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JOHN NICHOLSON’S TROUBLES. | W
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CHAPTER 1.
JOHN SOWS THE

IN WHICH WIND.

John Varey Nicholson was stupid:
stupider men than he are now sprawling
in Parliament, and lauding themselves as
the authors of their-own distinction. He
was of a fat habit, even from boyhood,
and inelined to a cheerful and cursory
reading of the face of life: and, possibly,
this attitude of mind was the original
cause of his misfortunes. Beyond
hint, philosophy is silent on his career,
and superstition steps in with the more
ready explanation that he was detested
of the gods.

His father—that iron gentleman—had
long ago enthroned himself on the
heights of the Disruption Principles.
What these are (and in spite of their
grim name they are quite Innocent) no

array of terms would render thinkable to
the American intelligence: but to the
Scotch they often prove unctuously nour-
ishing. and Mr. Nicholson found in them
the milk of lions. About the period
when the churches convene at Edinburgh
in their annual assemblies, he was to be
seen descending the mound in the com-
pany of divers red-headed clergymen;
these voluble. he only contributing orac-
ular nods, brief negatives and the austere
spectacle of his stretehed upper lip. A
stranger to the tight little theological
kingdom of Scotland might have listened
and gathered Jiterally nothing. And Mr.
Nicholson (who was not a dull man)
knew this. and raged at it. He knew
there was a vast world outside, to whom
this was as the chatter of tree-top apes;
the paper brought him chill whiffs from
it: he had met Englishmen who had
asked lightly if he did not belong to the
Church of Scotland, and then had failed
to be much interested by his elucidation
of that nice point; it was an evil, wild,
rebellious world, lying sunk in **dozened-
ness.’ for nothing short of a Seotch word
will point this Secotchman’s feelings. And
when he entered into his own house in
Randolph Crescent, and shut the door

behind him, his heart swelled with se-
surity. Here, at least. was a citadel im-
pregnable by right-hand defections or
left-hand extremes. Here was a family

came at the same hour,
Sabbath literature was unim-
selected. where the guest who
eaned to any false opinion
set down. and over which
all the week, and grew
Sundays, a silence that was
and a gloom that he

where prayers
where the
peac hably
should have |

Was instantly

on

denser
agreeable to his ear.
found comfortable.

Mrs. Nicholson had
ave of thirty, and left
children—a daughter of
about eight years younger
John: and John himself, the
bearer of a name infamous in
history. The daughter, Maria, was a
good girl—dutiful, pious, dull. but
easily startled that to speak to her was

about ihe
three
anda
than
unlucky
English

died at
him with
two years,

son

sO

quite a perilous enterprise. “1 don’t
think Teare to talk about that. if you
please.’’ she would say, and strike the

boldest speechless by her unmistakable
pain: this upon all topies—dress, pleas-
ure, morality, politics, in which the
formula was changed to ‘‘my papa thinks
otherwise,’’ and even religion, unless it
was approached witha particular whining
tone of voice. Alexander, the younger
brother, was sickly, clever, fond of
books and drawing, and full of satirical
femarks. In the midst of these, imagine

that natural, clumsy. unintelligent and
mirthful animal, John; well-behaved in

comparison with other lads. although not
up to the mark of the house in Randolph

Creseent; full of a sort of blundering
affection. full of caresses which were
never very warimnly received: full of sud-
den and loud laughter which rang out in
that still house like curses. Mr. Nichol-

humor,
turning
his own char-

himself had a great fund of
the Seotch order—intellectual,
on the observation of men:
acter, for instance—if he could have seen
it in another—would have been a rare
feast to him: but his som’s empty guf-
faws over a broken plate, and em Ftv,
almost light-hearted, remarks. struck hans
with pain as the indices of a weak mind.

Outside of the family. John had early
attached himself (much as a dog may
follow a king) to the steps. of Alan
Houston, alad about a year older than
himself, idle, a trifle wild, the heir toa
good estate which was still in the hands
of arigorous guardian, and content
with himself that he took John’s devo-
tion as a matter of course. The inti-
macy was gall to Mr. Nicholson: it took
his son from the house, and he wasa
jealous parent: it kept him from the
office, and he was a martinet; lastly, Mr.
Nicholson was ambitious for his family.
and he hated io see a son of his play sec-
ond fiddle to an idler. After some hesi-
tation, he ordered that the friendship
should cease—an unfair command. al-
though seemingly inspired by the spirit
of prophecy: and John, saying nothing,
continued to disobey the order, under the
Tose:

John was nearly nineteen when he
was one day dismissed rather earlier than
usual from his father’s office, where he
was studying the practice of the law. It
was Saturday: and except that he hada
matter of nearly $2,000 in his pocket,
which it was his duty to hand over to the
bank, he had the whole afternoon at his
disposal. He went along enjoying the
mild sunshine, and the little thrill of
easterly wind that tossed the flags along
the terrace and tumbled the green trees
in the gardens. The band was. playing
down in the valley, and when it came to

son

ot

so

turn of the pipers, he heard their wild
sounds with a stirring of the blood.
Something distantly martial woke in him:

and he thought of Miss Mac
1e Was to meet that day at dinner.

Now, it undeniable that he should
have gone directly to the bank, but right
in the way stood the billiard-room of the
hotel where was almost certain to
be found:
strong.

kenzie, whom

1S

Alan

this,

ras instantly greeted by his friend.
n hand.

**Nicholson,”*

eue

said he, **l want you to

lend me ten dollars until Monday.”

yet}

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and the temptation proved too! John’
lie entered the billiard-room and!

the right
Jon, “I

“You've come to
haven't you?’’ returned
seventy-five cents.’

*‘Nonsense,’’ said Alan. ‘‘You can get
some. Go and borrow it—they all do it.

shop,
have

Or, Vil dell you what— pawh your
watch.”’

““Oh, yes, I daresay,’ said John. *‘And
how about my father ?”’

‘How is he to know? He doesn’t

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wind it up for you at night, does he?
inquired Alan. at which John gutffawed.

*-No. seriously; [am in a fix.’’ continued
the tempter. ‘I have lost some money
toaman here. [Ill give it to you to-
night, and you can get the watch out
again on Monday. Come: it’s a small
service, after all. I would do a good
deal more for you.”

Wherupon John went forth and pawned
his gold wateh, under the assumed name

of John Froggs. But the nervousness
that assailed him at the door of that

inglorious haunt—a pawnshop—and the
effort necessary to invent the pseudonym
(which, somehow. seemed to him a neces-
sary part of the procedure), had taken
more time than he imagined: and when
he returned to the billiard room with the

spoils, the bank had already closed its
doors.

Ths was ashrewd knock. °“A piece
of business had been neglec ted. 7 Ee

heard these words in his father’s trench-
ant voice, and trembled, and then dodged
the thought. After all, who was to
know? He must carry $2,000 about with
him until Monday, when the neglect
could be surreptitiously repaired: and
meanwhile he was free to pass the after-
noon in the billiard-room, smoking, sip-
ping a pint of ale. and enjoying to the

minast-head the modest pleasures of, ad-
mniration.

None can admire like a young man.
Of all youth’s passions and pleasures,
this is the most common and least al-
loyed: and every flash of Alan’s black
eyes: every aspect of his curly head:
every graceful reach, every easy, stand-
off attitude of waiting: aye, and down to

shirt-sleeves and wrist-links,
hrough a luxurious glory.
himself by the
of that royal friend, hugged himself
upon the thought, and swam in warm
azure: his own defects. like vanquished
difficulties, becoming things on which to
plume himself. Only when he thought
of Miss Mackenzie there fell upon his
mind a shadow regret: that young
lady was worthy of better things than
plain John Nicholson, still known among
schoolmates by the derisive name of
‘Hatty:’ and he felt that if he could
chalk a cue, or stand at ease, with sucha
careless grace as Alan, he could approach
the object of his sentiments
erushing sense of inferiority.

Before they parted, Alan made a pro-
posal that was startling in the extreme.
He would be at Colette’s that night about
12, he said. Why would not John come
there and get the money? ‘To to
Colette’s was to see life, indeed: it was
wrong; it was against the laws: it par-
took, in a very dingy manner, of adven-
ture. Were it known, it was the sort of
exploit that made a young man disrep-
utable with the more serious classes, but
gave him a standing with the riotous.
And yet Colette’s was not a hell: it could
not come, without vaulting hyperbole,
under the rubrie of a gilded saloon: and,
if it were a sin to go there, the sin was
Merely local and municipal. Colette was
simply an unlicensed saloon-keeper, who
gave suppers after 11 at night. the Edin-
burgh hour of closing. If belonged
club, you could get a much better
supper at the same hour, and lose nota
jot in public esteem. But if you lacked
that qualification. and were an hungered.
or inelined toward conviviality at unlaw-
ful hours, Colette’s was your only port.
You were very ill-supplied. The company
was not recruited from the Senate or the
Church, though the Bar was very well
represented.on the only occasion on which
I flew in the facg of my country’s laws,
and. taking iny reputation in my hand,
penetrated into that grim supper-house.

his were

seen by Jonn t
He valued

POSSESS ion

oft

With a less

£0

Vou

to a

And Colette’s frequenters, thrillingly
conscious of wrong-doing and ‘‘that two-
randed engine (the policeman) at the
door,” were perhaps inclined to some-
what feverish excess. Butthe place was
i no sense a very bad one; ee rt 1S

hat strange to me, at this distance
of time, how it had acquired its danger-
ous repute.

SOON

In precisely the same spirit as a man
may debate a project to cross Afri
John considered Alan’s proposal. and,

greatly daring, accepted it. As he walked
home, the thoughts of this excursion out

the safe places of life into the wild
and s, stirred and struggled in his
imagination with the image of Miss
Mackenzie—incongrous and yet kindred
thoughts, for did not each imply unusual
tightening of the pegs of resolution ? did
not eac . woo him forth and warn him
back again into himself ?

Between these two considerations, at
least, he was more than usually moved:
and when he got home he quite forgot the
%2.000 in the inner pocket of his over-
coat. hung itup, with its rich frerht,
upon his particular pin of the hat-stand:
and tn the very action sealed his dooin.

arduou

CHAPTER
JOHN REAPS
f-past ten,
to offer his arm to Miss
zie, and escort her home. The night was
chill and starry; all the way the trees of
the different gardens rustled and looked
black. Up Leith Walk, when they came
to it, the breeze made a rush and
set the flames of the street-lamps quiver-
ing: and when at last they had mount
the Royal Terrace, where Captain
Mackenzie lived. a great salt freshness
eame in their faces from the sea. These
ot ases of the walk remained written on
memory each emphasized by the
touch of that light hand on his arm; and

It.
IN WHICH THE

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behind all these aspects of the nocturnal
city he saw, in his mind’s eye, a picture
of the lighted drawing-room at home
where he had sat talking to Flora: and
his father, from the other end, had looked
on with a kind and ironical smile. John
had read the significance of that smile,
which might have escaped a stranger.

Mr. Nicholson had remarked his son’s
entanglement with satisfaction, tinged
by humor; and his smile, if it was a

thought contemptuous, had implied con-
sent.

At the captain’s door, the girl held out
her hand, with a certain emphasis; and
John took it and kept it a little longer,
and said, ‘‘Good-night, Flora, dear,’’ and
was instantly thrown into much fear by
his presumption. But she only laughed,
ran up the steps and rang the bell; and
while she was waiting for the door to
open, kept close in the porch, and talked
to him from that point as out of a fortifi-

ration. She fiad a knitted shaw! over
her head: her blue eyes took the light
from the neighboring street-lamp and

sparkled: and when the door opened and
closed upon her, John felt cruelly alone.
He proceeded slowly back along the

street in a tender glow: and when he
came to Greenside Church, he halted ina
doubtful mind. Over the crown of
Calton Hill to his left, lay the way to
Colette’s, where Alan would soon be
looking for his arrival, and where he

would now have no more consented to go
than he would have wilfully wallowed in
a bog: the touch of the girl’s hand on his
sleeve, and the kindly light in his fath-
er’s eyes, both loudly forbidding. But
right before him was the way home,
which pointed only to bed, a place of lit-
tle ease for one whose fancy was strung
to the lyrical pitch, and whose not very
ardent heart was just then tumultuously
moved. The hill-top, the cool air of the
night, the company of the great monu-
ments, the sight of the city under his
feet, with its hills and valleys and cross-
ing files of lamps, drew him by all he
had of the poetic, and he turned that
way; and, by that quite innocent deflec-
tion, _— = the _— of his venial er-
rors for the sickle of destiny.

Ona al on the hill he sat for perhaps
half an hour, looking down upon the
lamps, and up at the stars of heaven.
Wonderful were the resolves he formed;
beautiful and kindly were the vistas of
future life that sped before him. He ut-
tered to himself the name Flora in so
many touching and dramatic keys that he
became at length fairly melted with ten-

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derness and could have sung aloud. At
that juneture, a certain creasing in his
overcoat caught his attention. He put

his hand into his poeket, pulled forth the
envelope that held the money, and sat
stupefied. Calton Hill, about this period,

had an ill name, and to be sitting there
with $2,000 that did not belong to him
was hardly wise. He looked up. There

Was aman a little on one side of him ap-
parently looking at the scenery: from a
little on the other, a second night-walker
was very quietly drawing near. Up
jumped John. The envelope fell from
his hands: he stooped to get it and at the
same moment both men ran in and elesed
with him.

A little after, he got to
sore and shaken, the poorer by a purse
whiche contained exactly one postage
stamp, by a cambric handkerchief, and
by the all-important envelope.

Iiere was ayoung man, on
the highest point of loverly Itation,
there had fallen a blow too sharp to be
supported alone: and not many hundred
yards away his greatest friend was sit-
ting at supper—ay, and even expecting
him. Wasit not m the nature of man
that he should go there? He went in
quest of sympathy—in quest of that droll

his feet very

whom, at

article that we all suppose ourselves to
want when in a strait, and have agreed
to call advice: and he went, besides, with

vague but rather splendid expectations of
relief. Alan was rich, or would be so
when he came of age. By a stroke of the
pen he might remedy this misfortune and
avert that dreaded interview with My.
Nicholson, from which John now shrank
in imagination as the hand draws back
from fire.

Close under Calton Hill there runs a
certain narrow avenue, part street, part
by-road. The head of it faces the doors

of the prison: its tail descends into the
sunless slums of Low Calton. On one
hand it is overhung by the crags of the
hill. on the other by an old grave-yard.
Between these two the road-way runs in

a trench, sparsely lighted at night, sparse-
ly frequented by day, and bordered, when
the place was cleared of tombs, by dingy
and ambiguous One of these
was the house of Colette: and at his door
our ill-starred John was presently beat-
ing for admittance. Iman evil hour, he
satisfied the jealous inquiries of the con-
traband saloon-keeper; in an evil hour,
he penetrated into the somewhat unsav-
ory interior. Alan, to be sure, was there,
seated in a room lighted by noisy
jets, beside a dirty table-cloth, engaged
on a coarse lunch, and in the company of
several tipsy members of the bar. But
Alan was not sober; he had lost upon a
horse-race, had received the news at din-
ner-time, and was now, In default of any
possible means of extrication, drowning
the memory of his predicament. He to
help John! The thing was impossible:

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he eouldn’t help himself.

‘If you have a beast of a father,’’ said |
he, “4% ¢an you I have a brute of a}
guardian.

“Vin not going to hear my father call-
ed a beast,’”? said John, with a beating}
heart, fer ling that he had risked the last
ivet of the chain that him

tell

sound 1 bound
to life.
But
Al

respec’

  

was quite good-natured.
rizht. old fellow,’’ said he. ‘*Mos’
able man, father.’? And he}
introduced his friend to his companions |
‘ola | he what-d@ ye-call-um’s

your
as Nicholson t j
Son. |

John sat in dumb agony. Colette’s foul |
walls and maculate table linen, and even |
down to Colette’s villainous casters, seem- |?

ed like objects in a nightmare. And just
then there came a knock and a seurrying;
the police, so lamentably absent from
Calton Hill, appeared upon the scene;
and the party, taken flagrante delicto,
with their glasses at their elbow, were
seized, marched up to the police office,
and all duly summoned to appear as wit-
nesses in the consequent case against that
arch-shebeener, Colette.

It was a sorrowful anda mightily so-
bered company that came forth again.
The vague terror of publie opinion

weighed generally on them all: but there
were private and particular horrors on
the minds of individuals. Alan stood in

dread of his guardian, already sorely
tried. One of the group was the son of a
country minister, another of a judge;
John, the unhappiest of all, had David
Nicholson to father, the idea of facing
whom on such a scandalous subject was

physically sickening.. They stood awhile
consulting: then they adjourned to the
lodgings of one of the number where, for
that matter, they might have had quite as
good a supper, and far better drink, than
in the dangerous paradise from which
they had been routed. There, over an
almost tearful glass, they debated their
position. Each explained that he had the
world to lose if the affair went on, and he
appeared as a witness. It was remarka-
ble what bright prospects were just then
in the very act of opening before each of
that little company of youths. and what

pious consideration for the feelings of
their families began now to well! from
them. Each, moreover, was in an odd

state of destitution. Not one could bear
his share of the fine: not one but evinced
a wonderful twinkle of hope that each of
the others, in succession, the very
man who could step in to make good the
deficit. One took a high hand; if it went
to a trial, he should bolt. Another
branched out into touching details about
his family, and was not listened to. Jehn.
in the midst of this disorderly competi-
tion of poverty and meanness, sat stunned,
contemplating the mountain bulk of his
misfortunes.

At last, upon a pledge
apply family w

Was

that each should
ith a common frank-

 
   

to

Ss

 

 

ness, this convention of unhappy young
asses broke up, went down the common
stair. and in the gray of the spring morn-
ing, with the streets lying dead and emp-
ty all t them, the lamps burning on
into the daylight in diminished luster,
and the birds beginning tosound premon-
itory notes from the groves of the town
gardens—went each his own way. with

bowed head and echoing footfall.

The rooks were awake in Randolph
but the windows looked down,
blinded, on the return of the
John’s pass-key was a recent
privilege: this was the first time it had
been used: and, oh! with what a sicken-
ing sense of his unworthiness he now in-
serted it into the well-oiled leck and en-
tered that citadel of the proprieties! All
slept: the gas in the hall had been left
faintly burning light his return: a
dreadful stillness reigned, broken by the
deep ticking of the eight-day cloek. He
put the gas out, and sat on a chair in the

Crescent;
discreetl\
prodigal.

to

hall, waiting and counting the minutes,
longing for any human countenance.

3ut when, at last, he heard the
begin to be about, he instantly
and fled to his own room,
himself upon the bed.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
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The New Clerk.
of

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ne

servants
lost heart
where he threw

At the commencement
ment let there bea free a
ment of what is to be expected
the rules of the store and
quencies wil] not be tolerated.
ployer can aFways say. at the start, things
that later on are difficult to reach. A full
and free understa? ine at beginning
is sure to rouble in future.

Take time and exercise patienee in
making the neweomer acquainted with
the stock, the peculiarities of trade, the
whims of customers, the policy of the
management, its views regarding the de-
tails and methods of keeping aecounts,
making of gifts and many details, simple

his engage-
candid state-
of him:
what delin-
The em-

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toe

the

 

Save
ay

in themselves, vet mere or less puzzling
to a new clerk.
Establish a community of interests,

making the clerk feel the prosperity of
the proprietor means the prosperity of
the clerk. A word of encouragement is
a wonderful lever to develop work in an
ambitious vouth.

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All Night Groceries.

   

From the Chicago Tribune.
Some of the retail groceries are said te
be considering the advisability of follow-

ing the example of the druggists by using
a night-bell. Boarding-house k ;
and others not infrequently
have forgotten something
which is essential to the comfort of the
breaklast and want to make up foi
the omission. Naturally, they will prefer
to patronize during the day a store which
ministers comfort in time of
emergency. Their early custom not
sufficient in amount to warrant the gro-
cer in keeping open all night, but it is
thought to be well worth while to have a
clerk sleep on the premises, so that this
spasmodic buying may be attended to.

keepers
find they

over night

table

to their

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For Sale by Geo. C. Wetherbee & Co., Detroit; Haw
kins & Pert ry. Grand Rapids; Mec: land & Co., East
Saginaw, and by Wholesale Grocers generally. Send

for Lllustrated Catalogue.

 

 
  

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The Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

Retail Yrade of the Wolverine State,

E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors.

Subscription Price, One Dollar per year.
‘Advertising Rates made known on application.

i
Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office.

 

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

~ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1888.

 

 

OUR PUBLIC DOMAIN.

The General Land Office once played
a very important part in the revenue sys-
tem of the country. In Jackson’s time
it was the disposal of the revenue from
this source which Mr. Clay took up as a
solution of the surplus question. Both
then and afterward the Southern States
kept the price of public lands as high as
possible, and tried to prevent the exten-
sion of surveys until all the land already
surveyed, whatever its quality, should be
sold. Under the homesiead policy the
office has sunk in fiscal and has risen in
soeial importance, it has the
means of locating millions of Americans
and immigrants on the public domain.
The Commissioner reports that in the
ending with June there were
8.605.194 acres of land conveyed by the
government to private or corporate own-
ership, of which 829,162 went to railroad
companies. On the other hand, 83, 158,990
acres have been restored to the public
domain within three years as being parts
of lapsed grants. In most cases this was
merely a formal proceeding, as the com-
panies to which the grants had been made

as been

year

never existed except upon paper, and
only seryed to withhold lands from
actual settlers by their paper claims.

Besides this. the office has recommended
other restorations which would bring the

aggregate up to 148,179,528 acres. On
the other hand, there are claims to
25,429,866 acres pending on behalf of

railroads anda large amount on behalf
of states, schools and individuals. These
figures not only give some notion of the
scale of our national operations in real
estate, but they seem to show that the
Land Office is hopelessly behind in its
business. And yet the Commissioner
opposes the erection of a court of land
claims to relieve him of the duty of pass-
ing upon contested cases.

 

OUTCAST LONDON.
The horrible murders in London, by
which eight poor women have
slaughtered under circumstances of es-

been

pecial atrocity, have attracted attention
not only to the inefficiency of the English
police system, but to the condition of the
wretched class to which all or most of
the victims Such tragedies
awaken the sense of kinship to their vic-
tims throughout society, and in this case
it has had the good effect to cause inquiry
as to the way in which such women sink
to their sad level. In the cases whose his-
traced it appeared that the
pressure of grinding poverty was the
cause of their fall, neither seduction nor
wassion having anything to do with it.
<The destruction of the poor is their poy-
eriy.’’ and the safeguard of natural mod-
esty children have
grown up in such surroundings as make
up the East End of London. Even the
aristocratic Morning Post has spoken out

belonged.

tory was

is refused to who

as to the responsibility of society for the
lives these lived, and
elared that not half enough is done for
the poor of London. In truth, their lives
were more horrible than their deaths, and
these murders have done so much good
as to have lighted up as by a flash of
lightning the desperate condition of out-
cast London, and revived some of the
impressions produced by that remark-
able pamphlet two years ago.

poor women de-

 

 

THE RIGHT RING.

At a recent meeting of the New York
2etail Grocers’ Union, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That it is the sense of this
meeting of the New York Retail Grocers’
Union that the habit of settling the debts
of merchants failing in business at 50
cent on the dollar, and permitting them
to continue in business, is a direct blow
against honest merchants, and iS a pre-
mium on fraud.

This resolution has the right ring. If
ynerchants generally took a decided stand
on this abuse. it would result to the last-
ing benefit of all concerned.

LT

 

Ture TRADESMAN is very much in favor
of the policy of depositing government
money in the national banks, when it
cannot be at once disposed of in the pay-
ment of obligations or the purchase of
That is one of the few approx-
imations to civilized finance which the
United States Treasury has made within
the last forty years. Itis just the step
which has made the collection of revenue
less burdensome to the business commu-
nity in our Northern States and cities, as
abstracting from the
of while it puts it
where it can be had as fast as wanted.
sut in order that the matter may be
managed rightly, there should be some
system of equal distribution among all
the banks, or among some of them on
some ground of principle, and without
favoritism of any sort.

bonds.

it avoids
channels

money
business,

 

 

 

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

J. M. Lane has assigned his lumber in-
terests at Washburn, Wis., to M:: 3-
Clark.

Amos S. Musselman & Co. furnished
the grocery stock to W. D. Hopkinson,
Agt., at Paris.

Ee

Amos S. Musselman & Co. foreclosed
their mortgage on the grocery stock of
T. Crane & Son on Monday.

a

G. A. Doremus has engaged in the gro-
cery business at Elkhart, Ind. Hawkins
& Perry furnished the stock.

a

P. J. Sheedy has engaged in the gro-
cery business at Sault Ste. Marie.
Lemon, Hoops & Peters furnished the
stock.

 

Wn. R. Keeler has removed his whole-
sale confectionery, fruit and nut business
from 5 Third street to 416 South Division
street.

ee

Josiah W. Sherwood has purchased the

grocery stock of H. A. Hydorn at the

corner of West Bridge and Seribner
®

streets.

Andrews & Andrews have sold their
grocery stock at 119 Plainfield avenue to
Misner & Misner, who will continue the
business.

S. K. Snodgrass has retired from the
drug firm of Peck Bros. The business
Thos. and
John Peck under the same style as before.

will be continued by Peck

Ce

Lemon. Hoops & Peters have made a
number of betterments in their business
office, such as paint, varnish and lino-
leum will afford, making the room one of
the finest of the kind in the city.

 

AROUND THE STATE.
Marshall—Milton Powell succeeds F. R.
Amler in the drug business.

Kendall—L. M. Lee succeeds Allen
O’ Dill in the meat business.
Soule—B. W. Boyd is closing out his

 

stock of general merchandise.

Detroit—Chas. E. Caryl succeeds H. L.
Vanderbilt in the meat business.

Muskegon—J. G. Anderson has retired
from the firm of Johnson & Anderson.

Niles—E. Allen & Co. have assigned
their dry goods stock to Henry Settler.

Oscoda—John W. Deuel succeeds Deuel
& Deuel in the tea and coffee business.

Big Rapids—D. F. Emerson has pur-
chased the bakery business of E. Kuyers.

Orangeville Mills—Henry Arbour has
sold his drug stock to Merrill T. Arbour.

Harrison—J. C. Lee & Bro. sueceed
R. B. Stephens in the hardware business.

Hanover — Wm. Stevens succeeds
Hughes & Stevens in the meat business.

Petoskey—G. Manning sueceeds Lamp-
son & Manning in the grocery business.

Newaygo--Lou. I. Thompson has opened
an exclusive crockery and glassware
store.

Ludington — William Stitt succeeds
J. S. Brown in the confectionery bus-
iness.

Rochester—Arthur F. Newbegry suc-
ceeds W. F. Switzer in the grocery bus-
iness.

Bay City—H. G. Staggall succeeds
Staggall & Allen in the blacksmith bus-
iness.

Riverdale—W. H. Taft’s stock of gen-
eral merchandise has been taken on bill
of sale.

Menominee suc-
ceed L. Nelson in the grocery and bakery

Larson Bros. & Co.

 

business.

Blissfield—F. D. Lamb & Co. have sold
their grocery stock and meat market to
Bliven & Warren.

Lansing—Haugawout & Co. have sold
their grocery stock to Geo. A. Cockborn,
late of Big Rapids.

Bay City—Valerie
Ephraim Bergevin in the grocery, liquor
and meat business.

Bloomingdale—J. C. Spircher has pur-
chased a half interest Frank Merri-
field’s grocery store.

Whitehall—W. H. Baker has sold his
drug stock to Wm. B Conley and will
remove to Kansas City.

Shelby—L. A. Shirts has started a
branch jewelry store at Ferry, placing
T. P. Landon in charge.

Plainwell— J. Parks has bought a meat
market at Kendallville, Ind.. and will
remove to that place as soon as he can
close his business relations here.

Newaygo—Chas. C. Kritzer and Leslie
Bennett have formed a copartnership and
engaged in the grocery business. The
stock was furnished by J. H. Thompson
& Co.

3ergevin succeeds

in

 

STRAY FACTS.

Manistee—M. R. Denning is arranging
to erect a building suitable for a savings
bank.

Acme—C. E. Silver’s safe was blown
open by burglars about ten days ago and
some &70 stolen. The front of the build-
ing was badly wrecked, and the loss in
this way is quite heavy. Mr. Silver is
postmaster and the safe was in his store.

Detroit—A graphite mine recently
found in Baraga county, near L’anse,

will be developed by a corporation com-
posed of Detroit gentlemen and named

The Baraga Graphite Mining Co. The
stockholders embrace ©. F. Conrad,

Dwight McIntyre, M. P. Thatcher, Robert
McKinstry, M. F. Parrish, M. W. Par-

 

 

 

 

rish, S. J Tomlinson, 8. E. Engle, G. J.

Hiller, R. A. Parker, €. C. Chadwick, R.
A. McCarty, Homer Warren, E. oO. Dur-
fee, F.-C. Trowbridge, A. A. Boutelle,
and C. W. Bristol. M. P. Thatcher, the
Secretary and organizer, bought the 880
acres on which the mine is situated, and
is understood to hold a controlling inter-
est.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Ludington—E. Seaton sueceeds Seaton
& Butters in the manufacture of loops.

Manistee—Carl E. Joys, who assigned
about three months ago, is offering to
compromise at 25 per cent.

Eastlake—The R. G. Peters Salt and
Lumber Co. is erecting a warehouse, 40x
130 feet in dimensions, on the site of the
one burned.

Whitehall—John Miller has retired
from the shingle manufacturing firm of
Johnson & Miller. The business will be
continued the remaining partner,
Charles Johnson.

Detroit—The Grant Car Pusher Co. has
been organized, with $6,000 eapital, for
the purpose of manufacturing car push-
The incorporators are B.
Franklin Nelson, Sigmund Simon, Wm.
F. Heames, P. H. Dwyer, Edward Bren-
nan and Murtagh P. Brennan.

————_—$_$_——> <a _ —_
Purely Personal.

F. A. Earl, the Rodney jeweler. is in
town for a couple of days.

Frank E. Pickett, the Hilliards cheese
manufacturer, was in town Monday.

W. H. Chilson, senior member of the
firm of W. H. Chilson & Son, general
dealers at West Sebewa, was in town a
couple of days last week.

Samuel M. Lemon, L. E. Hawkins,
Wn. Judson and Heman G. Barlow were
in Lansing Monday to attend the meeting
of Michigan wholesale grocers.

F. D. Yale, of the firm of Cummings &
Yale, is doing Southern Michigan this
week and will Sunday with Mrs. Yale,
who is visiting her mother at Lansing.

S. K. Snodgrass, late of the firm of

Peck Bros.. has gone to Delaware, Ohio,
where he will inspect his business inter-
ests, going thence to California. where
he will spend the winter.
Vernier. the Crystal hardware
dealer. was in town a couple of days last
week in attendance on the Odd
encampment. It was the first time he
had been in Grand Rapids for about four
years.

Niel B. Campbell, the La Grange, Ind.,
grocer, was in town a couple of days last
week, accompanied wife. Al-
though he has been buying goods in this
market for several years, he had never
visited the city before and was agreeably
surprised with its size and importance.

—_—_——»>-->_——_
Gnpsack Bngade.

G. H. McWilliams has taken the po-
sition of city salesman for Ball, Barn-
hart & Putman.

‘Hub’ Baker says that W. J. Lewis’
new hotel at Boyne City is a dandy—and
“Hub” ought to know.

J. W. Weinburg has closed out his
stock at Battle Creek and gone on the
road for D. S. Newburg, of New York.
J. L. Anthony, Secretary of the San-
dusky Steamboat and Fishing Co., has
engaged to travel for F. J. Dettenthaler.
Frederick €C. Waters. now on the road
for a Toledo boot and shoe house, will
remove here about the first of the year
and open a retail shoe store. Mr. Waters
daughter of the late Wm. B.

by

ers or movers.

Geo.

Fellows’

by his

married a
Solomon.
It is understood that Will Campbell is
something of an adept in hunting mud
hens. having recently shot twelve out of
a possible ten. He sure he killed
them. because they dove in the water and
were never seen ‘any more any more.”
John Garvey, traveling representative
for the Grand Rapids Packing & Pro-
vision Co.. received a telegram one day
last week bearing the tidings, ‘*He’s all
The ‘the’ referred to is a brand
new who will henceforth make
things lively at the Garvey mansion.

_—~..
Large Business in Safes and Vault Work.
Ed. A. Lee, Manager of the Western
salesmen of the Detroit Safe Co., is meet-
ing with exceptional having
eight men under his direct personal su-
pervision, as follows: ©. A. Perry, who
covers Southern Dakota; A. O. Freeman,
who travels in Wisconsin; Murray Ho-
som. who covers Montana; A. F. Mertz,
who for Northern Dakota: R. P.
Hosner, who looks after Southern Michi-
gan: Chas. D. Crandall, who has North-
ern Michigan as his territory, and H. W.
Cole. who attends to the office and the
wants of the Grand Rapids trade. Mr.
Lee may properly be termed ‘traveler at
large,’ although he is just now paying
particular attention to Kansas and Ne-
braska. Among the large contracts
which he and his men have taken of late
are the following: Vault and door for
the Merchants’ Bank of Helena, Montana,
$4,000; vault and door for Deadwood Na-
tional Bank, $2,000; vault lining and
door for Houghton National Bank, $1,-
600: vault, vault door and burglar proof
safe for Northern Kent Bank, of Cedar
Springs, over’ $1,000; jail at Bessemer,
3.000. Mr. Lee is having a large trade
in the West on bank and county work,

is

right.”’
boy

suecess,

eares

 

besides selling many safes here in the
State from the Grand Rapids agency. He
is aman of long and varied experience
in the safe business and orders intrusted

 

40 him are sure to prove satisfactory.

RAILROAD RUMORS.

New Roads in Prospect— Changes in
Management.

The coming season promises to witness
more railroad building in this State than
has been the case for several years past.
Several lines enjoying an established
business are to be paralleled and a nuim-
ber of unoccupied fields are to be in-
vaded. THe TRADESMAN has made a
careful study of the situation and takes
pleasure in presenting a number of new
undertakings which are reasonably sure
of being consummated.

“The objective point of at least three
different railroad systems Manistee.
It is very generally conceded that Man-
istee is tributary to more pine than any
other town in the Lower Peninsula and
there is likely to be very lively bidding
for the lumber traffic of the place. But
for the apathy of the lumber manufac-
turers of Manistee. the city would have
had a number of outlets years ago. The
mill men have failed to appreciate the
advantages of a rail trade over cargo
shipments—and the same is true to a con-
siderable extent to-day.

is

 

The experience
of Muskegon, however, coupled witha

 

realization of the fact that the years of
the pine supply of the Manistee valley
are numbered, have set the lumbermen
to figuring and they are beginning to
reach the conclusion that they can just
as well put their product into the retail
yards of the country as to submit to the
exactions of the wholesale middlemen at
Chicago and other markets.

Such a determination having been
reached, the railroads will not be slow in
taking advantage of the situation. Al-
ready the G. R. & I. is arranging to push
to completion its Manistee branch, which
will require the closing of but a short
gap. The C. & W. M., too, will un-
doubtedly extend its line from Baldwin
to the lake port with as much expedition
as possible—probably to the abandon-
ment of the proposed extension to Tray-
erse City. The strangest undertaking of
the three. however. is the extension of
the line now being surveyed from Mt.
Pleasant to Big Rapids on to Manistee.
This project is backed by the same men
who own the Cincinnati, Wabash & Mich-
igan Railway, but will propably event-
ually pass into the hands of the ACA
& N. M. Railway.

One of the largest undertakings of the
season will be the beginning of the ex-
tension of the D.. L. & N. to Kalkaska,
to connect with the line now being con-
structed between Charlevoix and Kal-
kaska. The recent purchase of exten-
sive dockage properties at St. Ignace by
the Mulliken management plainly fore-
shadows the establishment of a line of
boats between Charlevoix and St. Ignace,
enabling the D., L. & N. to compete for
the traffic of the Upper Peninsula, which
is destined to become very extensive.

One of the most important changes
which oecurred in Michigan
railway cireles will unquestionably be
brought about by the action of A. W.
Wright in identifying himself with the
T. A. A. & N. M. Railway. as the back-
ing afforded by his immense wealth will
give the road a standing it has never had
before. Under his direction the Cadillac
branch will be extended to Frankfort, a
branch will be constructed from AnD
Arbor to Detroit, and the recently-ac-

has ever

quired line running from Durand to East
Saginaw will eventually be extended to
the straits.

THe TRADESMAN does not wish to be
understood as stating that the above are
all the new railroads which will be con-
structed in Michigan during 1889, but
the recital is sufficient to satisfy even the
most skeptical that the activity in this
direction will be little less than phenom-
enal.

No Meat Sold to Consumers.

When Swift and Company announced
their intention of starting a fresh meat

station here, the string butchers at-
tempted to create antagonism against

them by reporting that they would sell
restaurants
The report proved

fresh meat direct to hotels,
and other consumers.
to be wholly groundless, but that does
not prevent the string butehers of Mus-
kegon from employing the same tactics,
now that Swift and Company are about
starting afresh meat station there. A
few weeks’ experience, however, will set
at rest the fears of the trade and plainly
demonstrate that the maligners. in mak-
ing such baseless claims, are actuated by
malice and venom.

 

 

What Kind of a Boy Does a Business
Man Want?

‘What kind of a boy does a business
man want?’ repeated a shrewd, practi-
cal man of many concerns, the other day.
‘Well, I will tell you. In the first place
he wants a boy who doesn’t know too
much; business men generally like to
run their own business, and prefer some
one who will listen to their way, rather
than try to teach them new kinds; sec-
ondly, they want a prompt boy—one who
understands 7 o’clock as exactly 7, not 30
minutes past; third, an industrious boy,
who is not afraid to putin a little extra
work in case of need: fourth, an honest
boy—honest in his service, as well as in
the matter of dollars and cents; and,
fifth, a good-natured boy who will keep
his temper even if his employer loses his
own, now and then!’

“But you haven't said a word about
his being smart !’’ was suggested.

‘Well, to tell the truth,’’ was the rather
hesitating answer, ‘‘that’s about the last
thing we worry over. The fact is, if a
boy is modest, prompt, pleasant, indus-
trious and honest, he’s about as smart as
we care about generally—and that’s a
fact 07

—————
The ‘‘Anchor” ‘Brand.

The ‘Anchor’? brand of oysters has
now been before the public about two
years and is now more popular than ever.

—_—_—_—_—»- <a
The paper sack advertising fraud is

around again. Merchants not

the

do
eare to be victimized should give
swindler a wide berth.

who

 

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

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Advertisements will be inserted under this head for
two cents a word the first insertion-and one centa
| word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise-
ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment.

 

 

© FOR SALE,
re SALE—TWO GOOD, SECOND-HAND RE-SAWS;
36-inch wheel band saw; knife grinder; mortiser;
rip saw table, etc.; also full line of new machinery.
F. B. Wiggins & Co., Machinery Depot, East Saginaw,
Mich. 301
tr SALE OR RENT—A DESIRABLE LOCATION
for a druggist or a physician, or both. New brick
building on a frequented corner. Good rooms above
for residence purposes. The location isa good one also
for a grocery business, and an adjoining store could be
rented with it for this purpose. Terms reasonable for
a desirable tenant, or will sell at a bargain for cash or
its equivalent or take a choice farm in part payment.
The property will return a revenue of $1,500 to $8,000
per annum. Address James A. Jones, Butler Block,
Detroit, Mich. 299
A gages SALE—A CLEAN, WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OF
' general hardware, stoves and tinware. Tin shop
in connection. Will inventory about $6,000. Located
centrally and one of the best points for retail business
in the city. Good reasons for selling. Address Hard-
ware, care Michigan Tradesman, 300
ar SALE CH > 18-HORSE POWER ENGINE,
Address 298, this office. 298

Good as new.
TOR SALE—THE JEFFERSON FLOURING MILL.
Inquire of N. G.
294

 

  
 

Best water power in the State.
King, Brooklyn, Mich.
OR SALE—GCOD RESIDENCE LOT ON ONE OF
the most pleasant streets ‘‘on the hill.’ Will ex-
change for stock in any good institution. Address 286,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 286

 

 

 

: SALE—WELL-SELECTED GROCERY STOCK,
situated on good business corner. Stock and fix-
tures will inventory about $3,000. Reason for selling,
other business. Address Henry, care Michigan Trades-
man, Grand Rapids. 282
OR SALE—ONE 9x24 ROWNDS’ SECTIONAL ROLL-
er mill, with elevators and scalpers complete; one
Webster bran duster; ene OO Geo. T. Smith purifier.
The above machines are allin good eondition. Enquire
‘

 

 

of owner, D. C. Briggs, North Branch, Mich. 27
u SALE—BAZAAR BUSINESS, WELL ESTAB-
lishedin one of the liveliest and best business
townsin the State. Proprietor’s health failing. In-
voice about $1,400. Now is the time to buy for fall and
holiday trade. Address A BC oftice of this paper. 272

rr SALE—CLEAN GROCERY, DRY GOODS AND
Crockery stock, situated ina railway town, with

good line of customers. Stock will inventory about

= 000, Will take part cash and balance on time. Ad-
res 260

s Musselman & Co., Grand Rapids,
OR SALE—DRUG FIXTURES AND SMALL STOCK
of drugs. Address Doctor, Box 242, Rockford. 258
| pap SALE—GENERAL STOCK, GOOD TRADE, LONG
or short lease of store. A bargainfor some one.
Must sell. WanttogoSouth. Address Box 12, Grand-
ville, Mich. 242
OR SALE—THE DRESS OF TYPE NOW USED ON
1 “The Tradesman”—600 pounds of brevier and 200
pounds of nonpareil. A good bargain will be given
purchaser. 206

 

 

 

 

 

  
 

 

 

 

WANTS

 
 
 

W ANTED—SITUATION BY EXPERIENCED PHAR-
/ macist. Speaks Holland. Registered by exami-
nation. Best of references. Address Box 153, Morley
Mich. 302

ee AND BOILER
RENCE MORITZ, Aarwood.
\ TANTED—SITUATION ON THE ROAD BY MAN OF
six years’ experience. Best of reference. Ad-
dress J. E. F. care Michigan Tradesman 293
ANTED—A LIVE, ENERGETIC MAN WHO IS SO-
ber and honest, to consolidate grocery or gener-
al stocks with me, in a No.1 location, where a trade of
$20,000 a year can be done. Don’t write unless you are
all right and mean business. Address Lock Box 129,
Collins, Mich. 275
+ANTED—SALESMEN TO SELL OUR CHOICE VA-
/ ~ yieties of nursery stock, either on salary or com-
mission. Permanent employment to successful men
Address, with references, May Brothers, Nurserymen,
Rochester, N. Y. 278
eee STORE-KEEPER WHO READS
this paper to give the Sutliff coupon system a
trial. It will abolish your pass books, do away with
all your book-keeping, in many instances save you the
expense of one clerk, will bring your business down to
a cash basis and save you all the worry and trouble
that usually go with the pass-book plan. Start the 1st
ofthe month with the new system and you will never
regret it. Having two kinds, both kinds will be sent
by addressing (mentioning this paper) J. H. Sutliff,
Albany, N. Y. 213
Se MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR
Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for
samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 214
MISCELLANEOUS.
OR RENT—THREE FLOORS AND BASEMENT AT 46
Ottawa street, especially adapted for jobbing or
commission business. Apply to Telfer Spice Co., 03 and
05 Pearl street. 304
| ee AND MEDICAL PRACTICES BOUGHT
s and sold. Partnerships arranged. Assistants
and substitutes provided. Particulars free. Address
“The Medical Transfer Bureau,” Lynn, Mass.
aM o0-ACRE FRUIT FARM NEAR BENTON HARBOR,
ok: handy to Chicago market, will sell or exchange
for Grand Rapids realestate worth $1,200.
Dr. W. Ryno, Coloma, Mich.
ich IN CASH OR GOOD PAPER WILL SE-
$2, 500 cure a thriving hardware business
without competition in Meredith. Address Lock Draw-
er 25, Overt sens 284
31 200 CASH BUYS MANUFACTURING BUSI-
» Ls ness paying 100 per cent. Best of rea-
sons’ for selling. Address Chas. Kynoch, St. Ignace,
Mich. 228

A BARGAIN that is A BARGAIN.

ROCERY FOR SALE—A leading Grocery
¥ and Crockery business in a flourishing Ne-
braska city of 8,000 population, with gas, e'ec-
tric: light, street cars, water works, fine schools
and churebes. Store first class; sales upward
of $40,000 per year. Crop prospects finest in
the West. Cash required, about $5,000. Write
; at once, P. O. Box 308, Kearney, Neb.

 

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Michigan Business Men’s Association.

President—Frank Wells, Lansing.

First Vice-President—H. Chambers, Cheboygan.

Second Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo.

Seeretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.

Executive Board-@President; C. L. Whitney, Muskegon;
Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; N. B. Blain, Lowell;
Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint; Hiram DeLano, Allegan;

etary.

Coun on Insurance—Geo. B. Caldwell, Green-
ville; W.S. Powers, Nashville; Oren Stone, Flint.

Committee on Legislation—S. E Parkill, Owosso; H.
‘A. Hydorn, Grand Rapids; H. H. Pope, Allegan.

Gommittee on Trade Interests—Sinith Barnex, Traverse
City: Geo. R. Hoyt, East Saginaw; H. B. Fargo, Mus-

kegon. ; i a
Committee on Transportation—James ( ysborn,OW Osso;
omunitonklin, Grand Rapids; C. F. Bock, Battle

Creek.

Committee on Building and Loan Associations—Chaun- |

eey Strong, Kalamazoo; Will Emmert, Eaton Rapids;

W.E. Crotty, Lansing,
Local Secretary—P. J. Connell. Muskegea.
Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

The following auxiliary associations are Op-
erating under charters granted by the Michi-
gan Business Men’s Association:

 

No. t—Traverse City B. M. A.
President, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts.
No. 2—Lowell &. M.A.
President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King.

 

No. 3—Sturgis B. M. A.
President, H. S. Church ; Secretary, wm. Jorn. i

No. 4_Grand Rapids M. A.
President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

 

No. 5—Muskegon B. M. A.
President, H. B. Fargo; Secretary, Wm. Peer. i

 

No. 6—Alba &. M. A. i
President, F. W. Sloat; Secreta ry. P. T. Baldwin.
No. 7—Dimondgale 8B. M. A.
President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.
No. 8—Eastport B. M, A.
r. x = Sie, RRM OENY Geo. L. Thurston.

   

 

President, :
i No. 9—Lawrence B. M.A. i
President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly :

No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M. A.
President, W. J. Clark; Secretary. A. L. Thompson.

 

 

No.11—Kingsiey B. M. A.
President, H. P. Whipple; Secretary, C. H. Camp.

 

 

No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
President, C. McKay Secretary. Thos. Lennon.

 

 

No. 13—Sherman B. M. A. i
President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin.
No. 14—No. Muskegon BM. A.
President, S. A. Howey: Secretary, G. C. Havens.
No. 15—Boyne City #. M. A.
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.

   

 

 

No. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A.
Secretary, W. Rasco.

President, J. V. Crandall:
No. 17—Plainwell B. M. A.

President, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
No. 18—Owosso B. M. A.
President, H. W. Parker; Secretary, Ss. Lamfrom.
No. 19—Ada B. M. A.
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.
No. 20—Saugatuck B. M.A.
sident, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.

 

 

 

 

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President, Bn ccirecary oa 4 Richmond.
President, fae et = Pew.
cee ose Caldwell.
President, E No Bid aooetary, be. =
ee ee Dozer.
President, Ea 29— Freeport B. Mi cncesebrough.
President, a CG. 30 Oceans .vy, B68 Houghtaling
No. 31—Charlotte 3. a

B. M. A.

J. B. Watson.

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

  

    

 

 

 

President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary,
No. 32—Coopersville
President, W. G. Barnes; Secretary,

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No. 33—Charlevor® R. W. Kane.

   

President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary,
No. 34—Saranac 5. oe
President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P.T. Williams. _
————Wo, 35—Bellaire B. M. A.
President, Wm. J. Nixon; Secretary, C. E. De

 

 

nsmore.
Ne. 36—Ithaca B. uM. A
President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John
No. 37—Battle creek B. M. A.
President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E. W. Moore.
No. 38—Scottville B. M.A.
President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
No. 39—Burr Oak B. M. A.
President, W. S. Willer; Secretary, F. W.- Sheldon.
No. 40—EHaton Rapids Bb. M.A. i
President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert.

* M. Everden.

   

 

No. 41—Breckenridge B. M.A.
President, W. O. Watson; Secretary, C. E. Seudder.
No. 42—Fremount 8. ™. A.
President. Jos. Gerber; Sec ary C.J. Rathbun.

i “No. 43—T

stin B. M. A.
President, G. A. Estes; Secretary.W. M. Holmes. _

zeed City B. M.A.
tary, W. H. Smith.

   

  

 

 

 

 

 

No. 44—
President, E. B. Martin; Secre

No. 45—Hoytville B. M.A. i
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretar O. A. Halladay.
i ‘No. 46—Leslie B. Mf. A.
President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould. a
——_—_ No. 47—Flint M. U.
President, G. R. Hoyt; Secretary, W.H. Graham.

No. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A.

President, Boyd Redner: Secretary, W . J. Tabor.

 

    
  

 

 

No. 49—Lervy B. M. ea
President, A. Wenzeil,; Secretary. Frank Smith.
No. 50—Manistee B. M.A.
). Wheeler; Secretary, J.P. O Malley.

 

 

 

  

 

President, A. O. Wheel J.P
7 No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M, A.
sident, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, Ww C. Congdon.

 

 

 

 

No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, Wm. M é

 

 

No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A.
President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, John H. York.

 

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No. 54—Douglas B. M. A. ue
President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller.
Peete eed
No. 55—Petoskey KB. M.A.
President, C. F. Hanky; Secretary, A. C. Bowman.
No. 56—
President, N. W. Drake'

 

     
   
 
   

angor B. m. A.
Secretary, Geo Chapman.
ockford B. M.A.
secretary. E. B. Lapham.

No. 58—Fife Lake B. M. A.
President, E. Hagadorn; Secretary, E. C. Brower.

No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.
President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, P. S. Swarts.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A.
-esident, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E.Neihardt.

 

 

ho. 57—
sident, Wm. G. Tefft; 8

    

 

 

 

 

  

No. 61—Hartford B.M.A. _

President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.*
No. 62—East saginaw M.A. _

sident, G. W. Meyer; Secretary, has. H. Smith.

 

  

 

No. 63—Evart B. M. A.
President, W. M. Davis; Secretary, Cc See
"No, 64—Merrill B, M. A-
President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. 8. Blom.

No. 66—Lansing B. M. A.
President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Cha Ss. Cowles. a

 

    

  
    

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 67—Watervliet B. M. A.
President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.
No. 68—Allegan B. M.A.
President, A. E.Calkins; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.

 

 

 

 

President, Lyman Clark: Secretary, F. 8. Willison.
No. 70—Nashville B. M. A,
President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers.
No. 71—Ashley B. M. A, (9
President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck.
No. 72—Edmore B. M. A.

No, 73—Belding B. M. A.
President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster.
ao. 74—Davison M. U.
President, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. L. Gifford. “~
No. 75—Tecumseh B. M. A.
President, Osear P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus.
No. 76—Kealamazoe B. M. A.
President, S. S. McCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special Kuterprises Wanted.

~_ WPPPPP PAIL LLL LDL LDL LILI DI LLL LI LIDS

 

VNHEBOYGAN—WANTS WOOD MANUFACTOR-
ies in every branch to improve the greatest ad-
yantages in the State. All kinds of timber of the finest
quality in unlimited quantities. Come and we will
help you. Address Sec’y B. M. A. ,uca 248

 

NORTH MUSKEGON—WANTS A LIVE LOCAL
m newspaper. Address Sec’y B. M. A. 2

 

\ TAYLAND—OFFERS UNEXCEPTIONABLE IN-
; ducements foracannery. Address Sec’y B. M
A. 4

 

IFE LAKE—WANTS ANY{KIND OF HARDWOOD
factories. Address Sec’y B..M. A. 5

No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. —W |

 

MUTUAL INSURANCE.
Explanations of

Plans.
oe tipe oe Bb. M A:

In following our recent recommenda-
tion with this circular, it is to more fully
outline the plan proposed for a Michigan
Business Men’s Mutual Fire Insurance
/Co.. as determined at the Cheboygan con-
| vention, and to learn the disposition and
support we may expect from each local
association.

The insurance problem, its relation to
business men and owners of perishable
property, may be expressed in two words
—security and cash. A glance at the fire
insurance business in Michigan in 1887
shows over $3,311,000 received by 137
stock companies for fire premiums alone.
Add to this the security to the great cred-
it business of this State, meaning our
merchants and business men, and we can
realize something of the commercial im-
portance of this question and the uncer-
tain and unsettled state of affairs that
would follow any tendency to lessen the
degree of security already established.

This defines for us the first element of
greatness to become a successful insurer,
namely—security. On the other hand,
ve, being buyers rather than sellers of
that article, find the question of cash of
no small importance, as $3,311,000 is no
' small amount for the people of Michigan
ito pay annually for fire insurance alone.
| It means that many of us pay annually
ifor insurance as much as for store rent
| or clerk hire and must suffer a loss to get
any of it back. We have, then, as busi-
ness men contemplating an insurance
company of our own, this question before
us: ‘How to furnish absolute security
at cost?” Your committee having this
matter in charge have examined different
insurance companies reports and exam-
ined the plans of different mutual com-
panies doing business on the assessment
and premium note plan, bothin Michigan
and other States. We find merchants’
mutuals, millers’ mutuals, manufactur-
ers’ inutuals, druggists’ mutuals and
farmers’ mutuals. We did not find a
plan, nor could we combine the many
good features of them all in one com-
pany and recommend it as just what we
want as business men.

Ve find, on examining the Insurance
Commissioner’s report for 1887, only six-
ty-two mutual companies doing business
in Michigan, against 137 stock companies,
and forty-five of these are farmers’ mu-
tuals. We also find the stock companies
have always figured in the majority, both
in numbers and the amount of business
they do, while their rates have always
been higher than the mutuals. We can
allow for this in no other way than be-
cause they furnish the better security.
Few of us, if any, desire to become mem-
bers of mutual companies. assume the
repponsibility of the amount of our pre-
mium nete or of confiscating our proper-
ty at some future time in settlement of
the losses and expenditures of a careless
and extravagant management. Hence it
is that the mutual companies are largely
farm mutuals &énd cut but a small figure,
so far as business men are concerned.

Further than the limited degree of se-
curity afforded by mutual companies, we
have no criticism to make. The results,
so far as fire losses are concerned, are
largely in ther favor. In New England,
where the stock companies withdrew and
many mutual companies succeeded, the
results have been eminently satisfactory.
The ratio in cost per thousand for insur-
ance shows a saving of from 50 per cent.
to as high as 80 per cent. So, also, with
manufacturers’ mutuals doing business
in Michigan. They are reducing expens-
es and Josses and saving their members
50 per cent. of what they were formerly
paying stock companies.

In reviewing this condition of things,
it was something of a question with your
Committee how to furnish absolute secur-
ity at cost. We at last hit upon the plan
'already laid before you through ‘THE
TRADESMAN. We found that 1f we or-
ganized a stock company with $100,000
capital, we could avail ourselves of the
present law regulating the business of
fire insurance, thus avoiding any special
legislation or agitation of this question,
besides having that security we ought to
have and which stock companies alone
furnish.

We next turned to the question of mu-
tuality and embodied that by making ev-
ery policy holder a stock holder, to at
least one share of stock (325,00) and by
also allowing him to participate in the

| Fur-her

 

Our Proposed

 

profits as policy holder as well. This
makes you your own insurer, and we
could conceive of nothing more mutual.

We further recommend the issuing of
all policies from the home ofiice at Na-
| tional Underwriters’ rates. This would
‘save us the local agency expenses, which,
considering the books, stationery, print-
ing and advertising matter furnished and
commissions and brokerage, amounts to 25
per cent. of premium receipts—and in
many cases more. This we aim to save,
while our inspectors or special agents
need be no more nuinerous than with oth-
1er stock companies. We advocate fre-
quent inspection of risks and the study
and promulgation of facts relating to
fires and how to reduce them. ‘This,
|coupled with the mutual feeling that
| must necessarily exist, cannot — re-
| duce the fire losses to a minimum, So that
| where the stock companies are paying 40
| per cent. of premium receipts for expens-
jes and 50 per cent. for fire losses, we ex-
| pect to reduce this one-half and return
| the residue annually to our policy hold-
| ers and stock holders as dividends.
| The.Commissioner of Insurance fur-
nishes us with the expenditures of the
|
|
|

three Michigan stock companies for 1887,
| which I herewith submit to you:

| Paid for Commission and Brokerage... . $68,695.56

i = * iicers Salaries. 29,114.64

ee 16,409.18

Printing and Advertising... -- 34,963.70

* ivagenas..,.... -<¢\-+ 3o,000.00

 

 

| Total expenditures outside of fire losses, $187,183.08
; While their premium receipts on their
| Michigan business were only $227,233.
You can readily see the burden of their ex-
pense is commission and brokerage—and
printing and advertising—a local ageney
expense we should save:

We do not make the claim that we
could conduct the insurance business af-
| ter the methods of stock companies as we
| know them with, perhaps, any better re-

sults, but we do claim that, if our recom-
| mendation is carried out and supported,
; not only by the Michigan Business Men’s
: Association but by business men gener-

| ally throughout the State, it will accon:-
plish all we prophecy—a reduction of
fire losses and expenses at least 50 per
| cent. and the furnishing of good securi-
ty at cost. It will put aclass of business
on our books that will remain there with-
out the attention of the local agent in
policies of from $1,000 to $10,000 on the
best class of risks in Michigan. To-day,
fire insurance as conducted by the union
companies is the only business in which
it is demanded that one party shall alone
name the terms of the contract. We
have aimed at free competition with only
partial success. We further submit that
it is unfair to throw upon our merehants
and business men, having large accumu-
lated values in stocks and stores with
ample fire protection, the burden of pull-
ing the companies out of the fire each
year from their excess of losses over pre-
mium receipts on special hazards. The
day has arrived for business men and
merchants to gain something in this di-
rection by organized effort and the mak-
ing of your own risk a specialty. This
will discriminate between the just and
unjust and will correct, to a great extent,
the irregularities we have alluded to in
the matter of fire insurance.

Edward Atkinson, father of mutual in-
surance in New England, says: ‘*There
is no opportunity now open to enterpris-
ing business men to make a profit to
themselves and their associates as great
as that presented in the problem of say-
ing a part of the actual waste by fire
and a part of the excessive cost of con-
ducting the present system of insurance.”
Your Committee believes this is true and
recommend this method to the Executive
Board of the Michigan Business Men’s
Association, confident that if adopted it
will meet your hearty approval and sup-
port.

Having waged war on this question last
year, it is becoming of us to back up and
support such measures as will aid us to
success. Failure in an undertaking of
this kind cannot help but expose our
weakness and be hailed with delight by
our opponents, and even though we can-
not say how much an instrance company
shal} have for what they have to sell, yet
we can, with your co-operation and sup-
port, have an organization January 1.
1889, that will furnish its members insur-
ance at cost: increase the growth of our
B. M. A.: bind our business men togeth-
er like an iron band, and be a giant of
strength in suppressing the evils of the
present system of insurance.

All this we recommend, as your Insur-
ance Committee, for the good of the order
and hope we may have special cause for
joy and pride in being the pioneers in
State organized work.

Gro. B. CALDWELL,
Chairman Ins. Com.
aan —_$_—>—_9-<>—___-

VISITING BUYERS.

J P Cordes, Alpine
R B Gooding & Son, Lisbon
W H Chilson & Son,

Cutler & Lauster, Ionia

E 8 Botsford, Dorr

W E Hinman, Sparta

Keeler Bros., Midéleville West Sebewa

Griswold Bros., Griswold Geo Vernier, Crystal

Wm H Wheeler,Cedar Spgs Dr Henry Lever, Newaygo

J F Connell, Fowler L Vallier, Fremont

Chas Darling, Sparta S A Watt, Saranac

John Rutgers, Graafschaap C C Tuxbury, Sullivan

Wm Barker, Sand Lake Bowen & McCarty, Ovid

Frank Freidrich,TraverseC David Holmes, Woodville

CS Comstock, Pierson G M Huntley, Reno

E A Owen, Piainwell P P Leonard, Muskegon

P H Bernesteine,Fife Lake FS Kieldsen, Cadillac

Woodward & Polland, Alex Denton, Howard City

Ashland W A Purdy, Kalamazoo

CJ Westerland, Muskegon Wm Vermeulen, Beaver

E Hogadorn. Fife Lake Dam

Geo Weitz, Caledonia Champion & Hayward,

JB Perham, Spring Lake White Cloud

JR Campbell, Big Rapids Jno Kruisenga, Holland

H Van Noord, Jamestown Orion Hightower, Ferry

Nelson F Miller, Lisbon F N Cornell, Griswold

A Purchase, So Blendon Morley Bros, Cedar Springs

HC Trabert, Galesburg Spooner & Moore,CedarSpg

W H Struik, Forest Grove Adam Newell,Burnips Cors

F A Moore, Freeport W E Haney, Big Rapids

Blood & Thomas, Horning & Hart, Wooaville
Whitneyville Peter Thiel, Muskegon

JC Benbow, Cannonsburg J Heeringa, E Saugatuck

J T Pierson, Irving Jas L Toland, Ross

DW C Shattuck, Wayland LM Wolf, Hudsonville

Carrington & North, Trent J L Purchase, So Blendon

PG Eib, Saginaw RT Parrish, Grandville

RD MeNaughton, Coopers- John H Passage, Greenville

ville Sevey & Herrington,

S MeNitt & Co, Byron Centr

John Smith, Ada

J Mathews, Baldwin

T Armock, Wright

Wm Karsten, Vriesland

CH Deming, Dutton

DenHerder & Tani

  

Herrington
RB McCulloch, Berlin
Guy M Harwood, Petoskey
Walling Bros., Lamont
E L Halliday. Mulliken
W H Hicks, Morley
JN Wait, Hudsonviile
GH Walbrink, Allendale
Geo J Stepheson, Bangor
Neal McMillan, Rockford
LN Fisher, Dorr W Ryno & Bro., Coloma
H Thompson, Canad2 Cor DrHC Peckham, Freeport
L & LJenison, Jenisonville EN Thayer, Lyons
J C Scott, Lowell F O’Betts, Greenville
Cutler & Wright, Morley F C Stone, Cedar Springs
F W Foster, Newaygo JL Thomas, Cannonsburg
E Young, Ravenna Eli Runnels, Corning
H Colby & Co., Rockford H A Dailey, Lumberton
W H Watts, Alto Sheppard & Granger,
W F Hutchinson, Grant Plainwell
JS Barker, Morley W W Brower, Fife Lake
Mr Bierbower, Newaygo J A Leibler, Caledonia
Munger Watson & DeVoist, S T McLellan, Denison

Sullivan A D Martin, Lilly
Beach & Clugston, Geo A Sage, Rockford
La Grange, Ind R A Hastings, Sparta

G P Stark, Cascade Cole & Chapel, Ada
E N Parker, Coopersville Jobn Baker, Chauncey
Wm De Pree & Bro.Zeeland Wise & Varnes,
A Sessions, Wayland Middlebury, Ind

 

 

\
J Raymond, Berlin
L Cook, Bauer

Found the Philosopher’s Stone.

At the recent annual convention of the
Fire Underwriters’ Association of the
Northwest, held at Chieago, the President
of the organization, C. B. Whiting, paid
the following tribute to the participation
plan of fire insurance, as recommended
by the Insurance Comunittee of the Mich-
igan Business Men’s Association:

It may be said, as the stock companies
are now hardly making a living, there
would be nothing to divide. I claim that
by this means the moral hazard would be
largely eliminated, and that even with
the present rates the profit would be much
greater than now. With the hold we
vould then have upon the people, we
could get improvements made in risks
where now we entirely fail. It would be
easier to get fire departments improved,
and the water supply increased, for every
insurer would be pecuniarily interested.
With all the companies issuing only par-
ticipating policies, Isee a glorious suc-
cess. The opposition to an advance in
rates would nearly, if not quite, cease as
soon as the assured comprehended he was
to be reimbursed by a portion of the earn-
ings. Restrictive legislation would be
repealed just as soon as the people learn-
ed that their profits were endangered
thereby. The eloquent rural representa-
tive would have to spread himself out up-
on some other subject. We would then
be in the same position as the mutuals.
We would have votes behind us. One
thing is certain, something must be done
toward the education of the people or our
business will be ruined. I have brought
my prescription to your door for you to
consider its properties. If it will pro-
duce the effect which I predict, if the
system of education which is suggested,
supplemented by participation, which of
itself is a good educator, brings about a
more healthy sentiment in the public
mind in regard to our profession—if, ina
word, it makes the people our friends in-
! stead of our enemies, as they now are,

 

then, gentlemen, if we have not found
the Philosopher’ sStone, we certainly have
found something that looks very much
like it.

Coming from such a source, this recom-
mendation is entitled to great weight, as
it plainly foreshadows a change which all
insurance companies will have to bring
about,fsooner or later.

Cg eee
Association Notes.

W. F. Baxter having resigned the Sec-
retaryship of the Battle Creek B. M. A.,
E. W. Moore has been elected to fill the
vacancy.

The State Organizer has arranged to
form a new B. M. A. at Sunfield on
Wednesday evening of this week. It is
reported that the Shaytown business men
will join with their Sunfield brethren in
the organization.

Theo. Kadish, having removed from
East Saginaw to Chicago, has resigned
the position of Secretary of the East
Saginaw Mercantile Association. Chas.
H. Smith, who was Secretary of the As-
sociation the first year of its existence,
has been elected to fill the vacancy.

— => --—
A Good Young Man.

Applicant—l would like a position,
sir, in your store.

Merchant—Have you
young man?

Applicant—No, sir, but I think I
would suit you. Ihave have been care-
fully raised, and my habits are unexcep-
tionable. I have no vices. I don’t
know one card from another. I don’t
know what tea, coffee, tobacco, or liquor
tastes like. Never go out at night.
Never saw the inside of a billiard saloon
or tenpin alley.

Merchant (dubiously)—Vl take you,
young man, but ’m afraid I shall not be
able to keep you long. You will have a
situation as a shining angel before many
years—you're too good for such a world as
this.

 

any references,

___—~. +2 —<—__—_
Two of a Kind.

Tekonsha has two drug stores, two hard-
ware stores, two grocery stores, two boot
and shoe stores, two dry goods stores,
two photograph galleries, two hotels, two
blacksmith shops, two harness shops, two
butcher shops, two barber shops, two
saw mills, two drays, two ball clubs, two

 

doctors. two ministers and two ceme-
teries.
——____—~.-¢
A Good Move.
N. K. Fairbanks & Co. announce that
hereafter their refined lard will be
branded ‘Refined Lard Compound.”’

They do this that there may be no mis-
apprehension on the part of the pur-
chaser as to the character of their pro-
duct.

LETTER COPYING BOOK.

A new SELF-MOISTENING leaf book, requir-
ing no brush or blottets. Forty leaves can be
kept moist for days, ready for instant copy.

GRAND RapIps, Mich., Oct. 5, 1888.

It is a great success, being the finest copying book
we ever used. VALLEY CITY TABL® Co.

For circulars and prices address
THE LYMAN AGENCY, Kalamazoo, Mich.

BUTTER: KGGs

We are receiving
daily and offertothe
trade a choice lotof

BUTTER

 

AND

 

and
PRESH EGGS.
Call Sit our store.
We guarantee
stock and prices to
suit.

AMOTGAL & JONSON

71 Canal Street.

 

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BON Cho hana ero
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HARDWARE.

 

 

These prices are for cash buyers, who

 

pay promptly and buy in full packages.

AUGURS AND BITS, dis.
EVER) Old Style oe 60
Se rt)
COOKS ee 49
pension: senuine. 0 8 25
Semen’, MIEAHOM..°.... 9... 2... | Ree

AXES,

Hirst Quality, > Bo eonze................. 3.7 OO
- Bee... 11 00

: SB eeeer ce. 5
De Seger es o 43 0

BALANCES. dis,
Sprig 0 aes cl! 40

BARROWS. dis.
ROETORG ec $ 14 00
CARGO R ee net 33 00

BELLS. dis.

BOLTS. dis.
GGG et et ee ee s 66
Casmanee nOw Tet ee os 7O&10
PIOW oe 50
Srciea GOCs oe So 70
MWrougns Berrel Bolte 2 60
Cast Barrel Bolts’. 3 962). se ane 40
Cast Barrell, brass Enops...- 0.5... 2... 40
Cael SOUARe SEPM ce ss). 60
Ant Chai eee 40
Wrought Barrel, brass knob..:............. 60
Moroucht Souare 2 ee 60
WrOUeE. coe Vien... ec. 60

Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush.. .60&10

 

EVCS POOP ee a eon Se 6010

 

BRACES, dis
Basher. eg a es
NS ee eae 59410
SPOMORG coo ee ce 50
Ae BA ee net

BUCKETS.
Well, pit ee #3 50
Well swivel ......:22.....- oo Oe

BUTTS, CAST.

  
 

   

dis
Cast Loose Pin, fisured.........<.. 3... 42, Wk
@ast Loose Pin, Berl bronzed......-.....- 70
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.......... 60&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60&10
Wrought Boose Pin .0!02)0 02000... eee
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip..........-...-. 60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned .......-...- .- 60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped .60&05
Wroueht Tamie. 0.0.2. 60&10
Wrought tmside Blind... ---........-->.... 6010
Wrought Brass. .:.......--}-- e 75
Bind Cleese 70&10
Blind, Parker’ Se ee a ee
itd, SHeparas 2 70

BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85......-...- 40
CARPET SWEEPERS.
IBIGHETL NOD. ss per doz.#17 00
Bissell No. 7, new drop pan ........ re 19 00
Bisse Grend 2 oe. in 36 00
Grane Rapids 9s os 24 00
Wace S 15 00
CRADLES,
Crem dis. 50&02
CROW BARS.

Cust Stech per tb O4.
Tron, stec! Pomts..-...-.. a 3%
CAPS.
Myst. perm 60
Hiekis CoM 60
ep... - 35
Musket c 60
CARTRIDGES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50
Hum: Fire, United States... ...- dis, 50
Central Hire oe ee dis. 2

CHISELS. dis.
Socket Mipmer 2 FO&10
Socket Pramine 2.00 8 FO&10
SOCKCEOCGRICE cS FOK10
SeckeuSieks oo FO&10
Butehers’ Tanced Wirmer.............-.._..- 40
Parton s socket Hirmers -...-.-.-.-..: 20
Colds ee ee: net
COMBS. dis.
Curry. Lawrences ...2. 0 2. 40&10
OCR 2
CHALK.
White Crayons, per gross........-- 12@12%% dis. 10
cocks,
Brass, RaACkiNe Ss: .- s 60
Bigs 60
Re 40&10
Wenms ee eS 60
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 33
we 14ebe, 14x55, 12e00 ot
Cold Rolled: 14x56.and 14x60... .: |. 29
Cold Rolled 4245.0 ss. 29
Bottoms .... 30
DRILLS. dis,
Morse's Bit Steeke 2 00 40
Paper snd straeht Shank = ........ 2. 40
Morse s Tapershumik. 8. . 40
DRIPPING PANS,

Small sizes ser pound 9. ..:........ 2.2... Urs
Maree sizes per pound .-.:.).. 0... |... 64
ELBOWS.

Cont 4 picee, Gin... dex net ‘2
Comupated 00 dis. 20&10&10
A@yustaple dis. 44&10

EXPANSIVE BITS. dis,
Clark's, small, $18: Jarce #26.............._. 30
ives. 1. $18: 2. 624-3 50. “. Pos
FILES—New List. dis,
American Vile Association List.........-... 60
Disses se 60
New American 60
INFGNOISON'S --.........-.0..52 60
Poe 50
Heliers Horse Hasps..-.00 0.1.05 it) ai... 50
GALVANIZED IRON.
Nos. 16 to 20: 22 and 24; 2 and 26; 2 28
List 12 13 i4 15 18
Discount, 60.
GAUGES. dis.

Stanley Rule and Eeyel@o7s...-.:.-..._..- 50
HAMMERS,

   

  

Navdole & Ces. - dis. 25
Maps 1.4.) ae: 25
Verkes & Plumbps... se dis. 4010
Mason's Solid Cast Steel... ..:....._...: S0e Hist a0
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30¢ 40&10
HINGES.
Gate Cliagk ss 2.2.3 .-..-. dis. 60
State. ee per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4144 14 and
HOHSer ee. 7%
Serew Hook and Eve 14. ....--..-.. net 10
eo ht . ce od met ws
ea net ie
7 . a net re
Sera ate eo dis. 70
HANGERS. dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10
Chormpion. anbi-trietion =... 22... 60&10
Kidder, wood track _... .. a 40
HOLLOW WARE.
Pots se 60&10
Kemties ee Goer
Spiders ee ..60&10
Gray cimmeree 50
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
Stamped Vin Ware... | .-. new list 70&10
sapanned Tim Ware 2
Grankwedron Ware...) ao

Grub :.. ..e11, dis, 60
Grube $11.50, dis. 60

Gmona...... .. $12, dis. 60

 

HORSE NAILS,
AuSabice...................._ dis, Zoe
Putam. -. +. ee dis. 5&10&2144&214
Norenwesters 0 dis. 10&10&5&5

KNOBS—New List. dis,
Door, mineral, jap, trimmings... .._..-_.- 55
Door, porcelain, jap. immings.....__.._.. a
Door; porcelain, plated trimmings........ .- oo
Door, porcelvin, trimunines ...._...__- 55
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain. ........._..- vO
Piccure, 8. & Judd & Co's... .... |... AID
PCmineIEe ee i. 45

LOCKS—DOOR. dis
Russell & Imwin Mie: Co.'s new list _..___- 55
Maltorg, Wheeler & Cos 0.10.5... a0
Brater Ss ao
Norwates -.. 2. oo

 

LEVELS,

 

dis,
staniey Knle and Level Cog. |... . 76
MATTOCKS,
Roze Bye $16.00, dis. 60
Eo ... 815.00, dis. 60
Manes) $18.50, dis. 20410.

MAULS. dis,

Sperry & Co.'s, Post, handied.....-.._.._.. . 30
MILLS. dis.

Coffee, VParsers COs... : — 49

“ FP. S. & W. Mic. Cos Mallieables _. rg)

Landers, Ferry & Clark’s....._. _. 40

Enterprise ... es ao
MOLASSES GATES, dis.

Btepoirs Pattern 60€10

Stebonrs Gewuise.. 60410

Enterprise, selimensurmne 3 2

Advance above 12d nails.

FENCE AND BRADS,
ee ) 25
ee 10
Saand 9-2: 2
CQand i. 0
CUP 60
eee eco ce 1 00
TE 1 50

FINE BLUED.
a 1 00
Se 1 3O
Oe ee 2 00

CASTING AND BOX.
tO SO i 50
i es ee a 60
Sa too ee ‘iS
Sa teacc. 2s ee 90
agioo. ee ae
=a... 1 50

COMMON BARREL.
= ince 2
Re 2

CLINCH
Po and omen aS
2 and 214 eee Se 1p
Se nd a ee
Ce ee 85
Seana 4. men ee 15

Each half keg 10 cents extra.

OILERS, dis,
deine On tin, Chase's Patent: 10.00.31... 60ki0
Mine, with brass Deo: ce: 50
Brass Or Copper. 50
Reaper. 30 per Pross, aie nes
OIBISICRO SN oe 5010

PLANES. dis,
Ohio Tool Core, taney oi 40@,10
Besort Benen oe a G60
Sandusky Tooi Co.'s, fancy................ .40@10

Bench fest quality 2s @60

 

Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s, wood... ....20&10

PANS,

Bey, Acme ey dis. 50&10

Common; polsheds. 00.2)... . dis. 60&10
RIVETS. dis.

fron and Tinned. os es 5d

Copper Rivets and Hurs.....-.....--....-_. . 50

PATENT FLANISHED IRON.

“A? Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20

“B* Wood's a. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20
Broken packs 4c per pound extra.

ROPES.
Madal, $6 sen and larger .....-) 28 3... 1044
Manvlsa .. De reece ete ects See
SQUARES, dis.
steel and [rom .:.. 0050.0 2s. Ceate ce. ene
fey and Hever... 60
Mere 20
SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth. Com.
ee. F000 140 oe MM 20 $3 00
Mon 15t00 3 4 20 3 00
INOS, 18602). 8 4 20 3 10
a Ss... 4 w 315
Noe SotG ar... ee 4 40 3 35
NO 2). 4 60 3 35

All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PAPER.

 

 

 

 
 

 

  

Bist aeet, 19°86... ee dis. 20
SASH CORD.

Siver ‘Lake, White A... list 50
. Dae A . 55
Wate 6... “ 50

Drab eS . 5o

- ‘eae... "I 3o

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.
So per ton #25
SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR FILLERS.

Miles’ ‘‘Challenge’’....per doz. $20, dis. 50@50&05

Perry 2... per doz. No. 1, $15; No. 0,

Beck #21; dis. 50@504&5

Draw Cat Noo... each, $30, dis 30

userprise Mis Co... dis. 20£10@30

Siver Ss. ee dis. 40&10

saws, dis.

iDisstom’s Circular... 0020... 1 4@45&5

' Cc ee 454545
Hand chs oe os. . On coals
*Extras sometimes given by jobbers.

Atkin Centar ec dis, 9
Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70
Special Steel Dex X Cuts, perfoot.... 50
~ Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... «
Champion and Electric Tooth X

Cus, per foob. ss 28
TACKS, dis.

American, a) Rinis =. 60

Steel, all kinds... -- 60

Swedes albkinds «1... 60

Gonapand nec 60

Ciear Box Nae. 50

Minisaine Nagi. et. 50

Common and Patent Brads. 50

Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks........ 5O

Trunk ana Clout Nats =... 50

Tmned Trunk and Clout Natis..............- 45

Heatnered Carpet Vacks............-. 2.2... 35

: TRAPS. dis.

Steel Game. es 60&10

Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ........... 35

Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton's. ...60&10

a 60410

PS ew. Wie Cos 6010

Mouse €hoker =.) 18¢ per doz.

Mouse, delusion. 90. -..- #1.50 per doz.

WIRE, dis.

Brent Market. 2. 6714

Anmesicd Maret... 70&10

Comperca Market 62%

Metra Bae 55

Tinned Markey. 3. 6244

Ginwed Broom. .......-.. ..- per pound 09

Mined Magitess. | 8... per pound 8%

G@opperca spriue Steel... 3. 50

Mimed Sprsnae siecle 40&10

Pint Wesce = per pound 03

Barbea Fence, salvanized:..............___- 4 00
. a 3 25

Come new list net

Breese 8 8

WIRE GOODS. dis.

ee 70&10410

Serew Eyes. 0 70&10£10

Hooks ee 70&10&10

Gace Hoos and Byes... 8. TOK10&10

WRENCHES. dis.
Baxter's Adjustable, ni¢keled ..........._. 30

Goes Gemane 50

Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ ce

Coe’s Patent, malleable =. =. 75&10

MISCELLANEOUS. dis.

Bird Capes (oe 50

Pomps, Cetera: =... 75
Serews. New fit... 65 ee
Casters. Bed and Piate.........._....._. S0&16@10
Dampers, American... i 40

Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods... ve

6625

 

Copper Bowoewe = =: ae
METALS,
PIG TIN.
ric bare... _. 28¢
Pie Bars ee
COPPER.
Duty: Pig, Bar and Ingot, 4e; Old Copper, 3e

Manufactured (including all articles of which
Copper is a component of chief value), 45 per
cent ad valorem. For large lots the following
quotations are shaded: i

INGOT.

Dake °. |. ee . 18%
-Anchor Braid == =. 18
ZINC.

Duty: Sheet, 214e per pound.
Cu pound Casks = -....... 6%

Per pone 9 1G
! LEAD.
Duty: Pig. £2 per 100 pounds. Old Lead, 2e per

 

pound. Pipe and Sheets 3¢ per pound.
Aymerican _-: ee 5%
Newark... .. . .@514
Bar Te
MHNECE 2 ee 8e, dis. 20
SOLDER.
Se ee ee ee 16
Birra Wipe = 13

The prices of the many other qualities of
solder in the market indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.

ANTIMONY.

Cogksdm 2.000 per pound 1414
Hales 1144
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
jot tc Charcaak =. ...6 6 08
14x20 IC, a . 6 00
ace hClUmrrrstCidCSC 6 25
Pe 10 00

hook = CC

10x14 IX, ee 4 ©
14520 IX, a eee a
i2xi2 UX, ee _. 8
1414 TX, m Cee. ee
20x28 IX, a eee

Each additional X on this grade, #1.75.
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE,

atti 6 Charecca! _wtji#L... $5 40
14x20 IC, a es 5 40
Pxizic, eG 5 Go
14x14 IC, Ee 9 2
—— llr 11 80
10x14 IX, 6 90
14x20 IX, 6 90
xe: hh lUmrtC<(‘i‘ CC. 7 15
eee Tl 6
az iC . 14 80

Eayh additional X on this grade, £1.50.
i ROOFING PLATES.
Mei ferme MY $7 60

a2 Cl 15
14x20) IC, Woresicr.............. 5 50
14x20 IX, ee. 7 00
29x28 IC, eee ag 11 50
14x20 IC, Allaway Grade........ 4 90
14x20 IX, ‘ re 6 40
ee 10 3)
ail Ce. 13 50

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

Po Se $12 00
OL eee 13 50
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, '

imorx, © «9 « jPerpound..... -

 

HARDWOOD LUMBER.

The furniture factories here pay as follows for
dry stock, measured merchantable, mill culls

   

out:

Basswood. loera .............._. ...-13 00@15 00
Birch locrun ..15 00@16 00
Biren, Nos fang? |. 7... @22 00
Bisck Ach locvan os 14 00@16 00
Gnemry eran 25 00@35 00
Gherry, Now i and 2...) ....... 50 Ge@en OO
enemy Cal @12 00
Mae lee ren 12 00@14 00

Manle. sott. log-run...2...:..... .-11 00@13 00

Maple Nos. land? 0... 0. @20 00
Mapic, Clear, flooring... ..-.. :. ...: @25 00
— White, selected... ss @25 00
Bea Gsk igen 18 00@20 00
Tied Oak Noe lenas................. 24 00@25 00
Red Oak, 4 sawed, 8 inch and upw'd.40 00@45 00
Red Oak, 44 sawed, regular............30 00©@35 00
Hed Oak Not step plank... 2.0." 00
Wietite 100 Pin 5 00

 

Wale Nos tand?.... 4... .;
Warige. Gull...

GTS 00
@25 00

 

Grey Him, jogron...... |. eee 12 00@13 05
Wiite Aso Ide-ram sig ol 14 00@16 00
Whitewood. lor ran 6600 20 00G@22 00

White Cak loptun. 3. .-17 00818 00

EA2 cnS

poser

Weekly ‘Pointers,’

We are Exclusive AGeDtS 10
Waster Michigan

John Van
Range Co.

Manufacturers of

Van's Pat. Wrovght Steel
Portable Range

for house use
in price from

We carry them in stock
as well as hotels, ranging
$60 to $800.

We take special pride in showing them
and would consider it a favor if you come
in some @ay and look them over.

Foster Stevens & U0,

10 and 12 Monroe 8t.,

33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis Street.

foseanen

Weekly ‘Pointers.

 

The Poor Man’s Filter.

We have neglected to speak of Tap Fil-
ters. They, in a great measure, take the
place of the regular family filter, and can
be used with it to advantage.
It is not claimed that they are a_ perfect
substitute for a good filter, but they are
much better than none at all. They will
remove most of the impurities from the
water, keeping them from getting into
the large filter and making it last longer.
The filtering medium is prepared char-

excellent

coal, is self-cleansing by simply reversing
the filter. It is screwed on to the kitchen
faucet, takes up no room and only costs
half a dollar.
Star Pie Pans--Perfection at hast,
No more soggy, pie crust, if you
use this pan.

wet
The pan being finely per-
forated and elevated, allows the damp-
ness to evaporate, bottom
erust dry, light and crisp. The pie will
The only pan that
try it.

leaving the

never burn or stick.

will burn properly. Buy it,

Foster, Stevens & C0,

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis Street.
€

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Weekly ‘Pointers.

 

Screw Drivers
IN SETS.

Patent, Best Quality Serew
Drivers. Sets of four 5-16, 3-8, 7
16, 9-16. All fitted in the same handle.

Goodell’s Spoke Shave. The circulay
shape of this tool enables it to work iz
smaller circles than other shaves. The
angle of the knife is such that it cuts in
stead of scraping the grain of the wood
Either handle can be removed to work it
cramped places.

Adjustable File and Tool Handle. Wil
hold anything from a small brad awl to a
10-inch file.

Foster, Stevens & C0,

10 and 12 Monroe 8St.,

Clark’s

sizes,

 

33, 35, 3'7, 39 and 41 Louis Street.

 
  

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The Michigan Tradesman!
_ BUSINESS LAW. a
ts) of Recent Decisions in|

Brief Diges
Courts of Last Resort.
MARRIED WOMAN—BUSINESS—LIABILITY. |

1In Louisiana in order to bind a married
woman as a public merchant the business
must be conducted in her name and must
be separate from that of her husband,
according toa recent decision of the Su-
preme Court.
PROMISSORY NOTE-SIGNATURE-LIABILITY.

A promissory note reading ‘‘We prom-
ise to pay,”’ ete., without further naming
the maker, and signed by a person with
the addition of the word ‘‘president,”’ is
the personal note of the signer, and the
word added is a mere descriptio persone,
according to the decision of the Supreme
Court of California.

 

EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY—**MACHINERY.”’

A section of the Alabama Code makes the
employer liable for injuries to an employee
as if he were a stranger, when the injury
is caused by any defect in the machinery
used in the business of the employer.
The Supreme Court of Alabama lately
decided, in the case of the Georgia Pacific
Railway vs. Brooks, that a hammer used
for driving spikes into crossties on a rail-
road was not “machinery” ,within the
meaning of this section.

 

PARTNERSHIP--CORPORATION-CREDITORS.

The members of a partnership entered
into an agreement with a corporation
composed of themselves and others to
transfer the firm property to the corpor-
ation, for which shares of stock should
be issued to the several partners in cer-|
tain proportions. The contract was not |
fully consummated until after one of the}
partners had died and a debt of the firm
had heen proved against his estate. The
supreme Court lilinois held, in the
case of Singer et al. vs. Carpenter et al.,
that under the circumstances stock issued
to the deceased partner was not partner-
ship property. and that creditors of the
firm were not entitled to have the pro-
ceeds of such stock applied in payment
of their claims to the exclusion of indi-
vidual ereditors of the deceased partner.

 

of

 

1A » WOMAN—BUSINESS—CREDITORS. |
In New Je where a
man having purchased a business refuses }
to have it conducted in her name.
permits her husband to carry it on in his}
name in a bulding owned by her but with- }
out her having anything to do with the}
management or conduct thereof, the busi- |
ness will be considered the husband’ s and |
not the wife's, and the profits can be fol-|
lowed and the fixtures and the property
gi the business procured therewith and
aera as

arsey, inarried wo-

but

 

ed thereby can be subjected in supplemen-
tary proceedings to the payment of a
against the -husband to the
such profits received by the;
\

judgment

extent

wife over and above family living expens-

So held by the New Jersey Court of |
~~ & <>

Chancery. +
: ; |

Books for a Country Store. |

From The Office. |
|

}

of
cs.

For purchases, paste the invoice in an

invoice book, extend the amount out into
the column and post to the credit of the
Keep the |

at the end

person’s account in the ledger.
book footed. and post footing
of each month to the debit of mdse. ac

Mdse. will answer the

count. purpose of

all regular purchases from wholesale

houses. For produce, freight and other
eash payments for the account of mdse.,
eash book and
the amount placed in the mdse. column,
the footing of which is posted at the end
of each month. The freight bills or re-
ceipts should be placed in a file or pasted
in a receipt book.

For eash. I would recommend a three-
column cash book. On the Dr. side, head
the columns. Sundries. Mdse., Amount.
On the Cr. side, Sundries, Mdse. and Ex-
pense. For the I have used two
methods. For a moderate-sized business,
i would recommend a two-column sales
book. in which the salesman will make
the entry of each sale on account, or, if}

ods were delivered by store’s wagons, |
all entries, keeping accounts in the first
‘column. The book-keeper will extend
all amounts sold on account into the sec-
ond column, and post these amounts to
the debit of the parties’ accounts in the
ledger. The footing of each book should
be posted to the credit of mdse. at the
end of each month.

Two or more sales books would be re-
quired, owing to the size of the business.
The second method, and the one which I
prefer, is to have an index file, by which
invoices can be placed and conveniently
referred te. Place an invoice on the file
for-each customer, as fast as they start
an seeount during the current month, and}
post from the blotter io these invoices |
each day, in
bought by each customer.
the.month, take these
file. foot them, extend the amount into |
second column and take an impression in|
an impression sales book. Post the foot-|
ing of each of the bills to the debit of the
eustomer’s account. and deliver the bills}

‘entries are made in the

sales.

 

good copying ink, the items|
At the end of |
invoices from the!

: : ! |
to the customer for an itemized state- |
‘ment ef his purchases for the month.
Foot this kook. and post footing to the

eredit of andse. For irregular entries, |
settling aceounts by notes, etc., a small
two or four column journal would be}
needed in connection with above books. |

The ledger [ prefer to have divided in-
to'three parts: First, for investment, real |
and speculative accounts: second, for |
personal accounts of the parties to whom
we sell goods: third, for personal accounts
from whom we buy goods. Each part
should be separated by a leaf of tag
board. By this division we can tell at
the end of each month the amount of per-
sonal accounts due us and the amount
owed.

——_— —~—» -2 << ____
Mary and Cully.

Commercial Traveler (in a fascinating
tone of voice, to pretty waitress)—Steak
and baked potatoes, Mary.

Pretty Waitress (haughtily)—My name |
ain’t Mary, Cully.

Commercial Traveler—Well, don’t get

EP. CLARE & SON,

WHOLESALE

Commission Merchants,

AND DEALERS IN

Seeds, Produce, Vegetables, Fruit, Butter, Eggs, Cheese, kte., kis.,

CONSIGNMEN

 

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PVA
MocHA; JoRIO

COFFEE.

TS SOLICITED.

 

 

Big Rapids, - = Michigan. WOOLSON SPICE CO.
D | . tt . . ba GERELICITY-42. TOLEDO-OHID,
moO THEO. B. GOOSSEN, ms
4
Se | WHOLESALE x \ | iRC | A i | f | iS |
a | . : "
See | Produce Commission Merchant, | Ax 2
9% | BROKER IN LUMBER. a6
Sf Orders for Potatoes, Cabbage and Apples. iu Car Lots, solicited. CS
° | Butter and Eggs. Oranges Lemons and Bananas a specialty. i A
Fo Retephone 269. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. | %
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GEO. E. HOWES. Ss. A. HOWES. Cc. N. RAPP.

Geo. EF. Howes @ Co. |

JOBBERS IN
Apples, Potatoes & Onions,
| SPECIALTIES:
Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

3 Ionia Street,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

10

MOCHAy Uso

OFFEE

WOOLSON SPICE GO:

Increase Your SALES AND PROFITS BY HANDLING

IT GIVES ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION

TS. Consumers. and is, Consequently, a Quick and Hasy seller’.

i O JAVA

Mo CHA» ior 0

COFFEE

Woolson sPIch C2.

PVA

 

answer all communications regarding prices, etc.

 

Lion Coffee has more actual Merit than any Roasted Coffee sold at the price either in Packages or in Bulk and storekeepers
all over the State of Michigan and elsewhere who are not already handl
Convenient shipping
quick delivery. For sale by all the wholesale trade everywhere. Manufactured by the Woolson Spice Co., Toledo, Ohio.

L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent.

ing Lion are urged to give it a trial. We cheerfully
depots established at all prominent cities, securing

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS

 

 

WOONSOC

 

 

MOSELEY BROS.,

Who

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.

0G 98, 30-8 32 Otawa Stren, GRAND RAPIDS, 11 rest, Grn Rep, i

 

{

| WW. HUBLSTER, Prop.

Paper Boxes of Every Description Made to |
Order on Short Notice. |

Paper Box Factory,

 

 

lesale

 

| We make a specialty of |

}| Confectionery, Millinery and

| |
Shelf Boxes.

All work guaranteed first class and at low;
| prices. Write or call for estimates on any- |
| thing you may want inmy line. Telephone sa0, |

 

 

ESTABLISHED 1866.

BARNETY BROS.

159 So, Water Street, Chicage.

  
  
       

     
 

; Al EOy, vy

" -- re
Pi)
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or ~ d é .

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.
tal and first-class references on file with
Write us if you wish

 

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Ample capi-

THe TRADESMAN.
information, whether to buy or sell.
will cost you nothing.

BARNETT BROS.

RDWIN FALLAS.

Proprietor of

 

Valley City Gold Storage.

Packer and Jobber of

THE POPULAR SOLID

i e
am od
Daisy Brand
OF OYSTERS.

My facilities for handling Oysters are un-
surpassed. Oysters guaranteed fresh
every time. Send in your orders,
which will be filled at lowest
market price.

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Butter, Eggs
and Egg Crates.

N
30c.

1 egg crates, 5%7c. No. 2 egg crates,

o.

No. 1 fillers, 13c.

named that are unsurpassed.
I aim to handle the best that can be obtained.

Mail orders filled promptly at lowest market price. A
liberal discount on Egg Crates and fillers in large lots.

Salesroom, No. 9 N. lonia Street,

GRAND RAPIDS.

It

No. 2 fillers, tc,

I have facilities for handling each line above |

 

POTATOES.

We give prompt personal attention to
thesale of POTATOES,APPLES,BEANS
and ONIONS in car lots. We offer best

facilities and watchful attention. Consign- |
Liberal cash |

ments respectfully solicited. i
advances on Car Lots when desired.

Wn. 1. Thompsa & C0,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
166 South Water St., CHICAGO.

Reference
FELSENTHAL, Gross & MILLER, Bankers,

 

 

mad about it. dear. My name ain't Cully.

Chicago.

HT and RHODE ISLAND RUBBERS

 

Write for Fall Prices and

Discounts

G. R. MAYHEW,

d Rapids, § Mich. ¢

Bosten and Lawrence

Felt and Knit Boots,

 

 

‘Alfred J.Brown

[FOREIGN,

| TROPICAL

; AND
CALIFORNIA

 

   

 

NEAL’S CARRIAGE PAINTS

Re-paint your old buggy and make it look like new for LESS THAN ONE DOLL
Prepared ready for use.
the ORIGINAL, all othersare IMITATIONS.

GRANITE FLOOR PAINTS

The Great Invention.
durabie. Give them atrial, and you wiil be convinced that it does not p

ACME WHITE LEAD & COLOR WORKS

«

R. Eight beautiful shades.
They dry hard in a few hours, and have abeautiful and durable gloss. Theyare

More of our brand sold than all the other brands on the market.

DRY HARD OVER NIGHT, and are very
ay to mix the paint yourself.

Six Handsome Shades. Ready for use.

DETROIT,
Dry Color Makers, Paint and Varnish Manufacturers.

CUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT OUT AND TAKE IT TO YOUR DEALER, IT WILL SECURE YOU A PRIZz.

 

E CHocoratk.
Grand, Square and Upright Pianos.

The Weber Pianois recognized beyond |
controversy as the Standard for excellence |
in every particular. It is renowned for its |
sympathetic, pure and rich tone combined |
with greatest power. The most eminent |
artists and musicians, as well as the musi- |

al pnblic and the press, unite in the ver- |
dict that

The Weber Stands Unrivaled.

Sheet music and musical merchandise. |
Everything in the musical line.

   

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FPRUITS

i

Bananas, Our Specialty.

16 and 18 No. Division St..

GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.

B
EB
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If you have any
to offer send |
samples |

 

Weber Pianos,
Smith Pianos,
Estey Organs,

Fischer Pianos,
A. B. Chase Organs,
Hillstrom Organs,

(Successor to Friedrich Bros.)

30 and 82 Canal St.. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

land

_

amount and
| will try to buy them

‘W. T. LAMOREAUX,

71 Canal Street. | @) [ K VAY, Hi]

iS THE. BES?!

) | ESTABLISHED 1864.
King’s Quick-Rising

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|

| WANTED.
POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED |
| FRUIT, BEANS

and all kinds of Produce.

If you have any of the above goods to

QUOTATIONS.

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i ship, or anything in the Preduce line, let 100 Ib. Cases, containing either 20-5 Ib. pkgs 1 gs 59
| us hear from you. Liberal cash advances or 40-214 \

|made when desired.

| x S0 Ib. Cases. containing either 16-5 Ib. pkgs to Be
| KARL BROS., - “oe

or 32-214 \

|

'COMMISSION MERCHANTS
157 South Water St., CHICAGO.

| Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. |
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapide. | BE
al

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ale by all Wholesale Grocers.

 

 

OR COMMERCIAL PRINTING

-GOocTO THE——

Fuller-Stowe Company

1
Merchants should remember that the |
| celebrated ‘‘Crescent,”” ‘‘White Rose” and |
| ‘Royal Patent’? brands of flour are man-
ufactured and sold only by the Voigt

 

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JULIUS A. J. FRIEDRICH,

 

 

Milling Co.

 

RETAIL GROCERS |

Who wish to serve their Customers
with GOOD COFFEE would do well
to avoid Brands that require the
support of Gift Schemes, Prize Prom-
ises or Lottery Inducements.

SELL——

DILWORTH'S COFFEE,

Which Helds Trade on Account of
Superior Merit Alone.

 
  
  

 

Quality. Improved Roasting Process
atent Preservative Packages.

AMOS S. MUSSELMAN & CO.,

DILWORTH BROTHERS, Proprietors,

REEDER, PALMER & CO,

Wholesale Boots and Shoes.

STAYE AGENYS FOR LYCOMING RUBBER 6O.,
24 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich, "xo'sss**

Uneacualed
=

Sole Agents for Grand Rapids.

PITTSBURGH, Penn.

 

NO. 998.

PHRKINS & HESS

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN,
WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

 

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The Michigan Tradesman
Ct a eee

OWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1888.

 

 

 

 

 

LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS.

vara .

 

 

Written for THE TRADESMAN.
BY A COUNTRY MERC HANT.

of the people who have

matter

Nine-tenths
suceessful—no
their competence

 

been financialls
when or where

are wont to wax eloquent

how.
was acquired
over the unnecessary and eulpable impe-
euniosity of their less successful fellow-
men. To these nine-tenths every failure
in life is avoidable,
tion to suecess the fault of the party who
fails to surmount it. They may, per-
haps. admit that “good luck’ is demon-
strable, but ‘bad luck” invariably
the result of some mental or moral dis-
tase of the individual afflicted with it.
And when the inflates the
taxes. and when demands for charity are
made. the dissertations on the reckless-

and every obstruc-

is

“poor rate’

ness. shiftlessness. improvidence and

earelessness of the poor, grow in volume
in proportion to the inroads upon the
pocket. i

An educated tramp, in reading the an-
nouncement that the Rey. Joseph Cook
would lecture on
marked: ‘I don’t see where the Boston
sentleman gets his hearers. There isn't
hasn't delivered
f times.

“How to Sueceed.”” re-

a wealthy person who

the address himself. hundreds ¢

or a poor one who hasn't heard it until

the very thought of it is nauseating. It’s
the wormiest chestnut in the lecture

feld.’’
co = —
Any
his income cannot attribute the unfortu-
nate fact to any dearth of advice. He
will meet with the injunction to do so inl

person who fails to live within

half of the papers and periodicals that
he reads: hearit in his every-day conver-
sation, and reeeive the admonition from

almost numberless sourees, Dut can ey-

erybody follow. this generally diffused
advice? Undonbtedly multitudes can.
who do not. but for this ought we to

 
 
  

s< everybody who fails to live accord-

cla
ing to the maxim as inexcusably reckless
and reprehensively extravagant
remarks apply to those people who, at
some period of their lives. haye an in-

come of some kind. but one that is erad-

ually dissipated, until its possessor joins
the grand army of the impecunious. and
subjects for the per-

becomes one of the

orations of the suecessful man.

~ x x > * ~ *
“It. 'said an acquaintance once. who is
pretty **well fixed’ financially, I had ad-

hered to t individual

he

allows himself and family to eat up

belief that an
W ho
and wear out a fair income. is placed be-

the

anee. T should

yond pale of sympathy or assist-

have missed the satisfac-

tion of performing an action that has

always been a imatter of self-congratula-
tion to me, as it enabled me to pay anold
debt of gratitude. and demonstrate at the
same time that the dissipation of prop-
erty. in the manner mentioned, does not
always prove that the unlucky owner is
unworthy of assistance and incapable of
recuperation.

“Something like twenty-two years ago,
i was a private in the regiment of Col.
fh We were of about the same age,
and from the locality. and

came sale

had a passing acquaintance at home, but
F—— had powerful friends. and rapidly
rose to the top of the regimental ladder,
time at the
with
courtesy. but in amanner to indicate that

while I continued for a long

bottom F always used

me

there was nothing in common between

the commander and his undecorated sub-
ordinate. and when. on one oecasion. |
him for some viola-

he
TL almost began to hate him, and

was brought before

tion of duty. and reprimanded me
sharply,

L actually did hate him when, on another
oceasion. and for another offense, he set
me to carrying a rail, for a couple of
hours. before his quarters.

Vell

Out TOL

were routed
field. We

nterval., for

one midnight. we

work in the
with hardly
twenty-four hours. and then I was drawn
for picket duty.- We were

the enemy. and I was en-

active
marched, an
immediately
in the face of
joined to keep the strictest watch, and
cuard carefully against asurprise. But—
tired
of a
than an
How long I had

L couldn't possibly help it. I was

out and worn out, and naturally

very somnolent nature—in less

hour I was fast asleep.
been slumbering I don’t know, but IT was
suddenly awakened by somebody's jerk-
ing uzy usket from my hands, and was
horrified to discover that it was the officer

of the day. L was speedily brought be-

fore the Colonel. and my offense ex-

plained.
“My

God, 2 ead «ty §6Com,
mander, ‘is that you. and do you know
If this
it’s a court-martial, a volley and
four feet of earth.

knows of this unfortunate affair?’

what you’ve done? gets to the

General.
about Captain, who

‘Myself, this soldier, the man put in
his place, and the corporal of the guard.’

*+*Kindly go and get the other two par- |

Captain, and here imme-
diately.’

“Ty about half an hour the three put
in an appearance, and the Colonel, who

had been sitting on his bunk with his

ties.

report

 

 

2 These |

face in his hands dwring all this time,
arose and said:

+ ‘Captain, it's my duty and your duty,
to report this case, but ll be d——d if
1°11) do it.

rade shot?

Joys, do you want your com-
No. I thought not! Captain,
ean I rely upon you, asa personal fayor,

9 Well, then,

every one, and God forgive Us if weve

if nothing else silence, |
done wrong!

“In fifteen minutes l was back to imy
post. and in a little over a year ¢}——

 

and I were mustered out of service with
the regiment.

“On our return. F—— and I located in
the same town. ‘There was still a wide
difference. in the social status of the

Colonel and myself. inasmuch as he was

the possessor of a liberal income, while 1}
|

engaged in a one-horse business that re-!
quired years to build up to any impor- |
F——’s wife was the leader of |

tance.
the local society. and I tell you she was
a‘highfiyer.. I don’t believe the Queen
of Sheba took half as much pride in
Finally F—— began to
would even-

dress and style.
see that her extravagance
tually ruin him if not checked, and he
commenced to remonstrate. but the more
he said the worse she got. wutil finally he
was forced to notify the traders that he

would have no more goods charged to| Fnrep M. Barces, Gen’! Agent. |
him. This produced a family disruption, | Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. |
but not until she had visited other towns | Kalamazoo Division. |
and run his credit to its full extent. The | 19 i e 2 aes .
i a pm pm am : Ly a
matter culminated in a divorce, and the | 1:10 — a ee — os]
3:29 12 oe ie en PAN. .. cc cesescccccees 2 155
costs. alimony and the settling of the | Frt 5:08 ee oe 7:10 3:52 | =
: | 6:35 11:35 ** .... White Pigeon........--. 225 |
debts reduced the Colonels finances to a! pm =
ce §:00 12:30 ' Elkhart 4:45 1:20 s
: oe he PE oka eine een olan :40 720 |
very low ebb. Then he got married} | ae = am | =
: : i : : 7-50 7:16 * ....Chicago..............---- 330) 8:50 j
again. and shortly afterward his second | pm oS lh EY
iG : : A i635 Se | Welegne ke) 11:25 10:00 oa ite oe NEE
vife was taken sick, and had to be sent) am ee = ipo BOE OE EEE DeD}
: -_ 1: : . ! 1:35 9:40 * ....Cleveland........+-sssees 7:15 5:45 | = eS
to an expensive medical institution, from | am i =i = 7 \
. : | 6-20. $50 “* ... Baffalo.........-....--- 1:00 11:40 <2} : E= is
which she eventually came home to die. | Tickets for sale to all principal points in the (_S., | ey -fE.G
- . cs oe : _ | Mexico and Canada at Union Ticket Office, GEO. WIL- | ‘
Not satisfied with his matrimonial ex] L1ANSON, Agt., Depot Office, M. Booz, Agt. | "oe
4. J. SMITH, Gen’l Trav. and Pass. Ag , = S

he tried a third partner. who;
his

Arst.

perience.

proved proportionately to cireum-

as bad as the and who}

stances,

with his last few dollars

finallyeloped

and another man.

 

-F— had always been. strietly hon-|
orable and exceptionally temperate, but
now he began rapidly to run down hill)

 

until he eventually became chronic !
beat and beggar. and a saloon bummer. |

“Tn the meantime L had been prosper- ;
ing financially. and very often helped
Fk to a few dollars, but he finally de-
scended so low in the scale that every
cent went for drink, and ] eventually |

had to cut off the supplies for his own

zood.
.

“While on my way home one very dark

night. and while walking under the
shadow of some large maples, a man|

stepped suddenly from behind one of the
trees, presented a pistol at my head, and.

demanded my money. I had quite a

voodly roll of greenbacks with ime and |
didn’t feel much like parting with it: and |
as Thad. that very day, bought a heavy |
an

cane to protect myself against un- }

friendly dog on my route, | determined | ¢

By a qguick upward stroke |
the

then.

on resistance.
of my stiek, I knocked weapon out!

using all my }

of the robbers hand,
strength. | gave him a blow on the head
that knoeked him flat
and then I yelled for the night watch. |

on the sidewalk,

and pretty soon the two fellows employed |

on that duty came running up, and 1)
turned the man over to them and went,
home. |

“The next morning. in going down |

pistol which had |
and

town. | picked up the

been pointed at me. found it aj

played-out. worthless affair that sug-|
gested no danger whatever. Arriving at}
ny place of business, I found one of the |

my assailant

parties who had
to the lock-up aw
tonished me by saying that the party who

conveyed

aiting me. and he as-|

who had first denied all knowledge of ¢

alleged crime. and then went off into a

{
i
had attempted to rob me was Ca Re
the
fit of the ‘jim-jams.’ |
‘

“Of course. I didu’t appear against |
!

him. and furthermore pretty |
round bill for When he|

had entirely recovered from the injury,

paid a
doctor’ s him.
the liquor in his system had about evap-
orated and he began to act something like
that
yas penitent and more than grateful, and

aman again. You may depend he
upon his solemn promise of reformation,
{ did what my friends called an extremely
foolish thing. ‘To put the poor fellow on}
hislegs again. | set him upinasmall bus-|
iness north. Well. he began to pick

up
up slowly but surely, and I eventually
got back my investmen® with big interest.

“It was almost pitiful to see the nig-

eardly economy with which F—— con-
dueted his
after he emerged from the gutter,
that he
within his income.
merit that now. for he’s one of the
lumber lords of the West, will
shortly become one of the mining kings,
But

through all his later years of success he

affairs for the first few years
anc it
is certain has ever since lived
But there isn’t much
in

and
if appearances are not deceptive.

has never forgotten me, and it’s an ex-

ceptional twelve months that } don’t re-

.
4

i

+Morning Expr
| +Grand Rapids Es
1 towed ol a

| +f?hrough Mail

| sleeper to Toronto.

 

 

ceive a half-dozen or more valuable
reminders of it.

There is nothing sensational or ex-
citable little concluded
B- true. and it is, there-
fore, evidence that we may often make a

serious mistake in kicking aman when he

in my story,”’

. “bat 35

 

 

 

is down.”

FADED/LIGHT TEXT

 

'

{

TIME TABLES.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

GOING NORTH. }

Arrives. Leaves. |

Traverse City & Mackinaw. : 7:00am |

 
  
  
 

Traverse City & Mackinaw

11:30 a m }
From Cincinnati........--- ;

For Petoskey & Mackinaw C 5 pi 5:00 pm |
Saginaw Express.....-.-+++++- 30 am 7:20am |
ai Me Eo ous cocci esices 0 p m. 4:10pm |

Saginaw express runs through solid.

7:00 a. m. train has chair car to Traverse City. :

11:30 a, m. train haschair car for Petoskey and Mack- |
inaw City.

5:00 p. m, train has sleeping car
Mackinaw City.

for Petoskey and

  

 
 
  

GOING SOUTH.
Cincinnati Express........+-++++-+ 7:15am
Fort Wayne Express......---++++++ 10:30 a m 11:45am
Cincinnati Express......----+-+++- 4:40pm 5:00pm}
From Traverse City......-----.++:: 10:40 pm |

7:15amtrain has parlor chair car for Cincinnati.
5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati.
5:00 p. m. train connects with M. C. R. R. at Kalama-
z00 for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadian
points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m. |
Sleeping car rates—$1.50 to Petoskey or Mackinaw |
City: $2 to Cincinnati. '
All Trains daily except Sunday. |
Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana, t
A ve.

  
  

Leave. A

Pots GWU cs oe wie wo ne movin tomer ee sineuennces ce 10:45 am

Sie 1G oo coe ee a seman acetates 4:45pm |
sees eene oeieewe 7:45pm |

£30 p ii... .. tne ee re + ane ae i
Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. |
C. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

 

Michigan Central.
Grand Rapids Division.

 
 

DEPART.
Detroit EXpress. ......--sesccceccescseccsscescccs 6:45am
Day Exprese....-.--- 22+ ---+-o co-owner sre 1:10pm
New York Expres oo ae an
‘Atlantic Express... -.-< 0-52 --s-eeencrneenraere 10:45 p
Mised —...0-..2.-.....-- 3s ye = 6:04
ARRIVE.
*Pacific EXpress.......-6 sseecceescsecesesct ete 6:00 a
Tiocal Pascemger.....----.--------------+--- ---- 10:00 a
Mail. ce ene eens 3:15 p
Grand Rapids Express......----++e++eeeeereeeee 10:15 pm
ee ee cere anerys area y= 5:30 pm

*Daily. All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars
run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from
Detroit. Parlor cars run on Day Express and Grand
Rapids Express to and from Detroit. Direct connec-
tions made at Detroit with all through trains East over
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)
O. W. RUGGLES. Gen’] Pass. and Ticket Agt., Chicago.

 

Q
Cleveland, Ohio.

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING W

EST.

Arrives. Leaves.

   
  

+Through Mail

Night Expr

 

GOING EAST.
+Hetroit Mxepress...-.....-.-.>-...
Mo... 10:2
+Evening 50
*Limited Ext
+Daily, Sunday:
Detroit Express
direct connections for é
York 10:10 a. m. next day.
through sleeper Grand
connecting at Milwaukee

Limited Exp:
Rapids to 3
Junction v

 

Through tickets and sleeping car bert
D., G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Menroe St., ¢
Jas. CAMPBELL, City Pas

 

 

VALLEY CITY MILLING Co

 

OUR LEADING BRANDS

Roller Champicn,
Gilt Edge,
Matchless,
Lily White,

Harvest Queen,

Snow Flake,
White Loaf,
Reliance,

Gold Medal,

Graham. |

OUR SPECIALTIES:

Ficur, Rye Fiour, Granulated

Buckwheat
Meal, Bolted Meal, Coarse Meal, Bran,

Ships, Middlings, Screenings, Corn, Oats, Feed.

Write for Prices.

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

LVER STARS:

No Equal in the State.

Wherever Introduced itis a Stayer!
t U Vu 3 W Ve °
TO THE TRADE:

Iguarantee “SILVER STARS” to bea long,
straight filler, withSumat:a wrapper, nade
by union labor, and to give complete satis-
faction.

A. S. DAVIS,

Sele Manufacturer,

 

ARRANTED TO BE

Ww THE
FINEST and LARGEST SMOKE

For the money in the U.S. (@*Putup50ina box. Ask
our dealer for

JOHN E. KEN

them, Manufactured only by
NING & CO., Grand Rapids.
Send for prices.

       
 
 

  
 
 
   

   

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5

  
    
  

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¢

  

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x

SPECIAL OFFER—This style or oval case; best
quality; all glass,
full length mirrors and spring hinges;
walnut frame; extra heavy base; silvetta
6 feet long, 28 inches wide, 15 inches high.
#11, net cash. Boxing and cartage free.

DD dD. ook.

21 SCRIBNER STREET,

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

trimmings;
Price,

BRE BB

1:10 pm;
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The three wise mefi
of Gotham
Would not have.
been so wise,
Had they not sought
for knowledge,
And used their ears
and eyes
In getting infor-
ies mation
Of every sort and kind,
Instead of going through
the world
Like men both deaf and blind.

-And you can be as wise as they,

If you but choose to buy

The Soap that’s called the Santa CLaus—

Its good effects to try.
Because “twill help you through your work
At such a rapid rate,
That you'll have time to master all you caré to undertake.
All Grocers sell SANTA CLAUS SOAP.

Made by N. K. FAIRBANK & CO., CHICAGO.

 

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| DIREC TIONS he

“ We nave cooked the cornin this can [M
} suificiently. Shouid be, Thoroughly aaa g
Warmed (uot cooked) adding picce of
size of hen’segg) and gill
ef fresh < (preferable to water.)
Season to suit when on the table. Nune
genuine unless bearing the signature uf

SE eee enT TET n :
Davenport Canning Oo,
a= Davenport, Ia.

= oo a
Navy ruis ©

(lima iss CO.

Successors to CURTISS & DUNTON.

  

  

  

 

WHOLESALE

Paper

Houseman Building, Cor. Pearl & Ottawa Sts.,

aT
Varchouse,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

E.G. STUDLRY,

Wholesale Dealer in

RUBBER BOOTS
AND SHOKS

Manutactured by

Candee Rubber Ga.

Illustrated
Price List.

 

Send for Large Catalogue and

 

Telephone 464.

No. 4 Monroe Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

LORILLARD’S
STANDARD FIRST GRADE PLUG TOBACCO

CLIM A A

Can now be bought at the following exceptionally

 

 

Low’ FIGURES:

Less than 56 lbs.

Ass’t’d lot

Packages. 56 lbs. or over. any quantity

1 POUNDS, 12 x 3, 16.07., 6 cuts, 40, 28 & 12 lbs.
CLUBS, 12 x2, 1K ox..6cuts, 42, 380&12 “ ‘ ' '
1 CLUBS, 12 x 2, § 0z., 6 cuis, £2, ¢ :
i FOURS,6 x 2,402. 42, 3 es
. Fee 6 x 14 21.5 A 52 ae
FIV is X1%,3 1-5 02 5, ; 438 Al Al

 

EIGS, ¢ x 1. 4 to !b..

{

| FI

| EWAN OURS, 3 x 2,7 to ib, 41,27 &
| THESE PRICES LOOK TOO GOOD TO LAST.
t

 

RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in

BOOTS and SHOES

Boston Rubber Shoe Co.,

12,14 & 16 Pearl Street,

|
|
|

 

heavy double thick; panel doors; {
solid cherry or |

HIMES.

Fe.

Wholesale

and Retail

Yards,

CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY.

Office under Nat'l City Bank.

' Telephone Call 490-2.

W. Division Sts.

Grand Rapids, Mich. |

COAL!--- COKE!—-WO0D!

Shawmut Avenue, Winter and

JK
i P /

 

“CELEBRATED”

lavoring Extracts.

Are put up in all sizes, from 1 oz. to 1 gal. bottles.

- 1872

 

GENERAL

Stationary

 

 

 

Vertical, Horizontal, Hoisting and Marine Engines.

88,90 and 92 SOUTH DIVISION ST., =

Sixteen Years on the Market.

Grand Rapids,

WHEN ORDERING Ask For ‘JENNINGS’ EXTRACTS’

Ww. C. DENISON,

 

haust Fans. SAW MILLS, any Size o
Estimates Given on Complete Outfits.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

1888

SOLD BY ALL JOBBERS.

MANUFACTURED ONLY BY

Jennings & Smith,

388 and 40 Louis St.,

Mich,

DEALER IN

and Portable Kngines and Boilers,

Steam Pumps, Blowers and Ex
r Capacity Wanted.

 

Send for
Catalogue
ana

  
    

TLAS

rices.-

)

a®

 

FHESTER & FOX,

Manufacturers’ Agents for e

SsAW AND GCRIST MILL MACHINERY,

ENGINE
WORKS

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S.A.

MANUFACTURERS OF

 
  

 

 

 
 
 
  

STEAM EN

And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley.

Write for Prices.

GINES & BOILERS.

Gary Engines and Boilers in Stock
for immediate delivery.

 

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery,
Saws, Belting and Oils.

Large stock kept on hand. Send for Sample 2

Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. a

£4, 46 and 48 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

        

 

 

 

       
   

=~

Do YOU want? A

If so, send for Oatalogue and Price-List to

HEYMAN &CO.

63 and 65 Canal St.,
Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

|

RIS

   

ING SUN i
BUCKWHEAY.

 

 

 

 

Guaranteed Absolutely Pare.
Newayeo Rowugr Minus,
Newaygo, = Mich,
MICHIGAN CIGAR CO,
MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED
| 44 a5
| =e 4c c.
The Most Popular 10e cigar, and
“TUM <z<Uay |

|

BIG RAPIDS.

The Best Selling 5c Cigar in the Market.

Send for trial order.

MICEL

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

GROCERIES.

SEEN ON A TRAIN.

 

 

‘Various Phases of Life Noted by an Old
Conductor.

““Yes,”? said an old conductor to a re-
porter recently, ‘‘we see all manifesta-
tions of human happiness and sorrow
here in the course of a few months.
Sometimes we carry a funeral party in
one part of the train and a lot of roister-
ing pleasure seekers on another. We
become accustomed to such scenes, and
the hurry and worry of our work prevents
our sympathizing or rejoicing with them
no matter how much we might feel so
disposed. And did you ever observe how
few people there are who manifest any
breeding when traveling? People who
would be called cultured at home will
sometimes actin the most shocking man-
ner aboardatrain. How frequently we see
men, and even women, with ibeir feet

upon the velvet cushions in front of them.
Men who would be ashamed to have it
known that they use the weed will spit
tobacco juice over the foot-rest and floor
until they render the place they occupy
useless for decent people. These coaches
are scrubbed, dusted and polished every
trip, but people don’t seem to appreciate
a

“It’s afine place to study human ha-
ture. For instance, look at that man
eurled up in the space usually occupied
py four passengers. He thinks that be-
eause he takes his ‘boots off he has the

right to project his big dirty feet into the
aisle as far as he pleases. But no mat-
ter. I can squeeze by them when neces-

sary, and perhaps give his legs a whack
now and then that will make him think
we have been telescoped.

--But all people are not boors.
ean distinguish the true lady and gentle-
gman here as elsewhere. They are never
impertinent, drunk, nor sprawling dead
asleep over the seats. They seem to take
it for granted that all is being done for
their speed and comfort that is possible,
and are satisfied. Coarse men, women,

and old people make us the most trouble.
Th ey seldom know exactly what they
want and so are neveratease. The latter
class we can tolerate for humanity’s sake
—hbut the men! Why, I feel like pitch-
ins them from the train sometimes.
They imagine their little slip of paste-
beard entitles them to all the room they
can oceupy and a voice in the train
management besides.

--We see all sorts of partings, of course,
bui there is one kind I shall never get
uscd to, and that is a square manly young
fellow leaving his old father and ‘moth-
er or sweetheart. I tell you the ‘God
bless you” and ‘Bea good boy! and the
tears mean something then, and don’t

you forget it. When he takes his seat he
has plenty to think about, and you can
tell by a glance at his face that life for
him has begun in dead earnest. May be
you have been there yourself? I have,”
and seizing his lantern he left me to my
meditations.

—————qV.—~-—___
What Sustains Trusts.
From the Detroit News.

An attempt is being made in the New
York courts to annul the charter of the
Havemeyer & Elder Sugar Refining Co.,
on the grouud that it isa member of the
Sugar Trust, organized against public in-
terests, contrary to the laws of the State
of New York. Proceedings have been
begun before the Supreme Court by the
Attorney General.

it is very improbable that such pro-
ceedings will succeed in anything except

You

in demonstrating the impotence of the
law. Even should the court annul the

company’s charter. it does not affect the
trust. The Havemeyer company can con-
tinue its business w ithout a charter as an
ordinary partnership. The trust cannot
be destroyed by the ¢ — for it has no

charter nor any org eee cognizable
by the law. It is sim mpl an agreement
between a cer i. num i r of refineries

that they shall pay nomore than a certain

price for raw sugar, and sell refined sugar
for no less than a certain price. That is

Certainly any two or more working-
men, any two or more merchants, any
two or more farmers, any two or more
manufacturers. are privileged to inake

all.

such an agreement as that. In fact, it is
precisely what the workingmen of the
country try to do in forming trades’ un-

ions. That they do not succeed as well
as the sugar refiners is due simply to the
fact that labor is an article not so easily
cornered as sugar, and because the Unit-
ed States government does not use all its

A pples—F
bbl. Winter fruit isin fair de
per bbl.

Beans—The new crop is comil

for hand-picked.
Butter—Good quality is scarce
ers pay 16@20¢ and hold at 18@22c

Celery—20@22e per doz.
Cider—8@10e per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.2
aoe.

Bell and Bugle.
at 5144¢ and evaporated at 7c.

ly paying 16¢ and selling at 18e.
Grapes—Cone ords, 2c per Ib.
Niagaras, 5c. Delawares, 4@5c.
Honey—Searce and hard to get,
manding 18¢ per lb.

40c. per bu.
Pop Corn—21¢ per lb.

Quinces—#2 per bu.

Squ ash—Hubb: ard, te per ib.

Sweet Potatoes—Baltimores, §
seys, $3.25 per bbl.

Tomatoes—About out of market.

Turnips—25¢e per bu.

 

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids
sion Co. quotes as follows:

PORK IN BARRELS.

 

 

 

 

    

 
 

 

 

 

hind quarters. ._-.

fore a
OE
Pork loir IS...
** shoulders......-
Bologna Le :
Frankfort sausage
Blood, liver and head sausage
Mutton . 3 :

 

e

 

 

CANDIES, FRUITS and 3

 

STICK.
Standard, 25 1b. boxes. ---... -
Tw ist, 2 mi o
Cut Loaf, 2
Royal, 25 1b. pails.....-;----..
- 200 Ib. cn too
Extra, 25 Ib. pails
a 200 Ib.

French Cream, 25 Ib.
Cut Loaf, 25:1D:

pails..

 

 

tat

naval and military power to assist the la-
bor trusts as it does to back up the sugar
trust and other trusts. Amanmay bring
in all the labor he pleases, and no one in-
terferes: but if he is caught bringing ina
ton of refined sugar to the country to
compete with the sugar trust. he is fined
half its value. W copper, iron,
steel and everything else which is ‘*trust-
ed.’

n

‘th

S
VY bial

—~—=- © <->
The Groc
Sugar is without

ery Market.

especial change and

there is no probability of any marked
ehange for Through
some combination of circumstances, THE
TRADESMAN granulated at 72<¢
last week. whereas the price should have
*‘Mistakes are liable to hap-

and

a month to come.

quoted

 

been 7%
pen in the bést regulated families,’’
as THE TRADESMAN does not set itself up
asamodel of perfection, liable to
make a false step once ina while. Itis
a source of congratulation, however, that
such lapses as that of last week are not
of frequent occurrence. Green Rios are

higher, which gives ground for expecting
an advance in the package brands before
the week is out. Crackers and
goods have been advanced }
Cheese has taken a strong

Cc.

it is

sweet
gC.
combination.
upward turn, being actually worth lige
more than a week ago, owing to the dis-
covery that the brisk export demand has
kept stocks down, while the dry weather

and cold fall has curtailed production |
very considerably. Pickles are lower.
Rice is higher. Wheat is lower, but

flour is held at the old quotations.
—__ _» 0 s___

Buy flour manufactured

cent Roller Mills. Every sack w arranted

Voigt Milling Co.

by the |

by the Cres-|

Broken, 25 Ib. Pails S.

FaNncy—In 5 Ib. boxes.
Lemon Drops... a
Soeur Dreps .....

Chocolate Drops....
EH M. Choeolate Drops....:..-.--

L feorice Drops. tttij“i#s#
B. Licorice shail .

‘pa es, plain.

\ : — ed.

| Imperials.. i

| Mottoes....

i Cream Bar..

| Molasses Bar

Caramels... .-: ee
fand Made C reams.

Pini (reams... 8.

 

String ock.............
3urnt Almonds..

FaNcy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, in. pais... ..

printed, in pais...

( ‘nae ee ute Drops, in pails.......
G um Drops, in pails... - :

in bbls..
Sour Drops, in pails...
Imperials, in = :

Dried Apples—Commission men hold

Packing

cod Sere S|

Gum Drops. < -

Wintergreen Berries. .... a

SS
Moss Drops, pais

PRODUCE MARKET.
Fall fruit commands #1.50@41.75 a
mand at $1.50@%

ig in freely.
manding $1@$1.25 per bu. for unpicked and $1.50

s

Eggs—Strictly fresh are scarce, jobbers w

Wor

read

Onions—Home grown dry stock comma

Potatoes—In small demand, both at h
abroad, local dealers being unable to
outlet for the crop. Those thrown on

ket are dull and slow sale at 25@35¢.

$2.50 per bbl.

com-

and high. Deai-
Cabbages—Home grown command $8 per 100.
: produce barrels

Cranberries—$7 for Bell and Cherry and $8 for

un-dried
illing-
dens, 3c.
ily com-
nd 35@
ome and

find any
the mar-

Jer-

and Provi-

sts‘ CC CtCt:Cé‘C#CNCNCNCN .¥16 00
Short Gt. 02 0) ee
Short cut Morgan..........------ an
Extra clear pig, shor cus 19 00
iar clonr Heawy. 0.02). ee. 19 00
Clear qu il, short cub.) ) 60.2... - 39 00
Boston clear, short cut..... 19 00
Clear back, short Cut........-.----------+--- 19 00
Standard clear, short cut, best. . 19 0
SMOKED MEATS—C anvassed or Plain.
Hams, average OFIBS a ae
16 Ibs. . ag
12 to 14 Ibs. . ..12%
picnic | __....------- 10
Hest boneless 00 12%
Sioulgers ......._.-.-....-----... oS
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.....-.......-------H
Dried Beet Gxtra.:  _-: |... se = _s
ham prices...-:..---_---.--. --.--- 914
DRY SALT MEATS.
Long Clears, heavy....-.-.--------
fe . median. ..°_..--__- ea
Heht 2. 2). eae
LARD—Kettle Rendered.
Waerees.
une
Saip. fos... ---- ts:
LARD—Compound.
GCOS ee ee eee 934
Sh and 50 1b. Pubs .........-.....-..-.-.--.-... 9%
3 lb. Pails, 201m a case....--..-.....------.--- 10%
5 1b. Pais i2im a Gase....-...--...-.-..-.--- .- 1033
10 Ib. Pails, 6 in oe ee
20 lb. Pails, 4 im a Case.......----------+----++- 10
BEEF IN BARRELS
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs........------- : 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......--.-----: 7 50
Pinte 7 2
Extra Plate. ........:......-...-.----..----.- a fo
Boneless, rump butts oe 10 00
14 bbl. 5 50
SAUSAGE—Fresh ne ‘Secked_
Pork Samsage.....-.....-----------...------.- 8
Ham Sausace..........-. 12
Tongue Sausage. ......-.-.-.--- eee eee ee eee 9
Kranktort Sausage. _.....-.-.-----.---.-.------ 8
Bisod Sausage... .-......-...--.-..-.---.- _o
Bologna, ee 6
Bologna, Hier 6
HeadiG@neese,.._. _.... oe _ o
PIGS’ FEET.

In half barrels. ..-. Se .3 50
In quarter aa Co 2 25
TRIPE
In bale barrels... 3 ie
In quarter barrels a 1%
mks  ...c 85
OYSTERS and FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
OYSTERS IN CANS.
Slasdarda...... ..-- =. -sstiéi‘é‘i#ySCT @18
Atos... tt tt @20
Selects... _. oe 23 @28
Fairhaven ¢ Se @38
OYSTERS IN BULK.

Standards = =. i 10
oc.) hhUllLl __... . Loo
Cams oe i 2
FRESH FISH.

Bisck Bass @12%
i... .... | @ 7%
Wi hitefish.. oo @ 1%

Smgkem.° 2. cae @10
Perch ee 14a, 4
FRESH MEATS.
Beef, Gareass.. -_- ..

 

 

NUTS,

bile Pee

Deegorived Creamas...-)-... 1...

In DBIS. eee

aS

 

j in bbls.

| FRUITS.
Bananas......_. Doce ee.
Oranges, Jamaicn, phils

| temons choice st

| fancy... oe

| Figs, layers, new........

| * Bags, 50 ibd.. CS a
Dates, frails, SE

4 frails, 50 Ib. ss

i Fard, 10-lb. poe :

i - ein 7 1

1 Persian, 50-lb. Bee il

|

| NUTS.

| Almonds, ’ Tarragona.

j iC Ivaca. ee.

| California 00000!)
BrazHe Ss

Wilberts, Sicily... ..-_.- ee

| Wainuts, Gremopie 2...

} [ Preach

; Pecans, Texas, Hi, Po... -

| Coceanuts, per 100..... ..:-.-2----.

| PEANUTS.

| Stork .

| Fancy, ‘i

| Choice W nite omy irginia see

TP Maney EP rte
arte ee ee

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

  

  

Peppermint Drops. ee

eek fe poh eek ben

fea, book. fick foc. ped
ROD ty OY WY OS

RONEN TSN SS

1 25@2 50
@i 00
@A 50
@5 50

@ii

 

No.

 

BAKING POWDER.

m were

Absolute, i “4 cans, 100s...

BUS .

ib. Son:

‘4 Ib. cans, 6 doz.
6 Ib. " =
i lb.

% Ib. cans,

fe et ek et
no

T

‘

elfer’s,

ha?

Acme,

Red Star, 3 4 Ib. cans, 12 doz
Fe ‘ 6 ‘

1 lb. 4°

BATH BRICK.

English, 2 doz. in case.....

Bristol, 2 . eo

American, 2 doz. in case..

BROOMS.

2 Hur _

P

No.
No.
No. 2

: ae
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Common Wh iad

wom wis

Oo 0 tet

Ware! house...
BUCKWHE. AT.
100 1D. cases -.-. Le
SO i cases.)

BUTTERINE.
solid packed -_. - Le
rolls. |... _.
Creamery, solid pac

a rolls o

Kings

Dairy,

 

Hotel, 40!
Star, 40
Paraffine .. _.
Witting... _........-.-.
CANNED Goops—Fish.
Gane 1 Tp, Little Neck. --.
Clam Chowder, 3 1b... ..-.--
Cove Oysters, 2 ib. —
b. oe
Lobsters, 1 ee picnic cee a

 

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11b. Sear.
2 ib Star: so 2
Mae ‘kerel, in Tomato Sauce.
1b, stand Dee
2 Ib.
3 Ib. in —
3 1b. soused..
Vb. Columbia. a

Salmon, 15
+4 Sac ramento.
z lb. :
Sardines, domestic ae

AS oo hie lei

2
-t ¢

@8
@10
"10@11
..10@ 12

Mustard Ae

imported ? ly

f spiced,

Mrent,3 Ib: oa
CANNED Goops—Fruits.

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Apples, gallons, stand...... 2 2
Biackberries, stand ........1
Cherries, red standard...... 1 60
: peed : 06@1 25
IDemsens -.....-. 25@1 35
Egg Plums, stand oS 1 20
Cooseherrics .............. 1 a
Grapes 62... 90
Green Gages ese Oe
Peac hes, all yellow, stand..1 50
Seconds ............ 13
Re...
Pears 5... oo
Pineapples _...-. <1 7. 1 40@2 75
Quinces ...--..-- 23.24 8: 50
taspberries, extra....-....: 1.50
- req.._--_.. 150
Strawberries .........-1 25@1 420
Whortlicberres. ...._-..--- 1 20
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay..-... 2.00
Beans, fama. stand... ___. 85
Green Limas,,..) (41,40
String .°.. 33:1/4:8 O81 20
Stringlesg, Pmae 90
Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 45
Corn, Are ‘her’ Ss Trophy... .-
re Morn’g Glory. 00
Early Gold...1 00
Peas, Hrenen. | 60
+ extra marrofat...1 20@1 40
soaked el ae
June, stand... _- @1 50
' Simtead..-... 2 00
French, extra fine....20 00
Mushrooms, extra sine... - 20 00
a Ib. Golden... .- 85
Succotash, standard....80@1 30
SO ee 12%
Tomatoes, Red Coat. @1 10
el Good Enough....1 10
Ben Har... .....- 1 10
stand br....1 0s@1 10
CHEESE.
New York Full Cream @i1\%
Michigan. ‘* 104%@11

Sain... _5

CHOCOLATE.

“@ 9%

Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet 22
' Premium..... 3e
Hom-Cocoa... 37

Breakfast. 48

CHEWING GUM.

Rubber, 100 lumps...:..- --

 

200
SPRUCE. 0.0 6... ks
CHICORY.
Bae 6
Red. .._ ee a4
COFFEE—Green.
tio, fir: 15 @16
oe 16 @iz
a... l.rtrti“‘ (a. i @is
fancy, washed...18 @19
atc. 7% @is
SamtOsg. 2 2. 15> Gis
Mexican & Guz atemala Ii @i9
ac. .. i @is
Java, Interior. 20 @22
i fancy. 2 oo
Mandheling ro Ga
Mocha, genuine.......25 @26

To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add 14e. per Ib. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-

age.
Pack

COFFEES afc:

100 ibs

Mion a
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Wholesale Price Current.

2 : Ns
The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.

 

  

   
  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

  

  
  

 

 

 

 

Magnolia. Coe.
ao it
Acme. 20h
German eid eleiie alae
i Ding .... eee 4
Arbue kle’s Ariosa,.......... 2034
Averica.... 20. 1834
McLaughlin's XXXX....._ 20h,
COFFEES—50 lb. bags.
Arbuckle’s Avorica. . 15
- Quaker C ity 19
Best Rio 0... 20
Prime Maricabo 2214
COFFEE EXTRACT.

Walley Crty.-.....-.- ..---- 80
Hele 3... 2 110
CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 _.-. per doz. 1 25

S 50 ft. . ae a 1 530

aon ..... 1 60

wm... .. 2 00

BOf...---: 22D

Jute CO ft... |. 1 00

ie en it 15
CONDENSED MILK.

Hapte. 2 ese i oO
Avigio Swiss:...-- ------ —-- 6 00
CRACKERS.

Kenosha Butter,............ 3%
Seymour = = =... ..------- 7
Patter... ic

Say 7
fancy .....-..-..-- = 6%
Bisse 6 T%
Besgton..........--_...-_---.- 84
City SOGSi 22. 35s ee 84
BOGS essa re
fancy 22s. 6%

S. Oyster 7.

City Oyster, a. ee

Pienie: oe c
Bancy Oyster.2:-..-. |. -1...- 614

CREAM TARTAR.

Strictly pure.....y-.--.---- 40
(erOCers «5... uc. 20

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 
  

 

 

  
 

 

 

LUCIUS C, WEST,
Attorney at Patent Law and Solicitor

PATENTS: American and Foreign patents.

105 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S. A. Branch of.

ee. London, Eng. Practice in U. ’§. Courts. Circulars
ee.

 

Mill, Store and Dwelling for Sale.

I own and desire to sell, or exchange for prop-
erty in the city, a mill 20 x 50 feet, four. stories
high, painted white, two run of stone, two bolts,
good cleaning apparatus, power corn sheller, and
all machinery necessary for doing a good custom
business. Ample power, the whole of Flat river.
Several acres of ground: store and dwelling com-
bined, also on same premises. No incumbrance
on property. H. B. FALLASS.

Fallass & Swarthout’s Law Office,
National City Bank Block.

MAGIC COPEER ROASTER

The most practical
hand Roaster in the
world. Thousands in
use—giving satisfac-
tion. They are sim;:e
durable and econom-
ical. Nu grocer
should be without
one. Roasts coffee
and pea-nuts to per
fection.

Address for Cata-
logue and prices,

C.F. Marple,

State Agent, Lansing,
Mich., care, Marple
French &Co., Whole-
sale Confectioners.

 

 

 

‘CULTOTIOS HACHO TWILL

 
  

The BEST CRACKER Maie.|

e also manufacture a full line of Sweet
Goods. Write for quotations
and samples.

Jackson Cracker G0,

<M WEG
STRENGIS:

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JACKSON,
MICH.

 

     
 

OAKING pqwach
Coane

THESE E GOODS ARE “PAR EXCELLENCE”
Pure, Healthful and Reliable, w arranted to give satis-
faction inevery particular. For sale by w holesale and
retail grocers throughout tht United States. VOUWIE
Bros., Manufacturers, Cleveland and Chicago.

WM. L. ELLIS& 60.

 

 

 

 

 

BRAND

BalllMore Uyster

Broker in CANNED GOODS.

Salt and Sea Fish.

B, F. EMERY, - Manager,

20 Lyon St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

F. J, DETTENTHALER,

 

 

 

JOBBER OF

OYSTERS!

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DRIED ee ee SUGARS.
Apples, sun-dried. . 514@ 6 Cnt Post 2 @, 834
ev es: DW @ 241 Cubes... ... a... @ 8%
Apricots, ie 16 Powdered.) - @, 814
Biaceuermies \ ...-- 2. 7 Granulated, Stand... @7% 81
Nectarmes, =  ...:--.--..: 14 - Of | 7. @
Pesches: = = ee 14 Confectionery A....-. Gi 36
Pins 6 Seameara Alot... < |... @ V3
Raspperries — ..---.---- 24 No. 1, White Extra C. @ 14
DRIED FRUITS—Foreign. io. 2 Extra C...0 3. :, GG
Citron, mm drum......- @22 No. 30, OMICS... . @, 63%
in POKES =... . @23 | No. Be ere @, 64
Corrants.(2. 0-0-2 |: - 6-@ 641NoO5C.....-  ... 5Y4@ 6
Lemon Peel =. |... 14 SYRUPS.
Orange Peel... .... - i4 Com, barrels. .........--. 26@ 28
Pranes, Turkey. .....- 444 one- -half barrels... .28@39

. Imperial <.-..- @ 6 ( gees... - 1 30
Raisins, Deo... | Pure Sugar, DOE... ...... 2oanas

Layers: Do- | : half barrel: .: . 31@35

mestic. ae | SWEET GOODS.
Raisins Layers’ Im- c

porcd. Ginger Snaps. -._-_- .--- 9
Raisins Loose Musca- Sueer Creams... 9

els, ¢ Ja Frosted Creams... -<-

Zaisins Loose Cali- Graham Crackers.....
FOrmig ... 21-8... 1 60 oneees Crackers. .
Raisins, Imperials.. TOBAC cos—P lug.
. Pusencin..._- 8 | Clipper .........-.---.----...: 39

Ond@aras ..... 9 as. hs ltt::ttiC*;iC‘CR] 39@41

FARINACEOUS GOODS, Corner Stone. Ss: 39
Farina. 100 ip. kegs...-.--_- 04} Double Pedro.. Le ee 40
Hominy, per bbl.........--- 400| Whepper .-.....-.---...---..- 40
Macaronj, dom 12 1b box.... 60} Peach Pie......... s 40

imported.. @10 Wedding Cake, bik...--_- _.40
Peart Barley. -.--_. -- @ 3
Peas, ereen............ @A 40 TEAS
Split. 20.21.24. @, JAPAN—R |
Sarco. German... .- @ 65) ham... @15
T apioca, fi°k or pert. @ 621 Good.. @16
Wheat, cracked... _- @ @2{ Choice... :..- 24 @238
V ermic¢ elli, import.. @10 Ohoeicest. 0...) .. .30  @ae
domestic . @60 SUN CURED
FISH—SALT. a....lrttsts:C«CisCsa‘is;ss — @id5
rod whole. .......... 1 Cood ......._.......... 16 @20 |
boncieéss ........_. Rici@ig | Cheice.....-. 24 @28 |
Vialibut ......-.......--2 2. | Choicest.-.-. D3 |
Herring, round, 6 bbl... BASI
. + 22 Dpl.. a... 2
Holland, bbls.. enemee... @25
Holland, kegs.. Ghoieest........-..--.- @35
s Sealed.. Extra choice, wire leaf a4
Mack. sh’s, No. 1, % 28 GUNPOWDER.
ay ie ‘¢ 42 Ib Kit..1 60 | Common to fair. 25 @s
ey 30 | Extra fine to finest....50 @65

- h |: 7 50 | Cho1cest famey...-._-- i> @8
Trout, % oo "25@5 40 IMPERIAL.

* 10 bits... .... 85 | Common to fair.......20 @35
White, N , 06 DDIS..----_- 6 00| Superior to fine........ 40 @50

. 12 lb. Kats. YOUNG HYSON,.

10 lb. kits.. Covramon tO f2ir___._- - 18 @26
Family, l% bbls. : Superior to fine.....-- 30 @40
Ieats. ©. 2 50 OOLONG.

GUN POWDER. Common to fair. 2 @a0
hess 5.2511 Superior to firme. ___- 30 SO
Half kegs. ee 2 88 i Wine to ehoicest....... x Gb

LAMP BURNERS. ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

No. ee 25 @30
No. Go) Choice. ese 30 @35
INO. 3 8 Best. 4... be ee
ea Dust... --. 8 @10
No. 30 ToBACCOS—Fine Cut.
No. ,40 | Sweet Pippin. Lo. 50
No. 3 50 | Five and Sev ene 50
Haaweina 68
No. 301 Sweet Cuba........... 45
No 1... 7... f} | Petoskey (hice... _- 55
NO. 2. Gl) | Swece iseet .....---- 40
LICORICE, Mhmie.. 0... ee 42
Pure SO) Piorida. ..-..... 65
ainbrin. 000.0022. 951) dtose heart ........._-- 66
Siig 181 Red Dormmo..-._.-._--- 38
MATCHES. Swamp Angel..-.-____- 40
“a... 33
MINCE MEAT. Capper........-....-.-. 42
Buckets... 614 ToBAccos—Smoking.
lait bois. | | 6 Hop moy. =... 26
MOLASSES. meeriess 26
Black Strap..._.._.. .16@ ay Unele Samo... |: 30
Cube Bakang,..--......-. gn duek Pane .- . 36
Porto Rico. 3ia35 oe oo
New Orleans, good.. 25@30 | Yellow Jacket.......-. 20
choice... ..336 a@A0 | Sweet Conqueror...... 20 @25
fancy. AAAS TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS.
One- half parrels, 3¢ extra. $ 2, per hundres i. x 59
OATMEAL. co | | ee 3 00
Barrels _.....-....._..... 600130, = . .-------..-- 4 00
Half barrels _ siie, 5 00
Gases 00 0. ee as Subsdoet te to the following dis-
Or, counts:
Michipan Pest.  -.. .. 1014 | 200 or over. 5 per cent.
Water White... -:. 2% a= 10

ROLLED OATS. 1000 20

Bares... 2 4:
Half barrels. CS Ber 915
Cases... 2 a oer ..............--.- 11
PICKLES. Ser 12
Me dium. noe Above are the prices fixed by
bE the pool. Manufacturers out-
Smi all, bbe side the pool usually sell 5 Sr.
ue Be stronger goods at same prices.
PIPES #1 for barrel. °
Clay, PAGe ee se 1 60 MISCELLANEOUS.

7 ?. . fulleount.-...__- 7 | ¢ a | Oui... 334

Cob, No. 2 deily,suip. paris.......... 4%
See 1D
No. I ; a

"e PAPER, WOODENWARE.

2 PAPER.

i 3 om Curtiss & Co. quote as
a ALERATUS. i —— Ss

eLand’s sure. aL .Dl . le es le a eg ca
Church's, cap Sheaf. o Light Weight.... ....-
ee Sugar ............ fe
Taylor's... C 5 hap Sacer |...

LT. Har@ware 2.2...

C ommon Fine = Bo RD Bauer: 4.0 2).

“| garlots.. 90} Dry Goods.....-.---.-----
Solar Rock, 561b. sacks..... 23 Jute Mania. --....--- 1g
28 pocket.......2.-.+++ 2 09 | Red E xpress, NO. 1... ese 5
60 210 No. 2. 4
10 2 20 TWINS
Ashton Di. babes ....... 22. T% 48 Cotton......---.-----.--..22

aa ee ws | Cotton, NO. 2.---..-++++-++++ 2
Varsaw ‘- ‘ 25 gi So ooo
oe ois, Sopa cae Sea Island, assorted....--. 40
Rese 14 {No.5 Hemp ........-.------- 16
Granulated, Homes... tag ee ae

‘SAPOLIO. Wee wy
Kitchen, 3doz. inbex..... 2 a5}. WOODENWARE, oo
Hand. > ce es 2a Tubs, No. 1. cece. ee

i Me Ge 6 73
eee rend 3) et 0 ae 3 ee
read, 30 gal........ 3 50| pails, No. 1, two-hoop...... 1 60

wees ees 450} “ No.1, three-hoop.... 1 7

SEEDS Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.... 60

Mixed bird .-°2--- 415 | Bowls, 15s, 17s sand 19s..... 2 50
CATAWAV 200 6. . 10 Baskets, market. _ 48
Canary oe. 4 bushel .._.___. 1 60
Hemp... 415 ‘swith covers 1 90
Ase S15 willow el ths, No.1 5 50
Bape 44 [ No.2 6 00
Mustard..-.....-.- ve | : No.3 7 00
SNUFF. | splint No.1 3 50

Seotch, in bladders. ... | i No.2 4 <5
Maccaboy, in jars... | No.3 5 00

a oA { aaa
French Rappee, in Ji | GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

: SOAP. | WHEAT,

Dingman, 100 bars..........4 00) White ... aR
Don’t Anti-Wash board __ 475 | Red oe ag
Jamon 2-6 Se ewe
Queen Anne..-............-< 3 85 | Straight, in saeks 6 201
German family..........-... 2 40 | — barrel : 6 40
Big Bargain. ; 187) Patent Baeks. 111. ag Se
SODA | - Dawe |... 7 40
Boxes saa MEAL
Keres, Hneieh 3... 43; | Bolted. 2

sPicEs—Whole Granulated........... 3 O
AlISmICe 2) (2066.2) 8 4 MILLSTUFFS.

Jocsia. China in mats....... 734 | Bran..-.-.------------------ 15 00

Batavia in bund....11 | Ships.......-.---..... -.--- 16 50

Saigon in rolls......42 | Sereenings.......-..--- 14 00
Cloves, Amboyne--.:...-- 30 | Middlings. a 17 00

PARTIDAL 8... 194 | Mixed Feed............... 1% 7
Mace Batavia...) ....--- 7. 1 CORN.

Nutmegs, fancy..........--- TO Smail lots Se 52

‘0. .65 Car se a0
ge 60 OATS.

Pepper, Sing gapore, black....1814 | Small lots eee ee 2

. Weiere. -- 28 Car ee )

RNOb 0 ose 21 RYE.

spicEs—Ground—In Bulk. No. 1; per 100 Ibs... 2 00
Allspice .......-..--++es 020+: 1214 BARLEY.

Cassia, Batayia......--.-<-- = NO 1 30
: 2 and Saigon.2: Mo. 2-2 11
eon... e HAY
Cloves, Amboyna... 00600... 35 No... ..... ¢:. 12 50
= Tangioar. 6.0.00.) 28 No Zz... Tt 3
Ginger, African. ......2....- 1214 ee
Pe Coeman.: 2.) 15 HIDES, PELTS and FURS.
«© | Jamaica .-........- 18 Perkins & Hess pay as:
Mace Batavia. ..--..... . 80 follows: :
Mustard, English ee ee 22 oe
and Trie. .2: \ aaa
Trieste. Green 5 @5%
“ : : -
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...-..---- Part Cured........---- 6 & 6%
Pepper, Singapore, black. 3 Bea enact i @%
white..... 30 Dry ..---..------------- 6 @ 8
* Oasenne. (00000104 25 at Kips ------------- 6 @8
Absolute Pepper, doz.....-. 84 | Calfskins, Brera ae
: Cinnamon doz..... 84 | cured.. 6 @b&%

Allspice i Deacon skins........-- 10 @25

Gloves ° 5 | 1g off for No. 2.

Ginger me | PELTS.

i Mustard ‘S4  | Shearlines........-.-«. = @30
STARCH. Estimated w — 2g Tb 20 @25

rs « Ss
Silver Gloss, 1 Ws pkgs 7 | The full list will appear later.

. Gib. boxes. -<.. 756 | MISCELLANEOUS.

: bulk... es . Gi, | Tallow .....-: 72-3. 444@ 5
ee: 1 lb. pkgs.. oo ae Grease butter.....-.-... 8 @8&%
Corn, 1 Ib. pkgs.:-.-....----- 7 | Switches .-.........--- 2 @ %%
Mystic Cae wee Sato p ecu. 448. Gimpens. .....-.- ae @2 00

21 & 23 SOUTH IONIA ST.,

 
   
    
   
  
    
   

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Wholesale Grocers,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

    
  
    
   
   
  
   

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JAXON §

beca auseit beatsthemall

SAVES *
MOKEY,

TIME.

LABOR,
STRENGTH,

CLOTHES.

5 Cents

iS ALL IY

cosTs.
That’s not much if
lit’s bad, and is mighty
@ cheap if it does what Is
‘claimed for it.

  
 

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| Mail Orders Receive Prompt)
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| Gee Quotations in Another
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WHO URGES YOU

TO BEEF

APOLIO’?
THE PUBLIC!

lendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre
demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in
ithout effort |

By sp
ate a
stock so as to supply the orders sent to them.
on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring nee
ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.

ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS. ®

       
    
 
  
      
   
     
    
  
   
  
   
   
    
   
   
  
   
  
 
  
 
    
 
     
 
 
   
  
  
 
   
  
 
 
    
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
        
  
   
   
     
      
  
    
  
   
   
   
  
  
  
   
   

 

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Aen Injector

=

cit, BOILER FEEDER pear:

16,000 in 18 Months Tells the Story.

Wy Y THEY EXCEL _:

a. cost less than other Injectors.
You don’t have to watch them. If they break
will RE-START automatically.

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3 By sending the number to factory on the Injector you
can have parts renewed at any time.
4 They are lifting and non-lifting.
5 Hot pipes don’t — them and the parts drop out by
Agents, HESTER & FOX, re ee
s 6 Every man is made satisfied, or he don’t have to keep

Grand Rapids, Mich.
ip P the Injector and we don’t want him to.

PENBERTHY INJECTOR CO., Manufacturers, DETROIT, are

BLIVEN & ALLYN

Sole Agents for the
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The devil, Jack! We’

shark. He’ll do for

Bliven & Ally

Celebrated “BIG ee “B pand of Oy sters
In Cans and Bulk, and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL CL AMS and OYSTER
We make a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepare: d te quote prices at any time.
We solicit consignments of all kinds of Wild Game, such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, ete

H. M. BLIVEN, Manager. __ 63 PEARL STREET.

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Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Pudding
Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.
THE PERFECTION OF QUALITY.

‘WILL PLEASE YOU EVERY TIME!

ALWAYS ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THESE GOODS
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State Board of Pharmacy.
Six Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Two Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Three Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Four Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Five Years—Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso.
President—Geo. McDonald
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. :
Next Meetimg—At Lansing, on November 6, 7 and &. |
Candidates will please report at ¥ a. m. the second day
of meeting.

Eee
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.

President—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing.

Second Vice-President—H. M. Dean, Niles.

Third Vice-President— 0. Eberbach, Ann Arbor.

Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.

‘Treagurer—Wim Dupont, Detroit. o L

Executive Committee—A. H. Lyman, Manistee; A. Bas: |
sett, Detroit; F. J. Wuereburg, Grand Rapids; W. A.
Halil, Greenville; £. T. Webb, Jackson,

Local Secretary—A. Bassett, Detroit.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
GRGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884.
President—H. £. Locher.
Vice-President—J. W. Hayward.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott. |
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—President. V ice-President
SAY.
at of Trustees—The President, John E. Peck, Geo.
G. St-ketee, A. F. Hazeltine and F. J. Wurzburg.
wen, isaac Watts, Wm. E. White and Wm. L. ite.
Sommittee on Trade Matters—Jonn Peck, F. J. Wurz-
burg. W. H. Tibbs.
Committee on Legislation—J. W. Hayward, Theo.
Kemink, W. H. Van Leuwen.
on Pharmacy—W. L. White, John Muir,
M. B. Kimm.
Regular Meetings—First Thursday evening in each

and Sec-

month.
énnua! Meeting—First Thursday eveningin November.

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.
ORGANIERZD OCTOBER, 1883.

President—é. W. Caldwell.
First Vice-President—F. W. R. Perry.
Second Vice-President—F. D. Stevens.
Secretary and Treasurer—B. W. Patterson.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—G. S. Purvis.
Annual! Meeting—First Wednesday in June.
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in each month.

Central Michigan Drugzgists’ Association.
President, J. W. Dunlop; Secretary, R. M. Mussell.
Berrien County Pharmaceutical Seciety.
President, H. M. Dean; Secretary, Henry Kephart.
its tl ome
Clinton Ceunty Druggtsts’ Association.
President, A. O. Hunt; Secretary, A. 8S. Wallace.

Gharlevoix County Pharmaceutical Society
President, H. W. Willard; Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.

JoniaCounty Pharmacentical Society.
President, W. R. Cutler; Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.

 

 

 

 

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Jackson Ceunty Pharmaceutical Ass’2.
President, C. B. Colwell; Secretary, C. E. Foote.
Kalamazoo Pharmaceutical Association.
President, D. O. Roberts; Secretary, D. McDonald.
Mason County Pharmaceutical Society.
President, F. N. Latimer; Secretary, Wm. Heysett.
Mecosta Ceumty Pharmaceutical Society.
President, C. H. Wagener; Secretary, A. H. Webber.
Monroe County Pharmaceutical Seciety.
President, S. M. Sackett; Becretary, Julius Weiss.

 

 

 

Muskegen County Pharm. Asseciation,
President, Wm. B. Wilson; Secretary, Geo. Wheeler.

 

 

 

 

 

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Asseciatien.
President, C. 8. Koon; Secretary, Geo. L. LeFevre.

Newaygo County Pharmaceutical Society.
President. J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, A. G. Clark.

Oceana Ceurnty Pharmaceutical Seciety-.
President, F. W. Fincher; Secretary, Frank Cady.

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Saginaw Ceunty Pharmaceutical Seciety.
President, Jay Smith; Secretary, D. E. Prall.

 

 

 

 

How to Achieve Success in Pharmacy.

Under the title of ‘*‘The Pharmacist’s
Duty to Himself.’’ the Pharmace utieal
Journal points out the qualities which
pharmacists should cultivate who aspire
to success:

Sueeess in commerce depends mainly
on two factors—getting good value for
money paid, and giving good value for
money received. It is only by due ob-
servance of the latter factor that custom
ean be commanded, and the seller who
can give the best value is of necessity
the man who buys to the best advantage;
by buying to the best advantage we
mean. of course. buying the best articles
at the lowest possible price, not buying
indiscriminately the cheapest articles.

 

In the suecessful buyer may be recog-
nized two qualities—ene a product of

character polished by contact with the
world. and generally known as shrewd-
ness, the other a product of training, and
generally defined as technical — skill.
These qualities, although developed side
by side, are seldom developed equally;
according to the nature of the business
in hand one or other is in the ascendant.
In the practice of pharmacy the latter
ought naturally to be the most highly de-
veloped: but this, be it noticed, does not
necessarily imply a lack of the former.

The second factor necessary to com-
mercial success is giving good value for
money received. If a draper sells bad
material at a price for which good ought
io be bought, the majogity of buyers will
detect the fraud and transfer their cus-
tom. ‘The pharmacist who sells at a
penny an ounce Epsom Salts which can
be bought at the grocers for fourpence a
pound cannot reasonably hope for better
treatment than his trading neighbors:
unless. indeed, he can prove to the satis-
faction of his customers that his Epsom
salts are worth the extra price an ounce
from the fact that they are better. Here,
we contend, lies the whole strength of
the pharmacist’s position, even if viewed
With the eyes of commerce only. But do
chemists and druggists—the commercial
representatives of the pharmacist—al-
ways supply the most nearly perfect ar-
ticle? For the credit of our profession
we would fain hope so, but our faith is
sometimes sadly shaken by reports of
aw court transactions and evidence given
therein. We hold that pharmacists owe
itasa duty to themselves and to their
profession to supply the most nearly per-
fect article, be it asked for as sal volatile,
laudanum, sweet spirits of nitre, milk of
sulphur, or Friar’s balsam.

We are not of those who maintain the
infallibility of all official processes and
tests. Pharmacop@ias are only official
fingerpests along a track, much of which
has but much more of which yet
remains to be explored. The cfficial pro-
eess book should be to pharmacists not a
hangman’s whip, but rather a guide to
what can be attained. The interaction
of the egotistic and altruistic principles
which underlie all conduet may be no-
where better seen than in the econscien-
tious pharmacist, who for his own credit |
and that of his profession supplies prep- |
arations most calculated to benefit their
consumers, and who in turn receives in-

 
 

  

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ereased patronage and ever deepening
respect. |
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Pharmaceutical Education.

Dr. R. G. Eccles in Druggists’ Bulletin.
A most important question is the un-

due prominence given in colleges and
boards of pharmacy to topics and facts |
which the examined persons will never |
be called upon to use in practical life. |
The evil permeates every department of |
study. from chemistry to toxicology.

ld it not be much better for them to|
know aetual shop doses about iodide of |
potassium, quinine, morphine and Ro- |
chelle salts in a thorough manner, rather |
than a smattering of everything from |
these, paraldehyde, resorcin and xylol. |
[he test of true education not aj
crammed memory. containing a mass of |

ae
Wo.

is

useless lumber that can never be brought
into requisition. It is, instead, the intel-
ligent appreciation of principles and
laws with a knowledge of the kind of

| data on which these principles and laws
| are
‘taught to depend on books more and
|; memory less for the doses and particulars

founded. Young men should be

of rarely used drugs and medicines. They

| should learn the way to discover where

/and how knowledge ean be found, rather
than make them imagine their heads con-
| tain it all.

Our graduates are too self-confident
i where they should act with fear and
trembling. Professors should enforce

facts about common things by repeated
iteration, and principles by successive
illustration. Students should be re-
quired to know the things in the former
and the principles only in the latter.
Should rare drugs be mentioned in mak-
ing clear a principle, the student should
only be expected to remember enough to
show that he knows what was talked
about, and the selection should be op-
tional as to the facts. Lectures should
be more discursive than they are, so as
to arouse and uphold interest in the lis-
teners. To accomplish this, however,
the discursiveness must be methodical
and aim at enforcing important princi-
ples. Many lectures now given are soul-
less and wearying, because the material
presented is indiscreet and disjointed.

t may be that my ideas are not suffi-
ciently lucid. Summed up they call for
practical, everyday, store-useful facts,
drilled into and demanded of all who
would wield the pestle, and the confining
of the ornamental and progressive part
of their education to a clear appreciation
of leading laws. embracing principles
and fairly established theories. The
first part fits them forr »al work. ‘The
second is asa well of water, springing
up in the vales of life. It creates dissat-

isfaction with present human attain-
ments and spurs them on to original

thought and work.

The majority of the very best pharma-
cists in America would be unable to pass
many of the present pharmacy and col-
lege examinations. The propounders of
their questions could not themselves run
the query gauntlet of their colleagues,
nine times outof ten. Something should
be done to stop this: itis an outrage on
common sense. They are making men-
tal dyspeptics instead of educated men
and women. They are robbing them of
the fitness nature has endowed them
with. They are teaching them to loathe
study, and by making them imagine they
know the doses of all dangerous rem-
edies without asking that the contents of
their memory should be confirmed con-
stantly. they tend to produce a lot of un-
conscious poisoners. I speak from ex-
perience. It would easy extend
these suggestions into other directions,
but your patience would be over-taxed.

be to

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How the New Type is Viewed by the
Profession.

Shelby Weekly Herald : Tur MicuIGANn
TRADESMAN is out this week with a new
dress of type. THE TRADESMAN is the
leading trade journal of the West, and
the success with which it has met is un-
paralleled in the history of Michigan
journalism.

Mancelona Herald: THe MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN—the ablest trade journal in
Michigan—came out this week in an en-
tire new dress of type. The> success
which this paper has attained is almost
unprecedented and is due wholly to the
untiring efforts of the publishers. THE
TRADESMAN has an enormous patronage,
and as every dollar of it is merited, noth-
ing pleases us better than to note the
continued success of this journal.

Grand Rapids Eagle: Tie MiIcnIGAN
TRADESMAN appears this week ina brand
new dress of type, and presents a hand-
some appearance. THE TRADESMAN
one of the neatest, best trade papers
in the country. a recognized authority in
its department, and a power among
Michigan business men.

 

 

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Grand Rapids Democrat: THe Micu-
IGAN TRADESMAN looks brighter than
ever this week in a new dress throughout.
The paper has always been one of the
neatest looking sheets in the State and
its friends will be glad to notice this new
evidence of prosperity.

Fremont Indicator: That popular pa-
per, THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, is out
in a new dress of type, very much in-
provingits heretofore good looks. THE
TRADESMAN is one of the best newspaper
plants in the State, and a mostably con-
ducted journal.

St. Louis Shoe and Leather Gazeite:
THE MicHiGAN TRADESMAN comes to us
this week in a brand new dress, which it
has donned in honor of its sixth anni-
versary. Itisa pretty costume and fits
well. We predict a great future for our
Michigan contemporary.

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A New Invention—The Automatic Docté6r.

Under this title,
the undignified advertising
dodge of an American pill manufacturer,
birth to the following doggerel,
which might better have been called the
Automatie Pharmacist, since the machine
dispenses rather than prescribes:

London Puneh, in-

spired by

gives

Note the ailment that you've got,
Cardiac or else hepatic.
Put a penny in the slot,
Lo! the action’s automatic.
Out there comes for every ill,
Physic, funniest of notions,
Here a powder. there a pill,
But it draws the line at lotions.

Should a maiden chance to feel
That her frame needs restoration,
There’s a section labeled ‘‘Steel,”’
Which requires no explanation.
Here the Iron Doctor stands:
For the few or for the many:
Curing, with his liberal hands,
All diseases—for a penny.

Yonder gentleman a drug
Seeks, we'll say, for torpid liver:
There the pills are lying snug,
This machine's a liberal giver.
There's no need for guinea fees,
Or for any drug concoctor;
Just a penny gives you ease
From the Automatic Doctor!

 

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Why He Hadn’t Paid.

Grocer—See here. you haven't settled
your bill yet. Last month you paid
promptly on the last day of the month.

Customer—Yes, and you gave
cigar !

Grocer—Well ?

Customer—Why, I’ve been sick
sinee and unable to work.

 

 

 

  
 
  

    

 

 

 

  

 

 

 
 

  

 
 

  
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

  
  

 

 

  
 
 
 

 

 

the late advance.
without
vaneing
tract. The reported loss
about 500,000 pounds of <«
to the market.
taria and golden seal roots
Arnica

change.

daily. Refiners

excite

flowers have

the Standard Oi] Co.. w

 

me a

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The agreement entered
the Wholesale Grocers’
New York and vicinity an
turers of Royal Baking Po
to effect Oct. 1.
|ment, ifitis kept, will b
| jobbers an advance of 2}
| the cost price of these
; sult will be watched wit
| interest, as

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ceeds.

Opium and morphia are very firm

“KOALM WOOD

Quinine is dull anc
Gum cs

Senega

again
Turpentine has been advanced again by

Linseed oil advanced 2c. on the 12th inst.
Flax seed, whole and ground, is higher.

Trying the Proprietary System.

it isexpected to be followed
iby a long list of similar
ever} with other manufacturers in case it suc-

ai

unphor is
will
of a cargo of

not con-}

‘rude tends to}

serpen- |

Bs

are advancing.

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Wholesale Price Current. GINSENG ROoT.
: . : : Lee i Bak socd We pay the highest price forit. Address
Advanced—Gum camphor, arnica flowers, turpentine, linseed oil, flax seed, flax seed ground. PECK BROS Wholesale Druggists, |
Ca eae Sues. Ce eee SL VCR wdc ag GRAND RAPIDS.
ACIDUM. Cab ee dam 15) Amtipytin 1 35@1 40 1 e :
Aceticun 2.5... ae Chlorate, (po. %).....- 18@ 20) Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 68 —t. ——
Penantenm: German &iei 60 Gynnge io. 1) BO@, 55] Arsenicum ...........- 5@ 7 . pinalisienppiiadl TO. |
IBoracie: 22 oce ce a 30 Iodide... Siri nee eal 2 85@ 3 00} Balm Gilead Bua oS 38@_ 40 for one of their Improved
Gapholigum (oO) aaa ee Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 31@ 39 | Bismuth S. N.........2 15@2 25
Cie Goa. 6> | Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15| Calcium Chlor, 1s, (%s
Hydrochlor ....... 3@, 5 | Potass Nitras, opt..... a 6) Ne Se OF hl UOR % POISON RECORDS
Nico 10@, 12 Potass Nitras......_.-. i@ 39 Cantharides Russian,
Oxalicom .-......... 12@ 14 Prussiate ..........-..- 200 PO Pes ar eer aac ae ae @1
Phosphorium dil...... oy | Sulphate po..... 15@ 18] ( upsici Fructus, ato @ 18 ee |
Salieviicum .|......... 1 3 | RADIX és ic eet eee i BS Th f 2
Sulphuricum.........- ua : : ey et ae oo ee ae ee ; bh ie &
MATAR C0 aca Ga CODER eee aes 20@ 25; Caryophyllus, (po. 28) 22@_ 25 yee ;
ae aa pe | eee. ee BO age @3 75 Salva pate
oo ee “ Anchusa .. i5q@, 20} Cera Alba, S&P... |. DO@, 5d Z <5 Be Po
AMMONIA. foam, pe @ 2 | Cera Flava......-...-- 28@Q, 30 Ls 9)
me pe oy) 2) Calamus! 05...) 8) ogy 5p) Cobcas 2... es. a. @ 40 ea
— 18 a fe oe 6 Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12) Cassia Fructus...-.... @ 15 oie os ay aD) a
Coens oe ii@, 13| Glyebrrhiza, (py. 15).. 16@ 18} Centraria...... : @ 10 Pa eS ;
hoses fe ae eect ----- @ 2/25esiz0e per doz, $2.00
a a : 4 io... @ 5o| Chloroform..,........ 50@ Disa. & a ea as a ad i “ 7 350
ANILINE. iehchere, Ala, DO.... Toa oy '” squibbs .. @1 00 o Oe a Be ee cae
Bick 2 on@2 25 | Inula, po....---++-.--- 19@, 20] Chioral eG Crst( 1 50@1 75 Peckham s Croup Remedy is prepared es-
a oo 2 15@2 30} Chondrus ......-. 10@, 12} pecially for children and is a safe and certain
a tae BO | Ls plox (po. 20@22).. IS@ .2v| Cinehonidine. P. & W 15@ 2 | cure for Croupss Whooping Cough, Colds and
a > Boas 00 joalapa, Pr...---.--:- 2x BO | ie German 5@ 12] all bronchial and pulmonary complaints of
pene ccc eee ~ WG Marante: to5000)000 0. @ 35| Corks. list, dis. per childhood. For attractive advertising matter
BACCAE. Podophyllum, po...... | io @ 60 —— ee. | H. = eT eee
i a 2 5 i I } Creasotulm ca ceae @ Ww reeport, Mich. rade supplie y whole
oe g os Gute... + +s -- : 73} ( reta, (bbl. ro & 2 ———— of Grand Rapids, Detroit and
y ip ong, ¢ i Ce yt ep a MD o / le
Nanthexvyinm 6/00... 250, 30 Seiselia ae age 33 precip....... ' sa 10 ie
BALSAMUM. Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ 2 Rubra..........- @ 8
Copaiba .-.. 65@ 70 | Serpentaria............ Sim so) Crocus... RQ BD :
Per iso sebers ‘oon -80| Cudbeir:. Oe
Terabin, Canada ..... 50@, 55 | Similax, Officinalis, H  @ 40) Cupri Sulph........... @ 8
Tolutaw 0000.0 ..020..) ao oo a . M @ 2) Dexzine (a Ee . : 1
Seifiae: (po. 35)... j0@ i2) Ether Sulph.. Che cerca een nce TTT
CORTEX. Symplocarpus, Feeti- Emery, all.numbers.. @ §& tT H
Abies Canedian. 3.0)... 181 dus, pol | ae a Does ee a & [OR RER REPA ‘ 7} t AINTS
ee 11 |] Valeriana, g. (po.30) @ a oe PS >. 40@ 45 i ba Bil 3
Cinchonsa Biaya.-....---.-.. = " German... 15@ 20j Flake White.......... 12 15 :
Euonymus atropurp.......-. 30 | Zingiber a...---..... 10@, 15| Galla.........-........ @ 2B The ONLY Paint sold on 2 GUARANTRE.
Mvrica Cerifera, po........- ay lZaneiber foo.) 6 lel io) 22 | Ganpier. ute 7@ 8|_ Whew two or more coats of our PIONEER
Prunus Viren 42 a Gelatin, Cooper....... @ 9 PREPARED PAINT is applied as received in
Quiliaia: gra! 0)... 3227. 12 os (@) Brench........ 407. 6) | original packages, and if in three years it
eee aS Aisne: (pe. 20): @ 15} Glassware flint, 75 per cent. | should crack or peel off, thus failing to give
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)....... 10} Apium (graveleons).. 104@ 12] _ by box 66%, less | satisfaction, we agree to re-paint the building
: Bird ts 4@, 6| Glue, Brown...... 15 | at our expense, with the best White Lead or
EXTRACTUM. Corai (po 15)... 5. 12@ 15 Wine 25 | such other paint as the owner may select. In
Glyeyrrhiza Glabra... 24@ 25 Cardamon .-........ 1 OD 25 -: ao 26 | case of complaint, prompt notice must be giv-
a POL. Shaq 351 Corlandrum. ..___- . tea & rung Paradisi..___- 15 | en to the degler.
Haematox.i5lb. box.. 11@ i2 Cannabis Sativa.....-- 346@ 4%] Humulus.............. 40 | i Si cc
= ee isa da) Cydoniam. 90). 253@,1 00| Hydraag Chlor Mite.. x0; Write for Sample Cards and Prices. We
ee 14@, 15|Chenopodium ........ 10@, 12 a Cor ... @ iW have Supplied our Trade with this
148 16@, 17 | Dipterix Odorate...... 1 Ta@1 85 Ox Rubrum @ 90
Koeniculam......._... @ 15 Ammoniati.. @1 10 j~ = -
FERRUM. Foenuereck, po.....-. Ga & Unguentum. 45@ 55 . . s
SS oo @, a a eae 34@ 4 res AP omy tag ; a4 = Brand for more than eight years and it
‘itrfte anc nia. - @3 5 ani, erd, (bbl. 3%) -.- < 4 snthyobolr, Am..... eKGT ot i acturer i i
Citrate Serapie as @ 801 popela. a. 49| Indigo....-.._..-.--...- THaL O is all *he manufactures claim for it.
Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50} PharlarisCanarian.... 344@ 4% oe Resubl 2... 100@4 10| We sell it on a erect
Solut Chloride... .._- @ ipthapa. x@ «= | fodoform..:.........-- @5 15 H ] in &; Pp 1 D G
Sulphate, Curl... 14G 2 ais Albu a So tt Lupulin prrcctrt testes 85@1 00 aze bine 3 érxins rug 0;
“pure....-.-  @ 4 “0 Nigra......-- Hig tc) trcopediem ..---- +: — S| GENRRAL AGENTS,
| Macis ....-.-. _-...... 80@ &)!
FLORA. SPIRITUS. } Liquor Arsém et Hy- i GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Arnica) 14@, 16) Frumenti, W.. D. Co..2 00@2 5; | drarg lod oe G@ 2%
Aninemis ............ 4o@ 30 - DPR. 1 Dez Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12
Matricamin) 011, 30@, 35 Ce a 1 10@1 50] Magnesia, Sulph (bbl
oral : Juniperis Co. O. T....1 H@1 . fe 24 .
a a _1 doces 2 K
Barosma oe 10@ 12] Saacharum N. E__....1 To@2 0 ra)
Cassia Acutifel, Tin- Gut Win Gala... 4 Tx@6 50
Hivellye |... 251 Vin Oporto... .-. 2 a2 00 70
: i AlX. SUL Vini Alba... "1 25¢2 00| Moschus Canton...... @. 40
Salvia officinalis, 44s Myrisuies, Nol: |... 60@ 70
ana 245. .......--___. 10@ 12 SPONGES. Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10
Gra Ursi.. 0s SC ee Os Sep... 27@ 29
GUMML. i wae 2K 2 30 2 ge aia
Acacia, 1st picked... @i oe | Nassau sheeps’ wool pas tia 1 “ oe eal @e OD
Bee ee ee
sifted sorts... @ 65 oes ‘ot. sk = ce = on
pO. Toa OO sheeps’ Pil Hvdr: aggre Say E bi
Aloe, Barb (po. 69) nD, 60 a a S85 Pi Bo Na a vee et g 18
Cape, (po. 20). @ 2 “wool car eae i Angi T : Be
Socotri, (po. 6) @ 20) Paes... es 65 pik Bu oo are Boe
Catechu, is, (24S, 14 44s, : te use.. Sata fe es ie Pea
; 2 4 ) < eo as Plump, cet. 14q@ 15
goer oe any ae a fe nee 1 49 | Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20
a ae ee eg
Benzoinwm 24.0005) 0 BOG, 5d i ae Be ic aes a ”
Camphore. 3o@, 38} Accacia . DOL Rearend Tes 10
Euphorbium, po....... - Som i9| Zipeiper ....._-.-._...._... 50 Quinia, 5 < Ww oe x a. Ba
Gathanum 23/0 0. @ 80{ Ipecac........-....-...--- 60 ee ol eunatie | (0) Sees 48
Gamboge, po......-.-. Say) Sof Bese EO ae 50) Bubia Tincteim. jo 14
Guaiacum, (po. 45)..-.. @ 35|Auranti Cortes...........--- 50} Saccharum Lactis pv. | a Se
Kino, (po. 25) ......--- G@ 21 une! Arom.......-.,.-- OY Say ‘ i 4acas Bi
Mastic ... 7. Sa Gai OO} cimulax Oficinalis. 60} Ganarsd encenis. | (oa eo
a . 2 ee zz ; wi Sanguis Draconis. -. 4, BD
Myrrh, (po! )) 001 @ 4 Co.....- 01 Santonine @4 50
Opi, (po. 3:0) -:. - * 3 25@3 30 | Senega ..-..----------------- 50 Sapo Ww i. 12@ 14
shetige ot . W@, BB] Scillae........---- +--+ se sees 50 a 8@. 10
bleached... SO Sn OE ere amer nn Oy = ee ga —
Tragacanth ........... 30@ 19 arama a = Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 8 : Sass Be Co”
HERBA—In ounce packages. SC ™ {| Simapis...;.-...---- . @ 18 “ 7
Absinthiam. |. 1; 25 TINCTURES. cee bie a Gc #0 + ae conignean! ae ee
_ i : o ae ri i 2 : a
Kupatorium .....-:---.------ 304 weonttum ;Napellis R....... 60] Voes ..-...-.. oe ia Hazell ra ¥ Perkins i" (0
Mie ei Ho 50| Snuff, Scotch, De, Voes — @ 35 Alii ;
Mentha Piperitn =... - 63 eS etc cease t eet tees 60 | Soda Boras, (po. 11). 10@ 11
eee ae ne mayerh 60] Soda et Potass Tart... 23@ 35 GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.
Bee Ee ATOR 50] Soda Carb......-.---+. 2@ 24 :
Toe ae eatentiga. 50} Soda, Bi-( ar aS And the Wholesale Druggists of Detroit
a 25 Atrope Belladonna.... GOi Seda, Ash... 3@ 4} and Chicago.
oe aa gee ie et i. 60 | Soda, SulpHas. . @ 2
MAGNESIA. oy Co.. a 5). Spts. Hither Co ........ 50@ 50 TTL: F
Calcined. Pat.......... bo@ GO| SaRebimania................. 30 Myrcia Doni... @2 00 A inl t 1
@arbonaie, Pat ..... __ 24@, 22| Barosma ___- ov Myrcia Imp... @2 5D ACHE ry lié bd 0 Or ) §
Carbonate, K. & M.... 20@ 2 Caniaanies......_.... fest Vini Rect. bbl. ;
Carbonate, Jennings.. 3x2 36 | Capsicum ......-....... DO} 2 2)..-- +--+ ++ --- | @2 3 DETROIT . MICH
ee Cardamon. 75| Less 5c gal., cash ten days. ; '
Absinthiam ....._- | 5 00@5 501 4.04) in (5| Stryehnia Crystal..... @1 10
Amyedaine, Dulce... .. 45@ 7 pet Cn aa 109 Sulphur, Subl...... 2G 32
Amvydalue, Amarae....7 2o@i oD Ca ee yn tay ou a“ : : Roll........ aX 3
Te 1 8521 95 | Cinchone ... 0} Tamarinds ........ Be 10
: gOS oo. 60| Terebenth Venice. . 28a, 30
3-05 | olumba .................... 50] @heobromae _...... _. 50@ 5d
Cai a | COnium .-- Sot Vanilin = 9 0016 00
Caryophyili Cubeba... od 5o| Zine: Sulph........ s . W@ 8
Cedar Digitalis . aD OILS
Spe aerate Mrgot...... 5) i
CGhenopodma 6 ae Ba Bbl. Ga.
Cinnamonii ... i eee ae oo Whale, winter... "0 70
Cironella, . .. @ ml A. ee 60) Lard’ extra... (|... |. 86 90
Conium Mac... 3x@. 6d aoe aa wt bara. No. ft .... . @ So
Copaiba =... 91 00 | Zin oj} oe eG 4 Linseed, pure raw.... 97 60
Cupebse 2.000). 15350@16 00 | Hyoseyamus | Lindseed, boiled... 6) 63
Exechthitos........... 0@101tcame 2. | Neat's Foot, winter
Hrigeron : Ce ee Dee 49) strained”... ...:.... 50 69
Gauliheria =... og A secon aie £91 Spirits Turpentine.... 4814 53
an ounce. __ nee Tai tenant | 35 | ve si bt 1.
easier sua KiMO 2.202202 eee ee eee 501 pod Ver Ue im it
Hedeoma Co ee Tepes ................ ao) as : ep ete oe foots “A
ah se Myrrh... oo L 59] Ochre, yellow Mars... .1%4
Sea i Nux Vomica. . 2... _.. Se Ber...... 4
evi ' : Opn _ 95 | Putty, Commercial....2%4 +
—— sets .. *- Camphorated.... 50] strictly pure..... 2M 23
Men a Verid vette Desder |S ae Vermilion Fame Amer,
--=yineorton a ta ' Auranti Cortex... . 50/4 eb de Sao cnn 13@ 16
Os ec Ousssa 50 ermilion, English... COATS
roe coumce OVenatang oo 5) | Green, Peninsular... TOOT
ee ots as 7 - 23 » SS Gh
Fick: Liquids, @al 3) Ma 21 aco ee ee Mae
pe als we Cassia AGutrOlr: .:..--.. = ap 7 white ..-.----- - O4@is
teimd .. +22... eee 1 H@1 2 te te ne sy | Whiting, white Span.. aw
a. on — : = Serpentaria oo 5a) bo tae ae nay eer a @~
—— el . 40@, 45 oes a a = Whiting. : Sue eu ay Manufacturers of the Celebrated
Sabina 9.1: ae OO eae e elie 2.2... ct 1 40
— ee 3 50@7 00 ae es = Pioneer Prepared Painti 20@1 4 ACME PREPARED PAINTS,
Sassafras............-- we a ' | Swiss Villa Prepared
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HAZELTINE
& PERKINS

DRUG CO.

We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guar-

Importers and Jobbers of

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Chemicals and Druggists’ Sundries.

Dealers in

Patent Medisines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes,

We are Sole Proprietors of

WEATHERLY’S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY.

We have in stock and offer a full line of

Whiskiss, Brandies,
Gins, Wrines, Rums.

Weare Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co.,
Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash
Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite
Rye Whisky.

_ All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we re-
ceive them. Send in a trial order.

Hazelting & Perkins Drug Go,

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78 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 inthis institution. I must say that the
beneficial effects on weak and debilitated
patients have been most satisfactory, espec-
ially to those ina stage of recovery after s5e-
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 Oo.,

GENTLEMEN —I think the “Tonic” a splendid
medicine for all forms of Dyspepsia and Indi-
gestion. It is giving me great satisfactiou.

Jery respectfully,
J. M. JOHNSON, M.D.

Yardley, Pa., March 38, 1888.
Ph. Best Brewing Co.,
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
rostrated, with very satisfactory results. I
ave used many of the so-called “Malt Ex-
tracts,’”’ but believe your preparation to be
superior. In the aged where the digestive
functions are exhausted, and there is a loss of
the nerve vital force, I found its action to be
rapid and permanent.
ELIAS WILDMAN, M.D.

 

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Blackwell’s Island, Feb. 10, 1888.
Ph. Best Brewing Co.,

GENTLEMEN— AS a matter of personal inter-
est, I have used your “Best” Tonic in several
cases of impaired nutritition. The results in-
dicate that it is an agreeable and doubtless,
highly efficacious remedy. 1am,

Very truly yours,
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Troy, New York, January 26, 1888.
Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co,,

DEAR Srrs—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
T had on hand; and finding yours superior in
the great essential, the palitable nutriant as
well as in tonic stimulant properties, felt anx-
ious to know about what it can be furnished
the dispensing physician.

Yours truly,
EB. 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’”’ Tonio
with most gratifying results in my case of
dyspepsia. My case was a bad one, I had no
appetite; headache in the morning; sour stom-
ach; looking as though I had consumption,
and after taking this tonic I never felt better
in my life. I think it will cure a bad case of
dyspepsia. You may recommend it for that
case. Wm. O. JAEGER.

322 South Fifth Street,
Philadelphia, Feb. 4, 1888,
Ph. Best Brewing Co., 28 College Place, N. Y.,
GENTLEMEN—I have tested the sample of
“Concentrated Liquid Extract of Malt and
Hops” you sent me, and find in my humble
judgment that itis a very pure and safe arti-
cle. I will not hesitate to recommend it in
every case of debility where a Tonic of that
kind is indicated.
Respectfully,
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 amongst my praetice,
I will state in its behalf that I have had the
best results with nursing mothers who were
deficient in milk, increasing its fluids and se-
creting a more nourishing food for the infant,
also increasing the appetite and in every way
satisfactory for such cases.
Very respectfully,
D. Bornio, M D.

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Young man, keep your record clean 1” | about half way there he met a Johnny ae, al

were the last words of that famous tem- Reb in ambush. 134 to 140 Fulton Street,

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perance worker, John B. Gough. : cama i :

a ! ‘+ Well, sir.’ he answered, ‘I drew out yi a a } et h ©

‘I earn that I may eat: Iget that lL) ny revolver and he drew out his bowie- W es te1 72 Mic I@aw Grand Rapids Mich.

may wear: I] owe no man hate; l envy | knife, and then I took the lead from the :

mo man his happiness.’” says Shakes-j] Start and kept it clear into Washington

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starts out in life with the (perhaps un-j| ply.” WHOLESALE DEALERS EN M tr . ro) N
expressed) wish to ‘get’? without earn- Tet re nnn = .
. Grocers wanting good cheese shoul
ing and thereby blackens his record, only ‘ a>
order from I. B. Smith & Sooy, proprie- q : eo . Can be found 2t all times in tull supply and at

too often, hopelessly. | h ( C { ‘i
sees tors of the Wayland Cheese Factory, oa i lg § dll Qas Ors, popular prices i the branch houses in all the larger
mercial systems is our credit system. It Wayland. Satisfaction guaranteed. 267 * Serta ME ee pa SUR eae ae gee; : Cities and is Retailed by all irst-Class Butchers.

is the alpha and the omega of the com-|==== rere nee ee - Epress Wagons and Carts, The trade of ail marketmen and meat dealere is
mercial world. The young man starting R \ Hl ql Fl 2 eS Our Whoiss ale Branch House, L. F. Swift
out in life, whether in business for him- i i Af Ing ATSES 109 3 t 40., located at Gran Ri apl ids, always has on hand
self or as one of the factors of labor, J \ A / Dy ; ' a full su ly of our Be sat Mutto: a P

scarcely realizes the importance of keep- MIL SUPPLIES M ackl na 2 h | rts | the ae ae rest assured ‘ink in petheeae pers

ing his eredit above reproach. All that ALL SHADES AND QUALITIES. | : 1 flo : meats from dealers Ss they will always receive the best.
‘Holiday Goods aud Toys

binds our immense commercial fabric to- Guara nteed the Best!
gether to-day is simply the confidence H ae | :
th: axists between buyer and seller. here cen Caw ¥ U ndaer VA/ ear Sw Tt d C

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spends two-thirds of his wages in drink| _ a ui oe lay alt,
anid riotous living. The merchant who Saw Setts and Files

nists the tender mercy of his clerks} Emery Wheels : a
ee Emery Wheel Dressers ee “the Plated Ware,

and spends his time in trips to the city, r
or other mild or wild dissipations, is no Babbitt Metals

safe man to give a oe credit to. - ae a Bands tC. j QO V a BY ) SARANAC Bazaar Goods, Celebrated Baltimore C3
dealer who, out of tender-heartedness, sath Yarn
takes the word of every one who hasa Hide Rope see § TANNED.

soft story to tell soon discovers by Hay Rope OO y & 7 ~ BB hk a

woeful experience that he is a loser, not Tube Cord EVERY PAIR WARRANTED.
We are Agents for the above well-known goods and claim

only of his goods and chattels, but of his Fodder Twine
eredit, because “he that handles pitch

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PROMPT ATTENTION

Asbestos Goods, Pipe Coveri =
wi!! be defiled.”’. The man who fails in Asbestos Goods, Pipe Covering

trnde through the misfortunes which sur- Grease and Oil Cups, Greases
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gia! world, and ean start again, but woe
to ‘he man who makes a practice. or who
follows the example of others and fails

Belts made Endless and Repair-
either by reason of folly or for the sake

ot settling for so many cents on the dol- ing done in the best manner. R Specia a Ba arg ans in (| a | x |
lar. Every such failure shakes the Te E U) $$______ L |
thread that binds the confidence of the j

buver and seller, and it must be said that SA M EI | y ON
wh failure yt as frequent as they

such failures are not as

ere twenty years ago, from the fact that + ‘ -

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the credit clerks of our large wholesale . ‘ /

houses are watching more carefully every |G@RAND RAPIDS, - MICH. a 5

dav the record of the business men with |

ASK FOR PRICES AT ANY TIME. ¢

Putnam & Brooks

13, 15,17 So. Ionia Street,
13, 15,17 Railroad Place, CRAND RAPIDS.

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whom they deal. and our commercial

perce report inet the eo 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 Canal Street, © GRAND RAPIDS.

eareer of men who are starting in tr ade.

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house because the report says ‘‘drinks”’
or “‘sambies,’’ or “fast.° AS a matter i

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er with no record, and with a firm re- 40 and 42 South Division Street to WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
solve to ‘keep the record clean,’ if they
would sueceed. ‘To make a pretense of 19 S Tonia Si Fresh and Salt Beef,
aes a large oo and thereby gt out oe ne atl ae is i 5 3 Fresh and Salt Pork,
a half or two-thirds of your stock, means NE 7h K, “
. : Be me tf 2 5e nee Sleigh, list, per doz. .... $6
failure. To buy in large quantities and : = oo ee eee : : = Pork Loins, Dry Salt Pork,
lose one-half your purchase by reason of where five floors and a basement af- See a was — Hams, Shoulders,
decay or age, just for the sake of buying ford me better facilities than ever _ Se ae 11 00 Bacon, Boneless Ham,
NO. 35,

No.10, in tierces, barrels, one-half

stock, means failure—the bills come due Oe L an he oe
| 0 7 Modi. Pei Bow Renee “ -. 1409 barrels, 30 pound cans, 20 pound cans, 3,5 and ro pound
and must be paid some time. To buy a No12. ¢ A a ie ee pails.

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dei ee a me an failure To buy on —— = eS ae ee : ae Se S ek 2 : oo ce i ru
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goods and fill your store with surplus No. $30 7 - i - _. 30:00 |
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don’t pay the note that is due next week. ’ io = : i jf ae a = Pickled Pigs’ Feet, Tripe, Etc.
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money that should pay honest debts, it is vital - 24 001 in every instance.
900r merchantcraft. and. combined or No. 1, Sleigh Body, size 11 x 21 in. 3 50
p = = nbined ¢ No) 2.) 6 * 11x 21 “ uph’lst? ‘rd 20 00 When in Grand Rapids give us a eall and look over our establishment.
singly, these things can only add a stain No. 3 | |) (65207 : 25 00
to your “record.’’ JESSE LANGE. No. 1, Pusher Handles to fit No. 1 & 2 bodies 4 00 Write us for prices
as cal No. 2, = " State body wanted to
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If your store is not attractive, custom- Ask for illustrated catalogue of Sleighs giving ~~ 9 *
ers will not enter it. J full description, and we will quote our BEST 8
If your goods are not we ll assorted. | ;COUNT :
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you cannot supply their demands. TTuaReeR oT
if you do not have what they want Importers and Manufacturers of 5
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they will go elsewhere.

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very often go away without asking for it. FOE ery

kept our lines of

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»aler makes misstatements. anc ‘re , c ae

dealer makes mi: tate ments, and thereby |" “you can save money by calling or writing
proves untrustworthy. he may make a

for prices before purchasing elsewhere. (, ‘most rofitable ds j “
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money, but they do not object to a dealer

better than high prices: and slow sales.
= season is not eqalled in assort- 88 Monroe St. & 10, 12, 14,16 & 18 Fountain St,
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mi tking a profit.
honesty will build up any man’s trade, | | Grand Rapids, Mich.
providing he has an aitractive store. and | cnties Weeck
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