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SINGULAR INSTANCE OF THE UTILITY OF PASS-KEYS, If Mr. Nicholson died, it was down this same road he must journey to the grave; and down this road, on the same errand, his wife had preceded him years before; and many other leading citizens, with the proper trappings and attendance of the end. And now, in that frosty, ill-smell- ing, straw-carpeted and ragged-cushioned cab, with his breath congealing on the glasses, where else was John himself ad- vaneing to? The thought stirred his imagination, which began to manufacture many thous- and pictures, bright and fleeting, like the shapes ina kaleidoscope; and now he saw himself, ruddy and comfortered, sliding in the gutter; and, again, a little woe-begone, bored urchin tricked forth in crape and weepers, descending this same hill at the foot’s-pace of mourning coach- es, his mother’s body just preceding him; and yet again, his faney, running far in front, showed him his destination—now standing solitary in the low sunshine. with the sparrows hopping on the thresh- old and the dead man within staring at the roof—and now, with asudden change, thronged about with white-faced, hand- uplifting neighbors, and doctor bursting through their midst and fixing his stetho- scope as he went, the policeman shaking a sagacious head beside the body. It was to this he feared that he was driving; in the midst of this he saw himself stammer faint explanations, and felt the hand of the constable upon his shoulder. Heav- ens! how he wished he had played the manlier part: how he despised himself that he had fled that fatal neighborhood when all was quiet, and should now be tamely traveling back when it was thronging with avengers! Any strong degree of passion lends, even to the dullest, the forces of the im- aginationgg And so now as he dwelt on what was*®probably awaiting him at the end of this distressful drive—John, who saw things little, remembered them less and could not have described them at all. beheld in his mind’s eye the garden of the Lodge, detailed as in a map; he went to and fro in it, feeding his terrors; he saw the hollies, the snowy borders, the paths where he had sought Alan, the high conventual walls, the shut door—what! was the door shut? Ay, truly, he had shut it—shut in his money. his escape, his future life—shut it with these hands. and none now could open it! He heard the snap of the spring lock like some- thing bursting in his brain. and sat as if stunned. And then he woke again, terror jarring through his vitals. This was no time to be idle: he must be up and doing, he must think. Onceat the end of this ri- diculous cruise: once at the Lodge door, there would be nothing for it but to turn the cab and trundle back again. Why, then, go so far? Why add another fea- ture of suspicion to a case already so Suggestive? Why not turn at onee? It was easy to say turn: but whither? He had nowhere now to go to: he could nev- er—he saw it in letters of blood—he could never pay that cab; he was saddled with that cab forever. Oh, that cab! his soul yearned and burned and his bowels sounded to be rid of it. He forgot all other cares. He must first quit himself of this ill-smelling vehicle and of the hu- man beast that guided it—first do that: do that. at least; do that at onee. And just then the cab suddenly stop- ped, and there was his persecutor rapping on the front glass. .John let it down and beheld the countenance inflamed with in- tellectual triumph. ‘I ken wha ye are!’ cried the husky voice. ‘I mind yenow. Ye’re a Nuch- elson. I drove ye to Hermiston to a Christmas party, and ye came back on the box and I let ye drive.’’ Itisafact. John knew the man: they had even been friends. His enemy. he nowsremembered, was a fellow of great good nature—endless good nature—with a boy; why not with a man? Why not appeal to his better side? He grasped at the new hope. “Great Scott! and so you did,’’ he cried, as if in a transport of delight, his voice sounding false in his own ears. **Well, if that’s so, ve something to say to you. Pll just get out, I guess. Where are we. anyway2’’ The driver had fluttered his ticket in the eyes of the branch toll-keeper, and they were now on the highest and most solitary part of the by-road. John lJook- ed all about him, drinking the clear air like wine; then his eyes returned to the cabman’s face as he sat, not ungleefully, awaiting John’s communication, with the air of one looking to be tipped. The features of that face were hard to read, drink had so swollen them, drink had so painted them in tints that varied from brick-red to mulberry. The small gray eyes blinked, the lips moved with greed; greed was the ruling passion; and though there was some good nature, some genuine kindliness, a true human touch, in the old toper, his greed was now so set afire by hope that all other traits of his character lay dormant. He sat there, a monument of gluttonous desire. John’s heart slowly fell. He had open- ed his lips, but he stood there and uttered nought. He sounded the well of his courage and it was dry. He groped in his treasury of words and it was vacant, a devil of numbness had him by the throat; the devil of terror babbled in his ears; and suddenly, without a word ut- tered, with no conscious purpose formed in his will, John whipped about, tumbled over the roadside wall and began running for his life across the fields. He had not gone far, he was not past the middle of the first field, when his whole brain thundered within him. **Fool! You have your watch!’ The shock stopped him, and he faced once more to- ward the cab. The driver was leaning over the wall, brafidishing his whip, his face empurpled, roaring like a bull. ‘ And John saw (or thought) that he had lost the chance. No watch would pacify the man’s resentment now; he would ery for vengeance also. John would be had under the eye of the police; his tale would be unfolded, his secret plumbed, his destiny would close on him at last, and forever. He uttered a deep sigh; and just as the cabman, taking heart of grace, was be- ginning at last to scale the wall, his de- faulting customer fell again to running, and disappeared into further fields. Where he ran at first, John never very clearly knew; nor yet how longa time elapsed ere he found himself in the by- road near the lodge of Ravelston, propped against the wall, his lungs heaving like bellows, his legs leaden-heavy, his mind possessed by one sole desire—to lie down and be unseen. He remembered the thick coverts round the quarry-hole pond, an untrodden corner of the world where he might surely find concealment until the night should fall. Thither he passed down the lane; and when he came there, behold! he had forgotten the frost, and the pond was alive with young people skating, and the pond-side coverts were thick with lookers-on. He looked on awhile himself. There was one tall, graceful maiden, skating hand in hand with a youth, on whom she bestowed her bright eyes, perhaps too patently; and it was strange with what anger John be- held her. He could have broken forth in curses; he could have stood there, like a mortified tramp, and shaken his fist and vented his gall upon her by the hour—or so he thought; and the next moment his heart bled for the girl. ‘*Poor creature, it’s little she knows!” he sighed. *‘‘Let her enjoy herself while she ecan!** But was it possible, when Flora used to smile at him on the Braid ponds, she could have looked so fulsome to a sick-hearted bystander? The thought of one quarry, frozen wits, suggested another; and he plodded off toward Craig Leith. A wind had sprung up out of the north-west; it was cruel keen, it dried him like a fire, and racked his finger-joints. It brought clouds, too; pale, swift, hurrying clouds, that blotted heaven and shed gloom upon the earth. He scrambled up among the hazeled rubbish heaps that surround the cauldron of the quarry, and lay flat upon the stones. The wind searched close along the earth, the stones were cutting and iey, the bare hazels wailed about him; and soon the air of the afternoon began to be vocal with those strange and dismal harpings that herald snow. Pain and misery turned in John’s limbs to a harrowing impatience and blind desire of change; now he would roll in his harsh lair, and when the flints abraded him, was almost pleased; now he would crawl to the edge of the huge pit and look dizzily down. He saw the spiral of the descending roadway, the steep craigs, the clinging bushes, the peppering of snow- wreaths, and far down in the bottom, the diminished crane. Here, no doubt, was away toendit. But it somehow did not take his faney. And suddenly he was aware that he was hungry; ay, even through the tor- tures of the cold, even through the frosts in his of despair, a gross, desperate longing after food, no matter what, no matter how, began to wake and spur him. Sup- pose he pawned his watch? But no, on Christmas-day—this was Christmas-day! —the pawn-shop would be closed. Sup- pose he went to a public house and offered the watch, which was worth ten pounds, in payment for a meal of bread and cheese? The incongruity was re- markable; the good folks would either put him to the door. or only let him in to send for the police. He turned his pockets out one after another: some San Francisco car checks, one cigar, the pass key to his father’s house, a pocket-hand- kerehief, with just a touch of scent: no, money could be raised on none of these. There was nothing for it but to starve: and after all, what mattered it? That also was a door of exit. He crept close among the bushes, the wind playing round him like a lash; his clothes seemed thin as paper. his joints burned, his skin curdled on his bones. He had a vision of a high-lying cattle- drive in California, and the bed of a dried stream with one muddy pool, by which the vaqueros had encamped: splen- did sun over all, the big bonfire blazing, the strips of cow browning and smoking on a skewer of wood; how warm it was. how savory the steam of scorching meat! And then again he remembered his mani- fold calmaities, and burrowed and wal- lowed in the sense of his disgrace and shame. And next he was. entering Frank’s restaurant in Montgomery street, San Francisco; he had ordered a pan- stew and venison chops, of which he was immoderately fond, and as he sat wait- ing; Munroe, the good attendant, brought him a whisky punch; he saw the straw- berries float on the delectable cup, he heard the ice chink about the straws. And then he woke again to his detested fate, and found himself sitting, humped together, in a windy quarry, darkness thick about him, thin flakes of snow fly- ing here and there like rags of paper. and the strong shuddering of his body clashing his teeth like a hiccough. We have seen John in-nothing but the stormiest conditions; we have seen him reckless, desperate, tried beyond his moderate powers; of his daily self, cheer- ful, regular, not unthrifty, we have seen nothing; and it may thus be a surprise to the reader, to learn that he was studious- ly careful of his health. This favorite preoccupation now awoke. If he were to sit there and die of cold, there would be mighty little gained; better the police cell and the chances of a jury trial, than the miserable certainty of death at adike side before the next winter’s dawn, or death a little later in the gas-lighted wards of an infirmary. He rose on aching legs, and stumbled hereand there among the rubbish heaps, still cireumvented by the yawning crater | of thequarry; or, perhaps he only thought so, for the darkness was already dense, the snow was growing thicker, and he moved like a blind man, and with a blind man’s terror. Atlasthe climbed a fence, thinking to drop into the road, and found himself staggering, instead among the iron furrows of a plowland, endless, it seemed, as a whole county. And next he was in a wood, beating among young trees; and then he was aware of a house with many lighted windows, Christmas carriages waiting at the doors, and Christmas drivers (for Christmas has a double edge) becoming swiftly hooded with snow. From this glimpse of human cheerfulness, he fled like Cain: wandered in the night, unpiloted, careless of whither he went; fell, and lay, and then rose again and wandered further: and at last, like a transformation scene, behold him in the lighted jaws of the city, star- ing at a lamp which had already donned the tilted nightcap of the snow. It came thickly now, and while he yet stood blinking at the lamp, his feet were buried. He remembered something like it in the past, a street-lamp crowned and eaked upon the windward side with snow, the wind uttering its mournful hoot, himself looking on, even as now: but the cold had struck too sharply on his wits, and memory failed him as to the date and sequel of the reminiscence. His next conscious moment was on the Dean bridge, but whether he was John Nicholson of a bank in a California street, or some former John, a clerk in_ his father’s office, he had now clean for- gotten. Another blank, and he was thrusting his pass-key into the door-lock of his father’s house. Hours must have passed. Whether crouched on the cold stones or wandering in the fields among the snow, was more than he could tell; but hours had passed. The finger of the hall clock was close on twelve; a narrow peep of gas in the hall lamp shed shadows; and the door of the back room—his father’s room—was open and emitted a warm light. At so late an hour, all this was strange; the lights should have been out, the doors locked, the good folk safe in bed. He marveled at the irregularity, leaning on the hall table; and marveled to himself there: and thawed and grew once more hungry, in the warmer air of the house. The clock uttered its premonitory eateh; in five minutes Christmas day would be among the days of the past— Christmas!—what a Christmas! Well, there was no use waiting; he had come into that house, he searce knew how, if they were to thrust him forth again, it had best be done at once; and he moved to the door of the back room and entered. Oh, well, then he was insane, as he had long believed. There, in his father’s room at mid- night, the fire was roaring and the gas blazing; the papers, the sacred papers— to lay a hand on which was criminal— had all been taken off and piled along the floor; a cloth was spread, and a supper laid, upon the business table: and in his father’s chair a woman, habited like a nun, sat eating. As he appeared in the door way, the nun rose, gave a low ery, and stood staring. She was a large woman, strong, calm, a little masculine, her features marked with courage and good sense; and as John blinked back at her, a faint resemblance dodged about his memory, as when atune haunts us, and yet will not be recalled. “Why, its John!’ cried the nun. “IT dare say ’m mad,”’ said John, un- consciously following King Lear; “but upon my word, I do believe you're Hiora.”’ “Of course I am,”’ replied she. And yet it is not Flora at all, thought John; Flora was slender and timid, and of changing color, and dewy-eyed and had Flora such an Edinburg accent? But he said none of these things, which was perhaps as well. What he said was, “Then why are you a nun?’’ ‘Such nonsense!’ said Flora. ‘‘’ma sick-nurse; and Tam here nursing your sister, with whom, between you and me, there is precious little the matter. But that is not the question. The point is: How do you come here? and are you not ashamed to show yourself? ‘*Flora,’’? said John, sepulchrally, ‘‘I haven’t eaten anything in three days. Or, at least, I don’t know what day it is: but I guess I’m starving. “Nou unhappy man!’’ she eried. *‘Here, sit down and eat my supper: and Pll just run upstairs and see my patient, not but what I doubt she’s fast asleep: for Maria is a malade tnaginaire.”’ With this specimen of the French, she left John alone in his father’s sanctum. He fell at once upon the food; and it is to be supposed that Flora had found her patient wakeful, and been detained with some details of nursing. for he had time to make a full end of all there was to eat, and not only to empty the teapot, but to fill it again from a kettle that was fit- fully singing on his father’s fire. Then he sat torpid, and pleased, and bewilder- ed; his misfortunes were then half for- gotten; his mind considering, not without regret, this unsentimental return to his old love. He was thus engaged, when that bust- ling woman noiselessly re-entered. ‘‘Have you eaten?’’ said she. tell me all about it.’’ It was a long and (as the reader knows) a pitiful story but Flora heard it with compressed lips. She was lost in none of those questionings of human destiny that have from time to time, arrested the flight of my own pen; for women, such as she, are no philosophers, and behold the concrete only. And women, such as she, are very hard on the imperfect man. ‘“Very well,’’ she said, when he had done; ‘‘then down upon your knees at onee, and beg God’s forgiveness.’’ And the great baby plumped down up- on his knees and did as he was bid: and none the worse for that! But while he was heartily enough requesting forgive- ness on general principles, the rational ‘*Then side of him distinguished, and wondered if, perhaps, the apology were not due up- on the other part. And when he arose again from that becoming exercise, he first eyed the face of his old love doubt- fully, and then, taking heart, uttered his protest. ‘I must say, Flora,’’ said he; ‘‘in all this business, I can see, very little fault of mine.’’ “If you had written home,’’ replied the lady, ‘‘there would have been none of it. If you had even gone to Murrayfield reas- onably sober, you would never have slept there, and the worst would not have hap- pened. Besides, the whole thing began years ago. You got into trouble, and when your father, honest man. was dis- appointed, you took the pet, -or got afraid and ran away from punishment. Well, you've had your own way of it, John, and I don’t suppose you like it.”’ *‘T sometimes fancy I’m not much bet- ter than a fool,’ sighed John. **My dear John,’’ said she, ‘‘not much.” He looked at her, and his eye fell. A certain anger rose within him; here was Flora, whom he had disowned; she was hard: she was of a set color: a settled, mature, undecorative manner; plain of speech, plain of habit—he had come near saying, plain of face. And this change- ling called herself by the same name as the many-colored, clinging maid of yore: she of the frequent laughter, and the many sighs, and the kind, stolen glances. And to make all worse, she took the upper hand with him, which, as John wel! knew, was not the true relation of the sexes. He steeled his heart against this sick nurse. ‘And how do you come to be here?”’ he asked. She told him how she had nursed her father in his long illness, and when he died and she was left alone, had taken to nurse others, partly from habit, partly to be of some service in the world: partly, it might be, for amusement. ‘There's no accounting for taste,’ said she. And she told him how she went largely to the houses of old friends, as the need arose: and how she was thus doubly welcome, as an old friend first, and then as an ex- perienced nurse, to whom doctors would confide the gravest cases. **And, indeed, it’s a mere farce my be- ing here for poor Maria,’ she continued: ‘but your father takes her ailments to heart, and I cannot always be refusing him. We are great friends, your father and I; he was very kind to me long ago —ten years ago.”’ A strange stir came to John’s heart. All this while had he been thinking only of himself? All this while, why had he not written to Flora? In penitential ten- derness, he took her hand, and, to his awe and trouble, it remained in his, eompli- ant. sale by chemic the 1 first month Presi- dent Cleveland issued his annual procla- mation. It attracted much less attention than it ought, for it wa din of the It Mf as it 1s day of the shed amid days of the oT s publis closing cam- rote it usual is improbable that he the did for paign. wi himse free from not aults of his style; but if he do} having | The| | Jl average | ' will} ri. | its | deserves credit t the work into competent hands. is much above the the ] satisfaction in reading it. proclamation ch documents, and veople e sufferers is the Jacksonvill and ional to the. ae apie, Nat iy admir SO are reasons civen for gratitude. Just Out of It. Perhaps it'satruism to say that a dealer sught not to get out of an article which he professes to carry in stock. Every grocer will say that he needs no one to tell him this: But, all the same, every grocer does not act as if he considered ihe faet an important one. This happened in a grocery the other day: A regular customer entered and asked for oatmeal in packages. The clerk said they had it. and went to get a package. He soon returned saying they were out, but had the same man’s make in bulk. But the customer didn’t want the bulk article, and left the store. Ina} minute he stepped in again, having evi-! dently thought a substitute would do. and asked for cerealine. But the clerk! nad to say *‘no’’ once more and the cus- tomer left unsatisfied, with who ean say what sort of an opinion of that grocery | x With what sort of idea of transferring his trade to a house that would not dis- appoint him by being out at the same moment of two such ordinary articles as oatmeal and cerealine. The grocery lost the profit—very little, of course—it would have made by supplying the goods, and it possibly lost what was of far greater value—the confidence of that patron in the certainty of his always being able to get his supplies at the fore. Possibly that customer's trade was lost altogether. Hardly reasonable to leave for just that? Well, perhaps not, but it must be borne in mind that many people who are not reasonable are buyers of pretty lib- eral supplies of groceries.

¢ > Purely Personal. Fred D. Ball spent Sunday in Detroit, | returning home Monday evening. Win. Judson went to Big Rapids Mon- 1 { ; day on business for Olney, Shields & Co. | Stanley E. Parkill, the Owosso drug- | sist, was in town a few hours last Satur- i day. | KE. S. Harvey. of the’ clothing firm of | Harvey Bros.. at Bangor, spent Sunday | With friends here. Geo. H. Remington, the Bangor grocer, spent Sunday with his son, Bert Reming- ton, of Olney, Shields & Co. Chas. Buncher, of the firm of Edson. | Moore & Co., at Detroit, has recovered from a three weeks’ illness and resumed he store. ot. wi nota his duties at t Gifford, | understood that lif lainong a list of gentlemen of that nation- i ality. I. BE. Hawkins, Heman G. 7) Geo. P. shes it distinctly Polack, publish he is even a local paper did his name 5. Me Chas. EB. Barlow and Fred Clark Lemon. | Olney, The “penny banana’ is a confection | L f | dear to the heart of childhood. It is} are in Detroit to attend the meeting of made on the marshmallow plan, but with- | the Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Asso- White of egg is used and the sugar cream. out gum arabic. in its manufacture, Penny deep on the marble slabs. ‘sheets,’ after being kneaded like great batches of bread dough, the mass was stretched and shaped into the form of bananas by machinery. Imitation cigars are made of the same material and ished with a coating of chocolate. Into many different shapes, embracing half the animal kingdom, and taking on the sem- blanece of flowers, of ships and of geometrical figures, is this fluffy paste | transformed. Great round hoppers or pans are for polishing and sugaring hard They revolve and revolve Fifty ora hundred pounds of candy thrown into each, and some confection- sugar. Round and round they go, surface of the confection until it becomes glass. Then that which is to be is put into the dye. All coloring matter used ors comes from Holland, except that derived | the cochineal vegetable matter. from pure bug. The dyes are and the Dutch alone know how to prepare them. | A’ good sum. too, does the world these self-same Dutch. ful people are these Secrets. Dutch to keep ee Ilegible Signatures. If there is one man who deserves to be | it Fe- hanged without benefit of the clergy, is the one who sends you a letter, questing areply, and signs his name with | such a combination of insane flourishes that the prince of darkness wouldn’t be able to read it. This man will frequently write very plainly from the beginning of a letter to the end, and then, taking it for granted that you are perfectly familiar with his name, get up on the pen and ride it all over the bottom of the page, under the impression that he is append- ing his signature. oo Growth of the Grocery Business—Decep- tions in the Trade. From the Chicago News. ‘The business of the grocer has grown! to be almost a science,’ said Charles H. Slack, who is thought to be the most suc- cessful retail grocer in the city. tainly is a profession that is only learned after many years of experience,’’ he con- tinued. ‘The close competition of the last few years has developed all the gen- ius that men in the business could mus- bananas were piled several feet | Rolled out in| fin- | candies. | unceasingly. } is | as smooth as! colored | thrifty | pay | A most wonder- | “Tt cer- | ciation. E. E. Whipple, General Manager of the Whipple Harrow Co., Eaton Rapids, Saturday. Hesays the busi- ness of the corporation will be transferred of } Was In town ito St. Johns about December 1. Chas. Chick, who recently purchased 120 acres near the D. & M. junction— Grand Crossing, to be—is converting the property into a trout pond and a Shet- land pony farm. which promises to be a | profitable venture. Sherwood Hall will not drink any more buttermilk. He consumed three quarts of the stuff at Rockford last it required the constant physician everal IIe election returns, and of Saturday. atiention to felt worse a for hours relieve when however. J. Clark and Frank Jewell left Mon- night for Peteluma. Cal... whence | they will proceed to the redwood district him of his distress. he got the (lay ‘for the purpose of will his family, seeking investinents. remain there all but Mr. {to return to the city in about sixty days. | Mr. Clark winter ; With Jewell expects a -0- Bank. Notes. W. H. Hunt is cashier of a ; at Laingsburg. The new Kent Bank, completed. Wm. Widdicomb will make with Amos S. Musselman & January 1. when he retires present position with the | National Bank. | It is understood that the directors of ;the Grand Rapids National Bank will ;not permanently fill the vacancy by the resignation of Cashier {; Widdicomb. Nathan B. Brisbin, the | prese nt efficient Assistant Cashier, will asked to assume the duties of the office for six months or a year, at the end of which time he will be officially pro- moted, if the directors are satisfied with his method of conducting the business. \ new bank Northern nearly of the Springs building at Cedar is his home Co., after from his Grand Rapids occa- ; sioned be AN INSURANCE PUZZLE. Nobody Knows What a Policy Means Until He Applies It. From the Buffalo Courier. Nobody knows what an insurance policy means until he has been burned out. The proprietor of a Buffalo repair shop has been for years carrying a policy not only upon his goods but also upon articles left with him for repairs. These latter were specifically mentioned in the policy, which *was a very broad instru- ment inits terms and it appeared to be ‘horse high, bull strong and pig tight” in its power to proteet the man who paid for it. It called for a larger amount than he would have placed on his own property alone, and he was in the habit of telling people who left their property with him that it was amply protected. He was burned out the other day, and when he came to settle with the insurance people they declined to recognize his claim in behalf of property left with him for repairs unless he had in each instance specifically agreed with the owner that its loss by fire should be made good, and charged. a consideration therefor. They took this position on the ground that he was not otherwise responsible for the property left in his shop. They asserted that a watch-maker, for instance, is not responsible for watches left with him for repairs, unless he makes a special agree- ment to this effect with their owners and charges them for it. If this be true, it is a good thing for people generally to know. In the case referred to, the owner of the repair shop wonders what he has been paying for all these years. Se Gripsack Brigade. Fred. Blake and family are now pleas- antly settled in the Seymour mansion, on Paris avenue. James A. Crookston. the veteran tray- eler for the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., is very ill at his Wealthy avenue, and fears are entertained that he will not recover. An honorable amends for any misstatement Jed into making, his error. Wonder if a certain traveling man will himself aright before his fellows home on gladly makes he may be man as soon as he discovers set account of aserigs of false statements made early in the a. 2 Frank E. Chase spent several days at Chicago last week, commingling with such congenial spirits as Magenta Headed Dave and Telephone-Connection ‘*Abe.”’ Frank says his associates borrowed all the money he had with him, but as he thoughtfully provided himself with a re- turn ticket beforehand, he managed to get home without resorting to a tie pass. **Abe’? Lineweaver, Michigan repre- sentative for Cook, Lyman. Smith & Co., of Chicago. and Red Headed Daye Smith, on who draws a diminutive salary from Sprague, Warner & Co., are both Demo- erats and both came out ‘‘short’’ on elec- tion bets. Among the forfeits they had to pay was a long march front Republican carrying in of a procession, a ban- ner bearing a compromising statement. — -9- <> The Danger of Business Worriments. Americans are an overworked people. We take no proper or adequate time for recreation or rest. We bolt our food like doses of medicine. and away once more to business. We turn night into day in many occupations. There is a never- ending strain and drain of the yital forces. Thus our civilization bas become a very imtense sort of development. Nearly every pursuit is bound by it on the rack of competitive effort, and tor- tured into the utmost of exertion. An excess of push, vim and strain to do is geen on every hand. Life energy is con- stantly taxed beyond its strength. Many physical constitutions are unequal to the inexorable demands made upon them day after day. During the past few months this strug- gle for existence has been intensified by the added uncertainties, risks and re- straints which always complicate and disorder business affairs throughout a presidential campaign, and which have been especiaily operative this year, be- cause of the industrial question funda- mentally involved in the result of the election. There has been, consequently, an unusual tendeney to mental = dis- quietude, so that the man in his office or at his task has not been able to banish worry from his work with head or hand. He has had to confront the peril of worry in his work from the fact that the ex- traneous causes of the worry could be removed only by augmenting the extent and the persistency of the effort to triumph over stubborn or peculiar obsta- cles. In this contest with difficulties, many thousands of business men have been overtasking themselves. As they value health, without which they cannot either make or enjoy money, they should now seek in respite, if possible. relax- ation for their tired brains. Without a reserve of energy, healthy brain-work is impracticable; and without healthy brain-work success is unattainable: for. without a reserve of mental energy. the mind can no more continue the vigorous exercise of its functions than a flabby muscle without tonicity can respond to the stimulus of strong volition, and lift a heavy weight or strike a forceful blow. As few men are aware of the physio- logical conditions and dangerous conse- quences of worry, it may be worth while to repeat here what has been said by an eminent medical practitioner, Dr. Mor- timer Granville, on its morbific evils— foes to health and to business success more treacherous and merciless than all besides. “The cause, or condition, which most commonly exposes the reserve of mental energy to loss and injury is worry. The tone and strength of mind are seriously impaired by its wearing influence, and if it continue long enough, they will be de- stroyed. It sets the organism of thought and feeling vibrating with emotions which are not consonant with the natural liber- ation of energy in work. The whole ma- chinery is thrown outof gear, and exer- cise, whieh would otherwise be pleasur- able and innocuous, becomes painful and eyen destructive. It is easy to see how this must be. The longest note in music, the most steady and persistent ray of | light—to use an old-fashioned expression —the tonic muscular contraction, are all, we know, produced by a rapid succession of minute motive impulses or acts, like the explosion and discharge of electricity from alternately connected and separated points in a circuit; in fact, a series of vi- brations. Mental energy doubtless takes the same form of development. If a dis-! turbing element is introduced by the obj | trusion of some independent source of | anxiety, or if, out of the business in hand, the mind makes a discord, confu- sion ensues, and for the time being har- | monious action ceases. Working under! these conditions in obedience to the will, the mental organism sustains injury | which must be great, and may be lasting. | The function of the warning sense is sus- | pended; the reserve is no longer a stock } in abeyance, and it ceases to give stabili- | ty to the mind; the rhythm of the mental ! forces is interrupted; acrash is always | impending, and too often sudden collapse occurs. The point to be made clear is this: overwork is barely possible, and seldom, if ever, happens while the mind acting in the way prescribed by its constitution, and in the normal modes of mental exercise. The moment, however, | the natural rhythm of work broken and diseord ensues, the mind like an | engine with the safety valve locked, the | steam-gauge falsified. the governing ap- paratus out of gear: a breakdown oecur at any instant. is is is may | The state pictured | is one of worry, and the besetting peril is not depicted in too lurid colors. The victim of worry is ever on the verge of eatastropRe; if he escape,the marvel! is not at his strength of intellect so much as his good fortune. Worry is disorder, however induced, and disorderly work is abhorred by the laws of nature, which leave it wholly without remedy. The energy employed in industry carried on under this condition is lavished in producing a small result, and speedily exhausted. The reserve comes into play very early in the task, and the faculty of reecupera- tion is speedily arrested. Sometimes loss of appetite announces the cessation of nutrition; otherwise the sense of hunger, present in the system, is fora time pre- ternaturally acute, and marks the fact that the demand is oceasioned by loss of power to appropriate, instead of any dim- inution of supply. The effort to work becomes daily more laborious, the task of fixing the attention grows increasingly difficult, thought wanders, memory fails, the reasoning power is enfeebled; preju- dice—the shade of defunct emotion or some past persuasion—takes the place of judgment: physical, nerve or brain dis- turbance may supervene, and the crash will then come suddenly, unexpected by onlookers, perhaps unperceived by the sufferer himself. This is the history of ‘worry,’ or disorder produced by mental disquietude and distraction, occasionally by physical disease.*’ To the man subject to this disorganiz- ing influence, these are words of wise in- struction. and ample as well as timely warning. We feel that we have per- formed a duty to our readers in calling their attention to this vitally important subject, which is so little understood, so seldom considered, so much neglected. - —_> >

| care Tradesman. 309 | | | | 310 | i AND | i Only po “SALE—OUR RETAIL STOCK OF GROG "ERIES at 110 Menroe street, Grand Rapids. Goods are ali new. The stand is in the best location in town an can be lez Bemis Bros [AOR SALE—A CLEAN, WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OF | general hardware, stoves and tinware. Tin shop | in connection. Willinventory 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 | rr SALE CHEAP —18-HORSE POWER ENGINE, Good as new. Address 298, this office. 298 re SALE—GOOD RESIDENCE LOT ON ONE OF} the most pleasant streets ‘on the hill.’ Will ex- | change for stock in any good institution. Address 286, } care Michigan Tradesman. FoR SALE—DRUG FIXTURES AND SMALL STOCK of drugs. Address Doctor, Box 242, Rockford. WANTS. Ww YANTED—EXPERIENCED MAN TO LETTER GRAN- ite and marble and sell onthe road, Will pay i | | good wages toa good man. For further information | inquire of George Tyson, Plymouth, Ohio. 317 W ANTED—SITUATION BY EXPERIENCED PHAR- macist. nation. Best of references. Mich. Wy Ae D—ENGINE AND BOILER CHEAP. — | RENCE MORITZ, Aarwood. 05 | W:- ANTED—SITU ATION ON THE ROAD BY M . OF | six years’ experience. Best of reference. Ad-} dress J. E. F. care Michigan Tradesman 293 ANTED—EVERY STORE-KEEPER WHO READS} this paper to give the Sutliff coupon system a: trial. It will abolish your pass books, do away with all your beok-keeping, in many instances save you the expense of one clerk, will _—_ your business down to a cash basisand save you all the worry and trouble that usually go with the pass-book plan. Start the ist ofthe month with the new system and you will never regretit. Having two kinds, both kinds will be sent by oadresies (nentioning this paper) J. H. —* Albany, a 2. 213 ws TED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR Improv: ed Coupon Pass Book System. Send tor E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. MISCELLANEOUS. YO RENT—STORE IN OPERA BLOCK, CENTRALLY located, fine condition,splendid opening for cloth- ing house, dry goods or general stock. Posession at once, rent. reasonable. Live business town. Inquire of M. V. Selkirk, South Haven, Mich. i 20-ACRE FRUIT FARM NEAR BENTON HARBOR, wh handy to Chicage market, will sell eo exchange j tor Grand Rapids real estate worth $1,2 Address | Dr. W. Ryno, Coloma, Mich. 295 L 20 CASH BUYS MANUFACTURING BUSI- ness paying 100 per cent. Best of rea- , for selling. Address Chas. Kynoch, St. Ignace, | ci 228 Speaks Holland. Registered by exami- Address Box 153, Morley 302 samples. 214 Big Reduction in Rates. Wanted His Reward. There is a war among the fast freigh | Grocer—So you've given up drinking, lines, the first effeet of which is a redue-! Uncle Rastus? tion in west-bound freight of from 20 to Uncle Rastus—Yes, sah. { haint 50 per cent., as follows: teched a drap in fo” weeks. Ist. 2d. 3d. 4th. 5th. 6th.’ Grocer—You deserve a great dea! of New York and Boston..50 40 35 36 2 20 credit. | Phitadelphia.,.... 0.0... 44 34 3 2k Se is Unele Rastus—Yes, sah. That?s: jes’ s oe ! what I sez, an’ | was gwine ter ask yo’ It is expeeted that. still further slash- oo a i nl : } : r n Mistah Sniif;ef yo’ cd trus’’ me to er ing in rates will oceur. ham? BANDGH BERTSCELECO.. . Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in AGENTS BOOTS and SHOES FOR THE Boston Rubber Shoe Co., 2 koe 1 ,14 & 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. WAL PAPER & WINDOW SHADES House and Store Shades Made to Order. NELSON BROS. & CoO., 68 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids. W. SteRLE Pack WHOLESALE Fresh and Salt Beef, Fresh and Salt Pork, Pork Loins, Dry & & PROVISION C0, DEALERS IN Salt Pork, Hams, Shoulders, Bacon, Boneless Ham, ctly Pure and trels, 50 pound LARD, £2 < Sausage of all Kinds, Dried Beef for Slicing. Warranted, in tierces, barrels, one-half cans, 20 pound cans, 3,5 and ro pound Pickled Pigs’ Feet, Tripe, Etc. Our prices for first-class goods are very in every instance. When in Grand Rapids give us a call and !eok Write us for prices GRAND RAPIDS, low and all goods are warranted first-class over our establishment. MICH. ON — OF A SERIES OF PICTURES sa COFFEE \ pricbdeeosm WATCH FOR THE — PREYS e NATIVE! COFFEE PICKERS. SCENE ON f A COFFEE PLANTATION ————CONTROLLED BY——__—_ CHASE & SANBORN. OUR COFFEES HAVE A NATIONAL REPUTATION REPRESENTING THE FINEST GROWN. SEAL BRAND COFFE in its richness and delicacy of fiavor. Always packed whole roasted (unground) in 2 Coffee of America. air-tight tin cans. CRUSADE BLEN coffees. JAVA and MOCHA, a all others Justly called The Aristocratic ol A skilful blending of strong, fla- ak and aromatic high grade Warranted not to contain a = ge e Rio bean, and guaranteed to suit your taste as no other coffee will, at a moderate price. Always packed whole roasted (unground), in 1 lb. air- tight parchment packages. RETAIL CROCER and selling our coffees. What it samples to ' CHASE BROAD STREET, & lias done for SANBORN, Tell us that their coffee trade has doubled and trebled since buying them it willfur you. Send for BOSTON, MASS. Western Department, NO. CHICAG 80 FRANKLIN STREET, q); ELL. IF YOU WANT THE BEST ACCEPT NONE. BUT Silver Tread Sauer Kraut. Order this Brand from your Wholesale Grocer. AME ate hh tine i eg tei ih) og: 67 ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT. Michigan ‘Bsiness Men’ s Association. President—Frank Wells, Lansing. First Vice-President—H. Chambers, Cheboygan. Second Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo. Seeretary—E. A. yen — — urer—L. W ragne. Greenvill paosutive Board 2ereeiment; Cc. L. Whitney, Muskegon; Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; Ee Blain, Lowell; Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint; Hiram DeLano, Allegan; | { ; | ‘leading jobber, the other day, Secretary. : : : | ccoaes on Insurance—Geo. ie Caldwell, | Green- ville; W.S. Powers, Nas shville: Oren Stone, Flint. ion—S. E. Parkill, Owosso; H. H. H. Pope, Allegan. Smith apg Traverse B. Fargo, Mus- Committee on Legisl: A. Hydorn, Grand Rapids; c slecateece on Trade Interests— City: Geo. R. Hoyt, East Saginaw; kegon. Committee on Transportat a QO. F. Conklin, Grand Rapids; C. Creek. igs ttee on Building and Loan Associations ’ ay cee, Kalamazoo; Will Emmert, Eaton Rapids; w. E. Crotty, Lansing, Local Secretary—P. J. Connell, Muskeger. Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. jon—James Osborn, Owosso; . Bock, Battle The following auxiliary associations are Op- erating under charters granted by the Michi- gan Business Men’s Association: No. 1—Traverse City B. M. x. President, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts. No. 2—Lowell B. M. A. President, N. B Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King. No. 3—sturgis B. M.A. President, aS Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A. President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A.Stowe. No. 5—Muskegon’ B. M. A. President, H. B. Fargo; Secretary, Wm. Peer. wu re ‘No. 6—Alba &. M. A. President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin. — " Now 7—Dimondale B. M.A. President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger. No. 8—Eastport B. M. A. President, F. H. Thurston; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston. noo Lawrence B. M. A. 5 President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J] i. No. 10—Harbor Springs B.M President, WwW. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson. cl No.11—King rsley B. ™. A. President, iH. P. Whipple; Seerctary, oT No. 12—Quincy BMAD President, Cc. McKay; Secretary. Thos. Lennon. No. 13— Sherman B. M. A President, A B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W- et To. 14__No. Muskegon 8B. M. A. Secretary, G. C. Havens. Austin. A. Howey: . C. Ha No. 15— Boy ne . City B. M.A. President, R R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase. _ a aie Sand Lake B. M. A. President, Et %. Crandall: Secretary, W. Rasco No. 17—Plainwell B. M. A. President, ES ‘A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle . 18—Owosso B. M, < President. ral Ny. ” Parker; Secretary, S. Lamfrom. _ No. 19—Ada B. M. A. President, e F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel. 20—Saugatuck B. M. A. President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps. No. 21—W Vayland B. M. A. P. ‘resident, ident, C. H. Wharton; - Secretary, M. V. Hoyt. No. 22—Grand Letige B. M.A. Persident, A. z. “Schumacher; Secretary, W. R. Clarke. No. 23—Carson City B. M. A. President, F. A. Rockafellow; Secretary, C. G. Bailey. No. 24—Morley 8K. M.A President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, Ww. H. Richmond. Pee ee No. 25—Paio B. M. A, President, Chas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. D. Pew. No. 26—Greenville I8. M. A President. S. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell. No. ¢7—Dorr BK. M. . A. Presid ent, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L.N N. Fisher. No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A President, Fred S. Frost; Secretary, H. G. Dozer. No. 29—Freeport B. M. A. President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough. No. 30—Oceana B. M. A. President, A.G. Avery; Secretary, E. 8. Houghtaling. "7 No. 31—Chariotte B. M- A. President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, 4. G. Fleury. No. 32—Coopersville B. M. A. President, W. G. Barnes: Secretary, J. B. Watson. No. 33—Charlevoix B. M. A. President, L 2. Bartholomew; Sec retary, R. W. Kane. No. 34—Saranac B. M. A. President, ‘#H. T. Johnson; Secretary, =. T. Williams. a i No. 35—Bellaire B.3 President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, No. 36—Ithaca B. M. A. President, 0. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden. No, 37—Battie Creek B. M. A. President, Chas. F.B Bock; s retary, E. W. Moore. Densmore. President, H. E. Sy ; i No. oe Oak B. M. i President, W.S. Willer; Secretary, F.W. Sheldon. No. 40—Eaton Rapids B B. M. A. President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert. No. 41—B reckenridge B.M. A. President, W. O. Watson: Secretary, C. E. Scudder. No. 42—Fremont B. M. A. Jos. Gerber; Secretary Cc. z. Rathbu a Paar 43 Tustin B. M. an President, G. A. Estes eretary,W.M. Holmes. President. No. 44—Keed City B. M. A. E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith. No. 45—Hoytville B. M.A. D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay. No. 46—Leslie B. M. A. Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould. President, President, President, V barry, | No. 47—Flint M. U. President, G. R. Hoyt; Secretary, W- H. Graham. No. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A. President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, ww. ‘ae No. 49—Leroy B M. President, A. Wenzell; Secretary. Frank i. No. 50—Manistee B. M. A. President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary, J. P. O” Malley. No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A. President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon. No. 52—Grand Haven B. M.A. President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, Wm. Mieras. No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A. _ President, } oe Phelps; Secretary, John H. Yor. o. 54—Douglas B.M.A. President, aes Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller. No. 55—Peteskey B. M. A. Present Be Hankey; Secretary, A. C. Bowman. Yo. 56—Bangor B. M. A. President, N. a Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman. No. 5%7—Rockford B. M. A. President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham. No. 58—Fife Lake B. M. A. President, L. S. Walter; Secretary, G. G. Blakely. No. 59—Fennville B. M. A. President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, P. S. Swarts. No. 66—South Boardman B. M. A. President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, 8. E. Neihardt. _ No. 61—Hartford B. M. A. resident, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes. No. 62—East saginaw ™. = President, G. W. Meyer: Secretary, (Rese H o. 63—LKvart B. M. A. President, W. = Davis; Secretary, C. E. Bell. Smith. No, 64—Merrill B. M. A. President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Hortom. | No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A. President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. S. Blom. No . 66—Lansing B. M. A. President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles. No. 67— Watervliet B, M. A. President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall. No. 68—Allegan B. M.A President, AE. Calkins; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand. No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison. No. 70—Nashville B. M. A, President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. 8. Powers. No. 71—Ashley B. M. A, President, M. ae Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck. _No. 2—Edmore B. M. A. i No, > ¥3_Helding B. M. A. President, < s. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster. Wo. 74—Davison M. U. President, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. L. Gifford. No. 75—Tecumseh B. M. A. President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus. No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A. President, 8. S. McCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong. ‘Pa, what is a green grocer?’’ asked Johnny, looking up from the English book that he was reading. **A green grocer, my son?’’ repeated ea. ‘‘Well—ah—hem—a green grocer is —oh, yes, a green grocer is one who always sands his sugar without taking the barre] into the dark part of the store.’’ a et A commerciat drummer who met Anna Dickinson at Lafayette made her a pro- posal of marriage. If the matter has ever been in doubt, it is now certain that nothing can shake the firm nerve or daunt the fearless breast of the commer- ejial drummer | for IN SPITE OF. HIMSELF. | or a Traveler Sold a Billto an Obdur- ate Merchant. “It is with much amusement,’? said a “that I |reeall my early experiences on the road in the capacity of a commercial drum- mer. I was only about 17 years of age at the time. One year previous IL had walked away from school and answered an advertisement, calling for a book- keeper. 1 made application for the place, which was in a large tea and spice estab- lishment, although I knew as much about keeping books as I did about playing a chureh organ. I kept the books for about two weeks, and got everything into such a confused condition that I do not think they were straightened out for a year. As it happened, a day or so before the full measure of my incompe- tency was discovered, I was down at the store rather early and managed to sell difficult customer who came in to buy a large bill of goods. ‘This pleased the proprietors of the establishment, and they not only condoned my book-keeping offenses, but put me down on the salary list as a salesman. I remained in the store about a year, and was so successful that they finally put meon the road. I remember striking a small village shortly after starting out. The shades of even- ing were falling rapidly as the hotel bus earried me from the railroad station to the hostelry, and J determined that I would not attempt to do anything that night but secure a good night’s rest. “During the evening, however, I got into conversation with two or three na- tives of the village who were standing around the hotel office, and, is quite customary with young and inexperienced drummers, I began to refer rather boast- fully to the achievements I had made in the way of sales. The natives seemed to receive everything in good falth, and one of them proposed as a test of my ability as a salesman that I should go to a store in the village and sell the proprietor thereof. who loudly proclaimed his an- tipathy to all drummers, a bill of goods. as My pride was touched, and I readily arreed to) do it, "and | aereed) to wager $5 on the result. Five minutes afterward found me with my _ grip- sack in my hand on my way to the store that had been referred to, and be- fore I could plan any campaign I was inside the place. It was an ordinary village store, and. as the time I speak of was in the middle of the winter, there was a red-hot stove in the middle of the floor, and a dozen loungers were sitting in a circle about it. Knowing, as they did, the prejudices of the proprietor with respect to commercial men, my entrance was greeted by significant smiles and nudges and winks, and whispered com- ments passed around the circle. IT didn’t mind this, but went up at once to the man who stood behind the counter, who answered the description that had been given to me of the proprietor of the store, and handed him my ecard. “He took the eard, and without look- ing at it, slowly tore it into two or three dozen pieces and seattered it on the floor. His action was followed by a roar of laughter from the circle around the stove. But I was not to be beaten yet. ‘You shouldn’t do that,’ I said very quietly, ‘don’t you know that those cards cost money? ‘The proprietor glared at me for a moment. and then turning to a young elerk who stood behind the counter a few feet away, hesaid: ‘Give this young man five cents to pay for that card.’ ‘This grim sally brought another ex- plosion of laughter from the circle around the stove, and a dozen pairs of eyes looked me over curiously to see how I would take the rebuff. I didn’t take it atall. J took out my eard-case a second time. and selecting another card offered it to the proprietor. ‘This made him mad and he began to swear and said: ‘‘What do you mean, you impudent young dog, by handing me another card?’ And he brought his hand down with a good deal of force on the counter. ‘Oh.’ 1 replied, “I always give eards for 5 cents.’ “This rather turned the laugh on him. and after a moment he joined in the laughter, and taking the eard read it. “<1'}] talk with youa moment,’ he said, ‘if you'll come back in the store here.’ “You may be sure I went back. He told me that he had been buying teas and spices from one house fora long time, and that he was perfectly satisfied with the fashion in which they served him. He believed that he got the lowest prices and he didn’t care to change. I asked him what prices he paid for various arti- cles in my repertoire, and told him what I sincerely believed, that if he didn’t keep posted from contact with various repre- sentatives of the trade, it was quite im- probable that he got the lowest figures. He told me what he was paying, and I two showed him that I could sell the same goods at lower prices, and finally came away with an order. I won the wager of $5 at the hotel, and the firm down in New York, whose representatives had called on this man in previous seasons without success, sent me an encouraging letter.”’ ~~. = Probable Population in 18go. It is searcely nineteen months before the eleventh censusof the United States will have been taken, although some ad- ditional months will be requisite to as- certain the aggregate result. As the time approaches for this decennial count of the people, public interest is attracted more and more to the subject, and much curiosity is manifested to know what is numerically probable. Exact figures are, of course, beyond the reach of present inquiry, yet the field of investigation is far from limited to conjecture. Data ex- ist from which a reasonable approxima- tion can be calculated. To begin with, the United States Bureau of Statistics employed, down to and including the year 1885—for the purpose of computa- tions per capita—certain estimates of population in each year, prepared by | E. B. Elliott, Actuary of the Treasury Department. Those estimates indicate a gain of inhabitants at the rate of about 2.6 per cent., annually compounded. On | applying that rate to the other five years | of the decennium, we shall have the fol- lowing result: Years Estimated {Years Estimated ended population in “ended population in June 1 each year. {June 1. each year. 1881. . 51,462, 00011886. ..... i t+.5 Os eee 1892.2. es 52.779,000/1887.... 0... .--- 60,100,431 1883 . bs ,QUUT Ea +. 61,663,042 ee 554,000] 1889 See ete ke 63.266,281 1885. | Ee OOS HOOCeO 2h. 5. 55. 64,911,204 According to this view, the enumera- tion in 1890 would show about 65,000,000 of people within our states and _terri- tories, except only Indians not taxed, who are never taken into the official count. There is another method of approx- imating to the number—a process based upon the country’s diversified experience with numerical progress since the first census. If the per cent. of increment in each separate decade be applied to the population in 1880, we shall have, as the varied result, nine distinct, different esti- mates of the aggregate count of the peo- ple in 1890, or one for each several per- centage, as exhibited below : Estimated Increase population Decades. = cent. in 1890. 1790-1800. . oe. 5.10 67,760,463 Teta. cee 88 68,402,457 fete 33.06 66,737 285 ieee, . 66,461,428 oe eo 66,968,001 ie te 68,126,600 1st 67,765,478 1860-1870, . ... 61,506,068 1670-tGo.....---. - 30.06 65,232,611 The ie: > cennial percentage yields a population of 68,402,457: but that exceptional rate is coupled with the numerical results of the Louisiana pur- chase in 1808—a vast area which ex- tended from the Gulf of Mexico to the border of British America, and which contained the city of New Orleans, be- sides some other collections of inhab- itants. The next highest percentage— that of the decade end-d in 1850—pro- duces a population of 68,126,600; but that unusual rate is largely due to the annexation of Texas, and tothe immense territorial acquisitions, among which was California, through the war with Mexico. In fact, all the very high percentages are explainable by their connection with pe- culiar circumstances. The strangely low rate of the decade ended in 1870. and justifying a population in 1890 of no more than 61,506,068. was occasioned, plainly enough, by the war of the rebel- lion. It seems likely. however, that the pop- ulation of 65,232,611, based on the per- centage of increase in the decade of 1870-— 1880, will be exceeded in 1890, because of the unparalleled gains of inhabitants from foreign immigration since 1880. In the ten years ended June 30, 1870, the net total of immigrants was 2,812,191. In the eight years ended June 30, 1888, it was 4.536.884. As the number landed upon our shores in fiscal year 1888 was 546.889, and as the average per year for the whole eight years was 542,110, every probability points to the addition of at least a million more in fiscal years 1889 and 1990 together. That would make nearly double in this decade of the ag- gregate in last decade. These data justify the conclusion that the population of the United States in 1890 will not fall below 68.000,000, and may reach as high as 70,000,000. The statement that the American people at this date number 65,000,000, may be ac- eepted as approximately correct. a 8 te The Largest Potato Crop. From the Chicago Farmers’ Review. There is no longer room for doubt that the potato crop of the present season is the largest ever grown in the United States. From. statistics furnished by correspondents, based on actual harvest returns, we make the following estimates: Ohie—Acreage, 156,963; average yield, 96 bushels; total, 15,068,448 bushels. Indiana — Acreage, 99,875; average yield. 68 bushels; total, 6,791,500 bushels. Illinois — Ae reage, yield, 82 bushels: total. els. lowa—Aereage, 118 bushels: total, Kansas — Acreage, vield, 57 bushels; total, Nebraska—Acreage, yield, 84 bushels; total, 5,4 M6 sli: average 11.997,994 bush- 150.276: average yield, 17.732.568 bushels. 120,916: average 6,892,212 bushels. 66,5 — average ).192 bushels. Oe Michigan—Acreage, Pe 868; average vield, 96 bushels: total, 15,212,928 bush- els. Wisconsin—Acreage, 112,264; average yield, 109 bushels: total, 12,236,776 bush- els. 000: average Minnesota—Acreage, 67, yield, 108 bushels: total. 7, els Are Dakota—Acreage, 65,707; average yield, 90 bushels; total, 5,913,630 bushels. Missouri — Acreage, 85,316; average 336,000 bush- yield, 89 bushels; total, 7:593,124 bush- els. Kentueky—Acreage, 52,072; average yield, 75 bushels; total, 4.005,544 bush- els. Total for the eleven states and Dakota, 116,373,916: bushels. In the thirty-three other states and territories we assume that the average will be equal to that of 1884, namely, 85.8 bushels per acre, as reported by the Department of Agricul- ture, which, allowing for increase in acreage, would make a total of 100,272,- 143 bushels, or a grand total of 216,646,- 059 bushels, against 208,164,425 bushels in 1883, 190,682,000 bushels in 1884, 175,- 029,000 bushels in 1885: 148,051,000 bush- els in 1886 and 134,000,000 bushels in i887. ee ee Association Notes. Caledonia organizes a B, M. A. this evening. Has your Association remitted the per capita dues for the present year? On account of the illness of Mr. Buncher, the tinal hearing of the Insurance Policy Commis- sion, appointed for last Friday, was indefinitely postponed. President Wells also postponed the meeting of the Executive Board, but will prob- ably call it together within the next thirty days, as there are several matters demanding immedi- ate attention. Fife Lake Sun: To the credit of our business men may be charged the greater share of the im- provements made here. About a year ago they organized a Business Men’s Association, having for its objects mutual benefit and the improve- ment of the town, and to their efforts may be credited the advent of this newspaper, the movye- ment of the depot tothe business portion of the town, and they are now fostering several other plans for the advancement of the place, which will be aired later on. —_—— ~~ +9 -<———_____—_ The Hardware Market. Steel nails are dull wire nails are firm. very scarce, but jobbers are slow to ad- vance prices, notwithstanding their goods are costing them more than they get for them. Bar ironis weak. Barbed wire is weak and low. The indications are that wool twine will be very high next year, as the prices now quoted are equal to tise, delivered. All other kinds of rope are firm. and declining. but Sheet iron is still ————_ <4 << Just to Please the Clerks. She walked into the dry goods store With stately step and proud; she turned the frills and laceso‘er, And pushed aside the crowd: she asked to see some rich brocade, Mohairs and genadines, she looked at silk of every shade, And then at velveteens: She sampled jackets blue and red, She tried on nine or ten, And then she toss’d her head and said She “‘Guess’d she’d call again. ss Worse Than a Campaign Lie. From the Toledo Business World. Editor Stowe of THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN made a very pleasant call at this office last Friday. Bro. Stowe looks well and bears himself with becoming modesty, when we take into account the fact that THE TRADESMAN holds a mort- gage on the entire State of Michigan. We hope we may see him often. > > ___- In a Prosperous Condition. FiFE LAKE, Nov. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Srr—Find enclosed a money order for $7, for our dues. Change the President's name to L. S. Walter and the Secretary’s to G. G. Blakely. Our Association is in a prosperous condition. Yours, respectfully, Gro. BLAKELY, Sec’y. HARDWARE. D. 1888. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. Ives’, old style . en 60 Snelie ea Aled 60 Co ee ee 49) Deus wenuie................._.7.... . 95 Jennings, mmitatien ...........2.._.- .50&10 AXES. First Quality, S | B Bronge.. 2). s $7 00 D iB Bronge. |... 2): |. 11 00 . Bes seeelis 8 50 Dee ae 13 00 BALANCES, dis, Spree 4 BARROWS. dis. OR 2...-8 14.00 Garden net 33 00 BELLS. dis. Hage ee. 60£10£10 COM ss 70 ee ae ee 25 Weer Sargent. ee 60&10 BOLTS. dis, Stowe oe ee =. 0 Comiare Hew ist ee 70&10 PIO ee i) RGiO BROG) es, 70 Wroupht Barret Bolts... -.. 60. ast Iaerel BOS. es 40 Cast Barrell, brass Enobs.-.....2.-0 8. 40 Cast square Spring. 66) 60 Cast Cha ee 40 Wrought Barrel, brass knob...........-2¢:. 60 MWireuebG Square oo 60 Wrevent sige Wipsh ee 60 Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush.. .60&10 ives Boer... soe 6010 BRACES. dis. Barber laces sg 40 Backhoe 5010 SURONE EN re dae) ee 50 Ave Bee 208 eo a net BUCKETS. i i Well, plain... Oo ee ot Well oie... i. ee 4 00 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cast Loose Pin, feared. - 3)... i... FO& Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed............. T0& Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.......... 60& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.. . 60&10 Wrought Loose Pin 60&10 Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip...:...-...-.-- 60.405 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned .............. 60&05 Wrought Loose Pin, ’ japanned, silvertipped. 60&05 Wrovent Tavle 500 ot. . e 6010 Wronuent tuside Blind... . 2-0... 2. ---- -.-- 60&10 Wrought egee 0 6... 75 Blin® Clam oo sc Se 7O&10 Bling Parsers 200 coe es 70&10 Blind, Snepard = oe)... 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85.........-. 40 CARPET SWEEPERS. Bissell No. 5 per doz. $17 00 Bissell No. 7, new “drop ‘pan . a. 19 60 Bissell, Grand... 36 00 (rand Ign ss 24 00 a ee 15 00 CRADLES, Gri dis, 50&02 CROW BARS. Cast Steet 8 per tb 04 fron, Steel Poimes.) 2 es 344 CAPS. Higs110...... 3)... pee 65 Tiers CF... . 60 c.f. ee es fea oe 35 Re ' 60 CARTRIDGES, Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list. 50 Rim Fire, United States. -. dis. 50 Central Five... dis; 25 CHISELS. dis. Socket Wimmer 70&10 Socket Hramuer ...... FOK10 Ee _- eel Socket Slieks -.. .- _ -70&10 Butchers’ Tanged Firmer.. aoe 40 Barton's Socket Firmers..............----- - 2 Cold. net COMBS. dis. Curry, Dawrencees (0: 00.) | or Menkes oe . 2d CHALK. White Crayons, per gross... ..12@121% dis. 10 COCKS. Brass, RACES Ss. 60 Bipps 60 Beer 40610 Wemin ee. 69 COPPER. Planished, 14 oz Cub to size... _- per pound 33 i4axupe 1x55 Tixoo ....-. 8 al Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x@)........._-__- : 29 Cold Rolled 14446. 2. 29 Botems -........- ee 30 “DRILLS. ‘dis, Morse’s Bit Stocks. .-. . ee... 40 Paper and straignt Shank... : 40 Morse’s TaperShanpe 3... 40 DRIPPING PANS. Small sizes, ser pound... OF liaeve sizes, per pound... 614 ELBOWS, Com. 4 a 6m. doz. net 15 Corrugated .. oe. .. dis, 20&10&10 Mdrustaple 200. dis, 1310 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis, Clark's, small. #18; large, ®26.. eo 30 Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, 330. oe 25 a peel dis. American File Association List.. .. 6010 Disston’s . eC eae New American. Ce 60&10 Nicholson's... eee Helens . 50 Heller's Horse Hasps........................ 30 GALVANIZED IRON, Nos. 16 to 20: 22 and 24: 25 and 26: 27 2 List 12 € 14 15. 18 Discount, 60. GAUGES. dis, Staniey Rule and Beyel Cos... 50 HAMMERS, Navdole Cos dis. = Kags _.. Gis: Werkes & Pluvmb’s ............_........ dis. 40810 Mason’s Solid Cast Te Se eee Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30¢ 4010 HINGES, Gate Clarks, 1.23... dis, Bete .... per doz. net, 2 ¢ Serew Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 414 14 and longer Screw Hook and Eye, Strap and T HANGERS. 3 Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track ....50&10 Champion, auti friction. ...._...._-...._._. 60c:10 Kidder, wood track ...... ee 40 HOLLOW WARE =... WOK 10 Kettles. __- ae . » HOK10 Bpid@ers See ene Gray enameled... _.. ee wD HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, Stamped Tin Ware............ enew list 70&1 dapanned fin Ware .... > Grane Iron Ware 20 HOES Capt $11, dis. 60 Ce Grups.... . 911.50, dis, . 812, dis. 60 60 HORSE NAILS. Au Sable.. _.dis, 25£10G,25£10K10 a. hlLltltlrtst~C(C;«‘(‘ . dis, 5&10&214&2% Northwestern. 6-6 dis. 10€10&5 KNOBS—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .......____- 55 Door, porcelain, gap. Gimmiines..... |... 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 Door, porceluin, trimamings..../0:......_... 5b Drawer and Shutter, porcelain. 70 Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.'s. 40&10 Hematite 3. ee 45 LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.'s new Hist !.. | 55 Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s..... eee 5D Be 55 INGEN Sooo ol ee 5 LEVELS. dis Stanley Rule and Level Co's... 70 MATTOCKS, Ag7e Bee a a $16.00, dis. 60 ot a . $15.00, dis. 60 Mes 8 oe | $18.50, dis! 20€10. MAULS, dis. Sperry & Co.'s, Post, Handied 00000 5 MILLS. dis Coffee, a Co./s. - 40 2 & W. Mfg. c ‘O.'S ; Malleable LS. 40 Landers, Ferry & Clark's... oe 40 Bnterprise 00000... _ 2 MOLASSES GATES, dis, Siepols Pattcm 60&10 Stebbinrs Geuuime.........-.._.. a 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring...... oe = N LS Advance above 12d nails, FENCE AND BRADs. 0 a 25 10d. ee. 10 Balan ll = Cian a 40 WG and S@e ee ote ee 60 aa. ee. 1 00 CS 1 FINE BLUED ae ee 1 00 ee 1 30 2d ee ee 2 00 CASTING AND BOX, Pebte De ee. 50 ee ere es ec etme a 6O Sdicg ys Sates... 90 aato od 8. ee. i 10 Me ee es COMMON BARREL. = men ee 25 SE 2 CLINCH. 1 ape ts; pen. 1 a 2 and 244 ee 1 35 % and 234 . .. 1 Sieen 8&5 we ama 26 nen : a Each half keg 10 cents extra. OILERS. dis. Rinc or tin, Chase's Patent. -........ . O&i0 Zane, wit brass bottom.:<;.............. 50 Brass or COBREE. ee 50 Meaper per gross, #12 net Oinetcae Ss 00 ee eee PLANES. dis. Onis TVeol Cos faney 25. ..0..00 020: 40@10 Neue Been oe ea, @60 Sandusky tool Co.'s, faméy........5..0. 2.5. 40Q@10 Doueh fret quality. ue @60 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood.. . .20&10 PANS, OP CINE oe ee ee ae eae oe dis. 50&10 | (Common, polished .0000 ty he dis. 60&10 RIVETS, dis. Iron and@ “Pinned .°) 2 ee 50 Copper Riyets and Burs. . — cee 50 PATENT FLANISHED IRON, ““A** Wood’s paient planished, Nos. 3 24 to 27 10 2 “B” Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 Broken packs 4c per pound ee: ROPES, Sisal, 34 inch @n@ tagger 2... 3 Mau ee 12% SQUARES. dis. mecee ane Prone = Try and Bevels.. Co es ee Me Pete Gags og ea 4 SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. Com mee 40 tO Me M4 20 $3. 00 INOS. TetO TE oe 4 Ww 3 00 OG, SAGO 4 2 3 10 — ee... 4 2 a io NOs Sot0ee es 4 40 3 35 EE Ee 4 60 3 35 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. Tastacet 1986) ee dis, 20 SASH CORD. Silv er Lake, Write A... list 50 oe 55 waite 6... ie 50 Drab B.. Cece 55 eC... © oo Dise ount, 10, / SASH WEIGHTS. Solid Eves 0 per ton #25 SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR FILLERS. Miles’ a -per doz. $20, =e SO@50&05 Perry . . per ‘doz. Xo. 1, $15; No. 0, eee ee #21; dis. WAMW&S Draw Cut No.4. 700 each, $30, dis 30 Hperprise Mie Co... dis, 20&10@30 ie ee dis. 40&10 SAWS, dis, Disst« hs Cireular.... 2001.0...) 45@AS&S " Cross Cut. . AAAS Hand. a . « LOUD eOGLD *Extras sometimes given by jobbers S. Atkins’ Circular.. dis. 9 “Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, ‘per ‘foot,.... 70 Special Steel] Dex X Cuts, per foot... DO Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 30 Champion and Electric Tooth X Cite, per f006.... 3 oc 28 TACKS. dis. American: ab kings 60 stcel an Kkimd@s, 60 Nwedes Sil Einmgs = ss 60 Gunupand Hece. 3 ee 60 Cicas Box Nai = .. 50 Finishing Nails. . ee ) Common and Patent Brads... Lo 50 Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks........ 50 atone and Clout Natis..............-..._-.. 50 ‘Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails.........._..- 45 Leathered Carpet Tacks ........... -- oo TRAPS. dis. Stecl, Game... 60&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ........... 35 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 70 oe ee ee oe ce oe 70 We Mire €o Ss oo 70 ae bee 18e per doz. Mouse, delusion... . .€1.50 per doz. WIRE, dis. Bright Market.. ee 6714 Amneated Mearket 70410 Coppercd Barket.. j21%4 Extra Banipe 5d (inned MArHeG. 36 62% Tinned Broom.. es ..per pound 09 Tinned Mattress.................... “Sper pound 8) 4 Coppered Spring Steel.......-....----._.... BO Minned Sprme steel 40&10 inn Wenee per pound 03 Barbed | Hence, salvanized...... -..-..... 3 75 panes 3 00 Copper... ne Ww list net Brass WIRE GOODS. dis. Bem 70&10&10 Serew Byes =. ..70&10&10 Hook's .... -70&10&10 Gate Hooks and Ey es -70&10&10 WRENCHES. dis, Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled..........___- 30 Coes Cennee .................... 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, pene pee 3 Coes Patent, matieable :...... -75&10 MISCELLANEOUS. dis. Bird Cages... 50 Lumps, Cistern. “3 Serews. Wew Bist: ... F0&05 Casters, Bed and Pilate.......... 2 50&10&10 Dampers, American. . 40 Forks. hoes, rakes and all steel g g ede i! 6625 Copper BOOMS 100.) 30€ METALS, PIG TIN. re inee................ ..2ae Pas ars, .30€ COPPER, Duty: Pig, Bar and Ingot, 4c; Old Copper, 3c Manufactured (including all articles of w hich Copper is a component of chief value), 45 per cent ad valorem. For large lots the following quotations are shaded: INGOT. Lake.. ee oe . 18% iaehor? Brand) 000) 100) i eS ZINC. Duty: Sheet, 2%e a3 pound, 600 pound Casks. 2. i. 6% rer poutia. 3. 17% LEAD. Duty: Pig, # per 100 pounds. Old Lead, 2e per pound, Pipe and Sheets 3e per pound, Acta = 2. @5\% Newark: ae ..@5% Be LG Sheet... se. 8e, “aig, "20 SOLDER. —............. i... 16 Extra W Dee eee eee ee ee 13% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY. Coons per pound 1444 BCU 114 TIN—MELYN GRADE. 10xi4 IC, C harcoal es $ 6 00 14x20 IC, lc 12x12 IC, ee. 6 2 eee 10 00 10x28 IC, 10x14 IX, 14x20 IX, 2x12 1X, 14x14 IX, 20x28 IX, : . Each dditional X on this grade, $1.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 1edttC Charegat ..6 5 40 14x20 IC e ee 5 40 ime, ltsti(‘i‘ 5 65 —e.hlhUmUmrrtCOCCCC 9 2 eee 11 80 a 6 90 —Sllmrm,rtCOCCC ee 12x12 EX, c Ce lm,” il 6 acs LX, a __.. ae Eayh : saitiional X on this grade, $1.50. ROOFING PLATES. 14x20 IC, Terne M. a: .. $7 60 a ill 15 14x20 IC, Wercester. 5 DO on rx, ee 7 00 2en28 IC, a cee. 11 530 14x20 IC, Allaway Grade 4% 14x20 IX, a a .. 6 40 ——sllmrrmrCm,rrr:~COCSCtiCisSCSCsCsC 10 3D eee Se 13 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. eee ee. $12 00 ee 13 50 . 3 for No. e — ' | per pound... 09 HARDWOOD LUMBER. The furniture factories here pay as follows for dry stock, measured merchantable, mill culls out: Essawood tog-Tun .....-........... 1: 13 00@15 00 Bice loctun 15 00@16 00 Biren Noe tand?.................... @22 00 Piack Ass logrun 14 00@16 00 Cherry, log- ron... t.. 25 00@35 00 Ctieery, Nos f and 20000, 50 00@60 00 Cheer Can @12 00 Maple, ‘log-run a 12 00@14 00 Mame. Seti, low-rum.... 3) os 11 00G@13 00 Mame. Nos fangs... @20 00 Mapic, Clear, Hoorng...._........._- @25 00 Moyle. Waite, selected ==. ct. @25 00 eee Oak, lee rum... 18 00@20 00 mea Oak, Nog tanpds |... 24 00@25 00 Red Oak, 4% sawed, 8 inch and upw’d. = 00@45 00 Red Oak, 4 sawed, regular............: 30 00935 00 ted Oak, No. 1, step pik... . 3. 225 00 MWaingt oo rdn 8 ec: @55 00 Walnut Nog fang]... .... @i5 00 a IIA Ue ee: @25 00 Grey Elm, a ee 12 00@13 05 White Aso, log- PO 14 00@16 00 Wohewood, lortun..... 2. -2. ie. 20 00@22 00 White Oak, logran (2) 660000/))5.01), .17 00@18 00 ste Ns &(O; an “Pointers. Magee Ranges Received the only Gold Medal awarded in 1884, and the only Gold Medal Certificate for continued superiority award- ed in 1887 by the Massachu- setts Charitable Mechanics’ Association. The character of the awards of this Associa- tion are well known and yal- ued accordingly. Their suc- cess is phenomenal, Foster, StEVENS & GO, 10 and 12 Monroe 8t., 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis Street. TEAS ENS ESTs o Weekly ‘Pointers. People are more and more learning to’ appreciate the luxury of STEEL RANGES and the wonderful increase in demand has caused the appearance of a number of very low-priced, cheaply-made, (as- bestos lined.) short-lived sheet iron ranges, whose only claim to favor is cheapness. ‘They are put on the market under faney names and are called ‘Steel Ranges.”’ In reality, they are no more steel than the pipe on your stove or fur- nace. Now, in buying a range. you want one that will give you satisfaction, requires but little fuel and one that is made in the best manner of the best material, on the most approved principles. We know that you will find all the a in the John Van Steel Range, With Fire Brick Lining. They are used in all the principal ho- tels and public institutions in the coun- try. They have a flattering reputation and we cordially invite an inspection. We keep all sizes for family or hotel use. Foster, Stevens & GO. 10 and 12 Monroe 8t., 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis Street. bove Weekly ‘Pointers,’ You cannot afford to be without a Peerless Ash Sifter. AS IT Saves your Money, Saves your Temper, Saves your Health, Time, Saves your Clothes, Saves your Coal. Saves your The Peerless comprises the following preferences over all other Sifters: It is the best and the cheapest. It is clean, neat and convenient. It lasts for years and will continue to work well. It will do more work in the same time than any other sifter. It is so simple a child can work it with -ase, and it does all we claim for it. It isa pleasure using it compared with other sifters. It has improvements and patent devices found in no other Sifter. It will save more than its price in an or- dinary family in a few weeks. It is safe to say it has all the reguire- ments needed. It has less faults than any other, and more advantages than all other sifters combined. It costs but little. It is, as its name denotes, ‘‘PEERLESS.”’ Foster, Stevens & 60. 10 and 12 Monroe St., 38, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis Street. The Michigan Tradesman NATIVE RAISINS. Rapid Growth of their Culture—How They are Cured. Few people in the East comprehend the rapid development of the raisin industry } of the Pacific Coast, of the acreage devot- ed to it, or the amount of capital invest- ed. Aslarge still under the impressien that Spain fur- product. A California interesting facts this luxurious proportion of consumers is nishes the entire grower gives some about the management of vine product, as follows: Unlike the cultivation of grapes on the Atlantie seaboards or in the large vine- vards of Ohio, the vines are grown with- out a trellis, being trained so that the lat- erals curve over the stalk, thus protect- ing the fruit from the direct rays of the sun. The best fruit grows close to the ground, shaded by the broad leaves. Fruit growing upon the laterals is likely to become sun-burned and can only be used for making second quality raisins. The first ctop matures about August 15 20: the so-called second crop from September 15 to October 1. Vines begin to produee at the age of three years and at six years are in full bearing. An im- pression prevails that raisins are made from purple grapes: on the contrary, the raisin-grape is a translucent green. The principal variety used in California is the White Muscat of Alexandria. The preparation of raisins for market is arather simple process. The branches are laid on trays exposed to the sun: fer- mentation begins almost immediately: after two weeks they are turned over, when the under side is cured in about one week longer: the grapes assuming the deep purple tint common to. raisins. Some of the bunches, after Jeaving the trays, are moist, others are too dry. To equalize the moisture and make the goods of uniform consistency. the grapes are put into sweat-boxes holding about = pounds; there they remain until a prope condition of moisture is attained. Thes are then removed to packing-houses and | the clusters are separated from the loose } to grapes and placed in boxes in layers. | making what is known as the London} layers or choice table fruit. Bunches} : : | that are too small for this purpose or are! of aharsh texture are put into a stem- ming machine, from which they are auto- | | | matically conveyed to a se ries of trays or sifters, making *‘ecrown’’ or loose raisins} of several grades for cooking. Four] maturity of | for market. weeks on the coast, from the the fruit, render them ready Grape raising is profitable. A vineyard average aring will yield Six} ions of grapes to the acre with a value of twenty dollars a ton on the vines, or one} hundred and twenty dollars an acre. Old- er vineyards produce from eight to ten | tons and the fruit brings a better price} | | be | | } | than the product of younger vines, as it | | ' ' of good is better adapted to the larger or bunch styies of high priced raisms! ‘Thus, a forty-acre vineyard in full bearing at six vears of age would furnish a revenue to ywwer of over 86.000. Labor, how- ever, is high and growers have found it difficult to obtain a full complement of hands to cure a crop needing such prompt | attention. This difficulty will . lessen-} ed new comers thicken. Californi al produces in quantities only the raisins] that compete with the renowned Malaga! varieties. The Pacific raisin crop of 1888 is expected to approximate 1.000.000 box- ef. Some of this has gone abroad. owing to the small crops of Malaga this year, and the latter fact will help to distribute the domestic crop through this country. +1 ‘ tne 2FC as 1e « — —~. -¢- He Did Too Much. ““‘When Il was a r, the other day, said an old gro- “| went to work in 3 lad, large grocery store for three dollars a week. Every Friday morning a negro came and washed the store windows. Thinking to gain the good-will of my employer, [ said to him: ‘Sir, my father told me not only to «lo what I was told te do, but anything I could do, and I can wash windows as well as the colored man, and you can save a dollar a week.’ ’’ ‘SAll right, try and wash them week,’ was the reply. ing next found me next and Friday morn- attired for the work, and hard at it. Desiring to rinse the window down, I asked for a gallon pitcher, and was told to get one out of the stock, and my employer took a posi- tion inside the window to see how well I was doing my work. Having filled the pitcher, I mustered all my strength, jerked it hard toward the window—a crash, a smash, a how! followed, and I found the handle in my hand while the pitcher and contents had gone through the window. crashing the glass. breaking the sash, and deluging the fine array of goods in the window, let alone drenching the boss who stood watching inside. “The damage cost fifteen dollars repair, so I had to work the next five weeks for nothing. and since then I’ve done what I was told to do, and have not been very fresh about volunteering to do more.” to ~~ - <—> Where Soda Comes From. Along the Peruvian coast, stretching for hundreds of miles, are the famous . ¥ . “oe . beds of nitrate of soda, which purified is saltpetre. These deposits, more profit- able than silver or guano, were dis- covered accidentally by a vagrant En- glishman named George Smith, but were not operated to any extent until recent years. Now, nitrate, having been found a valuable component of a hundred chemical forms, is in demand the world over, and millions of dollars’ worth shipped from the ports along the coast annually. Before its value was fully known, a number of far-sighted men located ‘‘claims’’ after the fashion in vogue in mining camps everywhere. and then the government stepped in and is forbade any further pre-emption. But ihe original locations cover enough of the deposit to supply the market a cen- tury or two, and to keep up the prices they have formed a pool, amonopoly com- bined, under which they charge from $2 to $3 per ewt. for what costs them about fifteen There is apparently no limit to the stuff, the bed stretching up Cents. and down the coast for 300 or 400 miles BLIVEN & ALLYN, . : : Sole Agents for the The devil, Jack! We've got a Shark. He'll do for Bliven & Allyn. = = — _ = == SS > Celebrated “BIG F.” Brand of Oysters and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL CLAMS and OYSTE We make a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time. In Cans and Bulk. RS, such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, ete. | 63 PEARL STREET. P, STEKETER & SONS, JOBBERS IN Dry Goods : Notions, 88 Monroe St. & 10,12, 14, 16 & 18 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. We solicit consignments of all kinds of Wild Game, H. M. BLIVEN, Manager. AND Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers American and Stark A Bags ‘A Specialty THE PENBERTHY IMPROVED Automatic Injector a ee canr BOILER FEEDER 16,000 in 18 Months Tells the Story. 3 WHY THEY EXCEL. BE EAT! =f POY 1 They cost Jess than other Injectors. 2 You don’t gave to watch them. If they break they will RE-START automatically. By sendi ng the number to factory on the Injector you can have parts renewed at any time. They are lifting and non-lifting. 5 Hot pipes don’t bother them and the parts drop out by removing one plug nut. Every man is made satisfied, or he don’t have to keep the Injector and we don’t want him to. PENBERTHY INJECTOR CO. Manufacturers, DETROIT, Mich. Agents, HESTER & FOX, Grand Rapids, Mic, | 6 LoTs OF = SAVES A mee MONEY, fie TIME. LABOR, —— S STRENGTH, JA YON CLOTHES. becauseit beatsthemall 5 Cenis Quick. : Is ALL IT ’ cosTsS. EASY, : That’s not much if it’s bad, and is might CHEAP. Hensita docsetcee It’s worth trying. \claimed for it. AMOS S, MUSSELMAN & (0. Wholesale Grocers, 21 & 23 SOUTH IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MIOH. The new crop is abundant, Fine Quality and Cheap. We offer Choice and Fancy Layers, 35-lb. Baskets, Fancy Stock and 50-lb. Bags, 100-Ib. kegs in cheap goods. All at bottom prices. Putnam & Brooks. _ Weber Pianos, WE BER Grand, Square and Upright Pianos, The Weber Piano is recognized beyond controversy as the Standard for excellence in every particular. It is renowned for its sympathetic, pure and rich tone combined with greatest power. The most eminent artists and musicians, as well as the musi- eal pnblic and the press, unite in the ver- dict that The Weber Stands Unrivaled. Sheet music and musical merchandise. Everything in the musical line. Fischer Pianos, A. B. Chase Organs, Hillstrom Organs, Smith Pianos Estey Organs, |JULIUS A. J. FRIEDRICH. (Suecessor to Friedrich Bros.) 30 and 82 Canal St.. Grand ere Mich. } RN UM a go ea ac HE PLAN KINTON 1 the very heart of the city, facing the Detroit the Tat House test mode and City Hall, tis ry pang. rovements, alarms, gas and electric Has fine location it convenient for all ple aces of business and amnse ment and has al i] the 1: including elevator. steam heat, running water, electric call bells. lights, etc. Rates, $2.50 and $ per day. JOHN O. PLANK, Proprietor, Of Plank’s Grand Hotel, Island of Mackinac. K. &. STUDLRY, Wholesale Ire Dealer in RUBBER BOOTS AND SHOKS Manufactured by Gandee Rubber Co, Illustrated Price List. Send for Large Catalogue and Telephone 444. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GRAND RAPIDS TANK LINE 60, Distributing Agents for ater Wiilte and Prim White Unminating Oi) GASOLINE and NAPTHA. Works, G.R.& 1 and D. & M. Jue. Office, No. 4 Blodgett Blk. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. No. 4 Monroe Street, QUOTATIONS FURNISHED on APPLICATION, LORILLARD’S STANDARD FIRST GRADE PLUG TOBACCO CLIMAX Can now be bought at the following exceptionally Lov FIGURES: Packages. Less than 56 lbs. POUNDS, 12 x 3, 16.02., 6 cuts, 40, 28 & 12 lbs CLUBS, 12 x 2, 16 ox.,6 cuts, 42,30 & 12 ‘*\ ‘ 2 Ass’t’d lot 56 lbs. or over. any quantity CLUBS, 12 x2,80z.,6cuts, 42, 30 & 12 “ FOURS, 6 x 2, 4 02z., 42, 30 & 12 ** FIVES, 6 x 1%. 31-5 0 45, 25% & 16“ 43 Al Al TWIN FOURS, 3 x 2,7 Tio lb, “a 2a a 13% FIGS, 3x 1, 14 to Ib., tea THESE see LOOK TOO GOOD TO LAST. Nuts PUTNAM & BROOKS. We carry a large stock of all kinds of Foreign and Domestic Nuts and are prepared to sell in any quantity. Prepared ready for use. Six Handsome Shades. Ready for Give them atrial, and you wiil be convinced that it d The Great Invention. durabie. Dry Color Makers, Paint and Va CUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT OUT AND TAKE IT TO YOUR DEALER, !T WILL SECURE YOU A PRIZc. Re-paint your old buggy and make it look like new for LESS THAN ONE DOLLAR. Eight beautiful shades. They dry hard in a few hours, and have a beautiful and durable gloss. the ORIGINAL, all others are IMITATIONS. More of our brand sold than all the other brands on the market. NEAL’S CARRIAGE PAINTS GRANITE FLOOR PAINTS ACME WHITE LEAD & COLOR WORKS DETROIT, They are i AR ELE FLECTROTYPERS, B Bide nd dager: ec: Zing ee ‘ a ES ences Ba Antos =o Nite 8 es 3 § cana vate DRY HARD OVER NIGHT, and are very oes not pay to mix the paint yourself. use. rnish Manufacturers. OE Bad 34 ad Pa eno ao} , 1aee od '8n PUTNAM & BROOKS, Packers. Responsible Commission Houses. POPP PDL PLP LDL LD DID PIPL PL PPP LDL PP PP PPP PPP PP PP PPP PPP PPP OO. bB If you have any | stat APPLES samples | We make a specialty of handling AP- PLES in car lots and less and would be pleased to open correspondence with a view to receiving your shipments. Will at all times make liberal advances. “Prompt returns at top ; er market price,” is our / / | maxim. ee $$ ___________ 8 T RISE Q C0 189 So. Water St,, and iN. 2. 2int @ UU.,, CHICAGO. | amount and willtry to buy them &s W. T. LAMOREAUX, |! 71 Canal Street. | Alfred J.Brown ——JOBBER IN—— Foreign, Tropical and California FRUITS ESTABLISHED 1866. Barnery Bros. 162 So, Water Street, Chisago, | | j } i | | j { } | i | We do a General Commission Business | 'Cranberries, Sweet Potatoes’ and Grapes. Bananas, Our Specialty, 16 and 18 No. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BUTTER: KGS Wie are receiving and offer as inducements twenty years’ ex- perience and clear record. The best equip- ped and largest salesroom in the business in this city. Ample storage facilities—full 20,000 feet of floor space in the center of the best market in the West. Ample capi- tal and first-class references on file with Write us if you wish it THE TRADESMAN. information, whether to buy or sell. will cost you nothing. BARNETT BROS. WANTED. AND dailya nd offertothe POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED) tra de a choice lot of FRUIT, BEANS BUTTER andallkindsof Produce. = @nd 2 If you have any of the above goods to} FRES H EGGS. ship, or anything in the Produce line, let | c : us hear from you. Liberal cash advances Cal | a t Our STOre., made when desired. VW Cc qgquaraniece EARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Ghicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapide. 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- | ments respectfully solicited. Liberal cash | advances on Car Lots when desired. Wo. H Thompson & Co, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 166 South Water St., CHICAGO. | ' Reference i } | FELSENTHAL, Gross & MILLER, Bankers, | | GRAND RAPIDS, MOSSLEY BEOsS.. ——_W HOLESALE—— Fruits, Seeds, Oysters: Produce. All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty. Potatoes, stoek and suit. AMOTeAUX & JONSON 71 Canal Street. BEANS prices to Parties having any Beans to offer will please send sample and we will try and make you satisfactory prices. \AlfredJ.Brown Seed Store, MICH. Z < If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or will be pleased to hear from you. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., THEO. B. GOOSSEN, WHOLESALE Produce Commission Merchant, BROKER IN LUMBER. GRAND RAPIDS. OUIlTOW | | | Shingles Orders for Potatoes, Cabbage and Apples, iu Car Lots, solicited. | Butter and Eggs, Oranges Lemons and Bananas a specialty. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. | GEO. E. HOWES. S. A. HOWES. Cc. N. RAPP. Geo. . Fiowes & Co., JOBBERS IN Apples, Potatoes & Onions, Telephone 269. Stove wood oso07qoO | 33 OTTAWA STEET, | SPECIALTIES: Oranges, Lemons, Bananas. © Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; The Michigan Tradesman WEDNFSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1888. LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS. Written for THE TRADESMAN. BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT. One of the old English writers tells a story of a couple of monks who, for some srievious offense against the tenets and dogmas of the before their superior. for their misdeeds, and an example to the brethren generally, they were com- were arraigned As an atonement chureh, manded to make a pilgrimage, on foot, to a holy shrine at a great distance. In ordered to addition to this. they were plaee in their shoes a certain number of peas and not to remove them during the journey. Both started at the same time, but one rapidly distanced the other, ar- his thirds of his way) rived at destination, and was two- back on the homeward road. when he met his fellow culprit, —— was hobbling in the other direction and apparently suffering terrible misery. “Why. exclaimed the slower traveler in astonishment. ‘‘you don’t pretend yow ve done your penance?” “May Lucifer take me if I haven't?” “And obeyed His Eminence’s injunc- tions?” ‘““Perfectly, brother!’’ ° ‘“Ffow in the name of all the saints and apostles did you accomplish it?” “Simply, my suffering and benighted brother, by boiling the peas!’ * %* 7 * c rs Since running across this little story I have often thought what an immense amount of suffering and trouble could be saved in the journey of life if people only had the forethought to **boil their peas.’ For a violation of common-sense principles, or for a neglect of self-evident duties. providence apparently decrees that the ease and comfort of the journey shall give plaee to discomfort and de- If the individual inflicted ac- pressing annoyances. upon whom the sentence is cepts it as literal and unchangeable, and attempts no effort whatever to make his 4 travel as easy as the circumstances will | admit of. he is liable te eventually fine himself the counterpart of the monk who peas without boiling other which to his quota of used them: while. on the hand, if he searches for some way in tone down the rigor of the decree, he may es- cape as easily as the thoughtful pilgrim who did boil them. It is the tendency of a proportion of the human race to collapse ‘like a wet rag’? under the sudden visitations of trouble or calamity. but. happily. a large majority of our American citizens have mselves the elements of prompt recuperation and recovery. We all of us adinired the plucky Chicagoan who had a meV building erected, occupied and norivgaged. alinost before the ashes of IULIo ds i. fire liad become cold. and we had neighbor who made the the great all of us an wunitigated contempt for his ealamits the occasion for making whimpering appeals for assistance for months, and perhaps vears thereafter. There is some- thing almost heroic in the man. who has suddenly lost a fortune, yet who prompt- ly and courageously makes arrangements and there is to endeavor to regain it; something almost nauseating in the one who. after a like misfortune, spends the balanee of his days in bewailing and be- moaning his ‘*fate.”” Pluck. energy and ambition. under adverse circumstances, are almost universally admired and com- mended, and apathy. repining and hope- lessness, under such circumstances, al- most invariably detracts from the sym- pathy which is naturally felt for the unfortunate. * %* % * + * i A great army of pilgrims, in this count- ry, recently commenced a journey to the that stream commonly known as tortuous political ‘Salt River,’ and it is interesting to note the manner head waters of in whieh its individual members pursue the The imagine some of them on a pleasure tour, and others on the way to their execution. Many are loudly condemning their sen- tence, while accept it philo- sophically. The reasons that prompted the verdict against them are debated in with bitterness, anger and vindictiveness, and in others with calm- ness. comprehensiveness and a cheerful pilgrimage. observer would numbers cases some acquiescence in the decision of the power them. peas. and some have not. But. digressing a little, and speaking about the verdict recorded against these unappreciated patriots, it seems to me that it is very often outrageously absurd to style the Det, It is my fixed and unalterable belief that if aSupreme Being took sufficient interest above Some have boiled their Vor populi the Vox in American politics to assert His choice in the selection of candidates, and elec- tion of public officials, our public affairs, loeal and general. would assume a radi- eally ditferent aspect. It is preposterous e i i to me to believe that when the voices of the eall a people. no matter how unanimously, fraud and rascal: to : and Deified by their unanim- notorieus position of honor trust, that those voices becomes ity. When J eents very frequent! ¥influence the swell- know that dollars and ing of a portion of those voices, far more effectually than intelligence and patriot- ism, it is infinitely absurd to me to hear it claimed that popular majorities should be regarded as Divine fiats. And when the idols of to-day are shattered by their devotees to-morrow, I refuse, absolutely, to listen to the suggestion that the power that creates idols and then destroys them is, in the remotest degree, sacred, or worthy of being mentioned in the same week. with the decree of Omnipotence,— nature or providence—as you choose. My observation has lead me to believe that there are few human calamities as difficult to recover from as the ‘*Water- defeat of the individual whose means of subsistence for years have been loo”’ derived from the salaries of official posi- tions. Hope for the future may work his recovery after being beaten in a close contest. but when it is evident that he is permanently retired to private life his liable to The workman who has recuperative forces are very vanish forever. learned a certain branch of a trade is usually, when unable to procure employ- ment in his particular line, as helpless as the party who suddenly finds himself obliged to resort to manual labor, when he never labored an hour in his life, but 1 doubt if the laborer experiences half of the gloom and hopelessness and despair that the impecunious chronic office-holder does when he is convinced that he can no longer feed at the public crib. And as the long line of political pilgrims file by I can readily separate the amateur from the professional, and readily appreciate the extent of the disaster that has over- taken the latter by the manner in which he accepts his penanee. (WEG SERENE ri} fii [| i | ne AKIN PORDER Ne Gotti cans one) Eb fs \o*%, EXTRACT —— e a | | | | | es ABSOLUTELY ——— 7 oer : - =i THESE GOODS ARE “PAR EXCELLENCE” Pure, Healthful and Reliable, warranted to give satis- faction inevery particular. For sale by wholesale and retail grocers throughout tht United States. VOUWIE Bros., Manufacturers, Cleveland and Chicago. Merchants should remember that the celebrated ‘‘Crescent,”’ ‘‘White Rose’’ and “Royal Patent’? brands of flour are man- ufactured and sold only by the Voigt Milling Co. TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Leaves. Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7:00am Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 9:05am 11:Ham From Cincinnati........... ssssseees 7:30 pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw City.....3:55 pm 5:00 pm Saginaw EXpreSs..........+.++++0++ 11:30 am 7:20am ice Mee cesie uesboue ee pm. 4:10pm 10:30 Saginaw express runs through solid. : 7:00 a. m, train has chair car to Traverse City. 11:30 a. m. train has chair car for Petoskey and Mack- inaw City. 5:00 p. m, train has sleeping car for Petoskey and Mackinaw City. GOING SOUTH. Cincinnati Express................ 7:15am Fort Wayne Express. .........-.-~- 10:30 am 11:45am Cincinnati Express......... + £2 pm 5:00 pm From Traverse City..........-sece 10:46 pm 7:15amtrain has parlor chair car for Cincinnati. 5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati. 5:00 cv. m. train connects with M. C. R. R. at Kalama- zoo 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. AN Trains daily except Sunday. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & i rriv Leave. e. Foam... -. 10:45am 21-30 8 feo! e 4:45 pm 220 Dt ets 7:45 pm Leaving time at Bridge stree depot 7 minutes later. Cc. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. MIGHIGAN CENTRAL Grand Rapids Division. DEPART. Detroit Mxpress........--.. swe ww cere es 6:45am Day Express............... -. £10p m New York Expres *Aatlantic Express.......... Mixca .................-- 5 ARRIVE. SPaciiic MXpress.... 2... we ee wwe se 6:00am 10:00am 3:15pm 10:15 pm Local Passenger. Mail Grand Rapids Express.. EE na ici ine *Daily. All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from Detroit. Parlor carsrun 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.) OQ. W. RUGGLES, Gen’! Pass. and Ticket Agt., Chicago. FRED M. BriaGs, Gen’l Agent. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. Kalamazoo Division. Arrive. 19 3 1 2 4 Pm pm a m am pm 1:10 3:00 7:45 Dp....Grand Rapids 9:45 6:10 S35 4:12 9:02 * ....Anegan - 8:28 4:55 Frt 5:03 10:00 Ar....Kalamazoo. : r G:35 11:35 “* .... White Pigeon........-.. 2:25 pm S00 12-30 * ... .Miktaré........3 4:45 1:e0 1m pm am 70 7:10 “ .-..Chicago.................. 11:30 8:50 pm 10-25 5:05 “ ..: Totede....,...5.......... 11:25 10:00 am 35 9:0“ .. Cleveland... 7:15 5:45 am pm 6:20 3:30 ° —pubero...-....-.---...-.- 1:00 11:40 Tickets for sale to ail principal points in the U.S., Mexico and Canada at Union Ticket Office, GEO. WIL- LIAMSON, Agt., Depot Office, M. BooTz, Agt. A. J. SMITH, Gen’! Trav. and Pass. Agt., Cleveland, Ohio. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING WEST. Arrives. Leaves. tMoming Hxpress......-.......-.. 1:05 p m 1:10pm frhrougn Mail... ..- 55pm 5:10 pm +Grand Rapids Express........... 10:40 p in *Night Express.... acces Oreo a te 5:40am ote 7:30am GOING EAST. +Detroit Express 6:49am +Through Mail. +Evening Expre A *Limsted xpress... 60...) 10:: +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Detroit Express has parlor car to Detroit, making direct connections for all points East, arriving in New York 10:10 a. m. nextday. Limited Express, East, has through sleeper Grand Rapids to Niagara Falis, connecting at Milwaukee Junction with through sleeper to Toronto. Through tickets and sleeping car berths secured at D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Menroe St.,and at the depot. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent. 10:30 am 3:50 pm 10:55 pm KOAL i AT WHOLESALE. Bottom Prices on HARD and SOFT Coal in Car Lots, made de- livered to any part of the State. Before placing your orders, write for prices to Hamilion., 101 Ottawa St., GRAND RAPIDS. Florida Oranges We have arranged for a large quantity of this fruit and our fancy stock will come from the celebrated Hillyer Groves, whence they ship nothing but the finest, ripe stock. Putnam & Brooks. REEDER, PALMER & CO. Wholesale Boots and Shoes. STATE AGENTS FOR LYCOMING RUBBER 60., 24 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich., TELEPHONE NO. 998. Wholesale (ffice tnder Nat'l City Bank. Telephone Call 490-2, COAL!--- COKE!--- WOOD! A. HIMES. and Retail Shawmut Avenue, Winter and W. Division Sts. Yards, CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY. WM.SEARS & CO. Cracker Manufacturers, AGENTS FOR AMBOY CHEESE. 37, 89 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. PrtREe ins & BESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE- ave. (FOR PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT.) Telephone 1032. H. MIDDLEBROOK, Agent. Morse Elevator Works, _ Philadelphia, New York - and Detroit. Morse, Wil- liams & Co., proprietors. 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To the Drugegist who handles Cigars: selling IRWIN & CO.’S “LOS "STIOOTD OTVUSOIOY\\ [[U AG ITUS «i jana Best Laundry Starch in the World? a Drar Str—Your business will be benefited by for the following reasons: DOCTORES” am ist—Because they are made exclusively for the Apothecaries and sold only to them. 2d—They are entirely free from ARTIFICIAL FLAVORING, 3d—They are made of the best Havana Tobae- co grown for fillers and Amsterdam Delhi A 1 Sumatra for wrappers. 4th—They are hand-made by experienced Un- ion Cuban workmen, under our personal super- vision, at our own factory, 165 Milk Street, Bos ton, 5Sth—Because we are in position in the way of capital and resources for buying our tobacco di- rect from growers, and selecting it so “LOS DOCTORES” will continue to be as good as it has been fine in the past. 3,700 Druggists now handling **Los Doctores” is a good recommenda- tion for its superiority to all other ten-cent ci- Sa;©rs. PACKED Box of 50, 100 and 250 Londres size. 50 in box Conchas size. Per Thousand, 858.50, 859 & S6O. ‘ and upwards we give n to advertise them in a5eut, same greatly 4) Ou, Havana Cigar Manufacturers, BOSTON, MASS. Hazeltine & Perkins Drvg Co., Agents for Grand Rapids. SEND FOR Ot Yours truly TIRWIN & MICHIGAN CIGAR CO, MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED _——. {i Co, The Most Popular 10c cigar, and “Tun £UsM, The Best Selling 5c Cigar in the Market. BIG RAPIDS. ~ Send for trial order. MICEL WHO URGES YOU TO BEEP 445 OL LO *e Tae: FPoORBLAC |! By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas- ers to the store, and help sell less known goods. ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS. RISING SUN BUGKWHEAY. Guaranteed Absolately Pure. ORDERS FROM RETAIL TRADE SOLICITED, Newayeo Rowner Minus, Mich, BaStTa rR & FO-, Manufacturers’ Agents for SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY, Newaygo, ~ 8 ATLAS iit INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S.A: { MANUFACTURERS OF ¢STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS. puae C2>7y Engines and Boilers in Stock = for immediate delivery. Saws, Belting and Oils. And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. 44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Send for Sample Write for Prices. TheStandard of Excellence KINGSFORD'S ag SF hp ES WERGLOSS STyps 43 OF panrcrte oy OH KINGSFORD = pee? OsweGo,N.Y. Si" A. Et & EZ. Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings, Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc. THE PERFECTION OF QUALITY. WILL PLEASE YOU EVERY TIME! ALWAYS ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THESE GOODS. Ww. C. DENTSON, DEALER IN GENERAL Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers, Vertical, Horizontal, Hoisting and Marine Engines. Steam Pumps, Blowers and Ex haust Fans. SAW MILLS, any Size or Capacity Wanted. Estimates Given on Complete Outfits. $8,990 and 92 SOUTH DIVISION ST., - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH GROCERIES. ieee There was a chap who kept a store, And, though there might be grander. He sold his goods nor asked for more, And his name was Alexander. He mixed his goods with cunning hand— He was a skillful brander; And, since his sugar half was sand, They called him Alex-Sander. He had his dear one: to her came, Then lovingly he scanned her: He asked her would she change her name. Then a ring did Alex-hand- her. “Oh, yes,” she said, with smiling lip. “If I can be commander!” And so they formed a partnership And called it Alex-and-her. ee eal ee WHO ARE THEY? Pencil Portraits of Grand Rapids Jobbers. xvi. He is tall and slim in stature, but his head is crowded with business ideas and his heart is brim full of good intentions. No man is more mindful of the privileges and feelings of others and no one would go farther to serve a friend or assist a neighbor in distress. His business career is like his social life—faultless. No man ean say aught against him, but all men speak well of him. In spite of his good nature, he hasaccumulated a comfortable goinpetence, and he will probably keep on accumulating until he can count his possessions at a cool quarter of a million—not because he cares for so much money himself, but on account of a spirited rivalry among a number of thrifty relatives and business associates. Who is he? XVI. He began the jobbing business in a small way and under rather discouraging eircumstances, but has managed to get to ihe front pretty effeetually—so much so that his name is a household word in at least three states. He is careful in making new ventures, cautious in all his expenditures, but pays his bills as promptly as D. A. Blodgett. The char- acter of his business renders it necessary for him to camp near the river, but it is not essential that he should be located so hear to a main sewer. Who is he? XV TL. \ dozen years ago he had the reputa- tion of being one of the most skillful blacksmiths in the city, Chance or in- clination took him to a small town less than fifty miles distant, where he ac- quired a good start, financially speaking. Coming back to the city of his birth, he became the proprietor of a small jobbing business, which has grown considerably ander hismanagement. Beginning witha single branch of business, he has managed to extend his line until he handles about as many articles as any jobber at this market. Who is he? bd Da He is so young in the business that he does not yet play much of a figure among the other jobbers, but twenty years from now he will be the main factor in a large business and the possessor of a comfort- able fortune. It is as natural for him to make money as fora duck toswim. He comes by the faculty naturally, in the shape of arace trait. He has a large ac- quaintance among the city trade and is one of the staunchest friends the Asso- ciation workers have. Who is he? XX: Some men have been so unkind as to eall him a crank, but those who think so are more*than likely to be troubled a little that way themselves. He: prides himself on his knowledge of his business and probably gives it as much ‘study as any man connected with the jobbing trade here. In many respects he is a pleasant man to deal with, but when he eomes to put his peculiar way of express- ing himself on paper the missive some- times becomes a missile, which hits so hard that a friend is frequently trans- formed into an enemy. Aside from this failing, he is a capital business man, even if he did think he could kill the sale of a jeading proprietary article peculiar to his branch of business. When the owners of thearticle referred to got through with him, he felt no larger than a grease spot. Who is he? AXE He has been a retailer. a lunberman and a theatrical manager, but he never struck his gait until he graduated into the jobbing trade, where he has devel- oped a degree of executive ability sur- prising to himself and pleasing to his friends. Heis a prinee of good nature and probably manages to extract more solid comfort out of life than any other jobber in the State. Nothing delights him so much as to be able to slip out of town unobserved and keep his where- abouts a secret until his return. The wise looks affected by his associates on such occasions are painful to behold. Happy in his domestie relations and in he consciousness that he is destined to be 2 rich man, he leads a model life, which excites the generous envy of all who have the honor of his acquaintance. Who is he? MET. He isn’t half as jubilant as he expected to be after election, but he takes his medicine with good grace—which is more than ean be said of his business associate. He is looked upon as one of the best posted men in his line of business any- where inthe country, some knowing ones going so far as to assert that he is with- out a superior in his line between the Atlantic and Paeifie. He is quick to get angry, and is as unreasonable as a child when in that condition, but is soon him- self again, and allows no foolish pride to stand in the way of his setting himself right again. Big hearted in all the term implies. he would divide his last dollar with a friend, and his generosity is fre- quently taken advantage of by pseudo friends. Although a bitter partisan, he is fair enough to acknowledge a good man or measure on the other side of the fence. even if his eyesight is a little dim when it comes to estimating men and measures of his own party. He is a fast worker. with a wonderful knowledge of details, and is one of the best general managers in the city. Who is he? For the first correct interpretation of all of the above personal descriptions, one year’s subscription will be given. LAST WEEK’S PORTRAITS. The first correct solution to the eight Pencil Portraits given last week was re- ceived from the Telfer Spice Co., being as follows : & ££ M Clark. oS. Dr. CO. S. Bazeltine. 10. Ben. W. Putnam. 1. $6. EL Bawkims. 12. Amos S. Musselman. is. Wo: Gunn. 14: €.G. A Voret,. 1d. Chas. HB. Olney. A SD Process by Which Steel Pens are Made. About a million gross of steel pens are worn out every year in the United States. What becomes of them? Twenty years ago, most of the steel pens used in this country were imported. Now, compara- tively few are imported, and there are several factories in this country in which they are made in large quantities. One factory is in Connecticut, another in Pennsylvania and a large one in Camden. The manufacturers say that the industry has been fostered by the protective tariff, and were it to be taken off, the country would be flooded with ches ip steel pens of inferior quality at lower prices than ours. At present, the importation of foreign pens is mainly confined to high-priced ar- ticles. It was at first doubted that steel pens could be made in this country, but it was soon learned that the requisite skilled la- bor could be obtained for high wages, and the suecess of the pioneers led one manu- facturer after another into the business, until now the field is pretty well oceu- pied. Most of the work on the pens is done with the aid of very nice machinery. worked by women and girls. The steel used is imported because it is believed that the quality is more uniform than the American steel. This uniformi- ty of quality is necessary, because of the very delicate tempering required in the manufacture of the pens. Fhat mysteri- ous quality of steel, which gives different eolors, requires expert manipulation on the part of the workman who does the tempering. He must Know the nature of the material with which he works, and with that knowledge must exercise celer- ity and skill that seizes upon the proper instant to fasten the steel ata heat which insures the requisite quality. First, the steel is rolled into big sheets. This is cut into strips about three inches wide. These strips are annealed—thatis, they are heated to a red heat and permit- ted to cool gradually so that the brittle- ness is all removed and the steel is soft enough to be worked easily. Then the strips are again rolled to the required thickness, or, rather, run. It is the quick eye for color and the quick hand to fas- ten it that constitutes the skill to deter- mine the temper of steel. When the steel is heated for tempering, it is bright. The first color that appears is a straw eolor. This changes rapidly to a blue. The elasticity of the metal varies with the color, and is arrested at any point by instant plunging in cold water. The process of slitting, polishing pointing and finishing the pens are oper- ations requiring dexterity, but by long practice the workmen become very ex- pert. There have been but few changes of late years, and the process of manutac- ture is much the same as it was twenty years ago, and the prices are rather uni- form, ranging from 25 cents to S4 per gross, according to the quality of finish. The boxes sold almost universally eon- tain a gross. Ee Choose Your Words. A gentleman of this city has reached the conclusion that it is wise poliey to think twice before you speak once. and to weigh the words carefully it is proposed to utter. He wanted a girl for a type- writer, and advertised to that etfeet on his office door. Fifteen young ladies called, but none of them wanted the po- sition, and left the office in high dudgeon. I stepped in yesterday, when he said: ‘Never did girls act so strangely. Some of them called me insulting, and = others declared I was no gentleman. A few said they would report to the police (not the chief), while others threatened to send their brothers or gentleman friends around to settle with me. Ideclare I did nothing wrong, and I am mystified.” “Just repeat your conversation,’” [ said. He did, and [I found that he asked every girl if she was ‘‘fast."”. The poor fellow meant ‘‘rapid.”” But he cast the die, and they took him at his word. He hasa good typewriter now. So The Grocery Market. The market has been practically fea- tureless, except in the ease of sugar which grew weaker the latter part of last week but rallied on Monday and ad- vanced a fraction. oo — woe Dettenthaler’s *‘Anchor’? brand of oys- ters continues to lead the van. It is first in war, first m peace,, and first in the | hearts of the countrymen. Those deal- ers who do not handle this celebrated brand ought to come in out of the wet without further delay. Grocers and Kleptomania. During a recent conversation with at prominent retail grocer the topie turned on kleptomania, and in reply to a ques- tion as to whether many cases came un- der his notice, the grocer gave an em- phatie answer in the affirmative. Contin- uing. the man of business gave many in- stances in which he had detected people, who would, he thought, be far above pilfering, taking articles which did not belong to them, and in many cases arti- cles for which they could have no possi- ble use. ‘‘One lady,’ the grocer said, “the wife of one of our prominent citi- zens, caine into the store one afternoon and, not seeing any one looking at her, quietly seized a package of canned goods and slipped it into a paper bag which she earried in her hand. She then placed the bag on the counter and I stepped out from behind an angle where I had wit- nessed the whole transaction, and took her order for a number of articles. Dur- ing the course of the transaction, I open- ed the bag and in a eareless manner made some remark about the can, and I think I asked her where she got it. ‘Oh,’ says she, ‘I came near forgetting all about that: a lady friend asked me to get it changed: she wanted some ripe tomatoes for it.’ I asked her what her friend paid for it, and she said that she did not know and was not sure that she had got it at my place. I looked at it again and told her that I thought she did because there was one of my labels on it. After considerable more talk, it was finally agreed, on ny suggestion, that she leave the can and have her friend come and change it herself. The lady left without it. and, of course, I never heard from her friend. She is still a customer of mine and many atime her husband has_ paid bills which result from her mania. An- other case was that of a gentleman who is worth at least $50,000. He used to come once or twice a week and go down into the cellar with a box to get bones and refuse meat for his hens. This con- tinued for several years, until one day one of the clerks in passing saw him slip- ping some article in his box under the bones and meat. The next time he came. I watched him and saw him put a five- pound pail of lard in his box. He carried it out and put itin his wagon. After he had got it carefully stowed away. I quiet- ly called him to one side and told. him that I knew all about his taking the lard. He tried to make excuses at first. but fin- ally confessed to taking it and offered.to settle. A satisfactory return was made by him, but never since has he visited the eellar for his weekly allowanee of hen feed. There are many who are addicted to the habit, and people who would be the last in the world to be suspected of it are its worst victims. The loss which arises from it is no small amount, as many of them are so sly that they almost defy detection.”* ES VISITING BUYERS. JS Barker, Morley Jokn Kinney, Kinney CH Loomis, Sparta M H McCoy, Grandville JG Lamoreaux, Fennville John Giles, Lowell CH ae Dutton W J Clarke, HarborSprings F C Boise, Nashville John Myering. Noordeloos F W Foster, Newaygo John Damstra, Gitchell David Holmes, Woody ille EJ Harrington, Holland A C Cross, Bangor W MeWilliams, Conklin CE Pratt, Moline G F Gretzinger,ESaugatuck N Bouma, Fisher Station H Thompson. Canadz2 Cor A W Blain, Dutton Cole & Chapel, Ada Thos Smedley, Byron Centr Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland J C Drew, Rockford G TenHoor, Forest Grove Harvey Bros, Bangor M Heyboer & Bro, Drenthe H W King, E Jordan ° ue Smith, Ada W G Tefft, Rockford P Kinney, Altona Severance & Rich, Middle- A M Church, Englishville ville L&L Jenison, Jenisonville ES Botsferd. Dorr GS Putnam, Fruitport Sullivan Lum Co, Sullivan P Mulder & Co, Graafschap Hesler Bros., Rockford Alex Denton, Howard City A W Fenton, Bailey Nelson F Miller, Lisbon J B Watson, Coopersville John Kamps, Zutphen Goodrich Bros., Fennville L M Wolf, Hudsonville Neal McMillan, Rockford CV Weller, Cepar Springs BS Webb, Alma M C Crandall & Co., Carrington & North, Trent Levering JC Benbow, Cannonsburg J Raymond, Berlin Gus Begman, Bauer H Johnston, Shelby JL Thomas, Cannonsburg T Armock, Ww right EE Hewitt, Rockford Blood & Thomas, LR Burch, Edgerton Whitney ville L Creighton, Nirvana Wm Fagan, Dollarville John E Thurkow, Morley D M Skidmore, Bowne Cntr Eli Runnels, Corning L Cook, Bauer e je jo} — i So z io | i= | iz |< io, |e i< | Ls Every garment bearing the above ticket is WARRANTED NOT TO RIP, and, if not as re- presented, you are requested to return it to the Merchant of whom it was purchased and receive anew garment. L_NTOM SAMPSON & CO. Manufacturers, Detroit, Mich. Why you should send us your orders. We handle nothing but BEST and CHOICEST BRANDS; Sellat Manufacturers’ and Importers’ Prices; ' Ship at ONE DAY’S NOTICE, enabling you to receive goods day following; Fill orders for ALL KINDS of GLASS, ee ri nerican Polished PLATE, Rough and _ Ribbed French Window, Ameri- can Window, English 26 oz. Enamelled, Cut and Embossed. Rolled Cat hedral, Venetian, Mufiled, Frosted Bohemian, German Looking Glass Pilates, French Mirror Plates. The quality, variety and quantity of our stock is exceeded by no housein the =iD Statese WM. REI 73 &75 Larned Street West, ie. MICH, Grand Rapids Store, 61 Waterloo Street. MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER The most practical hand Roaster in the world. Thousands in use—gtving satisfic- tion. They are simp: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. ‘Industrial School of Business Is noted for THOROUGHNESS, Its graduates succeed. Write W.N. FERRIS, Big Rapids, Mich, PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Fall fruit commands #1.50@% ol. Winter fruit isin fair demand at #1.75¢ ee eee new crop is coming in freely, =. 25 per bu. for unpicked and $1.5 Retin Cook quality is searce and high. ons pay 16@20e and hoid at 18@22¢. Cabbages—Home grown command H@§5 per 100 Celery—20@22¢e per doz. Cider—8@10c per gal. : ‘ooperage—Pork barrels, $ .25: produce barrels ™ Cranberries—$8 for for Bell and Bugle. Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried 4c and evaporated at 7c. Ege: Strictly fresh are scarce, jobbers willing- ly paying 19¢ and selling at 21@22e. Grapes—Cataw bas, 4'4¢ per Ib. Honey—Scarce and hard to set, manding 2c per Ib, ee grown dry stock command 30@ there apparently Buyers are paying ccleee = market is flat, being no demand anywhere. 25¢ per bu. here and 20@22¢ at the principal buy- ing points out of town, Quinces—#1 per bu. Squash—Hubbard, ie per lb. _ Sweet Potatoes—Baltimores, be seys, 83@33.25 per bbl. Tur nips—25e per bu. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provi- sion Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. 1 Oe Short cut a 2 Extri _<=re Bhert eu 2 SEWN oe aa quill, Ani cat. r SmOrt CU... |. Clear back, shore cut. 2205.0... standard clear, short cut, best........ SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. oe io ftiba........ picnic el a Shoulders ee Breakfast Bac ‘on, an price a g Cle ars. neawN. | Mice : bebe LaRD—Compound. ( Oaes Sand soib Puss. _ Pails Sima case... .____- ae UPatis, (7a Ease ib Paiis' 6m a cise... 3 2 20 1D. Pauts, 41 4 Case... 0... Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs..... ! Extra Mess, Chicago packing....._.-._.. es rae Boneless, rump butt sAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. Pork Sausage : Monpue Sausage... ..-- ee Nranktore savcnee 8 Blood saussre 8. . a Ia quarter barrels... =... ba quarter parieis......-.... Bologn: ce ee. Frankfort sausage. oe a liver and head sausage.......... OYSTERS and FISH. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: F pease a OYSTERS IN BULK. Whitetish. a CANDIES, FRUI1 ITS and N Putnam & Brooks — as foll ws: = Ib. — ee Extra, 23 5 lb. pail, a Lone De 934 Frene h Cream, 25 Ib. pails.. Cut boat 25h. cases a” Broken, 25 5 Ib. DAMS ee 20 1 Bes 10 FANCY—In 5 |b. boxes. hemoen Preps... 13 pout rere... Peppermint Praps. 8). Chocolate Drops. 2)... 15 H. M. ¢ — saabeciss eee. ; A. B. Licorice Qe Lozenges, plain ee Pmperigis.: Motecs 0 Molasses Bar..... Seeneee and Made Creams. . ee Peradit Creaies . Decorated Cecams 20 a : Bermies 2 Lozenges, plain, in “pails So. printed, in pails... eee 13 BY OPig le 2 c neclinie Drops, in eae bs Gum Drops, in ga Sour Beope, inp.” Le ae Imperials, in i omg ee ee 12 eckaare, Jamaica, bbls, Ihemons, Gnaice. sk debe g. on BAMGW oo ee . Migs Tagers pow. 00 aes, DOT Dates, roe ag SOI 3% frais. 50 Ip. ........ ne oe Fard, $020. DOK... 50-1 @ Persian, 50-1b, —- os 64@ NUTS. Almonds Tarragcens.......).. 02.5.2. . EVGGR ¢ alifornia. ec ace Shap Ais Se SSS og oul ace eta se CAG ie Bilperts, Sieh, Ww alnuts, Grenoble 14a PECnGH ee. PeGAns, Texwere Foes a 8 at 12 Cocoanmts, PEF 100. ok a CUCM Co 2 S0@2 7 eg ee Cc whoiee Ww rm ¥ irginia eects ecu a G Arctic, 14 Ib. eans, 6 doz... ‘ eg ne ‘Abenbate. 4 Telfer’s, Aeme, red star No Siam. oo No. J = oe WO. INO. | Pa 28 Gem. Common Whisk Fancy [Mil .. ' Warehouse Kings 100 Ib. cases ... Dairy, cece ry, Hotel, 40 Star, Paratme .__. | Vitiine....... CANNED coops— Fish. Clams, i Clam Chowder, . ‘ove Oy sters, 1 ib. stand, > Db. Lobster S, 1 1b. ‘pic nie. ee b. Ee Me wekerel, Salmon, sardines, domestic Trout, CANNED Goops—Fruits. Apples, gallons, stand...... ; Blackberries, ee Cherries, red standard...... ree Damsons ...... i Egg Plums, Seana Gooseberries .... . eee Green Gages. Pe ae hes, all yellow, s Pears .« So Pineapples ... Quinces Raspberries, Strawberries W hortleberries : Ee CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus, Oyster Bay. Beans, Li Corn, Peas, edieeaad extra ae __... 20 Pumpkin, é Succotesh, s Squas Tomatoes, New York F ai Cc ream Michigan ~ sap Sago Runkel Bros,’ Rubber, o 20 es See 30 pee Rea Java, Moe ha, genuine. a To ascertain cost of ed coffee, add %e. per 1b. for roast- ing ¢ fi i age. POM r im eabimets...)0 0.” Dilworth’s........ Magnolia... Acme... é German ee 2024 ns Arbucktie’s Ariosa,....._...-¢ és eee McLaughlin’s XXXX. pieces See Walley City... Wer ee Cotton, Jute a Anglo-Swiss. Kenosha Butter..... Seymour DU ee: SRI 7 PaMey 2 TSUNA 0 i eos, PORUOM ec ee po Ee aie en an “ “cc S. Oyster. Gut Vi ea a ROYAL Fe wMwmwwis nes WSO et ee et in eda Sauce. Wwice wot we we VUE Mustard 16s... .. Lewis’ Boston Baked. Arcl her’s T: ieee eae MrenGn. Ben ag.) 00) 4 perme a solden. 0.06. 2 NeMHEOS. 2 15 Mexican & Guatemala 17 Pesbereg: 30.0000... 1 Interior). 4. 20 COFFEES—Package. COFFEES—50 Ib. bags. Arbuckle’s Avorica. seco whee RISTON EDS Ly ws City Oyster, XXX. Pienie. 0: Sue Ak ancy Oyster. |... 61% CREAM TARTAR, ral maciey PRES PoC 38 CrOeery 24 DRIED FRUITS—Domestic. Apples, sun-dried..... 54@ 6 a evaporated.... 7 TM | Apricots, - : 16 Blackberries ‘“ eee Nectarines ‘ ou 14 Peaches : eee oars 14 Plums ' ee Raspberries ** ee DRIED FRUITS “Foreign. Citron, in drum.. @23 In boxes... G25 Caorrants,..-.-._.. @. 534 Lemon Peel.... 14 Orage Peel... . 14 Prunes, Turkey ...... 33@ 5 Imperial ... @.6 Raisins, Velencias......_.. 1% ig Ondaras......... . ss Domestie Layers... .2 65 Loose Californias. .2 2% FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina, 100 Ib. kegs....... OF | Hominy, per Dbl... . .- ot Oe Macaronj, dom 12 1b box 60 e linported DAO Pearl Bariey. i, 3 Peas, green.. 1 45 Sprit. . Tt. 3% Sago, German. r 61S T apioca, fk or pri a 1 Wheat, cracked. a, % Vermicelli, import. 10 ~ domestic. ono FISH-—SALT, Cod, whole.... boneless... . Co Herring, round, 1, bbl. ol : Vy bbl Holland, bbls. Holland, kegs. = on) Ee Mack. she s, No. J. 1, bbl 2 1b kit. Trout, +5 Dbis.....:. White, No, fl Vy bbls... IE ‘amily, 1g bbis.. kits. GUN POWDER, Nees 6... Half kees. __ LAMP & st R NERS Neo ... ee ee 12... No. 0. Not... NOs i AMP WICKS, Na. 0... INO. 1 aos |. ee LICORICE, Pure... Calabria Sicuy MINCE MEAT. Buckets... |... Hai ppis............. MOLASSES, Black Strap.. Cuba Baking. Porto Rico.... ! New Orleans, good. ' choice. fancy . OATMEAL. Muscatine, Barrels .... . Half barrels Cases... 2 25 ROLLED OATS Museatine. Barr Half barrels | Hs 6 AGKGIT 2200253 -24@35 2 . . -oXDAO . AAAS One- i lf barrels, 3¢ extra. 6 00 <2 io WES BD Cases. 2 OIL. Miehigan ‘Test. - 1034 Water White..... : 12% PICKLES. Medium So ip 14 bbl 2 88 Small, bor 5 io “% bbl. . 3 ao PIPES, Clay. ae 2G: 1 60 ba D. fall count. i Cob. No. oo. a 40 RICE. € arolina head. 434 NO. 1 006 No. 2 Gb "i No. 3 aes eapan 8 DiS SALERATU Deland’s, pure........ 514 Cnareh’s, Cap Sheaf 5 Dwaehts 5 Taylor's... - 5 Common Fine per bbl. a2 ' @arlots.. 30 Solar Rock, 561b.saeks..... 23 2s pocket... _. _ 2 60 meee ‘ 2 i ao. hUC,lU ae 2 20 Ashton bu. bars _..._. i Higgins ** . io Warsaw *- . 35 SAL SODA. Mees 4 Granulated, boxes... = 2% SAPOLIO. Kitchen, 3 doz. in box. 2 35 Hand, 3 - 2 35 SAUERKRAUT. Silver Thread, 30 gal se 3 50 Ma 40 .-4 50 SEEDs. Mixed Dird 3). 414 Caraway... _. eae CaMany 20003 4 Heap... . 46 Amise, -... . : . 8% Rape . a ae Mustard.. t1% SNUFF. Seoteh in biadders.....____37 Maccanpoy, in jars.....__... 35 French Rappee, in Jars... . .43 SOAP. Dingman, 100 bars.... . -& OO Don't Anti-Wash board..... £735 a 1. Se Q@ucen Anne... -..... S85 German family... 2 40 Big Barra L By SODA, Boxes ae Kees Hels |. $3, SsPICES—W hole. ASCE ee 3 Cassia, China im mats... ... 7% Batavia in bund. Saigon in rolls.... Cloves, Amboyna....... = Zanzipar....:.. Mace Gatayia..--_- Nutmegs, fancy ......._.. No. 1 So Hi a Pepper, Singapore. black. - white. .. ° SHOE. |. es. a . .06 . 00 .1814 |. 28 2 sPicEsS—Ground—In Bulk. Allspice .. ieee. es c assia, Bitavia 0), 2 ' and Saigon. 2 Saron 60). 2 Cleves, Amboyna......_.. 35 Zanzibar...... 2s | Ginger, Affiesn ..._........ 1214 = Coehin : - ....: 15 : Jamaica . (iS Mace Batavia... BO Mustard, English one ees 22 and Trie.-25 _ Trieste te Se 27 Nutners, No. S ..... 70 Pepper, Singapore, black... .22 . Witite....-< 30 7 Cayenne... .. 25 STARCH, Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 lb. pkgs. a 6 ib. boxes. _.. 7% ba Dalek... 615 Mystic, i Ib pkgs... -...... 7 ' Darrers.... ......... 6 SUGARS. Cut Lost... .. ! @, B14 | Capes 0... @ 84 Powdered . @, 814 Granulated, Stand. @ Fg Be Off . oe @ Confectionery A...... @ 1% ae A. @7 No. 1, White Extra C. @, 673 No. £... Wholesale Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who pay promptly and buy in full packages. i No. > bextra 010 | No. 3C, golden. ». Ne. 4C, Gark..... Noo s 4 kegs. Huse Sugar. BBE half barre! SWEET GOODS, Ginger Snaps. .. Sugar Creams.. + Frosted Creams.... .. Graham Crackers... Oatmeal Crackers. TOBACCOS Clipper Cima Corner Stone Double Pedro...... Whopper . Peach Pie.. Weddir ig Cake, | bik. TEAS. JAPAN—Regular. Fair . L Good... Choice,..... ae Choicest... SUN CURED. Fair . Good . a c a CSE. B ASKET ; Choieest. ae Extri Lehi ce wire leaf j at NPOWDER. i ‘omm on to fair... | fine to finest hoicest farcy...... IMPERIAL. | Common to fair..-. .. 2 | SUperior tOfine.... i YOUNG HYSON, | Common to fair.. ; Superior to fine i OOLONG. } Common to fair. [euperior to fine... .; | Wine to choicest. .... | ENGLISH BREAKFAST, (rai... a Choice. P71 Best Tea Dust \ TOBACCOS sweet Pippin. __. Five and Seven.. Hiawatha . wweet Cuba... Petoskey Chief. Sweet Russet Thistle Blorida..-........ Rose Leaf... . Red Domino.... | Swamp Angel... TRADESMAN CREDIT ¢ 3 = per hundred. $10, #20, e Subject to the counts: 200 or over 500 LOO) VINEGAR, mer... 40 or ee. 2 Above are the prices fixed by the pool, Manufacturers side the pool usually ‘ stronger goods at same “prices, 1 #1 for barrel. MISCELLANEOUS, Cocoa Shells, bulk Jelly, 30-Ib. pails... PAPER, WOODENW ARE. PAPER. Curtiss & Co. follows: Straw _.. Light Weight Susan... .. tag Sugar. Hardware .. Paters........ Dry Goods......... gute Manilin...... Red Express, No. i . NO. 2 TWINES, 48 Cotton. Cotton, No. - > ‘ > Sea Island, assorted No.5 » Hemp vt Pails, No. 1, two-hoop. a No. 1, three-hoop. S, 9 er. oO) Bowls, 15s, 17s and 19s Bas ke ‘id, Wiaieek. |. | Mishel ...... ) Ww ith covers : = Clothes; willow cl splint GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT, White . oe me FLOUR. Straight, in sacks. . barrels... Patent’ .~ seeks... . " Derrels ._. MEAL. Boned... .. iGranglated. =... |. MILLSTUFFS. Bran. _.. Ships... . SCrecimes __.. Middlings..... Mixed Feed Car . OATS, Small lots.. Car RYE. i Not, per 100 Ths... BARLEY. | No. 2 . i HAY ; No. £. Noe. 2... a HIDES, PE L TS ‘and | Perkins & | follows: | HIDES i Groen | 3. : | Part C ured. {Fan | Diy... | Dry ps ( ‘alfskins, “green . cured. Deac ion Skins... 1¢ off for No. 2. PELTS. Shearlings. ..... Estimated wool, per b 2 FURS. Monk... __. LL. oe. | Sue | Muskrat... - Pox, red. ; “TOSS rey... ... : Cat, lane -8. wild. Fisher... _.. Lynx. Marti 1, dark. . pale... tee Worl... Bear. Beaver 00 Badger | Deerskins, per tb...... MISCELLANEOUS. Wallow 2. os... 4 | Grease butter:.....-... § [wanes 2. : | GANISEDE. 4... i SYRUPS. Corn, barreis.... .. | one- half barre! VLMa me IDs — i a tx ty anall iets. 1... Hess stare The BEST ORACKER Made, S BRAIND » Hallmorg Oysters Broker in CANNED GOODS. Salt and Sea Fish. ‘BP. EMERY, - Manager, 20 Lyon St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, fF. Jy DETTENTHALER, JOBBER OF OYSTERS! —AND— SALT FISH. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. See Quotations in Another Column. KDWIN FALLAS, Proprietor of Valley Gily Gold Storage. Packer and Jobber of the Populat ‘Solid: ‘ Brand t Daisy Brand Butter, Eggs, Sweet Potatoes, Cranberries, Etc. Sole Agent foi Mrs. Withey's Home Made Mince Meat Made of the best material. The finest goods in the market. Price, 7 cents per ib. mi 251). Pails, Salesroom, No. 9 N. lonia Street, GRAND RAPIDS, ‘CHLIOTIOS WACO 'TVIML e also manufacture a full line, of Sweet Goods. Write for quotations and samples. Jacks0n Cracker C0,,”srccx. Mill, Store and Dwelling for Sale. I own and desire to sell, or exchange for prop- erty in the city, a mill 30x 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 inecumbranee on property. H. B. FALLASS. Fallass & Swarthout’s Law Office, National City Bank Block. G. M. MUNGER & CO.,, GRAND RAPIDS. Successors to Allen’s Laundry. Mail and Express orders attended to with promptness. Nice Work, Quick Time Satisfaction Guaranteed. W. E. HALL, Jr., - - - Manager. + a ® ® 2 % i Second Vice-President- Drug xs 8 Medicines. | State Boara of Phas One Year—James Vernor, Detroit. Two Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Three Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Four Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. five Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. President—Geo. McDonald Secretary—Jacob Jesson. i = | of meeting. Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. . | Next Meeting—At Lansing, on November 6, 7 and 8. | Candidates will please report at 9 a. m. the second day | i j Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—(Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing. H. M. Dean, Niles. -President—O, Eberbach, Ann Arbor. H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. freasurer—-Wim Dupont, a Executive Committee—a. H. Lyman, Manistee; ett. Detroit: F. J. w sb ea Grand Rapids; ; E. T. Webb, Jackson. A. Bassett, Detroit. rhird Vice Secretary A. Bas. W. A. secretary Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President. J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott. Oetroit Pharmaceutical Society. -nt, J. W. Caldwell. Secretary, I Sw. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President, Geo. L, LeFevre. Secretary, Jno. A. Tinholt. Presid Nomenclature of Pharmaceutical Prepar- ations. rg in the Druggists’ Bulletin. all at this specific nomenclature, pharmacy, has terminology that large pharmaceutical the nomenclature of C. S. Hallbe Wi their “1 ‘ | tile sciences day have| | it | may be said, no to ac- curately define class of pro- ducts termed prepara- Though the various classes is good enough as far as we believe that a nomenclature should not only define the ¢ but also indicate the relation the various members of the class bear toeach other. That this is the correct principle is evident from the fact that the terminology of | botany and chemistry have both been constructed upon this general plan—tio | each specie of a genus a specific name. to each new chemical compound a descrip- | tion of its character being added. It may be said that these branches of Jearning are the sciences which consti- tute pharmacy—a conglomerate of both— and that the latter from its miscellaneous and frequently indefinite character pre- eludes the application of a strictly scientific nomenclature. On the other hand, the desirability of a system by which the strength of different prepara- tions. it Socs, eae iass, tions of the same elass could be indi- cated—incorporated in its very name— would never be questioned. In fact the idea has received practical application— in the incorporation of the last U.S Pharmacopcea—of the term abstracts which not only define the class of prepar- ations. but also indicate their strength as related to the drug. The term “fluid extract,’? while also indicating the drug strength, cannot, however, be regarded in the same light, from the fact that the term was adopted simply to distinguish the fluid extract from the solid extract and eventually to indicate the strength by common usage, and finally by official sanction in the U. S. Pharmacopeia, 1880. With the preparations made by extraction, tinc- tures, fluid extracts, abstracts and ex- ae a plan by which their strength as related to the drug would be indicated by their name, it is believed would net only be a great convenience to the pharmacist. but of incalculable value to the physi- | cian in facilitating prescribing. The | terms tincture and extract probably date | back far as the time of Paracelsus, and to change these may be a difficult task, and perhaps utterly impracticable, | nevertheless we have worked out a plan which would effect no ver radical change. and is offered for consideration. | if not for approval « adoption, Com- mencing with the term tinctures. we re-| j ast syHable—ture. as deserip- ‘ } ¥ “) Toerrer auon OF a drug liquid) prepar first syllable tine with the m of the Latin numeral ac- is drug strength. ‘Thus. by drug—that is, a preparation | the drug weight for| nave. resents 100 we UAE. intermediate The nore number would be difficult to render in euphoneous terms. but the above list would probably embrace all desirable strengths. A practicable difficulty would also be en- countered in naming any strength below 20, as the terms given indicate rather the lower numerals of 10 than those above. This found necessary, however, in | ¢ order to obtain terms easily remembered and not too unwieldy. By retaining the last term extract, viz - in the same manner. we have the follow- ing terms, which indicate the drug igth in inverse proportions : Was syllable of the and: proceeding strel ig Strength | at 106. 100—Cen-tract. 50 Quin -tract. ${}— -Qua- tract. | Tri-tract. 20—Vin-tract. 10—De-tract. 59—Quinque-iract. These proportions agree pretty closely with the percentage yield of the various “solid” extracts. Thus, an extraet of hux vomica would be a detract, ete. In case a class of powdered extracts should be mentioned in the U.S. Pharmacopeia. it would be necessary to change the con- struction of the terms in order to distin- ¢uish between the plastic extract and | that in powdered form. This is simply arough outline of the plan, but it is be- lieved that the subject is one well worthy of investigation. The plan proposed has the advantage of being in elose ac- cord with the metric system, and its adop- tion may facilitate the more general ap- plication of weights and measures. | —~< 9 a ‘The Drug Market. There are no changes ¢ importance this week. Opium is dull and lower here, Morphia is | German quinine is firm and brands are Borax is advaneing. Carbolic } acid is lower. but is advancing in Europe. unchanged. advancing, changed. Domestic un- | Golden seal root is again higher. Gum camphor is steady. Gum arabic is advancing. Oil has de- clined. Spermaceti is lower. Pure 99 | per cent. cream tartar has declined. Oil! sassafras has advanced again, on account of searcity. lemon | printed several items received by i from San Francisco respecting the prob- | ability of China adopting some measure ‘their statements very clear. | tory character, Will China Strike Back ? | From the New York Shipping List. have recently wire The daily newspapers of retaliation in answer to the recent political legislation b¥ Congress that ex- eludes further Chinese immigration. These items, which appear to have been culled from the latest mail advices, are not, however, very authentic nor are but notwith- and contradic- they are significant and ealculated to at least cause more or less uneasiness as to the future of American interests in China, for they refiect a dis- position to resent the gratuitous slight standing their confused | Which has been administered to the Chi- nese goverument and the increasing hos- tility toward the Chinese people in this >| country, which is felt all the more keenly | because China has never been aggressive | in her diplomatic negotiations with this or other foreign countries, but has always sought to maintain a dignity that would command respect. and, furthermore, has always given expression to and endeay- ored to pursue a negative policy upon this very question of the emigration of jher subjects. In considering the prob- able course that the Central may pursue with respect to recent events. Government | | ment; Love in Department Stores. One of the most unwelcome customers in many of the large dry goods stores is Cupid. This, however, is only true in the eyes of the employer when the little god tangles up the hearts of some of the young women employed with those of some of the young men. In all other eases Cupid is one of the most able allies the retail dry goods man has in his bus- iness. An old merchant in this partic- ular line of trade spent some time sev- eral evenings ago explaining to a party of friends why this was so. “One of the worst things contend with in our business, so far as our unmarried male and female eim-; ployes are concerned,’ he said, ‘‘is love. When a lady, say in the hosiery depart-| falls in love with a nice young | man in the dress goods department, or} any other department for that matter, there is trouble ahead for the employers. If the voung man should happen to re- turn the young lady’s affection, the trouble is doubled. How does this make any difference to us? Well, in nine cases out of ten, the tender passion unfits its we have to vietims for work in the same dry goods | store. This is especially so in the case | of the young ladies. Once they get in! } love with a young man at another coun- | ter their minds, instead of being at their own counters, are continually at the young man’s counter. The result of this is that the love-smitten maid is absent-| minded and inattentive to business. I have seen many a bright young clerk who} was very valuable to us become utterly | worthless behind her counter simply be- | rause she got to thinking more of a good- looking young man at some other counter than she did of our business. i “It's the same way wiih the young men, too. When they get too far gone there is only one thing left for us todo, and that is to discharge them and fill their places. I confess I always regret to take this step, in self-defense. But when the. trouble reaches a certain stage there is no other alternative. Of course, we go. about it ina roundabout way, and never give the real cause for dispensing with their ser- vices. We explain that business is dull | and never let | or something of that sort ne on that the little passion that they have nursed so tenderly has sacrificed their in the store.”’ a a There are twenty-one cotton mills in Japan. the number having been more than doubied during the past two years. position Whelosns Paes Cdsrpeeet: beginning with the hasty legislation of | Congress, follow ed by the rejection of | Advanced—Golden seal root, golden seal root, po., oil sassafras. — the tre aty, the signing of the new aet Dy | 28 Declined—Carbolie acid, opium, opium po., oil lemon. permaceti, cream tartar pure. the President and its immediate opera | tion in the case of several hundred Chi- | ACIDUM. Oath 00: 15 AmeEpy ria 1 35@1 40 | nese passengers that arrived in the har-| 4 cegeum s@, 10] Chlorate, (po. % 20; Argenti Nitras.ounce @ 68 | bor of San Francisco, it may be well in! Benzoieum, German... 80@1 00 | — Meg Eo ee ee an a, ee . : > * a 0 PRI a ne Gt Cal i * ¥ e é | the first place to point out that outside of Boracic ee a6 = |} Potassa, Bitart, pure K 38 | Bismuth S. N... .... 2 i5@2 35) official circles in Peking, as well as inthe — ae | 60a 63 | Potassa, Bitart.com... © 15] Calcium C hlor, 1s, (138 great provincial cities and treaty ports, | Hydrochlor .-.......-. 3@ _5| Botass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10} Se i 1o8 . . = c = B) POGASS INTETRS.. |. . 1 3 anche sslan, the people neither know nor appreciate | Nitrocum .. ; ee = Pailic ae XD Hi pO ......----- cal @1% the distinctions between English, French, Phosphoriuin dit. oe 9) | Sulphate po...... ive 38! Capsiei Fructus, af. @ 18 American, German or other Europeans. Salicylicum ... 1 70@2 05 RADIX. | A a a - a 0 the ordinary Chinaman they are all Sulphuricum.... oe 14@ ts Aconitum 2n@ 25) Caryophyllus, (po. 28) 27 25 *“Fanqui,’’ or red-headed devil—a_ term aces aa oe ee 25@, 30) Carmine, No. 40....... @3 % by which all foreigners are designated.| 9 oo pe a = cane Flava ee = 3 ‘ . 7 r “ DO. a me era Pee 2a, 30 In the next place mob violence is the | Se Pt py ge mm eee Sieh) Ouetee en ae favorite way in China of redressing a| Aqua. 16 deg........ 7 ee OU Gankiana, (io, ey. 4 10¢p 12) Cassia Fructus... @ 15 : 3 : : a8 deg... =. : Ae 1G Givel ae ae a S| Gd ; % grievance, and the literati. who hate and | Garbonas Pee di 8 ys an te — 16, 1S en aoe gaa a iv “ ee i * ee . . . is é yarastis unaden, - a eile a isl oie a Bb 30 are strongly prejudiced against foreign-| Chloridum ........,.-. IW@ 14 (po. 65) . er @ %», Chloroform . ee ers and everything foreign, together with ANILINE. Hellebore, Ala, po.... 15@ 2} squibbs a @1 00 the prominent men who may have a] piack...... La ese = Se excellent excuse apov which to basea| GUMMI. 2 2H? OU | ae eee ee > 00 | . a { a tH | < nz pd} request for the withdrawal of American j A¢2¢ Ist picked. ... ee agen | aa) Paes ue | residents, for they will be in danger of | Se ee Bae GP og. ttt e te tenes 12 70] the mob. So much as to the possible re- | sifted sorts... @. 65>] Wool carriage... in| Picis Lig. - quarts i: eo I sult of the popular view in China of our | | PO... eee is@1 00} Extra yellow sheeps | Pil ») @ 50| j oa = 1 : | Aloe. Barb, (po. 60) 50a, 60 CatIaee oo | ae - . ‘ j j prohibitive law: but there is) also the} 7: "Cape, st 2%) @, 12] Grass sheeps’ wool ce | ts : All rg a official view. and in this respect it is well Socotri, (po. 60). @ 30 g 65 | ———. a : : al ’ Ei ta + | « ‘ to bear in mind that the Chinese govern-| Catechu, Is, (42s,1444s. 0 ‘| Plumbi Acet .... 4@ 15| ment of to-day is not what it was twenty ee aS CT ieee ae | Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 ee I a i: munoniae ............ 2a 30 *”| Pyrethrum, boxes H years ago, t has advanced much more | Assafoetida, (po. 30). @ SYRUPS a@ FT Co. doz @I1 25 rapidly than many suppose, and its ad- a >) ia ay =)| Pyrethrum, py 5Ka, 60 visers are 2 - affairs ; a JU POT... ..- A a | eb i 1 Quassiae a sa. 10 ris = ic men of affair and experience, | Euyphorbium. po x7 10 | Zingiber 1) oa “Pew sie ra who are thoroughly patriotic and who] Galbanum........ i @ so} Tpecac........... oF oS German... 3@ 48 will seek to uphold the dignity of the | Gamboge, po...... Rha, 95 | ~ aa = Rubia Tinctorum. 122@ 14 ’ tuaiac : 35 ri rtes : i ise government and assert its international a #5)... Ole to ac charum Lactis py. @ 2 : oN : ADO yes ee) ee ee 21S a 3 40@3 5 independence in whatever action may be] Mastic ......... 01.0... @A 00 | Similax Offici S..--+-+.-. ov ae Draconis oa i po forced upon it by such proceedings as | Myrrh, (po. 45)....... @ 10} we Co = Santonine . ou @4 50 : 2 1n@3 95 | Senegza ...... x aie OY numerated above or may be adopted as aie ee mn Syn Scillae.. |_|. 50 | S&P, x. al 2G 14 the result of calm reflection. China ean ‘-“pleached...... 250 30 Co. Oe gee “@ 151 get along without this country, but we| Tragecanth ........... 30@ 7% ae ol Se sdlite Mixture... @ 28 . A ius ow) 7 cannot get along without China. There HERBA—In ounce packages. ' Simapis | ue @ 18 is nothing that we produce that China! Absinthium........... 25 eT Snuff ey be 7 "q “) ; > i . We aie oe ec cannot procure elsewhere. but there is a es = Aconitum Napellis R Sol Vee a @ 3 much that China produces that cannot be Majorum i i: co oe QR re oF ng i 50) Snuff. Scoteh, De. ( 5 j obtained in any other quarter, and that if | Mentha Experi 1. ee pe 60 em ere pines Ear Byer 35 i t S ( ’ e SS L. owl On | we could not buy direct we would have nail IP... 3 on ee Ot Soda Carb... Dir 21, . * . v ew oe ce . , | to obtain Chinese products through Eng-| Tanacetum. 0.117107. /111/) 23 | Asefeet “Betis di 0) Soda, Bi-Carh.. 4@ 5 land. France or Germany We have; ?aymus, Vy... ol ee te 2 | : a Lave : Benzo} ne 60) Soda, Sulphas. @ 2 placed ourselyes- in a position to be MAGNESIA. Co. 501 Spts. Ether Co Bika 55 snubbed if uot kicked out, and in the | Caleined. Pat.......... 55a 6) stu wee ee eee e ee 50 | Myre Dom... @2 00 ‘ar » 20@. 22] Barosma . 0) Miyreia Imp... G2 50 event of retaliatory measures on the part | C2tPonate, Pat ....... 20@ 2 } “5 “ini Bis i | Carbonate. K.& M. 2K, 25 ‘antharides.. : ae Vini Rect bbL of China we may then make haste to re- Carbonate, Jenningd.. 35@, 36) Capsicum oO a 2a). : G2 37 | pair the damage when it is too late. sol eid ee Less de gal., cash ten days | -EUM.. to oe 3] Stry ae ee” @1 10 A nen ene 1 ——— oe nee Si cneker ue | OO} Sulp hur, eee 23@ 3% An Eye for Business. | Amygdalae, Dulc...... 1 do@) | oF Gatechw 00000) 30 ' 2oll 14@, 3 a yYaalare, z RATA... 4 es 4 > ry ~ a . From the Merchant Traveler. | —— aie i a - Cinehona .... 50{ Tamarinds ........ LO ees 10 1 : : / Ca Bl 9: ‘ Ge ¢o| Terabe i we ‘Young man.’ said a merchant toa eet sCortex > moe | Columba .. A ie or gee a traveling salesman. ‘I had an exceedingly a ean oe = COMI ee ke ok OO Mie ..9 00@16 00 pleasant dream last night.’ C ‘aryophylli Poe G2 00 sete He Cea a =a reer Sulph. @ 8 ‘‘Indeed ! What was it 2° edar Sool.) So Go Ergot...._. 50 OILs. | *‘I dreamed I was in Heaven.’ ( henopodii eer: Gentian were t ee eee eee oO} Ww i oe wm o ' 1. : Cinnamon ........... 8xa. 90 cic a 60 Witsie, winter... __. 70 70 | That must have been pleasant. What | Citronella 2... 7. @ © : Ca er cee P| per, extras 86 90 | i i iy “gla | Guaies - : cy - 50] Tard’ N =a | struck you most forcibly » Conium Mac.... 35, 65 “ ammon. 60| Tins - B..-.+..-.-. 58 “Well, the most enjoyable thing about | C2 ae he iS ae 09 | Zingiber ........ we tee es sd acim grating ie Go = the place,” said the merchant, signifi- | Exechthitos........... 90@1 00 eo ee . Neat’s Foot, winter ik : See ee fodine (0000) 3) 7 eet ‘ cantly, ‘‘was the fact that there were no noone: oe acces oe eh... Colorless. -. 51 eee eg = 2 drummers there." A USUELCE NE -- 2 =< ---- - - ie oo) Merri © — a 35, | “I > } eS ne — : ae Geranium, ounce..... @ 1! Kino 50) PAINTS, bbl. Jb. | No drummers there! Gossipii, Sem. gal.. 50@ 73 | Lobelia eda aay =) Bed Venetian - 1% 2 ‘‘Not one.’’ Hedeoma 0.04 5 Sot eee ie ‘cr Sat Oelire sol se } 5 eomé WEB one 50 Je ire, ye low Mars....134 a | ‘A : " ' “ JOnIper =o 50@2 00 7 . : Be + oa a at? § or. 13, DS | _ Are you sure about that? : iavenauien 90@2 00 nae Vomica. a0 Pints. Gdusmeretal 2 “35073 | Certainly, why are you so much in-| Limonis...............1 60@2 00} VP ea cae =i) strictly pure... 21, 2G | terested 2°’ Menthe Piper:: 275@3 7] « p P Ve lion P . c st Coder. 2 00 ermilion Prime Amer- ¢ oF i rr ia { “was just thinking what a snap it bak aed es Le 3 — oy | Auranti Cortex... 2.2... Sap cee Te eee eee 13@16 | | wondd- tet ¥ eonth pc: = thuae, gal......... @1 00! Quassia ............. 59| Vermilion, English TOD | | get a monopoly on Frew, Ounce... @ 50} Rhatany |. Green, Peninaiar ___- TO@N | the territory.’ Olive . 1 0G? Dl pra By | ORG: TEM ee sl 64@7T% | > -e Picis Liquida, ir a1. 35) 10@ 12 | Cassia Acutifol..__. 5) eee ee ae 64@M4 ites Seite Ricini ...... -- 96@1 10 s te 6 50| Whiting, white Span... @0 | ate Board of Pharmacy. Rosmarini 0.0.02... — e Serpentaria ..... 50| Whiting, Gilders’.... 9 | 1 eae. . “a a sae, ounce.......... @6 00} Cty i Le 4)| White, Paris American 1 00} At the session of the State Board of | gsuecini......0001/1))) 40@ 45 =A 7 «| Whiting, ho ie | Pharmacy, held at Lansing last week. roam nee ae Valerian .. Se on aE 1 an el : i Lee ee 3 WG 00 | Veratrum Veride. =| Pioneer Prepared Paint! 2001 a there were 78 applicants for registration. a Be 80g 85 Gea Villa Prepared Of this number 40 passed the registered Tigh... ounce. =; ~ : MISCELLANEOUS, Pens 1 00@1 2 j ts’ 29 fai Thyme . Coa 40G. 50 -Ether, Spts Nik, o F.. 2@ 28) | YARNISHES, | pharmacists’ examination and failed. op @ 60] a} a 30@, 32] No.1 Turp Coach...:. 1 10@1 20 He ial at cam . OG , = ~ | Thirteen of the latter will be entitled to | Theobromas....-.... 1s@ 29 | “lumen. ee ae ee ee Body ae Se ussistants’ certificates. Seven persons} _ POTASSIUM. ED ai AAT --. 93@ 4| No.1 Turp Furn......1 00@1 10] | passed the registered assistants’ examina-| Bi Carb................ 1X@ 18) Annatto............... 53@ 60 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 | | tion and nine failed Bichromate .... 2... 2. 13@ 15 Antimoni, DO. 4@, 5|Japan Dryer, No. 1 | I ‘ : Bromide. 3:.... 2), Sam, et Potess T. 5o@ 801 Tarp ii) Sie SO and I never do it unless | - Haeliag Par Drug 0, | 25c size... ‘MIQUOR & POISON RECORDS Acme White Lead & Color Works, DETROIT, MICH. Manufacturers of the Celebrated ACME PREPARED PAINTS, Which for Durability, Elasticity, Beauty | | and Economy are Absolutely Unsurpassed. | F. J. WURZBURG, WHOLESALE AGENT, Grand Rapids, - Mich. TRADE SUPPLIED BY THE GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. And the Wholesale Druggists of Detroit and Chicago. POLISHINA TRADE MARK REGISTERED. Best Furniture Finish in the Market. Specially adapted for Pianos, Or- Gans and Hard Woods. POLISHINA will Tite remove grease and di Pt, wud add a luster .w for beauty and durability cannot be excelled. POLI SHINA is clean and easy to use, as full iQ directions accompany each bot POL! § INA is put upin Large Bottles a i Hl sold at the moderate price wentv ye Cents. POLISHINA ‘ — best Furniture Finish in he narl Pry and make DAL ICUIN Tce a lif POLISHINA | re Stores Beware of Imitations TRADE SUP Hazelting & Perkins Drug Co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. PLEED BY THE | | S : 1 i xs =—— ‘ > = | MEDICAT. ED | CIRCULARS, TESTIMONIALS AND GUARANTEE | | | (FOR ALL KINDS OF STOCK) FREE | | Hoc CHULERA—CAUSE. CURE & PREVENTION | WORTH MANY DOLLARS TO EVFRY BREEDER. | | THE GERMAN MEDICINE CO.MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. | | § FOR SALE 8Y DRUGGISTS. GROCERS. ETF. Tock Foo! Trade by Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Wholesale Drug- gists: Hawkins & Perry, Wholesale Grocers: Mc- Causliand = o.. Wholesale Grocers, E. Saginaw: W. J. Gould & Co., Wholesale Grocers, Detroit: D. Desenberg & Co.. Wholesale Grocers. Kalamas | ¢ Gila Ghoy aa Pitt an shviayg For Sale to the | Dae “ 50c Peckham’s Croup Remedy ja aa es- pecially for children and is a safe and certain °> | cure for Croups, Whooping Cough, Colds and | | all bronchial and pulmona complaints of | childhood. For attractive advertising matter | | —— the proprietor, Dr. H. C. PECKHAM ort, Mich. Trade supplied by whole. | cae ruggists of Grand Rapids, Detroit and | Chicago. SCD | RANTED TO B ‘FINEST ; and LARGEST SMOKE | For the money in the U.S. ("Put up 50ina saad Ask Manufactured only b \ & CO., Grand Rapids. atin for prices. Should send $1 to ee —— = Bro. « DAU GOIN Sess" our dealer for mess JOHN E. KENKI CINSEING ROOT. | We pay the highest price forit. Address PECK BROS., “Gnsni’ rapree™ GRAND RAPIDS. ! HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. Importers and Jobbers of —~-DRUGS~ Chemicals and Drugegists’ Sundries. Dealers in Patent t Medicines, Paints, We are Sole WEATHERLY’S MICHIGAN Oils, Varnishes, Proprietors of CATARRH REMEDY. We have in stock and offer a full line of Whiskies, Brandies, Cins, Wines, Rums. |We are Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co.,, "Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite Rye Whisky. We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guar- antee Satisfaction. All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we re- ceive them. Send in a trial order. faxelting & Perkins Drug Go, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. RECOMMENDED BY EMINENT PHYSICIANS: -OR SALE West, April 9, 1888, 78 Congress St., .- Detroit, Mich., Specialty Dept. Ph. Best Brewing Co., GENTLEMEN—I duly received the case of your ‘‘Best”’ Tonic and have since had a great many in this institution. I must say that the beneficial effects on weak and debilitated patients have been most satisfactory, espec- | ially to those in a stage of recovery after se- vere sickness. I write this thinking you might like to have my opinion on its merits. I certainly shali prescribe it in future, where the system re- quires building up. either from constitutional weakness or otherwise. Yoars truly, M. GRAY, M. D. Medical Sup’t. Midville, Geo., Feb. 24, 1888. Speciaity Depart. Ph. Be GENTLEMEN —I think the “‘Tonic’’ a splendid medicine for all forms of Dyspepsia and Indi- gestion. It is giving me great satisfactiou. Very respectfully, J. M. JOHNSON, M. D. 2st Brewing Co., Yardiey, Pa., March 3, 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 eee with very satisfactory results. T ave used many of the so-called ‘Malt Ex- tracts,’’ but believe your preparation to be superior. In the aged where the digestive functions are exhausted, and there is a loss of ; _the nerve vita] force, I found its action to be rapid and permanent. ELIAS WILDMAN, M.D. Work-House Hospital, Blackwell's Island, Feb. 10, 1888. | Ph. Best Brewing Co., GENTLEMEN— AS a matter of personal inter- | est, [have used your “Best” Tonic in sev eral cases of impaired nutritition. The results in- dicate that it is an agreeable and doubtless, highly efficacious remedy. lam, Very truly yours, W. FLEMING, M. D. BY ALL DRUGCISTS. Troy, New York, January 26, 1888. i | Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co,, DEAR Strs—Your agent left me a sample of | your liquid extract, Malt, and as I use much {such in my practice,I thought to compare your product with some from another house had on hand; and finding yours superior in the great essential, the palitable nutriant as | well as in tonie stimulant properties, felt anx- j} ious to know about what it can be furnished the dispensing physician. Yours truly, E. JAY Fisk, M. D. East Genessee Street, Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1888. | Specialty Depart. Ph. Best Brewing Co., GENTLEMEN—I have used the “Best” Tonic with most gratifying results in my case of | dyspepsia. My case was a bad one, 1 had no | appetite; headache in the morning; sour stom- ach; looking as though I had consumption, and after taking this tonic I never felt better in my life. I think it will cure a bad case of dyspepsia. You may recommend it for that case. Vo. 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- ele. I will not hesitate to recommend it in every case of debility where a Tonic of that kind is indicated. rt i. H. BELL, M. D. New Orleans, La., April 6, 1888. Specialty Depart. Ph. Brewing Co., GENTLEMEN—Having tried your Tonic toa great extent amongst my practice, | I will state in its behalf that I have had the best results with nursing mothers who were deficient in milk, increasing its fluids and se creting a more nourishing food for the infant, also increasing the appetite and in every way satisfactory for such cases. Very respectfully, . BORNIO, M D. “Rest” For Sale By HAZELTINE & PERK Grand Rapids, WS WRG fo. Mich. The Michigan Tradesman BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts of Last Resort. FRAUDULENT CONVEY ANCE—HOMESTEAD. A conveyance by a debtor for either a good or a valuable consideration of land to which he is entitled as a homestead is not fraudulent as to creditors, according to the decision of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, in the case of Richart vs. Utter- bach et al. MARRIED WOMAN—DEBT—NECESSARIES. According to the decision of the Su- perior Court of Kentucky, in the case of The Bell-Coggeshall Company vs. Beadle, the fact that necessaries have been sold to a married woman, that credit has been given to her and that she has signed a written agreement to pay for them, will not autherize the court to render a _ per- sonal judgement against her, but all that ean be done in such a case is to subject her property to the payment of the debt. PARTNERSHIP—-ASSIGNMENT—- CREDITORS. Where a partnership and each copart- ner therein were insolvent, and one part- ner transfered his interest therein to the other upon his agreement to pay the debts of the partnership and the assignor’s personal debts and give him $1,000 be- sides, and thereafter the assignee in his turn made an assignment for the benefit of ereditors to a third party, preferring his individual debts, the General Term of the New York Supreme Court for the Third Department held that the transfer and the assignment were both fraudulent as to creditors. CORPORA TION—CONTRACT—ES- TOPPEL. A corporation chartered by the state of Maryland for the manufacture and sale of canned goods had an arrangement with its members whereby they were to can their goods and pack them and hold them subject to the disposal of the cor- poration, which appears to have acted as agreed upon for all its members in mak- ing sale of their commodities. In Janu- ary, 1888, a contract was entered into between the corporation and a Pennsyl- vania firm for the sale of all the canned goods then used by the Association un- sold at that time. A portion of these goods was held by certain residents of Pennsylvania who were members of the eorporation, and they defended an action of replevin for the goods held by them on the ground that the title of the plain- tiffs derived from the Maryland corpora- tion was defective, for the reason that that company was a foreign corporation doing business in Pennsylvania without having eomplied with the laws relating to foreign corporations. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled, Kilgore et al. vs. Smith et al., that the defendants were estopped from setting up any such defence and that the corporation in ques- FOREIGN tion was not ‘‘doing business’? in the State within the meaning of the act of Assembly. The court said: It has never been held that a citizen of Pennsylvania may not be a member of or a stockholder in a corporation of another state, or that a contract between such member and his corporation ultra vires because the latter had not e¢omplied with the provi- sions of the act of ASsembly. 9 Displaying Hardware. An English hardware dealer plays some of his goods: Cutlery should be kept in a glass ease, which should be fixed in a prominent po- sition, as nothing looks more attractive than a well arranged display of eutlery. For table cutlery, where the same num- bers are adhered toin ordering from time to time, a series of wood boxes. placed upright. with the top end open and nar- row side facing, large enough to take a set of each table and dessert, answer well, and when faced with glazed green paper, and a knife of each size fixed on the front, they present a neat appeayance, The lower shelf may be made just wide enough to take pockets of pocket knives, and as most firms now send them out in cardboard boxes, these may be arrang- ed in the same way. with a pattern ofthe contents tied outside each packet. If space will admit. a row of may also be shown, either with packets placed upon a slightly slanting shelf, with a bead along the front to prevent them slipping. or a copper wire stretched across to keep the packets upright. Screws for retailing in less than packages should be kept in a drawer or nest of shallow drawers, say 1! feet deep. divided into compartments. to hold a gross of each of the most useful sizes. For the smaller sizes open tin houses. to slip into the divisions, will be found handy. they may lifted out serving, is thus dis- sissors £Yross as be for ——_ ~—> a va Why a Boot Shines. Did it ever occur to you.”’ ehemist, ‘‘what a remarkably unique process the blackening of abootis? You see we smear the boot with a preparation of bone-black. which entirely devoid of lustre, and then, by a friction of a dry brush, it shinelikethesun. There is make is not another process like this anywhere in the arts, so far as I know, and 1 never read anywhere any scientific explanation of the process. Ihave a theory of my own, however, which I will give you for what it is worth. “The key to the mystery lies in the fact that a diamond is nothing but crys- tallized carbon. The blacking is little more than carbon paste. and the friction of a brush, being one of the most efficient methods of generating electricity, has the effect of crystallizing the carbon of the blacking. As soon as this done the boot is covered with millions of in- finitely smal] diamonds, and, of course, begins to shine as a mass of diamonds would. --Of course this is not a perfect explan- ation of the phenomenon. What part is the other ingredients of the blacking play, especially why it is that the black- ing must be moisténed, I cannot tell: per- haps some one else can. But lam pretty sure that the bootblacks are engaged all day in turning blackings into diamonds.’’ oe > <> Buy flour manufactured by eent Roller Mills. Every sack Voigt Milling Co. the Cres- warranted. said 2] LEMON, HOOPS & PETERS, Wholesale Grocers AND IMPORTERS. GRAND RAPIDS, - £4xMICH. KINGS Our “PF. 4&4 B&B.” brand am SO1,1) Fil... Cans take the Nothing sold in Michigan that equals them. Send in your orders ‘Putnam & Brooks. SWIFT'S Choice Chicago Dressed Beet -AND MUTTON-=- Can be found at all times in full supply and at popular prices at the branch houses in all the larg- ger cities and is retailed by all first-class butchers. The trade ofall marketmen and meat dealers is solicited. Our Wholesale Branch House, L. F. Swift & Co., located at Grand Rapids, always has on hand a full supply of our Beef, Muttonand Provisions,and the public may rest assured that in purchasing our meats from dealers they will alwaysreceive the best. Swift and Company, Union Stock Yards, CHICAGO. CURTISS & CoO., Successors to CURTISS & DUNTON. WHOLESALE Paper Warehouse, Houseman Building, Cor. Pearl & Ottawa Sts., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. MILL SUPPLIES Guaranteed the Best! Leather Belting Rubber Belting Mill Hose Raw Hide Lace Packings of all kinds Circular & Band Saws Saw Setts and Files Emery Wheels Emery Wheel Dressers Babbitt Metals Shingle Bands Lath Yarn Hide Rope Hay Rope Tube Cord Fodder Twine Asbestos Goods, Pipe Covering Grease and Oil Cups, Greases of all kinds. Lard, Machin- ery, Cylinder and Rub- bing Oils, Oil Tanks. Belts made Endless and Repair- ing done in the best manner. SAMUEL LYON Cor, Waterloo and Lovis Sts., GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. DO YOU HANDLE IT? ENE SRM FBS thins > f Ss MEDICATED MOO L HOG CHOLERA.—Cause, Cure and Prevention. Cir- culars & Testimonials Free. For sale by Druggists, Gro- cers, etc. Gives Universal Satisfaction for Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, Colts, Calves, Pigs, Lambs. Has the finest line of illustrated advertising and most attractive Lithograph | Label. List price reduced August 1, 1888 A 75 cent. cash guarantee on every box you sell, 1,000 illus- trated circulars in each case. ubber stamp and self-inking pad free with your first order through jobber. Special directions for building upa large trade with every shipment. Our new Circu- lar, ‘‘Hog Cholera—Cause, Cure and Pre- ventive,” is attracting universal attention. Contains the most scientific and practical facts in regard to this terrible disease, and only known positively successful treatment. Gives valua- ble information in regard to swine-raising for large profit. See ether circulars for all kinds of stock. The facts contained in these cireulars are worth many dollars to every enter- prising farmer or stockman. Dealers! We have withdrawn our salesmen and solicit a continu- ance of your trade through prominent jobbers. Send to them for their special circular“TO THE TRADE,” for full information in regard to rub- ber stamp—free—and also our GRAND CASH PRIZES. See circulars for testimonials of reli- able dealers from all parts of the country. This trade is about equally divided between drug- gists, general dealers and grocers. A good trade for one insures a satisfactory trade for the other. Order at once, save freight and commence turn- ing your money every thirty or sixty days, at 71 per cent. profit. SOLE MANUF THE GERMAN GdMOoOow ACTURERS: The German Medicine Comp’y Minneapolis, Minn. For sale in Grand Rapids, Mich., by Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. and Hawkins & Perry, whole- sale grocers. wos SAVE - Can | vou MONKY: By trading with the new house of CUMMINGS & Ya q? Because we represent the manu- facturers and importers direct— and SAVE you a Jobber’s Profit. An inspection is all we ask. Write TMOOUD r v OLNVT “AU ) r , A Vaion UNV SNU “UUV MSS V'T : ~ for prices and catalogues. Call oman when in the city and see a com- =* plete line of samples of Crockery, — Glassware. Fancy Goods, etc., at SS lower prices than you have ever “mg bought before. ws Wholesale ( fommission Commings & Yale," to. 19 SOUTH TONIA ST a D0 YOU WANT A SHOWCASE f ( SPECIAL OFFE R-This style or oval case; best quality; all glass, heavy double thick; panel doors; full length mirrors and spring hinges; ‘solid cherry or walnut frame; extra heavy base; silvetta trimmings; 6 feet long, 28 inches wide, 15 inches high. Price, $11, net cash. Boxing and cartage free. DD. BD COoOeE. 21 SCRIBNER STREET, Grand Rapids, - Michigan. CASH SALE CHECKS. Encourage your trade to pay cash instead of running book accounts by using Cash Sale Checks. For saleat50 cents per 100 by E. A. STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids. } PLACE to secure a thorough and useful education is at the GRAND RaAPips (Mich.) Bust NESS COLLEGE. Write for Col- lege Journal. Address, C. G. SWENSBERG M. GLARK & SON, ae — TEA’) ) nOUSE MICHIGAN JENNINGS’ “CELEBRATED” Flavoring Extracts. Are put up in all sizes, from 1 oz. to 1 gal, bottles. 1872 Sixteen Years on the Market. 1888 SOLD BY ALL JOBBERS. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY Jennings & Smith, 38 and 40 Louis St., Grand Rapids, Mich. WHEN ORDERING Ask For ‘JENNINGS’ EXTRACTS’ We are receiving direct from the CHESTNUT growing districts in Ohio large quantities of Nuts, which we offer to the trade prices. Send in your orders. Wholesale Grocers, SOLE OWNERS OF Thompson’s Mills Gd. Spices Chop Japan Yea 59 Jefferson Ave., Detroit ; some sly finished in colors re d, Detroit Soap Co., DETROIT, MICH. Manufacturers of the following well-known brands of SUAPS QUEEN ANNE, MOTTLED GERMAN, MICHIGAN, ROYAL BAR, TRUE BLUE, SUPERIOR, CZAR, MASCOTTE, MONDAY, PHOENIX, WABASH, CAMEO, AND OTHERS, For quotations address Salesman for Western Michigan, W. G. HAWKINS, cock soxi73, = | GRAND RAPIDS IF YOU NEED ANY, ee neon CASES Heyman & Son, 63-65 Canal St. H Leona & Suns 134 to 140 Fulton Street. Grand Rapids, Mich. % No 2 Incandescent Lamp. " A Marvelous Light! takes the lead over.all others. quarts—will burn 8 hours. 300-candle power! It Fount holds 3 EACH 15 in. tin shade. ..$38.90 20 a oo 2 with 26 in. white lined reflector.. 7.50 Also a great variety of Roe hester. Lamps in all grades Complete, as shown, with WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR = RNS, ETC. s a LANTI The following oil cans are doz. in a crate. No charge for crates. packed PER DOZ. . -¥12.00 . 14.40 19,20 9.60 . : _ . . 12.00 “The Adams” Steel Plate Vil Can is the same construction as the Pinafore. only made of steel insterd of tin and warranted not to rust, hand- blue and black. ‘The Adams” 3 gal. steel oil “all o . 815.00 > ' ni 2.4. 100 The Cheapest Wood Oil Cans in the market. % Pinafore, 3 gal. wood jacket. as ee i 7 3 a tin cans.. 1s The “IMPERV IOUS” oil ind gasoline i cans. War- ranted not il le I NS Oil Can gal. Impervic rvVIOUS O1 per doz : 10 gal. Imperviou per doz IMPERVIOUS THE 0 = mn am vw ‘Beg, ny ma @ dS Pred, am, : va Toe few ee Bam: tad cede L [