The Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

VOL. 6.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1889.

' NO. 286.

 

 

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

A. J. Bowne, President.
GEO. C. PIERCE, Vice President.
H. W. Nasu, Cashier

CAPITAL, - - - $300,000.

 

Transacts a general banking business.

 

Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts
ef Country Merchants Solicited.

DO YOU WANT A SHOWCASE?
at

PA A

 

      
   

SPECIAL OFFER-—This style of oval case; best
quality; all glass, heavy double thick; panel or
sliding doors; full length mirrors and spring hinges;
solid cherry or walnut frame. with or without metal
eorners, extra heavy base; silvetta. trimmings:
6 feet long, 28 inches wide, 19 inches high. Price,

11, net cash. : a

I make the same style of casé as above, 17 inches
high, from walnut, cherry, oak or ash, for $2 per foot.

Boxing and cartage free.

Db. D. COocEe.
21 Scribner St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

ACTUAL BUSINESS
PRACTICE at the Grand Rapids

Business College. Ed-
ucates pupils to transact and record business as
itis done by our best business houses.

It pays
to goto the best. Shorthand and Typewriting
also thoroughly taught.

Send for circular. Ad
dress A. S. PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens-
berg.

BLANK BOOKS

Stationery,

TABLETS, STEEL PENS,

INKS.

OUR NEW LINE OF

Valentine Samples

are ready for inspection.

Raton, Lyon & bo,

20 and 22 Monroe St.

Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Go.,

Importers and Jobbers of

Dry Goods

STAPLE and FANCY.

 

 

 

 

 

Overalls, Pants, Etc.,
OUR OWN MAKE.

A COMPLETE LINE OF

Fancy Grockery and
Fancy Woodenware

OUR OWN IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited. Chicago and De-
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OYSTERS
SU LS AO

And Salt Fish.

Mail orders receive prompt attention.
See quotations in another column.
GRAND RAPIDS.

CASH SALE CHECKS.

Encourage your trade to pay cash instead of
running book accounts by using Cash Sale
@hecks. For saleats50 cents per 100 by F. A.
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Orders fromRe-

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tail Trade solicited.

Newaygo Roller Mills

NEWAYGO, MICH.

  
  

  
 

 

DANIEL LYNGH

Successor to FRED D. YALE & CO,,
Manufacturer of

Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powder,
Bluing, Ete.
And Jobber of

Grocers ald Drogvists’ Sundries.

Gall and inspect our new establishment
when in the city.

19 S. IONIA ST.

WALES - GOODYRAR

and Connecticut Rubbers.

 

   
   

THE PARAGON

in Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s, Heels and
Spring Heels.

G. RR. Mayhew,

86 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.

illers, Attention

We are making a Middlings
Purifier and Flour Dresser that
will save you their cost at least
three times each year.

They are guaranteed to do
more work in less space (with
less power and less waste)
than any other machines of
their class.

Send for descriptive cata-
logue with testimonials.

Martin’s Middlings Purifier Co.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

EDMUND B. DIKEMAN

THE GREAT

Watch Maker
= Jeweler,

14 CANAL SY.
Grand Rapids, - Mich.

1000 Cigars Free!

On or about April Ist, 1889, we propose putting a new
brand of cigars on the market which we shall sell to
the trade at $33.00 per thousand. Now we want a NAME
for this cigar, and want it badly. Hence we make the
above offer of 1000 of these cigars (the first thousand
made) to sny wholesale or retail dealer who will send
us an original name that will be acceptable, subject to
the following conditions, viz.:

ist. The NAME must be one that has never been used
for a cigar and one upon which we can get a trade-
mark patent.

2nd. The name must to us upon a letter head, bill
head or card of the firm or member of the firm sending
it. The firm must bea bona fide retail or wholesale
oa in cigars. Names from all others will be re-
jected.

3rd. This name must not reach us later than March
15th, 1889, as the award will be made on March 3st, or
as soon thereafter as possible.

4th. The award or salection of the name will be left
to a committee of three (3) consisting of the editors of
the following papers published in thiscity: The Flint
Evening Journal, The Wolverine Citizen, The Flint
Globe. We shall accept the name _§ selected
by this committee, andif upon investigation, we find
it has never been used asa cigar brand, we will for-
ward tothe winner one thousand cigars by express,
charges prepaid.

5th. Should the committee select a name, that had
been sent to us by more than one firm or dealer, the
thousand cigars will go to the first firm or dealer
sending it, as all NAMES will be numbered in rotation
asreceived No firm or dealer will be allowed to send
more than one NAME.

A postal card containing the award or selection by
the committee will be mailed to all contestants.

Address,

GEO. T. WARREN & CO.,

Mfrs. Hich Grade Cigars. Flint, Mich.

G. M. MUNGER & CO.,

GRAND RAPIDS.

Successors to Allen’s Laundry.

Mail and Express orders attended to with
promptness. Nice Work, Quick Time
Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Ww. E. HALL, Jr., - - - Manager.

WANTED!

We want stocks of goods in exchange
for $100,000 worth of productive real
estate in Lansing city property and im-
proved farms.

R. A. CLARK & CO.
Real Estate Brokers Lansing Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

WHIPS AND LASHES)

 

——_AT——_

Manufacturers’ Prices.
GRAHAM ROYS, - Grand Rapids.

‘“OQur Leader’’

The Finest 5-Cent Cigar on the
Market. |
MANUFACTURED BY

J. E. Kenning & Co,

56 CANAL ST.

 

 

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And all dealers are invited to send sam-
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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
put also ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE.
We can sell as well as anyone.
We invite correspondence.
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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 oi Wid-
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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 CUT.

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. The same 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.

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,

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

81 & 88 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 80.

 

THE ROBBER.

My life had been broken and entered, and theft
Committed *gainst me;

Peace and rest had beenstolen. The single clew
left

*

Was a memory.

That life was so bare; rest gone; nought but
grief
By the hearth,
That I took the sweet memory, and searched for
the thief
Through the earth.

J knew her again by the peace and the rest
That returned unto me;
But when the lost gems were restored to my
breast,
She did not go free:
For, by strongest of fetters, the thief I have
bound
And imprisoned for life:
I guard in my heart with the treasures I found—
My robber, my wife.
H. K. SPOFFORD.
———- > > ___——-
RAND KENNEDY’S WOOING.

To observe a fine example of contrast,
one should walk through the upper end
of Duke street, in the thriving city of
Exeter.

Upon the right stand long rows of
cheaply finished tenement houses, of a
light dust color, with trimmings of im-
itation brown-stone, thin bay windows
extending from basement to attic, and
flights of wooden steps leading to the
front doors. Upon the left are the grand
old trees of Kennedy Park, extending in
an unbroken line for more than half a
mile along Duke street. as far, indeed, as
the river.

Years and years ago the whole country
for miles around had been owned by
Gilchrist Kennedy, and had formed a
portion of his only daughter’s marriage
dower. Upon her death it had reverted
to her brother, and remained in the fam-
ily ever since. It was for her that the
quaint, rambling, roomy old mansion had
been built which was to become the cra-
dle of so many Kennedys, and at last the
gloomy, cheerless home of the sole sur-
vivor of them all.

Rand Kennedy’s mother died almost
before he was old enough to retain more
than a dim memory of her gentle
caresses, and he lived for years after
alone with his father. When he had
grown to manhood they spent afew years
abroad, and almost immediately upon
their return Rand found himself or-
phaned by a sudden accident. He found,
too, upon examining his father’s papers,
that there had been for years an out-
standing debt to a considerable amount
against the estate of which he had never
dreamed. Himself the soul of honor
and open as the day, he could not help
feeling strangely hurt at what seemed to
have been a lack of confidence upon the
part of the parent he had idolized and
whose loss he mourned almost incon-
solably. His family pride was touched,
too, by the thought of obligations so
long unfulfilled.

Just at this time, while.depressed by
his recent bereavement and this unlooked-
for burden, he was waited upon by a
committee from the City Council and in-
formed of the decision reached by that
body to extend Duke street through to
the river. This would cut the Kennedy
property nearly in twoand bring the street
but afew feet from the rear of the man-
sion. if either side could be so called,
when each was equally handsome. The

project had been contemplated for some [

time, but no one had ventured to propose
it during the lifetime of the elder Mr.
Kennedy. Many expected opposition as
it was, and it became a matter of equal
surprise and congratulation that Rand
so quickly allowed them all they asked,
and even more. They hardly knew
what to make of the quiet, dignified
young gentleman who met their prop-
osition without a protest.

“By Jove!’ said one worthy to his
companion as they found themselves out-
side the lonely house: ‘the can’t be a
Kennedy in anything but the name.
There never was one before who didn’t
hold this place dear as the apple of his
eye. and who wouldn't have cursed us
out of our boots for such an errand as
Ours.”’

He little dreamed of the suffering con-
cealed beneath Rand’s calm demeanor.
His home, and the home of his ancestors,
a grand old place still, was dearer to him
than everything else life held, and a
mouth before he would have believed
anything sooner than that he would ever
part with an inch of it. But having at
once determined to cancel his father’s
indebtedness to the uttermost farthing,
he had discovered that the only way of
doing so lay in the sale of a goodly por-
tion of the estate. And herein was to
be found the secret of his ready grant-
ing of the readway. A few feet more or
less mattered not, and it appeared only a
fitting climax to the general upheaval of
things he had always regarded as fixed as
the eternal hills, that a new, noisy, dusty
street should run through the primeval
shades of Kennedy Park. But, although
the thoroughfare was duly laid out, it
was some years before it became more
than a country road. Then rows of tall,
pale tenement houses sprung up, long
stretches of pavement were laid before
them, milk-wagons rattled out there be-
fore dawn, babies sprawled and bawled
upon the wooden steps, hucksters made
the air hideous with their yells, and
everything was in the most rattling bus-
tling, spick-and-span contrast to the
ancient elegance and dignity of the grand
old trees and mansion just over the way.

Meantime Rand had grown into a pre-
maturely middle-aged man. Though
searcely more than thirty-five, he had the
appearance of fifty, with his thick, long
beard, already turning gray, and his
silent, forbidding manner. He had never
thrown off the depression consequent
upon his father’s death and the swiftly
following events of that fateful spring.
In truth, he had made no great efforts to
do so. And the years as they passed
found him leading a lonely, cheerless,
monotonous life. Every morning he
went to the office in town, where an un-
broken succession of Kennedys had pre-
ceded him, and went faithfully through

the routine which there devolved upon
the head of the family. Invariably
punctual and diligent, and not unkind,
he often passed days without addressing
those about him. At night he walked
alone to his home, and spent a solitary
evening with his books in the dim old
library.

An aged negress, formerly one of the
chattels of the place, and her equally
aged husband, constituted the entire
corps of servants. The former never
left the dusky recesses of the kitchen
Rand had not visited since his boyhood;
the latter combined in his dignified and
infirm person the yalet, the butler, the
steward and the devoted worshipper of
**Massa Rand.”’

The old house was fast falling into de-
eay from non-use and negligence. Only
three rooms were kept open, and they
were cheerless and forlorn. Noone ever
came there, and for years Rand had
crossed the threshold of no other home.

Such was the state of things upon
either side of upper Duke street one wet
and dismal November evening. Mr.
Kennedy had returned from town rather
later than usual, and was still lingering
over his last cup of coffee, when a loud
peal from the door-bell rang through the
house, startling both master and servant
from their musings, and re-echoing
through the wide old halls long unused
to such a sound.

**?Fo’ God, Massa Rand,’’ chattered
the old negro, not stirring from his place
behind Rand’s chair, ‘‘nuffin? human
ain’t rung dat do’-bell dat way such a
dub’us night as dis is! Don’t yer go,
honey, don’t,’? he pleaded, his toothless
old voice growing strangely tremulous as
Rand, humoring the superstitious fear of
his aged servitor, had himself arisen to
answer the summons. His only reply
was to take the lamp from the table and
proceed toward the door; and >Demus,
bravely resolying that his beloved mas-
ter should meet neither man nor spirit
alone, followed closely after, rolling his
great eyes and quaking in every limb.

It was with some trouble that Rand
succeeded in unfastening the bolts. At
last they yielded to his efforts, and the
door swung open, only to admit a dash
of rain and a gustof wind which nearly
blew out the light.

‘“‘Who’s there 2”? asked Rand, peering
forth into the darkness. ‘‘Who’s there ?”’
he cried in louder tones as no answer
came. Still no one replied.

“J dun tol’ yer, Massa Rand,’’ whis-
pered *Demus; ‘‘’taint nuffin’ dat kin
speak wid mouf and tung. Ole ’Demus
ain’t live all dese yeres fur nuffin’.
Come in, honey, out de wet.”’

But Rand was not yet satisfied. He
took a step forward, and his foot struck
against something. Looking down, he
saw a dark object lying on the porch.
Bending lower, he discovered it to bea
basket covered with a thick shawl.

“Set it inside out of the rain, ’Demus,
and ll eall again for the owner. Some
miserable fellow who want’s a night’s
lodging, I suppose.”’

*Demus obeyed, grumbling audibly, in
no wise pleased with the whole matter.
But in a moment or two he had the satis-
faction of seeing Rand come in from the
poreh, wet and blown, and close the
door behind him.

“It’s as dark as Egypt,”’ he said, catch-

ing his breath between the words. *‘Let
the basket stay there, *Demus. ‘Some

one will call for it by-and-by, perhaps.’’
And they returned to the dining-room.

An hour or more later, as Rand was
comfortably seated in his big leather
chair, before a rather dim fire in the
library. he was again startled by an un-
usual sound. This time it was not a
pealing bell nor any ghostly call, but the
unmistakable cry of a baby. And it did
not come from any of the houses across
the way. where babies grew and multi-
plied, but from some place very near the
amazed and mystified gentleman.

For an instant he listened, incredulous;
then he sprang to his feet, irresolute;
then, as the cries grew louder, and evi-

dently came from the hall, he went
quickly thither. There could be no

doubt of it—a baby was crying lustily in
the old house where no baby had been
for thirty-five long years, and Rand hy
instinct understood that language of im-
perative demand. Hastily returning for
alamp, and looking vaguely about the
shadowy spaces, his eye fell upon the
forgotten basket.

r =A long, low whistle escaped him as he
gingerly lifted the noisy burden and de-
posited it upon the floor before the library
fire. Awkwardly throwing back the
various wrappings which covered it, he
came at length face to face with his un-
invited guest, and it would be difficult to
tell which of the two regarded the other
with the greater curiosity and wonder.
Quite reassured by the evidence that
measures were being taken for her re-
lief, Miss Baby had ceased her cries and
lay calmly looking up at her new-found
friend with the brightest of blue eyes.
Presently there was a dimpling of the
round cheeks, upon which the tears were
not yet dry, and the rosy lips curved into
a confident smile ase She stretched out
her arms. with thé mute invitation,
‘Take me.”’

But Rand was not yet prepared to ex-
tend hospitalities so far as that. He
had never, to his reeollection, held a
baby in his arms, and knew about as
much of their ways and wants as he did
of the habits of young penguins.

Slowly the bright expression faded;
this time the lips curved sorrowfully,
and the blue eyes were overflowed again.
And very soon, finding that her neglect-
ful attendant was not to be moved by
pathos, the wee damsel brought temper
to bear upon the vexed question, and
long and loud were the screams, which at
last aroused Rand from his contempla-
tion of infantile beauty, and brought
him to his feet.

Acting upon the principles of hom-
eopathy, in which he was a firm believer,
he seized the poker and tongs and beat a

 

lively tattoo upon the coal scuttle. This

 

produced a temporary lull, but baby soon
discovered that she was still upon her
back, and began again more vehemently
than ever.

Then a bright idea occurred to him.

“That basket is too small,’’ he reas-
oned with an air of conviction. ‘‘No
wonder the child cries.”’

So he took hold of the basket and pro-
ceeded to roll Miss Baby out. It was not
until he succeeded, and she lay, silent
for the moment with astonishment at this
new experience, in a queerly tumbled
heap upon the floor, that he remembered
how hard and uncomfortable such a bed
might be. And the young lady herself
seemed to think of it at the same mo-
ment, judging from the decided way in
which she gave vent to her feelings.
His next move was to pick her up very
hesitatingly and at arms’ length, and set
her up in his arm-chair. But that being
covered with very smooth leather, and
baby having no strength to speak of in
her back, she immediately slipped down,
and would probably have prevented the
finishing of this narrative by the break-
ing of her neck if Rand had not caught
her just in time.

For a minute or two he held her by her
clothes, and gazed at her helplessly over
the top of his gold-bowed spectacles.
Could it be possible that this kicking,
squirming, screaming, scarlet bit of hu-
manity was the same innocent, lovely
little creature who had looked up at him
so smilingly but a short time before ?

And, still more. startling question,
could it be that he, aman in his prime,
fairly well endowed with good sense and
ability, was puzzled out of his wits to
know what to do with a specimen of
flesh and blood that he could crush with
his hand? Rand was fond of philos-
ophizing in his own way, and the present
problem seemed an interesting one, both
from its novelty and its importance, too.
But he soon decided that it were wiser to
discuss it at some future time. The
query of the moment was, ‘‘How shall I
stop this infernal racket ?”’

He dropped the baby, face downward,
in the basket, put his hands over his ears
and tried to think. Strange to say, it
never occurred to him to rouse old Aunt
Cleo. Indeed, nothing seemed to occur
to him. He sat in despair, half deafened
by the still continuing cries. Then he
grew excited. The perspiration stood
upon his forehead. He pulled out his
handkerchief to wipe away the drops.

“Eureka !’ he cried, as a crumpled
paper fell to the floor, and he recognized
it as an advertisement a boy had handed
him, which he had read and mechanically
placed in his pocket. It was a notice of
a lecture to be given in a day or two for
the benefit of a new foundlings’ hospital
about to be erected, and upon it—happy
chance—were the names and addresses of
some of the prospective lady directors
and physicians. He looked them over in
eager haste. Here at last was a loop-
hole of escape, and he drew a long
breath of relief as his eyes fell upon the
following:

“Miss Bertha Adams, 1425 Upper Duke street.”

‘Who would ev:r have believed such
good fortune could come from one
those miserable houses 2”? he said aloud,
throwing down the paper and picking up
“baby and cradle and all.’? To decide
was to act in this case, and he was soon
splashing his way across the street in the
darkness and rain.

By the aid of the flickering gaslight he
made out the right number, and gave a
vigorous pull atthe door-bell. The sum-
mons was answered almost immediately
by agentleman in hat and ulster, fol-
lowed by a lady enveloped in rubber
waterproof, with a veil tied closely over
her hat. They were evidently upon the
point of leaving the house as Rand as-
cended the steps.

“T wish,’’? he began, ‘‘to see Miss Ber-
tha Adams, the lady who has—who is—
who—who knows about babies.’’

The sentence was ended hurriedly, and
it cannot be denied that the dignified
representative of the ancient and honor-
able line of Kennedy felt as guilty and
confused as he looked while making his
errand known.

“Sir 2? the gentleman replied, some-
what sternly. bending a keen gaze upon
his visitor and half shutting the door.

This significant action roused Rand
from his embarrassment, but before he
could explain farther, a series of muf-
fled sobs and cries were heard from the
depths of the basket upon his arm. They
increased in volume with such rapidity
that the lady, who had up to this time
remained a quiet looker-on, rushed for-
ward, saying quickly :

‘Where is it? Give it to me.’’

Without a ward, Rand deposited the
basket at her feet. He never forgot the
single upward glance of mingled indig-
nation and dismay which she gave him
as she pulled away the shawl and discov-
ered the poor, struggling, half-smoth-
ered child, fiat upon its face. In another
instant it was lying in her arms and
being soothed and comforted in a way
entirely acceptable to her small ladyship,
and which seemed nothing short of magic
to its nurse of an hour before. From
very exhaustion the child fellasleep, and
then the gentleman turned toward Rand
as if for some farther remarks on his
part, and in a few words the whole story
was made known.

‘How very unfortunate,’’ said Miss
Adams, for it was really she, when Rand
had finished, ‘“‘that everything has just
been moved out of the house. The last
load has been gone but a few minutes,
and we were about leaving as you came.”

“And we shall miss the train if we
wait any longer,’’ remarked her brother,
significantly, eyeing the baby and Rand,
too, with no favor. ‘‘Come, Bertha Mi

“We were going outof town, you see,”’
she explained, in a frank, straightfor-
ward way. “I am almost a stranger
here, and I do not even know where my
landlady has moved to; and one couldn’ t
take a baby out in this storm. It is hard
to decide just what can be done with

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her.;?

By this time Rand had so far recovered
his self-possession as to hand his ecard to
Mr. Adams, and that gentleman’s grim
countenance relaxed visibly at sight of
the well-known and honored name.

‘“‘Perhaps, as Mr. Kennedy lives so
near,’’ he \suggested, more courteously
than he had yet spoken, ‘‘we might go
over, and you could fix the—it, some-
where, and then it would give no more
trouble, and tomorrow it will be easy
enough to find an asylum.”’

“Oh, if you would be so kind eried
Rand, beseechingly, once more rescued
from the brink of despair at the thought
of being left with the child upon his
hands again.

It was not until the baby was well
wrapped up, the house-door locked and
the muddy street re-crossed that Rand
bethought himself of his position as
host. In his delight at being relieved of
his troublesome charge, he had quite for-
gotten the fact of his aversion to other
companionship than his own meditations.
However, there was little time for re-
flection. They reached the gate, and his
guests followed him with uncertain steps
along the stone walk which led to the
mansion. Here they found the outer
door wide open and the hall flooded. In
his haste Rand had forgotten to close it,
and the rain had been pouring in. Then
the library fire had burned low, and, to
add to the general discomfort, the inno-
cent cause of all this extraordinary com-
motion awoke from her nap, and an-
nounced in unmistakable tones that she
was hungry.

“The poor child must be half starved,”’
said Miss Bertha, compassionately. **Mr.
Kennedy, will you please bring some
milk and sugar and water ?”’

>

Had she asked him to produce the sa-
ered cow of India, Rand could hardly
have been more at a loss what to do.
But there was a goodly supply of pluck
under his mild, elderly exterior; more-
over, something in the quiet, pleasant,
decided tones compelled obedience to
their requests. So, after a moment’s in-
decision, he picked up the lantern, and
left the room quite as if it had been his
nightly task for years to fix baby’s milk.

Zo\

‘“‘Well, Bertha,’’ remarked Mr. Adams, .

after a silent survey of the musty old
library, ‘‘your love of the antique seems
in a fair way to begratified. Everything
appears to have come down from Methu-
selah—not excepting the queer old cove
himself.’’

‘“‘Hush, George,’’ said Miss Bertha, re-
provingly. ‘‘He has a kind heart, and—’’

“Judging from the remarkable way he
stuffed that child into the basket, I think
he has, myself,’’ interrupted George,
gravely. ‘‘The only thing to be regret-
ted is that it did not succumb to the treat-
ment.’

“George!’ again cried
though she could not help smiling at the
remembranee, ‘‘youw are incorrigible.’
Then, after a long silence, during which
the young man took another journey
around the room and baby manifested
much impatience at the long delay of her
supper, “Do you suppose you eould find
the kitchén ?”’

“And leave you here to be carried oft
by nobody knows what ghosts and gob-
tins? | No. thank you. Of the two, |
prefer to lose the infant if either must

nis sister,

be sacrificed. But starvation is not im-
minent, my best of sisters. Such vigor-
ous lung powers testify to abundant
vitality:’’

This time Miss Bertha laughed out-
right, a hearty, sweet little laugh. And

she made no more suggestions to her
brother, but devoted herself to quieting
the baby.

“In course of time Rand was heard re-
turning, and an extraordinary appear-
ance he made as Mr. Adams opened the
door for him. His clothes were covered
with cobwebs and dust, a dozen or more
straws stuck at all angles in his hair, and
one cheek was ornamented with a long
smut mark. That he had been prose-
euting his quest under difficulties was
evident: but it was also to be seen that
he had come off victor, for he carried an
immense tin pail, holding about three
quarts of milk, and one nearly as large
filled with water. These he gravely de-
posited on the floor at Miss Adams’ side,
and then produced a small box of sugar
from his pocket and laid it on the table.

It required all Bertha’s self-control to
repress a smile as she glanced at the
bountiful supplies and their bearer, p:u-
ticularly as she saw her brother appiar-

ently examining a cabinet, but really
shaking with laughter.
“Thauk you. Now, I shall have to

trouble you for acup and spoon,” she
said, pleasantly, after a minute.

Rand turned to the cabinet, and, after
unlocking a few doors and drawers,
brought forth a cup of dainty egg-shell
china, of veritable baby blue, with a
large gilt K delicately traced upon it;
also, a case of gold-lined spoons with the
Kennedy monogram.

“By Jove, Mr. Kennedy!’ cried
irrepressible George, drawing near, “you
don’t do things by halves, do you? That
setout is fit for a princess’

Rand glanced up in surprise.

“It is for my guest,’? he began, with
some haughtiness; and then, with a sly
twinkle in his eyes and a broader smile
than his face had known for years, he
added dryly: ‘‘One visit to the lower re-
gions is enough.’’

By this time the baby’s supper was
ready for her, and as she was quite ready
for it, the meal was soon dispatched.
Rut she did not go to sleep again, as Ber-
tha had expected. She seemed restless
and feverish, and required constant
soothing. So an hour passed and it soon
became evident that the little thing was
very ill. Once more Rand made an ex-
pedition out into the storm to bring a
doctor, who pronounced the trouble scar-
let fever, aggravated by exposure and the
milk to which it was unaccustomed. It
was not until the next afternoon that the
weather allowed of the baby’s being
taken to the hospital. Rand accom-

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The Michigan Tradesman.

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4 WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

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E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1889.

 

 

RECORD OF THE LAST CONGRESS.

The Fiftieth Congress came to an end
last Monday, with rather a barren record
as regards legislation, in comparison with
the great number of measures proposed
and the vast amount of work done in
their consideration. Five hundred and
fifty public bills, and twelve hundred
and forty-one private bills were enacted
into laws with the consent of the Presi-
dent, while 278 were vetoed by him,
against 121 by his twenty-one predeces-
sors. But of all the laws thus enacted,
very few are of general importance.
The erection of a territorial government
in Alaska, the provision for the admis-
sion of four new states, the steps taken
to create a navy, the arrangement of the
order of the succession to the presidency,
the creation of a Department of Agricul-
ture, and the incorporation of the Nicar-
agua Canal Company, were among the
most important. But the exhibit dwin-
dies in importance when we compare
these with the list of omissions; the sup-
pression of the Blair bill in House Com-
mittee, the failure to amend the revenue
laws either in their administrative
features, or for the reduction of the
surplus, the defeat of the International
Copyright law, the failure to pass the
Indirect Tax bill over the vetoin the
House, the defeat of the payment of the
french Spoliation Claims, and others of
nearly equal importance.

{in the Senate very few of Mr. Cleve-
jand’s nominations were rejected, al-
though a number were ‘‘hung up’’ to-
ward the end of his term. On the other
hand, not one of the treaties negotiated
by the State Department has been rati-
fied, although the Chinese Treaty was
ratified after recei\ ing amendments which
were not acceptable to the Chinese goy-
ernment.

Two important pieces of legislation
were secured from Congress at the
eleyenth hour. One was by an amend-
ment to the Indian Appropriation bill,
which furnished a reasonable substitute
for the Oklahoma bill. It provides for
negotiation for the purchase of the land
not needed by the four principal tribes
of the Indian Territory, in order to
throw these open to white settlers. As
this is a distinct recognition of the rights
of property in the tribes, and as these
are as free to refuse to sell as the Sioux
were, it is a marked improvement upon
the political bill to which Mr. Springer
stood sponsor.

The other is the bill to amend the
Inter-State Commerce law by providing
greater security and sharper penalties
against unjust discrimination in favor of
individual shippers. The House tried to
add a provision about the transport of
oil in tank-cars; but this was objected to
as growing out of a mistaken idea that
the Standard Oi? Company owned all
those cars, instead of less than three-
fifths of them. The one radical defect
of the act was not touched. We mean
the prohibition of pools.

Also at the eleventh hour, the House
adopted Mr. Hitt’s resolution in favor of
commercial union with Canada. ‘This
very much simplifies the situation, as it
relieves the Dominion from the appear-
ance of making overtures to the
bigger partner in the proposed arrange-
ment, while it gives an opportunity
for the establishment of entire freedom
ef intercourse between the two coun-
tries. But Canada has not received
it as graciously as her best friends would
have desired. The party in power char-
acterize it as a proposal that Canada
shall surrender her industrial indepen-
dence, as though Canada were to be on
anything but a footing of perfect equality
either in forming the arrangement or in
withdrawing from it if she find it unsat-
isfactory. And the other party madea
tactical blunder at Ottawa by coupling
the proposal with another for the exten-
sion of the modus vivendi provided for a
year by the Fisheries Treaty. Asa re-
sult of this, nobody can learn from the
vote how strong is the feeling for com-
mercial union, and nobody’s constitu-
ents can hold him responsible for voting
in the negative.

AMERICA’S DUTY TO JAPAN.
Mexico has concluded a treaty with)
Japan on the basis of a recognition of |
the rights of the Island Empire to man- |
age its own tariff and to administer jus-|
tice upon the residents of its territory. |
It is said that we should have done the |
same, and Mr. Bayard is blamed for not |
getting ahead of Mexico. But we have,
been very much ahead of Mexico.
Evarts, while Secretary of State, nego-|

 

 

agreed to recognize her rights in both re-
spects, and to abandon the concessions to
the contrary in the treaty of 1868, as
soon as the other signatory powers could
be got todo the same. Also, we agreed
to use our best influence to induce them
to follow our example, and the promise
has been kept so well that we have been
a source of embarrassment to Great Brit-
ain in that matter ever since. It is true
that Mexico has conceded these points
without any conditions. But she had no
choice. She tried to get the terms which
were exacted in 1868, but was refused.
And if we had conceded them without
any, the only effeet wouid have been to
give HWngland, France and Germany a
monopoly of the Japanese trade, without
gaining anything of importance for
Japan.

Not that we have done our whole duty
by our neighbor to the West. It is for
us to continue to exert all the diplomatic
pressure we can until the autonomy of
Japan is completely recognized and the
country is set free to restore her shat-
tered industries, recoup her losses of
coin, and bring back prosperity to her
people. Weowe her this as being the
country which constrained her to open
her ports to the commerce of the world.
We owe it to her as the greatest nation
on earth pursuing the same tariff policy
which has become a part and parcel o
our government. And Japan appeals
the more powerfully to our sympathies
as by the act of her Emperor she has
just taken her place among the nations
in which liberty is secured by constitu-
tional law. The steamships from Japan
bring the details of the five great ordi-
nances promulgated by the Mikado,
which establish the new system. He
binds himself to aceept the advice and
act upon the consent of the two houses
of the imperial legislature. For the fu-
ture, ordinances shall be promulgated
only under the pressure of urgent neces-
sity, and shall become invalid if not rat-
ified by the legislature at its next meet-
ing. The upper house is to contain three
kinds of members—hereditary, elective,
and nominative; the lower is to consist
of 300 representatives chosen by popular
ballot.

Japan is acountry of surprises. No-
where else has a dynasty which had
lasted for centuries abdicated its claims
in deference to those of a dynasty of
still greater antiquity. Nowhere else
has a powerful feudal aristocracy aban-
doned its privileges peacefully and
freely, at the mere suggestion of the
government. Nowhere else has a des-
potic monarch set limits to a power
fenced about by religious safeguards,
and called his people to share in the re-
sponsibilities of government. These
three great instances of the influence of
the idea of right make impartial onlook-
ers hopeful of the future of the country.

THE GOVERNMENT EXPENSES.

The total amount of the appropriations
passed by the late Congress was $281,
878,695. This is some $15,500,000 less
than the request of the heads of the
various departments, but it is probably
ample to support an economical admin-
istration. The amount appropriated by
the previous Congress was $306,985,544,
or some $25,000,000 more than is allowed
for the next year.

The reduction of the amount of the
appropriation is caused by the absence
of any river and harbor bill, but there is
doubtless enough left of the appropria-
tion on that account last year to keep the
work going. President Cleveland’s veto
of the Direct Tax bill made the appro-
priations some $17,000,000 less than they
would have been otherwise.

These appropriations are for the ex-
penses of the Government from July 1,
1889, to June 30,1890. It is probable
that President Harrison will insist on
keeping the expenses within the appro-
priations, so that no deficiency bill will
be required hereafter.

THE IRISH SITUATION.

The English Liberals feel that they
have scored a great moral victory in the
collapse of the charges based on the
“Parnell letters; but, unfortunately,
their enemies have the advantage of
being in power, and the sessions of this
Parliament may be prolonged until 1893.
And as the majority is too big to be over-
come, by by-elections, and too solid and
stolid to be affected by any sort of scan-
dal, the Liberals only can agitate and
wait. Mr. Morley’s amendment to the
reply to the queen’s speech was voted
down by a majority of 79 in a full House,
or what is counted such in England,
where there rarely are 600 present out
of the 670 who have the right to be.
The scene when Mr. Parnell rose to
speak is said to have furnished the most
extraordinary spectacle Parliament ever
witnessed. Never before has amember
who neyer sat in any ministry received
such an ovation, and while Mr. Glad-
stone led off, waving his hat and cheer-
ing, many even of the ‘Tories could
‘ssearce forbear to cheer,’’ and one or
two did so.

Mr. Parnell illustrated the peculiarity
of his temperament by going in exactly

excitement suggested. O’Connell would

his demands. His successor in the lead-
ership of Ireland made not a reference
to his triumph over the government in
the trial, but instead pleaded with the
Tories to give the Home Rule question a
fair consideration, assuring them that he
asked nothing which would imperil in
the least the unity and the strength of
the Empire, and applauding their jeal-
ousy of both. This was not only un-
Irish but so un-English also, that the
Liberals are offended and the Tories
puzzled by it. A few of them say that
now is the time to come to terms with a
movement whose success is inevitable.
Of the rest, some~ are stopping to think,
while the majority probably think it the
voice of the charmer and stop their ears.
And, from the Imperialist standpoint, it
doubtless is the last-named class who are
nearest right.

JUG-HANDLED HELP.

The Lansing Rdpublican thus refers
to the railway project which is secretly
backed by the Detroit. Lansing & North-
ern Railway:

It must come because the Lansing
Board of Trade has taken hold of it.
The Charlevoix, Escanaba & Detroit Rail-
way will pass through Lansing. Fred
J. Meech, Secretary of the Detroit, Char-
levoix & Escanaba Railroad, in a letter
to J. H. Moores, Secretary of the Board
of Trade, favors bringing the road to
Lansing. <A letter from Geo. H. Frink,
of New York, who with Wm. H. Barnum
are the financial backers of the project,
was also inclosed, in which Mr. Frink
strongly favors the Lansing route, and
asks Mr. Meech to supply all information
concerning all the resources of the
country through which the road will
pass. Dr. J. M. Wilkinson, of Evart,
will give $25,000 for the road, and other
towns along the line will contribute lib-
erally to the project.

Nearly a year ago THE TRADESMAN
announced the fact that the Boston cap-
italists who own a controlling interest in
the D., L. & N. Railway had decided to
extend the line from Lansing to the
vicinity of the Straits, and that Manager
Mulliken had been instructed to proceed
with the work as rapidly as possible.
The first step in this direction was the
purchase of terminal facilities at St.

Ignace, which was consummated late last
summer. It was then decided to make

the Northern terminus of the line at
Charlevoix, acquiring the road bed from
Charlevoix to Kalkaska and constructing
a direct connection between Kalkaska
and Lansing. All this was fully decided
upon months ago and will be carried out
exactly as planned.

In the light of these facts, the enthu-
siasm of the Lansing Board of Trade is a
little amusing. It is the policy of rail-
roads to keep mum until ready to act,
which has undoubtedly led the Board
into the error of supposing that a bonus
of $50,000 or thereabouts would decide
the matter. As railroads are usually not
averse to accepting such morsels, when-
ever an opportunity is presented, it is
highly probable that the Lansing people
will feel impelled to come down hand-
somely, simply because the Board ‘‘has
taken hold of it.’’ If the Board had let
the matter alone, the railroad would
have reached Lansing just as quickly
and given just as good service.

thy with the bill now before the Legis-
lature, providing for the creation of a
State Food Commission, the proper label-
ing of all goods not strictly pure, and
the punishment of persons who violate
any of the provisions of the act. The
measure, which is given in full on an-
other page, seems to THE TRADESMAN to
be a fair and thorough bill and its en-
actment could not fail to result to the
advantage of every honest dealer and
manufacturer in the State.

Wholesale dealers will generally ap-
prove of a bill introduced in the Legis-
lature by Representative Wachtel to
vacate the county of Manitou and divide
the islands between Leelanaw and Mack-
inae counties, on the ground that cred-
itors can get no satisfaction for their
claims.

Dealers in cigars and tobacco will save
money by calling on the exclusive whole-
sale cigar and tobacco house of Morris
H. Treusch & Bro., 46 Ottawa street.

or
For Sale--Soda Water Fountain.

The elegant soda water fountain used
in our retail department. This fountain
is the finest in the State and is offered
for sale at less than half cost, including
counter and silver ware complete for use.
Full description will be given with price
and terms on application.

ARTHUR MEIGS & Co.,
77 South Division st., Grand Rapids.
a

Morris H. Treusch & Bro.’s cigars are
sold by all the druggists and grocers in
the State. They are now located in their
new building, 46 Ottawa street.

 

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Kalkaska—M. A. Morrell, for several
years a grocer here, but for the past four
years sheriff of the county, has formed a
copartnership with R. R. Campbell, fore-
man for the Smith Lumber Co., under
the style of Morrell & Campbell. The
firm has bought the grocery stock of

James Crawford, adding largely thereto.
>

Morris H. Treush & Bro., wholesale

tobacconists, have removed to 46 Ottawa

 

Mr. | the opposite direction to that which the | street, next door to Hazeltine & Perkins

| Drug Company. We wish them good

tiated a treaty with Japan, in which we! have tramped on his foes and heightened | luek in their new stand.

i

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.
Ira C. Barnes has opened a meat and
fish market at 694 South Division street.

James E. Botsford succeeds Botsford
Bros. as proprietor of the Auburn Paper
Co.

D. D. Cook has removed his showcase
factory from 21 Scribner street to 106
Kent street.

Hermann Liesveld succeeds Barthol-
omew & Liesveld in the grocery business
at 559 Cherry street.

Henry M. Goebel has re-engaged in
the paint and wall paper business at his
old location, on Canal street, under the
style of C. A. Goebel.

Simon P. DeVries, dealer in second-
hand furniture, at 110 Ellsworth avenue,
will engage in the agricultural imple-
ment business at the same location.

Morris H. Treusch & Bro. are now
pleasantly settled in their new quarters
at 46 Ottawa street, where they have
their stock arranged on three floors and
basement.

H. E. Stover, the Kalkaska druggist,
was in town last week and purchased a
drug stock of the Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co. to replace the stock destroyed
by fire about ten days ago.

The New Grand Rapids Soap Co. is the
style of a corporation which has been
formed to succeed to the business of the
Grand Rapids Soap Co. The new com-
pany has a capital stock of $50,000, of
which $10,000 is subscribed and paid in.
The plant of the former company has
been acquired by purchase and business
will be resumed as soon as $15,000 addi-
tional capital has been subscribed. The
present stockholders are W. R. Shelby,
John McConnell, Wm. H. Cooper, W. J.
Stuart and Wm. B. Loveland.

The main topic of conversation in
commercial circles yesterday was the
announcement that Wilson, Luther &
Wilson, the Luther lumbermen, had
uttered mortgages to the old National
Bank and Webber Bros., of Ionia, for
upward of $44,000 to secure their endorse-
ments on the paper of Dwight & Co., of
Detroit, who recently failed. It is stated
that W., L. & W. have their endorsement
on $113,000 worth of this paper, and that
they take the course above mentioned to
order to protect themselves, so far as
possible from the Dwight creditors.

 

AROUND THE STATE.

Pentwater — Andrus & Van Alsburg
have engaged in the meat business.

Hopkins Station—Harvey & Forbes
have opened up a stock of tinware.

Ypsilanti—Drury & Taylor, the
ware dealers, are about to dissolve.

Marshall—sS. E. Cronin succeeds
miah Cronin, Jr., in general trade.

Ypsilanti—W. C. Stevens has sold his
hardware stock to Harding & Shafer.

Imlay City—Mrs. A. Cole succeeds
Hulda Swan in the millinery business.

Mt. Clemens—Eckert & Wolf succeed
Eckert & Essig in the grocery business.

Kalamazoo—T. F. Giddings succeeds
E. R. D’Arcamble in the drug business.

Marshall—Geo. F. Maser succeeds G.
F. Kast & Co. in the boot and shoe busi-
ness.

Blissfield—Collins & Karner succeed
Wm. Rothfuss & Co. in the grocery busi-
ness.

Bronson — Eugene R. Clark succeeds
L. D. Clark’s Sons in the dry goods bus-
iness.

Caledonia—Williams & Hutchins suc-
ceed A. L. Williams in the wagon bus-
iness.

Climax—W. D. Buckbury is succeeded

hard-

Jere-

in the grocery business by Geo. E.
Seeley.

Fowlerville—W. G. Shane, jeweler,
has uttered a chattel mortgage for
$321.28.

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

business.
Burlington—A. E. Wood & Sons suc-
ceed J. T. & W. D. Wood in the drug
business.
Iron Mountain—Lilly & Richardson’s
grocery stock has been seized on chattel

mortgage. i

Vermontville — Loomis & Co. have
moved their general stock here from
Middleville.

Old Mission—H. K. Brinkman & Co.
will open a general store in the Grange
hall building.

Vassar—E. A. Bullard has sold his
boot and shoe and furnishing goods stock
to Wm. Stark.

Blissfield—Wm: Rothfuss succeeds Col-
lins & Rothfuss in the buggy and imple-
ment business.

Sand Lake—H. F. Hamilton sueceeds
Hamilton & Morton in the grocery and
notion business.

Sherman—Chase & Van Wormer have
dissolved partnership, Mr. Chase return-
ing to his home near Hobart.

Morrice—L. D. Goss & Co., general
dealers and creamery proprietors, have
dissolved, F. E. Purdy succeeding.

Acme —H. A. Langworthy went to
Chicago to take a position as traveling
salesman for a wholesale house, but he
has returned home again.

 

Edgerton—Geo. Tompsett has closed
out his general store to Arthur Meigs &
Co. and will remove to Grand Rapids.

Kalkaska—H. E. Stover has re-opened
a drug store in one side of the. store oc-
cupied by C. 8S. Ramsey with his grocery
stock.

Plainwell—Jas. N. Hill & Co., the
grocers, have dissolved partnership, Mr.
Estes retiring. Jas. N. will handle the
plow alone.

Big Rapids—W. E. Overton has asso-
ciated with himself his son Eugene, and
henceforth the firm name of W. E. Over-
ton & Son will adorn the old hardware
store.

Vermontville—Elmer Morris has sold
his interest in the meat firm of Deer &
Morris to his partner, who will continue
the business under the style of John
Deer.

Plainwell—L. L. Loveland succeeds F.
Woodhams in the harness business. Mr.
Woodhams has opened a harness busi-
ness at Delton, a new town on the line
of Kalamazoo & Hastings Railway.

Lansing—B. D. Northrop has sold his
interest in the firm of Northrop & Rob-
ertson, dealers in drugs, books and sta-
tionery, to F. L. Gardner, for several
years a clerk in the employ of the firm.
The new style will be Gardner & Robert-
son. Mr. Northrop will devote his en-
tire attention to the Lansing Medicine Co.

 

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.
Manistique—The Delta Lumber Co. has
purchased the plant and pine and hard-
wood lands of the Little Harbor Co.
Muskegon—The Muskegon Lumber Co.

has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $20,000, of which $9,000 is
paid in.

Detroit—The Strong & Slaght Land
and Lumber Co. has been organized with
a capital stock of $100,000, to operate in
Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Cheboygan—Some of the logs being
put in this season in this neighborhood
are the third crop from the same land,
and run thirty or more to the thousand
feet.

Stanton—S. Frost & Co. have lately
bought 300 acres of pine land near River-
dale for $46,000. This makes a sufficient
timber supply to last several years. The
firm makes 18-inch shingles.

Frankfort—L. W. Crane will under-
take to raise the sunken logs in the
Betsie by means of alarge steam scow
and grappling irons. From 8,000,000 to
10,000,000 feet are supposed to be at the
bottom of the stream.

Mason—C. P. Huntington turns out
43,000 clothes-pins daily, having the out-
put of his factory sold ahead. He ex-
pects to turn the timber on thirty acres
of land, lately purchased, into bifurcated
commodity in a year and a half.

Essexville—J. R. Hall, the well-known
lumberman, is the inventor of a car-
eoupler, which railroad men pronounce a
great invention. It is of a design dif-
ferent from anythiug yet patented, being
serviceable for both freight and passen-
ger cars.

Leroy—Cutler & Savidge,
Haven, have bought the old Kellogg,
Sawyer & Co. mill, lately owned by
White, Friant & Lettellier, of Grand
Rapids, the consideration being $15,000.
The new owners will begin operations
there in the spring.

Cadillac—W. W. Eaton, who occupied
a desk in Cobbs & Mitchell’s lumber
office here for about eight years, has en-
tered into a copartnership with F. A.
Clary, the shingle dealer, the new firm
being christened Clary & Eaton. They
expect to handle 15,000,000 shingles or
more the current year. Their mill and
timber are in Missaukee county and their
own cut for 1888 will bulge 10,000,000.

Stanwood—Leroy Moore, of Greenville,
and J. G. McElwee, of Big Rapids, com-
prising the firm of McElwee & Moore,
who own and are cutting the timber from
a tract of over 800 acres of hardwood
land in Mecosta township, have taken a
contract to supply an Eastern firm with
300,000 bushels of charcoal per year for
four years, or 1,200,000 bushels in the
aggregate. The better class of logs will
be cut into lumber, and the balance will
go into the coal kilns, which are to be
erected near this place.

Manistee — Canfield & Wheeler have
merged their lumber, salt and real estate
business into a corporation under the
style of the Canfield & Wheeler Co. The
company has a paid up capital of $330,-
000, divided among four stockholders in
the following amounts: John Canfield,
6,000 shares; Ed. D. Wheeler, 6,500
shares; Frank W. Canfield, 600 shares;
Ed. R. Wheeler, 100 shares. Ed. D.
Wheeler is President of the corporation,
John Canfield Vice-President, and F. W.

of Grand

 

 

Canfield Secretary and Treasurer. |

 

STRAY FACTS.

Manistique—C. Ranken and John Du-

pont have formed a copartnership to en-
gage in the manufacture of cigars.

L. S. Hackett has purchased an inter-
est in the cheese foctory of A. M. Gallop, |
at Prattsville. The style of the new
firm is Hackett & Gallop.

Naubinway—Nelson Holland & Co. are
building a breakwater that will be 900)
feet long, thirty feet wide, eight feet)
above the water level, and filled up with |
1,500,000 feet of big hemlock logs.

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& CO. near your own door than other manufacturers can offer. and this is true of our Ladies’
Fine Dongola and Goat $2.50 Shoe and our $3 Henderson French Kid, and other grades
made at our Dixon Factory, where our celebrated “Red School House” Shoes are produced.
We have special advantages for manufacturing them and make them all on the theory of merit and
style. ‘‘The proof of the pudding is in chewing the string.” and if you will test them we shall
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made at our third factory are also acknowledged to be unequaled.

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ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT.

Michigan Business Men’s Association.

President—Frank Wells, Lansing.

First Vice-President—H. Chambers, Cheboygan.

Second Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo.

Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.

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

Cameos 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 Barnes, Traverse

ty: Geo. R. Hoyt, East Saginaw; H. B. Fargo, Mus-
kegon. :

mm on Transportation—James Osborn,Owo0ss0;

= t Cookiin, Ged Rapids; C. F. Bock, Battle

‘omm Building and Loan Associations—Chaun-
= cee ieamaineoo: Will Emmert, Eaton Rapids;
A tty, Lansing,
eiesnes ©. J. Connell, Muskegez.
Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

e following auxiliary associations are Op-
enna 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 BK. M. A.
t, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King.
No. 3—Sturgis B. M. A.
President. H. S. 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, C.L. Whitney.
No. 6—Alba B. M. A. /
President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.
No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A.
S, 7. ML. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.
No. 8—Eastport B. M, A.
President, FH. Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.

No. 9—Lawrence B. M. A.
President, H. M. Marshall: Secretary zs. H. Kelly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M. A.
President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.
WNo.11—Kingsley B. M. A. i
President. H. P. Whivple: Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop.
No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon. —
No. 13—Sherman B. M. A. i
President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin.
No. 14—No. Muskegon B, M. A.
President, S. A. Howey: Secretary, G. C. Havens. a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lo. 15—Boyne City B. M.A.
ae ae Becretary, F. M. Chase. a
Wo. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A.

President, J. V. Crandall: Secretary, W. Rasco.
No. 17—Plainwell B. M. A.
President, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
No. 18—Owosso B. M, A.
President, Albert Todd; Secretary, Ss. Lamfrom. _
No. 19—Ada B. M. A.
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. oe
io. 20—S ratuck B. M. A.
ici See “4 Henry: Secretary, L. A. Phelps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 21—Waylaad B. M. A.
President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.
No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M.A.
President, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W. R. Clarke.

 

No. 23—Carson City B. M. A.
President, F. A. Rockafellow: Secretary, C. G. Bailey.
No. 24—Morley B. M.A. __
President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, Woe. Richmond.
No. 25—Palo B. M. A, i
President, H. D. Pew; Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson.
No. 26—Greenville 13. M. A. i
President, A. C. Satterlee; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.
No 27—Dorr B.M. A. __
President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, EN Kisher. |

 

 

 

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. Che
No. 30—Oceana B. M. A. :

President, A. G. pee Secretary, E. S. Houghtaling.

 

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

No. 32—Coopersville B. M. A.
President, W. G. Barnes; Secretary, J.B. Watson.

No. 33—Charlevoix B.M.A.
President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, Kk. W. Kane.
oe No. 34—Saranac B. M.A.
President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. T. Williams. a

~ No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A
“tresident, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C. k.
Ne. 36—Ithaca B, M. A.
President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden.
No, 37—Battle Creek B.M. A. i
dea: Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E. W. Moore.
No. 38—Scottville B. M.A. |
President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
No. 39 —Burr Oak B. M. A.
President, W. S. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon.
clam llc csi tei i
No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A.
President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, W ill Emmert.
etl a
No. 41—Breckenridge B. M.A.
President, C. H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner.
No, 42—Fremont B. M. A.
President. Jos. Gerber: Secretary C.J. Rathbun.
- No 43-tastinB.M.A,
President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom.
No. 44—Reed City B. M. A.
President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.
No. 45—Hoytville B. M. A.
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary . A. Halladay.

  

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No. 46—Leslie B. M. A. i
President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould. a
a _ No. 47—Flint M. U.
President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W. H. Graham.

    

No. 48—Hubbardston B. mm. A.

President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W : a Toner

No. 49—Leroy B M.A. _

President, A. Wenzell; Secretary. Frank Smith.
No, 50—Manistee B. M. A. |

A. O. Wheeler; Secretary,C. Grannis.

 

 

 

    

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No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A.
President, L. M. Sellers: Secretary, W.C.Congdon.
‘No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.
President, A. S. Kedzie; Secretary, F.D. Vos. __
~ No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A.
President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald. _
-. No. 54—Dougias B. M. A. i
Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller.
No. 55—Peteskey B. M. A.
c Hankey; Secretary, A. C. Bowman.
No. 56—Bangor B. M. A.
President, N. W. Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman.
No. 57—Rockford B. M. A.
Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham.
No. 58—Fife Lake BR. M. A.
L. S. Walter; Secretar; .C.< Plakely.
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.
President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen.

 

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No. 60—South Boardman B. M.A.
President; H. E. Hogan; Secretary, 8. E. Neihardt.
No. 61—Hartford B. M. A.
President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
No. 62—East Saginaw M. A.
Presiden, Jas. H .Moore; Secretary, C. W. Mutholand.
No. 63—Evart B. M. A.
President, C. V. Prie: :
No, 64—Merrill B, M. A.
President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. S. Blom
No. 66—Lansing B. M. A.
President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.
No. 67—Watervliet B. M. A.
President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.
No. 68—Allegan B. M.A.
President, H. H. Pope; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand. ©

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M, A.

President, Lyman Ciark; Secretary, F. S. Willison.
No. 70—Nashville B. M. A,

President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. 8. 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. a

 

 

 

 

“Wo. 74—Davison M. U.
President, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. L. Gifford.

No. 75—Tecumseh B. M. A.
President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus.

No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A.
President, 8. S.McCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong.

7%7—South Haven B. M. A.
S. Monroe; Secretary, 8S. VanOstrand.

 

 

 

 

 

No.
President—L.
No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A.
President, J. O. Seibert; Secretary, J. W. Saunders.
Ne. 79—East Jordan and So. Arm B. M.A.
President, Chas. F. Dixon; Secretary, L. C. Madison.
No. 80—Bay 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.

No. 82—Alma B M. A.

President, B.S. Webb; Secretary, M. E Pollasky.

No. 83—Sherwood B. M, A.
President, L. P. Wilcox; Secretary, W. R. Mandigo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laingsburg has organized a B. M. A. Chas. H.
Frain is President of the Association and Chas.
H, Frain is Secretary.

 

Association Notes.

Blanchard Boomer: A Business Men's Asso-
ciation will be organized at this place on April
2. All persons, either in trade for themselves or
as managers, are respectfully invited to join.
Please leave your name at this office.

Denver Retail Grocer: Michigan has over one
hundred local associations, and a strong State
association. The business men have found out
the great benefits they derive from such an
organization, and consequently all are coming
in the fold. E. A. Stowe, the Secretary, has
labored faithfully for many years to accomplish
this result and he can well afford to feel proud
of his work. Wedo not know whether Michigan
has amore enterprising class of business men
than Colorado, but judging from all accounts
we think they have. The grocers here are
strongly organized in several cities, yet they
seem to lack interest—in Denver especially.
Several important things have been accomp-
lished during the past three months, but it was
mainly through the efforts of a few individual
members. So the association can not claim any
credit. At present, the merchants throughout
the entire State want Denver to call a State con-
vention. They have asked this several times
before, but no one hus seen fit to do so.

Muskegon Neus: The Muskegon Business
Men's Association met last night at the rooms in
the Rodgers bloek. There was a fair attendance
of members, and the whole business of the meet-
ing was the discussion of the proposed ‘‘Fecu-
line Potato Flour’ industry for Muskegon. The
promoters of this proposed enterprise are Dr.
Van Deinse and M. J. Reiseger, both well-known
citizens. ‘‘Feculine’’ is made of potatoes. Itis
tasteless, odorless, of » snowy white, and—when
seen through a microscope—crystalline, like
crushed sugar. With boiling water it forms a
clear transparent starch, and is consequently
said to be preferable to all other gloss starches.
These gentlemen say that its superiority in trans-
parency and glossiness is so universally recog-
nized that itis used in the cotton mills, carpet
factories and paper mills of England, Europe
and the New England States to the almost entire
exclusion of all other starches, and for laundry
and household uses it has entirely superseded
corn and wheat starch, sago and arrowroot
wherever introduced. A capital stock of from
$15,000 to $20,000 is required to establish the in-
dustry, and the amount it is thought can be
easily raised. The general plan is for a building
130x130 feet square, which would have a capacity
of from 500 to 600 bushels of potatoes daily from
the start, to be increased as the demand in-
creased, to 2,000 bushels. The discussion last
night was thorough, the advisability and prac-
ticability of the factory being viewed from every
standpoint. The result was that the Association
heartily endorsed the plan, and will lend every
aid possible to put the factory on its feet.

Charlotte Republican: <A largely attended
meeting of the Business Men’s Association was
held at the council rooms, Monday evening, for
the purpose of considering the proposition of F.
L. Elms to establish a carriage manufactory
here. The impression prevailed that he had
made a proposition to locate here, if the city
would furnish a site and erect a building to cost
$5,000, but this proved to be an error. <A letter
was laid before the meeting from Mr. Eilmsin
which he said that it would require a building
to cost not less than $10,000, and possibly $15,000,
in which to conduct the volume of business he
proposed to carry on, and that he should expect
the city to furnish at least the former amount, in
addition to the site, and he would invest $25,000
in machinery, etc. In this connection Mr. Elms
wrote: ‘The machinery which I will putin will
be modern and of the most approved style. I
intend to put myself in condition to compete
with any factory in the country. Upon this
point Iam most intensely in earnest and no half
way work will answer my purpose. The factory
must be four stories, including the basement.”
The increase in the bonus required from $5,000 to
$10,000 had a somewhat depressing influence up-
onthe meeting. All agreed that $10,000 could
not be raised for the purpose by private subscrip-
tion, and the possibility and advisability of
raising the amount by a general tax was dis-
cussed, the final conclusion being to appointa
committee of four to investigate the subject and
report at another meeting. The Chair appointed
George Huggett, R. W. Shriner, H. F. Penning-
ton and PD. B. Ainger as such committee. A
committee, consisting of A. P. Green, A. T. Lor-
ing and J. D. Parkhurst, was appointed to con-
fer with Johnson & Houck, looking to taking
such steps as might be necessary to enlarge and
put in operation that factory.

STE TTE ee aaaaanad

Grand Rapids Mercantile Association.

At the regular meeting of the Grand Rapids
Mercantile Association, held at THE TRADESMAN
office on March 5, the first topic taken up was
the status of the new charter relative to the
establishment of amarket. Letters were read
from the city Representatives and Senator Wes-
selius, promising to give the matter prompt atten-

tion.

The names of several houses violating the
agreement not to sell to consumers were men-
tioned, when the following resolution was

presented :

vesolved, That we disapprove of the practice
pursued by some jobbing houses in selling
goods to families, boarding houses, restaurants
and hotels, as such trade clearly belongs to the
retail dealers;

Resolved, That we will favor those jobbers
who do not make a practice of catering to the
trade of the consumer.

Considerable discussion followed on the gen-
eral subject at issue, when the resolution was
unanimously adopted.

M.C. Goossen suggested that it would be a
good idea to appoint a new committee—three
years having elapsed since the old committee
was discharged—to wait on the jobbers and
request them to renew their pledge to the Asso-
ciation not to sell the family trade. He also
suggested that the millers be visited, to the end
that some agreement be negotiated to govern
their dealings with families and restaurants.

The suggestion was so well received that it
was changed to a motion, which was carried,
and M. C. Goossen, Chas. E. Smith and B.S.
Harris were appointed sueh committee.

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

1, Isit notan advantage to the dealer to sell
all vegetables by weight, rather than by the
bushel or peck?

2. Is there a law, State or National, that com-
pels Chicago packers to brand their goods ‘‘Lard
Compound?”

3. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to try the White
Cap business on the peddler?

4. Any report from Lansing in regard to ex-
emption laws, insurance, or the market clause in
the new amendment to the charter?

5. Have we a city sealer yet? If so, how often
does he make the circuit, and does the law sus-
tain him in the collection of bills for his work?

6. If John Killean runs for Mayor, and is
overs, where will the peddler be then—poor
thing!

%. Do you favor a National bankrupt law?

8. Do you find any difficulty in getting good
butter? _

9. Which do you find takes best with your
trade—eastern or home made buckwheat flour?

10. Where do you think would be a good place
for a city maket?

These questions all provoked interesting dis-
cussions, which THE TRADESMAN regrets it can-
not reproduce verbatim.

F. J. Cox was designated by the President to
prepare a paper for the next meeting, when the
meeting adjourned.

 

Lakeview to Organize Tuesday Evening.

The business men of Lakeview will complete
the organization of their Association on Tuesday
evening. Apropos of the movement, C. Newton
Smith sénds THe TrRAapEsMaAN the following
appeal, which originally appeared in a local
newspaper:

The desired usefulness of our Association de-
pends oe upon ourselves. We can make it
a power for lasting good or we can fail to organ-
ize one atall. Which shall it beY Every busi-
ness man here should give an individual answer
to this question in the affirmative. We have
here a beautiful little burg. Shall we unite and
all together work for its further development, or

hall we, unprogressive-like, leave off where our
Fathers began? We have in our surrounding
vicinity a good, although a comparatively new,
farming country, and will it not be commendable
in us to aid, indirectly at least, with our means,
influences, energy and example, in converting
these new lands to a high degree of cultivation,
that our village may reap the direct and indirect
benefit? This village and adjacent country is
favored with industrious, thriving and well-
behaved people. Now, will it not be to our pres-
ent and future credit, as Lakeview citizens, to
associate together and unitedly plan and exe-
cute those measures that will tend to build us all
up morally, socially and financially, and, by so
doing, invite those who follow us to say ‘‘Well
done, good and faithful servants.”

Forty-six business men of this village agreed
in writing to meet and assist with their influ-
ences and means in organizing and maintaining
a Business Men’s Association. Itis hoped that
every one of them will prove their moral and
social worth, next Tuesday evening, by pleas-
antly and intelligently redeeming that promise.

Every business man here has more or less ideas
that he thinks would, if adopted and carried
out, be of benefit to the village. Let us organize
a live Association, and then at its future meet-
ings bring out those ideas for discussion and
consideration. If thisis understandingly done
by all members, and each does his duty in refer-
ence to work assigned him, the desire to con-
tribute to the upbuilding of the town and vicin-
ity will become contagious and before we are
aware we will have an Association that will be
doing a good, noble and lasting work for one
and all.

Let us all willingly and gladly lay aside our
petty jealousies and come forward, open hearted
and an handed, wit che fixed determination
to do our duty in this matter, and thus make our
mark, and that a respectable and lasting one.

Once fully organized, let every member regu-
larly attend its meetings, fully determined to
introduce something useful, and not many meet-
ings will pass before every business man in
town will be convineed that it is his duty to
attend and joinin the good work of its mem-
bers.

The primary object of the B. M. A. is tolend a
helping hand to all good and well-directed en-
terprises, to increase and extend the village’s
trade and business, and to secure to our business
men their rights, privileges and dues; therefore,
I for one say by all means let us organize a Busi-
ness Men’s Association. How many will second
the motion?

I believe it must be a pleasant thought for one
to realize that he has aided in extending com-
fort and happiness to his neighbors, and I also
believe in no way, time and expense considered,
can Lakeview business men _ better protect the
welfare of themselves, neighbors and friends
than by associating together for that purpose.

Scores and scores of associations in Michigan
are doing commendable work and bear evidence
of the efficiency of these resolutions, and of the
pleasant meetings and happy gathering of their
members, and what has been done by others can
be accomplished in Lakeview. Having the
talent, energy and apparent inclination, and
if pow we can work up the ‘“‘will” our Associa-
tion is an assured fact.

It is folly for one to want to reap the crop the
next day after sowing the seed. Reason and
judgment give a liberal time for the accomplish-
ing of purposes and waiting for results. Of
course, all the dead-beats, sneaks and pimps who
live upon others’ industry, discourage the forma-
tion of Business Men’s Associations, but their
talk, actions and doings should only encourage
us on to renewed and lively actions.

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A Second Appeal from the Insurance
Committee.

Chairman Caldwell, of the Insurance Commit-
tee of the M. B. M. A., has sent out the follow-
ing reminder to those associations which have
not yet reported progress on the insurance mat-
Ser:

 

 

GREENVILLE, March 9, 1889.
To the Secretary of the BM A.:

DEAR Srr—Your Association has made no re-
ply, as yet, toour circular asking for subscrip-
tions to the stock of our Insurance Co. Please
call the attention of your Association or Com-
mittee having the matterin hand to this imme-
diately and request them to report, that we may
know what you have accomplished and proceed
with the work of organization. Reports thus
farare encouraging, though some associations
have not yet reported and some report only a
part of the stock allotted them as having been
pledged. We hope you will take hold of this
project with a sense of pride, feeling it is a local
matter in which you are to be the stockholders
and policy holders. and, actuated by motives of
emulation and profit, place anything we have
achieved before as an Association in the back-
ground by giving this your organized support.
It is said that ‘‘a long pull, astrong pull, anda
pull altogether’? will bring anything desired.
Therefore we hope to feel your hand on the rope
in this matter, as we have in other matters here-
tofore.

Wishing you suecess and hoping to hear from
you soon, I am, Yours very truly,

Geo. B. CALDWELL, Chairman.

 

The Bay City Association Resents an
Imputation of Failure.
Bay CitTy, March 5, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Sir—I have just finished reading a slur
on our Association in a Detroit paper, and would
say in regard toit that it is a falsehood from
beginning toend. There was a man here repre-
senting the paper and he came up to my place
and invited himself to our meeting, which was
held that night. It was avery stormy night and
there were not over half our members present.
Our President asked him if he had any thing
to say and he got up and run down the B. M. A.’s
throughout the State, except the Detroit Associ-
ation, which our members didn’t like. He says
in his paper that we have only a few of the
small grocers from the south end of the city, but
he is mistaken, as we have them from all over
the city, and the big stores, too. We meet every
other Friday night in the G. A. R. hall, the finest
hallin the city. We have fifty members now,
and we take in eight or ten every meeting. We
expect in at least two months to have every
grocer in Bay City and West Bay City with us.

We would like to have you come and see us at
any time and I think we could show you that
your coming to Bay City was nota failure. .

We have already done a good deal of
good. We have stopped the flour mill men
from retailing flour and grain and also the oil
tank men from retailing oil. We have had good
results from the collection department and are
getting encouragement from the wholesale men.

If this is failure, we are ready for more of the
same kind, Yours truly.

Gro. Crate, Sec’y.

a

The Dorr B. M. A. Approves the Insur-
ance Plan.
Dorr, March 6, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dear Sin—The Dorr B. M. A. met here to-day
at Beamer’s hall and with a goodly number
present, a good meeting followed. The matter
of insurance was taken up and discussed. All
present were in favor of the plan offered by the
Insurance Committee of the M. B. M. A. and all
expressed their willingness to take at least one
share each of the stock and are anxious to see
the plan carried out. Our Association is alive
and doing well. L. N, FIsHEr, Sec’y.

a
Organization Completed.

The Paw Paw B. M. A. completed its organ-
ization last Wednesday evening by the election
of the following officers:

President—G. W. Longwell.

Vice-President—C. R. Avery.

Secretary—W. H. Mason.

Treasury—Frank Parks.

ee

Good Report from Gobleville.
GOBLEVILLE, March 11, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dear Sir—The Gobleville B. M. A. is alive and
doing good work for its members and the town.
Let me know when the first half of the present
fiscal year expires and we will apply for charter
for the second half. We are waging hot war on
the dead-beat. Yours truly,

A. B. CLARK, Sec’y.

 

MODEL APPEAL

In Behalf of the Charlotte Business
Men’s Association.

There are already located in this city five
manufacturing establishments, all of which are
doing a healthy prosperous business. We wish
to double this number in the near future, and to
this end we are offering liberal inducements to
secure their location.

Charlotte is the commercial center of a large
area of thickly populated country; the soil is
rich and fertile, the a happy- and prosper-

aci

ous. Her oh Bre ities are excellent, with
the G. T. and M.

C. railroads reaching the mar-
kets east or west, the coal of Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania and the timber of the north. There is an
abundance of hard wood, including oak, beech,
maple, cherry, butternut and black walnut,
white and black ash, sufficient to supply for
years manufactories in wood. We venture to
say that raw material of every kind, excepting
minerals, can be procured as cheaply in Char-
lotte asin any city in the State. Further, there
has been discovered, just outside the corpora-
tion of this city, exceptionally rich indications
of coal, the vein being about seven feet in thick-
ness, and of superior quality.

It is hardly necessary to say, in connection
with this statement of the advantages to be
secured, viewed financially, to those contemp-
lating a change of location, that we havea city
of about 5,000 population, unexcelled in many
respects as a desirable to locate a home.
Its streets are beautifully shaded and lined with
pleasant, comfortable and even elegant homes.
The business portion has good substantial brick
blocks, a system of water works on a paying
basis as good as any City in the State; the city is
also lighted with gas, which is used in all the
public buildings, stores, churches and offices.
All religious denominations have fine church
edifices and the schools of Charlotte are cele-
brated for their high standard of excelience.
There are four hotels, two national banks and
three newspapers.

The highways leading into the city are in ex-
cellent condition, and no city in the State can
boast of a richer farming country in a radius of
ten miles, which is to a great extent tributary to
this city.

To those who contemplate investments in man-
ufacturing, or those disposed to change their
location, we will take pleasure in furnishing
with further details, showing the advantages of
a location in Charlotte, the character of the ter-
ritory tributary to this city, the market for your
particular class of goods, and, further, will offer
you liberal inducements for your removal and
location here. C. M. JENNrNGs, Pres.

G. M. Fen, Sec’y.

—— a 2
Good Report from the Caledonia B.
M.A.
CALEDONIA, March 6, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Str—I enclose two sheets, which have
been filled out to the best of my knowledge, and
approved by the Executive Committee of our
Association. If there are any blunders, please
correct and inform me of them and I will try to
avoid them next time. Please send new sheets
for next month's report.

Our meetings are quite well attended and our
membership is on the increase. Nearly every
member considers the organization a benefit and
some have received fifty-fold their expense of
joining. '

Herewith find #1, as per capita dues for two
new members, David M. Witmer and George C.
Baker.

I should have reported last month the follow-
ing newly-elected officers:

President—J. O. Seibert.

Vice-President—C. F. Beeler.

Secretary—J. W. Saunders.

Treasurer—George Burkhardt.

Executive Committee—J. E. Kennedy, C. F.
Williams and G. J. Calkins.

If you have a copy of any local delinquent
list, please send me one, as a guide for printing
our list. Very respeclfully,

J. W. SAUNDERS, Sec’y.
Lakeview Locals.

Wm. Warren has exchanged his grocery
store up town for jhe Edwin C. Davis
property near the depot. It is under-
stood that Mr. Davis intends to run a
bakery.

H. J. Covey has bought the Globe Hotel
property and will give Lakeview a first-
class hotel. Mr. Covey was landlord at
the old Lakeview House, when it burned
down a few days ago.

It is said that O. B. Loveless will re-
build his saloon building at once upon
the site of the one lately burned.

The Lakeview Creamery and Cold
Storage Co. is making preparations for
an extensive business the coming season.

During the last three years C. Newton
Smith has erected in this village seven
good, substantial, well-equipped and
convenient tenement houses, and during
the spring will build two more, to cost
about $700 each.

Robert Edgar and Morgan ‘Finucane,
substantial farmers near this village,
will each in the spring erect large and
commecdious stock and grain barns, with
stone basements under entire buildings.

On Tuesday evening E. A. Stowe, of
Grand Rapids, and L. Wells Sprague, of
Greenville, will talk to our citizens in
regard to forming a Business Men’s As-
sociation here, the prospect of which
seems quite good now.

C. Newton Smith is endeavoring to
interest the business men here as to the
necessity of organization, and it now
looks as though he would succeed.

L. M. Mills, that prince of salesmen
and jolly good fellows, gave our business
men a talk last Monday evening.

REPORTER.
Just His Way.
From the Detroit Free Press.

“There goes asingular man,’’ observed
a Woodward avenue grocer as an old
gentleman passed out with a package
under his arm.

‘‘How singular?’’

‘He always begins business by asking
if we have any strawberries. In season
we say yes, and out of season we say no.
If we have’em he doesn’t buy: if we don’t
have ’em he looksdisappointed for a
minute and then gives his order. His
trade is worth $3,000 a yeartome. I lost
it once and had to apologize to him.”’

“How !77

*‘T had a smart Aleck as a clerk who
replied that we had no strawberries but
lots of chestnuts, and the old man walked
out as stiffas a ramrod. I apologized,
discharged the clerk, and he returned.
He’s my strawberry as long as we use
him well.’’

i o- <P
The Dignity of Labor.

Mrs. Pemmican—‘‘Now since I’ ve given
you something to eat, you can take that
shovel and clean the snow off my side-
walk.”’

Childe Vittles (a tramp)—‘*Beg pard-
ing, ma’am; but I see that shovel was
made by a non-union firm; and my senti-
ments regarding the dignity of’ labor
won’t permit me to handle it.’’

D. D. Cook received 10,000 feet of all
kinds of common moulding on Saturday,
which he claims is the largest consign-
ment of the kind ever received by a
Grand Rapids house.

Morris H. Treusch & Bro., wholesale
cigar dealers, say they are more than
pleased with THe TrHDESMAN’S help to
their business. They appreciate a good
trade paper.

 

She Outwitted Him.

“‘How much are those shoes, please, sir?’
A pretty maiden asked

Of a gay and gushing shoe clerk,
Whoadmiring glances cast.

“Only a kiss,’ he answered,
With bold, audacious air,

As he gently lifted the dainty boots
Before the maiden fair.

‘You may do them up, I'll take them,
(The shoe clerk’s heart stood still)
I'll speak to grandma, over there,
For she always pays my bill.”
ee

 

Half-Price Wants Column.

Wanted—A dozen dudes, to serve as jurors on
murder cases.

Wanted—In broker’s office, a lad with a frank,
Te a boy who ean tell a lie pre-
erred,

Wanted—To purchase real estate. Anarchists
anxious to dispose of their portable property
need not apply.

Wanted—A young medical man, who has just
received his diploma, wishes to enter into busi-
ness arrangement with some undertaker.

_ Notice—This is to give notice that I will not be
liable for any debts contracted by my sen, who
is a dude and not responsible for his actions.

Wanted—A young bachelor wishes to meet a
lady whom he could make his partner for life.
Would prefer one who would be an active but
silent partner.

For Sale—Having just entered into the holy
bonds of matrimony, I am forced to part with my
costly collection of meerschaum pipes, which T
will sell at a bargain.

For Sale—A young gentleman who went west
two years ago to grow up with the country will
dispose of his entire two years’ growth for the
price of a ticket to the effete east.

Bor Sale—A complete blind man’s outfit, con-
sisting of a dog, stick, green shade for eyes, with
holes in to see through, and a Bible with raised
letters. Reason for selling, owner retired from
business.

For Sale—Six valuable cigarette tubes, 24 pack-
ages of cigarettes, 12 dozen collars three inches
high, 15 pairs of pants two feet wide, and 9 No. 6
hats. Reason for selling, owner gone to reside
in asylum for the feeble-minded.

Personal—Amelia, until you poison that con-
founded dog and induce the old man to wear
slippers, even though it break my heart, I shall
feel constrained to absent myself from your
dear, sweet presence,

Warning—If the rascal who secretly visits my
house, wastes my valuable gas and coal, attempts
—sometimes with success—to hug one of the
members of my family, and in presence of said
member refers to me as “the old man,” should
persist in repeating his visits, I will thrash the
life out of his wretched carcass.

Wanted—To know the whereabouts of the
Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Association. Last
heard from it, the organization was headed up
Salt River.

————qj+Y 2 e——__—-
Will Even the Thing Up.

First Undertaker—Well, we can’t com-
plain much of dullness of business.

Second Undertaker—No; itis true we
have no cholera or yellow fever this
summer, but there is a very encouraging
epidemic of the mind cure in certain
places.

HARDWARE.

Prices Current.

 

 

 

 

 

These prices are for cash buyers, who

pay promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGURS AND BITs, dis,
ives OM stmie oo 60
So 60
COOKS 40
deunings pemnineg. ........:...- 25
Jennies, iminiion ..... eae
i AXES,
iret Quality. S. B Branze. $ 7 00
im 1, Broeze. 11 00
= s BS. steel 8 50
DB Stee 13 00
BALANCES. dis.
Spree ee
BARROWS. dis,
MAarORG $ 14 00
Gaver net 33 00
BELLS. is.
Hane 60&10&10
toy... |. 70
Ca 30&15
ene ee ee 25
Deer Sarcems 60&10
BOLTS, dis.
SOME $ 0
Cumtase new ist. 70&10
PIO 50
RI SAO e 70
Wrouge, Barrel Boligg 60
Cast Barcel Bolte 40
Cast Barrell, brass knobs............ |... 40
Ous6 Square Spree 60
CastChain 40
Wrought Barrel brass kmnob...... 2... .. 60
Wreaent square oe 60
Wrought sumk Mivsh oo 60
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush... .60&10
ives Door. ee 60£10
BRACES, dis.
Bae 40
Backes feee c-Si lO
SPORGTG 50
AM ba. net
BUCKETS.
Well pam es Se
Well swivel 4 00
BUTTS, CAST. dis,
Cant Loere Pin, Seured.. | ls FO&
Cast Loose Pin. Berlin bronzed............. TO&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.......... 60&
Wrought Narrow, bright d5ast joint.......... 60&10
Wrourhs Loose Pin 60&10
Wrouckt Loose Pin, acorn fip...... 5... |. 60&05
Wroueht Loose Pin, japanned..........__. 60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped .60&05
Wrought fable ee 6010
Wrouget teside Bind = = =. 60&10
MIOUSEE Edsel. vis)
Brine CM 70&10
Bune, Parkers. eae
Bed shepards 70
BLOCKS.
Ordinary fackie st Apri 17,78... 40

| ll CARPET SWEEPERS.
Bisel N@ 6.0. per doz.$17 00

Bissell No. 7, new drop pan ........ 19 60
Bisse; Grange. 36 00
Grand Mapas. 24 00
GAG 15 00
CRADLES.
“1... dis. 50&02
CROW BARS,

Cast See per 04
fron, steel Poimmts......: 8 3%
CAPS
Kiysii0....... /..... perm 65
Mieks¢C Peo _ 60
cD... 35
Musket - 60
CARTRIDGES,

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50
tim ire, United States..............___ dis. 50
Cenivar Fire. dis. 25
: CHISELS, dis.
SOCKOU MEMINCE TO0&10
SockepUranane 70&10
PICRECO@OEMOE oe 70&10
MOCECGRHCES 000) eee
Butchers’ Taneed Wirmer.....,............. 40
Barton’s Socket Firmers.... 20
ee net

COMBS, dis.
Curry, Tawrenees. 4010
MiOcemates ce 25
CHALK.
White Crayons, per gross..........12@12% dis. 10
cocks.
Brass, MACHINE Ss. 60
OO ee ee 60
Bee ee 40&10
ere y
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 33
. oxo, oa56. f4eG0 8. 31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... ...... 29
Coid Holied, Pei 29
BOMONS ee 30
° DRILLS. dis.
Mores Hit Sipeks 40
Laper ang stratene Shank 2) 6.0). .) 40
More's Paperseank, 40
DRIPPING PANS.
Small sizes, ser pound ©225.:.... 0.43. 07
Davee RISEN, Per POUR. 2... 64
: ELBOWS,
Com. 4 miece § in... doz.net %5
COEFURRECE er dis. 20&10&10
AOURRO dis. 4%&10

 

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EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark's; small, $18: larse, @26.....0 1... 30
ives. 1, $8: 204-5 S08 25
FILES—New List. dis.
American File Association List............. 60&10
Disses 60410
mew Amerean 60&10
NichGisOmSs 60&10
ee oe 50
aeener’s Horse Haspe 50
GALVANIZED IRON.
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24- 95 and 26: 27 28
List 12 13 14 15 18
Discount, 60
GAUGES. dis.
Stanley Rule and Leyel Co.’s............... 50
HAMMERS,
Waseole &@ Oe 7s dis. 25
See dis, 25
Werkes & Plumis. dis. 40&£10
Mason's Solid Cast Steel... 30¢ list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30¢ 40&10
HINGES.
Gate Clarks 1,25 dis. 60
See per doz. net, 2 50
Serew Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 44% 14 and
Tee 38%
serew Hook and Hye, %...0. net 10
i r . Meee net 8%
a - . Meee met 7%
. : : ..... met i%
Serapaene dis. 7
HANGERS. dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track. ...50&10
Champion, anti friction 0.0)... 60&10
Mader, wood trie 40
HOLLOW WARE
CO 60&10
Kei 60&10
Ge 6010
Gray cnameree 5
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
Stamped Tin Ware... new list 70&10
gapaunca Pin Ware... 25
Granme bron Ware... 25
HOES.
Gubbio $11, dis. 60
Gmbe $11.50, dis. 60

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HORSE NAILS

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AG See dis. 25&10@25&10&10
oe dis. 5&10&2% &214
INOrthWestCrm dis. 10&10&5
KNOBS—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings... 55
Door, porcelain, jap. Gimmings........_... 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 5o
Door, porcelain, trimmpiigs =. 55
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain.........._.. 70
reture, H. b. duad & Cos... ........ . 40e10
eOMmineie 45
LOCKS—DOOR,. dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... aD
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.s.......... 55
POMPOM Ss 55
POP W A 5D
LEVELS. dis.
Stanicy Rule and Level Co’s........... 70
MATTOCKs.
Maze Hye $16.00, dis. 60
URE ye ie Op) dis, 6
Meneses $18.50, dis. 20410.
MAULS. dis.
mperry & Co.'s, Post, handled ..........__. 5O
MILLS. dis.
Cofee, Parkers Co7s...... 40
~ *F.S. & W. Mie Co.'s Malleables... 40
Landers, Kerry & Clark's... . |. 40
Bmiceprise 25
MOLASSES GATES, dis.
pepo s Eatterd 2. eee
Sienpins Genuine 6010
Materprise, self-measuring.§ =... 2
NAILS
Advance above 12d nails.
FENCE AND BRADS.
ma toGe 25
ee 10
tasandca = 2
Saand7d.. |... ae 40
adand >t... 60
ee 1 00
Me i 1 50
FINE BLUED.
eee ee. 1 00
on.. 1 50
ae 2 00
CASTING AND BOX,
Pato s 50
ee 60
8d to 9d eee %
Se 90
4dtocd 110
Se 1 50
COMMON BARREL.
aCe,
ee. 2 25
CLINCH.
Pea tinen |. 1 2
2 and 24 ee 1
244 and — |... 1 00
See 85
Seana ney (5
Each half keg 10 cents extra.
OILERS. dis.
Zine or tin, Chase's Patent..................60aa0
Wine¢, wit Drass DGttOM, 50
Brass OrCopper. 2.2. a
Reaper per gross, $12 net
Olmstead se ee
PLANES. dis.
Ole Tool CaS fanéy. ss... 40@10
metost Deven @60
pandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy... 21... |. 40@10
Hench tet qumbicg @60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... ....20&10
PANS.
Hry, Acme. te ee beet
Coramon, polished. ............_....... dis, 60&10
RIVETS, dis.
fron and Tinned 50
Copper hivets and Bure. =. : 50

PATENT FLANISHED IRON.
‘*4’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 3
“7 Woods a planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9%

88

Broken packs %c per pound extra.
ROPES.
Biss, 36 inch and larper................2:.. 12
Mannie. ee. 16
SQUARES. dis.
pice sma bron... 70&10
Mery an Deve 60
=... 20
SHEET IRON.
Com. Smooth. Com.
NOS TOGO 14 $4 20 $3 00
moe iter... 42% 3 00
Moe. iO Sl 8 ok 420 3 10
MNO Se tees ee 42 315
DOH SoA oe 2. 440 3 35
We ee 4 60 3 35

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

 

SAND PAPER,

Est sect 19 766) dis. 40
SASH CORD.

Siver Bake White A |: list 50

. oe ee 55

Wee e  . 50

i ree ee ue 3S

. Waeuce. .. ‘ 35

Discount, 10.
| SASH WEIGHTS,
SO per ton $25
i _ SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR FILLERS,
Miles’ ‘‘Challenge’’....per doz. $20, dis. HOG50&05

  

Ferry ............_ per doz. No. i No. 0,
eee 21; dis. 0&5
Draw Cathe 4 each, $30, dis 50
Fombermuine Mie Og. 0 8 dis. 20&10@30
Sere dis. 40&10
SAWS, dis,
Pusston's Circulae. 45@45&5
- Crees Cae 45@A5&5
Bee 25@25.45
*Extras sometimes given by jobbers.
Aone Ciena dis. 9
Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70
‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50
Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 30
‘* Champion and Electric Tooth X
Cuts per foe; oe
TACKS, dis.
american al kinds 60
pecan OH Kinga 60
Swedes ailiinds 60
Gimpand Gace 68
Crear Bex Natis 50
Reisman NAR 50
Common and Patent Hrads. 50
Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks....... 50
itu and Clout Mais. 50
Pinned Trunk and Clout Nails.......1.. 45
Leathered Carpet Tacks... 35
/ TRAPS, dis.
mecet, Game... a 60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 70
Othe TO
GO

Ee aW Mis Cos
Mouse, choker.... . -...... Je DOE Gon.
Mouse, delusion... . -$1.50 per doz.
dis.

Sewell 6%
mumediod Maree TO&10

WIRE,

Coppercd (erkep 62%
Extra tae Ma 55
mnmeg Markee. 62%

aimed Ere@m per pound 09
HinMied Wittress per pound 813

 

Coppered Spring Steel. SD
iyamed Sprinz Steel ae
PS ee per pound 03
Barped Hence, ealvanized...0 0000000 0). gee ee
Pantene 3 00
Copper a sew list net
ee _ = =
WIRE GOODs, dis
eee - 70810810
Brew Ever -70&10£10
ee -70&10210
Gate Hooks and Eyes... -T0&10&106
WRENCHES. dis,
Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled..... ss §__.. 30
Coes Genuine... ....._..... Loe ea, 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ 75
Coe’s Patent, malleable... ..... Le 75&10
MISCELLANEOUS, dis.
Bra Caees 50
Pumps, Cistern............ ee (i
screws, New Fist. oes
Casters, Bed and Plate ............_.._ 50&10&:10
Riarapers, American. 40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 6624
Capper Bottams 0 a 30¢
METALS,
PIG TIN.
Pig Large. Co 2.4. eee
Pie Dare... te a Oe

COPPER.

Duty: Pig, Bar and Ingot, 4c; Old Copper, 3c
Manufactured (including all articles of which
Copper is a component of chief value), 45 per
cent ad valorem. For large lots the following
quotations are shaded:

 

INGOT,
ee 1844
anecuor Briand |... 18

ZINC.

Duty: Sheet, 2%¢ per pound.

Gen pound Camas). 6 .. 644
Per youn TATA
LEAD.

Duty: Pig, $ per 100 pounds. Old Lead, 2c per
pound. Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound. i

Aierican oe @S5

Newall. (3S

ee tee

Se ...8¢e, dis. 20
SOLDER.

Se eT 16

Pere Wipe 13

] i 34
The prices of the many other qualities of
solder in the market indicated by private brands
vary accordjng to composition.
ANTIMONY.

Cookson...........................per pound 14%
Peleus... 114%
TIN—-MELYN GRADE,
iia 1C. Chareogi: ace. 8 6 OO
14x20 IC, ee eee ou 6 00
2x12 IC, 4 6 25
14x14 IC, wer. 10 08

lOxz8 IC, oa
10x14 IX, ca %
el ie 7a
ie .oe.. 3 Oo
eee ee ec —-. oo OO
20x28 IX, eS ee

Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.

TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.

exit he, Cuarcoal 2... 8
14x20 IC, Ce Es len 5 40
ite, 6h Ce ee 5 40
CE 5 65
re a nen een ala 92
te 11 80
14x20 IX, 6 90
eee 6 90
eee ee. 715
20x28 IX, is if 65

Each additional X on this grade $1.50. 14 8

ROOFING PLATES
ive ee Verne Wo $7 6
20x28 IC, " Ce ee ae 15
14x20 IC, Worcester... 8... ®
14x20 IX, Ce cy 7
29x28 1C, EN 11
14x20 IC, «. Allaway Grage 0 4 0
14x20 IX, 7 ee 6 4
meres ic, =‘ ‘ ie pp BO
20x28 1X, “ ‘e ae
ROILER SIZE TIN PLATE,

ees A ee $12 00
14x31 TX. ieee diated heey 13 BO
oo Ix for No. . Boilers, t per pound..... 09

 

 

 

 

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AFTER THE ADULTERATORS.

 

Text of a Legislative Measure Pre-
pared by the Board of Health.

LANSING, March 6, 1889.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dean Str—Herewith please find copy
of « bill, ‘*To prevent the manufacture
and sale of adulterated articles of food
and to provide for their inspection.’
The bill provides very careful definitions
of adulterations and provides for officers
specially charged with the fulfilment of
the act, without which no act would be
of use. It makes provision for the sale
of all sorts of mixtures, but requires
them to be distinctly labeled. In this
way and by means of the analyses made
by the direction of the commission, by
-publication of its annual report, and by
the general attention which will almost
necessarily be ealled to the subject from
time totime by the newspapers, ample
provision seems to be made for a more
ceneral education of the people through-
out the State in regard to the character
of the adulterations offered, now so com-
mon, and which might be expected to be
gradually reduced through the operation
of these causes. It seems to me that
great good can come through the enact-
ment of such a bill as this into law, and
that the gain to the people of the State
will be vastly greater than the few
thousand dollars that may be required to
earry out its provisions.

This bill provides a way whereby any
dealer who could not ascertain from the
wholesaler the constituents of a mixture
could secure at cost a statement of ex-
amination or analysis by competent au-
thority, namely, the director of the Lab-
oratory of Hygiene at the State Universi-
ty or the director of the laboratory at
the Agricultural College. In the prepar-
ation of the bill, the remarks on the sub-
ject at the last meeting of the Michigan
Business Men’s Association have been
held in mind.

Will you have the kindness to write
me what you think of this bill and
whether or not you will favor its becom-
ingalaw? Very respectfully,

Henry B. BAKER, Sec’y.

The following is the full text of the
bill above referred to:

A BILL to prevent the manufacture and
sale of adulterated articles of food, and
to provide for their inspection.

Section 1. The People of the State of
Michigan enact, That no person shall
within this State manufacture, offer or
expose for sale or sell any article of food
which is adulterated within the meaning
of this act.

See. 2. The word “food,” as used m
this act. shall include milk, tea, coffee,
eoeoa, chocolate. vinegar and every
article used for food by man, and every
article used for the flavoring or season-
ing of such food. The word ‘‘person’’
as used in this act shall include com-
panies, corporations, partnerships, firms
and associations.

See. 3. An article of food
deemefl to be adulterated
meaning of this act:

First. If any substance has been mixed
with it so as to reduce or lower or in-
juriously affeet its quality or strength.

Second. If any inferior or cheaper sub-
stanee has been substituted wholly or in
part for the article.

Third. If any valuable constituent of
the article has been wholly or in part ab-
stracted from it.

Fourth. If it be an imitation of or sold
under the name of another article.

Fifth. If it consists wholly or in part
of a diseased, or decomposed, or putrid,
or rotten vegetable, animal or other sub-
stance whether manufactured or not, or
in the case of milk if it is the product of
a diseased animal.

Sixth. If it be colored, or coated, or
polished, or powdered whereby damage
is concealed, or it is made to appear bet-
ter than it really is, or of greater value.

Seventh. If it contains any added or
poisonous ingredient, or ingredient which
may render such an article injurious to
the health of the person consuming it;
provided, that the penalties specified in
this act for the manufacture or sale of
adulterated food shall not apply to the
manufacture or sale of a mixture or com-
pound recognized as an ordinary article
of food which is not injurious to health,
and the article is distinctly labeled and
sold as a mixture with a label securely
attached thereto stating in plainly print-
ed words the component parts of the mix-
ture and the proportions thereof. Any
article of food manufactured, sold, or ex-
posed, or offered for sale not distinctly
labeled as provided in this act shall be
presumed to be pure, and if found to be
adulterated within the meaning of this
act, the penalties herein named are in-
eurred.

Sec. 4. In order to enable any dealers
to properly label articles designed to be
sold, as to the purity of which they may
be in doubt, and purchasers to ascertain
if a provision of this act has been violat-
ed, it shall be the duty of the Director of
the Laboratory of Hygiene at the State
University and the Director of the Chem-
ical Laboratery at the State Agricultural
College, to supply to each dealer or pur-
chaser who shall submit for examination
or analysis a sufficient quantity of the
substance to be tested, a statement of the
result of the analysis or examination of
such substance, upon receipt of the costs
of such analysis or examination.

Sec. 5. A State Food Commission is
hereby established, as follows: The
Governor, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, shall appoint
three commissioners, at least two of
whom shall be chemists, who, with the
Secretary hereinafter mentioned shall
constitute said commission, and who
shall hold their office as follows: One
shall be appointed for the term of two
years, one for the term of four years and
one for the term of six years, and at each
regular session of the legislature there-
after, one commissioner shall be appoint-
ed for the term of six years, and until
his successor is appointed and qualified.

Any vacancy in said commission may
be filled by appointment by the Governor
until the next regular Session of the
legislature. Before entering upon the
duties of his office each member of the
commission and the secretary hereinafter
mentioned shall file his oath of office
with the Secretary of State.

shall
within

be
the

| Sec. 6. At their first meeting, or as
| soon as a competent and suitable person
can be secured, the three Commissioners
appointed by the Governor shall elect a
Secretary, who shall, by virtue of such
election, become a member and the ex-
ecutive officer of said State Food Com-
mission. Said Commissioners may elect
one of their own number Secretary, in
which case the Governor shall appoint
another member to complete the full
number of said Commission.

Sec. 7. Said Commission shall meet
quarterly at Lansing, and at such other
times and places as they may deem ex-
pedient. They may choose one of their
number to be their President, and a ma-
jority shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business.

Sec. 8. The Secretary shall hold his
office so long as he shall faithfully dis-
charge the duties thereof, but may be
removed for just cause at a regular meet-
ing of the commission, majority of said
commissioners appointed by the Governor
voting therefor. He shall keep his office
at Lansing in rooms to be provided by
the Board of State Auditors, and shall
perform the duties prescribed by this act,
or lawfully required by the commission,
and shall have the custody of all books,
papers, documents, samples and other
property required by said commission in
the performance of their duties.

See. 9. The Secretary shall receive an
annual salary, payable monthly, which
shall be fixed by said commission, but
nut to exceed two thousand dollars. The
commission shall certify the amount due
him, and on presentation of said certifi-
cate the Auditor General shall draw his
warrant on the State Treasurer for the
amount. The commissioners appointed
by the Governor shall each receive com-
pensation at the rate of five dollars per
day for actual services rendered, and
each member of the commission, includ-
ing the Secretary, shall have his actual
and necessary expenses while employed
in his official duties, and which salary
and expenses shall be stated in account
under oath, and when allowed by the
Board of State Auditors shall be paid by
the State Treasurer on the warrant of the
Auditor General.

See. 10. Said commission shall be
charged with the duty of enforcing the
provisions of this act, and shall make all
necessary investigations and inquiries in
reference to the adulterarion of articles
of food, and for these purposes may ap-
point, or employ inspectors, analysts and
chemists. who shall be subject to their
supervision and removal, and whose
accounts for services and expenses shall
be sworn to by them and certified by said
commission, and when allowed by the
Board of State Auditors, shall be paid by
the State Treasurer upon the warrant of
the Auditor General. Said commission
may also in their discretion apply to the
Director of the Laboratory of Hygiene at
the State University, or to the Director
of the Chemical Laboratory at the State
Agricultural College, and submit to him
samples of articles of food for examina-
tion and analysts; and it is hereby made
the duty of said Directors to make exam-
ination and analysis of articles of food
so furnished by said commission, and the
costs of such examination and analysis
shall be stated in account and certified to
by the commission, and when allowed by
the Board of State Auditors, shall be paid
by the State Treasurer upon the warrent
of the Auditor General.

Sec. 11. Within thirty days after the
appointment of said comuiissioners and
the election of said secretary, the com-
mission shall meet at the State Capitol at
Lansing, and adopt such measures as
they may deem necessary to facilitate the
enforcement of this act, and shall prepare
rules and regulations with regard to the
proper methods of collecting and exam-
ining articles of food. Besides the ex-
penses incurred in the publication of the
report hereinafter mentioned, said com-
mission may expend annually an amount
not exceeding eight thousand dollars for
the purpose of carrying out the provi-
sions of this act, which amount the
Auditor General shall apportion, as other
State taxes are apportioned, to be raised
by State tax in the year 1889 and each
year thereafter.

Sec. 12. Every person offering or expos-
ing for sale or delivering to a purchaser
any article of food included in the provi-
sions of this act, shall furnish to any
analyst or other officer or agent appointed
hereunder, who shall apply to him for
the purpose, and shall tender to him the
value of the same a sample sufficient for
the purpose of analysis of such article of
food in his possession.

Sec. 13. Before commencing the analy-
of any sample the officer having
charge of the same shall reserve a por-
tion which shall be sealed and property
labeled: and in case of a complaint
against any person the reserved portion
of the sample alleged to be adulterated
shall upon application be delivered to
the defendent or his attorney.

See. 14. Whoever hinders or obstructs
or in any way interferes with any in-
spector, analyst or other officer appointed
hereunder in the preformance of his
duty, and whoever violates any of the
provisions of this act. shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars or by imprisonment in the county
jail not exceeding ninety days, or by
both said fine and imprisonment, in the
discretion of the court.

See. 15. Whoever sells any kind of
diseased, corrupted or unwhelesome food
knowing it to be such, or sells food whieh
has been adulterated within the meaning
of this act without making the same
fully known to the buyer shall be pun-
ished by imprisonment in the county jail
not exceeding ninety days, or by fine not
exceeding one hundred dollars or by
both said fine and imprisonment in the
discretion of the court.

Sec. 16. Whoever adulterates for the
purpose of sale any substance intended
for food with any substance injurious
to health, or barters, gives away, sells or
has in his possession with intent to sell,
any substance intended for food which
has been adulterated with any substance
injurious to health, shall be punished by
imprisonment in the county jail not ex-
ceeding ninety days, or by fine not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars, or by both
such fine and imprisonment in the dis-
cretion of the court.

See. 17. Said commission shall anntu-
ally make a report to the Governor, giv-
ing an itemized account of all money
expended in carrying out the provisions
of this act, the number of presecutions

.

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under this act and the result of the same,
the number and kinds of articles an-
alysed by them or under their direction,
and the result of such analyses, and such
further statement of facts as, when pub-
lished, will enable the people to guard
against the purchase and use of adulter-
ated articles of food. Three thousand
copies of said report shall be printed,
one hundred and fifty copies of which
shall be deposited in the State Library
for use in said library and for exchanges,
two hundred copies shall be deposited in
the office of the secretary of state for
distribution, and the remaining two
thousand six hundred and fifty copies
shall be distributed by said commission
in their discretion.

Sec. 18. It is here made the duty of
the proseeuting attorneys within this
State to appear for the people and to at-
tend to the prosecution of all complaints
under this act in their respective counties.

Sec. 19. All fines assessed and collected
by prosecutions begun under this act
shall be paid, one-half into the State
Treasury, and one-half into the county
treasury where the prosecution took
place.

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BUSINESS LAW.

 

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in
Courts of Last Resort.

 

CONTRACT—SALES—EVIDENCE.

In an action to recover the balance of
the price of stone delivered under a
written contract, the defendant, who was
a dealer in stone, sought to recover dam-
ages for a neglect to furnish the amount
of stone contracted for, and offered to
prove that had more stone been delivered
during atime named it could have been
sold. The Supreme Court of Illinois
held that this evidence was properly ex-
cluded by the trial court for the reason
that what could have been sold was pure-
ly conjectural, and that the inquiry
should be limited to the facts, the extent
of the demand at the time, and the de-
fendant’s ability with the rock delivered
to meet that demand.

 

VOID ORDINANCE—PROHIBITING ADVER-
TISING.

An ordinance was passed in Detroit
some time ago prohibiting persons from
circulating, distributing or giving away
circulars, hand-bills or advertising cards
of any description upon any of the pub-
lie streets of the city. The authority of
the city to pass such an ordinance was
tested in the recent case of the People vs.
Armstrong, in which the Supreme Court
of Michigan declared the ordinance un-
constitutional and void. The court said
that no direction or restraint was re-
quired for the public good in the mere
act of giving away an advertising card or
hand-bill.

 

BICYCLES HELD TO BE VEHICLES.

The Supreme Court of Indiana has
deeided, in a recent case, that a bicycle
is a vehicle, and that a person who rude-
ly and recklessly drives a bicycle against
a person standing on a sidewalk is re-
sponsible in damages for an assault and
battery. The court quoted a statute of
the State forbidding persons from riding
or driving on the sidewalk, and said:
“Tf sidewalks are exclusively for the use
of footmen, them bicyeles, if they are
vehicles, must not be ridden along them,
since to affirm that sidewalks are ex-
clusively for the use of footmen ne¢es-
sarily implies that they cannot be trav-
eled by bieyeles. It would bea palpa-
ble contradi<tion to affirm that footmen
have the exc}usive rights to use the side-
walks and yet concede that persons not
traveling as pedestrians may also right-
fully use them. We think, however, that
a bicycle must be regarded asa vehicle
within the meaming of the law.’’ It will
be remembered that the Supreme Court
of Rhode Islané not long ago also held a
bicycle to be a vehicle.

 

RAILROAD A€€IDENTS—LIABILITY.

The case of MeCormick vs. The Phila-
delphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Rail-
way Company, recently decided by the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, was one
in which the p aintiffs, the heirs of a
passenger who was killed while traveling
on the defendant’s road, brought sait to
recover damages for his death. lt ap-
pears that the night on which the passen-
ger was.killed was a dark one and the car
in which he was sitting was crowded and
dark. Just before the train reached Wawa
on the way from Philadelphia to West
Chester the conductor announced that
passengers for West Chester were to
change cars at Wawa. The traim stopped
a few moments later before reaching Wa-
wa. Noannouneement was made that they
were not at the station, and the passenger
stepped off in the dark and was killed by
falling through a bridge. The Supreme
Court sustained a verdict for the plain-
tiffs, holding that the passenger killed
had a right to suppose that the train had
reached the station, having stopped at a
place of peril for passengers to alight at
a time when they had the right to sup-
pose that the train had reached the
station from the notice previously given..

 

NOTE—CHECK—BANK—PAYMENT.
According to the decision of the Siw
preme Court of Tennessee, in the case of
Grimson vs. Commercial National Bank,
there is no implied authority for a bank
to pay to a third party a note made pay-
able at its place of business simply be-
cause of the fact that the maker has
funds sufficient for that purpose in the
absence of any course of dealing or pre-
vious instruction to-so apply the de-
posits. The court thus distinguished
between a note andacheck: To hold a
note payable at a particular bank as
tantamount to a check on the bank is to
confound distinctions heretofore estab-
lished and well settled in the adjudica-
tions of this State between notes and
checks. A check is defined to be a writ-
ten order on a bank directing it to pay a
certain sum of money. A note is the
written promise to pay another a certain
sum of money atacertain time. It is
payable on presentation. The other is
payable on a day certain. One is en-
titled to days of grace, the other is not.
One is an order on athird party, the
other is the undertaking of the party
himself. One is the appropriation of so
much money in the banker’s hands, the
other is a promise to pay. On the check,
ordinarily, no right of action accrues
until after presentment for payment; on
the note a right of action against the
maker exists without presentment.

A Great Scheme.

Citizen (to Uncle Rastus—Well, Uncle
Rastus, how are you getting on in the
grocery business ?

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time I came into de sto’ I tuk down de
sign ‘No trouble to show goods,”’ and in-
stitooted in its place ‘‘No trouble to re-
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LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS.

Written for THE TRADESMAN.
BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT.

| have heard and read a multitude of
arguments regarding the relative amount
of pleasure and enjoyment allotted the
average wealthy capitalist, and the aver-
age fairly prosperous individual whom
circumstances compels to labor, in some
manner. for the ineome that supports
him. Without entering into any general
survey of the subject Iam impelled to
respect, at least, the
moneyed man possesses an advantage
which {s usually denied the other party.
He is not preordained to submit to a
great many of the minor annoyances of
life that multitudes of people cannot
reasonably avoid. It would hardly be
expected that a half dozen individuals
would, without invitation, invade a man’s
private office, and “talk horse’ for four
or five solid hours without intermission.
His is not the place where the sportsmen
relate their interminable hunting or fish-
ing stories for the five-hundredth time.
He is not necessarily compelled to inhale
the aroma of three or four ancient clay
pipes, or see his floor covered with
various shades of tobacco spittle. The
‘is it hot enough?” or ‘‘cold enough for
you?’ fellow never calls, except on busi-
ness, and the chronic giver of gratuitous
but unsolicited advice rarely invades his
promises.

* * * x * * *

So I sometimes rather envy the man of
notes and mortgages, on this account at
least. Butif every individual, of ordin-
ary thinking capacity, would try to
adapt himself to circumstances and sur-
roundings a large share of the petty
annoyances of life would be materially
shorn of their exasperating qualities.
There are times when you might endure
Hoodley’s narrative of sixteen suecessive
horse trades with equanimity and, at
least, assumed interest, but mixed up
with your day book and ledger, and in-
jected among long columns of figures,
you mentally vote Hoodley a bore, and
his talk the dreariest kind of drivel.
You would cheerfully listen to the twen-
ty-first relation of Gooley’s bear story,
if Gooley would kindly wait for you to
finish up your morning’s correspondence,
but. unfortunately for both of you, he
wont. McGinnis’ wonderful fishing ex-
ploits at Mackinaw might pass without
protest if they didn’t get mixed up with
the long bill you are making out for a
customer. and old Toddles’ advice, re-
garding the proper manner to conduct

say that in one

your business, can’t possibly be made to
dove tail in any manner with the check-
ing off and comparison of an invoice.

Yet, up to the date of this writing, no
safe and satisfactory manner has ever been
discovered to post these parties on the
proper time and place for evaporating
their verbosity.

& * * * a * =

A man whose business necessarily
brings him into contact with the general
public, cannot afford to make his disap-
proval public or outspoken, when the
habits and customs of a portion of the
general public is distasteful to him. A
few years ago an odd, whimsical and ec-
centric agriculturist traded off his farm
for a store and general stock of goods in
a Western Michigan village, under the
fond delusion that wealth would pour in
upon him, with hardly an exertion on
his part. But, like a good many
farmers who have tried, and continue to
try, the same experiment it soon began
to be evident that old man Wimmick
wasn’t “built right’* to make a success
out of traffic. He naturally picked up a
little custom, however, but as nature had
soured him badly the practical eclipse of
ambition added materially to
acidity, and he commenced deliberately,
but probably ignorantly, driving away
the few buyers that occasionally visited
him. Noticing that his ‘‘sheavy setters’’
were getting far more numerous than
customers he hung up a conspicuous
sign, reading: ‘‘Wanted! A few more
able-bodied loungers!’’ The result, in
one respect was eminently satisfactory.
Every man who had ever warmed his
shins by his fire gave the establishment a
mental, and apparently vindictive, fare-
well. The placard ‘‘No smoking here!’
killed his tobacco trade. The announce-
ment, ‘‘ Yes! We make forty per cent.
on sugar!’ was taken literally by many
observers, and the notice, ‘‘It’s a trouble
to show goods if you don’t want goods!’
disgruntled the majority of his female
callers. Then a sign, ‘‘Please kick these
irons!’ had the effect of destroying his
window gratings in forty-eight hours,
and a declaration that ‘‘I will prosecute
anyone that disfigures this wall!’ pro-
duced a huge nocturnal decoration of
vulgarity, obscenity and low personal
abuse. But the old man courageously
continued his reform labors until his
reputation as a crank was more than lo-
cal, until he hadn’t a friend, male or fe-
male, and until every gamin in town
spent a large portion of his time in de-
vising means to annoy and anger him.
There may be people in the world who
can passively endure complete business

own

his his

way to the pressure. A fine eighty acre

out of it. But itis more than doubtful

fraction of his losses to him.
* * * * * % *

We can’t always submit to the minor
annoyances of life without a vigorous
mental protest, but experience, and self-
interest and common sense all teach us
test public. And when we take
consideration the fact that some of those
whom wecatalogue as bores are, on other
oceasions, pronounced ‘‘the best fellows
in the world,’? we can safely assume that
no ineonsiderable part of these annoy-
ances are more the resuit of our own
irritation, or unreasonableness, or physi-
eal condition than we are willing to
acknowledge even to ourselves.

W. 1. BEAGH,

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

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

BALED HAY A SPECIALTY.

HOLLAND, - MICH.

 

 

and social ostracism, but cranky and ec-
centric as he was, Wimmick finally gave

farm went into his business venture, and
a ‘“shardscrabble’’ forty acre farm came

whether the old man’s practical com-
mercial experience has been worth a

that it would be folly to make that pro-
into

 

HARWEY & HEYSTEK

JOBBERS IN

Wall Paper and
Paints, Oils, kts,

We are Offering to the Trade some
SPECIAL BARGAINS in Wall Paper at
Less than Manufacturers’ Prices. Your
Correspondence is Solicited.

 

~ Th and 76 Ottawa St,

Grand Rapids,

Mich.

 

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LONG HAVANA FILLER.
THEY HAVE NO EQUAL.
A.
127 Louis St., Grand Rapids.

  

The Finest 5-ct. Cigar Manufactured.

s. DAVIS,

 

WANTED.

FRUIT, BEANS
and all kinds of Produce.

made when desired.

EARL BROS.,

157 South Water St., CHICAGO.

POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED

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

COMMISSION MERCHANTS

Reference: FIRST NATIONAL BANE, Chicago.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grand Rapids.

 

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
Washington, 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. Noother 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
cars 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

ern Minnesota and Dakota,
Oregon and Washington.

Montana, Idaho,

scenic route to all points in California.

Territory, printed in coiors.

 

 

Paul, Minn.

TO MONTANA, OREGON AND

Pacific reaches all the principal points in North-

) va Bear in mind that the
Northern Pacific and Shasta line is the famous

Send for illustrated pamphlets, maps and books
giving you valuable information in reference to
the country traversed by this great line from &t.
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

Address your nearest ticket agent, or CHas. s.
Fre, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, St.

 

Crockery & Glassware

LAMP BURNERS.

 

 

No OSE oor ce ee ee ee oe 50
Wo fe ee sie 5d
Woo “oe ee 5
PbIAT es citi tee cn T5
LAMP CHIMNEYS.
6 doz. in box.
Wo. OSH.) 8.2) te ee 1 90
lg te eee 2 00
No.2 * ee oe
First quality.
No. 0Sun, crimp top......-.-------------++--- 2 15
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No. 2 3 2D

XXX Flint.

No. 0 Sun, crimp top..-....----.------- Ji Soe
Wo, 1 ig oe ee 2 80
No 2 0 ee 3 80
Pearl top. a
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled......-..--- os 30
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No 2iHinse, ee 4 70
La Bastic. i
No. 1 Sun, plain pulb..--.----.----,---------- 12
nos si SE ee cia ne 150
No. 1 crimp...- 1 4
No 2 ©... 1 60
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks, per gal......---------------: 06%
Jugs. 4 gal., per doz.-+...---.-------------- 65
eo ee 90
= a 1 80
Meat Tubs, 10 gal.,each.......-..----------- 75
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$1,000 REWARD!!

 

THE LARGEST AND BEST
CLEAR LONG HAVANA FILLED
SUMATRA WRAPPED CIGAR
SOLD FOR & CENTS.

We agree to forfeit One Thousand Dollars to any perso!
proving the Filler of these Cigars to contain anythin)
but Havana Tobacco. DILWORTH BROTHERS.

Amos, Musselman & Co.

SOLE AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
WNINGS

a AND TENTS.

 

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

Chas. A. Cove,

Telephone 106. 11 Pear! St.

 

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THESE GOODS ARE “PAR EXSELLENOE”

Pure, Healthful and Reliable, warranted to give satis-
faction inevery particular. For sale by wholesale and
retail grocers throughout tht United States. VouWwIE
Bros., Manufacturers, Cleveland and Chicago.

MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

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

Address for Cata-
logue and prices,

y Robt. §. West,

48-50 Long St.,

 

Cleveland, Ohio,

 

Why you should send us ee orders. We handle
nothing but BEST an CHOICEST BRANDS;
Seflat Manufacturers’ and Importers’ Prices;

Ship at ONE DAY’S NOTICE, enabling

you to receive goods day following;
Fill orders for ALL KINDS of

GLASS,

VIZ:

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Imported
and American
Polished PLATS,
Rough and Ribbed
French Window, Ameri-
can Window, English 26 oz.
Enamelled, Cut and Embossed.
Rolled Cathedral, Venetian, Muffied,
Frosted Bohemian, rman Looking
Glass Plates, French Mirror Plates.
The quality, variety and quantity of our stock
is exceeded by no housein the United States.

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

Grand Rapids Store, 61 Waterloo Street,

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SHAFTING, HANGERS,
AND PULLEYS

|FIRST-CLASS

Sead Specificai:c: 3 .or Estimates Leyore Contracting.

THE LANE & BODLEY 60.

2 t043 JOHN ST., CINCINNATI, O.

 

A SPECIALTY.

RESPECT.

 

 

Fruits, Seeds, Oy

If you are in market to buy or sell Clove

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.,

MOSELEY BROS.

——_WHOLESALE——

Sstersz

r Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be

pleased to hear from you.

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Produce.
All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

regular catalogue prices of

| Fifteen per cent., Terms 60 Days,

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H. Leonard & Sons,

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 any quantities

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Jobbers of Crockery, Tinware and Lamp Goods.

  

THE BESY DELIVERY

Repairing in all

West End Fulton St Bridg

COLBY, CRAIG & CO.

MANUFACTURE

WAGON ON EARTH.

 

 

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e. Telephone No. 867.

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

COLEY, CRAIG & CO,

 

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WRITE FOR DISCOUNT.

By buying this bucket you get one strong and rigid enough to
elevate all substances except coal, ore, broken stone, etc. _ Wecan

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GRAND RAPIDS, -

LEMON, HOOPS & PEYERS,

Wholesale
Grocers

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IMPORTERS.

MICH.

 

 

COAL! --- COKE!---

A. HIMES.

Wholesale

 

Office under Nat’l City Bank.

Telephone Call 490-2.

 

Yards,

CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY.

Grand Rapids,

OOD!

and Retail

Shawmut Avenue, Winter and
W. Division Sts.

The Best Fitting Stock-
ing Rubber in the
Market.

,Geo. H. Reeder,

Sole Agents,

Mich.

THEO. B. G

Shingles

33JOTTA WADSTEET,
Telephone 269.

 

Stovewood

GEO.E.HOWES &CO,

No. 3 Ionia Street,
GRAND BAPIDS,

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MICH.

 

WHOLESALE
Produce Commission Merchant,
BROKER IN LUMBER.

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

OOSSEN,

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Oranges, Lemons and Bananas!

 

Headquarters

MESSINA FRUIT.

SPECIAL PRICES TO JOBBERS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

GROCERIES. |

 

 

Too Late.
*““All aboard!’ and away she went,
And I, two blocks away,
Could only give my feelings vent
And bid myself good day,
For I was left and how could I
But shake my hand and say good bye?
M. J. WRISLEY.
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The Trials of a Retailer.
Written for THE TRADESMAN. |

There is no class of business men who |
have the trials that a retail merchant
does. The first one that we will notice
is the long hours he is obliged to give to
his business to be a successful merchant
to-day. It seems to be the general opin-
ion that he must be at the store at5
o'clock in the morning and stay there un-
til 10 o’clock at night, and when he gets
home his children hardly know him.
His wife hardly knows whether it is her
husband or some other woman’s husband.

Then comes the credit system which
we have and which is the curse of our
business. It makes no difference whether
you want to doa credit business or not;
if you want to do any business, Tom,
Dick and Harry say to you, “if you
want my trade, you must give me credit.”’
And when you ask them for your pay,
they will tell you if you cannot wait un-
til they get ready to pay you they will do
their trading somewhere else.

Then, the peddler starts out with his
cheap trash and goes to your customers
and sells them at from ten to twenty per
eent. more than you would ask them for
a better class of goods.

Then comes your friend next door who
pays six cents a pound for sugar and sells
it for five and a half cents a pound, and
so on through the long list of merchan-
dise.

 

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Now comes the Michigan Wholesale
Grocers’ Association with an announce-

ment to the retail trade, saying among
other things that the retailer will have to}
pay the jobber for boxing and cartage.
No doubt those of us who live ona rail-
road that does its own carting, taking
goods at the jobbers’ own door at the
same rate as others do at their ware-
houses, will have to pay cartage just the}

same.
Now, let us look at this subject for or,

minute. You go into a jobbing house
and purchase a bill of goods, and then j
you must pay for the boxes to pack them |
in and then pay the cartage to the depot, |
the freight to your town, cartage to your
store, and then you must put them up in
packages and take them to your eustom- |
ers’ residences. How long would a re-!
tailer keep his trade if he should make a
charge atthe bottom of his bill for box-
ing and cartage? Butit is all right—the |
retailer can stand all of this, but the |
jobber cannot stand his share of it.
What do you think about it, brother |
retailers ? ONE OF THE Boys.
— > 2
Creditors Getting Their Rights. |
As stated in Ture TrapEsMAN
week, most attempts to annul chattel |
mortgages result disastrously, even in|
the most disreputable cases. The Alle- |
|
|

 

 

last

gan Circuit Court witnessed an exception
to the general rule, a couple of weeks |

ago, and last week the Eaton Circuit
Court set aside another mortgage, the |
particulars of which are thus given by |

the Charlotte Republican:

The case of Alfred Hare against J. P.
Perkins, sheriff, closed last week, by a
verdict for the defendant. The case was
of more than ordinary interest, for the
reason that it involved the good faith of
Lundy F. Mikesell in the sale of his
goods to Hare. It appears that some
time after the sale to Henry C. Hare,
Hinehman & Sons, of Detroit, who were
ereditors of Mikesell, brought suit in
attachment and attached the goods which
Mikesell had sold to Hare, as being the
goods of Mikesell. Alfred Hare, brother
of Henry C., who claimed to have loaned
money to Henry C., to aid in purchasing
the goods, and who took a chattel mort-
gage on the goods to secure him for such
loan, brought this suit against the sheriff
for the value of the goods. The case|
lasted three days and was hotly contested
on both sides. The jury were out nine-
teen hours and returned a verdict as
above which was in effect that the sale
of Mikesell was not bona fide. This, we
think, is the first case tried in this Cir-
euit where the creditors have been able
to establish their claims in cases of this
kind.

 

Rn
Another New Swindle.
The newspapers have exposed the Bo-}
hemian oats swindle.
dle Tue TRADESMAN has an-}
other oats swindle to chronicle, which is |
a swindle on horses. It is in the manu-}
facture of ‘‘corn and oats chop,” and is|
done by grinding corn pure oat]
hulls from which the grain has been ex-
tracted. Car-loads of this worthless’
stuff is shipped to the leading mills in
the country, ground up with corn and
sold for corn and oats chop, making a
feed which has not a particle of oats in
it. The millers say there is a demand
for it from dealers and they simply sup-
ply the demand.
from the oatmeal establishments, where
they are probably bought for a nominal
sum. They are probably not injurious to
the animal, but when a horse owner
wants to feed oats and corn chop, he
ought not to be swindled with oat hulls
and corn.

which was a swin- j

on men.

with

 

 

a 8
Morris H. Treusech & Bro. are direct
importers of Havana and Key West

| Whipple Harrow Co.,

| several

| hension

| liquidation of the deal in May

The hulls are brought |

 

cigars, 46 Ottawa street.

Gripsack Brigade.

E. H. Guertin now covers the Michi-

gan trade for W. J. Quan & Co., of Chi-

cago.
Frank Emery has engaged to travel for

| E. W. Gillett, taking the entire State as
| his territory.

W. J. Richards, general traveling rep-

| resentative for the A. C. Barnes Whip
/Co., of Westfield, Mass., spent Sunday in

fhe city.

W. N. Ford has engaged T. J. Gregory,
formerly with Phelps, Brace & Co., to
represent J. G. Butler & Co. in Northern

Michigan.
Frank Dean succeeds the veteran
‘“‘Champ.’’ as traveling representative for

the American Eagle Tobacco Co. in this
territory.

Geo. Stowits, who has been with Stan-
ley & Schroeder for several years, has
taken the position of traveling salesman
for the Lamb Knitting Co., of Coldwater.

Geo. Hodge, formerly Upper Peninsula
representative for Lemon, Hoops &
Peters, is now covering Northern Min-
nesota and Dakota for W. F. McLaughlin
& Co., of Chicago.

A commercial traveler happened along
at a stage-route tavern out in Wyoming
which was presided over by a pretty
widow. He fell in love with her and
declared himself, and the widow’s wild
western lover went after his heart’s
blood. The drummer placed his back
against a wall, pulled two revolvers, and
began to shoot. He killed one man,
stood off the whole crowd, got away, and
took the widow with him. He had been
regarded as a tenderfoot, but the gentry
of that region are beginning to think
they don’t know a tenderfoot any more
when they see one.
<2 <>

Purely Personal.

M. A. Morrell, the Kalkaska
Was in town over Sunday.

Burt Remington has changed his alle-
giance from Olney,Shields & Co. to Amos
S. Musselman & Co.

E. W. Gillett, the Chicago yeast and
extract manufacturer, was in town a
couple of days last week.

THe TRADESMAN acknowledges the re-
iceipt of a copy of the municipal ordi-
nances from the ever-obliging City Clerk.

Lleyd E. Vannetta, formerly billing
‘clerk for Amos S. Musselman & Co., now
occupies a position in the office of W.
F. McLaughlin & Co., of Chicago.

J. H. Manning, the Ashland
dealer, is kept an unwilling prisoner in
Grand Rapids by reason of his selection
as a juror in the United States Court.

E. E. Whipple, General Manager of the
of St. Johns, spent
Sunday in the city. He was on his way
home from an extended tour through the

grocer,

general

| West.

THE TRADESMAN Office was fragrant
days last week from the pres-
ence of several Easter lilies, brought
from Bermuda by Wm. H. Hoops, who
reached home last Tuesday.

Henry Smith, formerly manager of the
tea department of Lemon, Hoops &

Peters, but now occupying the same pos-

ition with W. F. McLaughlin & Co., of
Chicago, is pleasantly located at 126
Park avenue.

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The Condition of Trade.

| From the New York Shipping List.

The general condition of commercial
and financial affairs has undergone very
little change since the close of last week.
The change of Administration that took
place on Monday has been the absorbing
political event, but its only significance
in business circles has been the interest

ttaching to the financial policy that is
likely to be adopted and the feeling of

relief at the expiration of the Congres-
sional session. As Congress refused to

do anything to cut down the public rey-
enue and thereby prevent the further ac-
cumulation of a Treasury surplus, the
new Administration will be compelled to
adhere to the policy of bond purchases
that have been in practice for more than
a year, and upon the authority of Treas-
ury Officials it is said that the present
condition of the revenue will probably
make necessary the expenditure of not
Jess than one hundred and fifty millions
during the current calendar year for this
purpose. Under these circumstances
there is nothing in the present outlook
calculated to cause the slightest appre-
respecting any disturbance to
the present satisfactory and sound con-

dition that prevails in financial circles.
'In the produce markets the most prom-

inent feature has been the sudden break
in the value of wheat and the virtual
options
that has been in progress for some time
past and has kept the market in an arti-
ficial condition that has interfered with
exports. Chicago has been the most act-

'ive trading center, as the headquarters of

the deal were in that market. Still fur-
ther liquidation of the speculative con-
ditions that now prevail will be neces-
sary before values touch a level that will
result in the renewal of legitimate trade.
The break has been due tothe belief that

the supply remaining in the hands of
farmers is much larger than estimated.

Other breadstuffs and provisions have
sympathized with the decline and ruled
easier. The cotton situation has under-
gone searcely any change. The move-
ment both from plantations and to the
seaboard has continued heavy and con-
siderably in excess of last year, and yet
the visible supply is comparatively mod-
erate and shows that consumption thus
far has been unprecedented. The quan-
tity that has come into sight up to the
close of last week is abou 100,000 bales
in excess of last year. The expert move-
ment of corn has continued much in ex-
cess of any previous record. ‘The recent
advance in petroleum has been main-
tained and the speculative conditions are

said to be favorable for a further advance
in values. The stock market does not
seem to have developed any new feature,
but while the bears continue to attack the
list wherever there is a chance of effect-
ing a decline, the confidence with which
stocks are held and the strong undertone
that generally prevails neutralizes these
raids. The trading is chiefly of a pro-
fessional character and public interest is
still conspicuous by its absence, but all
reliable indications point to a steady im-
provement in the railroad situation.
During the month of February, so far as
reported, the average increase in gross
earnings has been 9.73 per cent., and in
January about 9 per cent., but with an
increase of 5 per cent. in mileage. Both
these items are somewhat modified, how-
ever, by the net earnings, which are
characterized by a greater ratio of in-
crease in expenses than in gross earnings,
so that many railroads have realized no
gain. The distributive movement of
trade has developed no new feature. <A
fair amount of activity is reported from
the principal interior centers, but there
is a good deal of complaint respecting
the difficulty of making collections.
There is an unsettled feeling in the coal
market, because of the accumulation of
supplies, notwithstanding the restricted
production, but card rates are unchanged,
the companies refusing to make any
lower prices, but dealers secure con-
cessions.

oo -8-
Among the People Again.
Grover Cleveland never gave more
striking indications of his greatness as
an American citizen than he gave Thurs-
day, when he walked out of a New York
hotel where he had become a boarder,
stepped aboard of an ‘‘L’’ railroad car,
rode to his new law office, and went to
work over briefs and cases. The great-
ness of the act consisted in its simplic-
ity. A story is told regarding the inau-
guration of Thomas Jefferson as Pres-
ident which lacks evidences of authen-
ticity. The fable is #0 the effect that he
rode into Washington on_ horseback,
hitched his horse to a board fence that
then surrounded the Capitol, entered the
room of one of the Justices of the
United States Supreme Court, quietly
took the oath of office as he might have
done before a notary public, remounted
his horse and rode to a boarding house
where he put up until it became con-
venient for him to reside in the Executive
Mansion. This myth may substan-
tially true as toits main features. But
if true it was not a better illustration of
American institutions than the manner
in which Grover Cleveland left the White
House March 4 and began again the
practice of law March 7, or the middle
of the same week. It is evident that the
question which some _ theorists have
raised as to ‘‘what shall be done with our
ex-Presidents’’ is one that solves itself,
if the ex-President has not acquired in
office or otherwise an enlarged and fan-
tastical notion that having been in the
first office of the country he had become
something more than one of the people
of the country, and that he had acquired
a steadfast place onaplane of dignity
where he ought to live without toil of
the mind or of the muscle for a subsist-
ence. An ex-President can always re-
turn to his profession, or to his trade, or
to his farm, according to his vocation
from which he was called to accept office.
In short, it is apparent that the pres-
ent system does not need to be changed.
As it was from the beginning is is now.
Electing aman to the Presidency
not hedge him about with divinity, nor
with any other consecration that sets
him apart from the people whose ranks
he left to assume office and to whose
ranks he returns when he goes out of
oftice. The good old way is good enough.
oe & <
The Grocery Market.
Business is improving, but slow
are expected when the break-up in roads
occurs. Hard sugars advanced consid-
erably during the week, but fell backa
notch on Monday. Rio coffees advanced
in New York Saturday, so that
further advances in package brands may
be expected during the week. Nutmegs
advanced 7c. in New York one day last
week. Oranges are in good supply and
prices are firm and steady. Lemons are
in better request and prices are a shade
higher. Peanuts are higher. Other nuts
are unchanged.

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sales

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Hides, Pelts and Furs.

The wool market is unchanged, there
being little doing. Hides are quiet and
dull. Hide dealers, in trying to get an
advance, got a set-back as tanners could
not realize any advance on leather, which
sold freely at low prices. No. 2s are in
large supply.

Furs are in good demand at advanced
prices, but the strife to buy and the ex-
citement is over until the receipt of the
reports of the March sales on 28th.

RR A fan ne
Good Argument.

Customer (paying a grocer’s bill to
small boy)—‘*Youw’re a pretty small boy
to be entrusted with such a large sum of
money.’’

Boy—‘‘Well, if the boss
run the risk, you ought to be.”’

OS
Not to be Balked.

Two Girls—Please, sir, do
excursion pills ?

Chemist (equal to the oceasion)—Yes.
we have some very fast ones.

a A
The Fitness of Things.

Grocer—‘‘What kind of tea will you
have, madam?’’
‘Black, I suppose, as [am in mourn-

is willin’ to

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A Dressed-Beef Enterprise

A number of New York and western
capitalists have organized a corporation
under the title of the American Meat
Company, which proposes to engage in
all the branches of the cattle and beef
industry, from the raising of stock to the
retailing of the product. ‘The capital is
fixed at $25,000,000, of which $15,000,000
are to be issued forthwith. It is aa-
nounced that in exchange for property
$7,000,000 of the stock has been already
taken, and it is stated that several mill-
ions are to be offered the public at some-
thing below par. The slaughter-houses
of the concern are located at Kansas City,
and its first operations in the East are to
be confined to the city of Baltimore,
where it has acquired the plant of a large
local dealer. ‘The intention in time is to
extend operations to other large western
cities.

——__—. -2 <> --——
He Got a Raise.
“I want to see you pretty soon,”’ said
the head of the firm on pay-day to a
young traveling salesman who was re-
ceiving a small compensation.
“Yes, sir. Will 1 have time to go
down the street a couple of blocks ?”’
‘Will it take you long ?”’
“No; scarcely any time whatever.
I want to do is to spend my week’s
ary.’
The head of the firm saw that he gota
raise.

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All
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Can Find Her Own Worms.

‘Well, my boy, what can I
you 2”’

‘Me mudder sent me back wid dis
cheese and sez fer me ter say dat when
she wants ter go fishin’ she can get all de
worms she wants in de back yard.”’

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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 25 cer cents. _ Adv ance payment.

FOR SALE.

OR SALE—HOTEL IN GOOD RESORT TOWN, WITH
nineteen beds; house furnished complete; price
$3,500, $2,000 down, balance on time to suit; poor health
reason for selling; barn, 34x60; sample room and liv-
ery office, 16x24; good livery; mail and stage line in
barn; house paying $100 per month now. For partic-
ulars, address ‘Hotel,’ care Tradesman. 399

re SALE—HOUSE AND LOT IN BATTLE CREEK.
Will take stock of dry goods or lots in this city.
Enquire at 666 Wealthy Ave., City. 397
OR SALE—Shoe stock of about $6.000 in good con-
dition with store tixtures 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 trade altogether.
Address, S. N. Watson & Co. 390
VOR SALE—A GENERAL STOCK OF MERCHANDISE;
will invoicé $10,000, including fiatures; business of
1888 was over $40,000; located in thriving tow n of 1,500
in Central Michigan; buildings for sale or rent; to
parties purchasing, we will give our trade, which
amounts to from $600 to $1,000 per month; reasons for
selling, other business. Address M, care Michigan
Tradesman. 376

WOR SALE—FULL SET OF TINNERS’ TOOLS, SAFE,
tixtures—all in good

show cases and baraware
Willselloneorall. J.
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condition and cheap for cash.
Vander Veen, 122 Monroe street. Grand Rapids. 37.

Fo SALE—STOCK OF DRY GOODS, CLOTHING,

boots and shoes, in live town in Central 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
OR \—BRIGHT, CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIES,
er and glass- ware, in growing town of over

ery
1,200; eek and fixtures will invoice about $2,500;
business averages $1,500 per month; store building is
one of the finest in the State for business and will be
rented or sold; reasons, otber business needs our atten-
tion. Address A, care Michigan Tradesman. 378
OR SALE—GROCERY AND PROUUCE BUSINESS IN
Eaton Rapids, a town of 2,000 inhabitants: two
railroads, electric lights, low rent and good business;
good reason for selling; must be sold soon. Address,
F. A. Osborn, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 391
OR SALE AT A BARGAIN—ONE STEAM BOILBR
4x12 feet, 45 3-inch fiues, fire front, breeching,

 

 

smokestack, safety valve, water gauge and inspirator;
J.E.

was replaced by larger boiler; all in good order.
Greilick, Lock Box 88, Traverse City, Mich.

i RUG STORE FOR SALE — ESTABLISHED NINE
a years; nearest drug store 6 miles; in one of the
best growing towns of 60 in Southern Michigan; a
rare bargain for right man; best of reasons given for
wishing tosell. Ifyou mean business, address, W. R.
Mandigo, Sherwood, Mich. 39

YANTED—AT

WANTS.
\ ONCE—A DRUGGIST COMPETENT
Y totake charge ofa first class drug store; one
who can come welt recommended. C. L. Brundage,
Muskegon, Mich.
V 17 ANTED—SALESMEN—TO SELL OUR CHOICE AND
hardy varieties of nursery stock; many new and

valuable varieties. Address, with references, May
Brothers, Nurserymen, Rochester. N. x. 398

WwW TANTED—A YOUNG M AN OF GOOD BUSINESS
qualities with $1,500 to $2,000, to take half inter-
est ina retail boot and shoe store. S#les at present
time $16,000 a year. Ararec hance for some one to get
in a good ee business. Address Jno. F. Muffley,
Kalamazoo, Mich 396
_ 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.
novia, Mich.
SITUATION WANTED—A COMMERCIAL TRAVEL
WO is open for engagement. Large acquaintance
with grocery trade in Michigan. Address Jackson,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 325
yo. MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR
Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for
samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 214
WV. . ACTIVE, HONEST YOUNG MAN WHO
has had two 7° ars’ experience ae the drug busi-
ness. Address N ‘ 388
y D ISTERED OR Good” REGISTERED
ea pharmacist. Address, giving particu-
lars, W. D., Carrier 23, City. 386

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 
  

 

  
  
 

 

 

 

 

W 4xTED— EVERY STORE-KEEPER WHO READS

this paper to give the Sutliff coupon systema
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
regret it. Having two kinds, both kinds will be sent
by rans (mentioning this paper) J. H. =

Albany, N
$1, 20 , CASH BUYS MANUFACTURING BUSI-
ness paying 100 per cent. Best of rea-
sons tor selling. Address Chas. Kynoch, St. Ignace,
Mich. ee ee
I J HAVE SOME FIRST-CLASS PROPERTY, WELL
improved and nicely located. in South Dakota;
also some other property to exchange fora stock of
goods. J.C. McKee, 23 Fountain St. 392
ges WISHES TO REPRESENT GRAND RAIDS
K manufacturer to the trade in Chicago, or on the
road after April ist. Address 395, care Tradesman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Liberal dis-
count to the
trade. Special
Inducements
to parties intro-
ducing this
system of store-
fitting in any

00
locality.

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Manufactur- 0 0
ed by

KOCH A. B. CO.,
354 Main St., PEORIA, ILL

BORDEN, SELLECK & CO., Agts.,
48-50 Lake St., Chicago; 114 Water St., Cleveland

 

PRODUCE MARKET.

Apples—In poor demand at $1.25@81.75 per bbl.
Beans—Handlers are paying about $1.25 for un-
picked and getting 1. 1.75 for hand-picked.
Butter—Creamery is in fair supply at 25@26c.
ae is in good demand at 18@2ic, according to
uality.

7 Cabbages—Home grown command 88@ per 100
Celery—Scarce — hard to get.
Cider—8@10e per gal.

bs Sooneries Fuck barrels, $1.25 255

Zoe.

Cranberries—%6.50 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¢ for all offerings, but

are loath to accumulate much stock, as the

staple is weak at all available markets.
oney—More plenty, being easy at 15c@i7e
per Ib.
Onions—Buy ers Pay 18@20¢c for good stock, and
hold at 2 per
Pop Corn—2%c per Yb.
Pork—Hogs bring 54@5%c on the streets and
sell for 5%@6c from jobbers’ hands.
Potatoes—Buyers pay 15¢ per bu., and are not
anxious to purchase, even at that price.
Squash—Out of market.
— Potatoes—KilIn-dried

; produce barrels

Jerseys, $3.25 per

Turnips—25¢e per bu.

PROVISIONS
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co.
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS.

  

 

Mess, new. ... ee 2 i
Short cut Morgan, ee ee 13 50
ara clear pie, snort cut... ..-- |. 14 50
Maire Clear Reavy 14 50
Clear quill, shortcut... =. 14 50
Bostou Clesr shortent............... |. $458
Clear back short Cut: 14 50
Standard clear, short cut, best............ .- 14 50
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, av erage 20 ne... 934
Shoulders ee.
Boneless 3 es 8
Breakfast Bacon, boneless. |... 6. 10
Dried Beef, extra Ce ie col ie a a
a [| ii PrIees | 9
Lone Clears Heavy... 8 a
Briscets, me@ium.... é ia
. Dent. 4
LARD—Kettle Rendered.
(oC ee 81,
i... Si;
SoIb. Vins. iu ......). a
LARD e Jompound,
WICC e a ees
Soand oo lb Pups...) . 2 34
Sle Pele 20 A GnRe oe
OO EEE eee 1%
O18 Pate Gina ceee.... 8
20D. Pais din wease 28... 5
ie Cans 1
BEEF IN BARRELS,
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 6 %5
Extra Mess, Chicaso packing’. ...)....:.... 7 00
DIGke 7%
OE O_O 7%
Boneless, rump butts Se ee eee 9 25
BOE es 5 50
SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked.
Bork Sagsnee q
en SSN ee ee 3
Monmeuce SAusaee.
Prankctore savicnee -  - i 8
Eiood sausase
Bolorma, sitaicnt. 3... oe
Bolemia tier 8

 

meat Cie...
i PIGS’ FEET.
In Halt barrels

 

 

 

 

B OO
In quarter barrels...... oo 2 00
TRIPE.
i Half bareels:... oe Lo .3 00
in quarter barrels...) ve
In kits. ee 85
FRESH MEATS.
Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beer Caréass.. . -. 44@ 514
bind quarters. ....... 514@ 6%
fore i _ 4
ees D,
Fork loins... ... ...- @ 8
shoulders....... D 6%
“es... @5
Piateer. SAusaPe. 8 @ 8
Blood, liver and head anne Ce eee @5
Mutton . Lage 64@ 7
OYSTERS and FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
OYSTERS IN CANS.
Stamagards oe @16
ACROSS ee . @18
BOIS 21 @2
Mamhayen Coults.....0 4... @35
OYSTERS IN BULK.
StameesS ee 1 00
Selects ee 1 40
Clans... .. 12
FRESH FISH.
Wihitehsh .- gk. ee @ 1%
ene Le @ 7%
MSCOPR oe @i4
Hignan Huddics = = @ 6%
Halipa = se @15
ne @ 4
Pereh, Skinned (3) @:5
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:
STICK.
Standard, 25 lb. boxes eae a. ce 9
Twist, a2 9%
Gutteate> °C 10
MIXED.
Royal, Sip pals eS
20018. Bolsa
Extra, 25 Ib. Pate: 10
SAO eg
Frene ne Cream, 25 lb. pails Se ee. 114%
Cut Loaf, 25 Ib. cases ee :0
Broken Gop Bee ee 944
. Soi bbs. 8
FANcY—In 5 Ib. boxes.
Lemon Drops... ee 13
Sour Prope 14
Pepparmint Props. 00) 1 ee
Chocolate Props. i. 15
HE Mw Chocolate Drops. -.:. 18
Gum Props... 5. _..--. 0
Eicorice Props... 18
A. & tieoree Drops... a
Lozenecs pai 14

: printed... ee
Eperiais = ee
Mottoes ..... -.... 8 15
Cream Bor. ee 13
Motmsses Bar... 0... 13
Caramets...:....-.....254-. 0. ee 19
Hand Made Creams. ..-). 8. se 19
Risin (reaps... ee 16
Decorated Creams... 12... 20
Stems hock... ee 14
Burne Almenes. sos 22
Wintergreen Berries 3. 14

FAaNcy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, An POI 12
in OS) ee 11
printed, in _— Seth oe 12%
re 11%
Cc ae gate Drops Uepala 12
Gui Drops, in pails ee ee 6
. 7 DPIR es 5
Moss Drops; im patis. 052.0 0c0 oe =
. : in Dbis:. | ...2).7 0 ee
Sour DrGDs, Pa it
Imperiais, mi pailes oo oe 11%
. Te ee 10%
FRUITS.
Oranges, Cahifewia 2 3 25@3 40
Messina 200s De tee occa @3 00
4 220s @3 00
@3 00
@3 00
Lemons, choice ee Se 3 00@3 25
OW 3 25@3
Figs, levers HOW. 10@15
“ie 8, 50 @
Dates, frails, DOI ec. a
\% frails, 50 1D... 2.3. . s sk. @
be Fard, 10-Ib. box Be eee ee
ai OT eo a 8
Fersian, o0ib, bex............... 6
NUTS.
Almonds, (Dereaeone
vaca...

. California... 66000... 14@16
A 7 @%™%
Maiperte, Siciig sc @l1
W alnuts, Grenople @12%4

renee @10%

Pecans, Teras, Poe ec. 8 @I12
Cocoanuts, Per te so 4 — 50
CHCHENMES el @2 00

PEANUTS.

DERHOCKS fo. Fe @8%
ORR oo @ix%y
POG ee et @6%

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Wholesale Price Current.

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

BAKING POWDER.

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SUBKSSSEK

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“4 1D.
“cc % lb. ‘é iS +

Absolute, 4
14 1

‘Ib. cans, 1008...

3 ib a oe:
4 Ib. cans, 6 doz.
i im 6 CUS :
* ie
Acme, ¥4 Ib. cans, 3 doz....
te ik = of oe
ot 1 Tb. ae 1 be

bu
Red Star, 14 lb. cans, 12 doz
“ Ib. | 6c
1b * a
BATH BRICK.
English, 2 doz. in case.....
hs: 2 CC WD
American. 2 doz. in case. 65
BLUING. Gross
Arctic Liq, 4- 3 es 3 60
A 7 00
i o ee 10 80
ei i 8-oz paper bot 7 20
Pepper Box No. 2 3 00
* a - 446
5 9
BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl eee. 2
No.

No. — Pe eee ee 2
as lUmD.LmLlUC a
Pate Gem 3
Common Whisk... ... . |.
Fancy . fees cl a
Mill. lS
Warehouse. 000 3
BUCKWHEAT.
Kings 100 Ib. cases .
80 lb. cases. Loe
BUTTERINE
Dairy, solid pdeked........
mo EOMS 000...
solid packed....
Tous ..
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 1b. boxes... ........
Star, 40 ee.
Poratneg 2 0.
Vase...
CANNED GooDs—Fish.
Clams. 1 Ib, Little Neck. ..-_. iz
Clam Chowder, 3 Ib......... 2

Creamery,

Cove Oy sters, 1 — stand.. -1 00

Hr 60

Lobsters, 1 1b. "picnic Lee I 50

Db 2 65

1 ib. Stee 1 90

. 2 ib Star, 2 90
Mac kerel, in Tomato Sauce.

‘Tb. stand.. GS

21a FT 310

3 Ib. in Mustard...3 50

3 ib. soused.......3 00

peace, 1 a Columbia. .... 2 00

iid 2 i oe ae

1 Ib. Sacramento...1 70

2 ib. 22

Sardines, domestic igs... 5

Tes... @ 8

Mustard 4¢s...... @8

imported 44 \,

 

- spiced, eg...
Trout,3 Ib broek... .
CANNED GOODS—Fruits.

"10@12

Apples, gallons, stand...... 1 90
Biackberries, stand......... io
Cherries, red standard...... 1 00

a pisted 1%
Doe 1 00
Heer Plums, stand........... 1 20
GOOBCDEITICN -. 3 1 ie
Grapes... 90
creer Cae. .............. 1 30

Peaches, all gia ae stand..1 =
- seconds. :

. a 4 a
Pears. 1 =
TINERPPICR 0. 1 10@1 2
Gumecs io
Raspberries, Cxtea.......... i 10

rea... 2 ee
Serawaiceries 1 10
Whortleperries.:--...... 90
CANNED VEGETABLES,
Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... 1 80
Beans, lima, stand......... 1 00
Green Limas.... @1i tl
ral String. 00... @ 9%

‘* Stringless, Erie....... 90
“ Lewis’ Boston Baked. A 45

Corn, Archer's Prophy..._..
- Morn’g Glory.1 10
: es Early Gold...1 10
Peas, Prenel. 3. 12%
* extra marrofat. . @1 10
ROAM. ss, 40
dune, stand... .. 1 40@) 50
i a) 1 55
“ Wrench, extra fine... (4 00
Mushrooms, extra fine..... 18 .
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden......
Succotesh, standard. @ $5
DOUNS 1 30
Tomatoes, Red Coat. @1 10
Good Enough.. 1 10
ei Bei Har... 1
. stand br....1 05@1 10
CHEESE,
Michigan Full Cream 1244@13
Bap Sae0 0°20. 16@17

CHOCOLATE,

 

Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet 22
“| Premium... 33
. Hom-Cocoa. 37
Breakfast.... 48
CHEWING GUM.
Rubber, 100 Famps....._. |. . .25
— .......
Spruce tee oe
CHICORY.
Bake
Ce ae
COFFEE—Green.
Bio. fair... 17 @18
r  woed. 4... 184@19
 preme
‘ taney, washed. _19
| goden...... 20
Banos. 2 0 iy @2
Mexican & Guatemala = 2
Peaberry ... ..-: 2... @
Java, Interior... 000). 0 @24
. Mandheling....26 @28
Mocha, genuine....... 1125 @26

To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add ec. per lb. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-

age.
COFFEES—Package.
100 Ibs
A 2414
ham €abimets ... ... |. 2A
Dilwortie 00). 2414
Magnets. oo... 24
30 lbs 60 Ibs
Acme... 3... 2314 2314 235%
ers Co 2416
ro PAS oe 245¢
McLaughlin: s ¥XXX. .. 244
Honey Bee... .. 26
Mager. 24
Nox Al. 25
ye 24
COFFEE EXTRACT.
ber Cig. 7
a 1 10
CLOTHES LINES.
Cotten, 40%... ._. per doz. 1 2
e SOS... a 150
1 60
2 00
2 25
1 00
115
7 60
CRACKERS
Kenosha Butter............. 8
Sener 6%
Be 6%
~ SO ee. 6%
De 7
Berton is
Coy peas, 8
SO 6%
~ OMNer 6%
City Oyster, XXX.. ... 2
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CREAM TARTAR,

Serictly pure... ....-.
Gricersg’: -- 3...

38 |
24 |

DRIED FRUITS—Domestic.

Apples, sun-dried.....

e evaporated..
Apricots, r
Blackberries ‘‘ eens
Nectarines ‘‘ oe
Peaches = cae
Plums es

ied ection '

4 @ 4%)

ae a 14 |
Seale 10

|
DRIED FRUITS—Foreign. |

Citron, in drum.......
° im DOXCs,... |.
Cirrenge oe
Remon Feel...........
OGreauee Feet...
Prunes, TUKEY... .. .
. Imperial ......
Raisins, Valencias....7
Ondaras......

. heen Layers.

@23
@2
@5 |
13
@ 4%

@ 6
% @ 8%
ae 81;
.2 40)

“ Loose Californias. .1 65
FARINACEOUS GOODS. |
04 |

Farina, 100 lb. kegs...
Hominy, per bbi......

Macaroni, dom 12 Ib box..

. imported...
Pearl no ae Eee:
Peas, green. .

- sic. :
Sago, German.........
Tapioea, fk or p'ri...
Wheat, cracked ......
Vermicelli, import....

° domestic...

4 00 |
60
@10
@3
@1 40
@3 |
@ 6% |
@ 6%
@ 6%
@10
@60

FLAVORING EXTRACTS,

  

Jennings’ Lemon Vanills
2 0z. Panel, doz. To) 3
4 072. " 108 2 2%
6 Oz. ii o.oo 3 25 |
a "1. 1 60
No. 8... 2 io 4 00
Noe, * ' 450 6 00 |
No. 4, Taper, 1 60 2 50 |
1% pt, Round,‘ 425 7 50]
a. - S36 15 00
FISH—SALT.
Cod whele. @ 5% |
| DOnecIENS: @ 7% }
eae i 134 |
Herring, round, 4 dbl.. 2 71
Z bt _.
: Holland. bbls.
: Holland, kegs.. a
. Sealed os _. 28 |
Mack. sh’s 's, No. ft, 4% BDI... 9 50]
cu ‘12 1b kit. 1 45 |
o " 7 oy 4 35 |
—, % — . @4 75 |
ee be ae 78 |
White, "No, £4 pbis.... ||. 6 00
12 Ib. Beit.) 1) 051]
_ 10 Ip, kigs..... 90}
Family, % a 2 -]
kits. .
GUN POWDER.
Bees _... _ > 25 |
Half kegs. 2 88} $
LAMP WIC KS.
NO. 30 |
NOt... 40 |
No. 2 L 50 |
LICORICE i
mae. 30 |
Calabria. 25 |
Sicily. . re
“MINCE MEAT.
Bucwea 614
Malt bois a
MOLASSES,
Biack Strap... . 16@17
Cuba Bake... __ . -2A@2W
Porto Rico. 1... Bass
New Orleans, good.. eee 2530
ehoice....__§ 3340
fane Vv. -A5@48
One- half barrels, 3¢ extra.
OATMEAL,
Museatine, Barrels ......_. 6
- Half barrels....
Cases. |. 2 250

ROLLED OATS

Museatine, Barrels... __. 6 00
Half barrels. ___ 32 15
Cases......2 25@)9 35

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Frosted Creams....... 914.
Graham Crackers..... 9
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TOBACCOs—Plug.
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CHOMCEM 30 e3
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| GUNPOWDER.
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YOUNG HYSON,

Common to fair....... 18 @26
Superior to fine....... 30 @4
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ENGLISH BREAKFAST,
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TOBACCOsS—Fine Cut.
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Florida ee, 65

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follows:
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Drugs % Medicines.

State Board of Pharmacy.

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.

Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.

Three Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.

Four Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.

Five Years—James Vernor, Detroit.

President—Geo. McDonald

Secretary—Jacob Jesson.

Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.

Next Meeting—At the lecture room of Hartman’s Hall,
Grand Rapids, Tuesday and Wednesday, March 5 and 6.

 

 

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.

President—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

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

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

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

Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.

Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.

Executive Committee—A. H. Lyman, Manistee; A. Bas
sett, Detroit; F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids; W. A.
Hali, Greenville; E. T. Webb, Jackson.

Local Secretary—A. Bassett, Detroit.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
President. J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott.
Derroit Pharmaceutical Society
President, J. W.Caldwell. Secretary, B. W. Patterson.
Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.

President, Geo. L, LeFevre. Secretary, J. W. Hoyt.

 

A TRAGEDY IN SIX LETTERS.
A
she looked into the druggist’s eyes—
This sweet Detroit maid:
“Can you some castor oil disguise,
Sir, so it won’t taste?’ she ‘said.
B
““Of course I can, with greatest ease,”
Was the smiling clerk’s reply.
“And whilst it’s being done, say, please.
Will you our soda water try?
Cc

The soda water charmed the miss,
So nicely was the syrup mixed
‘Thank you,” she gently said, ‘for this;
I'll wait till you the oil have fixed.”

D
Full twenty minutes passed away,
He waiting on others, well and sick.
“See here, young man,” said she, “I say,
I want that oil, and want it quick!”
E
‘“‘“My dear,” did the dapper clerk reply.
His eye mischievously winking;
““The oil you wished I put, on the sly,
In the soda you just were drinking!
F
“OQ Lord!’ she groaned, with deep-drawn sigh,
Her cheeks the hue of a lobster;
‘The oil was not for me—O, my !—
*Twas for my baby sister!”
oe ae
A Knife Which Cuts Both Ways.

The New York correspondent of a
‘Western drug journal thus refers to an
abuse which is as common in Michigan
as in the East:

I do not know that our wholesale drug-
gists fully realize the fact, bnt there ex-
ists here among a majority of our phar-
macists a steadily imcreasing feeling of
dissatisfaction with their methods of
selling package merchandise. The phar-
macist believes that he is treated un-
justly by those who should do most to
aid him. The pharmacist who does a
small business believes that he should be
enabled to purchase his goods at as low a
figure—when he buys unbroken pack-
ages—as heavier buyers pay. The
wholesalers say that it is a recognized
business principle that the heaviest buyer
should be able to get the lowest figures,
but there is much to be said on the other
side, and the weight of the argument
rests at present on the side of the small
dealer. He says that the small pharma-
cists are largely in the majority, and that
a large proportion of the wholesalers’
support comes from the smaller pharma-

cists. It is equally true that the grading
of prices tomen doing a business which

is precisely the same in kind, if not in

size, has given rise to that trade mon-

strosity known as the ‘‘cutter.”? The
cutter is too often a direct creation of
the wholesaler. And wholesalers will

find that the cutter cuts both ways. A

wholesaler must be phenomenally obtuse

who cannot perceive that any method of
selling goods which diminishes the pros-

perity of the majority in favor of a

chosen few, lessens the bulk of trade.

A measure recently proposed here—the

extending of the ‘‘rebate privilege’ to

the retailer—is avery poor device. It
appears to offer relief, but does not
strike at the root of the evil. Why not
do business in such a way as to make
all rebate complications unnecessary ?

Pharmrcists will never take kindly toa

plan which compels them to pay for

goods before they see them.

—~<>—9
Easier to Preach than to Practice.
In the course of his annual address

before the Michigan State Pharmaceutical

Association, held in this city in October,

1886, President Brown remarked:
Expressly disclaiming, now,, any

thought of criticising our most faithful
Secretary, I must say that I think it very
important that our proceedings should
be gotten out more promptly. Interest
in the appearance of the volume has
greatly diminished by the time it is is-
sued.

President Brown now Secretary
Brown, having been elected to that po-
sition at the meeting held at Detroit last
September. Singular as it may seem, in
the light of the above criticism, the pro-
ceedings for last year have not yet been
issued! No other Secretary has taken
more than five months to get out the re-
port. Six months have elapsed since the
last convention and it will be at least a
month before the pamphlet is issued.

The old adage relative to the inhab-
itants of glass houses seems to be pe-
culiarly applicable in this case.

a
He Was a Regular Customer.

‘‘Who is that?’ bawled the druggist
from an upstair window, having been
awakened by a violent pulling at his
night-bell.

“T want ten cents’ worthof paregoric,”’
replied a voice below.

“T want you to understand that I don’t
open my store at night for ten cents’
worth of paregoric, except for a cus-
tomer.’’

“But I’m a customer.”’

“‘T don’t seem to know you.”’

‘“Gracious goodness, I’m in your store
three or four times a week to look at
vour directory !’’

2
The ‘‘Progress of Pharmacy.’’

‘There is a pleasure in the pathless
woods,’’? and business instinct in the
drugs’ abodes, was the unnatural excla-
mation called forth by the attempt of a
city pharmacist last week to sell a chest

_ protector for cold feet.

 

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Minor Drug Notes.

The preservation of surgical needles
is best effected by keeping them in liquid
potash soap contained in a glass-stop-
pered vial.

The following ‘‘ad.’’ appeared in one
of the Cleveland morning papers:
‘“‘Wanted, Reg. Drug Clerk, one who is
not addicted to either alcohol, tobacco,
morphine or cocaine habit. Upon dis-
covery, prompt dismissal will follow.’’
What is the poor drug clerk to suffer
next?

A sad-looking man went into a drug
store and asked the druggist if he could
give him something to drive from his
mind thoughts of sorrow and_ bitter
recollections. The druggist nodded, and
put him up a mixture of quinine and
wormwood and rhubarb aud epsom salts,
with a dash of castor oil, and gave it to
the man, and for six months he could
not think of anything except new
schemes for getting the taste out of his
mouth.

The fragrant and savory nutmeg is
placed on the list of active poisons by
The Hospital, of London, because a boy
of eight years, after eating two whole
nutmegs, fell into a comatose state, and
died within twelve hours. Likewise, we
believe, cornecobs should be branded as
formidable toxic agents. Dr. Mulhattan
reports that a negro child in Texas, six
weeks of age, after swallowing nineteen
large corncobs whole, fell into convul-
sions and died within thirteen minutes.
Assuredly no druggist should be allowed
to sell corncobs without a physician’s
prescription.

Anew base for ointments is recom-
mended by Perey Wells, by heating to-
gether six parts of goose fat with one
part of cacao butter. It may be pre-
pared either plain or benzoated, keeps
well and is said to possess advantages as
an emollient and in absorbability as a
vehicle.

Castor oil, one ounce, added to an
ounce of glycerine in which has _ pre-
viously been incorporated by rubbing
two drops of oil of cinnamon, produces
a pleasant and palatable mixture.

Tincture of iodine, according to a can-
didate for registration by the Michigan
Board of Pharmacy, should be made
from the fluid extract.

Some of the candidates for examination
at our colleges of pharmacy would be
pleased at the institution of a custom
said to obtain in Brazil, where the ex-
aminers are required to announce, some
time before the examination, the ques-
tions that will be submitted to the can-
didates.

Coffee to disguise quinine is recom-
mended by F. E. Stewart, who directs to
“mix the dose, large or small, witha
couple of tablespoonfuls of coffee pre-
pared with milk and sugar in the usual
way, and, after drinking the mixture,
wash itdown with a little coffee free
from quinine.”’

5

 

AE
Almost as Bad as Druggists.

An exchange says that here are some
of the questions (and answers thereto)
submitted by the Virginia State Board of
Examiners to applicants for license to
practice in that State—the applicants in
each case being also graduates in med-
icine :

 

Give tests for mercury. Answer: Do
not remember.

Give dose of tarter emetic. Answer:
Ten grains.

Give dose of sulphate of atropia. An-
swer: Hypodermically, ten grains: by
mouth, sixty grains.

Give dose of corrosive sublimate.

Answer: One grain.

How would you treat placenta previa?
Answer: I don’t know what it is.

Give dose of powdered cantharides.
Answer: Forty grains.

What is the source of iodine? An-
swer: It’s dug out of the earth in blocks,
like iron.

Describe dengue, or break-bone fever.
Answer—by four applicants: A fever
that comes on soon after the bones are
broken. By one applicant: The patient
should be cautioned against moving, for
fear the bones should break.

Describe the peritoneum. Answer: It
is a serious membrane lining the belly
and extending into the chest. covering
the heart and lungs.

or 6 ee
Liability of Drug Clerks.

The Minnesota Supreme Court, in the
case of Osborne vs. MeMasters, decided
as follows:

‘Where a statute or municipal ordi-
nance imposes upon a person a duty de-
signed for the protection of others, if he
neglects to perform the duty, he is liable
to those for whose protection it was im-
posed for any damages resulting prox-
imately from such neglect, and of the
character which the statute or ordinance
was designed to prevent. Whether the
act constituting negligence was such on
common law principles or is made such
by statute, the doctrine of agency ap-
plies: That the master is liable for the
negligence of his servant committed in
the course of his employment, and re-
sulting in injury to others.”’

In this case the drug clerk sold poison
without labeling it as required by law.
The purchaser drank the poison and
died. The decision is in contrast with
some other decisions in which it has been
held that where the rules of the master
are not complied with by the servant. the
former is not liable for accidents.

oO
A Remarkable Isle.

Scene: Maguire’s pharmacy (up-
stairs). Mrs. M. discovered hearing her
nine ‘‘olive branches’’ say their lessons.

Mrs. M.—Very good. Now, can you
tell me what isle is most remarkable for
its great internal improvements, Johnnie?

Johnnie—Russia. Oh, no. Please,
ma, I didn’t learn that.

Little Bernard, aged four (from the
hearthrug, where he is trying to choke
the kitten with manna)—Mamie, I tan.

Mrs. M.—Well, my son, tell me.

Bernard (triumphantly)—Daddy’s @&s- |
ther ile, mamie.

_—_—_— OO
Another ‘‘Druggist’s Mistake.”

The Associated Press chronicles
following:

A druggist’s mistake caused the death
of D.S. Shull, who lived near Early,
Iowa, Friday. Shull took a dose of car-
bolie acid which had been put up as alco-
hol.

Education for Pharmacists.

Deploring the lack of opportunity to
learn the technicalities of our profession
in my own case, I have given much
thought te the possibility of greater
facilities for those who may follow my
compeers and myself.

Without going into the detail of
thought that first brought up the possi-
bility of inducing the faculty of one of
our State colleges to add a course in
pharmacy to their curriculum, on the
one hand, and an itinerant college of
pharmacy, having a central station with
all the appurtenances of a first-class
college of pharmacy, the professors of
which should havea circuit of four or
more of our larger towns, in which they
would repeat their lectures, thus con-
veying to the student what he cannot go
for himself, on the other, I will lay be-
fore you a plan that I think gives promise
of the most perfect institution that small
cities can hope for.

To carry out the idea, 1 weuld found a
New England college of pharmacy in a
central city—Springfield, for instance—
the power of which should be to issue
printed lectures, as does the National
Institute of Pharmacy, with the further
demand that students should go to the
college building for term examinations
and graduations, thus obviating the weak
point of answer being made from other

sources than the student’s acquired
knowledge.
T am free to admit that such a course

could not compensate the student for the
loss of knowledge that the student of a
regular college of pharmacy gains by the
demonstration of his teacher, but claim
it is so far superior to any facility that
1 know of now open to the great majority
of our young men, that it leaves little to
be hoped for.

I would confer the degree of Doctor of
Pharmacy on graduates who study to
elevate the profession in the estimation
of the public.

I believe it beyond doubt that there
could be a class recruited from the great
number of pharmacists of New England
that would assure the success of such an
institute from the start. The time may
not be ripe for such a departure, but I
think it is, and when a few gentlemen
are willing to take it up 1 shall not be
found wanting with my mite of energy
and funds.

J hope the idea will claim more than
passing attention from you. Surely
something must soon be done to aid our
associates in the acquisition of a know-
ledge the standard of which is being
raised more and more each year. Already
the well equipped drug clerk is hard to
find who is ready to fill a vacancy, owing,
I believe, to the fact that the undigested
knowledge of the pharmacope@ia and
dispensatory, with perhaps an antiquated
work on chemistry, is thrust into the
hands of the young clerk, with the in-
formation that all he has to know to get
his license is there, and all he has to do
is to getit out. When you think what
delving in the dry accumlation of detail
within the covers of the dispensatory
you made for the knowledge to which
you have attained, and then consider all
that would hardly pull you through an
examination for a license, can you won-
der that young men a little less studious,
but otherwise your equals and perhaps
your superiors, should come to the con-
clusion after a few months that the pos-
sible pay of a drug clerk is not sufficient
inducement for them to devote them-
selves to the study? Right here is where
pride of graduation would come in to
carry many of them through that winter
of discontent and induce them to become
students of our colleges, where they will
find the facts that go to make up the
science of pharmacy presented in such a

different light that they may become
filled with anenthusiasm for their pro-

fession that will carry them on to attain-
ments that will be a credit to our colleges
and perhaps the age.

D. G. STOUGHTON.

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The Drug Market.
There are no important changes

Camphor gum is firmer.

to
Gums
co-

note.
shellac
paiba has declined.
vancing. Quinine is dull.

trifle lower. __Morphia steady. Oil
sassafras is tending “Ipward again. Oil
2assia is higher. Oil peppermint is weak.
Linseed oil has advanced. Castor oil

has advanced 4 cents per gallon.
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500 druggists handle Morris H.

again. J Balsam
Blue vitriol is ad-

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Renae Cent ci esti se Jalapa, Pr. Dee ecg ee ae 25@ 30 ‘ German’ 5@ 12
Maranta: t46:.2......- @ 35} Corks, list, dis. per
BACCAE. Podophylium, po... :. od 00 aes eee Ls @ .
. ao Ole OME TH@ —oe ............
Cubene (po. 1 @-.-.--- 1 85@2 00 | Re cian @1 7%5| Creta, (bbl. 75)........ a 2
suniperds -. 2.0.2. S@ 10]: i3@1 3 Paap J 5@ 5
Xanthoxylum oe 234 30 s DF 1G ¢ 2 a p Pp. oa l
Peers 48@ 53 prceip. 8@ 10
BALSAMUM. Sanguinaria, (po 25). @ 20 — (Rubra... 8 @ s
Copaipa 4... 65@ 70 | Serpentaria............ . 30@, 35| Crocus ................ 3@
Pea @1 30| Senega ................ io@ 80) Cudbear 8 @ #4
Terabin, Canada ..... 50@ 55 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40| CupriSulph,:......... 8s 9
Tolgian 0 2. 4a, 50 M @ 20) Dextrine.........._... 10@ 12
Seniae, (pe. 35)... --.- 10@ 12) EtherSuiph........:.. 68@ 7
CORTEX, Sy mplocarpus, Feti- Emery, = numbers. . @ 8
Abies. Canadian......-....- 18] ‘dus, Ooo @ & BO ee @ 6
Massiee ...--... -- 1k Valeriana, Eng. (po. ” @ 3 Ergota, (po) 45 eee 40@ 45
Ginehona Flava ......--.--- 18 German. 15@ 20] Wiake White... .... 12@ 15
Euonymus atropurp......-. 30 | Zingiber a............. 10@ 15) Galla.................. @ 2B
Myrica Cerifera, po...-.---- 20 Zangiber fj... |... ew Gambier Se a 8s
Prunus Virgimi..._....----.- 12 ee Gelatin, Cooper. @ %
Quillaia, grd........-.------ 12 : a. i Hreneh. 40@ 60
SASSaEPOS 5.1... -------<- ---- 12] Anisum, (po; 20) .....- @ i5 Glassware flint, 75 per cent.
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10} Apium (grav yeleons).. 10@ 12 by box 6633, less
Bird (8 4@ 6] Glue, Brown. io... 0. 9@ 15
EXTRACTUM. Carat (po. 16) .../..... 12@ 15  Weeweb@ 13@ 2
Glyeyrrhiza a 24@ 25) Cardamon............. 1 O0@1 25} Glycerina .......... 2@ 2
i. 33@ 35) Corlandrum.........-. 10@ 12] Grana Paradiqi........ @ 15
Haematox, 13th, box... 1@ a2 | Cannabis Sativa... ..-- sSo@ 4) Humotus. |... -. 2@ 4
Rte 13@ -14| Cydoniam::.. ......... 75@i,00} Hy: draag os Mite.. @ 80
ae ||. 14@ 15) Chenopediam |... _._. 10@ 12 OF . @ 7
a ee 16@ 1% | Dipterix Odorate...... 1 T5@1 85 i Ox pomewan @ 8&8
Reecmenlnm. =... .. .. @ 15 ie Ammoniati.. @1 05
FERRUM. Foenugreek, po..... 6@ 8 c Unguentum. 45@ 5d
Carbonate Precip.....- @ 15) Lini............... ----4 @ 4%| Hydrargyrum......... @ 6
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 | Lini, grd, (bbl. 4 a Se 4% — obolia, Am... 1 25@1 50
Citrate Solubie....---- @ Lobélia.. +s ao indice... 75@1 00
Ferrocyanidum Svl.... @ Pharlaris Canarian. 34%@ 4% lodinte. Mesupi.. |. 4 00@4 10
Solat Chioride........ @ 15} Rapa ............------ 5@ Iodoform a @5 15
Sulphate, — . 1%@ 2 Sinapis, — oo. 8@ Sep 1 00
pure... ! @ i Nigra. 5)... 11@ 12 ——— See eee =
FLORA. SPIRITUS. Liquor Arsen et Hy-
ArEICS -:. .... 8.8... 14@ 16 Frumenti, W._, D. Co. 2 2 50 Pare FOG) 27
Anthemis .../...-..... 30@ 30 DER... 1 75@2 00| Liquor PotassArsinitis 10@ 12
Matricarin ......--.-.-- 30@ 35 elas 1 10@1 50 —— Sulph (bbl
Juniperis Co. Oo en 3
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Barosma .......-..--- 10@ 1*]| Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00 Morphia, S.P.&W.. 2 BO? @
Cassia Acutifol, Tin- | Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 75@6 50 S.N. ¥. Q. &
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i iC ee SO! SO ing aba 1 25@2 00} Moschus Canton...... @
Salvia officinalis, 4s i Myristica, No.1....... 60@ 70
and M660... = = SPONGES. —— Vomica, (po20).. @ 10
ira Ursi.-. 2... GQ a Sepia... 27@ 2
GUMMI, a ee Pepsin Sac, H. & B.D,
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Aloe, Barb, (po. > hia 60) carriage 0000s. 83 Piper Nigra, (po. 22). @ 18
“" Cape, (po. 20).. @ 12] Grass ie wool car- .| Piper Alba, (po g5) .. @ 3
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16 @ 13 Yellow Reef, for slate Pulgia Ipecac et opii a 10@1 20
Ayamoniae ..-..-.--..- 25@ 30 me 1 40 Pyrethrum, boxes i
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enzoinuml -....-.._- 55 . ve i bi Bean 6
Gamohere 00000000. 35@ 38] Accacia . ................... 50 a sid a — S
Euphorbiu po....... 35@ 10] Zipgiber ............-....-.. 50 Quinia, Spawn. Bq 48
Galbanum. ee @ 80} Ipecac..........-..-.. +2. e+e 60 a . a |) ae
Gamboge, po....-.---- ee ee tt 50! Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14
Guaiacum, (po. a5). @ 40{Auranti Cortes.............. 50 Saccharum Lactis pv. : @ 35
Kino, (po. 25)... @ 2|Rhei Arom..............-... 50 Sala 40@2 50
Te @1 00 Similax Officinalis. .. Lea 60 Sanguis oa 0 BO
Myrrh, (po ar eae = St. ee Sl taieee @4 50
Opii, (pe. 4 75). ..3 20@3 30 | Senega ......-.-.-..---- 2 eee. 50 Sapo, W 12@ 14
Shelize .. (0.1... |... Se oa Scene. 6.6 OOP eae ean 8@ 10
‘ Dleached........2 25@. Bf: oo, | CO... - +2 sees eee eee ce a Mt @ 15
Tragaeanth ..:..,...-'- 30@ 75 —— sans ooee soa tt: - Cd. Mike |. @ 8
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Absinthigm.....-. he TINCTURES. Ce ODEs @ 30
Bupatorem 000 Aconitum Napellis R 6 —_ Maccaboy, De i
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Caleined, Pat.......... 55@ 60] Sanguinaria...............-. 50 Myreia Dom... @2 00
Carbonate, Pat :-.-..- 20@ 22} Barosma .........-..-------. 50 Myrcia Imp... -. @2 30
Carbonate, K. & M. 20@ 25} Cantharides................. % Vini Rect. bbl.
Carbonate, Jennings. 35@ S6}Capsicum ...-..-----._ 50 22 @2 11
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Caryophylli oe @1 80 Di italis ee te ees ce 50 aaci SUPA... ..-... 1 @ 8
Cedar 0.0. 1: 35@ 65 Ergot nae 50 OILs.
Chenopodi ... @1 75 Beatin ae 50| <- | Bb. Gal
Ciimamonii.......-.-- 95@1 00 “ oa 60 Whate, winter.......- 70 70
Citronella... .___. . @ Gaaicn ee 50 Lard, extra... . 86 90
Conium Mac... | .....- 35@, 65177 cz a al 60 bard, Ne. i... .. |: 50 55
Cepatee 482... 90@1 OC ee He ne 50) Linseed, pure raw.... 59 62
GCubepae......... 15, 70016 00 ease Sn peas Lindseed, boiled .... 62 65
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Gaulihera | 2225@2 35 Ferri € Modan g5| Spirits Turpentine.... 54 59
Geranium, ounce. ..-. @ oi... 50 PAINTS. bbl. ib:
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Hodeoms -.-...-..---- 1 15@1 % 50| Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4
Juniper... 50@2 00} Nuix Vomica 50 Yer 1% 2@3
Lavendula .......... ._ Pe eee i a g5| Putty, commercial. i
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Rosae, ounce, oe @6 00 Stromonium — 60| White, Paris American 1 00
SHCeM S04) Soe 60| Whiting, Paris Eng.
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ee anette 3 50@* 00 | Veratrum Veride............ 50 | Pioneer Prepared Paint 20@1 4
Sassafras. ............ 55@ 60 Swiss Villa Prepared
Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 6 MISCELLANEOUS. Paints 1 00@1 20
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nied Mr. and Miss Adams and saw that
every possible care should be given to
the little waif. Then, having expressed
anew his obligations and gratitude to
both brother and sister, he bade them
adieu, and took his way back to his home.

It was not yet twenty-four hours since
that ringing peal of the bell had startled
him, but it seemed a lifetime almost, so
much of new emotion and experience had
been crowded in. He could define nor
explain nothing; he did noteven attempt
to philosophize on the matter; he only
knew that he seemed to be living ina
dream, a pleasant, alluring dream, and
he dwelt again and again uponeach little
incident of the lately passed hours.

In such a mood he reached the house
and entered the library. “His glance
rested upon the deep old rocker which
had been brought down from some long
unused chamber, and in which Bertha
had sat with the child upon her knees; at
the screen which she had made of some
shawls which had been his mother’s; but
the memories they awoke in him ex-
tended no farther back than that very
morning, when Bertha’s hands had
pinned them there; at the cups and bot-
tles which disordered his writing-table;
at the pillows heaped upon the lounge;
at the tiny sock which must have been
dropped from baby’s foot at the last min-
ute. I think the master of Kennedy
Park had never before seen just such a
looking room, but he made no attempt to
arrange it. He put on his dressing-gown
anN drew his own easy chair nearer the
fire, and sat there trying in vain to con-
yinee himself that it was not lonely and
desolate.

Suddenly his eye fell upon a strange
object lying across his sleeve—a long
hair of a soft golden brown color. Staid
old bachelor that he was, he blushed like
a girl as he took it gently in his fingers.
Then he fell to remembering how sweet
and womanly Bertha had looked, sitting
“tn ‘the deep old chair with the baby in
her arms; how gentle and tender she had
shown herself to the poor, little forsaken
thing; how bright and charming and ca-
pable she had been in a thousand little
ways. He never knew how long he
dreamed there, still holding the brown
hair as tenderly as though it could feel
his touch, and ’Demus hardly knew
whether to be most alarmed or distressed
when his master bade him, next morning,
leave everything just as it was in the
room.

“Pears like Massa Rand done got
right smart ’fobulated wif all dis yer
‘motion “bout dat misabul pore white
trash. He ain’t nebber ben hisself sence
old massa died, do’! Praise de Lord!
in his marcy he done spare ole ’Demus
to tend on de dear boy—and he need
tendin’ now fur shore.’”’ And the faith-
ful old creature hobbled down to confide
to Aunt Cleo his. dread suspicions that
their beloved ‘‘tyoung master’ was slowly
but surely taking leave of his senses.
And ‘confirmation strong’? was not
wanting within a week.

Going to call Rand to dinner one even-
ing, “Demus found him forever disap-
peared, and in his stead a fine looking
gentleman some fifteen years younger in
appearance than the late master of the
place.

The long, straggling beard and the
bushy hair were trimmed quite short, the
gold-bowed spectacles replaced by eye-
glasses which it seemed need not be
worn constantly, and so allowed a good
view of a pair of keen, kindly dark gray
eyes: the rusty old clothes had been
superseded by a quiet, stylish suit. But
the greatest change of all, and the one
which poor old “Demus felt most surely,
was in the air and bearing of the man
himself. He seemed to have awakened
from a Rip Van Winkle sleep and to feel
once more the youthful blood coursing
in his veins. -\ new interest in life, a
consciousness of his own needs and bright
hopes for the future. showed themselves
in every movement.

7Demus waited upon Rand in silence,
though his heart was full to butsting.
But at length the younger man felt some-
thing breaking in upon the brightness of
his own musings, and looked up quickly
to see great tears rolling down the black,
wrinkled cheeks beside him. He sprang
up in alarm. °

“Why, ‘Demus,’ he eried. ~ are
suffering? What can I do for you?”

"Demus gave a mighty gasp and made
a brave effort to contro! himself. But it
was of nouse. He broke down utterly,
and clasping Rand in his arms as he had
done many atime when he was a little
faiz-haired lad, he sobbed forth all the

you

misery and pity and loving sympathy of |

his faithful soul.

At first Rand was bewildered and ut-
terly at a loss to comprehend: but as
"Demus became calmer, and was able to
speak more coherently, he came to know
the full weight of the burden his devoted
old friend had been earrying. His own
eyes were dim with tears as he gently
disengaged himself, and holding both the
hard black hands closely in his own, said,
affectionately :

*No, dear ’Demus, your ‘young massa’
has not lost his mind. Think rather
that he has found it, and that the long
years of darkness and desolation in this
home are atanend. For though it may
not be for me to win the brightness I
covet, thank God I have been awakened
from my selfish living, and we shall all
be better and happier Mnceforth, I
rast.”’

It was not long after this that Miss
Bertha Adams received a call from Rand
Kennedy. Of course, she was surprised
to see him at all, still more so at the
change in his appearance, but most of all
at his errand: for Rand was exceedingly
straightforward, and so, with manly
frankness. and withal acertain chival-
rous delicacy, he told her the story of
his life, its sudden clouding, its loneli-
ness, its morbid selfishness, and his re-

eent awakening to the need of something |

nobler and sweeter. Then, having laid
his heart open before her, he begged her
to allow him to become her friend, and,
if he might, win her for his wife.

It was all so unexpected, so strange,
so unlike anything which had occurred in
Miss Bertha’s quiet life, that she sat
quite overwhelmed, unable at first te re-
ply. But that she did so in time may be
inferred from the fact that Rand made
frequent journeys from home during the
next six months, and one lovely Septem-
ber evening he did not return alone.

This all happened several years ago.
Kennedy Park is now beautifully kept,
and the old house has come to be a happy
home. And almost as dearly loved as
his cwn two little ones is the blue-eyed
damsel who creeps into Rand’s arms
when her long play-day is over, and falls
asleep there.

“Qur Theodora,’’ he sometimes says
softly to Bertha as he kisses the dimpled
cheek. ‘Truly she was to me a ‘gift of
God which, being accepted, brought all
other blessings.”’

But to ’Demus, loving and faithful
still. the old, silent, quiet years seemed
best. ELIZABETH OLMIS.

> +>
Michigan Dairy Notes.

Chapman & Carpenter will build a
cheese factory at Hopkins Station.

Lyman Johnson succeeds his brother
Frazey, as cheese maker in G. B. Horton’s
‘‘Seneca’’ factory.

John D. Considine, the Byron Center
cheese manufacturer, is arranging to take
a trip to the Puget Sound country.

kK. B. Edgell, who recently sold
cheese factory near Hopkins, contem-
plates building a new factory at Mon-
terey.

Geo, P, Glazier has purehased all the
stock in the ChelseaZCreamery Co., at
Chelsea, and will continue the business
under his own name.

Robert McKinney, formerly engaged in
the manufacture of cheese at North
Farmington, has arranged to engage in
the same business at Wixom.

R. E. Sturgis, who made butter for the
Charlotte Creamery Co. the first season it
was operated, but who has been traveling
for Davis & Rankin for the past four
years, has engaged to make butter for
the Charlotte Co. the coming season.

W. F. Smith, who sold the ‘‘Raisin
Union” cheese factory at, Raisin Center,
to Baker & Shattuck, has engaged as
cheese maker for Q. Tappan & Son’s Vas-

his

sar factory.

Q. Tappan & Son, who suffered the
loss of their Vassar cheese factory by
fire on December 20, are arranging to
rebuild the same on a new location, three
miles from town.

The ‘‘Rose Leaf’? creamery at Morrice
run all winter, making about 800 pounds
of butter per week. The Chicago &
Grand Trunk Railwayctook 100 pounds
per week for their dining cars.

W. B. Myers, who owns the cheese
factory near Ogden, is also the proprietor
of afarm in Osceola county, and on the
oceasion of a recent visit to his latter
property solemnly assured the editor of
the Evart Review that he would soon
build a cheese factory there. Mr. Myers

 

is evidently a practical joker.
—> <<. - - —___—
Russia’s View of India’s Wheat Trade.
A recent Russian report on the agri-
cultural situation in leading grain-ex-
porting countries holds that ‘‘the position
of the Indian grain market cannot, of
course, be compared in the least with
that of the United States of America, as
the native rural population are in a state
of poverty, debt and complete ignorance,
while the ordinary productiveness of the
soil is not equal to that of Amnferica. In
fact, the present wheat exports of India
to Europe must be considered as artificial
and only temporary. owing to rice being
the staple food of the natives. Should
the consumption of wheaten bread be-
come more common, India, with her
comparatively low power of production,
will be obliged to become an importing
country. Indian exports may be called
artificial for another reason: the culti-
vation of wheat is proportionately too
dear to withstand steady competition in
Europe.’

 

2 <—
Something to Show for It.

‘Do you mean to tell me, Mrs. Billus,”’

demanded the husband, angrily, ‘‘that

you gave a total stranger an order for $10

| worth of groceries at prices less than

wholesale dealers can buy them, and
paid him for the goods in advance?
Didn’t vou have sense enough to know it
was a swindle? Your money’s gone,
now, madam, and you've nothing to
show for it.’

“Why. yes, | have, John,’
Billus, with
receipt for it.’

—— 2 <a

said Mrs.
some anxiety, ‘I have his

 

| A Logical Conclusion.

An old lady, visiting one of her friends,
found a child of the latter, a mite of five
or six years, sobbing bitterly, and ap-
parently in great distress.

“You shouldn’t ery like that,’’
the visitor; ‘‘that’s what makes
oiris agly.”’

Dolly looks up through her tears and
gazes at the visitor:

‘‘What a lot you must have cried when
you were a little girl!’

—-—o- <>
Frustrated Hopes.

A person notorious for never paying
his bills approaches a grocer for credit.

Grocer (who knows the individual)—
We trust—

said
little

Notorious Person—Youw’re just the
inan I am looking for. Put me up sev-
enteen pounds of—

Grocer—We trust you wont ask for
credit.

Tableau.
- 9 —<—___——
A Good Reason.

A Western minister, marrying a young
couple, paused in the ceremony to ask
the usual question, ‘‘Is there anyone
present who knows any reason why this
marriage should not proceed?’’? when a
young man arose in the back part of the
church. ‘*State your objections,’’ said
the minister.

“JT want the gal myself,”’
sponse.

was the re-

$—_ 2
Rather Ambiguous.

“Doctor, how do you find your patient
to-day ?’’

“Oh, Mr. Ransom is no worse.’’

“Do you anticipate a fatal result ?”’

“Mrs. Ransom, my medicine has never
| yet failed to do its work.”’

 

 

British Silk Industry.

The British silk industry has grown
steadily within the last few years. The
home consumption of raw silk in 1888
aggregated 3,397,639 pounds, against
2,766,040 pounds in 1887 and 1,822,699
pounds in 1885.

 

 

HARDWOOD LUMBER.

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

 

out:

Bitivosd togran ..-................- 13 00@15 00
Birch loerun. 62.0)... 15 00@16 00
Birgh, Nog. Jand?.........---..-..__- @22 00
Biack Ash torr... 14 00@16 00
Chery, fog7an (2... ee 25 00@35 00
Chewy, Nos 1 and 2.0... 50 66@60 00
Chery Con... @12 00
Maple log-run .......--._-_--.-.-s.--- 12 00@13 00
Maple, soft, log-run........-.-/.--. 11 00@13 00
Maple, Nos. land2..............--.--- @2 00
Maple, clear, flooring.............---- O25 00
=: waite. seleceea 6°... @25 00
Hoa Oak. topran.....-.. 20 00@21 00
Rea Oak Noe tand2..... 24 00@25 00
Red Oak, 4 sawed, 6 inch and upw’d.38 00@40 00
Red Oak, 4 sawed, rezular.....-..-_-- 30 ~ 135 00
Red Gak, No. 1, step plank.....:...... @25 00
Walnut tocran. @55 00
Walnut Nos tand> _-- 75 00
Walnuts Gan 125 00
Grey film, logan... 12 00@13 05
White Aso l6gram = 14 00@16 00
Whitewood logTun...._........... 20 00@22 00
White Oak lop run... 0s 17 00©18 00
White Oak, 4 sawed, Nos. 1 and 2....42 00@43 00

 

 

Notice of Limited Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that Frederic A. Wurz-
burg, William M. Wurzburg and William FF.
Wurzburg, as genera] partners, and Zachary ita
Aldrich, as specia] partner, all of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, have this day formed a limited part-
nership in pursuance of chapter 78 Howell’s
Annotated 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.

 

 

 

 

Se

  

—WARRANTED NOT TO RIP.—

 

 

Every garment bearing the above ticket is
WARRANTED NOT TO RIP, and, if not as re-

resented, you are requested to return it to the
Merchant of whom it was purchased and receive
anew garment.

STANTON, SAMPSON & CO.,

Manufacturers, Detroit, Mich.

 

aan MICH.

To THE MERCHANTS OF MICHIGAN — We offer
Marble and Granite

Monuments

at a closer margin of profit than any concern in
the State. Write for estimates on Building Stone
or 2emetery work. First class material and work-
manship only.

SAM’ MOFFEYT, Manager.

TIME TABLES.

 

 

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana.
GOING NORTH.
Arrives. Leaves.
Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7:00am

Traverse City & Mackinaw.
From Cincinnati...........

 
  

For Petoskey & Mackinaw C 55 pm 5:00 pm
Saginaw Express..........-. 11:30am 7:20am
“ ES eee coca eee. 10:30 p m. 4:10pm

Saginaw express runs through solid.
7:00 a. m. train has chair car to Traverse “ity.
11:30 a. m. train haschair car for Petoskey and Mack-
inaw City.
5:00 p. m, train has sleeping car for }\’etoskey and
Mackinaw City.
GOING SOUTH.

Cincinnat TExpress...........--.-. 7:15am
Fort Wayne Express.............-. 10:30 a m 11:45am
Cincinnati Mapress................ 4:40pm 5:@Qpm
From Traverse City............--.- 10:40 pm

Pp
7:15a mtrain 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 & ————
rriv

Leave. 2.

 
 

eee ciwrepemageu ce 10:45 am
ll:jam . 4:45pm
4:20 p m.. . 7:45pm

 

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

 

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING WEST.

Arrives. Leaves.
*Morning Express. ........cscceces 1:05 p m 1:19pm
gee ee 4:55 p m 5:10pm
+Grand Rapids Express........... 10:40 pm
“Night Express. ... 2.2. .-.-cecese 6:40am 7:00 am
Re ee eee c ene nee 7:45am

GOING EAST.

+Detroit Express...... i. 6:50am

+Through Mail 10:20am 10:30 am

  
   

+tEvening Expr 3:40 pm 3:50 pm
*Limited XPress. 2... oe we cen 10:30 pm 10:55 pm
+Daily, Sundays exeepted. *Daily.

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

Through tickets and sleeping car berths secured at
D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 28 Monroe St., and at the depot.

JAS. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent.

 

W. STEELE

 

Packing and Provision Co.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
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.

F Our prices for first-class goods are very low and all goods are warranted first-class in every in-

stance. When in Grand Rapids, give usa call and look over our establishment.

prices.

Write us for

 

AK LADY OR THE TIGER

Is Good, but

Yhompsons Tiger

Is Better.
This Coffee is Sold Only by

Importers of

Tea. Coffee and Spices.

J. 1. Thompson & Go,,

Detroit, - Mich.

SWIFT'S
Choice Chicago

 

Dressed Beet

 

=—-AND MUTTON--

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

 

The trade ofall marketmen and meat dealers is
solicited. Our Wholesale Brauch Houses, 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.

Swift and Company,

Union

Stock Yards,

CHICAGO.

 

Ww. C. DENTSON,

GENERAL DEALER IN

Vertical, Horizontal, Hoisting and Marine Engines.

 

Steam Pumps, Blowers and Ex

haust Fans. SAW MILLS, any Size or Capacity Wanted.
Estimates Given on Complete Outfits.

88 90 and 92 SOUTH DIVISION ST.,

- GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

 

MICHIGAN CIGAR CO.,
Big Rapids, Mich.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED

“Ai Cc. C.’“TVemiani

The Most Popular Cigar.

The Best Selling Cigar on the Market.

SEND FOR TRIAL ORDER.

 

RINDGE, BERTSCH & Co.,

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in

BOOTS and SHOES

AGENTS FOR THE

Boston Rubber Shoe Co.,

12.14 & 16 Pearl! Street,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

GRAND RAPIDS,

CURTISS & Co.

Successors to CURTISS & DUNTON.

W HOLESALE

Paper Warehouse,

Houseman Building, Cor. Pearl & Ottawa Sts.,

- MICHIGAN.

 

Cases, with

PRIZE
BAKING |
POWDER

bread to the barrel of flour.

ls-lbs Reward Baking Powder, 4-dozen
48 Premiums—Glass
Assorted, All Large Pieces, for - -

1-Ilbs Reward Baking Powder, 4-dozen
Cases, with 49 Premiums, Decorated China
Dishes, All Large Pieces, for - -  -

The above Prizes are Very Attractive Goods
and New Assortments.

The quality of Reward Baking Powder is unequaled and

warranted to make Jight, nutritious bread, biscuits and cakes.

Saves eggs, milk and shortening and makes 40 pounds more

WHO URGES YOU

TO BEEP

4A. FO) LEO *s

‘Laas PUT SLIC!

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.

Arctic Manufacturing Go

Grand Rapids,

OFFER TO THE TRADE WHO BUY

Dishes,

$8.00
$17.00

 

 

 

ranges:

We are wholesale agents for
the Fancy California Mountain
Seedlings and headquarters for
all kinds of Messina oranges.

PUTNAM & BROOKS,

 

_M. GLARK & SUN

 

ee

WE ARK HEADQUARTERS
‘eas
Syrups
M olasses

If our Travelers
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

 

O. FE. BROWN

 

 

MILLING CO.

SIOJTIN 2JUBCYOIOW

 

 

Brown's Patent
Brown’s Standard

Our Leading Brands,

Our Baker's

 

Every Barrel and Sack guaranteed.

 

Correspondence Solicited.

Vienna Straight
Grand Rapids, Mich.