BP The ichigan Tradesman. a GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1884. ——_—-— on NO. 33. 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. (ee Send for our New Price List for 1884. Order a Sample Lot Before Placing a Large Order. BATON, LYON & ALLEN, 20 and 22 Monroe Street, MICHIGAN. GRAND RAPIDS, = C i —Manufacturers of— FLAVORING EXTRACTS | BAKING POWDERS, BLUINGS, ETCc., 40 and 42 South Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. 5 Manufacturers of Fine Perfumes, Colognes, Hair Oils, Flavoring Extracts, Baking Powders, Bluings, Etc., Etc. ALSO PROPRIETORS OF REMINEX’s “Red Bark Bitters’ —AND— The Oriole Mannfactaring Co. 42 West Bridge Street, THE HARVEST OF EGGS. There is no form in which nutritious food is put up more neatly and compactly than in the brittle white cups of the egg shell, and nothing in the line of provender more gen- erally acceptable to the human palate. And yet it is not generally known what a_ vast affair the egg industry really is, or what care and pains man takes, what voyages he makes or what terrible dangers he encount- ers in order that the markets may be kept supplied with this tempting and favorite article of rood. Some information in regard to it, there- fore, may not prove without interest to our readers. The eggs of a great variety of birds are used for food, but the gallinaceous birds which include the domestic hens, tur- keys, guinea fowl, &c., supply much the greater proportion of the annual harvest. Of hen’s eggs, the number consumed is simply immense, and is constantly on the in- crease. In illustration, it may be mentioned that the eggs imported into England from the Continent, in the year 1844, amounted to 44,000,000. In 1860 they had increased to nearly 160,000,000. Atthe present time they reach the enormous total of 785,000,- 000. Yet this is but a fraction of the number of eggs consumed by our English cousins. Their own hens are as industrious as_ those of their neighbors of France and Belgium, and produce at least as many as are import- ed, while Ireland adds some 500,000,000 to the annual supply. Thus the total con- sumption of Englaud must equal 2,000,000,- 000. Great as this number is, it seems small in comparison with that of the egg harvest of the United States, most of which must be eaten at home. The Popular Science Monthly estimates the egg product of this country at 9,000,000,000. Of this number about 300,000,000 go to the New York market alone. In addition to the eggs yielded by our domestic fowls, great numbers of the eggs of wild fowl are gathered and sold. These are chiefly the eggs of sea birds, and are collected at their breeding places on the barren islands or headlands of the ocean. Those yielded by members of the Duck, the Gull and the Tern families are the favorites. On the barren keeps or low, sandy islets of the West Indies, the Sea Swallow, or terns, congregates in myriads. When visitors land on these keys the birds fly up in clouds that darken the air and with a noise that drowns the roar of the breakers. ‘Their eggs are delicious, and are gathered in great quanti- ties during the spring months. One species of the Tern refuses to leave its nest on the approach of visitors. It has been called the noddy, from its personal stupidity. This species is present in vast multitudes, the nests being so close together that it is no very easy matter to walk be- tween them. The eggs, which are very palatable, are collected in great numbers. In the seas of the north one of the most important of the egg-laying birds is the celebrateed Eider Duck. But the egg of this bird is a secondary object with collectors. Its precious and delicate down is still more valuable. In Iceland and the islands of Norway these birds are guarded with the greatest care during the nesting season, and they congregate in great multitudes. Even in Greenland, where they are recklessly slaughtered, upwards of 50,000 eggs are col- lected yearly, and the barren coasts of Lab- rador are annually visited by ‘“eggers’ in search of the eggs of these and other birds. But in Norway and Iceland, where they are carefully preserved, an enormous har- vest of eggsis made. The eggs are 3 in- ches long and 2 thick, and as a rule about four or five are taken annually from each nest, two or three being left for the female to hatch out. But the eggs, as we have said, form but a portion of the marketable products of the Eider Ducks. They have the peculiar habit, after laying two or three eggs, of plucking the soft white down from their breasts to cover them. This down is carefully gather- ed along with the eggs. The same process is repeated once or twice during the season. The story has long been extant that, when the ‘female has exhausted her down, the male comes to her aid, and that the eggs are no longer disturbed when seen to be covered by his darker colored offering. Unfortunately for this pretty story of do- mestic co-operation, it is now said to be a fable. Itis one of those neat traditions that keep long simply because people like the sound of them, but which will not bear investigation. The down is very soft, and so elastic that less than an ounce of it will fill a large hat, yet two or three pounds can be compressed within the hand. An Iceland traveler gives an interesting account of the Eider nesting grounds on the small island of Vigr. Here the birds nest everywhere—not only in the. holes cut for them in the turfy soil, but allover and around the single farm house of the island. The garden walls, the thatched roof, the window ledges and the interior of out-houses were taken possession of, and one adventur- ous duck had even made its nest in the door scraper. The birds are so tame as to: let themselves be stroked upon the nest, though , 2 = gn has tase the uneasily dur- The Gulls, the Guillemots, the Geese and other birds of the northern seas are also im- portant sources of the egg supply. But many of these birds nest on the narrow ledges of precipitous cliffs, and the gather- ing of their eggs is a difficult and very dan- gerous service. On the Faroe Islands, to the north of Scotland, the egg hunters are lowered at the end of an immense rope 2 inches thick and 900 feet long. Swinging in the air, at the mercy of the wind or ofa frayed strand of the rope, they descend from cliff to cliff and rock to rock hunting every nook and cranny for eggs and birds. Now they come up with a well-filled sack. But again, to the terrible dismay of their fellows at the summit of the cliff, the rope comes up light and empty. The daring egg hunter has lost his hold and has fallen into the boiling waves at the foot of the lofty preci- pice, to be ground to atoms against the rug- ged edges of the rocks. On the island of St. Kilda a somewhat different method is pursued. Here the eggs of the wild geese are sought at the foot of less precipitious cliffs. Two men climb to the top of the cliff, taking with them a rope of twisted cowhide covered with sheepskin. Each ties an end of this rope to his body, and one man descends the cliff, while the other braces himself at its summit. He first fills his sack with eggs, and attaches as many goslings as he canto his body, the frightened little creatures clinging by their claws. When the signal is given, his com- panion at the top hauls him up, turning round and round like a windlass and _twist- ing the rope around his body. The industry is a very productive one, and a cowhide rope forms a large part of the dowry of a St. Kilda belle. Another source of the egg harvest comes from an animal very unlike a bird. This is the Sea Turtle, a creature who is a very dili- gent and effective egg layer. It lays from 150 to 200 eggs ata time, and this several times a year. For this purpose, sandy shores are visited, where the clumsy traveler quickly digs a hole with its hind feet, lays its eggs and then covers them up to be hatch- ed by the sun. Turtle eggs are esteemed a great delicacy by the natives of the tropics, and they seek for them by probing the sand with a light stiff cane. The young turtles, however, soon hatch out, and run in great regiments of comical little creatures across the sandsto the sea, with an instinctive haste to escape their multitude of enemies. In regard to the eggs of sea fowl, there are other localities than those above men- tioned in which they are largely gathered, and other birds which yield them. Thus the waste places on the coast of Northum{ berland yield them in great numbers; parts of the African coast are very prolific; Turks Island, near New Zealand, is a noted locali- ty; and islands generally, if they have un- inhabited coast lands, are utilized as nest- ing places. Of other birds than those mentioned, the Auk yields vast quantities of eggs, which are very largely collected on the coast of Labra- dor; and the eggs of the dusky petrel are sent from Bass Strait to Australia in im- mense numbers. There are various birds whose eggs have a remarkable value for their size, as well as for their delicacy. Thusthe eggs of the Malle birds of Celebes, which are consider- ed specially delicious, are each large enough to fill an ordinary tin cup, and to make with bread and rice, an acceptable meal. Of our domestic egg layers, the egg of the hen weighs from 14g to 2 ounces; of the duck, from 2 to 3; of the turkey, from 3 to 4; and of the goose, from 4 to 6 ounces. But the egg of the Ostrich, which is grow- ing into repute asa valuable food element, is equal in weight to 24 or 36 hens’ eggs, ac- cording to different authorities. The num- ber of eggs laid by each bird is variously estimated at from 16 to30. But we are told that single individual birds have laid as many as 82 eggsina season. Calculating each of these at the smaller estimate of 24 hens’ egys, the total product of such a bird would be equal to nearly 2,000 of the eggs of our domestic fowl. The eggs of the Australian Emu are near- ly as large as those of the ostrich. They are strong in flavor, but are eaten with relish by the settlers. Those ofthe Rhea, or South American Ostrich, are also valued as a food supply. The nests of this bird yield from 40 to 70 eggs. The largest eggs known are those of certain extinct birds. Those of the Moa, of New Zealand, have been found which measured’10 inches Jong and 7 broad. Those of the extinct Apiornis, of Madagas- car, were still larger, each having a capacity equal to that of 148 hens’ eggs. It is perhaps best to say nothing here about the celebrated Roc’s egg of Arabian fable. A bird large enough to carry off an elephant in its talons would not make a very desirable domestic fowl, even though it laid an egg as large as a meeting house. We can be well satisfied that the Roc’s egg does not exist outside the enchanted limits of the “Arabian Nights’ Entertainments,” however valuable a Lenten entertainment it would make. Speaking of the Lenten fast, it may be well to repeat a good story which comes to father of the church, solicitous for the spirit- ual welfare of his congregation, and fearing that they were disobeying his injunction against egg-eating in Lent, took the trouble to specifically repeat the prohibition. To make sure that they should not escape him by some subterfuge, he detailed every con- ceivable method in which eggs could be cook- ed, and threatened the terrors of the church against any sinner who should dare to par- take of eggs prepared in any of these pro- hibited and profane methods. Some time afterward, in his pastoral rounds, he happen- ed suddenly into the hut ofa peasant, who was hungrily regaling his eyes upon some object suspended above the fire. What was the surprise and horror of our worthy priest to perceive that the shrewd sinner had an egg suspended by a string, and slowly roast- ing in the heat of the fire. It was a mode ‘of egg-cooking which had never entered into his imagination, and which, therefore, ve- mained unprohibited. Ata loss what to say under such unimagined circumstances the discomfited priest broke out with: “QO, you unprecedented sinner! Who ever taught you to cook eggs in that fashion?” The discovered culprit, a little fearful of consequences, and eager to shift the respon- sibility to broader shoulders, replied: “Don’t blame me for it, father. It was the devil who put it into my head.” During this colloquy, as the story goes, Satan himself was seated cross-legged ona barrel in acorner of the hut, no doubt in high enjoyment of the situation. But the father of evil, despite his load of lies, de- cidedly objected to be saddled with this new sin, and blurted out from his corner: “He lies, your reverence! I never saw the trick myself before.” At this point the curtain drops, and we are left to imagine the conclusion of this in- teresting scene. But to return from the region of fable to that of fact, it may be well to briefly de- scribe the various modes of preserving eggs. Hermetically sealed, as are these neat pack- ages of provender, they have the elements of decay within themselves, and become very quickly the objects of abhorence to any well regulated household, unless their de- cay isarrested. This can be most easily performed by preventing the passage of air through the pores of the shell. This object is accomplished in the United States by. the liming process, which keeps them fit for every purpose but boiling. In China,a paste made of lime, salt and ashes is used for the same purpose. Egg raising is a highly-important industry in the Flowery Kingdom, and the preservative paste is made with great care. Theeggs are said te come out something the worse in looks and smell; but our Chinese cousins have strong stom- achs, and are not apt to let a squeamish nose interfere with their appetites. In some parts of England, eggs are pre- served by boiling, removing the shells and pickling. The new methods of food preser- vation, so much in vogue in our day, have been found applicable to eggs, and the pro- cesses of canning and dessicating are now largely practiced. Among the Germans, egg- canning is becoming an important branch of industry. The dessicating and condensing process is principally practiced in the United States, the cities of St. Louis and New York being the main seats of this new and im- portant industry. Air and water are the two great foes to human food. Fairly get rid of them and it may be kept indefinitely. This is the basis of all modern food preser- vation. Oxygen is defeated by air-tight cans; water is got rid of by drying . proces- ses; and thus we are learning how to make a fruit yielding summer of the whole round year. Having said so much in regard to eggs, as a food product, a few words as to eggs con- sidered for themselves alone may not be amiss. And, first, what is an egg? We know, of course, that it contains the germ of an animal, but this germ constitutes only a microscopic portion of the yolk. All the remaining contents of the egg are provided as food for the young animal. The yellow, or yolk, is a rich and specially adapted food, which serves to build up the framework of the body of the growing embryo. The white, or egg albumen, serves as food for the young animal after it has attained a certain devel- opment, and ere it is ready to break through the shell and to seek food for itself in the outer world. The quantity of food thus provided by the parent varies greatly in different orders of animals. In viviparous animals the egg is usually very minute, theembryo being fed directly from the blood vessels of the parent until fully developed. Among oviparous animals, its size is governed by special cir- cumstances. The young of birds leave the eggin a highly developed state. They, therefore, need a considerable store of food within the egg. But in the case of insects, which leave the egg in the miniature condi- tion of larve, the food supply is compara- tively small. The young insect has to shift for itself not only in its growth to maturity, butalso in its development to the typical form of its species. It is “born, but not made,” and has to finish its own making from the caterpillar to the butterfly form, or oval body, embraced ina thin, smooth and brittle shell of carbonate of lime. But from this type there are wide deviations. The eggs of insects, for instance, are far from smooth, but are covered with spines, pits and tubercles in the most varied arrange- ment. In snakes and lizards the egg is cov- ered with a strong parchment-like mem- brane. The eggs of sharks and rays are en- closed in a four-sided horny case, with tend- rils to fasten them to floating sea-weed. These egg cases, when east ashore, are fa- miliarly known as “mérmaid’s purses.” The ege covering of the bony fishes, such as trout and salmon, is very elastic, so that they will ‘rebound from the floor like an india rubber ball.” This, probably, is to prevent their being crushed in the gravelly beds of streams. The eggs of frogs and toads are covered with a tough layer of al- buminous substance, which expands in wat- er into a transparent jelly. Those of the frog occur in great masses, piled together like minute cannon balls; while those of the toad are united like strings of beads. Many of the mollusks make additional coverings for their eggs, some of which are very curious. A form very common on our sea coasts consists of a long central cord, which is strung with successive flat disks, gradually decreasing in size. These disks are hollow, and in their sides may be seen minute holes, through which the young shell fish has escaped. Before concluding, some reference to the number of eggs laid by different animals may be desirable. These vary greatly— from one tomany millions. Of the verte- brate animals, the fishes yield far the greater number of eggs. Some species, indeed, yield only a few eggs, but others produce millions. The cod fish is one of the most prolific, the roe of a 20 Ib. cod containing nearly 5,000,000 of eggs. The sturgeon is also highly prolific, the eggs forming usu- ally one-third of its entire weight. Could all these eggs yield mature fish, the oceans would soon be crowded with single species; but so many other fish feed on the eggs and the young as to easily keep down their num- bers. Fish roe also forms part of the human egg harvest, particularly that of the stur- geon, which is esteemed as a table delicacy by the Russians, in a prepared form known as caviare. Of the molluscous animals, the oyster is one of the most prolific. A single oyster yields nearly 2,000,000 eggs. Efforts are now making by the United States Fish Commission to artificially propagate the oyster. In view of the decreasing numbers of this valuable food animal, these experi- ments are of the greatest importance. If the oyster can be artificially reared from its eggs, like the fish, the annual harvest of shell fish may be enormously increased. So far, the experiments have proven unsuccess- ful, but Professor Ryder, of the Fish Com- mission, intends to repeat them, with im- proved methods, this summer. Of other prolific egg layers, the white ant isa remarkable instance. The queen of this species is simply an enormous egg bag, several hundred times larger than any of her subjects. She is said to lay 80,000 eggs per day, and as this is continued for about two years, her total number of eggs must amount to about 50,000,000. This, however, is considerably surpassed by some other animals. Prof. Baird esti- mates that an eel may contain at one time 9,000,000, eggs. A nemotade worm was found by him to hold 60,000,000 and a tape worm more than 100,000,000 eggs. It would be rather unfortunate if all the eggs of the tape worm could have a chance to develop. Fortunately, the creatures which lay eggs in such enormous quantities do so because very few of them have any chance in the life struggle. As the chance to develop'increases, the number diminishes, and the animal which lays but one egg at a time may yield as many mature offspring as the millionfold egg layer. As for our egg supply, we must look to the less busy layers, and welcome the triumphant cackle of the hen as_ an inti- mation that she hasadded one more egg to the annual harvest. ————_—>> 2. Pickled tea forms a common article ef con- sumption in Burmah. The leaf, after pick- ing, is first steamed, and then spread out on mats to dry. When dry itis deposited in a pit lined with bamboos, and pressed down, layer after layer, until the pit is filled up, when it is covered up with branches and leaves of trees, and earth heaped over it. Tne tea is left thus for a month or six weeks, when it becomes fit for use. It is then tightly compressed into wooden baskets, which are submerged four days or a week before bemg finally taken up. The great secret is to keep the tea wet. The leaf is eaten in its moist state and undergoes no pro- cess of cooking, ‘The Burmese flavor it with a sprinkling of salt and cocoanut scrapings, and prize it above all other pickles, Their taste must undoubtedly be fearfully vitiated. —_—_—_—-+ Appearances are often deceptive, and many a man is misjudged by trifles. The peacock struts with its head in the air as though it were the monarch of creation— while the valuable and honest watch-dog carries his head low. In the grain field the light heads are the tallest, while the «qwell- BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts of Last Resort. Interest—On Promissory Note. A note of $1,000 made in Nebraska bore “12 per cent. interest from date. In an ac- tion upon this note, it not having been paid, Kellogg vs. Lavender, the trial court allow- ed but legal interest, 7 per cent., from the maturity of the note to the entry of judg- ment. The plaintiff appealed to the Supreme Court of Nebraka, where it was decided that the note carried the interest stated in it, 12 per cent., until judgment was entered, and then the legal rate began. Bank Check—What Is. An instrument drawn by a depositor on a bank in the following form, after giving the date and the name of the bank: ‘‘Pay to A and B for account of C & Co., ten hundred and eighteen 23-100 dollars,” and signed by the depositor, is a valid bank check and will operate to transfer to the payees an amount of the drawers’ funds, on deposit, equal to the sum named on its face. The words “for the account of C & Co.” do not change its character as a check.—Supreme Court IIli- nois, case of Ridgely National Bank vs. Pat- ten & Hamilton. Letters Patent as Assets. Letters patent belonging toa firm are to be dealt with on a dissolution of the firm like other partnership property. That which was partnership property before the dissolu- tion continues to be so afterward, and a sale of the whole personal property will be or- dinarily enforced by a court of equity, and an account ordered of profits made since the dissolution. The surviving partner is not allowed to divide the property in specie, or take it himself at a valuation, or to have its value ascertained otherwise than in a sale, but he must turn all the assets into an avail- able form, so far as this can be done.—Su- preme Judical Court of Massachusetts. Sale—Agreement Not to Continue Business Damages. The case of Stafford vs. Shortreed, appeal- ed to the Supreme Court of Iowa, involved an agreement, on the part of A., who sold out the business and the good-will thereof to B., not to go into the same business in the vicinity for three years, under penalty of $100. The agreement was violated and B. got out an injunction against A., which was afterward dissolved, and an appeal taken, re- sulting in the following decision: “It is to be presumed that the plaintiff made his con- tract with a full knowledge of the defend- ant’s financial standing and ability to dis- charge his obligations. If he had doubts upon the question he should have required some security.to protect himself against any damages he might sustain by reason of the defendant’s failure to observe his agree- ment. All he can have is the ordinary pro- cess of the law to enforce payment; he can not have an injunction to restrain the de- fendant from doing business. The amount the defendant agreed to pay is in the nature of liquidated damages; it can not be regard- ed as a penalty, because the actual damages here must, in the nature of things, be sub- ject of mere conjecture; they can not be es- tablished by evidence, even appoximately.” ——————q@2—--———_— The Wagon cr Dray. Some drivers seem to think that in order to make a wagon wear well it is very neces- sary to grease the axle repeatedly ; but there never was agreater mistake. A well made wheel will wear from 10 to 25 years, if care is taken to use the right kind and proper amount of grease; but if this matter is not properly attended to they will be used up in five or six years. Lard should never be used on a wagon, for it will penetrate the hub, and work its way out around the tenons of the spokes, and spoil the wheel. Tallow is the best lubricator for wood axle-trees, and eastor oil for iron. Just enough lubricator should be applied to give the spindle a slight coating; this is better than more, for the surplus put on will work out at the ends, and work by the shoulder hands and nut washers into the hub around the outside of the boxes. To oil an iron axle, first wipe clean with a cloth wet with turpentine; then apply a few drops of castor oil near the shoulder and end—one teaspoonful is ample for the whole. . Let the fifth wheel of a wagon or carriage alone; if it grates, tight- en the king bolt, but in no event put any grease or oil upon it. Any greasy substance will attract dust and grit, which is augu- mented each timeitis greased, and will eventually wear it out. Use does not wear out the majority. —————j].+- Good Words Unsolicited. A. Conklin, general dealer, Bloomer Cen- ter: “Your paper is a good one, and | think it pays every dealer in Michigan to take it.” James J. Gee, hardware, Whitehall: ‘‘En- closed find $1. I have waited this late that I might know whether to pay up to date and discontinue or take it the year. Iam satis- fied it is just what every dealer should have who wishes to buy and sell to the best ad- vantage.” ——_—_—__—~»_4 <<. __ For bargains in groceries, write I. E. Messmore or ‘‘ Dick” Warner, as the former closing out his entire stock. si The Michigan Tradesial, A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State. E. A. STOWE, Editor. Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1884. (= 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. To newspaper men is commonly accorded the palm of taking the first rank as prevari- eators; but Turk TRADESMAN has discovered a class of men who can discount the editorial profession nine days in the week—the tele- phone managers. The Detroit Free Press has sent the “Champion Liar of Christendom,” yclept ‘ Clark, to this city to write up our industries. If Grand Rapids needed to be lied about, this man fwould fill the bill; but, fortun- ately, we are in a position to stand on our merits. The Free Press is usually happy in the selection of its editorial and business staff, but in this case it has been imposed up- on, and the sending of such a character to Grand Rapids is an insult to the city. A correspondent writes: “Why don’t you boom the Delinguent Debtor Department?” If it were in Tuk TRADESMAN’S power to run such a department alone, it would be a regular feature of the paper every week; but the success or failure of the undertaking, rests with the dealers themselves. THE TRADESMAN stands in readiness to print every contribution that comes to hand, but unless more interest is manifested in the matter, it will be-safe to conclude that the project is not fruitful of practical results. I LTTE The bill prohibiting the sale and manutac- ture of oleomargarine and other butter imita- tions has passed both houses of the New York Legislature and received the signature of the Governor, and has consequently be- come a law. Nevertheless, one of the larg- est wholesale dealers in imitation but- ter in New York City declares his de- termination to continue the sale of the article. He says that he will offer oleomargarine and butterine for sale on their merits, that is, for what they are. If he is arrested for so doing, he will contest the law on the ground of its unconstitutionality. The outcome of such litigation will be look- ed for with much interest, as the triumph or defeat of the law will determine; the feasi- bility of similar litigation in other states. Mark Twain on Smoking. Tam 46 years old and have smoked im- moderately during thirty-eight years, with the exception of a few intervals which I will speak of presently. During the first seven years of my life I had no health. I may al- most say that I lived on allopathic medicine, but since that period I have hardly known what sickness is. My health has been ex- cellent, and remains so. As I have already said, I began to smoke immoderately when I was 8 years old; that is I began with 100 eigars a month, and by the time I was 10 I had increased my allowance to 200 a month. Before I was 30 I had increased it to 300 a month. I think I do not smoke more than that now. Iam quite sure I never smoke less. Once when I was 15 I ceased smoking for three months, but I do not remember whether the effect resulting was good or evil. lrepeated this experiment again when I was 22 but I do not remember what the re- sult was. I repeated the experiment once more when I was 34, and ceased from smoke- ing during a year and a half. My health did not improve, because it was not possible to improve health that was already perfect. As I never permitted myself to regret this abstineuce, I experienced no sort of incon- venience from it. I wrote nothing but oc- casional magazine articles during pastime, and, as I never wrote one except under strong impulse, 1 observed no lack of faculty, but by and by I sat down with a contract behind me to write a book of 500 or 600 pages—the book called ‘Roughing It”—and then I found myself seriously obstructed. I was three weeks writing six chapters; then I gave up the fight, resumed my 300 cigars, burned the six chapters, and wrote the book in three months, without any bother or diffi eulty. I find smoking to be the best of all inspirations for the pen, and,fin my particu- lar case, no sort of detriment to the health. During eight months of the year I am at home, and that period is my holiday. In it I do nothing but very occasional, miscellan- eous work; therefore 300 cigars a month isa sufficient amount to keep my constitution on a firm basis. During the family summer va- cation, which we spend elsewhere, I work five hours every day and five days every week. Iallow myself the fullest possible amount of inspiration; consequently, I or- dinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours’ labor, and, if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, [smoke more; I smoke with all my might and allow no intervals. ——--_—~> 4 “Can you give me a little money on that account of yours this morning?” “No, I don’t believe I can this morning.” ‘Well, will you appoint a time when you can. You have traded with me a good deal and you _ have never paid me a cent.” “I know it. I a free trader.” ese. AMONG THE TRADE, IN THE CITY. Gaius W. Perkins, of the firm of Perkins & Hess, is in Boston, looking up the wool market. A. C. Barclay has engaged in the grocery business at Reed City. Shields, Bulkley & Lemon furnished the stock. B. F. Emery and E. P. Dana take the terri- tory formerly covered by John H. McIntyre for Gray, Burt & Kingman, Chicago. John H. McIntyre, late with Gray, Burt & Kingman, Chicago, has accepted a position with Arthur Meigs & Co., as house salesman. J. L. Cochran, of M. E. McDowell & Co., Chicago, spent Saturday among the jobbing trade here in the interest of the Blackwell Durham Tobacco Co. Eugene Burdick, who has been in the meat business at East Jordan for some time past, has added a line of groceries. The stock was purchased of Arthur Meigs & Co. Albert F. Hazeltine, for several months past entry clerk for Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., has accepted a position with Dr. J. D. Bowman, the West Fulton street druggist. Ranleder & Winter have purchased the grocery and furnishing goods stock of S. A. Pangborn, at Blanchard, and added a com- plete line of dry goods, furnished by Spring & Company. Mr. Downs took the order. N. G. Burtt, Cross Village, writes the trade here that he has effected a settlement with Hannah, Lay & Co. on the same basis offered the Grand Rapids creditors, 35 per cent., and that checks for each creditor’s pro rata may be expected shortly. Christian Bertsch, of Rindge, Bertsch & Co., states that in his opinion éealers. will be wise to withhold making purchases for rubber goods at present, as the bottom has dropped out of crude rubber, and prices on all grades are extremely likely to go lower. Local lumber dealers state that there have been more enquiries for the cheaper goods during the past week than ever before. Orders are coming in very plentiful, and every firm in the city is behind with its orders. ‘The lumber merchants have waited until their yards are completely exhausted, and stimulated by the active demand that has lately arisen, are growing impatient at the delay in shipping their orders. Chas. E. Belknap, of this city, and R. G. Lakey, of Kalamazoo, have taken posses- sion of the E. B. Woodward hardware stock at Kalkaska, and will carry on the business until’every creditor has been paid in full, and Mr. Woodward is able to resume business on his own account. Being pressed by Detroit creditors, he recently gave a chattel moit- gage for $2,500, and leaaing that it was about to be foreclosed, Messrs. Belknap and Lakey purchased the mortgage to protect themselves and other creditors. They are confident that Mr. Woodward is solvent, end have faith in his ability to pull through the present crisis with credit and capital restored. His embai.assment is attributed to heavy buying, coupled with the depression of the winter business. AROUND THE STATE. Patch Bros., diuggists at St. Johns, have sold out. R. E. Best has engaged in the drug _busi- ness at Holland. y J.S. Gamble has started a confectionery store at Ludington. | Jorbu Mead succecds Wm. Monroe in gen- eral trade at Berlin. Ed. Keeler succeeds the firm of Long & Keeler at Big Rapids. E. Franke & Co. have engaged in the meat business at Reed City. Chas. Martin has staiced in the flovry end feed business at Pierson. C. F. Walden, grocer at Leroy, has sold out to Parson & Johnson. Bera & Kipp, general dealers at Banfield, are succeeded by Kipp & Iden. M. Crittenden has sold his meat market at Portland to Esteb & Talmadge. A. R. Cresy succeeds Alexander Cheves in the meat business at Hersey. Geo. W. Weaver, of Detroit, has engaged in the dry goods business at lonia. H. N. Willis has bought out F. F. Ward & Co., general dealers at Prairieville. Brown & Cairns succeeds W. L. Brown in the grocery business at Prairieville. J. H. Beamer & Co. succeed J. H. Bea- mer in the grocery business at Hastings. Notier & Locker, general dealers at Graaf- schap, are succeeded by Notier & Boven. E. J. Whitright has engaged in the gro- cery and provision business at Charlotte. Lewis Heiler, of Howard City, will en- gage in the bakery business at Mancelona. I. J. Quick & Co., Allendale, will handle a line ofgagricullural implements this season. Thos. R. Garter, meat dealer at Coopers- ville, has sold a half interest in the business to C. Ives. The firm neme will be Ives & Gatier. STRAY FACTS. Miss Emma Earl has opened a millinery store at Reed City. Rathbun & McManus succeed R. C. Rath. bun in the foundry business at Saranac. Fisk & Lavine, shingle manufacturers at Howard City, are succeeded by Warren Fisk, : Allendale clamors for a grist mill, and offers to render substantial aid to such an en- Kolfoord & Teravis, general dealers at Hamilton, are about to engage in the manu- facture of brick at that place. The Manton Manufacturing Co. has pur- chased a large steam mill at South Board- man and has a contract to cut 18,000,000 feet of pine where the mill is located. The Milwaukee Oil Co., capital $50,000, has been organized in East Saginaw to work in Roscommon, Crawford, Oscoda, and Sagi- naw counties. Iron, copper, and silver ores will be mined and smelted. Elmira Gazette: The fragrance of the leek can now be distinctly discerned in the breath- ings of the small boy who walks into town from the country to swap two dozen eggs for a bar of soap and two yards of calico. Mancelona Herald: The best point in Northern Michigan for a grist mill is right herein Mancelona, and the probability is that before the season is over some one who un- derstands the business will see the matter in he same light we do. A year ago last Tuesday Newaygo was al- most annihilated by fire, but it was a bles- sing in disguise. Since then $100,000 worth of building and similar improvements have been made, and perhaps as much more will be spent there in the same way next year. The fish dealers on Little Traverse Bay handled dvring the year ending April 1, 1884, only 410,000 pounds, which is 100,000 pounds less than was shipped by Connable & Son alone the year before. The fisheries all around the lakes show a similar falling off.— Petoskey Record. ——_—~._-2 =< Things Heard on the Street. That Dr. J. B. Evans is writing a play. That D. C. Uuderwood will be the first mayor of Elmira. That James Fox will sell $200,000 worth of goods this year. That Charley Yale rejoices over the ad- vent of a 12 pound boy. That Dick Warner was recently offered a situation by Clark, Jewell & Co. That the proposed consolidation of grocery jobbing houses has fallen through. Casper Schuler, Elk Rapids, John Ocker in the saloon business. That more new grocery stocks are being fitted out here this spring than ever before. That the question of establishing an ex- clusive wholesale dry goods house is being agitated. That no move has yet been taken to organ- ize a “Merchants and Manufacturers’ Ex- change.” That Eugene Klein, the West Bridge street druggist, is small by nature as well as by name. That Hemen G. Barlow and brother have a large-sized fortune in their manifold copy- ing patent. That in the event of a Democratic admin- isteation next year, Aithur Meigs will be postmaster. That Chas. E. Belknap may take an inter- est in the E. B. Woodward hardware busi- ness at Kalkaska. That Henry Fairchild has a revolver in readiness for the next man that wants to make him an assignee. That “Hub.” Baker will go on the road for Shields, Bulkley & Lemon, as soon as Messmore retires from business. That John Caulfield is on the lookout for a residence in a fashionable locality, to cost about $50,000—his profits on last year’s bus- iness. sueceeds ee How to Detect Counterfeit Butter. “Butter dealers are having a hard time of it,” said a prominent produce dealer the other day. “Everybody thinks we are try- ing to palm off counterfeit butter on them, I have taken great pains to show my regular customers how to tell genuine butter from the fraudulent article. Counterfeit butter may look nice and smell sweet when the tub is first opened, but after it is exposed to the air for a while, a slightly unpleasant smell can always be detected. Ifa little of it is rubbed between the fingers it will tarn white, while the genuine butter will not chenge color.” ee Meeting With Great Success. From the American Furniture Gazette. Vhe MicuIGAN TRADESMAN, established at Grand Rapids some months ago, is meet- ing with great success. It was recently en- larged to eight pages, aad now presents a very creditable appearance, which is borne out by the value and interest of its contents. Ably and interestingly edited, it has built up a good circulation in the country tributary to Grand Rapids, and is proving a valuable aid to the commerce of that city. ——-_ <> _____ At the convention of the candy manufac- turers of the United States at Chicago a few days ago, about 100 firms were represented. The main object of the association is mutual good fellowship, and one of the greatest boons they conferred on the community at large, was. with one accord, to instruct the executive committte to closely watch, and legally prosecute to the full, extent of the law, under sanction ef the association, any manufacturer of candy, who should use un der whatever form ‘‘Teira Alba” or kindred mineral matters as an adulterant. a “How much do you ask for a dollar’s worth of sugar?” ‘“Let’s see. ‘We have sold a dollar’s worth of sugar for a dollar ever since we’ve been in the business,” said the grocer, smilingly.” ‘I didn’t know; I only got eighty-seven cent’s worth for a dollar here the other day.” a 0 Fruit canning is supposed to be a modern invention, but they had preserved pairs in the ark. | ee “INVESTIGATING FRAUDS.” Business Methods that are Peculiar. Say the Least. The action of Judge Montgomery, in the Circuit Court Saturday, refusing to allow the claims of Turner & Carroll and Stone & Hyde for $499.37 for “expense incurred in negotiating alleged frauds” in the Newman ease finds frequent commendation in com- mercial and business circles. That the de- cision was just, both in point of law and equity, all who are in any way acquainted with the facts in the matter will agree. To those who have not noted the points in this celebrated case, however, a brief rehearsal of the principal facts may not be out of place. Early in the winter P. E. Newman & Co., Hebrew shoe dealers, made an assignment to Wm. M: Robinson, having $30,709.62. lia- bilities and $12,375.14 nominal assets. The failure{was a fraudulent one on theiface of it, and steps were immediately taken to ferrit out the matter. A number of Boston credi- tors dispatched a lawyer named Knowlton to Grand Rapids, who did toomuch talking for the good of his clients, urged that steps be taken to remove the assignee, and finally insisted that Turner & Carroll be employed to conduct the investigation in behalf of the creditors. The demand coming ostensibly from ‘“‘two-thirds of the creditors,” the as- signee consented to the arrangement, first securing from Messrs. Turner & Carroll a written contract to the effect that they would take whatever the judge awarded them in full payment for their services in working up fraud. Inthe meantime, the Newmans expressed a desire to compromise the matter, offering 40 per cent. in full set- tlement. This offer some of the creditors were inclined to accept, but on being posi- tively assured by Turner & Carroll that the latter would be able to establish a clear case of fraud and secure for every creditor the full amount of his claim, they held off, and the offer of compromise was withdrawn. Up to the present time, however, no fraud has been established, but Turner & Carroll, etal brought up a bill for $499.37, and asked that it be allowed out of the assets of the estate. This claim was contested by Red- path Bros., of Boston, on the ground that it was excessive and not properly itemized. Mr. Edward Taggart appeared as attorney for the Boston firm, end presented the case of the opposing creditor. The matter came up in the Circuit Court on Saturday, and the claim was denied, Judge Montgomery hold- ing that as Turner & Caicoll were alleged to have been employed by two-thirds of the creditors, that proportion of them should pay for the services claimed to have been rendered, and that the expense should not be saddled upon them all. This view of the ease is especially pleasing to those who op- posed the employment of ‘‘experts in detect- ing fraud,” as nothing was accomplished in the investigation, and there was not a shad- ow of reason why the claim should be allow- ed. The judge also cut down the amount asked by the assignee as his fee, and reduc- ed other claims for expenses, thus saving to the estate $609. The total resources amount- ed to $2,667, outof which the assignee paid $500 for exemptions, and is now authorized to pay $578.12, as the costs involved. This leaves the amount to be distributed among the creditors at $1,588.88, which is equiva- lent to a dividend of 5 per cent. on the en- tire amount of the liabilities, or about 7 per cent. on the amount of claims proven, about $24,000. And now the creditors are sick at heart that they did not accept uhe proffered 40 per cent., instead of listening to irrespon- sible promises. ——___< >_< Eating Candy on Contract. to From the New York Confectioner. The story that a resident of a Georgia fown has purchased from a confectioner for $12 the right to eat unlimited candy for a month would be more interesting than it is if the age of the purchaser had been speci- fied. As the purchaser is spoken of as ‘“‘he,” we may assume that he is of the male; sex, but whether he is a man or a small boy we are not told. During the first week of his contract he had gained five and a half pounds in weight, and has expressed confid- ence that he can eat two and a half pounds of candy on the twentieth day. From this we hazard the conjecture that he does not eat more than that amount daily, in which case he certainly isa‘man. The capacity of the average small boy for candy is said by the best authorities to be eleven and a half pounds. A full-grown girlis known to hav a capacity of nine pounds of caramels which is equivalent to a little more than ten pounds of miscellaneous candy, while no man so far as is kuown, has never eaten at one time more than three pounds of candy. Were the Georgia person a small boy he would doubtlessly have eaten fifty pounds of candy during the first week, and would, if weighed any time during that period, have shown an increase in weight of fully eight pounds. Moreover, no confectioner would ever have agreed to furnish a small boy unlimited candy for four weeks for the ridiculous low sum of $12, for the small boy who cannot eat $20 worth of candy per week is un- worthy of the name. The Georgia person is thus undoubtedly a man and a colonel, and we feel no certainty as to whether he will bankrupt the confectioner or his own stom- ach. One Shields, Bulkley & Lemon have sold five new stocks during the past week, which Sam. Lemon claims is the ‘‘best record made since Grand Rapids was discovered.” The stocks were for K. Van Dyke, New Holland, Jesse M. Tenant, Hart, and A. C. Barclay, Reed City, all.complete new outfits, and H. N. Willis and Brown & Cairns, new firms at COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples—Out of market. fill orders. Asparagus—$1 9 doz. bunches. Bailed Hay—Scarcer and firmer at $15@ $16 ton. Barley—Seareer and firmer. Best quality now readily commands $1.35 ¥ 100 tbs. Beets—Scarcely any call for them. Selling at $3 $B bbl. and $1 H bu. Butter—Choice dairy rolls are worth 25e, and prime packed the same. Elgin creamery 25@30¢. Butterine—Best quality is still in good de- mand at 18c@20ce. Beans—Handpicked are a trifle firmer at $2.35 and unpicked are not much moving at $1.75@32. But few in market, and not much moving. Buckwheat—None moving. ket. Cabbages—Southern new, $8.50 ¥ crate of about 4 dozen. Cheese—Skim 10c@11e. is active and firm at 14@15c. Cider—None in stock, and dealers unable to fill orders. Clover Seed—Choice medium firm at $6 @$6.50 Y bu. and mammoth in fair demand at $6.75 @P bu. Corn—Local dealers stand in readiness to supply carload lots of Kansas corn at from 45@60c 4 bu. It is all of the same quality, but the former price is for damp, and the latter for dry, stock. Cucumbers — Mississippi stock $1.25 doz. Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9e P Tb, and sliced 8@9c. Evaporated dull and slow at 124 @14e. Eggs—Jobbing readily at 16e, and tolera- bly firm at that price. These prices are higher than those ruling in New York, Chi- cago, or any other important market, and are attributed to the fact that hundreds of dealers are pickling their supplies. Green Onions—30@35e ¥ dozen bunches. Honey—In comb, 18e # Ib. Hops—The Michigan crop is almost completely exhausted. Good command 20@ 22c, and fair 15@18c # tb. Lettuce—Hothouse stock selling readily, with good demand, at 25c # tb. It is likely to be searce 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 searce at that price. Choice pure readily commands 18ce@14e. The adulterated article readily commands 11e. Onions—Seareely any choice in the mar- ket, the most of the stock being badly pitted. Bermuda onions readily command $1.75 B crate. Pieplant—Hothouse stock in fair demand at 5e 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 45e, and Rose at 30@35ce. Peas—Holland $4 Y bu. Parsnips—Moving slowly at $3 bbl and $1 % bu. Poultry—Chickens and fowls are firm, and readily command 16@17ce and 15@16ce, respectively. There are no ducks and geese in market, anda few turkeys, which find ready sale at 16e. Radishes—40e @ ¢lozen bunches. Ruta Bagas—Out of market. Seed Oats—White English Sovereign, 75e. Seed Potatoes—White Star, $1; Selected Burbanks, 50c; Early Ohio, 50e; Beauty of Hebron, 50c. Squash—Southern white readily command $1.75@$2 BP box of 40 ths. net Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.60@ $1.85 4 bu. Fancy, $2. Vegetable Oysters—40e Y dozen bunches. Wax Beans—-$4 Y box. Green, $3.50. Wheat—Loceal dealers are paying 75@80c for No. 2 Clawson and 95¢ for No. 1. Lan- chester commands $1@$1.05. or -2- VISITING BUYERS. Deaiers cannot Out of mar- Full cream The following retail dealers have visited the market during the past week and placed orders with the various houses: Wm. Jones, Morley. Weertiman & Virher, Zeeland. J. L. Handy, Woodstock. A. W. Fenton, Bailey. M. Carman, Altona. J. R. Trask, Grattan Center. Fred Tracy, of Cunmer Lumber Co., Cad- illae. O. R. Bush, Deer Lake. J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake. Henry Plumb, Mill Creek. Chas. North, representing Geo. Carrington, Trent. R. B. Ogden, Howard City. A. B. Gates, Rockford. M. E. Fitzgerald, Maple Valley. Adam Wagner, Eastmanville. D. Gerber, Fremont Center. H. W. Banks, Frankfort Lumber Co., Frankfort. Geo. S. Curtiss, Edgerton. hk. G. Beekwith, Hopkins. M. B. Nash, Sparta. J. E. Mailhot, West Troy. Kellogg & Potter, Jernisonville. D. J. Peacock, Bridgton. S. E. Curdy, of Hadley Bros. Manf’g Co., Kingsley. J. O. Sabin, Luther. E. R. Sloenin & Co., Hesperia. J. DeHait, Canada Coiner’s. : Jobn Barker, of Barker & Lebnen, Pier- son. T. B. Snyder, Ayr. M. J. Howard, Englishville. C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford. M. May, Frankfort. U.S. Monroe, Berlin. Calvin Dvrvkee, Lakeview. H. J. Fisher, Hamilton. J. W. Mead, Berlin. Spring & Lindley, Bailey. Mrs. G. W. Jones, Big Rapids. D. W. Shattuck, Wayland. S. S. Eckler, Kalkaska. I’. W. Provin, Cedar Springs. Cc. O. Sunderland, Lowell. Adam Newell, Tustin. W. F. Rice, Alpine. Wm. Parks, Alpine. Mr. Wells, of Wagner & Wells, Eastman- lle. S. C. Fell, Howard City. Geo. A. Sage, Rockford. EK. Pangborn, Sand Lake. S. Frost, McBrides. S. M. Geary, Maple Hill. S. T. McLellan, Denison. Adam Wagner, Eastmanville. E. B. Sunderlin, Palo. C. H. Deming, Dunton.- C. Porter, Chauncey. J. & L. D. Chapple, Wylaand. J. M. Sutherland, Caledonia. A. G. Chase, Ada. Aniba & Mead, Ionia. Parr hurst Bros., Nunica. J. 8. Davis, Hopkins. Jay Marlatt, Berlin. : Mrs. Geo. Hoyle, Cedar Springs. Fox & Fisher, Zeeland. vi Henry DeKline, Jamestown. F. E. Davis, Berlin, Howard Morley, Cedar Springs. Mr. McAuley, of Scoville & McAuley, Ed- gerton. Geo. W. Shearer, Cedar Springs. B. McNeal, Byron Center. C. E. & S. J. Coon, Lisbon. J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg. Holland & Ives, Rockford. Dr. F. C. Williams, Ada. R. G. Beckwith, Hopkins. W. G. Hunter, Cedar Springs. Purdy & Hastings, Sparta. F. B. Watkins, Monterey. W. H. Hicks, Morley. J. M. Dameron, Bangor. Mrs. E. A. Hoag, Martin. Mrs. 8. A. Colby, Rockford. Mrs. F. S. Emmons, Sparta Center. Mrs. A. A. Tracy, Muskegon. Mrs. G. F. Anson, Bellevue. Ira S. Jetfers, Ionia. McCormick & Clark, Plainwell. How the Chinese Do It. From the Wall Street News. When a native of China doing business goes to the wall, a Mandarin investigates his affairs, and the result is usually as follows: “I find that your household expenses have been eight cents per day.” “Alas! oh mighty Mandarin, I have an ex- travagant family.” “Your rent has been sixty cents per month. How dared you ineur such an expense on your small eapital?”’ “T was in hopes times would improve.” ‘And I find among your items of expense such things as opera tickets, oysters for Sun- day and smoking tobacco for your grand- mother. No wonder you have to shut up shop and cause your creditors to mourn.” “Oh, Mighty Mandarin, show mercy to an honest but unfortunate man.” “Call yourself honest, when you withdraw seventy cents of your capital to buy your wite a party dress! Come to the temple of justice.” At the temple the creditors divide up the assets, and each one is then priviledged to to use a whip on the debtor’s back until he thinks he has got 100 cents on the dollar. a A ee “Do I understand that your cashier is an embezzler, Mr. Goldust?” asked {a friend of the banker. “Yes,” replied Goldust, ‘“tand we had every confidence in him.” “Did he dvink?? “Yes,” “Chew and smoke?” “¥Ves.”? “Gamble and drive fast horses?” “Yes; so far as can be learned, was never a chureh member or a Sunday-school teacher. In facet, he inspired implicit trust, and it on- ly goes to show how hard it is to discern a man’s true character by his habits.’ i oe Philadelphia has a molasses pipe line. It runs from a wharf to the so :alled “smear house.” The molasses is heated by steam to thin it andit is then conducted through the pipe, a distance of 1,000 feet. The sav- ing in cartage is considerable. Having made $3,000,000, a Wall street firm has dissolved, being afraid of losing its money. It is an exceptional case when a suecessftl speculator Fnows enough to re- sist the temptation to risk his money. LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES. The Newaygo Company quote f. 0. b. cars as follow: Uppers: Pimen. 6.6... .. oe. per M $44 00 Uppers, 14,1% and 2inch................ 46 00 Seleots, Pimen 2. 2. =... 22... be. 35 00 Selects; 144, 14% and 2 ineh................ 38 00 Pine Common, f inch... .. 5... ....22.....8 30 00 Shop, Pimeh 3... ee 20 00 Fine, Common, 114, 1% and 2inech........ 382 00 No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 4 and 16 feet . 15 00 Now ft Stocks, i242 in., 18 feet: . .. ce... 16 00 No. J Stocks, i im, 20 feet................ 17 00 No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 15 00 No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet................ 16 00 Noz EStoeks, 10 in., 20teet....... 2.0.00 2.2 17 00 No. 1 Stocks, 8in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 15 00 INO. 1 Stocks, 8im., 18 feet... . -.. os ee. 16 00 No. EStoeks, 8 in., 20 feet. ............:..- 17 00 No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 13 00 No.2 Stooks, 12 in., 1S feet... 2... 2. oe. + QU No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet................ 15 00 No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 13 60 No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.......2........ 14 00 No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet... ............ 15 00 No. 2 Stoeks, 8in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 12 00 No. 2 Stocks, Sin., 18 feet... .. 2.205. c 2. 13 00 No. 2Stoeks, 8 in., 20 feet... ...... 2. .4:. 14 00 Coarse Common or shipping culls, all widths and lengths... 6... 2. il e.cs 8. 9 00 A and B Strips, 4o6r 6im ..... 2... 0. cock, 35 00 @ Strips: or@ men...:... 2. 525 28 00 No. 1 Fencing, all lengths................ 15 00 No. 2 Fencing, 12, 14and 18 feet.......... 12 00 No. & Reneing, l@feet.:...... 2. e ee 12 00 No. bP Reneing. 4 men. 7... 2... ec... 15 00 No. 2Bbenceing, 4 inch. .... 2... 2.5... 12 00 Norway C and better, 4 or 6ineh......... 20 00 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and B............ 18 00 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C.......2.........0.. 14 50 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No.1 Common..... 9 00 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Clear.............. 20 00 Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12, 12 to 16 ft. ..11 50@12 00 $1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft. Dressed Flooring, 6in., A. B............. 36 00 Dressed Flooring, 6in. C..............2.. 29 00 Dressed Flooring, 6in., No. 1,common.. 17 00 Dressed Flooring 6in., 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 00 Dressed Flooring, 4 ord5in., No.2 com’n 14 00 Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional. XXX 18in. Standard Shingles......... 3 50 XS isin. Thin... 2.2... 3 40 BROMO LG a 3 00 No. 2o0r6in. C. B1i8in. Shingles......... 2 00 INO. Zoro in. C2 BOG pt oo: 1% St 00 ee oe ee 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. NOOD BARGAIN. Ilwanta stock 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 improyed 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. “Want* situation in atinshop. Can work in store if necessary. North of Big Rapids preferred. Address, Box 42, St. . Louis, Mich. A® TYPEWRITER OR COPYIST, by a young lady well qualified for such a position, both by education and experience. Address, | XXX, care Miss Sila Hibbard, 35 First street, Grand Rapids. , 2 grain pills. Drugs & Medicines Explanation of the Campion System. Eprrork TRADESMAN: For the benefit of a back-woods druggist, I wish you would kindly explain the “Campion plan,” about which the drug papers are saying so much just at present. SUBSCRIBER. The Campion plan of combination among proprietors and manufacturers of patent medicines to prevent the cutting of whole- sale and retail prices of their preparations went into operation nearly a month ago, and is rapidly gaining new adherents. The fol- lowing firms have already united in it: J. C. Ayer & Co., of Lowell, Hostetter & Smith and Freming Brothers, of Pittsburg, A. C. Meyer and Charles H. Vogeler & Co., of Baltimore; G.C. Green, of Woodbury, N.J.; Hop Pill Manufacturing Co., of New Lon- don; Perry Davis & Son, of Providence; Tarrant & Co., of New York; Dr. Jayne & Sons, G. W. Campion & Co., Foster, Milburn & Co., and Johnston, Holloway & Co., of Philadelphia. The movement was started by Mr. G. W. Campion, in Philadelphia, and is called by his name. ‘The idea of the combination is to take the side of the union druggists against the sealpers, whe sell at less than the printed rates. Any wholesale or retail dealer buying of a member of the combina- tion is obliged to sign a contract pledging himself not to cut rates, on penalty of fur- ther supplies of goods being refused to him. In order further to induce the jobber to stand by the contract, ten per cent. rebate is allowed on allorders. The manufacturer agrees to refuse to sell goods to all persons underselling. Wholesalers are also forbid- den to retail at less than retail rates. The combination has spies to detect scalp- ers, and when cutting is clearly proved against a druggist he is put on the black list, and none of the combination or its agents will sell goods to him. One of these black lists has already been issued, contain- ing the names of eleven Philadelphia drug- gists. A black list of New York druggists is expected shortly. After the black list druggists have exhausted their stock of cut goods they will be forced to stop selling them or sign the contract not to undersell. A manufacturer was asked why he cared at what retail price his medicine was sold, so long as he got his wholesale price. He said: “Ifa druggist is compelled by cutting ot rates to sell our goods so low that he makes hardly any profiton them, he will recommend and sell other similar goods on which the prices have not been cut. There is so much competition in patent medicines that this danger of substitution is very great. In keeping up the fixed prices we protect ourselves as well as the retailer. There are two firms in Detroit and one in Baltimore which make a specialty of imitating the gen- uine goods without going so far as to make themselves liable to prosecution. They sell these goods to druggists at such low prices that they can sell them at a profit even when they are sold as low as the lowest cut rates on our genuine goods. Naturally the drug- gist will try to make the most profit, and will recommend the ungenuine goods.” <9 <___— Why Druggists Rejoice. “Ves,” said a druggist on a prominent city corner, “this is fine spring weather, and I am happy.” “In common with everybody else?” sug- gested the reporter. “T don’t know whether everybody else is happy or not,” continued the dispenser of drugs, “but in my case not only am I affect- ed by the pleasant weather but business is booming. ‘This is the season when we sell more patent medicines than all the rest of the year put together.” ‘What kinds of medicines are in the great- est demand?” “System renovators and tonics. Every- body is taking something to purify the blood and brace them up, and it fairiy keeps us busy waiting on customers. There is one thing about these spring medicines, and that is that they are easy to handle. You see, they all come prepared, bottled and with printed directions, so we don’t have the trouble with them that there is in preparing a prescription.” ‘“‘What kind of medicines sell best?” “Well, I don’t care about telling that, but my experience is that the remedies that are the best advertised sell the best.” ———___—--2- <> __— Dr. Cyrus Edson, of the Board of Health of New York, has been analyzing samples of “essence of coffee’? used by poor families and boarding-house keepers. The prepara- tion contains, among other things, dried blood, chicory, very poor coffee, and powd- ered licorice. The doctor will lay his anal- ysis before the Board, that criminal proceed- ings may be instituted against the manufac- turers of the stuff. -easllae ialpe White birch bark oil, which gives to Russia leather its peculiar aromatic and lasting qualities, when dissolved in alcohol is said to be excellent for preserving and water- proofing fabrics. It renders them acid and insect proof, and does not destroy the plia- bility of the fabric. ——_—_—__-_—>-4 > An old Englishman met with a queer death some days ago. He had been in the habit of using quick silver and aqua fortis mixed together as an ointment for rheuma- tism. The bottle containing the mixture ex- ploded in his pocket and he was burned to death. 9 An ounce of quinine will make 480 — Nature and Properties of Glucose. Two years ago a bill was pending before Congress to tax and regulate the manufac- ture and sale of glucose, which proposed also to so amend the internal revenue laws as to impose a special tax upon the manufactur- ers of and dealers in glucose, and to levy a tax upon the article in its solid, liquid and semi-liquid form. Mr. Raum, then Com- missioner of Internal Revenue, addressed a letter to Professor Rogers, president of the National Academy of Science, asking the appointment of a committee to examine as to the composition, nature, and properties of the article known as glucose or grape sugar. It was desired to ascertain the quality of this product as compared with cane sugar or molasses, and esvecially as to its deleterious effects when used as an article of food or drink, or as a constituent element of such articles. Professor Marsh, now president of the National Academy of Sciences, has submit- ted the report of the committee to Commis- sioner Evans, which is exhaustive in every point. The committee was composed of the eminent scientist Professor George F. Bark- er, chairman; William H. Brewer, Wolcot Gibbs, Charles F. Chandler, and Ira Rem- sler. Under this head :—‘ Is the use of glucose or jgrape sugar injurious to health?” the Committee say :— There was nothing whatever to indicate that the extracts contained anything injur- ious to health, and the conclusion seems to be fully justified that the samples examined be us, and which we have every reason to believe were fair average samples of the sub- stance found in the market, contained noth- ing objectionabie from a sanitary standpoint. In the experiments the experimenter took into his system everything that could possi- bly be objectionable contained in from 120 to 160 grams of the glucose grape sugar, that is from a quarter to a third of a pound. It must be borne in mind further that the ex- tract which was taken into the stomach must have contained any objectionable mineral as well as organic substances present in the glucose employed. Hence, the results seem to have been final as regards the injurious nature of glucose or grape sugar made from maize. These experiments extended over a period of only about two months. On the question, therefore, whether any injurious effect would follow the continuous use of this material the committee has no informa- tion. Ourexperiments have, of course, no direct connection with those of Schmitz, Nesslerand Von Mering already referred to. These gentlemen experimented upon pota- to sugar, as furnished by manufacturers in Germany. Our conclusions are valid only for maize sugar as furnished by manufactur- ers in this country. Itshould be further re- marked that although our experiments show conclusively that the products of fermenta- tion of glucose are not dangerous‘o health, it does not necessarily follow that beer made by the fermentation of glucose is just as good as that made in the usual way. That is a matter which does not fall within the scope of our investigation. In the summary the committee says :— The elaborate experiments upen the fer- mentation of starch sugar would seem to be final on the question of the healthfulness of not only glucose itself, but also of the sub- stances produced by the action of a ferment upon it. Large quantities of a concentrated extract from the fermentetion representing from one-third to one-half pound of starch sugar were taken internally by the experi- menter, and has repeatedly without the slightest observable effect. This result rig- idly applied, holds, of course, only for those sugars which, like this, are made from the starch of Indian corn or maize. The report concludes as follows :— The following facts appear as the result of the present investigation :— First—That the manufacture of sugar from starch is along established industry, scientifically valuable and commercially im- portant. Second—That the processes which it em- ploys at the present time are unobjection- able in their character and leave the product uncontaminated. Third—That the starch sugar thus made and sent into commerce is of exceptionable purity and uniformity of composition, and contains no injurious substances, Fourth—That, though having at best only about two-thirds the sweetening power of cane sugar, yet starch sugar is in no way in- ferior to cane sugar in healthfulness, there being no evidence before the Commissioner that maize starch sugar, either in its normal condition or fermented, has any aéleterious effect upon the system, even when taken in large quantities. ae A eee One of our popular doctors was not long ago much pleased with a certain aerated water, and, by his assiduous recommenda- tions, procured for it a celebrity it justly de- served. The doctor acted solely in the in- terests of humanity generally, and expected no return. To his surprise, there came one morning an effusive letter from the com- pany, saying that his recommendations had done them so much good that they ‘‘ventur- ed to send him a hundred——” Here the page come to anend. ‘This will never do,” said the doctor; “itis very kind, but I could not think of accepting anything.’ Here he turned the page and found the sent- ence ran: “Of our circulars for distribu- tion.” —_—_—~<-2 The state of Antiquia, Mexico, offers a prize of $10,000 for the discovery of an effi- cacious means of preventing the blight which affecting the cocoa plantations in the state. — Tle. A Chapter on Turpentine. A turpentine distillery which makes the higher grades mainly can nearly pay exX- penses from the rosin alone, leaving the turpentine to swell the figure on the “‘profit’’ side of the book; where all the “boxed out” trees are converted into lumber, a pine for- est is little less than a bonanza. If the ex- periments being made in Georgia prove suc- cessful, even the sawdust atthe mill may be utilized for something more than fuel for the engines. By a process of sweating, fourteen gallons of spirits of turpentine, three or four barrels of rosin, and a consid- erable quantity of tar have been obtained from one ton of pine sawdust. It remains to be demonstrated whether or not the yield will be sufficient to pay for working it. New crops are added every year, the average an- nual product of the state amounting to 175,- 000 barrels of rosin, and 35,000 barrels of spirits of turpentine, nearly all of which find a market in the United States. The trees do not bleed to death; the grevious wounds heal, but they always wear their great brown scars which, like the empty sleeve of the soldier, shows that they have been in service. During the boiling process in the manu- facture of spirits of turpentine a small stream of hot water is kept running into the}: rosin to prevent its burning; in the form of vapor this water mingles with the spirits and they pass together through the still worm, where they are condensed; escaping from the pipe at one side of the still. Here the turpentine rises to the surface and pas- ses on to the barrel waiting to be filled. A peculiarity of boiling rosin is that when it threatens to ‘“‘boil over’ the only remedy is to increase the heat, causing it to boil more rapidly. When the water escaping from the still worm ceases to bring turpentine with it, the still cap is removed, the fire drawn out, and the escape doors at the side of the still opened. The rosin rushes out, a steaming bubbling mass, reddish-brown in color, and oderous as a wholesale chemical factory. It first passes through a coarse wire sieve, then through one of finer quality, and finally a strong Canton flannel strainer catches the remaining impurities. A few minutes suffice to let the intense heat escape, andthen itis dipped into barrels and is ready for market. Very strong barrels are required, as the weightof a barrel of rosin is 180 pounds. The largest yield from an “orchard” isin the months of May and June. In appearance crude turpentine resembles white wax, which, after melting, has only partially solidified. It looks tempting enough to eat, but one taste is as effective as a sign “hands off’? nailed to every tree would be. The product of each tree is gathered four or five times during the year, the yield of an average tree amounting to about twénty-four gallons of the crude “dip” and ‘‘scrape.”?> Wagons go through each crop gathering into barrels the crude tur- pentine. The “dipper” used is unlike any- thing else by that name. It looks likean enlarged and flattened Indian arrow head, the point of which has been rounded off by contact with someone’s bones. The “‘crops”’ are distinctly separated by blazed trees, and a man placed in chargeof each crop. These “eroppers” are superintended by foremen, whose duty it is to ride through every por- tion of the ‘‘orchard,” keep an eye on every man’s work, know the condition of all the trees, and report the same every night. The first year’s product of the trees make by far the finest rosin, nearly always coming up to the standard required for the ‘winter white” brand; with each year it deteriorates until it yields only the dark, muddy-looking stuff which finds its way into much of the cheap soap put upon the market, and which should share with the “bluing bag? the questionable honor of being able to dis- turb the temper of every woman who has to ‘count the wash” that the laundry sends home. An ordinary copper still simi- lar to those in use in grain distilleries, is used to separate the spirits from the rosin. A still with the capacity of twenty barrels of the crude will dispose of five charges, or 100 barrels in a day, each charge yielding about 140 gallons of spirits of turpentine and from fourteen to sixteen barrels of rosin. ———->_ 0 =< Hot Water a Safe Medicine, An old and skilled New York physician, when interviewed on the hot water craze, said: ‘‘ It has long been used. Itis an in- ternal wash; nothing more nor less. .:::. Coseh Body... 6... oe ck. , é No. 1 Turp Furniture.................. 1 00@1 10 Extra Turp Damar... ...- 2... .c.00.0065 1 55@1 60 Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.............. 70@ %5 PAINTS. Bbl Lb Boralumine, White bulk) ........ 9 Boralumine, ‘ 5 Ibs 10 Boralumine, Tints _ 40° ff.. 10 Boralumine “ 5 tbs.}........ il Red Venetian.. heces Oe 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3 Putty, commercial ............ ye 2%4@ 3 Putty, strictly pure.. y 2%@ 3 Vermilion, prime American... 18@16 Vermilion, English............ 55@5T Green, Peninsular............. 16@17 Lead, red strictly pure.. 6% Lead, white, s id ure.. 6% Whiting, white 8 an BR. oc eie. @i0 Whiting, Gilders’.............. ite, Paris American........ Whiting Paris English cliff. 2 HAZEL TINE, PERKINS & G0 HAZELTINE, PERKINS & 00, Wholesale rugoists 2and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 93 and 95 Louis Street. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF rigs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Varnishes ad Draeaist's Glassware MANUFACTURERS OF ELEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS, FLUID EXTRACTS AND ELINIRS. GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR Wotr, Patron & Co., AND Joun L. Wurtt- NEY, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE PAINT AND VARNISH BRUSHES. —Also for the— GRAND Rapips Brusu Co., MANFGs. Harr, SHOE AND Horse BRUSHES. Drugoists’ 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 delay their fall purehasers of those articles until they have seen our el- egant line, as shown by our aceredited repre- senlative who is now preparing for his an- nual exhibition of those goods. OF We desire particular attention of those about purchasing ouTFIrs for NEW STORES to the fact of our unsurpassed 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 and Liquor Department We give our special and personal atten- tion to the selection of choice goods for thedrug 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 WHISKEYS. 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 Hriggists Favorite Rye, Which continues to have so many favorites among druggists who have sold these goods for a very long time. Buy our Els, Brandes & Fine Wines. We call your attention to the adjoining list of market quotations which we aim to make as complete and perfect as possible. For special quantities and for quotations on such articles as do not appear on the list such as Patent Medicines, etc,, we invite your cor- respondence, Mail orders always receive our special and personal attention. The Michigan Tradesman. 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, MAY 7, 1884. LOADED CIGARS. A Talk with a Manufacturer of Explosive Smokers. From the New York Herald. Some idea of the extent to which practical jokes are perpetrated may be formed from the fact that a tobacce firm on Essex street employs several hands who are kept con- stantly busy making cigars that are to all outward appearances innocent and harmless, but which really contain powder and other explosives that burst in the smoker’s face the moment he has taken one or two puffs. The manufacturer of these cigars told a Herald reporter that he sent them to all parts of the country—to Chicago, Cincinnati, Texas and California. ‘I have more orders for them.” he said, “‘than I can possibly fill. All classes of people buy them, but, as a general thing, actors are my best patrons. I suppose it is because they have less to do than other people, and have therefore more time for playing jokes on each other. The day before yesterday an actor came in and asked me if I could put dynamite in one of my cigars. He said he only wanted it as a joke, but somehow I didn’t like the man’s looks; as I thought dynamite was too dan- gerous a thing to play jokes with, I refused to make him one.” “By the way I noticed the other day,” can- tinued the cigar maker, “that O’Donovan Rossa said he was sending explosive cigars over to England to blow up Gladstone and all his cabinet. Another person said that this could not be done, that no such cigar could be made, but if you will wait here a few minutes, [ will show you that it can be made, and very easily.” The speaker took down about two thimble- fuls of powder, slightly moistened it and then wrapped it very tightly in in some soft paper. Around this he in turn wrapped some tobacco and then proceeded in the or- dinary way to make a cigar. “Now,” he said, with a look of great triumph and pleas- ure, “if you give this to any of your friends I guarantee in will blow his nose off.” Just then the office boy handed the manufacturer aletter. ‘Ah,’ he said, “here is another order for a dozen boxes from Chicago, and they say 1 must put plenty of powder in, so there will be no danger of their not going off. Well, the fools are certainly not all dead yet.” — ee Methods of Preserving Eggs. From the Grocers’ Monthly Review, At the Birmingham, Eng., Show there was a competition for the best dozen of pre- served eggs. The eggs had to be sent in to the custody of the secretary prior to October 1, so that at the time of the examination by the judges they had to be atleast two months old, and it was objected by many that the time was too short and ought to have covered six months. The plan of testing adopted by the judges was as follows: To break one of each set into a clean saucer, then to bring the best eight together in the same saucepan, putting them into the cold water and remoy- Sang thém from the water as soon as_ boiled, . .gnd allowing them to remain one minute .., and a half before testing. Another set, one for each selected dozen, were boiled ten min- utes and opened when cold. Those preserved in lime water were not satisfactory, milk of lime being more highly recommended. Others, that had been coated with melted dripping or beeswex, were also wanting, the whites being thin and watery. The. best had been simply packed in common salt. These had not lost sensibly by evaporation; had good consistent albumen and tasted best when boiied. The eggs that took the second prize were adjudged nearly as good as the first. The young lady who packed them gave the following as her method. ; Melt one part of white wax to two parts of spermaceti, boil and mix thorougly; or two parts clarified suet to one of wax and two of spermaceti. Take new laid eggs, rub with antiseptic salt or fine rice starch. Wrap each egg in fine tissue paper, putting the : broad end downward, screw the paper tight- ly at the top, leaving an inch to hold it by. Dip each egg rapidly into fat heated to 100 » deg.; withdraw and leave to cool. Pack “swith broad end downward in dry white sand | }* pr sawdust. It was generally believed had the contest covered a longer period these would have stood first. Another point of superiority in this last method was the fine appearance of the eggs, the shell being pure and clean as when first laid. For home use, probably the common salt method, owing to its sim- plicity, will be generally preferred; but for market, doubtless the extra pains required by the second method would pay. Next to good winter laying hens for profit comes a good method of preserving eggs, and we should like to see a contest of this kind at our own poultry shows another season. ———_—»>->——— Smoke the celebrated Jerome Eddy Cigar, manufactured by Robbins & Ellicott, Buf- falo, N. Y. For sale by Fox,.Musselman & Loveridge, Grand Rapids, Mich. ——_——___—>-s- aeons J. W. Morse, Chase: “Your neat little pa- per is a credit to any one who has the pleas- Weed Out the Old Stock. From the American Store-keeper. No merchant is willing to admit that he belongs to that class of business men known as “Old Fogies.” Yet how many there are at the present time who are running in the same grass-grown ruts used by their ances- tors a hundred years ago, without even con- sidering the possible advantages to be gain- ed by an improvement in their methods of store-keeping. Chief among this way-back people is the man who believes every item should pay a profit, and will accordingly hold an article ten months—or ten years, as the case may be—rather than sell it at any sacrifice price. He is the man who inventories that item, and a thousand other ‘‘stickers’”’ from year to year at actual cost, and then wonders why he doesn’t have more working capital when his books show such a decided gain. He possibly imagines that some time cus- tomers are coming on purpose to buy those goods, and so he carries them over from year to year, each time putting them higher up on the shelves, where they will not be molested again for another twelve months. Does he not see that his competitors are passing him in the race? Is he going to be satisfied to sit back and prophesy ruin and failure for the man on the opposite corner, simply because he had marked down some winter goods a trifle under cost? Can he not see, as did the other and wiser merchant, that the spring will soon be here, and that he will need both money and space to de- vote to the wants of the coming season? There is no merchant on the sure road to success, unless he has learned to keep his store free from “plunder,” and there is no excuse in these times of “cheap counters” and “bargain tables” fora man carrying over a lot of imaginary wealth from year to year, when there are so many ways of weed- ing out this old stock. There is alwayssome use an article can be put to, and accordingly a price can be named which will sell it. What does it matter if you don’t get 100 cents on the dollar? Youhave the cash in hand with which to buy goods that will sell at a profit, and more than pay you back for any loss you may have made on an article that was decreasing in value with every ad- ditional year. If you have any “plunder” in your stock, shake out the dust, and then sell it at any price. ——————_—>_ 9 <> —____ Try the celebrated Jerome Eddys. The finest 10 cent cigar in the market. For sale by Fox, Musselman & Loveridge. ————_—_—~< -9§ << __ New York city is credited with having 450 millionaires. CARPETS AND CARPETINGS. Spring & Company quote as follows: TAPESTRY BRUSSELS. Roxbury tapestry................. @ 90 Smith's 10 wire........:........-... @ 90 Smits OxGTA..........5..55-.-.. 2. @ 8 Smith’s B Palisade................ @ 0 Smith’s C. Palisade................ @ 65 eGeeims: oo 5... se @ &% Mtpeine: cee: @ Santord’s Cxtra......2.....:.-..:.. @ 8% Sanford’s Comets.................. @ 65 THREE-PLYS. Hartford 3-ply.............cce00- @1 00 Slowell S-ly. 6 56 es. ak @1 00 Miggins Bply.....:.......--.-.-.s- @1 00 Sanford’s o-ply........,..4...-,.--.2 @ 9% EXTRA SUPERS. Baristord 2-6 @ T7%% TOWOU.. 3.3... 33.5. s.- ae 821% Other makes............ "5 : 17% Best cotton chain.................. 60 @ 62% ALL WOOL SUPERFINES. MCR CaN 5 ee 74@ 60 Other grades 2-ply................. 524%@ 5d WOOL FILLING AND MIXED. All-wool super, 2-ply.............. 50 @ 55 Extra heavy double cotton chain. 42%@ 45 Double cotton chain............... 35 @ 40 Heavy cotton and wool, doublec. 30 @ 32% Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply 27%@ 32% Single cotton chain................ 9 25 HEMPS. 3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy........ 27%@ 30 B At wWite....... . es... @ 2% Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide........... @ 18% B38 inches.) ./ @ Iii OIL CLOTHS. No. 1, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4 and 8-4..... as @ 45 No. 2, G0. | 228s @ 31% No. 3, GO 2. oe @ 30 No. 4, 00520 242. @ 2% M@FTINGS. Best all rattan, plain............... @ 62% Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... @ 52% Napier Aj... s. 7 -.-e- @ 50 Napier 8.) 3... eee @ 40 CURTAENS. Opaque shades, 38 inch....-....... @ 15 Holland shades, B finish, 4-4....... @ 18 Pacific Holland, 4-4............--.. @ 10 Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... @36 Cord fixtures, per Qross........... @10 MILLINERY GOODS. J. J. Van Leuven quotes as foilews: HATS. Cantos 2... per dew. 2 2@ 3 00 WHIAUIE 2 5. oe see ce ee oo & 6 00 Fine Milans.......... seee s severe ¥ OOBIZ 00 Superfine Milans.................---- 15 00@18 00 ONG es ee ee 5 00@12 00 BLACK CRAPE. Samuel Courtland & Co.’s brand. RIBBONS. Satin and GG, all silk, extra heavy, all colors. 0.9 Bee pes RG 10 see. ee oes 90 Gy A ce oon os eos sees ne 110 MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS” ASSOCIA’N. Incorporated Dec. 10, 1877—Charter in Force for Thirty Years. LIST OF OFFICERS: President—RANsoM W. HAWLEY, of Detroit. Vice-Presidents—CHAS. E. SNEDEKER, Detroit; L. W. ATKINS, Grand Rapids; I: N. ALEXAN- DER, Lansing; U. 8. LORD, Kalamazoo; H. E. MEEKER, ue City. ‘ a on and Treasurer—W. N. MEREDITH, etroit. Board of Trustees, For One Year—J. C. PoN TIUS. Chairman, §. A. MUNGER, H. gs are of perusing its columns.” ¥or Two Years—D. Morris, A. W. THIS SPACE IS RESERYWED FOR ARTHUR MEIGS & CO. W holesale Grocers, 55 and 57 Canal Street, Granada Rapids, Michigan, PROPRIETORS OF THE CELEBRATED BRANDS Rel Fox & Big Drive Plug Tohacco, Tine Best in the Market. 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 es 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 sg ear 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 F. J. LAMB & COMPANY, —WHOLESALE DEALERS IN—— Butter, Cheese, Eggs, 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, Gement, Stucco, LIME, HAIR, COAL and Mood. ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED. Office 7 Canal Street, Sweet,s Hotel Block. Yards—Goedrich Street, Near Michigan Cen- tral Freight House. SPRING & COMPANY --WHOLESALE DEALERS IN— STAPLE DRY GOODS CARPHTS, MATTINGS, Ott, CLhLOTHS, ETC. EPO. Gand 8 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE, “ke, WHOLESALE 44, 46 and 48 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. ARE FACTORY AGENTS FOR—— Nimrod, Acorn, Chief Grascaut & Red Seal Ping: Tohaccos, Our stock of Teas, Coffees and Syrups is Always Complete. —WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR— Tobaccos, Vinegars and Spices i! OUR MOTTO: “SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MANCAND MAN.” CORRESPONDENCE. SOLICITED. Manufacturer of = “Bedette.’ THE PATENTED JUNE 15, 1883. This invention supplies a long felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put away in a small space when not in use, and yet make a roomy, comfortable bed when wanted. Of the many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a comfortable era 8 rest can be had. They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in short no bed at all. While THE BEDETTE folds into a small space, and is as light as anything can be made for dura- bility, when set up it furnishes a bed wide and long enough for the largest man, and is as com- fortable to lie upon as 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. Itisa Lorheal 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- att and no family after once using, would be without it. It is simple in its construction, and pe? an & be out of repair. It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed, and the price is within Price—86 in. wide, by 634 ft. long, $3.50; 30 in wide, by 61g ft. long, $3.00; 27 in. wide, by 434 ft. long, cover not adjustable, $2.50. For sale by eu vaitines “dealers every- where. If not for sale by your dealer it will be sent to any address on receipt of price. M. B. Church “Bedette” Co., * x G , et ps » v 4 o @ J, J. VAN LEUVEN, WHOLESALE Millinery —AND— FANCY GOoopvps 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 Our, RAW HIDE WHIP { 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. HROWVS c& CO., No. 4 Pear! Street, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. PORTABLE AND STATIONARY BEN GIN BS From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft- ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for Complete Outfits. vw. Cc. 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, nF, CLUF'=", Grand Rapids, Mich. Town and county rights for sale. MOSELEY BROS., Wholesale Olover, Timothy and all Kinds Field Seeds sSeed Corn, Green and Dried Fruits, Oranges and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc. GREEN VEGETABLES AND OYSTERS. 122 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. ALABASTINE! PEGG gggayes Alabastine is the first and only prepara- tion made from ealcined gypsum rock, for application to walls with a brush, and is fully covered by our several patents and perfected by many years of experiments. It is the only permanent wall finish, and adiits of applying as many coats as de- sir. dl, one over another, to any hard surface without danger of scaling, or noticeably adding to the thickness of the wall, which js 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 io possess these great advantages, which ase essential to constitute a durable wall finish. Alabastine is hardened on the wall by age, moisture, etc.; the plaster absorbs the admixtures, forming a stone cement, wiile all kalsomines, or other whitening preparations, have inert soft chalks, and ciue, for their base, which are rendered sutt, or scaled, in a very short time, thus necessitating the well-known great incon- venience and expense, which all have ex- p-rienced, in washing and seraping off the old coats before refinishing. In addition to the above advantages, Alabastine is less e.pensive, as it requires but one-half the 1:.mber of pounds to cover the same amount oi surface with two coats, is ready for use by simply adding water, and is easily ap- , piled by any one. Phe eRe eee —— FOR SALE BY——— ALL Faint Dealers. — ——MANUFACTURED BY—— THE ALABASTINE COMPANY M. B. CHURCH, Manager. GRAND RAPIDS, - - - MICHIGAN. FJ, DETTENTHALER Successor to H. M. Bliven, —WHOLESALE— OYSTERS AND CANNED GOODS. Agent for Farren’s Celebrated “FF” Brand Raw Oysters. 117 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. Grand Rapids Wire Works Manufacturers of All Kinds of WIRE 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. LAMOREAUY, Agent, 91 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. SCHEMES.” An Indignant Correspondent Denounces Them as Frauds, The tobacconist, druggist, grocer, confec- tioner, and all retailers to whom the sale of five cent cigars forms an important factor in their business, should totally ignore the smooth-talking representative of the jobber or manufacturer who approaches them with even the slightest allusion to a “scheme.” Suspenders, aby-jumpers, Waterbury watches, two for one cent clocks, chewing gum, revolvers (warranted to kill the wearer only) and carvers (to carve the business rep- utation of the retailer) are the baits thrown out toa gullable and good-natured public. Those articles can be purchased at a less cost, when one needs them, than they cost in the “scheme,” and parties are left free to indulge their own fancy when making the purchase. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the “scheme” presents are the merest shams of the article as represented by the agent offering them. What the retailer needs is a good cigar, and to the credit of the large majority of the buyers, it can be safely stated that it is their intention to give their patrons the best goods money can purchase and leave them a living margin. Some men in the trade pay more than they can really afford, in order to satis- fy their customers. But alas! there are so few judges of the weed in the business, and with the best intentions they get bitten most woefully time and again by intinerant venders of the “warranted to be full Havana filler.” But of all the “stickers,” the “‘scheme” is the meanest one. A cheap, nasty article made by the “scavengers” of the trade of vile tobacco, flavored with pernicious drugs, manufactured in tenement-houses, but pre- sented in on attractive form. This is the chief ban of the “scheme” goods, which di- vested of the “present,” can be bought of the jobber at from $17 to $20 per 1,000, and these goods, assisted by the ‘‘scheme,’”’ are scattered broadcast all over the country at prices ranging from $30 to $35. No thinking man conversant with the trade can but admit that were it not for the “seheme,” the untold millions of cigars of this cheap trash, made purposely with a view to swindle the unwary, would never find their way into the market, if the mer- chant would not listen to the “slick schemer,” but buy these goods on their merits, and save the additional 10 to 15 per cent. which he pays in addition to the legitimate profit of the jobber because he receives an awfully cheap inducement with the goods. The agent traveling with the “scheme,” is not to blame, but a jobber who sends a man on the road for that purpose to his customers does them a great injustice, loading them with goods which are not satisfactory, and causes the traveler to stand the brunt of the indignant retailer’s anger, whose ‘“‘scheme” goods remain unsold, while he has on his hands as a present a lamp that won’t burn, a watch that will not keep time, a silent clock, a brassy pitcher, a gun which will not go off (unless you carry it) or a carving knife that will turn its edge on butter, but all sharp enough to ruin the reputation of the retailer who gives his patrons a_ villian- ous “scheme” cigar. = —<-2<_— Be Watchful. From the Retail Grocers’ Advocate. Grocers cannot be too careful in regard to the watchfulness required to secure success in their business; a great many lack this prominent attribute. They must recollect that eternal vigilance is the price of success as well as liberty. Clerks, more thorough thoughtlessness than any other cause, do not take that necessary care in weighing, and measuring of goods, that is so essential to success in retail groeery business. An ounce overweight of an article sold may represent the entire profit on it, and while customers are not benefitted to any great extent by the act, the grocer is wronged and finds that he is not making the money his sales warrant, and his suspicions are directed possibly in a wrong channel to find the leakage in his bus- iness. ° Therefore, we urge that grocers be watch- ful of every detail connected with their bus- ness. Clerks knowing that their employer’s eyes are ever on the alert, soon get into the habit of being careful, and not only add to their employer’s profit but their own for the future as well. Their ehances for success is more assured by the very lessons of careful- ness taught them by their employers who were ever watchful. So in justice to your- selves and clerks, we urge you to be watch- ful. >>> He Knew Him. “Did you arrest that fellow I put you on to?” asked a grocery keeper of a police- man. “Yes, and the judge nailed him. “Was he found guilty?” ‘Ves.’ “What did he do?” ‘Paid the penalty, of course.” “What was it?” . ‘Workhouse for thirty days.” “Well, it’s a good thing it wasn’t a grocery bill or he would have hung before he’d paid it. I know the snoozer.” >> ___—_ A fine lithograph of the celebrated trot- ting stallion, Jerome Eddy, with every 500 of Jerome Eddy cigars. For sale by Fox, Musselman & Loveridge, Grand Rapids. ———_—_—> “ What is a lake?” asked the teacher. A bright little Irish boy raised his hand. “Well, Mikey, whatis it?? “Sure if isa hole in the tea kittle, mum.” Yoo Many Lawyers in Congress. From the New York Shipping List. The great trouble with Congress is that it contains too many lawyers. It is seldom that a great merchant, manufacturer or busi- ness man of any kind finds his way into that body. The result is we have a body of men legislating on questions about which they know next to nothing,‘and making confusion worst confounded. It is said that at least seventy-five per cent. of the men now hold- ing seats in the Senate and House of Repre- senatives are lawyers and professional poli- ticians. So anomalous a condition of-affairs exists in no other country with a representa- tive parliamentary system. In Germany, in France and in England, the lawyers as leg- islators are in a minority. The great landed, manufacturing and other interests are all rep- resented. With us, half-educated, _ ill- trained lawyers pass upon the great ques- tions of commerce and trade, and decide for us questions of the most momentous import- ance. Fifty per cent. of the lawyers should be banished from the halls of the National Legislature. Their presence there is an evil and a menace to the§ best interests of the country. ———————_>_<___ The census proves that the number of per- sons in a family in this country is a small fraction over five. In some families the husband is the small fraction over. oe Se a “Here, waiter, take away these fried oysters; they are bad.” “I know it, sir; but we have given you two more oysters than you called for to make up for it.” ——_~-o- << —__—_ “Doctor,” said the grateful patient, seizing the physician’s hand, ‘I shall never forget that I owe you my life.” “You exaggerate,” said the doctor mildly: “you only owe me for fifteen visits; that is the point which I hope you will not fail te remember.” Parasols, new styles and new prices, at Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.’s. Choice Butter a Specialty ! Also Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Cheese, Eggs, Jelly, Preserves, BANANAS and EARLY VEGETABLES. Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders. MC, Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids, RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO. MANUFACTUREES AND JOBBERS OF BOOTS & SHOES, River Boots and Drive Shoes, Calf and Kip Shoes for Men and Boys, Kid, Goat nd Calf Button and Lace Shoes for Ladies and Misses are our Specialties. Our Goods are Specially Adapted for the Michigan Trade. 14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. JENNINGS & SMITH, PROPRIETORS AND MANUFACTURERS OF SHRIVER, WEAT i ‘ahaa! IRON PIPE, RLY & CO, Grand Rapids, Mich., Wholesale and Retail Brass Goops, InoN AND BRAsS FITTINGS BMEra Blanuceuntee MANTLES, GRATES, GAS FIXTURES, PLUMBERS, STEAM FITTERS, —And Manufacturers of— Galvanized Iron Cornice. TIME TABLES. Michigan Central—Grand Rapids Division. DEPART. *Detroit Hxpress.....-..--..-.....-.... 6:05 a m Hay, (XLEOSS:... 62 ess 12:20 pm *New York Fast Line.................. 6:00 pm #Atiantic PXPress......:.....:......-.. 9:20 p m ARRIVE. *#Pacific Express.....0...:....<........- 6:45 am +Local PASSCNger............---.-.-3-. 11:20am MATE cleo c ee ae ces cance 3:55 p m +Grand Rapids Express............... 10:25 pm +Daily except Sunday. *Daily. The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving at Detroit at 12:35 a. m., and New York at i0 p. m. the next evening. Direct and prompt connection made with Great Western, Grand ‘Trunk and Canada Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus avoiding transfers. The Detroit Express leaving at 6:05 a. m. has Drawing Room and Pesrlor Car for Detroit, reaching that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10:30 a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day. A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv- ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m. J. T. SCHULTZ, Gen’] Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING EAST. Arrives. Leaves. : +Steamboat Express....... 6:10am 6:15 am #Through Mail............. 10:10am 10:20am +Evening Express......... 3:20pm 3:35pm *Atlantic Express.......... 9:45pm 10:45pm +Mixed, with coach........ 10:00 a m GOING WEST. +Morning Express......... 12:40pm 12:55 p m +Through Mail....... .... 4:45pm 4:55pm +Steamboat Express.......10:30 pm 10:35pm TMixOd).2..5..2205.....-. 25. 8:00am *Night Express............. 5:10am 5:30am +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Passengers taking the 6:15 a. m. Express make close connections at Owosso for Lansing and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 10:00 a. m. the following morning. er Cars on Mail Trains, both East and est. Train leaving at 10:35 p, m. will mak con- nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except Sunday and the train leaving at 4:55 p. m. will connect Tuesdays and Thursdays with Good- rich steamers for Chicago. Limited Express has Wagner Sleeping Car through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has a Parlor Car to Detroit. The Night Express has a through Wagner Car and local Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids. D. Porter, City Pass. Agent. THOMAS TANDY, Gen’l Pass. Agent, Detroit. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Leaves. Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex. 9:02 pm Cincinnati & MackinacEx. 9:22am 9:50am Ft. Wayne & MackinacEx.. 3:53pm 4:45pm G’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:15am GOING SOUTH. G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 6:32 am Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. 4:05pm 4:32pm Mackinac & Ft. Way: eEx..10:25am 12:32 pm Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40pm All trains daily except Sunday. SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS. North—Train leaving at 4:45 o’clock p. m. has Woodruff Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and Mackinac City. Trainleaving at 9:50 a.m. bas combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac City. South—Train leaving at 4:32 p.m. bas Wood- ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati. c. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Chicago & West Michigan. WMall oes ee ce ose see 1:15am 4:00pm +Day Express.............. 12:50pm 10:45pm *Night Express............ 8:35pm 6:10am MERCG 6. ic eee se 6:10am 10:15pm *Daily. tDaily except Sunday. Jennings’ Flavoring HE=xtracts AND DRUGGISTS’ AND GROCERS’ SPECIALTIES. ‘ WROLESAIE Groceries and Provisions, 83, $d and 87 PEARL STREET and (14, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, : = . MICHIGAN. 20 Lyon Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. CLARK, JEHWELL & CO, —I WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION OF MERCHANTS TO MY— Spring Styles of Fine Hats, Spring Styles of Wool Hats, Spring Styles of Stiff Hats, Spring Styles of Soft Hats, Wool Hats. $4.50 to $12 per Dozen, Fine Hats 18.50 to $86 per Dozen, Straw Hats for Men, : Straw Hats for Boys, Straw Hats for Ladies, _ Straw Hats for Misses. Hammocks Sold by the Dozen at New York Prices | ——LARGE LINE OF—— Clothing and Gents Furnishing Coods, Cottonade Pants and Hosiery. DUCK OVERALLS, THREE POCKETS, $3.50 PER DOZEN AND UPWARDS. Call and get our prices and see how they will compare with those of firms in larger cities. rc. LTE V I. 36, 38,40 and 42 CANAL STREET, - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, am i\Castor Machine Oil. Pullman Sleeping Cars on ail night trains. | spects superior as a lubricator to No. 2 or No. 3 Castor Oil. The Through parlor car in charge of careful at- tendants without extra charge to Chicago on 12:50 p. m., and through coachon 10:15 a.m. and 8:35 p. m. trains. NEWAYGO DIVISION. Leaves. Arrives. i Scie os Masa KEG a ae Oe 5: 5: : ‘ . vee < ; ; els OA Ne ee pe , se etable and Mineral Oils, possessing the qualities of a Pure Castor Oil. Itis rapidly com- PUXDIOSS «6525. cee cee 8 8:30am 10:15am OHIO OTL COMPANY Trains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago | ing into popular favor. We Solicit a Trial Order. Hazeltine, Perkins & Co,, Grand Rapids, as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 2 = 8 at. The Northern terminus of this Division Baldwin, where close connection is made with F. & P.M. trains to and from Ludington and Manistee. J. H. PALMER, Gen’! Pass. Agent. * ee The. Castor Machine Oil contains a fair percentage of Castor Oil and is in all re- Is the only firm in the United States that has succeeded in making a combination of Veg- “1e5 : ? Groceries. Defending the Sale of “Leaders.” A retail grocery firm doing business on Canal street has adopted the practice of of- fering “‘leaders” in some one brand of can- ned goods, soaps, etc., on Saturday of each week. The articles offered are usually first- grade goods, and are put down to actual cost, transportation added, if not purchased of the jobbers here. The junior partner of the firm was recently seen by a reporter of THE TRADESMAN and questioned as to the expediency of the method. He stated that the innovation was adopted when the firm first began business here, to attract new cus- tomers, who first came only on the days designated as “special sale days,” but who subsequently formed the habit of patroniz- ing them regularly. He attributed the large business they had worked up mainly to this fact, and stated that the results had been so satisfactory in the past that the “special sales” would be continued indefinitely. “After once getting articles at the reduced price, do not your customers expect to get them at the same price afterward?” asked the reporter. ‘No, they seem to be reconciled to the fact that they must take advantage of the ‘lead- ers’ when they are offered, or wait for the next opportunity. We are never asked to sell goods at the cut price after the day is past, but are questioned hourly as to what induce- ments we have in store for our trade.” ~~ <> ___ The Value of Sugar. Dutroine calls sugar the “most perfect ali- mentary substance in nature.” Dr. Rush says sugar affords the greatest quantity of nourishment in a given quantity of matter of any substance in nature. Sir John Prin- gle tells us that the plague has never been known to visit a country where sugar com- posed a material part of the diet of the in- habitants. Dr. Cullen is of the opinion that the frequency of the malignant fevers of all kinds has been lessened by the use of sugar. The celebrated Trouchina recommended sweeted water for almostevery malady. Dr. Frothergill was very anxious that the price of sugar should be so far reduced as to make it accessible to the common people. Dr. Franklin had taken large quantities of black- berry jam for relief from pain of the stone, but discovered at length that the sanitary property resided wholly in the sugar. Sug- ar hasbeen found to bean antidote to the poison of verdigris, if taken speedily and in abundance. It has been said that sugar in- jures the teeth, but this opinion does not de- serve a serious reflection. The plentiful use of sugar is one of the best preventives of intestinal diseases in children. Nature seems to have implanted a love for this ali- ment in young people, as if it were on pur- pose to defend them from such disorders. >a Features of the Week. The market has been very steady during the past week, there having been no agita- tion to speak of in any department of the business. Sugars are a trifle easier, prunes have declined 4c, and kerosene is down 1c, as is usualat this time of the year. Ar- buckle advanced the price of roasted coffees 4ge—probably on account of the destruction of his factory by fire—and was closely fol- lowed by the other manufacturers with a similar advance. >_> 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. White Star Potatoes. We have a quantity of choice White Star Potatoes, grown by D. M. Ferry & Co., which we offer to the trade at $2 per 3 bushel barrel, and no charge for barrel. SEED STORE, 91 Canal street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 2. The oldest firm manufacturing gunpowder has been in existence nearly 90 years, dur- ing which time its name has not changed. Its founders were Frenchmen. It is not a corporation, but simply a family concern, and is worth $30,000,000. ——__—__—~.-+4 <<. Shippers of butter and eggs would do well to correspond with E. Fallas, whole- sale dealer in butter and eggs, Grand Rap- ids, Mich., who is pickling eggs, as well as selling on the market. on ‘Dick’? will be at my store on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays each week until my entire stock is closed out, . L. E. MEssMORE. pe ee THe TRADESMAN is in receipt of a pack- age of fruit preserves from the Daily Pre- serving Co., Detroit, which are pronounced par excellence. ———_—__~—-9 << ____ One million and a half whitefish eggs have been sent from Canada to the Marquis of Lorne, who will endeavor to stock the Eng- lish lakes. a -0- The canning works at Auburn, Maine, put up last year 70,000 cans of pumpkins, 40,- 000 cans of tomatoes, and 50,000 cans of corn. de Johnny McIntyre would be pleased to see his old friends at Arthur Meigs & Co,’s. The Butterine Question. From the Chicago Grocer. Nothing is more apparent than at the next sessions of our state legislatures throughout the’north more effectual legislation must be had on the subject of the fraudulent sale of butterine and other forms of imitations of genuine butter, or the dairy interests of the country will be irreparably injured. The manufacture of these imitations has now grown to enormous proportions and the pro- duct is almost invariably sold as genuine but- ter, thus comlng in fraudulent and injurious competition with the genuine product.. The legislative enactments hitherto had in some of the states have proven almost or wholly ineffectual. Those requiring the package to be branded ‘“butterine’” are evaded or rendered wholly useless by having the word “butter” in conspicuous letters, while the remaining letters, ‘“‘ine,’’? are almost micro- scopical in size. The retailer often obliter- ates these entirely. Itis doubtful if any law could be sustained forbidding the man- ufacture, as the state of Missouri has _at- tempted. Any one has aright to mix lard and butter together and to sell the mixture as such and no court could probably be found that would restrain him from so doing. But the law can prohibit its sale as butter and enforce a penalty for its violation, and it is to this point alone, as it seems to us, that legislation can be successfully directed. Let there be stringent laws enacted against the sale of any artificially mixed compound, except as a mixture, and by a name indicat- ing that it isa mixture. Make the penalty for its violation $50 for the first offence, to be doubled on each subsequent conviction, and provide that one-half of the fine shall go to the complaining witness. Laws will not enforce themselves. The ordinary offic- ials will not charge themselves with discoy- ering violations or prosecuting the same. The dairyman is too remote from the locali- ties where the law is violated to attend to it and he lacks the necessary time. It must be made worth the while of somebody to discover violations of the law and take the initial steps for prosecuting the same. |The idea of informers is, we are well aware, re- pugnant to our ideas as a people. But this case is exceptional, and warrants exception- al measures. Not only is the great body of consumers being defrauded in the purchase of a spurious instead of a genuine article of food, but one of the most important of our productive interests is being seriously injur- ed. Enact such alaw, and in every com- munity self-constituted detectives will at once set themselves at work to discover vio- lators of it. Not a retailer would escape having his butter sampled and exposed to tests to determine its genuineness. A few prosecutions, followed by speedy convic- tions, would soon convince the selling fra- ternity that it was no longer safe to deal in spurious goods, and the dairy . interest, in- stead of being crowded to the wall, as is now threatened, will again command and hold the markets of the country. ————+_4 = “Sauerkraut Is Sauerkraut.” A tin pail with the lid securely fastened stood on Dr. Edson’s table at his sanitary headquarters in New York, lately, and some- body who came in carelessly opened it to see what it contained. Instantly a most vile and Joathsome smell filled the room. The clerks rose from their desks, bewildered and horror stricken, and fled, each seeking the nearest avenue of escape. Windows were flung open and the pail shoved outside on the sill, but it was more than ten minutes before any one dare breathe in the atmos- phere of the room again. Then Dr. Edson tents and pronounced it saur kraut. “Never,” protested a big Germon, who had been almost knocked down by the smell. ‘Tt is—but something appeared to be the matter with it,” said the doctor. A note tied on the pail explained that it had been left by Mrs. Randall, of 171 West Tenth street, who had purchased the sauer- kraut of William D. Koopman, a grocer at Waverly place and Charles street. Dr. Ed- son’s men are to enquire into the matter, the stuff being clearly unfit for sale, if smell is an indication of unfitness. Mr. Koopman was foupd in his store at noon. He remembered selling the sauer- kiaut te Mrs. Randall, whois the wife of a carpenter living at the above number. “Tt may have stood near a stove over night,” he said, ‘and so been made to smell worse than itdid. Mrs. Randall bought it yesterday afternoon and got very angry over the smell. Sauerkraut always smells bad, and this is the real Magdenburg kind, im- ported from Germany. We keep it in a bar- rel all winter, itis only made in the fall. Yes; I smell of that same barrel right along and eat of it myself. I don’t think it so bad; or that it can poison anybody. In the spring the stuff generally smells like that, maybe not all so strong, but pretty bad. I didn’t ask her to buy it, anyway. Sauerkraut is sauerkraut.” The health officer and employees at sani- tary headquarters agree that no such smell ever came in their notice before, and fer- vently hope that none ever will again. ——_—<-2- <> __—_ 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. MESSMORE. oO Choice butter can always be had at M. C, Russell’s. ; carefully sniffed the pail, looked at its con- |- WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced—Roasted Coffees %e. Declined—Sugars slightly easier; Kerosene le; Prunes \ec, AXLE GREASE. Modoc .... #doz 60 |Paragon... @doz 60 Diamond......... 60 |Frazer’s.......... 85 BAKING POWDER. ATCUC 46 WICROS. . 2.6). i cease es oss ®doz. 45 Arctic 4 WGanMs. 6.6 ee cha pees sec eke 75 SATCHIC 34 1D CBNB 6 oss ol oe 1 40 ATCC TID CANB) 8. sfc is cide soa sk oie le 2 40 APOC 5 15 GANS. 00.56. ek ce see 12 00 BLUING. MOTV NOD ee os oes os AG IGS se care ws oe doz. 25 BONY, NOl8. 2. oo os laa aa ese doz. 45 PAGWIG, 4 OF) 6. 68 kos bee oases doz. 3d AGRIC: B07. oi cc cas sc eile doz. 65 PATHIC 4 OF. ee ee ok Goo se wie oe # gross 4 00 ARCTIC 8? O27 (5s ea cs a 8 00 Arctic 16 0Z............ Arctie No. 1 pepper box... Arctie No. 2 # or Arctic No.3 es BROOMS. INO: ates 34 ce os cea: 2 50 Nol? Carpet .o.5.5.05 20. 6 2 ee 2 25 O00 Mott es. sae aes 2 00 NOre atl oo oe eo .e ces. eee 1% MamCY, Whisker 6.5.6. sc. es oc es 1 25 Common WHISK... .0....52...-5- 05.56 8d CANNED GOODS. Apples, 3 i standards ..................... 1 20 Apples, 6 I standards .............2... eee 2 00 Apples, gallon standards................4. 3 00 Apricots, LuskS:) 2.20.6... ces 2 95 IRGAS, TINIA oes ec cc se es ses 85 Beans Stine ess ee ete ts 85 Beans, Boston Baked....................-. 175 Blackberries, standards................... 1 2% (Cherries: white 2.26 soci 6... 2 sess cs See 1 90 Cnermess Ted. 36.3 ois ae See ose 1 05 Condensed Milk, Fagle brand....... ...8 10 Corn, Erie...... Mies eee ce toes gee 115 CON MOVEROs 50555 oc et se cece la ses 1 20 Corn: Heyprans 2.66000 os. esses es 110 Worm, Varmoutn. 2.2... .2..55--..5...... 1 30 Corn Wropey. 5: os. s se aoe os Ses 115 Corn, 2 i) Onandage. soo. esse eee 1 50 ADANNIBOIS 2 oo ce ies ek ccc ces ose es sce 1 20 Egg Plums, standards..................... 1 60 Green Gages, standards..........-.......- 1 60 MUQDSLCTA DUANE oe ssl 88 2 00 HUODSUCTS. PICMICS 5206.60 es 8. 8 1 5 Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 tb........... 4 00 Oysters, 1 Ib standards.................... 110 Oysters, 1 fb slack filled................... vi) Oysters, 2 tb standards..................- 1 85 Oysters, 2 ib slack filled.................... 1 25 Peaches, all yellow standards............ 2 10 Peaches, 3 it Extra Yellow Heath... ..3 00 Peaches, white standards......... .1 90 Peaehes, SPECONGS 2020554 6.61 6i. secs 1 65 PeiG POCRCHOR 2 6s. ea seas ecb de es 1 20 Pears. Bartieub.. 65.6.5 -65......2 5 eee 1 35 Peas, standard Marrofat.................. 150 Peas: cood Marrotat.:...............02.-.. 1 385 PEAS: SORKOG 3 bce ee eke ce ots 65 HANCADDIES. 5 6 a. hos. es eee 1 60 Pine Apple, 2 fb Sugar Loaf............... 2 50 Rasppervies, Hrie./.....25..........-.6..--- 1 50 Raspberries, other brands...............- 1 20 Salmon. Standard ..2.::.....3.65.05-2.6...- 1 60 Sardines, imported 148...................- 15% Sardines, imported 4S8..................665 2¢ Sardines, domestic 4S................00005 3 Sardines, domestic %48................602- 12% Sardimes, Mustard ......:...:.......3<....- 5 Strawberries, standards................... 110 Succotash, standards.................e008- 1 05 Succotash, other brands...............06. 85 1 Succotash;, 21) B.@ Me. 0525. o ec. 1 75 Tomatoes, standards................ 1 00@1 05 Tomatoes: wal: Hrie. 2.2... 0.6... 3 25 Prong, 310 PrOOK. 6.0 ee ee eee 3 00 CAPS. : Ge De ee. 35 |Ely’s Waterproof 15 Musket....5...-.. 15 CHOCOLATE. German Sweeb. 22.03 505,252.80 .555 sw. @25 AKCTN oe @A0 TI OR ese eee @35 WaACTING SWECE:. 656d. ss cee ee @25 COFFEE. Green Rio....J2 @14 |Roasted Mex.174@19 Green Java...17 @27 |Ground Rio.. 9%4%@17 Green Mocha.25 @27 |Ground Mex. Roasted Rio..i2 @17 |Arbuckle’s....... @I15¥ Roasted Java24 @34 |XXXX..... Roasted Mar.17 @19 (|Dilworth’s....... Roasted Moeha @s34 CORDAGE. "2 foot Jute ..... 135 (60 foot Cotton....1 75 60 foot Jute..... 115 (50 foot Cotton....1 59 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Lemon. JENNINGS’ 2OF i)... 2.6 i6 ees lk. se # doz. 1 00 oe BOD 6g oo. isos ee see ee se aes 1 50 ie BOFe. ee 2 50 ¢ BOG os oa ws 3 50 ee NO: 2 Tapers: 6855.20. s es ek 1 25 ee No. eee eee ee cone ce 1 75 A pint YOUN 6. ei 8: t 50 a 1 ee £ 00 = NOs 6 oe ce: 3 00 . INO: 10 cee eee ee 4 25 Vanilla. JCNMINGE 207.0... 2505-0 s. =. # doz. 1 40 a BOG. ee oon ee 25 +f BOD oc ies ecde obo te a ee 4 00 fe BiOW eee ee 5 00 te No.2 Taper......... peel eee 1 50 e WO: A PADORE Sc ois. see 3 00 + 46 Pint YOUNG. :-)-.........-...--. 7 50 ee Jpint round... .-..-.....5..2.. 15 00 ss INO! 8. ee 4 25 ff NO: 808 seer les: aes 6 00 FAUCETS. Faucets, self measuring.............. @2 50 WanCets, COMMON. 2... 5... 3s. wae @ 35 FISH. Whole Cod. 8 eo 86. cea. 4% @644 Boneless COG... oc cee oe we oe oe 54@7%4@8-5 Herring % bbls.:100 fb................ 2 75@3 00 Herring SCAMCG...: .. 6.6.5.0 lke ee 28@30 Herring Holland..................-... @1 15 MSIGAUONS soso es ae sec esas veces @1 00 White, No. 1,4 bbIs «2.5.20... 02.. 6... 8 00 White, Family, % bbls................ 4 00 White, No. 1, 10 b kits................ 110 Whise, No. 1, 12 tb kits................ 1 2 Trovt, No. 4,44 DbIs:: oo... coca: 4 75 Trout, No. 1,12 ib kits................ 90 Mackerel, No. 1, % bbls............... 7 00 Mackerel. No. 1, 12 ib kits............ 115 FRUITS. London Layers, New...............565- 2 %5 Loose Muscateis Raisins, new........ 2 H0@2 60 New Valencias Raisins............... T44@i% (ORGRTAS. oe eo, ee @l1 Murkey Prunes .... ....5..5.. 2. 64 @6% Currants..... .. 5%@6 CUO ee -. 18@20 DTIC ADDPICS o.oo eG yeaa css ee sees 8 @8% MATCHES. Richardson’s No.2 square.................- 270 Richardson’s No. 3 GO eee ee 2 55 Richardson’s No. 5 OO) 26.548: 1 Richardson’s No. 6 do 270 Richardson’s No. 8 (OL Cae ane aye 1 70 Richardson’s No. 9 GO Foe, 2 55 Richardson’s No. 4 round .................4. 2 0 Richardson’s No.7 dO. .............. et eee 2 55 Hichardson’s No. 7% dO... 1... eee eee eee 1 70 Blectric Parlor NO.17..........s.cceceeSecees 3 80 Electric Parlor No. 18.............0.eccee ees 5 70 Grand Haven, NO. Oo. oo. sie. hoses eve es 2 40 Grand Haven, NO. 8.66.2 660 occ e eke eee 1 70 20 gross lots special price. : MOLASSES. BACK BUPAD. 550 cs oe oe as a et eee ss via ces @20 POLIO BIOG. 2 ihc foes he eins cca vees cee 80@35 Now Orlegis, £004... 65.0600. ba coos 2 40@50 New Orleans, fancy................-2+-005 5 SVrUuDS, BUSAN. occ. a hee ect ce 27@35@45 OATMEAL. PRG ND RWS? ie eee eens @3 75 BEOW PKEB 2668.6 se Sse ee @3 25 Trperiat DDIB.... 0. ci ot ces eee scene 5 75 Quaker DbIS.: 2... .. pss oe eed ee ee 6 75 OLL. Kerosene W. Won o cess ccc cckivccvcccess 14 do. Herd toast... ¢.s26.. 6c. ccs 11% Sweet, 2 02. SQUArE......... 0. cee cece ee 5 Sweet, 2 02. round................e000. 1 00 Castor, 2 0Z. SQUALC.......... cece eens 75 Castor, 2 0%. TOUNG.......5055 scsescoes 1 00 PICKLES. Choicein barrels med........... ....-2.eeee 7 50 Choice in % do 4 50 Dingee’s % do 4 50 Dingee’s quarts glass fancy... 4 25 ps pints do pa .. 2 50 English qt. in Glass.............. tla DO English pt. in Class........... eee weaeee ee OO American gt. in Glass................ oy saee 2 00 American pt.in Glass............. sie eee eos 1 25 PIPES. Clay 8 SYO88......0..0ee00 008 T, ct a wal ss Imported Perms eee o reece re nases eee SALERATUS. Deband’s pure 220 oe 5Y% Ga Gee Avior es Goer ee a @ 5% ORD NOR oe ee @ 54 Dwight’s DMs Cine pede ee ee es @ 5% BON ROR oo ee oe ee @ 5% SALT. GCUROOKGE (sc eee a ae: 2 60 28 Pocket........ eat ee ee aa 2 40 A003 1D. DOCKCtS:, 2.66... ce. el. 275 Saginaw Pine). oe sk. 110 Diamond Oo ee 1 %5 Standard Coarse........ eae s 1 55 SEEDS. MOM ole ces ae. ce oe ee Sols clone wae 5% CANARY i Lal cele ole. 4% IADO es 7 Mixed Bird 2.002608 edo se 54@6 , SOAP. Kirk’s American Family ........ 8 Ib 6% GO. Wnidig 6144 GO: Savon 27 6 GO. Sauinet 2... ee 64 G0:.. Revenue . 2... esr. cs se, 534 ao. (White Russian. 2: 2... 02.02... 5 40 Goodrich’s English Family .......... 54 do. Princess ...... alec ae ue 44 Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory ........... 6 75 do. Japan Olive...... 5 do. Town Taik #8 box 3 70 do. Golden Bar........ 4 20 do. ATAD See asso. 3 45 do. PANMIDOR 2.2 ce 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 Badeer ie. oe 60 ibs @ 6% GalVAMIG fe ee oe, @A 20 MK Hlectric. 05... @6 50 OX BOVae ce @A 20 Gowan & Stover’s New Process3ibbr @ 21 Mp TOD eyo eet 3b bar @® 16 Ward’s White Lily @6 5 Handkerchief.... a @A 2 HOAs eee 3 00 Rabbits. 2 5 50 DISH Rae oe 4 10 UO ee ee te 5 00 MaSNeTIC. 3.0 0.60. ee eae ca 4 20 New French Process.................- 4 50 SPOOM 6 ee ee 5 00 Anti-Washboard.......... Pe oe os 5 00 Waterlande. ose ye ca 3 25 MGIC eo ee ee 4 20 PUCCS DUO ee oe 4 00 BORMCIS Pee cao: 6 75 Wiltite castile bars......65 0.56060 000.. 13 Peo BS ee ee ota oc. 2 GVO ae: @ 5% Old COUBUEY: Fe 5% SPICES. Ground Pepper, in boxes and cans... 16@22 Ground Alispice.....5....25...0)...46.. 12@20 @iMMAMON foo oh 16@30 Cloves) ea oe 20@25 Ginger. -..0.........-.. Bee ae, 17@20 MaIstard) 20 i6 ee . 15@35 CAVODNO. ee eee oe. 25@35 Pepper 4% be dozen... ...-... ee 75 PUISDICe 24D ee see lo. 75 Cinnamon) Wo 220 f ek. 1 00 Cloves 24 Ibe... 65 2... a. ecu 75 Pepper, whole:.......7.....:03...... @18 PANISDICG 26 sk. @10 CESSta sy ee ee oe @12 CACVOS) oe ee ce aes 20 @22 Nutmegs, Not). 0s ee, 70 @j75 STARCH. Muzzy Gloss 1 ib package.............. @7 Muzzy Gloss 3 tb package.............. @bY% Muzzy Gloss 6 ib boxes................ @1% Muzzy Gloss bulk... ...:...........-.- @6 Mazzy Corl Wie ooo 7 @i%4 Special prices on 1,000 ib orders. Kingsford Silver Gloss................ @8% Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 Ib box....... @9% Kangstord Coen ee. ee. 84@9 Osweeo GIOSR 6.6... oe. oe: te @6% Mirror GIOSS:........5.5..... cae @7 Mirror GIOSS; COM ..00..0.0 osc ek. @i%4 PICS PCAN eee @4 Americad Starch Co.’s Mtb GOSS. os soe cok. ins se @6% NOO7 GIOSS. oo... oss ae te cc... @33% SD GIOSS 550.606. oe ec. @6 6 Ib Gloss, WOOd DOXOS................. @7 Maple Conn oe eo. 40 Ib @bY, Mable Comme... sob. soo cake 20 tb Or Banner Dub @A Hovey’s 1 tb Sunday Gloss............. @i% Hovey’s 3 ib Sunday Gloss............. @i%4 Hovey’s 6 h Sunday Gloss, wood box. @8 One Mrs. Potts’ Polishing Irons given free with each box or crate of Sunday Gloss Starch. STONEWARE. JUGS PB PGMOM oe ek el. 3. @8 GEOCKS ole cise 7 MOS CrOCKS 60.00 o.oo gs ss i STOVE POLISH. Rising Sun gross..5 88)/Dixon’s gross...... 5 50 Wmiversal ..:. 1.0... 5 88| Above # dozea..... 50 MONG le 5 50 SUGARS. Granminatee. 5. bese. Lee, @731 Cup MORE eee 8 @8% @ube@S os oe eee ee ee a 8 @84 IPOWGErEG 620s cece kee es. 8 @8%4 WONT A ee ae. @6 94 Standard Ae @6 381 GT 64@6% INIMe@ © eee a: 6 @6%4 VGHOW OG oc eee 54@6 SYRUPS. Conn. Barrels. 0.) boob @® 30 Corn, $4018) 2s. @ 82 Corn, 10 gallon kegs... :.....2........- @ 33 Corn, 5 gallon kegs...............:..-.. @1 %5 Corn, 4% gallon kegs................... @1 60 Pure Sugar Drips!..........5...... bbl 82@ 35 Pure Sugar Drips................ Y% bbl 85@ 40 Pure Sugar Drips........... 5galkegs @I1 85 iRure Maple... 662.3562). 2... ¥%bbils @ 80 Pure Maple: ..........4.5--- 10 gal kegs @ 80 Pure Maple... 2. 6.5.05... 3 5 gal kegs @ 8 Pure Loaf Sugar Drips... ...... Y%bbl @ 9% Pure Loaf Sugar............ 5galkegs @r 00 TEAS. Japan ordinary. 23@380| Young Hyson.. ..25@50 Japan fair........ 382@35|Gun Powder..... 385@50 Japan fair to g’d.35@37|/Oolong ....... 88@55@60 Japan fine........ 40@50|\Congo ............ @30 Japan dust....... 15@20 TOBACCO—FINE CUT. Diamond Crowik. 0... oe. sei ee. 57 Red Bindi oe. ee ce @52 Opera QuUCCM ee ee @40 Sweet Hose... @45 Green BACK)... ee oe @38 OPA So io eck ede nea ec eee @33 DSO SWeGl. 5... ..05.. eie oe oe @3l Prairie HIOWOr oo. ccc ec ol ace @65 Climber [light and dark].............. @62 MRTCMIOSS (3.0.66 Fo ea @65 MPIRWALDS 60006 o oa so ee ete 69 GONG ee sae. eee 70 | May HIOWe?. 22.05. sole. so cee sk. 7 WGK.) eo ek es se ee @45 Atlas ....... aoe ae @35 oval Gomme: 2 ooo ew eee ae oe cece ee @38 Silver (Mhread.. 2... 2.0.20... @67 GOA ek ie se es @60 WOGMEUCKY 6002.50 6 5 se @30 Mate Mad. 0806. , co esis cc Sas cece: @67 IPEOGI-8- O00. 65s oo. eee sc os seen ic @32 Peek-a-Boo, % barrels................. @30 Clipper, Fox’s........ we ore e sees ene ves @B2 Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels......... @30 POQUIIGAIT 505s ce chee ss ce cosas oe cee @7 Old CONGTOSR.. 0.5.0.6... oo e oss es 5s @64 Good Tvew oo. sei eke este s.. @52 Good and Sweet... ..........c....0.00006 @45 MISZO: AWAY 56 oes este ses cc cs ces ss @35 iain Witten: ooo. o eck ce cs @30 Old Glory, isbt.....302.0.-5.....4.5... @60 Charm of the West, dark...... @60 Governor, in 2 oz tin foil.............. @60 PLUG. REG POM. oo eae goa. @50 Big DVING: a eee dese @b2 Seal of Grand Rapids.................. @48 GIGEY oe ease ee ee see Ge @50 TOMTOM oot ss cee @48 Rilwer COU. .005 cab os ae. kw o. @50 Buster (ark). ..-..........5... 2.25. s5 @36 Black Prince tDark ae @36 Black Racer [Dark]....... @36 Leggett & Myers’ Star................. @50 OWmax oo. elo se Roe ee @50 HOlG Paat. 6.2.60. c ces Saas ces tenes @48 McAlpin’s Gold Shield................. @A8 Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ib cads....... @51 Cock of the Walk 68................... @37 Black Spun Roll................ cee eee @38 IHTAPOO 4 cob oes ee ae @50 DP OOVEY 62 og cs os ees oa oe cee ttcae bacsees @50 HOG seals so ira ei eee @48 OQLOSGEDE 3 i ios cee cee ess @44 NAG ae ee us Clb eee oa cee h ae ea ek @35 Hinek Base. eee es @40 WTiiaes GAIL: ccs is 6 oa ee ence cee ot @35 Nobby Spun Roll...................00. @50 sho) h es qun ee gyreene cee gummi ernc aise Grayling, all styles........ MSGRINAW | oo hes ode ceeded ca PROrRO SHOE: . cs cob e cs kes ney ee env eves GOGd ENG. ok ic ee Big Chunk or J.T.............2005. ASE PERRIS EACCOL is ci seecncac eens neces Reis DD; Bnd Ds. DIAOK snc ce kee ee eee Pee gi in’s Green Shield........... ae igh, black.............. Se edunk os Ghampion A.........0.....0005- Sailors’ Solace oe ROG Bide coe Lee 5 POG CIE oe co ea ee ae rtd DUCK ee ee @i1s8 PU oe ee ee @40 SMOKING. CR ha ae oe ee @22 Arythur’s Choice: co... oe @22 Seal of Grand Radids.................. @25 FR ds Ces ace @30 MOIR ee ee @28 Re @30 Ten Penny Durham, % and 4......... @24 Amber, and 1... so ac @15 Dime SMOKing,....... 6.020. @22 Red Fox Smoking....................-- @26 Dame Kiln Clb. 2.5... @AT Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut........ @90 Wantey Pair 0.00... ice Dime :.20..5... IRGGCEIGSS ee Seamdard 0 : Old Tome ee Wour® Jerry. GMO CR ce en a PERAVGIOR 0c MeRCOn Sse rey Belg wees coos ah Gul t isan eae Vy CHDpINGS . 2. oc HOney Dow 6 Gold Bleck. be ee ee @Campihire oe a Oronok@. i oe Nigger Meads) ee, Durham, $i do 14 Tb Seteice sie Be ce sake eee e casa chen ccus Long Tom... eee ee ee National ee a ime: ee Hove's Dream. oe CONGUCrOR -o0021 0005) et as OGG ee ae Grayling oe ee Seah Skim oscar a Dime Durham) HOD ROV 2 a Wnele Same ee Lumberman oe ee Railroad Boy. oo) Mountain Rose... Good Bnoush 3 Home Comfort, 4s and %s............ Old Rap: lone cat... Durham, long eut:... 23.00. wo Nickle Mb 'Ewo iNiekle, 368. 03. Stam Durham Golden Flake Cabinet.................. Seal of North Carolina, 20z........... Seal of North Carolina, 4 0z........... Seal of North Carolina, 8 0z........... Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz boxes... SHORTS. Mule Mar. PRWeb ee 2 Old Coneress:....:....2...5.... ota. 23 VINEGAR. Bure @ider 3 @12 White Wines 9. vow WASHING POWDERS. LG De @10% Cipeee Ors Scapinepke: 00 "@10. Boraxine @ Dox .65...0055006).0 6600. @3 75 Rearline @ WOM... yee @4 50 YEAST Seneca Falls ‘‘ Rising Sun’’.............. 1 %5 Twin Bros....... Li. |Wilsons ........ 2. 1 %5 Gillett’s......... 17 (National ......... 1 75 MISCELLANEOUS. IBla@kine oo 30, 40, 50@60 do waterproof... 1 50 Bath Brick imported .................. u5 do AMeOricah. 36.000). jd Barley G3% burcer. Nee tag do INOS Qe a 1 50 Baes, Amerecan A 20 00 Beans medium =... 6... W2 10 Beans, hand picked.................... 2 40 Buiter 8 18@20 Buttermere 18@21 Curry Combs # doz.................... 1 B@ Cream Tartar 5 and 10 f) cans......... @25 Candles Stam 0006 @15% @andles: Hotel ee @16%4 Cheese full crenm choice.............. 14144@15 _ Catsup quarts # dozen............ ... 1 40@1 60 Obimmeys NOOO Po a @35 do INO] Ze.) oo a Fe @A6B Cocoanut, Schepps’ 1b packages. { @26% Cocoanut, Schepps’1& % tb do @27% Evaporated Hulled Corn 50 tb cases... @ ui Hxtract Coffee, Vv. €............ 0. dae 95 do HeWxy A. 1 30@ Flour, Star Mills, in bbls .............. 5 T5@ oO In Saeks. 2 5 30@ Gum, Rubber 100 lumps............... @25 Gum, Rubber 200 lumps............... @40 Gum, Spruce. 35@40 Horse. Radish, pints....../..).0.0..... @1 40 IMNGESOn a 1 00@ lok #3 dozen box. : 2.2.00... 0000060 1 00@ Jelly in Pale. ee @6 do Glass Tumblers # doz............ @i5 Micorice:; Sigily 6 ..0.02.......5. 22.0 @20 Eicoriee, Calgbra .:.........0... 2... 28@30 Eiconice Root... 09.0... is ces, @12 Lye @2 doz: cases. ......0...0.6.0.5... 1 55@ Macaroni, Imported......... ......... @13 Domestic 60 @ 5% Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, # case...... @6 00 French Mustard, 8 oz # dozen........ @80 do Large Gothic........ 1 35@ Oil Tanks, Star 60 gallons........... 12 .00@ Oil Tanks, Patent 60 gallons.......... 14 WO@ Bepper Sauce. 20020... 2.0 05.20. 6. 90@1 00 Peas, Green Bush. ......... 20.02... 1 N@ do Split prepared................... @ 3% POWOCE: KGS. ose, 5 50@ _ do We SOR 3 00@ RICG es ee oe 6@64%@T% OO 5@6 SHOE GOD cco ie a as 1 9G GO, OWE 2 1b@ Sage ee eee @15 Tobacco Cutters each ................. 1 2%3@ PRWIMNG Coe ee ee 18@23 ChimneyCleaners # doz............... @50 Hlowr Sifters doz .... 23.60.02 k c. 3 00@ Bruit Augurs each... 05566. .0.508 5. 1 25@ (EADIOCR oe ce. kee eee 5@6 Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box........ 1 50@1 65 Wicking No. 1 ® gross................. @40 G0) NOs! ree @b5 do ATORME coc cole 1 50@ COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS. A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows: Ohio White Lime, per bbl............. i Ohio White Lime, car lots............. Louisville Cement, per bbl............ 1 Akron Cement per bbl................ 1 Buffalo Cement, per bbl.............. 1 CERIO ee eee ae a, oa 1 15@1 Plastering hair, per bu................ 35@ 38 Stueco, per bvl: 22s... coe ee ek ee 1 75 Land plaster, per ton.................. 3 75 Land plaster, car lots.................. 3 00 Fire brick. por M. . 200.5222. 3-0 Sines. $27 @ $35 Hire clay, per DDL... 2 508 eee ke os 3 00 COAL. Anthracite, egg and grate............ $6 50@6 75 Anthracite, stove and nut............ 6 75@7 00 Cannell coal 2... 00.2 7 00 OIG CORE ee eee, ek 40@3 60 Blossburg or Cumberiand ........... 00@5 25 HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows: HI : Greene ee, RbhiTi @T% IPQRE CULCG 8 ole Se hc e ee cee 8 @ 8Y Pull Greg: . 2.5.3. ce. Dry hides and kips................0005. 8 Calf skins, green orcured............. 10 2 Deacon skins................-. 8 piece20 @50 SHEEP PELTS. Shearlings or Summer skins # piece..10 @20 Wall pelts... ose ae 380 @50 Winter pelts... 065s 100 @1 50 WOOL. Fine washed @ib..............-. 2-008. 25 @27 Coarse washed. . 26 ec ce 18 @20 Upwashed... 2... ei. ou, fee ee 2-3 . FURS. WEI IRR. ose log eee hss oes ek 60@ %5 Win SINAN os oc. coc oo Se cc 25@ 40 Muskrat, Spring. 2... 22. .5. 0. fo cece Lb@ 17 Muskrat, Winter: ... 0.00 ccc. cokes ae. 13@ 14 Muskrat; Wal. 3.062.655 An. a ceci cso: 8@ 10 MyIsnrst. IGS: oo es bacco keh cence 8@ 4 WRCOCOOUS. Soc c i oo) 5 ones ood ke hence cc 40@ 85 Sin, DIGG ecco secs aed eek 80@ 90 Skunk, half stripe..................... 50@ 60 Skunk, narrow stripe.................. 25@ 30 BORE: DOGG. os yok 10@ 15 5 Deer skins, red and blue, dry.... 8 b Deer skins, gray and long haired..... Beaver, clean and WD ieee cs bes Above prices are for prime skins only—un- pe in proportion. REGO eee eH ee neater es oreesies SSEEES 6@ 6%. CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: STICK, Straigut. 20 1 boxes... ... 0 2.3. @10 Twist, Qe @10% @utBest 4 HROSG.. oe Stee: 8 GREDCE 5....-2:-- f SPOOL COTTON. BOPGOHS 525 -. es oes 50 iEagle and Phoenix Clark’s O.N. F.....: BE 5 Mills ball sewing.5) J.& 2. Conte.......4 55 Willimantic 6 cord .55 Willimantic 3 cord.40 Charleston ball sew iGreeh & Daniels... .25 iMerricks ........... 40 Stafford eek ieee s 35 iHall & Manning... op KIND WORDS FOR GRAHAM BREAD. The Theory That White Four Is More Nu- tritious Earnestly Assailed. Correspondence of the New York Sun. I observe that in an article in your paper of last Sunday, by John Michels, he asserts that common flour is better than Graham, and concludes by saying that the flour of the whole wheot “lays the foundation for a fu- ture of dyspepsia.”’ Has he any experiment- al prvof of this? I know many people who, while eating bread made from common flour, and other foods that-usually go with it, con- tract dyspepsia, but who, on substituting bread made from whole wheat flour and oth- er fuods, habitually used with it, were re- lieved. I was relieved by a diet almost wholly composed of whole wheat, either crushed or ground. I have used it every day for six years. It does not have the dis- tressing effects ascribed to it, but has pre- cisely the reverse ef them. Many people have lived for years on coarse wheat meal and water, and by so doing have gained end maintained health and vigor. The weight of evidence is against a large variety of food, especially if eaten at the same meal. The celebrated Dr. Majendie fed two dogs, one on white bread and water, the other on brown bread and water. ygThe former died in seven weeks; the latter remained in good condition. When herbivorus animals are fed largely on grain they will eat, voraciously sawdust or shavings. Capt. Mathews brought some goats on a return trip from Cape Verde Islands. Having no hay, he fed them on grain and shavings. They came as regularly for the latter as for the former. Dr. Beau- mont says ‘‘Bulk is as necessary to articles of diet asnutriment principles.”” Captain Graham says: “I have followed the seas for thirty-five years and have always found the coarsest pilot bread, containing added quan- tities of bran, to be the best for my men.” Captain Benjamin Dexter made a trip from China to Providence, being out 190 days. His men were fed principally on pilot bread made from fine flour. They soon began to lose their strength and appetite, and contin- tinued to grow worse during the voyage. Several died. When within thirty miles of Providence they had to anchor, as there were not able men enough to sail the ship. Captain Dexter said: ‘It was too fine pilot bread that did it.” The best informed advo- cate of a reformed diet in this country says: “Any person fed exclusively on bread made from common flour will die in a short time, as did Majendie’s dog.” Common flour and meal form the | princi- pal part of ordinary diet, and without doubt are the cause of the lamentable increase of nervous diseases and decay of the teeth in this country in the last fifty years. ‘The ex- planation is that neither contains any nerve or bone nutriment. Wheat bran is rich in this, and is therefore an essential part of diet. When Rome was at the zenith of its power its armies subsisted almost wholly on grain that was eaten unground and uncook- ed. Certainly they were never excelled in bravery or endurance. If John Micheis will examine the authorities on “the other side” he will be obliged to find some other solution for the experiments of Dr. Randolph than those presented in the article in question. re Butter Adulteration Tests. A Chicago chemist claims to have diseov- ered a sure test for adulterated butter, by chemical process, which separates all foreign substances, such as lard, coloring matter, salt, ete.; from the butter, leaving it pure upon the surface, whence it can easily be re moved by skimming. In order to illustrate the value of the discovery, he procured sam- ples of butter from a large number of retail- ers in that city, and has set about the prose- cution of some of those who have sold the adulterated article. An associate of this chemist in the work of prosecution is report- ed to have said: _ “We are after the grocerymen. We wish to show them up in their true light. We wish to show the people that they are onlya fence for the butterine manufacturers, just as loan offices are fences for thieves. They sell butterine or adulterated butter because it gives them a much wider margin of profit than is possible with the genuine article. They buy what is termed ‘dairy’ from the manufacturers for from fourteen to seven- teen cents per pound, and ‘creamery’ for twenty to twenty-four. They sell it for the same that the genuine article commands in the market, the purchaser receiving it under ' the impression that it is pure butter. There is no objection to people eating butterine if they wish, and we do not make the point that itis unwholesome—though we do not doubt it—but we wish it sold so that people will know when they purchase it that it is butterine, and pay the price that the article is worth, not double that.” a Dead Against Him. “Yes, I was in that oil deal last year,’’ he was saying to a man across the table, “and I sunk $35,000 in a way to make your head swim.” “But you had something left?” | “Yes, about $25,000.” | “And you have used that to make a new | Start, I suppose?” | “T used it to go into the ice business last | fall, believing that it would be a mild winter, | followed by high prices, and now where am ‘1? ‘The steck I’ve got on hand has so ing thread........ 30 |Holyoke............2 'chilled the farms for three miles around A TAS that I’ve got a dezen suits for damages to (TOWN, -- 2052 6s ies 17 |Masonville TS...... 5 os e 8 Ms. 10.5. hes 12% Masonville S....... 10% | crops! OO is es Lonsdale ........... 9% | oO ag ob Was 6 16 A small Aberdeen child was asked by a pein Se 2 victery 4. es 2 ‘Sunday-school teacher, ‘‘what did the Israel- VOR 9 oo +5is 2 ictory Se ; ia Ber talige “"y9%|Vietory K.......... 121, | ites do after they crossed the Red sea?” an Paconia...........- aia As Phoenix xX swered, “I don’t know, ma’am; perhaps Ke dried themselves.” a Hardware. Review of the Week. GENERAL HARDWARE. The condition of trade is about the same as reported last week. The reports which come to us indicate nothing specially note- worthy. The volume of business is fair, indeed may besaid to be good, the low prices of goods taken into consideration. It is universally admitted that the “general prices of hardware are lower this spring than they have been for several years. A dealer remarked to us the other day: ‘“‘So far as prices are concerned, 1 wish I were just commencing business, as I have on the shelves goods that cost from 25 to 50 per cent. more money than they could be bought for now.” This condition of trade, however, does not superinduce abnormal purchasing, for it is searcely hoped—even by the most sanguine—that during the summer season prices will range higher to any great extent. Hence dealers procure only such an _assort- ment and quantity of goods as the demands et trade necessitate. GLASS. Here and there customers canbe found who are still waiting for glass to drop to the prices of a year ago be- fore purchasing.their spring supply. But these are becoming more and more scarce, as it is generally conceded that the present quoted price will be maintained for some time to come. The disposition on the part of the most successful dealers is to keep a fair assortment on hand constantly. Their argument is this: “To get trade one must have the goods needed. -9 <<. __ Who vhas To Prevent Scratching Matches on Paint. A correspondent, speaking of the deface- ment of paint by the inadvertent or heedless scratching of matches, says that he has ob- served that when one mark has been made others follow rapidly. To effectually pre- vent this, rub the spot with flannel] saturated with any liquid vaseline. “After that people may try to strike their matches there as much as they like, they will neither get a light or injure the paint,” and most singu- lar, the petroleum causes the existing mark to soon. eee: at least when it occurs on A Sheet-Iron Hen. EXPANSIVE BITS. ‘ : ‘ -. _ | Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00.8 dis 20 An ingenious fellow in Ohio Mas construct Ives’, 1, $18 00: 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00. dis 25 ed a sheet-iron hen that promises to lay him FILES. a golden egg. It is finished up to life, full see File Association List...... e nee : ¢ PSHUOIES <2 Oe ee j ‘ size, cackles, clucks, and looks with one eye | New Ameriean..1.1...... 00000. dis 40810 at a time so naturally that it will deceive the Buen eeon Ba pea ee an ae a — oldest hen-hawk in the country. It is so| Heller’s Horse Rasps.................dis 38% arranged that when a hawk, mink, or pole- GALVANIZED IRON, ‘ i pec Nos. 16 to 20, 22 and 24, 25and26, 27 28 eat pounces on to it the back springs open ime oP = 14 1B 48 and the wings fly up and force the assailant Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. on to a ravenous buzz-saw that makes 1,700 GAUGES. revolutions per minute. After moving half | Stanley Rule and Lveel Co.’s......... dis 50 a minute the saw stops, the hen closes up, iebeiieo PAM MERS: . a : : : aydole fe : folds its wings, and begiits to cackle as|Kip’s...... ne nee dis 25 . 4 ‘ tnd- Veuhos Oe PMY Boo oo ee: dis 380 though it had just laid an egg. One wind wo oa hee eho Hat 4 ing up will answer for three massacres, pro- | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 ¢ 40&10 viding the rather delicate machinery does HANGERS. . Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis 50 not get clogged up too much with the blood, Chunpian auttivicten dis 60 bones and feathers. He seta freshly paint- | Kidder, wood tra.k................... dis 40 ed one out in the sun to dry the other day, Soe eS oT a : i : ate, Clarks 23). .62 ees is which attracted the attention of afine old|cgtate. per doz, net, 2 50 cat belonging to a doctor who had been pok- peek: poe Strap, to 12 in. 544 14 Gs ing a great deal of fun at the fool thing. Screw Hook and Bye, 0 ee in . * crew Hook and Eye 5.............. net The hen is there, but the cat is hence. Serav Hook and Eve ee ne : a ——_—___— _-2 Screw Hook and Eye, %............. net i” Patents Issued to Michigan Inventors. Strap and: Wee: ais 60810 . 2 : i HOLLOW WARE. Frederick Ballin, Detroit, lock. Stamped Pin Ware ............-......... 60&10 Heman G. Barlow and J. G. Barlow, Japanned Tin Ware ee cls See Palaces cee le 30 Ss : F : : Granice Pron Ware: 22.2 60. oe5. 25 Grand Rapids, device for manifold copying. Hees Jacob. W. Braan, Crapo, leaf holder. Grub Leeeeseseeee sees: oe $11 00, dis 40 ae < i Dea. rn | CRRUN 2 occ ee. 11 50, dis 40 Benjamin F. Bridges, Big Rapids, saw-| grips. 12 00, dis 40 swaging machine. KNOBS. Isaae De Graff, Detroit, slide-valve. ee minor jap. trimmings......$2 00, dis 6¢ > . is oor, porcelain, jap. trimmings.... 2 50, dis 60 Jabez R. Jones, ceading, assignor to the Door, porcelain, plated trim- Colby Wringer Co., folding rocker. mings... ... eee cag list, 7 25, dis 60 : Re as i ean fe Door, porcelain, trimmings list, 8 25, dis 60 Walter B. Noyer, Saginaw, curtain fix-| Drawer and Shutter, porcelain...... dis 60 ture. Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.. ......... d 60 : : a , FREMIAGITO). 0 eae dis 50 Solomon E. Oviatt, Lansing, vehicle spring. eens nou. Francis D. Parmelee, Hillsdale, fire es- | Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis 60 cape Matlory, Wheeinr & Co.’s..........4...-. dis 60 ape. Brantor@'a dis 60 Charles A. Peasley and T. F. Dage, Gowen, | Norwalk’s.... 22.0... 0c. e eee eee eee eee es dis 60 hay-rack,. LEVELS, : Phineas B. Swick, Tecumseh, shaft-tug. Stanley Rule and ae Hae Be dis 65 aT Te 7 . . ; = Garritt M. Van Riper and J. O. St. Clair, Coffee, Parkers Co.’S.... 0... ....,-ci.25.- dis 45 Republic, hose coupling. Coffee, P. Ss. — bier coe sa dis 45 : bE offee, Landers, Ferry ark’s 2... 4: dis 45 Samuel Warwick, Battle Creek, interlock- | Coffee, Enterprise.........0.--- esos, dis 25 ing machine for signals and switches on rail- MATTOCKS. ways. AOMOCBYC so. $16 00 dis 40&10 a : Humtv Wye... 2... i... ke $15 00 dis 40&10 Aretus A. Wilder, assignor of one-half to | Hunt’s.................. cee ee ee $18 50 dis 20 & 10 C. B. Palmer, Detroit, nut lock. NAILS. S. S. Wilson, Litchfield, hay fork. Common. Brad and Fencing. eg ae ee to Oe: eee eee B keg $2 50 Z = es : Sdiand 9dadv. 8 ee 25 The latest novelty in New York is paper| §aanavd adv... 22.1022 12 2222220 50 soap, which is mainly for the use of travel- ao ee ead Steen tee ee eee eee e eee e eee ees ‘a od ¢ Ue re as occ cialg cece da swe oO ers. The sheets of paper, which are put up | 3d fine advance... 2.0.0.0... 0.0 cece eee 3 00 : ae ; Clineh mats. adv... 6. 3)... Lws in the form of a small book of abont three Paghine | Add” “8al" "ai" "4 inches square, are coated with soap, and are | Size—inches { 3 2% 1% id to be just as good as the regulation ar-|*2"® Kes = 81 %5 Lod 175 200 a ens! Le 5 a, a i MOLLASSES GATES. ticle, in addition to being much handier. Stebbin’s Patterns... 2.000 6s....cc0c ct. dis 70 There are fifty soap sheets in each book, | Stebbin’s Genuine...... eeeer core once ee ce dis 0 ee Enterprise, self-measuring.............. dis 25 costing in the aggregate about as much as an wencLe ordinary cake of soap. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled........... dis 50 a ee OILERS. “Does yer kape nothil’ “but “ary goods | Zine or tin, @hase's Patent... 1 dis 55 4999 CONT am.?? $1 There will [| Zine, with brass bottom............. 2... dis 50 here: No, ma’ am Thin 2 oe Brass Of Copper so. 32... 00 dis 40 be after goin’ for watered silk? Reaper: CE per gross, $12 net Olmeteda’s (2G. oc oe ee, 50 HARDWARE GOODS. PLANES. Ohio Feo os FANCY 5 ees ees dis 15 ae AReeuea : | | Seiotea Bement, dis 25 Prevailing rates at Chicago are as follows: Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy... ......... dia 35 AUGERS AND BITS. Beneh, first quality... 2 ..5..)-........4. dis 20 Ives’, oie sty le dis 50 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood and N.H. C6 PO... |e... ae a PANS. Douglass’ A eee Some... a dis 40&10 Pierces' eee ee ne eat eee = 2 Common, polished... .....-.-..-. <1... dis 60 co dis4010 Dripping......-.-.---+. peteteeetseeees eb 8 Jennings’ ’ genuine Bia iui cic wie visteiain «ees 4 dis 25 RIVETS. Jennings’, imitasiog. 9-36. dis40&10 | Tron and Tinned.............. ccc cece dis 40 BALANCES. Copper Rivets and Burs.............. dis 40 SDELNO bo ee a dis 25 PATENT FLANISAED IRON. 7s, ““A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10% a eae $ 15 00 “B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to27 9 Paiva Bascal a ciceiaia mics cin oe clauele re ofaceins ce Eo 33 00 Broken packs we 2 i} extra. WAL COI o. os si sine ne cee 6 . aay Act alate! eee aie! ais 2 ROGuING CEsES. rie a IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........... 5% Hand Oe ee dis $ 60810 | FX, 14x° 20, choice Chareoal Terne.. es COW ee ee ee dis 69 TC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........... 2 00 . oa Feet t eee e eet ee eee ete e eens pete ees a 2 | IX, 20x28, choicC Charcoal Terne.......... 16 90 x Ma cite ia wl ae a sags asc ec Se wices oe 2 . Door cargent. 0 dis 5D ROPES. BOLTS Sisal, 44 In. and larger: 33.5601. 0. 006. BB 13 2 : MUI Se a ee SLOVO. 6 oe ee dis$ 40 : Carriage and Tire, old list............ dis 80&20 natn Plow os ee ee dis 30&10 | Steeland Irom........................-... dis 50 Sleigh Shoe... oe dis 50815 | iy and Bevels......................... 0). dis 50 Cast Barrel BOS: ks dis BO METRO es a dis 20 Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis 55 SHEET IRON. Cast Barrel, brass knobs....... ..... dis 50 x Cast Square Spring................05. dis 55 | wos. 10 to 14 Com. a a Cast Oba dis On 2540 we 30 Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis 55&10 Noo 18 ee Be rants 3 90 Wrought Square 7... . 3.2.65. 8 0 le dis 55&10 Nos, 90 ce 3 20 Wrought Sunk Flush................. dis 30 Nos 2 re >a S 3 40 Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob — Ce . 16 60 We 50810810 | “Oa Shoots Nov 1s and lighter,” eee ig oer dis 50&10| All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra. ae SHEET ZINC. eee es gee | ireasksof 0%, @ D.............-.. 6% Spoftord. 00 lais 59 | 1p smaller quansities, @ .....--....... i AMORA) oo Se cis net TINNER’S SOLDER. BUCKETS. Ho. 1, eenes Se 2 a re ad ~ Market Half-and-half............. .... 5 Well swivel. sessile? 4 go| Strietiy HalPand-halt...0 0c 16 BUTTS, CAST. Tn eee Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis 60&10 Cards for Charcoals, $6 7. Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis 70 | IC, 10x14, Charcoal........-,.......... 6 50 Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed. .dis 60 | IX, 10x14,Charcoal................ 2.4 8 56 Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint..dis 50&10 | IC, 12x12, Charcoal a 6 50 Wrounht Loose Pin.................. dis 60 | EX, lexi, OWAEGON - 8: 8 50 Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis 60& 5; IC, 14x20; Charcoat, .. 2... 1... 2... .. 65 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned........ dis 60& 5/| 1X, 14x20; Charcoal... 2... 525 ke 8 50 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver IXX, 14x20, G@harcoagl. 66 ee 10 50 TAP PCd ool ee es dis 60& 5 IXXX, 14x20 Chareool.... 2... ss. 12 50 Wrought Table. (0. coef... cece cae dis 60 IXXXX, HaxeO) OHarcoak: :. 0.22.03. 52... 14 50 Wrought Inside Blind................ dis 60 | IX, oxo, Charcoal... .:...........0 05. 18 00 Wrought SBOSS eg oe ee ea ee a DC, =100 Plato Oharcoal......-....-...-.. 6 50 Blind, Clark’s. : : ‘ DX, 100 Plate Charcoal... ......3........-. 8 50 Blind, Parker’ ee a ais . DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal.................. 10 50 Blind, Shepard's. ..0.. 02.0. dis 70 DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal... .......:..-: 12 50 Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross 15 00 Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 6 75 Spring for Screen Doors 3x3....pergross 18 00 rates. CAPS. TRAPS. VS PAIQe a eo eo cee alace reese Steel, Game...... gs es HICKS’ Ole oe es ae Onoida Communtity, Newhouse’s.......dis % GD eee as oe Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 60 MUISICOL. 2202 ee ee eo a 60 ee eu a =< Aris . Sop & W. Mio. €0.'825..0 ees cece. ey s ne: ; ~, | Mouse, choker..................0.0-08. 20c 8 doz Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list 50) Mouse, delusion..................06- $1 2682 doz Rim Fire, United States................ dis 50 wie. . CoOntral PIO. ooo ei se ee dis uy CHISELS Bright: Market. io: os. c. veto. ec. cs baie dis 60 : e : : ne Annealed Market.... 2.0.0.2... ..00 ee scees dis 60 Socket Firmer..........--+++++++++ +++: dis 6510 | Goppered Market..............00.. 00000 dis 55 Socket Framing................++. .-dis 65810 | Extra Bailing........ 0.0. .cce cece eee e eee ee dis 55 Socket Cornmer............ 2. eee eee ee eee dis 65&10| Tinned Market................0..0se0000. kis 40 Socket Slicks........ wiiiitst ees seee es dis — Tinned BrOOM:.. 4... 6.6560... sence ls # tb 09 Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis Tinned Mattress............cccceeeeceeee # Th 8% Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis 20 Coppered Spring Steel.................. dis 3744 COlG 6. eee eee ce net Tinned Spring Steel.............e005e0e8 dis 3714 COMBS. Plain wg ea Seg beh OPE oO Pel y aes cece 8 Ib 3% ee ae es 314 Barbed: Wenee. oo ooo. s he fas oo we se cee me pe a eee ae He oo COPDCR. oe recs Cl. we cerca cs new list net ae Geank ISYOSS aa ee eee new list net : WIRE GOODS. Brass, RACKING S260. cores ee ees 40&10 BD GS ss a eee. sara oak ss ea os AOR ATION E cs ee Wane d beso. tee. dis 60&10&10 Beer -- 22s: es. POU Peas. Paes oe 40&10 Serew os OMe os dee ol es dis 60&10&10 OVS (2 rss shoe caer iia es ieee we GO| BIOOR ae oe eweas dis 60&10&10 COPPER. Gate asks and HYOSs. .... 6.25563: dis 60&10&10 Planished, 14 0z cut to size.............. 2 ib 37 WIENCHES. Wave. 14558, 14400 2 cei a ees 39 | Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.......... DRILLS @oe’s Genuine... ....:-...6. 266.0. es dis 50&10 a“ Bit Stoc : dis 35 Coe’s Pat pete een wrought. ...... oe 65 orse’s Bit Stock... ......-.. se sees Joe’s Pat. malleable. .......... 000.0... is 70 Taper and Strai; ne Shank tie cue es ee dis 20 - : Morse’s Taper Sodnk................. dis 80 MISCELLANEOUS. ELBOWS. Pumps, Cistern........0. 0.2.0... 64.0. dis 60 Com. 4 piece, 6 in...... Pocieeweeent doz net a. WOE SGPOWS 5. 58 oa uk os eos voce weeks vein 70 Corrugate dis 20&10 | Casters, Bed and Plate................. dis 50 | Dampers, American...........-..60...-05 0% UEC} notations TOBACCOS= CIGARS JOHN CAULFIELD —THE— WHOLERALE GROCER, —AND— JOBBER IN TEAS, TOBAC- GOs, SPIGES, ETC. 89, 87 and 89 Canal Street FACTORY AGENT For the following well-known brands of To- baceos and Cigars: FIN & CUT. adNV OUMtAIN. ©. 2 Old: Conaress: .. .... 25... wee e Good Eek ...... 1... oe. Good and Sweet... 0.0.5. sec cess beets 4m American Queen. .... 5 <<... .. 3-1 8 laze Away... .......2...52...510 | - 00 rane RElers 50 os. oo. Governor, 2 07. for. ..:... 0.20. 60 In half barrels or four pail lots, 2c 8 b off above list. PiU G. FEOESG@SNOG.2. co. a . 50 McAlpin’s Green Shield. .............. . 48 McAlIpin’s Sailor’s Solace... .. 48 ted Star, extra quality, same aby le: as sallor’s Solace. ........0.. 265.222 48 Big Chunk or J. T. Mahogany Wrapper. .40 Hair Lifter, Mahogany Wrapper......... 47 D. & D. Dark, 44 and 16 oz. pounds..... 37 Ace Be Ree e cc a, oes cues 35 Duck, 2x12 and flat.. Soule. oie 48 Shot Gun, or Hatem Pine. oe ace a eo Oe) NODDY Spun Rollo... 2.2. e052. 2 ...48 Black Spun Roll. . anes ewsceGe Canada Plug (Virginia bi Suet. ane . 50 Cresent Plugs, 6 ib. cads. .. 2... .. 2.3... 45 SMOKIN Ch. Peerless, ease lots. 2... 2. bo < esae Rob Roy, ease lots......... ect oe co oe ae Wnele; Sam... <0... ke es “28 Tom and Jerry........... wo cues ee eee Good Pnough.. 03 o.oo, 23 Mountain Rose: .. 2... 2... 56. ci: 20 Lumberman’s Long Cut............. «+ -26 Elome Comfort: . . 2... 5.05. o oe ce «24 Green Back, Killickinick.......2....... 25 Two Nickel, Killickinick ¥.......... «aso Two Nickel, Killickinick, #¢.......... 222 Star Durham, Killickinick, ........... 25 Rattler, Killiekmick, 4%... ......55... - 25 Honey Lew, Killickinie, 4%{............. 25 Posey, Killickinie, k14, paper......... ..20 Canary, Killickinick, Extra Virginia... ..36 Gold Block, Killickinick, 4%........... +32 Peck’s Sun, Killickinick, 44s and tbs.....18 Golden Flake Cabinet. ................ . 40 ‘Mraveler, 3 02. fotli... 0.0... ccc ee ee . 00 Hail Road Boy, 3 02, foll;. >--o-<—__—_ 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. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.’s wholesale department is replete with everything per- taining to that branch of the business. Country buyers are invited to call when in FOSTER, STEVENS & C0 —WHOLESALE— ROWARE! 10 and 12 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE SOLICIT THE DEALER’S TRADE, And NOT the Consumer’s. We are Manufacturer’s Agents for the Grown Jewel ¥apor nlove: And guoie factory prices. Send for catalogue 7; ac 4 45 » 4 We are Mauufact vrer’s Agents for t oY = m T Fl Lt US | Re ) i f | : A | i r i) 4 i} r if _ — Jeweii’s Bird Gages And quote factory prices. Send for catalogue We are Manufacturer's Agents for Jewett’s Filters, And quote factory prices. Send for catalogue 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 send catalogue to those wishing to buy. Weare carrying to- ¢ iNe ei e > Banker, Howard City, Mich., for the truth of all of the above statements regarding the superior quality and extraordinary yield of the We warrant these potatoes, all that has been represented, and true to name. B. BNSLBY & SON, Growers, Einsley Postofiice., Newayso County, Michigan. FOR FULL PARTICULARS AND TERMS TO DEALERS, ADDRESS O. W. BLAIN & COQ, General Agents, Produce Commission Merchants, Fruits, Vegetables, Etc., 152 Fulton Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. Also have 2,500 bushels of the Celebrated White English Sovereign Oats—a sure crop—s0 to 90 bushels per acre. Price, 75¢ per bushel. U. FEETER, 36 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Dealer in All Kinds of Comuiry 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. WALL PAPER & WINDOW SaADES At Manufacturers’ Prices. SAMPLES TO THE TRADE ONLY. Efouse and Store Shades Made to Order. 68 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids. NELSON BROS. & CO. PEHEREINS & HESS, ——DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. Telephone Connection. A. HoH. FOoOowW ikE, 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 at ALBERT GOYE & 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. (= Send for Prices. A. A. CRIPPEN, WHOLESALE Hats, Caps 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 SAE BY THE PACKAGE OR RE- PACKED TO ORDER, Sold at Manufacturers’ Prices. Send for Price List at once for the Spring Trade. SHEDS FIELD AND GARDEN, ce A WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, —AT THE— 91 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mic SEED STORE, @ -', é* es