% € “The Michigan Tradesman, ——— VOL. 1. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1884. - NO. 38. Bill Mason’s Bride. BRET HARTE. Half an hour till train time, sir, An’ a fearful dark time too; Take a look at the switch-lights, Fetch in a stick when you’re through. “Ontime?’’ Well, yes, I guess so— Left the last station all right— She’ll come round the curve a-flyin’; Bill Mason comes up to-night. You know Bill? No! He’s engineer; Been on the road all his life,— T’ll never forget the morning He married his chunk of a wife. °T was the summer the mill hands struck,— Just off work, every one; They kicked a arow in the village, And killed old Donovan’s son. Bill had n’t been married more’n an hour, Up comes the message from Kress, Orderin’ Bill to go up there And bring down the night express. He left his gal in a hurry, And went up on number one, Thinking of nothing but Mary And the train he had to run. And Mary sat down by the window To wait for the night express, And, sir, if she had n’t ’a’ done 80, She’d been a widow, I guess. For it must ’a’ been nigh midnight When the mill-hands left the Ridge,— They come down, the drunken devils! Tore up a rail from the bridge. But Mary heard ’em a-workin’, And guessed there was something wrong, And in less than fifteen minutes, Bill’s train it would be along. She could a@’t come here to tell us, A mile,—it would n’t a done,— So she just grabbed up a lantern And made for the bridge alone. Then down came the night express, sir,— And Bill was makin’ her climb! But Mary held the lantern A-swinging it all the time. Well, by Jovo! Bill saw the signal, And he stopped the night express, And he found his Mary cryin’, On the track, in her weddin’ dress,— Cryin’ and laughin’ for joy, sir, An’ holdin’ on to the light,— Hello! here’s the train,—good bye, sir: Bill Mason’s on time to-night. OUR TREASURE. BY ELLA WHEELER. Mollie had been with us a month, when my wife pronounced her a treasure. I breathed a deep, soul-stirring sigh. “T could weep—positively weep,” I said, “and I think tears at this juncture of our domestic life would not be unmanly.” “Are you making sport of me?” queried Evelyn, my wife, sternly. “No, far be it from my thoughts to in- trude any levity upon an occasion of this kind,” I responded gravely, “after the heart- rending, blood-curdling, hair-bleaching and purse-reducing experiences which we have undergone since the day we flew from the ills of boarding-house life to those we knew not of; or in other words, when we jumped from the frying-pan into the fire—to usea classic quotation—and began to study the momentous girl question of the day, with at least fourteen belles-of-the-kitchen as speci- mens, I will leave it to any unprejudiced person to say, if it is not an occasion for tears, sweet tears, when I hear my wife an- nounce that our fifteenth acquisition isa treasure.” “That sentence was as long as “The list of our numerous hired girls’ de- ficiencies,”” I ventured, as my wife hesitated for a comparison, “for, as the mythological, historical long lane that has no turn, which I began to think we had found, my dear;a lane in which we were driven straight ahead, over chasms and bowlders, by an army of merciless and unrelenting comes- ties, each armed with some distinctive, and destructive, and purely individual vice.” “Vice, John!” repeated my wife, who is very choice in her selection of words; “I think you mean faults, dear, not vices. That is not a nice word to apply toa wo- man! and you must remember that all those girls, dreadful as they proved to be, were women like myself.” “Were they?” I cried, “were they indeed, Evelyn?” and I laughed a wild, and I think a mocking laugh, as I continued: “I have been laboring under the impression that they were ‘neither men nor women, neither beast nor human, but were ghouls.’ If you announce them to be women like yourself, Evelyn, I must believe 1 was mistaken, either in my former impression of them, or my present impression of you.” “John!” ejaculated Evelyn, ‘I do believe you are just a littte insane—a monomaniac as it were—on this subject of servant girls. What does make you go on so?” “Because they went on so, my dear. I began to think they were the living repre- sentation of Tennyson’s brook. Men might live and men might die, but they went on forever. A monomaniac, indeed! Had I not been endowed by nature with a remark- able—a very remarkable brain, Evelyn— you would now have a raving maniac ora driveling idiot for a husband, as a conse- quence of seven months’ experience in house- keeping.”’ I thought I heard my wife mutter some- thing about the latter being very near the case now, but 1 ignored it and proceeded. “Just cast your mind’s eye backward, Evelyn, and on the wings of—no, on mem- ory’s horse-car would be a more fitting sim- ile—let us go and review the past, the sad, sad past.” “Oh, what is the use of wading through heaps of dead ashes, or raking up old trou- bles?” interposed Evelyn. ‘“They were bad enough when we had to live through them. Now they are past, and let them lie. That is my theory of life; and let us rejoice in our brighter present.” “But it will make our present shine with a greater glory, to recall that dark ané stormy past, mine Evelyn. It will make our Mollie seem even a rarer treasure, to place her side by side with those grim and ghast- ly creatures who brought us such hours of misery. Dost remember Hannah?” “J dost,” responded Evelyn, falling into my vein, as she always did sooner or later, thus proving true the poet’s assertion, that “as the husband, so the wife is.” “J dost, but she didn’t. She scorned such menial duties, and sought for her true sphere between the tattered covers of dime novels, while the dish-water grew cold with despair, waiting to be used.” “But finally she ‘got up and dusted’ be- cause you complained, did she not?” “Oh yes, before breakfast on Monday.” “And it was the mild and gentle Anna who came next, I believe.” “Yes, the dove-eyed gazelle whom we both felt confident would suit us at sight, and whose chief fault seemed to be a dreamy absent-mindedness. An absent-mindedness which caused her to put the tea-cups on for breakfast, and to place the creamer and tea urn invariably before the baby’s plate, and which rendered it necessary for her to be told three times each day, where each re- spective member of the family sat.” “T have given a great deal of study to that girl’s absent-mindedness, Evelyn. It was acurious case. You remember the day she called us to dinner, and when we ‘asked her where the meats and vegetables were, she said she had forgotten to prepare them? I always thought her mind was sort of reach- ing out after the unattainable, as it were.” “Yes, I thought so, too, when I found her reaching up to the clothes-line for my best silk hose after I had discharged her.” “Well, you couldn’t blame her for want- ing to lay a stock-in’ for a rainy day, my dear.’’ “Fie o-pun you, John! I believe you have softening of the brain, and hardening of the heart. How was it that our next ad- vertisement read?” “Wanted, a girl to do general housework ; one who brings her mind with her preferred ; inability to set the table will be considered sufficient cause for discharge. Noextra pay on account of dime-novel education.” “And that brought us Belle. She was so well supplied with a mind of her own that she never minded me. She spanked the baby before she had been in the house twen- ty-four hours, because he tracked her clean floor, and she left before another twenty- four had elasped because I objected to her taking her rocking-chair and sewing out on the front veranda inthe afternoon. She said if she was not good enough to sit on the front veranda, she was not good enough to work in my kitchen, and away she went.” : “Like the cat in the nursery rhyme. Do you remember? I think that one of the most absurdly fascinating little rhymes ever sung to a delighted baby: ‘The old cat sat in the fodder-stack, A making of a new night-cap; She ripped, she tore, she vowed, she swore, She swore she wouldn't sit there any more, And away she went. Well, who camenext? Was it the queen of the Carnival of Ven- ice?” “She who held nightly receptions in the kitchen? She who entertained her sisters and her cousins and her aunts, her uncles and her brothers and her beaux, until the wee’ sma’ hours? It was she; and when I objected—tremblingly and hesitatingly ob- jected to so much loud hilarity—to so late an hour every night, she too folded her tent like the Arab and stole away.” “And next?” “Nancy came next. You remember Nancy; her offence was Shakspearean; it smelled to heaven! Ugh! wasn’t she a filthy creature?” “Remember her? I should say I did, Evelyn. You may break, you may shatter the rose if you will, but the scent of that servant girl lingers there still. But I believe she was more tractable than her predeces- sors. She listened to your suggestions, and endeavored to profit by them.” “Tractable? Yes, she made tracks very soon I believe, after I had suggested to her the propriety of being a little neater in her dress, andj{discovered her sailing forth to church the next evening, decked in my India shawl and best bonnet.” “Evelyn, I fear you were unreasonable with that girl. You nipped her early efforts atreform inthe bud. You crushed her young ambition. She had listened grate- fully to your suggestions about her dress, and she strove earnestly to please you. A less thoughtfulfor ambitious girl might have selected your second best bonnet and your common street jacket to wear. Not so Nancy. Anxious to prove to you her ear- nest effort at reform, she made a choice of the best garments your wardrobe afforded, and yet you were dissatisfied with her. I do not wonder she went away.” “Nor I, John. I never wondered a min- ute over that girl’s departure. It seemed to me the most natural occurrence in the world.”’ “Dinner is served.” It was a low sweet voice that made the announcement, and a bright, handsome, youthful face beamed upon us for a moment at the doorway, and then vanished. It was the voice and face of Mollie, our treasure. We went out to the dinning-room to find an exquisitely arranged table, every detail perfect, and a dinner which would have done credit to a French cook. “Now, isn’t this delightful?” exclaimed Evelyn, “and Mollie has done it all her- self; I never went into the kitchen once to- day. She saysifI give her an idea of the style of dinner we want, it is all she re- quires.” “And she is on time, too,” I said, looking at my watch. “That is a startling virtue in itself.” : “T tell you she isa treasure, John; and she is so young, too; not over twenty, I think.” “But I am afraid she will soon have a host of followers. She is almost too pretty. It must be thata ghastly fault lurks some- where about her. If she does not disclose one soon, I shall fear death. is about to clutch me, and this is the hour of respite granted me before I die. No doubt the trou- ble will come through her followers.” “Oh, no! that is all arranged now. She is engaged to a young fellow about her own age; the grocer’s clerk, I believe-he is. He comes here twice each week in the evening, and stays till ten o’clock. That is all the company she has, save her sister and an aunt who have called twice since she came.” “Well, if she is engaged, then she’ll be getting married and leaving us to the mer- cies of the cold and cruel world again.” “Oh, no, not for two or three years at least, she says. She talked to me very frankly and sweetly about it; told me this young man was her lover, and the only fol- lower she had. I do not like his face, he is not her equal, Iam sure. He seems like a common sort of fellow, but she is evidently very fond of him, and I am sure I would far rather she should see one lover twice a week than have a variety coming here at all times.” As the days wore on, our treasure devel- oped new and admirable qualities; she won the baby’s heart completely, so that he was perfectly content to be with her for hours at a time. © She was a model of neatness, and so pretty and bright inher fresh, quaint little cap, that all our visitors immediately ex- pressed admiration for our domestic. Then she was always smiling, and her work seem- ed to be a real enjoyment to her. Inever saw her look cross or irritable, no matter how tired she was, and she never complained when a houseful of company dropped in up- onus as was frequently the case, and ac- cepted almost with reluctance, and always with profuse thanks, such extra fees as I gave her at these times. ‘What a blessing she is!’ Evelyn said to me over and over. “I am growing absolu- tely fond of her.” “So am I ,’ I began, but Evelyn paralyzed me with a look. “J will monopolize that part of the house- hold affairs, if you please.” she said. “But I can’t help a growing feeling of fondness for a person who manages a fur- nace as she does,” I pleaded. ‘You know how we have alternately frozen and broiled until Mollie came. Now the temperature is just right always—and I am not called be- low adozen times each day to explain or ex- plore the furnace. And she saves fuel, too; and so I can forgive her if she let the gro- cer’s bill assume rather formidable dimen- sions of late.” “But, John, you must remember how much company we have been having; and you always want the best of everything, you know. So don’t blame Mollie if the gro- cer’s bill ts rather large.” “Oh, I don’t blame Mollie for anything; I don’t believe I would find fault with her for anything less than murdering the baby, she is such a treasure.” “Am I to understand from that assertion that you would smile upon her if she put me out of the way? I presume you would, sir. but I can assure you she is too fond of her great lout of a lover, to give you one thought if L were dead a dozen times. Queer that such anice girl should love such a specimen as he is.” ‘He possesses one characteristic of a gen- tleman, he smokes good cigars. The kitchen wasredolent with the smoke of first-class havanas last evening after he went away.” “T am glad to hear that,’’ laughed Evelyn. “For that is an indication of extravagance, and if heis extravagant, he cannot very soon be in a position to take Mollie away from us. She saysshe will neyer marry him until they have together saved enough to procure a little home.” One night after Mollie had been with us three months, she saved the house from be- ing broken into by burglars. Our house- dog, who always barked on the slightest provocation, made so unusual a protest at sounds which Evelyn and I slept through all unconsciously, that Mollie arose and in- spected the mansion, and awakened mea few minutes later, her brown eyes wide with fear. “J saw a man drop from the slanting roof,” she said, ‘and take to his heels. I know some one was trying to enter the house.” “And but for your watchfulness and your nerve, he would have succeeded no doub " I said. And then, after the fashion of brave men, when the burglar has gone, I arose and made a thorough investigation of the house. Turned on all the gas jets and slammed all the doors as if to say, “Who’s afraid?—not I.” During the next week I kept a brace of pistols in my room, but slept soundly through all the noises of the night. IfI happened to hear the dog bark I turned over with a contented consciousness that Mollie would hear and investigate. And like the man who crept downstairs behind the shel- ter of his wife’s skirts at a similar juncture, I thought, “It would be a very mean _ burg- lar who would harm a woman, anyhow.” Six weeks later Mollie aroused us early in the morning with the startling announce- ment that the house had been robbed. All the solid silver was gone from the dining- room and the window was wide open. I sprang to my feet and made a clutch for my clothing, which hung over achair. Yes, my purse, which I had left in one pocket, containing $25, was gone. Just then Evelyn moaned: ‘Oh,my rings and brooch are gone! I left them on the dresser and they are not here!’ “Oh, Evelyn!’ I cried, “how foolish and careless you were to leave your jewelry there.” “Yes, dear,’ Evelyn answered meekly, “F ought to have put it with your watch un- der the pillow,” and as she spoke she re- moved both pillows and disclosed the fact that my watch, too, was missing. “Tt would have been easier for the burg- lars if we had only put everything they wanted in one place, you know,” Evelyn ad- ded, maliciously, ‘‘and I am so glad you had your pistols handy, John, dear.” Mollie in the meantime had disappeared— possibly at the juncture when I made a wild rush for my clothing—and she now reap- peared with tear-wet eyes. ‘‘My room was entered, too,” she said, “and $2 of my money taken, and my gold ring.” “Never mind, P11 make it all right with you,” I said, “but how was it that you slept through it all, Mollie?’ “T don’t know—only it had been washing- day and I was very tired.” “And did you hear the dog at all?” “No; I don’t believe he barked. I can’t understand it. Perhaps they had drugged him during the day or something.”’ Of course Isent forthe police, and of course they took an inventory of the rooms and the missing articles, and of course they looked wise and knowing, and of course that was the last of it. Ipaid Mollie her $2 and her lover, Jim, supplied another ring short- ly, and the domestic machinery went on as before. “John,” said Evelyn one day to me, “‘you must stop smoking so much, or you'll be paralyzed one of these days. It is perfectly awtul the amount of cigars that you con- sume.” “T don’t smoke any more than I used to,” I said, “I have kept just about so-so fora good many years.” “Why, John, you deceive yourself! You have no idea how the habit is gaining upon you. I know by the quantity of cigars that are brought to the house. Just look over your last two or three months’ accounts and see for yourself.” “Well, I will,” I said, and I brought out my books. Evelyn looked over my shoul- der. “Cigars, 14 ult. ; cigars, 20; cigars, cigars 29,” ete. “You see,” she said, ‘‘and every time it was a bow of cigars.” “Well, where are they now?” blankly. “Echo answers, ‘Where?’ ” replied Eve- lyn. “You have smoked them up, John. You did not realize how the habit was gain- ing upon you, but I did when I saw _ those boxes come into the house day after day and as speedily become empty.” “Maybe I get up in the night and smoke,” I said, “but surely, Evelyn, dear, I am not conscious of smoking any oftener than I did a year ago.” “Well, they vanish, and I know I don’t smoke ’em, and there are the figures before you,” was Evelyn’s conclusive rejoinder. “Talk about grocery bills, Just you say a word again, if you dare, about expenses.” “J won’t mention it, l assure you,” 1 an- swered meekly. “If you will drop the ob- noxious subject, I will. Shake!” and I held out my hand. “No, Vllnot make any such compact,” laughed Evelyn, drawing her hand away. “Tl] talk about it until I see some signs of 255 I asked reform on your part.” “Tam afraid, dear, the fire of my resolves will all end in smoke.” 1 paid all my bills by checks on the bank: where I deposited my money. My wife frequently sent Mollie to make household purchases, providing her witha check out of which the butcher or baker took payment, returning the change. One night my wife and I were enjoying a pleasant tete-a-tete in our neat and orderly home, after an elegantly-served dinner, when aman desired to see me at the door, on business. I was Mr. Smith, our baker. “J called tosee you about this little check,” he said. “The bank refused to take it, saying it was not your signature.” I took the check, and looked at it. The amount was five dollars, made payable to bearer, and my name in full signed. But it was not my penmanship, though an excel- lent forgery. ‘Who gave you this check?” I asked. “Why your girl, Mollie. You know she always brings checks in payment for what she gets, and I give her the change. Yes- terday she brought this and gota can of oysters. I told her the signature was not natural, but she said you seratched it off in a great hurry, just as you were going out. The bank, however, desires your word for its authenticity before cashing it.” Evelyn had come into the hall during the conversation, and we looked at each other in dumb amazement. Was Mollie, our trea- sure a forger? “Call Mollie, Evelyn,” I said. We all went into the library to await her coming. She came—pretty, neat, smiling, with her bright honest eyes, a picture of youth, sweet- ness and virtue. “Mollie, did you present this check to Mr. Smith yesterday, and tell him I wrote my name in a great hurry, and get the money upon it?” Mollie looked from one to the other, grew, a shade paler, and then said calmly, ‘‘Yes, I did.” “Did you write my name to that check, Mollie?” “Yes, I did.” “Where did you get the check?’, “T took it from your bank-book when I cleaned up the library one day.” “Did you ever do such a thing before?”’ Mollie hesitated. “Speak! Remember this is a state’s pris- on crime, and your only salvation lies in confession.” ‘Yes, I have written your name to two checks.” “Mr. Smith,” I said, “I will settle this matter with you another time.” Mr. Smith took his departure. “Mollie,” said Evelyn, ‘‘come with me. I want to examine your trunk. If you will forge, you will steal.” Mollie followed my wife without a word, and unlocked her trunk. Nothing short of Noah’s ark ever contained the variety of articles that were found in that trunk. Sheets, pillow-cases, stockings, ribbons, laces, handkerchiefs, napkins, tea, coffee, and sugar were a few of the items. “How long have you been stealing from me, Mollie?” asked Evelyn. “Ever since I first came here.” “What did you take at first? tell me everything, Mollie.” Mollie was silent and sullen. “Mollie,” I said, ‘unless you are frank and full in your confessions it will go hard with you. If you make a clean breast of it we may forgive you, and grant youa new trial.” Mollie was silent. “Did you begin with small packages of tea and sugar?” asked Evelyn gently. “Yes, m’am.”’ “And you increased them until, of late, you have taken five, or six, or seven, or eight pounds each month?” “Yes, m’am, I think I took ten pounds of sugar the last month.” “What did you do with it?” “T gave it to my aunt and my sister.” I groaned aloud. “No wonder I thought the grocer’s bill growing, Evelyn. If the author of John Halifax, Gentleman, had ga domestic like Mollie, whose relatives were fond of green tea, she must have been the inspiration of the poem ‘Green Things Grow- ing.” ” And then an inspiration seemed to strike me. “Mollie, didfyou take any cigars?” 1 queried in a tender, insinuating voice. “Yes, sir.” “Lots of cigars, Mollie, to give to your beau Jim? Did you keep him well sup- You must plied?” “Yes, sir.” “Aha! Evelyn!’ I cried. “Truth crused to earth will rise again. Virtue re- ceives its reward at last. Evelyn, beg my pardon.” “John, how can you jest at such a time?’ almost sobbed Evelyn, “I feel perfectly heart-broken. Mollie, you can pack and go, we will not arrest you—but leave the house at once.” ' “Evelyn, that is unkind,’ I said. “We must show this girl mercy. Let us give her one more trial.” ‘Very well, Mollie, youcan stayif my husband desires it. We will hush this mat- ter up, and never speak of it, but remember if one cent’s worth of anything is missing from the house you will be held responsible for it and discharged in disgrace. But we will give you one more opportunity to re- deem your reputation.” “Thank you,” answered Mollie, meekly. But the next morning she came to us to say that she had decided not to remain. “Othello’s occupation’s gone,” said Eve- lyn. “She won’t stay if she can’t steal. And to think how we loved and trusted that girl!’ After Mollie had been in her room some time, Evelyn suddenly made her appearance there also. - “T have concluded that I will take a part- ing glance at the contents of your trunk be- fore you go,” she said. Mollie resisted stoutly, but Evelyn, with the quiet force of a strong calm nature, pro- ceeded with her investigations. And what do you think she found, down at the bottom of everything? Why, all our silver forks, which we had supposed taken by the burglars. This was the last straw. Evelyn insisted upon plae- ing her in the custody of the police at onee, and letting the law take its course. She was guilty of two crimes—forgery and complicity in housebreaking. But when it came to the final issue, Eve- lyn had not the heart to proceed. All Mol- lie’s priceless virtues arose before us both, and plead for her. We concluded to let her go with her blasted reputation as her only punishment. Just before she took her departure I said to her: “Mollie, as a last parting confidence be- tween two souls with but a single thought, tell me how you managed to keep the dog quiet the night you admitted the burglars.’ “I shut him in my room,” she replied, and then the door closed upon ‘our treas- ure” forever. ———_—<>_ +4 Steer Out of the Old Ruts. From the American Storekeeper. To our thinking, there is no business er- ror more needful of “‘airing’’ than that of the old-time method of storekeeping, as carried on by teo many of our merchant friends at the present time. If it werea matter of politics or religion, we would not so much blame aman for adhering to the teachings of his father; but in this matter of merchan- dising, he must either keep pace with the times or become one of that numerous fami- ly of old fogies, who, being satisfied that their wheels fit in the old-time ruts, are wil- ling to squander the best years of their lives at making a bare living, when, with a little energy and sharp-sightedness, they might stand some show of successfully competing with those wide-awake chaps in the same towns, who are now selling ten dollars to their one. We do not ask of these merchants any- thing that is impossible, or that which can be accomplished only by the gifted few; but instead of sitting around with an air of self- satisfaction, we would have them continually on the alert for any possible improvement in their manner of store-keeping. We would advise them to occasionally change (so far as practicable) the appearance of their stores. Do not be satisfied to see that same brand of soap located in that same spot for the next eighteen months—put it somewhere else, and try another article there for a month. Donot you know that every time you change the arrangement of your stock you invariably give it a thorough dusting, and that it then takes on the appearance of new stock? Another noticeable feature inthe well- kept store is that of putting “price tickets’ on some of the important items. The mere fact of the merchant not being afraid to show his prices in plain figures, is in itself enough to inspire his customers with confi- dence, and even though but a few of the articles are so marked, the customers will naturally understand that the balance of the prices cannot be far from right. CThe outward appearance of a store has a great deal more todo with its patronage than many of the merchants would really believe. As ‘‘the face isthe mirror of ge soul,” so it might be said ‘the window is Me index to the store,’ and he who leaves his windows for the rain to washis generally the one whofsits beside the stove (in summer time) wondering why he was born to have such hard luck. 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The Newaygo Company quote f. 0. b. cars as follow: Wppers; binch. 6065.00 00... o: per M + 00 Uppers, 144,1% and 2inch................ 6 00 Selects; PT imeh 6 ooo occ. so 35 00 Selects, 144,1% and 2 inch........ ...... 38 00 Hine Common, lineh,............. ...... 30 00 Shop, Pineh . 20 00 oa Common, 144, 1% and 2inch. ... 32 00 No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet... 15 00 No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., Nefeol 6 00 No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., COfOOL. 00082 lo. 7 00 No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 15 00 No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet................ 16 00 No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet................ 17 00 No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 15 00 No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., IS feet................. 16 00 No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet................. 17 00 No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 13 00 No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet................ 4 00 No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet................ 5 00 No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 138 00 No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet................ 4 00 No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet................ 5 00 No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 12 00 No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18feet................. 3 00 No. 2 Stocks, Soir 20 £EOb. 3 oo 00 Coarse Common or shipping culls, all widths and lengths......... ........... A and B Strips, 4 or 6in...............4. 35 00 © Strips; 4066 inch: .:.. oo. eee e, 28 00 No. 1 Fencing, all lengths................ 15 00 No. 2 Fencing, 12, 14and 18 feet.......... 12 00 NOs? Henecing, 16 feet... 22... cel. cade. 12 00 Novl Fencing, 4 inch..................... = 00 No. 2 Fencing, 4 inch.......:............. 2 00 Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inoh....... 20 00 Bevel Siding, 6inch, A and B............ 18 00 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C.................... 14 50 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1 Common.. 9 00 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, @lear ..:.... 20 00 Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12, 12 to 16ft...11 00@11 50 $1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft. Dressed Flooring, 6in., A. B............. 86 00 Dressed Flooring, 6in. C................. 29 00 Dressed Flooring, 6in., No. 1,common.. 17 00 Dressed Flooring 6in., No.2 common.... 14 00 Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal. Dressed Flooring, 4in.,A. Band Clear.. 35 00 Dressed Flooring, 4in., C................. 26 00 Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5in., No.1 com’n 16 00 Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5in., No.2 com’n 14 00 Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional. XXX 18 in. Standard Shingles......... 3 50 ON ROIS I. PDI ec eo : a OR IOAN sig oe 0.2 0r6in.C. B18in. Shingles......... 3 OD No: 20rain. ©. Bo1G Ins. oc, 1 %5 ath oe kc ce oe a. 2 00 COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS. A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows: Ohio White Lime, per bbl............. 110 Ohio White Lime, car lots............. 95 Louisville Cement, ye BD acca. 1 40 Akron Cement per bbl................ 1 40 Buffalo Cement, per bbl.............. 1 40 COP LOGE ses ee ss wpe ea decks 1 15@1 20 Plastering hair, per bu................ 35@ 38 Stucco, per bbl.................... ee 1% Land plaster, per ton.. < 3 5 Land plaster, car lots. . ais 3 00 fire brick, per M................0..005 ‘$27 @ $35 Fire clay, per Dbl............ 0c cece ee 3 00 Anthracite, egg and pone. bans coc eas $6 50@6 75 Anthracite, stove and nut............ 6 es = hee step ease es Ch seneee 60 | LATEST aN Uuotations JOHN CAULFIELD WHOLESALE GROCER, —AND JOBBER IN— Teas, Tohaccos, Spices Etc, 89, 87 and 89 Canal Street FACTORY AGENT For the following well-known brands of To- baecos and Cigars: FINE CUT. OUNGHIN oo 8. oe 74 Olid: Conoress: |... Sk. os 64 Good Euck: 0... . 6... oo ce 55 Good and Sweet... .. <2... co ccc ek ene 45 Americal: Queen: . . 2... 5. oo ee ee cee ce 38 Blaze Away. 22... 000.2... . 1.2. ee 35 fare Waiter 6.3... oc. oc. 30 Governor, 2 02: foil... 2302602 eos. 60 In half barrels or four pail lots, 2c @ b off above list. ee oe Horse Shoe.. Ss “is McAlIpin’s Green Shield. . Nos ccc a sae ccuees 48 McAlpin’s Sailor’s Solace.. oa. McAlIpine’s Chocolate Creams. . Eu ea oe 48 Red Star, extra quality, same style as Sailor's DOlMER. oo. 48 Big Chunk or J. T. Mahogany Wrapper. -40 Hair Lifter, Mahogany Wrapper......... 37 D. & D. Dark, 14 and 16 oz. ee eee ss 37 Ace High. . sc con Duck, 2x12 ‘and. flat. . Co we Nobby Spun Roll; ..................... 48 Black Spun Roll... 3.2... 2.2... 38 Canada Plug (Virginia Smoking)........ 50 Cresent Plug, Gib dads. 45 In 60 tb quantities 2c per tb off. SMOKIN G. IPGORIOSS 25 oD Roy. ........... ca Dy Wnele Sam... 3... 0... 2. 8 Mom and Jerry... ...... 2.3... ek 24 Good Mnough.:. ..5 2... 5. 23 Mountamm Rose... -. . .<0 eo ec ct cc ee 20 Lumberman’s Long Cut................ 26 Home Comfort. . shee seus eee Green Back, Killickinick. cas ecco cee. 25 Two Nickel, Killickinick 4%............. 25 Two Nickel, Killickinick, ae 2300. .26 Star Durham, Killickinick, Me Voaceeet 25 Rattler, Killickinick, 5 Ae ee 25 Honey Dew, Killiekiniek, oe 25 Posey, Killickinick, 1% 4. PAPER. ccs. cos 25 Canary, Killickinick, Extra Virginia. .... 36 Gold Block, Killiekinick, Wee. 32 Peck’s Sun, Killickinick, sand Ibs..... 18 Golden Flake CabmMeg. 6 6s 0 s S 40 ‘Ekaveler 3 OZ. f0N.. 26.06. ook ee 35 Rail Road Boy, 3 oz. foil................ 37 Nigger Head, Navy Clippings........... 26 Scotten’s Chips, Navy Clippings, paper. .26 Leidersdorfs’ Navy Clippings, cloth bags. 26 Old Rip Fine Virginia Long Cut......... 55 me Kim Chub... <-.. ice coe sce cc. 45 Durham Dione Cut. .....:........-...2, 60 Durham, Blackwell’s: 1¢................ 60 Durham, Blackwell’s, 44................57 Durham, Blackwell’s, 14¢................ 55 Durham, Blackwell’s, tb................51 Seal of North Carolina 1 “6 See 52 Seal of North Carolina ............... 50 Seal of North Carolina 1¢............... 48 Seal of North Carolina th............... 46 Special prices given on large lots. CIGARS. Smoke the Celebrated “‘After Lunch’ Cigar. After Wbuneh.........-...2........ 880 60 @IAEEISSA (26 oe 5 oo 45 00 Clana od 32 00 WEPROH 2 os coe 35 00 @ueen Marys. 2... occ es cece. 25 00 OSODHINGS: oo. ec ene ke 25 00 pituie Hatehets. . 0... a cc kc 30 00 Ole Glories. -.. 22 2/2... 1... 2... 83 00 Twi SIStORS. oe'sc coco d ook bo adn so 2.28 00 Moss Agate... ............ ieee ceca) 18 00 MAGNO. oo sk oo eo ee va 12 50 Commercial -. 2.0.2.6 6. cee 55 00 GLOSS ee 60 00 Wark (E Wail... oo. 2. cece dice cle. 55 00 Golden Spike: .--. 0.50. ce. 55 00 Stormys Boguet...... 2.2.2... 2.2... 65 00 Owl Canta. 2.2.0.0... ee ke 60 00 B. & S, Oanadura. .. o.oo ce 32 00 In addition to the above brands of Tobac- cos and Cigars, I keep in stock an ample supply of “all other well-known brands of Plug and Fine Cut. Our stock in the Tobac- co and Cigar line is one of the largest and best assorted to be found in the city. TEAS. Popo OFAINALY. 9.5.26. oo ee ie 23@30 PM AIUERI oo eb, 32@35 Japan fair to 200d... oo... occ eek 35@37 Japan fine.......... toa . D5 Japan dust......... bewe Younes Evgon. ...:. 2. 6c. ee ck: Qt. .BO@50 Oolong <1. eee, 35@45@55@60 Congo’ PUN. esta ce Mes Coll oe cao oie er 30@35 SYRUPS. @Orm Mawes. 3. @ 31 Cormmet4 Bole ee @ 33 Corn. 10 gallon kegs................... @ 36 Corn,5 gallon kegs.................00. @1 90 Corn, 4% gallon kegs.................. @1 85 Pure Sugar Drips, th... 30@_ 37 Maple Sy rup, 5 gal kegs............... @3 10 Maple Syrub, 10 gal kegs BL ee as @6 00 SUGARS. Cut, Loaé..: oso... 5. eee 737@8 Powdered Standard..... ........ 724@8 Granulated Standard............. % @7-19 Standard Confectioners’ A....... 634 @6 % Standard A............ woe ee ee 6% @63 Extra White C..... Piece cece ace 614 @63g Extra Bright C... 0.0... 602 cece. 6 @6% POUR Ch cd Onl wes a cee whee cn 54%@5K MOUOW © oo ee ccd. cnc e cues +++ OG @51KG We call the especial attention of those de- siring to purchase new stocks to our superior facilities for meeting their wants. Our guar- antee is first-class goods and low prices. Careful attention given mail orders. Spec- ial quotations mailed on general line of gro- ceries when requested. Join Caultiel a? = Drugs & Medicines A Wonderful New Substance. From the Independent Record. Among the most interesting developments which have followed in the wake of the dis- covery of petroleum is the immense trade which has sprung up in ozokerite, or 0z0- cerite, as Webster has it. No fairer sub- stance ever sprung from most unpromising parentage than the snowy, pure, tasteless, opalescent wax which is evolved from the loud smelling, pitchy dregs of the petroleum still. The remarkable properties of ozokerite have won for it a field of utility in which it reighs well nigh supreme. This comely im- pressionable article, with all its smooth soft beauty, defies agents which can destroy the precious metals and eat up the hardest steel as water dissolves sugar. Sulphuric and other potent acids have no more effect on ozokerite than spring water. It is alike im- pervious to acid and to moisture. Its advent seems to have been a special dispensation in this age of electricity. Every overhead electric light cable, or un derground conduit, or slender wire, cunning- ly wrapped with cotton thread; all these owe their fitness for conducting the subtle fluid to the prescence of this wax. And in still more familiar forms let us outline the utility of this substance. Every gushing school girl who sinks her white teeth into chewing gum chews this paraffine wax. Every caramel she eats contains this wax and is wrapped in paper saturated with the same substance. The gloss seen upon hun- dreds of varieties of confectionery is due to the presence of this ingredient of petroleum, used to give the articles a certain consisten- cy, as the laundress uses starch. So thata product taken from the dirtiest, worst-smel ling of tars finds its way to the millionaire’s mansion, an honored servitor. It aids to make possible the electric radiance that floods his rooms; or, inthe form of wax candles, sheds a softer lustre over the scene. It polishes the floor for the feet of his guests and it melts in their mouths in the costliest candies. For the insulation of electric wire, paraf- fine wax has to-day no successful rival, and the growth of the demand for this purpose keeps pace with the marvellous growth of the electric lighting system. _< ____—_ Patents Issued to Michigan Inventors. Emory Barnes, Mt. Pleasant, pump. Louis Blessing, Jackson, fire-escape. Horatio Gale, Albion, horse hay-rake. ’ §. 8. Garringues, Ann Arbor, washing and purifying salt. G. E. and E. R. Hovenden, Grand Rapids, electric fire-alarm. - L. J. Knauss qnd G. W. Hinkle, Mendon, harness-bridle. C. A. Merrill, Grand Rapids, school-desk and seat. H. L. Pratt, Kalamazoo, temporary bind- er. . I. L. Stone, Battle Creek, folding seat for school furniture. Thomas Luther, Cheboygan, shafting and bearing. Brayton Wheeler, Saginaw, clamp for holding well-poles. —_—— 2??? Pennsylvania lights as well as keeps warm a large part of the world. There are in that State 20,000 producing oil wells, yielding 60,000 barrels of oila day. Nearly 38,000,- 000 barrels of oil are stored in tanks in the region of these wells. These tanks cost $8,- 000 each, and over $12,000,000 have been spent during the past three years in building them. Besides 5,000 miles of pipe line in use in the oil regions there are 1,200 miles of trunk pipe line connecting the region with the principal cities. The Standard Oil Co. employs 100,000 men. —_—_—>_2 <<. A company in Connecticut manufactures nearly all the licorice used in this country— 17,000,000 pounds a year. Confectionery and medicine take about 1,500,000 pounds, and the remainder goes into tobacco. The largest blank book ever made was recently turned out by the government printing office in Washington. It contains 10,000 pages. 6 Albert M. Todd, of Nottawa, has patented a process which will extract the crystals t - WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT, Advanced—Alcohol: Paris Green; Oil Tan- "issolined — Cantharides; Cubeb; Oil Anise Oil Cassia; Serpentiue, ACIDS. Acetic, NO: 6:. 0... Aces. Rb 9 @ 10: anaes C.P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 30 @ 3 CATO NG. oo cc Re ko ees 35 GL COU en ere on 55 Muriatic 18 deg..../....5.... 60.00 3@ 5 Nitric 86 GOG: |... 665... css. ces. es ll @ 12 RONG i Sn os bo ev ak ee own 4%@ 15 Sulphuric 66 deg................... 38 @ 4 Tartaric powdered..............-. 48 Benzoic, English............. 8 0z 20 Benzotc, German................+. 2 @ 15 PRMUEG bo a coe ee 1 @ Ili AMMONIA, . Carbonate... .2350 4665.52 5.25; Sh 1 @ 18 Muriate (Powd. 22¢)................ 14 Aqua 16 deg or 8f.................. 6 @ 7% Aqua 18 deg or 4f.................. 7@ 8 BALSAMS. popeies BOSS Aaa aN @ 50 Ue es i ey, 40 BRP os oo tcae cause see bees 8 00 a ee a 50 BARKS. Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)........ 12 Cinchona, yellow................. 18 Mili, SelGCh. 5 sc. 5s oe 5. es 15 Elm, ground, pure................. 13 Elm, powdered, pure.............. 15 Sassafras, of root.......0......004- 10 Wild Cherry, select................ 12 Bayberry powdered............... 20 Hemlock powdered................ 18 UNC O Sy 30 Soap SYrOunG.... .. ...260054655%-.65 12 BERRIES, . Cubeb, prime ‘(Powd $ 90)........ @ 8 smiper = 05... 6 @ 7% Pricwiy ACh... 3... .. 5... 24. .3.- 100 @1 10 EXTRACTS. Licorice (10 and 25 Ib boxes, 25c).. 27 Licorice, powdered, pure......... 37% Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ib doxes). 9 Logwood, Is (25 Ib boxes).......... 12 Lgowood, - d0\ 7... a 13 Logwood, 448 GQ. 2.53 15 Logwood,ass’d do .......... 14 Fluid, Extracts—25 ® cent. off list. FLOWERS. AGNICA. 3066. ase ee. s 10 @ ll Chamomile, Roman............... 25 Chamomile, German.............. 25 GUMS. Aloes, Barbadoes...............05+ H@ % Aloes, Cape (Powd 24¢)............ 18 Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)....... 50 Aovegias. kee 28@ 30 Arabic. extra select............... 60 Arabic, powdered select.......... 60 Arabic, Ist picked................. 50 Arabic,2d picked................6. 40 Arabic,c3d et. boo ee eos eee aes 35 Arabic, sifted sorts................ 30 ‘Assafcentida, eine (Powd 385c)... 30 LEE CUA 0 Ln a er 55@60 Mamonor.....-....-..----- 5.2: 22@ 24 fateh. 1s (% 14c, 4s 16c) ...... A 183 Euphorbium powdered............ 35@ 40 Galbanum strained................ 80 Gambope. ........-2.-.....-.-....- 90@1 00 Guaiac, prime (Powd 45c)......... Kino [Powdered, 30c].............. 20 MOQRHIC 06s 5k. he ake 110 Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47¢)... 40 Opium, pure (Powd $5.50).......... 415 Shellac, Campbell’s................ 35 Shellac, English................... 30 Shellac, matinee 25 Shellac bleached................... 33 MTACRCANER .°.° >. |... 62. ioe... 5s 30 @1 10 HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES. HMogrnoume oo eos eco. ok os ee oe tae 25 Scorn ee i ee 25 Mppperminy.-. 5s es Se ee se 25 BRR cee oe ee ce ce cee 40 Spearmint ............ 2. eee ee cece cece enc eeee 24 Sweet Majoram..........-......--.2.5.. 6. <5 35 AIAN oe ees aes 25 Mane 9 ce. 30 BV OTIBWOOG ooo ooo oases oc cs oss osc esse see's 25 IRON. Citrate and Quinine............... 6 40 Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20 Sulphate, pure crystal............ 7 CULAR: 6 ois ok oes oes Se “eke we 80 PRORPUALE ..-- 2.2 n ss. ee 65 LEAVES. Buchu, short (Powd 25c)........... 12@ 13 Sage, Italian, bulk (48 & 4s, 12¢).. 6 Senna, Alex, matural.......:.2-.,.. @ 2 Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 30 Senna, powdered.................. 22 Senna tinnivelli........... ........ 16 we irs. es. ee 10 MBeuesenna.......2:.. 6.2... 5... 35 MOMONOWE oe ee. 30 Maenane .. i. ee: 35 OSG; TEA. 8 eg ee: 2 35 LIQUORS. W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 25 Druggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 1%5 @2 00 Whisky, other brands............. 110 @l 50 Gin, Old Tom... .. 6... .2......2-..- 135 @1 %5 Gin: Wolland:........ ou... 3.3. 200 @3 50 BBVANAG oe i oe ee os 1%5 @6 50 Catawba WineS................. «- 125 @2 00 Port WaUCS. ss. ce ee se 135 @2 50 MAGNESIA, Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 0z........ 23 Carbonate, Jenning’s, 20z......... 37 Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 25 WRICINOR. | ooo scene ices ete 70 OILS. Ajmond, gweet.............-...+..- 45 @ 50 Amber, rectified................... 45 PASUIRE 65 es i os 1 80 MSA OL ok oe os cee 50 TSOMGAIIONG. ... 2. 32.5.3. - sete 2 00 "UES POs eS A ne 184@ 20 rove. 2. 5.6 oes. cos eee 2 00 Cnsenub 2... acces. eee ESS ee es eee 1 Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c)..... Citronella... 3-5. .5 5: se cis. OVS eee. 1 Cubebs, P. & W .........- Gos. s- 8 EONS ee es ca 1 BUPOWORO 65: ooo. se oes e tense ose 2 Geranium # 0z Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. Juniper wake Juniper berries..................06 Lavender flowers, French......... Lavender garden G0. 32.622; Lavender spike do Lemon, new Crop.............-.66- Lemon, Sanderson’s............... TGMONGTABA. 2 ooo ge ee ies wn eine Origanum, red flowers, French.. Origanum, No.1 Pennyroy oo a Peppermint, white........... ao. BORO FOE. os oS. os ce tew eee Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... Sandal Wood, German............ angai Wood, W.1.. 29.25 ces exes 05 MARBAITAS 28.6 eee Tansy Tar is weal BOG). 62 oe Foo ogee WANGCIETOCD |. ooo cece case sees ee Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $6.50)..... OWN ss an WVOUINBOPN 555.65 se Cod Liver, filtered..... .. .B gal Cod Liver, best......... Ss Cod Liver, H., P. & Co. ‘18 Olive, Malag fi Olive, “sublime Italian HB OOO DI ~ 10 @ HASVSSSSSSERSSSSRASTSRSASSSESSETSSSRASSA oP atsumiins POTASSIUM. BiSTOMAtE. 5... aces ose se 8 Ib 14 Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 35 Chlorate, cryst (Powd 28¢)......... ; 20 Iodide, cryst. and gran. bulk..... Prussiate yellow................066 30 ROOTS. PTI i ooo ok hn ce hoes vee te 15 PRD OU oer oe os os big soc ee eee 27 Arrow, St. Vincent’s.............. 17 Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4s and \%s.... Blood (Powd 18c) Calamus, | cn Gece Ga bas cde la; 18 Calamus, German white, peeled.. 38 Elecampane, elma eee es 23 Gentian (Powd lic(................ 18 Ginger, African (Powd 16¢c)........ 3 @ 14 Ginger, Jamaica bleached........ 20 Golden Seal (Powd 40c)............ 35 Hellebore, white, powdered....... 2 ieee eam a (aes cesses ces , powdered.................6 Ttechlon, i pe ng OT 12%)....... en gar extra select.............. WUE, CPUD, cscs coos os he os veces cabs Rhei, from select to choice....... 100 g Rhei, powdered E.I................ 110 Rhei, Coton cut cubes............ Rhei, choice - fingers. Sohbeowen eeneris.- ae etd aedede Barsepariiia, Hondurus.....,..... RN e eS ~~ SRSRSESSREE Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 18 Squills, white (Powd 35c).......... 10 Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25 Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c).. 20 SEEDS. Anise, Italian (Powd 20c).......... 13 Bird, mixed in b packages....... 5 @ 6 Canary, BMIVINB sos ss cecal. B%Y@ 4 Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c).. ll @ RB Cardamon, Aleppee............... 2 00 Cardamon, Malabar................ 2 25 OR OEW oo on ea cs ac we 20 Coriander, pest English........... 12 MOONE ieee tence acto 15 Hlax, clean. ...05.0503 5.65.60 ot 38%@ Flax, pure grd (bbl 3%{)............ 4@ 4% Foenugreek, powdered ee 8 @ 9 Hemp, Russian’... .. 02 ee. ks 5 @ 15% Mustard, white( Black 10e)........ 8 COUINCO 5555 ois goers ee sls 1 00 Hape, Lnglish.......0....6......... 7%@ 8 Worm, evant... 2. 66..60.0.6.00655. 14 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 2 25 @ 50 Nassau do do; ..;: Velvet Extra do G02) 2s. 10 Extra Yellow do dQ° 3... 85 Grass do GO = ..4. 65 Hard head, for slate use........... 75 Yellow Reef, QO.) 20.36.53... 1 40 MISCELLANEUS. Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.20) ® gal.... 2 28 Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 50 Anodyne Hoffman’s............... 50 Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 27 Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 12 Annatto 1% rolls.................. 30 Blue SOlUDIO 50 6. ce cs 50 Bay Rum, imported, best......... 2 75 Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. - 200 PANU eb eres. Bb 24@ 3% Alum, ground (Powd 9c).......... 8 @ 4 Annatto, prime.................... 82 Antimony, powdered, com’l...... 44@ 5 Arsenic, white, powdered......... 6 @ 7% Balm Gilead Buds................. 40 Beans, Tonka... 5.5.26 .o. 5s. c se 2 25 Beans, Vanilla: 2... 62... 6.5 700 @9 75 Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 1 60 Blue Pill (Powd %0c).........02027. 45 Blue Vito! oe T%4@ 9 Borax, refined (Powd 18¢)......... 12 Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 1 85 Capsicum Pods, African.......... 18 Capsicum Pods, African pow’d.. 2 Capsicum Pods, American do ... 18 Carmine, No. 40°. 25 .3....5... 2.6.56 4 00 Gassia Buds. 22). sf sic eee: 14 Calomel, American................ 7 Chalk, prepared drop.............. 3d Chalk, precipitate English........ 12 Chalk, red fingers................. 8 Chalk, white ee Dols cok sae ce cule: 2 Chloroform, Squibb’s............. 1 60 Colocynth apples.................. 60 Chloral hydrate, German crusts... 1 60 Chloral do do __cryst.. 1 70 Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 1 90 Chloral do do _crusts.. 1 %5 Chloroform .....2..6.0 6.6.05... 100 @1 10 Cinchonidia, P. & W......<........ cr @ 65 Cinchonidia, other brands......... 60 @ 65 Cloves (Powd 28¢)..............000- 20 @ 2 Cochineal:.. 0. loo. kiss 30 @ocoa Butter. 5... 6s. co. es 45 Copperas (by bbl Me 2 Corrosive oun Se eee ec ses 65 Corks, X and XX—35 off list...... Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... 88 @ 40 Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 Ib box.. 15 Creasote. <0... 6.6 et 50 Cudbear, prime.................... 24 Cuttle Fish Bone................... 24 MVCXSTING 2. oe ec 12 Dover’s Powders.................. 1 20 Dragon’s Blood Mass.............. 50 Ergot eee Bee te 45 Ether Squibb’s................. «2 110 Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8 MPSOM SalS 2 lo 24@ 3 Mirco tres. 2). 50 Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 69 Make white... ......5..5..0.25..5... 14 Grains Paradise....:...........25. 3d Gelatine, Cooper’s................. 90 Gelatine, French .................. 45 @ 70 Glassware, flint, 65 off, by box 55 of Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis.. Glue, CAbinet............<..... 566. 2 @ li Glue white: ..6. li @ 2 Glycerine, pure Pi ee eee 23 @ 26 Hops 48 and Ys....:..........22.. 2@ 40 Iodoform # Oe Andigo so 8 @l1 00 Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 28 @ 25 Iodine, resublimed................ 210 Isinglass, American............... 1 50 JRVONICA 6525.8 oss. 9 London: Purple... .. .... .......... 10 @ 1 Wend, ACCC: 2... 66... ik Lime, chloride, (48 2s 10c & 4s llc) 9 pune? se 1 00 iepepodiim OA ee ne 35 CO eae bo ke we 60 Madder, best Dutch.:........5..-. 2w@ 13 Mauna, fo. 1 35 MGPCUIN EG 250506... ee, 50 Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... oz 3 40@3 rs Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s . Moss, Gesiand. . Tb 10 Moss, Irish. 12 Mustard, English.................. 30 Mustard, grocer’s, 10 Ib cans...... 18 NmtealIS os a 20 Nutmegs, No. 1 Tl Nux Vomica....o25..:,. 10 Ointment. Mercurial, 4d 40 Paris Green........... 18 @ 2% popper, Black Berry 18 PRIN 3 00 Piteh, True Burgundy. 1G Ging. @ 7 Quinia, Sulph, P. & W.. iboz 1 "3001 85 Quinine, other brands............. 130 @1 35 Seidlitz Mixture......... ss 28 Strychnia, cryst........ Be 1 50 Silver Nitrate, cryst... . @ @ 8 Red Precipitate........ #8 tb 80 Satfron, American................. Sal Glauber..:.......3.....5..... @ 2 Sal Nitre, large cryst.............. 10 Sal Nitre, medium cryst.......... 9 Sal Rochelle... 2... 6. sc. cece s eck ck 33 SAM SOOR io... cs cir eeeres coe ee 2@ 2% DANCIN ee ek ek 2 50 PITONIN os eee ces sc. 6 75 Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch....... 38 Soda Ash (Oy. keg 86]... ....5.6..5 6. 4 Spermaceti - 2.2.2... 2 0 ess. 25 Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s.... 4%@ 5 Soap, White Castile................ 14 Soap, Green dO 2.66. ess. kee 17 Soap, Mottled do ................... 9 Soap, go, dO |. .-...328... 11 Soap, MAZ7Iini 6. 2... se. : 14 Spirits Nitre,3 Fo... ............... 28 @ 28 Spirits Nitre, 4 F............... .. 28 @ 8 Sugar Milk powdered.............. 30 Pulonur, Hours... ssi... wee ee 34@ 4 Milphay, MOUs ise. sce ek 383Q@ 38% Wartan WIMeCUC.. oo. sess ssc acsecs 60 Tar, N.C. Pine, % gal. cans # doz 2 0 Tar, do quarts in tin....... 1 40 Tar, do a $01 CIN. =. oss. 8 Turpentine, vente ee ean le 8 Ib 25 Wax, White, S. & v. brand........ 60 Zine, Siphate.z....5.. 22.2... 3... 7@ 8 OILS. Capitol Cynder. oso. oe sc caves a wns cs ele es 75 Mode; CyUnder. ooo. s6 a lees seed eee 60 Shields & UID OOR oie oo hace clas os oes ced cos 50 Pidorado HBGine. 6s ees cee eee ieee ee ces 45 Peerless Machinery.............cccccssccccsces 35 Challenge Machinery..............cccsececcces 25 Backus Fine Engine.............cccecceecceces 30 Black Diamond Machinery................02.- 30 Custor Machine Olli: 2... 0. ec ces es cescenes 6C PAPRINNG, ZO GOR os oe a os cc caeeaunaeces 22 PATARine, ZB GOS. cies iris cep sev kctces cet 21 Sperm, winter Picasa Ris Sots ia vine siete e454 1 40 Bbi_ Gal WAG, WIDLED. 605 ase oss ete eee ce 80 85 Toad, OFUPR os os coos las os cbse es 26 80 MOTE, NO. he ese o eos sk as es oes 65 70 Linseed, pure raw.............2ceeee 58 62 Linseed, Doiled ..............ceeeeees 61. «65 Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 90 95 Spirits Turpentine................... 35 45 VARNISHES. No.1 Turp COBO) |: os.) 66 oss essen ce 1 10@1 20 Bxtra PUPP. is oaks cheeses soase eas 1 60@1 70 COACR. BOGV. oo. bies dic ces cde es seen ss 2 T6@3 00 No. 1 Turp Furniture.....:............ 1 00@1 10 Extra Turp Damar.................04- 1 55@1 60 Japan Dry®r, No. 1 Turp.............. 0@ %5 PAINTS. Bbl Lb Boralumine, White revs Secu caee 9 Boralumine, ‘* 65 bs|........ 10 Boralumine, Tints bu 50 off.. 10 Boralumine “ 5 tbs. | ........ 11 Red Venetian.................. 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ Putty, commercial ............ 2% 2%4@ 3 Putty, strictly pure...:........ 2% 2%@ 3 Vermilion, prime American. 18@16 Vermilion, English............ 55@57 Green, Peninsular............. 16@17 Lead, red strictly pure..... .. 6 Lead, white, strictly pure..... 6 Whi . W. pa Pe se Qi Whiting, eNO seer acgha @ wo aris American........ : ps Whiting Paris Bngtish cliff... 2 TAL HAZELTINE, PERKINS & 00, W7Iholesale lug oists 42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 93 and 95 Louis Street. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, and Drowgist's Glassware. MANUFACTURERS OF ELEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS, FLUID EXTRACTS ANi ELIXIRS. GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR Wo Lr, PATTon & Co., AND JOHN L. Wuit- ING, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE PAINT AND VARNISH BRUSHES. —Also for the— GRAND Rapips Brus Co., MANFGS. OF HAIR, SHOE AND HorsE BRUSHES. Drugaisis’ Sundries Our stock in this department of our busi- ness is conceded to be one of the largest, best-assorted and diversified to be found in the Northwest. We are heavy importers of many articles ourselves and can offer Fine Solid Back Hair Brushes, French and Eng- glish Tooth and Nail Brushes at attractive prices. Ourline of Holiday Goods for the approaching season will be more full and el- egant than ever before, and we desire our customers to delay their fall purchasers of those articles until they have seen our el- egant line, as shown by our accredited repre- sentative who is now preparing for his an- nual exhibition of those goods. We desire particular attention of those about purchasing OUTFITS for NEW STORES to the fact of our unsurpassed facilities for meeting the wants of this class of buyers without delay and in the most approved and acceptable manner known to the drug trade. Our special efforts in this direction have re- ceived from hundreds of our customers the most satisfying recommendations. Wine ad Liquor Department We give our special and personal atten- tion to the selection of choice goods for thedrug trade only, and trust we merit the high praise accorded us for so satisfactorily supplying the wants of our customers with Pure Goods in this department. We con- trol and are the only authorized agents for the sale of the celebrated Withers Dade & Co’s Henderson Co., Ky., SOUR MASH AND OLD FASHIONED HAND MADE, COP- PER DISTILLED WHISKYS. We not only offer these goods to be excelled by No OTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market, but superior in all respects to most that are ex- posed for sale. We GUARANTEE perfect and complete satisfaction and where this brand of goods has once been introduced the future trade has been assured. We are also owners of the Drugeists’ Favorite Rye Which continues to have so many favorites among druggists who have sold these goods for a very long time. Buy our Gins, Brandies & Fine Wines, We call your attention to the adjoining list of market quotations which we aim to make as complete and perfect as possible. For special quantities and for quotations on 8] such articles as do not appear on the list such as Patent Medicines, ete,, we invite your cor- respondence. Mail orders always receive our special and personal attention. TINE, PERK ‘ales N&O TOLD ABOUT CHEESE: The Middleville Matter and Other Points of Interest, The recent flutter at Middleville, caused by a half hundred people gorging themselves with newly-made cheese, has nearly passed out of remembrance, and there is no prob- ability that any one will ever know the exact cause of the poisoning. Mr. Horton, the maker, was in town last week and stated that while such incidents are liable to occur at any time, itis impossible to locate the prime cause, and that all moves in that direction are only time and money wasted. Mr. Whitney, the merchant who sold the cheese, was also in town, and stated that the occurrence could not fail to have a tendency to injure his trade, as someof the other dealers in the town were making a handle of the matter to injure him. No blame for the trouble should be laid at his door, and that any should do so is as unjust as it is deplor- Pable. AN EXPLODED THEORY. “The firm I represent has had several ex- periences similar to the Middleville poison- ing,” said Mr. Mason, traveling representa- tive for Clark, Baker & Co., the Lenawee county cheese makers. ‘‘Eight or nine years ago one of the four cheeses turned out one day at one of our factories caus- ed no end of taouble at a _ neighbor- ing town, and samples of it were sent to the chemists at the Cornell and Ann Arbor Universities. The other,three cheeses were stored in acellar. The chemists both informed us that the poisoning was due to the existence of certain gases which are pecul- iar to every cheese at certain stages of the curing or ‘‘digesting’’ process, and that a few days later the poisonous combinations would have passed away, and that the cheese would then be perfectly harmless. This theory was held to be true until the following spring, when an incident occured that tended to bring the theory into disrepute. >_- 0 —_____—_ Not a Thorough Search. The clerk of a Northern hotel sent a bell boy up toa guest’s room to see if his room mate was in. When the boy returned the clerk asked the result of his visit. “There ain’t a living thing in the room,” replied the boy. “Are you sure?” inquired the clerk. “Yes, sir.” “You didn’t look in the bed around the edges of the mattress, did you?” asked the guest. “No, sir,” “T thought so,” he said sadly, and went away gently scratching himself. << ______ An Unchangeable Law. There was a heated discussion in a certain jobbing house the other day. : “T tell you,” said one of the disputants, “I tell you, sir, there is no law made but what the people can change.” “Yes, there is,” said the junior partner. “There is one law that no man, no people ean change.” “What is that?” ‘““Mother-in-law.”’ +. <——___— THE TRADESMAN is in receipt of a com- munication signed ‘Berlin Merchants,” stat- ing that the recent reference to a youthful swellhead employed by a Canal street job- bing house, “meets with universal approval” at that place, where the character was rear- ed, and where relatives of rather doubtful morals still reside. The article also meets the approbation of the entire jobbing trade of the city, who have never ceased to wonder that a person so wanting in all the attri- butes of decency and manhood should find employment in an establishment that has al- ways been noted for the high character of its employes. ~~. If You Want To get into business, to sell your business, to secure additional capital, to get a situa- tion, to employ a clerk, or if you have any- thing for sale or want to buy anything, ad- vertise in the columns of THE TRADESMAN, as it has a large and wide-spread circulation. Moreover, its readers are enterprising mer- chants, who appreciate the benefits derived from studying advertisements. Our adver- tisers report good results. Right You Are. Frem the Luther Lance. Each issue of THE MICHIGAN TRADES- MAN is more valuable than the one before it. ‘No retail dealer can afford to be without it. 20% , The Michigan Tradesmau. A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. E. A. STOWE & BRO., Preprietors. OFFICE IN EAGLE BUILDING, 3d FLOOR. [Entered at the Postoffiice at Grand Rapids as Second-class Matter.] ‘WEDNESDAYS, JUNE 11, 1884. BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts of Last Resort. Valid Conveyance. A husband, though in failing circumstan- ces, may make a conveyance to his wife when it ismade upona full and fair considera- tion, and when such conveyances are made in good faith, they must be sustained to the ex- tent of the consideration, actually paid, and no further. The beneficial interest of the creditors un- der an assignment for their benefit is com- pletely vested as soon as the assignment is placed on record by the assignor or anyone interested, and it is immaterial that the as- signee has not accepted the trust, or that he afterwards refuses to accept it. So held by the St. Louis Courtiof Appeals in the case of Rendlemann vs. Davis et al., decided April 14. The assignee of a note made some inquir- ies of the maker regarding a note, and the latter told him that the note was all right; that he had no defenses to the same, and that he would pay it off within a few days there- after. Held that this statement made by the maker was a promise to pay the note, and that the maker was thereby stopped from as- serting any defenses to the note against the assignee who purchased the same on the faith of such a promise, and that this was so whether the maker was or was not ignorant of his} defenses at the time the promise was made.—Plummer vs. Farmer’s Bank of Mooresville, Supreme Court of Indiana. The running of sleeping cars has become a business and social necessity, and the law can impose obligations on the car company, the same as railways, ferrymen and inn- keepers. When, therefore, a passenger who, under the rules of the company, is entitled to a birth on the payment of the usual fare, and to whom no personal objection attaches, enters the company’s sleeping car at the proper time for the purpose of procuring ac- commodations, and in an orderly and re- spectful manner applies for a birth, offering or tendering the customary price thereof, the company is bound to furnish it, provided it has a vacant one at its disposal.—Nevin vs. Pullman Palace Car Co., Supreme Court of Illinois. Examination of Title—Liability of Attor- ney. A applied to a money lender for a loan of $3,000 and offered his note therefore, secur- ed by a mortgage on certain real estate prop- erty; B, the attorney of a money lender, ex- amined the title to the real property, and furnished the latter a certificate to the effect that B’s title was good and the property un- incumbered, and thereupon the loan was made on the terms proposed; subsequently, and before the maturity of the note it was assigned to the plaintiff. who foreclosed the mortgage and sold the property, when it was found that it was encumbered by a prior mortgage, so that the plaintiff did not realize the amount of his debt and brought suit against A to recover. In deciding this case, Dundee Mortgage and Trust Investment Co. vs. Hughes, the United States Circuit Court, District of Oregon, held that there was no priority of contract between A and plaintiff, and that he was not Jiable to the latter for the loss. Sale—Place of Delivery. Hardware merchants at Minneapolis agreed to sell and deliver to a resident of an- other town in the State a quantity of glass. he merchandise was not on hand, but had to be bonght in St. Louis. The evidence as to the place of delivery was conflicting; that of the vendors, that the glass was to be put on the cars at Minneapolis, and that of the purchas- er, that it was to be delivered to him at his town. In the trial of the action brought by the merchants to recover the price of the goods, the court charged the jury: “The burden of the proof was upon the defendant to show that the glass was to be deievered to him at the place of his residence.” The de- fendant carried the judgment that was ren- dered,against him in the case, to the Su- preme Court, where an affirmance was had. Judge Mitchell, in the opinion, said: ‘There was no error in the charge. If no place be designated by the contract, the general rule is that the articles sold are to be delivered where they are at the time of sale. This is a rule of construction predicated upon the presumed understanding of the parties when making the contract. This rule is not changed by the fact that the vendor does not have the goods at the place of sale at the time the bargain is made, but must procure for delivery. the goods were as if then placed in the store of the vendor.”—Jenny vs. Sleeper, Supreme Court of Minnesota. i 2 A fine lithograph of the celebrated trot- ting stallion, Jerome Eddy, with every 500 of Jerome Eddy cigars. For sale by Fox, Musselman & Loveridge, Grand Rapids. or Choice Butter can always be had at M. C. Russell’s. Potentially and prospectively |’ J, J. VAN LEUVEN, WHOLESA?.E Millinery —AND— FANCY Goonvps LACES, Real Laces a Specialty. s Gloves, Corsets, Ribbons, Fans, Hand Bags, Pocket Books, Ruchings, Yarns, Silks, Satins, Veivets, Embroidery Materials, umes, Flowers, Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods. STAMPING PATTERNS 70 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. L. H. BEALS & SON Manufacturers of Whips & Lashes, Westfield, Mass. ) OFFICE —AND— 1 / SALESROOM NO. 4 PEARL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. G. ROYS & CO, Gen! Agents PORTABLE AND STATIONARY ENGIN HS From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft- ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Complete Outfits. ww. Cc Denison, 88, 90 and 92 South Division Street, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. SHRIVER, WEATHERLY & GO, Grand Rapids, Mich., Wholesale and Retail IRON PiPpPkEe, Brass Goops, Iron AND BRASS FITTINGS MANTLES, GRATES, GAS FIXTURES, Contracts made for olin PLUMBERS, STEAM FITTERS, —And Manufacturers of— Galvanized Iron Cornice. ARTHUR MEIGS & CO,, W holesale Grocers, 55 and 57 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Offer the Trade the following Choice Line of Plug Tobaccos—all our own Brands— and positively the Best ever Offered at the Prices. AB ee ana OU PATIO DAC eee cee lee cement ets setae erin e snes cme 50 Bice Salat ee ec cs ie a eo aks caee es = 42 a eee eas ccc cece ewes ence staes woe ree 35 2c less in 5 butt lots; special price on large quantities. Send us a trial order. We guarantee satisfaction every time. Arthur Meigs & Co. Fireworks We have the largest and best selected stock ever brought to this market, suitable for public or pri- vate display, and are the Headquarters for FIRE CRACKERS, TORPE- DOES, FLAGS, LAN- TERNS, ETC. Send for catalogue and prices. We are carying a full line of Gor- dons’ Cigars of Detroit, among which are the celebrated “ D. F.” and “Olympian” and although the latter is being imitated, the stock and workmanship is much inferior to the genuine, for which we are exclusive agents. Give us a trial order. Cigars We carry in stock such cases aS there is most demand for, of the best makes, and will meet Chicago prices. Give us a call before purchasing. PUTNAM & BROOKS, WALL PAPER & WINDOW SHADES Showcases At Manufacturers’ Prices. SAMPLES TO THE TRADE ONLY. Ffouse and Store Shades Made to Order. 68 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids. NELSON BROS. & CO. F. J. LAMB & COMPANY, ——-WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Butter, Cheese, Ege, Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc. NO. 8 AND 10 IONIA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS. - MICHIGAN. A BENOW LSON —WHOLESALE DEALER IN—— AKRON SEWER PIPE, Fire Brick and Clay, Cement, Stucco, LIME, HAIR, COAL and MW7OOD. ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED. Office 7 Canal Street, Sweet,s Hotel Block. Yards—Goodrich Street, Near Michigan Cen- tral Freight House. --WHOLESALE DEALERS IN— FANCY AIND CARPETS 1 s Oitl, ClhLOTHS, ETc. ETC. Gand 8 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, . - ~ Michigan. FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE, ‘CSM f=) A aE ata n * eI i bo rtrd Samer mmm} —ar Fe Wei aeKelat saa — 44, 46 and 48 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. ARE FACTORY AGENTS FOR—— MOSELEY BROS., Wholesale Clover, Timothy and all Kinds Field Seeds Seed Corn, Green and Dried Fruits, Oranges GREEN VEGETABLES AND OYSTERS. 122 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, ete. | NINO Acora, Chia Crescent & Red Seal Plug Tobaccos. Our stock of Teas, Coffees and Syrups is Always Complete. —WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR— Tobaccos, Vinegars and Spices !! OUR MOTTO: “SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MANCAND MAN.” CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. © "y) 4 Manufacturer of THE PATENTED JUNE 15, 1883. This invention supplies a long felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put away in a small space when not in use, and yet make a roomy, comfortable bed when wanted. Of the many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a comfortable While THE Beperts folds into a small space, and is as light as anything can be made for dura- bility, when set up it furnishes a bed wide and long enough for the largest man, and is as com- fortable to lie upon as the most expensive bed. It is so constructed that the patent sides, reg- ulated by the patent adjustable tension cords, form the most perfect spring bed. The canvas covering is not tacked to the frame, as on all cots, but is made adjustable, so that it can be taken off and de on again by any one in a few minutes, or easily tightened, should it become loose, at any time from stretching. It is a perfect spring bed, soft and easy, without springs or mattress. For warm weather it is a complete bed, without the addition of anything; for cold weather it is only necessary to add sufficient clothing. The ‘‘ BEDETTE” is a household neces- sity, and no family after once using, would be without it. It is simple in its construction, and the reach of all. Price—36 in. wide, by 61¢ ft. long, $3.50; 30 in wide, by 644 ft. long, $3.00; 27 in. wide, by 414 ft. long, cover not adjustable, $2.50. For sale by furniture dealers every- SPRING & COMPANY, STAPLE DRY GOODS . MATTINGS.” M. B. Church “Bedette” Co., “Bedette.” ¢ night’s rest can be had. They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in short no bed at all. ¥ not likely to get out of repair. It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed, and the price is within where. “If not for sale by your dealer it will be sent to any address on receipt of price. . Mark our Specialties. Mail orders receive careful Attention. ''TO GET THE BEST, Buy the Leonard Clean- able, with Movable Flues, Hard wood,Carved Panels. Warranted First Class; Elegant and Durable. MANUFACTURED BY THE GRAND Rapips REFRIGERATOR Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Se-Send for Catalogue. and $10, stick the cents on a dollar label. per 100, and are cheaper than common blanks. PRICE LIST. N 9yx18x42, 1 GOOr.....-..-------- --- $13 50 : No. 1, 31x20x44, 1 door..........---+e++e+- 18 00 No. 2, 34x22x46, 2 GOOVS.....--.-+-- esse eee 23 00 No. 3, 36x21x48, 2 Goors......-..--:e- eee 26 00 No. 4, 40x25x54, 4 doors.........----2--+:- 30 00 No. 5, 43x26x59, 4 doors..........---+0+-+- 35 00 No. 1, with water cooler.........-..-++-++- 21 00 Mo. 2, with water cooler.........-----++++- 27 00 No. 5 isthe size for boarding houses and hotels’ CENTS. ONLY | 25 CENTS. No. 3, with water cooler... .........--+-- 30 00 | Less discount to the trade, 30 per cent. FRUIT JARS. QUART, $13 per gross. 14g GALLON, The above cut shows three of the labels in combination. Thousands of different combi- nations may be made for show cards or the labels may be used singly on merchandise. WS S316 per gross. “JOBBERS. OF HERE YOU ARE--JUST WHAT YOU NEED Toe HUREBA LABELS. For marking goods in plain figures at any price from 1 cent to $10, manufacturing show-cards call- ing attention to bargins, working off dead-stock, etc. SERIES B. EUREKA LABELS contains 1}O© each of the following, neatly boxed: 1 cent, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 10, 10, 10, 15, 20, 25, 2 85, 90, 95, $1.00, $1.00, $2.00, $3.00, $4.00, $5.00, $6.00, $7.00, $8.00, $8.00; Look; Was; Now; Special; Damaged; Reduced to; Remnant; Last One; Sample, Not for Sale; Per Pair; Per Dozen; Per Set; Per Yard, Choice for; Only; Cost. Price per set, 5,400 Gummed Labels, $2.35; postage 15 cents. Please notice that these labels cost only 4% cents 5, 20, 35, 40, 45, 50, 50 60, 65, 70, 75, 75, 80, To make Prices between $1 th, ll fas pA ce t LEONARD Card Holder AS A Merchandise Hook! CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, ETC. Uselal to Every Merchant ' Te Leonard Cardholder For Attaching Cards to Merchandise. The wire spring will hold fast to every de- scription of merchandise, such as Hardware, Glassware, China, Silverware, Notions, Boots, Shoes, Cigar Boxes, Boots, etc. The spring be- ing pointed, it can be used as a pin all kinds of Dry Goods, Clothing, Wooden Ware, etc., and when inverted can be used as a hook to sus- end articles from a string, and at the same pid a price card, as shown in accompanying cut. : Price per gross, $1.50. One gross in a box, postage 15 cents. Send in your orders NOW, as the adver- tizement of these goods appears but once. LE &: SONs. ASSORTED PACKAGE No.1 5 Cent Glassware. 2 doz Gem Goblets 2 doz Modern Goblets 2 doz 4 inch Comports—Jewell 2 doz Modern Wines 2 doz Berry Pickles 2 doz Swiss Nappies, 6 inch 2 doz Medium Mugs 1 doz Jewell Spooners 1 doz Motto Mugs 1 doz Cable Salts 1 doz Shaker Salts 2 doz Plain Tumblers Decorat’a Ware “MADRAS!” 20 doz Pieces @ 37%c # doz ................$7 50} ONE TIERCE ASSORTMENT OF BROWN “ MAD- Tierce 50 RAS,’ CONTAINING 1 DINNER SET ri AND 1 TEA SET. $8 00 Diamond CD. No. pieces. ja Sauce Pistes.........0...- 62-25. .6.565 2 en ve ASSORTED PACKAGE Sind: Butters... --.5...02.5) 2.05.22. 23 12 mle Pintes... 2.25.2. ec- 23 oe aa 12 No. 2. 12 Breakfast Plates............... 2. 12 12 Dinner Plates... o.oo... ce 2 0 12 j O Cent Glassware. Soup RIAteS,......... 2. <2. 2 12 - 5 Platters, assorted sizes............... 5 9 sar ; » Hs don Boston Sugars i % doz Boston Creams eee ee 2 % doz Boston Spooners 1 Sauce ia t % doz Boston Butters 1 Sauce Tureen Comp........ eg % doz Fruit Deserts 1Soup Tureen Comp..............-:..- 4 1doz Paris sq. Dishes 8 inch 1 Salad or Fruit Djsh................... 1 1 doz Swiss Comports, 6 inch OBROrs 2 % doz Snow Flake Dishes, 9 inch bend butler... 3 % doz Jewel Pickle Jars he edicd Weed se ¥Y% doz Molasses Cans ae Dinner Set 126 $17 5 6 doz Pieces @ "be 8 a0O7).. 2 4. 50 12 Tea IUCR ee gs 12 Bbl. g5 | 12 Handled Teas...........---- seeeee eee: 2 = §i Tea Pot, tSugar.........-............ c4 $4 85! t Cream, k Bowl...........0. 2002. c0cs5se 2 WH! Sauce Piates...>....-. 2... cle. 22s 2 = o @ake PighesS:..:..u.4.. 2.5 oes. ct 2 Full lists of OC, 1 Oc, and Tea Set 56 $4 00 : : 1 Tierce. %5 25c goods on application. | S2z 2 RINDGE; BERTSCH & CO., MANUFACTUREES AND JOBBERS OF BOOTS & SHOBS, River Boots and Drive Shoes, Calf and Kip Shoes for Men and Boys, Kid, Goat and Calf Button and Lace Shoes for Ladies and Misses are our Specialties. Our Goods are Specially Adapted for the Michigan Trade. 14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. CLARK, JEWELL & CO, WW EOLESALSE: Groceries and Provisions, $3, $5 and 87 PEARL STREET and (14, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET, MICHIGAN. GRAND RAPIDS, - - Choice Butter a Specialty | Also Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Cheese, Eggs, Jelly, Preserves, BANANAS and HARLY VEGETABLES. . Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders. M,C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids, Castor Machine Oil. The Castor Machine Oil contains a fair percentage of Castor Oil and is in all re- spects’superior as a lubricator to No. 2 or No. 3 Castor Oil. The : OHIO OIL COMPAN Is,the only firm in the United States that has succeeded in making a combination of Veg- etable and Mineral Oils, possessing the qualities of a Pure Castor Oil. It is rapidly com- ing7into popular favor. We Solicit a Trial Order. Hazeltine, Perkins & Co,, Grand Rapids, Patent Hgee Cases & Fillers Messrs FF. J. LAMB c& CO. Have been appointed manufacturers’ agents for Western Michigan for the Lima Egg Case Co., manufacturers of the best, strongest and most durable cases and fillers in the market, and will quote prices on application, both for fillers and egg cases complete. ‘ |GRAND RAPIDS, TIME TABLES. Michigan Central—-Grand Rapids Division. DEPART. *Petroit HXpress..........-..-...5:...: 6:00 a m aay PXDECHR: 2.324.665. 2.. tee cee 12:25 9m *New York Fast Line.................. 6:00 pm TAtiantic Hxpress..-.--....:....:-..-.. 9:20 pm ARRIVE. ePacific Wxpress..2....::....52-...-5:- 6:4 am +Local Passenger.................00065 11:20am PA ee ce ae 3:20 p m +Grand Rapids Express............... 10:25 p m +Daily except Sunday. *Daily. The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York at9p. m. the next evening. Direct and prompt connection made with Great Western, Grand Trunk and Canada Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus avoiding transfers. The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has Drawing Room and Parlor Car for Detroit, reaching that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10:30 a.m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day. A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv- ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p.m. J.T. SCHULTZ, Gen’! Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING EAST. Arrives. Leaves. +Steamboat Express....... 6:10 am 6:15 am wrnrowgh. Mall... 6....-... 10:10am 10:20am +Evening Express......... 3:20pm 3:33pm *Atlantic Express.......... 9:45pm 10:45pm +Mixed, with coach........ 10:00 am GOING WEST. +Morning Express......... 12:40pm 12:55pm +Through Mail....... .. 4:45pm 4:55pm +Steamboat Express. ..10:30 pm 10:35pm Mixed 3.3.5.2. ..025-. .. 8:00am *Night Express......... .... 10am 5:30am +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Passengers taking the 6:15 a. m. Express make close connections at Owosso for Lansing and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 10:00 a. m. the following morning. ot Cars on Mail Trains, both East and est. Train leaving at 10:35 p, m. will mak con- nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except Sunday and the train leaving at 4:55 p. m. will connect Tuesdays and Thursdays with Good- rich steamers for Chicago. Limited Express has Wagner Sleeping Car through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has a Parlor Car to Detroit. The Night Express has a through Wagner Car and local Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids. D. PorTErR, City Pass. Agent. THOMAS TANDY, Gen’! Pass. Agent, Detroit. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Leaves. Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex. 9:02 pm Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:22am 9:50am Ft. Wayne& MackinacEx.. 3:57pm 4:45pm G’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:15am GOING SOUTH. G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 6:32 am Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. 4:05pm 4:32pm Mackinac & Ft. Wayne Ex..10:25am 12:32 pm Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40pm All trains daily except Sunday. SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS. North—Train leaving at 4:45 o’clock p. m. has Woodruff Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and Mackinac City. Trainleaving at 9:50a.m. has combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac ity. South—Train leaving at 4:32 p.m. bas Wood- ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati. Cc. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Chicago & West Michigan. Leaves. Arrives, TOA ee os .... 9:15am 4:00pm +Day Express ...12:25pm 10:45pm *Night Expr . 8:35pm 6:10am MAKOG 2650s cise ee 6:10am 10:05pm *Daily. tDaily except Sunday. Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains. Through parlor car in charge of careful at- tendants without extra charge to Chicago on 12:25 p. m., and through coach 0n9:15 a.m. and 8:35 p. m. trains. NEWAYGO DIVISION. Leaves. Arrives. MARCO sicko sede oe sca esse 5:00am 5:15pm TEXPTOSBs.-.. cee ce sere ecees 4:10pm 8:30pm MIXDTCKS .. 2... esses age se oe 8:30am 10:15am Trains connect at Archeravenue for Chicago as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 p.m The Northern terminus of this Division is at Baldwin, where close connection is made with ¥. & P. M. trains to and from Ludington and Manistee. _. J. H. PALMER, Gen’] Pass. Agent. JOHN MOHRHARD, —WHOLESALE— Fresh & Salt Meats 109 CANAL STREET, MICHIGAN. Introduction of Steel Nails. From the American Manufacturer. The near approach of the manufacture of steel nails by the Bellaire (Ohio) Nail- Works Company is attracting a great deal of attention, not only among the nail-manufac. turers of the West, but also among the work- men at the mills. As yet the works have been operated only experimentally; some nails have been cut, and it is expected that shortly they will be operated continuously as a steel-nail works. It is also stated that the Riverside steel plant will be in operation about the ist of June. This prospect is not looked upon with equanimity by the pud- dlers and helpers, who will be thrown out of work. There is no doubt that the action of the puddlers in the past in insisting not only on a high rate of wages, but also on a high- er rate than is paid at the other mills of the West, has resulted in the establishment of this manufacture of steel nails. While a conservative course on their part in the past might have postponed the day when steel nails would be manufactured, it is evident that it could not have prevented its coming. The puddlers now are anticipating with some alarm the day when by reason of the introduction of steel in other establishments there will be a surplus of puddlers seeking work, and the probability of a reduction in wages as the result. This experiment onthe part of Bellaire and Riverside will be watched witha good deal of interest. It is probable that no high- er price can be obtained for these steel nails than rules for iron nails. It has been claim- ed that because the steel nailscan be cut smaller—more toa pound—than the iron nails, and be as strong as iron nails, there- fore consumers will be willing to pay an ad- ditional price; but the value of a nail in many instances does not depend upon its strength, but upon the frictional resistance to the strain that would draw it out of the wood, and it is probable that the iron nail of the same size would have a greater friction- al resistance than the steel, and certainly the larger iron nail would havea greater friction than the smaller steel nail. That steel nails can be manufactured, and probably as cheap- ly as the iron nail, cannot be doubted. The problem is, how will they take in the mar- ket? <> 2 <.__-- A Traveler’s Needs. From the Argonaut. “You needle little woman to do that for you,” the chambermaid remarked, as, hear- ing a volley of terrific profanity from the commercial traveler’s room, she looked in and saw him sewing a suspender button to his thumb. “Sew it seams,” the wretched man replied. “Button the hole, I think I’ve cotton to it myself.” ‘Bye, eye,” quoth the chambermaid; “but yo’ve tuck more time now than——” “Knot sew,” replied the missionary; “for a needle hath but one eye.” And longer had they sung, but just then the porter shouted: *‘En train for de seat of war? Buttoner, buttoner, rise!’ And he rose, and with dispatch he threaded his way to the train. << Smoke the celebrated Jerome Eddy Cigar, manufactured by Robbins & Ellicott, Buf- falo, N. Y. For sale by Fox, Musselman & Loveridge, Grand Rapids, Mich. SOI and Stmmer Hats and Cay —I WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION OF MERCHANTS TO MY— Spring Styles of Fine Hats, Spring Styles of Wool Hats, Spring Styles of Stiff Hats, Spring Styles of Soft Hats, Wool Hats $4.50 to $12 per Dozen, Fine Hats 18.50 to $36 per Dozen, Straw Hats for Men, Straw Hats for Boys, Straw Hats for Ladies, Straw Hats for Misses. Hammocks Sold byathe Dozen at New York Prices ! ! ——LARGE LINE OF—— Clothing and Gents Furnishing Goods, Cottonade Pants and Hosiery. DUCK OVERALLS, THREE POCKETS, $3.50 PER DOZEN AND UPWARDS. Call and get our prices and see how they will compare with those of firms in larger cities. xr.c. GBH V I, 36, 38,40 and 42 CANAL STREET, - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. PHEREINS & HESS ——DEALERS IN—— Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 1240LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. 20% Groceries. PENCIL PORTRAITS—NO. 17. Steve Sears, the Characteristic Cracker Drummer. Stephen Adams Sears was born at Knox- ville, Tenn., October 3, 1853, and a year later his parents removed to Lynchburg, Va., where they remained two years, when they came to Grand Rapids. Here Steve receiv- ed his education, supplementing a course of studies in the high school with a term at Swensberg’s Commercial College. He then entered the employ of his father and uncle, then engaged in the wholesale and retail bakery business at 18 Monroe street, taking occasional trips on the roadas long ago as 1872. Six years ago he began making regu- lar visits to a portion of the trade of his house, and this he still continues to do, covering the C. & W. M., from Manistee to Michigan City, and the cities of South Bend, La Porte, Elkhart, Allegan and Kala- mazoo, making regular trips every four weeks. He was married Nov. 10, 1880, and is the happy father of a handsome child. Steve is a typical traveler, possessing to a remarkable degree all the points character- izing an accomplished and successful sales- man. Heis the very embodiment of good nature, and when at his best, his presence is a sure antidote for the moroseness and down-heartedness too frequently met with by the average traveler. Heisa capital story teller, and has always at command a fund of anecdote and humor which never fails to in- terest and entertain those with whom he is thrown in contact. He is, moreover, an en- ergetic and persevering salesman, ignoring the cheap clap trap whichis often made to serve in place of vigorous work, and it isa matter of common report that if Steve fails to “get there,” it is useless for others to try. That he occupies the difficult position he does, carrying the same line handled by half the men on the road, and is yet able to hold the friendship of every gioceryman out of this or any other market, is sufficient proof of his extreme good sense and almost un- paralleled personal popularity. 2 The Tradition of the Wooden Nutmegs. A correspondent of the Detroit Free Press at Mobile Ala., writes, giving an anecdote about wooden nutmegs which strengthens the conviction that the manufacture of them was, in truth, one of the infant industries of Connecticut. He says: Isee you discredit the wooden nutmeg tradition. In 1828 I heard the following from a gentleman who had just graduated at Bowdoin College, so that it dates some- where in the four years just then expired. Among the medical students was an oldish practitioner from New Brunswick who had come to rub up his ideas and to getagenuine degree of M.D. He happened to be in a crowd, where a story was told of some sharp trick, at which one of the company remark- ed: “That beats the wooden nutmegs!”? The New Brunswicker blushed, and in some con- fusion exclaimed: ‘‘How did you hear of the wooden nutmegs!” He had given himself away, and they made him tell the story. He kept a small stock of drugs, to which he ad- ded an assortment of spices, etc., as is the wont incountry drug stores. During the war of 1812-15, some of these got quite searce,. and with the return of peace the smuggling peddlers made a rush over the line and dida profitable business. Our doc- tor took the first opportunity of the kind to replenish his stock, buying among other things several pounds of nutmegs, as he knew there were none in the country, and he could dispose of them to other country store-keepers. But before he had disposed of any, his wife took occasion to sample them, and found them made of wood. He hushed the thing up, hoping, as he had bought the peddler’s whole stock, that it would never be heard of, and had so far sup- posed that it was the only case of the kind. So far as the college catalogue shows, my in- formant is still living (Silas Baker, of Stan- dish, Me.), aged 77 years. ———_—>- Features of the Week. The market has been about steady during the past week, except sugars, which have de- clined 1c, and are likely to go still lower. Saginaw salt has declined 10c per barrel, and jobbers consequently reduce the price to $1, although that figure allows them a mar- gin of only about 3c per barrel. Canned apples, 31 standards, have declined to $1, and lima beans are down 5c. Mackerel has advanced slightly. Trade has been only fair during the past week, and collections have improved. Both oranges and lemons are higher. Bananas are in good supply and fine quality at about former prices. Peanuts aare little lower. + A grocer in Laurens county, Mass., owns a half bushel measure that was used before and after the revolutionary war. The Boston Globe says that of course it is valuable to him now only as a curiosity, for it holds a full half bushel. —————_-4 Orders for all kinds of butter desired will be filled promptly and satisfaction guaranteed by E. Fallas, wholesale dealer in butter and eggs, 125 and 127 Canal street, Grand Rapids. —_—>_ << The herring produces from 30,000 to 50,- 000 eggs. ‘They are so small that 20,000 are only a layer thick, andcan be placed on a square foot of glass. ———_—__—>-.<___ M. C. Russell has just received a carload . of lemons and also one of Aspinwall bana- nas. How to Detect Adulteration in Teas. From the San Francisco Merchant. “There are numerous tests, but,” said the tea inspector, “I will only describe the ones we usually employ, beginning with the simplest, and avoiding as much as possible the technical expressions.” He then took two samples, one of a spurious tea, the other a pure but commoner looking, and boiled them. Selecting a well-formed leaf from what he claimed to be the genuine lot, he smoothed it out and then held it in an open window, so that its structure could be seen in the sunlight. “Notice,” he said, ‘‘the delicate tracery of veins in this leaf, and the fact that none of these veins reaeh from the stem to the edges of the leaf, but that they all scollop in when about two-thirds of the way to the edge, and return to the stem, like the branches of a banyan tree to the ground. This is an in- variable peculiarity of the tea plant and other members of the camelia family. Now take a leaf from the other kettle, open it out carefully, and note the difference. See how the veins spread out through the entire tex- ture of the leaf, running all the way from stem to rim. Again mark another great dif- ference between the leaves. The edge of one leaf is as smooth as a finger nail, while the edge of this leaf is sharply serrated. Ex- amine a dozen leaves from either kettle and you will find exactly the same difference in each. The fact simply is that all the leaves in this pot come from the tea plant, while leaves in that pot belong to the epilobium family; that is, they are leaves either of the willow herb or the wickup, as the plants are commonly known. You may further notice that there are nothing but clean tea leaves in this pot, while the other lot is weighted down with particles of sand that were sprinkled aver one side of the leaves and then rolled in out of sight. Tea leaves con- tain a natural gum, which is wanting in those epilobium leaves, and which is neces- sary in manipulating them to their market shape. There may bea slight flavoring of tea dust in that spurious tea, but the mass is composed of foreign leaves, sand, artifici- al gum and a little Prussian blue for color- ing matter. Nothing further would be need- ed than the boiling test to condemn that trash, foritis the most barefaced fraud I ever saw; but ordinarily several assays are made from different samples of a question- able lot beforea final decision is made, as there is an established Government standard of purity, and it is sometimesa delicate question as to whether the article is quite up to the standard. In onetest the leaves are burned in a platina crucible, in which case the genuine tea ash must not weigh more than seven per cent. of the unburned leaves. Not less than 40 per cent. of this ash must be soluble in water, and the insol- uble part. after the ash has been treated with acids, must not exceed one per cent. This insoluble residue is mostly composed of silica. Another test is made by exhaust- ing the extract or juices of the leaf, and de- termining the amount of loss in weight, and so I could name you several others, but the ones suggested before are generally employ- ed. Besides applying these tests to tea dust, we also submit that article to micro- scopic examination, in order to determine the structure of the leaf of which the dust is composed. These analytical experiments are only applied in suspicious cases, for, as 1 said before, the great mass of the tea sent here is pure, and requires a merely nominal examination by the simple tests.” ee New File-Cutting Machine. There has recently been introduced among the Engiish filemakers a new machine, of continental origin, for cutting files which it is reported makes very exact imitations of hand-cut files. In this device the hammer strikes the chisel, which is loose and may be taken and replaced at will, in precisely the same way as in the cutting by hand, and at the same time a more even and regular cut is effected. The machine is also said to possess a great degree of delicacy of action, rendering it possible without any great skill to regulate the cuts to a very considerable degree of nicety. The cuts made are further asserted to be as deep and the teeth made as strong and durable as those made by the manual process. At the Corner Grocery. From the San Francisco Post. “There’s a little too much hippodrome aboutithat sugar you sold me,’ said a cus- tomer to a grocer the other day. ‘““How’s that?” “Well, there’s not sugar enough in it for coffee and there’s hardly sand enough for mortar.” “That shows you don’t, understand our great combination brand,’’ blandly replied the diluter, ‘‘you’ve only got to use twice as much and the residue is just splendid for cleaning knives.”’ And he sold him another box of dried apples made from the best selected shoe parings. —____—~ -2 << The Laziest Boy in the Land. A Boy in North Easton, who is too lazy to wind up his Connecticut watch in the usual way, puts the stem on the banister and rolls it along as he goes upstairs to bed. When he reaches the top of the stairs the watch is found to be wound. oe -@-

kill Bugs, Worms, Caterpil- lars, Bed-bugs, and Lice on Potatoes, Cabbage, Melons, Cucumbers, Squash and Grape Vines, or other Trees, Plants and Vines, Lice on Cat- tle, Poultry, ete. Price, 3 Ibs 25c, 10 Ibs 60c, 25 Ibs $1.25, 1 barrel 225 to 260 hs, 4 cents # bb. At wholesale and retail by ww. H. Gardner, SEED GROWER, oS NO The Michigan Tradesial. THE EVIL OF COUNTERMANDING, How It Is Viewed by a Contemporary. From the Merchant Traveler, Some years ago, this paper contained an editorial on tnis subject, treated principally on the basis that merchants countermanded orders on their own account and that travel- ing men scarcely ever “worked them’ to do so. We recognized the fact that travelers were sometimes dishonorable enough to re- sort to underhand measures to effect such re- sults, but we did not think any of them con- sidered that there was a shadow of excuse for such conduct. The following editorial - from the Evansville Argus shows that one man at least has some doubts, and we heart- ily endorse our contemporary’s positive method of disabusing his mind and giving some valuable hints to all who think as he does, or act in that manner, whatever they think: A traveling man wants to know if we think it is right, after one drummer has sold a bill of goods, for another to come along and by any means, fair or foul, induce the mer- chant sold to to countermand his order given to the first one and buy of the new comer. We say calmly and flat-footedly that we don’t. We take it for a mean, contemptible and underhanded way of doing business. Both the merchant and the drummer who in- duces him to countermand are to blame. A merchant who hasn’t sense enough to know prices and know what he is doing when he buys a bill ought to sell out and go back to farming, and a drummer who will seek to cause a merchant to be dissatisfied and cause him to go back on a fair and square business transaction, ought to quit the road and go to “steering” for a bunko game. Every man of common sense knows thatthe profits in each line in the wholesale trade average about the same. If a man who travels for a good square house sells a bill, the merchant may be satisfied that the prices are about right. Say the next man comes along, and finds that the merchant has bought. It is the easiest thing in the world to tell him that there has been a “big drop” in some particular staple in the line and that he has paid too much. It is easy to show that he has been shame- fully (?) used. (Just as if any drummer would kill himself forever by ‘playing the game of overcharging a customer whom he expects to keep.) In ease the last drummer sells a Dill in place of the countermanded one, while he may go down to the price he mentioned on staples, he will make it up on something else, and if the merchant will strike a gen- eral average, he will find that he has paid about the same prices for both bills, and if anything a little more for the latter bill, for the man who will not hesitate to “beat” a fellow-salesman, will not hesitate to ‘‘beat’” a customer. Of course there are a great many ways of getting trade, and this is one of them, but it isamighty “dizzy” way of getting along. Now, boys, this lecture is a little severe, but it is the truth, and if you don’t believe it, let the next man who beats a fellow-drummer in this manner, go up to him the next time they meet, and try to talk to him and see if his— the beater’s—conscience don’t prick him so hard that he would much rather look at the first drummer’s feet than into his eyes. —_—___—~_2 <> Educating Consumers. To the Retail Grocers’ Advocate are to be credited the following sensible remarks: Every retail grocer can do agreat deal towards educating consumers in the right di- rection. If, in ignorance, they insist on hav- ing a big package of goods for a certain amount of money, when a package of that size cannot be furnished of pure goods, the dealer should so inform the consumer, and, to illustrate, ask him whether he would rather have a quart of pure milk or two quarts of milk and water for the same price. Take, for instance, spices, which are now adulterated more than any other article of consumption. One of the Icading wholesale houses in the trade conceived the idea of selling only pure spices. Some of the sales- men prophesied that they would loose their trade, because, they said, the retail dealer would insist on having a big package of goods for a smal] amount of money, but the house determined to try the experimentof putting up atwo ounce package of pure spice at about the price at which they had formerly furnished a four-ounce package of adultera- ted spice. At first many retail merchants objected to the small package, but on the ex- planation being made and the illustration be- ing given of a quart of pure milk as compar- ed with two quarts of milk and water, they were induced to try it, and in every instance where they tried it, the result was they were greatly pleased, and the spice trade of the firm in question largely increased instead of diminished. Now here isa moral which retail merchants would do well to profit by. They can make as much or more profit from pure goods as they can from adulter- ated goods, besides attracting trade and se- curing a reputation which will be worth money to them. They can afford, therefore, to take some trouble to explain to ignorant consumers the merits of the goods they han- dle. This is only onefillustration of how a gro- cer can gain theZconfidence and interest of his customers. By making it a rule to talk with your customer on such matters you ed- uucate him out of the prejudice that he must always purchase the cheapest articles in price. ———_—-4. << W. S. Adkins succeeds Adkins & Carpen- _ ter in general trade at Morgan. Attractive Displays in Store Windows. From the U. 8. Economist. In the art of displaying goods with taste, so as to attract customers, the French excel, and indeed, in large Parisian warehouses, the shopman or shopwoman, who arranges the montre, or window exhibition, is an im- portant person. Men are said to succeed better in this department than women, just as they are alleged to have a more correct taste in the matter of dress-making. In France, however, good taste may almost be called a national instinct, and in regard to the decorating of store windows it general- ly evinces itself in the correctest manner by simplicity, The chief thing to be avoided, with a view to effect, is over-stocking. In the windews of the best London stores, where the Parisian art has been acquired, goods are never displayed in excessive quan- tities; each separate article is so placed that it shall attract notice; but dealers who un- derstand their business renew their display frequently. Some havea complete change every day; at any rate, they exhibit new stock not less than once a week. People who pass by a store day after day are sure to be attracted by novelties. Every variety of the public taste must be catered for, and this can only be done by acontinuous supply of fresh and pretty things, nor is it really more expensive to alter a window exhibition often then to show the same thing for weeks or months. Articles that have been shown for any length of time have generally to be relegated among damaged stock, and by that time people have grown so weary of seeing them that they repel rather than attract cus- tom. The best French modistes, for exam- ple, act upon the principal that a bonnet should never be exhibited more than two days running, and its position in the win- dow ought to be the same on the two days. Here, in America, many storekeepers al- low goods to remain in their windows until they grow dingy. How they can hope that people will be anxious to buy dull looking goods is a mystery, and if the truth could be known it would probably appear that those who crowd their windows with goods and leave them for along time, get much less causual custom than those who show only a few articles at a time, but display them fre- quently. A cheap thing looks twice as cheap when treated respectfully, so to say, by the vendor; if hung up amongst a lot of other cheap things, it not only fails to tempt but leaves the buyer with no idea that he has made a good bargain. ——__—~<_2-<______- The Stowe Failure. Frederick Immen, assignee for Wm. H. Stowe, the hat merchant, has completed an inventory of the stock and accounts of the estate, from which it appears that the cost value of the stock is $3,862.04, and the pres- ent value $1,764.03. The book accounts are valued at $204.90 and the fixtures $150,mak- ing the total assets $2,108.93. The liabili- ties are $2,913.18 distributed among twenty- two creditors in the following amounts: Dyer, Taylor & Co., Boston.............. $755 75 Sabin & Page ee eos en 29 13 J. B. Stetson & Co., Philadelphia........ 240 00 M. McGlone ee 54 00 Woodruff, Morris & Co., New York...... 183 00 J.& L. Maunter Pee as. 204 00 W.H. Courtney & Co., ce 153 00 H. M. Silverman Ee aes 252 00. LaDon & Lomas eee 88 25 Hirschberg & Co. Pek ke 33 00 Travers Bros,, ee 11 50 D. M. Saunders & Co., 2a 00 L. T. Fell & Co., Orange, N.J............ 103 50 Seeley & Co., Newark, N. J.............. 48 00 D. W. Northrup & Co., Utica............. 48 50 H. W. Price, Rockford, Dll........... .... 203 00 Dickerson & Co., Detroit........00......-. 8 50 Houseman May & Co., Grand Rapids.... 209 00 First National Bank, * .... 200 00 Daily Times - 14 47 Saturday Globe, ee 3 50 Mr. Johnson, + 5 00 ———__—.-2<—>_____- The Contrast. From the Merchants’ Review. Look from city to country—from the Me- tropolis to the Northwest—from Wall street to the wheat farms and orchards—from the gloom of perdition to God’s goodness—froin the blackness of man’s depravity to the greenness of nature’s bounty. With the speculative scale at the bottom there is ‘the promise of the biggest crops we have ever had. Thank God and take courage, depend upon the honest penny and discard the crooked dollar. ———_—__—- 2 When slicing bananas always use a sil- ver knife, as asteel one will make them turn dark. Good honey is like mercy—‘“‘its quality is not strained.” Likewise, mercy has no glucose in it. The yield of peaches in Delaware promis. es this year 8,000,000 baskets, the heaviest yield since 1875. A Baltimore judge recently decided that a tailor must make a coat to fit before he can recover his pay for it. About this time, clothing houses suspend placards bearing inscriptions like this: “Rormerly $6.50; now $3.” Do not sponge your old alapaca dress with soapsuds, but take a little cold coffee, strain it, and sponge all spots with that. Pies made of canned pumpkin may be thickened with fiour; use a desertspoonful of flour and one egg for each medium-sized pie. From cork clippings, once thrown away, thousands of yards of linoleum are now made at Delmenhorst, Germany, where the industry is becoming quite important. The mixture used ina New York manu. factory of Neufchatel cheese is fone and a half pounds of Jard mixed with 100 pounds of skim milk. Texas forty years ago was practieally a desert and the handful of settlers lived en tirely on game. ‘To-day there are more than 10,000,000%cattle, sheep, horses, mules and | swine in the State, and the cotton crop last year was worth more than the entire cotton op of the United States in 1848 There is adulteration even in oranges. To make blood oranges unscrupulous dealers now prick the skins of ordinary oranges and then subject them to a bath in a colored li- quid. A Fort Wayne merchant announces his intention of retiring from mercantile life to engage in more profitable business. He pro- poses to make a fortune by solving the cash puzzles in the city papers. The problem, ‘Required thelength of the | largest strip of yard-wide carpet that can be | laid in a room 40x12 feet’? was one which stumped the entire university of Pennsylvan- ia, and it was once said to be impossible to solve by any known rules of algebra. It has, however, just been worked out by an expert mathemtician of Norwich, Conn., who claims as a result 40.53002 feet. B. TIN BUER, Wholesale Dealer in Butter and Eggs. HASTINGS - - MICH. Satisfaction Guaranteed. JOSEPH ROGERS, Wholesale Dealer in BUTTER, EGGS, AND POULTRY. HASTINGS = = MICH. TIT ‘osvoiyD "3g oxe'T Par ‘saoysnqnd “OO 2 TIVH 0} avmoms oanduosap 107 puss *ssoo0id say30 Aue Aq pormbaz auiy 94} JIBY UI posopuel SENAWALVLS GAZINALI pue jday aw s NOOOV «SHAWOLSNS ‘yoog-Avq puviaspeyT pauiquied ino suisn Ag "SHa004N9 TIVLAY wor ASV3 3QVW SNId33>-1009 EDMUND B. DIKEMAN, —THE— GREAT WATCH MAKER, —AND— JEW HOR, 44 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. A. . Frowuruekt, HOUSE DECORATOR —And Dealer in— FINE WALL PAPER Window Shades, Room Mouldings, Artists’ Materials ! Paints, Oils, Glass, Ete. 37 No. IonrIA STREET, SOUTH OF MONROE. Special designs furnished and Estimates given for interior decoration and all kinds of stained and ornamental Glass work. ALBERT COYE & SONS, —Manufacturers and Jobbers of— Awnings, ‘Tents, Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers, Flags, Banners, Ete. All Ducks and Stripes Kept Constantly on Hand. OILED CLOTHING. 73 Canal Street, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. te" Send for Prices. A. CRIPPEN, A. WHOLESALE Hats, Gaps and Furs 54 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN, "We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices as Low as Chicago and Detroit. SEED BUCKWHEAT We have a choice lot of Seed Buckwheat, which we offer to the trade at $1.25 per bushel. SEED STORE, 91 Canal street. STEAM LAUNDRY 43 and 45 Kent Street. A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS, Orders by Mail and Express promptly at- | GRAND RAPIDS Flower Pots 2 Hanwing Vases MANUFACTURED FOR H. LEONARD & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HAND OR MACHINE MADE POTS FOR SAE BY THE PACKAGE OR RE- PACKED TO ORDER, Sold at Manufacturers’ Prices. Price List at once for the Spring Trade. SHEDS FIELD AND GARDEN, a eee WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, SEED STORE, 91 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. W. 7. LAMOREAUX, Agent ALABASTINE! eae re eae PERT RGR EH RS Alabastine is the first and only prepara- tion made from calcined gypsum rock, for application to walls with a brush, and is fully covered by our several patents and perfected by many years of experiments. It is the only permanent wall finish, and admits of applying as many coats as de- sired, one over another, to any hard surface without danger of scaling, or noticeably adding to the thickness of the wall, which is strengthened and improved by each ad- ditional coat, from time to time. It is the only material for the purpose not dependent upon glue for its adhesiveness ; furthermore it is the only preparation that is claimed to possess these great advantages, which are essential to constitute a durable wall finish. Alabastine is hardened on the wall by age, moisture, ete.; the plaster absorbs the admixtures, forming a stone cement, while all kalsomines, or other whitening preparations, have inert soft chalks, and glue, for their base, which are rendered soft, or scaled, in a very short time, thus necessitating the well-known great incon- venience and expense, which all have ex- perienced, in washing and scraping off the old coats before refinishing. In addition to the above advantages, Alabastine is less expensive, as it requires but one-half the number of pounds to cover the same amount of surface with two coats, is ready for use by simply adding water, and is easily ap- plied by any one. RR BRR eR RRB ALI Paint Dealers. MANUFACTURED BY—— THE ALABASTINE COMPANY M. B. CHURCH, Manager. GRAND RAPIDS, - - - MICHIGAN. Send for |: Grand Rapids Wire Works Manufacturers of All Kinds of VA7IRE SAZORK! 92 MONROE STREET. oe 6, $, YALE & BRO., —Manufacturers of— FLAVORING EXTRACTS | BAKING POWDERS, BLUOINGS, ETC., 40 and 42 South Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, - - + HEADQUARTERS! —FOR— Sporting Goods —AND— OUT DOOR GAMES, Base Ball Goods, Marbles, Tops, Fishing Tackle, Croquet, Lawn Tennis, Indian Clubs, Dumb Bells, Boxing Gloves. We wish the Trade to notice the fact that we are Headquarters on these Goods And are not to be undersold by any house in the United States. Our Trade Mark Bats —ARE THE- BEST AND CHEAPEST In the Market. &" Send for our New Price List for 1884. Order a Sample Lot Before Placing a Large Order. EATON, LYON & ALLEN 20 and 22 Monroe Street, MICHIGAN. U. FREETER, 36 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. GRAND RAPIDS, - Dealer in All Kinds of Country Produce —Also— STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, CANNED AND DRIED FRUITS. EGGS AND BUTTER A Specialty. Pays Cash on Receipt of Prop- erty. Buyers of Eggs by the Crate or Barrel will be supplied at the lowest Wholesale Price with Sound, Fresh Stock. This House does not handle Oleomargarine, Butterine or Suine. Telephone Connection. KEMINK, JONES & 60, Manufacturers of Fine Perfumes, Colognes, Hair Oils, Flavoring Extracts, Baking Powders, Bluings, Etc., Etc. ALSO PROPRIETORS OF ES EIMINE’S “Red Bark Bitters’’ —AND— The Oriole Mantfactoring Co. 73 West Bridge Street, MICHIGAN. FOSTER, STEVENS & C0, —W HOLESALE— HARD WARE! 10 and 12 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE SOLICIT THE DEALER'S TRADE, And NOT the Consumer’s. We are Manufacturer’s Agents for the Crown Jewel Yapor stove! And quote factory prices. Send for catalogue We are Manufacturer’s Agents for Jeweit’s Bird Cages And quote factory prices. Send for catalogue We are Manufacturer’s Agents for Jewett’s Filters, And quote factory prices. Send for catalogue We are also Headquarters for Grand Rapids Wheelbarrows and Bacon & Priestly Express Wagons, Allof which are sold at factory prices. We would be: pleased to send catalogue to those wishing to buy. We are carrying to-day as large a stock, and filling orders as complete, as any house in Michigan. Foster Stevens: Co, *