17 VOL. 1. The Michigan Tradesman. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1884. NO. 39. _@RAND RAPIDS, - (Ge i RY Gay sulk Wa HEADQUARTERS! —FOR— Sporting Goods —AND— OUT DOOR GAMES, Base Ball Goods, Marbles, Tops, Fishing Tackle, Croquet, Lawn Tennis, Indian Clubs, Dumb Bells, Boxing Gloves. We wish the Trade to notice the fact that we are Headquarters on these Goods And are not to be undersold by any house in the United States. Our Trade Mark Bats —ARE THE- BEST AND CHEAPEST In the Market. (= Send for our New Price List for 1884. Order a Sample Lot Before Placing a Large Order. EATON, LYON & ALLEN, 20 and 22 Monroe Street, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. CS, YALE & —Manufacturers of— FLAVORING EXTRACTS | AKING POWDERS, BrLUOUIN GCS, HTC., 40 and 42 South Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. Manufacturers of Fine Perfumes, Colognes, Hair Oils, Flavoring Extracts, Baking Powders, Bluings, Etc., Etc. ALSO PROPRIETORS OF REMIN Es “Red Bark Bitters’ ND— The Oriole Manufacturing Cu 42 West Bridge Street, MICHIGAN, MANUFACTURE OF SILK. The Warious Processes Through Which the Raw Product Passes. The first process in manufacturing silk is to sort the raw silk into sizes, great care be- ing required in every stage that the threads be equal in size, as inequality would pro- duce a manufacture of uneven and unman- ageable twist. Itis then soaked in soapy water to dissolve the gum and render the thread pliable and elastic, the skeins are slipped upon octagonal wicker swift-reels, a dozen or more of which revolve on an axis fastened on the legs of each table. A thread from each reel-skein passes upward over a smooth metal or glass rod, fixed on the lateral edge of the table to its revolving | bobbin, upon which it is wound. After this! process the thread_is guided between the continuous edges of two sharp steel knives, resembling scissors, which clean it of gum- my lumps and clinging waste, to another bob- bin: this process occasions considerable waste. The finer and more regular threads are now taken for making organzines, which are the warps of woven goods. Coars- er threads are taken for trams or woofs. The most inferior are used for the manu- facture of sewing-silks. Loose and broken ends are corded like cotton and spun into floss for embroidery. The twisting or throwing process is done by passing the thread of raw silk from an upright bottom through the eye of a craned wire flyer, which rapidly spins with the top of the bobbin revolving above. This thread is called a “single,” and for organzines re- ceives from twelve to nineteen twists to the inch. Organzines or trams are made by twisting together two or three of these twisted threads in an opposite direction to the former single twist. at the rate of from ten to seeventeen turns to the inch; the two threads having previously been wound par- allel upon one bobbin. Organzines receive tight twistings, to induce strength and elas- ticity. A swing of two twists to the finch some- times saves five cents to the pound in the cost of labor, but may occasion greater loss in weaving. Twoor three threads of raw silk twisted loosely two or four times to the inch is tram, thute or woof. In weaving, the woof has little or no strain upon it, and it fills up the warp better by being soft and loose. The twist in silk threads is set by dampening and drying. ‘Skein sewing silk is made of three to ten threads twisted to- gether, and two of these latter doubled. Sewing machine silk is trebly twisted. But- tonhole twist is the same, with a tighter twist. Twist in the single threads of sew- ing silks are ten to fifteen to the inch, and the doubled eight to twelve; the organzines are reeled into skeins of one or two thou- sand yards each, care being taken to make them of the exact length, as that compared with their weight determines the quality of goods to be woven. The American ‘sewing-silk machine is a great improvement over the old-fashioned one. By the aid of a few girls, the former at once doubles and twists the silk, and reels it into skeins of equal length; and it turns out one hundred and_ twenty-five pounds a week. he cost of throwing raw silk into organ- zines is $4 to $5 a pound, a great proportion of that going to labor. Trams cost less. After weighing, the threads go to the dyer, who is charged with the weight, also with the number of skeins. As the manufacturer knows how much of each color should be returned, little fraud or error can happen. Up to the time the silk goes to the dyer, there is a loss of three to nine per cent. from cleaning, breaking, etc. It loses eighteen to twenty-five per cent. of the weight in dying by the boiling off of the worm gum, which is made up greatly by surcharging with sugar or dye. Inthe dye house the silk skeins are tied to prevent tangling, and boiled for four or five hours in coarse linen bags, by which the hempy colors obtain a lustre. Yellowish colors are counteracted to pure white by the use of a little blue dye. This white dyeing costs less than any other; the bright greens are the most expensive. Colors are cheapened in the weight by the addition of three ounces of sugar to twelve of silk. Drabs and slate are dyed with sumach. Blacks are dyed with nitrate of iron and cutch, and also logwood, a bluish shade, especially for velvets, being desirable. It is said that surcharging can be carried to the extent of trebling the weight of the silk. After dyeing, the skeins are dried on bars in a close-steamed room, and then lustered by passing over hot cylinders. Sewing-silk is sortened by wringing, and tied into skeins for sale. Trams and organzines are then rewound upon bobbins, and then rewound to give a proper tension to the thread before weaving. ———>-_-—_—__— Fremont Facts. From the Indicator. Ed. Bradford expects to go into business for himself pretty soon. The Fremont groceries are well stocked with goods, and there is no better place in northern Michigan to buy them than here. It is hard times when many teams are chattel-mortgaged to buy feed in order that they may live or be sold at ruinously low prices. An Era of Low Prices. From the New York Sun. The prevailing depression in the prices of stocks is not an exceptional phenomenon. It extends to the most important agricultu- ral and mineral productions of the country, and, indeed, affects the industries of the whole world. Wheat, which at the beginning of 1880 brought in the New York market $1.55 a bushel, and in 1882 sold at $1.43 a bushel, is now selling at about $1, and of course flour has fallen in a corresponding ratio. Other cereals show a_ similiar decline—rye from $1 a bushel to 65 cents a bushel; In- dian corn from 75 and 70 cents a_ bushel to about 58 cents, and oats from 50 cents to 35 cents. The fall in pork and lard and_ the causes of it have already been discussed by us. Mess pork, which was quoted at $18.50 a barrel a year ago, is now $16.50, and lard has dropped from 11 cents a pound to 814 cents. Our other great staple, cotton, is an ex- ception, however, remaining at about the same level, of between 11 and 12 centsa pound, at which it has stood for the past four years. Petroleum, too, maintains itself at about the same price it has been bringing all along. Metals, on the other hand, are more de- cidedly depressed than breadstuffs and pro- visions. Pig iron has fallen from $35 per ton to about $20, and steel rails from $90 to about $34. Copper, which used to bring about 25 cents a pound, is so slow of sale at 14 cents that the Calumet and Hecla Cop- per Mining Company, which produces 20,- 000 tons a year, and has for seventeen years paid uninterrupted dividends amounting to $20,000,000 upon an actual capital of $1,- 200,000, has just been obliged to interrupt its pleasing habit. Lead, which not long ago sold at 6 cents a pound, can now be bought at 4 cents, and tons of it are stored away, to wait for an advance. Coal for the present is kept up, but only by a restriction of production, and with every prospect of a decided fall in price very soon. Raw sugar, which for several years has fluctuated between 6 cents and 7% centsa pound, is now in abundant supply at about 51g. Refined sugar has correspondiugly de- clined from between 8 cents and9 centsa pound to about 7 cents. Without going into details about clothing and other manufactured articles, it is notor- ious that they areall cheaper than they have been for a long time past, with no probability of immediate improvement. This widespread depression is, fortunate- ly, not due to any financial catastrophe. It is simply the return swing of a pendulum which vibrates between excess and deficir ency. A supyly §scanty in proportion to consumption makes prices high; high prices, while they check consumption, stimulate the production of an increased supply; an increased supply lowers prices;.and low prices again, while they increase consump- tion, diminish production, and so_ tend to correct themselves. The present state of the markets, therefore, cannot be expected to last forever; it will be followed sooner or later by an advance, and this in turn by an- other decline. Ebb and flow, like night and day, are as inevitable in the commercial as in the physical world. ———_ +2 Imitation Stained Glass. Among the many uses of the printing press, none is more novel than the produc- tion of imitation stained glass. Designs for any pattern desired are engraved on wood. The blocks of wood are placed on an old- fashioned hand press, and then are inked with oil colors compounded with special reference to the use for which they are in- tended. Thenasheet of very thin hand- ‘made porous-paper is laid on, and a prolong- ed impression given, in order that the color may thoroughly permeate the paper. Each color is, of course, printed at a separate im- pression. Having completed the printing process, the different pieces of paper which compose the design are soaked in warm water half an hour, taken out, the water sponged off, and then coated on one side with a thin cement. A similar coat of ce- ment is given the glass to which the paper is to be applied, and then the paper is laid on in place, and varnished over. The plain glass window becomes at once, to all appear- ances, a window of stained glass. The effects of the lead lines, the irregular pieces of colored glass, the heads of saints and soldiers, the antique, or the modern Japa- nese designs are all to be.had as_ brilliant in color as any imitation can be expected to be of the genuine glass. The glass thus pre- pared costs about one-tenth as much as gen- uine stained glass, and can, when it requires it, be washed without fear of injuring the surface. ———_—>-- << It is stated that sackcloth or canvas can be made as impervious to moisture as leather by steeping it in a decoction of one pound of oak bark with fourteen pounds of boiling water, this quantity being sufficient for eight yards of stuff. The cloth has to soak twenty-four hours, when it is taken out, pas- sed through’running water and hung up to dry, bo WILD CAT BANKING. Reminiscences of the Days When a Peck of Money Did Not Amount to Much. From the Detroit Times. “Wild cat banking days? Yes, I had some little experience of how business was done in those times,” said Mr. William A. Butler yesterday. ‘Banks used to be start- ed on a capital of land; it was assessed ata certain value, generally about 10 times what it was worth, and the bank allowed to issue a proportion of the amountin notes. On paper the scheme was perfection, all the safe-guards imaginable, but it was all on paper. You see, we fellows came from the east and imagined that fortunes were to be made out here, but people “didn’t have any money to do business with. So this wild cat money was issued, and as soon as a man got some of it he was mighty anxious to change it [with a laugh]. The man who could change it quickest was the fellow who came out best. I remember one funny in- stance. At the time I was keeping a store I had some bills to pay in New York. I had lots of wild cat money but unfortunately it was no goed down east. I had a neighbor of the name of Elimore who was in about the same fix. He proposed collecting all the money he could get on one bank and getting it exchanged. He was pretty san- guine about the success of his scheme, but I wasn’t; at any rate I told him we would try it. Ellmore got all his money on a Lapeer bank, and I got mine on three wild cat banks in Pontiac. We drove out next day and Ellmore left me at Pontiac to go to Lapeer. Idid what I could and managed to get $200 or $300 for all the notes I held; the bank wouldn’t pay any more. When Elmore re- turned, I asked him how he had made out and he said he had got his notes redeemed in full. I was surprised to hear this be- gause the Lapeer bank was considered the meanest in the whole state. He said he had a draft on Detroit which would be paid all right. When he got to Detroit he took his draft to get it cashed, and soon afterwards I saw him come up to his store with a hand- kerchief full of money; he must have had a peck of it. Well, sir, the man on whom the draft was drawn had paid him all in Lapeer banknotes, the same thing that he had so in- dustriously collected and taken out to the bank.” “How long did wild cat banks flourish?” “From about 1837 to about 1839, if I re- member rightly. At first the notes circulat- ed a little in neighboring states, but after- wards the act creating the banks was declar- ed unconstitutional and they collapsed. Men who have had any experience of that kind of currency are now so anxious to see the present system retained and not have an un- secured medium.” “T had the honor of being teller of the De- troit city bank in 1837,” said D. C. Holbrook. “That was quite a respectable institution, having a capital of $42,000 in gold and _sil- ver and $8,000 ifiore deposited with the bank of Michigan. But I guess ‘about $10,- 000 started all the rest of them, and was taken about from place to place as it was needed. A great many banks were started on $500 and a lot of old nails; the nails were put in the bottom of the drawer and the money on top, so that everybody might see the bank had some capital.” <9 <—______-- They Wanted Cocoanuts, From the Detroit Free Press. The other day a Michigan Avenue grocer had about 250 cocoanuts piled up in front of his doors. ‘To-day he hasn’t a single one. The other day, he thought he was stuck for about $25. To-day he realizes that he has made more clear profit on cocoanuts than any other retailer in Detroit. The grocer was reading his paper about some one down East who smuggled whisky by filling cocoanuts with it, and he finished the article, drew down his left eye and called out to his clerk: “Thomas Jefferson Bangs, go out and buy me a gallon of mean whisky.” He selected six or eight cocoanuts, poured out the milk, refilled them with whisky, and before night they were sold or given away. At seven o’clock next morning an employee of a livery stable called in and asked: “Have you any cocoanuts ? ” “ Yes, a few.” “J want to buy ten to send to my brother in the country.” He had scarcely gone when a woman came in and said she was hungry for a co- coanut pie, and she took six of the nuts along. Then a boy came along and bought four, and before three o’clock that afternoon the entire lot had disappeared. The only purchaser who returned was a colored ho- tel waiter, who hung around for a spell and then said: “ Dey wasn’t nuffin’ but milk in der coker- nut I bought.” “ Nothing but milk, you rascal!” roared the grocer. ‘Do you imagine that Nature is going to grow a big nut like that for five cents and fill it with kerosene oil to boot?” Re th Ace A Cadillac correspondent, who is a lum- ber dealer, writes: Have been away on a two weeks’ trip to Erie, Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus and around central Ohio. Lum- ber and shingles are picking up and moving quite rapidly in said region. How He Advertised Without Cost. A hardware man lately took the agency for a new kind of ice-box for preserving cold victuals. It was a pretty good thing, he thought, and it was only necessary to en- lighten the public regarding its real merits and indisputable advantages over everything else of the kind, to cause a tremendous rush of customers eager to purchase; so he coun- selled with himself, and soliloquized thus- ly: “That refrigerator must be brought before the people, and I’m the man to do it. Don’t talk to me about your newspaper advertise- ments. Il] show you how to advertise with- out cost. You don’t ketch me paying a pa- per for advertising; not I. Vm too old for that, and I’ll show folks a new idea.” Then he laughed a satisfied laugh, and at once set about making a practical test of his new method of diffusing information. He mixed up apot of black paint, procured several large sheets of card-board and after much experimenting and repeated attempts, finally succeeded in producing two signs that read as follows: “Fifty dollars to the man who can prove that any two things put into this ice-chest will taste one of the other.” He had a refrigerator run out to the curb-stone, hung a sign over each side, and retired indoors to await the expected rush of customers. People passed up and down the street, jostled each other in their hurry, glanced at the ice-box and its signs, and— went on. After some hours of disappointed hopes and expectations the dealer saw a pe- destrian halt, calmly peruse the wonderful announcement, and rather hesitatingly ad- vance to the door. “Do you mean it?” he inquired in an anxious tone, pointing over his shoulder to the signs. “‘ Yes-sir-ee,”’ emphatically responded the dealer. “Put up your money!” insinuated the stranger. ‘“‘ No, sir,” replied the dealer, in pompous style, ‘‘ my word is as good as the cash.” “ Allright, Pll take you,” responded the stranger, as he departed. Some time after he returned with a box under each arm. “‘ Stick to your agreement?” he queried. “ Of course I will,” answered the dealer, wondering what it the name of Christopher Columbus the man had in view. The stranger set his boxes down on the sidewalk, and a crowd began to collect. He told the dealer that he was afraid that he (the dealer) would back out of the bargain, but the latter asserted fhis readiness to put up the stamps if necessary. The stranger opened a box, lifted a cat out and placed her in the refrigerator; then he opened the other box and took therefrom a wire cage containing a rat. ‘“ Now, mister,” said he, “you just shut that door in a hurry when I flop the rat in- side, and I’ll go you another fifty that ‘ one will taste of the other’ ih less’n five min- utes.” The crowd yelled, and the dealer slammed the refrigerator door and slid into the store, with a remark about fools and swindlers. He still refuses to recognize the stranger’s claim to the fifty dollars—but has taken his signs in. —_—___—<- 2 <___—_ Patents Issued to Michigan Inventors. Charley Booensiep, Dotroit, calipers. Isaac DeGraff, Detroit, engine. John Desmond, assignor of one-half to J. Carey and C. Rutson, Jackson, steam empty- ing ash-pan. Wallace Dingman, Battle Creek, harvest- er. Job Estes, Sterling, potato digger. Eugene M. Farr, North Muskegon, horse cleaner. Walrer C. Gifford, Brooks, leather and cloth varnish. James H. Glover, Detroit, capsule ma- chine. Eli M. Holeomb, Bay Springs, and F. E. Miller, Eveline, car-brake attachment. Edward Heyde, East Saginaw, lumber trimming machine. Barnard A. Kaufmann, assignor to Globe Tobacco Co., Detroit. cigarette. Argus McDonald, Au Sable, canal boat. Izaac VanKersen, Kalamazoo, blind-slat lock and operator. Willis Vandereook, Mason, two-wheeled vehicle. The Supreme Court has decided that an American citizen is not obliged to pay duty on wearing apparel intended for his own use or for that of his own family on the vessel with him, if such apparel be suitable for the season, and not in excess of his and their “reasonable wants, in view of their means, habits and station in life, even though such articles had not been actually worn.” This is the result of a suit brought by Mr. Astor, of New York. He paid high for justice but he got it. ® —_—_——__—~<» -2-<—___ The manufacture of needles and pins con- stitutes one of the most flourishing indus- tries in Germany. The eight manufactories of Iserlohn alone consumed in 1882 no less than 600 tons of wire, employing also a working force of some 800 males and 700 fe- male and juvenile operatives besides seven steam engines and four water wheels of 230- {horse power. SHOES AND CHARACTERS. A Cobbler Presents the Science of Shoe- ology. A Troy, N. Y., newspaper has] published areport of an interview between a shoe- maker of that city and one of the newspaper attaches, who applied to the man of the last and waxed-end for repairs, and meanwhile elicited his views on the meaning of the way in which different people wore their shoes and destroyed them by use. After passing threugh the sieve of a reporter, although in this case the reporter did not spare himself, it may be well to read between the lines to get at the shoemaker’s meaning, who, asa practical observer, must have exceptional opportunities from his bench to judge of balance and unbalance in ‘‘understandings.”’ He isa plain-spoken man, as most of his class are, and uttefs his opinions with an or- acular emphasis which is not lost in the re- porter’s version. He said, in reply to the newspaper man’s question: “Yes, sir; they (worn shoes) beat palmis- try all hollow. Take yourself, for instance; in vour shoe I see vacillation, irresolution, fickleness, a tendency toward negligence or evasion of unpleasant duties, occasional spells of moroseness. Show me any person’s foot-covering after two months’ wear, or often less than that, and I will tell you that person’s character. If both heel and sole are evenly worn level the wearer is a clear-headed, decisive business man, a valu- able and trustworty employe, or an excellent wife and mother. If the outside sole is cut through, the wearer, if a man, is inclined to be adventurous, unreliable, and (‘spasmodic in all his acts; if a woman, she is predis- posed to boldness and wayward tendencies. If the inside of the sole is cut through, it indicates weakness and vacilliation In a man and modesty ina woman. For instance, a certain merchant in this city whom I posted concerning this curious method of character reading sends to me whenever he wants a new clerk, and he has received several of my customers on my recommendation. He says that shoeology beats phrenology all hollow. “A few months ago there came into my shop a stranger having a pair of shoes with the outsides of the soles worn through and the toe somewhat cut away, while the hull was nearly as good as new. I said to my wife, after he went away, “That man’s a sneak,’ and so he was. The very next day a boy came up from the police station to get the shoes, and said the wearer had _ been ar- rested on a clear case of sneak thieving. “A certain young man who has patroniz- ed me for years was keeping company with two girls, also customers of mine. I noticed that one of them wore out her shoes on the outside of the sole first, while the other stepped squarely and wore down both shoes alike. I’ve always fhad a liking for the young fellow, and knowing he was waver- ing between the two girls, I took him aside one day and showed him the shoes of his flames and told him what I have told you. The result was he married the square-step- per and is happy, while the other girl dis- graced herself and has gone to ruin. “Do I believe that character can be moulded by keeping the shoes properly soled and heeled? Well, it has its influence. The gait of a person is as closely connected with his disposition as the expression of his countenance, though not so easily read by most persons. To continue to wear a shoe which is run over badly only tends to con- firm the habit in the person’s walk. “T can also tell something of a person’s ten- dencies by the size of the shoe, the breadth of the sole, the condition of the buttons and strings, the amount of wear on the toe, the condition of the lining, ete. I would not advise a friend to marry a girl who squeezes a four foot into a number two shoe, for sueh a one is apt to prove vain, affected and friv- olous. “Boots are but little worn by gentlemen of the present day, save in a few exception- al eases where the occupation of the wearer renders it necessary for health and comfort. The rage is all for button and laced shoes, though this winter the elastic side gaiter has enjoyed a new lease of life. The buekle gaiters are entirely out of date, and are no longer kept in stock by dealers. Cloth-top shoes are being slowly worked out of the trade, while cloth button boots for ladies are not at all worn. Welted shoes are now made with improved machinery, and,” with a sigh, ‘custom work will soon become one of the lost arts. “Rubbers are very poor this year, and wear out rapidly. This is due to the fact that manufacturers are buying up the old worn-out stock, remelting and moulding the second time. Gum which has once been fashioned into a shoe and worn in all sorts of weather, untilthe grit of the streets is ground intoits very substance; lacks the toughness and purity of the gum fresh from the tree, and easily breaks under a slight strain. “Your job Cis done, sir; sorry I couldn’t give you a better character, but truth is truth, and I never flatter.” ee nen A Portland woman hit a man with an egg because he kissed hishand to her. Served hhimright. Next time he’ll know enough te kiss the woman. \33 we The Michigan Tradestan. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE - Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State, BE. A. STOWE, Editor. Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1884. ts Subscribers and others, when writing to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub- lisher by mentioning that they saw the adver- tisement in the columns of this paper. EE “TOO THIN FOR ANYTHING.” Above is the heading of an article recently published by a trade paper, issued in a small city in the western part of the State. The article referred to makes some ridicu- lous statements, and refers entirely to the advertisement of Jas. E. Davis & Co., on our last page. This paper states that “the quantity of a few items mentioned, amounts to more than the entire stock carried by this house.” In the first place, this firm do not state these quanties as carried in stock but “offer in lots to suit purchas- ers,” and in conversation with a reporter of our paper to-day state that they can fill any order for any one of the items, or all, in the quantities named. Again, the statement that “the aggregate amount of the combined articles mentioned amount to more than their entire stock.” This latter statement shows how little this small city knows about the immensity of Detroit stocks. The fact of the matter is, that this west- ern city is struggling to become a competitor of Detroit, and is mad because Detroit can fill orders for large quantities of goods, whereas they have to put up with catch pen- ny trade. We think “bragging” a good thing especially when it can be backed up with facts, and regret that this small town is not large enough to “brag,” for then it would be carried too far without a doubt. It is probably unnecessary to mention, that we understand this paper is controlled by a wholesale drug house in that t6wn, which probably accounts for the jealous appearance of the article referred to.— Detroit Commer- cial. The above attack on Western Michigan in general, and Grand Rapids in particular, is the first piece of original composition of any length that has appeared in the Commercial since it published a salutatory,feight months ago. This fact explains the animus of the at- tack, and the antipathy of the Commercial’s publishers for Grand Rapids, explained in another column, is the only excuse the paper ean have for giving place to such rubbish. The publishing of the screed, as original ed- itorial matter, sets the stamp of authority upon it, and indicates that the Commercial coincides with the opinions expressed. The article quoted was not written in the office of the paper, however, but emanat- ed from the wholesale drug house of Jas. E. Davis & Co. The writer does not pretend to answer our strictures on sensational ad- vertising, but beats around the bush in boy- ish fashion, attributing to THE TRADESMAN a statement it never made, and instituting a comparison that is as misleading as it is ridiculous. The insulting allusion to the dealers who buy at this market as “‘catechpenny trade” may be the means of ingratiating the Detroit paper and jobbing houses in the hearts of Western Michigan merchants, but such is not the usual course taken to attract trade. THE TRADESMAN maintains that the deal- ers who buy at this market are as shrewd and reliable business men as can be found anywhere, possessing just as much discre- tion and credit as their brethren in the east- ern part of the State. Thatthey choose to buy in Grand Rapids instead of sending their favors to Detroit isno reason why they should be classed as ‘‘worthless,’” and the aceusation cannot fail to receive thecon- demnation of all fair-minded, honorable | men. The insinuation that THe TRADESMAN is ‘controlled by a wholesale drug house” here is on a par with the other statements contained in the article. Weare willing to leave such a charge inthe hands of our readers, and allow them to judge for them- selves. In this connection, however, a few words regarding THE TRADESMAN’s policy may not be out of place. It was started as an independent paper—as the organ of the retailer, not the jobber—and has followed out that line of action. Itis, and always has been, the property of the present pro- prietors. Noone has, or ever has had, a mortgage or lien on the establisament, nor has either partner ever given notes for financial assistance—in short ho support of any kind has been solicited or received, out- gide the legitimate channels of newspaper publishing. The advertisements that have appeared, and now appear, in our columns, were taken solely.on the strength of circu- lation. Every advertiser is given to under- stand, plainly and unmistakably, that the placing of an advertisement in Tue TRADEs- MAN does not include the right to dictate the editorial policy of the paper, nor entitle him to any especial consideration. ‘This policy, indicated in the beginning and carried out with serupulous exactness, has proven to be a wise one, and toit may be attributed the unparalled success of the paper. It is un- necessary to add that the same independence that has characterized 'Tue TRADESMAN in the past will be maintained in the future, and every issue of the paper will be a stand- ing rebuke to unwarranted insinuations by envious rivals. EEE EE EIST I Although the Detroit Commercial insists that the dealers of Western Michigan are “eatchpenny trade,” Detroit jobbers use every possible inducement to secure a por- tion of the wholesale orders given by this Dealers of Western Michigan, how do you like to be called “‘catchpenny tiade?”’ Strange that Detroit jobbers should have snch a fondness for the ‘‘ catchpenny trade”’ of Western Michigan! Grand Rnpids sends considerable quanti- ties of goods to the Northern Peninsula and to Indiana and Ohio. ‘‘Catchpenny trade,” you know. The leading Detroit furniture houses make a specialiy of Grand Rapids furniture. They must be “‘catehpenny trade,” or else their home paper is mistaken. Gentlemen of Western Michigan, you are not merchants in the proper sense of the term. You are ‘“catchpenny trade.” At least the Detroit Commercial says you are. Webster defines “catehpenny” as “ some- thing worthless.” The Detroit Commercial says that the dealers who buy goods at this market are “catchpenny trade.” The in- ference is obvious. The Grand Rapids furniture and hard wood manufacturers send their products to every state and territory in the United States, and to every foreign country. Is that ‘‘ catch- penny trade,” also ? “The next Detroit drummer that’ crosses my threshold will be shown the door quicker’n lightning,” said a Big Rapids'mer- chant, the other day. ‘I can stand a good deal, but no one can spit on me and expect me to stand still while they rub it in.” Every warehouse along the line of the D., G. H. & M. Railway bears a sign on which is painted ‘‘ Grand Rapids Plaster,”’ and a drive around Detroit discloses numbers of such signs. But then the Commercial says that these dealers are ‘“‘ catchpenny trade.” The Detroit Commercial has one sub- seriber in Western Michigan. Tor TRADES- MAN has 2,200. The Commercial says that the dealers in the western half of the State are “eatchpenny trade.” THE TRADEs- MAN maintains that they are the peers of the merchants in any locality, in any State. AMONG THE TRADE. IN THE CITY. A. W. Roth, druggist at 249 Jefferson avenue, has sold out to a gentleman named Dexter. Pettingill & Young have sold their drug and grocery stock to Holland & Ives, both formerly of Rockford. J.D. Peterson has engaged in the drug business at Salt River. Hazeltine, Perkins & Co. furnished the stock. Hiram Wolford has engaged in the groc- ery business at Boyne City. Shields, Bulk- ley & Lemon furnished the stock. W. R. White, of the Thomson & Taylor Spice Co., Chicago, wandered around among the Grand Rapids trade on the 24th. C. N. Hyde, a general dealer at Alba for about two weeks, has sold out to Roseboom & Co., of Chicago, who will continue the business. R. L. Willett, successor to Willett & Eaton was at this market last week sorting up his stock. Spring & Co. furnished the dry goods. Alfred W. Fisher, formerly engaged in the grocery business on South Division street, has gone on the road for C. G. Mc- Culloch & Co. Geo. A. Miller, a young man of good busi- ness qualifications, has gone on the road for F. J. Lamb & Co., covering the northern trade of that house. N. W. Crocker has engaged in the grocery business at a settlement three miles from Byron Center. Fox, Musselman & Lover- idge furnished the stock. Dr. M. A. Ross, druggist at the corner of West Fulton and Jefferson streets, has sold out to Dr. J. D. Bowman, of Benton Harbor, who will continue the business. Frank W. Warren, formerly of the firm of McCowan & Warren, Hesperia, had added a line of crockery to his grocery business. H. Leonard & Sons furnished the stock. Mr. Jas. N. Bradford, the principal facts in whose eventful life are set fourth on an- other page, was a member of the Twenty- sixth Michigan Volunteers, instead of the Sixth, as erroneously stated. The Berkey & Gay Furniture Co. have lately received two hotel orders from North Carolina, and Nelson, Matter & Co. have re- ceived the largest hotel order that ever came to this market, to furnish a new hotel at New York City. The Newman matter comes up in the Cir- cuit Court next Monday for final settlement, Assignee Robinson having made an applica- tion for the distribution of the proceeds of the estate and for the release of himself aud bondsmen from further obligation in the matter. Assignee Robinson made application in same “catchpenny trade.” | the Circuit Court Thursday for the sale of the entire assets of Chickering & Kysor to Daniel McCoy for $60,000. The motion was granted, the proceeds were ordered distribu- ted among the creditors on the basis of 40 per cent. of the amonnt of their claims, and Mr. Robinson and his bondsmen were dis- charged from further obligation. AROUND THE STATE. R. Willett succeeds Willets & Seaton in general trade at Altona. John Kopf has engaged in the retail furni- ture business at Lowell. Eisenhood; & Erb have engaged in the bakery business at Hastings. Miss A. H. Roffe, druggist at Augusta, is succeeded by Douglass & Eddy. Wm. Tuttle is erecting a new building, 20 x41 feet in size, at Milton Junction. S. & Mikesell has engaged in the grocery and provision business at Charlotte. H. S. Phillips has engagrd in the grocery business at Mill Grove, Allegan county. O. C. Williams is closing out his stock of furniture at Fife Lake, and will ‘‘ go west.” U. C. Brackney has withdrawn from the firm of Grand-Gerard & Co., at Big Rapids. F. A. Kough succeeds Kough & Thurston in the hoop manufacturing business at Mo- line. E. C. Raber has closed out his jewelry stock at Whitehall and retired from busi- ness. Oscar Lewis has started a boot and shoe store at Ironton. He was formerly at Boyne Falls. Pfoff, Roseboven & Co. succeed Geo. E. Hubbard in the hardware business at Grand Haven. C. R. Paige has bought H. Whiting’s stock of boots and shoes at Traverse City, and is closing it out. S. M. Rinnets, formerly engaged in the drug business at St. Louis, died at the Kala- mazoo Insane Asylum on the 25th. Duff Jennings & Co., grocers at Sheridan, who recently became embarrassed and made out assignment papers, have found it unnecessary to file them, having adjusted af- fairs satisfactorily and resumed business. There are 23 new buildings in process of construction at Elmira at the present time. The town is going ahead with wonderful rapidity. The latest move is a proposition to bore for oil, which will probably be put into effect without delay. STRAY FACTS. The St. Joseph knitting factory employs 450 hands. Geo. B. Donnelly has started a bedspring factory at Traverse City. Dexter & Noble have just completed a fire-proof office at Elk Rapids. Nearly six tons of maple sugar has been marketed at Saranac this season. Midland wants a pail factory, a sash, door and blind factory and a lumber yard. E. H. Foster, of Fife Lake, is building a warehouse to accommodate his increasing business. J. H. Eppink has sold his store building at Graafschap to the new firm of Notier, Mulder & Baven. Buchanan will manufacture this year 5,000 garden plows, 1,000 windmills, 9,000 dozen zine horse collar pads, and 100,000 bedsteads. Sparta Sentinel: Our merchants are con- sidering the plan of adopting a strictly cash basis for the conduct of their business in the future. Emmet County Democrat: The maple sugar season still lasts, and more maple sug- ar will be made in Emmet county this spring than in any previous season. Fife Lake has fair prospects for a hard- wood mill and manufactory, as $600 has been pledged to Geo. H. Green, formerly foreman of Chickering & Kysor’s mill, and he will soon begin to repair the Fish Bros.’ mill for that purpose. ———— oO Up to. His Old Tricks. From the Whitehall Forum. C. Low Fastier, an alleged pill-slinger, who lately bought out Ruggles’ drug store, took too much of his own whisky on Satur- day, got on the rampage, choked his sister and kicked his son out of doors and created a cyclone of no small dimensions. His nerves were somewhat unstrung, as a matter of course, and he went for a bottle of brom- ide of potassium, but got hold of aniline dye, vermillion color, instead, and after a full dose of this latter mixture, he looked like a combination of Scar-faced Charley and Sitting Bull. We understand there is a war- rant out for Fastier’s arrest. ———_ ~~ 6 <> Cheese Making in the Holland Country. The cheese factories at Drenthe, James- town, Vriesiand (Fairview), Zeeland (Am- ber) and North Holland (Union) have all resumed operations for the season, and the first products of these excellent establish- ments are due here in about two weeks. These factories were all built by Mr. F. J. Lamb, of this city, who still owns the Am- ber factory. The Jamestown factory was formerly located at Hudsonville. ——_—_—__»>+->____— One of the most interesting exhibitions ever held in this country will be that which opens on the 2nd of next September in Phil- adelphia, under the auspices of the Franklin Institute. It will be, perhaps, the most com- plete exhibition of electrical devices ever held, and will be attended by visitors from all parts of the world. a a “T belong to one of the first families of the city,” said a boasting youth. “Yes,” was the reply of the tailor. ‘Your family, I have been informed, is always the first in asking credit when a new storekeeper starts in your neighborhood.” MISREPRESENTED. Detroit Jobbers Angry Over the Senti- ment Imputed to Them. For the purpose of ascertaining whether the contemptible fling at Grand Rapids and the retail trade of Western Michigan, im- puted to Detroit jobbers by the Commercial of the 19th, was the expression of an opin- ion existing in reality, or only the vaporings of an unrecognized and unreliable penny-a- | liner, the editor of Tor TRADESMAN visited | Detroit last Friday, and spent the day among the jobbing houses of that city. The gener- ous welcome accorded. him on every hand was in itself a sufficient refutal of the thought that Detroit looks upon Grand Rapids with petty jealousy and covets the trade that this market has succeeded in win- ning and holding. Nearly every jobber ex- pressed himself as surprised at the rapid growth of our jobbing and manufacturing in- terests, and all were willing to admit that every step forward had been gained by legitimate and honorable means. Toaman, they all expressed unmixed indignation at the Commercial’s sweeping reference to the retail dealers of the western half of the State as ‘“‘eatch penny trade,” declaring that such an accusition was the result of ignor- ance and malice, and did not voice the sen- timent of Detroit. “The Commercial is supposed to repre- sent the wholesale trade of this city,” said a leading drug jobber, ‘‘but it misrepresents every house of standing here when it deals Western Michigan astab under the fifth rib. We have some customers in the West- ern part of the state, who divide their favors between us and Grand Rapids; but if we ever get an order from that region again I shall be greatly mistaken. In en- deavoring to injure Grand Rapids, the Com- mercial has turned the weapon upon us, and to that cause must we attribute the loss of trade that. must inevitable ensue.’ ‘TJ look upon the Commercial article as a direct insult to the retail trade of Western and Northern Michigan,” said a prominent grocery jobber. “So far as our house is concerned we look upon Grand Rapids as a legitimate competing market, and freely ad- mit that she has fairly earned the prestige she enjoys as a distributing center. I should not be surprised if the thrust at the dealers | who buy at your city costs Detroit thousands of dollars worth of trade, as no dealer cares to be zalled ‘catech-penny,’ especially when there isno truth in the charge, and no ground for the accusition.” “Your city has several jobbing houses another jobber, ‘“‘and the Commercial’s ret- ence to Grand Rapids as a ‘small town’ is either the result of ignorance or jealousy. It is a matter of common report with our travelers that the Commercial can obtain no foothold wherever THE TRADESMAN Cir- culates, and perhaps a knowledge of this fact actuated the writer in making the state- ment. One thing is certain, it will do De- troit infinitely more harm than any of us re- alize at the present time.”’ “How is THrt TRADESMAN regarded throughout your territory?” asked a drug jobber of their Western Michigan traveler. “As a great deal better paper for Grand Rapids that the Commercial is for Detrott,” was the reply. ‘““f can explain the Commercial’s antipa- thy to Grand Rapids,” srid a grocery jobber. “Mr. Wilby, the principal proprietor, former- ly did quitea brokerage business with your jobbing houses, and used to brag about the amount of goods your market got away with. All of a sudden he changed his tactics, and began running down your city, claiming that ali the jobbers there were going into the re- tail business. It does not look well for a man to change his mind so suddenly, and at our first opportunity we took pains to ascer- tain the cause for the change in opinion. We found that the Grand Rapids jobbers refus- ed to buy of the houses represented by Mr. Wilby unless they placed their goods in the hands of the local brokers, which they did. This, of course, cut off quite a slice from Mr. Wilby’s income, and ever since he has been bitter as quinine against the town.” The above are a few of the many opinions expressed on the subject in hand, but those given serve to show that the Commercial’s wholesale condemnation of this market, and the retailers who buy here, is not shared by ths jobbing trade of Detroit, with one single exception. The general opinion was that the trade had been misrepresented, and in a way that would do Detroit infinite harm. A visit was also paid to the Commerciat office, situated in a brokerage establishment at 97 Jefferson avenue. ‘The publishers are R. C. Wilby & Co., one of the firm being a broker and the other a printer. Both denied the authorship of the article in question, claiming that it originated outside the office, as indicated in another column. The day spent in Detroit was fruitful of many pleasant acquaintances and renewals of friendship. ‘The metropolis of Michigan is a city in which every citizen of the State may take a just degree of pride. Her man- ufactories, jobbing and retail houses, public and private buildings, level streets and street car lines, rail and water transportation, and the many other features that have served to attract and hold the population and business she now enjoys, and not surpassed by those of any other city in the country. Detroit is the city of Michigan, all things considered, but there are other places in the State which are doing just as much—or more—in pro- portion to their population to develop the latent resources of the country. And among the latter, Grand Rapins stands at the head. rr The year 1884 bids fair to be one of the most prosperous California has eVer seen. ing Se that would reflect credit on Detroit,” said | COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples—Very searce and poor in quality. Baldwins and Russets readily command $4 @$4.50, and extra fancy $5. Asparagus—$1.50 9 doz. bunches. Bailed Hay—Searcer and firmer at $15@ $16 % ton. Barley—Searcer and firmer. Best quality now readily commands $1.35 # 100 tbs. Beets—Scearcely any call for them. Selling at $3 4 bbl. and $1 @ bu. Butter—Choice dairy rolls are worth 25c, and prime packed the same. Elgin creamery 25@30¢. Butterine—Best quality is still in good de- mand at 18c@20¢e. Beans—Handpicked are a trifle firmer at $2.25 and unpicked are not much moving at $1.75@$2. But few in market, and not much moving. i Barley—Choice $1.30 % 100 tbs. Buckwheat—None moving. Out of mar- ket. Cabbages—Southern new, $8.50 4 crate of about 4 dozen. Cheese—Skim 10c@11c. is active and firm at 14@15c. Cider—Difficult to fill orders. Ordinary stock is entirely exhausted, and sand refined has advanced to $7.50 @ bbl. Clover Seed—Choice medium firm at $6 @$6.50 4 bu. and mammoth in fair demand at $6.75 $B bu. Corn—Loeal dealers stand in readiness to supply carload lots of Kansas corn at from 45@60c # bu. It is all of the same quality, but the former price is for damp, and the latter for dry, stock. Cucumbers — Mississippi stock doz. Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9¢e P Tb, and sliced 8@9c. Evaporated dull and slow at 121¢@14e. Eggs—Jobbing readily at 16¢, and tolera- bly firm at that price. Green Onions—30@35e }} dozen bunches. Honey—In comb, 18¢ # Ib. Hops—The Michigan crop is almost completely exhausted. Good command 20@ 22¢, and fair 15@18¢ # tb. Lettuce—Hothouse stock selling readily, with good demand, at 20c @ tb. It is likely to be searee and higher during the next ten days as the first crop is entirely exhausted. Maple Sugar—In consequence of a light crop, the price is up 1c, and is scarce at that price. Choice pure readily commands 13e@14e. The adulterated article readily commands 11e. Onions—Firmer and scarcer. Choice yel- low command 75@85e # bu. in sacks, and $2.50 4 bbl. Bermuda stock brings $2 3 crate. Pieplant—Hothouse stock in fair demand at 6c@ie P tb. Potatoes—Still a drug and likely to re- main so. There are vast quantities in the market, and large amounts still lie in pits. Burbanks are sold in small quantities at 40c, and Rose at 30@35e. Peas—Holland $4 ¥ bu. -arsnips—Moving slowly at $3 Y bbl and $1 F bu. Poultry—Chickens and fowls are firm, and readily command 16@17e and 15@16ce, respectively. There are no ducks and geese in market, anda few turkeys, which find ready sale at 16c. Radishes—40c Y dozen bunches. Ruta Bagas—Out of market. Seed Oats—White English Sovereign, 75ce. Seed Potatoes—White Star, $1; Selected Burbanks, 50c; Early Ohio, 50c; Beauty of Hebron, 50c. Squash—Southern white readily command $2.50 F box of 40 tbs. net . Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.50@ $1.75 GB bu. Vegetable Oysters—40e PB dozen bunches. Wax Beans—-$4 4 box. Green, $3.50. Wheat—Loeal dealers are paying 75@80c for No. 2 Clawson and 95e for No. 1. Lan- chester commands $1@$1.05. Full cream $1.25 ¥% ~ xe0. Reed is erecting a new store building at Milton Junction, and will shortly engage in the grocery business. John Caulfield is getting out the new stock this week. > -9 <> The rag trade of the country reaches about $30,000,000 a year, and there are 2,- 000 rag pickers in New York City alone. >_< Late Business Changes. Elk Rapids—Lyman Carns, grocer, sold out to Milton B. Long; A. B. Daugherty, to- baeco and confectionery, sold out to S. M. Chaffee. Indian River—Daniel Keeney, shingle manufacturer, assigned to Geo. P. Langdon. Portland—C. S. Wolcott, restaurant and groceries, sold out to Mariah Disbrow; N. Crittenden, meat market, sold out to Estep & Talmadge. Big Rapids—S. T. Leggett & Co., grocers, assigned to S. Barstow. Lakeview—E. A. Bissell, dry goods, sold out to H. H. Moore. Petoskey—J. A. Shelden, meat market, sold out and left town. LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES. The Newaygo Company quote f. 0. b. cars as follow: Uppers, Pinch... 22... oo. s. so per M $44 00 Uppers, 14, 1% and 2 ineh.:.............- 46 00 SG@l@ets. Pimen. 28 seco eee 35 00 Selects, 144, 1% and 2 inch................ 38 00 Pine Common, binch..............56....5 30 00 Shop, men: 52000. ss 5 20 00 Fine, Common, 144, 1% and 2inch........ 32 00 No. 1 Stocks, 12in., 12, 14and16 feet... 15 00 No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet. .............2. 16 00 No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20feet................ 17 00 No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 15 00 No. 1 Stocks, 10 im., 18 feet. ......2.. 2.253: 16 00 No. 1 Stocks, 10:in., 20feet................ 17 00 No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 15 00 No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet...............5. 16 00 No. E Steeks, 8 im., 20 feet... 0.2.2.2... 2.5. 17 00 No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 13 00 No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet. ............... 14 00 INO. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet............:... 15 00 No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 13 00 NO. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet. ......5........ 13 00 No. 2 Stoeks, 10 in., 20 feet... ...........- db 00 No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet 12 00 No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet........... -. 33 00 No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet........ 0.1.0... 14 09 Coarse Common or shipping culls, all widths and lengths... ....5 22.25... 2.. 9 00 A and B Strips, 4 or Gin ..... 2.2... cy. 35 00 © Sermps, 4 Or 6 inch. 2.2.2... 5. sey 28 00 No. 1 Fencing, all lengths................ 15 00 No. 2 Fencing, 12, 14 and 18 feet.......... 2 00 NO. 2 Heneme: 16 feet... 22.2... oe. .e. 12 00 No. PBeneinir, 4 inch |... 2.0.22 15 00 NO. PeneGing 43neGn ©. 0... oe ec, 12 00 Norway C and better, 4 or 6ineh......... 20 00 Bevel Siding, 6 ineh, A and B............ 18 00 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C.................... 14 5 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1 Common...,. 9 00 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Clear.............. 20 00 Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12, 12 to 16ft... 11 50@12 $1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft. Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A. B............. 36 00 Dressed Flooring, 6in. C...............-- 29 00 Dressed Flooring, 6in., No. 1,common.. 17 00 Dressed Flooring é6in., No.2 common.... 14 00 Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal. Dressed Flooring, 4in., A. Band Clear.. 35 00 Dressed Flooring, 4in., C................. 26 00 Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5in., No.1 com’n 16 08 Dressed Flooring, 4 or5in., No.2 com’n 14 00 Beaded Ceiling, 4 ineh, $1 00 additional. (XXX 18in. Standard Shingles......... 3 50 DoDD TAS V1 ed 11 Ee rerare niece rea 3 40 (eee tr 3 00 No. 2or6in. C. B18 in. Shingles......... 2 00 No. 20F6 ip. ©. 16 In. ee. P% IGE ee os oe a 2 00 MISCELLANEOUS, Advertisements of 25 words or less inserted in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, each and every insertion. One cent for each additional word. Advance payment. FOR SALE. OOD BARGAIN. lwantastock of either dry goods, clothing, groceries or furni- ture. I have a mortgage for $1,300 and real es- tate to exchange together. O. W. Kibby, Bell- aire, Mich. : ARE CHANCE to purchase a first-class Livery Stock including one of Cunning- ham’s best hearses. Will take as part payment good improved farm property. Will sell or rent barn and grounds. The best location in the best livery town in the State. Address, P. O. Box 318, Big Rapids, Mich. SITUATIONS WANTED. . ANTED—A situation in atin shop. Can i work in store if necessary. North of Big Rapids preferred. Address, Box 42, St. Louis, Mich. AS TYPEWRITER OR COPYIST, by ayoung lady well qualified for such a position, both by oe rg ge Address, , care Miss Sila ard, First 5 Grand Rapids. stab 7 = “19% Drugs & Medicines TALKS WITH DRUGGISTS. Discourse on Drugs in General and Patent Medicines in Particular. From the Detroit Journal. “Give me 10 cents worth of laudanum,” said a pale-faced young woman, with a hag- gard expression as she entered a Woodward avenue drug store, ‘for the toothache.” “We don’t sell Jaudanum without a physi- cian’s prescription. I can let you have something which will cure the toothache.” “No, I want laudanum,” replied the girl, leaving the store. Said the druggist, turning around to a re- porter who happened to be present, “They come in like that every day. _It is possible if this girl had got the drug she might have gone home, taken it, went to bed and never woke againin this world. I never take chances.” “Yours is a responsible business?” “Yes, People make a practice of running in with two or three prescriptions, and all want them at once. I have before me a row of bottles, half of which are poison. They walk impatiently up and down, and must ‘eatch the next car.’ They don’t refiect to what extent life isin my hands. Should I get rattled ‘as likely as not I would take down poison. The oldest druggists are apt to make mistakes. Opium and rhubarb look and are labeled alike, and mistaking one for the other has often ended in death.” “Who buys patent medicines?” “Everybody. Many people have an idea that patent medicines are no good. In a great many cases they are right. Some of the best medicines have first been used in country homes. Neighbors receiving bene- fit from them have urged their being put on the market. The suggestion has been acted upon, and the small beginning afterwards becomes a fortune to the inventor. Many good medicines lose their hold on the public through the short-sightedness of their man- ufacturers. To effect a small saving they reduce the quality of perhaps the most im- portant drug, and the whole medicine event- ually plays out.” “What is the principal ingredient in the’ largely advertised kidney remedies?” “Take buchu for instance. This is the old standard drug for kidney troubles the world over. Infact most patent medicines have the same elementary basis, according to the disease they are put up for. Now there are the blood remedies whose names are leg- ion. Corydalis, Golden Seal, Culvers, Man- drake and Sarsapavilla is the formula for all of them. ‘They vary but little. The only material difference is that one is advertised more than the other, and the sales run ac- cordingly. Sagacious and persistent adver- tising will sell anything. I could put up slops, or colored water, advertise it well and secure it a big sale; yes, and be flooded with testimonials too. It’s allin the printer’s ink.” “Who buys patent medicines?” said the reporter, stepping into another drug estab- lishment and accosting the clerk. “Hyerybody—rich and poor.” “Asa rule what virtue is therein them?” “Physicians to-day don’t prescribe medi- cines equal to some of these old remedies. Some of these I consider invaluable. One in particular is as standard as quinine. The trouble with the new ones put on the mar- ket is that they are got up more with the ob- ject of making money than having in them- selves any particular virtue. Some of these sold at $1.50 represent 25 percent. on their cost,while the old remedies, as a rule, afford a smaller margin to the manufacturer.” Another druggist interviewed, asked the question: “Did you ever hear of a medicine war- ranted to cure every form of complaint or money refunded?” The reporter had not heard of it. “Well, you may Jaugh, but that’s the best patent medicine on the face of the earth. They distinctly instruct me to refund the money where people are not entirely satis- fied. You would be surprised to learn how few have come back for their money. I have sold 1,000 bottles and only refunded on 10. The explanation of this isa simple one. The remedy acts as acathartic on the sys- tem, and 5 per cent. would be a big average where this does not reach the supposed dis- ease. At first I thought it wasa big hum- bug, but I have changed my mind. If people would keep their systems in regular order there would be very little demand for pat- ent medicine. —~> + The Question of Quoting Patents. C. E. Blakely, Coopersville: ‘I am glad you have omitted the price list of pat- ent medicines from THE TRADESMAN. I believe it better for the retail druggists that it be omitted, as in some cases it might in- jure their prices.” M. Fordham & Co., Elmira: “It is with pleasure I note the change made in leaving out the patent medicine quotations, as every dealer in them has quotations, and they do not fluctuate in value. ————_—>_ How to Harden Cast-Iron. Cast-iron may be hardened as follows: Heat the iron to a cherry red, then sprinkle on it cyanide of potassium and heat to a little above red, then dip. The end of a rod that had been treated in this way could not be cut with a file. Upon breaking off a piece about half an inch long it was found that the hardening had penetrated into the soteet upon which the file made no more Protecting the Retail Druggists. From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter. . The Campion plan of protecting the re- tail druggists against cutters in the sale of patent medicines is now in force as regards fifteen of the leading proprietors. Their price lists, terms of sale, and contracts will be sent to every wholesale and retail drug- gist in the country as soonas they issue from the hands of the printers, which will be but a very few days at the most. It ap- pears, from all that wecan learn, that a number of proprietors who have not yet as- sented to the Campion plan, have been pre- vented from so doing, by the feeling that they were slighted by the originators of the scheme in not being invited to full fellow- ship at the outset. For this reason they are arrayed in an attitude more or less antagon- istic to the plan and are seeking to amend it, ina manner which its friends believe would be, at this time, fatal to its success. The originators of the Campion plan ex- plain that they found it impossible to in- clude all the proprietors in their initiatory movements, and, therefore, only sought to secure enough of the foremost firms to in- sure the character of the undertaking; before putting it into organized form. This, it seems to us, is entirely reasonable and should dispel any feeling to which a seem- ing slight might have given rise.. The op- position is, however, apparently kept alive byone ortwo proprietors who have here- tofore been conspicuous in their opposition to ‘‘ imitations,” to which they have always manifested more than necessary sensitive- ness. The wholesale rebate plan has brought into existence some absurd stipula- tions on the part of proprietors, to which jobbers have more or less generally assented, but it will be a mistake to suppose that the proprietors, by the Campion plan or any other scheme of protection, can buy the al- legiance of the retailers to any such extent as was contemplated by some of the provis- ions proposed. It is eminently proper that proprietors should guard against the deliber- ate substitution of other goods when their own are called for, but they cannot hope to prevent a retgiler from using legitimate arguments to favor the sale of any prepara- tion which, through a pecuniary interest or a belief in its superiority, he may chose to give the preference. The co-operation of the wholesale and retail drug trade is of vast consequence to the patent medicine in- terest, and merits its encouragement to the extent of whatever action may be necessary to render the sale of patents profitable to the druggist. The protection thus far asked for ispo more than a fair reciprocation of the advantages afforded by having these goods regularly handled by the drug trade, and the quasi endorsement of their merits which that trade thus accords. But it is unreason- able to suppose that for this or a further protection the drug trade will give its un- qualified endorsement, either to one nostrum as against another, or to any of them as against the professional skill of the physici- anand the dispensing pharmacist. It is early yet for the patent medicine man to as- sert or attempt a control of pharmacy; the | progress of scientific education and growth of professional pride rather tend to an op- posite result. Will the Campion Plan Afford Relief? From the Pharmaceutical Record. If anything promises well, this does. It is a reasonable plan; it appears to be a feasible plan; itis an honorable plan. If it is expected to abolish at once the low prices tnat have been of late charged for proprietary goods, such expectation will be a disappointment, for this is not possible. Many of the cutters have laid in large stocks of goods,and they may be able for some time to continue the’old figures. 1t will only be when they wish to renew their supplies of such goods as are on the Campion plan that they will feel the pressure on those special articles. The number of manufacturers that have already entered in this project is about fif- teen, but they represent some of the largest and most popular proprietary interests and articles now before the public. This num- ber will doubtless increase rapidly, and a brief time will probably see a large portion of the leading articles of this class npon the same schedule. To insure the popularity of this plan with the manufacturers, it seems desirable that the retail druggists should not only do their part cheerfully, but maintain the project and urge it for acceptance with makers of such articles as it would be desirable to embrace in such a schedule. It will need patience to see its beneficial influence, and persistence in keeping up the schedule prices to realize the permanence of the relief it promises. ——_—>_2 << —__——_ “ An English physician states that he has known one of his prescriptions to be made up without his order to his patient more than 300 times. He was paid for only one pre- scription.”” So says one of the American medical journals. It may astonish that hun- gry English physician and his friends to learn that other tradesmen have a similar griev- ance. Qur tinker says he sold a saucepan which has been used 300 times, but that he was only paid for it once. He, however, we are pleased to say, has the good grace to be thankful that he was paid that once; why should physicians expect to be paid 300 times over for the commodities they have to sell? The Italian Government offers a prize of $2,000 to the inventor of the most practic- able method for the transmission of electric- || ity to a distance. — Competition open to the | New Processes for Chilling Oils. The old process for chilling paraffine and other oils for pressing has, during the past few years, been superseeded by a number of improved methods, two of which recently coming under our notice were worthy of de- scription. In one ease the chilling apparatus consists of a heavy wooden vat, about 20 feet high by 4 feet diameter having at its bottom a per- forated plate about 1 foot in diameter and being provided at some distance from the top with an inlet pipe. Through this pipe water from a contiguous tank of salt and ice is pumped into the vat, anda suitably placed outlet insures a constant circulation of the water through the vat. The temperature of this water can be reduced to 8 deg. F., but generally ranges from 15 to 20 deg. The oil, at a temperature of about 70 deg. F., is forced into the vat through the perforated plate, and is immediately chilled by con- tact with the cold water, to the surface of which it rises in the form of solid shot. As these pellets of grease accumulate on the surface of the water in sufficient mass, they are shoveled into a tub and thence go to the press. There is a great saving in time and labor by the use of this process, and a per- fect chilling of the oil to whatever tempera- ture may be desired. Its only drawback is said to be that by contact with the salt wat- er the oil becomes impregnated with salt to an extent that is perceptible in the wax but notin the oil. This, the manufacturers using this method say, they find no draw- back to the sale of their wax, but if it were they could readily remove the objection by simply melting the wax and allowing the salt to precipitate. The consumption of ice in this machine is very small. Another rapid and economical process of chilling consists of a revolving iron cylinder of about four and a half feet diameter and seven or eight feet long. Through this cyl- inder is a constantly circulating stream of water from melting salt and ice, pumped from a tank near by. Nearer the upper sur- face of the cylinder, and inclined toward it, is a trough or plate, upon which the oil is forced and over which it spreads, flowing on to the cylinder in a thin sheet. As this is carried around by the cylinder it solidifies, and as the revolution is completed the film is scraped from the cylinder and falls into hoppers leading to the press room below. The process is a continuous one and re- quires no more attention than to maintain the supply of salt water to the interior and oil to the exterior of the cylinder. The amount of work which a cylinder of the di- mensions stated is capable of doing, is mar- velous, and the saving of labor and ice and the comfort of the workmen by this process, as well as the one previously described, are items of great consequence to the manufac- turers of pressed oil. ——_—_ ae Hints About Corks. From the Monthly Magazine of Pharmacy. A cork shouldalways be as far as possible adapted not only to the bottle or jar it is intended “to stop,’’ but also to the fluid or substance intended to be preserved. ‘Thus, very volatile liquids can be kept far better without material loss with the aid of a really good cork properly prepared for its work, | ; than if a glass stopper of the average badly fitting kind be employed. We will presume that everybody nowadays knows how to soften corks by ‘ pressing,” boiling, etc., and also how to select good ones. If good, sound corks, after being thoroughly ‘ soak- ed,” be immersed for a few hours in water at 140° F., containing about one-half per cent. of gelatine and four or five per cent. of glycerine, and are then taken out and dried carefully, it will be found that the loss of any volatile fluid, such as chloroform, ether or petroleum spirit, kept in bottles stopped with corks so treated will be comparatively insignificant. Corks are discolored and rendered friable by various chemical solutions—nitrie acid, tincture of iodine, and the permanganates being among the worst offenders in this re- spect; they may be protected and rendered proof against the action of acids, alkalies, and oxidizing agents, by (after ‘‘ softening ” in the usual way) drying them and allowing them to digest, at about 120° to 140° F., in a mixture of seven parts of vaseline and two parts of white paraffine wax until, when pressed under the warm fluid, no air bubbles are emitted from them. After being gently wiped and allowed to cool, the corks are ready for use, and they will then be found to resist corrosive liquids in the cold. ——___—~- << Pulverized Vaccine Matter. From the Medical and Surgical Reporter. Another important discovery by Dr. Reiss- ner promises to do away with all scarcity of vaceine matter in the future. It offers few difficulties, and every country physician can provide himself with a practically unlimited quantity of the purest animal vaccine virus, at a nominal expense. A calf is vaccinated with pure virus, and after five full days the pustules are taken off with a pair of forceps, and shaped witha lancet and pressed so as to obtain all the fluid lymph contained. The lymph is spread on glass plates and placed in a sulphuric acid desiccator, where it remains one or two days. It is then taken out, pulverized in a mortar, and replaced in the desiccator until wanted, when it is mixed with a little water or gly- cerine. Thus prepared the virus from one calf ! will vaccinate 2,000 to 3,000 persons. The calf is as well as ever in a few days, and the physician is provided with the purest of bovine virus for an indefinite period. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT, Hazeltine, Perkins & Co. quote as follows for quantities usually wanted—tor larger amounts write them for quotations: Advanced—Castor Oil. Declined—Alcohol. ACIDS. Acetic, NO. 8... eos. ee Bh 9 @ 10 Acetic, C.P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 380 @ 35 Carbon ie ake ee ee ee 35 Citric Ricuie otal a ets wale ole kiach-e diesels aie ee 6 & 6 5d Muriatie 18 deg ...... 02... .c242:-.. 3 @ 5 Witric 3B G@g 3.6.0... ie. li @ OM ANC ees in ce 14%@ 15 Sulphuric 66 deg.................5. 3 @ 4 Tartarie powdered................ 48 Benzoic, English............. 2 Oz 20 Benzoie, German.................- 122 @ 15 EAC re ee 1 @ Ili AMMONIA, Carbonate. 2 oo coe... hb 16 @ 2 Muriate (Powd. 22¢)..............05 15 Aqua 16 deg or 3f............ 20065 6 @ 7 Aqua 18 deg or 4f................. i: @ & BALSAMS. pope Oe eee Wee GPs ee ea elle @ 50 De eee Se eee ae ee 50 Pov Se es eee. 2 00 ROWE eae 60 BARKS. Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)........ 12 Cinchona, yellow................. 18 RIM AOlGCh ss nae 15 Elm, ground, pure................. 13 Elm, powdered, pure.............. 15 Sassairas, OF TOOL........2....-<.4- 10 Wild Cherry, select................ 2 Bayberry powdered............... 20 Hemlock powdered................ 18 WQNOO eo sees eco ss 30 Soap sround:......:..-..:5...:-... 2 | BERRIES, Cubeb, prime (Powd $1 20)........ @1 00 MINOR cee a 6 @ 7 Prickly ASD. 3: io eos... cose ke 160 @lill EXTRACTS. Licorice (10 and 25 tb pect 25C).. 27 Licorice, Powe ody pe. 87% Logwood, uk (12 and 25. ib doxes). 9 Logwood, Is (25 Ib boxes).......... 12 Lgowood, %s d0.6 ee: 13 Logwood, 48 G00. 1 cr. 15 Logwood, ass’d do .......... 14 Fluid_Extracts—25 #% cent. off list. FLOWERS. PAYMICA esas ees. ou ees 10 @ il Chamomile, Roman............... 25 Chamomile, German.............. 25 GUMS. Aloes, Barbadoes..............-.-+ 60@ 75 Aloes, Cape (Powd 24¢)...........- 18 Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)....... 50 Pomanine. 6. 28@ 30 Arabic. extra select..............- 60 Arabic, powdered select.......... 60 Arabic, Ist picked................. 50 ‘Arabic.2 Bd PICked.........o.2 3s. ok. 40 Arabic,c3d pickod.................- 35 Arabic, sifted sorts................ 30 ‘Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 30 IBGNZOIN 8c 2. e ees. 55@60 Camphor........,::.......----.--:- 23@ 2 Cueshe 1s (% 14e, 4s 16e)...... : 13 Euphorbium powdered............ 35@ 40 Galbanum strained................ Gamboge 2.500.225. ia... 90@1 00 Guaiac, prime (Powd 45c)......... é Kino (Powdered, 30c].............. 20 IMR RTIC eee ie ies oe coe 110 Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 40 a ium, pure (Powd $5.50).......... 4 2 Shellac, Campbell’s:..........---.- 35 Shellac, PURITAN oe ccc. 30 Shellac, native........ ig Shellac bleached................0-- Mragseanth 6.00.8. .0 61.6 oe... 30 @1 10 HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES. Moarhound 2. -0....565-....2 ...- see ee 25 PODCNA, 2.6.0.6... ce ee RO. Wage Caen 25 Peppermint... .......... ese ee eee cee cree eee 25 RO tecsnece 40 Spearmint ......-........---.--.-...-...----- 24. Sweet Majoram.:........:......-.----------- 35 MONZG fo se ees es 25 Mya ee ee ss 30 NWOrTIWOOG sho es 25 IRON. Citrate and Quinine............... 6 40 Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20 Sulphate, pure crystal............ 7 Gta ees Sos sk ee 80 Phosphate .....--.....-..-:....--.. 65 LEAVES. Buchu, short (Powd ¢ oe ee oe 122 @ 13 Sage, Italian, bulk (448 & 48, 12¢).. 6 Senna, Alex, TeERyAY. eee. 18 @ 20 Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 30 Senna, powdered................-- 22 Senna tinnivelli........... .......- 16 Wve Urs 2. oie cee 10 Belledonna |. ...4......-2......-. «ss 35 MOXPIOVG.. <6 2.060.620. 30 BTCA 666 oc. cos wt a ee cece es 35 Rose, POG ec. 3d LIQUORS. W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 25 Dr ugeists’ Favorite Rye.......... 175 @2 00 Whisky, other brands............. 110 @1 50 Gin. Old Mom... oc et eke ces 135 @l %5 Gin; Holland........:....:.:.....<3 200 @3 50 Brandy eo oo aco cre 1% @é6 50 Satawoa WWANOR. ce. oe c: 125 @2 00 Port Wines. ..5.55..02.5..2- 25.0 ../63 135 @2 50 MAGNESIA. Carbonate, Pattison’ 8, 2 OZ. oe 23 Carbonate, J enning’ 8,707.6. .203.5 37 Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.. 2 25 Galeined | sy as 70 OILS. Almond, sweet..........-......-.«- 45 @ 50 Amber, rectified................-.- 45 SAGNIBO eo eo css cee sce 2 00 Bay qt O42 6.2.6... s ee se 50 Bergamont......5..).5..+-ss.ce-e- 2 00 WBStOr, 02.52. 6. 5. Coats ee ee ee 18%@ 20 Croton....... ee ieee eee eee nae 2 00 G@ajeput (2...5...1... 6.08. este, 75 CRRBSIG 00.0666 ee 1 25 Cedar, commercial (Pure %5c)..... 40 @itroneula.... 2.5.6. ee ec. ees 85 WlOVOS oo ss ae a wcteae 1 2 @ubebs, BP. & Woe... 6. ceeds s es 8 00 HPI@OPOU 50.4006 vg ee es oe ees: oe - 1 60 WIPOWECCGs. 660s ol see eee 2 00 Geranium #@ 0Z.:................-. 5 Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 40 Juniper aed en, 50 Juniper berrieS.................c06 2 00 Lavender flowers- French......... 2 40 Lavender garden d0) 3. 1 00 Lavender spike GO i005... 90 Lemon, new crop........ peoteecos 1 85 Lemon, Sanderson’s............... 2 00 TGMONGTERS.. oo ooo. sc coe es os ae 380 Origanum, red ore s, French.. 1 25 Origanum, No.t.................. 50 PON yVPOye 0c. c5e es. ttt econ ee es 2 00 Peppermint, white................ 2 85 MOSG OF oc eae 9 75 Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... 65 Sandal Wood, German............ 5 00 Sandal Wood, Turkish Dark...... 8 00 SaSOTPRR fos ks ech ciide icc e cca tee 60 MDATIS Vso oss ogc inc be uk wen ee > 3 %5 Tar Gd POLONG) oe cscs ee we 10 @ WB WINCOFePOOl. .. 6.60. 6. ce ccc ese 2 2% Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $6.50)..... 4 50 RAMIN 2 ae Medeski sip vce cdaseece 1 00 WOrmsOeGd 65.25. ote oe ee ile. 2 50 Cod Liver, filtered..... : - gal 1 90 Cod Liver, best......... : 3 50 Cod Liver, os P. & Co. 316 6 00 Olive, Malaga........... @1 20 Olive, “Sublime Italian. 3... 2 50 SAIN ae ees cca cn ces wae 6 @ 67 Rose, Ihmsen’s............... B oz 9 75 POTASSIUM. Bicromate...... .-c 2.006.005. 4. Pe ib 15 Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk.. 35 Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23¢e)..... é 20 Jodide, eryst. and gran. bulk..... 1 40 Prussiate yellow.................6 30 ROOTS. PAMANGY ook ee ck so 1 ies weet ae ek 15 AAPRUH, CNG piece cake evened ok oie 27 ‘Arrow, St. Vincent’s............ q Arrow, er s,in 4s and \%s.. 45 Blood (Powd 18c)...............64. ‘ 12 Calamus, Bee iiweee Leak ous 18 Calamus, German white, peeled.. 38 Elecampane, powdered. 23 Gentian (Powd lic(....... Ginger, African (Powd 16c Ginger, Jamaica bleached.. 4 Golden Seal (Powd 40c)..... eres ck Fellepore white, powdered....... gece: Rio, powdered..... Meats oe i alap, powdered.................6 Licorice, select (Powd 12%)....... Bicone extra select.............- DIN TPG? oo os cee eidins cde deceeess Rhei, from select to choice. Rhei, powdered EB. 1..............4. Rhei, choice cut cubes............ Rhei, choice cut a jadpe se de went : eeesesaee Sarsaparilla, Mexican.. 18 Squills, white (Powd 35¢ ). BG vee tes 10 Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25 Valerian, Vermont (POwd 28¢e).... 20 SEEDS. Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢).......... 13 Bird, mixed in h packages....... 5 @ 6 Canary, Smyrna... 00505020... n44@ 5 Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c).. ll @ 12 Cardamon, Aleppee............... 2 v0 Cardamon, Malabar................ 2 24 COLOR see a 20 Coriander, pest English........... 12 HONHG 2 oe on cee ee ee cock ace 1d MAS ClORMN ee ee 3B%YQ@ 4 Flax, pure grd (bbl 8%)............ 4@ 4% Foenugreek, powdered.:.......... 8 @ 9 Hemp, Russian... .............00.-. 5 @ 5% Mustard, white( Black 10c)........ 8 Quine 2 ee, 1 une, UNeish’:. <0). 0.33. ee ee [%@ 8 Worm, Levant. oo... 0......0.04-6:- SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50 Nassau do GO 2.28 2 00 Velvet Extra do dO... 110 Extra Yellow do ao 22... 85 Grass do dO. 4.6... 65 Hard head, for slate use........... 75 Yellow Reef, GO ° 2... 1 40 MISCELLANEUS. Alcohol, grain (bb] $2.27) ® gal.. 2 35 Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 50 Anodyne Hoffman’s............... 50 Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 27 Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 12 Annatto Fl rolis.................: 30 Biue Soluble ........ 2.0... 0... i 50 Bay Rum, imported, best......... 2 75 rant Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 2 AU oe ee aes, Gb 2 2x@ 34 Alum, ground (Powd 9¢).......... @ 4 Annatto, PRIMe. oo. ceo. 32 ‘Antimony, powdered, ¢om’l...... 4¥%@ 5 Arsenic, white, powdered......... 6 @ 7% Balm Gilead Buds................. 40 Beans: (HOMER. 6s oo, 2 25 Beane, Vanities. 3.202... 7 00 Ge 75 Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 175 Blue Pil (Powd 70c)...............- 45 Blue Vitrioli 2. ce 7%4@ 9 Borax, refined (Powd 13¢e)......... 12 Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 2 50 Capsicum Pods, African.......... 18 Capsicum Pods, Afriean pow’d... 20 Capsicum Pods, American do ... 18 Carmine, No. 40... 2.0... 2.03.2 .... 4 00 @assia Buds: |. fi he... 14 Calomel. American................ 70 Chalk, prepared drop.............. 5 Chalk, precipitate English........ 12 Chalk, red fingers................. 8 Chalk, white lump................. 2 Chloroform, Squibb’s............. 1 60 Colocynth apples.................. 60 Chloral hydrate, German crusts... 1 60 Chloral do do eryst... 1 7@ Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 1 90 Chloral do do crusts... 1 7% @NIOROTORRY oo 65 ec ee eek ce 11 @1 20 Cinchonidia, P: & W......5........ @ 65 Cinchonidia, other brands......... 60 @ 65 Cloves (Powd 28¢e) ...............0.. 20 @ 2 @OCHINGSE 6c... we. 30 Cocoa Butter... 2... ...... ce. kc: 45 Copperas (by bbl Ic)............... 2 Corrosive Sublimate............... 65 Corks, X and X X—35 off list...... Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... 38 @ 40 Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 fb box.. 15 @reasOte.: oes. oo. 50 Cudbear, prime... 24 Cuttle Fish Bone.......... 23 MVOMGMING ooo eek 2 Dover's: Powders:.:........2...5.- 1 20 Dragon’s Blood Mass.............. 50 Ergot powdered................... 45 Ether Squibb’ Re ee ee 110 Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8 SOM SAlGS. 6. ee ce. 24@ 3 ESOt, LROS se oR se ae 50 Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 69 IQ WEHLG. 622 ou os 14 Grains Paradise................... 3d Gelatine, Cooper’s................. 90 Gelatine, Freneh ..............0... 45 @ 0 Glassware, flint, 65 off, by box 55 off Glassware, green, 60 and 10 ¢is.... Glue, eabmet:. ............-.....-.. 2 @ lit Glue white. oo. ese... esl. 17 @ 2 Gilyeerine, pure..............5..... 23 @ 26 ODS 445 and Wao... 6... ce cok. 2@ 40 VOdOfOrM OZ. ..)50.55...2..5. 5. 35 ANQUSO, ec 8 @1 00 Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 82 @ 34 Todine, resublimed................ 2 30 Isinglass, American............... 1 50 PRNOMICR oe ee oc eb e. 9 Bondon Purple... ........ 500. .0.55. 10 @ lead, acetate: oo. 15 Lime, chloride, (14s 28 10e & 148 lle) 9 Lupuline Beso cec Lda ues ok oe aus 1 09 WVCOPOGIUIM 62.0.0 oo... ol 35 MACO ee, 60 Madder, best UGH ee wae Z Mammal So ee hae IWCTC@UEY 000 620 Oo 3c eck 2 Morphia, sulph., Pp. @W...... g0z 3 40@3 65 Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s...... 40 Moss, Megan. cc. 8 Ib 10 MOSS, IGISH.. 0.00.52. kl. 12 Mustard, English.............. 30 Mustard, grocer’s, 10 bh cans.. 18 INGE S kk. 20 Nutmers, NO. 1.0... se 75 INtES WOMICR 003 206 se col 10 Ointment. Mercurial, 4%d.......... 40 Paris Green... 6... cc 164%@ 24 Pepper, Black HOEY: «5.05. 18 IPODS ee ee . 3 00 Pitch, True Burgundy..<...¢.-.... 7 Quassia ee ese CONC uel! @ Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........ boz 1 “3001 35 Quinine, other brands............. 130 @I1 = Seidlitz Mixture..................- Strychnia,eryst.........6-.........5 130 Silver Nitrate, cryst............... 99 @ 8 Red Precipitate..:............ 8 80 Saffron, American................. 40 Sal Glauber... . i... oo oe. @ 2 Sal Nitre, large cryst.............. 10 Sal Nitre, medium cryst.......... 9 SalRochelle: 2. oo... ec. Sal Soda. 33... 6. cs... 032... s ee. 2@ 2% SAQHGM oe ee ees 2 50 Santonin 22. 2. oo eae ke 6 75 Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch....... 38 Soda Ash [by keg 8c]............2. 4 Spermaceti.-... ces... 2 5... 25 Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s. 44@ 5 Soap, White Gnpifle. os. 14 Soap, Green do. ................ HH Soap, Mottled do ................... 9 Soap, GO. (00) —.) ooo. i Soap, Mazzini......:......2.....2.. 14 Spirits Niere, dB. ..... 2.12... 26 @ 28 Spirits Nitre; 4B. ... 20. ss... 28 @ 82 Sugar Milk powdered.............. 30 Sulphur, NOUR Lee 34@ 4 Sulphur, TOM ie ee es wae cae 3 TTRPtAR PIMOUGC, 5.0.0 c ches costo c as 65 Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans # doz 27 Tar, do quarts in tin....... 1 40 Tar, do pintsin tin......... 85 Turpentine, Venice......... -B Db 25 Wax, White, 8S. & F. brand........ 60 Zine, Sulphate oe 7@ 8 OILS. Capitol Cylinder <.. 20.02... 2... .. st. 75 Model @ylinder::..:2.2.2:225 0082020006000 2. 60 Shields Cylinder. - 2... 0. occ ect ee cw ween ee 50 BGOraAdO ENGIN ...o 0.2.6. cas cece ieee ess oe 45 Peerless Machinery...........cscessc cece sees 3d Challenge Machinery...............scseceeeees 25 Backus Hine Hagine.. co... cles cece - 30 Black Diamond Machinery... 30 @UStORING 0. ca. os cone ces ees .6C Paratine, 25 GC@.. wc. cores cece ences eas 22 Paramine. 25 AGW... .. .. eos e sc eae ee woe tt ses 21 Sperm, winter bleached............-........ 1 40 aD Gal Whale, winter. :......-...0.:....3 52. 85 Grd CxUEA os. oe nce scones « m8 80 Ore NO. Vee. 5 ae cages en tadeces 65 70 Linseed, pure raw..............eeeee 57 60 DPinseed, DOUG 2... 2... o.oo tee 60 63 Neat’s Foot, winter strained.. . 20 95 Spirits Turpentine Co bee iia eases cence 39 45 VARNISHES. No: tl Purp Coach: .0:. 5 oo. 6... 5. ees 1 10@1 20 Bixtra TUEp. 02.2.8 oes eee ee 1 60@1 70 Coach Body....... 62... -s cs e.8. 35 ss. ee 2 'T5@3 00 No. 1 Turp Furniture.................. 1 00@1 10 Extra Turp Damar............ 6.26.05. 1 55@1 60 Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.............. 70@ 5 PAINTS. Bbl Lb Boralumine, White bulk) ........ 9 Boralumine, ‘ BS | ci eccs se 10 Boralumine, Tints bulk. cd 10 Boralumine ‘ Hee ccs li Red Venetian.................. Ochre, yellow Marseil Ochre, yellow Bermuda Putty, commercial . Putty, strictly pure.. Vermilion, Vermilion, rime Am es NGIUAN. 3 oc esa. ce Green, chiens pong Ue eateeee cee Lead, red strict! Load, ee = Sp ly Whiting, w ure. Ure..... ee eeere wenn ie So seesaw eee HAZEL TINE, PERKINS & C0, Whoiliesaie luggists 42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 98 and 95 Louis Street. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Drags, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, and Droggist’s Glassware MANUFACTURERS OF ELEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL PRE PLUID EXTRACTS AND ELIXIRS. GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR Wotr, Parron & Co., AND JoHN L. Wuit- NEY, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE PAINT AND VARNISH BRUSHES. —Also for the— GRAND RaApips BrusH Co., MANFGS. OF _ HAtr, SHOE AND Horse BRUSHES. Druggists’ Sundries Our stock in this department of our busi- ness is conceded to be one of the largest, best-assorted and diversified to be found in the Northwest. We are heavy importers of many articles ourselves and can offer Fine Solid Back Hair Brushes, French and Eng- glish Tooth and Nail Brushes at attractive prices. Ourline of Holiday Goods for the approaching season will be more full and el- egant than ever before, and we desire our customers to to delay their fall purchasers of those articles until they have seen our el- egant line, as shown by our accredited repre- sentative who is now preparing ‘for his an- nual exhibition of those goods. We desire particular attention of those about purchasing OUTFITS for NEW STORES to the fact of our wnsurpassed facilities for meeting the wants of this class of buyers without delay and in the most approved and acceptable manner known to the drug trade. Our special efforts in this direction have re- ceived from hundreds of our customers the most satisfying recommendations. Wine aud Liquor Departed We give our special and personal atten- tion to the selection of choice goods for the drug trade only, and trust we “merit the high praise accorded us for so satisfactorily supplying the wants of our customers with Pure Goods in this department. We con- trol and are the only authorized agents for the sale of the celebrated Withers Dade & Go’s Henderson Co., Ky., SOUR MASH AND OLD FASHIONED HAND MADE, COP- PER DISTILLED WHISKYS. We not only offer these goods to be excelled by No OTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market, but superior in all respects to most that are ex- posed for sale. We GUARANTEE perfect and complete satisfaction and where this brand of goods has once been introduced the future trade has been assured. We are also owners of the Draggists Favorite Rye, Which continues to have so many favorites among druggists who have sold these goods for a very long time. Buy our Grins, Brandles & Fine Wines. We call your attention to the adjoining list of market quotations which we aim to make as complete and perfect as possible. Eor special quantities and for quotations on such articles as do not appear on the list such 3| 2S Patent Medicines, etc,, we invite your cor- respondence. Mail orders always receive our special and personal attention. i The Michigan Tradeswan. A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. OFFICE IN EAGLE BUILDING, 3d FLOOR. [Entered at the Postofice at Grand Rapids as Second-class Matter.| WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1884. Overstocking Country Stores. One great cause of ill success 1n conduct- ing the business of a country store is the ‘tendency on the part of some dealers to load up their shelves and counters with goods for which there is no local demand. In this way many get their money tied up. The goods lie about the store until they get stale, dusty or shop-worn, and when finally dis- posed of will scarcely bring a moiety of their original cost. It is a great temptation to a merchant to buy goods below their quoted value. He does not always stop to consider whether they are such things as customers are likely to call for. They please his eye and the persuasive drummer convinces him that they are cheap and the money passes out of his possession, perhaps never to return to him again. In buying goods always consider first what the demands of customers are likely to be. Never buyia large amount of fancy goods because they are offered to you at half price. The very fact of their being on the market at a low figure is often an indi- cation that they are either going out of fashion or that they have ceased to be a novelty. Buy cautiously, even in staple goods, unless you have positive reasons for believing that they are going to immediate- ly advance, and never, under any circum- stances, assume liabilities far beyond your ability to meet if a sudden decline should come. I have been in country stores where the attic was full of unsalable goods—‘‘traps” that had been laid aside to decay because they were not in demand and because the space they occupied below was needed for other commodities. These things in some instances, cost hundreds of dollars, and what they were ever bought for is a mystery to a practical business man. It is better not to over-stock country stores, but rather to send to market fre- quently, for fresh, attractive and new-style goods. With the present railroad and trans- portation facilities and the promptness in filling orders by jobbing houses, a country merchant can do a large business on a com- paratively small amount of capital, and without taking any serious risks. He can please his customers better, and with a prop- er system he need not suffer much incon- venience by sending frequent orders and re- ceiving small consignments. Half of the retail grocers who fail in busi- ness get into financial trouble by investing in unsalable goods. Shop-worn goods do not make an attractive display. Sell them at any price and get them out of the way be- fore they become a dead loss. They disfigure a store, and they give a frowsy appearance to better things that surround them. Buy cautiously, carefully and for your customers, and determine in the start in trade not to accumulate an unsalable lot of odds and ends that represent a large invest- ment that cannot be sold at any price. qv» ____ Silence is Golden. From the Commercial Enquirer. A great deal of injury can be done a man’s business by careless remarks and gossip, either on his own part or that of his clerks. This is true in no business more than that of the dealer in groceries. He naturally in the ~ gourse of his business becomes more or less familiar with the private affairs of most of his customers. He should see _ to it that neither himself nor his employees make an improper use of the knowledge that they have thus obtained. By indulging in talk about such matters they possibly gain the good will of some gossiping female custom- er, but they will disgust all right-minded people and probably lose the trade of the persons of whom they have spoken dispar- ingly. We will give you an instance in point. A friend of ours told it to us and as he related it to us was about as follow: A German boy of about fifteen, who had only been a short time in this country and spoke English imperfectly, was sent daily by the grocer to our friend’s house for orders. He was smart and obliging and everybody liked him. One day while waiting to receive an order he said to the lady of the house in his pecul- iar English, ‘Der ish a man vat owes ush a pig pill, more as forty tollar. Heis drunk all the dime und von’t pay it, but de ole yoman ish goot und ve’ll ket it vrom her.” Our friend’s wife, of course, thought it was none of her business, and did not make any reply to the boy. She thought over the matter, however, and that evening suggested to her husband that it would be advisable to change their grocer, as there was uo tell- ing whom the boy might gossip about when led on by some inquisitive and unscrupulous person. The gentleman talked the matter over for a while and finally decided to in- form the boy’s employer of his talkative propensities before taking extreme meas- ures. The boy is as dumb an an oyster now, but there can be no telling how much . damage his long tongue may have done be- ford it was stopped. A Hor & Eldredge, grocers at Byron, hav One of the Greatest of Speculators. Phil. D. Armour is of sturdy Scotch Pres- byterian stock. He was born in one of the central counties of New York, on a farm among the hills. It was the highest ambi- tion of his boyhood days to earn money enough to buy the farm adjoining his father’s. 5 When the gold fever broke out he was still a mere stripling; but, full of youthful enthusiasm, he started for California, driv- ing a wagon across the plains and mountains. He remained there three or four years, and in that time saved a few thousand dollars. He had cash enough to buy that farm and settle down. He had no sooner reached home than he experienced a sudden revul- sion of feeling. The streets of the village looked narrow, cramped, and dull. The house looked mean and dingy. He only re- mained on the farm two or three days, and then took himself to Cincinnati. Later he drifted to Milwaukee, and at the close of the war he sold a great lot of pork at $40 a bar- rel, and bought it in again at $18 to $19, re- alizing a profit of about a million. To-day he ranks as the wealthiest man in Chicago, being rated by his friends at $25,000,000 to $30,000,000. ————————>_<____——_ Failures for the First Quarter. The record of business failures in the United States for the first quarter of 1884 is very unsatisfactory, indicating a large in- crease over the previous years. The total for the first three months amounts to 3,320. With the record of the past five years asa guide, it is estimated that the failures for 1884 may exceed the heaviest on the list— 1878. On the other hand, it is gratifying to note that these failures were generally among small merchants, eighty-four per cent. of them representing enterprise em- ploying a capital of $5,000 or less, there be- ing only twelve failures between $250,000 and $500,000, and three over the latter sum. “Notwithstanding the lengthy list of fail- ures for the first quarter,’ says Bradstreet’s, “it must not be overlooked that the list has been materially declining for some weeks, and during this period, with no noteworthy exception, there have been no really heavy failures, and as a commercial panic is de- fined as a time when solvent firms fail, we are drifting further and further from the nearest approach we have had to a_ panic.” —~<-> <> The area at present sown to winter wheat in the United States is about 27,000,000 acres, which is 2,000,000 acres more than that of the last census. The increase is about 1,500,000 on the Pacific coast and 750,- 000 in the Southern States. There is a small increase in the Middle States, and a slight decrease in the Ohio Basin. CARPETS AND CARPETINGS. Spring & Company quote as follows: TAPESTRY BRUSSELS. Roxbury tapestry................-. @ 90 Smith’s 10 wire.......:......-.-.--- @ 90 Smits GXITh..:..>..:.-.......-.3- @ 8 Smith’s B Palisade....... ee ces @ Smith’s C Palisade................ @ 65 Bicwine: *%.-..0--..-......----..--- @ 8% Higgins’ 7%... .....-.. @ 70 Santord’s @xtta.....-...........-.- @ B% Sanford’s Comets.................- @ 65 THREE-PLYS. Hartford 3-ply......-.-..:....5:.-- @1 00 Trowell o-ply.....---..---20----+ oo0+ @1 00 Higvins’ 3-ply.........-...--..-...-- @1 00 Sanford’s 3-ply.............---.29-- @ 91% EXTRA SUPERS. Hartfowl 62. sees. @ %% Scowel: ee eee eee @ 8% Q@ther makes.........2...--..-.---. 75 @ Ti% Best cotton chain.................. 60 @ 62% ALL WOOL SUPERFINES. Best 2-ply...:-....--....----------- 574%4@ 60 Other grades 2-ply............----- 524%4@ 55 WOOL FILLING AND MIXED. All-wool super, 2-ply............-. 50 55 Extra heavy double cotton chain. 424%@ 45 Double cotton chain............... 35 @ 40 Heavy cotton and wool, doublec. 30 @ Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply 274%@ 32% Single cotton chain................ 19 @ 2 HEMPS. 3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy........ 27%@ 30 B, 4-4 Wide.......-.---0eee eee ee eecee @ 22 Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide........... 18% D, 33 incheS..........----2++ee+eee: 7 OIL CLOTHS. No. 1, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4 and 8-4............ 45 No. 2, jo 5 37% No. 3, a0. # 30 No. 4, G0 ge. eae: 25 M&TTINGS. Best all rattan, plain..... pe ose ac 62% Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... 52% Napier A.........--.eeeeee ee eeee eee 50 Napier B..........--++22--22+-20 20% 40 CURTAINS. Opaque shades, 38 inch............ Holland shades, B finish, 4-4....... Pacific Holland, 4-4................ _ or @OO OASP OHSS OOO me oO Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... @36 Cord fixtures, per gross........... @10 MILLINERY GOODS. J. J. Van Leuven quotes as follows: HATS. (Cantons... .6255-6-.40.255. perdoz 2 25@ 3 00 Milanese. kl ee 4 00@ 6 00 Hine Malans......6.-.6-2-.-. «ote 9 00@12 00 Superfine Milans..............-..+++. 15 00@18 00 WS ee ae 5 00@12 00 BLACK CRAPE. Samuel Courtland & Co.’s brand. A eee per yard 50@ 175 Re ees loa eo ee aes ee 85@1 25 A sy ge ee es ee ee 1 50@2 00 Fe ae ee 1 T5@2 50 Ree a a eee ee 2 T5@3 00 BA ee ae 3 25@4 50 RIBBONS. Satin and GG, all silk, extra heavy, all colors. Ny ee ee 1 00 WG Be 1 25 WG ee ee ee 1 50 Na 9 ee a es 1 85 MG a eo ne 2 2 NG 16) oa ee 2 75 Second quality, all colors. Re ee 40 Ms ip ee eee ee 50 i as os oe ee ee se eee 70 re pe a eee te 85 NG Ie a eh er ee 90 TG AG se es ee ee eee 110 MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS? ASSOCIA'N. Incorporated Dec. 10, 1877—Charter in Force for Thirty Years. LIST OF OFFICERS: President—RANSOM W. HAawtey, of Detroit. Vice-Presidents—CHAS. E. SNEDEKER, Detroit; L. W. ATKINS, Grand Rapids; I. N. ALEXAN- pER, Lansing; U.S. Lorp, Kalamazoo; H. E. MEEKER, Bay City. feos : and Treasurer—W. N. MEREDITH, Board of Trustees, For One Year—J.C. Pon an, 8. A, Mun H. K. Waite THIS SPACE IS RESERVED FOR ARTHUR MEIGS & CO., W holesale Grocers, 55 and 57 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan, PROPRIETORS OF THE CELEBRATED BRANDS Red Fox & Big Drive Plug Tobacco, The Best in the Marlixet. WE SHALL SOON FILL THIS SPACE WITH QUOTATIONS OF INTEREST TO ALL DEALERS. WHEN IN THE CITY DON’T FAIL TO CALL ON US. Arthur Meigs & Co. We manufacture all our stock Candy and can always give you the best goods. We buy in large lots from Orang CS first hands and ship only in full car lots. We handle 20,- 000 boxes of Oranges and Lemons in a season and our Lemons facilities for buying and han- dling are unsurpassed. Nuts We carry a heavy stock of Bra- zils, Almonds, Filberts, Walnuts, Pecans and Cocoa Nuts, and will sell against any aetna ; We lately bought eight car Peanuts loads of the best re-cleaned and hand-picked Tennessee and Virginia Nuts, and are prepared to fill the largest orders. PUTNAM & BROOKS FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE, Na AMON Tale SOE WHOLESALE GROCERS. 44, 46 and 48 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. —WE ARE FACTORY AGENTS FOR—— Nimrod, Acorn, Chief, Crescent & Red Seal Plug Tobaccos. Our stock of Teas, Coffees and Syrups is Always Complete. —WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR— Toba OUR MOTTO: D MAN.” "SQUARE DEALING B ccos, Vinegars and Spices !!) F. J. LAMB & COMPANY, Butter, Cheese, Eges, ‘ Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc. NO. 8 AND 10 IONIA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS. - MICHIGAN. A BENOWLSON ——WHOLESALE DEALER IN—— AKRON SEWER PIPE, Fire Brick and Clay, Cement, Stucco, LIME, HAIR, COAL and MWrFOodD. ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED. Office 7 Canal Street, Sweet,s Hotel Block. Yards—Goodrich Street, Near Michigan Cen- tral Freight House. SPRING & COMPANY ’ -WHOLESALE DEALERS IN— FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS CARPETS, MATTINGS, Ort, CLOTHS, ETc. ETC. Gand 8 Monroe Stroot, Grand Rapids, Michigan. M. B. Church “Bedette” Co., Manufacturer of 2 “Bedette.’ THE PATENTED JUNE 15, 1883. ‘This invention supplies a long felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put ray i a small space when not in use, and yet make a roomy, comfortable bed when waited. Of the many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a comfortable night’s rest can be had. They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in short no bed at all While TH® Beperrs folds into a small space, and is as light as anything can be made for dura- bility, when set up it furnishes a bed wide and long enough for the largest man, and is as com- fortable to lie upon as the most expensive bed. It is so constructed that the patent sides, reg- ulated by the patent adjustable tension cords, form the most perfect spring bed. The canvas covering is not tacked to the frame, as on all cots, but is made adjustable, so that it can be taken off and put on again by any one in a few minutes, or easily tightened, should it become loose, at any time from stretching. It is a perfect spring bed, soft and easy, without springs or mattress. For warm weather it is a complete bed, without the addition.of anything; for cold weather it is only necessary to add sufficient clothing. The “ BEDETTE” is a household neces- sity, and no family after once using, would be without it. It is simple in its construction, and i cee 3 a out of repair. It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed, and the price is within Price—36 in. wide, by 63¢ ft. long, $3.50; 30 in wide, by 614 ft. 1 : wide, by 43¢ ft. long, cover not adjustable, $2.50. For oy ee anions crane If not for sale by your dealer it will be sent to any 0! pt of sale by furniture dealers every- address on. recei price. t » : we & ie. 3 ’ - ‘ * J.J, VAN LEUVEN, Millinery FANCY GOODS LACES, Real Laces a Specialty. Gloves, Corsets, Ribbons, Fans, Hand Bags, Pocket Books, Ruchings, Yarns, Silks, Satins, Velvets, Embroidery Materials, Plumes, Flowers, Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods. STAMPING PATTERNS 70 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. TRY OUZ: RAW HIDE WHIP t SELLS FOR $1. OUR TWO SHILLING WHIP IS SURE TO SELL. Do not sell our goods at cost. We will DO BETTER BY YOU Come and see us. We are here to stay. Ga. HROYS & CO., No. 4 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. PORTABLE AND STATIONARY ENGIN BES From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shait- ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for Complete Outfits. Ww. & Denison, 88, 90 and 92 South Division Street, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. JORDAN Pneumatic Washer The best thing of the kind in the market! Washes clothes in half the time of other machines. Simple in Construction and Op- eration. For sale for $5 apiece by the man- ufacturer, ET, CriUOf'F". Grand Rapids, Mich. Town and county rights for sale. MOSELEY BROS., Wholesale Clover, Timothy and all Kinds Field Seeds Seed Corn, Green and Dried Fruits, Oranges and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, ete. GREEN VEGETABLES AND OYSTERS, sLABASTINE! TELELELELL Alabastine isthe first and only prepara- tion made from calcined gypsum rock, for application to walls with a brush, and is fully covered by our several patents and perfceeted by many years of experiments. {t is the only permanent wall finish, and admits of applying as many coats as de- sired, one over another, to any hard surface without danger of scaling, or noticeably adding to the thickness of the wall, which is strengthened and improved by each ad- ditional coat, from time to time. It is the only material for the purpose not dependent upon glue for its adhesiveness ; furthermore it is the only preparation that is claimed to possess these great advantages, which are essential to constitute a durable wall {inish. Alabastine is hardened on the wall by age, moisture, etc.; the plaster absorbs the admixtures, forming a stone cement, while all kalsomines, or other whitening preparations, have inert soft chalks, and glue, for their base, which are rendered soft, or scaled, in a very short time, thus necessitating the well-known great incon- venience and expense, which all have ex- perienced, in washing and seraping off the eld coats before refinishing. In addition to the above advantages, Alabastine is less expensive, as it requires but one-half the number of pounds to cover the same amount of surface with two coats, is ready for use by simply adding water, and is easily ap- plied by any one. the eee eke be ——FOR SALE BY——— ALL Paint Dealers. ——MANUFACTURED BY—— THE ALABASTINE COMPANY M. B. CHURCH, Manager. GRAND RAPIDS, - - - MICHIGAN. F.J, DETTENTHALER Successor to H. M. Bliven, —WHOLESALE— OYSTERS AND CANNED GOODS. Agent for Farren’s Celebrated “F” Brand Raw Oysters. 117 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, = - MICH. | GRAND RAPIDS, Grand Rapids Wire Works Manufacturers of All Kinds of SATIRE YATORK! 92 MONROE STREET. JOHN MOHRHARD, —WHOLESALE— Fresh & Salt Meats 109 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, < MICHIGAN. SHED CORN We offer a choice lot of Early Red Cob Dent Corn, and the Round Yellow or Yankee Corn, Clover and Timothy, Hungarian, Red Top, Millet, Spring Wheat Seed Oats, Peas, Beans, Genuine White Star Seed Potatoes. In fact every seed usually kept in stock at a Seed Store, at whole- sale and retail. W. 7. LAMOREAUX, Agent 91 CANAL STREET, : _ MICHIGAN. Is There Money in Groceries ? From the American Grocer. To this query, so often asked, we reply emphatically, yes! There is no line of busi- ness where there are so few channels of loss. There is no excuse for making or carrying dead stock, as is the case in the dry goods or other trades where fashion holds sway. There is no need of carrying heavy stocks, in fact nothing beyond actual requirements, for then goods are fresh and that means in- creased trade where food supplies are con- cerned. Channels of distribution and rapid- ity of transportation are so perfected that it is only in isolated localities where traders cannot replenish supplies in a short time. Food is the last thing upon which consumers economize when forced to curb expenses; hence the grocery trade is the last to feel the pinch of dull trade or hard times. Are profits‘ good? Yes, if the grocer is a grocer that is master of his business. He will know how to so average profits that it will return a good net income, notwithstand- ing one-fifth of his sales consist of sugar at cost. The average gross profits obtained by thorough grocers varies from 13 to 20 per cent., the extremes being found in great cities, as well as in country districts, where they frequently exceed the outside limit named. If expenses exceed one-half the profit there is certainly mismanagement somewhere. The proof that there is money in groceries lies in the fact that there are so many rich grocers. The men who lead in trade in a retail way are wealthy, and started with no capital but strong bodies and strong wills. Seores we might name prove our position. The trouble is not in getting profits, but in their utilization after they are obtained. They are wasted in all manner of ways. Ex- travagance in store management, in domestic economy, a lack of personal application to business whereby leaks go undiscovered, solves the mystery of failure. Yes, grocers, yours is a business for money making that promises better than any other. People must eat, and the dealer who serves them with good food in the best manner is the one who is going to get the profits. ———_—__ 0 Errors in Trial-balances. When Mr. Roebling was asked how to pre- vent the reeurrence of the Brooklyn bridge disaster he answered: ‘Keep people off the bridge.” The best way to find an error in a trial-balance is not to make any mistakes; a contradictory way of putting it, but well meant. A book-keeper whose posting is usually correct never “checks back” until as a last resort. He can, by looking over his work, so often find his error, that he does so whenever occasion requires; keeping his difference before him, and looking for it and it only. Sometimes the possible division by 9 suggests transposition, which may prove to be the case. It will certainly pay you to go carefully over the work, as in many cases the difference will be found. The system of grouping the accounts into classes is a good one and should be the rule, and not conspic- nous by its absence. ee Fifty Years Hence. “Tf the various countries maintain their present rate of increase,” says Mr. Gosselin, Secretary of Embassy at Berlin, “ fifty years hence the United States will havea population of 190,000,000; Russia, approxi- mately, 158,000,000; Germany, 83,000,000; United Kingdom, 63,000,000; Austria-Hun- gary and Italy both, 44,000,000; France, only 40,000,000. Germany has already in round numbers 7,500,000 more inhabitants than France; but in this recokoning Algeria is not taken into account.” For war pur- poses, however, it is observed that the bal- ance is not so heavily against France, for whereas in Germany there -are only 965 males tu every thousand females, in France there 991; Germany has, therefore, only 374 millions of males more than France. ———_—_ 2. The accretion of the nation’s wealth in the addition to its cultivated area, the im- provement in the value of its animals, and the increase thereof is something which is only brought distinctly to mind by the actual statistics. The gain in stock for a year spread over the whole territory of the country, is hardly noticeable in any particu- lar section, yet the aggregate is of real and large value. Thus, from January, 1883, to January, 1884, the country gained in herses, mules, cows, sheep and swine, in some cases not conspicuously, but in each instance enough to show a Satisfactory progress. And what is equally as gratifying, the qual- ity of the farm animals has improved in greater proportion than the numbers. > oa There are two unhappy persons when castor oil is going down. One is the man who has bought it at a higher figure, and the other is the small boy who is taking a table- spoonful of it. ———_—_—_<>-_2<___—__ Thousands of pounds of dynamite are carted through the streets of Chicago every day. The man in charge of the factory says the stuff is not so dangerous as ordinnry gunpowder. a Smoke the celebrated Jerome Eddy Cigar, manufactured by Robbins & Ellicott, Buf- falo, N. Y. For sale by Fox, Musselman & Loveridge, Grand Rapids, Mich. ——_—_—_—_—»-a——_ If you don’t want evil things said of you, don’t do evil things. It is poor policy to grow feathers for your enemy’s arrows.—NV. Y. Herald. — or OS Try the celebrated Jerome Eddys. The finest 10 cent cigar in the mdrket. For sale by Fox, Musselman & Loveridge. . After the Story, the Moral. The brief story of experience related last week under the title of “Our Drummer’ Investment,” presents a subject worthy of more serious attention than would naturally be given it in an ordinary perusal The writer draws a characteristic picture of hu- man nature when he describes the anxiety of each of the three partners to be freed from the presence of the others just when it is supposed a serious loss has occurred to the firm through the failure of one of its cus- tomers. A remark is offered to the effect that, had the consultation been occasioned by a report that a handsome profit had been made, the partners would happily have lin- gered in the consultation without a thought of more important business. The picture is a very true one to nature, but it must be ad- mitted that it is not at all a favorable one to good business principles. Precisely the re- verse of this should have been the inclina- tion. Partners ought to feel at as much free- dom to discuss and counsel upon business reverses as upon their prosperity. But in- stances where such inclinations exist are not more easy to find than common people who enjoy having their faults and mistakes pointed out to them. Another mild lesson may be drawn from the same story. The old saying that, ‘““What is everybody’s business is nobody’s busi- ness,” is perfectly applicable in the manage- ment of business operations. If either one of the three partners had been left with the wholeresponsibility, and had understood that he alone was to be accountable for any mis- management, there is a strong probability that a letter would have followed the dis- patch; that Mr. Twister would have been called upon for more explicit information, and that the firm would not have had four car loads of goats instead of four thousand dollars worth of goods upon their hands at five o’clock in the afternoon, of what was, probably, to them, ‘‘a very cold day.” <> -0-<——___—_ A recently published tea-chart in London shows that the increase in the consumption of India tea during the past six years has been very rapid. In England the growth is shown in quantities consumed quarterly. In the first three months of 1878 it was 3,215, 000 pounds, and in the first quarter of 1883, 5,152,000 pounds. The ability of India to supply tea and its favorable reception in England, as indicated by the above, causes satisfaction. Rn <> -S- A New Butter Test. “See here!” exclaimed a hotel guest, calling the attention of the urbane waiter, “this is a terrible deal you are giving me in the way of butter.” “It’s slightly off color, isn’t it?’ inquired the waiter. * T should say it was.” * Rancid?” “You bet.” * Strong?’’ ‘* Strong as a mule.” “* And fearfully frowsy?” “* Worst I ever saw in my life.” “Yes; well, that proves it’s genuine but- ter, don’t it? If it was oleomargarine there wouldn’t be nothing the matter with it. There is considerable difference, now-a-days, between churn butter and painted tallow.” ~~ -2 There are but fourteen American exhibit- ors at the Calcutta World’s Fair, and six of these are the manufacturers of patent medi- cines and three manufacturers of sewing ma- chines. There is one exhibit each of shade rollers, cotton bale compressors, plows, har- vesters and pumps. This is a sorry showing for a nation of fifty million people. a = Attention, coffee lovers! Catharine Baker, of Taylorsville, Va., recéntly entered her 100th year. ‘‘ Nearly as long asI can re- member,” she says, *‘ I have drank a dozen cups of coffee every day, and I believe that that’s thefreason why I have lived to be so old and enjoyed almost uninterrupted good health.” ——_— a —- >< -— = Twenty years ago France held the first rank in the wheat production of the world. For nine consecutive years since 1874 the United States produced the largest wheat crops of any in the world, and has averaged 44 per cent. more than France during that period. i 9 “Husband, there goes a load of beets; they must have come from some _hot-house.” “Improbable, madam, your relatives were all at our dinner table as usual.” They con- verse with each other through the children, now. a 9 ae I solicit the trade of first-class grocers on tobaccoes, teas, canned goods, syrups, etc., as I have some exceptional bargains in these goods, which will prove of benefit to the buyer. Send for samples and prices. I. E. MESSMORE. an a What becomes of all the leaf tobacco rais- ed in this country, is as great a conundrum as where do all the pins go? No one smokes anything but ““Havana-filled” now. i -8- < The road of the manufacturer of butterine is not always strewn with roses. Mr. John J. Murray, a Chicago manufacturer, has late- ly failed. Oe “Nick” will be at my store on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays each week until my entire stock is closed out. I, E. MESSMORE. nt 9 “What is the big comer in pork I hear about?” asked Laura across the tea-table. “The big corner in pork,” replied Tom, “is the ham.” —_——>- + <> The stock of Rio coffee in the markets of the world a year ago was 4,800,000 sacks. It is now 6,000,000 sacks. — oO The tomato packers of New Jersey have contracted for tomatoes for this season at $6 cs Knowledge and Business. From the New York Shipping List. The virtues of honesty, dilligence and thrift, if requiring to be always inculpated by precept and example, like all other ad- monitions to good conduct, are the primary essentials to success, and universally rec- ognized as such. No business man would expect to succeed Without them, any more than without a knowledge of prices or the conditions of the market. It needs to be told that merely a narrow and close attention to business does not make even a success of that upon any large scale, besides injurious- ly affecting the character and influence in all other walks of life. Thesum of the world’s knowledge has become so great; there are so many and diversified interests connected with the business life of every country; and the task of self government, which, with the priviledges of freedom, demands the price for them in intelligence and care, takes so much of study and attentions that the suc- cessful and capable business man must de- vote much more time and labor to the ac- quiring of general knowledge than was once the case. It isa part of the general price which has to be paid for the fruit of knowl- edge, although, of course, it has its rewards and pleasures as well, The general average of knowledge is so high that the individual effort to reach it must be greater; and it is hardly too much to say that what was con- sidered sufficient for a liberally educated man a century ago, is not above the standard of the average business man now, and is es- sential, not only to his standing, but his practical success. Superior knowledge, with the widened views and accurate judgements which - it gave, has been at all times a great advantage to business and led to the great general vic- tories of commerce and manufacture, as well as to the individual success. The colonizers of America and the founders of East India were of active and inquiring spirit, as well as of courage and energy, ane acted upon the latest acquisition of geographical and po- litical as well as commercial knowledge, and the same is true of the intelligent patronage of scientific inventions at this day. But in former periods the markets were so limited to locality in product and sale that the aver- age tradesinan required but little knowledge for success, and the affairs of Government and general public management were so ab- sorbed by higher and delegated authority, that he was not called upon to give them much at- tention. In the present day it is am essen- tial factor in the success of all but the petti- est tradesmen, that they should know the condition of their own country, and in many instances of foreign ones, in regard to the crops, industry and prosperity, to successful- ly calculate and govern his business, and the relations of the people who self-government and are so. close and responsible, that they affect the conditions of employment and trade as well as political duty, and cannot be performed without close study and laborious requirement. at Oranges are active and prices are stiffen- ing up somewhat, although the supply seems to be good for some time to come. Lemons are moving freely and prices are steady. While jobbers look for a good demand at the prevailing very low market, they do not expect to see much advance for a short time. amen To the Trade of Western Michigan. I have retained the services of ‘ Dick” Warner until my entire stock is closed out. I solicit correspondence from those desiring bargains in the grocery line, as the stock will be sold at alow margin. Any orders entrusted to the care of “‘ Dick”? Warner or the undersigned will recieve careful atten- tion. I. E. MESsSMORE. ———_—__—~-2_ The extent to which the business of the co-operative stores in England has grown is indicated by the fact that one of these socie- ties [contemplates starting a pork-packing and curing establishment at some convenient point in this country for the purpose of sup- plying its customers at first hand. —————qr2>_ Genuine White Star Potatoes. I see someone is quoting the White Star potato at $2 per 3 bushel barrel, alleging them to be grown by D. M. Ferry & Co. In- asmuch as the latter is holding his stock at $4.50 per barrel, it is barely possible that the dealer is palming off something beside the genuine. 0. W. BLAIN, 152 Fulton street. ———— <> _____ White Star Potatoes. I see our friend O. W. Blain, at 152 Ful- ton street, agent for Mr. Ensley’s White Star Potatoes, takes some exceptions to my offering the genuine White Star Potatoes for $2 for a 3 bushel barrel, and no charge for barrel, claiming that they may be some- thing else than the genuine. If any one has any doubt of their being such, we refer them to D. M. Ferry & Co., of De- troit. GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED Cc., 91 Canal street, W. T. LAMOREAUX, Agt. —————>-+ > __ Beet root sugar production in France and Germany has cheapened the European mar- kets, and is said to be the chief factor in the present demoralized conditions of Cuba’s sugar trade. ———__—<-2 For bargains in groceries, write I. E. Messmore or “ Dick” Warner, as the former is closing out his entire stock. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Declined—Sugars slightly easier. AXLE GREASE. Modoc .... @doz 60 Paragon... ®doz 60 Diamond......... 60 |Frazer’s.......... BAKING POWDER. APCtIC +6 CANS... ose eee ®doz. 45 ATCHGI4 CONS. ocak. eee eke 75 ATCC 361) CANBY. os. es ia ek ee 5 ik 1 40 Ascetic 1 Cans. <. 20... & 66s. see ake ee 2 40 IATRWC DID CRIS S.. oo. 65.3 ck esc. ee eee ee 12 00 BLUING. UV NOD oo oso os ace Sulca yeaee doz. 25 BOPV INO. Oe vss Gis so iaa sok edleeides doz. 45 MOUIG, 4:07.52. 0. 555 cos va eas coc nes doz. 35 WAGUICSS O20 2. ea ts eee doz. 65 AMOUG FOG oe a ee oss #@ gross 4 00 ARCHER OOF 8 ey ee es eels see 8 00 PAPTCHIG IC O22... oh. Ee ee cs eee 12 00 Arctic No. 1 pepper box..................4- 2 00 Arctie No. 2 . See Bose, Seok 3 00 Arctic No. 3 ss Oe ag ee aes Co sk 4 50 BROOMS. NO: 1: Carpet... 0.026. cee ees sees ess ee 2 50 INO: 2 CATDOU 6c. cae shales ees 2 25 ONG A Ty ee eee ah oe gas 2 00 INO: PANIED fh oe ie seas oo sels cine 1 % Min Cy Whisk... i5 cos eo es os esi ee 12 Gommon Whisk. ... 0.0.55 66 ces cccicc cose CANNED GOODS. Apples, 3 ib standards ..................... 1 20 Apples, 6 Ib standards ..................... 2 00 Apples, gallon standards.................. 3 00 ADPMCOUS WNSK'S: 5... oo cea ke ses. 2 95 BSORR IN SY. iss cassie cies oc oe see 85 WeaANs, SUNS 2 4500 ee ke 85 Beans, Boston Baked...................--- 1 75 Blackberries, standards..........0........ 1 25 Wheres, White 6506 226. ss. s eek ca ee ok 1 90 Chemies: Ted. es eee oc ieee ce os 1 05 Condensed Milk, Fagle brand............. 8 10 COUNTiO 2 6 oie ee eae eee see 115 COrn Revere... 8. 6. 5k i os ce os 1 20 Corn. Mey pram... 26029... te woo 110 Corn: VOrmoutns oo... oe ce ee eee 1 30 Corn FrOpnye hose ce oe oe ose 115 Corn, 2 Onandago..:.....:..-.-.... 05605 150 ADAINSONS soe 8 os ose os te 1 20 Egg Plums, standards..................65. 1 60 Green Gages, standards..........-........ 1 60 HGOQWRLCIS: SEATS 5.0 055.05. 25.55 sc osecs ees os 2 00 TODStETS, PICMICS | 62s. ok leas ck 1 75 Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 fb........... 4 00 Oysters, 1 ib standards.................... 110 Oysters, 1 Id slack filled................... 5 Oysters, 2 Ib standards................... 1 8 Oysters, 2 tb slack filled.................... 1 2 Peaches, all yellow standards............ 210 Peaches, 3 th Extra Yellow Heath......... 3 00 Peaches, white standards................. 1 90 Peaches, SECONGS............ee cece ee cceees 1 65 WiC POACKES. 26. co cise eee 1 20 Pears, Barnett... cos. cs le ee: 1 35 Peas, standard Marrofat.................. 150 Peas, good Marrofat..................0.06- 1 35 PCAN SODKEN. 8 e eo coh tees cess 65 Pineapples..............---- eee eee 1 60 Pine Apple, 2 th Sugar Loaf............... 2 50 Raspherries, Mre.. 26... ose wees ee 1 50 Raspberries, other brands................ 1 20 Salmon, standard..:. 5.5... 5..... 2.02.30. 1 60 Sardines, imported 148..................4- 15% Sardines, imported 48..................06- 20 Sardines, domestic 48..................65. Sardines, domestic 148.................--. 12% Sardines. Marstard. .-... ooo .sc. ese. ce es 15 Strawberries, standards................... 110 Succotash, standards..................60-- 1 05 Succotash, other brands.................. 85 Succotash, 27) B.&M........5.......6.0065 1 %5 Tomatoes, standards................ 1 00@1 05 Tomatoes: Gal, Bic |... 60. .sc ew oe ee 3 25 Trout, 31D DrOOk. 22.) 5.. sce. ee 3 00 CAPS. G. D.............. 85 |Ely’s Waterproof 75 Musket...:.:.....2 95 CHOCOLATE. German sSweet..........2..23-..---- «--- @25 Baker's::...5.20..2-55 aN ceo ee fe @A0 MAIS ee es oe ee es @35 WACNRA PWECL. 2.62.52 6s ssoe es cee ee es @25 COFFEE. Green Rio....12 @14 |Roasted Mex.174@19 Green Java...17 @27 |Ground Rio.. 9%@17 Green Mocha.25 @27 |Ground Mex. @l16 Roasted Rio..12 @17 |Arbuckle’s....... @15% Roasted Java24 @34 |XXXX........... @154 Roasted Mar.17 @19 /|Dilworth’s....... @15%4 Roasted Mocha @34 CORDAGE. 72 foot Jute ..... 1 35 60 foot Cotton....1 75 60 foot Jute..... 1 15 [50 foot Cotton....1 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Lemon. WenNINGS: 20%. - 22) sons os ce ses #8 doz. 1 00 os RIOD See ee ene 1 50 - BOL... ore. Re eee cae cece 2 50 Me ROD es 3 50 ‘f NO; 2 LADEL 2. 55.6 se aes ees 1 2 ae NOs 4 ei oo ee 1 75 . 44 pint TOUNG.::-............2-:- 4 50 ss 1 SO hese. ccc 00 Be INOS Boo oh ee ies ee. 3 00 s¢ INO: 106 ee cee 4 25 Vanilla. JORMINGH 2OZ........ 2-225... 5. se # doz. 1 40 o MOU eee 2 50 ie BOK 6s ae ose ease 4 00 oe Foy OY poet pt Aan IRE ee Ba Sa cic) 5 00 ING: 2 Gaper.......-... 2-220... 1 50 tf No. 4 Taper.....3......2.+......-- 3 00 as 16 pint FOUNG....-....5-055.-..- 7 50 af T pint round... -..:.. 2.4... .2::. 15 00 As INO: Boo. oo oc 4 25 st INO; 10} cae Leas 6 00 FAUCETS. Faucets, self measuring.............. @2 50 Faucets, COMMON..............2eeeeeee @ 35 FISH. WWHOlG COG>. 63). occ ie 44%@614 Boneless Cod... 63... sc. e eet es os 5Y4@7T4@8% Herring % bbls.‘100 Ib..............-. 2 75@3 00 Herring Scaled..............0-..00e0e0 28@30 Herring Holland................6..06 @1 15 PBIOGRUCYR G1 oe oicie secs s cs ass ccsiec es s @1 00 White, No. 1,% bbls ......:........... 8 00 White, Family, % bbls................ 4 00 White, No. 1, 10 kits................ 110 Whise, No.1, 12 i kits........ i 1 25 Trout, No. 1, % bbls...... 45 Trout, No. 1,12 tb kits.... ae 90 Mackerel, No. 1, % bbls............... 7 00 Mackerel. No.1, 12 Ib kits............ 115 FRUITS. London Layers, neW...............606- 2 5 Loose Muscatels Raisins, new........2 50@2 6( New Valencias Raisins........ . 4@T*% ONGATAS .<.. 5 3.. .2 62: @l1 Turkey Prunes ........... .. 64@6% OUITVANIUS 2 5 55556 Fy es ss eee can oe 5%@6 @isron 62s eee 18@20 Dried Apples: . 622. seh ska se es cose ee 8 @8% MATCHES. Richardson’s No.2 square...............+.. 2 70 Richardson’s No. 3 OO. es ae ae 2 55 Richardson’s No. 5 GO. 1 70 Richardson’s No. 6 GO ii sees ose edes 2 70 Richardson’s No. 8 do 1 70 Richardson’s No. 9 do ..2 55 Richardson’s No. 4 round . ..2 70 Richardson’s No.7 do ..2 55 Kichardson’s No. 7% do .-1 70 Electric Parlor No. 17... ..3 80 Electric Parlor No. 18..............e2 sees eee 5 70 Grand Haven, NO; 9... ..055- ete cece cence 2 40 Grand Maven, No. 8.5 .....: 5... 4..2.6+.6- 25 170 20 gross lots special price. MOLASSES. BACK BELAD. oo. 6c coos coins So casa oe eee @20 Porto Rico........ Soe et seeks cee eee 380@35 New Orleans, 2O0d.............0 cece econ 40@50 New Orleans, fancy a fi ges uous 56@60 SyVUps; SURAT oe oe re ee eee 27@35@A5 OATMEAL. WH PRES so ee ess, see @3 5 B62 th PKGS......-. 0.22. cece eee ee ee ees @3 25 Timperial O0IS.. 2 eet slaw eee es 5 5 QuUAKOr DDIS 5 ooo eee lo hase seta ee 6 %5 OIL. Kerasene WoW...) cscs cs cc caaees 15 do. Legal test................06- 12% Sweet, 2 02. SQUAre............... 02 00ee 75 Sweet, 2 oz. round................00005 1 00 Castor, 2 OZ. SQUALC.......... cece ecco ee 15 Castor, 2 02. round........... .seeseeee 1 00 PICKLES. . Choicein barrels med....... Pe efi aves % 50 Choicein% do ......:......6., fos ged sie 4 50 Dingee’s% do SNA 67S was ..4 50 Dingee’s quarts glass fancy..............-+- 4 25 pena s pints GO aa pee ces 6 63 REDO English qt. in Glass..... es wi bvs gives corso OO English pt. in Glass............. sees seers OO American qt. in Glass...... Garis seed 00 American pt.in Glass..............00+00+0200k 25 _ PIPES. Ji ealpe ah ale lsc Choice butter can always be had at M. C. | SALERATUS. Debgnad 8 pure... ove. cere eka ce. 5% tate ee ose pravlors G, Me oe ee @ 5% CAD SRORE Go. ee @ 5% DWiRRES 5. Oe eee @ 5% MOS POAM oko. 64.5 feck @ 5% SALT. OOSPOCK OE fo ee. aes ck 2 60 PUPOCK OU. ee i. SU ce ccs ck s 2 40 OSD Pockets... oo .s os oe ode eect 2 75 Saeingw Hine - 626. so eS, 110 MHAMONG Ces ok eo se ee 1 75 Standard Coarse....................- 3 1 55 SEEDS. TIOMD fo see co ere 5% CONBIY 5006 sins. ee 4% RAG ee eee os. 7 MISOG DINE ol a 54@6 SOAP. Kirk’s American Family ........ 2 Ib 6% GOs ONGta so ee 614 GO. BAVON ooebci ease aaa 6 do. Satinet... 6% do. Revenue. 5% do. White Russian........ oe 5 40 Goodrich’s English Family .......... 54 do. IPriMGess 623 eee es os a: 4\4 Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory ..,........ 6% do. Japan Olive ...... 5 do. Town Talk # box 3 70. do. Golden Bar........ 4 20 do. ATA Coos 3 45 do. AMDOCF. 9.200... 00.. 3 75 do. Mottled German.. 4 20 Procter & Gamble’s Velvet............ @3 40 Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck....... @3 25 Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well....... @3 15 BRAS Or ge he oe eS 60bs @6% Galvanic ccc ee ee @4 20 OR HlCCtHe i ee. @6 50 DORR BOTGe i oi ki ee @A 20 Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ib br @ 21 Bi TOD oo lees ccc acces 38bbar @ 16 Ward's White Hily.......:..0...522.2... @6 "5 Handkerchief.............. Solsse oc esccs @4 20 Fou POU ee 3 00 IBADDIGUS. 2.20 o sl eo 5 50 ISH RAS oe oe ee ase 410 i oe a ee 5 00 IMIASTIOUIC se oso eco ae 4 20 New French Process.................. 4 50 SPOOM Go ds. oe occa see cece. 5 00 AMtEW asbboOard).. oo 6e.. 506.05. eek. 5 00 INBPODIONG ooo os oe 3 25 MAGI IG. ek ee ee 4 20 PIGS DUPS eo ceo a 4 00 WRODMCIS ee 6 75 White castile bars.....5.....2...5..... 13 Mottled eastile. 0.0.0. 52.00. 5.65. oe ek. 2 Old Styles ee ee @ 5% Ol Country 23. 6. ee, 5% SPICES. : Ground Pepper, in boxes and cans... 16@22 Ground Alispice. 0... oc... ln. 12@20 CINNAMON 06. oh coe 16@30 WIONGS oe oe 20@25 GHNROE Oe ea aoe. 17@20 MIBEOTO Se oc eee es 15@35 CAVONNO oe sk eee 25@35 Pepper 4% ib ® dozen................... 75 ANSPICE AID oo sek sec beac aecees 75 Cinnamon 24 1) .....-.......2... j 1 00 Cloves %@ 1... . 1.4. 65.. 75 Pepper, whole............¢....-. cee @18 PAUISPICO |. Ue cc lt ob cass ee aac, @10 CUBS ee ee ae @12 CLOVES. ee 20 @22 Nmtmegs, Novos ets co le. 70 @i5 STARCH. Muzzy Gloss 1 t package.............. @T Muzzy Gloss 3 ib package..... ‘ @bY% Muzzy Gloss 6 i boxes..... @7% Muzzy Gloss bulk......... @6 Muzzy Corn ti. 7.3... 8 7 @1% Special prices on 1,000 Ib orders Kingsford Silver Gloss................ @8% Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 hb box....... @9% Kingsford Corn... 2.6.5... lee csc del 84@9 O&Wero GIOSS. 0522. ee. @6% WirrOr GIOSS) (se) cee ee . @7t Mirror, Gioss; COMM... 3.0... ..5. 2... @%% IPICPS ROAte ee. ok cies. @4 Americad Starch Co.’s in; GOSS. so oss. 4s. @6% MOlOZ GIOSS oe coe 2 el en oe @3% Sp GOSS re a ec oe @6 6 Tb Gloss, wood bOXOS................. @7 Table COLD... 0.280.020... 0505... 67 40D @6Y% Mable: COMM. 22.5050... ee ee os ce 20 Ib @7 Banner, WU so. ee cee he cc ees @A Hovey’s 1 i Sunday Gloss............. @i% Hovey’s 3 fb Sunday Gloss............. @i% Hovey’s 6 ib Sunday Gloss, wood box. @8 One Mrs. Potts’ Polishing Irons given free with each box or crate of Sunday Gloss Starch. STONEWARE. OURS 4p PANOM i os ct @8 GrOGKR ec ee ss iC MANS OEOCKR e560 cio. clk. ct eee sea. 7 STOVE POLISH. Rising Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s gross...... 5 50 Universal..::. 2... 5 88: Above # dozea..... 50 PRE. eo 55 SUGARS. Granulated. 06.0 56s io ce ee ake @7% Cut Woah ee cco ek 84%4@84 OUDOR eee ee ea 8144@8%4 IPOWHCTOG. 62.6 coe eee si so. 8 @8% COnP AG ee. ee, @t Standard A.. @6% Extra ©....:..: ... 64@6% MIN OO oe ee 6 @6% MWClOW Cio e ose eis. 5%4@6 | SYRUPS. Corn: Barrels... 22) 2. 6 o ee. @ 30 Worm, 46:0DI6. 6... ess as bos. cee. @ 82 Corn, t0 gallon kegs.................... @ 33 Corn, 5 gallon kegs.............2.0cc008 @1 7 Corn, 4% gallon kegs................... 1 60 Pure Sugar Drips.................. bbl 82@ 35 Pure Sugar Drips................ % bbl 35@ 40 Pure Sugar Drips........... 5 gal kegs @1 8& Pure Maple........:.....6.5..55 % bbls @ 80 Pure Maple..............-.. 10 gal kegs @ 80 Pure Maple. .....3........2-- 5 gal kegs @ 8% Pure Loaf Sugar Drips... ......% bbl @ % Pure Loaf Sugar............ 5 gal kegs @t 00 TEAS. Japan ordinary. 23@30/ Young Hyson.. ..25@50 Japan fair........ 82@35|Gun Powder..... 35@50 Japan fair to g’d.35@37|Oolong ....... 38@55@60 Japan fine........ 40@50)\Congo ............ Japan dust....... 15@20 TOBACCO—FINE CUT. Diamond Crown... 2.2... 3.66.0. cos. @57 Med Bird. 2.5.20.) os ee @52 Opera Queen: .. 3.2... 52-53... 5. es @40 Sweet ROSG.... 0.0.52)... te @45 Green Back... 210.666 ee a oe @38 WOPUWIG oes oo eco ie @33 OSo Sweet. 2.2 ee. @31 Praivie Blower... ...........50 10505 .00--- @65 Climber [light and dark].............. @62 IMBTCNIOSB. S22 0ie oop ce cca es ss cock cess @65 Piiswebhd: 2) de. de cece 69 70 70 @45 Pots a @35 Royal Game. yc cos... ees be awe ues @38 Silver TRread oc. cscs. oe ae @67 MOG ee ee oo ae a @60 WGOMUUCKY oo oie hs cee ook cae eee ce @30 Male Han occ. ee eek: @6% PeGk-H-BOO. 0.5: boli. vest ese cians @32 Peek-a-Boo, % barrels................. @30 Clipper, HORS. 0 .0-6.. .0. 75... @32 Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels......... @30 APOUNICAI eo aos sacs Van ee eet ciate @i4 Old Congress. is: 3. 5.55 ede ce cos ce os @64 Good Buck 2.22... sc es eee @52 Good ADGSWECL.. oo. 2s os. oc ec cess @45 laze AWAY |. i065 oc ssic es ec be cee acs @35 Plate Pitter. i oc. cect see ae cos ee @30 Old Glory, light. ....... 2... 0... se @60 Charm of the West, dark.............. d Governor, in 2 oz tin foil.............. @60 PLUG. ReGQhOX . 260065 6505 vost e ee SOS @50 Ble DYIVG. oo aco au foe ee ee ws @52 Seal of Grand Rapids.................. @48 CORY as as oe ee eee @50 PPV OND | ooo. oo oak ho wares ob eek wesc @A8 Silver Coin....... @50 Buster, (Darky. soo. 6.6. e. ese... e. @36 Black Prince [Dark]................... @36 Black Racer [Dark]..... @36 Leggett & Myers’ Star... a @50 CUO | i aes a oa be eet weed ee @50 TEGIG Waat eas eee ae @A8 McAlpin’s Gold Shield................. @A8 Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ib cads....... @51 Cock of the Walk 68................6.5 37 Black Spun Roll...................24. @38 INFO. 5 cosh ccc le ee cul yees excuses @50 POWYS cc era aa Ss Crane's Nal oy aes @50 OM ORL 6. coi cee ec sca ten eas @A8 Crescent ....... Doe ee aug che osekcedk as @A4 BAG OR, ci cca seca eemene’ Pouca csbedains @35 TIBOR GSS os cs ioe ea cs cep eeee vee @A0 PRs CAPA ose a ois C0 ea cas es cee sae’ @35 Nobby Spun Roll............. on eeen ee @50 pring Se ue csdpen saan pest ieen eee @50 Grayling, all styles.................06. @50 MBGEINAW «2 io icc lec es vee cee « oe cw cae @47 HOree BN06. 61505 oak ess eee sea eats - @50 Good Luck........ sacs vent eees i @50 Big Chunk or J.T... ........2cceeeeeeees QAO FASS EATCOR ein ices ky oo Fes os @37 D. and D., black............. ieee ees D aeceese oe esas eee McAlpin’s Green Shield........ ce High Biseid acess ce vae eam MROG BEA ee i ue ae cc 50 RNOF Gur: eo ee ae Gis Puck a ee @A8 SPUD OQ ee @40 SMOKING. CNN Ceo ee @22 MAyOnUrEr S CHOICE: a.8 sec. i ce @22 Seal of Grand Radids.................. @25 VSI eee oy ee @30 UG ee @28 PP ea @30 Ten Penny Durham, % and \......... @24 Amber, 34 4nd £1D 05... 28. oe @15 Dime Smoking. .......--,.0..62056.0.20. @22 Red Hox Smoking... ...................- @26 ime Kaim Clap... @AT Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut........ @90 Manity Bair ees, @90 Dime .. 2.2.0... pigs eco age a eG. 24@25 Meeriece 25, Btandaed oe : 22 OlG Pom se aa 2 Tom S& Jerry... 24 JORCR 25 MMAVClOD. © 2 ei 3D DMO ee @26 ROUEY Cy. ore Fae ee 27 Navy Clippings 0.5000... 24 Honey Dew 0. 25 Go Block. 32 Camp Hire (260006. 22 OLrGHnORKO; 3s 6.0 ee 19 Nigger Head........ 12.1.2 26 Duxham. 260 06 60 do Wwe 57 do ee 05 do Pe, 51 WOURNG Tso ee @22 GOnImen oe @16 Hone Nome ee @30 Nationals 22 oe @26 PING: ee @26 Bove s Mreaime @28 Conqueror 05... ee @23 eS ee ee eee sees ae 8. @22z EOE ee ge V2 Seal Sista Oa Pime Purham @25 ROD Roy es @26 * Wnele Same ee @2 mibermen 6.00 @26 Haitroad BOY. 9. .0.0.0)05.05.0 0 @37 Mountain Rose...... 20.6... eo @20 Good Hnougch: 6 @2° Home Comfort, 4s and 4s............ @25 Old Rip, long: Gut... @60 Durham, long cut..................... @60 wo Nickle, 345.0) @25 Mwo Nickle: Wa. a, @26 tar Durban: 0.8 @2% Golden Flake Cabinet.................. @40 Seal of North Carolina, 2 0z.......... é @52 Seal of North Carolina, 4 0z........... @50 Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz........... @AS8 Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz boxes... @50 SHORTS. Mule Haris oe 23 Hiawatha 23 Old Congress. 3. 23 VINEGAR. Bure @ider-3. 2.50205 10@12 White Wine ch a 10@12 WASHING POWDERS. UO PDs cee ce @101 Gillett’s @ bb .. ie eee as $ ne SOapIMe PRS. 2 | 7@10 Boraxine ®@poOx..-.. 2. @3 75 Pearline W Dex. 2... iki ee oe @4 50 YEAST. Seneca Falls “‘ Rising Sun”.............. 1 %5 Twin Bros....... £ id) |Wilsons'. ©... |. 1 75 Gillett’s......... 1%75 |National ......... 1 75 MISCELLANEOUS. IBIR@KIN eS 2 oe 30, 40, 50@60 do WACOMPrOGE .. 22. - 25.8.2... 1 50 Bath Brick imported .................. 95 do AMOGICAN 061... 75 Bagley 2 @3% Burners, NOL: |... 20... eee 110 do INO! 2o ee 1 50 Bags, American A... 2.............., 20 00 Beans. medium 0...) 2.6 @2 10 Beans, hand picked.................... 2 40 IBVGECE oe oa ce 18@20 BUGGING 2 eee le 18@21 Curry Combs # doz............... 1 3@ Cream Tartar 5 and 10 i cans... @25 Candles: Star: 650. 60.5.300. 02. ao. @b% Can@les. Hotel... 0.2.0) 2 oe @16% Cheese full cream choice.............. 1444@15 Catsup quarts ® dozen............ 2... 1 40@1 60 Chimneys No... 2. @35 do ING. 25. es, @46 Cocoanut, Schepps’ 1 ib packages. @26% Cocoanut, Schepps’1&% ib do . @27% Evaporated Hulled Corn 50 i cases... @ il Extract Coffee, Vv. C. .....:....... fo Gs 95 do Wels 0 1 80@ Flour, Star Mills, in bbls .............. 5 15@ do in Sacks. ...... 2.4.2. 5 50@ Gum, Rubber 100 lumps............... @25 Gum, Rubber 200 lumps............... @40 Gum; Spruce. 2.650. 385@40 Horse Radish, pints............5...... @1 40 TONG ON ee ee ee 1 W@ Ink @38dozen box... 00... 1 00@ Jelly in Pailge ot @ 6 do Glass Tumblers # doz............ @75 Hiconice, Sicily .:....6.02.0..20200000.. @20 Eicorice, Calabra ...................-).- 28@30 Micorice Hoot... 7... 2.2... @12 bye @2 doz. cases.....-.............-. 1 55@ Macaroni, Imported......... ......... @13 PIOMOEBUG ea ee @ 5% Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, # case...... @6 00 French Mustard, 8 oz # dozen........ @80 do Large Gothic........ 1 3@ Oil Tanks, Star 60 gallons............ 12 00@ Oil Tanks, Patent 60 gallons.......... 14 0@ Pepper Sauce... 62... .- 90@1 00 Peas, Green Bush.......... -1 50@ do Split prepared..... : @ 3% Powder, Keg......... 5 50@ _ do % Keg.. -..8 0@ Rice. 22.665 0.2.. - 6@64@7% DAQLO core vores ee 5@6 Shot; drop. 25.6.3. ee 1 GO (DUCK ooo. oo 2 15@ SARG 4 @15 Tobacco Cutters each ................. 1 @ TRON GH. co oe el a 18@23 ChimneyCleaners ® doz............... @50 Flour Sifters #@ doz ................000. 3 00@ Fruit Augurs each..................26- 1 2@ TRAIOCR et i 5@6 Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box........ 1 50@1 65 Wicking No. 1 #® gross................. @40 do INOQe Be oo. ws i heca es cock @65 dQ Aveand 2500.50. os: 1 50@ COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS. A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows: Ohio White Lime, per bbl............. 110 Ohio White Lime, car lots............. 95 Louisville Cement, per bbl............ 1 40 Akron Cement per bbl................ 1 40 Buffalo Cement, per bbl.............. 1 40 Car lOte 7c ee se: ...L 15@1 20 Plastering hair, per bu .. 8@ 38 Stucco, per bbl......... 1 75 Land plaster, per ton.. : 3 75 Land plaster, car lots. . : 3 00 Bire Prick, Per Me 2656.2... ene os es $27 @ $35 Hire Clay, POF DDI. . os. oi ec ce ce eee 3 00 COAL. Anthracite, egg and grate............ $6 50@6 75 Anthracite, stove and nut............ 6 T5@7 00 Cannel GOGbes eo. cece rc esctes 7 00 OHIO COAL: 8. ee ee ee 40@3 60 Blossburg or Cumberland ........... 00@5 25 HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. Perkins & Hess quote as foLows: HIDES. GYGON 2.26 ca kes cae Bh @T% POR CUPCG eS oo. ec et ance 8 @ 8% PVP Greg os os ee eee 844@ 8% Ny, Rides and Kips... 2.222... 20.2545 8 @12 Calf skins, green or cured............. 10 @12 Deacon skins.................. 8 piece20 @50 SHEEP PELTS. Shearlings or Summer skins # piece..10 @20 WATE POlUR coco Se ole oe ce ease 380 @50 Wilter pelts... oso. eee 100 @1 50 WOOL. Fine washed #@ 1D:...............2...... 28 @: Coarse Washed. ooo... eee ee cs 22 @25 WMWASNOG) c 5 c cou. cdo os ech cc eu cas 2-3 FURS. MI IB YO. 66s pot os as ac aac ce ens 60@ 75 Mink: -SMigll: 0. vec sh GS 25@ 40 Muskrat, Spring. .. oo... 22. ss ec ine ccees 1@ 1% Muskrat, Winter... 2... ccc cece cecces sod 14 MiskTHe, Balloo. sis. ee eee er: 8@ 10 IMISRTAG. HIGGS. oo cise Peccenes deve ct 8@ 4 THAGCOONS ee ie ck os ooo a cc eek enone a 40@ 85 Skunk, black.................. cn ehuesds 80@ 90 Skunk, half stripe.................. «. 50@ 60 Skunk, narrow stripe.................. 25@ 30 SHUN, DIOR ei oo bs sce sv ke we eseo ces 10@ 15 Hed FOR: ech icac keen cs ow ee ehe ee utes 1 OO@1 15 Gray Fox............ WO a Marten, yellow................5. seseee T5@1 00 Fisher.. ... Pecer seewea curlin cine seeeees-4 00@8 00 OUROR ce bs oes gales pee peee es ace 6 00@8 00 ROA oc ce eect cac eda neces soceeeeesd OO@12 00 Deer skins, red and blue, dry.... @ Db 30 Deer skins, gray and long haired..... 25 Beaver, clean and dry @ b...........2 25 Above prices are for only—un- prime CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: STICK. Straight. 25 1 boxes... ..2..... 3. @10 Twist, OO ee @10% Cut Loaf Oe 2 @12 MIXED. Noval. 2o pails... 2... 104 Royal, 200 tb te oo ee Extra, 25 ib pails................ Extra, 200 bbis...... 1.11777 : French Cream, 25 i pails... (14 Cut loaf, 25 Ib cases....... ‘ld Broken, 2b ® pails..........:..0 0 11% Hroken, 203) Dbla.. 0.027777 ae FANCY—IN 5 fb BOXES. Hemon BROps.....3... 14 Sour Props... 2 15 Peppermint Drops...... ... 2. 16 Chocolate Drops........5..5... 2 2 17 HM Chocolate Drops......................- 20 Gum Prep. 23 ae 12 Bicoriee Drops... 2 AB Licorice Drops.. a ee Hozenges: piatt. 5.4. 2 J6 Hozenwes. printed... % OGM ae MS GUL OG Be eee 16 Cream Bar............... ee 15 Molasses Bar....... Mo ee 14 Gavamels (722 ee 20 Eland Made €veams:...... = 23 Sie Cea... 20 Decorated Creams:............ 0 8 23 SemnehOGw 16 Burt Sihnends....-- 24 Wintergreen Herries.......... ... 46 Fanecy—in Bulk, a Lozenges, plain in pails................... 14 Lozenges, plain in bbls......................13 Lozenges, printed in pails................... 15 Lozenges, printed in bbls................... 14 Chocolate Drops, in pails.................. 14 Gum Drops, in pails. ............. 0 8 Gum Brongn bbls..........-.... 0s Moss Drops, in pails... .......... 00... il Moss Drops.in bbis................ 9% Sour Drops, mm pails........0........:. 12 IMiperiais, in pails... 4 Eyiperiais: im bbis...... 13 FRUITS. Oranges 2 hOe 3 75@ Orauess ~ ce] los, ee Pe ranges, Imperials, # box............ 00@4 5 Oranges, Valencia Soe Ee C “ Bemons; choice... 2 75@3 25 Lemons, fancy. ......0 2... 3 50@4 00 Bananas $ bunch...................... 2 00@4 00 Malaga Grapes, # Wee Malaga Grapes, ® bbl.................. Wigs, tasera We 12@16 Wigs fancy dq... 18@20 Figs. baskets 40 b @b.............01 1! 14@15 Dates. frails G2 @ 6 Dates, 4% do @.... 2 | @ 7 Mates, SM @6 Manat... @ 1% Dates, Fard 10 box @ .00/27.27.""140 @U Dates, Fard 50 box #D........ |B Dates, Persian 50 bbox ®.......1 77" @% PEANUTS, | Steady. Prime Hed, raw # ib................ Choice do dO @8s Fancy do QO @ 9 Choice White, Vado... 94%@10 Haneyt Va do... 2 WX%x@u NUTS. Almonds, Terragona, #tb......... 8@ Almonds, Ioaca, ua Cea ool Brazils, 06 Sa Pecons, GQ 22s. 10@14 Filberts, Barcelona do........... Filberts, Sicily GG sae Walnuts, Chilli QO... @12% Walnuts, Grenobles do............. 14@15 ’ Walnuts, California do Aer Cocoa Nuts, # 100 ee @4 50 Hickory Nuts, large #@ bu............. Hickory Nuts.small do ........... 1 24 PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packine & risi quote as follows: one PORK. Heavy Mesa Povk................. 2 $17 75 Back Pork, short eut............... 18 00 Family Clear Pork, very eheap..........4 19 00 Pe aa Onn paeker........-.. i9 50 - P. Booth’s Clear Pork, Kansas City.... 2 Extra Clear Pork ........ i. : ~ 30 00 Extra B Clear Pork................ 2... Clear Back Pork, new..................... 21 00 Boston Clear Pork, extra quality... 20 %5 Standard Clear Pork, the Tene. : os 21 50 All the above Pork is Newly Packed. DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES. Long Clears, heavy, 500 Ib. Cases....... 94, , oO. Half Cases......... 934 Long Clear medium, 500 Ib Cases....... 9% oO Half Cases ....... 93% Long Clears light, 500 tb Cases.......... 914 do. Half Cases.......... 93% Short Clears, heavy.................000. 10 do. MICGNIN ooo 2 10 do. Hen. 10 Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 tb cases.. Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 Ib cases... 10% Extra Long Ciear Backs, 300 ib cases.. 103% Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 Ib cases.. 10% Bellies, extra quality, 500 Ib cases...... 10 Bellids, extra quality, 300 Ib cases...... 1014 Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 Ib cases...... 10% LARD. ARIQL COS) Benes a. 9 auiand 50 Th Pubs .. oo. cc... oe 914 LARD IN TIN PAILS. 20 Ib Round Tins, 80 ib racks............ 914 50 Ib Round Tius, 100 tb racks.......... 914 3 ib Pails, 20 in a case................... 10 5 Pails, 12 in acase................... 9% 10% Pails, 6 in & case .. .............2 06. 9% . SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN. Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy.... 18% Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 4 do. Hebe... .. 144% Hames, Califormia.. 2752... 20... eo. 10% Shoulders, plain... 2. 42.2... occ... 9% Extra Clear Bacon...................... 1% Dried Beef, Extra.............0.00000... 15 Dried Beef, Hams... 2.2... 2.6.0.5: 16 BEEF IN BARRELS. Rolled Beef, for family use.............. 8 00: Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 ibs...... 13 00 CANNED BEEF. Libby, MeNeil & Libby, 14 cans, % doz. THGASG 25 a 20 50 d 2 tb cans, 1 doz. in case.... 3 20 Oo. Armour & Co., 14 ib cans, % doz in case 20 50 Prices named are lowest at time of going to press. subject always to Market changes. FRESH MEATS. John Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows: New York Counts, solid meats, per gal..... Selects, solid meats, per gallon...._. Standards, solid meats, per gallon... FRESH FISH, OMIA orcs sla oe ee ack eae Haddock .............. Mie cece z Smelts.... Mackinaw Trout............ =) © ¥eee oO. 21 cans, 1 doz. in case.. 3 20 do. 2 i Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 00 SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED. ROME SHUSARE. o.oo ec 10% Pork Sausage Meat, 50 ib tubs............... Pram SaMssiee 15 Wongue Sausage... 2. oo... 2. iene il IRAVOE SQUSARG. ooo 844 Frankfort Sausage..................... 10 loed Sausage. . 2c... cc 8% ROMO, WING. oes oe 8% Bologna, straight... ..: ... 0... ee. 8% Bologna, Ghicko: .-.... 02... ook. ooo 84 rents ONCGSe 8 84 PIGS’ FEET. bt hale DArEels. = 6 oo. oe oc $3 85 In quarter barrels... .... 600.020 2 10. Wie ROS te ce ee 1 00 TRIPE. dy Wale Parrels 22. 20 $3 70 iiequarter barrels... 5.2... 22.2... 1 80 Pnstts. oo 85 Présh Beet, sides... . .. oc. ccc ce ccc k T%@ 9% Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ 10 @ll. Dressed HOgs. «..\.. .. 5... cases ee ee 9 @9% Mutton, carcasses.................000. i0 @l1 WG@RE 2 ee 9 @10 Spring Chickens. ....:....66..2..0500.% 16@17 OWI oe oe eee ics etree hac ac 15@16 POrSk SAUSARG..- 8 8. ees sede caca. 10%@11 Pork Sausagein bulk.................. @10% OOO 2 eo os sates Cake ec ce cts cie @10 OYSTERS AND FISH. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: OYSTERS. New York Counts, per can................... 3S: WEstes SOlGCtS. oe ie oe 35 Pigtre BelCGts so >. ok eee 30: Fe Re hs ed cet ee a ee 23: AVOUUG Me eo oe ue 20: Can prices above are for casesand half cases... v Dry Goods. Spring & Company quote as tu..uwo: WIDE BROWN COTTONS. Androscoggin, 9-4..23 |Pepperell, 10-4...... 25 Androscoggin, 6-4. .21 |Pepperell, 11-4...... a Pepperell, 7-4...... 16%|Pequot, 7-+4......... Pepperell, 8-4......20 (Pequot, 8-4......... 4 Pepperell, 9-4...... 22% |Pequot, 9-4......... 24. CHECKS. Caledonia, XX,o0z..11 |Park Mills, No. 90..14 Caledonia, X,0z...10 (Park Mills, No. 100.15 Economy, 02....... 10 (Prodigy, 0z......... 11 Park Mills, No. 50..10 [Otis Apron......... 10% Park Mills, No. 60..11 {Otis Furniture..... 10% Park Mills, No. 70..12 |York, 1 oz.......... Park Mills, No. 80..138 |York, AA, extra oz. it OSNABURG, Alabama brown.... 7 |Alabama plaid..... 8 Jewell briwn....... 9%|Augusta plaid...... 8 Kentucky brown. 10% Toledo plaid........ i% Lewiston brown... 9%|Manchester plaid.. 7 Lane brown........ / 9% New Tenn. plaid.. Al Louisiana plaid.... 8 |Utility plaid........ 6% BLEACHED COTTONS. Avondale, 3....... 814iGreene, G, 4-4...... 5% Art cambrics, nee "11% Hill, Bt ce 84 Androscoggin, 4-4 8% | Hill, - oe a 7% Androscoggin, 5-4. 12% Hope, ue ee oe Ballou, 4-4......---- Th King’ phillip cam- aes Da: .... ete 6 brie, 4-4........... 11% Boott, O.4-4.......- 81%4|Linwood, 4-4....... 9 Boott, E.5-5........ i Lonsdale, Abele 8% Boott, AGC, 4-4..... 914|Lonsdale cambric. Bet Boott, R. 3-4....... 534|Langdon, GB, 4-4.. a” Blackstone, AA 4-4 i Langdon, 45........ Chapman, xX, 4-4.... 6%|\Masonville, 4-4..... 1% Conway, 4-4.......-- 73,|Maxwell. 4-4........ 10% Cabot, 4-4.......---- %i4|New York Mill, 44. 10% Cabot, 7-8......----- 6144|New Jersey, 4. 8 Canoe, 3-4........-- 4 |Pocasset, P.M.C.. 7% Domestic, 36....... 714 |Pride of the West. 1 Dwight Anchor, 4-4.10 |/Pocahontas, 4-4.... 8% Davol, 4-4.......--- 914 |Slaterville, 7-8...... 6% Fruit of Loom, 44.. 9 |Victoria, AA....... Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 844|Woodbury, 44...... 3x Fruit of the Loom, ‘Whitinsville, 4-4... i cambric, 44.....- 2 |Whitinsville, 7-8.... 6% Gold Medal, 4-4.. .. 7 | Wamsutta, 4-4...... - 16% Gold Medal, 7-8..... eC 36...10% Gilded Age......--- CORSET JEANS Armory ....-------- TM! ae. ue Si Y Androscoggin sat.. Canoe River.......- 8l4|Naumkeag satteen. 8% 6 |Pepperell bleached 8% Clarendon, .....--- 64 ‘Pepperell Sab... 1: 9% Hallowell Imp..... 63, 4 Rockport poo cee eee 4 Ind. Orch. Imp..... 644 | Lawrence Bato. ..5 ” Laconia .........-+- 7% |Conegosat.......... PRINTS. ion, solid........ 5%iGloucester .......... 6 Albion, grey....-.-- 6 \Gloucestermourn’ g.6 Allen’s checks...... 5%|Hamilton fancy....6 Ailen’s fancy......- 5\%4|Hartel fancy........ 6 Allen’s pink..... oe a9 ee 6 Allen’spurple....... 6% |Manchester SO 6 American, fancy.. ..5% |Oriental fancy...... 6 Arnold faney.....--- 6 |Oriental robes...... 6% Berlinsolid.......-- 5% |Pacifie robes........ 6 Cocheco fancy....-- § |Richmond..........- 6 Cocheco robes.....-- 3 Sena piven. oa 5% afancy.... impson’s.........-. thapeiene coe . oe SP ston fancy.. Eagle fancy.....---- 5 |Washington blues..8 Garner pink eee c 1 FINE BROWN COTTONS. n A, 4-4.... 8 jIndian Orchard, 49. 814 Soe eve AA Lo 4 ‘Indian Orchard, 36. 8 Boston F, 4-4....... * Laconia 8,34... 16% Continental C, 43.. Fac Leanne 8, Min... W% Continental D, 4in 83; Mass. BB, 2 br toga V a i enosties D; 7-8... 5%|Nashua R, 4-4...... 1% Conestoga G, 30-in. by \Nashua O, e. 1% Dwight X, eee 6 “Newmarket N. oes Oe Dwight Y, 7-8......- 64%4|Pepperell E, 39-in.. 734 Dwight Z, AA oe 7 * Pepperell R, oa Dwight Star, 4-4.... 7% ‘Pepperell O, 7-8.. oe Ewight Star, 4o-in.. 9 |Pepperell N, 3-4.... 644 Enterprise BE, 36.. 534/Pocasset_C, Whe 7 Great Falls E, eae) * Saranac ee 1% Farmers’ A, a... 6%\Saranac E.......... 9 Indian Orchard, $-4 734! DOMESTIC GINGHAMS. Amoskeag .......-- 8 Renfrew, dress styl 94% Amoskeag, Persian Johnson Manfg ee styles........----- 10% Bookfold......... RY ates ......--------- 7%, eS Manfg Co, Berkshire ........-. 6%! dress styles...... 12% Glasgow checks.... 7 |slaterville, dress Glasgow checks, f’ y % 7¥4|_styles............. 9 Glasgow checks, |White Mfg Co, stap 7% val styles...... 8 |White Mfz Co, fanec 8 ed . |W hite Mant’g Co, Gloucester, new standard ......... 74%||_ Earlston......... Plunket ..........-: %14||Gordon.........--- Lancaster .........- 8% |'Greylock, dres Langdale.........-- Gul styles ........-- WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS. by Androscoggin, 7-4. a Depperel 10-4... 27% Androscoews) 8-4... Pepperell, 11-4..... 82% Pepperell, 7-4.....- 20 ‘Pequot, eS 21 Pepperell, eA eee a2 ye | ‘Pequot, 8-4 os 24 Pepperell, 9-4...... 25 |Pequot, 9-4......... 27% HEAVY BROWN COTTONS. Atlantie A, 4-4..... 74) Lawrence XX, 4-4.. eM Atlantic H, 4-4..... a x. a0... if Atlantic D, 4-4..... i aero LL, 4-4.. . 5% Atlantic P, 44...... eal ‘Newmarket N...... i Atiantie LL, 44.... 5% Mystic River, 44... 6% Adriatic, 36......... 74 |Pequot A, 4-4....... 8 Augusta, 4-4 Se oe 6%) ‘Piedmont, OB coos ek Boott M, 44.....-... 734 |Stark A AA, 44....... 7% Boott FF, 44....... 7% /Tremont cc, 4-4.... 5% Graniteville, 4-4.... 6%|Utica, 4-4........... 9 Indian Head, 4-4.. ndiana Head 45-in.12%|Wachusett, 30-in... 63% TICKINGS. Amoskeag, ACA.. Malis KARR. 18% Amoskeag ‘ 4-4. as iMalis, XXX. ........ 15% Amoskeag, A...... 3 falls, BB... 11% Amoskeag, B...... 12 |Falls, BBC, 36...... 194% Amoskeag, C......- li (Falls, awning......19 Amoskeag, D...... 10% Hamilton, BT, 32..12 Amoskeag, E...... 10 |Hamilton, D....... 10 Amoskeag, F....... 9% Hamilton, H.... .. 10 Premium A,44....17 Hamilton fancy...10 Premium B........ 16 «Methuen AA....... 13% eexirnd4t........---2 16 Methuen ASA...... 18 Extra7-8...... .... 14% Omega * of IS, i Gold Medal 4-4...... 15 jOmega A, 4-4....... 13 “EGE Ne Be 1 Omega ACA, 7-8....14 Pde 3... 5 oes 14 Omega ACA, 4-4....16 BG chs ciass 14 te SE, is as 24 TS ee care 16 jOmega SE, 4-4 cokes 27 ee ae so eres 19 Omega M. TS = Cordis AAA, 32.../.14 |Omega M, 4-4....... Cordis ACA, 32..... 15 lahetnckat SS&SSWw Cordis No. 1, 32..... 15 Shetucket,S & SW. Cordis No. 2........ 14 |Shetucket, SFS.. Cordis No.3........ 13 |Stockbridge A..... a Cordis No. 4........ 11% |Stoekbridge frney. 8 GLAZED CAMBRICS. Garmer......-..-.. 5 |Empire ......: Mes Hookset...........- 5 |Washington........ 44 Red Cross........-- 5 |Edwards............ 5 Forest Grove....... IS. 8. & Sons....-..-- 5 GRALN BAGS. American A....... 19 \Old Ironsides......15% ieee A... .-s- 23%, Wheatland ......... 21% DENIMS. Boston... --. 5. -- TOs COl os 5 css 10% Everett blue....... 14% |Warren ARA.....- 122% Everett brown..... 14%, Warren BB........11% Otis AXA.......... 12%|Warren CC......... i Otis BB.....-......- 11%|York fancy........ PAPER CAMBRICS. Manville.......-.... 6 18, 8. & Sons.....-...- 6 Masgnville......... 6 |Garner ............. 6 WIGANS. Red Cross.......... 7 {Thistle Mills........ Orin 3... ass. is D TROS: . sis ssa af B MEOFOT .. i = - fos 7 SPOOL COTTON. Brooks .............50 esi and Phoenix Clark’s O.N.F..... 55 ills ball sewing’.30 J.& P. Coats.......i 55 Greeh & Daniels.. = Willimantic 6 cord .55 ‘Merricks ueecess is Willimantic 3 cord.40 ‘Stafford ............ 33 Charleston ball sew ‘Hall & Manning.. i ing thread........ 30 |Holyoke............ 25 SILESIAS. { MOO WT: boobs os chee 17 {Masonville TS...... 8 TE AOS os ee os 124% \Masonville S....... 10% ME ss ie ss bee te 10 |Lonsdale........... 9% Anpchor............. 1% iLonsdale A......... 16 Centennial......... Nictory 0..;....... 6 Blackburn ......... B [Vietwory 7s... 00.3 cs 7 DAVO)......-.+ pivccdd TV ietory D..o 2.55. 10 London.. .., 12%! Victory K.......... 2% Paconia -- Veo upisaeeee 2 |PhoenixA..... arree OM sce eeoees 2 Phoenix B..........10 7%|Wachusett, 4-4..... T% 4 . a 7 12% 1% : Sensationalism Regarding Food. From the New York Merchants’ Review. The Northwestern Trade Bulletin makes this relevant point, regarding our large and growing exports of dairy products: ‘‘ What a blow at this important trade might be struck by the publication in foreign countries of the report of the New York Senate Committee on Public Health, that the adulteration of butter with tallow, bone and lard oiis is practiced in almost every town and city in that State, the amount of the adulterated being equal to half the whole product of natural butter! It would soon ruin our foreign dairy trade to have the people of Europe know how extensively the edulteration of butter and cheese is practic- ed. Tosay nothing of the injury of the health of our own people, the adulteration of butter and cheese is ruinous and must be stopped.” This is predicted probably in remembrance of the fact that the German and French authorities cited American’ newspapers to prove that our hogs werealive with trichine. There is another view of these home re- ports on our food adulterations, and that is that many of them are exaggerated and sen- sational. Some of the testimony taken be- fore the Senate Committee as to the extent and effect of butter mixtures was notorious- ly untrustworthy—as that ascribing the dis- ease of a syphilitie patient to working in oleomargarine; it is strongly suspected also that some of the testimony was suborned. Be that as it may, the leaning of the com- mittee towards protecting dairy interests (a laudable desire in itself) plainly appear- ed, and the wildest statements were sent out with the dignity and force of an official out- giving from the highest legislative body of the first State of the Union. The press has taken it up with all the sensational effects of its vigor and wit. If any one wanted to make the impression abroad that no Ameri- can butter is safe to eat, it will be seen that our trade is abundantly condemned out of our own mouths. The truth is, we suffer, in the competition | with other producing countries, by too much | free speech. The whole trouble with Min- ister Sargent, at Berlin, grew out of his blurting out his private opinions about the German Government in official dispatches and the worse incontinence of our State de- partment’s publishing those sentiments broadcast to the world. We lack discretion and reticence. Asa people, we “blow” too much—tell everything we know and a good deal more, sometimes. It is true that food adulterations are too prevalent and are hurtful of our custom. There is on that account the more necessity of not making the matter worse than it really is. The Senate Committee might have fore- gone a little of its opportunity to make capi- tal with its constituents and the farming community by not publishing as preven all that was affirmed before it, and simply mak- ing its report in the form of a bill, with the assurance that the facts as to the aduitera- tions fully justified it—which the legislature would have been very ready to believe. | Talking for buncombe hurts our business | reputation as much as adulterations do. 9 A Detroit Comment. | From the Free Press. bill does not seem to have excited any up- roarious demand for such a measure and there certainly was no such demand _ before. The truth is that the better portion of the business community fights shy of such a measure. They would be very glad of an act which would insure at all times an equit- able distribution without needless expense of an embarassed merchant’s assets; and they would assent very cheerfully to all proper provision for the release of the bank- rupt who has become such through misfor- tune. But their experience of bankrupt laws makes them very doubtful of the at- tainment of these objects. Practically they distribute the bankrupt’s assets, if he has any, to the court officials and the lawyers, and release the rogue quite as often as the honest man. The shrewd merchant, asa /rule, prefers, therefore, to take his chances with the State laws. There is a disposition, however, to give the Senate bill a fair consideration, and if it stands the test ,it will undoubtedly gain friends before discussion is reached in the House. If there is at that time any earnest demand for the measure the House will un- doubtedly pass it. —————————-> -2 <> __ Metallic Cloth. A novel invention is about to be commer- cially utilized, it is stated, on a considerable scale—namely, the prosecution of metallic cloth, which, if desired, can be impressed with a pattern or printed upon. Inthe man- ufacture of this curious fabric, the metal in- tended to be used, is rendered into small particles, short or long, according to require- ments, and in this form is mixed with sticky material, such as India rubber. The mix- ture, as thus prepared, is transferred to goods made from cotton, wool, linen, silk, or other textile, after which the fabric is dried or calendered, or dressed in-a suitable manner, so as to produce a smooth metallic face. The process having thus been carried on to this extent, the cloth can be impressed with a desirable pattern, by the simple op- eration of embossing, or the pattern may be printed on its surface in its usual manner. | The liquid charged with the metal does not penetrate to the underside, but leaves it clean. The finished material is quite soft to the touch and pliable. ae ioe Horace MeNitt, general dealer, Haring: ‘‘1 * have profited by your labor from the first.” The passage by the Senate of a bankrupt | Hardware. Review of the Week. General Hardware.—There are no par- ticular changes to note during the past week. Prices are very steady, there being a few advances and declines in minor lines, but quotations, as a whole, show few alterations. Jobbers complain of small margains, and this, attended with greater expense, as the tendency among dealers is to buy only what is necessary to keep up the assortment. On the other hand, it is claimed this is a healthy state of things as the consumer will be better able to meet his bills when they become due. 5 : Recently the Globe Horse Nail Co. had two patents they own, sustained by the courts. A circular was issued and mailed to nearly, if not quite, all of the horse nail manufacturers in the United States, from which it seems that the Globe Nail Co. re- garded them generally as infringers. We understand that the AuSable Horse Nail Co., who were not parties to, and took no part in, the suit held to sustain the patents, claim that they are not affected by the decision of the courts, because as they say the nails do not infringe the patents and are not made like the nails held to infringe. They claim that their nails are legally made by machin" ery patented by Daniel Dodge, and which was not in controversy in jthe suit decided. They propose to protect their customers and guarantee them against damages from any claim of the Globe Nail Co. When this mat- ter came up several years ago, they issued the following circular: 4 Warren st., New York, Aug. 18, 1879. To the Hardware Trade: Gentlemen: In reply to the circular re- cently issued by the Globe Nail Co., we would say that our nails are entirely differ- ent from theirs, and are not described in, or covered by, the patent against the infringe- ment of which they especially caution sell- ers. The blank nail “is punched or cut from a plate, the shank of which is pro- duced by cold-rolling the body of the blank.” Our nails are hot forged from the end of nail ‘rods while the ironis at a welding heat. | George Gifford, Esq., our counsel, says that sellers and users of our nails incur no liabil- ty whatever under the patents named in said circular. If any attempts should be made to recover damages under said letters Spatent, for selling or using nails of our manufac- ture, please send the paper to us, and we will guarantee that you suffer no loss what- ever, Yours very respectfully, AUSABLE HorsE NAIL Co. A. Bussing, Secretary. We understand that they are now sending out copies of the above, adding, under date of April 13, 1884, that they propose to stand 4 by this guarantee and fully protect their cus- tomers. In this connection, it may be said that the AuSable Horse Nails seem to be growing in favor with the trade. This is due to the excellency of the nails and the en- terprise of the company in introducing them. Mr. Wm. Russell, a horse-shoer of national fame, has of late been visiting the large towns of note and giving public exhibitions of his skill, as well as demonstrating the quality of the AuSable horse nails. i: ONails. The “ pool” mentioned in our i last review has been perfected and gone into effect, and it is expected by the manufactur- | ers that it will be productive of much good ‘in maintaining firm prices for nails. A good i many orders were booked for nails in car- ' load lots during the past week by dealers, who previously had been buying ‘from hand to mouth.” The reason was obvious. If nails went higher, a little money would be made. In any event, the pool would have a tendency to strengthen a weakening market, and the price would be no lower than at psesent. As an indication of the influence of the pool upon the Chicago market, a cor- respondent writes, ‘‘Should the proposed syndicate be consummated the price on nails will certainly go from 15¢ to 25c per keg higher.” The quotation on nails remains, however, the same as before, $2.65@$2.60, with the usual rebate for car-load_lots. Fence Wire. That the present higher price of barbed wire is to be maintained is evident in the firmness of;reply when a job- ber is asked for a.‘‘eut” price. ‘‘ Large orders” do not cause the manufacturers even to deviate from the ruling market, as they ‘have all that they can do without undue solicitation of trade. Those customers who waited until now to make their purchases of manufacturers’ are not having deliveries made to suit them, on account of the abund- ance of orders. This constantly increasing demand for barbed wire has necessitated the invention of something by which it could be handled with greater ease and less damage from the sharp barbs. The Hawkeye Steel Barb Fence Co. have invented a device they call the Hawkeye Barbed Wire Lifter and Carrier, in the use of which they claim ‘‘No danger of cutting hands, scratching fingers or tearing clothes;’’ “Saves the temper and saves time and soon saves the price of the Lifter.” Of course this is in the hands of some of the active jobbers. Painted barbed wire continues to be quoted at 514¢ with the addition of 1c per per pound extra for gal- vanized. Glass. Cablegrams from Belgium show that the strike of glass-blowers continues and consequently receipts from Europe are very small. Atthe same time, domestic. stocks have been permitted to run low and must be replenished. Reports from Pitts- burg are to the effects that the window glass factories are now running to their full ca pacity, as the manufacturers seem to realize that this is necessary in order to insure ; enough product to supply the trade. J obbers | are carrying fair stocks, as there is good de- mand, the usual active. building in spring be- ing well under way. There is no disposition whatever to cut the market price, and it may truthfully be said that glass is very firm with a strong tendency to advance. Sales are made upon a basis of 60 and 5@60 and 10 per cent. discount with perhaps a slight shading upon very large orders. ——__~ 6 Business in Southern Michigan. J. K. Boise, who has been engaged in gen- eral trade at Hudson for nearly thirty years, was interviewed while here to attend the State Republican Convention regarding the condition of trade in Southern Michigan, and replied: © “ Very quiet so far this spring; in fact, too quiet. The bad crops of last year have made the farmers hard up, although general- ly they are in a good financial condition. Wheat has wintered well and the farmers are now putting in their oats, but it is too soon to be able to say anything about crops yet. A great deal depends upon having a good crop this year,” Cee a A Novel Emetic. Dr. A. E. Sturge, a medical missionary to Siam, describes the case of a young native lady who took, with suicidal intent, a large dose of opium. The usual emetics failed; whereupon the old Siamese doctor took a live eel, clipped off a part of his tail, to make him squirm in a lively manner, and then poked him tail first down the patient’s throat. Emesis was at once accomplished in a first-class way, and the damsel lived to con- quer hearts if not eels. Oo There are at present four manufacturers of quinine in the United States besides Powers & Weightman. They are McKesson & Rebbins, of this city, and Keasby & Mat- terson, Rosengarten, and Whitting of Phila- delphia. More than one-third of all the quinine manufactured is consumed in the United States, and Bouehringer and Powers & Weightman together produce more than one-half of what is made.—N. Y. Mer- chants’ Journal. ———-o- A Chicago drummer was examining a damaged revolver in a Paw Paw store, when he suddenly picked up another which lay beside it, and before the proprietor could in- terfere, pulled the trigger with the remark, “What’s the matter with this one?” A loud report anda shattered forefinger assured him that the revolver was all right, and the trouble lay elsewhere. ———_—._2?<____ A clothing dealer in St. Louis haviae late- ly offered to give a stem-winding watch to every buyer of a suit of clothes, his next neighbor, who isa jeweler, has revenged himself by offering to give a suit of clothes to every purchaser of a stem-winding watch. HARDWARE GOODS. eee Prevailing rates at Chicago are as follows: AUGERS AND BITS. Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob F lush BGS ooo cca a es 50&10&10 EVER DOOR. .5 oo Ae ke dis 50&10 BRACES. WSHBDOT 6500 ae ogee a tess dis $ 40 GGUS oe. ee ot es dis 50 SPOMOLG.. 326.6. ee ee dis 50 Am Bal. icy occ ec ee ck dis net BUCKETS. Well, plain.........0.0-..0. ses ecee cee ones $ 00 Well: SWiVel. 5) 2200- 5). ee ee 4 50 BUTTS, CAST. Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis 60&10 Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis 70 Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed. .dis 60 Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint..dis 50&10 Wrounht Loose Pin.................. dis 60 Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis 60& 5 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned........ dis 60& 5 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver tipped 6.2 oie a. oa acs ce dis 60& 5 Wrought Table. ...................-.-. dis ~ 60 Wrought Inside Blind................ dis 60 Wrought Brass.:..60.5.... .t s,s .c eee dis 65&10 Blind; Clark 62.0... <...0. auc. ss ...dis 70&10 Blind, Parker's. <<. 0006.6 665. 4s ce dis 70&10 Blind, Shepard’s...................... dis 70 Spring for Screen Doors 8x2%, per gross 15 00 Spring for Screen Doors 3x3....pergross 18 00 Adjustable........ pecs eae ... dis i080 ves. Old style. a, Ose dis 50 N. Hq. ClCG. ee dis 55 Douglass’ Pua eee he cctesectees dis 50 Pierces’ dis 50 SNelUIS 066 ee ag dis 5 COOK 8 oe a se dist0810 Jennings’ ‘, SENUINE......-..... 0s ee eee dis 25 Jennings’, imitation.............--.---- dis40&10 BALANCES. SOUND ee eee css dis 25 BARROWS. Raion oe ee $ 15 00 CrANGOM eee oe ee oa ae ee net 36 00 BELLS. Hamid: ee dis $ 60&10 COW beic...: Ce eae .. is 64 OA eo a, ee ee, dis 15 GONG oe ese eee dis 20 oor, Sargent... (....-.--- se. dis 5d BOLTS. ° STOVG). 252) cig eens eee dis $ 40 Carriage and Tire, Old Hst. . 2.2.05. ©. dis 80&20 PLOW a er ae dis 30&10 Sleith Sho@e:. 352.2 3.28 eee ee dis 50&15 Gast Barrel’ Bolts. 2 062 ei. nk dis 50 Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis 55 Cast Barrel, brass knobs....... ..... dis 50 Cast Square Spring..........-........ dis 5d Cast @ngim. 22s oe ee dis 60 Wrought Barrel, brass nob. -<...::. dis 55&10 Wrought Square Coa es 2 55&10 Wrought Sunk Flush................. dis 30 } CAPS. Bly’s 1-10. 505. oh ee a ea per m $ 65 Hick’s C.F..... See Or sca hides cares 60 GOD. a a a 35 MiB Ot. oe oe es a cee, 60 CATRIDGES. Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list 50 Rim Fire, United States................ dis 50 CentralHire: 56. Gee ga kk dis 4% CHISELS. Socket Hirmer..6.....9. <2. 6.56.62. 5. dis 65&10 Socket Framing........... 65&10 SoGKGt COMMOM. «6 6s o.oo eee cee dis 65&10 SOGKEE SLICKS. ... 60.5558... uc se dis 65&10 Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis 40 Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis 20 COl ee es fe net COMBS. Curry, Lawrence’s...........-.0.s00+ dis 383% HOtchKiss ,........2-.0eeseeec eee e eee dis 265 COCKS. Brass, RACKING’S.... 2... 06s... cece eevee 40&10 BIGGS os sks sds Du eeaaie i yeaa ceed 49&10 BR ee eon eh eee ee 40&10 MeSITAaT e e ee 60 COPPER. Planished, 14 oz cut to size.............. Bb 37. Aish. 14x50 14 KOO a es ae seen oe 39 | DRILLS. Morse’s Bit Stock. ........... 05.0... dis 35 | Taper and Straight Shank............ dis 20 Morse’s Taper Sodnk................, dis 380 ELBOWS. Com, 4 piece, 6 in..............+... doz net as 10 Corrugated ........+++...+. aoe yah eens dis EXPANSIVE BITS. Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. dis 2 GALVANIZED IRON, Nos. 16to20, 22and 24, 25and26, 27 28 List 12 13 14 15 18 Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. GAUGES. Stanley Rule and Lveel Co.’s......... dis 50 HAMMERS. Maydole:& Cows. ceo os ss nes dis 15 BOR ee ec ee dis 25 Yerkes & Plumb’s..0.25:......40.. 00: dis 30 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 40 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 ¢ 40&10 HANGERS. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis a Champion, anti-friction.............. dis Kidder, wood tra.k............c0-000: dis 0 HINGES. eae Clapics bse ee dis 60 SESE ae oc per doz, net, 2 50 Sores Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 54 14 and lOnGer 4 25 Screw Hook and Eye, % ............ net 10% Serew Hook and Bye 5¢.............. net 8% Serew Hook and Eye 3 %4 Cece ues ae net 7% Serew Hook and Eye, % ee ead. net 7% Sthap and io aie 6010 HOLLOW WARE. Stamped Tin Ware................-...... 60&10 Japanned Tin Ware...............5.20.. 30 Granite Iron Ware... .o:25.2..0036.5... 25 HOES. Grebo oe. $11 00, dis 40 Guu 2 ee eae 11 50, dis 40 GRU ee es aoc. 12 00, dis 40 KNOBS. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...... hy: 00, dis 66 Door, porcelain, j jap. trimmings.... 2 50, dis 60 Door, porcelain, plated trim- TINGS list, 7 25, dis 60 Door, porcelain, trimmings list, 8 25, dis 60 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain...... dis 60 Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.. ......... d 60 HRGmacite 2 dis 50 LOCKS—DOOR. Russell & Irwin Mtg. Co.’s reduced list dis 60 Mallory, Wheelnr & Co.’s..............-. dis 60 IBEAITOrG:S) 05 oe dis 60 INONWRIKOS 2 ea ds ke ee dis 60 LEVELS. Stantey Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis 65 MILLS Coffee, Parkers ©0.’S.... 60.00.00 es cece dis 45 oe P.S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Eateaie: dis 45 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........ dis 45 Coffee, ISMLOPDYISG. fo cc oho eee dis 25 MATTOCKS. Bde Wy6 ooo. ee a es $16 00 dis 40&10 Hunt Eye Rec espe os Ges ce os oe $15 00 dis 40&10 PUM S oe ee eke ie os $18 50 dis 20 & 10 NAILS. Common, Brad and Fencing. HOG GO GO ee keg $2 e Sd and 9d Sav ok ee GdlianiGd adver 50 4d and 5d ON a ee 75 SO MAVANCO ee, 1 50 po MMe: BAVANCE 2-6... oe e Clinch mails: adv... 5. 2S. 1% Finishing t 10d 8d 6d 4d at Size—inches { 3 2% 2 1% Adv. @ keg $125 150 175 200 MOLLASSES GATES. Stebbin’s Pattern ........ Regs ae loose dis 70 Stebbin’s Genuine: 2... v.25... ee. dis 77 Enterprise, self-measuring.............. dis 25 MAULS. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled........... dis 50 OILERS. Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent............... dis 55 Zine, with brass hottome 60) dis 50 Brass or Conner De Meso dis 40 IR@a pene 6 he ee a. per gross, $12 net OIMBECAGS ee oes oe el ee ec 50 PLANES. Ohio Tool Cows; fancy. .............-....- dis 15 Seiota Heneh. 2. 02s dis 25 Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... ......... dis 15 Bench, firstquality.. .............-:..,.- -dis 20 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood and i PANS. ny: ACMCG 23. oe coe oes eee, dis 40&10 Common} polished.................2-.0 dis 60 Dripping eee kee eee see ca a 8 Ib 8 RIVETS. Tron and IWnmned. .o5.. 0... 2... se. a 40 Copper Rivets and Burs.............. dis 40&10 PATENT FLANISAED IRON. “A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 Ws “B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27 Broken packs 4c ® bb extra. ROOFING PLATES. IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........... 5 75 IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.......... 7% IC, "20x2 28, choice Charcoal Terne........... 12 00 Ex, 20x2 28, choicC Charcoal Terne.......... 16 90 ROPES. : Sisal, % In. and larger.................. # PB 9% VERDI es Bee a 15 SQUARES. Steel and Iron. o 22). eo. co dis 50 ry and Bevels 3 oe. dis 50 MEO eee Gee dis 20 SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. Com. INOS: TOGO )TE 0 $4 20 $3 20 Nos. 15 Boek 3 20 Nos. 3 20 Nos. 22 3 20 Noe E 3 40 No 3 60 4 60 All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra. SHEET ZINC. Im casks of 600 Ths, @ D...........:...... 6% In smaller quansities, ® fh.............. 7 TINNER’S SOLDER. INO. 1, Refined: 0.0.02. 6. oi ee... 13 00 Market Half-and-half............. 2... 15 00 Strictly Half-and-half.................. 16 TIN PLATES. Cards for Charcoals, $6 75. IC, 10x14 Charcoal. ....52......,0.2.. 6 50 IX, LOxt4 Charcoal... ..8. cf. c05 0k c 5. 8 50 IC, Tex Tl? Charcoak. oo. cose. su. 6 50 IX, dexie,-ChareOal -..0200..2.5. 03 8 50 Ic, 14x20; Charcoal... 222... 0.00 5. ee. 6 50 Ix, 14x), Charceal. .. 2. 2.2... 8 50 IxXx, 14x2 20, Ghareoal. 6. 2. ck oe 10 50 IXXX, 14x20, Charcool..-...oee. ck 12 50 IXXXX, 14x20, CUEVCORE. . ooo. elec sess 14 50 Ix, 20x28, Charcoal Poss DC, 100 Plate Charcoal.. Dx, 100 Plate Charcoal.................. DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal.................. 10 50 DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal................ 12 50 Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 6 %5 rates Dampers, Americag......-.............. 383% Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00. dis 25 FILES. American File Association List...... dis 40&10 DISSUOINS 5 ie ao koe dis 40&10 Now Anierican.. 20... 0 ooo dis 40&10 IUIGHOISGH So es ok oe hy at ve ee dis 40&10 HPOUCIIS 2 oo a ae dis 30 Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis 33% | TRAPS. Steel, Games! oe esse Onoida Communtity, Newhouse’s....... dis % Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. 60 FFQTOUNGSS ooo ka eee eee ec 60 Sibi & W. Mie. Covs.: e205 bob. ec 60 Mouse, CHOROR 25 6 ccc ce us weeks 20c 8 doz Mouse, delusion..................... $1 269 doz WIRE. Bright Market. 265. 020.0 co ok dis 60 Annealed Market................00.cccees dis 60 Coppered Market. ..... 2. ....5 000.0 0c ce cee dis 55 Fexure Pate... oo oes cece apices ce dis 55 (Pinned Market... o.oo. 6... See cdc whee 's kis i Tinned Broom fo o.oo. et 92 Ib Tinned Mattress... 20.6.2... sc. ce neeees Ib Po Coppered Spring Steel.................. dis 37% Tinned Spring Steel....................2. dis 37% PAI ONG ca. soe ole eas ees wa 8 Ib 3% Barbed WenGes occ. ses coe ica oe cee rene : CORDELE: i ar a sy Co a new list net PRRAS Roe ease aa pero dee ek new list net WIRE GOODS. PIE oe se cas eae dis 60&10&10 nore PY GG is ceo cee hake as one dis 60&10&10 PIOO WR oe a ee dis 60&10&10 Gate Hooks and EByes.............. dis 60&10&10 WYENCHES. Baxter’ s Adjustable, nickeled.......... COO'S. GONUING. oo. oo. ceca ees bh ns woes dis 50 | Coe’s Pat Agricultural, wrought. ...... dis 65 Coe’s Pat., malleable. ................... dis 70 MISCELLANEOUS. Pumps, Cistern..................2.055 dis 60 BOLOWE 8 icici eee ei peiin nl ee ween ees ae Casters, Bed and Plate............... ..dis 50 |NMOTOD S0TWTOV N#OF 159 The Michigan Tradesma. PENCIL PORTRAITS—NO. 11. J.N. Bradford, Better Known as “ Brad.” James N. Bradford was born at Stony Creek, Oakland county, this State, Nov. 23, and shortly afterward removed with his 1844, parents to Orion, in the same county. There he remained until seven years of age, when his parents removed to Grand Rapids, where they lived six years, removing to Ravenna to run a hotel, and work a new farm. Brad. worked on the farm summers, and attended the district school winters, until August 11, 1862, when he enlisted, as a_ private, in the sixth Michigan Volunteers, following the fortunes of his regiment until the close of the war. He then returned to Muskegon, and, for the next three years, followed the lakes summers, and worked in the lumber woods winters. In 1869, he entered into part- nership with his brother, L. C. Bradford, and under the firm name of Bradford Bros., car- ried on a general mercantile business at Ra- yenna, buying out his brother’s interest in 1870, and removing it to Muskegon, where he located in business on Pine street. In 1872, he formed a co-partnership with D. G. Car- penter, which continued until 1873, when they launched out in the lumber business, Brad. selling out his interest, shortly after- ward, to Thomas and Uriah Culbert. He then entered the employ of Wm. Martin, at that time proprietor of the Muskegon City Mills, where he remained three years, serv- ing as clerk, book-keeper, and general hand. He then removed to Fremont Center, where he conducted a general business for Mr. Martin ‘two years under the firm name of J. N. Bradford & Co., at the expiration of which time the stock was removed to Mus- kegon. Brad. then entered into partnership with Peter Neil, engaging in the grocery business, disposing of his interest the fol- lowing spring, and heading toward the silver mines of Coloraeo, where he arrived June, 1879, spending several months roaming around among the different mining camps. His next move was to engage in the tobacco and cigar business, at Denver, selling out, shortly afterward, to wander through Kansas and Missouri. He landed at Grand Rapids, Nov. 4, 1879, and immediately entered the employ of Arthur Meigs & Co., then doing business on Pearl street. At that time, Meigs was buying hay and grain in Indiana, and selling them to the Northern trade, and Brad. was dispatched to the Hosier State to do the buying. His first move involved the firm in a lawsuit, one man refusing to carry out his contract, although afterward com- pelled to payj$517 and costs, and recog- nize the fact that the contract was binding. Jan. 1, 1870, Brad. returned to the house, and occupied the numerous positions of ship- ping clerk, billing clerk, salesman and porter, taking a trip every two weeks to Muskegon and the other towns on the Big Rapids branch. The next spring he took his grips and carried them over the G. R. & L, as far north as Tustin, the F.& P. M., and east on the D., G.H. & M. Two years ago his route was changed so as to include all towns on the C. & W. M., north, but re- taining the territory on the D., G. H. & M., east. This trade he continues to visit with the regularity of clock-work. Mr. Bradford’s chief strength as a sales- man lies in his ability to make friends and hold them. He handles as many—and prob- ably more—customers than any other travel- er out of this market, and sells the same men year after year. Heisa thorough grocery- man, understands his line, and takes pains to post himself on changes and other points bearing on the business. He is, moreover, a careful salesman, being a good judge of the character and responsibility of his trade, and is an exceptionally successful collector, making comparatively few losses. On the Easel—W. H. Downs, L. M. Mills. > - Proof Positive that Stanwood is Alive. A Stanwood correspondent writes: Stanwood is a small town, but she is not asleep by any means. There are a new grist mill, a town hall, and a county house and asylum in process of construction at the present time, and several new dwelling houses, all of which serve to make business lively. What we want now is some good- humored man to start a hotel, as we have no regular stopping place. There is not a bet- ter point on the line of the G. R. & IL. than this for a hotel. Mr. Tucker has a building for sale that would make a desirable hotel. We also want a hard wood manufactory of some kind, as there is plenty of hard beech and maple in the vicinity going to destruc- tion every day. You can judge that we are not asleep when every business man in town takes THE TRADESMAN. ¢ ——__»> > Fulfills What Its Name Implies. From the Buffalo Mercantile Review. = A recent addition to our exchanges may be mentioned as THE MICHIGAN TRADES- MAN. ‘This comparatively new journal thorougly fulfils what its name implies, be- ing a carefully edited paper, giving a pithy weekly digest of the trade transactions of its section and state, and original articles of con- siderable thought and ability on matters of mercantile interest, as well as useful legal points, and decisions of value to every busi- ness man. ‘The growing and important town of Grand Rapids, where our new contempo- rary is published, is tobe congratulated on possessing such a bright and faithful reflec- tor of its commercial doings, and the pro- prietors, the Messrs. Stowe, have our sin- cere good wishes in their enterprise. — 2 _ It is estimated that the peanut crop in the South this year will be worth $3,000,000. q All Sorts. J. W. Holmes, Remus, has gone into T. Gardner’s old stand. C. Meerchaum has been discovered in some parts of North Carolina. Owen & Tubbs, grocers at Charlotte, are succeeded by Eaton & Tubbs. H. S. Lay, druggist at Petoskey, has sold his stock to S. A. Barber & Co. A 3,000,000 a day match factory will soon be started at Owosso by Gus A. Fass. Charlotte expects to get a seamless knit hosiery factory that will employ 100 oper- ators. Mrs. A. Tracy will shortly engage in the millineryCand fancy goods business at Mus- kegon. Full and complete line of summer silks, all styles, qualities and prices at Voigt, Her- polsheimer & Co.’s. Ezra Carrier and Chas. E. Lockwood will engage in the agricultural implement busi- ness at Traverse City. The largest assortment of parasols west of New York at Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.’s. All styles and shades. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. offer to the trade an exceptionally complete asssortment of summer shawls, all styles, sizes and prices. D. J. Adams, a mechanic, of Kitteny, Me., claims to have discovered a process by which copper can be welded as perfectly and as securely as iron. The St. Louis Manufacturing Co. is num- bered with the past. The amounts paid in have all been returned Jess pro rata ex- pense. The town was divided, hence the failure. There are twelve manufactories of arti- ficial teeth in the United States, which make 10,000,000 of these useful articles per annum. They are made of feldspar, kaelin and rock crystal. Three hundred carloads of elm square timber are being shipped from Reed City to Traverse City, where they will be loaded on vessels and taken to Europe for ship building. Seven Leavenworth doctors were gathered around a man who fell on the sidewalk. Four called it sunstroke, and the others saié it was a fit. Along came a small boy and proved it was banana-peel. A Saginaw correspondent writes: The lumber market is very active, sales aggre- gating several million feet being reported each day for several days past. But few dry lots remain over from last year’s cut. Full market prices are obtained. In a recent report of the commissioner of agriculture he states that “‘the rate of the wheat yield is increasing in the districts where mixed farming and _ recuperative methods obtain, and decreasing in the region of consecutive crops of spring wheat.” The suil, as well as all other things earthly, comes under nature’s laws of rest and re- pairs. This country makes one-fifth of the iron and one-fourth of the steel in the world, and furnishes one-half of the gold and one-half the silver of the world’ssapply. Taking all the mining industries of the world, the United States represents 36; Great Britain, 1 38, and all other nations 31 per cent. of the total. Anglo Saxondom, therefore, repre- sents 69 per cent. of the mining industry of the earth. ——-— — -9-<—— Good Words Unsolicited. Fred Kern, general merchandise, Frank- fort: ‘TI like it.” _ Geo. E. Herrick, lumber, Cadille: “It is O. K., with lumber quotations. Just what I have been wanting.” E. Gillett, general dealer, Clear Water, ‘I am very thankful that I have had the oppor- tunity of reading the valuable TRADESMAN. I cannot do without it.” —___—~»_-e <.____ A Lost Opportunity. “ How is the Cadillac Manufacturing Co.?” asked a reporter of THE TRADESMAN of Editor Rindge the other day. “ Where it started,’ was the reply. Thus does Cadillac allow an exceptional opportunity to slip through her fingers, be- sides permitting the impression to go abroad that her citizens have not enough public spirit or faith in thefuture of the place to justify investments that could not fail to im- mediately benefit the town. rer I Status of the Stewart Matter. John B. Rosevelt, assignee for Wm. H. Stewart, at Round Lake, presents the fol- lowing report of receipts and disbursements: RECEIPTS. Stock of goods, appraised value........:.. . $350 Ore PUG oe. os be cals oee's es os 65 oe 100 Accounts receivable.............0.-. ees ones $800 DISBURSEMENTS. Stock of goods remaining on hand......... $350 Paid for attoiney’s feeS............ 2... .ceee 150 PRG TOC IGOR oe eo avo vas be ecb ic eb oc kens 150 MUOTS DUGG ioc os os ik ce dae cae sceacsicsoes 100 Accounts receivable...............0..eeee eee 50 $800 Application will be made in the Circuit Court at Cadillac May 12 for the allowance of the account and the discharge of the as- signee, and the release pf his bondsmen. : Rosevelt asks for $150 as his ation. | TER, TEVENS & O0,, —WHOLESALE— HARD WARE! 10 and 12 MONROE STREET, % FOS GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE SOLICIT THE DEALER’S TRADE, And NOT the Consumer’s. We are Manufacturer’s Agents for the Coawn Jewel Vayor Stove And quote factory prices. Send for catalogue We are Manufacturer’s Agents for = Jewett’s Bird Cages Vicia And quote factory prices. We are Manufacturer’s Agents for I | i Jewett’s Filters, And quote factory prices. We are also Headquarters for Grand Rapids Wheelbarrows and Bacon & Priestly Express Wagons, Allof which are sold at factory prices. We would be pleased to sen@ catalogue to those wishing to buy. We are earrying to-day as large a stock, and filling orders as complete, as any house in Michigan. Send for catalogue Send for catalogue a POTATO. flavor, patrons: a should be written out plainly, to prevent mistakes. To Gardeners and Harmers. About two years ago, Mr. Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Newaygo County, Michigan, sent to D. M. Ferry & Co., the well known seed firm of Detroit, for one-half bushel of the celebrated White Star potatoes, for seed purposes. The potatoes were procured and planted by the undersigned, and the result was one gratifying beyond measure. The second planting yielded 7,000 bushels of as fine potatoes, for size, color and quality, as were ever seen in the State. They were pronounced by all who tried them of the very finest YIELDING FAR BETTER THAN ANY OTHER VARIETY KNOW to this section of the country, never troubled with blight, and very seldom showing a bug of any sort. as to the.merits of the White Star Potato, all agreeing that they have never met its equal for endurance, productiveness, and fine eating qualities. All farmers and gardners are interested in these facts, and all who have seen the White Star Potato, and tested it, are united in its praise, and others will find it to their profit to make inquiries. : We are now making a sbecialty of handling this splendid potato, and are prepared to supply patrons at a price which, a reference to all seed catalogues and the regular price lists, will show to be a great reduction fron the ruling prices. We make this liberal offer to Such is the universal testimony We will furnish the White Star Potatoes at the rate of $1.00 per bushel, and will allow a liberal discount to dealers. We will also furnish, at cost prices, all barrels sacks or bags, or patrons may send their own, adressed to Ensley & Son, Maple Hill, Mich. Orders may be sent to either Ensley & Son, Ensley Postoffice, Mich., or to O. W. Blain, General Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich. All addresses Patrons should also furnish us with their names and postoffice addresses, and state to what railroad station they wish to have their shipments made. Orders will be filled promptly, and must be accompanied by the money New York draft, money order, or registered letter. ‘ Readers are cordially invited to refer to Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Mich; C. J. Burtch, Postmaster, and N. W. Mhther. Banker, Howard City, Mich., for the truth of all of the above statements regarding the superior quality and extraordinary yield of the White Star Potatoes. We warrant these potatoes, all that has been represented, and true to name. : B. HNSLNY & SON, Growers, EInsley Postofiice, Newaygo County, Michigan. _ FOR FULL PARTICULARS AND TERMS TO DEALERS, ADDRESS O. W. BLAIN & CO. Generai Agents, Produce Commission Merchants, Fruits, Vegetabies, Itc. L52 Fulton Street, GRAND RAPIDS, BEL Also have 2,500 bushels of the Celebrated White English Sovereign Oats—a sure crop—50 to 99 bushels per acre. Price, 75¢ per bushel. HG AWN, U. FEETER, 36 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Dealer in All Kinds of Country Produce —Also— STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, CANNED AND DRIED FRUITS. EGGS AND BUTTER A Specialty. Pays Cash on Receipt of Prop- erty. : Buyers of Eggs by the Crate or Barrel will be supplied at the lowest Wholesale Price with Sound, Fresh Stock. This House does not handle Oleomargarine, Butterine or Suine. Telephone Connection. A. HB. FOwWrLSE, HOUSE DECORATOR —And Dealer in— FINE WALL PAPER Window Shades, Room Mouldings, Artists’ Materials ! Paints, Oils, Glass, Ete. 37 No. IoNIA STREET, SOUTH OF MONROE. Special designs furnished and Estimates given for interior decoration and all kinds of stained and ornamental Glass work. STEAM LAUNDRY 43 and 45 Kent Street. A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS, Orders by Mail and Express promptly at- C0, | acues: Factories, Seneca Falls, New York. OBEST ON THE MARKET. EVERYONE USES IT. Sold by all Wholesale Grocers. PEHEREINS & HES ——DEALERS IN— Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. - ALBERT GOVE & SONS, —Manufacturers and Jobbers of— Awnings, Tents, Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers, Flags, Banners, Ete. All Ducks and Stripes Kept Constantly on Hand. 73 Canal Street. : GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. ts Send for Prices. A. A. CRIPPEN, WHOLESALE Hats, Gans and Furs 54 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, | MICHIGAN. —— GRAND RAPIDS Flower Pots 2 Hanging Vases MANUFACTURED FOR H. LEONARD & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. |HAND OR MACHINE MADE POTS FOR. SALE BY THE PACKAGE OR RE- PACKED TO ORDER, Sold at Manufacturers’ Prices. Price List at once for the Spring Trade. SHEDS —FOR THE— FIELD AND GARDEN, aA WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, —AT THE— SEED STOR FE, 91 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mic We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Pr W.T.LAMOREADY, axa , ¢ a RISING SUN YEAST } > + + Send for’ ” * >» a