GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1888. -— ren - WHOLESALE AND OYSTERS. _ Packing and Warehouse, : 37 North Division Street. _ Office, 117 Monroe St., @RAND RAPIDS, MICH. SEND FOR PRICE LIST. SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF ABSOLUTE SPIGES, —AND— Absolute Baking. Powder. JOBBERS OF ~ Meas, Coffees = Grocers’ Stndries, 46 Ottawa 84, GRAND RAPIDS. “BELKNAP Wagon and Sleigh Co. MANUFACTURERS OF Spring, Freight, Express, Lumber and Farm WAGONS! Logging Carts and Trucks - Mill and Dump Carts, Lumbermen’s and River Tools. We carry a large stock of material, and have ont facility for making first-class Wagons Of F-Spocial ttention given to Repairi pecial attention given epairing, Painting and Letterin, Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich, RDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker = Jeweler, hh CANAL 8Y., brand Rapids, - Mich Millers, Attention We are making a Middlings Purifier and Flour Dresser that will save you their cost at least three times each year. They are guaranteed to do more work in less space (with less power and less waste) than any other machines of their class. Send for descriptive cata- logue with testimonials. Martin's Middlings Purifier Co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ALFRED J. BROWN, FOREIGN, IN—— TROPICAL OALIFORNIA FRUITS. Bananas, Our Specialty. 16 and 18 No. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, - MIOH. S. T. FISH & CO., GeneralSCOMMISSION Merchants WHOLESALE FRUITS and PRODUCE, 189 So. Water St., - Chicago. We solicit your correspondence fand will make liberal advances on all shipments for- warded to us. Send us yourconsignments and we will render prompt and satisfactory re- turns. CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY. ASK FOR ARDENTER MUSTARD BEST IN THE WORLD. WANTED. Butter, Eggs, Wool, Pota- toes, Beans, Dried Fruit, Apples and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or anything in the Produce line let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desited. Karl Bros., Commission Merchants, 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. Bownt, President. GEO. C. PIERCE, Vice President. H, P. BAKER, Cashier, ——$—— CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited. 0. E. BROWN WILLING CO, Merchant Millers. Shippers and Dealers in GRAIN and BAILED HAY. Flouring Mill and Office, Cor. Court St. and G.R. & LR.R. Grain CGfiice, No. 9 Canal Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. J. W. CONVERSE, Proprietor. O. E. BROWN, Manager. Weigh, Herplstemer & Ct, Importers and Jobbers of _ DRY GOODS Staple and Fancy. Overalls, Pants, Etc., OUR OWN MAKE, A Complete Line of - Fancy Crockery:Fancy Woodenware OUB OWN IMPORTATION. oe Inspection Solicited. Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed. _ SAFES! ; Anyone in want of a first-class Fire or -® Burglar Proof Safe of the Cincinnati Safe -’ and Lock Co. manufacture will find it to his advantage to write or call on us. We - have light expenses, and are able to sell low- ‘er than any other house representing first- _ class work. Second-hand safes always on hand. C. M. GOODRICH & CO., ‘With Safety Deposit Co., Basement of Wid- _ dicomb Blk. _| Roller Champion, _- ESTABLISHED 1866. Barnery Bros. 152 80. Waker Street, Chicago. We do a General Commission Business and offer as inducements twenty years’ ex- perience and clear record. The best equip- | ped and largest salesroom in the business in this city. Ample storage facilities—full 20,000 feet of floor space in the center of the best market in the West. Ample capi- tal and first-class references on file with| ] THe TRADESMAN. information, whether to buy or sell. will cost you nothing. BARNETT BROS. Write us if you wish it ORDER Gordon's “C9 The Best FIVE GENT GIGAR In the Market. ED.D. YALE & C0. Grand Rapids, Mich. STANTON, SAMPSON & 60, Manutacturers and Jobbers of Men’s Furnishing Goods. Sole Manufacturers of the ‘‘Peninsular” Brand Pants, Shirts and Overalls, State agents for Celuloid Collars and Cuffs. 120 and 122 Jefferson, Ave., DETROIT, - MICHIGAN. GEO. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids; Western Michigan Salesman. i REUBEN HATCH Attorney at Law, Rooms 23 & 24 Widdicomb Bld. Monroe St., GRAND RAPIDS. A limited amount of money toloan on real estate se- curity. J. EK. FELDNER & CO.,, CUSTOM SHIRT MAKERS, . Men’s Furnishing Goods. NO. 2 PEARL ST., - GRAND RAPIDS Prompt Attention to Mail Orders. Telephone 891. VALLEY GUY MILLING GO. OUR LEADING BRANDS: ‘Matchless, Lily White, EDWIN FALLAS, PROPRIETOR OF VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE, _JOBBER OF Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Butter, Eggs and Egg Crates. No. 1 egg crates, 3%c. No. 2 egg crates, 30c. No.1 fillers, 13c. No. 2 fillers, 10c, I have facilities for handling each line above named that are unsurpassed. I aim to handle the best that can be obtained. |- Mail orders filled promptly at lowest market price. A liberal discount on Egg Crates and fillers in large lots. SALESROOM, - No.9 Ionia St, Grand Rapids. POTATOES. attention to We give promp |thesaleof POTATOES,APPLES,BEANS -|and ONIONS in car lots. We offer best facilities and watchful attention. Consign- ments respectfully solicited. Liberal cash oe Leg Orpen: per Blanton: [35 eee {S20 BOOK-KEEPING WIPED QUT! No Pass Books! No Charging! No Posting! No Writing! 3 No Pe of Accounts! No Change to Make! TRADESMAN Credit Coupon Book. THE NEWEST AND BEST ON THE MARKET ‘We quote prices as follows: ecererese and ONE AND THE SAME. Written for THE TRADESMAN. : “By the way, Mr. Sprague, you don’t happen to know where I can get a good, bright boy to work in the store, do you?” The speaker was a young man, seated in a luxurious easy chair in the parlor of the house wherein dwelt a young lady to whom the aforesaid young man was paying marked attentions. Jack Chesney had been endeavoring for some time to reach a satis- factory opportunity of requesting the afore- said young woman to share his joys and sorrows, but she, had most skilfully kept him at bay, at the same time tightening the bands that held him to her side. The gentleman Jack addressed was Ethel Sprague’s father, with whom he was on most friendly terms, and Ethel was sitting across the room, demurely engaged in some sort of fancy work. “Why, no, Jack,” replied Mr. Sprague, looking up from his paper, ‘‘I do not just at present. What is thespecial need of a boy just now? I thought you hadea good boy.” “TY did; but last week he was offered more wages by some one else and left me in the lurch without any notice. It’s too bad, too, just as the holidays are here and sO many small parcels to deliver in a hurry.” “Well, Jack, if I hear of anyonel will send him around to you.” After some further desultory conversa- tion, the young man took his leave. As soon as he was fairly gone, Ethel went to her father’s side and held a long conversa- tion with that gentleman. It ended as follows: : ‘Please, papa, let me have my own way in this. I know there will no harm come of it and it would be such fun, besides—” The girl stopped suddenly and a tell-tale flush passed over her face unnoticed by her father. “Besides what, Ethel?” “*T didn’t say besides, did I, papa?” “I thought you did. Well, my dear, if I let you do this, you must take the blame of any disaster that may happen to you upon your own shoulders. I won’t be responsi- ble.” ‘‘That’s a darling old dad. I knew you would give in if I teased hard.” The day following this conversation, a boy stepped briskly into the dry goods store of Jack Chesney and asked to see that gen- tleman. He was sent to the office at the rear, where Mr. Chesney sat talking with a customer. “Is this Mr. Chesney?” inquired the lad, politely lifting his hat. “Tam that person, my boy. What can I do for you?” ‘Tt heard from Mr. Sprague that you needed a boy in your store, and I would like to get the place.” ‘‘Have you any recommendations?” ‘*T have none, sir, excepting a letter Mr. Sprague gave me for you,” and the boy drew forth a letter from his pocket which he handed to Jack. *SAh, very good. lLet’s see—he says you are an honest, industrious lad, anxious for a chance to get on in the world. This recom- mend is sufficient, I am sure.” After some further preliminaries, the lad was engaged. Promptly at the opening of the store the next morning, the boy, Fred Seton, was at his post. He won everyone’s heart from the first. Prompt, cheerful, obliging, always ready to do a favor for any one who asked it and never allowing himself to lose an opportunity for gaining the good- will of his employer, it was not long ere Jack Chesney began to take an unusual interest in the lad’s welfare and often called him into the office at night, after the store was closed, to talk with him, seeming to take great delight in the lad’s bright, witty conversation in describing incidents happening in the store during the day. After a time, this chance sociality became a regular thing, and the clerks in the store laughingly remarked that Chesney would as soon go without his supper as: hi ‘*spark” in the office with Fred. : One evening, Jack was unusually confi- dential with his errand boy. For the past week he had been vainly endeavoring to bring Ethel Sprague to a final answer, and his disappointment weighed on his mind heavily. He told Fred all about it, de- seribing the young lady but not mentioning her name. ‘Oh, I know who you mean. It’s that young lady who comes in the store once in a while and you talk with hera long time over the ribbon counter, and I know her name too. It’s Ethel Sprague,” and Fred laughed merrily as he saw his guess had been right. “Pl tell you what, Mr. Chesney, I’d make her say yes. If Lhad so much I’d bet you fifty dollars she’d say yes if you were to ask her to-morrow night.” “I will give you a-hundred if she does, Pll ask her, too, as you say to-morrow | munity.” _ “Hov “Yes, Jack, I do, but upon one con- dition.” ‘Yes, darling, a dozen if you like.” ‘And it is that you will sacredly promise to forgive all my faults on our wedding- day.” “Asif you had any, but of course, I promise.” And after a little more billing, and cooing Jack Chesney took himself off home, feel- ing more like a king than a merchant. “By George,” he said to himself, as he walked slowly home, ‘‘I’ve got to give Fred a hundred dollars to-morrow, but I little thought so when I promised it. I would willingly give him the store. How in the name of common sense did the boy guess so straight?” The next morning Fred was called to the office, where Jack wrote out a check | for one hundred dollars and placed it in his hands. “She said yes, did she? Well, I knew she would. And, now, can you pay me my wages up to to-night? My aunt is dying and has sent for me, so I have got to leave you.” It was with great reluctance that Jack let him go, but the lad promised to be at the wedding and Jack was compelled to be satisfied. Three months from that time, Jack Chesney and Ethel Sprague were married. In vain did Jack look for his former em- ploye, Fred—he was not to be seen. It was quite a disappointment to him, for he liked the lad most sincerely, but the joy of possessing his long-coveted treasure soon drove all thoughts of Fred from his mind. That evening, however, when the guests had departed, and none was left but the family of Mr. Sprague and one of Jack’s sisters who was on most intimate terms with Ethel, Jack remarked that he was dis- appointed at notseeing Fred at the wedding. “But he was there, Jack,” said Ethel, | ‘‘and he’s here in the house now. Shall I bring him in?” ‘““‘Why, yes, of course, I wonder why the boy kept so shy?” Ethel left the room. In about ten min- utes the door opened and Fred entered alone. After greeting him cordially, Jack asked him how he happened to be acquainted with Ethel, and where he had left her. “I brought her with me, Jack. You promised her to forgive all her faults on her wedding day. Hereis oneof them, will you forgive it?” andthe boy held out a check, signed by Jack Chesney, for one hundred dollars. Jack looked athim in blank bewilder- ment and could not utter a word. ‘‘And there’s just one more fault Your wife wanted to be sure you loved her before you married her. She gained your confi- dence and found you true as gold.” And Fred slipped off his black wig while Ethel’s golden tresses feli down over the shoulders of our whilom Fred’s coat. Ethel and Fred were one and the same. RELLUF. a : Working the Postal Card Racket. From the Pittsburgh Dispatch. A certain collection agent heard of a fair and fashionable dead-beat’s performances, and, as he was drumming his heels in an 8x 12 office on Grand street in unprofitable idleness at the time, he thought he could afford to risk his time—he had nothing else to risk—in experimenting upon her. Accordingly he called upon one of her creditors to whom she owed a bill of $400. He asked the merchant to allow him to try and collect the money. The merchant warned him that it would be labor lost, but the collector was willing to make an at- tempt. He got a promise of fifty per cent. of the entire bill if he could collect it. Then he set to work. He wrote the lady a polite note asking her to call at his office. It was not answered. He wrote her a little sharper note. No answer came. Then he stated his claim in very plain letters and figures on a postal card. The lady herself came in great agitation to answer the card. She protested against the use of postal cards, which the hotel clerks, the bell boys and everybody else could read. **Pay the bill, madam,” said the collector, ‘and Vil wait upon you myself with the re- ceipt.” He got $200 on account at that session. The balance came the next day. The merchant was delighted, and paid the fifty per cent. commission gladly. - Then the collector went to every store of any prominence in the city, and wherever he found a bill against this lady he bought it as cheaply as he could. Mostof them he bought for a mere song. He had some difficulty in turning all those bad debts into cash, but he always fell back on the postal card squeezer and it always did its work quickly and effectually. In all, 1am told that the profit on these transactions amounted to more than $2,000. I know it started him in business, and although this all occurred since January, 1880, when he was penniless, to-day he has a profitable collection agency and two brick houses of his own. Coming and Going. **Ya-as,” said a discouraged-looking deni- zen of a small New Jersey town, ‘‘that Smith family has what I call a dead open- and-shut monopoly in this here com- ? he was asked. zer Smith, he’s” Why Men Fail. _ From the Jewelers’ Circular. ; An observer has been trying to ascet the reason why men fail, and eomes to # conclusion that seme fail through timi or lack of nerve. They are unwilling take the risks incident to life, and | through fear in venturing on ordinary di They lack pluck.< | ——3 27) agg Others fail through imprudence, lack of discretion, care or sound judgment. r overestimate the future and build air eas- tles, and venture beyond their depth, and fail and fall. Others, again, fail through lack of application and perseverance. They begin with good resolves, but soon get tired of that and want a change, thinking they can do much better at something else. Thus they fritter life away and succeed at noth- ing. ee eee Others waste time and money and fail for want of economy. Many fail through ruin- ous habits; tobacco, whisky and beer spoil them for business, drive their best custom- ers from them and scatter their prospects of success. Some fail for want of brains, education and fitness for their calling; they lack a knowledge of human nature and of the motives that actuate men. They have not _ qualified themselves for their occupation by practical education. =. There is another quite numerous class _ who fail for the purpose of making monty at the expense of their creditors, but these should be classed with criminalsratherthan with unfortunate business men. o ————q08 oo Rights of Seller and Buyer. From Dry Goods Chronicle. A seller has a right to fix whatever price he pleases upon his property, and to hold it until he can obtain his price. A buyer has a right to decline to purchase a property or article of merchandise until he can obtain it at his price, or both may agree upon a price without regard to others’ prices, says an old authority upon this subject. But in — the event of a sale without an agreement as to price the rule obliges the seller not to charge more for his commodities than the market price. Cicero once propounded the question» whether a corn merchant who had arrived at Rhodes with a cargo of grain dur- ing a season of great scarcity, and knowing that other vessels laden with grain were also on the way, was bound in conscience to inform buyers of that fact? Upon this question he quotes the opinion of Diogenes, who thought such a concealment was justi- fiable; and Antipater, with whom Cieero agrees, who thought it was in bad faith. Later writers dissent from this doctrine, and Poltheir asks whether any one ever thought of accusing Joseph of injustice in taking advantage of the knowledge which he had of the years of barrenness to cause Pharaoh to buy the fifth part of the corn of his subjects without informing them of those years of sterility whieh were about to | come. ———qqv22a—_— Eggs by Weight. Isn’t it strange that we buy and sell eggs by number instead of by weight? Number does not show their value; weight does. Some eggs weigh twice as much as others. What justice or business sagacity is there in paying the same price for one as for the other? Is not the farmer who sells a large egg for the same price that his neighbor sells a small one cheated? And is net the buyer of the small one cheated? Justas well might butter be sold by rolls, the small roll bringing as much as the largeone. We do not buy or sell butter by the number of pieces, or cheese by number; nor should we sell eggs by number. If eggs were bought and sold by weight, the value of certain breeds of fowls would be changed. Now the breed which fur- nishes the ‘greatest number of eggs is the most profitabie; then it would be the breed that furnished tne greatest weight. Some © breeds are remarkable for the smallness of their eggs; such breeds would sufferin pop- — ularity, while the fowls that lay large eggs — would gain. This would work only justice, however, to the fowls, as it would to their owners and consumers. Clearly, eggs should be sold by weight. Then why does not every one insist upon it ? : ————————». +> ____— He was Suspicious. From the Omaha World. Business man—What’s the matter? You ~ look blue. Partner—I expected to have seme money left over this year to invest in real estate, but it’s the same old story. Tll close the year without a cent. = “What does that extravagant little wife — of yours want this time?” = “T don’t know whether it’s a new palace, a barrel of diamonds or a castle in Europ but it’s something mighty expensive. She hasn’t said yet.” ee “Eh? Then how do you know she wants anything ?” ee ‘*When I went home last night she was darning my stockings.” 1 9 Better than Chloroform. From the Lincoln Journal. ee Surgeon—Now, my man, I am about to amputate your foot. a ‘Well, go ahead.” Case “I would advise you to submit to beil placed under the influenee of an ane: thetic.” ae ‘Hang your anesthetics! But I tell what I wish you would do.” cs ‘*Well?” a ‘Have somebody bring me the seore of the ball game by innings while yo work.” f PERFECTION SC The Latest Improved and Bes -E. H. AYER, 49 es ena . are not discontinued at ex- red by the subscriber. , JUNE 13. 1888. \MPLETE VICTORY. ‘met the enemy and they are Supreme Court handed down a de- Friday, sustaining the constitu- theanti-compact insurance law, the Beveridge plan to be in viola- the law and’ sustaining the Insur- Commissioner in his action in the case Hartford Fire Insurance Co. _ he decision is a genuine victory over the “unscrupulous monopoly which ever the busiziess men of Michigan. It ns that competition in fire insurance 1 be as free as in life insurance, or dry , or tea or coffee. It means less div- 4@ends for the stockholders of fire insurance npanies, but fair insurance rates for the le. The fight has been bitter, no stone ving been left unturned by the monopoly secure the annulment of the law. That Attorney General Taggart was able to meet controvert all the ingenious arguments forth by the attorneys of the opposition s volumes for his fidelity to the inter- confided to his care. Tae TRADESMAN has been so fortunate as to secure the full text of the opinion of the Supreme Court and will give place to same next week. The desperate illness of General Sher- Wan, which has now lasted for more than a fortnight, continues at the writing of this ‘paragraph, with some present appearance of a greater room for hope: It is a circum- stance of our modern life, with its instant eommunication, that whole nations, and even the whole of the civilized world, may wait by the bedside of the great. persons whe are suffering from sickness and dis- ease. In the case of the German Emperor there may be truly said to be a world-wide sympathy, and for our gallant American the feeling is as wide as the Union which he so much helped to preserve. His illness has been so serious, and the means of medical relief, not to say of cure, are so defied by the peculiarities of the ailment that there ill. be special rejoicing if he should accom- ish a recovery. General Boulanger has had his innings ad has been defeated. His motion to dis- solve the National Assembly and order a general election, with a view toa radical Fevyision of the constitution, met with small suppert from any section of the Chamber f Deputies. Even M. Clemenceau, who demands revision as loudly as the Bom- astes Furioso who made the motion, re- fused to help. him to force the hand of the Noquet ministry. He has decided to wait 1 the government is ready to take that step. That this will cool the fervor of the mlangist party isdoubtful. But the spec- le of the united opposition of all classes oliticians to General Boulanger’s de- and probably will check the spread of the arty. Public opinion counts for more in a politics of France than in England or erica. A Frenchman has no taste for nding alone in politics. last week and fined $300 for itant charges. The local board of rs of the Bell company met and | to make no more contracts in St. until the constitutionality of .the or- ee could be settled. The question er municipal authorities have any to attempt to regulate telephone i8 an interesting one, so that the e of the contest will be looked for till lives, but his American | e board insurance manager—has the hands of the Legislature and ourt. Requiscat in pace. r,” she gurgled, as they met two avenues, where they -maonotonous scrape of the as he ladled out 2 bits’ - grocery business at Kingsley. The stock : | was purchased at thig market. John Johnson, jeweler and notion dealer at Frankfort, has added a line of groceries. Arthur Meigs & Co. furnished the stock. R. L. Whitton has engaged in the drug business at Perrington. The stock was furnished by the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. é Merritt & Spoor, late of Battle Creek, have purchased the grocery stock of Judson M. Peaslee, at 667 Wealthy avenue, and will continue the business at that location. G. W. Morris has opened a grocery store at the new town of Evans, on the line of the Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Railway. Arthur Meigs & Co. furnished the stock. The Grand Rapids School Furniture Co. has concluded to erect a two-story brick warehouse, 80x100 feet in dimensions, fifty feet to the north of its main factory build- ing and connected with that building by a bridge. The Curtiss & Dunton paper stock was bid in at auction sale by Julius Houseman for $275 over the mortgage indebtedness. In case the sale is ratified by the court, the business will be continued under the style of Jno. E. Curtiss & Co., under the personal management of John E. Curtiss. AROUND THE STATE. Shelby—L. Rathbone has engaged in the manufacture of cigars. —_- Alma—Capel & Hall succeed Bear & Hall in the hardware business. Alpena—Ash & Cole succeed Jos. Ash in the blacksmith business. Chelsea — Geo. Blaich succeeds Blaich Bros. in the grecery business. Farwell—H. L. Day has just moved his drug stock into a new building. Port Huron—Fred Wells succeeds Martin Bros. in the dry goods business. Pontiac — Pound Bros. succeed John Pound in the dry goods business. Amble—Samuel N. Crandall succeeds Bale & Crandall ih general trade. Scottville—J. Welch succeeds Welch & Lattin in the hardware business. Midland—Benno Tugendreich succeeds Starker & Co. in the clothing business. Breckenridge — Ed. Hasbreok, general dealer, has assigned to Geo. W. Tolbert. Benton Harbor—J. W. Weimer succeeds Dunning & Weimer in the drug business. Detreit—Baird & .West succéed P. L. Wright & Co. in the brokerage business. St. Johns—M. F. Washburn has assigned his boot and shoe stock to Wm. H. Brun- son. ‘Reed City—S. B. Densmore succeeds Densmore & Richards in the grocery busi- ness. Marion—Andrew Fearnley is succeeded by Fearnley & Vandecar in the grocery business. : Coldwater—Schmelden & Byrne succeed O’Brien & Schmelden in the blacksmith business. Manistee—Smith & Mayrand succeed Douville Bros. in the book and stationery business. Port Huron—The dry goods store of Hay- man & Son has been closed on chattel mortgage. Charlevoix—Perry Weed has sold his stock of books, stationery and wallpaper to Geo. W. Beaman. South Saginaw—E. P. Stone & Co. succeed C. W. Derby & Co. in the wholesale and retail grocery business. Charlotte—C. H. Manry has sold his interest in the furniture business of Dono- van, Manry & Co. The new firm will be known as Donovan & Vanderhoof. STRAY FACTS. North Dorr—Peter Brautigam, general dealer, will be married on the 19th to Miss Susan Stein, of this place. Saginaw City—The new Commercial National Bank has begun business. Daniel Hardin is President and M. O. Robinson Cashier. ‘Detroit—The Waterman & Chapman Bar- rel Machine Co., of Hillsdale, has notified the County Clerk that it intends to remove to Detroit. Detroit—The Michigan Stove Co. has commenced suit in the United States court against. E. Bement & Son, of Lansing, for alleged infringements on their patents. Detroit—Williams Bros. & Charbonneau have merged their pickle and preserve bus- iness into‘a stock company, with a paid up capital of $50,000. Wm. H. Williams and Chas. Charbonneau each hold 666 shares and L. C. Charbonneau and Geo.-A. Olney one share each. | aa! Detroit—William H. Hawk became a ‘stockholder in the Globe, Drug and Capsule Co. some time ago on solicitation of Samuel ing.” | R. Bateson and George W. Burkhart. He with | , vested $5,000. Mr. Hawk discovered at the business was not quite so| able as he had supposed, so he sued to recover the $5,000 | Foundry. and Machine Co. Lor ley & Co. hay ™ - buisinéss into a stock com- the style of the Kalamazoo The paid-in capital is $27,000. Detroit—The Banner Cigar Manufactur- ing Co., capital stock $100,000, has been in- corporated by M. B. Mills, Benjamin F. Haxton, Edward Vee, William S. Dilling- ham, George H. Perry, Thomas J. Paxton and Andrew Marx. Lakeview—E. K. Wood, J. McCrae and A. J. Archer have formed a copartnership under the style of the Town Line Lumber Co., and purchased 3,000 acres of pine land near Town Line, six miles from this place, which they will begin to cut at once. They will also put in a general supply store. —_—<\__ 0a —_——_ Purely Personal. Chas. H. Leonard spent Sunday at his cottage on Black Lake. L. Winternitz spent Sunday and Monday with friends in Chicago. 7 W. H. Bartholomew, the Wayland grocer, was in town last Thursday. L. N. -Fisher, Secretary of the Dorr B. M. A., was in town last Saturday. C. F. Beeler, of the drug firm of Nagler & Beeler, at Caledonia, was in town on Monday. J. H. Thaw has sold his merchandise brokerage business to H. C. Wickham, late of Port Huron. Hon. Chas. E. Belknap went to Flint Monday to attend the closing exercises of the Deaf and Dumb Institute. Fred Stevens, Cashier of the banking house of Page, Bates & Co., at Ionia, was in town for a few hours on Monday. ‘Peter Brautigam, of the firm of Brauti- gam Bros., general dealers at North Dorr, was in town a couple of days last week. F, H. Manning, of the extensive Boston wool house of Luce & Manning, has made Grand Rapids headquarters during the past week. H. L: Day, the Farwell druggist, was in town last Thursday on his way to Augusta, where he spent several days with old friends and acquaintances. J. A. Pugh, manager of the Portable House Co. left Saturday for the East, to be gone a wéek or ten days. Washington is his objective point. J. H. Thaw has purchased Arthur Meigs’ two lots at Scott’s Landing, Black Lake, and is building a commodious cottage on oneof them. He and his wife are already there for the season. E. E. Crandall, the Sand Lake merchant and lumberman, was in town a couple of days last .week, making arrangements for placing on the market his newly-patented grinder for shingle saws. John Spring, of the firm of Spring & Lindley, general dealers at Bailey, was in town a couple of days last week. He is strong in the belief that fully 100,000 bushels of onions will be raised within a radius of five miles of Bailey this season. ———— Organized to Cross Bats With Detroit. In answer to the call published in THE TRADESMAN of last week, about fifty traveling men assembled at the Fountain street ball grounds to organize a nine toplay an exchange of games with the Detroit traveling men. Sides were chosen by James N. Bradford and A. B. Colé, the game resulting in a score of 48 to 47 in favor of Bradford’s cohorts, as follows: BRADFORD’S SCORE. 123 45 6 _ ronald - Reed .,, -" Morrison = - Haugh - Powers .- Downs, W. H..- zy J R. salt Brad. = oo i bt pt COPKOMM 2 Phere HH Oe O12 OOS So SHR ORR Reo ecoo DWwwwwwSsnws o bet bet | 11 ~ b bE oe om a a Cole - Uttman - Robertson McBlair - Johnston Miller - Shriver Hadden - - McKelvey - rm 00 TG Sne DB Sr Ot 3 Go O91 69 © HEH Smo erever—) T ChpMHHOS Re Ko comeR wD - Oop RNES > Om OoHROM ao fo _ Sree eee | rs x Total, Soe ais tee ees fm mia oe At the conclusion of the game, a meeting was called by-Chairman Robertson, when Geo. H. Seymour was elected manager of the club and Hi. Robertson captain. ‘These officers were empowered to select a nine of the great- est possible strength and authorized to accept the challenge of the Detroit boys, for an ex- change of games during July and August. THE CHALLENGE ANSWERED. GRAND RapPIps, June 10, 1888. C. A. Hempsted, Detroit: DeEaR Srr—Your challenge, dated June 2, to play two games of base ball with Grand Rapids traveling men, was duly received through THE TRADESMAN. We have had the same under consideration and hereby accept the challenge under the rules laid down by you, namely, that no one shall play excepting bona Jide trav- eling men, now trayeling and residing in De- troit. We request that both games be played on a Saturday. Very respectfully, : i! Guo. H. SkYMour, Manager. NAMES OF THE CHAMPIONS. Manager Seymour and Captain Robertson have selected the following players to meet the Detroit nine: : : _ Samuel Morrison (Olney, Shields & Co.) Fred Shriver (Shriver, Weatherly & Co.) A. B. Cole (Bickford & Francis.) James Downs (W. H. Downs.) Fred Powers (Hugo Schneider & Co.) J.N. Bradford (Olney, Shields & Co.) J. M. McKelvey (Diamond Wall Finish Co.) Amsden Page oe H. W. Beecher (Eaton, Lyon & Co.) - Claude Freeman (TelferSpiceCo.) _s. The club will meet for practice again on Sat- urday afternoon and every Saturday until the Come to Detroit. | are these made from cider and wine. Colorado. F¥. L Kelly has so far recovered his health as to resume his work on the road for ‘Spring & Company. Perley W. Hall has re-engaged to travel for Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops, covering the same territory as in the past. Harry L. Gregory has nearly recovered from his recent severe illness and will pick up his grip again in about two weeks. Chas. O. Skinner, of the New England Furniture Co., starts out this week fora month’s trip through the upper portion of the State. : Hi. Robertson has gone to Cincinnati to attend the Supreme Lodge, K. of P., by virtue of his office as Grand Vice-Chan- cellor of the Grand Lodge. W. G. Hawkins was made the father of a brand-new nine pound girl last Saturday Will says she is as handsome as her mother and another authority asserts that night. she talks a blue streak like her father. Jas. MeSkimin, formerly on the road for jobbing houses here, but now traveling in ‘the Red River valley for the wholesale gro- cery house of Stone & Ordan, at Duluth, was in town a couple of days last week. Henry Smith, tea salesman for Bulkley, Lemon &- Hoops, went to Chicago Monday to pick up some early importations for his house. Mr. Smith is preparing a treatise on the subject of tea, which he proposes putting on the market in book form. Johann Koster, traveling representative for Edson, Moore & Co., and M. K. Ebbert, representing Herman Weiss, two of De- troit’s jolliest traveling men, were in town last Thursday. The former had an: im- portant engagement to keep at the D., G. H. & M. junction. A Ludington correspondent of THE TRADESMAN writes that the municipal au- thorities of that place desire to convert Geo. P. Gifford, Jr.’s property into a cattle pound, but that George proposes to circum- vent them by turning the property into a frog farm. A Ludington paper thus records an im- portant visitation to that place: ‘‘Geo. P. Gifford, Jr., of Grand Rapids, was in this town last week, looking after his property interests. Mr. Gifford has already begun important improvements and, we believe, contemplates further investment.” C. E. Cones, formerly on the road in this State for S. W. Venable & Co., but more recently engaged in the real estate business at Meade Center, Kansas, has removed to Springfield, Col., where he has taken the position of vice-president of the Bank of Springfield. Mr.. Cones’ many friends among the trade wilh be pleased to learn of his good fortune. —————_2 a ___—_— The Various Kinds of Vinegar. There are good vinegars in the market. There are also those which are indifferent, bad and very bad. common. ‘The best and most wholesome These retain suggestions of the apples and grapes from which they originally came. If care- fully kept they remain palatable for an in- definite period; if carelessly, they, like every good food substance, are apt to be- come mouldy and unwholesome. From a gastronomic stand-point, the best vinegar is that which is made from red wine; next to it are those made from white wine, elder and perry. The first is invaluable in salad dressing, on account of its beautiful color; the second is most useful in those prepara- tions where no color at all is desired; the third is available for all general use, and the last comes to the front whenever the delicious jargonelle flavor is conducive to the culinary success. Below this first class are the vinegars made from ale, beer and whisky. These are coarse, heavy, and often offensive. They never, except in the ease of whisky, are made purposely, but represent the desire of some brewer or dis- tiller to utilize goods which have been ruined by careless treatment, and which would otherwise prove a total loss. The ale that sours in the barrels and hogsheads, the beer that begins to putrify in the vaults, and the wretched whisky which is so full of fusel oils that no dealer, not even the lowest, will purchase it at any price, are the raw materials from which this class of vinegars is made. They cannot be said to be in- jurious, but they are simply mere apologies for the real article. A malt vinegar is made from mashed malt without distillation, but by simply allowing the sugar fermentation to go to an acetic fermentation. Below the grade of whisky vinegar are the vinegars made inthe laboratory by chemical pro- cesses, and especially by the destructive distillation of wood. Unless skillfully re- fined and purified they contain creosote, wood tar, and other products of the same class, all of which are injurious, many of which are poisonous and some of which are fatal to the user. They have one advantage, and only one, they are cheap. genuine vinegar that myrbane oil does to bitter almonds, glucose to pure sugar, sweetened dilute oil of vitriol to lemonade, and. lard oleomargarine to fresh creamery butter. oe Oe The Challenge Accepted. GRAND RApIps, June 1, 1888. Cc. C. Herrick, City: DEAR Srr—We, the undersigned em- ployes of jobbing houses, do hereby accept the challenge of the retail grocery clerks to play a match game of ball at Reed’s Lake on June 18. F. Aldrich. A. Wickom.. R. Parmenter. “Joe F. O. Reed leaves on gJuly 1 for a| four weeks’ visit with friends in lowa and The latter are the most They bear the same relation to ¢ athe First, that I sho ea NU field of practical, perhaps business life, who are eager for the first step and ready to welcome the first prophet and follow his teaching; recognizing the great obligation and responsibility for the first time upon me, I hesitated. Second, from my youth up somehow I have been impressed with the idea, owing perhaps to my education, or lack of it, that high schools and colleges held only young men and women in prepar- ation for a professional, literary, scientific, or an easy, unaccustomed-to-hard-knocks, kind of life, and that the boys and girls of aless favored condition were found on the outskirts, in shops, offices, or base- ments, struggling against many an obstacle, but slowly developing into business men or women, having no teacher but the best of all teachers, experience. With this class of boys and girls I have had most to do. Now, too little learning places a young man or woman in an unenviable position. “Much learning doth make thee mad,” said Festus. So too much of the academic and collegiate makes, not madmen, but machine men, incapable of making a success until they have forgotten much. Now, when this invitation came to me to say a few words from a business stand-point, I at once recognized, not only a fitting oc- casion for the statement of a few plain truths, but the growing sentiment, in school and out, for practical knowledge, for a use- ful, rather than a beautiful, education; for an educatiyn to fit men and women for ac- tion in the departments of life which young men and young women are supposed to enter; for an education for the man or woman, rather than aman or woman for the education. We recognize in_ this a breaking up of the old lines of educational theory. We find that a good education is not incompatible with our best business in- terests; neither do we find that a literary, scientific, agricultural, mechanical or bus- iness life suffers from a good degree of that class of education sometimes called worldly (or better, world-wide) business education. It is this latter that many of you are now interested in. We are all in-a measure theorists. School or young life, no more than congressional or many another, is somewhat theoretical. Theories for reducing the surplus in the treasury are most vehemently advocated that in the light of business sense, and upon experiment, would prove to the world that a practical business mind, a good finan- cier only, was able to direct the affairs of the nation aright. Our commercial pros- perity is due to a wise application of good business rules, the result of experience, and men of such education are the ones who are managing local or state affairs to-day; such we want. We have come to ask and to weigh every proposed scheme calculated for the better- ment of our condition in the scales of bus- iness—is it wise? is it practical? is it right ? is it business ? A good business man or woman to-day outranks a theoretical crank on any sub- ject you can name, and a man of keen per- ceptions, intelligent, observing, systematic, cosmopolitan in manner, energetic and ster- ling in character, self-made, commands the esteem of all men, whether in local caucus or legislative halls. The term ‘‘business man” should and is becoming a synonym for square dealing, honor, justice and high morals. He is not a good business man who drives sharp bargains, opposes his clients, captures bank notes and bonds, and skips to Canada. Good business is not to corner the wheat market and compel any man to buy dear bread. Good business is not to capture and monopolize the product fof our mines or soil and enrich a few at the fexpense of the masses. These men are sometimes called-smart men, but the world is too far advanced in morals to attach any merit to that kindof business. I might say right here that character is the basis for all business men, fot these~ are days when young men and women are subject to strong temptations. . A gentleman with whom I was talking the other day regarding a firm in Grand Rapids, said, ‘‘Their business is as solid as arock.” They are men of principle and adhere to it, and such business houses are seeking men and women of sterling worth, first, last, and all the time. ‘‘Charity cov- ereth a multitude of sins;” so trustworthi- ness covers many little incapabilities, little errors of head and hand; so long as an em- ployer can say, ‘I can trust that man or woman,” so long a place is waiting his or her wishes. You of the graduating class are about to enter upon a new life; a life of business. Plans and theories you have; but your good professor is not the gentleman I have taken him to be, to allow, neither will your bus- iness talent permit, you to dwell long upon speculation as to what you shall do in this life and how you willdoit. You will allow not one hour to pass without putting your hand or brain to some kind of labor. You young men and women have walked thus far in life together, each. pursuing the same object. Each has won the prize—an education. Each has accumulated a cap- ital which is now awaiting investment. The young man is to invest his capital in some business that it may continually grow and yield larger dividends. Society demands it; his growing wants demand it; his love for position and honor urges him on to con- stantly new and broader fields; continually mingling with business men, he is daily and hourly accumulating strength and cap- ital; such demands are constantly upon him. The career of young women too often ends where the young man only enters his. But her field is broadening every day, and now a business education for a woman is almost in equal demand. Some of you are anticipating a business of some kind. Too many, for want of a ‘‘sphere,” retrograde from the day of graduating, as many men do, and many more would under the same conditions. ‘There is no excuse for such. There was never a time when a well-dis- ciplined, intelligent, accomplished woman -| was in greater demand than to-day. Many a woman moulds and shapes the financial course of men whose business would end in ruin, enly for them. Business men have the greatest respect for a young woman or a young man who works, and the person who shrinks from it will neither enioy or make a success of life. When idleness takes possession of a man or woman, fail- ure commences. Go to work, that’s bus- iness, and the world will see that you hould face a nt ber of young men and women who are about to enter a ‘wholesale. tend with youn | for a mercantile career who had no more talent for it than he had for an artist’s life. ‘Mathews says, ‘‘The only true method is to adapt the cultivation to the nature of the soil.” Again, ‘‘Our wishes are presenti- ments of our capabilities.” Both are good maxims and encouraging ones. There are three alluring evils—stumbling ee the selection of any work. st. able life” that is a sort of a kid glove kind of life. 2nd. A desire for an ‘‘easy life.” 8rd. 0 ___ How to Handle Pickles in the Summer. A leading pickle house issues the follow- ing circular to the trade: Every dealer will acknowledge the im- portance of having his goods in a perfectly fresh condition, as his profits depend di- rectly on their appearance and condition. A few hints as to the proper and most prof- itable manner of handling tiiem will not come amiss. Keep your pickles in your cellar or some equally cool place, if possible. You will probably say, in reply, ‘‘I cannot run to the cellar every time a customer wants a dozen of pickles.” .. We would suggest as a rem- edy that you keep a jaror stone crock of them on your counter, always taking care to keep the pickles well covered with vin- egar. Keep the barrel well covered to exclude insects, air, etc., and place a coarse cloth on the pickles, inside of the barrel, and rinse it with fresh water occasionally. Always keep the pickles well covered with vinegar, never leaving them dry or exposed to the air, even for a short time. Preserves, jellies and fruit butters should also be kept in a cool place, never where the sun or hot air will strike them, thereby pre- serving both their fresh appearance and in- suring the necessary moisture to retain their proper consistency. If : these precautions are observed ely inc: , as people will soon learn nd in : ily to con- s0ple who were posing A desire for a so-called ‘‘respect-| you will find your sales very fer- Jn Sour dealex toed tes or perso: ig that dele to attend the Minneapolis convention can. | their tickets here for Chicago via C. & W. for one fare for the round trip (good from 16th to 23d), which is $5.45. They must leave h not later than Sunday night, as the train for Minneapolis leaves Chicago at 8 o’clock, M day morning, the 18th. e fare from Chicago is $7.50 for the round trip, with Pullman cars: No charge for meals en route. were Yours truly, GEO. F. OwEN. ——~>- -e- : This Year’s Directory. R. L. Polk & Co. have done themselves proud in their Grand Rapids Directory for 1888. Compared with the issue of the previous year, it shows a gain of from 905 to 1,040 pages exclusive of the county di- rectory, which covers 175 additional pages. The volume bears evidence of careful com- pilation and is acredit to the city whose people it purports to represent. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. FOR SALE. OR SALE—A WELL-SELECTED STOCK OF DRY : Goods and Groccries in a thriving town of 1,000 inhabitants. Two railroads, good trade, good society, everything that is desirable. Stock will invoice $2,000 to $2,500. Going out of business my reason for selling. sees H., care of Michigan Tradesman, Grand Rap- ids. 230 OR SALE—HARDWARE STOCK OF WILLIAMS & Wheeler, Ludington, Mich. Invoice $2,600; good location; will be sold at a bargain. Harlin Aldrich, Assignee. 234 OR SALE OR TRADE—FIVE ACRES OF GOOD __ brick land, boiler and engine, tile and brick ma- chine and all equipment necessary to make brick and tile. Address O. F. Conklin, Grand Rapids, or R. D. McNaughton, Coopersville, Mich, 233 OR SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES AND CROCK- ery occupying a fine store room in one of the ee locations in the city. J. Henry Allen, Rockford, Ss. 224 OR RENT OR SALE—ONE-HALF OR THE WHOLE _of new grist mill, full roller process, 100-barrel ca- pacity, in first-class location, on easy terms. W. F. Cowham, Jackson, Mich. OR SALE—GENERAL STOCK, GOOD TRADE, LONG or short time. A bargain forsome one. Must Want to goSouth. Address Box 12, Grandville, 226 Address 231 sell. Mich. OR SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF MY husband, I offer for sale the grocery and tea busi- ness at 89 Canal street. Stock will not inventory over $2,500. Apply to Mrs. E. M. White, atabove address. 227 OR SALE—OR EXCHANGE FOR LUMBER AND __. shingles, an 18 x 24 inch horizontal Wallen engine with fly wheel 8 feet diameter; boiler 6 feet diameter by 12 feet long, 109 3inch fiues, with heater, hot and cold water pumps.° Everything complete and ready for use. A bargain for some one. Enquire of T. C. Broadbent, Box 394. Ovid, Mich. 221 OR SALE—A COMPLETE SAW MILL PLANT FOR _ one-quarter of what it cost three years ago. Ca- pacity, 50,000 per day. Will take part pay in lumber. G. 8S. Wormer, 57 Woodbridge St., West, Detroit, Mich. OR SALE—THE DRESS OF TYPE NOW USED ON “The Tradesman’’—600 pounds of brevier and 200 pounds of nonpareil. purchaser. NOR SALE—AT A BARGAIN. A CLEAN STOCK OF hardware and mill supplies. Address Wayne Choate, Agent, East Saginaw. 207 OR SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF DRUGS, FIXTURES, _. ete., complete, on good line of railway, about 35 miles north of Grand Rapids. No paints or oils, but could be added to good advantage. Poor health and other business my only reasons for selling. No. 116 care Tradesman office. 2 OR SALE—FRUIT FARM OF 73g ACRES, LOCATED in Spring Lake. Ten minutes walk from post- office. Pleasant place. Nice buildings. Will sell on long time or exchange for stock of any kind of mer- chandise. Place is valued at $3,000, will take $2,000 for it. Address 8. A. Howey, North Muskegon, Mich. 208 WANTS. V ANTED—A GRIST MILL AT CONKLIN, SITUATED rY inone of the best grain producing districts in Michigan. Located on Grand Rapids & Indiana Rai}- road, both Grand Rapids and Muskegon markets are easy of access. Right party will get site and $1,000 bo- nus. Address John Sehler, Grand Rapids, or Henry Miller, Conklin. 232 V ANTED—LADY AGENTS FOR THE MME. WIL- y liamson Corset. It sells at once; good satisfac- tion. Liberal terms and good territory. Williamson Corset & Brace Co., 18S. Sixth St., St. Louis, Mo. 22! V JANTED—A MAN FAMILIAR WITH THE PROVIS- ion business to travel on the G.R. & I. R.R. An- swer 222, care Michigan Tradesman. 222 Wee FIRST-CLASS GROCERYMAN IN THE most thriving city on Lake Superior—married man with best of references. TRADESMAN office. V ANTED—SITUATION BY A REGISTERED PHAR- macist. Seven years’ experience. Best of refer- ences. Address lock box No. 37, Midland, Mich. 212 ANTED—EVERY STORE-KEEPER WHO READS : this paper to give the Sutliff coupon system a trial. It will abolish your pass books, do away with all your book-keeping, in many instances save you the expense of one clerk, will bring your business down to a cash basis and save you all the worry and trouble that usually go with the pass-book plan. Start the 1st of the month with the new system and you will never regret it. Having two kinds, both kinds willbe sent by addressing (mentioning this paper) J. H. Sutliff, Albany, N. Y. 213 V ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 4 MISCELLANEOUS. 1 20C€ CASH BUYS. MANUFACTURING BUSI- 9 _ hess paying 100 per cent. Best of rea- sons‘ for selling. Address Chas. Kynoch, St. Ignace, Mich. 228 O EXCHANGE — MERCHANDISE WANTED FOR land. What have you? Correspondence solicited. G. W. Langford, Eylar, Ill. 223 GENTS WANTED. EVERYWHERE. THREE NEW articles just out. Big money. Exclusive terri- tory. Inclose stamp for particulars. Samples of all three 35 cents. Address Swineburne & Co., Manufac- turers, LaCrosse, Wis. . 216 « BUCKWHEAY I have a Choice Lot of Buck- wheat for Seeding purposes, of the SILVER HULL and GRAY- varieties, that I offer to the Trade at $lperbu. . Bags, extra, 18c. each. In lots of 5bags at a time I will deliver free to cars. Less A good bargain will be given 206 Address ‘“D,’’ care than that amount, cartage will be charged. oe W. Y, LAMORBAUX, 71 Canal St., Grand Rapids. - WARRANTED T0'BE 1 FINEST and LARGE mn anaes W. Milliken, Trav- cme eae Creek; Wm. Rebec, B. Blain, | Lowell; E.-Y. 3.0. M. roel Chebo: U and ‘Loan aapomanons—¥. L. ort; 8. E. Parkill, Owosso; Will Em- Eee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. following auxiliary associations are op- ng under charters granted by the Michi- Business Men’ 's Association: No. 1—Traverse City B. M. A. President, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts. 2 "No. 2—Lowell BK. M. A. President, N. =. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King. o. 3—Sturgis B. M.A. ‘President, H. 2 “Ghureh; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. - No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A. President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. No, 5—Muskegon B. M. A. : President, H. B. Fargo; Secretary, Wm. Peer. Noi G—Alba &. M. A. President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin. No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A. ~ President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger. . 8—Eastport B. M. A. : No ° President, F. H. ‘Thurston; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston. — ? . 9—Lawrence B. M. A. No : ee H. M. Marshall; Secretary, C. A. Stebbins. o. 10—Harbor springs B. M, A. President, ow. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson. a No.11—Kingsley B. M. A. es, P. Whipple; Secretary, C. H. Camp. o. 12—Quincy B. M. A. ey ‘President, Cc. ar Secretary, Thos. Lennon. No. 13—Sherman B. M. A. $ President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin. ; "No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A. President, 8. A. Howey: Secretary, G. C. Havens. No. 15—Boyne City B. M. A. - President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase. No. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A. President, J. V. Crandall: Secretary, W. Rasco. No. 17—Plainwell B. M. A. President, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle. No. 18—Owosso B. M, A. . President, 8. E. Parkill; Secretary, 8. Lamfrom. No. 19—Ada B. M. A. President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel. No. 20—Saugatuck B. M. A. President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps. No. 21— Wayland B. M. A. President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt. No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M.A Fersitent = B. Schumacher; Secretary, W. R. Clarke. 23—Carson City B. M. A. - President, 7 A Pu clion: Secretary, C. G. Bailey. No. 24—Morley B. M. A. President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W. H. Richmond. No. 25—Palo BK. M. A. ‘President, Cha: Chas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. D. Pew. No. 26—Greenville I. M. A. President. S. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell. No. 27—Dorr B. M. A. President, E. 8. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher. No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A President, J. H. Tuttle; Secretary, H. G. oe No. 29—Freeport B. M President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. ee cccpaasth. No. 30—Oceana B. M. A. President, A. G. Avery; Secretary, E. 8S. Hqughtaling. No. 31—Charlotte B. M. A. President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury. No. 32—Coopersville B. M. A. President, G. “w. oe: Secretary, @ B. Watson. No. 33—Charlevoix 8. M. A. President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane. No. 34—Saranac B. M. A. President, H. T: Johnson; Secretary, P. T. Williams. No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A. President, Wm. J. Nixon; Secretary, C. E. Densmore. No. 36—Ithaca B. M. As President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden. = No, 37—Battle Creek B. M.A President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, W. F. Baxter. “ No. 38—Scottville B. M. A. President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins. No. 39—Burr Oak B. M. A. President, W. 8. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon. No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A. President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Chas. Coller. No. 41—Breckenridge B. M. A. President, W. 0. Watson; Secretary, C. E. Scudder. No. 42—Fremont B. M. A. Président. Jos. Gerber; Secretary C. J. Rathbun. No. 43—Tustin B. M. A. President, G. A. Estes; Secretary,W. M. Holmes. No. 44—Reed City B. M. A. President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W- H. Smith. No. 45—Hoytville B. M. A. President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay. No. 46—Leslie B. M. A. . President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould. No. 47—Flint M. U. President, G. R. Hoyt; Secretary, W. H. Graham. No. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A. President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor. No. 49—Leroy B. M. A. President, A. Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith. No. 50—Manistee B. M. A. President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary, J. P. O’Malley. No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A. _ President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon. No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A. President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, Wm. Mieras. No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A. President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, John H. York. No, 54—Douglas B. M. A. President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller. No. 55—Peteskey B. M. A. President, Cc. F. Hankey; Secretary, A. C. Bowman. No. 56—Bangor B. M. A. President, z: W. Drake; Secretary, T. M. Harvey. o. 5%7—Rockford B. M, A. »President, ayer: G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham. - No. 58—Fife Lake B. M. A. President, EK. Hagadorn; Secretary, E. C. Brower. No. 59—Fennville B. M.A. - President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, P. 8. Swarts. No, 60—South Boardman B. M. A. . President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt. . 61—Hartford B. M. A. ; No - President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes. No. 62—Kast saginaw M. A. Exeeient, G. w. Meyer; Secretary, Theo. Kadish. No. 63—Evart B. M. A. President, % M. Davis; Secretary, C. E. Bell. o, 64—Merrill B. M. A- | President, oy W. "Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton. No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A. - President, Jas. Crawford; Secretary, C. S. Blom. : No. 66—Lansing B. M. A. é : “President, Frank Wells; Secretary, W. E. Crotty. 2 No. 67—Watervliet B. M. A. President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall. ~~ No. 68—Allegan B. M. A. President, A. E. Calkins; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand. No, 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison. No. 70—Nashville Bb. M. A, Presiacut, H: M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers. No. 71—Ashley B. M. A, ‘President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck. No. 72—Edmore B. M. A. : No, 73—Belding B. M. A. ‘President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster. «No. 74—Tecumseh B. M. A. ! if Osear P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus. No. 75—Davison B. M. A. J. F. Cartwright; ‘Secretary. L. Gifford. : : Aileewa: ' granted; ee Seeking New Locations. AN ORDINANCE—Relating to, ‘alk regu- lating the sale of milk, meats, fish’ and other provisions and ‘articles of food in ‘the city of Grand Rapids, and to provide for inspection thereof. Srecrion 1. The Common Council of the city of Grand Rapids do ordain as follows: On the first Monday of May in each year, or within twenty days thereafter, and whenever a vacancy shall occur, and within thirty days after the passage and publica- tion of this ordinance, it shall be the duty of the board of health of the city of Grand Rapids to nominate to the Common Council thereof such number of inspectors of milk, meats, fish and other provisions used for food as said boaré shall deem necessary, not exceeding three, which said inspectors | shall{ be appointed by and with the advice and consent of a majerity of the members of the Common Council elect thereto, and shall hold office until the first Monday in May next following such appointment, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed for causes shown to said Common Council by said board of health. Such inspector or inspectors shall receive such compensation as the Common Council shall prescribe. The board of health shall have power, and it shall be their duty to prescribe the duties of said inspector or in- spectors relative to the inspection of milk, meats, fish, and all other provisions used for food in the city of Grand Rapids, and exposed or offered for sale therein, subject to the provisions of this ordinance, and. the health laws of the State of Michigan; and whenever said inspector or inspectors shall find any article or substance used for food as above mentioned, and exposed or offered for sale, in an unfit, unsound, diseased, or unwholesome condition, he or they shall seize the same and make immediate report thereof to the health officer of said board of health; and it shall be the duty of said health officer to cause the offender or offend- ers to be prosecuted for a violation of any ordinance of said city in relation thereto. Src. 2. No person, firm or association shall peddle milk, meats, er fish in the city of Grand Rapids, nor shall any dealers, venders or their agents, or employes, ex- pose for sale, or sell the same from vehicles, stores or any other places in the city of Grand Rapids without first having procured a license therefor from the Common Council of said city; the fee for said license to be paid by the persons, firm or association aforesaid shall be _ pre- scribed by the Common Council, but shall not exceed the sum of ten dollars. Sec. 3. No license shall be granted under the provisions of section two of this ordinance to sell or peddle milk in the city of Grand Rapids except upon the written recommendation of the board of health of said city. Sec. 4. No person shall sell or offer for sale in the city of Grand Rapids any milk that is adulterated with any foreign sub- stance or diluted or reduced with water, or any milk known as “‘skimmed milk,” or keep back any part of the milk known as *‘strippings,” with intent to defraud, with- out first having inf@ymed the purchaser thereof; nor shall any person sell or offer for sale in said city milk from cows fed on malt or refuse from breweries or distilleries, or any fermented food, or any substance that is deleterious to the milk and to health. Nor shall any person sell or offer for sale in said city any milk from asick or dis- eased cow, or any milk drawn from a cow less than one week after the birth of her last calf. Nor shall any person sell or offer for sale any milk in said city, unless the cow .or cows from which the same is drawn shall have been, and are kept at the time of drawing. the same, in stables, yards or premises in a cleanly and wholesome condition, nor unless the pails, cans, and other articles used for storing milk or keep- ing the same for sale, shall be clean, pure, and wholesome, and kept in that condition. And all persons selling or offering for sale milk in the city of Grand Kapids shall comply with the rules and regulations which the board of health may make in relation thereto. SEc. 5. All licenses granted under the provisions of this ordinance shall be signed by the mayor and the city clerk upon pay- ment to the e@erk of fifty cents for each license, and the amount of license fee fixed by the Common Council, which shall be graduated in each case by the number of cows kept, and Shall not exceed fifty cents for each cow per year; but in no case shall such license fee be fixed ata greater sum than the maximum amount mentioned in section two of this ordinance. Provided, however, that persons residing within the limits of the city-of Grand Rapids owning a single cow therein and selling milk there- from, shall receive a license without the payment of any fee by conforming to the requirements of section three of this ordi- nance. Each license granted as aforesaid shall contain the name in full and address ef the person or persons to whom it is shall state the number of cows from which milk is to be sold, and where kept, and shall be numbered, and a record thereof shall be kept by the city clerk at { his office. Sec. 6. The name and license number of each person to whom a license is issued shall-be painted in plain letters of sufficient size to be easily seen and read at a distance of sixty feet therefrom, and placed in a conspicuous place on every vehicle used by such person or his agent in distributing milk through said city, and upon all houses or places where the same may be kept for sale by the holder of such license. Src. 7. Any person who shall sell or offer for sale, or cause to be sold, or shall bring or cause to be brought into the city of Grand Rapids, any substance or article used for food that is unwholesome, or that has been handled or drawn by one laboring under.a contagious or infectious disease, or by any person whose clothing or person is infected with such disease, or shall sell or offer for sale in said city, or shall bring or |. cause to be brought into said city any milk or other like article used for food, which has stood in a room occupied by one afflicted ‘| with such disease, or in a room adjacent thereto, or in a room that has not been properly by disinfected after being thus occu-. tee or that has yen ‘stored in cars or vessels that dled. “any person to ‘whom ‘sale ‘may be| v ‘made by such person. — ‘Sec. 9. All persons who shall sell. or offer for sale milk inthe city of Grand Rapids shall sell to any inspector, officer, employe or member of the board of health on demand one quart or more of milk on tender of the market price thereof, for analysis, Src. 10. The board of health is hereby authorized to employ a competent chemist to apalyze any specimen of milk brought into said city for sale therein, whenever such analysis shall to said board seem necessary. Sec. 11. No person, company or corpor- ation shall bring or cause to be brought into the city of Grand Rapids any diseased ani- mal, or any diseased or unwholesome meat, fish or fow! of any kind. SEc. 12. No person shall sell or offer for sale in the city of Grand Rapids any calf alive or butchered to be used for food under the age of four weeks. — Sec. 13. Any person or persons who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dol- lars, nor more than fifty dollars and costs of prosecution. And in default of the pay- ment thereof, the offender may be sentenced to be imprisoned at hard labor in the jail of the county of Kentor in any jail, work- house, or lockup of said city, until the pay- ment of such fine ond ‘costs, but for a period of not exceeding sixty days. so ____—— Association Notes. Now is the time for the local associations to begin thinking about a summer holiday. The picnic was a source of great good to those as- sociations which indulged in it last season. Hudson Gazette: President John Newell, of the Lake Shore Railroad, writes the Secretary of the Business Men’s Association that ‘the proposed new station at Hudson will be con structed this season. Plans are being pre- pared, and the work will be begun as soon as they are finished and the contracts can be made.”’ Owosso Times: The Business Men’s Associa- tion, at its meeting on Thursday evening of last week, elected the following officers : Pres- ident, H. W. Parker; Vice-President, E. L. Brewer; Secretary, S. Lamfrom; Treasurer, Ira G. Curry; Executiye Committee, Presi dent, Secretary, D. Burhans and C. E. Shat- tuck. Manistee Democrat: The Business Men’s As- sociation met Friday evening and appointed Messrs. A. O. Wheeler, C.D. Gardner and W. H. Willard a committee to get up a Fourth of July celebration. The Committee has been doing good work and has quite a large sum al- ready subscribed for the purpose. An inter- esting programme of horse races, base _ ball, foot races, fire works and other things will be prepared. A special meeting of the Associa- tion will be held Friday night to appoint fur- ther committees. Let every one attend and help on the good work. Plainweil Independent : Plainwell has an op- portunity of securing a small manufacturing enterprise simply by placing a small amount of money in the business. The Business Men’s Association will try to interest our people in the project, and it is suggested a combination with the Ives factory would be feasible. Itis growing apparent to nearly all of our people that manufacturing is a necessity to the fut- ure growth of the town; infact, employment must be furnished to the pcople now here or else they will be forced to seek it elsewhere. Some of our progressive business men ex- press their willingness to give a bonus of $1 each per hand employed to any concern that will start up here. If there are 100 men in Plainwell likeminded, a factory employing twenty-five hands would get a bonusof $2,500; and an institution using 100 men would receive $10,000 bonus. —_— => a Grand Rapids Mercantile Association. At the regular semi-monthly meeting of the Grand Rapids Mercantile Association, held on June 5, F.L. Blake & Son, grocers on South Division street, and Fred A. Rice, grocer on Wealthy avenue, were elected to membership in the Association. J. Geo. Lehman, chairman of the Entertain- ment Committee, reported in favor of holding the second annual picnic on Thursday, June 14. Owing to the fact that the date named conflicted with the pay-day of the G. R. & I. Railroad, B. S. Harris moved that the pic- nic be held on Monday, June 18, which was adopted. The Committee outlined the programme it was proposed to observe on the occasion of the picnic, which was aecepted and adopted. It was resolved to close all the stores at noon the day of the picnic, and the Committee was voted $100 to meet the necessary expenses at- tending the en ertainment. ; A considerable discussion followed on the desirability of maintaining the agreement not to return berry packages to the growers, the sentiment seeming to indicate that the agree- ment would be rigidly lived up to unless there should be a package famine late in the season. The Secretary was instructed to write all the package manufacturers in the fruit belt, ask- ing them to arrange to keep on hand an extra large supply. Association on the subject, when the meeting adjourned. Oo Good Report from the Nashville Asso- ciation. NASHVILLE, June 5, 1888.4 E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: ao Srr—I take pleasure in reporting the B. M. A. of Nashville in a fine condition. We hear it well spoken of by outsiders, who are beginning to understand thatit is an Associa- tion designed not only to benefit its members but the community at large. The Williams Fruit Evaporator Co. has re- cently shipped four car loads of evaporators to California and has prospects of good bus- iness in Michigan this season, by reason of a short crop of apples in New York State. This corporation is composed of gentlemen of push and they are meeting with merited success. Respectfully, W.S. POWERS. Oo The Rates on Nails. As a majority of our readers are probably aware, the nail manufacturers west of the Alleghanies adopted a new card rate to take effect June 1st, the base of which was 20d to 60d instead of 10d to 60d, the base of the old card. A communication was received: by the Western Association from the Eastern Association, Hage id ; | for Ives’, , old style..... ie ee Seees NHC. Co" Sats Alfred J. Brown addressed the’ ese pri re for cash buyers, promptly and ee in full packages. AUGERS AND BITS, eee Jennings’ genuine. eee ie ae. ce Jennings’, imitation.......... BALANCES. Spring. : 2... 3, Siac oy eQU8 BARROWS. Raion 2. oeene O14 00 Garden... se Me cee ...net 33 00 BELLS. Hand : (oes deel eesy ee ees dis $ encase Cow di s0e5 25 60&10 a £ OONe ee uid Door, Sargent... . 0... ..227 i: dis BOLTS. BLOVO oe a ee or es dis $ 0 Carriage new list.............. eee Gis 76&10 Plow AN di 50 Sleigh Shoe..... Wrought Barrel Bolts... Cast Barrel Bolts..................... dis Cast Barrel, brass knobs............. ais Cast Square Spring................... dis Cast Chain 05 re dis Wrought Barrel, brass knon:... 2.025 dis Wrought Square Sooner seen Sc cue a Wrought Sunk Flush................. Wrought Bronze and Plated ian ush dis 60&10 dis 60&10 BRACES. Barber Petrino eee dis $ 40 BAOLUMS foes ee a dis 50&10 BpOord. oie. cea ee dis 50 PAT BOB ioe .dis Well pi BUCKETS. OU Pig es oe eee oe SS ee 3 50 Well, SWAVCl oe a - 4 00 BUTTS, caer Cast Loose Pin, figured..:............ dis Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint..dis Wrought Loose Pin.................. dis Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis 60& 5 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned... ete dis 60& 5 Waonehs Loose Pin, japanned, silvez tippe dis 60& 5 wait ERD LOO ods ce sence aed dis 60&10 Wrought Inside Blind................ dis 60&10 Wrought Brass. ..0 0202... oc... dis 15 Blind, Clark's... 0... 5 oso. 5s. -.dis %0&10 Blind, PPATKOYM As 60660. ee oe oo dis %0&10 Blind, Shepard’s:........:,.). wee ale bats dis %0 CAPS. My S 110s ee eae: Hick’s C. F net 70& 70& 60& 60&10 60810 .-.--per m $ 65 . 60 CATRIDGES. Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list....50 Rim Fire, United States............ weecee sGi850 Central Fire..... Des ite oe ea oe -dis25 CHISELS. Socket Wirmer.. 2.0606 o..5 ee cok. dis Socket Framing... 0... e cc cc che, dis Socket Comers... 6... dis SOCKEL SICKER: 652.2 essai dis Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis OIG ee net COMBS. Curry, Lawrence’s..... Baa is ape dis 40&10 TIOCCHIZISS 22 eee ie Bo dis COCKS. pee TRA CKIN 6 eo. aad 70&10 70&10 70&10 70&10 40 20 COPPER. Planished, 14 oz cut to size.............. 2 Ib 14x52, 14x56, 14 x : Cold Rolled, TAKS oe TOULOMIS oo ite. chee es foes on eo DRILLS Morse’s Bit Stock........4...00....... dis Taper and Straight Shank............ dis Morse’s Taper Shank.....:........... dis ELBOWS. Com. 4 piece, 6 in.................. doznet $.%5 Corrugated............020. dicen cs. dis20&10) &0 AGIUIStADIE . 255 ioe giao. pies o. oe 5 dis 4&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26.00. dis 30 Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00. dis 25 "WILES—Ne ew List. American File Association List...... dis MOISSEOMIS) oo se ok oss dis New American... .. 2.00.62. . 05 3. dis Nicholson’s................ Foss Lies aa dis HIOUONIS ore ee ieee oes ee dis Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis GALVANIZED IRON, Nos.16to20, 22and 24, 25and 26, 27 List 12 13 14 15 Discount, 60. UGES. Stanley Rule and Bevel COB. io. 6i: dis HAMMERS. Pace SCOP R oe ees ou ee dis MIDS ee eo es ees cs dis Yeorkes & Plumb’)... 6605.0 ccs8 ss dis “sid Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 50 Blacksmith’s Solid pets cee Hand. “30 ¢ c 40&10 Barn Door KidderMte.¢ Con “Wood track 50&10 Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 60&10 Kidder, wood track............ Sec ce QS 40 HINGES. ete, Clarkes. Bo. occa ees: dis tate B iisis ceive basil same ec ae ce per aoe pe 2 0 eee Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 1 and 10nger ee ee ok Uae Screw Hook and Eye, We eke net Screw Hook and Eye %..............net Screw Hook and Eye X.............. net Screw Hook and Hye, %............. net Strap and Te ese eas dis HOLLOW WARE. POSS re ee ee ec sa ied Kettles .. Spiders ......... Gray enameled... oo... es bees. oe HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Stamped Tin Ware.............. new list Japanned Tin Ware..............0-c0005 Granite Iron Ware..............0..cs000 HOES. Grob le $11 00, dis 60 Gib 2.5. i ee 11 50, dis 60 Grub 82.2 soso eo ee * 12 00, dis 60 KNOBS—NEW LIST. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....... dis Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........ Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..... Door, porcelain, trimmings Drawer and Shutter, ee. cencaGl Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s : HIOMACIO o.oo soe oe as eae dis LOCKS—DOOR. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’ 8 new list. .dis Be Wheeler & Co.’s............° dis ri ORR oo a ee: dis NOPwalk’S cise se cose css yarn dis VELS. Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s... 3.3... 2: ... dis MATTOCKS. BOZO TVG oo ins ke ceva veces $16 00 dis Hunt HYG. 3. eco ee a $15 00 dis 0 POG Sooo ce oes eas $18 50 dis 20 & 9 55 hd 3) 5d 70 40&10 Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled ieee dis 50 MILLS. Coffee, Parker8 C0.’8.........00cccce cc eees ae 40 Coffee, P.S.& W.Mfg. Co. ee Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’ Coffee, Enterprise............2..-.00-00-s dis 25- MOLASSES GATES. Stebbin’s Pattern .................... dis Stebbin’s Genuine...... ............. dis Enterprise, self-measuring.......... dis NAILS —TRON. Common, Brad and Fencing. 10d to 60d........... Sees Gee cates # keg $2 . 8d and 9d adv..... Boe eee iain obanue eae s 6G ANG TA GAV «6s cece ca Sects eee ias. 4d and 64: 8dV... 25-65 ee ok oes eo 3d advance................ Syieisen soca Seas 3d fine advance...... SSUES Ree Clinch nails, adv...... bees ee heen e ear Finishin: ‘ 10d 8a 6a 4d Size—inches { 3 2% 2 1% Adv. * 150 1%5 2 00 Steel Zine or tin. | Zine, with brass bottom...... as Brass or Copper............. ae $12 ‘ || Reaper... ceettersns sss DO Bro ne! keg ails—2 who. pay ZS 60:| Gimp'and Lace...............0.00.0.. dis [@herry: cwlko 2 2. Le Ghase’sPatent.°.. oo gO cei ANISAED IRON : Wood's tent planished, Nos. 24 t921 10 = : Wood's 8 pat. planished, Nos. 25 to27 9 roken gouges %e 8 D extra. ROPES. Sil, ,% in. and large Deel ee ease ae Saree Steel and Iron..... 2 i eeeeaciei eke dis 70&10 oe BOvOls. . 5 Ee: dis 60 TX eee ee ...dis SHEET IRON. Nos. 10 to 14 t¢ fom. Boon Nos. 15 to 17.........0020022. ee 27 3 35 Ail sheets No, 18 and lighter. over 2 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra. SHEET ZINC. In casks of 600 hs, 8 Db In smaller quansities, WO ee ACKS. American, all kinds. Bees ean Sealed Ss dis Steel, all kinds........... Be ee eee dis Swedes, SH kinds 2325.80 dis Ro aK Cigar Box Nails...................... dis Finishing Nails.............00...0.... ae res ane Hae Brads. dis ungarian Nails an ners’ Tacks. a Trunk and Clout Nails ‘ * : Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails....... dis Leathered Carpet Tacks TINNER’S SOLDER. No.1, Refined TIN PLATES. 10x14, Charcoal...... 10x14,Charcoal.. IC, 12x12, Charcoal. . 1D.¢ 12x12, Charcoal IC, 14x20, Charcoal IX, 14x20, Charcoal.. 14x20, Charcoal Ixx x, 14x20, Charcool.................2.. 1 IXxxX, 14x20, Charcoal... io... oe, 1 EX, 20x28, Charcoal SPOR ieee ee eo 1 DC, 100 Plate Charcoal ; DX, 100Plate Charcoal 9 10 DxXX. 1060 Plate Charcoal.................. a 10 DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal 10 Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 a 3 35 Rooting, 14x20, IC Roofing, 14x20, 1X Roofing, 20x28, NOs 12 00 Roofing, 20x28, EX ae. eee eo ale 15 CO TIN—LEADED. IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........ --. 6 0 IX, 14x26, choice Charcoal Terne.......... 7 50 IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........... 12 00 IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne......... 15 00 TRAPS. Steel Gamer. 7 60&10 Oneida Communtity, Newhouse’s dis 35 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. “60810 Hotchkiss’ 60&10 S, P. & W. Mfg. Go.’s Mouse, GHOKCR oo so 18¢ 8 doz Mouse, delusion..................... $1 50 # doz Bright Market aps rig OEKOU se dis 6 Annealed Market............. ....... dis : mais Copperéd Market....................... dis 62% ee paltae Reena ue cee ese dis 55 inne BEROE cee oo eae Pinned Broom. 002.2 “ep ar Tinned Mattress Coppered Spring Sieel eee eset ee we Tinned Spring Steel.................... dis soso Piain Fence 8 b IC, I SARKKKRS RES KRSSSSSSSSS HIM OOM OI oo It ped bet So 4 08 See. oe as Weice ue aa tae .8 2d copees Se een ee Ge conn new list net Yass. new list net WIRE GOODS. 70&10&10 70&10&10 70&10&10 (0&10&10 .. dis Gate Hooks and Eyes........... 2. dis WRENCHES. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled Coes Genuine. 0S dis Coe’s Ptent A Soule al, wrought, dis Coe’s Ptent, malleable 50 % T5RIC Bird Cages Pumps, @istern. 9. Gis - = Screws, new list Casters, Bed and Plate............. dissosaia0 Dampers, American .................... Forks, hoes, ae an all steel goods ..d a Copper Bottoms.. at HARDWOOD LUMBER. The furniture factories here pay as followe for dry stock, measured merchantable, mill culls out; Basswood, log-run................... 13 00@15 GO Birch, log-r Ee ee 15 v0@18 00 Birch, Nos. l and 2 @25 00 | Black Ash, log-run oe as 14 CO@I16 50 Cherry, log-run ee Sear sess es Cherry, Nos. 1! and 2 5 @10 Maple, log-run........... -. 12 QO@14 00 Maple, soft, log-run...... 0.0.0.0... 1) 0O@I3 00 Maple, Nos. lang 2.......,........... @20 00 Maple, clear, flooring................ @25 00 Maple, white, selected. .......... o. @25 V0 Red Oak, log-ruin...... 2... 2. ek, 18 00@20 00 Red Oak, Nos. }and2.... 2... .24 0025 Uv Red oe % sawed, 8in and upw a..40 00@45 00 Red Oak - resular. 2.0.05: 80 ~ 35 60 Red Oak, No. l,step piank.......... 25 00 Walnut. iog-run Beet a elie ete @ih Me Walnut, Nos. ! anid 2 @i5 00 Walnuts, Cuign ee - @25 00 Grey Elm. log-run : G13 00 White Ash. !ez-run 14 DO@!I6 50 Whitewood. !og-rin 20 VE22 OU White Oak, logaain 17 HOGHIS 0d ya GRAND RAPIDS (Mich.) KUSI- LG NESS COLLEGE. Write for ¢ al- lege Journal, Address, C. G. SWENSBSRi?. LACE to secure a thorough gf ss useful education is at the WINE, SEAMLESS LAGE FULL SOLR, Men’s $13. Women’s and Boys’, $11. Misses’ and Youths’ 89. = Child’s, $7.50. 2 per cent. 30 days. Russet Regular Every-Day Wigwams, Pull Sole Men’s, $10.50. Women’s and Boys’, $9. Misses’ and Youths’, $7.50. Child’s, $6.50. WITHOUT SOLE---Men’ s, $9.50. Women’s and Boy’s, $8.25. | Misses’ and Youths’, 86. 65. Child’s $5.50. Net 30 days. =| RIGH'S FULL SOLK, CHERRY WIGWAMS. i| Men's, $11.75. Ladies’, $10.25. Boys’, $10.25. Misses’, $9. Child’s, $8. 3 off 30 or 4 off 10 days. WOONSOCKET AND WALES-GOODYEAR RUBBERS, BOOTS, TENNIS SHOES IN FIRSTS G. R. MAYHEW, BOSTON KNIT AND WOOL AND SECONDS. Grand Rapids. RETAIL GROCERS Who wish to serve their Customers with GOOD COFFEE would do well to avoid Brands that require the support of Gift Schemes, Prize Prom- ises or Lottery Inducements. —SELL———_ DILWORTH’S COFFEE, Which Holds Trade on Account of Superior Merit Alone. - Unequaled Quality. Improved Roasting Process, Patent Preservative Packages. For Sale by all Jobbers at Grand Rapids, Detroit, Saginaw, East Saginaw and Bay City. PITTSBURGH, Penn, Lots or SOAP but room for JAXON becauseit beatsthemall IT 1s QUICK, EASY, CHEAP. ® It’s worth trying. SAVES MONEY, TIME. LABOR, STRENGTH, CLOTHES. 5 Cents Is ALL IT COSTS. That’s not much if it’s bad, and is mighty cheap if it does what is claimed for it. RHEDER, PALMER & CO, Wholesale Boots and Shoes. STATE AGENTS FOR LYCOMING RUBBER 60., at Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mi TELEPHONE “5 NO.998. ages, Paces! =INS & HESS DEALERS IN ea eaten ooaES 3, Furs, Wool & Tallow, — NOS, 122 and 324 WE CARRY A STOCK STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. OF CAKE 'TALLOW FOR MILL USE. LOUIS & NEAL’S GARRIACE PAINTS. Re-paint your old buggy and make it look like new for LESS THAN ONE DOLLAR. Eight beautiful shades. Prepared ready for use. They dry hard in a few hours, and have a beautiful and durable gloss. They are | the ORIGINAL, all others are IMITATIONS. More of our brand sold than all the other brands on the market. GRANITE FL Six Handsome Shades. Give them atrial, and you wiil be convinced that it does not pay to mix the paint yourself. The Great Invention. durabie. OR PAINTS ~ Ready for use. DRY HARD OVER NIGHT, and are very ACME WHITE LEAD & COLOR WORKS: DETROIT, Dry Color Makers, Paint and Varnish Manufacturers. CUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT OUT AND TAKE IT TO YOUR DEALER, IT WILL SECURE YOU A PRIZc.. — EWRET’S © PREPARED ma \\\\\3 Wt BLAGK PREPARED ROOE For all kinds of buildings quiring a good roof at les A than any other. Anyone can ey it on = READY TO APPLY 18 Lin tite enereus food, and he is all right and <.| charity or generosity, go for him just after that way and sticks, m by it. A regular .a fellow who beat the 1 up the boys and get them id-fashioned musters. One and another rattled the drum, they began their music the the militia would cry out: ‘‘Oh, that belong to Captain mand parade here—fall in, ‘Then the boys would begin to line, some with guns, some some with corn- - wmbrellas, and the line ight as a crooked fence, and any straighter. Some stood up | some half bent, and some down; some had coats and some d all were talking or laughing; ere drummed up nevertheless. u hear the drum, boys? Let’s go into line,” they would say; and so mmer now is a man who draws the on and makes the boys fall into line. talking to a merchant in Chattanooga, day, and a courteous young man came ‘some cigars, and took off his hat and introduced himself, and showed , and asked the privilege of placing | brand in the showcase for trial. Hedid nicely, and was so pleasant, that the ant could not refuse. I was in r store, and a young man came in to is samples of cutlery, and he, too, polite, the merchant had to humor although he did not wish: to buy. lity pays, politeness pays, good breed- ays. Wemay admire a diamond in ough, and there are people with big and rough manners, but, after 1, pleasant and agreeable manners are the ast. ‘They are the best among the ladies. iow from experience. I was speaking a man the other day to my wife, and she “J like him very much, he has such manners, he is so attractive and kind. hy, the other day when I left my parasol } the store, he brought it across the street, id took off his hat as he presented it to e.”. Well, the truth is I don’t like him so sting much, for I thought him a little gone obsequious, and my wife oughtn’t ve forgotten her parasol anyhow, politeness pays, and women appreciate ‘more than the men. My wife says there fas a time away back, when, if she dropped er handkerchief I would jump ten feet to at it, but that now I sit there like a stump, and simply say, ‘‘My dear. you have dropped ur handkerchief.” Just so—Anno Domi- will tell—nevertheless, I don’t like to politeness overdone. Bill Jones was ‘hty polite, and was very fond of escort- ng Mrs. Goulding to dinner or supper at the hotel when Captain Goulding was away his steamboat. Well, she thought it was othing but gentlemanly politeness, and epted his invitations. The captain came unexpectedly one evening, and as Bill as prancing along with Mrs. G. to supper ye grabbed him by the collar and gave him twist and a turn, and kicked him about a rod, and remarked: ‘‘Now, dogone you, go nd get a wifeof yourown.” I have known auy a good, solid young man boycotted by e girls, because he lacked manners. ‘But I was ruminating about the drum- ers. One of them got off the train with me the other morning, about an hour before day, and we looked around for a light or a orter, or some place to ‘go to, and finally ‘settled down in the piazza of a humble 1otel, where three dogs were sleeping; but they rapped the floor with their friendly tails, and so we sat down and waited for daylight. It was a good time to talk sense, nd we talked it until the roosters crowed and continued it until the sun rose, and then the family got up, and to our surprise gave usa cordial welcome and a good, old- fashioned breakfast. A good breakfast is splendid harmonizer. The stomach is thing to work on, and these drummers ow it. They can tell you the precise sharacter of every hotel in their territory, yné they make the hotel business a subject ayer. They don’t care half so rm as they do about hotel reform. They along way from home and their loved es. They have to take the weather as it comes, and get on and off trains at all times f night, and all kinds of places, and meet ith disappointments and vexations, and it es good vituals and good beds to keep em calm and serene. fy wife, Mrs. Arp, she knows how it is. rine get back home tired and weary travel, she goes to the kitchen herself s me up something ever so nice, and es me and rejuvenates me and causes -to baskin the sunshine of domestic 3, and so I get out my pocket book and it in her - lap, and then she is calm and and don’t scold the children nor. . of the cook or the washerwoman. ‘by, she slacks up a little and puts ork and keeps me at it until 1 get to go off again. I think she has an that I havea good time when I am and am fed on taffy and turkey and good things, but 1 shake my ven- ead and sigh and look solemn and ere is no place like home; else- vanity and vexation of spirit,” davit face satisfies her for We think the hotels ought to be There ought to be a They all ought to be ed in a book just like Dan rate the merchants. Rooms, wels, soap, the table, the eneral comfort, all. ought to numbered. If the only clean ywel is a hole, it ought to be or. iveling public ought to | what they. may expect; good enough, what there such as it is, or he has finished a good dinner. Solomon tells about ‘‘bowels of mercy, and bowels of compassion.” ‘The heart has nething to do with a man’semotions. That is an anti- quated mistake. It is lower down. The heart may be utterly diseased, and the man ‘he lives like a hog he will jready. If you want to attack a man for 1 w a very nice young man whose mother was a pattern of neatness and pro-. priety. Well, he married a girl who was| pretty and smart, and dressed very nice on | Sundays and when company was about, but she was a slattern, nevertheless, and wore dirty stockings with holes in the toes, and dirty underclothes (they say she did), and that young man began to go down and down, and lost his spirit and his gentility. st) Grand, Sqiare and I always go to the hotel that Cleanliness is next to godliness, they say, and I believe it. not know it, but let the organs of appetite get out of order and the whole man is de- moralized. I wish the T. P. A.’s would hire’ me to travel and peruse the hotels, and whenever I didn’t find a decent one, then I was to organize a new one, and let all the drum- mers boycott all the others. Last fall I was down in lower Georgia, and some drummers asked me where I was going to stop, and I said, ‘I don’t know; at the hotel, I reckon;” and they said: ‘‘No, do you go with us; the hotelis a fraud, and we have set up a nice, good old widow lady, and we will all go there.” So I fol- lowed them, and I never found a better place outside my own home. Everything was so clean and nice. The fare was not expensive, but it was good. She had good, honest sausage and lye hominy, and eggs fried on both sides and loose in the middle, and good bread and good coffee, and butter- milk, and the plates were all glossy, and the knife handles felt like they were Ae one) MGS. OF ALL KINDS | Packing Boxes, - Shipping Cases, gg Crates, eto. _ dand 6 Brie §t., GRAND EBAPIDS SHELF BOXES. ‘SHaMVUa ONUa WHIPS ADDRESS GRAHAM ROYS, - Grand Rapids, Mich. Upright Pianos, — The Weber Piano is recognized beyond - controversy as the Standard for excellence in every particular. It is renowned for its sympathetic, pure and rich tone combined with greatest power. The most eminent artists and musicians, as well.as the musi- cal pnblic and the press, unite in the ver- dict that The Weber Stands Unrivaled. Sheet music and musical merchandise. Everything in the musical line. ane Ny Weber Pianos, Smith Pianos, Hstey Organs, Fischer Pianos, A. B. Chase Organs, Hillstrom Organs, JULIUS A. J. FRIEDRICH, (Successor to Friedrich Bros.) 30 and 32 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Fosver, Srevens & Go, Grand Rapids, Mich. Headquarters SUMMER Exelusive Agents for The Labrador Refrigerator. White Mountain Freezer. Dangler Gasoline Stove. Crown Jewell Gasoline Stove. Summer Queen Oil Stove. Send for Foster, Stevens 10 & 12 Monroe St., 33, 35, 37, 39 & 41 Louis St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICE. DON'T WAIT FOR THE & Chicago or Detroit Drummer! BUY YOUR SPRING LINE OF MEN'S $ BOY'S WOOL, FUR § STRAW HATS LADIES and MISSES STRAWS NEAR HOME. Saving Yourself Time, Trouble and Expense. THE ONLY WHOLESALE HAY IOUSE In WESTERN MICHIGAN, I.c. LEVI 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 Canal Street, JON MocHA; JiNio WOOLSON SPICE C2- MERCHANTS! Oo - MV MocHArJanic WOoLSON SPICE, CO: Increase Your SALES AND PROFITS BY HANDLING TP GIVES ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION. To Consumers, and is, Consequently. a Quick anc BEiasy Seller. GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. i 4 * MOocHA, JERIO COFF WOOLSON SPICE, TOLEDO-OHIO. GO LION COFFEE. DLLAY ANON & HS, Wholesale Grocers. ‘IMPORTERS OF Teas Lemons and Foreign Fruits, SOLE AGENTS FOR “Acme” Herkimer Co. Cheese, Lautz Bros. Soaps and Niagara Starch. Send for Cigar Catalogue and ask for Special Inside Prices on anything in our line. MANUFACTURERS! Contemplating a Change or Seeking a nuuu0Nn INFORM YOURSELVES _ Regarding the prospects, opportunities and advantageous situation of : GLADSTONE, MICHIGAN, As a site for a manufacturing town. ‘FREE SITES Will be given you, whether you be of large or small capac- ity. As you are doubtless aware, GLADSTONE is the Lake Shipping Port for the Great “Soo” Railway and feeders, and situated as it is on the Little Bay Du Noquette, the finest har- bor of deep water on Lake Michigan, offers unparalleled in- ection for all kinds of IRON and WOODWORKING in- ustries. For particulars, opportunities for business, plats and maps, call on or address F, W. McKINNEY, Agent Sault Ste. Marie Land and Improvement Co., GLADSTONE, MICH. ee ll 7 — Smee | Gre TRONGEST ——_ & S RO UL Caen FOR q > +a Securing a Profit on Sugar. _ F. W. Inbusch, the Milwaukee wholesale grocer, who is endeavoring to secure some sort of an agreement among jobbers that enable them to maintain a reasonable ‘profit on sugar, writes Tue TRADESMAN ta convention of those interested will held at the Grand Central Hotel, New ‘ork, on June 23. The aimof the con- ion is thus set forth: HEREAS, It is a common practice on art of both wholesale and retail gro- to sell sugar, not only without profit, low the average costof doing busi- rhich loss must necessarily be made by higher prices on other geods, and MEREAS, This practice is a detriment both dealers and consumers, and is to all correct and straightforward $s principles; therefore . esolved, That the wholesale grocers of States, while opposed to combi- ich exact excessive profits from iblic, will welcome any plan which ble both wholesale and retail o sell sugar at a margin which will | p cost of doing business, which ; to avoid the excessive and ration of the law of com- is now operative to a in ever befere, and is forts in almost every busi- sion, including farmers, | Corn, Archer's cans, 8 doz.... 75 bia) So FeO fe Princess, 148.....--...---+ 1 25 - Mage 00 | Raisins, Valencias..... 31 AB oe cas 3 73 28 m4 di : Arctic, % i cans, 6 doz.... 45 ot e 4% . “ 4 "66 i 2 2 Bae AO. A es 2 40 Be ae Ie 8 Victorian, 1 b (taH,) 2 doz. 2 00 Diamond, “bulk,”........ 15 Red Star 4% i cans a doz.. 5 eo a6 wy ss “se ge 3 ee “se os 4 6s oo 50 Absolute, 4% i cans, 100 cans in case............. ll % Absolute, % ib cans, 50 cans in case............. 10 Absolute, 1 ib cans, 50 cans in CASe. .............-- -18 Telfer’s 4 ib, cans,6doz in os GBSO 6 ioe aes. Telfer’s % ib cans, 3 doz in CRB eS oes +1 2 3d Telfer’s 1 cans, 1 dczin_ _ COBO. ec osc ss a ee Sees 1 0 Early Riser, 4s, 4 doz case 40 ry gs, 2 se os 90 et is, 1° i 60 BLUING Arctic, 40z. r’nd # gross 3 60 S807, os BO “ 66 oe 66 oe ee 8 Oz. Pints r’nd........ 10 80 BROOMS. Fancy Whisk.............. 125 GU eee 3 15 Warehouse ................+ 3 00 CHOCOLATE. Runkle Bros’.. Vien.Sweet 22 - © Premium... 33 Hom-Cocoa 37 Breakfast.. 48 COCOANUT Schepps, os 128 Maltby’s, 1s “ea Ig a ss “oe 27 1s in tin pails.... oe 2 28 ** MB aa ce oa Manhattan, pails.... POECTIENS o.oo oes oc ee ...18 Bulk, pails or barrels. .i6@18 COFFEE—GREEN Mocha: 2... .5-.6..--- «- -25@28 Mandaling........ Pees 25@26 OG Java........ eee 24@25 BE ee a aera ae ee 23@24 Maricabo.............0.. 16@19 Costi Rica... .......-... @19 MEXICAN 627 (552%: 2340s @19 BANOS. 6 gs ees -15@18 Rio, tancy..... ......«018@19 Rio, prime... .........16@17 Rio, common......... 14 @15 To ascertain cost of roasted eoffee, add %c per b. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. COFFEES—PACKAGE, 30 Ibs 60 bs 100 hs Lion. ......... : 20% Lion, in eab... 21% Dilworth’s.... Magnolia...... Acmeé......... 20% 20% German ...... German, bins. Arbuckle’s Ariosa *- Avorica McLaughlin’s XXX xX 4 ee... 223% 2254 22% 213% 215% Our Bunkum.0% 20% wW% COFFEES—50 LB. BAGS. Arbuckle’s Avorica. .... . eee of 5 +20 ‘* Prime Maricabo.. .221%4 ~. CORDAGE. 60 foot Jute..... ........... 110 72 toot Jute ..... ...........1 40 49 Foot Cotton..........,....1 50 50 foot Cotton........... --..1 60 60 foot Cotton............... 1 %5 %2 foot Cotton...............2 00 CRACKERS. Kenosha Butter.............. 7 Seymour Butter..... ssp ones DoS Butter............--2..--2-00. 5Ye Butter Biscuit......... ..... Boston gue Por carrer od: Soja Fancy.........02-..-26000 SB, Oyster. «3.65 es. ee 5% PICMIC 220 oS ee... Sees - cease 5% Fancy Oyster................ 5 CANNED FISH. Clams, | bb, Little Neck....1 35 Clam Chowder, 3 b......... 2 15 Cove Oysters, 1 bb stand...1 00 Cove Oysters, 2 Ib stand...1 70 Lobsters, 1 b picnic. ......1 75. Lobsters, 2 Ib, picnic........ 2 65 Lobsters, 1 Ib star.......... 1 95 Lobsters, 2 Ib star.......... 2 90 Mackerel in Tomato Sauce3 25 ‘Mackerel, 1b stand........ Mackerel, 2% stand........ Mackerel,3 i in Mustard..3 25 Mackerel. 3 ib soused...... 3 25 Salmon, 1h Columbia...... 2 20 Salmon,2Ib ‘“ 3 50 Salmon, 1 i Sacramento...1 90 Salmon, 2 * «22 (5 Sardines, domestic 4s. .... 7 Sardines, domestic %s...10@11 Sardines, Mustard %s... 9@10 Sardines, imported 148..12@13 Sardines, spiced, %s..... 10@12 Trout. 3b brook.......:. CANNED FRUITS. Apples, gailons, stand..... Blackberries, stand........ Cherries, red standard.... Cherries, pitted...... 1 Damsons......... .. .1 Egg Plums, stand....... Gooseberries..............0. SSTADES ooo oes Se < Green Gages,..... fe eee ees Peaches, all yellow, stand.2 Peaches, seconds.......... 2 Peaches, pie.......... 1 60@1 65 ears..... Sg a oe ae es 1 30 Pineapples,........... 1 40@2 WOUNINCRR = oe oes oases 1 Raspberries, extra......... 1 50 a“ Sed. oS 150 Strawberries ......... 1 25@1 40 Whortleberries.......:..... 20 a aa ye ac tea Hy paragus, Oyster Bay.... Beans, lan stand ....... : Beans, Green Limas.. @1 40) Beans, String........1 0C@1 20 Beans, Stringless, Erie.... 90 Beans, Lewis’ Boston Bak.1 60 oe mae Morn a Early Gold.1 15 Shes csesecek 8 fat fk pt po fd fd HY RRSKKRSLSSST ~_ % 50 la MO | Black Strap... ’ry.1 15 | Corn,1 fb i ‘Key. ‘Raisins, Dehesia........... 3 3 Raisins, London Layers....3 Raisins, California ‘* ....2 Raisins, Loose Muscatels..2 10 00 | Raisins, Loose California. .1 90 Raisins, Ondaras, 288. 9 @9% Raisins, Sultanas....... @ | @1% Raisins. Imperials.......... 3 75 ‘Cod, whole.:........... Cod, boneless enor , boneless..... .....64 RUNUE 20s 13 Herring, round, % bbl. 2 75 Herring, round, &% bbl. 1 50 Herring, Holland, bbls. 10 00. Herring, Holland, kegs 65@70 Herring, Scaled........ 25@28 Mack. sh’r, No. 1, % bbl....8 %5 ‘ * ‘© 12 b kit..1 25 “ oe oe 2 10 sf No. 2, % bbls....... Trout, % bbis.............. 5 50 © 10. kits. ...3. 5.60.2 85 White, No.1, % bbls........6 75 White, No. 1, 12 b kits..... 1 20 White, No.1, 10 b kits..... 1 05 White, Family, Zoe Bees 8 5 re of W820. 2... FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Lemon. Vanilla. om romorwe SSSRRRER Standard D English;2 oz...... 7 20 eB OL. occas 9 00 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina, 100 lb. kegs......... Hominy, # bbl............. 40) Macaroni, dom 12 Ib. box.. 60 ‘“* imported...10 @l1 Pearl Barley.......... @ 3% Peas, Green.......... 1 40 Peas, Split............ Sago, German........ Tapioca, fi’k or p’rl.. Wheat, cracked...... Vermicelli, import... 4g domestic... MATCHES. G. H. No. 8, square........ 95 G. H. No 9, square, 3 gro...1 10 G. H. No. 200, G. H. No. 300 Swedish ................. ioe6 40 Richardson’s No. 8 8q...... 1 00 Richardson’s No.9 8q...... 1 50 Richardson’s No. 7%, rnd..1 00 Richardson’sNo.7 rnd..1 50 Woodbine, 300.............. 115 LASSES. Nice os bee 17@18 Cuba Baking............. 22Q@25 Porto Rico................24@35 New Orleans, gocd...... 33@40 New Orleans, choice..... 44@50 New Orleans, fancy..... 50@52 ¥% bbls. 3e extra OIL. Michigan Test......... 22-10% Water White............... 1133 OATMEAL BATVOIS 6s esol ste 6 00 Half barrels... :............ 3 25 MCOBCS. 25.28 oboe oboe sis 2 25 OATS—ROLLED. BSAITON oe sae cece esse § 00 Half barrels ...... ......... 3 25 CRSCR Sos sss 638s 2 25@3 35 PICKLES. MeGQi1M. 653 ees. sees 6 00 . a Dilek ee 3 50 Small, bbl..2..5..........03 7 00 a AA DOS. occ 4 00 RICE. Male. coe esses 54@5% TACO oe es 7 SUA Se ce eat e ees ses 614 TSAI a a ee 7.54 RANGOON... cs. 52s ss case ct 5 Broken . SODAN oo oe ee, SALERATUS. DeLand’s pure.............. 5% ChnTen ss 2 8. se 5 Taylor’s G. M.......... oD. Cap Sheaf......... eee 4¢c less in 5 box lots. SALT. 60 Pocket, FF D........... 215 Oe POCKOE 226 oan Sci secs ees 2 05 1003 i pockets............. % 25 Saginaw or Manistee...... Ashton, bu. bags........... 75 Ashton,4 bu. bags.......... 2 75 Higgins’ bu. bags.......... 75 American, % bu. bags..... » 20 Rock, bushels.............. 25 Warsaw, _ bags petees ict 36 London Relish, 2 doz... ... 2 50 Acme English, pts......... 2 50 SOAP. Dingman, 100 bars.......... 4 00 Don’t Anti-Washboard....4 75 SAXON 5068 3% Queen Anne............... 4 00 German Family............ 2 04 SPICES—WHOLE. ANSPiICe 25535 oo. st pec. 8 Cassia, China in mats....:. 7% ‘Batavia in bund....il ‘« Saigon in rolls..... 42 Cloves, Amboyna.......... 28 DAUZIVAT. «ses 23 Mace Batavia............... 70 Nutmegs, fancy............ 70 ee No. 65 . INO. Boe is Ss 60 Pepper, Singapore, plack..18% ~ white.28 SHOE 21 SPICES—GROUND—IN BULK. Allspice........ 12% Cassia, Batavia............. 20 o a and Saigon.25 - Baigon... 6.52. es, 2 Cloves, Amboyna.......... 35 “© Zanzibar........... 30 Ginger, African............ RY eee PAOOR NII ceo Se 15 “ Jamaica........ . @I18 Mace Batavia............... 80 Mustard, English... 22 * _ and Trie.25 Trieste... 2.200. 2.3 27 Nutmegs, No. 2............ 70 Pepper, Singapore black. .22 ie * white. .30 Cayenne.......... 25 Absolute Pepper, doz...84 ce Cinnamon ‘“ Allspice .‘ Cloves + Ginger Mustard a STARCH. Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 b pkgs...... 7 = ‘6 Ib boxes..... 7% fe Puls... ia, BM Dees 5% PEGS... Gos... “ os se 6s o6 os cya Pure, 1b 1 Gum Drops, in bbls...:.... “Crackers... _ TOBACCOS—PLUG. Ms spss pss: Sac eseee ss 36 O ones. Blue Blazes. ye Opener Star aes OPr.....s Climax Double Pedro. Whopper....... Peach Pie. 40 Wedding Cake, bik.......... 40 Med WOK. oe 45 Sweet Russet ............ 30@32 TOBACCOS—FINE CUT. Sweet Pippin................ 50 Five and Seven............... 50 Wiswatha. 68 Sweet Cuba.................. 45 Petoskey Chief............... 55 Sweet Russet............. 40@42 RISO: 862. 5 eg foie 42 PUOTIOH i. 65 Rose Leaf. .:. 20... ...0. 00000, 66 Red Domino.......... . ..... 38 Swamp Angel................. 40 SIAR 33 Capper .............. oe 42 TOBACCOS—SMOKING. ROD ROY. oe 28 01 Peerless........ Seca sias ss 28 Unele Sam. .... 2... 60. 30 Jack Pine. oe 36 Sensdtion...) 0.22.50... 23: 33 Yellow Jacket................ 20 Sweet Conqueror........ 20@25 TEAS. Japan ordinary..... ....18@20 Japan fair to good....... 25@30 Japan fine................ 85@45 Japan dust............... R@20 Young Hyson............ Gunpowder............... 35@50 Oolong............ 33@55@60@75 CONLO.. ar. 25@30 % 13 Above are the prices fixed by the pool. Manufacturers outside the pool usually sell 5gr. stronger goods at same prices. $1 for barrel. MISCELLANEOUS. 0 Noe... 8 Chimneys, No.0..............38 af Meee) cee oe 40 Gevcseee ccs. oom 52 66 be > Cocoa Shells, bulk.......... Condensed Milk, Eagle.... Cream Tartar.............. Candles, Star............... Candles, Hotel: .........4... Camphor, 02., 2 i boxes... Extract Coffee, V. C....... do Felix ..... Fire Crackers, per box.:.. Gum, Rubber 100 lumps... Gum, Rubber 200 lumps... Gum, Spruce............... 30 Jelly, in 30 b pails.. .5 @5% Powder, Keg...............5 50 Powder, % Keg........:...2 87 BORO Secs ote. 15 CANDY. FRUITS and NUTS. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: STICK. Standard, 25 Ib boxes....... 8% Twist, AG ee. 9 Cut Loaf GQ. 2 wes 10. i MIXED. Royal, 25 ib pails..... 8%@ 9 Royal, 200 ib bbis........... 8% Extra, 25 bb pails.. ...10 Extra, 200 Ib bbis........... 9 French Cream, 25 b pails. .11% Cut loaf, 25 ib cases........10 Broken, 25 bb pails.. ..10 Broken, 200 ib bbis......... 9 FANCY—IN 5 I BOXES. Lemon Drops................ 13 Sour Drops. 2.26.05 5.2. 068s. 14 Peppermint Drops..... oe oe Chocolate Drops............. 14 HM Chocolate Drops.......18 Gum Drops... 2.6... 2.85 ce 10 Licorice Drops............... 18 AB Licorice Drops.. 2512 Lozenges, plain.............. 14 Lozenges, printed........... 15 Pmnperigis.. 25... so. ss ss 3 boo e 14 IMGLORS (6. oo. ecw c, 15 CrVOAM BAP. 6. oc cece ccs ces 13 Molasses Bar..............00- 13 Caramels: 7 oie. oe ees eee 18 Hand Made Creams.......... 18 Plain Creams................ 16 Decorated Creams....... 2. 20 String Rock................¢- 13 Burnt Almonds............. 22 Wintergreen Berries........ 4 FANCY—IN BULK. Lozenges, plain in pails...12 Lozenges, plain in bbls....11 Lozenges, printed in pails.12% Lozenges, printed in bbls.11% Chocolate Drops, in pails..12% Gum Drops in pails....... ae Moss Drops, in pails....... 10 Moss Drops, in bbis........ 9 Sour Drops, in pails.......12 Imperials, in pails......... 12 TImperials in bbls...... 2 FRUITS. Bananas ...0) 55. 5626.. 1 25@3 00 Oranges, choice... @ Oranges, Florida..... Oranges, Messina.... Oranges, OO Oranges, Imperials.. Oranges Valencia ca. Lemons, choice...... 3 Figs, layers, new..... Figs, Bags, 50 ...... Dates, frails do...... Dates, 4% do do...... @ Dates, Fard 10 b box ® b.. 9 Dates, Fard 50 ib box @ b.. 6% Dates, Persian 50 ib box ..5@5% NUTS. Almonds, Tarragona @1% ¥ Ivaca...... 16 California 13@14 Braviis : o.oo @ 8% Filberts, Sicily....... @il Walnuts, Grenoble.. oer @ll ps Sicily...... of French.... Pecans, Texas, H. P. Cocoanuts, # 100..... PEANUTS. Prime Red, raw # b Choice do do Fancy H.P.do do Choice White, Va.do Fancy HP,. Va do PONG oo scg eee OYSTERS AND FISH. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: OYSTERS. Fairhaven Counts.......... : + FRESH FISH. : BACK DASE ooo es cs ieee cso mis HOCK DASE... 6. ws ee es Duck-bill pike................ Trout ..... Hea aps as sae ayh eee Sho | Sk ut Xxx Extra clear p! ae | Extra clear, heavy.....2.:........5.. fee ae 40 Morgan........... ae ec ert c ae a pig, short cut.............. Clear quill, short cut.......... Se ee Boston clear, short cut..............00.00.5 Clear back, short cut.........00. 2c, Standard clear, short cut, best............ SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN. Hams, average 20 Ib8...........00.c000 cee ck ll => = 2 Brown...........---- ; Ipe 00@? 25 80@1 00 E. - Gabebae (po. 1 60... iperus ......--- s Juni Xanthoxylum........ BALSAMUM. Copaiba....-----..-+- Peru....--2-----2-+-+- Jerabin, Canada..’... Tolutan Abies, Canadian..... 65@_ 70 @1 50 50@ 55 45@ 50 Symplocarpus, tidus, po MIBSBINE ...------cee es Cinchona Flava...... ‘Eaonymus atropurp Myrica Cerifera, po. Prunus Virgini...... uillaia, grd........- assfras Dimus.:..-...-------- Uimus Po(Ground 12) EXTRACTUM. Glycyrrhiza Glabra.. 24@ : 0 Hiaematox, 15 i pox.. 1@ = 18. 525.-5. 1 1 ee Carbonate Precip.... Citrate and Quinia... Citrate Solubie....... Ferrocyanidum Sol.. Solut Chloride. “hese Sulphate, com’l...... - pure....... FLORA. Arnica...--.---+---++> Anthemis ......------ Matricaria........---- / FOLIA. Barosma.....-..----- Cassia Acutifol, Tin- @ G3 @ 14@ @ 12@ Frumenti, D. 45@ 30@ _ 8 SRB RSE aweSSSE Salvia officinalis, 4s j d %48...-----+- Spas Sk carri Acacia, Ist picked... es Bnd ss ... pat eeee 88 88 3rd ene Sifted sorts. Grass sheeps’ SRSSRSES Hard for slate 448, 16) Ammoniae ....------ ‘Assafoetida, (po. 30). Benzoinum .......--- Camphorae ....------ Huphorbium, po....- Galbanum...«...----- Gamboge, po...-..--- Guaiacum, (po. 45)... UBE......----- Accacia.... Zingiber. 580 60 Senega.....-- SSSRRSSRRRSE HERBA—In ounce packages. Absinthium .......... 2 Kupatorium ......--- Lobelia .......------- Majorum .....-.----- Mentha Piperita..... me Vir .....--.-2 Renzoin.. cot BERS RVSRRVRSK oe OLEUM. ; os -Absinthium........:- Amyegdalae, Dulc.... 45@ 75 _Am ; ..1 25@7 10 A} 1 85@L 95 ae @2 50 6 Kino..... My. yy Mentha Piper. Mentha Verid........ 3 00@3 Morrhase, gal s 00 Tolutan........ Potass Nitras, opt... Potass Nitras.. Prussiate ...... Sulphate po.... wacoce ecccees aeoccce Althae’......... Anchusa ............- Arum, po...... Calamus........ Gentiana, (po. 15).... Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15). 16@ Hydrastis Canaden, (PO, 5D). 2... 2525 : Hellebore, Alba, po. Inula, po....... CAC, PO..--.-.-..2- Iris plox (po. 20@22).. alapa, pr...... Maranta, 48... Podophyllum, po.... Rhei.5...--2 ese Spigetia Pe cee Sanguinaria, (po. 25). Serpentaria.... SOHCRA . 2.2.55 --2- ae Smilax, Officinalis, 2 Scillae, (po. 35). Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) @ German.. Zingiber @.......... Zingiber j...... Anisum, (po. 20) ‘| Apium (graveleons). Bird. 18.205... Carui, (po. 18).. Cardamom ..... Coriandrum.... Cannabis Sativa..... 3%4@ A Lies p ees 7 enopodium . Diptersx Odorate.... Foeniculum.... Foenugreek, po...... Ried ec Lini, grd, (bbl, 3).. .. Lobelia. ........ Phalaris Canarian... SPIRITUS. Frumenti, W., D. Co.. F.R....1 75@2 0C Frumenti ...... Juniperis Co. O. T...1 75@1L 75 pepe’ Co... Saac ecccee See oe 1 75@ arum N.E..... 1 75@2 09 ee 1 75@6 50 eases 125@2 00 Spt. Vini Galli. ini Oporto.... Vini Alba...... SPONGES Florida sheevs’ AGB. 5.5... «0.2 25@2 50 Nassau sheeps’ carriage ...........-- Velvet Extra sheers’ wool carriage...... Extra Yellow sheers’ ecarriage...... Carrlage...........- use... Yellow Reef. for slate SYRUPS. Rbei Arom..... Smilax Officinalis.... - i Co.. Prunus vVirg.... TINCTURES. Aconitum N: apellis - Arnica ...... aes Asafcetida..... Atrope belladonna Sanguinaria ... Barosma....... Cantharides.... Capsicum...... Cardamon...... oe Co ceccce ° Hyoscyamus......... Iodine.........- Colorless.....- Ferri Chi ‘yidum...... Lobelia .... ... rh 2.2... eck on Nux Vomica ....... oe CS ee ee Camphorated... ** Deodor. .... Auranti Cortex...... Quassia.-...... Rhatany ....... Bhet. .. oc... ia Acutifol...... s .} Co. s seoecece e covccse Serpentaria.... Stromonium... Valerian.......------. Veratrum Veride.... Capsici Fructus, af.. Capsici Fructus, po.. Capsici Fructus, B po Caryophyllus, (po. 25) Carmine, No. 40 Cera Alba, S. oe Cera Flava........... COCCHS 22.2525. coco ee Cassia Fructus....... Centraria ............ Cetaceum............ Chloroform .......... 65 Chloroform, Squibbs @l 00 Chioral Hyd Crst..... 1 50@1 % Chondrus............ 10@ Cinchonidine, P.& W 15@ Cinchonidine, Ger’an Corks, list, dis. per cent ........- : 3 Creasotum.... : Creta, (bbl. 75)........ Creta prep........... Creta, precip......... Creta Rubra.......... GYOCUE 2: cose cece sk Cudhveasr.: 3.2.5... 5. Cupri Sulph.......... Dextrine.........5.... Ether Suiph.......... Emery, all numbers. Emery, po............ Ergota, (po.) 75....... Flake White......... *2@ Gatla @ Gambier ............. I@ Gelatin, Coopor...... Gelatin, French...... 40@ Glassware flint, 70&10 by box. 60&10, less. Glue, Brown......... 9@ 15 Glue, White.......... @ 25 Glycerina............ 23@ 26 Grana Paradisi...... @ 15 Humulus..... ...... 25@ 40 Hydrarg Chlor. Mite. @ 80 Hydrarg Chior. Cor. @ 0 Hydrarg Ox. Rubrum @ 9 Hydrarg Ammoniati. @1 10 Hydrarg Unguentum 45@ 55 Hydrargyrum ...... as @ 65 Ichthyocolla, Am....1 25@1 50 ANGICO =. oe ss 75@1 00 Iodine, Resubl....... 4 00@4 10 Iodoform ............ @5 15 Lupuline ............ 85@1 00 Lycopodium ......... 55@ 60 i 80@ 85 QCIR 2c ces @ 27 8@ 1@ 25@ 1b@ Uw@ 25@ 1b6@ @ 2@ 10@ esos coeee BESRSER SasaesSgneso 88s 1b@ 15@ 2 25@2 35 BEER ecceee cece @ @ 5@ 8@ D5@ @ @ 10@ RSSSRSE Foe- SaoBRnanShatnSanSS 15@ 10@ 18@ ecvcece RaSRR s oto Se ie, B@ Bb 00@1 25 10@ 12 eons 1 4% 5@1 00 10@ 12 1 75@1 85 @ a. eacvce 6@ oceee 3%4@ Liquor Arsen et Hy- drarg Iod........... Liquor Potass Arsini- i8ooo oe Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl Be oe ees - @ 38 Mannia,S.F.......... 90@1 00 Morphia, S,P.& W. 2 40@2 65 Morphia, S. N. Y. Q. MAGS CO os 55 co secs 2 30@2 55 Moschus Canton .... @ 40 60@ 0 @ QT 00@2 50 1 10@1 3 50 1 25@2 00 Myristica, No.1...... Nux Vomiea, (po. 20) 19 Os. Sepia..... Pee @ 29 Pepsin Saac, H. & P. @2 00 @2 "0 @1 40 @ wool wooi . 200 110 85 65 SCO. oo eet ; Picis Liq, N. C.. % gal GOA es ; Picis Liq., quarts.... Picis Liq., pints...... Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)._ Piper Nigra, (po. 22). Piper Alba, (po. 35).. Pix Burgur.......... 7 Plumbi Acet......... H4@ 15 Pulvis Ipecac et opii.1 10@1 20 Pyrethrum, boxes, H P.D.Co., doz.... . @1 25 Pyrethrum, pv....... 60@ 65 | Quassiae............. 19 Quinia, 8, P.& W.... 530@ 55 Quinia, S,German... 37@ 47% Rubia Tinctorum.... 18 Saccharum Lactispv @ 35 Balsein 52S 3 40@3 50 Sanguis Draconis.... 40@ 50 Santonine............ Sapo, Woe .ss. 2... Sapo; M. 2... .... 5. Sapo, G...........-... Seidlitz Mixture..... BiIngpis 0005-3 see ses Sinapis, opt.......... Snuff, Maccaboy, Do. WOR iis cect oese se Snuff, Scotch, Do. . WOOP 5 oases os cx Soda Boras, (po_11)..10 Soda et PotossTart.. 33@ 35 2@ 2% wool 18 SSSSSSSS SSSSSSSESS : Soda Carb............ Soda, Bi-Carb........ Soda, Ash..... Soda Sulphas. Spts. Ether Co....... Spts.. ’ vreia Dom... Spts, Myrcia Imp.... Spts Vini Rect. bbl. BOB) se sere @2 35 Less 5c. gal. cash ten days. Strychnia Crystal... @1 10 Sulphur, Subl ....... 24%@ 3% Sulphur, Roll........ 24%4@ 3 Tamarinds....... 8@ 10 28@ 30 50@ 4 2 55 ferebenth Venice .. Theobromae......... Zinci Sulph.......... OILS. Whale, winter........ Lard, extra....... eae Lard, No. 1........... Linseed, pure raw .. Linseed, boiled ...... Neat’s Foot, winter strained............. Spi..tsTurpentine... 42 PAINTS Bbl Red Venetian........ 1% 263 Ochre, yellow Mars .1% 2@3 Ochre, yellow Ber...1% 2@3 Putty, commercial. ..244 2%@3 Putty, strictly pure..2% 2%@3 Vermilion prime Am- BYViCSN 22. 2. ce. . Vermilion, English... - Green, Peninsular... Lead, red........... ... WHILO. < 645 5055552 5 Whiting, white Span ne, Gilders’.... White, Paris Amer’n ve Paris Eng. ‘Prepared © 60 45 Lb acceee ee ’ cliff... 149 Pioneer |. Faints ... ore ee | followin 00 @2 50) Grevossseesevel OO@L 20 | 22 Ra g questions in regard macy.law? as ve - 1. Has a man any right to sell drugs without a registered clerk where he is not nee: Bs ; las he any right to sell alcohol or spirits of any kind simply by paying the $25 special tax, unless he is a ‘registered phar- macist? 3. In so doing is he not liable to pros- ecution? 4. In said case, if said party wants to sell, handle, or offer for sale any spirits of any kind, should he not have to pay the $500 tax the same as any saloonist? Yours truly, SMITH. 1. No one who is not himself a regis- tered pharmacist has any right to sell drugs unless he has in his employ, and actually in charge of his store, a registered pharma- cist. 2. He is nota druggist and cannot as- sume to sell liquor as a druggist without conforming to the Pharmacy law. . 8. Yes, he renders himself liable to a fine of not more than $200 or imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten or more than ninety days, or both such fine and im- prisonment. 4, Yes, he should pay the regular tax required of a saloon keeper. Rural Philosophy. Lake Odessa, Correspondence Saranac Local. Selling goods for less than vost sooner or later causes the proprietor to become familiarly acquainted with a sheriff. A stock of merchandise is of more value on the shelves, covered with the dust of three years, than to be in the ledger against a party who doesn’t know or care how to appreciate a favor conferred. As a general rule in life, the man whom you favor and accommodate the most is the one from whom you will receive more curses than coppers, when you ask for your own, and he will pass you by and declare he never knew you. The virtue of a chattel mortgage closed the store of Peter Griffin, the grocer, last week. Mr. Griffin is a pleasant, congenial sort of a man. He came here last summer and, with a small amount of means, ven- tured into the merchantile life, believing everybody to be honest—hence. we are in- formed, he, like many others, did too much tick business for his own benetit. Is there one whom he credited that will assist him now? No! Others should take warning from his fate. —— enn Ar That’s What’s the Matter. A plainly dressed man who had intro- duced himself as John Smith walked into a doctor’s office, and having explained his symptoms, asked the doctor how long it would take to cure him. The doctor, who had treated the visitor with every possible courtesy, replied: ‘‘You will require sev- eral years’ careful treatment under my per- sonal supervision before you are perfectly well; but I think, Mr. Smith, you will be able to resume your labors in the bank in about two months.” ‘Doctor, you are fool- ing yourself. I am notSmith, the banker, but Smith, the street car driver.” ‘‘Is that so? Well, my good fellow, I don’t see what you came to see me for. ‘There’s nothing the matter with you, except that you are not a banker.” ———————< > 2 >————_—__——_ Anpual Meeting of the Detroit Society. At the annual meeting of the Detroit Pharmaceutical Society, held last’ Wednes- day evening, the following officers were elected: President—J. W. Caldwell. First Vice-president—F. W. R. Perry. Second Vice-president—F. D. Stevens. Secretary and Treasurer—B. W. Patter- son. Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—G. S. Purvis. oa Oe The Drug Market. There are no changes of importance to note this week. . Quinine and opium area little firmer.’ Linseed oil has declined 1 cent. Oil peppermint is advancing. There is a large demand for Paris green and helle- bore at unchanged prices. Sugar of lead has declined. a — <> Special Meeting. A special meeting of the Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society will be held at THE TRADESMAN Office on Thursday evening for the purpose of transacting important bus- iness which demands immediate attention. The attendance of every member is earn- estly requested. Better than a Legacy. Friend—Was your uncle’s will satisfactory to you, Brown? Brown—Perfectly so, ’ma lucky dog! He left his entire fortune to an insane asylum. Friend—You mean that you are an un- lucky dog. Brown—No, I don’t; the other relations are going to contest the will, and I’m to be the attorney. __—~«—.___ VISITING BUYERS. The following retail dealers have visited the market during the past week and placed orders with the various houses: Spring & Lindley, Baile AM Church, Alpine W H Bartholomew,Waylnd H Colby, Rockford: H L Day, Farwell GS Putnam, Fruitport J V Crandall & Son, Sand F Narregang, Byron Center HB Irish, Lisbon Wike: & Varnes, Middlebury n J F Scott, Lowell Jay Marlatt, Berlin A W Bailey & Co, Fenton Lake Brautigam Bros, No Dorr J F Clark, Big Rapids C K Hoyt, Hudsonville Smith & Bristol, Ada Dye & Welch, fonia J P Alpine, Cordesville S T Colson, Alaska Geo P'Stark, Caseade..—-- Chas Judson, Cannonsburg H VanNoord, Ji amestown Walker & Hewett, Lansing John Farrowe, So Blendon J B Watson, Coopersville H Dalmon, Allendale RT Parrish, Grandville H D Moore, MeMillain ES Botsford, Dorr Jas § Toland,: Ross Station J C Benbow, Can: rg LM Wolf, Hudsonville .~ E Rice,Croton | - CF Walden, Mancelona. __G Ten Hoor,: Forest Grove Sidney Stark, Allendale. -. W Vermeulen, Beaver Dam M boer & Bro, Drenthe Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia - Barnhart.& White, »Mance- h lona: : Gus Begman, Bauer 8 D.Thompson, Newaygo ~ JL. sp Dalene aoa Te 1 20@1 40 | H Baker, Drenthe. Lé& | frozen up. oe clerk ‘re AS e foun tin. and the temperature was at 60 degrees, and had been all night, it did not seem at all reasonable, but to my great surprise I finally found such to be the case. . Finding a full fountain of soda charged up to 200 pounds, I looked farther and located the obstruction between the coolers and the draft. Pushing away the ice, I turned on a little hot water and in a moment it was all right. I cannot account for it only on the supposition that having been out doors for several hours the ice had acquired a very low temperature. Upon being broken up and packed in the fountain uponice so much warmer it had parted with its Tatent heat so suddenly as to produce a freezing mixture around the pipes. Having occasion recently to visit an old leech jarin my store that had been over- looked, and that when last examined held three leeches, a small bunch of ‘‘excelsior” and some water, I was surprised to find about a dozen young leeches additional. I have never known them to breed in cap- tivity before. Our trouble in this line is rather with death than birth. (I have frequently noticed during the win- ter months that in transferring. fine powder, particularly licorice and senna, especially when it had been in transit over night, marked electric phenomena were evolved, the powder forming a corolla around the mouth of the bottle, etc. One day during the winter, being in a hurry and alone in the store, I was somewhat vexed to find that I could not weigh some Salicylic acid on my prescrip- tion scales, as soon as it touched the pan it fiying off in every direction onto the desk. After several failures I had to use another pair of scales elsewhere. It was, undoubt- edly, due to negative electricity. One of the show cases with an oval front in the store will, upon being smartly rubbed with a chamois by one man, but not so much by others, develop a large amount of electrici- ty, so much so as to be plainly felt by the hand when placed inside. The store cat has taken part in the fun but has now “caught on” and avoids the top of the show ease. Being insulated, a brisk rubbing upon the back with one’s hand evolves a nice spark by applying the knuckle to the cat’s nose. By grasping the cat’s legs in one hand while insulated and rubbing with the other a smart shock is imparted to the rubber and the rubbed, the latter vigorously protesting. Anyone desiring an article of sale for producing a smooth skin during cold weather will find it in an emtlsion of oil of sweet almonds, using powdered gum traga- canth as the emulsifier and either rose or orange flower water to produce the desired consistency. It is best applied at night before retiring, having previously washed the skin with warm water and soap. It has no superior as an emollient.—J. W. Col- cord. ——_—>-_ > Illegibility of Prescriptions. The pharmacist is often puzzled by the chirography of the physician, and, though much practice makes him expert in this difficult art, it not infrequently happens that one or more ingredients of a prescrip- tion are absolutely illegible even to the skilled sense of the pharmacist. What is the dispenser’s duty in such a case? To this query the Chemist and Druggist replies: 3 ‘‘He has certainly a perfect right, legally, to refuse to compound a prescription which he cannot read, but it is believed that in the case of prescriptions which have previously been dispensed he is justified in doing his best. ‘The best, however, may be a serious matter tothe patient if it happens to be contrary to the intentions of the prescriber. It isfar better for the dispenser that he should notrisk his own reputation or the comfort of his eustomer by undertaking a task respecting which he is uncertain. When the prescriber’s carelessness leads to an error on the part of the dispenser, there responsibility. We refer more particularly to errors regarding ingredients rather than doses. If a prescriber intending to write ‘tinct. opii camph.’ writes only ‘tinct. opii,’ and the dispenser compounds the pre- seription as written, both are evidently responsible, the -prescriber in the greater degree, for anything serious which may happen. It is part of the duty of the chem- ist and druggist ‘to detect unusual doses,’ and to assure himself of the safety of the patient before he dispenses them.” The car@lessness of physicians in writing prescriptions has not infrequently been attended with fatal results. The statement made by our contemporary that when mis- takes occur the responsibility should be shared by prescriber and dispenser is a mis- leading one. In the case of toxic drugs the pharmacist is never justified in dispensing a dangerous dose unless the prescription is specially endorsed to that effect or the physician be communicated with. The real responsibility rests with the physician, who should write with less haste and greater care. Some excellent rules are given in the article we have quoted and can not be too strongly impressed upon medical students in their studies and upon physi- cians. They are as follows: 1. Write distinctly. 3. Do not abbreviate the words so as to make them unintelligible to the dispenser or in any way to cause errors. 3. Be very particular in writing the char- acters representing the quantities of the in- gredients. 4. Revise the prescription on every occa- sion before parting with it. 5. The physician should always write the dose or explicit directions, so that the pharmacist can judge of the effect, not ‘tuse as directed” label. —— Ore An exchange says: ‘‘A bustle hanging in a shop window is an uglier looking thing -than an open barrel of sauerkraut in a gro- cery ‘store. Hang it on a woman, cover it with twenty yards of goods, and a man will erane his neck around a lamp-post by the hour to look at it. Position in the world is everything.” Offer No. 174. | FREE—To Merchants Only: An elegant Carving Set (knife, fork and Steel), in satin-lined case. Address at once, R. W. Tansill & Co., 55 State St., Chicago. — tha ¥ a was situated | — the 1 phar: within a few feet of a large steam radiator ought in fairness to bea division of the} Importers and Jobbers of DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES DEALERS IN PATENT MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, WE ARE SOLE PROPRIETORS OF WEATHERLY'S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY, Whiskies, Brandes, Gins, ~ Wines, Rums, Weare Sole Agents in Mich- igan for W.D.& Co., Hender- son County, hand-made SOUR MASH WHISKEY, —AND — Droggists’ Favorite Rye Whisky, We Sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We Give Our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction All Orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive them. Hazeltine — & Perkins TRADE SUPPLIED BY THE bi Pri gt And the Wholesale Druggists of Detroit and Chicago. CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price forit. Address PECK BROS,, ‘2elscale Bressis GRAND RAPIDS. Acme White Lead & Color Warks, DETROIT, Manufacturers of the Ce ebrated ACME PREPARED PAINTS, Which for Durability, Elasticity, Beauty and Economy are Absolutely Unsurpassed. F. J. WOURZBURG, WHOLESALE AGENT, Grand Rapids, Mich. | Write for Sample Cards and Prices. have Supplied our Trade with this P. PP. Po Brand and it is all the manufactures claim for it. aan We sell it on a GUARANTEE. Haxeltine & Perkins Drug Go... GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. PIONEER PREPARED PAINS aaa Decknns(R OUP ae nhs 25esize.......... cede oe per doz, $2.06 50c “ 6 3.50 Peckham’s Croup Remedy is prepared es- pecially for children and is a safe and certain cure for Croups, Whooping Cough, Colds and all bronchial and pulmonary complaints of childhood. For attractive advertising matter address the proprietor, Dr. H. C. PECKHAM, Freeport, Mich, Trade supplied by whole- ane cena iets of Grand Rapids, Detroit and icago. CASH SALE CHECKS. Encourage yvuur trade to pay cash instead of running book accounts by using Cash Sale Checks. For sale at50 cents per'100 by E. A. STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids. STEAM LAUNDRY, | 43 and 45 Kent Street, STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST CLASS WORK ANB USE NO CHEMICALS. Orders by mail and express promptiy attended te, VIC'S BED-BUG KILLER! WITHOUT POISON, ~*~ No Color, No Smell and No Damage to Bed Clothes or Furniture. Retails for 25 cents for large package. ‘Trade supplied through all wholesale drug- gists, or direct by the manufacturers. ROUSSIN & CO. Ludington, Michigan. Naa RE 48 Congress St., West, Detroit, Mich., April 9, 1888. Specialty Dept. Ph. Best Brewing Co., GENTLEMEN—I duly received the case of your ‘“‘Best’”” Tonic and have since had a great many in this institution. I must say that the beneficial effects on weak and debilitated patients have been most satisfactory, espec- ially to those in a stage of recovery after se- vere sickness. I write this thinking you might like to have my opinion on its merits. I certainly shall prescribe it in future, where the: system re- quires building up. either from constitutional weakness or otherwise. Yoars truly, Wm. GRAY, M. D. Medical Sup’t. - Midville, Geo., Feb. 24, 1888. Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co., GENTLEMEN—I think the “‘Tonic’’ a splendid medicine for all forms of Dyspepsia and Indi- gestion. It is giving me great satisfactiou. Very respectfully, J. M. JOHNSON, M. D. Yardley, Pa., March 18, 1888. Ph. Best Brewing Co., DEAR Strs—I have given your ‘“‘Malt Tonic” a trial in several cases of Enfeebled Digestion and General Debility, especiaily in the aged, where the whole system seems completely peoseenisd. with very satisfactory results. I ave used many of the so-called “Malt Ex- tracts,”’ but believe your preparation to be superior. In the aged where the digestive functions are exhausted, and there is a loss of the nerve vital force, I found its action to be rapid and permanent. ELIAS WILDMAN, M.D. Work-House Hospital, Blackwell’s Island, Feb. 10, 1888. Ph. Best Brewing Co., GENTLEMEN— AS a matter of personal inter- est, [ have used your ‘“‘Best’”’ Tonic in several cases of impaired nutritition. The results in- dicate that it is an agreeable and doubtless, highly efficacious remedy. Iam, © Very truly yours, E. W. FLEMING, M. D. | FOR-SALE BY ALL COMMENDED BY EMINENT PHYSICIANS DRUGGISTS. Troy, New York, January 24, 1888. Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co,, DEAR Strs—Your agent left me a sample of your liquid extract, Malt, and as I use much such in my practice, I thought to compare your product with some from another house . IT had on hand; and finding yours superior in the great essential, the palitable nutriant as well as in tonie stimulant properties, felt anx- ious to know about what it can be furnished. the dispensing physician. Yours truly, E. JAY Fisk, M. D. Cn . East Genessee Street, Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1888. Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co., ’ GENTLEMEN—I have used the “Best” Tonio with most gratifying resultsin my case of dyspepsia. My case was a bad one, 1 had no appetite; headache in the morning; sour stom- ach; looking as though I had consumption, - and after taking this tonic I never felt better — in my life. I think it will cure a bad case of dyspepsia. You may recommend it for that case. Wma. O. JAEGER. 322 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, Feb. 4, 1888. Ph. Best Brewing Co., 28 College Place, N. Y., GENTLEMEN—I have tested the sample of “Concentrated Liquid Extract of Malt and Hops” you sent me, and find in my humble judgment that itis a very pure and safe artl- cle. I will not hesitate to recommend it in every case of debility where a Tonic of th kind is indicated. - respectfully. ; EK. H. Bett, M.D. New Orleans, La., April 6, 1888, Specialty Depart. Ph. Brewing Co.,. ee GENTLEMEN—Having tried your “Best” Tonic to a great extent amougs my practice, I will state in its behalf that I have had the best results with nursing mothers who’ were deficient in milk, increasing its fluids and se- creting a more nourishing food for the infant, also increasing the appetite and in every way satisfactory for such cases. Ges For Sale By Very respectfully, D. BORNIO, M D. - ‘ soon aa by disappoint- r — in New York at the | ting room—excuse my tears—I am not of them. When I looked into her as I thought may be for the last time, thought of the happy years we had ‘Spent together, of our struggle from poverty 4o comparative ease—that was a bad time. She got into the elevator and 1 was alone. The next hour was the most terrible of my ife. I knew she was in that dreadful zoom, with twenty or thirty doctors around ‘her, under the influence of chloroform, and #he knife and saw hacking away at that dear frame I loved so well. I walked the floor. Agony! I have lived that hour over again in my sleep many times. I think the happiest moment of my life was when the thead doctor came and told me she would The tall passenger moved uneasily in his seat, the fat man blew his nose and the man -gwith specs took off his’ glasses, wiped them, and said something about the smoke getting into his eyes. “Well, my moment of agony was a long one,” said a slim looking chap who sells wall paper. ‘I expected my wife and little girl to meetme in Milwaukee, and they were coming over in the Alpena. ‘The _ Alpena went down and no one ever heard just how it happened. I saw the account of the disaster in the newspaper, and their7names were on the passenger list. That is how I came by these gray hairs. How I spent the next two days, God only kmows—I don’t. I think I was almost _ ready to put a bullet through my brain, - when, as I sat alone in my room in the Newhall house, the bell-boy came up and Said that some one wanted to see me in the _parlor. Boys, it was my wife and child! _ They had missed the boat and had come - ground by way of Chicago by rail.” The bald-headed man sympathetically - Shook hands with the slim man and the zest thought to themselves. “*Two years ago, I suffered dreadfully with toothache,” began the man _ with Specs on. ‘I had a bad lot of broken teeth and determined to have them out and Rew onesin. You know the strange shock 2 dentist’s or docter’s door-knob gives one— - you seem to forget the pain in the dread of the operation. Well, I got into the chair, ‘our family ‘doctor poured the chloroform on _g@napkin and [ looked at the bright light of -@ay, perhaps forthe last time. It feels awful to sit down in full health and realize hat perhaps in ten minutes you will be ‘beyond the cares of the world, away from the Joved ones. I remembered that, as I ame down the street, I had looked at this _@bject and that and thought to myself that “perhaps it was for the last time. Well, the “‘mapkin was placed overmy mouth and nose, and the sweet, sickening odor penetrated Z@way down into my innermost sense. “Breathe deep,” said the doctor. ‘‘Yes,”’ ‘Titried to say. My voice sounded far off. ‘seemed to be a great fly-wheel that started slowly and gradually went faster and faster. Around and around it spun. Every time it passed a seeming given point, it gave a 4oud click—click. It spun -faster, faster, - mnd the clicks came nearer together. I was aizaid it would burst. Then came a blank until I felt a terrible pain and heard a dull -woice say, ‘Spit it out.” Istruggled—againa 1k—then the voice of the dentist, saying, s he all right?” I tried to answer. I put out to think he would ask such a pestion, but I was too lazy, seemingly, to Then my head began to whirl. I ‘sick at the stomach and opened my his was real life! I felt, oh, so to think it wasall over. Boys, I don’t it y ‘more chloroform i in mine—it’s too I ‘did. If there were but a 3 and. I had mney tine of 4 ticket was 4762, and 7 was a8 poor : as be- | fore. I got to the express company before they had delivered my grips to the firm and took the first train back to my work.” He seemed quite indignant as one after the other got up and left him, muttering | Cin such words as ‘‘Rats!” ‘‘Chestnuts!” ‘‘Yel- low dog!” JESSE LANGE. | WALES - GOODYRAR ——AND— GONNEGTIGUT Rubbers. Write for fall Prices and Discounts. G. R. MAYHEW. 86 Monroe Street, GRAND RAPIDS. NOE waINe el alt ae "SWCS BRASS-RULE. — ye Woop & METAL: FoRNITURE ROH aoR TRY Va SUL a Pe Sole agents for Chicago Brass Rule Works ror State of Michigan. We carry a full tine of Seeds of every variety, both for field and garden. Parties in want should write to or see the Grand Rapids Seed Store, 704% . | Saginaw Express... “ Ee ie cat eas aes 6 ta. Saginaw express runs. through solid. 7:00 a.m, train has chair car to Traverse Tse City. 11:30 a. m. train has chair car for Petoskey and Mack- Ww 5:05 p. m. train has. sleeping cars for Petoskey and Mackinaw City. 7:15am 11:45am Express........ Cincinna: es 5:00 p m ‘Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex. : 700 p m 7:15am train has parlor chair car for Cincinnati. 5:00 pm train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati. 5:00 p. m. train connects with M.C. R. R. at Kalama- zoo for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadien points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p.m. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. Leave. 5 Arrive. pm :60 p Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. C. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Michigan Central. Grand Rapids Division. DEPART. Detroit Mxpress. a 3.5. occa ccc te sein loses es cn ce tne 6:45am Day EXDpress.........-0seesceesssecceccerenceccee 1:10pm SATiIantic HXPYCSS. 5 ..c:ckes hc sdc ese acessiemecvevece 10:45 pm ican seas Chie we banca ans een dese 6:50am ARRIVE. ee TUXPTOSS,. 025-00. Si on eis Grand Rapids Express.. Mixed *Daily. All other daily except Sunday. Bleeping . cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars run on Day Express and Grand Rapids Express to and from Detroit. Direct connec- tions made at Detroit with all through trains East over M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.) O. W. RUGGLES, Gen’] Pass. and Ticket Agt., Chicago. Cuas. H. Norris, Gen’! Agent. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. Kalamazoo Division. Arrive. 2. A : am pm Bo cinier Rapids........ we. 9:45 6:10 . Allegan...... - 8:28 4:55 ..Kalamazoo.. sseeeee 1:10 3:52 .. White Pigeon... 2:25 et, MOMEAD ois ceo sees cecls 4:45 1:€0 . pm am TAO... ORIGRRO,. 22 6265.5 tenes 5 11:30 8:50 S05 5 OICdOs css osc tesa cece 11:25 10:00 9:40 “* ....Cleveland.............6.. 7:15 5:45 am pm 6:20 3:30 *f ....Buffalo............seeeee 1:00 ii: 40 Tickets for sale to all principal points in the U.S., Mexico and Canada at Union Ticket Office, GEO. WiL- LIAMSON, se Depot Office, M. Booz, Agt. A. J. ‘SMITH, Gen’] Trav. and Pass. Agt., Cleveland, Ohio. - Resky NTE Se» w o SSCIPH onRod ep8eSes eebsue % _ Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING WEST. Arrives. Leaves. +tMorning Express. ...........0000- 1:05 pm 1:10pm tThrough Mail...............00.008 5:05 pm 5:10pm +Grand Rapids Express........... 10:40 pm 10:45 p m FNight EXpress........ .222-+-ce0- 5:25am 5:40am AARC en's oisicig secs icine cigs o's ale as 7:30am GOING HAST. tDetroit Express...............+06 6:45am 6:50am +Through Mail..... 10:20 am 10:30 a m tEvening Express. .. 3:25pm 3:50 p m *Limited Express.. -. 6:25pm 6:30pm +Daily, Sundays excepted. “Daily. Detroit Express has parlor car to Detroit, making direct connections for all points East, arriving in New York 10:10 a. m. nextday. Limited Express, East, has through sleeper Gr and Rapids to Niagara Falls, connecting at Milwaukee Junction with through sleeper to Toronto. Through tickets and sleeping car berths secured at .R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot. % Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL COAL and WOOD. E. A. HAMILTON, Agt., 101 Ottawa St., Ledyard Block. Telephone 909—1 R. SWI F’°r’S Choise Chicago Dressed Beef . —AND— MU’T’YTON Can be found at all times in full supply and at popular prices at the branch houses in all the larger cities and is Retailed by all First-Class Butchers. The trade of all marketmen and meat dealere is solicited. Our Wholesale Branch House, L. F. 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The best toastor ever shown Hotel Gabietesavery style Baskets of our own importation—see catalogue “Francis” Fire Proof Earthern Tea Pot From our Illustrated Price List. Sent to Dealers only on application, Three Hundred Pages of Bargains. H LEUNARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich. PUTNAM & BROOKS, WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF CAIN DX And Heavy Jobbers In Oranges, Lemons, BANANAS, NU'S, Dates, Figs; Gitrons, Prvnells, kts. PRICES QUOTED AND CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED 1 to 7 Raiioad Pace GRAND RAPIDS. SPRING & COMP JOBBERS IN =e DRY GOO Hosiery, Carpets CLARK, JEWEL & UO Wholesale Grocers, HANDLE EVERYTHING IN THE PROVISION LINE. Pork, Beef, Lard, Hams, Shoul- ders, Bacon, Sausage, Pigs’ Canned Beef, Lunch ARTHUR MEIGS k oO, 77, 19, 81, aud 83 South Division Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (&= One Block from Union Depot on Oakes Street. WHOLESALE GROCERS. IMPORTERS OF LEA. JOBBERS OF ‘Tobacco and Cigars. SHIPPERS OF VEGETABLES, FRUITS and PRODUCE. PROPRIETORS OF THE Rep Fox Pua Topacco. 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