® a1 The Michigan Tradesman. VOL. 6. CREOLE STRAIGHT CUT. To all Merchon's Handling Cigarettes: ‘A new era has been reached whereby all dealers selling cigarettes may now make a larger profit than heretofore on any other brand. The CREOLE STRAIGHT GUT. Which has recently been introduced into the State is becoming very popular. it being the only straight cut sold for five cents, thus giving the dealer a cigarette with which he may please all classes of cigarette smokers. 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 & CoO. ROCHESTER, N. Y. Manuf'rs of High Grade Cigarettes. F. J. DETTENTHALER, JOBBER OF OYSTERS And Sali Fish. Mail orders receive prompt attention. See quotations in another column. GRAND RAPIDs. 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. WALKS - GOODYRAR and Connecticut Rubbers. Misses’ and Children’s, Heels and Spring Heels. G. R. Mayhew, 86 Monroe S:., Grand Rapids. D0 YOU WANT A SHOWCASE? in Ladies’, SPECIAL OFFEK—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 corners, extra heavy base; silvetta trimmings; 6 feet long, 28 inches wide, 15 inches high. Price, Sil, net cash. I make the same style of case as above, 17 inches high, from walnut, cherry, oak or ash, for $2 per foot. Boxing and cartage free. DD. BD. COO, 106 Kent St., - Grand Rapids, Mich. ACTUAL BUSINESS PRACTICE, * the Grand Rapids Business College. Ed- ucates pupils to transact and record business as it is 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. aton, Lyon & 60, LookOut For (seo. tT. Warren & Co.’s New e Vent Cigar. G. M. MUNGER & CO, GRAND RAPIDS. Successors to Allen’s Laundry. Mail and Express orders attended to with p Oomptness. Nice Work, Quick Time Satisfaction Guaranteed. W. 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 DANIEL LYNG Successor to FRED D. YALE & CO,, Manufacturer of Flavoring Extracts, Baking Powder, Bluing, Ete. Grocers and Droggists’ Stndries. Call and inspect our new establishment when in the city. 19 8. IONIA ST. IN2C i eT =J/ 92 APOTHECARYS BRAND. Lop Moclowes CUBAN,HAND MADE.HAVANA,CIGARS 08S Fly snl SpeeP” = FREE PRESS ENC DET. })Isfree from AR TIFICIAL FLA- VORING, is a Ci- “Los Doctores ssshets fire. contains one-third more pure Havana tobac- co than any ten-cent Key West or two for 25 cents imported cigar you can get. FREE SMOKING, MILD AND RICH. _For Sale by 20,000 Druggists throughout the | eee The Very Best Nickel Cigar in America. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Wholesale Agts.,Grand Rapids Millers, 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. KDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker Jeweler, Ah CANAL SY., i —= = GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1889. “FLOR DE MOEBS,” Straight 10c. “BEN HUR,” 3 for 25c. “Record Breakers” ND Nk FRE = FRAGRANT. Sold by Dealers Everywhere. ASK FOR THEM. A} “Detroit Sluggers,”’ Favorite 5-Centers. MANUFACTURED BY GEO. MOEBS & CO, 92 WOODWARD AVE., DETROIT. 20 and 22 Monroe St. Grand Rapids, - Mich, MAN SHPAN MAKERS. Prices hower than Ker QUALITY THE BEST, WV rite for Prices. 63-65 CANA, SF. . T. BRAGH. WHOLESALE DEALER IN GRAIN, SEEDS, BALED HAY, MILL FEED and PRODUCE: BALED HAY A SPECIALTY. HOLLAND, - MICH. WESTFIRLD WHIPS. Save Freight AND ORDER OF GRAHAM ROYS, Agt, 54 LAKE AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, - - - MICH. GRAND RAPIDS Paper - Box - Factory, W. W. HUELSTER, Prop. Paper Boxes of Every Description Made to Order on Short Notice. We make a specialty of Confectionery, Millinery and Shelf Boxes. All work guaranteed first class and at low prices. Write or call for estimates on anything you may wantin my line. Telephone 850. OFFICE AND FACTORY, 81 & 83 Campau St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. S 2 ~ a hy > OF O eae S Re = st oD > And ail dealers are invited to send sam- ples and write for prices that can be ob- tained in this market. We do a COMMISSION BUSINESS and our aim is to obtain the highest mar- | ket price for all goods sent us. Not only BEANS but also ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE. We can sell as well as anyone. We invite correspondence. BARNETT BROS., 159 So. Water St., CHICAGO. And keep upon my feet all day, now I What does a plain, old-fashioned man With snow-clicks at the windows, and I fought him hard enough at first, but Or money be so hard to get, and I was Some of us ought to stay at home and A FPARMER’S SORROW. The clouds look low and heavy, as if there would be rain; It always means bad weather when you hear the brook so plain. The wet won’t make much trouble now, for all the crops are in, And yet I somehow hate to see the long fall rains begin. I couldn’t sense the half I read, the air is close and still, If I were young as once [I was’ I’d go up on the hill. It isn’t as it used to be when I could comeand go, am stiff and slow. There’s nothin’ in the paper; you can take it if you choose; I can’t make head nor tail of half they nowadays call news. I use to think the Farmer was head of all the rest; *Twas full of solid common sense; I tell you that’s the best! care whether stocks go down? My stock is all four-footed !—but ’twill please the folks in town. Here’s new machines preached every week, to help the folks that sell; And fashions for the women folks, and other trash as well. *Twas readin’ all this nonsense here, in winter by the fire, That made my boy get notions of the schools and climbin’ higher. It used to be so snug and warm a stormy winter’s night, the roarin’ fire for light. But there he set, all doubled up, a-storin’ this away; Readin’ and readin’ till I said *twas more like toil than play; Readin’ and readin’ till I found he couldn’t work a stroke, And couldn’t hold the plow an hour, or hardly lift a yoke. It stole his mind from farmin’, and he run up tall and thin; afterward gave in. They got the minister to come, his mother took his part, Until I let them have their way, although it broke my heart. *Twas well enough for them to talk, and I wan’t going to fight; And then my mind got so distressed, I couldn’t sleep at night. Folks talk of edication as if the Latin showed A farmer how to cast accounts or how to stack a load. But, as I say, I had to cope with mother and with Dan, And then they got the minister, a good, well-meanin’ man. And Dan, he said, must have his chance, and pretty soon I see The book fools and the women folks would be too much for me. So Dan he got his schoolin’, and never no complaint: When I give in I don’t take back, but ’ I never knew the crops to fail as fail they did those years, twould have tried a saint! full of fears. I never grumbled at his bills, but paid them one by one; And when the boy came home again with all his schoolin’ done, I couldn’t ask him out a-field or let him do a stroke, He looked just a white-skinned birch, and I felt like an oak. But that was twenty year ago, and here we be to-day, And I’ve got old and stiff, you see, and what was once like play I have to hire strange folks to do, or else must let alone— Silas is willin’, wants to work, but he’s a boy half-grown. Now, he’s the kind of lad I like; his cheeks look bright and warm; If I could have my way, I know, I’d let*him have the farm. Although he’s but a cousin’s son, he does seem near to me— Yes, nearer, I must say it straight—than Dan could ever be. Dan’s a professor, and they say he knows as much as most— But he don’t know, and never will how much his learnin’ cost. "Twas him that should have had the place; *twas father’s ’fore ’twas mine. I'd like to kep’ it in the name; but I ain’t goin’ to whine. Mother she’s had it pretty hard; we needed Dan, that’s true; And I would keep him right at home if I began life new. Farmin’s the honest work of men; if other folks must thrive, keep the farms alive. Dan’s kind of disappointed—he sees he ain’t the first; There wan’t the makings of the best, and yet he ain’t the worst. They call him a good scholar; but there’s much he’s learned in vain, If he don’t think he’d farm it, if he could start again. SARAH ORNE JEWETT. WHAT CAME OF A KIT OF MACKEREL Itis not often that a kit of mackerel has been made the theme of story or ro- mance, nor is it in itself an object likely to excite esthetic interest. But 1 claim for the kit of mackerel in question that of the war, clothed with mance never before or since unto by kit or by mackerel. attained prisoned in its briny depths were wor- thier of immortal record than any other fish of kindred nature. Simply by acci- dent of time and locality must that kit of mackerel be numbered among the things of this world which have had greatness thrust upon them. The events I am about to relate oc- eurred in the year 1863—a year which must forever remain memorable in my recollection because of that kit of mack- erel, and because it marks a period of revelation to the average Southern mind. By the stern logic of events we became eonvineed that Southern chivalry was manufactured out of common clay, and not out of a sort of celestial porcelain, as some of us had fondly imagined, and that their arms were not invincible! The possibility of defeat was our revelation ! I was one of five girls, all of us (prin- cipally by reason of locality and environ- ment) fierce rebels, as a matter of course. Our mother was an invalided widow. We had neither father, brother, uncles nor male cousins, in consequence of which we out-Heroded Herod in our patriotic determination to send every man to the front, zealously bent upon urging them to make targets of them- selves. It is instructive to observe the philosophic equanimity which one brings to bear upon the sorrows of one’s best friends. Sustained by this very mon species of stoicism, we bore the trial of seeing other folks’ kin enlist in the army with Spartan fertitude. Even at this remote period, I can recall the sensation of Roman matronish firmness with which we helped equip everybody else’s fathers, brothers and cousins in garments that were fearfully and won- derfully made. Buckling their meta- phorieal shields over some remarkably funny looking gray jackets, we heroically conjured them, with tearless eyes (eyes presumably teo sternly aflame with the | fires of intense patriotism to admit of a | quenching tear-drop) ‘‘to return with it or on it,’? asomewhat unreasonable re- quest, seeing they had no shields, adding our frenzied supplications that they would never permit our flag to trail in the dust; quite, you know, as if dust i were the only thing fatal to its honor or | (Poor old bonny blue flag! The! to ours. its story is so unique (with the added ad- | vantage of verity) that it is entitled to | stand forever upon an eminence of his- | toric importance in the bloodless annals | a halo of ro-| Not that} the ‘‘kit’? was im itself any larger, stronger or superior in any respeet to the | average kit, or that the mackerel im- com- | | ; dust of oblivion lies thick upon its faded ifolds now, in garrets where moth and | rust corrupt. ) ; Our home was in Tensas Parish, | Louisiana, immediately on the _ river, | about midway between the two towns of Natchez and Vicksburg, on the Missis- sippi side of the river. The first men- tioned town, although garrisoned, had made but nominal resistance to the de- mands of Admiral Farragut for surren- |der and was then in possession of the | Federalists. Vieksburg stubbornly re- |sisted. The river from New Orleans to that (now) classic spot was in a state of | blockade. No peaceful merchantmen, | freighted with their down-going cargoes of cotton or their ‘‘up-freights’’ of sugar and molasses, churned its waters with busy wheels. No floating palaces, alive with passengers on business or on pleas- ure bent. sped gaily by the envious eyes of the lonely dwellers in lonely planta- tion homes. No strong-lunged towboat puffed and panted its way southward with a long, trailing line of grain or coal barges in tow. Nocraft, but the dark- browed, gloomy gunboats that sentineled it. disturbed the muddy waters of the river in their sullen flow to the sea. Oceasionally a crowded transport, con- veying troops from New Orleans to some point in the vicinity of Vicksburg, sped by, in uneasy apprehension of ambushed sharpshooters on either bank. But for purposes of navigation, so far as we were concerned, the river was absolutely valueless. Our dear mother was rapidly hastening toward that bourne where neither wars nor rumors of war would ever again mar the serenity of her soul. Our chief care was to render her few remaining months (or days, as it might be) with us as com- fortable and quiet as the hard conditions of those turbulent times would admit. What it cost us to gratify one of her wishes is'the gist of the story I have to tell. ‘*‘Mamma says she believes she could relish a bit of mackerel,’’ one of our number said, one morning, with a hope- lessness born of the fact that mackerel was a delicacy that had not been seen by eye of rebel man or tickled rebel palates for at least two years. It could not pos- sibly be procured at any point nearer than the sutler’s store, which had been opened in the recently fallen city of Natchez by some of those enterprising commercial patriots who always followed closely in the wake of the conquering army, zealously bent upon taking advan- tage of that tide in the affairs of the conquered, which, taken at its turn, should lead on to their own fortune. But Natchez was twenty-four miles further down the river! The river was in a state of rigid blockade. The land route lay through a region of country appar- ently forsaken of God and man! To you, dear reader of to-day, who, if appetite suggests mackerel for breakfast, have but to send around to the first corner grocery to procure it, the momentousness of that desire of our be- loved invalid ean hardly be conceived. But in those iron days we grew so accus- tomed to facing difficulties and forcing issues that we did not for an instant relegate her wish to the realms of can’t- be-done. So an overland trip to Natchez was im- mediately put into animated discussion, and promptly decided upon as necessary. “There’s Aggie’s christening cup!’’ was the apparently irrelevant suggestion of one of us, as the discussion veered unsystematically from ways to means and back again. “Yes; of course, those horrid sutlers wouldn’t touch Confederate money.’’ *“‘And Dr. Sell says she must be kept in brandy.’’ ‘““And my bracelets !’’ “And, girls, we can all give up our gold thimbles. It really doesn’t seem right, somehow or other, that we should be indulging in such luxuries and so many of our poor soldiers absolutely without shoes!’ “Considering that our gold thimbles are all ante-bellum possessions and could not without the aid of magic be converted into shoes for the shoeless, your remark, dear, is more creditable to your heart than to your head.’’ Having extinguished our ycungest (temporarily) by this ‘‘snub,’’ we re- sumed the enumeration of articles which could be converted into greenbacks, which were things that up to that period we had accepted by faith and not by sight. Contributions rained in from all sides and ranged from the gold bracelet that had been the last gift of a lover ‘‘gone to the wars,’’ to the coral brace- lets that had tied up its owner’s ‘‘baby sleeves’’ on the occasion of her christen- ing. From our go-as-you-please discussion was evolved the decision that we had ample means to victual the whole Con- federate army with mackerel, if we could only succeed in getting to the mackerel. “Vil fell you f’ said our gold thim- bler, emerging from under her extin- guisher, ‘‘Mrs. Snowden is crazy to go to Natchez. You know her daughter’s husband’s brother lives there and is said to be high in favor with the Yankees.’’ She offered this bit of information with the energy of inspiration. How the fact that Mrs. Snowden’s daughter’s husband’s brother lived in Natchez and was in high favor with the powers that were, was to assist us out of our difficulties, may not seem quite clear to the reader not familiar with the fact that in those solemn times the purchase of a pair of shoes or a kit of mackerel was a matter of national importance and the occasion of a vast amount of diplo- macy. By a persistent forcing of probabil- ities on our part anda vast amount of consultation on everybody’s part, Mrs. Snowden was convinced of the fact that a pilgrimage to Natchez was both de- sirable and feasible. Mrs. Snowden had always been a high liver. She sighed for the flesh-pots of ante-bellum times, with a hunger made keen by rebel rations of okra coffee and unbolted meal. Her patriotism was be- yond question. But the conviction was beginning to dawn upon all of us that we might consume our okra coffee, sassa- fras tea and unbolted meal until crack 0’ doom, without producing any percep- tible effect upon the conflicting armies or the final issue. In the gray dawning of a short No- vember day, Mrs. Snowden drove up to our cottage door, where she was promptly joined by me, conveying a huge satchel in my arms. “What on earth!’ my traveling companion asked, as I entered the vehicle satchel foremost. “Currency !’ is my proud response as I dump the heavy satchel down on the seat in front of me and settle myself comfortably by her side. ‘‘You see,’ I add, explanatorily, after waving my final adieux to the anxious group of girls I left behind me, ‘‘lam going quite pre- pared to buy that sutler out. Every sil- ver cup and worn spoon and broken bit of jewelry that could be conjured from their forgotten abiding-places are in that satchel, to be converted into greenbacks, which, after all, are the true sinews of war,’’ I conclude grandiosely. **] suppose, of course, you them to old Isaaes.”’ “Of course.’’ ‘“*And equally, of course, he will cheat you out of about three-fourths their value,’’? she prophesied, cheerfully. “Cela va sans dire. What 2 luxury the privilege of shopping, on any terms, again will be! But, what on earth!’ I demand in my turn. ‘““You mean my horses,’’ Mrs. Snowden says, placidly, in answer to my aston- ished outward glance. ‘‘You did not suppose I was going to drive my blooded mares down there to make a present of them to the Yankeys ?’’ “No! That is—Ihadn’t thought about it at all—but—’”’ My friend leaned back composedly as she regarded the dejected harness-scarred mules that were dragging our vehicle along at a funeral gait. “Those are not things of beauty, that is certain. I told-Jim to select the very worst pair of mules on the place.’’ “T think he must have done it,’’ I an- swer, with the solemnity of conviction. ‘<<«Worst,’ aS applied to mules, is synonymous with slowest, isn’t it ?’’ “Just about, dear.’’ “But, suppose,’’? I ask, a trifle nerv- ously. ‘‘we wanted to go fast—to get away from somebody, you know, our chances would not be very good in a trial of speed; would they ?”’? I regarded the sorry, rough-coated mules in front of us with dismayed speculation. ‘Not the best in the world, dear,’’ Mrs. Snowden says, serenely: ‘‘but whoshould we want to get away from ?”’ will take your | NO. 288. ‘‘Oh, I don’t know—persons, anybody, things;’’ I thus generalize my apprehen- ,sions, and apologize for having any by | laughing aimlessly. “If the dangers ahead of us are as vague as your fears, I think my mules will prove equal to the demand upon them.’’ Mrs. Snowden yawned, by way of ac- centuating her own entire freedom from every species of cowardice. I offered some neutral-tinted observations con- eerning our neutral-tinted surroundings, after which we both lapsed into an un- comfortable silence. We had deliber- ately made up our minds beforehand that this overland trip to Natchez would be worth the taking. Talking it all over at home with the girls and our neighbors, it had assumed largely the proportions of a frolic, a sort of serio-comie frolic, from which Mrs. Snowden and I were to return crowned with such prestige as should make us the envy of all our un- traveled circle. But now that we found ourselves actually upon the lonely road, with one colored man for our only pro- tector in case of need, with a pair of work-worn mules as our only means of locomotion or escape, in case any of my shadowy apprehensions should suddenly take visible form, with the sad, gray mists of a chill November morning pen- etrating to one’s very marrow and damp- ening one’s sense of fortitude, we began to wonder if we had not been—to put it as mildly as possible—foolhardy ! We were also aware beforehand that from the beginning of our journey toa point very near its termination we would encounter probably not one human being of our own color. The entire river route was lined with cotton plantations, whose owners were either in the army or ‘‘refugeeing’? with their families far back in thé interior. On some of the places a few sober-minded negroes made themselves comfortable in a lawless sort of fashion, by appropriating the stock and other belongings of the white fugitives. But even in those days of idleness and demoralization, we were fearless on the score of molestation from such a source, and were thoroughly em- bued with Southern women’s well- grounded confidence in the colored race. In short, our fears were more a general sense of nervousnoss, begotten by the desolate and forsaken aspect of the homes we saw now for the first time in their dreary desertion, but had known when they were animated by the pres- ence of friendliness and_ hospitality. We had our lunch-basket with us, and toward noon we varied the monotony of gazing out upon deserted fields (where fleecy cotton hung unpicked from the over-ripe bolls or strewed the ground where it had been scattered by depre- dating cattle) and of idle speculation eoncerning the whereabouts and fortunes of our refugee neighbors,and friends, by investigating its contents. ‘A glass of fresh milk would amel- iorate matters, wouldn’t it, dear ?’’ Mrs. Snowden suggested, in a voice choked with dry corn-bread. ‘“‘Beyond question,’’? I gulped back, ‘‘and whosoever giveth a cup of cold water to one of these the same shall be called blessed among men.’’ “Which would be shockingly irrev- erent if it had a somewhat nearer affin- ity to ascriptural quotation,’’? says my friend, leaning forward to place rations of corn bread and fried chicken on the front seat of the barouche for Uncle Jim, our driver. ‘Comin’ to Rifle-point place tolable soon now,’’ Uncle Jim says, with appar- -nt irrelevance, laying his rations in the crown of his hat for future discussion. “Plenty cows dar, less’n de fool free niggers done butcher ’em up fur beef !’’ And, sure enough, the next turn in the~ read brought us in sight of what had been, before the war, one of the ‘‘brag’” places of the parish. “Hekil’ said Unele Jim, man amazed undertone, which had the effect of making us crane our necks eagerly over his head to discover what had startled that exclamation from our most phlegmatic driver. The ‘‘Rifle-point’’ place was quite close athand. Its double row of neat, white- washed cabins stretched along the front of the place parallel with the public road, only a narrow strip of well-trod- den ground intervening between them and the plank fence, which marked the boundary line of the plantation. This space was densely packed with blue- coated soldiery! Not the trained, well- officered and thoroughly-disciplined Fed- eral troops, into whose midst we were déliberately and purposely traveling, but our own recently freed slaves, armed, uniformed and newly invested with a sense of freedom, which to them in their (then) condition of profound ignorance could mean little better than license. We could not recognize in these dark- hued riflemen, who wore their new uni- forms and their new honors with an im- partial air of awkwardness, the old familiar ‘‘darkey,’’ between whom and ourselves there had always existed the freemasonry of a perfect understanding. Let me confess toa thrill of terror !’’ “Uncle Jim,’’? said Mrs. Snowden, in a voice grown suddenly suppliant, ‘‘do drive faster! Itis getting late. Those ’ mules are perfect snails;’? which reck- less comparison she supplemented by dropping her voiee to a whisper for my ears alone, utterance of a useless long- ing for her fast mares! ‘I told you so, when I saw you had left them behind,’? I moaned into her ears, impelled toward that spiteful amelioration of my fears by the reflec- tion that her mares would have proven a sure reliance in case of emergency. ‘‘Wot fur I drive fas’ ?’’ says Unele Jim, glancing stolidly over his shoulders at our white faces. ‘‘I gwine water dese mules hyere, I is, an’ gitsome milk fur you an’ missy out’n dem fool niggers— dress up like a passel er monkeys, dey is.’’ [CONCLUDED ON EIGHTH PAGE. ] The Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. Retail Trade of the Wolverine State, E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. Subscription Price, One Dollar per year. Advertising Rates made known on application. Publication Office, 100 Louis St. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office: E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1889. RAILWAY INTOLERANCE OF LAW. The new clauses of the Inter-State Commerce Law, which punish with heavy fines and severe imprisonment both the parties to a fraudulent contract for transportation, have made an un- pleasant sensation in the railroad world. As Charles Francis Adams showed in his Boston address, the law had not suc- ceeded in suppressing transactions, by which some shippers and some localities were favored to the disadvantage of others. It merely had caused an addi- tional veil of secresy to be thrown over those transactions. The penalty in- curred by breach of the law’s provisions against these kinds of favoritism was a fine whose amount was trifling to persons engaged in large transactions. But now that a fine of $5,000 and two or three years’ imprisonment has been substitut- ed, there is much more unwillingness on the part of railroad men to put them- selves within the reach of so severe a penalty. There has been especially sharp prac- tice in the matter of carrying goods to the seaboard for export. A voluntary agreement as to all charges to the sea- board among the roads was reached; but those of them which adhered to its terms lost their export business. Thus the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- way has only a fifth as much of this traffic as before the agreement was made. So the National Dispatch Company lost heavily. In fact it has been ascertained that somel ines have put freight for ex- port lower by 12 per cent. than other freight te the seaboard. This is in clear violation of the law; and the commission very properly refuses to accept this plea of loss of business as justifying depart- ures from the law on those who have suffered. Judge Cooley very plainly re- minded the freight agents that ‘‘one crime in railroad circles is no more to be excused by another than one theft is to be justified by another; and it ought to be just as discreditable to violate a crim- nal law which affects railroad managers in order to make money for their roads, as it is to violate a criminal law in the appropriation of private property.”’ No corporations are so much depen- dent for their safety upon the general respect for law and justice as are the railroads, because no other have so much defenseless property. And yet none show so many and such cynical examples of indifference to the law. The open violence they so constantly employ to prevent a rival crossing their tracks is no worse in this respect than their man- ipulation of courts and of legislatures, their notorious indifference to the terms of bargains made among the roads them- selves, and their hardly concealed breach of the legislative restrictions which the community imposes upon their traffic. It is not wonderful that railroad strikes are attended by greater lawlessness than any others. ‘‘Like master, like man.”’ EVOLUTION OF THE WEALTHY SENATOR. The resignation of Senator Chace, of Rhode Island, is to be deplored as de- priving our national Senate of one of the most valuable of its members. As the reason is understood to be that Mr. Chace cannot afford to retain an office whose salary barely pays the cost of spending the session in Washington, it opens up freshly the old question as to our general policy in this matter. Every- body knows that the standard of living has risen greatly since the war, and that a salary which was amply adequate in that time, is far fromit now. This we recognized in raising the President’s salary from $25,000 to $50,000 a year, although the President has an official residence and escapes other forms of out- lay which fall upon Congressmen. The increase of ‘‘millionaire Senators’’ in the last twenty years may have been due to other causes than their use of the in- fluence which wealth brings with it. Their success as candidates may have been facilitated by the slackening of the competition of poorer men, of greater abilities, who found they ‘‘could not afford’’ to go to the Senate when places far more remunerative were open to them. Of course, if there were an urgent and visible necessity for their going, other and higher motives might be expected to come into play. Butin sober and ordi- nary times, when there seems little to be lost by their accepting the presidency of a corporation instead of a Senatorial nomination, they are not unlikely to think that ‘‘the post of honor is the pri- vate station.’’ AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Foster & DeSabe succeed G. A. Town- send in the floral business on Monroe street. The Grand Rapids Leather Co. is ar- ranging to double its present capacity, making its output 1,000 hides of sole leather per week. Louis Engbrenghof has engaged in the grocery business on Grandville avenue, just south of the city limits. Hawkins, Perry & Co. furnished the stock. John P. Finnegan has resigned his po- sition as Manager of the Grand Rapids Cabinet Co., to take effect April 1, having disposed of his stock in the corporation to M. C. Burch. Chas. Glasgow sold his general stock at Lake Odessa to Geo. Weed one day last week, subsequently disappearing from the locality. Having sold him goods on certain representations, Rindge, Bertsch & Co. attached the stock on the ground that the sale was fraudulent. The stock inventories about $1,500, while the liabilities aggregate 35,700. F. W. McKinney, Secretary and Man- ager of the Gladstone Dock and Ware- house Co., was in town Saturday in the interest of two new transportation lines which could be made of considerable benefit to Grand Rapids shippers. C. W. Caskey will run his Cyclone between Harbor Springs and Gladstone, making three trips a-week, while the Burns Transportation Co. will run the Nelly between Gladstone and Manistee, making two trips a week. Mr. McKinney was assured that a line making Manistee the terminal point would be of no benefit to Grand Rapids, as it would be impossible for her shippers to get low enough rates over the two roads leading to that place— that the making of Muskegon the ter- minal point would enable Grand Rapids merchants to use the line largely and also give the company the benefit of consid- erable Muskegon business as well. Mr. McKinney, who is also Secretary of the Burns Transportation Co., was so favor- ably impressed with the representations of the Grand Rapids jobbers that he will recommend the change from Manistee to Muskegon. AROUND THE STATE. Farwell—Geo. L. Hitchcock, the miller, is dead. Wixom—B. D. Burch succeeds M. L. Stringer in general trade. Ionia—Murner & Henke succeed Geo. Childs in the meat business. Alpena—Maier & Blooms’ meat market has been closed by creditors. Crystal Falls—J. E. Bower has sold his drug stock to Metcalf & Butts. Flint—W. F. Todd & Co. have bought out the E. M. Morse drug store. Cohoctah—C. H. Miner has sold his general store to Murray Nelson. Bancroft—R. Sherman & Son succeed Obert & Sherman in general trade. Menominee—Frank Hornick succeeds Gus Nowak in the meat business. St. Louis—Nellie F. Von Scriver has removed her grocery stock to Lapeer. Battle Creek—Jos. P. Reukes succeeds R. E. F. Baxter in the bakery business. Howell—E. L. Parker succeeds Parker & Cook in the second hand goods busi- ness. Charlevoix—L. L. Carr has closed out his grocery stock and retired from busi- ness. Fowler—Eilenburg & Feldpausch suc- ceed Fred J. Eilenburg in the drug busi- ness. Trufant—C. M. Philo, the hardware and agricultural implement dealer, is dead. Elsie—H. Chambers will return to Cheboygan with his general stock about April 1. Eau Clair—Jenkins & Flewellen have sold their grocery stock to Puterbaugh & Davis. Lake Linden—E. Brule has sold his stationery and confectionery stock to F. J. Green. Muskegon—C. Mundt & Co. are suc- ceeded in the floor and feed business by Wm. Witt. Negaunee—Fred Luke succeeds Fred B. Trathen in the cigar and confection- ery business. Grand Ledge — Geo. clothing stock has been chattel mortgage. Reed City—Robt. F. Armstrong suc- ceeds D. M. McClellan & Co. in ‘the clothing business. Lansing—Spoor & Tooker have opened their commission and fruit house at 229 Washington avenue. Portland—The meat market and pro- vision store of Dudley & Wait has been closed on attachment. Oxford — H. C. Ide & Co. had $300 worth of jewelry stolen from their store last Wednesday night. : Ypsilanti—Jacob Terns & Son have assigned their grocery stock to John Terns, of Ann Arbor. West Bay City—H. W. Sage & Co. are succeeded in general trade by J. H. Mar- vin & Co., late of Hillsdale. Middleville—H. L. Moore’s clothing stock was closed on a chattel mortgage Saturday by a Boston creditor. B. Griswold’s | closed under | Hartford—Roberts & Packer succeed Butler & Robertsin the produce business. Grand Ledge—Winnie & Burnham have bought the Harry Snow drug stock. Battle Creek—Jas. P. Snow succeeds Snow & Gould in the clothing business. Mulliken—O. A. Halladay has bought a half interest in A. Skinkle’s meat mar- ket. Kendall—Geo. Knapp, who recently sold his grocery stock to L. A. Mack, will return to rural pursuits. Muskegon—C. L. Brundage has sold his drug stock to O. C. & W. A. Padley, who will continue the business. Big Rapids—Robert Telfer, who has been a prominent merchant here for sey- eral years, died Friday of congestion of the lungs. Bellaire—Ira Adams, who was shot by the burglar, Frank Howard, has grown worse, and his recovery is now believed to be doubtful. Mulliken—Austin Hart has bought the drug stock of E. L. Halladay and now occupies one half of the Whelpley & Cogswell store. Bessemer—L. M. Watson has sold his interest in the drug and wall paper firm of Jones & Watson, and is temporarily sojourning at Holton. Durand—L. R. Acker, of Vermontville, and J. F. Stover, of Charlotte, have formed a copartnership to engage in the hardware business here. West Bay City—Bernard & Gougeon have engaged in general trade. Both partners were formerly in the employ of Bancroft, Thompson & Co. Clio—E. L. Beeman has been admitted to partnership in the general business of Isaac M. Beeman. The new firm will be known as I. M. Beeman & Son. Adrian—Albert A. Fitzgerald has re- tired from the grocery firm of Stowers & Fitzgerald and will go to Quincy, IIl., to engage in the novelty business. Mulliken—Mr. Cogswell has bought a half interest in B. I. Whelpley’s hard- ware stock. The new firm will add a line of agricultural implements. Bay City—Fred. O. Liever, the grocer who was alleged to have been drowned in the Saginaw river, has come up as dry as a bone on a farm near Monroe. Battle Creek—J. F. Gould, formerly of the firm of Snow & Gould, has purchased the merchant tailoring stock of N. H. Winins and will continue the business. Vermontville—Chas. Hull and Harry Hull have formed a copartnership under the style of Chas. Hull & Son to succeed to the hardware business formerly con- ducted by L. R. Acker. Byron Center—J. R. Harrison & Co. succeed M. S. McNitt & Co. in the dry goods, boot and shoe and stationery bus- iness. McecNitt & Co. will continue han- dling groceries, drugs, crockery and hardware. Manton—Northrup & Williams, who recently assigned their grocery and hard- ware stock, attribute their failure to a too intimate acquaintance with the credit business. The assets comprise $1,275 worth of stock, 250 cords of excelsior bolts, 300 telegraph poles and $2,500 in book accounts—worth about ten cents on the dollar. The liabilities are $3,000, none of the creditors being secured. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Kalamazooo—S. A. Browne sueceeds Browne & Murray in the carriage bus- iness. Ionia—The Michigan Overall Co. has absorbed the business of the late Adrian Overall Co. Sault Ste. Marie—Speck & Shannon have sold their wagon business to Hurst & Sullivan. Constantine—The Constantine Milling Co. has become incorporated with a paid- in capital of $30,000. Saranac—Benson & Crawford are now turning out their patented vine sprin- klers at the rate of 200 per day. Tekonsha—T. W. Tucker: has sold his flouring mills to Randall Bros. for $8,000. They will put in full roller process. Sherman—Maqueston & Co. suffered a loss of $400 by the giving away of the flume at their grist mill, a few days ago. Charlotte—The Steam Heat Evaporator Co. has arranged to manufacture and put on the market a line of pumps, oil tanks, garden sprayers, ete. Medina—I. N. Colvin has sold his half interest in the old grist mill to J. Desh- ler, who has been running the Canan- daigua mill for a year or more past. Holly—S. S. Wilhelm & Bro. are suc- ceeded in the lumber and planing mill husiness by the Holly Manufacturing and Lumber Co., with a paid-in capital of $15,000. Charlotte — J. P. Perkins has pur- chased the interest of N. A. Johnson in the furniture manufacturing business of Johnson & Houck. The new firm will be knewn as Houck & Perkins. Detroit—The Detroit Umbrella Co. has become incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000 paid im. The stockholders are John Owen, Jr., 198 shares; Benj. L. Mason, 1, and Walter L. Brown, 1. Lansing—A card to THe TRADESMAN from Northrop & Robertson states .they are not the Lansing Medicime Co., but have dropped the retail drug business and will hereafter devote their entire attention to the manufacture of the “Great American Remedies.’’ Cadillac—Henry Fair has retired from the cigar manufacturing firm of Fair Bros. and removed to Prescott, Arizona. The business will be continued by the remaining partner under the style of John C. Fair. Lansing—The firm of L. Price & Co. has been dissolved, Mr. Price having organized the Capital Lumber Co., with a paid-in capital of $50,000, which is officered as follows: President, Jos. S. Ayers, of Detroit; Vice-President, Law- rence Price; Secretary and Treasurer, H. W. Rikerd. The company has bought the planing mill and sash, door and blind factory of John Chamberlain (D. M.) and the lumber yard of A. D. Hen- sel, and will conduct two yards. + +. ____—_- Gripsack Brigade. Geo. W. Gage is headed East on an ex- tended tour for the Alabastine Co. D. G. Kenyon is handling the city trade of H. S. Robinson & Burtenshaw exclusively. E. E. Lamoreaux, formerly on the road for V. R. Steglitz, of Eaton Rapids, has engaged to travel for Morris H. Treusch & Bro. Valda A. Johnston has traded his 2:28 mare for the cozy residence at 19 Powell street, but anticipates great things from a colt bred by the same mare. Geo. P. Cogswell, formerly on the road for H. S. Robinson & Burtenshaw, is now the proprietor of a retail shoe store on Michigan avenue, Detroit. Captain Jim could not be bribed to call on acustomer April 9. He will be engaged that day in welcoming the sur- viving members of his old regiment at their annual reunion at Lowell. Traverse City people are anxiously awaiting the return of a couple of trav- elers—too green to burn—who persisted in carrying on a flirtation with a pair of hotel girls in such an open manner as to excite the disgust of everyone cognizant of the matter. J. Kipp writes THE TRADESMAN as follows: George Hallam, traveling sales- man for Barnes Bros., of Detroit, made a wager with one Lynn, of Big Rapids, on the result of the last presidential elec- tion. George got left and now he has demanded and received back the amount of his wager from the stake holder. a nt Excursion to Detroit Floral Exhibition. The Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway, Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Rail- way, Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Rail- way, Detroit Division and Michigan Air Line Division of the Grand Trunk Rail- way will sell special excursion tickets for this interesting exhibition at single fare for round trip, with 25 cents added for admittance coupon to the exhibition. Tickets will be sold on Wednesday, April 3, and Thursday, April 4, good to goon all trains on these dates, and will be valid to return on all trains up to and including following day of issue. The Detroit rink, in which the exhi- bition is to be held. is located on Larned street, between Bates and Randolph streets, about four blocks from Brush street depot, or a block and a half from corner of Woodward and Jetferson ave- nues, on the same spot where the 1883 Art Loan was held. This exhibition has been fully noted through the press of the State, and will be one of the finest ever held in the country. a et Mr. Jenks’ Close Call. Mr. Jenks (who came home after a hard day’s work, carried three trunks down stairs, bumped his head against the door, and hurried five squares to the depot to see some relatives off)—‘‘I feel tired to-night.”’ Mrs. Jenks (anxiously)—‘‘Tired? Have you a tired feeling?”’ 6Veg,?? ‘““Mercy! ‘*Yes,”? ‘‘And head ache?”’ *‘Some.”’ “And fleeting body?”’ ‘Well, now I think of it, I do have them occasionally.”’ “Oh, my husband, you’ve got the very symptoms described in Dr. Quack’s med- ical almanac, and you are on the verge of Bright’s disease, liver complaint, con- sumption, insanity anddeath! Run right down to the drug store, and buy a dozen bottles!”’ Does your back ache?’’ pains around your Bank Notes. Sherman & Son succeed Obert & Sher- man in the banking business at Bancroft. The Exchange Bank at Gladstone has been merged intoa State bank, with a paid in capital stock of $50,000, under the style of the Gladstone Exchange Bank. The stockholders are as follows: John Plankinton, Frederick -T. Day and Wm. Plankinton, of Milwaukee; Henry D. Smith, Appleton, Wis.; J. Frank Collom and Wm. H. Keller, Minneapolis; Paul W. Giebel and Capt. Chas. E. Burns, Escanaba; W. M. Carruthers, Corinne; Wm. A. Foss, Edwin S. Tice and: F. W. McKinney, Gladstone; Sarah McKinney, Brooklyn, N. Y. ee T. C. Crane, now with the Tecumseh Creamery Co., and J. W. Crane, traveling representative for the Western Dairy Supply Co., have formed a copartner- ship under the style of Crane & Son and will put in a creamery at Burr Oak, be- ginning the season’s work about May 1. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. ‘Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for less than 25cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF HARDWARE AT Rockford, Mich.; will invoice about $2,000. Enquire of J. Frank Mead, Agt., Rockford, or S. F. Stevens (Foster, Stevens & Co.), Grand Rapids. 409 JOR SALE—DRUG STOCK, FIXTURES AND SODA fountain, good location. Enquire 79 Plainfield 408 Ave. OR SALE—FULL SET OF TINNERS’ TOOLS, SAFE, show cases and haraware fixtures—all in good condition and cheap forcash. Willselloneorall. J. Vander Veen, 122 Monroe street, Grand Rapids. 373 RUG STORE FOR SALE— ESTABLISHED NINE 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. 394 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 OR SALE—A GENERAL STOCK OF MERCHANDISE; will invoice $10,000. including fixtures; business of 1888 was over $40,000; located in thriving town of 1,500 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 . 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 willbe given to buyer; reasons, too much business. Address B, care Michigan Tradesman. 377 OR SALE AT A BARGAIN—ONE STEAM BOILER 4x12 feet, 45 3-inch flues, fire tront, breeching, smokestack, safety valve, water gauge and inspirator; was replaced by larger boiler; all in good order. E Greilick, Lock Box 18, Traverse City, Mich. 393 SNAP—GROCERY STORE IN EAU CLAIRE, WIS. that pays for itself twice a year will be sold to the right party for cash, if it can be sold at once; it will pay to look into this. For particulars, address Box 485, Eau Claire, Wis. 405 OR SALE—BRIGHT, CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIES, erockery and glass-ware, in growing town of over 1,200; stock and fixtures will invoice about $2,500; business averages $1,500 per month; store building is one of the finest in the State tor business and will be rented or sold; reasons, otber business needs our atten- tion. Address A, care Michigan Tracesman. 378 HELP WANTED. WwW oa HONEST YOUNG MAN WHO has had two years’ experience in the drug busi- Address No. 3&8, care Tradesman. 388 ness. SITUATIONS WANTED. \ JANTED—SITUATION AS BOOK-KEEPER BY MAN of eight years’ experience, who is familiar with general merchandise. Address A. E. Chambers, 95 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 407 \ JAN TED—SITUATION— BY REGISTERED PHAR- macist; thorough qualifications; excellent ref- erences. Address Box 187, Sherwood, Mich. 4 7 ANTED—SITUATION—BY A PHARMACIST, REGIS- tered by examination; best of references. Address No. 402, care Michigan Tradesman. 402 YITUATION WANTED—A COMMERCIAL TRAVELER is open for engagement. Large acquaintance with grocery trade in Michigan. Address Jackson, care Michigan Tradesman, 325 QALESMAN WISHES TO REPRESENT GRAND RAPIDS \O manufacturer to the trade in Chicago, or on the road after April Ist. Address 395, care Tradesman. 395 MISCELLANEOUS. NO EXCHANGE—I HAVE A NEW, BRIGHT, WELL- selected little stock of hardware to exchange for afarm or city real estate. Address No. 401, care Michigan Tradesman. St 2 O CASH BUYS MANUFACTURING BUSI- 3 ness paying 100 per cent. Best of rea- sons‘ for selling. Address Chas. Kynoch, St. Ignace, Mich. : 228 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 vy EXCHANGE—PRODUCTIVE REAL estate in the thriving village of Bailey on the C. & W.M. Railway for house and lot in Grand Rapids, worth about $1,500, Address, D. B. Galentine. Cas- novia, Mich. 372 V ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 214 OR SALE—GOOD RESIDENCE LOT ON ONE OF the most pleasant streets ‘‘on the hill.’’ Will ex- change for stock in any good institution. Address 28, care Michigan Tradesman. 286 \ ANTED—EVERY STORE-KEEPER WHO READS this paper to give the Sutliff coupon system a trial. It will abolish your pass books, do away with all your book-keeping, in many instances save you the expense of one clerk, will bring your business down to a cash basis and save you all the worry and trouble that usually go with the pass-book plan. Start the ist of the month with the new system and you will never regret it. Having two kinds, both kinds will be sent by addressing (mentioning this paper) J. H. Sutliff, Albany, N. Y. 213 CASH SALE CHECKS. Encourage your trade to pay cash instead of running book accounts by using Cash Sale Checks. For sale at50 cents per 100 by E. A. STOWE & BRO.. Grand Rapids. PROPRIETORS C.G.A. Voigta Co. OF r Roller Mills Grand Rapids, Mich. LION COFFEE -Merehants, YOU WANT THIS CABINE Thousands of Them Are in use all over the land. It does away with the unsightly barrels so often seen on the floor of the average grocer. Beautifully grained and varnished and put together in the best possible manner. Inside each cabinet will be found one complete set of castors with screws. Kvery Wide- Awake Merchant Should Certainly Sell ON, THK KING OF COFFERS. An Article of Absolute Merit. It is fast supplanting the scores of inferior roasted coffees. Packed only in one pound packages. Put up in 100-Ib cases, also in cabinets of 120 one-pound packages. For sale by the wholesale trade everywhere. Shipping depots in all first-class cities in the United States. Woolson Spice Co., TOLEDO, ONO. C. M. Henderson & Co, Superior Manufacturers. Product of Our Factory at Fon du Lac, Wis. You can buy a better $3 Men’s Calf Shoe and other grades made by C. M. HENDERSON & 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 highly appreciate it and are sure it will prove to your advantage. Our heayier grades of goods made at our third factory are also acknowledged to be unequaled. C. M. HENDERSON & CO., Chicago. Factories: Willard H. James, i Salesman for the Lower Peninsula. — es Tl. P. O. address, Chicago, M11. Morton House, Grand Rapids, Mich. We furnish electrotypes of our Specialties to Customers. ONE OF A SERIES OF PICTURES REPRESENTING COFFEE CULTURE. WATCH FOR THE NEXT. TT See aS fh Ce ca ‘\ € PICKING TRE BERRIES. AES aA ENON Be JT ENG SCENE ON A COFFEE PLANTATION . HASE CONTROLLED BY S A N B O RN. OUR COFFEES HAVE A NATIONAL REPUTATION REPRESENTING THE FINEST GROWN. in its richness and delicacy of flavor. BRAND COFFEE Coffee of America. Always packed Justly called The Aristecratic ir-tight tin cans. a BLEN A skilful blending of strong, fla- JAVA and MOCHA, surpassing all others i whole roasted (unground) in 2 lb. CRUSADE ionae — ee ede ranted not to contain a single Rio bean, anda @' e sr ae as no other coffee will, at a moderate price. Always packed eo roasted (unground), in 1 1b. air-tight parchment packages. F Tell us that their coffee trade has RE Al L CG ROCE es doubled and trebled since buying and selling our coffees. What it has done for them it will do for you, Send for samples to CHASE & SANBORN, BROAD STREET, - BOSTON, MASS. HERBERT T. CHASE, Representative for Michigan and Northern Ohio, Western Department: 80 Franklin St., Chicago. GRAND RAPIDS. e 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 Board—President; C. L. Whitney, Muskegon; Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; N. B. Blain, Lowell; Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint; Hiram DeLano, Allegan; Secretary. Committee on Insurance—Geo. B. Caldwell, Green- villa; W.S. Powers, Nashville; Oren Stone, Flint. Committee on Legislation—S. E. Pa rkill, Owosso; H. A. Hydorn, Grand Rapids; H, H. Pope, Allegan. Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barne~, Traverse City: Geo. R. Hoyt, East Saginaw; H. B. Fargo, Mus- kegon. Committee on Transportation—James Osborn,Owosso; O. F. Conklin, Grand Rapids; C. F Creek. ae Committee on Building and Loan Associations—Chaun- eey Strong, Kalamazoo; Will Emmert, Eaton Rapids; W. E. Crotty, Lansing, Local Secretary—P. J. Connell, Muskeger. Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. associations are op- following auxiliary a c the Michi- erating under charters granted by gan Business Men’s Association: No. 1—Traverse City B. M. A. President, J. W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings. oe No. 2—Lowell #. M. A. President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King. —— e No. 3—Sturgis B. M. A. President. H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. "No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A. President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. No. 5—Muskegon B. M.A. _ President, John A. Miller; Secretary, C. L. Whitney. No. 6—Alba &. M. A. / President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin. No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A. President, T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger. No. 8—Eastport B. M. A. President, F. H. Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston. No. 9—Lawrence B. M. A, President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly. No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M. A. President, W. J. Clark; Secretary. A. L. Thompson. ee ee ee Ee No.11—Kingsley B. M. A. President, H. P. Whipple; Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop. No. 12—Quincy B. M. A. President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon. No. 13—Sherman B. M. A. : President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, Ww. J. Austin. No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A. President, S. A. Howey: Secretary, G. C. Havens. No. 15 - Boyne City B. M. A. President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase. No. 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, S. Lamfrom. No. 19—Ada B.M. A. President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel. No. 20—saugatuck B. M.A. President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps. No. 21— Wayland 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, Ww. o. Richmond. No. 25—Palo B. M. A, President, H. D. Pew; Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson. No. 26—Greenville ts, M. A. President, A. C. Satterlee: Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell. No 27—Dorr B.M. A. | President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher. No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A President, A. J. Paddock; Secretary, H.G. Dozer. No. 29—Freeport B. M. A. President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough. No. 30—Oceana B. M. A. ! President, A.G. Avery; Secretary, E. S. Houghtaling. No. 31—Charlotte 8. M. A. President, Thos. J. Green; Seeretary, 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, R. W. Kane. No. 34—Saranac B. M. A. President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P.T. Williams. No. 35-——Bellaire B. M. A. President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C. E. Densmore. Ne. 36—Ithaca B. M. A. President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden. No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A. President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E W. Moore. No. 38—Scottville B. M.A. | President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins. No. 39 -Burr Oak B. M. A. President, W. S. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon. No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A. President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert. 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—Tustin B. 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—Hoyiville B. M. A. President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay. No. 46—Leslie B. M. A. President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould. i No, 47—Flint M. U. President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, ww. H. Graham. No. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A. President, Boyd Redner: Secretary, W. J. Tabor. No. 49—terey B M. A. President, A. Wenzell; Secretary. Frank Smith. No. 50—Manistee B. M. A. President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary,C. Grannis. No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A. President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon. No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A. President, A. 8. Kedzie; Secretary, EF. D. Vos. No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A. President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald. No. 54— Douglas B. M, A. President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller. No. 55—Peteskey B. M. A. President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary. A. C. Bowman. No. 56—Bangor B. M. A. President, N. W. Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman. No. 57—Rockford B. M. A. President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham. No. 58—Fife Lake RB. M. A. President, L. S. Walter; Secretar, ,C.> Plakely. No. 59—Fennville B. M. A. President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen. No. 60—South Boardman B. M. 4. President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt. No. 61—Hartford B. M. A. President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes. No 62—Fast ~aginaw M. A. President, Jas. H .Moore; Secretary, C. W. Mulholand. No. 63—E.vart &. M. A. President, C. V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell. No, 64—Merrill B. M. A- President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton. No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A. President, Aif. 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—Secotts and Climax B. M. A. President, Lyman Clark: Secretary, F. S. Willison. No. 70—Nashville B. M. A, President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers. No. 71—Ashley B M. A, President, M. Netzorg: Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck. No. 72—Edmore B. M. A. No, 73—Belding B. M. A. President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster. No. 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, 8S. S.McCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong. No. 77—South Haven B. M. A. President—L. 8S. Monroe; Secretary, S. VanOstgand. No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A. President, J. O. Seibert; Secretary, J. W. Saunders. Ne. 79—Ka-t Jordanand 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—Sh-rwood B. M.A. President, L. P. Wilcox; Secretary. W. R. Mandigo. A. M. Wilson, of White Pigeon, is open for an offer from some B. M. A. to establish a road cart factory, he being the inventor of a novel cart. F. Bock, Battle | serve a holiday and they are making arrange- Association Notes. Schoolcraft is considering the subject of or- ganizing a B. M. A. L. M. Mills will organize a B. M. A. at Blanch- ard on the evening of April 2. The State Organizer addresses the newly- organized Vicksburg B. M. A. this evening. Charlotte Republican: Now, if the old double stave barrel factory could be started up and be put to manufacturing something, our industries would all be in fair shape. In our opinion the Business Men’s Association should direct their efforts especially to this end as the first thing to be secured, A Fennville correspondent writes as follows: The Business Men’s Association think they de- ments fora grand banquet and ball to be given by them. Itis to bea grand affair and invita- tions will be extended to their friends in all ; directions. Manistee Advocate: The Business Men’s Asso- ciation met last evening at Lower Union Hall. It was agreed to open all the stores full hours, beginning Monday evening next. The request of the Association, asking the Western Union Telegraph Co. for additional service in the city, | will be complied with. The Western Union will put upa new wire from Grand Rapids to this city and employ an additional operator. The office will be open from 7 a. m. to 2 p. m. Grand Traverse Herald: The B. M. A. was fairly well attended last evening. T.G. Shilson, A.S. Dobson, W. S. Anderson and John Helm were admitted to membership. Hon. G. E. Steele talked briefly upon the railroad question, and Mr. Steele, Judge Campbell and Dr. Kneeland were appointed special committee on railroad matters. Routine work was done and then the Junior Boys’ band came in and played for the meeting, and asked advice in regard to their organization. This band is composed of a dozen or more lads, mostly under sixteen years of age, and they do credit to themselves and the town. They are tosome expense for rent of practice figures that he is selling goods “at cost,” as a leader, is actually paying out of his own pocket a liberal margin for the privilege of distributing some manufacturer’s goods. Toillustrate: Some grocers will sell sugars at what they pay for | them with freight added, and figure that they | are selling at cost; in point of fact, if it bea| wholesaler, he is actually losing 5 per cent., or} say $1 per barrel; or, if a retailer, 10 per cent., | and the same is true of many proprietary goods which are sold on nearly the same basis. | Another thing, how many grocers are there’ | who have thought of the fact that they cannot afford to sell goods on the same percentage of profit when goods are low as they did wnen |} goods were higher, and that they should try to get the same margin of profit per pound, per zallon or package as formerly? For instance, 10 er cent. on a barrel of flour at $8 a barrel would be 80 cents, but 10 per cent. on a barrel of flour, at $6 is only 60 cents. 1 Another thing, percentages of expenses are usually figured on amount of sales, while per- | centages of profit are figured on the cost of the goods; grocers who do not wish to deceive them- | selves should figure both percentages on the | | same basis. There are many retail grocers who sell a barrel | of flour costing $7.50 for $8, and whose expenses | of doing business are not less than 8) cents on that | barrel of flour, and therefore they are paying 3) | cents for the privilege of disposing of that barrel | of flour instead of making, as they figured, 50 | cents. Selling at cost should be interpreted to mean | selling at a price which covers the first cost of | ‘the goods and all of the above-named items | which enter into the cost of doing business. No man is a good business man who sells sta- ples ata loss, hoping to make it up on other goods. If businessmen in general understood these facts, there would be fewer failures in business, fewer men who work hard all their lives without obtaining that respite from labor and business cares which every sober, industri- ous man is entitled to in his old age. But how are we to reach this, some will ask, when there are so many foolish and reckless competitors, or dishonest ones, who do not mean to pay for their goods? We answer, by organ- ization and agitation among both wholesale and retail merchants. Each should pursue a ‘live and let live” policy, and each can help the other todoso. Wholesalers’ associations should make a condition of membership that their mem- | bers should deal in goods of good quality and | honest quantity, and that they must not compete with retail merchants for the trade of consum- | ers. Retail merchants can encourage the selling of pure and honest goods at fair profits, and each | room and for drill master, and it does not seem just right that the lads should be called upon to meet all of these expenses. While not heavy, it | is still asking a good deal of them to do this. | The business men present at the meeting last evening thought the business men of the town would be glad to help a little in the matter, and we have no doubt this is so. Cedar Springs Clipper: Some snoozer who is either ignorant of the facts or is telling a most malicious falsehood is reporting the story that the Cedar Springs Business Men’s Association has combined and fixed the prices upon the dif- ferent commodities sold by our merchants. The: Association was not organized with that object in view, nor have the members ever practiced it in one single case. It was organized for the purpose of inducing manufactories and capital- | ists to locate in our village and help build it up, giving employment to labor, consuming the | product of the farmers and thus enhancing the | value of real estate in the village and surround- ing country. It helped secure the T., 8. & Me Railway, and did secure the Northern Kent, Bank (with its new brick block, an ornament | and credit to the town) and will yet secure a! canning factory and apple evaporator. It helps to make rogues honest—pay their honest debts. And all this, certainly, no intelligent and honest | citizen will object to. To set at rest and forever bury the author of this bare-faced falsehood about a combination on goods, the President of the B. M. A. makes this proposition: “To any reputable citizen of Michigan who can, by the Secretary’s books, any merchant or reputable Citizen in Cedar Springs, prove that at any time since its existence, the B. M. A. has ever fixed | the price upon any one article, either bought or sold by one of its members, or making a com- bination touching upon any commodity, mer- | cantile or farm products, he will pay into the library fund of each and every district school in the Townships of Nelson and Solon $10 in gold.” Now, Mr. Falsifier, either prove your statements , orshut up. Show your hand. ————»>e~?e > Organization of a B. M. A. at Lakeview. The business men of Lakeview met at the) engine house on the evening of March 12 for the | purpose of organizing a B. M. A. L. W. Sprague, | the wheel-horse of Greenville, gave a ringing address in explanation of the aims of the Asso- ciation and the various ways in which it exerts its influence, followed by afew supplementary | remarks by the State Organizer. The plan of organization was so well received that it was | decided to proceed to organize, which was done | by the adoption of the regulation constitution and the election of the following officers: President—A. R. Mather. Vice-President—Fred. Shellman. Secretary—C. W. Throop. Treasurer—C. F Braden. : i | Executive Committee—E. G. Perkins, W. J.} Carse, C. Newton Smith. The members who signed the constitution at the initial meeting are as follows: E. G. Per- kins, J. L. Lazier, C. Newton Smith, C. C. Gilleo, | D. J. Brown, F. Sheliman, A. R. Mather, C. W_| Throop, A. MeAfee, C. E, Butler, R. P. Everett, | C. F. Braden, Samuel Beall, Wm. Lobden, W. J. Carse, D. S. Haviland. i Sixty-Two Charter Members at Paw Paw. Paw Paw, March 16, 1889. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR S1in—The business men of Paw Paw have completed the organization of their B. M. A., with sixty-two charter members, and have started out with fair prospects of success, When does the fiscal year of the State Associ- ation begin? We are in hopes to be able to take a charter soon. Yours truly, Wma. H. Mason, Sec’y. ————~> s+ > Grand Rapids Mercantile Association. At the regular semi-annual meeting of the Grand Rapids Mercantile Association, held at THE TRADESMAN office on March 19, B. Barendse, the Oakdale Park grocer, was elected to mem- bership. The Committee on Roll of Honor reported progress and was given until the next meeting to present a final report. A communication from the Insurance Com- mittee of the Michigan Business Men’s Associa- tion was presented and referred to the Insurance Committee of the local body. The condition of the charter revision relative to the public market matter was discussed and | laid on the table until the next meeting. The question of establishing an exchange, for | the interchange of information relative to poor- paying patrons, was discussed at some length, when it was resolved to establish such a feature, without further delay. The names of about twenty-five questionable customers were handed in and discussed. President Herrick introduced the following article prepared by F. N. Barrett, of New York, which was read by the Secretary: How many dealers realize what selling ‘at cost’? means? and freight, but in reality it means the average | } { j | i | cost of dving business, and that is at least 5 cents | upon every dollar of sales at wholesale, and an ; average of 1U cents upon every dollar of sales at | retail. The principal items that go to make up the average cost of doing business are rent, interest on capital invested, insurance, labor, superin- tendence, cartage, lighting and heating, waste, leakage, drying out, wear and tear, taxes, bad debts, and other items which, though more or less intangible and seldom thought of, go to make up a formidable total. Many a dealer who i step in the right direction, and the resolutions | ynanimously passed by that convention admir- | association. | development of the law of competition and this ! below the cost of doing business, with a ten- | dency to lower the quality of our food supply |; | manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and con- ; sumers; | of our food supply and generally to pursue a ‘the readers of the April Atlantic will | entitled | years; and Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, | ing View of Carrick Meagher,”’ by George | ‘reason to complain of the operations of The majority think it means Cost | can work together for many trade reforms which | are of interest to both. The recent convention of wholesale grocers to form a national associa- tion and endeavor to sellsugars without loss isa ably outline the scope and _ purpose of such an | These were as follows: Wuereas, Increased facilities of production and distribution have resulted in the extreme in turn in abusesin trade, such as selling goods and to encourage reckless and unscrupulous | methods in trade which are detrimental alike to and WHEREAS, These abuses can only be remedied by organizatiop and conference, Resolves, That it is expedient and desirable to form an organization to be known as the Whole- | sale Grocers’ National Association, and the) officers of this convention, in conjunction with | the committees appointed, are hereby requested | to report to this convention a proper form of | organization. Res lv d, That in order to remove any mis- , | apprehension of the scope and_ purpose of this | organization, we hereby place the declaration on | record that we are opposed to combination for the purpose of extorting unreasonable profits from the public, but reasonable efforts for self- preservation are proper and necessary, and an organization whose object is to promote correct and honest methods in trade, improve the quality live-and-let-live policy is to be commended. The meeting then adjourned. ———_—<_>_<_——_ The April ‘‘Atlantic.”’ The poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, in honor of the dinner given to James Russell Lowell on his seventieth birth- nay, is naturally the first thing to which It is charecterized by Dr. Holmes’s turn. ‘usual felicity, and the occasion of its | delivery makes it specially interesting. | Mr. H. C. Merwin contributes a studious | paper on “The People in Government,” and Mr. Samuel Sheldon answers the; to Germany.’’? Thomas Basin, Bishop of | Lisieux, who suffered much at the hands! of Louis XI., forms the subject of an} article by Mr. F. C. Lowell; and William | Cranston Lawton writes entertainingly | of an Archeological journey ‘‘From | Venice to Assos.’? Miss Preston con-| tinues her series of articles by a paper | “Before the Assassination,” | giving an account of Cicero’s closing under the name of ‘‘An Outline Portrait,” | writes a pleasant sketch about Lady | Magdalene Herbert, mother to George Herber*. Mr. Hurdy’s serial, ‘‘Passe Rose,”’ is concluded; Mr. James’s ‘‘Tragic Muse’”’ is continued, and the concluding | portion of ‘‘Hannah Calline’s Jim” also forms part of this number. The two short stories are ‘‘The King’s Cup and Cake,’’ by Sophie May, and ‘‘A Dissolv- | H. Jessop. Mr. Bliss Carman, the young Canadian poet, contributes a long poem, ‘“Deathin April,’? and Dr. T. W. Parsons some verses called ‘‘In Eclipse.’’ — Criti- | cisms of Renan’s Dramas and other re-, cent books conclude an interesting num- ber. ——_——>_ 2 East Saginaw Jottings. The committee in charge has secured | the fair of the Northeastern Agricultural Society for the next three years. They) will, with the subscriptions received, erect all the buildings and arrange every- thing in first-class order. That the fair will be a success and a benefit to the Saginaws, is sure. Geo. H. Glynn, who has been Treasurer of the wholesale grocery house of Sy-; mons Bros. & Co. for the past three years, severs his connections with that firm this week. George has made many friends among the dealers, whe will join in wishing him good luck. $< —____—_ Injustice to Retail Merchants. From the San Francisco Grocer. While retail merchants in interior towns, men who are experienced in trade and meet their engagements, are usually prepared for legitimate competition and look upon it as a feature of trade which cannot be avoided, they often have good itinerant dealers in so-called bankrupt | stocks, who only remain long enough in one place to work off a quantity of inferior goods, and demoralize prices. In some sections of the country this practice has worked so much injury to regular traders that municipal legislation has | been invoked in order to keep out such interlopers. In one Western town, Dan- ville, lil., it is stated that the common council has passed an ordinance requir- ing merchants starting business in that place to subseribe under oath their in- tention to remain in business for a period not less than one year, accompanied by a bond in the sum of $1,000. To check the practice to which we have referred, a Cleveland, Ohio, con- temporary suggests that the proprietors of these mushroom stores be compelled ito pay atax of at least $1,000 for the | privilege of selling their inferior wares. i/Such an enactment might, perhaps, be secured in some localities, but it is rather ‘ doubtful if it could be adopted to an ex- tent that would accomplish much good. Laws of this character are very easily evaded, and the class they are intended to affect are usually so unscrupulous that they would not hesitate to resort to any expedient to avoid paying the tax. In- deed, it is the exception where these floating traders pay even the taxes or- dinarily levied on regular retail mer- chants, who are often called upon to bear more than their fair share of such bur- dens. Another trade evil, akin to that we have mentioned, and one from which retail merchants have been suffering for years, is the competition of bankrupt dealers who, by the leniency of their creditors, are enabled to effect a settle- ment by compromise and to resume busi- ness. Of course, a merchant who pays one hundred cents on the dollar finds the competition of dishonest or incom- petent traders—whose stock often stands them in only half that sum and some- times even less—costly and vexatious. Not only this, but so great is the force of example that men, naturally straightfor- ward and honest, finding the creditors of others so lenient and easy to settle with are almost inclined to adopt a policy which, while it may have tarnished the reputation of insolvents, has frequently placed them in a better position finan- cially. A correspondent of a Canadian contemporary, writing on this subject, says: ‘IT believe the present system is rotten. Now, take the case of a merchant who establishes a business in a town, and he commences at once and undersells all his neighbors, slaughtering the goods right and left, all the time pocketing the money. In the mean time his creditors are wondering why he is not paying— well, you see, he can’t pay, for presently he is going to ask his creditors to accept a compromise at, say, forty cents on the dollar cash, slaughtered money saved up for the job. Now. he says to the public, ‘Hurrah! I can undersell all the merchants in town, I have got all my goods at forty cents on the dollar.’ Now, you see, this is done every day; and so long as the wholesaler settles by accepting such offers just so long is he injuring his cus- tomers who pay one hundred cents on the dollar. Now, I think if those dis- honest dealers knew that there would be no hope of any kind of a compromise, they would be more careful in what they were doing and avoid such reckless sell- ing. There will never be a_ healthy, sound business until compromises are done away with.”’ The above sound opinion, so tersely expressed, will be appreciated by solvent retail merchants on this coast who have for years strongly protested against com- promise settlements and their attendant evils. oo Becoming Extinct. The alligator of the South, like the buffalo of the West, is likely soon to be- come extinet. The slaughter of the alli- gator for its hide, lke the slaughter of buffaloes for their hides, has been so great that it will be only a few years be- fore the lonely lagoon of Florida will have lost its last survivor. a gr His Answer Was Satisfactory. “Wife, did yeu order that boneless liver as Lasked you to do this morning ?”’ “Ves. |b did.77 ‘What did the butcher say ?”’ “You’re a mean, good-for-nothing old fool. Don’t speak to me again for a month.’’ A There are over 200 different secret orders in the United States, and every one of them have been used as a cover for the condition of a man who comes home late ‘‘fr’m zhe lodge, m’dear.’’ HARDWARE. Prices Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. ives), OIG Style oo 60 Spelbs. 60 Cooks 40 Jennings’, Senpine 322... 25 Jennings, imitation... 2. 8s 50&10 AXEs. Mirst Quality, S. Bb Bronze. .-......-5. 22... 8 7 00 _ DB Bronze........ 11 00 a S B.S Steel... 8 50 a DB Steel 13 00 BALANCES. dis. SDR 49 BARROWS. dis. Railroad... 2 ee $ 14 00 Gare net 33 00 BELLS. dis. BG ca 60&10&10 OOW 6.2 ee. 70 oe 30&15 Gone 25 Door, Sarvent...- 60&10 BOLTS. dis. SGGVG s 686 Carriage new Hat. 3 70&10 POW 50 Sieish sHGe. 8 70 Wrourht Barrel Bolte. -.... 60 Cast Barrel Bolts: 40 Cast Barrell, brass Enobs...-0.0 002.1... 40 Cast Square Spring... 60 Cast Gnain 40 Wrought Barrel, brass knob................ 60 Wrought square, 3 60 Wreulht Sunk High tooo 60 Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush.. .60&10 ives Boor... 60£10 BRACES. dis. Barer ee 40 IACKUR 50&10 SpOUOtG 5 Am Baa. net BUCKETS. Well, plain. $ 3 50 Well swivel. -..¢..0 ee. 4 00 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cast Loose Pin, fisured.--..... -.. F& Cast Loose Pim, Berlin bronzed............. 70k Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.......... 60& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60410 Wrought Boose Pim. 6010 Wrought Loose Bin, acorn fip............-_ - 60&05 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned ...........__ 60&05 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped .60&05 Wroucht Mable 0 60&10 Wrouscht Inside Blind. =. _-..-..--- 60£10 Wroacht Greash ee 75 Bind) Ciatks. ee 70&10 Bind Parkers <¢. ..- 70&10 lind, Shepard’s 3 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle; list April 17, 86........... 40 | i CARPET SWEEPERS. Bissell NGG per doz.317 00 Bissell No. 7, new drop pan ........ r 19 60 Bissell Grand = 600.07. e 36 00 Grand Rapids 000 e 24 00 Lo i ee . 15 00 CRADLES. Grain oe dis. 50&02 CROW BARS. ©ast Steck... per ib 04 Iron, Steel Points. 3... - 3% CAPS. Se ee perm 66 Pecks CF. “ 60 co... . 35 Mosket............0.5.3 cy 60 CARTRIDGES. Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50 Rim Hire, United States. ........... 2... dis. 50 Central Fire... te dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. Boeket Mirmer oo 70&10 Socket Hraming .... -. 70&10 SOGCKCLOCORMEE. 9. 70&10 Soeket Slicks ..-0..-0 0. 70&10 Butehers’ Tanged,.Firmer........... cee 40 Barton's Socket Firmers....-...-. 2... 20 Calg net COMBS. dis. (Qurmry, Lawrence's (...000 ot 40&10 tC 25 CHALK. White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 cocks. Brads, HaCkine 6... .-2). 60 Bien Ss oe 60 Beer .--40&10 leis... 62 COPPER. Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... perpound 33 hg ieee 1ox5b, POO 31 Cold Rolled. 14556 and 14x60... ........... 29 Cold Rotled, ixae ee 29 IBOUGMS oo 30 DRILLS. dis. Morse's BH Stocks: 2 2c se 40 Paper and straight Shank......... ‘ 40 Moree's Paper smanic (00.6.2. 40 DRIPPING PANS. Small sizes, ser pound .....-..............-. 07 Large sizes, per pound .. 1.2... 2... 6% ELBOWS. Com. 4 piece Gin. ss doz.net %5 CORmmenees 0 ees dis. 20&10&10 IGURSERENG. ko os dis. 4%&10 Foster, Stevens & Co.“ EXPRESS WAGONS. meee .> His Own Diagnosis. Mother—And do you really feel so very bad, Bobby? Bobby—yYes, ma. I ain’t quite sick enough to need any medicine, but Pma little bit too sick to go to school. pleaded the ORANGE CULTURE. How the Crop is Raised and Disposed of in Florida. Marion county, in thecenter of Florida, is celebrated for producing one-fourth of the orange crop of that State. It has large groves of natural growth situated in the midst of rich hummocks, those adjacent to Citra, its —_—- shipping point, covering over 2,500 acres, and con- taing 75,000 full bearing trees. J. A. Harris, a resident of this district, and known throughout the State as the ‘‘Or- ange King of Florida,’’ has been visiting New York, and furnishes some interest- ing data to the Tribune concerning the cultivating of this and other fruit. He said: ‘*Marion county will furnish over half a million boxes of oranges this year, or more than any other three counties put together. The crop of the State averages from two and one-half to three million boxes. The majority of the groves are of spontaneous growth, and stand just where nature planted them; hence the fruit, being of wild origin, is sour and bitter. This stock is the best to graft upon, and when budded to the best sweet varieties the new wood is all sweet above the graft and produces the most luscious fruit, a tree taking three to four years to bear. I was born and brought up at Lake Harris, and when at the age of twenty- one I moved to Citra and bought a grove, the country was a wood, boasting one pine cabin and four inhabitants. All of the oranges were of wild growth and consequently sour, so I grafted them and made them sweet, studied the nature of the fruit, kept the ground clean and well- fertilized, and for eighteen years have diligently pursugd the business, and as a result my grove of 200 acres this year yields 50,000 boxes of oranges, which is greater than the yield of any other grove in the State. Bishop, Hoit & Co., my neighbors, have a grove of 175 acres and are the second largest, and the Lindsay or Cresent Orange Company, also in this district, are the third largest growers. At Citra we confine our labor to men as far as picking, packing and shipping are concerned, but boys do the wrapping, and at some groves girls also assist at wrapping. The wages of the men aver- age from $1 to $3 a day, yet as they do the bulk of the heavy or outdoor work they, as arule, command the latter figure, the boys earning all the way from 50 cents to $1.25 aday. The busy season begins in November and lasts until April. The force is about equally divided be- tween the colored and white people, the former doing the picking and the latter the packing and shipping. Whatdo they do during the remainder of the year? Why, new groves have to be laid out, land cultivated, weeded and kept clear to prevent the trees from becoming diseased, and this takes all summer. This, of course, does not require as many men as during harvest season, still there is always plenty of work between open- ing up the new and keeping the old groves in proper condition. Some of the hands hire out on farms, orchards, cotton, tobacco or sugar plantations. You ask if many bananas or pineapples are grown in this district. Only a few, for table use. At Indian River, further south, bananas, pineapples and _ cocoanuts, which are largely tropical or open-air plants, are grown extensively. Oranges are more profitable to us, and next to them limes. lemons, citron and grape fruit. By the way, tobacco growing attracting great attention and becoming a considerable industry. especially the | finer grades, which flourish on hummock | land, and in quality are equal to any brought from Cuba. fruit culture in Marion county, it has only one drawback, namely. lack of water. April and May being the dry season, the young fruit drops off; hence, there is some waste, and an improved system of irrigation is needed. Wells have been sunk successfully along the Atlantic coast and St. John River. but in the in- terior, although borings have been made to a depth of 1.000 feet, the flow of water insufficient for practical The only disease prevalent is is purposes that is where all consignments be at an exchang>. This guard against an overstocked market and the loss incidental to perish- able and the advantage gained would be this. at least, that goods would sell on their merits, and pris ‘es could regulated. Citra has now would sold would goods, be 00 inhabitants and ships 250,000 boxes of oranges an- nually, and in other portions of the county there are numberless groves that ship from 100 to 10,000 boxes of the fruit | with the return of every season.”’ Speaking of the! of HARDWOOD LUMBER. The furniture factories here pay as follows for dry stock, measured merchantable, mill culls out: Basswood, los-run 23. 22s. 2. 13 00@15 00 Birch, log- WUE ee Se ee ee 15 00@16 00 Biren, Nos: 1} ang 2 @22 00 Black Ash f6e 30H 2 = 00@16 00 Cherry, log- PR 25 00@35 00 Cherry, Nos. 4 and ooo). oo es 50 00@60 00 Chex Col i @12 00 Maple, fos ran 12 00@13 00 Maple, soft, SOS SHA 2. 11 00@13 00 Maole, Nos: tand2...........--.....-: @20 00 Maple, clear, Hooring.....-....-.-.... @25 00 Manic. white, selceted <.....-... @25 00 Red Oak, lop-run...... 2. ee cen, = o0@21 00 Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2... ..-...5... 00@2> 00 Red Oak, 4 sawed, 6 inch and upw’d. ms 00@40 00 Red Oak, 4% sawed, regzular....-.....-.- 50 00 = Red Oak, No. 1 seep plank... Walnut lop ran 00000032. as 55 5 00 Walnut N6s. fand?.... |.-......-.-. @75 00 Weinate ent ee @25 00 Grey Him loorun......... 12 00@13 05 White Aso lgeran. 00000862 14 00@16 00 Whitewood, locrun ..-.._-. 20 00@22 00 White Oak lop ran... ..... 03 17 00818 00 White Oak, \% sawed, Nos. 1 and2....42 00@43 00 a WANTED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or any thing in the Produce line, let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. EARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO Keference: FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grand Rapids. HYDRAULIC ELEVATORS Water Motors and Specialties Send for New Catalogue. Tuerk Hydraulic Power Co NEW YORK: CHICAGO: 12 Cortland St. 39 Dearborn St. ad s bo or — Ss ao ET = ° ao = =) S ae < -— a ee =a a & Ee ze Es = S re 2 Er co o We also manufacture a full line of Sweet Goods. Write for quotations and samples. Jackson Gracker C0. “Qur Leader’’ The Finest JACKSON MICH. 5-Cent Cigar on the Market. MANUFACTURED BY J. E. Kenning & Co, 56 CANAL sT THE ACME oF UTILITY ano 1S a K Ac Ihe le o < i 7y Engines and Boilers in Stock for immediate delivery. = BL ATLAS Wt The Corner in Grain. Wife—I see that our neighbor, Bonds, is down again. Husband—What is it this time ? Wheat, I suppose. Wife—No, I think from his appearance it was rye that has floored him now. And I don’t want you to dabble with it any more, either. BUY Muscatine ROLLED OATS IF YOU WANT THE BEST! TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Leaves Traverse City & Mackinaw... 7:00 am Traverse City & Mackinaw. 9:05am 11:30am From Cincinnati 30 pm For Petoskey & pm 5:00 pm Saginaw Expres ao 30am 7:20am 7 er ottct es is| olan lactose 10:30 p m. 4:10pm Saginaw express runs through solid. 7:00 a. m. train has chair car to Traverse City. 11:30 a. m. train has chair car for Petoskey and Mack- inaw City. 5:00 p. m, train has sleeping car for Petoskey and Mackinaw City. GOING SOUTH. Cincinnati Express.............-.. 7:15am Fort Wayne Express..............- 10:30 a m 11:45am Cincinnati Expre --« 440 Dm 5:00 p m From Traverse City.. -10:46 pm 7:15amtrain has par r ear for Cincinnati. 5:00 p m train has W eeper for Cincinnati. 5:00 ¢. m. train connects with M.C. R. R. at Kalama- zoo for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadian points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m. Sleeping car rates—$1.50 to Petoskey or Mackinaw City; $2 to Cincinnati. All Trains daily except Sunday. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. Leave. Arrive. ene cor eicic cine sine walle wieie ene mime 10:45 am 1i:3> am... ...... .. 4:45pm DO OM. ee eee ee oe eo 7:45pm Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. C. L. LocKwoop, Gen’l Pass. Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING WEST. Arrives. Leaves. ¢+Morning Express. ............---- 1:05 p m 1:10pm Pihcomen Man 4:55 pm 5:10pm +Grand Rapit 10:40 pm *“Night Express........ .--..-..--6 6:40am 7:00am {mixed. 7... 7:45am GOING EAST. +Detroit Express.......... 6:50am +Through Mail. 10:30 am +Evening Expres 3:50 pm *Limited Express 10:55 p m +Daily, Sunday ec i Detroit Express has parlor car to Detroit, making direct connections for all points East, arriving in New York 10:10 a. m. nextday. Limited Expre East, has through sleeper Grand Rapids to Niagara Falls, connecting at Milwaukee Junction with through sleeper to Toronto. Through tickets and sleeping car berths secured at D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 2 Monroe St., and at the depot. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent. TO MONTANA, OREGON AND WASHINGTON. If you are going west bear in mind the follow- ing facts: The Northern Pacific Railroad owns and operates 987 miles, or 57 per cent of the en- tire railroad mileage of Montana; spans the ter- ritory with its main line from east to west; is the short line to Helena: the only Pullman and din ing car line to Butte, and is the only line that reaches Miles City, Billings, Bozeman, Missoula, the Yellowstone National Park, and, in fact, nine tenths of the cities and points of interest in the territory. The Northern Pacific owns and operates 621 miles, or 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. No other trans-continental through rail line reaches any portion of Wash- ington Territory. Ten days stop over privileges are given on Northern Pacific second class tickets at Spokane Falls and all points West, thus afford. ing intending settlers an excellent opportunity to see the entire Territory without incurring the expense of paying local fares from point to point. The Northern Pacific is the shortest route from St. Paul to Tacoma by 207 miles; to Seattle by 177 miles, and to Portland by 324 miles—time corres- pondingly shorter, varying from one totwo 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 Pacific reaches all the principal points in North- ern Minnesota and Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Bear in mind that the Northern Pacific and Shasta line is the famous scenic route to all points in California. Send for illustrated pamphlets, maps and books giving you valuable information in reference to the country traversed by this great line from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and Ashland to Port- land, Oregon, and Tacoma and Seattle, Wash- ington Territory, and enclose stamps for the new 1889 Rand McNally County Map of Washington Territory, printed in colors. Address your nearest ticket agent, or CHas. S. Fre, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, St. Paul, Minn. MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER The most practical hand Roaster in the world. Thousands in use—giving satisfic- tion. They are simp:e durable and econom- ical. Nou ‘ocer should_ be thout one. Roasts coffee and pea-nuts to per fection. Address for Cata- logue and prices, Robt. 8. West, 48-50 Long St., Cleveland, Ohio, ‘Why you should send us your orders. We handle nothing but BEST and CHOICEST BRANDS; Sellat Manufacturers’ and Importers’ Prices; : Ship at ONE DAY’S NOTICE, enabling you to receive goods day following; Fill orders for ALL KINDS of Rough and Ribbed GLASS, French Window, Ameri- VIZ: AS can Window, English 26 oz. p Enamelled, Cut and Embossed. Rolled Cathedral, Venetian, Muffied, Frosted Bohemian, German 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, 61 Waterloo Street. Tmported and American Polished PLATB, Grand Rapids Store, Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS. Ne. 0San.:. ee 50 Noi - ee ee 55 Ne.2 75 Pubiwiar oo 5 LAMP CHIMNEYS. 6 doz. in box. Noe 0sun 1 90 Nod ee 2 00 Mo ee 3 00 First quality. No. 6 Sun. crimp top..-.---. 0.2.2... No. i “c “ oe No. 2 “cc “ “cc XXX Flint. No. 0 San, crimp tep..-..-....-.-.-.-........- 2 58 Not ~ Ce 2 80 No.2 ~* " ee 3 80 Pearl top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.............. 37 No.2 : . _ 4 70 Na. 2 Hinge, . |... 4 70 La Bastic. Wo. ft Sun, plain bulb.....-...-. _-..--.--.-..- 1 25 No.2 * = Ss 1 50 No fermp 1 40 ics hl. 1 60 STONEWARE—AKRON. Butter Creeks, pergal.....-...--.- 1... 06% Jugs, % cal, per doz.......---..- 65 te ee 90 eS a 1 80 Meat Tubs, 10 cal each... ao Cl a 2 ce -.1 0 So . | ee 16 ' ce re ee cee ee 2 Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 60 iy :- im ( _ =). 8 $1,000 REWARD) THE LARGEST AND BEST CLEAR LONG HAVANA FILLED SUMATRA WRAPPED CIGAR SOLD FOR & CENTS. eit One Thousand Dollars to any person f these Cigars to contain anything We azree to fo F J DILWORTH BROTHERS. roving the oO but Havana Tobacco. ap TTUTTNVTOD UNDO SNVOONATASUDUUUEOOOSUOEUEAUOOOSIEUSSOULLULLERLUULSSSSSU sunnntnit Amos$. Musselman & Co. SOLE AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. AWNINGS AND TENTS. Horse and Wagon Covers, Water Proof Coats, Buggy Aprons, Wide Cotton Ducks, ete, Send for Illustrated Catalogue. Chas. A. Coye, Telephone L106. 11 Pear! St. LONG HAVANA FILLER. THEY HAVE NO EQUAL. A. S&S. DAVIS, 127 Louis St., Grand Rapids. RO LOTT - ree dA at s Photo& Zing Engr av ing" aise LEADS SWS, BRASS RULE AZ Ca Wood & METAL FuRNITURE Fd E vane een Ea SL iaae COAL! --- COKE!---WOOD! Wholesale A. HIMES. Office under Nat'l City Bank. Telephone Call 490-2, and Retail Yards, CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY. Shawmut Avenue, Winter and W. Division Sts. The ing Rubber in the .Geo. H. Reeder, Grand Rapids, - Best Fitting Stock- Market. Sole Agents, Mich. THE LANE SHAFTING, HANGERS, AND PULLEYS | FIRST-CLASS Send Specifications for Estimates before Contracting. 2t048 JOHN ST., CINCINNATI, O. A SPECIALTY. IN EVERY RESPECT. & BODLEY CO. H. Leonard 4&2 Dons. Grockery, Glassware and Grocers Sundries Popular Prices Ask for our Price List on the following goods. Staple Goods. 3askets. Blacking. Liquid Dressing. Brushe-. Playing Cards. Combs. Clothes Lines. Curry Combs. Cattle Cards. Candy Jars. Harmonicas. Jelly Tumblers. Fruit Jars. Lamp Chimneys. Lamp Burners. Lanterns. Street or Mill Lamps. Lantern Globes. Marbles. Oil Cans. Slates—Noiseless. Slate Pencils. eee | oan Blank Books. Composition Books. Cash Books. Day Books. Ledgers. Pass Books. Student Note Books. Time Books. Writing Paper Tablets. Note Paper. Fools Cap and Legal Cap. Lead Pencils. Pens. Papeteries. Pen Holders. Funnels. Measures, Tin & Wooden. Oil Tanks. Tea and Table Spoons. Knives and Forks. Pocket Cutlery. H. Leomeard @ Sone. 136-142 FULTON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Don’t pay fancy prices for our We are Headquarters for Grocers’ Notions: Stove Polish. Perfumery. Pins. Rat Traps. Toilet Paper. Tacks. Wicking. Butter Bowls. Butter Ladles. Carpet Sweepers. Stoneware. Clothes Pins. Keelers. Mop Holders. Mouse Traps. Pails. Sieves. Step Ladders. Tubs. Wash Boards. Window Cleaners. N.K. Fairbank ott Wh GOLD 3 POSE ORDO) so SIRECTIONS We nav cooked Une corn in this cus suificieLt Suvuid be Theruughly Warmec ..wt couked) addiug piece us vor ssulter (SIZE ot hen’s egg) aud gis _ fresh milk (preferabie Ww wWa-er , Seasun tou suit when onthe tate. ae genuine un.ess bearing the signature: Davenport Cannirg (jo, Davenport, Ia. p D- EN at tHis E™ 9 © = THEO. B. GOOSSEN, 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. 33 OTTAWAGSTEET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Oranges, Lemons and Bananas! GEO.E. HOWES & 60, No. 3 Ionia Street, GRAND RAPIDS, - - a Shingles euTIowW Stovewood esooyoO Headquarters MESSINA FRUIT. MICH. SPECIAL PRICES TO JOBBERS. MOSELEY BROS, ——W HOLESALE— Fruits, Seeds, Oysters ? Produce. All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty. If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be pleased to hear from you. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., - ~ GRAND RAPIDS. G & CO. COLBY, CRAI MANUFACTURE We Manufacture to Order Hose and Police Patrol Wagons, Peddlers, Bakers, Creamery, Dairy, Furniture Builders, Dry Goods, Laundry, and Undertakers Wagons. Repairing in all its Branches. COLeyY CRAIC & CO. West End Fulton St Bridge. Telephone No. 867. Buy the Best. li is thie Cheapest. And you can always find the Largest Variety of the Best Goods at Samuel Lyon's Supply store, Corner Waterloo and Louis Sts. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. LEMON, HOOPS & PAYERS, “ Wholesale Grocers AND IMPORTERS. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GROCERIES. The Patrons of Industry Craze. From the Sparta Sentinel. Representatives from the ‘‘Patrons of Industry,”? a new organization among farmers, were in our village a few days since, trying to enter into an arrange- ment with certain of our dealers, in which said dealers agree to sell goods at an advance of 10 per cent. only above cost, and the members of said organiza- tion, in turn, agree to give their entire patronage to the dealers who come to their terms. It seems there is an organ- ization of this character in Algoma push- ing this way. The same racket has been worked on the dealers at Rockford and Cedar Springs. ‘If you enter into this arrangement, the other dealers in your line might as well shut up shop,’’ is the argument they hold oat to each dealer they tackle, which means, of course, but one dealer in each line of trade in each town, or, if the one who enters into their scheme is a general dealer, they propose to give him the entire trade and close all the other stores. A pretty good scheme that for the fortunate dealer! Of course, these farmers will agree to sell their produce for no more than 10 per cent. above the eost, and will agree tosell only to this one dealer. That follows as a matter of course. Gentlemen, this is all lollypop. But one antidote for extortionate prices was ever known—competition, and that you propose to destroy at the outset. The dealer who would enter into such an ar- rangement as that with the expectation of driving out his competitors couldn’t be trusted a minute after the other stores were closed, nor could he, in turn, place a particle of confidence in the men who would combine for such a purpose. It’s a crazy scheme from beginning to end, not worth considering by any reputable dealer, and unworthy of the notice I have given it. “TIMELY EXPOSURE.’’ From the Nashville News. THe MIcHIGAN TRADESMAN of this week gives a timely exposure of the modus operandi of a new scheme for bleeding the farmers, under the guise of ‘‘Patrons of Industry.’’ We shall print the article in full in our next issue. POSTING THE TRADE. THE TRADESMAN came very near hay- ing to print a second edition last week, so great was the demand for extra copies of the paper containing the exposure. Allan Shelden & Co., of Detroit, ordered fifty copies for distribution among the merchants of Sanilac, Lapeer and St. Clair counties. —————q» a — Status of the Jacobs Matter at Sault Ste. Marie. Jay W. Sutton, assignee for Louis Jacobs, the Sault Ste. Marie grocer, in- forms THE TRADESMAN that the assets are appraised at $2,700, while the secured claims amount to $2,500. There are forty creditors, the names and amounts being as follows: Spalding & Merrick, Chicago............ $ 28 37 WW. Melanghiin &Co.- ............ 98 13 G R Soap Co., Grang Rapids............ 32 00 American Vinegar Works, Milw aukee.. 19 00 Carpenter & Underwood... - 19 52 (ecdahy Gros.........-.-- rm i 46 74 Moran, Fitzimons & Co......... Detroit.. 488 74 Jenn © Miske _ oi A. McPherson & Co. a - . woot Wc Bon... ne 124 58 Richtenbere & Sons........-..- . 41 66 B Base & Son... 20020 Mes 3 Beppe 80 75 Banner Topacco Co. _........- i 91 09 Giobe Tobacco Co............-. — 25 80 Mrs Stance _ 2,300 00 mm Downey... _--....-. . 66 91 Williams Bros. & Charboreau, _ bo 15 Valentine Schroeder go 2a oO Lawrence Depew & Co. c 41 79 American Eagle Tobacco Co. 38 44 Edward Trout ' D2 i M. B. Nagle & Co. _. 39 25 Siandarad Gil Co Oleveland............. 8 50 Zipp & Se Read Ore ea 38 00 Fremnan & Cooper, Manitow eC... 213 00 S08 Bicionier = sso 85 25 Jos. Biechele Soap Co., Canton, Ohio... 34 35 Marple, French & Co., Lansing........-. 53 09 G. F. Greeley, Remington, Wis.........- 37 50 Sault: Ste. Marie Nat. Bank, §. St. Marie 140 00 * Democrat i oo J. Hf. icine & Bro. 175 00 W. J. Roach . 53 3a Geo. E. Seamon ' 52 50 J. C. Clement _ 125 00 P. M. Chureh & Co. ie 26 56 Prenzlauer Bros. c iat 19 J. B. Sweet ‘ 19 96 The failure appears to be one of the worst, considering the disparity between assets and liabilities, ever occuring in the State. ——— —-—< -2 ->_—_—_ Do you want tobe rich? Black your own boots, let your clothes get thread- bare, your hat napless, and never spend over ten cents for lunch. That’s what a Philadelphia millionaire who died the other day had been doing all his life. The Coffee Market. Chase & Sanborn describe the situation as follows: The market has reflected the slightly easier tendencies of values at Rio and Santos, and prices have declined 44 to 3g cents per pound on these deseriptions during the past week. While the gen- eral list of mild coffees have undergone no quotable change, we note that sales of Maracaibo have taken place at }g cents per pound below previous transac- tions. The large quantities of coffee being steadily for consumption require- ments have tended to convey the im- pression to many in the trade that high prices exert little if any influence upon the consumer. Inasmuch as the warehouse deliveries are the only available indication of the consumptive demand, and as market con- ditions and public opinion have much to do with the amount of surplus stock earried by the general trade throughout the country, it is, perhaps, impossible to estimate correctly the volume of coffee actually consumed in any one year. It can be observed by the following statistical table that high markets have exerted a material influence upon the consumption of ceffee, a portion of the decrease occurring in last two years may, PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—In poor demand at $1. 25@$1.75 per bbl. Beans—Handlers are paying about #1.25 for un- picked and getting $1.65@41.75 for hand-picked. | Piputter—Creamery isin fair supply at 25@26c. Dairy is in good demand at 18@22¢, according to| quality. | | Cabbages—Home gicwn command $3@%5 per 100 | Celery—Scarce and hard to get. Cider—10e per gal. Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25; produce barrels | 25¢. iG ‘ranberries—#5.50@6.50 for Bell and Cherry and | Te 4 7.50 for Bell and Bugle. ‘Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried | at 444@5c and ev aporated at 6@6%4¢. Eggs—Jobbers pay 10c per “doz., anxious to buy at that price, as there seems to be no buttom to the market. Country merchants but are a ought not to pay over 8 cents per doz., so long as the moderate weather continues. Honey—More plenty, being easy at 15e@17e per lb. Lettuce—15c per Ib. Maple Sugar—10@12c per Ib. Onion Sets—#3 per bu. Onions—Buyers pay 18@20c for good stock, and hold at 25@30c per bu. Pieplant—sc per Ib. Pop Corn—2'%¢ per Ib. Pork—Hogs bring 544@5%¢ on the streets and sell for 534@6c from jobbers’ lands. Potatoes—Buyers pay 124%4@15¢ per bu., and are not anxious to purchase, even at that price. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln-dried Jerseys, $3.25 per D1, Turnips—25¢ per bu. PROVISIONS The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. “ i Mess. new. 2.00.02 2 13 00 however, be accounted for by the shrink-} Short cut Morgan. .........--..2-+0e-8 eee 14 00 age on the invisible supply, w hich same — — Pig, Short Cub. 038) ol. - : | Wixtra elear, heavy. 6008 5 has doubtless been reduced to extremely @ieariquill: shore cab ee 15 00 narrow proportions as compared WIth | Boston cleat shortent.. 00000 15 00 1885 and 1886. (Clear baek, Short eae. 0600082) le 15 00 Standard clear, BHOrG Cb, DORE. .....--.--..- 15 00 CONSUMPTION OF COFFEE IN THE UNITED STATES. cuinwan ansie Camvascod ox Plain. >| | = 2 Hams, average 20 = Te 9% sa92| | € Paes _ 104 me S| cS Eee ai es 12 to 14 Eee a 1014 | 2S 09) a a5 He TOE ee 84 YEARS. | S 7 OD cc eee RaneIess. ly ee 10 | = os Shoulders Cc i cee ee ae 1% O| : ao DGnGless fe 8 i =z | Breakfast Bacon, boneless............--+++++- 10 =| | Ts Dried Beef, a 1 i——_| te?) AA PRICEB ee ae 9 1870.......-- $16 33} 128,918) 28,558.000/7%4 lbs. | Long Clears, heavy......-..----++++++++2s2 005 c 1871...-.---- 15 91) 145,437) 39,652,000/874 Brisket. scetme Tq 1872.2... - 6+: 18 42) 125,827] 40, erry ,000}6 9-10 ** . ee au em 14 —os......... | jo 99) 192! 42, 132,000) 625 . a. 21 08) 130,700| 43,290,000/6% “| wierces..... Kettle Rendered. ~ Hie 2. Lk: 19 01] 142, 141} aa 386. 000 714 se agape ake Sa gue DL EET Big 1876 Fae 7 97 139, 998} 45, 44600016 9- 10 ae 50 Ib. Cae ie ki ao i Ae A A A 1877 _. 19 7% 140,907} 46,500, 000 6% ee eee ce Se ciclcieisiclinia)eis/e eels cigis| sain ie/eie = mie oy coe 16 51) 147,817) 47.571,000)6 9-10 rs : LARD—Compound. La P00. et 14 85) 183,644) 48,702,000)8 * 2 - CrCl ee een ne i Fee0 42... - 15 12) 175,530) 50,156,000)7 4-5 “* S0and 50 1b. Tubs_....--. M4 iets 12 23] 191,352) 51,861,000/844 3 1b. Pails, 20in a case.....-.............- 7% asso. 2] 9 77} 218,041) 53,691,000/9 1-10 ‘ 5 lb. Patis, 12 im a case.....-.-.-. =... 24 1683_...._...| 16 36) Soe se) 55,371 ,000/8% ss 10 1b. Pails, Gim 2 cane... .-. se. 75g Bee ee. 10 92} 229 | 57,000,000 )/9 “ 20 Ib. Pails, in @Gase ee 7% G65... 2 | 9 01 58,539,000|914 ip. Cams. .0.-.0 0.0.0.3 tees a. 4 pe 16 32 4.141] 60,047 0091-5. ** BEEF IN BARRELS. AS68022. | 18 04 59) 61,742,000|7 i Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.........-..--- 6 75 1888. ....---- | 15 26) 235,418) 63,000,000\725__‘‘__| Extra Mess, Chicago packing.............--- aq = P » of Assuming that the information at hand | Bxtra Biate 2000000000 2UNIIII 1 is a correct indication of the present and | Boneless, rump butts......-..---++--++++s+++ 9 00 future supply, the question as to what} sAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. : should be the price of coffee in order that | Pork inti sececeeeee eects eeceeeceeeree eee: < healthful and equitable business rela-| | Hom Sausage... -.-- 12 : ae | Tongue Sausage............ ee 9 tions may be established with the de- | Hranitor: SHMSase 8 mand, is 2 problem which only ean be | IBIGOd SAUSRRE.. oe ke ee cee sn wg 5% d by the action of the consumer | Bologna, SSG ee 514 answered DY . | BOO ne ee eee aa 5M Notwithstanding the fact that during | Head Cheese..............--+++--eseeeeer eres 5i4 8 8 s PIGS’ FEET. = —— — — Se i m halt pamela ee 3 50 coffee was about cents per pound | in Cae ee ee ee ae 2 00 above its relative worth, in some pre-| TRIPE. vious vears we think we can safely ven- In half barrels.......-....-..--- ------....-.. 3 - 5 . In quarter barrels.........-.-----......--.---- 1 < ture the assertion that the average price paid by the consumer represented searcely more than one-half of this in- creased value, and, therefore, the full effect of the actual advance has not been felt by the consumer, and, consequently, cannot be employed as an accurate basis for calculating the fluctuations of the consuming demand. By taking advantage of the oppor- tunities offered by the frequent changes in the market occurring in 1887 and 1888, the jobbing and manufacturing trade have in some instances been enabled to secure fair returns from their endeavors during these years, but the uniform firm- ness of events thus far this year have presented no such chances, and in view of the meager nature of the margins now obtainable, the probable result of a continuance of like business conditions isamatter of very serious importance to all interested in the sale of honest goods by the use of honorable methods. The fixing of prices in order that a living profit may be insured to all classes of the trade is a matter which can only be properly adjusted by the retail trade. In our opinion, could the coffee con- sumer be induced to merely pay the in- crease which has actually taken place in the value of the article, the ultimate effect upon consumption would success- fully eliminate the necessity for any fur- ther advance in the market, and while, perhaps, the existing features respecting the future supply might serve to hold prices without material decline for some time, such an event would doubtless hasten the return of a low range of val- ues upon the appearance of more favor- able crop conditions. It most assuredly does not seem to be fair that all classes of the trade (save these located at the producing points) should be forced to shrink their margin of profit toa mere nothing in order that the consumer may save, say, 5 cents per pound on coffee, which saving is only equivalent to about 1-6 of a cent per cup. ————=-— The Coming King. ‘‘Who is the most enterprising citizen in Toledo?’ asked a reporter of THE TRADESMAN of a denizen of the Future Great the other day. ‘‘A. M. Woolson,’’ was the prompt re- ply. ‘What has he done for Toledo ?”’ con- tinued the interrogator. “Built up the biggest business of the kind which was ever accomplished within the space of a dozen years and advertised Toledo in every city, hamlet and crossroads from Maine to Oregon.”’ “Has he reached the apex of his am- bition ?’’ “Not by any means. He is as full of ambition as he was at the inception of his enterprise and, if he lives twenty years longer, he will be known from one end of the country to another as the Package Coffee King of America.”’ Understood Double-Entry. Customer (angrily)—Look here, Haf- ton, what do you mean by sending me this coal bill a second time? Why, man, I paid that bill a month ago, and gota receipt for it. Hafton (consulting the books)—Um! Ah! Yes, Ilsee. Well, don’t mind that, my dear fellow. You see, my son was graduated from a business college, and this is some of his double-entry book- keeping. Wm Ete ee cea FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: Beef, caresss 00.) ee 4144@ 5% < Hind quarcers.-...---_-.-..---..-- 54@ 6 o fore a 344@ 4 BOR @é6 eine. 7%4@ 8 < Somig@ers. 2 @ 6% Bologna eee @5 Sausage, blood or head................. @5 eee a G@, 5% . Brankfor............-.....-. @ 8% Matton ...........--.--..---....-..-..-_. @7 OYSTERS and FISH. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: OYSTERS IN CANS. Sand@ards oo @16 AswenGrs .. 6... @18 Seles. se 21 @27 Hairhaven Counss..--- --.--.-.--...-. @35 OYSTERS IN BULK. Standares 0 1 00 Scices. |. ee 140 Cams eT ee 1 25 FRESH FISH. Nee @ 7% Ol eee @ 7% Giseees eee @ 4 Hinman Haddies......:-.-..-.. @ i% ci... CC @15 Hemioe. ee @4 Perch. skinned... =: | @5 CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: STICK. Standard, 25 lb. boxes Bee eee cee 9 ee 9% Cut Loaf, 25 ee 10 MIXED Beyal 25tp pails ee - Poo ib. bbls. -.. Be Extra, 250. pails 2. ..10 Seid bois... 9 Hreneh Cream, 25 1b. pais...) 2-25... Ne Cut Lost) 25 tb. cases.0000.0 10000 Broken, 4gib Bask. ee 954 SOO BOIS 9 Fancy—lIn 5 lb. boxes. Lemon Drops. 13 Sour Drops. ee 14 Peppermint Drops...........-.-....---------+- 14 Ghecolate Props... gt EE M. Chocolate Props..-.:...-.. 5. 45 Gum Preps: ee 10 Ricorice GPR ee... 18 A. B. Licorice Drops. 2 ee cee ee 12 Lozenges, plain. .-.. ccc e eee 14 poutee ee 15 Tee cee eee eee cae 14 GEOG ee. 15 Cream Bat........--... 13 Momsses Bae. ee 13 Ge 19 Eland Made Creams == 8 19 Plain Creams. ...... Decorated Creams. Serie HOCK ee eee 14 Burnt Aimongs 22 Wintercreen Berries... 14 Fancy—In bulk. Lozenges, plain, pale 12 m PIS. 11 os printed, in — eee cee 12% a i BOIS 11% Chocolate Drops, in pals: ae Gum Drops, i pais: 6 i BOIS. i 5 Moss Drops, » pate 10 bbls 9 Sour Drops, a em Oe ecco e eee 11 Imperials, in pails.....-.---.---.,------- 11% a impbis oo 10% FRUITS. Oranges, fancy California.............. 3 25@3 50 Messina Be ee oe ce 3 00@3 25 “ec 2) < “ce oc ne i Lemons, eee Ce ci Rg se is 00@3 25 aney 2... .. eel ee 3 25@3 50 Figs, sen BOW 10@15 age, 50 1b... 2.2. @ 6 Dates, frndis, OO WD 8 @ 4% % frails, 68 15.2.--...... ss. @ 5% cA Fard, a= box es. Oe G sg Ve 8 @ _ Persian, 50-Ib. box.. cou ee ee Banengs. 2... 1 50 NUTS. Almonds, = Lee acc esa @17 RV ie eee ewe we a @15 — California ee eee eee @14 Breet ee ee @ 7% Wiibenes, Stetly ... oe 11 Walnuts, iGrenoplie: .. (|...) 3... -.. @12% . Meen@e 2. 2-.-5.-..--.5--- =< @10% Pecans. Texes H.P..........-....-...- 74@12 Cocoanuts, per 100..........----..- 2... .. @4 25 hestants .:....-5.2-.2.:- 2.35 oe @1 50 PEANUTS. Peseoeks 2... = Waebu ;....... 0.22. .... 2a a ee Gone Wholesale Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash bwyers who pay promptly and buy in full packages. BAKING POWDER. LL WEIGH PSS OLUTELY PU t0e cans..*: 95 gin. 2°. Se 1 jon 1. ae OG ‘ Lib. 2 Oe 202.” _o mn . 9% he Ppt ola oo mslb, * ...13 4 meib. | gemslb. ‘° ...22 20 Arctic, +g [b. cans, 6 doz 45 wip 4 ee mip 2 |. Pe _ 1 lb. ce. oe a oe 5 lb. “ce - “ce ieee 00 Absolute, y - cans, 1008. At © ly ‘| BOs: 10 00 ce 1b. * 508.18 vo | Telfer’s, ee cans, ee 2 70 ~ % _ 2 oo ii di Tb. aa : _ io Acme, 4 Ib. cans, 3 —:- 75 1% lb. . 150 i 1lb. “ i 3 00 ’ an... 20 Red Star, 4 ~ cans, 12 doz = Ye b. - ib . 4° 4-50 BATH BRICK. English, 2 doz. in case... 80 Brisa), 2) ee aS American. 2 doz. incase... 65 BLUING. Gross Arctic cat + “OZ... eee eee 3 60 eWeeeee a - 7 BGs. oe. 10 80 a 8-0z paper bot 7 20 Pepper Box No. 2 3 00 oe “ “sé 4 4 00 oe ““ oe oe 5 9 00 BROOMS. No. Siero. 2 00 Oe ee 2 % No 2@arpet ==... 2 50 No. 1 ee a, 2% ParlorGem.... 0.2... 3 00 Common Whisk. ....:...... 90 HANCy tae ee aa 1 00 Ma 3 50 Warchoure.....__ sts 3 00 BUCKWHEAT. Kings TG) Tb. Cases 2.2... -:.¢ 5 00 Go i: Gases 42 BUTTERINE Dairy, solid packed. ..__... 13 ONS. 14 Creamery, solid ——— 15 . rolls . 16 CANDLES. Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes. a. 10% hu ShmUm”,rr”r:COCCCCCCCC 3% Paraftene 0 0002. 12 Wielking =) oo 25 CANNED coops—Fish. Clam ‘Chow der, 3 pe .2 50 Cove Oy sters, d lb. stand.. _.1 0 2] ae Lobsters, 1 Ib. picnic a 1 50 2 ie 2 65 a 11b. Peer_......-... 1 90 2 lp Star... 303.0. 2 90 Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce. b. stand........ 3] : 2.” —CltCiC o 10 * 8 1lb.in Mustard...3 50 3 ip. soused....... 00 Salmon, 1 Ib. Columbia ae 2 00 2) le CC 8 10 ““ cc 1b. Sacramento... 3 2 1b. “2 Sardines, domestic 148...... My 48 ss Mustard 4 6s Doe ee 6@10 - imported 348..... 10@11 = spiced, %4s..-__.- 10@12 Prone, 3 ib. brook... | CANNED Goops—Fruits. Apples, gallons, stand.2 00@2 Blackberries, stand......... 25 75 Cherries, red standard...... 1 00 <1 to 8 CO Egg Pas Stama. 2... 8... 1 2 Gooseberries ..--......... 110 Grapes... 90 Green Gases... 1 30 Peaches, all yellow, stand..1 45 ' seconds ....0 7.2... 123 ane eS oe 1 00 Raspberries, extra.) . |. 1 10 PeGe 2 00 Strawherries .-.. 2.000022... 1 0 Whertieberties......-... 90 CANNED VEGETABLES, Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... 1 80 Beans, Lima, stand. ....... . 1 00 «Green Limas.... @1 1b a Srine.......... @ % ‘“‘ Stringlesg, Erie....... p ‘* Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 45 Corn, Archer's Trophy.....- Morn’g Glory. : 10 ce ‘ Early Gold.. Peas, Hrench. |.) 43 * extra marrofat. _- @ii sonmed........)... gune, stand.....- 1 ae i “| sitted. .:...- « )Breneh. extra ime... oe Mushrooms, extra fine..... 18 Pumpkin, 3 ib. Golden... .. Succot»sh, standard.. ne Squash ==. (ee Tomatoes, Red Coat.. ai . Good Enough.. . Ben Har... __. |. 23 . stand br....1 05@1 10 CHEESE. Michigan Full Cream =e 13 Sap S#20000..00 2-1. 6@17 CHOCOLATE. Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet 22 * Premimm. .-_: 33 Hom-Cocoa... 37 Breakfast.... 48 CHEWING GUM. Rubber, 100 lumps So 25 ae 35 Spruce... 30 CHICORY. Bale ee: Red... COFFEE—Green. | Rio, fair. good prime fancy, washed.. golden ee es 2 Sentes 000 Mexican & Guatemala 19 Peaberry 0.3... 20 Java, Interior......._- = ‘* Mandheling.. Mocha, genuine.. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age “é 6c e 6“ 6 7 % : “35 COFFEES—Package. 00 Ibs a eC 2414 [| fm Gabmets 6.1 0 ..: 2434 Dimworthia.. 0. 2. 2414 Le 24 30 lbs 60 lbs Aeme:o... 4... 234 2% 235% German... 3c 2414 8 NR 2456 McLaughlin’ S Sex 2414 Ioney Bee 5... 26 a 24 Nos AN 2 25 O Bo 24 COFFEE EXTRACT. Mabey City... .2) 5-25... 75 Welk. 1 10 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 4071...:..- per doz. 12 es BO re... 150 ee fe : 1 60 WOr.:..-.. oh 2 00 ee Beit... . 2°25 Jute oo fo... “ 1 00 r Wore. e 115 CONDENSED MILK. 2 7 60 Anglo-Swiss.............--- 6 00 CRACKERS. Kenosha Butter............. 8 Seymogr ° 3..-.-5...... 6% IBueter oc SS 6% * fairy. 3... - -- 686 pIsetHe . <2. 6.2. @ Bester 6 oe 8 Ce 8 Boag... 3... 1+. 3s. ee Ye S Oyster 21.2] 6% City = aa -_ Secs Once 6% SWE ngs nes inns nents 6% CREAM TARTAR. Strictly pure o.-.-5...-.. 2; 38 Grocets’....... 24 DRIED raurrs—Domestic. Apples, sun-dried..... 4 @4% evaporated.... 6 @ 6% Apricots, ies 115 @20 Ce 6 CCC he ae 14 Peaches ee 14 Plums eee ey 10 Masunermics * .. 22 DRIED FRUITS—Foreign. Citron, in dram......- @2 eS ih DOSES... @25 (ramen. :-....- @5 bemoan Feel... ... 13 Orance Peet §......... 14 Prunes, Turkey :...--- @ 4% . Imperial ...... @ 6 Raisins, Valencias....7% @ 8% Pncarae 4 - Domestic Layers. “2 40 a Loose Californias. .1 65 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Marina, 100 Ib. kegs... .- 2. 04 Hominy, per bbl...) .: 4 00 Macaroni, dom 12 1b box.... 60 ie imported..4.. @10 Rear) Bercy... -... @ 3 Peas green... 3... @1 40 epee 2. @ 3 Saco, German.......-. @ 6% Tapioca, fi’k or p’rl.. @ 6% Wheat, cracked....... @ 6% Vermicelli, import.. @10 domestic... @60 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. | | | | SYRUPS. Corn; barrels... 2... @22 «« one-half barrels.. @24 Pure Sugar, DDie eee: . 250 36 half barrel. ...27@38 SWEET GOODS. = Axx Ginger Saaps.... 2... 9% Sugar Creams.. 9% ‘Frosted Creams.. ss 9% Graham Crac kers. a 9 Oatmeal Crackers..... 9 TEAS. sAPAN—Regular. Fair eee ee ee 12 @16 Cocast eee ce ee eee 30 SUN CURED. ae es 12 @15 Good . Oey ee 16 @20 ChoOlee se se. 24 @28 Choicest...... ET 30 @33 BASKET FIRED. a @20 Chores @25 Choteest. so... 2. @35 Extra choice, wire leaf @40 GUNPOWDER. Common to fair....... 25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Choicest faney.......- 7 @s IMPERIAL, Common to fair.-....: 20 @35 Superior tofine........ 40 @50 YOUNG HYSON. Common to fair;.....- 18 @26 Superior fo fne....... 30 @40 OOLONG. Common to fair... ...- 2 @30 Superior to fine.-....- 30 @5 Fine to choieest......- 55 @65 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. 25 saan ne COUR 40 Cormier Stone...) oe... 35 Douple Pedro. ...:. 0... ....... 37 Peaeh Pie 37 Wedding Cake, Dik:.........- = Something Good ee oeecee” .... € ps Topaccos—Fine Cut. Sweet Pippin Bee co eee Hive and Seven....... | Hiawatha... Swees Capa... ..0: 2... Petoskey Chicf........ “42 | Rose Leaf Ped ecl cues cc. 66 | Red Domino. .......... 38 Jennings’ Lemon Vanills 2 OZ. Panel, doz. 9 35 OZ. io 2 25 6 Oz. = ~ 225 3 20 No. 3. * “ 2 1 60 Nos, * 2 4 00 NOT, °° “450 6 00 No. 4, Taper, |; 1 60 2 50 ly pt, "Round, ‘ 425 7 50 a as oc oe 50 15 00 FISH—SALT. Cod, whole... ..../.._.. @ 51 © WeMeless. 00.2... @ 7% Halibut . 11% Herring, round, i” bbl. 2% “ net 1 50 > Holland, S 10 00 a Holland, kegs... @ @ . Sealed... 010 .. 28 Mack. sh’s, No. 1, % bbi....9 50 " a a2 tb kit. .1 45 oc “ce “ee 1 “ee iu cr 85 Trout, 2 bbls)... @4 7% Db. kite 7 White, "No. 71, 4 bbls... 3: 6 00) 12 Ib. kite 2. 4 Ib C 7 10 Ib. iits. 90 . Family, 4 2 bbis.... .2 50| i kits co. oe GUN POWDER. Mees 8 5 2 Half bers 2 88 LAMP WICKS. We O oo: 30 tet. 40 Nee 50 LICORICE. EMT 30 Cslguria os. 25 Siete 18 MINCE MEAT Buckets . oe 6Gle Halepp es 6 MOLASSES. Biaek Strap... 0.2.0... 16@17 Cuba Baking.. . -22@25 Porto Rico.. - «+. -tiQoo New Orleans, good.. ee 2530 choice... ... 33@40 - faniey. 8... 45@48 One-half barrels, 3¢ extra. OATMEAL. Muscatine, Barrels _....... 6 60 Half barrels..... 3 15 Cases... -. 2 2@2 35 ROLLED OATS Muscatine, Barrels... ..._.. 6 00 . Half barrels... _- 3 15 ° Cases... _- 2 25@2 35 OIL. Michican Test. ............ 9 Water White... 2s. 103g PICKLES. Medium. a as 450 Dp... 275 Small, pot a 5 50 fe ppl. : _.& oo IPES. Clay, No. 216... |... 1 60 T. a fulleount.... -... 75 Cop. NG Ss. 49 CE. Carolina head. Sooo ee cue 6% i lo wl orca 53% No.2 See eee oe es . No. 3 ee Sane 3% SALERATUS. Deband's, pure... .... | 534 Ci_urch’s, Cap Sheaf......._- 5 Dwtenes.- stk Maylors .. | 5 SALT Common Fine per bbl....... 88 Solar Rock, 56 lb, sacks... _. 2 = poc ket Bee eee 2 05 A 2 15. 100 a ee ee 2 40 Ashton bu. bags eee 75 Higgins § oo ae 75 Warsaw oe 37 SAL SODA. ee id. BOXES. 2... ... Ls 1% SAPOLIO. Kitchen, 3 doz. in box... ... 2 35 Hand, 2 _ 225 SAUERKRAUT. Silv er Thread, = gal oe 3 oO oo 4 50 pdt Mixcathrc......._......... 4% Camiweay oe 10 Caney)... 5. 4 emp 4 Amase. ee Mane ee. 4% OE ee TMs, SNUFF. Seotch, in bladders... ._-- 7 Maccaboy, in jars........... 35 French Rappee, in dars.... 43 SOAP. Dingman, 100 bars.......... 4 00 Don’t Anti-Washboard..... 4 75 oe) oe a Ss Qucen 420 4 00 German family..........--.- 2 40 Big Barge 220s 187 SODA, BOMCR 54 Mers, Unelish 2... 0... 4% sPicEs—W hole. Altsmiee. 222 10 Cassia, China in mats....... 7% = Batavia in bund....11 e Saigon in rolis...... 42 Cloves, Amboyna..-... __. 30 ' Zanzipar...... 1... 2 Mace Batayia.........-. 2. - a Nutmegs, fancy............- 75 De os 7 ia No. ee 65 Pepper, er = - 18% oo whine: _.. 28 - Snot... 21 spiceEs—Ground--In Bulk. Allspice ..........----++-++5- 15 Cassia, Batavia eee cea: 20 and Saigon .25 " Saigon. le: 42 Cloves, Amboyna... . 50... 35 Ranging. ols.) 28 Ginger, Aiseen 12% Cochin... .:. 1... 15 o Ssameaies 0.2... 7G 18 Mace Batavia.:............. 80 Mustard, English Sete ee 22 and Trie. .25 . Trieste ke eee ee. 27 Nutmers, No.2. .......-. 70 Pepper, Singapore, Diack... .22 white. ..... 30 - Cayenne... -.. 25 STARCH. Mystic, _— [cae ‘. Darren. oo, 6 SUGARS. Gat Boat.) ots: @ 8% Cubes 0000 @ 8% Poaweerce 650.0400... @ 8% Granulated, H. & E.’s.. @ 6 . Franklin.. @ 8% . Lakeside..e @ 8% es Knight’s... @ 8% Confectionery A...... @ 7% Standard A: 1... 5... - @ 7% No. 1, White Extra C.. @ 7% No. 2 extra ©... @7 No. 3C, golden. ....... @ 6% Neo. 4C, dark.:......-. @ 65 No- > C..::.5.. 2.58 @ 6% oe CREDIT COUPONS. 2 : 2, per hundre se 59 a | ........ 00 10, * ce cui 4 00 we es 00 5 Subject to the following dis- counts: 200 or over. 2 per cent. MO ee. ».10 a .hC ese 20 “ VINEGAR. Si 9 ee ee 10 OP i $1 for barrel MISCELLANEOUS, Cocos Shells: bulk... .... 3% Jelly, 30-1b. pails So 4% Sage Ls alee ee eee ce alce ae 15 PAPER, WOODENWARE. : PAPER. Curtiss & Co. quote as fol- lows: SBEWe ee 1% * Light Weight... ines SH@SE oe 2 ae Sugar... 00 05: o.. 2% Hardware... 2% Aer oc. 214 Dry Goods. ..:... 5... 5 dute Manilla, |... 5 Red Express No.1... No2... 4 TWINES. 48 CoGien. ok. 22 Cotton Neo... oe oe Coo ee lc ft Nog. 6% ° ING: Soe, 5 25 Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 60 Ne. 1, three hoop.... 1 7b Clothespins, Ser. boxes.... 60 Bowls, Hineh. 0... 1 00 [ as. 12 , ee 2 00 ° Ce. 2 " assorted, 17s and 1%s 2 50 a * 15s, 17s and 19s 2 75 Baskets, WISERet |. 40 mishel. . .- 1 60 . ' with covers 1 90 ey willow cL ths, Now 5 50 : No.2 6 00 “ | Nos 7 00 splint “< Noi 3 © ¥ - re No.2 4 25 - i «Nels 5 6 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT, White .-....... a 95 Req 95 FLOUR Serdiebs, in sHe€kS..-...-.. 5 00 . * DAPECIS. so... 5 20 Patent “ sacks ......- 6 00 ee Dereeis. 0... 6 20 MEAL. Bowed... oo 2 Ww Granuinted .....0-.... :; 2 45 MILLSTUFFS. Bran 14 00 Solos... 15 50 Sereemmies. -_-.. 14 00 Roo 17 00 Maxed Weed... le % CORN. Salt l6te 35 Car ee 34% OATS. Small lots Sees: 30 ee 28% RYE. No. 1, per 100 tbs. -. 2 00 BARLEY. ING £0, 1 30 Ne 2 ee. 110 HIDES, PELTS and FURS. Perkins & Hess pay as fol lows: HIDES. Green 2.8... 4 @ 4% Part Cured See ce cease 4% ee 44@ O44 Dig 5 @6 ry Raps ....--.. 5... 5 @6 Calfskins, green...... 3 @4 eurcd......- 44@ 5% Deacon sking....:.-.... 10 @2 14 off for No. 2. PELTS. Sheariinge ... 00 ...:.- 10 @30 Estimated wool, per bb 20 @28 FURS. Mink 20.05). 5@1 Oden. ..-......... 2... 5@i 00 Boo 5@1 00 Maskeat -.......-.-.- 1@ 30 Mom, red. (00.7.2... 5@1 50 - eoes............. 50@5 00 Martin, dark.......... oc pale 22.0... 10@1 50 Ot 2 ee 50@10 00 Lo a Se i 50@4 00 Beat. 455.0. 3. 30@30 00 eee eee ewe 50@8 00 Pag per: 666.564... 5@1 00 Pocrakins, per Ip: :... 5@ 40 MISCELLANEOUS. Tolliew ..........-.---- 8%@ 3% Grease butter.... 6 Ge Switches ......... 2 2% Ginseng......---. ---. 2 10 BROWNS KED Parties wishing We have taken great pains to have our seeds pure and reliable. fresh, and if you want anything in the way of Garden or Field Seeds, you them of us cheaper than sending out of the State. fred J. Browns Seed Store’ Clover, Timothg, Alfalfa, Alsike, Red Top, Hungarian, Millet. We carry a large assortment of all kinds of Seeds, Onion Sets and Seed Potatoes. anything in this line please write to us. Our stock is can get GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. DEALERS IN PEREINS & HESS”~ Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE- THE AMERICAN BANNER OAT. ayy ~=SEEDSI ° loki Oe ‘Fp ody PhLe fare AL 2 AY Poy il AVE PE on A MSS NORM ere HD Nes 1 at Pag e23 Timothy, Q 4 ad i ak ar LILES ay) rw) Pe a 796: f OAS Py ore pees Say Ce sr NPY ta el Peas; ior tag ti) is AV eae AS +! i &, eT as a Og Ne ge pe Re ina s Nae eal 7 LS Aad Le ant Pea ay : Ppresident_-Geo. Gundrum, Tonia. ble of acting as Secretary: If not, to} them. The worst of it is that the pres- Seer 3a 13@ 14 | Sulphate a Eels ase oo: Ginil Hates a: . : Pas <éAinos Ot NS f First Vice-President FM. Alsdort, Lansing. how many earnest, hard-working but} ent condition is but premonitory. Talk een ee “aa. re fe) a ce-President—H. M. Dean, 4 E . 2g : * - ie ee ce 2 ‘ ‘ ae Sec0d View. President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor. poor druggists $800 a year would be like| with the managers of commercial col- | Sulphuricum........-- 1%@ 5 , RNG ace ' a . po.. @ 14 CURES Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. a ‘boon from the Gods.’? In the heart! leges and they will tell you that the | Tannicum.........-.-- 1 40@1 60 | Aconitum ............- 20@, 25 | Caryop yllus, (po. 28) 23@_ 25 Wroasures_Win Dupont, Detroit. : ne g J 3 a 1¢ | Tartaricum 4x@ 50 | Althae...........-..--- 25@ 30] Carmine, No. 40....... @3 7% Executive Committee—A. H. Lyman, Manistee; A. Bas of almost every American citizen there| present congested state Gr gars Be a : AneChHsS .-. 2.2. .2.. 15@ 20| Cera Alba, S.&F..... 50@ 55 Liver and sett, Detroit; F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids; W. 4./ js patriotism sufficient to serve his | solely due to the liti f trad d AMMONIA. AE PO... ilo @ 25| Cera Flava............ 28@ 30 Halli, Greenville; E. T. Webb, Jackson. I : . S| solely Gus ie he oe eS = 3 3@, 5 Calamus 20@ 50| Coccus @ 40 Kid Local Secretary—A. Bassett, Detroit. ees a ee ee _ when sausage peep = _ demand | Aqua, = aes ee 4 : Gentian, (po 18) 2. ine 12 Cassia aaa! lS 1aney ‘I ‘roubles a p : ; ) Ss veTS a pe é é or accountants Wl e as brisk as ever. | q ae ea ; Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18| Centraria.............. 10 B J vi Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. pa : : : @arbonas .--....-----. 11@ 13 5 : (P @ = @ 10 President. J. a cane. Secretary, Frank H. Escott. or profession, as_well as to politicians. This, I am satisfied, is not a fact, and 1} Ghioridum ....+-.-+--- 12@ 14 Hydrastis Canaden, ote oe ne @ 3% lood 1SCaAses Detroit Pharmaceutical Soctety Such patriotism is not necessarily igno-| will venture to say that, with whatever cree ee iietace Ais oo so at ee - ; Constipation Presiden W Caldwell, Secretary, B. W. Patterson. | ble, but the old adage relative to passing | rapidity new enterprises and business | piack eg og@2 25 | Inula, po......-...----, 15@_ 20] Chloral Hyd Crst......1 50@1 75 P Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association, the good things of this earth around, is! houses spring up, there will be little dif- oo ne ¥a1 00 | Ipecac, po......-.----- 2 40@2 50; Chondrus............. 10@ 12 ee a ae ' ee : zs ‘ a , s pring up, there will be litte Gil- | Brown......--------+ 80@1 0 ECAC, | eae Gr ! S -. 10@ 12 , J eee ee applicable. The best of us are apt to| ference in the ratio of.supply and de-| Rey res rrrs 0 45 50 a. eo ee Se = = , nd : become rusty and grow Dilious, if we) mand. Yellow ---2+ 2s ere 2 50@3 00 | alapa, Pros i017! @ 35| Corks, list, dis. per Rese ris Female Is the State Board Capable of Im-|jmagine we have a life tenure of any ‘In a measure—and that not a small BACCAE. Podophylium, pO 15@ 18 — CS @ 60 Ee crs particular position, and the oil of popu-|one—the commercial colleges are_to | Cuness (po. ° Oh. ---.71 ss@e 00) Rhel ec BL ae Greta, (pbk. 98) 000207 @ 2 I A Complain ts Editor Michigan Tradesman: lar criticism is wholesome and almost] blame for this. These institutions are bow, ees eee Q5@ 30| “S PVeveeeeceee etree at 85) | prep! la, B@ 5 2 : i yim ....--+--- y Wie s. Se ee “ * = The druggists of this State have had always beneficial. all private money-making concerns, €s- ae ae = iH Pore bee eeeeeee 58 . ag ° : a S "ane a : : 3 : a / ‘ BALSAMUM, ‘ { é ; mo). Lot REE sc ae @ an opportunity, during the past few| If the plan advocated by Mr. Wurz-/| sentially different from ordinary col- : gu Wl aecpenbieia os. 30@ 35| Crocus ....... “a 3 ‘ a months, to devote some time and atten- burg should be adopted, I believe a mem-| leges. Academical schools and univer- np geen, iE ea @l 30 Penis eo ae 73@ 80| Cudbear............... 7 a _ Being composed entirely of HERBS, it tion to the many interesting questions ber of the Board would hold his position sities are dignified and perhaps unbus- Terabin, Canada ...-. ee = Similax, Officinalis, H @ = —— s@ 9 is the only perfectly harmless remedy on connected with their profession, for bus- | Just as long as lie represented the ideas | iness-like enough to let young men and | Tolutan...-------+->-- a wee ae a — = oa market and is recommended by all iness has been universally quiet all over | and kept progress with the pharmacists} women seek them. They offer no special CORTEX. Symplocarpus, Feeti- Emery, all numbers.. @ 8 who use it. the State, and such an opportunity neces- of the State, in the advancement of their | inducements and guarantee no lucrative | Abies, Ganadian |... ... 18| ‘dus, po.........--..- @ 3 pos @ 6 PI ) . warn 11 | Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) _@ | Ergot 45 . sarily sets us a thinking, what can be | art, but no lenger. When he ceased to| positions. With the business schools, | CMe atc” eee ) 15 201 Puke Witie 0 ae Retail Druggists will find it to done to improve not only our own indi- represent them and give satisfaction, | however, the matter is different. There ages aeraperp..-..* 30 | Zingiber a............. 10@ 15 on. ee sais midis sl lass their interest to keep the DIA- vidual business, but the profession in | Some other man would take his place.| is a scramble for patronage. Situations, | Myrica Cerifera, po.-------- 20 | Zingiber j....--------- 2@ 2% oS es ™]@ 8 | i N FOR MOND TEA, asit fulfills all that Smeal. Amone other questions which | Why should aot the Governor of $5) net eymemees 2 —— SEMEN. entiny conch... 4o@ 60| Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Shee ee ee have suggested themselves to us, in view | State be guided and acespt the recom-| least practically assured. Circulars of @ | Sassafras jena eae 12| Anisum, (po. 20)...-.. @ 15| Glassware flint, 7 & 10 per ; ‘ee P, very best selling articles handled. of the recent session of the State Board of mendation of a non-political, non-parti- more or less extravagant and distorted | Ulmus Po (Ground 12).....- 10 = (graveleons) .. “e = a less | Colts, Calves, Pigs, Lambs, . i ! Pharmacy held in Grand Rapids—I say san body of men who represent the in-| character are sent out by the thousands, EXTRACTUM. a 2e@ 15 eee oe = lace your order with our Wholesale us, for I know that the same feelings telligence of the druggists of the State, | the one aim being to make the school a| gjyeyrrhiza Glabra... 24@ 2) Cardamon........----. 1 00@1 25| Glycerina............. 2@ B Has the finest line of illustrated advertising and House. have agitated other druggists and de- instead of being influenced by the whims | paying institution, and would-be account- m PO.--eee-- — = se eean rote ee 10@ 12 = Lets @ most attractive lithograph label. A 75 cent cash 1 ss mand the thoughtful consideration of | of @ few, anxious to rule or ruin. ants pour in and pay their money for the | Haemgtox, . aemeE« £87 a oo oot 00 Hydeaae Chick Mite.. “< 0 aeanes emcees nee pee 1 Diamond B : ie + ae Se eee Se ce . elise! |< ce) aie elas (27) a ae i : all—is, how can the efficiency of the DRUGGIST. privilege of being ealled what they are “ es 14@ 15| Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12 “ eer. @ trated circulars in each case. Rubber stamp and 5 State Board be increased and its value —___>2>____ not—professional book-keepers. ‘ ee 16@ 17 a ee 1 = = . = Rubrum @ 85| self-inking pad free with your first order through cn enhanced? Detroit Drug Notes. “There is to my mind—and I believe FERRUM. a 6@ 3 a vaca: a = jobber. Special directions for building upa PROPRIETORS, That the benefits derived under the} Mr, Wilson, formerly of Muskegon, merchants will agree with me—a great | carnonate Precip. ...-- ii Siet Lees 4 @ 4%| Hydrargyrum ......... ‘@ G| late trade with every shipment. Our new circe- DETROIT, - MICH. present law are many; that the Board realizing the great scarcity of drug stores deal of foolish reasoning about the so- | Citrate and Quinia.... => so (bbl. 4 )..- 4 44 —— Am..... 1 25@1 50 | lar, “Hog Cholera—Cause, Cure and Pre- since its creation has accomplished much . age : 8 called business education that now Se © | tadeisGankian.. on ek 1 G1 | ventive,” is attracting universal attention. a z * - era ss ‘4 cae wees OD/QQ 7 , SUDL........ @ “ ti ff y i good; that it has controlled and in a|in this city, has opened a new store on| amounts almost to a popular craze. The | solut Chloride.....--. @ 1 ee 5@ 6| lodoform.............. @5 15| Contains the most scientific and practical facts Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co measure stopped many injurious and Griswold street. chief things of value that are acquired | Sulphate, com’l.....-- 1%@ 2 Sinapis, — sate eeale 8@ S =, Oe 85@1 00 in regard to this terrible disease, and only known | | il i 9 evil practices—no one for a moment who| Many inquiries are being made about are penmanship and order. Apart from Ge a cmnaeenal 7 rs NG ao 55@ 60 | positively successful treatment. Gives valua- | WHOLESALE AGENTS, thoughtfully considers will deny. But! ine proceedings of the last meeti £ th these attainments, that should be learned FLORA. SPIRITUS. Liquor Arsen et Hy- ple information in regard to swine-raising | © GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. the question before us is, How can the | P e mei en —— ©! in the public schools, I regard the bus-| Arnica... ---.-+-++++- 14@ x Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 — = “ Se ee 27 | for large profit. See ether circulars for all Board be improved, so as to receive the | M.S. P. A. It is more than six months! jness colleges as money-making snares sar reas Seles ci eie ae 35 ul - 7 cS 1001 50 eae, *sulph (bbl 10@ 12| Kinds of stock. The facts contained in these hearty and cordial support of all intelli- | since the meeting was held. and delusions. Most merchants would |” er aa Juniperis, CoO, T_..-1 — 7 is 8 3| circulars are worth many dollars to every gent and fair-minded pharmacists| pr. Raymond, who is well known to prefer to take a green man and break : ‘ et = TL 1 75@3 50 annia, S. F.......... 45@_ 50| enterprising farmer or stockman. Send to cae EAD throughout the State? Many differ as to| srichican druggists as representing S him into their special service. Most mang Pa ex er ball aa — SS we 55@2 80| jobbers for their special circular “TO THE WHITE L what is needed or what is lacking to in-| ~ g 188 sts as representing ual banking establishments are themselves | nivelly ....------ a 25@ 28| Vini Oporto .........-- 1 352 08| (eC @o win "2 55@2 70 | TRADE,” for full information in regard to rub- & COLOR WORKS crease its strength and power for good, bury & Johnson, has left the road and is| schools in which the book-keepers are | . oa oo ae 35@ 0) Vini Alba.........---- 1 25@2 00 a ee @ 40| ber stamp—free—and also our GRAND CASH DETROIT and I know of many who denounce the} now practicing medicine in this city. graduated up from subordinate positions, Yao Rae i egg SPONGES. Rae fauies, Goan® “ io | PRIZES. See circulars for testimonials of reli- cameienawenae OF whole institution, claiming that it is; The Anderson Manufacturing Co. have and lam inclined to think it would be} Ura Ursi.......-------- 8@ 10| siorida sheeps’ wool ie, Som 2@ 29| able dealers from all parts of the country. This controlled by a ring, managed by ma-') + ai offered the use of a pleasant better for all concerned if business GUMMI. carriage 2 5@2 50 2 Saac, H. & P. D. > aq| trade is about equally divided between drug- LATEST chine methods and has lost its impor-| . ni " P re room, | houses were to follow the same plan. It | Acacia, ist picked.... @1 00 | Nassau sheeps’ wool i Picis Liq, N. C, i gal G2 00 | sists, general dealers and grocers. A good trade tance—if it ever had any—and like say- nicely furnished, to the Detroit Pharma- would certainly tend to check the influx i = im cece @ . Bs Pactrgea on ‘sheeps” 2 0 doz cee cee oo @2 7 for one insures a satisfactory trade for the other. ARTISTIC ings. We find ranters and people dissat-| ceutical Society at a very low rate. The| of new men, which would be desirable. «gifted sorts... @ 65| wool carriage....... 1 10| Picis Lig., oere: eee = : Order at once, save freight and commence turn- isfied with the existing order of things, | offer has been accepted. “Jf young men would stop to weigh oe caeeee D@1 = Extra. —— sheeps gs | Pil nace (po. 80) .. @ sp | ing your money every thirty or sixty days, at 71 SHADES possibly not without just cause, inevery| jy © yueller, the well-known Wood well the tendencies of the times, they | Aloe, bang 2 — _ 12 | Grass sheeps* wool car- | Piper Nigra, (po. 22).. @ 18| percent. profit. sphere of life, but they are too radical - C. Mueller, the well-known W000~| would hesitate, I think, in taking up| « gorotri (po. 60). @ 5O0| riage ............---. 65| Piper Alba, (po gs).... @ 35 and by their wholesale iconoclasm of ward avenue druggist, will move from | book-keeping as a life’s calling. Gentil- | catechu, 1s, (18, 14 48, Hard for — agen 75 SS eee — - MANUFACTURERS: entire systems compel conservative men | his present store, where he has been for| ity of avocation is doubtless one of the so ee 2 = — Reef, for slate 1 49 | Pulvis Ipecac et opii.1 10@1 20 f il es a | alan Rea a cn | Apemeniee 22s. + 25 30 CN : i = 2 aoe ts = ‘many years, to the corner of Woodward | are at W = filling = — ee ie 15 ee Pyrethrum, boxes H a The German Medicine Con il 2 Interior utions that they are aware need reform-| ,_ i ce — i id } practibility in many ways, but rather | ives a copy of a well-known book with lessening pay because minimizing re- ae co @1 00 | Similax Officinalis.......... 60 Pree ee 2 — = gists; Hawkins & Perry, Wholesale Grocers, : DECORATION give a simple formule for a greatly-| canes PS i { sponsibility. The well-paid men are now | Myrrh, (po 45)..------ a et Oe a. 0) Gocoaine nila sain ee Grand ee McCausland & Co., Wholesale) 2 needed cement to stop up some of the | each 25 cent cake of a particular brand | few and far between, and this reduction Po i 4 60)..----+- 7 < =? a aS RINE Se We, 12@ 14 SS a . oS _— BF, J, WURZBURG, Wholesale Agent, eracks, which, if not soon mended, will | of soap. of salaries is bound to continue, be-|” CC cee oe ee eet ee G 10 TiLalcusle Grocern, Kaleannoo. 7 GRAND RAPIDS. : i ei ee / a a : e ee i | ieee 5 eee wee a oO allow all the good nourishment thatisin| (Clarence G. Stone, the popular repre- cause in the new plan of dividing labor | Tragacanth .....----. 30@ 7 —— eda = eae, Micke @ B the bow] to escape us. siemekin 6 Mein & Robbi Ba a single man of ability can direct the HERBA—In ounce packages. ee ——— @ is At the fifth annual meeting of the|~ . ee st i sisi sar sigiiaiig an work of a score of clerks or assistants. | Absinthium.......------+++- 25 TINCTURES. e 2 ene ae @ 30 Michigan Pharmaceutical Association, | been laid up for a few days, but is| The master mind will get the lion’s Eupatorium -...------------- = Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 a -_ @ 3 HA J Fl J Z NE President Wurzburg, in his admirable | rapidly improving. It breaks him all up share of the pay, and the undermen will aesam me a il me aes 50| Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes @ 35 address, said among other good things: to think of starting out again and leav- do the drudgery. Long hours, weari- Mentha Piperita........---- 23 oe Son SSE = —_ — + N@ 12 “The appointment of Jacob Jesson to), Clas I am i some work, a living merely—and that Ce es tes as = ean it Ce acs a —— & PER kK N succeed himself as a member of the Sai year after year—is about all that the Se op | Asafeetida...........----++-+ 50| Soda, aaa lll laa Board of Pharmacy will meet the ap-| i I average book-keeper can look forward | Thymus, eT 25 a aa a —<— og beste eee 3@ 4 proval of this Association. In this con-| Interchange of Certificates. to. If more of the young men who now MAGNESIA. ee aes san 55 DR } ¢ ; { | nection, however, I desire to put myself | The Michigan Board of Pharmacy has flock from the country—it is from the | Calcined, Pat.......--- 55@ 60| Sanguinaria..........--+-+-- 50 S Myrcia Dom..... @200 s on record as favoring a return to the! taken an initial and decisive departure! country that the commercial colleges are tome, Sek ee Re ee 50} ‘ Myrcia Imp... .. @2 50 = — oa = h Buy the Best! It's the Cheapest | Gins, VWrines, SUGaS. fellows and he is not able to feel the | Stockholders for thirty years, and by the| town Saturday, calling on old friends Cama heart beat of the body politic the same | nega of the sels or monopoly and acquaintances. He looks as though : THE CELEBRATED as before. Another thing in this repub- | from all taxation and various other privi-| Chicago water agreed with him. p p ( P t lie of ours, it is Se pt “pul” | leges. If the bill becomes a law, it is| _ as i i 100eer re are alll § man, no matter box Snbie his oa |expected to practically drive all the oo a ee - . 7 sal mg te: - .? -? | foreigners, mostly Englishmen, now = of the Merchants’ Dispatch Transporta- Are manufactured from pure white We are Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co. to aspire to any office appointive or | : : lead and zine, finely ground in lin- . selective, in the gift of the people; but | gaged in the trade out of business. Lead-| tion Co., and Fred D. Stow, General Cen- seed oil, prepared for immediate if the feeling prevails that such aspira-| 116 — = = ———- ‘teal Apemk of Get caine teue, sbont last application, requiring no oil, thin- Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash tions are useless, it takes away the in-| 27°54" ve interested In the scheme. | 1. dav i sas i i aa : ve aaa \It is generally denounced by English riday in Grand Rapids in the custody of ‘ i ; ’ , centive, the ambition to acquire knowl-| ney ) ent i centive, the ambition 9 acquire Knowl|yayers, which foresee the elimination | Local seiecaaes an Is Absolutely the Best Paint Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite honors to be gained. What applies to | ag = trade of many English houses if} A. T. Kellogg, who has actedJas local Forman to use. It stands better out- Rye Whisky. the public at large, applies to the drug- ed canter Joae ee buyer for Kellogg & Wooden, the Kal- oe oe ce aig : in | 7 Ww 7 be : : . 1y- gists of Michigan, and what applies to advance prices ae J kaska grocers, for three years past, has never fails to give satisfaction. Do the druggists in a body is equally appli- y- i not allow the low price of other cable to the honors and emoluments to be ———_. > ___ concluded to return to Kalkaska, the aoe ag to deceive you. It will cost iz i eye . i you t Ss niw j s s s gained after a membership on the State The Drug Market. condition of his partner’s health render- Zood. had a ee acu We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. aap is obtained. I can best | Citric acid has declined and is tending | 12 such a change necessary. Mr. Kel- SSS Get the B We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guar- aes = ig ea — pret lower. Gum eamphor is easier. Oil logg has come to be a familiar figure | Guaranteed ge ae ——- fromRe- e€ € est. antee Satisfaction. . : : ce : ; ; set a solicited. i i : * seer ety capant is Jacob Jesson, of | #ise has declined. Quinine, foreign among the jobbing and commission N = “R 7 Mill ee All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we re- Muskegon. We all know him, and no| brands, are lower. Domestic is un-| houses and his departure will be gen- ew ay gs oS 1111S Write for sample cards and prices. ceive them. Send in a trial order. doubt when the _Summer of his day changed. Opium and morphia are steady. erally regretted. an c HAZELTINE k PERKINS DRUG C0 passes to the evening of his life, taking | 7 inseed oil is lower, Turpentine has de- . i i him from active interest and participa-| Qjined : Sullivan—Peter Beyer, the druggist, Should send $1 to GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. tion in his profession, we shall miss a was arrested on the 19th on a charge of E. A. Stowe & Bro. t not on i a j : < : : : GRAND RAPIDS, a sei = GRAND RAPIDS, MICH LM. GLARK & ON, If our Travelers do not see you reg-g WE ARK HEADQUARTERS | wans, sena tor ou Ss eee Samples and Prices before purchasing Te a S) elsewhere. Wewill surprise you. &S Vv. rT U P Ss Mail Orders al- ways receive prompt attention M ol a Ss Ss CS Ss and lowest possible prices. & WV holesale Grocers O. EF. BROWN MILLING CO. OW SIOTTIW JUeYyou Brown's Paseil gos Our Bak " Brown’s Standard Uur Leading Brands, ca Straight Every Barrel and Sack teed, ; "Correspondence Solicited. Grand Rapids, Mich. (JURTICOS & Co. ‘ Successors to CURTISS & DUNTON. WHOLESALE € Paper Warehouse, Houseman Building, Cor. Pearl & Ottawa Sts., GRAND RAPIDS, ‘ MICHIGAN. ® WHO URGES YOU TO hEEP 44 Cot)? Tree SU BLA! 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 Manvtacturing Go... Grand Rapids, OFFER TO THE TRADE WHO BUY | 14g-lbs Reward Baking Powder, 4-dozen PRIZK | Cases, with 48 Premiums—Glass Dishes, 6 Assorted, All Large Pieces, for - ~ i 1-lbs Reward Baking Powder, 4-dozen | Cases, with 49 Premiums, Decorated China 1 (0 | ‘UU @ | The above Prizes are Very Attractive Goods —— and New Assortments. Dishes, All Large Pieces, for - - - 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 bread to the barrel of flour. We are wholesale agents for ® the Fancy California Mountain Seedlings and headquarters for : all kinds of Messina oranges. ; PUTNAM & BROOKS,