» “4 ® — + The Michigan Tradesman. VOL. 4. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1887. NO. 208 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. Price $35 per 1,000 in any quantities. Express prepaid on orders of 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 & GO, EF'lint, Mich. FURNITURE TO 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 Chatr Factory, West End Pearl St. Bridge. 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 from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. Karl Bros., Commission Merchants, 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids, BELKNAP Wagon and Sleigh Co. MANUFACTURERS OF Spring, Freight, Express, Lumber and Farm WAGONS! Logging Carts and Trucks Mill and Dump Carts, Lumbermen’s and River Tools. We carry 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, SEEDS Garden Seeds a Specialty. The Most Complete Assortaaeut 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 Sample or- HIRTH & KRAUSE, And ‘Sin ire SU DUppLies. SHOE BRUSHES, SHOE BUTTONS, SHOE POLISH, SHOE LAOES. <. Cork Soles, Button Hooks, Dress- ings, etc. Write for Catalogue. . * 113 Canal Street, Grand Rapids. GINSENG ROOT. Peck B the highest price for it. Address Bros., Pruggists, Grand Rapids, Mich. ' SODD cet OO., JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE And Full Line Summer Goods. 102 CANAL STREET. WEI PS ADDRESS GRAHAM ROYS, - Grand Rapids, Mich, SHERWOOD HOUSE. The Traveling Men’s Favorite. CHARLOTTE, - - MICH. Re-fitted and Re-furnished. Sample Rooms on First Floor. First-Class in all its Appointments. M. F. BELGER, Proprietor. KDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker Jeweler, Ah CANAL SY., Grand Rapids, - Mich. CHARLES A, GOYE, Successor to A. Coye & Son, DEALER IN AWNINGS = TENTS Horse and Wagon Covers, Oiled Clothing, Feed Bags, Wide Ducks, etc. Flags & Banners made to order. 78 CANAL ST., - GRAND RAPIDS. HL FREEDMAN & C0. Manufacturers and Jobbers of CIGARS No, 26, 4th Dist, MICH. Factory N REED GITY, - - ATON & LYON, Importers, Jobbers and Retailers of OOKS, Stationery & Sundries, 20 and 22 donroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. STEAM LAUNDRY, 43 and 45 Kent Street. STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS, Orders by Mail and Express Promptly At- PIONEER PREPARED We have a full stock of this well-known brand of MIAED PAINT and having sold it for over SIX YEARS can recommend it to our customers as be- ing a First Class article. We sell it Guarantee: 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 given to the dealer. T. H,. NEVIN & CO.. Mfrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead. Pittsburg, Pa. i On the Manufacturers’ Write for prices and Sample Card to Hazelting & Perkins Drag. Co Wholesale Agents, Grand Rapids. _POLISHINA, best FurnitureFin- a ish made. | gladly, thankfully, GEORGE BROWN’S OVERCOAT. Written Especially for THE TRADESMAN. ‘Bother the thing, I wish I hadn’t bur- dened myself with it!” and George Brown looked askance at the overcoat hanging on his arm. In the morning, when he came down to the store, from his boarding-house, the weather had been raw and cold, butnow it was so soft and warm that, in carrying his grips (for he traveled for a large whole- sale house in a bustling city which I will call—never mind, it isn’t outside of Michi- gan,) from the store to the depot, the weight of an additional garment was burdensome. It was a handsome coat, light as well as warm, fashionable in make and fitted ad- mirably; and, though he had a horror of coddling himself, he had never repented purchasing it. But it certainly was a nui- sance tohim this evening, and the first thing he did on entering the coach was to toss it on the first vacant seat, which hap- pened to be one of two together. While he went toa newsboy to get the evening paper, a solitary female entered the coach and sat down in the seat opposite the coat. George returned to the car and sat down in the seat opposite, with his coat and grips beside him; the next moment the con- ductor gave the signal, away they steamed and the young man buried his head in his newspaper. ‘That day the verdict had been given in a case of considerable importance, and not till he had scanned the whole pro- ceedings, as set*forth in the evening edition, read the judge’s summing up and the finding of the jury, was the paper laid down fora minute and the presence of a fellow-passen- ger remembered. It was somewhat embarrassing to iind the eyes of this solitary female fixed on his face. They were dark eyes, and very bril- liant ones, and there was an intensity in her gaze that made him—although wont to to pride himself on his self-possession—red- den slightly and feel ill at ease. Not that there was anything rude or un- pleasant in that intent gaze. His vis-a-vis, both in dress and bearing, was a lady—and, moreover, a young lady. Her age, roughly guessed, was between twenty and twenty-four; her features were of a refined type and capable of great ex- pression; her hair was glossy, her costume neat and well-chosen, a cashmere walking- dress and black silk jacket moulded toa slender, graceful figure, while her make-up in general was all that could be desired. George Brown’s first thought was surprise that so lady-like a person should _ be travel- ing alone after dark; but his next was to re- mind himself that her air of modest reserve —for there was nothing bold or familiar in the glance he had surprised—and the quiet elegance of her dress must inspire everyone with respect. But imagine his astonishment when one of those neatly-gloved hands was extended towards him, and a voice, tremulous with haste and eagerness, accosted him hurried- ly: “Sir, will you sell me your overcoat?” It was such an extraordinary question that he could find no answer to it. After a very brief pause, it was repeated: “Oh, sir, won’t you sell it tome? I will give you this for it.’ And now he saw that the gloved fingers were agitating a scrap of paper—a _ ten-dol- lar bill. ‘‘I am sorry I cannot offer more, but itis all Lhaveto spare. Pray take it and sell me the coat. Don’t hesitate, for there is not a moment to lose! You will be doing me an immense service, you will, in- deed!” It was positively confusing to be appealed to in this manner, and the young man had looked from the fair petitioner to his coat and back again more than once, ere the dis- tress that began to be depicted on her coun- tenance aroused him from his trance of be- wilderment. ‘Yours is a very curious request, madam. lam notin the habit of parting with my garments in this way.” “I suppose not—of course not,” she ac- quiesced; ‘‘and that is what makes it the more painful, more difficult, for me; but in case like this, surely you will not refuse!” ‘Tam quite at a loss for your meaning,” he deelared, marvelling secretly whether this pretty, well-dressed young woman could be in her right senses. “Oh, dear!” and she wrung her hands in her impatience; ‘‘how difficult it is to make one’s self understood! Iam offering youa ten-dollar bill in exchange for the coat lying beside you. Please accept my offer. You will earn my everlasting gratitude! ” But still George Brown raised his eye- brows in wonder and demurred. The whole affair was so out of all bounds that it would have struck him as comicalif she had not been so terribly in earnest. Her troubled eyes, quivering lips and clasped hands im- parted to it quite a tragical element. ‘‘Nothing makes me more happy than to oblige a lady,” he said, with the proverbial politeness of the American traveling man, “always supposing her requests are reason- able ones; but this one of yours I don’t know how to characterize. Please tell me of what use to you the coat you wish te pur chase can possibly be? ” She drew herself up as if offended that he should presume to question her, and there was silence, but it didn’t last for more than aminute; and, after peering though the window at the darkness, the fair, anxious face was turned once more on Mr. Brown. ‘Do we stop at the next station?” she de- manded, instead of giving him the explana- tion he anticipated, ‘‘will you kindly tell me what it is—Middleville? Then where is Hastings? Shall we soon reach it?” His assent appeared to increase her dis- tress. “Oh, sir, will you not be generous and grant my request? Icannot tell you my motives, but I will say this much; it is of the utmost importance to me—and another. For pity’s sake, accept the money and give me the coat!” Her entreaties were irresistible; she saw that they had prevailed. The bill was forced into his hand, all the more forcibly because he made a gesture of dissent. The overcoat was in the lady’s possession, and the mystified George Brown became witness to a piece of masquerading that increased his perplexity. In an incredibly short space of time the young lady had enveloped herself in her purchase, and was pulling the velvet trim- ming off her stylish felt hat. This, and the bird that graced it, were transferred to one of her pockets. Then, with all possible haste, the brim of the hat was turned down, the crown crushed in, andit was trans- formed into the dowdy traveling cap of an elderly man. With this pulled down over her eyes, the coat turned up to her ears and buttoned over her velvet dress, and her hands folded over the handle of her um- brella, the metamorphosis was complete. It was no longer a graceful girl who sat there, but a bent old man; and George could have laughed at the change had he not heard her breathing prayers that she might escape detection. What was the meaning of this strange piece of acting? From whom was she try- ing to escape—the police? No; thisimplied evil-doing and he would have staked his life on her truth and purity. Was it?—but he was beyond all conjecture. But the train was stopping at Hastings, andacouple of old gentlemen, who had been conversing on the platform, stepped forward to watch the passengers get off. Apparently they did not find the person they wanted, for they walked from coach to coach inspecting the faces of those on board. George Brown could hear the hurried breathing of his companion, and her mur- mured ejaculation of thanksgiving when she found that her disguise was not sus- pected, and he pitied her when the sudden opening of the door made her start and tremble; but it was only a couple of women and some children who got on. Theelderly gentlemen she dreaded had gone and the train went on its way. However, he could not leave this strange girl without showing his readiness to serve her; and, seizing an opportunity when the occupants of the car were busy with their own matters, he leaned toward her, saying: “T shall get off at Charlotte; but what will you do? Can I be of any assistance to you? If I can, don’t hesitate to say so.” “Thanks; if you could get me a car- riage—” A nod, and he drew back, for one of the children was inquisitive, and was drawing nearer to hear what.the young man was say- ing to the old one. And now the outskirts of Charlotte were in sight, and as soon as he had assisted the lady to the depot, he hurried away on his er- rand. But when he returned to lead the lady to the carriage she had disappeared and he had too strong a sense of honor to draw the notice of the curious upon her by mak- ing too many inquiries. She had gone, taking his coat with her, and leaving no trace of the adventure save and except the ten-dollar bill; and this he folded away in a private place in his pocketbook, there to he till he could find the owner. * * * * * ‘If you go to Kalamazoo during your va- cation, Brown,” said one of his firm, as he was bidding the store good-by for his sum- mer’s rest, ‘tI wish you’d go and see my old frjends the Monteith Bros. They have bouglit goods of us more years than I can re- member, and are always wanting some of us to callon them. I have got to take my family North this summer, and I cannot go, so ll try and make amends by sending a pleasant fellow in my place. Dogo and see them.” “Thanks for the compliment,” was the good-natured reply, ‘‘but it needs more ‘cheek’ than I’ve got to present myself in a strange place with no better excuse than that you told me to.” ‘‘Nonsense; I’ll give you a letter of intro- duction, and you won’t repent it, for both the Monteiths are shrewd, intelligent men, and very hospitable. In this case, too, the obligation will be mutual. You will not be half so glad to find friends in a strange city as they will be to receive a guest who shares their taste for business and can give them pointers.” So George Brown was persuaded to ac- cept the introductory letter; and as every- thing his senior had said in fayor of the Monteith Bros. was carried out by common report, he presented the letter one dismal, rainy day, when going around the town was next to impossible. The brothers were delighted with their guest, and insisted on his going home to dinner with them. The head of the table was taken by a widowed sister, as pleasant and agreeable as themselves; and the party also included a good-looking young man who was head clerk in the store of the Mon- teith Bros., and was made known as Harry Royal. With this young man George Brown struck up a kind of friendship. There was something very attractive about the young fellow. He was versatile and headstrong yet so frank, so generous and so kind- hearted that he had a personal charm that brought him friends wherever he was. Nothing pleased him better than to show George around, and accompany him on long walks, and on one oceasion he insisted that George must accompany him to his rooms. “It’s absurd to think that I should let you walk to your hotel—a mile the shortest way —without anything to shield you from this rain. If I can’t find you an umbrella I ean, at least, lend you an overcoat.” To this arrangement a willing consent was given, for the night wasa_ miserable one; and, leading the way into a snug little room, Harry commenced a bootless search for an umbrella. “T ought to have two,” he grumbled: ‘‘but it’s a fact that I never know where to find them. However, here’s an overcoat. Take care of it, for it’s the one thing I value in the world.” *‘May I know why?” said George, as he put on the coat. ‘‘Because it was a gift from Polly on the eve of my leaving home; and if you wantto know who Polly is, why, she’s the dearest little girl in the world. I should have been ruined, body and soul, if she hadn’t saved me from the clutches of the scoundrel who had me in his toils, God bless her!” Harry Royal’s voice was quivering with emotion, and to disguise it he commenced rattling away about something else. As for his friend, he remained silent, scarcely opening his lips except to say good-night, when they parted. But, on arriving at his hotel, George Brown’s first act was to snatch upa lamp, and survey himself in a glass. Not satisfied with this he took off the borrowed coat and examined it closely. There was no longer any doubt of it. The buttons had been changed, and it had been altered to fit the somewhat smaller frame of Harry Royal; but it was the same coat he had parted with two years ago in a railway train; and ‘*Pol- ly, the dearest girl in the world,” must be the young lady whose ten-dollar bill still lay in his pocketbook. Had she ever told Harry how his coat came into his possession? He certainly would not learn the fact from George Brown, who did not feel like acknowledg- ing that it was he who had been a party to this strange adventure. He returned the coat on the morrow, saw it carelessly flung into a closet, and was leaving when Harry Royal called him back. ‘*T have never shown you Polly’s picture, haye 1? Perhaps you won’t call her a pretty girl; but then, no photographer could do justice to her features, or seize the ex- pression that makes her so charming.” ‘The owner of the photo felt somewhat huffed when the carte—after being studied for nearly five minutes—was laid down without remark or criticism; but he was too good-natured to retain any annoyance for more than a few seconds, and, as he ran down the stairs, after his friend, he was as gay as ever. When they next met it was in the draw- ing-room of a wealthy merchant, to whom one of the brothers had introduced them. Mr. Ferry had half a dozen fair daughters, light-hearted, witty, and very fascinating. He was rich enough to dower them hand- somely, and the two elder were already married. Inez had a prediliction for a poor suitor, but she knew that her father would have no objection to him if he was worthy of her. That this choice had fallen on Harry Royal, no one could doubt who saw the bloom deepen in her face, and her bosom heave as he drew near. Mr. Brown pitied the love-stricken maiden, for how could the young man return her affections, if his were already bestowed on one to whom he was, by his own avowal, so deeply indebted as the fair Polly. Mr. Ferry’s hospitalities on the night of the ball demanded a call on the following evening, and, accordingly, George Brown paid it. But his face was covered with astonishment when he found that he had been preceded by Harry Royal, who was leaning over the back of Inez’s chair flirting with her desperately. ‘**Is this right ?” he asked, as the young men left the house, side by side. Harry started and reddened, but answered with his usual frankness: ‘*Under present circumstances 1 suppose it isn’t, and every time I see her, I resolve that it shall be the last; but I’m an idiot, and I can’t resist the magic of her pres- ence.” ““And Polly ?” Harry bit his lip and hung his head for a minute or two; then, vowing that he would behave more sensibly, made his escape, and for several days avoided George altogether. Of this Mr. Brown determined to take no notice. He had been in Alpena longer than he originally intended and must hasten his departure if he would utilize the rest of his holiday. But, when in saying his good- bye at Mr. Ferry’s, he casually learned that the fickle Harry was a daily visitor there and laying open siege to the heart of Inez, all the chivalry in his nature flew to arms in defense of the forsaken Polly. In vain did he remind himself that he had no busi- ness to meddle in the affair. All his re- solves to refrain vanished, when, walking into Messrs. Monteith’s drawing-room to bid farewell to their widowed sister, he found Harry there alone writing for her. ** Call me over-officious if you will,” said George, ‘* but lam no true friend if I did not recall you to your duty. The beauty of Inez Ferry may have enthralled you; but your heart, your honor, bind you to the dear girl who braved so many risks for your sake. Can you ever be happy if you for- sake her? Can you ever call yourself an honorable man, if, while she patiently waits for you in her far off home, loving you, trusting you, refusing to suspect that you could forget her—you are transferring your allegiance to another? I have seen this girl, I know how she e But here a loud ‘*Oh! I say,” from Harry broke in on the speaker’s eloquence, and ere he could renew his explanations they received another check in the shape of a half Jaugh and a nod in the direction of the door: “You're a capital preacher, Brown, but it isn’t fair to let you go any farther with- out informing you that Polly is one of your audience.” A start, a glance in the direction of Harry’s eyes had taken, and there, in the door-way, stood the fair purchaser of George Brown’s overcoat. She was crimson with confusion, for she had been standing there long enough to hear most of her champion’s remarks. Nor was his embarrassment any less, while the exasperating Harry made matters worse by looking from one to the other and chuckling. Suddenly assuming a very grave air, he thanked his friend for his good counsel. ** It’s a thousand pities it’s thrown away, as it is in my case; for, having plucked up spirit to tell Inez that it was my poverty that forbade me to address her, she so represented affairs to her worthy parent: that he gives me his daughter and takes me into partnership with him. I’m a lucky fellow, don’t you think so? And Polly— my sister Polly—has come to be present at the wedding.” George Brown did not leave Alpena that night, nor the next, nor as long as_his leave of absence lasted. Miss Royal had consented to be the guest of the brothers Monteith, and, as Harry was absorbed in his betrothed, it devolved on some one else to show the stranger the sights of the city. The first time they had a confidential chat —for Mr. Brown was so respectful that Polly soon got well acquainted—a few ex- planatons were entered into that set both at ease. ‘*My conduct must have seemed so ex- traordinary, so insane,” she said. *‘I have often wished I had asked you not to judge it too severely.” ‘*T never did that,” said her auditor.” ** Please let me tell you all about it,” said she. ‘‘ Harry and I lost our parents when we were very little children. A kind aunt took care of me, but my brother was left to the guardianship of his two uncles——stern old men, who made no allowance for the follies of youth. Not long before the evening I met you on the train, the foolish boy made the acquaintance of a villian, who led him into follies we need not dwell upon, now they are repented and atoned for. I knew nothing of what had happened till the terrible news reached me that Harry would be arrested for something that scoundrel had done and laid on Harry’s, shoulders, and his uncles, instead of trying to save him, refused him any help what- ever. ‘Of course I was eager to help him,” Polly went on, ‘‘ but they were cruel enough to want to murder me. They could not prevent me from taking the few hundreds I had in the bank, that my father left me: but they won my aunt over to their side, and 1 was made a sort of prisoner. I had escaped, and was on my way to Harry when I saw you; but I had reason to fear that they would try to intercept me at Hastings, unless I could prevent their discovering that I was in the train. As soonas I saw you toss your overcoat into the seat the idea entered my head that it would be a good disguise. Have you forgiven me for insist- ing on buying it?” And then Polly laughed such a sweet, irresistible laugh, that her hearer could hardly refrain from joining in it. (CONCLUDED ON EIGHTH PAGE.) attentive The Michigan Tradesmal. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE RETAIL TRADE OF THE WOLVERINE STATE. E. A. STOWE, Editor. YVerms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. A ivertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1887. EARLY CLOSING AT LANSING. One of the first actions taken by the Lan- sing Business Men’s Association, after its organization had been fully completed, was to inaugurate the early closing movement. After a thorough discussion of the subject, it was decided to close all places of business, except drug stores, at six o’clock in the even- ing, five days in the week. The move- ment was inaugurated with a ‘‘great flour- ish of trumpets,” including music by brass bands, a significant street parade, an out- door meeting on the steps of the capitol and a fine display of fire works. A movement begun under such auspices could not fail to exert a good influence over the trade nor fail to convince the people in general that it possessed strong elements of cohesiveness. All reports from Lansing are to the effect that the agreement was lived up to to the letter until about two weeks ago, when a grocer—not a member of the Association— sent word to President Wells that he pro- posed to withdraw from the movement. He did so, and his action was followed by a more prominent grocer, also not a mem- ber of the Association. * Fearing that the early closing system would not prove a suc- cess, so far as the grocers were concerned, a number of grocers petitioned the Associa- tion to rescind its action, so far as it applied to the grocery trade. Such action would have caused a break along the entire line, as several general dealers stated they would petition for the same exemption, and this would undoubtedly be followed by the dis- integration of the movement the Associa- tion had so much at heart. In this emergency the Association ap- pealed to the people for support. A mass meeting was held at the opera house, at which time stirring speeches were made by clergymen, professional and business men and representatives of the workingmen in favor of a continuance of the early closing system. No one had the temerity to speak on the other side of the question and at the conclusion of the addresses, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted : Whereas, The early closing of stores during the past month in this city has de- monstrated to our entire. satisfaction that the movement has been conducive to the yest interests, not only of merchants and their employes, but of our entire city, by removing the causes which before that per- iod existed to induce men during the even- ings to be absent from their homes; and WueEreAs, There seems at the present time danger that this movement may fail for lack of the moral support to which it is entitled from every good citizen; there- fore be it : Resolvcd—That we, citizens of Lansing assembled here to-night, will by act and word, aid the merchants of this city in the good work they have inaugurated of short- ening their hours of labor, and testify our sincerity by pledging ourselves to make 20 purchases at stores after the hour for elosing adopted by the Business Men’s As- sociation. Resolwcd—That merchants who adhere to the early closing movement show an un- selfish determination to promote the moral well-being of our city and are entitled to our sincere thanks. The following evening the Association held a meeting to consider the matter, when" petitions were received from a large num- ber of workmen in the factories, asking that the present system be continued. This put the lie to the statement so industriously circulated by interested persons, that the workingmen as 4 class favored keeping all places of business open until late in the evening. The matter was discussed in all its bearings, in the course of which it was discovered that the citizens’ meeting and workingmen’s petitions had had a great dufluence upon the minds of those who had been disposed to go back to the old way. It was unanimously decided to place the closing hour at 6:30 p. m. for members of the Association, and allow those outside of the Association to do as they pleased in the premises. Considering the strength of the sentiment in the community in favor of early closing, there is little to fear for the future. The Lansing B. M. A. is entitled to great credit for the advanced stand it has taken on this question and the energetic and per- sistent manner.in which it has stood by its colors. Nothing but the shrewdest general- ship and the stanchist loyalty on the part of the members could have carried them through the crisis. The rapid service system recently brought about by the introduction of the little store railways is likely to develop into some- thing of a monopoly, the company control- ling a number of patents having secured a permanent injunction against the Merchants’ Store Railway Co. The patents of the for- mer provide for the working of the appar- atus by a rubber spring, while the latter uses compressed air. Judge Brown, in the United States Circuit Court, at Detroit, held that the defendants’ device was a man- ifest attempt to seize upon the dominating idea of the patent and evade the letter of the claims. His honor took the ground that the air-impelling device was equivalent to the rubber spring, and did not entitle the defendants to credit for a new invention. ° The successful manner in which Presi- dent Grevy meets every crisis which would tend to precipitate revolution shows that he holds a firm seat. Yet it must be admitted that the danger of a new war between France and Germany is great. There is now, more than ever, a hostile feeling be- tween the two peoples. Germansin France are scarcely safe; Frenchmen in Germany must keep quiet. Never before, perhaps, was there so great a popular tension, and it is hard to see how it can be relaxed enough to maintain peace. A war, under such con- ditions, would be literally a flying at each others’ throats, and must become a conflict “to the death,” shocking to the moral sense of mankind. —iheasiieiereenaaiemmaiemamteta The total value of our mineral products is put at $465,000,000, an increase of $37,000,- 000 within the year. Of this gain $30,433,- 360 was in the value of pig iron. These look like large figures, but they» will be thought very small by the American statis- tician of half a century hence. If there be any field in which we have only touched the beginning of our resources, it is this of our mineral wealth. We have not taken the pains to ascertain one-half of what our country contains in this shape. cmmenpeenstaimmamnaapanmaenAse Frankfort gives promise of enjoying a genuine business boom in the immediate future. With the finest flowing mineral spring in the State, an inland lake of unsur- passed beauty, a climate which borders on perfection during the summer months, a harbor which is capable of floating a re- spectable navy, and a railway in prospect, there would seem to be no reason why Frankfort should not develop into a city of considerable importance during the next half dozen years. ieee Elk Rapids puts forth a bid for a bank. The man who supplies such a want will be happy and rich in after years.. ET AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Wm. Irwin succeed Irwin & Lane in the grocery business. The Valley City Milling Co. has sold its grain elevator at Filmore Center to Harvey Bros., late of Hamilton. Kilstrom & Peterson, feed, wood and coal dealers at 15 West Bridge street, have retired from the feed bnsiness. Ed. Telfer is arranging to merge his cof- fee and spice business into a corporation under the style of the Telfer Spice Co. The Grand Rapids School Furniture Co. has let the contract for the construction of a new dry kiln, 22x56 feet in dimensions. H. Leonard & Sons have in press a 200 page illustrated catalogue, which will be the largest publication of the kind ever issued by a Grand Rapids house. Glass & Osborn have rented a store build- ing on the corner of South Division and Grant streets and will shortly remove their grocery, drug and boot and shoe stock to that location from Elm Hall. Amos S. Musselman & Co. are now pleasantly settled in their new quarters on South Jonia street and Hester & Fox will have occupied the vacated premises by the time THE TRADESMAN for next week reaches its readers. John VY. Crandall & Son’s store and gen- eral stock at Crandall’s Corners, three miles west of Sand Lake, burned to the ground Sunday, involving a total loss. Mr. Crandall come to town Monday morn- ing and before night Arthur Meigs & Co. had shipped a new grocery. stock to Sand Lake, and Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. had booked an order for a stock of dry goods. The Messrs. Crandall are hard men to down —especially with fire—but the next time they leave their store in a dry time to go to a camp meeting, they will leave somebody beside the watch dog at home. Robert Neil, the Ashland Center general dealer and logger, has made a nasty failure, He traded his stock to Erastus -N. Burrell for the property known as the ‘Burrell farm,” subsequently deeding the property to’ his wife. His other real estate was deeded to Alex. McKinley and Washington Seamon, both transfers being undoubtedly fraudulent. Neil has been claiming that he was making $10,000 per year on his logging contract, but the loose manner in which he conducted business gives ground to the suspicion that the margin might have been on the other side of the ledger. Creditors will probably not get a cent unless they proceed to set aside the real estate transfers, which any court would undoubtedly do. AROUND THE STATE. Remus—C. F. Fitzgerald has opened a meat market. Grand Ledge—B. H. Enos, general deal- er, is selling out. Lakeview—John Croft is moving his grocery stock to Manistee. Northville—H. D. Bailey, grocer, has as- signed to E. 8. Woodman. Balech—H. McClure, of the grocery firm of McClure & Co., is dead. Metamora—Lyon & Schuneman succeed Wilder Bros. in general trade. Adrian—Wnm. Sheldon succeeds Sheldon & Sigler in the jewelry business, 3 Oxford—J. D. Hagerman succeeds german & Larzealier in general trade. Pontiac—Allison' & Merritt succeed Henry E. Allison in the jewelry business. Bay City—Whitney & Co. succeed Pom- eroy & Whitney in the cracker baking busi- ness. Ha- Bad Axe—Mark Razek succeeds Razek “Bros. in general trade. - Bad Axe—Sol Rosenstock & Co. succeed E. T. Des Jardines in general trade. Lowell—Ben. E. West & Co. have sold their drug stock to Clark & Winegar. Owosso—Salisbury Bros. succeed D. R. “Salisbury in the boot and shoe business. Brockway Center—A. H. Braidwood suc- ceeds.Owens & Braidwood in general trade. Charlotte—Levy & Green succeed F. L. (Mrs. J. H.) Green in the clothing business. Orangeville—Eli Nichols’ store was re- cently broken into and $500 taken from the safe. Edmore—The O. Tower hardware stock has been sold to W. F. Chapman, late of Stanton. Litehfield—A. J. Lovejoy & Co. succeed Lovejoy & LeFleur, general dealers and bankers. Chelsea—R. S. Armstrong & Co. succeed R. S. Armstrong in the drug and grocery business. Six Lakes—E. A. Bellows has enlarged his store and added lines of dry goods and hardware. Clio—A. B. Gould has sold his general stock to Nixon & Hubbell and his furniture stock to Wm. H. Davis. White Cloud—P. Wait has purchased the boot and shoe stock of J. R. Campbell and will continue the business. Stanton—J. W. S. Pierson & Co. are building a two-story brick tin shop in the rear of their hardware store. Big Rapids—Griswold & McGregor have closed their branch drug store at White Cloud and moved the stock back to this city. Elm Hall—Glass & Osborn are reducing their stock of drugs, groceries and boots shoes, preparatory to their removal to Grand Rapids. Sault Ste Marie—Prenzlauer Bros., wholesale and retail general dealers, have dissolved, Herman Prenzlauer retiring and A. Prenzlauer continuing under the same style. Kalamazoo—Geo. Bassett has purehased an interest in the merchant tailoring and furnishing goods business of F. E. Wells and the two will continue the business under the style of Wells & Bassett. Red Jacket—The firm of W. H. Hosking Jr., & Co. has been closed by Sheriff Ryan. This firm was the firm of Walls & Co. a few days agoand when danger was threaten- ed by the creditors of Watson & Walls, the Allouez mine tributors, who are also inter- ested and partners in the Red Jacket store which is managed by W. H. Hosking, who married a sister of Wm. Walls, Hosking said he had bought out Walls’ interest and changed the style of the firm as* above. Leoppid & Austrian, the steamboat and commission firm, of Chicago, are the credi- tors who closed the store. ee Port Huron—The proprietors of the 99- cent store turned a big and spirited pup in- to their place the other night to keep away burglars. They would have saved money if they had put in the burglars to keep away the dog. He -wasn’t used to being left alone in such a fine place, and it made him feel so good that he spent the night in run- ning hurdle races, eating silk parsols, and other innocent but expensive amusements. In the morning the store was a barren waste, and if the owners could sell the pup for $150 they would be tickled to death, al- though they wouldn’t be a cent ahead. STRAY FACTS. Morenci—Jesse Chamberlain succeeds C. F. Acker in the hotel business. Armada—The flouring mills are being re- fitted with roller process machinery. Lansing—A. H. Hansel, late of Chip- pewa Lake, has opened a lumber yayl. Homer—J. H. Cook, Jr., has bought out O. W. Mumbrue’s blacksmith business. St. Louis—F. C. Henry, the miller, con- templates opening a mill and elevator at Ashley. Frankfort—The Bank of Frankfort ex- pects to move into its new quarters by September 1. Its business is rapidly in- creasing. Ionia—W. C. Page, P. T. Bates, Ben. B. Hall and R. Lee Page have formed a copart- nership under the style of Page, Bates & Co., to engage in the handling of produce. Blanchard—Mrs. E. 8. Hipkins has ap- plied for the administratorship of the estate of her late husband and the guardianship of their child. The drug stock is offered for sale. Fremont—M. B. Franklin, the merchant- postmaster, has fairly outdone himself in the purchase of office furniture, in consequence of which he has the finest appearing post- office to be seen in a year’s journey. Marquette—A company of Cleveland cap- italists under the leadership of Samubl L. Mathers has leased forty acres of land next to the Lake Superior Iron Co.’s gold mine and will proceed to develop it. An advance rental of $10,000 has been paid on the prop- erty. . Detroit—The stockholders in the new Peninsular Savings Bank have elected as president, Alexander Chapoton; first vice president, Cornelius Corbett; second vice president, Joseph Perrien; cashier, Joseph B. Moore; attorney, Michael Brennan; direc- tors, Alexander Chapoton, Thomas Nester, Casper Schulte, James Dwyer, Joseph Per- rien, John Atkinson, John H. Berry, Alex- ander Lewis, Paul Weidner, Siegmund Simon, John M. Dwyer, W. E. Moloney, Joseph B. Moore, Simon C. Karrer, Cer- nelius Corbett, Waldo M. Johnson, Michael Brennan, James Gerrans, M. F. Howard, Geo. Hanley, Joseph A. Marsh, and W. D. ‘Smith, of Ann Arbor. ‘The capital stock is $250,000. Frankfort—F. L. Fuller, Cashier of the Bank of Frankfort, has been’ hgitating the subject of organizing a Building and Loan Association for some time past, and the agitation has finally taken shape in the for- mation of a strong organization, with $500,- 000 capital, divided into 5,000 shares of $100 each. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Mason—The new knitting works employ seventeen hands. Leetsville—B. A. Jones will sawmill to Kalkaska. Sand Lake—J. V. Crandall & Son’s new sawmill is completed and is running full blast. Battle Creek—The Sheathing Lath Ma- chine Co. has been organized, with a capital stock of $100,000. Plainwell—R. Almendinger succeeds F. &. Jones in the manufacture of cigars and the sale of tobacco. Chippewa Lake—A. D. Hensel is closing up his lumber business, preparatory to re- moving to Lansing. Detroit—The Detroit Picture Frame Co. has elected Leonard Laurense president and Wm. P. Bowring secretary. Ingalls—Carley & Parmenter’s new shin- gle mill is nearly completed. Cedar shin- gles will be manufactured exclusively. Bay de Noquette--R. Peacock, lumber dealer, has sold out to the heirs of Joseph Peacock, possession to be given Nov. 15. Saugatueck—Wisner, Rowe & Co., who have just opened a bank, announce that they will put up a brick block next season. Detroit—W. H. Pierce and S. R. Bateson are partners in the manufacture of the John- son capsule. They disagreed and Pierce is demanding a dissolution of the partnership. Muskegon—Sawmill laborers were never more scarce than at present. Montgomery, Hetz & Co. have been compelled to cease running nights, owing to their inability to get the necessary help. fe Farwell—J. E. Austin is building a mill te have a daily capacity of 40,000 feet of lumber and 45,000 shingles, at Lake George, about seven miles froin Farwell, on the To- ledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail- way. North Muskegon—The Cohasset Lumber Co. is again hauling logs over its logging road and dumping them into the Muskegon river at Paris, at the rate of about 150,000 a day. They reach Muskegon about five days after starting. Saginaw—A. Linton & Sons, whose mill was lately burned out, were offered $1,000 bonus to locate their new mill within cer- tain prescribed territory, and while they did so on their own choice, the bonus was courteously declined. Flint—A company has been organized with a capital of $100,000, for the manufac- ture of the Skinner automatic car coupler. The main office willbe located at Flint, while the work will be done at Detroit. The officers are: Oren Stone, president; John Skinner, vice-president; A. D. Mc- Call, treasurer; J. W. Blake, secretary. Kalkaska—John Torrent will saw about 15,000,000 feet at his Kalkaska mill, on that part of the Hannah, Lay & Co. proper- ty which he retained when he made his re- centsale. Logs from the timber, at the head of Boardman river, reach the mill via a five-mile logging road, over which a trip was recently made with 30,000 feet of logs in fifteen minutes. <_< Purely Personal. John H. Loucks, the happy storekeeper at Ottawa Beach, was in town Monday. John F. Halladay, the Battle Creek gro- cery jobber, was in town last Wednesday on his way to Chicago. Silas K. Bolles has gone to Leadville, Col., to secure immunity from the hay fever. He is accompanied by his wife. C. B. Field, of Muskegon, passed through the city Saturday on his way to Vermont- ville, where he has lately purchased a large stock farm. Charles B. Lovejoy, the Big Rapids gro- cer, was in town last Thursday to meet his family, who have been spending the sum- mer in the East. Heman G. Barlow sustained a painful injury one day last week, which has kept him in dry dock most of the time since. While tinkering with a gas fixture, a piece of glass came in contact with his wrist, severing a large artery. move his Gripsack Brigade. Edwin Andrew, father of Ed. P. Andrew, died at Ludington last week at the age of 63. L. L. Loomis has returned from Minnea- polis and resumed his trips on the road for Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops. The trade. will gladly welcome him back. Jack Linsey, traveling representative for P. Lorillard & Co., is ill with a fever at the Park Place, at Traverse City. Recent symptoms are more favorable. Frank Correll, traveling representative for Bixler & Correll, wholesale dry goods and notion dealers at Easton, Pa., has been spending his summer vacation with friends here. Fremont Indicator: Chas. E. Morgan iu “off the road” for a few weeks’ rest- up, and is enjoying the mid-summer holi- days at his home on the farm ‘‘salubrious made” by the splashings and the breezes of Fremont Lake. It is reported that a change has been made in the place of holding the, traveling men’s picnic, but up to the time of going to press THE TRADESMAN has received no authoritive statement from the committee having the matter in charge. Conflicting reports have been published i the daily papers. THE AUBURN PAPER CO. The trade generally will be interested in the following articles, which refer to one of the leading business houses of Grand Rap- ids: We clip from the Commercial World and U.S. Exporter. An Industry that has Grown Up with Auburn, THE AUBURN PAPER COMPANY. ‘‘Looking over the trade and reseurces of the State of New York, the observer cannot fail to be astonished in the first place at the number of large towns of considerable in- dustrial importance, and in the second at the prosperity that has attended the growth and development of various manufacturing interests that have sprung up in all parts of the Empire State and wherever a flourishing community has been collected. The Auburn Paper Company furnishes a conspicuous instance of the importance of these businesses, the first paper mill having been started here in 1829, when the village was scarcely settled. It underwent several vicissitudes and was successively owned by the Messrs. Skinner & Hoskins, the Cayuga County Bank, Messrs. West, Ivison & Mark- ham, until in 1849 a stock company was formed to operate it. They re-organized and enlarged the business in 1854. In 1872 the Messrs. Botsford Bros. (John H. and James E.) purchased the property and the business then commenced to make head- way. They entered on the business with the vim of young men and pushed it with such suc- cess that they soon found their quarters in- adequate, and finally secured accomodations in the Richardson building on South street, 100 feet deep and three stories high with an excellent basement, which they had spec- jally fitted up for them. They control several mills, all of the most improved construction and equipment, and manufacture a full line of manilla and straw papers. Their chief specialties are their ‘‘Ra” and “S B” manillas, for which they have a large trade in all the principal cities, and which is sold very largely to the trade for shippers, grocers, tea merchants and others, for wrap- ping and packing purposes. These papers are noted and highly popu- Jar on account of extra finish and fine qual- ity. Their ‘‘Superb” butter and fruit tray which is furnished in one, two, three and five pound sizes, and is made from the pure wood pulp smoothly finished and in one piece, the ends being secured by eyelets. Its size and shape render it a general favorite; it is tight and strong as well as light and cleanly and is largely sold in New York and other large cities. In addition to the above lines the firm have an excellent business as jobbers and dealers in general stationery goods, twines, etc., their trade reaching as far west as the Pacific Coast and all through the Eastern States and their enterprise and the favor with which their straightforward and prompt method of doing business is received are displayed in their rapidly increasing and important sales.” The following is a part of an article ap- pearing in the Auburn Dispatch of April 22, 1887: ,.The Auburn Paper Company. ESTABLISHING A WESTERN BRANCH AND OPENING NEW TERRITORY. ‘*‘Among the institutions located in this city that have attained enviable reputations in the commercial world none more proper- ly deserves its distinction than the Auburn Paper Company. Obtaining control of the business in 1872, they at once instituted a revolution of business methods, employing distinctly original modes and bringing ad- vanced ideas to aid in the development of the trade. How practical were those ideas and how closely were the methods adhered to and diligently pursued is evidenced in the fact that the company now feel it in- cumbent to establish a branch house in Michigan to meet the requirements. The new house is located in Grand Rapids, a prosperous, enterprising city, conven- iently located for the trade and offering every conceivable advantage. James E. Botsford, one of the company, will locate there and superintend the business, the other member, John H. Botsford, remain- ing in charge of the house in this city. The firm have already a number of large con- tracts for the western house, and the pro- portions of the business in that State alene are truly of exceptional magnitude. Pleased and gratified at the success already attained, the company are not disposed to relax their efforts in the strides of progress, but pro- pose to further increase their facilities for securing trade and to make preparations commensurate with the present encourag- ing auguries.” The above mentioned company is located 29 Ionia St. in this city, where they carry in stock a large supply of manilla paper of various grades, of Rag, Straw, Building and Carpet Papers. They also do a large trade in fruit papers shipping into Southern Cali- fornia. They are agents for satchel bottom bags also for the Union Anchor Square Bag, the best paper bag in the market. The trade can place their orders with the Auburn Paper Co. in the confidence that no house in the west can offer greater in- ducements. 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, OR SALE—The mill and machinery for- merly used by the lonia Manufacturing Company at Ionia, Mich. Apply to A. J. Webber, receiver, lonia, Mich. 203-3t al DIOR SALE—New stock of groceries and fix- tures situated at 115 Broadway. Call and examine stock or address A. Kenyon, Grand Rapids, Mich. 20: OR SALE—120-acre farm, with tine house and other buildings, three miles north of Coopersville. The best orchard in Ottawa county. Price $7,0# cash. Address, for fur- ther particuinrs, 2. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids, Mich. 198tt OR SALE CHEAP—Portable saw mill in good runningorder. Capacity 25 M pine lumber per day. Gang edger, saw dust carrier, and line rollers. For further particulars en- quire of J. F. Clark, Big Rapids, Mich. lott OK SALE—Fine residence property on Mount Vernonstreet, west side, 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. 195tf OR SALE—The best drug store in the thriv- ing city of Muskegon. Terms easy. C. L. Brundage, Muskegon, Mich. 195tt OR 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. 1Titt NOR SALE—Ice box, 6 feet and 2 inches high, 2 feet and ll 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 OR RENT—Large store, corner West Ful- ton and Front streets. Boston Block. Good location fora grocery. Inquire of J. T. Strahan, 221 Mt. Vernon street, Grand Rap- ids. 203* Vy ANTED—Situation by young man in a grocery or general store. four years’ experience. Best of references. Address S., care box 354, Fremont, Mich. 207* Vy Y ANTED—To exchange farm worth $2,500 for astock of goods. Address Box 23, Tradesman Office, 201*tf Vy ANTED—A man having an established trade among lumbermen to add a spec- ial line and sellon commission. To the right man a splendid chance will be given to make money without extraexpense. Address “B,’’ eare Michigan Tradesman. 178tf Michigan Ding Exchange, 375 South Union St., Grand Rapids. AGENTS FOR THE Standard Petit Ledger. “a al Wy Anreo-6 registered female pharmacist to take situation in western town. A\|- so other registered pharmacists and assistants. OR SALE—Stock of $3,000 in town of 1,000 population. Average daily sales, $30. VOR SALE—Stoek of about $2,000, well lo- - eautedin Grand Rapids, doing good busi- ness. Or SALE—Stock of about $500 in town of 500 inhabitants. No other drug store in town, good location. Must be sold on account of death of proprietor. eR SALE—Stock of about $1,800 in town of 1,800 population. Will exchange for good real estate. JFIOR SALE—Stoek of 31,700 in town of _ 800 inhabitants. Average daily sales $15. Will sell on easy terivs, OR SALE—Stock of adout $4,000 in town of 2,000 inhabitants. Will exchange for good farm lands. A LSO—Many other stocks, the particulars of which we will furnish on application. ha DRUGGISTs—Wishing to secure clerks we will furnish the address and full par- ticulars of those on our list free. Vy E HAVE also secured the agency for J. H. Vail & Co.’s medical publications and ean furnish any medieal or pharmaceutical work at publishers’ rates. Derren were ere Michigan Drug Exchange, 357 South Union St., = - Grand Rapids. Jo OCH’S PATENT © 5 Pr a@ oADIUSTABLE = = REVERSIBL= Suet REVERS PP Seoa > SO MELVING Fe (AN BE READILY re VY i” PUT UP BY ANY | STs ‘5 | | | bg a, wae | - l i r 4 ONE AND MOVED e ® TS °2@ EASILY AS §TOCKe OSE BRACKET 3 ree) SUITABLE FOR VARIOUS LVS MIWIDTHS OF SHELVING. ir 3 PATENTED OCT. 19, 1887. LW Manufactured by KOCH A. B. CO. 354 MAIN ST., PEORIA, ILL Liberal discount to the trade, or parties first putting up these brackets in any local- ity. Must Have Tiger Oil. GRAND RAPIDS, June 22, 1887. Dr. Leeson, Cadillac: DEAR SrR—I should have answered your letter ere this had not sickness prevented, and now I will just say that L asked for the sole agency of Tiger Oil simply because I thought your medicine was not at present for sale here. Ihave relatives and friends here who have tried repeatedly to find Tiger Oil in the city and failed, and consequently have been in the habit of sending to Mill- brook for it. When we moved here recent- ly, almost the first day some one asked if I brought any ‘Tiger Oil to sell. As I had not I kept lending from what I had for pri- vate use, until it was gone, and we tried to buy more here, and, as on former occasions, failed to find any. So, thinking perhaps it might pay to keep a small supply on hand (if no one else near me kept it), 1 wrote you as I did. Lintended sending out your cirewars from house to house, and so adver- tise it. If, as you say, so many druggists in this city keep ‘Tiger Oil they take no pains to sell it, even when called for. You can do as you choose about sending me any tosell. I can get my supply, as formerly, from my husband’s mother in Millbrook. Very respectfully yours, Mrs. SusA CAWTHORNE. “4 Association Notes. A B. M. A. has been formed at Ashley. Carry the news to Blain. There will bea banquet atthe Flint convention, tendered by the Flint Mercantile Union. The editor of THz TRADESMAN will assist in the formation of an association at Sand Lake to-night and at Ithaca Friday night. W. Crotty, Secretary of the Lansing B. M. A., writes: ‘‘As soon as some members who have not paid up have been called up- on, we shall join the State body. We will enter with over 100 members.” The Railway Association of Michigan, comprising all important railway lines in the State, has granted a one and one-third rate to the September convention of the Michigan Business Men’s Association. ‘Grand Haven Herald: The monthly meeting of the Business Men’s Association Wednesday night showed the value of the Association not only in collecting bad debts, but in avoiding dishonest customers, be- sides helping to train these into better ways. S. Lamfrom, Secretary of the Owosso B. M. A., writes: ‘‘We have elected delegates and alternates to the State convention. We designated Stanley E. Parkill to deliver the three minute oration under penalty of a box of cigars for the last variation of the des- ignated time.” Lansing Republican: The members of the Lansing Business Men’s Association are in a happy frame of mind. They think the action of the meeting last night was just right and henceforth everything will be lovely. The men who have taken this ear- ly closing movement in hand are determin- ed to succeed or die trying. Howard Record: We stated some time ago that the Business Men’s Association had taken up the project of opening up and improving the roads leading into Howard City. An arrangement was made with Mr. Neve, highway commissioner in Pierson township, by the terms of which the Busi- ness Men’s Association was to furnish a sum of money to assist in completing a piece of road south from the Wood Lake school house. Since that time the road has been completed in good shape and the money raised at this ‘‘end of the line” and paid over in proper shape. This will prove to be of great convenience to the farmers in the locality along the road, and save them several miles travel in coming to Howard City with their grain. Roads in other lo- calities will now receive due attention. +2 _____ White Laketo Picnic Next Week. WHITEHALL, Ang. 3, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Str—At the last regular meeting of the White Lake Business Men’s Associa- tion, which occured on Tuesday evening, Aug. 2, you were invited to attend our an- nual picnic, which will be held at Weston’s grove, atthe mouth of White river, on Tuesday, Aug 16. Any members of your home society that you can bring along will be welcomed by us. Respectfully yours, W. B. Nicnonson, See’y. —_——-_ —~»-e- Muskegon to Organize on a Broader Basis. MuskeEGoN, Aug 5, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: Dear Str—We have been considering the advisability of merging our Retail Grocers’ Association into a Business Men’s Association, and have come to the conclu- sion that such a course is the best plan to pursue. Please let us knuw when you can make it convenient to be with us for an evening, not later than ten days hence. We think by such effort we can secure a large association here and we want you to be present at that meeting and explain more fully than any of us are able to do the ben- efits of organization. You can fix the date to suit yourself and President Fargo and myself will see to getting the signature of all business men to the call for this meeting. Yours truly, Wo. Perr, Sec’y. President Blain, of Lowell, and the edi- tor of THE TRADESMAN will go to the White Lake picnic on August 16, and Mr. Peer has been informed that he can issue a call for a meeting on the following evening. It is to be hoped that President Hamilton and the Presidents of the Ionia, Grand Rap- ids, Coopersville, Grand Haven and White Lake Association, or representatives from those bodies, can also be present at the re- organization of the Muskegon body. —— > -. << -—— Good Report From the Owosso Associa- tion. Owosso, Aug. 4, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: Dear Srr—Our Association is in a healthy and flourishing condition and many good results have been derived by its mem- bers, both individually and in general. The indications are flattering for the future. We are at present laboring to locate the car and repair shops of the T., A. A. & N. Railway in this city. The General Manager met a committee from our Association last evening and talked very favorably. If we are able to accomplish this, the credit will rest wholly with the B. M. A. Yours truly, S. Lamrrom, Sec’y. _ +O The Flint Programme. Fuint, Aug. 1, 1887. E, A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Srr—I have been around this morning aud secured reduced hotel rates— $1.50 per day at either the Bryant, Sherman or Dayton Houses. We extend an invitation to a banquet on Wednesday evening, Sept. 7. Our Deaf and Dumb Institute is closed and will not be opened until about Sept. 15, but we will try and entertain the members in other directions. We will have the opera house for your meetings. Yours truly, J. L. WILueETT, Sec’y. > -o-< a The Bancroft cheese factory has resumed operations with a full force under new man- agement. Chas. M. Northrop, Lakeview: “I have a high appreciation of THE TRADESMAN as a business instructor.” Programme for the Coming State Conven- tion. The following programme will be ob- served at the third convention of the Mich- igan Business Men’s Association, to be held at Flint on Sept. 6 and 7. Some changes may have to be made in the programme as the date of the convention draws near: TUESDAY—9 A. M. 1. Call to order by President. 2. Prayer by Rey. 3. Address of welcome by Geo. T. War- ren, Mayor of Flint. 4. Response in behalf of the Association by L. W. Sprague, Greenville. 5. Reading of President’s Address. 6. Report of Secretary. 7. Report of Treasurer. 8. Report of Executive Committee. 9. Appointment of Committees on Cred- entials, Order of Business, Resolutions, President’s Address and Secretary’s Re- port. 10. Reports of delegates on local associa- tion work, one to three minutes each. TUESDAY—1:30 P. M. 1. Report of Committee on Order of Business. 2. Report of Committee on Credentials. 3. Report of Committee on Transporta- tion. : 4. Report of Committee on Legislation. 5. Discussion of above and action on same. 6. Paper—‘‘Manufactories, their value and how to secure them”’—S. Lamfrom, Owosso. 7. Paper—‘‘Mercantile Education”—C. T. Bridgman, Flint. 8. Reports of delegates continued. TUESDAY—7:30 P. M. 1. Report of Committee on President’s Address. 2. Report of Committee on Secretary’s Report. 3. Report of Committee on Trade Inter- ests. 4. Discussion of above and action on same. 5. Dissolution of Association. WEDNESDAY 9 A. M. Call to order. Prayer by Rev. Organization of new Association. - Report of Committee on Constitution and By-Laws, and adoption of same. 5. lection of officers. 6. Adoption of constitution and by-laws for auxiliary bodies. 7. Adoption of charter. 8. Paper—‘‘Village Improvements”-— W. W. Warner, Allegan. WEDNESDAY—1:30 P. M. 1. Paper—Mutual Insurance’—Hon. M. T. Cole, Palmyra. 2. Opening of Question Box. 3. Paper—‘‘Buying goods, how, when and where.” 4. Selection of next place of meeting. 5. Announcement of standing and spec- ial committees. WEDNESDAY —7:30 P. M. 1. Address—‘‘The Business Man in Pol- itics”—Hon. S. C. Moffatt, Traverse City. 2. Report of Committee on Resolutions. 3. Adjournment to banquet tendered by the Flint Mercantile Union. —_———-—>_-+9- Organization of a Strong Association at Fremont. In spite of a strong counter attraction, there was a full attendance of the business men of Fremont last Friday evening ata meeeting called to consider the advisability of organizing a Business Men’s Association. Joseph Gerber was selected to act as chair- man of the meeting and Chas. I. Rathbun as secretary pro tem. After an explana- tion of the aims and objects of organized effort by the editor of Ture TRADESMAN, A. H. Northway moved that the formation of an Association be immediately proceeded with, which was adopted. The regulation constitution was then adopted, when the following gentlemen handed in their names for charter membership: D. Gerber & Sons, C. I. Rathbun, Darling & Smith, W. D. Leonardson, Fenton & Forman, M. B. Franklin, Darling Milling Co., A. H. North- way, Raider & Son, J. B. Ketchum, W. Hopper, J. R. Odell, W. A. Anderson, C. A. Pearson, C. C. Merricle, Rutherford & Mizner, Fred Marshall, W. S. Platt, Alex. Read, Van N. Miller, Richard Purdy, C. E. Stearns, A. K. Wagner, A. J. Jones, K. Boone, J. Dursema, A. F. Tibbitts, L. Val- lier, J. F. Wright, E. O. White, J. R. Jack- lin, L. Sweet, N. A. Vyne, Walter Pum- frey. Joseph Gerber was elected President and Chas. I. Rathbun Secretary. These gen- tlemen, with J. R. Odell, A. H. Northway, and Frank H. Smith were constituted the Executive Committee. The election of the remaining officers and committees was deferred until the next meeting. The Blue Letter collection system was adopted and the Executive Committee in- structed to procure the printing of the necessary blanks. The editor of the local paper was re- quested to print the constitution and by- laws in his next paper, as a matter of news, and the meeting adjourned for one week. OOO Evaporator Notes. R. H. Olive is building an addition to his evaporator, at Wayland, which will double his room capacity and enable him to turn out four times as much cured fruit per day. M. B. Brooks has started his old evapora- tor, at Nashville, and has begun work ona new building. Connor & Cross expect to start a fruit evaporator at Fremont. M. O. Walker will soon start his fruit evaporator at Allegan. He contem- plates putting in another evaporator at Bloomingdale. i The Hardware Market. Nails are firm, but without material change. Sheet iron has advanced 20c per 100 at the factory, but the jobbers have not yet changed their price. There is every prospect of a great scarcity of light sheet, as all the factories are running on heavy tank iron, for which there is a great de- mand at present. Coil chain is firm, with every prospect of an early advance. P99 29 rt Sand Lake in Readiness to Organize. Sanp LAkKg, Aug. 4, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Sir—At last Sand Lake is fully ripe to enter the list of Business Men’s Associations, every business man and woman having signed a call for a meeting. We await your convenience to come up to set us up in business. Write me when you can be with us. Yours truly, J. V. CRANDALL. Now is the time for you to use Tiger Oil] aud prove it is better than any other medi- cine known for all Summer Complaints of the Stomach and Bowels, from the infant to manhood, as Pain, Colic, Cholera Infantum, Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, Flux, Yellow Fever and all kindred diseases, as well as Nervous Diseases, Sunstroke, Par- alysis and their relations. Use internally and externally. HEMLOCK BARK! WANTED. The undersigned will pay the high- est market price for HEMLOCK BARE loaded on. board cars at any side track on the G. R. & I. or C. & W. M. Railroads. Correspondence solicit- ed. N. B. CLARK, 101 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids To Grocers and Provision Dealers, CHADBORN’S With guard in position for use. DIRECTIONS—Screw firmly to Bench or Counter. Always Keep the Slide in the Bottom of the Box, with the POINTS TOWARD THE KNIFE. HAWKINS & PERRY, Wholesale Provisions. Grand Rapids, - - Mich. HURCULES POWDER Annihilator to the Arts. Now is the time to Stock Up for Farmers’ Trade. 19 and 21 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Ammunition, Guns, Fishing Tackle and Sporting Goods Generally. Fuses, Caps, Augers, ‘snyereddy sunseiq Ra) LIE ra wl, 14 and 16 Pearl Street, - RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHOES. AGENTS FOR THE BOSTON RUBBER SHOE co. Grand Rapids, Mich. THE GREAT STUMP AND ROCK Strongest and Safest Explosive known Mail orders promptly filled. L.S. HILL & Co., Also’ wholesale dealers in Gunpowder, STRONG| Clark, PURE. | NEW PROCESS STARCH, (SWE. This Starch having the light Starch and Gluten removed, One-Third Iess | f@ Can be used than any other in the Market. Manufactured by the @FIRMENICH MNFG. CO. Factories: Marshalitewn, Iowa; Peoria, lls, Offices at Peoria, Ils. FOR SALE BY Jewell & Co. | SURE. KSTER & FOX, Mo AceInERy And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for sample Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. Manufacturers’ Agts. for baW ald Grist Mill Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds, of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws Belting and Oils. WRITE FOR PRICES. CLARK, JEHWELL & CO. ARE SOLE AGENTS FOR ELASTIC STARCH. IT’S A WINNER. Your Stock is Not Complete Without It INCLUDE A BOX IN YOUR NEXT ORDER. 130 Oakes St., Grand Rapids, Mich. EN ROUTE! . 100,000 Old Virginia Cheroots, WILL BE IN STOCK THIS WEEK. SEND IN YOUR ORDERS. body, Ball, Barnhart & Go. SOLE AGINTsS, rand Rapids, - - Mich 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. Nelson Bros. & Co, BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS Wholesale Grocers, IMPORTERS OF Teas, Lemons ald Foreign Fruits. SOLE AGENTS FOR “Acme” Herkimer Co. Cheese, Lautz Bros. Soaps and Niagara Starch. Send for Cigar Catalogue and ask for Special Inside Prices on anything in our line. C. AINSWORTH, VAT OOL. CLOVER, TIMOTHY SKED and BEANS, Parties Wishing to Buy or Sell above are Invited to Correspond. 82 South Division St, - - - - Grand Rapids, Mich, L, M. CARY. L. L. LOVERIDGE, CARY & LOVERIDCE, GENERAL DEALERS IN Fire and Burglar Proof SAFEHS Combination and Time Locks, 1] Tonia Street, - Grand Rapids, Mich, The Michigan Tradesmad. SUCCESSFUL TRADESMAN. Written Especially for THE TRADESMAN. How comparatively few who embark in business are successful? To examine the statistics is to become discouraged at the outset. By success, we do not always mean to accumulate a large fortune, but to be able to remain in, and permanently conduct the business, with a constant increase. Neither do we speak of success in a sodid view. We have no reference to the rolling stone which gathers no moss. . It is not all there is of life, to gather either moss or money. Of course, the causes of success are var- ious, but among them two are the most prominent. Become master of these, and your probabilities rise sixty per cent. First—thoroughly understand the business in which you engage. Second—carefully select your location and then sit down there, determined at all hazards to stay. If your capital is small so much more is the rule imperative, that you remain in one place. We obtain the most valuable of all our education from experience, rather than books. It may in truth be said to be the great teacher, as its lessons are never for- gotten. If we have noted the experience of others, it also is of value to us. Let the reader of forty or forty-five years old glance backward among the merchants he has known in the past. The most successful, particularly in small towns, will be found among those who have remained in the one locality longest. Acquaintance is one of the most valuable auxiliaries of capital—in fact, is to an hon- est man good capital of itself, and he who has known every man and woman in his locality almost from childhood can, if he will, compete in trade with any stranger who may locate beside him. This intimate acquaintance with persons—their characters and habits—cannot be had by those who are often changing their residence and place of business; consequently,.it is the best policy for any person who contemplates engaging in any business to firmly decide to remain in the same place for at least twenty years, when if not then successful, he may natur- ally conclude that in that line success is not for him. It is proverbial that he succeeds best who remains longest, notonly in the same town but upon the same spot of ground, and in the same room, if possible. Persons have been known to fail in business by simply chang- ing from one building to another, not half a block distance. Some enterprising man put in the same kind of stock in the place vacated, and judiciously caught half his old customers. Many merchants, when removing to another store in the same town, con- tinue the lease of the old one, also, closing it up entirely for six months or a year, and its doors become a standing guide to and advertisement of the new quarters of its occupant. The writer considers this money well invested. Do not allow occasional incidents or cir- cumstances to discourage you. Dull days will come, possibly a year of failure in crops. Some other town will be ‘‘booming” and you will hear its praises and attractions said or sung daily. But don’t take the bait! —jt costs money to move and yet re-estab- lished, and where is that valuable capital— acquaintance—we have mentioned? Gone for many years from you. Bear in mind that the wheel of fortune constantly revol- ves, and the spoke on which good times and prosperity sits smiling must and will come around to you, as to all others in time, if you will only remain within its periphery, instead of continually shifting your seat just before it reaches you. One demon of trade which, if once allow- ed to enter your door will, haunt you ever after is crediting, trusting, or loaning your goods. We are aware that it is an almost universal custom, though a most unsafe and pernicious one. ‘The retail dealer must not give credit.” Commit those words to memory and think of them whenever a cus- tomer addresses you. Itis your only safe- ty. Donot say you cannot do business that way. You can, as we can personally testify, and you will be far happier at the close of a year and avoid the thought of much profane language. The man who al- lows his goods taken from his door with no cumpensation except good promises, is loaning money in driblets, and without either interest or security. He assumes all risk of loss, while his customer takes the goods with out any. Further than this, he is firmly within the power of that man, until the debt is cancelled; and you refuse him the second and third favor at the peril of losing all! If you are selling strictly for cash or its equivalent, you can and natural- ly will sell the same goods a little lower than your neighbor who credits. What happens then? You will get three out of four of all cash customers. And mark! they will pass by those who have. credited them, and pay you the money, believing that you sell at lower prices, whether you do or not. They also avoid the store that has given them credit for fear of being dun- ned! Such is human nature and the only way to circumvent jt is to credit no one. Pos- sibly one in fifty or one hundred will be an- gry at your refusal and leave you. You may be thankful you escaped thus cheaply. But refuse him kindly, as if it pained you to do so, and in time he will return to you with cash and will be one of your best cus- tomers. Your standing in the commercial world will rise in proportion, as you pur- sue this line of policy. Establish a reputation for the highest honor in dealing with children. Always discriminate in favor of a child, and in making change, give it the half cent, if any is involved in the transaction. The loss—if any—will return to you a hundred fold. We have known one store in a large town singled out by the people to which children were almost invariably sent to make cash purchases, owing to the strict in- tegrity of its proprietor and employes in |. dealing with them. Condnet your own business, and never allow customers or hangers on to dictate the course youare to pursue. Never min- gle business and recreation with a customer. Both are excellent, if separate, but it is a mixture in which both ingredients are ruin- ed. Don’t have too many easy chairs in your store. The L. L.’s (lazy people and loungers) are too apt to occupy them, to the exclusion of desirable customers. Have your own rules of business and firmly yet respectfully adhere to them. A large percentage of failures are caused by great numbers of persons obtaining the idea that even the most uneducated and inex- perienced can succeed in dealing in mer- chandise, after all other vocations have proven failures. This is a serious, general- ly fatal error. Bear in mind that while in the ordinary trades, your master piece may be turned out after three years of study, it will cost double or treble that time to be- come sufficiently experienced in the mer- cantile work to compete with those who are eminently successful. While your ready cash ought to purchase as much as mine in the same market, we find it will not always do so, from the fact that inexperience cannot know how, when or where to buy. A man who had for years bought and sold a particular article, and made ordinarily good profits, confessed to us that after twenty-six years in the busi- ness he had only just learned the above secret in purchasing; ‘‘and,” said he, ‘‘I have lost thousands of dollars, by ignorance of this fact when I began.” The past half century has witnessed the most wonderful changes in the business of “store keeping,” but the next half will be far more startling. It will result in the most perfect system of arrangement and dealing and of Darwin’s ‘‘survival of the fittest” only. Frank. A. Howie. COOK & PRINZ, Proprietors of the Valley City Show Case Mig. Co., Manufacturers of SHOW GASKS. Prescription Gases and Store Fixtures OF ALL KINDS. SEND FOR ESTIMATES. 38 West Bridge St. Grand Rapids. Telephone 374. CHURCH'S Bug Finish! READY FOR USE DRY. NO MIXING REQUIRED. It sticks to the vines and Finishes the whole crop of Potato Bugs with one applicaiion; also kills any Curculio, and the Cotton and Tobacco Worms. This is the only safe way to use a Strong Poison; none of the Poison is in a clear state, but thoroughly combined by patent process and machinery, with material to help the very fine powder to stick to the vines and entice the bugs to eat it, and it is also a fertilizer. ONE POUND will go as tar 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.” Guaranteed as represented. Cheaper than any other Mixture used for the purpose. MANUFACURED BY Anti-Kalsomine Co., Grand Rapids. MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER The most practical hand 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 Fand pea-nuts to per- fection. Send for circulars. oo Robt. §. West } 150 Long St., Cleveland, Ohio. g ORCANTZATION OUTETTS faerie niente 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 fnember’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. Py RE N aT a se TOMATOES. PACKED BY DAVENPORT CANNING OO, DAVENPORT, IOWA. The Stuaadard of Excellence KINGSFORD'S “Giver Gloss” = : c= py Osweco,N.y. Sa mar a ak 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. c. L. DAVIS. BUNTING & DAVIS, Cc. C. BUNTING. Commission Merchants. Specialties: Apples and Potatoes in Car Lots. 20 and 22 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. EFA LULAS, 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, - Grand Rapids, Michigan, CHO. BE. HOWES, JOBBER IN Foreign and Domestic Fruits, SPECIALTIES: Oranges, Lemons, Bananas. 3 Ionia St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CTR ONGEST otk Pa Sy as = , BMY T@-hu as a A a Le ee er eee rx The accompanying illustrations represents the Boss Tobacco Pail Cover. It will fit any pail, and keep the Tobacco moist and fresh until entirely used. 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, SOle Asgonts, 77 to 83 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS. DETROIT SOAP CO, * DETROIT, MIC... Manufacturers of the following well-known Brands of QUEEN ANNE, MICHIGAN, TRUE BLUE, CZAR, MOTTLED GERMAN, ROYAL BAR, SUPERIOR, MASCOTTE, ¥_ ‘ ’ MONDAY, PHGNIX, WABASH, AND OTHERS. For Quotations address W.G. HAWKINS, ’ Lock Box 173, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH Salesman for Western Michigan. \ 10 FOR BASKETS! ‘We Have Got 5,000 DOGZEN. DIAMOND MARKEYS, Cheap to Give Away, DIAMOND MARKEYS, Good Ones to Use, * BUSHEL BASKETS and Govers for Shipping, BUSHEL BASKEYS, Extra Finish, to Use. THE ACME, the Best Basket in the World, } WILLOW and SPLINY Clothes Baskets, PRAGH and GRAPE BASKETS. ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY. CURTISS & DUNTON, CAMEO, PAPER & WOODENW ARE. , The Michigan Tradesman, A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. £, A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor. Telephone No. 95, {Entered at the Postofiice at Grand Rapids as Second-class Matter.| WEDNESDAY. ‘AUGUST r 10, 1 1887. LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS. BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT. Written Especially for THE TRADESMAN, Three or four country merchants, includ- ing the writer, were enjoying the before bed-time cigars, and chatting on various topics the other evening, in the reading room of a popular Grand Rapids hotel, when Jones of our town appeared on the scene. ‘Hello, Mr. Jones!” said one of the group, ‘‘didn’t know you was in the city. When did you arrive?” “J kim in las’ night!” replied Jones. ‘‘Ah! And where do you stop?” ‘“‘Well, I’ve been puttin’ up at two tav- erns, so fur, an’ now I’m lookin’ up anoth- er. I’ve heard a pile about the cuteness and sharpness of them there hotel clerks— how they studied human natur’, an’ how they could read a feller like a primer, but its all bosh! Yes, sir!‘the boshiest kind of bosh! You see I always stopped at the R— tavern ’till it was pulled down, an’ now I’m kind o’ lost like. I got in late las’ night without any luggage, an’ writ my name down in a new house ‘an’ told the feller I'd go right to bed if he had no ob- jection, an’ he looked at me in a stony sort of a way for a minit, an’ went to the lookin’ glass ‘an’ pulled up his collar an’ felt of a pimple, an’ whistled, ’till I got mad an’ told ’im if he’s my clerk Id give ?im a dose of number ten boots. Then he mellered up a little and asked ’fide any change ’bout me. Dumb’d if ’taint pretty rough fur a feller that kin draw his check fur a few thousan’ mos’ any day to be taken fur a beat, but ’twas too late to hunt up aj |S nother tavern, so I stuck a big roll of bills | | under his nose and then paid ’im fur a bed. **Nex’ mornin’ I got breakfus’ at an’ eatin’ shop down in a cellar, an’ at noon I went to a big tavern down the street there fur din- ner. ’Iwas ’mighty warm you know, an’ w’en I went into the eatin’ room I pulled off my coat and hung it on a chair, but ’fore | I'd got my vittles a feller come up an’ told me’ I’d better put it on agin, an’ w’en I) *nvited ’im to min’ his business he told me | I'd got to cover up my shirt sleeves er leave | the house, an’ I did leave, an took dinner in | a nother celler.” * * * * * As a rule, the country merchant is not cosmopolite, and the selection of a regular stopping place, in the city which he fre- quently visits, is, to him, a matter of some moment, but let him once satisfy himself in the premises, he is almost invariably ever afterwards a steady guest at the house. The trouble with too many hotel clerks is that they are snobs—title worshippers— dress devotees. While I do not excuse Jones for his boorishness, in denuding himself of his coat in a public dining room, I am satis- fied that if the Hon. Mr. McSwab, who was registered at the same hotel on the same day, had indulged in a like eccentricity, no remonstrance would have been made. Let Merchant Williams, who is a man of wealth, education and natural intelligence, and, withall, one of nature’s gentlemen, but who always dresses plainly and unpretentiously, be, by some chance, assigned to a desirable room on the second floor, and let Congress- man Boodle or Governor Bum afterwards put in an appearance, and no satisfactory apartment be found vacant, you can safely wager that Williams will learn that ‘‘an unfortunate mistake” has been made, and will have to content himself with a dilapi- datedj room in the fourth story; or, let the choice of the single vacant bed, at ‘‘fair time” gravitate between Farmer Hooley and the gorgeous Augustus MeDude and the verdict is rendered before the case is tried. | * * * * “*T struck a worse case than yours once, out in Colorado,” said one of the party to whom Jones was relating his grievances. “T stopped at a little way station late one night, and goin’ to the only hotel, enquired fur a room, and the only terms on which I could get one was by depositing sufficient collateral with the landlord to secure him against my eloping with his bedding, tow- els, etc. ‘Speaking of table etiquette,” said anoth- er, ‘reminds me of eating dinner once with the immortal Sullivan.” It was at a some- what pretentious Detroit hotel, but the rules appeared to be suspended pro tem. The distinguished gentleman satatthe table in his shirt sleeves, with a battered plug hat on his head and a cigar between his teeth. He hada bottle of bourbon before him and three or four obsequious darkies anxiously ’waiting his orders. He was in a maudlin condition, with just conscious- ness enough left to indulge in occasional bursts of profanity and vulgarity, but, not- withstanding all this, I didn’t see any desire evinced to bounce him, and I rather think the hotel people thought themselves highly honored by the exhibition.” * * % % % | I doubt if there’s a place on the foot stool | as lonesome and spirit depressing as a strange hotel in the early morning. Busi- ness matters require your presence at home r by a certain time, and at night you go to the clerk, pay your bill and tell him you want to leave on the early train. He receives both the money and information with calm indifference, and you are elevated to your room. After getting to bed, you begin to reflect that you haven’t either a civic or military title, and are not even a com- mercial traveler, and begin to seriously doubt whether you’ll be remembered two minutes by the Arctic gentleman below, and your slumbers are fitful and unrefreshing. You forget the time your street car leaves and get up an hour earlier than necessary. You go down into the office and find it an- kle deep with water, sickening with soap, and every possible door and window open to a teeth-chattering, marrow-freezing at- mosphere. You can find no island of refuge, and you gravitate miserably between the blood-curdling cold within and the hair ele- vating temperature without; and then and there, while dodging the baggage en route for the morning trains and the icy glance of the office autocrat, you mentally register a solemn vow that under no circumstances will you ever undergo a like experience again. —_— 2 > It is estimated that 200,000 bushels of wheat were taken in Chicago Friday for ex- port. V. R. STEGLITZ, Proprietor of Raton Rapids Cigar Factory. Manufacturer of the following popular brands: S. & M. CRICKET. ROSADORA. V. RB. S. Dealers not handling any of above brands are solicited to send in a trial order. Eaton Rapids, - Mich. HETALL MERCHANTS crane Dealers. THE Washer Is made in the best possible manner, of the | best obtainable materials, and with proper | care is warranted to last any ordinary fami- i ly ten years. Every merchant and retail dealer should keep it in stock. Write for prices and terms. » WORTH, Sole Mfr. ST, LOUIS, MO, The letters below are a fair sample of a very large number received by nein my regular correspondence. They speak for themselves, OGALLALA, Neb., Nov. 29, 1888. J. WORTH, St. Louis, Mo.: DEAR Sir—I received yours of the 16th, ask- ing how I liked the Missouri Steam Washer. Sir, I can do more and better washing with it in one day than any four women can do in the same time by any other process. Itis the best Washing Machine in the world and the invent- or ought to have a pension for helping women with their hardest work as he has. Yours truly, Mrs. EMMA ARMSTRONG. Oftice of J. E. LANE & Co., Phoenix Laundry. Bia RApPIps, Mich., July 7. 1886. J. WORTH, St. Louis, Mo.: DEAR SIR—Two years ago we purchased one of your Steam Washers of Mr. Owen, of this place. After giving it a thorough trial we find that it is the best washer, little or big, we ever saw. One girl does all our washing, which is $65 to $75 per week, andthe clothes are per- fectly clean and white. ry yours, J. E. LANE & Co. Cold Storage. Weare prepared to receive from Mer- chants and others consignments of Butter, Cheese and Eggs, for COLD STORAGE. We have one of the best Cold Storage Houses in Michigan. Solicit Correspondence. Rates made for long or short time. GRAND RAPIDS STORAGE Co. Office with Cheney & Anderson, under Fourth Nationa! Bank SALT FISH Bought and Sold by FRANK J. DETTENTHALER, 117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. t"— Oysters the Year Around _2& SEEDS FOR EVERYBODY. For the Field or Garden. if you want to buy Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, Orchard Grass, Kentucky Blue, Red Top, Seed Oats, Rye, Barley, Peas, Onion, Ruta Baga Mangle Wurzel, Anything in the Line of SEEDS, Write or send to the Need Store, 71 CANAL ST, W. YT, LAMOREAUX., PORTABLE AND STATIONARY ENGIN HS From 2 to 1560 Horse-Power, Roilers, Saw Mills Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft ing, Pulleys and oxes. Contracts made for Complete Outfits. Halton & Christenson Are State Agents for FREDERICK THE GREAT! ss CIGAR. Grend Rapids, Mich. Represented by the Giant, Mr. Christopher Sparling. 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. ASK YOUR JOBBER Independent Oil Co’s 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. 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 & Go, 166 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference FELSENTHAL, GROSS & MILLER, Bankers. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co, Importers and Jobbers of DRY GOODS Staple and Fancy. ww. & Denison, 88, 90 and 92 South Divisiou Street, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. We carry w full 'ine of Seeds of every variety, both for field and garden. Parties in want should write to or see the GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED CO. 71 CANAL STREET. HENRY J. HARTMAN, _ FOUNDER, GRAY IRON CASTINGS A SPECIALTY. Send for Estimates, 71 South Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich. PLACE to secure a thorough and useful educationis at the GRAND RAPIDS (Mich.) Bust- NESS COLLEGE. Write for Col- - lege Journal. Address, C.G. SWENSBERG. eg owPE So NO RUBBING tT NO BACKACHE! NO SORE FINGERS! Warranted not to Injure the Clothes. USED TWO W AYS: { By Boiling and No Rubbing. UNo Boiling Using Warm Water. FULL DIRECTIONS ON THE WRAPPER. THE BEST LABOR-SAVING SOAP MADE A Vegetable Oil Soap. Contains No Rosin. Overalls, Pants, Ete.,| 4 tinge «cunono” with THREE BARS, Manufactured only by the G. A. SHOUDY SOAP CO. CLARK, JEWELL & G0, Sole Agents for Western Michigan. OUR OWN MAKE. A Complete Line of Fancy Crockery: Fancy Woodenware OUR OWN IMPORTATION, Inspection Solicited. Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed. P. STRKETEE & SUM, JOBBERS IN DRY GOODS, AND NOTIONS, S383 Monroe St.. AND 10, 12, 14, 16 AND 18 FOUNTAIN STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers ; Fr and Stark A Bags : A Specialty. 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 49 Lyon Street, Up-Stairs, Grand Rapids, Mich. WM. SHARS & CO Cracker Manufacturers, Azsents for AMBOY CHEESE. 87, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. » PEANUTS ORANGES LEMONS 1865 PUTNAM & BROOKS Wholesale Mfrs. of Ure Gandy Our New Factory is one of the largest and best-equipped in the land. Come and see us. 11,13, 15,17 SO. IONIA ST. 1887 Soiree ‘S.LL1N CANDY REVOVAL. Jennings & Smith, PROPRIETORS ARTIG MANUFACTURING COMPANY. MANUFACTURERS Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts, Artic Baking Powder, etc. WILL REMOYSE ABOUT AUGUST 15th. TO THE GIBSON BUILDING, 38 AND 40 Louis Sr. SPRING X GOMPANY, JOBBERS IN DRY GOODS, Hosiery, Carpets, Ete. O ald G Monroe St, Grand Rapid F. J. LAMB & Co.,, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Etc., 8 and 10 lone ete GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO FILLING ORDERS. Groceries. HOW TO TELL GOOD WHISKY. A Wholesale Dealer Gives Some Informa- tion to the General Public. From the Chicago Herald. ‘‘When you hear people talk about this whisky or that being good,” said an agent for a Chicago wholesale liquor house who }- was just returning from a trip to Kentucky, ‘you can say to yourself that the whisky may be either good or bad, and that the man who drinks and smacks his. lips knows nothing at all about it. Telling good whis- ky from bad is an art which few people ac- quire. I buy thousands of barrels of whis- ky every year, and as I buy on my own judgment it is not conceited in me to say that I know something about the business. In the first place, no man can be a judge of whisky who drinks it. For two years I I have tasted whisky a dozen times a day, but in all that time Lhave not drank as much as agill. A glass of whisky a day would destroy my usefulness. Drinking the liquor blunts the fine sense of taste a whisky expert must possess, and absolute temperance is the first essential. More than that, a man must have a fine, natural taste to begin with, and must be careful what he ,eats or drinks. I can’t eat onions or cheese or drink beer, or even soda water, or any highly-spiced food, and retain that keen taste on which I’d be willing to base an or- der for fifty or one hundred barrels of whis- ky. When I started in this business I spent three months educating my taste, going to the cellar three times daily and smelling of 150 casks of whisky of different brands. At the end of that period I was taken blind- folded into that cellar, and as they rolled the barrels upto meI told them every brand simply through my olfactories. Rep- utation is everything in the whisky busi- ness. There are in the trade about 1,000 brands, with about forty brands in the lead as the generally popular goods. I can tell every one of these by taste or smell, just as surely as if I were reading the brands on the ends of the casks. ‘The professional whisky taster always dilutes the liquor with water, and sometimes he heats the water and whisky together after mixing. His taste is so fine as to be almost infallible, and it is next to impossible to fool him. The men who guzzle liquor may be able to tell high- proof goods from that which is rank and raw, but that is about all they can do. Whisky reputations are made or marred by the professional tasters, and it is on their judgment and dictum that the trade is car- ried on. As you may imagine, a man with a good mouth for whisky is likely to find taste a source of satisfactory profit to him- self.” — -9- <> How Cigars Are Flavored. From the Chicago Herald. Nearly every brand of nickel cigars is more or less flavored, but, so far as I know, nothing injurious is used. The notion that opium or any of its compounds is used, is an erroneous one. Almost anything may be used that will please as well as deceive the smoker’s taste. Probably the most common flavoring is valerian root steeped in rum. There are, besides, countless other objects used. Some manufacturers use orange peel and lemon peel; rose-water is extensively employed—in fact most of the flavorings contain that ingredient. Tincture of opium may be used in very small quantities for higher priced cigars, but opium is too ex- pensive to be recklessly used. There are ingredients used by some cigarmakes, es- pecially in Cuba, which it would not do to mention, but if it were generally known it would lessen the demand for imported ci- gars. The flavoring is generally poured in- to the boxes after the cigars are packed, though for cheap goods the common way is to sprinkle the mixture over the leaf tobac- - <——>-o- <> The Grocery Market. The sugar market is without feature and the same is true of most other articles in the grocery line. Cheese continues to walk skyward and the indications are that the 12 cent mark will be reached before the close of the week. Candy is in good demand and prices are steady. Oranges and lemons are without material change and in fair supply. Bana- nas are plenty and fairly cheap. Nuts are unchanged, except peanuts, which are a shade higher. ——<-0-<——__—— A Bad Go. From the Michigan Dairyman. The salesman of an Allegan county cheese factory contracted its July make toa Grand Rapids jobbing house early in the season for 6 cents per pound. In the mean time, the other factories in that county are getting 9 cents for their July cheese. The Dairyman is willing to wager a year’s subscription that there will be some tall ‘‘kicking” done by the patrons of that fac- tory when they receive their July dividend. ne renee The Cheese Situation. One of the leading cheese manufacturers of Michigan writes: I receive lots of orders, but don’t try to fillthem. I am afraid the price is getting too high for this time of the year, unless the drouth continues. Of course, if it does, it will be all right, as there will be a very light supply of cheese. We have shrunk over 4,000 pounds of milk per day since June 24, and still going down. Some are feeding their cows meal and some hay. I was glad to see you ventilate the Adrian cheese jcbhing houses. They deserve it. pommel emma Ithaca to Organize on Friday Evening. Irmaca, Aug. 6, 1887. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Srr—I take pleasure in stating that the business men had a meeting Wednesday evening, and we found thirty who were ready to organize. Much interest was manifested in the move. We would like to have you come here and assist us Friday evening of next week. Yours very truly, FRANK P. MERRELL. a >. Independent Oil. Manager Marston, of the Independent Oil Co., reports a gradually increasing business in his line. He says that the hearty recep- tion accorded him by the trade has wholly exceeded his expectations and that he has been compelled to draw on all his resources to meet the continually increasing demands of the trade. He has so increased his facili- ties, however, that he will be able to fill all orders promptly when the usuall fall rush begins. VISITING BUYERS. The following retail dealers have visited the market during the past week and placed orders withthe various houses: R. T. Parish, Grandville John F. Huiladay, Battle Creek Chas. B. Lovejoy, Big Rapids L. Valler, Fremont Elmer Chapel, Cole & Chapel, Ada ve O. O. Osborn, Glass & Osborn, Elm Hall P. Dwinell, Carlyle ii ‘Rooaeee Corning A. D. Martin, Otia C. M. Shaw, Sparta Gus Begman, Kauer Geo. A. Sage, Rockford C. H. Joldersma, Jamestown A. T. Burnett, Cross Village C. E. Coburn, Pierson S. Cooper, Jamestown A. C. Barkley, Crosby H. Van Noord, Jamestown J. Barnes, Austerlitz C. E. Manley, Kinney Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon Mattie Griswold, Bradley G. W. Reynolds, Belmont S. A. Busb, Lowell Cornell & Griswold, Griswold Cc. 8. Comstock, Pierson H. Thompson, Canada Corners M. J. Howard, Englishville S. Stark, Allendale Jno. Kamps, Zutphen Jno. Damstra, Gitchell Spooner & Moore, Cedar Springs W rr Struik, Forrest Grove R. K . McKinnon, Hopkins G. Ten Hoor, Forest Grove John Meyering, Noordeloos Childs & Carper, Childs Mill W. T. Covell, Hart 8. J. Martin, Sullivan = G. Smith, Wayland M. P. Shields, Hilliards Wm. Crane, Hoytville C. 8, Comstock, Pierson . Cook, Bauer . M. We olf, Hudsonville . Neil, Ashland Center . Smith, Ada a, Robinson, Lamont M. Gezon, Jenisonville W. H. Struik, Forest Grove D. W. Shattuck, Wayland Wm. Vermulen, Beaver Dam Parkhurst Bros., Nunica Velzy Bros., Lamont L. A. Pain, Englishville Cc. C. Tuxbury, Sullivan Denton & Lovely, Howard City RooRED | } | | i | | | WHOLESALE PRICE OURRENT. _ ‘These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AXLE GREASE. POW o5655 cc, 80|/Paragon ........... 2 10 Frazer's... .. 22. <6 90|/Paragon 25m pails. 90 Diamond X........ 60|Fraziers, 25 b pails.1 25 Modoc, 4 doz....... 2 50 BAKING POWDER. Acme, 4% b cans, : doz. CASE... 6s sree ee ee es 85 ey A a bain de wos 1 60 Ty 2 Bie) ” Bulk Princess, - “cs is. s- . as auaeess | Arctic, ¥% bb cans, 6 GOZ. CABC.....0ccec seuss ee oe 5 Victorian, 1 b cans, (tall,) 2 doz...0.....5. 2 . SMAMONG, “DO oc. ccc clei ew NS BLUING [RPO TUN sc cadaais vais cues caused doz. 25 LA NO Be a doz. 45 BAGUIO, 8 005 5 so oo os dc 5 oo ce on a doz. 35 MTN, BIOES ok cock ce as cece okanen doz. i) PROTA SOF ooo os coe onan tpn hnccacbes 8 gross : = b PPE 0 ok oe is ei ak cane eeecanuies 1) PADNOURE SO as oe occ acces cs seta neccaes 12 00 | Arctic No. 1 pepper box 5 00 | Arctic No. 2 Arctic No.3 es fe BROOMS, No. 2Hurl.......... 1 7%5|Common Whisk.... 90 No. 1 Hurl....2 00@2 25|Fancy Whisk...... :.1 00 No. 2Carpet.. Ciba aass Pa Pet cb eac pavcske ss 3 75 No. 1Carpet........ 2 aul Warehouse ........ 2 75 Parlor Gem........ 3 00 CANNED FISH. Clams, | ib, Little Neck.................... 110 CGiam Chowder, 3 D.. ....-.. PROS occ i coke cise OOO ee aac cask 15/Two Nickel.......... 25 Hard Taok:.......... 30;Duke’s Durham..... 40 BM ce cs iicickews 26 Green Corn Cob Pipe 26 On Ter... 3... _... . 16 Arthur’s Choice..... 23|Rob Hoy.....:........ 25 PROG PON ook. as cae, 26 Uncle Sam........... 28 018 Dust. ........... 26, Lumberman ......... 2 Gold Block........... 30 Railroad Boy......... 36 Seal of Grand Rapids. |Mountain Rose....... 18 (OLOCN iccia csi ss ‘Home Comfort....... 25 Miners and Puddlers. 30 A A a uss 60 W@CTIONS ........24... 2b ~_ : — Caro- IANGOEG .. 0.5 ..65..0. om ta, OS......:.... 48 A Oo ov ic kaise 19 Seal of Novi Caro- Tom & Jerry......... So; line, 404.......,.... 48 WONG i ee ens cc ack 25|Seal of North Caro- POA VOIOE ooccc cause. 3} lina, $om............ 45 TEOO conc coe ecae 27|Seal of North Caro- Pickwick Club....... 40| lina, 16 oz boxes... .42 Nigger Head........ 26 King Bee, longeut.. .22 PRONG 665 cose. cance 22\Sweet Lotus vbacieeas 32 COPIA oo ok oo e sc cae cs 1 Grayling ieee dcsuaac 82 Honey Dew.......... — LO 30 Colonel’s Choice..... 15| Red Clover. ......... 32 Queen Bee. ........ 22|Good EMOm. ..........28 Blue Wing........... MME alos k cc sccrsce, 30 SNUFF Lorillard’s American Gentlemen ne 70 Maccoboy Ma bak ch heucedelic. @ 55 Gail & oe @ 44 eA dde sales bdes Geue @ Railroad Mile Seotek Meher ss esacecl | @ 4 Oe @l 3v Japan ordinary isons 1 Japan fair to good............ scuorais soa MAPPING sce ce vack sc ecco cy 35@45 MADE OG 15@20 a MEG OOM eect 20@45 GUAVOWGOr.. cee 35@50 COM ce IIGSS@EC CONG 25@20 VINEGAR. wiewes. |... an pea et Bee seas che eues acace 3. 08 0 York State Apple................ 8 MISCELLANEOUS. — Brick imported 90 do AMOVICaN.............,.... 75 Bioners, Wo.G.....-. @7 do oO. 1 Reel ae chasse eee tac. 89 do AO Be 90 Cocoa Shells, bulk Meee @ 4 Condensed Milk, Eagle brand......... @7 5 Cream Tartar 5 and ‘10 cans......... @25 Caprese, OUME. oc @li Candies. Hotel... ....................... @12 Camphor, 02., 2 i boxes............... @35 Extract Coffee, V Oe yo occ c uss coc cc. @s80 do Bene ek o, @l Ww Fire Crackers, per box................ @1 20 Fr uit MONE, DUMB fcc @ 9 50 f OO 10 50 « bee Le Se ey @13 50 Gum, Rubber 100 lumps............... @25 Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. ............ @385 Gum; PONG ee @30 Hominy, @ DD)... .. 66.0. .66 5c... @3 50 JOHY, 1 Gu BM OATS, ... 65.6... @5 PeGrt Wawiey. os... 234 reese, Groom Hush..................... @1 lu Peas; Split Prepared.................. @ 3% POWGer FOn....... 6. @S5 OU Powder, % Keg @2 75 Ot ieee. cs @ 1b PAM @ 6 Paploee SE A ee ae @ 6 CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: i STICK. Standard, 25 ib boxes Twist, do Cut Loaf do ever oy) OAS... ...... cc... MOGI, mW Oi. ....... 665: ... Extra, 25 MON. oi Extra, 200 b bbis. eee cele ces aie @9 French Cream, % maw Oe... @uYy, Cut loaf, » ee ce eit @10 Broken, 25 pails.................. 8. @10 Broken. maa OOS... @9 FANCY—IN 5 BOXES bhemon Drops.................. @12 Sour Drops aces chi cs cabaccca. @ls Peppermint Drops.....0 66.2. ..005.4... @13 Chocdiate DKOps...... occ cece cc cnc c ces 14 HM Chocolate Drops................... 18 Oe 10 RnOOUICE PONS... 8... o.oo ocean coke 22 A licorice Drops.. ............... 2 BOPOuWOR, WIA. go. 5.05 ce. 14 BOZONWOG, PRINTER... 2... cco k eco cc cc cc 15 Imperials Meee Naess Ghia el elecci 14 TOO ooo ns eee ck ca 15 Oreo Mer...... 6. oil. 12 oO a 2 Bo Oe 18 Hand Made Creams..................0.0. 18 Pig Cregg... kc, 16 Decorated Cress. ...... ....5........., 20 PHU THOM occ ode 6s ave cieccecees es 13 Bret AWGOnds........- oo... c cc os ; 22 Wintergreen Berries... 14 FANCY—IN BULK. Lozenges, plain in pails............... @11% Lozenges, plainin bblis................ @10% Lozenges, printed in pails............. @12% Lozenges, printed in bbls...... @1l% Chocolate Drops, in puils.... @l2% Gum Drops in pails........ @ 6% Gum Drops, in bbls......... as @ 5% Moss Drops, in pails................... 9 @10 Moss Drops, in bbls ................... @9 Sour Drops, in pails... .. 2... 2... cc cccnc @12 Imperials, in pails.......... ccc. cece ccs @12% Imperiais in Dbis... .............. «- @1l% FRUITS. PE on oe cane cc ccns ncec ace 1 50@3 00 Oranges, California, fancy............ @ Orvran@em, CHOICE .... 2... 6... cece cesses, @5 00 Oranges, Jamaica, bbis................ Cranmer, FIOTida.., .« .. ...5 56 cc ck ines APOC oo oo sca cece cape ce cece ‘5 ve « Oranges, EON a a aa RG ata MOOR IS oo ons os vias 64 ceed cceuecas Oranges, Imperials..................8. 5 ood 50 Lemons, choice................ dec vane 6 00@6 50 ee A a ee @ Lemons, Califormia..........cccccecces Figs, layers, new, @ ................. 10 @15 a a A ee @ 8 ee, TOMO GO oo ons ow ween c ccc cc's 5 A A ee eee 6% Dates, Fard 10. box @ D............. 94@10 Dates, Fard 50 t box ® b.. ecalcia @ 8 Dates, Persian 50 ih box ® a... 7 @T% Pine Apples, # doz................... 2 00@3 00 NUTS. Almonds, eae Pee a pence esu ces es OI ooo oe ok see din ss seek ae @l7 vis California Wiaane cee e ch eeu. @li OM oe aie enenc dunce weuee veel. | @9 Filberts, OE og ose. cody ets cae ae WOOPGGIOME. 8... 5. es cs eas Walnuts, OONODIG. 4 8.6. a. 15 oir MAUS goes eae ic ass ss a M RGN ices yc ceca Pecans, Wemas SEP. 5. ccc sen oc. , ait Missouri............. ne @ Cocoanuts, F100. . o.oo oe cca ccacccccces 8 Oost 00 PEANUTS. Prime Red, raw ® B.................. @4% Choice do GO cakes aweccs @ 5 Fancy H.P. do ORE 5 kee oe oa @ 5% Choice White, Va.do .................. @ 6% Waney FE VG GO oo cc kc cc caascdacss 74@ 7% We oe coi skin bccn ncndeccbuuavee se Ooi HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. Perkins & Hess pay as follows: HIDES. hb 5%@ 6 |Calf skins, green Green .... Part cured... 7 @7%| orcured....7 @8 Fulleured.... 74@ 8%4|Deacon skins, Dry hides and ® piece..... 10 @30 DS 0. .45.6. 8 @12 SHEEP PELTS. Old wool, estimated washed @ b...... 25 @26 eds cede accu casas 3 @3% OL. Fine washed ® ib 22@35|Coarse washed. . .26@28 Medium ......... 27@30| Unwashed........ 16@22 OYSTERS AND FISH. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: OYSTERS. POPPA VOT: COU 6 gone. occ k on desc ac cicudedeces 40 FRESH FISH. ET a a i dic ccc ck he ncda vee awasdicdlaee 9 WENN Hi nbd icc cnc linc den da sacnaves 4 ys a ie a akc enc kades 4 Rad BC AEE OS ik el ener ene» 7 UME DEG. iin ova cn scat ccctacauceaccnccesds 7 i bin oc id bs ye seins caueeh anes dees 6 SEMEMOOR, BINOMOG. ob. ccc ccecccasce ca acee 8 NG oil oa gh doe Wadnd Caccup aus ecnuuadenes 7 Wt IO hic os ccec dew ob avi cud chs decdin 10 PAO cic bk chk ee bhi ncdbvsiaas saceciseceds WH CO, FIOROG. ooo 5 ns ccc ete cdvacdenecdccce 10 Brook Trout.. nid G nike Co hcaccaudane Oe Frogs’ Legs, per pa Ro Re oe 20Q65 PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co, quote as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. Mess, Chicago packing.............se.eees- 15 50 Short cut........... das Cu ecsssu uae deck sane 15 50 PEG CAND, COON 6 oon ne dn cc cc ckiccsccescenvecet 16 50 Extra clear pig, short cut......... << sees 17 00 TEMUNE GIGGLE, DOAVY, «0 oc cc cckaccceccccddcace ClOGr GUI. GNOTL Gut... ...< cc cescscecccess Boston clear, short Cut...) ...... 6. ccecccess Clear Dack, SNOFE CUE. ... 65... cece ccc eee: Standard clear, short cut, best... ........ DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES. Long Clears, MOI oe ae vices iicc ces: WINN, as ca och cok ch aun ANS S=Sss iy ROG oie cic eis caus Short Clears, cones. os ‘ do. medium. do. Oe ee eee ae SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN. Hams, average Me obo riko s in cn cacki sus 12 Mo is os ds hen cdacsddacee ae “ “ BOO) We oi ch cc ccds cane. 12% Te I oo i cc cacas ca vecccnasks aes 5% MT TI OIQIOIG oo ions cc ca ccccecscias cs ll UN iis he oon os os cence dcc cuncecns 1% Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................. 10% Be MU, ON oo onc oe Co hicc cn ccanecac oe “ WO ak a cic rriics ceca 13 LARD. POO gece ddnck cus ccs cassedaceas Tg BUN ee OMI oi oo og cn cc occa pnessunss 7% LARD IN TIN PAILS, Oy Iain viv cco ccccccdccns 7% PPOUIM, 12 ih O CASO, 2. on cin cc icc cccces 7% TOR) Preatie, Ok B COGS oo nooo a cece cccaes 75 20 Ib Pails, 4 puilsin case............... 7% BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 tbs........ 7% WU, OO i cd in dace dccuacansedes ll 5O SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED. I RN oo ca hacen cadences ccccnks as 7% Ham Sausage....... Tongue Sausage.. Frankfort Sausage. Blood Sausage.. Bologna, straight. Bologna, thick.... MROEE OOO oe oo nic desc cece cccccesceucnccs 6 PIGS’ FEET. PE Ee goo ok vk oc ce cn ac casccese 8 00 RU AeeCOr HAPVOIG, . .. 5 5c cscs ccc cc ccacacce 1 6 fRESH MEATS, John Mohrhard. quotes the trade selling prices as follows: WOR WOOT, BIGGE, 5 ooo 55 codecs co cacsse 5 @ 6% Fresb Beef, hind quarters............ 7 @d Dressed Hogs chs da as aad css eee nae 7 @i%&% oooh a ve ns dd ac acekccaculs 64@ 7 Lawnis UN ois cds bn cs cc ae cuda ck cae 9 @ Nas ook h ech dbnccneddccs ccucce 8 @8% Po 8%@ 9 po ee a i ae @ 6 MN hook ce che dccadicsccsccscdacss ll @l2 isis cc ccc vic c occ ccdncucaus @ MOURN ik ok kbs ceancsc sce cus: ll @12 Lard, kettle-rendered................. 74@8 2 FIELD SEEDS. Clover, WIRIAOEE o.oo seks oc ccc @5 00 . WME iiss i csc cise @5 00 AU AIOMINY, HTING. oo ooo c nec occa cece 2 %5 OILs, ILLUMINATING, IM WEN ica ccca «nn ncaead cs occcs cee. 114g PMS OO a onic ge vaca cence noes 104g ois oo cond ccs de cedcacccds sce, 13% oe i. 12% LUBRICATING, We doen sw kone cudsecct can. 11% ON CPN. oi oo os oo oc vaca cnet ccucecccce 36% MANE COME ooo os bo vo cbc kb bcc ce suas 31% MU OT oa doco ccc dccacekccica: 26% ED I og ook ocd oc cca ccc ccc, 23 Wreerieee PAMOCIINOEY. . oo. oo. cccc cc ccacecccee 20 Chatlonge Machinery... .. .....cccccccccacee 19 NN ee 20% Black, Summer, West Virginia... ......6s. 9 OT Ook oecekckcccececas cc 10 bs ne a SA ll Zero Oe ukdck dee essa cd ue da ceesdacccccs .. 12% MISCELLANEOUS. Hemlock Bark—Tanners at this market paying $5 for all offerings of good bark. Ginseng—Local dealers pay $1.50 ® for clean washed roots. * Rubber Boots and Shoes—Local jobbers are authorized to offer standard goods at 40 and 5 = cent. off, and second quality at 50 per cent off. are WOODENWARE. eG a ee ee 6 Standard Tubs, No. 2........... deteceensiiae Peers “TUG, ING. O... cos cc ecec ccs Standard Pails, twohoop.. Standard Pails, three hoop Pails, ground wood ‘ Maple Bowls, assorted ciz Butter Pails, ash. Butter Ladles... Rolling Pins.... : oa ON ONG, so onc choc ck cous cacccheac: 50 CIB © ONIIMLOEG 5 oo vo canes on ccccnceecceacs 2 2 I ooo on vb acc nacceseee dc, 60 MI ooo bcc cc sa ces cceess cases 1 00 WEABMIOGNOR, SINGIG. oo. ooo con occ ccc cu ceccse 1 75 WwW ashboards. MU cece 2 2% BASKETS. BIUIOUG PIGRWON, . .. .5 55 cc ccccscssccecccces: 40 SROSMOl, MAFTOW DATIG....... 5 ccc ccvcccdsccse 1 50 eatery, WAGE TUE, 5... occ ccc socnccseccces 1 75 Clothes, Be EG ion os os ccc cccnassedecs 3 50 TRE OE, TING Bok oo ccc ck ce cc cece csacec 4 2 Our, MTG, NOs Doon oc cc cece kcccccccaces 5 00 Clothes, willow No. 8..............cccceeeces 6 00 Clothes, WTR BNO, Bek 6 otis on vaca cecssceccs 6 50 Clothes, willow No.1 Water Tight, bu oe ty half COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples—Home grown, $1.50 per bbl. Beets—(c ® bu. Beans—Country hand-picked are held at $1.30 # bu., and city picked are in fair demand- and scarce at $1.60 @ $1.75. Butter-Creamery is in good demand and fair- ly firm at 20 @ 22c. Dairy is in good demand at 15 @ lée. Blackberries—Sc. # qt. Corn—Green, Te. ® doz. Cabbages—New, 75¢e per dozen. Carrots—$1.25 per bu. Celery—2éc $ doz. Cheese—Factorymen are now holding July make at 1044c, in consequence of which job- bers have been compelled to raise quotations to 10%@11\%c. Cucumbers—15 # doz. Dried Apples—Evaporated, l6c 8 b; quarter- ed and sliced, 6@7c #8 b. Dried. Peaches—Pared, lic. Eggs—Dull. Jobbers are paying lle and holding at 12c. Grapes—Concords, 10¢c per b. Honey—Fair demand at 10@l8c. Hay—Baled is moderately active at $14 per ton intwoand five ton lots and $13 in car lots. Onions—Very scarce, on account of dry weather, readily commanding $3@$3.50 per bbl. Parsley—25c $% doz. Scarce, Peaches—Alexanders command $2 per bu. Hale’s Early are in fair supply at $2.25 per bu. Pears—$1@$1.50 per bu. Potatoes—New, 75c per bu. Pop Corn—2e # b. Radishes—10c # doz. Tomatoes—$1 50 ® bu. Turnips—5ic ® bu. Watermelons—$15 @ $20 per 100. Whortleberries—$2.25 @ $2.50 per bu. GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. Wheat—No change. City millers pay 73c for Lancaster and 70c for Fulse and Clawson. Corn—Jobbing generally at 46c in 100 bu. lots and 42c in carlots. Oats—W hite, 35c in small lots and 30@3le in car lots. Rye—48@50c ® bu. Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 ® cwt. Flour—No change. Patent,$5.10% bbl.in sacks and $5.30 in wood. Straight, $4.10 # bbl. in ‘Sacks and $4.30 in wood. Meal—Bolted, $2.40 @ bbl. Mill Feed—Screenings, $14 @ ton. Bran, $13 @ton. Ships, $13 Bton. Middlings, $14 #8 ton. Corn and Oats, $17 # ton. % Drugs & Medicines Staie Board of Pharmacy. Six Years—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—Geo. McDonald. Secretary—Jacob Jesson. Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. Next Meeting—At Lansing, November 1 and 2. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—Arthur Bassett, Detroit. First Vice-President—G. M. Harwood, Petoskey. Second Vice-President—H. B. Fairchild, Grand Rapids. Third Vice-President—Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs. Secretary—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit. ‘ ; Executive Committee—Geo. Gundrum, Frank Inglis, A. H, Lyman, John E. Peck, E. T. Webb. Local Secretary—-James Vernor, Detroit. Next Meeting—At Detroit, October Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884. President—Geo. G. Stekettee. Vice-President—H. E. Locher. Secretary—Frank H. Escott. Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild. Board of Censors—President, Vice-President and Sec- etary. Board of Trustees—The President, John E. Peck, M. B. Kimm, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen and O. H. Richmond. wen, Isaac Watts, Wim. E. White and Wm. L. White. Committee on ee Matters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair- child and Hugo um. Committee on Legisiation—R. A. MeWilliams, Theo. Kemink and W. H. Tibbs. Committee on Pharmacy—W. L. White, A. C. Bauer and Isaac Watts. : Regular Meetings—First Thursday evening in each month. f Annual Meeting—First Thursday evening in November Next Meeting—Thursday evening, Sept. 1, 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; Seeretary, 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. Jackson County Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President, R. F. Latimer; Secretary, F. A. King. 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 Seciety. President, Jay Smith; Secretary, D. E. Prall. Shiawassee County Pharmaceutical Society Tuscola County Pharmaceutical Society. President, E. A. Bullard; Secretary, C. E, Stoddard. Manistee County Pharmaceutical Society. President, W. H. Willard; Secretary, A. H. Lyman. Report of the Committee on Legislation. The following report of the Committee on Legislation was read by Chairman ‘Frank Wells at the recent convention of the M. S. r. A.: To the President and Members of the State Pharmaceutical Association. Your Committee have nothing to report concerning legislation in other States. This has become known to most of you through the periodical press devoted to our interests, and, as it possesses but little interest for us, we shall have nothing to say of legisla- tion outside our own State. Three acts passed by the Michigan Legis- lature at its recent session are of special importance to our Association and to phar- macy. The act providing for the incor- poration of a State Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation, passed for the purpose of enabling our Association to re-organize as an incor- porate body, is of great importance to us. The new organization will have a legal status and character which the present has not. Recognition by the Legislature in future legislation and by other associations both outside and within our State, together with representation upon the committee for the revision of the Pharmazopceia, are amcng the advantages secured to us by re-organiz- ing under the law. The transformation to a legal body may be accomplished during the present session and need necessarily in- volve no change in our organic or by-laws, or the loss of a single member whom we may desire to retain. A bill introduced early in the session by Mr. McKie, to amend the pharmacy law, had for its sole object the admission to registration without examination of a few pharmacists who were in business when the pharmacy law went into effect, but who failed to avail themselves of the privilege of registering at that time. This, although unjust to the large body of druggists who complied with the law and have continued to by paying their annual registration fee, affected so small a number that it was deemed wiser to add some needed amend- ments to it and let it pass than to contest it. Although experience had demonstrated the importance of these amendments, it had been decided not to ask them at this time. They consist in the abolition of the pro- vision in section ten, which permits any retail dealer engaged in business at a dis- tance of not Jess than five miles from the limits of any incorporated village or city to sell medicine of any kind without restric- tion, and for the registration of assistants in pharmacy. Both amendments are im- portant; the first, in preventing fraud and in giving the same protection to those outside as to those who reside within villages and cities ; the second, in providing a remedy for an oversight in the law, which made no provision for the registration of assistants in pharmacy, except such as were in business when the law went into effect. Under this latter amendment the examina- tions by the Board of this class will pre- | sumably be below the standard required for pharmacists, but will, at the same time, be sufficiently rigid to secure competent clerks. With these changes the pharmacy law of | Michigan seems to contain all the provisions | necessary for the protection of her citizens against incompetency, while permitting such of themfJas live at a distance from a registered pharmacist to purchase at the country store all ordinary family medicines. It is free from those two objections which impair the value of the laws of several | States—the registration without examina- tion of physicians and of graduates from colleges of pharmacy. It is, without doubt, as nearly perfect as preseut kuowleuge and experience can make it. it has been proposed to legislate upon the liquor trattics which has excited most attention from pharmacists; and the probable effect of such legislation upon the interests of pharmacy has been under con- tinual consideration by this committee dur- ing all the latter part of the session. ‘The strong temperance sentiment which the vote upon the prohibitory amendment de- veloped led to secret party caucusses where it was decided to pass a liquor law which should largely increase the tax which dealers were compelled to pay, make the penalties for violation of the law more severe and include the druggists in its stringent pro- visions. Immediately upon their occurrence the facts came to the knowledge of the committee, who requested a number of prominent druggists to meet at Lansing to consider the situation and take such action as they should deem expedient. The re- quest was responded to promptly, and over twenty of the representative druggists of Michigan came to Lansing to express in some emphatic manner their indignation at being classed by their own State with the dram shop. A vigorous memorial and reso- lutions were prepared and presented to the Legislature, protesting against the contem- plated action and pointing out a method for accomplishing the object desired without subjecting druggists doing a legitimate business to either the odious classification or the tax. Personal appeals and argu: ments were also largely made use of by these gentlemen with members. ‘The result of this meeting, and of a similar one called subsequently by President Wurzburg, was that the measure known as the Bates bill, containing no exemption in favor of drug- gists, was modified by the Diekema amend- ment, which excludes them from both the tax and penalties. The discussion upon this bill in the House was listened to by a large number of druggists, who will probably not soon forget the virulent and untruthful statements made by many of the members of the number of druggists en- gaged in the illegal trafiic in liquor. Even the Speaker of the House, with an unfair- ness unbecoming his official position, stated that he supportod the amendment relieving druggists from the tax solely because he be- lieved the bill could not be passed without it and not because druggists were entitled to this exemption, for he was confident that ninety-nine out of every hundred sold liquor illegally. Mr. Diekema, at first disposed to have druggists included in the tax, sup ported his amendment with a skill and force that secured its passage. He was ably supported by Doctors Bardwell and Baker, Mr. McMillan, Mr. Damon, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Rumsey and many others. Our Association and the druggists of the State, generally, are greatly indebted’ to these gentlemen for the efforts made by them in our defence and their success in preventing the infliction upon us of a great wrong. The outcome of this liquor legislation in its bearing upon the drug trade should be entirely satisfactory to every pharmacist. The few changes from the old law were all suggested by the druggists who attended the meetings at Lansing. The principal ones are that no liquors shall be mixed with any beverage drawn from a soda fountain or drunk upon the premises under any cir- cumstances, and a penalty of revocation of registration for the space of one year for conviction for a second offence under the law. These will have no terrors for the pharmacist who desires to sell liquors for those purposes only which he is permitted to by the law. This class, we believe, con- stitutes a very large majority of the phar- macists of Michigan. The small minority who prostitute our honorable profession to minister in their selfish greed to one of the most debasing appetites of human nature should not only be classed in law and in public estimation with the dram shop and _ the saloon, but they should also be compelled to pay the large tax which the Legislature has rightly imposed upon those who follow this ignoble calling. Nothing connected with their special duties has been. so grati- fying to the committee as. were the earnest and unanimous expressious of our brethren who met with us at Lansing, that not only should honest druggists be exempt from the liquor dealers’ tax and reputation, but that the saloonkeeper who plies his vo- cation under our banner should be made to suffer the penalty of his hypocrisy,and to appear in his true colors. It indicates that we are beginning to realize the fact that a moiety of our number has been creating an unsavory reputation for the whole and that it behooves each one of us to the best of our ability, by example and by every ‘other means, to disabuse the public mind of the fallacy that because druggists must keep and sell liquors they are necessarily saloon- keepers. In compensation for ~ this knowledge is the recedt achievement, through the moral power of our Association, of compelling men to relinquish ‘their prejudices and recognizé us as a body. of honorable merchants, whose business and professional character entitle them to the respect of all honest and intelligent men. To the President, Mr. Wurzburg, and to the gentlemen who freely gave their time and energy to aid us at a critical period the thanks of the Association, as well as our own, are due. Such prompt, intelligent and effective action is a sure index that the time is not far distant when the character and influence of our Association will be such that neither officers nor members of our Legislature will have the temerity to speak insultingly of the pharmacists of Michigan. FRANK WELLS, ) Committee JOHN E. PEck, * on JACOB JESSON, \ Legislation. —_-9- <> The Drug Market. Prices are about the same as last week, with but few changes to note. Carbolic acid is becoming scarce and advancing in price. Cubeb berries are again higher and very firm. Opium is steady at present quo- tations. Morphine is unchanged. Insect powder has advanced and extreme prices are looked for. Quinine is dull and weak. Ipecac root has declined. Oil anise is very firm at the advance. Oil peppermint is weak and tending low. A vo There are 3,700,000 cows kept for milk- ing purposes in the United Kingdom. Es- timating at 440 gallons as the yield for the season per cow, the total is 1,628,000,000 gallons of milk. Of this 725,000,000 are consumed in various ways, leaving 900,000,+ 000 to converted into cheese and butter. This is equivalent to 126,000 tons of cheese and 89,285 tons of butter. The Amendment to the Pharmacy Law. At the request of a member of the Board of Pharmacy, THE TRADESMAN herewith presents Section 10, of the Pharmacy Law, as amended by the last Legislature:. - Sec. 10.. Nothing in this act shall apply to, orin any manner interfere with, the business of any practicing physician who does not ‘keep open shop for retailing. dis- pensing or compounding of medicine and poison, or prevent him from supplying to his patientssuch articles as may seem to him proper, nor with the vending of patent or proprietary medicines by any retail deal- er, who has been in such business three years or more, nor with the selling by any person of drugs, medicines, chemicals, es- sential oils and tinctures which are put up in bottles, boxes, packages, bearing labels securely affixed, which labels shall bear the name of the pharmacist or druggist putting up the same, the dose that may be adminis- tered to persons, three months, slx months, one year, three years, five years, ten years, fifteen years and twenty-one years of age, and if a poison, the name or names of the most common antidotes; of copperas, borax, blue vitriol, saltpeter, pepper, sulphur, brimstone, Paris green, liquorice, sage, senna leaves, castor oil, sweet oil, spirits of turpentine, glycerine, Glau- ber salts, epsom salts, cream tartar, bi-carbonate of soda, sugar of lead and such acids as are used in coloring and tanning, nor with the selling of paregoric, essence of peppermint, essence of ginger, essence of cinamon, hive syrup, syrup of ipecac, tincture of arnica, syrup of tolu, syrup of quills, spirits of camphor, number six, sweet spirits of nitre, laudanum, quinine, and all other preparations of cinchona bark, tincture of aconite, and tincture of iron, compound cathartic pills, or quinine pills, nor with the exclusively wholesale business of any dealer: Provided, That every per- son who shall within three months after this act takes effect forward to the Board of Pharmacy, satisfactory proof, supported by his affidavit, that he was engaged in the business of dispensing pharmacist on his own account in this State, in the prepara- tion of physicians’ prescriptions, three years next previous to the second day of June, 1885, or that at such time he had been employed or engaged three years or more as a pharmacist in the compounding of physicians’ prescriptions, and was at said time so employed in this State, shall upon the payment to the board of a fee of two dollars, be granted the certificate of a registered pharmacist. And provided fur- ther, That the said Board may grant at a fee not exceeding one dollar, to such person not less than sixteen years of age, who shall pass a satisfactory examination touching their competency, before the board of phar- macy, the certificate of ‘registered assis- tant,” but such certificate shall not entitle the holder to engage in business on his own account or to take charge of or act as man- ager of a pharmacy or drug store. Approved June 18, 1887. —_—~.-+9 <> ____— Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. The regular August meeting of the Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society, which was held last Thursday evening, was fairly well attended. In the absence of President Stek- etee, Dr. H. E. Locher occupied the chair. Chairman Peck, of the Committee on Trade Interests, called attention to that provision of the new liquor law which for- bids the sale of liquor to minors except on the written order of a parent or guardian. He presented a form, which he suggested be adopted by the Society, and printed and tableted for the yse of the members, as fol- lows: Extract from the Liquor Law. Sec.3. * * * * Drugegists may not sellany kind of liquors to minors except for medicinal or mechanical purposes, and then only on the written order of the parent or guardianof such minor. * * * To Any Druggist: Please send by bearer,................ for medicinal use only and oblige (Bign NAME RES)... 2... ecw ee oe a Parent or Guardian. On motion of Frank J. Wurzburg, the Secretary was instructed to procure 5,000 copies of the above form, in tablets of fifty each, and sold to the members at cost. The question of Sunday closing was then discussed in all its bearings, the general opinion being that the contemplated move on the part of local dealers would have good effect on the Sunday closing moyement at other places in the State. The committee having the matter in charge reported that all the druggists but two had agreed to close from 1 to 6 p. m., that printed cards had been distributed to the druggists, and that it had been decided to put the agree- ment into effect on Sunday, August 7. The meeting then adjourned. i ee White Hair Now the Craze. Golden hair having gone out of style with all but a few poor unfortunates who are now unable to get their tresses back to their natural color, many druggists find themselves loaded up with unusually large supplies of peroxide of hydrogen. Another craze, however, promises to keep up the de- mand for that powerful drug. Mixed with 25 per cent. of ammonia, it. produces a bleaching mixture which will turn the blackest hair snow white with two applica- cations. Of course, the bleaching of the hair to a yellow or white is frightfully in- jurious to health, as it withers the capillary tubes, just as any other vegetable is shriy- eled by burning, but the ladies who use it don’t mind ruining their health as long as they can be in the’fashion. The fact that dozens of women have become raving man- iacs through turning their hair to a golden hue will not deter others from pursuing the white hair craze with a recklessness border- ing on criminal insanity. - I ie si ne A merchant is judged largely by the appearance of his printed matter. An order or letter on a piece of unruled, un- printed paper invariably forestalls a favor- able opinion of the merchant’s business capacity and prejudices him in the mind of strangers. Such being the case, it behooves every dealer to be well provided with print- ing matter. Those not so supplied are requested to note the advertisement of the Fuller& Stowe Company in another column, WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT, SPONGES. | Florida sheevs’ wool, carriage. .... 225 @2 50 ; Nassau do ee wack, 2 00 Advanced—Nothing. | aoe Ext do do 1 10 ixtra Ye do 35 Declined—Nothing. Grass do = oe 83 ACIDUM. agp i 2 foe ame anc 3 75 ‘ ellow Reef, ee de wiwee tee 1 40 poole - Pega hs en ek > = MISCELLANEOUS. ieee 8@ 48 | a: ae pee 3 “ Ae doksccaeueek 2BQ 28 -oecl-shygs pagina Mahal use egw en se lng dea } Aucner, apes. Nitros, § F....... 25.5... 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Gy a a eens aes ssc sees @ 40 Se a MN ha eas cas ceca aeis @l 40 is, gO Fd as cess knee dese cse >. 0 Oemne oo OT 5 cee . piss ee see Oded e cc ckens oo 33 Pil nares. no ES a a SE MA OM ONOG. on once os ik oka e os a ees Ss 30) Piper Nigra, (pe. 22).............. 0.0. Jive ge a ae 1h} Paper Aiba, (00.'85)........ 5. ...5..4... HERBA—lIn ounce packages. se cok bekick ca Aetna ..........--- eek espe anaes vg a Oe ee ee PRO CIN, o. in oe se cheeks ota s 20 | Potassa, Bitart, pure.................. OS SO a 25 ioe Peet, COM oc... 6c... ABORT oe ee eee ee cea 28 | Potass Nitras, opt................ 0.000. Mettha Piperite........... ‘BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts of Last Resort. SALE OF STOCK—IMPLIED.WARBRANTY. The Supreme Court of Indiana held, in a recent case, that a person selling certificates of stock ‘in a corporation does not thereby impliedly warrant that the corporation by which they are issued #s a corporation de jure, that is, of legal right, but only that they are issued by a corporation de facto, that is, in fact. PURCHASE BY CORPORATION OF ITS OWN SHARES. The question was lately raised before the House of Lords (England) whether the law gives a board of directors and shareholders the power to purchase or to traffic in the shares of their own company with the com- pany’s funds. The House of Lords held that the law does not confer this power. LIMIT OF RESPONSIBILITY ON BILLS OF LADING. If a common carrier desires to limit his responsibility on bills of lading to a delivery to the named consignee alone he must stamp his bills “non-negotiable.” Where he does not do so he must be understood to intend a possible transfer of the bills and to affect the action of the transferrees there- of. So held by the New York Court of Appeals. MANUFACTURE UNDER LICENSE. In the case of Hyatt vs. Dale Tile Manu- facturing Co. (Limited), decided recently by the New York Court of Appeals, it ap- peared that the assignee of letters patent licensed the defendent to manufacture and sell a patented article within certain terri- tory, he agreeing to pay royalties therefor to the plaintiff and the plaintiff agreeing to refrain from manufacturing. In this case the court held that the defendant, while continuing to manufacture under the license, could not escape liability to pay the royal- ties on the ground that the reissue of the patent to the plaintiff was void. BOND OF AGENT—LIABILITY OF SURETIES. An insurance agent entered into a writ- ten contract with an insurance company to carry on business for the company, at the same time giving the company a bond with sureties for the faithful performance of his contract. The contract did not require the company to advance money to the agent for any purpose, nor did it require the agent to re- turn money advanced te him. Under the cir- cumstances the Supreme Court of Llinois held that the sureties were not liable for any money advanced to the agent to enable him to prosecute the business of the com- pany. The Coming Conventicn of the M. B. M. A. The following official call has been sent out tothe auxiliary bodies of the M. B. M. A.: Granp Rapips, August 1, 1887. The third convention of the Michigan Business Men’s Association will convene at Flint, Tuesday, September 6, at 9 o’clock a. m., continuing in session until the evening of the day following. You are credited on the State membership book with having....members, which en- titles you to... .delegates. You are request- ed to select a full set of delegates as soon as convenient; also, an alternate for each delegate, to represent you in the event of the inability of any regular deiegate to at- tend. Please furnish the chairman of your dele- gation with the customary credentials, sign- ed by the President and Secretary, giving the names of both delegates and alternates; also, please designate a delegate to make a three minute report of the work accomplish- ed by your organization and its present status. Reduced rates have been secured at the Flint hotels, and a one and one-third rate of fare has been obtained over the principal railroads of the State, providing the en- closed certificates are signed by agent at starting point and countersigned by the Secretary at the convention. Holders of certificates pay full fare going and will re- ceive a return ticket for one-third fare. As this will be the most important con- vention ever held by the State body, it is essential that your organization have a full representation. E. A. Srowk, Sec’y. FRANK HAMILTON, Pres. 7s A Bonanza to Agents. Send to A. J. Little Publishing Co., Bat- tle Creek, Mich., for circulars of ‘‘Wonders of a Great City” or ‘Sights, Secrets and Sins of New York,” by Matthew Hale Smith, the renowned ‘‘Burliegh” of the New York and Boston press; Prof. Henry L. Williams, author, editor and publisher | and Ralph Bayard, the noted New York journalist. There is but one New York. There is but one book describing it. ‘There are over four millions of people who want to read it. Secure territory before it is too late. Muzzy’s Corn Starch is prepared expressly for food, is made of only the best white corn and ts guaranteed absolutely pure. U The popularity of.Muzzy’s Corn and Sun Gloss Starch is proven by the large sale, aggregating many million of pounds each a 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. 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. VOIGT MILLING CO,, 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. TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. All Trains daily except Sundny. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Leaves. Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex...... 8:45 aim 9:05 am Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex..... 11:30am Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex.... 7:30pm 10:40pm Cadillac Express..............+..-. 3:40 pm 5:05 p m Saginaw Express..........-seeeeees 11:25am 7:20am - i oe ca esohhedense esas 10:30 am. 4:10pm Saginaw express runs through solid. 9:05 a.m, train has chair carto Traverse City and Mackinaw. 11:30 a, m, train has chair car for Traverse City, Pe- toskey and Mackinaw City. 10:40 p. m, train has sleeping cars for Traverse Clty, Petoskey and Mackinaw. GOING SOUTH. Cincinnati Express............0.+ 7:15am Fort Wayne Express............... 10:30 am 11:45am Cincinnati Express................ 4:40 pm 5:00 pm Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex..10:50 pm 7:15amtrain has parlor chair car for Cincinnati. 5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati. 5:00 ¢. m, train connects with M. C. R. R. at Kalama- zoo for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadivn points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. mm. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. Leave. Arrive. BER FIR os hone no cs is casdbasuacdsabesseseavnbonns 10:10am BD ois vance nba ke cseccdbenssrages cess te anes 4:30 pm AD OA book nbc os bbe desc cnconbadsbedcenonsasas 8:50pm Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. C, L. LocKwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Detroit, Lansing & Northern. Grand Rapids & Saginaw Division. DEPART. Ba@inaw EXpPress........sccccscccocssccsovccveses 7 30am Sa@inaw EXPress......c.scsreccsecsseeresebecese 410pm ARRIVE, Grand Rapids Express.............20+ sessccres 11 25am Grand Rapids Express............--scssssseoses 10 30 pm All trains arrive at and depart from Union depot. Trains run solid both ways. Chicago & West Michigan. Leaves. Arrives. SONG ok cep cincncines dassceneaess hence 9:10am 3:55 pm tDay EXxpress........cecsecceeseeee 12:30 p m 9:45 pm *Night Express.........cceeseceeees 11:00 pm 5:45am Muskegon Express........ .+ -++++ 5:00 p m 11:00 a m *Daily. +Daily except Sunday. Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains. Through parlor car in charge of careful attendants without ex- tra charge to Chicago on 12:30 p.m., and through coach on 9:10 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains. Newaygo Division. eaves. Arrives. EEXPTBB ......ccccoreccvcccsvosceses 4:05 pm 4:20pm EEXPTeBS......cccccscccccscccsscsoscce 8:25 am 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’! Pass. Agent. J.B. MULLIKEN, General Manager. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. Kalamazoo Division. cue rrive, Leave. 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 5:05 pm..Toledo........ 11:00pm 9:45am §:30am 9:40pm..Cleveland..... 640pm 5:35am 2:50pm 3:30am..Buffalo........ 11:55am 11:40pm 5:40am _ 6:50pm.,.Chicago....... 11:30pm 6:50am A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at 12:50 pm,carry- ing passengers as faras Allegan. All trains daily ex- cept Sunday. J. W. MCKENNEY, General Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING EAST. Arrives. Leaves. +Steamboat Express............+6+ 6:25pm 6:30 p m tThrough Mail..........-s.eeeeeees 10:40am 10:50am +Evening Express..........-seeee0s 3:25 pm 3:50 pm *Limited Express. .........0.0se005 6:50am 6:50 am tMixed, with coach..............++ 11:00am GOING WEST. +Morning Express....... 1:10pm PTHTOUGN MALL. .,..0c2ccsccccscnees 5:00 pm 5:10pm +Steamboat Express...........6-+- 10:40 p m 10:45 p m IEG isis 5 iesies ts schveenes dope eee 7:45am *Night Express.........ecesesesere 5:25am 5:40am +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Passengers taking the 6:50 am Express make close connection at Owosso for Lansing, and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 10:30 a m 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. GEO. B. REEVE, Traffic Manager Chicago. Michigan Central. Grand Rapids Division. DEPART. Detroit BXPrees..o.csccccecescrssvccccencsesvenes 6:15am Day EXpregs.......0ssesccocscscscecvscccccoonens 1:10pm *Atlantic Express ...10:10 p m I ono ca viecs whe pee sane ie chdedsseeense 6:50 am ARRIVE. PPachfic EXPTess....0..rcccccccscncccncececceacece 6:00am POUR shcscnctadccssnaceeuas .-. 3:00pm Grand Rapids Express........e-ssseeeeeeeeeeees 10:15 pm PRE oa india cn bono non. hind 6:53 09 0d sane nsncese sss 5:15 pm MO so pidivnseccbaccane nied ond sy -decexs *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 M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.) D. W. JonNsTON, Mich. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids. O. W. RUGGLES, Gen’! Pass. and Ticket Agt., Chicago. Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway. WEST EAST AM PM Leave] {Arrive AM PM 11:30 WB isi ivsve vet Grand Rapids.......... 10:30 3:40 mM AM _ Ly Ar PM AM 10:45 *6:50 ......405. St Ignace 1.......... 8:30 5:30 8:00 1:00 Ar....... Marquette........ Lv 2:05 10:00 $33: ANB BP vise cies Negaunee........ Ly 1:85 9:15 BAR 20D ps sae ioes Ishpeming.......... 12:50 9:05 T024B DB ccs cdcecne Houghton .......... 9:20 6:00 8:4 6:34 AY........¢ Calumet ........ Ly *8:06 4:26 PM PM AM PM P Only direct route between the East and South and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. E W ALLEN, Gen’! Pass & T’k’t Ag’t 6. G. A. VOIGT & GO. Proprietors of Star Reller Mills. Manufacturers of “Our Patent,” “Star,” “Calla Lily,” “Golden Sheaf,” “Our Fancy.” Rye Flour, Granulated Meal, Bolted Meal, Bran Mid- dlings and Screenings, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. Valley Gity Milling Go. ) FANCY PATENT on tity i wits NOW.FLAKE ,* fifa ROLL ER 6 Fleur ©" 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. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. Full Line ot LUBRICATING OLLs. We make a specialty of HOREERA OIL, Which for Farm Machinery and general purposes is the Best Brand on the market. A. J. BOWNE, President. GEO. C. PIERCE, Vice President. H. P. BAKER, Cashier. CAPITAL, - - GRAND RAPIDS OFFICE, No.1 Canal St., Telephone No. 228-2. J. G. ALEXANDER, Agent, - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a Specialty of Collections, Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited. 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 to increase. Let us tell you, if you want to sellacigar that your customers will be pleased with, the sooner you order Tansill’s Punch the better.—Independent Grocer. GIVE US A TRIAL ORDER. We Guarantee Satisfaction. LUCIUS C, WEST, Attorney at Patent Law and Solicitor of American and Foreign patents. 105 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S. A. Branch _ of- — London, Eng. Practice in U.S. Courts. Circulars ree. BELL, GONRAD & GU, 58 Michigan Ave., Chicago, PROPRIETORS OF Century Spice Mills, IMPORTERS OF TEAS, COFFERS & SPICKS. OWNERS OF THE FOLLOWING CELEBRATED BRANDS: JAPAN TEA---“Red Dragon” Chop. COFFEE---O. G. Plantation Java, Imperial, Jayoka, Banner, Mexican. The Bast Coffee on Earth. We Solicit Communications, W. R. KEASEY, Traveling Representative. STORE COUNTERS AND FURNITURE TO ORDER. D. H. MOSHIER, MANUFACTURER OF Counters, Prescription Gases, WOOD MANTELS; And all kinds of Store and Bank Furnitvre. Odd Bookcases and Sideboards. Special attention given to ordered work. Call and see me or send for estimates. 62 So. Front St, GRAND RAPIDS. GURYISS, DUNYON & ANDREWS ROOFERS Good Work, Guaranteed for Five Years, at Fair Prices. Grand Rapids, - - Mich. PEREINS & 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. 1, LKUNARD & SUNG, WHOLESALE CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, LAMP GOODS AND STONEWARE. 134, 136, 138, 140 Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Mich. To Insure Prompt Shipment Order Fruit Jars direct from us. SS A laa State Agents FOR THE Excelsior Cooking Crock. HEADQUARTERS Mason's Porcelain Yop Fruit Jars. PRICES. 8 gross. At oT rT MP ek cee sack on ns dues ees acme Positively the finest kettle for cooking any Quarts..........................005: . 10.25 kind of food. ‘Those who try it will have no # #allons. eee IBRD other. . Sua ae akc caciccsecics | sam ‘ : Z } tlobe Fruit Jars, pints.............. : Cheapest Preserving Kettle. Absolutely Fire “ oe a 12.00 Proof. Not affected by Heat or Acid. " “~ “ Maelen.......... 15.00 Factory Prices. Preserve Jars. TomatoJugs. Appl MONON eee ieee ieee a. $ eT See ee per som Sey Butter Jass. Blackberry Jam Jars. sia ae eae ee " 8.00 Sherwood’s Incomparable Fine Glazed Stoneware, PAT. MAR. 16. 1880. CUT TTT pe Dark. White. Stew pans % gal..................do0z. 1.50 1.75 _ - ta “ 250 2.25 Milk pans........ Rete ee ata eet as "oo a” ee “ 90 SHERWCOD’S. doz. 14 gal. Pres. Jars..... .75 y% ot “ se \% “a filter aoe Regular Stoneware. per doz. White Lined........ . a) % gal. Preserve Jars. Stone Cover. .90 lgal. Butter crocks . . Mean 1.40 White Lined........ 150 2 , " " MT ete ee 2 gal. Butter Crocks % ‘** Tomato Jugsandcorks............ .90 White Lined........3902 " . pee ya Tea Pots Corks for % gal. Tomato jugs........... .45 : a7 ee oe 20 Coffee Pots, Ice Mugs, Sealing wax, five pounds in package per bia lace eco ceeieiee ce Ae HONEY BEE COFFEE! Best in the Market for the Money. PRINCESS BAKING POWDER, EQUAL TO THE BEST MADE. BEE MILLS’ SPICHKS Absolutely Pure. ABSOLUTE SPICES Absolute Baking Powder. 100 per cent. Pure. Manufactured and sold only by ED, TELFER, Grand Rapids. ‘LIOULAG “oay uwosiegor 6G "09 8 NOSdWOHL *H ‘T Ad day OLVAANVK DO YOU WANT A ne , i ee co or + Hut If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to §. HEYMAN & SON, 48 Canal bt, Grand Rapids. MOSELEY BROS., Fruits, Seeds, Oysters. & Produce, ALL KINDS OF FIELD SEEDS A SPECIALTY. If you are-in Market to Buy or Sell Clover Seed, Beans or Pota- toes, will be pleased to hear from you. fs 26, 28, 30 & 32 Ottawa direst, §=©— GRAND RAPIDS +