast trade,  except 
coast  trade  between  the  Atlantic  and 
Pacific; nor in  the lake going trade touch­
ing at foreign ports or otherwise;  nor  in 
the trade between the United States  and 
the British North American  possessions; 
nor in any case where the seamen  are en­
titled, by custom  or  agreement,  to  par- 
ticipate in  the  profits  or  result  of  the 
cruise  or  voyage.  The  law  does  not 
apply to naval  service

W m. C.  Sp r a g u e .

M ethod in H is M adness.

Friend:  “Why do you have such  mis­
spelled and ungrammatical  signs in  your 
front windows?”
Sharp tradesman:  “Peoble  think  I m 
a  dunce  and  come  in  to  swindle  me. 
Trade’s just booming.”

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

HAMMERS.

d ls .

dlS.

dls.

« 
“ 
“ 

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

dls.
dls.

WIRE GOODS. 

HOLLOW WARE.

LOCKS—DOOR. 

 
l e v e l s. 

k n o b s—New List. 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

j®
Maydole  * Co.’s.................................... dla 
25
K ip 's ................................................................................. dlB. 
Yerkes & Plumb’s .....................................dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand... .30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ..............................dls.60&10
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 In. 4)4  14  and
longer.......................................................... .
Screw Hook and Bye, %.......................... net 
“ 
« 
•• 

10
“ 
% ............................net  8)4
“  M............................ net  7)4
“ 
* ............................net  7)4
Strap and T .............................................. dls.  50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50*10
Champion,  anti-friction.............................   60*10
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots............................................................... 
60
Kettles........................................................... 
60
Spiders  ..........................................................„ 6 0
Gray enam eled..................................................... 40<siu
Stamped  Tin Ware...................... new list 70
25
Japanned Tin Ware....................................• • 
Granite Iron W are..................... new Ilst333<atl0
Bright......................................................70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.............................................IS5JS5JS
Hook’s .............  
70*10*10
70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s.....................  
70
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
56
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
56
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings......................... 
55
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..................  
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
55
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s ...........................  
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s . . ................................................ 
55
Adze Bye......................................... 116.00, dls. 60
Hunt Eve..........................................H5.00,dls.60
Hunt’s.  ................................... «18-50, dls. 20*10.
dlB.
50
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...........  ...................... 
40
40
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Cl? ik’s.................  
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
8teel nails, base................................................... 1 80
------ ” 2  00
Wire nails, base............................- 
Steel.  Wire.
an 
B " ” :::-— .....................................Base 
10
06
40...........................................
20
30.........................................
20
10
20........................... .
30
15
35
15
16..........................................
12...........................
35
15
10...........................
40
20
8.............................
50
25
65
40
7 * 6 .....................................
 
90
60
4...........................................
1  50
.1  00
3...............................................
2.......................:................
.1  50
2 00 
Fine 3...............................................1 50
2  00
90 1 00 
Case  ................................................  60
8 ................................................  ...........   75
1  25 1 00 
..............................................   90
Finish 10.......................................... .  J»
1  25
.............................................1 00
1  50 
.............................................1  15
75 
Clinch^ 10......................................... .  86
901 00
8....................................... 1 00
6...............  ......................H5
2 50 
Barren %......................................... 4  75
dls.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   ©*'
Sclota Bench................................................
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  ©40
Bench, first quality..........................
*10
Stanley Rule and  Level Co. s, wood
__
Fry,  Acme..........................................<418.60—10
Common,  polished..........................— “l®--.  70
dlB.
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................   oo—iu
“A” Wood’B patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 
Broken packs He per pound extra__________

Advance over base: 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

MAULS. 
m il l s. 

“  
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

MOLASSES GATES. 

NAILS

FLAMES.

r iv e t s. 

p a n s . 

dlS.

85

 

ROPES.

SQUARES. 

SHEET IRON.

75
60
20
Com. 
•2 95 
3 (5 
3 C5 
3  15 
3 25 
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Sisal, % inch and larger.............................  
8)4
Manilla.........................................................  13
dlS.
Steel and Iron..................................................
Try and Bevels.................................................
M itre.................................................................
Com.  Smooth.
Nos. 10 to  14........................................ 64  05
Nos. 15 to 17........................................ 4  05
Nos.  18 to 21.......................................  4 06
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 ................................   “
D rabB ....................................  “
White C...................................  “

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

H and............................................ 

“ 
Silver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot, —  
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__  
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot—  
“  Cnampion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot................................................. 

Solid Eyes................................................ per ton *26
20
70
50
30
30
Steel, Game........................................................ 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................. 
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s .... 
70
Mouse,  choker.......................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion.................................81.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market...................................................  65
Annealed Market..............................................70—10
Coppered Market..............................................  60
Tinned Market.................................................  62)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel...................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..................................  3 00
painted.......................................  2 50

wire. 

dls.

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

Au Sable..................................dls. 25*10®25*10&05
Putnam..............................................  
dls.  06
Northwestern...................................  
dls. 10*10
diS.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
30
Coe’s  G enuine.................................................  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought,............ 
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................................. 75*10
Bird C ages.........................  
50
 
Pumps, Cistern............................................ 
75
Screws, New List..............................................70*10
Casters, Bed  a  d Plate............................. 50*10*10
Dampers, American........................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........  
65

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dlB.

 

METALS.

PIG TIN.

6X
7

ZINC.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large...............................................................26c
Pig Bars............................................................  
28c
Duty:  Sheet, 2)4c per pound.
600 pound  casks...............................................  
Per  pound.........................................................  
)4@)4 W tV ...............................................................J6
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder m the market indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson............................................per  pound  16
Hallett’s .......................................... 
13
TIN—Mil.YN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal............................................8 7  50
 
14x20 IC, 
“ 
7  50
“ 
10x14 IX, 
9  25
 
14x20 IX, 
“ 
....................... . . . . . ...........   9 25

Each additional X on this grade, 11.75.

 

 

 

ROOFING PLATES

TIM—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 

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

10xl4IC,  Charcoal..........................................8 6  75
6
14x20 IC, 
8  25
10x14 IX, 
9 25
14Btech additional X on this grade 81.50.
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x2010, 
14x20 IX , 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX,
14X28  IX............................................................»MO*
14x31  IX .................... . 
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boiler«, I per ponnd 
10 
14x60 IX, 

‘  Worcester.............................  6
* 
.........................  8
* 
.......................   13
6
*  Allaway  Grade................. 
'■ 
12
“ 
15
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

•  ...................15

s
s
s
s
s
s
s

..... 
1

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Base Base

S P O U T S

IV». 3 — A c t u a l   S i z e

We are agents for this Spout and carry a full 

stock.

W e  also  have the ANCHOR  8AP  SPOOT.

8

MichiganTradesman

Official O rgan o f M ichigan Business Men’s  A ssociation.

A WBKKLY JOURNAL DKVOTKD TO TOT

Retail  Trade  of the Wolilerine 8tate.
The  Tradesman  Company, Proprietor.

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

strictly in advance.

Publication  Office,  100 Louis St.

Entered at the Grami Rapid» Poet Qy.ce.

E.  A.  STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY 3, 1892.

The  new  reciprocity  treaty  with  the 
British Wkst Indies went into effect Feb. 
1.  Hitherto our trade with these islands 
has been in their favor in the ratio of  al­
most two to  one,  but  a  change  may  be 
speedily  looked  for  in  the  interests  of 
the  United  States.  Our  sheep,  hogs, 
poultry  and  horses  for  breeding;  bran 
middlings and shorts; cotton seed and  its 
products; eggs,  fertilizers,  fish and  fish­
ing apparatus;  fruit and vegetables fresh 
and  dried  but  not  canned,  tinned  or 
bottled;  hay  and  straw;  agricultural 
tools and utensils,  tanbark, starch of  In­
dian corn or  maize,  trees,  plants,  vines 
and seeds  of  all  kinds  for  propagation 
or cultivation,  are  to  be  admitted  free. 
Wheat flour, bread,  biscuit,  bacon,  bams, 
cheese,  lard,  mules,  shooks  and  staves 
will  be admitted at half  the present rate 
of  duty;  pickled  beef  and pork  at a re­
duction of  25 per cent. 
In  Jamaica  the 
duty on United States butter  will  be  re­
duced from 4 to 2 cents per pound.

The  damaging  record  of  mismanage­
ment disclosed  by  the  report  of the  In­
surance Department  of  New  York  over 
the investigation  of  the  New York  Life 
Insurance  Company,  while  not  entirely 
unexpected,  is such as to undermine pub­
lic confidence in the management of other 
life insurance  companies  as  well.  The 
report shows  a  wanton  waste  of  assets 
and  an  unscrupulous  management  for 
individual profits which  should land  the 
officers behind the bars of Sing Sing.  The 
incessant warfare made against the man­
agement by the New York  World, results 
ing in several dozen libel suits by way of 
retaliation,  now  proves to have been  en­
tirely  justified,  as a  continuance  of the 
present management in office would have 
wrecked the company.

The daily papers have had considerable 
to say during the past  week  over  an  al­
leged school  furniture trust,  but  none  of 
them  have  succeeded  in  getting  within 
gun  shot  of  the  facts.  No  trust  has 
been  created and  no  factories have been 
sold  out.  A  company  has  been  organ­
ized  to act as selling agents,  and  the fac 
tories  interested  in the  movement  have 
contracted  their product to the company 
for a period  of  five  years.  All  reports 
to the effect that the Grand Rapids School 
Furniture  Co.  has  sold its factory to  the 
selling agency  are  false,  as  the  central 
company does not  propose  to  engage  in 
the manufacturing business.

The  stocks of  cheese in all  the princi 
pal  markets of  the  world on Jan.  1,1892 
as compiled  by  a  prominent  New  York 
dealer, were 754,914 boxes of sixty pounds 
each,  compared  with  841,064  on  Jan.  1, 
1891,  and  996,889  on  Jan.  1,  1890. 
In 
view of  these  light  stocks,  the  price  is 
well maintained, and there will, no doubt,

THE  m C H IG A N   TRADESMAN

the railway  systems  and  methods of  the 
world. 
From  the  day  when  George 
Stevenson made the first trial trip of  his 
engine,  improvements  have  been  made, 
and keeping pace  with  the  advancement 
made in  system the  rates  of  travel  and 
transportation have  been  reduced  until 
to-day,  with the best service, we have the 
lowest rates of  travel  and freight  trans­
portation.  This would  seem to one un­
acquainted  with the facts  to be  all  that 
could be desired and highly creditable to 
the railroad managements,  but the truth 
doesn’t bear out  the  supposition.  The 
railroads have been  forced  to  the  posi­
tion they now occupy by  sheer  press  of 
circumstances which they could not over­
ride. 
They have made  and are making 
immense  profits  and can  well  afford  to 
make their  rates  even  cheaper  than  at 
present.  Under  these  conditions  it  is 
nothing more than proper and right  that 
their  best  patrons,  manufacturers  and 
wholesalers, 
should  be  given  special 
transportation  and  baggage  rates 
for 
their traveling men.  The  army of  com­
mercial travelers  spend  annually  enor­
mous sums  of  money  in  railroad  fares 
and  excess  baggage  tariff,  and  are  in 
simple justice entitled  to  some  substan­
tial  recognition  by  railroads  in  return 
for the  immense  patronage  given  them 
by the traveling salesmen.  Of necessity, 
traveling men are required to carry more 
baggage than the casual tourist,  but,  on 
the other  hand,  the  drummers are regu­
lar and generous patrons and  should  be 
granted  the  privilege  of  carrying  more 
baggage free than the occasional traveler. 
Interchangeable  mileage 
too, 
should be issued to them as  a  matter  of 
convenience. 
It costs the roads nothing, 
necessarily,  and is a change from old and 
time-worn methods which must come be­
fore  long,  and  we  sincerely  hope  the 
boys will keep up  agitation on  the  sub­
ject until the result desired  is  obtained, 
and it  certainly  looks  at  present  as  if 
they were in it to stay.

tickets, 

R esolutions  o f  R espect.

The  Grand  Rapids  Traveling  Men’s 
Association  has  adopted  the  following 
resolutions of  respect ouer the  death  of 
Chas.  F.  McLain:

W h er ea s,  The  hand of  death  has  re 
moved from our  midst  our  honored  fel­
low-member,  Mr. Charles F. McLain; and 
W h er ea s,  The duty which attaches to 
occasions  like  the  present,  of  paying  a 
proper  tribute of  respect to the  memory 
of  a deceased friend,  is  rendered  espec­
ially appropriate  now  by  the  fact  that 
Mr.  McLain was interested in the welfare 
of  this  Association  from  its  organiza 
tion,  and because of  the admirable traits 
of  character which made,  in many ways 
his life an example; theresore be it 
Resolved,  As  an  expression  of 

the 
sense  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Traveling 
Men’s Association,  that,  by the death of 
Mr.  McLain,  there has passed  away  one 
who acted well his part in every  relation 
of  life—one who was useful as a citizen, 
upright as a traveling man,  sincere  as  a 
friend and devoted as a brother.

Resolved,  That  we  tender  our  sym­
pathy  to  the  family  of  our  departed 
friend in the loss they have sustained.

be further  advances before the new  sup­
plies are available.

G rip sack  B rigade.

Haven C. Stewart,of Evart,has engaged 
to  travel  for  J.  W.  Fales  &  Co.,  of 
Detroit.

Geo.  H.  McWilliams,  for  four  years 
city salesman for the  Ball-Barnhart-Put- 
man  Co.,  has  taken  a  similar  position 
with the Olney  & Judson Grocer Co.

E.  C.  Mangold, city salesman for  C. G.
A.  Voigt  &  Co.,  is  spending a week  at 
Washington and Baltimore in the interest 
of the firm.  His trade  is  being  covered 
in the meantime by C.  W.  Mangold.

L.  W.  Atkins,  traveling representative 
for  Heavenrich  Bros.,  Detroit,  was  in 
town  last  Saturday.  He  was  confined 
to his home for three weeks with  a  com­
bined  attack of  la  grippe  and  gastritis 
and still shows the marks of  suffering.

“Hub”  Baker  was  seized  with  an  at­
tack of  absentmindedness  at  Reed  City 
last Friday,  a repetition  of  which would 
probably result in  an official enquiry into 
his sanity.  He left  a  home-bound  train 
to gaze on a yoke of oxen,near the depot, 
and  permitted  the train  to  depart  with 
his  grips  and  overcoat without  making 
any  attempt  to  catch it or  hail the con­
ductor  and  brakeman,  either  of  whom 
would have gladly  pulled  the  bell  rope 
for him.

Chas.  F. McLain,  traveling representa­
tive  for  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co., 
died at the  Warwick  last Tuesday  even­
ing  aud  was  bnried  at  Tiffin,  Ohio,  on 
Saturday.  He  was  ill  less than a week, 
having been  taken  down  with an  attack 
of  la  grippe,  although death ensued as a 
result of a complication of diseases.  Two 
of  the  four  sisters of  the  deceased  ar­
rived here a few hours after death.  The 
funeral  was  held  at  the  parlors of  the 
Warwick  Friday  afternoon  under  the 
auspices of  the  Masonic fraternity,  Rev. 
Dr.  Cobb officiating.  The  remains  were 
accompanied  to  Tiffin  by Robert Hanna 
and  Geo.  Williams,  where  they  were  in­
terred  beside  tbe  remains of  the  father 
and  mother  of  the  deceased.  A  bio­
graphical sketch of  the deceased will  be 
given next week.

The traveling man meets with  a  great 
many  different  kinds  of  people  on  the 
railroads,  but  the most troublesome man 
to meet is the drunken  man  who  thinks 
he knows you  and  sits  in  the same seat 
with  you.  Next  to  him  is  the  tough 
man  who talks so the  whole car can  feel 
and understand  how  very  tough  he  is. 
Other  claimants  for  attention  are  the 
man who eats bananas  when  everybody 
else  is  hungry;  the man  who  puts  his 
head out of  the  window  and  invariably 
loses his hat; the man  who  did  not  take 
the sleeper because his wife’s  back  hair 
was so heavy that  she  preferred  sitting 
up; the man  who has a friend in the other 
end of  the car  named  Tom,  who  is  al­
ways calling to Tom to look at something 
outside; the man who wants you to think 
he is an experienced  traveler,  and  who 
gets out on the depot platform  at  every 
stop to show himself  to  the  supposably 
admiring natives,  and last,  but not least 
tbe new drummer  who wears a handsome 
traveling cap and  au  equally  handsome 
smile,  and  who insists on being a service 
to all the lone  and  unprotected  females 
on the car.

St.  Louis  Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette: 
One cannot but marvel  in  looking  back 
over the century that is  now  in  its  last 
decade to note the  wonderful  growth  of

WE  ARE  HEADQUARTERS

SEND  FOR PRICE  LIST.

Daniel  Lpßh,

19  S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids.

Great Feat!

He has  great  feet, but  they  are  nothing  like 
the  great feat  that W a d h a m ’s  G r a p h it e   A x l e  
G r e a s e   can  be  relied  upon  to  perform  every 
time.  To  try it once is to become  an  ardent ad­
vocate of  it.  To praise it too highly is  impossi 
ble.

See What  is  Said  of  It.

A p r il  25th, 1881.

Wadhamg Off & Grease Co., Milwaukee:
Dear Sirs—For the past year I have been using 
your  Graphite  Axle  Grease and  have  found it 
will do better work than any other  grease in the 
market. 

Yours truly,

P h il l ip  Sc h a r e t t , Barn Foreman, 

Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wig.

Wagon  Jack  Free!

We  are  sending  to  every  dealer  who 
handles  “GRAPHITE  AXLE  GREASE.” 
one  Daisy  Wagon  Jack,  worth  $1,  to  be 
given  to  the  holder of  the  printed  order 
contained in one of the 1-lb. boxes In each 
case  of one-third  gross, on presentation of 
said order to yonr dealer, FREE of charge.
For sale by all Grocers, Hardware Dealers, 
Harness Dealers and by the Manufacturers.

Wadbams  Oil  &  Grease Co,
Milwaukee,  Wis.  and  Seattle,  Wash.

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.,
BOOTS  & SHOES
Felt Boots and Alaska  Socks.

JOBBER8  OF

State Agents for

The  S u g a r  M ark et.

Sugar  is  a  little  lower.  Corn  syrup 
has  declined  lc  per  gallon.  Dried  cur­
rants are  &c lower.  Green  peas  are 25c 
higher.  The  manufacturers  of  package 
coffee have changed the basis of  price on 
their  product,  figuring  fractions  of  a 
cent by tenths.

Use  Tradesman  or  Superior  Coupons,

158 St  160 Fulton ht., Grand Rapids.

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9

BLEAK  HOUSE.

“Oh,  vel,  dot  vas  all  ridt—I  tole  you 

N otice to  S to ck h o ld ers.

The  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of 
the Grand  Rapids & Indiana Railroad  Company 
will be held at the  General  Office, In the  City of 
Grand  Rapids, Michigan, on Wednesday, March 
2d,  1892, at  1  o’clock  p. m., for  the  election of, 
thirteen  directors to serve  for the  ensuing  year 
and  for  the transaction of  such other  business 
as may be presented at the meeting.

J. H. P. HUGHART, Sec’y.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

-A N D -GRAIN

MENTION THIS PAPER,

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

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Orders  for  purchase  or  sa le  o f  Seeds  fo r  fu tu re  d elivery 

prom ptly attended to .  Correspondence solicited .

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Coffees of  every description are roasted  by the Woolson Spice Co., of Toledo,  O., 
who  are  veterans in that  business  and  invite a trial of  the  above  named  grades. 
All  are  guaranteed to please.  Lion Coffee  is  composed of  Mocha,  Java  and  Rio, 
sold only in 1-lb.  packages, with a picture card in every package. Write your jobber 
for prices,  or address

L .  W I N T E R N I T Z ,

RESIDENT  AGENT,

106 Kent St. 

Grand Rapids.

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which is affixed to  every  cake 
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Onr Goods from worthless  Imitations.

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W. H. MOREHOUSE & CO.

noddings.”

“I  suppose,  Mr.  Bleak,  that  you  are 
the only merchant in  the city to-day who 
was  engaged in the  mercantile  business 
in  1856.”

“Oh,  vel,  neffer  mint.  Dey vas  all tet 
long aco;  but it makes no madder—I tole 
you I tole you noddings/”

“You have a valuable piece of property 
I  suppose  you  have 

here,  Mr.  Bleak. 
been offered fabulous prices for it.”

“Oh,  vel.  Ha,  ha,  ha!  Why you  ask?
1 tole you  1  tole  you  noddings. 
I don’t 
vish to  sell  oud.  Dot  vas  all  ridt.  Go 
talk  to  Mr.  Hart;  he vas  here  von  year 
pefore I vas gome.”

“But I do  not  wish  to  see  Mr.  Hart. 
My paper  is  concerned  with  mercantile 
interests, Mr.  Bleak,  and,  as you  are  the 
oldest  merchant  in  the  city,  no  doubt 
you  could  give  me some  pointers which 
would be of interest to our readers.”

“I vood  zooner  bay you  money  to zay 
noddings  apoud  me.  Efferybody knows 
me,  unt  dot vas  all  ridt.  Ha,  ha,  ha! 
Dot  vas  all  ridt,  anyvay. 
I  bay  daxes 
for a plank  roat in  1856  vich  passed  my 
toor  here  on  Fulton  street, unt—no use 
talking—I tole you noddings furder.”

At this  stage of  the  interview—if  in­
terview it could  be  called—a  little  boy 
came  in  to  purchase a stick  of  pepper­
mint  candy,  and  Mr.  Bleak  became 
alarmingly  noncommunicative,  at  once 
setting about  brushing  the  dust  off  his 
aggregation of  antiquities.  Some of  the 
articles  of  virtu  have  been  dusted  so 
many  times  during  the  past  thirty odd 
years  that  they  are  worn  threadbare. 
Whether this  daily dusting  performance 
is prompted by a natural  leaning  toward 
the  finical,  or  merely  to  get  the  daily 
physical exercise which is made necessary 
by  his  rugged  constitution,  the  writer 
has no  means of  ascertaining;  the sport­
ing of  an  elegant  pair of  earrings,  how­
ever,  would indicate that the former sup­
position was the correct one.

If  there  be a reader  of  T h e  T ra des­
man  much  given to the  study  of  archse- 
ology,  a  visit  to  the 
little  brick  store 
would  materially  aid  him 
in  his  re­
searches. 
If  there be a young merchant 
who would care to acquaint himself with 
the kind of  tubs,  pails,  brooms,  baskets, 
mops,  sieves,  dustpans,  mouse  traps and 
divers  things  which  his  grandmother 
used in her day,  he  should,  by all means, 
drop  into  this  melancholy  sanctum. 
If 
any  live,  modern  groceryman would like 
to know how a grocery store was equipped 
forty  years  ago,  let  him  visit  this  im­
perturbable old merchant.  He  has  for­
gotten the  great fact  that “the world  do 
move,” and that it has been continuously 
moving during the thirty-six years which 
have  elapsed  since he  sat  down on  this 
corner.  He  does not  seem to realize the 
fact  that  it  has  moved  away from  him 
during  this  time,  that a new  generation 
has  grown  up  in  perfect  ignorance  of 
“Bleak  House,”  and  has  built  a  pros­
perous city all  around  him;  and  he still 
labors  under the  delusion  that “Effery­
pody  knows  him,  unt  he  vill  tole  you 
noddings.” 

Ra d ix.

W ritten fo r The Tradesman.

Not  the  “Bleak  House” on  the  other 
side of  the  briny  deep,  made  immortal 
by dear old  Dickens,  but a bona fide con­
cern  existing  right  here  in  this  enter­
prising city of Grand Rapids.

Did you ever  notice a rather  small red 
brick building on the  corner of  Lagrave 
and Fulton streets,  with  pigeonhole win­
dows,  through  which  you  have  caught 
glimpses of striped stick candy and lamp 
chimneys,  as you  passed by in the  street 
cars,  an  impression  being  left  on  your 
mind that  somebody kept a grocery store 
there?  Did  you  ever step inside  to  as­
certain the fact that  somebody did really 
keep a grocery store  there?  No?  Well, 
do you  know of  anyone  who  ever  did? 
Have you not often wondered how it was 
that any sane person could afford to hold 
down  such a valuable  piece of  property 
■for the  purpose of  doing the stick candy 
and gum  business  indicated  by the  win­
dow display?

You may have passed this old landmark 
daily for  the  past  ten,  twenty  or  thirty 
years;  if so,  you have witnessed wonder­
ful  changes  in  the  Grand  River Valley 
where  the  city now  stands.  You  have 
seen great blocks go up where the Indian 
used to sit  in  his canoe and  spear musk­
rats.  You  have  seen 
immense  public 
buildings erected on the  spot where once 
grew  the  cat-tail,  and  where  the  melo­
dious  bullfrog  held  forth.  You  have 
seen hill and valley so blend  that a new- 
' comer  could  not tell  what was  nature’s 
original condition of  things;  in fact, you 
have seen nations disappear  from off  the 
face of the earth and new ones spring up 
and  take their  places.  You  have  seen 
new diseases spring into existence which, 
bidding  defiance to the  physician’s skill, 
have  played  sad  havoc  with the  human 
race.  You  have  lived  through a period 
of time which has produced more mighty 
revolutions, more startling  changes  and 
more  wonderful 
inventions  than  any 
other like  period of  time in  the  world’s 
history;  but  never  have  you  seen  one 
iota of change come  to the little red brick 
store on the  corner.  Fathers have given 
place to sons,  and  the sous  have become 
wrinkled  and  gray,  but  the  same  little 
old candy jars and flyspecked lamp chim­
neys  may  be  seen  to-day,  as of  yore, in 
those old-fashioned windows.

investigate. 

Many  times  has  the  writer  wondered 
what  the  contents of  this  old  curiosity 
like;  so  the  other  day  he 
shop  were 
stepped  inside  to 
It  was 
plain to be seen  that  the  curio  collector 
had  never 
invaded  the  place,  for  the 
accumulation had the appearance of hav­
ing  been  undisturbed  for  ages.  The 
manager and sole  owner of  this  mercan­
tile museum,  Oliver Bleak,  Esq.,  came to 
Grand Rapids in 1856.  Securing the cor­
ner property  where  stands  the  aforesaid 
red  brick structure,  he started  the  busi­
ness which  has  continued  to  exist in an 
innocuous desuetudish fashion ever since. 
Further  information  could  not  be  ex­
tracted  from the  phlegmatic  Mr.  Bleak, 
for  he  seemed to look  upon  newspaper 
men  as  emisaries of  the  Evil  One,  sent 
from  the  infernal  regions  on  some dia­
bolical errand. 
In answer to the writer’s 
first  question,  Mr.  Bleak  impatiently ex­
claimed:

“ I  tell  you  noddings! 

Efferypody 
knows  me,  unt  I  mint my ow7i  pecsness. 
Dot vas all ridt—I tole you noddings.”

“I suppose,  Mr.  Bleak,  that there were 
very  few stores  in  Grand  Rapids  when 
yon started this business.”

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Î O
Drugs  Medicines*

S t a t e   B o a r d   o f   P h a r m a c y .

One  T ear—Jacob  Jesson,  M uskegon.
Two  T ears—Jam es Vernor, D etroit.
T hree  T ears—O ttm ar E berbach, Ann  Arbor 
Four T ears—G eorge Gundrum. Ionia.
F ive T ears—C. A, B ugbee.  Cheboygan.
President—Jacob  Jesson, M uskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  V ernor, D etroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum. Ionia.

N ext m eeting—At B ay C ity, Jan. 13 and 14,1392-
M i c h i g a n   S t a t e   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A s s ’n . 

_ _  

P resident—H. G. Colem an, K alam azoo. 
Vice-Presidents—S.  E.  P ark ill,  O wosso;  L.  P auley, St.
Ignace;  A. S. Parker, D etroit.
Secretary—Mr. P arsons, Detroit.
Treasurer—Win. Dupont, D etroit. 
E xecutive Com m ittee—F. J. W urzburg,  Grand Rapids, 
Frank  In g lis  and  G.  W.  Stringer,  D etroit;  C.  E. 
.
Webb. Jackson. 
N ext place  o f  m eeting—Grand  Rapids, Aug. 2,3 and i  
Local Secretary—John  D. Muir.________________ ______ _
G r a n d   Rapids  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c i e t y . 
President. W. R. Jew ett,  Secretary,  Frank H. E scott, 
R egular M eetings—F irst W ednesday ev en in g  o f March 

June, Septem ber and Decem ber,
O r e a d  R a p i d s   D r u g  C l e r k s ’ A s s o c i a t i o n ,  
resid en t, F. D. Kipp;  S ecretary, W . C. Sm ith.

.  _  

. .

D e t r o i t   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c i e t y . 

President. F. R ohnert;  Secretary,  J. P.»Rheinfrank.
M u s k e g o n   D r u g   C l e r k s ’  A s s o c i a t i o n .  
P resident. N. Miller;  Secretary, A. T. W h eeler.______

LIFE  INSURANCE  PROFITS.

It is highly satisfactory that the official 
examination  of  the  affairs  of  the  New 
York Life Insurance company has result­
ed in the demonstration of the company’s 
abundant solvency,  notwithstanding the 
criminal mismanagement  of  its  officers. 
The immense sums they  have lost in un­
lucky real estate and  other speculations, 
and by unfaithful agents,  or have squan­
dered in extravagant commissions and in 
the  publication  of  costly  books  to  no 
purpose but to  gratify  personal  vanity, 
have not sufficed to exhaust the  revenue 
they have received  from  premiums  and 
from  the  income  of  their  good  invest­
ments.  Personally,  I  have no interest in 
life  insurance,  either  as  a policy hold­
er or  otherwise,  and,  beyond  the  facts 
furnished by the report  of  the State  In 
surance Department,  I  have  no  know! 
edge  of  the  merits  of  the  controversy 
which has been  going on for  the past six 
or seven months  in  regard  to  the  New 
York  Life Insurance  Company.  When 
was a younger man,  I was often beset by 
life insurance agents to take out policies 
on my life, but as often  I  refused.  N 
one was dependent  on  me  for  whom 
was under  obligation to make  provision 
in case of  my death,  and to  the  sugges 
tion that, as a method of investing money 
the  payment  of  premiums  was  more 
profitable than  any  other  available  to 
men  of  small  means,  I  invariably  an 
swered,  first,  that,  like the  Westerner, 
did not care to play a game where  I  had 
to die to win,  and,  second,  that the little 
money I saved out  of  my  salary  I  pre 
ferred  to put into a savings  bank,  where 
I  could  draw  upon  it  for  any  sum 
needed at any  moment that 1 required it 
As things have turned  out,  I made a wise 
decision. 
I have  lived  long  enough  to 
accumulate on my own  system  far  more 
than  I could have got from the most gen 
erous  life policy,  and,  now,  what money 
I have is my own,  to do with as I please 
without having either to leave  it  to  my 
relatives or to  accept  whatever  sum 
cash the company might  choose  to allow 
me on my  policy.  None  the  less  do 
recognize  the  advantages  of  life  insur 
ance in the case of  men  with  wives  and 
children dependent on their earnings for 
support,  and liable  to great  suffering  if 
their bread winners should  suddenly  be 
taken  away. 
Young  men,  especially 
just starting in business or in professions, 
are almost criminal if they neglect so ob­
vious  a  duty  as  that  of  providing  by 
this means against the  calamity of  their 
death before they have  succeeded in lay­
ing by a sufficient fortune for  their fam­

his life in order that the aggregate  sums 
paid by him and others like him shall  be 
sufficient to meet  the  sums  required  to 
meet the payments  upon deaths,  just as 
it is a similar  problem to compute  what 
premiums on the  average will cover  the 
risk  of  the  destruction  of  property  by 
fire  or  by  shipwreck. 
In  the  case  of 
life insurance,  which is usually not for a 
fixed  period,  like fire and marine  insur­
ance,  but for the indeterminate period of 
life,  conditioned  upon  the  continuance 
of  annual  premium  payments,  there  is 
the further problem of  the amount likely 
to be obtained by  investing  the  surplus 
of  premiums received over losses paid  in 
interest  or  dividend-bearing  securities. 
Evidently,  if  there is any  surplus at all, 
it  rolls  up  by  being  productively  in­
vested,  and the rapidity  of  its  increase 
varies with  the  amount  of 
income  de­
rived from it.

The fallacy to  which I have  reference 
is that as a rule, life insurance companies 
assume too  high  an  average  of  deaths 
and too low an  average  of  revenue from 
investments.  Undoubtedly,  their tables 
of  mortality are  as  correct as  they  can 
be made,  and are  based  upon  the  most 
thorough investigation  possible.  Only, 
those tables  are  for  all  sorts  of 
lives, 
good,  bad  and  indifferent,  whereas  in 
practice  a life  insurance  company picks 
its  lives  by  subjecting  every  applicant 
for insurance to a severe  physical exam­
ination by its medical adviser,  and by re­
jecting everyone  that  he pronounces not 
perfectly  healthy. 
It  is  as if  a  marine 
insurance  company  should  underwrite 
A1  vessels  and  no  others  at a  rate  of 
premium  fairly  enough  applicable  to 
every sort of  vessel that floats,  or as if  a 
fire 
insurance  company  should  accept 
risks only upon  fireproof office buildings, 
and  those  at  a  rate  required  to  cover 
losses on manufactories, dry goods ware­
houses  and theatres.  On top of  this the 
life insurance companies,  after assuming 
that they can get on an  average only say 
per cent,  per annum from their  invest­
ments,  proceed to place them where they 
yield not less than 5 per cent.,  if  not  6 
,  and  even  10  per  cent.  No  wonder 
then that the New York  Life  Insurance 
Company comes out safe and sound after 
all its losses,  and that,  in  common  with 
the other great life insurance companies 
it has accumulated  over a hundred  mil 
lions of  dollars of  assets,  and has built a 
costly office  building,  after  paying  the 
whole  of  the  first  year’s  premiums  on 
each new policy to the agent who  brings 
it in,  and allowing  him  a  large  slice  of 
all  succeeding  premiums  on  the  same 
policy!

The  conclusion  that  legitimately  fol­
lows from these facts  is  that  life  insur­
ance costs insurers far more  than  is  ab­
solutely  necessary  to  meet 
losses  by 
death.  Nevertheless,  it must be acknowl­
edged that the error  is on the right  side. 
It furnishes what engineers would call an 
abundant  factor  of  safety  for  policy 
holders,  and  enables  the  companies  to 
maintain perfect  solvency  under  almost 
any circumstances.  The  first  and  fore­
most  requisite  of  insurance  is  that  it 
should insure,  and  when  a  man  begins 
the  payment  of  a  series  of  premiums

If,  now,  after  having  stinted 
ilies. 
themselves for  the  sake  of  paying  life 
insurance  premiums,  they  should  find, 
by the insolvency of  a prominent  insur­
ance company,  that their privations may 
possibly  have  been  to  no  purpose,  it 
would be a great discouragement to their 
continuing the effort.

Still  the  question  suggests  itself  to 
me as it doubtless has suggested  itself to 
many of  my readers:  How large must be 
the profits  of 
insuring  lives  when  the 
New York Life Insurance  Company  can 
suffer the enormous  losses which  Super­
intendent Pierce finds they have suffered, 
and yet show a still more  enormous  sur­
plus?  One of  the losses reported by the 
Superintendent is $530,000 on  Holbrook 
Hall,  another  of  $284,000  on  the  Plaza 
Hotel,  another of at least $4,000,000, pos- 
ibly $600,000,000, on real estate in Paris, 
and upward  of  $1,500,000 by  defaulting 
agents,  besides many  comparatively  un­
important  but  still  considerable  sums 
In spite  of  all 
this,  the same officer finds  that  the com­
pany has  a  surplus  of  available  assets 
and property exceeding  its  present  lia­
bilities of  nearly $15,000,000!  Now,  if 
this is the result of a life insurance busi­
ness managed as extravagantly as that of 
the New York  Life  Insurance  Company 
has been,  what must be  the  surplus  in­
come of  the other great  insurance  com­
panies which have  to  bear  no  such  de­
pletion?

asted in various ways. 

The consideration of  this point recalls 
to my mind one of  the arguments  which 
used very much to strengthen my resolu­
tion  not  to  insure  my  life  in  the  days 
when I was exposed to the solicitations of 
agents.  1 had learned—and, indeed,  some 
of the  agents  were  frank  enough  to  ac­
knowledge it—that the commissions paid 
tothese gentlemen were far  greater  than 
any that were paid  for  similar  services 
in  any  other  business.  Not  only  did 
they get  something  like  one-half  of  the 
first year’s premium on  each new  policy 
they obtained,  but they  were  allowed  a 
further percentage upon  every  succeed 
ing  annual premium on the  same  policy 
as long as it was kept alive.  One of  the 
stories I heard,  but  which  I  never  was 
able to verify,  was that  the  son  of  one 
very  successful  former  life  insurance 
agent  was living  in  affluence  upon  the 
commissions he drew from the numerous 
policies which  his father  in his lifetime 
had secured for various  companies,  and 
which had not yet expired or lapsed.  On 
studying into  the problem how the  com 
panies could stand this enormous tax and 
yet thrive,  I came  to the conclusion  that 
it was because of  an  underlying  fallacy 
in  their system of fixing premiums which 
was not visible to a careless observer.

insurance, 

Life insurance,  like fire insurance  and 
marine 
is  based  upon  the 
principle of  averages—though I am sorry 
to say that for the past few  years fire in 
surance  has been conducted  in  defiance 
of  that principle,  and,  indeed,  of  every 
other  principle  conducive  to  success 
with  the result that  most  of  the  sound 
companies are going into liquidation and 
the others are on the  high  road to insol 
vency. 
It has been ascertained by obser 
vation that, taking one year with another 
just so many people in  a hundred die  at 
such and such ages,  just as in a series of 
years just so much property is destroyed 
by fire or lost by shipwreck. 
It is a pure 
problem of  arithmetic, therefore, to com 
pute how much money any one man must 
pay  for insuring a certain  amount  upon

which are to go on  as  long  as  he  lives, 
the  question  whether  they  are  a  little 
larger or a little  smaller  is  unimportant 
compared with that of  whether,  after he 
paid them, he can confidently reckon upon 
the collection by  his  widow or his  chil­
dren of the amount of the policy. 
In the 
case  of  the  New  York  Life  Insurance 
Company,  for instance,  If  the  premiums 
paid by its  customers  had  been more ac­
curately  adjusted  to  the  legitimate  re­
quirements of  its  business  the  company 
would  probably be insolvent,  whereas it 
is now  in a condition  to  pay  all  claims 
made  against it  and  millions  of  dollars 
besides.  Thisi  as I said at the outset,  is 
highly satisfactory, not only to those who 
are  immediately  interested,  but  to  all 
who,  like me,  believe  in  life  insurance 
as a  precaution  against  untimely  death.

Ma tt h ew  Ma r sh a l l.

The  D ru g   M ark et.

Quinine is firm  for  foreign.  There  is 
no advance,  as yet, of  domestic,  but  one 
is looked for soon.  Opium is easy.  Mor­
phia is unchanged.

Port  Huron—W.  F.  Haskell,  grocer, 

has sold out his business.

CHUS,  fl,  GOYE,

MANUFACTURER OF

Horse and Wagon Covers,

JOBBERS OF

Hammocks and Cotton  Clicks.
SEND FOR PRICE LIST.
11  Pearl  81.,  Grand  Rapids,
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.

THIS  IS  WHAT  EVERY  SUCCESSFUL  PER- 
IT IS THE  CONDITION OF 

SONJMUST DO. 
CONDITIONS.
The  Industrial  School of  Business  furnishes 
something  superior  t6  the  ordinary  course  in 
book keeping, short hand and type writing, pen­
manship, English and  business correspondence. 
Write  for a copy of  Useful  Education,  and  see 
why this school is worth your special considera­
tion.  Address,

W .  N .  F E R R IS ,

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c x x r s x x r c   r o o t .

W e p ay th e h ig h est price fo r It.  Address

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—HINKLEY’S  BONE  LINIMENT«

FOB  THIRTY-FOUR  YEARS  THE  FAVORITE.

E'iclosed in  White Wrappers and made by D. F. FOSTER,  Saginaw, Mich.

Wholesale Price  Current•

Advanced—Ergot.  Declined—Alcohol  and quicksilver.

8®  10
Aceticum................... 
Benzoicum  German..  50®  6o
Boracic 
....................  
20
Carbollcum................  22©  30
Cltrlcum...................  48®  53
Hydrochlor...............   3®  5
Nitrocum 
.................  10®  12
Oxallcum...................  10®  12
Phosphorlum dll........
Salicyllcum............... 1  30@1  70
Sulphuricum..............  Hi®  5
Tannicum...................1  40®!  60
Tartaricum.................  38®  40

a m m o n ia .

« 

Aqua, 16  deg..............  314®  5
20  deg..............  5)4®  7
Carbouas  ...................  12®.
Chloridum.................  12®  14

a n il in e .
.  ................2 00@2  25
Rlftck 
...................  80@1  00
Brown" 
rS  
......................  45®  50
Yellow.......................2 5003  00

BACCAB.

Cubeae (po.  80)........  80®1  10
Juni
S S U : : : : : : : : :   < 3   8
Xant

balbamum.

g g f *   ;:;:;;:;;:::::  50l i l
Terabin, Canada  ......   35®  40
Tolutan......................

cortex.

Abies,  Canadian.................   18
Casslae  ...............................  
ii
Cinchona Elava  .................   1°
Enonymus  atropurp...........
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po.............  fJ
Prunus Virgin!....................
Quill ala,  grd.......................   "
Sassafras  ...........................
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)........ 
io

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

33®
11®
13®
14®
16®

bxtractum. 
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra..
po.........
Haematox, 15 lb. box.
Is............
)4s...........
J48...........
FKRRUM.
Carbonate Preclp ■ —
Citrate and Qulnla...
Citrate  Soluble........  ®
Ferrocyanidum Sol—   ®
Solut  Chloride..........   &
Sulphate,  com’l .........
®

pure.

@  15 
@3 50 
®  80 
50 
15

Arnica —  
Anthémis  . 
Matricaria

22® 
28® 
25®  30

20®  75

Barosma
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin 
niveiiy 

(1 

Alx  35®

.

■ 

w

! 
“ 

“ 
“ 
« 
“ 

«man.

and  Mb....................   ^

Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
UraUrsl...................... 
°@
Acacia,  1st picked....  @
f
....  @
60®
50®®®

2d 
3d 
sifted sorts.
p o . ........ .

Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...
“  Cape, (po.  20)...
“  Socotrl, (po.  60).
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Ms,
16)........................... 
A m m n n l a e ........................
AssafoBtlda, (po. 35)...
Beniolnum.................  *®
Camphors...................
Euphorbium  po  ........  35®  10
Gafbanum...................  _  ®3
Gamboge,  po...... 
Gualacum, (po  30)  ...  ®
Kino,  (po.  25)............   ©  30
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
Opll.  (po. 3 20) .......... 2  10@~  15
Shellac  ............ 
  35®  35
bleached........  30®  35
Tragacanth...............   30®  75

“ 
hbkba—In ounce packages.
Absinthium......................... 
j*
Eupatorlum.........................
Lobelia.................................  "
Majorum.............................
Mentha  Piperita................  g
it 
y jJ .........................  25
Rue.
Tanacetum, V......................
Thymus,  V..........................   a
60
Calcined, Pat..............  5®@
Carbonate,  P a t....—   20® 
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennlng5 ..  35®  36 

MAGNESIA.

 

OLEUM.

Absinthium................ 3 50@4 00
Amygdalae, Dule........  45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarae— 8 00@8 25
A n isi........................... 1 80@1 9..
Aurantl  Cortex...........2 50®2 16
Bergamli  ...................3 75®4 00
Cajiputl.................... 
70®  80
Caryophylll...............   90®  95
Cedar  .........................  35®  66
ChenopodU...............   @1  75
Cinnamon! i ................ 1 20@1 25
Cltronella...................  ®  45
Conlum  Mac..............  35®  66
Copaiba.......................1  10@1 20

Cubebae.....................   @  6 50
Exechthitos..............  2 50@2 75
Erigeron.........................2 25®? 50
Gaultheria......................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......  ®  75
xossipii,  Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................1  40@1  50
Juniperi.....................   50@2 00
"iavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonis.......................... 2 25®2 80
Mentha Piper...................3 00@3 50
Mentha Yerld.................2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal..................1  00@1 10
Myrcia, ounce............   @  50
Olive..........................  85@2  75
Picls Liquida, (gal. 35)  10®  12
Rlclnl..............................1  08@1 24
Rosmarin!............ 
75® 1  00
Rosae, ounce..............  @6 50
Succinl.......................  40®  45
Sabina.......................  90@1  00
Santal  ....................... 3 50®7 00
Sassafras.  .................   50®  55
Sinapls, ess, ounce—   ®  65
Tiglil..........................  @1  00
Thyme.......................  40®  50
opt  ...............   ©  60
Theobromas...............  15®  20

“ 

POTASSIUM.

BiCarb.......................  15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide.................... 
25®  27
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate, (po. 16)........  14®  16
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide.........................2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bltart, pure..  26®  30
Potassa, Bltart, com...  ©  15
Potass Nitras, opt...... 
8®  10
Potass Nitras..............  7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

Aconitum..................   20®  25
Althae.........................  25®  30
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus.....................   20®  40
Gentiana, (po. 15)......  10®  12
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 40)..................   @  35
Hellebore,  Ala,  po—   15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po.................. 2 25®2 30
Iris plox (po. 35@38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   42®  45
Maranta,  54s..............  ®  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhel............................  75@1  00
“  cut.....................   @1  75
SplgeTia.....................   48®  53
Sangulnaria, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  35®  40
Senega.......................  40®  45
Similar, Officinalis.  H  ©
M  @
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
dus,  po............ .......   @
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  ®
German...  15®
lnglber a ...................  10®
Zingiber  j .............. 
18®

“ 

“ 

6®

..  @  15
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
Apium  (graveleons)..  20®  22
Bird, is ...................... 
4®
Carni, (po. 18)............  
8®  12
Cardamon.................. 1  00®1  25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Sativa.........  
4M@5
Cydonlum..................   75@l 00
irAt
Eimhhhh
Chenopodlum  ...........  10®  12
(O d o r a te ...........2  10@2  20
Po’enlculum......   ......   ®  15
Poenugreek,  po.........  
L ln l............................4  @4)4
Llnl, grd,  (bbl.3)4)...  4  @ 4)4
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Pharlaris Canarian—   3)4® 4)4
Rapa.......................... 
6®  1
Sinapls,  Albu............  
8®  9
Nigra...........  11®  12
8PIB1TU8.
Frumenti, W..D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R ......175@2 00
1  10@1 50
 
Junlperis  Co. O. T — 1  75@1 75
“ 
1  75®3 50
Saacharum  N. E .........1 75@2 00
Spt.  Vinl  Galli............1 75@6 50
Viiii Oporto.................1 25®* 00
Vinl  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 ....................... 
85
Hard for  slate  use—  
75
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
1  40
u se..........................

SYRUPS.

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................  50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri  Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................  50
Rhel  Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................  50
Sdllae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan............................ 
50
i Prunai  flrg........................   50

“ 

“ 

TINCTURES.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Aconltum Napellls R.........   60
F .........   50
Aloes....................................  60
and myrrh.................  60
A rnica................................   50
Asafcetida............................  0
Atrope Belladonna — ........  60
Benzoin...............................  60
“  Co..........................   50
Sanguinaria.........................  50
Barosma.............................   50
lantharldes.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
Co........................   75
Castor................................... 1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona............................  50
Co........................   60
Columba.............................   60
'onlum...............................  50
Cubeba................................   50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot....................................  50
Gentian...............................  50
‘  Co............................  60
Guaica................................   50
ammon.....................  60
‘ 
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..................................  75
Colorless...................  75
Ferrl  Chloridum.................  35
K ino....................................  50
Lobelia...........................  
  50
Myrrh...............................—  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opll.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
Deodor.........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
H hstany...........................—  50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stromonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
ValerlaD.............................   50
Veratrum Veride.................  50

“ 

‘ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

‘ 
“ 

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

ground,  (po.

“ 

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antimoni, po.............. 
4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antlpyrln..................   @1 40
Antifebrln..................  @  25
Argenti  Nitras, ounce  @  64
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Giiead  Bud......  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
11;  Ms.  12) ..............  @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
@1  20 
po............................
@  20 
Capsid  Fructus, af...
@  25 
I po.
®  20 
12®  13 
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)
@3 75 
Carmine,  No. 40.........
50®  55
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  22
Centrarla....................  @  10
Cetaceum..................   @  40
Chloroform...............   60®  63
squlbbs ..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  25®1  50
Chondrus...................  20®
Clnchonldlne, P.  *  W  IS®
German 3  ®
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
60
cent  ...................... 
Creasotum...............   @  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  ®  2

“ 

“ 

“  prep....................  5®
“  preclp............... 
9®
“  Rubra.................  @

“ 

Crocus.......................  30®  35
@  24
Cudbear.
Cuprl Sulph................  5 ®   6
Dextrine................   10® 
12
70
Ether Sulph............  68® 
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
6
po...............  @ 
Ergota, (po.)  85 .........   85®  90
Flake  White..........  12® 
15
Galla......................  @ 
23
Gambler......................  7  @8
Gelatin.  Cooper..........  @  70
French.......  40® 
60
“ 
Glassware  flint,  70 and 10. 
bybox60andl0
Glue,  Brown..........  9® 
15
“  White...........   13® 
25
Glycerina.............. 15)4® 
20
Grana Paradlsl...........   @  22
Humulus................  25® 
55
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..  @  90
“  Cor ....  @  80
Ox Rubrum  @1  CO
Ammonlati..  @1  10
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum .............  @  70
.1  25®1  50
Icnthyobolla,  Am. 
Indigo........................   75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 7S@3 85
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin.................  35© 
40
Lycopodium.........  40®
Macis....................  75®
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararg Iod............  @
Liquor Potass Arslnitls  10®
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
M a n n i a / Ä F . Ü 38®

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

THE  MICHIG-AIST  TRADESMAN.

“ 

K 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  8 .P .4 W ...1   95®? 20 
C. Co.......................1  85@2  10
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myristlca, No. 1.........   70®  75
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia....................  22®  25
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................
@2  00
Picls Liq, N.  C., Vi gal
doz  .........................
@2  00 
Picls Liq., quarts......
@1  00 
pints.........
@  85 
@  50 
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..
@  1 
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..
3
Piper Alba, (po g5)__
@14®
Pix  Burgun...............
Plumbl A cet..............
Pulvis Ipecac et opll.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
@1  25 
& P. D.  Co., doz......
35 
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®
8®
Quassiae.................... 
10
31® 
Qulnla, S. P. & W.
22  @
8.  German
Rubla  Tinctorum......   12®
Saccharum Lactis pv.  @ 28
Salacin.......................1  50@1  60
Sanguis Draconls......   40®  50
Santonine  .................... 
4 50
Sapo, W......................  12®  14
M.......................  10®  12
G.......................  ®  15

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture........  @ 25
Sinapls.......................   @  18
“  opt..................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 12).  .  11® .  12 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  30®  33
Soda Carb.................  1)4®  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash....................3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  56
“  Myrcia  Dom......   @2 25
“  Myrcia Imp........  @3 00
‘  Vinl  Rect.  bbl.
....7 ........................ 2 27®2 37
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal......   @1  30
Sulphur, Subl............ 3  @4
“  Roll..............  2J£@ 3)4
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae..............40  @  45
Vanilla......................9 00016 00
Zlncl  Sulph...............   7®  8

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   56 
Lard, No.  1..............  45 
Linseed, pure raw —   36 

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
50
39

11
39 42

“ 

faints. 

Llndseed,  boiled  .... 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.................. 
Spirits Turpentine__  39 

50  60
45
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian........................Hi 2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ 1£  2@4
“ 
Ber........Hi  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2Q  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure......2)4  2£@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ................. 
 
  13016
Vermilion,  English—  
70@75
Green,  Peninsular.... 
70®75
Lead,  red................................ 7 @7)4
“  w hite............................7 @7H
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’........  @90
1  0
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
Qjjjf.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.....................1  00@1  20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach— 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................16001  70
Coach  Body...............2  75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.......1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar.... 1 55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp.........................  70®  7

HAZBLTINE

&  P E R K IN S

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taopoitezs and Jobben etf

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils «  Yamishes.

DEALERS  Of

f a r  t h s

SUSS VILLI PREPKRKB P1IMYS.

V «  a n   S o le  P m p t i m  o f

Wotterlg’s pjicMaan Galant indi.

W e

a n d   O t e a

WHISKIES, BRANDIB8,

g in s, w n m a, r u m s .

Wa sell Liquor* for Medicinal Purposes only. 
We give oar Personal Attention to Mail Orders s a i Qaarantee Satlifacüoo.
All orders are supped and Invoiced the same day i s  receive them.  Bona in  a 

„  .. .  „

trial order*JtoltiiiB i Perkins Dnlg Bo,

GRAND RAPIDS.  MICH.

12

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Grocery  Price  Current•

The  quotations given below are such as are  ordinarily offered  buyers who pay promptly 

and  buy  in  full  packages.

COFFEE.
GREEN.
RlO.

Santos.

F air........................................ 16
Good...................................... 17
Prim e.....................................18
Golden...................................20
Peaberry...............................20
F a ir........................................16
Good......................................17
P rim e....................................18
Peaberry  ...............................20
Mexican and Guatamala.
F air........................................20
Good......................................21
Fancy..................................... 23

Maracaibo.

Prim e..................................... 19
M illed................................... 20

Java.

Interior..  .............................25
Private Growth....................27
M andehling......................... 28

Im itation.............................. 23
Arabian................................. 26

Mocha.

ROASTED.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
A rb n ck le’s A rio sa ...........19.3
M cL aughlin’s  X X X X __ 19.3
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case....... 19  3

PACKAGE.

20 books.........................8 1 00
2 00 
3 00
1UU
6 25 
250  “ 
10 00 
500  “ 
17 50
1000  “ 

......................
.......................
.......................
CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX................. ...  6
Seymour XXX, cartoon.. ...  654
Family  XXX................... ..  6
Family XXX,  cartoon... ...  654
Salted XXX.................... ...  6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ... ...  654
Kenosha......................... ...  7)4
Boston............................. ...  8
Butter  biscuit...............
.654

Soda.

.  6

Oyster.

Soda, XXX.....................
Soda,  Duchess.  ............ ...  854
Crystal Wafer................. .. .10
...10
Reception  Flakes.........
S. Oyster  XXX..............
...  554
City Oyster. XXX..........
...  554
...  6
Shell  Oyster.................
CREAM TARTAR.
30
Strictly  pure.................
35
Telfers  Absolute.........
Grocers’......................... 10@15

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.
APPLES.

“ 

APRICOTS.

quartered  “ 

Sundried. sliced in  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes
California in  bags  ........
Evaporated in boxes.  ...
BLACKBERRIES.
In  boxes.........................
454
70 lb. bags....................... 
754
25 lb. boxes....................9  @954
-Peeled, in  boxes..........  
12
Cal. evap.  “ 
 
8
 
“ 
in b ag s...... 7  © 854
PEARS.
California in b ag s......   ©7

NECTARINES.

PEACHES.

“ 

PITTED  CHERRIES.

Barrels.......
50 lb. boxes 
25 “

PRUNE LLES.

301b.  boxes................... 

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

12

Cod.

Yarmouth..........................   1  10
Pollock.......................  
3M
Whole, Grand  Bank...  6  @6)%
Boneless,  bricks........  754@8
Boneless, strips..  ......   754@8
Halibut.
Smoked...... ..............
Herring.
Scaled.........................
Holland,  bbls.............
kegs.............
Round shore, 54 bbl...
“ 
54 bbl..
Mackerel.

20 
10 50
3 00 
1  50

No. 1, 54 bbls. 90 lbs...........11  00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...............   1  25
Family, 54 bbls., 100 lbs__ 5 50
kits. 10  lbs..........  75
Russian,  kegs....................   45

“ 
“ 

“ 

Sardines.
Trout.

No. 1, 54 bbls., lOOlbs...........6 50
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   90

Whitefish.

No. 1, 54 bbls., lOOlbs........... 8 00
o. 1, kits, 10 lbs................. 1  10
Family, 54 bbls., 100 lbs  ...  3 50 
kits  10  lbs............  50

■ 

oz folding box.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Jennings’ D C.
.  75 
.1  00 
.1  50 
...2   00
“  
“ 
...3 00
GUN  POWDER.

Lemon. Vanilla
1  25
1  50
2  003 00
4 00

.5 SO
K egs.......................
Half  kegs............................3 00

Sage..................................
Hops..................................
Madras,  5 lb. boxes........
i. F„ 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes..

INDIGO.

JELLY.

11
1154
12

1254

17 
1754
18

Chicago  goods............   @3
Mason’s,  10, 20 and 30 lbs..  6 
51b.......................   7

“ 

LICORICE.

Pure.......................................  30
Calabria.................................  25
Sicily.....................................   18
Condensed,  2 doz............. 1  25

LYE.
4 doz...........
HATCHES.

“■ 

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head................. __7
“  No. 1................. ....6
“  No. 2................ @ 5

Imported.

Japan, No. 1....................
“  No. 2....................
Java...............................
Patna..............................

....6
...554
..  5
..  5

SAUERKRAUT.

.  *4  20
54 bbl...... .  2 60

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

SPICKS. 
Whole Sifted.
Allspice.........................
Cassia, China in mats...

...10
..  8
Batavia in bund ... 15
Saigon in rolls.. ...35
.. .22
Cloves,  Amboyna.........
Zanzibar...........
...13
Mace  Batavia...............
...80
...80
Nutmegs, fancy............
...75
“  No.  1................
...65
“  No.  2................
....15 
Pepper, Singapore, black 
..  .25
“ 
“  white.
shot................. ...19
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Allspice......................... ....15
Cassia,  Batavia............ ....20
and  Saigon.25
Saigon............ ....35
Cloves,  Amboyna......... ....30
Zanzibar.........
...20
....15
Ginger, African............
....18
Cochin............
Jam aica......... ....20
Mace  Batavia............... ....80
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste. .25
Trieste............ ....27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ............ ....65
Pepper, Singapore, black 
...2 0
....30
“  white.
...25
Cayenne.........
Sage............................... ....20

“ 
“Absolute” in Packages.

“ 

“ 

Ms 

54s
Allspice...................... 84  1  55
84  1  55
Cinnamon..................
Cloves......................... 84  1  55
84  1  55 
Ginger, Jam ...............
84  1  55
“  A f..................
Mustard...................... 84  1  55
84  1  55
Pepper  ......................
Sage............................. 84

APPLE  BUTTER

40 lb. pails  .  ......................  5
20 lb. pails.........................  554
Mason's,  10, 20 or 30 lbs---   6
...  7

51b............... 
AXLE GREASE.

“ 

Graphite.

 

“ 

M gr. cases, per gr............18 50
1254 lb. pails, per d o z ......   7 50
251b.  ~  
12 00
100 lb. kegs, per lb............   4
250 lb. 54 bbls., per  lb........  3?*
400 lb. bbls., per lb ............   354
gr. cases, per g r............. 86 50
54 lb. pails, per doz.  ------7  00
lb.  ~  
10 50
00 lb. kegs, per  lb ............   354
50 lb.  54 bbls., per  lb........  354
400 lb. bbls., per lb............   3

Badger.

“ 

 

BAKING  POWDER.
45
Acme, 54 lb. cans, 3 doz  ... 
85
541b.  “ 
2  “  .... 
1  “  ....  1 00
lib .  “ 
bulk......................... 
10
45
Telfer’s,  54 lb. cans, doz. 
85
“ 
“  ..  1  50
60
1  20
 
2 00
 
9 60
40
Red Star, 54 ft  cans........... 
........... 
80
...........  1  50

541b.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 
 
54 lb  “ 
 
1 lb  “ 
5 ft  “ 
 
54 1b  “ 
1 1b  “ 
BATH BRICK.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
« 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Arctic, 54 lb can s.............. 

2 dozen in case.

bluing. 

English...............................  90
Bristol.................................  70
Domestic.............................   60
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals..............  4 00
“ 
..............7 00
“  pints,  round........... 10 50
“  No. 2, sifting box.. .  2 75 
“  No. 3, 
...  4 00
“  No. 5, 
. . . 8 00
“  1 oz ball  .................  4 50

8oz 

 
“ 

“ 

“

90

Pears.

Gages.

Peaches.

Blackberries.
B. &  W.......................
Cherries.
Red  ............................
1  20 
1  75 
Pitted Hamburgh----
1  60 
W hite.........................
1  30
Brie...........................
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Erie............................  @1  25
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  10
P ie.............................   90@1 00
Maxwell.................... 
1  50
Shepard’s ..................  
1  30
California..................   @2 25
Domestic....................  
1  20
Riverside....................  
2 00
Pineapples.
Common..................... 
Johnson's  sliced.......  
grated.......  
Quinces.
Common.................... 
Raspberries.
..........................  
Red 
Black  Hamburg......... 
Erie,  black 
.............  
Strawberries.
Lawrence................... 
Hamburgh................. 
Erie............................  
Whortleberries.
Common.................... 
F. &  W....................... 
Blueberries............... 

1  30
2 50
2 75
1  10

1 30
1  50
1  40

1
2 25
1  65

1  40
1  25
1  30

“ 

HEATS.

Corned  beef,  Libby’s..........1  80
Roast beef,  Armour’s ..........1  75
Potted  ham, 54 lb_______ 1  50
“  54 lb.................100
tongue, 54 lb .......... .1  10
541b.........  95
chicken, 54 lb......... 
95

“ . 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
VEGETABLES.

Beans.

BROOMS.

 

 

“ 

“ 

No. 2 Hurl..............................   2 00
No. 1  “  ........................... 2  25
No. 2 Carpet............................. 2 50
No. 1 
2 75
Parlor Gem.....................   •  3 00
Common Whisk.................  1  00
Fancy 
.................  120
Mill  ..................................  3 25
Warehouse...............................3 00
Stave, No.  1.......................  1  25
“  10........................  1  50
“  15..........................1  75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row----  85
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row —   1  25
Palmeto, goose.......................   1 60

BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

BUCKWHEAT, FLOUR.
Rising Sun...............................5 00
York State..........................
Self Rising, case......................5 CO

CANDLES

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes..............  9
Star,  40 
..............  9
Paraffine............................1054
Wicklng.............................  25

“ 

CANNED  GOODS.

FISH.
Clams.

“ 

Little Neck,  1 lb...................1 10
“  2  lb...................1 90
Clam Chowder.

Standard, 3 lb.......................2 30

Cove Oysters.

Standard,  1 lb......................1 00
2 00

“ 

21b....... 
Lobsters.

Star,  1  lb.......................... 2 45
2  lb.......................... 3 45
Picnic, 1 lb............................2 00
21b...........................3 00

“ 
“ 

“ 

Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb.......................1 20
2  lb.....................2 00
Mustard,  3 lb...................... 3 00
Tomato Sauce,  3 lb............. 3 00
Soused, 3 lb......................... 3 00

Salmon.
“ 

Columbia River, flat............1 90
tails............1 75
Alaska, 1  lb..........................1 45
21b...........................2 10

“ 
“ 

Sardines.
American  548................ 45*@ 5
54s................ 654@
...ii@12 
Imported  54s................
... 13@14 
I^g.....................
Mustard 44s.................
...  @8

«  

Brook, 3 lb................... ......   50

Trout.

FRUITS.
Apples.

York State, gauons__
Hamburgh,  “ 
__
Apricots.
Live oak.....................
Santa Cruz.................
Lusk's.........................
Overland...................

2 50 
2 50

2 25 
2 00 
2 50 
1  90

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless..........1  25
French style.......2 25
Limas.................. 1  40
Lima, green..............................1 30
soaked...........  90
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 35
Bay State  Baked...................... 1 35
World’s  Fair............................ 1 35
Hamburgh............................ 1  25 j
Livingston............................... 1 00
...............................1  10
Purity 
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 10
Peas
Hamburgh marrofat............1  35
early June.........1 50
Champion Eng... 1  50
Hamburgh  petit  p o is......... 1 75
fancy  sifted.........1 90
Soaked................................   65
Harris  standard.................   75
Van Camp’s Marrofat 
.1  10
Early June.........1 30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__1  35
French..................................... 1 80
French..............................17318
Erie......................................  90
Hubbard...................................1 30
Hamburg  ............................ 1  40
Soaked.................................  85
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 60
Excelsior 
Eclipse......................................1 00
Hamburg................................. 1 30
Gallon.... ............................2 55

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.
......... ?............. 1 00

“ 

CHEESE.

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
German Sweet..............
Premium..........................
Pure..................................
Breakfast Cocoa..............
Amboy.......................
Herkimer...................
Riverside...................
Allegan  ...................
Skim..........................
Brick..........................
Edam  ........................
Limburger  ...............
Roquefort...................
Sap Sago....................
Schweitzer, Imported. 
domestic  __

“ 

©13 
@13 
@13 
@12 
@10 
1254 
@1  00 
@10 @35 
@22 @25 
©13

CATSUP.

Half  pint, common............   80
Pint 
“ 
........... 160
“ 
Quart 
.............1  50
Half pint, fancy................ 1  25
..................St 00
Pint 
Quart 
3 00
............... 
5 gross boxes......................40

CLOTHES PINS.

“ 
“ 

COCOA  SHELLS.

35 lb. bags......................  @3
Less quantity  ..............  @3)4
Pou na_ packages.......... 644 @7

EXTRACT.

Valley City........................  
75
Felix 
............................ 1  15
Hummel's, foil......... .........1  50
t i n ....................2 50
“ 
CHICORT.

Bulk.....................................454
Red......................................  7

Cotton,  40 ft......... per doz.  1  25
1  40 
1  60 
1  75 
1  90 
90 
1  00

CLOTHES  LINES.
50 ft.
60 ft.
70 ft.........  
80 ft.........  
60 ft.........  
72 ft-........
CONDENSED MILK.
4 doz. in case.
.............  

Eagle.
Crown  . 
6 25
Genuine Swiss.................... 8 00
American Swiss...................7 00

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COUPON  BOOKS.

“Tradesman.’ 

t   1, per hundred...............   2 00
2 50
8  2, 9 3, 
3 00
t 5,no,
3 on
4 OU
•20,
5 00

“Superior.”

8  1. per hundred...............   2 50
I  2,  “
8 3,  “
• 5, 
no, 
820, 

“
“ 
“  “
“ 
“

“Universal.”

8 1, per hundred..............  83 00
8  2,
................. 3 50
8 3,
................. 4 OO
8 5,
................. 5 00
..........6 00
810,
820,
................. 7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 or over.............. 5 per  cent.
“
500  “ 
1000 
“  
“
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS.

 
10 
......................20 

ICan  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from no down. I

“ 
“ 

RASPBBRSIES.
In  barrels....... ............
501b. boxes......... ....... .
...................
251b.  “ 
Foreign.
CURRANTS.
Patras, in barrels.......
in  54-bbls........
in less quantity

PEEL.

@ 4 
3  454 
@ 454
Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxes  21 
Lemon 
10
Orange 
11

25  “ 
“ 
“ 
25 “ 
RAISINS.
Domestic.
London layers,  2 crown__1  40
S  “ 
....1  65
fancy...........1 85
Loose Muscatels, boxes........1 25
70 lb  bags  @554
Ondura. 29 lb. boxes..  754© 71 
“ 
Sultana. 20 
..11  @12
Valencia, 20  “ 
..  654© 6J4

Foreign.

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

PRUNES.

Bosnia........................   ©
California, 90x100 25 lb. bxs. 9

80x90
7(x80
60x70

Turkey.

.954 
.954 
..9J4 
.  6

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

XX  wood, white.

No. 1, 654..........................   81
No. 2, 654  .........................  1  60
No. 1, 6  ............................  1  65
No. 2, 6 ............................  1  50
No. 1, 654..........................  1  35
No. 2,654 
.......................   1  25
654.....................................  1 00
6........................................  
95
Mill No. 4.........................  100

Manilla, white.

Coin.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 

100 lb. kegs................... 

4

Farina.
Hominy.

Barrels.................................375
Grits....................................4 25
Lima  Beans.
Dried............................ 

4
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.

Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
i
Imported.....................1054@1154
Pearl Barley.
Kegs...............................3  @4
Green,  bu.............................1 to
Split, bbl.............................. 5 00
German.............................   454
East India..........................   554
Cracked.............................

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

Anchor parlor.....................1 70
No. 2 home.....................

MINCE  MEAT

3 or 6 doz. in case  per doz.. 1  00

MEASURES.

Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  ..........................   81
Half  gallon.......................   1 40
Q uart...............................  
70
P int.................................. 
45
Half  p in t................. 
 
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon........................      7 00
Half gallon  ....................   4 75
Q uart.................................  3 75
2 25
Pint.

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house.................
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary......................
Porto Rico.
Prim e............................... 
Fancy............................... 
F air..................................  
Good................................. 
Extra good.......................  
Choice.............................. 
Fancy................................
One-half barrels, 3c extra

New Orleans.

16
20
1
20
26
30

OATMEAL.

Barrels 200.................  @4 65
Half barrels 100...............@2 45

ROLLED OATS.
Barrels  180.................
Half  bbls 90..............
PICKLES.
Medium.

@4
@2

Barrels, 1,200 count.........
Half  barrels, 600 count...

..84 25 
.  2 65

Small.

PIPES.

Barrels, 2.400 co u n t......
Half barrels, 1,200 count..

..  5 25 
.  2 85

Clay, No.  216...................
“  T. D. full count......
Cob, No.  3 ................................
48 cans in case.
Babbitt's........................
Penna Salt  Co.'s............

POTASH.

ROOT BEER
Williams, per doz..........
3 doz. case........

“ 

...1  75 
...  75 
...1 25

4 00 
.  3 25

..  1  75 
.  5  00

SUGAR.
Cut  Loaf....................
©  5V4
Cubes.........................
©   444
Powdered..................
© 4%
Granulated.. 
......4 31© 4M
Confectioners’ A........4.18@ 459
©  4
Soft A  .......................
White Extra  C............ @ 37s
© 344
Extra  C......................
C ...............................
© 344
Yellow..................... 3 44®  3)4
Less than  bbls.  54c advance

SEEDS.

Anise................  ......   @12)4
Canary, Smyrna.........  
354
Caraway.................... 
8
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
Hemp,  Russian.........  
454
Mixed  Bird  ..............454© 554
6
Mustard,  white.........  
9
Poppy......................... 
Rape.......................... 
6
Cuttle  bone  .............. 
30

STARCH.
Corn.

 

“ 

“ 
“ 

20-lb  boxes..........................  654
40-lb 
6*

Gloss.
1-lb packages  ......................  6
8-lb 
....................... 6
6-lb 
654
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  444
Barrels................................   4 34
Scotch, in  bladders............37
Maccaboy, in jars...............35
French Rappee, in Jars...... 43

SNUFF.

SODA.

Boxes....................................55«
Kegs, English.......................444

SAL  SODA.

Kegs.................................  
154
Granulated,  boxes..............  144

SALT
 
 

 
 

100 3-lb. sacks......................... 82 25
2 00
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks...................  1 85
2014-lb.  “ 
2 25
24 3-lb  cases...........................  1 50
50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
281b.  “ 
..  18
56 lb. dairy in drill  bags...  35
281b.  “ 
18

drill  “ 

Warsaw.

.. 

“ 

“ 

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.

56 lb. dairy in linen sacks..  75 
56 lb. dairy in linen  sacks.  75 
56 lb.  sacks.......................   25
Saginaw and Manistee. 
Common Fine  per bbl......  
90

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s .........................   83 30
DeLand’s ...........................  3 30
Dwight’s ...............................3 30
Taylor’s................................3 00

'T'HTfl  M IC H IG A N "   T R A D E S M A N .

SOAP.
LAUNDRY.

“ 

“ 

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Thompson & Chute  Brands.
Silver,  10012 oz.................$3 65
Snow, 10010 oz..................5 00
Mono, 100 12 oz  ................. 3 35
German Family, 601 lb —   2 55
7511b...... 3 10
Laundry Castile, 75 1 lb —   3 05
Marbled, 75 1 l b ..................3 05
Savon Improved, 60  1 lb...  2 50
Sunflower, 10010 oz...........2 75
Olive, 10010 oz.................... 2  50
Golden, 80 1 lb ....................3 25
Economical, 30  2 lb.............2 25
Standard, 30 2 lb  ................2 35
Old Country,  80  1-lb.......... 3 30
Good Cheer, 601 lb  ............3 90
White Borax, 100  2i-lb........3 60
Concord  ............................  2  80
Ivory, 10  oz......................... 6  75
6  OZ...........................4 00
Lenox 
............................  3 65
Mottled  German................. 3  15
Town Talk  .........................3 00
Snow, 100 6-oz 
...........  3 75
Cocoa Castile, 24  lb...........  3 00
Silverine, 100  12 oz..............3  50
50 12 oz..............  1  f0
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz —   2 50
hand, 3 doz......... 2 50
Potash Flakes, 7210 oz...... 5 00

SCOURING AND  POLISHING.
“ 
“ 

Proctor & Gamble.

TOILET.

■ 

STEP LADDERS.

3 feet
4

60 
75 
1  00 
1  201  50 1
2 25

SYRUPS.
Corn.

Barrels................................22
Half bbls.............................24
F air.....................................   19
Good...................................   25
Choice..................................  30

Pure Cane.

SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps.............. 
8
Sugar Creams............  
8
Frosted Creams.........  
9V4
Graham Crackers......  
8
Oatmeal Crackers----- 
8 Vi
WASHBOARDS.
Good Luck.........................2 75
Northern  Queen................  2 50
Peerless single...................2 50
double.................3 00
Universal  Protector......... 2 25
Water Witch......................2 25

“ 

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

F a ir..............................  @17
Good.............................  @20
Choice..............................24 @26
Choicest..........................32 @34
B u st................................10 @12

SUN CURED.

F a ir..............................   @17
G ood.............................  @20
Choice............................. 24 @26
Choicest..........................32 @34
B ust............... 
10  @12

BASKET  FIRED.

F a ir................................ 18 @20
Choice...........................  @25
Choicest........................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40

GUNPOWDER.

IMPERIAL.

oolong. 

Common to  fair............ 25 @35
Extra fine to finest— 50  @65
Choicest fancy..............75 @85
@26
Common to  fair............ 23  @30
Common to  fair............ 23 @26
Superior to fine..............30  @35
Common to  fair............ 18  @26
Superior to  fine............30  @40
F a ir................................18  @22
Choice.............................24  @28
B est................................40  @50

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

YOUNG HYSON.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

Pails unless otherwise
Hiawatha..................
Sweet Cuba...............
McGinty....................
“  Vi bbls.........
Little  Barling...........
Vi bbl..
1791............................
1891. Vi bbls...............
Valley  City................
Bandy Jim .................
Tornado.........................

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Searhead....................
Joker.........................
Zeno...........................
L. & W.......................
Here  It Is..................
Old Style....................
Old  Honesty..............
Jolly Tar....................
Hiawatha...................
Valley City...............
Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s
Something Good.........
Toss Up.......................
Out of Sight.................

noted.
60
34
24
22
20
2019
33

40
19
22
26
28
31 4!
32 
37 
34
Brands.

Smoking.

Boss..................................... 12 Vi
Colonel’s Choice..................13
Warpath..............................14
Banner................................14
King Bee.........................  . .20
Kiln Bried...........................17
Nigger Head........................23
Honey  Dew......................... 24
Gold  Block......................... 28
Peerless............................... 24
Rob  Roy..............................24
Uncle Sam...........................28
Tom and Jerry.....................25
Brier Pipe............................ 30
Yum Yum...........................32
Red Clover...........................32
Navy........... ........................32
Handmade..........................40
F rog..................................  33

40 gr.. 
50 gr.

VINEGAR.

$1 for barrel.
WET  MUSTARD.

30
Bulk, per gal
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  7f 

Fermentum  per doz. cakes..  15 
per lb '............... 25

y e a st—Compressed. 
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Swift and  Company  quote as 
follows:
Beef, carcass..............4Vi© 6Vi
hindquarters  ..6   @ 6Vi
fore 
...  3Vi@ 3 vi
loins, No.  3—   @9
ribs...................  8  @ 8V4
rounds.............   4  @ 4 Vi
tongues..............  @
Bologna  ................. 
@ 4 Vi
Pork loins...................   ©  7»4
........  @ 5J4
Sausage, blood or head  @4Vi

liver.....  @ 4Vi
Frankfort—   @7
Mutton  ........... 
........  7  @8
Veal............................  7  @8

shoulders 
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FISH and  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Bettenthaler  quotes as 

FRESH  FISH

follows:
Whiteflsh  .................  @10
T ro u t.........................  @10
Halibut........................15  @17
Ciscoes.........   ...........  5  @6
Flounders  ........ 
  8  @10
Bluefish.......................11  @12
Mackerel.....................15  @25
Cod..............................10  @12
California  salmon — 15  @18
No. 1 Pickerel............   @10
Pike............................  @8

 

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@   8 1  75
$1  10 
1  60 
1  25 
1  25 
1  75

Smoked White...........
Bloater, per  box.......
o y s t e r s—Bulk.
Mediums, per  gal........
......
Selects, 
......
Clams 
Shrimps 
......
Scallops 
......
Falrhaven  Counts —
F. J. B. Selects.........
Selects...............   —
F  J. B........................
Anchor.......................
Standards  .................
Favorites....................
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100........l  25@1  50
Clams. 
—   75@1 00
HIDES, PELTS  and  FUK5
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 

@35
@30
@22
@20
@18
@16
@14

lows:
Green........................... 3Vi@4Vi
Part Cured...............   4Vi@ 5
Full 
.................  5  @ 5>4
Dry...........................  5  @ 6
Kips, green  ...............   3Vi@ 4Vi
“  cured.................5  © 5Vi
Calfskins,  green........  4  @  5
.10 @ 8 Vi 
@30
Beacon skins.

cured.......   5

HIDES.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

No. 2 hides Vi off.
PELTS
.............. 10  @25
Shearlings..............
..............50  @90
.................
Lambs 
WOOL.
Washed...................... 20  @25
Unwashed..................10  @20
Tallow.......................  3Vi@ 4
Grease  butter  .............1  @2
Switches....................  lVi@ 2
Ginseng......................2 003.2 51
Outside prices for No. 1 only. 
Badger.......................  50©  7
Beaver...........  ......... 3 oo@b
Cat, wild....................  40©
“  house.................  10©

FURS.

Muskrat.....................   03©
Oppossum...................   15®
Otter, dark.................5 00@8
Raccoon......................  25©

Beaver castors, lb..

d e e r s k in s—Per pound

...10

Thin and  green  ...........
Long g ray ...........................
35
Red and  b lu e ...............
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF!?

WHEAT.

No. 1 White (58 lb. test)
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test)

MEAL.

88
88

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FLOUR.

1  60
Bolted.............................
1  SO
Granulated.....................
4 60
Straight, in  sacks  .........
“  barrels......... .  4 70
“ 
5 60
“  sacks...........
Patent 
“  barrels......... .  5 70
“ 
2 20
Graham  “  sacks.........
2 65
“ 
Rye 
.........
MILL8TUFFS.
16 00
Screenings..................... .  14 00
Middlings....................... .  20 00
Mixed Feed.................... .  18 00
Coarse meal.................... .  17 00
Car  lots.......................... ...42
Less than  car  lots......... ...45
Car  lots  ......................... ...35
Less than car lots  ......... ...37
No. 1 Timothy, car lots. ..14 00
.. ..15 00
No. 1 

HAY.
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POULTRY.

Local dealers pay  as  follows
for dressed  fowls:
Spring  chickens....... 10 @12
Fowl..........................   9 @11
.................. 12 @14
Turkeys 
Bucks  .......................12 ©13
Geese........................ 11 @12

CORN.

OATS.

OILS.

The  Standard Oil  Co. q u o te s
f. o.  b.

as  follows,  in barrels.
Grand Rapids:
W.  W.  Headlight,  150
fire  test (old test) —  . @  8
Water White,  ...........
©  7V4
Naptha.......................
@ 7
©   8 >4
Gasoline....................
i  Cylinder....................27 @36
j  E ngine..................... 13 @21
I  Black, 25 to 30 deg  ...
[>
D
0
0
0
0

@  754

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PA PER & WOODEN WARE

®6Vi 
..  5 Vi 
...4Ü

TWINES.

No. 1........................18
“  2........................16
Sea  Island, assorted.........35
No. 5 Hemp......................... 15
No. 6  “ ..............'................. 15

WOODENWARE.

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Tubs, No. 1.......................... 7 00
“  No. 2...........................6 00
“  No. 3.......................... 5 00
1  35 
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop—   1  60 
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes —  
50
Bowls, 11 inch......................1  (JO
13  “ 
....................   1  25
...................... 2 00
15  “ 
17  “ 
......................2 75
assorted, 17s and  19s 2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
Baskets, market........  ......   35
shipping  bushel..  1  20 
full  hoop  “ 
..  1  30
bushel.................  1  50
willow cl’ths, No.l  5 75 
No.2 6 25
No.3 7 25
No.2 4 25
No.3 5 Of

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DETROIT.

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PROPRIETORS  OF  EAGLE  SPICE  MILLS,

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CMm ,  Mia,  Geyloa  aafl  Jaaaa  Teas.

Private  Plaatatioa  Coffees,

Selected  with especial  reference to 
P i n e   Drinking 

Qualities.

Manufacturers and Millers of  High GtcmIg Goods.

Office  and  Salesroom, 140  Sdmmit St.,

TOLEDO,  O.

Mills,  139  Water  St.

W e are represented in Michigan as follows:  Eastern Michigan,  P.  V.  H e c h l e r ,  Southern  a n d ^Northern  Miana* 
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRAJDESMAJST,

W.  H.  WHITE  &  CO.,

ManiifactUrers  of  Hardwood  Lumber,

B O Y N E   C IT Y ,  M ICH.

We operate three mills with a capacity of 9,000,000 feet hardwood and 3,000,COO feet hemlock, as 
follows:  Boyne  City  mill, 7,000,000;  Boyne  Falls  mill,  3,000,003;  D eer [Lake mill, 2,000,000.  Our 
facilities for shipment are  unsurpassed, either by rail or water.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.

Apples—Dull and slow of  sale.  Dealers  hold 
at ¥1.75@$2.25 per bbl., according to quality.
Beans—Easy  and  quiet.  Dealers  now  pay 
81.30@1.40for  unpicked  and country picked and 
hold at $1.65@1.75 for city picked pea or medium.
Butter—Lower and in smaller demand. Choice 
dairy is  in  moderate  demand  at  18@20e.  Fac­
tory creamery is held at ¿5c.
Celery—20c per doz.
Cabbages—3o@40c per doz.
Cider—Sweet, 12@l5c per gal.
Cranberries — Repacked  Cape  Cod are in  fair 
Dried Apples—Sundried  is held at 4ft@5c  and 
Eggs—Fresh are beginning to come in  slowly. 
Grapes—Malaga, $5 per keg.
Honey—15c per lb.
Onions—Dealers  pay 50@6Oc  and  hold at 65@ 
70c, extra fancy commanding about 80c.
Potatoes—Local  buyers  are  paying  I8@20e, 
shipping almost altogether to theSouthern States 
for seeding purposes.

demand at 86 50 per  bbl.
evaporated at 6ft@7c.
Dealers pay 20c  and hold at 22c.

Squash—Hubbard, lftc per lb.
Sweet  Potatoes—S3@3.25  per  bbl.  for  choice 
Turnips—25c per bushel.

Muscatine stock.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

FOBS  IN  BARRELS.

quotes as follows:
Mess,  new........................................................... 12 25
Shortcut..........................................................   11 £0
Extra clear pig, short cut.................................. 14 00
Extra clear, heavy......................................
Clear, fat back.................................................   13 50
Boston dear, short cut.....................................  13 50
Clear back, short cut........................................  13 50
Standard clear, short cut. best...................  
14 00

sausasx—Fresh and Smoked.

 

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GRANGER.

labd—Kettle Rendered

PorkSansage.....................................................7
Ham Sausage.....................................................9
Tongue Sausage................................................ 9
Frankfort Sausage  ..........................................7ft
Blood Sausage.................................................   5
Bologna, straight............................................   4ft
Bologna,  thick..................................................4$
Headcheese...................................................... 4%
Tierces............................................................8
Tubs.................................................................. 8ft
501b.  Tins....................................................... 814
7
Tierces........................................................ 
7ft
50 lb cases................................................... 
7ft
.................................................. 
20 
10 
.................... ............................. 
754
5 
 
7»
3 
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8
Corn-
pound.
514
534
614
6%
6ft
6
5ft

Tierces...................................... 534 
30 and 50 lb. Tubs......................6 
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case..............634 
5 lb. Palls, 12 In a case............... 6% 
10 lb. Pails, 6 In a case...............6)4 
20 lb. Palls, 4 in a case..............6ft 
501b. Cans..................................6 
BEET  IN  BARBELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs........................650
Extra Mess, Chicago packing............................  6 50
Boneless, romp butts..........................................10 00
Hams, average 20 lbs.......................................  9
16 lbs.......................................9ft
12 to 14 lbs...............................10
picnic...................................................6ft
best boneless...................................... .  8ft
Shoulders........................................................6
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............................. 8ft
Dried beef, bam prices.............................. .  8
Long Clears, heavy..........................................6ft
Briskets,  medium..........................................   7
light................................................7

smoked meats—Canvassed or Plain.

Family. 

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---- OR----

P A M P H L E T S

For the best work, at  reasonable  prices, address 

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDT.
Full  Weight. 

Standard,  per lb................................  6 
“  H.H....................................... 6 
T w ist...................................6 
“ 
Boston Cream  ..............20 lb. cases 
Cut  Loaf............................................. 7 
Extra  II.  H...............................cases 7 

Bbls.  Pails.
7
7
7
8ft
8
8

MIXED  CANDT.
Full Weight.

Bbls. 

Palls.

Standard...................................... 6 
7
7
Leader..........................................s 
7ft
Royal............................................6ft 
Nobby...........................................7 
8
English  Rock..............................7 
8
s
Conserves.................................... 7 
Broken Taffy....................baskets 
8
9
Peanut Squares................. 
8 
French Creams.............................. 
10
13
Valley  Creams.............................. 
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.....................................  8
Modern, 10 lb. 
8

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Fall Weight. 

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fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Pails.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  10
printed..........................................  li
Chocolate Drops.............................................  lift
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  13
Gum Drops....................................................   5ft
Moss Drops.....................................................  8
Sour Drops.....................................................  8ft
Imperials....................... 
10
Per Box.
Lemon Drops................................................... 55
Sour Drops...... ................................................55
Peppermint Drops............................................60
Chocolate Drops...............................................65
H. M. Chocolate  Drops....................................90
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops..............................................l 00
A. B. Licorice Drops.......................................80
Lozenges, plain................................................60
printed............................................65
Imperials..........................................................60
Mottoes.............................................................to
Cream Bar........................................................ 55
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams.................................. S5@95
Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams........................................1  00
String  Rock.....................................................65
Burnt Almonds............................................ 1  00
Wlntergreen  Berries.......................................60

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No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
51
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
28
No. 3, 
42
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes....................................  90
Floridas,  fancy.................................... 2  75@3 00
choice.................................   @2 50
russets................................   @2 25
Messina................................................ 2 25@2 75
Messina, choice, 360.............................  @4  00
fancy, 360.......................  ...  @4 25
choice 300.............................  @4  00
fancy 360.............................  @4 50

LEMONS.

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OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

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Figs, fancy  layers, 6f t...........................12  @14
“  10ft  .........................14  @ 5
“  14ft..........................   @16
“ “  20ft..........................   @l7ft
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................   @9
..........................   @9

Persian. 50-lb.  box......................  @ 5ft

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NUTS.

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“  Marbot.......................  .........   @
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Almonds, Tarragona.............................   @17
Ivaca..................................   @
California.............................   @16
Brazils, new...........................................   7ft@ 8
Filberts..................................................  @13
Walnuts, Grenoble................................   @14
Chill.......................................   @10
Table Nuts,  fancy.................................  @13
choice...............................11  @12
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  .........  
...........14  @16
Cocaanuts, full sacks............................   @4 0(
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H.  P., Suns..............
©  5ft © 7ft 
“  Roasted..
Fancy, H.  P., Flags............
@  5ft 
“  Roasted.
©  7ft 
Choice, H. P., Extras.
©  4ft
Roasted.................  6  @ 6ft

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THE  RIVERDALE  DISTILLERY,  CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS, 

West*CtUreiS in

Far Superior to any other. 

Correspondence or Sample Order Solicited. 

B.  WINTRRNITZ, State  Argent,  Grand 

Endorsed Wherever Used.
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t h e :  M T c m a ^ L is r   t r a d e s m a n ,

1 5

The  Corner  Grocery  Crowd  of  Poke- 

town  Village.

P o k e t o w n ,  Jan.  25—Old  Swipes  has 
always  been considered  the leading  and 
shining light of the corner grocery crowd.
He was the  first to come  and the  last  to 
leave,  and  his  tongue  never  ceased  to 
wag  during  his  stay,  except  when  a 
drummer  called  to  solicit  an  order,  or 
when  a  couple of  customers  stepped  to 
one side for a little private conversation. 
Then his underjaw would stop vibrating, 
his  head  would  tip to  one  side  and  he 
would  bend  eagerly  to  overhear  some­
thing which  did  not  concern  him in the 
least, except as a little  raw material  out 
of  which  he  could  manufacture  gossip 
and keep his tattle grinder running.  But 
old Swipes has disappeared.  He accept­
ed an invitation from an old friend whom 
he had  known in better  days to go down 
into Cat-tail  swamp and eat  ground  hog 
pie  on  Christmas  day,  and  he  has  not 
been  seen  since  at  the corner  grocery. 
Eddie  Spiggot,  the  nice,  dapper  little 
junior  partner  of  the  corner  grocery, 
promises to present each remaining mem­
ber of  the  crowd with a box of  cigars in 
case  Swipes  never  returns.  Eddie  is 
delicate  and  very  sensitive.  He 
is  a 
great  admirer of  the  beautiful  and  the 
cultivation of  estheticism  is  his  hobby; 
so Swipes’  presence is a constant menace 
to  his  serenity.  Jerry  Whiffleson,  the 
senior partner,  is  not  so  sensitive.  He 
is  coarse and  angular  and could  endure 
anything  as long  as  there was  an  occa­
sional dime in it.

the  class 

log,  and  the  only known uses  to  which 
he can be put  are to hire  himself  out to 
the  whisky  men  as  bondsman  and  to 
stand up and be counted when the census 
is taken.
Since  Swipes  dropped  out,  first  place 
| in  the  corner  grocery  crowd  has  been 
assigned,  with  one  accord,  to  Amos 
I Pinchtight,  a  retired 
farmer.  He  is 
fairly  representative  of 
to 
I which  he  belongs. 
It  is  a  pity  that 
Amos is never  needed  for  any  purpose, 
for it would be so easy to find him at any 
time of the day.  He  very  seldom varies 
his daily routine,  which  includes a short 
stay at certain  hang-out  places,  with an 
evening  session  at  the  corner  grocery, 
unless  there  should  happen  to be a free 
medicine show on  the  street.  He never 
permits  any  diversion to  interfere  with 
this daily routine except a justice’s court 
and  a  political  convention,  a  juryman 
and  a  delegate  being  two  things  for 
which  he  has  a  marked  predilection.
He is a jolly  good  fellow,  laughs a great 
deal and  enjoys  fun—providing  it  costs 
him  nothing.  Free  fun,  in  Amos’s  es­
timation,  is  always  innocent  fun  and, 
consequently,  the  only  kind  of  fun  in 
which a Christian gentleman  ought  ever 
to  indulge.  Make  it  free,  and  he  will 
stand  up  like  a  little  man  and  take  it 
any time,  regardless of  quantity or qual­
ity,  but,  add  the  element of  cost,  and it 
becomes sinful at oncer 

livers, 

Referring  to  Christmas reminds me of 
Bottomly Querk.  The day before Christ­
mas  Bottom  went  into  the  country  to 
help  his  father  kill  hogs,  and  he  took 
Mrs.  Querk  and the  little  Querks  along 
to help  peel the  fat off  the  internal  an­
atomy of the swine and render such other 
services  as  are  always  acceptable  at  a 
regular  hog  killing  bee.  Barring  such 
trivial  matters  as  the  falling  into a tub 
of  the  aforesaid  anatomical  remains on 
the p a rt of  one of  the little  Querks,  and 
the  partial  scalding  of  Bottom’s  right 
foot, everything  passed off  all right  and 
Bottom and  his family returned  to  town 
loaded down with hogs’  heads,  pigs’ feet, 
spareribs,  hearts, 
lights  and 
various  other  delicacies,  all  of  which 
contributed  to  make  Christmas 
in  the 
home of  Bottonjjy  Querk  such a day  of 
feasting  as  was  never  known  before. 
Since  that  eventful  day,  somehow,  Bot­
tom  has  worn a greasier and more satis­
fied look,  and the  patches on his overalls 
are less  dusty and do not  seem to tear as 
harshly when  he  slides  off  the  cracker 
barrel.
By  the  way,  I  wonder  if  any  other 
Michigan village  sports  as  many retired 
farmers  to the  square  inch  as we  do  in 
Poketown. 
If  there  be  one,  let the vil­
lage  crank 
(generally  known  as  ‘the 
Marshal”)  report  to  me,  and,  as  sure  as 
my name is Ichabod  Grizzle,  I will write 
him  a  tender  letter of  condolence, to be 
placed  by him  before  the  board of  the 
unfortunate  village  at  its  next  regular 
meeting.  These  retired  farmers  are no 
good to the commercial interests of Poke- 
town.  Their  village  homes  generally 
consist of  a  small, cheap  house,  a  little 
barn  with  stable  room  for a horse and a 
cow,  a hencoop, pigpen and  a  good-sized 
garden.  They have  no  use for the wood 
and  coal  dealer,  the  meatmarket,  the 
vegetable  market  (expect,  perhaps,  to 
supply  it  with  a  few  bunches of  early 
spring  onions), the  provision  dealer  or 
the  bakery.  All  of  these  village  inter­
ests  might drop  out of  existence,  for all 
they care,  for they rely exclusively upon 
their  gardens  and their  farms for  their 
supplies.  The retired farmer is an alien 
in the  community.  His  eldest  children 
are  married off.  His  youngest daughter 
causes  him a vast  amount  of  agony  be­
cause she refuses to wear cowhide shoes. 
He pays the  bulk of  his  taxes in an out­
side  municipality,  and  always  uses  his 
village  vote  in  opposition to every  pro­
gressive  measure 
enterprising 
scheme.  He 
is  the  medium  through
which  an outside  element  finds  free ac­
cess to our village  schools, yet he always 
votes against additional expenses by way 
of  additions,  repairs,  improvements  or 
needed  school  apparatus. 
.He  is  in  the 
village  but  not of  it in  any  true  sense. 
He is an itemized bump on the municipal

and 

It  costs  nothing  to hold  down  a soap 
box  behind  the  big  stove in  the  corner 
grocery,  and  the  fellows  who  lounge 
away  the  evening  hours  there  are  the 
crankiest, noisiest and  jolliest  crowd of 
loafers  to  be  found  in  Poketown;  so 
Amos,  being 
in  his  native  element, 
makes himself right at  home.  Although 
such  an  unprofitable  customer,  yet  his 
smiling  countenance  and  sunny  nature 
make him  welcome  and  his  soap  box  is 
always  reserved  for  him.  Jerry  Whif­
fleson,  the  senior  partner,  is  a  long­
headed man of  the  world,  with  one  eye 
always  on  business.  He  is  about  the 
only  man  in  Poketown  who  was  ever 
known  to  sell  Amos  anything.  A  few 
days before Christmas,  Jerry cut a cheese 
which  had  suddenly  died  with  the  dry 
rot  several  years  before  and  for  sev­
eral  months  previous  had  been 
lan­
guishing 
in  the  last  stage of putrifac- 
tion.  After inhaling a few  sniffs it was 
deemed unnecessary to  hold  a post-mor­
tem examination,  as it was  painfully  ev­
ident that  the  cheese  had  been  dead  so 
long that it  would  be  impossible to  get 
at the cause of demise. 
It had  been em­
balmed  and  had,  by  some  oversight, 
come into their  possession  with  the live 
stock.  The only thing to be done  was to 
dispose of the remains as  quietly  and as 
quickly  as  possible. 
Jerry,  with  his 
usual keen insight into business  difficul­
ties,  thought  at  once  of  Amos  and  de­
cided  to  unload  the  defunct  cheese  on 
him  that  evening.  When 
the  crowd 
assembled,  Jerry let Vinegar Brown into 
the secret and solicited his aid in making 
the  transfer  a  success.  Vinegar  was 
only too  glad to  assist,  for  he and Amos 
are in  the  habit of  measuring swords in 
more  ways  than  one,  always  to  the  de­
light  of  the  rest  of  the  crowd.  At  the 
proper  time,  Jerry  came  in  from  the 
wareroom  (he dared not  bring it into the 
store where it  was  warm)  and  informed 
the crowd  that  he  had  just  cut  a  fresh 
cheese,  dead  ripe,  double-full  cream, 
mellow and warranted not  to fade or run 
down at  the  heel.  He said  that  he was 
afraid  that  they had  bought  more  than 
they could dispose of and,  as it  was  just 
before  Christmas,  they  proposed  to sac­
rifice  two  or  three  of  them,  in  order  to 
reduce their  stock.  He  said that  it was 
worth  13  cents  per  pound,  but,  if  the 
crowd  would  take  the  whole  cheese, he 
would  cut  it  up  and  weigh  it  out  for 
them  at  8  cents  per  pound.  Vinegar 
sampled  it  and  pronounced  it  ripe  and 
fully matured.  He said  that was cheese 
what was cheese,  but,  as  his family  was 
small,  5  pounds  would  be  all  he  could 
use.
“I’ll tell you  what  I’ll  do, boys,” said 
Jerry.  “In order  to  save  the  bother  of 
cutting  the  blame  thing up, if anyone ’ll 
. take the whole shootin’  match,  I’ll take 5 
cents  per  pound  for  it,  which  is  just  3 
cents per pound less  than it cost.”
“I  wish  I  had  the  money,”  said  Bot­
I 

tom,  sliding off the cracker barrel  for the 
first  time  without  tearing  his  overalls.  I 
“That  air  cheese  wouldn’t  stay 
there | 
long at that price.” 
(It was  the  day  be-  | 
fore the hog killing and Bottom was hun­
gry).

“Will it keep?” asked  Amos.
“You bet it’ll keep as long as you want j 
it to keep,”  chipped in  Vinegar.
Amos  saw  that  here  was  a  chance  to 
buy something  at  considerable of  a loss 
to some other fellow,  which was the only 
condition upon which he ever  purchased 
anything.  He  asked  if  the  box  went 
with  the  cheese  and,  upon  being 
in­
formed that it did but that  the  price did 
not  include  the  hearse  or  the  sexton’s 
services, he bought it and paid for it, for 
fear that  someone  else  would  get  ahead 
of  him  and  capture  the  great  bargain. 
Amos cut  it in  halves  and  expected,  of 
course,  to carve the most of  it up for the 
crowd  at  a  profit  of  a  cent  or  two  per 
pound, but, somehow,nobody wanted any. 
Vinegar said that he lived in a very  tony 
neighborhood  and  wouldn’t  dare  carry 
any of  the  remains  within  his precinct. 
Deacon Peelup Stripp  said  that  he  kept 
boarders and it  would  ruin  his business 
forever  if  he  took  any  of  it under  his 
wing.  Amos  finally  appealed  to  Jerry 
himself to take back a portion of it and use 
it in his own family, but Jerry said that, as 
he lived next to the health officer.it would 
be  impossible for  him  to  use any  of  it. 
In his desperation  Mr.  Amos  Pinchtight 
actually 
that  my  wife  was  a 
forgot 
Christian 
lady  and  asked  me,  Ichabod 
Grizzle,  to  relieve  him  of  a  portion of 
his  decayed  curd!  After  recovering 
from 
the  shock,  I  advised  Amos  to 
take his  acquisition  to  the  bone  works 
and put it  through the crusher and have 
it made up into “grip  pills,” as I had re­
cently  read  in  some  paper  that  Prof. 
Keeley,  of  Dwight,  Illinois, had  discov­
ered  that  asafetida  would  paralyze  the 
worst case of  grip,  and,  if  that be true, 
it  would  not  be  necessary  to  take  this 
composition  internally—one  smell  of  it 
would  lay  out  the  grip  cold  and  stiff. 
Poor Amos carried one-half of his cheese 
home—he never came back  for the other 
half.  When  he  reached  home,  his  wife 
had retired.  After depositing the cheese 
on  the  pantry  shelf,  and  working  the 
cramps out of his arms,  he essayed to fol­
low the example  of  his  spouse;  but  she 
drove  him  out,  declaring  that  he  had 
been  out  robbing 
some  graveyard. 
Amos protested,  but,  the  evidence  being 
too  conclusive,  he  had  to  shut  himself 
up alone. 
In the morning  when  he  got 
up,  the  house  was  surrounded  by  anx­
ious  neighbors,  who  thought  that  some 
terrible thing had  happened  to the  fam­
ily  in  the  night.  Amos  explained  the 
matter.  Then,  carrying  the  offending 
cause out to  the  barn,  he  threw  it  over 
in the henyard,  so  determined  was he to 
get  some  benefit  from  his  unfortunate 
investment.  Sad mistake,  for ever since 
his  hens  have  been  laying  rotten  eggs! 
The  next  morning  the  village  marshal 
ordered  a general  renovating  in the cor­
ner  crocery.  Vinegar  Brown  declares 
that the odor of that  cheese  has  not left 
his  hands  yet,  although  he  has  sandpa 
pered them time and again.

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THE  MICHIGAJSr  TRADESMAN,

Annual Meeting of the Owosso B. M. A.
From  th e Owosso  T im es.

“ 

“ 

“ 

is 

......  

year 

rather 

limited, 

At the  annual  meeting  of  the  Owosso 
Business Men’s  Association,  several new 
members were voted in  and  a  communi­
cation was read,  enquiring  what  Owosso 
had to  offer  in  the  way  of  inducements 
for  a  factory  manufacturing  carriage 
wheels.
The  report  of  Secretary  Lamfrom, 
herewith given, shows a very satisfactory 
condition of  affairs:
Our  organization  at  this date contains 
sixty-five members,  being sixty-three ac­
tive  and  two  honorary  members.  The 
number  of  new  members  added  during 
the year is five,  and  number  withdrawn 
by  reason  of  business  changes  and  re­
movals  during  same  time 
is  fourteen. 
Number  of  deaths,  none.  The  num­
ber  of  delinquents  reported  during 
the 
be­
ing  only  thirty-nine.  Sixteen  of  these, 
however,  paid or have made satisfactory 
arrangements and twenty-three are ready 
to be placed on the delinquent list.
Amt. of cash in  treasury  Jan. 1, ’91 
...... $5817
5 00
Receipts for membership fees....................... 
For  dues  ...................................................  69 50
For blue  letters.........................................  
6G
Total  ....................................................$133 27
The  amount  of  expenditures  was  as 
follows:
Jan. 23, to  Secretary's  salary.................. $ 25 00
March 9, to 500 postal cards, printing same,
receipt blanks and  stamps..................  
773
April 4, to Robert Cheal,  ringing  bell.. 
.  3 00
June 6, to Press Publishing Co............ 
1 00
July 11,  to  Secretary’s salary............... ’...  25 00
July 11,  to Robert Cheal,  ringing bell  __   3 00
Dec. 5,  “ 
500
Total expenditures...............................$  69 73
The  number  of  meetings  convened 
during the year is nine,  being seven reg­
ular, one adjourned and one special.  The 
attendance  during  the year at our  meet­
ings has been rather limited,  which is to 
be attributed mainly  that  we  had  very 
little business of  importance to transact; 
hence the officers  should  endeaver not to 
call  meetings  unless  actually  required 
for the transaction of important business, 
and when such  a  meeting  is  announced 
it is hoped and  expected  that  the  mem­
bers will turn out in  a body and assist in 
fostering our enterprises,  for you should 
bear in mind that in order to  accomplish 
good and satisfactory results we must all 
join in and  pull  together  with  will  and 
energy.  We have  worked  harmoniously 
with the city  council,  and by it  have ob­
tained satisfactory results. 
I would here 
admonish  the  members  of  our  Associa­
tion to  use  the  utmost  judgement  and 
caution in  signing  circulating  petitions 
for  the  expenditure  of  city  funds,  for 
our city officials look upon  the  business 
man  as  a  power  of  strength  and  are 
guided to a certain extent by their wishes 
and  demands;  hence  every  member  of 
this  Association  should  bear  in  mind 
that it is  unjust  and  unwise  to  expend 
the  taxpayer’s  money  unless  we  have 
proper  value received for same.
Our manufacturing  establishments are 
in  a  healthy  and  prosperous  condition 
and  are  doing  a  flourishing  business. 
Extensive improvements have been made 
in every  direction  throughout  the  city. 
We have a system of  water  works which 
is  a  pride  to  the  city,  and for fire pro­
tection  is  second  to  none  in  the State. 
Our  beautiful  shade  trees  and  lovely 
lawns are  admired  by  all  visitors.  The 
change in the  general  appearance of  the 
city  is  very  marked.  Two  magnificent 
church  edifices  of  colossal  dimensions 
and most  modern design  have just  been 
erected and are under  completion,  show­
ing the marked enterprise of our citizens. 
If  our business  men  are not wealthy  or 
full of  money, they are still full of push, 
enargy and enterprise, and as an Associa­
tion  we  are  not  dead,  neither  are  we 
ready to die.  Some few of  the  members 
have been  rather lukewarm  but  the ma­
jority  feel  it  necessary  and  advisable 
that  the  Association  should  be  kept 
alive,  as  many  matters  of  importance 
often arise  requiring  organized  effort  to 
be carried forward to successful termina­
tion.  Our Association is looked  upon as 
one of  the  most flourishing and  success­
ful  associations in the State and as such 
has  accomplished  many  good  results; 
hence let us use our utmost  endeavors to 
maintain  our  reputation  by  extending 
and contributing our aid for  the  further

advancement  of  our  business  interests 
and the welfare  of  our  flourishing  city, 
with  energy  and  enthusiasm  ever  to 
foster  radiance  and  sunshine  in  every 
part  thereof  and  to  continue  our  good 
work so  nobly begun five years  ago  this 
month,and our efforts will reap the reward 
of  further prosperity and success.

S.  L amfrom,  Sec’y.

year are:

The  officers  elected  for  the  ensuing 
President—Jas. N.  McBride.
Vice-President—P. M. Roth.
Secretary—S.  Lamfrom.
Treasurer—Chas. Stewart.
An elegant  lunch  had  been  provided 
by  the  retiring  officials,  and  after  this 
was  disposed  of  Jas.  Osburn  acted  as 
master of ceremonies.  Stanley E. Parkill 
responded to the toast  “The  Association 
and  its  relation  to  the  city’s  welfare;” 
Jas.  N.  McBride  to  “The  future  of  the 
Association;”  J.  C.  Shattuck  spoke  of 
“Past accomplishments;” J.  W.  Simmons 
spoke to the question of  “The undesired 
prayers  of  petitioners”  and  also  “The 
demands  of  our  school  system;”  E.  V. 
Smith also spoke to “Our schools,”
The street railway  question  came  up 
for incidental discussion.  D.  M.  Christ­
ian  stated  the  general  opinion  of  the 
meeting in all enterprises where the city 
was interested that some provision should 
be made to prevent  contractors  from de­
priving  workmen  of  their  hard-earned 
pay.  The  Business  Men’s  Association 
proposes to  stand  by the  rights of  those 
who do the work.

Misfortune or M ismanagement—Which?
When  matters  have  miscarried  with 
you,  the first and most  essential thing to 
do is to search out the  cause.  Don’t  be­
gin or  end  either  with  blaming  others. 
Sudden squalls of  misfortbne,  as in poor 
Job’s case  when he lost his  property and 
his family—it was  a  devilish business— 
may tear our sails  to  pieces,  but,  gener­
ally speaking,  the mistakes which injure 
us most are  our  own  and  not  another’s. 
And  for every  personal  mistake  be  sure 
to  find  a  remedy.  Don’t  give  up  the 
problem  until  you  do  that. 
In  business 
problems our job is as difficult as  is  that 
of the game of chess.  Check king or queen 
is a  very serious position in chess.  The 
rival in business is as cruel as  the  chess­
player.  He is in to  win.  He  is  a  suc­
cessful general  who figures out the plans 
of  the  enemy  and  circumvents  them. 
To fail  in  this  is  mismanagement,  and 
misfortune follows.  There is a saying in 
Wall  Street  which  declares  that  if  our 
foresight  were as  good as our  hindsight 
we wouldn’t be  so  far  behind  Vander­
bilt. 
It is written,  you  know,  for  our 
warning,  that  the  prudent foreseeth the 
evil,  the foolish pass on and are punished. 
The duty incumbent on us all  then  is  to 
freshen up our foresight.  You remember 
the story of  the  two  frogs  in  a  drouth 
who found themselves at the mouth  of  a 
deep  well.  “Let us jump in here,”  said 
the one.  “But if  there is no water,  how 
will  we  ever  get  out  again?”  said  the 
other.  That’s it.  Look before you leap. 
Be sure you  are right before  you  go  vio­
lently ahead.  We have given  a  nugget. 
Nothing new  about  it. a lt   is  a  story  as 
old  and  abiding  as  the  hills. 
It  also 
holds true in material  affairs—fools rush 
in  where angels fear  to  tread. 
If  you 
haven’t good  warm  clothes this weather, 
don’t  mutter about misfortune,  but make 
much  of  your  mismanagement. 
The 
mistakes  of  our  life  have  been  many. 
Let  us 
lessen  the  number,  and  have 
fewer  in  ’92  than  in  any  other  seven 
years  combined.  When  a  man  says, 
‘What a fool  I have  been,”  he  using  a 
wholesome  salve.  You  have  with  this 
new  year  your  life  over  again.  Let  us 
®ee your new tracks.  Geo. R.  Scott.

An Eccentric M erchant.

Mr.  Rouss, 

One  of  the  most  eccentric  men  who 
ever  embarked  in  trade  is  Chas.  Broad­
way Rouss,  who  conducts  a  dry  goods 
and  notion  store  on  Broadway,  New 
York.  Some of  his  cranky  methods are 
thus described by an exchange:
He has an  idea that his  time  is  worth 
$50 a minute,  and he keeps himself  busy 
all day long.  Should  any  of  his  clerks 
happen to engage his attention in  a mat­
ter which he does  not  consider  of  suf­
ficient importance,  he usually fills the air 
with blueuess. 
In engaging  a  clerk one 
day he said  to him:
“You  may be a thief,  a drunkard  or a 
murderer. 
I don’t care a snap  what you 
are.  You won’t  get  a  chance  to  steal 
anything here,  and  as  long  as  you  do 
your  work  properly  you  may  remain. 
That’s all I have to say,  sir.”
instead  of  advertising, 
sends  poorly spelled  circulars  all  over 
the country.  Nothing delights him more 
than to receive a letter  from  a  customer 
telling him he had better  learn  to  write 
Euglish.  Although his busiuess methods 
are unique,  he has a remarkably  shrewd 
head  for  financial 
transactions.  He 
keeps no  accounts  with  his  customers. 
For  what  he  buys  he  pays  cash,  and 
when he receives an order for  goods  his 
stereotyped reply is:
“On receipt of  check  will  be  pleased 
to ship goods at once.”
When he was a poor young man it was 
his ambition to own a big store on Broad­
way and a house  on  Fifth avenue.  He 
has both now,  but he spends most of  his 
nights on a lounge in  the store to be near 
his business.  Several years ago it was a 
common  sight  to  see him on the Bowery 
with  a  hat-ful  of  nickels  and  dimes, 
throwing them  into  the  air  to  see  the 
newsboys  and  bootblacks  scramble  for 
them.

Business  Changes  a t Shipshewana.
Sh ipsh ew a n a,  Ind., Jan.  28.—We  are 
considering the plan  of  starting  a  Busi­
ness Men’s Association,  to take under ad­
visement  the  best  methods  of  building 
up the town.
J.  B.  Weaver has purchased an interest 
in  the drug  and  grocery  stock  of  E.  C. 
Stowe.  The new  firm will  be  known  as 
Stowe & Weaver.
John Gray  has opened  a  grocery  store 
here.
David Beam,  who  has  been  operating 
a sawmill here,  has failed.
A clothing  store  is  needed  here  very 
much.  The  opening is a good one,  with 
no opposition.

m a u u   t t a p i a s   <s  I n d ia n a . 
Schedule  in effect  January  10,1892.

TRA INS  G O IN S  NORTH .

„ 

Arrive from   Leave n oli 
North.
7:06  a
11:30  a
4  16  p
10:80  p
Train  arrivin g a t 9 :20  daily;  a ll  other  trains  dal 

„  
South. 
For Saginaw   and  C adillac..........  6:15 a m  
For Traverse City A  Mackinaw 
9:20 a m 
For Saginaw A   Traverse  C ity ..  2:00 p m  
For  P etoskey A  M ackinaw ........  8:10 p m  
From K alam azoo and C hicago.  8:35 p m 
excep t Sunday.

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

For  C incinnati................................  6:20 a
For K alam azoo and  C h icago...
For F ort W ayne and the  E a st..  11:60 a m
For  C incinnati................................  6:30 p m
For  C hicago....................................... 10:40 p m
From S aginaw ....................................10:40 p m
a ll o th er trains d ally excep t Sunday.

North. 

Arrive from   Leave going 
South.
7:00 a  m 
10:80  a i 
2:00  p m 
6:00  p m
11:06  p i

Trains lea v in g  a t 6:00 p. m. and 11  05 p. m. run dally; 

For M uskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids Sc Indiana. 
From Muskegon—Arrlv
,7:00  a  m 
• J * » “  
8 :40  P m 

4:40  p m
9:05 p m

10:10 a m

SLEEPING  Sc  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

N O R T H

11:3 0   a  m  tr a in .—P arlor chair  car  ( 
Rapids to  P etoskey and Mackinaw. 
1 0 :3 0   p  m   tr a in .—S leeping  car  Ora
_________ Rapids  to   P etoskey and Mackinaw.
S O U T H --7 : OO a m  tr a in # —Parlor chair car Ora 
Rapids to  C incinnati.
1 0 :3 0  a m   tr a in .—W agner  Parlor  ( 
Grand Rapids  to   C hicago.
8 :0 0   p m   tr a in .—W agner S leeping  ( 
Grand  Icapids to C incinnati.
1 1 ; 0 5   p  m  t r a i n . —Waj 
Grand Hapids to  Chicago.

Chicago via G. B. & I. B. B.

10:30 a m  
3:65p m  

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

2:09 p m   11:051
6 501
9:00 p m  
10:30 a  m train through Wagner P arlor Car.
11:05 p m train  d ally, through W agner  S leeping C 
3:10 p m   10-10,
8:35 p m   5:15  i
10:10  p 

Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
3:10  p  m  through  W agner  P arlor  Car. 
train dally, through W agner S leeping Car.

7:05 a m  
2:00 p m  

Through tick ets and fu ll Inform ation  can  be had 
oaUlng upon A. Alm quist,  tick et  agen t  a t  Union 8 
n o n ,  or  G eorge  W.  Munson,  Union  T icket  A gent 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.
_ 
O. L. LOCKWOOD,
G eneral Passenger and T icket Agent

. „  

Mich ig a n (Tenträl

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’*

. 

DRPABT.  ABBITS
_  
D etroit E xpress........................................... 7:00 a m   10:00 p m
4:30  p m
Day  E xpress...............................................1:20 p m   10:00 a m
«Atlantic A  Pacific E xpress..................10:30 p m  6:00 a m
New York E xpress......................................6:40 p xn  12:é0 p m

.......................................................... 7:05 a m  

♦Daily.
Ail o th er d a ily  ex cep t Sunday.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  A tlan tic  and  Paclflo  Express 
E legant  parlor  cars  leave Grand  Rapids on D etroit 

train s to  and from  D etroit.
Express a t 7 a. m ..  returning  leave  D etroit  4:45 p  m 
arrive in  Grand  Rapids 10 p. m.

Fred M. B biggs, Gen'l A gent. 85 Monroe St.
A .  A l m q u js t, T icket A gent, U nion  Depot.
Geo. W.  Mu n s o n , Union T icket Office, 67 Monroe St 
O. W . Ruoglks  G. P.  &  T. A gent.,O hioago.

Detrott
m m m m
Milwaukee

RAILWAY

Trains Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St.  Johns  ...Ar
Owosso........Ar
E. Saginaw..Ar
Bay City......Ar
F lin t...........Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit......... Ar

TIME  TABLE

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

EASTWARD.

tNo.  16 tNo.  18
I ) 20am
3 25pm
II 25am 
4 27pm
12 17pm
5 20pm
120pm 
6 65pm 
3 15pm 
8 < 0pm 
3 45pm 
8 45pm
3 40pm 
7 (5pm
6 00pm
8 50pm
3 05pm
8 25pm
4 05pm I
9 25pm

6 50am
7 45am
8 28am
9 03am
10 45am
11 30am
10 05am
11 55am
10 53am
11 50am
WESTWARD.

•No.  82
10 55pm 
12 37am 
1 55am 
3 15am 
8.45am 
7.i0am 
5  40am 
7 30am 
5 37am 
?  00am

Trains Leave

G’d Rapids,  Lv...........
G’d Haven,  Ar...........
Mtlw’keeStr  “ ...........
Chicago Str.  “ ...........

•No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13
7 05am
8 35am 1  (JOpm
5  10pm
2 10pm
6 15pm

•Daily. 

tDally except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m„ 12:50a  m , 
5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arrive  from  the west,  10:10 a. m., 3:15 
p.m. and 9:50 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parltr  Buffet 
ear-  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward — No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  li 
Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.  ’ 
J ohn W. Loud, Traffic Manager.
Ben F letcher, Trav. Pass. Agent. 
J as. Campbell, City Ticket Agent.

CHICAGO 

23 Monroe Street.
JAli'Y318M-
AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’l ,  
GOING TO  CHICAGO

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv.GR’D RAPIDS........9:00am  12:06pm  »11:35pm
Ar. CHICAGO..............3:65pm  5:15pm  *7:05am
Lv. CHICAGO...........9:00am  4:45pm *11:15pm
Ar.  GR’D RAPIDS......3:55pm  10:10pm  *6:10am
TO  AND  FROM  BENTON  HARBOR,  ST.  JOSEPH  AND 
Lv. Grand Rapids.  ...  9:00am  12:05pm  *11:35pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids 
*6:10am  3:55pm  10:10pm

INDIANAPOLIS.

For Indianapolis 12:05 p m only.

TO AND FROM  MUSKEGON.

Lv.  G. R........10:0Cam  12 05pm  5:30pm  8:30pm
Ar.  G. R........10:55am  3 55pm  5:25pm 
........
TO AND  FROM  MANISTEE,  TRAVERSE C1TT  AND  ELK 
Lv. Grand  Rapids......................7:25am  5:17pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids..................... 11:45am  9:40pm

RAPIDS.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Chicago—Wagner 
Sleepers—Leave Grand Rapids *11:35 pm .; leave 
Chicago 11:15 p m.  Drawing  Room Cars—Leave 
Grand Rapids 12:05 pm ;  leave Chicago 4;45 p m 
Free Chair Cars—Leave  Grand  Rapids 9:00 a m- 
leave Chicago 9:00 a m.
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Manistee—Free 
Chair Car—Leaves Grand Rapids 5:17 pm; leaves 
Manistee 6:50 a m.
DETROIT.

JAN’Y 3,  1892
L A N S IN G   &  N O R T H E R N   R .  R .
GOING TO  DETROIT.

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. GR’D  RAPIDS......7:15am *1:00pm  5:40pm
Ar. DDTROIT..............12:00m  *5:16pm 10:40pm
Lv. DETROIT..............  7:00am *1:15pm  5:40pm
Ar. GR’D  RAPIDS......11:50am *5:15pm  10:15pm
To and  from  Lansing  and Howell—Same as to 
and from Detroit.

TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND  ST. LOUIS.

Lv. Grand  Rapids.....................  7:05am  4:15pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids..................... 11:50am  10:40pm

TO  LOWELL VIA LOWELL  &  HASTINGS  R.  * .

THROUGH CAR  SERVICE.

Lv. Grand Rapids...........  7:15am  1:00pm 5:40pm
Ar.from Lowell..............11:50am 5:15pm 
........
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Detroit—Parlor 
cars on all trains.  Seats 25 cents.
Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Saginaw—Parlor 
car  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:05  am ;  arrives in 
Grand Rapids 7:40 p m.  Seats 25 cents.

•Every day.  Other trains week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.
STUDY  LAW

AT  HOME.
Take a  course in th e 

Spragne  Correspon­
dence School of Law 
[incorporated].  Send  ten 
cents [stam ps] fo r p articu ­
lars to
J.  COTNER, Jr.,  Sec’y,
No.  375 W hitney B lock,
DETROIT,  -  MICH,

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PERKIN8  i  RICHMOND,  13  Fountain  8t„  Grand  Rapids.

RINDGE,  BERTSCH  &  CO.

Manufacturers of Boots  & Shoes.

Agents for the Boston  Rnbber Shoe Co

Send  ns  your  mall 
orders  and we  will  try 
and  fill  them  to  your 
satisfaction.  We  nave 
the new line of

Storm Slips

in cotton and wool lined 
for ladles;  also the
Northwest
Roll  Edge

line  of  lumberman's In 
Hnrons and Trojans.

STANDARD  OIL  CO..

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

d e a l e r s   i n

Illuminating and Lubricating

P. STEKETEE & SONS
DRY GOODS Ì NOTIONS

■ W T T O I_.E SA .L jE

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Grand Rapids Storage & Transfer Co.,

Winter  St., between  Shawmilt flue,  and  W.  Pillion 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, Cnltiyators, 

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

and Machine and Plow repairs, Etc.

Telephone  No.  945.

J.  Y.  F.  BLAKE,  Sup’t.

IF  YOU WANT

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H.  L EO N A R D   <&,  SONS,

Factory  Agents  far  Best  Line  of Steel  Wheel  Baby  Carriages.

Send fixr complete Catalogue and special discount.  See our agents for complete line showing  over one hundred carriages from 
which to make your spring selection.  Terms:  Ship at once if desired  and date invoice April  1,1892.

W© would  also  call  your  attention to our line of  steel wheel Velocipedes, Girl's Tricycles, Steel  Body  Express Wagons, Toy 
Wheelbarrows, Etc-  Buyers are respectfully  invited to inspect  the above  lines  before  placing Spring orders.  W e are in  th© 
front rank and we know it.  W rite for prices to

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  Grand  Rapids.

