THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS.

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  F E B R U A R Y   24,  1892.

$1  Per  Year.
N O . 4 4 0

VOL.  9.

Published Weekly.

FRUITS, SEEDS, BEANS AND PRODUBE,

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

-   W H O L E S A L E   -

2 6 ,   2 8 ,   3 0   &   3 2   OTTAWA  ST ,

G r a n d   I R .a /o ic L s , 

iM I io T i.

Something New!

Ton can always  find  som ething new and especially 
fine  by  ordering  your  Candy  of

A.  E.  BROOKS  &   CO.,

Wholesale  Confectioners,

G "ET  n ~ H = r a   B E S T  I

46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich

SEE  QUOTATIONS.

J e n n i n g s *

F l a v o r i n g   E x t r a c t s

Foreign and Domestin Fruits and Produce,

C .   A .   JU A M B   < f c   C O   ,

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

C.  A.  LAMB. 

F.  J.  LAMB.

84  and  86  South  Division  St.

TELFER  SPICE  COMPANY,

MANUFACTURERS OF

Spices  and  B aking  P ow der,  and  Jobbers  of 

Teas, Coffees and  G rocers’ Sundries.

1 and 3 Pearl  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS

MUSKEGON  BRANCH  UNITED  STATES  BAKING  CO.,

Successor»  to

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

H A R R Y   POX,  Manager.

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PA ID   TO  MAIL  ORDERS.

Crackers, Biscuits#Sweet Goods.
The Green Seal Cigar
It is Staple and w ill fit any Purchaser.

Is the Most Desirable for M erchants to Handle because

Send Tour W holesaler an Order.

Retails for 10 cents, 3 for 25 cents.

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WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

Grain,  Clover  and  Timothy,  H ungarian,  White 

Clover, Red  Top,  Millet,  Alfalfa or Lucerne,

Blue Grass, Orchard  Grass, Lawn Grass,

Popcorn,  Etc.

Choice Clover it Timothy Seeds a Specialty

Orders  for  purchase  or  sale  of  Seeds  for  future  delivery 

promptly attended to.  Correspondence solicited.

m en tion t h is p a p e r . 

Warehouses—325-327  E rie St. 
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OfBce—46 Produce  Exchange.  S 

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T P   p w   Y O R K   B I 8 G U I T   C O .,

S.  A.  §EARS,  Manager.

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

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Grand  Rapids.

87,  3 9   and  41 K ent St., 

MOTES  AND BANANAS! 

Sole M anufacturers in Michigan of the

M U L L IN S  P A T E N T   FL A T   O PEN ING   B L A N K   BOOK.
Grand  Rapids,  M ich
29-31  Canal  St., 

F lat Opening Ledgers and Journals always on Hand.

Mail  Orders  Receive  Prompt  Attention.

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N o   B o g u s !
GENUINE Peninsular Button  Fasteners in lots of 10 gt. gr.  at 
Fast Shank Buttons,  best on the market at 
H I R T H   &   K R A U S E ,   12-14 Lyon St.,  G’d  Rapids

45c per gt.  gr.
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Headquarters for Shoe Store Supplies.

Sole Agents for the Justly Celebrated

Olney & Judson Grocer Co.,
“ 3UE.  CL  CL”  Cigars.

Foreign and Domestic Fruits.

G.  S.  BROWN  &  CO.,

job b ers  of 

Oranges an 4  Bananas a Specialty.

Send for quotations. 

24-26 No  Division St.

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

STAR  ROTTER  MITTS.

P roprietor,  of the

O D B |BRA N D S;

OUR  PATENT.
STAR.

GILT  EDGE.

CALLA  LILY.

GOLDEN  SHEAF,

PEARL.

BAKERS’  CHOICE,

BOSS.
PATENT  ROLLER  FLOUR.

SPECIALTIES:

GRAHAM.  RYE  and  BUCKWHEAT 
GRANULATED  and  BOLTED  MEAL.

FLOUR,

Prom pt attention tjiven to m ailorders.
G rand  R a p id s,  Mich.

JOBBER  OF

F.  J.  D ETTEN TH A LER
OYSTERS
POULTRY  i   GAME

SALT  FISH

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. 

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CONSIGNMENTS OF  ALL  KINDS OF  POULTRY  AND  GAME  SOLICITED.

See Quotations in  Another Column.

Wholesale
OroGers.

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

Wholesale  Grocers
BALL

GRAND  RAPIDS.

BARNHART 

POTMAN CO.

Diamond  Crystal 

Table and Dairy Salt.

99.7  1PURB.

Put  up  in  pockets  and  wooden  boxes  and  sold at only  a 

slight advance over the price of inferior brands.

Order a'sample  barrel or case of  your  jobber  and  be con­

vinced of the superiority of

Diamond  Crystal

H ey m an   &  C om pany,

Manufacturers  of

Slot  Cases

Of  Every  Description.

08  and  68 Canal St., 

WRITE FOR  PRICES.
First-Glass  Work  Only.
-  G R A N D   R A PID S.

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

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 
PHQ5N1X 
GENDRONS 

STUDLEY & BARCLAY,

Western Wheel Works

and all the

Line.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

4 Monroe St. 

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J. L.  Strelitsky,

Including the following ceicLnaieu brands man­
ufactured  by the  well-known  bouse of  Glaser,
Frame & Co.:
Yindex, long Havana filler.......................   $35
Three  Medals, long Havana filler........... 
35
55
E lk’s Choice, Havana filler and binder... 
55
La F lor de Alfonso,................................  
65
La Doncella de M orera,......................... 
La Ideal,  25 In a box................................ 
55
W. J . Florence........................................  
65
Also fine line  Key West goods at rock  bottom 
prices.  All favorite  brands of Cheroots  kept in 
stock.

10  So.  Ionia  81.,  Grand  Rapids.

ESTABLISHED  1841.

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

R . G. D u n   &  Co.

Reference Books issued  quarterly.  Collections 

attended to throughout United States 

and Canada

H.  M,  REYNOLDS  l  SON,

W holesale and R etail Jobbers of

Ami  All  K inds of

Building Papers 
Carpet Linings,

Booting Materials,
Coal Tar and 
Asphalt Products-

We  make a specialty  of  the seamless  asphalt 
ready roofing and  two-ply coal tar ready roofing 
which  is  far  superior  to  shingles  and  much 
cheaper.
We are practical  roofers of  twenty-five  years’ 
experience which  enables us to know the wants 
of the people in our line.

Cor.  LOUIS  &  CAMPAU  STS.,

Grand  Rapids,  M ich

R E T A IL   D EA LER S’

Commercial  Agency

Furnishes semi-monthly lists and special reports 
which enable  subscribers to save  both time and 
money.  Especially  adapted  to  merchants, phy­
sicians, real estate dealers and all others dealing 
with the public.
Reports  made with  the  greatest  possible dis­
patch.  Collections  carefully  attended  to  and 
promptly reported.
We respectfully solicit an investigation of our 
system,  as  it  will  insure  your giving  us  your 
membership.

STEVENSON  &  CUMINGS
Cooper’s  Commercial  A pcj,

PROPRIETORS OF

65  Monroe St., 

Grand  Rapids.

Telephone  166.

To B uy  A llen B.Wr is l e y ' s

ewi  mm soar

leading Wholesale trocars keep it.

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  W E D N E S D A Y ,  F E B R U A R Y   24,  1892.

N O .  4 4 0

SCHLOSS,  ADLER  &  C0„
Pits, Sits, Oreralls

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF

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184,  186 &  188  JEFFERSON  AVE.,

D ETR O IT,  MICH.

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

O Y S T E R S  !
We quote: 

Standards, per gal........................................$1  05

Bulk.

Solid  Brand in Cans.

E. F.......................  20

Daisy  Brand  in Cans.

Selects................... 25 
Standards............   18
Selects,................  22 Standards...................  IS
Favorites...............   14
Mrs.  W ithey’s Home-made Mince-Meat.
Largebbls...............6  Half bbls......................6J4
401b. pails  ............   6H 201b.  pails  ................ 6%
101b.  pails.............   7
21b. cans, (usual  weight)..............$1.50 per doz.
51b.  “ 
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..............$3.50 per doz.
Choice Dairy  Batter.......................................... 22
Eggs ................................................................  21
Pure Sweet Cider,  in  bbls.,  ...  15__Hbbl...  16
Pure Cider Vinegar............................................10
Sweet  Florida Oranges.......................$2 50@3 fO
Lemons................................................  3 75@4 25
Will pay 40 cents each for Molasses half bbls. 
Above prices are made low to bid for trade.
Let your orders come.

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EDWIN  FELLAS  &  SDN, 

V a lley   C ity  Cold  Storage.

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PROMPT.  CONSERVATIVE.  SA Fe.

S  F  A spinw alx,  Pres't, 
W. F am >  M cB aim, Sec y.______________

THOS. E.  WYKES,

WHOLESALE

Lime,  Cement,  Stucco,  H air,  F ire  Brick, 

F ire  Clay, Lath,  Wood,  Hay, Grain,
Oil  Meal, Clover and  Tim othy Seed. 

Corner Wealthy Ave. and Ionia St.

on M. C. R. R.  Office, 45 S. Division.

The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency.

The B radstreet  Company, Props.

Executive  Offices, 279,281,283  Broadway, N.Y.

CHARLES  F.  CLARK,  Pres.

Offices in the principal cities of the United 
States,  Canada,  the  European  continent, 
Australia, and in London, England.

Grand  Rapids  Office,  Room  4,  Widdicomb  ß!dg.

HENRY  IDEM A,  Supt.

THE  HERO  OF  SALTHAM  PIT. 
Everyone  that knows  anything  about 
coal-mines knows that the great Saltham 
pit lies  just  ou  the  edge  of  the  city  of 
Whitehaven,  and extends  thence far un­
der the sea.

In the summer of IS—,two ladies came 
to Whitehaven for the  purpose  of estab­
lishing their right to  shares in  this pit— 
a right which  they  had  recently discov­
ered.  They  were  a  mother  and  her 
daughter,  both  of  them  beautiful  and 
cultured women,and,  as they had brought 
letters of introduction to the rector,  they 
were  soon  recognized  as  belonging  to 
one of the most desirable  “sets” of  that 
old, aristocratic city.

Iudeed, Mary Allonby  was a universal 
favorite, and before the  first  winter was 
over  it  was  generally  understood  that 
she was the  promised  wife  of  the hand­
some Gerald Peel, a young  man  of  very 
good family  and  of  great  promise.  He 
was the head  “Viewer”  of  the  Saltham 
pit, and knew  well  the  richness and ex­
cellence  of 
its  coal-seams.  Now,  the 
Viewer of  a large English coal-mine is  a 
gentleman;  a man of great courage, fore­
thought and  fine  engineering  skill.  He 
has  a  large  salary, lives  in  good  style 
and  good  society,  and  exercises  a great 
power, not only over the  under-viewers, 
but also in the entire management of the 
pit.

The marriage had been fixed  for June, 
and  the  preparations  were  all  made. 
Mrs.  Allonby was so certain of her rights 
being settled by that  date, that  she  had 
instructed  her  lawyer  to  make  over  a 
certain portion of  them  to  her daughter 
for  a  wedding  present.  One  evening 
Gerald  was  taking  tea  with  them,  and 
from the  pleasant  room  happy  laughter 
and happy voices  went  floating  outward 
into the shady depths of the shrubbery. 
Among this shrubbery a man was lurk­
ing—a man  with  dirty,  ragged  clothing 
and  a  face  passion-smitten  and  every 
way  evil;  and  whenever  Mrs.  Allonby’s 
voice or Mary’s laugh  caught his  ear,  its 
expression was almost  terrible.

“I am nothing  to them  now!”  he  mut­

tered.  “But, we shall see!”

He lingered in the thick shrubbery un­
til  the  moon  rose,  and  he  saw  Gerald 
j wrap Mary  in her little  white  hood and 
cloak,  and  take  her  into  the  garden. 
Then  he  crept  nearer 
the  house  and 
watched Mrs.  Allonby  lift a candle  and 
go upstairs into a room that  fronted two 
ways, one of  them toward a gable which 
was thickly  matted  with  old  ivy  vine. 
The windows were open on that side, and 
he 
cautiously  ascended.  When  he 
reached  the  upper floors,  Mrs.  Allonby 
was sitting before  an  old-fashioned  sec­
retary,  tying  up  some  papers.  He  put 
his  hand  upon  her  shoulder,  forced  her 
to sit still  and uttered but one word:

“Louisa!”
She did not  faint, nor scream,  nor even 
attempt  to  rise;  but,  gathering  rapidly 
together all her senses  and energies,  she 
looked the man earnestly in the face, and 
said,  in  a  voice  where  tenderness  and 
anger strove for the mastery:

“Richard Allonby!”

“Yes,  madam.  Lock  your  door  and 
I  have  something 

shut  your  windows. 
to say to you.”

“Not  here,  Richard!  Not  here,  for 

Mary’s  sake!”

“Why not?  Am I not  your  husband? 
Ah,  ha!  You  can’t  get  over  that,  you 
see!”

“God help  me!  No.”
She rose mechanically, locked the door, 
shut  out  the  sweet  evening  air,  pulled 
down  the  blinds,  and  then,  motioning 
toward a sofa,  sat down.

“Oh, no, my  lady!  I  won’t  put you  to 
that  degradation.  You  are  a lady,  you 
know,” and then  in a lower voice:  “And 
now I want  you  to  give  me  those  Salt­
ham papers.  1 know all about them.” 

“Richard,  you  have  robbed  me of  my 
own  fortune, and of  the  peace  and love 
of  my  youth.  You  killed  my  father 
with  the  shame  you  brought  on  him. 
You have forced  me  to  leave  the  place 
where  my  family  have  dwelt  for  cen­
turies,  and  to  come  a  stranger  to  this 
strange  north  country.  Do  have  pity 
now  on me and on  your own child.  For 
Heaven’s  sake,  spare  her  the  disgrace 
and misery of knowing you.”
“ You never told her, then?”
“No,  no, no!  She  thinks  you  dead— 
and,  oh,  Richard!  she  is  going  to  be 
married.”

“I know  that,  too.  Give  me  the  pa­

pers. 

I have beeh long enough here.” 

“Richard!  Richard!  Kill me,  if  you 

like,  but do Mary no further  wrong.”
“I don’t  like  to  kill  you,  Louisa. 

I 
like you well  enough  to  wish  to look at 
you  occasionally.  Give  me  the  papers, 
or 1 shall ring the bell and order my sup­
per.  You  know  I’m  master  here,  if  I 
say so.  See,  I’ll  give  you  five  minutes 
to  decide.  1  don’t  want  you  to  say  I 
forced them from you.”

In  great  emergencies  the  mind  acts 
rapidly.  Mrs.  Allonby  reviewed  her 
whole  position,  and  made  her  decision. 
She  walked  back  to  the secretary,  and, 
taking from a drawer a bundle of  papers 
and  a  little  gold  chain  holding  a pearl 
cross and a couple of rings,  came toward 
her husband.

“This is to be our  last  meeting,  Rich­
ard, and you  must  promise  it upon that 
chain  and  those  rings;  you  know  them 
—they were your mother’s.”

Richard Allonby  put  them  aside  ner­
vously. 
If there  was  any  memory  that 
made  bis  soul  shiver  and  sob,  it  was 
that  of  the  gentle  little  mother  whose 
heart he had broken.

“I won’t  touch those  things,” he said. 

“Give me the  papers.”

“Not unless you do what 1 say.” 
Richard saw his wife’s courage  rising, 
and he knew  well  that when  timid wom­
en are  angered  to a point of  resistance, 
such anger is not to be defied;  so he said, 
sullenly:

“I will do as you wish.”
He took  the  papers  and  immediately 
departed.  He had  another  interview on 
hand that night.  He waited until he saw 
Gerald enter his own handsome dwelling; 
then he scaled the great brick walls  and 
watched  his  further  movements.  He

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went, as Richard  expected,  to  his  office, 
looked  over  the  reports  of  the  under­
viewers  and  then  lit  a  cigar  and  sat 
down to smoke.  There  was a  low, open 
window, opening on a stone balcony, and 
when Gerald rose for something he want­
ed.  Richard boldly entered the room  and 
was standing  before  his  chair  when  he 
turned to it.

Gerald's  first  thought  was:  "There  is 
something wrong at the pit,”  and be said, 
impatiently:

"Now.  my man, what’s  wrong?”
"I am not  your  man,  Gerald  Peel. 

I 
propose,  indeed,  to  be  your  father-in- 
law.”

Then Gerald  knew  that  he  had either 
to deal  with a lunatic  or a great  sorrow, 
and be closed the window,  and said:

"Sit down,  sir.  and  say what  you  have 

to say.”

Richard  did  not  spare  himself.  He 
told all:  How  he  had  killed  his  mother 
with sorrow  and ruined his wife,  forged 
his  friend’s  name  and  been  forgiven, 
and then  robbed a bank  and been trans­
ported  for  fourteen  years  for  it.  He 
said  he  had  come  back 
to  England 
eighteen  months  ago.  but  had  only just 
found  bis  wife.  Didn’t  want  to  make 
trouble,  "especially  as  Mary  was  going 
to  marry  so  well,  and  thought  Gerald 
had better give him some  money  and let 
him go to America.”

Gerald beard all  in  silence:  then, tak­
ing  out  his  purse,  counted  out  twenty 
pounds.
"Will 
tongue?”

that  pay  you  to  hold  your 

"Make it fifty.”
Gerald made it fifty,  and  said:
“Now go. 

If you  really  go to  Ameri­
ca.  you  may  write  every  year  for  the 
same;  but  don’t  annoy  your  wife  and 
daughter.  Let  me  stand  between  them 
and you.”

The calm  unselfishness  and  the air of 
authority  which  was  partly  natural  to 
Gerald and partly acquired  by the neces­
sity  of  his  position,  quite  cowed  the 
wretched  man.  He  slunk  out  into  the 
darkness;  and  Gerald  thought  out  the 
new aspect of his position.

He must hurry  forward  his  marriage. 
Mary  was not to blame:  but if his family 
knew,  there would be no  end of  trouble. 
And  these  poor  women!  Surely 
they 
needed his  protection,  with  this  villain 
dogging their  footsteps.

The next morning he received  another 
heavy blow.  Mrs.  Allonby told him that 
her  secretary  had  been  robbed  of  her 
Saltham  papers  and  some  jewelry,  and 
that  the  police  had  been  notified.  He 
saw at once how the affair lay.  He knew 
who was the thief, and he suspected Mrs. 
Allonby knew  also.  But  he  had  deter­
mined not to  blame  her  too  much.  He 
estimated  the horror of her position, and 
boldly faced the disappointment that had 
fallen on all the glory  of  his love.  But. 
at any rate,  Mary  was  the  same,  and  it 
was Mary  be  was  going  to  marry.  He 
made some excuse for  hurrying  forward 
matters,  and,  in spite  of  the suggestions 
of  his  friends  that  the  missing  papers 
ought to be found first,  he  married Mary 
Allonby early  in June.

Perhaps no wife was ever happier.  As 
the years  went  by,  and  lovely  boys  and 
girls began to  patter about the halls and 
gardens  of Peel  Place, and  as  she  her­
self  grew  in  wifely  grace  and  in  her 
husband’s  love,  she  acknowledged  con­
tinually  the  blessing  of  her  lot.  Only 
troubled  her—her  mother’s
one  thing 

health.  Though  in  the  prime  of  life, 
she was  gradually sinking  under a  ner­
vous complaint  that defied medical skill. 
G erald,  who guessed  the cause,  tried of­
ten  to  win  her confidence,  but  she  re 
peiled all his advances.

Thus,  more  than  five  years  passed 
away.  One night, about New Years,  the 
rector was sitting  among his  household, 
full of  the  joy  and  spirit  of  the  time. 
Suddenly, he was called away from them, 
and found  waiting  for  him a lady in the 
wildest  terror  and  distress,  whom  he 
easily recognized as Mrs.  Allonby.

"Oh,  sir!” she cried;  "there is no  time 
for  words—come  with  me  instautly  to 
Saltham pit!  I will explain all as we go.”
There is something so  compelling in  a 
great  sorrow,  that  he  cloaked  himself 
silently  and  followed  her into a waiting 
carriage.  As it  drove  through  the  nar­
row,  black streets, she told  him  the out­
lines of her sad  story.

"And this  villain,  who  has  been  tor­
turing you to death for five years,  is, you 
say—”

"Is my  husband, and  he  is  lying,  dy­
ing,  in the pit.  A large mass of coal fell 
on  him  this  afternoon,  and  he  can’t  be 
moved.  What  could  I  do?”  she  cried, 
pitifully.  "How  could I tell Gerald and 
Mary of the horror of such a connection? 
Oh,  my friend,  someone  must  speak  to 
him—some  one  must  pray  with  him— 
and I must see the end of him,  but 1 dare 
not go alone.”

Indeed,  even  the  rector  turned  sick 
and  giddy  when  he  saw  the  road they 
must  take.  The  shaft  of  Saltham  is 
close to the sea, absolutely in the shingle, 
and nearly nine hundred feet deep.  The 
banksman expressed no surprise at  such 
visitors, and,  as  they  refused  to  change 
their  clothing,  gave  them  each  a  large 
overall, and,  putting them  into the huge 
basket,  let them down.  The night relays 
were  coming  up,  and  a  basket of  five 
men. their candles  gleaming  in  the dark 
abyss, passed them on the way.

In  a  few  minutes  they  touched  the 
ground,  and a  craggy,  dark,  uneven  de­
scent led them  to the interior of  the pit. 
The path was high enough to allow them 
to follow their guide in  an  upright posi­
tion.  After going one thousand yards in 
a straight line  under  the sea,  they  came 
to a little opening,  where  the dying man 
lay.  The  space  was  narrow  and  hot 
and  dimly  lit  by  a  bit of  candle  stuck 
against the  coal  wall in a piece of  clay; 
and there  were  some  men  yet  at  work 
about him.

He  was  almost  dead,  but  his  eyes 
gleamed  gratefully  upon  the  miserable, 
weeping wife,  who had at last braved all 
to come and close his eyes.  And, incred­
ible as it may seem, at  this  hour  Louisa 
Allonby forgot all else but her early love 
for this  wreck  of  humanity, and  wiped 
the death damp from his  brow  with lov­
ing hands, and whispered  words  of  for­
giveness and tenderness.

Richard  was  gentle  enough  now. 

In 
those few hours of  agony he had learned 
more than  all  his  wild  life  had  taught 
him.  Humble and  penitent, he  listened 
eagerly to the last prayer he  was ever to 
hear, and then  whispered:

“Wife—wife,  forgive  me—don’t  tell 

| Mary—the papers are in  my breast.”

What  more  he  said  was between God 
| and  bis  own  soul,  and  death  gradually 
I composed  the  once  handsome  face  into 
such solemn  curves  and  such  sharp-cut 
lines as if they were to last forever.

At  length,  poor  Louisa  rose,  and  the

MantifacWrers of  Hardwood  Lumber,

W.  H.  WHITE  &  CO.,

BOYNE  CITY,  MICH

We operate three mills with a capacity of 9,000,000 feet hardwood and 3,010,(00 feet hemlock, as 
follows:  Boyne  City  mill, 7,000,800;  Boyne  Falls  mill, 3,000,003;  Deer  Lake  mill, 2,UOO,OOU.  Our 
facilities for shipment are  unsurpassed, either by rail or water.
The  New York  Commercial 

one  of  the  oldest  and  most 

News,  speaking of
reliable wholesale
CLOTHING  MAN UFA CTUHBHS,

Michael Kolli & Sod,

established 1838, Rochester, N.  Y., says:

“The  clothing  industry  has  been  one j 
of  the  leading  features  of  the  city  of j 
Rochester for  many years.  Many of  the 
present  firms  began  business  in  a very 
modest  way,  but  have  since  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 
&  Sox.  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

these  they  are  not  surpassed, 

books  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 general  line of goods 
their  specialty  consists of  a  fine  grade. 
In 
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,  and  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, and  that is why  you  sell 
so many.”
representative, 
William  Connor,  for  printed opinions of 
the leading clothing  merchants in Michi­
gan.

Write  our  Michigan 

William Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Thursday,  Friday, Satur­
day.  March 3rd, 4th,  5th,  with  a full  line  of  Men’s,  Boys’  and Children’s samples 
Customers’ expenses allowed.  Mail orders  promptly attended to; or write William 
1 Connor, Box 346, Marshall, Mich., and he will soon  be with you.

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rector was about to lead  her away,  when 
one of the men  who  had  been  busy try­
ing to the last to  relieve the poor  miner, 
stepped  forward and  said  gently:

“ M other,  I am  here too.”
Yes,  it was  Gerald  Peel;  he  had been 
notified at once of the accident, and noue 
had worked harder  for the  relief  of  the 
sutferer.  But  he  went  home  with  the 
rector  and  Mrs.  Allonby  now,  and  the 
talk he had with her did for  her what no 
physician could have  done.  She learned 
now  that  Gerald  had  not  only  married 
Mary  with a full  knowledge  of  all,  but 
that  he had  been  bribing  the  man  and 
watching  continually  his  movements, 
in order to prevent his annoying Mary or 
her mother.

“It  has  been  a  dreadful  watch,”  he 
said,  wearily and  solemnly;  “but a little 
confidence on  your  part,  mother,  might 
have saved us both much suffering.”

And for  answer  she had  put  the Salt- 

ham papers in his hands,  and said:

“They  are  well  yours. 

I never  want 
to  see  them  again,  Gerald.  You  have 
been very good to me.”

Those men  were  heroes  who  stormed 
the Malakoff and lighted their cigars in the 
trenches  before  Vicksburg,  but  private 
life  has  heroes  quite  as  great,  and  I 
think Gerald Peel’s  five years’  patience, 
prudence  and  unselfish  burden-bearing 
may make him the brother-knight even of 
the peerless Bayard.  A m elia E. Bakr.

TALKS  WITH  A  LAWYER.

TIIE  MERCANTILE AGENCY.

Written for The Tradesman.

There are but few persons who are not 
affected directly or indirectly by the mer­
cantile  or  commercial  agency. 
It  may 
be  said to wield a powerful  influence  in 
enlarging  or  restraining the business  of 
the country, in the making and unmaking 
of  credit  upon  which  business  largely 
rests. 
Its  influence,  extent  and  power 
have  become  so  great  that  few  people 
can act independently of it  without more 
or less serious  results. 
It has become so 
powerful  and so useful a part of  modern 
business  life that a statement of  the law 
regarding it  and  its relations to the  gen­
eral public may be interesting and profit­
able.

First,  a few  words with  respect to the 
history of  the  American  system of  mer­
cantile  agencies. 
It  originated,  says 
Errant,  with  a  commercial  traveler  by 
the  name of  Church,  who,  at  first,  kept 
notes  of  information  acquired  on  busi­
ness trips, permitting others to use them. 
He  eventually  devoted  himself  to  this 
work  alone,  in  the  employ  of  certain 
New York houses.  His success suggest­
ed to Louis Tappan the idea of establish­
ing  the  first  mercantile  agency  at  New 
York, in 1841, which was shortly followed 
by Woodward  &  Dusenberry’s  Commer­
cial  Agency.  Tappan’s  venture  finally 
developed into the R. G.  Dun & Co.  agen­
cy.  The  “improved mercantile agency,” 
organized  a  few  years  later  than  Tap- 
pan’s by J.  M. Bradstreet,  was finally in­
corporated as  The  Bradstreet  Company, 
and  was the  first  concern  to  publish  a 
book of  rating.  Special  agencies,  con­
fining their  reports to particular  lines of 
business,  have  become  numerous. 
In 
England, such  establishments are known 
as  “trade protection societies.”

The  business  of  a  mercantile  agency 
consists  in  collecting  and  furnishing to 
subscribers  information  relating  to  the 
credit,  character, responsibility and rep­
utation  of  merchants,  and  so  extensive

has  the  system  become  that no  one,  no I 
matter  how  mean  and  humble  may b e! 
his little  shop, but  has his  “size”  taken, 
his  business  photograph  struck  off  and 
kept  for  display  in  the  agency  books. 
Many  questions  of  law  have  arisen  of 
public interest  respecting the  rights and 
duties of the agency,  and  how far it may 
go in  thus  entering  upon a man’s  prem­
ises and taking notes with which to make 
up his credit proportions.  The most im­
portant question  that has  arisen relating 
to  this  kind of  business  is  to  what  ex­
tent are the  reports sent  out by mercan­
tile  agencies  privileged  communications 
—that  is,  how  far  are  such  companies 
protected,  in  giving  information  affect­
ing the  credit of  business men,  from lia­
bility for  damages in case of  false  state­
ments?

As we  shall  use  the  term  “privileged 
communication”  frequently, let us under­
stand its meaning.  It is such a communica­
tion  as is made  in  good  faith  upon any 
subject  in  which the party communicat­
ing  has  an  interest,  or  in  reference  to 
which  he  Juts a duty,  public  or  private, 
either  legal,  moral or social,  if made  to 
a person  having a corresponding interest 
or  duty.  No  legal  liability  attaches  to 
such  communications,  unless  malice  be 
shown. 
It may first be said that the pub­
lication of false defamation by a mercan­
tile agency  to  the world  at  large  is  not 
privileged,  so  that  such  publications 
affecting  the  credit of  business  men  as 
are  made  by  agencies  and  scattered 
broadcast, or put carelessly or indiscrim­
inately  before  the  public,  are  neither 
justified  nor  protected.  Agencies,  how­
ever,  are not  in  the habit of  being thus 
prodigal of their information.  The most 
common  form of  giving  information  is 
that  of  publishing  books of  ratings,  or 
weekly  or  daily  sheets  of  business 
changes,  failures, mortgages, judgments, 
etc., and  furnishing the  same to all their 
subscribers regularly.  The  question  has 
arisen,  is  an  agency  liable  for  a  false 
report  on a merchant  so made  to a large 
number  of  subscribers,  only  a  few  of 
whom  are  interested  in that  merchant. 
There is no  question,  it  may be  said, of 
the right of the agency  to furnish reports 
as privileged communications  to  persons 
known  to  be  directly interested  in  that 
merchant,  or  to  such  as  ask for a report 
on  such  merchant;  but,  how  about  the 
communication  going  to  hundreds  or 
thousands  of  subscribers  who  are  not 
interested,  and  not only  do  not ask  for 
the information but do not need it?  Re­
fer  to  our  definition  of  privileged com­
munication. 
It  must be made to  a  per­
son  having  a  corresponding  interest  or 
duty  in  the  subject. 
I am  a  jobber  in 
hardware.  My agency sheet, to-day, tells 
me  that  my  neighbor,  who  is  a  retail 
hatter,  has  failed.  1  have  not  sought, 
nor can  I  find  any use  for the  informa­
tion. 
It  is  interesting  gossip  to  me— 
nothing  more.  Suppose  the  report  is 
false.  Can 
the  agency  hide  behind 
a  “ privileged  communication”  when 
brought to defend an action?  The weight 
and majority of  decisions deny the agen­
cy’s right so to do,  and  such may  be con­
sidered  the  law.  The  first  case  that 
arose  was  in  Massachusetts. 
It  was 
brought  by a merchant  against one Rus­
sell,  who conducted the “Boston Mercan­
tile Agency.”  Here Russell  reported the 
incorrect  and  unjust information to only 
such  subscribers  as  were  interested  in 
the merchant.  The court  held  that  the 
communication  was  privileged. 
(Bill­

ings  vs. Russell, 8 Boston  Law Reporter 
699.)  The  next  was a New  York  case, 
which  may be called the  leading case on 
the  subject. 
In  this  case, one  Church 
printed  and  furnished to merchants who 
had  no  immediate  interest in the stand­
ing of  the  firm on which  the  report was 
made,  but  who  wished  the  record  for 
future  reference.  The  information  was 
in a printed  book  furnished  to  all  who 
became subscribers  to  it. 
In  this  case, 
the court  held  that  the  communication 
was not privileged, and the case has been 
several  times  re-affirmed in  New  York. 
(Taylor  vs.  Church,  1  E.  D.  Smith 279).
The court said  that,  if  the publication 
had  been in answer to an  inquiry from a 
merchant 
interested,  and  had  been 
nothing more than  an  answer to this ap­
plication,  it would  have been  privileged, 
but,  having  been  not  only  to  such  as 
sought  information  against  that  mer­
chant,  but  to  all  its  subscribers  indis­
criminately, it  was  not,  as to such  other 
subscribers,  privileged.  This  decision 
was  upheld in New  York  in  Ormsby vs. 
Douglas  (37 N.  Y., 477). 
In  the  case of 
Sunderlin  vs.  Bradstreet (46 N.  Y.,  188), 
it was  shown  that  Bradstreet published 
a false statement that a certain merchant 
had  failed.  The  publication  was  in  a 
weekly sheet furnished to all subscribers 
alike. 
It was held not privileged.  The 
court said that a communication is privi­
leged  when  made  in good  faith,  in  an­
swer to  one  having  an  interest  in  the 
information sought,  and  it will  be privi­
leged  if  volunteered,  if  the  party  to 
whom it has  been  made has  an  interest 
in  it,  and  if  the  parties  stand  in  such 
relation as  to  make it a reasonable duty, 
or,  at  least, proper,  to give  the  informa­
tion.  The  publication in  this  case  to 
those  not  interested  in  it  was  officious 
and  unauthorized  and  not  privileged. 
The decisions of the federal circuit courts 
are in line with this  decision:  Erber vs. 
Dun, 12 Fed. Rep., 526;  Trussell vs. Scar­
lett,  18  Fed.  Rep., 214;  Locke vs.  Brad­
street  &  Co.,  22  Fed.  Rep.,  771.  For 
other  cases,  we  might  refer to King vs. 
Patterson,  49 N. J.  L.,  417;  Woodruff vs. 
Bradstreet, 33 Hun.  (N. Y.),  16;  Com.  vs. 
Stacey,  8  Phila.  (Pa.),  617;  Bradstreet 
vs. Gill,  72 Texas,  115.

W m. C.  Spr a g u e.

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To those who need a window Displaying Rack 
we  now offer  our fine  antique  Rack, as per cut 
above, when  cash accompanies  the order, for 30 
per cent, less than list.
No. 1 Rack, 6'/2 feet high, 15 % brass rods,  $10 00 
8 • 0
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10 00
No. 0 Rack, 5¿4 
8 00
•* 
8 00
No. 00 Rack, 
6 00
6 00
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Give number of  Rack and width of window. 
Remember that  strictly the  net  list price will 
be on the  above Racks unless cash accompanies 
the order, and for 30 days only.

20 7-16 wooden, 
15 % brass rods,
20 7-16 wooden,
12 %  brass rods,
12 H  steel  “
12 7-16 wooden,

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Gringhifis  Itemized  Ledger  Co.,

403  West Bridge St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Great Feat!

He has  great  feet, but  they  are  nothing  like 
the  great feat  that W a dh am’s  G r a p h it e  Ax l e 
G r ea se  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 
b le

A p r il  25th, 1881.

Wadhams Oil & Or ease 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 illip Sc h abett, Barn Foreman, 

Jos. Sclilitz Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis.

Wap M Free!

We  are  sending  to  every  dealer  who 
handles  “ GRAPHITE  AXLE  GKEASE.” 
one  Daisy  Wagon  Jack,  w orth  $1,  to  he 
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, Hardw are Dealers, 
Harness Dealers and by the M anufacturers.

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

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T'l-TV:  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

a m o n g  t h b   t r a d e .
AROUND THE  STATE.

Hudson—Young  A  Avis  have  opened 

a new grocery store.

Earrietta—W.  M.  Campbell  has  gone 

out of the hotel business.

Motley—Andrew  All  succeeds  Hicks 

A All  in the meat business.

Dowagiac—J. A. Suits succeeds Eugene 

L Sias in  the jewelry business.

Oxford—H.  Findon.  hardware  dealer, 

has been closed on an attachment.

Crystal Falls—M. Savlan A Co. succeed 

Savlan  Bros,  in the clothing business.

Interlochen—Leo  F.  Hale  is  closing 

ont his  lumber business at  this place.

Tawas City—Shaver  A  Noble  succeed 

Geo.  W. Shaver in the meat business.

Saugatuck — C.  H.  Edwards,  wagon 

maker, has removed to Benton Harbor.

Manchester—Fred  Widmayer  succeeds 

J.  H.  Kingsley in the harness business.

Brock way—Amos A.  Haskeii  succeeds 
W.  H.  Bai Sentine in the lumber business.
East Jordan—H.  Mitchell  succeeds  H. 
C.  Holmes in the  confectionery business.
Iron  Mountain—L.  Bergeron  succeeds 
Bereeron A McCormick  in general  trade.
succeed 

Mason — Fitch  A  Raymond 

his store  building  and  general  stock  to 
John  P.  Feltz,  who  will  continue  the 
business.

Jackson — Clarence  H.  Bennett  suc­
ceeds  We .  M.  Bennett  A  Son  in  the 
wholesale and  retail  dry goods  and  car­
pet business.

Shelby—F.  H.  Payne  has  given  his 
father a bill of  sale of  his  grocery stock 
for §800.  besides  which  he says he  owes 
§300 to the trade.

Carson City—M.  A. Stephens,  formerly 
clerk  for  Houck  A  Cotter,  of  Pewamo, 
recently opened here in the crockery and 
glassware business.

Belding—W. J.  Henwood. formerly en­
gaged  in  the  grocery business  at  Hart, 
has  purchased  the  Choate grocery  stock 
and will continue the business.

Freesoil — “Ab.”  Dean,  of  the  drug 
| firm of Dean  Bros.,  has returned to  Hud- 
| son.  his  former  home,  although  he  still 
i retains his interest in the firm here.

Newaygo—Jerome  Carpenter,  who has 
j been an  undertaker here for many years,
I suffered a stroke of paralysis, a few days 
| ago,  from which  he died on Feb. IT.

Holland—Will E.  Swift,  who  has been 
| a  passenger  conductor  on  the  C.  A W. 
| M.  Railway for the past  nine years,  will

Hastings—R.  A D. 
out their grocery sto 
ness.

Adams  have closed 
;k  and quit the busi- :

Fremont—C.  H.  Rose,  formerly in  bus- j 
iness at Shelby,  has opened a candy store J 
here.

Kalamazoo—Oliver  E.  Price  succeeds 
Price.  Peddie A Co.  in the tailoring busi- j 
ness.

Ellsworth—Ezra  Meech  has  leased  a 
building  here  and  opened  a  grocery 
store.

Jackson—J.  B.  Havens  A  Co.  succeed j 
Hattie  Mrs.  H.  B. i Carr  in the grocery 
business.

Copemish— William  Clow,  formerly 
clerk  for the late Wm.  Adams,  who  was 
in the hotel  business,  is  now  proprietor 
of  the  house,  having  leased  the  same 
from  Mrs.  Adams.

Bear L ake-^.  B.  Bunton A  Son  have 
bought Wm.  Keyes’  store  building  and 
will run a double store.  They intend  to 
put in a stock of  hardware  and  agricul­
tural  implements.

Bellaire—E.  E.  Steffey,  who  removed 
his grocery  stock  from  Crystal  to  this 
place about three months ago,  has closed 
out his stock to the  other dealers  in this 
vicinity and returned to Crystal.

Harrison—Thompson A Hamilton  suc­
ceed  Mrs. C.  M.  Downey in the  millinery 
business.

Detroit—E. C.  Robinson  A  Co.,  wall 
paper dealers  at  126  Michigan  avenue, 
have  assigned  to  William  E.  Warner. 
Their i a dlities are 82.420 and their assets 
cost §2,072 and  are  appraised  at  §1,019.
Moline—J.  D.  Noah  has  purchased  of
Traverse City—S.  W.  Perkins  has  put j Nevins Bros,  the brick store  building  he 

Reading—Walls A Mead succeed Walls 
A Culver  in  the  agricultural  impiiment 
business.

dealer in dry  goods in the  Mason  block. 
Mr.  Berry  and  Miss  Nenmeister  have 
each  been  connected with  the store  for 
the past twelve years and are thoroughly 
conversant  with  the  business  in  all  its 
details.

MS-STTFACTDEXSTe  MATTERS. 

Yestaburgh—T.  R.  Aldrich  has  closed 
out his tin shop  and  removed  from  this j 
place.

Moline—J.  H.  A J. G. Jeffers have their j 
yard well stocked with logs and will start | 
their mill in a few days.

Yestaburgh—Davenport A Chase, man- i 
facturers  of  shingles, are  succeeded  by ) 
Chase A Davenport Bros.,  who  will  con­
tinue the business.

Sherman City—Z.  B.  Knapp and broth- I 
er have  formed  a  copartnership  in  the j 
shingle  mill  business  under 
firm j 
name of Z. B.  A W.  R.  Knapp.

Alpena—The Minor Lumber Co. is cut­
ting -2.000.000 feet of logs six miles north j 
of Rogers City on the  Lake Huron shore. 
The logs will  be rafted  to Alpena.

West Bay City—Fred  A.  Cole  has  re­
tired from the West  Bay  City Manufact­
uring  Co.,  wholesale  dealer  in  lumber,  j 
lath  and  shingles.  The  style  remains ! 

the 

Tawas —  Locke  A  Stevens’  sawmill 
started  last  week cutting  hardwood lum- 
I ber.  and the expectation of  the firm is to 
I keep the mill in operation  the remainder 
of the winter.

Sault Ste. Marie—The  Russell sawmill 
at Sailors’ Encampment is reported to have 
been  leased  by  W.  S.  Osgood,  of  this 
place.  He will stock  the mill and run it 
day and night next season.

L’Anse—H.  W.  James,  of  Manistee, 
has been here the past week,  negotiating 
for  a  mill  site. 
If  favorable  arrange­
ments can  be  made,  he  expects  to  have 
his mill in shape to saw next season.

Marquette—J.  R.  Gordon,  who  this 
winter will  put  in  5,000,000  feet  of  ex­
port  timber,  has  finished  his  work  on 
Silver and  Bruno  rivers, and  is  pushing 
the  hauling at  his  camps  on  the  Otter 
river.

year,  indicates an active  trade  the  com­
ing season.

Detroit—D.  B.  Millen,  John  R.  Nos­
trand,  F.  B.  Harper  and  James  J.  Mc­
Lain  have filed  articles of  incorporation 
as  the Wolverine  Barge  Co.  They  will 
engage  in  maritime  commerce and  build 
vessels.  The  capital  stock  is  8350,- 
000, of  which  §12,800  is  p?id  in.  The 
office will  be in  Ecorse,  on  the Rogue.

Manistee — That  there  is  still  some 
money  to be  made in  pine  lands, even at 
this  point,  Is  instanced  in a recent  sale 
to  Buckley  A  Douglas  by George  Hart 
and others,  of a  lot of scattered tracts of 
pine, cedar,  hemlock  and  hardwoods, es­
timated  at  about  60,000.000 feet  in  all, 
for  §60,000.  Hart  A  Co.  cleared  about 
§30,000 on the trade.

Bay City—W.  S. Clements  has  become 
a member  of  the  hardwood  concern  of 
Obenauer A  Byrns,  and  the  firm is  now 
styled Obenauer,  Byrns A Co.  The  firm 
does  an  extensive  business, and  it  will 
be  largely  increased  the  coming season.
It  ships  largely  to  Grand  Rapids  and 
Chicago,  and  secures stock  at ail  points 
in Northern Michigan.

Watersmeet—Robbinsville,  near  this 
place,  is a town which is  being  built  up 
by the completion of  the  Brown  A  Rob­
bins mill plant.  They have a contract to 
cut over 100,000,000  feet  of pine  for  an 
Oshkosh  firm.  The  mill  is  lighted  by 
electricity and  will  run  day  and  night 
during the year.  The  extention  of  the 
Milwaukee,  Lake Shore A Western  from 
the Interior branch  affords  facilities  for 
shipment.

Cadillac—Chittenden A Herrick bought 
of  Charles  F.  Ruggles  a  tract  of  pine 
near Hobart for which  they were  to  pay 
$60,000;  they recently  sold  it for $90,000, 
without  putting  more  than enough  into 
it to bind the trade,  the whole thing hav­
ing  been  done  in  about  three  months. 
Chittenden A Herrick  are  doing  quite  a 
business in buying up old  choppings and 
logging them  over  again,  taking  all  the 
down timber,  left  over butts of  pine and 
the cedar,  hemlock  and  hardwoods  that 
are on the  land.

Holland—J.  & A.  Van Putten, proprie­
tors  of  the  tub  factory  here,  have  pur­
chased  the  sawmill  on  the  Kalamazoo 
River  at  New  Richmond.  They  will 
make extensive repairs and put the plant 
in good running order.  The mill will be 
used  as  a  feeder  for  their  factory,  and 
timber  will be purchased along the river, 
cut up into staves  and bolts, and shipped 
by rail  to  Holland  to  be  manufactured 
into  tubs.  This will enable them  to run 
their  factory  the  year  round  and  give 
employment to seventy-five hands.

Bay City—J.  M.  McNeil and  J.  P.  Me 
Neil,  brothers, of this city,  have closed a 
deal  for  all  the  cedar  timber  on 
the 
Hauptman branch of the  Michigan  Cen­
tral railroad in  Roscommon county.  The 
land includes six forties and the cedar  is 
said to be the  finest in the northern  part 
of the State.  The purchase was made of 
j Eddy, Avery &  Eddy and Eddy  Bros.,  of 
I this city,  and D. Wright of Saginaw. The 
j timber will  be converted  on  the  ground 
| into  telegraph  poles,  posts  and paving 
j blocks,  and will  be marketed in Bay City, 
Saginaw and other points.  The quantity 
of cedar being put in  this  winter  at  all 
I points on the lake between here and Che­
boygan and on  the  lines  of  railroad  is 
| largely in excess of that of any  previous 
! season.

Use Tradesman Coupon Boohs.

Rowe A Raymond  in the hardware  bust- j open a grocery and feed store here about j  .
ness.

March 1’

ame.

in a grocery stock in connection  with his 
meat market.

Minden  City—On  May  1,  Michael  Le- 
manski will  succeed  Springer  A  Co.  in 
general trade.

Bumip’s Corners—Henry Goodman has 
purchased a half interest in the hardware 
stock of Silas Loew.

Bay City—Simons A Co.  succeed  L.  M.
Simons A Co. in the new and second hand
furniture business.

Wingleton—The  W.  D.  Wing  Co.  is 
is 

Detroit—The  Detroit  Paper  Package 
Co.  has  filed  articles  of  association, 
has occupied with his  general  stock  for | Tfae capital  stock  is  sl5jooo, of which 80 
the past three  years.  He  is  erecting  a I 
per cent  is  paid  in.  The  stockholders 
shed  on  land  leased  iron the G.  R.  A L j 
are  W.  B. Thompson,  Maurice  R.  Marr 
Railroad and will pat in a line of lumber, | 
and F.  H.  Farnsworth.
lath  and shingles.

West Bay City—The building  formerly 
Lake Odessa—Stephen  S.  Haight,  fur-1 
j occupied  by  the  Crump  Manufacturing 
niture dealer and undertaker, died on the 
| Co.  as a planing mill has  been leased  by
15th from  the effects  of  la  grippe.  De-
| a company  who  propose  to  put  in  ina- 
ceased  was 61  years of  age and an active - cMnery and  manufacture car sjding  and
member  of  the  G.  A.  R.  He  was  pre- j roofing;  for which  there is  an active  de­
viously engaged in the  same  business at 
Woodland and Saranac.

mand.

about  through  lumbering  here  and 
closing out its  business.

Charlevoix—M.  J.  Stockman,  of  this 
place,  is  at Port  Orange,  Fla.,  where he 
will  remain until  spring.

Evart—By the fire of the 18th, E. F.Shaw 
loses his business building, together with 
his stock of  boots  and  shoes.  He  esti­
mates the entire  loss  at  §7,500,  with  in­
surance of $2,000  on  the  stock.  W.  W. 
Mitchell’s grocery store  and  stock  were
Welch  have formed  a  copartnership  and j damaged to the  amount  of  §2,500.  The i
opened a new hardware store.

Stanton—S.  C.  Summers  and  L.  C.

building was insured  for §500.

Muskegon—A.  Clug  has  bought 

grocery
Kobe and will  continue the business.

Big Rapids— Isaac  Netzorg,  who  has 
stock  and  meat  market  of  S. J operated a  general store  at  Mecosta  for
the past twelve years,  has leased the  va­
cant store-room  in the Yandersiuis build­
ing and will open a dry goods and notion 
store in this city about April  1.  He will 
continue the store  in  Mecosta under  the 
management of a former employe.

Pontiac—Tompkins A Williams, furni­
ture dealers  and  undertakers, have  sold 
their undertaking  business  to  E. J.  Kel­
ly-
Kalkaska—E.  M.  Colson,  formerly  a 
clerk at Alaska,  succeeds to the business 
of  George  W.  Newport  A  Co.,  confec­
tioners.

Muskegon—Mrs.  Louise  L.  Johnson, 
Miss Emma  Neumeister  and A.  D.  Berry 
purchased of  the heirs of  the  C.  S.  Mon-
North Dorr—John  Homrich  has  sold  j tague estate their »toek in the Leahy Co.,

the

Ludington—Lumber sales are  increas 
ing.  T.  R.  Lyon  sold  nearly  4,000,000 
feet last  week,  and  has  received several 
orders this week for bill  stuff  and  other 
lumber.  The prospect  brightens all  the 
time.  Lumber brings  from  50c  to  i 
thousand more than last year.

Ewen—The Ontonagon  River  Lumber 
Co. has  been  organized  to  manufacture 
and sell  lumber by E. S.  Moore and H. B. 
Nea.se.  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  E. S. B. Sutton, 
Sault  Ste.  Marie,  Mich.,  George  H. 
Moore  and Wm.  D. Crombie, of  Burling- j 
ton, Yt.  Capital  stock, §75,000.

Lapeer — During  1891,  Robert  King 
shipped  34,000,000  shingles.  He  aver-1 
aged a car a day  in  January,  and  would 
have  shipped  more  if  cars  could  have 
been obtained.  Such a demand in  J&nu- 
| ary,  usually  the  dullest  month  in  the I

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5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Allen  Hussinger has opened a  grocery 
store at Rome City,  Ind.  The stock  was 
purchased at this market.

F.  R.  Jackman,  meat  dealer  on  East 
Bridge  street,  has  closed  out  his  stock 
and retired from business.

M. A. Stephens  has  opened a crockery 
and glassware store at  Carson  City.  H. 
Leonard & Sons furnished the stock.

Chas.  L.  Harrison  and J.  C.  Hodgins 
have formed a copartnership and will em­
bark in the drug business in this city.

The  firm  of  Bauman  &  Rife,  cigar 
manufacturers on East Bridge street,  has 
been dissolved,  Geo.  W.  Rife succeeding.
Hester & Fox have sold a  new sawmill 
outfit  to  Dutton  &  Vinton,  of  Alpine, 
whose old mill was destroyed  by  fire  on
the 16th.  _____________ _

The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  is 
re-arranging  its  office,  relegating  Presi­
dent  Hazeltine  and  Buyer  Fairchild  to 
the background and  enlarging the  space 
occupied by Secretary Goodman with the 
book-keeping  department.

The Grand  Rapids  Refrigerator  Co.  is 
arranging  to erect another  large factory 
building  adjoining  its  present  building 
on Ottawa street on the east.  Work will 
be begun as soon as the weather  permits 
and  the  structure  will  be  pushed  for­
ward to completion with all  possible dis­
patch. 

________________

Henry  Lucas, grocer  at  the  corner of 
Hall and Clark  streets,  recently  uttered 
a $700 chattel mortgage  to  J.  E.  Bennett 
as trustee for his creditors.  Mr. Bennett 
found about $75  worth of  stock  and  $50 
in  good  accounts  and 
the  creditors 
threaten  Lucas  with  criminal  prosecu­
tion  unless he disgorges.

T.  H.  Atkins,  the West Carlisle grocer, 
who  was  arrested  at  the  instance  of 
Jacob  F.  Hecker,  the  Corinth  merchant, 
on  a  charge  of  peddling  without  a 
license,  was  promptly  discharged  from 
custody by Justice Westfall  on the occa­
sion  of  the  hearing, 
last  Wednesday. 
The  complaining witness was afterwards 
given  a  merciless  scoring  for  the  dis­
graceful manner in  which  he  attempted 
to prosecute the case,  which  was  wholly 
due to spite work on his part.

A.  D.  Esler,  for twenty years  manager 
of a store for the  Atlantic &  Pacific  Tea 
Co.—thirteen years in charge of  the store 
in  this  city—has  forwarded  his  resig­
nation,  to take effect  March  1.  He  has 
leased the store at 7 South Division street 
and  will  open  a  tea,  coffee  and  spice 
stock  early  next  week, 
the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company  furnished  the  stock. 
Mr.  Esler’s long experience  in  the  busi­
ness  will  undoubtedly  enable  him 
to 
register a success in his new venture.

The  Grocery  Market.

The innovation  recently introduced by 
the package coffee  manufacturers—quot­
ing their product by  tenths of a cent,  in­
stead of by eighths and quarters—is  pro­
ducing  more  or  less  confusion.  T he 
T radesm an  shares  in  the  general  de 
moralization,  having  quoted  XXXX 
20.5c  last  week,  when  it  should  have 
been 19.3c.

The Liggett &  Myers  Tobacco  Co.,  of 
St.  Louis, which pulled out of this State 
about a year ago, announces its intention 
of entering the  field  again  in  the  near 
future.

Purely Personal.

Jacob Ritzema,  the  Grand  Haven  gro­

cer,  was in town Monday.

Fred H. Ball  and  wife  have  returned 
in 

improved 

from  Bermuda,  greatly 
health.

Walter  W.  Bracy,  formerly  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  in  this  city, is 
now  weighmaster  for  the  C.  &  W.  M. 
Railway at White Cloud.

A. C.  Goehrend,  of  the  firm  of  Goeh- 
rend  Bros.,  general  dealers at  Baldwin, 
was  in  town  one  day last  week  on  his 
way south on his wedding trip.

Milo Bolender, the  Hubbardston drug­
gist,  is very  ill  with  la  grippe,  and  A. 
De Kruif.  druggist  at  Zeeland,  is  recov­
ering  from a severe  attack of  the  same 
disease.

H.  L. Welling, the  Mancelona  general 
dealer,  was  in  town  last Friday  on  his 
way  home  from  Marshall,  where  he 
bought a  bankrupt  boot  and  shoe stock 
of  the  receiver  of  the  First  National 
Bank.

Tawas—An effort is to be made  by  the 
business  men  of  this  place  to  induce 
John B.  Redhead to  remove his saw  and 
shingle mill from Redhead,  on  the  Loon 
lake  branch  of  the  Detroit,  Bay City  & 
Alpena  Railroad,  to  Tawas.  The  mill 
plant consists of a  shingle mill of  65,000 
daily  capacity,  a  small sawmill,  several 
miles  of  narrow  gauge  railroad, a  loco­
motive, eight cars and a dry kiln of 800,000 
shingle  capacity,  by  which  a  bunch  of 
shingles is reduced in  weight from 90  to 
70  pounds.  Mr.  Redhead  owns  8,000 
acres of timber—pine, norway  and hard­
wood.  He  gives  employment  to  forty- 
eight men.

St.  Ignace—O.  W.  Johnson  was  in  the 
city last week to meet Messrs. Mickleson, 
Hanson  and  Jamieson,  of  Grayling  and 
Gladwin,  who  came  here  to  buy  the 
Mackinaw  Lumber  Co.’s  sawmill  plant, 
consisting of  the mill  and all machinery 
therein,  all  the  docks  but  one,  a black- 
mith shop,  the  large barn and  consider­
able  ground.  The  gentlemen  met  and 
talked  matters  over.  Mr. 
Johnson 
thought  the  property  was  dirt  cheap at 
$10,000.  Messrs.  M.,  H.  and  J.  did  not 
think so.  Mr.  Johnson then said,  “Make 
me an offer.”  Five thousand dollars was 
offered  and  immediately accepted.  Fri­
day  evening a meeting  was  held  at  the 
Sherwood,  which  was  attended  by  the 
ntending  buyers and a number of prom­
inent  citizens.  The  latter  promised  to 
deal  fairly and  liberally by them  in  the 
way of taxes,  etc., and the deal  was then 
practically closed.  The buyers said they 
would  start  the  mill  as  early  in  the 
spring as possible,

How’s This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any 
case of  Catarrh  that  cannot be cured  by  Hall’s 
Catarrh Cure. 

„   ,  .  _
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O.

We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney 
for  the last 15 years, and  believe  him  perfectly 
honorable  in  all business  transactions and  fin­
ancially  able to carry out  any obligations made 
by their firm. 

West & Truax. Wholesale Druggists, 
Toledo, O.
Walding  Kinnan & Marvin,  Wholesale 
Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken  internally, acting 
directly  upon  the  blood and  mucus surfaces of 
the  system  Price  75c  per  bottle.  Sold  by all 
Druggists  Testimonials free. 

341

„

Notice to Stockholders.

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,  i892, 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.
I 

J. H. P. HUGHART, Sec’y.

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Special attention is invited to onr

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TO  DISTINGUISH 

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Why Wanted.
It’s  the  original  of  its 
class. 
It’s  the  favorite 
with  Druggis's, Clothiers, 
Shoe  S-ores, Hatters, Gro­
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and  in  fact  every  retail 
dealer  who wants  correct 
methods.
Write us this day for de­
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State  and  local  agents 
wanted.

STOP

and Investigate the Amer 
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does:
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that  for  our  business  we 
greatly prefer  your “Desk 
Cashier”  to  the  National, 
even at the same price, for 
every business selling bills 
of  goods, or odd  number 
sales your Desk Cashier is 
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General Merchants.

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6

T H E   MlCHLQ^JSr  TRADESMAN

The  profession  of 

At  first,  commerce  was 

Evolution of the Commercial Traveler.*
the  commercial 
traveler has passed from a chrysalis state 
into a  putative  accomplishment;  from  a 
doubtful  experiment into  a  recognized 
necessity; from a  less  attractive  pursuit 
into  a  condition of  usefulness,  honored 
by all men.  As real estate was, originally, 
the principal object of the eastern  coun­
tries,  where the feudal  system prevailed, 
so  personal property wa thes chief object 
of  commerce.  Ancient  jurists  seldom 
discussed the latter,  which  they  consid­
ered a  far  inferior  species  of  property. 
During the early  feudal  times no profes­
sion was deemed honorable except that of 
arms.  Commerce  and 
trading  were 
carried on  principally  by  the  Romans, 
Greeks.  Italians and Jews.  Every manor 
had its petty tyrant.  The feudal  barons 
oppressed the traders, seized their  goods 
and imprisoned their bodies.  There was 
no remedy, for  if  they  complained  their 
cases  were tried  before  courts  presided 
over by these  barons  or  their  deputies. 
There was no protection, no  safeguard. It 
was not until  the  commercial  republics 
of  Southern  Europe  emerged  from  the 
barbarism of the dark ages that commerce 
began to thrive.  Since that happy period 
Christianity  and  commerce  have  kept 
apace, the former softening and enlighten­
ing the world,  and the latter bringing all 
nations into acquaintance with each other, 
and helping  to  make  all  men  brothers 
for  the  first time since the confusion  of 
Babel.
inseparably 
linked with maritime  pursuits;  so  much 
so that the white  sails  of  merchantmen 
were regarded,  like white  winged  doves, 
as signals of peace,  and  could  safely  go 
where  the  heaviest  warships dared  not 
venture.  From  customs  founded upon 
utility,  and  enforcible  only  in courts of 
honor,  the  rights  and  obligations  of 
commerce  have  compelled  recognition 
from  law  courts  and  legislatures  until 
to-day  they  are  more  sacred  than  the 
feudal estates-tail were in England. Prog­
ress 
this  direction,  however,  was 
slow.  The first  maratime  code  was  that 
of the ancient Rhodians.  Then came the 
laws  of  Barcelona.  The maritime code 
of Louis XIV., the “Oleron” promulgated 
by  Richard I.  and the code of Justinian, 
found  at  Amalfi  in  1130,  quickly  fol- 
'owed.  So rapid then  was the evolution of 
commerce  that  when  the great bulwark 
of liberty,  “magna charta,”  was  wrested 
from King John at  Runnimede the rights 
of merchants.were recognized.  Follow­
ing quickly  thereafter,  in  the  reign  of 
Edward I., came the Statute de Mercatori- 
bus,  which allowed lands to be seized to 
pay  trading  debts.  From  the  reign of 
Edward 1. to that of the Tudors commerce 
advanced  “ with  wand’ring  steps  and 
slow,” and it was not until the discovery 
of  America  and  a passage by sea to the 
East Indies that its  importance and  sta­
bility  were  fully  realized.  From  that 
time  until now, aided by the  decisions of 
Lord Tenterden, Lord Chief Justice Holt, 
and  Lord  Mansfield,  in  England,  and 
Chancellor Kent and Judge Story,  in  the 
United  States,  has been a fertile period 
in the commercial  world,  resulting in the
"Response by E. A. Noonan  at  the annual banquet of 
the Western Commercial Travelers’ Association, at St. 
Louis.

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maritime  greatness  of  England,  the in­
comparable  superiority  of  the  United 
States, the humanizing and christianizing 
I of even the  Dark  Continent  and  in  the 
elevation of mankind.  It may be interest­
ing  to  know that the  Jews  were the in- 
I ventors  of  bills of exchange; that it was 
| not until the reign of William  and  Anne 
in  England  that  promissory  notes were 
I placed upon their present footing and the 
banking  system  established,  and that it 
was  not  until  the  reign of Henry VIII. 
that  the debtor’s haven, a bankrupt law, 
was first enacted.  As early as 1509  laws 
attempting to regulate trade were passed, 
one of which recited that, as hatters were 
buying bats for 16 pence and selling them 
for  5  shillings, no  hatter  should  there­
after sell his best hat above the  price  of 
20 pence.  The result was the  purchaser 
lost in quality what he gained in price.
Again, in 1548 it was enacted that sell­
ers  of  victuals  were to be punished for 
conspiring or  covenanting  to  sell  their 
commodities  at unreasonable prices,  and 
it  took  three-quarters  of  a  century  to 
show that such legislation was a mistake. 
When the citizens of Antioch complained 
to the Roman Emperor  Julian about  the 
price of poultry and  fish,  he  told  them 
they ought to be satisfied with  a  supply 
of  wine,  oil and  bread, and immediately 
fixed the  price of corn so high that  none 
but  the  rich  could  buy  it.  Although 
merchants  are  generally  scrupulous, 
honest  and  exact in their dealings, I re­
gret  to tell you  that there have been  ex 
ceptions  to this rule.  The general char­
acter  of  the  Egyptian merchant  is  such 
that the Greeks  used  the term  “to  play 
the Egyptian” ,  to  signify  cousining  and 
overreaching.  Boycotting  is  generally 
believed  to  be  of  modern  origin,  and 
hence you may be surprised to know that 
it is older  than  the  government  of  the 
United States and that it is of  American 
origin.  The  first case on record  occurred 
in Boston; a  son  of  Bernard,  the  Tory 
Governor  of  Massachusetts,  two sons of 
Lieutenant-Governor Hutchinson  and five 
ethers would not agree not to import  tea 
while it was taxed.  So a public meeting 
was held at Faneuii Hall,  and  it  was  re­
solved, as the best means of coercion, not" 
to  purchase  anything  from  them.  An 
agreement to this  effect  was  drawn  up 
and  carried  around from house to house 
and everybody signed  it.  Such,  gentle­
men, is the origin, and, somewhat in brief, 
the growth of  your  department  of  use­
fulness,  up to about 1850.  Invidious per­
sons  may  claim 
that  you  had  your 
origin with the peddler,  who  carried  his i 
stock  in trade  in  his  pack  to  sell  and 
cheat at country fairs; but I think I have 
shown that the sphere you  occupy  is the 
result of centuries of earnest,  honest  en­
deavor, which has compelled recognition 
and honor from kings, courts  and  legis­
latures; and it has been said in  England, 
“ in  this age  of  loose  morals among the 
higher classes the men of trade and busi­
ness  are,  generally  speaking,  the  best 
the  nation;  generous,  sober, 
body  of 
honest and charitable.”
Since 1850, and  particularly  since  the 
close of the  war,  your field of usefulness 
has  been  so extended and your labors so 
well  preformed,  that to-day  fully 75 per 
cent, of the business of the world is done 
by you.  Yours is a peculiar profession,

Thread.

Guaranteed  Equal  to  any  Thread ¡on] the 

Market.

40  CENTS  PER   DOZEN.

Carried  in all  Numbers, W hite  and] Black.

W.  H.  DOWNS,

SOLE  AGENT

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Dry Goods Price Current.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

“ 

.  7

.  8
7

“ 
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“ 

Comet.....................  7
Clifton CCC.

Adriatic.............
Argyle  ................. 614
Atlanta AA.......... .  6*4
Atlantic  A............
H............ ■  654
“ 
P ............ .  6
“ 
6*
D............
“ 
“  LL............ .  5)4
Amory................... .  7
Archery  Bunting.. .  4
Beaver Dam  A A.
514
.  5
Blackstone O, 32..
Black Crow.......... ■  614
Black  Rock  ...........  7
Boot, AL...............   714
Capital  A —   ........514
Cavanat V............. 514

“  Arrow Brand  514 
“  World Wide..  7
“  LL...............   5
Full Yard Wide...... 614
Georgia  A..............  614
Honest Width.........  654
Hartford A  ............  5
Indian Head...........  714
King A  A............... 614
King EC.................5
Lawrence  L L ........  5J4
Madras cheese cloth 654
Newmarket  G........6
B  .........514
N ........614
D D ...  514
X ....... 7
Nolbe R................ .  5
Our Level  Best— .  614
Oxford  R  ............ •  6)4
Peqnot.................. .  714
Solar...................... .  614
Top of the  Heap... .  714
COTTONS.
Geo.  Washington.
A B C ......................814
Glen Mills.............
Amazon.................. 8
Gold  Medal........... •  714
Amsbnrg.................7
Green  Ticket........ .  854
Art  Cambric..........10
Great Falls............ ■  6Î4
Blackstone A A......  8
Hope...................... ■  754
Beats All.................  414
Just  Out......  454® 5
Boston................... 13
King Phillip.............754
Cabot......................7
OP......  714
Cabot,  X...................654
Lonsdale Cambric.. 1014
Charter  Oak.............514
Lonsdale...........  ® 814
Conway W..............7}4
Middlesex.......  @ 5
Cleveland..............  7
No Name................   714
Dwight Anchor......  854
Oak View.................6
sh o rts.  854
Onr Own................   514
Edwards................. 6
Empire...................   7  Pride of the West.. .12
Farwell..................   754 Rosalind.................714
Fruit of the  Loom.  8)4ISunlight.................   414
Fitchville  ............. 7
Utica  Mills............ 814
“  Nonpareil  ..11
First Prize............. 614
Fruit of the Loom %.
Vinyard..................  814
White Horse..........   6
Fairmonnt..............414
Full Value............. 654
“  Rock............ 814
Cabot......................  7541 Dwight Anchor....  9
Farwell.................. 8  I
TremontN..............  514 [Middlesex No. 1 — 10
Hamllt*"! N............  614
11
L.............7
Middlesex  AT........  8
X.............  9
No. 25....  9
BLEACHES  CANTON  FLANNEL.
Hamilton N ............  7141 Middlesex A A.2
Middlesex PT.
A T.
A O.
X A.
4.
X F.
5.

.11
.12
.1314
.1714
.16
Integrity, colored... 31
colored— 20l4|White Star..............1814
“  colored..21
.............   8  Nameless............... 30
.................35
.................2714
..............30
.................3214
.................35

DRESS  GOODS.
“ 
.  9 
“ 
.1014 
G G  Cashmere.......21 
“ 
Nameless..............16 
“ 
.18 
“ 
CORSETS.

Peerless, white. ....1 8
Integrity
Hamilton 

....  8
. . . .   9
. . . .   9
...1014
CARPET

UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

3 .. 
7 .. 
8.. 

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.18141

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PR IN T S .

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CORSET  JEANS.

Coraline................19 501Wonderful............64 60
Schilling's..  .........  9 00 Brighton............... 4 75
Davis  Waists......  9 00 Bortree’s ..............  9 00
Grand  Rapids......  4  501Abdominal...........15 00
Armory..................   654|Naumkeag satteen..  714
Androscoggin.........  754 Rockport...................614
Biddeford...............  6  Conestoga.................654
Brunswick............. 614| Walworth  ...............  654
Allen turkey  reds..  5141 Berwick fancies__  14
robes...........  514 Clyde Robes...........  5
pink a purple 614 Charter Oak fancies 414
buffs..........   6  Del Marl n e cash m’s. 6
mourn’g  6
pink  checks.  514 
staples.........  514  Eddystoue fancy...  6
shirtings...  3541 
chocolat  6
rober__   6
American  fancy—   554 
sateens..  6
American indigo—   554 
American shirtings.  354 Hamilton fancy.  ...  6
Argentine  Grays...  6 
staple__514
Anchor Shirtings...  454 
Manchester fancy..  6 
....  614
Arnold 
new era.  6 
...  6 
Arnold  Merino 
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
long cloth B.1014 
Merrim’ck shirtings. 4 
11  C.  814
“  Repp fura .  814
century cloth 7
Pacific fancy..........6
gold seal......10)4
“ 
robes............  614
green seal TR1054 
Portsmouth robes...  6 
yellow seal.. 1014
Simpson mourning..  6
serge.............1114
greys........6
Turkey red.. 1014 
solid black.  6 
Ballou solid black..  5 
Washington Indigo.  6 
colors.  514 
“  Turkey robes..  714
Bengal bine,  green, 
“  India robes__714
red and  orange...  514
“  plain T’ky X 54 814 
Berlin solids.............514
“ 
“  X...10
oil bine......... 614
“  Ottoman  Tur­
“  green ....  614 
key red................   6
Foulards ....  514
Martha Washington
red 54.......    7
Turkeyjed 54........ 714
“  X  .........   914
Martha Washington
“  4 4..........10
Turkey red..........  914
“  3-4XXXX 12
Rlverpofntrobes....  5
Cocheco fancy........  6
Windsor fancy........614
madders...  6
XX twills..  6141  Indigo blue.........1014
solids........  5541
Amoskeag AC A. ...1214
Hamilton N............714
D............814
Awning. .11
Farmer................... 8
First Prize..............1114
Lenox M ills...........18
Atlanta,  D..............  6541Stark  A
Boot........................  654 No Name__
Clifton, K............... 6i4|Top of Heap
Simpson.................20

AC A......................1214
Pemberton AAA__16
York.......................1014
Swift River............   714
Pearl  River............12
Warren...................13

COTTON  DRILL.

gold  ticket

TICKINGS.

RATINES.

“ 
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” 
“ 

“ 

“ 

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

Coechco.................1014

“ 
“ 

Amoskeag..............1214
9 oz...... 1314
brown .13
Andover.................1114
Beaver Creek AA... 10 
BB...  9
“ 
CC....
“ 
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
“ 
blue  814
“  d a  twist  1014 
Columbian XXX  br.10 
“ 
XXX  bl.19

“ 
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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, bine...........12
brown....... 12
Haymaker bine........ 7M
brown...  754
Jaffrey.....................1114
Lancaster................1214
Lawrence, 9 oz........1314
No. 220....13
No. 250....1114
No. 280.... 1014

“ 
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“ 

654

Lancaster,  staple.
fancies ..

Amoskeag..............   754
“  Persian dress 814 
Canton ..  814
“ 
AFC........1254
“ 
Teazle.. .1014 
“ 
“ 
Angola.. 1014 
“ 
Persian..  814 
Arlington staple—   654 
Arasapha  fancy—   454 
Bates Warwick dres 854 
staples.  614
Centennial.............  1014
Criterion.............. 1014
Cumberland staple.  514
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................414
Elfin.......................  714
Everett classics......854
Exposition................754
Glenarle.................  654
Glenarven................ 654
Glenwood.................754
Hampton.................. 614
Johnson Ghalon cl 
14 
indigo blue 9J4 
zephyrs__16

GINGHAM S.
“ 
“  Normandie  8
Lancashire.............   654
Manchester............   554
Monogram..............  6)4
Normandie.............   714
Persian...................   814
Renfrew Dress........714
Rosemont...............   6)4
Slatersville.............. 6
Somerset.................  7
Tacoma  ...................714
Toil  dnNord......... 1014
Wabash.....................714
seersucker..  714
Warwick...............   814
Whlttenden............   654
heather dr.  8 
Indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  654
Westbrook..............8
..............10
Windermeer........... 6
York..........................6%

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GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag............  . 16141 Valley City.............1554
Stark............... ......  1914! Georgia..................1554
American...............1614 ¡Pacific.................... 1414

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End....45  I Barbour's............... 88
Coats’, J. 4 P .........45  Marshall’s ............... 88
Holyoke................. 22)41

KNITTING  COTTON.

White.  Colored.

White.  Colored.! 
8.........34 
10.........35 
12.........36 

38  No.  14 ........ 37 
“ 
39 
16......... 38 
“  18......... 39 
40 
41 
I  “  20......... 40 
CAM BRICS.

No. 6  ..  ..33 
“ 
“ 
“ 
..13
..18
..19

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

Edwards................  4
Lockwood.................4
Wood’s ..................   4
Brunswick............  4

42
43
44
45

R E D   FL A N N E L .

M IX ED   FL A N N E L .

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

Fireman..................3214
Creedmore..............2714
Talbot XXX............30
Nameless................2714
Red & Blue,  plaid. .40  IGrey S R W............ 1714
Union R .................2214 Western W  ..............1814
Windsor................. 1814P  R P ....................... 1814
6 oz Western.......... 20  Flushing XXX.........2314
Union  B................ 22l4|Manltoba................. 2314
...... 9 @1014
}...... 8  @ 9141 
........
...... 814@10  1 
1214
CANVASS  AND  PA D D IN G .
irown.  Black. I Slate. Brown. Black.
13
13
914
15
15
1014
17
17
1114
20
1254
20
8 oz.. .......   914IWest Point, 8 oz. ...1014
10 oz ...1214
,  8 0 Z. ....... 10141
Green wood, 714 oz..  914 Raven, lOoz............ 1314
Greenwood, 8 oz 
............ 1314
Boston, 8 oz............1014|Boston, 10 oz............1214

954 13
1014 15
1114 17 
I214I20
D U CK S.

Slate.
914
1014
1114
1214

DOM ET  FL A N N EL.

1114 Stark 

“
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W A D D IN G S.

S IL E SIA S.

|Per bale, 40 doz....67  60

White, doz..............25 
Colored, doz...........20
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
“  Red Cross....  9
“  Best.............1014
“  Best AA......1214
L............................. 714
G............................. 814
Corticelll, doz.........75  ICortlcelll  knitting,

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

SEWING  BILK.

.1 2   “ 8 
..12 I  “  10 

twist,doz..3714  per 14oz  ball........30
50 yd, doz. .3714)
HOOKS AND STBS—PER GROSS.
“ 
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“ 
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No  1 Bl’k & White..l0  INo  4 Bl’k& White..15
“  2 
..20
“  3 
..25
No 2—20, M C......... 50  INo 4—15  F 314........40
‘  3—18, S C...........45  I
|No  8 White & Bl’k..20 
No  2 White A Bl’k..l2 
.23
“  4 
“  6 
..26
No 2.........................28  INo 3......................... 36

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

PINS.

“ 
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NEEDLES—PER  M.

................. 1  401 S t e a m b o a t ....................
................ 1  35| G o l d   E y e d ..................
.................1  00|

. 
40
.1  50

A .  J a m e s . . . .
C r o w e l y ’s . . .
M a r s h a l l ’s ..

5— 4 . . . . 2   25
“   . . . . 2   10

TA B LE  O IL  CLOTH.

6— 4 . . . 3   2515—4 
“  

. . . s i o l
COTTON TW IN ES.

. . . 1   95  

6—4 .

.2   95

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............1814
Anchor..................16
Bristol...................13
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL.......................18141
Alabama.................  654
Alamance...............  6)4
Augusta.................714
Ar  sapha...............   6
Georgia...................654
Granite..................554
Haw  River............ 5
Haw  J ....................  5

Nashua............  ...18
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
3-ply— 17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl714 
Powhattan.............18

Mount  Pleasant—   614
Oneida....................  5
Prym ont................  554
Randelman............   6
Riverside...............   5J4
Sibley  A ...........  ...  654
Toledo....................   6

PLAID  O8NABURG8

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

7

Hardware Price Current.

These  prices  are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay prom ptly  and  buy  in  fu ll  packages.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

dlS.

Snell’s........................................................... 
60
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
J ennlngs’, genuine.......................................  %
Jennings’,  Imitation...................................50*10

AXES.

,T 
“ 
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BARROWS. 

First Quality, S. B. Bronze..........................V 7 50
D.  B. Bronze............................   12 00
S. B. S. Steel.........................  
D.  B. Steel...............................  13 50
Railroad......................................................3 14 00
Garden...................................................net  30 00
Stove.............................................................50&10
Carriage new list......................................... 70&10
Plow.............................................................40&10
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70

 
dlS.

BOLTS. 

dlS.

  8 50

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CABT. 

Well,  plain.................................................. • 3 50
Well, swivel......................................................  4 00
dlS.
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*16
Blind,  Parker’s............................................. 70*10
Blind, Shepard’s .......................................... 
70

BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

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

60

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

Cast Steel............................................ per lb  5
Ely’s 1-10............................................ per m  66
60
“ 
Hick's C. F .........................................  
G. D .....................................................  “ 
35
Musket................................................ 
“ 
60

CAPS.

CARTRIDGES.

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

chisels. 

dls.
Socket Firmer............................................. 70*10
Socket Framing............................................70*16
Socket Corner...............................................70*10
Socket Slicks...............................................70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

50
25

dls.

combs. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s ....................................... 
25
Hotchkiss..................................................... 
White Crayons, per  gross............. 12@12% dls. 10

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

dls.

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser pound................................  
07
Large sizes, per pound................................   6%

ELBOWS.

dlB.

dls.

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

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, (18; large, 126.......................  
Ives’, 1,118; 2,124; 8, fee............................ 

30
25

piles—New List. 

Dl88ton’s ...................................................... 60*10
New  American.............................................60*10
Nicholson’s ..................................................60*10
50
Heller’s ......................................................... 
Heller’s Horse Rasps...................................  
50

GALVANIZED IRON

12 

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

13 
Discount, 60

14 
GAUGES. 

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

15 

28
17

50

HAMMERS.

 

dls.

HINGES.

dls.
dlB.

levels. 

HANGERS. 

MATTOCKS.

wire goods. 

LOCKS—DOOR. 

HOLLOW WARE.

knobs—New List. 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

25!
M ay dole  & Co.’s....................................dls. 
Kip’s ...................................................... dls. 
25
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. 414  14  and
3%
10
%........... ............ net
%........... ______net
8%
\ ........................ net
7%
* ........... ............ net
7%
50
...........dls.
dls.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50*10
Champion,  anti friction.............................   60*10
40
Kidder, wood track..................................... 
Pots............................................................... 
60
Kettles..........................................................  
60
Spiders  ........................................................  
60
Gray enameled............................................. 40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware...............................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33>4 *10
dls.
Bright...................................................... 70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10*10
70*10*10
Hook’s ..............................  
70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s .................... 
70
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
55
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..................  
Russell * Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
56
55
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s ............................ 
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s ................................................... 
55
Adze Eye......................................... 116.00,  dls. 60
Hunt Bye.........................................315.00,  dls. 60
Hunt’s .......................  ............ 318.50, dls. 20*10.
dlB.
50
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’b................................... 
40
40
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry &C1p i k’s................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60410
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................66*10
Enterprise, self -measuring.......................... 
25
Steel nails, base................................................... 1 85
Wire nails, base................................................... 2 00
Steel.  Wire.
Base
60......................................................Base 
10
50......................................................Base 
40 ....................................................   05 
20
20
10 
30.....................................................  
30
15 
20............................. 
35
16..................................................... 
15 
35
12..................................................... 
15 
10......................................................   20 
40
50
8 .......................................................   25 
7 * 6 ..................................................   40 
65
90
4 .......................................................   60 
1  50
3.........................................................1 00 
2  00
2............................................ 
1  50 
F ines......... ..................................... 1  50 
2  00
90
Case  10.............................................   60 
8.................................. 
100
  75 
1  25
6.............................................  90 
100
Finish 10...........................................  85 
1  25
8.............................................1 00 
1  50
6.............................................1 15 
Clinch; 10..........................................   85 
75
90
8......................................... 1 00 
1  00
6...........................................1 15 
Barren %...........................................1 75 
2  50
dlS.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   ©40
Sclota  Bench................................................  ©60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  ©40
Bench, first quality......................................   ©30
8tanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood...........  *10
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................dls. 
70
dls.
Iron and  Tinned.........................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................  50—10
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

Advance over base: 

MOLASSES GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

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“ 
“ 
“ 

PLANES. 

rivets. 

NAILS

........... 

PANS.

dls.

Broken packs V4c per pound extra.

 

 

 

 

 

ROPES.

squAREs. 

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, H inch and larger.............................  
9¡4
Manilla.........................................................  13
dls.
Steel and Iron.............................................. 
Try and Bevels............................................. 
M itre............................................................ 

75
60
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

325
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14...................................... 34 05 
Nos. 15 to 17......................................  4 05 
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4 05 
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4 05 
Nos. 25 to 26 .....................................4 25 
No. 27...............................................   4 45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19,’86...................................... dls. 
Silver Lake, White A............................. list 
Drab A................................  “ 
White  B..............................  “ 
Drab B.................................  “ 
White C................................ “ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
50
55
35

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32 95
3 15
3 (5
3 15

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

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

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton 326
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............................... 31.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................  65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market.............................................  62%
Coppered  Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  3 25
painted....................................  2 75

wire. 

dls.

“ 

dls.

dls. 

WRENCHES. 

Au  Sable.................................................dls.  40
Putnam............................... 
05
dls. 10*10
Northwestern............................... 
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural  wrought,....................  75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable...............................75*10
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Bird Cages.................................. 
50
Pumps, Cistern...................  
75
Screws, New lis t..........................................70*10
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50*10*10
Dampers, American.................................. 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods...... 6: *10

dls.

 
 

 

HORSE NAILS.

METALS,
PIG TIN.

6Jt
7

ZINC.

26c
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.................................................... 
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2%c per pound.
680 pound  casks........................................... 
Per pound...................................'................  
%@V4.................................................................. 16
Extra W iping.................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market Indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................per  pound  16
Hallett’s ......................................  
13
TIN—MSLYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.......................... .............3 7 50
7  50
14x201c, 
10x14 IX, 
9  25
14x20IX, 
9 25

Each additional X on this grade, 31.75.

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TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.
“ 
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10x14 IC, Charcoal................................—  3 6  75
6 75
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
8  25
14x20IX, 
9 26

Bach additional X on this grade 31.50.

 
 
 

 

ROOFING PLATES

 

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“ 

6  50
.................... .......   8  50
.........................   13 50
6 00
...........—   7 50
..................  12 50
.................   15 50

“  Worcester...............  
14x20IC, 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC,  “ 
“  Allaway Grade................ 
14x20 IC, 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
“ 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
14x28 IX............................................................ 314 00
14x31  IX................................  
i £ “  i f : f°r N°-1 Bol‘‘e” ’ \ P“  P°und 

15
10

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unlike the  old-fashioned  way  of  doing 
business  where the merchant sat  behind 
the counter  waiting  for  customers,  oc­
casionally putting a small  advertisement 
in a weekly edition of the country paper, 
and exchanging his  goods for farm prod­
ucts,  early  watermelons  or coon  skins, 
and  each  night  wending  his way to his 
home to  sit  beside  the  ample  chimney 
and smoke his pipe of peace.  Tours is a 
busy,  hustling,  hurrying  life,  full  of 
hardships  and  dangers.  There  are no 
drones  in  your  hive; they have all been 
run over and  crushed  in  the  head-long 
rush.  You start  life  young.  You  live 
more, do more in a short time than  your 
ancestors did  in  years.  You  carry  the 
wares,  the intelligence, the polish of  the 
great centers of trade into the forest, onto 
the flowery plains and into the recesses of 
the mountains. As railroads bind states to­
gether  into  an  inseparable  whole  with 
bands of iron,  so you bind the urban and 
and  rural  communities  into  one  grand 
brotherhood.  By  your  politeness  and 
gentlemanly bearing you make yourselves 
equally  welcome  in the counting  house 
of the  merchant  prince,  in  the humble 
shop at the cross-roads  and in the family 
circle of the best people in the land.  By 
your accomplishments,  your  intelligence 
and your quick discretion you  obtain  re­
spectful attention; and by your  business 
qualities  and  delicate  tact  you  secure 
your  orders.  Realizing  that  he  “who 
overcomes by force  hath  overcome  but 
half  his  foe,”  and  knowing  that  “one 
touch  of  nature  makes the whole world 
akin,”  you  apply  your  pressure  with 
just  force  enough  “to waft a feather or 
drown a fly,”  and leave your customer in 
better humor with himself  and with  the 
world. 
Indeed,  without  flattery, I may 
say, you are business and social evangel­
ists.  You  spread  information, you build 
up  arid  places,  you  disseminate  good 
feeling,  your  vigor and  warmth  inspire 
others to emulation,  and your experience 
fits you to fill any position in life; in short, 
to be leaders among men.  Like the rail­
roads,  the  telegraph  and  telephone,  you 
are  modern,  progressive  and  indispen­
sable.  With the aid of the steamship and 
railway,  we see  the  result  to-day  of  the 
evolution  of  the  commercial 
traveler. 
The same manly attributes and elements 
of  character  that  established  for  our 
grand city the commercial supremacy and 
integrity  that she enjoys  evolved  from 
the energetic  drummer  of  a  generation 
ago.  We  see  a  class of merchants who 
are an honor to the country, whose names 
grace  the  annals of our commercial his­
tory  and  who have  set  a  pace  in  mer­
cantile  life  that  younger  men  should 
follow  as a  guiding light.

Finest  Constructed  and  Poorest 

Operated.

Referring  to  the  management  of  the 
Lake Shore Railroad,  Jno.  R.  Wood,  the 
veteran railway man,  recently remarked:
“The Lake Shore  is  one  of  the  most 
careless  roads 1 know  in  the  way  they 
operate  their various  divisions.  When 
traveling on that road  I have  frequently 
been  on the point of jumping  off,  and  1 
am not an excitable  man,  but  1  haven’t 
knocked  around on railroads for twenty- 
five years for nothing  and I know  when 
a train I am  traveling  on  is  in  danger. 
The Lake Shore is  the finest constructed 
and poorest operated road in the country. 
It is very conservative and given  to  old 
fogy ism.
“Before the trains  pull  into  depots  at 
terminals,  I  have  seen  the  conductors 
and brakemen  remove the bell cords and 
take  away  the tail  lights so that as soon 
as  they  arrived  at  the depot they could 
leave their trains without losing a minute. 
But then  is  just  the  time  the  bell  rope 
should  be  in  position. 
running 
through  a  yard  there  are  a  good  many 
frogs and the rear  coach  is  apt  to  jump 
the  track. 
If  the bell  cord is down,  the 
engineer  cannot be  signaled  and  a  dis­
astrous accident occurs.  There is where 
the Lake Shore is careless,  and if  I were 
in  the  railroad  business  the  first  man  1 
saw pulling down the bell rope or taking 
off  the tail  lights  before  the  train  had 
come to a dead  standstill  at  the  depot  1 
would discharge on the  spot,  even  if  he 
were the oldest man on the  road.”
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Retail  Trade  of the lolilerine State.

I time reducing rates  of  freight  and  pas- | pend largely  upon  the character  of  its
senger traffic, until 
now  it  is  conceded highways,  the  facilities  of  reaching  the
ofacial organ of Michigan Badness Men’s Association,  ^ a t rajiroa<js jn  the United  States  give 1 markets with the products of the soil  and
the  public  cheaper  and  better  service j of distributing manufactured goods, mer- 
than those of any  other  country  in  the ; chandise, etc.,  among  the  rural  inhabi- 
world,  with 
the  exception  of  a  few  tants.  The present system of subdividing 
contracted,  densely populated  countries ! road districts so that frequently one or two 
like  Belgium,  where  the  conditions are j farmers are required to take care of along 
more  nearly  allied  to  those  of 
large ! strip of bad road,  which may be used  by 
cities than to those  of such  a magnificent j others much more than  by  them,  is  not,
! domain as  is  the 
United States. i we submit,  an equitable or proper system
We are opposed to granting new powers j and  has  not resulted in the construction 
j to our government. 
Its annual  expendi-  or  maintainance  of  good  highways,  in 
| tures are now enormous, and its distribu-  this country,  we need a  system  adapted 
j tion  places  too  much political power in  to the  circumstances  and  conditions  of 
j the hands of parties with which to corrupt  our people.  We cannot expect  to  make 
Communicat 
the people. As a nation we have passed the  and preserve as good roads,  in this  coun-
Correspondents must give their full  name and | period of infancy, and, instead of extend- j try,  as they do in  the  monarchies  of  the 
tjje paternal  features of our  govern-  old  world,  where  the  people  have  but 
address,  not  necessarily for  publication, but as j 
should begin to  contract them. | little to say about taxes,  and where labor
* 
I Government should no longer attempt  to  is ruinously cheap,  but  we  can  greatly 
their papers  changed as often as desired.
do  for  tie  people what  they  are  abun- j improve  upon  present  methods.  We 
Sample copies sent free to any address.
Entered at Grand  Rapids post office as second
dantly able  to  do  for  themselves.  The  think if the care of the roads was  placed 
in the hands of counties, instead of towns
influence  of  government  should  go to-
—say in the hands of the boards of super­
ward making the people self-helpful, self- 
visors—they  might  be  better  managed. 
reliant.
Every town  would have a representative, 
presumably one of the  best-imformed  of 
its citizens,  who could attend to its inter­
ests.  A county superintendent  of  high­
ways could be  appointed  by  the  board, 
who should thoroughly  understand  road 
construction and could attend  to  all  re­
pairs and  constructions.  While all road 
taxes should be payable in money,  farm­
ers in the  vicinity  of  the  improvement 
hould be  given  preference  in  employ­
ment.

class matter.
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please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement in 
T h e  M ich ig a n  T ra d esm a n.

OWNERSHIP  OF  RAILROADS  AND 

HIGHWAY  IMPROVEMENTS.

W E D N E SD A Y .  F E B R U A R Y   2 4 ,  1 8 9 2 .

me  mailing  address  of j ment’ 

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

TELEGRAPHS.

Mr. J. W.  Baker,  on another page, pre­
sents  the  arguments  generally  used  in 
favor of government  ownership  of  rail­
roads and  telegraphs.  We  eonfess that 
we do not favor such a radical change  in 
Even 
the  policy  of  our  government. 
though  it  could  be  demonstrated 
that 
government could perform such  services 
at less cost to the  people, we  would  not 
favor it,  because we believe it  would  be 
a wide departure from  the  fundamental 
principles of democracy, because it would 
be an unwarrantable interference of gov­
ernment  with  individual  rights.  Our 
government  is 
founded  upon  the  idea 
of the sovereignty of the people, the right 
of man to  govern  himself,  the  right  of 
man  to  use  those powers with which he 
may  be  endowed  or  which he may pos­
sess,  in  such  a way  as  he  believes  will 
promote  his  well  being,  provided  that 
in doing so be does not infringe upon the 
equal  right of any  other  person  to  use 
his  powers  in  a  similar  manner.  Our 
government, all governments of  the  peo­
ple,  by  the  people,  for  the  people,  are 
instituted  primarily to protect the people 
from  such 
infringements  upon  their 
rights.

When our government begins to depart 
from this simple  basis, that of protection 
of the people in  the  enjoyment  of  their 
rights,  and undertakes  to  compete with 
the people in  their industries,  to do their 
business for them,  it begins to stray from 
its  democratic  moorings,  and 
is  very 
liable,  nay,  absolutely  certain,  to  pro­
mote the interest of some at the  expense 
of  others.  We  are  aware  that  combi­
nations of capital are required to carry on 
many of our enterprises,  but let them  be 
voluntary combinations,  under such gov­
ernmental  restrictions and  limitations  as 
will prevent their being used  for  the  op­
pression of  any  portion  of  the  people. 
Undoubtedly,  so anxious were our people 
to  have  railroads  and  telegraphs  con­
structed in every portion of our country, 
unwarrantable concessions were made  to 
induce capitalists to construct such roads, 
but such mistakes should not be repeated.
Steadily  from  the  first  have  railroad 
corporations  improved  the  construction 
and operation of railroads,  at  the  same

A great deal has been published of late 
about the condition of our country roads, 
and  comparisons  are  frequently  drawn 
between  our  roads  and  those  of  some 
foreign countries,  France,  England,  Ire­
land,  and other countries,  not to  our  ad­
vantage.  To heighten  the contrast,  pic­
tures  of  our  highways,  with  empty 
wagons stuck  in  mud  up  to  the  hubs, 
are  contrasted  with  the  hard,  smooth, 
McAdam roads in those foreign countries, 
and those  who  view  the  pictures  very 
naturally conclude that they  would  very 
much prefer the hard, smooth roads.  No 
class  better  understands  the  disadvan­
tages  of  soft, rough,  muddy roads, with 
steep  grades,  than  the  farmers 
them­
selves.  who  are obliged  to  use  them  at 
all  times,  when  the  frosts  are  coming 
out in the spring and roads seem to  have 
no bottom,  during the deep dust of  sum­
mer, during the mud  of  autumnal  rains 
and during  the  frequent  freezings  and 
thawings of  winter,  when  the  changes 
from deep mud to rough  hubs  and  then 
to impassable snowdrifts, and then  back 
again to slush  and  mud,  are  sometimes 
very rapid,  all  varieties  of  highway  ob­
struction sometimes  occurring  within  a 
single week.  All these  unpleasant  con­
ditions are realized by  the  farmer,  who 
is frequently compelled,  by necessity,  to 
nse these roads when  in  their  most  im­
passable  condition,  far  more  decidedly 
than the  townsman,  who  can  probably 
postpone his occasional  excursions  into 
the country  until  the  condition  of  the 
roads has somewhat  improved.

But the townsman need not  go  to  the 
trouble of riding into the country to  find 
wretched roads.  They can  be  found  in 
abundance in every town and city in  the 
country,  nearly  or quite as bad as in the 
most  remote  and  unfrequented  rural 
district.  The fact of it is,  the  soil  and 
subsoil  of this  fertile country is not the 
best kind of material  with which to make 
hard,  smooth,  durable roads.  Loam, or 
clay  loam,  may be excellent material  for 
producing corn or wheat,  but it does  not 
make a  good roadbed.  Stone and gravel 
are much  better adapted for such  a  pur 
pose.  When these are used intelligently 
the roads  properly  drained  and  graded 
good roads may be assured.

Good roads,  however, are of general  as 
well as of local importance.  The prosper­
ity of  an  entire  township  or  county  de-

Gripsack 'Brigade.

L.  M.  Mills will be  pretty  apt*to  walk 
straight this week,  as his wife  is  accom­
panying  him  on  his  trip  up  the  lake 
shore.

Geo. R.  Merrill,  who represented B.  T. 
Babbitt on the road  for ten years,  has en­
gaged  with  R.  L.  Polk  &  Co.,  entering 
upon his new  duties  on  Monday  of  this 
week.

C.  H. Fountain,  general  traveling  rep­
resentative  for  the  washboard  depart­
ment of  the Saginaw Manufacturing Co., 
of  Saginaw,  was  in  town  a  couple  of 
days last week.

S.  A.  Goss,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  on  East  Bridge  and 
South  Division  streets,  has  engaged  to 
represent  the  Thompson  &  Chute Soap 
Co., of Toledo,  in this territory.

M. J.  Matthews,  Secretary  and  Treas­
urer of the  Michigan  Commercial  Trav­
elers’  Association,  retired  from 
that 
position  on  February  22, to  accept  one 
with the United  States  Mutual  Accident 
Association.

Jas.  N.  Bradford  was called  to Muske­
gon last  week  by  the  serious  illness  of 
his father and mother and was compelled 
to  omit  his  regular  visits  to  the  trade. 
His  parents  have  so  far  recovered  that 
he was able to start out  on  the  warpath 
again this week.

W.  R.  Mandigo,  formerly  engaged  in 
the  drug  business  at  Sherwood, is  now 
on the road for the Ryan Drug Co., of St. 
Paul, covering  fifteen towns south of St. 
Paul.  Mr.  Mandigo’s  many 
friends 
among the trade will  be pleased to learn 
that he is  achieving success in  his  voca­
tion.

Ed.  Frick  and  Fred  L.  Fallas  were 
passengers on  the  train  which  left  the 
track near  Big  Bapids early  Wednesday 
morning.  The  latter  escaped  unhurt, 
but  Mr.  Frick  sustained  severe  bruises 
on the  legs  which  compell  him to  limp 
about as badly as Barlow has been in the 
habit of doing.

Geo.  F. Owen is  inclined  to  the  opin­
ion  that  no  inconsiderable  number  of 
people  are  suffering  from  gall  stones, 
judging by the requests he receives from 
both friends and strangers asking for the 
recipe  of  the  specific  which  effected  a 
cure in his case. 
It was nothing more or 
less than fresh  ox gall  and Turkish rhu­
barb,  ground  together  and  mixed  into 
pills, one of which was taken three times 
a day.

Charles  N.  Hatch,  a  veteran  commer­
cial traveler, during  the  past year and a 
half employed  by Walter Buhl &  Co., of 
Detroit,  was married to a Mrs. Lee,  a few 
days  ago,  at  Fenton,  and  left  with  his 
bride  the  same  day  for  St. Johns.  Be­
fore  reaching  the  latter  place,  he  was 
suddenly attacked by la grippe, and grew 
rapidly worse, dying in one of the hotels 
in  St. Johns.  Mr.  Hatch  was  about  45 
years  old  and  had  traveled  for  Detroit 
houses much of the  time during the past 
fifteen years.  His home  was at  Goshen, 
lnd.

A commercial  traveler  should  always 
be ready to answer intelligently and  cor­
rectly questions pat to him by a probable 
customer,  concerning 
the  properties, 
qualities,  mode  of  manufacture, etc., of 
the  article  or  commodity  he  offers  for 
sale.  Such knowledge  is not difficult  of 
attainment,  and its  acquirement  may be 
an agreeable occupation as well as a pay­
ing one for  his  leisure  hours.  A  sales­
man  should not  be content to simply  as- 
I sert  that  the  goods  he  offers  for  sale

No  doubt,  many  objectious  can  be 
raised against making  the  improvement 
of the highways a county matter, but  we 
think it would be much less objectionable 
than the present method,  or  than placing 
the care of the roads in the hands of state 
authorities.  One thing is  quite  certain, 
some change from the  present  wasteful, 
inefficient system of not  doing  it  is  im­
peratively demanded.

“One by  one  the  roses  fade.” 
Items 
imilar to the  following  have  been  very 
common in  the  daily  and  weekly  press 
of Michigan for  the past two years:
The last meeting of Benefit Association 
P.  of I., was held last Saturday night.  A 
motion to donate  the  furniture  was  car 
ried,  as was also a  motion  to  donate  the 
ballance of the money in the  treasury  to 
the church  bell  fund.  These  were  fol 
lowed by a motion to disband, which also 
prevailed.  This  ends  the  P.  of  I. 
Orange.

Fractional  Currency  Scrip.

A movement  in  favor  of  the  issue  of 
fractional currency is  in progress.  Bus 
iness men who  conduct a  large  business 
by mail are  much annoyed  by  the  warn 
of some mailable form of  currency.  Sil­
ver  coins are  too  heavy  and  bulky  for 
transmission  by mail,  and  are  far  from 
safe,  as  anyone  who  handles  the  letter 
can  ascertain  their  presence.  Postage 
stamps have come into extensive  use for 
the transmission  of small  amounts,  and 
this has become,  in  many  cases,  a  posi 
tive annoyance,  owing  to  their  accumu 
lation on the hands of merchants.  They 
are also bought at postoffices  which,  un 
der the law, obtain no  credit  for  selling 
them.  We  believe  that,  from 
these 
points of view  alone,  the  réintroduction 
of “fractional currency”  would be an ex­
cellent enactment on the part of the gov­
ernment.

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

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403 West Bridge St.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

The  P.  J.  Sorg  Co.  has  reduced  the 
price  of  Spearhead  to  37c  and  Nobby 
Twist to 38c.  Joker  and  Oh My  remain 
the same as before.

17 Years of  Development

HAVE  RESULTED  IN  THE

1

Which  makes, automatically, a fac simile dupli­
cate and triplicate, while  making  original bills, 
receipts,  orders,  checks,  etc.  The  original  is 
given to the customer, the  duplicate to the cash­
ier,  and  the  triplicate is rolled  up  inside  as  a 
record, and  can be taken  out at any time for ex­
amination. 
It  is  absolutely  incorruptible,  al­
ways ready, and  does  not  permit  dishonesty or 
carelessness.  It is alike a protection  to .the cus­
tomer, the salesman and  the merchant. c~:

9

Notice of DissoMon.

The  partnership  heretofore  existing 
under the name of Rindge, Bertsch & Co., 
wholesale  manufacturers  of  boots  and 
shoes,  12,  14 and  16  Pearl  street,  is  this 
day dissolved  by  mutual consent,  on  ac­
count  of  the  retirement  of  Christian 
Bertsch.

All accounts due to and from the above 
firm will be settled by  Rindge, Kalmbach 
& Co. 

L ester  J.  Rin d g e,
Ch r istia n  Bertsch, 
F red erick Kr e k e l,
J.  Geo.  Kalm bach,
W m.  Lo g ie.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Feb.  12,  1892.

NEW  FIRM.

The manufacturing and wholesale boot 
and shoe  business  of  the  former firm  of 
Rindge, Bertsch &  Co.  will  be continued 
at  the  same  location  by  the  remaining 
members of the  old  firm  under the style

° M p ,K a liH I   k  Co,

Thanking  the  trade  for  the  generous 
patronage  accorded  us 
for  the  past 
twenty-seven  years  and  bespeaking  a 
continuance  of  same,  assuring  our  cus­
tomers  that  all  orders  sent  us  will  be 
carefully  and  promptly  attended  to,  we 
are 

Respectfully,

L.  J.  Rin d g e,
J.  Geo.  Kalm bach, 
F r ed erick Kr ek el, 
W m.  L o g ie.

These  Machines  are  rented,  not  sold, and 

the saving in cost of Each 20,000 
SUITABLE  FOR  ANY BUSINESS.

bills Pays the Rental. 

Send  for  a  Full  Descriptive  Pamphlet 

Showing Different Styles.

CHICAGO

MtopapWc  Register  Co.,

154 Monroe St., Chicago.

W. V ernon  B o o th.Pres’t.

Ch a s.  P. St e v e n s, 

See’y and Gen. Mgr

We are very large receivers of the above ar­
ticles and are prepared to sell your shipments 
promptly a t the highest m arket  price  and  to 
give you quick returns. We also receive and seu

HAY,  GRAIN,  WOOL, HIDES,
GRASS SEED, BEANS, POTATOES, 

GREEN  AND  DRIED  FRUITS,
OR  ANYTHING YOU  MAY  HAVE  TO  SHIP.  L i ­
erai advances made onshipments if requested. 
Write us for  prices  or  any  information  you 
may want.

SUMMERS,  MORRISON  &  CO.. 
CHICAGO, ILL
174 S. WATER ST., 
IMPORTANT

Commission  Merchants,

To  Commercial  Trav­
elers and M erchants :

Reference: M etrnDolltnii Natl. Bunk, Chicago. 

Be sure and Mention this Paper.

- 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  the  American 
Casualty  Insurance  and  Security Co., of  Balti 
more City, Maryland, is furnishing the most  lib­
eral  accident  policy,  affording  more  protection 
for  the  money than  is  given by any other com­
pany or association doing business in the United 
States.  Its  policy  is  short  and  simple, is  free 
from all  objectionable and  unnecessary clauses 
and  conditions, and is an  absolute  contract se­
cured  by a cash  capital of  81,000,000. with  over 
8500,000  surplus,  hence  there  are  no  contin- 
■encies  as  to  amount to be paid  the  Insured or 
_iis beneficiary, as in  all  association certificates 
Those wishing the best policy issued, should call 
up telephone 1003, or address

W. R. FREEMAN, Agent, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

possess such  and  such  qualities, but  he 
should be able  to  point  out clearly  and 
logically his authority and  reasons for so 
saying. 
It pays to learn everything  you 
can which has a bearing on your occupa­
tion.  The  more  you  learn,  the  better 
you will do.

New  York  Boots  and  Shoes:  Some 
years ago David T. Winter bought a ticket 
over the Fitchburg and  Erie  roads  from 
Boston to some point in New York State, 
paying S3 extra for the privilege  of stop­
ping over at Olean, N.  Y.  He stopped at 
Olean,  as at first contemplated, but,  after 
he  had  boarded  the  train  next  day,  his 
ticket was  refused  by  the  conductor  on 
the ground that  he  did  not  have  a stop­
over check.  Winter  explained  that  he 
had paid  S3  extra  for  the  privilege  of 
stopping over on his  ticket,  and  that  if 
he didn’t have any check  it  was  because 
the conductor neglected his business and 
failed to give it to him;  that  he  had  no 
knowledge of the necessity for  any  stop­
over check.  He  accordingly  refused  to 
pay additional fare and was ejected from 
the train,  receiving  severe  injuries from 
rough usage of the train  hands.  Winter 
sued the New York,  Lake  Erie  &  West­
ern  Railroad  Co.  for  damages,  and,  al­
though the judge of the  lower  court  in­
structed the jury in favor of the  railroad 
company,  the jury  took  a  different  view 
of the matter and  brought  in  a  verdict 
in Winter’s favor for $10,000.  The main 
defense of the railroad company was that 
they  required  stop-over  passengers  to 
produce stop-over checks.  The jury  took 
a  common-sense  view  of  the  case  and 
failed to understand why  Winter  should 
be  bound  by  rules of  which  he  had  no 
cognizance;  hence  their  verdict  in  his 
favor.  Of  course,  this  verdict  did  not 
suit the railroad  company,  and  they  ap 
pealed,  until finally the case reached  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States 
Meantime, Winter died  and  the  business 
connected with his  case  was  carried  on 
by his administrator.  The Supreme Court 
sustained the verdict of the  lower  court 
The practical effect of this decision of the 
highest court in  the  land  must  be that 
when a passenger pays an extra price for 
stop-over privileges, he is entitled to those 
privileges,  even 
the  conductor 
of the road upon which he may be riding 
fails to give him a stop-over check in  ac 
cordance with that particular road’s  reg 
ulations.  Commercial  travelers  should 
make a note of this important and  inter 
esting decision.

though 

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The Tradesman Company, Grand Bapids

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

D. A. B lodgett, President.

S. F. Aspinwall, Vice-President.

Wm. H. A n derso n,  Cashier.
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M anufacturers and  Jobbers of

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Telephone 640.

260  S. IO NIA ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

A. J. SllELLMAN, Scientific Optician, 63 Monroe Street.

Eyes  tested  for  spectacles  free of  cost  with 
latest improved methods.  Glasses In every style 
at  moderate  prices.  Artificial  human  eyes  of 
every color.  Sign of big spectacles.

IO
Drugs & Medicines*

State  Board  o f Pharm acy,

One  Tear—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Two  Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Three Years—-Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor 
Four Years—George Gundrom, Ionia.
Five Years—C. A. Bugbee. Cheboygan.
President—Jacob  Jesson. Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor. Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Meetings  for  1892—Grand  Rapids,  March  1:  Star Is­
land  (Detroit),  July  5;  Marquette,  Aug. SI;  Lansing, 
November 1.

Michigan State  Pharm aceutical  A st’n. 
President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo.
Vice-Presidents—8.  E.  Parkill,  Owosso;  L. Pauley, St.
Ignace;  A. S. Parker, Detroit.
Secretary—Mr. Parsons, Detroit.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—F. J. Wurzburg,  Grand Rapids; 
Frank  Inglis  and  G.  W.  Stringer,  Detroit;  C.  E. 
Webb, Jackson.
Next place  of  meeting—Grand  Rapids, Aug. 2,3 and 4. 
Local Secretary—John  D. Muir._____________________
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President. W. R. Jewett,  Secretary,  Frank H. Escott, 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March 
June, September and December.
Grand Rapids D rag Clerks’ Association, 
resident, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith.

D etroit P h a r m a c e u tic a l  Society. 

President. F. Rohnert;  Secretary, J. P. Rhelnfrank.
Muskegon  D rug Clerks’  Association. 

President. N. Miller;  Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.
A Simple Way of Making Simple Syrup.
I have observed that when left to them­
selves, six persons  making simple  syrup 
will go to work  about five  different ways 
and no two of  their products,  made  with 
the same  material and the  same  appara­
tus, will be exactly alike.

These  variations  in  a  preparation  so 
easily made  are  very  suggestive. 
I can 
only attribute them to carelessness.  The 
very  simplicity  of  the  operation  leads 
the  operator  to  neglect  snch  ordinary 
conditions  as  are essential  to  a  uniform 
product.

I  do not  believe  that I have  ever  had 
in  my employ  any  assistant  pharmacist 
who, of  his own accord,  took the  specific 
gravity  of  his  simple  syrup, or,  in fact, 
compared  it  in  any respect  with the  re­
quirements given  in  the  U.  S.  Pharma­
copoeia. 
Indeed.  I  have  about  come  to 
the  conclusion  that  the  man  who  will, 
without supervision,  make a good simple 
syrup  every  time  he  makes  it,  is  no 
mean  pharmacist

In despair of  obtaining a uniform sim­
ple  syrup, that  should  uniformly  com­
pare with the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, unless 
I  watch  the operation  every time,  I have 
determined to let  my simple  syrup make 
itself—in other words,  I make  it  by cold 
percolation.

The  apparatus I use  cost a dollar  and 
a half,  and we now always  have on hand 
about  three  gallons  of  syrup  like  the 
sample  here  presented.  This  syrup  is 
3.4  heavier  than  that  of  the  Pharma­
copoeia.  To  bring  it  to  the  pharmaco­
poeia! strength we add 
ounce of  water 
to each  pint  when we fill  our  shelf  bot­
tle.  The  exact  proportion  is  3.4  per 
cent.;  % oz. to a pint equals 3.2 percent. 
Of  course,  when we need  to  be very ex­
act,  we  take  the  specific  gravity of  the 
syrup  in  the  can  and  add  the  precise 
amount of water needed.  This,  however, 
seldom occurs.

What is the apparatus?  At first I used 
an alcohol can, into which I had soldered 
a  diaphragm  about five  inches from  the. 
top,  and a small  cast  iron  molasses gate 
at the bottom.

This  diaphragm  is  made  of  copper, 
heavily  tinned,  with  a  support  under­
neath it to keep the  diaphragm perfectly 
horizontal.  A small  tube of  about  half 
an  inch in diameter is soldered  into this 
diaphragm  at  one  corner,  coming  right 
to the  top of  the  can.  This  allows  the 
air  from  below the  diaphragm to escape 
as  the  syrup  percolates  through.  The 
vessel  being  perfectly clean,  a  piece  of 
flannel, of  rather  close  texture, is  now

laid upon  the  diaphragm  and  twenty or 
thirty  pounds  of  granulated  sugar  is 
placed  on  top.  Upon  this  is  poured, 
gently, a  gallon  or  so  of  water, and, as 
that  filters  through  the  flannel-covered 
diaphragm, 
the  vessel  is  kept  pretty 
nearly  full, care being  taken  to  always 
have  a  considerable  amount  of  undis­
solved sugar on the diaphragm.

The first  portion that  runs through  is 
not  saturated,  but  if  left  long  enough, 
the  thin  syrup in contact  with  the  dia­
phragm  would  dissolve  sugar  up to the 
point of  saturation.  But if it be desired 
to  have  some  of  the  syrup  finished  as 
quickly as possible,  the  first  few gallons 
should  be  drawn  off  and  poured  in  a 
second  time,  upon  the  sugar  that  lies 
undissolved upon the diaphragm.  When 
once  the  point  of  saturation  has  been 
reached,  the  process  can  be  continued 
almost  indefinitely,  the  only  precaution 
necessary  being to keep  plenty of  sugar 
undissolved  on  the  diaphragm,  and  to 
pour  the water  that is added  from  time 
to time  upon  it,  in a very gentle stream.
After the  alcohol  can which 1 first em­
ployed  had  been 
in  use  six  or  eight 
months,  slight  traces of  rust  were  per­
ceptible.  This was  only to  be expected, 
because the  tinned  iron  used in making 
those cans is of the cheapest kind.

Having  found  this  simple  device  so 
convenient, the  vessel  itself  taking  up 
scarcely any room,  and  being at once an 
apparatus  for  making  and  a  container 
for keeping  the  syrup, I had a can  made 
precisely the same, only of  the  very best 
tinned iron in the market.

This has now been in  use nearly  a year, 
and has up to the  present time shown no 
signs of  rust or  impairment in  any  way.
The can is always kept full  to within a 
few inches of the top.  As often as neces­
sary,  a  few  shovelfuls of  sugar—say  20 
pounds  or  so, but we  never  weigh  it— 
are put into the can.  and a few  quarts of 
water poured gently upon it.  We give it 
no further  attention.  The  syrup makes 
itself.  Occasionally we take  its  specific 
gravity, hut  the  product  is  so  uniform 
that the proceeding is almost superfluous; 
yet we  do it to guard  against errors,  and 
as a check upon carelessness.

The  five-gallon  can  is adapted  to  the 
needs of  a store  when  the  consumption 
of syrup is not large.  Where much syrup 
is  needed,  a barrel or other  large vessel, 
preferably  of  wood,  could  easily  be 
adapted  to  do  the  same thing,  with  no 
more  trouble  and with  equal uniformity 
and accuracy. 

W.  M.  Seakby.

No  Property  in a  Secret.

A  case  has  recently  been  tried  in  a 
court  of  New  South  Wales  where  the 
doctrine has been laid down  that  the in­
ventor of a receipt has  no control over it 
except by patent.

A certain party made by  a  secret  for­
mula a  veterinary medicine, the right  to 
make which he  sold  to  another,  commu­
nicating, of course, the secret of the  for­
mula.  Subsequently, he sold the  secret 
over again  to certain other  persons,  act­
ing  in  partnership,  who  applied  for  a 
patent  in  the  name  of  the  inventor  as 
trustee for them.

The party who had  made the first pur­
chase  brought an  action  to  prevent  the 
carrying out of the  second  sale,  but  the 
parties  “of  the  second  part”  defended 
their purchase.

The  question,  said  Mr. Justice  Owen, 
who presided, did not turn  on an alleged 
infringement of a trade-mark,  or attempt

selling 

to  sell  as  goods  manufactured  by  the 
plaintiffs, goods manufactured by the de­
fendants,  but  whether  the  defendants, 
being  purchasers for  the  value  without 
notice, the plaintiffs  could restrain  them 
from  manufacturing  and 
the 
medicine.  No case was cited before him 
during  argument,  nor  could  he on  fur­
ther search find any case that clearly de­
fines  the  right  of  the  possessor  of  a 
secret process  of  manufacture, not  pro­
tected  by patent; most of the cases  seem 
to go on some contract, or trust, or confi­
dence on the part of a particular defend­
ant. 
In his opinion,  the discoverer  of  a 
secret  process  could  not,  until  he  had 
obtained a patent, claim  any property in 
such process as against the world; and, if 
so,  he  could  not  transfer  any  property 
against the world to a purchaser.  Prop­
erty may be defined  to  be  the  exclusive 
right to the  possession  or  enjoyment  of 
Something; such  right may be limited by 
time or by conditions, but  while  it  lasts 
it  must  be  exclusive.  So  long  as  the 
secret remains undivulged, it remains the 
exclusive  possession  of  him  who  has 
the secret,  but, when  divulged  or  redis­
covered,  the  exclusive  possession  has 
ceased,  and  the  justice  could  not  find 
any principle on which the divulgence of 
the  secret  could  be  restrained,  unless 
there be contract or relationship between 
the  parties  of  trust  or  confidence,  or 
some fraud in acquiring the secret.

The  justice  could  not  see  that  any 
property passed  by the  sale,  and,  as  no 
breach of  contract  was  shown,  the  first 
purchaser was held to  have no  recourse.
The doctrine here  laid down is  simply 
another way of stating  that the law does 
not consider the right to an  invention as 
a  natural  right,  but  merely  a  statutory 
one, a point  which  has  been  frequently 
discussed  in these  columns when  trade­
marks have been under consideration.

The  Drue Market.

Benzoic acid has advanced.  Opium  is 
weak but unchanged.  Morphia is steady. 
Quinine  is  unchanged.  Oil  cloves  has 
declined.  Oil cubebs is lower.  Oil cro­
ton has declined.  Oil  lomon  is  advanc­
ing.  Chlorate  of  potash  has  advanced. 
Ipecac  root  is  higher.  Turpentine  has 
advanced.

Good Words  Unsolicited.

E. 8. Shepard,  general  dealer,  McDonald:  “I 

think a good deal of The Tradesman.”

M. C. Cate, grocer, Solon:  “Am  well  satisfied 

with The Tradesman.”

Fred S. Kieldsen, Agt., grocer, Cadillac:  “En­
It 

closed  find  check  for  $2  for  your  paper. 
would be hard to get along without it."

Harrietts—John R.  Beagle  has  closed 
out  his  boot  &  shoe  business  and  re­
moved to  Illinois.

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IT IS THE  CONDITION OF 

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Llndseed,  boiled  ....  39 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
60
strained...............   50 
Spirits Turpentine__  41M  45
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian..............lx   2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars...  IX  2@4
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Ber........IX  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2M 2M®3
“  strictly  pure..... 2M  2X®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
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13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
70®75
Green,  Peninsular......  70@75
Lead,  red....................  7  @7M
“  w hite............... 7  @7M
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  GUders’........  @90
1  0 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
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Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.....................1 00@1 20

VABNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................166@1  70
Coach Body...............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn....... 1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55®t  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp.........................  70®  7

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Morphia,  S. P. & W .. .1  95@2 
C. Co......................1  85@2 10
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myrlstlca, No. 1.........   70®
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia.....................  22®  25
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2
Plcis Llq, N.»C., M gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcis Llq., quarts......  @1  00
pints.........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)___  @  3
Plx  Burgun.................  @  7
Plumb! A cet...............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii..l  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......   @125
Pyrethrum,  pv............  30@  35
Quasslae.....................  8®  10
Qulnia, S. P. & W........  31®  36
S.  German___21M® 28
Rubla  Tlnctorum........  12®  14
SaccharumLactlspv.  @  28
Salacln...................... 2 00@2 10
Sanguis  Draconls........  40®  50
4 50
Sapo,  W................... !!"l2®  14
,r  M........................   10® 12
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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 T art...  30®  33
Soda Carb.................  1M@  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............  @  5
Soda,  Ash.................... 3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas............  @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......   ®2 25
“  Myrcla 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..............2M@  3M
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae.............38  @  43
Vanilla..................... 9 0G@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph...............   7®  8

OILS.

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

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
56
39

IIAZIS L TINB

Wholesale Price Current•

Advanced—Benzoic acid, chlorate potash, ipecac root, turpentine.
Declined—Oil cloves, oil cubebs, oil croton.

ACIDUX.

Aceticum...................
Benzol cum  German..
Boracic 
....................
Carbollcum...............
Cltricum...................
Hydrochlor...............
Nltrocum 
.................
Oxalicum...................
Phosphorium dll........
Salicylicum...............1
Sulphuricum..............
Tannicum..................1
Tartaricum.................
AMMONIA.

m   io
60®  65 
30
22©  30 
43®  53 
3®  5
10®   12 
10®   12 
20
30@1  70 
IX®  5 
40@1  60 
36®  33

“ 

Aqua, 16  deg...............  3M@  5
20  deg...............  5H@  7
Carbonas  ....................   12® }4
Chlorldum...................  12© 14

ANILINE.

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

BACCAE.

Cubeae (po.  90)..........   A0®1 10
Juniperua..................
Xantnoxylum..............  25® 30

BALSAXUX.

Copaiba.......................   50@
Peru............................  @1
Terabln, Canada  ........  35® 40
Tolutan.......................   35® 50

COBTBX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Caaalae  ...............................  “
Cinchona Flava  .................
Euonymus  atropurp...........
Myrlca Cerlfera, po............
Prunus Vlrglnl....................  J*
Quill ala,  grd.......................   "
Sassafras  ......... ••••” .........
ITlmus Po (Ground  12)........  10

EXTBACTUX.
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...
po.
“ 
n o ..............
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is............
“ 
“  Ms..........
548..........
“ 
FBBBUX.
Carbonate Preclp........
Citrate and Qulnia....
Citrate  Soluble....... •
Ferrocy anldum Sol —
Solut  Chloride...........
Sulphate,  com’l .........
pure............

“ 

24®  25 
33®  35 
11®   12 
13®  14 
14®  15 
16®  17

®  15 
®3 50 
@  80 
@  50 
@  15
im@  2®  7

FLORA.

Arnica ...  .................
Anthemls...................
Matricaria 
 

 
FOLIA.
............ 

Barosma 
 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-

„ „ . n , ...... 

2s®

2°®
g g

« 
» 
“ 

Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
and  Ms............   Wg
Ura Ur si..............   8®
Acacia, 1st picked....  @
....  @

ouxxi.

ad 
“ 
JJjJ  H
sifted sorts
po.
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60) 

-
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ©

Socotri. (po.  60) 
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Ms,
16)..........................  
®
Ammonlae.................  05®
Assafoetlda, (po. 35)...  35®
Bensoinum.................  50©50® 
Camphor*.
Euphorblum  po  ..
35® 
Galbanum............
@3
Gamboge,  po........
Gualacum, (po  30)
Kino,  (po.  25)......
@
Mastic.................
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @
Opit.  (po. 3 00)...........2 0P@2
Shellac  ......................  25®
“ 
bleached........  30®
Tragacanth................  30®
hebba—In ounce packages.
Absinthium.........................
Eupatorlum.........................
Lobelia................................
Majorum.............................
Mentha  Piperita.................
“  Y lr.........................
Rue.......................................
Tanacetum, V ......................
Thymus,  V..........................
Calcined, Pat..............  55®
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20® 
Carbonate, Jenning5..  35®

MAGNESIA.

OLEtTX.

Absinthium................ 3 50®4
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®
Amydalae, Amarae__ 8 00@8
A nlsl........................... 1 80@1
Aurantl  Cortex.......... 2 50®2
Bergamll  ...................3 75®4
Cajlputl.................... 
65®
Caryophylll................  75®
Cedar.........................  35®
Chenopodll................  ®1
Clnnamonll  .
Cltronella...
Conlum  Mac 
Copaiba  .....................1  lo@l

Cubebae........................   ® 
Exechthitos..............  2 50®2 75
Erlgeron.................... 2 25@2 50
Gaultheria......................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......   ®  75
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................1  40@1  50
Junlperi.......................   50®2 00
Lavendula...................  60@2 00
Limonls......................2 50@3 00
Mentha Piper.............. 2 75®3 50
Mentha Yerid.............2 20®2 30
Morrhuae, gal.............1  00® 1  10
Myrcla, ounce...............   ® 50
Olive............................  80®? 75
Piéis Liquida, (gal. .35)  10®  12
Riclni..............................1  08@1 24
Rosmarlnl................. 
75® 
Rosae, ounce..............  ®6 50
Succlnl.........................  40® 45
Sabina.........................  90®1 00
Santal  ....................... 3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
Sinapls, ess, ounce__  ®  65
Tiglii..........................  @  90
Thyme.......................  40®  50
opt  ...............   ®  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

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fo t a ssiu k.

BICarb.......................   15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide....................  25®  27
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate, (po. 16)........  15®  16
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..............................2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  26®  30
Potas6a, Bitart, com...  @  15
Potass  Nitras, opt......   8®  10
Potass Nltras..............  7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po................  15®  18

BADIX.

“ 

Aconltum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  25®  30
Anchusa....................   12®  15
Arum,  po....................  ®  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentlana, (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 50®2 60
Iris plox (po. 35®38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  42®  45
Maranta,  Ms..............  ®  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei.............................   75@1 00
“  cut.....................   @1  75
“  pv.......................   75@1  35
Splgella.....................   48®  53
Sanguinaria, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  35®  40
Senega.......................  40®  45
Slmilax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40
M  @ 20
Sclllae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
dus,  po....................  @  35
Yalerlana, Eng.  (po.30)  ©  25
German...  15®  20
Inglber a ...................  10®  15
Zingiber  j .............. 
SEMEN.
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
..  @ 15
Apium  (graveleons)..  20®  22
Bud, Is...................... 
4®  6
Canil, (po. 18)............   8®  12
Cardamon........................1  00@1 25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Sativa.........  
4M@5
Cydonlum...................  75® 1 00
Cnenopodlum  ...........  10®  12
Dipterix Odorate........ 2 10®2 20
Foenlculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L lnl............................4  @ 4M
Llni, grd,  (bbl. 3M)...  4  @ 4M
Lobelia.......................   35®  40
Pharlarls Canarian—   3M@ 4M
Rapa..........................  6®  7
Sinapls,  Albu............   8®  9
,r  Nigra...........  11®  12

18®

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8PIBITT78.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R ......1  75@2 00
1  10@1  50
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T —  1 75@1  75
“ 
1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  B........ 1  75@2 00
Spt.  Vinl  Galll................1  75@6 50
Vinl Oporto.................... 1  25@2 00
VInl  Alba....................... 1 25®2 00

 

SFON0E8.

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

2 00
1  10
85
65
75
140

STBTTFS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Aurantl Cortes....................  56
Rhei  Arom..........................   50
Slmilax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Sclllae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunas  vlrg.........................  50

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6 00

TINCTURES.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
1  00

Aconltum NapelUs R.........   60
F ..........  50
Aloes....................................  60
and myrrh.................  60
A rnica................................   50
Asafcetlda............................  0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
“  Co..........................   50
Sangulnarla.........................  50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharides.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
Co......................   75
Castor................................. 1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona............................  50
Co......................    60
Columba.............................   60
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba.................................  50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot....................................  50
Gentian...............................  50
“  Co............................  60
Gualca................................   50
ammon..................   60
“ 
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Iodine..................................   75
Colorless.................  75
Ferri  Chlorldum...............   35
K ino....................................  50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
O pii.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany..................... —   50
Rhei.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
Veratrum Verlde.................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

‘ 
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ASther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  26®  28 
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alumen..................... 2M@ 3

ground,  (po.

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“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
4®  5
Antimonl, po.............. 
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrin..................   @1  40
Antlfebrin..................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  64
Arsenicum.................  5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............ 2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
11;  Ms,  12)..............  @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
p o ............................  @1  20
Capslcl  Fructus, a f...  @  20
po—   @  25
@  20
Bpo. 
Caryophyllus, (po.  IS)  12®  13
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  22
Centraria....................   ©  10
Cetaceum...................  @  40
Chloroform  ................  60®  63
squibbs..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd erst.......1  25@1  50
Chondrus..................   20®  25
C lnchonldine,P.4T   15®  20
German 3  ©  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
60
cent  ...................... 
Creasotum...............   @  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  @  2
“  prep..................  
5®  5
“  preclp.............. 
9®  11
“  Rubra...............   @  8
Crocus.......................  30®  35
Cudbear......................  ®  24
Cuprl Sulph...............   5®   6
Dextrine....................  10®  12
Ether Sulph...............   68®  70
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po..................   @  6
Ergota^fpo.)  85 .........   85®  90
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................  @  23
Gambler.....................   7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
French...........  40®  60
“ 
Glassware  flint,  75and2M. 
by box 70
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White................  13®  25
Glycerlna...................15M®  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  @  22
Humulus....................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  90
“  C or....  @  80
Ox Rubrum  @1  00
Ammoniati.  @1  10
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  70
.1 25@1  50
Ijnthyobolla, Am.- 
Indigo........................   75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl..........3 75®3 85
Iodoform....................  @4 70
LupuUn......................  35®  40
Lycopodium..............  45®  50
Macis.........................  75®  80
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass ArslnitlB  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1M)..........................  
a®  8
Mannla,  S. F ............   38®  40

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DRUG  CO.

Importers and Jobbern «ff

CHEMICALS  AND

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Paints, Oils ^  Varnishes.

DEALERS  Ot

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SWISS  VILLA  PREPIRIO  P IN T S.
One »f He Druggists' Seines.
W eilierlj’s  JHichigan  Oatirrk  i n e l i

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GINS,  W L S B S ,   H U M S .

We tell Liquor« for Medicinal Purposes only.
We give our Personal Attention to Mall O rdsn and Qaarantee Aattstaetkn.
All order* are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive  ¿hem.  Send in  a 

trial order.( to lfe  l Perkins Drug Go.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grocery  Price  Current•

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

and  buy in  full  packages.

Sap Sago....................  @22
Schweitzer, imported.  @30 
domestic  —   @15

“ 

CATSUP.

Half  pint, common............   80
Pint 
...........1 GO
“ 
“ 
Quart 
.............1  50
Half  pint, fancy.................1  25
Pint 
...................2.00
Quart 
3 00
............... 
5 gross boxes....................... 40

CLOTHES PINS.

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COCOA  SHELLS.

35 lb  bags......................  @3
Less quantity  ..............  @354
Pound  packages  ........  635£@7

COFFEE.
GREEN.
Rio.

Fair......................................16
Good.................................... 17
Prime...................................18
Golden.................................20
Peaberry................................20
Santos.
Fair......................................16
Good.................... 
17
Prime.................................. 18
Peaberry  .............................20

Mexican and Gnatamala.
Fair................................ ...20
Good.............................
...21
.23
Fancy............................
Maracaibo.
Prime............................ ....19
M illed.......................
...2 0
Interior......................... __ 25
Private Growth............ ....27
Mandehling................. ....28

Java.

Mocha.
Arabian...............

--- 26

ROASTED.

PACKAGE.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast 
Ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.
A rbuckle’s A riosa........  19.80
McLaughlin’s  XXXX..  19 
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case —   20 05 
Cabinets
containing 
120 1-pound 
packagei 
(similar to 
accompany 
Ing illustra­
tion ) sold at 
'  case  price,
' 
'• ■ .  with an  ad
:: 
f- 
v ) 
ditional 
charge of 
’■  -d- 
"'■V*w  90 cents for 
EXTRACT.

cabinet.
Valiev City....................... 
Felix 
...........................l  15
Hummel’s, foil........
tin 
.......
“ 
CHICO RT.

75
1  50
2 50

r. 

, 

454

CLOTHES  LINES.

Bulk.
Red..
Cotton,  40 ft........per doz.  l 25
140
160
1  75
1  90
90
1  00

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COUPON  BOOK'

50 f t ......... 
60 f t ......... 
70 ft........  
80 ft........ 
60 ft.........  
72 ft-...... 

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Jute 
“ 

Tradesman.

• 1, per hundred...............   2 00
2 SO
$ 3,I 5,
3 00
3 00
•10,
4 0U
<30,
5 06

“Superior.

$ 1. per hundred...............   2 50
I 2,  “ 
t 8,  “
I  5,  “MO,  “
•20,  “

APPLE  BUTTER

40 lb. pails  .  ......................  5
20 lb. pails.........................  5V4
Mason's,  10,30 or 30 lbs....  6
...  7

51b................ 
axle gr ease. 

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Graphite.

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“  

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Badger.

M gr. cases, per gr...........  $8 50
12*4 lb. pails, per d o z ......  7 50
251b. 
12 
100 lb. kegs, per lb............   4
250 lb. 14 bbls., per  lb........  33si
400 lb. bbls., per lb ............  314
gr. cases, per gr............  $6 50
14 lb. pails,  per doz......... 7 00
lb. 
10 
00 lb. kegs, per  lb............   314
50 lb. 14 bbls., per  lb.......   314
400 lb. bbls., per lb............   3
BAKING  POWDER.
Acme, 14 lb. cans, 3 doz 
141b.  “ 
“ 
2  “
1  “
lib .  “ 
“ 
bulk..................
“ 
Arctic, 54 »  can s........
“ 
14 »   “ 
........

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45 
85 
1  00 10 
60
1  30
2 00 
9 60

Trout.

PRUITS.
Apples.

Brook, 3 lb..........................2 50

00

3 lb. standard........... 
85
2 40 
Tork State, gallons —  
2 50
Hamburgh,  “  —
Apricots.
2 25 
Live oak.....................
Santa Cruz.................
2  00 
2 50 
Lusk's........................
1  90
Overland..................
Blackberries
90
B. &  W.......................
Cherries.
Red  ..........................
1  20 
1  75 
Pitted Hamburgh  ..
W hite.......................
1  20 1 20
E rie..........................
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
@1  25
E rie............................
California...................
Gooseberries.
! Common....................

Gages.

1  10

50

Peaches.

“ 
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lb  “
“
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io?wnces
CREAM
¡baking
P owdeR
Red Star, M ®  cans.......
........
..........
Telfer’s.  M lb. cans, doz
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54»  “ 
1 fl>  “ 
54 lb.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 
BATH BRICK.

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Pears.

Pie...........
Maxwell 
Shepard’s . 
California. 
Monitor 
Dime cans...  90  -
Oxford__
. .1  33 
4-oz 
'
.  1  90
6-oz 
3-oz 
. -2 47  ]
Domestic..................
12-oz 
...3  75;]
Riverside...............
. .1 75
IG-OZ 
Pineapples
11  40
Common.................. .
18 25 ! (
lib  
Johnson’s  sliced__
.
21  60 
5-lb 
grated__
41  80
10-lb 
Quinces.
Common....................
40
SO
Raspberries.
1  50 1
Red 
..........................
45 1
Black  Hamburg.........
85
Erie, black 
.  .
.1501
Strawberries.
Lawrence...................
Hamburgh.................
Erie............................
Terrapin.......................
Whortleberries.
Common....................
F. &  W.......................
Blueberries...............

...

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1  10 
1  50 
1  30
1  35 
1  25

1  25
2 10
1  302 50

1  30 1 50 1  40

1  35 
1  35

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BLUISH*.
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals. 

2 dozen in case.
English..........................
Bristol.............................
Domestic............... .......

“ 
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“  pints,  round  ......
“  No. 3. 
-  No. 5, 
“ 

..  90
TO
..  60
Gross
4 00
.  7 00
8 oz 
10 50
No. 2. sifting box .  2 75
.  4  00
“
.  8 00
“
1 oz ball  .............. ..  4  50
BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl.......................
200
2 25
No. 1  “ 
.......................
No. 2 Carpet..................
.................... ..  2 75
No. 1 
“ 
.  3 Oi l
Parlor Gem.....................
Common Whisk.............. ..  1  00
.............. ..  1 30
Fancy 
Mill................................ ..  3 25
Warehouse..................... ..  3 00
Stave, No.  l .................... ..  1 25
“  10.................... ..  1  50
“  15  ...  ............ ..  1  75
..  85
Rice Root Scrub. 2  row.
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row. ..  1  25
Palmeto, goose............... ..  1  50

BRUSHES.

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BUCKWHEAT  FLOUR.

Rising Sun....................
York State.....................
Self Rising, case..........

...5 00
...5 GO

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes. 
Star,  40 
Paraffine..............
Wlcking — .........

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9
li*5425

CANNED  GOODS 

PISH.
Clams.

“ 

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

Standard, 3 lb...........................2 00
Standard,  l i b ....................   85
21b.....................165
Lobsters.

Star,  1  lb.................................2 50
“  2  lb.................................3 50
Picnic, lib ............................... 2 00
“ 
21b............................... 3 00

“ 

“ 

Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb...........................1 30
2  lb.........................2 as
Mustard,  31b.......................... 3 00
Tomato Sauce,  3 lb................. 3 00
Soused, 3 lb............................. 3 00
Columbia River, flat........... 1  85
tails........... 1  75
Alaska, 1  lb..............................1 45
21b ............................... 2 10

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
“ 

Sardines.
American  54s.................4M® 5
54s................654© 7
Imported  54s.................... il@l2
54s.....................13@14
Mustard Ms.....................   7@9
Boneless.........   .............. 
20

“ 
“ 

Corned  beef,  Libby’s. 
Roastbeef,  Armour’s.
Potted  ham. *4 lb  __
.1  50 
.1 «
“  54 lb .........
tongue, 54 l b ...........1  10
54 lb. 
chicken, 54 lb.

“ 

“ 
“ 

Hamburgh  stringless........  1  25
French style........2 25
Limas  .................1  40
Lima, green.  ...................... 1 30 I
soaked.....................   80
Lewis Boston  Baked........... 1 35
Bay State  Baked...................... 1 35
World’s  Fair.........................1  35 I

“ 

Corn.

“ 

.1  25

Hamburgh  ....................  
Livingston ...  !...................
Purity 
..............................
Honev  Dew  ....................... 1  50
Morning Glory  .................  1  10
Hamburgh marrofat................1 35

Peas

“ 
“ 
“ 

early June........... 1  50
Champion Eng... 1  50
Hamburgh  petit  pois  ........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..............................16@18
Erie.....................................   95
Hubbard...................................1 20
Hamburg  ............................ 1 40
Soaked.................................  80
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 60
Excelsior 
Eclipse......................................1 GO
Hamburg.................................1 30
Gallon.... ............................2 50

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

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

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
German Sweet..................
Premium..........................
Pure............................. ..
Breakfast Cocoa..............

Amboy......
Herkimer .. 
Riverside  .. 
Allegan  ...
Skim........
Brick____
Edam  .....
Limburger 
Pineapple.. 
Roquefort  .

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

“Universal.”
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

$ 1, per hundred..............  $3 00
................3 50
«2, 
#3, 
................4 00
................5 00
• 5, 
•10, 
..............6 00
•20, 
................7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
arc  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:

200 or over............  5 per cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 

“
“
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS.

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

I Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from $10 down. I 
30 books.........................# 1  00
50
2 00 
3 00 
100
6 25 
250
500
10 00 
17  50
1000

CONDENSED MILK.
4 doz. in case.

Eagle.................................   7 40
Crown  - -  .......................... 6 25
Genuine Swiss.................. 8 00
American Swiss.................7 00

CRACKERS.
Butter.

Soda.

Seymour XXX......................6
Seymour XXX, cartoon......654
Family  XXX  . . . ...............  6
Family XXX,  cartoon.......   6J4
Salted XXX.........................  6
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........  654
Kenosha 
.........................  754
Boston..................................  8
Butter  biscuit....................   654
Soda, XXX.........................  6
Soda, City............................  754
Soda,  Duchess......................854
Crystal Wafer.....................10
Reception  Flakes...............10
S. Oyster  XXX....................   6
City Oyster. XXX.................  6
Farina  Oyster...................   6
Strictly  pure. 
30
..  35
Telfer’s Absolute.
Grocers’........................... 10@15

CREAM TARTAR

Oyster.

Pearl Barley.

Kegs.............................. 3  @4

Peas.

 

Green, 
...........................1  £0
Split, bbl.............................5 00
German.............................   454
East India..........................   514
Cracked..............................  
5

Wheat.

Sago.

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth..........................  1  10
Pollock.......................  
3JA
Whole, Grand  Bank...  6  @654
Boneless,  bricks  ........  754@8
Boneless, strips...........   714@8
Smoked...... ..............  
12
Scaled......................... 
Holland,  bbls............  
kegs............. 
Round shore, 54 bbl... 
“ 
54 bbl.. 
Mackerel.

Halibut.
Herring.

20
11 00
75
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 80
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   90

Whitefish.

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

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.
APPLES.

“ 

APRICOTS.

quartered  “ 

Sundried. sliced in  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California in  bags____
Evaporated in boxes.  ...
BLACKBERRIES.
In  boxes.........................
NECTARINES.
70 lb. bags.......................
251b  boxes.....  ............£
Peeled, in  boxes  .........
Cal. evap.  “ 
...........
“ 
in bags  ......7
PEARS.
California In bags  ......
IES.

PEACHES.

Barrels......... 
50 lb. boxes 
25 “ 

PITTED  CHERI
......
..........
............

“ 

“ 

PRUNELLES.
30 lb.  boxes.................
RASFBERSIES.
In  barrels....................
50 lb. boxes.............
25 lb.  “ 
....................
Foreign.
CURRANTS.
Patras, in barrels.......
In  54-bbls  ......
In less quantity

“ 
“ 

*
‘

PEEL.

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

25  “ 
“ 
25  “ 
RAISINS.
Domestic.
London layers  2  crown. ..1  40
S  4*
..1  65
fancy  ...
. .1  85
Loose Muscatels, boxes .. .1   25
70 lb  bags @5M
Ondura. 29 lb. boxes..  7M@  7U
.  11 ®12
“ 
Sultana. 20 
..  6M@ 6J4
Valencia, 20  “ 
PRUNES.
Bosnia  ... 
.............. @
California, 90x100 25 lb  bxs.

,.9M
.914
■  9li
Turkey............................ -  654
Silver.............................
..11

80x90 
7< x80 
60x70 

Foreign.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“
“
“

“ 

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.
No. 1,614......................... $1  75
1  60
No. 2, 654  .......................
1 65
No. 1, 6  ..........................
1  50
No. 2. 6  ........
XX  wood, white.
1  35
No. 1, 614  .......................
1  25
......................
No. 2, 614 
Manilla, white.
614................................... .  1  00
6......................................
95
Mill  No. 4....................... .  1  00

Coin.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

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

4

Farina.
Hominy.

Barrels............................ ..  3 75
G rits............................... ..  4 25

Lima  Beans.
Dried............................

4
Macc&roni and Vermicelli.

Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported........................1054@1154

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Jennings’ D C.
Lemon. Vanilla
1  25
2 oz folding box...  75
1  50
...1   00
“ 
3 oz
2 00
...1  50
4 oz
3 00
“ 
...2  00
6 oz
4 00
“ 
.. .3 00
8 oz
GUN  POWDER.

.  5 50
Kegs
Half kegs......................... ..3 00

HERBS.

“ 

55
50

-.15
..25

JELLY.

INDIGO.

@3 
.  6

Sage.
Hops
Madras,  5 lb. boxes  ........
S. F ., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.
Chicago  goods............
Mason’s,  10,30 and 30 lbs 
5 lb....................
30
Pure................................
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily...................................   18
LYE.
Condensed,  2 doz.....................1 25
4 doz.................... 2 25
MATCHES.
No. 9  sulphur...........................1 25
Anchor parlor...............— 1 70
No. 2 home 
........................1  10
Export  parlor—  
4 00

LICORICE.

“ 

 
MINCE  MEAT

5
@7

454
754
@954
8
@  854

11
115412
1254
17 
1754
18

3 or 6 doz. In case  per doz 

.1  00

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.
$1  75 
1  gallon 
.................
1  40 
Half  gallon.................
70
Q uart.................
Pint.............................
40
Half  pint  ....................... 
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
■00 
1 gallon 
4 75 
Half gallon
3 75 
Q uart........
2 25
Pint...........

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house...............
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary.......................... 
Porto Rico.
Prim e............................... 
Fancy............................... 

New Orleans.

Fair..................................  
Good................................. 
Extra good........................ 
Choice.............................  
Fancy................................ 
One-half barrels, 3c extra

1354
16
16
20

14
17
23
27
35

OATMEAL.

Barrels 200.................  @4 40
Half barrels 100................ @2 30

ROLLED OATS.

Barrels  180.................  @4 40
Half  bbls 90..............  @2 30

PICKLES.
Medium.

Small.

Barrels, 1,200 count............$4 00
Half  barrels, 600 count—   2 56

Barrels, 2.400 count..»...,..  5 00 
Half barrels, 1,200 count...  2 75

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216.........................1 75
“  T. D. full count...........  75
Cob, No. 3.............................1 25

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s ..........................  4 00
Penna Salt  Co.’s..............  3 25

“ 

ROOT BEER
Williams, per doz................ 1 75
3 doz. case......... 5 00
Domestic.

RICE.

Carolina head....................... 7
No. 1........................6
No. 2...............   @5

Broken...............................
Japan, No. 1..................
“  No. 2..................

Imported.

P ^nA

SAUERKRAUT.
Silver Thread, bbl........

.  $4 00
14 bbl — .  2 50

“ 

....6  
-...514 
...  5
...  5

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

Allspice................................10
Cassia, China in mats........  8
“  Batavia in bund — 15
Saigon in rolls........ 35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“ 
Zanzibar..................13
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
“  No. 1......................75
“  No. 2...................... 65
Pepper, Singapore, black.... 15 
*• 
white...  .25
shot........................19
“ 
Pure Ground In Bnlk.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Allspice............................... 16
Cassia,  Batavia— .............20
and  Saigon.25
Saigon...................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................30
Zanzibar................20
Ginger, African...................15
”•  Cochin....................18
Jamaica — ...........20
“ 
Mace  Batavia......................80
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste. .25
"  Trieste....................27
Nntmegs, No. 2 ...................65
Pepper, Singapore, black— 20
“ 
“  white...... 30
“  Cayenne...........— 25
Sage..................................... 20
“Absolute” in Packages.

Ms 

54s
Allspice......................  84  155
Cinnamon..................   84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  155
Ginger, Jam ...............   84  1 55
“  Af..................   84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Pepper............. 
  84  1  55
Sage.............................  84

 

SEEDS.
...............
Anise 
Canary, Smyrna.  ...
Caraway 
...............
Cardamon. Malabar 
Hemp.  Russian 
... 
Mixed  Bird 
. 
Mustard,  white  —
Poppy ......................
Rape 
........  ......
Cuttle  bone  ...........
STARCH.
Corn.

@1254 
354 8 
90 
454 
454© 554 6 
9 6 
30

 

“ 

30-lb  boxes........................   654
40-lb 
6M

Gloss.
1-lb packages......................   6
8-lb 
.........................6
6-lb 
654
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  45£
Barrels................................  4M

“ 
“ 

 

SNUFF.

Scotch, in  bladders........... 37
Maccaboy, In jars.............. 35
French Rappee, in Jars......43

SODA.

  55*

SAL  SODA.

Boxes............................... 
Kegs, English........................454.
Kegs................................ 
154
Granulated,  boxes..............  154
100 3-lb. sacks......................... $2 25
2 00
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks...................  1  85
3014-lb.  “ 
2 25
24 3-lb  cases..........................   1 50
50 
56 lb. dairy In linen  bags 
281b.  “ 
18

SALT.
 
 

drill  “

 
 

Warsaw.

56 lb. dairy in drill  bags..
281b.  “ 
.

“ 

“ 

Ashton.

75

Higgins.
Solar Rock.

56 lb. dairy In linen sacks. 
56 lb. dairy in linen  sacks 
25
56 lb.  sacks......................
Common Fine  per bbl......   90

Saginaw and Manistee. 

8ALERATU8.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s .........................   13 30
DeLand’s ...............................  3 30
Dwight’s .................................. 3 30
Taylor’s ..................................   3 00

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

SOAP.
LAUNDRY.

“ 

“ 

Thompson & Chute  Brands.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Silver,  100 12 oz.................$3 65
Snow, 100 10 oz  ..............  .  5 00
Mono, 10012oz  ................. 3 35
German Family, 60 1 lb —   2  55
7511b...... 3 10
Laundry Castile, 75 1 lb —   3 05
Marbled, 75 1 lb 
...... .  3 05
Savon Improved, 60  1 lb...  2 50
Sunflower, 100 10 oz...........  2 75
Olive, 10010 oz...................2 50
Golden, 80 1 l b .................3 25
Economical, 30  2 lb...........2 25
Standard, 30 2 lb 
........2 35
Old Country,  80  1-lb.......... 3 30
Good Cheer, 60 1 lb  ............3 90
White Borax, 100  -Si-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
...........3 75
Snow, 100 6-oz 
Cocoa Castile, 24  lb...........  3 00
Silverine, 100  12 oz............3 50
5012 oz..............   1^0
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz  ...  2 50
hand, 3 doz......... 2 50
Potash Flakes, 7210 oz.....  5 00

SCOURING AND POLISHING.
“ 
“ 

Proctor & Gamble.

TOILET.

1 

SUGAR.

Cut  Loaf....................  @  5ti
Cubes.........................  @ 4
Powdered..................   @ 4%
Granulated.. 
......   © 4
Confectioners’ A........  @4
Soft A  ......................  @4
White Extra  C............   @3%
Extra  C......................  @ 3?i
C ................................   @  3%
Yellow............ , ........ 3.44® 3y,
Less than  bbls.  &c advance

STEP LADDERS.

3 feet.
4
56 
8 
10 
12

60 
75 
1  00 
1  20 
1  50
1  75
2 25

SYRUPS.
Corn.

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

Pure Cane.

SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps..............
Sugar Creams............
Frosted  Creams.........
Graham Crackers......
Oatmeal Crackers__
WASHBOARDS.
Good Luck..................
Northern  Queen.........
Peerles  single  ...........
double...........
Universal  Protector  .. 
............
Water Witch 

“ 

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

F air...........................   @17
Good..........................  @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest...................... 32  @34
B ust............................10  @12

BUN CURED.

F air............................  @17
Good..........................  @2,!
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest...................... 32  @34
Dust............................ 10  @12

BASKET  FIRED.

GUNPOWDER.

F air............................. 18  @20
Choice........................   @25
Choicest.....................   @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to  fair...........25  @35
Extra fine to finest— 50  @05
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

YOUNG HYSON.

oolong. 

IMPERIAL.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

F air.............................18  @22
Choice......................... 24  @28
Best............................ 40  @50

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

Pails unless otherwise noted.
Hiawatha..................  
60
Sweet Cuba...............  
34
24
McGInty....................  
“  Vi bbls.......  
22
22
Little  Darling........... 
20
“ 
Vi bbl.. 
1791............................ 
20
19
1891. Vi bbls................ 
33
Valley  City................ 
Dandy Jim................. 
27
Tornado...................... 
20

Plug.

Sorg’s Brand.
37
Spearhead.................
20
Joker.......................
38
Nobby Twist.................
80
rVh
" Scotten’s Brands.
22
Zeno...........................
L. & W.......................
37
Hiawatha...................
34
Valley City...............
49
Old  Honesty..............
32
Jolly Tar....................
28
Here  It Is...................
31
Old Style....................
Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands.
...38
Something Good..............
Toss  Up........................... ...26
.  25
Out of Sight....................

Middleton’s  Brands.

Finzer’s Brands.

Smoking.

12*4

Colonel’s Choice.............. ..13
Warpath.......................... -14
Banner............................ ..14
..20
King Bee.........................
Kiln Dried....................... ..17
Honey  Dew..................... ..24
Gold  Block...................... ..28
Pfterloss.................
..24
Rob  Roy.......................... ..24
Uncle Sam....................... ..28
Tom and Jerry................. . ,25. .30
Yum  Yum....................... ..32
Red Clover....................... ..32
Navy................................ .32
Handmade....................... ..40
Frog................................ ’  »

FRESH  MEATS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
•' 
“ 
“ 

Swift  and  Company  quote as
follows :
Beef, carcass..............  5 @  6 Vi
hindquarters  ..  6V4@  7V4
@  4
fore
loins, No.  3— @  9
ribs.................  8 @ 8 Vi
rounds............
@ 5
tongues.............. @

Bologna  .................... @ 4 Vi
Pork loins................... @  8 Vi
shoulders.......... @ 6
Sausage, blood or head 
@4 Vi
liver............
“ 
@ 4 Vi
Frankfort__ @7
“ 
Mutton  ....................... @8
Veal............................  7 @8

VINEGAR.

40 gr................................ ...  8
50 gr............................... ....9

$1 for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.

Bulk, per g a l................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  7T 
tbast—Compressed. 
Fermentum  per doz. cakes..  15 
per lb-.................25
“ 

FISH  and  OYSTERS.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

@10 
@10 
@17 
@  6 
@10 
@12 
...15  @25 
..  .10  @12 
... 15  @18 
@10 ©8

....  @8

follows :
FRESH  FISH
Whiteflsh  .................
T rout........................
Halibut.......................15
Ciscoes 
....................  5
Flounders  .................  S
Blueflsh......................11
Mackerel..............
Cod.......................
California  salmon
No. 1 Pickerel............
Pike............................
Smoked White  .........
Bloater, per  box.......
oysters—Bulk.
Mediums, per  gal........
......
Selects, 
......
Clams 
Shrimps 
......
Scallops 
......
Fairhaven  Counts —
F. J. D. Selects.........
Selects ...............
F  J. D.........................
Anchor.......................
Standards  .................
Favorites....................
SHELL  GOODS.

oysters—Cans. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

#1  05 
1  60 
1  25 
1  25 
1  75

@35
@30
@23
@20@18
@16
@14

HIDES.

.1  25@1  50 
Oysters, per  100  —  
.  75@1  00
Clams. 
“  —
HIDES,  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 

I lows:
Green.......................... 3  @4
Part Cured...............   @  4V4
Full 
.................  @5
Dry..............................  5 @ 6
Kips,green  .................3  @4
“  cured.................  @5
Calfskins,  green.........  4 @ 5
cured........   5 @ 6Vi
Deacon skins...............10 @30

“ 

“ 

No. 2 hides % off.
PELTS.

WOOL.

......................50 @1 30

Shearlings................... 10 ©25
Lambs 
Washed...................... 20 @25
Unwashed..................10 @20
Tallow.......................  3Vi@ 4
Grease butter  ...........  1 @2
Switches....................  lVi@ 2
Ginseng..................... 2 00@2 50

MISCELLANEOUS.

FURS.

Outside prices for No. 1 only.
Badger.......................  50@1 00
Bear........................ 15 00@25 00
Beaver.......................3 00@7 00
Cat, wild....................  40©  50
“  house.................  10@  25
Fisher........................ 4 00@6 00
Fox, red..................... 1  00@1  50
“  cross.................. 3 00@5 00
“  grey....................  50@1  00
Lynx  ..........................2 00@3 00
Martin,  dark............. 1  0t @3 00
pale & yellow  50@1  00
Mink, dark.................  40@1  10
Muskrat.....................   03@  15
Oppossum...................   15@  30
Otter, dark................ 5 00@8 00
Raccoon.....................   25@  75
Skunk........................1  00@1  30
Wolf...........................1  00@3 00
Beaver castors, lb......2 00@5 00

“ 

deerskins—Per pound

Thin and  green  ..................   10
Long gray...  .......................   20
G ray.......................................25
Red and  blue.......................  35
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS 

WHEAT.

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

MEAL.

FLOUR.

92

1  60 
1  80

 

 

“ 

Straight, in sacks.............  4 70
“  barrels...........   4 80
“ 
Patent  “  sacks.............  5 70
“  barrels...........   5 80
“ 
Graham  “  sacks...........  2 20
“ 
2 65
Rye 
MILLSTUFFS.

Bran..................................  17
Screenings.......................  14  00
Middlings...........................18  00
Mixed Feed....................... 17 50
Coarse meal...... . 
17 00
CORN.

Car  lots............................... 43
Less than  car  lots..............45

 

OATS.

Car  lots  ..............................31
Less than car  lots..............37
HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots — 14 00 
ton lots  .......16  00
No. 1 

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OILS.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes 
as  follows,  in barrels,  f. o.  b. 
Grand Rapids :
W.  W.  Headlight,  150 
fire test (old test)  . . .   @8
Water White,  ......   ..  ©  7V4
Naptha.......................  @7
Gasoline....................  @ SV4
Cylinder...........  — 27  @36
Engine..................... 13  @21
Black. 25 to 30  deg 
@ 7J£

POULTRY.

Local dealers  pay  as  follows 

for dressed  fowls:
Spring  chickens......10  @12
Fowl.............................9  @11
Turkeys.  ...................12  @14
Docks 
.  ................... 12  @13
Geese 
...................... 11  ©12

PA PER & WOODEN WARE 

PAPER.

Straw 
.................................Hi
Rockfalls..............................2
Rag sugar............................. 2
Hardware..............................2 Vi
Bakers.................................. 2 Vi
Dry  Goods.................. 5V4@6
Jute Manilla...............   ©6V4
Red  Express  No. 1............   5V4
No. 2.............. 4V4

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TWINES.

48 Cotton....................
Cotton, No. 1........................ 18
............. 16
Sea  Island, assorted...........35
No. 5 Hemp......................... 15
No. 6  “ ..............................,.15

WOODENWARE.

Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes —  
Bowls, 11 Inch........................   1 00

Tubs, No. 1.........................   7 00
“  No. 2.......................... 6  00
“  No. 3...........................5 00
1  35
“  No. 1,  three-hoop  ...  1  60 
50
.....................  1 25
13  “ 
15  “ 
......................2 00
17  “ 
.....................  2 75
assorted, 17s and  19s  2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
Baskets, market.................  35
shipping  bushel..  1  20 
..  1  30
full  hoop  “ 
bushel......................  l 50
No.2 6 25

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“ willow cl'ths, No.l  5 75
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“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3 50
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splint 
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No.2 4 25
No.3 5 0C

Business. HILLSIDE  JAVA! And  Poor Goods 

B u sin ess.

Mar

We  Affirm  That 
Good  Goods  Make 

Grroeer\H IG H •  A r e   y o u   e n tir e ly   satisfied   "with  y o u r   sules

o f 

High Grade  C o f f e e s ?

A r e   y o u   s u r e   t h a t   y o u   a r e   sellin g   th e   b est  to  be  o b ta in e d  ? 
Hillside  Java  is  a  scientific  c o m b i n a t i o n   o f  P r i v a t e   P l a n ­
ta tio n   Coffees,  selected  b y   a n   e x p e r t,  a n d   f r o m   w h i c h   it  is 
p o s s ib le   to  m a k e   a   b e v e r a g e   t h a t   w i l l   p l e a s e   you.

C u p   q u a litie s   a l w a y s   u n i f o r m ,   a n d  
i t ?

w h e r e v e r   in tro d u c e d .  D o  you  sell 

is  a   trade  winner 

Roasted and  Packed only by

THE  T.  ]VE.  BOUR  CO.,
mo  Summit  St., Toledo, O., also  Uetroit  &  New  York.

W e are represented in Michigan as follows
Indiana,

: 
M . 

E a s t e r n   M i c h i g a n ,  P .   V .  H echler; 
I I .   G asser;  W e s t e r n   M i c h i g a n ,

¡ S o u th e r n   M i c h i g a n   a n d   N o r t h e r n  
T h o s .   F e r g u s o n   [ “ O l d   F e r g y ” ] .

14

T H E   MICHIGTUSr  TRADESM AN.

r K o o u c e   m a r k e t .

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 
$1.30@1.40for unpicked  and country picked and 
hold at $l.65@1.75 for city picked pea or medium.
Butter—Choice  dairy is  in  moderate  demand 
at  18@20c.  Factory creamery is held at 25c.
Celery—20c per doz.
Cabbages—3o@40c per doz.
Cider—Sweet, I2@i5c per gal.
Cranberries — Repacked Cape  Cod are in  fair 
demand at $6 50 per  bbl.
Dried Apples—Sundried  is held at 4)4 @5c  and 
evaporated at 6i4@7c.
Eggs—The  market  is  unsettled  and  without 
stability,  sales of  fresh  having been  made  last 
week at all prices ranging from 16@22c.  Country 
traders should be careful  not  to  stock up in the 
expectation of securing  high  prices, as a period 
of  mild weather, followed  by good roads would 
be liable to send the price down to 14 or 15c.

70c, extra fancy commanding about 80c.

Honey—15c per lb.
Onions—Dealers  pay 50@60c  and  hold at 65@ 
Potatoes—Local  buyers  are  paying  18@20e.
Squash—Hubbard, 134c per lb.
Sweet  Potatoes—2.75@83  per  bbl.  for  choice 
Muscatine stock.  The price is beyond  all  pre­
cedent in lowness, it being  claimed that present 
prices afford no margin whatever for the grower.

Turnips—25c per bushel.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

quotes as follows:
Mess, new....................................................   12 50
Shortcut.....................................................   11  75
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  14 00
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat back.............................................  13 50
Boston clear, short cut................................  13 50
Clear back, short cut....................................  14 (0
Standard clear, short cut. best................. 
14 00

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

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lard—Kettle Rendered

Pork Sausage...................................................7
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage.............................................. 9
Frankfort Sausage  ........................................  734
Blood Sausage................................................. 5
Bologna, straight........................................... 5
Bologna,  thick..............  ...............................   5
Headcheese.................................................... 5
Tierces............................................................8
Tubs................................................................ SJ4
501b.  Tins....................................................... 814
GRANGER.
Tierces........................................................ 
734
du iu uaacs............................
50 lb cases
20 
.......................... .
...
10 
... 
...................................
5 
.......................... .
..........................
3 
... 
LARD.

8
6%
834
Com-”
pound.
Tlprres
534
30 and  501b. Tubs...............
5X
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case........
634
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case.........
654
10 lb. Palls, 6 In a case..........
6346
20 lb. Palis, 4 In a  case........
50 lb. Cans...........................
5*
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs......................  6 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................6 50
Boneless, rump butts.....................................  9 50
Hams, average 20 lbs........................................ 9U
16 lbs...................................... 934
12 to 14 lbs............................... 10
picnic.................................................... 634
best boneless..........................................834
Shoulders..........................................................634
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...............................834
Dried beef, ham prices.....................................834
Long Clears, heavy........................................... 634
Briskets,  medium,..........................................  7
light.................................................7

Family.
....6
...6 *
....634 
—  63* 
...6
BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

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CUTS for BOOM  EDITIONS

---- OR----

PA 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 
Twist  .................................. 6 
“ 
Boston Cream  ..............20 lb. cases 
Cut  Loaf.............................................7 
Extra H.  H...............................cases 7 

Bbls.  Pails.
7
7
7
834
8
8

MIXED  CANDT.
Full Weight.

Bbls.

Palls.
7

 

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fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

“ 
fancy—In bulk.
Full Weight. 

Standard....................................... 6
Leader...........................................6
Royal............................................ 634
Nobby........................................... 7
English  Rock...............................7
Conserves.....................................7
Broken Taffy.................... baskets
Peanut Squares................. 
s
“ 
French Creams.............................
Valley  Creams.............................
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.......................................8
s
Modern, 10 lb. 
Pails.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  io
printed..........................................  li
Chocolate Drops.............................................  1134
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  13
Gum Drops......................................................   534
Moss Drops.....................................................  8
Sour Drops.......................................................  834
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..............................................1  00
A. B. Licorice Drops....................................... 80
Lozenges, plain................................................ 60
printed............................................65
Imperials..........................................................60
Mottoes............................................................ 70
Cream Bar........................................................55
Molasses Bar.................................................[.55
Hand Made  Creams.................................. 85@95
Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams....................................... 1  00
String  Rock.....................................................65
Burnt Almonds............................................i 00
Wintergreen  Berries.......................................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
No. 1, 
51
No. 2, 
38
No. 3, 
42
Stand up, 51b. boxes....................................  90
Floridas,  fancy.......................................... 2 75@3 00

CARAMELS.
 
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choice.......................................   ©2 50
russets.....................................   @2 50
3 50

Navals  ................................... 
“ 

Californias,  Riverside...............................2 26@2 75
4 25
Messinas, choice 200..................................2 25@2 50
300.................................  @2 50
Messina, choice, 360...............................3 75@4  00
fancy,  360.............   ...........   @4 25
choice  300...........................   @4 00
fancy  300...........................  @4 50

ORANGES.

LEMONS.

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2 
3 

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OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

“ 

141b............................

Figs, fancy layers, 61b...........................12
@14
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“  101b......................*...14
@ 15@16
“ extra 
“  201b............................  @1734
“ 
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Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box.............................   @ 9
“ 
“  50-lb.  “ 
..............................   @g
“ 
Persian, 50-lb.  box..................  436@ 5
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.............................   @ie
Ivaca.....................................  @15
California.............................   @16
Brazils, new...........................................   @  714
Filberts..................................................  @12
Walnuts, Grenoble.  ..............................  @14
Chili.......................................   @10

“  Marbot...................................   @
“ 

Table Nuts,  fancy................................   @1234
choice...............................  @1234
Pecans, Texas, H.  P.,  ...........................14  @16
Cocoanuts, full sacks............................  @4 00

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PEANUTS.

Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................   @  534
“  Roasted.................   @  7»£
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............................  @534
“  Roasted.................  @ 734
Choice, H. P.,  Extras............................  @ 434
“  Roasted.................  6  @ 6

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ELSIE  ROLLER MILLS

A.  SCHENCK  &  SON,  Elsie,  Mich.

OUR  BRANDS:

Onr Best  Patent  Strait.  B 

Granulated Meal,

Qraham’

Feed.
Prompt attention to Mail orders.

C rockery & G lassw are

LAMP BURNERS.

No.OSnn.........................................................  45
No. 1  “  ................................................  ......   50
No. 2  “  .........................................................   75
Tubular............................. ............................   75

LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per bOX.

6 doz. In box.

 
 

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First quality.
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XXX Flint.
“ 
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No. 0 Sun......................................................... 1 75
No. 1  “  ..........................................................1  88
No. 2  “  ......................................................... 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.........................................2  25
“ 
No. 1 
No. 2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top...................................... 2 60
“ 
No. 1 
No. 2  “ 
Pearl top.
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
...................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4 70
No. 1 Sun, plain bnlb,  per doz.......................1  25
No. 2  “ 
....................... 150
No. 1 crimp, per doz........................................1 35
No. 2  “ 
........................................1 60

La Bastie.

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No. 0, per  gross..............................................  23
28
No. 1, 
No  2, 
38
No. 3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz.........................................   90
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal.........................  06
Jugs, 34 gal., per doz...................................   75
....................................  90
................................... 1 80
Milk Pans, 34 gal., per doz.  (glazed 75c)__   60
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STONEWARE—AKRON.
3 to 6 gal.............................   0634
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,r  1  “ 
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GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878.

W. B aker & Co.’s
Breakfast 
Cocaa
Unlike  the 
Dutch Process

Is  Absolutely  P u n  

and it is Soluble.

No  alkalies  01 
other  chemicali 
or  dyes  are  usee 
in  its  manufac­
ture.

2 
3 

2 
3 

40
40

80
80

A   d escrip tio n   of  th e   chocolate 
Ian t, an d   of th e  v ario u s cocoa anc 
hocolate  p re p a ra tio n s  m anufac- 
u red   by  W alter  B ak er  &  Co.,  wil 
>e  sent 
to   an y   d e a le r  or 
ipplication.  ________

free 

*' 

V. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass

THE  PUTNAM  GANDY  GO’S

Oranges, Lemons, Nilts, Dates and Figs,

S P E C I A L T I E S

fc a 'tk iL  'TrvjeAeWcOC

a   a

A  

Is the Fact that the

C O F F E E S

l-j  So  Nearly  U eet  the  W ants of  the  Consumer.

LION  COFFEE,  -  -  0.  D, JAVA, 
-STANDARD  MARACAIBO-

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

SPECIALTIES—A l i. t h e A bove.

P E R K I N S   <&
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, 106 Kent st

H E S S

D E A L E R S IN

L .

NOS.  12*  and  124  LOUIS  STREET, GRAND  R A PID S, MICHIGAN. 

WE CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR MTT.L  USE.

W I N T E R N I T Z ,

RESIDENT  AGENT,

Grand Rapids.

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

15

OWNERSHIP  OF  RAILROADS  AND 

TELEGRAPHS.

Would it be  conducive to the “greatest 
good to  the  greatest  number”  and  com­
patible with the  “intents and  purposes” 
of our  free  institutions  for  the  Federal 
government to  become  possessed  of  the 
railroads  and  telegraphs  of  the  United 
States?  There  is  an  undercurrent  of 
public  opinion  growing  all  over  the 
country,  and,  although  little  compara­
tively is said,  there is, nevertheless, con­
siderable deep thinking  on  the  subject, 
particularly  in 
the  West  and  South, 
where the  People’s  party  leaders  advo­
cate  the  affirmative  openly.  The  ques­
tion may be said to be in embryo,  await­
ing developments.  Of course, the  prac­
tical  majority  of  the  American  people 
will  desire  to  retain  the  ills  we  have 
rather than fly to others we know not of, 
until  the  time  when  the  question  will 
assume a practical  aspect.  Let  us view 
both  sides  of  the  question  impartially 
and form conclusions afterward.

In  these  days  of  centralization  and 
monopolies,  the  people  must  needs  be 
thoroughly  convinced  of  the  practical 
utility of any  project  before  they  adopt 
it.  The prosperity and  general  welfare 
of  the whole country is bound up with a 
cord of  iron,  as it  were, in  her  railroad 
and telegraph  interests. 
If  these  arter­
ies of  trade are prosperous or depressed, 
the nation is affected in the same ratio.

This  much  being  admitted, the  ques­
tion naturally arises:  If the railroads and 
telegraphs  are  so  nearly  allied  to  the 
“life, liberty and  pursuit of  happiness” 
guaranteed  them  by  the  Constitution, 
should not  the  people  be  more  directly 
concerned in  their  control  and  manage­
ment?  Belgium  owns  and  operates  all 
the railroads  within  her  territory.  She 
aims to conduct the  whole  business on a 
profit of  10  per  cent, and,  so  far,  it  has 
worked  satisfactorily.  Passengers  are 
carried  for  one-fourth  of  a  cent a mile 
and school children are carried free,  and 
freight  rates  are  about  one-third  what 
they are in the United States.  Of course, 
the resources and earnings of the Belgian 
people  are  smaller  than  with  us;  their 
railway  systems  cover a  small  territory 
and  are  generally  more  favorably  sit­
uated  than  ours;  but  the  point  is  the 
Belgian government  does run  them  suc­
cessfully on comparatively  small profits. 
In time of  war  in  Germany  all the rail­
ways  and  telegraphs  become  absolutely 
the property of  the  government  for the 
time being,  and thus far that government 
has managed them successfully.Their par­
liament also has given the  imperial  gov­
ernment power to purchase  the railroads 
of  the  entire  empire,  which  is  being 
gradually done.  France is also seriously 
agitating the question.  The railroad and 
'telegraph  mileage  of  these  countries  is 
small  compared  to  that  of  the  United 
States, our country having over one-third 
of all the railways  and telegraphs of the 
world.  But  under  our  liberal laws the 
Federal government  cannot  legislate for 
all the  states in  such a manner  as to re­
lieve the people from exorbitant freights 
and unjust  discrimination  in  passenger 
rates.  The  Inter-State  Commerce  Act 
was designed as a measure of  partial  re­
lief,  but  the  interests  involved  are  so 
enormous  and the  capital so  influential 
that  things  generally  move  along  as 
usual.

Let  us  notice  a  few  facts:  Take  the 
railroads  of  the  United  States  for  the 
year 1885,  as compiled from Poor’s  Man­

ual of the  Railroads, and  that  was not a | 
very  prosperous  year  for  the  country | 
generally.  Number of miles of railroads j 
in the United States at that time, 125,152. 
Capital stock and funded debt,  total, §7,-1 
6,399, 054.  Gross  earnings,  $763,306,- 
608.  Of course, the  gross  earnings  vary 
sympathy  with  the  crops,  but  the 
money  invested  in  railroads  does  not 
ary much from  yielding 10 per cent, on j 
every  dollar 
In  the  above 
computation we have  the railroads earn­
ing  about  10  per  cent.,  when  no  other j 
fixed  property  would  yield  much  more 
than half that sum.

invested. 

The  same  year  the  Western  Union 
Telegraph  Company  operated  462,283 
miles of  wire;  delivered  42,096,583 mes­
sages,  receiving $17,706,834.  Expenses, 
$12,005,910.  Profits,  $5,700,924,  an  an­
nual profit  of  over  14  per  cent.  These 
corporations are  entitled to a fair profit, 
but,  when their  earnings  are  out  of  all 
proportion  to  the  earnings  of  other  oc­
cupations,  the  question arises:  “Is there 
a  screw 
loose  somewhere?”  A  vast 
amount of money is  required  to pay  the 
big salaries of the  officials  of  these con­
cerns,  and this money must  come  out of 
the  gross  receipts;  and  the  money  it 
takes to pay the salaries and fee the law­
yers of  any one  of  our large  companies 
would  nearly  pay the  wages  of  the en­
tire working force of  the  road.  The big 
roads  of  the  country  are  continually 
gobbling up the weaker ones,  and, as the 
various  systems  become  centralized  in 
the hands of a few  men,  the public  is at 
their  mercy  in  proportion.  Railroads 
will often,  under  various  pretexts, take 
undue  advantage  of  the  people  along 
their lines.  We have  known a company 
to charge $20 for the use of  a freight car 
to go fifty miles;  they  charged  the  same 
amount for a car on the  same line, going 
to the same  city, but  eighty  miles away; 
and  they  charged  $25  for  a  car  only 
twenty  miles  from  the  same  terminus. 
All these cars were loaded  with hogs; all 
going to the same city; one was fifty miles, 
another eighty and the last twenty  miles 
from  the  city, and  yet  the  freight  was 
nearly the same.  Was  this  right?  The 
company  simply  had  the  advantage  of 
the people;  the  shippers  must  have the 
cars, and the  only way  to  get  them was 
to pay  what  was  asked.  During  a  cer­
tain  busy  wheat  selling  season,  when 
wheat went up in price,  we  have  known 
the  railroads  to  advance  freight  rates, 
although  cars were plenty  and  to spare. 
We have  known a county to grant a right 
of way and  give a  bonus  of  $100,000  to 
get a new railroad to come  through it, in 
order to get lower rates of freight in com­
petition with  a  neighboring  road which 
always had had a monopoly  of  the  busi­
ness.  But  no  sooner  was the  new road 
built and in good running order,  the peo­
ple’s hard cash all paid  in,  than  the lat­
ter  road  absorbed  the  former,  and— 
“What  are  you  going  to  do  about  it?” 
Railroads  certainly  pay  well  or why do 
all the shrewd  financiers take the stock? 
If you say  that  many  roads  go  into  the 
hands of receivers,  being unable to make 
expenses,  is it not  because  the  “big fel 
lows” crowd them out?  But, after  these 
same defunct roads get into the hands of 
the shrewd  magnates,  how  quickly they 
become paying roads and their stock goes 
above par!

If freight  rates  were  justly  equalized 
when corn is fifty cents per bushel  in the 
Middle  States,  it  could  be shipped  at a 
profit from  beyond the Mississippi when

it  is  raised  there  at  fifteen  cents  per 
bushel.  The  same  holds  good  with 
wheat and other produce.

The  argument is  advanced that,  while 
railroads  and  like  corporations  in 
the 
hands of individuals will make these uu- 
just  discriminations,  if  the  government 
had charge of them  it would  not dare to 
discriminate, and  by  equalizing  freight 
and  passenger 
the 
roads what  they  claim  to  be,  highways 
for the benefit of the people.

rates  would  make 

that 

Against this the argument is advanced, 
that  while  it  may  be  well  enough  for 
monarchial governments  to  possess their 
railroads,  in  a country  like  ours,  where 
the  power  changes  so  often  from  one 
party to  another,  the  railroad  interests, 
vested  in 
the  hands  of  government, 
might  become a vast  partisan  machine, 
that  could  be  used  to  perpetuate 
the 
party in power.  But the same objections 
might apply to the  post office,  war,  navy 
and 
interior  departments;  nor  does  it 
necessarily  follow 
the  railroads 
would  be  or must  be  party  adjuncts. 
Public opinion would  certainly serve  to 
check a partisan  tendency  where  every­
body is interested. 
If  we  are a govern­
ment of  the people,  for  the  people  and 
by the people,  let us study  this question 
and direct legislation to serve the people 
—the greatest  good to the greatest num­
ber. 
PARENTS—Give your  children  a  knowledge 
of Book keeping, Shorthand, Typewriting,  Tele­
graphy, etc.
FOR  THEM
IT WILL  BE 

ARE YOU IN IT?

Educate them at the Grand  Rapids, Mich., Busi­
ness College,  Ledyard  Block, corner  Pearl  and 
ss  A.
Ottawa-sts.  Visit us.  For catalogue addres 
S. Parish, successor to C. G. Swensberg.

Mention this paper.

e u e r

J .  W .  B a k e r .

MUCH

If  so, let  us  hear  from  you, for  we  offer  to 
teach our short form of  double-entry book-keep­
ing  by mail in one or two months, for  the  small 
sum of $5.
On receipt of *2, we will  send scholarship and 
first set of  blank books and  instruction, and, on 
return of  first set with  one  dollar, we  will send 
you  second  set,  etc.,  until  the  four  sets  are 
understood, which completes the course.
The student will  be  thoroughly  examined  on 
each  set before  he  is  allowed  to  take  up  the 
next.  No  extra  charges  will  be  made  for the 
blanks in such cases.
The  work  is  so  arranged  that  it  takes  you 
through  an  actual  course of  business  transac­
tions,  bv  the  use  of  envelopes  representing 
different  business  houses,  and  cards  repre­
senting  money  and  different  articles  of  com­
merce.  This form  requires  only three  books  to 
complete  the  set—a  customers’ itemized ledger, 
columned cash book and a general ledger.
We  guarantee  that  our system  is  a  practical 
one, and  can  and  will  be  used  where the  old 
system  cannot, on account of the great  amount 
of  extra work  it  requires,  being  used  only  in 
large  business places where they can afford the 
expense of  having a bookkeeper.  Our form be­
ing so much  shorter, enables  anyone to  keep  a 
full  set of  books  with no  more  work  than  in 
single entry. 
Remember,  only five  dollars  and a few hours 
study  each  day  or  evening  for  one  month  to 
have  a  complete  knowledge  of  double  entry- 
book-keeping, a chance  never  before offered  to 
the public.

,  „ 

, 

,

GRIMHUIS  ITEMIZED  LEDGER  CO.,

403 West Bridge St.,

Grand Rapids. Mich.

BEANS

If you have any beans and want to sell, 
we want  them, will  give you full  mar 
ket  price.  Send  them  to  us  in  any 
quantity  up to car  loads, we want  1000 
bushels dailv.

W. T. LRMORERUX X GO.,

138, 130, 133 W. Bridge St., !
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

OfcLedgers  and  Journals* bourn I  witli 
Philadelphia Pat. Flat opening back. 
The Strongest Blank Book Ever Made.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

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

JOBBERS  OF

. j*158 &  1 oo r niton  St., Grand  Kaplds.

E N G R A V I N G

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

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

T H E

PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.,
Extensive Manufacturers.

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

The Stove in the V illage Store.

When the twilight had deepened to darkness, 
They gathered from far and near 
Old farmers who plodded the distance 
As pilgrims  their shrines to revere;
At the shabby old store at the “corners”
They met and they entered the door.
For the Mecca of these old cronies 
Was the stove in the village store.

It was guiltless of beauty or polish,
And its door was unskillfully hung,
But they made a glad circle around it.
And the genial warmth loosened each tongne; 
And they talked of  the crops and the weather, 
Twin subjects to gossip most dear,
And the smoke from their pipes, as it blended, 
Gave a tinge to the whole atmosphere.

Full many the tales they related,
And wondrous the yarns that they spun, 
And doubtful the facts that they stated,
And harmles-  the wit and  the fun:
But, if ever discussion grew heated,
It was all without tumult or din,
And they gave their respectful attention 
When a customer chanced to come in.
When the evening was spent and the hour 
For the time of their parting bad come.
They rapped from their pipes the warm ashes 
And reluctantly started for home,
Agreeing to meet on the morrow
When the day with its labors was o'er,
For the Mecca of all the old cronies
Was the stove in the old village store.
How  to  Tell  a Good  Cheese.

A good cheese, or rather a cheese  with 
an  indication of goodness,  will  stand  up 
squarely on the shelf and will have an even 
colored, not mottled rind.  A  cheese with 
a  soft,  porous  interior  will  sometimes 
have this outside  appearance,  while  the 
flavor is not to be guessed  at  by  an  out­
side application.  The mometit you press 
your finger-tips on the rind you can begin 
to judge of a  cheese’s  interior  make-up. 
If the  cheese  yields  readily  under  the 
pressure  of 
the  fingers, and  the  rind 
breaks or  does  not  spread  back  readily 
when  the  hand  is  withdrawn,  you  have 
struck a soft  article,  caused  by  a  slack 
cooling of the  curd,  a  want  of  acid,  or 
both.  At best  it  will  have  an  insipid 
flavor,  wh;ch  will  become  “off”  as  it 
grows in age.  A cheese  which  feels  so 
hard that you cannot press it on the  rind 
is either sour,  salted too  heavily,  cooked 
too much,  skimmed  or  suffering  with  a 
touch of all of these complaints combined. 
There is  nothing  more  satisfactory  to  a 
dairy enthusiast than to examine  a  good 
cheese.  To the touch it will  be  mellow, 
yet firm. 
Its rind  will  be  of  even  hue, 
elastic and free from puffs,  and the  sam­
ple will reveal  firm, close-grained,  meaty 
cheese,  buttery  and of a nutty flavor.  In 
testing the quality  of  cheese  many  ex­
perts do not  employ  the  sense  of  taste, 
I  do  not  call 
but simply that of  smell. 
myself an expert,  but in most cases I pre­
fer to test by smell  and  taste  both. 
In 
my case, the taste will often reveal  char­
acteristics of flavor which cannot  be  de­
tected by the smell.

Q uestions Cheerfully Answ ered.

From  the  New  York  Weekly.
coffee?”

Housekeeper—“Have  you  any  Mocha 
Small Dealer—“Yes, mum.”
“Genuine Mocha?”
“Just imported,  mum.”
“Import it yourself?”
I send my  orders  di­
“Oh,  yes, mum. 
“Humph!  How  much  have  you  on 

rect to the—the sultan, mum.”
hand?”

“ ’Bout 60 pounds,  mum.”
“You  have,  eh?  Sixty  pounds? 

I 
read in the paper  this very morning that 
not  over  50  pounds  of  genuine  Mocha 
reaches this country  annually.”
I had’bout 10 
pounds left over from last year.”

“ Yes, mum,  that’s true. 

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under  this 
head for two cents a word the first insertion and I 
one  cent a word  for each subsequent  insertion. I 
No advertisements  taken for  less  than 25 cents. 
Advance payment.

BU SIN E SS  C H ANCES.

" 

411

412

395

408

397

■   LIBERAL  CASH  BONUS  TO  THE  MAN 

conversant  with the manufacture of  some 
line of  furniture  or  refrigerators who  will  in­
vest  ten to fifteen  thousand  dollars as working 
capital  and take  an active  part in the business. 
For particulars, address Lock  Box 138,  Middles- 
borough, Bell Co., Ky. 

poor health.  W. L. Mead, Ionia  Mich. 

doing a good business  Reason for selling, 

iness  and  outfit.  Location  magnificent. 
Terms  reasonable.  Address  August  Leins, 
Alpena, Mich. 

I TOR  SALE—FIK8T  CLASS BREWERY BUS- 
IflOK  SALE—A  CLEAN  GROCERY  STOCK, 
I ¡TOR  SALE —SMALL,  WELL  ASSORTED 

drug stock  in  lumbering  town.  Address 
Druggist, McBain, Mich. 
YTI7ANTED—PARTNER  WITH  $1,500  CASH 
tv 
to join with undersigned  in  purchase of 
a well-established  drug  store in Grand  Rapids. 
Martin Cuncannon, 370 West Bridge street.  418
stock of  clothing, dry goods, and boots and 
shoes,  two-story  brick  block,  which  rents  for 
$475 annually.  Best location in town.  Address 
No. 412, care Michigan Tradesman. 

F~  OR  SALE  OR  WILL  EXCHANGE  FOR 
1“  TOR  SALE —TWENTY-FIVE  ACRE  FARM 

in Putnam county, Florida.  Ten acres under 
cultivation  Four acres in orange  trees, lemons 
and  limes,  grape  fruit,  citron,  pomegranates, 
quinces,  peaches,  pears,  plums,  grapes,  figs, 
guavas,  mulberries,  strawberries,  persimmons, 
dates, palms, olives, pecans, walnut, ornamental 
trees, etc.  Two story cottage, barn, buggy house, 
horse, buggy, cart and farming tools.  Place has 
been  cultivated  six  years..  Will  sell  for 12,500 
cash.  A. H. McClellan, McMeekin, Fla.
OR  SALE—GOOD NEW  STOCK  OF  BOOTS 
and shoes in best  tow n in Michigan.  Cause 
of  selling,  ill  health.  Address  No.  383,  care 
Michigan Tradesm an. 

I ¡TOR  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  tne  start.  No town 
in  the  State has  better  prospects.  This  is  the 
chance  of  a  life  time.  Address  No.  363,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

Jones. M.  D. Muskegon,  Mich. 

drug stock — New and clean.  Address F. A. 

F~OR  SALE  CHEAP  —  WELL  SELECTED 
SPLENDID  BUSINESS  CHANCE—ADDRESS 

H. T. T., Courier-Herald  office, Saginaw, E. 
S., Michigan, and get full paiticulars.  To parties 
with capital  and  hustlers in business, who wish 
to  locate in  the  best  city in the  State, this  is  a 
ehance  of  a  life  time,  and  investigation  will 
prove it, to buy the best stock and an established 
business in  the  city.  Investigate  business  and 
reasons for selling. 

■  ANTED—TO EXCHANGE GOOD  PAYING 

city  real  estate  or  timbered  lands  for 

383

363

409

391

Michigan Tradesman. 

stock  of  merchandise.  Address  No.  402,  care 
OR  SALE—A  PERKINS  SHINGLE  MILL 
complete.  Will  sell  for  cash  or exchange 
for  stock of  merchandise.  The  mill is in  good 
repair  and  is  capable of  cutting 50,000  shingles 
to-morrow.  Reason  for  selling,  have  finished 
cutting  where  the mill  now stands and  owners 
have too much other  business to attend to.  Ad- 
dress M. & S„ care Michigan Tradesman. 

402

403

SIT U A T IO N S  W A N T E D .

■TAT AN TED—RELIEF  WORK  BY  A1  YOUNG 
IT  man.  Address Registered  Pharmacist, 63 
Pine street, Muskegon, Mich. 

414

M ISCELLANEO US.

415

T?OR  SALE  —  A  NEW  SODA  FOUNTAIN, 
JF  which  has  been in use  less  than a season. 
Will  sell  at a large  sacrifice  and on  easy terms. 
Fountain can  be  seen  at  my  store,  89  Monroe 
street.  Geo. G. Steketee. 

I ¡TOR SALE—CHEAP  ENOUGH  FOR AN  IN 

■  ANT ED  —  REGISTERED  ASSISTANT 

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
pharmacist who  is  experienced  not only 
in his  profession  but  also in groceries and  pro­
visions.  Must  be  a  married  man  and  able  to 
speak  German  or  Swede,  in  connection  with 
English.  Wages moderate,  but  steady employ­
ment to the right man.  A. M ulholland, Jr., Ash­
ton, Mich. 

416
PLANTS, 
TOOLS, 
ETC.
NEW  C R OP.

EVERYTHING

DO  YOU  USE COUPON  BOOKS ?  IF  SO, DO 
you buy of the largest manufacturers in the 
United States?  If you do, you  are  customers of 
the Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.
I TOR SALE—TWO  HUNDRED  ACRES  LAND  (160 IM- 

'  proved), located in th e fru it belt of  Oceana coun­
ty,  Mich.  Land  fitted  for  m achinery,  good  fences, 
large  curb  roof  barn  with  underground  for  stock, 
horse barn and other necessary farm  buildings.  New 
windmill furnishes w ater for house and barns.  E ight­
een acres apple bearing orchard, also 1,000 peach trees, 
two years old, looking th rifty .  Price, $35 per acre, or 
will exchange for stock o f dry goods.  If any difference 
wiU pay cash.  A. Retan, L ittle Rock, Ark. 

341

410

359

386

401 

'  of  merchandise,  the  I.  O.  O.  F.  block  in 
Sparta.  For  particulars, write to Box 219, Spar­
ta, Mich.  Here’s a bargain 1 

I ¡TOR  SALE  OR  WILL  TRADE  FOR  STOCK 
F OR  RENT —STORE  BUILDING  FOR  A 

general  country  store or lumber  business. 
Public ball over store.  Dwelling attached, large 
enough  for two  families.  Enquire of  A. Bonz, 
Alan son, Emmet County, Mich. 
FOR  SALE—a bout  lOO  POUNDS  OF  NON- 
pareil  type,  well  assorted  as  to  figures, 
fractions  ana  ieaders.  Just  the  thing  for  a 
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. 
\ \ T E   HAVE  VERY  FINE  RED  GUM  TIM- 
I I   ber and want to contract  with  consumer 
to  saw  and  pile  100,000 to  1,000,000  feet.  E  M. 
Ford Land & Timber Co., Gilmore, Ark. 
UR  SALE-BEST  RESIDENCE  LOT  IN 
Grand Rapids, 70x175 feet, beautifully shad­
ed with  native  oaks, situated in gool  residence 
locality,  only 200  feet  from  eiectric  street  car 
line.  Will sell  for $2 500 cash, or part cash, pay - 
ments to suit.  E. A, Stowe, 100 Louis St. 
\ \ T ANTED—GOOD  LOCATION  FOR  HARD- 
I I   ware store  by a live  dealer who  carries a 
good stock.  No  second-class  town  need  apply. 
Address No. 406, care Michigan Tradesman.  406
etc.  Best  country  location  in  Michigan. 
Postoffice and ticket office In store.  Trade cash. 
Fixtures go with  the  store.  Stock  all  sold out. 
Part  cash, half  cost  price  takes  this  property. 
This  is  a  rare  chance.  Address  No.  407,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

F o r  sa le  —  st o r e,  c o tta g e,  b a rn s,

I ¡TOR  SALE—NEARLY  NEW  YOsT  TYPE- 

writer.  Reason  for  selling, we use a Bar- 
Lock and  consider it superior  in  every respect. 
Tradesman Company, 100 Louis street.
YIT AN TED—REGISTERED  OR  ASSISTANT 
l l  
drug  clerk.  One who can  speak Swedish 
preferred.  Wages  moderate.  J.  M. Perry, Tus 
tin, Mich. 

■ TANTKD—A  GOOD  LOCATION  FOR  FUR- 

'  niture  and  undertaking  business  in  a 
town  of  1,500  to  5,000  inhabitants;  would  buy 
established  business.  W.  &  W.,  box  35, Ypsi- 
lanti,  MIeh. 
OR  SALE —GOOD  DIVIDEND - PAYING 
stocks in banking, manufacturing and mcr 
cantile  companies.  E. A. Stowe,  100  Louis  St., 
Grand Rapids, 

354 

370

407

404

405

Grand  Rapids  6s Indiana.
Schedule  in effect  January  10,1802.

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive from  Leave going 
North.
7:06  a m
11 :S0 a m
4:15  p m
10:90 p m
Train  arriving at 0:20  daily;  all  other  trains  daily 

South. 
For Saginaw  and Cadillac.........  6:15 am  
For Traverse City A Mackinaw 
9:20 am  
For Saginaw A  Traverse  C ity..  2:00 p m 
For  Petoskey A Mackinaw.......   8:10 p m 
From Kalamazoo and Chicago.  8:95 p m 
except Sunday.

TRA INS  GOING  SO U TH .

Arrive from  Leave going 

South.
7:00 am
10:90  am
2:00  p m
6:00  p m
11:06 p m
Trains leaving at 6:00 p. m. and 11:05 p. m. run daily; 

North. 
For  Cincinnati.............................   6:20 a m  
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago... 
For Fort Wayne and the  East..  11:50 a m 
For  Cincinnati..............................  6:30 p m 
For Chicago.................................... 10:40 pm  
From Saginaw...............................10:40 pm
all other trains daily except Sunday.

For Muskegon—Leave. 

M u skegon, G rand R ap id s A  In d ia n a .  - 
From Muskegon—Arrive.
7:00  am  
10:10 am
11:26 a m  
6:40 p m 

4:40 pm
0:05 p m

SLEEPING  A  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

N O R TH

1 1 :3 0   a  m  tr a in .—Parlor chair  car  G’d 
Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
1 0 : 3 0   p   m  train.—Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Petoskey and Mackinaw. 
S O U T H —7: OO am  train.—Parlor chair car Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
1 0 :3 0   a m   tr a in .—Wagner  Parlor  Car 
Grand Rapids to  Chicago.
6 :0 0   p m   tr a in .—Wagner Sleeping  Car 
Grand  Rapids to Cincinnati.
11 ;0 5   p  m  t r a in .—Wagner Sleeping Car 

__________Grand Rapids to Chicago.

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

10:30am 
3:65-pm 

LvGrand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 

11:06pm
0:60am
10:30 a m train through Wagner Parlor Oar.
11:05 p m train dally, through Wagner  Bleeping Car. 
10:10pm
6:16  am  
3:10  p  m  through  Wagner  Parlor  Car.  10:10  p  m 

3:10p m  
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
3:35 pm  
train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car.

7:06am 
2:00 pm  

2:00pm 
0:00pm 

Railway.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

Through ticket, and full Information  can  be had by 
calling upon A. Almqulst,  ticket  agent  at  Union Sta­
tion,  or  George  W.  Munson,  Union  Ticket  Agent, 67 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.
______________ General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
Toledo,  Ann  Arbor  6s  North  Michigan 
In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Mllwauk  e 
offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  betwe  u 
Grand Rapids and Toledo.
Lv. Grand Rapids a t......7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t ............... 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m.
Lv. Grand Rapids at......6:50 a. m. and 3:45 p. m.
Ar. Toledo at................1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m.

VIA D., G.  H. A M.

VIA D., L. A N.

Return connections equally as good.

W. ,H.  B e n n ett, General Pass. Agent, 
Toledo, Ohio.

“  The Niagara Falls Route.”

M ic h ig a n  (T e n t f a l

DKPABT.  A RRIV E
Detroit Express.................   ................7:00 am   10:00 p m
Mixed  ....................................................  7:05am  4:S0  pm
Day  Express........................................  1:20 p m   10:00 am
•Atlantic A Pacific Express..............10  SO p m 
6:00 am
New York Express.............................. 6:40 p m  12:40 p m

•Daily.
All other daily except Sunday.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Express 
trains to and from Detroit.
Elegant  parlor  cars  leave Grand  Rapids on Detroit 
Express at 7 a. in.,  returning  leave  Detroit  4:45 p. m. 
arrive in Grand Rapids 10 p. m.

TIME TABLE

Fred M. Briggs. Gen'l Agent. 86 Monroe St.
A. Almqujst, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Gko. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office. 67 Monroe St. 
O. W. Rugglrs  G. P.  A  T. Agent., Chicago.

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

E A S T W A R D .

Trains Leave
tNo.  14 tNo.  16|tNo.  18 •No.  82
G’d  Rapids, Lv 6 50am 1 ) 20am  3 25pm 10 55pm
Ionia......... . Ar 7 45am 11 25am I  4 27pm 12 37am
St.  Johns  .. .Ar 8 28am 12 17pm  5 20pm 1 55am
Owosso...... . Ar 9 03am 1 20pm I  6 65pm 315am
E.  Saginaw. . Ar 10 45am 3 05pm  i!  0pm 8.45am
Bay City__ .Ar 11 30am 3 45pm  8 45pm 7.20am
F lin t......... . Ar 10 05am 3 40pm 1  i ( 5pm 5  40am
Pt.  Huron.. . Ar 11 55am 6 00pm ! 8 50pm 7 30am
Pontiac__ .Ar 10 53am 3 05pm I  8 25pm 5 37am
Detroit........ .Ar 11 50am 4 05pm|  9 25pm 7  00am

WESTWARD.

Trains Leave

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

»No. 81 tNo. 11 tNo. 13
7 OftAfT) 1  00pm
5  10pm
8 35am
2  10pm
6 15pm

»Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 a. 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  Parle r  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward —No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
J ohn W. Loud, Traffic Manager.
B en  F l e t c h e r , Trav. Pass. Agent.
J a s. Ca m p b e l l, City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.
JAN:Y3'1892-

CHICAGO 

A N D   W EST  M IC H IG A N   R ’Y.
GOING TO  CHICAGO.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv.GR’D RAPIDS.......9:00am  12:05pm  *11:35pm
Ar. CHICAGO.............3:65pm  5:15pm  *7:05am
Lv. CHICAGO.............9:00am  4:15pm  »11:15pm
Ar.  GR’D RAPIDS..... 3:55pm  10:10pm  »6:10am
T O   A N D   F R O M   B E N T O N   H A K B O R ,  S T .  J O S E P H   A N D  
Lv. Grand Rapids.  ...  9:00am  12:05pm  *11:35pm
Ar. Grand Rapids......*6:10am  3:55pm  10:10pm

IN D IA N A P O L IS .

For Indianapolis 12:05 p m only.

T O   A N D   F R O M   M U S K E G O N .

Lv.  G.  R .........10:0Cam  12  05pm  5:30pm  8:30pm
Ar.  G.  R .........10:55am  3  55pm  5:25pm 
..............
T O   A N D   P R O M   M A N IS T E E ,  T R A V E R S E   C IT Y   A N D   E L K  
Lv. Grand  Rapids.....................7:25am  5:17pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids.....................11:45am  9:40pm

R A P ID S .

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Chicago—Wagner 
Sleepers—Leave Grand Rapids *11:35 p m. ; leave 
Chicago 11:15 p m.  Drawing  Room Cars—Leave 
Grand Rapids 12:05 p m ;  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, 
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L A N SIN 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............... 12:00 m  *5:10pm  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 A HASTINGS R.  R.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Lv. Grand Rapids...........  7:15am  1:00pm 5:40pm
Ar. from Lowell..............11:50am 5:15pm 
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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 the 

Sprague  Correspon­
dence  School o f Law 
[incorporated].  Bend  ten 
cents [stamps] for particu­
lars to
J.  COTNER, Jr.,  Sec’y,
■No.  376 Whitney Block, 
D E T R O IT ,  -   M IC H .

FOR  THE  GARDEN.
Send for our  beautiful Illustrated Catalogue 
Clover  and  Grass  Seeds. Seed  Corn, Onion  Sets,  and 
■d  Potatoes.  All the Standard Sorts and  Novelties  in 

M AILED  F R E E .

vegetable Seeds.

BROWN’S SEED STORE,

£ 4   AMO  2 6   N orth  D iv isio n  S t r e e t . 

G R A N D   RA PID S.  MICH.

The  Finest  Quality  and  Best  Article  for 
Cleaning known in the World.

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&
Dry  Goods,  Carpets  and  Cloaks

W H O L E S A L E

We  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

sa.  $ 1 0 .  $is.

Picture  Frames,  Mouldings, 

Typewriters

PBRKINS  &  RICHMOND,

13 Fountain St., Grand Rapids,  Mich.

M ackinaw   Shirts  and  L um berm en’s  Socks. 
rS  st-
Voigt, Hemolsbeior k Co.,48> 

OVERALLS  OF  OUR  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

DEALERS  IN

Sold  by all  wholesale grocers,  or orders may be sent direct to the'factory.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

STANDARD OIL CO., P. STEKETEE & SONS
Uluminating and Lubricating  IDRY GOODS S NOTIONS
 Rapids Slone l  H e r  Co., m

General Warehousemen and Transfer Agents.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Winter's*.¿between  Shawmiit flue,  and  W.  Pillion Si.,

T T T T T / ~ N T   T p C a   A   T   I T  
W   r—1  v  J  I  I  M iî^> M   I  I  P 1

GRANDQRAPIDS/ MICH.

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Office, Hawkins Block. 

Works, Butterworth Aye.

NAPTHA  AND  GASOLINES.

EMPTY CARBON  i GASOLINE BARRELS,

HIGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND HAVEN,
HOWARD CITY, 

GRAND RAPIDS, 
BIG BAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN, 

BULK  WORKS  AT

CADILLAC,
LUDINGTON.

PETOSKEY,

MANISTEE,

COLDcSTORAGE  FOR  BUTTER,  EGGS,  CHEESE,  FRUITS,  AND 

ALL  KINDS  OF  PERISHABLES.'

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

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

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

and Machine and Plow repairs, Etc.

Telephone  No.  946.

J.  T.  F.  BLAKE,  Sup’t.

Spring & 

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IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Dress  Goods,  S h aw ls,  Cloaks, 
N otions, 
R ibbons,  H osiery, 
Gloves,  U nderw ear,  W oolen s, 
F lannels,  B lankets,  G ingham s, 
Prints and  Dom estic Cottons

We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well 

assorted stock at lowest market  prices.

Spring & Company.

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1892. NEW  PROCESS 1892.
MPROVED BAGMET GASOLINE RANEE.

IT  T A K E S   T H E   L E A D   O V E R   A L L   O T H E R   M A K E S .

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They  are

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No.  6  “ NEW  PROCESS"  CABINET  RANGE.

T he  S tan d ard   L ighting  C om pany,

MANUFACTURED  BY

C L E V E L A N D ,  OHIO

It lias  many improvements over  last year.  The Oven  Burner is on a swivel, and  will swing  around  under the 
oven when  wanted  for baking, or it can  be used as shown  for  cooking,  or to put a wash  boiler on.  There is a mica 
window in the  flue, so the  burner  can  be seen  without  stooping,  the  bottom of  oven is on a level  with  the  top  of 
the stove, which is very desirable, and is stationary,  but can  be easily removed  by  loosing a set screw.  The II ESER- 
VOIR has  been  greatly improved, the  needle  point  valves are  German  silver which  will  not  rust or corrode.
No  smoking, flooding or odor, if directions are followed.

O N L Y   O N E   F I R M   in  a town  allotved to handle  them.

Ask for quotations and secure the agency

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We  are the Manufacturers’ Agents for this Wonderful Store.

H.  L E O N A R D   &  SONS,

GRAND  RARIDS,  MICH.

134 to  140  East  Fulton  Street,

Near Union  Depot.

