eS es ‘ & ver Spots” are to-day the best cent cigar in es an. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1888. NO. 251. 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- elass work. Second-hand safes always on hand. C. M. GOODRICH & CO., With Safety Deposit Co., Basement oi Wid- dicomb Blk. ‘ KDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker = Joweler, 4k CANAL 8Y., Grand Rapids, - Mish. BAUWS (rastorin} OIL THE ACKNOWLEDGED KING of AXLE LUBRICANTS. Neither Gums nor Chills, never runs off the axle and outwears any other known oilor grease. PRICES TO THE TRADE. Ponys, per gross, $10. Packed in3 doz. cases. Retail at 10 cts. each. Pints, per doz., $2.25. Packed in 1 doz. cases. Retail at 30 cts. each. Quarts, ‘per doz., $4. Packed in 1 doz. cases. Retail at 50 cents each. : Gallons, each, $1.20. Packed 6 cans in case. Retail at $1.50 each. Each case contains a liberal assortment of advertising matter, lithographs, show-cards, etc. THE TRADE SUPPLIED BY OLNEY, SHIELDS #60, Sten?” Mich. Cor. W. Fulton & Mt, Vernon Sts., GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. GC. B. JONES, Proprietor. Formerly landlord of the Potter House, Battle Creek; more recently of the Elliott House, Sturgis. RATES $1.50 and $2 PER DAY. The Derby is a new hotel with new furnish- ings throughout, Steam Heat, Elevator, and Bath Room on second floor, and is the same a from Union Depot as other prominent otels. Traveling men wishing a quiet place to spend Sunday should try the Derby. BEWARE! It has come to our notice that unscrupu- lous manufacturers of cigars are putting an - inferior brand of cigars on the market under a label so closely imitating our ‘‘Sil- ver Spots” as to deceive the general public. At first, we were inclined to feel flattered at this recognition of the superior merits of our ‘Silver Spots” by a brother manufac- turer, knowing full well that it is only arti- eles of standard or sterling worth that are imitated, but we feel that we should be derelict in our duty to the public should we ‘not warn them against this infringement, and also to dealers in cigars, as we feel positive that no first-class dealer would knowingly countenance or deal with any manufacturer who had to depend upon other manufacturers to furnish him brains to originate brands or labels for their cigars. ‘A counterfeiter is a genius, but amenable to the law, but a base imitator who keeps within the law, or just ventures near enough to be on debatable ground, is not worthy of recognition in a community of worthy or respectable citizens. The ‘‘Sil- selling five a If you don’t be- ve it send us a t THURBER, WHYLAND & C0, NEW YORK, RELIABLE FOOD PRODUCTS. + is both pleasant and profitable for merchants te oonaonay Fisit New York, and all such are cordially invited to call, look through our establishment, corner 4 West Broadway, Reade and Hudson streets, and make our atquaintance, whether the not. Ask for a member of the 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. GRAND RAPIDS Paper Box Factory, W. W. HUBLSTER, Prop. — to buy goods or Paper Boxes of Every Description Made to Order on Short Notice. We make a specialty of Pigeon Hole File Boxes, Sample Trays Sample Cases. Also Shelf, Shoe, Confec- tionery, Millinery, Dress, Suit and Packing Boxes. Druggists’ Slides and all kinds of Fine Work. All work guaranteed first class and at low prices. Write or call for estimates on any- thing you may want in my line. Telephone 850, OFFICE AND FACTORY, 1] Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mick. BOOK-KERPING WIPED QUT! No Pass Books! No Charging! No Posting! No Writing! No Pisputing of Accounts! No Shange to Make! TRADESMAN Credit Coupon Book. THE NEWEST AND BEST SYSTEM ON THE MARKET. We quote prices as follows: : 4 Coupons, per hundred Bee eet coke ce $2. 2 3. $10 66 ry Z . $20 ee 06 Subject to the following discounts: Orders for 200 or Over............002- 5 per cent. os oe ea 10.7.8 % AQUOS. me Send in sample order and put your business on a cash basis. E. A. STOWE & BRO, Grand Rapids, 0. E. BROWN MILLING CO, Merchant Millers, Shippers and Dealers in . GRAIN aid BAILED HAY. Flouring Mill and Office, Cor. Court St.andG.R. & LR.R. Grain Office, No. 9 Canal Street, GRAN D RAPIDS, MICH. _ | 3.W. CONVERSE, — 0. B. BROWN, _ Proprietor. . _ ——~-—>s- Manager. 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 Te large stock of material, and have pt hae ity for making first-class Wagons 0. nds, Special attention given to Repairing, Painting and Lettering pene Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich, — Voigt, Herpolshemer & Go, Importers and Jobbers of DRY GOODS Staple and Fancy. Overalls, Pants, Htc., OUR OWN MAKE. A Complete Line of Fancy Crockery2Fancy Woodenware OUR OWN IMPORTATION. Inspection Solicited. Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed. S. T. FISH & CO., General COMMISSION Merchants WHOLESALE FRUITS and PRODUCE, 189 So. Water St., - Chicago. We solicit your correspondence ,and 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. REUBEN HATCH Attorney at Law, Rooms 23 & 24 Widdicomb Bld. Monroe St., GRAND RAPIDS.-° A eet amount of money toloan on real estate se- curit; Telfer Spice Company, SOLH MANUFACTURERS OF ABSOLUTE SPIGKS, Absolnts Baking, Powder JOBBERS OF Teas, Coffees = Grocers’ Sundries, 46 Ottawa 8k, GRAND RAPIDS. Gordon's “Ro FIVE GENY GIGAR In the Market. PRED. D YALE & C0 Grand Rapids, Mich. 2 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 Salesmaa. ASK FOR ARDENTER MUSTARD BEST IN THE WORLD. SEHHDS! IF YOU WANT Medium Clover, Mammoth Clover, Timothy, Alsike, Alfalfa, Hungarian, Millet, Red Top, Orchard Grass, Blue Grass. Field Peas, Spring Rye, Spring Barley. OR ANY KIND OF SEEDS SEND TO W. Y. LAMOREAUX, 71 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. ESTABLISHED 1866. BaRNery Bros. 159 So, Water 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. Write us if you wish information, whether to buy or sell. It will cost you nothing. BARNETT BROS. F. J. DEYYENTHALER WHOLESALE Salt Lake Fst AND OYSTERS. Packing and Warehouse, 37 North Division Street. Office, 117 Monroe St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SEND FOR PRICE LIST. STANTON, SAMPSON & 60.,) ONLY A VAG. He was only a vag. He leaned against the railing of the dock as if weary and sick at heart, but the mo- ment the name of William E. Brown was ealled his long, guant form straightened up as if attempting to recover the dignity which in former days it possessed. There was something about Brown’s face which impressed itself on the beholder, in- stilling the belief that, although he had sunk to the ranks of the debased creatures who loaf around saloons, sleep in hovels and sponge upon their fellow-men for the food they consume, the vagrant had once held a respectable position in society and had been every inch a man. His hair was lank and iJl-kept. Furrows were plowed in his cheeks and his forehead, and his long, gray beard was uncombed and reached far down upon his breast. Clothes in tatters hanging about his shrunk- en and emaciated frame, hands horny with hard toil and stockingless feet in worn-out boots were other characteristics of this homeless and wretched outcast. ‘When asked what he had to say in his de- fense he poured such a startling history of his life into the ears of Police Justice Law- ler that he was immediately released on his promise to leave the State. Romance and war, wealth and destitution, speculation and travel, suicide and divorce, entered into his experience, and in choice language, showing his education and mental capacity to be far above the average, he told the story: ‘‘Never before during the sixty-eight years of my life,” said he, ‘‘have 1 stood in the position of a criminal. Could I but have seen this end before me when I started out in life I should have welcomed death gladly in preference, but by easy stages I have sunk down, down, until I am _ physi- cally and morally a wreck. You would scarcely believe that once I was an officer in the English army, or that I was one of the six hundred who braved the guns at Balak- lava, and yet it is true, and the remainder of my history has been aseries of strange and almost incredible experiences. ‘*T first saw the light of day in Liverpool, England. My father was a rich and respect- ed hardware merchant, and, being an only son, 1 was petted and spoiled. Everything in reason that I asked for was granted, un- til my disposition became overbearing and my temper ungovernable. I was givena good sound education, and my_ parents in- tended that I should study for the bar, but when I was nineteen years old 1 broke through all restraint and enlisted in the army. The anticipation of a wild, reckless life attracted me, as it does thousands of others; but when I was submitted to the iron discipline, compelled to obey the ca- prices of others, I found the thongs very galling; yet still my pride prevented any appeal to my father, who would gladly have bought my release. ‘*For some years I learned the monoto- nous duties of a soldier, and at last the Crimean War broke out. Anything was agreeable to me compared with life in barracks, and JI _ heard that we were to go into active service with only pleasurable emotions. The deeds of our company of cavalry, the Light Bri- gade, have become historical on account of the terrible experience we passed through. For weeks the soldiers almost starved from famine, waiting for the daily expected bat- tle between the allied armies‘and Russia, and were constantly falling by our side from fever or exhaustion, and when the actual battle took place I felt that we might as well fight to the death as be mowed down by hunger, and I prepared fora last des- perate struggle. ‘‘When the order to charge right in the teeth of the Russian batteries and capture the guns was heard we gritted our teeth and swirled madly up the hill. The belch- ing of the cannon and the constant dropping of dead men from their horses were horrible, and when a fourth of our number came ‘out of the mouth of hell,’ it seemed to us nothing short of a miracle. I have wounds on my arms, my side and my head now as relics of that terrible charge, and for weeks and months I lay on the verge of death. In the course of time I was promoted from the ranks until I commanded aregiment of heavy cavalry, but military life began to pall upon me, and when I was thirty-seven years old I received the news of my father’s sudden death. I sold ont my commission and went home, determined to lead a quiet life and cheer the declining years of my poor old mother. I found that most of my father’s wealth had dwindled away through unfortunate business speculations, but still we had a few thousand dollars left, and through the influence of friends I soon be- came superintendent of a railroad. ‘‘About this time the brightest gleam of sunshine entered my life, only to be suc- ceeded by darker gloom. I fell in love with a clergyman’s daughter—a beautiful, refined girl—and had she become my wife I should not now be the low creature thatIam. I centered my deepest affection on her, and she reciprocated ‘my love. I say she did, -| for I will never disbelieve her purity and innocence, a3 some did later on. Oneeven- ing she had been decorating the interior of achurch for the Christmas service to be held on the following day. Next moring she was found dead in her bed, with this letter lying beside her.” After searching his pockets, Brown drew forth an old leather pocket-book, from which he extracted a paper, greasy and torn in the folds. On being opened by the Judge, it read as follows: “It will be all over in a few moments; but, oh, my darling, I do not want to die. I was true to you, and [ will choose death rather than carry my disgrace into your life. I only ask that you, of all the world, will believe what I write. Last night, after the others left the church, I remained, put- ting the finishing touches to one of the de- signs, and Marsden, my father’s curate, as- sisted me. Just as I had finished, I noticed that he went to the door and locked it. I asked him why he did so, and then I saw the wild passion peering through his eyes. He said he had long loved me, and, know- ing that you had won my affections, his heart had been filled with jealousy and rage, but he had concealed his feelings uutil the long-looked-for opportunity had come. I should be his, or he would wreak his ven- geance on me. I shuddered and cried; I pleaded with him to let me go, and said I would never breathe a word to any one of what he had uttered, but he laughed at me and said if I did not yield he would keep me there until morning, and the world would believe 1 was a lost creature. “The more [ wept and pleaded the more maddened he became, until at last, in spite of my struggles and cries, he hurled me to the ground, and I lost consciousness. When I recovered he was gloating over his work, and said if I breathed a word to anyone he would kill me. He then unlocked the door and I staggered out into the night air, a lost, degraded creature. I saw before me only blackness and a blighted life, and I determined never to lookin your loving face again. When Iam dead you will find some one else who will love you; be happy with her. I disguised my feelings as well as I could when I arrived home, for I wanted my father to suspect nothing until all was over with me. I procured some strychnine from Dr. Oliver’s room while he was out, and when you look upon me again I shall be dead and cold. I would give worlds to feel. .your lips press mine but once again, but it cannot be. Iam blinded by tears so that I cannot see what I write. If you ever meet my betrayer, avenge my wrongs and mete out justice to him. Good- bye, my only love. I die with your name on my lips. Forgive me and do not grieve. It is better so. Farewell until you, too, shall eross the narrow river.” ‘‘This was the turning point in my life,” continued Brown, as the tears started from his eyes. ‘For atime I-walked about like a man almost insane. The blow had crushed me, and when the body of my loved one was covered up and placed in the earth, I took to drink to drown my sorrow. When the liquor fired my brain I cursed Marsden and swore that when I met him he should die by my hand. But he had disap- peared and many hinted that it was his desertion that had driven the girl to suicide, and not any violence that he had used upon her. **A bout this time my fortune received an- other turn. I had speculated largely in some land around the city of Melbourne, Australia, which a friend had written me was likely to greatly rise in value. Build- ing progressed so rapidly at that time that one day, to my surprise, I learned that my property was worth fully $100,000. The news, coming, as it did, when the drink fever had attacked me, I immediately or- dered the land to be sold, and as soon as I could obtain the money value of it I occu- pied my time in drinking and spending money in the effort to discover Marsden’s whereabouts, but without success. ‘‘Then I was seized with a desire to trav- el, and for several years 1 was a wanderer in foreign countries. I visited New Zea- land, China, Russia and other lands, spend- ing my wealth lavishly, and when I landed in America I was well-nigh penniless. For a while I knocked around the mining camps in Montana, and alternately gambled, drank and worked in the silver mines. ‘‘One day I was in a saloon playing poker when a man entered whose face seemed strangely familiar to me. But, try asl would, I could not remember where I had seen it. The man was thin and cadaverous in appearance, and there was something of the smooth, hypocritical religionist about him. I had been drinking hard for several days, and felt inclined to quarrel with any- one. Soon this smooth-tongued fellow took part in the game and won every time. At last I discovered -him drawing a card from his sleeve, and I called him a cheat anda liar before the crowd. _ “As I did so the knowledge flashed through my mind that he was the betrayer of my dead girl—the villainous wolf in sheep’s clothing. I yelled, ‘You are Mars- den, the curate!’ and as he answered back, ‘Yes, you devil, I am! he drew his six- shooter and fired. The first shot missed, me and before he could send another bullet Pee I laid him dead upon the floor. Then I told the boys what I have told you, and they said I had only done right. I went through a formal trial, but I was acquitted, and thus I avenged the wrong done to her I loved. How he had lived in the interval, and whether he recognized me or not, I do not know any more than he knows how I be- came a drunkard and a gambler. . “After that I stopped drinking for many years. By dint of hard work and good for- tune I amassed a small fortune and then Started on a journey to India. New scenes seemed to relieve my life of some of its gloom, and, finally, when I had regained my lost respectability in appearance and mode of life, met a lady who had also ex- perienced great trouble, and I married her. “For two years we lived together har- moniously, and I even began to feel happy. But one day while I was away hunting with a party of friends I became parched with thirst. There was nota drop of water to be had, and never dreaming of the effect it would produce upon me I drank some whisky from a friend’s flask. It set my brain on fire again—the old craving came with redoubled force, and in three weeks I had lost control over myself. I treated my wife cruelly. In my drunken fits I accused her of every possible crime, and threatened to kill her. This only lasted a short time, however, for she secured a divorce and said she would have me arrested if I did not leave the country. “I did so, and have since sunk by degrees until no one would ever recognize in me the dashing, noble soldier who braved death in battle. I have tramped through most of the states of the Union. At one time I tried to work, and acted as agent for a patent burg- lar alarm, but the people seemed to think that I was more dangerous than the burg- lars, for they set their dogs on me. Then I tried to sell a machine for cleaning win- dows, but the first time I tried to show a merchant how it worked I smashed his win- dow and ran away. ‘Since arriving here, about three months ago, I have done a little work, but do not deny that 1 am a vagrant. Judge, I never realized until last night, when I passed the first hours of my life behind prison bars, what a degraded being I am. I have stil strength to work, and before heaven I swear that I willbe a man again, if you will set me free to work honestly and with - a chance to become respectable once more.” The old soldier’s voice had a sterling ring about it, and Judge Lawler’s heart was touched. He looked at the man for a mo- ment and then said: ‘‘For all I know, every word you have told me may be an unmiti- gated lie; but you are an old man, you are one who has evidently moved in a good cir- cle of society, and I do not believe that you would perjure your soul to evade the slight punishment which could be inflicted on you. I shall, therefore, give youa chance to ful- fill your promise, but you must leave the State immediately.” >> a Not Fitted for the Business. From the New York Tribune. “Johnny,” said a Seventh avenue grocer to the new boy, ‘‘what kind of butter did you send over to Henderson’s?” ‘Some of the prints here,” said the new boy respectfully. “Oh, great howling Cesar,” groaned the grocer, ‘‘sent ’em some of that good butter just after I have got ’em down to this here in the barrel! Sent ’em the best butter in the store just as I finish a two years’ course of getting them down to the barrel butter! Give ’em a taste of good butter after I had got ’’em so they thought this barrel butter was the best in the world! And still you say you hope to own a grocery store some day! The taste of that butter you sent ’em will awaken all their old slumbering desires for good butter, and I’ll have to work an- other two years giading ’em down a little poorer each time, before I'll get ’em where there’s any profit on ’em again! “You might just as well put on your coat an’ go first as last; groceries ain’t your line. You better go into the ministry, or get a job on a ferry- boat. > -6 Why He Paid Cash. Grocer—How is it, Mr. Swartman, that you are so particular ta pay cash now-a- days? You used to run a weekly bill. Customer—I know I did, and you would always give me a cigar when I squared up Saturday night. Grocer— Yes. Customer—Well, it was smoking that ci- gar that impelled me to pay cash. 9 The Silent Partner. From the New York Sun. ‘What's that awful racket in the back room?” inquired a customer of one of the clerks. Somebody trying to yell the roof off?” ‘It?s the silent partner, sir; the firm is after him for more money.” PERFECTION SCALE The Latest Improved and Best. DOES NOT REQUI Will Soon Save its ton any Counter. GEO. C. WETHERBEE & CO., Detroit. For Sale by HAWKINS & PERRY, Grand Rapids. McCAUSLAND & CO., E. Saginaw 4nd by Wholesale Grocers generally. Send f trated Catalosne- “am : 2 > jaa as Fie Tan om BA, STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. - Subgoription—One Dollar per year. Advertis- ing Rates je known on application. Publication Office—49. Lyon Street, Grand bscripti: this are not discontinued at ex- = piration, canes a: ericsed by the subscriber. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, JULY 11. 1888. THE MILK IN THE COCOANOT. Massachusetts has probably given more attention to the subject of food adulteration than any other state in the Union, and the report of the chemist in charge of that de- partment of work is therefore suggestive. During 1887, he examined 1,676 articles of food, 1,178 of which proved to be pure and 498 to be adulterated. Of the impure, only a very small portion, and these rarely used in large quantities, were found to be adul- terated with ingredients deleterious to health. Thechief of these were molasses, of which 25 samples out of 85 were found to contain corn glucose or salts of tin, or both; baking powders, of which 21 samples out of 29 were found to contain alum and ex- tract of almonds, 2 samples out of 9 being found to contain nitro-benzol. Nearly all the adulterants were found to be harmless ingredients added to cheapen the product, and the purchaser, while being defrauded, - was injured only in his pocket. Referring to the result of these investigations, the Chicago News strikes the key-note to the situation in the following fashion: The American people are bargain-hunters; they buy things because they appear to be cheap. To accommodate them much of the food is adulterated. Coffee is cheapened with burned rye and chicory; ginger con- tains rice and cornmeal; allspice has buck- wheat; honey has glucose; butter has lard, and lard has tallow; maple sugar has mus- covado; olive oil has cottonseed oil, and so on to the end of thechapter. The manifest remedy for this is for people to patronize reliable dealers and pay fair prices for their goods. If they invite fraud by demanding cheap goods they are more than likely to get both. The promptness with which the G. R. & I. Railroad conceded the request that 1,000 mile tickets be sold for $20 speaks well for the fairness of that corporation and _ be- tokens the wisdom of the management. WHY NOT? Written for THE TRADESMAN. In the calculations of those engaged in growing fruit and vegetables for market, the first and prime consideration is and should be, ‘‘At what cost can the crop be produced ?” Cost is only comparative. The amount of cash outgo, representing so much labor, whether cheap or dear, is only a comparative amount. It may cost you one dollar to prepare a bushel of potatoes for the market, yet, if the net return is $1.25 the enterprise is profitable. On the other hand, if grown atacost of twenty cents and only fifteen cents can be realized the return is unsuccessful, Nearly every grower of vegetables in the Southern States can grow cucumbers, and when they are salable at $1 per dozen they are profitable, but a large amount cannot be grown at that price. Whynot? Simply because only a very few can afford to use them at high figures. But cucumbers for pickles, gherkins, etc., can be grown abun- dantly; why won’t they sell at a profit? The answer is, that to be suitable for pick- ling they must be fresh picked and cheap. Men who have an established brand, which is a guarantee of excellence, cannot afford to use any yellow or withered stock, and getting them at home they save the freight. Another reason is that the picklers are not ready to take hold, and they cannot afford to keep their establishments open unless they can be sure of a steady supply. Again, the peach grower says, ‘‘Why should a shipment of 1,000 bushels of peaches break the marketin July anda shipment of 15,000 bushels in September bring just as much, or more?” Michigan can put her fifty to sixty thousand baskets on the market and all are absorbed steadily and easily, as a matter of fact occurence. Tennessee and Mississippi will get little over freight if one-tenth of the amount is placed on sale. Why is it? The reason we assign is that the thrifty housewife will not can peaches for winter use in the heat of summer and take the chance of the fruit spoiling in the intense heat when she can as well avoid the chance. It is poor policy te take any chances that can be avoided. The same remark will apply to plums large- ly used for canning or preserving purposes. There is a great dislike to putting them up until cool weather comes, so that the de- mand is exclusively from street peddlers and for immediate use. The great bulk of the demand comes from canners and pre- servers, and they prefer to take no chances through the hot weather when: they can get a better supply later in the season. Those who preserve fruit largely for private con- sumption go on a vacation during the heated term of July and August, so they are not here to buy; and it is a fact that northern grown fruits reach the market with a finer flavor and a better quality than southern products. ‘There is more time to ripen on the tree and vine, and the riper the product AMONG "Mrs. Z. Pixley has sold her confectionery stock at 184 West Fulton street to J. Haldi- Max Simpikovsky has engaged in the bakery business in the Hake block on East Bridge street. Oscar Hayes is erecting a store building at 58 Second street, which he expects to occupy with a grocery stock. ¥F. L. Blake succeeds F. L. Blake & Son in the grocery and bakery business at 232 and 234 South Division street. Richard Van Bochove succeeds Van Bochove & Sanford in the drug business at the corner of West Fulton and Straight streets. A. J. Jones, formerly engaged in the grocery business at Fremont, has opened a grocery store at Marion. Arthur Meigs & Co. furnished the stock. Smith & Linderman have sold their gro- cery stock at 670 Cherry street to Albert P. Hurlburt, formerly engaged in the grocery business on Colfax street. J. Jacobs has removed his grocery busi- ness from the corner of Shawmut avenue and Jefferson street to a more advantageous location on West Bridge street. grocery business at the corner of West Leonard and Jennette streets. Olney, Shields & Co. furnished the stock. A. Himes, recently from Oswego, N. Y., has opened a wholesale and retail wood and coal yard on Shawmut avenue, between Winter and West Division streets. Office under City National Bank. H. Leppink, formerly in the employ of S. P. Bennett, has formed a copartnership with C. H. Joldersma, formerly engaged:-in general trade at Jamestown, under the style of Leppink & Joldersma. The firm will ‘engage in the coal and wood business on Grandville avenue, having an office at 115 Monroe street. A. W. Curtis and O. Curtis have bought the grocery, crockery and notion business of O. C. Benedict, at Owosso, and will con- W. & O. Curtis. They will also continue their grocery business on South Division street for the present. The Curtiss & Dunton paper stock has been purchased at private sale by Julius. Houseman, who has placed John L. Curtiss in charge until more definite arrangements as to title, firm name, etc., can be effected. The store was opened again on Monday, for the first time since the assignment. Walton and Oliver C. Shultz will resume their old positions as traveling and city salesmen, while Douglass Gilmore takes his former place as house salesman. AROUND THE STATE. Edmore—A. P. Curtis, grocer, has sold out. Jonesville—Ira R. Bentz succeeds W. F. Taylor in the grocery business. Jenisonville—Martin Gezon has moved his general stock to Jamestown. Hopkins Station—Wolfinger & Gilligan is the name of the new drug firm. Fife Lake—C. D. Wagner is selling out his grocery business to E. H. Foster. Constantine—Gladding & George succeed Benj. O. Gladding in the drug business. Fremont—O. E. Chapman succeeds Chap- man & Scofield in the grocery business. Lake Linden—P. Bissonette succeeds Friederichs & Bissonette in the meat busi- ness. = Mancelona—Barnhart & White have sold their meat business to Dickerson & Eddy, of Bellaire. Kalamazoo—Huntley & Baker succeed Hart & Stearns in the agricultural imple- ment business. ie Ironwood—P. & C. E. Johnson succeed S. Bjornson & Co. in the grocery and crockery business. Detroit—J. L. Hudson has purchased the Geo. A. Sheley gas fixture stock at 172 Woodward avenue. Muskegon—Henderson & Frazer succeed Henderson & Peterson as proprietors of the Muskegon City Mills. ee Fruitport—C. N. Addison’s store and grocery stock were recently destroyed by fire. The loss was about $2,000, half covered by insurance. i’ Garden—J. J. Rigney and M. J. Sullivan have purchased the general stock of #. Clark & Co. and will continue the business under the style of the Garden Stove Co. Detroit—Partridge & Gamble will open a carpet and curtain house at 221 and 223 Woodward avenue. Mr. Partridge was formerly vice-president of Metcalf Bros. & Co. STRAY FACTS. Muskegon—W. H. Fletcher: has open amilk depot and lunch room at 54 West Western avenue. Detroit—Charles T. Fletcher, Jenks, George C. Bogue and James Whit- ney, as general partners, and Alice H. Du- charme, Sarah E. Duncan and Theodore P. into a limited copartnership and will carry on a wholesale hardware business. The special partners each contribute $50,000. Saranac—The litigation between Walker & Son and the Gunn Hardware Co., of {Grand Rapids, has been compromises by m exchange Mr. Gunn’s taking the stock for his mortgage for $2,100, all suits on both _|sides having been discontinued. The stock , at which inventoried about $1,650 which figure Gunn was he tock before he began _| by Happy Hi. Robertson. W. M. Smith & Son have engaged in the} tinue the business under the style of A.J. M. K. | Sheldon, as special partners, have entered MANUFACTURING MATTERS. + Detroit—The Buhl Stamping Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $25,- 000—10 per cent. paid in—for the purpose of engaging in the manufacture of pressed tin, iron and brassware. Evart—M. Belanger has bought John Hughes’ interest in the pail factory of Hughes & Chariton. The new firm will put in machinery for the manufacture of pea- vies, cant hooks and other lumbering tools. -_—>-0 Gripsack Brigade. ~The Owosso traveling men are consider- ing, with fear and trembling, the idea of challenging the Grand Rapids ball tossers. John P. Oggle, traveling representative for the Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co., at Hol- land, married Miss Lillie Bright in this city last Thursday. John H. McIntyre takes a “‘lay off” next His route will be covered in the meantime .-Gideon Kellogg, of the Chicago belting factory of Kellogg, Ducey & McCauley, sold a 20-inch double belt, 136 feet long, to Batchellar & Sons, of East Saginaw, one day last week. F. R. Miles, attired in a handsome yacht- ing suit of the newest style, left Saturday ‘for Macatawa Park and may be found at that popular resort during the next two ‘weeks, dispensing his sunny smiles. Contrary: to expectation, ‘‘Hub” Baker has not found it necessary to resort to stoga ‘boots since he became a resident of Paris township. The nearness of the street car line to his home makes such a contingency unnecessary. Detroit News: Among the callers at J. L. Hudson’s this morning was a female drum- mer whose territory is the State of Mich- igan. She was a pleasant little body, talked like a house afire, handed her card out like a veteran of the road, and was as full of good hits as ‘‘Sam’l of Posen.” The ball game played by the Grand Rap- ids traveling men last Saturday was an im- provement over the game of a week before, the score standing 25 to 9 in favor of the nine selected to go to Detroit. It is now ‘stated that the Detroit boys will be ready to meet their Valley City opponents the latter part of the present month. Having secured twe important conces- sions from the G. R. & I. Railroad, the ‘traveling men should now renew the agita- {tion in favor of making 1,000 mile tickets ‘purchased of either the D., L. & N. or the ‘C. & W. M. Railways good over both lines ‘of road. Solong as both roads remain un- der one management, there is no valid rea- son why this concession should not be granted. The Iowa Protective Travelers’ Associa- tion has issued a circular in which it is stated that the Association was organized salesmen and adopting methods which would permit of an upright and legitimate sale of goods. Heretofore prices have been made for rebates given and unscrupulous methods resorted to that no honest jobber or salesman could contend with. The Association promises to eradicate these evils, the members pledging themselves not to cut prices on goods, with penalties attached, and to use every effort to have the same enforced. a Purely Personal. The condition of Randall Hawkins, who has been dangerously ill for a couple of weeks, is improved. Geo. A. Petts, editor of the Saranac Local, was in town Monday to meet his daughter, who lives at Hudson. - Miss Nellie Harley, stenographer for Rindge, Bertsch & Co., is spending her summer vacation with friends at Defiance, Ohio. Neal McMillan and Jackson Coon, the Rockford . druggist and boot and shoe dealer, sailed from Ludington yesterday eruise of the Lakes, to be gone about three weeks. Lester J. Rindge has not given his bus- iness any attention for about ten days, during which time he has been a constant attendant at the bedside of his daughter, Annah, who is dangerously ill with inflam- matory rheumatism. Her symptoms are better, but the danger is by no means past. Capt. C..G. Perkins came up from Hen- derson, Ky., Monday, to commune with his business associates in the Hazeltine & Per- kins Drug Co. He will leave Thursday for Boston, in company with Dr. C. S. Hazel- tine, Col. Geo. G. Briggs and Dr. J.B. Parker, to attend a meeting of the directors of the Peninsular Novelty Co. They will go by the Thousand Island route, and will be joined at Buffalo by .Geo, E. Parker and Edward O. Ely. Bank Notes: pa J. D. Leland succeeds A. T. Nichols as President of the.First National Bank of Corunna. The Bank has declared a semi- Charieg Cf annual dividend of 5 per cent. John Torrent has resigned the presidency of the Merchants’ National Bank of Mus- kegon, and is succeeded by M. Wilson. of directors. '. Ninety-four thousand dollars was dis- bursed by the July dividends of the seven banks of this city, as follows: Old National, 4 per cent., $32,000; Grand Rapids National, 4 per cent., $20,000; National City, 4 per cent., $20,000; Fourth National, 4 per cent., $12,000; Fifth National, 3 per cent., $3,000; ° Kent County Savin 5 per cent., $2,500. ake ee week to indulge in a fishing expedition. | for the purpose of affording protection to| with a party of eight other gentlemen for a | Mr. Torrent still remains on the board|3 Detroit Drug Notes. Stanley E. Parkill and Jaco» Jesson, of the Board of Pharmacy, were in Detroit. last week on their way to Star Island. Geo. Gundrum, of Ionia, E. T. Webb, of Jackson, and Frank Inglis, of Detroit, com- prising a majority of the Executive Commit- tee of the M.S. P. A., held a meeting on the steamer Ward on the way to Star Island and made arrangements for the coming meeting. ‘The Detroit druggists’ base ball team, consisting of Messrs Stevens, Allen, Con- nor, Perry, Andrus, Inglis, Poole and Len- hart, play the Cleveland druggists Friday, July 13, at Cleveland. The Detroit drug- gists have been having plenty of practice and are goingintowin. Messrs. Vernor and Dupont will go with their Detroit brethren and carry arnica, witch hazel and court plaster, for use in case of necessity. Everything is progressing favorably for a rousing meeting in September. Rooms for |the various meetings and for the exhibits have been secured. Mr. Vernor has been doing great work and has gone to Star Island to put in a few weeks at fishing and recreation. He will be in condition to tell some unusually big fish stories on his re- turn. : Local Secretary Vernor, with all the work he has had on hand, has not forgotten the ladies who are expected to be in Detroit during the meeting, and has appointed a committee of twenty-five Detroit ladies to see that ladies from out of the city are well cared for. ———— Saginaw Jottings. The Michigan Salt Association still holds salt at 60 cents per barrel for Michigan con- sumption and 50 cents for competing mar- kets in the West. The manufacturers out- side of the Association sell considerable quantities at acut of 21% cents per barrel below pool prices. The James Stewart Co., Limited, is building a fine three story and basement building, 60x120 feet in dimensions, at the corner of Washington and Tuscola streets. The basement floor will be several inches above high-water mark, so that Stewart and his associates will not be compelled to cultivate the swimming habit hereafter. They expect to take possession of the new premises about November 1. Heavenrich Bros. & Co. have in contem- plation the establishment of a branch store either at Duluth or Marquette. Few men can show better progress dur- ing the past decade than G. W. Meyer, President of the East Saginaw Mercantile Association. ‘Starting with $300 and a worthless note for $50,” as he expresses it, he has built up.a good business in the dry good and grocery line and is the happy possessor of. as fine a residence as any man need ask for. © E. B. Woodward, at one time engaged in the hardware business at Kalkaska, is now on the road for the mill machinery house of F. B. Wiggins & Co. a ce The Match Business Thirty-five Years Ago. ‘‘f well remember when D. M. Richard- son started in the match business at De- troit,” said James Stewart, the East Sag- inaw grocery jobber, the other day. ‘‘My father managed a line of lake boats, and I used to be around the docks a good deal of the time. When Richardson first began making matches, the vessel. owners were afraid to transport them, and their refusal to take them made Richardson nearly fran- tic, as ruin stared him in the face if he could not utilize water transportation. The matter was compromised by several of the vessels putting in magazines which would prevent a general conflagration in the event of the combustion of the matches. It was a good many. years before the prejudice against matches on the part of vessel own- ers was overcome.” ——__s>-. a —_ On the Market Again. Wm. H. Tibbs, Chas. F. Cobb, Frank H. Escott and several others have organized a stock company under the style of the Tibbs & Cobbs Co., to revive the manufacture and sale of ‘‘Heptonic,” which still enjoys a considerable reputation as a_ proprietary remedy. —_—_———_4 New at the Business. Young housekeeper (to Butcher)—Have you roast beef? Butcher—Yes, ma’am. ‘To you keep it on ice?” ‘s_-- Association Notes. The Kalamazoo B. M. A. hasrungina change on the Blue Letter by printing a list of the members of the organization on the reverse side of the sheet. The official notification of the State conven- tion having been sent out to the local auxil- iaries, the members of the latter should cast about for the selection of the most represent- ative men in each community. Petoskey Daily Resorter: The Business Men’s Association is an organization formed for mutual assistance and the promotion of all public interests, especially those important matters which are ‘“‘everybody’s business and nobody’s business,” and it has already been a great help tothe place. Petoskey Independent: Ata meeting of the Business Men's Association, held in the Coun- cil chamber Thursday eyening, a communica- tion was received from the managers of the Bay View Association in regard to having a sidewalk built from Bay View to Petoskey. The Association discussed the merits of the communication and decided to present it at the next meeting of the Council, with a request that favorable action be taken thereon. Cheboygan Tribune: Atthe meeting of the Business Men’s Association, Monday night, the papers were requested to urge upon our citizens the importance of decorating their places of business and homes on the occasion of the meeting of the State Association in our village next month. The committee appoint- ed to raise money for entertaining our guests reported that in two hours Monday they had secured the subscription of $250, and that some of the subscribers said that if more mon- ey was needed they would double their amounts. ——»1_2a___ Capital Learns a Lesson. Village workingman—Well, sir, ready. Enterprising citizen—Ready for what? Village workingman—You spoke some time ago about building a factory to help the town along, so we’ve been hard at work getting in shape for it. We've formed a trades federation of all the workingmen in the country, and after a great deal of trouble have at last settled on how many hours we will work, what time we will stop, what wages we want, what hands’ you can employ and what you _ can’t, what foreman and superintendent you must have, and all the other little things which workingmen have a right to demand. You saw the accounts of our meetings in the papers, I suppose? Why don’t you rush up that factory? Enterprising citizen—1l have no capital now. Village workingman—No capital? Enterprising citizen—No; I turned it over to the State Board of Lunacy to hold in trust for me, and instructed them that if I ever asked for the principal they should put me in a strait-jacket. ———q2> 2a Interesting Meeting of the East Saginaw Association. An interesting meeting of the East Saginaw Mercantile Association was held last Friday evening, at which time two new members were added to the list. Reports were made by sev- eral members, conclusively showing the ef- fectiveness of the Blue Letter collection sys- tem. A report was also made on the man Smith, who threatened to sue the Association for placing his name on the delinquent list, showing that he owed nearly $500 to members of the Association, one account being over seventeen years old. If the man wishes to be shown up in his true light, he can be accom- modated by bringing suit at once. The editor of THE TRADESMAN addressed the members at some length, when an adjournment was taken to Thursday evening, when delegates to the Cheboygan convention will be elected, x7 2a ____ Good Report from the Davison Association. ' DAVISON, July 5, 1888. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Str—I herewith hand you a few names for the State sheetsand also one to save ink on, also $1.25 for dues on five new members recently admitted to our Union. Our Blue Letters have just commenced to bear fruit. They make some of the business men’s. faces broad, but—well, some of our dead-beats are wrathy. to tind that at last they must be men. We have more applications for membership to act upon at our next meeting and think we shall make our little number up to forty be- fore winter. I could write you more, if I had Yours truly, — L. GIFFORD, Sec’y. we're le. : _—_—_ Oo __W.8. Fleming, Roxana: “I received a sam- ple copy of your paper the other day. I think ita No.1 paper. Enclosed you will find $1, for oblige a well-wish TRADESMAN how we spent the towns were closed from 9 o'clock until 5] chiefly confined to the treatment safely at 8:30, after which the steamer return-| Asthma an English Standpoint. | From the Chemist.and Druggist. oe _ In 1879 a craze originated in America for asthma cigarettes, of which cubebs formed an important ingredient, and which were recommended for catarrhal affections. Prior to that period the use of the drug had been gonorrhea, though cubebs formed a princi- pal ingredient in some proprietary lozenges. ha cigarettes soon became extremely fashionable in America, and a few specu- lators: bought up every parcel of cubebs upon which they could lay hands in the European market, with the result of quickly forcing up the price of the drug 10 per cent. or thereabouts: The enormous demand then prevailing for cubebs may be illustrat- ed by the fact that in February, 1880, no less than 737 bags of cubebs arrived at New York in a single shipment. Stimulated by the high prices prevailing, the production in Java had extended considerably, but by this time the American speculators had ob- tained a tight grip of the article, and man- ipulated at will, sometimes flooding the Europeag market with large shipments in order to momentarily depress the values of the drug and secure at a low rate any par- cels which second-hand holders might offer. At the same time all sorts of tricks were resortel to in order to keep alive the de- mand for the article in America; but the asthma cigarette craze had by this time subsided. Notwithstanding this, the Ameri- can speculators have continued their game, and as the article isa comparatively small one, they succeed without much difficulty in controlling the bulk of the supply; hence the continued high price of the drug. The consumption of the article cannot now be said tobe on the increase; in fact, during the last few years the imports in America have been falling off. At present our stock has been much reduced, and at the com- mencement of the month amounted to only 41 bags in the first. hand, while from £21 to £23 is quoted for stalky. or good, genuine berries. In Holland, the imports during 1886 amounted to about 200 bags less, less than half of which belonged to the ac- knowledged genuine variety. The Dutch market is now said to be very bare, the stock at Amsterdam not exceeding 1,050 pounds, 600 pounds of which are gray berries. If recent mail advices from Amer- ica can be trusted, the stock at New York is also very low, being estimated at less than 7,000 pounds, or barely sufficient for one month’s requirements. * * A few years ago a consignment of 19 bags of spurious cubebs was stopped by the New York customs’ authorities and destroyed. it was then announced that all cubebs im- ported into the United States would be subjected to a close examination, but if the parcels which are frequently purchased in London for the alleged purpose of exporta- tion to America are in reality shipped to that country, the vigilance of the American sera offices must have greatly relaxed of late. 3-2. Worth of Perseverance. In any line of business, the man who uses reasonable economy and has the ability to give fair management and the perseverance to hold on, will, in a great majority of cases, make a success; while, on the other hand, the one who rushes into whatever he has undertaken with a spasmodic effort to win all at once, as a general rule, wastes his energies and often fails for sheer want of perseverance. The man who starts in to do a day’s work and attempts to do as much in one hour as ought to be done in two, will usually find it necessary to take a rest, and while he is resting will lose valuable time which he evidently feels that he ought to make up, judging from the spasmodic efforts he will make when he starts into work again. But, at night, the man who works steadily, but perseveringly, will he found to have ac- complished the more, while usually he will be found in a much better condition to com- mence again the next day. So it is in business. One will seem to hustle around and make a considerable to- do over what he is doing, and,after wasting his energies in accomplishing what, by tak- ing a little more time, could be done with very little effort, and then, because, as he thinks, he fails to meet the success he imagines he should, becomes discouraged and is ready to make a change to something else. This, in a majority of cases, proves a loss, and in consequence he does not suc- ceed as the energy he displays would seem to warrant. Another man, while he may not make a great display of his energies at the start, will go to work more systemati- cally, and will have better opportunities to economize, and in many cases to manage better than when he attempts to rush matters. If he will but observe he will be ready to take advantage of any favorable circumstances that may arise. It always seems that the man who is constantly shift- ing about is always making a change at the wrong time, when a little perseverance would have brought him through all right. In all lines of business there are fluctuations, ups and downs, and in order to succeed we must persevere. It is when the odds seem against us that it seems the most important to persevere, —_———~- -6 <> Small and Large Associations. From the Pennsylvania Grocer. Associations which depend altogether upon numerical strength make a grand mistake; an organization may have a large membership and yet be totally lacking in the qualities which tend to make a powerful and successful association. It is a well- known fact that some of the smallest. or- ganizations: have accomplished more good work, have benefited their members more and have really overcome more evils than the associations which so proudly boast of their large numbers. The smaller associa- tions realize that they are weak, and go slowly along, cautiously feeling their way until the proper moment for action arrives, when they strike hard and win the fight. Larger associations strike out boldly, in many cases without counting the cost, and when too late realize that the ‘‘more haste the less speed.” It pays to be cau- tious and to be united before sweeping re- forms are attempted. - >a Fair Bargain. A dishonest man deserves to meet rogues and to be tricked by them, although, of couse, one man’s deceit does not justify an attempt to deceive him. The following il- lustration of ‘‘thief meeting thief” is from the California Pastoral. A certain ranch owner in the district of Monterey, a man who occupied a prominent position in Cali- fornia ‘‘in the thirties,” one day needed a few hides to complete a contract, and em- pie a man to furnish them on that same Was never Over-scrupulous in his manner of : | tractor, who needed them quickly of. ys ee Now, it was well known that this person W and at no advanced price, had applied to him. “I cannot bring them in to-day” remon- strated the vaquero (cowherd). “1 said to-day,” the ranchero replied. ‘But I have not the hides; and the near- est herd, except your own, is four or five leagues away.” “Before twelve o’clock to-night bring me the hides I need. Now go.” The jobwas done. The Vaquero was praised and paid. . But next day when the ranchero’s Indian went for his master’s cows, he found many of them missing. A chilling suspicion crept upon the ewner of the rancho. He mounted a horse, rode forth, and after due search, found the carcasses of his cows in the chaparral, in the upper end of a canon. He rode slowly back, his wrath rising meanwhile. “You villain, you killed my cows!” he cried furiously, when he had found the vaquero. “Certainly, sir, it was my only chance of filling your peremptory order,” was the calm reply. The ranchero was too shrewd not to see that he himself had set the trap in which he had been caught. He had to be content with storming and kicking the wily va- quero, who was only too happy to escape with such mild punishment. EAYON #LYON. Importers, Jobbers and Retailers of BOOKS, Stationery & Sundries, 20 and 22 (fonroo St., Grand Rapids, Mich. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. BOWNE, President. GEO. C. PIERCE, Vice President. H. P. BAKER, Cashier. CAPITAL, - - - $800,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts ef Country Merchants Solicited. CHAS. A. 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PLACE to secure a thorough and useful educationis at the GRAND Rapips (Mich.) Busti- NESS COLLEGE. write for Col- lege Journal. Address, C. G. SWENSBERG. HARDWOOD LUMBER. The furniture factories here pay as follows for dry stock, measured merchantable, mi.. culls out; Basswood, log-run................... 13 00@15 00 Birch, log-run...... Birch, Nos. 1 and 2.. Black Ash, log-run.. Cherry, log-run..... Cherry, Nos.1 and 2 Cherry, cull....... . Maple, log-run...... seeeet Maple, soft, log-run.......... Maple, Nos. land2............ Maple, clear, flooring......... ae white, selected........ Red Oak, log-run.............. Q Red Oak, Nos.1 and 2........... ....24 00@25 00 Red Oak, 4 sawed, 8in and upw’d..40 00@45 00 Red Oak, * ‘“ regular........ «80 00@35 00 Red Oak, No. 1, step plank.......... ; @ Ash, log-run........., ey: 14 00@16 50. Whitewood, log-run................ 20 00@22 00 White Oak, log-run......:...., TL LEI27 00@18 00 Snell’s ... | Blind, Shepard’s...................... dis Dardwatre. promptly and buy in full packages. AUGERS AND BITS. style.. 0.. who pay Ives’, old Douglass’. . Pierces’ .. Cook’s °... Bee Jennings’, genuine. RESSSSS ~~ oO sb &, BALANCES. BPTI 00 ee ee dis BARROWS. Railroad ......... eeeccccccce Garden 5 ee es net 33 00 BELLS. ANG oe care ee dis $ 60&10&10 COW seer discal ote dis 70 Da ee tie 80&15 Gono ee a ui8 25 Door, Sargent..................... dis 60&10 BOLTS. BROVG as, dis $ 0 Carriage new list........... sige ees dis 70&10 POW sc esc. Ae Ce ucen uted cana idis 50 Sleigh Shoe. dis 70 Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis Cast Barrel Bolts..................... dis 40 Cast Barrel, brass knobs............. dis Cast Square Spring................0.. dis Cast Chain oo ... dis Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis Wrought Square ...................... dis Wrought Sunk Flush................. dis Wrowine Bronze and Plated Knob MOMSD ee es and a dis Ives) Door dis BRACES. Barbers pe a ae dis$ 40 BaGkg Ss ee eon a ae dis 50&10 Spotlorde sie ee dis 50 Am Balle 0 ee ee dis Well. plai BUCKETS. $ 350 OE TABI ore ch ee eae é Well, swivel . 400 BUTTS, CART. Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis 60& Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint..dis 60&10 Wrought Loose Pin.................. dis 60&10 Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip sae age dis 60& Wrought Loose Pin, japanned........ dis 60& 5 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvez tipped oo. ees ee ee dis 60& 5 Wrought Table........................ dis 60&10 Wrought Inside Blind................ dis 60&10 Wrought Brass........................ dis %5 Bitrid, Clark's. (i080 7 ey dis %0&10 i dacs 60810 60810 net T0& — 70& Blind, Parker's: 6023500 dis Ely’s 1-10 (aes 65 EBRION ey ee e Ponce oe re mee G. D 35 Mausket. 0600 ee 60 CATRIDGES. Rim Fre, U. M.C. & Winchester new list....50 Rim Fire, United States -dis50 Central Wire.) 5 0 dis25 CHISELS. ‘Socket Firmer...... Socket Framing. Socket Corner.. Socket Slicks................. Butchers’ Tanged Firmer., ne Socket Firmers...... 70&10 70&10 70&10 70&10 COMBS, Curry, Lawrence’s.................... dis 40&10 HMotenkiss 02 ee dis 25 COCKS. Brass, Racking’s.:..00.0 2) 60 PRIOR ee ee 60 Bee ee 40&10 IONS) es ee ea a 60 COPPER. Planished, 14 0z cut to size.............. Bb 33 14xb2, 14X06, 142x600 31 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60................. 29 Cold Rolled, 14x46 00 oe BOGCOMB ee DRILLS Morse’s Bit Stock.................... dis Taper and Straight Shank............ dis 40 Morse’s Taper Shank................. dis 40 ELBOWS. Com. 4 piece, 6 in.................. doz net $.75 Corrugated: 20 ae dis20&10] &0 Adjustable 05.0 ee dis %&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 29 30 40 | WILE poe File Associa ‘Japanned Tin Ware... 5 | Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list. .dis ae S—N w List. : Nicholson’s. ... Heller’s ........... Heller’s Horse Rasps GALVANIZED IRON, Nos.16to2, 22and 24, 25and26, 27 List 12 13 14 15 Discount, 60. GES. GAU Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... dis HAMMERS, Maydole & Co.’8..............ccces eee dis MOI Se os ae dis Yerkes & Plumb’s.................... dis 40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 50 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 HINGES. Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3............0..005. dis 80 State per doz, net, 2 50 to 12 in. 4% 14 and longer... Screw Hook and Eye, % ... Screw Hook and Eye %....... Screw Hook and Eye %....... ae Screw Hook and Eye, %............. net Strap and Bee dis HANGERS. Barn Door KidderMfg. Co., Wood Champion, anti-friction.............. Kidder, wood track................... dis HOLLOW WARE. EOtg) ae a es re Kettles........ BDIGGrS eel a oh Gray enameled...............02....00". HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Stamped Tin Ware.............. new list BR FS SN Beseee 50&10 track dis 60&10 70&10 25 25 see. $11 00, dis 60 Granite Iron Ware.... HOES. Grup tos ee Grub 2... KNOBS—NEW LIST. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....... dis Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........ Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..... Door, porcelain, trimmings............. Drawer and Shutter, porcelain......dis Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.. ........... Hemaeite . 0... dis LOCKS—DOOR. 55 70 10 45 Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s dis ISPAMTOFG'S 6600 oe dis 55 55 55 INOEWHUES ooo bebe dis 55 LEVELS. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis MATTOCKS. Aa7e Hye. oe Si $16 00 dis 60 Hunt Eye. eo. ooo. eee $15 00 dis PRR Se ee: $18 50 dis 20 & 10 MAULS. Sperry & Co.’r, Post, handled............ dis 50 MILLS. Coffee, Parker8 C0.’8...............00000. dis 40 Coffee, P.S.& W.Mfg. Co.’s Malleables ... dis 40 Coffee, Landers, Ferry &Clark’s.......... dis 40 Coffee, Enterprise....................00.5. dis 25 MOLASSES GATES. Stebbin’s Pattern ................ *....dis 60&10 Stebbin’s Genuine...... ............. dis 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring.......... dis 25 NAILS —TRON. Common, Brad and Fencing. LOG TO) COG ® keg $2 05 Sand Faaav. oe Gd-and di adv... 2. oe 4a-and bd Sv... oe ee. Sd AGVONEE so dd fine advance... .. 6.6 ec Clineh nails, adv... cee. Finishing f 10d &d 6d 4d Size—inches f§ 3 2% 2 1% Adv. ® keg $125 150 175 200 ‘Steel Nails—2 10. OILERS. Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.............. dis60&10 Zine, with brass bottom............. .....dis 50 Brassor Copper... 2000... dis 50 Reaper ee :- per gross, $12 net | Hook’s ‘Olmstead’s . ----- 50&10 PLANES. Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy................. dis 40@10 Seiots Benes ee dis @60 ‘Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... ....... dis 40@10 Bench, fees. a -....dis @é0 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. ...dis20&10 PANS. hey, ACME: oo dis 50&10 Common, polished................. .....dis60&10 Dripping yoo ee Sb 6% RIVETS, Iron and Tinned...................... dis 55 Copper Rivets and Burs............. dis 50 40 | Gimp and Lace........72.277°"7 , dis 60 | 1X 25 | Extra Bailing...................0.0. . PATENT FLANISAED TRON. : ne Woo0d’s patent planished, Nos. 24to27 1 *B’ Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27 Broken packs \c ® © extra. ROPES. Sisal, % in. and larper 2000 Manila... ic eer eas SQUARES. Steel and Iron...... . wece Try and Bevels......... MICKO i205 SHEET IRON. Nos. 10 to 14 oo ao $ Nos. 15 to 17.... Nos. 18 to 21... Nos. 22 to 24... Nos .25 to 26... ae hocts Nov Thana dk 4 60 3 sheets No, 18 and lighter, wide not less than 2-10 ee os ae SHEET ZINC. In casks of 600 bs, # D.................. In smaller quansities, @ ®......77.7"°": TINNER’S SOLDER. No.1, Refined............0..........0... Market Half-and-half.....0.71.07°°""" Strictly Half-and-half......20°777).7°7° : TACKS. American, all kinds.................. Steel, all kinds............000°777 eae Swedes, all kinds...........7777' i Cigar Box Nails.............0077 Finishing Nails...............77! ee Common and Patent Brads......_1"" dis Hungarian Nails and Miners? Tacks. dis Trunk and Clout Nails................ dis Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails... _""" dis Leathered Carpet Tacks.......__/ ...- dis TIN PLATES. Ic, 10x14, Charcoal................ 6 IX, 10x14,Charcoal..............0..... IC, 12x12, Charcoal.................... ; 12x12, Charcoal................... IC, 14x20, Charcoal......22222707 707%: IX, 14x20, Charcoal.................... IXX, 14x20, Charcoal......727277777777777 9 IXXX, 14x20, Charcoal....222227220007277 ll 3% IXXXX, 14x20 Charcoal....... Sju eee. tee 18 IX, 20x28, Charcoal...............0000) DC, 100 Plate Charcoal... 000011" " DX, 100 Plate Charcoal....27727.07"" 777 DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal.....1.2.777."1777 DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal .....21777'27"7" Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 7 35 rates. Roofing, 14x20, IC... 2.0.22... 0.0000... Roofing, 14x90, 1X... Roofing, 20x28, IC........... (00222 Roofing, 20x28, 1X... TIN—LEADED. IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........... 6 60 IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........ IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne......__ ||” TX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne.... |). "| TRAPS. Steel Game... 60&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’e......... dis 35 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 60&10 Senate ve wea cs cite cl eee oa 60&10 S. P. & W. Mfg. Co.’s..... gene ea enero 60&10 Hotchkiss’ Mouse, choker...:. 0.3.3.2... 18c # doz Mouse, delusion..................... $150 : doz WIRE. Bright Market... .. 0.0 ooch eee dis 673 Annealed Market........... Sasser ee dis tat) Coppered Market................. i RRRAS KHRSSSSSSSSS C2 CO So-k RR 16 10 710 910 11 10 13 10 econ Tinned Market..... ............. .. as Tinned Broom........................... Tinned Mattress.............. ......022) Coppered Spring Steel................. i Tinned Spring Steel................ 0... i Blam Wenee. oe 8 Db Barbed Fence, galvanized................... 400 s¢ Painted -. oo 3 25 Copper. 02002 new list net IBPASR ee a new list net WIRE GOODS. Bright 2 Se dis 70&10&10 Screw VCR 26 cs aie een poaeeg te wooo uence eas is 10&10 Gate Hooks and Eyes............ dis 70&10&10 WRENCHES. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.......... Coe's Genumes. dis Coe’s Ptent A gricultural, wrought, dis Coe’s Ptent, malleable.............. dis MISCELLANEOUS. Hird Cages. 0 Pumps, .Cistern.. 2.605.200.0000 0 dis 15 Screws, new list.............0........... 0&5 Casters, Bed and Plate............. dis50&10&10 Dampers, American ..................... 40 Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods...d Copper Bottoms 50° 1S 75&10 50 3 Mh: FOR SALE BY =e Grand Rapids, &S™ Send for circulars and bock of testimonials. DIAMOND PREPARED —— HOOFING For all kinds of buildings re- quiring a good roof at less !price than any other. Anyone can put it on, READY TO APPLY WHEN RECEIVED. H. M. REYNOLDS Mich. ‘ET, Jr, & CO, Sole Manufacturers, Chicago and Philadelphia. WOONSOCKET and RHODE ISLAND RUBBERS Write for Fall Prices and Discounts b, R. MAYHEW, Grand Rapids, Mich, ee Boston and Lawrenee Felt and Knit Boots, NEAL’S CARRIAGE 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. the ORIGINAL, all others are IMITATIONS. More of our brand sold than all the other brands on the market. GRANITE FLOOR PAINTS The Ggeat Invention. Six Handsome Shades. Ready for use. DRY HARD OVER NIGHT, and are very durabie. Give them a trial, and you wiil be convinced that it does not pay to mix the paint yourself. ACME WHITE LEAD & COLOR WORKS They are DETROIT, Dry Color Makers, Paint and Varnish Manufacturers. CUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT OUT AND TAKE IT TO YOUR DEALER, IT WILL SECURE YOU A PRIZc. : ORTHERN > MICHIGAN AS A DAIRY REGION. - In this active and busy age, sophistical ‘theories find no abiding place in the human mind and people have little time or inclina- tion to trace out the subtle disquisitions of any subject that promises no practical bene- fit to themselves or others. In a former article, I alluded to the feasibility of dairy- ing as a promising branch of husbandry in the Northern part of this State. From the brief comments of the editor touching that reference, I inferred that a somewhat erroneous impression is held by many people in the lower counties as to our natural ad- vantages in this regard. In giving youa short synopsis of the dairy outlook here, I will religiously endeavor to abstain. frem coloring the picture or making state- ments that - would tend to leave a false impression, either pro or con. I will confine my remarks to that great tract of the Lower Peninsula north of a line drawn due west from the head of Sagi- naw Bay. Most people, when they view this lump of country, gaze at it through an inverted telescope whose lens reflects to their vision a swampy wilderness, infested with vampire mosquitoes during the short summer and bristling with all the frozen terrors of the ice king through a long, dreary winter. Now, let us examine a few of the ad- vantages and disadvantages of our climate and soil for cattle maintenance. We are about due west of an extensive dairy sec- tion in Ontario and Northern New York. On all sides but one are those great reser- voirs of equalization that tone down and temper the intensity of the winter cold. Why, even in Central New York, a region that leads dhe van of dairy production in the New World I have seen the face of the country buried under the accumulated snow of five months while the valley of the Sagi- naw was greening under April showers, and the ‘‘beautiful’ was getting thin in the Northern lumber woods. And such years are not always exceptions. When it comes to a question of feeding stock during the winter months, a farmer in the Mohawk or St. Lawrence Valley has no advantage in decreased foddering over his brother on the Upper Muskegon. One great drawback, however, to our seasons here is that the summer are generally clipped at both ends by early and late frosts. Sharp frosts in May are liable to'sap the life from the ten- der timothy and clover, to the ultimate detriment of the hay, and premature freezes in September sometimes sear the unripe cornfields. These are agricultural em- barrassments which time anda cleared up country will obviate. Many people imagine that this portion of eur State possesses no natural grass land. Without any coloring or exaggeration, the writer can truthfully assert that ‘‘successive crops of rye plowed under” are not needful on our virgin clay land tu form a fertilizer for the propagation of grasses. Probably such wise treatment of light soils would be productive of good results, but, until the heavy soil of Northern Michigan is utilized, dairymen will not have to enrich a seed bed for the sustenance of the future grass yoots. The new counties are not all pine barrens and sandy stump lands, but good, old-fashioned red clay, mulched with dark, rich loam, weighs down heavily in the scales of division between our varied soil charac- teristics. A good idea of the diversity and mixed make up of the land can be obtained by taking a glance over the timber from some eminence capable of giving a clear survey. Alternate belts of pine and hard- wood, with a natural longitudinal trend, tell us that sand underlies the pine, and clay the beech and maple, but, of course, there are exceptions to this rule, sometimes even | reversing the case entirely. 1f the polar end of the Wolverine State was always going to remain undeveloped, argument and logic would be vain expedients to plead for her natural dairy resources, but, as it is, ‘tthe hand of man is taming the wilderness, ‘and, at the same time, unearthing unex- pected capabilities in her equable climate and tenacious loam. As fine herds of blooded dairy stock as I ever beheld, par- ticularly Jerseys and Holsteins, graze on some of the improved farms in what is known as the lumbering regions of Michi- gan. The writer does not believe in setting forth the claims of any section of country in extravagant terms nor falsifying its natural adjunets. Such a policy is not only detrimental in itself but casts discredit on the people who resort to or favor its pro- mulgation. We have, as well as any other place has, many drawbacks, much that is ‘discouraging to the farming interests; but, for all that, agriculturalists who have pitched their tents among us in preference to competence from diversified farming. Mixed production is one thing that favors Northern Michigan for dairying. A section that produces all wheat, all corn, all tobac- ©0,. ‘or all cotton is generally not noted for its herds, its butter or its cheese. Old Ver- mont is a great dairy state, but I think that when Ethan. Allan guided the plow there among the rocks and stumps with the forest-clad Green Mountains frowning down upon him, the out-look for future develop- ment: in that direction was far less promis- ing to his eyes than the Pieper spread Ihave noticed that. ‘the industrious Swedes |" aA Germans here, always on the alert for | attract- North half of this Peninsula possesses any more advantages for the dairyman than the South half, but we do believe that the next generation will perceive no difference in the dairy status of the two sections, except a month longer winter feeding in the extreme North. I conversed recently with a lead- ing farmer and dairyman of Lake county, late of Drumbo, Ontario, who expressed great faith in the ultimate success of dairy- ing here. Ithink that when men who have becomefamiliar with dairy interests in dairy districts acquire a residence in our new counties and can speak with confidence of what the future will do for us in the way of a generous milk flow that their conclu- sions are worthy of respectful consideration. That great acreage of stump land and pine] ; barrens that is a bug-bear to many who actually believe that it covers the bulk of our territory, is not required at all for graz- ing purposes, as enough soil on which clover and timothy. will readily catch exits without it.“By the way, clover is the potent agent that is going to work out the salva- tion of our lighter soil and free the heavy loam of its sluggish tendencies. A plant that is a soil feeder and not a vegetable leech is a rich boon to the agriculturist. Geographically, Michigan is an Eastern State and emphatically not a Western one. When the home farm down on the Raisin or the Thornapple gets so small that it crowds the boys off, let them consult their own welfare and do justice to the State that gave them birth by establishing their col- lateral roof-tree somewhere within her bor- ders. In their laudable strife for agricul- tural promotion may they always remember that dairy cows, while they hold in check the impoverishment of our farms, produce an income more stable and remunerative than United States bonds. Gro. E. NEWELL. Ashton, July 1, 1888. ——JOBBER IN—— FOREIGN, TROPICAL AND CALIFORNIA FRUITS. Bananas, Our Specialty, 16 and 18 No. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. EY ar he 0) RUSS a By nbd asad Clon Wale aalelaah ae USE Ce Olas an Nol oe et ee okt bh Seon ta UAE Sole agents for Chicago Brass Rule Works, ror State of Michigan. Aga Oe Sea arar Surana ASS = - Cy ~ \og Lia suai > ~»” Aa a JULIUS HOUSEMAN, Pres., A. B. WATSON, Tr eas.. S. F. ASPINW ‘ALL, Secy. CASH CAPITAL, $200,000. WALL PAPER & WINDOW SHADES House and Store Shades Made to Order. Richmond & Seymour, MYGS. OF ALL EINDS acking Boxes, Shipping Cases, gg Crates, ete. é4and 6 Erie &t., GRAND BAPIDS SHELF BOXES. ‘ssSuamMvud Onud NELSON BROS. & Co., 68 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids. MOSELEY BROS., WH EHOLEISAILE Fruits, Seeds, Oysters & Produce ALL KINDS OF FIELD SEEDS A SPECIALTY. If you are in Market to Buy or Sell Clover Seed, Beans or Pota- toes, will be pleased to hear from you. 6 28, 30 & 32 Ottawa Street, © GRAND RAPIDS. Lorillard’s New “Smoking or Chewing” YELLOW JACKET [ONG UT. Packed in 3 oz, 8 oz. or 16 oz. Handsomely Decorated Papers. To be had of all Jobbers at the very low price of 20 CENTS per POUND. IT IS THE Mildest, Smoothest Smoke Ever Offered for Less than 30 Cents per Pound. THOMPSON & MACLAY, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Notions, Hosiery, Underwear, Furnishing Goods, Hic, 19 South Ionia Street, — - GRAND RAPIDS. No Goods Sold at Retail. - Telephone 679, REEDER, PALMER & CO, Wholesale Boots and Shoes. SYAYE AGENTS FOR LYGOMING RUBBER 60., 24 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich., TELEPHONE NO. 998. PERKINS & HESS DEALERSIN i des, Fu S, Wool & Tal Ow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. ee _ WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. . JALFRED J. BROWN, 2 cropping. 4 We ee believe that ‘the, JAVA MocHA, Jisic OF FEE WOOLSON SPICE CO Gaveas Crrv—as. TOLENO-OHIG. MERCHANTS | COFFEE Increase Your SALES AND PROFITS BY HANDLING JAVA MocHA: MoRIO COFFEE WOOLsON SPICE MGcHAr UAVA “9 FOS co. LION COFFEE. * IT GIVES ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION TO Consumers, anda is, Congequently, a Quick and Hasy seller. Lion Coffee has more actual Merit than any Roasted Coffee sold at the price either in Packages or in Bulk and storekee all over the State of Michigan and elsewhere who are not already handling Lion are urged to give it a trial. 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ALWAYS ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THESE GOODS. ‘BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT. _ it is,perhaps,not an easy matter for courts and juries to always decide equitably be- tween the plaintiffs and— defendants in slander and libel cases. Where the alleged offense is shown conclusively to be a case herein malicious or personal motives in- 7eites the act it is, of course, merély a ques- tion of damages, but. the fact is that not one suit ini'a hundred presents this feature. In the more common actions—those, for instance, brought against newspaper ‘pub- lishers—it is extremely seldom that the de- fendant is influenced-by any other than worthy and, morally, excusable reasons for his act. He regards the publication of the offensive article as a matter of interesting news which he is warranted in placing be- fore the public; or, he sees in it a duty he owes his readers, in warning them against a fraud or swindle; or, he feels himself justified in the interests of honesty and de- cency to pillory a hypocrite or an embezzler or a moral leper before the gaze of reputable and law-abiding citizens, and in any of - these cases the law that renders him liable to exemplary damage is an unjust and inex- cusable one. But, as the law exists, and as courts and juries continue to be employed in an attempt at balancing the scales of justice between rogues, swindlers, hypo- crites, frauds and moral lepers and those who deem ita duty to expose their iniqui- ties, is it not about time that those who sit in such cases began to be enlightened? Is itjnot about time that their attention should {be called to the fact that no intelli- gent, honest and comprehending man believes for a moment that any law is bind- ing enough or any oath sacred enough to make courts of jnstice the abettors and en- couragers of rascality? * * % * * * * I am impelled to the above remarks for the reason that, within a few months, a number of Michigan papers have been mulct- ed in various amounts or subjected to an- noying and expensive lawsuits for attempt- ing to guard the business community against frauds or impostors or for alrraign- ing disreputable members of that communi- ty before the bar of public opirion. With the objects which the editors had in view; swith no vindictiveness displayed; with only truthful and moderate language used, and with parties for prosecutors who had, by their own acts, wilfully forfeited the re- spect and good-will of honorable men, these cases emerged from the scope . of individual litigation and became a direct attack on the legitimate rights of the public. The public has a perfectly unassailable right to be warned against the prowling thugs of socie- ty, no matter what degree of thugism they may have attained, and he who gives the warning should be exempt from annoyance and expense. * * * * * There is no class of people who are bene- fitted more by timely exposures of the ama- teur or professional fraud than those who traffic in merchandise—for reasons too ob- vious for argument—and it behooves busi- ness men to demand for themselves and the public more practical, sensible and equitable legislation on the subject of libel. The law has been changed materially for the better during the last few years, but it 1s yet too easy for ignorant or prejudiced judges to rule against honest men in favor of dishon- est ones, and it still allows the-anomaly of a man who has no character receiving com- pensation for damages inflicted upon his character. If I hadn’t any real estate, a suit brought against John Smith for tres- pass on my fields would be summarily thrown out of court; but if I commenced action against John for inflicting injuries on a character which I didn’t possess, my suc- ess or failure would depend altogether on the attitude of the court and the intelligence or obtuseness of the jury. * * * * * It is interesting to note how readily the man without a character, or with only the shadow of. a character, can discover attacks upon his “‘reputation” in the newspaper columns. 2 _____ Is the Sugar Trust a Success? _ Brom the New York Commercial Bulletin. ; ill be most happy to meet them |: the destred had | cractionlly bese: attained before the rest of Z OLESALE PRICE CURREN T. r ‘The quotations ye below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers. time promptly and buy in full packages: ae who pay the trade or the general public were fully| convinced that such a vast combination was really contemplated; and immediately | ' thereafter, though known to be wincing un- der the attacks of the press, good, bad and ‘indifferent, the members of the combine stoically withstood the fusilade until, through their refusal to defend themselves, they ‘were no longer thought worthy of notice. Meanwhile, however, they had met and successfully to lay bare the vital secrets of the organ- ization and are credited with wielding a power that has since prevented legislation inimical to their interests. Having thus, as it were, secured a footing, the next and| most natural move of the combine was to make their position profitable, both for the present and thefuture. When the Mills bill was first reported in committee, the sugar | schedule then suggested met with no out- spoken opposition from the refining inter- est; but when the bill came before the House it was found to have been so amended as to give the refiner quite as many, if not greater, advantages than under the existing tariff. Members of the Ways and Means Committee frankly admitted that the charges had been made at the instigation of some of the larger refiners and in the ab- sence of any controverting testimony; |’ while it is understood that the combine keeps representatives carefully watching its pet duty measure in order to hold the rates according to the revision so shrewdly se- eured. In the meantime’ the local sugar market has been treated with a certain amount of contempt, by making purchases as much from parcels to arrive as circum- stances would admit, thus hoping to wear out the patience of holders—a policy that met with fair success until recently, when a hardening of tone has arisen through influences from primary points, and not from any power the selling element possessed. In fact, watchful, quick to move when circumstances required, and ied the efforts of both|- ‘national and state investigating committees ca eee 12 Victorian, L , (tall,) 2 doz. 2 Diamond, “bulk,” Red Star 4 b a 12 ae “ec 6s ois 66 rT . 66 Absolute, - ib cans, 100 cans in cas il Absolute, % i cans, 50 cans in case 10 apap he 1 } cans, 50 cans — a Bee Early Riser, 48,4 doz case 45 es, 2 90 oo am ao 6s * 160 BLU. Arctic, 4 sea r ‘nd 2 gross 3 = . Pints PNG. s2 BROOMS. NO. 2 MUP css coos oo sca tee No. 1 Hurl.... i No. 2 Carpet. No. 1 Carpet .. arlor Gem .... ommon Whisk ...........- Fancy Whisk.......-...... with plenty of capital for ‘‘expenses,” the | yi} trust has left nothing. undone to fortify its position, and the opposition is really weaker than it was last falland winter. So far as can be learned, importers and others most interested in tariff measures of reduction and reform have done practically nothing to show up the true inwardness of the duty schedule as it now awaits Congressional action. In this they have been grossly der- elict, and they must expect to suffer the consequences. Petty jealousies, hesitation, and at times an almost abject fear of of- fending the combine, have prevented any unanimity of .action toward meeting the trust among the local trade; and it does not require much of a prophet to suggest that, if Congress enacts a law embodying no greater reduction in sugar tariff than that now before it, or adjourns without changing duty at all, as many think will be the case, the crushing force of the monop- oly to which this market has become sub- ject will be felt with ten-fold force. The controlling hand may be to a certain extent clothed in velvet now; but the iron is poorly concealed, and it needs only opportunity to reveal the vast power possessed to mold the market almost entirely in the interest of the trust. —nur- > Oo The Grocery Market. The sugar trust is again showing its hand, having advanced refined sugars about 3-16c. during the past week. ‘The market is still strong and excited, with strong probability that. granulated may go to 8c. before the upward limit is reached. The trust holds the reins with a strong hand and is in complete control of the market. The package coffee manufacturers announced a decline of 13c. on Monday.~ Cheese is look- ing up again and the price is on an upward tendency. ‘HYDRAULIC COMPANY. PURE SPRING WATE The Grand Rapids Hydraulie| Company is prepared to furnish pure spring water to customers on its pipe lines, under adequate pressure on all levels, on appli- cation at the Company's Office, 76 Ottawa street, JOHN E. MORE, Secretary. WANTED! POTATOES, APPLES, FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or anything in the Produce line, let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. EARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grand Rapide. DRIED|a4 “ oe oe 6s i Breakfast.. { COCOANUT Sche ea = En cates clave ace 27 oP and %s.. 28 — ae 1s in tin pails.. oe 8 . itby’s is. SG ee Be Ma y's, fg “ot : Ks Manhattan, pails.. : eerless Bulk, pails or barrels. .16@18 COFFEE—GREEN BIOCHA:. 633 o.o. a ss. aoe Mandaling. cae OG Java.. JAaVB.....- Maricabo.. Costi ee. Rio, fancy.. Sas Rio, prime............ *16@17 Rio, common......... ..14@15 To ascertain cost “of roasted coffee, add %c per b. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. forshrink- e. " COFFEES—PACKAGE, — eee bi bee ion, in cab... Dilworth’s. 183, Magnolia...... 184 Acme: .-.....; 18% 18% 18% German ...... 18% German, bins. 19 Arbuckle’ s Ariosa 1834 Avorica 16% McLaughlin’s XXXX 183% COFFEES—50 LB. BAGS. Arbuckle’s Avoriea. ... ‘© Quaker City....... 19% s Best Bio. :. 32: . 2-60 20% “© Prime Maricabo.. .22!4 CORDAGE. 60 foot Jute..... .. 1 52 foot Jute ..... ok 49 Foot Cotton.... vf A 2 % 19% 50 foot Cotton.... 60 foot Cotton.... 72 foot Cotton........ CRACKERS. Kenosha Butter 5s. eee 1% Seymour Butter.. 8 7 Butter.......-..5- ‘| Family Butter. ‘(| Fancy Butter.. Butter Biscuit. i POG ee ecb ceo a oe ao mare pods Beye: -* ieee S. Oyster.. Ayhte Seve died Picnic. .3.5 0.2.3.6 BOL oiet sie 6 Fancy Oyster.. CANNED FISH. | Clams, | i, Little Neck.... Clam Chowder, 3 2 15 Cove Oysters, 1 ® stand...1 00 Cove Oysters, 2 stand...1 70 Lobsters, 1 b picnic. 1 %5 Lobsters, 2 1, picnic........ Lobsters, 1 D BURP. 3) css ees 1 95 Lobsters. 2 b star.......... 2 90 Mackerel in Tomato Sauce3 25 Mackerel, 1 stand........ ackerel, 2B stand........ ackerel,3 i in Mustard..3 25 ackerel, 3 i soused...... 3 25 Salmon, 1 Columbia...... 2 20 Salmon,2b ‘* 3 50 Salmon, 1 b Seer pense, -o1 90 Salmon, 2 ib 2 Sardines, domestic 3¢s.. Sardines, domestic %s. “ide Sardines, Mustard \s... 9@10 Sardines, imported %s. :12@138 Sardines, spiced, %s..... 10@12 Trout, 3m brook......... CANNED FRUITS. ples, gallons, stand... ..2 Appl kberries, stand........ Cherries, red standard.. Cherries, pitted...... 1 35@. Damsone....... ed: Eger Plums, stand.......... Gooseberries.............. i GADOS 200 o.oo seen ecu ; Gresn MGADOS,. co 552.5. ots Peaches, all yellow, stand. Peaches, seconds.......... Peaches, pie.......... 1 60@1 PORYB 6 ooo, Fos sav solide sicker Pineapples,........... 1 40@' MVITICOB Soo os ccc ss oo tie'o dois pberries, extra......... 1 o red 1 Strawberries... ed 1 2561 40 Whortleberries.. -.1 CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus, Oyster Bay.... Beans, ma, stand Beans, Green Limas. a Bg: foie ait DOB hs” b pal BS bat . SSRSESRRSKKSRLESSES » | Beans, String.. = ‘Tomatoes, Red Coa ples am mpoans, Stringless, ‘gue ans, L Lewis) Boston Bak.1 60 orn, Archer’ 8 aor Pry. se rT) nor Gold. ik Peas, French Peas, extra marrofat.1 2@1 oaked: fted ‘s French, extra fine.. Mushrooms, extra fine.... Pumpkin, 3 b Golden...... Succotash,standard. .. .80@. eabescceccocs Goud Enough? Boo4 Far 355. : afta bri 16@ nf od... 410 % cee eee ee Fre £0 D,C., He PEs 30 Ibs 60 bs gis Cc Kings: ‘Silver Gloss, i db i Boxes. ea Paige 7 : Xes . _ CHEESE. Michigan full cream...8%@9 22 65 ; Loose Muscatels..2 10 Cli Raisins, ire ee a. ae Rais: nD oi 8. gains Glas So ising, lencias..... Raisins, Imperials.......... 3 7 FISH. Cod, thong Soe e tees Sha be QA Cod, boneless..;..... ‘SAOt Haiput:..... 36... ckc2. Herring, round, % bbl. 2 i Herring, round, ¥ bbl. 150 Herring, Holland, bbls. 10 00 Herring, Holland, kegs 65@70 Herring, Scaled 25@28 Mack. sh’ T, No. 1, % bbl....8 7% os 66 “ White, Now 1s “1 “bbis re ea 6 75 White, No. 1, 12 Db kits..... 120 White, No. 1, 10 b kits..... 105 | White, Family, i bbls. ....3 00 FLAVORING renita: Jennings’ Lemon. Vanilla. 8 doz 1 35 “ No.3 Panel.. “No.4 Taper. ‘1 60 ** No. 8 panel...2 75 “* No,10 “ ...4 50 . % pint, rnd. -4 50 ne Standard Lemon. Vanilla. per gross. English 2 0z...... 7 20 9 60 “6 3 OZ.... FARTINACEOUS GOODS. Farina, 100 lb. kegs......... Hominy, @ bbl............. 4 Macaroni, dom 12 1b. box.. **_ imported...10 gu Pearl Barley......... - @3% Peas, Green.......... Peas, Split............ Sago, German Tapioca, fi’k or p’rl.. Wheat, cracked...... Vermicelli, import.. ‘ domestic... MATCHES. G. H. No. 8, square.. 95 - No9, square, 3 gro. 711 10 G: H: No. 200, ae ne 6d G. H. No. 300, parlor.. G. H. No. 7, sopad Oshkosh, No. 2 Oshkosh. No. 8 Swedish = Richardson’s No. 8 8q...... 1 60 Richardson’s No.9 sq...... 1 50 ehardson’s No. am rnd..1 00 Richardson’s No. 7 ane -1 50 Woodbine, a sooo 1B MOLASSES. — Black Strap.............. 17@18 Cuba Baking............. 22Q25 Porto Rico............2..- 24@35 New Orleans, good...... 33Q@A0 New Orleans, choice. ....44@50 New Orleans, fancy..... 50@52 \% bbls. 3c extra OIL. Michigan Test......... oe SOK Water White.....:.::...... 13 OATMEAL Bait ae eel OATS—ROLLED. RATTOIS eo a se sae 8 00 Half barrels ree 3 25 Rx Cases... 2 26@3 35. PICKLES. 50 Broken, 25 tb pails.. SALERATUS. DeLand’s pure.............. 5% PPUrens 8.506. 3 oe oe os 5 Taylor's G. MM. ..o 2.2... 8: 5 WOWAGAT So eb co 5 Sea Foam. <... 2.) 1222.02.05! 5g Can Sheat/:.. 2.25.0 oi.225.2.; 5 4gc less in a box lots. 60 Pocket, F vr D. Rus oui 215 BB POCKOS «2. ogo sei cicsaeie 0 58 2 05 - 3m pockets............. 2 25 naw or Manistee...... 85 Rehion. bu. bags........... 75 ae bu. bags. .... 2. .<: 2 75 Higging’ Serre Rest ciacecs a merica: u. bags.. Rock. bushels 5 Warsaw, bu. ‘Daga Sees eae = SAUCES. London Relish, 2 doz... ... 2 50 SOAP. Dingman, 100 bars.......... 400 Don’t Anti-Washboard.. ae » SAKOR) eee Sees, 2 ‘Queen Anne....,.......... : oo German Family.. eee ewes 2 49 SPICES—WHOLE. Avlspice 22... 6.380522. . S 8 Cassia, China in mats.. G% Batavia in bund. Jl Saigon in rolls..... 42 Cloves, Amboyna.......... 28 ss Zanzivar.:,.....-- - AND. fe STRENGWYf THESE GOODS ARE “PAR EXCELLENCE” Pure, Healthful and Reliable, warranted to give satis- faction in every particular. For sale by wholesale and retail grocers throughout tht United States. VouwlE Bros., Manufacturers, Cleveland and Chicago. ‘SOAPS! They Please Everybody. BEST FAMILY, HEADLIGHT and LITTLE DAISY SOAPS are conceded by all to be the best soaps ever sold in Michigan. Commendations are coming in daily. Send for price list. Order these goods el oy jobber in Grand Grand Rapids Soap Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL COAL and WOOD. t HIN write to or see the Grand Rapids Seed Store, ‘408A Street. E. A. HAMILTON, Agt., '101 Ottawa St., Ledyard Block. Telephone 90@—1 R. " TT Crown Prince! THE FAVORITE BRAND With Grocers. Orders from Retail Trade Solicited. Newaygo Roller Mills NEWAYGO, MICH. FESTEHR & FOX, Manufacturers’ Agents for SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHIN ERY, nd for { Catalogue 2 Prices. MANUF ATLAS INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A; ENGINE WORKS ACTURERS OF Ces-y Engines and Boilers in Stock — for immediate delivery. Planers, Matcher, Moulders and all kinds of Wood- Working Machinery, Saws, Belting and Oils. And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Senile Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. Write for Prices. 44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. DO YOU WANT A. In Aa een. Oe as I) La TA eT ip Tn If so, send for Oatalogue and Price-List to HHYMAN & CO. 63 and 65 Canal St., Grand Rapids. THE GENUINE ANTI-WASHBOARD SOAP QUICK, EASY, CHEAP. Saves Rubbing, therefore saves Labor & Wear a -Cheapin itself it more than saves its cost in sav- ing of the clothes. This Soap may be used in. any way and for any purpose that any other soap is used and excels all. YOU willsecure COMFORT and make money by its use. Try it once and if the claims made for it are not true don’t. | ~ use it again. If they are true you ought and wantto- “know it. Your grocer will get it if he hasn’t it. mrer—Jas. . Verna. samaing on Novoniber 6. 7and 8. Settee report at 9a. m. the second day cs State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. : sienna eee Detroi' rrood, _ Second Vice-President—H. a ne Gran Vice-President—Henry ‘Secretary—S. FE. Par one Treasurer—Wm. Du: awesee: 3 ee Commi: ace o. Gundrum, Frank aan! < AS H. Lyman, John E. Peck, E. T. Webb. 0: ——James Vernor, Detro: Next Meeting—At Detroit, September - 5, 6 and 7. Grand panids Pharmaceutical Society. RGANIZED | OCTOBER 9, 1584. President—H. E. Locher. 3 eee oe : Secre pone ott. : Treasurer—Henr, ot of atonal Vice-President and Sec- Board The President, ne nee has hain Geo. te. Committee fag is leat burg, Committee on a. Ww. Hayward, Theo. Kemink, W. H. Van Leuwen. Cammittes on Pharmacy—W. L. White, John Muir, pogular Meetings—First Thursday evening in each Annoel iooting—Pirst Thursday eveningin November. “President—J. W. ¥.Caldwell.. iF. - x Pies. ¥ tral Michigan Drageists’ Association. Senirat J. W. Dunlop; Secretary, R. M. Mussell. “Berrien County Pharmaceutical Society. President, H. M. Dak, Secretary, Henry Kephart. Clinton County Drogeists’ 2 peepehnsen, President, A. O. Hunt; Secretary, A. har ix Coun Dhan asenticats Socle nia | mae W. eraieea. Secretary, Geo. W. greg. Tonia Coun era ncruioel Pockety. | President, W. R. Wetiens Secretary, Geo Jackson County Pharmaceutical Ae President, C. B. Colwell; Secretary, C: E.'Foote. Kalamazoo Pharmnccutical aaeisuen President, D. O. Roberts; Secretary, D. McDonald. Mason County Pharmaceutical Society. President, F. N. Latimer; Secretary, Wm. Heysett. Mecosta County Pharmaceutical Society. President, C. H. “Wagener; Secretary, A. H. Webber. Monroe County Pharmaceutical. Society. President, S. M. Sackett; Secretary, Julius Weiss. Muskegon County Druggists’ Association, President, E. C. Bond; Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President, C. 8S. Koon; Secretary, Geo. L, LeFevre. Newaygo County Pharmaceutical Seeeny: President, J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, A. G.-Clark. Oceana County Pharmaceutical Society. President, F. W. Fincher; Secretary, Frank Cady. unty Pharmaceutical Seciety. Saginaw Co . President, Jay Smith; Secretary, D. E. Prall. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. mivencod-Geanalt Quinine. Declined—Chloroform, iodide potash, tabpentine. ACIDUM. Aceticum ............ 8@ Benzoicum,Germapn 80@1 ae. thae . Anchusa . Arum, po. Calamus. . Phosphorl cess ecg tee osphorioum Salieyli licum .......... st 70@2 05 Sulphuricum........ - 1405 1 40@1 60 Tanni 50@ 53 a 5 4@ 6 @ 18 R@ 4 on poe co ives Jal NILINE, Maranta, BACCAE «Cubebae (po. 1 60. Juniperus ......... Xanthoxylum....... BALS sages 85 &@ 10 Senega Symplocarpus, tidus, po Abies, Canadian..... Cassiae .............. Cinchona Flava...... Euoonymus atropurp Myrica Cerifera, po. Prunus Virgini...... eRrbeSS wimus Po(Ground 12) EXTRACTUM. ‘Glycyrrhiza rr: 2A@ tox, EB box. LO atox, ‘pox.. Haems “is BO RoR ERR oF Carbonate Precip... Citrate and Quinia.. Citrate Soluble....... @ 80 Ferrocyanidum Sol.. @ -50;-Rapa Solut Chioride....... 15 | Sinapis, Albu. ‘Sulphate, _ oe ces 1%@ Ni -@ G3 50 83 coo -Anthemis ............ -Matricaria.,........-. FO 56 Barosm Cassia AcutifoL, Tin- OUY 225s sets ose ; niv y ry} Alx Salvia officinalis, BS 8 8 ny certiage. : assau sheeps Acacia, a Pee “ carriage. “sé 66 3rd oo oe sorts. 4Aloe, Barb, (po, 60).. = Cape, (po. 20)... ** Socotri’, (po. 60) er 1s, (48, 14 Grass sheeps’ UBC... ....-200e “Assatoctide, (po. 30). -_Benzoinum .......... Camphorae .......... Eu ees po ie a Lerner »>Gambo ‘Gualacuin, Ps. 45).. Kino, (po. 25). Sree yrrh, (po. a3 Opil, (po. 4 4, eS beanie 2 $ ellac ? Accacia........ Senega......... USLSSSSRKSSSRSSSE SRSSRKESS SE SR Bw RSE aw ict meme ounce packages. _Absinthium ........ es upatorium ........ ‘ a. Soeideseceeees -Majoru -Mentha Piperita Fie 6s Arnica . "Tanacetum, Woes “Thymus. V Barosma.. -Calcined, Pat........ sCarbonate, Pat...... 2G «Carbonate, K.&M.. 20@ Carbonate, Jennings 356@ OLEUM. Absinthium.......... 5 ‘Amydalee, A Dulc.... marae. .7 _Anis ak anratél Cortex...... eet lees ukeee 2 15@3 Cajiputi *Caryophylli ioe eeu GaP... eS ee res. - o cecee oe eaccce jee erecce ecocece severe S. . ll ce 2@ 2% eccte oda, Ash. See Soda Suiphas.. Be cee cis Spts. Ether Co....... Spts. “vreia Dom.. Soe Myrcia Imp.. oe. Ae a Rect. PEL Less 5c. gal. cash oe days. Strychnia rstal.. @1 10 Suiphur,Subl ....... | 2%@ 8% Sulphur, Roll........ 2%@ 3 Tamarinds..........; 8@ 1 Lerebenth Venice .. 28@ 30 Theobromae ......... 50@ 55 Wanilia = 22.5. 5.2055 9 00@16 00 Zinci Sulph.......... 1@ 8 5 7} 50@ 55 @2 00 @2 50 sh A Bbl Gal Whale, winter........ 7 7 5 OXUTA. 55.5... 35. Lard, No. 1 -. 45 Linseed, ure raw .. 52 Linseed, boiled ...... 5 Neat’s F i Strained........... 50 Spi, ta Turpentine... 39 PAINTS Bbl Red Venetian........ 1% 2@3 Ochre, yellow Mars..1% 2@3 Ochre, yellow Ber...1% 2@3 utty, commercial...2% 2%@3 Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%O3 72 50 55 58 60 42 Lb ~w erccece ‘13@16 75 “sie access ° 110 149 "ae See vimana Geega Geert 2 ca SeSSSeeree ae Paris s ef A eg Pa tn Pioneer tor 1,201 40 | eran Va reba are, Paints........----01 00@1 20 cee e VARNISHES, oo eevee cate 0@ % sceseccece q : {measure for a monument. 5|these stores cleared No. 0. L Tarp Coach...1 1091 20 3 00 just what we are coming for and use extra LIFE IN A DRUG STORE. A Pharmacist’s Horror of Yankee Notions and Ice Cream Soda. From the Detroit Tribune. The average man who enters a drug store sees’ nothing beyond a formidable array of large glass bottles, neatly arranged on the shelves and adorned with large white labels, on which are printed queer cabalistic words in Latin and imposing Roman numerals. As arule the aforesaid average man stands appalled. He feels a queer sensation of horror creeping up his spinal column. He is mentally positive that each individual glass bottle on each individual shelf con- tains some horribly poisonous mixture, that is only prevented from trickling down his throat by the watchful vigilance of the glass stoppers which terminate in big glass knobs. While the nauseous-mixture, which he is to swallow as soon as the prescription clerk behind the mysteriously awful pre- scription case gets through pulverizing it in a white porcelain mortar, is being prepared he leans against the corner of the towering soda fountain and sniffs the strange, inde- scribable odor of a thousand different drugs. Drug stores are to be met with at almost every turning, and yet the average man who enters one on business feels very much as though he had dropped in to leave his This feeling of awe is largely traceable to ignorance of the details of dispensing drugs. The deadly poisons which cause so much dread are in reality nowhere visible, and the contents of the bottles which meet the eye are compara- tively harmless. “One of the first things for a con- scientious pharmacist to learn,” said one of the most widely known and capable pre- scription druggists in Detroit, ‘‘is that it does not pay to indiscriminately mix up the preparing of prescriptions and -the legiti- mate sale of drugs with dispensing soda water, cigars, toilet creams, hair brushes, face powders, pocketknives, jew’s-harps, mouth organs and a thousand and cne other articles which have no business whatever in a first-class drug store. Why, my dear sir, pharmacy is a legitimate profession which should, and properly does, rank along with the practice of medicine. It requires years of arduous and watchful study to be- come proficient in the business, and it has always been a matter of regret to me that in so many instances nowadays drug stores are a sort of cross between a restaurant and a country general store. It would be just as becoming for a physician to carry with him on -his professional rounds a grip-sack filled with fine-tooth combsa:d a miscel- laneous assortment of Yankee notions to sell to his patients as for a first-class pre- scription drug store to devote its most con- spicuous and most available space to the sale of such articles. Physicians are rapid- ly recognizing this fact, and their patronage is now going to a large extent to the drug- gists who-do not allow their attention to be distracted by outside matters. As a conse- quence, soda fountains and show-cases filled with toilet articles and hardware are being gradually relegated to the class of stores to which they properly belong. No man can stop in the middle of the preparation of an important prescription aud waltz down to the front of the store to draw a glass of soda water or fumble about in a box of cigars without running the risk of losing his phar- maceutical text, and getting himself, and 00} perhaps somebody who is critically sick, into serious trouble. ‘IT was myself in the drug business on Woodward avenue for several years, and I know just how important a figure the sale of soda water, cigars and the other articles to which I have alluded cuts in the daily sales. They help a fellow out wonderfully in a financial sense, yet { protest that they have no proper place in connection with the business. There are a number of drug stores on Woodward avenue which could not re- main in existence were it not for this feature of their trade. I know that one of $4,000 on its soda fountain alone last year. In some instances, of course, intoxicating. liquors are run through the fountains, in which vases the 1g | profits accumulate very rapidly. I am aware that the general public is somewhat inclined to regard the alleged sale of intoxicants from soda fountain faucets as a huge joke perpetrated by the funny men on the news- ee papers, but I say to you in ali candor that 1 know from personal observation right here in Detroit that there is more truth than poetry i in it in quite‘a number of instances. #81 It is regarded as a great convenience by 39 | persons who like their toddy, but would not go intoa saloon to getit. To return 85 | for a moment to the sale of miscellaneous articles in drug stores, there is no more consistency in dispensing soda water than 85 | there would bein serving customers with oyster stews and other restaurant products. One comes just as. near belonging to the drug business as do the others—and no nearer. “Now, in regard to the arrangement of poisons,”’ continued the druggist, ‘‘please| F. 2 35 | come aroufd behind the prescription case. Here you see one class of poisons kept under lock and key in a separate glass case. It would be impossible for even the most 0 | careless clerk to deal them out in mistake for more harmless medicines, for the very simple reason that there are no harmless remedies anywhere in their neighborhood. The man who is preparing a prescription in which poisons of any sort from this case 6 | are required, has to first provide himself with the key to these doors, which is proba- bly in his pocket, and by the time this is done he is wide awake to the fact he must have his wits about him. Then I. am very eareful to have each poison in a distinctive bottle and as easily recognized as possible. A great: many serious mistakes have oc- curred in the drag business through having quinine and morphine in similar bottles, placed side by side. I don’ttake any chances. of that sort. Here is my quinine in a large glass bottle tight hereon the ¢ | crescription case.. This is a quinine age and climate, and 1 like to have it handy. My morphine is in the back room in a small bottle, and the bottle about one-tenth full. 1 keep only about thirty grains of morphine exposed ata time. On that high shelf here in this back room is an assortment of the most deadly poisons known to the profes- sion. You will notice that every bottle, box and package is different from all. others, and that the labels are extra striking and suggestive of the contents, Theré are no harmless medicines in'this little ees Alls these shelves are filled with poisons. When | | we start back to this room. we ‘know ‘precautions.” “Is it difficult to ene to bea. proficient pharmacist?” ot ‘is, indeed. eae few’ of theas wie ; take up the business ever gain certificates. They grow discouraged and drop out all along the line. The best—and about the only successful—plan is to first spend a year in some store which makes a specialty of prescriptions. During this year of proba- tion the eyes should he kept open to their fullest extent and very little attempted be- yond familiarizing the student with the nature of the long list of. drugs. At the ‘end of the year a thorough course in some. first-class university should be inaugurated. As for myself, I frankly admit that I have | had very little success in educating boys to the business. a pharmacist Ican now recall but two of my boys who ever became skillful in the profession.” -“Do you do much in the way of ready- made goods, such as pills?” “Very little. The reason is very simple. It is almost impossible to find a pill which exactly fits into a physician’s prescription. Almost every practitioner has ideas of his own regarding the component parts of his prescribed remedies and introduces one or two _ ingredients not contemplated in the prepar- ation of the ready-made pill. Of course, quinine and things of that sort can be pre- pared in varying quantities where nothing else is combined with them.” “‘Why are the labels on druggists’ stock bottles always in Latin?” ‘T believe that comes from the fact that Latin has long been regarded as the univers- al language, and drugs so labeled will be understood in all civilized countries.” “‘What is your plan for preserving pre- scriptions?” “I record them carefully in this ledger. With each prescription is placed the date, the prescribing physician, the residence, and, where possible, the name of the pa- tient. By this plan, it is next to impossible for mistakes to occur. Suppose Mrs. Smith telephones in that she wants a prescription duplicated. I first ask her the number of the prescription, then the date on which it was first ordered, the physician who ordered it, and the name and residence of the pa- tient. If any of her replies donot tally with my record, I know at once that there is something wrong somewhere.” “Are you not often asked to prescribe for your customers as well as compound their prescriptions?” “Quite frequently. That is something, however, which I never, under any circum- stances, do. There are druggists who assume a great deal of medical knowledge and are constantly prescribing for some- body’s ailments. Sooner or later, however, such men can be depended upon for getting into serious trouble. Pharmacists are not supposed to be physicians, and should not meddle with what does not particularly concern them. The drug business is al- together what you make it.” ‘What is the origin of the colored bottles used as signs in show windows?” ‘That idea comes down from the ancient practice of embalming .saakes and tape- worms in colored liquids and placing them in the shop windows for public inspection. From a horrid spectacle tire‘plan has grown into highly ornamental dévices.” ~~ -9 A Half-Hundred More’ "Pharmacists. Secretary Jesson sends, THE TRADESMAN the following report of the recent. meeting of the Board of Pharmacy’: At the meeting ofthe: State Board of Pharmacy, held at Star Tstanil ‘Nouse, St. Clair flats, Friday and ‘Saturday, June 29 and 30, 108 persons were present for exam- ination, ninety-three for registered pharma- cists and fifteen for assistant pharmacists’ certificates. Fifty-one passed a satisfactory examination as registered pharmacists, and forty-two failed. Twenty-seven of these will be granted assistants’ certificates upon their examination, having each obtained an average of forty per cent. and over. Out of the fifteen who took the regular assist- ants’ examination, thirteen passed and two failed. The following passed the Fon istarod pharmacists’ examination : Alfred J. Abbott, Emmett; Roy A. Ab- bott, Muskegon; C. P. Allen, Bay City; C. W. Allison, Vernon; E. S. Anderson, Detroit; W. Z. Bangs, Chicago; D. R. Bogue, Bay City; A. J. Bradden, Pine Creek; A. J. Chopple, Pinckney; G. Cor- nell, Thedford, Ont.; J. O’Donoghue, Ne- gaunee; F. W. Dorr, Manchester; V. Dor- rance, Vernon; C. Dyna, Marquette; Albert Ellsworth, Menominee; W. H. Elston, Marshall; W. F. Eberbachb, Ann Arbor; O..A. Fankboner, Ree Hights, Dakota; Chas. A. Fisher, Detroit; Geo. W. Foote, Lansing; Ira K. Fox, Manchester; F. A. Gottschalk, Detroit; R. E. Hawkes, Plain- well; Geo. D. Huff, Ironwood;: H. Hunger- ford, Detroit; J. S. Johnson, Hudson, Wis.; Samuel Kidder, Jr., Almont; W. H. Kirn, Detroit; Chas. E. Koontz, Niles; E. H. Kremer, East Saginaw; E. C. Lieblein, De- troit; Felix» Melocke, Windsor; C. H. Mer- iam, Northville; C. D. Parsons, Burr Oak; J. E. M. Pennington, Jackson; E. L. Power, Saranac; L. E. Reynolds, Quincy; E. H. Robinson, Detroit; C. F.. Rimner, Shelby; M. H. Schweitzer, Marquette; Marie B. Smith, Ann Arbor; W. J. Smythe, De- troit; E. Soetje, Detroit; Geo. E. Steketee, ia Rapids; J. A. Stewart, Detroit; Stafford, Evart; E. D. Thompson, Ae Dirk ‘Van Bree, Zeeland; R. A. Watson, Ubley; J. A. Wesener, Owosso: B. F. Woodlury, Homer. The following passed the assistant phar- macists’ examination : W. 1. Benedict, Pontiac; R. Y. Breming- stall, Detroit; Chas. A. Craft, Flint; A. E. Crosley, Fairgrove: E. Hallowell, Flint; H. S. Xo, Detroit; C. H. Seuter, Al- bion; G. W. Sales, Detroit: Edna Swayze, Otisville; J. Tinholt, Muskegon; James Wells, Grand Rapids: Egerton Wing, De- troit; Mattie Shaw, Big Rapids; G. W. Sayles, Detroit. The next meeting of the Board will be held at Lansing on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, November 6, 7 and 8. Can- didates will please report there on Wednes- day morning at 9 o’clock. . ———_>_ = The Drug Market. There are few changes to note this week. Opium and morphia are dull, but unchanged. Antipyrine is now in rebate at $1.40 per ounce for Jess than twenty-five ounces. Chleroform has declined 10 cents. potash has declined. Quassia chips are scarce and higher. Turpentine is lower. German quinine has advanced 3 cents, with an upward tendency. Should: send $1 to E. * Stowe. & Bro. : RAPIDS, for one of f their Improved Quon 010K RECORDS During my entire career as | Iodide |’ Importers and Jobbers of DRUGS, CHEMICALS) AND DRUGEISTS SUNDRIES, 4 DEALERS IN PATENT MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, WE ARE SOLE PROPRIETORS OF WEATHERLY'S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY, We have in stock and offer a full line of Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines, Rums, Weare Sole Agents in Mich- igan for W. D. & Co., Hender- son County, hand-made SOUR MASH WHISKEY —AND — Draggists’ 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 Drug Co, Ph. Best Brewing Co., est, have used | cases of impaire GRAND RAPID, HICH STEAM LAUNDRY. 43 and 45 Kent Street, STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS, Orders by mail and express promptly attended to, CASH SALE OHEOKS. Encourage yuur trade to pay cash instead of running hook accounts by using Cash Sale Checks. For sale at50 cents per 100 by E. A. STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids. USE ., TAG Dar asiO 25c size.. a , itty, Peckham’s Croup Remedy is eS es- pecially for children and is asafe and certain cure for Croups, Whooping Cough, Colds and all bronchial and pulmonar complaints of childhood. For attractive advertising matter address the proprietor, Dr. H.C. PECKHAM, Freeport, Mic Trade supplied by whole- sale druggists of Grand Rapids, Detroit and Chicago. 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. READ! READ! READ PIONEER PREPARED Parnes . The ONLY Paint sold on a GUARANTEE. When two or more coats of our PIONEER PREPARED PAINT is applied as received in original packages, and if in three years it should crack or peel off, thus failing to give satisfaction, we agree to re-paint the building at our expense, with the best White Lead or such other paint as the owner may select. In case of complaint, prompt notice must be giv- en to the dealer. Write forSample Cards and Prices. have Supplied our Trade with this =. EE. ' Brand for more than eight years and it is all the manufacturers claim for it. We sell it ona GUARANTEE. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. GENERAL. AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. We CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price for it. Address PECK BROS., "helsiste Draggicen. Acme White Lead & Color Works, DETROIT, Manufacturers of the Ce ebrated ACME PREPARED PAINTS, Which for Durability, Elasticity, Beau and Economy are Absolutely Unsurpassed. - F. J. WOURZBURG, WHOLESALE AGENT, Grand Rapids, Mich. = a Ge ite ese SSS TRADE SUPPLIED BY THE fain ar Drag C0. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. And the Wholesale Druggists of Detroit and Chicago. MALT KHOPS Mey aha %8 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 shali 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. Yardiey, Pa., March 18, 1888, DEAR Sirs—I have given your “Malt Tonic” a trial in several cases of Enfeebled Digestion and General Debility, especially in the aged, where the whole system seems completely peered: 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 vita] 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- our *“Best” Tonic in several nutritition. The results in- dicate that it is an agreeable and doubtless, highly efficacious remedy. 1am, Very oe yours, W. FLEMING, M. D..- LL DRUGGISTS. Troy, New York, January 26, 1888. Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co,, DEAR Sirs—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 had on hand; and finding yours superior in the great essential, the palitable nutriant as well as in tonic stimulant roperties, felt anx- ious to know about what it can be furnished the dispensing physician. Yours truly, E. JAY Fisk, M. D. East Genessee Street, Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1888. Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co., GENTLEMEN—I have used the “Best’’ Tonic with most see resultsin my case of dyspepsia. My case was a bad one, 1 had no apieats. 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 it is a very pure and safe arti- cle. I will not hesitate to recommend it in every case of debility where a Tonicof that kind is indicated. hor E. H. BELL, M. D. New Orleans, La., April’6, 1888. Specialty Depart. Ph. Brewing Co., GENTLEMEN—Having tried ‘your ‘Best’ Tonic to a great extent ania gg eet my practice, I will state in its behalf that I have Mad 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. Very respectfully, D. BORNIO, M D. For Sale By Husa & Pe Grand Rapids, INS Rue (0, Mich. "gency, be asked or compelled to be.a party to such libeling. The Louisiana Lottery is | 4 __ What Shall They Do?" Choice of occupation is a problem of di- geet interest to the young, and often has a - wicarious interest of keenest intensity for ‘those of riper years. Young men and women want something to do; rich ated and the illiterate, like, must. have some occupation to keep off trains of miseries to which all hu- man flesh is heir, and to.choose that which is sure to be best is not always easy. In view of some noted cases of success it would seem that he whose early necessities «ompel a keen realization of the importance of earnest, active work sometimes lays such ‘@ sure foundation that he is chosen instead of making choice, but this neither he nor. thers can see until after years, and his perplexities about choice have been no less than those of others. ; With ambition which scorns idleness, with courage that banishes timidity, and with strong and elastic step the youth goes forth with a well-grounded faith in his ability to do his share in ‘this world’s work; expecting to meet great obstacles to his progress, perhaps in the form of long days of severe toil, but for these days of hard work he is ready—if—if he could find a place for the sole of his foot. It is one of our boasted and much taught hobbies, that there is abundant work for all; that none need beidle in great, glorious, free America. But it is not at variance with true patriotism to take this statement with a grain of salt, and, as the years go by the: amount of salt’ may be increased; for, ‘we cannot coriceal the fact that in old and closely settled communities competition for place in all vocations is much greater than in newer, and, therefore, less crowded iocalities. : The unaided youth in search of employ- ment..in a crowded city needs. all the forti- tude he can command. He must not carry his heart upon his sleeve,nor must he brood over all the harsh and ungracious words he hears, nor lay to heart the unkind thoughts that he knows remain unspoken. “Idle, good-for-nothing-fellow, you have never done any work in your life; why don’t you go to work?” will be the substance of some interviews that’ he would do well to forgive but never forget. That he is not oftener appalled at the prospect before him isa wonder. Every avenue in every vocation seems crowded to its utmost capacity, no room, not even for the proverbial one more, when fulkgrown men jostle and crowd each other for sub- sistence, not unlike a lot of pigs in front of a trough. This is one picture, another remains. ‘To the youth whose wants have hitherto been supplied without any effort of his own, there comes a time when we must choose and act for himself, and then itis that he may be charmed by the display of brilliant talent at the bar, or in the council of the nation, or, the sight of some colossus in trade and commerce may fire his ambition to go and do likewise. He does not dream butthat the fulfillment of such desires may be as readily realized as his other wants have always been supplied, by putting out his hands to receive them.