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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1889.

NO. 284.

 

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A LESSON OF TO-DAY.

Where the bright New England villages are busy with thrift and gain—

And city is linked with country by the grip of the railway train—

With moss-grown roof and shingled sides, painted the soberest brown.

A dwelling stands amid the trees, its front door toward the town:

And eyen this old-fashioned seems, with knocker on one side,

And half-doors, double bolted, but which can swing open wide.

No Mansar4, tiles or fancy slate; its garret windows old,

Are relics of the by-gone days when homespun goods were sold;

No winter’s wind can shake the pile, for from the great oak trees

The sturdy woodsmen hewed the beams, with ax-marks on the knees:

The glazing—set in six-inch panes, from sand-specks not quite clear—
Through which, with plumb-straight vision, all distant things look queer:

But in the “big room,”’ sunrise-faced, in all its state and pride,

Two modern windows give a view upon a mountain’s side.

Close-wedged, and meeting at the base, the hills look grandly down,

And streams their rugged paths have traced down from the mountain’s crown
While in the spring the shifting shades lie softly in the sun, '
And buds of blossoming trees are seen when spring has scarce begun.

Away up in the Granite State, where skies and hills are blue,

There lived a man of large estate; his bond and word were true.

Plain, honest and hard working, he had fought his way through life,
And found, despite its sears and blows, a victory in the strife.

He lived in a quiet, country way; his family lived the same,

Though Thomas, the son, inclined to be gay, and justly earned the name
Of coming home from trips to town when the moon was bright and cold,
And the cherry-wood clock, with steady stroke, the midnight hour had tolled:
When sister Hannah, loving girl, sat up to let him in,

Knowing that Tom was a bit of a ehurl, and thought such hours no sin.
A country household; only four—father, mother, daughter and son—
With just a touch of the city in Tom's clothes and his fun.

“Boys will be boys,” the father’d say,
With a knowing look at wife.

And all the youngsters want their way
In the early days of life.

Our Tom will settle down at last,
And when he does we'll see

His wild oats sown are rooted fast,
And a steady man he'll be!”

Then, quite with a sigh, she’d nod and think.
Though never a chiding look was there,

That she could, if she would, with the slyest wink,
Tell a certain man with a serious air

How he used to go it when he was young,
And courting a certain Miss Sarah Lane,

Till bells for the wedding in church were rung,
And then the fact was certainly plain—

That his start in life was the clothes he wore:
His capital, health and a Will

To work his way in the world, and more—
A rich man’s place to fill.

No board in all the country round with more good cheer was spread,
And many a holiday gathering closed with late stars overhead—
For Timothy’s wife, su plain and good,
Knew how to keep things right,
And governed her house, as good wives should,
With everything in sight.
she made all welcome, knowing well, whenever the dark days came,
That after work there was time to play, and taught her child the same.
No rustic beauty, golden-haired, with eyes for a poet’s pen,.
Her daughter Hannah suitors found ‘mongst all the honest men,
And Timothy’s stock and acres broad, so fine for grass and grain,
Were fair inducements, solid, sure, why Hannah should change her name;
And yet, unpromised, her heart was free.
For father and mother and Tom and the farm kept Hannah's heart-strings taut.

Tom gave his confidence (when he chose) and took good care to tell
How the Boston men dined at the club, and treated him so well.

He painted glowing pictures, how the smartest State Street men
Made fortunes large by ‘‘dipping in the market now and then.”
Then, as the run to Meadowbrook was a short ride from the town,
The friends he always went with were oft “invited down,”

And when the leaves were scattered and the air was crisp and still.
These city chaps, with dog and gun, shot over wood and hill;

So the farmer’s simple household was made merry over night,

And Tom’s new-found acquaintances were always ‘‘treated right.”

The smoke in curls ascended from the thoughtful farmer's pipe,

In dreams of Tom's well-doing, when his projects should be ripe,

And the fragrance of Havanas spread through the filmy cloud,

As financial problems solved themselves, and every one seemed proud,

To know that something higher than the farm work was Tom’s bent,

And to give their boy a showing both the parents were intent.

Then Hannah found some pleasure in attentions paid to her.

When Beverly Jones brought down his team, she certainly couldn't demur
At enjoying the “spin” he offered; for the bays stepped well together,
And the monogrammed afghan felt so warm in the cool October weather.

Poor Beverly Jones had tossed about the cross-seas on Life’s tide,
And could tell stories, in his way, of countries far and wide.

He had traveled till the Old World, beneath his wandering feet,

Was familiar in its by-ways as the narrowest Boston street.

He had sauntered over England; cut squares of London fog:

He had visited Killarney; had explored each Irish bog:

He had ‘‘done”’ the pretty Tyrol, and in Russia had gone far

But for Nihilistic troubles, might have visited the Czar.

Tn fair, seductive Paris, he found pleasure, but no harm,

Still, all this lore of distant lands for him had little charm.

But State Street was the province where all with promise glistened,
As he told his pleasant story to the girl who sighed—and listened.

Her brother Tom, his nearest friend, deserved a better show

Than could be found in Meadowbrook, where everything was ‘‘slow.”
The “Great Galvanic Company” had a Treasurer’s vacant chair
Which Tom could fill—if Hannah’s words would only place him there.
From wandering here and wandering there, taking the world at best,
Jones needed Hannah's love and then would settle down and rest.

So, Hannah’s heart-strings loosened, as she thought of Tom’s success—
She really fancied Jones much more than she would yet confess—
And while the practiced driver kept the horses swift and straight,

She knew that time was fully ripe and said ‘“‘Yes!"’ at the gate.

) Maybe the bracing autumn air made Hannah’s cheeks so red;

Maybe a doubting thought the cause, when the little word was said;
But when the farmer's daughter pressed her cold hands on his cheek,
And looking down from ‘hind his chair, essayed her part to speak,
The old man gave his spectacles a hitch above his brow,

And saw just what was coming, not knowing why, or how.

So, they talked the matter over, with Tom in highest glee

At what he would (and wouldn't) do, when Treasurer he should be.
And Timothy Green, in earnest of what he meant to do,

When Tom should be successful, and to help the project through.
With trembling lip and tear-dimmed eye, and rather husky tones,
Gave Tom the bonds to buy the stock—and Hannah’s hand to Jones:

But, when the blazing logs were low, and the sitting-room grew chill,
Though bed-time came, with hand in hand, he sat with Sarah still.

Soon all the village gossips caught the news and sent it ’round,

That Hannah Green, the quiet girl, a city beau had found;

And suitors, not quite jilted, still confessed to feeling sore,

Talked of the coming marriage and wondered more and more

Where Tom found brains enough to play the mining magnate’s part,

Where one side of the bargain was his sister Hannah’s heart.

Good Timothy Green at first felt sad; he pondered long and well

Whether the match was good or bad, and, pondering, could not tell,

Jones talked of stocks in large amounts, was alternately ‘“‘long” or ‘“‘short ;””
He mentioned his several bank accounts, and deemed it merely sport

To take in a thousand shares or so, but seldom seemed content

To find on his balance-sheet a show of less than ten per cent.

The Great Galvanic, his special pride, kept quiet since it started,

For prudential reasons, was little known “til with treasury stock he'd parted,
And a “flyer”? which Timothy Green had made, with margin in Jones’ ands,
Had shown a profit quick and large—better than crops or lands.

Tom told how the property, far out West, in the most auriferous ground,

Had croppings and leads surpassing the best—the richest deposits found;
That money was needed, and work to be done, to avoid a “jump” to the claim,
And handed a parcel of stock, with notes, to which Timothy signed his name,
While liberal Jones, to make things right, turned over a thousand shares

As nest-egg for ‘‘Mother,”’ while the price was low, lest a rise come unawares,
And Tom declared that, very soon, the Galvanic’s ore would sell,

And nothing in the mining camps had ever promised half so well.

Then Jones, in loving words and deeds, impatient was and grew so dear
That, though the engagement promise stood, ‘‘no wedding for a year,”
The day was set the dresses bought, and preparations made

By all the little household—and the bills were promptly paid.

Then Hannah moved about the house, as everything progressed,

And in the new life coming a bride’s delight she guessed,

Giving a woman’s trust and love—her whole heart in her hand,
Teaching her woman's nature in her faith to understand

“Time enough,” was the silent thought;

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That love, as it should be, was a prize too rare to be lightly won,
And that confidence deep at the root of it lies ere love-life has begun.

In silent moments she asked herself
If Beverly’s heart were hers,
And whether a dowry of lands or pelf
In love-thought ever occurs;
And whether the man who had traveled wide,
Who had flirted with ladies fine,
In seeking an honest country bride,
Loved her more than Galvanic Mine.

With easy grace Jones scorned the doubt. His was no sunshine love, he said,
And laughingly kissed a tear away, as Hannah playfully tossed her head:

He needed a wife to share his luck; a woman loving, pure and good;

His love-vows were no romance—she might test them as she would.

Three months had passed; just ninety days, in the lovers’ calendar counted out.
The old brown house was gayest, and the neighbors round about
Were bid to the wedding; and Jones’ friends their most engaging powers asserted,

As they danced a reel with Meadowbrook girls, and with the prettiest toyed and flirted:

While the spinsters admired the traveling dress and argued whether or no

There was luck for a bride on a stormy day, when away in the snow she’d go.

Then short farewells were spoken; the old folks had their say;

The handful of rice and a slipper were thrown far after the sleigh.

And the covered trunk, with initials new, checked out on the train that night,

Had a Bible from mother, with passages marked, ’neath the clothing hid from sight.

There were silent hours for Timothy Green when the day’s work was completed;
The house seemed strange, with Hannah away, when wife and he were seated ;
He complained that his ‘specs were cloudy,” and a tear, like a bright glass bead,
Fell down on the sheet before him, when her letters he tried to read.

She wrote of her new acquaintances, of her cosy cottage room,

So bright with books and pictures that nowhere was there gloom;

Told how the folks who called on her, so friendly seemed inelined,

That no young bride, in city life, such kindly friends could find.

They lived in a suburb, a few miles out, in one of the prettiest spots,

Of a half-fledged village, with some ‘‘swell” folks who owned the corner lots,
And the shaded lane leading toward the house, hid from inquisitive eye

What the inmates might be doing, from neighbors inclined to pry.

So time rolled on—spring, summer, fall;
Each with its changes, in-doors and out,

With varied pleasures, sorrows small,
And some regret, and little doubt.

A summer visit to New Hampshire’s hills,
Closed but too soon, left Hannah free

To think of granite rocks and winding rills
Where often, girl-like, she so loved to be.

Thanksgiving came; the big New England feast
Its own good praises had good right to sing

In home-made dishes, neither last nor least,
And sounds of laughter made the old house ring.

She sat an hour in her childhood’s room, with mother by her side.
‘Twas not for any complaining word, but for old times, she cried;
And the story, slowly given, came unbidden, piece by piece.

That she longed for the country homestead, and from City life release.
For Tom was little comfort, with money enough to spend,

When Jones and he thought duty done, dispatches they would send
Of “Kept in town. Directors meet. Home late, to-night.” And soon
She found her husband’s company a privilege and a boon.

The friends who came to dine and wine made Bedlam of the night,
And many a game was played and won, with money kept from sight.
Quick visits were so often made, to some distant place, not named,
That Hannah, in trust of Beverly’s word, felt doubting and ashamed
To ask the reason, since for business needs ’twas best;

And Tom, with satchel duly packed, had started for the West.

‘As Treasurer, he had gone away, to ‘“‘see how the claim panned out,”
‘And Hannah was left alone to love, to watch, to think, to doubt.
Still, true to her trust. and true to herself, she hid her sorrows deep.
Till often the morning hours found her sobbing herself to sleep.

There was talk on the Street of the Galvanic Mine, the market full of stock,
And careful paragraphs promptly said the concern had reached ‘‘pay rock ;’”
The loans required to help the scheme and ship the glistening ore

Were rapidly taken, Jones declared, by bankers who asked for more;

And the Board of Directors—all his friends—to make things right and fair
Proposed a trip to London—Jones could place a big block there;

The mission—a confidential one—no word must now betray;

Not even their nearest neighbor must know he was going away.

“Just a few weeks, my darling—then—back again to you.

I’d take you along for the pleasure, but this must be hurried through.”

In their neat, bay-windowed chamber, with its -arefully-shaded light.
They sat alone and listened, on one early summer night—

Hannah to pattering rain drops fast beating upon the pane,

And Jones, with quick ear, waiting for hoof falls in the lane.

She fancied her husband started, as, pressing his hands to his head,

He seemed to be watching for something which he waited for in dread.
He listened to the sudden wind, then turned the light down dim,

And she thought she felt him shudder as she put out her arms to him.
“There! there!’ he said, and held her head down to his shoulder tight,
“Only a run to London, then all will come out right.

The Galvanic must be floated— A sound of horses’ feet,

The grating of wheels on the graveled road, and out in the village street
A wagon stood “neath the dripping trees. A knock at the small side door.
‘And Jones’ greeting to some one he “expected an hour before.”’

Below, in the library, she could hear the visitor’s measured tread,

As solemn it seemed, and as steady, as theirs who carry the dead.

Her husband called. She found his friend talking in accents low.

They started as she entered, and all that she heard was ‘“‘Go!””

“Twas an intimate friend of the dining set, and he spoke with air polite:
“This trip abroad’s quite sudden. He must ride into town to-night.”

A dim foreboding of evil and temples which throbbed with pain,

‘As she held up her lips, with a smothered sigh, for the good-night kiss again.
No man, with heart not made of stone, could have looked in her quiet face.
Where doubt and anxiety held their own, but distrust showed no trace—

And Jones had a little of softer stuff than granite in his, to his praise,

‘As he saw the beseeching, loving look in Hannah’s steady gaze:

“cA wet ride, and a fast one; I'll be back in the morning, pet,

Don’t worry for me till the ship sails—I’m not on the ocean yet Li

Few words to her—one lingering kiss—and a light from the doorway shone
Upon the drizzling rain which fell, and Hannah was left alone.

Away, in the dark, the men had gone—and Hannah’s heart went, too;

For she loved the man who had left her, and her heart to its pledge was true-
Too true to its vows, indeed it was—for with the dawn of day

There came other men, with questions sharp, for him who had gone away.
Her denial of his flight was true. She did not know the rest,

And answered, with her firmest tone when inquires were pressed.

One man, despite his rough, round face, saw just how matters stood:

He was used to detective duty, but he knew what it was to be good.

“Your husband's fled from justice, ma’am; you'd better leave this place.
It’s hard, I know, ma’am, but you're brave—look trouble in the face.

The ‘Great Galvanic’ bubble’s burst; your father’s in the lurch,

Since Beverly Jones, its President, took you for his bride in church.

I reckon you knew but one of his names—he’s pretty well known over-sea,
‘And he’s worked it well, with his Galvanic Mine, and dividends yet to ber
The game’s up now. Of these things here, whatever's really your owa-
Whatever you had before you became the wife of him that’s flown—

You may take away—but at once, you see—for before to-morrow night
There'll be an inventory here, and everything sealed up tight.”

The mystery of her lonely nights; the story a gossiping neighbor told:
The stock in the mine that Tom had bought; the shares to her father sold,
The weary hours of watching; her husband's strange reserve:

The actions she, for love of him, neglected to observe;

The many cunning stragatems of which she had not thought,

Came in’a moment's memories, and each its sorrow brought.

“Is this all true? God helpmethen! I’m strong—pray, let me go Ly

She murmered, staggering to her room; then turned, and whispered low:
“Back to my dear old home again—I've father and mother there!

They Ul take me back to them again.’? A strange and vacant stare

Was the look from out her brown eyes then, as all her strength gave way-
And, with face pressed to the pillow, a half-ecrazed woman lay.

“You sent that message last night, Bob?’ one of the officers said,

As he tenderly put the cold, pale hands back from the pillowed head.
‘Yes; and the old un’s sure to come—he isn’t a man to give in.

He’s a rich up-country farmer, an’ he’s honest enough to win.

There’s an early train; he’ll be here soon—it’s nearly time for it—so
You see to the girl, an’ I’li just look what’s likely to be the show.

A snug little place, but the ‘personals’ I reckon won't clean up much—
‘A lot of household furniture, fine pictures, carpets, and such.”
‘What's that? The whistle? Then the Governor’ll soon be here.
There’s a hatful of trouble inside—and outside—things are queer.”

The train was in; and soon there came a sturdy, brave old man,

Who took his child to his arms again, as only a father can.

“Bad business, boys!’ he said to the men. “This girl was all my hope.
She’s fallen into a villain’s hand; but there’s always an end to a rope.
Whatever's hers I'll take with me—the rest belongs to the Law.

A sorry day for the folks at home when Hannah that man saw!”

Softly and tender the good man spoke, as the sorrowing girl looked up:
No word of reproach was uttered; no drop to her misery’s cup.

The staunch New England farmer put back the coming tear,

For Hannah was all his own again—his duty was plain and clear.

‘A lesson most bitter he had learned, and Tom must learn it, too:

For his path in the world was rugged; he must fight his own way through.

The old house looked almost the same. The wife stood at the door,

As the faltering steps of the stricken girl fell on the sill once more;

‘And the half-doors swung wide open, as they had done years ago,

When Hannah was in short clothes and the fields were white with snow.

She had gone away in the winter. More than a year had passed;

There were leaves on the trees for her welcome now; the brook ran free and fast;
A mother’s fond kiss greeted her, as she, weeping, bowed her head,

With loving hands she clasped her, and asilent prayer was said.

“She’s home again with us, Sarah. Poor Hannah's not to blame;

Many a foolish woman has suffered and borne the same.

I've worked for many years, my dear; I’ve roughed it hard and long:

But I'm sound in health and mind, wife; these tough old arms are strong,
There’s a good New Hampshire farm still left—there’s plenty of ground to till—
It made me rich once, Sarah—and it’s good for a big crop still;

So just be kind to Hannah—she’s back again once more—

Thank God, she has a father!”?, And he closed the old half-door—

Shut out the world, and kept the love of the parents fast within:

here was still a home for Hannah, and her error had been no sin.

“We'll stick to the farm and farming—I know what stock will bring—
The other kind, not fed on grass, will do for that State Street ring.
We'll give them the Great Galvanic, when I’ve plowed it under deep.
We've something in this homestead—this broad old farm we'll keep.
If Tom don’t care to farm it—wants mining shares and trash,

He may work his way on credit—but without my name cr cash;

CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN.

 

THE OVERGAITER CRAZE.

They Are Fashionable Now and All the
Girls Wear Them.
From the Philadelphia Record.

A girl with rosy cheeks and the dream-
iest of dreamy eyes strolled down Chest-
nut street recently as proud asa peacock.
She was very fashionably dressed, and
there was in her attire a harmonious
blending of colors which at once stamped
her asa young lady of exquisite taste.
But she seemed oblivious of all her
pretty finery, and, as was plain to be seen
from her frequent looks to the ground,
was conscious only of a dainty pair of
russet-colored overgaiters that encased
her tiny feet, and the admiring glances
of a small knot of whimpering dudes
who ogled her vulgarly, yet smilingly,
from the opposite side of the street. She
was proud of her gaiters, and she put
each foot forward with a vigor that
showed it. By and by another girl came
along, and she wore overgaiters, too, and
just as proudly as her predecessor.

These overgaitered apparitions of
charming femininity became so frequent
that a reporter who witnessed the pre-
cession called upon a a swell foot-dresser
to inquire about the cause of the great
turn-out.

“Oh! it?s all the rage now,”’’ said he,
‘‘and when the flowers bloom in the
spring it will seem curious to see a
young girl, or a young man, either, who
does not wear the articles. It is purely
a matter of style, of course, and the
fashion was revived in London by the
swell society women last fall, and was
sent over by the Johnnie Bulls to their
American cousins by cable.

“T tell you what itis, young man, there
are no barnacles on the fashionable peo-
ple on this side of the briny deep when
they want to ta’. hold of a fashion that
has been set g, the other side, as was
shown when ine Directoire wedding
dresses were broughtout. At a wedding
in Paris the bride and bridesmaids ap-
peared before the minister in these robes.
Two days afterward all Europe knew
about the affair and there was a rush for
Directoire wedding costumes, but an
alert American newspaper correspondent
cabled over here a minute description of
the articles and they were in general use
here as soon as they were in Europe.

“But, toreturn tothe overgaiters. They
will be generally worn in the spring, and
nobody can deny that they are a hand-
some addition to a well-dressed man or
woman’s walking costume. There, you
see that old gentleman going up on the
other side? See those overgaiters, and
how nicely they set off his shapely pat-
ent leather shoe and stylish trousers ?
He is aman who probably wore them in
his younger days, when it was almost a
erime not to have several pairs of them
at least—one pair to match each costume.
Even now I see a great many young men
wearing them, and if this weather con-
tinues they will be all the rage in a few
months.

“What do they cost? Well, they can
be bought for any amount from $2 up-
ward. I made this pair for a young
girl, who will call for them this after-
noon.’’

Here the dealer exhibited a pair of
overgaiters that would tickle the vanity
of the most fastidious creature. They
were made of very fine gray corduroy,
and were fastened at the sides with
rather large and glistening buttons of
pure mother-of-pearl. At the bottoms
there were delicate little straps that
passed under the sole and were fastened
on the other side with large buckles of
solid silver.

“When the girl comes,’’ continued the
dealer, ‘‘she will pay me—but here she

is now. ‘Good afternoon, miss. Your
gaiters? Yes, just finished. Fourteen
dollars, please. Good-day.? That will

give you an idea of what they cost. Of
course, the price could be much higher.
I am making a pair now for a Walnut
street young lady which will cost her
$48, but the buttons and buckles are to
be of unburnished gold.”’
>
Egypt’s Commercial Capital.

The London Times is of the opinion
that ‘‘in afar distant future Port Said
will inevitably become the commercial
capital of Egypt. That it has not al-
ready become so is due mainly to the
Suez Canal Company. That it should
ever have had achance of becoming so
is equally due to the canal company,
which threw away the golden chance of
making Ismailia the commercial port of
Egypt. At the date of the opening of
the Suez Canal there was, comparatively
speaking, little capital sunk in Alex-
andria. The large quays were not made,
the large cotton-pressing establishments
were only in course of creation. It
would have hardly required the exercise
of any pressure to have diverted the
trade toIsmailia. It required, in fact, a
good deal to obstruct it, and that ob-
structive pressure was supplied by the
canal company. Under existing circum-
stances, the change from Alexandria to
Port Said will come very slowly; but it
is bound to come, in spite of the Egyp-
tian government, whose interests the
change would damage, and in spite of the
canal company, whose interests it would
benefit.

New England Factory Mutual Insur-
ance.

Prosperity, which in this case means
very low premiums, continues to be re-
ported by the associated factory mutual
insurance companies. The annual re-
port shows losses of $848,068, on risks
aggregating $491.366,988 and dividends
of $3,062,303, as against $4,462,059 re-
ceived in premiums. This obviously
makes the cost of insurance exceedingly
small. Most of the risks where sprink-
lers are required are now protected with
automatic apparatus, and the officers of
the various companies are agreed in de-
manding a further extension of the im-
proved system as the condition for low
insurance rates.

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The Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

 

A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Retail Trade of the Wolverine State,

&, A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors.

Subscription Price, One Dollar per year.
Advertising Rates made known on application.
Publication Office, 100 Louis St.

 

Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office.

 

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1889.

 

 

 

CANADIAN UNREST.

Canada’s politics continue to show signs
of unrest. Whether the immediate topic
of discussion be the fisheries, imperial
federation, commercial union, wunre-
stricted reciprocity, annexation, inde-
pendence, or what not, the real question
is the same—the assumption of a changed
relation toward the United States. In
the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa, last
Monday, Sir Richard Cartright, upon
whom the leadership of the Liberal Op-
position has fallen, since Mr. Blake has
betaken himself to the law, and who
shows a vigor which probably gives Sir
John McDonald some uneasiness, brought
on adiscussion by a resolution to the
effect that it has become a matter of ex-
treme importance to the well-being of
Canada that she should have the right to
negotiate commercial treaties with for-
eign states. The debate included but
three speeches. Sir Riehard led off, and
was followed by Mr. Foster, the Finance
Minister, who was rejoined to by Mr.
Davies, a Liberal from Prince Edward’s
island. At this point, when it was sup-
posed the debate was just fairly begun,
a score of speakers being prepared to
follow, the government leaders cut it off
by calling for the question, and the reso-
jution was voted down, 94 to66. The
move was unexpected, and is generally
spoken of in the Canadian papers asa
‘“‘ruse’’ of Sir John’s. The fact is that
he saw that a protracted debate, and
thorough ventilation of all the facts at
this time, was sure to be an advantage
to the party of progress. Mr. Foster
denounced Sir Richard’s speech as ‘‘a
thinly veiled argument in faver of inde-
pendence,’’ which necessarily it was, for
the addition to the Dominion’s functions
of the right to treat directly with other
nations is the most important step in that
direction open to her.

It would be a good thing if the Can-
adian Parliament would make a tour
through the United States, as Mr. But-
terworth has suggested in Congress they
be invited todo. They should be able to
see for themselves the contrast between
our circumstances and the condition of a
country of equal capabilities,
which has consented to remain the back-
yard of a Enropean power. Not ‘‘An-
nexation’’ nor even Commercial Union,
but Independence is the first need of
the Dominion; and that had better
achieved while her relations with Eng-

Jand are cordial and friendly, than to
wait for the inevitable quarrel which will
rend them apart. Whatever may be our
relations with the country, present or
prospective, she should learn to stand on
her own feet first, and take care of her-
self. Itis her dependence upon Great
Britain which suggests to onlookers that
her only possible destiny is ‘‘annexation’’
to us, as soon as the increasing gravita-
tion of interest and sentiment toward
America becomes so strong as to be no
longer consistent with the bond to Eng-
fand. But an Independent Canada would
be recognized as capable of shaping her
ow destinies.

nearly

be

 

POLITICAL ‘PROGRESS.

Some important measures have made
progress since the last issue of THE
TRADESMAN. President Cleveland has
signed the Nicaragua canal charter, and
several practical questions must soon
come to an issue: Whether the new
({Menocal) company will have the active
support of the new Administration:
whether it can secure the foreign capital
for the canal construction;
whether the Blackman company will be
able to maintain its claims that the old
concessions of 1848 are still valid; whether
the English government will consent to
the supplanting of the Blackman claims:
and, finally, what international situations,
affecting the United States, Nicaragua,
and Great Britain, will follow. It looks
at present as though the Blackman and
Menocal interests ought to compromise
their adverse ‘claims, and consolidate
their efforts. The news from Paris and
Panama shows more and more the terri-
bly complete collapse of the De Lesseps
work, and now is the golden moment un-
doubtedly for the United States to secure
the cut at Nicaragua.

Next in progress are the bills to admit
the new states and to refund the Direct
Tax. Both bills passed both houses and
went to the President Wednesday, the
former having promptly received the
sanction of the Executive. The States
bill provides measures for the admission
of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana
and Washington, by which they may get
their constitutions formed and adopted,
and their State officers and legislatures

aecessary

 

and United States Senators and Repre-
sentatives all elected by the beginning of
December next, so that the latter may
take their seats at the opening of the
regular session of Congress. New Mexi-
co is not in the bill, enough Democrats
having joined the Republicans in the
House to strike it out. There too
much Spanish language and too few
American public schools in that Terri-
tory, yet, to make its admission now de-
sirable.

is

 

The white people of eastern North
Carolina are much exercised over a
threatened exodus of the freedmen, who
resent their treatment, political and so-
cial. So much of the old slave-driving
spirit survives that the planters are or-
ganizing to prevent emigration. They
actually call upon the State authorities
to forbid black laborers to leave the State,
and they further threaten to lynch any
emigrant agent who is found ‘‘prowling’’
about their neighborhood! These gentle-
men will have to make up their mind in
the end that the Fifteenth Amendment is
in force, even in North Carolina, and that
the way to retain the freedmen is to treat
them as well as they are treated in other
states, in the northern half of Virginia,
for instance. Their indignation is valu-
able, however, as a reply to the frequent-
ly heard accusation that free negroes
‘will not work.”’

 

 

The ‘‘Patrons of Industry’’ craze, now
having somewhat of a run in certain
parts of Michigan, brings out an inter-
esting phase of human nature. The or-
ganizations are composed mainly of far-
mers who band together for the purpose
of securing goods at 5 per cent. above
cost. It is not usually difficult to find a
merchant in each town who will cater to
such a class, but the agreement to sell on
a5 per cent. margin makes it necessary
for the dealer to get two invoices for
every purchase—one giving the real
prices and another giving ‘‘bulged’”’
prices, as the innocent granger usually
insists on ‘‘seeing the bills.’? Surely the
gullibility of human nature is something
remarkable!

 

So far as THE TRADESMAN is aware,
but one wholesale grocery house has
broken faith with the Grand Rapids Mer-
cantile Association in relation to the
agreement not to sell goods to the family,
restaurant and boarding house trade—
and that house was a leading spirit in
the now defunct Wholesale Grocers’ As-
sociation! Under these circumstances
the question naturally arises, If the
house could not be depended upon to
keep its agreement with the retailers,
would it care a fig for its obligation to the
jobbers’ organization? If not, the Asso-

ciation did well to die before it was
born.
Epitaph for the defunct Michigan

Wholesale Grocers’ Association :

If so soon I am done for,
What was I begun for ?

 

Purely Personal.

Frank C. Sampson, the jolly hardware
dealer of Cadillac, was in town Monday
and ‘Tuesday.

Smith Barnes, General Manager of the
Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co., is spend-
ing a month in the South and Old Mexico.

Gaius W. Perkins and wife have gone
South, to be gone four or five weeks
They will make their headquarters at
St. Augustine.

Miss Belle Fairchild has resigned her
position as book-keeper for W. T. Lam-
oreaux to accept a position with a
Rochester firm.

Robert M. Floyd has left Philadelphia
and taken up his residence at Jersey
City, where he will engage in the real
estate and banking business.

Heman G. Barlow and Ludwig Winter-
nitz have been very ill during the past
week with inflammation of the bowels,
but both are now mending rapidly.

Oscar F. Conklin is spending a couple
of weeks at Ravenna, looking after the
business of O. F. & W. P. Conklin, while
W. P. is surveying the pine possessions
of the firm in Mississippi.

The sympathy of the trade will go out
to Les. Freeman and wife in the sudden
death of their only son, a likely lad of
nine years, The little fellow was hold-
ing his breath, in the course of a morning
frolic, when a bursting blood
caused his death within an hour.
funeral will occur on Wednesday

vessel

The

after-
noon.

 

<9 <>--—
East Saginaw Jottings.

The Business Men’s Association is now
thoroughly organized, has a good Seere-
tary, and we expect big results. They
are now looking for a good location for
their headquarters.

We think the condition of the roads
leading into the city this winter would
convince anyone who knew how their bad
condition kept the farmers out of the
city and made business dull, that stone
roads are absolutely necessary for our
city’s welfare, and East Saginaw can
afford to do almost anything rather than
lose the farmers’ trade.

> a

J. A. Fox, Michigan representative for
the Durham Coffee & Spice Co., of La-
fayette, Ind., is spending amonth among
the retail trade of this territory.

 

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

 

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

Thys Stadt, formerly engaged in the
hardware business at Spring Lake, is
now located at 297 Alpine avenue, in the
Jonker block.

Wm. R. Jewett has purchased the drug
stock of Geo. W. Nichols, at 37 Monroe
street, and will continue the business.
Mr. Jewett has been on the road for
Eastman Bros. for several years.

A. 8S. Davis has sold the lease of his
store on Canal street and rented the va-
cant store at 127 Louis street, where he
will carry on the manufacture and job-
bing of cigars, discarding the retail de-
partment.

Lyman Townsend, formerly engaged
in the groeery business at Howard City,
but for the past year or two engaged in
the same business here, has re-engaged
in the grocery business at Howard City.
Olney, Shields & Co. furnished the stock.

The Grand Rapids School Furniture
Co. is making arrangments to erect a con-
siderable addition to its plant as soon as
spring opens. The improvements will
comprise a three-story addition to the
present office building, 45x80 feet in di-
mensions, and a wing running south of
the same, 50x50 feet in dimensions. Fred
C. Miller will have charge of the im-
provements.

The Grand Rapids Cottage Co. has been
organized with a capital stock of $15,000
to engage in the manufacture of the
portable cottage patented by Frank E.
Lovett. Joseph Rust has been elected
President of the corporation and C. S.
Edwards Secretary and Treasurer. A
factory has been opened on South Divis-
ion street and the business will be pushed
for all there is init. The cottage differs
from others now on the market in that it
is made of canvass, instead of veneer,
being covered with a thoroughly water-
proof composition.

 

AROUND THE STATE.

Clio—Parks & Son have sold their gen-
eral stock.

Kalamo—C. M. Woodard is closing out
his general stock.

Borland—Chas. A. Brott succeeds Brott
& Reynolds in general trade.

Allegan—C. C. Spear succeeds Spear &
Davis in the grocery business.

Kendall—L. A. Mack succeeds Geo. W.
Knapp in the grocery business.

Shepherd — H. O. Bigelow succeeds
W. R. Robbins in general trade.
Marlette—A. T. Baker & Co. succeed

Buffom & Baker in general trade.

Menominee — J. M. Smith sueceeds
J. W. Stiles in _ cigar business.

Rolliin—Geo. T. Rice has assigned his
general stock to Harvey S. Bowen.

Battle Creek—Frank A. Willard has
sold his grocery stock to J. R. Housel.

Hart—A. R. Chappel succeeds the Hart
Manufacturing Co. in the lumber bus-
iness.

Saranac —Wm. Mercer has sold his
grain elevator to Wm. N. Rowe, of Grand
Rapids.

Lakeview — Ed. Withrall  sueceeds
Dolph Hutchinson in the meat market
business.

Albion — Crane & Parsons succeed
Cady & Parsons in the merchant tailoring
business.

Allegan—John Barclay succeeds Bar-
elay & Knickerbocker in the agricultural
implement business.

Wakelee—J. E. De Cue has engaged in
the hardware business—not harness bus-
iness, as stated last week.

Holland—Kanters Bros. have moved
into their new store, which comprises
3,220 square feet of floor room.

Alba—D. H. Meeker has sold his drug
stock to F. D. Hopkins, formerly of the
firm of Gilbert Hopkins & Co., at Sher-
man.

Hastings—Bert Tinkler will soon oc-
cupy the store recently vacated by Fred.
Knapp with a stock of general merchan-
dise.

St. Clair—Mark Hopkins has sold out
his hardware business to George C. Solis,
of this city, and Grant Carpenter, of Chi-
cago.

Mancelona—Warren Watson recently
lost about $100 by the giving away of
shelving containing crockery and glass-
ware.

Hastings—Fred Knapp’s grocery stock
was turned over to Lemon, Hoops &
Peters last Wednesday and by them sold
to Goodyear & Barnes.

Traverse City—Martin Olson has en-
gaged in the grocery business, on the
state road, about half way between
Traverse City and Suttons Bay.

Cadillae— The factory making cant
hook handles for Sampson & Drury
burned a couple of weeks ago, but the
firm has another factory at work on han-
dles.

Blanchard—L. D. Wait, late of Mill-
brook, has opened a grocery stock in the

Rowlader building. W. H. Caswell will
occupy a portion of the same building
with his meat market.

Advance—The building occupied by P.
B. Newton as a general store burned to
the ground onthe 14th. All but about
$500 worth of goods were saved, and bus-
iness will be resumed in another build-
ing.

St. Louis— Charles Wells succeeds
Hughes Bros. in the hardware business.

Corning—Eli Runnels has stone and
lumber on the ground for anew store
building, 20x32 feet in dimensions, work
on which will be begun as soon as the
weather is settled. He will convert the
old store into a workshop.

Detroit—The firm of H. A. Newland &
Co. has been reorganized as a limited
partnership. The special partners are
Jas. F. Joy, Aurrilla A. Burns and Martha
A. Newland, and they have contributed
$40,000, $32,123 and $14,743 respectively.

Detroit—The hardware firm of Lim-
bach & Weber, after being in business
fourteen years, has been dissolved, Mr.
Limbach retiring. Mr. Limbach had
been in business here thirty-five years
and at the present location twenty-six
years.

Allegan—The replevin suit of E. G.
Studley & Co., Grand Rapids, against
E. N. Lesperence et al., of Hamilton, has
been on trial several days and is not yet
concluded. Plaintiff sold E. N. Lesper-
ence a billof goods and took a chattel
mortgage which was subject toa prior
mortgage of $1,500, given to Mrs. Hol-
man on Lesperence’s stock of goods.
Plaintiff claims that the $1,500 mortgage
was void. A large number of witnesses
were in attendance from Hamilton.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Wayne—C. F. Blackman & Co. succeed
Chamberlain & Parsons in the lumber
business.

Mecosta—Parks Bros are arranging to
engage in the manufacture of their pat-
ented specialties under the style of the
Parks Manufacturing Co. They have
some valuable devices.

Fowlerville—The F. Palmerton Wood-
enware Co., Limited, has been organized
with a capital of $10,000, to engage in
the manufacture of woodenware at St.
Louis. F. G. Palmerton, of this place,
will be President and General Manager.

Marshall—Messrs. Faulkner, Morrow,
Upham and Crampton have formed a co-
partnership for the purpose of engaging
in the manufacture of stoves. They are
well known as practical machinists and
foundrymen, and it is reported that the
new enterprise will be established ona
large scale. They propose also to en-
gage in general repairing of machinery.
~~ 2. <<.

Bank Notes.

F. E. Durfee & Co. have opened a bank
at Perrinton.

S. MeNitt & Co., the Byron Center gen-
eral dealers, have added a banking de-
partment to their business and issue
exchange on New York and Chicago.

As a result of the recent action of the
Grand Rapids banks in agreeing to charge
exchange, several large establishments
have arranged to keep accounts with
New York banks to facilitate remittances
and save exchange.

———> -.—____

THE TRADESMAN hears strange ru-
mors relalive to Louis Johannes Koster.
The gist of the reports is that Louis is
shortly to be led captive to the altar by a
Grand Haven lady.

 

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

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

FOR SALE,

OR SALE—AN ENTIRE NEW STOCK OF DRUGS,
located in one of the best stands in Grand Rapids:
elegant fixtur-s in most modern style; will sell for
$2,000 cash; wish to study medicine. Address, Chemist,
care Michigan Tradesman. 339

R SALE—Shoe stock of about $6,000 in good con-
dition with store fixtures and lease; large, well
lighted store and good location on Monroe St, Grand
Rapids, now doing a successful cash paying trade;
reason for selling, to retire from traue altogether.
Address, S. N. Watson & Co. 3908

OR SALE—DRUG STORE IN FIFE LAKE DOING

a good business; no competition; stock and fix-

tures will invoice $2.000 ; proprietor has other busi-
ness. Addresss, C. E. Biakely, Mancelona, Mich. 379

GOOD CHANCE [f0 GO INTO TRADE—FOR

sale, ata bargain, a stock of boots. shoes and
gent’s furnishing goods, and good will of the business,
at 505 South Division St. Enquire of Rindge, —
& Co., 12, 14 and16 Pear] St.,Grand Rapids 2

GC OOD CHANCE—FOR SALE—THE ENTIRE STocK
X of goods of a well-established business. The store
to rent, also the house; well adapted for hotel, if
desired; a creditable custom has been enjoyed by the
owner, who will be pleased to impart further informa-
tion at the place, 137 West Bridge street, Grand Rapids,
Mich. M. Bootz. 381

OR SALE—A GENERAL STOCK OF MERCHANDISE;
will invoice $10,000. including fixtures; business of
1888 was over $40,000; located in thriving town of 1,
in Central Michigan; buildings for sale or rent; to
parties purchasing, we will give our trad-, which
amounts to from $600 to $1,000 per month; reasons for
selling, other business. "Address M, care Michigan
Tradesman. 376

OR SALE—GOOD RESIDENCE LOT ON ONE OF

the most pleasant streets ‘“‘on the hill.” Will ex-

change for stock in any good institution. Address 286,
care Mich gan Tradesman. 286

R 8ALE—FULL SET OF TINNERS’ TOOLS, SAFE,

show cases and karuware fixtures—all in good
condition and cheap forcash. Willselloneorall. J.
Vander Veen, 122 Monroe street, Grand Rapids. 373

OR SALE—STOCK OF CLOTHING AND GENTS’
furn'shing goods, located in a good town of 1,300
people in southern Michigan. But one other place in
town handles clothing For particulars address = &
T,” care Michigan Tradesman.

OR SALE—STOCK OF DRY GOODS, TEES.

boots and shoes, in live town in Ventral Michigan;

will invoice about $7,500, fixtures included; trade of

1888 about $22,000; will rent or sell building; our trade

will be given to buyer; reasons, too much business.
Address B, care Michigan Tradesman. 377

GRAND OP ORTUNITY AT A GREAT BARGAIN

—The stock, store, residence, warehouse, grain

and coal, at Moscow, is Offered for sale; there is money

to be made; one partner has to go west and the other

= eleowhere. Address E. Childs & Co., Hanover,
ich. 375

R SALE—THK FLUSHING FOUNDRY, WITH

steam power, within right rods of side track of
Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw Railroad. Splendid lo-
eation, noincumbrance. Stock, plows and castings in-
cluded with shop and lots. Reason for selling, age and
ill health. James Sammer, Fiushing. Mich. 374

OR SALE—A NEW, WELL-SELECTED STOCK OF

staple general merchandise. in live town and first-
class farming community on Michigan Central Rail-
way; inventory, $7,000; annual business, $28,000, with
continued increase; fine modern improved double
brick store, newly built for convenience; best location
in town; low rent and insurance; reasons for selling,
poor health. Address No. 384, care Tradesman.

OR SALE—BRIGHT, CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIES,

crockery and glass- ware, in growing town of over
1,200; stock and fixtures will invoice about $2,500;
business averages $1.500 per month; store building is
one of the finest in the State ror business and will be
rented or sold; reasons, other business needs our atten-
tion. Address A, care Michigan Tradesman.

WANTS.
CS PHARMACIST. FOR PAR-

ticulars address Adam Newell, Burnip’s Corners,
Mich 371
\ ZNTED—POSITION AS MANAGER OF STORE OR

salesmanby a young man of twelve years’ ex-
perience. Address, A. Robertson, Martin, Mich. 383

JANTED—TO EXCHANGE—PRODUCTIVE REAL

estate in the thriving village of Bailey on the C.

& W.M. Railway for house and lot in Grand Rapids,

worth about $1,500. Address, D. B. Galentine. Cas-
novia, Mich. 372

SITUATION WANTED—A COMMERCIAL TRAVELER

is open for engagement. Large acquaintance

with grocery trade in Michigan. Address Jackson,
care Michigan Tradesman. 325

V ANTED—EVERY STORE-KEEPER WHO READS

this paper to give the Sutliff coupon system a
trial. It will abolish your pass books, do away with
all your book-keeping, in many instances save you the
expense of one clerk, will bring your business down to
a cash basis and save you all the worry and trouble
that usually go with the pass-book plan. Start the ist
ofthe month with the new system and you will never
regretit. Having two kinds, both kinds will be sent
by addre ae (mentioning this paper) J. H. —

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ie MISCELLANEOUS.
$1, 200 CASH BUYS MANUFACTURING BUSI-
ness paying 100 per cent. Best of rea-
sons tor selling. Address Chas. Kynoch, St. =
Mich.
W AstTeD—-1, ,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT st
Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for
samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 14
eee DRUG CLERK WHO SPEAKS
good English. Enclose references and state age
end the amount of salary expected. Address F. D.
Paquette, Ludington, Mich 385
WW? ANTED—ACTIVE, HONE ST YOUNG MAN WHO
/ has had two years’ experience in the drug busi-
ness. Address No. 3*8, care Tradesman. 388

WS ere. AS BUVOKKEEPER OR ANY
office work, by young man of seven years’ ex-
perience. Address “Bookkeeper,” care Michigan
Tradesman. 387
CSS REGISTERED OR GOOD REGISTERED
assistant pharmacist. Address, giving particu-
lars, W. D., Carrier 23, City, 386

 

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE!

Stock of

Ury Goods and Carpe

Will
Inwoice
Abovt Four}
Thovsand

Dollars.

Good Location,

 

Will Lease ave

Amount
of Gash
Trade
per Year,
$30,080,

for

Term of Years.
Satisfactory reasons given for selling out.

J. H. WAGNER & BRO.,

Plainwell, Mich.

 

WM.SEARS & CO.,
Gracker Manufacturers,

 

AGENTS FOR AMBOY CHEESE.

 

37, 39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids.

 

NELSON BnOS. & (0).

Wall Paper and

GRAND RAPIDS,

Window Shades,

MICH.

 

NEW DEPARTURE.

We take pleasure in announcing to the
trade that we have put in a full line of

Syrups and
Molasses.

Which we offer at Bottom Prices.

All Goods Guaranteed to
Give Satisfaction. |

No Charge for
Cartage.

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@ ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT.

Michigan Business Men’s Association.

President—Frank Wells, Lansing

Pirst Vice-President—H. Chambers, Cheboygan.

Second Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo.

Secre' —B. A. Stowe, a —

Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenvi

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

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

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

Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barne-, Traverse
City: Geo. R. Hoyt, East Saginaw; H.B. Fargo, Mus-

outimice on Transportation—James Osborn,Owosso;
oO. a Conklin, Grand Rapids; C. F. Bock, Battle

ae i Loan Associations—Chaun-

Building anc
commutes Saint = Will Emmert, Eaton Rapids;

Crotty, Lansing
encour? J. Connell, Muskegee.
Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

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

 

 

No. 1—Traverse City B. M. A.
President, J. W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings.
No. 2—Lowell #. M. A.

‘. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King.

No. 3—Sturgis B. M. A.
President, H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn.

 

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No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A.
President, E. J. Herrick: Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

No. 5—Muskegon B. M. A.
President, John A. Miller; Secretary, Cc. L. Whitney.

No. 6—Alba #. M. A.

President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.

No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A.
President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.

No. 8—Eastport B. M. A.

President, F. H. Thursten; Secretary, Geos L. Thurston.

No. 9—Lawrence B. M.
President, H. M. Marshall: Secretary, J. a5 Kelly.
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No. 10—Harbor springs B. M.

President, W w. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.

_Wo.11—Kingsley B. M. x

President, H. P. Whipple; Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop.
No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.

President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Len Lennon. _

 

 

“No. i3—Sherman B. M.A
President, H. B. Sturtevant: Secretary, W. iz Austin.
No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A.
President, S. A. Howey: Secretary, G. c. Havens.
No. 15. Boyne City B. M.
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. a
. 16—Sand ‘Lake B. M. A.
Crandall: Secretary, W. Rasco.

No
President, J. v.
No. 17—Plaiawell B. M. A.

ident, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.

SS Lee
No 18—Owosso B M. A.

dd; Secretary, 8. Lamfrom.

President, Albert To
No. 19—Ada B. M. A.

President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.
No. 20—saugatuck B. M.A. :
President, Joh John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.
— “Wo. 2i—Wayland B. M. A :
President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.
No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M.A. aisle
President, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W. R. Clar
No 23—Carson ¢ ity B. M. A.
President, F. A. Rockafellow: eee G. Bailey.
No. 24 —Morley B. M. A.
President, J. E. Thurkow: Secretary, W. H. Richmond.
No. 25—Pate B M. A.
President, = D. Pew; Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson.
©. 26—Greenville "3. M. A.
President, £3 ce Satterlee: Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwel
No 27—Dorr B. M. A.
President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L. | N. Fisher. a
No. 28—Cheboygan B.M.A
President, A. J. Paddock; Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
No. 29—Freeport B. M.A.
President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.

No. 30—Oceana Be a A
A.G s Avery; Secretary, E. 8. Houghtaling.

No. 31—Charlotte B. M.
President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G.

No. 32—Coopersville B. M . A.
President, W. G. Barnes; Secretary, J B. Watson.
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No. 33—Charlevoix 8. M. A.
President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane.
No. 34—aranac B. M. A.

President, , H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. T. se illiams._
No. 35--Bellaire B.M.A
‘tresident, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C. E. Densmore.
No. 361th aca B. M. A.
President, 0. F. Jackson; Secretary. John M. Ev erden.
No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A.
President, Chas. F Bock; Secretary, a1 Ww. Moore.

 

 

 

 

 
 

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fleury.

No. 38—Scottville B. M.A.
President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D W. Higgins.
No. 39 Burr Oak B. M. A.
President, W. 8. Wilier: Secretary, F. W. Sheldon.
75 a ee
40—baten Rapids B. M. A.
ae C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert.
Wa, 41—Breckenridge B. M. A.
President, © H. Howd; Secretary. L. Waggoner.
No. 42—Fremont 8. M A.
President. Jos. Gerber: Secretary Cc. J. Rathbun.
ee
No. 43_—Tustin B. M. A
President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J.
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. 44—Reed City B. M. A.

8. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.

.45—Hoy'ville B. M. *

President, D D. <. Halledoccky Secretary, 0. A- Halladay.
No. 46—Leslie B. M. A
President, Wm Wm. ‘Hutchins; Secretary, B. M.Gould.
No. 47—Flint M. U.
President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W. H. Graham.
No. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A.
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.
= No d9_Lerey B M
.49—Leroy B M. A.
President, AL cae: Secretary. Frank Smith.
No. 50—Manistee B. M. A.
President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary,C. Grannis.
No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A.
Presieot se M Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.
No. 52—Grand Haven B. a A.
ee x 8. Kedzie; Secretary, F. D. Vos.
No, 53—Bellevue B. M.
President, ent, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. x: acacia
No. 54— Douglas zz A.
President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C B. Waller.
No. 55—Peteskey B. M. A.
President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary. A. C. Bowman.
No. 56—Bangor B. M.

a Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman.
~o. 5%7—Rockforad B. M. A.
President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham.

No. 58—Fife Lake B. M. A.
President, L.S. Walter; Secretar, ,C.> Plakely.
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.
President F. S. Ragmond: Secretary, A. J. Capen.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M. .
President, = E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt.
No. 61—Hariford B.M A.
President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
No 62—East saginaw M.A
President, Jas. H .Moore; Secretary, C W. Mulholand.
No. 63—?t vart BK. M. A.
President, C V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell.
Noe, 64—Merrill B. M. A.
President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
President, so G. Drake; Secretary, C. 8. Blom.
o. 66—Lansing B. M.
President, Frank We Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.
No. 67—Watervliet R. M. A.
President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.
No. 68—Allegan B. M.A
President, H.H. Pope; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.
No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A.
President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. S. Willison.
No 7%O—Nashville B. W. A,
President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W.S. Powers.
No. 71—Ashley B M. A,
President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck.
No. 72—Edmore B. M. A.
No, 73—Belding B. M. A.
President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster.
~o. 74—Davison M. U.
President. J. F. Cartwright; Secretary L. Gifford.
No. 75—Tecnumseh B. M, A.
President, Cans e Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus.
No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A.
President. S. S. McCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong.
No. 77—South Haven B M.
President—L. S Monroe; Secretary, 8. VanOstrand.
No. 78—f aledonia B. M
President, C F. Williams; Secretary. J. W. Saunders.
Ne. 79—¥a-t Jordanand *o Arm B M.A,
President, Chas. F. Dixon; Seeretary, L. C. Madison.
No. 80—Bavy City and W. Bay City R. M,A.
President, F. L. Harrison; Secretary. Geo. Craig.
No. 81—Flushing B. M A.
President, L. A Vickery; Secretary, A E. Ransom.
. St Alms BM A.
President, B. Ss. Ww ebb; Secretary. M. E Pollasky.
No 83—Sh-rwood B M, A.
President, L. P. Wilcox; Secretary. W. R. Mandigo.

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C. B. Mason, Secretary of the Vickie BM.
A., writes as follows: ‘‘We have just organized
and expect to become connected with the State
Association very soon.”

 

Association Notes.

Muskegon News: The Muskegon Business
Men’s Association has declared in favor ofa
public city market. Also for the inspection of
vegetables, and asealer of weights and meas-
ures. They will ask the council to pass the
necessary ordinances.

Elk Rapids Progress: A Traverse City busi-
ness man has written us a personal letter asking
if it would not be a good thing to have a com-
mittee from their Business. Men’s Association
meet our business men and talk over railroad.
Of course it would be a good thing. Willour
folks talk?

East Jordan Enterprise: The system of petty
store pilfering, which has been going on for
some time in this place, must be stopped right
away, and we are glad to observe that the matter
has been brought before the Business Men’s
Association. In future, the culprits will be
arrested on the spot and taken before a justice
without a moment’s grace and dealt with accord-
ing to the utmost rigor of the law. There will
be no more compromising and no no more set-
tling—nothing but speedy imprisonment. So now
all shop-lifters can take warning.

Manistee Sentinel: The Business Men’s Asso-
ciation held its regular meeting in the Van
Buren block, Tuesday evening, about twenty
members being present. After the routine busi-
ness was disposed of, the Association instructed
the Secretary to request the Western Union Co.
to furnish night service at Manistee. He was
also instructed to look up the matter of the State
Business Men’s Insurance Ce. and solicit stock
in the same. The matter of securing a night
operator is of vital importance to the business
men of this city, and it is hoped the Association
will succeed in securing such service.

Wayland Glube: ‘I wonder if it ever occurred
to the people of Wayland that they were not
doing all in their power to secure more manu-
facturing establishments,” said a gentleman
from one of our neighboring villages the other
day. ‘Now, down at our place, I notice the
business men get their heads together and talk
over and encourage the building up of some new
enterprise, and it don’t make any difference
how trifling that enterprise is, either. They
secure it if possible. Our Business Men’s Asso-
ciation, I think, does a great deal toward im-
proving the town, as everything of any import-
ance comes up before that body and is discussed.
They appoint committees to investigate and
devise schemes to carry out their aims and
desires. They fail many times, but they ‘tackle’
something new, and I know they have secured
many advantages tothetown. They have regu-
lar meetings and all work for the advancement
of the place, for the benefit of all, and I am sure
their labors are appreciated.”’

Muskegon News: The committee appointed
by the Muskegon Business Men’s Association,
and to whom had been referred the the matter
of taking stock in the proposed State insurance
company, reported at the last meeting of the
‘Association as follows: ‘‘Your committee, to
whom was referred the subscription lists and
papers from the State Insurance Committee, re-
questing subscriptions for the stock of the pro-
posed company, respectfully report that they see
no reason to change their opinion as expressed
in aformer report upon the subject; that the
plan proposed is crude and unsuitable to the
wants of Muskegon, and in no sense a mutual
company, not even in name, and that they deem
it unsafe to invest money
to be conducted in the manner proposed in the
circular describing the plan. In pursuance of
the recommendations adopted at a former meet-
ing, your committee further recommend that a
circular be forwarded to every member of this
Association, with a request for an immediate
reply, in order to obtain a fuller expression of
the opinion of the members as well as further
information regarding the subject before pro-
ceeding to the organization of a mutual insur-
ance company under chapter 132 of the revised
statutes MC. Kelley, R. S. Miner, M. B.
Desky.”

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Grand Rapids Mercantile Association.

At the regular meeting of the Grand Rapids
Mercantile Association, held at THE TRADESMAN
office last Tuesday evening, Chas. E. Smith was
elected to membership.

As O. F. Conklin had been called out of town
suddenly, the report of the Insurance Committee
was deferred until the next meeting.

The Question Box was then opened, disclosing
the following questions:

1. Will it be advisable to renew the berry box
agreement the coming season?

2. Does any one know how much the State
license is for peddlers?

3. Do you find the sale of canned fruit is
being superceded by the sale of dried fruit?

4. Has any move “been made toward removing
the obstacles to the establishment of a city mar-
ket?

5. If thereis no city law to apply to the city
peddler, cannot he be prosecuted under the
State law?

6. How are collections?

7. Does any one want to buy a second-hand
cheese safe?

8. What shall we do with mills who sell flour
at wholesale to hotels, boarding houses, etc.’

9. Have you ever noted any shortage in flour
in either barrels or sacks?

10. Is there anything in the new charter amend-
ments that will help us to get a city market or
an inspector?

11. Are you all aware that sugar is cheaper
here to-day than it is at any other market in the
country?

12. Who wants to buy a pair of one-horse,
heavy bobs?

13. What principal rules are necessary for the
best management of a retail trade’

The questions were each discussed at some
length, except the last query, which was con-
sidered of enough importance to be made the
subject of a paper, and John Sours was selected
to prepare the paper.

President Herrick was requested to communi-
cate with Representative Killean, with a view to
ascertaining whether the proposed amendments
to the city charter cover the ground the Associ-
ation desires in regard to the public market
matter.

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Lakeview Ready to Organize.

We, the undersigned, Citizens and business
men of Lakeview, hereby agree to meet (place
and time to be hereafter noticed) and assist with
our influence and means in organizing and
maintaining a Business Men’s Association, sim-
ilar and in form of those advocated by THE
MicuigaN TRADESMAN Of Grand Rapids, Michi-
gan:

C. Newton Smith, 8. F. Kennedy, C. C. Gilles,
H. C. Thompson, F, Shellman, N. H. Youngman,
H. P. Norton & Son, C. F. Braden, W. J. Carse, S.
E. Young, A. H Forcyth, A. Me Afee, Macomber
«& Bale, R. P. Everitt, D. J. Brown, Geo. McAfee,
Joe White, E. Smead, T. Corrigan, Henry Fowler,
A. R. Mather, J. B. Delong. G. E. McLachlin,
Wm. Warren, Samuel Beall, C. W. Vining, L. P.
Sorenson, J. T. Butler, J. M. Beach, E. G. Per-
kins, Wm. Lobdell, Oscar A. Adams, L. L. Bissell,
Geo, A. Reed, Chas. E. Butler, F. A. Ganson, E.
B. Stebbins, C. W. Godbold, Edson Witheral,
Harvey Stone, T.-E. Bonnett, L. Fuller, J. W.
Kirtland, Geo. Perry, Wm. Loveless, Wm. E.
Charnley.

 

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Arousing from Lethargy.
BELLEVUE, Feb. 21, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DeEarIR StrR—The Bellevue B. M. A. has been
dormant for some time, but its members have
awakened from their sleep and started in with
more vigor.

I write you to know if there has been any
change in the dues and what amount we are to
remit to you. ee

A, E. FitzGERALD, Sec’y.

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Paw Paw Ready to Organize.
Paw Paw, Feb. 22, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Sir—In a meeting held here for the pur-
ps of organizing a Business Men’s Association,

Was appointed a committee of one to secure
your services for one evening to explain the
good derived from such organizations.

Please state what evening after next Wednes-
day you can come and we will make calcula-
tions for the same. Yours respectfully,

Harry W. SHOWERMAN.
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Next Crop of Silk.
From the New York Commercial Bullentin.

The new crop of silk will not come to
this country in any quantity before Au-
gust and September, and it is a question
whether there is enough now here to go
around. Japan is now the most impor-
tant point of supply for our market. It
is estimated that the export of the pres-
ent crop to our market will show a
shortage of about 5,000 bales. During
the year 1887, 34,000 bales of raw silk
came here, while in 1888 there were 39,
000 bales received. Of this fifty-five per

cent. in value was Japan silk, about
twenty-seven per cent. Italian, and
about nineteen per cent. Chinas. The

Canton crop is only about one-third that
of last year, and while we may get rela-
tively our share it will not be as much
as last year. The Shanghai crop is now
taken mostly in Europe, as it is not so
well adapted to the wants of the manu-
facturers here. The shortage in this
crop for the current year is estimated at
from 12,000 to 15,000 bales of white silk.
It will readily be seen that without the
help of the syndicate there has been good
reasons foran improvement. Old manu-
facturers have increased their plant to a
considerable extent, and many new
looms have been started.
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The Commercial Traveler.

The true character of the commercial
traveler is being better understood and
the profession more appreciated every
day. You will not find a merchant
prince anywhere—that is to say, one
who takes an active interest in his affairs
—who is not ready to deliver you a glori-
ous tribute to the thrifty, enterprising
gentleman who extends his name and
pushes his business, who, in reality, is
the sub-architect of his fortune. The
commercial traveler of the better sort
possesses the full confidence of his em-
ployer and rarely betrays it. He is a
man of tact, intelligence and of eminent
discretion, a trained business man and
the merchant of to-morrow. Travelers
are often promoted to membership in the
firms whose business they have extended,
and it is an accepted truth that the best
merchants are those who have faced suc-
cessfully the fierce competition of the
road. The junior members of many
firms now make periodical trips to keep
posted, to sell a certain trade or to cover.
unallotted territory. Among. sensible
people, therefore, there is no more pre-
judice against a traveler than there is
against a well regulated millionaire.

To Suppress Dealings on Margins.

A bill introduced by Senator Pope in
the Nebraska legislature, says the Minne-
apolis Northwestern Miller, ‘* provides
that it shall be unlawful for any corpora-
tion, association, copartnership or person
to keep, or cause to be kept, within that
state, any bucket shop, office, store or
other place wherein is conducted or per-
mitted pretended buying or selling of
shares of stocks or bonds of any corpora-
tion, of petroleum, cotton, grain, pro-
visions, or other produce, either on mar-
gins or otherwise, without any intention
of receiving and paying for the property
so bought or of delivering the property
so sold, or wherein is conducted or per-
mitted pretended buying or selling of
such property on margins, or when party
buying any such property, or offering to
buy the same, does not actually receive
the same if purchasedor deliver the same
if sold. The keeping of any such places
is prohibited, and a violation is, punish-
able by a fine of from $200 to $500, and
for a second offense six months in jail
additional. A violation by a corporation
is punishable by the forfeiture of its
charter. Provisions are made for the
eollection of evidence and the punish-
ment of such offenses.’’

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Milk Sugar Manufacture.

To meet the requirements of the in-
creasing demand for milk sugar, its man-
ufacture has been largely augmented in
Switzerland. The crude sugar ob-
tained as a coarse powder, by the direct
evaporation of whey, 50,000 quarts yield-
ing about 2.500 pounds of this crude
sugar. The refining is done by dis-
solving it in water at 65 degrees C. of
temperature in copper pans, and adding
of alum or sulphate of alumina. The
liquid is then filtered through animal
charcoal, boiled down to asyrup, and
allowed to crystallize slowly on wooden
rods.

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Harrison’s Inauguration.

The Michigan Central, ‘‘the Niagara
Falls Route,’’ will sell tickets from all
stations on its lines to Washington and
return from February 28th to March 3d,
inclusive, at one fare for the round trip,
tickets good to return leaving Washing-
ton not later than March 8th. A special
train of Wagner Palace Sleeping Cars
will leave Detroit March ist, at8 p. m.,
and run through to Washington, via
Niagara Falls and Philadelphia, return-
ing by same route. Applications for
berths should be made to Mr. C. A. War-
ren, Passenger and Ticket Agent, De-
troit, either direct or through any ticket
agent of the Michigan Central, of whom
tickets may be purchased.

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A Descending Scale.

Unele Berkshire—How much be that
watch ?

Jeweler—Forty dollars.

Uncle Berkshire—En the smaller one?

Jeweler—Fifty dollars.

Uncle Berkshire—En the smallest one?

Jeweler—Seventy-five dollars.

Uncle Berkshire—Gosh, mister!
much is no watch ?

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A merchant who owes money for mer-
chandise should be fully insured. This
is an obligation due to those who furnish
him with credit. There are hazards
enough in business without undertaking
the additional risk of a fire loss. Itisa
risk there is no necessity for the mer-
chant to assume, as insurance is not
costly, and the expense is far more than
counterbalanced by the security afforded.

How

 

Improving the Insolvency Laws.

John N. Harris, Minneapolis manager
for the Bradstreet Co., offers the follow-
ing suggestions relative to changing the
prevailing insolvency laws :

I find the most fatal defect in the pres-
ent law to be that. the debtor has the
choosing of his assignee. This opens
not a loophole but a wide doorway for
fraud to those who are disposed to make
use of the opportunity. The assignee
hires a lawyer. If they are so disposed,
these two can systematically bleed the
creditors. The remedy I have in mind
would be the appointment of a Public
Assignee by the Governor or Legislature.
Have one for each city of over 10,000 in-
habitants and in the larger counties one
at each county seat to act for the county.
Put him under heavy bonds. Make his
term of office definite, say four years
from the date of appointment. Make it
a part of the duties of the city and
county attorneys to give him legal ad-
vice. Make him an officer of and amen-
able to the county or district courts.
Let all assignments be made to him. Let
his remuneration be set at certain per-
centages, and require returns by a cer-
tain time, and have him show good cause
why returns are not made. Go further
than this. Define a certain period pre-
vious toa failure within which an in-
solvent may not claim exemption rights,
if not previously claimed, so that an in-
solvent may not obtain credit upon the
strength of his owning certain property,
and then, just before Fe is ready to fail,
move into it and claim it as a homestead.
Another defect (and this one seems the
most difficult to provide for) to be pro-
vided for is the law by which an insol-
vent may buy back the stock from the
assignee and resume in the name of some
relative. In many cases this is all a part
of the premeditated fraud. In some
others it is a perfectly honest proceed-
ing. The number of instances, however,
are against the lattersupposition. Make
it incumbent upon the public assignee to
give the widest consistent publicity to all
proceedings. Give him the right of
search and subpoena. Base his fees by
law solely upon the amount of dividends
he pays creditors. In outlying counties,
the public assignee might be an attorney
or business man, who could combine such
duties with his regular business. In the
larger cities, aman could give his whole
time to the work. Such a plan as I have
here suggested in a rough shape would
save time and money for creditors; lessen
the chances for fraud and yield remuner-
ation enough to secure the services of
men who have the required ability. Of
course, such an arrangement would not
prevent a majority of creditors from pé-
titioning to have one of their number
appointed trustee for the eontinuance
and final winding up of the business, as
is done under our present law, nor need
it curtail any of the privileges which our
present law grants a creditor, but it
would close up avery profitable source
of revenue to many lawyers, and, conse-
quently, would be opposed by the fra-
ternity.

— oe —_ -

Increase in the Use of.Certain Drugs.

The increase in the use of certain
drugs during the last ten years is ccn-|
cisely shown by ,the reeords of the}

‘“‘Pharmacie Centrale,’? from which all
supplies for the public institutions of
Paris are drawn:*. In: the period from
1876 to 1886 the use of carbolie acid had
increased from 369 kilos to 11,217, cor-
rosive sublimate from 102 to 514, iodo-
form from 22 to 353, and sodium salicy-
late from none to 353 kilos. The other
antiseptic agents, salicylic acid, thymol
and potassium permanganate either de-
creased or exhibited noincrease. Quinine
and chloral increased 50 and 100 percent.
respectively; iron preparations remained
about the same, whilst arsenic showed
increased consumption with each year.
Purgatives exhibit a remarkably constant
employment, the favorites being castor
oil and Epsom salts. The use of opium
remained about the same, except that
codeine is on the increase in favor.
RR A
Chemical Experts.

Prof. Stuart, of Chicago, says regard-
ing commercial investigations by so-
called chemists, ‘‘that their work needs
investigation more than the substance
analyzed. In other words the frauds in
that quarter are greater and more dan-
gerous than in the compounds they pre-
tend to investigate. Any adulteration
or sophistication which is dangerous, or
especially deleterious, or even one which
without these objections, unfits the sub-
stance adulterated for its ordinary use,
will be short lived and transient. The
adulteration of refined sugar with grape
sugar affords an example. It was exten-
sive eight or ten years ago, but is now a
thing of the past. Grape sugar is not
poisonous or hurtful in any way, but it
simply lowers the sweetening power of
the sugar, consequently the buyers (con-
sumers) rejected the brands of sugar so
adulterated. Mllustrations of this might
be multiplied, and while in food articles,
at least, there is a possibility of the pres-
ence of poisons so insidious that the con-
sumer may suffer untoward consequences
from their use, without being able to
locate the cause, this, it will be admitted,
is extremely improbable. <A suggestion
in regard to expert chemical work which
has much force, is that it should not be
ex-parte. The chemist should not work
for the defendant or for the plaintiff, but
for the truth. In other words, he should
be employed by the court.’’

oO
Corn Pack of 1888.

The American Grocer figures out the
corn pack of last year. The figures pre-
sented represent the smallest quantity
put up, so that the output of a few houses
in the West not reporting would make
larger the figures which indicate the
greatest corn pack on record, and which
for the first time in the history of the
trade surpasses the total pack of its
greatest competitor, tomatoes. The total
output in 1888 reaches 3,491,474 cases of
two dozen tins each, against 2,311,424 in
1887, an increase of 1,180,050 cases. The
average annual pack for the three years
1885-87, was, 1,699,444 cases, so that the
pack of 1888 is more than double the
average annual supply for three years
past. These figures are sufficient to in-
dicate why canned corn is a drag upon
the market, and yet with this immense
supply there is at the moment an abso-
Iute searecity of canned corn of extra
quality.

 

j
Origin of the Term.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
The man who doesn’t pay his debts
Gets on delinquent sheets,
And doctors who their bills forget
Are classified as beats.

*Twas to them the term was first applied

For stealing ‘“‘stiffs,"’ when patients died,

And for that inap ropriate feat

They gained the M. D. (my dead) subriquet.

M. J. WRISLEY.
———>--——_—__——_
His Monthly Shopping.

Farmer—How many yards o’ that truck
will it take er make ther ole woman er
dress ?

Clerk—About twelve, I should say.

“At thee cents er yard it comes ter
thirty-six cents. I reckon twelve’s er
leetle more’n she’ll need. Just cut off
six yards. Times is mighty close an’
we hev ter be er leetle savin’.”’

“Any buttons or thread ?’’

‘No, I reckon not. She kin scratch
up ernuff o’ them at home. Craps wan’t
extry this ye’r and we kain’t erford ter
fool no money erway.’

“Is there anything else ?”’

“*T guess yer may wray up er quarter’s
wuth er sugar an’ er dollar’s wuth er
chawin terbacker. ’*Pears like er sin ter
fool erway money fer sugar, but ther ole
woman thinks she kain’t live thoutin it,
an’ ther habit o’ usin’ it’s got sech er
holt on’er that she gits erway with er
quarter’s wuth every month. Say, mebby
you’d better put up two-dollars wuth 0’
that terbacker, for I cayn’t tell ef Pll
be down here ergin fer er month, an’ 1
want plenty ter do me.”’

—_————_>> <—_____—_—_
VISITING BUYERS.

G F Cook, Grove Adam Newell,Burnip’s Cors
J V Crandall&Son,Sand Lke John Farrowe, So Blendon
Eli Runnels, Corning John Kruisinga, Holland
RG Smith, Wayland A Purchase, So Blendon
HL Page, E Jordan W Ver Meulen, Beaver Dam
J P Visner, Allegan H — Allendale
F E Boosinger, E Jordan JL Pu chase, Bouer
Brott & Reyaoids, Borland N F Miller, Lisbon
Peck & Co, Walton Brookings Lumber Co,
8S J Koon, Lisbon Brookings
RA Hastings, Sparta C K Hoyt & Co,Hudsonville
W A Swarts & Son,Fennvile DeKruif, Boone & Wo,
J B Watson, Coopersville Zealand
Dr HC Peckham, Freeport JohnVanFarrowe, Allendle
O W Messinger, Spring Lke Smallegan & Pickaard,

1 Forest Grove
John DeVries, Jamestown
G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove
J DenHerder&Son.Overisel
AM ‘hurch. Englishville
CS Comstock, Pierson
T VanEenenaam, Zeeland
H Van Noord, Jamestown
H Meijering, Jamestown
Co verse Mtr Co New aygo Mrs M A Side, Kent City

D D Harris, Shelbyville J Vanden Bosch, Zeeland
CF Williams, Caledonia Mrs G Miller, Muskegon

HARDWARE.

A E Smith, Cadillac

J T Perham, Kent City

ES Botsford, Dorr

— Hewitt, Monterey
HD Harvey, Bangor

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These prices are for cash buyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.

AUGURS AND BITs. dis.
ves! old siyie -.0) 60
Snes eS 60
COCR eee 40
Jennines’ Senuime  -.- 25
genmanes’, imitation...) 1... | SeaIO
AXES.
First Quality, S B Bronze... $ 7 00
D EB Bronze. 11 00
S. B.S. secel. ke 8 50
DB see 13 00
BALANCES. dis.
Sore
BARROW s. dis.
os. $ 14 00
Cc... ....... net 33 00
BELLS. dis
Hand oe 6010610
COW
ML ee 30815
Gene te 2
Door Sargemt 5 60&10
BOLTS. dis.
Stove 6 $ 0
Carnage new list...) 70&10
BIO ee. 50
Sleigh Oe 70
Wroucht Barre: Bolts. ..........5........_. 60
Cast Bamel ems os 40
Cast Barrell, Deass Enebe. 2.20... ... 2... 40
Cast > Spring eee ce se ete ee coca. 60
se Cee 40
Wroueut Barrel, brass knob................ 60
Wrought Square eee cee eee ne 60
Wrovugit Sank Fiush.......0. 5.2 uc ocick 60
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush.. .60&10
EVON DOGF i 60&£10
BRACES. dis.
Bee 40
ee 50&10
ee ee ee 50
A, Fea a a net
BUCKETS.
Well plate 8 : =
Well GWiVeL oe
BUTTS, CAST. a"
@Caat oede Pin, feured.. 0... 2655) ..2 2... W&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed............- 70&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.......... 60&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60£10
Wrought PoOncem. |... es: 6010
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip... 204 5......5 60405
Wrought Loose Pin, Japanne@ . 2:0... 60&05

Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped. a.
Miroages Table...) 60£10

   

Werotem Ineide Blind ....2. 2.0. cee nog
Wrogems Brass...) Re eee ee
eri GIMP Se 70&10
lind, MAREer A os A 70&10
Blind, SHGCHAIO SS 00 70
BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ‘S5......-.. 40
CARPET SWEEPERS.
Bissell No. Bon ee ernest eee ee eee eens per doz. “ 00
Bissell No. 7, new drop pan ........ 9 00
Bissell, Grand ee ns . 36 00
Grand Rapids Dee ee “. 200
WG ee ls ig 15 00
CRADUES,
ee . dis. 50&02
CROW BARS.
Case Steer per b
iron, Steel Potuts.--.......... a 3%
CAPS,
Migs l40 ee perm 65
Hick? SC ee 60
Se ° 35
hucket eee o 60
CARTRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50
Him Hire, United States................- dis. 50
Central Mire. es dis. 25
CHISELS. "| dis.
Seeket firmer. =. - 6 ese 70&10
Socket Hranmige oe ee 70&10
SeeketCormer.(.: ce 70&10
Seeker eMeks ee, 70&10
Butebers Tanged Pirmer..-....... 2... 40
Barton’s Socket Firmers............. ose 20
es net
COMBS. dis.
Crpry, Pawrences ..-220 2. el. 40&10
Se a 2
CHALK.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10
cocks.
IBFOSS, MAGCLING 8.26000 000 2 bo 60
as... 60
Weer eee -.--40&10
OWES oc 5
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... perpound 33
Taxbe Uixoe, 14x00... 2S. 31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ........-.. 29
Cold Rolled, ee es Ce 29
ROU 30
DRILLS. dis.
Morse’s Bit SioGks. ee cca. 40
Paper and straight Shank... 002.0. 2.) 3 40
Morse’s Taper Shank <2 20. 0206.2. ole 40
DRIPPING PANS.

Gard civen Ser pOWHE: 02 8. ov
hearse sizes, per pound 2206. 6%
ELBOWS.

Oem 4 piece 6 imi... oe eo. doz.net
Comer nie es dis. 20&10&10
ASURROIO ess dis. 4%&10

 

Office of

Foster, Stevens & Co.,

WHOLESALE

HARDWARE.

Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan 29, 1889.
The fiber from which Sisal and Manilla Rope is made is now
**cornered’”’ and very high. The price of rope in New York to-

day is,

Sisal, 12 1-2 cents per pound.

Manilla, 15 cents per pound.

Our price in Grand Rapids is ONE CENT ABOVE THESE
PRICES. We have in stock a new rope called

NEW PROCESS.

Its superiority te Sisal in every respect is now universally ad-
mitted, and where it has been substituted for Manilla, favorably
impresses the purchaser with confidence in its utility and sue-

cess.

It is manufactured in all sizes, the smaller coils being

made up ina ball cord shape, thus avoiding the necessity ofa

reel.

We keep in stock ‘‘New Process”

from 1-4 up to 5-8

inclusive, and our price to-day is only 9 1-2 cents a pound for
3-8 and larger, and 10 cents for 1-4. This. price, however, will
not hold and must go higher if Sisal and Manilla keep advaneing.

A trial coil will convince you the days of Sisal rope are

numbered.

FOSTER,

STEVENS & CO.

10 and 12 Monroe-St., 33, 35, 37 39 and 41 Louis-St.

 

 

EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark’s, a. 10: large Gy... 30
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; SOO ee 25

FILES—New List. dis.
American File Association List............. 60&10
ee ee 6010
ew American. 60£10
IGCRGISGN Se 60£10
eer 50
Meller s Horse Haspe. 2. 50

GALVANIZED IRON.

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 2%; a a— SS
List 12 13 15 18
Discount, 60
GAUGES. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.s............... 50
HAMMERS.
Naydole “cen — 25
ee Se 25
Merkes & Plumb s..-2 pg “40&10
Mason's Solid Cast Steel...........-..... 30c list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30c 40&10
HINGES,
Gate, Crates, 123... dis. 60
Sta te oe ee cles coos a coe ee eee r doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. vn 14 and
TOneer 3%
Screw Hook and Eye, ee ee ae. net 10
es net 8%
ey . Se met 7%
4 v . S.....-..... net 7%
Steapand Fo dis. 70
HANGERS. dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track....50&10
Champion, anti friction.._.-._-..-...... 60&10
Madder wood track .... ..-.....:.... 40
HOLLOW WARE
Pots... Le 60&10
Mewes -.-.-G0arlo
Spigers es. 60£10
Gray Gnameted se 50
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
Stamped Tin Ware...000. 02 00...... new list —
sapamca fin Ware
Granite irom Ware... 25
HOES.
Grantee $11, dis. 60
Gries ee’. $11.50, dis. 60
GYans ee as, OF
HORSE NAILS.
Au Sanle 0 .03..:.:3........ dis. 25&10@25&10&10
Prine... dis. 51062146214

INNOrtn Western... .--. dis. 10&10&5

  

KNOBsS—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings Loc. oo
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings So 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55
Door, porcelvin, Gimmings.. 2... 55
Drawer and Shutter, POree ae . 70
Picture, H. Eb. Judd @& €o7s........-.. 1... 40&10
Ee 45
LOCKS—DOOR, dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... BD
Mallory, Wheeler & Cos |... ao
Branford’s oe foun 55
MODrWwase Ss --. 55
LEVELS. dis.
Stanley tule and Level Co’s.........._... 70
MATTOCKS,
Adzefve $16.00, dis. 60
Pies ye $15.00, dis. 60
PA $18.50, dis. 20410.
MAULS. dis.
Sperry & Co.'s, Post, handled............... 50
MILLS. dis.
Coffee, os Con... 40
S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40
. . Merry & Clare s....... 1... 40
. Enterprise ee oe ee 25
MOLASSES GATES, dis.
Stebbin’ S Pattern. 60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine.......... See ce. GOE10
Enterprise, self measuriug..........-._..__: 25
NAILS

Advance above 12d nails.
FENCE AND BRADS.

 

 

aoatoGud «oe, 25
ee a ee 10
Sond oe 25
CAand fa 40
ag andod 60
Ee 1 00
ee 1 50
FINE BLUED
a 1 00
Se. 150
ee 2 00
CASTING AND BOX.
2 tO 50
ee 60
Sates 75
C60 te 90
Stoel 1
ne 130
COMMON BARREL
[ 25
ET 2
CLINCH.
14% and 1% { inch ee 1 36
Sa 1%
21% and 4 LL 1 00
Sooo ee o 85
Sc and 44 imen 75
Each half keg 10 cents extra.
OILERS. dis.
Zime or tin, Chase's Patent.:................ 60&i0
Zinc, with brass DOUOM. 8... 50
Brass OTC Opper. BO
Reaper per gross, $12 net
Ormrstesa Ss oo ee 50&10
PLANES. dis.
Onio Poel Cove, faney .. 65... 0 0. a. 40@10
Seietn Bence @60
Sandusky fool Cos, fancy. -............._. 40@10
Benen, first quality. @60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... 20&10
PANS.
Rey, Acme. dis. 50&10
Common, polished... ....%.-.......4... dis. 60&10
RIVETS. dis.
fromand Tinned. (0 00°)005. 550.002... 50
Copper Rivets and Burs..................... 50
PATENT FLANISHED IRON.
‘‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
“BY Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27. 9 20
Broken packs 4c per pound extra.
ROPES.
Sisal, 6 teh and larger ...... 0-2... 13
Manilla Bees cco ee 16
SQUARES. dis.
Steal and tren... —_
aay ane Devers 2 i
Mire 2
SHEET IRON.
Com. Smooth. Com.
Mos J0t0 14. #4 20 #3 00
Noe ttaT ....................... oe 3 00
MOS, P5028 4 20 3 10
OR SPR 4 Ww 3 15
Nos. - BO se 4 40 - 35
7 a EN eS Nee 4 60 3 35.
nit sheets No. 18 and lighter, “over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra

 

SAND PAPER.

Tase aect 19 Sy: dis. 40
SASH CORD.

Silver Lake, eC list 50

Pe 55

: White . 50

_ mane... & 5

“ Wetec... i‘ 35

Diseount, 10.

i SASH WEIGHTS,
See eas per ton #25
SAUSAGE 8U ware - FILLERS,

 

Barbed Fence,

Miles’ ‘‘Challenge’”’.. -per d Z. $20, dis. H@50&05
Perry per ‘doz. 2 i. it $15; a. gps
es aie ole dee 5O@50
row Cut Nad... lL each, $30, nS
Enterprise ae Cea dis, 20&1
dis, 0
SAWS. dis.
Pinstews Cireular = - 45@ASES
- Crees (at
* ee QHQ2&5
#Extras sometimes given by jobbers.
Aces, CCE dis. S
“Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, perfoot,.... 7
‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50
‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30
‘* Champion and Electric Tooth X_
Cuts, per feces.
TACKS. a
——, all kinds.. Lec. 60
60
60
60
50
5D
50
SOD
5D
Tinned ao ide mac ‘ow Nang 45
Leathered Carpet Tacks.... 35
TRAPS dis,
eecel Game, 60816
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s..... . 35
Oneida Com unity, Haw! ey & Norton’s G0
Hotehkiss’.... ae ‘ W
PSs. & W. Mfg. Cots 2 GO
oe coe... .18¢ per —
Mouse, delusion... a. . $1.50 per
WIRE ag
IBricht Market.......... a
Annealed Marke Ga 70&10
Coppered Market. ee
Bara bane Bo
Tinned Market. . a ol -. hy
Tred Broom “per oun d 09
Winmed Mattress). a) per pound 8}
Copperea Spray Sicer 50
ame Sprme steer 40&10
Piatt ONG — ~— =

galvanized.. LS
peices 3 00

Oe mR My ier sit
Cee a a
i WIRE GOODS. dis.
Se -T0&10&10
perew Eves -TO&1ICKIO
Hook's... . -F0&10K10
Gate Hooks and Ey es. -T0&10&10
WRENCHES. dis.
Baxter’ s Adjustable nickele@d.....  .:... 30
Coes Geuume O
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ 75
Coes Patent, malleable (| 0. 75210
a MISCELLANEOUS. dis.
Re 50
Pee Cae %

Screws, New List

eden American

 

Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 663
Capper Bottoms... 30¢
METALS,

aia PIG TIN.

—_ oe... ............. 28e

ie Bees
COPPER

Daty: Pig, Bar and Ingot, 4c; Old Copper, 3e

Manufactured (ineluding all articles of which
Copper is a component of chief value), 45 per

cent ad valorem. For large lots the following
quotations are shaded:

INGOT.

a «++ 20

“Anehor Brand’... ..... |. os 18
ZINC.

Duty: Sheet, 24%4e per pound.

Chi peund caste 6%
Per pou. IGiI%
LEAD.

Duty: Pig, # per 100 pounds. Old Lead, 2c per

pound, Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound.
mCwNCerE oe ae, @5
OCW ee a, @5
EE 6
Speer... 8c, dis. 20

SOLDER.

Ne .16
Extra ee 138%

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

ANTIMONY.
hl, er ound 144%
Hallett’s........ lS Ar ae tig

TIN—MELYN GRADE,

goes 1, Charcoal... ..... 6 ,. we oe
14x20 IC, oo es i. 60

12x12 IC, SS re a... 6 ao
Tee vee. 1000
ee Te .
10x14 1x, ee ee <<. + oo
Ce TT well a ae
Pee ee. + oe
14514 TX, ea eae _-.. oo
20x28 IX, ee

Each additional X on this grade, $1.7:
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE,
gett tC, Charcoal... ......:.. scl. sae
14x20 IC, OO 5
12x12 IC, ee ee a 5
14x14 IC, ed 5
29x28 IC, De ee le
10x14 IX, OOO 11
14x20 IX, oe Ss 6
12x12 IX, a, 6
14x14 IX, ee eee ok ues a, 7
20X28 1X, ao oe a eS 12
Each additional X on this grade $1.50. 14

ROOFING PLATES

SSSSSUE agneeetr bs

14x20 IC, Terne M. i §7
ee co 15
14x20 Ic; wire |... a
14x20 IX, ay ee eee 7
29x28 IC, . OF eee ees cel. 11
14x20 IC, ' Allaway Grade 4
14x20 IX, ee 6
20x28 IC, i . ee Cees . 10 &
ray ae ee 13 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE

Pee ee ee. .. $12 00
Bite te ee 13 50
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boi le ;

14x60 1X. * 9 ea f Per pound... 09

 

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BUSINESS LAW.

 

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in

Courts of Last Resort.

 

PERSONAL PROPERTY — CROPS — WOOD.

‘The Supreme Court of Indiana held, in
the recent case of Barrett vs. Choen etal.,
that a purchaser of real estate at an ad-
ministrator’s sale was not entitled to
cor lwood thereon, nor to crops sowed
and planted by tenants of the heirs be-
fore the administrator’s petition for an
order to sell, on the ground that the
wood and the crops were personal prop-
eri vie

 

UNJUSE DISCRIMINATION — INDICTMENT.

An agent of the Missouri Pacific Rail-
way Company was indicted at Hannibal,
Mo., some time ago, for violating the
Interstate Commerce Law by charging a
grocery company at Hannibal forty-six
cents per 100 pounds for freight from
Hannibal to Helper, Kan., while he for-
warded freight for the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy Railway between the same
points for thirty-four cents per 100
pounds. The agent interposed a demurrer
to this countin the indictment, but Judge
Thayer, of the United States Circuit
Court, has overruled the demurrer, hold-
ing that the offense charged amounted to
unjust discrimination, and that it did not
matter whether it was effected by rebate,
drawback or any other means.

 

BUILDING ASSOCIATION—LOAN—USURY.

‘The charter of a building and loan as-
sociation contained a provision that ‘‘no
dues, premiums, interest or fines that
may accrue to the association in accord-
ance with its charter shall be deemed
usurious and the same be collected as
other debts.’’ The Court of Appeals of
Kentucky held, in the case of Henderson
Building and Loan Association vs. John-
son et al., that the building association,
in an action to recover money loaned to
one of its members, was entitled to re-
cover only the amount loaned with the
legal rate of interest, and not the amount
authorized by its charter in the way of
premiums, fines, etc., which would
amount to many times the legal rate of
interest. The court held that the pro-
vision in the charter referred to was
partial legislation, and, therefore, un-
constitutional in so far as it authorized
the recovery of more than the legal rate
of interest upon money loaned.

 

MANDAMUS—INSURANCE
The Superintendent of Insuranee of
Kansas having refused to permit certain
insurance companies to do business in
the State, and having revoked the per-
mits of others, »roceedings were brought
by the companies to secure a mandamus
compelling the Superintendent to issue
ticenses. The Supreme Court of the
State has denied the application of the
companies in the caseof Dwelling House
Insurance Company et al. vs. Wilder, on
the ground that the duties of the Super-
intendent involve an exercise of judg-
ment and discretion on his part which
cannot be exercised, reviewed or con-
trolled by any other officer or tribunal.
The court said that the Legislature had
fixed the conditions under which insur-
ance companies might do business in the
State, and that the Superintendent could
not impose any others. The Legislature
had also laid down certain rules to goy-
ern the Superintendent in determining
whether the conditions imposed had been
eomplied with, but after he had applied
these rules to the facts in the ease it still
remained for him to officially judge
or determine whether the conditions ex-
isted, and his action in this respect could

not be reviewed.
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A Secret Well Kept.

Probably the only secret process which
has been kept inviolate, and for ages
openly defied the world of science, is the
iron trade of Russia. The secret of
making Russian sheet iron is owned by
the government, amd is such an immense
monopoly that it is currently supposed to
defray the entire expenses of the goy-
ernment. The works constitute an en-
tire city, isolated and fortified against the
rest of the world. When a workman
enters the service he bids a last farewell
to his family and friends, and is prac-
tically lost to the balance of the world.
He is never heard of afterward, and
whether he lives or dies all trace of him is
forever lost. There have been several
desperate attempts made to steal or be-
tray the secret, but in every instance it
has resulted in the death of the would-be
traitor, In one case a letter attached toa
kite, which was allowed to escape, was
picked up by some peasants, and, de-
spite their protestations that they could
not read, they were at once put to death
by the guards to whom they delivered the
letter, and it was afterward decreed that
the guards themselves should pass the
remainder of their days within the
works. The wonderful properties of
this iron are so well known that it is un-
necessary to enlarge upon them.

COMMISSIONER.

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Thinking Far Ahead.
From the Chicago Journal.

Newspaper men, in the course of their
motley experiences, are seldom met by
an occurrence so far outof the beaten
way asto make it refreshing by its ex-
ceeding novelty. Yesterday, however,
is entitled to a credit of one of them.
While in a down town mercantile estab-
lishment enjoying a little tri-cornered
tete-te-tete with the proprietorand another
gentleman visitor, a young man of pre-
possessing appearance approached, and,
presenting a note of introduction, made
application for a situation, remarking
he had had considerable experience in the
merchant’s particular line of trade.
Upon being asked if he had testimonials
from previous employers and could give
references, he replied he had no letters
of recommendation, but gave the names
of several firms who had employed him
and referred to them. He was kindly
told to ‘‘eall again.’? When the young
man first made his appearance the ‘‘visit-
ing gentleman,’’ a well-known life in-
surance solicitor, gave him a bow of
recognition, which was noticed
proprietor of the establishment, who in-
quired of him whether he was acquainted
with the young man. ‘‘Not intimately,”’
was the reply. I only know him by his

The Michigan Tradesman

by the}

 

calling at our office. He carries a $5,000
endowment policy in our company.”’
“That’s knowing him enough for me,”
was the response. ‘‘I’m going to employ
that young man. No employer could
give him so strong a testimonial of worth
as he has given himself. Itell you when
a young man thinks so far ahead as to
spend his spare money in a life insurance
policy rather than in having a ‘high old
time,’ he can be trusted and depended
upon every day in the year.’’

 

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Was Christ a Commercial Traveler?
All theologians tacitly admit that

the whereabouts uf Christ from the age
of twelve until he entered upon the
ministry, at the age of thirty, is un-
known. Recent researches among the
sacred books of Hindostan show a great
similarity between many of the phrases
and parables of Christ and those of Hin-
doo sages who lived centuries prior to the
Christian era. The inference is that our
Lord traveled extensively in the regions
of the Far East. It is presumed that,
his precociousness having excited the
wrath of the Jewish priesthood, it was
found advisable to leave the country for
a time, and that he joined one of the
numerous caravans trading between
Egypt and the Indies. Rome, at that
period the proud mistress of the world,
had entered upon a period of costly
splendor and of lavish display.. The
whole known world was ransacked to
furnish luxuries to gratify the pampered
taste of her extravagant emperors and
proud patricians. Innumerable caravans
were required to meet the demand, and
there is not a shadow of a doubt that the
leading merchants of those days were the
Jews and the Greeks, who were largely
engaged in this traffic. Theold Romans,
those stern masters of the world, consid-
ered trade to be infra dig., and, witha
grim sarcasm as to the fitness of things,
eonstituted Mercury the god of mer-
chants and—thieves. It is supposed, on
the best of grounds, that Christ took
part in this business for eighteen years,
and made frequent trips between Alex-
andria, where the goods brought by the
caravans were shipped to Rome and the
Indies. It is but natural to suppase that
one of his extraordinary mental endow-
ments would be an earnest student of the
theological literature of the East, to
which he could have had abundant ac-
cess. Edwin Arnold, in his ‘‘Light of
Asia,’’ shows that portions of the Lord’s
prayer and the Beatitudes came verbatim
from Hindoo teachers who lived prior to
Christ. A recent publication also shows
that there is much similarity in the lives
of Chrishnu and Christ. Chrishnu, or
Christnu, was born 3,100 years before
Christ. He was one of the Trinity of
the Hindoos occupying the more central
part of India. He came from Vishnu,
became incarnate, was considered a
savior of royal origin, born lowly, sa-
luted by divine songs from angels, sur-
rounded by shepherds. Nada, the father,
and Deva Maia, the divine mother, were
compelled to flee by night into a remote
country, for fear of a tyrant who had or-
dered all the male children to be slain.
Chrishnu, by his wisdom, at an early age,
astonished the elders. He had a fore-
runner in his brother Rom. He washed
the feet of Brahmins, cured lepers,
raised the dead, was crucified, descended
into Hades, ascended into heaven, and
sat beside Vishnu, the first person of the
Hindoo deity. The more erudite German
theologians admit the astonishing sim-
ilarity in the Asiatic savior Chrishnu and
Christ. This similarity accounts in a
great measure for the prevalence of Ger-
man rationalism.

No less an authority than the Rey. Dr.
Proudfoot, of London, England, who, in

 

early youth, was trained in mercantile
pursuits, has been cited to show that
Christ himself, all through his proverbs
and other parts of the gospels, evinces a
business training, and that He must have
been familiar with the commercial meth-
ods in vogue in those days, and much
more so than if He had merely followed
the carpenter’s trade of his father. Dr.
Proudfoot is also of opinion that He
traveled in India and was engaged in
commercial pursuits as an attache of a
caravan.
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Lakeview Locals.

The Cato Novelty Works, established
in this village a little over one year ago
by Ensign Stebbins, is doing well and |
turning out lots of work.

John 8. Weidman’s sawmill, five miles |
north of here, is cutting out lots of lum-|
ber, which is being hauled to this village. |

Pat Long is erecting a sawmill about |
six miles northwest of here.

Morgan Lewis’ sawmill, about four |
miles northeast of here, will start up
soon and cut out a lot of logs now at, and |
being hauled to, his mill. |

The boss sawmill of all the leading |
mills within miles of this burg is John
J. Bale’s band sawmill in this village. |
Bale has logs on the lake here enough to | |

stock his mill all next season, besides is

now hauling nearly 100,000 daily and
will so continue so long as the snow
stays on.

Lewis Fuller has finished his contract
for 25,000 snow shovels and is now man-
ufacturing a large lot of wagon jacks.
Mr. Fuller has been burned out twice
here, but he is of that make that do..’t
ery over spilt milk.

Lakeview has two broom factories in
good, lively working order, which are
disposing of their make-up as fast as
they get them ready for market.

Our business men are going totry to
organize a Business Men’s Association
here, whether they succeed or not. For
their own and the village’s good. we hope
for their success.

Max Mills, that most popular traveling
salesman, was here the other day, selling
goods and shaking hands wi.h all our
good citizens, and many of our good-
looking girls and boys. Max is just
more than liked by all of our young
men, and our young ladies are simply
captivated by his manly form and ap-
pearance when he strikes town.

REPORTER.
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In the Employ of the Company.

 

‘Are you the Superintendent of this
railway ?’’

Ves, Sir, why :7

“TI want a pass.”’

‘“‘Are you employed by this road ?”’

“Ves, sir’?

‘In what capacity ?”’

 

 

“I’m a member of the Legislature.

All Converted But One.
From the New York Tribune.

One of the Nebraska Senators tells of
one of the most powerful and effective
revivals that ever occurred in a town of
his State, where every male inhabitant,
with a single exception, was converted.
The inhabitants of the town were, as a
rule, wretchedly poor. The president of
the railroad company on the line of
which the town was + touched
with sympathy for their condition, ap-
proached one of the principal men and
inquired if they ever had any preaching
out in that section.

‘“‘Preaching!’? said the person ad-
dressed. ‘Oh, yes; we had a great re-
vival here last winter, and all got con-
verted but one man, who said he could
not join the church until he had stolen
timber enough from the railroad company
to fence his farm.”’

After this honest confession, the pres-
ident of the railroad company never at-
tempted to detect the thieves. It was
useless. Oneof the favorite hymns sung
by these good converts, the Senator says,
was the well-known one beginning:

“‘Blest be the tie that binds.”
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Very Facetious.
From the Chicago News.

A member of the New York Legisla-
ture has become tie proud father of a
bill to establish four State schools of in-
struction in butter-making, milk-skim-
ming and cheese architecture. These
schools are expected to give free instrue-
tion in the art of milking nervous cows
in fly time, in churning cream, and in
caressing butter until the ultimate drop
of buttermilk has departed from it.
There will be a professor to preside over
the cheese foundry and other professors
to lecture on the glories of grass butter
and the philosophy of curds and whey.
It isa great plan, but the statesmanly
author will doubtless have to labor until
the cows coms home before he secures its

adoption.
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He Was Conscientious.

““James,’’ said the grocer, as he looked
up from the morning paper, ‘‘they have
begun to make maple sugar in Vermont.
already.”’

“Yes, sir,’ said the clerk, with ready
comprehension. ‘*Those maple sugar
bricks left over from last vear are down-
cellar. Vll have them sandpapered and
put in the front window to-morrow morn-
ing.’

“Have you the same sign you had last
year to stick up in the box ?~

“Yes. It reads: ‘Fresh from Vermont.
Strictly pure.’ 7

“You may use that sign again, James;
IT don’t think it would be exactly right
to paint a new one with that inscription.”
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High Art in Chicago.
From the Chicago Herald.
“We will soon beat the

 

world in high

art.”

‘*How is that, Jackson ?”’

“Why, I see that Prussian Blue, the |
artist, is going to havea studio in the,
seventeenth story of the auditorium
tower.”’

8

A recent adulterant of coffee consists

of nearly fiffy per cent. of cor, se
roasted as to very closely resemble the
coffee in color. snd the deception was

furtLer aided by glazing both coffee and
eorn with athin coating cf sugar.

 

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ata Closer margin of profit than any Concern in
the State. Write for estimates on Building Stone
or 2zemetery work, First class material and work-
manship only.

SAM'L MOFFETY, Manager,

 

 

The Finest 5- ch Cigar Manufactured,

LONG HAVANA FILLER.
THEY HAVE NO EQUAL.

A. Ss. DAVIS,
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HEAVENRICH
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MANUFACTURERS OF

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AT LOWEST PRICES.

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——JOBBER IN——

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27,

 

LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS.

Written for THE TRADESMAN.
BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT.
Is it sickly and mawkish
‘mentality, or are there really debatable
and tenable grounds, which many of us
are too blind to discover, for the peren-
nial efforts of great numbers of people
for boldly and enthusiastically proclaim-
ing themselves the champions of that
numerous and constantly increasing
class which, keeping discreetly and cau-
tiously within the bounds of the law,
keeps itself generously supplied with the
necessities, and not infrequently the lux-
uries, of existence, at the expense of
other people’s brain and muscle ?
Among the multitudinous obstructions
which are biennially in readiness to
counteract any legislation looking toward
a curtailment of the property privileges
of chronic debtors, I have never heard
of but one attempt at an argument
against more modern and equitable laws
for the collection of debts, viz., that
eases might arise wherein unreasonable
and heartless creditors might bring dis-
tress and suffering upon honest, worthy
and deserviug poor men and their fam-
ilies; yet from all the obstruction-
ists—who appear to fondly imagine that
they have assumed the role of philan-
thropists—I have never heard one word
of sympathy for the dozens and hun-
dreds of humble tradesmen who annually
drift into poverty because of their cre-
dulity and childlike confidence in the

senti-

pledges and promises of the chronic
debtor.
* ¥ * * *& = *
There might, of course, be isolated

cases where the honorable and deserving
poor man might be unreasonably op-
pressed by his creditor, but, during an
experience of no inconsiderable number
of years, I have never seen anything
like a serious matter of this kind. On
the contrary, 1 have almost invariably
seen the party, who has honestly earned
the reputation, treated as cordially and
heartily by his creditor as his more pros-
perous neighbor. I have seen him come
in to the dealer and almost tearfully de-
plore his inability to keep his promise,
and heard the man appealed to reply:
“Don’t worry yourself about that a mo-
ment, John! And don’t try to pay it
until matters are easier with you!’ And
even when death, the great adjuster of
human affairs, stepped between the cred-
itor and the debtor of this class, I can’t
call to mind that lever heard a single
exclamation of regret or reproach, ora
single wish expressed that more sharp-
in endeavoring to

ness had been used

collect the account.

* =F * * +

There
prevalent opinion among farmers that
the individual who legally appropriates
the goods and chattels of a merchant is
far less culpable than he who legally
confiseates the cereals and produce of
the agriculturist. Let Farmer
discover. at the end of the year, that he
has been drawn upon by impecunious
neighbors to the extent of a hundred dol-
lars or and there is wailing and
gnashing of teeth: but let me try to con-
sole Farmer S. with the assurance that
my assessments in that line are double
his own, he will sniff contemptuously
and probably remark: ‘‘Oh, that’s a ma-
terially different thing! You expect
them things, and fix your profits accord-
ingly. Such fellows as me has got to
buck up your but can I sella
bushel of wheat or a pound of butter for
a cent more on account of my losses ?”’

I was in a neighbor’s place of business,
one day, when a woman came in and an-
nounced that a poor acquaintance had
just lost acow, and she was -soliciting

*

is, lL am reasonably certain, a

Subsoil

sO,

losses,

money to replace it.

“But, dear madam,”’ the
dealer, ‘that man owes me enough now
to more than half buy a cow, and I really
don’t care to invest any more in him!’

“I don’t see what that’s got to do with
the case, or how it’s going to help him-
self and family through the winter.’
said the canvasser, rather snappishly.

“But don’t you think that the proper
persons to help this man are those who
haven’t helped him before ?’’

“7 think that if everybody with a few
bad debts on their books made that an
excuse against helping the poor, this
would be a mighty uncharitable world,’

said the caller. as she slammed the door.

“We don’t always make
’zactly ’cordin’ to law, cut in Wayback,”
said the old man Wimmick, recently.
‘“‘Giner’ lly speakin’, we’re a quiet, peace-
able, good-natur’d sort of folks, but w’en
we run ’cross a ease that the statur, made
an’ pervided, don’t seem to kiver,
we manufactur’ a little statur’ of our
own for the ’casion. There, f’rinstance,
was Sam Smalley, who hired Eph Mug-
gins, las’ winter, to cut an’ pile a hun-
dred cords of stove-wood, for $40. Sam
is well heeled, but everything not ex-
empt ’bout his place b’longs to his wife
er some relation, an’ Eph is a poor, hard-
workin’ feller with a big fam’ly, an’ sick-
ness "nuff every year fur a small horse-

my said

collections

 

pital. Well, when Eph got through,
Sam gin ’im $5, an’ not acussed cent
more could be squeezed out of ’im. So
the neighbors held a privit meetin’ an’
voted to write Sam ’bout the matter, an’
if he didn’t pay any ’tention, to argy the
matter with ’im person’lly. So a nice
letter, with a skull an’ crossbones an’
coffin, was writ to Smalley an’ pasted on
his front door. But Eph didn’t get his
money, an’ so one night a dozen fellers,
with white bags over their heads, took
Sam out of ’is buggy, stripped ’im, giv’
him a dozen lashes on the bare back, an’
told him if Muggins wasn’t paid in a
week, with $2 interest, the dose would
be doubled. But Sam was grit, an’ shet
hisself up nights with a loaded shotgun,
an’ twas two weeks er more afore the
fellers could git &@t ’im. At las’, one
night, w’en the ole woman was away Vis-
itin’, some of the boys got some stuff
they use in shows fur makin’ red fire, put
it on the roof of the back shed, an’ set it
goin’, in a tight iron dish, an’ in less’n a
minnit Smalley rushed out with a gun
an’ pail of water, an’ in less’n two min-
nits he was layin’ over a bar’l witha
feller beltin’ away at ’is back wit: a big
rawhide. Sam was pretty sore yet, an’
wanted to settle for cash on the spot, but
the boys tole ’im he must go an pay Eph
hisself, an’ giv’ *im $5 int’est, an’ giv’
*im the full two dozen promised. I don’t
b’lieve,”’ said the old man, musingly, in
conclusion, ‘‘thet all the courts, an’ law-
yers an’ juriesin Michigan conld have
made Sam Smalley do the squar’ thing by
Eph that them there neighbors of his’n

id.7”
TU rca Uline
How Thread is Numbered.

Everybody knows the sizes of thread.
Every seamstress knows whether she
wants No. 30 or 60 or 120, and knows,
when she hears the number, about what
is the size of the strand referred to; but
how the numbers happen to be what they
are, and just what they mean, not one
person in a thousand knows. And yet it
isasimple matter to explain, was the
information accorded a reporter by an
employe of one of the largest spool cot-
ton manufactories in the United States.
When 840 yards of yarn weigh 7,000
grains, a pound of cotton, the yarn is
No. 1. If 1,680 yards weigh a pound, it
will be No. 2 yarn. For No. 50 yarn it
would take 50 multiplied by 840 yards to
weigh a pound. This is the whole of
the yarn measurement. The early man-
ufactured thread was three-cord, and the
thread took its number from the number
of the yarn from which it was made.
No. 60 yarn made No. 60 thread, though
in point of fact the actual caliber of
No. 60 thread would equal No. 20 yarn,
being three 60 strands.

When the sewing-machine came into
the market as the great consumer, un-
reasoning inits work and inexorable in
its demands for mechanical accuracy, Six-
cord cotton had to be madeas a smoother
product. As thread numbers were al-
ready established, they were not altered
for the new article, and No. 60 six-cord
and No. 60 three-cord are identical in
size as wellas in number. To effect this
the six-cord has to be made of yarn twice
as fine as that demanded by the three-
cord. The No. 60 six-cord would be six
strands of No. 120 yarn. Three-cord
spool cotton is the same number as the
yarn itis made of. Six-cord spool cot-
ton is made of yarn that is doublé its
number. As simple a thing as thread is,
there are 2,000 different kinds made.

qq» ae __—
Credit Ever Timid.

Credit is an emblem of timidity. It
takes fright easily and is keen in scent-
ing danger. It listens to everything.
The world is its ear, which transmits
every note of alarm from the suspicious
whisper, that starts without apparent
cause, to the announcement of disaster at
hand. It elevates or lowers a merchant’s
ability to buy goods and transact busi-
ness. It governs his position in the com-
mercial world at home or abroad. It
speaks for his morals, integrity, industry,
prudence, sagacity and promptness.

Every merchant should keep his repu-
tation and character up to the highest
standard and use his best energies against
everything savoring of a questionable
nature. Moral character and honesty are
sometimes even larger factors in grading
credits and high rating than large capi-
tal. Money is one thing in business and
moral rectitude quite another. An old
merchant referring to the life of a con-
temporary in trade, remarked, ‘‘that his
paper sold as low as those worth their
milllons, because his moral character
and integrity and methods of conducting
business were above reproach.’’? From
this it will be seen that a man’s good
name to a large degree makes his credit,
all other traits being equal. This simply
illustrates how important it is for a busi-
ness man to obtain his reputation and a
character for doing right.

————>

On one oceasion, in pure jest, Good-
man applied for a situation as salesman
in answer to an advertisement inserted
by one of the most difficult men in the
trade to get aloig with. ‘‘Vat vas your
name’? was the first query. ‘‘Good-
man.’ ‘Good—man! Good — man!
Dot vas a goot name,’’ and the advertiser
was so pleased with himself on the
strength of his word play that Goodman
feared he would engage him at once. So
he said, somewhat surly: ‘‘What’s the
matter with my name?’ ‘‘All ridght,
Meester Goodman. Vot you vas, may 1]
ask? “What am L what?’ “Your
nationality ?’’ ‘1 ama Yankee.’’. ‘‘Vot!
Vell, vell, Meester Goodman! A Hebrew
name! A German look! An Irish ac-
cent! Andaborn Yankee! Youshould
sell der whole voridt! I engage you!’

Goodman did not engage. But he had
wagered a dinner he could get the sit-
uation, and at Delmonico’s, on the noon
of the same day, he discoursed to the
loser and several friends upon the details
of his visit.

—c— > amr

In Oakland Cal., there is an under-
taker’s shop with a large sign which
says, ‘‘Bodies Embalmed,’’ while next
door is another man’s sign which reads,
“Spirits Rectified.”

 

WANTED.

POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED
FRUIT, BEANS
and all kinds of Produce.

If you have any of the above goods to
ship, or anything in the Produce line, let
us hear from you. Liberal cash advances
made when desired.

EARL BROS.,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS
157 South Water St., CHICAGO.

Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grand Rapids.

 

 

ARRANTED TO BET

FINEST and LARGEST

For the money in the U. S. ("Put up 50ina box. Ask
our dealer for them. Manufactured only by
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SMOKE

E. KENNING & CO.,
Send for prices.

W. H. BRAGH,

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

GRAIN,
SEEDS,
BALED HAY,
MILL FEED
and PRODUCE.

BALED HAY A SPECIALTY.

HOLLAND, - MICH.

Grand Rapids.

 

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We also manufacture a full line of Sweet

‘CELIOTIOS WACHO ‘TWILL

 

The BEST CRACKER Made

Goods. Write for quotations

and samples.

Jackson Cracker G0,," ssc.

 

AWNINGS

AND TENTS.

 

 

 

Horse and Wagon Covers, Water Proof Coats, Buggy
Aprons, Wide Cotton Ducks, etc, Send for Illustrated
Catalogue.

Chas. A. Coye,

Telephone 106. Over 73 Canal St.

 

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ples and write for prices that can be ob-
tained in this market.

We do a COMMISSION BUSINESS
and our aim is to obtain the highest mar-
ket price for all goods sent us. Not only

BEANS
but also ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE.
We can sell as well as anyone.
We invite correspondence.
BARNETT BROS.,
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LAMP BURNERS.

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MO: t Sat, plai Bulbs 12

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STONEWARE—AKRON.

Batter Crocks, per eels 3.3. eS 06%
MUSE; he OAL, DEY Oyo. oe es 65
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6 “ 7, oe ss ( *  90e) “8

Old Woman, Olid Woman whither
so high ?

To sweep the cobwebs from the sky.

On such mission of cleanliness hasten
because

The sun, moon and stars need the Soap

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Season to suit when on the tabie. None
genuine uviess bearing the sigiature v

Davenport Cannirg Co,

Davenport, Ia.

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COAL! --- COKE!--

Wholesale A. HIMES.
Office ander Nat'l City Bank. Yards,

Telephone Call 490-2. CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY.

The Best Fitting Stock-
ing Rubber in the
Market.

»,Geo. H. Reeder,

Sole Agents,

Grand Rapids,

SHAFTING, HANGERS,

AND PULLEYS A SPECIALTY.
FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT.

Send Specifications for Estimates before Contracting.

THE LANE & BODLEY CO.

2t048 JOHN ST., CINCINNATI, O.

lal Opportunity!

  
   

 

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Shawmut Avenue, Winter and
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Having numerous lines of Glassware, Lamps,
Faney Goods and Crockery which we desire to
close out and discontinue those particular styles,
we offer them at a special discount from our

regular catalogue prices of
Fifteen per cent., Terms 60 Days,
Twenty per cent., Cash in 10 Days.
These goods are now displayed in our sample
rooms, corner Spring and Fulton streets, Grand

Rapids, and will be offered in
desired until sold.

any quantities

 

 

H. Leonard & Sons,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Jobbers of Crockery, Yinware and Lamp Goods,

 

GRAIN BUCKET.

Manufactured Under Patents.

For Sale by

SAMUEL LYON,

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By buying this bucket you get one strong and rigid enough to
elevate all substances except coal, ore, broken stone, etc. _ We can
furnish heavy buckets, same make, for such material.

WRITE FOR DISCOUNT.

LRMON, HOOPS & PETERS,

Wholesale
Grocers

AND
IMPORTERS.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

THEO. B. GOOSSEN,

WHOLESALE
Produce Commission
BROKER IN LUMBER.

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Merchant,

Shi
oOUuTIOW

Orders for Potatoes, Cabbage and Apples, iu Car Lots, solicited. |
+Butter and Eggs, Oranges Lemons and Bananas a specialty. |

33 OTTAWASSTEET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Oranges, Lemons and Bananas!

GRO. E HOWES & 60, Headquarters

No. 3 Ionia Street, MESSINA FRUIT.

GRAND RAPIDS, SPECIAL PRICES TO JOBBERS.

MOSELEY BROS.
—WHOLESALE
Fruits, Seeds, Oysters Produce.
All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be
pleased to hear from you.

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.,

Stovewood

 

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MICH.

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

COLBY, CRAIG & CO.

MANUFACTURE

 

We Manufacture to Order Hose and Police Patrol Wagons, Peddlers, Bakers, Creamery,
Dairy, Furniture, Builders, Dry Goods, Laundry, and Undertakers Wagons.

Repairing in all its Branches.

COLBY, CRAIG & <3.,

West End Fulton St Bridge. Telephone No. 867.

 

 

  

 

 

GROCERIES.

 

 

THE GROCER’S ANSWER.
The grocer sat in his office,
Perusing a circular bold,
Relating to boxing and cartage,
And other things equally old.

It told of the jobber’s troubles,
How profits had gone to the dogs

How cutting and slashing and lying
Had enveloped the jobber in fogs.

It pleaded for larger margins,
For the overworked jobber and clerks:

It professed great love for the grocer,
And gave him taffy by jerks.

The grocer thought deep, and pondered
On all that the circular said;

Then took out his pen, ink and paper,
And these are the words that he said:

“Mr. Jobber, you may think you've got me,
By your trust or monopoly fine,

But Pll show you that you are mistaken,
Within a very short time.

“¥ can buy my supplies of others
In markets conveniently near,

Of those who are anxious to sell me
And will send their agents here.

“J have always paid you promptly.
You have never had to sue;

I have asked no unjust rebates,
Nor allowances not my due.

“]T have tried to conduct by business
With credit and honor, too:

I have aimed to do my duty,
That neither of us might rue.

‘But I cannot concede the justice
Of the things you now demand.
And rather than submit to them
Pll take a firm, strong stand,
‘And say, if you insist in your efforts
To make me toe the mark,
(ll transfer my trade to others
And trust to another bark.

“J would rather not leave the old house.
For I’ve come to regard it with pride:
But I will not pay for cartage,
If I have to step aside.)

‘So do as you would be done by,
Charge cartage, or not, as you please;
But, remember!—you can’t have my trade,

if you add too many fees!”’
———_—_»>-?- >

Another Instance of Equalization.

The story bearing the caption, ‘‘He
Made It Right,’ published on the eighth
page of this issue, suggests a similar in-
eident which was brought to the atten-
tion of THE TRADESMAN several years
ago.

When the Lake Shore was the only
road making direct freight connections
with New York, Kalamazoo was neces-
sarily nearer the seaboard than Grand
Rapids, and in the apportionment of
through rates was given a proportionate
advantage over Grand Rapids, the dif-
ference in her favor being about two
eents per hundred. With the construc-
tion of the Grand Rapids division of the
Michigan Central, however, and the ar-
rangements made by the Grand Trunk
system for through connections, the
lesser mileage was no longer in favor of
Kalamazoo, and the now defunct Mer-
chants and Manufacturers’ Exchange
took the matter in hand, firmly believing
that Grand Rapids ought to have as low
athrough rate as Kalamazoo. A pom-
pously-worded memorial, signed by the
leading shippers of the city, was for-
warded to Commissioner Fink, who took
the matter under advisement. A couple
of weeks afterward acommunication was
received from the railway magnate, read-
ing substantially as follows

“J have come to the eonclusion that
your claims are just—that you are en-
titled to as low arate as Kalamazoo. I
have remedied the discrepancy by raising
Kalamazoo rates to the Grand Rapids

Gripsack Brigade.

W. L. Tilden is now on the road for 8.
M. Reynolds & Co., boot and shoe manu-
faeturers of Brockfield, Mass.

W. E. Evans, representing Armstrong
Bros. & Co., the Pittsburg cork and bung
jobbers, was in town over Sunday.

A. M. Sprague has severed his connec-
tion with S. A. Welling, at Jackson, and
will shortly go on the road with a wagon
of his own.

M. K. Keeler, general traveling repre-
sentative for H. L. Pratt & Co., of Bing-
hampton, N. Y.. was in town a couple of
days last week. He was agreeably sur-
prised at the large sale in this State of
his favorite brand, the *‘B. M. A.’’

at 8 =
Hides, Pelts and Furs.

The wool market is weak and lower.

Concessions have to be made in order to

sell.
Pelts are

wool.

Hides, no change. Prices are likely to
tule low until hides are short-haired and
good again. Calf and kip are in no de-
mand. Tallow is 4c. lower and tending
downward.

Furs are in good demand in order to
ship for the March sales—not later than
10th proximo.

lower, in sympathy with

GUM T TT rec eect ce
The Barkeep’s Salary.

“And do you receive a large salary?’’
asked the searcher after information of
the busy bartender.

“Well,’’? replied the knight of the beer
pump, setting out half a dozen foaming
glasses, ‘‘I draw the pay of a hundred
men daily.”’

—»>>___—_

In Montpelier, Ind., it is noticed that
the flow of natural gas follows the ebb
and flow of the tides, the pressure vary-
ing widely, or so much so that part of
the day it is barely possible to get the de-
sired supply, while at other times the
pressure is so great as to be objection-
able.

The Condition of Trade.
From the New York Shipping List.

Moderate activity has again character-
ized the distributive movement of gen-
eral trade, and, with one or two excep-
tions, the markets have rules steady, but
without developing ‘any new feature of
special significance, while speculation
has reflected rather more of a bullish
sentiment. The clearing house statistics
show that the volume of business pass-
ing through the banks has been very
much larger than for the corresponding
period last year, and the traffic returns
of the railroads likewise reflect a consid-
erable expansion in the East as well as
the West bound tonnage, so that so far
as these guide-posts are concerned they
reflect increased trade activity, but its
character can searcely be considered sat-
istactory in. view of the depressed con-
dition of the iron industry, the continued
dullness of the metal trade and the arti-
ficial conditions that prevail in several
of the speculative markets for produce.
Wheat has again been under the influence
of manipulation that draws its chief in-
spiration from Chicago, checks legitimate
trade and has an unsettling influence
upon all breadstuffs. The fluctuations in

‘| prices have not been due to the develop-

ment of any new feature with respect to
the position of supply and demand, but
are the results of a contest between op-
posing speculative interests. The ex-
ports from Atlantic ports continue ex-
tremely light, but the shipments from
the: Pacific coast have been unusually
heavy. The exports of corn continue
heavy, the largest for anumber of years,
which have been stimulated to some ex-
tent by the low prices current. Cotton
has ruled a little easier, and the bull
clique that has obtained temporary con-
trol of the speculation in pipe line cer-
tificates has imparted a bullish tone to
that market, but the field news has de-
veloped nothing new and the statistical
position of supplies is just the same as
for weeks past. The stock market re-
flects a strong undertone and there isa
belief that the presidents’ agreement will
be signed by all the Western roads, but
after it has been acceptedit remains to
be seen whether its provisions will be
honestly observed and strictly enforced.
Already rumors are afloat that it is being
evaded, and the Baltimore & Ohio is
pointed at as adelinquent. Meantime,
however, railroad traffic is making a sat-
isfactory exhibit, not only in the volume
of tonnage that is being moved, but the
earnings, waich areincreasing. Returns
from 118 roads for the month of January
show an increase of nearly 10 per cent.
in earnings, against a gain of less than 5
per cent. in mileage, while the freight
movement has been equally flattering, not-
withstanding that rail shipments of wheat
have been checked by speculation. The
aggregate for last month is $26,338,785,
against $24,028,863 in January,
gain of $2,309,922, or 9.61 per cent., with
an increased mileage of 4.76 per cent.
Of the total number there are only
twenty-five roads that report smaller
earnings thana year ago. The mone-
tary situation has undergone no impor-
tant change, and loanable funds have
eontinued in abundant supply and read-
ily available at low rates of interest.
The inereased activity of business in the
interior has had a tendency to check the
flow of money hither, but the banks have
gained from ‘Treasury disbursements.
Ten days hence there will become due
about $20,500,000 in the pension list, and
at present there is nothing in the outlook
that promises to disturb the existing
condition of affairs. Foreign exchange
is very near the gold exporting point, but
whether there will be shipments depends
upon the buying of stocks and bonds for
foreign account and the condition of the
London money market.
ee  ——
The Peddling Law.

A friend of THE TRADESMAN recently
enquired whether something could not be
done to amend the peddling law so as to
render it more effective. The enquiry
was forwarded to Representative Good-
rich, who secured a valuable amendment
to the law at the last session of the Leg-
islature, with the request that he give
the matter consideration. His reply was
as follows:

     

 

LANSING, Feb. 1
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Str—In relation to the peddling
law, itseems to me that the law is as
good as we can get it, provided those
parties who are the most interested in the
matter are willing to assume any respon-
‘sibility. Ithink that afew arrests un-
der the law would stop the matter, but if
other parties will frame a bill which will
reach the case more effectually, I shall
take pleasure in trying to get it passed.

Yours kindly, J. V. B. GoopRIcu.

2, 1889.

WILL HAVE TO TURN PEDDLERS.

Ion1A, Feb. 9, 1887.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Srr—It might be an interesting
fact to know that under the present law,
if a party or parties start in the business
of sending others out peddling groceries,
the party owning the goods is not re-
sponsible for the tax for selling the goods
if he hires another party to drive his
team and do the selling; the driver of the
team being responsible for not having a
hawker’s and peddler’s license. I made
complaint against one driver under the
above circumstances and he, being ig-
norant of his liability and a poor man,
the court let him off on suspended sen-
tence, but it stopped three peddlers from
going out from here. If the present law
continues, it will compel many grocers
to put wagons in the country during the
summer months, which will necessitate a
large expense, but they will have to do it
to hold their farm trade.

Sincerely trusting we may be able to
bring the matter before the State Asso-
ciation and haye the evils that now exist
in this respect corrected, I am,

Very respectfully,
FRED. E. KELSEY.
a Ge
Catering for His Wife.

Countryman (to grocer)—Mister do you
keep this—what d’ye call it—Sweitzer
cheese? It’s all holes and smell.

Grocer—Oh, yes.

Countryman — Well,
ehunk of it; it’s for my wife; she’s very
fond of it, but as for me, by g
even eat the holes.

gimme a pound

 

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i fit you.
Grocer—Tell your wife to eut the holes |

Cleon and I.
Cleon hath ten thousand acres,
Ne’er a one have I;
Cleon dwelleth in a palace,
In a cottage
Cleon hath a dozen fortunes,
Not a penny I;
Yet the poorer of the twain is
Cleon, and not I.

Cleon, true, possesseth acres,
But the landscape I;

Half the charms to me it yieldeth
Money cannot buy.

Cleon harbors sloth and dullness,
Freshening vigor I:

He in velvet, lin fustian—
Richer man am I.

Cleon is a slave to grandeur,
Free as thought am I;

Cleon fees a score of doctors,
Need of none have I;

Wealth surrounded, care environ’d
Cleon fears to die; :

Death may come, he'll find me ready.
Happier man am I.

Cleon sees no charm in Nature,
In a daisy I;
Cleon hears no — ringing
‘Twixt the sea and sky;
Nature sings to me forever
Earnest listener I;
State for state, with ‘all attendants—
Who would change? ? not I.
CHARLES MACKAY.

—_-_ ~<a _____—
Associations Develop Good Men.
From the National Gr ‘cer.

As one of the hopeful, if not the most
hopeful, signs of the good that has come
to grocers through organization, we note
nothing more strongly than the work we
find many of them doing in matters per-
taining to their several localities. The
day when the counter was the horizon,
and the desk the summit of the ambition
of the groeer, has gone by.

The time was when enmities existed
between neighbors in the same line of
business to such an extent that the de-
liuquent used that enmity to flay them
both financially.

Now as they both take the same step
outward and upward which severs them
for a few ee from their surroundings,

they take on a more happy vein of
thought, and feel big and strong for
action.

There are those, we observe, who pre-
sumably edit trade papers, who pride
themselves in continually correcting the
too great hopes the grocer has for suc-
cess in his undertakings. They stand
off and tell him that he can’t do this be-
cause the community is against him, and
that he can’t do that because the poli-
ticians don’t dare to grant it.

This is all very well to say, but when
the writer reads these things, he feels
towards the sentiments mentioned about
as he used to feel about Samson, the
strong man, who, when he pulled down
the temple. To be plain about it, I dis-
like to see any one, even a Samson,
wantonly destroy, or help to destroy, any
worthy thing that he could not possibly
replace or rebuild himself. There is no
place for the iconoclastie fever in the
grocer movement.

If the statistics could be gathered in
about the development of grocers who
before the movement was inaugurated
were quiet home-bodies, happy that their
lot was no worse, and who since that
time have developed qualities of mind
that have made them conspicuous, I
think you would find the list a long one.
The writer knows personally of one as-
sociation (not in Pennsylvania) which
has organized and pushed to success at
least a full half-dozen of feeble enter-
prises that had been lang uishing for
years. The town is proud of the grocers
and their association, and in spite of the
fact that they use a sharp stick on the
delinquents, the people back the grocers
up in everything they undertake.

This may seem possibly strange to
some of my readers who have seen as a
rule only fear and dislike meted out to
grocers’ associations. Possibly the suc-
cess in the case mentioned arises from
the fact that the thinkers and leaders are
men who follow up only ideas and plans
which aim to practically benefit the whole
community. It is very simple, this rule:
Work for your neighbor as for yourself.

To be frank, with a few exceptions, the
grocer in the past has not taken care of
his opportunities. No man has any
right to give up the duties of citizenship
and let others manipulate his birthright.
And itis, as it was said in the beginning,
a hopeful thing, both for the trade and
the individual, that the grocer is actively
identifying himself with the interests of
the community. You will find him two
years from now in a position to demand
and get his rights without question. The
hostile scrutiny and opposition with
which all laws for his benefit are met will
have disappeared. Why? Simply be-

cause he will be on hand locally to fight
for himself.

The world, as arule, respects a fair
fight, and when (as the grocers are doing
to-day) a fair issue is presented to them
by old and tried friends, with whom they
have worked shoulder to shoulder, we
will all see in the result why it is good
for the grocer to become strong locally,

————q@1--——___—
Protection Against Rust.

Dr. Gessner, of New York, proposes to
protect iron against rust by a very simple
and inexpensive process. The iron is
heated up to 800 deg. in a vacuum and
then exposed to the action of superheated
steam and petroleum vapor. The con-
sumption of petroleum is stated to be
very trifling. Iron thus treated cov-
ered with a layer, about one millimeter
thick, of a grey-blue color, and which is
described as a combination of iron and
hydrogen. It is said to be extremely
impervious even to the action of strong
acids.

is

———<_>-9 <<
The Grocery Market.

Business shows a gradua' improve-
ment, with room for still further im-
provement. The sugar market. still
maintains the peculiar condition hereto-
fore described under this head. Other
articles in the grocery line are without
material change. Oranges are higher.
Lemons are slightly higher. Peanuts are
advancing. Candy is without change.

+. -—___——_
They Were Marked Down.

Miss Spinster (to shoe dealer)—I see
that you have marked down some of
your shoes.

Shoe Dealer—Yes; that line of ladies’
shoes is marked down. Wehave marked
’em alldown -wo sizes. Now, there’s a
tidy little gaiter, 134, I think will just
and the

Miss Spinster blushes buys

! shoes.

Song of the Retail Grocer.
We're willing to stand short count,
We expect to get short weight,
But we won't pay boxing or cartage,
Nor give up an honest rebate.

We're willing to stand exchange,
For that is a just expense;

But the man who thinks wé’re chumps
Is mentally very dense.

We're willing to do what's right,
We'll meet the jobber half way;
But he can’t bear down too hard,
For we're bound to have our say.
>_<
The Wholesale Grocer’s Soliloquy.
BEFORE FEB. 18.
All hail the welcome day
When profits will be resumed!
When jobbers can ride in chaises
And our bank accounts will boom.

AFTER FEB. 18.
Methinks I heard something drop
With a dull and heavy thud;
Alas! our dream is over,
Our compact is dead as mud.
~~.
Excursion to Washington.

All persons who go to Washington with
the Traveling Men’s excursion can use
the sleepers while there, as side track
privileges have been secured for ten (10)
Wagner sleeping cars. Those intending
to join us please drop me a card, care of
F. M. Briggs, General Agent Michigan
Central railroad, 95 Monroe street, Grand
Rapids. Telephone 788.

Gro. F. OWEN.

& COs |

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imported cigar you can get.

FREE SMOKING, MILD AND RICH.

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THE BEST

Is that
Furnished
by the

Accident
Insurance

United States Mutual
Accident Association

CHARLES B. PEET,
President.

JAMES R. PITCHER,
Sec’y and Gen Manager.

320-324 Broadway. New York.

 

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354 Main St., PEORIA, ILL.

BORDEN, SELLECK & CO., Agts.,

 

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48-50 Lake St., Chicago, 114 Water St., Cleveland

PRODUCE MARKET.

Apples—In poor demand at $1.25@#1.50 per bbl.

Beans—Handlers are paying about $1.25 for un-
picked and getting #1. Ou. 7% for apd -picked.

Butter—Creamery is in fair supply at 25@26c.
pein 4 is in good demand at 18@2Ic, y Bonsiie 9 to,
quality.

Cabbages—Home giown command $3@% per 100 |

Celery—Scarce and hard to get.

Cider—8@10c per gal.

Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25; produce barrels

Cranberries—86. 50 for Bell and Cherry and $7.25
for Bell and Bugle.

Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun- “dried
at 444@5c and evaporated at 6@6%c.

Eggs—Jobbers pay 12%c for all offerings, but’
have no confidence in the price being main-
tained, as eggs are weak in nearly every market
in the country.

a eee plenty, being easy at 15e@17c
per Ib

Onions—Buyers Led 18@20¢ for good stock, and
hold at 25@30c pe

Pop Corn Ske 5 = tb.

Pork— Hogs bring 5%c on the streets and sell
for 5%@6c from jobbers’ hands.

Potatoes—The market isremarkably quiet, few
shipments being made—and thoseat no particu-
lar profit.

Squash—Hubbardg2c per Ib.

A iain Potatoes—Kiln-dried ‘Jerseys, $3.59 per

Turnips—25c per bu.

PROVISIONS

The Grand Rapids Packing and Provi-
sion Co. quotes as follows:

PORK IN BARRELS.

 

  

 

Mess, new. .... . 12 00
Short cut Morgan, ee es a ee i
Wexira Clear pie. Short Cut... ......-.... 22: 14 25
exten @ieom, MCARN ( . 2) 4. cg oe 14 25
Olear quilt short Cut. 3... fe 14 2%
Beston Clear, short Gut. ..:.-. st, 14 25
Clear back, snore CHb. 200. 14 25
Standard clear, short cut, best.....-........ 14 25
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average Sotbs. ee 934
GG 1DS oa 10%
- ie tote. ee 103%
" picnic Dwele ee ee dee eal si 814
MCSE OOMEIORS 6600000 10
Shoulders ge ee T%
beneress ee 8
Breakfast Bacon. boneless: 9... :. .... “10
Dried Beef, Se q
. ean precast ¢
Dour Clear, heavy. =) 2.2.2. i“
Briskets, Teed Tq
: Ment oe ee
LARD—Kettle Rendered.
MICTCesS eee 8
Pe ee ee 84
50 1b. Tims.) =. eee ce ects ce oy
LARD—Compound.
Miereae fe) ss <
30 ark te. PR Tg
oi ees cote © Cane. 8 ts 73%
5 lb. Pails, i2an a cade oot 75g
10 Ib. Pails, int BR CRSE 7%
moth Pais tin acase 7%
baie. Cans oe Gls
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess; warranted 200 Ibs..............- 6 75
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 7 00
Piste eee. 72
Weetre Pirate ee 77
Boneless, rump butts. Dec cise Jeeta tl ines oe 9 25
ey ee) GR. eee 5 50

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Sidenote and Smoked.

 

POE ailingee 7
as OOUeM 2
Tongue SRusage........-.. gies ee gis Pe 9
Franktort S@MBOZ@) ioc... sia 8
Blood SAMSAGe ee oe ts 5%
Bologna, —- . 5%
Bologna, thick. -.-..° -. ol See
Head Cheese, 22. 5%
PIGS’ FEET.
in half beerele 2
Lin @uarier barrels. (oe 2 00
TRIPE,
ln bait barrels: ee 3 00
In quarter Darrets. 2.200.025 6 725205. 3.5: 4
i Ele ee ee 85

 

FRESH MEATS.
Swift and Company quote as follows:

 

hi _ id quar Se ;
Mors @ 6
Pork loins 3. @ 8
0 @, 6%
Boterns 2... @ 5
B rankfort Sausace @B
Blood, liver and head sé ausage nee ce ees @5
Mutton ee « @
OYSTERS and FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
OYSTERS IN CANS.
CHEE NES ee @16
Anenors . 3: @18
ee er @27
| Fairhaven Commis... -..-..-: @35
OYSTERS IN BULK.
Standards... 1 00
NeleGts 1 40
Cans. 12
FRESH FISH.
WHKCHSR @ 4%
oo @ T™%
CINCGCS oe @ 4
Pini Baadies 0 @T%
Manet. ee @15
Hemme... @4
Perel, Skinned... 2 ss @5

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as foll ws:

STICK.

Standard 2ole boxes... 9

Twist, 25 ee ee ee 9%

Cut Loaf, 25 ee ee 10
MIXED

 
  
 

 
  

  

Royal, 25 lb. pes os cg
Ste. BbIS
Extra, % a 3, "pails oe.
Bele eo oe
oon gipineat 25 Ib. eens. Soh 11%
Cut Loaf, 25 Ib. cases. ee
Broken, 401b Bag 914
. ee. 9
FANCY—In 5 Ib. boxes.
emen Prope 13
Sour DrOps oo 14
Peppermint Props... 3. 14
Checaiare Props. 15
i Me Cheeolate Drapes... 18
Gin Drops... 10
RRGGrICR PEON oo 18
ACS. Pacertee Preps 200 12
Lozenges, PE ce 14
DeWieeG 15
Imperiais...... ee eee 14
MIGROCS ee ae i
Creame Ber.
Miglasses Mar... 8...
Caormneis.: ss). 2)... 8 {
Hand made Croams ) ‘
Fiat Crearas oo se 16
Decoraced Cream... 20
Strrige Se ee ee 14
Burnt AVmGwes oo te 22
Wintergreen Berries.....2-0. 0c... 14
FAaNcy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, a 12
5 im bbls 11
i pcinaeid, oe patie 12%
ee one 11%
Chocolate Drops,in pails..--.-...--........... 12
Gum Drops, ti palige 6
- im Obi 2
Moss Drops, ee 10
MUS. 9
Soar Drops, ii Paa 11
PIperiais, TR penis 3 11%
° ee ee 1044
FRUITS.
Oranges, HWioridas, ... <8 1. - 8... @
Messina re es 2 75@3 00
We tk oe Oe
. - S008) @3 00
. e OO @3 00
Lemons, ChGIGG 2 75@3 00
PANO 2 ee Oe
Figs, levers. HOW... 6)... 3. 1... SO@iG
eS OE @ 6
Dates, frails, 50 lb.. ae @ 4%
e \4 frails, 50 Su @ 5%
r Fard, 10-Ib. box ee ee @
. Oe ee. 8 @
i Persian, Bb box 6 @%%
NUTS. ?
Almonds, ——: ee enue @17
Wace oc @15
re Caltornia. 02.00.22... . 14@16
Brags 7 @TM%
Piperts, Sieilg 90.2 @l1
Ww: alnuts, POHODIE ooo a @1214
reo ee @10%
Pecans, Pexus, Hi Fo... es 8 @I12
Coecoenute, per 100. .........--...-..-9... 4 2a@4 50
CRCAINOIS ooo. or ee es @2 50
PEANUTS.
PEUCOCKS 00000 cee ee ‘ @8
ee ee ce @7%
Waen, 22. es @6

|

Wholesale Price Current.

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

 

 

BAKING POWDER.

 

oe :
“cc i Ib. sc o 4 40
ae ae me “ee a 2 40
ot Le oe 1 oe ve 00
Absolute, 4 Ib, cans, 1008..11 75
14 Ib. 50s. .10 00
. 2 in, 508. 18 @
Telfer’s, 14 lb. cans, << 2 70
' 4 Ib. 2
“ce Eid. aa 2 “ec : 1 50
Ac me, 4 Ib. cans, 3 doz.. i
% o 2 wee i 50
_ 1Ib. “ 1 : 3 00
- Co a ee 20

Red Star, 4 a cans, ¥ doz

““ “4 lb sc

BATH BRICK.
English, 2 doz. in ease...

a2

Brisue So "ir

American. 2 doz. incase... 65

BLUING, Gross

Arctic Liq, 4 “OZ... 020s eee 3 60
oe pe... 2... 7

- i pee. 10 80

' te 8-oz paper bot 7 20

Pepper Box No. 2 300

4 400
a ac te oe D 9 00
BROOMS.
ING! SPREE ce 2 00
WOOF 7 225
We 2 Carpes. 8c. 2 50
No. Ce ae 2 i
Portor Gem... <2. ........ 3 00
Common Whisk... .___.. 90
Fancy rp Re ee 1 00
eet 3 50
MWarehouse..........<.3_... 3 00
BUCKWHEAT.
Kings 100 Ib. cases . ..5 00
“ 86 Ib. eases. ..42
BUTTERINE
Dairy, solid packed... _-.. 13
POMe 14
Creamery, solid packed. . 15
rolls. Le 16
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 1b. boxes...._..... 1044
Star, ee 3%
Parsee ©. oc
Wiekie..... 25

CANNED GoopDs—Fish.
Clams, 1 Ib. Little Neck... .. 1

Clam Chowder, 3 ib... .....2 0

Cove Oy sters, 1 lb. stand.. --1 6

2 Ib: -.1 60

Lobsters, 1 Ib. pienie...._... 1 50

. 2 ihe “* ... 2

. Lib. Star.......... 1 ©

. 2 ib sier........... 2 90
Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.

Ib. stand Loe ee. Leo

ee 2 Ib: ~-+-.-+.3 10

& 3 lb, in Mustard... .3 50

' 3 lb, soused.._.. 3 00

Salmon, 1 i Columbia oe 2 00

oe 3 10

1b, Sacramento. 10
»

Sardines, domestic 1

 
 

2

8

edie ee oa » 8
imported 1 aS. "10@11
spiced, % Ha ae 10@ 12

Trout, 3 lb. brook)... .
CANNED Goops—Fruits.

Apples, gallons, stand...... i 90
Blackberries, stand......... 1
Cherries, red standard... -_. .. 1 00

oa pitted Cece a) wee oy ess
Darmgons 9-0. 1 06
Hep Pins, stand........._. 1 2
Geeseverics ... £ 1g
tapes ee -e 90

Green Gages. Se
Peaches, all yellow, “stand...
seconds Ce 12

Fineappies .-.........- 1
GCumecs ....-.....: .

 

- 2
Strawberries .-........... |.
Whortleberries..

CANNED VEGETABLES,
Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... 1
Beans, lima, stand....-___. 1

ba Green’ limes.... @i
° <r @
© Séringiesg, Erie....__.
** Lewis’ Boston Baked. .1
Corn, Archer’s Trophy......
. Morn’g Glory. :
Early Gold..
Peas, Brenea. =
‘€ extra marrofat. .. @l1
soaked...
June, stand... .. 1 2
ee ieetee UM Vein
French, extra fine... id
Mushrooms, extra fine..... 18
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden......
Succotesh, standard.... @
NQUABR 1
Tomatoes, Red Coat.. S
" Good Enough..
. Ben War.../...... 2
stand = 05@1
CHEES
Michigan Full Ciemn —-
Sap Sago Meee ce 6@1
CHOCOLATE,
Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet
| ERORHUHY. .-. :
Hom-Cocoa... 37
Breakfast.... 48
CHEWING GUM.
Rubber, pond lumps ee. 25
35
Seenee. 30
CHICORY.
Bee... 6
Bee
COFFEE—Green.
Rio fae. |... ae
“6 good

sc “ac

sé

se

“cs

6

ad
aoe
«

“6 sé

é sé

ae
. 1%

“ec

ee
ancy, washed...19
golden.... 20
MeMtGG oo 17
Mexican & Guatemala =
Peaberry -........_._.
dave, Enterior......__- 20
Mandheling....26
Mocha, genuine....... 125 @:
To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-

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age.
——
00 Ibs
Hien. Se
i Cabinets... ._._._.. ag
Dilworth... 5. 223%
MasnolHa .............-.. RY
30 Ibs 60 Ibs
ewe. 215, 21% 2

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mioney ee.) 020 10). es .

   
 

 

 

 

 

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Reh 22%
COFFEE EXTRACT.

Nabley City... 7
Mole 6006. 110
CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, aft......- per doz. 1 25

re bof... . 1 50
“ Ger... is 1 60
i Wor... 2... hg 2 00
e eete......- ' 2 2
Jute COTE... 8. fy 1 00
- Wate... ‘ 1b
CONDENSED MILE.
eet 7 60
Apgia swish... 3.0.0.0. 6 00
CRACKERS.
KRenoshs Butter. ........__: 8
Seymour 6%
Miter. iY
“ family M4
© biscuit z
Beton ee 8
City Sete. 22.2.0 o. eoued es oe 8
BOC ee 6%
mm Oyster. 4c. 6%
City Oyster, XE... 2... OS
PICMG gos. a Ce: 614

 

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Serietty, peire soo =| Conn, DOIGIe. i. 045. 107. 24G@25
COCO a 24; ‘* one-half barrels....2@27
DRIED FRUITS—Domestic. “ Kegs....--.... 2... £20
Apples, sun-dried..... 4 @ 4%) Pure Sugar, ie 25Q3z
evaporated.... 6 @ 6% | half barrel. ...27@34

Apricots, “ es @2 | SWEET GOODS.

| Riackberries 6) 00? ci xX XXX

Hecksanes a | Ginger Snaps.......... 9 944

Peaches eee a 14 | Sugar Creams......... 9 9%

Plums ee i 10. | Frosted Creams....... 914

Raspberries “ eae | Graham Crackers... . >
DRIED FRUITs—Foreign. | ek 2

Citron, in dram....... @23 | Climax ce ne

ane oo ass | . m wc ateccct eee tenncees 39@A1

ie Y OMMCE MOOG cy 39

Comems. ...-..... @5 Double Ped

Eemon Feel... .... a | Se ee =
: Wesel fies... 40

Orange Peel... 14. | Weddi Cake. blk

Frances, Turkey... _.. @ 4% | Som thin + € cae ot =
Ci Imperial _.."” @6\* ane ning ROG occa oe Ei

Raisins, Vv aleneias... 5@ 81% — «1. 40y

Caceres ......... . 84 | TEAS.
. Domestic Layers. 2 40 |
' ‘Loose Californias. .1 75 Fair ee 15

‘s —— $ GOODs. 1666 eae eS

arina, 100 Ib. keps.!....... 04 | eee k ;

Mowminy, per POL 220. |. 4'00)| Chidieest “30 es

Macaroni, dom 12 1b box.... 60 SUN CURED.

«imported aie (Fein 12 @15
Pearl Barley.......... as |Gea ae ee
Peas ereern 00... Gi 44) Cheiee .....-... 24 @2x

Spe @s | Chateest san anes

Sago, German......... @ 6% | BASKET FIRED, _

Tapioca, fk or pri... @ 644 | Fair. cc. @20

Wheat, cracked......- @ 64 Choe @25

Vermicelli, import.... ami | Cheicest. @35

& domestic... @60 | Extrachoice,wireleaf @40

FLAVORING EXTRACTS. | GUNPOWDER. mi

Jennings’ Lemon Y anills | Common to fair... .. 25 @35

2 oz. Panel, doz. 0 35 | Extra fine to finest....50 @é65

Son). 1 0 2 25 | Choleest fancy... - | |. 7 @85

6.02. 2 5 3 25 | IMPERIAL, ae

No. 3, 1 1 60; Common to fair.......20 @35

No. 8, 26 4 00, Superior tofine........ 40 @50

Now, | * =< 50 6 00 | YOUNG HYSON.

No. 4, Taper, “ 1 60 2 50 | Common to fair:...... 18 @26

pt, Round,® 4 25 @ 50 | Superior to fine._..__. 30 40

t “ . “8 50 15 00 | OOLONG. i

FISH—SALT. Common to fair....... 2 @30

Cod whee. @5 | Superior te fne....... 30 @50

<< Houciogg @, 74 | Fine to choicest....... 55 65

RUPE 11% ENGLISH BREAKFAST,
Herring, round, ¥% bbl.. S76 COR 2 G30
* bbl... ioe Cheiee. 3. 30 @35

“6 Holland, bois. 0 Bex... 55 @65

_ Holland, Kegs. @ S| Tea Bust... 8 @t0

“ Semea 00 28 | TOBACcos—Fine Cut,
Mack. sh’ 's, No. Aj, i bbE....9 50} Sweet Pippin: .._.. me

2 Ib kit..1 45| Five and Seven....... BO
se ee ic 9 35) Bea 68
Trout, % bbls......... @4 50; Sweet Cuba........... 45
10 1D ots 78 | Petoskey Chief... __.. 5D
White, No.1, % ‘bbis Soe ue. 6 00! Sweet Russet.......... 40
4 « 12 1b: kits. Lis; auisce.. 42
4 ' 10 Ib. mits... On| Wierda... 65
“Family, % bbls.... .2 50) Rose Leaf... 66
kits. ed Deme :.. 38
GUN POWDER. Swamp Ange]... «0
Hess... ......5 25} . TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS.
Half kegs.. .... 28.82 » per hundred i 2 5S
i LAMP WICKS. 8 5, ei ee a 3 0O

No. 0 : 30: t10, : 4 =

Ne nee ee

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. LICORICE. | “Bi oF

ae 30 | or over......... 5
So a ee 10 aa —
a 18 1000 1 ae

MINCE MEAT | Vv INEGAR,
Bucsets. ate | er. ee 9
Hale pps ea eee
MOLASSES. Ce a

Bisek Sivap......-... 22. |. 16@17| $1 for barrel

Cuba Baking......... » 2225 | MISCELLANEOUS,

Porte: Riee.:"_. - Sig Cocoa Shiela buik |... 35

New Orleans, ‘good. es Jelly, 30-lb. pails... rir

choice. Se 15
fae i aaa ‘

One- half barrels. 3¢ extra. i PAPER, WOODENWARE

_ OATMEAL. PAPER. i

Muscatine, = rape 8.2.22... .6 OO Curtiss & Co. quote as
oie | Selon:

ROLLED OATS | Straw va et ag lal el gael an ob te

Muscatine, Barrels..... _. 6 00 Light W nein:

< Half barrels. ....3 15) SUSE ------ ‘ce.
Cases... ..2 2o@i2 3a Rag Sugar
OIL, Hardware .
Michigan Test.............. 944 | Bakers .............-.... 4.
Water White... .._. 107; Dry Goods 3.0.
PICKLES, | OGG MSA 8

Medium. oe 459; Red Express, No.1...... 5

“ 2 Noo 4

Small, bi. i 5 : WINES,
ic ae bbl. oe Ge, | Fe COMO 22

- oe 7 | Cotton, No. a

Clay, ae SIG 1 601 3 woe KS
: D. full count. ow, sea Island, assorted... 4)

Cob. a Se 2) NO ee Le

ae Ne oe. 17

Carolina Bea nea WoOl ..........-. 2-2. eee. 8

oa ea WOODENWARE.
Neo aes ri Pubs, No. 1. “oe 7%
a > No. z es ‘: 6%
apan . a NO ny
eal a Pails, No. + two-hoop.. 1 6

DeLand’s, pure.. oma No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 7

Ci_ureh’s, Cap Sheaf..... SS Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.... 60

Dwieaes... oo | Bowls, 11 inch.. 1 00

ae 13 i 1 2

SALT } Loa 2 00

Common Fine per bbl....... 39 | ‘ 2

Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks..... 25 | assorted, 17s and 17s 2 50

28 cree ep 205 “158, 17s and 198 2 75

Le iene 215 Baskets, eee.

— Ee aD a5 gee 1 60

Ashton bul bass | With covers 1 90

Higgins * ‘eo Willow cI’ ths, No.1 5 3

Warsaw ‘“ —O le ae .2 6 00

SAL SODA i i 0.3 7 00

Kegs FR lh le hh let al ill ly fy | 6 splint iN 0.1 3 50

Caan boxes 13; | a Mh i Noo 24%

. SAPOLIO. | | “No.3 5 00
Kitchen, 3 doz. in box. 235!
aaa 3s L Ap > 35 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

SAUERKRAUT : Wher.
Silver Thread, 30 gal.. 3 50 Wits: 1 00
i Fa 96

oti | FLOUR.

Mate 41, | Straight, in sacks......... 5 0

Care es ; barrels........ 5 20

eee 4 | PetenG) 7 saci il... 6 00

Gh 415 | iv barrels........ 6 20

Anise.. eee MEAL.

eo ER ASAE EEN ye Bolted ee 2 50

Mace TK | Grangiaied................ 3 00

SNUEF. i ‘ MILLSTUFFS.
i

Scotch, in bladders......... of Ships LN se a S

Macesboy, tn jars. 0000001185) | | Geveenmnoe 14

French Rappee, in Jars.... .48 | Mi mee

| MiGs ... 17 00
SOAP. Mince Weed... 1... 17%

Dingman, 100 bars..........4.00' cat

Don’t Anti-Washboard..... 475 Small lots. Ee) ee pe

—— SE Testis ae escheat i

meen Ames Si ge , ii :

Gemngn family... ..-. 2 40 Small lots....-..--..- +... 3t

Bip Bareain. |. 1s Pe a reat i 29

SODA. | i RYE,
Bowes oo 514 | No. 1, Be eae oo 2 00
Kegs, English.... vreeee tees See ata a 1 20
sPpicEs—W hole. OE 1 10

Amepice... ss. 9 | HAY.

Cassia, China in mats. . <<" et 14 00
Batavia in bund.. De 13 00
te Saigon in rolis...... "8 j ee

Cloves, — a = HIDES, PELTS and FURS
= Snziar............ 2 | Saeliaic & ma e :

Mace Batavia... a i Perkins & Hess pay as

Napmess, fancy. 6.00.0... 70 | follows:

Net oo | HIDES.

“ a 60 | Green 4@4%

Pepper, Singapore, Ieack...i9i4 | Pare Cured. ..... 2.2... @ 4%

Whitc..... — | Full Fe eee ce owaa a 44@ 514
el 21 | bo 5 @ 6
sPices—Ground--In Bulk. | Dry Kips ............. 5 @6
AlSpiee is | Ca fskins, Aner aa 3 @4
Cassia, Batavia............. 20 | cured...... 44@ 5
and Saigon.25 | Deacon skins.......... 10 @2&

«| Savon! 42 | 26 off for No. 2.

Cloves; Amboyna........._- 35 PELTS.

“ Zanzibar... a | Sheerness ..-.......... 10 @30

Ginger, Aivieam 124% | Estimated wool, per b 20 @28

Ceehem. to... ia | FURS.

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Jamaica . oe 3

Mace Batavia... go | Add 15 per cent. up to March 10.

Mustard, Bnelish.......... . 22 Min ees 5@1
“ ae and Trie. 25 Coon eee 5@i 10
“_Trieste............. aT | Skunk. ......--... +... 5@1 20

Nutmern, Neve... 8.2: 7 Muskrat eee @

Pepper, Singapore, Black... .3 | Fox, red. ee aus: 5@1 50

ae t “CTOSB...-..--....- BOGS 00

“ Cayenne! (00.0), 5 | POM ca 5@1 00

1 Cat, Heoune.... 5@ 2%
STARCH. De seapieRonts 5@ 50
My stic, ath. pees: oe j io... 7 00@6 00
CE aaa GT Bye es 50@5 00
SUGARS. | Martin, Ger... 1.60. 25@4 00
Cut Boat... i @ 8% | Otter © cm ae soe 7
Canes Qi wae a op
Boat) Woes). --- 30@4 00

Powdered 0.05.50...) @ 7% | Bear
i @ 7 STE ee 30@30 00

Granulated, i. & M.'s... @ 74 | Beaver 50@S Of

catia fe :. @7 06| Badeer ........ — rn

onfectionery A...... M7 | Weenies poi, Pa

Standard A. ar 63.@ 6% | Deerskins, per lb...... 5@ 40

No. 1, White Extra 5g | MISCELLANEOUS.

No. 2 extra ©... .. | PAR OW oc ect ccd 4 @ 4%

No. 3C, golden a ® 6144 | Grease butter.........5 @ 8%

No. 4 C, dark. @ 6. | Switehes 62000100000) agnaes

Nooo O20. ". @ 5% | Ginseng.......... 2 oo@2 10

 

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© 2 victims of violent death. He mentioned} Pharmaceutical ‘‘Don’ts’”’ for Young ,
a. : .
Dr ugs se M edicines. a case in which this test had proved con- Prescription Pharmacists. Wholesale Price Current.
: : P Advanced—Glycerine. Declined—Quinia, Salaci int, 03
—— ee clusively that the patient was dead. Don’t employ Latin unless you under- Advanced—Glycerine. eclined—Quinia, Salacin, Oil Peppermint, Oil Lemon.
One Year—Ott : ca He — The President asked Dr. Richardson stand it, or where English will answer —_—=—— ae ——————— —— Es
one r. mar rbac. no or. i‘
Two Yeare—Goo- McDonald. Kalamazoo. _— he —— hae the i. ae better. ACIDUM. carb. OE eat au Le $0gh 15} Anmtipyein 200. 1 35@1 40
ree Years—Staniey E. Parkill, Owosso. vy himself and others on e battle-fie Non’t fail to put the atient’s Aceti 8@ 10 enete, (po. 20)... .. 18@ 2 Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 68
Four Y Jacob J Muskegon. : 2 7 p , name on eetiewrn ic... 22s. 5 @ 68
ares ae Goaee Varoee meteeae of the occurrence of instantaneous rigor] each prescription, unless otherwise ad- | Benzoicum, ee 2 OS gieeeeee ee 3 00 | Baim ¢ Gilead, Bad.) 38 40
a eae mortis in soldiers. He had seen them| vised. eat ee 40@ 45 | Potassa, a aoe 23@ 36| Bismuth S. N.........2 15@2 25
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. = waters the attitude in which they were} Don’t abbreviate unnecessarily. Citricum ......-....... 53@ 60 a ee & 15 Calcium Chlor, 1s, (448
t Meeting—At the lect m of Hartman’s Ha @ ie me 5 etass Nitras, opt..... @ iS aS, Seo
Graal Sapien, Taseday and Wednesday, March 5 and 6 at the moment of death, the arms raised| Don’t forget that = saeco tiga gan aneaameas 3@ 5 | Potass Nitras’ ig! 7 9 Giaiiacties Russian
NrrOcuIA .......-..._- 10@ 12 sian,
as in drinking, or holding the musket, —— Acid, Gunicia 13@ 14| Prussiate ..... 25@h 28) Bon @1 %
Michigan panies <a Ass’n. etc. Acid Hydroc. may od a : : Phosphorium aa 99 | Sulphate po........... 15@ 18| Capsici Fructus, af @ 18
Fnat View President -F. M, Alsdorf, Lansing. Dr. Richardson, in reply, observed that ‘fae = ee i seve eer 1 ae = RADIX. Pe o ey 2 +
Vv dent—H. M. D Nil : ‘ns i : det ies Suiphurienm. .-. 2... :- ; ee Z
Feed Vion President oO. ecceet: ie fahee he flad protested against the introdution | Ammon. bal or. Taimtoaun ee 1 an Oo | ACOnMuM 6.03500. W@ 2 Caryophyllus, _ 30) BQ Ww CURES
Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. of death by electricity as being altogether { as manuvicam: 000. 4x@, 50 — Dee eee 2G = a No. 4 : es oe @3 75 .
Pcasare win By t, Detroit. : poeta L r; PAPC EVES 5@ % era aS Es. K 55
Executive Committee a. H. nee we: aa oe — =. 7 ay ee Aq. Chior. ) chi or = AMMONIA. Apa oo @ 25} Cera Playa...) 20. ao 30 Liver and
tt, Detroit; F urzburg, Gran pids; $ 58 Ss orine Water. oe etc 0m. ! 1 § : e
ali, Greenville; pak that while it was possible, by means of a] 5.) Goi .., } Ext. Colchicum, Aqua, is ioe te a é rae. a (posts a 3 pun weiss . = Kidney Troubles
very powerful current, to kill small an-|“*" °° Pars eet am Guneane 1g. 3S Se eee o2 Blood Dise
i E ce 4 z : -C } : ‘ ; _ 429@, 14} Hydrastis Canaden, Cesmecuie 2... @ 35 r ases
ees een ns ae nek. imals, birds, etc., it was quite otherwise Calomel, Chloridum .......---- : ere @ 60| Chloroform ........... 50@ BS Cc e °
ccc z == when large animals were experimented | Hyd. Chior. « «| Corrosive Sublimate, ANILINE, tietchere: Ala, po 15@ 20 a = @1 00 onstipation
Detroit Pharmaceutical society i : | or > 95 | Inula, po 15@ 20} Chloral Hyd Crst......1 50@1 %5
President, J. W. Caldwell. Secretary, B. W. Patterson, | With. He said that he had asserted that | Hydrate Chloral. Bite 2 — jc Tnccen POvnnevrneesg 40@2 50 tame satay ee a a ea
Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. the color in the cheeks persisted in death E : =— oe 45@ 50 | Iris plox (po. 20@22).. 18@ 20 Cinchonidine, P.& W 15@ 20
President, Geo. L. LeFevre. Secretary, G. W. Hoye. by asphyxia, to which categary death by Sod. Hypo. } ae [112 50@3 00 | Jalapa, pr............. 23@ 30 German 5@ 12
i 1 1. He alluded I Hypophosphite, a) ci Maranta, 168.....:.... @ 35} Corks, list, dis. per emal
pneumonia belonged. e alluded to the ; Sulphur, cia Padcadiclion, bo 15@ 18] cent
The Absolute Signs of Death. fact that no one could, by will, impose] guipn, J Sulphate, Pekiok Gon * 60 iat 85@u2 00 oo ace ee eee 73@1 00| Creasotum ...........- = . e
At the meeting of the Medical Society |on the survivors any particular method (ee oe ae _@A | Creta, (bbl. 7)... 6. @ 2 Complain ts
of London, held December 10, 1888, Dr. | of disposing of the body, by cremation tat | t és _., _ | Xanthoxylum......... 25@ 30 tine es 3@1 = a <a eee ae = 2
B. W. Richardson read a paper on this| or otherwise. He thought the discretion Use eee - prescriptions. aie Sanguinsria, (po 35) @ 2| “ a eae @
subject. He opened by saying that in|rested with the executor (Dr. Routh Don’t ee ee Sk Copaiba .....---.--+--- 10@ 7 | Serpentaria............ 30@ 35] Crocus ................ 32 Being composed entirely of HERBS, it
the present day, owing to the discus-| claimed that the wife or next of kin was| ,, Don’t carry on conversation while put- | Peru............------- _ @1 30 | Senega .....-...02. 4. 73@ 80| Cudbear.............,. ; 24 aoe a yo ’
ao ting up a prescription. Terabin, Canada ..... 50@ 55 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40j CupriSulph.&....25. 8 s the only perfectly harmless remedy om
sions that were taking place on the sub-| the authority in such matters), and sug- Don’t asc thc a : Moluten 45, 50 M  @ 20} Dextrine ...._. Se 10@ 12 the market and is recommended by all
¢ cremation and the disposal of the | gested that the legal right to leave direc- on’t use the dot to denote the decimal Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12| Ether Sulph........... Bs@ 70 , se
et oe P e : : . = : fraction of a gram The decimal li eee Sympl Feti E Ul be ——
dead, members of the profession were | tions in this respect might fairly be ap-| ; - ree ae as aa con - 5
more frequently being called in in con- plied for. He denied that rigor mortis aa oc  . anaes re ae Valerian, ng. (p08) @ 25| Ergota, (po.) 45....... 40@ 45 oe ue I
sultation in order to determine if life | over produced any change in position, all h ae t try to write the label worse than | Ginchona Flava .....------- 18 German... 15@ 20| Flake White.......... 12@ 15 ‘etail Druggists will find it to
were actually extinct. He proposed, | the muscles undergoing the change simul- a physician has written the prescrip- —— — seeeeeee = ers Coe es 10@ = — a a 2 23 ee to keep the DIA-
therefore, in the short essay he was| taneously. In reply to the President, he — : le : eee eo Gelatin, Cooper... = GIVES UNIVERSAL SATISFACTION For rai EA, as it fulfills all that
about to read, to state in a very practical] said that the sudden rigor in the cases] . eoR : put up a prescription without | Quinaia, grd........-------- Ry SEMEN. French........ 40@ eS ecco aoe it one of the
form, first, the common circumstances mentioned was probably due to the im- = = a the dose. 4 oe ee a | Se : 8 - oe — per cent. Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, very best selling articles handled.
under which the inquiry was demanded;| mediate coagulation of the albuminous| |, on't fold powders into odd shapes and Ce Mis: ‘ “4@ 6| Glue, Brown.......... 9@ 15|Colts, Calves, Pigs, Lambs,| Place your order with our Wholesale
secondly, the methods for determining constituent of the body, due to the heat = “ee re EXTRACTUM. Q ox | CAFU, (PO. 18) ..-..-.-- 12@ 15 ce White 13@ 2% . , > House. —
the absolute proof of death; thirdly, a|developed by the sudden resistance of- on't pas? a nay label over a soiled | Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 21@ 2% Cardamon Ce, 1 ong = Grane Paradis a @ *>| Has the finest line of illustrated advertising and
summary of efficient practical details. | fered to the circulation. — a haa Sclgiag tite a | Haematox,15Ib.box.. U@ 2 Cannabis Sativa.......3%@ 4 vessssseceee, ©95@ 40 | most attractive lithograph label. A 75 cent cash | [)} cat
Under the first of these heads the author —__>+.___ HE eghte = sss ion or write a ceri gga 13@ a Cydonium a — : Hydraag Cpe ne: e = guarantee on every box you sell, 1,000 illus amon B GIA
i 7 i eg. 5 enopodium ........ @ 12 : : ; : 7
specifies the reasons which led the | Gonstituent Elements of Several Prep- Don’t use flourishes in writing us ca 16@, 17 Sisgate Odewse a 1 %5@1 8 “ Ox eee @ 3 trated circulars in each case. Rubber stamp and Or
friends of persons supposed to be dead to arations. Bion‘ tell & pathenbit vea tea 3 i Foeniculum........... @ * Z Ammoniati.. 1 10} self-inking pad free with your first order through PROPRIETORS,
question the fact of death. These were: sei ees ete i be ea Make eapel FERRUM. ie Foenugreek, po....... 6@ a Unguentum. “< = jobber. Special directions for building up a
(a) changes of color of the dead body;|,.. ure aaa ar nae ee am See ae ao to cies wage e. 50 ae grd, (bb a) << zs Ichthyobolla, ea oo = large trade with every shipment. Our new Circu- DETROIT, - MICH.
(b) retention of warmth; (c) movements | qincture capsicum...................-.. fdr J en? guess jak a oa Citrate Soluble........ 80 | Lobelia.. ae a eee aa 75@1 00 | lar, “Hog Cholera—Cause, Cure and Pre- en
of parts, or supposed movements; (d) | Tincture opium.............-..++4+-+0+5 er ae D * ga Bs a Ferrocyanidum Sol... = PharlarisCanarian.... 34@ Pv 4 = Resubl........ 4 00@4 10| ventive,” is attracting universal attention : ®
whence of lifelike expression nbtor For 34 we cme Specs Beco e cc sce Beek cee ee 2 . 4 - ab - SS the wrong — agri boosie Mg : Sumpis, Albu ee = : i. ne es i Contains the most scientific and practical ae Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,
death; (e) prolonged preservation of the | PRU CAMPROR s sscrrccrecrrseseeseerecs PT) pone a oe teeth ee ee | 7 " Nigra........ 11@ 12] Lycopodium -...-..- in regard to this terrible disease, and only known WHOLESALE AGENTS
os y . alan a eT ali re /
ee Don’t hold an end of the string in your FLORA. SPIRITUS. Liduor'abscn’ t “Hy- ® positively successful treatment. Gives valua- GRAND RAPIDS, . MICH.
p LISTERINE. teeth when tying parcels. em ee 14@ 16 Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 vow? 50 PHYp TO el... 27 | ble information in regard to swine-raising
ena of vital action after some forms Of | Oil wintergreen........ ......./...-..04. drops . Doak he 4 ti iticize Apthemis ........----- * 30@ 35 D. F. R.....1 %5@2 a 10 12 | for large profit, See ether circulars for all
induced narcotism; (g) the cataleptic | Oil peppermint. ......-.-.-.--+-0--+-+--++ tte te Ae, ee ee MeNnICRE RY === 3 mas Ul UU 1 10@1 50| Magnesia, Sulph (bbl ee ee
state, traumatic and idiopathic. One ee i 10| asad prescription in the presence OETA: Juniperis Co. O. ff: ei 75 Moe ae ee. Be ot a d RM sph ects dey dene. bi cece W E LEAD
other circumstance might also give rise| Rect. spirit..............2...... 522 scene ee gms. 180 of the patient. ‘ BETOREA, uu. eo 10@ 12 charum N. E......1 7%@2 00| Morphia, S. P. & W...2 isi i i y HIT
Don’t forget that a slight er 2 Saacharum N. pa S 55@2 80; enterprising farmer or stockman. Send to
to the inquiry—namely, a request on the = ACID... 2.1 eee eee eee eee eee ee i : ik: aa oh ok th & ror may Cassia 2 ‘Acutifol, ‘Tin- 5G 28 Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 75@6 50] pe S.N. ¥. @. & | slkuas Sot Gackc epeciel duccinn “OG Stak & COLOR WORKS
part of the eo while jiving to be Borie acid. ce Ete Es 16 Don’t fall ae Soke oo = shelf a . ee Yini oo F300 Phen ae cm, * 7S 2 TRADE,” for full information in regard to rub- DETROIT
subjected to skilled examination after} Thymol......... “241. ott die eal ee Ttadein officinalis, 4s L | Myristica, No. 1....... we 20 ber stamp—free—and also our GRAND CASH ;
death, in order to prevent the possibility | Water to me * 1000} 90 — oy — it c own; again as you} and %s.. oes — = SPONGES. orale Yonica, (po 20) ne 10| pREZES. See circulars for testimonials of reli- MANUFACTURERS OF
of living burial. The author twice in 2) eer re ae and again as you replace it | Ura Ursi...-- : as Florida sheeps’ wool Pepsin aah ” | hid desis tenia iainel needaniy: Tite LATEST
his career had been called in to meet this _ BLUE PRINT PAPER. ea eat ‘ ' ea es ae ss Aa. ~ Um ein lies Pe uae 4: ae a aes y-
i me : ~ | Red prussiate potash............-----.2-++- az. 4 Don’t have two unlabeled preparations | Acacia, 1st picked.... @l 0¢ | Nassau sheeps’ woo Picis jin c i ade is about equally divided between drug-
ee = ee, bea ngs gg a ee “" 301 ow tuo dauk af ab eaees Mamie ca 6 ae 2 carriage Serres 2 00 ies * - @2 70 | Sists, general dealers and grocers, A good trade ARTISTIC
stances which might lead to adoubt as to| M. an i i aa ee @ 80| Velvet extra sheeps’ i : :
ae ne a : Don’t paste a label on the bottl a 65 Hal Gaeniace 110 Picis Liq., ‘quarts . aah 1 00 | for one insures a satisfactory trade for the other.
absolute death, some of them very im-] Cit. iron and ammonia..............-..---.. oz. 3 ottle sifted sorts... _@ ne eee rns int " r
2 : a ee », “ 7 z 7 y sheep: PINS . - ‘0 | Order at once, :
portant and singular, were next de-| Dist. water... 2 a : 3 ald a gs | Bil Hydrare, (po. 8) a ee SHADES
seribed in detail; and then followed the} ““p.y;, « He a on’t filter a prescription unless you |“. Cape, (po. 20)... @ 12 | Grass sheeps' wool car- iper Nigra, (po. 22).. . y every y or sixty days, at7
' i : paacis Gic ached or ser: Put in separate bottles and mix equal} are instructed to do so, or are sure that} « ee oo. a. ee eet ries... .2-+- 5 | Piper Alba, (po g5)..... @_ 35/| per cent. profit. OF
hay fina Miggpe mie, z parts when wanted for use. the sediment is inert ae, 1s, (4s, 14 4s, Hard for slate use.... re) _ ee us . ; FOR
itable proofs that had to be made in or- Bare Ee eae ! i a ee @ 13] Yellow Reef, for slate —— Meet 15 MANUFACTURERS: ;
der to arrive at a satisfactory demonstra- ve ct te on e surprised if you dissolve oe (eee ae) we, 1 40 pulvis Ipecae et opii.. ft on 20 } !
ion that life was extinct. These proofs THEATRICAL REQUISITES. Potass. Permanganate in Glycerin and } Assafeetida, ‘po. 30). @ 15 Pyrethrum, boxes H , e interior
mug = gage Oe aT sa . goss Nigger Black—Beat the finest lamp-j are blown up in consequence. Benzoinum .......... 0@ 35 i ere i aa. | = The German Medicine Com all i
SS ee '€Y|\black ‘into a stiff paste with glycerin,} Don’t add strong acids to solutions of | Camphor® =... ------- ee ee ee Gee "s@ 10 it!
were taken up in the following order: |, i ne Loe se ee Euphorbiu po. 35@ 10} Zingiber ..............-...-. 3 ae a 49 ‘
Sr ie s : '-|and apply with a sponge; if necessary, } carbonates in a small bottle ; 7 mer jo} Quinia, 8. P. & W..... Ba 4 ee is. Mi g
(1) respiratory failure, including absence . os eo oo | ee ates In a small bottle. Galbanum:. {---2::..- G@ @ 1 ipeesc...... 60 Sy 204 Minneapolis, Minn. EXTERIOR
of visible movements of the chest, ab-|™** little water with it when using.} Don’t mix iron solutions with Tamnic | Gamboge, po....-.---- Big) Perri Tod..-..--..---+------- GR geamig Soa we ‘
oT - a = ie = This is far superior to the old-fashioned | acid or astringent fluids unless you wish ang (po. a @ = a . = Sohne | ets G FOR SALE TO THE TRADE BY % DECORATION
sence rispirat a) ab- . ae a i : roa : 2 i ae — a @ : 4 ve cee es ¢ F
sence of water vapor from the breath; — a beer, and can be as easily | to make ink. oe a a @1 00 | Similax Officinalis.......... 6) Psa nue 2 —_ 2, | Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Wholesale Drug-|
(2) eardiae failure, including absence of removed as it is applied. i Don’t add acids to mixtures containing | Myrrh, (po 45)..------ 40 Oa 20) Santonine a CT gee ae) Sees, Sian Sees, Seen teers, BF J WURZBURG Wholesale Agent.
eax al pul ation "of cardiac motion White Face and Arms Lotion— Syrup Yerba Santa Arom., or F. E. -— Se i a = Seite. es aa Sapo, = ee 12@ Sse © Sank — eG a $e'co Whale a : ,
‘ riz Se : sardiae ni ec i See aaie ri ? sa Shenae (as ee @ 35 ener e ea aca at ot A +rocers, E. Saginaw; W. J. Gould & Co., Whole GRAND RAPIDS.
and of cardiac sounds, absence of tur- cots ee nT i diams. “| Licorice. : “ _ bleached... -- be a Sarat aT = ( ae 4 sale Grocers, Detroit; B. Desenberg & Co.,
cescence or filling of the veins on mak- | Rose water to make.......... ..------+-- fl.oz. 2 Don’t use delicate seales for heavy | Tragacanth ..........- 30@ Tolutan Oe ei Seidlitz Mixture.) @ Wholesale Grocers, Kalamazoo.
ges ing s lé ae : ot ee ae : a vite i es
ing pressure between them and the Superior to pow ders. Many leading WwW te i a : L HERBA—In ounce package: fh Lee Sinapis a n e
heart: (3) reduction of the temperature | actresses use the above. ad aie = the mass on the out- a ae oe ee ' en _{| Snuff, : ee “
of the body below the natural standard;| Nose Paint for Comic Characters— side of the capsules. ee ——. a ae) Seomitem Napete : peor OU IM Ges tne tn a Le a a HA
(4) rigor mortis and muscular collapse; | Wheat flour........-....-..----+ss5s+++ 51+ ,0% 1 Don’t fail to date prescriptions. Majorum ........------+++++- 81 aloes ce ae .Scoteh, De. Voes @ 35
i A ahd : he aL AOA sare ieee a Un a grains. 120; Don’t forget what you have put into} Mentha a Lae ees eer nae aa 0, Soda Boras, (po. 12)... 1@ 12
(5) coagulation of blood iu the veins; (6) | [o'be tinted with carmine {he peeparsian when called aaa Vir 25) and myrrh........ .. 60! Soda et Potass Tart... 33@ 35
er ieee on ee a : spare called away. ee a Aiea Se Soda Ouro 0 YQ, 21
a ae ee nee Take as much of the powder as neces-! Don’t ‘“‘substitute.”’ Temas oe ye | Asafostida 00 ..2..02.2.... 5 Soda, Bi-Carb 00. 10.1, “a “5 & PERI « J l v S&S
under the influence of a powerfnl light: sary and knead into a stiff paste witha! Don’t smoke cigarettes or chew tobacco | Thymus, V.......--- eee Bemzoin, eS Oo om eee ee
(8) absence of muscular contraction un- little water and apply to the nose, having | in business hours. MAGNESIA. Cos sae oe ener MAS. eee
der the stimulus of an eleetrie or gal- previously painted it with spirit gum. Don’t pass prescriptions to customers | Caleined, Pat.....- s@ 60|Sanguinaria.........0....... 50] Myreia Dom..... @2 00|
8 Grease Paints—Clarified suet is mixed} without first reviewing your work Carbonate, Pat ... NG 2 Sines eh OX) Myrcia Imp... _. @2 50} e
vanic current; (9) absence of ared blotch | _. : : : Si : ; Carbonate, K. & M. 20@, 25 | Cantharides. 03 Vini Rect. bbl.
i : : f ee with the required color and poured into Don’t be hasty in conelud th : So ae venti : oo
on the skin after the subcutaneous injec-| ~ ound molds Uae ain oneluding that a] Carbonate, Jennings... %5@ 36 — Me ave a | 2s). @2u | Importe d Job f
tion of ammonia; (10) absence of signs rou Olds. — : / fancied error is real and alter a prescrip- OLEUM. | gag apes satin et nae ae cor be gal., cash ten days. mp rs an obbers o
ae Min : For flesh tint, use white lead and/| tion in consequence. Absinthium .........--2 5 De ee ee ot ee oO) Bory chenia, 0 rystal tone @i10|
of rust (oxidation) of a bright steel : a ea : : Ay oe a Casee ee 1 00 Sulphur, Sept. 24@ 3%
aT : chalk, equal parts, and vermilion to suit;} Don’t try to designate the strength of | Amygdalae, Dulc.-.... Catechu 50
needle after plunging it deeply into the . ga = ae = ULC oun Of | den dalne! Mandrae, | 3 it wetecteseesete ress ees 5 Boni 24@ 3
: i i : : three different tints are required; red,! ammonia water by any number wepre tt | AMY ’ S$ Cisehene 08. 50| Tamarinds ............ j
ae a i y y er of “Fs. 8@ 10
tissues. In the last part of his paper,| ame biec. witamneriae: SNM. | Deal withperscniaee of exc alone Anisi ae 2 95 Co a ee a BO 80
Dr. Richardson indicated the precise Guest ae i ek wii ane white load. : P sntage of gas alone. aoe ortex. aS CE 50| Theobromae .......... 50@ oo ama we
mode in which the practice named above a cmd fe. -|__Don’t expect the fluid to remain clear Cajrputi [sseseeneeees if hae ORR siete 50) Vanilla... ........... 9 00@16 00 beatae
should be directly applied, taking up the e Ww g& : = = a ~ Quinine Sul- Caryophyili ae 2 00 a ai — Zmei Sulph..... ea ™@ 8
steps of the necessary examinations, one a ee phate and Potassium cetate. : —— a ee 50) ors. ba as
by one, pointing out the relative values Minor Drug Notes. Don’t dispense Pepsin in alkaline pei pe eee eaaaae map MM 50] whale. winter of
os : : ; jac ativitey e ie a ~ | LINDAMONII ....-.------ “ XY . y Weeer........
of each, and giving, so to speak, in a| The chemical industry of Germany liquids (the activity of the pepsin is thus | Gjtronella ....-........ B 7) Guaica erreeran rarer = Hard, extra.().. 1.0... 86 80 Ch a ls d D “ ? %
$ ) oe ee : eS aT : i ee a :
condensed form, the diagnostic formula| Pays in wages over $15,000,000 annually, a a Copia sasha are pod i eee 60 ao = = e€mica an ruggists Sundries.
for an absolute proof of death in every | and this sum is yearly increasing. port depeee Bee et eee eee 50| Tindseed, boiled... 61 64
doubtful case, without any operative} For failure to record a sale of liquor ee bebtic ak teenie Bxechthitos weeeee cess ‘ os a 3 ~~ Foot, winter ss
procedure that was itself inimical to|(to a policeman in disguise) a leading] 14 take aig oe eA a ea aoe | a ee 75! spirits Turpentine... 52 Bf Dealers in
me Chicago pharmacist was recently fined} .oiy¢ anemia ey Wil) Gis: | Geranium, ouuce..... oo ne = PAINTS. bbl. Ib
The President complimented Dr. Rich-| $100. Don’t dis : ph _, | Gossipii, Sem. gal..... 50@ Tip oheiia IITs so] Red Venetian..... 11.2.1 | 2@3{
ardson on his interesting and elaborate| A quinine factory, established in Eng-j , a oo ~— ae ~ ay Ay ee eee 50 | Ochre, a ae -.1% 2@4 is i
paper. He thought the method of com-| land by a German some three years ago, an = eo pap ga, =" € patient |s ivendula ............ 90@2 00 —- OR eae = Pitty. keel "gato 43 - :
pressing the veins at the back of the/ at acost of about $50,000, was recently} “jy, atnges th ec vated (aS 1 50@1 8 R Camphorated... oy a” strictly pure.....2% 2%@3 d Bil B IGINBS alll 8 | § ans Bg
wrist was a very simple and efficient! offered at auction, the highest bid re- et a io ine —_ a ee ek ee. oe ae te * Deodor.. 2 09 | Vermilion Prime Amer- 5 J ; a
method. He remarked on the fact that | ceived being $7,500. containers together—you may dispense n eile a ea AurantiCortex........-...-. a) eee. fe 13@16
. «a : nat quinine from the morphine bottle oo a a) Yoo, Sa... eae
execution by electricity had been decided An English chemist was fined $125 for ea Pp : ‘4 Myrcia, ounce......... G. a 59| Green, Peninsular..... G75 i
upon in the United States, a fact which, | selling sweet spirits of nitre adulterated} Don’t dispense rancid ointments. Oe oy 49 | Rhet......-.. 0... ---- eee 50| Lead, red.............. 4OT4
in view of Dr. Richardson’s conclusions, | with methylated spirit. This is only to] Don’t leave dirty mortars and gradu-| picini ae Acutifol wee tee seen 0 og oe oxGi We are Sole Proprietors of
might have untoward results. be expected where a discrimination is — on the prescription desk. Hose, ounce settee = = Secpentaria | 0 oD Whiting, Gilders’.....- 90
Dr. Routh mentioned that persons who! made between alcohol for medicinal and on’t get above washing bottles and | ®0s#e, ounce..---.-..- @6 00) Stromonium....... -......., 60] White, Paris American 1 00
died of pneumonia retained the color-; mechanical purposes. graduates if you have time. ae goer 00 eee S ee 1 40 WEATHERLY’S MICHIGAN CATARKH REMEDY.
ation of the cheeks, and recalled an in- The Indian medicine fakirs, variously | _ Don't think you can learn without — ee 3 0@7 00 | Veratrum Veride........_... 50} Pioneer Prepared Painti 20@1 4
cident at Clamart which had forcibly im-| styling themselves Sasguah, Seguah ele study. coal cas se ol une. = = i a Swiss Villa Prepared
pressed the fact upon his memory. Pass-! jaye invaded Great Britain, like all other| ,, 002 t notice aman when he winks at Melle ess, ound Co a ae SNS F. a Paints .........--.... 1 00@1 20 2 a
ing on to the question of temperature, | 4 meric ae One . | the soda fountain. ee wae colo ht SPs Ninae.. Se 2 VARNISHES.
: : ©, | American frauds, and are reaping a big : i : . ve a a 4E.. 30@ 32] No.1 Turp Coach....-. 1 10@1 20
he mentioned a case of ovariotomy in} harvest. Recently a hall was rented in Don’t stand in the front door of the The ae ean 1B - Alumen ... - 246@ 3'4| Extra Turp............ 1 60@1 70 : .
which the temperature rose two degrees! Rginburgh for five weeks at a weekly pharmacy—you may be mistaken for a ne a. ea vas ee - “ground, (po. Coach Body. ». 22.2 T@3 00 We have in stock and offer a full line of
after death, and even the next morning, | rental of $500 "| cigar sign. in. oe wie 3@ 4) No.1 Tarp Furn.....-1 00@1 10
though it was in the winter, the temper- | acc Don’t trust to memorizing formule— | Bichromate ........... inp 16| Aniiimond po. "40 = Japan Dryer, No. i et 6 ‘ .
ature was still two degrees above normal. | The Hop Bitters Company, of England, | «eonsult the authorities.” Bremide.............. we 0 : et PotassT. 55@ 60! Turp..............4. 0G % Whiskies, Brandies,
He also referred to the post-mortem! which has spent the greater part of its} Don’t believe everything you hear or i
movements in patients who had suc-| ©*!Stence and capital in the courts trying] yead. = = Gins, Wines, RUumS,
cumbed to Asiatic cholera. | to convince the druggists that it had} Don’t disregard advice from seniors. Chilblain Remedies.
Dr. Althaus alluded to the universal 2 — —— sarge English words} Don’t undertake to destroy acustomer’s| —_peysons afflicted with chilblains should _ OLISHINA |
dread felt toward being buried alive. | Hops’ and “Bitters, has finally gone| confidence in a remedy he asks for. carefully avoid letting. the Sak teed EE
He observed that the occurrence of | | a eS Don’t use an untrimmed label. l 1d ¢ Socks shou anged
ae ; : < : . aa : : es amp and cold. Socks should be changed {TRADE MARK REGISTERED. |
post-mortem rise of temperature was a! Prof. Emlen Painter, chairman of the Don’t paste the label below the center] qajly. and under no circumstances be :
recognized fact, notably in tetanus. In| |arrangements committee for the San} of the bottle. permitted to dry on the feet. Constipa- | The Best Furniture Finish inthe Mar. | We are Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co.
other cases, again, there might be a re- — meeting of the A. P. A., says A TAT tion should be sedulously avoided, and | ket, Specially adapted for Pianos, | ‘ :
markable fall in temperature before life | that the cost of the round trip to Eastern The Drug Market ant a ce Ca Organs and Hard Woods. _ |
. moderate exercise and regular diet 8 - TSO un M ad Mas
was extinct, so that temperature per se | ‘members will range from $150 to $200 Quinine is lower, both for foreign and | should be carefully observed. For the Hende n Co ty, Hand <i Sour h
could not be relied upon to prove any-| each. Either figure is a snug little sum : i ; i Se ee ‘Shelia : wiil remove se and dirt, and : : .
. ; : *. aaciay |immediate relief of itching the feet : ee ceed ee ’
thing. He had known the temperature for the average pharmacist, but the great domestic brands. Gum opium is easier. | eva = “a ol a a will add a luster which for Whisky and Druggists Favorite
@ tox down to 93 degrees within twenty | attractions of this trans-continental trip Morphia is steady. Oils lemon and pep-} agecteq parts be painted with tincture NAL ISU a ae a ae Ge ee as :
minutes after an apoplectic attack, and | will repay the investment, with double-| permint are lower. Salacine has declined. | of iodine. Dr. Greene recommends a P u LISHINA full directions accompany each Rye Whisky.
. . > " : : as : : ttle.
the — phenomenon was often observed | compounded interest. : Gum camphor is unchanged. Giycerin | mixture of equal parts of castor oil, tur- POLISHINA putup,.in Large Bottles and is
in wasting diseases and as a consequence | The relations between pharmacist and | nas advanced and higher prices are looked pentine, and flexible collodion, to be used | ! i sold at the moderate price of
of inanition. He mentioned one such} physieian have been a fruitful subject f ' : ~ | twice aday, even when the skin is broken Twenty-five cents. ae a
ad case i thi | is 2¢ * a a or. = . ana : te is the bes i i i
 e case, cag ~ oe Se | for mae, during the past year, with- Dr. Nicholson uses a mixture of spirits POLISHIN no mecet a at woke
ell as low as 81 deg. -, though the pa- | out, owever, showing any net results. Te of camphor, tincture opium, each two} your old furniture look frésh and new.
tient was undoubtedly alive. In his! These relations, in the professional sense He Had Been There. drams; carbolie acid 40 grains; alcohol POLISHINA oe a poo We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
cage es only really reliable test, ex- referred to, will adjust themselves ac-| ‘Can you tell me,” inquired an anx-|and niter each four drams. If the skin| Hardware Stores. oe We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guar-
silt c . pavern” = 4 aoe of | oT . a — _ prefer-| ious-looking man of the bank cashier, | be broken the mixture should be diluted! (Beware of imitations. antee Satisfaction
scles to electricity. n no disease, | ment, rather than by arbitrarily imposed] ‘‘is there any way of disposing of | with water and applied by means of lint 2 SU SY THE ‘Ohi -
e short of death, was the contractility of | conditions. The conscientious and com-| plugged nickels ?’’ saturated with it. / ee aes pares All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we Tre-
muscles absolutely destroyed all over the | petent physician could nomore recognize| ‘‘Certainly,’’ replied the cashier, fa- dAaneltine k Perkins Drv Co ceive them. Send in a trial order.
body at the same time. He said that) | the entente cordiale from quackish and} cetiously. ‘‘You can drop them into the -
very soon after the heart ceased to beata | nostrum-faking druggists than could a| contribution box at church. Any deacon Sh
. ould send $1 to GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
steady and perceptible diminution in the thoroughly qualified and honest phar-| will take them. He cannot well help E. A. Stowe & Bro. i : = : :
: extent to which the muscles responded | macist that of the medical man whose] himself.’’ GRAND RAPIDS,
to the electrical current was noticed, and , chief aim is to gull the public into the ‘“*Yes, sir,’’? said the anxious-looking scpainaras acl meats CINSENG RooT
ll if i i i : i r . Zz : : i es ay
all trace of reaction disappearedin about belief that the only drug store (from|man; ‘I know that. I am a church We pay the highest price for it. Address
@ two hours, certainly within three hours. | which he receives commission) is the|deacon. I have half a bushel of them I LIQUOR &POISON RECORDS w ;
PECK BRO GHAND RAPIDS. ” GRAND RAPID
1) GRAND RAPIDS. PIDS, MICH.

It persisted longest in powerful men, the‘ best! would like to dispose of.’’

 

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The Michigan Tradesman

 

 

‘“‘He Made It Right.”
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

In an interior jobbing city in Ohio
there is a wholesale grocery firm, the
senior member of which may be known,
so far as this story is concerned, as Col.
Blank. The firm have two traveling
salesmen—a single man, receiving 360
per month, and the other a married man,
drawing $70 per month. A short time
since the single man, being in the store
and looking over matters, discovered that
the married salesman was receiving $10
per month more salary than himself,
while he (the single man) was selling the
most goods. He called the Colonel’s at-
tention to this and suggested that as he
was selling more goods than the other
fellow, he should at least receive as much
pay. The Colonel acknowledged the
point well taken, and assured his man
that he would look into the matter, and
if the statement as made was correct that
he would make it right.

Another month rolled around, and
when the single man came to draw his
salary from the book-keeper he was sur-
prised to see only $60 passed out to him,
the same as before. He demurred, the
book-keeper insisted he had received no
instruction to raise his pay and referred
him to the Colonel.

Approaching Col. Blank, he said :
“Colonel, you remember I spoke to you
about a month ago about my salary,
stating that while I was selling more
goods than the other fellow, I was re-
ceiving less pay, and I thought I should
receive as much as he did. You assured
me you would look into it and make it
right.”’

“‘Yes,”’ said the Colonel, ‘‘I remember
your mentioning the matter and I made
it right, didn’t 1?”

‘Why, no, I don’t see how
as the book-keeper has just
out the same pay as before.
how that is making it right.”

“You don’t understand,’ said the
Colonel. ‘I have made it right. You
thought you ought to have as much pay
as the other man, and I have made it
right, by cutting the other fellow’s pay
down.””

It is unnecessary to state that the
Colonel is a Yankee and figures from
both ends. ° W. A. B.

——— ——
How He Was Caught.

One of the leading dry goods houses
in New York had long been disbursing
money to one of its customers who was
constantly sending in long lists of al-
leged shortages and claims for damaged
goods, until the principals could stand it
no longer. It was determined, upon the
first opportunity, to resort to stratagem,
and cheat the devil with ‘‘his own cards,”’
if possible. Shortly after the decision
was arrived at, an order was received
from the customer in question for a
large shipment of collars, cuffs, ties and
general drapery. The cases were duly
packed and the invoices dispatched the
same night, but the goods were retained.
About three days afterward a letter came
to hand from the retailer acknowledging
receipt of the shipment, and concluding
with the usual stereotyped phrase: ‘‘l
noticed that the following articles have
been damaged in transit, ete.’ This
cool piece of impudence brought forth
the following letter from the wholesale
house:

a. z

‘“‘DeaR Sre—Yours of the 4th is re-
eeived. We note your claim for dam-
aged goods and short lengths. Perhaps
you will take the trouble to examine
your purchases in future before troubling
us with these claims. Your goods have
been purposely retained by our packers,
and have not left our warehouse.

‘YOurs, A. B: & Co.

The above incident actually occurred
in the early part of last year, and itis
needless to say that no more claims were
made from the customer referred to.

you have,
tossed me
I can’t see

 

——___—_» 0 __—_
The Cow in Buffalo.
From the New York Tribune.

A Buffalo paper is entering a strong
protest against the habit the cows of that
town have of wandering about the prin-
cipal streets and switching their tails
against the plate glass windows and hook-
ing the policemen off the sidewalks. It
is not metropolitan,our contemporary sus-
pects, to have cows parading the streets
and perhaps lying down on the tracks
and delaying the horse-cars; and it is very
sure that it is far from pleasant for a
bookkeeper, for instance, when he is run-
ning up a column of figures to havea cow
who is a comparative stranger, perhaps,
insert her head in the window and begin
going through the waste basket looking
for an ear of corn.

There is certainly food for thought in
the ideas advanced by the Buffalo editor.
That cows are perfectly proper in their
places even he does not deny, but is one of
those places the sidewalk? Can we ask
the resident of Buffalo to allow a strange
cow to sleep on his doorstep without pro-
test? Shall the tenants of one of Buffalo’s
largest office buildings quietly submit
when a large red cow comes into the
hall and puts her head in the elevator
and delays this popular mode ascent? It
would seem that our journalistic friend
makes a point worth eonsidering when
he says that the residents of Buffalo
haye some rights that even the city cows
are bound to respect. If cows must pa-
rade the city during the day, the senti-
ment in Buffalo is that they must behave
themselves and not become too free with
either their horns or heels. It is no pleas-
ant thing, Buffalo people of greatrespect-
ability and acknowledged trustworthiness
say, to be kicked by a predatory cow.
That it is not metropolitan to keep cows
and pasture them in the streets is also a
fact, as Suspected by the Buffalo paper.
The hcmely but nutritious cow has been
given up by the best people in this city,

 

morning
There

who depend entirely on the
milkman With the peculiar cry.
are no cows on Fifth-ave.

It would seem at this distance, how-
ever, that the Buffalo writer goes rather
too far when he insists that the cows re-
main off the streets entirely at night.
After other people have gone home there
seems to be no valid reason why the cows
of Buffalo should not walk abroad to
take the air and inspect the landscape.
While, as ably pointed out by a Boston
writer, the cow is not so sedentary in
her habits as the setting-hen, still she
needs exercise and must have it toinsure
health. So long as the citizens of Buffa-
lo retain that bucolic custom of keeping
a family cow, so long must she have ex-
ercise. After a Buffalo man has returned
home at night, eaten his supper, shut the
chicken coop, locked the barn and milked,
he is perfectly justified in pursuing his
present course of opening the front gate
and turning his cow into the _ street,
where the patient beast can exercise,
forage and otherwise amuse herself until
morning, at which time the intelligent
cow always returns to her home. There
may be much strength in the position of
the Buffalo editor that the cow must stay
off the crowded streets during the day,
and especially during banking hours,
but he goes too far when he holds that
she should not be allowed on the streets
at night. ~

 

 

TO MONTANA, OREGON AND
WASHINGTON.

If you are going west bear in mind the follow-
ing facts: The Northern Pacific Railroad owns
and operates 987 miles, or 57 per cent of the en-
tire railroad mileage of Montana; spans the ter-
ritory with its main line from east to west; is the
short line to Helena; the only Pullman and din
ing car line to Butte, and is the only line that
reaches Miles City, Billings, Bozeman, Missoula,
the Yellowstone National Park, and, in fact,
nine tenths of the cities and points of interest in
the territory.

The Northern Pacific owns and operates 621
miles, er 56 per cent of the railroad mileage of
ee its main line extending from the
Idaho line via Spokane Falls, Cheney, Sprague,
Yakima and Ellensburg, through the center of
the Territory to Tacoma and Seattle, and from
Tacoma to Portland. No other trans-continental
through rail line reaches any portion of Wash-
ington Territory. Ten days stop over privileges
are given on Northern Pacific second class tickets
at Spokane Falls and all points West, thus afford-
ing intending settlers an excellent opportunity
to see the entire Territory without incurring the
expense of paying local fares from point to point.

The Northern Pacific is the shortest route from
St. Paul to Tacoma by 207 miles; to Seattle by 177
miles, and to Portland by 324 miles—time corres-
pondingly shorter, varying from one to two days,
according to destination. No other line from St.
Paul or Minneapolis runs through passenger
ears of any kind into Idaho, Oregon or Washing-
ton.

In addition to being the only rail line_to Spo-
kane Falls, Tacoma and Seattle, the Northern
Pacific reaches all the principal points in North-
ern Minnesota and Dakota, Montana, Idaho,
Oregon and Washington. Bear in mind that the
Northern Pacific and Shasta line is the famous
scenic route to all points in California.

Send for illustrated pamphlets, maps and books
giving you valuable information in reference to
the country traversed by this great line from St.
Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and Ashland to Port-
land, Oregon, and Tacoma and Seattle, Wash-
ington Territory, and enclose stamps for the new
1889 Rand McNally County Map of Washington
Territory, printed in colors.

Address your nearest ticket agent, or Cuas. 8.
Fer, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, St.
Paul, Minn.

 

 

HARDWOOD LUMBER.
The furniture factories here pay as follows for
dry stock, measured merchantable, mill culls
out:

  

Basswood, lop rum .-...-.--.. ts: 13 00@15 00
Biree loca =. 15 00@16 00
Birch, Nos. ftand 2 -- ...... @22 00
Biack Ash tec-rmm 6-2 14 00@16 00
@hercy, logran =... 25 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. | and 2................_ 50 OG@60 (Oo
Cpemy Cun 3 @12 00
Maple laptum 12 00@14 00
Maple, sott, loprun.....-...- ts - 11 00@13 00

Manle: Nos iand?. ..-... @20 00

Maple clear Raommp...- =... @25 00
ar wie, selected =. @25 00
mea Oak, loeran ...- 18 00@20 00
hed Oak: Nos. tand?. 24 00@2> 00
Red Oak, 4 sawed, 8 inch and upw’d.40 00@45 00
Red Oak, % sawed regular....-....... 30 00©@35 00
hed Oak, No. 1 step plank ..........- @25 00
Watngt lopran ee. @55 00
Welnut, Nos. fand? =... se @75 00
Ware cer @25 00
Grey Elm logcrm 2... 12 00@13 05
White Aso loprun 14 00@16 00
Whitewood, lovin ................... 20 00@22 00
White Gait, $ep-romeco......... 17 00818 00

 

 

Notice of Limited Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that Frederic A. Wurz-
burg, William M. Wurzburg and William F.
Wurzburg, as general partners, and Zachary T.
Aldrich, as special partner, all of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, have this day formed a limited part-
nership in pursuance of chapter 78 Howell’s
Annotuted Statutes, for the purpose of carrying
on the business of jobbers of dry goods, notions
and similar articles, at Grand Rapids, Michigan,
under the firm name and style of ‘‘F. W. Wurz-
burg’s Sons & Co.,” and that the amount of cap-
ital stock which said special partner has con-
tribted to the common stock, is twenty-seven
hundred and fifty dollars, and that said partner-
ship isto commence January 28, 1889, and ter
minate January 28, 1891.

FREDERIC A. WURZBURG.
WILLIAM M. WURZBURG.
WILLIAM F. WURZBURG,
General Partners.
ZACHARY T. ALDRICH.
Special Partner.
Dated, Grand Rapids, Jan. 28, 1889.

 

 

TIME TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

Arrives. Leaves.
Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7:00am
Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 9:05am 11:30am
Srom (CAapeumimi.. - 8 7:30pm
For Petoskey & Mackinaw City.....3:55 pm 5:00 pm
Saginaw Express Ecc ee come ecu. 11:30am 7:20am

plricle s eiecialelecisies sents 10: m.

Saginaw express runs through solid. ,

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

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

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

GOING SOUTH.

OCincinnats Express... -..... 3... 7:15am
Fort Wayne Express............... 10:30 a m 11:45am
Cincinnat: Express...............):. 4:40pm 5:00 pm
From Traverse City... -...-..- 10:40 p m

7:15amtrain has parlor chair car for Cincinnati.

5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati.

5:00 p. m. train connects with M. C. R. R. at Kalama-
zoo for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadian
points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m.

Sleeping car rates—$1.50 to Petoskey or Mackinaw
City; $2 to Cincinnati.

All Trains daily except Sunday.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.

Leave. Arri

ve.
Fe ois ec sticcinicc mic ewes 10:45 am
Pee ee ce 4:45pm
NR eeu a eisectecmemlecccus 7:45pm

Pp
Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later.
Cc. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

 

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING WEST.

 
  

  
 
  

Arrives. Leaves.
+Mormings PMPTERS, . 402s... ooo 1:05 pm 1:10pm
Trhrough Mail... ....... 4:55 pm 6:10pm
+Grand Rapids Expres: 10:40 p m
*Night Expres: 6:40am 7:00am
ee ee 7:45am

GOING EAST.
TBesrom Pagress. ee 6:50am
+Through Mail.... 10:20am 10:30am
+Evening Express. -. 3:40pm 3:50 pm
*Limited Express....... 15-10-30 p Mm 10:55 pm
*Daily.

+tDaily, Sundays excepted.

Detroit Express has parlor car to Detroit, making
direct connections for all points East, arriving in New
York 10:10 a. m. nextday. Limited Express, East, has
through sleeper Grand Rapids to Niagara Falis,
connecting at Milwaukee Junction with through
sleeper to Toronto.

Through tickets and sleeping car berths secured at
D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot.

AS. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent.

SAFES!

Anyone in want of a first-class Fire or
Burglar Proof Safe of the Cincinnati Safe
and Lock Co. manufacture will find it to
his advantage to write or call on us. We
have light expenses, and are able to sell low-
er than any other house representing first-
class work. Second-hand safes always on
hand.

C. M. GOODRICH & CO.,

With Satety Deposit Co., Basement o1 Wid-
dicomb Blk.’

B

 

If you have any
to offer send
samples

and
amount and
willtry to buy them

W. T. LAMOREADX,
71 Canal Street.

 

BUY
Muscatine
ROLLED
OATS

IF_YOU WANT
THE BEST!

 

 

 

 

 

CREOLE STRAIGHT GUY.

To all Merchants Handling Cigarettes:

A new era has been reached whereby all dealers
selling cigarettes may now make a larger profit
than heretofore on any other brand. The

CREOLE STRAIGHT GUT.

Which has recently been introduced into the
State is becoming very popular, it being the only
straight cut sold for five cents, thus giving the
dealer a cigarette with which he may please all
classes of cigarette smokers. Thesame are nicely
put up in packages of ten and packed with ac-
tresses’ photos. There is also a variety of other
inducements, a notice of which is contained in
each package. 4

Give the CREOLE a trial and you will
find it a big seller.

Sold by all Grand Rapids jobbers, and manu-
factured by

S. F. HESS & CO.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
Manuf’rs of High Grade Cigarettes.

REMOVED.

THE GRAND RAPIDS

PAPER BOX FACTORY,

W. W. HUELSTER, Proprietor,

 

Formerly located at 11 Pearl St., has been
removed to

81 & 838 Campau St.

Cor. Louis, where I shall have more room
and far etter facilities for the manufac-
ture of Paper Boxes.

All work guaranteed first class and at
the lowest rates. Write or call for esti-
mates, Telephone 850.

 

ROASTER

The most practical
hand Roaster in the
world. Thousands in
use—giviig satisfrc-
tion. They are simyp:e
durable and econom-

: Nu grocer
sHduld be without
one. Roasts coffee
and pea-nuts to per
fection.

Address for Cata-
logue and prices,

Robt. &. West,

48-50 Long St.,
Cleveland, Ohio,

MAGIC COFFEE

 
 
 
 
 
   
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
 

 

‘Why you should send us your orders. We handle
nothing but BEST and CHOICEST BRANDS;
Sellat Manufacturers’ and Importers’ Prices;
Ship at ONE DAY’S NOTICE, enabling
you to receive goods day following;

Fill orders for ALL KINDS of

GLASS,
“Gt

Tmported
and American
Polished PLATE,
Rough and _ Ribbed
French Window, Ameri-
can Window, English 26 oz.
Enamelled, Cut and Embossed.
Rolied Cathedral, Venetian, Muffled, |
Frosted Bohemian, German Looking
Glass Plates, French Mirror Plates.
The quality, variety and quantity of our, stock
is exceeded by no housein the United Statese

WMe. REID,
73 &75 Larned Street West, DETROIT, MICH.

 

Grand Rapids Store, 61 Waterloo Street.

SWIFT’S

Choice Chicago

 

Dressed Beet

 

-AND MUTTON-=--

Can be found at all times in full supply and at
popular prices at the branch houses in all the larg-
ger cities and is retailed by all first-class butchers.

 

The trade of all marketmen and meat dealers is
solicited. Our Wholesale Branch House, L. F. Swift
& Co., located at Grand Rapids, always has on hand
a full supply of our Beef, Mutton and Provisions,and
the public may rest assured that in purchasing our
meats from dealers they will alwaysreceive the best.

 

Union

CHICAGO.

Swift and Company,
Stock Yards,

 

Vertical, Horizontal, Hoisting and Marine Engines.
SAW MILLS, any Size or Capacity Wanted.

88 90 and 92 SOUTH DIVISION ST., -

GENERAL DEALER IN

haust Fans.

W. C. DENISON,
Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers,

 

Steam Pumps, Blowers and kx

Estimates Given on Complete Outfits.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

Oranges !

PUTNAM & BROORS.
Grand Rapids.

We carry the Largest Line
and make Special Prices on
Round Lots.

Lemons!

 

LM. GLARK & oON,

If our Travelers

 

FOR———

Teas

 

WE ARK AKADQUARTERS |

Syrups
Molasses

do not see you reg-
ularly, send for our
|| Samples and Prices
before purchasing
elsewhere. Wewill
surprise you.

Mail Orders al-
ways receive
prompt attention
and lowest possible

prices.

 

 

WV holesale Grocers

 

Arctic Manutactring Go.

Arctic Baking Powder,

Arctic Bluings,

Arctic Inks and Mucilage,
RED STAR BAKING POWDER,
English Standard Extracts

When making Orders, Mention the Above Well Known Brands.
SEE QUOTATIONS.

 

O. EF. BROWN

 

 

MICHIGAN CIGAR CO.,

Big Rapids, Mich.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED

“MM. C. C.”* Yam Yum”

The Most Popular Cigar. The Best Selling Cigar on the Market.

SEND FOR TRIAL ORDER.

 

RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in

AGENTS FOR THE

BOOTS and SHOES

Boston Rubber Shoe Co.,

12,14 &16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

x

stance.
prices.

W.

GRAND RAPIDS,

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

STEELE
Packing: and Provision Co.

MICH.

Fresh and Salt Beef, Fresh and Salt Pork, Pork Loins, Dry Salt
Pork, Hams, Shoulders, Bacon, Boneless Ham, Sausage

of all Kinds, Dried Beef for Slicing.

LARD

strictly Pure and Warranted, in tierces, barrels, half-bbls., 50 1b. cans, 201b. cans, 3, 5 and 101b. pails

Pickled Pigs’ Feet, Tripe, Etc.

Our prices for first-class goods are very low and all goods are warranted first-class in every in-
When in Grand Rapids, give us a call and look over our establishment. ;

Write us for

 

TEAS,

BAKING

 

COFFEES

SPICE GRINDERS

and manufacturers of

59 Jefferson Ave.,

     
    
 

SPICES

POWDERS.

J. H. THOMPSON & CO.,

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS

 

SPECIALTIES:

 

Honey Bee Coffee

Our Bunkum Coffee

Princess Bkg. Powder

Early Riser Bkg. Pdr.

BEE Mills Gd. Spices.
BEE Mills Extracts.
BEE Mills Bird Seed.
BEE Mills Starch.
BEE Chop Japan Tea.

DETROIT, MICH.

   

MILLING CO.

 

STOTT VUeYOIOW

 

Brown’s Patent
Brown’s Standard

Our Lead‘ng Brands,

Our Baker's
Vienna Straight

 

Every Barrel and Sack guaranteed.
Correspondence Solicited.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

GRAND RAPIDS,

CURTISS & Co.,

Successors to CURTISS & DUNTON.

W HOLESALE

Paper Warehouse,

Houseman Building, Cor. Pearl & Ottawa Sts.,

MICHIGAN.

 

 

WHO URGES YOU

TO HhREEP

SA POLIO’?

Ets EU ELC!

By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre
ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in
stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort
on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas-
ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.

ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS.