“GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1884. The Michigan Tradesman. Reader, Have you paid for this paper, or are you en- joying it at the expense of others? Please bear in mind that no copies are sent out by the houses whose advertisements appear in these columns, and that every non-subscriber is shouldering the expense on the publishers. Honestly, don’t you think THE TRADESMAN too good afpaper to receive without paying for? YOU CAN BUY Withers Dade & Co's Old Fashioned, Hand Made, Sour Mash : WHISKEY —ONLY OF— Hazeltine, Perk & CO. The finest brand of goods in the market, and specially selected for the Drug Trade. Their Draggists Favorite Kye Also has a very large sale and gives univer- sal satisfaction. Send for Sample and Pri- ces. HEADQUARTERS! —FOR— Sporting Goods —AND— OUT DOOR GAMES, Base Ball Goods, Marbles, Tops, Fishing Tackle, Croquet, Lawn Tennis, Indian Clubs, Dumb Bells, Boxing Gloves. We wish the Trade to notice the fact that we are Headquarters on these Goods And are not to be undersold by any house in the United States. Our Trade Mark Bats —ARE THE- BEST AND CHEAPEST In the Market. (2 Send for our New Price List for 1884. Order a Sample Lot Before Placing a Large Order. BATON. LYON & ALLEN 20 and 22 Monroe Street, N.| some three weeks in the A COMMERCIAL EPISODE. A sound of revelry, but not by night. The clock has just struck 12, and the sun is shining vertically upon the pretentious reof that heuses Mr. Humphrey Davison and family. Beneath that roof are now com- plete the extensive preparations for the marriage ceremony that is to make the only daughter of the house Mrs. Thomas Win- field. ‘The parlor is full of guests; the per- fume of an elaborate floral decoration per- vades everything; and from certain quarters of the establishment proceed the savory odors of a spread feast; for the wedding is to be an event. Upstairs, in the downy environment of her own apartment, stands the pivot of the occasion in bridal array. The toilet is a marvel in its way; a frail embodiment of monumental expense and labor, as such things are apt io be, but petite Miss Alice is so beautiful ih it that only a churl could be- wail either expense ot labor in the presence of sucha result. She is surrounded by a bevy of admiring friends of the same sex, who chatter incessantly, and manifest their anxious interest by sundry little touches here and there upon veil or drapery, for the groom has not yet arrived. Presently it is a quarter past the hour and he has not come yet, but no account is taken of this circumstance, for whoever heard ofa wedding being celebrated with anything like precision with regard to time? Uncle Peyton pauses at the door to re- mark in a jocular vein that this ‘seems to be one of the oceasions when we ‘linger shivering on the brink and fear to launch away,’” and to deliver himself of numerous malign prophecies that are flatly contradict- ed by the look of affectionate interest and unqualified admiration in his eyes. Another quarter slips away. It is now half past 12 and still the delinquent doesnot appear. Up the broad stairway comes the murmur of impatient expectancy, and the face under the filmy white veil wears a shade of vexation. When it is nearly 1 o’clock Mr. Davison comes to the door and softly calls his wife. In the hall outside they hold a consultation, and Alice, with alert eyes upon their faces, divines that something is wrong. Inamoment she has separated the crowd about her like an ar- row, and is before them demanding the _lat- est intelligence, whatever it may be. “It is postponed, my dear,” says her mother, choking. “That’s it, my dear—postponed,” echoes her father as he stands absently twirling a crumpled note around his finger. Alice sees the note, and, before he can prevent her, has taken it. She opens it with breathless eagerness. It is soon read, and runs thus: “7 can’t do it, uncle—not for twice your fortune. I have seen her, and I wonder that you could ever ask it of me. Doas you please with the money. I’m off. Your affectionate nephew, TOW. It is malicious, inhuman, crushing. Why did be wait until this moment? She turns back to the room with a white face, throws herself upon the lounge in reckless disre- gard of flowers and perishable confections, and lies there with her face buried in the pillow in an agony of humiliation. By-and-by the situation is communicated to the assembled friends, who take their leave marveling greatly, and go home to speculate for days with greater or Jess ac- curacy upon all that has not been given them to know. Where a few hours ago there was laugh- ter, congratulation and anticipation, all is now sorrow, indignation and resentment. There is mockery in the flowers scattered everywhere, and bitter, intolerable remem- brance in the odor of baked meats. The afternoon passes, and(still Alice iies with her face among the pillows, thinking how it must all come out finally; how every- body will know about that brutal note, and how they will pity her. She wishes she might die now, so that the time would never come for her to lift up her head and face the world, with its knowledge of this dread- ful affair and its soul-sickening-commisera- tion. One thought is always uppermost— to fly from the scene of her humiliation and the officious sympathy of her friends. Filial ties, luxurious surroundings, the perils and hardships of flight, every consideration whatsoever dwindles into invisibility in the presence of this great indignity. Her mother comes and sits by her, and after sev- eral hours of remonstrance and persuasion induces her to go to bed, but when she comes in the morning hoping to see her somewhat soothed she finds only an empty room and a hasty note. * * * * * * * It is 7 a.m. andthe mammoth retail dry goods house of Gray & Gordon begins to show signs of life without and within. For the last half hour a continuous stream of salesmen, shop girls, and cash boys have been pouring into the great building like so many swallows into a chimney, but that it is the wrong time inthe day. Shades are raised, covers are taken off, and simultane- ously in every part of the house begins a vigorous dusting and putting to rights. The new cashier, a young man with fine eyes and a pleasant manner, who has been establishment, comes in and goes behind his desk. As he does so he notices that there is a new girl at the glove counter just opposite. Only her head is visible above the pile of boxes she is dusting. It is crowned with red-gold hajr, and the face is very beautiful in spite of the hopeless depression it expresses. Presently the business of the day begins. Whenever there comes a pause in his monot- onous labor of stamping bills and making change, and he looks out over the green wire network that incloses his desk,his eyes rest naturally upon the blonde head and de- licate figure, because they are directly in front of him, and in the course of the day he .learns without making any inquiries that she is No. 47. As for the girl herself she is thinking of nothing but that terrible day and wonder- ing if she will live through it. Her face is flushed, her eyes glistening and feverish,the joint result of bad ventillation and bewilder- ing transactions. To her this first day behind the counter seems like a shoreless eternity. She can scarcely remember when it began, and has almost lost faith in its possible ending. Two hours of this new and trying ordeal are enough to make her unutterably weary; be- fore the day is half over she is aching mis- erably in every limb and joint. After this, standing is the purest agony. And all day long the feminine division of humanity bears down upon them en masse. The proprietors, wedded to quick sales and the largest possible profit, are positively ubi- quitous in their efforts to enforce the strict- est attention to duty; obsequious salesmen, with an eye to premiums and_ percentage, step briskly about; cash boys scurry hither and thither, and errand boys find no rest for the soles of their feet. The silk man spreads his stocks upon the counter and displays the popular shades by daylight, by gaslight, singly and in combinations. He gathers them up into soft rich folds, spreads them, gathers them up again, talking glibly all the while, and is borneto the utmost limit of deferential patience before the exact shade is found and the final decision made. The lace man, on the alert for whom he may be- guile, is bland and courteous, while the girls at this same glove counter dive among the boxes and become breathless in the attempt to convince some dubious customer that a pearl gray glove is an exact match for the pale blue sample she has brought, or vice versa, smiling, dropping words of honey all the time, and wishing in their inmost con- sciousness that perdition may ultimately collect all womankind. But it does end at last. The customers are gone; the curtains are up, the counters are again shrouded in white canvas, making the long aisles look like so many wards in a hospital, and these human swallows begin to pour out of their great chimney. The cashier on his way to the cloak room sees No. 47 crouching on the ledge behind her counter. Sheis thinking of the long, dark streets that lie before her, and of the aching feet that protest against further ser- vice. When he comes back she is still there. He stops, and says kindly: ‘If you don’t hurry out they will lock the doors. Every- body else is gone now.” “How will I ever get home,” she moans, rising wearily, her eyes still red from cry- ing. “Tll go with you if you are afraid. far?” “Oh, yes, it’s far, and then I’m so_ tired.” He is the only person who has_ spoken to her to-day, excepting the customers she has waited upon. He hassucha graceful, easy way, that by the time he has helped her to put on her cloak he seems like an old ac- quaintance. They hurry out together, and are just in time, for the doors close behind them with a bang, and the bolts are drawn. It happens that their ways lie in the same direction, that they are domiciled in two dreary boarding houses not more than half a square apart, and after this they go home together every evening, and speedily come to be very good friends indeed. * * * * : * Is it The season known to retail traffic as “busy” waxes and wanes. Summer comes, and August, sweltering and intolerable, set- tles upon the deserted town. The houses are like ovens, the streets like blast furnaces, and everything that remains behind the mi- gratory population is undergoing a linger- ing process of cremation. The proprietors have fled the heat, one salesman to a de- partment is found to be sufficient, and the rest are away taking their summer vacation. Those who remain behind have little to do, for there are hours together when there is not a penny’s worth sold. It happens that “47” is reigning alone in the glove department, and she is a refresh- ing object for contemplation this sultry afternoon in her dress of blue organdy, with pale blue ribbons fluttering at throat and waist. Above her head her wares are most ef- fectively displayed in a complete canopy of long-wristed gloves in every conceivable color and shade of color, and, there being nothing else to do, she sits upon the ledge: below the shelving and wieids a monstrous palm leaf. 2 theré is no change _ When nothing is selling sR to be made, and the cashier steps out of his narrow stifling enclosure and wanders in search of a breeze. The long lace mitts that fringe the canopy over the glove-coun- ter are stirred as if by a zephyr, and the airy freshness of ‘47 is attractive. He goes behind the counter and sits down be- hind the ledge. “You look awfully gloomy to-day. What is the matter?” she asks. “Well, I have reason to look gloomy. I have made an unpleasant discovery; Or, perhaps I should say I have been unpleas- antly discovered.” “Tell me about it.” “Oh, it isa long story,” he says, more than half persuaded. “This is a very long afternoon.” “Well, I have a very rich and very croch- ety old uncle, and about seven months ago I received a letter from him telling me that if I would come and take charge of his busi- ness and marry a girl that he had picked ‘out for me he would leave me his fortune. He said the girl was pretty, and I knew the fortune was ample, and as I was not getting on any too well where I was, you will infer that I did not hesitate long before accepting the proposition. It was all arranged with the girl, who seemed to be quite fascinated with the romance of the affair, and I started for the town in which she and my uncle lived. Butonthe way I got to thinking about it, and it struck me that I would like to see her at least once before the die was irrevocably east, so when I reached the the town I hunted up a cousin of mine who knew her, and told him that he must ar- range for me to call on her incognito. He assented very readily, and, as I only reach- ed there the day before the wedding was to take place, we called the night of my arri- val. She came in directly, and I was intro- duced as Mr. Falkner. “And such a girl! The moment I laid eyes on herI grew rigid with indignation to think that my uncle dared impose upon me in sueh a way. He had led me to be- lieve she was everything a man could want in a wife. I found her painted like an In- dian, dressed in horrid taste, talking at the top of her voice, and altogether the most ul- bred creature I had ever seen. 1 could not stand it, so I wrote a note to my uncle, left the town that night, and have never been back since. I learned to-day for the first time that the girl I saw was not the one I was to have married, but a friend of my cousin’s, whom he had taken into his con- fidence, and that her horrid curls and her vulgarity were assumed for the occasien, alla part of Dick’s little pleasantry; and my fiancee, who Dick says is the prettiest woman he ever saw, was so cut up by my brutal behavior and the note I left that she ran away, and for a long time they thought she had drowned herself. Of course there was a big sensation, and everybody denounc- ed me. Dick, a cowardly knave, hadn’t the nerve to tell the truth about it and acknowl- edge his part in the affair, but the girl who abetted his fiendish deception went straight tomy uncle and told him everything as soon as she heard I was gone. “When he saw how it was he swore that we should both be found, dead or alive, and if we were alive the marriage should be con- sumated. They started detectives after us and advertised us everywhere, and at last they got on the track of the girl and they’ve traced her to this very town. Think of it! Dick says they are sure she is here, and he was here looking for her when he accidently stumbled upon me. They’ll find her, of course, it is only a question of a few hours, and then I must be dragged up, like a school boy that has been playing hookey, and,mar- ried to a wife of some other man’s choice, or leave here between two days and give up a good position.” He turns toward her, but she manages the palm-leaf so that he does not see her face, and asks presently in a hesitating way: “But if she is as pretty as they say she is and—you would get the money besides, why do you object?” “Because 1 amin love with somebody else, and I’m done with matrimonial nego- tiations by proxy. I will attend tomy own love affairs hereafter.” He proceeded to carry out this resolution by insinuating an arm between the shelving and the slight figure that is resting against it. “Pye been in love with somebody else ever since I found her crying in a corner not a thousand miles from here, and if you can only say the same of me [ll whistle the for- tune down the winds and defy all the detec- tives in Christendom.” He draws his arm a little closer about the yielding figure, and, screened from view by the swaying fringe of gloves, he feels safe in bringing the other arm into position, so forming a complete circuit. The accomoda- ting palm leaf is quite large enough to con- ceal two heads, and a sound like a half audi- ble osculation issues from behind. A long, low whisper breaks the silence. Proceedings are immediately adjourned, and haunted by visions of presuming and prying cash boys, they both start up and confront —Dick. “Have you found her?” asked the cashier dejectedly. ate “Oh yes, I’ve found her,” says Dick, lean- ing heavily upon the counter, as he wiped the moisture from his brow. “Miss Davidson, allow me to introduce ny cousin, Tom Winfield; Tom, Miss Alice Davidson. The introduction seemsto be a little subsequent, but we have done the best we could.” So another wedding feast was spread be- neath the hospitable roof of Mr. Humphrey Davison, and this time to some purpose; for a marriage was solemnized, at which ceremony Dick, his sins forgiven, officiated as best man, and his perfidious accomplice, minus paint, curls and all objectionable fea- tures, made a charming bridesmaid. ———___—>-9<___—_ How to Have Good Credit. For a merchant young in business it is of the greatest importance to him that he should possess a good credit, and this can always be had by the observance of cer- tain lines of action. And first and greatest of all must be learned the importance of keeping all promises and engagements. A young merchant, for instance, buys a bill of goods on thirty days’ time. Although there may be nothing said in particular about the matter, the bill comes to him as a thirty-day bill, according to an accustomed usage of trade. When the time is up he may think that a few days’ delay will be of no account, and so he delays sending the pay for a week or more. Inthe meantime the wholesaler from whom he purchased finds the thirty days gone and no remittance; made. He at once notes the fact down and perhaps sends a statement calling the attention of the mer- chant to tne non-fulfillment of his agree- ment, for that is what it really is. Now the retailer, though his intentions are good, and while he may be perfectly respon- sible, makes a bad impression on the whole- saler, and his credit and standing are injured. The wholesaler reflects that here is a man behind in his payments. It may be because he is hard up, and it may be otherwise, and the wholesaler says that caution must be exercised in selling to such a merchant, and, as the payment is not prompt and risks are taken, the profit on whieh he sells him must be greater to cover all these deficiencies. Thus the retailer not only hurts his credit but he is hurting himself financially. Promptness in meeting payments is a prime requisite to a good business standing, and one should learn that ten days means ten days, and not twelve or fifteen. It is natural for a retailer to think that it makes no difference if he don’t pay his bill just on time, for it is not very large, and “I guess the wholesaler can stand it for a few days longer.” But when it happens that 4,999 other retailers are of the same opinion, it will be seen at once that the wholesale deal- er cannot stand it very easily, and sharp duns from him may become aj necessity. It is the same with the retailer and his cus- tomers. He may not feel {it much if one customer is behind in his pay, but when fifty are in arrears he feels himself on the ragged edge. The prompt payer, whether consumer or retailer, is the one that gets the best treat- ment. ee a Dried Apricots. Califernia fruit growers have discovered that apricots bleached with sulphur fumes and then dried in the sun are superior to those dried in any other manner, or that are canned. They regard this of very great im- portance to the whole State. It enables every fruit culturist, however limited hismeans, and however small the product of his orchards, to dry hisown fruit for the market, and makes him independent of the canning fac- tories. It is also stated that fruit can be prepared in this manner more cheaply than in any other, that its weight is better pre- served, and that it is of superior flavor. Large dealers in dried fruit say that the markét forsuch products of California or- chards will always be greater than the sup- ply can possibly be. The United States alone will readily take all the fruit of the kind and quality now being produced by the sun-drying process that California can ever raise. Many thousands of apricot trees have been planted within a recent date in or- chard form in Southern California. Sun dried apricots are being sold to California dealers at double the price paid for the best raisins. oO Asan evidence of the vast increase in the consumption of opium in this country, East- ern journals state that 448,938 Ibs. were im- ported into this country during the ten months ending October 31, 1883, as against 196, 804 Ibs for the corresponding period in 1882. In October last, 50,015 lbs. of the crude was imported, while the whole amount in the same month of the previous year was only 23,543 Ibs. The large importations mentioned were no doubt to a considerable extent due to the increased duties, but that the opium habit is growing in this country, is generally acknowledged. A new kind of cloth is being made in Lyons from a down of hens, ducks and geese. Seven hundred and fifty grains of feathers make one square meter of a light and very warm water-proof cloth which can be dyed in all shades, ' { The Grocer and His Customers. From the New York Tribune. “There are samplers said a down-town grocer, as he care- fully covered up a barrel of cut loaf sugar with a wire protector, and took aseatona soap box. “Talk about mean people; I don’t believe there’s any- body in this world meaner than a full fledg- ed sampler. There are two general classes of samplers—those who are honest and ask for samples for testing the desired article, and, if satisfactory, of purchasing quantities of the’same afterward, and those who are dishonest, and get samples simply for the purpose of sponging their supplies out of the grocer. I have had considerable exper- ience with both classes, as I have been in business for twenty years, and have had plenty of opportunities for studying human nature. When I first beeame the proprietor of a store, I was comparatively ignorant of the tricks respectably dressed people were capable of playing on an innocent grocer. I learned by experience that there is often- times as much iniquity stowed away undera seal skin cloak as there under a faded shawl,” and the man of business gave the re- porter a wink which spoke volumes. ‘At the end of the first year I found that, although my business had been brisk and the books showed large receipts, my profits were small. I could not understand it for some time. I was quite certain that my clerks were honest and that there was no leak in my money drawer. I began to watch my business more closely than ever, and soon found out the cause of my losses. On inquiry, I ascertained that there were several families in the vicinity who had suc- ceeded in getting enough tea and coffee from my clerks, as samples, to keep them well supplied with these luxuries for the entire year. “T will give you an illustration of the way in which some of these samplers conduct their little game. A richly dressed lady one day entered my store, and asked to look at some of my best grades of coffee. The clerk showed her samples. She examined them with much eare, and at length turned to the young man and said, ‘Would you be kind enough to give me samples of this coffee to take home? My husband is Partie- ular about his coffee, and so I would like to try these three kinds before purchasing.’ She looked sweet and innocent as she said this, and her face lit up with a gratified smile as the obliging clerk reluctantly com- plied with her request. I had been watch- ing the transaction from behind my desk, and feeling somewhat suspicious of the lady, called one of my boys aside, and told him to follow her when she left the store. In the course of an hour he returned, and reported that the woman had visited four other stores, and had obtained from each samples in the same way as fromus. I made enquiries, and found that she was the wife ofa well- to-do merchant down town. She tried to play the game on us afterward, but didn’t succeed. “There’s another set of people who give us trouble,” remarked the grocer, as_ he bit off the end of acigar and passed another to the reporter. ‘I mean petty thieves. A woman wearing a shawl, or loose cloak, can grab a handful of sugar, or a potato, or something of that sort, and conceal it quick- iy, when no one is watching her. I caught an old woman trying to get away with a cabbage which she had deftly slipped into her basket when the clerk’s back ,was turn- ed. There are some people, too, who have no idea it is thieving to appropriate things in this way. How hard it seems to be for folks to learn that honesty is the best policy, es pecially when dealing with the grocer. When I catch any of my substantial custom- ers trying to confiscate a codfish or some- thing else of value, I say nothing about it, but charge it on the books. I never knew one of them to object when he saw the items in his bill. Itell you confidentially that I never have any scruples in charging such persons a double price for the articles they have stolen. °Tisa sort of reminder, you know, that ‘The way of the transgressor is hard,’ ” and the grocer laughed tillthe tears rolled off the end of his nose and a clerk shouted *‘eash.” and samplers,” is ot Owing to the large number of mutual ben- efit and co-operative insurance societies do- ing business in Canada at present, the gov- ernment has decided to introduce a bill dur- ing the coming session which will place all Canadian associations of this character im- mediately under the supervision of a govern- ment superintendent of insurance, while all United States companies will be totally ex- cluded from transacting any business in the Dominion. Wm. F. Clark, a prominent grocer of Roch- ester, N. Y., has been taken violently msane, and imagines himself at one time Rip Van Winkle, calls his wife Gretchen, and says he has been asleep 100 years. At another time he imagines himself Macbeth, and another, Hamlet, and thinks the house dog is his father’s ghost and accosts him in a dramatic manner. Persons who are of the opinion that there is oil under Lake Huron contemplate simk- gos ng a test well there. The Michigan Tradesman. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Mercantile aud Manafacturing Interests of the State. E. A. STOWE. Editor. ae Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1884. t=" Subscribers and others, when writing to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub- lisher by mentioning that they saw the adver- tisement in the columns of this paper. NEWSPAPER DECiSIONS--THE LAW. ’ 1. Any person who takes a paper regularly from the post-office—whether directed to his name or another’s, and whether he has sub- scribed or not—is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the office or not. EIGHT PAGES. THE TRADESMAN appears this week as an eight-page paper, a form that will, be continued until another enlargement pe- comes necessary. The cordial support ac- corded the journal at the beginning, and in- creasing with each successive issue, has ren- dered the present change unavoidable, and affords ground for the belief that the time is not far distant when a twelve or sixteen- page paper will be an actual reality. For the present, however, THE TRADESMAN will appear in the same form as it is seen to-day, and the subscription price will remain the same as before, $1 per year in advance. The enlargement will enable us to carry out several valuable features that have necessar- ily been omitted heretofore, a number of which appear with this issue. The same business and editorial policy that has made the paper so popular in the past will char- acterize its conduct in the future, and; the knowledge that comes with added exper- ience and a more ‘thorough acquaintance with the wants of the trade, will enable us to furnish our patrons with a paper more in accordance with their ideas ofa representa- tive trade journal. We give considerable space on another page to a reproduction of the agreement known as the “Campion System’’—so called from the man who originated the plan— which has already gone into effect in New York, the object being to prevent the sale of proprietary medicines at -less than the schedule prices. The object of the plan is to secure the co-operation of manufacturers, by getting them to refuse to supply jobbers who sell to scalping druggists, and to dealers out- side the drug business, and to make every buyer, wholesale and retail, sign an agree- ment not to sell under the regular prices. Whether the system will prove to be work- able, is yet to be determined. The jobbers stand ready to further the scheme by any effort that lies in their power. | Sale of the Kendall. Stock. eaaslgnoe Baker has finally effected a saie of the J. C. Kendall millinery stock to Geo. D. Conger, who buys it inthe interest of John Kendall. The purchase price was $4,- 650—about $1,500 more than the creditors expected the assignee would realize on the stock. There were several bidders in the field, and the names of each and amounts bid are as follows: J. J. Van Leuven, $3,- 000; Marsh, Kenyon & Gill, Chicago, $3,527; Geo. D. Conger, $3,625; N. A. Fletcher, in behalf of Chicago parties, $4,000; Van Leu- ven, $4,100; Wm. Hardman, $4,150; Conger, $4,200; Hardman, $4,250; Van Leuven, $4,500; Hardman, $4,350; Conger, $4,400; Hardman, $4,450; Van Leuven, $4,- 475. Mr. Baker then stated that he would allow each bidder to put his highest offer in a sealed envelope, and allow that bid to be final. Van Leuven repeated his last offer —$4,475—and Conger bid $4,650, and took the stock. The accounts, which amount to about $2,000, will now be sold in a similiar manner, although it is not probable that more than $500 will be realized from them. As the total liabilities are $17,266.47, credi- tors will not receive to exceed 20 per cent. All they get over 15 per cent. will be due to the vigilance of Mr. Baker, who has per- formed his duties with unusual fidelity. > Fruit and Nuts. Qranges have taken another “boom” and prices have advanced about $1 on boxes and $2 on cases, with prospects of case fruit be- ing very scarce from this on. Lemons, al- though yet low, and a very little higher and show a good deal of firmness, and with a few warm days we expect to see a sharper ad- vance. Peanuts are firmly held and stocks are said to be not large. ‘Figs are a little higher. Dates are the cheapest thing in the market, and are selling freely at the low prices. —————>o<____— Green coffees are off ye, and Arbuckle’s and similar brands are down 1134c from the highest point. The estate of the late Fred H. yentories $11,050. Burbank seed potatoes, choice quality, for sale by M. C. Russell at 50 cents per bushel. - Boralumine—handsome, cheap and dura- ble. ‘Decorate your houses with Boralumine. ‘The best wall finish is Boralumine. Spring in- - AMONG THE TRADE. IN THE CITY. H. Leonard & Sons have in preparation a new catalogue for the trade. W. J. Jones, of Kemink, Jones & Co., has returned from a successful northern trip. H. E. Richardson, Southwestern traveling representative of the O. E. Brown Manufac- turing Co., has located in St. Louis. Wm. B. Collins now sees the trade for- merly visited by Fred Leonard, of H. Leon- ard &Sons, which includes all available towns south on the G.R.&I. and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, and north on the G. R. & L. Sam. Beecher, formerly with Rice & Moore, and later in the employ of another jobbing house, has engaged to travel for Clark, Jew- ell & Co., covering the towns south’on the G. R. & I. and C. & W. M., and east7on the D., G. H. & M. Kortlander & Grady were creditors of Curtiss & Son, of the Sherman House bar room, Charlotte, toa considerable amount, as were also several other liquor houses here. In company with Peter Doren, their attorney, Mr. Grady recently raided the town, secured a transfer of the stock and fixtures to his firm, and subsequently sold the same to B. F. Hall, thus securing their entire claim, and leaving the other creditors “out in the cold.” Hall has obtained a lease of the prem- ises, and will continue the business. A report has been industrially circulated throughout Northern Michigan, and has found its way into most of the State papers, to the effect that the Grand Rapids Felt Boot Co., recently burned out, would remove the plant and business to Reed City. The officers of the corporation state that such a thing has not been as much as thought of, to say nothing of being considered seriously. The canard probably originated in the fertile brain of one Holden, who does not hesitate to spread abroad any falsehood, so long as it tends to increase the sale of real estate at Reed City. The Shattuck matter at Sand Lake has tak- en another turn. __—— Good Words Unsolicited. Merricle & Hopper, general dealers, Fre- mont: “We value THE TRADESMAN highly, and could not do without it.” John W. Davis & Son, general merchan- dise, Mackinaw Island; ‘We are in receipt of mauy trade journals, but think yours the best of all.” S. P. Roller, general dealer, Gresham: “I have saved enough since I signed for your paper to pay for five years, May your sub- scriptions increase every day. Every dealer nt to be a subscriber for your paper. es = , he a ' r ( 7 (Ui J.J, VAN LEUVEN, Millinery FANCY GOODS LACES, Real Laces a Specialty. Gloves, Corsets, Ribbons, Fans, Hand Bags, Pocket Books, Ruchings, Yarns, Silks, Satins, Velvets, Embroidery Materials, Plumes, Flowers, Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods. STAMPING PATTERNS 70 MONROE STREET, a RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN, DRUG STORES FOR SALE. aS STORE FOR SALE in Grand Rapids, for $2,500 or invoice. Owner has other business. Address Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich. RUG STORE FOR SALE at Otsego, Mich. 2,000. Address Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich. seo STABLE FOR SALE. Raz. CHANCE to purchase a first-class Livery Stock including one of Cunning- ham’s best hearses. Will take as part payment good improved farm property. Will sell or rent barn and grounds. The best location in the best livery ‘town in the State. Address, P. O. Box 318, Big Rapids, Mich. MISCELLANEOUS. NOOD SECOMD-HAND SAFE wanted at this office. Must be cheap. Address, stating size and price. 5) CHROMO CARDS 10 cts. Address W. Hollister, Grand Rapids, Mich. FOR SAGE, Stock of drugs and hardware located at New Troy, Mich. For particulars enquire of Jennings & Smith, 20 Lyon street, Grand Rapids, Mich. DELINQUENT DEBTORS. Benefits, Derived from Publishing the Lists of Bad Accounts. Dr. John Leeson, of Cadillac, who has adopted an ingenious method of publishing the names of bad-pay customers in the local papers, under the caption of ‘Assignments of Accounts,” thus expresses his opinion relative to the benefits derived from such publication: D. Cadillac, March 18, 1884. Eprror TRADESMAN: I have been to On- tario to look after my Tiger Oil interests and just returned to find a request from you by letter and paper for my opinion in regard to the financial success of my present assign- ments of accounts; and in answer would state as follows: Nearly all the names and accounts placed in the paper are very old and many of the parties are not living here at present, while others have forgotten their accounts and I have been unable to reach them by letter. Now to its effects: 1. It hastens along other debtors who do intend to pay their accounts, but are careless. 2. It causes those who have yet a little shame left to settle their accounts with me before publication. 83. It causes a few to pay their accounts because their names did appear in the paper as debtors who from all appearance would never have paid from any other mode of re- quest or dun. On the whole, it has well paid me thus far and I intend to continue until 1 have passed through all my very old and slow accounts. If there is any part or whole of this you one else you are at liberty to do so. Sand Lake. H. Dildine, lives at Cedar Springs.. can use to your benefit or the benefit of any- E. Pangborn reports the following delinquent debtors: L. W. Pierce, lives at Ensley... .- $16 00 Geo. Negus, moved to Alma.............. e* 60 3 00) NOTING ad Sommer Hats and Caps —I WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION OF MERCHANTS TO MY— Spring Styles of Fine Hats, Spring Styles of Wool Hats, Spring Styles of Stiff Hats, Spring Styles of Soft Hats, Wool Hats $4.50 to $12 per Dozen, Fine Hats 13.50 to $86 per Dozen, Straw Hats for Men, Straw Hats for Boys, Straw Hats for Ladies, Straw Hats for Misses. ; Hammocks Sold by the Dozen at New York Prices! ——LARGE LINE OF—— Clothing and Gents Furnishing Goods, Cottonade Pants and Hosiery. DUCK OVERALLS, THREE POCKETS, $3.50 PER DOZEN AND UPWARDS. Call and get our prices and see how they will compare with those of firms in larger cities. r.c. GEV I, 36, 38, 40 and 42 CANAL STREET, - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. CLARK, JEHWELL & CO, WW EXOLE SALE Groceries and Provisions, 83, 89 and 87 PEARL STREET and (14, 116, 118 and 20 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, = - - MICHIGAN. JENNINGS & SMITH, » PROPRIETORS OF THE—— ARCTIC ~MANUFACTURING COMPANY, — AND MANUFACTURERS OF—— Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts Arctic Baking Powders, Arctic Bluing and Inks, Arctic Kid Dressing, Arctic Mucilage, Hite., Hte., Kite. 20 Lyon Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. Fruit & Produce at Wholesale Choice Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Buckwheat Flour, Maple Syrup, Jellies, Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Vegetables, and Sand Refined Cider. Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders. MC. Russell, us Ottawa Si., 6’ Rapids, Castor Machine Oil or Castorine,” The Castor Machine Oil contains a fair percentage of Castor Oil and is in all re- spects superior as a lubricator to No. 2 or No. 3 Castor Oil. The OHIO Olli: COMPANY Is the only firm in the United States that has succeeded in making a combination of Veg- etable and Mineral Oils, possessing the qualities of a Pure Castor Oil. It is rapidly eom- ing into popular favor. We Solicit a Trial Order. Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids, WALLPAPER & WINDOW SHADES At Manufacturers’ Prices. SAMPLES TO THE TRADE ONLY. EXouse and Store Shades Made to Order. 68 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids. rr a a Drugs & Medicines - THE CAMPION PLAN. Articles of Agreement for the Purpose of En- forcing the Maintenance of Retail Prices of Proprietary Articles. The undersigned, manufacturers of such articles, each respectively agrees to con- form to and abide by the following stipu- lations in the conduct of his business. I.—Those of us who are now adhering to the Rebate System, will apply the conditions of the said system to the fullest extent we legally can, not only to parties who quote or sell our goods, either directly or indirectly, at wholesale, at less than Proprietors’ limit of prices, but to those also who sell said goods to Retail Dealers, or others, who per- sistently undersell specified retail prices. Il.—Those of us who are not operating under the Rebate System, will make ;ita condition of sales of our goods, that the future orders of any purchaser will be de- clined, who sells the same either directly or indirectly to Retail Dealers, or others, persistently underselling, or who himself sells at retail at less than our limit prices. In all sales to Brokers, sold on his individ- ual account except for export, the latter must furnish the names of their principals or guarantee that the same shall be sold at full wholesale and owners’ prices. IlI.— Believing that all persons who sell our articles at less than our Schedule of Prices, either directly or indirectly, or who sell to others who do so, should not be per- mitted to purchase our manufactures, we pledge ourselves to do all we legally can to carry out any action that may be determined upon in the premises. IV.—Additional parties may be admitted to this Agreement by the obtained consent of two-thirds of the existing signers in writ- ing, after recommendation of the Executive Committee hereafter appointed. A Party to this Agreement failing to conform to its provisions, will forfeit his connection there- with, and maybe excluded from all partici- pation, if two-thirds of the signers deem such exclusion advisable. V.—Keeping in view that the result sought to be accomplished by this Agree- ment, is one in which the interests of the Retailer, the Wholesaler and the Manufac- turer are mutually involved, we agree to co- operate with the National Wholesale Drug Association and the National Retail Drug As- sociation, in organizing a Protective Asso- cition, the exclusive object of which shall be to promote the purposes of this Agree- ment, and make the same effectively opera- tive, in accordance with methods herein- after specified. Vi.—Representatives of the Signers of this Agreement, the National Wholesale Drug Association, and the National Retail Drug Associarion, three from each body, shall meet as soon as possible after their ap- pointment, and organize a body to be known as the Protective Association, adopting such Rules and Regulations for the governance of the same as to them may seem best adapted to promote the objects ofthe organization, who shall also appoint an executive officer, te be named by the signers of this Agree- ment, to be styled a Superintendent. They shall also take such steps as they may deem necessary to pay, equip and assist the Sup- erintendent—provided, that the aggregate expense incurred by them shall not exceed $6,000.00 per annum. They shall also pro- vide for the effective co-operation, within the scope hereinafter specified, of the Wholesale and Retail Druggists through their respective Associations. First.—The co-operation to be asked for from the Wholesale Trade is to the extent that the National Wholesale Drug Associa- tion shall appoint, as often as may be here- after determined, three members of said As- sociation, to serve as representatives of their branch of the Trade in the Protective Asso- ciation, and, furthermore, whenever any Wholesale Dealer becomes cognizant of an infraction of the Terms adopted by the re-’ spective signers by a dealer, he shall report the case to the Chairman of the Committee on Proprietary Articles of his Association, who, after verifying the same, shall notify the Superintendent of the Protectiye Asso- ciation, giving the name and address of the party offending. SEeconp.—The co-operation to be asked for from the National Retail Association, is to the effect that they shall appbint, as often as may be hereafter determined, three members of their Association, to serve as representatives of their branch of the Trade in the Protective Association; and furthermore, when any member of the Trade becomes cognizant of a Dealer selling our Articles at less than our specified retail prices, he may report the case to the Chair- man of the Executive Committee of his As- sociation, who, on receipt of such a report, shall, with the assistance of a Committee of his organization, or otherwise, verify the same, and if the charge (be substantiated, notify the Superintendent of the Protective Association of the fact, in addition to fur- nishing the Superintendent, if possible, with the naine of the Jobber from whom the offending party obtains his supplies. VII.—The Signers hereto, in considera- tion of the services rendered them, agree to pay the salary and expenses of the Superin- tendent of the Protective Asssociation. The Burning Question. From the St. Louis Drug-Market Reporter. The organization of Retail Druggists in cities to maintain prices on proprietary arti- cles, which was first inaugurated in Cleve- jand and has been successfully maintained for more than one year, is still spreading. Recently New York City and Brooklyn have formed themselves into ‘‘Druggists’ Unions,” and the trade jonrnals are teeming with ac- counts of the meetings which have recently beeu held for the purpose of bringing about these organizations. In New York City the agreement to maintain the regular retail prices went into effect on the 1st instant. They are very sim- ilar to those in this eity, and if the same works as well there as it has here, the druggists will reap a great benefit, and yet they will only get what they are justly en- titled to. Looking at the matter in an intelligent and proper light, it is really strange that any one should be so near-sighted as to cut prices on this class of goods; it is absolute- ly contrary tocommon sense and justice— every manufacturer or proprietor establishes per se a retail and a wholesale price for his preparations. The selling price is not based on its intrinsic value or cost, and the sales are not dependent on the high or low price. No one buys a bottle of Jayne’s Expecto- rant or Prickly Ash Bitters because he can buy them less than one dollar per bottle, but he buys it because he thinks he needs it, and if a dealer reduces the prices of that class of goods in order to “draw trade and out do his neighbor he simply shows that he lacks in judgment and experience—to use a vulgar expression, he simply “cuts his own throat.” But human nature seems to be hard to control, and what seems foolish for one man, seems to be wisdom for another. Hence, artificial means must be resorted to, and these organizations are such artificial means; but as some people will not join or always prefer to be opposed to a majority, some even considering that their personal liberties are being jeopardized, still stronger measures must be held in reserve. As the Rebate plan compels the jobber, if he wants to handle that class of goods, to sign an agreement that he will sustain the establish- ed prices, so now the so-called “Campion plan” will prevent the cutters or ‘‘scalpers,” as they are now generally called, from be- ing able to buy such goods from either job- ber or manufacturer. While we regret that such measures must be adopted, we see no other way in making it effective. We sub- mitted avery similar plan to the Proprietary Association several months since, and we think itis about all that can be done. It will be said by some that these rules will be broken by dishonest men, the same as is said of jobbers that they do not all live up to the prescribed prices; but this cuts no figure in the matter. If a person agrees to something and does not live up to itin the spirit of the same, hecannot have the good opinion of his customers, and they will sus- pect him of other tricks, and well they may. —_—__<>>2__—_ Pharmacy From a Business Standpoint. We are permitted to make the following extract from an address by Hugo Thum, Pu. C., before the Association of Pharmaceuti- cal Alumni of the University of Michigan, in 1881. The excerpt has a direct bearing upon the question of pharmaceutical educa- tion and legislation, and is consequently of interest to the druggists of Michigan, who now have that subject under consideration. Mr. Thum has promised to supplement this expression of opinion with an article setting forth his views on the proposed legislation as soon as he can find time to prepare the same. Both discussions of the question will be welcomed by the profession, as they come from one well qualified by education and experience to speak on the subject: Weare not only called upon to foster pharmaceutical education everywhere, and to contribute towards the advance of Phar- macy as a science, but to aid by our example and influence in its recognition by the pub- lic as such, and to aid in the protection of society against dangerous abuses. To pre- sent to those of our number who are about entering upon the duties of our chosen pro- fession those questions which are occupying the minds of all friends of pharmacy in America, as well as in other countries, is one of my objects at this time. It has become a recognized fact by those who have given the subject their attention that Pharmacy in the United States, froma business point of view, has been in certain particulars retrogarded for the last twenty years. All measures to the contrary have not been able 'to perceptibly change this un- favorable tendency, and bring the profession to that high position to which it is entitled. This state of affairs is in a large measure at- tributable to the fact, that it has become a too easy matter for the average business man to carry on the larger portion of what is called the retail drug business. The pharmacist has, in the course of time appropriated many branches of trade which are notin his domain, and to deal in which requires no special education. For instance, toilet articles, fancy goods, soda water, cigars, holiday goods, paints, oils, ete. The trade thus being enlarged has offered busi- ness to a larger number, than had drugs and medicines remained the only articles hand- led, until at present a district, which would support one pharmacy proper, furnishes a livelihood to quite a number of retail drug stores. Patent medicines are constantly increas- ing in sale, and the greater portion are still sold by druggists. The advertisements of ‘the makers acquaint the public with their supposed qualities, and all that is to bedone is to take the desired article from the shelf, wrap it up and hand it to the customer. This requires no knowledge of pharmacy in one disposed to sell them. Another class of goods which may be there over two years and here in St. Louis classed with patent medicines, are introduc- ed into the drug business mainly through the various bottled elixirs of bark, syrup of hy- pophosphites, emulsions of cod liver oil, ex- tracts of malt, bromidia, white pine expec- torant, ete. These articles, having once been prescribed by the physician, are called for by the patients, should they think it de- sirable to continue their use and to sell these goods requires no special training. The manufacturing chemist also aids the ignorant in thé dispensing department by putting up his remedies in proper doses in the shape of pills, tablets, etc., by making all his preparations for him, even large quantities of the most simple tinctures. In- deed the waters, and simple syrups, are fur- nished by the manufacturing chemist. Under these circumstances many take up the business without the least knowledge of it, attracted by the popular, exaggerated idea of its profits. Patronage is sought by cutting prices, sometimes so much as to be below the cost of prime goods, especially with articles which cannot be judged by the purchaser. However, there is another fac- tor already at work to eounteract the un- favorable changes under consideration. Those branches of our trade which can be conducted without special education are be- ing taken up by other tradesmen. To protect the public and to prevent com- petition by unqualified persons, the pharma- cists of many states have induced their re- spective legislatures to enaet laws for the regulation of the practice of pharmacy. In many cases, these laws, if enacted as draft- ed, would go far towards attaining their ob- jects, while in fact they have been so far al- tered by amendment after amendment, that their value has become quite questionable. That the pharmacists of Michigan have ‘not secured the enactment of legislation in the interests of the profession is the subject of some comment in the pharmaceutical journals at the present time. At our pre- vious meetings we have deliberated on the advisability of undertaking some movement in this direction, and one year ago the fol- lowing report was accepted, as representing the views of the association: WuEREAS, It is evident that the public ought tobe protected by law against the practice of incompetent pharmacists, and WuEREAS, it is seen that incompetent pharmacists are being excluded by law from the two states next on the west of Michigan, while legislation is now actively urged for the exclusion of unqualified pharmacy in the states next on the south and southeast, as indeed in most states of the Union, there- fore Resolved, That as abody of active phar- macists, pledged by our education to the support of good progress in our profession, we recognize the need of a law for the reg- ulation of pharmacy in Michigan, to be en- acted before the State shall become an asy- lum for pharmaceutical frefugees from just examinations in the northwest; and we pledge ourselves to the support of all suit- able efforts in a movement for a pharmacy law in Michigan, whenever such a move- ment shall be instituted; and Wuereas, It is enough for schools of pharmacy to meet a spontaneous demand for due professional preparation, and this demand always brings to our Alma Mater numbers fully as.large as are favorable to its interests, therefore ResolWwed, That any movement for a phar- macy law in this State, must be and may be known to be an effort of the profession of pharmacy for the protection of the public, and not an effort for the support of pharma- ceutical education, and we submit to the elder members of the profession, those not specially related to the schools, that they should move first and foremost whenever a movement is undertaken.” And Resolved, That we have no solicitude as to the bearing of pharmaceutical Dlaws upon the interests of professional education in pharmacy, having nothing to ask in the matter of release of college graduates (from State examinations and we would leave the consideration of the provisions of legislation to the care and responsibility of our more numerous[associates among {the practical pharmacists of Michigan. By advocating, as alumni, measures which will necessarily bar some from.entering the profession, although we try to place a_bar- rier between the public and dangerous in- competence, we will be charged unjustly with interested motives, which will deprive our advocacy of much strength. Unjustly, because our alumni will always receive {due recognition by the physician and the com- munity, and will scarcely find their interests to be bettered by the enactment of laws which would tend to bring a greater num- ber of trained men into the profession. Our aims in this direction can only be (for the benefit of the public, and, since it derives the benefit, from it should come the demand, to check charlatanry. It may be in the province of our association to draw the at- tention of the public to existing abuses, and to the dangers to which it is exposed through the agency of incompetent persons. It may be suggested, that perhaps it would be ad- nisable to request a number of alumni to de- vote a portion of their time to the collection and examination of important drugs, ob- tained from various drug stores of the state. ———_——>_<__— Druggists’are cordially invited to make this department of THz TRADESMAN their mouthpiece, and use the space alloted to them in discussing the merits or demerits of the Pharmacy bill, the question of cutting on patents, and any of the hundred and one subjects that are of interest to the trade. Communications on all such questions are respectfully solicited. agency of physicians; among them are the ~ WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT, LPL PLS Declined—Aleohol, Glassware, Cantharides, Gum Gamboge, Gum Opium. Hazeltine, Perkins & Co. quote as follows for quantities usually wanted—for larger amounts write them for quotations: ACIDS. Acetic. NO: 8... 2.552. 8b 9 @ 10 Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 30 @ 35 @arbcle (2006 oe oso ae. 35 OPOG eae. oe eee 57 Muriatic 18 deg..................6- 3@ 5 INIGPIC 56 Ger. ow... es. ee ee ll @ 12° OxaliGo 0 u4%@ 15 Sulphuric 66 deg................... 3 @ 4 Tartaric powdered................ 48 Benzoic, English............. 8 Oz 20 Benzotc, German...............--- @ 1 PPADING ee ee sane cee cs 1 @ lt AMMONIA. Carbonate. ho. cc. eves cee es Rh li @ Ww Muriate (Powd. 22¢)................ 15 Aqua l6 deg or 3f..............0605 6 @ T Aqua 18 deg or 4f...............--. 7@ 8 BALSAMS. @OMaIba se alse ee coe @ 50 Me eee cscs e 40 DOCU ee era elles. 2 00 MOWT ec eae ee - 60 BARKS. Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20¢)........ 12 Cinchona, yellow................. 18 Mim, select. . 2.2.6... 6s. cee ees 15 Elm, ground, pure...,............. 13 Elm, powdered, pure.............. 5 Sassafras, Of root...............+6. 10 Wild Cherry, select................ 12 Bayberry powdered............... 20 Hemlock powdered...............- 18 WeHhOO 86s ee ee 30 Soap ground... .-.......:.......-... 2 BERRIES, Cubeb, prime (Powd $1 20)...:.... @1 00 DJUNMIPCR oi. os ee cs 6° @ 7% IPsickly, ASM... 550... cc 10 @u EXTRACTS. Licorice (10 and 25 fh boxes, 25c)... 27 Licorice, powdered, ure eee oa iy Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 Ib doxes). 9 Logwood, Is (25 Ib boxes).......... 12 Lgowood, 4s GO... 32. 13 Logwood, 448 G0. 2 . 15 Logwood,ass’d do _.......... 14 Fluid, Extracts—25 # cent. off list. FLOWERS. PAVINICR. oo ceo. tse ese 10 @ il Chamomile, Roman........ 25 Chamomile, German....... 25 GUMS. Aloes, Barbadoes................6- 60@ 7 Aloes, Cape (Powd 24c)............ 18 Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)....... 50 Aommonide ... 13... s eee ce 28@ 30 Arabic. extra select...... 60 Arabic, powdered select. 60 Arabic, Ist picked........ : 55 Arabic,2d picked...............++- 45 Arabic,c8d pickod...............66- 40 Arabic, sifted sorts................ 35 Assafcentida, prime (Powd 5c)... 30 BOMZOML (0.6. icc. we ee ees 55@60 @ampnhor...-.....:......--.-------- 23@ 25 Catechu. 1s (% l4c, 148 16c) ...... : 13 ons powdered............ 35@ 40 Galbanum strained................ Gamboge.).. 6250.02... es} 90@1 00 Guaiac, prime (Powd 45c)......... 35 Kino [Powdered, 30c].............- 20 MAStIG. 60... hse 110 Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 40 Opium, pure (Powd $5.50).........- 4 00 Shellac, Campbell’s...............- a Shellac; Pnglish..........-.:.-..-.- é Shellac, native.................-s-- 28 Shellac bleached.............-.+--+ 35 Tragacanth ..:........--.--..-..--- 380 @1 10 HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES. HIOAMNOUNG 6.6... ie... eee ieee ee we noes 25 WODCHR os Sooo as So oe ce wees eo e « 25 PepperMint...... 62... eee cece ee ee eee ee ee eees 25 Re es ace we eee 40 Spearmint .........0 2. eee eee ee cece ee ees 24 Sweet MajOram............ccceee cece sec ceee 3d MONAY (ooo cts soe oe ese tent we ee 25 IWAN 55s ee ee ce eens 30 MIORGIWOOd .........--..:....-:.-+..----.---- 25 IRON. Citrate and Quinine............... 6 40 Solution mur., for tinctures:..... 20 Sulphate, pure crystal............ 7 @ituate --.. 5.0 ee. 80 Phosphate .............----eeeeeeee 65 - ; LEAVES. Buchu, short (Powd 25c)..........- 13 Sage, Italian, bulk (48 & 448, 12c)... 6 Senna, Alex, natural.............. 18 @ 2 Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 30 Senna, powdered...............-.- 22 Senna tinnivelli........... -.eeeee- 16 Neva WRAL. coco ccc scot ee sees 10 Belledonna...........ccceeesceceees 35 HOx@IOVE..........:-.--+----------- 30 Henbane ...........0.-ccescrerscces 35 Rose, red.........- cee cece cece cece 2 3d LIQUORS. W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 25 Druggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 1% @2 00 Whieky, other brands.............110 @l 50 Gin, Old Tom...............--..--.-- 135 @1 75 Gin, Holland................---s++: 200 @3 50 WMAnGY...5.:......-...--.---------- 1% @6 50 Catawba WineS............-.266 o 125 @2 00 POs WINGS... .. 2.5... 5c. cee ee 135 @2 50 MAGNESIA. Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 0Z........ 23 Carbonate, Jenning’s, 20Z......... 37 Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 2 @aleimed. 06605522... 70 OILS. Almond, sweet...:...:.........-..-- 45 @ 50 Amber, rectified................-.- 45 PAMMIBO | 8 oe ches tenet eee 210 Bay @ O27...............------------ 50 Bergamont.............-02eeseeeees 2 00 @roton.... 0-3... 4... se 2 00 Oajoput .-................. es 75 OQSRIA 0 ee eee. 135 Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c)..... 40 Citronella) 006.62 .202.0 6... 85 loves... 6k. 6. ss 125 @ubebs. BP: SW... 8 wee. 8 00 Maigeron |. ...-.........-.----.----- 1 60 MHROW.GCG. 05. . 6c... ese es cee es 2 00 Geranium # O2Z...........-..-2000s 75 Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 40 Juniper WOOd..............0.seeee 50 4] u Juniper berries............----.+6+ Lavender flowers- French......... Lavender garden dO 7 ...... Lavender spike GO... ot: Lemon, NeW Crop...........-0.-0e- Lemon, Sanderson’s..............- WemOngvass...5....<..--..--.--:--- Origanum, red flowers, French... Origanum, No.1...............-.- Pennyroyal ............-0e eee eens Peppermint, white....... : He ROBE FP OZ...... eee eee cece reso sees Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... Sandal Wood, German............ Sandal Wood, Turkish Dark...... BGSSAETOS.. 626.0 co. ek ee eee ene ie aay is sleek celedcls sect cos ee Tar (by gal 60C)...........0eeeeeees 10 Wintergreen ................5-00: Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $6.50)..... Man oe ee eee ta Wormseed .......0....-.2---2---- Cod Liver, filtered..... . ... 8 gal Cod Liver, best.....-..:. ... .- Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 Olive, Malaga........... : Olive, “Sublime Italian’... ..... aid Be ee esk cesses cece ees Rose, Ihmsen’s...........-..- OZ POTASSIUM. Bicromate..........cccsececeee 2 Ib 15 Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23¢)......... Jodide, cryst. and gran. bulk..... Prussiate yellow..............2eeee ROOTS. PAIR ANOG ooo ee ees. vac ces AUHGG, CU. 66d. eee ae eee oe Arrow, St. Vincent’s............ an Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4s and %s.... Blood (Powd 18¢e) Calamus, peeled................... Calamus, German white, peeled.. Elecampane, powdered........ ue Gentian (Powd lic(.............--- Ginger, African (Powd l6c).....-.. Ginger, Jamaica bleached........ Golden Seal (Powd 40c)............ Hellebore, white, powdered....... Ipecac, Rio, powdered............- alap, powdered...............+-+5 Licorice, select (Powd 1244)....... Licorice, extra select...........+++ Pink, true......... Dydiccas weed ew ake Rhei, from select to choice.......1 Rhei, powdered BE. I................1 Rhei, choice cut cubes......... Rhei, choice cut fingers.. Serpentaria........ Seneka........ SNSSSSSSNEASSSRARSSHSSASSE R oP ees com won7% eS we Rd atc oR 18 ® _ BEASSRSREESE Se eee we ee ee errors ee wees erere SSSRSSER Sarsaparilia, Hondurus........... lee & Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 18 PATENT MEDICINES AND PROPRIETARY ARTI- Squilis, white (Powd 35c)..:....... 10 , CLES. Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25 | Acid, Horsford’s Phosphates.............. 4 00 Valerian, Vermont (POwd 28c).... 20 | Acid, Horsford’s Phosphates.............. 8 00 SEEDS. er ee. aii eee ae 7 60 ; perient, Tarrant’s Seltzer................ 8 00 foes Italian (Powd 20¢).......... 13 | August Flower, Green’s, trial.............. 85 ird, mixed in b packages. ...... 5 @ 6 | August Flower, Green’s.............-....:: 5 25 Canary, Smyrna................+-- S4@ (& | Hale, Pye Cream... .:.-....-.- 6262-2... 375 es , best Dutch (Powd 19¢).. 11 @, 1 | Balm, Hagan’s Magnolia.................-- 5 25 Gack eo weet ee sees ee eee 3 rs Balsam, Allen’s Lung... ..........e.ee ee ees 7 00 Celer » MAIADAL........+--+++5- on Boleaus, as Wie 2 7 50 Soe eas Sees p alsam, Jaynes’ Carminative.............. 2 85 oe best English........... a Balsam, Jaynes’ Carminative.............. 2 85 ween 3%@ ; Balsam, Parker’s Hair. ....................- 3 90 has ose and (bbl my a 4% Bitters, Baxter’s Mandrake..............-. 1 85 For p EE Ne eae aa cna Z Bitters, Boerhave’s Holland............... 7 00 rene ace powdered..........-. 8 @ 9 | Bitters, Brown’s Iron.............2...000 06 8 00 Mirabe a jie 54@ : Bitters, Bucklen’s Electric..............--- 4 00 Quince , Ce ene se 100 Bitters, Burdock, Blood.......... pioeses 7 50 Peis UU 1™%@ 8 Bitters, Burdock, Biood, trial.............. 85 Ww oe th re aa en 14. | Bitters, German HON 6 6 50 a er oot ree ses Sos Bitters, Hop and Malt...................... 7 00 SPONGES. Bitters, Hostetter’s Stomach............... 8.00 Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 0 Bitters, Shepard’s Wahoo..............---. 3 50 Nassau do ao. 260 | Bitters, Warner’s Safe................------ 35 Velvet Extra do don 110 | Bitters, Warner’s Safe...................... 7 00 Extra Yellow do do. 85 | Blood-Searcher, Lindsey’s................. 7 00 Grass oO do 65 | Bloom, Laird’s, of Youth................... 5 25 Hard head, for slate use........... 75 | Bougies, Allan’s No. 1, Short (Gonorrhcea)10 00 Yellow Reef, do ........... 1 40 ee ae x 2, Long, (Gleet)...... 10 of z romidia, Battle & Co..............0. ee ee ee 8 eve _ | Bitter Color, W. B, & €0...0.. 6005. c.see8s 1 88 Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.27) ® gal.... 235 | Butter Color, W. R. & Co..............2.05- 315 | Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 150 | Butter Color, W. R. & Co..............0- 2+ 8 00 Anodyne Hoffman’s...... eee 50 | Camphor Ice, H. P. & Co. rolls........4.... 75 Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 27 | Carminative, Jaynes’.................. +--+ 2 85 Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 12 | Cascara Cordial, P. D. & Co...............5- 7 00 Annatto 1 rolls.................- 30 | Castoria. Piteher’s..........2..2.2.5..2-6-.: 2 80 Blue Soluble...........-....++-++++ 50 | Cement, Freeze’s American Mender....... 1 35 Bay Rum, imported, best......,.. 275 | Gholagogue, Osgoods.......... neous eet 12 50 Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’8. |) _2 25 | Compound, Lydia Pinkham’s......... .... 8 00 Ue eee ae et bm 2%@ 3%! Conquerer, Greene’s Ague...............-. 7 50 Alum, ground (Powd 9¢).......... 3 @ 4 | Conquerer, Green’s Ague...........-....+. 3 75 Annatto, prime...............-..6. 32 Cordial, Fosgate’s Anodyne................ 2 %5 Antimony, powdered, com’l...... 4%@ 5 | Cordial, Godfrey’s...........-......22eeeeee 60 Arsenic, white, powdered......... 6 @ 7 | Cream, Richmond’s Cubeb................. 8 00 Balm Gilead Buds..............-.. MO | Oure Avera Ague................-..2..-26 15 Beans, Tonka...............-.-- ice 225 | Cure, Harter’s Fever and Ague............ 5 25 Beans, Vanilia...<...........-..-+: 700 @9 75 | Cure, Hall’s Catarrh [Toledo].............. 5 30 Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 230 | Cure, Jaynes’ Ague............2. 0.20028 eee 7 60 Blue Pill (Powd 70c)............... . 45 | Cure, Kendall’s Spavin........0...-.-..00+ 8 00 Blue Vitriol..... eee 1%4@ 9 Cure, Kendall’s Spavin, Refined........... 4 00 Boralumine, White bulk) ........ 9 | Gure, Piso’s for Consumption.............. 2 00 Boralumine, __ 5 Ibs |......-- 10 | Gure, Richmond’s Cough...............+--- 4 00 Boralumine, Tints bulk. ;40 10 | Gure, Richmond’s Ague.............-..-++: 7 50 Boralumine S.J .....+.- 11 | Cure, Sykes Cartarrh, Liquid.............. 75 Borax, refined (Powd l5c)......... 13 | Gure, Warner’s Safe Diabettes............. 10 00 Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 2%5 | Gure, Warner’s Safe K. & L................ 10 00 Capsicum Pods, African..... acc: 18 | Cure, Warner’s Rheumatic.............--. 10 00 Capsicum Pods, Afriean pow’d... 20 | Cure, Weatherly’s Catarrh................-- 3 50 Capsicum Pods, American do ... 1) i ee 4 20 en Ne 40... eee neces eee ee 400 | Dermador, Anderson’s.............- oe 1 80 Calon, : Soren ee cece eect eee ee eee 14 | Destroyer, Steketee’s Worm...........--.. 1 75 Ca nao rs a teste eee e ee eees . 70 | Drstroyer, Steketee’s Worm, in capsules.. 3 75 Ce ea 17%%@ 19 | Discovery, Kennedy’s Medical............ 12 50 ee prepared drop.............. 5 | Discovery, King’s New.............0.-000+ TE Chalk precipitate English........ 12 | Discovery, Pierce’s Golden Medical........ 7 50 —_ zed fnexe 2 8 | Dissolvent, Kennedy’s...........---+-0+0+5 12 50 Chic ahs 1U@ LUMP... .. 2... eee eeee 2 | Drops, Koenig’s Hamburgh.............--. 3 50 ¢ ince ae Squibb’s.........-0++ 160 | Drops, Peerless Toothache............-.+-. 1 50 olocynth apples.................. 60 | Drops, Steketee’s Neuralgia................ 3 15 Chloral hydrate, German crusts... 1 60 Dyes! Diamond....)-.2.........-..---.----: 715 Chioral do do, cryst... 170 | Dyes, cei eas, 65 Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 190 | Dyes; Handy Package........... ..-.-.-6+ 85 ae do do crusts.. 1% | Biixir, Nichols’, of Bark and iron......... 7 50 See eee 115 @120 | mlixir) Richmond’s Liver.............------ 4 00 inchonidia, P. & W......<........ 6@ @ 65° | Hlixir, Wayne’s Diuretic.............-..+-. 7 50 Cinchonidia, other brands......... 60 @ 65 | Emulsion, Scott’s, of Castor Oil........... 1% SENS OI snagie cee nviene nes 20 @ 2 | Hmulsion, Scott’s, of Cod Liver Oil........ 7 50 €c6 — seen ec teeters eee eee ee eens 30 | Expectorant, Jaynes’........---.2+. eee ees 7 ocoa Butter..........-......----- 45 Extract, H. P. & Co.’s of Ginger........... 3 30 Copperas (by bbl Ic).............- 2 | Extract, H. P. & Co.’s of Ginger.......... 1% Corrosive Sublimate............... 65. (perenne Pondia ©... ....... 2.1... 3 15 Corks, X and XX—35 off list...... Wetetee, EGOS 8... ooo ecns esp ceren ee 7 50 Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... 38 @ 4) | terisaet, Pouid’s......2.....-:.-- 2-5. .08s 15 00 Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 Ib box.. 15 Extract, Shakers, or Roots........... ..-.- 4 80 eae ee eee 50 Extract, Tarrant’s, of C. and C............- 8 00 udbear, prime.................+-- 2 Ely Paper, Shoo-Fly......-...-.--+20:00+++ 20 Cuttle Fish Bone.............--.+.- 23 | Fly Pads, Briggs’.........-. ----eese seer 60 Dextrine .........-.. eee ee eerste eee 12 | Wood, Mellin’a Infant ............--.--.--+- 4 00 Dover’s Powders..........+-+++++ 120 | Food, Mellin’s Infant..............2:00ee0+ 6 50 Dragon’s Blood Mass.............- BO lipand Nestle’s....._......----------- 4 50 Ergot powdered...............+-++ 45 (Raed. Widae’s, No. 1..........--.-----4--+- 2 52 Ether S uibb’s bic amiss sclccceceee «me 110 Food, Ridee’s, No 2............--.--.....5 4 68 Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8 | Food, Ridge’s, No. 3..........---++ So 9 00 Hpsom Salts. 4.0.0.6 .. 02.0.2)... 24@ 3 Food, Ridge’s, No. 4...........-----++--+- .12 60 Ergot, fresh.. sete tee e ee eee e eee eees 50 Food, Victor's aby... -. 2. eee 1 75 Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 69 | Food, Victor’® Baby.........-seeeeeeee ee ees 7 00 Flake UGG eee te. 14 | Priend, Pengelly’s Woman’s.........--..-- 75 Grains Paradise,................-- 35 | Ginger, F. Brown’s Jamaica.........------ 3 75 Gelatine, Cooper's. .............-.- 90 Hair Dye, Hill’s {black or brown].......-- 3 15 Gelatine, French |... ..-. +5204: 45 @ 70 | Hair Vigor, AYer’s.....-- .--sesesereeee eee 6 5 Glassware, flint, 65 off,by box 55 off Honey, Hale’s, Horehound and Tar....... 3 15 aeeee green, 60 and 10 dis.... @1 Hydroleine......- 2... ...eseseegece erect 8 25 ue, cabinet.. ue 7 hites, Wine ? ot » CADINET..........-... ee ee eee J Hypophosphites, Winchester’s Syrup of.. 7 15 Glue, White... 0... se sees eee eeees u@s Invigorator, Sanford’s Liver.......... 7 35@7 90 Glycerine, pure...............2+.++ 23 @ % | Todia, Battle & Co.’s......... .-----eeeeeee 8 00 Hops 148 and 48.............. 0000. 2 40 | wWathainen, Evol. ...-....-.+2-es-2-- 375 Todoform OZ cc cos oe ak 35 Kidneywort, Wey... 6c...) +o -- +552 8 25 Indigo... . 1... ee sense ae ees costs 8 @100 | Kidneywort, Liquid..........----.--2-6+ +++ 8 25 Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 32 @ 34 | Pactopepetine, N. Y. Phar. Co., 102....... 8 00 Iodine, resublimed.............. ~ 230 | Finiment, Centaur, Horse and Family.... 3 60 Isinglass, American.............°. 150 | Liniment, Herrick’s German............-. 3°15 Japonica .. ... 1... eee ee eee e erences 9 | Liniment, Johnson’s Anodyne.......--.--- 2 80 Lead, acetate. ...... ee omar 15 | Liniment, Kennedy’s R. and N.........--- 3.15 Lime, chloride, (148 2s 10c & 4s Ne) 9 | Liniment, Kennedy’s Scattering.......... 7 50 Lupuline ..........-eeeeeee sees eee 100 | Tiniment, Mexican Mustang......-.-..---- 1 80 Tapopedsat cea = Liniment, Mexican, Mustang. i bar 3 = Oe le oo ass cece a A rvine, Richmond’s Goo amaritan....1 Madder, best Dutch............... R4@ 13 Noe. Warner's Sate 3... 375 Manna, B. B........ 2... see eee ee es 125 | Nervine, Warner’s Safe... ....------+++-+- 7 00 Mercury.............-.-----eeeeeeee i 50 | Oil, Hamlin’s Wizard.........--+-+++ss005+ 3 50 Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... Boz 3 50@3 75 | Oj)’ Hamlin’s Wizard......-..-.--.--2e200++ 7 00 Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s...... 40 Oil’ Haarlem [Medicamentum]..........-- 40 Moss, Iceland................-- 8 b 10 | Oil} Leeson’s Tiger.......--.2--2+++rrr eres 1%5 Moss, Irish... . 0... -++-2++sse ee ee 12 | Oil; Leeson’s Tiger. .....------+2eseert eee 3 50 Mustard, English... -............. 30 | Oil) Leeson’s Tiger......---:-.. 2222800 7 00 Mustard, grocer’s, 10 Ib cans...... 18 | Oj) Mercnant’s Gargling, fam.......--.--- 1 80 IC ee 2 Oil, Merchant’s Gargling, horse......----- 1 80 Nutmegs, NO.1..........---++s0005s 75 | Oil; Merchant’s Gargling, horse......------ 3 60 Nux Vomica...... Sea aaa 10 | Oil) Merchant’s Gargling.......-------+++++ 7 20 Ointment, Mercurial, 4d........-. 40 | eal Git. docolis......-..---<-+--- ------ 7 315 Pepper, Black Berry...........-.- 18 | Oil’ Thomas’ Electric........-.-----.050 6 3 75 PePSiN...... 0. see eve ee eeee ee eee ners 800 | Ointment, Kennedy’s Healing........---- 375 Pitch, True Burgundy...........-. 7 | Ointment, Kennedy’s Salt Rheum.......-- 3 75 QUASSIA ..- nee eee eee eens 6 @ 7 | Ointment, Kennedy’s Serofula........---- 7 50 Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........ hoz 1 40@1 45 | Ointment, Trask’s Magnetic........---.--+- 1% Quinine, other brands............. 140 @145 | Ointment, Trask’s Magnetic... .......-.-++- 2 75 Seidlitz Mixture..................- 28 | Ointment, Williams’ Indian Pile........--- 6 00 Strychnia, CRYSl.... 0... 2 250 eke 1 50 Pain-Killer, Perry DMAVIQ.....-..-2-2.25---- 1 80 Silver Nitrate, cryst............... 79 @ 8 | pain-Killer, Perry Davis.........-.--++++++- 3 60 Red Precipitate............... # Ib 80 Pain-Killer, Perry Davis.........-..+-++++ 7 20 Satfron, American................. 40 Pectoral, Ayer’s Cherry.......---2065 ++ 1b Sal Glauber.........-....-.s-se20 @ 2 | Pellets, Pierce’s Purgative ........---..--- 1 50 Sal Nitre, large cryst.............. 10 Pepsin, H. P. & Co.'s, Sacchar’d, ozs. #0z _ 30 Sal Nitre, medium cryst.......... 9 Pe Wein WEB O& GOCE. ....--.-5s0-4a- 8 bb 2 50 Sal Rochelle..........+-++++++++++++ 33 | Pills, FANOUA sec dsuahe es: Le He 50 Sal Soda............--sseeereeeerees 2 @ 24! pills, Carter's Iron...- 0.2.0.5 seers 15 Salicin. Ec ee tece ces etc ee mse aa Pills, Carter’s Hittle Biver........----<----- 150 Santonin ...........--.0. ee eee eee ee 675 | pits’ Garter’s Nerve....--.----22seeerer tt 1 50 Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch....... 38 Pills. Harter’s AQue.........---+--+eeeeeeee 5 25 Roda Ash [by keg Sc]....-..-.----- 4 | pilis) Harter’s Liver....... -...-.-.-+++ 00 1 35 Rees eet 25 | pills) Herrick’s. ....---s--0eecreeeeett et 1 50 Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s.... 4%4@ 5 | pilis; Jaynes’ Samative .......-- --+-20007- 1 65 Soap, White Castile................ 14 | pills; Kermott’s Mandrake......-------+++- 1 25 i GF er etnnner VW | pitis) McLane’s........----e2-e-eeeeert ree 1 45 Soap, Mottled do -...----++--+->- 9 | pins’ Rinehart’s Liver........--..---.-2-+++ 1 40 Soap, do QQ 7... . ce. 1 Pills, Shallenberger’s Fever and Ague. ae Soap, Mazzini...........--.-+2+++++ a 14 | pills; Warner’s Safe..........--++-2e+25e0 5 1 40 Spirits Nitre, 3 F................555 2% @ 28 | pilis’ Wright’s Sugar-Coated...........+-+- 1 50 Spirits Nitre, 4 B...........--++-+++ 28 @ 82 | pilules, Moore’s......---..2--00eererteeeee 3 5 Sugar Milk powdered.............. 30 | Plaster, AIICOCK’S......-..00ee-s ee er eet 115 Sulphur, flour DS oe ese cae oace 34@ 4 Plaster, Benson’s Capacine........---++++- 1% Sulphur, roll.......-++++ssseeeeeees 3 | Plaster, Collin’s Voltaic.......---+++++++++- 1 85 Tartar Emetic Bee oa tne es wc ae cena s a 65 Plaster, Hamburg {Koenig’s].....----+++++ 1% Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans @ doz 270 | pilaster, Herrick’s Kid........-.-.--+--+++ 1 40 Tar, do quarts in tin....... 140 | plaster, Herrick’s Preforated........------ 110 Tar, do _pintsintin......... 85 | plaster, Herrick’s Red Pepper....-------+- 110 Turpentine, Venice.........-. > 25 | Powders, Harvell’s Condition........----++ 1 50 Wax, White, S. & F. brand........ 60 | powders, Herrick’s Condition.........-.-- 3 00 Zine, Sulphate..........+++-+++++++ 7 @ 8 | powders, Sheridan Condition..........---- 1 50 OILS. Powders, Sloan’s Condition.......-.-++++-- J 00 : : Prairie-Week, Kennedy’s....------+++++++++ 7 50 Capitol Cylinder.................ee sence eee eeee 75| Prescription, King’s........-..--.2srs00 7 50 Model Cylinder.......... 0... s ee eeee ee ee ener ee 60| Prescription, Pierce’s Favorite......-.---- 7 50 Shields Cylinder...............sseeeece cece eens 50] Regulator, Simmons’ Liver (Zeilens|...... 7 50 Eldorado Engine...........-..seeeeeeee eres ee es 45| Relief, Radway’s Ready........ .-+--++++++ 3 75 Peerless Machinery...............scesseeeeees 35| Remedy, Hunt’s Kidney.......--.-+-+++++- 10 00 Challenge Machinery..............e.eseeee eee 25| Remedy, Kennedy’s Favorite.........----- 8 00 Backus Fine Engine..............-..-+-+-++++- 30| Remedy, Sages........2205 seeeseeeeereree ts 3 50 Black Diamond IMSGRINELY.. co. 6.0.6 cosecede. 30} Remover, German Corn......-.----++++++++ 1 50 CustOrine.... 2... cess eee ee ee eeee eee teen ee eee es 60| Renewal, Hall’s Hair.........--.-..sss0++> 6 1 Paraffine, 25 deg.... 2... 6. eee ee ee eee tees ee ees 22| Resolvent, Cuticura.........-...eeseeeeee 8 35 Paraffine, 28 deg...... 0... ee eeeeeeee eee ee ee ese 21] Resolvent, Radway’S..........6. ceeeeee ers 8 Sperm, winter bleached............-...-..-- 1 40| Rough on Rats, Wells.......--.-0-+s25050 1 00 : Bbl Gal} Rough on Rats, Wells.....-..-+----++s+20++ 1 50 Whale, winter..........-.-.seeeeeeees 15 80| Salicylica, Washburn’s........-..--+++++++5 7 00 Lard, @xtra...... 2... see ee ee eee eee eee 78 80| Salve, Bucklen’s Arnica........0.---+-++++ 1 75 Lard, No. 1........-2 22 se sees ee eee 65 70| Salve, Henry’s Carbolic........-..++++-+++ 1%5 Linseed, pure raw.........-...-+-+-+ 56 60| Salve, Page’s Climax.......--.-.2.000+ 2055 1 85 Linseed, boiled ...........+-...-+--+- 59 63] Salve, Peleg White Sticking.. ...........-. 75 Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 90 951 Salve, Petit’s Bye.......... 6... cece erence eee 150 Spirits Turpentine...........-.--+--- 41 50| Sarsaparilla, Ayer’S..........-.-+..-+e0s0+ 7 1 VARNISHES. Plenary ge Yellow Dock and... : = Sarsaprrilla, Hood’s............-++0s-+see+> es BOGE ogress eines Senne: : aan - Sarsaparilla, Johnston’s.........--.+++++++- 7 00 Coach Body ee ee 2 75@3 00 | Smartweek, Pierce's Extract of........--- 35 ‘rn Para ee Snuff, Marshall’s Catarrh.............---.. 1 No. 1 Turp Furniture................. -1 00@1 10 Soap, Cuticura 1 85 cont ao 7 When... ? mo 7 Soap, Glenn’s Sulphur.........-..-+.-+00++ 1% ere il) alee san Soap, Packer's Tar..........s.0csceseeeeenss 1% PAINTS. Sozodont, Van Buskirk’s.........-.--++-++: 6 00 Bbl Lb | Specific, Harter’s Ague..........----+++++: 5 25 Red Venetian...............--- 1% 2@ 3| Specific, Swift's ............ 2. eee eee eee eee 8 00 Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3| Specific, Swift’s...... Bede cee esas 14 00 Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3| Sure Shot, Johnston’s.............+eeeeeee 150 Putty, commercial ............ 2% 2%@ 3| Syrup, Boschee’s German...........--+-+++ 5 25 Putty, strictly pure............ 2% 2%@ 3| Syrup, Boschee’s German, samples....... 85 Vermilion, prime American... 18@16| Syrup, Bull’s Baby.........-.---.-s-+e ee ee 1 85 Vermilion, English............ 55@57 | Syrup, Bull’s Cough...............+ sees eee 1 85 Green, Peninsular.......... ee 16@17 | Syrup, Bull’s Cough...........---.eeeee ees 3 70 Lead; red strictly pure..... a 6%4 | Sprup, Bull’s Cough...............-sseee ees 7 40 Lead, white, strictly pure..... 6% | Syrup, Clark Johnson’s Indian Blood...... 3 50 Whiting, white Spa Ce @i0| Syrup, Clark Johnson’s Indian Blood...... 7 00 iting, Gilders’.............. @90| Syrup, Fellows of Hypophospites, Comp. .11 50 White, Paris American........ 110| Sprup, Marshall’s Lung............-.--+-++ 1 8 Whiting, Paris English cliff... 40| Syrup, Marshall’s Lung............-++..+5: 3 70, 5 The Michigan Tradesman. A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. E. A. STOWE & BRO.. Proprietors. OFFICE IN EAGLE BUILDING, 8d FLOOR. {Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids as Second-class Matter.] ” WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1884. A FAR-SEEING DRUGGIST. She had promised that she would mend the lining of his overcoat, if he would wear another and leave that at home. And as he had left it, she took it from the hall rack and carried it into her sewing room. She was Mrs. Wilton, and had been mar- ried five years, and never, never, never in all that time had had one unhappy moment. Mr. Wilton had been very kind and gener- ous and never made her jealous. She often said she was the happiest woman living. Now, as she looked at the lining and com- pared the silk with which she was about to she was thinking mend the torn portion, these thoughts. They had never had any children, but to people who are all in all to each other that is no very great grief. All her care was for him, his for her. “And he is just the dearest, best, truest fellow in the world,” said Eve Wilton to herself. “I’m not half good enough for him. I wonder what thisis in his pocket; it bulges it all out of shape.” She put her hand into his breast pocket as she spoke, and drew out a little package wrapped in silver paper and tied with a blue ribbon. ‘‘Something he has brought home for me, I expect,” said Eve. “I think I won’t open it until he comes home.’”’ Then she laid the silk on the coat, cut it and sewed it down. “f wonder what it is,” said she. “It is perhaps lace wound on a ecard, real lace.” She took up the package again. “I won- der what it really is.’ Then she took up the coat. “There was not much to mend, after all,’ she said, “I thought the tear much longer.” Then she laid it on a chair. “Tom wouldn’t mind; I’m sure its for me, and [’J] just take a peep.” Then she undid the ribbon, unfolded the paper and saw letters. “Dear Tom,” said she, ‘he must keep my old letters yet, and he never told me.” The writing, however, was not hers: she saw that. ‘“‘His mother’s letters,”’ she said; ‘‘he lov- ed his mother so.” Then she began to tremble a little. They did not begin, “My dear son.” She cast her eyes over them. They were love letters. “Tom has loved some other woman before he met me,” she said. ‘Oh, what shall I do?”? Then she cried out, “‘O, foolish crea- ture that lam! Of course she died; and he only loves me now. It wasall over before we met. I must not mind,’—but there she paused and threw the letter away as though it was a serpent and had bitten her. It was dated the past week; it was not four days old. “Oh! dear!” cried Eve, ‘oh! what shall Ido? Oh! where shallI go?” At every cry a thought pierced her breast like an actual stab. ‘Tom! my Tom! he is false! Oh! I have gone mad! No; there they are—those letters! Why do I not die? Do people live through such things as these?”’ Then she knelt down on the floor and gathered up the letters, and steadily read them through. There were ten of them— ‘ such love letters; they were absurd love letters, such as are sometimes read in cases of “breach of promise;’’ calling him “lovey- dovey,” “darling parling,” ‘‘popsy-wopsy,” terms used by those who have the complaint “really bad.”’ “It’s all true,” said poor Eve, wringing her hands. ‘I trusted him so; I believed in him so. Oh, Tom! my Tom, false!’ Then she wiped her eyes, gathered up the letters, made them up just as they were be- fore, and returned them to the breast pock- et, and hung it on the hall rack again. “Tom shall never know,” she said. “I will not reproach him. I will never see him again; when he comes home, I shall bedead. I will not live to bear this.” Then she sat down and thought of the best means of suicide; she could hang _her- self with the window cord to the chandelier, and then she would be black in the face; she would drown herself, but drowned people looked even worse than strangled ones; she was too much afraid of firearms to shoot herself. Happy thought, she would take poison! Yes, that would be best; would not alter her appearance, and Tom would see her after death, and he might ex- perience remorse. Eve took a miserable comfort in the thought that Tom would kneel beside her coffin and burst into tears and passionate ex- elamations of regret, which she, perhaps, might see from some spiritual post of ob- servation. So, having put on a hat and thick veil, Eve betook herself down the street to a drug store, the only one in the street, and kept by a German. The druggist was an old man, with red cheeks and a smiling mouth; and when she asked him for “poison for rats,” he said “Just so,” and beamed knowingly upon her. “T want it very strong,” said Eve. “Just so,” said the druggist. “But not to give more pain than is neces- a “To the rats?” asked the druggist. “Yes,” said Eve; ‘of course; and it must be quick, and not make one black in the face.”’ With a grave countenance he compound- ed a powder and handed it to Eve. She took it, handed him all the coppers she had in her hand, and walked off. Once home, she retired to bed, taking the powder with her, hoping it would not be very disagreeable to take, but finding it sweet she bravely swallowed it. “It is over,” she said. ‘Heaven forgive me and forgive Tom!’’ and then she laid her- self down. Just as she did so the familiar sound of a latch key startled her. Tom never came home at noon, but there he was now; no one else could walk in that cool way, and now he was calling her. “Eve! Eve! Eve! Where are you?” Nev- er before had she refused to answer that voice. Why had he come to torture her dying moments! Hark! now he was bounding up stairs; now he was even in the reom. “Oh, dear!” said Eve. “What is the matter? Are youjill, Eve?” he exclaimed. “No,” she said faintly, “only tired.” “Ah! you look tired, little one,” said he. “T eame home to get that overcoat. I sup- pose you found out before this that that in the hall is not mine. I wore Johnson’s overcoat from the office by mistake last night, and he is anxious about it. He asked me if there was any one in the house who;would be apt to meddle with papers in the pocket. I said I thought not. I hadn’t a jealous wife—eh? What's the matter, Eve?” “Oh, Tom,” cried Eve, hysterically. §‘Oh, Tom, say it again. It was not your coat?” “My coat? No. Why?” “Oh, Tom! Oh, Tom!” “Why, what is the matter, Eve! must be ill!’ eried out Tom. “Oh, lama wicked woman,” she cried. “There were letters in the pocket—love let- ters. I read them. I thought you were false to me. 1 took poison, Tom. V’m going to die, and I do so long to live. Oh, Tom, save me!” “Yes, yes,’ cried Tom. “Oh, good Heaven, what poison.” “Mr. Hoffman will know. I bought it of him. Perhaps he can save me,” cried Eve. And away went Tom, as white as death to thefold druggist’s shop. . He burst into the shop like a whirlwind. “The lady!’ he gasped. ‘The lady who bought poison here an hour ago! She took it by mistake! Can you save her? Is there no antidote? She is dying!” “No, no!’ said the German. ‘Be calm! Be at rest! No! no! she cannot die of that. When a lady asks me for poison dat will not turn de rats black in the face, I say to my- self, ‘So, I smell something! and I gave her in de paper just a little sugar and something. She could take a pound. Go home and tell her so. I never sell poison to vomen dat cry, and do not vish de rat to become black in de face. So be calm.” So Tom flew home again, and Eve re- joiced; and hearing that Johnson was a single man, who admitted himself engaged, she did not rip the patch off the coat, as she at first intended; as she kissed Tom, she mentally determined not to let her curiosity lead her in the future into a predicament in which she had so nearly, as she thought, lost her life, as well as her temper. You —_——_—__-_—<»>-o- <> Lagging Habi sin Business. Yo have a business run as smoothly and successfully as it should, it is quite neces- sary to have the work done ‘‘ap to date.” Then the merchant knows just where he stands, knows what he can do and what he can not do. There is a great tendency among people to let their business accumulate on them, and they are al- ways just about so far behind-hand. Such people as these we hear complaining of how they are rushed with work, and they find it impossible to catch up. And yet if some good fairy were to help them out, they would soon be in arrears as badly as before. It is not that these men have too much work to do that they lag behind, but it is the result of a bad habit. By a little decis- ion of character the habit could be broken, and when the man leaves his desk, or office, or store for the night he would feel no in- cubus of “unfinished business” hanging over him. Not only is it annoying, but it is a losing plan to have unfinished work con- stantly on hand that should have been done before. When ahead bookkeeper, for in- stance, is back in his accounts a few weeks or months, it puts a merchant in a bad plight. He can not tell whether he is losing or mak- ing money: he cannot tell if the accounts are being paid as they should. In fact, he is about going it blind, and serious consequen- ces are often the result of such a condition of affairs. We would urge upon all young men the importance of learning to finish each day’s business as it comes along. Such a habit once formed, will prove of incalculable bene- fit to whoever adopts it, and, once adopted, it will not“be abandoned. A systematic method of working, combined with indus- try, will finish a vast amount of work ina day, and finish it with ease. Without sys- tem and perseverance, along with a determi- nation to do in time what is to be done, one may rush ever so much and yet accomplish but little. The great thingin starting ina business career is to startright, and fortu- nate is the young man who has an employer who will teach him aright. But even other- wise, a young man of the proper grit can train himself up in the way he should go. M. B. Church “Bedette” Co., 1 HURON STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. Manufacturer of : “Bedette.” or penn infer PATENTED JUNE 15, 1883. This invention supplies a long felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put away in a small space when not in use, and yet make a roomy, comfortable bed when wanted. Of the many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a comfortable night’s rest can be had. They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in short no bed at all. While THE BEDETTE folds into a small space, and is as light as anything can be made for dura- bility, when set up it furnishes a bed wide and long enough for the largest man, and is as com- fortable to lie upon as thé most expensive bed. It is so constructed that the patent sides, reg- ulated by the patent adjustable tension cords, form the most perfect spring bed. The canvas covering is not tacked to the frame, as on all cots, but is made adjustable, so that it can be taken off and put on again by any one ina few minutes, or easily tightened, should it become loose, at any time from stretching. It is a perfect spring bed, soft and easy, without springs or mattress. For warm weather it is a complete bed, without the additionfot anything ;§for cold weather it is only necessary to add sufficient clothing. The ‘‘ BEDETTE” is a household neces- sity, and no family after once using, would be without it. It is simple in its construction, and ha ey - oe out of repair. It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed, and the price is within he reach of all. Price—36 in. wide, by 614 ft. long, $3.50; 30 in wide, by 614 ft. long, $3.00; 27 in. wide, by 414 ft. long, cover not adjustable, $2.50. For sale by furniture dealers every- where. If not for sale by your dealer it will be sent to any address on receipt of price. We manufacture all our stock Candy and can always give you the best goods. We buy in large lots from Oranges first hands and ship only in full car lots. We handle 20,- 000 boxes of Oranges and Lemons in a season and our Lemons facilities for buying and han- dling are unsurpassed. Nuts We carry a heavy stock of Bra- zils, Almonds, Filberts, Walnuts, Pecans and Cocoa Nuts, and will sell seems any market. e lately bought eight car Peanuts loads of the best re-cleaned and hand-picked Tennessee and Virginia Nuts, and are prepared to fill the largest orders. PUTNAM & BROOKS FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE, ‘ie — WHOLESALE GROCERS, 44, 46 and 48 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. E ARE FACTORY AGENTS FOR—— Nimrod, Acorn, Chit, Cresent & Rad Seal Pag, Yobaceus Our stock of Teas, Coffees and Syrups is Always Complete. ; '—WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR— Tobaccos. Vinesars and Spices |! OUR MOTTO: “SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MANCAND MAN.” F. J. LAMB & COMPANY. —WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Butter, Cheese, Eges, Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc. NO. 8 IONIA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS. - MICHIGAN. A BRENOWLSON, ——WHOLESALE DEALER IN—— AKRON SEWER PIPE, Fire Brick and Clay, Gement, Stucco, LIME, HAIR, COAL and YTOOD. ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED. Office—7 Canal Street. Sweet's Hotel Block. Yards—Goodrich Street, Near Michigan Central Freight House. SPRING & COMPANY --WHOLESALE DEALERS IN— FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS CARPHTS, MATTINGS, Oil, CLOTHS, ETc. ETC. G and 8 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, ” - Michigan. THH DEAREST TOBACCO Is a Poor, Common or Low-Priced Article, As It Gives Neither Pleasure Nor Satisfaction. THE PUBLIC 1S NOT SLOW TO LEARN THIS FACT WHENEVER IT DISCOVERS AN ARTICLE THAT COMMENDS ITSELF TO THE TASTE AND OTHER SENSES. ———THE REMARKABLE SALE OF——— LURILLANDS PLUG TOBACCOS Is Ample Evidence of This. This Concern will Sell over 20,000,000 Pounds of their Favorite Brands this Year; or About One-Fonrth of All the Plog: Tobacco Used in this Country’ AND AS THERE ARE BETWEEN 800 AND 900 OTHER FACTORIES IN THE U.S., If FOLLOWS THAT THEIR GOODS MUST GIVE THAN THE BRANDS OF OTHER MAKERS. Batter salistaclion Or Represeut Better Value for the Money. ae ALABASTINE! PUG TTT RR RRY Alabastine is the first and only prepara- tion made from calcined gypsum rock, for application: to walls with a brush, and is fully covered by our several patents and perfected by many years of experiments. It is the only permanent wall finish, and admits of applying as many coats as de- sired, one over another, to any hard surface without danger of scaling, or noticeably adding to the thickness of the wall, which is strengthened and improved by each ad- ditional coat, from time to time. It is the only material for the purpose not dependent upon glue for its adhesiveness ; furthermore it is the only preparation that is claimed to possess these great advantages, which are essential to constitute a durable wall finish. Alabastine is hardened on the wall by age, moisture, ete. ; the plaster absorbs the admixtures, forming a stone cement, while all kalsomines, or other whitening preparations, have inert soft chalks, and glue, for their base, which are rendered soft, or scaled, in a very short time, thus necessitating the well-known great incon- venience and expense, which all have ex- perienced, in washing and scraping off the old coats before refinishing. In addition to the above advantages, Alabastine is less expensive, as it requires but one-half the number of pounds to cover the same amount of surface with two coats, is ready for use by simply adding water, and is easily ap- plied by any one. Rhee RR RERER —-__ NOR SALE BY——— ALL Paint Dealers. ——MANUFACTURED BY—— THE ALABASTINE COMPANY M. B. CHURCH, Manager. GRAND RAPIDS, - - - WESTFIELD WHIPS L.H.BEALS ; & SON, MANUFACTURERS. —AND-— SALESROOM }] 0. PEARL STR, dst € OFS ACO. Gal Asan, WHOLESALE Hats, Gaps and Furs 54 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices as Low as Chicago and Detroit. SEEDS FIELD AND GARDEN, am WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, SEED STORE, 91 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. W. 7. LAMOREAUY, Ageut A. HH. FOwWwW is, PAINTER AND DECORATOR, —AND DEALER IN— Artists’ Materials ! FINE WALL PAPERS AND ROOM MOULDINGS, WINDOW SHADES, PAINTS, OILS, AND Glass, Plain and Ornamental 37 IonIA STREET, SOUTH OF MONROE. JOHN MOHRHARD, —WHOLESALE— Fresh & Salt Meats 109 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, ~ MICHIGAN. R. J. KIRKLAND. M. D., SPECIALIST IN DISEASES OF THE Har, Hye and Throat __ WITH DRS. JOHNSON & BOISE, 72 Othaws Strect, Corner of Monroe Street, MICHIGAN. | A aie geen? “Rieti tit A CRAZY QUILT. The Worse Reporter’s Advice to the Merry Maiden. “Ts this where they edit?” “Yes, ma’am,” replied the horse re- porter as he looked up and discovered timidly-built young lady standing in the doorway. “This is the very spot where right, environed on every side by intellect, deals telling blows against wrong and injustice, clad though they bein garments of might and oppres- sion. Armed with the lances of thought that glisten brightly in the sunlight of reason, the editor stands ever ready, a helmeted knight in the holy cause of justice, full panoplied, and with weapon. in couchant poise.” “That wasn’t exactly what I wanted to find out about,” said the young lady. “Iam going to make a crazy quilt, and mamma said that an editor could proba- bly tell me all about it’—and a be- witching smile illumitated the features of the fair visitor. “Our insane bed-clothes editor,” said the horse reporter, “is not here at pre- sent, and the rest of us naturally feel somewhat diffident aboutintruding upon the domain of quilts which are suffer- ing from temporary aberration of mind and pillow-shams concerning whose mental cendition there 1s doubt.” “T hardly think you understand me, sir,” continued the young lady. “A crazy-quilt isn’t really and truly crazy, you know—it is simply called so be- cause, being made of silk of different colors, it presents an owtre appear- ance.” “Presents a what?” “An outre appearance—looks rather strange, you know.” “OQ yes; sort of dizzy looking you mean.” “That probably expresses the idea, sir, although not perhaps in the most choice language. I should be very glad, though, if you could give me some information about this matter, because it is necessary that I should begin the work at once.” “Making this demented quilt for your- | self?” “No, sir—that is, not exactly,” and a vivid blush suffused the young lady’s features. “But I want to have it done before the 1st of January, because we won’t have room for the frame in the other house.” “Which other house ?” “Why, the one I—that is, we —oh, I think you’re awful,” and more blushes ensued. “The Ist of January is not generally considered the most auspicious season of the year for moving,” said the horse reporter. “The blithe carol of the plumber and the low, sad wail of the man who is trying to thaw out the water pipes with a two-inch candle and a jug of hot water, with which he will eventually inundate himself are about the only features of prominence con- nected with domestic life in Chicago at that season of the year. Why don’t you wait until May—joyous, happy May— when the buds are bursting and the robins tuneful harbingers of the sweet June days so soon to come, are twitter- ing on every bough?” “Vhat’s just what I have said all along,” replied the young lady, “but Charlie declares he will never live in the same house with mamma, and—now I shan’t say another word,” and more blushing ensued. “Oh,” said the horse reporter, “you're going to be married, are you?” “Yes, sir. That is, Charlie said” — “T know what he said. He leaned you up confidentially against his sus- pender and, speaking in low, tremulous tones, asked youif you felt that you could leave parents, brothers, sisters, fish-balls on Sunday, and all that makes home at once the altar of our affections and the joy of our lives, and live for- evermore with him. And you yanked him out of the realm of doubt so quick that it made his head swim. Isn’t that about it?” “Why, ves, sir—that is, I said”’— “Certainiy. You said that when a girl, standing on the threshold of Womanhood and watching with wistful eyes for the ists of futurity to lift, sees advancing the one man to whom and fears disappear as if by magic, and she knows only that a great happiness and holy content enshroud her being. Charlie then kissed you warmly about an inch below your nose, and broke himself the next day buying an engage- ment ring. He calls at the house every night now, and when he says to you: ‘Myrtle, do you love me as much this evening as yeu did last Thursday after- noon?’ you look at : “He doesn’t call me Myrtle at all,” interrupted the young lady. “My name is Edith.” “It’s the same thing. A rose by any name would have as many thorns. When he asks you if youlove him as much as you did last Thursday, you climb up a little higher on his neck and want to know how he ean ever doubt you. It’s allright, though. Be atrue and loving wife and perhaps some day Charley will give you aquarter to spend without requiring an itemized account sworn to before a notary, as to where such a vast sum has gone. Cherish his love as you woulda tender plant that the rude blasts of winter would destroy. Make your whole life a constant en- deavor to promote his welfare, but do not finish the quilt.” “Why not, sir?” “Because,” was the reply, “it would recallto him the happy past.”—Chi- cago Tribune. ——_—>_9-<—__ A CONSERVATIVE young man has wound up his life before it was un- reeled. We expect old men to be con- servative, but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.—- Beecher. she can give her heart, all her doubts |. Great Railroads. The United States has three distinct “transcontinental” lines, reaching from the Mississippi river to the Pacific coast. Of the three lines, however, the Northern Pacific is the only one which is, along its whole length, under the ownership and management of one corporation. It is also, if we are not much mis- taken, the longest main line owned by any railway corporation in the world. Many other companies owning “sys- tems” of road have a larger mileage, but the Northern Pacific is chiefly a main line, with a few branches. From Superior, Wisconsin, to Portland, Oregon, it is nineteen hundred and nine miles. But it is one of the great roads of the country as a “system.” It has, with branches, more than twenty-five hun- dred miles of road which it owns and already operates. It surpasses in mileage every railroad in Great Britain, and is surpassed by only four others in the country. The most extensive railway in the country is the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, which owned forty-five hun- dred and twenty miles of road at the end of 1882. The next is the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, with three thousand one hundred and twenty-one miles at the same time. Third stands the Chicago and Northwestern, with almost twenty-eight hundred miles; and fourth is the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific, with twenty-seven hundred and ten miles. In earnings, however, each is ex- ceeded by scores of roads. The greatest earnings are those of the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company, which owns less than five hundred, but operates more than twelve hundred, miles of railroad; and close to it comes the New York Central, which owns seven hundred and fifty miles, and operates less than a thousand. These roads earn each nearly or quite thirty million dollars a year. The largest railway corporation in Great Britain, as regards mileage, is the Great Western, with twenty-two hundred and fifty-seven miles of road open. Next toitis the London and Northwestern, with seventeen hundred and seventy miles. The latter road has the largest earnings of any English line. It receives an average of more than two hundred thousand pounds sterling, or one million dollars, a week. The earnings of the Northern Pacific during the year 1882 were less than six million dollars. Its aggregate mileage was greater than that of the London and Northwestern, but its earnings were only about one-ninth of those of the English company. “The extent of the railroad business in our day is something startling. The gross receipts of all the railroads in the United States during the year 1882 amounted to more than seven hundred and seventy million of dollars. ‘Taking the population at five-five millions, this implied an average expenditure of just fourteen dollars for every man, woman and child. It has been estimated that the gross earnings of our whole population in a year are ten thousand million dollars. Tf so, we spent eight dollars, nearly, in every hundred in railroad transporta- tion of some kind. We have now in the United States fully one hundred and twenty thousand miles of railroad. This is more than the length of all the railroads of Europe combined; and at the present rate of construction, itis estimated in Poor’s Manual, by the end of the year 1887 our mileage will be as great as that of all the rest of the world put together. But our roads are constructed far more cheaply than those of the old world, and the rates charged are lower than they usually are elsewhere. Con- sequently the earnings of our roads will not be equal to those of ali other lines. Still, it must be borne in mind that we gain greatly by cheap construction and low rates. For our roads are quite as durable as others, and the people get on the whole a larger service for the same money.— Youth’s Companion. >> Wanted a Better Room. “The day of Alexander Stephen’s fu- neral,” said a Georgia statesman to the Washington Republican, “everybody in Georgia went to Atlanta, and the town was crowded full of people. Of course the hotels ‘gre packed and jammed. There w ttle Hungarian traveling salesman wag@had come in the morning and stopped at the old Kim- ball House. His rooms didn’t suit him, and he kept badgering Ed. Calloway, the clerk, about them all day. Callo- way would have thirty or forty people around him asking questions and de- manding attention, when the little Hun- garian would crush through, seize Cal- loway’s arm, and shout ‘Vot aboud schangin’ dose rooms.’ Calloway would tell him to wait until the funeral was over and the crowd had gone away and he would suit him with almost any rooms in the house. The little drum- mer would go away, and come back again in ten minutes to go through the same performance. During the funeral ceremonies Calloway was standing with the immense throng at the grave, deep- ly interested. Bishop Beckwith stood there with the open prayer-book in his hand, repeating with his magnificent voice and in atone that thrilled every soul, ‘I am the resurrection and the life.’ Calloway, like thousands of others, was moved by the solemnity of the occasion, by the voice and words of the Bishop. The tears came to his eyes and began to run down his cheeks, when he felt somebody'seize his arm. Thinking it was some sympathetic friend, as he tells it, he turned to put his arm around him, | and faced the excited little Hungarian, by the coat with both ht who caught him hands and: demanded: ‘Vot aboud PITH AND POINT. {From the Fort Wayne Hoosier.] TuE favorite song of the base-ballist while trying to tally—“There’s no place like home.” Aman who is a fool and knows it sometimes knows more than many a man who thinks he is wise. “A rico man hath many crosses,” says an old proverb. This is only another way of stating that he has many an X. In China parents feel it their duty to make matches for their children before they are really old enough to be trusted with matches. WE are in favor of dealing with the Indians on the peace plan. ‘That is, cut them to pieces first and then argue with them afterwards. APPEARANCES are often deceitful. Many a man who cannot say the alpha- bet backwards still may know enough to goin when it rains. “Witness, did you say that after the quarrel you have just related, the de- fendant went off in a huff?” “No, your Honor, I said he went off ina wagon.” Tu literary ingenuity of the patent- medicine fiend has made it both popu- lar and safe to read newspaper articles as many people read novels—the last end first. A BLUFFTON man went to Chicago, stayed over night at a hotel and blew out the gus. As he didn’t die it can still be said that “the fools are not all dead yet.” “ResipuuM? What an odd name for a horse! What on earth made you call him that?” said Duflix to Fink. “Be- cause I got left on him,” said Fink, la- conically, as he walked away. [From Peck’s Sun.} A PETRIFIRD oyster has been found by a Charleston (S. C.) man. He ex- pects to make a fortune by renting it out for church-sociable stews. A FASHION paper says “kittens’ heads are to take the place of birds’ heads on the coming bonnet.” The first thing we know some woman will be carried to the hospital with a fractured skull. Some absent-minded husband will sling a boot-jack at the kitten’s head. A GERMAN accosted a broad-brimed specimen from Texas, on Wisconsin street. “Who vos you, I don’t know?” Looking the inquisitive German in the face he replied, “I am a cow-boy.” “Dot’s good,” replied our German friend, “Shake; I vos a bully boy doo?” They shook. A Moyrana cabin on the Northern Pacific railroad hung out the following sign written with charcoal: “Only nine miles to water and twenty miles from wood. No grub in the house. God bless our home.” A man in such a predicament must have more than ordinary faith to hold out long. A Norra Carona woman recently dislocated her jaw by yelling at a camp- meeting. It would be better for the managers of a camp meeting to put in aseam boiler, and fog horn, where so much noise is needed, and not dislocate a woman’s jaw by over-working it. To be sure, 2 woman's jaw is calculated ta stand a good deal of wear and tear, but there are times when the require- ments exceed the capacity. [From the Norristown Herald.} AN exchange says “there are two moons this month,” but it is safe to wager that the man weo sees two moons is not a member of a temperance so- ciety. A SCIENTIST says that in the moon a hickory nut falling from a bough would crash through a man like a minnie ball. That settles it. We shall never go to the moon to gather hickory nuts. A youn@ man while out riding one Sunday was thrown from his carriage and had one of his legs broken. The pun- ishment was visited upon him for break- ing the Sabbath. He should have gone out and played base ball. Masog DanieEt Simpson, “the veter- an drummer of Boston,” celebrated his 93d birthday a few day ago. It is sup- posed that he always went a few miles ont in the country when he wished to best his drum. His great longevity is evidence that he never played on the aggravating thing withing hearing of his neighbors. A PRYING sort of an individual has discovered that the oyster has a trunk. Such a receptable may be necessary, from the fact that the oyster spends the summer by the seashore; but if the bivalve wants to put on as many airs as the fashionable young lady at the sea- side, it must alse have a big band-box and a little pug dog. —____-9-<>—— Is Water Power Disappearing in New England? The steam engine is the coming power, for the long-vaunted water power of New England is giving out. Various causes have appeared to make the water power less, and these causes have been working all the time and in- creasing in practical effect, so that now it is giving out almost in every place of any account, with some very few ex- ceptions, where the timber has not yet been cut off back in the sources of sup- ply on the hills or mountains. Let us look, therefore, to steam with a clearer eye, and learn more of it, and how to handle it, so that we can keep up the busy wheels of the million of cotton spindles and thousands of sets of wool- en machinery. Water power in the Eastern States is doomed, and it will not be long until we ate a steam spin- ning section of the country.—Spring- field Republican. ——_—>---< Tury who do speak ill of themselves, do so mostly as the surest way of prov- ing how modest and candid they are.— YOUR HEIGHT AND WEIGHT. What Sort of a Position Bear to Each Other. [From the Buffalo Commerciall “Youask a very practical question: ‘How much should a person of given height weigh? Is there a standard be- tween height and wieght?’ A healthy child, male or female, grows in length by more than one-halt its size during the first two years; it increases from 50 per cent (19.685 inches) to about 79 per cent (31.10.) It trebles or quad- ruples its weight; that is to say, it weighs 3 to 4 kil. at birth (equals 74 to 10 pounds); 10 kil. at birth (25 pounds) in the first year 12 kil. (30 pounds) in the second. On the average, a child from 6 months to eight years) grows in length about 6 per cent. each year (equal 2.4622 inches); the weight of the body goes on increasing to the 8th year, rising in boys to 20 kil. (50 pounds) and in girls to19 kil. (474 pounds). From thfs age (8 years) until puberty boys increase in height 55 per cent (2.165 feet) each year, reaching at the age of 12 years a height of 158 per cent. (over 4.52 feet) and girls 135 per cent. (4.421 feet) on an average. Boys gain about 2kil. (5 pounds) in weight per year, girls a little more, so that in the 12 year children of both sexes weigh, on an average, about 30 kil. (75 pounds). From 13 to 20 years youths grow some 30 per cent (11.8), girls 20 per cent (1.8 inches). The increase of weight is even more rapid than before, reaching 58 kil. (145 pounds) in boys 18 years old, and in girls of the same age 51 kil. (1274 pounds). In the 25th year the man is 168 per cent (over 5} feet in height), and weighs 53 kil, (1574 pounds), while the woman is 157 per cent (5.15 feet in height), and weighs 53 kil. (1274 pounds) Man in the 40th year attains his max- imum weight, 63.6 kil. (159 pounds), and then begins the loss of flesh. Women continue to grow heavier, reach- ing about 56 kil. (140 pounds), until the 50th year. Between 45 and 60 men be- come more corpulent and women rapidly grow older; in both the sizes of the body diminishes.”— Wagner. It is desirable for all persons, whether suffering in health or otherwise, to know as near as possible what the nor- mal weight should be. We areindebted to the late Dr. Hutchinson for weighing alone 2,600 men of variousages. There is, indeed, an obvious relation between the height and weight so particularly weighed and measured. Starting with the lowest men in the tables, it will be found that the increased weight was as nearly as possible five pounds for every inch in height beyond sixty-one inches. The following figures show the rel- ative height and weight of individuals measuring five feet and upward : : Weigh’, lbs. Five feet one inch should be..............++-- 120 Five feet two inches should be................ 126 Five feet three inches should be.............. 133 Five feet four inches should be............... 136 Five feet five inches should be............-.-- 142 Five feet six inches should be..............-- 145 Five feet seven inches shoud be............-. 148 Five feet eight inches should: be............-. 165 Five feet nine inches should be............... 162 Five feet ten inches should be..............-- 169 Five feet eleven inches should be... 2.2.55... 174 Six feet should be... 2)........2..2..-...------s 178 —————-_»> > One Can’t Excel in Everything. Ideals of excellences, if not excel- lences themselves, are so graduated as to fit the different orders of mind in which they take their rise. Greatness is not a positive quality; it is simply a relative attribute. The man who has never succeeded in ensnaring asingle “speckled beauty” from some “tortuous stream” may truthfully boast of his eminent success in catching sculpins. The man who cannot sing may yet have a voice peculiarly adapted to cry- ing clams, oranges or charcoal. He who is no dancer may be good at hitch-and-kick or shinny. The man who was not born to com- mand, to set a squadron in the field, may surpass all his acquaintances in the untiring devotion he evinces in the coloring of the meerschaum. The boy who is ever at the foot of his class may still be an expert on the formation and propulsion of spitballs. The lad who is not a pronounced suc- cess at arithmetic may be simply excel- lent at mumble-peg and taw. The woman who cannot make a loaf of bread may excel in the making of frills and furbelows. She who cannot play the simplest air on the washboard may execute the most difficult themes upon the piano- forte. She who cannot darn a stocking may be the envy of her cirele for her skill and taste in worsted work, in marrying sky-blue dogs to pink background. The mother who cannot command the respect of her children may yet be fawned upon by half a score of male bipeds without a spot on their dainty linen or an idea in their heads. The son who never does a stroke of work at home may be superlatively ac- tive in the bowling alley or billiard room. The daughter who is too feeble to wash the dishes may dance till the small hours of the night after having been shopping all day. The girl who cannot sew may chew gum with tireless jaw. A great singer may not be able to smoke the mildest of cigars without turning pale. A general who has led armies on to victory may be surpassed in profanity by the raggedest street boy in the city. The hand that has penned the divin- est poetry may be clownishly awkward with the billiard cue. The man who is capable of. organiz- ing and carrying forward gigantic busi- ness enterprises may be easily outdone at caucus “> neement by the shab- biest politician of his ward. The artist who gives birth to such exquisite creations may not be able to tie his neck-cloth nearly so well as haus cas They Ought to | if Hunting the Brfa‘o. t | In going down the Yellowstone, in Montana, and across the vast region lying between Glendive and Mandan, one is struck with the evident scarcity of grass. This famous region, where two or three years ago herds of buffalo, antelope and deer were to be seen on every side, is now to all appearances stripped of its game. The fact is, the slaughter of buffalo and deer has been immense for the past two years, and particularly of the former. It is esti- mated that during the past winter there have been a thousand hunters engaged in the business of slaughtering buffalo along theline of the Northern Pacific. between Mandan and _ Livingston. An eagle-eyed hunter gave me the following interesting details as to the modus operandi in slaughtering herds of buffalo. Inthe first place, the expe- rienced hunter uses the Sharpe rifle, 40-90 calibre. With this he can kill over 1,000 yards. When he sees a herd of buffalo, he usually slips up to with- in convenient range, from 300 to 500 yards, and always selects a cow for his first victim. He does this for the rea- son that the cow is followed by both her yearling and two-year-old calves, and they will usually stand by her to the last. But under no circumstances will the experienced hunter kill his buf- falo outright. If he does, the herd will stampede at once. The policy is to wound fatally, but so that the ani- mal will dash around in a circle before falling. This it always does when mor- tally wounded, and after a few mo ments lies down. The remainder of the herd are not alarmed at this, but continue to gaze, or look on dazed spectators of the tragedy being enacted. After his first shot the hunter pauses until quiet is restored, and again fires at another cow, with the same results. He always aims to put his ball just behind the fore shoulder which will cause death in five minutes at the furthest. When the cows have all been slain he then turns his at- tention to the calves, and lastly to the bulls. The experienced hunter gener- ally bags the entire herd unless he is so unfortunate as to drop his game im- mediately, when all the survivors stampede at once. The buffalo does not scare at the crack of a gun. He has decidediy more courage than dis- cretion. It is only when the crack is followed by an immediate fall that he realizes its deadly nature and takes alarm. The policy of killing the cows farst and then the calves has resulted in the almost utter extinction of the female buffalo, Herds of melancholy bulls can still occasionally be seen, sometimes in bands of twenty or thirty, and often without a single cow. As Ihave said, the bulls are about all that are now left of the buffalo. They largelv owe their safety to the fact that their hides are dess valuable than those of the cows, while at the same time they are more difficult to kill. The hide of the bull is only worth to the hunter from $1.80 to $2, while that of the cow brings $3.25, and that of the 2-year-old calf isworth from $1 to $1.50. But of Jato there has sprung up quite a demand throughout the East for the head of a buffalo bull. The well preserved head of an aged bull decked out with glass dyes and horns intact will readily sell for $25 in the Eastern markets. Consequently the buffalo hunter of the future will wage a destructive war upon the bull tribe, and these venerable relics of a bygone era will also pass swiftly away. —Helena (M. T.) Independent. ——_—_——=2 +a Queer Netices. Chamber’s Journal mentions the following whimsical notices that have appeared from time to time. The following perspicuous notice to engine-drivers was exhibited at a rail- way station : “Hereafter, when trains moving in opposite direction are approaching each other on separate lines, conductors and engineers will be required to bring their respective trains toa dead halt before the point:of meeting, and be very careful not to proceed till each train has passed the other.” Equally lucid was the placard an- nouncing a pleasure-trip to Warkworth one day during the summer of 1881, in which was the following passage which implies that the crew adopted the light and airy costume of our primitive an- cestors. “The Gleaner is one of the finest and fastest boats on the Tyne; her accom- modation is in every respect good and’ comfortable, her crew skillful, steady, and obliging, being newly-painted and decorated for pleasure trips.” We are assured of the genuinness of the following curious notice, addressed, quite recently, to the members of the Friendly Society which need not fear a “yun” upon it, if the procedure therein described be rigidly adhered to: “In the event of your death, you are requested to bring your book policy and certificate at once to the agent, Mr. . when your claims will have im- mediate attention.” A few days previous to the beginning of a session, this brief notice was affixed to the notice-boasd at the entrance of one of the class-rooms of Edinburg University : “Professor —— will meet his classes in his turn can do noth- , on the 4th inst.” On the opening day, a student erased the letter ¢ of the word “classes.” A group of youths remained in the vicinity of the entrance to observe how the professor would receive the intima- tion, which now set forth that he would “meet his lasses on the 4th inst.” As the professor approaceed he ob- server the change that had been made, and quietly taking out his pencil, made some further modification, and passed on, a quiet smile overspeading his fea- tures. The notice no finally stood: hinst” Feoth aek “Professor -—— will meet his asses — Dry Goods. Spring & Company quote as tuuuwe: WIDE BROWN COTTONS. Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 Androscoggin, 84..21 |Pepperell, 11-4......27% Pepperell, 7-4. .16% . 18 Pepperell, 8-4......20 5 Pepperell, 9-4...... 22% CHECKS. Caledonia, XX,0z..11 {Park Mills, No. 90..14 Caledonia, X,oz...10 |Park Mills, No. 100. = Economy, 02....... 10 |Prodigy, 0z......... Park Mills, No. 50..10 |Otis Apron..... 10% Park Mills, No. 60..11 |Otis Furniture.....10% Park Milis, No. 70..12 |York, 1 0z.......... 10 Park Mills, No. 80..13 |York, AA, extra 0z.14 OSNABURG, Alabama brown.... 7 |Alabama plaid..... 8 Jewell briwn....... 94%4|Augusta plaid...... 8 Kentucky brown. .10%|Toledo plaid........ 7% Lewiston brown... 9%/Manchester plaid.. 7 Lane brown........ 9144|New Tenn. plaid... Louisiana plaid.... 8 |Utility plaid........ 6% BLEACHED COTTONS. Avondale, 36....... 844|Greene, G, 4-4...... 5% ‘Art cambrics, 36. ..114¢|Hill, 4-4............. 8% Androscoggin, 4-4.. 8% te a. ee 1% Androscoggin, 5-4..12%|/H peed ete 4 Ballou, 4-4........-- ™% King’ Phillip cam- Ballou, 5-4.........- 6 pric, 4-4.......-.:. ly mutt, 0.44........ 8%|Linwood, 44....... 9 oott, E.5-5........ a: Lonsdale, Sg cce es &% Boot! AGC, 4-4..... 9% Lonsdale’ peas 1% Boott, R. 3-4........ 5 |Langdon, GB, 9% Blackstone, AA 4-4. 7%|Langdon, 45........ .14 Chapman, X, .. 6%|Masonville, 44..... 9% Conway, 4-4........ 73|Maxwell. 4-4........ 10% Cabot, 4-4.........-. 4\New York sere 4-4, 104 Cabot, 7-8........--- 6%4|New J exsey, i Canoe, 3-4........-. Pocasset, M. C.. my Domestic, 86....... 744\Pride of the West..12% Dwight Anchor,4-4.10 |Pocahontas, 4-4.... 8% Davol, 4-4.......,-- 9% |Slaterville, 7-8...... 6% Fruit of Loom, 44.. 9 (Victoria, AA....... 9 Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 84%|Woodbury, 44...... 5% Fruit of the Loom, cambric, 12 Pepperell, 10-4...... 25 Whitinsville, 4-4... 7% Whitinsville, 7-8.... 6% Gold Medal, 4-4.... ‘7 |Wamsutta, 4-4...... 16% Gold Medal, 7-8..... 614| Williamsville, 36...10% Gilded Age......... 8% CORSET JEANS. Armory ........---- "14\Kearsage........-.. 854 at hoansin sat.. 8 Naumkeag satteen. 8% Canoe River.......- Pepperell bleached 8% Clarendon.......... oy Pepperell sat....... 9% Haliowell Imp..... 6%|Rockport........... a. Ind. Orch. Imp..... 6%|Lawrence sat...... os Laconia .......-:+:. T2/Conegosat.........- PRINTS: lid...:.:..54jGlotivestet seaaad 6 Albion: o ie * Gloucesterinourn’s.6 Allen’s ¢ eckS...... 54 Haihilton fancy....6 Ailen’s fancy....... 514|Hartel fancy........ 6 Allen’s pink........- 64%|Merrimac D......... 6 Allen’s purple....... 6%|Manchester ......... 6 American, fancy.. --o% Oriental fancy...... 6 Arnold fancy.......- Oriental robes...... 6% Berlinsolid.......-- By Pacific robes........ 6 Cocheco fancy.....-. 6 |Richmond........... 6 Cocheco robes......- : ee a set ieeeeee bY afancy.... impson’s........... Serene a ....6 |Washington fancy.. Eagle fancy......--- 5 |Washington blues..8 Garner pink........- 7 FINE BROWN COTTONS. Appleton A, 4-4.. Boott M, i... BK Boston F, ecees Continental C, 43.. 734 Continental D, 40in o Conestoga W, 44. Conestoga D, 7 : 5% Conestoga G, aon. o% Dwight X, 3-4...... Dwight Y, et cies 6% Dwight Z, 4-4....... 7 Dwight Star, 4-4.... 7% Ewight Star, 40-in.. 9 Enterprise EE, 36.. 5% Great Falls E, 44... 7 Farmers’ A, 4-4..... 6% Indian Orchard, 147% Indian Orchard, 40. 8% Indian Orchard, 36. 8 - Laconia B, 7-4...... 16% Lyman B, 40-in..... 10% Mass. BB, a4... 6% Nashua E, 40-in.... 9 Nashua R, 4-4...... 1% Nashua O, 7-8....... 134 Newmarket N...... 4 Pepperell E, 39-in.. 7% Pepperell R, a4... 7 Pepperell O, 7-8.... 6% Pepperell N, 3-4.. is Pocasset C, 4-4..... Saranac R.......... i Saranac E.......... 9 DOMESTIC GINGHAMS. Amoskeag .......-- 8 )Renfrew, dress styll0% a oroihoee, Persian Johnson Manfg Co, styles..........-.- 10%| Bookfold......... SIRES .....--------- 7%\Johnson Manfg Co, Berkshire ......... 6% dress styles...... 2% Glasgow checks.... 7 (Slaterville, dress Glasgow checks, f” y Wi SiyIO8...:0..-.-..- 9 checks, White Mfg Co, stap 7% Deere etylob oe 8 |White Mfg Co, fanc 8 Gloucester, new White Mant’g Co, standard ......... %%| Earlston.......... h, Plunket ...........- %%iGordon............. 8 Lancaster ........-. 8% |Greylock, dress Langdale ........... 7%34| styles ..... oe 12% WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS. scoggin, 7-4..21 |Peppere}l. 10+4..... 6 eaten og .-23 ee 11-4..... = Pepperell, 7-4...... 20 |Pequot, 7-4......... Pepperell, 8-4....-- 224%4|Pequot, 84 Beek cee 4 Pepperell, 9-4...... 25 |Pequot, 9-4......... 27% HEAVY BROWN COTTONS. Atlantic A, re cso “lag Atlantic H, 4-4 Atlantic D, 4-4..... Atlantic P, a... Atlantic LL, 4-4 Graniteville, 4-4.... Indian Head, “..7 Lawrence XX, 4-4.. 8% Lawrence Y,30.... 7 Lawrence LL, 4-4... 5% Newmarket N...... 1% Mystic River, 4-4... 6% Pequot A, 4-4....... 8 Piedmont, 36....... 7 Stark AA, 44....... 7% Tremont CC, 4-4.... 5% Utica, 4-4........... 9 Wachusett, 44..... 1% ndiana Head 45-in.12%|Wachusett, 30-in... 6% TICKINGS. moskeag, ACA...15 |Falls, XXXX....... 18% omer *4-4..19 |Falls, XXX......... 15% Amoskeag, A...... 14 |Falis, BB........... 11% Amoskeag, B...... 13 |Falls, BBC, 36...... 19% Amoskeag, C...... 12 |Falls, awning...... 19 Amoskeag, D...... 11 {Hamilton, BT, 32..12 Amoskeag, E...... 10%/Hamilton, D....... 10 Amoskeag, F....... 10 |Hamilton, H....... 10 Premium A, 4-4....17 |Hamilton fancy.. 10 Premium B........ 16 |Methuen AA....... 144% Bxtraé4..........-- 16 {Methuen ASA...... 18 extra d-s.......-.--- 144% Omega A, 7-8....... 11 Gold — eee 15 ;Omega A, 44 13 CE See 12% |Omega ACA, 7-8....14 ag os Su cuecsce 14 |Omega ACA, 4-4....16 SEIU 55s so sehen 14 |Omega SE, a 24 WBE DI. eo o-oo esse 16 |Omega SE, 4-4......27 ae 19 |Omega M. 18 Seseee 22 Cordis AAA, 32..... 14 |Omega M, 4-4....... 25 Cordis ACA, 32..... 15 Shetucket SS&SSW 11% Cordis No. 1, 82..... 5 |Shetucket,S & SW.12 Cordis No. 2........ 4 iShetucket, SFS....12 Cordis No.3........ 13 |Stockbridge A..... 7 Cordis No. 4........ 114%'Stoekbridge frncy. 8 GLAZED CAMBRICS. SON. oc cose see 5 iBmipire............. Pocueet Gece ee 5 |Washington........ 4% Red Cross.......--- & iBdwards............ 5 Forest Grove..:.... 8S. 8S. & Sons......... 5 GRAIN BAGS. erican A....... 19 {Old Ironsides...... 15% Stark We cs oi eee 23%4| Wheatland ......... 21% DENIMS. Boston .....-...---+ 7% iOtls CC.............. 10% Everett blue....... 14%|Warren AXA...... 12% Everett brown..... 14%) Warren BB........ 11% Otis AXA.......... 124%4|Warren CC......... 10% DUsSRB.......-...-. 11%| York TANCY...,..-. PAPER CAMBRICS. Manville............ 6 |8.8.&Sons......... 6 Masgnville ......... 6 iGarmer ............. 6 WIGANS. Red Cross........-. 7 |Thistle Mills........ NE ee T MOS: . 3.0... ss 5-2 8 SZAPREr .....- 25-0006 7 SPOOL COTTON. WOOKS ..vs0--- Eagle and Phoenix Clark’s O. N. F..... 5b ills ball sewing .30 J.& P. Coats....... 55 |iGreeh & Daniels...25 Willimantic 6 cord.55 |Merricks........... 40 Willimantic 3 cord.40 (Stafford ............ 35 Charleston ball sew Hall & Manning....30 ing thread........ 80 jHolyoke............ 25 SILESIAS. CHOW orcs nn cresn 17 {Masonville TS...... BO Oso soos isscsse 12% |Masonville §S....... 10% NE oo oh wh ov sae 10 jLonsdale........... 9% Anchor............- 15 ni CA... sissies: 16 Centennial......... Nictory O.......... 6 Blackburn ......... 4 en a epee 7 UMNO, og ices sos 33 08 4 etory D.......... Lon Sete godetetee 12 ory Bec ccesscss 5 fe Paconia ..12 hoe! one te CHORE... vinccnss 10 |Pheenix B..........10% » gocial Imperial....16 Phoenix XX. tie sae Groceries ~ MAGE. S655 560. eS e esi pease 5% = : bee Sheen ee ee, es 4% Gasca t ssc aca eh sess (aes bcos qT Advanced, weieea ee. 54@6: Holland Herring; Muscatel and Valencia SOaP. : Raisins; Barley. ee . Declined. a 8 each Family ........ 8 b Oy Coffees; Sugars a shade easier. i. eee ee ee AXLE GREASE. “. oe Rec Gieuns teee naa ce 6% on. doz oo 0. WOUUO 2 aco oes ass 5s 5s ee 5% Diamond of _ 80 Baers. 8. = Goodrich's Bnglish Faini Se 5 - BAKING POWDER. do. Princess ........... oe 44 Arctic \% Ibcans.. Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory ........... 6 %5 Arctic 4 tb cans. do. Japan Olive ...... 5 Arctic % ib cans do. Town Talk # box 3 70 Arctic 1% cats. do. Golden Bar........ 4 20 Arctic 5 ib cans... do. ae BR odes eee 3 45 oe: ae ee oe ae ete oe Dry, N0,%..-.22...-----.----s-s{-->- doz. 2 | siqais” ee Ba eas eee. te rege oennee aes tee eee? ae Liquid, 4 02,.............20 es ee ence ae eS Whee Liquid, 8 a ee 65 Bluin BE 2 ore eee ee ee ee ee oe oe oo en aie - AVCtic 4 OZ.... 2. - 20+ eee sees eee eee ¢ gross 4 00 oe a ar .. = sete ee eee eect ec eeen cn ecet esse ees - - New 1 French Process............0.06 4 60 A aeenPes yr sent eta sec en ees ees 7 Meee oe Ces oe ee 3 25 ncieeies score cee ne nels IMA DIC 3 eyes oa es ee as se 4 20 BROOMS. ee Be ee hash Cice otic a ne om cei : py Pe 2 50 ORO es oe et ne 2 et ne 225 | White castile bars..................... 13 No.1 Hurl.... 200 | Mottled castile......................003 12 No.2 Hurl ..:: toe Oleic, @ 5% Fancy Whisk.... Ton. ) Old Country. oi ese. es 5% Common ae 8 8. 85 SPICES. CANNED GOODS. Erovnd a per, in boxes and cans. + oe Apples, 3 standards ..,.....-.--+e+eee+e: 1 20 roun BRIGG. 6.55600... sce 2@20 Apples, 6 ib standards ...........¢...0s00 rf 00 os eee cee w ce cn cece eres ensscccccs 16@30 Apples, gallon BtANnGATCS,........0..-.0. i 5 Peas, good Marrofat..........0:eeeeeeeees 1. Juss sea Oe eee oe Bg gp | MR rooms... Bene 7 Raspberries, Erie. Ses eee herent i 5 Bistas. Sati gross..5 8 #s|Dixon’ a 5 50 ee i a | Steere. 5 &8|Above ® dozen.../-” 60 Sardines, imported %48............60.00+ 15%, TXL........ ------ L Sardines, imported 4S..........-..0+-+-+0s SUGARS, - Sardines, domestic 348............-...0+005 B® 1 Granwated oo. cc isi sic ees ss ce oes @i Sardines, domestic Y48............seeeeee- 12% | Cut Loaf.... es s.. B82@8% Strawberries, standards................-.- 1 10 Cubes..... ... 83%@8% Succotash, standards.............--++-eee: 1 05 Powdered... 84 @ 834 Succotash, other brands..........-......- Conf. A..... @i 4 Tomatoes, standards..............+- 1 00@1 05 | Standard A................. ay, CAPS. oo 5a Pras te. 85 |Ely’s Waterproof % | Yellow... III 6" @oi Musket........... 5 a: ora @25 Japan ordinary. eee aoang Hyson.. ..25@50 German SWECt.....--..e0eeeeee eres noes 25 | Japanfair........ 32@35\Gun Powder..... 35@50 aaa . I LA a a es Oss Japan fair to g’d. 35031 Oolong oa G60 ee é nin ee. ne Waenuna Sweet..........---.2..-.-.....-2. @25 Grane dist. 15@20) COFFEE. ae TOBACCO—FINE CUT. a Green Rio....13 @15 |Roasted Mex.18 @20 TATCHICSS ...... 0... ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee eee By GreenJava...18 @28 |Ground Rio..10 @18 ee De re eas oie S Green Mocha. 2 @28 Ground Mex. a. Se Bienes ers os 16410 s\cislas ois oslo'e mic bo 's'cie 5's 70 Roasted Rio..134@18 |Arbuckle’s....... Ba ROWER ae 2b econ orto etnies ar Roasted Java25 @35 RRA @1 14 aiine Ey seclois ali accia' sw ic\s 66.6 6/6)sielo le les 8 vice Brick imported .................% Di EO. vscus s Hees tidak OUeesipes ee aii awe a tae Se 73 Burners, NOs Peek 6 heen acd bi eiks 110 GO NOLO eee 1 50 Bags, American A.............. woes 20 00 Beans, medium ooo. eck cc chk ke ss @2 10 Beans, hand picked.................... 2 40 BOP. oii occ. 18@20 PRIFGLORIMO sss Soe. 6 oie ce eines se 18@21 Cream Tartar 5 and 10. cans......... @% Oanidles, Star... 6... ces .0. os. @b% Oandles, Hotels. 2.20.) 0s). ce. @16% Cheese full cream choice...... Sol ks 144%@15 Catsup quarts # dozen............ ... 1 40@1 60 Cocoanut, Schepps’ lb pocmngee. @26% Cocoanut, Schepps’1& % ib do . G24 perSee Coffee, We Oe ooo HOUK eck e: 1 xe Flour, Star Mills, in bbls .............. 5 15@ in SACKS... ...-. 2. 1: 5 50@ ear) Rubber 100 lumps............... Gum, Rubber 200 lumps............... @A40 Gum, Spruce ooo iss ae 35@40 Chimneys NO. 1. ose e ok coe ck ae “ do No. 2 a. Radish, pints.. INGIBO® 2.33 cco. cl... W0@ Ink e 3 Gozen NOL. e. . 1 00@ JOUyin Paes... ee or... @ 6 do Glass Tumblers # doz............ @i5 Pileoriee, Sicily... 6.6. ec ook Le @20 Licorice, Calabra ..................... 28@30 Ideories Hoa... ..2 @12 ye @ 2 doz. Cases. ....... 2... 6... 1 acaroni, Imported......... ......... @13 TWIOMMCRUC.. oe ee @ oa Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, # case...... @6 00 French Mustard, 8 oz # dozen........ @80 do "Large Gothic........ 1 3@ Oil Tanks, Star 60 gallons............ 12 00@ Oil Tanks, Patent 60 gallons.......... 14 00@ Pipes, Imported Clay 3 gross.......... 2 25@ Oo American T.D.. ooo... cen 90@1 00 Pepper Sauce. oo. oe oc ce le ce 90@1 00 Peas, Green Bush,..............0.0008: 1 50@ do Split prepared................... @ 3% Powder, Keg eo c oe re do TENOR ooo os ccc es ole BRIGG ee bees? % BAPO eee ee ee 5@6 Shot, NOD... 62. ee 1 9@ GO DUCK. (2... oe, 2 15@ SAS6 ee. @15 Curry Combs # doz...............0.05 1 2@ Molasses Gates each.................05 @45 Measuring Faucet each ............... 4 50@ Tobacco Cutters each ................. 1 25@ AWAR Oooo) ee, ke 18@23 ChimneyCleaners @ doz............... @50 Flour Sifters # doz.................... 3 00@ Fruit Augurs each..................... 1 MADIOCR Foe ick. ol: 5@6 Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box........ 1 50@1 65 Wicking No. 1 # gross................. @40 GO ONO.) 2) ee. @65 do ATOONG cee as 1 50@ epeaes Ponder WAG WD 0.6... ck. “Gi 2 eo 8 = WD oe do Oapine pkg........ 10" Boraxine # box...... , oe » . cca aiecis 238 Peavline BOX, 0... es csk ewe ee ccc ek PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co quote as follows: PORK. Hoavy Mess Pork... 0. ...0365066565.5..- $19 00 Back Pork, short cut................... 19 25 Family Clear Pork, very cheap......... 20 00 Clear Pork, A. Webster packer......... 2C 50 8. P. Booth’s Clear Pork, Kansas City.. 21 50 v moxtrea Clear Pork |. 02... 6... 66.55. es oe 21 00 Extra B Clear Pork. ........:...2 2... 21 50 Clear Back Pork, new...............000 22 00 Boston Clear Pork, extra quality....... 22 00 Standard Clear Pork, the best........... 22 50 All the above Pork is Newly Packed. DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES. Long Clears, heavy, ae D Cases....... 10% do. Half Cases......... 10% Long Clear medium, 500 Ib Cases....... 10% do Half Cases....... 10% Long meee light, 500 ib Cases.......... 10% do. Half Cases.......... 10% Short Cleans, NCAVY 6.065... ss ll oO. MBOCGIUM 20.22. lk ll a SOG ee 11 Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 tb cases.. 11% Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 Ib cases.. 1134 Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ib cases.. 11% Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 Ib cases.. 12 Bellies, extra quality, 500 tb cases...... 1 Bellids, extra quality, 300 Ib cases...... 11% Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ib cases...... W% LARD. PRIOT@CS) co.cc ee 934 30 and 50 1D LubS 2.0663. ooo. se... 10 LARD IN TIN PAILS. 20 Ib Round Tins, 80 ib racks............ 10 50 Ib Round Tius, 100 i racks.......... 10 3 Pails: 20 in. a@ Case...... 2.0.6 2.6....2. 10% 5 ib Pails, Zin acase....\..............- 105g 10 Pails, 6in a case ...............008% 10% SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN. Hams cured in sweet pickle eee 14 do. light...... My Shoulders cured in sweet niaile. scales > 9% Extra Clear Bacon. .......2............. ly, ried Beetle es soo. ee eect oe Extra Dried Beet 3... 20.0 6c. cs. lls, 16 BEEF IN BARRELS. Rolled Beef, for family use.............. 18 00 Extra Mess Beef Chicago packed........ 18 00 CANNED BEEF. Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 i cans, % doz. ATCHSO oe a a, a: 20 50 do. 2 ib cans, 1 doz. in case.... 3 20 Armour & Co., 14 ib cans, % doz in case 20 50 do. 2 t cans, 1 doz.in case.. 3 2 do. 2 h Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 50 SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED. Pork Sausaee ooo 10% Pork Sausage Meat, 50 Ib tubs 10% Ham Sausage................ 15 Tongue Sausage. COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS, io coal Blossburg or poten’ Sethi 00@8 23 | CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: STICK. Straight, 25 boxes................... @10 Twist, GO Se ee: @10% Cutteat dO 3.2.2.0. @12 MIXED. Hoyal, 25% pails... 6. le. @10% Royal, 200 ty DbIs. oc. cee ke. 9% mera, 2b We Als, ooo. cect sec cs cc 1s Extra, 2001 DDIS®.. 3. 65... ocho i French Cream, 25 pails.................... 14 Cut loaf, 25 BD Cases........ cece ccc cee cee 1d Broken, 25 tb AMR coe ce cae 11% Broken, AO W DIS... 2c... . occ 10% FANCY—IN 5 ib BOXES. Memon Dropg. io. cc. ce Be 14 Sour Dropee oo ee 15 ‘Peppermint Drops... 2.26... eck 16 Chocolate Drops. 0. oe ee, 1% HMChocolate Drops...................0005 20 Gum Drops 2 12 Licorice Fos Be ele cas Coes ace Seca sews 20 AB Eieorice BDrops.. — ... 2... 22... 14 Wowenees pigin. 8 ee. 36 Hhozenges, printed... .... 00.66. ce ec lies 17 PMPPOMBigs is ot co ee 16 DEQCLOER ee eee 16 @renmr Bar. 68 oe 15 MOlASSeS Ham cc 14 Caramel. 20 Hand Made Creams......... Po one Gen ge 23 PIA ©RCAMIS.:. ws Decorated Creams..:.... 2.0.2... 23 Strings ROCK oo 16 Burnt Almonds, ...0..00..6.0.. con 24 Wintergreen Berries........... 00... 00006 16 Fancy—in Bulk, Lozenges, plain in pails..................... 14 Lozenges, plain in DIST eae 13 Lozenges, printed in pails................... 15 Lozenges, printed in bbls................... 14 Chocolate rops, in pails.................... 14 Gum Drops; in pails... ..-... <0... : Gum: Drops, in bbls... 6... se. osc Moss Drops, in pails........ 00... c cc cee mT Moss Drops, in DDIB..) 2... ee ak 9% Sour Drops, In pals... 12 Imperials, in pails.................. 0.00000. 14 Imperials, i MM DDI es ee 13 FRUITS. Oranges—Higher. Oranges W DOX 2 2. lac. @é4 00 Oranges OO #@ DOX..............0c00005 Oranges, Imperials, # box............ 4 75@5 00 Oranges, Valencia #® case............. 8 00@8 50 Hemons; Choice... 20. 6. ooo ce ce 3 00@3 50 emoOns: FanGy 8. oe. es kok ccs @4 00 Bananas @ bunmch.................00085 2 00@4 00 Malaga Grapes, # keg................. Malaga Grapes, ® bbl.................. igs, layers @........ 6.2.05... kk. 12@16 Bigs: fancy dO ....................... 18@20 ae baskets 40 ib @ b................. 144@15 Dates. frails QQ ee... .-.-- ee 6 Dates, 4 do GO 7 Mates: SKM. ce @6 Dates: HOSKIN @ Dates, Fard 10 box ® t............. « @u Dates, Fard 50 b box ®@ .............. @9 Dates, Persian 50 Ib box # fh........... ee 8 PEANUTS. Firm. Prime Red, raw ¥ o AOE ee Choice de da @8 Fancy do ao Sosa ess oe @9 Choice White, Va.do ...............00- 934@10 Mancy HP. Va do ........0u........ 10%@11 NUTS. Almonds, Terragona, = yee es, 19@@20 Almonds,Ioaca, do............. 17 @18 Brazils, ae Ce oe oe eee 104%@l1L Pecons, do sas 0 @14 Filberts, Barcelona do............. @13 Filberts, Sicily dQ (.... 12... 14@l15 Walnuts, Chilli GO be 12%@14 Walnuts, Grenobles do ............. 15@16 Walnuts, California do. . ....... Cocoa Nuts, @ 100 =... 2.02.25. 4 50@5 00 Hickory Nuts, large ® bu............. Hickory Nuts.small do ............. 1 25 HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. Perkins & Hess quote as foLows: HIDES. Green........ Bbh6 @T Part cured... . T%@ 8 Full cured.......... - 84@ 8% Dry hides and kips..................... 8 @12 Calf skins, green or cured............. 10 @12 Deacon skins...........-..... 8 piece20 @50 SHEEP PELTS. Shearlings or Summer skins # piece..10 @20 all pelts. 0 30 @50 Winter pelts: 0.202). eo: 100 @l1 50 WOOL Fine washed #D...... ..80 @32 Coarse washed..... ..22 @25 WMWaAShG@: oe ee 2-3 FURS. Mam IAESO eos etc cle 60@ 75 MIS, SONA oo. cece ec cee ces oe 25@ 40 Muskrat, Spring................. 18@ 19 Muskrat, Winter.. 10@ 15 Muskrat, Fall...... suas s@ 1 Muskrat, Wits... eo. scl... .. 8@) 4 IRE CCOOME oo coe ccc es co cues 40@1 00 Skunk, black. -.............5..2.... -- 90@1 00 Skunk, half stripe..........0....0.0066 60@ 70 Skunk, narrow stripe.................. 25@ Skunk Proad.... 5... <5... 5. kee. 10@ Bb RCGUH OM. oes cbs owe 1 00@1 25 Gray Ox ek 60@ 85 Marten, yvellow.............. 202.4225 75@1 00 AISDOG eee cous cccs. 00@8 00 @tter 6 oo 6 00@7 00 MCA es 5 yeh 00 Deer skins, red and blue, dry.... # 35 Deer skins, gray and long haired..... 12 25 Beaver, clean anddry # b........... 2 00@3 50 Above prices are for prime skins only—un- prime in proportion. MN OW os eee oo ee 6@ 6% CARPETS AND CARPETINGS. Liver Sausage.... 8% > f Frankfort Sausage “10 Spring & Company quote as follows: a eee ues : 2 TAPESTRY BRUSSELS. Rol Crue siraicht gig Roxbury tapestry Co @ 9 Bologna, thick... 8i% Saree buat eee u atmos ee ee a : Head Cheese....... oe a 8% | Smith’s B Palisade. /22.2200022252 =@ 7% PIGS FEET. . Smith’s C Palisade................ @ 65 Th WME DATEOIR. 6 oes cae. ces ccceec ces $3 85 | Higgins’ **............ 2. eee eee @ R% Ip Quarter DAPTOIS...,...... 0.55. c.cccves ys 2 10 | Higgins’ ***................ 0... @ 0 TA 1 06 | Sanford’s extra.................+4. @ R% , TRIPE. Sanford’s Comets.................. @ 65 Gahalt barrel... -- 60.2006 ec es $3 85 re Ta quarter baceela.... 2.6... oe csc een cone 2 00 | Hartford S-ply..........-.......+-. @1 00 ee 9% Lome oe on pe Prices named are lowest at time of going to peer ee, on tees tl V4 press, subject always to Market changes. BOPP ERY «60s hs oso -=* 2 EXTRA SUPERS. FRESH MEATS. FIANCLORG. 660s... eos eee @ 1% John Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows: FON eo ee a Hy Fresh Beef, sides..................0005 4@ 9% | Best cotton chain.............0+... 60 @ 624 Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ @10% ALL WOOL SUPERFINES Dressed Hogs De ee eel ac ee 3 @ 9% Best 2-ply *BTKe@ 60 Mutton, COPORSEOR. ogo s keg deren eee 28) of B24@ 55 eee di. se isevneoee. © @IDM 8 WOOL FIEEING Lan ken. Sprin Chickens.. ++ eee Seo roti All-wool super, 2 DIY aoe 50, @ 55 Terrrrrrrrre ree! | eerie ered xtra eavy ou os ne ain. 5 Pork ‘Bessie in bulk. .......... 00. Rese Double cotton chain............... 35 @ 40 eae @10 Heavy cotton and wool, doublec. 30 @ 32% OROBTIR. . 0c nec ccc cc cccccceccsvcccccccce Half d@’] chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply 274%.@ 32% OY STERS AND FISH Single cotton chain................ 9 @ 2% ‘: HEMPS. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: a ply, 4-4 oe extra heavy........ 274@ 30 OYSTERS. Be 44 Wide: 25 G0o0. seco e ee cc ee ce se @ 2 Nese Vouk Couhte, par can 38 Im ors ae. 4-4 wide........... @ 7 ew Yor » POY CAD.......... ee eee eee OO INMONOSS. 05028. ee ol. oc, Extra SO1LOCUS .. 6 ccs. ease ees ees sk eee c cs 33 OIL CLOTHS. . ro ce RAG gn cece Cras Cree cs lies a each ac = No. 1, 4-4, 5-4, Lees Ul out ese e a Miiee geceaathetuecseeecteue ecco cme | NO (GOR 8 8 a 7 Mavorite too. ae 18} No.3, oe Le ee @ 30° oe Be os oy as cia suceserdoees seu seins oie = No. 4, do gear @ 2% Pec ar es Sune a uae te aaee cae MATTINGS. New York Counts, solid meats, per gal..... 2 50} Best all rattan, plain............... @ 62% Selects, solid meats, per gallon....... @1 75 | Best all rattan and cocoa, plain.. @ 52% Standards, solid meats, 2 gallon.. @l10 | Napier Ali... oo ees @ 50 Can prices above are for cases and half cases. Napier Bogcc.c se ge 2 @ 40 FRESH FISH. . CURTAINS. CONIC CUS re Se iar ee ar Re eer ae 12% | Opaque shades, 38 inch............ @ 15 TTBAQOOK foo leo vcs ce evi ce cas ns sect es cubea ees 8 { Holland shades, B finish, 4-4....... @ 18 BIOS os oo ieee ce ee ets oh ee kee ee se ewes oe 8 Pacific Holland, 4-4................ @ 10 ROTI ee ee ieee oe a econ ee 7 | Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... @36 Mackinaw TROUG. os aides voce oo ain ewelw dd dhe ds Cord fixtures, per gross........... @10 WOKOROL 55s oss pene ccs teats coeig sus ae 5 IWHITOHAN: soc orice fee tee een ee 2Y% HARDWARE GOODS. Prevailing rates at Chicago are as follows: Anvils—Peter Wright’s, #@ Ib............ i A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows: Augurs—50 and 10 per cent. off. Ohio White Lime, per bbl............. 1 10} Babbett—Genuine ® D................ @30 Ohio White Lime, car lots............. 95 Ee ee ae @26 Louisville Cement, a bbl............ 1 40 eke oe vac reese cc cs iacaes @20 Akron Cement per bbl................ 1 40 No. : REGU a dee vicoe ced pec e cent @18 Buffalo Cement; per bbl.............. 1 40 NO: Beside ee @10 RS ee in vg cance en scan cannes 1 15@1 20 cau ae inch Lake Superior, #D..... ll Plastering hair, per bu................ 3@ 38 do rs 8% Stucco, per Dbl. ............26 eee eee eee 1% 5-16 a Se 6% Land plaster, per ton.. 375 % do = Cieke 5% Land plaster, car lots. . 3 00 i do a6 00 = a: 454 Fire brick, per M..............eseeee8: $27 @ $35 % do. se: 4% Fire clay, per bbl.............--.-++0.. 8 00 | Files—N sole 8 best 40 per cent off. $6 5006 75 ee ~afay dole'e 100 eet Oe Anthracite, egg and par Se cerenedec ammers—Maydole’s per cent off. Anthracite, stove and nut........-.-. 6 75@7 00 | H p and T 00 per cent off. Cannell Coal............0ceeecceeneeees 7 00 | Horse Shoos--Burden’ 8 ‘00 per keg. ONIG OBB) oe os eas oe aie oS tees orse N: Au Sable 30 and 10 per: cent. off. LATEST a Qnotatlons JOHN CAULFIELD Wholesale Grocer 8, 87 and 89 Canal Streedf All 10 @ Nutshell The best goods for the least money can be had only at such places where expenses are: in proportion to the amount of business dene. and this is where THE OLD RELIABLE has the advantage over competitors. The secret of our success is that we buy goods as low as cash can produce them. We are thus prepared to place staple and fancy Groceries onthe market at such prices as obtains the con- fidence of the CLOSE BUYER who is desirous of getting full value for his money. Then, again, we are under no extravagant ex- penses, nor enormous rents, nor supernum- erary expensive agents to tax and annoy customers with, besides not having the profit to divide between three, four or six partners, we can afford to be liberal sellers. —HEADQUARTERS FOR— Choice Butter, Cheese, Mince Meat, Jellies, Buckwheat Flow, Maple Syrup, Dried Peaches, Apples, Blackberries, Huckleberries, SUGARS. Cut Hoat Cubes... 2. 0.62.2... aoc. Son Powdered Standard................... 83¢ Granulated Standard.................. 9-84 Standard Confectioners’ A............ 7-44 Standard A272 25. 5.0. 4-31 Mitra White ©... oo. o.oo. oo ne ec ce q Mxtra Bright ©... ......... 5... 63,@6% PMEED ©) oo coo a co oe ce 64 @6% Mellow ©. oo 5.5. occ sk 616 @63K CANNED GOODS Are still the absorbing question. Our friends are taking them liberally at our close figures and making LEADFRS. Remember gallon apples will surely go higher. We continue our CLOSING OUT SALE for the Next Thirty Day §& OOO Cases Canned Goods of Staple and Standard Brands, 1883 packing, quality guaranteed. JOB BACON’S TOMATOES Have the Highest Endorsement of the best dealers in the country. 3 tb Job Bacon’s Tomatoes, Standard. .1 10 3 Ib Smith & Wicks’ Tomatoes........ 1 00 2 tb Sweet Corn, Erie.............. 1 12% 2 tb Sweet Corn, Mitchell’s........... 1 10 2 tb Sweet Corn, Fredonia............ 1 00 2th Com, B&Bs. -... oc ccc. - 80 2 1b Peas, Extra Early............. 85 2 Th Peas, Platts? Brie... ........-.... 110 2 tb Peas, VanCamps................ 1 00 2 tb Peas, Ex. F. V. Canning Co...... 1 20 2 tb Lima Beans, Standard........... 85. 2 tb Lima Beans, Extra.............. 1 00 2 Tb String Beans, Shawnee,white wax. 90: 3 Ib Climax Pumpkin, Standard....... 1 20: 2 Tb Succotash, Standard............. 90 2 tb Succotash, Yarmouth............ 1 48. 3 Ib Boston Baked Beans............. 1 60: Apples, Gallons, Erie......... .-3 00 Apples, Gallons, Extra Erie Conny. 3 00: 3 Tb Peaches, Standard. ...... ees: ‘1 75 3 Tb Peaches, All Yellow............. 2 00: 8 Tb Erie Pie Peaches................1 25 2 tb Blackberries, Madison........... 1 05- 2 tb Blueberries, Detroit.............. 1 35. 2 Ib Red Cherries, Standard.......... 2 tb Green Gages, Extra.............. 2 Tb Egg Plums, Extra............... 2 ib Strawberries, Extra........ 1 25@1 50: 3 tb Bartlett Pears, Echert’s Standard. .1 25. The response to our advertisement in: the late issues of THE TRADESMAN from country merchants for canned goods was lib-- eral beyond our expectation. Several of the orders were from localities where we are not represented by an agent, and for other goods in our line. Mail orders on this ac-- count, axe all. the more appreciated, with care- and prompt attention given them. Readers. of THE TRADESMAN will find it to their interest to keep a business eye on this.column headed STANDARD QUO-- TATIONS. Mail orders solicited and care-- ful attention given thereto. Jon Caulie vt “~~ SELECTED ENGLISH WHITE GRANITE WARE. Diamond X. Edward Clark’s 4 doz Plates............. 5 inch 51 2 04 4 doz Plates............. 6 inch 62 2 48 11 doz Plates............. 7 inch 73 8 03 3 doz Plates............. 8 inch 84 2 52 1 doz Plates............. 7 inch, deep ; 13 6 doz Fruit Saucers..... 4inch 35 2 10 6 sets Handled Teas............----: 45 2 70 18 sets Unhandled Teas..........---- 36 6 48 lonly Dish.............. 7 inch 08 2 only Dishes ........... 8 inch 09 18 3 only Dishes ........... 9 inch 11 33 3 only Dishes .......... 10 inch 17 51 3 only Dishes .......... 11 inch 23 69 8 only Dishes .......... 12 inch 28 84 4 only Bakers.......... 5 inch 08 32 4 only Bakers........... 6 inch 09 36 4 only Bakers........... 7 inch nh 44 4 only Bakers........... 8 inch li 68 6 only Scollops..........5 inch 08 48 6 only Scollops.......... 6 inch 10 60 6 only Scollops.......... T inch 11 66 6 only Scollops.......... 8 inch 7 1 02 2 only Covered Dishes. .7 inch 39 78 2 only Covered Dishes. .8 inch 45 90 1 only Sauce Boat...... 15 2 only Pickles eae 22 4 only Cov’d Butters and Dr’ns 5 in 34 1 36 2 only Teapots.......... No. 24 30 60 6 only Sugars........... No. 24 25 1 50 6 only Creams.......... No. 24 12 12 3 only Bowls...........- No. 24 09 20 6 only Bowls...........-. No. 30 08 48 6 only Bowls............ No. 36 06 36 4only Jugs............'. No. 6 34 1 36 6 only Jugs...... oe No. 12 23 1 36 4only Jugs.........-..- No. 24 13 { 38 4only Jugs..........-.- No. 30 11 44 6only Jugs............- No. 36 10 ‘ 60 4 prs Ewers and Basing No. 9 v1 2 84 6 Covered Chambers....No. 9 45 2 70 6 Soap Slabs.........---- vv 42 Bb Mues..........-------- 7 42 $52 65 Crate $2 50 A LEONARD & SONS, JOBBERS OF CROCKERY, GLASSWARE AND SILVER WARE, Headquarters for Akron Stone Butter Crocks,Jugs and Crocks, by the Carload or from Stock. English White Granite Ware, English Decorated Ware, Chandeliers and Library Lamps, Carefully Note the Specialties Below, which Wire Quote for Your Benefit This Wreek: ONE CRATE WHITE GRANITE WARE. Knowles, Taylor & Knowles—Cable Shape— Diamond C. 6 doz Plates............. 5 inch 50 3 00 a. eee ee G 61 1 88 oo * So eS a. 72 14 40 3 4 Be 87 2 61 3 Bakors..........-. a 72 2 16 % Ss ep 83 42 Me ee ec 5 * 96 48 wm tf Ae es ka ao 1 32 66 4 eae g.* 1 93 48 a 4e Bowis.. 2... ss. No. 36 69 Me aes 30 83 Ae ees 6 24 1 02 ¥% ‘* Cov’d Butters....5 inch 3 85 96 2 * indigi 2. 2% ~ 22 44 ¥% * Cov’d Chambers. No. 9 5 63 2 82 1 “@neova “ ee 3 85 2 6 Cake Plates.............:.-. 3 85 96 y% ‘* Restaurant Creams......... ts) 38 3 ip Plates. ...-...........;.- 30 90 4% ‘* Casseroles......... Tineh 4 68 11% _~ oo ae 5 < 5 25 131 m “SMSishOS. 3.5... ..... a. 66 1 32 anf eS eo ee a 38 46 ame ee ce 10: * 2 00 67 we OC« Se ee ec aa 2 61 87 1-6 ‘ Ewers and Basins. No 9..... 9 00 1 50 ¥% °** Barrell Mugs....No.< G7 38 5 ‘ Fruit Saucers..... 4inch 3) 1 75 2 *“-Scollops......... w— 60 120 m * ee 83 41 1. ce 5 * 1 05 lee Oe ie cee 7 1 38 uy ee: S 96 1% 6 Sues, NO 30)... .. . 3 3. 58 a” me Oo... 69 oe he AD es ek cs. Te ifs oe AO ec. 4 40 73 y% * Shell Pickles................ 1 65 83 y% ‘* Sugars. No. 30.............-- 2 90 73 % ‘ Spoon Holders. ............ 1 80. 45 6 sets Unhandled Coffees,.......... 50 3 00 ap 8 ae WRHS | oo. sss 36 12 96 aw “Handled , ~~ = .......-.. 47 5 64 Ornate: 6.25226. cee 2 00 $81 66 Large Assortment Chas, Meakins’ Cups and Saucers. SELECTED THIRDS. Teas, Unhand, per Set...............e.0ee0e 27cts Teas, Hand, RE ee Se Ie So, occa clad 33 Gofees, Unhand ~ 2... 050.6... lc. 33 Coffees, Hand Oe oe ces ccas soa 40 Sold in any quantities. Best White Granite Cups and Saucers. J. W. Pankhurst & Co., per set............. 35cts wae are equal to any made and are worth Barrel Assorted Glass Table Sets. 4 Victoria Sets, per set..................06- 19cts 4 Plain Handled Sets, per set .............. 30 4 L’ge Figured Sets, pet set................ 34 Barrel, 35cts. : GLASSWARE. Heavy Figured ‘‘ Horseshoe”’ Pattern. Sets, 42 GOZO 62... $3 00 Pitchers, % wallon...:..........-.....0+-- 3 00 Celeries ee ase 2 00 Bowls, 7 inch, and covers............. ... 3 00 Bowls,8 /‘ es eee tees es 3 85 Bowisg; 9 2° mo “| .2...0.....5..05: 3 60 Comports, 4 inch... .......5.............. 30 GiODIOUS =. bso ees ee 45 MVANCR oe oon ee eee i, 35 SRIVOUS. : os oe ok es eel as oe ees 3 00 Nappies, 4 ineh.... 2.5.0.2... .. ® gross 2 25 Package at cost’ ; GLASS OIL CANS. “Queen” or “ Daisy.” No charge for box. Veale PCMOOZ os... cee et 3 50 1 gal GQ. 65.355 ee 4 50 TUBULAR LANTERNS. No 0 New wire lift for lighting, per doz....8 50 No 0 Hinge for lighting, per doz............ q dO) LUNO. 4,10 wal., Jacket... .................-.-. Lamp Chimneys—Good Common. No charge for box. NO. 0 Stn box: 623. oF .e os 1 90 No. 1 GOe ese. ett ae ae ce 2 00 N 0.2 GO 6 ee ee 3 00 Best Common. Each Chimney Labeled First Quality. Nov 0)Sum 8 boxe 210 No. 1 GOo eee ee foe, 2 25 No. 2 GOs eee 3 2 The Engraved Globe Chimney. Dithridge Flint Glass. Crimped Top only 75cts per dozen. Former price $1°25 per dozen. A Good Tubular Lantern For $7.50 per dozen. Regular price $9 per doz. Nutmeg Night Lamps Only $1.75 per doz. Regular price $2 per doz. Illuminator Bases. Seven inch, to fit any burner, $1 per dozen. 5 dozen in barrel. Sold for $1.25 everywhere. LAMP BURNERS. Noo Any style per doz.....................- Nol do do 90 Mh esicc boot see eee te cues 1 00 No2 do QO i: 1 50 GOOD ENOUGH OIL CANS. Ag %@ doz $15 00 INO: 2) bigal., Jacket. 2) 0. 0:.500..0.. 5.8... 18 00 24 00 (handeliers—-For Store Use Complete With Large Size Burner and Chimney. No. 1600, two light, each................6 $1 00 No. 500, two light, each................... 1 25 No. 543, two light, each. . ............... 1 50 No: 544, two light, each... ......2.0. 2.2.5... 2 00 Same with Seven Inch Illuminator Base and White Shade Complete. No. 1600, two light, each................... $1 60 No. 500, two light, each................:- 1 75 No.-; 548, two light, each. .......5....cee5 08 2 00 No. 544, two light, each............ ...... 2 50 No. 518, threh light, each................. " 75 No. 595, three light with pat.extension.. 7 80 = e Have Between Four and Five Hundred Chan- deliers Constantly in Stock. SILVERWARE. IN SILVER PLATED WARE OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE—SEND FOR CATALOGUE. ook at This! Rogers Bros.’ Treble Plat’d Knives. These @E@ GENUINE... 2.5... ee. wc. ee 8 doz $3 00 Tipped Tea Spoons [Rogers Bros.’]....... 2 38 Tipped Table Spoons [Rogers Bros.’]..... 475 NICKEL AND SILVER PLATE ON STEEL. Fruit Knives, in case................ 8 doz $1 75 Alpine Tea Spoons... <.. 2 2. 2.0... eke 1 00 Alpine Table Spoons....... 2.2.2... 02 .ccece 2 00 Alpine Medium Forks....................5 2 00 Sultan Tea Spoons.......... 2.20.4 c00..%- 0 75 Sultan Table Spoons...... 2.02... 0... ce ecees 1 50 Sultan Medium Forks..................... 150 This advertisement appears but ashort time. Mail orders receive careful attention. PENCIL PORTRAITS NO. 6. . William B. Edmunds, Better Known as ‘‘Taffy Bill.”’ William B. Edmunds first saw the light of day at Carleton, Orleans county, N. Y., May 10, 1853. When he was five years of of age, his parents ( removell to Lawrence, Van Buren county, and he was educated in the Union school at that%place. At the age of 14 he went to Hartford and entered the employ of a dry goods firm, where he re- mained acouple of years, after which he went to Bangor, entering the employ of Davis & Lewis, general dealers. % Two years later he purchased Mr. Lewis’ interest in the business, and the firm name was changed to Davis & Edmunds. During the “financial collapse ensuing the panic of 1873, and the embarrassment of the Bangor Furnace Co.—whose paper the firm held for a consid- erable amount—the firm was compelled to succumb to the inevitable, and Mr. Edmunds entered the employ of the Clinton Woolen Mills as traveling salesman, covering the States of Wisconsin and Iowa, for two years. In May, 1877, he engaged to travel for Putnam & Brooks, being the first sales- man to carry a grip through northern Mich- igan for that house. His first trip was made in company with Mr. J ames A, Crook: ston, and the ,friendship thus _formed | has strengthened as the years have passed by. He visited the northern trade regularly for four years, and on the resignation of J. H. Paris, who traveled south, succeeded to that gentleman’s territory, which includes both Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana, in both of which States he holds all the old trade and has succeeded in working up a large amount of new business. —- 0S : Still in Hiding. Fred J. Galster, the Boyne Falls bank- rupt, still hovers around the Canadian UO bor- der, in mortal fear of arrest in case he ven- tures over on this side. _The_ occasion _ of nis agitation is the knowledge that nearly every jobbing house in this city is in, posses- Sion of an autograph letter from him, writ- ten last October, in which he claims to own -a farm worth $600, a store building and lot worth $1,500, and a stock of goods worth $3,000. Asa matter of fact he owned none of the above, and the additional statement that he was worth $3,900 over and above all liabilities was proven false by the develop- ments attending the failure. ———__—_—_—» 0 Effected a Compromise. Cross & Todd, boot and shoe dealers at Bangor, who recently made an assignment to the former’s brother, have finally effected a settlement with all their unsecured credi- torson the basis of 40 per cent. The as- signee cut down the inventory value of the stock 50 per cent., and the firm then offered to compromise at 20 per cent. This prop- osition met an indignant refusal on the part _of the creditors, and a subsequent offer of 30 per cent. was likewise refused. An offer of 40 per cent. was accepted. The firm had three creditors here, Rindge, Bertsch & Co., Cappon, Bertsch & Co., and E. G. Studley .& Co. ae 9 OO Carrel & Fisher have purchased of Spring é& Company the general stock and building at Dorr formerly owned by John A. Beamer, | | Visiting Buyers. | The following retail dealers have visited | the market during the past week and placed orders with the various houses: A. C. Wait, Cedar Creek. A. L. & E. W. Kitchen, Edmore. Rankin & Dewey, Shelby. John F. Stitt, Norwich. Geo. F. Stevens, Petoskey. D. W. Shattuck, Wayland. C. O. Sunderland, Lowell. R. B. Wadsworth, Mancelona. Green & Green, Byron Center. Wm. Parks, Alpine. A. F. Newell, New Salem. B. Ballou, Cadillac. G. P. Stark, Cascade. J.S. Toland, Ross. D. H. Decker, Zeeland. Hadley Mfg. Co., Kingsley. Jobn C. Bishop, Johnsville. F. C. Brisbin, Berlin. Campbell & Smith, Luther. Frank O. Lord, Howard. A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville. A. Norris & Son, Casnovia. C. E. Clark, Lowell. Roys Bros., Cedar Springs. David Cornwell, Monterey. T. J. Knowles, Hesperia. Parkhurst Bros., Nunica. Byron MeNeal, Byron Center. T. J. Sheridan & Co., Lockwood. H. D. Harvey, Bangor. Wolf & Truesdell, Otsego. F. F. Taylor, Pierson. Fred Stoner, Grand Haven. U.S. Monroe, Berlin. H. T. M. Treglown, Lowell. Williams Bros., Gresham. C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford. Nevins Bros., Moline. J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg. Smeadley Bros., Bauer. M. J. Howard, Englishville. M. P. Shields, Hilliards. Jacob Bartz, North Dorr. G. C. Baker, LeBarge. J. R. Harrison, Sparta Center. Waite Bros., Hudsonviile. L. Davis, Hopkins. Jay Marlatt, Berlin. G. H. Wallbrink, Allendale. I. J. Quick & Co., Allendale. Walter H. Struik, Forest Grove. Parter & Webber, Chauncey. A. Langworthy, Elk Rapids. J. Wadsworth, Alba. John Smith, Ada. Rk. H. Topping, Casnovia. A. M. Letson, McDonald. A. T. Burnett, Cross Village. J. L. Handy, Alton. Fred Morley, of Morley Bros., Cedar Springs. Johnson & Link, Cedar Springs. G. W. Sharer, Cedar Springs. C. E. Kellogg, Grandville. Fred Ramsey, White Cloud. ——_—_——>-_0<——_—_ Late Business Changes. Big Rapids—Wm. Saunders, grocer, de- ceased. Coopersville—W. W. Averill, furniture, succeeded by Tuxbury & Van Allsburg. East Jordan—Chamberlain §& Parmlee, grocers, dissolved. Plainwell—J. C. Ives. hardware, sold out to O. B. Granger & Co. Petoskey—Bowman, Nyce & Co., grocers, succeeded by Nyce. Portland—C. J. Warren, sawmill, assign- ed. ———_—___—-o-— “What are the religious papers doing toward directing souls heavenward?” is the title of an article in a pious contemperary. For one thing, they are {advertising cheap revolvers by the column, at half rates. Country Produce. Apples-—Stock light, and market not very well supplied. Baldwins and Russets readily command $4@$4.50, and extra faney find frequent sale at $5. Beets—Choice find ready sale at $3 9 bbl. and $1 # bu. Butter—Good dairy rolls are firm at22@ | 23c and packed from 10c up. Elgin creamery, 27. ( Butterine—Active at 18@22c¢ for choice. Buckwheat—New York patent, $3.50 per ‘ 100 tbs, and $6.50 #-bbl muy Gi oe Beans—Prices are looking up, the Eastern’ market having advanced very materially. | Handpicked are firm at $2.25 and unpicked.: are in active demand at $1.75@ $2. Barley—Choice $1.30 # 100 tbs. Cheese—Firmer and stiffer. Full cream is active at 15c, and skim is in good demand at 124, @13e. ; Cider—20c ¥ gal. for ordinary. Sand re- fined, $6.50 4 bbl. Clover Seed—Choice medium weaker at $6 @$6.50 4 bu. and mammoth in fair demand at $6.75@$7 $B bu. Corn—Local dealers stand in readiness to supply carload lots of Kansas corn at from 45@60c # bu. It is all of the same quality, but the former price is for damp, and the latter for dry, stock. Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9c # th, and sliced 8@9c. Evaporated. dull and slow at 14@15c. Eggs—Uncertain as a justice court jury. A decline has been expected for the past three weeks, but owing to the bad roads and other causes they do not come in quite fast enough to supply the demand, and as a consequence prices hold up to 22c, with strong probability of dropping to 18c, before the week is out. Honey—In comb, 18¢ # Ib. Hops—Choice New York 25@28¢ # tb; low and medium grades 18@24c; Pacific coast 24@27¢e; Wisconsin 12@20c; Michigan 20@22e. Lettuce—Hothouse stock selling readily, with good demand, at 25c # tb. Maple Sugar—12c # tb. Onions—Choice yellow 75c # bu. in sacks and $2.25 8 bbl. Pieplant—Hothouse stock in fair demand at12¢e ® bb. Potatoes—As much a drug as ever. Bur- banks are sold in small quantities at 40c, and Rose at 30@35c. Peas—Holland $4.25 @ bu. Parsnips—Firm at $3 # bbl and $1 @ bu. Poultry—Chickens and fowls are firm, and readily command 16@17%c and 15@16¢e, respectively. There are no ducks and geese in market, anda few turkeys, which find ready sale at 16ce. Radishes—50c 4 dozen bunches. Ruta Bagas—Selling readily at 65c ® bu., and $2 # bbl. Timothy— Weaker. $1.50@$1.75 PB bu. Vegetable Oysters—50e 4? dozen bunches. Wheat—Local dealers are paying 82@88c bu. for No. 2 and 92@95c for No. 1. Choice is held at Patents Issued to Michigan Inventors. The following patents have lately been is- sued to Michigan inventors: Wm. H. Cloud, Detroit, vise. Victor Collian, Detroit, furnace, Wm. E. Hill, Kalamazoo, lath sawing ma- chine. Londen Jaquish, Maple Rapids, clevis. Wn. P. Kilborn, Petosky, sled. H. H. & H. T. Lovell, Ionia, refrigerator. Joseph W. Reed, Kalamazoo, lubricator. John H. Runyan, Flint, door check. MOSELEY BROS., Wholesale Olover, Timothy and all Kinds Field Seeds Seed Corn, Green and Dried Fruits, Oranges and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc. GREEN VEGETABLES AND OYSTERS. 122 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. TIME TABLES. “CENTRAL STANDARD TIME. Michigan Central—Grand Rapids Division. DEPART. +Detroit PXpress:.............5. 6... 0. 6:05 am Tay HXDFeSS, ....5...--. 2... 05. He Saw It, but Didn’t Get It. t Ata certain hotel in Detroit, where the meals were not always what they should be, a Grand Rapids drummer one day sat down to*the table. He put a dollar under the tumbler, and calling a waiter said: “Do you see that dollar, Jim?” “Yes, sah,” replied Jim with a grin. “Well, now, Jim, 1 want you to get mea real good, first-class dinner. You under- stand?” “Yes, sah,” and Jim set out about furnish- ing a feast fit fora king. He had no time to see to anything else. He hunted up new dishes, put extra touches on everything, and kept his eye on the dollar. Finally the mer- chant traveler finished, and wiping his mouth, he winked at Jim: “Yes, sah,” grinned the darkey, in antici- pation. “Jim, do you see that dollar?” putting his hand on it in a generous way. ‘Yes, sah.” “Well, you will never see it again,” and it went into his pocket and out of the dining- room, while Jim indignantly remarked, ‘‘Fo’ de Lawd, who turn dat hog loose in heah?” ——————>-_2 <> __ No Overcoats for Them. “TI see,” said a Muskegon merchant at breakfast at the Occidental the other morning, “that there are two members of Congress who never wear overcoats.” “So?” inquiringly observed John Mc- Intyre, who sat at the same table. “They must find it very chilly sometimes,” he continued. “I shouldn’t think they would like it, unless for the notoriety.” “Pooh!” interrupted Johnny, with his char- acteristic bluster. ‘That’s nothing. I know of thousands of men who never wear over- coats, from one year’s end to the other.” ‘“What!? exclaimed the merchant. “Yes. They live in the Fiji Islands,” and McIntyre rose from his seat and made his escape before the nearest boarder could reach the vinegar cruet to hurl at him.” ———_—.-9>____- Just What Made Him Sick. “Look here, Tobbs,”’ said the grocery man, as the former filled his pockets with fresh raisins, ‘“‘can’t you come into this store with- out lugging off my stock in installments, or shall I give you a mortgage on the establish- ment?” Tobbs was more surprised than affronted. Looking at the groceryman squarely, he said with dignity: : “You do not give me credit, sir, for having bought groceries of you for the last six months !’’ “That’s just what grinds me. If 1 hadn’t given you credit for it I wouldn’t kick.” ———_—__—?>- <> Every retail merchant should possess a stencil plate, that he may mark, plainly on all bags and other property his name and ad- dress. He shouldalso have a branding iron with which he can burnin his name ete., upon all barrels, boxes and like packages; also upon his tools. Then, if he is blessed with a borrowing neighbor, the sight of the name may remind the borrower to return the bag, barrel, box or tool before he has worn it out. At least, there will be less danger of his thinking he owns them be- cause he has had them so long that he has forgotten how he came by them. “T called for my money,” said a miserable creditor to his tough debtor. ‘All right,” responded the other, cheerfully, “If there is any of your money here you had better lock it up and take it away with you, for if happened to find it I should be tempted to keep it. I haven’t got a cent.” The Beacon is the name of Boston’s new weekly paper. Several numbers are on our table, and bear the imprint of success. In tone it is clean and pure, with much valua- ble reading, and typographically, it is a hand- some paper. It is richly deserving of suc- cess, and we'should be sorry if it proved otherwise. 42 and 44 Ottawa HAZELTINE, PERKINS & COMPANY, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, | St., and 89, 91, 98 and 95 Louis St., Grand Rapids, Mich. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Glassware And Drugssists’ Sundries. Also Manufacturers of Fine Pharmaceutical & Chemical Preparaticns. SHED CORN We have a choice stock Dent and the Yankee, or Hight Rowed, which we offer to the Trade. We have given it a thorough test and warrant it to grow. Send for Samples and Prices to THE SEED STORE, Grand Rapids. W.T. Lamoreaux, Agent. H. WALSH & SON, Holland, Mich., Wholesale Dealers in Clover, Timothy Seed and Ground Oil Cakes Write for quotations. ALBERT COVE & SON}, —Manufacturers and Jobbers of— Awnings, ‘Tents, Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers, Flags, Banners, Ete. All Ducks and Stripes Kept Constantly on Hand. 73 Canal Street. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. te Send for Prices. FJ, DETTENTHALER Successor to H. M. Bliven, —WHOLESALE— OYSTERS AND CANNED GOODS. Agent for Farren’s Celebrated “F” Brand Raw Oysters. 117 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, D MICH. “rr S: ne | ¢, S, YALE & BRO. —Manufacturers of— FLAVORING EXTRACTS | BAKING POWDERS, BLUOINGS, E'TC., 40 and 42 South Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, ~ MICH. MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIA’N. Incorporated Dec. 10, 1877—Charter in Force for Thirty Years. ‘LIST OF OFFICERS: President—RANSOM W. HAWLEY, of Detroit. Vice-Presidents—CHAS. E. SNEDEKER, Detroit; L. W. ATKINS, Grand Rapids; I. N. ALEXAN- DER, Lansing; U. 8. Lorp, Kalamazoo; H. E. MEEKER, 7 City. Secretary and Treasurer—W. N. MEREDITH, Detroit. Board of Trustees, For One Year—J. C. Pon- Trus, Chairman, 8. A. MUNGER, H. K. WHITE _ For Two Years—D. Morris, A. W. CULVER. of Seed Corn, both Yellow |: ‘L' £a ES ‘WHITE STAR” To Gardeners and Harmers. About two years ago, Mr. Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Newaygo County, Michigan, sent to D. M. Ferry & Co., the well known seed firm of Detroit, for one-half bushel of the celebrated White Star potatoes, for seed purposes. The potatoes were procured, and planted by the undersigned, and the result was one gratifying beyond measure. The second planting yielded 7,000 bushels of as fine potatoes, for size, color and quality, as were ever seen in the State. They were pronounced by all who tried them of the very finest flavor, YIELDING FAR BETTER THAN ANY OTHER VARIETY KNOWN never troubled with blight, and very seldom showing a bug of any sort. Such is the universal testimony as to the merits of the White Star Potato, all agreeing that they have never met its equal for endurance, productiveness, and fine eating qualities. All farmers and gardners are interested in these facts, and all who have seen the White Star Potato, and tested it, are united in its praise, and others will find it to their profit to make inquiries. We are now making a sbecialty of handling this splendid potato, and ] [ all seed catalogues and the regular price lists, will show to be a great reduction from the ruling prices. ai furnish the White Star Potatoes at the rate of $1.00 per bushel, and will allow a liberal diseount to dealers. We will also furnish, at cost prices, all parrels sacks or bags, or patrons may send their own, adressed to Ensley & Son, Maple Hill, Mich. Orders may be sent to either Ensley & Son, Ensley Postofiice, Mich., or to O. W. Blain, General Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich. All addresses should be written out plainly, to prevent mistakes. Patrons should also furnish us with their names and postoffice addresses, and state to what railroad station they wish to have their shipments made. Orders will be filled promptly, and must be accompanied by the money, New York draft, money order, or registered letter. . : Readers are cordially invited to refer to Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Mich; C. J. Burtch, Postmaster, and N. W. Mhther, Banker, Howard City, Mich., for the truth of all of the above statements regarding the superior quality and extraordinary yield of the White Star Potatoes. We warrant these potatoes, all that has been represented, and true to name. B. HENSLEY & SON, Growers, Ensley Postoftiice. Newayso County, Michigan. to this section of the country, are prepared to supply patrons at a price which, a reference to We make this liberal offer to FOR FULL PARTICULARS AND TERMS TO DEALERS, ADDRESS O. W. BLAIN, General Agent, PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANT, Eagle Hotel or 152 Fulton Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. Cc. P. BIGELOW, —WHOLESALE DEALER IN— SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS ——AND—- APPLIANCES, NO. 8 CANAL STREET, MICHIGAN. GRAND RAPIDS, STEAM LAUNDRY 43 and 45 Kent Street. A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS. Orders by Mail and Express promptly at- tended to. ef oop Factories, Seneca Falls, New York. PHEREKINS & HESS —= DEALERS IN— Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. eae & + RISING SUN YEAST 4. a’ BEST ON THE MARKET. EVERYONE USESIT. Sold by all Wholesale Grocers. > ,