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VOL. 4.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1887.

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NO. 195.

 

MVM

Muzzy’s Corn Starch is prepared expressly
for food, is made of only the best white corn
and ts guaranteed absolutely pure.

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The popularity of.Muzzy’s Corn and Sun
Gloss Starch is proven by the large sale,
aggregating many million of pounds each

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The State Assayer of Massachusetts says

Muzzy’s Corn Starch for table use, is per-
fectly pure, is well prepared, and of excel-
lent quality. ‘

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Muzzy’s Starch, both for laundry and table

use, is the very best offered to the con-
sumer. All wholesale and retail grocers

sell it.

SEEDS

Garden Seeds a Specialty. .

The Most Complete Assortment
in Michigan. Don’t Buy un-
til you get my prices.

ALFRED J.BROWN

Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester.

 

16-18 N. Division St, Grand Rapids

 

WANTED,

Butter, Eggs, Wool, Pota-
toes, Beans, Dried Fruit,
Apples and all kinds of
Produce.

If you have any of the above goods to
ship, or anything in the Produce line let us
hear trom you. Liberal cash advances
made when desired.

Earl Bros., Commission Merchants,

157 South Water St., CHICAGO.

Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids.

POTATOES,

We give prompt personal attention to
the sale of POTATOES,APPLES,BEANS
and ONIONS in car lots. We offer best
facilities and watchful attention. Consign-
ments respectfully solicited. Liberal cash
advances on Car Lots when desired.

Wn. H Thompson & C0,

166 South Water St., CHICAGO.

Reference

 

We carry a full line of
Seeds ‘of every variety,

FELSENTHAL, Gross & MILLER, Bankers.
both for field and garden.
Parties in want should

NH Nes

GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED C0.

71 CANAL STREET.

T, R, Ettis & C0,,

Book Binders
PAPER RULERS,

Blank Book Makers,

51, 58 and 55 Lyon &t.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

LUCIUS C, WEST,
A Attorney at Patent Law and Solicitor
of American and Foreign patents.
105 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S. A. Branch of-
ace London, Eng. Practice in U. 8. Courts.
ree,

 

 

Circulars

 

PLACE to secure a thorough
and useful education is at the
GRAND RAPIDS (Mich.) BUSI-
NESS COLLEGE. write for Col-

lege Journal. Address, C. G. SWENSBERG.

COOK & PRINZ,

Manufacturers of

Show Cases,

Counters, Tables and Furniture of any
Description, as well as Designs
thereof, made to order. Write
for Prices or call and see us
when in. the City.

38 WesteBridge St. Grand Rapids.

Telephone 374.

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dur Order Department

Secures to out-of-town customers the most
careful attention and guarantees perfect sat-
sfaction. Weare the

LARGEST HOUSE in the STATE

DEALING EXCLUSIVELY IN

Ready-Made Clothing

With the splendid Tailor-Made Clothing
we handle the fit is as perfect as in the fin-
est custom work. Send in your order fora
Spring Suit or Overcoat and make a saving
of at least one-third.

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The attention of dealers is called to our
JOBBING DEPARTMENT. We pay cash
for our goods and make CASH PRICES.

With superior advantages and ready cash
we are enabled not only to meet Chicago
prices but offer you a most complete line of

FURNISHING GOODS.

GIANT CLOTHING COMPANY,

. MAY, PROPRIETOR.

Cor Canal & Lyon Sts. Grand Rapids
Voit, Herpolsheimer & Go,

Importers and Jobbers of

DRY GOODS

Staple and Fancy.

Overalls, Pants, Hic.,

OUR OWN MAKE,

A Complete Line of

Fancy Crockery Fancy Woodenware

OUR OWN IMPORTATION.

 

 

Prices Guaranteed,

FOR SALE.

Feed mill, eighteen horse power engine,
good wholesale and retail trade.
cheap. Address
TRADESMAN.

 

GIANT

Inspection Solicited. Chicago and Detroit

Will sell
‘Feed mill,” care THE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FREEDMAN & C0

Manufacturers and Jobvbers of

CIGARS

Factory No, 26, 4th Dist.

16S. Division St, Grand Rapids.

To Cigar Dealer

Realizing the demand for, and knowing
the difficulty in obtaining a FIRST-CLASS
FIVE-CENT CIGAR, we have concluded
to try and meet this demand with a new
Cigar called

SILVER SPOTS

This Cigar we positively guarantee a
clear Havana filler, with a spotted Sumatra
Wrapper, and entirely free from any arti-
ficial flavor or adulterations.

 

 

It will be sold on its merits.
ders filled on 60 days approval.

Sample or-

Price $35 per 1,000 in any quantities.
Express prepaid on ordersof 500 and more..
Handsome advertising matter goes with
first order. Secure this Cigar and increase
your Cigar Trade. It is sure to do it.

GEO. T. WARREN & C0,

Elint, Mich.

HIRTH & KRAUSE,

LEATHER
And Shoe Store Sapplies.

SHOE BRUSHES,
SHOE BUTTONS,
SHOE POLISH,
SHOE LACES.

Heelers, Cork Soles, Button Hooks, Dress-
ings, ete. Write for Catalogue.

118 Canal Streei, Grand Rapids.

BELKNAP
Wagon and Sleigh bo.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Spring, Freight, Express,
Lumber and Farm

WAGONS!

Logging Carts and Trucks
Mill and Dump Carts,
Lumbermen’s and
River Tools.

4 We ony a large stock of material, and have
every facility for making first-class Wagons
of all kinds.
("Special attention given to Repairing,
Painting and Lettering.

Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich,

 

 

 

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY

BN GIN HS

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills
Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft
ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for

 

 

 

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PIONEER PREPAR

PAINT.

We have a full stock of this well-known
brand of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and having sold it for over SLX YEARS can
recommend it to our customers as be-
ing a First Class article. We sell it

On the Manufacturers’ Guarantee:

given to the dealer.
T. H. NEVIN & CO..
Mfrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead.
Pittsburg, Pa.

 

Write for prices and Sample Card to

Hazelting & Perkins Drag Co.

Wholesale Agents, Grand Rapids.
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MIZED PAINT

When two or more coats of our PIONEER PRE-
PARED PAINT is applied as received in original
packages, and if within three years it should crack or
peel off, thus failing to give satisfaction, we agree to
re-paint the building at our expense, with the best
White Lead or such other paint as the owner may se-
lect. In case of complaint, prompt notice must be

Try roe best FurnitureFin -

utfits.

Complete

88, 90 and 92 South Division Street,
GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.

 

JUDD cw CO.,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE
And Full Line Summer Goods.
102 CANAL STREET.

STEAM LAUNDRY,

43 and 45 Kent Street.
STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor.

 

 

CINSENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price for it. Address

Peck Bros., )ruggists,

 

Grand Rapids, Mich,

CHEMICALS,

 

tended to.

 

WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO

 

Orders by Mail and Express Promptly At-

LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS.

 

BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT.
Written Especially for THE TRADESMAN.

The subject of credit has probably awak-
ened more controversies and occasioned more
arguments than any other matter connected
with the country trade. There are number-
less advocates of the cash system, and very
few writers on mercantile subjects ever
care to defend the habitual giving of credit,
yet experience and observation have con-
vinced me that the method so long and
highly extolled is little more than a theory,
while the nearly universally condemned one
is in almost general use in the smaller towns
of the State. It is reasonable to presume that
a very large proportion of individuals who
engage in trade commence business with a
firm determination to resist every induce-
ment to ‘open books,” but I think it safe
to estimate that not one in fifty possesses the
requisite back-bone to rigidly adhere to his
resolution. Itis one of the easiest things
imaginable to drift into the credit system,
and when once the drifting is commenced
it is almost next to an impossibility for the
trader to escape from the current. Often,
when disgusted with ill success in making
collections, or exasperated by some costly
experience with the dead-beat, he will sol-
emnly promise himself and the public that
his future business will be a strictly ready-
pay one. Then he will offend afew good
customers by stubbornly refusing , the re-
motest concession in the way of credit, pla-
eard his store with numerous announce-
ments of his inflexible determination, ad-
vertise conspicuously and liberally the ben-
efits accruing to the buyer who purchases
his goods at cash stores, and then slowly
but steadily drift back into the old channel.

* * * * *

With along and melancholy list of out-
lawed accounts, and a perennial weakness
fer succumbing to the wiles of the dead-beat,
Iam not egotistical enough to announce
myself as competent authority on the credit
problem; but, nevertheless, I venture to as-
sert that I believe a carefully watched and
reasonably limited credit system is almost a
necessity for the successful country mer-
chant. It can not be denied that the most
cautiously conducted business of this na-
ture will add materially to the cares and
perplexities of mercantile life, but it can
be made also to add materially to the in-'
come of the dealer. y

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It needs, however, a reasonable amount
of common sense to avoid the troubles and
disasters in which the credit system so fre-
quently involves the trade. The individual
who invests the bulk of his capital in even
the best notes and accounts, and depends
upon his creditors to keep his stock intact,
puts himself in a dangerous position. Cau-
tion, in even the superlative degree, is a
necessity for the dealer with limited means,
who begins the practice of ‘‘keeping ac-
counts,” and he can put it down as a cold,
hard, solid fact that eternal vigilence is the
price of safety.

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Speaking of caution leads me into a little
degression. While, as I have remarked, it
should be used in the superlative degree in
the matter of credits, it may, I think, be
carried to an unreasonable excess when con-
nected with some other subjects.

Jones has a very pretty daughter of a
marriageable age, who, for some time past
has been receiving the marked attentions of
Young Slawser, who is conducting a flour-
ishing business in a neighboring town. If
young S. has a failing of any magnitude, it
is an overgrowth of excessive prudence and
caution, but as I believed that Jones rather
admired these qualities and looked with
much favor on the suitor, I ventured to ask
him, the other day, when the affair was
‘eoming off.”

‘Well, I dunno!” replied the parent.
“There’s a kind of a halt called in the per-
cession. I don’t mind mentionin’ the matter
privit-like, but it’s one of the queerest
things in courtin’ you ever heerd of. Las’
Sunday Slawser and Jul’a Ann fixed up the
arrangements satisfact’ry an’ then come in
to ask the old man for his blessin’, so to
speak, and then the girl went out talk with
her ma, an’ Slawser says to me that as the
weddin’ wouldn’t come off till fall, and he’d
have to buy a ring, and ice-cream and
presents, an’ hire liv’ry rigs, an’ go to a big
expense, it wouldn’t be any more’n right
for me to give ’im a bond, that in case Jul’a
Ann died, or backed out, or run away with
another feller that I’d pay ’im back for all
the money invested. Did you ever hear or
*magine such a cussed idea? An’ yet that
young man was as ¢ca’m an’ easy as if he’d
bin buyin’ a bale of cotting battin’. I told
im to go to Sheol, an’ I dunno yet how the
matter’ll turn out.”

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When the merchant has adopted my views,
and determined to enlarge his trade by do-
ing a careful and limited credit business, he
needs all the caution and judgment and in-
sight into character with which he may be
possessed, to avoid loading himself down
with slow and doubtful accounts. Applica-
tions for ‘‘time” are made under so many di-
verse circumstances and conditions, and the
tims for reflection is usuully so limited,

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that he who avoids the toils of the dead-
beat and the hardly more desirable patron-
age of the individual who never pays until
forced to do so, is a remarkably favored
party. Asarule, losses will occur and un-
desirable accounts be accumulated by any
merchant who credits, and by a little hab-
itual carelessness he can easily evaporate
the profits accruing from the custom of his
prompt payers.
* * * *

I have said that the credit business may
be made profitable, bat it can never be
made pleasant. The fact that you cannot
make the remotest calculations regarding
collections is one of its annoying features.
Let a jobber have $25,000 in 30 day accounts
on his books and he is reasonably safe in
estimating that he can meet $20,000 worth
of paper in 40 days, but let a country mer-
chant invoice $5,000 in overdue claims
against responsible farmers and it would be
folly for him to give a thousand dollar sixty
day note, in the assumption that he could
meet it with collections from these parties.
No argument has ever yet been adduced
that could eonvinee the average country
customer that he has no moral right to con-
stitute himself judge and jury in the matter
of determining the time in which store ac-
counts should be settled. ‘‘?’li pay you in
a few days,” is his usual promise when the
subject of finance is discussed, but this is a
period of such marvelous elasticity that it
conveys very little hope to the trader who
is afflicted with importunate creditors.

But I find that I have reached the reason-
able limits of an article, and: occupied al-
most the entire time in arguing against my
own side of the question. By the courtesy
of THE TRADESMAN, I will endeavor to re-
trive myself from the charge of inconsis-
tency in some future paper.
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BUSINESS LAW.

 

 

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts
of Last Resort.

 

PROMISSORY NOTE INDORSEMENT.

According to the decision of the Supreme
Court of Georgia an indorsement of a
promissory note past due for a valuable
consideration is a new contract, and the
statute of limitations begins to run in favor
of the indorser only from the date of the
indorsement.

 

HUSBAND AND WIFE—INDIANA LAW.

Where a husband and wife hold land as
tenants by entirety and the wife unites with
the husband in the execution of a mortgage
on the land to secure the payment of the hus-
band’s debi, such a mortgage is a contract
of suretyship on the part of the wife, and is
void as to her, and the mortgage is
also void as against the husband. So held
by the Superior Court of Indiana.

 

THE DRIVEN-WELL PATENT CASE.

The United States Supreme Court has
made an important decision relative to the
validity of what is known as ‘‘the driven-
well patent” in the case of Eames vs. An-
drews et al., decided May 23. The case
was one of much importance owing to the
extent to which driven wells are used in
the United States. The court in this sus-
tained the validity of the re-issued patent,
No. 4,372, issued to Nelson W. Green, hold-
ing that the grounds on which it was sought
to invalidate the re-issued patent as being
for a different invention from that described
in the original patent could not be sustained
that the invention had not been anticipated
by others, and that there was a clear case of
infringement.

 

TELEGRAPH MESSAGES—INTERSTATE COM-
MERCE.

Another decision respecting attempt-
ed state regulation of interstate com-
merce was rendered by the Supreme Court
of the United States, in the case of the
Western Union Company vs. Pendleton.
The case arose upon a suit brought by the
sender of a telegram from Shelbyville, Ind.,
to Ottumwa, Iowa, to recover a penalty of
$100 under a statute of Indiana, prescribing
the manner in which telegrams should be
sent and delivered. The complainant al-
ledged that his telegram had been put in the
post office at the point of destination, in-
stead of being delivered, and that this was
in violation of the Indiana statute. The
telegraph company maintained that the
state could not constitutionally regulate the
method of delivery of a telegram in another
state, because such action would be a regu-
lation of interstate commerce. The Supreme
Court, following the cases of Telegraph
Company vs. Texas, in the 105th United
States Reports, and Pensacola Telegraph
Company vs. Western Union Telegraph
Company in the 96th United States, held
that the attempted regulation by Indiana of
the mode in which messages sent by tele-
graph companies doing business within her
limits should be delivered in other states,
cannot be upheld. The court said that it
was an impediment to the freedom of that
form of interstate commerce which is as
much beyond the power of Indiana to inter-
pose as the imposition of a tax by the State
of Texas upon every message transmitted
by a telegraph company within her limits to
other states, was beyond her power. - What-
ever authority the state may possess over
the transmission and delivery of messages
by telegraph companies within its limits, it
does not, the court says, extend to the de-
livery of messages in other states.

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The speedy lumbering of many of the pine
properties in Clare county has been rendered
necessary by the recent fires. ‘Thousands

of trees have been killed. Scores of camps

have commenced work, and logs are being
moved at a great rate.
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The reports of the leading railroads of
the country for the first quarter of the pres-
ent year show a big increase over the same
period last year. E

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GOOD-BYE, COFFEE.

 

The New Disease Described by a Ceylon
Planter.

Seldom has the price of a product in use
for general consumption advanced with
greater rapidity than has that of coffee
within the last twelve months, and the bean
is now selling about 135 per cent. higher than
it did this time last year. Itis the general
opinion among the uninitiated that this is
owing to a ‘‘corner” in the coffee market
and that the high price is only temporary,
to fall again when those who are running
the corner have made all they can out of
the deal. But thisis far from being the
real state of the case. True there may be a
corner, but at the same time itis very un-
likely that the price of coffee will ever again
be as low as it has been.

The real facts are that the high prices
now ruling are not due toa corner, but to
the fact that the supply of, coffee through-
out the coffee-growing countries has been
getting shorter and shorter every year, and
the present outlook is that it will continue
to decrease until coffee becomes a luxury
only within the reach of the wealthy. The
cause of the shortness of the crop is not, as
stated in an article the other day, the effects
of rust and flies on the plantations, but it
is owing to the ravages of the hemelia-vesta-
trix, or coffee-leaf disease, a disease that is
now absolutely rampant over every coffee-
producing country in the world.

Dealers and speculators in Europe and
America appear to be only now waking up
to the fact that this diseaseis universal, and
that it has come to stay. The ‘‘boom” in
coffee some years ago was so great that
numbers of new plantations were opened
and the additional supply obtained from this
source, when they began to yield, nominally
kept up the crops, but they soon died out,
and nearly all the old plantations have for
years not yielded one-fifth, and in some cases
not one-tenth, of their original average.
Then dealers hugged themselves with the
belief that the hemelia would depart and
the coffee tree recover from the disease in
the same way as it had done when attacked
with ‘“‘black-bug” and “rust,” but this is a
very different matter and shows not the
slightest signs of abatement.

The writer was a practical coffee planter
in Ceylon when this dread disease first
made its appearance, no one knew from
where. At that time coffee was *‘booming,”
and would net $25 per 100 pounds in London,
sometimes more. <A fair average crop ona
second-rate plantation would run about
500 pounds to an acre, the estates or planta-
tions varying from 150 acres up to 800 and
1,000 acres. Sometimes as much as 1,000
pounds per acre would be obtained from an
estate. This, too, without the aid of fertil-
izers; in fact, the soil in Ceylon was so rich
that, until this disease appeared, no fertil-
izers were required. But one day a planter
noticed on the leaves of his coffee trees a
small black spot surrounded with a yellow-
ish fungus that came off like dust. On some
leaves it was unnoticeable until they were
held up against the sun, and then the black
spot was distinctly visible. He at first took
no notice of it until he found that all his
trees were similarly affected and that the
leaves were beginning to turn yellow and
drop off. The coolies, when they went into
the coffee, would come out with their black,
naked bodies stained as if with yellow ochre.
The attention of his brother planters was
called to this phenomenon, and it was then
found that nearly every plantation in the
island was similarly affected.

At Peradenyia, near Randy, the govern-
ment has a botanical garden, perhaps the
finest and most complete in the world, and
the superintendent, the late Dr. Thwaites,a
botanist of world-wide renown, gave his
whole attention to this new disease, bestow-
ing on it the name of hemelia-vestatrix. In
his opinion the disease would die out in the
same way as previous plagues had, but as
month after month passed and the trees be-
gan to look sicklier and sicklier the plant-
ers were alarmed. Crops began to drop
from 500 pounds an acre to 200, and then
to as low even as 100, and in some estates
to nothing at all. Once flourishing estates
were completely snuffed outand abandoned
—this,too,in spite of the greatest care anda
high expenditure in artificial manures.
Some planters would spend as high as $75
an acre in fertilizers and get a crop that did
not bring them a return of $25 an acre.

At this time, also, Brazil was compara-
tively untouched by the disease and was
pouring coffee by the ton into the European
markets. The Ceylon planters tried every-
thing, but’ matters got worse every day.
Every known agricultural chemist in Eu-
rope was communicated with and experts
brought from Europe at an expense of thou-
sands of dollars, but the money might just
as well have been thrown in the ditch.

There was not a fertilizer in the market,
no matter how high-priced it might be, but
was tried, and the only one that had any
effect, and that was but slight, was sulphur
blown upon the leaves. The disease was a
peculiar one. Wood would grow plentiful-
ly upon the tree and it would be covered
with leaves that to all appearance were per-
fectly healthy. Then the blossom would
come and ‘“‘set” beautifully, the branches
being well laden with berries sufficient to
yield a crop of from five to six hundred
pounds. ,

But a change would soon come over the
spirit of the planter’s dream of wealth
Before the berries were half-formed the
fatal spot on the leaves would appear, then
the leaves and the half-formed berries would
drop off, and what had been a splendidly
wooded estate became in a month or two a
lot of bare sticks with scarcely sufficient
crop on them to pay the superintendent’s
salary.

The drop in values of estates was enor-
mous. As an instance, the writer was inter-
ested in an estate for which, just after the
leaf disease appeared, and before it began to
frighten people, $250,000 cash was paid. The
estate rose in value, and about six months
after the purchase was mortgaged to a
Seotch land company for $150,000. Eighteen
months afterward the estate was valued at
$100,000, or $50,000 less than it was mort-
gaged for. It would have taken the purse
of a Fortunatus to stand such losses as that
and at the same time keep up the heavy
working expenses of the plantation, so the
consequence was that every planter with
anything. to lose lost it. Anattempt was
made to stem the flood by introducing new
varieties of coffee and what was known as
Liberian coffee was planted. The Liberian

 

variety hasamuch larger bean than the
Arabica, but it has a bitter taste. The ex-
periment was a failure, as the Liberian
trees showed the disease just as badly as
the Arabica.

When the disease was at its height in
Ceylon, the Java people and the Brazilians
denied that they were afflicted at all, and
they induced the dealers in Europe and this
country to believe them. They either did
not know the symptoms of the disease they
had, or they had seme ulterior motive in
denying it. ‘They have continued to stren-
vously deny the existence of the disease on
their plantations up toa very recent date,
and they have been supported by many of
the dealers; but their game, for whatever
purpose they played it, is played out, and it
is now a universally acknowledged fact that
the disease is everywhere, and that it shows
no signs whatever of abating its virulence,
and that, moreover, it is as bad in Brazil
and Java as it is and has been for years in
Ceylon.

A few years ago a syndicate was formed
among some New York men, prominent
among whom were Jay Gould and ex-Sena-
tor Dorsey, for the purpose of acquiring a
large tract of land in New Mexico and open-
ing it up with coffee, which will no doubt
grow there. The Writer was consulted as a
practical planter as to the feasibility of the
project, and he gave it as his opinion, and
he is of the Same opinion still, that asa
speculation it would never grow to pay. In
the first place, as long as the hemelia lasts,
and it will probably last forever, you could
never obtain healthy plants, and, in the
next case, to grow coffee profitably you
must have an abundant supply of cheap la-
bor. This was what favored Ceylon, as she
had an inexhaustible supply of cheap labor
to draw from the neighboring continent of
India, and planters could hire all the men
they required at an average of 15 cents per
man per diem and 12 cents for women.

In New Mexico all the labor would have
to be imported at great cost. Then there is
not suflicient work to keep all hands em-
ployed during the entire year. It is only in
crop time that you can work a full force.
The coffee berry may ripen up in a single
night and acres become ‘‘blood-red.” If it
is not at once picked it becomes ‘‘dead-ripe”
and drops to the ground, where it is lost.

What will be the end of all this is hard to
tell. The writer’s opinion, and as has been
said, he has had experience of the disease
from the outset, is that in gourse of time it
will eventually kill coffee entirely.

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AN OHIO TEST.

 

 

An Issue Made on Extended Maple Syrup.

The Ohio State Dairy and Food Commis-
sioner, S. H. Hurst, is preparing to test the
strength of the laws conferring the power
on him of suppressing the adulteration of
food and drink. Maple syrup has been se-
lected as possibly the best article on which
to make the test, the wholesale dealers of-
fering for sale some stuff composed of one-
fourth maple and three-fourths glucose. It is
put up in meat cans and marked Maple Syr-
up, manufactured by John Jones & Co.,
Sole Agents, West Jefferson. West Jeffer-
son is well known as one of the finest ma-
ple syrup regions in the State, and a strict
investigation by the Commissioner shows
that there is no such firmin existence in
that section as John Jones & Co. The fact
that the “‘sole agents’” name is given in
full indicates that this fraud is perpetrated
with the full knowledge of the parties sell-
ing it. The wholesaler sells gallon cans at
$7.15 per dozen, which of itself ought to in-
dicate to the purchaser that the article is
either adulterated or inferior. It issaid the
goods were produced in Chicago and ship-
ped to Ohio. The defendants will proba-
bly set up the claim that the goods were pro-
duced in Illinois, which will raise an inter-
esting inter-state question that it is not at
all improbable the United States courts will
be called to pass upon. The people of Ohio
will await the adjudication of these cases
with interest, as they will settle the ques-
tion as to whether the Cegislature can enact
laws that will protect the citizens against
impure goods produced in other States and
offered for sale here.

Study Your Customers.
From the Merchant.

Few retailers realize the importance of
studying their customers. ‘There is a great
difference in human nature, and a liberty
taken with one person might prove a woe-
ful failure if applied to another. A retailer
meets with all kinds of people; some are
talkative, others reticent, some know just
what they want, others haven’t the faintest
idea and must be told. Frequently there
will be found customers who are reticent
one day and very talkative the next, and it
is much better for a merchant and his clerks
to cater to the peculiarities of each individ-
ual, allowing him to display his nature for
the day before committing any liberty by
making conversation or suggestions. There
can be no greater mistake made by grocer or
clerk than an attempt to put other goods
tnan those actually called for into the hands.
of a buyer who knows just exactly what he
or she wants. A good many retailers have
a habit of treating the request of a customer
with the utmost indifference, so far as their
efforts toward executing it are concerned.
There are goods of certain elasses which
have a established reputation among con-
sumers; competition has brought inte the
market imitations of them, either in purport
or brand, and, of, course, at a reduced price
to the consumer, but at the same time
they are made to pay the dealer a better
profit in order to urge him to push them.
The dealer, of course, is anxious to make
all he possibly can, and in many instances
he can put the most profitable goods sue-
cessfully into a consumer’s hands, but we

Must caution him not to ‘‘eut off his nose

to spite his face” by forcing them upon in-
dividuals who are firm in their demands.

Se a + <i

Twenty-six business men of Imlay City
signed a petition asking the village trustees
to buy a steam fire engine. Then the same
twenty-six signed another petition protest-
ing against the scheme. In both eases they
had appended their names without knowing
what they did.

a a a

A country girl getting off a rallway train
was asked by a polite young man if he
“might help her to alight.” ‘‘No, I thank
you,” said she, ‘‘I don’t smoke!”

 

 

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The Michigan Tradesman,

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE
RETAIL TRADE OF THE WOLVERINE STATE,
E. A. STOWE, Baitor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid.
Advertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1887.

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOOD ADULTERATIONS.

Tuk TRADESMAN gives considerable
space this week to an article from the New
York World, setting forth the results of a
carefully conducted examination of the
quality of tea, coffee and sugar sold by 300
of the retail grocers of the metropolis. In
presenting an editorial summary of the
work, the World says:

Every analysis was made by an expert,
and the result proves that the stories of the
sale of adulterated articles in this line, at
least, are exaggerated. Out of 100 samples
of tea, 88 were not adulterated and 12 were
found to be adulterated, mostly with ‘‘lie”
tea and foreign leaves; of 100 samples of
ground coffee, 72 were pure and 28 were
mixed with chicory and peas, and of 100
samples of sugar, 98 were pure and only 2
adulterated with starch glucose. Of the
whole 300 articles, 258 were good and 42
faulty, while 270 were of full weight and 30
were light.

Of course there ought to be no adultera-
tion of these articles at all, but the small
percentage of adulterated goods speaks well
for the general honesty ¢f our retail dealers.
Besides, where adulteration exists it may
not always be the fault of the retailer, who
may, in his turn, have been cheated by the
wholesale dealer or the importer. It may
not be amiss to suggest that the eagerness
of some purchasers io secure what they sup-
pose to be ‘“‘bargains” and to buy ‘‘cheap
goods” has probably something to do with
the evils of light weight and adulteration.
The storekeeper who sells one or two cents
Jower than the fair, prevailing market
price will be pretty certain to make it up in
short weight or by a profitable process of
adulteration.

When it is remembered that New York
city is the hot-bed of adulteration and that
the samples above referred to were mostly
purchased from grocers who cater to the
trade of poor people, the results of the an-
alyses are decidedly re-assuring. The lead-
ers of the pure food movement have freely
asserted that seven-eighths of all the food
products of the country ar®é adulterated, but
such statements do not seem to be borne out
by the facts in the case.

THE TRADESMAN gladly commends the
course taken by the World in publishing
the name and location of every grocer from
whom fgoods were purchased, together with
a statement as tothe merits of the same.
Such publication cannot fail to result in
good to all parties concerned. It will ena-
ble the consumer to determine where pure
goods can be obtained and it will also ena-
ble the grocer to ascertain whether all his
competitors are dealing in pure goods. Such
publication will also tend to discourage the
handling of impure and adulterated foods
and thus work good all around. The exam-
ple set by the World can be profitably fol-
lowed by daily papers in other large cities.

 

TO TALK, OR TO ACT?

Because THE TRADESMAN fails to sup-
pert the questionable methods pursued by
the eaders of the so-called pure food move-
ment, the Chicago Grocer foolishly and
falsely assert that TuE TRADESMAN is op-
posed te pure food. Yet no longer ago than
Marce 16 the editor of THe TRADESMAN
introduced the following resolution at the
convention of the Michigan Businesss Men’s
Association:

Resolved—That this convention put itself
on record as unqualifiedly in favor of goods

of standard purity and strength, full count, *

full weight and full measure, and that we,
as business men, agree to practice what we
preach, by refusing to handle any goods not
up to the standard.

This resolution was unanimously adopt-
ed by a rising vote and it exactly repre-
sents the position of Michigan merchants—
and THE TRADESMAN as well—on the sub-
ject of pure food. Instead of imploring
Congress to pass a law prohibiting them
from handling adulterated goods, they are
taking matters in their own hands and re-
fusing to handle adulterated goods.

Which is the better method—to follow
the brass band pretensions of the pure food
movement or to nip the evil in the bud?
Which is the more honorable—the ask to be
forbidden to do wrong or to cease to do
wrong with out being forbidden? Which
is more effective—to talk or to act?

 

THE DEAD-BEAT.

‘THE TRADESMAN flatters itself that it
jaas disseminated more general and technical
information relative to the dead-beat than
any other journal ever published—perhaps
more than all the other literature on the
subject pat together. Yet the material is
not all exhausted and many amusing things
remain to be said by those who have the
patience to delve in.certdéin phases of his
character which are as yet unexplored and
uninterpreted. Messrs. Spencer, Barlow
and Snooks have all presented admirable
expositions of the subject, from certain
standpoints, and the article given this week
from the pen of Mr. Barlow, is unique in
all that the term implies. Mr. Barlow ac-
companied his article with the following
reference to his opinions as to how the dead :
beat should be treated: ,

I send another blast on the dead-beat—too
long, I fear—but as short as I could make it
and do one-half justice to my theme. It
will not de to denounce and damn them any
more. They must be treated kindly and
softly and photographed under the micro-

as other objects in natural history are
examined with the finest kind of tools.
Touch them with the faintest, daintiest
species of ridicule, lay down the rigid and

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inflexible law of nature, which first or last
crushes them under an avalanche of ‘‘bad
luck,” and this—if anything, though it looks
hopeless—will tend to cure the evil. Of
course, as a whole, it is incurable. Like the
poor, we shall always have them with us,
but many a younger one and new beginner
may be discouraged on the start by this
style of drubbing. If this doesn’t help,
nothing will.

 

It is with feelings of profound regret that
THE TRADESMAN gives place to the com-
munication from the Cheboygan Associa-
tion, published in another column—regret
that such an accusation should be made
against houses of an established character;
regret that the houses in question should
put themselves in a position to warrant
such an accusation. To be sure, there is
nothing criminal or unlawful in a manufac-
turing or jobbing house which solicits the
retail trade selling the consumer as well,
but such a course is contrary to good busi-
ness policy and should not be persisted in
by a house which expects to secure the ap-
probation and patronage of the regular
merchant. The tendency of the Associa-
tion work thus far accomplished in this
State has been to regulate this abuse, for
such it is, and in those towns where the
subject has been properly agitated the abuse
has been cured by voluntary pledges on the
part of the wholesale trade. Grand Rapids
grocers took up the,subject a couple of
Sears ago, and, as a result of such action, a
grievous abuse exists no longer at this mar-
ket. If any Grand Rapids or Detroit job-
ber makes a practice of selling the consum-
er at any other town where there is an As-
sociation, it will be short work for the mem-
bers of any such organization to impel the
house to call a halt. If the house refuses
to make a pledge to the effect that it will
not sell the consumer, it will be compara-
tively easy for the members to render that
field decidedly dry picking for the repre-

sentative of such house.
LS ST

 

Thurber, Whyland & Co.
TRADESMAN a courteous reply to certain
statements recently made in these columns,
as follows: Affirming the statement that
they are the largest wholesale grocery house
in the country; affirming the statement that
they are liquor sellers, but qualifying it by
asserting that their liquors are pure; deny-
ing that the*American Grocer is a house
organ or that they have anything to do with
its management, albeit they are stockhold-
ers in the paper; denying that they control
the Retail Grocers’ Advocate; denying that
they originated the pure food movement or
that they support the same from mercenary
motives. THE TRADESMAN gladly ac-
cords Messrs. Thurber, Whyland & Co.’s
statements the same prominence it gave the
original assertions, reserving the right to
reply to them at some future time.

 

The traveling representatives of New
York and Chicago houses assert that there
was never so great a demand for pure goods
in Michigan as at present and that the de-
mand for adulterated goods was never so
poor—all of which goes to show that the
action taken by the members of the Mich-
igan Business Men’s Association at the last
convention of that large and influential or-
ganization is pregnant with results.

 

The holding of a special meeting of the
State Board of Pharmacy, at Petoskey, at
the conclusion of the annual convention of
the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion, will be a great convenience to all ap-
plicants for registration from the Upper
Peninsula and the upper portion of the
Lower Peninsula. It will also tend to aug-
ment the attendance at the convention.

 

If the functionary who has charge of the
preparation of natural gas in the bowels of
the earth finds himself sorely taxed to sat-
isfy the recent inroads upon his supply,
THE TRADESMAN , Suggests that he can se-
cure infinite relief by establishing a pipe-
line connection with the leaders of the Pure
Food Fraud.

 

THE TRADESMAN heartily commends the
proposed organization of the bakers of
Grand Rapids, as it isa move in the direc-
tion of uniformity—in price, size, weight
and quality—which is as much in the inter-
est of the consumer and handler as the
baker.

 

An agricultural exchange has found a
name for the so-called fruit jellies sold in
the trade, which have for their basis animal
gelatine, with just enough of fruit juices to
flavor them. It calls them ‘‘horticultural
oleomargarine.”

 

Mutual fire insurance seems to be growing
in favor. Two important additions haye
‘been made to the list of mutual companies
during the past week, a manufacturers’ mu-
tual at Detroit and a wholesale druggists’
mutual at Philadelphia.

 

There is practical philanthrepy in the
offer of Pingree & Smith, of Detroit, to
distribute $525 in cash prizes annually
among their employes who save and put in
bank the most money out of their earnings.

 

If the wholesale druggists can see econo-
my and dividends in a mutual fire insurance
company, why shdéuldn’t the retail drug
trade take a dose of the same medicine?

 

An Anti-Fat.

A Parisian doctor prescribed for a lady
who had objections against growing stout:
‘Take exercise, my dear lady. Consider
the trees of the field; they never take ex-
ercise, and as a consequence they go on

 

growing bigger and bigger every year.”

 

send THE’

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.
D. M. Amberg succeeds Hart & Amberg
in the wholesale liquor business.

Peterson Bros., grocers on Stocking street,
have opened a meat market in connection.

The addition to Rindge, Bertsch & Co.’s
boot and shoe factory has reached the third
story.

W. D. Hembling has purchased the gro-
cery stock of Kruse Bros., at 343° West
Bridge street.

W. F. Downey has engaged in the gro-
cery business at Mears. Olney, Shields &
Co. furnished the stock.

McBirney & Crawford have been engaged
in the grocery business at Cadillac. The
stock was purchased here.

Dr. E. J. Bean, who has been engaged in
the drug and grocery business on Wealthy
avenue for about a ‘year past, has removed
both stocks to Otia.

Amos S. Musselman & Co. have leased
the double store in the Blodgett block, 25
and 27 South Ionia street, and will remove
their wholesale grocery bnsiness to that lo-
cation about August 1.

Henry J. Hartman has been compelled, by
the increase in his business, to erect an ad-
dition to his foundry on the north, 20x60
fect in dimensions, and a separate building
in the rear, 20x30 feet in dimensions.

 

 

 

C. E. Clapp, for six years in trade at
Watson and for six years more’ in trade at
Martin, has engaged in the grocery business
at Archie, on the Grand Traverse Penin-
sula. Arthur Meigs & Co. furnished the
stock.

The Grand Rapids Portable House Co. ship-
ped another carload of the Densmore patent
cottages to Salt Lake City last Thursday.
The same day also witnessed the departure
of cottages for Minnesota, British Honduras
and New York city.

The Grand Rapids Veneer and Panel
Works are building a three-story addition
to their factory, 35x100 feet in dimensions,
which will enable them to increase their
capacity about 25 per cent. They are com-
pelled to run extra hours to keep pace with
orders.

 

 

C. A. Pearson, who was engaged in the
grocery business at Fremont for eight years,
but sold out two years ago to engage in the
meat business, has sold the latter to J. W.
Johnson and re-engaged in the grocery bus-
iness, purchasing his stock of Amos §.
Musselman & Co.

 

AROUND THE STATE.

Holton—C. Van Horn has sold his gro-
cery stock.

Gagetown—C. S. Graves succeeds R. Bur-
don in general trade.

Lowell—J. S. Daniels has sold his meat
business to J. Murphy.

Negaunee—Jas. R. Lloyd succeeds Lloyd
Bros. in the meat business.

Cheboygan—Kessler Bros. succeed J oseph
Kessler in the grocery business.

Bonanza—Cahoon & Brown succeed F,
W. Clark & Co. in general trade.

- Garson City—J. H. Rose, late of Lyons,
has opened a harness shop here.

Fremont—J. W. Johnson has purchased
the meat business of C. A. Pearson.

Romulus—Wm. H. Kinney succeeds M.
O. Chrysler in the restaurant business.

Detroit—Berns & Deneke succeed J. W.
Berns & Co. in the dry goods business.

Sparta—L. E. Paige has sold out his drug
stock to C. M. Shaw, late of Grand Rapids.

Colon—Dickinson & Hollingshead suc-
ceed Dickinson & Wilcox in general trade.

Summit City—Jas. Broderick has moved
his general stock to this place from Kings-
ley.

Tcisult kk P. Huckestein succeeds
Lockman & Huckestein in the dry goods
business. .«

Muskegon—D. M. Stever has sold his
jewelry stock to Geo. B. Shadbolt, late of
LaCrosse, Wis, f

Nottawa—The balance of the J. W.
Schermerhorn stock has been purchased by
F. L. Burdick, of Mendon.

|. Wayland—W. H. Bartholomew has sold

his grocery stock to W. L. Heazlit, but will
continue in the crockery, tinware and no-
tion business.

» Jackson—Welling & Buckhart write THE
TRADESMAN that they have purchased W.
R. Dodge & Co.’s sporting goods stocx, as
well as their saloon.

Marshall—J. F. McCuster,of Boston, con-
templates engaging in the commission busi-
ness, as a branch of the Boston establish-
ment of Morse & Smith.

Cadillae—Sampson & Drury are erecting
a two-story brick building, 2944 x 148 feet
in dimensions, which they will occupy with
their. hardware business.

Traverse City—C. C. Maes has purchased
Frank Smith’s interest in the confectionery
business of McCoy & Smith. The new firm
will be known as McCoy & Maes.

Grayling—A number of business men
have organized a corporation and engaged
in the cattle ranch business. The concern
starts out with 100 sets of horns and hoofs.

 

STRAY FACTS.

Addison—Geo. A. Smith has opened a
bank.

Newberry—Lawrence McLaughtfin, grocer
and liquor dealer, has been closed on chattel
mortgage.

Albion—L. L. Putnam has bought the
cold storage warehouse of J. J. Dayton.
He formerly owned the property.

Big Rapids—Adelbert Brady, who was

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charged with embezzlement by the Michigan
Shingle Co., was acquitted in the Circuit
Court Friday.

Detroit—The Farmers’ Field and Garden
Seed Co. has filed incorporation papers.
The capital stock is $20,000 one-tenth of
which is paid in. :

Detroit—Harris & Kittle have merged
their business into a stock company under
the style of the Harris Photo Supply Co.
The paid-in capital is $18,000.

Manistee—The Manistee Oil Co. has been
organized with a subscribed capital of $60,-
000, for the purpose of sinking three oil
wells. John Canfield is President of the
corporation.

Cadillac—John Turner, the furniture
dealer and undertaker, has made money
enough in furnishing outfits for the newly
married and the dead to build a new store.
He wi!1 have it finished by fall.

St. Johns—C. H. McFarlan, the hardware
dealer, has made an assignment to J. H.
Fedawa. His liabilities will reach nearly
$3,000, but it is thought he will be good for
it, dollar for dollar.

Detroit—The Detroit Manufacturers’ Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Co. has filed articles
with the county clerk. The stockholders
are J. W. French, G. C. Wetherbee, N. G.
Williams, Peter Voorhees, W. M. Dwight,
J. E. Potts, D. D. Thorp, D. A. Ross, H.
H. Greene, W. C. McClure and F. Thoman.

Muskegon—H. B. Miller has foreclosed
his mortgage on the E. J. Bulkley confect-
tionery stock. The mortgage was given to
secure $800, but the stock on hand at the
time of foreclosure amounted to less than
$400. Several other creditors are badly

left.
Sault Ste. Marie—The Sault Ste. Marie

National Bank will be doing business by
July 1, ifa building can be found to house the
concern. It will have $100,000 capital and
twice that amount has been offered. A lot
has already been purchased upon which a
modern bank building will be erected before
snow flies.

Detroit—Pingree & Smith have offertd
prizes to those of their employees who will
save the most money. ‘To each person who
will enter the contest they will give a bank
book with $1 to his credit. The prizes will
aggregate $525 annually, and are to be di-
vided between married and unmarried men
and girls.

.Muskegon—Mrs. Mary Lander closed her
husband’s grocery store last Friday under
a chattel mortgage for $364 and put a depu-
ty sheriff in charge. Later, however, J. D.
Vanderwerp served a writ of replevin on
Sheriff Nelson at the instance of W. H.
Beach, of Holland, and took possession of
130 bushels of potatoes and a large plat-
form scale, placing an officer in charge.

Muskegon—A_ stranger calling himself
Johnson visited Muskegon last Friday, and
arranged to buy O. Lambert’s grocery store,
employing Mr. Lambert to run the place
until a younger Johnson should put in an
appearance. The purchaser didn’t pay over
any mouey, but Lambert gave him the run
of the place and he is surprised now to
think that Johnson robbed the safe and dis-
appeared.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Cascade—J. W. Eardley has rebuilt his
hay rack and roller factory, recently de-
stroyed by fire.

Wayland—kE. K. Lent is endeayoring to
secure the location of an evaporator and
eanning factory.

Lake Linden—The Calumet & Hecla
Smelting Co.’s new. plgnt started up June 3
and is furnishing employment to about 200
men. It is probable that the establishment
of. this new plant by the Calumet & Hecla
will cause the closing down of the smelting
works at Detroit.

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The Gripsack Brigade.

W. G. Hawkins goes to Detroit Wednes-
day to interview his employers, the Detroit
Soap Co.

W. H. Maxwell, representing the R. W.
Bell Manufacturing Co., of Buffalo, °will
work in this territory for some time to

come.
F. W. Parsons, Michigan representative

for the Wilson & McCallay Tobacco Co.,
of Middletown, Ohio, left Monday for De-
troit, where he will spend a week among
the jobbing trade.

J. A. Crookston started East Monday,
with the intention of spending a month vis-
iting friends in various parts of New York.
He is accompanied by his wife. They will
join their daughters at Saratoga.

Harry Gilham, ‘formerly Western Michi-
gan representative for the Liggett & Myers
Tobacco Co., of St. Louis, is now located
at Krebs, Indian Ter., buying and slaugh*
tering fresh meat for the mines near that
place.

Fremont Indicator: Chas. E. Morgan,
while visiting his home here last week,
took occasion to try his skill on pickerel
fishing and succeeded in capturing a consid-
erable number of the ‘*king of the inland
waters,” at Fremont lake.

Emil Fecht, Michigan traveling manager
for John J. Bagley & Co., of Detroit, gave
the members otf the Retail Grocers’ Associa-
tion a very interesting ‘‘chalk talk” last
Tuesday evening. Mr. Fecht’s drawings
are done with great rapidity and serve to il-
lustrate various phrases of human nature
very acceptably.

The era of combination which seems to
prevail in numerous industries is noted by
the Philadelphia North American, which
remarks: ‘*We believe the result of this
movement will be beneficial all round.
Thinking men have long since learned
to doubt the truth of the old maxim that
competition is the life of trade, and to per-
ceive that cheapness is very far from being
an unmixed blessing. Good prices for pro-
ducts and good wages to workers is our idea
of prosperity.”

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for one cent a word or two cents a word
forthree insertions. No advertisement taken
for less than 25 cents. Advance payment.

Advertisements directing that answers be
sent in care of this office must be accompanied
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage,

 

 

 

OE SALE—Stock of general merchandise
in good condition and locality, also store.

Good reason for selling. 'J. C. Stitt, Dollarville,

Mich. 196*

OR SALE—Fine residence property on
Mount Vernonstreet, west sid. with bath
room, closets and all modern conveniences,
for sale for $5,000 cash, or will trade for stock
of general merchandise or goods in any partic-
ular line. Address N. A. Fletcher, Houseman
Building, Grand Rapids. a 195tf

ok SALE—Stock of groceries situated in a
brisk railway town, good farming com-

munity. Stock will inventory about $800. Ad-
197*

dress 8. L., care The Tradesman.

OR SALE—An old established confection-

oF and fancy goods stock. For informa-

tion call or address at premises, 43 West Leon-
ard street, city. 197*

OR SALE—Hardaware stock in the thriving
town ot Spring Lake, situated on D.,G.
H.& M. railway and two miles from Grand
Haven. Stock will inventory about $6,000.
Call on or address ©, A. Pearson, Spring Lake,
Mich. 196*

OR SALE—The best drugstore in the thriv-
ing city of Muskegon. Terms easy. C. L.
Brundage, Muskegon, Mich. 193tf

 

 

 

 

 

 

OR SALE—Drug and grocery stock: sales,
J $8,000 a year; invoice, $3,000. Western
fever only reason for wishing tosell. Will
givea bargain to right man. Address Pain-
killer, care of The Tradesman, Grand Rapids,
Mich. 197*

no SALE—Hardware stock in Coopersville,
a growing town onthe D., G. H. & M. rail-
way. Stock will inventory $5,
chance for someone.
Coopersville, Mich.

 

. A good
Address W* R. Boynton,
196*

 

OR SALE—Two store counters, three sets
scales, six tea cans, six spice cans, one
small coffee mill and two show-cases, also one
delivery wagon. Allof the foregoing will be
sold cheap for cash. M. J. Lewis, 72 Grand-
ville avenue, Grand Rapids. 192tf

ye SALE—Best bargain ever offered for
general stock in growing town in good
farming community in Northern Michigan.
Stock willinventory about $6,000. Sales last
year were $60,000. Address*'The Tradesman,’’
Grand Rapids. Titt

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OR SALE—Ice box, 6 feet and 2 inches high,
2 feetand 1l inches deep and 5 feet and 2
inches wide. The box is zine lined and nearly
new. J.C. Shaw, 79 Canal street, Grand Rap-
ids. 189tf
GENTS WANTED-—Solicitors for the “Im-
perial;”’ cheapest reliable life insurance
inthe world. Menof energy and ability can
secure good territory and contracts. O. H.
Hovey, general agent, 32 Houseman block,
Grand Rapids. 195 3t

ARTNEK WANTED—A good, ambitious
man, With six thousand dollars can buy a

 

 

 

 

one-third interest in a good-paying, well estab-

lished mercantile business. Callon or address
E. A. Stowe, Michigan Tradesman, Grand Rap-
ids. 193tt

MPORTANT TO EVERY STORE-KEEPER—
Every retail dealer who desires to run his
business on an economical basis should send
for a sample of the Sutliff Coupon System, the
most complete arrangement of the kind that
will abolish your pass-books. The best and
most progressive merchants throughout the
United States are now using this system with
the very best results. With this system you
have no writing, no bookkeeping, no pass-
books. Every saleis a cash sale and hundreds
of dollars are saved annually in forgotten
charges alone. Having two kinds, samples of
both will be sent on application. John H. Sut-
liff, Albany, N. Y. 197*

ARTNER WANTED—A good, ambitious
man, with six thousand dollars, can buy a
one-third interest in a good-paying,well-estab-
lished mercantile business. Call on or address
- A. Stowe, Michigan Tradesman, ——a
ds. 96*

ANTED—A man having an established

trade among lumbermen to add a spec-

ial line and sell on commission. To the right

man a splendid chance will be given to make

money without extraexpense. Address “B,”’
care Michigan Tradesman. 178tf

 

 

 

 

 

 

EATON & LYON,

Importers,
Jobbers and
Retailers of

BOOKS,
Stationery & Sundries

20 and 22 fonroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

SEEDS

For the Field and Garden.
The Grand Rapids Seed Store,

71 Canal Street,

Offers for Sale all Kinds of Garden
Seeds in Bulk.
Medium Clover,
Mammoth Clover,
Alsike Clover,
Alfalfa Clover,
White Dutch Clover,
Timothy,

 

Red Top,
Blue Grass,
Orchard Grass,
Hungarian Grass,
Common Millet,
German Millet,
Flax Seed.

 

Proprietors of

Star Roller Mills.

Manufacturers of

C.6.A.VOIGT & C0.

'“Our Patent,”

FIREWORKS |

I have been designated by
the Standard Fireworks Co.,|
of New York, as Sole Agent
for this territory, and carry a’

nice line of these goods. Send

for catalogue and price list
before buying.

Alfred J. Brown,

GRAND RAPIDS. |.

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GROCERS’ REFRIGERATORS,

Manufactured by

O. M. WHITMAN & CO.,

69 Bristol Street. -

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BOSTON, MASS, |

| And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large

 

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AGENTS—A. Flesch, 118 Randolph St., Chicago, Ill.
William M. Morgan, 215 Duane St.,N. Emil Wienert,
Aibany, N. Y. Gardiner Bros., St. Augustine, Fla.

SEEDS

 

FOR EVERYBODY.

For the Field or Garden.

If you want to buy
Clover,
Timothy,
Hungarian,
Millet,
Orchard Grass,
Kentucky Biue,
Red Top,
Seed Oats,
Rye,
Barley,
Peas,
Onion,
Ruta Baga
Mangle
q Wurzel,

Anything in the Ling of SEEDS,

Write or send to the

Seed Store,

71 CANAL ST,,

W. T, LAMOREAUX,

 

ASK YOUR JOBBER

FOR

Independent Oil Co,

KEROSENE

If your Jobber does not han-
dle INDEPENDENT OIL, send
your orders direct to the office
of the Company, 156 South
Division St., Grand Rapids.

MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

 

The most practica’,
han t Roaster in the
world. Thousands in
use—giving satisfac-
tion. They are simple
durable and econom-
ical. No grocer
should be without
one. Roasts coffee
and pea-nuts to per-
tection.

Send for circulars.

Robt. 5. West,

150 Long St.,
Cleveland, Ohio.

   

 

ADDRESS

GRAHAM ROYS, - Grand Rapids, Mich,

FRESH FISH
Bought and Sold by
FRANK J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.
we Oysters the Year Around _34

 

fi

| stock kept on hand. Pull
| and become convinced of their superiority.

“Star,”
“Calla Lily,’
“Golden Sheaf,”
“Our Fancy.”

Rye Flour, Granulated Meal,
Bolted Meal, Bran Mid-
dlings and Screenings.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

HESTER & FOX,

Manufacturers’ Agts. for

Saw and Grist Mill

M ACHINER

 

 

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds
of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws,
Beltinz and Oils.

  
 

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Send for sample Pulley

WRITE FOR PRICES.

130 Oakes St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

A. J. BOWNE, President.
GEO. C. Prerce, Vice President.
| H. P. Baker, Cashier.

CAPITAL, - $300,000.

Transacts a general banking business.

Make a Specialty of Collections, Accounts
of Country Merchants Solicited.

GHARLES A. COYE,

Successor to

A. Coye & Son,

DEALER IN

AWNINGS 2 TENTS

Horse and Wagon Covers,
Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,
Wide Ducks, etc.

Flags & Banners made to order.
GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

3 CANAL ST., a

| CHURCH'S

Bug Finish!

 

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READY FOR USE DRY.

NO MIXING REQUIRED.
It sticks to the vines and Finishes the whole
| erop of Potato Bugs with one applicaiion; also
| killsany Curculio, and the Cotton and Tobacco
| Worms.

This is the only safe way to use a Strong
| Poison; none of the Poison isin a elear state,
| but thoroughly combined by patent process
and machinery, with material to help the very
tine powder to stick to the vines and entice
the bugs to eat it, and it is also a fertilizer.

ONE POUND will go as far as TEN POUNDS
of plaster and Paris Green as mixed by the
farmers. Itis therefore cheaper, and saves
the trouble and danger of mixing and using
the green, which, needless to say, is danger-
ous to handle.

Bug Finish was used the past season on the
State Agricultural College Farm at Lansing,
Michigan, and, in answer to inquiries, the
managers write: “The Bug finish gave good
satisfaction on garden and farm.’”” Many un-
solicitated letters have been received prais-
ing Bug Finish.

Barlow & Star, hardware dealers at Coldwa-
ter, Mich., write as follows under date oJ May
14: “We sold 3,100 pounds of “Bug Finish” last
year. Itis rightly named “Bug Finish,” as it
finishes the entire crop of bugs with one appli-
catiod. We shall not be satisfied unless we sell
three tons this year, as there is already a
strong demand forit. Please send us ten bar-
rels (3,000 pounds) at once.”

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Guaranteed as represented. Cheaper than
any other Mixture used for the purpose.

MANUFACURED BY

Anti-Kalsomine Co., Garnd Rapids.
HEMLOCK BARK!

WANTED.

 

The undersigned will pay the high-
est market price for HEMLOCK
BARK loaded on board cars at any
side track on the G. R. & I. or C. & W.
M. Railroads. Correspondence solicit-

ed.
N. B. CLARK,
Grand Rapids

 

101 Ottawa St.,

 

 

 

 

Association Notes.

The Lansing B. M. A. promises to be one
of the largest and strongest erganizations in
the State. .

Fourth of July celebrations are-to be held
under the auspices of the B. M. A. in many
cities and towns this year.

The Hersey B. M. A. has joined the
State body since the last report, which
raises the auxiliary membership to 2,057.

The Frankfort Business Men’s Associa-
tion is considering better fire protection,
earlier closing hours, closer colleetions, and
other matters of importance.

Fred. Cutler, Jr., Secretary of the Ionia
Business Men’s Exchange, was married re-
cently to Miss Allie M. Ryerson, an estima-
ble young lady of that place.

Howard Record: A Business Men’s As-
sociation has been organized at Edmore.
The time is coming when every town of
importance in the State will have such an
Association and the chronic dead-beat must
go.

Wayland Globe: At the last regular
meeting of the Wayland Business Men’s
Association, the new firm of’ Humphrey &
Spaulding were admitted as members, and
paid the regular initiation fee into the treas-
ury. As the Association was rushed with
business, the ‘‘goat” was not introduced,
although the new members seemed to be
ready to tackle the brute.

Howard Record: The Business Men’s
Association is taking steps toward the open-
ing up and improving various roads leading
to Howard City from surrounding town-
ships. This is a matter which will take
more or less cash out of the pockets of
members, but will tend to make Howard
City a trade center, and they should have
the aid and encouragement of all who have
the best interests of the town at heart.

Grand Traverse Herald: M. E. Haskell,
C. E. Watson, of Grand Rapids, represent-
ing S. A. Maxwell & Co., of Chicago, and
Joe. F. O. Reed, representing H. Leonard
& Sons, of Grand Rapids, were at the Wil-
liamsburg pond, Tuesday, and although
they didn’t make a big record in numbers,
the trout they did get were very fine. Mr.
Haskell caught one that weighed two pounds
and five that weighed four pounds. Mr. Wat-
son’s catch run one-half to three-quarters of
a pound each, while Mr. Reed crowded him
close.

Traverse City Herald: An important
meeting of the Business Men’s Association
was held Tuesday evening. Several new
members were admitted and a committee
on manufacturing interests was appointed,
consisting of J. W. Hilton, H. D. Camp-
bell, C. R. Paige, C. A. Hammond and
Thos. T. Bates. ©. E. Lockwood, who has
been Secretary and Actuary of the Associa-
tion from its organization, found it neces-
sary to resign his position, owing to busi-
ness arrangements which would interfere,
and L. Roberts was efected to fill the va-
caney thus caused.

Allegan Journal: The B. M. A. held a
special meeting Tuesday evening and lis-
tened to reports from several committees.
The committee on by-laws submitted their
report and it was laid over until the regular
meeting next Tuesday evening, as was also
the report from the railroad committee.
The committee on preparing plans fora
Fourth of July celebration reported that
they had canvassed the subject among the
business men and found so many opposed
to having any celebration and so few willing
to contribute to the necessary expense, that
they deemed it best to give up all idea of
carrying out the project. Their report was
accepted and the committee discharged.

Owosso Times: At a regular monthly
meeting of the Owosso Business Men’s As-
sociation on June 3, with a fair attendance
of the members present, considerable busi-
ness of importance was transacted. The
Association seems to be in a most flourish-
ing condition and is gradually increasing in
membership. A committee has been ap-
pointed to endeavor to secure a knitting
factory to locate in this city, employing
about 100 females. The results of the col-
lection department are encouraging from all
reports, and the credit system is being
gradually curtailed through it. At the next
regular meeting, July 1, the officers for the
ensuing six months are to be elected, and
it has been decided to have a grand banquet
and entertainment in the evening, with
speeches, toasts, music, etc., and no pains
will be spared to make it highly pleasing,
pleasant and instructive to all participants.

The Retail Shoe Dealers’ Nationa] Asso-
ciation is chartering local branches on the
same general plan as the Michigan Busi-
ness Men’s Association is chartering local
bodies in this State. At a recent meeting
of the Chicago boot and shoe dealers, held
for the purpose of effecting an organization,
Mr. Arnold, a veteran advocate of associa-
tion work, delivered an address, in the
course of which he said: ‘The first ques-
tion asked by every dealer is, ‘Why should
there be an association? What good will
it do me?’ Organizations are formed by
men in almost every vocation in life for
mutual benefit and protection, from hod
carriers to railroad officials. If each one
had hesitated and waited to see the outcome
before associating himself with the organi-
zation to which he might be eligible, such
organization would never have had an ex-
istence. The good that may come from it
none can tell. Itis impossible to see the
end from the beginning. In this, as in
many other undertakings, to procrastinate
is to fail. To expect to see clearly and
predict the future of association requires
the tongue of a prophet and the foresight of
a God. Who foresaw or anticipated the
growth and influence of the Knights of

Labor? Nor are we to be discouraged, or
our zeal dampened by lack of numbers. To
use an old illustration: Jesus Christ had
but twelve disciples, and one of them was
a devil. Now the Christian church covers
300,000,000, and devils in perhaps a greater
proportion than one to twelve.”

_—_ Oe
Resignation of Secretary Lockwood, at
Traverse City.

At the last meeting of the Traverse City
Business Men’s Association, Secretary Lock-
wood handed in his resignaiton as follows,
accompaning the same with a financial re-
port, which is also given:

It is with regret that I feel it my duty to
resign my office as Secretary of this Asso-
ciation—not because I am giving up the
vast amount of salary connected with the
office, but from the very pleasant inter-
course which it brings to me in such connec-
tion. I feel as if I had become intimately
acquainted with members of this Associa-
tion, which, perhaps, I would not have had
but for this office, which 1 have held for the
past two years and a half.

I have tried to do my duty as Secretory to
the best of my ability and hope you will
overlook all mistakes that I have made and
trust that you will elect a successor who
will be better qualified to fill the office. I
thank you all kindly for doing me the
honor thus long, and find now that my busi-
ness will be such that it will be impossible
to devote the time necessary to do the office
justice and, therefore, would request you to
accept this as my resignation, to take
etfect at once.

The office of Actuary is also vacant, ac-
cording to Article 16 of our By-Laws,
which limits the term of office to six
months. Yours very truly.

C. E. Lockwoop.

 

This Association started in January, 1885,
with thirty charter members. It has now
ninty-three active members and nine honor-
ary members. Eight active members have
withdrawn. I have collected fees and dues
as follows:

101 Active members @ $2 fees...........- $202.00
10 Honorary members @$1............- 10.00
Juarterly dues from active members 325.00
Net receipts of picnje given in 1886.._ 88.00

Total receipts to date................. $625.00
There are a few members in arrears for
dues, but probably only because I have not
been to collect often enough of them.
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Kalamazoo Pharmaceutical Association,
KALAMAZOO, June 11, 1887.
KE. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Srr—Your letter of June 10, ad-
dressed to Geo. McDonald, requesting
a full report of the meeting held here yes-
terday afternoon, was handed to me to-day,
to be replied to. I cannot, at present, give
you as full a report as I would like to, but
will give you the main features of ‘the meet-
ing.
All of the druggists of Kalamazoo and a
number from other places in the county
met, pursuant to agreement. The meeting
was called to order by Geo. McDonald, who
has taken the iniative in the matter, and at
his request D. O. Roberts, the oldest drug-
gist in the city, was made chairman of the
meeting. It was resolved to proceed to or-
ganize immediately under the name of the
Kalamazoo Pharmaceutical Association.
Election of officers resulted as follows:

President —D. O. Roberts, Kalamazoo.

Vice-President—Robt. Baker, Vicksburg.

Secretary — D. McDonald, Kalama-
z00.

Treasurer—H. G. Colman, Kalamazoo.

The regular meetings of the Association
will be held the first Thursdgy of each
month, at 2 p. m.

The objects of the Association are to pro-
mote professional interests and the aé-
vancement of pharmaceutical knowledge.

Yours, Gro. McDONALD, Sec’y.
—_—— Oo
Dimondale to Organize on Thursday Even-
ing.

DIMONDALE, June 10, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dear Stn—We the undersigned business
men of Dimondale and vicinity, being desir-
ous of establishing an auxiliary of the Mich-
igan Business Men’s Association, under the
name of the Dimondale Business Men’s As-
sociation, hereby request you to visit us at
your earliest convenience and assist in the
formation of such an Association.

T. M. Sloan, N. H. Widgar, John M.
Jarboe, John Weber, B. 8. Spencer, I. D.
North, E. Underhill, Hough & Brigham,
Alex. Oliver, A. H. Cameron, F. G. Pray,
E. W. Hunt, H. A. French, J. W. ,Fish,
Fred. A. Merritt, Fred. Bfiester, Alfred E.
— D. Osborn, H. Cogswell, A. C. Ba-

er.

In response to the above call, the editor
of THe TRADESMAN has written the busi-
ness men of Dimondale that he will be with
them on Thursday evening, June 16, for the
purpose of assisting in the formation of an

essociation.
—_———.-?__———-
Dentist Wanted.

J. R. Harrison, President of the Sparta
Business Men’s Association, writes as fol-
lows:

We have a good opening here for a den-
tist. ‘There are good rooms in the Ander-
son block, lately vacated by a dentist whose
failing health compelled . him to change cli-
mate. If you know of a good dentist who
wishes to locate in acountry town, send
him along.

_ OOo
Hides, Tallow and Wool.

Hides are quiet. Tallow is dull and low.
Wool is strong East but unduly excited
West, and buyers are beginning to realize
that they have been paying too high prices
and are weakening accordingly.

2». >
Syrup of Rhubarb.

Geo. Miller, of Chicago, in a communica-
tion to the Western Druggist, recommends
the following formula as an improyement
on the official process:

Fluid extract of rhubarb..............0. 4 fl. ozs.
Carbonate of potassium.................. 90 grs.
Cinnamon water..........-0...seseeeeee 12 fi. ozs.
UIE go sisinnns soa panes etnpeess so tedsdagnis 28 OZ8.
Cinnamon Water.........6..ee0 q. 8. ad 32 fl. ozs.

Dissolve the carbonate of potassium in
the cinnamon water, add the sugar, and
heat until the boiling point is reached,
when the sugar will be dissolved; remove
from fire and add the fluid extract. Strain
the syrup while hot, and lastly add suffi-
cient cinnamon water to make the product
measure 2 pints.

This syrup is of a rich red-brown color,
perfectly clear, of a highly aromatic odor,
taste, and of marked efficiency. It will
keep unaltered for an indefinite period.
The cinnamon water used is made from the
Ceylon oil. ‘

 

The Arsenic Humbug.
From the American Analyst,

One of the latest feminine follies is the
habit of using preparations containing ar-
senic, for the purpose of improving thecom-
plexion. We recently called attention to
the fact, that the Board of Health was in-
vestigating the character of one of these
preparations, known as Arsenic Wafers,
the alleged merits of which are being bla-
zoned forth in the advertising columns of
the daily press in glowing phrases, among
which is contained the assertion, that the
Waters in question have been rendered, by
the skill of the inventor, absolutely non-
poisonous. Now arsenic is a poison as
everybody knows. Its pretended action on
the skin consists in its simply restoring the
latter to its normal character in certain
cases, when administered medicinally, or in
poisonously imparting to it a bloated condi-
tion which is fondly desired by its users to
pass for becoming plumpness. Chemical
analysis, however, has proven that the
“Wafers” are not poisonous, inasmuch as
they contain such an inappreciable quantity
of arsenic as to in many cases ‘elude the
most delicate tests. They can be partaken
of in safety, therefore, as they have as lit-
tle power to injure the system as they have
to act in any manner upon the complexion.

>>>
Purely Personal.

Albert Brouwer succeeds Clay Waite as
clerk for L. D. Putnam & Co.

J. H. Woodward, the Frankfort clothier,
was in town Saturday on his way home from
Chicago.

D. D. Cook,of the show case firm of Cook
& Prinz, has. returned from a two weeks’
business trip in the East.

Jno. E. Wheeler, formerly stenogropher
for Mosley Bros., has taken a similar posi-
tion with Foster, Stevens & Co.

E. Densmore spent several days at St.
Ignace last week, in the interest of the
Grand Rapids Portable House Co.

Chas. E. Foote, of the firm of Foote &
Jenks, the Jackson chemists, was married
recently to Miss Florence Brown, a charm-
ing Jackson lady.

Lon. McConnell, son of Charley McCon-
nell, book-keeper for Bulkley, Lemon &
Hoops, saved a ten-year-old boy from
drowning at Reed’s Lake last Saturday.

T, H. Hinchman, of Detroit, has been
elected a member of the Executive Commit-
tee of the Druggists’ Mutual Fire Insurance
Co., recently organized at Philadelphia.

J. H. Thaw, formerly engaged in the brok-
erage business on his own account, but for
the past two years with Thos. Freeman, has
retired from commercial life to resume rural
pursuits on the farm of a relative in Wyan-
dotte county, Ohio. :

Misfortunes never come singly. On
Thursday night Ed. Telfer lost a valuable
horse and his delivery wagon by the Marsh
livery barn fire and on Saturday evening a
Caledonia farmer ran into his family car-
riage on the road to Reed’s Lake, badly de-
molishing the vehicle.

Geo. G. Steketee has returned from Rich-
mond, Ind., whether he went as the dele-
gate from the Michigan State Pharmaceu-
tical Association to the Indiana Pharmaceu-
tical Association. He says that there were
only about forty members in attendance the
convention—that only thirty-three votes
were cast forthe election of a president. The
total membership of the Association is 348.
There was but one exhibit made at the con-

vention.

VISITING BUYERS.
The following retail dealers have visited
the market during the past week and placed
orders withthe various houses:

Chris. Pfeifie, Park City.
Chas. Morton, Sand Lake.
H. Cummings, Muskegon.

- Herbert Montague, Mercantile Co., Traverse

sity.

Frank W. Bunker, Casnovia. +

J. H. Woodward, J. H. Woodward & Co..

Frankfort.

Seward McNitt & Co., Byron Center.

A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.

G.P. Stark, Cascade.

H. Matthews & Co., Chase.

J. B. Watson, Coopersville.

Adam Newell, Burnip’s Corners.

H. Barry, Ravenna.

Geo. Carrington, Trent.

Uilke DeVries, Jamestown.

Dr. E. J. Bean, Otia.

L. Cook, Bauer.

M. Heyboer & Bro., Drenthe.

Walter H. Struik. Forest Grove.

H. Baker & Son, Drenthe.

A. Steketee, Holland.

Brautigan Bros., Dorr.

R. Weertman, Holland.

G. T. Clapp, Glenn.

G. W. Robinson, Edgerton.

F. W. Bunker, Casnovia. «

Smith & Bristol, Ada.

H. A. Crawford, Cadillac.

Jas. Crawford, Kalkaska.

Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.

J.M. Reid, Grattan.

O. House, Chauncey.

Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon.

Norman Harris, Big Springs.

W.S. Toot ,Tallmadge.

G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.

J. Barnes, Austerlitz.

G. TenHoor, Forest Grove.

Jay Marlatt, Berlin.

os Senge. ae

D. D. Harris, Shelbyville.

C. E. Petrie, Pierson.

J. B. Dwinell, West Carlyle.

John Gianstra, Lamont.

Gus. Beeman, Bauer.

A.D. Martin, Otia.

Capt. Wm. Rosie, Bass River.

R. 8. Shiffert, Bridgeton.

W. W. Forrester, Pierson.

Cole & Chapel, Ada.

W. 8S. Clark, W. 8. Clark & Co., Holton.

O. F, Conklin & Co., Conklin.

Dell Wright, Berlin.

L. B. Chapel, Ada.

A. Purchase, So. Boardman.

Cornell & Griswold, Griswold.

A.C. Barkley, Crosby.

P. Kinney, Morley.

F. Boonstra, Drenthe.

8. Cooper, Jamestown.

Spooner & Moore, Cedar Springs.
elzy Bros., Lamont.

8. Stark, Allendale. :

A. Wagenaar, New Holland.

T. J. Sheridan & Co., White Cloud.

R. G. Smith, Wayland.

Cc. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.

M. Gezon, Jenisonville.

- Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
DenHerder & Tanis, Vriesland.
H. VanNoord, Jamestown.

P. 'T. Cook, Reynolds. :
D. Holmes, West Mich, Lumber Co., Woodville
Jno. Damstra, Gitchell.

H. aon Hastings.

Chas. Morton, Sand Lake.

H. Thompson, Canada Corners.

W. F. Downey, Mears.

N. Bouma, Fisher.

R. T. Parish, Grandville.

C. M. Woodard, Kalamo.

C. H. Joldersma, Jamestown.

J.C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.

H. Ade, Conklin.

8. Sheldon,

 

J. F. Mann, Lisbon.

 

“Encouraging Report from Lansing.
LANSING, June 8, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dear Srr—Our Association is growing
and the enthusiasm isinereasing. Overone
hundred business men have become mem-
bers, and this number will be largely in-
creased at our meeting next Wednesday
night. The subject of early closing has been
the prominent one thus far considered, and,
at the present time, the indications point
strongly to the adoption of 6 o’clock as the
hour which will be selected, both for sum-
mer and winter closing.

Yours, FRANK WELLS, Pres.

 

A later note from Mr. Wells contains the
following pleasing intelligence: ‘‘Our As-
sociation continues to flourish and _ the
movement to close all places of business
has been decided upon at 6 p. m., with the
greatest enthusiasm. Only three or four
dealers stand out.”

 

M. A. Densmore, general dealer, Maple City:
“T like your paper very much.”

TIME TABLES.

Detroit, Mackinaw & Marquette.
Going West. Going East.

 

 

 

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4:35 pm..Negaunee..... 1:25 pm

4:45 p m..Ishpeming....12:55 pm

8:00 pm..Houghton... 9:25am

8:20 pm..Hancock ..... 9:00 am

Mixed train leaves St. Ignace at 7am; arrives Mar-
quette 5:30 p m. E. W. ALLEN,

Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agent, Marquette.

Detroit, Lansing & Northern.
Grand Rapids & Saginaw Division.
DEPART.

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Grand Rapids Express...........sce00 seseesecs 11 2am
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All trains arrive at and depart from Union depot.
Trains run solid both ways.

Chicago & West Michigan.

Leaves. Atrives.

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*Night EXpress........ccccccseocens 11:00 p m 5:45am

Muskegon Express........ -- Lopes 5:00 pm 11:00am
*Daily. tDaily except Sunday.

Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains. Through

parlor car in charge of careful attendants without ex-
tra charge to Chicage on 12:30 p.m.,and through coach
on 9310 a.m. and 11 p. m. trains.
Newaygo Division.
Leaves.
BRIT ORE oe o.cccnsscneuencdanesss eda 4:05 pm
TERT OGB So ois cans cevnsesnsonecensces 8:25am 10:20am

All trains arrive and depart from Union Depot.

The Northern terminus of this division is at Baldwin,
where close connection is made with F. & P. M. traing
to and from Ludington and Manistee.

W. A. GAVETT, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.B. MULLIKEN, General Manager.

Arrives.
4.20pm

 

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

Kalamazoo Division.
Leave Ar

is ve.
Ex. & Mail. N. Y. Mail. N. Y. Mail. N. Y. Ex
4:35pm 7:45am..Grand Rapids. 9:45am 6:15pm
5:55pm 9:02am..Allegan....... 8:28am 5:00am
7:05pm 10:06am..Kalamazoo... 7:30am 4:90pm
8:30pm 11:35am..White Pigeon. 5:55am 2:20pm
2:30am 6:05pm..Toledo........ 11:00pm 9:45am
8:30am 9:40pm,.Cleveland..... 6:40pm 5:35am
2:50pm 3:30am,.Buffalo........ 11:55am 11:40pm
56:40am _ 6 --Chicago....... 11:30pm 6:50am

:50 pm
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at 12:50 pm,carry-
ing passengers as far as Allegan. All trains daily ex-
cept Sunday. J. W. McKENNEY, General Agent.

 

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

  
 

GOING EAST.
Arrives. Leaves.
+Steamboat Express........0e-e00 6:25pm 6:30 p m
TTMTOUGN Mall. ooo cc cocscccsencees 10:40am 10:50am
tEvening Express. .........eseeseee 3:25 pm 3:50 pm
*Limited Express. .......ccccseeees 6:50 am 6:50am
+Mixed, with coach...........,...- 11:00 a m
GOING WEST,
+Morning Express........c.sesee0e 1:05 pm 1:10pm
OTRPOURE MOM. occ cave ccncegescinne BOD M 5:10 pm
+Steamboat Expres: ...10:40 pm 10:45 pm
TRIO, cans srecns nes 7:45am
*Night Express. .........i.0.i tA... °5:26 am 5:40am
+tDaily, Sundays excepted. *Dail

Passengers taking the 6:50 am Sicorens make close
connection at Owosso for Lansing, and at Detroit for
New York, arriving there at 10:30 am the following
morning. The Night Express has a through Wagner car
and local sleeping car from Detroit to Grand Rapids.

Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent.

Gro. B. REEVE, Traflic Manager Chicago.

 

Michigan Central.
Grand Rapids Division.

 

PART.
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Day Express..........++++ -- 1:10pm
*Atlantic Express......... --10:10 pm
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ARRIVE.
PPOCIBS TEP OON. . noon ci snes cs sccncatads annssase 6:00 am

3:00 pm

ng ak ren hee aon eee ck ke ees ae take sateen d 5:15 pm
*Daily. All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars
run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from
Detroit. Parlor carsrun on Day Express and Grand
Rapids Express to and from Detroit. Direct connec-
tions made at Detroit with all through trains East over
.C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)
D. W. JOHNSTON, Mich. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.
O. W. RUGGLES, Gen’! Pass. and Ticket Agt., Chicago.

 

 

 

It took $1,200 in casa and twelve years of in-
tense suffering before I learned that $2 worth
of Tiger Oil would cure me. None but a wire-
bound constitution and a determined will
could ever live through twelve years of such
racking pain and misery, without a single
week of ease, as I did, before I began to take
Tiger Oil about a year since. I used about $2
worth altogether, which I took a teaspoonful
in atumbler of hot water three times a day,
which quickly relieved and I believe it has per-
manently cured me, as the immediate past
eight months I have not had a sign of my old
disease, which the doctors called Bright’s Dis-
ease of the Kidneys—which is death—Gravel,
Inflammation of the Kidneys and Bladder, and
a number of other diseases; but they all failed
to do more than quiet the suffering for a short
time, although I doctored with the best doc-
tors I could findin Marshall, Ohio, Pittsburg,
Pa., New Albany, Ind., Chicago, Il., St. Louis,
Mo., Detroit, Saginaw and Bay City, Micb., and
a great number of other cities; and when not
under a doctor’s care took dozens and dozens
of all kinds of greatly advertised patent kidney
and Jiver cures; but under all kinds of medi-
cines I got worse and worse till I began to take
Tiger Oil as above stated. To say it cost $1,200
in the twelve years is far too low, but the $2 in
Tiger Oil which cured me is more than it took,
as I used some for other general purposes in
my family. But my case is only one in thous-
ands who are spending their money for naught
—but suffering and loss of time—who might
be cured with Tiger Oil.

J.E. WALKER,

Manager Telephone Exchange, Cadillac, Mich.

For Sale or Exchange.

A factory fully equipped with wood work-
ing Machinery—good Brick Buildings—am-
ple grounds—good shipping facilities—well
located in a thriving City in Ilinois—will
be sold at a bargain, or exchange for other
property—a rare chance. Correspondence
solicited; address ‘‘Factory” this paper.

—_--——>- > -—_—.

What do you think of this? While in conver-
sation with Wm. M. Dale, one of the largest
druggists in Chicago, we were surprised to
learn that he had sold over one and a half mil-

lion of Tansill’s Punch dc. cigars and that the
quality gets better all the time. The demand
continues toincrease. Let us tell you, if you
want to sella cigar that your customers will
be pleased with, the sooner you order Tansill’s
Punch the better.—Independent Grocer. -

 

~~.

Tiger Oil challenges the world of medi-
cines for an equal to cure diseases in man
or beast.

 

VOIGT MILLING C0,,

Proprietors of

Crescent Roller Mills

Manufacturers of the following well
known brands:

Crescent, White Rose,
Vienna, Royal Patent,

AND
ALL WHEAT FLOUR,
The Great Health Food.

W. end Pearl St. Bridge,

GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.

EDMUND B. DIKEMAN,

THE—

GREAT WATCH MAKER

—AND—

JEW EULER.

 

44 CANAL STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS, ‘ MICH.

HENRY J. HARTMAN,
FOUNDER,

GRAY IRON CASTINGS A SPECIALTY.

Send for Estimates.

71 South Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

FURNITURE 10 ORDER.

Anything or everything in the
line of Special Furniture, inside
finish of house, office or store,
Wood Mantels, and contract
work of any kind made to order
on short notice and in the best
manner out of thoroughly dried
lumber of any kind. Designs
furnished when desired.

Wolverine Chair Factory,

West End Pearl St. Bridge.

 

 

 

 

 

li Line ot

LUBRICATING OILS

We make a specialty of

HOUREERA OIL,

Which for Farm Machinery and general
purposes is the Best Brand on the market.

GRAND RAPIDS OFFICE,
No. 1 Canal St.,.
Telephone No. 228-2.

J. G@. ALEXANDER, Agent.

% GIVE US A TRIAL ORDER.

We Guarantee Satisfaction.

LUDWIG WINTERNITZ,

STATE AGENT FOR

Fermentum!|

The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast.

Manufactured by Riverdale Dist. Co.
106 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

TELEPHONE 566.
Grocers, bakers and others can secure the agency for

their town on this Yeast by applying to above address.
None genuine unless it bears above label.

GERMAN |L, Winternitz,

MUSTARD. Grand Rapids, Mich

 

 

 

ORGANIZATION OUTFITS.

os

Full outfits for the Collection Depart-
ment of a Business Men’s Association, con-
taining all the late improvements, supplied
to order for $13. The outfit comprises:

1,000 ‘‘Blue Letter’ Notification Sheets,
for member's use.

500 Copyrighted Record Blanks,

500 Association Notification Sheets, and

500 Envelopes.

Money can be sent by draft, post-office
or express order.

. Fuller & Stowe Company,
49 Lyon Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

THE NEW

Noap Company.

As previously announced, the trade is
now being supplied with Soap from this new
factory. Two brands are now introduced,
the

Ficadlisht

AND

Luittle Daisy.

Both free from adulterations of all kinds,
and contain pure Ceylon Cocoa Oil, Steam
Refined Tallow, Glycerine and Borax. The
former is a first-class Laundry Soap, and
the latter, being fine and milder, is one of
the best Bath, Laundry and Toilet Soaps
combined now on the market.

For terms, please apply to the factory, in
rerson, by letter, or telephone. (Telephone
No. 578-5 rings.)

Shall we receive your encowragement by
way of a trial order?
() 8

Respectfully,

brand Hapids Soap b

Valley City Maing Co,

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SNow FLAKE

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Flour

OUR LEADING BRANDS:

Roller Champion,
Gilt Edge,
Matchless,
Lily White,
Harvest Queen,
Snow Flake,
White Loaf,
Reliance,
Gold Medal,
Graham.
| OUR SPECIALTIES:
| Buckwheat Flour, Rye Flour, Granulated
| Meal, Bolted Meal, Coarse Meal, Bran,
| Ships, Middlings, Screenings, Corn, Oats, Feed,
| Write for Prices.

 

 

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

TO THE TRADE.

 

We carry the follow-
ing sizes in stock:

Number High Opens List
0 25 22 to 26 = $5.00
1 25 25 to 29 5.00
2 50 25 to 29 5.00 * ff

Discount 10 per cent.

 

We desire to call your attention to the

Beardsley Window Screen,

And ask you to examine its merits and the great advantages it possesses over any other
sereen in the market, and so be guided in purchasing for this season.

 

“THE BEST.”

The Beardsley Swing Center Sereens have
these advantages over all others:

1. The center being a swinging door, ob-
viates the necessity of removing the screen
to clear the room of flies, to throw out or-re-
ceive any article through the window, or to
open and close the blinds.

2. They are made adjustable by movable
wings on either side, and may be instantly
fitted to any window without cutting or
pounding.

3. The frames are made of kiln dried
lumber, and are nailed and glued.§

4. The wire cloth is from the celebrated
Wickware Bros.’ factory, of Courtland, N. Y.

5. They are the best finished of any.

6. They are so well made and are so sim=
ple in operation that the liability to get out
of order is entirely obviated.

The success this screen met with the past
season has convinced us that it will take the
lead in the future. We shall be pleased to

correspond with the trade.

For particulars address

FOSTER STEVENS 400, Grand Rapids, Mich

 

Cc. C. BUNTING.

BUNTING
Commission

Cc. L. DAVIS.

é& DAVIS,
Merchants.

Specialties: Apples and Potatoes in Car Lots.

20 and 22 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

If you are in Market to Buy or

 

26, 28, 30 & 32 Ottawa dtreel,

MOSELEY BROS.,

WROLESALE

Fruits, Seeds, Oysters & Produce,

ALL KINDS OF FIELD SEEDS A SPECIALTY.

Sell Clover Seed, Beans or Pota-

toes, will be pleased to hear from you.

GRAND RAPIDS

 

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The Michigan Tradesmal.

Michigan Business Men’s Association.
President—Frank Hamilton, Traverse City.
First Vice-President—Paul P. Morgan, Monroe.
Second Vice-President—E. J. Herrick, Grand Rapids.
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Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Treasurer—Jnlius Schuster, Kalamazoo.

Executive Committee—President, First Vice-President,
Secretary, N. B. Blain and W. E. Kelsey.

Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse

City; P. Ranney, Kalamazoo; A. W. Westgate, Che-

boygan.

Committee on Legislation—W. E. Kelsey, Ionia; J. ¥.
Crandall, Sand Lake; J. F. Clark, Big Rapids.

Committee on Membership—H. 8. Church, Sturgis; B.
F. Emery, Grand Rapids; the Secretary.

Committee on Transportation—Jas. A. Coye, Grand
Rapids; J.W. Milliken, Traverse City; C. T. Bridg-
man, Flint.

Committee on Constitution—W. E. Kelsey, Ionia; R. D.
McNaughton, Coopersville; I. F. Clapp, Allegan,

Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

The following local associations have mostly
been organized under the auspices of the
Michigan Business Men’s Association, and are
auxiliary thereto: :

Ada Business Men’s Asseciation.
President, D. F, Watson; Secretary, Elmer Chapel.__
Alba Business Men’s Association.

President, C. R. Smith; Secretary, Peter Baldwin.
Allegan Business Men’s Association.
President, Irving F. Clapp; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.

Retail Grocers’ Association of Battle Creek
President. Geo. H. Rowell: Secretary, John P. Stanley,

Belding Merchants’ Association.
President, H. J. Leonard; Secretary, J. M. Earle.

Bellaire Business Men’s Association.
President, John Rodgers; Secretary, G. J. Noteware.

Burr Oak Business Men’s Association.
President, B. O. Graves; Secretary, H. M. Lee.

Merchant’s Protective Ass’n of Big Rapids,
President, E. P. Clark; Secretary. A. 8. Hobart.

Boyne City Business Men’s Association.
President, R. R- Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.

Cadillac Business Men’s Association.
President, J. C. McAdam; Secretary, C. T. Chapin.
Carson City Business Men’s Association.
President, F. A. Rockafellow; Secretary, C. O. Trask.

Casnovia, Bailey and Trent B. M. A.
President. H. E. Hesseltine; Secretary, E. Farnham.

Cedar Springs Business Men’s Association.
President, T. W. Provin; Secretary, L. H. Chapman.

Charlevoix Business Men’s Association.
President, John Nichols; Secretary, R. W. Kane.

Coopersville Business Men’s Association,
President, G. H. Watrous; Secretary, ' W. R. Boynton. _

Business Men’s Protective Union of Che-

oyzan.
President, J. H. Tuttle; Secretary, H. G. Dozer.

Retail Grocers’ Trade Union As’n of Detroit.
President, John Blessed; Secretary, H. Kundinger.

Dorr Business Men’s Association.
President, L. N. Fisher; Seeretary, E. 8. Botsford.

Retail Grocers’ Association of E. Saginaw.
President, Richard Luster ; Secretary, Chas. H. 8m ith.

Edmore Business Men’s Association.
President, H. W. Robson; Secretary, W.S. Whittlesey.

Eastport Business Men’s Association.
President, F. H. Thurston, Central Lake; Secretary,
Geo. L. Thurston. Central Lake.

Elk Rapids Business Men’s Protective As’n.
President, J. J. McLaughlin; Secretary, C. L. Martin. _
Evart Business Men’s Association.

President, W. M. Davis; Secretary, Chas. E. Bell.

Frankfort Business Men’s Association.
President, Wm. Upton; Secretary, E. R. Chandler.

Flint Mercantile Union.
President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, J. L. Willett. °

Freeport Business Men’s Association.
President, Foster Sisson; Sec’y, Arthur Cheseborough.

Fife Lake Business Men’s Association.
President, E. Hagadorn; Secretary, O. V. Adams.

Grand Haven Business Men’s Association.
President, Fred. D. Voss; Secretary, Fred A. Hutty.

Retail Grocers’ Ass’n of Grand Rapids.
President, Jas. A. Coye; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

Greenville Business Men’s Association,
President, L. W. Sprague; Secretary, E. J. Clark.

Hartford Business Men’s Association.
President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.

Holland Business Men’s Assoeiation.
President, John Krumer; Secretary, Pp. W. Kane.

Hastings Business Men’s Association.
President, L. E. Stauffer; Secretary, J. A. VanArman.

Hersey Business Men’s Association,
President, 0. L. Millard; Secretary, Frank Beardsley

Howard City Business Men’s Association,
Chairman, C. A. Vandenberg; Secretary, B. J. Lowry.

Holland Business Men’s Association.
President, Jacob Van Putten; Secretary, A. Van Duren.
Hubbardston Business Men’s Association.
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, L. W. Robinson. _

Jonia Business Men’s Exchange.
President, Wm. E. Kelsey; Secretary, Fred. Cutler, Jr.
Kalamazoo Ketail Grocers’ Association.

President, P. Ranney; Secretary, M. 8. Scoville.
Kalkaska Business Men’s Association.
President, A. E. Palmer; Secretary, C. E. Ramsey.
Kingsley Business Men’s Association.
President, C. H. Camp; Secretary, Chas. E. Brewster.
Lansing Business Men’s Association.
President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Will Crotty.

“Lawrence Business Men’s Association.
President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, C. A. Stebbins.
Leslie Business Men’s Association,
President, Wm. Hutchings; Secretary, M. L. Campbell.
Lowell Susiness Men’s Protective Ass’n.
President, N. B. Blain: Secretary, Frank T. King.
Tather Business Men’s Association.
President, W. B. Pool; Secretary, Chas. J. Robinson.
Lyons !.'usiness Men’s As’n.
President, A. K. Roof; Secretary, D. A. Reynolds.
Mancelona Business Men’s Association.
President, W. E. Watson; Secretary, C. L. Bailey.
Manistique Business Men’s Association.
President, F. H. Thompson; Secretary, E. N. Orr.
Manton’s Kusiness Men’s Association.
President, F. A. Jenison; Secretary, R. Fuller.
Grocers’ Ass’n of the City of Muskegon.
President, H. B. Fargo; Secretary, Wm. Peer.
Merchant’s Union of Nashville.
President, Herbert M. Lee: Secretary, Walter Webster
Muir Business Men’s Association,
President. Simon Town; Secretary, L. A. Ely.
oO o Business Men's Association.
President, J. M. Ballou; Secretary, J. F. Conrad.
Oveana Basiness Men’s As’n.
President, W.E.Thorp; Seeretary, E.S. Houghtaling.
Ovid Business Men’s As’n.
President, C. H. Hunter; Secretary, Lester Cooley.
Owosso Business Men’s Association.
President, Jas. Osburn; Sec’y, 8. Lamfrom.
Petoskey Business Men’s Association.
President, Jas. Buckley; Secretary, A. C. Bowman.
Pewamo Business Men’s Association.
President, Albert Retan; Secretary, E. R. Holmes.
Plainwell Business Men’s Association.
President, M. Bailey; Secretary, J. A. Sidle.

 

 

 

Merchant’s Union Protective Association of
Port Huron.

President, G. C. Meisel; Secretary, 8. L. Merriam.
Rodney Business Men’s Association.
President, L. T. Wilmarth; Secretary, R.E. McCormick.
Reed aty Business Men’s Association.
President, C. J. Fleischauer; Secretary, H.W. Hawkins.
Rogkford Business Men’s Association.

President, Gee. A. Sage; Secretary, J. M. Spore.

St. Charles Business Men’s Association.
President, B. J. Downing; Secretary, E. E. Burdick.
St. Johns Merchants’ Protective Association.
Presider, H. L. Kendrick; Secretary, C. M. Merrill.

 

Business Men’s Protective Ass’n of Saranac.
President, Geo. A. Potts; Secretary, P. T. Williams.
South Boardman Business Men’s Ass’n.
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, 8. E. Niehardt.
So, Arm and E. Jordan Business Men’s As’n,
President, D. C. Loveday; Secretary, C. W. Sutton.
Sherman Business Men’s Association.
President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. G. Shane.
Sparta Business Men’s Association,
President, J. R. Harrison; Secretary, M. B. Nash.
Sturgis Business Men’s Association.
President, Henry 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association,
President. Geo. E. Steele: Secretary, C. T. Lockwood.
Tustin Business Men’s Association.
President, G. A. Estes; Secretary, Geo. W. Bevins.
Vermontville Business Men’s Association.
President, W.H. Bencdict; Secretary, W. E. Holt.
Watervliet Business Men’s Association.
President, H. Peirce; Secretary, F. WH. Merrifield.
Wayland Business Men’s Association.
President. E. W, Pickett; Secretary, H. J, Turner.
Woodland Business Men’s Association.
President, John Velte; Secretary, I. N. Harter.
White Gioud Business Men’s Association.
President, P. M. Roedel; Secretary, M. D. Hayward.
White Lake Business Men’s As’n.
President, A. T. Linderman, Whitehall Secretary, W.
B. Nicholson, Whitehall.

 

 

 

 

THE DEAD-BEAT.

Soliman Snooks’ Opinion of that Muc
Abused Individual.
CANT Hook CornERS, June 10, 1887.
Editor Tradesman:

DEAR Str—The poor, devoted dead-beat
seems to be catching it from all sides. His
ears must burn pretty often, if there is any
truth in the old adage, at the way in which
“Country Merchant,” C. H. Barlow, et al
are going for him. Well, the cuss deserves
it. But I agree, in a measure, with friend
Barlow, to-wit, that the poor D.-B. is not
so fully to blame after all, and that he often
pays dearly for being a beat.

They say that poets are born, not made;
but I think the D.-B. is made in a great
many cases by surrounding circumstances.

One great factory for making dead-beats
is the ‘Installment Store.” About a year
ago, one of these beat-making machines
opened on Damlongue street, in this town,
and began to send out agents with Turkish
and Persian rugs over their shoulders;
agents with clocks under their arms or
clothes wringers; agents in wagons with
sewing machines, organs, toilet sets, bed
room sets, slop pails, chromos and the dick-
ens only knows what. These agents made
their way into every house within five miles
of the Corners, and with oily tongues man-
aged to make the women folks believe that
they must have this orthat thing. ‘‘It is so
easy, Mrs. DeSmyth,” said the slick agent,
“Only fifty cents a month; you will never
notice it at all and first you know you own
this elegant rug. Just see how nice it looks
in front of the couch.” Now, Mrs. DeSmyth
is a good soul, and means to be honest, but
her judgment is rather poor, and fifty cents
looks so small beside that splendid rug, that
she never stops to think that twenty fifty-
cent pieces make ten dollars and that each
individual half-dollar will be needed to pay
for groceries or dry goods, at the very time
the installment collector is ringing her door-
bell. So in the rug goes and it feels so
soft to the feet and makes the old carpet
feel so hard and look so dim and faded by
the contrast, that the good lady begins to
hint to Mr. DeSmyth that money must soon
be forthcoming for a new carpet.

Mrs. Jones calls. Mrs, J. is asked to ob
serve the new rug. ‘‘Yes, that is beautiful,”
says Mrs. Jones, but her eyes wander to the
faded carpet. That settles it. When De
Smyth comes home, he finds his better
half in tears, and next thing he knows he
has a debt at the dry goods store for twenty-
five yards of carpet at 88 cents per yard.

Then the struggle begins. To meet this
debt DeSmyth must put his grocer of with
half his pay, then one-quarter, and after a
few weeks, he goes down town ona back
street so Mr. Scoop won’t see him, and he
leaves his order at another grocery, and col-
lectors keep calling, so that Mrs. DeSmyth
is afraid to answer the bell, and they get a
blue letter and a red letter and a sharp letter,
and pretty soon poor DeSmyth figures as a
full-fledged dead-beat on the books of the
local association. ;

Now, Mr. Editor, you may think this is a
tancy sketch, but I assure you it has its
counterpart, with variations, in all parts of
out State to-day.

I might go on and relate how the neigh-
bors next see the installment man’s wagon
stopping in front of DeSmyth’s and a sew-
ing machine and a marble top table and a
new sofa being loaded into it, all of which
have been purchased ‘‘on payments” and
have been about half paid for. But your
readers can think of all that for themselves.

Then, I might mention also the dead-beat
merchant—for there are such in all trades—
who was made and not born so. I say
made, because just as like as not heisa
well-meaning man at heart, but slick agents
for Chicago or Boston or New York houses
have seduced him into buying all sorts of
things he does not need and cannot sell;
such as new brands of plug tobacco, cigars,
package coffees, baking powders, soap, etc.
The poor cuss has been seduced by clocks,
glassware, tea sets, Waterbury watches and
other things into loading himself up with in-
ferior goods, until he has nothing to pay his
debts with, and he joins the army of dead-
beats. :

As We gaze into his show window and
notice the busy and inconoclastic spider
spinning his web froma dusty lamp chimney
to a lone blacking bottle and thence to five
dejected looking herring in a box, and inci-
dentally observe a big blue blottle fly buz-
zing in and out of a pitcher belonging to a
‘premium set,” let us not laugh and jeer,
but rather drop a tear for the poor victim of
commercial competition.

Then, if we have time, let us drop another
tear in sympathy with the honest jobber
who has been selling him his sugars and
teas at a small margin and now goesin with
the other creditors to eventually get about
seven cents on a dollar.

Talking about dead-beats, I notice that
one of my dod-gasted relations has been and
gone and got his name on the M. B. M. A.
Notification Sheet for June. Poor Tom! I
always expected he would come to some
bad end. And now our honored name is
dragged in the dust, and right at the
end of the list, too, where no one can
help seeing it. I hope Mrs. Snooks will
not see it. She has gone on a visit down
into Indiana and, therefore, I guess she
will not learn of this disgrace.

* * * * * * *

‘Wake up, Sol! Thunder and blitzen!
are you asleep? Here! Wait on your cus-
tomers. What are you here for, you old
cuss? I want four postage stamps, two
postal cards, a free sample of that air cough
medicine advertised in the Grabbag and I
want to look in your county directory. And

say, Sol, my girl wants you to send her a
nice picture card. Come! Fly around here
I must be getting home afore dark.”

Thus am I aroused from my reverie over
the disgrace which has befallen the Snooks
family. Yours rushingly,

SoLIMAN SNOOKs,
General Dealer.

P. STEKETEE & SUNS,

JOBBERS IN

DRY GOODS,

AND NOTIONS,

SB3 RMonroe Sst..

——
The Cruelty of the War.

‘ ‘So your father was in the war?” said
e.

‘“*Yes, he was killed at the battle of Bull
Bun,” she replied. ao
‘*Where—er—was he shot?”
‘He wasn’t shot at all. He broke his
neck running down the hill. War is an
awful cruel thing, don’t you think so?”

nabne etter a ear Eero

The chickory market has been greatly
benefited by the addition to cost of coffee.
The growth of business in this article since
January has more than doubled the move-
ment for the same time last year, and is
constantly increasing, as this is one of the
most innocent adulterations that can. be
used. The advance in price has been but
trifling, and this is owing to the stock on
hand being large, having accumulated dur-
ing the period of low-priced coffee. Unless
coffee recedes very materially from present
prices the trade in chickory will remain
permanent. Beans and peas are also being
used to swell the supply of the costly ber-
ry that isajoy of the speculator, to the
great detriment of the consumer.

sa

There are 1,000 canvicts in Sing Sing
prison, and.it takes twenty-one barrels of
flour to make bread for them every day.

AND 10, 12, 14, 16 AND 18 FOUNTAIN STREET,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers
American and Stark A Bags

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PURE GROUND COFFEE.

Is now being: sold all over the United States.

Packed in New Style! Elegantly Decorated!

 

50 lb. Tin Drums, (like above cut) price 1'7 cents per lb. Also packed in 200
lb. Barrels, 16 cents per lb. In 1 pound pasteboard Cartoons, 100 Cartoons
in box, 177 cents per lb. Nocharge for packages. We deliver the Coffee in
500 lb. lots and over. Terms 60 days, 2 per cent. off for cash. Send for
samples.

W. J. QUAN & CO,

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

10,000 NEW TOWNS! 8,000 MILES OF NEW RAILROAD!

Added to the maps and pages of index matter kept standing in type in our

BUSINESS ATLAS,

And Shippers’ Guide,
FOR 1887.

A folio book of 600 pages, containing 92 large scale maps of each State in the United

 

 

States, Canada, Mexico and foreign countries, with a carefully prepared list of over 200,000
towns and cities in the United States and Canada, giving their location on the maps, popula-
tion, express and railroad by which they are reached, and if not a post office, their nearest

mailing point; shows population according to census of 1885.

RAND, McNALLY & CO,

New York Store, 323 Broadway. 148 to 154 Monroe Street, Chicago.

 

 

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Wholesale Fruits and Produce,

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and fresh until entirely use

It will pay for itself in a short time.

You cannot afford to do without it.

For particulars, write to

ARTHUR MEIGS & CO.

Wholesale Grocers,

SOlc Agents,

77 to 838 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS.

 

HONEY BEE COFFEE!

Best in the Market for the Money.

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city for several years without showing any

of venture.

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E. A, STOWE & BRO., Proprietors.

Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor.
Telephone No. 95,

LEutered at the Postofice at Grand Rapids as
Second-class Mattey.)

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THE CRAZE IN COFFEE.

 

SDAY. JUNE 15, 1887.

 

 

The Bulls Have Had the Game in Their
Own Hands.
New York Correspondence Detroit News.

The feverish speculation in coffee is ex
citing general attention. The craze in cof-
fee, the speculation in wheat and cotton and
the real estate excitement in the south and
southwest,not to mention the activity in real

property here, may be givenas the chief
reasons for the dullness in stocks. As to
coffee, the wholesale price as nearly

trebled within a year, and it has doubled
since last fall. Seats in the stuffy little cof-
fee exchange in Beaver street have risen
within a short time from $500 to $800.
Many of the importers and jobbers have
made large fortunes by the almost phenome-
nal rise in the market, and some who were
crippled in former speculations are now ful-
ly restored to financial strength and vigor.

The price of Rio coffee is now about 22
cents a pound, incredible as it may sound,
and yet there is talk of pushing it still high-
er. The bulls have practically had the
game in their own hands, and as grain, cot-
ton, dry goods and Wall street people went
short on the seemingly natural supposition
that the price had gone high enough, they
found that Crossman & Co. and Siegfried
Gruner & Co. had stocked the cards and the
market was thimble-rigged until the luck-
less shorts were glad to ‘‘cover.” One
house is said to have made $2,000,000 on
the bull deal. Anotherfirm of importers

 

is supposed to have cleared a million.

In former times it has happened thata
day passed without a single transaction at |
the coffee exchange, and whena sudden
spurt of activity carried the transactions up |
to 50,000 bags in a day excitement ran high. |
Latterly, however, the sales ina single day |
have exceeded 200,000 bags. ‘The specula-
tion is based on expectations of a short crop. |
The bulls are trying to make the general |
public believe that the next crop in Brazil |
will be only 4,000,000 bags, against some- |
thing over 6,000,000 bagsin the present |
season ending July 1. The men who advo- |
cate high prices for the réason mentioned |
have always, until now, ridiculed the idea |
of counting a crop when it was hardly in |
blossom, but they are well loaded up now |
and are looking around for lambs to unload
upon.

Of course the upshot of the speculation |
will be a crash somewhere. Everybody |
cannot make money in a speculation. Some- |
body is sure to load up at the top and suffer |
by the fall, which will be all the greater be- |
cause of the extraordinary advance in the !
price within a year. A physical law 1s that |
the higher the altitude the greater the veloc-
ity of the fall, and this is also noticeable in
the fiuctuations of markets—or, in other |
words, the pendulum swings to opposite ex- ;
tremes.

One of the bull leaders is Siegfried Grun- |
er, a stout, blue-eyed, jolly German from |
Bremen, and formerly president of the cot- |
ton exchange. His partner, Otto Arens,
now president of the coffee exchange, is a|
splendid specimen of physical manhood, tall
enough for the imperial guard of Germany. |
He lives down in New Jersey, where he has |
a fine farm, and where he indulges in a cul- |
tivated taste for horticulture.

Crossman & Co. have made a million dol-
jars for clients in New York, London, Par-
is, Havre, Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro,
within the last six months. William H.
Crossman, of this house, is about sixty
years of age, and was formerly in the hard-
ware trade, acting as the New York agent
for Mark Hopkins, the California merchant
and railway magnate. He and his brother,
George Crossman, a handsome man and a
well-known member of the Union League,
began to bull coffee last year when it was at
7% cents, whereas now it is about 22 cents.

Another member is Hermann Sielcken,
who ezine here some years ago from Ham-
burg, and is beginning to be looked upon as
a sort of Jay Gould on a smaller seale. He
has really had the post of a commander in
the bull campaign. He has been to Europe
several times within a year to manipulate
the markets there, and, as he is expert in
manipulation, this thoughtful, dark com-
plexioned man of 35, with expressive, big
black eyes, pulls the wires which control
the fluctuations of prices in New York, Rio
de Janeiro, Havre, Paris, London, Aister-
Seme of the New York
firms who at first opposed the bull deal he
rapped so severely over the knuckles that
they were glad to fall in to the bull ranks.
He has successfully fought the Arbuckle
Brothers, the millionaires who have a mono-
poly of coffee roasting here and who are apt
to set themselves against any bull move-
ment.

Sielcken hung around Front street in this

special aptitude for speculation, but as Na-
poleon had his Toulon to show the military
genius that wasin him, so_ this natural
Jeader in speculation has latterly come to
the front to worst strong old houses, as Na-
poleon did old powers, and he is recognized
as a new speculative chieftain in a new field

Thomas Minford, of the old firm of Skid-
dy, Mintord & Co., and who looks likea
priest, is another successful bull, and still
another is John Scott,a relative of Gen.
Sherman.

Most of our coffee supply comes from Bra-
zil, and as slavery in that country is being
gradually abolished, and as the effect of free
labor is to increase crops, not to mention
the stimulus of high prices, it need excite no
surprise if the next Brazil yield of coffee
should be much larger than the bulls now
seem to expect.

a.
Cream as an Article of Food.

In an interesting article on cream, its
value and use, Prof. Arnold, of Cornell
University, says: The superiority of cream
over butter or any other solid fat consists,
first, in its being not exactly in a liquid
form, but in acondition allowing of great mo-
bility between its particles, permitting the
gastric juice to mix with it in the most per-
fect manner, and with whatever else the
stomach contains, thereby aiding digestion.
Its behavior is quite different in this respect
from that of butter and other pure fats.
As soon as they become melted they grease

structing, in a measure, the contact of gas-

We are settled in our new store in
the Houseman Building and have got
everything to suit us.

Weare adding new lines to our Wood-
enware stock every few days, and it is
now nearly complete. We have several

cars of Binders’ Twine anc can fill or.

ders promptly. |

We bougkt a large lot of Brushes at
auction and have just got them in. We
ean sell them for less than the cost of
making.

Our paper stock is complete.
handle everything in this line.
in the city call and see us.

Respectfully,

CURTISS & DUNTON.

L. L. LOVERIDGE.

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L, M. CARY.

CARY & LOVERIDCE,

GENERAL DEALERS IN

Fire and Burglar Proof

ISAFEHS

Combination and Time Locks,

{1 Tonia Street, = -

D, W Archer’s Trophy Corn,
D. W. Areher’s Early Golden Cars,
D. W, Archer’s Morning Glory Gorn,
D.W. Archer's Red Coat Tomatoes

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The above Brands are Standard the World Over. Ask your Jobber for them and take
no other. Packed by

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tric juice, and hindering, rather than has-

JENNESS & McCURDY,

Importers and Manuficturers’ Agents,

DEALERS IN

Crockery, Ghia, lassware,

Bronze Lamps, Chandeliers, Brackets, Ete.

13 & 15 Jefrson Ave. DETROUT, MICH.

Wholesale Agents for Dufield’s Cazadian Lamps.

 

 

CHO. BE. HOWES,

JOBBER IN

Foreign and Domestic Fruits,

SPHOCIALTIES:
Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.
SiIcnia St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Grand Rapids,- Mich.

Davenport, Lowa,

ABSOLUTE SPICES
Absolute Baking Powder.

100 pr cent. Pure.

i Manufactured and sold only by

ED. THLPER, Grand Rapids.

SPRING & COMPANY

JOBBERS IN

DRY GOODS,

Hosiery, Carpets, Ete.
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unt t of a perfect 3 stem, should place hi
order at once. Special Oifer until June 15, 1887. aad for Gaeaaek: r

Cc. BB. Miter. = ITELAOA, N.Y.

WM. SEARS & CO.

Cracker Manufacturers,

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A Zenmnts for

AMBOY CHEESE.
37, 39 & 41 Kent Street. Grand Rapids, Michigan.

BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS

| JOBBERS OF

CIGARS

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SHED AND HAVANA 10-CENT CIGARS.

 

 

L. C. B............Rega Espicial. .... .$58 | Mackinaw ........ Londras Grande.... 70
El Captain General.Cone. Esp......... 60 | Twisters .......... " OT ee asc OO
El Primero........ Cone. Fina......... BO | CHOAET . os. cca es C Me ey Oe
ig Pee eka Panatelas.,......«.- 66 The FOX. - 4. sac. ee . a OO
? Me hiaaies Rega Princessa..... 68
MWCO ook ssc Londras Grande... .$35 | Atlas.............. Conchitas.. pelea salem
Cassia.........+6-- Flora Cordova..... 35} Gents’ Companion. .Concha Hindoo.... 35
Spanish Tuck...... Renia Victoria..... 35; Donny Brook...... " Po eae ae
First Degree....... Conchitas......... 35 | Belle of the Rink..Florde Corvado... 25
PADALAO. occa sss (i & TY ec. $5; Big Chief. ......... Bag Dad...... .... 25
Town Talk. ...s.-> MGOAPO esau 33 | Jim Fox’s Clipper. .Concha............ 25
Young America....Bag Dad.......... 25} Select...... Fede c uae tL feu ewe bane cs 22
Great Seot......... Bendaro......+...+ 32; Elite Gem......... Or as Maa aceees 4 20
Our Block......... Conehitas, extra... 25| Away Ahead....... ge a ee win a 18
OW ie a aay Ee Bees Oo CGE MPO IOI ee Eek hese ened 15
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New Fashion...... Se ees 251 No Name. ......... Sr obec canes Ra 12
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KEY WEST CIGARS.
Snugglers.......... Sublime...........$75| Los Castellos...... Londras Grande. ... 70
Mey cae Con. Especail...... 60 | Estrelle de Ora.....Sublime........... 60
Los Castellos....... Opera Reina....... 60 | La Modesta........Operas Renia...... 65
“ Bs as Con. Selectos...... 65 | Coronet Boquet....Londres Chica. . 60
Golden Eagle...... Lilliputanos ......! 75 | Matilda..........4. Royales..... .... 100
Belinda............ Operas .......-..- 80 | Flora de, T. & F...Rothschilds....... 125
CIGARETTES.
Old Judge......... 500 ina box..... $4 25' Sweet Caporal..... fe aes 4 25
Satin Straight Cut.. ‘* A as 7 00
We do not charge any Cartage.
We do not pay Freight or Express Charges.
We sell and deliver all goods F. O.B. Grand Rapids.
We do not allow Express charges or Exchange on Remit-
tances.
Terms, invariably, GO days. Two percent. cash discount al-
lowed on bills paid within 30 days from date.
PLEASE SEND US A TRIAL ORDER.
BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS, Grand Rapids,

PHEREINS & HESS

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

ORANGES LEMONS

 

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PUTNAM & BROUKS

Manufacturers’ Ag’ts for

FIREWORKS

Largest SI0GK & Best Goods

IN THE MARKET.

    
 
 
  
 
 
 

 
 
  
  
 
 
 

 

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CANDY
NEW PROCESS STARCH, [SW2=r.

This Starch having the light Starch and Gluten
removed,

One-Third Less

Wa Can be used than any other in the Market.
Ne fi

PEA NUTS

 

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Manufactured by the

1 en FIRMENICH MNFG. CO.
aX Factories: Marshalltown, lowa; Peoria, lils,

Offices at Peoria, Ills.
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If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

S. HEYMAN & SON, 48 Canal St, Grand Rapids.

LEMONS AND ORANGES

Are Cheap. You cannot make a mis-
take if you buy all you need for thenext
forty days at present prices, especially
Lemons. Buy only the Choicest Fruit.

Naturally, we desire to be favored
with your orders. Still, we all have
our preferences, and whether you favor
us or another, still we say BUY! But
before you buy elsewhere, let us quote
you prices.

Sparta and Lenawee County Cheese,

We are Sole Agents again this season for the above Popular
Brands of Strictly Full Cream Cheese. Send us your orders.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Clark, Jeurell & Co.
THE OLDEST. THE LARGEST. THE BEST.

The best of Testimonials from every State and Territory,

noi are

PORTER IRON ROOFING CO. c2r2.

Wall Paper 2 Window Shades

At Manufacturers’ Prices.
SAMPLES TO THE TRADE ONLY.

House and Store Shades Made to Order.
68 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS.

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PURE FOOD.

Facts Which Will Allay Public Apprehen-
sion on this Point.
From the New York World, June 5.

The World prints to-day the first of a
series of reports upon the results of its in-
quiry into the facts concerning the alleged
sale of adulterated foods, liquors and medi-
cines in the city of New York. As has
been already stated, this investigation has
been prompted by the widely prevailing
charges that adulterations exist to a very
serious extent; charges, which, coming from
public officials and health boards, have cre-
ated a corresponding degree of apprehen-
sion and disgust in the minds of the public.
If they are true, no social evil of the time
calls for quicker and more decisive meas-
ures of prevention and punishment. The
World has undertaken this investigation
for the sake both of the public and of the
retail merchants of New York, who have a
right to a vindication if they have been
wrongly suspected and accused. And that
this investigation shall be fair, impartial
and accurate in its conclusions, the utmost
care has been taken in the selection and an-
alysis of the articles of food and drink and
of the drugs commonly sold by retail in this
city. The quarters in which the poor buy
their supplies have been visited by prefer-
ence, for, whatever may be the average con-
dition of the goods sold there, it may be as-
sumed that a condition not so bad, and
therefore less needful of examination, exists
elsewhere.

The purchases of samples were made by a
corps of competent men detailed from the
World’s staff for that special work. The
five great avenues which cut through the
tenement district—namely, First, Second,
Third, Eighth and Ninth, were visited. The
stores of hundreds of grocers, druggists,
milk-sellers and liquor dealers were entered
(without the purpose of the buyers being
made known), purchases were effected in
each, the packages of which were duly label-
led by the buyers, and all the facts pertain-
ing thereto inscribed at the time of purchase
on the labels. These packages, thus care-
fully identified, were, within a short time
after their purchase, delivered to the chem-
ist and microscopist secured to determine
the analyses. The World’s representative
in this important department of the investi-
gation is Edward G. Love, Ph. D., late
analyst of the New York State Board of
Health for the city of New York, a chemist
of eminent repute, the mention of whose
name suffices to guarantee the trustworthi-
ness of the reports upon samples which will
follow.

The weight for which each sample of
goods was sold was also noted at the time
of the purchase, and upon its receipt by the
chemist its weight was again taken upon
laboratory scales of exceeding exactness.

The first series of reports received from
Dr. Love are of analyses of samples of the
three great staple articles of food, to wit,
sugar, tea and coffee. These samples were
bought in 300 different stores, taken as
they came and without preference. We
said that the World was determined to find
out if the retail grocers of New York were
cheating their customers with fraudulent
goods and by ligbt weights. With respect
to this branch of our inquiry the result is
surprising and gratifying. It will be seen
by an examination of the reports printed
below that the grocers, as a rule, are deal-
ing honestly with their customers. The
number of instances in which adulterations
have been detected is comparatively few
and of false weights fewer still, and the lat-
ter are counterbalanced by instances of
slight overweight, demonstrating that prob-
ably variations in weight from the exact
standard are generally the effect of careless-
ness rather than of design. The samples
of sugar are shown to be freest from tam-
pering. The teas are very little adulterated,
as Dr. Love explains in an accompaning
note. The ground coffees, which were
bought for pure, are in some instances adul-
terated with chiccory and ground beans.
None of the adulterants discovered are in-
jurious to health (excluding dirt and sand,
the presence of which may be accidental),
but as adulterants they do cheat the pockets
of customers, and therefore those who sell
them are to be condemned.

But the World is glad to be able to make,
upon the whole, such an_ excellent showing
for the retail grocers of New York in three
of the prime articles of consumption sold by
them, and if the reports of further analyses,
which will appear in future issues of this
paper, bear out the impression already pro-
duced, we shall have reason to congratulate
the public on their discovery that they are
not being poisoned by adulterations in their
grocery goods, nor cheated to any alarming
extent, and to congratulate likewise the re-
tail tradesmen on the vindication of their
good name as merchants and their establish-
ment in the confidence of their fellow citi-
zens.

REPORT OF ANALYSES OF TEA.

The following is Dr. Love’s report on an-
alyses and weights of samples of teas pur-
chased from retail grocers in this city.
Each samples having been numbered, the
number is given to preserve identification,
together with the name of the seller and his

of business, the nature of the sample,
its weight as ascertained by the chemist and
the result of the analysis for adulteration:

The results of my examination of the 100
samples of tea show there is very little adul-
teration practiced at present in this article
of food. A few of the samples contain
small quantities of ‘‘lie” tea, a product of
Chinese ingenuity, consisting of small bits
of leaf, dirt, etc., made up into pellets with
rice water and colored to imitate the tea it
is intended to adulterate. Only very small
quantities of this substance were found in
the teas examined. Although it was orig-
inally made with fraudulent intent, the
small quantity of it at present in a few of
these teas has led me to the belief that pos-
sibly its presence was more accidental than
intentional.

The green teas were “faced” to some
slight extent, although to a much less de-
gree than was formerly practiced with teas
of this class. ‘‘Facing” consists in slightly
coating the tea with a powder containing
some blue pigment, like indigo or Prussian
blue, mixed with soapstone, chalk or gyp-
sum. The practice is of long-standing and
is almost universal in the case of green teas.
The facing does not add appreciably to the
weight of the tea, but is used, it is claimed,
more to give the product a bright appearance
to satisfy the popular demand.

There is much difference of opinion as
to whether the facing of tea shall be consid-
ered as an adulteration, provided the sub-
stances used for coloring are entirely harm-
less. As no injurious substances were de-
tected in the teas examined I have not re-

the facing as an adulteration, con-
sidering it sufficient to make this explana-
statement.

Whether the facing of teas be looked up-
on as a form of adulteration or not, the col-
oring substances are so much foreign and

 

 

unnecessary matter added to the tea and the
practice should be condemned.

REPORT ON ANALYSES OF COFFEE.

The examination of samples of ground
coffee reveals a larger number 6f instances
of the admixture of foreign substances than
that of samples of tea. The adulterants
used were principally ground chiccory and
peas. It should be remarked that in every
case of pufchase the World's buyers asked
for pure coffee and it was represented as
such by the seller. The law, it is true, per-
mits the admixture of portions of chiccory
with coffee, but it specifically states that
the proportion of coffee shall not be less
than 50 per cent. and that the percentage of
the substances shall be printed on a label on
the packages. This requirement was ob-
served in the sale of none of the adulterated
samples under review.

A consumer may possibly not object to
chiccory and peas, but when he buys coffee
he wants coffee, and when he does not get
it after paying for it he is cheated. House-
keepers should, as a rule, avoid accepting
from a grocer ground coffee already put up
in packages. Such coffee is more liable to
be adulterated and, besides, from probably
lonff standing in stock has lost a great deal
of its strength and aroma. The last two
qualities will best be found in freshly-ground
coffee.

REPORT ON ANALYSES OF SUGAR.

Of the samples of the three great staples,
those of sugar come out best in this investi-
gation. The adulterant usually found in
crooked sugar, in these later years, is starch
rJucose, an inferior substance. Sugar mace
from cane has two and a half times the
sweetening power of starch glucose. To
the credit of the retail grocers of New York
it can be said that very little of it is sold
for sugar by them to their customers.

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BAKERS IN LINE.

 

The Bread Makers to Organize for Mutual
Protection.

A meeting of the bakers of Grand Rapids
was held at the office of Ludwig Winter-
nitz last Wednesday evening for the pur-
pose of considering the advisability of or-
ganizing an association. A. Bradford was
selected to act as chairman of the meeting
and Fred Blake as secretary. After a dis-
cussion of the subject from every stand-
point, it was decided to proceed to organize
without delay. The following gentlemen
were appointed a committee to prepare a
constitution and by-laws: Thos. Wasson,
Chas. Smith, F. L. Blake, H. M. Reed,
Otto Landauer. The next meeting will be
held on Wednesday evening, at which time
time the following draft will be presented:

PREAMBLE.

WHEREAS, comparison of ideas and methods and con-
cert of action are essential to the well being of any
business, and

WHEREAS, We believe that a Bakers’ Association will
accomplish these objects; therefore

RESOLVED—That we, bakers of Grand Rapids and vi-
cinity, duly assembled on June 15, 1887, do hereby or-
ganize ourselves into such an Association, and adopt
the constitution and by-laws following:

CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE I.—NAME.

The name of this organization shall be the Grand
Rapids Bakers’ Association.

ARTICLE Il.—OBJECTS.

The principal objects of this Association shall be as
follows:

1. To discourage the demoralizing practice of cut-
ting in prices and encourage the maintenance of legit-
imate profits.

2. To bring about uniformity in the size, weight,
quality and price of bakers’ goods.

3. To increase acquaintanceship and foster the high-
est commercial integrity among those engaged in the
bakery business.

4. To take concerted action against discriminations
by railway and express companies.

5. To induce equitable insurance rates and settle-
ments.

6. To secure immunity from inferior and adulterated
goods, short weights, counts and measures, fictitious
brands and labels and misrepresentationin public and
private.

7, To influence legislation in favor of better collec-
tion laws. affording more safely to creditors in general.

8. Tointroduce the cash system, wherever practi-
cable.

9. To guard against unnecessary extensions of credit
to unworthy persons, through the interchange of in-
formation gained by experience and otherwise.

ARTICLE I1.—MEMBERSHIP. *

Any firm or individual engaged in the bakery business
may become a member of this Association on the two-
thirds vote of the members present at any regular
meeting, by paying to the Secretary the sum of $1
membership tee, and agreeing to pay 50 cents quarterly
dues in advance, and any assessments which shall be
voted by the Association to meet expenses,

ARTICLE IV,—OBLIGATION.

Every person or tirm becoming a member of this As-
sociation shall be honorably bound to conform to the
rules, regulations and by-laws.

ARTICLE V.—NON-PAYMENT OF DUES.

Any member of this Association who shall neglect or
refuse to pay his dues, or any assessment ordered by
the Association, for three months after such sums be-
come due, shall thereby forfeit his membership.

ms ARTICLE VI.—OFFICERS.

The officers of this Association shall consist of a Pres-
ident. a Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and an
Executive Committee of three members. These offi-
cers shall be elected annually by ballot and shall hold
oftice until their successors are elected.

ARTICLE VII.—DUTIES OF OFFICERS. ‘

Section 1—The President shall preside at all meetings,
if present; in his absence, the Vice-President.

Section 2—The Secretary shall receive all money due
the Association from any source and pay the same to
the Treasurer, taking his receipt therefor; keep a rec-
ord of all meetings; conduct all correspondence; keep
a list of all members in a book provided for that pur-
pose; and notify all committees of their appointment.

Section 3—The Treasurer shall receive all monies
from the Secretary, giving his receipt therefor; pay all
bills when approved by the Executive Committee, and
report the condition of the treasury at each regular
meeting.

Section 4—The Executive Committee shall have
charge of all matters pertaining to the size, weight,
quality and price of bakers’ goods; shall have author-
ity to visit the bakery of any member of the Associa-
tion at any time and make such investigations as may
be deemed proper; and report to the Association any
irregularity or violation of the rules or regulations of
the Association. The Committee shall also provide
rooms for the Association; audit all bills and ex-
amine the books and accounts of the Secretary and
Treasurer previous to each annual meeting.

ARTICLE 1X.—MEETINGS.

Section 1—The annual meeting of the Association
shali be held on the first Friday of each January.

Section 2—The regular meetings of the Association
shall be held on the first Friday of each month. Special
meetings shall be called by the President on the written
request of five members.

ARTICLE X.—ORDER OF BUSINESS.
1. Resting minutes of the last meeting.
2. Admission of new members.
Report of Executive Committee.
Reports of special committees.
Reading of correspondence.
Unfinished business.
New business.
. Election of officers and appointment of commit-
tees.
9, Report of Treasurer.
10. Adjournment,
ARTICLE XI.—AMENDMENTS.

This constitution and by-laws may be altered or
amended by a two-thirds vote of those present at an
regular meeting, providing a written notice of wk
alteration or amendment. has been presented at the
preceeding regular meeting.

ARTICLE XIL.—BY-LAWS.

By-laws not in conflict with this constitution may be
established for the government of the Association on
the two-thirds vote of the members present at any ses-

sion.
BY-LAWS.
ARTICLE I.—QUORUM.

Seven members shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business.

ARTICLE I.—EXPULSION.

Any member of this Association who shall refuse to
allow the Executive Committee to visit his place of
business at any time or shall refuse to live up to the
rules and regulations of the Association, shall be fined
on the two-thirds vote of the members present at any
regular meetiag. Any member who has been fined
three times shall be expelled on conviction of the
fourth offense.

ARTICLE Ill.— FORFEIT.

Every member shall deposit with the Treasurer the
sum of five dollars, to be forfeited only on conviction
of violation of the agreement.

The committee will also present the fol-
lowing agreement for adoption:

We, the undersigned members of the
Grand Rapids Bakers’ Association, hereby
agree and bind ourselves to adhere in good
faith to the scale of prices, weight, size and
quality of bakers’ goods adopted by our
Association, a copy of which will be fur-
nished to each signer.

It is further agreed that in case any of

ers oe

me signers violate the adopted scale of |.

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prices, either directly or indirectly, such

person or firm shall, upon conviction, for-
feit the sum of Five Dollars, one-half of
which shall be paid to the informant and
one-half to the Association.

Complaints of infractions of the agree-
ment may be made to any member of the
Executive Committee.

Forfeits shall be paid only by order of
a Committee, to be composed of three bak-
ers, one of whom shall be chosen by the in-
formant, one by the aceused and the other
by the two already chosen.

This agreement to go into effect after
official notice has been given by the Secre-
tary of the Grand Rapids Bakers’ Associa-
tion that the unanimous consent of the bak-
ers doing business in the city has been ob-
tained to adhere to the foregoing list of

prices, under the penalties prescribed for]

violation.

It is to be hoped that every baker will be
on hand on Wednesday evening and bring
with him a list of all the goods made by
him. The condition of the bakery business
has not been satisfactory in regard to the
matter of prices, weight, size and quality,
and the movement is one in the right direc-
tion.

ee ee
Crusade Against Questionable Methods.
CHEBOYGAN, June 9, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dear Srr—At the regular meeting of
the Business Men’s Protective Union of

heboygan County, held June 6, I was au-
thorized to write you that there are some
wholesale and jobbing firms in this
State who claim to sell to the retail trade
only, who, in fact, after supplying the re-
tail trade, sell directly to consumers, ho-
tels and boarding houses, which is consid-
ered by our merchants and business men-as
a great injustice to them. The names of
the firms engaged in such manner of trad-
ing are given as follows:

Moran, Fitzsimons & Co., Detroit.

J. H. Black & Co., Detroit.

Detroit Cracker Co., Detroit.

Valley City Milling Co., Grand Rapids.

Hannah, Lay & Co., Traverse City.

Lewis & Fox, Bay City.

It is desired that the Business Men’s As-
sociations in this State co-operate in the
suppression of such unjust methods of trad-
ing. Therefore,you are requested to publish
in Tue TRADESMAN the names of the
above firms engaged in such a course of re-
tail trading to the consumer directly, that
the various Business Men’s Associations
may do allin their power to puta stop to
it. Respectfully,

H. G. Dozer, Sec’y.
——_—.__—_
The Cash System.

A reader of THE TRADESMAN, who con-
templates abandoning the credit business,
recently asked for information on that
point. The enquiry was referred to Frank
Hamilton, of Traverse City, who replied as
follows:

In answer to the gentleman’s enquiry,
‘““How to commence the cash business,” I
should reply, in the language of Greeley,
“The way to, ete.” I should give my trade
ample notice that on and after such a date I
should sell my goods for cash only, stating
my reasons for so doing. I would placard
my store and notice it in the local papers,
giving all to understand my new method.
I would then sell my goods for cash and the
thing is done. Ihave seen many devices
for covering the ground the writer evidently
wishes to cover. One isa coupon system,
which might work in many cases quite well,
It would, however, entail much work and
considerable effort in the introduction of it,
and would probably be thrown out in time.
House currency, if allowed, would be bet-
ter. I think the note system the nearest to
the cash basis of anything and, perhaps, the
best. This plan was advanced at our State
meeting last September by S. Barnes ina
paper read before the convention. I have
never seen anything equal to ‘‘money in
hand.”

——— oo
The Grocery Market.

The past week has not been without inci-
dent, the burning of the Havemeyer refinery
on Friday night, which involved the destrue-
tion of 25,000 barrels. of sugar, having
caused something of a flurry in the sugar
market. All grades are up from ic to 4e
and further advances are by no means im-
probable, as the consumption during the
berry season is necessarily heavy. Rio
coffee declined 1c last Saturday, which was
immediately followed by a like decline on
the part of the manufacturers of package
goods. Corn syrups have sustained an ad-
vance, in accordance with a mandate of the
pool managers. Cheese is tending down-
ward and butter is also down to the usual
June prices.

Fruit jars have taken two jumps during
the past week, amounting to $1 per box,
and every indication points to further ad-
vances of $3 per box during the next fort-
night. :

Oranges and lemons continue in good
supply and cheap in price. Bananas are
coming in, fine quality and prices are reason-
able.

—_——_—___—- -2- <>
Anti-Monopoly Oil.

The Independent Oil Co. still continues to
boom, its sales for last week having exceed-
ed those of any previous week in the history
of the company. Merchants who desire to
establish a connection with anti-monopoly
oil, and thus show their disapproval of the
questionable methods of monopolists, should
es with Manager Marston without

elay.

Recent advances in low-grade leaf tobacco
have caused an upward tendency in the low
grades of manufactured goods. Several
manufacturers have already voted an ad-
vance and others announce that a new
schedule of prices will go into effect on
July 1. Some manufacturers are receiving
orders subject to ruling prices the day the
goods are shipped. Scotten has advanced
‘‘Hiawatha” 3c and his smoking tobaccos
and shorts 1c.

 

 

Farnsworth & Williams, grocers and hard-
ware dealers, Manton: “We cannot do without
your paper.”’

J. H. Williams, grocer, Leroy: ‘The boss of
alltrade papers. Give the dead-beat he—m-
loek.”’

 

 

COUNTRY PRODUCE.-
Asparagus—30@35c per doz. bunches.
Beats—60c 8 doz. ;
Beans—Country hand-picked are held at $1.15

@ bu., and city picked are in fair demand at
$1.40.

Butter—Creamery isin fair demand at 18c.
Dairy is weak at 12 @l8e.

Cabbages—New, $2@$2.25 per crate.

Carrots—50c # doz.

Cauliflower—$2 8 doz.

Cheese—Handlers pay 9c and hold at 10c.

Cucumbers—40 # doz.

Dried Apples—Evaporated, lé6c #8 1b; quarter-
ed and sliced, 6@7c # b.

Dried Peaches—Pared, lic.

Eeys--Jobbers are paying 104@I1lc and selling
for 114@12e.

Honey—Fair demand at 10@138c.

Hay—Baled is moderately active at $14
per ton in two and five ton lots and $13 in
car lots. *

Lettuce—l0c # lb.

Maple Sugar—9¢c # lb.
Onions—New, $1 # bu.
per crate. Bunch, 13c # doz.

Parsley—25c 9% doz

Peas—$1 # bu.

Potatoes—Handlers are paying 80c for all
good varieties and holding at $1. New readi-
ly command $1.75 per bu.

Pop Corn—2%c 8 b.

Pieplant—lc ® b.

Plants—Cabbage or Tomato, 75¢ per box of
200.
Radishes—12@lic # doz.

Spinach—stc# bu.

Strawberries—The crop has never been finer
and larger than this year. The market has
been over stocked most of the time during the
past week and the indications are that the
same condition will rule this week. Dealers
are selling 16 qt. case at $1 and stands at $3.25
@$3 50.

String Beans—$1.25 ® bu.

Tomatoes—$3. 8 bu.

Turnips—3ic # doz.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—Lower. City millers pay 85 cents
for Lancaster and 82 for Fulse and Clawson.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 45c in 100 bu.
lots and i0c in carlots.

Oats—W hite, 36c in small lots and 30@slc in
car lots.

Rye—48@i0c ® bu.

Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 ® cwt.

Flour—No change. Patent,$5.C0% bbl.in sacks
and $5.20 in wood. Straight, $4.30 @ bbl. in
sacks and $4.50 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.40 # bbl.

Mill Feed—Screenings, $14 @ ton. Bran, $14

# ton. Ships, $15 ® ton. Middlings, $16 8 ton.
Corn and Oats, $17 # ton.

Bermudas, 2

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co.
quote as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS.

 

 

NERS TOME oo 5 occ hs il aw oie tin h eisn ns cee oae 16 50
Be ee CE LORE os oo ok ch et sa sc on nacnn ng nes 15 50
Extra clear pig, short cut......... ......-. 17 00
Extra clear, heavy........-. cc ccee cece eeeees 17 60
Clear quill, short cut................-0.00- 17 00
Boston clear, short cut..............00eeee- li 00
Clear back, short Cut............scccececees 17 00
Standard clear, short cut, best............ 17 00
DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy.........--.eeeeeeees
he POO oie cosas cae
- TY Bbc wos ed cenees wees
Short Clears, HREAVY.........-..ceeeccece 8%
do. TROGAII oo ocho i te 5 5 aes a 834
do. BG ns esc hea iin eee 834
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLALN.
Hams, average 20° Tiss. Si le ie eee i
coe es Oy es ais bag en nee 11%
* “ Oe 0 00 Re oo acs ee sees 11%
OA MOT hos ban edi cs ie ios he ect ae oes d
A) DERE DOMOIORS...cdcek cine cnae teases e« 10%
RO ee ial annua nne case 7%
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............+..-4- 10
Dried Beef, extra............... nied ceucae 10%
+ TOAD PHIOCE 2 oo vee ks cess 13
LARD.

NGO og os cone ds Cede ae cee psare 7
BO and 60 TW TUB od icc as on ca ck ence es G%
LARD IN TIN PAILS.

8 Pails, 201n & Case............cccceee 7%

5 D Pails, 12. in @ CASE. ........ 2.0 ccceee 7%

10 b Pails, 6 in a Case ...........-..2000- Tm

20 Pails, 4 pailsin case............... Ty
BEEF IN BARRELS.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 bs........ 8 00
BORGlOSS, CXUIB ei os 5 ooo nas oa ene os see one 12 00
SAUSAGE-—-FRESH AND SMOKED.

POM FAUORRG, . 6 occ es ce deines cess aresans oe), T%
Flair BAUKASE. oo. oo se ss oo es coe eee ee ne 11
Tongue Sausage...........cceeee cess eeees 9
Frankfort Sausage............ cece eee e ce ee 8
MiiGtae ANIGA oo os cc ve ee os on oe va sec 6
Bologna, straight............0..ceeccccceccees 6
FEGIOOTRA, CHICK. oe cook os cacc ne sxceenn-ae ceens 6
IGG CUOGBE. ois nse be vc deki sae ven tok scee te 6

PIGS’ FEET.

TH DAIS DATTONS. «o.oo ccc c cessed esac cebecceses 3 00
In quarter barrels.............eeeceeeeeeeee 1 65
OILS,

ILLUMINATING.

Water White.......... cceeeeeeeee creer eens 114
LUBRICATING.

OEM os ie hee cine a thee taas cant 11%
Capitol Cylinder. ..........ccccceesecesereces 86%
Model Cylinder,......2..2...ccccccccessceees 31%
RIG OBO OE. one ico cae cere cue wena cn cees 26%

Eldorado Emgine.............sccescccecccees 23
Peerless Machinery................+-.eeeeee 20
Challenge Machinery..............0222eseee 19
WO a ak cic ce kip ns ba ceceanncount 20%
Black, Summer, West Virginia... ......... 9
BGK, 267 GO GM o.oo i vccctvecctececceces 04 10
PO AB ices cen sacnah nr saeeun tenes li
BRE bos ss case Dy rae bias des cae .-12%

 

HIDES, PELTS AND FURS.
Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.
Green ....@ b5%@ 6 |Calf skins, green

 

Part cured... 7 @7%| orcured....7 @8
eee te 7%@ 8% Pe skins, 0 200
ry es an @CC..... 1
BIOS 5 0.555: 8 @12 ”
SHEEP PELTS.

Old wool, estimated washed # D...... 25 @26
ON oo ac ao you Sule th kp pants be aoe ch be 38 @3%
WOOL.

Fine washed #  22@25|Coarse washed. . .26@28
Medium ......... 27@30|Unwashed........ 16@22
OYSTERS AND FISH.

¥F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
OYSTERS.
Fairhaven Counts ................ sake ciel ee
FRESH FISH.
SE MR ois hi ks no es cos eed abst anes 9
PROG VOOR i ayes khre ca dsad van sveciee sce 4
POTOR. .. 05. cick. esse calus Gey buh wdckswicanancisbs 4
WVGIPOVOG TUMC. oo... icc ec cs cece aeb sete snes 7
DUCKABUE DIRC oes. oo ince a cca cece ce sdaneces 7
SURI OO Ns 5 kn be es Sods e'd sen ace abs coos sani bene 6
Sturgeon, smoked.................0008 ce eees 8
INOUE: foes cas cues Pee beaver eee dbus cekaven 9
RE GINOGG. ook ccs ics sinned bins co ende es 10
We RO oss esas oe cng s Mla hgehe bias ante 9
Whitefish, smoked....... ae pick ads nlusaces ables JO
Brook Trout... ss..cescessreces beet ibss eas 50
Frogs’ Legs, per dozen................0085 25@65
FIELD SEEDS.
Clover, mammoth........ ROR aig @4 25
” oc oa oe ee eee peenen @4 25
THOT Y, PLUNGE. «6. 65 ves cce ces cecesees @1 9

 

=PrALUAS

Makes a Specialty of ~*

Butter and Eggs, Fruits and Oysters.
Cold Storage in Connection. All Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention.

We Handle the Celebrated “ROCK BRAND” Oysters.
No. 1 Egg Crates for Sale. Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used. 50 cents each.

217 and 219 Livingstone Street,

See Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

Groceries. °

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

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

 

AXLE GREASE.
CROWD: 6.o ei ssn ses 80\Paragon ........... 210
MYAZOI SG, os ss ceo 90'/Paragon 25 b pails.: 90
Diamond X........ 60\Fraziers, 25 Ib pails.1 25
Modoc, 4 doz....... 2 50
BAKING POWDER.
Acme, 4 cans, 8 dOZ. CASE........e cece ee 85
owas a ee ee a eaes 1 60
shy > * 1 * eg seo ue an ee 3 00
* I oo bce he ce ceed suaa ces deeetee 25
PrINOGOGs: Oe aa ok oc ie cade cee shes dth eed ede 1 25
e WOM cal A ck Secs sunt banensabanseee 2 25
“ ale cca h edvacsen ans 25
- TE ak aon bs us Cu sn ens cok ded 28
Arctic, % tb cans, 6 doz. case..............- 45
= My = 4 it sve dbebiaweekeas i
- % - oe “ Seek wow alte hae 1 40
“ ee a ee, 2 40
e .* Oo os oa aus 12 00
Victorian, 1 b cans, (tall,) 2 doz..... ......- 2 00
SPR, TN a ov ds wee es cas ance 15
BLUING
Dry, No.2...

   
  
  
  
 
  

banc cui es hee caekas doz.
Dry, No. 3.. :
Liquid, 4 02z,..
Liquid, 8 02. .

 
   

  

 
 
  
  
 
 

Arctic 4 0Z........ 8 gross 3 50
PPORIO TE OF. oo aa cen ectee - +20
PCG TA OB oon cccvne de ccedess - 12 00
Arctic No. l pepper box......... . 200
Arctic No. 2 * Fe oss bus eke aan 3 00
Arctic No.3 - We es cee ces oe . 400
BROOMS.
NO. SBUr oo oc. is. 1 7%5|Common Whisk.... 90
No. 1 Hurl....2 00@2 25|Faney Whisk...... 1 00
No. 2Carpet........ PSs Fac caa ice secon 3 75
No.1Carpet........ 2 50;Warehouse ........ 2 75
Parlor Gem........ 3 00}
; CANNED FISH.
Clams, 1 fb, Little Neck.................... 110
Crain Cowen, 0D, 6.85 cs wo note 0 cece ae 2 15
Cove Oysters, 1 b standards..............
Cove Oysters, 2 ib standards............. 75
Lobsters, 1 I picmic. .............- eee ee eee 1 %5
Lopsters, 2 TH, Piowile. .... i's. c edness cane 2 65
LORRtGre, 0 Ws BURR. ions occ bach ccindeccveds 2 00
TODSLOLR, % BCRP. wc neces cw dicen asccees 3 00
Mackerel, 1 f® fresh standards............ 1 45
Mackerel, 5 ib fresh standards............ 5 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 D........... 3 50
Mackerel,3 hin Mustard.................- 3 50
Mackerel, 3  soused..................000- 3 50
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river............... 17
Salmon, 2 f Columbia river............... 3 00
Sardines, domestic 48........ Deh vubes Gauss 6@7
Sardines, domestic 148...............200 10@12
Sardines, Mustard %8..............0e cece 9@11
Sardines, imported \4S...........-...--00+ 12@13
"Peon. BO BROOK. 5 ove ss ac cc sdessces Jiace SOO
CANNED FRUITS.
Apples, gallons, standards................ 3 75
Blackberries. standards.................4. 30
Cherries, red standard.................... 1 20
Re oy in Seb ioacednse acess 1 00
Egg Plums, standards ...............-0- 115
COE oo roc cade ee fs cacececes ds 85
Green Gages, standards 2 I........-...... 115
Peaches, Extra Yellow .................6.. 175
Peaches, standards................-+ cece 1 55
POAGHOS, SECONGE. ... 2... cc ce cceccecscscess 1 45
OBC NG oo cen ca wk ius sdemseagns 110
ek dae snes coe naeecuunes ee 11
Pineapples, standards................eee0- 1 35
RECO a eg iene oases cas cnves ce anee ne 115
TASDUOTTIOR, GREE. oo oo... c sss acesese ce 1 25
* WON ic cach cb iicdss as 1 35
PCPA recap wcedi cee costaans 1 20
WETOPE IO DGREICS on ooo oo ck ne nae cn nnmeas 34
CANNED VEGETABLES.
BapaEnges OWAUOP BBG 66 ooo is nk ccc n ee ne 2 00
Beans, Lima, standard..................4 75
Beans, Stringless, Erie..................6 90
Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked.............. 170
Corn, Archer’s Trophy...............e000 1 40
OS MEOPIING: GIONY. «os ond cece dss ca ee
Ne es aa ky we Boies 40s aa Suiclavns
O'R BOO oc dic vac sedne: weed
OF Pk bs gas ok wenans ooas 1 35
he a cal acav el iwieee causaeeeeds 1 50
OO CR coc ais p cane nanos cuscss 139
OW PRORGOR. ooo ocd cs ccc ca cceescenss 115
WA PAMIEIOOR signs cha cacdasassaees conepas 110
POOR; BVOC oii ile ce cede ss eeeageess 1 50
Peas, extra marrofat.................. 1 20@1 40
PRR. Boas i ois oa Chon ccc nens 75
“ Earty June, stald............... 1 50@1 75
- _ Oh) UMS el iva ct ica ka as 2 00
** French, extra fine..... Cor ois wees ee 20 00
Mushrooms, extra fine............. -ceeeee 20 00
Pumpkin, 3  Golden.............-0..00+:: 110
Succotash, standard..................00- 80@1 30
RO cid cand nscale cs cumensnns 1 00
Tomatoes, standard brands.............-. 1 20
CHEESE.

Michigan full cream................5+ lOGid%
York State, ACME, ..)..5.....600- 0 @lul%
CHOCOLATE.

Wilbur’s Premium..35|German Sweet....... 23

a Sweet...... 25| Vienna Sweet ....... 22
at B’kf’tCocoa 45| Baker’s .............. 37
* Cocoa-theta 42| Runkles’ ............- 35
* Vanilla Bar 28
COCOANUT.
GOROPUE, 16. oi oc ck acess ace ves ers @25
as TO GG MB ee ik enc s xt once @26
” MO ics cen yak po saenes @27
” ie in tin pails........-....... @27%
. % Me ease bene aace @28%
DRO HOW 6, Bias oink. con ds 40 ence cans thos @23%
a = Ay ces ccee teens ont
. OE ccnkadaces sen cancaseaees 24M
Manhattan, pails..............2..-266- @20 .
POO oes wcecdin see naneeens @18
PR oo os ee ee Oe haw cat wend eon @15
COFFEES—PACKAGE,
60 ibs 100 bs 300 bs
PaO as ok eo coded pec oeadsenes 27
Lion, in cabinets................ 27%
OT ck cadence osatecees 27% 27% «27
EVIOUNOE DE ois Vcc cd and ab dau oe ak 273% 2744 27
2746
ke 27
PROTON ooo akc cab che tecseeeds ss 27
German, in bins................- 27%
MOB oe cease cnscaekeanane 27
MIG cae ecucndncdeteseadns oeeus 273% 27% 27
MOTIONS Bocce cde ot Cdaanenesns 18 818 18
COFFEES.
Green. Roasted.
WG a ic asa es BIDSS. [RIO .. 2. ee cosets 25@28
Golden Rio... ..22@24 |Golden Rio.....26@27
Santos.......... 28@25 jSantos.......... 24@27
Maricabo....... 23 Maricabo.......26@27
SQ08 ..4..4.5. 23@25 |Java.......... -26@31
O. G. Java...... 24@27 |O.G. Java...... 27@33
Mocha ......... 25@26. |Mocha... ......31@32
CORDAGE.
60 foot Jute..... 100 (50 foot Cotton....1 60
72 toot Jute ..... 12% |60 foot Cotton....1 75
40Foot Cotton....150 |72 foot Cotton....2 00
CRACKERS AND SWEET GOODS.
xX XXX #bD
Kenosha Butter..............+. : 6%
5
4%
5
F Oyst 4% 7
ancy Oyster.........-...205--
PRNOY BONG iii ka cesses edeveses 5
City We sheds win ba os cabs ed's 7%
By eet tk ac eeeneuaees s 5%
haw eeauekeeen 7
TRON Fo. bic snc eue spaceu ceed ads 7
NE oe ik, oc nk ewntecases 8
PIAS MOON io conve ie cence ines nes 8
Pretzels, hand-made........... 1%
WVOURGI sg cece ane ewancecs secues 9%
Cracknels ........ EE 15%
Lemon Cream..............2++- 7 8
Sugar Cream.............eeeees t 8
Frosted Cream............0006 8%
Ginger SnapS............-+--+- 7 8
No. 1 Ginger Snaps............ 7
Lemon Smaps...........-.see0- 12%
Coffee Cakes... .. cs. .cecc ce ceess 8%
Lemon Wafers............+. ee 138%
DVR IGE 22. ij cesit kc caress sess es ls
Extra Honey Jumbles......... 12%
Frosted Honey Cakes......... 18%
Cream GemS.............eeeees 13%
peerexe COME oC eilivineec snd 13%
OG GOMGG. a5 5s ces ice vce ccess 12%
8. & M, CAKes. <. 5.00.60: boas 8%
DRIED FRUITS—FOREIGN.
coisa ss kc a Vvacea eens ep ekie 19 @ 22
CR i cccbians curb icraake 5%@ 6
az i is ake ‘ 2 ¥
range Peel....... 4
Prunes, French, 608.............02+200+ @10%
Oe NG, We ois Sain c oeb eee cs ie @ 8
#9 ON. GOs oo 5 oe 5s cc ce cencuae @%
O01 indo sch oa ceed anes obs ; @5
POOR ii oi bic ascienscvencace 5
Raisins, Dehesia..................0000% 3 50@5 00
Raisins, London Layers............... @1 80
Raisins, California “* .............. @1 65
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.............. 1 1 56
Raisins, Ondaras, 288............ .. ... 84@ 8%
ip UGB oasis oy ve nk code vies & 8%
Raisins, Valencia, neW............066+ Ss on
Raisins, Imperials.............ccceeeee

 

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We, WO i a as vic ss sees ee 5@5%
Cad, DONGIOES.... ..- 6 es cece enscedes Gece iee 54@6%
POITIEES 5c ocx Caubadcs cancadec s- tayaee 8%4@ 9%
Herring, round, % bbl................ @2 90
Herring ,round, %4 Dbbl..................6- 1 75
Herring, Holland, bbls................... 11 60
Herring, Holland, kegs................. 68@75
PEGPPORE ONO os dak ca eis<os~ 4 ¢e5es- WWG22
Mackerel, shore, No. 1, % bbis............ 20 LO
* - Ue acs. 2 CO
“ * Oe ee es 2 50
" GE ty We Oso ook k i ac balun cence: 6 50
Sardines, SPiGGd, 48.06. .6. ce oc cece cesses: 10@12
ONE: a cc cia ci in pode av aeckaene aces 5 AO
OP i oo osc acd ds bd crensmeeee 85
NU Re PAO Bae NE iin cc cewcceages coseetks 7 50
WRG NO. 1, Ue We UGB on oo ce cei cacccccce 110
WEIGG, NO, 2, TW Bite. on oo nc cccnctacnce 1 00
White, Family, % bbls...................25 375
“ WO A oad u ede cacdpauccauses 75
FLAVORING ee.
emon. Vanilla.
Jennings’ D. C.,2 0z.......... 8 doz. 1 00 1 6
_ bei vakccccesie 150 265
” OY eal uddedan eas 250 425
< Oe Osis iw id de ceca 3 50 5 00
. FAO BOCs ks cies s 1 25 1-7
“ o Oe. 75 300
- “ % pint, rourd......: 450 900
. * | ‘ Mm  edecee Ge 1B OS
" * NO. @ PANEL... 6s. sees 110 18
“ * No.8 FS eae hie 2 75 5 00
”" “Oe ee, 4 25 7 00
MATCHES.
Grand Haven, No. 8, square................ %
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro........... 115
Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor.............. 1 7d
Grand Haven, No. 300, parlor.............. 2 2
Grand Haven, No. 7, round................ 1 50
CT, FOG Fives ci ees kc neh seis eccece 1 00
UMNO ills Boo ooo ae cccs ne ce awavacge OM
a os oo Shas hoes is eek ca cn awas 5
Richardson’s No.8 square....,............. 1 00
Richardson’s No. 9 ee eo 1 56
Richardson’s No. 74%, round................. 1 00
Richardson’s No. 7 Me eee caa cnc cee 1 50
WW Rs ao ope singe dguNd s nes o's bce o 115
it MOLASSES.
ac UE 5s bbe ead cdpies Chae caseccaves 6
NT AS es ia ade ose
WOMU SEs oi oo ss heeds Chek sin si da cues veka 74@30
HG COTOMNS, BOON oo i. sic. co cacas axe oo 28@34
New Orleans, ChOICC.....  ...cccecccecccccs 44@50
New Orleans, TAUNCY, 25.25 66.6 cc cbse cc cccs 52@55
4 bbis. 2c extra
OATMEAL { ROLLED OATS
Barreis.............5 75] Barrels. ..........«. 5 75
Half barrels........3 00|Half barrels...... .3 00
be 2 25@3 25)Cases......... 2 25@3 25
PICKLES.
Medium chdcwhuccdsdaccocadce: eceukiness @7 00
ei Oe oe ie a os 0
“ MG PW ves cde vc id acicusacaass @t 75
PIPES.
Tmporteé Clay, No. 216,38 gross..... .. 2 00
Imported oe No. 216, 2% gross. oi 75
PO as a ee eae @ id
RICE.
Choice Carolina..... 1 UMM ke aces sees 5%
Prime Carolina..... PROS oo os. seas cases 5%
Good Garolina......54%)Rangoon....... @4'4
Good Louisiana..... 5%4|Broken.. ances 34G3%
TMOG sick de haa ouend DRA MIRTD oo ka oaac cease 5%
SALERATUS.
DeLand’s pure...... 54/|Dwight’s ............ 5
Chureh’s ...........8 (Sea Foam...........05
Taylor's G. M.......6 |Cap Sheaf........... 5
4c less in 5 box lots.
SALT.
@ Pocket, FF Dairy. i... 5.055. ccccce 2 00@2 25
Me WO cc cs i wena. encaancnecesas 1 90@2 15
FO Oa oii cick cc cccaneccane 2 3
Saginaw or Manistee.................. 75
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... SU
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 3815
Higgins’ English dairy bu. bags...... 75
American, dairy, % bu. bags.......... 20
WEN TO os co oc bec conus ace ce =
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags...... 40
. . ee veces 20
SAUCES.
Parigtar, 4 DIB... coven esas s sec as Q2 00
Pepper Sauce, red small.. ne @ 70
Pepper Sauce, green.......... ce ceeceee @ 80
Pepper Sauce, red large ring......... @1 %
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring...... @I1 50
Catsup, Tomato, pints................. @
Catsup, Tomato, quarts .............. @1 2
Halford Sauce, pints..............0.68 3 50
Halford Sauce, % pints................ @2 20
SOAPS,
OOUR co ices cces cus 3 $5| Extra Chicago Fam-
WMG iced oecccs WN TI ia cc aaahacssss 2 94
New Process, 1 ..3 85| Napkin............. 4 75
New Process, 3 ..3 96/Towel.............. 4 75
Acme, bars........ 3 55, White Marseilles..5 50
Acme, blocks..... 3 05; White Cotton Oil..5 50
Best American....2 93|R&ilroad ........... 3 50
CHPOUS C... 540. Ltd PE OG hoc sede ckucea xs 3 45
Big Five Center...3 85|Mystic White....... 4 65
TGMGL. ogo 5 ccc, 3 45)\Saxon Blue........2 60
Shamrock.......... SAE cc ants de ds 375
Blue Danube....... 2 55|London Family....2 30
SPICES—WHOLE.
PUIG si ices eke kdcccd cect caceasases 6%
Cassia, Ching im mats... .. ..ecscccece 6%
‘* Batavia in bundles............ lv
| BAMONE I FOB. ii cn sc nce es ess 40
COVE AIMMDOVNE. .. «2... oc csc ceca esse 28
OY PP as igh ine souk des adee zt
OO oa ok sin wins cece dea duns 60
PRUGIOM, THUGS o.oo ks cans ca cccvccssees 7
" Oy a 65
“ TOG Bie vendiee ass 60
Pepper, Singapore, black........ es lu%
" ™ WEIN cin eenieed 2y
SPICES—PURE GROUND.
Me 4 a cous ras can cadens dl
COBMI, FIGIATIG. ooo ac oi vas cocsecesss 1b
- ” and Saigon............ 25
St: FO oo bi sc akes card nah e deve 2
CHOCO, AUADOPTR ik oo sock cccacccunces 32
" UU ones cc cc cancel 6 aeee 3l
CEMOT I IOO ooo oa es ve on os cs canons ss 10
OF CO ood s cd ctbccucncctee 15
OO | GOL hae wane ee odds cness 18@22
WRG NE oi ink Ba csnk coed cecedeces 70
PEMBEREG, HOPG. 553s cn cs se sees as 20
. = and Trieste......... 22
” ON a Ss anes = eveoece 25
PEUBINGRG, NGG Hii oes b tb ides cies dances 65
Pepper, Singapore black......... De 21
wie ” WN oid bscdsens 32
. CV OTIG aks oo is ha seca sees 25
STARCH.
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 b boxes, 1 pkgs... @ 5%
“ “ 48 Ty “ 3 b - @ 5%
“ “« 40b “BOE .. canis @4
“ “« 72 I crates, 6 fh boxes.. @ 6%
** Corn, 40 i boxes, 1  pkgs.... @6
be: “8 we asee @ 6%
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 ) pkgs.... @t
of “ * 6 boxes... @ ik
Li “ A co sacs @ 6%
“ Pure, 1  pkgs............ @ 5%
* Corn, 1  pkgs............ @T
Royal, Gloss, 1 peetages Lauda (eae @ 5%
” et RS ae ee @4
CORT ... vee nese cece ese cc ences: @ 6
Firmenich, new process, gioss, 1 B.... @ 5%
“ ° Oise. @ 5%
“ “ “: €0.... @ 6%
** bulk, boxes or bbls @4
“ ** corn, I BB. .. <<..ses @ 6
PRION, BIOGB i oy co ce sc seca seks es @ 5%
* CE so ah ii cdc ne aban esas @6
SUGARS.
Ce Fah. Skis Sake hcnecendascces @ 6%
CO ie ei a co ae endueues @ 655
WP ic ig vs caves oo cn ca dencdos as GS 6%
Granulated, Standard... ............ @6.31
COMBTOGTIONONY A... oo ocscsc ccsecccececs @ 5%
I Fo sa wa ewecndeunae cess @ 5%
No. 1, White Bxrtra. C...... 6. ...500.6.. 5%@ 5%
WR PRN hs Sh os eas ci ds dade nsesescs @ 5%
OO ake bac sdcvces caehesacees @ 5
iad io ons edu weca ds capes @ 4%
TG ek cas cow's nae de sbdecsdeauneexaces @ 4%
i SYRUPS.
Corn, WE ovis ase Was dendccccea @27
Ce FE a a ik oa da we cee ste gsedaucs @29
Corn, t0 gallon kegs............-. 20200 3
Corn, 5 gallon kegs................0000 @32
PAG SuGar, WO. 6 oe sce cde ccs ce cscces 23@
Pure Sugar, % Dbl... 2.0.6... eee eee eee 25@37
TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN PALLS.
Uncle Tom...........37|/Bad Boy.............. 36
What Is It?........... 25|Cinderella............ 25
COHN oo un cc nannies 60)Hi There............. 30
Five and Seven...... 45|Red Cap......... ceuscee
MaMNOE. oo inc cie cies: 23|Cross Cut... ........00 35
Seal of Detroit....... GONG FIIs. sa dic cesceces 35
Jim Dandy........... 88/Old Time............. 30
Oar TREE. oo. oss eesess 25; Underwood’s Capper 35

Brother Jonathan.. 27 Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35

 

  

Jolly Time........... BE LIED ave nods catcasds 35
Our Leader.......... 33|Royal Game.......... 38
Sweet Rose.......... 32|Mule Ear............. 66
May Queen....... .65|Fountain............. 74
Dark AmericanEagle6é7'|Old Congress......... 64
The Meigs...........- 60/Good Luck........... 52
TRO Fs ov icc codecs 50|Blaze Away.......... 35
Prairie Flower .......65|Hair Lifter........... 30
Indian Queen........ 60| Hiawatha ............ 65
May Flower..... ein MURIOEND avi dcecececdess 65
Sweet Pippin........ 45|\Crown Leaf..... .... 66
BEUMGION oo baie ke nskace SZIBUNSCL. 0... . cececccscs 36
SHORTS.
Gor Leader.......... 2 oe booms i vewoed aude S
ayflower Sugids ongress
Globe........... ekiva 22\|May Leaf... 222
Mule Ear............ $OOUEIOEM b cic vc ccs cbacee dae

 

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Eye Opener.........-. 25)Biue Blazes......... 25
Pauper ............. BApCOP PO ve cos ccveceeess 35
Peach Pie............ S3i\Jupiter ..... betcioeds 25
a re ere 37|Night Cap............ 22
Old Solder...........- 37\Splendid ............ 38
COIOE cic sccice dese BAe BUR k bode eves cdes 40
Corner Stone. ....... 34\Big Drive............40
Secalping Knife......34,;Chocolate Cream....4@
PUAN LOGE, oi 6x ccc scca GAOT os oh iv cnt eas 35
WORE occ c ccs a cavc ste ee erve Comter.. .... 33
JOY FUME. «6 .c<ekess Ga OETOW cckndaidasedscas 42
VOTRE 5s icecenscus A TROUT 6 cia ce capiccecc 35
MOO Pt og ken ncs $2| Black Prince......... 35
Live and Let Live...32)' Black Racer......... 35
Quaker...........-... ROCHON fies ee cee cee 42
Big Nig...... a 5 5 cE a one pi cctcnctss 30
Spear Head.......... di\Horse Shoe.......... aT
WY cscingnuctdunceecs TL VAIOO oink bwnsas cccces 34
Spring Chicken......36 Merry War........... 26
MOTO oi cc cc dscdanss 30;\Ben Franklin........ 32
TUPROY. 2. co cccncsese TIO ooo necs cade ndes 34
OO ca. nae nes ced nee 24\ Black Jack........... 82
ji) a ee .....22| Musselman’s Corker.30
SMOKING
We 6 cacti vccs 80|Pure ...... ceeecsei as 15
Our Leader.......... PONE, x6 cane cudcsacesus. 20
CR oc cnc c TIME ho ce oaks Gh cadens 30
pg ee ee 27\ Eight Hours..
Navy Clippings ee MO can venns discs
TION ou ccias eas
Hard Tack...........30, Duke’s Durham.....
BUI dca vata cesaaeee 26 Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
UU RR a og ne 6 adecie ds MOR. hs oi cc ukcccs cece 5
Arthur’s Choice..... Me Id 6 oa 06 oc ce ccee q
ROG WOR oc vaca dcsecs 26|Uncle Sam........... 2%
Coie EPOGE. oo. 5ceccsss 26 Lumberman ......... 25
Gold Block........... 31 Railroad Boy......... 36
Seal of Grand Rapids |MountainRose....... l
CGRORD) 5k da cence 25 Home Comfort....... 25
Miners and Puddlers.28 Old Rip............... 60
WOCUIONS . o.5 occecnccs 24 Seal of North Caro-
TAPS co ccc cckne ct. Ain Ons. ns ccs: 48
Old TOM......<...--- 18 Seal of North Caro-
Tom & Jerry......... me eh, AON... 48
MONO. oe cnccccea esas 25|Seal of North Caro-
PE OMONNE ovo can anees Sy He, SO8.... 52.650. 45
Maiden ............... 25|Seal of North Caro-
Pickwick COO. oc sacs 40) lina, 16 oz boxes... .42
Nigger Head......... 26|King Bee, longeut.. .22
ACRE 5 2a conc wena cs 22\Sweet Lotus........ 32
NN dos dc cc cans 15 Grayling .............38
Honey Dew.......... 26(/Seal Skin... .......04. 30
Colonel’s Choice.....15|Red Clover. ......_._32
Queen Bee. ........22;\Good Luck......... 26
Pere: WU, occa 5c MORIN J acs ccc ces se
SNUFF. 7
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen..... 5
- DEOOOG 6 gos ccd cose cccece @ 55
Gail & Ax’ OY age es isaac ca. @ 44
“ PU, css cckancesncecss @ 3%
Railroad Millis Scotch................. @ 45
MMMM 6b oo ab dd co ca ce cnce cs decease @l 30
a ‘ TEAS,

OS ORI oo akc soca cccvccsadeece cose
GEMINI TNE WP OOo 66 nov ce de cece ccaccacs sone
ONO ole ca cdbeeiescl ck. B5@45
I i icin dei ccssins cic kl, 15@20
WON PUNO oo ois c ssc ceeecceccec ce. 2045
ya WOON oo oie oideeeccs a 35@5
Gbgee 2... 8 33@55@
CI sin bh bs ceca dndh can ciccsescaccc... Reem

VINEGAR,
R0gr. 5
bk ay WN oo oanes ee he cca, a we
TO oo os ca snechedtese tnaccacca @
Work State Apne. .....<..ccccecs : ie
MISCELLANEOUS.
Beatle FRVIGEE TADOREOG . oo... ccc dnc ccccuce 90
. do ee pod casa ess cdhn ae 5
MAGN UG Wo id on dacnc cccvecdicadec 7
do eas oid dele dkoccececaccc, eS
do DE Bio ibs cob cccdccdicsduc: 90
Coeod Shelig, WUIR.. .. ......sccceccccce @4
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand......... @i 7
Cream Tartar 5 and 10  cans......... @25
APU TION ooh ok dnc enh ccccccdccccces @ll
MI, Ro ok oo vo kc cc cencucuece. @12
Camphor, 08., 2B DOROG.......ccccccee @35
Extract Coffee, V. C............. coueas @s0
. & OUI shes osck acaas @1 26
Fire Crackers, per Dox.........<...... @i 20
WCAG PON, DION. 5 ooo one ck oo ic ccc @l1 00
C . ere is teases seeeas @12 00
ME bch os ce canes cece, b15
Gum, Rubber 100 iumps............... ba
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. ............ @35
a oo goa s cs con ccscccccdsacse 30@35
WMI Oe Ooo aoc os con dnc cccceccce @3 00
aeGeen es TEh OE ID onc cnc cccse cece cee 5 @5%
Oe no hoc oaks ca veseceeca 2%@ 3
Peas, Green Bush.......... «on @1 15
Peas, Split Prepared. @3
Ws PE ooo nak icc dens nc ceccccsss @5 00
OOO MO een ini. ccc cc cacaacacns @2 73
a oa isda ae kc @ ib
MO ae a oc vac ac ede cecdicniaas @T
WOUMONO aie isk @7
CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS,
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows :
STICK.
Standard, FS WD DOMES, «o.oo oc cc ccccccecs 8%@ 9
Twist, OS © ee ow. @s
Cut Loaf do a uci badane ees @10
MIXED
ee oa oc aca dcncnccecces @ 9
Nts ME eos ko ince cecsadeeces @8
MEREIG, WO DON c os oo ds oo cc cn ce ccacs @10
ee a ie st @9
French Cream, 25  pails.............. @1%
Grae at Oe GU a ca vea cade @10
BOROMOT, Oe BP UG. 5 oc cc ce casccnccectes @10
RW, TT Oe I i osc co ccccccceuucas @?
FANCY—IN 5 ib BOXES.
MOS TOOTING soos ic ande scceac daaceeaee @i2
ee OI ia oa css ce kee cakan @l3
Peppermint TMOnG...... ..<sccscascesses @13
IONE BIOFI o idoc oc csnc cdaccadeans 14
HM Chocolate Drops........ccccccccces 18
GOUT BI i nike bk dose od ce cc eccecccaceus 10
RMI BIPIN a 6a sc cons ndcnceeensseass 22
de Th EAROBICS DKODS.. cccscccccccces 2
IN NEN cc cg hi sca cocecee ss 14
MAMOTOG, TPTIGGG 6 5 5 on os iccdacccdsedeas 15
IE 66. is oe ods bs cecs cc cusedsudncecse 14
TN 6s oc cana as da cdxapadacedadcaaas lb
WN, dg oui oc cual and cuscaccnans 2
AMIN TI gn dn cece ccecucadecesdeneues 2
NI, 6 oi dio 4.00 db sas cect ccecgcnasces e 18
Hand Made Creams..........cccccccccces 18
I ON igo on vad accccccabiaccceéas 16
Decorated Cre@msé....... .cccccsccsccess 20
NI MO ooo ch as ce ccanecss cotacesces 13
Burnt Almonds... ‘ 22
Wintergreen Berries........... .. .-... 14
FANCY—IN BULK.
Lozenges, plain in pails............... @11%
Lozenges, plain in bbis................ @10%
Lozenges, printed in pails............. @l2%
Lozenges, printed in bbis............. @ul%
Chocolate Drops, in pails.............. @l2%
Gum Drope in pails... ....ccccccccccs @ 6%
Gum Drone, 1 DDS... oc os cccccccccecs @ 5%
Mas Drone, 1M PAMUB. . 6. xc ccccccccccecs 9 @10
Moss Drops, in bbls................ asda @9
Sour Drops, in pails..............0.00e @iz2
TRIPOPIRIB, TN DAI. 6... oc ccc ccsccccccce @12%
pe @1l%
FRUITS.
WO eek suisse cubaceseuckse 1 75@3 50
Oranges, California, fancy............ @
Oranges, California, choice........... @3 50
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls................
Oranges, Florida...............
Oranges, Valencia, cases. .
Oranges, Messina.......... 3 59@4 00
Oranges, OO.......... : @
Oranges, Imperials.. 3 56@4 00
Lemons, choice...... .3 00@3 50
EMO TAG oa oo odd de ccddéaccedecéess 8 50@4 00:
samen uae a gaaecadudsiecseaads

gs, layers, new, @D................. 10 1
te, BU, PI, occ cos csedeccéscctecdi g
WO BUM GD ho od dcncccccdchanccsccn 5%
RN A GO 0 inna de. fcaccdcdcckcecas wy
Dates, Fard 10 h box ® ............. oneto
Dates, Fard 50 ib box @ .............. @ 8
Dates, Persian 50 b box ® D.......... 7 @i%
Pine Apples, @ doz..............2.00. 2 00@3 00

NUTS.

Almonds, Tarragona...............+0: 1T*#@18.

“ Ivaca...... cue @l7

or

WPRMNIORC, ETI cia cncs vs docs cede dewce $10

es BOON 5 6 dace os vv cnaness: @ 9

Walnuts, Grenoble.................00 1 @Ii7

i INN 5 555 Cinnt es daanasaass 15

. ° RGR oc ic teks cede cceeccis ll

Pecans, Texas, H. P.......... wivewecus 10 @i4

“ Pes vi oc ce nccnacataccse 8 @ 9
COmOmMIIER, TI. « ions eine cc ceccckcce 5 50@6 00:

PEANUTS.

Prime Red, raw @ D........ccessceee ‘ @4
Choice do Oe shed cctadavcausas @ 4%

Fancy H.P. do OO icacecivindsccdeis 4%@ 5
Choice White, Va.do ......ccccccccccce 5.

Oe ee CR GUD dae caccdcs cacceeds g 6

We Os i hc oh be co cece ccadiuas 5%@ 6.

FRESH MEATS,
John Mohrhard quotes the trade selling
prices as follows:
NOME BUOGE, BI oo node ch cccncesvevie 54@ 7%

   
 

Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ 5 9
URMINGE, FEO ia 6c 66 hccdee ca ceakcneeunee “= 6%
Mutton..... Wiha e chad ba ch ck de ceances 74@ 8
RMS BOE ccc ccddock os edaccatieeda @12%
WE iu 1 cic cona ch acasdcandestecaetecnss 7 1%
Pork Sausage....... 4 8
Bologna....... as @ 6
WOWIS. di cedess . 2 @13
DIGGRS ook cocks @
UPROUS ciccivaceeeds ae @i3.
Lard, kettle-rendered................. T44@8

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Drugs & Medicines

State Board of Pharmacy.

One Year—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.

Two Years—James Vernor, Detroit.

Three Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Four Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Five Years—Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso.
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.

Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.

Next Meeting—At Detroit, July 5 and 6.
Special Meeting—At Petoskey, July 15 and 15.

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.

President—Frank J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids.

First Vice-President—Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Loomis.

Second Vice-President—Henry Harwood, Ishpeming.

Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit.

Secretary—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.

Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.

Executive Committee—Geo. W. Crouter. J. G. Johnson,
Frank Wells, Geo. Guandrum and Jacob Jesson.

Local Secretary—Guy M. Harwood, Petoskey.

Next Place of Meeting—At Petoskey, July 12, 13 and 14.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884.

President—Geo. G. Stekettee.

Vice-President—H. E. Locher.

Secretary—Frank . — -

Henr . Fairchild.

ee eer Consors President, Vice-President and Sec-

tary.

Board of Trustees—The President, John E. Peck, M. B.
Kimm, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen and 0. H. Richmond.
wen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White and Win. L. White.

Committee on Trade Matters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair-

ild and Hugo Thum.

Cuebees on, Legislation—R. A. McWilliams, Theo.
Kemink and W. H. Tibbs. A

Committee on Pharmacy—W. L. White, A. C. Bauer and

Watts.
seoeier Meetings—First Thursday evening in each
month. .
Annual Meeting—First Thursday evening in November
Next Meeting—Thursday evening, July 7, at THE
TRADESMAN office.

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.

ORGANIZED OCTOBER, 1883.
President—Frank Inglis. _
First Vice-President—F. W. R. Perry.
Second Vice-President—J. J. Crowley.
Secretary and Treasurer—F. Rohnert.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—A. B. Lee.
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June.
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in each month.

Central Michigan Druggists’ Association.
President, J. W. Dunlop; Secretary, R. M. Mussell.

Berrien County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, H. M. Dean; Secretary, Henry Kephart.

Clinton County Druggists’ Association.
President, A. O. Hunt; Secretary, A. 8. Wallace.

Charlevoix County Pharmaceutical Society
President, H. W. Willard; Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.

 

Ionia County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, W. R. Cutler; Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.

 

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Jackson County Pharmaceutical Ass'n,
President, R. F. Latimer; Secretary, F. A. King.

 

 

Se ia ueiienines
Kalamazoo Pharmaceutical Association.
President, D. O. Roberts; Secretary, D. McDonald.

 

 

Mason County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, F. N. Latimer; Secretary, Wm. Heysett.

Mecosta County Pharmaceutical Society.

President, C. H. Wagener; Secretary, A. H. Webber.
Monroe County Pharmaceutical Society.

President, S. M. Sackett; Secretary, Julius Weiss.

 

 

Muskegon County Druggists’ Association,
President, W. B. Wilson; Secretary, Geo. Wheeler.

 

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, E. C. Bond; Secretary,Geo. L, LeFevre.
Newaygo County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, N. N. Miller.

 

 

Oceana County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, F. W. Fincher; Secretary, Frank Cady.

 

Saginaw County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, Jay Smith; Secretary, D. E. Prall.

Shiawassee County Pharmaceutical Society

 

Tuscola County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, E. A. Bullard; Secretary, C. E. Stoddard.

 

The Petoskey Convention,
Owosso, June 10, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Sirn—The druggists of the Eastern
part of the State. have made arrangements
for an excursion from Detroit to Petoskey,
toattend the July meeting of the State
Pharmaceutical Association. Why cannot
a similar excursion be arranged for the
druggists of the Western portion of the
State? Such an arrangement would cer-
tainly add to the pleasure of the trip and
undoubtedly insure a larger attendance.

Parties interested in this matter will
please correspond with H. D. Harvey, of
Bangor.

The prospects for an unually good meet-
ing are brightening every day. Even at
this early date, a large number have signi-
fied their intention of attending.

in order that we may perfect arrange-
ments for the entertainment at the meeting,
we wish again to request all persons intend-
ing to be present to notify the Secretary.

STANLEY E. PARKILL, Sec’y.
Status of the Liquor Legislation.

Frank Wells, chairman of the Legislative
Committee of the Michigan State Pharma-
ceutical Association, writes THe TRADES-
MAN as follows relative to the present Status
of the liquor bill now before the Legisla-
ture:

The amendments thus far made to the
liquor bill in the Senate somewhat reduce
the extreme penalties to be inflicted upon
druggists for violation of its provisions.
What the final outcome will be of all the
proposed liquor legislation which this bill
includes is, at the present time, quite an
obseure problem.

The amendment to the Pharmacy Law,
which passed the House several weeks ago,
has been amended in the Senate, to meet
the view of the Board of Pharmacy, and is
on the order of third reading and will pass.
It will have to go back to the House for
eoncurrence in the amendments and will
probably meet with no opposition.

—_—_——> +> ——_ ,
Special Meeting of the Board of Pharmacy.
MUSKEGON, June 10, 1887.

Dean Str—A_ special meeting of the
Michigan Board of Pharmacy will be held
at Petoskey, July 15 and 16, in the High
School building, for the purpose of examin-
ing candidates for registration as registered
pharmacists.

This meeting is called for the purpose of
accommodating many candidates in the
Northern part of the State who wish to pass
the required examination.

Should you know of any person in your
vicinity who may desire to come before the
Board, please hand him this notice.

Blank applications and further particulars
can be obtained by addressing the Secretary.
JACOB JESSON, Sec’y.

nel mension
Regular Meeting of the Board of Phar-
macy.
MUSKEGON, June 10, 1887.

Dear Sir—A meeting of the Michigan
Board of Pharmacy, for the purpose of ex-
amining candidates for registration, will be
held in High School building, Griswold
street, Detroit, Tuesday and Wednesday,
July 5 and 6, 1887. Candidates will please
report at the hall at nine o’clock, a. m., on
‘Tuesday. Yours respectfully,

Jacos JESSON, Sec’y.

 

 

Philosophy of the Dead-Beat. .
Written Especially for THE TRADESMAN.

I am well aware that I have taken an im-
mense theme on my hands and that I can
only touch a remote outline of my subject,
and that in a very primitive and bungling
manner. But, the truth is, every theme
upon which one can touch, if followed up
critically, will lead on and on, until it is
found that a life time and the greatest
genius could only just make a beginning.

The Duke of Argyle in one of his late
works, in considering the things and facts
of the universe or the unity of nature, finds
everywhere and in all things evidences of
most perfect and amazing order, justice
and harmony, as far as the telescope can
penetrate distance and grasp magnitude or
the microscope reveal the near and small.
Everything is lovely, wondrously so, and
all things are in perfect order and balance
everywhere among all things and creatures.
At last he enters the domain of human history
and begins to consider the ‘‘ways that are
dark” of a certain class of men in Christian
communities known as dead-beats, or the
morally paralyzed of every grade and
phaze, from Bonaparte and Phillip the Sec-
ond’s stamp down to the common cut-throat
and chronic dead-beat of modern society.
Here the great Duke begins to flounder and
finally breaks down and confesses that it is
too much for him. He cannot, search as he
will, even to the remotest regions of the in-
finite, far and near, find anything in all
nature nor any creature among the lower
animals with which to compare the man-
animal, the dead-beat, or to locate him and
get him fixed up in any decent shape, so as
to take his proper position in this vast
scheme, otherwise perfectly harmonious and
‘‘all very good.” Several times he attempts
it, but he has to give it up in despair, at
last, and confess that there is really no
place or theory, plan or method by which
order, harmony, peace or justice, on a large
or on a small seale, can make the existence
of human hyenas an endurable dispensa-
tion.

He notices that all lower animals of every
species (with developed man) make a suc-
cess of existence, their instincts always lead-
ing them directly to their food or the mater-
ials necessary to their comfort, these in-
stincts being the inspiration that causes the
animals to go exactly right and never make
mistakes in their life mission.

But nan, without a moral light to guide
him (sense of obligation, sympathy, affec-
tion, gratitude, ete.), it is noticed, makes a
total and complete failure; and, although

often tumbling into the ditch or getting,

burned and punished for dishonesty and
soullessness, never learns by experience
that it is against nature’s laws to prey upon
his fellows, but drifts on and on, only learn-
ing a little more craft, until death ends a
wasted life.

Well, what the Duke of Argyle gives up
none of us can hardly expect to solve; but
still there are a few phases of dead-beating
upon which we can, perhaps, throw some
light, as bringing it within the department
of a located fact and its ‘place in nature.”
We often see a man crawling upon all fours,
to speak figuratively, and groveling in the
mud for many a long day’s travel, creeping
towards some man at a distance, in order to
get ‘‘help” to rise to his feet and walk.
Fence posts or other opportunities are found
all along the route, within arm’s length,
by which he can, with one-fiftieth part of
the expenditure of strength required to
craw] after assistance, help himself up, and
become a swift runner in life’s race. Yet
he persists in wallowing and grovelling and
creeps cringingly and fawningly to a dis-
tant ‘‘friend” for assistance to rise, and, if
he can get a single dollar’s ‘‘assistance,” at
the cost of from ten to twenty dollars in
time spent in mud wallowing, he is rejoic-
ed more than in the possession of one hun-
dred honestly earned dollars.

This is seen to be a fact, very common,
indeed, and we wish to consider it, to see
what it indicates—to observe among other
facts, for instance, the man who rises to
his feet by self-help and gets the money’s
worth of his time and receives the greatest
possible return in exchange for the least ex-
penditure of effort. It is certain that the
man does not claim any credit or glory for
being honest or following the one right way,
the best and only way by which permanent
success is to be attained, any more than for
eating and drinking pure food and water,
because of certain laws and instinets which
imperatively require certain ways and means
to insure sound physical health. But here is
a character: who coolly and delibérately fol
lows a course which, in the long run, re-
quires the expenditure of ten dollars and
probably one hundred, in order to possess
one, and the one of that nature that even
this also slips away. Getting scooped in
time after time, and compelled to refund
many times over the amount swindled
teaches him nothing. It is a real or scien-
tific fact that a dishonest dollar satisfies
the moral idiot better than twice the amount
in honest money. What can be the matter
with the dead-beat? He certainly wants
dollars very desperately, else he could not
creep so far and take so much pains more
than necessary in order to getthem. Again,
I say, when a man gives two hours of hard
labor in order to get a very few minutes of
light and easy work done, or gives ten for
one in any of life’s enterprises and sticks to
his course, there is certainly some deeper
meaning in the phenomenon than our high
and scientific scholars have yet been able to

‘discover; and there is no more reason to

censure the dead-beat (in any phase from
publicans and harlots down to respectable
beats who get in the largest jobs of swin-

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dling) than there is to censtire any other
kind of an idiot or maniac.

I have often been forced to see the two
kinds of creatures, the real and the sham-
man, as if under a microscope of highest:
magnifying power with an electric light
turned on in the many vicessitudes of warand
peace, where men become as transparent as
air—side by side, the genuine and the sham
article have Iseen. I do swear that there
are causes and reasons for the differ-
ence, plain, positive reasons that our sa-
vants have not touched upon. I can barely
hint at them in a brief newspaper article
like this. When you see one man, for ex-
ample, crawling out into the pitiless tem-
pest of lead and iron, into the jaws of what
seems certain death, to rescue a wounded
comrade, maybe getting all shot to pieces
in theattempt, sometimes getting away with
him safely, and then see another man crawl-
ing out—not exactly in the same place, for
the rascal can never risk quite so much to
rob men as the man will risk to save his
fellow—and creeping up to the corpses of
slain comrades and picking their pockets of
a few dimes or dollars, perfectly satisfied
with his reward and imagining that he has
made a “big profit,” just as sincerely as the
man feels that he has done well in saving
his friend, you may be certain that there is
a genuine cause for these two antipodal
facts, and that the two characters did not
freely choose to create the principles or im-
pulses which drove them to their work in
their respective fields of action and emotion.
Side by sidé very often have many of us
seen these two different species, really be-
longing to two different kingdoms of life,
standing or working just as nature made
them work.

The circumstances that cause one party
to fall into hysteries of side-wrenching
laughter fill another with intense loathing
and disgust; that pressure—perhaps the
pressure of a debt unpaid or a duty undone
—which causes one to spring to the work
with all his might and rejoice in putting all
his energies into it, feeling himself abun-
dantly blessed that he is permitted to go and
do his duty, causes the other to feel exactly

opposite emotions and slink off in disgust— ie

glad to get rid of duty, calling it ‘‘good
luck” to escape the payment of a just and
honorable debt—and this right where every
dollar’s worth of ‘‘good luck” costs him, be-
fore he gets through life, many hundreds of
times more than the ‘‘good luck” amounts to,
besides ten thousands times worse thzn loss
of money—the loss of everything in life
that makes it worth the living, the name
and character of a real man. Again, I
say, to censure the man-hyena and blame
him for committing moral suicide and thus
jumping over a precipice to destruction is
equivalent to blaming him for being born and
educated under conditions that made it im-
possible for manhood tv develop within
him.

In war, for instance, how often have we
seen a certain class curling up and playing
sick, in one way or another, who take their
hearts in their teeth, as it were, all bounding
and throbbing with emotions of unspeak-
able intensity, and carry them (a most fear-
ful burden, indeed) up the hill into the
white-flashing terrors of musketry and ar-
tillery and hold them there until riddled
with shot, for the sake of that mighty pow-
er termed principle. Ask these spirits why
they go and do their work, why they cannot
go back on duty (whatever form it may
take), and shirk off their burdens onto other
shoulders, and they cannot tell, any more
than the common shot can tell why it goes
on its lightning course with all the terror
of flaming gas impelling it to the mark of
destiny. All they know is the fact that
they must go—duty, or an open space, lies
in front, upon all sides an impenetrable
wall of an iron-bound fate. An impulse
awakened by contact with man and sur-
rounding nature explodes in their hearts,
and they go to the spot to which nature (to
them the living God) aimed them at birth.
This is all that can be learned about it—one
is forced to the front, to work and duty, the
other forced to the rear, to beat his way
through life at his fellows’ expense.

The dead-beat who ean lie for fifty cents;
the man in high position who can deceive
for fifty thousand dollars as did the respect-
able Judge Follett, and rob widows and or-
phans; a Napoleon 1 or IIL who ‘“‘profits”
out of htaman simplicity or calamity—all are
a species of the same animal, differing only
in intellectual caliber. Their misfortune
was to be born without souls, or ‘‘in their
sins” as the prophet expressed it; and to
censure or hate them for climbing up to a
less or greater height, in order to tumble,
crushed and bruised into the pit of annihila-
tion, is to entirely misinterpret the whole
moral problem.

On the other hand, you find in every com-
munity men who can no more go back on
duty or swindle a customer or a friend than
they can hold their naked eye-ball upon a
grind stone. Death and ten thousand times
more than death will they endure in the
flesh, rather than the more excruciating tor-
ture of forfeited words of honor. They
may, at times, fall, it is true, but they al-
ways land upon their feet plump and
straight, still true men; like old Job, their
integrity of soul remains with them to the
last gasp—it is their life and cannot die.
And these are known at last, no matter
what misfortunes may befall them. And
right by their side stand the dead-beats,
“Satan came also” in every age, and he also
is known, first or last, and passes for ex-
actly what he is worth, i.e., a dark and
fearful background upon which the good
angels of life shine forth, and each party
goes to the place prepared for him at the
beginning. C. H. BARLOW.

 

 

Minor Drug Notes.

Artificial fruit of piper nigrum is the
latest.

Valuable asbestos deposits have been dis-
covered in Russia.

There is a moveon foot in the East to
sell turpentine by weight.

Prescription bottles are becoming scarce,
and the price advancing.

A German pharmacist has introduced a
plaster which is composeec of lead, plaster
and Peruvian balsam.

This is the season of the year to stock up
on fly-paper, moth powder, insect powder,
colored fires, cholera remedies, etc.

The green glass industry shows less signs
of expansion than either the flint, window
or plate glass branches. Nota single new
factory is now under way.

An English exchange states that a great
diversity of opinion on important subjects
characterizes every class in connection with
the trade in drugs and chemicals.

Not long ago an English court depided
that ‘“‘laudanum” was laudanum, even if. it
did not contain opium; and now we learn
from the same source that “oil is fat.”

From all that can be learned there is no
general disposition among any branch of the
glass working fraternity in the west to de-
mand an advance in wages, or endeavor to ef-
fect such changes as are likely to prolong
the regular stoppage of the works beyond
September 1.

In an article on castor beans the New Or-
leans Times-Democrat says: ‘‘So far there
is no market for the bean in the South, al-
though our cottonseed oil mills could easily
adapt a portion of their machinery for the
manufacture of castor oil. It succeeds best
on rich, well-drained land, and, it is said,
adds to its fertility. There is no difficulty
Inraising castor beans in Louisiana, and
they would doubtless prove more profitable
than either cotton or cane.”

That English druggist had a keen sense
of human nature who said: ‘‘It isastrange
fact that three-fourths of the people of this
country will rather believe the assertions of
ignorance and mendacity than of culture
and truth. He who devotes himself to
educating humanity up to a higher level is
undoubtedly a hero, whose reward is usual-
ly martyrdom of some sort, plus his own ap-
probation—not &, s., d., so necessary to the
chemist and druggist. I hope I. too, have
an honest mind; but if I can not convince a
fool of his folly my conscience is void of
offense, even if I give a would-be suicide
cream of tartar instead of arsenic when 1
know he may obtain the latter elsewhere.”

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The Sentinel on the Watch Tower.
The drug trade of Michigan owe a large-
sized debt of gratitude to Frank Wells for
the efficient service rendered during the
present session of the Legislature as chair-
man of the Legislative Committee of the
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association.
Mr. Wells’ long experience in legislative
matters enabled him to estimate pretty ac-
curately the course legislation was likely to
take in relation to the drug trade, and the
eare with which he watched his trust,
sounding the alarm whenever he thought
the outlook warranted such action, entitles
him to the respect and friendship of. every
druggist in the State.

— i 2
Mutual Insurance for. Wholesalers.

The agitation of mutual fire insurance by
the National Wholesale Druggists’ Associa-
tion has culminated in the organizaticn of
the Druggists’ Mutual Fire Insurance Co.,
at Philadelphia, with an advance premium
fund of $100,000, which sum will be al-
lowed to accumulate until it reaches $200,-
000. Already risks amounting to $700,000
have been taken by the new company.
-—>—6-<a-———

The Drug Market.

Acid citric has declined and is dull. Acid
carbolie is steady. Gum camphor still con-
tinues searce. Manufacturers will take no
new orders and outside holders are very
firm. Gum arabic is higher abroad and is
very firm here. Another advance is prob-
able. Oil sassafras has declined and the
price is believed to have reached bottom.
Gum opium and morphia are unchanged,
but very firm. An early advance in both
articles is confidently looked for. Quinine is
hardening in price, but no change of any
moment is probable. Bi-chromate of pot-
ash has advanced. Chromate of potash
is lower. Salacine in bulk has declined.
Nutmegs have advaneed and are tending
higher. Eekstein, Hill & Co. and Pitts-
burgh corroders have advanced white lead
Ye per pound. Western brands are un-
changed. Linseed oil has again been ad-
vanced and is tending higher.

Michigan Doe “EXcoanes

375 south Union St., Grand Rapids.
AGENTS FOR THE

Standard Petit Ledger.

y JANTED—RHegistered pharmacists and as-

: sistants who are sober, industrious and
willing to work.

 

 

 

 

 

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OR SALE—Stock of about $1,250 in town of
30U inhabitants. No other drug store in
town. Average sales, $15.

 

 

NOR SALE—Stock of about $3,500 well locat-
ed in Detroit. Doing good business.
Reason for selling, family affairs.

 

yee SALE—Stock of about $500 in town of
800 inhabitants. No other drug store in
the place.

OR SALE—Stock of about $3,500 in town of
1,300 population. Doing good business.

TNOR SALE—Stock of $3,600 in town of 2,200
4 _ population. Average daily sales, $29.
TIOR SALE—Stock of $400 in suburbs of
Grand Rapids.
OR SALE—Stock of $1,500 in northern
4 town of 350 inhabitants.
re SALE—Stock of $1,300 in town of 350
inhabitants.

 

 

 

OR SALE—Stock of avout #5,00) in town of | Lj

5,000 inhabitants.
about $40. ;
je, other. stocks, the particulars

£ of which we will furnish on application.

QO DRUGGISTS—Wishing to secure clerks

we willfurnish the address and full par-
ticulars of those on our list free.

EB HAVE also secured the agency for J.

H. Vail & Co.’s medical publications and
can furnish any medical or pharmaceutical
work at publishers’ rates.

AD.

Michigan Drug Exchange,

Average daily sales

 

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357 South Union St, - Grand Rapids.

 

 

WHOLESALE PRICE OURRENT.

Advanced—W hite lead, linseed oil, nutmegs,
bi-chromate potash.

Declined—Citric acid, oil sassafras, chlorate
potash, chlorate potash, po.

 

 

 

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MPO ob es a eee cde eeshe 1 40@1 60
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BACCAE.
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PUDIDOVIIG 5 ooo ce kei ssi cage th ix eecee ses 6B 7
PREC NOR VIO aos oo co oe ces cals oa 554 25@ 30
BALSAMUM.
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POLE ese eess DT gcse hed cavaccenucs @l1 50 |
Terabin. CanBagd, i. s.u ce escc cs cs cesus H0@ 55
OVA oe nnd Nav cdiad Oecd ecco ecceants 40@ 45
CORTEX.
Abiod: CAMAGIAN. 6.5 cise. os cece ce gees 18 |
CBB a iii cas oe Chumaden sense ll
CPG NORE TIAVE, oo oo ci as va cc cdaten's ses 18
Huonymus atropurp..... ........---- w
Myrica Cerifera, po..........1. cece 20
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WEIN oo io ge cp chn eas ana ce etoases + 2
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)................. 10 |
EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.............2eeeee- 24@ 25
ns ional cians bearers 83@ * 35
Haematox, 15 th boxes................. 8S@ 9
. eee Sey ce ck ae a @ 12
- ee veoh @ 13
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Citrate and Quinia....... .........00e- @3 50
Ciliates SOLUDIC. .. o.oo os cnccnaccesccass @ 80
Ferroeyanidum Sol................666- @ 50
BOE CHOLINE. 6. oo. 6055 week ace keseens @ 15
Sulphate, com’l, (bbl. 85).............. 14@ 2
i Me cic cc nb ue ca ees a 7
FOLIA,
PAPORMIO ois cu seen oe Deas caveeces 2@ 14
Cassia Acutifol, Tinnivelly............ 20@ 25
= a a cciacacas canes 35@ 50
Salvia officinalis, 4s and %8.......... 1@ WR
WG Be oe i on cn cees hace ceca acs 8@ 10
GUMML.
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* ee ce hewn ae @ %
“ We oe acca ke as ca awn eed © @ 380
- Bitte BONES. <6 ooo cc eee sunds @ 65
™ Da oes cco pe cannonsccsces T5@1 00
Aloe, Baxb, (po. 60)... oc... see ec en es
A CID Ce AO) s oye so 04 bess cactees @ 12
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POT ook oak og ac okek ae ance ees 25@ 3
Assatoetida, (po. 30)...............00e- @ 1b
TOP asc da wa hanecraccesaceds 50@ 55
CM OTOG 6 5c bai ache ne chaden's oe wales 33v@ 33
Catechu, Is, (48, 14; 348, 18)........... @ 1B
Buphorbdium, pO... ........----.s0-.-:> 30@ 10
ON oo a co ae aca cases vas @ 80
MPAUOGO. VO os vince. cen wnae een wccas TQ xX
Griaiseu re: COs Gi). 6 5 a6 ions an cance eens @ 3
BDO: (OO. BO) van kescceas es ees @ 2
cos eee cen cas cas @1 25
EEE COORD. oi on 0c cece canedscanes @ 40
ODT COO OO 6s ine ieee cen cedesenasnnes 4 40@4 50
RE esa caVaccscceaccnsana 18@ 25
AP ORONOG ooo vein csc ewek se seass , A@ 3
PPR UOA TIEN ok ka nesscesksceo veces 80@ 75
HERBA—In ounce packages.
PPO i ks as ccc vee gen cess Qh
PIDGLOPIU ooo a os cn ese de ce ns 20
SOG. 6 ae canst eanee+ ck cdance 25
OPO oo ones kc cheng snes neeweeseass 28
PAGCNG PIMOCTION. 2 5 5 one oc os wecwce canes 2:
“ ea ce iand bees enace- 25
Tr eka a eciak chs cc kas eens 30
Weavinsot, Vos. ccs sccasccnancesseces 22
SUPA Vos icc sca cat antec tank ens ess 25
MAGNESIA.
CORIO Pe isos cha ceseocescns 5@ 60

20@ 22

CPO OTR. PRE. i cco w cas cee cs cc cciaess
20@ 25

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Carbonate, Jennings.................. 35@ 36
OLEUM.
Pe NE ck eck ve de eece aces 4 50@5 00
Amygdalae, Dulc..............0..eeee- 45 50
Amydalae, AMarac.......... 02.0000 7 00@7 5
Pe es ag ie os cd pas ch onan 2 20@2 30
AUPOnEl COLLOR o.oo vce ceca ca ceds sees @2 50
Bergamii.
Cajiputi ..
Caryophyli. cu
OO avi teew sa bnseas ve
Chenopodii ............. ia Vea bhivaenis @1 50
CAA oe ccc ca ce dos unc de veds 90@1 00
CACCOIGU ooo ie ccs cukededcadodacectes @ 7
Ce as es cas Ca ek cs cence s 85 65
OT eos ica ase cn ae cowas kes eee as 90@ 1 00
ORE coe adn chavcs cccesedes cs 9 50@10 0)
Per CON os ok one ees ee dees 90@1 00
OOO icy ie seca ceies beans ceuecue 1 20@1 30
ROTTEN OPIe 5 cs eee oa hve ck as cee cc 2 00@2 16
Geranium, S300. 7 As... os aes csetias. @ 7%
ORI, BOON, CMa os ss. on sce oc on oes ss 55@ 75
FICGOOOIR Oo. 5 os cscs cece trecccrecdacs 90@1 00
PMATREDOE au elie k oe vise s suicnansac neue 50@2 00
DO ek es cs eink cans seece 90@2 00
DRAGON oo oi ik ho sc bd sks woh ceces 2 25@2 35
PO eine oc ii as aWanccennses 422@ 45
PROUT TUBE 5s aoe ok desde nedness 2 75@3 6)
MEOH A OPIG oni s tw k ons or cece nen aeee 5 50@6 00
PEGYTIGO. GO ig osc cs oa ecko i cokenn dees 80@1 00
DEVE Re ia ck pet chs dea nese gestencce @ 50
OI a ie nd sn 4 ds en kee Kanes edu 1 00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 50)..............00. 10@ 12
BA a Fi ce aia Cat dg cenecetses 1 42@1 60
PROB IPNE oo kc boo nec wth cena dess 75@1 00
BOSGG: Boi o ie cee Reda ce eck bates sue @8 00
Pe es bee cicc calc dese cae eons 40@45
TI oki ce ecnes cies eect enced wqeees 90@1L 00
NE es cs anon a cache ca ee ee ..3 50@7 00
cs nasa ve sabe ad euceede 22@ 45
ANS ORM ei, casne cs csscecaees @ 65
Oa salen nck cad sauacctactin ses @1 50
Ne lui cues ve sscddnssengaas 4 4 50
AOE cass cats. « . ---\ @ 60
"PRGOOPOTIOS c. oh os cs ok. oa one cas 4 eto 1@ 20
POTASSIUM.
PIG TOIGEE ooo 5 fo es kanes ohne nas nenne L@ 1
BrOW6 6 ooo c eno eae
Chlorate, (Po. 20)... 22.2.2...
FOGG oo ae las oo no pe ea cst 3
PYUGRIASG . o5o oo. Sco cea eek ee er ees, 25@ 28

    

 
 
  

 
 
 

 
 

  
 

SPONGES.
Florida sheevs’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50
Nassau do do Gases 2 00
Velvet Ext do do eae 110
ExtraYe » do OO acess 85
Grass do G0 s. a.c 65
Hard ! for slate use........... 75
Yellow Reef, i ee cyak 1 40
MISCELLANEOUS.
ther, Spts Nitros, 3 F................ 26@ 28
Ather, Spts. Nitros, t F............... BW@ 32
PN cs a fs av ca gc ones 24%Q 3%
Alumen, ground, (po. 7)............... 3G 4
PN 6 oc a be acaec bcecas acne 55Q 60
PANIRRMION Toa. os ca ca ce ca a we a's 4@ 5
Antimoni et Potass Tart.............. 55 60
RTO TRUGVAS ho cose cb ceccscda gece @ 68
MON os ii cc cn a cctas 5a 7
Pioiny GUORd HUG. co oo... cic cc ucess 38G 40
1 PRINS Be Nee a a 2 15@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (4s, 11; 448, 12).... @ 9
Cantharides Russian, po.............. @2
Capsiel Fructus, Of... .. 6... cece esc sens @ bb
Capsici Fructus, ee eee wee csiais @® 16
Capsici Fructus, B, po........... ... ‘4 @ 14
Caryophyllus, (po. 85)................. B0@ :
CUPTEG IO, 0 soins ck ccke ne dees @3 75
CPO Bi, oe ccc ccc ch 50@, 55
Cera Flava...... Sey, 2@ 30
OCH Se es @ 40
COBH PUNE ooo sain io Sk bo vido aces @ 1b
RM ee ode cb oes @ 10
COU ooo hind ceacuceaws @ 50
POCO oo ieee ccc ce 38@ 40
Chloroform, Squibbs......... ' @1 00
Chloral Hydrate Cryst....... -1 50@1 75
OE EE .. 1@ RB
Cinchonidine, P. & W.............200.. 156@ 20
Cinchonidine, German........... .... 9@ 15
Corks, see list, discount, per cent. ... 40
COUR ee, ccd cs islaues @ BO
SE COE, PIB bss cess cud bs essere @ 2
ee OL ees ie Ta 5 6
POUR BICONE eo 8@ 10
Creta Rubra....... lpi ec a. @ 8
COR i ee ee 2@ 30
ae ee SOE ST Ga ete ae @ 4
OE I oo oi cane vc asacccwésesc se 61 7
ad ok yas oka cae asuc ces 100@ 2
MO PRN ooo os is ov cnc eadiescecs. G TW
Emery, all numbers............ 0.0000. @ 8
UM cc ic ae acs @ 6
Bimota. (po. 60)... 5.05 ccc ccc ccs seaes 1O@ 60
BUD UNUN  ooocs oc vecssecahicss. . 2@ 1
MO a Cec ake, a ak @ 23
WOME ooo ii oho dics cele s 7 8
SPGIAEIN, COODOR, ooo cs codes cececececses @ bb
Gelatin, French,................. Lee @® 60
Glassware flint, 70&10 by box. 60&10, less.
COO, TENO Woon os casino cc dec vc ose 9@ 15
Cs WIR Sook occ dcaichncses. acca OD 8
CVCOTINA cio e ieee ke: Suacccs 23@ 26
Grand Paradiet. |... 4. ss... @ 15
ROA 25@ 40
Hydrarge Chior. Mite .................. @
Paydrare Cilor. Cor... ........ccccces @ 6
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum............... @ 85
Hydrarg Ammoniati.................. @1 00
Hydrarg Unguentum............. @ 40
te A gg Red sasaeaaa, ce ae : @ 65
TODthyYOCOMA, AM ........... cece cece es 1 25@1 50
MOR eet asec ee ues era ay 75@1 00
ROMPINIO, THOMA ooo os bac cee codices 4 00@4 10
1 et @5 15
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod......... @Q® 27
Liquor Potass Arsinitis............... 10@ 12
MING occ i csd le iace kc cave Has ae 85@1 00
PAVCQDOGIUIE ooo cdc cues Naud’ 55@ 60
ROO, oo ocic cds Peeve likes cehaclecaea 60@ 65
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl. 1%)............. 2@ 3
Peer ee, 90@1 09
Maar, BP. Woo. eels cc uc ca ak 3 15@3 35
Moeenus Canton. -:....62..05060065045, @ 40
PREMIO, MHS Baise ann sv caceinsesccanesee @ W
Nux Vomica, (po. 20)............c0e0es @
Se i i aah chs sen enek deans 156@ 18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.Co............ @2 00
Picis Liq, N.C.. % galls, doz.......... @2 70
WM Es, NEE oo ca ns oe cee cueecss @1 40
NN a oii oc ads ca ncas sc ncun @ 8
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)... ..............5. @ 50
BUDOY INEM, (DOL IE)... cncs ccc ccasces @ 18
Piper Alba, (po. 85)...............c000 @
WE MEMO boca kc crack iasecsccasceees eS }
WORUUUNNE PR oss chess ss oa et sass ees, 4@ 15
Potassa, Bitart, pure.................. @ 40
Potassa, Bitart, com.................. @ ib
Potass Nitras, Opt.............0ccceees 8@ 10
Potass Nitras........ eta loads 7@ 9
Pulvis Ipecac et opii........... 2.0... 1 10@1 2
Pyrethrum, boxes, H.& P.D.Co.,doz. @1 00
PYSOONPUIN DY ois ccc cess cuccces 48Q@ 53
QUARRIES o.oo 8@ 10
Quinia, 8, P. & W....... 58@ 63
Quinia. 8, German..................... 48@ 60
Rubia Tinctorum...................... L2® 13
Saccharum Lactis, pv................. @ 3
PO i a! @3 50
Sanguis Draconis...................... 40@ 50
IR, iscncucnoncians cs cuca neusas @+t 50
Sano, W.....:...:- divnatewschavecdias es RG 4
PI a ois ce wher econ ccc couse 8@ 10
PENI Ges eos is heh ocd dean aes s @
Serdiiem Mixtec. 8 og oo. cn cece ccuce @ 28
UI ee ees codecs kas woke @ 18
SPI ON oo oe eos on oes vac bc ae @ 30
Snuff, Maccaboy, Do. Voes........... @ 35
Snuff, Scotch, Do. Voes............... @ 3
Soda Boras, (po. 10)... .... cc cca ceases 8@ 10
Soda et Potoss Tart... ..........cc0cee 3@ 35
Soda — ile ee ws Piss Heda sd edaans dances 2@ 2%
ROU, ORF. ooo. i. Cle es dice ( 5
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Ps ha we chee oboe te 25@ 30
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VA AO) cnn cn laa scew pa beeeeeinn ches @ 2%
Oe ia a kos paces cach vaeeds 20@ 50
Gentiana, (po. 15)............6.--.. eee. 1e@ 12
Giyebrrhiza, (pv. 15)..............252-- 16@ 18
Hydrastis Carmaden, ,po. 33)........... @ %
Hellebore, Alba, po................... l@ 2
PE ia ake ek lw hr eens 15@ 2
TREY Oa oss 6 ki cee ees ae cate ae ee ae 2 50@2 60
Jalapa, pr...... DULG vbau humus bene bass 25@ 30
MOV, ME. oo. lec cod Valebiececascss @ B
Podophyllum, poO............-.eeeeeeee 15@ 18
EE ei onc cee Cs nh ode Baa Sean ces 7dS1 Ov
Oe ae ees ees vad esaeue 175
“ as ahd eek ccs cewdak wet aces T5@1 35
oe aes uy decent ec acesnaentay es 48@ 53
Sanguinaria, (pO. 25)............ 0 cee eee @ 20
POTROTIUBPIO, 566565 nck ices tewecanennen 35@ 40
BOROOE rics eek eel daesdeeiagnes HQ 55
Smilax, Officinalis, H................ ‘ G@ 49
“ * RE itis. @ 20
OTA, COLO) onic occ es ciceecicccce’ 10@ 12
Symplocarpus, Foetidus, po.. ; @ 2%
Valeriana, English, (po. 30). i @ %|
“ OPO. oii cies fis adie ds Lb@ 20
SEMEN.
ARIBIM, GOB) eis cons chee ces oe Q@ li
Apium (graveolens)................... R@ 15
Peas ca ean on ceca 4@ 6
CT, AME, BO) oo ook ce dsc caves ceeank 20. 15}
CAPRI 6 os ha beh eh ia kkk Wines sence i OF@1 25,
CN deo ve ect ecb cues ood oe 10@ 12
Cannabis Sativa... 2... 0. cece csccccens a@ 4
OO oe nk wana ccanciacceca’ 75@1 00
CROMODOGID 6 ois cece ceca ees se ske ccna W@ 12
Dipterix Odorate.................0.05. 1 75@1 $5
TOOT 6 oi oie a onc bs ws oon @ Wb
Foenugreek, po. 6@
Re os eb oe os cos ce lee es oclew sent B4@ 4
FADE, OF, (ODL, B) oie cc ike ccecceetes oes 34@ 4
Phalaris Canarian..................05% 84%@4%
BO ais ee hk eset oes pM ka ces 5a 6
RIOD, BR. 5 cox Genes ci cicecncaces 8@ 9
POMP oer ae i ied 1N@ bk
SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D. & Co...... Peed citaee 2 00@2 50
Frumenti, D. ¥.B............00csc0+es- 1 75@2 0C
YURI Boos ois cca yc vc oekeernd dee levers 1 10@1 50
Juniperis Co. O.'T....... cc cc cee ee eens 1 75@1 75
Juniperis Co...............00e gk Wadi 17% 50
Saacharum N.B............6. 0... eeees 1 75@2 00
BOT. VINE BOUL, vie ca vsc oc ceacsedsceesc 17 50
WIE ODOTU i 5k os 6 van 5 dctaticsacas ceced
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Bek. WAVE DOW co. onc o cee ccacccces @2 00
SNE. OP KOUR FMI oon cise ceccccccus @2 50
Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2 10)............. @2 25
Strychnia, Crystal... 2... 6c... ccc cues @1 30
Mivinintiy, BUNK ls. ec ees ae 24@ 3%
Salohur, Bell... ...ci.00s ci enseesnes cos 24@ 3
Tamarinds........ WG leas 8@ 10
TROPOUGHEN VOMICG oo icc coca cide Since 28@ 30
SEO oo in oo dda cccc cau ceese 50 @ 55
DI oh pea wneesdueaecibessavaures 9 00@16 00
ME OO ee ea 7@ 8
OILS.

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WIG, WUE ain vnc vec dis cw uacs 7 3
RMR, GRORR occ ac cc ccas cn is 63 68
Pm WO, Fi ee cede. 53 58
Linseed, pure raw.... 4 43 46
Linseed, Dolled ............... 46 49
Neat’s Foot, winter strained. - 0 60
Spirits Turpentine................... 40 45

PAINTS
i Bol Lb
Red Venetian... .. .......6-00ce<s 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3
Putty, commercial ............ 2% 2%@ 3
Putty, strictly pure............ 2% 2%@ 3
Vermilion, prime American.. 13@16
Vermilion, English............ 5E@S8
Green, Peninsular............. 16@17
Lead, red strictly pure..... .. 6@ 6%
Lead, white, strictly pure..... 6@ 6%
Whiting, white Spanish ae ie 70
Whiting, Gilders’.............. @90
White, Paris American........ 110
Whiting Paris English cliff. . 149
Pioneer Prepared } aints..... 1 20@1 40
Swiss Villa Preparer Paints.. 1 00@1 20
VARNISHES.
WO. } Kure CO@en oo ia ccc cd iscces 1 10@1 20
WMO RN os ck ignss docacs char cuwees 1 60@1 7
WROTE OEE a oo calc crs acnccack come vaenss 2 T5@3 00
INO. 5 Ptah Peter, 6 oc vase c a vcsc esc 1 00@1 10
Bextra Purk Dee ok. cc cack acces ce 1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No.1 Turp.............. 70@ 75
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The Michigan Tradesmal.

The American Tract Society appears to
have been losing ground of late years, and is
much concerned as to its own future. Ata
stormy session of the society last month,
plans of economy and reconstruction were
freely debated, and have since been adopt-
ed. But we think that the root of the diffi-
culty lies deeper than any detail of the man-
agement. It is that the society belongs to
aa past age, and has no proper place among
the religious agencies of this haif of the
nineteenth century. It originated at a time
when Evangelicalism was a dominant reli-
gious force on both sides of the Atlantic,
‘and when the superficial philosophy of reli-
gion and of society which the Simeons and
the Shaftesburys represented found expres-
sion in monster anniversary meetings and
similar machinery. At that time Evangeli-
ealism dominated the Protestant churches
also; but they have shown themselves capa-
ble of receiving new influences from the
newer tendencies of the time. The Tract
Society stands for nothing but mere Evan-
gelicalism, and the religious thought of the
country is drifting away from it. In the’
breadth and the interest of its publications
it is distinctly behind such church boards as
those of the Methodists, Lutherans, Bap-
tists and Presbyterians. Another source of
decay has been the loss of confidence in the
Tract Society consequent upon its treatment
of the slavery problem. Itis true that it
professed an entire neutrality upon the mat-
ter, in order to keep the South open to its
publications. But it stooped to many most
unworthy compliances with the intolerance
of the advocates of slavery. It expurgated
its edition of M. D’Aubigne’s ‘‘History of
the Reformation” of all allusions to slavery,
and it employed Dr. Bethuneto eliminate
all such allusions from the memoirs of his
grandmother, Mrs. Isabella Graham! This
not only lost it much support at the time,
but discredited it with the rising generation
as an institution whose record was stained.

 

 

 

The national game of base-ball has been
pruned of some excresences by the revision
of the rules which govern the two great as-
sociations. Butit seems to us to lack a
wholesome basis so long as the teams which
are supposed to represent the cities are not
made up of residents of those cities as was the
case at the outset. It now becomes a ques-
tion merely of the longest purse and the
greatest ‘‘enterprise,”-as each city bids dur-
ing the close season for the men who have
been thought the ablest in the preceding
summer. This is the reason for the extrav-
agant sums paid to players; and it works
also to lower the character of the interest
felt in the game. It makes local superiority
not a matter of genuine local pride in ath-
letic culture, but only of purse-pride at bot-
tom. And it vitiates the relation of the
public towards the local team. The tone
taken by the New York newspapers towards
the Metropolitan Nine illustrates this. The
feeling was that the public of that city had
been swindled because the nine was beaten
in the opening game of the season. New
York had paid for victory, and victory she
must have. The game must go from bad
to worse unless it be better organized in
this respect.

 

The proposed settlement of the Egyptian
question, which has been negotiated be-
tween England and Turkey, does not giye
much satisfaction in any quarter. The Sul-
tan, indeed,seems ready forany terms which
will put an end to the English occupation of
the country. But even thatis not to be had
for three years, and then only with the re-
servation of the right to resume occupation
in case of its invasion or the outbreak of
disorder. Asthe English occupation was
to put down aclaim on the partof the
Egyptian people to control their own budg-
et, we may imagine that a very small
amount of disorder will! suffice for an excuse.
To give efficacy to the agreement, the ac-
quiescence of the Great Powers is required.
But France certainly will not accept any
such terms, and Russia announces her dis-
taste for them. There is neither reason
nor policy tobe alleged for them. They
neither propose to do justice to the Egyptian
people, nor conciliate France.

 

Some of the newspapers which were the
least favorable to the idea that the Presi-
dent ought to call an extra session now are
disposed to regard it with favor. It is un-
deniable that the prospect of a lock-up of
the nation’s currency inthe Treasury has
begun already to affect business. by dimin-
ishing confidence. The outlook for a gen-
eral and permanent revival of trade has
been over-clouded. The pressure for an im-
mediate removal of this threatening element
has begun, and now thatthe President is
back from his fishing expedition, he is be-
ginning to hear from the class to whose de-
sires he is more responsible than to any
other.

 

California as a Petroleum Producer.

California is becoming more important
yearly as a producer of petroleum. The
San Francisco Chronicle gives some figures
of production which show that in 1886 there
were obtained there 10,950,000 gallons. The
industry is still young. The year 1879 is
given as the first year of liberal production,
when a little over 500,000 gallons were pro-
duced. Since then the increase has aver-
aged something like 1,000,000 a year. Much
activity prevails at present in the petroleum
fields of southern California. A pipe line
from one well to a railway station has just
been completed and another one from the
petroleum fields to Los Angeles is talked
of.

ae ails
The T. P. A. band, of Union City, will
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for TEA and DINNER SERVICES. Pat-

 

 

 

 
 

This pattern is the latest
low price style in the market.
There is nothing so good as it
offered by any other house.

Try a sample package of it,
as per our Catalogue, or a few
sets alone as samples. We
will sell any number of
pieces.

Rose, - List price,

Rose, List prise,

DINNER SETS:

102 Pieces, - List Price, $12.00
129" ate: 16.50

Write for Special Prices.

 

Both of the above
patterns carried in
open stock. Both have
gold edges and han-
dles and are of the fin-
est English goods.

102 piece Dinner Set, Moss

129 piece Dinner Set, Moss

102 piece Dinner Set, Gold
Band and Sprig, list price 12.00

129 piece Dinner Set, Gold
Band and Sprig, list price 15.90

102 piece Dinner Set, Lustre
Band and Sprig, list price 8.70

129 piece Dinner Set, Lustre
Band and Sprig, list price 14.50

terns which will freshen up all stocks, and
at prices which are greatly reduced from
those of any previous season. These re-
present

DIRECT PURCHASES

of our Mr. Leonard who has just returned
from English markets.

The list prices named serve only as a
guide, as we givesliberal discounts to bona
fide retailers of our lines. If you have not
received our CROCKERY CATALOGUE,
we shall be glad to forward it on applica-
tion, and would be especially glad to show
our immense assortment in our Fulton
Street Stores.

H. LEONARD & SUMS.

$14.50

20.00

 

 

FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.

ENGLISH TOILET SETS

 

 

Ten Piece Sets Consist of Complete Set without Slop Jar.
Twelve Piece Sets include Slop Jar.

 

Brown, Pink or Blue, “Floral View,” 10 pes., List price, $3 OO
“ 6é “cc “ce é 12 “ec “cc “ce 5 50
“6 “é “ “Daisy,” 10 ‘sé “ “ 3 OOo
“ “ “ iT 12 ‘6 “ “ 5 50
“cc 6s ce “Mayflower,” 10 ce ce “ 4 oOo
rt 4 “cc 6 “ 12 6é ‘sé “ 7 Ooo

Write to us for Special Prices.

Handsomely Decorated ‘Waverly

 

     

        
 
   
   

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GOLD EDGE.

NEW SQUARE SHAPE, ON STONE PORCELAIN
This rich pattern is carried in open stock and can be sold in any quantity.

 

It is an
entirely new style with fine yellow and pink flowers, and is the nobbiest and neatest pat-
tern out for 1857.

100 piece Dinner Set, List price, $20.
We also have this pattern in Assorted Packages, containing 2 sets, and would be
pleased to quote same.

 

 

DETROIT SOAP CO,

DETROIT. MIOFt..

Manufacturers of the following well-known Brands

SOAPS

QUEEN ANNE, MOTTLED GERMAN,

MICHIGAN, ROYAL BAR,
TRUE BLUE, SUPERIOR,
CZAR, MASCOTTE,
MONDAY, PHGiNIXxX,
WABASH, CAMEO,

AND OTHERS.
For Quotations address

W. CG. HAWEINS,

Lock Box 178, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

Salesman for Western Michigan.

 

In Ordering a Supply of the

Aretic Baking Powder

Do not forget to ask for

Deaf and Dumb Alphabet Rules
also Comic Cards for Adver-
tising.

 

——_THE—

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Has now STOOD THE TEST
TEN YEARS, and has always
given entire satisfaction. It
has never been connected with
any schemes to help its sale,
but has enjoyed a steadily in-
creasing demand each year.

 

POWDER

Arctic Manufacturing Co,, Grand Rapids,|

SOLE PROPRIETORS.

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49 Lyon Street, Up-Stairs, Grand Rapids, Mich.

    

 

The Stuuadard of Excellence

KIN GSFORD'S
Osweg0 "ae
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Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings,
Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.
THE PERFECTION OF QUALITY.

WILL PLEASE YOU EVERY TIME!

ALWAYS ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THESE GOODS.

 

Fr. J. LAMB & Co.

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES,

Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Etc.,

B ald 10 Tonia Stecel, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO FILLING ORDERS.

 

METAL BRAND

TWO AND THREE PLY

READY ROOFING

Waterproof, Durable and Economical,
OVER 7,500,000 SQUARE FEET APPLIED IN 1886.

Curtiss & Dunton,

GRAND RAPIDS. MTOrFt.

SHOW - CASES.

Dealers will
find it to their
advantage to
correspond
with us, as we
are in the posi-
tion to make A
No. 1 goods at
the lowest pos-
> sible prices.
Corres pond-
ence solicited
from the job-
bing trade rela-
tivetopremium
eases.

SHOW CASE YWORES,
27 Laalixce Street, Chicago.

Send for Catalogue and prices.

THE HOME YEAST CAKE.

 

 

Address

AMERICAN

 

Ski.t.S ON ITs MEHITS.

The Home Yeast Cakes are put up in two sizes (packages) cartons.
No. 1. Large size, 36 packages, or cartons, per case, $1.50.
No. 2. Smaller ‘* 36 “ " s§ 1.00.
——MANUFACTURED BY——
T KE C0 OFFICE AND SALESROOM.
THE HOME YRAS CA . 26 & 28 River St., Chicago, Il

N. B.---Ask your wholesale grocer for the HOME YEAST CAKE,

 

FULLER & STOWE COMPANY,

Designers

Engravers and Printers

Engravings and Electrotypes of Buildings, Machinery, Patented Articles, Portraits
Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice.
Cards, Letter, Note and Bill Heads and other Office Stationery a Leading Feature

 

 

 

 

Address as above

 

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RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO,,

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

BOOTS AND SHOES.

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CoO.
14 and 16 Pearl Street, - Grand Rapids, Mich.

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